Title: 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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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
First published: 1819
Description: Contains the history of the Northwich, Nantwich and Macclesfield Hundreds including their population schedules. Next provides information of the effects of the Norman invasion in 1066 when the Saxon lords were ejected and the Norman Lords took over, referencing the Domesday Book. Genealogical information is given of the barons and landholders.
Subjects: History, Antiquities, Genealogy, Police
Places: The Hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich and Macclesfield and the city of Chester and County of Cheshire and townships of Shipbrook, Bostock
People: Richard de Vernon, William Fitz-Nigel, Baron of Halton
Time periods: 1086 - 1800s
LC classification: DA670.C6 O7