Cheshire

by Charles E. Kelsey

INDEX

• Acton, [126].
• Adlington, [141], [161].
• Aethelfrith, [44].
• Aethelred, [50].
• Agricola, [36]-[8].
• Alabama, the, [203].
• Alderley Edge, [15], [18], [25], [42].
• Aldford, [20], [61].
• Alfred the Great, [51].
• Almshouses, [147].
• Altrincham, [88], [208].
• Anne, Queen, [171].
• Anselm, [64].
• Archery, [110].
• Architecture, Saxon, [50];
  • Norman, [65]-[71];
  • Early English, [81]-[6];
  • Decorated, [101]-[4];
  • Perpendicular, [120]-[2];
  • Elizabethan, [137]-[42];
  • Eighteenth-Century, [173]-[6].
• Arden Hall, [142].
• Armada, Spanish, [134].
• Astbury, [45], [104].
• Aston, Sir Thomas, [156].
• Athelstan, [55].

• Baguley, [106]
• Baldwin, Archbishop, [79].
• Barnston, Colonel, [210].
• Barrows, [27].
• Barthomley, [162].
• Bebington, [71], [104], [147].
• Beeston Castle, [61], [160].
• Beeston, Sir George, [134].
• Benedictines, [64].
• Birkenhead, [12], [198]-[200].
  • Birkenhead, Priory, [71];
  • Shipping, [200].
• Black Death, [112].
• Booth, Sir George, [157], [166], [171].
• Boulder clay, [20].
• Bradshaw, John, [163].
• Bramhall, [106].
• Branks, [149].
• Brasses, [115].
• Brereton Hall, [141].
• Brereton, Sir William, [153], [155]-[60], [165].
• Bridgwater Canal, [184].
• Bridgwater, Duke of, [183].
• Brindley, James, [183], [185].
• British remains, [27].
• Brocmael, [43].
• Bromborough, [56].
• Bronze Age, [28].
• Broxton Hills, [27].
• Bruera, [86].
• Bucton Castle, [27].
• Budworth, Great, [119], [162], [164].
• Bunbury, [108], [134].
• Bunter Sandstone, [18].
• Burial urns, [27], [34].
• Byron, Sir Nicholas, [157].

• Cæsar, Julius, [29].
• Calveley, Sir Hugh, [108].
• Canals of Cheshire, [183]-[5], [205].
• Carboniferous Rocks, [24].
• Carroll, Lewis, [215].
• Ceawlin, [43].
• Celts, [26]-[8].
• Chad, [48].
• Chadkirk, [48].
• Charles I, [153], [158].
• Charles II, [164]-[6].
• Charters, [78], [88].
• Chartists, [202].
• Cheshire, Canals, [183]-[5], [205];
  • Meres, [15];
  • Plain, [10];
  • Rivers, [12]-[14];
  • Railways, [192]-[7].
• Chesshyre, Sir John, [177].
• Chester, Battle of, [44];
  • Castle, [55], [62], [96], [174];
  • Caleyards, [65];
  • Cathedral, [130];
  • Customs of, [62];
  • King's School, [133], [152];
  • Plays, [90]-[1];
  • Phoenix Tower, [89], [158];
  • Roman city of, [36]-[8];
  • Rows, [112];
  • S. John's Church, [50], [66], [81], [160];
  • S. Mary's on the Hill, [160];
  • S. Olaf, [57];
  • S. Oswald, [47];
  • S. Werburgh's Abbey, [64], [72], [83];
  • Siege of, [158]-[60];
  • Situation of, [10];
  • Trade, [55], [144];
  • Walls,[37], [96];
  • Water Tower, [98].
• Chests, Church, [124].
• Christianity, Introduction of, [47]-[51].
• Christleton, [20].
• Chronicle, Old English, [54].
• Circles, Stone, [28].
• Cistercians, [73].
• Civil War, [153]-[66].
• Clive, Robert, [181].
• Clulow Cross, [25], [28].
• Cnut, [57].
• Coaches, [178].
• Coal measures, [22].
• Coal-fields, [183].
• Cobden, Richard, [202].
• Combermere, Abbey of, [73].
• Combermere, Viscount, [182].
• Congleton, [88], [148].
• Congreve, Lieutenant, [211].
• Connought, Major, [162].
• Constable's Sands, [74].
• Conversion of the English, [47]-[8].
• Cotton famine, [203];
  • manufacture, [188].
• Cotton, Stapleton,[182].
• County Council, [208].
• Crewe, [195], [208].
• Crewe, Sir Randolph, [152].
• Crosses, [48].
• Crusades, [79].

• Danes, Invasion of, [57].
• Davenport, Peter, [162].
• Davenport, Vivian, [74].
• Dean Row, [168].
• Decorated Architecture, [101]-[4].
• Dee Mills, [77], [98].
• Dee, River, [12].
• Delamere, Forest of, [15], [27], [74].
• Dennis, Peter, [181].
• Derby, Earls of, [213].
• de Tabley, Lord, [216].
• Deva, [30].
• Dissolution of the Monasteries, [129]-[33].
• Domesday Book, [62]-[4].
• Done, John, [76].
• Downes, Peter, [181].
• Drayton, Michael, [135].
• Dukinfield, [151], [183].
• Dunham Massey, [62].
• Duttons, [212].

• Earls of Chester, [59], [74]-[81].
• Early English Architecture, [81]-[7].
• Eastham, [205].
• Eaton Hall, [59].
• Eaton, Samuel, [151].
• Ecberght, [44].
• Eddisbury, [20], [54].
• Edgar, [56].
• Edward the Elder, [54].
• Edward I, [93]-[8].
• Edward III, [96].
• Edward VI, [130].
• Edward VII, [218].
• Edwin, Earl, [59].
• Eleanor, Queen, [94].
• Elizabeth, Queen, [134]-[50].
• Elizabethan Houses, [137].
• Ellesmere Canal, [206].
• Erratics, [20].
• Estuaries, [14].
• Ethelfleda, [53]-[5].
• Etherow, River, [12].

• Factory Acts, [201].
• Faddiley, [43].
• Farndon, [48], [159].
• Fitton, Mary, [143].
• Flagstones, [23].
• Flashes, [15].
• Flint implements, [25].
• Forest, submerged, [23].
• Forests of Cheshire, [74].
• Friars, Coming of the, [99].
• Frodsham, [65], [96], [174].

• Gaskell, Mrs., [213].
• Gawsworth, [120], [143], [178].
• George I, [172].
• George V, [210].
• Gherbod, [58].
• Gilds, [88]-[91].
• Glacial Drift, [20].
• Goyt, River, [12], [22], [189].
• Grappenhall, [79].
• Greg, Samuel, [190].
• Grosvenors, the, [60], [218].

• Halton Castle, [61].
• Handforth Hall, [141].
• Handley, [121].
• Harecastle, [185].
• Harold, King, [58].
• Harrison, Thomas, [164].
• Hastein, [51].
• Heber, Bishop, [215].
• Henry I, [76].
• Henry II, [80].
• Henry III, [87].
• Henry IV, [109], [114].
• Henry V, [114].
• Henry VII, [117].
• Henry VIII, [125]-[30], [146].
• Henry, Matthew, [168].
• High Legh, [20].
• Hotspur, [110].
• Hoylake, [170].
• Hugh, Earl, [59]-[73].
• Hugh Kyvelioc, [77].
• Hyde, [208].
• Hyde, Anne, [171].

• Industrial Revolution, [183]-[92].
• Ingemund, [53].
• Inman, William, [200].
• Irish Wars, [143].
• Ismay, Thomas, [200].
• Italian architecture, [146], [173]-[6].

• Jacobites, [172].
• James I, [150], [152].
• James II, [169]-[70].
• John the Scot, [87].
• Johnson, Samuel, [178].

• Kelsborrow, [27].
• Kentigern, [47].
• Keuper Sandstone, [18].
• King, Edward, [186].
• Kingsley, Charles, [215].
• Kirby, West, [53].
• Knights Hospitallers, [79].
• Knights Templars, [79].
• Knutsford, [164], [182], [192].

• Labyrinthodont, [18].
• Laird, Thomas, [200].
• Lambert, General, [164].
• Latchford, [206].
• Leghs, the, [108], [143], [161], [174].
• Leicester, Sir Peter, [161].
• Leofric, [57].
• Limestone rocks, [23].
• Llewellyn, [95].
• Longdendale, [12].
• Lyme, [77], [146], [172].
• Lymm, [18].

• Macclesfield, Church, [94], [108], [120];
  • Forest, [74];
  • School, [133].
• Maiden Castle, [27].
• Malpas, [124].
• Mancunium, [36].
• Margaret, Queen, [115].
• Marian persecution, [132].
• Marling, [98].
• Marsh, William, [132].
• Martindale, Adam, [168].
• Mary, Queen, [132].
• Mary, Queen of Scots, [150].
• Massey, Hamon de, [71].
• Melandra Castle, [36].
• Merchant Guilds, [88].
• Meres, [15].
• Mersey, River, [12].
• Middlewich, Roman station of, [34];
  • Battle of, [156].
• Midsummer Games, [151].
• Millstone Grit, [23].
• Mobberley, [63], [127].
• Monk, George, [166].
• Monmouth, Duke of, [169].
• Moreton Hall, Little, [137].
• Mountain Limestone, [23], [24].
• Murage, [96].
• Mural paintings, [122].

• Nantwich, [89], [92].
• Nantwich, Battle of, [157].
• Neolithic Age, [26].
• Neston, [87], [178].
• Nigel of Halton, [61].
• Norman abbeys, [64], [71]-[3];
  • architecture, [65]-[71];
  • castles, [61];
  • churches, [65];
  • conquest, [58].
• Normans, Coming of the, [58].
• Norse settlements, [52].
• Northwich, [19], [32], [157], [188].
• Norton Priory, [129].

• Ordericus Vitalis, [60].
• Oswald, [47].
• Over, [48].

• Palaeolithic Age, [25].
• Palatine, County, [59].
• Parish registers, [125].
• Parkgate, [178].
• Peada, [48].
• Penda, [48].
• Peover, Little, [106].
• Permian rocks, [22].
• Perpendicular Architecture, [120]-[2].
• Picts, [43].
• Placenames, [45], [52].
• Plegmund, Archbishop, [52].
• Plemstall, [52].
• Port Sunlight, [207].
• Prestbury, [69], [75].
• Pretenders, Stuart, [172].
• Prince, John Critchley, [215].
• Prynne, William, [152].
• Pulton Abbey, [73].
• Puritans, [150], [165].

• Quakers, [169].
• Quarry Bank, [190].

• Railways, [192]-[7].
• Randal Hignet, [91].
• Randle Blundeville, Earl, [78]-[81].
• Randle II, Earl, [76].
• Randle Meschines, Earl, [76].
• Ranulf Higden, [101].
• Reformation, [128]-[33].
• Renaissance, [173].
• Restoration, [166].
• Richard, Earl, [76].
• Richard I, [80].
• Richard II, [109].
• Richard III, [117].
• Rivers of Cheshire, [12]-[14].
• Roe, Charles, [192].
• Roger de Montalt, [87].
• Roman altars, [35];
  • bricks, [40];
  • buildings, [38];
  • capitals, [39];
  • coins, [41];
  • forts, [36];
  • hypocausts, [39];
  • pottery, [41];
  • roads, [30];
  • tombstones, [34].
• Romans, Coming of the, [29].
• Roses, Wars of the, [115].
• Rostherne, [174].
• Rowton Moor, [158], [166].
• Runcorn, [18], [54], [186].
• Runes, [45].
• Rupert, Prince, [157].
• Rushbearing, [147].

• Salt, [18], [186].
• Samian ware, [41].
• Sandbach, [64];
  • battle of, [164];
  • crosses, [48].
• Sandstone, New Red, [16]-[18].
• Saxons, Coming of the, [43].
• Scandinavians, [51]-[3].
• Scott, Captain, [180].
• Seven Lows, [27].
• Shakerley, Sir Geoffrey, [159].
• Ship Canal, [12], [205]-[6].
• Ship money, [153].
• Shocklach, [68], [123].
• Shotwick, [15], [68], [95].
• Silk manufacture, [192].
• Simon de Montfort, [92].
• Simon of Whitchurch, [92].
• Simon Ripley, [122].
• Speed, John, [135].
• Stalybridge, [208].
• Stanlaw, 73.
• Stanley Palace, [146].
• Stanleys of Cheshire, [99], [112], [117], [164], [213].
• Steam, Introduction of, [189].
• Stephen, King, [76].
• Stockport, [12], [32], [88], [104], [202], [210].
• Stocks, [149].
• Stone Age, [25].
• Storeton, [18].
• Stretford, [32].
• Styal, [190].
• Sunday Schools, [207].

• Tame, River, [12].
• Tarporley, [155].
• Tarvin, [20], [157].
• Thelwall, [54].
• Thingwall, [52].
• Thornton Heath, [71].
• Timber Houses, [137]-[41].
• Tramways, [200].
• Turpin, Dick, [179].

• Vale Royal, [93], [129].
• van Zoelen, Baron, [171].
• Veratinum, [41].
• Victoria, Queen, [204]-[11].

• Wainwright, John, [215].
• Wakes, [147].
• Wales, Conquest of, [94].
• Wallasey, [14], [70], [169].
• Walton, Bishop, [167].
• Warburton, [105].
• Warford, [169].
• Warren, Sir George, [183].
• Watling Street, [12], [32].
• Weaver, River, [14], [19], [186].
• Wellington, Duke of, [182].
• Werburga, Saint, [50].
• Wesley, John, [180].
• West Kirby, [53], [171].
• Wilderspool, [32].
• Wilkins, John, [167].
• William the Conqueror, [58].
• William Rufus, [75].
• William III, [170].
• Wilmslow, [115].
• Wirral, [9], [22], [52], [197].
• Witton, [133].
• Woodchurch, [69], [147].

• Yoredale rocks, [23].

Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Horace Hart, M.A.