TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

HISTORIC SOCIETY

OF

LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.

NEW SERIES-VOLUME V.

SESSION 1864-65.

LIVERPOOL:

ADAM HOLDEN, 48, CHURCH STREET.

1865.

This Volume has been edited by the Assistant Secretary, under

the direction of the Council. The Writers of Papers, however, are alone responsible for the facts and opinions contained in their respective communications.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

Plates VI, VII and VIII are the gift of Mr. F. J. Jeffery, the author of the Paper they illustrate; plates X and XIII also are presented by Mr. H. E. Smith, in illustration of his Papers; all the other

plates have been prepared at the expense of the Society.