A History of Lancashire

202

Chester Presentments at York. See also “History of Kirkham” (Fishwick), Chetham Society, xcii. 45.

203

State Papers, Dom. Ser., Eliz., vol. cclxxix., No. 86.

204

“A True and Exact Relation of the Death of Two Catholics,” etc.; London, 1737.

205

See “History of Kirkham,” Chetham Society, xcii., also article in “Bygone Lancashire”; London, 1892.

206

“Bygone Lancashire”: London, 1892.

207

Including North Meols, which is omitted in the survey.

208

The names were those who were considered “fit to be of the classis.”

209

St. Michael’s–on–Wyre and Lytham are left out.

210

Written by the Rev. Richard Heyricke. Both these tracts are now very scarce.

211

“Lancashire: its Puritanism, etc.,” i. 465.

212

“Lancashire Quaker Literature” (Fishwick), Trans. of Lanc. and Ches. Ant. Soc., 1887.

213

They so designated the church.

214

“Notitia Cestriensis,” Chetham Society, xix.

215

See “Lancashire Nonconformity,” by the Rev. B. Nightingale also Dr. Halley’s “Lancashire Puritanism,” etc.

216

The original meeting–house was at Castle Hey.

217

S. Hibbert Ware, M.D. See Chetham Society, v. (old series), from which many of the facts concerning this rebellion are taken.

218

Works consulted: Patten’s “History of the Rebellion,” Rae’s “History of the Rebellion,” “Lancashire Memorials of 1715” (Chetham Soc., v.), “Manchester Collectanea” (Chetham Soc., lxviii.), “History of Garstang,” etc.

219

His real name was Hoghton.

220

A clergyman of the Church of England.

221

“The Authentic History of the Life and Character of Thomas Cappoch (the rebel Bishop of Carlisle), etc.” London, 1739.

222

One of Dr. Deacon’s sons died on the road.

223

“Through England on a Side–saddle,” by Celia Fiennes; London, 1888. The date ascribed to this journey is the time of William and Mary. This, strictly speaking, is in the last decade of the seventeenth century, but it is near enough to the eighteenth century to serve as an illustration.

224

See article by Mr. W. Harrison in the Lanc. and Ches. Hist. Soc., vol. iv.

225

These roads were not cart–roads, but intended for horse and foot passengers, and in Lancashire were paved with narrow blocks of millstone grit, which are still in places to be seen, the centre deeply worn by the tread of the horses.

226

Another, A.D. 1766.

227

See Mr. Harrison’s List of Turnpike Roads (Lanc. and Ches. Ant. Soc., x.).

228

This invention is by some attributed to John Wyatt, of Birmingham, but recent research gives the credit to Lewis Paul. (See Espinasse’s “Lancashire Worthies.”)

229

Some authorities assert that Arkwright’s mill in Nottingham was built prior to Hargreaves’.

230

He did not, as has been frequently stated, die in poverty. He left property worth £4,000.

231

See Guest’s “Compendious History”; Baines’s “History of Cotton Manufacture”; Espinasse’s “Lancashire Worthies,” etc.

232

Quarterly Review, No. 213, p. 64.

233

Kennedy’s “Brief Memoir of Crompton”; see also French’s “The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton,” and Espinasse’s “Lancashire Worthies.”

234

Article by Mr. W. E. A. Axon, Lanc. and Ches. Ant. Soc., vol. iv.

235

See Roby’s “Traditions of Lancashire”; Harland and Wilkinson, “Legends and Traditions of Lancashire,” etc.

236

A somewhat similar tradition obtains of Wardley Hall, where the skull of Roger Downes, who was slain in London in 1676, was preserved for centuries.

237

A curious instance of the alteration in the meaning of words. Of course, by “indifferently” is meant alike to all.

238

See “History of St. Michael’s–on–Wyre,” p. 64.