Book Description

Privately printed for The Kendall Memorial Fund Committee and published posthumously in an edition limited to 250 copies.This John Fairfax- Blakeborough's copy [ the writer and folk-lorist ]The book offers an historical account of the old castle at Lythe near Whitby and traces the family history of its successive owners - The Fossards, De Turnham, The De Mauleys, Bigods,Radcliffes and Sheffields from 1086 to 1743. Cr 8vo.100pps folding frontispiece and twelve tipped-in plates, plus a selection of local news cuttings pasted to the rear end papers and a loosely inserted ALS from Thomas Marshall Hill of Ugthorp Hall explaining the succession of events leading to the present owners.Scarce Not in the British Library COPAC records only the National Library of Scotlands copy.
Author KENDALL, Hugh P.
Publisher HULL. Brown & Sons,Ltd.1948

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