Palmes, William, Life of Mrs. Dorothy Lawson of St. Anthony's near Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Northumberland
(Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Imprinted by George Bouchier Richardson, at the sign of the River-god Tyne, Clayton-treet-west; printer to the Society of antiquaries, and to the Typographical society, both of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1851.)
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9Dt)crti0emcnt. E are indebted to Sir William Lawson, baronet, for permission to publish the accompanying imprint of a very cm-ious MS. biography of Mrs. Dorothy Lawson, his ancestress through seven generations. Tho number of her descendants, down to 1798, ex¬ ceeded two hundred, " including the Lawson fa¬ mily, and through it, the Swinburnes, Tempests, Withams, Traffords, Blundells, Howards of Corby, Petres, Silvertops, Stricklands, Wrights, Westons, and Salvins. So curious a picture of the life and manners of a past age,seemed to the editor too valuable to remain unpublished. Such observation^ as he ha-^* chosen to |
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