W2/X-1-41

Shelfmark W2/X-1-41

John Peace. Apology for Cathedral service. 1839.

Armorial bookplate on front pastedown, with motto 'Malo mori quam foedari': Revd. George Williams.

Inscription on front free endpaper: From Frederick Rouch Minor Canon to the Library of the Cathedral at Canterbury 1879

Image linked from Pratt Institute Libraries, Special Collections 1144

Frederick Rouch was rector of Saint George the Martyr with Saint Mary Magdalen, Canterbury (1829), vicar of Lower Halstow, vicar of Littlebourne (1859), and a Minor Canon of Canterbury. He gave books to the Cathedral Library on several occasions between the 1840s and 1870s.