Excerpt from An Account of the Ancient Town of Frodsham: In Cheshire It will be observed that, in the above description, Frodsham is divided into two parts, one of which is said to be in Ruloe hundred and the other in the hundred of Bucklow, and that in the latter of these the church and the priest are said to be in Alretone (overton), although in the survey the two parts immediately follow each other. There can be no doubt, however, that both parts belong to the same place, and that in calling the church Arletone instead of Overton, and m placing it in a wrong hundred, both the clerk who wrote the entries and he who reduced them into order clearly fell into error and made a mistake. This mistake, which is proved to have been by no means the only one of a similar kind which occurs in the survey, only goes to shew that even this invaluable national record is not entirely infallible. (domesday Survey of Lancashire and Cheshire, preface, xiv.) Dr. Ormerod, the historian of Cheshire, whom this difficulty did not escape, as we shall see from his description of the church, which we shall give, was' at first inclined to hesitate whether to assign the two passages to the same place; but we believe that his doubt was ultimately removed by the full accord between the Domesday description and the actual condition of Frodsham. (hist. Ches., i., Returning to the description of Frodsham in the survey, we find that Hugh Lupus, the Norman Earl of Chester, who had received a grant of the county to hold as freely by the sword as the King himself held his kingdom by the crown, the effect of which was to make the county a palatinate and the Earl a palatine ruler, had displaced Earl Edwin. But the fate of Edwin, its former owner, was very different. He was the Earl of Mercia, the grandson of Leofric. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.