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Title: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archæological Society Simpson, James, 1819-1886 Ferguson, Richard Saul, 1837-1900 Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom), 1854-1932
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Publisher: (S.l. : The Society)
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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