Author: William Whellan Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780266561361 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 918
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Excerpt from The History and Topography of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland: Comprising Their Ancient and Modern History, a General View of Their Physical Character, Trade, Commerce, Manufactures, Agricultural Condition, Statistics, Etc., Etc The Topography embraces a full account, under their respective of the City and Diocese of Carlisle, and all the baronies, manors, boroughs, towns, ports, parishes, Chapelries, townships, Villages, and hamlets, in the two Counties, clearly showing their boundaries, area, rateable value, population, landowners, seats and pedigrees of the families of the nobility and gentry, succession of incumbents, nature and value of church livings, tithes and their commutation, description of churches, chapels, and public buildings, endowed and other schools, hospitals, charities, benevolent, literary, and scientific institutions, poor-law unions, courts of law, manufactures, markets and fairs, and a variety of statistical and other information, extracted from mss. In the British Museum, Parliamentary documents, and other authentic sources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William Whellan Publisher: Palala Press ISBN: 9781378907665 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 910
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Author: Richard Cox Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113528749X Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 320
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Volume two of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.