The history of the county palatine and city of Chester
Subtitle: 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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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: by George Ormerod. --
Contributors: Smith, William, 1550?-1618.; Webb, William, Sheriff.; Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.; Leycester, Peter, Sir, 1614-1678.
Edition: 2d ed., rev. and enl. / by Thomas Helsby. --
Publisher: E.J. Morten
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 884
Subjects: Cheshire (England) -- History; Cheshire (England) -- Antiquities
Other titles: King's Vale royal
Notes: Preface contains an extended collation of Cheshire topographical authorities.

King's Vale royall, written by William Smith and William Webb, 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.

Reprint. Originally published in: the history of the County Palatine of Cheshire / by George Ormerod. 2nd ed., rev. enl. 1882.