[20] "Radcliffe's Origin of Power-loom Weaving," pp. 59—66.
[21] The village of Newton, on Newton Heath, near Manchester.
[22] A kind of spiced cake, for which the village of Eccles, near Manchester, is famous.
[23] A quaint old vendor of nuts and Eccles cakes, who used to be well known at Lancashire wakes and fairs.
[24] Much valuable silver plate is sometimes lent by the inhabitants of Lancashire villages, to adorn the front of their native rush-cart during its annual peregrinations.
[25] A thirty-six gallon barrel.
[26] He was the landlord of an old road-side inn, on Newton Heath, with a pleasant bowling-green behind it. The house is still known as "Bill o' Booth's."
[27] The following note is attached to this passage, in Mr. Gaskell's lectures:—"That noble master of language, Walter Savage Landor, who has done me the honour to refer to my lecture in the Examiner, says of this word 'symble,' a feast, it is very likely 'symbslum,' which means the same, in form of pic-nic; and adds, 'In Tuscany a fine cake is called semolino. When I was a boy at Rugby, I remember a man from Banbury who sold simnels, very eatable. The interior was not unlike mince-pie without fat, but flavoured with saffron; the exterior was hard, smooth, and yellow.'"
[28] Harl. MSS. 1,926. There is a pedigree of this family in Dodsworth's MSS. Bodleian Lib. vol. lxxix.
[29] Clarendon's "History of the Rebellion," edit. 1714, v. 1, p. 196.