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KING'S VALE-ROYALL
village on the very shore, wher men use much to
salten hering taken at the se by the mouth of
Mersey, is a seven or eight miles.
" Thens a 2. myles to the fery house on Wyrale
shore, and there is the trajectus proximus to Lyrpole
a 3. miles over.
"
Aboute half a quarter of (a) mile upward hard
on Wyral shore is Byrk(et) a late a priory of a
XVI. monkes as a celle to Chester without any
village by it.
" Al the shore grounde of Wyral apon De
side ys highe bankid, but not veri hilly grounde.
And so ys the bank of Wyrale onto Briket on
Mersey side.
" The trajectus from Hillebyri directely over-
thwart bytwixt Flint and Basingwark is at the
ful se a VII. miles over."
The first printed work exclusively dedicated to
Cheshire antiquities was " The Vale-Royall of
England, or the County Palatine of Chester Illustrated,
Performed by William Smith and William
Webb," published by Daniel King in the year
1656. It was in three parts ; the second by William
Webb includes a most interesting Itinerary
of each Hundred, written in the latter part of
1621. The Rev. Daniel Lysons published his
excellent work entitled " Magna Britannia " in
1810, and devoted the whole of the second part
of volume 2 to the County Palatine of Chester.
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