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Excerpt from Brunanburgh, A. D. 937 As it seems, he turned away from the dreaded Dee, looked towards Bromborough on the Mersey, as the first Edward Plantagenet looked repeatedly, when coalition was to be feared from Flintshire. I shall treat, in another place, of William of Malmesbury's words, ex consulto cedente, ' with reference to Athelstan, and shall show Ness Head to have been the earlier name for Burton Point by reference also to the Public Records. Shotwick Sands are alluded to at least once in Bishop Cartwright's Diary, but there incorrectly indexed (in the ed. Which has come to my hands) as 'chester on the Sands'. There Cartwright met Clarendon. He mentions them as the Sands (merely), not naming Shot wick. The Dz'et. Nat. Blog. Shows Clarendon to have landed (from Ireland) at N eston, on the very day Cartwright carelessly wrote that he met him five miles from Chester on the Sands Omission Of a comma, after Chester', would seem to have led to the error in the Index. Of course he meant Shotwick Sands by way of which the road (still existing in places) passed from Chester to Parkgate, even then. As Cartwright omitted the Shotwick name, so a like 'dignity' Often causes omission of the 'sands' portion Of the name to-day, i.e. When referring to that par ticular portion of the Shotwick district. Yet the phrase Shottick Sands is perfectly familiar still. The sandy soil is visible through the grass, where, Centuries earlier, the Dee had been largely silted up. I believe that Cartwright's carriage was stuck in these sands on one occasion. 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.

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