The history of the county palatine and city of Chester;
compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. By George Ormerod.
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English
- Published
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London, Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, 1819.
- Note
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King's Vale royall was written by William Smith and William Webb, and was published, together with Samuel Lee's Chronicon cestrense and J. Chaloner's Short treatise of the Isle of Man, by David King. In the present work, Chaloner's Isle of Man has been omitted.
Preface contains an extended collation of Cheshire topographical authorities.
"The number of copies printed for sale has been limited to sixty-five on large paper, and three hundred and fifty on small paper."
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3 v.
front., illus., plates (part col.; 1 double) port., col. double map, plans.
38 cm.
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