Memorials of old Lanchshire
By: ed.  by Lieut. Colonel Fishwich and Rev. P. H. Ditchfield.
Contributors: Ditchfield, P. H. 1854-1930, joint editor.
Series: Memorial so the counties of England.
Publisher: Bemrose & sons, limited
Published: 1909
Place of publication: London [etc.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Lancashire (England)
Notes: Liverpool, by Lt.-Colonel Fishwick.  Music in Lancashire during the eighteenth century, by Samuel Andrew. The crosses of Lancashire, by P. H. Ditchfield. Chetham hospital and library, by A. Nicholson.  Furness abbey, by J. E. Holden. The ancient batismal fonts of the hundreds of Leyland and West Derby, by J. W. Ellis.  High Furness, by W. G. Colling wood. Notes on Lancashire parish registers, by H. Brierley. Early history of the Preston gild, by Lt.-Colonel Fishwich. Heysham, by E. M. Grafton.  Roods, screens, and lofts in Lancashire, by A. Vallance. Old Widnes and the neighbouring Mersey Side, by C. R. Lewis. Hoghton tower, by F. H. Cheetham. index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Historic Lancashire, by Lt.-Colonel Fishwick. The Romans in Lancashire, by F. A. Bruton. Old-time travel in Lancashire, by W. Harrison. Salford's ancient ford, by H. T. Crofton. Lanchashire legends, by P. H. Ditchfield. Siege of Lathom house, by Mrs. Colin Campbell. Elswick Congregational church, the mother of Fylde non-conformity by the Rev. B. Nightingale. The old grammar schools, by Lt. Colonel Fishwick. Cartmel priory, by the Rev. J. C. Cox. Lancashire witches and witchcraft, by Miss E. M. Platt. A Rochdale vicar in trouble, by W. E. A. Axon. Homes of the yeomen and peasantry of Lancashire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by W. F. Price. The old church of Manchester, by the Rev. H. A. Hudson.; title: v. 2. Castles and fortified houses, by Lt.-Colontel Fishwick Ormskirk town and church, by J. Bromley. Some early Lancashire authors, by C. W. Sutton. Old Wigan, by H. T. Folkard. A Lancashire squire of the eighteenth century, by E. Axon (cont)