New and definitive edition of the earliest history of Cumberland.
John Denton's history of Cumberland, compiled in the first decade
of the seventeenth century, formed the basis of almost all
antiquarian writing on Cumberland for some two hundred years, and
continues to be cited. It is the earliest known attempt to write a
history of Cumberland and one of the first generation of
antiquarian accounts of an English shire. This volume presents a
completely new, critical edition of the manuscript history of
Cumberland, replacing that published in 1887 by Richard S. Ferguson
under the title An Accompt of the most considerable Estates and
Families in the County of Cumberland [ hitherto the only published
version]. The new edition attempts both toreconstruct as much as
possible of the original text from surviving copies and to identify
the sources from which it was drawn, enabling the factual accuracy
of Denton's work to be assessed. Angus Winchester is SeniorLecturer
in History at Lancaster University and a Past President of
Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.
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