Nooks and Corners

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Author

Croston, James, 1830-1893

Title

Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire. A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive.

Credits

Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Cheshire (England)

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 51191

Release Date

February 12, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.NOOKS AND CORNERS OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.
3. 3.PREFACE. — CONTENTS. — ILLUSTRATIONS.
4. 4.SUBSCRIBERS.
5. 5.BOOKSELLERS.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. A RAILWAY RAMBLE—THE ROMAN CITY ON THE RIBBLE—A DAY-DREAM AT RIBCHESTER.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. MARPLE HALL—THE BRADSHAWS—COLONEL HENRY BRADSHAW THE STORY OF THE REGICIDE.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. OVER SANDS BY THE CARTMEL SHORE—WRAYSHOLME TOWER—THE LEGEND OF THE LAST WOLF.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. AN AFTERNOON AT GAWSWORTH—THE FIGHTING FITTONS—THE CHESHIRE WILL CASE AND ITS TRAGIC SEQUEL—HENRY NEWCOME—“LORD FLAME.”
10. 10.CHAPTER V. THE COLLEGE AND THE “WIZARD WARDEN” OF MANCHESTER.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. BEESTON CASTLE.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. WHALLEY AND ITS ABBEY—MITTON CHURCH AND ITS MONUMENTS—THE SHERBURNES—THE JESUITS’ COLLEGE, STONYHURST.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. ADLINGTON AND ITS EARLIER LORDS—THE LEGHS—THE LEGEND OF THE SPANISH LADY’S LOVE—THE HALL.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. THE BYROMS—KERSALL CELL—JOHN BYROM—THE LAUREATE OF THE JACOBITES—THE FATAL ’45.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. HALL-I’-TH’-WOOD—THE STORY OF SAMUEL CROMPTON, THE INVENTOR OF THE SPINNING MULE.
16. 16.INDEX.
17. 17.FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.Untitled

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