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• Historical Antiquities, in Two Books: The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland; The Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire (London: Printed by W. L. for R. Clavell, 1673), ed. by Peter Leycester (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Memorials of old Cheshire, ed. by Edward Barber and P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg ebook)
• Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire.: A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive., by James Croston (Gutenberg ebook)
• Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire: A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive., by James Croston (Gutenberg ebook)

• Cheshire, by Charles E. Kelsey (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Exact and full relation of all the proceedings between the cavaliers, and the Northamptonshire forces at Banbury.: VVith the present state and condition which that country is in at this present. VVhereunto is added the articles of agreement, made at Banbury, for a pacification, and setling of the peace of that county, by the commissioners of Array and the deputy lieutenants of the said county. ([London]Ian. 4 : Printed for I. Wright in the Old-Bailey, 1643), by S. R. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Severall reasons wherefore the inhabitants of the county palatine of Chester and Lancaster; as also, all forreigners are now prejudiced and tyrannized over, by reason of the pretended priviledges and liberties of the said county. So that the condition of the said county is farre more miserable, and in greater thraldome, then any other county whatsoever in the kingdome. (London, : Printed for E.E. according to order, Anno Dom. 1645) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Eye-salve for England, or, The grand trappan detected in a plain and faithful narrative of the horrid and unheard-of designs of some justices and deputy-lieutenants in Lancashire treacherously to ensnare the lives and estates of many persons of quality in that county, as also, in the counties of York and Chester / by Evan Price ... (London : [s.n.], 1667), by Evan Price (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Late dreadful and most admired calamity of a parcel of land and many great oaks, and other trees sunk many yards under ground into so deep a water that the tops of the highest oaks are not to be seen, together with a great quantity of land and other trees that are daily falling ... neer unto the parish of Bulkley, about nine miles from Chester, it being part of the land of the Lord Cholmley : this strange accident hapned on the 8 day of Iuly 1657. (London : Printed for Tho. Vere and William Gilbertson ..., 1657) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The history of the ancient and moderne estate of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornewall, and earldome of Chester Collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and diuers ancient authours. By Sir Iohn Dodridge Knight, one of his Maiesties iudges in the Kings Bench. And by himselfe dedicated to King Iames of euer blessed memory. (London : Printed by Tho. Harper, for Godfrey Emondson, and Thomas Alchorne, M.DC.XXX. [1630]), by John Doddridge (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Great victories obtained by the Earle of Denbigh at Shrewsbury, Chulmely, aud [sic] other parts in Cheshire. Where were taken prisoners. The Lord Newports sonne, Lieutenant Colonell Horton, Serjeant Major Manly governour of Banger, Sergeant Major Fisher, 1 lieutenant colonells colours, and others. 100 armes. 2 barrels of powder and store of bullets. 66 prisoners more, amongst which some others of note, good horse, and other purchase. Sergeant Major Pinkney slain on our side, and 5 or 6 wounded. With the copie of the oath that was imposed on the cavaliers before the garrison was taken. Published according to order. (London, : printed by J. Coe, Anno Dom. MDCXLIV. [1644]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Copie of a letter sent from the committee at Lincoln, to the House of Commons, directed to he speaker of the said House, and subscribed with the names of the said committee. Die Sabbati 4. Iunii, 1642. Likewise an order from both Houses of Parliament, concerning the ordering of the militia, directed to the deputy lievtenants of the repective counties throughout all England, and dominion of Wales. Ordered that this be printed and published. Hen. Elsinge, Cler Parl. D. Com. Also exceeding joyfull newes from Yorke. With the resolution of the Protestant gentry and commonalty of Cheshire, concerning their petition lately presented to the Kings Majesty at Yorke. (London : Printed for J. Horton, 1642. June 6) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Resolution of the Protestant gentry and commonalty of Cheshire concerning their petition lately presented to the Kings Majesty at Yorke. Wherein is declared their loyalty to his sacred Majestie, and due obedience to the honourable Houses of Parliament. With all their protestation to spend their lives and estates to defend his sacred Majesty from all dangers, either forteigne [sic] or domesticke. And also to defend the Parliament against all opposers, declaring their great confidence, that their councels and determinations tend to the advancement of his Majesties honour and the preservation of all his loving subjects (London : Printed for J. Horton, 1642. June 6) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Neutrality condemned, by declaring the reasons vvhy the deputy-lieutenants, intrusted by the Parliament for Cheshire, cannot agree to the treaty of pacification made by some of that county: at Bunbery, December, 23. 1642. And may serve to prevent the like in other counties. (London : Printed for Henry Overton, and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-Head-Alley, December, 6. 1642. [i.e. 1643]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Cheshires successe since their pious and truly valiant collonell Sr. VVilliam Brereton barronet, came to their rescue.: Set forth in 4. chapters; I. The battell at Namptwich, Jan. 28. II The battell at Torperley, Feb. 21. III. An account how the time was spent since Sir William's first advancing into the county, till the battell at Middlewich. IIII. The memorable battell at Middlewich, March 13. Confirmed by a letter sent from that industrious and faithfull collonell unto his deare friend in London: and a copy of the same unto an honourable member of the House of Commons and by the House ordered to be printed. Together with a catalogue of the names of the chiefe commanders that were taken prisoners at the said battell: which are 1. baronet, 1. collonell, 1. lievtenant collonell, 2. sergeant majors, 9. captaines, 6. lievtenants, 4. ensignes, 2. corporalls, 1. quartermaster, 2. canomers, 4. cornets colours 400. and odde prisoners; 2. brasse pieces 8. barrells of gunpowder, &c. Whereunto is added a strange warrant, &c. And certain newes of the great battell neare Stafford, much like Kyneton Battell. (London : March 25. Printed for Thomas Vnderhill, and are to be sold in Wood-street, [1643]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Cheshires successe, since their pious and truly valiant collonell Sr. VVilliam Brereton Barronet, came to their rescue: Set forth in 4. chapters; I. The battell at Namptwich, Jan. 28. II. The battell at Torperley, Feb. 21. III. An account how the time was spent since Sir William's first advancing into the county, till the battell at Middlewich. IIII. The memorable battell at Middlewich, March 13. Confirmed by a letter sent from that industrious and faithfull collonell unto his deare friend in London: and a copy of the same unto an Honourable Member of the House of Commons, and by the House ordered to be printed. (London : March 27. Printed for Thomas Vnderhill, and [...], [1643]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A True account of the Lord Delamere his reception and wellcome in Cheshire, and at the city of Chester. (London : [s.n.], 1689) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The speech of the Honourable Henry Booth, Esq spoken in Chester March 2 1680/1, at his being elected one of the knights of the shire for that county to serve in the Parliament summon'd to meet at Oxford the 21 of the said month. (London : Printed for John Minshall and are to be sold by Langley Curtis, 1681), by Henry Booth Warrington (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The charge of the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Warrington to the Grand Jury at the Quarter Sessions held for the county of Chester on the 11th of October, 1692 (London : Printed for Richard Baldwin, 1693), by Henry Booth Warrington (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Severall reasons wherefore the inhabitants of the county palatine of Chester and Lancaster; as also, all forreigners are now prejudiced and tyrannized over, by reason of the pretended priviledges and liberties of the said county. So that the condition of the said county is farre more miserable, and in greater thraldome, then any other county whatsoever in the kingdome. (London, : Printed for E.E. according to order, Anno Dom. 1645) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• To the high and honourable court of Parliament. The humble petition of sundry of the nobles, knights, gentry, ministers, freeholders, and divers thousands of the inhabitants of the county palatine of Chester, whose names are subscribed to the several schedules hereunto annexed. In answer to a petition delivered on to the Lords Spirituall and Temporall, by Sir Thomas Aston, Baronet, from the county palatine of Chester, concerning episcopacie. ([London? : s.n., 1641]), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A descriptive catalogue of a collection of paintings by British artists in the possession of Sir John Fleming Leicester, Bart. / (London : Printed by J. Nichols and Son ... and sold by W. Carey [and 2 others], 1819), by William Carey and Richard Colt Hoare (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Flora of Cheshire (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899), by John Byrne Leicester Warren, ed. by Spencer Le Marchant Moore, contrib. by Mountstuart E. Grant Duff
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• Poets, Poems, and Rhymes of East Cheshire: Being a History of the Poetry and Song Lore, and a Book of Biographies of the Poets and Song Writers of the Eastern Portion of the County Palatine of Chester (Hyde: J. Higham and Co., 1908), by Thomas Middleton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dialect Songs of the North (Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmorland and Cumberland) (sheet music; London: J. Curwen and Sons, 1910), ed. by John Graham, contrib. by Percy E. Fletcher (HTML in the UK)

• Legends of Longdendale: Being a series of tales founded upon the folk-lore of Longdendale Valley and its neighbourhood, by Thomas C. Middleton (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Literal Extension and Translation of the Portion of Domesday Book Relating to Cheshire and Lancashire, and to Parts of Flintshire and Denbighshire, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Yorkshire (published to accompany a facsimile not included here; Domesday text in Latin and English; Chester: Minshull and Hughes; London: Vacher and Sons, 1863), ed. by William Beamont
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• Newes out of Cheshire of the new found well (Imprinted at London : By F. Kingston for T. Man, 1600), by fl. 1600 G. W. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Late dreadful and most admired calamity of a parcel of land and many great oaks, and other trees sunk many yards under ground into so deep a water that the tops of the highest oaks are not to be seen, together with a great quantity of land and other trees that are daily falling ... neer unto the parish of Bulkley, about nine miles from Chester, it being part of the land of the Lord Cholmley : this strange accident hapned on the 8 day of Iuly 1657. (London : Printed for Tho. Vere and William Gilbertson ..., 1657) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• In a Cheshire Garden: Natural History Notes, by Geoffrey Egerton-Warburton (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Literal Extension and Translation of the Portion of Domesday Book Relating to Cheshire and Lancashire, and to Parts of Flintshire and Denbighshire, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Yorkshire (published to accompany a facsimile not included here; Domesday text in Latin and English; Chester: Minshull and Hughes; London: Vacher and Sons, 1863), ed. by William Beamont
  • multiple formats at Google
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• Poets, Poems, and Rhymes of East Cheshire: Being a History of the Poetry and Song Lore, and a Book of Biographies of the Poets and Song Writers of the Eastern Portion of the County Palatine of Chester (Hyde: J. Higham and Co., 1908), by Thomas Middleton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Some Shorter Climbs (in Derbyshire and Elsewhere) (Manchester, UK: Refuge Printing Dept., 1913), by John Laycock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Salt and the salt industry, by Albert Frederick Calvert (Gutenberg ebook)

• Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory From Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-Names, and Faerie Superstitions (London: Chapman and Hall, 1919), by Harold Bayley
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• English Villages (London: Methuen and Co., 1901), by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)
• Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain (6 volumes; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822), by Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons
  • Volume I (Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamsire): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Cambridgeshire and Cheshire): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III (Cornwall): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Cumberland): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume V (Derbyshire): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Devonshire): multiple formats at archive.org
• Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities (2 volumes; London: James Sangster and Co., ca. 1860), ed. by Charles Knight
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Old Road (London: Constable and Company, 1911), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by William Henry Hyde
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• The Church Bells of Cambridgeshire: A Chronicle of The Principal Companalogical Events That Have Occurred Within the County; To Which Is Appended a List of the Inscriptions on the Bells (Lowestoft, UK: S. Tymms, 1869), by John James Raven
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• Ruins and Old Trees, Associated with Memorable Events in English History, by Mary Roberts, illust. by W. A. Folkard and John Gilbert (Gutenberg ebook)
• Vanishing England, by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg ebook)

• Picturesque Views on the Upper, or Warwickshire Avon (London: Printed by R. Faulder and T. Egerton, 1795), by Samuel Ireland (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The laboryouse iourney [and] serche of Iohan Leylande, for Englandes antiquitees geuen of hym as a newe yeares gyfte to Kynge Henry the viij. in the. xxxvij. yeare of his reygne, with declaracyons enlarged: by Iohan Bale ([London : Printed by S. Mierdman for John Bale] To be sold [by R. Foster] in fletestrete at the signe of the Croune next vnto the whyte Fryears gate, [1549]), by John Leland and John Bale (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Bewcastle cross / (New Haven, Conn. : Printed for the author, 1913), by Albert S. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The date of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle crosses, (New Haven, Conn., Yale university press, 1912), by Albert S. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of Bewcastle Cross; the mystery of Alcfrith and the myths of Maughan. (Glasgow, J. Smith, 1923), by James King Hewison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ancient cross shafts at Bewcastle and Ruthwell : enlarged from the Rede lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 20 May 1916 / (Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press, 1916), by G. F. Browne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ancient cross shafts at Bewcastle and Ruthwell, (Cambridge [Eng.] University press, 1916), by George Forrest Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some accounts of the Bewcastle cross between the years 1607 and 1861, (New York, H. Holt and company, 1914), by Albert S. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The runic roods of Ruthwell and Bewcastle, with a short history of the cross and crucifix in Scotland, (Glasgow : J. Smith & son, ltd., 1914), by James King Hewison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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