The 1790 Poll for Knights of the Shire for Suffolk. Digitally enhanced images of the original text. Bookmarked by major headings. Fully printable.... More Info
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This book that was published in 1830 was, and still is, the most complete history for the area ever written. In almost seven hundred pages it goes in to great detail about the local history and that of some of the more notable families in the area. The Hundred consists of the following parishes, all which are covered in this book, Oare, Culbone, Porlock, Luccombe, Selworthy, Stoke Pero Cutcombe,...More Info
John Whiting was a Quaker from Wrington who was imprisoned in Ilchester Gaol for preaching in the 1680s. He wrote a book entitled "Persecution Expos'd" (published in 1715 describing this experience. This book is a second edition of that publication and includes “With Memoirs of many eminent Friends deceased, and other memorable Matters and Occurrences, concerning the Sufferings of the said Peop...More Info
A super A5 book about Helmsley, written by Isaac Cooper a little over 100 years ago, in which he recounts not only his own memories, but some stories handed down to him and extracts from the diary of John Pape, a noted diarist of the 18th century, giving us a real insight into life in the town from the middle eighteenth up to the late nineteenth centuries. Isaac Cooper first published his b...More Info
Bootham School Register 2011. This is the fourth edition of the School Registers. The first printed register (the Red Book) containing details of 1,988 Old Scholars was published in 1914. The second (the Blue Book) published in 1935 included 2,853 names, whilst the third edition published in 1971 (the Gold Book) had 4,570 names. This fourth edition (the Green Book) has 7,340 entries. To include de...More Info
The surname of Marsden is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is a locational name from places called Marsden in Lancashire, and the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is derived from the Old English "mearc" meaning boundary, and "denu", valley; hence, "a valley forming a natural boundary". The original book by the Revd Benjamin Anderton Marsden, James Aspinall Marsden & Robert Sydney Marsden was published in 19...More Info