The bards and authors of Cleveland and South Durham and the vicinage

""The first name that we meet with of any eminence in our literature, as that of a writer who composed in his mother tongue, was a native of this district, and was employed in tending cattle, or in other words, followed the humble occupation of a herdsman, during the Saxon Heparchy. This was Caedmon...!" (spelt Cedmon in the book). Contents - Introduction, Cedmon (Caedmon), Walter de Hemingford, John Gower, Rev. Bernard Gilpin, D.D., Roger Ascham, Dean Whittingham, Francis Mewburn, Lionel Charlton, John Jackson, of Rudby, Thomas John Cleaver, Sir Thomas Chaloner the Elder, Sir Thomas Chaloner the Younger, Rev. Edward Chaloner, D.D., Thomas Chaloner, MP, the Commonwealthman, James Chaloner, MP, the Commonwealthman, Rev. Henry Foulis, BD, William Martin, Joseph Reed, William Emerson, John Reed Appleton, FSA, Jabez Cole,MB, William Mudd, John Castillo, Bishop Brian Walton DD, Thomas Webber, Byron Webber, John Walker Ord FGSL, John Ryley Robinson,LLD, James Clephan,Henry Heavisides, Samual Gordon FSA.Scot, Frank Wilkinson, The Hon Commodore Constantine John Phipps, afterwards Baron Mulgrave, Rev. James Holme BA, Rev. Thomas Holme, Rev. John Graves, List of sunscribers,"