Loidis and Elmete; or, An attempt to illustrate the districts described in those words by Bede and supposed to embrace the lower portions of Aredale and Wharfdale, together with the entire vale of Calder, in the county of York

Whitaker, Thomas Dunham 1759-1821

Loidis and Elmete; or, An attempt to illustrate the districts described in those words by Bede and supposed to embrace the lower portions of Aredale and Wharfdale, together with the entire vale of Calder, in the county of York By Thomas Dunham Whitaker, L.L. D. F.S.A. Vicar of Whalley, and rector of Heysham, in Lancashire.. - [Leeds] Printed by T. Davison, for Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, Leeds; and John Hurst, Wakefield MDCCCXVI [-1820]. - [6], 74, 73*-74*, 75-326, 327*-328*, 327-404, 2, 80 [i.e. 88] p., [69] leaves of plates (15 folded) ill., coats of arms, geneal. tables, ports. fol

Sometimes refered to as the second volume of "The history of Leeds", the first being "Ducatus Leodiensis" (1715) by Ralph Thoresby, of which Whitaker published a second edition in 1816 (cf. Boyne) (see L157678).


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