page_title: John Parsons Earwaker
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: John Parsons Earwaker / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Philip Oldfield of Bradwall (1541-1616), effigy in the Church of St Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester.
context_page_description: John Parsons Earwaker was an English antiquary.
context_section_description: In April 1875 Earwaker began the publication in the Manchester Courier of a series Local Gleanings relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, which ran until January 1878, and then was republished in two volumes. It was followed in 1878-80 by a periodical entitled Local Gleanings: an Archæological and Historical Magazine, of which one volume was completed. The first volume of his East Cheshire, Past and Present; or a History of the Hundred of Macclesfield was published in 1877, and the second in 1881.
  In 1882 the corporation of Manchester decided to print the Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester, ranging from 1552 to 1846, and Earwaker was engaged as editor. The work, with annotations, extended to twelve royal octavo volumes, the first of which was printed in 1884, and the last in 1890. It was supplemented by The Constables' Accounts of the Manor of Manchester, from 1612 to 1647 and from 1743 to 1776, 3 vols. 1891-2. Earwaker put the Congleton corporation records into admirable order, and work on family papers resulted in monographs, as his Agecroft Hall, near Manchester, and the Old Deeds and Charters relating to it. He was one of the founder Members of the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire and served as Secretary. He was also a Member of the Councils of the Chetham Society from 1879 to 1894, the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, the Chester Archaeological Society, and the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society. He contributed to the publications of these societies, and he wrote also in the Athenæum, Notes and Queries, and other journals.
  Other works by Earwaker included:
  Index to the Wills and Inventories at Chester from 1545 to 1760, Record Society, 1879–92, 7 vols.
  Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories, Chetham Society, 1884–93, 2 vols.
  A Lancashire Pedigree Case; or a History of the various Trials for the Recovery of the Harrison Estates from 1873 to 1886, 1887.
  The Recent Discoveries of Roman Remains found in repairing the North Wall of the City of Chester, a series of papers by various writers, edited by Earwaker, 1888.
  History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach, 1890.
  The Cheshire Sheaf, new series, reprinted from the Chester Courant, 1891.
  History of the Church and Parish of St. Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester, completed by Rupert Hugh Morris, 1898.
caption: Philip Oldfield of Bradwall (1541–1616), effigy in the Church of St Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester; illustration from John Parsons Earwaker, The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach
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