Preface
PART II.
The following Records are in addition to
those contained in Volumes I and II. They are
mostly abstracted from the Quarter Sessions
Order and Indictment Books and the County
Council Minute Books, now preserved in the
County Muniment Room at the Town Hall of
Kendal, and the Browne Manuscripts in the
possession of Miss Browne of Town End,
Troutbeck.
These latter manuscripts, consisting of some
sixteen volumes, form a mass of local information of extraordinary worth concerning the
latter portion of the 17th and early portion of
the 18th centuries. For want of space it has
been possible only to extract such items as deal
with the highways and county bridges.