Historical antiquities, in two books the first treating in general of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the second containing particular remarks concerning Cheshire / faithfully collected out of authentick histories, old deeds, records, and evidences, by Sir Peter Leycester, Baronet ; whereunto is annexed a transcript of Doomsday-book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire, taken out of the original record.

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Historical antiquities, in two books the first treating in general of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the second containing particular remarks concerning Cheshire / faithfully collected out of authentick histories, old deeds, records, and evidences, by Sir Peter Leycester, Baronet ; whereunto is annexed a transcript of Doomsday-book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire, taken out of the original record.
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Leycester, Peter, Sir, 1614-1678.
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London :: Printed by W.L. for Robert Clavell ...,
M.DC.LXXIII [1673]
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Cheshire (England) -- Genealogy.
Great Britain -- History.
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"Historical antiquities, in two books the first treating in general of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the second containing particular remarks concerning Cheshire / faithfully collected out of authentick histories, old deeds, records, and evidences, by Sir Peter Leycester, Baronet ; whereunto is annexed a transcript of Doomsday-book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire, taken out of the original record." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70453.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.

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A TRANSCRIPT OF CHESHIRE AT LARGE, Out of the Greater Doomsday-Book, Remaining on Record in the TALLY-OFFICE at WESTMINSTER.

Belonging to the Custody of the TREASURER and the two CHAMBERLAINS OF THE EXCHEQƲER at LONDON.

According as the same was Transcribed by Mr. SQUIRE from the RECORD it self, Anno Domini 1649.

The Original comprehends a Survey of all England, as well as Cheshire, some few Counties onely excepted: And was made by VVilliam the Conqueror's Command, after he had won this Kingdom by the Sword. It was begun and finished between the Fourteenth and the Twentierh Year of his Reign over England.

LONDON, Printed Anno Domini M.DC.LXXII.

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