 The full title of the work is "The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester... incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities" (see Bibliography).An extremely rare initial print in two volumes with duplicated plates was followed by a general subscription in ten parts, which formed three volumes, between 1816 and 1819.Much of his research was from documents held in Chester Castle and from books and documents lent to him by Hugh Cholmondeley, Dean of Chester.