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TRANSACTIONS
OF THE
HISTORIC SOCIETY
OF
LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.
VOLUME VII.
FOR SESSION 1854-55.
LONDON:
J. H. PARKER, 377, STRAND.
1855.
The writers of papers alone are responsible for the facts and
opinions contained in their respective communications.
JOSEPH MAYER, F.S.A., F.R.A.S., F.E.S., 68, Lord Street, Liverpool.
Treasurer.
THOMAS AVISON, F.S.A., 16, Cook Street, Liverpool.
Secretary.
Rev. A. HUME, D.C.L., LL.D., F.S.A., 9, Clarence Street, Everton.
SECRETARY IN LONDON.
H. C. PIDGEON, Esq., 30, Upper Montagu Street, Montagu Square.
CONTENTS.
[Papers marked thus are illustrated. Those marked thus have been abridged.
* On Anglo Saxon Antiquities, with a particular Reference to the
Faussett Collection. By Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A, F.S.A. ...
The Manufacture of Cobalt. By Henry Atherton, Esq.
Cowley, and the Poets of the Seventeenth Century.
Buxton, Esq.
PAGE.
1
40
By David
49
* On a Grotesque Mask of Punishment, obtained in the Castle of
Nuremberg. By F. W. Fairholt, Esq., F.S.A.
On Some Correspondence of Dr. Priestley, Preserved in the Warring-
ton Museum and Library. By J. F. Marsh, Esq...........
* Description of a Unique Vase in Mr. Mayer's Museum. By F. R P.
Bööcke, Esq.
A Morning Ramble in Old Warrington. By James Kendrick, M.D....
* Notices of British Antiquities. No. 2. Objects in Glass. By Edward
Benn, Esq.
On the Materials for the History of the two Counties and the Mode of
using them. Part II. By John Robson, Esq.......
* On the Snows and Snow Crystals of the Winter 1854-55, as observed
at Warrington. By T. Glazebrook Rylands, Esq......
On Institutions for the Deaf and Dumb; their Objects, Difficulties,
and Advantages. By David Buxton, Esq...........
An Account of the Life and Writings of the late J. H. Swale, of
Liverpool. By Thomas T. Wilkinson, Esq., F.R.A.S................ 143
Remarks upon the Flora of Liverpool. By H. S. Fisher...........
165
On the Illumination of the Diatomaceæ, when viewed under the
Microscope. By Thomas Sansom, A.L.S., F.B.S.E., &c. ...........
*On the History of the Art of Pottery in Liverpool. By Joseph Mayer,
Esq., F.S.A..
173
178
* Remarks on the connection between Archæology and Natural History.
By Joseph Clarke, Esq., F.S.A., Hon. M.H.S.
212