Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ..., Volume 38

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Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes.

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Page 88 - And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...
Page 88 - Third, by the grace of God of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland king, defender of the faith, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five.
Page 88 - Major-Commandant, or any other of your superior officers, according to the rules and discipline of war, in pursuance of the trust hereby reposed in you. "Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at the Castle of St.
Page 76 - I have none but what hath bin seized and taken from mee, and converted to the use of the State. " This is a true Perticuler of all my estate, reall and personall, for which I onely desire to compound to free it out of sequestration; and...
Page 159 - ... this manner. They cut hard rushes from the marsh, which they make up into long bundles, and then dress them in fine linen, silk ribands, flowers, &c.
Page 76 - These are to certifie, that Richard Powell of Forrest Hill, in the county of Oxford, Esquire, did freely and fully take the Nationall Covenant, and subscribe the same, uppon the fourth day of December 1646, the sayd covenant being administered unto him according to order, by me, WILLIAM BARTON, Minister of John Zecharies, London. Probat. est.
Page 88 - I hereby command them to obey you as their captain, and you are to observe and follow such orders and directions as you shall from time to time receive from...
Page 159 - ... bells, and all other demonstrations of joy they are able to express. When they arrive at the church they go in at the west end (the only public use...
Page 18 - small half-timbered structure, "and covered with thatch," and some parts of it were, in 1724, described as " very ancient and damp, the north end with the " gavel at the south end containing a parlour, a passage, and a "kitchen, being of timber and much decayed."!
Page 88 - Infantry, but not to take rank in the Army, except during the time of the said Corps being called out into actual service...

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