Jeremiah Horrocks - Kenyon v Rigby - Cheshire Farming Systems - Liverpool Quaker Meeting House - Lesser Chapels of Cheshire part 3 - Widnes School Board - Railways of Cheshire - Sir John Soane

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Council and officers of the society for the year 1955
Affiliated societies
Honorary members
List of members

Cheshire place-names
Simeon Potter

Jeremiah Horrocks: date of birth, parentage and family associations
S. B. Gaythorpe

Kenyon v. Rigby: the struggle for the clerkship of the peace in Lancashire in the seventeenth century
J. J. Bagley

Four centuries of Cheshire farming systems, 1500-1900
G. E. Fussell

The old Quaker meeting house in Hackins Hey, Liverpool
James Murphy

The lesser chapels of Cheshire, Part III
Raymond Richards

The early steam engine on Merseyside
J. R. Harris

The Wigan coalfield in 1851
A. J. Taylor

The cotton famine in Lancashire
H. W. McCready

Chronological list of the railways of Cheshire, 1837-1939
M. D. Greville

The Widnes School Board, 1874-1903
J. R. Hunt

Final concord between Robert de Aldford and Richard de Pulford relating to land in Elton, c1170-1180
William Fergusson Irvine

G. C. Miller’s Hoghton Tower in History and Romance
A. J. Bagley

Sir John Soane (1753-1837), architect, and Halsnead Hall, Whiston
Stanley A. Harris

Ellen Weeton, 1776-c. 1850
R. J. A. Berry

New books

Obituary
Fred H. Crossley, F.S.A.
Percy Culverwell Brown

Council and officers’ reports for 1954

Index of Cheshire Place Names

Index

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This volume includes a nineteenth-century document, transcribed and edited with the minimum of comment - "The Diary of John Ward".

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Council and officers of the society for the year 1954
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Honorary members

Excavations on the site of the Roman fort at Lancaster, 1950
I. A. Richmond

The free borough of Warrington in the thirteenth century
George A. Carter

The early Stanleys
William Fergusson Irvine

The first house of correction for the county of Lancaster
Sylvia S. Tollit

The church brief for the inundation of the Lancashire coast in 1720
Joan Beck

Liverpool statutory registers of British merchant ships
Rupert C. Jarvis

Admiral Denham and the approaches to the port of Liverpool
A. S. Mountfield

The diary of John Ward of Clitheroe, weaver, 1860-1864
R. Sharpe France (ed.)

Chronological list of the railways of Lancashire, 1828-1939
M. D. Greville

The failure of Sir Thomas Johnson
T. C. Barker

Parr Hall seminary
Mina J. Moore-Rinvolucri

The bicentenary of William Roscoe
J. J. Bagley

New books

Obituary
J. A. Twemlow
by F. J. Routledge

Council and officers’ reports for 1953

Index

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This volume includes a number of shorter papers from across the two counties as well as a paper bringing the history of Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School up to date and two papers about Crosby in Lancashire

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Council and officers of the society for the year 1953
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Seneley Green Grammar School, Ashton-in-Makerfield
W. J. Hodgkiss

Open fields in west Cheshire
Vera Chapman

The Lancashire probate records
B. C. Jones

Traditional house-types in rural Lancashire and Cheshire
William A. Singleton

The lesser chapels of Cheshire, Part II
Raymond Richards

Some events and personalities concerned with the parish of Sefton and the free grammar school (‘Merchant Taylors’) at Great Crosby, 1755-1811
Thomas Williams

Paradise Street, Liverpool: the derivation of the name
Stanley A. Harris

Excavation of a circular enclosure at Broadbank, Briercliffe, Lancashire
T. G. E. Powell

The Harkirk, Little Crosby
Frank Tyrer

The ‘Red Book’ of the abbey of St. Werburgh, Chester
Antonia Nightingale

Richard Burton, vicar of Lancaster, 1466-84
Frank R. Johnston

New books

Obituaries
Henrietta E. Bailey [Obituary] E. C. W.

Philip Nelson [Obituary] R. A. F

Council and officers’ reports for 1952

Index

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Two substantial papers on the medieval counties palatine feature in this volume

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Council and officers of the society for the year 1952
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Flint implements from Worsthorne Moors, Lancashire
George Bernard Leach

The earldom and county palatine of Chester
Geoffrey Barraclough

The duchy and county palatine of Lancaster
Robert Somerville

The Elizabethan playhouse at Prescot, Lancashire
Francis Arthur Bailey

Lancashire coal, Cheshire salt and the rise of Liverpool
T. C. Barker

Extracts from the private ledger of Arthur Heywood of Liverpool merchant and banker
H. A. Ormerod

The Hughes papers: Lancashire social life, 1780-1824
J. R. Harris

Council and officers’ reports for 1951

Index

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The longer papers include a report of a pre-war archaeological excavation at Eddisbury in Cheshire

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Council and officers of the society for the year 1951
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Honorary members
List of members
Societies with which Transactions are exchanged

Excavations of the castle ditch, Eddisbury, 1935-38
Professor W. J. Varley

The head port of Chester; and Liverpool, its creek and member
Rupert C. Jarvis

The official attitude towards the sick poor in seventeenth-century Lancashire
Alfred Fessler

The lesser chapels of Cheshire
Raymond Richards

Robert Adam (1728-1792), architect, and Woolton Hall, Liverpool
Stanley A. Harris

Lancashire justices of the peace in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
Robert Somerville

Some instructions to the parish clerk at Preston Sir Henry Hoghton, bart., 1758
George C. Miller

Correspondence relating to the appointment of a churchwarden at Leyland, 1714
George C. Miller

Note on William Hutchinson
R. Dickinson

‘Saying it in rhyme – in the olden time’
Anita Lea

Obituary
Godfrey W. Mathews [Obituary] P. Culverwell Brown

Council and officers’ reports for 1950

Index

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In addition to papers and shorter notes this volume includes an extensive supplement of local and personal Acts of Parliament prior to 1801 relating to Lancashire, this has been excluded from the search because of the repetitive nature of the content

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Council and officers for the year 1950
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Honorary members
List of members
Societies with which Transactions are exchanged

Rural settlement in Cheshire; some problems of origin and classification
Dorothy Sylvester

Trespasses in the forest of Wirral in 1351
William Fergusson Irvine

The abbot and convent of Merevale v. the rector of Halsall: a tutorial appeal in the fourteenth century before the Court of Arches
R. W. Hunt

A French armorial ivory of the fourteenth century
Philip Nelson

The Warwick signet-ring
Philip Nelson

Some Stanley heraldic glass from Worden Hall, Lancashire
F. A. Bailey

The foundation and financing of Upholland Grammar School
J. J. Bagley

The chapels of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John at High Legh, Cheshire, with some account of the Cornwall-Legh and Egerton Leigh families
Raymond Richards

Michael Hughes of Sutton: the influence of Welsh copper on Lancashire business, 1780-1815
J. R. Harris

Stone axe-hammer found at Altcar, 1949
F. A. Bailey

The pre-Reformation plate of the church of St. Peter, Aston-by-Sutton, Cheshire
Raymond Richards

The church of St. Oswald, Malpas, Cheshire
Raymond Richards

Obituary
Arthur Cecil Wardle (1891-1949)
J. F. Smith

Council and officers’ reports for the year 1949

Index

Local and Personal Acts of Parliament prior to 1801 relating to Lancashire

Pedigree of Legh of High Legh. co. Chester

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This hundredth volume issued by our Society went to press three weeks after the end of the hundredth session and includes papers covering a wide range of subjects

Front matter
Council and officers for the year 1949
Officers of the Society from the commencement
Affiliated societies
Honorary members
List of members
Societies from whom publications are received

The domesday woodland of Cheshire
I. B. Terrett

Notes on the Lancaster estates in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
Dorothea Oschinsky

Some memoranda by William Moore, esq., concerning Liverpool and Walton, 1510-1512
F. A. Bailey

Yew Tree Farm, Samlesbury, a seventeenth-century cottage
Henry Ogle

Sarah Clayton’s letter and John Wood of Bath
S. A. Harris

Early records of the mock corporation of Sefton
E. B. Saxton

John Phillips and the Smalls lighthouses, Part One
E. C. Woods

John Phillips and the Smalls lighthouses, Part Two
J. S. Rees

The Sankey Navigation
T. C. Barker

The rise of Morecambe (1820-1862)
R. G. Armstrong

The Bessborough phalera
Philip Nelson

An early Liverpool postmaster
S. A. Harris

Correspondence relating to the appointment of the parish clerk at Ribchester 1679-1753
G. C. Miller

The sights of Liverpool in 1749
S. A. Harris

Council and officers’ reports for 1948

Centenary Appeal Fund, list of subscribers

Index

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Early Coalmining in Prescot - Signeby in Cheshire - Customs Collection - Local Associations of the East India Company - St Winifred's Well at Holywell

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Council and officers for the year 1948
Past officers of the Society
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Early coalmining in Prescot, Lancashire
F. A. Bailey

Signeby in Cheshire
F. T. Wainwright

A Limoges enamel triptych of the thirteenth century
Philip Nelson

The customs collection of the port of Liverpool
Arthur C. Wardle

The customs cruisers of the north-west in the eighteenth century
Rupert C. Jarvis

The East India Company: some local associations
Arthur C. Wardle

Trouble at Tockholes in 1765
Ven. R. V. H. Burne

Longridge building clubs of the eighteenth century
R. Sharpe France

The poor Brettarghs of Penketh
R. Sharpe France

The County Record Office, Preston, in 1947
R. Sharpe France

A report on the present condition of St. Winifred’s well and chapel, Holywell
Raymond Richards

Council and officers’ reports for 1947

Index

General index to vols 86-97 (1934-1945)

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Much of subject matter of this volume concerns the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and various difficulties meant that the volume was not published until 1948

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Council and officers for the year 1947
Officers of the Society from the commencement
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The Sandbach crosses
A. C. F. Tait

The hundred bridges of the hundred of Blackburn in the seventeenth century
A. Langshaw

The port of Liverpool in the ’45
R. C. Jarvis

Revenues and disbursements of the bishops of Chester, 1754-1809
J. H. E. Bennett

Some history of the coastwise lights of Lancashire and Cheshire, Part III
E. Cuthbert Woods

The County Record Office, Preston, in 1946
R. Sharpe France

Council and officers’ reports for 1946

Index

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The articles in this volume comprise mainly Lancashire subjects

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Council and officers for the year 1946
Officers of the Society from the commencement
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Wigan and Liverpool pewterers
Roland J. A. Shelley

The highway from Preston into the Fylde 
R. Sharpe France

Concerning certain designs in screens and stallwork found in the borderland of England and Wales
Fred H. Crossley

An enquiry into the supposed connection of the founder of Peter Lathom’s charity with the Lathoms of Parbold
R. J. A. Berry

St. James’ Mount, Liverpool
R. T. Bailey

A Speke inventory of 1624
E. B. Saxton
This article is not available at present, but we hope to bring it to you in due course

Some glimpses of Liverpool during the first half of the eighteenth century
A. C. Wardle

Some history of the coastwise lights of Lancashire and Cheshire, Part II
E. Cuthbert Woods

Field names of Amounderness Hundred (modern )
F. T. Wainwright

John Gore: publisher
A. C. Wardle

The County Record Office, Preston, in 1945
R. Sharpe France

Council and officers’ reports for 1945

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