In addition to papers on Lancashire and Cheshire topics this volume includes a report on war damage to pieces in the Society's museum in Liverpool sustained on May 4th 1941

Front matter
Council and officers for the year 1945
Officers of the Society from the commencement
Affiliated societies
Honorary members
List of members
Societies from whom publications are received

The Lancashire Sessions Act, 1798
R. Sharpe France

The White Star sailing packets
Captain E. A. Woods

An old register of Merchant Taylors’ School, Crosby
Rev. C. F. Russell

On some Stanley cadets in the reign of Charles II
R. Sharpe France

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

John de Everdon
T. H. Hill

Speke Hall and two Norris inventories, 1624 and 1700
E. B. Saxton

Roman Catholics in Formby and Altcar, 1705-1706
R. Sharpe France

The County Record Office, Preston, in 1944
R. Sharpe France

Council and officers’ reports for 1944
[includes a report of war damage to pieces in the Society’s museum]

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A variety of papers and short notes covering medieval and modern subjects and extending beyond the two Palatine counties

Front matter
Council and officers for the year 1942
Officers of the Society from the commencement
Affiliated societies
Honorary members
List of members
Societies from whom publications are received

The churchwardens’ accounts of Prescot, 1523-1607 [part 2]
F. A. Bailey

Church building in Cheshire during the thirteenth century
Fred H. Crossley

Early Liverpool customs officers
Arthur C. Wardle

A voyage on the Red Jacket in 1857-8
E. C. Woods

Four Roman bronze statuettes from Lake Nemi
Philip Nelson

A history of orchestral music on Merseyside
Bertram B. B. Benas

16th century Salford portmoot records
R. Sharpe France

Three documents concerning the constables of Newton with Scales, 1687-90
G. H. Millner

A 15th century Altcar inventory
R. Sharpe France

Corn measures in the eighteenth century
Robert Walker

Lancashire justices of the peace in 1583
R. Sharpe France

The County Record Office, Preston, in 1943
R. Sharpe France

Obituary
Professor George Stead Veitch [Obituary]

Stray notes:
The interiors of two old Liverpool theatres
Stanley A. Harris

Articles, notes etc. by the late Ronald Stewart-Brown

The rule of the road
R. Sharpe France

Friendly society Festivities, 1798
R. Sharpe France

Oversands guide
E. C. Woods

Everton Beacon
R. Sharpe France

Items relating to other counties

Council and officers’ reports for 1943

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A Late Roman Fibula - North-West Mercia, AD 871-924 - James Bankes and the Manor of Winstanley, 1595-1607 - Freckleton Water Mill - Old Woolton Summer House and Woolton Beacon

Front matter
Council and officers for the year 1942
Officers of the Society from the commencement
Honorary members
List of members
Societies from whom publications are received

A late Roman fibula
Philip Nelson

North-west Mercia, A. D. 871-924
F. T. Wainwright

James Bankes and the manor of Winstanley, 1595-1617
Joyce H. M. Bankes

Freckleton water mill
Robert Walker

The old Woolton summer house, and the question of Woolton beacon
Stanley A. Harris

The County Record office in 1942
R. Sharpe France

A grant of arms to Urmston, Lancs.
H. Ellis Tomlinson

Obituaries
Rev Frederick Odo Blundell [Obituary]

James Hoult [Obituary]

Professor G. S. Veitch [Obituary]

Council and officers’ reports for 1942

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Published during the Second World War, all the papers and communications in this volume cover Lancashire topics, including a note about Royal Navy ships named 'Liverpool'

Front matter
Council and officers for the year 1941
Officers of the Society from the commencement
Honorary members
List of members
Societies from whom publications are received

The Anglian settlement of Lancashire
F. T. Wainwright

The origins of Clitheroe castle and chapel
Rev Joseph McNulty

Fresh light on the Liverpool election of 1670
Miss E. B. Saxton

The early Liverpool privateers
Arthur C. Wardle

John Bolton, a Liverpool merchant, 1756-1837
Godfrey W. Mathews

The County Record office in 1941
R. Sharpe France

Stone axe found at Whiston, 1941
F. A. Bailey

The ancestry of Cuthbert Harrison
Robert Walker

First mention of a Liverpool mayor
S. A. Harris

The opening of Liverpool’s first dock, 1715
Arthur C. Wardle

The King’s ships named Liverpool, 1741-1941
Arthur C. Wardle

Liverpool and the slave trade
Arthur C. Wardle

Eccleston Park, near Prescot – formerly Pitman’s Farm
Frederic Crooks

Council and officers’ reports for the year 1941

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A long and lavishly-illustrated article on the timber-framed churches of Cheshire begins this volume, with further notes on two of the churches appearing towards the end

Front matter
Council and officers for the year 1940
Officers of the Society from the commencement
Honorary members
List of members
Societies from whom publications are received

The timber-framed churches of Cheshire
Fred H. Crossley

Henry, earl of Derby’s suite on his embassy to Paris in 1584/5
E. B. Goodacre

Glimpses of life in Liverpool during the reign of George IV
Lawrence Hall

The County Record Office, Preston
R. Sharpe France

Early steamships on the Mersey, 1815-1820
Arthur C. Wardle

An index of Lancashire heraldry
R. Sharpe France

The churchwardens’ accounts of Prescot, 1523-1607. Part One
F. A. Bailey

An accusation of witchcraft, 1582
Rev. W. W. Longford

Addenda: Further notes on the churches of Stoak and Whitegate
Fred H. Crossley

Obituaries
Robert Gladstone [Obituary]

Lawrence Hall [Obituary]

F. C. Larkin [Obituary]

Council and officers’ reports for the year 1940

Index

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This volume includes an important article by Fred Crossley on the post-Reformation effigies and monuments of Cheshire covering the period to 1800, because of its length it has been divided into two parts

Front matter
Council and officers for the year 1940
Officers of the Society from the commencement
Honorary members
List of members
Societies from whom publications are received

The post-Reformation effigies and monuments of Cheshire (1550-1800)
part 1
part 2
F. H. Crossley

Sir Thomas Johnson and the Jacobite rebels
Arthur C. Wardle

Genealogical notes upon the family of Baron Henry de Worms, sometime Member of Parliament for East Toxteth
Bertram B. Benas

The endowment of the chapel of Saint Michael in Clitheroe castle
Rev. Joseph McNulty

Three notes on Bidston and the Stanleys
E. B. Goodacre

An English medieval pendant
Philip Nelson

Who was William Staynford, the abbot of the screen in Mitton church?
Rev. Joseph McNulty

Losses of the inhabitants of Liverpool on the taking of the town in 1644
E. B. Saxton

An inventory of the goods of John Cuerden of Cuerden
R. Sharpe France

The tumuli at Twemlow Hall, Cheshire
J. W. Walker

Obituary
Ronald Stuart-Brown [Obituary]

Stray notes:
A further note on Sir Nicholas Longford
W. W. Longford

The countess of Southampton at Sefton, 1668
S. A. Harris

Norris deed relating to Prescot, 1286
F. A. Bailey

An indenture of apprenticeship, 1535
F. A. Bailey

Council and officers’ reports for the year 1939

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This volume includes an important article on plague in Lancashire by Reginald Sharpe France, county archivist for Lancashire for over 30 years

Front matter:
Council and officers for the year 1939
Officers of the Society from the commencement
Honorary members
List of members
Societies from whom publications are received

A history of plague in Lancashire
part 1
part 2
part 3
R. Sharpe France

Huyton churchwardens, 1783-1834
Frederic Crooks

Sir Thomas Johnson: his impecuniosity and death
Arthur C. Wardle

Further information concerning Henry Berry (1720-1812), Liverpool’s second dock engineer
Stanley A. Harris

A fragment of the original parish register of Prescot, 1538-1541
F. A. Bailey

The ancient painted glass from Hale Hall
Philip Nelson

Liverpool’s first Theatre Royal
Arthur C. Wardle

Obituaries
Henry Peet (1856-1938) [Obituary]

Charles R. Hand (1859-1939) [Obituary]

Stray notes:
Little Moreton Hall
Godfrey W. Mathews

Cuckstool at Marton
R. Sharpe France

Diversion of the Wyre at St. Michael’s
R. Sharpe France

Ferryman’s privilege at Hambleton
R. Sharpe France

The late F. H. Cheetham’s books and papers

Council and officers’ reports for the year 1938

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Medieval and early modern subjects predominate including an important article on the Scrope and Grosvenor controversy, one of the earliest heraldic law cases brought in England

Front matter:
Council and officers for the year 1938
Officers of the Society from the commencement
Honorary members
List of members
Societies from whom publications are received

The Scrope and Grosvenor controversy, 1385-1391
R. Stewart-Brown

Further notes on the deafforestation of Wirral
R. Stewart-Brown

Brass of William Crook, 1506
Frederic Crooks

The minutes of the trustees of the turnpike roads from Liverpool to Prescot, St. Helens, Warrington and Ashton in Makerfield, 1726-89, part 2
F. A. Bailey

Henry Berry (1720-1812): Liverpool’s second dock engineer
Stanley A. Harris

Hale Hall glass
Philip Nelson

A certificate of burial in woollen, 1682
F. A. Bailey

Two inventories at Scarisbrick Hall, Ormskirk, 1608 and 1673
F. H. Cheetham

A list of the published works of the late F. H. Cheetham, F.S.A (1872-1937)

Obituaries
George Thomas Shaw (1863-1938) [Obituary] J. F. Smith

Henry Ince Anderton (1880-1938) [Obituary] Francis Weld

Stray notes:
‘Pilfout’
Robert Gladstone

Ancient Prescot font
F. A. Bailey

Banastre Tarleton, cricketer
S. A. Harris

‘Bergerode’
F. A. Bailey

The Hesketh deeds at Rufford Old Hall
F. H. Cheetham

Council and officers’ reports for the year 1937

Laws

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The final instalment of the history of the parish of Bidston in Cheshire appears in this volume - it has been divided into two parts

Front matter:
Council and officers for the year 1937
Officers of the Society from the commencement
Honorary members
List of members
Societies from whom publications are received

A history of the old parish of Bidston, Cheshire (concluded)
part 1
part 2
John Brownbill and F. H. Cheetham

The case of Robert Scarisbrick of Scarisbrick Esq., 1701
F. H. Cheetham

The minutes of the trustees of the turnpike roads from Liverpool to Prescot, St. Helens, Warrington and Ashton in Makerfield, 1726-89, part 1
F. A. Bailey

Warrington Friary: the discoveries of 1931
G. Owen and F. H. Cheetham

The Brettarghs of Brettargh Holt in Woolton
R. Stewart-Brown

Notes on Huyton
Frederic Crooks

The birth-place of Jeremiah Horrocks in Toxteth Park
Lawrence Hall

Two medieval Italian church bells
Philip Nelson

Ancient glass from Hale Hall, Lancashire
Philip Nelson

Liverpool Delft ship-bowls
Philip Nelson

Childwall Cross

Obituaries
John Ford-Jones [Obituary]

Frank Halliday Cheetham [Obituary]

Council and officers’ reports for the year 1936

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A variety of papers on Lancashire and Cheshire subjects, including the first instalment of the article on the parish of Bidston in Cheshire concluded in the next volume

Front matter:
Council and officers for the year 1936
Officers of the Society from the commencement
Honorary members
List of members
Societies from whom publications are received

The oversands route between Lancaster and Ulverston
E. Cuthbert Woods

The ancient chapel of Toxteth Park and Toxteth school
Lawrence Hall

Some notes on the family of Osbaldeston
William Wingfield Longford

Neston church in the eighteenth century
Rev. Canon W. Bidlake

The charter and horn of the master-forester of Wirral
R. Stewart-Brown

Liverpool Delft ship-bowls
Philip Nelson

A Lancashire document of 1651
F. H. Cheetham

Some early head masters at Merchant Taylors’ School, Great Crosby
Rev. C. F. Russell

Equestrian aquamaniles
Philip Nelson

A history of the old parish of Bidston, Cheshire
John Brownbill

Obituaries
James Alfred Waite [Obituary]

William Henry Williams [Obituary]

Council and officers’ reports for the year 1935

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