HISTORIC SITES OF Lancashire and Cheshire.

A WAYFARER'S NOTES IN THE PALATINE COUNTIES, HISTORICAL, LEGENDARY, GENEALOGICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE.

BY JAMES CROSTON, F.S.A. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain; Member of the Architectural, Archæological and Historic Society of Chester; Member of the Council of the Record Society. Author of "On Foot through the Peak," "A History of Samlesbury," "Historical Memorials of the Church in Prestbury," "Old Manchester and its Worthies," "Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire," etc., etc.

JOHN HEYWOOD, Deansgate and Ridgefield, Manchester; and ii, Paternoster Buildings, LONDON. 1883.

TO JOHN LEIGH, Esq., of the manor house, hale, cheshire, the president and one of the founders of the society for the reprinting of the rarer poetical literature of the spenserain age, in testimony of lengthened friendship and literary obligation, and in appreciation of his efforts to rescue from oblivion the legends and traditions which cast the halo of romance round many of the old halls and manor houses of lancashire and cheshire, this book is inscribed with the best wishes of his sincere friend, the author.