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Excerpt from The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. 1 of 3: 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From Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian Mss;, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments Unpublished Ms.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 From the examination of Dr. Wilkinson's papers, _it was instantly obvious that the mss. Described in Dr. Gower's prospectus were to be collected anew, and that all the information to be derived from public offices was yet to be gathered. An enumeration of the MS materials so collected is the proper subject of this Preface; and they may be best divided into, Ist. Entire documents, of which the originals were preserved in the several public offices, Or of which copies or faithful abstracts existed in transcripts; and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. 3 of 3: 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From Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian Mss;, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms.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 The next subject is the effect of the Norman Invasion on the hundred. Every Saxon proprietor was ejected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.