[165] For full details of this “plot” see the late Mr. Beamont’s introduction to “The Jacobite Trials in Manchester, 1694” (Chetham Soc., xxviii.), and also Dr. Abbadie’s “True History of the Late Conspiracy,” etc.; London, 1696.
[166] All well–known Lancashire men, except Sir Rowland Stanley, who lived in Cheshire.
[167] Chetham Soc., xxviii.
[168] See Lanc. and Ches. Ant. Soc., vol. v.
[169] Bright’s “Early English Church History,” p. 111.
[170] Lancashire was subsequently included in the Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry until the establishment of the See of Chester, in 1541, the northern portion being in the Archdeaconry of Richmond, in the Diocese of York.
[171] Lancaster parish is partly in Lonsdale and partly in Amounderness.
[172] Symeon of Durham’s “Life of St. Cuthbert,” Surtees Soc., li. 141.
[173] See Lanc. and Ches. Ant. Soc., vol. ix.
[174] Aldcliffe Hall is on the south of the river. Of Newton all trace is lost. See “Materials for History of the Church of Lancaster,” Chetham Soc., xxvi., new series.