Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Volume 23Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society., 1906 Vol. 7-10, 12-21 contain section: "Bibliography of Lancashire and Cheshire antiquities" (v. 12-21 include also bibliography). |
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Page 209 - ... government who are most instrumental in my death. I freely forgive such as ungenerously reported false things of me ; and I hope to be forgiven the trespasses of my youth by the Father of infinite mercy, into whose hands I commend my soul.
Page 251 - Antiquaries take a sufficient number of copies to issue with their transactions to each of their members. The more this plan is extended the less will be the cost of the Index to each society.
Page 229 - EXPLORATION AND EXCAVATION. — The Council may, from time to time, make grants of money towards the cost of excavating and exploring, and for the general objects of the Society. 17. PUBLICATIONS. — Original papers and ancient documents communicated to the Society may be published in such manner as the Council shall from time to time determine. Back...
Page 225 - Society is instituted to examine, preserve, and illustrate ancient Monuments and Records, and to promote the study of History, Literature, Arts, Customs, and Traditions, with particular reference to the antiquities of Lancashire and Cheshire. 2. NAME, &c. — This Society shall be called the " LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.
Page 101 - January, 1741-2, in which he states he is seized in fee simple of 'one moiety of a building in King Street called the Exchange, which lies open and is used as a footway or passage for all persons passing and re-passing for King Street and the new church in Manchester, with a chamber or room over the said way or passage, now used for an assembly room, and a cellar under the same.
Page 251 - Index to archaeologists is now recognised. Every effort is made to keep its contents up to date and continuous, but it is obvious that the difficulties are great unless the assistance of the societies is obtained. If for any reason the papers of a society are not indexed in the year to which they properly belong, the plan is to include them in the following year ; and whenever the papers of societies are brought into the Index for the first time they are then indexed from the year 1891. By this...
Page 251 - If for any reason the papers of a society are not indexed in the year to which they properly belong the plan is to include them in the following year ; and whenever the papers of societies are brought into the Index for the first time they are then indexed from 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 228 - His decision on all questions of precedence among speakers, and on all disputes which may arise during the meeting, to be absolute. In the absence of the President or Vice-Presidents, it shall be competent for the members present to elect a chairman. The Treasurer shall take charge...
Page 154 - ... Kamehameha, who himself laid the corner stone. It stands on the brow of a hill, a little back from the beach, and fronting the seashore. It consists now principally of a high wall about ten feet thick at the base and five at the top, twenty feet in height on three sides of the parallelogram, which is about a hundred and twenty feet in breadth and two hundred and forty feet in length, but on the front side the wall, instead of being elevated much above the area inclosed, consists of four or fire...
Page 225 - Nominations for honorary membership shall be made by three subscribing members, and entered in the candidates7 book, stating the grounds of the nomination. The voting shall take place in the same manner as for ordinary and corresponding members. Each new member shall have his election notified to him by the Honorary Secretary, and shall, at the same time, be furnished with a copy of the Rules of the Club, and be required to remit to the Treasurer, within one month, his entrance fee and subscription....