Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ..., Volume 47Society, 1896 Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes. |
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... portion of the church was formerly the chief burying place of the Moretons of Moreton . Originally there stood here at the east end a plain altar tomb belonging to the family . This erection , which was about four feet high , with no ...
... portion of the church was formerly the chief burying place of the Moretons of Moreton . Originally there stood here at the east end a plain altar tomb belonging to the family . This erection , which was about four feet high , with no ...
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... portions on the west and east sides underpinned with new stone . The wall on the north side of the ban- queting hall was entirely restored . The task of dealing with those portions of the main building which showed alarming signs of ...
... portions on the west and east sides underpinned with new stone . The wall on the north side of the ban- queting hall was entirely restored . The task of dealing with those portions of the main building which showed alarming signs of ...
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... portion of the eastern side of the quadrangle , and is said to be the oldest part of the building . The chapel , which has an indepen- dent entrance , stands east and west , is of one storey only , and measures sixteen feet either way ...
... portion of the eastern side of the quadrangle , and is said to be the oldest part of the building . The chapel , which has an indepen- dent entrance , stands east and west , is of one storey only , and measures sixteen feet either way ...
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... portions of the wall , the room being lighted by windows that extend almost entirely round the apartment . These windows are a marvel of the glazier's art , being set in the smallest panes . On the left of the doorway , scratched upon ...
... portions of the wall , the room being lighted by windows that extend almost entirely round the apartment . These windows are a marvel of the glazier's art , being set in the smallest panes . On the left of the doorway , scratched upon ...
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... portions of this building , such as the gatehouse , the interior of the courtyard , and the bay window of the great hall . Looking across the courtyard to the north we see the great hall , with its fine porch and bay window . The ...
... portions of this building , such as the gatehouse , the interior of the courtyard , and the bay window of the great hall . Looking across the courtyard to the north we see the great hall , with its fine porch and bay window . The ...
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Abbey abbot Altcar ancient appears arch Bebington Bidston Bindloss Birkenhead Bishop Blundell Borwick Borwick Hall brass Brereton Bromborough building built buried carved Castle century chancel chantry Cheshire Chester churchwardens churchyard Crosby cross Croxteth Curate daughter Derby died Douglas Chapel Earl Earl of Sefton early east Edward entry feet floor Formby Halsall Henry Heswall Ince Blundell Incumbent inscription interest James John King Lancashire and Cheshire Lancaster land Lathom Liverpool London Lord Lydiate Maghull manor nave Norman north aisle North Meols original Ormskirk Parbold parish church Parliament plate portion present priest probably Rector of Eccleston registers remains Richard Molyneux road roof Saxon screen Sefton Sephton shaft Sir George Booth Sir Robert Bindloss Sir William Society south aisle south side square Standish stone Thomas tower tracery village wall Wallasey Walton West West Kirby Wigan window Wirral Woodchurch
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Page 192 - In every parish was a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, and other utensils for dressing provisions. Here the housekeepers met. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c. the ancients sitting gravely by, and looking on.
Page 16 - It is believed that most of the words — as distinguished from their pronunciation — in use have been recorded in the publications of the English Dialect Society or elsewhere. But it is better to record them again than to leave them unrecorded. Nor should it be forgotten in this connection that a word of ten bears a different shade of meaning in one place from what it bears in another. In recording any words, care should therefore be taken to seize not only the exact sound, but the exact signification,...
Page 271 - ... the year 1891. By this means it will be seen that the year 1891 is treated as the commencing year for the Index and that all transactions published in and since that year will find their place in the series. To make...
Page 9 - A list of test words (of English origin) is given at p. 42 of Skeat's ' Primer of English Etymology,' published by the Oxford Press at Is. 6d. 7. The task of collecting words which seem to be peculiarly dialectal...
Page 10 - Types of fibulas and other ornaments. Coins. Implements and weapons, stone, bronze, or iron. Other antiquities. A list of place-names within the area. No modern names required. Special note should be made of British, Roman, and Saxon interments occurring in the same field, and other signs of successive occupation. Reference should be made to the article ' Archaeology ' in ' Notes and Queries on Anthropology,
Page 1 - For this the subject should be seated on a low stool or bench, having behind it a graduated rod or tape with its zero level with the seat ; he should sit perfectly erect, with his back well in against the scale. Then proceed as in measuring the height standing. The square should be employed here also if the tape against a wall is used. Length of Cranium. — Measured with callipers from the most prominent part of the projection between the eyebrows (glabella) to the most distant point at the back...
Page 138 - ... whereas public sports do not well agree with public calamities, nor public stage-plays with the seasons of humiliation, this being an exercise of sad and pious solemnity, and the other being spectacles of pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious mirth and levity...
Page 15 - Other works remain to be searched ; and it is probable that a good deal more may be found already in print, if some who are interested in the antiquities of the country will undertake the not very arduous, but very necessary, labour of collection. When all is gathered, however, it will only be a small part of what must have existed at no distant date — if not of what still exists, awaiting diligent inquiry among living men and women. How to set about the inquiry is a question that must be left...
Page 30 - An act for appointing Commissioners to inquire of the Estates of certain Traitors, and of Popish Recusants, and of Estates given to Superstitious Uses in order to raise money out of them severally for the use of the publick...
Page 144 - Magnalia Dei. A Relation Of some of the many Remarkable Passages in Cheshire Before the Siege of Namptwich, during the Continuance of it: And at the happy raising of it by the victorious Gentlemen Sir Tho. Fairfax and Sir William Brereton.