Index.

Accrington, 35
Acson, Thomas, 89
Actors, French, in London, 62
Adam, progenitor of Scottish kings, 233
Adams, Roger, printer, 40
Adlington, 96
Advertisements, 61, 65, 69
Æneas Sylvius, 248
Agarde, Arthur, 80
Alchemy, 83
Alcock, Bishop, John, 247, 249
Ale, 176
Algerine pirates, 47
Algiers, 47, 53
Allen, Gabriel, 94;
Cardinal Witham, 94
Allenson, Rev. Mr., 11
Amber, 57, 58
Ancoats, 226
Annapolis, 18
Anderton family, secret printing press, 39
Arab trade with Europe, 57
Ardwick, 230
Asshelle Lawne, 225
Assheton, Edmund, 96
Assheton crest, 81
Ashton, Sir Thomas, 83, 84
Atkinson, F. R., 185
Babelon, Ernest, 56
Babies for sale, 70
Babs, 71
Bacup, 33
Bailey, Mrs., centenarian, 29
Baker, Daniel, drowned, 97;
Sir Thomas, 61, 65
Bamfield or Bampfield, Francis, 42;
Sir John, 42;
Thomas, 42
Bamford, Samuel, 173, 175;
trial, 184
Banbury, 68
Bankes, Legh, 10, 11
Baptist preacher and sea captain, 46
Barcelona, 45
Barclay, Alexander, career of, 245;
mention of Manchester, 246
Barley-bird, 76
Barton-in-Kendal, 30
Bauwens, Liévin, 119
Baxter, John, 93
Baxter, William, centenarian, 66
Bayley, Christopher, 94;
James, 229
Bedloe, William, 14
Beggarwoman’s fortune, 64
Belfast, 36
Belgium and spinning machinery, 119
Belgrade, 64
Bell, James, priest, executed, 93
Berry, John, printer, journalist, etc., 61, 65, 70
Bexwyke, Hugh, 223, 224;
Joan, 223, 224
Bickerstaffe, 26
Bickersteth, Anne, centenarian, 30
Billinge, Anne, 37;
Charles, 37;
Lydia, 37;
Margaret, 37;
Mary, centenarian, 36;
William, 37
Birds’ feathers, 77
Birds’ language, 76
Birley, Capt., 183;
H. H., 185
Birmingham, 186, 196
Blackbird, 77
Blackburn, 30, 78
Blackley, 235
Blackpool, 33
Blainscough, 93
Blake, Admiral, 45
Blakesley, Mrs., centenarian, 27
Blanketeers, 174
Blue titmouse, 77
Blundell, William, trial, 4, 24
Boardman, Mrs., centenarian, 29
Boardman, Bolton dwarf, 136
Boggart, flitting, 210
Bolton, 24, 94, 112, 136
Bolton Percy, 88
Bone and Skin, 228
Booksellers, 61, 65
Booth of Barton, 95
Boothe, Anne, 90;
John, 90;
Marget, 90
Boston, Mass., 19
Bowker, James, 201
Bradshaw, Rev. Joseph, 88
Bradford, 61, 65
Bradley, Mr., 61, 65
Braidley, B., 185
Branded for roguery, 9
Brandwood, Ellin, centenarian, 27
Bread baking, 223
Brereton, Col. Uriah, 9, 12
Brereton, Sir Urian, 87
Brierley, Ben, 200
Briscoe, William, centenarian, 28
Bristol, 18, 62;
murder at, 17
Broadnax or Broadneux, Major Robert, centenarian, 25
Brome, H., 42
Bromfield, Dr., a Jacobite Quaker, 5
Brookes, Rev. Joshua, 34
Brookes, Mrs., 69
Brooks, John, 186
Breweries, 227, 230
Buckinger, Matthew, death of, 64
Buddhist stories, 219
Burnley, 24, 28, 204
Burt, James, 192
Bury, 30, 68
Byrom, John, 228
Cannel coal ornaments, 112
Canterbury, Archbishop of, 192
Cape Hone, 51
Carlisle, 34
Carmarthen, 17
Carpenter, General, 239
Carr, 28
Catharine of Liverpool, 163
Cecil, Lady Mildred, 95
Centenarians, Lancashire, 22-38
Chaderton, William, Bishop of Chester, 91, 92, 93
Chaffinch, 77
Chambers’s Cyclopædia, 65
Chapels wrecked, 235
Charles II., 47, 233;
and Quaker sailor, 53
Cheetham, 230
Cheetham Hill, 36
Chester, 44, 61, 65
Chetham, Humphrey, 98
Childe of Hale, 133
Children, marriage of, 82, 86
Chimney, 87
China blue, 34
Chorlton, 94, 195
Chorlton-on-Medlock, 34
Chorlton, Alexander, 89
Chowbent, 240
Church porch marriages, 84
Church sites supernaturally changed, 204
Churchdown, 204
Circulating library, 144
Clavell’s catalogue, 42
Clay soils, 75
Clayton, 229
Clayton, William, centenarian, 29
Clifton, Sir Thomas, trial, 4, 5
Clitheroe, 27, 72
Clowes, Rev. John, 159
Coal ornaments, 112
“Cock nests,” 75
Cockerell, James, centenarian, 24
Cockerham, 7, 203
Coffee, 176
Colliers’ wages, 62
Cooper, Bishop, and Martin Marprelate, 39
Cooper, Dr. Thomas, 167
Cork, 64
Corn mill, 223
Corpse arrested for debt, 67
Cotton, 75
Coward, Timothy, centenarian, 25
Crawford, Sir James, 122
Creeper, 76, 77
Crest, Trafford, 80
Crossley, Frances, centenarian, 29
Croxteth, 7, 12
Cruikshank, the surgeon, 15, 22
Crumpsall, 35
Cuba, 67
Cuerdale, Kufic coins found at, 56
Curril, Elizabeth, centenarian, 29
Dacre, Lord, 186
Danes’ commerce with the East, 60
David le Seintpier, 83
Davis, Mr., 61, 65
Deacon, Anne, a rich beggar, 63
Deer, red, 26
De Quincey, Thomas, account of a highwayman, 15
Derby, 195
Derby, Earl of, 39
Derwentwater, Earl of, 237
Dettingen Battle, 31
Detrosier, Rowland, 189
Devil in folk-lore, 203, 212
Dialect, 106, 113
Diamond, Dr., 37
Dickenson, Mrs. Margaret, 64
Dicconson, Roger, 11, 13
Dicconson, William, trial, 3, 4, 7, 9
Disley, 25
Dissenters and Test Act, 232
Divine right, 233
Divorce, 87
Dixon, Elijah, 186, 195
Dog, mad, 68
Dolls, 70
Doni, Antonio Francisco, 208
Downes, Francis, 97;
John, 97;
Roger, 97
Dream, story of, 213
Dress, 113
Driving the stags, 26
Duberdo, Isaac, centenarian, 27
Dublin working schools, 64
Dudley, Earl of, 196
Duel, 81
Dukenhalgh, 7, 12
Dunstanville, Lord de, 186
Dwarf, 136
Dyer, J. C., 188
Dyeing, 34-35
Dynham, William, 250
Eccles, 83
Eccleston, Thomas, 3
Eels, 78
Eldon, Lord, 186
Elell, 27
Ellis, William, centenarian, 28
Enfield, 28
Everton, 37
Eveson, Susan, centenarian, 28
Executions, 63, 93, 242
Exon, 62
Eyre, Sir Giles, 12, 13
Fables, migration, 219
Fairies, 221
Faloghys, Thomas, 85
Featherstone’s doom, 204
Felons, prosecution, 68
ffarington, William, 99
Fielden, John, 195
“Fighting sailor turned peaceable Christian,” 54
Finch, John, recusant, executed, 93
Finger nails, 203
Fish ova artificial impregnation, 74
Fleming, Jane, 36
Fleming, Mr., centenarian, 27
Fleming the spy, 172
Fletcher, Mrs., 157
Flodden Field, 86
Folk-Lore of Lancashire, 197
Fool of Lancaster, 243
Ford, William, 41-42
Footpad, 67
Forster, General, 241, 242
Fox, George, and Thomas Lurting, 47-48
French players, 62
Friends, early, 46-55
Friers, Roger, centenarian, 25
Fulling mills, 226
Funeral, 88;
by torchlight, 96;
sermon, 96