Selections from the Unpublished Correspondence of the Rev. John
Whittaker, Author of the History of Manchester, and other Works.
More's (George) Discourse concerning the Possession and Dispossession
of Seven Persons in one Family in Lancashire, from a Manuscript
formerly belonging to Thoresby, and which gives a much fuller Account
of that Transaction than the Printed Tract of 1600; with a
Bibliographical and Critical Review of the Tracts in the Darrel
Controversy.
A Selection of the most Curious Papers and Tracts relating to the
Pretender's Stay in Manchester in 1745, in Print and Manuscript.
Proceedings of the Presbyterian Classis of Manchester and the
Neighbourhood, from 1646 to 1660, from an Unpublished Manuscript.
Catalogue of the Alchemical Library of John Webster, of Clitheroe,
from a Manuscript in the Rev. T. Corser's possession; with a fuller
Life of him, and List of his Works, than has yet appeared.
Correspondence between Samuel Hartlib (the Friend of Milton), and Dr.
Worthington, of Jesus College, Cambridge (a native of Manchester),
from 1655 to 1661, on various Literary Subjects.
"Antiquities concerning Cheshire," by Randall Minshull, written A.D.
1591, from a MS. in the Gough Collection.
Register of the Lancaster Priory, from a MS. (No. 3764) in the
Harleian Collection.
Selections from the Visitations of Lancashire in 1533, 1567, and 1613,
in the Herald's College, British Museum, Bodleian, and Caius College
Libraries.
Selections from Dodsworth's MSS. in the Bodleian Library, Randal
Holmes's Collections for Lancashire and Cheshire (MSS. Harleian), and
Warburton's Collections for Cheshire (MSS. Lansdown).
Annales Cestrienses, or Chronicle of St. Werburgh, from the MS. in the
British Museum.
A Reprint of Henry Bradshaw's Life and History of St. Werburgh, from
the very rare 4to of 1521, printed by Pynson.
The Letters and Correspondence of Sir William Brereton, from the
original MSS., in 5 vols. folio, in the British Museum.
A Poem, by Laurence Bostock, on the subject of the Saxon and Norman
Earls of Chester.
Bishop Gastrell's Notitia Cestriensis, on the subject of the
Ecclesiastical Antiquities of the Diocese of Chester, from the
original MS.
History of the Earldom of Chester, collected by Archbishop Parker,
entitled De Successione Comitum Cestriæ a Hugone Lupo ad Johannem
Scoticum, from the original MS. in Ben'et College Library, Cambridge.
Volume of Funeral Certificates of Lancashire and Cheshire.
Volume of Early Lancashire and Cheshire Wills.
A Selection of Papers relating to the Rebellion of 1715, including
Clarke's Journal of the March of the Rebels from Carlisle to Preston.
A Memoir of the Chetham Family, from original documents.
The Diary of the Rev. Henry Newcome, M.A., from the original MS. in
the possession of his descendant, the Rev. Thomas Newcome, M.A.,
Rector of Shenley, Herts.
Lucianus Monacus de laude Cestrie, a Latin MS. of the 13th century,
descriptive of the walls, gates, &c., of the City of Chester, formerly
belonging to Thomas Allen, DD., and now in the Bodleian Library,
Oxford.
Richard Robinson's Golden Mirrour, Bk. lett. 4to. Lond., 1580.
Containing Poems on the Etymology of the names of several Cheshire
Families; from the exceedingly rare copy formerly in the collection of
Richard Heber, Esq., (see Cat. pt. iv. 2413,) and now in the British
Museum.
A volume of the early Ballad Poetry of Lancashire.
The Coucher Book of Whalley Abbey.
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