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Excerpt from An Accompt of the Most Considerable Estates and Families: In the County of Cumberland, From the Conquest Unto the Beginning of the Reign of K. James the First
Hall, and is said to have been imprisoned in the Tower of London, on a quarrel between him and Dr. Robinson, Bishop of Carlisle. During his imprisonment he made extracts from the records kept in the Tower, and from these he compiled his history Of Cumberland, Of which several copies, or rather editions, for they all differ, are in existence the original copy cannot be found, but by the list Of bishops given in it, as preserved in other copies, it must have been written about 1610. The following notes refer to the various editions, which have been used for the purposes Of this present publication.
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