Memorials of old Cheshire

by Unknown

This may be freely translated as follows:⁠—

“Here as in days when Alfred erst was king

Baptismal water flows from Plegmund’s spring.”

It is hoped that by this restoration of the well the memory of S. Plegmund may be preserved: and it is not improbable that the ceremony of dressing the well, not uncommon in the adjoining county of Derbyshire, may be adopted as a village festival on July 23rd, the day of St. Plegmund’s death.

Note.—The preceding chapter embodies the substance of two papers by the same writer, read before Meetings of the Chester and North Wales Archæological and Historic Society.

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INDEX

• Abbess of Ely, St. Etheldreda, [266]
• Abbey, Birkenhead, [14], [34], [36]
• —— Combermere, [14], [34], [35]
• —— Mobberley, [14], [34]
• —— Norton, [14], [34]
• —— Pulton, [14], [35]
• —— Runcorn, [14]
• —— Stanlaw, [14], [34]
• —— St. Werburgh’s, [9]–[13], [33], [34], [38]–[48]
• —— Vale Royal, [14], [34], [35]
• Abbot’s Well, [260]
• Academy of Armoury, The, [136], [137]
• Account of the Rolls of the Honour of Halton, An, [107]
• Acton Church, [16]
• —— Lord, [18]
• Adlington, [200]
• —— Hall, [16], [84], [94]
• Aganippe’s Well, [260]
• Alderley Edge, Celtic legend, [252]
• —— —— farmhouse, [94]
• Aldford Castle, [51], [52]
• Alfred the Great, [272]
• Almshouses in Commonhall Lane, Chester, [86], [87]
• Alvanley, fire-worship at, [261]
• Ancient poaching, [108]
• —— timber houses at—Adlington, [200]; Baguley, [200]; Bramhall, [200]; Little Moreton, [200]
• Anselm, St., [8], [269]
• Anti-Christ, a Mystery Play, [163]
• Archbishop of Canterbury, St. Plegmund, [273]
• —— of York, Thomas Savage, [14]
• Architecture of Cheshire, half-timbered, [80]–[99]
• Arley Hall, [198]
• Arneway, author of Mystery Plays, [148]
• “Articles of Surrender,” Chester, [186]
• Ashley Hall, [197]
• Assumption, The, a Mystery Play, [160], [163]
• Aston, Sir Arthur, [119]
• —— Sir Thomas, [119]
• Audley and the Welsh raids, James, Lord, [10]
• —— James, Lord, [115]
• —— Lord, [13]
• Author of Mystery Plays—Arneway, [148]; Ralf Higden, [147]
• Bebington Cross, [211]
• Baddiley Church, [67]
• Baguley, or Baggily Hall, [85]–[89], [200]
• Bakers’ Charter, Chester, [147]
• Ballads, [259]
• “Banes” or “Banns” of Mystery Plays, [153], [154]–[160]
• Bangor Monachorum, [220]
• —— Monastery of, [4]
• Baptistery, Italian font in St. Werburgh’s, [45]
• Barlow, T. Worthington, [131]
• Barnston, Roger, [226]
• —— William, [225]
• Barons of Cheshire, [8], [22]
• —— wars, [11]
• Barron, Dr. John, [122]
• Barthomley Church, [16]
• —— —— alabaster effigy in, [116]
• Battle of Chester, [12], [220]
• —— of Rowton Heath, [74], [184], [190], [191]
• —— at Nantwich, [9]
• “Bear and Billet, The,” Chester, [97]
• Bell, Congleton, [254]
• —— custom, Nantwich, [254]
• —— Frodsham Church, [254]
• —— “Pancake,” [254]
• Bells, some Cheshire, [254]
• Bellin, George, parish clerk, [150]
• Beeston Castle, [16], [51], [55], [182], [186], [194]
• —— Sir George, [117]
• Bidston Court, [99]
• “Billy Hobby’s Well,” [260]
• Bird sayings, [255]
• Birkenhead Abbey, [14], [34]–[36]
• —— Henry, [124]
• —— Sir John, [123]
• Birket House, [16]
• Bishop Edward Stanley, [122]
• —— Heber, [121]
• —— of Bangor and Chester, Dr. Hugh Bellot, [121]
• —— of Chester, John Bridgeman, [101]
• —— Lloyd’s Palace, [75], [97]
• —— Rider, [121]
• —— Wilson, [121]
• Bishops, Cheshire, [121]–[122]
• Bishopric of Chester, [14]
• Blackfriars, Chester, [48]
• “Blessing of the Brine,” [261]
• Blore Heath, [13]
• Blundeville, Earl Randle, [23]
• Bohun, Earl Ranulph, [11]
• Bonewaldesthorne’s Tower, [73]
• Booth, Colonel, [186]
• —— family of Dunham Massey, [116]
• —— Henry, Earl of Warrington and Baron Delamere, [120]
• —— of Twamlowe, John, [129]
• —— Sir George, [119]
• —— Sir John, [197]
• —— Sir Robert, [116]
• —— Sir Thomas, [119]
• Boundary Crosses, [208]
• Bow Stones Cross, [212]
• Bradshaw, Henry, regicide, [129]
• —— —— Monk of St. Werburgh’s, [264]
• Bramall Hall, [84], [89], [90]
• Bramhall, [200]
• Bravery of Cheshire men, [13]
• Brereton, [200]
• —— legend, [253]
• —— Lord, [118], [128]
• —— Sir William, [117], [181], [183], [186]
• Brerewood, Edward, [127]
• Bridge, Farndon, [221]
• —— Gate, Chester, [72]
• Bridgewater, Duke of, [204]
• Bromborough Cross, [210], [212]
• Bromhal family, [91]
• Brooke family, [198]
• —— of Mere, family of, [63]
• Broome, Dr., the poet, [124], [204]
• Broughton Ford, [184], [186]
• Brownswerd, John, [123]
• Broxton Old Hall, [95], [96]
• Bruera Church, [68]
• Building, Elizabethan, [88]
• Bunbury, [16]
• —— alabaster tomb, [116]
• Burghall, Rev. Edward, [131]
• Burney on miracle plays, Miss Fanny, [144]
• Byron, Lord, [182], [186]
• —— Sir Nicholas, [181]
• Caer-Leon, [4]
• Calveley, Sir Hugh, [116]
• Camden’s description of Cheshire, [32]
• Canterbury, St. Plegmund, Archbishop of, [273]
• Carden Hall, [16], [95]
• Castle Aldford, [51]–[52]
• —— Beeston, [16], [51], [55], [182], [186], [194]
• —— Chester, [57], [60]
• —— Doddington, [16]
• —— Dodleston, [51]–[52]
• —— Dunham Massey, [51], [53]
• —— Frodsham, [51], [53]
• —— Halton, [9], [51], [54], [106]
• —— Hawarden, [182]
• —— Holt, [222]
• —— Maiden, [51], [52]
• —— Malpas, [9], [51], [52]
• —— Nantwich, [51], [52]
• —— Newhall, [51], [52]
• —— Northwich, [51], [53]
• —— Oldcastle, [51], [52]
• —— Peckforton, [196]
• —— Pulford, [51], [52]
• —— Rhuddlan, [24]
• —— Rocksavage, [51], [54]
• —— Runcorn, [51], [53]
• —— Shocklach, [9], [51], [52]
• —— Thelwall, [51]
• Capesthorn legend, [253]
• Cathedral, chapter-house of, [43]
• —— Misereres in, [41]
• Celtic legend, [252]
• —— place-names, [7]
• Cenred, St. Werburgh’s brother, [267]
• Chadkirk Chapel, [67]
• Chains, hanging in, [110]
• Chaloner of Chester, Thomas, [133]
• Chamberlain of Chester, [30]
• Chancellors, Cheshire judges and, [124]–[127]
• Chapel, High Leigh, [67]
• Chapter-house of Cathedral, [43]
• Charles I. at Chester, [181]
• Charm for warts, rushes a, [239]
• Cheshire a land of saints, [4]
• —— Prince Maurice and Prince Rupert in, [184]
• —— “Rounds,” [257]
• —— Saints, two, [264]–[276]
• —— Sanctuaries, [220]
• —— Saxons in, [5]
• Chesshyre, Sir John, [203]
• Chester, almshouses in Commonhall Lane, [86], [87]
• —— “Articles of Surrender,” [186]
• —— Battle of, [12], [220]
• —— Bishopric of, [14]
• —— Castle, [57]–[60]
• —— Chamberlain of, [30]
• —— Chief-Justiceship of, [29]
• —— City plate melted down, [182]
• —— Duke of Monmouth at, [17]
• —— Earldom of, [8]
• —— Ethelfrid attacks, [5]
• —— Ethelred, founder of monastery at, [266]
• —— Gateways of, [71]
• —— Bridge Gate, [72]
• —— East Gate, [72]
• —— Kale Yard Gate, [72]
• —— New Gate, [72]
• —— North Gate, [72], [73]
• —— Ship Gate, [72]
• —— Water Gate, [72]
• —— Handel at, [259]
• —— High Cross, [188], [208], [209]
• —— James II. at, [17]
• —— John Bridgeman, Bishop of, [101]
• —— King Edgar at, [7]
• —— King Egbert at, [5]
• —— King John at, [9]
• —— martyr, George Marsh, [15]
• —— Musical Festivals, [260]
• —— Phœnix Tower, [74], [184]
• —— Prince Maurice at, [183]
• —— Races, [74]
• —— Records of, [31]
• —— Roman, [70], [77]
• —— Roman legions at, [3]
• —— Roman wall of, [4]
• —— Roman work, [71]
• —— St. Bridget’s Church, [69]
• —— St. Martin’s ”[68]
• —— St. Michael’s ”[69]
• —— St. Olave’s ”[69]
• —— St. Peter’s ”[68]
• —— seventeenth century house in Whitefriars, [99]
• —— Siege of, [180]–[193]
• —— Sir Nicholas Byron, Governor of, [181]
• —— the key to Wales, [21]
• —— Trade Guilds at, [151]
• Chestnut, a “coppity-co,” [256]
• “Chief of men,” [2], [32], [203]
• Chief-Justiceship of Chester, [29]
• Cholmondeley, [195]
• —— family, [202], [262]
• —— Hall, [16]
• —— Lady Mary, [199]
• Christleton, [183]
• —— Rush-bearing, [239]
• Church, alabaster effigy in Barthomley, [116]
• —— bell, Frodsham, [254]
• —— Bunbury, [116], [117]
• —— Farndon, [223]
• —— of St. John, Chester, [14]
• —— of St. Oswald, [41]
• Churches, music in, [259]
• —— timber-framed, [61]–[69]
• Churchyard crosses, [208], [210], [211]
• Circuits, judicial, [27]
• Civil war in Cheshire, [16]
• Clarke, Dr. Samuel, [122]
• Clulow Cross, [212]
• Combermere Abbey, [14], [34], [35]
• —— Field-Marshal, [203]
• —— legend, [253]
• Commonhall Lane, Chester, almshouses in, [86], [87]
• Congleton bell, [254]
• Constable de Lacy, [24]
• Copyhold tenure, Manor of Halton, [113]
• Cornage, [244]–[246]
• Corpus Christi, feast of, [147]
• —— procession, [161]
• Corvysors’ Playe, The, [164], [165]
• Costume of players, [145]
• “Counting-out” rhymes, [257]
• County Flint, [25]
• —— Hall, Chester, [30]
• —— Palatine of Chester, [1], [19]–[32]
• Court, Bidston, [99]
• —— Leet, Halton, [106]–[113]
• —— of Exchequer, Chester, [31]
• —— Old Consistory, [100]
• Creation and Fall, a Mystery Play, [145]
• Crewe, [195], [200]
• —— Hall, [16]
• —— Randolph, [124]
• —— Thomas, [124]
• Crewes, [204]
• Cross at St. John the Baptist, Chester, [210]
• —— at St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill, Chester, [209], [212]
• —— Bebington, [211]
• —— Bow Stones, [212]
• —— Bromborough, [210], [212]
• —— Clulow, [212]
• —— Disley, [210]
• —— Eaton, [213]
• —— High, Chester, [208], [209]
• —— Lymm, [213]
• —— Macclesfield market, [213]
• —— Neston, [210]
• —— Over Peover, [212]
• —— Shocklach, [211]
• —— Wallasey, [211]
• —— West Kirby, [210]
• Crosses, boundary, [208]
• —— churchyard, [208], [210], [211]
• —— destroyed, [209]
• —— “High,” [208]
• —— Ludworth, [212]
• —— Macclesfield Public Park, [212]
• —— Market, [208], [212], [213]
• —— preaching, [207], [210]
• —— Sandbach, [213]–[217]
• —— weeping, [208]
• Croughton Hall, [16]
• Crucifixion, The, a Mystery Play, [166]
• “Crypt, ye Olde,” [78]
• “Curfew,” [254]
• Curse, Old Mab’s, [262]
• Customs, some Cheshire, [230]–[263]
• Dance, morris, [258]
• Danes, [6]
• Danish place-names, [6]
• Danyer, Sir Thomas, [114]
• Davenport family, [91]
• —— of Davenport, family of, [246]
• —— Sir Humphrey, [126]
• —— Sir John, [63]
• Davenports, [204]
• Delamere, [69]
• —— Baron, [197]
• —— Forest, [74], [82], [245]
• —— Horn, The, [245]
• —— House, [199]
• —— Lord, [18], [199]
• —— of Dunham Massey, Baron, [119]
• Delves at Poictiers, Sir John, [115]
• —— Sir John, [13]
• Dernhall, [14]
• Description of Cheshire, Camden’s, [32]
• Diary, Slingsby’s, [192]
• Dieulacres, [14]
• Disley Cross, [210]
• Dissolution of monasteries, [14], [33]
• Doddington, [95], [115], [200]
• —— Castle, [16]
• Dodleston Castle, [51], [52]
• Dog-whipper and sluggard-waker, [256]
• Done of Utkinton, family of, [245]
• —— Sir John, [13], [199]
• Dorfold, [200]
• —— Hall, [16]
• “Dot,” a children’s game, [256]
• Downes of Sutton Downes and Taxal, family of, [246]
• Dragon legend, [252]
• Drayton’s Lamentation, [13]
• Dukinfield of Dukinfield, Colonel Robert, [118]
• Dunham Hall, or Dunham Massey, [196]
• —— Massey Castle, [51], [53]
• Dutton of Dutton, [24], [115]
• —— Sir Thomas, [13]
• “Eagle and Child” Inn, [94]
• Earldom of Chester, [8]
• Earl of Chester, Prince Edward, [25]
• Earnshaw, Lawrence, [128]
• East Gate, Chester, [72]
• —— Hall, High Leigh, [197]
• Eaton, [195]
• —— Cross, [213]
• Eccleston Church, [68]
• Edgar at Chester, King, [7], [74]
• Eddisbury, [7]
• Edward I., [10]
• —— the Elder, died at Farndon, [220]
• Effigies at Farndon, [224]
• Effigy of Sir Robert Foulshurst, alabaster, [116]
• Egbert at Chester, King, [5]
• Egerton family, [202]
• —— Lord, [197]
• —— Sir John, [13]
• —— Sir Philip, geologist, [204]
• Egerton-Warburton, Rowland Eyles, [205], [206]
• Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor, [125]
• Elizabethan building, [88]
• England, Sword-bearer of, [21]
• —— the Vale Royal of, [130]
• Ætheldred, Ealdorman, [7]
• Etheldreda, St., Abbess of Ely, [266]
• Ethelfleda, [7], [71]
• —— rebuilt Chester Castle, [59]
• Ethelfrid attacks Chester, [5]
• Ethelred, founder of monastery at Chester, [266], [267]
• Exchequer, Court of, Chester, [31]
• “Falcon,” the, Chester, [97]
• Falconer, Dr. William, [129]
• Families, Cheshire, [194]–[206]
• Family, Bromhal, [91]
• —— Brooke, [198]
• —— Cholmondeley, [202], [262]
• —— Davenport, [91]
• —— Egerton, [202]
• —— Grosvenor, [202]
• —— Hyde, [205]
• —— Legh, [197]
• —— Mainwaring, [199], [202]
• —— Marbury, [198]
• —— Massey, [196]
• —— of Brooke of Mere, [63]
• —— of Davenport of Davenport, [246]
• —— of Done of Utkinton, [245]
• —— of Downes of Sutton Downes and Taxal, [246]
• —— of Dunham Massey, Booth, [116]
• —— of Holmes, [133]
• —— of Shakerleys of Hulme, [63]
• —— Warburton, [198]
• —— Wilbraham, [199]
• Farndon Bridge, [221]
• —— Church, [223]
• —— Edward the Elder died at, [220]
• —— effigies at, [224]
• —— parish books, [224]
• —— Rush-bearing Sunday at, [225], [238]
• —— stained glass at, [223]
• Farnworth Leet, Widnes or, [112]
• Feast of Corpus Christi, [147]
• Festivals, Chester Musical, [260]
• Fire-worship at Alvanley, [261]
• Fitton, Sir Edward, [126]
• Flint, county, [25]
• Folk-lore, Cheshire, [230]–[263]
• Font at Warburton, [66]
• —— Marton, [65]
• —— of Italian origin in baptistery, Chester, [45]
• Football at Chester, [74]
• Forest, Delamere, [74], [82], [245]
• —— of Macclesfield, [82], [246]
• —— of Wirral, [82], [246]
• Forests of Cheshire, [69], [82]
• Foulshurst of Crewe, Sir Robert, [13], [115], [116]
• Freeman quoted, Professor, [21], [27]
• “Free-Masons,” [139]
• Frodsham, [51], [53]
• —— Church bell, [254]
• —— “Synagogue Well,” [260]
• Games, children’s, [256]–[257]
• —— unlawful, [107]
• Gamul of Buerton, Sir Francis, [119], [184], [190]
• Gateways of Chester, [71]
• Gawsworth Hall, [94]
• Gayton, wishing well at, [260]
• Gerard, Lord, [191]
• Gerarde, John, [127]
• “Glorious Sixth of May,” song, [260]
• “God’s Providence House,” [75], [97]
• “Golden Phœnix,” [135]
• Goostrey Church, [68]
• Governor of Chester, [181]
• Grammar Schools, Cheshire, [123]
• Great Broughton burnt down, [183]
• —— Budworth, [61]
• —— Meols, [3]
• Greyfriars, Chester, [48]
• Grosvenor family, [202]
• —— Roger, ancestor of the Dukes of Westminster, [119]
• Half-timbered architecture of Cheshire, [80]–[99]
• Hall, Adlington, [16], [84], [94]
• —— Arley, [198]
• —— Ashley, [197]
• —— Baguley or Baggily, [85]–[89], [200]
• —— Bramall, [84], [89], [90]
• —— Broxton Old, [95], [96]
• —— Carden, [16], [95]
• —— Cholmondeley, [16]
• —— County, [30]
• —— Crewe, [16]
• —— Croughton, [16]
• —— Dorfold, [16]
• —— Dunham, or Dunham Massey, [196]
• —— East, High Leigh, [197]
• —— Gawsworth, [94]
• —— Handforth, [94]
• —— Hooton, [95]
• —— Huxley, [16]
• —— Little Moreton, [84], [91], [92], [93]
• —— Marbury, [198]
• —— Mere, [198]
• —— Peover, [199]
• —— Rostherne, [197]
• —— Tabley, [198]
• —— Tatton, [197]
• —— Toft, [199]
• —— Utkinton, [199]
• —— West, High Leigh, [197]
• Halton, An Account of the Rolls of the Honour of, [107]
• Halton Castle, [9], [51], [54], [106]
• Handbridge, [182]
• Handel at Chester, [259]
• Handforth Hall, [94]
• Hanging at Halton, [109]
• —— in chains, [110]
• Harden, moated house at, [200]
• Harvest Home, [243]
• Hawarden Castle, [182]
• Hawkeston of Wrine Hall, [115]
• Hawkstone, Sir John, [13]
• Heralds’ College, [137]
• Hiding holes, Moreton Hall, [92]
• Higden, Ralf, author of Mystery Plays, [46], [147]
• High Cross, Chester, [188], [208], [209]
• “High Crosses,” [208]
• High Leigh, [197]
• —— —— Chapel, [67]
• Hill, Peckforton, [194], [195]
• Historians, Cheshire, [129], [132]
• Histories of Lot and Abraham, a Mystery Play, [163]
• Holme, family of, [133]
• —— of Chester, William, [133]
• —— Randle (I.), [134], [187]
• —— —— (II.), [134], [135]
• —— —— (III.), [136], [139]
• —— —— (IV.), [140], [141]
• Holt Castle, [222]
• —— Roman remains at, [218]
• Hooton Hall, [95]
• Horn, The Delamere, [245]
• —— The Wirral, [244]
• Horse hodening at Northwich, [235]
• —— —— at Tarporley, [235]
• Hospital of St. John, Chester, [36], [73]
• House, Birket, [16]
• —— Delamere, [199]
• “House, God’s Providence,” [75], [97]
• Hoylake, [18]
• Hulse, Dr. John, [122]
• Hunting parson, a, [108]
• Huxley Hall, [16], [200]
• Hyde family, [205]
• Ince Grange, [46]
• Incursions of the Welsh, [9]
• Italian font in baptistery, [45]
• Jacobites of Cheshire, [197]
• Jacob’s Well, [260]
• James II. at Chester, [17]
• John at Chester, King, [9]
• Judges and Chancellors, Cheshire, [124]–[127]
• Judicial circuits, [27]
• —— seals, [28]
• Kale Yard Gate, Chester, [72]
• Kenyon, Lord, [126]
• King, Daniel, [130]
• King Robert of Sicily, a Mystery Play, [163]
• Kingdom, Mercian, [5]
• Knowles, Sir Robert, [116]
• “Knowles’s Mitres,” [116]
• Knutsford, [196]
• —— May Queen, [242]
• —— morris dance at, [258]
• Lacy, Constable de, [24]
• “Lamb, The,” [138], [139]
• Langdale, Sir Marmaduke, [184]
• Leet, Halton Court, [106]–[113]
• —— Widnes or Farnworth, [112]
• Legend, Brereton, [253]
• —— Capesthorn, [253]
• —— Celtic, [252]
• —— Combermere, [253]
• —— dragon, [252]
• —— Rostherne Mere, [253]
• Legh family, [12], [197], [204]
• —— of Booths, Sir John, [13]
• —— of Macclesfield, Sir Piers, [13], [115]
• —— Sir Uryan, [117]
• Leighs of Lyme, [13]
• Legions at Chester, Roman, [3]
• Leycester, Ralph, [199]
• —— Sir Peter, [130], [198]
• Lifting, [242]–[243]
• Little Moreton Hall, [84], [91], [92], [93], [200]
• Llewellyn, Prince, [10]
• Lord of the Manor of Halton, the King, [106]
• Ludworth crosses, [212]
• Lupus, Hugh, [8], [21], [106], [202], [269]
• Lyme, [200]
• Lymm Cross, [213]
• Macclesfield Forest, [82], [246]
• —— Market Cross, [213]
• —— Public Park crosses, [212]
• “Magpie” architecture, [80]
• Maiden Castle, [51], [52]
• Mainwaring family, [199], [202]
• Malpas, [16]
• —— Castle, [9], [51], [52]
• Manners of Cheshire people, [20]
• Marbury family, [198]
• —— Hall, [198]
• Market crosses, [208], [212], [213]
• Marling, [237]–[238]
• Marton church, [63]
• —— font, [65]
• Martyr, George Marsh, Chester, [15]
• Massey, Colonel Edward, [118]
• —— family, [196]
• Masseys, [204]
• —— of Coddington, [118], [197]
• Maying, [241]–[242]
• Maynwaring of Over Peover, Sir Thomas, [130]
• May Queen, Knutsford, [242]
• Mercian Kingdom, [5]
• Mere Hall, [198]
• Middlewich, [182]
• Milton, [124]
• Miracle Plays, Chester, [74], [77]
• Misereres in Cathedral, [41]
• Moated houses at Harden, [200]
• —— —— at Huxley, [200]
• —— —— at Moreton, [200]
• Mobberley Abbey, [14], [34]
• Molineux, Sir Richard, [13]
• Molyneux, Lord, [18]
• —— Samuel, [127]
• Monasteries, dissolution of, [14], [33]
• Monastery at Chester, Ethelred founder of, [266]
• —— of Bangor, [4]
• Monk of St. Werburgh’s, Henry Bradshaw, [264]
• Monmouth at Chester, Duke of, [17]
• Moreton, moated house at, [200]
• Morgan’s Mount, Chester, [73]
• Morris dance, Knutsford, [258]
• Mostyn of Mostyn, Sir Roger, [120]
• Mottram-in-Longdendale, [128]
• Mumming play, [240]
• Music, [257]–[258]
• Music in churches, [259]
• Musical Festivals, Chester, [260]
• Mynshal, Elizabeth, [124]
• Mystery Plays, Chester, [142]–[179]
• Nantwich, [16], [183], [261]
• —— battle at, [9]
• —— bell custom, [254]
• —— Castle, [51], [52]
• Neild, James, philanthropist, [204]
• Neston Cross, [210]
• Nether-Legh, [16]
• Nether or Lower Peover Church, [61]
• New Gate, Chester, [72]
• Newhall Castle, [51], [52]
• Nixon, Robert, Cheshire prophet, [261]
• Noah’s Ark, a Mystery Play, [144], [164], [166]
• “Nogging-work,” [99]
• “No Popery” riot, [17]
• Norman Earls of Chester, [22]
• North Gate, Chester, [72], [73]
• Northwich, [51], [53]
• —— horse hodening at, [235]
• —— Winnington Bridge, near, [17]
• Norton Abbey, [14], [34]
• Nunnery, Chester, St. Mary’s, [34], [36]
• Oldcastle Castle, [51], [52]
• Old Consistory Court, [100]
• “Old King’s Head,” [134]
• Old Mab’s Curse, [262]
• Origin of Mystery Plays, [146]
• Oulton, [200]
• Over Peover Cross, [212]
• Pace-Egging, [239]–[240]
• “Pageant carriages,” [151]
• “Palace, Bishop Lloyd’s,” [75], [97]
• Palace, Stanley, [97]
• “Pancake” bell, [254]
• Parish books at Farndon, [224]
• Parson, a hunting, [108]
• Passion, The, a Mystery Play, [165]
• Peckforton Castle, [196]
• —— Hill, [194], [195]
• Pemberton’s Parlour, Chester, [73], [181]
• Pentice, the, [208]
• People, manners of Cheshire, [20]
• Peover Hall, [199]
• Phœnix Tower, Chester, [74], [184]
• Place in history of County Palatine of Chester, [19]–[32]
• Place-names, Celtic, [7]
• Place-names, Danish, [6]
• Plate melted down, Chester City, [182]
• “Players’ victory,” the, [24]
• Plays, Miracle, [74], [77]
• Plemstall (Plegmundstall), [271]
• Poaching, ancient, [108]
• Poets, Cheshire, [123], [124]
• Polychronicon, [46], [147]
• “Post and panel” work, [80], [84]
• Powdered alabaster as a cure for sheep, [262]
• Preaching crosses, [207], [210]
• Prestbury, [65]
• —— priest’s house at, [94]
• Prince Maurice at Chester, [183]
• —— —— and Prince Rupert in Cheshire, [184]
• Princeps Cestriæ, [1], [12]
• Principality, Cheshire a, [1]
• Priory, Birkenhead, [14], [34], [36]
• —— Norton, [14], [34]
• —— Runcorn, [14]
• Procession, Corpus Christi, [161]
• Prophecies, a Mystery Play, [163]
• Prothonotary, the, [30]
• Proverbs, some Cheshire, [246]–[252]
• Pulford Castle, [51]–[52]
• Pulton Abbey, [14], [35]
• Races, Chester, [74]
• Ranulph III., Earl of Chester, [11]
• Records of Chester, [31]
• Resurrection, a Mystery Play, [150], [167]
• Reverence shown in old plays, [143]
• Rhuddlan, Castle of, [24]
• “Rhudland, Statute of,” [26]
• Rhymes, “counting-out,” [257]
• Richard II., Cheshire men bodyguard of, [12]
• Ridley, [117]
• Riot, “No Popery,” [17]
• Rocksavage, [51], [54]
• Rode, Wilbrahams of, [203]
• Roman Chester, [70]–[77]
• —— legions at Chester, [3]
• —— remains, [3]
• —— —— at Holt, [218]
• —— wall of Chester, [4]
• —— work, Chester, [71]
• Roodeye, Chester, [74]
• Rostherne Hall, [197]
• —— Mere legend, [253]
• “Rounds, Cheshire,” [257]
• Rows of Chester, [75]–[79]
• Rowton Heath, [16]
• —— —— battle of, [74], [119], [184], [190], [191]
• Runcorn, [7]
• —— Abbey, [14]
• —— Castle, [51], [53]
• Rush-bearing, [238]–[239]
• —— at Christleton, [239]
• —— Sunday at Farndon, [225], [238]
• Rushes a charm for warts, [239]
• Sacrifice of Isaac, a Mystery Play, [148]
• Saighton Grange, [46]
• St. Bridget’s Church, Chester, [69]
• St. Ethelreda, [266]
• St. Giles’ Well, [260]
• St. John, Chester, Hospital of, [36], [73]
• —— the Baptist, Chester, Cross at, [210]
• St. Martin’s Church, Chester, [68]
• St. Mary’s Nunnery, Chester, [34], [36]
• St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill, Chester, Cross at, [209], [212]
• St. Michael’s Church, Chester, [69]
• St. Olave’s Church, Chester, [69]
• St. Oswald, Church of, [41]
• St. Plegmund, Archbishop of Canterbury, [273]
• St. Plegmund’s Well, [260], [275]
• St. Peter’s Church, Chester, [68]
• St. Werburgh, remains of, [38]
• —— shrine of, [42]
• St. Werburgh’s Abbey, [9]–[13], [33], [34], [38]–[48]
• —— Henry Bradshaw, monk of, [264]
• Saints, Cheshire a land of, [4]
• Saltney Marsh, [9]
• Salmon story, a, [263]
• Sanctuary, Cheshire, [220]
• Sandbach Crosses, [213]–[217]
• Savage, Archbishop of York, Thomas, [14]
• —— Sir Edmund, [13]
• Saxons in Cheshire, [5]
• Schomberg, Duke, [18]
• Scientists, Cheshire, [127]–[129]
• Seals, judicial, [28]
• “Sewer,” an office, [136]
• Shakerley, Colonel, [190]
• —— Sir Geoffrey, [120]
• Shakerleys of Hulme, family of, [63]
• Shepherd’s Play, The, a Mystery Play, [149]
• Ship Gate, Chester, [72]
• Shire Hall at Chester Castle, [60]
• Shocklach Castle, [9], [51], [52]
• —— Cross, [211]
• Siddington Church, [65]
• Slingsby’s Diary, [192]
• Sluggard-waker and dog-whipper, [256]
• Soldiers of Cheshire, [114]–[120]
• Souling, [230]–[237]
• Speed, John, [1], [138], [226]
• Stained glass at Farndon, [223]
• Stanley, Dean, [204]
• —— Palace, [97]
• —— Sir William, [117]
• Stanlaw Abbey, [14], [34]
• “Statute of Rhudland,” [26]
• Stockport, [16]
• Stocks, punishment of the, [112]
• Sutton Grange, [46]
• —— Sir Richard, [131]
• Sword-bearer of England, [21]
• “Synagogue Well,” Frodsham, [260]
• Tabley Hall, [198]
• —— Lord de, poet, [204]
• Taft Hall, [199]
• Tarporley, horse hodening at, [235]
• Tarvin, [16]
• Tatton Hall, [197]
• Taxal, [69]
• Thelwall Castle, [51]
• Thingwall, [7]
• Three Kings, The, a pageant, [149], [170]–[178]
• Timber-framed churches, [61]–[69]
• Tower, Bonewaldesthorne’s, [73]
• —— Phœnix, Chester, [74], [184]
• Trade Gilds at Chester, [151]
• “Trades and Mysteries,” [24]
• Tranmere, [133]
• Troutbeck, Sir William, [13]
• Unlawful games, [107]
• Utkinton Hall, [199]
• Vale Royal, [199]
• —— —— Abbey, [14], [34], [35]
• —— —— of England, The, [130]
• Venables, Sir Hugh, [13]
• Victory, “The Players’,” [24]
• Wales, Chester the key to, [21]
• Wallasey Cross, [211]
• —— Leasowes, [18]
• Wall of Chester, Roman, [4]
• Walls and Rows, Chester, [70]–[77]
• Warburton Church, [66], [270]
• —— family, [198]
• —— font, [66]
• War in Cheshire, Civil, [16]
• Warts, rushes a charm for, [239]
• Water Gate, Chester, [72]
• “Wattle and daub,” [83]
• Weeping Crosses, [208]
• “Well, Billy Hobby’s,” [260]
• Well-dressing, [261]
• “Well, Synagogue,” [260]
• Wells, Wishing, [260]
• Welsh, incursion of the, [9]
• —— raids, James, Lord Audley, and the, [10]
• Werden, General, [120]
• West Hall, High Leigh, [197]
• —— Kirby Cross, [210]
• Whiltenshaw, [118]
• Whipping-post, Widnes, [112]
• Whitefriars, Chester, [48]
• —— seventeenth century house in Chester, [99]
• Whitehurst, John, clockmaker, [128]
• Whitney, Geoffrey, [123]
• —— George, [205]
• Widnes or Farnworth Leet, [112]
• Wilbraham family, [199]
• —— George, [204]
• Wilbrahams of Rode, [203]
• Williams, Chief Justice, [126]
• Williamson, Dr., [226]
• Winnington Bridge, near Northwich, [17]
• Wirral, [94], [95]
• —— forest, [82]
• —— Horn, The, [244]
• Wishing Wells, [260]
• Woman fighting, a, [108]
• Woodchurch, [69]
• Work, “post and panel,” [80]
• Worthies, Cheshire, [114]–[132]
• Wulfhere, King of Mercia, [264]
• “Ye Olde Crypt,” [78]
• York, Thomas Savage, Archbishop of, [14]

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