The history of the county palatine and city of Chester

Name: The history of the county palatine and city of Chester
Author: George Ormerod

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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 George Ormerod · 1819

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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.

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