1731 Sir Edward Stanley, Bart. after- Thomas Hesketh, Alexander Osbaldes

This gentleman founded the library in this town, called "Shepherd's Library." A portrait of him may be seen in the octagon room, at the library, in a fine state of preservation. He bore for his arms-Azure, on

a chevron, an inescocheon, charged with a pelican, nourishing her young, with a nest proper, between three fleur de lis. Crest-A lamb passant or.

1762 Thomas Jackson.
1763 Edward Pedder.
1764 Richard Assheton.
1765 William Prichard.
1766 Joseph Myers.
1767 Robert Moss.

1768 Thomas Grimshaw.
1769 Richard Assheton.
1770 Edward Pedder.
1771 James Cowburn.
1772 Ralph Watson.
1773 Richard Atherton.
1774 Bartholomew Davis.
1775 John Grimshaw.
1776 Edwd. Pedder.

1777 Jas. Cowburn.

1778 Ralph Watson.

BAILIFFS.

John Whittle, John Darbyshire.
Edw. Bolton, John Nabb.
Wm. Riddihough, Bart. Davis.
John Watson, Thomas Wilson.
Rich. Atherton, John Taylor.
John Jackson, jun. John Grimshaw,
(late father of the borough, but re-
signed on account of old age.*)
Fleetwood Hesketh, W. Prichard.
Thos. Pedder, John Smalley.
Rich. Casson, Thos. Aldred.
Will. Leake, Alex. Nowell.
Thos. Cowburn, Will. Briggs.
Nich. Winckley, Robt. Farrer.
Edward Pedder, Rich. Wilson.
Jas. Woods, J. Nuttall.
Wm. Wickstead, Jas. Knowles.
Jas. Cheetham, Thos. Greaves.
Thos. Walsham, Robert Bailey.
Edwd. Atherton, Edwd. Robt. Travers.
Oliver Farrer, John Greaves.
Thomas Cowell, James Heald.
James Pedder, Thos. Bolton.
John Latus, John Fallowfield.
James Blackhurst, John Heald.

* John Grimshaw, Esq. (father of the borough,) resigned on account of his age, and Thomas Miller, Esq. was appointed an alderman in his place, and afterwards elected mayor of the borough, for 1820. A very handsome piece of plate, bearing the following inscription, was presented to John Grimshaw, Esq. by the mayor and common council of this borough, in the mouth of January, 1821-"To JoHN GRIMSHAW, Esquire, late senior alderman of the corporation of Preston, and one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for that borough; who for a long series of years, supported the rights and interest of the body corporate, and promoted the peace and welfare of the borough in general, with equal ability, integrity, and zeal: this cup is presented, as a token of gratitude for his public services, and of esteem and regard for his private character, by the mayor, aldermen, and capital burgesses of the borough, in common council assembled." This venerable old gentleman died on Monday, the 12th of March, 1821.

1805 Edward Robert Travers. 1806 John Grimshaw.

1807 Richard Newsham.

1808 Nicholas Grimshaw. 1809 Daniel Lyon.

1810 George Blelock.

1811 Edward Robert Travers.

1812 Nicholas Grimshaw. 1813 Richard Newsham. 1814 Daniel Lyon.

1815 Edward Robert Travers.

1816 John Troughton. 1817 Nicholas Grimshaw. 1818 Richard Newsham.

1819 Hugh Dewhurst. 1820 Thomas Miller.

1821 Nicholas Grimshaw, Esq.

BAILIFFS.

James Pedder, John Daniel Lyon.
John Nock Grimshaw, Chas. Ambler.
Thomas Tomlinson, James Dixon.
Thomas Moore, Jonathan Lodge.
Arthur Milsom, Will. Brade.
Joseph Robinson, John Paley.

Wm. Buck, R. R. W. Robinson, M.D.

Charles Buck, Thomas Petty.

Thomas Green, John Woodburn.
Thomas German, Wm. Petty.
James Newsham, William Taylor.
Thomas Troughton, John Baron.
J. Addison, jun. R. Addison.
T. B. Addison, W. O. Pilkington.
Thomas Dewhurst, R. Buxton.
S. Horrocks, jun. Geo. Jackson.
William Clayton, Edward Grimshaw.

RECORDERS.

Edmund Starkie, Esq. Barrister-at-Law, of this Borough.
John Aspinall, Esq. Serjeant-at-Law, of Standen Hall.

- Robert Moss, Esq. Barrister-at-Law, of this Borough and of Sandhills.

Sir James Alan Park, Knt. one his Majesty's Justices of the Court of Common Pleas.

ALDERMEN.

E. R. Travers, Esq., (Father of the Borough,) Samuel Horrocks, Esq., M. P. Daniel Lyon, Richard Newisham, John Troughton, Hugh Dewhurst, and Thomas Miller, Esqrs.

CAPITAL BURGESSES, OR COMMON COUNCIL.

John Green, (Treasurer), Henry Fisher, Robert Gornal, James Heald, Richard
Palmer, (Town Clerk), William Leighton, Robert Friend, James
Mounsey, John Taylor, Thomas Tomlinson, James Dixon,

Thomas Moore, Jonathan Lodge, Arthur Milsom,
Joseph Robinson, and John Paley.

The following particulars were kindly communicated by a gentleman, resident at Preston, to the publisher:

In the year 1793, an act of parliament was obtained for making a navigable canal from Kendal in Westmorland, to Westhoughton in Lancashire. This is called the Lancaster canal, and touches in its course the towns of Lancaster, Preston, Chorley, and Wigan, forming a junction with the duke of Bridgewater's canal, and also with that from Leeds to Liverpool. The Lancaster canal is now completed, except for about four miles to the south of Preston, where the north and south branches are connected by an iron rail way, upon which coals and lime stone are conveyed in waggons, which are hoisted up an inclined plane, on the north bank of the Ribble, by means of a steam engine. The loss and expense attending this inconvenient break in the navigation not only prevents the carriage of general merchandize, but occasions the town of Preston to be supplied with coals, in a great measure, by carts directly from the pits. If the line of water carriage were complete, the tonnage upon this canal would be more than doubled, and the whole of this populous and increasing district might thus be supplied

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