I am indebted to Mr. Cox for these suggestions; and my thanks are also due to Lieut.-Col. Fishwick, F.S.A., for much valuable information; to the Rev. H. W. Bretherton, Rector of Eccleston, for his kindness in allowing me to inspect the Eccleston registers; and to Mr. W. E. Gregson, for gleanings embodied in this paper.

Communications.

LEAVES FROM AN ANTIQUARY'S

NOTE-BOOK.

[The subjoined lists do not profess to be exhaustive, and it is hoped that Mr. Cox will prepare supplementary lists for the next volume of the Society's Transactions.—EDITOR.]

A BIT OF OLD LIVERPOOL.

ABOUT May, 1891, during the excavations for

a new building on the north side of Chapel Street, about half-way between Lancelot's Hey and Rumford Place, and 150 feet back from the street, the foundations of an ancient house were found. They consisted of two parallel walls, lineable with the street. That to the north, an

outer wall of ashlar stone, 18 inches thick, faced a yard with a pavement of cobble stones; the south wall, about 10 feet from it, 12 inches thick, formed the side of a cellar, filled with the débris of the house, which was also spread over the yard, in which lay an oak beam, partly burned. To the north-east was a well, and another well existed nearer to Chapel Street. The débris of the house was covered by 4 feet of soft clay. From the walls were taken sills and mullions of a three-light and a two-light square window, used from a still older building. The site formed part of the old Kiln:

Hey, belonging to the Old Hall of the Moore family. The ruins suggested that they had been hastily thrown down and buried, and this, possibly, was done when Liverpool was entrenched, in 1642. The Mardyke Fort stood just below this place, and the mud wall raised for the defences ran from it very near this line. The houses taken down in 1810, as shown on a plan in the Peters Estate Office, formed no part of this old building.

LIST OF THE CROSSES IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LIVERPOOL.

Ince Blundell.-A cross on steps, with tall restored shaft and head; a wayside cross.

Great Crosby.-Square socket of a cross, on two steps, with modern wooden cross, all in very ruinous condition; near a well, dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary.

Little Crosby.-A shaft of a cross, with square base, and several steps, set on a raised wall over a well, by the roadside. The stones are numbered with Roman figures, and there is a date on the ashlar plinth which doubtless relates to its removal, the cross being probably fifteenth century.'

Everton. The remains of the cross, which stood in the centre of the village, were put into the Roundhouse when taken down. It was a market cross. Drawings in the Binns collection represent it as having three steps and a part of a round shaft.

Wavertree. A cross is shown in Troughton's book on Liverpool, above the Monk's Well.

Woolton.-A short, pyramidal chamfered shaft, on older base, and two steps, in the middle of the old village. A market cross.

1 Date and inscription, "I.M. 1758." The initials I have not been able to identify.-EDITOR.

Huyton. The cross near the church is modern, and is handsome. It stands on five steps, with a base carved with quatrefoils and a capital. I have heard that it was built by a former incumbent, to occupy the place formerly used for cock-fighting.

Headless Cross, near Roby.-On the brow of the hill, going down to the village. A thick square pillar, on a heavy square base. A wayside cross. It may have had a head similar to that at Windleshaw chantry.

Windleshaw.-A churchyard cross. Base on five steps, short square shaft, with a cross cut in relief on each face, at the upper end.

Peasley Cross, I am told, exists. I have not seen it, and have no details of it.

Hunts Cross.-A displaced massive square stone socket, lying by a barn, at the cross-roads, near the station.

Childwall. On the roadside, near Well Lane, stood the slender octagonal shaft of a cross, on an octagon socket and three steps. It was a wayside cross, probably marking the lands of the monks of Stanlaw and Whalley, who had a cell there. The stones were thrown over into the field when the road was widened, and were thence carted away about twelve years ago.

Garston. The square base and shaft of a cross stood at the head of the mill-dam, at the corner below the hall. It is shown by Troughton on two steps, and probably marked a well, or limits. of land belonging to the Abbey of Stanlaw. It was buried when St. Mary's Road was made, and a public-house built over it. It was found again in making a drain, and was kept for many years by Mr. Owen, stonemason, and finally re-erected by Father Smith on a new site. Inscribed on the

new plinth is the appropriate motto, ECCE CRUCEM REDDIENTEM." A second cross in the churchyard is set on a base of two stones, clamped together with iron bands. The shaft has been cut into a shallow basin, where broken off near the ground, and is probably a plague stone, for exchange of money and merchandise in time of pestilence.

Liverpool had five crosses: the High Cross, in Castle Street; the White, or Little, Cross, near the north gate of the Exchange; the Red Cross, south of the Castle; St. Patrick's Cross, at the lower end of Byrom Street; and Townsend Cross, near St. John's Church. The first three were market crosses, the fourth a memorial of St. Patrick's visit to Liverpool, the fifth a way mark.

Walton. A portion of the head of a very fine cross, of late Saxon date, has been dug up near the Church; also the large base, about 3 feet square and 2 feet high, with three set-offs or sloping steps. The head is enclosed in an arch nearly 2 feet in diameter, the spandrils are pierced, and the circle ornamented with a very well wrought diagonal key pattern. A stone was found set on the base like a short shaft, with a cruciform dished hollow in it. This has probably been a plague stone.

Winwick.-A large Saxon cross, of red sandstone, covered with carved panels, with figure subjects and knotwork. This cross stood in the chancel of the church, and was thrown out into the churchyard when the chancel was "restored,' where for a long time it lay broken. It has been re-erected in the churchyard.

Farnworth.-A large and fine cross, about nine feet high, stands on the south side of the church, close to the west of the Cuerdley chapel: it stands on three steps, the upper one forming the base-a massive square stone. The shait is square, and is