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Lancashire in the time of Elizabeth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Lieut.-Colonel Henry Fishwick
Affiliation:
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Extract

It would be an easy task, and perhaps a not uninteresting one, to draw a picture of what Lancashire may be supposed to have been during the reign of Queen Elizabeth—its large forests, its trackless mosses, its many-gabled, moated, timber halls, and its old grey churches, would all form an admirable background to a stage upon which the persecuted Catholic gentry, the almost equally persecuted Puritan, the honest old yeoman and his comely dame, the hard-working husbandman, and the “sturdy beggar,” might be made to act their parts; but this would not be history, and may therefore be left to the hands of the romancer and the novelist.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1877

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page 185 note * These were really woollen goods. Cotton manufacture did not begin in Lancashire until nearly a century later.

page 185 note † Charter of Queen Elizabeth to the college. There is some doubt as to whether the number refers to the town only or to the parish.

page 185 note ‡ Court Leet Records.

page 185 note § Hibbert Ware's Hist, of Collegiate Church of Manchester.

page 186 note * Chetham Society, vol. lxiii.

page 187 note * The first Manchester book recorded is A Guide to Heaven,” printed at Door, Smithy, 1664 (The Lancashire Library, p. 157)Google Scholar.

page 188 note * Mancuniensis, p. 82.

page 188 note † Court Leet Records.

page 188 note ‡ Picton's Memorials of Liverpool, vol. i., p. 64.

page 188 note § Corporation Records; Picton's Memorials of Liverpool.

page 189 note * Corporation Records; Picton's Memorials of Liverpool.

page 189 note † Ib.

page 189 note ‡ Corporation Records.

page 189 note § Ib.

page 189 note ∥ Harleian MSS.

page 190 note * Hardwick's History of Preston.

page 191 note * Dobson and Harland's History of Preston Guild.

page 191 note † Holinshed's Itinerary.

page 191 note ‡ Beaumont's Annals of Warrington, p. 24.

page 193 note * Hollingworth's Mancuinensis.

page 193 note † State Papers, Dom., Addenda, 1547–1565.

page 194 note * State Papers, Dom., Addenda, p. 523 (in Calendar).

page 194 note † Ib., Addenda, xix. 16 i.

page 194 note ‡ Ib., lxxiv. 22.

page 194 note § Ib., cxxxviii. 18.

page 194 note ∥ Ib., Addenda, 1580–1625, p. 7 (Calendar).

page 195 note * Sworn men in some parishes constituted a kind of vestry.

page 195 note † State Papers, Dom., 1591, ccxl. 138.

page 196 note * State Papers, Dom., Ccxl.

page 196 note † Chetham Society, xcvi., p. I.

page 197 note * History of Kirkham, p. 45.

page 197 note † State Papers, Dom., cclxx. 20.

page 197 note ‡ Papers, Dom.

page 197 note § Ib., cclxxv. 115.

page 198 note * Baine's Lancashire, ii. 469 (1870 edit.).

page 198 note † Burnley school was not in existence in 1556, but may have been erected before the time of Elizabeth.

page 199 note * Harleian MSS., codex 247.

page 199 note † State Papers, Dom., cclxiii.

page 199 note ‡ Lansdowne MSS., codex 56, part 51.

page 199 note § Gleaning, Local (Manchester Courier), p. 144Google Scholar.

page 200 note * Chetham Society, vol. xxxv.