Papers in this volume cover a wide rage of topics including botany and horticulture as well as history and archaeology

Front matter:
List of members

Remarks on the census of religious worship for England and Wales
Rev Abraham Hume

On the population of Lancashire and Cheshire, and its local distribution during the fifty years 1801-1851 [Part IV]
J. T. Danson and T. A. Welton

On a systematically arranged border for plants
Rev Henry H. Higgins

Explanatory note to the paper entitled ‘El Sakhra’ published in vol. X
Sir Edward E. Cust

On the popular customs and superstitions of Lancashire [Part II]
T. T. Wilkinson

The chimeras: an attempt to shew that the compound animals of the Assyrian marbles are representations of those erected by Solomon and Jeroboam
Sir Edward E. Cust

On the importance of public museums for historical collections
C. Roach Smith

On the flora of Preston and the neighbourhood [Part II]
C. J. Ashfield

On the engraved portraits and pretended portraits of Milton
John F. Marsh

Tumuli at Winwick
John Robson

On poisons
F. Crace Calvert

Notes on clay pipes: their uses and forms, makers and dates
H. Ecroyd Smith

Proceedings, twelfth session, 1859-60

Report presented at the annual meeting

Balance sheet

An account of the disbursements of Thomas Crisp Esqre High Sherriff of Lancashire attending the tryall of the rebels at Leverpoole, 1715
Joseph Mayer

Appendix: excursion

Index

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Historical papers in this volume include a historical sketch of Warrington Academy and the first part of a history of the Blue Coat Hospital in Liverpool, contemporary events discussed include a comet which appeared in 1858

Front matter:
List of members

A historical sketch of Warrington Academy
Henry A. Bright

On the population of Lancashire and Cheshire, and its local distribution during the fifty years 1801-1851 [Part III]
J. T. Danson and T. A. Welton

On the diatomaceae of the neighbourhood of Liverpool
Thomas Comber

On the arming of levies in the hundred of Wirral, in the county of Chester, and the introduction of small fire arms as weapons of war in place of bows and arrows
Joseph Mayer

On the poems of Oisin
Professor Connellan

Runic inscriptions: Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian
A. Craig Gibson

Geographical terms, considered as tending to enrich the English language
Rev. Abraham Hume

On the popular customs and superstitions of Lancashire [Part I]
T. T. Wilkinson

A sketch of the origin and early history of the Liverpool Blue Coat Hospital [Part I]
John R. Hughes

On the early charters of St. Werburgh’s in Chester
John Robson

On the great comet of 1858
John Hartnup and J. T. Towson

Outline of the sea coast of Cheshire
Rev. Abraham Hume

On the uses of learned societies: and in particular of the Historic Society
J. T. Danson

Proceedings, eleventh session, 1858-59

Report presented at the annual meeting

Balance sheet

Appendix: excursion

Index

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This volume includes a long paper on the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 by George Sharf, the exhibition's art secretary

Front matter:
List of members

On the population of Lancashire and Cheshire, and its local distribution during the fifty years 1801-1851 [Part II]
J. T. Danson and T. A. Welton

Our mother-tongue in our father-land
David Buxton

Further remarks on the history of the two counties and its materials
John Robson

On the so-called Anglo-Saxon antiquities discovered near Kertch, in the Crimea
C. Roach Smith

Notes on the classification of human knowledge, with especial reference to the methods which have been adopted, or proposed, for the arrangement or cataloguing of libraries
Edward Edwards

Ancient customs and superstitions in Cumberland
A. Craig Gibson

Azimuth card for the latitude of Liverpool
W. W. Rundell

On the lepidopterous insects of the district around Liverpool
Charles Stuart Gregson

El Sakhra
Sir Edward Cust

On the flora of Preston and its neighbourhood [Part I]
Charles Joseph Ashfield

Description of some antiquities from Macon, in the south of France
H. Ecroyd Smith

Further memorials of the late J. H. Swale
T. T. Wilkinson

A historical sketch of photography
Charles Corey

On the geology of the Fylde district
Rev William Thornber

On the dipterous insects of the district around Liverpool
H. H. Higgins

Notes on the Buslingthorpe brass
Rev. John Sansom

On slavery, as it existed in England during the Saxon era, and the substitution of villenage after the Norman conquest, until its gradual extinction
Joseph Wright

On the solar eclipse of March 15th 1858, as seen at Burnley
T. T. Wilkinson

On the solar eclipse of March 15th 1858, as seen near Oxford
J. T. Towson and T. Sansom

Icebergs in the southern ocean
J. T. Towson

On the microscope as applied to natural history
Thomas Sansom

Notice of mammalian remains discovered in the excavations at Wallasey for the Birkenhead new docks
Thomas J. Moore

On the Manchester art-treasures exhibition, 1857
George Scharf

Proceedings, tenth session, 1857-58

Report presented at the annual meeting

Balance sheet

Exhibition of items including a brass vessel in the form of a knight dug up in Winwick churchyard, and a fragment of a similar item from Warrington
James Kendrick

Exhibition of fine art items, including rings on the hand of a mummy
Joseph Mayer and John Topping

Further discovery of remains at the Roman station, Walton-le-Dale, near Preston
C. Hardwick

Special General Meeting concerning union with the Photographic Society

Appendix: excursion

Index

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This volume includes an address to William Brown on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of Liverpool Free Public Library and Museum as well as the usual wide-ranging papers

Front matter:
List of members

On the language of Lancashire, under the Romans
R. G. Latham

On the importance of testing chronometers before they are used at sea, with examples to show how their most common faults may be detected
John Hartnup

On the battle of Brunanburh; and the probable locality of the conflict, with appendix: on some funeral urns found at Catlow
T. T. Wilkinson

Notes on the yak, or grunting ox, and other ruminating animals from central Asia
T. J. Moore

The castle hill of Penwortham
Rev. William Thornber

On resemblance, imitation and plagiarism in English poetry
David Buxton

The Faussett museum, as affording materials for history
John Robson

On some fossil trees recently discovered at Burnley
T. T. Wilkinson

On comparative philology considered as an aid to history
Rev Arthur Ramsay

Commerce of the medial east
John Locke

On the perfect r-Partitions of r2-r 1+1
Rev. T. P. Kirkman

On the history of the English language
Thomas Wright

On the lepidopterous insects of the district around Liverpool
Charles Stuart Gregson

On the people of the English Lake Country, their origin, history and character
A. Craig Gibson

On the population of Lancashire and Cheshire, and its local distribution during the fifty years, 1801-1851 [Part I]
J. T. Danson and T. A. Welton

A visit to the tomb of Theodoro Paleologus
John Thomas Towson

Results of an examination of the records of the Liverpool self-registering tide gauge, for the years 1854, 1855 and 1856
Lieut. Murray T. Parks

The characters of Macbeth and Richard the third, according to Shakespeare, compared
James Stonehouse

Historical sketch of the Liverpool Library
P. Macintyre

Remarks on antique ivory carvings
Francis Pulszky

Proceedings, ninth session, 1856-57

Report presented at the annual meeting

Balance sheet

Remarks on the financial position of the Society
Rev. A. Hume

Opening address
J. T. Danson

On the relation between the material progress of the United States and the capital and labour of Europeans
E. Clibborn

On binocular vision, and the theory of the stereoscope
John Newton

On a vortex wheel near Kendal, with suggestions on water wheels
G. Grazebrook

Illustrations of ring money and gold torques found in Ireland, belonging to Thomas Tobin

Concluding address
Rev. A. Hume

Appendix: extra meeting

Special General Meeting and address to William Brown on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of Liverpool Free Public Library and Museum

Appendix: excursion and visit

Index

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This volume includes papers on a wide variety of topics including the character of Hamlet, the population of Manchester and diseases of the pear tree

Front matter:
List of members

On the state of the western portion of the ancient kingdom of Northumberland, down to the period of the Norman conquest
John Hodgson Hinde

Liverpool: memoranda touching its area and population, during the first half of the present century
J. T. Danson

On the Saxon element in the diction of English poetry
David Buxton

On the foundation and history of Boteler’s Free Grammar School at Warrington
John Fitchett Marsh

The ancient geometrical analysis, illustrated from the writings of the Lancashire geometers
T. T. Wilkinson

On Babylon; and on the discovery of the cuneiform characters, and the mode of interpreting them
Dr Julius Oppert

On the method of testing marine meteorological instruments recently introduced at Liverpool Observatory
John Hartnup

On the character of Hamlet
Rev. Arthur Ramsay

On the Roman remains recently discovered at Walton-le-Dale, Preston
Charles Hardwick

On the ethnology of south Britain at the period of the extinction of the Roman government in the island
Thomas Wright

On the lepidopterous insects of the district around Liverpool
Charles Stuart Gregson

On the area and population of the Manchester district
J. T. Danson

The English poor law system, viewed in relation to education and morals, in England and Wales
Rev. Thomas Moore

On a fungoid disease affecting the pear tree
Thomas Sansom

On the rise of the manufacturing towns of Lancashire and Cheshire
David Buxton

Results deduced from observations, taken with the self-registering anemometer and rain-gauge, at the Liverpool Observatory, during the four years ending December 31, 1855
John Hartnup

Proceedings, eighth Session, 1855-56

Balance sheet

Exhibition of a case of watches
Rev. John James Moss

On the use of the patent abacus
J. G. Jones

A day in Low Furness
James Stonehouse

General remarks on the natural history of the shores of the Mersey
Richard A. Tudor

On some unpublished letters of Dr. Franklin
Percy M. Dove

On a supposed new species of prong-horned antelope from North America
Thomas J. Moore

On the horns of the Chiru, the so-called ‘Unicorn’ of Thibet
Thomas J. Moore

On the advantages of the study of natural history, in our national or people’s schools
Charles Stuart Gregson

Monumental brasses found at Preston
William Dobson

On some of the recorded changes in Liverpool Bay, previous to the year 1800
Joseph Boult

Concluding address
J. T. Danson

Appendix: excursion

Index

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This volume includes an important paper on Liverpool pottery by Joseph Mayer, one of the three founders of the Society

Front matter

On Anglo-Saxon antiquities, with a particular reference to the Faussett collection
Thomas Wright

The manufacture of cobalt
Henry Atherton

Cowley, and the poets of the seventeenth century
David Buxton

On a grotesque mask of punishment obtained in the castle of Nuremberg
Frederick W. Fairholt

On some correspondence of Dr. Priestley, preserved in the Warrington museum and library
John Fitchett Marsh

Description of a unique vase in Mr. Mayer’s museum
F. R. Paul Bööke

A morning’s ramble in ‘Old Warrington’
James Kendrick

Notices of certain British antiquities; no. 2 – objects in glass
Edward Benn

On the materials for the history of the two counties, and the mode of using them [Part II]
John Robson

On the snows and snow crystals of the winter 1854-55, as observed in Warrington
Thomas Glazebrook Rylands

On institutions for the deaf and dumb: their objects, difficulties, and advantages
David Buxton

An account of the life and writings of the late J. H. Swale, of Liverpool
Thomas T. Wilkinson

Remarks upon the flora of Liverpool
H. S. Fisher

On the illumination of the diatomaceae, when viewed under the microscope
Thomas Sansom

On Liverpool pottery
Joseph Mayer

Remarks on the connection between archaeology and natural history
Joseph Clarke

On the results of the self-registering tide gauge
Lieutenant W. Lord

On the lepidopterous insects of the district around Liverpool, with some of the causes of the abundance or scarcity of insects
Charles Stuart Gregson

Proceedings, seventh session, 1854-1855

Report presented at the annual meeting

Report respecting the extension of the Society

Soiree to the British Association for the Advancement of Science

‘Tig’ in the collection of Joseph Mayer
Joseph Mayer

On the powder-proof solid lock, and safe door
W. Milner

Description of two ancient carved oak panels
John Clements

Some notes on the parish of West Kirkby, in the hundred of Wirrall
Rev Thomas Moore

Remarks on the rainfall at Warrington, during a period of eleven years
Thomas Glazebrook Rylands

Notes on the old church at Leyland
Miss ffarington

Notice of an ancient manuscript chronicle
Rev. John Sansom

Analysis of the subscribers to the various Liverpool charities
Rev Abraham Hume

Notice of the inventory of the effects of Mrs. Milton, widow of the poet
John Fitchett Marsh

Notes on the primitive inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland
Edward Benn

Description of the parish and church of Over, in Cheshire
James Stonehouse

Science in Lancashire and Cheshire
John Towne Danson

Parochial notes respecting Waverton, near Chester
Rev. J. W. Hill

Concluding address
Rev. A. Hume

Index

Contents of volumes I to VI

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This volume contains an article on eighteenth-century newspapers by James Picton, an antiquary who has given his name to the Picton Reading Room in Liverpool Central Library

Front matter

First Meeting – Proceedings and communications 

Some account of the Liverpool election of 1670; from original documents in the possession of John Ireland Blackburne, esq., of Hale (also Appendix)
Rev. Abraham Hume

Second Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Facsimiles of correspondence between Lady Hamilton and Nelson
Joseph Mayer

Some account of the loyal Warrington volunteers of 1798
James Kendrick

A synoptical view of the British authorities – earliest and medieval – on British history
William Bell

Third Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Some notes, historical and ecclesiastical, on the chapelry of Kirkby, Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancashire
Rev. Thomas Moore

Biographical notice of Mr John Holt, a late local antiquary
James Stonehouse

Fourth Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Ancient washing tablet exhibited
Mr Clements

Further particulars respecting Mr. John Holt
James Boardman

Biographical sketch of Mr. John Wyke, with some remarks on the arts and manufactures of Liverpool from 1760 to 1780
William John Roberts and H. C. Pidgeon

Porcelain and earthenware manufacture in Liverpool

On Shotwick church and its Saxon foundation
Joseph Mayer

Fifth Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Description of the ancient font at Kirkby, in the parish of Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancashire
William John Roberts

Sixth Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Explanation of a stone with armorial bearings
James Boardman

On the education of the deaf and dumb in Lancashire and Cheshire
David Buxton

Notices of Certain British antiquities; no. 1
Edward Benn

Seventh Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Roman remains in the Fylde district
Rev. William Thornber

Gleanings from old Liverpool newspapers, a hundred years ago
James A. Picton

Description of an ancient copy book of the time of Charles II

Eighth Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Exhibition of small objects found in a Roman burial ground near Cologne
Joseph Mayer

Description of a Warrington book-plate
James Kendrick

On the history of naval terms; part II
Rev. J. S. Howson

Concluding address
Rev. Abraham Hume

Special general meetings

Appendix (letters relating to the Liverpool election of 1670)

Index

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Front matter

First Meeting – Proceedings and communications 

Liverpool churches and chapels; their destruction, removal or alteration: with notices of clergymen, ministers and others. Part II
Rev. David Thom

An account of excavations made at the Mote Hill, Warrington, Lancashire
James Kendrick

Second Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Exhibition of woodblock of the Warrington post-boy from Eyres’s Warrington Advertiser, 1756
James Kendrick

Notice of certain documents, illustrative of the revolution of 1688
Sir Edward Cust

Attempt to identify the place called ‘Parathalassus’ mentioned in one of the colloquies of Erasmus
William Rushton

Third Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Notice of the portion of the ms., Harl. MSS., 1927, 10b – 1574-1578 formerly in the possession of Thomas Chaloner, citizen of Chester
Thomas Heywood

Fourth Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Salt, and its manufacture in Cheshire
James Stonehouse

Eight letters relating to Cheshire, of the time of Elizabeth and James I
Thomas Dorning Hibbert

Fifth Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Exhibition of six stone axes
J. W. Whitehead

400 drawings exhibited
Joseph Mayer

Historical notes on the valley of the Mersey previous to the Norman Conquest
Thomas Baines

Roscoe, and the influence of his writings on the fine arts
Joseph Mayer

Sixth Meeting – Proceedings and communications

An account of Mains Hall, near Poulton, the hiding-place of Cardinal Allen, in the time of Queen Elizabeth
Rev. William Thornber

Notice of the baptismal marriage and burial registers respecting James Roscoe
James Boardman

Seventh Meeting – Proceedings and communications

On the history of naval terms; part I
Rev. J. S. Howson

Lancashire and Cheshire men in the sixteenth century
Rev. Abraham Hume

Dramatic places of amusement in Liverpool a century ago
James Stonehouse

Eighth Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Exhibition of a lithographic print of the chairs of Dr. Aikin and Dr. Enfield
James Kendrick

Letter of Oliver Cromwell exhibited
Joseph Mayer

The materials for the history of the two counties, and the mode of using them
John Robson

The Judgment scene: from a representation in Mr. Mayer’s Egyptian museum
Rev. Abraham Hume

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Much of the material in this volume was contributed by Joseph Mayer and Abraham Hume, two of the founder members, and it also includes an illustrated paper on the township and village of Everton

Front matter:
Report and balance sheet
Laws
Contents of volumes 1 – 4

First Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Mock corporation in Liverpool
R. Brooke

The alleged royal visits to Liverpool
Joseph Mayer

Second Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Roman coins found at Tarbock exhibited

Exhibition of a deed dated 3 Elizabeth I, relating to Liverpool quay
Joseph Mayer

An account of Warrington siege A. D. 1643; and of some manuscripts of that period recently discovered at Houghton Green, near Warrington
James Kendrick

An account of the ancient hall of Samlesbury, near Preston
Alfred Rimmer

Third Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Exhibition of a prayer book used by Liverpool dissenters known as ‘Octagonians’, and a paper by Bryan Blundell regarding seizure of cotton at Liverpool in 1784
R. Brooke

Account of the grant of free warren, by Henry III, to Thomas Gresley, sixth baron of Manchester
John Harland

Remarks on the ancient mural painting of the General Judgment, recently discovered in Gawsworth church
Rev. Abraham Hume

Fourth Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Historical notes, respecting the township and village of Everton
James Stonehouse

Topography and antiquities of Southport and its neighbourhood
Hugh Gawthrop

Fifth Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Exhibition of document: depositions of witnesses at a court of exchequer held at Chester, 1607
Rev. Abraham Hume

A Lancashire charm, in cypher, against witchcraft and evil spirits
John Harland

Memoir of the earls of Chester. Part II – The Norman earls
William Williams Mortimer

Sixth Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Tarvin church and Eddisbury hill
David Thom

Exhibition of a letter concerning the purchase of wine for His Majesty’s ships, and details of a letter from James Boardman of Aigburth regarding Lord Nelson and Bronte wine
Mr Woodhouse

Traces of the Britons, Saxons, and Danes in the Foreland of the Fylde
Rev. William Thornber

Seventh Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Exhibition of a silver tankard, presented to Mr. Wolf of Madeley, Shropshire by Charles II for hiding him after the battle of Worcester
W. Rathbone

The Danes in Lancashire
John Just

British burial places near Bolton, co. Lancaster
Matthew Dawes

Eighth Meeting – Proceedings and communications

Exhibition of a spoon of Prince Charles Edward, the ‘young Pretender’
Joseph Mayer

Communication re tilting ground at Gawsworth
Richard Brooke

Communications re House of Correction in Liverpool and ducking stools
Richard Brooke

Exhibition of plague stone from Wash Lane, Latchford, Warrington
James Kendrick

Liverpool churches and chapels; their destruction, removal or alteration: with notices of clergymen, ministers and others
Rev. David Thom

Letters relating to Lancashire and Cheshire; – temp. James I, Charles I and Charles II
Thomas Dorning Hibbert

Notes on the church of West Kirby, Cheshire
James Middleton

Account of Day Meetings

Historical and antiquarian notes on Warrington and its neighbourhood
John Robson

Special General Meeting

Index

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Front matter

Hints on the best mode of carrying out the objects of the Historic Society
Rev. Abraham Hume

Prospectus of the Historic Society and Constitution of the Society

Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session III no. 1

A very large wall crossbow and two-handed sword exhibited
Joseph Mayer

The Roman Roads of Lancashire; Part II. On the Seventh Iter of Richard of Cirencester
John Just

Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session III no. 2

On the ancient domestic architecture of Lancashire and Cheshire
Alfred Rimmer

Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session III no. 3

Notes on a visit to Heysham
John Robson

Notes on the use of the clay tobacco pipe in England
Andrew J. Lamb

On certain implements of the stone period
Rev. Abraham Hume

Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session III no. 4

On the seal of Liverpool
J. G. Nichols

Additional Notes on the Seventh Iter of Richard of Cirencester
T. Langton Birley

Evidences of Roman occupation in the Fylde District
Rev. William Thornber

Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session III no. 5

On the Cheshire Watling Street; and other evidences of Roman occupation in Lancashire and Cheshire
John Robson

Notes on genealogy
Sir William Betham

Description of Lydiate Hall
William John Roberts

Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session III no. 6

On the nomenclature of the British tribes, particularly as regards the northern parts of England
Dr. William Bell

Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session III no. 7

Exhibition of three 14th – 15th century documents from the collection of John Ireland Blackburne
John Robson

The old halls of Cheshire. No. I: Tranmere Hall
Joseph Mayer

Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session III no. 8

Archaeological finds exhibited from various places, including Flixton, Danes Pad in the Fylde, Kirkham, Staining and Leasowe
Rev. William Thornber

Document relating to the civil war found at Houghton Green, near Warrington
James Kendrick

An account of the Roman and British remains found north and east of the River Wyre
Rev. William Thornber

Ancient custom of electing a Mock Mayor, at Newcastle-under-Lyne
Joseph Mayer

Concluding Address
Rev. Abraham Hume

Index

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