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Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire. A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive.

By James Croston

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NOOKS AND CORNERS OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
SUBSCRIBERS.
BOOKSELLERS.
CHAPTER I. A RAILWAY RAMBLE—THE ROMAN CITY ON THE RIBBLE—A DAY-DREAM AT RIBCHESTER.
CHAPTER II. MARPLE HALL—THE BRADSHAWS—COLONEL HENRY BRADSHAW THE STORY OF THE REGICIDE.
CHAPTER III. OVER SANDS BY THE CARTMEL SHORE—WRAYSHOLME TOWER—THE LEGEND OF THE LAST WOLF.
CHAPTER IV. AN AFTERNOON AT GAWSWORTH—THE FIGHTING FITTONS—THE CHESHIRE WILL CASE AND ITS TRAGIC SEQUEL—HENRY NEWCOME—“LORD FLAME.”
CHAPTER V. THE COLLEGE AND THE “WIZARD WARDEN” OF MANCHESTER.
CHAPTER VI. BEESTON CASTLE.
CHAPTER VII. WHALLEY AND ITS ABBEY—MITTON CHURCH AND ITS MONUMENTS—THE SHERBURNES—THE JESUITS’ COLLEGE, STONYHURST.
CHAPTER VIII. ADLINGTON AND ITS EARLIER LORDS—THE LEGHS—THE LEGEND OF THE SPANISH LADY’S LOVE—THE HALL.
CHAPTER IX. THE BYROMS—KERSALL CELL—JOHN BYROM—THE LAUREATE OF THE JACOBITES—THE FATAL ’45.
CHAPTER X. HALL-I’-TH’-WOOD—THE STORY OF SAMUEL CROMPTON, THE INVENTOR OF THE SPINNING MULE.
INDEX.
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