The Cheshire Sheaf

Front Cover
Francis Sanders, William Ferguson Irvine, J. Brownbill
Deesider Magazine, 1896
 

Contents

The Seal of St Johns Hospital Chester 13 Charges of Simony against the Rector of West Kirby
12
Charges against a Wirral Squire 1649
14
The Bishop of Chesters Visitation 1554
16
Churton
17
St Marys and St Bridgets Bells 19 Bishop Peploe and Chancellor Gastrell
18
Ditto
20
Churton ditto
21
St Marys and St Bridgets Bells
22
Justices of the Peace in Cheshire in 1620
23
A Deed of the Skinners Company A D 1555
24
The Bold Lady of Cheshire 28 Inquisitio Post Mortem of John Whitmore of Chester and Thurstaston
27
Bell Inscriptions in Chester Deanery 30 The Plague at Neston in 1666
28
A Petition from the Parishioners of Churton Heath Chapel 32 The Bishop of Chesters Visitation 1554
29
Bell Inscriptions in Chester Deanery 34 The Consecration of Crewe Hall Chapel in 1635
30
The Hoyle Lake
31
The Visitation of the Bishop of Chester 1557
32
Signatures to the Three Articles in Cheshire in 1563
33
The Bishop of Chesters Visitation 1557
35
A Chester Mans Escape from the Wreck of the Royal George 1782
37
An Early Nantwich Deed 45 The Beverley Family of Chester and Dublin 46 Cheshire Bells
41
A Royalist Archdeacon of Chester
42
The Will of Thomas Bunbury of Stanney
44
Esquire 1600
45
Farewell Letter from Sir Timothy Fetherston haugh Knight written in Chester Castle 20th October 1651
47
The Bishop of Chesters Visitation 1557
48
A Royalist Alderman
49
The Bishop of Chesters Visitation 1557
50
Another Royalist Mayor of Chester
51
QueryArchdeacon Snell
55
The Cheshire Nonjuring Clergy
57
An Early Rental of Sir Peter de Thornton of ThorntonintheMoors dated 1354
58
Abstracts of Wills at the Probate Registry Chester
59
Bishop George Halls Cup at Exeter College
60
Extracts from the Royalist Composition
77
Church Monuments 87 Colonel John Marrow 88 Church Monuments 89 The Derivation of the placename Heswall
79
Bishop Peploe and Chancellor Gastrell
80
Ancient Parish of Wallasey
81
Birkenhead Fifty Years Ago 104 Frodsham Churchwardens Books 105 Extracts from the Royalist Composition Papers 106 The Antiquities of Storeto...
83
An Unpublished Letter of Bishop Stratford
86
A Clandestine Marriage in the Phoenix Tower in 1690
87
Frodsham Grammar School
88
Nonconformity at Bromborough in 1669
90
Ancient Church Inventories
92
Sir Thomas Smith of the City of Chester Knight and Thomas Smith his Son and HeirApparent
93
A Chester Deed of the year 1346
95
Sir Thomas Smith of the City of Chester Knight and Thomas Smith his Son and HeirApparent
96
Frodsham Churchwardens Accounts A D
109
The Antiquities of Storeton
110
Snell and Vyner Families
111
The Bishop of Chesters Visitation for 1677
113
Composition Papers of Sir William Massey of Puddington Knight
114
Some Local Names
115
The Composition Papers of John Wilson of the City of Chester Gentleman
116
The Derivation of the placename Wirral
117
The Composition Papers of John Wilson of the City of Chester Gentleman
118
Frodsham Churchwardens Accounts
125
The Diocese of Chester
126
The Cheshire Nonjuring Clergy
127
Composition Papers of Massey of Puddington
128
as Illustrated by those of the Rutters and Savages
44
Papers for Cheshire
20
Extracts from the Royalist Composition
78
Papers for Cheshire
38
A Churchwardens Presentment in 1667
80
Thomas Harrison the Architect of
81
Northgate
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