Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, Made in the Year 1664-5, by Sir William Dugdale, Knight, Norroy King of Arms, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, Made in the Year 1664-5, by Sir William Dugdale, Knight, Norroy King of Arms, Vol. 1 Having arrived at Bridgenorth he found the assize for Shropshire was being held, and he remained there five days, not reaching Manchester until the 8th of September. Here he was occupied three days, and on the 12th he opened his court at Blackburn, and in two days more he had discharged all his official duties in that populous hundred. From Blackburn he rode by Chipping, a wild and uncultivated district skirted by the forest of Bleas dale, to the small village of Garstang, where he remained the night; and after such a ride over highways and by ways the wayworn traveller, having had enough of the keen air of Amounderness, would be glad of the wel comes and greetings, as well as of the well-filled trencher and well-frothed can, of the old village hostelry. On the following morning he rode eleven miles to Lancaster, passing through the little village of Cockerham, and leaving Cockersand abbey and Ashton hall on the left. He would hardly fail to denounce the wild but scarcely romantic district, called by Mr. 'gilpin in the next cen tury, bleak, unpleasant and and as he passed along would smile at the mean-looking farm homesteads. 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.