A History of Lancashire

by Henry Fishwick

[45] Coucher Book, Duchy Office, No. 78.

[46] Originally a tax paid to the Danes, but afterwards appropriated to the King. It was always a very unpopular tax.

[47] Plan of this in Fishwick’s “History of Rochdale,” p. 66.

[48] “Eccles. Hist.,” lib. iii., cap. 8.

[49] Baines’ “Hist. of Lanc.,” ii. 205, 2nd edit.

[50] The following account of it is compiled from an article in Archæologia, vol. liii., part iii., by H. Swainson Cowper, Esq., F.S.A.

[51] See Lanc. and Ches. Arch. Soc., v. 1 et seq.

[52] See Lanc. and Ches. Arch. Soc., v. 227.

[53] Saxon Chronicle and the Chronicle of Simon of Durham.

[54] Arch. Journal, vi. 74; and “History of Garstang,” Chetham Soc., civ. 5.