| PAGE | | | The “Lancashire Plot” | 1 | | | De Quincey’s Highwayman | 15 | | | Some Lancashire Centenarians | 22 | | | What was the First Book Printed in Manchester? | 39 | | | Thomas Lurting: a Liverpool Worthy | 44 | | | Kufic Coins found in Lancashire | 56 | | | Newspapers in 1738-39 | 61 | | | A Lancashire Naturalist: Thomas Garnett | 72 | | | The Traffords of Trafford | 80 | | | A Manchester Will of the Fifteenth Century | 106 | | | A Visitor to Lancashire in 1807 | 111 | | | How the First Spinning Machinery was taken to Belgium | 119 | | | Merry Andrew of Manchester | 127 | | | A Manchester Jeanie Deans | 129 | | | Some Lancashire Giants | 130 | | | A Note on William Rowlinson | 137 | | | Literary Taste of the Eighteenth Century | 143 | | | Hugh of Manchester: a Statesman and Divine of the Thirteenth Century | 146 | | | Mrs. Fletcher in Lancashire | 157 | | | Manchester and the First Reform Agitation | 165 | | | The Folk-Lore of Lancashire | 197 | | | Manchester Grammar School Mill | 222 | | | The Rising of 1715 | 231 | | | The Fool of Lancaster | 243 | | | Alexander Barclay and Manchester | 245 | | | Index | 255 | Echoes of Old Lancashire.
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