John Denton's History of Cumberland

by John Denton

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0854440682
• ISBN13: 9780854440689
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Surtees Society
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"