[Page 286], line 2 from the bottom, for fortified, read forfeited.

[Page 289], line 13 from the bottom, for the first funds, read expenses.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.
CHAPTER I.
The Ancient Britons, Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Danes[1-29]
CHAPTER II.
The Norman Conquest to James the First[30-54]
CHAPTER III.
James the First to Queen Victoria[55-86]
CHAPTER IV.
Conditions, Customs, and Superstitions of the People[87-114]
CHAPTER V.
Costumes, Country, Rivers and Sea[115-150]
CHAPTER VI.
The Pedigrees of Ancient Families[151-185]
CHAPTER VII.
Parish of Poulton-le-Fylde. Poulton[186-217]
CHAPTER VIII.
Fleetwood-on-Wyre[218-267]
CHAPTER IX.
Thornton, Carleton, Marton, and Hardhorn-with-Newton[268-296]
CHAPTER X.
The Parish of Bispham. Bispham-with-Norbreck. Layton-with-Warbreck[297-310]
CHAPTER XI.
Blackpool[311-362]
CHAPTER XII.
Parish of Kirkham. Kirkham[363-401]
CHAPTER XIII.
Freckleton. Warton. Ribby-with-Wrea. Weeton-with-Preese. Greenhalgh-with-Thistleton. Great and Little Singleton. Clifton-with-Salwick. Newton-with-Scales. Hambleton, &c.[402-428]
CHAPTER XIV.
Parish of Lytham. Lytham. St. Annes-on-the-Sea[429-453]
CHAPTER XV.
Parish of St. Michael’s-on-Wyre. Upper Rawcliffe-with-Tarnacre. Great Eccleston. Out Rawcliffe. Elswick. Wood Plumpton. Inskip-with-Sowerby[454-474]
Pauperism and the Fylde Union[475-480]

HISTORY OF THE FYLDE.

CHAPTER I.
THE ANCIENT BRITONS, ROMANS, ANGLO-SAXONS, AND DANES.

“See! in what crowds the uncouth forms advance:

Each would outstrip the other, each prevent