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History of the Fylde of Lancashire

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Agricola, 5, 9

Agriculture, 89

Allen, cardinal, 50, 152

“Allen of Rossall Hall,” 151

Alfred the Great, 18

All-Hallows’ Eve, 107

All-Souls’ Day, 107

Ambroses, of Ambrose Hall, 472

Ambrose, Rev. Isaac, 71

Ambrose, John, 62

Amounderness, derivation, 1;

forests, 2, 10;

Ripon grant, 15;

See of York, 16, 21;

Wapentake, 16;

Earl Tosti, 21;

Roger de Poictou, 30;

Theobald Walter, 33;

Edmund Crouchback, 36;

John of Gaunt, 38;

military musters, 45, 46, 47;

tax of provisions, 48;

Cambden’s description, 53

Anglo-Saxons, 12, 90

Anlaf, 19

Armada, Spanish, 50

Ashton, Col., 62

Athelstan, 16, 19

Bankfield, 415

Baxter, Rev. Nathaniel, 72

Bailiffs of Kirkham, 376

Banastre, Sir Adam, 37, 189

Bede, the venerable, 14

Belisama Æstuarium, 6, 25

Bispham-with-Norbreck, 297

Bispham church, 33, 299

Birds, 127

Blackpool, 80, 311

Blackburne, family of, 141

Bolton, siege of, 64

Botany, 131

Brunandune, battle of, 19

Brigantes, 3, 13

Bradkirk, 410

Brank or Scolds’ Bridle, 104

Bryning-with-Kellamergh, 404

Bryning Hall, 404

Bullock, Rev. W., 72

Bull and Bear-baiting, 95

Burn, 19, 270

Burn Hall, 183, 270

“Butler of Rawcliffe Hall,” 153

Camden, 3, 14, 40, 53

Cairn near Weeton, 8

Catholic chapels, 81

Carling Sunday, 106

Cart-Ford, 137

Carleton, Great and Little, 280

Carleton Hall, 281

Carletons, family of, 280

Campion, Father Edm., 47

Christianity introduced, 15

Charles II., 70

Christmas customs, 96

Chantries, closure of, 45

Civil wars, 42, 58

“Clifton of Clifton, Lytham, etc.,” 155

Clifton, Sir Willm. de, 37, 370

Clifton, Sir Thomas, 75

Clifton, Capt., 64

Clifton-with-Salwick, 423

Classis, Presbyterian, 68

Cock-fighting, 103

Columba, 15

Commissions of Inquiry, 49, 69

Coins, near Rossall, 10

Condition, customs, etc., 87

Copp church, 467

Costumes, 115

Country of the Fylde, 124

Court of Requests, 209

County Court, 212

Coupland, Sir Jno. de, 39

Cromwell, Oliver, 65, 71

Crouchback, Edmund, 36

Crustaceæ, 150

Culdees, 15

Cuck-stool, 104

Danish settlements, 27

Danish invasions, 17

Danish insurrections, 18

Danes, massacre of, 21

Danes’ Pad, 7, 20

David II. of Scotland, 39

Derby, earl of, 58, 60, 70

Dock, Lytham, 144

Dock, Fleetwood, 248

Domesday Book, 31

Drayton, the poet, 138, 144

Druids, 4, 87

Druids’-eggs, 5, 8

Ducking-stool, 104

Dudley, Edmund, 44

Eccleston, Great, 466

Eccleston, Little, 422

Elswick, 471

Estates, compounders for, 68

Esprick school, 411

Ethelwerd’s Chronicle, 10, 19

Fairies, 110

Fast, a general, 84

Fenny-farm, 25

“ffrance of Little Eccleston Hall,” 161

Fleetwood, town of, 7, 81, 84, 218

Fleetwood, church of, 222

Fleetwood, harbour of, 251

“Fleetwood of Rossall Hall,” 158

Fleetwood, Sir P. H., 82, 161

Fleetwoods, of Little Plumpton, 158

Flodden Field, 42

Fox Hall, 312

Freckleton marsh, 66, 67

Freckleton, 402

Free-tenants, 51, 57

Fylde, present extent, 1;

original extent, 23;

definition, 2, 3;

aborigines, 3;

Celtic relics, 3;

Roman road or Dane’s Pad, 7;

Roman relics, 8, 10, 22;

Kate’s Pad, 9;

Christianity, 15;

churches built, 16;

the Danes, 17;

Roman station, 6, 22;

Anglo-Saxon towns, 13, 27;

dialect, 28, 35;

wild animals, 29;

Domesday survey, 31;

churches in A.D. 1080, 32;

members of parliament, 39;

extracts from Duchy Rolls, 41;

High-sheriffs, 43;

poverty, 40;

complaints and petitions, 49, 56;

plague, 57;

recruiting, 61, 63, 64

Fylde Union, 475

Gaunt, John of, 38

Gentry, list of, 74

Geoffrey, the crossbowman, 34, 139

Greenhalgh-with-Thistleton, 411

Greenhalgh Castle, 67

Gregory the Great, 15

Gynn-house, 318

Hackensall Hall, 138

Hambleton, 425

Hardhorn-with-Newton, 292

Harleian Collection, extracts from, 48

Harrison, the topographer, 52, 138, 144

Harrison, Rev. Cuthbert, 419

Harrison, Rev. Joseph, 72

Heptarchy, 17

Heskeths of Little Poulton Hall, 213

“Hesketh of Mains Hall,” 162

High Sheriffs, 43

Holinshed, 10, 53

“Hornby of Poulton,” 164

“Hornby of Ribby Hall,” 164

Horse-bridge, 113

Hundreds, 18

Incorporation of Kirkham, 367

Incorporation of Blackpool, 354

Inskip-with-Sowerby, 474

Jacobite plot, 74

James I., 55

James II., 74

John, King, 34

Kate’s Pad, 9

King John, 34

Kirkham, 37, 57, 61, 63, 66, 363

Kirkham church, 16, 32, 39, 386

Kirkham grammar school, 394

Knots, Great and Little, 17, 219

Lambert Simnel, 42

Lancashire, inhabitants, 52;

houses and inns, 53;

regiment, 58

Lancaster, honor, 30, 34, 36;

bay, 24;

earl, 36;

duke, 38;

town, 59, 62

Landowners, Catholic, 77, 78

Larbrick Hall, 422

Layton-with-Warbreck, 306

Layton Hall, 308

Layton Hawes, 60, 64, 308, 316

Layton miser, 309

Leigh, Dr. Charles, 414

“Leckonby of Leckonby House,” 166

“Leyland of Leyland House,” 168

Leyland, the antiquary, 2, 37, 52

Leyland House, 404

Lifting at Easter, 106

Linen burial act, 73

Little Poulton Hall, 213

“Longworth of St. Michael’s Hall,” 168

Lune, river, 26

“Lune Deep,” 23

Lund, 27

Lund church, 423

Lytham, 81, 429

Lytham churches, 432, 446

Lytham Dock, 144

Lytham Hall, 60, 438

Mains Hall, 79, 421

May Day, 96, 101

Marton, Great and Little, 285

Marton church, 288

Marton Mere, 127, 287

Marton Moss, 124

Medlar-with-Wesham, 410

Military musters, 45, 46, 47

Midsummer’s Eve, 112

Ministers ejected, 72

Molluscs, 150

Monasteries, suppression of, 45

Moot Hall of Kirkham, 380

Moot Hall of Poulton, 204

Morecambe Bay, 3, 24, 59

Moricambe Æstuarium, 6, 25

Moreton, earl of, 34

Mowbreck Hall, 410

Myerscough Lodge, 56

National language, 35

Newton-with-Scales, 425

Newton, Hardhorn-with, 292

New Year’s Day, 97

Norman Conquest, 30

Northumbria, 13, 18, 19, 30

Out-Rawcliffe, 469

Pace-egg mummers, 106

“Parker of Bradkirk Hall,” 169

Parrox Hall, 139

Parliament, members of, 39

Parliamentary army, 58

Pastimes, 95

Paulinus, 13, 15

Peel, hamlet of, 287

Peel, in Morecambe Bay, 42, 50

Pedigrees of ancient families, 151

Penny Stone, 328

Petitions and prayers, 11, 40, 49, 56

Picts and Scots, 11

Plague at Kirkham, 57

Plough Monday, 96

Plunderings, 61, 63, 66

Portus Setantiorum, 7, 25

Poulton, town of, 60, 66, 185

Poulton church, 32, 188, 192

Poulton free school, 215

Poulton, assault near, 37, 190

Poulton, port of, 208

Preese Hall, 409

Preston, 36, 62, 76

Priests, dress of, 52

Pretender, the first, 76

Pretender, the young, 78

Provisions, prices of, 88, 93, 94, 100, 113

Ptolemy, 6

Raikes Hall, 351

Railway, Preston and Wyre, 82, 226

Railway, Lytham and Blackpool, 448

Rawcliffe, Out, 469

Rawcliffe, Upper, 454

Rawcliffe Hall, 470

Recruiting, 61, 63, 64

Rebellion of 1715, 76

Rebellion of 1745, 78

Relics and traces, Celtic, 3, 8, 26;

Roman, 8, 10, 22, 27;

Danish, 17, 27;

Anglo-Saxon, 27

Reformation, 45

Ribble, river, 7, 15, 143

Ribby-with-Wrea, 405

Ribby Hall, 406

Rigodunum or Ribchester, 26

“Rigby of Layton Hall,” 170

Ripon, monastery of, 15

Roger de Poictou, 30, 32

Royal Army, 58

Royal Oak, order of the, 72

Romans, 5, 10

Roman stations, 6, 22

Roman roads, 7

Roseacre, 424

Rossall, 51, 273

Rossall Hall, 61, 274

Rossall School, 276

Salmon fishery act, 41

Salt manufactories, 53, 437

Saxon Chronicle, 10, 15, 19

Saxon deities, 14

Saxons, arrival of, 12

Seaweeds, 148

Sea, the Irish, 146

Sea, encroachments of, 24, 327

Seteia Æstuarium, 6, 25

Setantii, 3, 87

Severus, 9

Shard, 60, 137

Shrove Tuesday, 97

Singleton Thorp, 25, 328

Singletons, Great and Little, 411

Singleton church, 415

Singleton grange, 413

“Singleton of Staining Hall,” 172

Simnel, Lambert, 42

Skippool, 141, 208

South Shore, 360

Staining, 292

Staining Hall, 34, 295

“Stanley of Great Eccleston Hall,” 173

Stang, riding, 105

St. Annes-on-the-Sea, 452

St. Michael’s-on-Wyre, 63, 457

St. Michael’s-on-Wyre church, 16, 32, 39, 42, 457

St. Mary’s of Lancaster, 32

St. Wilfred, 16

St. Valentine’s Day, 97

Superstitions, 94, 107

Tarnacre, 457

Taxes, 40, 48, 55

Testa de Nevill, extracts from, 38

Thurland Castle, 63

Thornton, 268

Thornton Church, 271

Thornton Hall, 269

Theobald Walter, 33

Thirty-men of Kirkham, 380, 384

Tithings, 18

Tosti, earl, 21

Treales, Roseacre, and Wharles, 424

“Tyldesley of Fox Hall,” 175

Tyldesley, Sir Thos., 62, 65, 70, 176

Tyldesley, Edward, 76, 312, 314

Tyldesley, James, 79

Tyldesley, Thomas, 179, 313

Uniformity, act of, 71

Upper Rawcliffe-with-Tarnacre, 454

“Veale of Whinney Heys,” 181

Victoria, Queen, 84, 235

Waddum Thorp, 327, 437

Wages, 95, 99, 102

Walter, Theobald, 33

Wapentake, 16

Warbreck, Layton-with, 306

Wardleys, 141, 208

Wars, civil, 42, 58

Warton, 403

Water and wind-mills, 92

Waterworks, the Fylde, 85

Weeton-with-Preese, 409

Westby-with-Plumptons, 408

“Westby of Mowbreck Hall,” 183

“Westby of Burn Hall,” 183

Westbys, of White Hall, 455

Wharles, 424

Whinney Heys, 309

Wigan-lane, 70

Wild animals, 29

Wood Plumpton, 472

Wyre, river, 3, 24, 60, 70, 136

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