[20] St. Anne's was so named in compliment to the queen then on the throne. "St. Ann's," like "Market-street Lane," came of carelessness or something worse. The thoroughfare so called was properly Market-stead Lane—i.e. the lane leading to the Market-place.

[21] The population per statute acre of the towns referred to, and of one or two others, which may be usefully put in contrast, is as follows:

Liverpool106
Manchester85
Plymouth54
London49
Bristol49
Birmingham48
Salford38
Oldham26
Nottingham18
Sheffield16
Leeds15
Norwich12

[22] For delineations of local and personal character in full we look to the novelists. After supreme Scarsdale, and the well-known tales by Mrs. Gaskell and Mrs. Banks, may be mentioned, as instructive in regard to Lancashire ways and manners, Coultour's Factory, by Miss Emily Rodwell, and the first portion of Mr. Hirst's Hiram Greg. Lord Beaconsfield's admirable portrait of Millbank, the Lancashire manufacturer, given in Coningsby in 1844, had for its original the late Mr. Edmund Ashworth of Turton, whose mills had been visited by the author, then Mr. Disraeli, the previous year.

[23] Founded in 1826. See the interesting particulars in Mr. Prentice's Historical Sketches and Personal Recollections, pp. 289-295. 1851.

[24] The late greatly respected Mr. E. R. Le Mare, who came to Manchester in 1829, and was long distinguished among the local silk-merchants, belonged by descent to one of these identical old Huguenot families. Died at Clevedon, 4th February 1881, aged eighty-four.

[25] Sir John Spielman's, at Dartford.—Vide 2nd Henry VI., Act iv. Scene 7.

[26] On the South Lancashire Dialect. By Thomas Heywood, F.S.A. Chetham Society. Vol. lvii. pp. 8, 36.

[27] Vide Mr. George Milner, "On the Lancashire Dialect considered as a Vehicle for Poetry," Manchester Literary Club Papers, vol. i. p. 20. 1875.

[28] Vide Mr. George Milner, "On the Lancashire Dialect considered as a Vehicle for Poetry," Manchester Literary Club Papers, Appendix to the vol. for 1876.