| PAGE | |
| The “Lancashire Plot” | 1 |
| De Quincey’s Highwayman | 15 |
| Some Lancashire Centenarians | 22 |
| What was the First Book Printed in Manchester? | 39 |
| Thomas Lurting: a Liverpool Worthy | 44 |
| Kufic Coins found in Lancashire | 56 |
| Newspapers in 1738-39 | 61 |
| A Lancashire Naturalist: Thomas Garnett | 72 |
| The Traffords of Trafford | 80 |
| A Manchester Will of the Fifteenth Century | 106 |
| A Visitor to Lancashire in 1807 | 111 |
| How the First Spinning Machinery was taken to Belgium | 119 |
| Merry Andrew of Manchester | 127 |
| A Manchester Jeanie Deans | 129 |
| Some Lancashire Giants | 130 |
| A Note on William Rowlinson | 137 |
| Literary Taste of the Eighteenth Century | 143 |
| Hugh of Manchester: a Statesman and Divine of the Thirteenth Century | 146 |
| Mrs. Fletcher in Lancashire | 157 |
| Manchester and the First Reform Agitation | 165 |
| The Folk-Lore of Lancashire | 197 |
| Manchester Grammar School Mill | 222 |
| The Rising of 1715 | 231 |
| The Fool of Lancaster | 243 |
| Alexander Barclay and Manchester | 245 |
| Index | 255 |