Volume 1
History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster / By Edward Baines ... The biographical department by W.R. Whatton.
- Edward Baines
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster / By Edward Baines ... The biographical department by W.R. Whatton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the parish, taken consecutively in their regular order, till the tour of the ecclesiastical limits is completed, is then treated with as much particularity as the nature of this publication would allow; and the same course is pursued through all the hundreds and parishes of the county, as they successively come under review. In writing the History of the County of Lancaster, it became indispensably necessary to exhibit the history of that most important of all our sources of national industry—the cotton manufacture; and the Author has to offer his affectionate acknowledgments to his son, Mr. Edward Baines, for an original and comprehensive history—the first ever written—on that stupendous source of wealth and of employ- ment. These chapters have since been expanded by their Author into a volume, which, in addition to a wide circulation in Great Britain, and the United States of America, has received the honour of translation into the German language. The sources of information, both general and local, from which this History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster have been derived, are to be found in the Rolls of Parliament, in the Charter Rolls, in the Hundred Rolls, in the Inquisitiones Post Mortem, Escheats, and other official inquiries into landed property ; m the Taxation Rolls of Edward I., and in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas IV., deposited in the Tower of London ; in the Domesday Book, in the Pipe Rolls, in the Bags of “Pedes Finium,” (or Fines,) in the Quo Warranto Rolls in the reigns of Edw. I. I]. and III., and in the Surveys of Abbeys, Monasteries and Priories, deposited in the Chapter House at Westminster ; in the books of Pedigrees and Arms, and in the Visitations of the Heralds in the College of Arms; in the Records of the Presentation to Benefices, in the Ecclesiastical Court at Chester ;* in the Chartularies, Registers, and Ledgers of the Monasteries, and in the Surveys and Inquisitions of the larger and smaller religious houses in the Harleian, Cottonian, Lansdowne, and Hargrave Collections; in the Records of Pious Uses, taken before Bishop Bridgman, in the 20th, 21st, and 22nd of James I., contained in the British Museum; and in the Charters of Grants of various kings, under the Great Seal of the Duchy of Lancas- ter, the Court Rolls of the Duchy, the Inquisitiones Post Mortem, the Presentations to Livings, the Calendar of Pleadings, and the Abstracts of Duchy Records, in the Bags and Rolls of the Duchy Courts, deposited in the Record Office of the Duchy, in Lancaster-place, London. When room could be afforded, copies of the docu- ments themselves have generally been inserted, but, in most cases, they have been necessarily withheld, though never without a description of their contents being * Owing to the defective state of these records in the early ages of the bishoprics, the returns are less perfect than might be expected.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33521682_0001_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
