The History of Cheshire: Containing King's Vale-Royal Entire, Together with ... Extracts from Sir Peter Leycester's Antiquities of Cheshire; and the Observation of Later Writers, Particularly, Pennant, Grose &c. &c. The Whole Forming a Complete Description of that County; ... to which is Prefixed an Introduction, ...John Poole, 1778 - 994 pages |
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