The names of all the gentlemen of the best callinge
Subtitle: within the countye of Lancaster; whereof choyse ys to be made of a c'ten number to lend vnto her Matye moneye vpon privie seals in Janvarye 1588 : from a manuscript in the possession of the Rev. F.R. Raines
Contributors: Raines, F. R. (Francis Robert), 1805-1878
Series: Chetham miscellanies -- v. 3 [no. 3]; Chetham miscellanies -- v. 3.; Remains, historical and literary, connected with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester -- v. 57.
Publisher: Printed for the Chetham society
Published: 1862
Place of publication: [Manchester]
Language: eng
Subjects: Taxation; Lists; History
Notes: "The money raised at this time by the Crown was to defray expenses connected with the resistance of the Spanish Armada."--Preface.

Bound volume contains: On the south Lancashire dialect / by Thomas Heywood. -- Rentale de Cokersand: being the bursar's rent roll of the abbey of Cokersand, in the county palatine of Lancaster, for the year 1501 / printed from the original ; edited by the Rev. F.R. Raines. -- Some instructions given by William Booth, esquire, to his stewards, John Carington and William Rowcrofte, upon the purchase of Warrington by Sir George Booth, baronet, and William Booth, his son, A.D. MDCXXVIII / communicated by William Beamont, esq. -- Letter from Sir John Seton, Manchester ye 25 M'ch, 1643 / edited by Thomas Heywood. -- The names of eight hundred inhabitants of Manchester who took the oath of allegiance to Charles II. in April, 1679 / communicated by John Harland, F.S.A. -- The pole booke for Manchester, May ye 22d 1690.