Cheshire, its traditions and history, including a record of the rise and progress of freemasonry in this ancient province (1920)
Ingham, Alfred · Edinburgh : Printed by Pillans & Wilson · leaf 44
field) were formed out of the others, Bucklow and one or two ofthe old hundreds remaining. Speed describes Cheshire as the seedplott of gcntihtie, and Camden as a most surpassing nursery of ancient gentry above any other county in England,and Leycester regarded Bucklow Hundred as the prime border… … This is not so. Sometime prior thereto, in 1070, WiUiam the Conqueror con-ferred it upon Gherbod, a nobleman of Flanders, for military assistance renderedin the country, but he, falling into the hands of hisenemies, underwent a long and tedious imprisonment.In Saxon times the title of Earl of…
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