The bards and authors of Cleveland and south Durham, and the vicinage

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Description - Tweddell describes the work as kind of 'Cyclopedia' of Poets and Prose writers from Cleveland and South Durham from Caedmon's time up until the 1860's often with woodcuts of the authors and others by Bewick. Contains extracts from their writings along with Tweddell's commentary on their work and lives. Tweddell challanges a few ideas such as the birth place / residence of John Gower (the Moral) which he claims was in Stittenham and Sexhow (Nr Stokesley) rather than Cantebury or elsewhere.
Contents - Contents - Introduction, Cedmon (Caedmon), Walter de Hemingford, John Gower, Rev. Bernard Gilpin, D.D., Roger Ascham, Dean Whittingham, Francis Mewburn, Lionel Charlton, John Jackson, of Rudby, Thomas John Cleaver, Sir Thomas Chaloner the Elder, Sir Thomas Chaloner the Younger, Rev. Edward Chaloner, D.D., Thomas Chaloner, MP, the Commonwealthman, James Chaloner, MP, the Commonwealthman, Rev. Henry Foulis, BD, William Martin, Joseph Reed, William Emerson, John Reed Appleton, FSA, Jabez Cole,MB, William Mudd, John Castillo, Bishop Brian Walton DD, Thomas Webber, Byron Webber, John Walker Ord FGSL, John Ryley Robinson,LLD, James Clephan,Henry Heavisides, Samual Gordon FSA.Scot, Frank Wilkinson, The Hon Commodore Constantine John Phipps, afterwards Baron Mulgrave, Rev. James Holme BA, Rev. Thomas Holme, Rev. John Graves, List of subscribers,
Popular in 1872 but more recently hidden away in reference libraries or antiquarian bookshops but gives a brilliant insight into the lives and works of poets and authors from the North East of England often with woodcuts of the authors.