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 59 - And so the sayd ymage had bene from Ashwensday to that tyme. And even sodaynly, at that season of the service, the bords compassynge the ymage about gave a great crak, and a little openyd, whiche the Kynge well perceyveyd and all the people about hym. And anon, aftar, the bords drewe and closed togethars agayne, withowt any mans hand, or touchinge, and, as thowghe it had bene a thinge done with a violence, with a gretar might it openyd all abrod, and so the ymage stode, open and discovert, in syght...
Page 59 - Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV. in England, and the finall Recoverye of his Kingdomes from Henry VI., AD MCCCC.LXXI.
Page 59 - ... agayne, withowt any mans hand, or touchinge, and, as thowghe it had bene a thinge done with a violence, with a gretar might it openyd all abrod, and so the ymage stode, open and discovert, in syght of all the people there beynge. The Kynge, this seinge, thanked and honoryd God, and Seint Anne, takynge it for a good signe, and token of good and prosperous aventure that God wold send hym...
Page 102 - The thanks of the Society are tendered to the following for their very kind donations of books to the library : F. Charles Larkin, Esq., FRCS, Vice-President— The History and Description of Leeds Castle, Kent, by Charles Wykeham Martin, Esq., MP, FSA, 1869.
Page 58 - ... rownd abowt the image, in manar of a compas, lyke as it is to see comonly, and all abowt, where as suche ymages be wont to be made for to be solde and set up in churches, chapells, crosses, and oratories, in many placis. And this ymage was thus shett, closed, and clasped, accordynge to the rulles that, in all the churchis of England, be observyd, all ymages to be hid from Ashe Wednesday to Estarday in the mornynge.
Page xviii - Secretary. 1897. Mar. 25. New York, Public Library of. New York, US:A. (C/o BF Stevens & Brown, 4 Trafalgar Square, London, WC) 1893. Feb. 9. Newberry Library. Chicago, USA (Per BF Stevens & Brown, 4 Trafalgar Square, London, W C.) 1919.
Page xxi - WC) 1888. Feb. 23. Toulmin & Sons, Ltd., George. Lancashire Daily Post Office, Preston. 1889. Oct. 31. Turton, Fletcher Thomas. Municipal Buildings, Liverpool.
Page 58 - So it fell, that the same Palme Sonday the kynge went in procession, and all the people aftar, in goode devotion, as the service of that daye askethe, and whan the processyon was comen into the churche, and by ordar of the service were comen to that place where the vale...

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