LANCASTER & CHESTER.
Reading edition
Patrons.
The Right Honourable The EARL OF DERBY. The Right Honourable The EARL OF BALCARRES. The Right Honourable The EARL OF WILTON. The Right Honourable The EARL OF BURLINGTON. The Right Honourable the EARL GROSVENOR. The Right Honourable LORD FRANCIS EGERTON, M.P. The Right Honourable LORD STANLEY. The Right Reverend The Lord BISHOP OF CHESTER. The Right Reverend The Lord BISHOP OF ELY. The Right Reverend The Lord BISHOP OF NORWICH. The Right Reverend The Lord BISHOP OF CHICHESTER. The Right Honourable LORD DELAMERE. The Right Honourable LORD DE TABLEY. The Right Honourable LORD SKELMERSDALE. The Right Honourable SIR ROBERT PEEL, Bart., M.P. SIR PHILIP DE MALPAS GREY EGERTON, Bart., M.P. GEORGE CORNWALL LEGH, Esq., M.P. JOHN WILSON PATTEN, Esq., M.P.
Council.
Edward Holme, M.D., President. Rev. Richard Parkinson, B.D., Canon of Manchester, Vice-President. The Hon. and Very Rev. William Herbert, Dean of Manchester. George Ormerod, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. Sam. Hibbert Ware, M.D. F.R.S.E. Rev. Thomas Corser, M.A. Rev. George Dugard, M.A. Rev. C.G. Hulton, M.A. Rev. J. Piccope, M.A. Rev. F.R. Raines, M.A., F.S.A. James Crossley. James Heywood, F.R.S. Treasurer. William Langton. Hon. Secretary. William Fleming, M.D.
RULES OF THE CHETHAM SOCIETY.
1. That the Society shall be limited to three hundred and fifty members.
2. That the Society shall consist of members being subscribers of one pound annually, such subscription to be paid in advance, on or before the day of general meeting in each year. The first general meeting to be held on the 23rd day of March, 1843, and the general meeting in each year afterwards on the 1st day of March, unless it should fall on a Sunday, when some other day is to be named by the Council.
3. That the affairs of the Society be conducted by a Council, consisting of a permanent President and Vice-President, and twelve other members, including a Treasurer and Secretary, all of whom, with the exception of the President and Vice-President, shall be elected at the general meeting of the Society.
4. That any member may compound for his future subscriptions, by the payment of ten pounds.
5. That the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the Society be audited annually, by three auditors, to be elected at the general meeting; and that any member who shall be one year in arrear of his subscription, shall no longer be considered as belonging to the Society.
6. That every member not in arrear of his annual subscription, be entitled to a copy of each of the works published by the Society.
7. That twenty copies of each work shall be allowed to the Editor of the same, in addition to the one to which he may be entitled as a member.
LIST OF MEMBERS
For the Year 1844.
Ackers, James, M.P., Heath House, Ludlow Addey, H.M., Liverpool Ainsworth, Ralph F., M.D., Manchester Ainsworth, Rev. Thomas, M.A., Hartford Hall, Cheshire Ainsworth, W.H., Kensal Manor House, Harrow-road, London Alexander, Edward N., F.S.A., Halifax Allen, Rev. John Taylor, M.A., Stradbrooke Vicarage, Suffolk Ambery, Charles, Manchester Armstrong, Thomas, Higher Broughton, Manchester Ashton, John, Warrington Atherton, Miss, Kersal Cell, near Manchester Atherton, James, Swinton House, near Manchester Atkinson, F.R., Pendleton, near Manchester Atkinson, William, Weaste, near Manchester Balcarres, The Earl of, Haigh Hall, near Wigan Baldwin, Rev. John, M.A., Dalton, near Ulverstone Bannerman, Alexander, Didsbury, near Manchester Bannerman, Henry, Burnage, near Manchester Bannerman, John, Swinton, near Manchester Bardsley, Samuel Argent, M.D., Green Heys, near Manchester Barker, John, Manchester Barker, Thomas, Oldham Barratt, James, Jun., Manchester Barrow, Miss, Green Bank, near Manchester Barrow, Rev. Andrew, President of Stonyhurst College, near Blackburn Barrow, Peter, Manchester Bartlemore, William, Castleton Hall, Rochdale Barton, John, Manchester Barton, R.W., Springwood, near Manchester Barton, Samuel, Didsbury, Manchester Barton, Thomas, Manchester Bayne, Rev. Thos. Vere, M.A., Broughton, Manchester Beamont, William, Warrington Beard, Rev. John R., D.D., Stony Knolls, near Manchester Beardoe, James, Manchester Beever, James F., Manchester Bellairs, Rev. H.W., M.A., London Bentley, Rev. T.R., M.A., Manchester Birley, Hugh Hornby, Broom House, near Manchester Birley, Hugh, Didsbury, near Manchester Birley, Richard, Manchester Birley, Thos. H., Manchester Bohn, Henry G., London Booth, Benjamin W., Manchester Booth, John, Barton-upon-Irwell Booth, William, Manchester Boothman, Thomas, Ardwick, near Manchester Botfield, Beriah, M.P., Norton Hall, Northamptonshire Bower, George, London Brackenbury, Ralph, Manchester Bradbury, Charles, Salford Bradshaw, John, Weaste House, near Manchester Brooke, Edward, Manchester Brooks, Samuel, Manchester Broome, William, Manchester Brown, Robert, Preston Buckley, Edmund, M.P., Ardwick, near Manchester Buckley, Rev. Thomas, M.A., Old Trafford, near Manchester Buckley, Nathaniel, F.L.S., Rochdale Burlington, The Earl of, Holkar Hall Calvert, Robert, Salford Cardwell, Rev. Edward, D.D., Principal of St. Alban's Hall and Camden Professor, Oxford Cardwell, Edward, M.P., M.A., Regent's Park, London Chadwick, Elias, M.A., Swinton Hall, near Manchester Chesshyre, Mrs., Pendleton, near Manchester Chester, The Bishop of Chichester, The Bishop of Chippindall, John, Chetham Hill, near Manchester Clare, Peter, F.R.A.S., Manchester Clarke, George, Crumpsall, near Manchester Clayton, Japheth, Pendleton, near Manchester Clifton, Rev. R.C., M.A., Canon of Manchester Consterdine, James, Manchester Cook, Thomas, Gorse Field, Pendleton, near Manchester Cooper, William, Manchester Corser, George, Whitchurch, Shropshire Corser, Rev. Thomas, M.A., Stand, near Manchester Cottam, S.E., F.R.A.S., Manchester Coulthart, John Ross, Ashton-under-Lyne Crook, Thomas A., Rochdale Cross, William Assheton, Redscar, near Preston Crossley, George, Manchester Crossley, James, Manchester Crossley, John, M.A., Scaitcliffe House, Todmorden Currer, Miss Richardson, Eshton Hall, near Skipton Daniel, George, Manchester Darbishire, Samuel D., Manchester Darwell, James, Manchester Darwell, Thomas, Manchester Davies, John, M.W.S., Manchester Dawes, Matthew, F.G.S., Westbrooke, near Bolton Dearden, James, The Orchard, Rochdale Dearden, Thomas Ferrand, Rochdale Delamere, The Lord, Vale Royal, near Northwich Derby, The Earl of, Knowsley Dilke, C.W., London Dinham, Thomas, Manchester Driver, Richard, Manchester Dugard, Rev. George, M.A., Birch, near Manchester Dyson, T.J., Tower, London Earle, Richard, Edenhurst, near Prescott Eccles, William, Wigan Egerton, The Lord Francis, M.P., Worsley Hall Egerton, Sir Philip de Malpas Grey, Bart., M.P., Oulton Park, Tarporley Egerton, Wilbraham, Tatton Park Ely, The Bishop of Eyton, J.W.K., F.S.A. L. & E., Elgin Villa, Leamington Faulkner, George, Manchester Feilden, Joseph, Witton, near Blackburn Fenton, James, Jun., Lymm Hall, Cheshire Fernley, John, Manchester Ffarrington, J. Nowell, Worden, near Chorley Ffrance, Thomas Robert Wilson, Rawcliffe Hall, Garstang Fleming, Thomas, Pendleton, near Manchester Fleming, William, M.D., Ditto Fletcher, John, Haulgh, near Bolton Fletcher, Samuel, Broomfield, near Manchester Fletcher, Samuel, Ardwick, near Manchester Flintoff, Thomas, Manchester Ford, Henry, Manchester Fraser, James W., Manchester Frere, W.E., Rottingdean, Sussex Gardner, Thomas, Worcester College, Oxford Garner, J.G., Manchester Garnett, William James, Quernmore Park, Lancaster Germon, Rev. Nicholas, M.A., High Master, Free Grammar School, Manchester Gibb, William, Manchester Gladstone, Robertson, Liverpool Gladstone, Robert, Withington, near Manchester Gordon, Hunter, Manchester Gould, John, Manchester Grant, Daniel, Manchester Grave, Joseph, Manchester Gray, Benjamin, B.A., Trinity Coll. Cambridge Gray, James, Manchester Greaves, John, Irlam Hall, near Manchester Greenall, G., Walton Hall, near Warrington Grey, The Hon. William Booth Grosvenor, The Earl Grundy, George, Chetham Fold, near Manchester Hadfield, George, Manchester Hailstone, Edward, F.S.A., Horton Hall, Bradford, Yorkshire Hardman, Henry, Bury, Lancashire Hardy, William, Manchester Hargreaves, George J., Hulme, Manchester Harland, John, Manchester Harrison, William, Brearey, Isle of Man Harter, James Collier, Broughton Hall, near Manchester Harter, William, Hope Hall, near Manchester Hately, Isaiah, Manchester Hatton, James, Richmond House, near Manchester Hawkins, Edward, F.R.S., F.S.A., F.L.S., British Museum, London Heelis, Stephen, Manchester Henshaw, William, Manchester Herbert, Hon. and Very Rev. Wm., Dean of Manchester Heron, Rev. George, M.A., Carrington, Cheshire Heywood, Sir Benjamin, Bart., Claremont, near Manchester Heywood, James, F.R.S., F.G.S., Acresfield, near Manchester Heywood, John Pemberton, near Liverpool Heywood, Thomas, F.S.A., Hope End, Ledbury, Herefordshire Heywood, Thomas, Pendleton, near Manchester Heyworth, Lawrence, Oakwood, near Stockport Hibbert, Mrs., Salford Hickson, Charles, Manchester Hinde, Rev. Thomas, M.A., Winwick, Warrington Hoare, G.M., The Lodge, Morden, Surrey Hoare, P.R., Kelsey Park, Beckenham, Kent Holden, Thomas, Summerfield, Bolton Holden, Thomas, Rochdale Holme, Edward, M.D., Manchester Hughes, William, Old Trafford, near Manchester Hulme, Davenport, M.D., Manchester Hulme, Hamlet, Medlock Vale, Manchester Hulton, Rev. A.H., M.A., Ashton-under-Lyne Hulton, Rev. C.G., M.A., Chetham College, Manchester Hulton, H.T., Manchester Hulton, W.A., Preston Hunter, Rev. Joseph, F.S.A., London Jackson, H.B., Manchester Jackson, Joseph, Ardwick, near Manchester Jacson, Charles R., Barton Lodge, Preston James, Rev. J.G., M.A., Habergham Eaves, near Burnley James, Paul Moon, Summerville, near Manchester Jemmett, William Thomas, Manchester Johnson, W.R., Manchester Johnson, Rev. W.W., M.A., Manchester Jones, Jos., Jun., Hathershaw, Oldham Jones, W., Manchester Jordan, Joseph, Manchester Kay, James, Turton Tower, Bolton Kay, Samuel, Manchester Kelsall, Strettle, Manchester Kendrick, James, M.D., F.L.S., Warrington Kennedy, John, Ardwick House, near Manchester Ker, George Portland, Salford Kershaw, James, Green Heys, near Manchester Kidd, Rev. W.J., M.A., Didsbury, near Manchester Langton, William, Manchester Larden, Rev. G.E., M.A., Brotherton Vicarage, Yorkshire Leeming, W.B., Salford Legh, G. Cornwall, M.P., F.G.S., High Legh, Cheshire Legh, Rev. Peter, M.A., Newton in Makerfield Leigh, Rev. Edward Trafford, M.A., Cheadle, Cheshire Leigh, Henry, Moorfield Cottage, Worsley Leresche, J.H., Manchester Lloyd, William Horton, F.S.A., L.S., Park-square, London Lloyd, Edward Jeremiah, Oldfield House, Altringham Lomas, Edward, Manchester Lomax, Robert, Harwood, near Bolton Love, Benjamin, Manchester Lowndes, William, Egremont, Liverpool Loyd, Edward, Green Hill, Manchester Lycett, W.E., Manchester Lyon, Edmund, M.D., Manchester Lyon, Thomas, Appleton Hall, Warrington McClure, William, Peel Cottage, Eccles McFarlane, John, Manchester McKenzie, John Whitefoord, Edinburgh McVicar, John, Manchester Mann, Robert, Manchester Marc, E.R. Le, School Lodge, Cheshire Markland, J.H., F.R.S., F.S.A., Bath Markland, Thomas, Mab Field, near Manchester Marsden, G.E., Manchester Marsden, William, Manchester Marsh, John Fitchett, Warrington Marshall, Miss, Ardwick, near Manchester Marshall, William, Penwortham Hall, Preston Marshall, Frederick Earnshaw, Ditto Marshall, John, Ditto Mason, Thomas, Copt Hewick, near Ripon Master, Rev. Robert M., M.A., Burnley Maude, Daniel, M.A., Salford Millar, Thomas, Green Heys, near Manchester Molyneux, Edward, Chetham Hill, Manchester Monk, John, Manchester Moore, John, F.L.S., Cornbrook, near Manchester Mosley, Sir Oswald, Bart., Rolleston Hall, Staffordshire Murray, James, Manchester Nield, William, Mayfield, Manchester Nelson, George, Manchester Neville, James, Beardwood, near Blackburn Newall, Mrs. Robert, Littleborough, near Rochdale Newall, W.N., Wellington Lodge, Littleborough Newbery, Henry, Manchester Nicholson, William, Thelwall Hall, Warrington Norris, Edward, Manchester Norwich, The Bishop of Ormerod, George, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., Sedbury Park, Gloucestershire Ormerod, George Wareing, M.A., F.G.S., Manchester Ormerod, Henry Mere, Manchester Owen, John, Manchester Parkinson, Rev. Richard, B.D., Canon of Manchester Patten, J. Wilson, M.P., Bank Hall, Warrington Pedley, Rev. J.T., M.A., Peakirk-cum-Glinton, Market Deeping Peel, Sir Robert, Bart., M.P., Drayton Manor Peel, George, Brookfield, Cheadle Peel, Joseph, Singleton Brook, near Manchester Peet, Thomas, Manchester Pegge, John, Newton Heath, near Manchester Percival, Stanley, Liverpool Philips, Mark, M.P., The Park, Manchester Philippi, Frederick Theod., Belfield Hall, near Rochdale Phillips, Shakspeare, Barlow Hall, near Manchester Phillipps, Sir Thomas, Bart., Middle Hill, Worcestershire Piccope, Rev. John, M.A., Farndon, Cheshire Pickford, Thomas, Mayfield, Manchester Pickford, Thomas E., Manchester Pierpoint, Benjamin, Warrington Pilkington, George, Manchester Pilling, Charles R., Caius College, Cambridge Plant, George, Manchester Pooley, Edward, Manchester Pooley, John, Hulme, near Manchester Porrett, Robert, Tower, London Prescott, J.C., Summerville, near Manchester Price, John Thomas, Manchester Radford, Thomas, M.D., Higher Broughton, near Manchester Raffles, Rev. Thomas, D.D., LL.D., Liverpool Raikes, Rev. Henry, M.A., Hon. Can., and Chancellor of Chester Raines, Rev. F.R., M.A., F.S.A., Milnrow Parsonage, Rochdale Reiss, Leopold, High Field, near Manchester Rickards, Charles H., Manchester Ridgway, Mrs., Ridgemont, near Bolton Ridgway, John Withenshaw, Manchester Robson, John, Warrington Roberts, W.J., Liverpool Roby, John, M.R.S.L., Rochdale Royds, Albert Hudson, Rochdale Samuels, John, Manchester Sattersfield, Joshua, Manchester Scholes, Thomas Seddon, High Bank, near Manchester Schuster, Leo, Weaste, near Manchester Sharp, John, Lancaster Sharp, Robert C., Bramall Hall, Cheshire Sharp, Thomas B., Manchester Sharp, William, Lancaster Sharp, William, London Simms, Charles S., Manchester Simms, George, Manchester Skaife, John, Blackburn Skelmersdale, The Lord, Lathom House Smith, Rev. Jeremiah, D.D., Leamington Smith, Junius, Strangeways Hall, Manchester Smith, J.R., Old Compton-street, London Sowler, R.S., Manchester Sowler, Thomas, Manchester Spear, John, Manchester Standish, W.J., Duxbury Hall, Chorley Stanley, The Lord, Knowsley Sudlow, John, Jun., Manchester Swain, Charles, M.R.S.L., Cheetwood Priory, near Manchester Swanwick, Josh. W., Hollins Vale, Bury, Lancashire Tabley, The Lord De, Tabley, Cheshire Tattershall, Rev. Thomas, D.D., Liverpool Tatton, Thos., Withenshaw, Cheshire Tayler, Rev. John James, B.A., Manchester Taylor, Thomas Frederick, Wigan Teale, Josh., Salford Thomson, James, Manchester Thorley, George, Manchester Thorpe, Robert, Manchester Tobin, Rev. John, M.A., Liscard, Cheshire Townend, John, Polygon, Manchester Townend, Thomas, Polygon, Manchester Turnbull, W.B., D.D., Edinburgh Turner, Samuel, F.R.S, F.S.A., F.G.S., Liverpool Turner, Thomas, Manchester Vitrè, Edward Denis De, M.D., Lancaster Walker, John, Weaste, near Manchester Walker, Samuel, Prospect Hill, Pendleton Wanklyn, J.B., Salford Wanklyn, James H., Crumpsall House, near Manchester Warburton, R.E.E., Arley Hall, near Northwich Ware, Samuel Hibbert, M.D., F.R.S.E., Edinburgh Wareing, Ralph, Manchester Westhead, Joshua P., Manchester Whitehead, James, Manchester Whitelegg, Rev. William, M.A., Hulme, near Manchester Whitmore, Edward, Jun., Manchester Whitmore, Henry, Manchester Wilson, William James, Manchester Wilton, The Earl of, Heaton House Winter, Gilbert, Stocks, near Manchester Worthington, Edward, Manchester Wray, Rev. Cecil Daniel, M.A., Canon of Manchester Wright, Rev. Henry, M.A., Mottram, St. Andrew's, near Macclesfield Wroe, Thomas, Manchester Yates, Joseph B., West Dingle, Liverpool Yates, Richard, Manchester
WORKS PUBLISHED BY THE CHETHAM SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR 1843.
Brereton's Travels.
The Lancashire Civil War Tracts.
Chester's Triumph in Honor of her Prince.
WORKS IN THE PRESS.
Pott's Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster, from the edition of 1613.
The Life of the Rev. Adam Martindale, Vicar of Rostherne, in Cheshire, from the MS. in the British Museum. (4239 Ascough's Catalogue.)
Dee's Compendious Rehearsal, and other Autobiographical Tracts, not included in the recent Publication of the Camden Society edited by Mr. Halliwell, with his Collected correspondence.
Iter Lancastrense, by Dr. Richard James; an English Poem, written in 1636, containing a Metrical Account of some of the Principal Families and Mansions in Lancashire; from the unpublished MS. in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
WORKS SUGGESTED FOR PUBLICATION.
Selections from the Unpublished Correspondence of the Rev. John Whittaker, Author of the History of Manchester, and other Works.
More's (George) Discourse concerning the Possession and Dispossession of Seven Persons in one Family in Lancashire, from a Manuscript formerly belonging to Thoresby, and which gives a much fuller Account of that Transaction than the Printed Tract of 1600; with a Bibliographical and Critical Review of the Tracts in the Darrel Controversy.
A Selection of the most Curious Papers and Tracts relating to the Pretender's Stay in Manchester in 1745, in Print and Manuscript.
Proceedings of the Presbyterian Classis of Manchester and the Neighbourhood, from 1646 to 1660, from an Unpublished Manuscript.
Catalogue of the Alchemical Library of John Webster, of Clitheroe, from a Manuscript in the Rev. T. Corser's possession; with a fuller Life of him, and List of his Works, than has yet appeared.
Correspondence between Samuel Hartlib (the Friend of Milton), and Dr. Worthington, of Jesus College, Cambridge (a native of Manchester), from 1655 to 1661, on various Literary Subjects.
"Antiquities concerning Cheshire," by Randall Minshull, written A.D. 1591, from a MS. in the Gough Collection.
Register of the Lancaster Priory, from a MS. (No. 3764) in the Harleian Collection.
Selections from the Visitations of Lancashire in 1533, 1567, and 1613, in the Herald's College, British Museum, Bodleian, and Caius College Libraries.
Selections from Dodsworth's MSS. in the Bodleian Library, Randal Holmes's Collections for Lancashire and Cheshire (MSS. Harleian), and Warburton's Collections for Cheshire (MSS. Lansdown).
Annales Cestrienses, or Chronicle of St. Werburgh, from the MS. in the British Museum.
A Reprint of Henry Bradshaw's Life and History of St. Werburgh, from the very rare 4to of 1521, printed by Pynson.
The Letters and Correspondence of Sir William Brereton, from the original MSS., in 5 vols. folio, in the British Museum.
A Poem, by Laurence Bostock, on the subject of the Saxon and Norman Earls of Chester.
Bishop Gastrell's Notitia Cestriensis, on the subject of the Ecclesiastical Antiquities of the Diocese of Chester, from the original MS.
History of the Earldom of Chester, collected by Archbishop Parker, entitled De Successione Comitum Cestriæ a Hugone Lupo ad Johannem Scoticum, from the original MS. in Ben'et College Library, Cambridge.
Volume of Funeral Certificates of Lancashire and Cheshire.
Volume of Early Lancashire and Cheshire Wills.
A Selection of Papers relating to the Rebellion of 1715, including Clarke's Journal of the March of the Rebels from Carlisle to Preston.
A Memoir of the Chetham Family, from original documents.
The Diary of the Rev. Henry Newcome, M.A., from the original MS. in the possession of his descendant, the Rev. Thomas Newcome, M.A., Rector of Shenley, Herts.
Lucianus Monacus de laude Cestrie, a Latin MS. of the 13th century, descriptive of the walls, gates, &c., of the City of Chester, formerly belonging to Thomas Allen, DD., and now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Richard Robinson's Golden Mirrour, Bk. lett. 4to. Lond., 1580. Containing Poems on the Etymology of the names of several Cheshire Families; from the exceedingly rare copy formerly in the collection of Richard Heber, Esq., (see Cat. pt. iv. 2413,) and now in the British Museum.
A volume of the early Ballad Poetry of Lancashire.
