Excerpt from Bygone Cumberland: And WestmorlandDuring the last twenty years, and in a considerable number of cases I have examined old registers and other documents without being then aware that some of their contents had already been published. Few districts in the United Kingdom have been more thoroughly worked for antiquarian and archaeological purposes than have Cumberland and Westmorland. The Antiquarian Society and the numerous Literary and Scientific Societies have, during the last thirty years, been responsible for a great amount of research. I have en deavoured to acknowledge each source - not only as a token of my own obligation, but as a means.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.