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• Notable persons born in that county since the reformation (J. Robinson, 1849), by George Atkinson, J. E. Hargreaves, and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cumberland and Westmorland M.P.'s from the restoration to the reform bill of 1867 ... (Bell & Daldy, 1871), by Richard Saul Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Papers and pedigrees mainly relating to Cumberland and Westmorland. (Bemrose & Sons, 1892), by William Jackson and B. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (Whittaker and Co.: [etc., etc.], 1860), by William Whellan (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Crosby Garrett, Westmorland (J. W. Braithwaite, 1914), by Josiah Walker Nicholson and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• The whirl-wind of the Lord gone forth as a fiery flying roule,: with an alarm sounded against the inhabitants of the north-countrey. Being a fore-warning to all the rulers in England, of the mighty and terrible day of the Lord, which shall overtake the wicked; but especially and in particular, to the persecuting rulers, priests, and people, in the county of Westmerland. Who by their fruits are made manifest to all, to be open enemies to Sions converts, and a generation of evil doers, with whom the Lord Jehovah is coming to plead the cause of the oppressed, and to redeem Zion with judgement, and her converts with righteousness. G.T. (London : printed for Giles Calvert, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Black-spread-Eagle neer the west end of Pauls, London, 165[5]), by Christopher Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Later Records Relating To North Westmorland Or the Barony of Appleby (Kendal, UK: Titus Wilson and Son, 1932), ed. by John F. Curwen (HTML at British History ONline)
• The Register and Records of Holm Cultram (originally published 1929), ed. by Francis Grainger and W. G. Collingwood (HTML at British History Online)
• An inventory of the historical monuments in Westmorland. ([H. M. Stationery off., printed by W. Clowes and sons, ltd.], 1936), by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) and David Lindsay Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mayburgh and King Arthur's Round Table. (T. Wilson, 1890), by Charles William Dymond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cumberland and Westmorland (G. Allen, 1913), by J. Charles Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland, by Daniel Scott (Gutenberg ebook)

• Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Transactions (partial serial archives)
• Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. (Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 1866), by Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Observations on several parts of England, particularly the mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772 (Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808), by William Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description of the county of Westmoreland (D. Quaritch; [etc., etc.], 1882), by Daniel Fleming and G. F. Duckett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772, on several parts of England; : particularly the mountains, and lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland. (Printed for R. Blamire ..., 1788), by William Gilpin and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lake and mountain scenery; Westmorland and Cumberland. (London, in the 1830s), by Thomas Allom and George Pickering (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772, on several parts of England; particularly the mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland. (Printed for R. Blamire, 1792), by William Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772, on several parts of England; : particularly the mountains, and lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland. (Printed for R. Blamire ..., 1792), by William Gilpin, D. Parkes, and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)

• G. A. Cooke's Westmorland, 1819 (Printed for C. Cooke by G. Brimmer, in the 1810s), by George Alexander Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Agricultural survey of Northumberland. (G. and W. Nicol, 1805), by J. Bailey, A. Pringle, George Culley, and Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Her kingdom : A story of the Westmoreland Fells, by Amy Le Feuvre (Gutenberg ebook)
• Crump folk going home, by Constance Holme (Gutenberg ebook)
• The lonely plough, by Constance Holme (Gutenberg ebook)
• Barbara Lynn: A Tale of the Dales and Fells., by Emily J. Jenkinson (Gutenberg ebook)

• A guide to the lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire (Printed for Richardson and Urquhart ..., J. Robson ..., and W. Pennington, Kendal, 1780), by Thomas West and William Cockin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland (Printed for W. Strahan [etc.], 1777), by Joseph Nicolson, William Nicolson, and Richard Burn (page images at HathiTrust)
• History, topography, and directory, of Westmorland; and Londsdale north of the sands, in Lancashire; together with a descriptive and geological view of the whole of the Lake district. (Simpkin, Marshall, & co., 1849), by P. J. Mannex (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legends and historical notes on places in the east and west wards, Westmorland : climate, &c. (J. Heywood ;, 1877), by Thomas Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Northmen in Cumberland & Westmoreland. (Longman, 1856), by Robert Ferguson and Fiske Icelandic Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Humble petition and representation of the gentry, ministers, and others of the counties of Cumberland and Westmerland, to His Sacred Maiestie with His Maiesties answer thereunto, York, 5 Iuly, 1642. (York : Printed by Robert Barker ... and by the assignes of John Bill, 1642), by King Charles I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A word to the vvise.: Displaying, great augmented grievances, and heavie pressures of dangerous consequence. Appearing, by certain materiall weighty passages of speciall concernment. Remonstrating, the great dangers which the counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland are in (though now in the hands of the Parliament) but like to be possessed by the enemy, who aimeth at it, above all other landing places, from foraign parts; the said countries being more hazardable, sith that Mr. Richard Barwis (a member of the House of Commons) hath ... betrayed his trust, and placed traytors, and disaffected officers in the said counties, ... All which being certified by Mr. John Musgrave, Commissioner, ... who gave in the charge against Mr. Richard Barwis. And the House having referred the same to a committee, instead of prosecuting the charge brought against the said Mr. Barwis, Mr. Musgrave aforesaid was illegally committed to Fleet Prison ... ([London : s.n., 1646]), by John Musgrave (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Records of Early English Drama: Cumberland, Westmorland, Gloucestershire (Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, 1981), ed. by Audrey W. Douglas and Peter Greenfield (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Register and Records of Holm Cultram (originally published 1929), ed. by Francis Grainger and W. G. Collingwood (HTML at British History Online)
• Records Relating To the Barony of Kendale (3 volumes; Kendal, UK: T. Wilson and Son, 1923-1926), ed. by William Farrer and John F. Curwen (illustrated HTML at British History Online)
• The Later Records Relating To North Westmorland Or the Barony of Appleby (Kendal, UK: Titus Wilson and Son, 1932), ed. by John F. Curwen (HTML at British History ONline)
• The Pipe rolls of Cumberland and Westmorland 1222-1260. (Printed for the subscribers by T. Wilson, 1905), by Great Britain Exchequer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lakeland Words: A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases as Used in Cumberland and Westmorland, with Illustrative Sentences in the North Westmorland Dialect, by Bryham Kirkby, contrib. by Joseph Wright (Gutenberg ebook)

• Cumberland and Westmorland M.P.'s from the restoration to the reform bill of 1867 ... (Bell & Daldy, 1871), by Richard Saul Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Account of the proceedings at Appleby (Printed by R. Lough, 1818), by J. E. Hargreaves and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)

• Legends and historical notes on places in the east and west wards, Westmorland : climate, &c. (J. Heywood ;, 1877), by Thomas Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The manners and customs of Westmorland, and the adjoining parts of Cumberland, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, in the former part of the eighteenth century; described in a series of letters, by a literary antiquarian. To which is added, lines from a poem entitled "Westmeria." (Hudson and Nicholson, 1827), by John Gough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland, by Daniel Scott (Gutenberg ebook)

• Memories of Old Friends: Being Extracts From the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick, Cornwall, From 1835 to 1871 (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1882), by Caroline Fox, ed. by Horace N. Pym
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• Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century, by James Richard Joy (Gutenberg text)
• Chapters From Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Granddaughter (London: Selwyn and Blount, c1921), by Juliet M. Soskice (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pilgrimages to English shrines (D. Appleton & company, 1854), by Mrs. S. C. Hall and F. W. Fairholt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent. With the dissolved monasteries therein contained; their founders, and what eminent persons have been therein interred. As also, the death and burial of certain of the blood-royal, nobility and gentry of these kingdoms, emtombed in foreign nations ... (Printed by W. Tooke, for the editor, 1767), by John Weever and William Tooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gallery of notable men and women. (Nimmo, 1889), by Robert Cochrane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of England and Germany, 1936 ([K. B. O'Ferrall?], 1937), by Kirk Bassett O'Ferrall and Mich.) St. Paul's Cathedral (Detroit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., of Halston, Shopshire, formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, high sheriff for the counties of Salop and Merioneth and major of the North Shopshire yeomanry cavalry; with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1900), by Nimrod, Thomas J. Rawlins, Joseph Grego, and Henry Thomas Alken (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution : consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads ; intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits ... (London : Printed for J. Rivington and Sons [etc.], 1779., 1779), by James Granger and Joseph Addison Alexander Library Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An oration on the character and services of the late Duke of Wellington : delivered before the British residents of Boston and vicinity, and their American friends, at the Melodeon, Nov. 10, 1852 (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853), by G. P. R. James and Mass.) Melodeon (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old convict days (T. F. Unwin, 1899), by William Derricourt and Louis Becke (page images at HathiTrust)
• My life as soldier and sportsman (G. Richards, 1921), by J. Robson Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of old Friends : being extracts from the journals and letters of Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick, Cornwall, from 1835 to 1871 (J.B. Lippincott, 1882), by Caroline Fox and Horace N. Pym (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., of Halston, Shopshire, formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, high sheriff for the counties of Salop and Merioneth and major of the North Shropshire yeomanry cavalry : with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits (D. Appleton, 1903), by Nimrod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of the life and correspondence of John, Lord Teignmouth (Hatchard, 1843), by Charles John Shore Teignmouth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters containing an account of the late revolution in France, and observations on the constitution, laws, manners, and institutitons of the English (Printed for J. Johnson, 1792), by Henry Frederic Groenvelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the warriors of the civil wars of France and England Warriors of the seventeenth century. (J. Murray, 1867), by Edward Cust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Englishmen of the nineteenth century: Wellington, Canning, Stephenson, Russell. Cobden, Peel, Shaftesbury, Palmersto, Gladstone, Disraeli, by James Richard Joy. (The Chautanqua Press, 1902), by James Richard Joy and Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A family biography, 1662 to 1908 : drawn chiefly from old letters (J. Nisbet, 1908), by Isabella Scott and Catherine Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imaginative biography (Saunders and Otley, 1834), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences for my children. Private.. (Printed for the author by Charles Thurnam., 1836), by Catherine Mary Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kenneth Gorden Garnett, M.C., R.F.A. : 30th July 1892-22 August 1917. (Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1917), by R. S. Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Profils anglais (J. Dent ;, 1911), by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homes and haunts of the wise and good (W. P. Hazard, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823), by Samuel Johnson, R. B. Adam, Joshua Reynolds, William Thomas Fry, Arthur Murphy, Alexander Chalmers, and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Record of a girlhood (R. Bentley and son, 1879), by Fanny Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in biography and criticism. (Gould and Lincoln, 1857), by Peter Bayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The statesmen of the commonwealth of England : with a treatise on the popular progress in English history (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853), by John Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the abbots of Wearmouth (F. Graham, 1973), by the Venerable Bede and Peter Wilcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wordsworth and the Coleridges : with other memories, literary and political (Folcroft Library Editions, 1978), by Ellis Yarnall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men who have risen : a book for boys. (James Miller, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second funeral of Napoleon. (Estes and Lauriat, 1882), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morgan Brierley, a memoir : with a selection from his writings (J. Clegg, 1900), by Morgan Brierley and Helen Brierley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir James A. Picton : a biography (Isbister & Co. ;, 1891), by J. Allanson Picton (page images at HathiTrust)
• England's worthies under whom, all the civill and bloudy warres since anno 1642, to anno 1647, are related. : Wherein are described the severall battails, encounters, and assaults of cities, townes, and castles at severall times and places; so that the reader may behold the time, years, and event of every battle, skirmish and assault. Wherein London-apprentices had not the least share, as also , severall victories by sea, by the noble Admirall, Robert Earle of Warwick. (Rothwell, 1845), by John Vicars (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Maria Vernon Graham Havergal : with journals and letters (J. Nisbet, 1888), by Maria V. G. Havergal and J. Miriam Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pilgrimages to English shrines. (A. Hall, Virtue, & co., 1850), by Mrs. S. C. Hall, Roger Du Broff, and F. W. Fairholt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaders upward and onward. Brief biographies of noble workers. (Isbister and Company, Limited, 1887), by Henry C. Ewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Paul Cuffee, a man of colour. (Printed by C. Crookes, 1822) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution : consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads ; intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits ... (London : Printed for T. Davies, J. Robson [etc.], 1775., 1775), by James Granger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nonconformist's Memorial : being an account of the lives, sufferings, and printed works of the two thousand ministers ejected from the Church of England, chiefly by the Act of Uniformity, Aug. 24, 1666 (Printed for J. Harris, 1775), by Edmund Calamy and Samuel Miller Library Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)

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