PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
SUBSCRIBERS.
BOOKSELLERS.
LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS' NAMES
HISTORIC SITES OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
L'ENVOI.
INDEX.
A WAYFARER'S NOTES IN THE PALATINE COUNTIES,
HISTORICAL, LEGENDARY, GENEALOGICAL,
AND DESCRIPTIVE.
BY
JAMES CROSTON, F.S.A.
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain; Member of the Architectural,
ArchÆological and Historic Society of Chester; Member of the
Council of the Record Society.
Author of "On Foot through the Peak," "A History of Samlesbury," "Historical Memorials
of the Church in Prestbury," "Old Manchester and its Worthies,"
"Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire,"
etc., etc.
JOHN HEYWOOD,
Deansgate and Ridgefield, Manchester;
and ii, Paternoster Buildings,
LONDON.
1883.
TO
JOHN LEIGH, Esq.,
of
the manor house, hale, cheshire,
the president and
one of the founders of the society for the
reprinting of the rarer poetical literature
of the spenserain age,
in testimony of lengthened friendship
and literary obligation,
and
in appreciation of his efforts
to rescue from oblivion the legends and traditions
which cast the halo of romance round many of
the old halls and manor houses of
lancashire and cheshire,
this book is inscribed with
the best wishes of his sincere friend,
the author.