Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Volume 12Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society., 1895 Vol. 7-10, 12-21 contain section: "Bibliography of Lancashire and Cheshire antiquities" (v. 12-21 include also bibliography). |
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Page 26 - THE struggling rill insensibly is grown Into a brook of loud and stately march, Crossed ever and anon by plank or arch ' And, for like use, lo ! what might seem a zone Chosen for ornament, stone matched with stone In studied symmetry, with interspace For the clear waters to pursue their race Without restraint.
Page 182 - DUTIES OF OFFICERS. — The duty of the President shall be to preside at the meetings of the Society, and to maintain order. His decision in 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.
Page 74 - ... straw into the grave, which was not far from the house, and went and laid him down in the said grave, and caused clothes to be laid upon him, and so departed out of this world.
Page 180 - HONORARY MEMBERS. — The Council shall have the power of recommending persons for election as honorary members. 5. HONORARY LOCAL SECRETARIES. — The Council shall have power to appoint any person Honorary Local Secretary, whether he be a member or not, for the town or district wherein he may reside, in order to facilitate the collection of accurate information as to objects and discoveries of local interest. 6.
Page 180 - 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, and be required to remit to the Treasurer, within two months after such notification, his entrance fee and subscription ; and if the same shall be thereafter unpaid for more than two months, his name maybe struck off the list of members unless he can justify the delay to the satisfaction of the Council.
Page 105 - The late Mr. Fairholt, one of the best judges in such matters that ever lived, was of a decided opinion that the glass is a genuine work of art of the Shakespearean period. If so, it may be taken for granted that it is an authentic Stratford relic ; for it is incredible that any one should have pounced elsewhere upon a glass with the three desirable initials, brought it from a distance into the town, and then invented a New Place story, without a commercial or any other sort of intelligible object...
Page 78 - ... of Thornton, gent. In the .Registers of Kirkham is the annexed statement, from which it appears that a few years from the death of James I. the Fylde, or at least a considerable tract of it, was visited by some fatal epidemic, but its peculiar nature cannot be ascertained : — " AD 1630. This year was a great plague in Kirkham, in which the more part of the people of the town died thereof. It began about the 25th of July and continued vehemently until Martinmas, but was...
Page 58 - For this commonly giveth in four, often seven, sometime nine, sometime eleven, and sometime fourteen days, respite to whom it vexeth. But that immediately killed some in opening their windows, some in playing with children in their street doors ; some in one hour, many in two, it destroyed ; and, at the longest, to them that merrily dined it gave a sorrowful supper.
Page 48 - ... six stones upright, varying in height from one foot six inches to four feet, and in thickness from eleven inches to two feet. Judging from the relative distances of those remaining three stones have been •Now the Manchester College, Oxford (Unitarian).
Page 78 - Rushes to strew the church cost this year 9s. 6d." "1631. Paid for carrying the rushes out of the church in the sickness time, 53." In Thomas Newton's " Herbal to the Bible," 1587, it is stated that "with sedge and rushes many in the country do use in summer-time to strew their parlours and churches, as well for coolness as for pleasant smell.