This volume includes papers by George Ormerod, the historian of Cheshire, and William Williams Mortimer who wrote a history of Wirral Hundred
Front matter:
List of members
Council
Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session II no. 1
Introductory address
Henry C. Pidgeon
An investigation into the right of the County Palatine of Chester to bear a coat of arms
Sir Edward Cust
On a charter of feoffment of Gorton, 1422
John Harland
Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session II no. 2
Illustration of a brank and a compass exhibited at meetings of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
Henry C. Pidgeon
Extract from the will of the founder of the grammar school at Great Crosby, John Harrison
T. Avison
Notes on a Roman road at Warrington
Rev Abraham Hume
On the Roman station, Condate
John Robson
Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session II no. 3
Note on a Welsh Christmas custom called ‘the plugging’
Rev Abraham Hume
On Handford Old Hall, formerly the residence of the Breretons with an account of Cheadle church
Richard Brooke
Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session II no. 4
Sketch of the history of the ancient modes of fastening doors
Edward Higgin
On the Scotch kirks and congregations in Liverpool, being a brief sketch of their rise and progress
David Thom
An account of the parish of Church Minshull, in Cheshire
Rev. George B. Sandford
Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session II no. 5
Cotton and the cotton trade
David Lamb
Some remarks on the Lords Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Chester, from the Restoration to the year 1690
Sir Philip Grey Egerton
Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session II no. 6
A memoir of the Lancashire house of Le Noreis or Norres, and of its Speke branch in particular, etc.
George Ormerod
Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session II no. 7
Some occurrences during the rebellion of 1745, principally in Warrington and the neighbourhood
William Beamont
An account of the Tilting Ground at Gawsworth, Cheshire
Joseph Mayer
Presentations to the Society and Exhibits Session II no. 8
Letter relating to Roman finds in Cheshire
George Ormerod
Evidence of woodland found in excavations in Liverpool
Mr Stonehouse
Presentation and translation of a deed concerning land in Scarisbrick granted to Cockersand Abbey
James Smith
Memoir of the earls of Chester. Part I – On the Saxon Earls
William Williams Mortimer
Closing Address
Henry C. Pidgeon
Explanation of his paper on the Scotch kirks and congregations of Liverpool
David Thom
Pedigrees and illustrations of Mr Sandford’s paper on Church Minshull
Visit of the British Archaeological Association August 2, 1849
Notes on Speke Hall
Henry C. Pidgeon
On certain church brasses in Cheshire and Lancashire
J. G. Waller
On Guild processions and observances
F. W. Fairholt
On the Chester Mystery Plays
Rev Abraham Hume
Mazer Dish Presented by the Society to the President of the British Archaeological Association
Analysis of the Leasowe water
Joseph Danson
Origin of the name ‘Historic Society’
Rev Abraham Hume
Egyptian signet ring and alms or offering dishes
Joseph Mayer
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