Local Records, or Historical Register of Remarkable Events, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from Local Records, or Historical Register of Remarkable Events, Vol. 1 of 2: Which Have Occurred in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle Upon Tyne, and Berwick Upon Tweed, From the Earliest Period of Authentic Record, to the Present TimeTo natives, residents, and others interested, the utility of a work of this kind must be obvious, as the most retentive memories, after a lapse of time, will be found defective, and, in consequence, many circumstances of peculiar local interest have been partially forgotten, if not buried in oblivion.This district having long been the seat of the Romans who built the mighty wall, extending across the kingdom from sea to sea, antiquities of a peculiarly interesting character are constantly being discovered. To the Romans succeeded the Saxons and Danes, who visited this district with merciless ferocity, plundering and murdering the inhabitants, and burning the sacred edifices, then came the neighbouring Scots, who, on every inroad, dealt fire and sword with um sparing hands, which conspired to provoke many memorable and sanguinary con¿icts. These, with every other remarkable event, from the best historians, periodical journals, mss private information and personal research, are faithfully given in detail, so that the work may be considered as a chronological history of the district, from the earliest period to the present time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.