[76] The Pancake Bell is usually rung by an apprentice of the town as a signal for his confreres to discontinue work for that day, but strange to say on a late occasion not one apprentice could be found in the whole of Poulton, and consequently the duty was performed by the ordinary bell-ringer.
[77] In all previously issued lists of vicars, Richard Fleetwood has erroneously been named as patron in this instance. There was no Rich. Fleetwood of Rossall at that time, and Edward, who had been patron at the former institution, was probably still alive as he had no son and but one daughter, who married Roger Hesketh, the next patron in right of his wife.
[78] In 1876 a brass plate was found in Poulton church, near the site of the old communion table, inscribed:—“Here lies the body of Anne, wife of Richard Harrison, vicar of Poolton, who dyed the 24th of December, 1679, aged 55 years.”
[79] From these entries it would seem that the regulation of 1782 soon became a dead letter, if indeed it were ever carried into practice.
[80] The Battle and Victory of the Nile.
[81] Visitation of St. George.
[82] For a full description of the direction taken by this road, see [page 7].
[83] The Rev. G. Y. Osborne resigned the living of Fleetwood on being appointed vicar of St. Thomas’s, Dudley, which cure he held up to the date of his decease.
[84] A second line was laid on this length in 1875 for the first time.
[85] Coastguards were first located at Fleetwood in 1858, and consisted of six men and an officer. Their present station in Abbot’s Walk was erected in 1864, and comprises cottage accommodation for six men, and another residence for the officer in command.