Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ...

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Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes.
 

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Page 260 - The churchwardens or questmen, at the common charge of the parishioners in every church, shall provide a comely and decent pulpit to be set in a convenient place within the same, by the discretion of the Ordinary of the place, if any question do arise, and to be there seemly kept for the preaching of GOD'S Word.
Page 5 - Dorset Square, London, NW Single copies of the yearly Index from 1891 may be obtained. Many of the Societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries take a sufficient number of copies of the yearly Index 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 5 - 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 means...
Page 15 - And he died, so seized, the 1"' day of July 1618, and Ralph Yardley, named in the will, is son and next heir, and was aged at the time of the death of the said Ralph Yardley the father, twenty one years and more ; and the said capital messuage, into two separate messuages divided (as above) with the appurtenances, is held and, at the time of the death of the said Ralph Yardley, was held, of the Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of the City...
Page 269 - Henry, that he may give and assign two messuages and 60 acres of land, with appurtenances, in Standish and Longetre, to a certain chaplain, that he may celebrate each day divine offices for the soul of the said Henry and the souls of his father and mother and his ancestors, and all the faithful deceased, at the altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Church of St. Wilfrid, of Standish, for ever. And that the...
Page 125 - Liverpool before the face of the white image of the Virgin, where is my appointed place of burial. I leave to be distributed in bread on the day of my burial three quarters of wheat. I leave six pounds of wax to be used about my body. I leave to every priest in the Chapel of Liverpool fourpence.
Page 125 - Lyverpull. In the name of God. Amen. I, William the son of Adam, being of sound mind, though weak in body, make my last will in this manner. Imprimis, I bequeath my soul to God, and to the blessed Virgin Mary and all the saints ; and my body to be buried in the chapel of Lyverpull, before the face of the white image of the Virgin, which is my perpetual place of burial. I leave to be distributed in bread on the day of my burial, three quarters of wheat. I leave six pounds of wax...
Page 36 - Turton in socage, viz., by fealty and the yearly rent of (>d., and are worth per ann., clear, 6.r.
Page 288 - England, with other shell-fish and mussels in such abundance that they used to manure the land with them ! (ibid. , preface, page x). Warrington salmon were well known even in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and large quantities of smelts, or sparling, were constantly taken in the river some sixty years ago. The late Dr. Kendrick, in referring to the town of his youth, would often speak of the...
Page 257 - ... chancels, and two aisles : the upper chancel appears to have been rebuilt in the fifteenth century ; the chapel of the Lawrence family, at the end of the north aisle, appears to have been built early in the fourteenth century, if we may judge from the form of the Gothic windows, now nearly stopped up ; the chapel at the east end of the south aisle was built by Sir Thomas Moore, about the year 1522, soon after he came to reside at Chelsea; the tower was built between the years 1667 and 1679; it...

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