Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ...Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes. |
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Page 102 - Crowley, who in the last years of the seventeenth century and the early years of the eighteenth century founded the largest iron manufacturing business in Europe.
Page 81 - Provided always, that no congregation or assembly for religious worship shall be permitted or allowed by this Act, until the place of such meeting shall be certified to the bishop of the diocese, or to the archdeacon of that archdeaconry, or to the justices of the peace at the general or quarter sessions...
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| Title | Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ... Volume 62 of Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Congress of Archaeological Societies in Union with the Socitey of Antiquaries of London, 1896 |
| Author | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire |
| Publisher | Society, 1911 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 20 Feb 2008 |
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