Echoes of Old Lancashire
Five hundred copies of this book printed,
and this is No. 228
ECHOES ...
OLD LANCASHIRE.
BY WILLIAM E. A. AXON.
LONDON:
WILLIAM ANDREWS & CO., 5, FARRINGDON AVENUE, E.C.
1899.
William Andrews & Co THE HULL PRESS
TO THE
EARL OF CRAWFORD,
THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ANCIENT
William E. A. Axon
ECHOES OF OLD LANCASHIRE.
Preface.
Contents.
The “Lancashire Plot.”
De Quincey’s Highwayman.
Some Lancashire Centenarians.
What was the First Book Printed in Manchester?
Thomas Lurting: a Liverpool Worthy.
Kufic Coins found in Lancashire.
Newspapers in 1738-39.
A Lancashire Naturalist: Thomas Garnett.
The Traffords of Trafford.
A Manchester Will of the Fifteenth Century.
A Visitor to Lancashire in 1807.
How the First Spinning Machinery was taken to Belgium.
Merry Andrew of Manchester.
A Manchester Jeanie Deans.
Some Lancashire Giants.
A Note on William Rowlinson.
Literary Taste of the Eighteenth Century.
Mrs. Fletcher in Lancashire.
Manchester and the First Reform Agitation.
The Folk-Lore of Lancashire.
Manchester Grammar School Mill.
The Rising of 1715.
The Fool of Lancaster.
Alexander Barclay and Manchester.
Index.