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I. Position and Natural Features of Cheshire 9
II. The Making of Cheshire (1) 16
III. The Making of Cheshire (continued) (2) 21
IV. Early Inhabitants of Cheshire 25
V. The Romans in Cheshire (1) 29
VI. The Romans in Cheshire (2) 36
VII. Saxons and Angles come to Cheshire 43
VIII. The Cross in Cheshire 47
IX. The Coming of the Northmen 51
X. The Normans come to Cheshire 58
XI. The Norman Abbeys and Churches of Cheshire 64
XII. The Earls of the County Palatine 74
XIII. The Churches of the Thirteenth Century 81
XIV. Growth of Towns in Cheshire 87
XV. Edward the First and Cheshire 92
XVI. The Coming of the Friars 99
XVII. A Deposed King 107
XVIII. The Rival Roses 114
XIX. Churches of the Middle Ages 118
XX. The Reformation and the Great Awakening 128
XXI. Elizabethan Cheshire (1) 134
XXII. Elizabethan Cheshire (2) 143
XXIII. The Rule of the Stuarts 150
XXIV. Civil War: (1) The Battles of Middlewich and Nantwich 153
XXV. Civil War: (2) A Memorable Siege 158
XXVI. Civil War: (3) The Protectorate and the Restoration 163
XXVII. The Fall of the Stuarts 167
XXVIII. The Eighteenth Century (1) 173
XXIX. The Eighteenth Century (1) 180
XXX. The Industrial Revolution (1) 183
XXXI. The Industrial Revolution (2) 188
XXXII. The Railways of Cheshire 192
XXXIII. Progress and Reform in the Nineteenth Century 198
XXXIV. The Reign of a Great Queen 204
XXXV. Famous Men and Women of Cheshire 211
XXXVI. Conclusion 216

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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