EDITORIAL NOTE. For kind help in illustrating this volume, which is most gratefully acknowledged, the Society is indebted to: Colonel Henry Blundell Hollinshead Blundell (late Grenadier Guards), the Patron, and to the Reverend Canon Blundell, M.A., Hon. Chaplain to H.M. the Queen, the Rector, of Halsall, for donations of five pounds each towards the cost of illustrating the paper upon Halsall Church; Mr. Henry Taylor, for a donation of one pound ten shillings for the same purpose; Mr. Richard Bennett, for the illustrations to his paper on "The King's Mills of Ancient Liverpool;" Mr. Thomas May, for a donation of one pound ten shillings towards the cost of illustrating his paper; Mr. James A. Waite, for the loan of negatives of four old Lancashire halls; Dr. Ellis, for the loan of negatives of Mrs. Hemans' houses; and to Mr. Edward W. Cox, for drawings to illustrate his com. munications to the Society. The Authors of Papers are alone responsible for the facts and opinions in their several communications. The present volume has been prepared for the press by R. D. RADCLIFFE, M.A., Ch. Ch. Oxford, F.S.A., Honorary Secretary and Editor. 702768 LIST OF SOCIETIES IN CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. Society of Antiquaries of London. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Royal Historical and Archæological Society of Ireland. Royal Archæological Institute, London. Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Kent Archæological Society. Somersetshire Archæological Society. Sussex Archæological Society. Chester Archaeological Society. Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian Society. Leicestershire Archæological Society. Yorkshire Antiquarian and Topographical Association. Shropshire Archæological Society. Architectural and Archæological Society of Lincoln and Notts. Manchester Literary Club. Suffolk Archæological Institute. New England Genealogical Society. CONTENTS. ON THE ALTAR AND OTHER RELICS, FOUND DURING RECENT EXCAVATIONS (1895-6) ON THE SITE OF THE ROMAN STATION AT WILDERSPOOL (Veratinum). By Thomas May, F. Educat. Inst. Scot. (8 plates) By James A. Waite. (2 plates) NOTES ON HALSALL CHURCH. By Edward W. Cox (1 plate) 233 ECCLESIASTICAL MEMORANDA AS TO HALSALL. By William LEAVES FROM AN ANTIQUARY'S NOTE BOOK. By Edward W. ANCIENT CHARTERS PRESERVED AT SCARISBRICK HALL, IN THE Frontispiece. Halsall Church, from the North-East... Title Page. 57 559 XII. Interior of Adrian's Tower, Lancaster Castle XIII. Lancaster Castle, about 1750 (from a painting in XIV. (a) Houses in Duke Street, Liverpool, including the XV. Types of Primitive and Medieval Halls :-(a) Hall of Palace, second city Ilium; (b) Hall of the Palace of the Atridæ, Mykené; (c) Manor House of fifteenth century (from an ancient drawing); XVI. (a) Barrow Old Hall; (b) Tue Brook House |