Author:Thomas Kerslake

Thomas Kerslake
(1812–1891)

Works

• A Vindication of the Autographs of Sir Roger de Coverley's "Perverse Widow " and her "Malicious Confident" from a disparaging statement thrown out in the "Athenæum, Bristol [1855], 8vo.
• Saint Ewen, Bristol and the Welsh Border, circiter A.D. 577–926, Bristol, 1875, 8vo.
• A Primeval British Metropolis, with some Notes on the Ancient Topography of the South-Western Peninsula of Britain, Bristol, 1877, 8vo, Revised and re-edited, with additions, under the title of Caer Pensaualcoit, a long-lost Unromanized British Metropolis, London, 1882, 8vo.
• Traces of the Ancient Kingdom of Damnonia, outside Cornwall, in remains of Celtic Hagiology, London, 1878, 8vo.
• Vestiges of the Supremacy of Mercia in the South of England during the Eighth Century, Bristol, 1879, 8vo.
• The Word "Metropolis."' 'The Ancient Word "Anglo-Saxon."' 'Anglo-Saxon Bristol and Fossil Taunton. Three essays, Bristol, 1880, 8vo.
• The Celtic Substratum of England, London, 1883, 8vo.
• The Liberty of Independent Historical Research, London, 1885, 8vo.

  This is a somewhat caustic attack upon the office of her majesty's inspector of ancient monuments and on a preliminary report entitled Excavations in the Fen Pits, Penselwood, Somerset, issued by the first holder of the office, General A. Pitts-Rivers.

• Gyfla, the Scir or Pagis of the Ivel Valley, Somerset, 1887, 8vo.
• Saint Richard the king of Englishmen and his territory, A.D. 700-720 (privately printed), 1890.

Works about Kerslake

• "Kerslake, Thomas," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• Death of Thomas Kerslake in The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post (1878)
• Death of Thomas Kerslake (cont.) in The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post (1878)