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The History and Antiquities of Eyam

By William Wood (1842)

Transcriptions by Rosemary Lockie, © Copyright 2012

THE
HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES
OF
EYAM
WITH A FULL AND PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE
GREAT PLAGUE,
WHICH DESOLATED THAT VILLAGE.
A.D. 1666.
BY WILLIAM WOOD.
“Some writer - why I know not - has styled this ancient village the Queen of
the Peak  If it be so, alas, she is indeed a widowed one!  for there she
 stands alone among the hills, the solemn monument of ‘a MIGHTY
 WOE’, that still tingles appallingly in the ear of history, and embues the
 whole district with a spirit of pensive gloom”.
Rambles in the Country.
LONDON:
THOMAS MILLER, NEWGATE STREET; SHEFFIELD, A. WHITAKER;
CHESTERFIELD, J. ATKINSON; BAKEWELL, J. GOODWIN;
AND THE AUTHOR, EYAM.
1842.
PRICE THREE SHILLINGS.

DEDICATION.

TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE,
TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM,
AND
TO HIS LORDSHIP THE EARL OF THANET,
LORDS OF THE MANOR OF EYAM
THIS UNASSUMING, LITTLE VOLUME,

IS MOST HUMBLY
AND GRATEFULLY

DEDICATED,

BY THE
AUTHOR.

This information was collated and transcribed by Rosemary Lockie in September 2012.
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