Contents.

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The “Lancashire Plot”[1]
De Quincey’s Highwayman[15]
Some Lancashire Centenarians[22]
What was the First Book Printed in Manchester?[39]
Thomas Lurting: a Liverpool Worthy[44]
Kufic Coins found in Lancashire[56]
Newspapers in 1738-39[61]
A Lancashire Naturalist: Thomas Garnett[72]
The Traffords of Trafford[80]
A Manchester Will of the Fifteenth Century[106]
A Visitor to Lancashire in 1807[111]
How the First Spinning Machinery was taken to Belgium[119]
Merry Andrew of Manchester[127]
A Manchester Jeanie Deans[129]
Some Lancashire Giants[130]
A Note on William Rowlinson[137]
Literary Taste of the Eighteenth Century[143]
Hugh of Manchester: a Statesman and Divine of the Thirteenth Century[146]
Mrs. Fletcher in Lancashire[157]
Manchester and the First Reform Agitation[165]
The Folk-Lore of Lancashire[197]
Manchester Grammar School Mill[222]
The Rising of 1715[231]
The Fool of Lancaster[243]
Alexander Barclay and Manchester[245]
Index[255]

Echoes of Old Lancashire.