The new Manchester guide. A New ed1815 |
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adjoining afterwards annually annum appears bank Bayley bishop bishop of Chester brick bridge Britons building built called Castle-field chapel Charitable institutions charity Chester choir coach collegiate church Collyhurst consecrated constables cotton Deansgate Derby Ditto ditto east elegant entrance erected expence feet foundation founder fustian gallery ground half-past handsome houses Hugh Oldham Humphrey Chetham inhabitants inscription Irwell James John John Clowes laid Lancashire lands in Manchester late Liverpool Long Millgate lord Manchester and Salford manor Market-street Medlock Miscellaneous Notices monument morning neat Nicholas Mosley number of persons o'clock Oldham-street opened opposite original ornamented parish pews Places of worship poor pounds present minister pulpit purpose rector Ribchester river Irk Roman Royal Mail Salford Samuel Peploe side situated stall stone street Stretford subscription Sunday Thomas town of Manchester Trade and manufacture Tuesday warden and fellows whole window yards
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Page 138 - He was high sheriff of this county 1635, discharging the place with great honour, insomuch that very good gentlemen of birth and estate did wear his cloth at the assize, to testify their unfeigned affection to him...
Page 138 - From this authority we are told, that he was a " diligent reader of the scriptures, and of the works of sound divines, a respecter of such ministers as he accounted truly godly, upright, sober, discreet, and sincere.
Page 14 - ... a smooth line, nearly level for several yards with the ground about it and just perceptible to the eye, in a rounded eminence of turf. At the south-western point of the camp, the ground slopes away on the west towards the south, as well as on the south towards the west. And the third side still runs from it nearly as at first, having an...
Page 35 - all the cottons called Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire cottons, full wrought to the sale, shall be in length twenty-two yards and contain in breadth three-quarters of a yard in the water and shall weigh thirty pounds in the piece at least "; and from the act 8 Elizabeth c.
Page 38 - Its effects had been so dreadful, that the ordinance says, " Most of the inhabitants living upon trade, are not only ruined in their estates, but many families are like to perish for want, who cannot be sufficiently relieved by that miserably wasted country.
Page 17 - of attentive care, mentioned above, intimate them to have been that of a considerable officer in the garrison. And :I have previously observed, that the 'Romans in general, the common soldiers as •well as the officers, had their wives and children along with them.
Page 49 - From hence the whole of the watchmen set out every night to their respective stands; and here they bring back their rattles &c. when the approaching day puts an end to their nocturnal duties. Three of the beadles reside immediately behind the Police Office, to be always at hand, to assist the deputy constable in the discharge of his duty.
Page 20 - Three of these were found together, standing " erect, and two of them so formed with projections, as to make " a third by their union. And these and the earth all rested upon " a second flooring, another cake of the same cement, near two " feet in thickness, and lying upon a second bed of rubbish about " three in depth. In the body of this earth, which was covered " with the second flooring all unbroken and entire, were discovered " three or four regular pillars of flag and tile. The first was placed...
Page 14 - third side still runs from it nearly as at first, having an' even crest of about seven feet in height, an even slope of turf for its whole extent, and the wall in all .its original condition below. About an hundred yards beyond the angle was the Porta Decumana of the station, the ground visibly rising up the ascent "of the bank in a large shelve of gravel, and running in a slight but perceivable ridge from it. And beyond a level...
Page 1 - England, and • the center of our present undertaking, is situated in the south of Lancashire, in W. long. 2. 42 ; N. lat. ' 53. 22 ; upon the rivers Irk, Medlock, and Irwell, about seven miles from the junction of the latter with the Mersey. The rivers Irwell and Mersey are navigable for vessels of fifty tons to Liverpool. The river Irk falls into the Irwell at the north, as doth the Medlock, at the south end of the town.