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Gosnal, Jane, centenarian, 29

Gosnell, Rev. James, 94

Goss, Rev. Alexander, 14

Gossamer, 78

Gough, Mr., 61, 65

Grammar School of Manchester, 222

Green, Rev. Henry, 20

Greenwood, John, 176

Greg family, 161;
R. H., 188, 192

Grelle, Thomas, 223

Grey, Earl, 189, 194, 196

Grey wagtail, 75

“Guide to Heaven,” 41

Hadfield, George, 188, 192

Hale giant, 133

Halifax, 61, 65

Hall, J., 42

Hamer, Richard, centenarian, 30

Hamo de Massey, 80

Hanson, Colonel, trial of, 170

Harding, George, centenarian, 29

Hardwick, Charles, 201, 211

Harland, John, 200

Harper, Thomas, printer, 41-42

Harrison, Mary, centenarian, 33

Hartley, Barnard, centenarian, 32;
John, 227

Hatton, Roman Catholic priest, 93

Haunted cabin, 46

Hawick, 66

Hawker, R. S., 204

Hawkshead, 29

Hay, Rev. W. R., 172, 174, 180, 181, 184

Hayes, Elizabeth, centenarian, 30

Hazard tables suppressed, 64

Healey, Joseph, trial, 184

Hearse cloth, 96

Henry III., imposture at his tomb, 148

Henry IV., 83

Henry VI., 83

Herle, Warden, 94

Hicks Hall, 69

Higgins, Edward, career as highwayman, 15-21

High Church Jacobites, 236

Highwaymen, 15, 63, 66, 67, 69

Hilton, Elizabeth, centenarian, 27

Hodgkins, a printer, 39

Hodgson, Mr., 61, 65

Holland glass trade, 69

Holmes, Mrs., centenarian, 28

Honford, John, 84;
Margaret 85;

William, 85

Horse in woollen stockings, 16

Horsleydown, 54

Hoskins, Thomas, 45

Houghton tower, 96

Houghton, Sir Henry, 238

Howard, Queen Catharine, 90

Howard, _alias_ Dicconson, 12

Howley, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 192

Hoyle, Thomas, and Son, 34

Hudleston, Richard, Benedictine, 98

Hudson, William, 89

Hugh of Manchester, 146

Hugson, William, 89

Hulme, 33, 230

Hulme, Ralph, 223, 224

Hunt Fold, 30

Hunt, Henry, 178, 183, 190, 191;
trial, 184

Hunter, Mrs., centenarian, 30

Husan, Mr., centenarian, 28

Hutton, John, centenarian, 34, 36

Ice, 78

Idelot de la Ferté, Baron, 125

Illegitimacy, 109

Indian, North American, princes, 31

Ireland, Sir Gilbert, 133

Irk, 224, 225

Irwell, 224, 225

Jackson, John, mathematician, 40

Jackson, Matthew, centenarian, 29

Jackson, Thomas, centenarian, 27

Jacobins, 167

Jacobite trials in 1694, 1;
Rising of 1715, 231

Jaláuddin, 218

James III., 236, 238, 239, 242

Jamieson, T. H., 247

Jeanie Deans, a Manchester, 129

Jenkins, Jasper, centenarian, 27

Jesuits, 91

Johnson, John, 113

Johnson, Joseph, 195;
trial, 184

Johnson, Thomas, centenarian, 27

Jones, Mary, centenarian, 30

Journalism, early, 70

Kay, Alexander, 188

Keck, Leigh, 185

Keggan, Thomas, centenarian, 28

Kelso, 237

Kendal, 25, 27, 238

Kensington, 65

Kenyon, James, 121;
Mary, 121, 125

Kingswood riots, 62

Kirkpatrick, Mr., 61, 65

Knight, Joseph, trial, 184

Knightsbridge, 69

Knutsford highwayman, 15-21

Kufic Coins in Lancashire, 56

Ladridge, 27

Lampreys, 78

Lancashire Folk-Lore, 197

“Lancashire Journal,” 61, 70

Lancashire Plot, 1

Lancaster, 27, 30, 93, 236, 239, 243

Langholm, 237

Langton, Philip, trial, 4

Latimer, Hugh, 252

Laùro, 211

La Warr, Lord, 224, 226

Leading article in newspaper, 62

Leatherbarrow, Mary, centenarian, 33

Le Bon G., 56

Leeds, 186

Leek, 195

Legh, Peter, 26;
Sir Peter, 96;
Sir Urian, 96

Legh of Adlington, 86

Leghorn, 47

Leicester, Elizabeth, 90;
Ralph, 91

Leigh, 26, 27, 29

Leversege, Thomas, 85

Lewis, Sir G. C., 23, 74

Library, circulating, 144

Liévin Bauwens family, 125

Linford, Peter, centenarian, 28

Lister, Dr. Martin, 24

Literary Taste of the Eighteenth Century, 144

Liverpool, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 44, 45, 47,
61, 65

Livesey, 29

Locusts, 77

London, 195

Longevity, 22-38, 66

Long Meg of Westminster, 131

Longworth, Mrs. Anne, centenarian, 30

Lord, Henry, centenarian, 28

Lord, Mrs., 61, 65

Lostock, 39

Low Moor, 72

Lunt, John, perjurer, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

Lurting family, 44;
Thomas, the fighting sailor, turned peaceable Christian, 44

Lyme, 25, 96

Lyndhurst, Lord, 186, 194

Lyon, Capt., 79

Macaulay, Margaret, centenarian, 30

MacKee, John, centenarian, 30

Mackintosh, Brigadier, 237, 240, 242

Mad Roger, 28

Maddock, Mr., 61, 65

Maghall, 28

Maghull, 29

Majorca, 48, 51

Manchester, 29, 30, 33, 34, 90, 186, 196, 236, 238

Manchester churchwarden and parish clerk appointed by Traffords, 95

Manchester Corn Mills, 224

Manchester, first book printed in, 39

Manchester Free Library, 41, 61

Manchester, mentioned by Alexander Barclay, 245

Manchester Grammar School Mill, 87, 222

Manchester Jacobite trials, 1

Manchester, Higgins, the highwayman, resident at, 19

Manchester in 1807, 117

Manchester Mathematical Society, 40

Manchester Parish Church, heads exposed on, 93

_Manchester Guardian_, 72, 75

_Manchester Magazine_, 65

Manchester, George, will of, 106

Manchester, Hugh of, 146

Marlborough, Duke of, 240

Massenius, 207

Marriages, 63, 69, 82, 84, 86, 90, 91

Marsh, William, centenarian, 27

Marshall, Christian, centenarian, 30

Marsh titmouse, 76

Martin Marprelate, 39

Matthew Paris, 208

Maryland, 78

Massey, Hamo de, 80

Massie, William, sermon at Trafford, 91

“Mathematical Lectures,” 40;
Society, 40

Maud, Lady, 17

Mayfield print works, 34

Medicine, abstinence from, 29

Medicines, 71

Melfort, Jacobite Earl of, 8

Merry Andrew, 126

Merton Sands, 204

Methodism and theatres, 115

Middleton, 177

Middleton, John, the Hale giant, 134

Middlewich, 61, 65

Miller’s “Gardeners’ Dictionary,” 65

Milner, George, 200

Minnows, 78

Molyneux, Lord, 3, 7, 13

Monks, Jane, centenarian, 29

Monton, 235

“More work for the Cooper,” 39

Morocco, 66

Mosley, Sir Oswald, 228

Mossley Common, 26

Moss Side, 230

Moston, Sir Roger, 26

Muley, Abdalah, 66

“Mull jenny,” 122

Murphy, the Irish giant, 135

Murray the spy, 184

Namptwich, 61, 65

Napoleon I., 123

Nateby, 29

Newbiggin, 27

Newbigging, Thomas, 206

Newcastle, 238

Newcome, Henry, 101;
Daniel, 101

Newspapers in 1738-39, 61

Newton Lane, 39

New Year’s Day, 202, 205

Nodal, J. H., 200

Northampton, 195

Northumberland, Duke of, 191

Nichison, Mr., 61 65

Northrop, 34

“Now thus,” 80

Oates, Titus, 14

Old folks’ tea-party, 35

Oldham, 229

Oldham, Hugh, 223

Oliver the spy, 175

Old Sarum, 189

Ormskirk, 28, 65;
longevity at, 24

Osbaldeston, Mr., centenarian, 27

Over, 204

Overton, 30

Owen, Mrs., centenarian, 30

Oxburgh, Colonel, 241

Oxford, 91

Ozly, Mr., 61

Paisley, 36

Papists, 92

Park Gate, 28

Park keeper, a centenarian, 25

Park Lane, 30

Parsons, Lawrence, 9

Patriarchal theory of government, 233

Pattison, George, 48

Pauw, François de, 121

Parliamentary reform, 165

Pearcy, Elizabeth, 27

Pennybridge, 27

Peploe, Abel, 239

Peruke maker, 61, 65

Peterloo, 176, 180, 190, 195

Philips, Mark, 186, 191;
Robert, 195

Philosopher’s stone, 83

Piccolomini, 247

Picton, Sir James Allenson, 44

Piercy, Thomas, 69

Pilgrimage, 83

Pilkington, Sir John, 84;
Elizabeth, 84

Pilkington crest, 81

Pinkerton, James, 36

Pinkerton, Jane, centenarian, 36

Pirates, Algerine, 47

Pius II., 247

Pollitt, William, centenarian, 33

Pope, Alexander, verses on, 67

Potter, Richard, 188, 192;
Sir Thomas, 185, 19

Poulton-in-the-Fylde, 30

Poxton, Thomas, centenarian, 28

Prentice, Archibald, 180, 186

Prescot, 27

Prescott, Catharine, at the age of 100 learns to read, 33

Preston, 26, 61, 65, 238, 239, 241

Pretender, Jacobite, 234

Prices of wheat, 69

Priests, Roman Catholic, 91

Prigg, Anne, centenarian, 30

Printing, early Manchester, 39

Prosecution of felons, 68

Protestants, 92

Pye, Roger, centenarian, 30

Quaker highwayman, 63

Quakers, early, 46-55

Quarry Bank, 161

Railway, Manchester and Liverpool, 189

Ramscar, Martha, centenarian, 28

Ralphson, Mary, centenarian, 31;
at Battle of Dettingen, 31

Ralphson, Ralph, 31

Randle, Earl of Chester, 223

Rathbone family, 162

Red deer driven from Lyme to Windsor, 26

Reform agitation, 165, 196

Rhampsinitus, 198

Richardson, Sarah, centenarian, 33;
R. J., 193

Richmond’s “History of Trafford family,” 104

Ridgeway, Jonathan, centenarian, 29

Riots, 62, 167, 170, 171, 193, 228, 235

Rising of 1715, 231

Ritchie, Joseph, 79

Robert of Brunne, 154

Roberts, Betty, centenarian, 34

Roberts, James, centenarian, 27

Roby, John, 200, 210

Rochdale, 29, 61, 65, 115, 204

Rockett, Mr., 61, 65

Roeder, Charles, 137

Rogers, William, centenarian, 27

Rogues branded, 9

Roman Catholics, 3, 92, 93, 94, 95;
secret printing press, 39;
Test Act, 232

Romanus, Archbishop John, 149

Rome, 93

Rood, 251

Rook, 77

Roscoe, William, 162

Ross, Janet, 211

Rossall, 93

Rossendale, 28, 206, 209

Rowlinson, William, 138

Rudd, Joe, 32

Ruscombe, Mrs., murder of, 17

Russell, Lord John, 186, 189

Sabbatarian Church, 42

Sabbath, 42-43

Sabine’s snipe, 78

Saddleworth, 204, 229

Sagar, John, centenarian, 24

Sailors, Quaker, 47

St. Germain, 250

Salford, 191, 192, 195, 223, 224

Salisbury, Marquis of, 186

Salmon, 73

Salmon, David Stewart, centenarian, 31

Salt water cure, bite of mad dog, 68

Samlesbury, 204

Santa Cruz sea-fight, 45

Saturday Sabbath, 42

Savage, William, 85

Schools, Dublin, 64

Seal, Mrs., centenarian, 30

Sears, Mr., 61, 65

Seaton, Sir John, 101

Seddon, Rev. Thomas, 103

Sedge-warbler, 77

Sermon, funeral, 88;
marriage, 91;
in honour of the Virgin Mary, 250

Shaw, Dr. W. A., 247

Shelley on Peterloo, 182

Sherborne family, 98;
Sir Nicholas, 3

Sherdley, Sarah, centenarian, 29

Ship money, 99

Shudehill riot, 229

Shuttleworth, John, 185, 193, 195

Siddons, Mrs., at Manchester, 113

Sidebottom, Mr., 61, 65

Siglisthorne, 88

Simmondsone, 28

Skelton, 131

Slave trade, 162

Sloe leaves, 176

Smethley, Leonard, 96

Smith, Aaron, 8, 10, 11

Smithy Door, 41

Sneezing, 202

Soldiers, Lancashire, for Irish wars, 95

Somersham, 86

Southwark, 54

Southworth, Sir John, 93

Spence, Miss E. I., 111

Spiders, 117;
aëronautic, 78

Spinning Machinery taken to Belgium, 119

Spirits, 176

Stags, driving, 26

Stair, Earl of, 236

Stand Hall, 112

Standish, William, 3

Stanley, Edward, centenarian, 26;
Sir Edward, 27;
Henry, 27;
Bishop, James, 86;
Sir John, 86;
Dame Margaret, 87;
Sir Rowland, trial of, 4, 5, 7, 9

Stephenson, Jane, centenarian, 30

Stoat, 76

Stockport, 28, 61, 65

Storey, Elizabeth, centenarian, 27

Streaming, 73

Stretford, 94

Stukeley, Dr., marriage, 68

Sunday, not the Sabbath, 42

Sutton, John, 85

Swarberick, James, centenarian, 29

Swedenborgians, 159

Syddal, Thomas, 235, 239, 242

Symms, a printer, 39

Taafe, an informer, 10, 11, 13

Tailor who cheated the devil, 213

Tarbuck, 27

Taylor family (Whitworth doctors), 115

Taylor, J. E., 176, 180

Tea, 176

Tennyson, Alfred, 210

Theatre-going, 114

Thinking Club, 168

Thoms, W. J., 23, 37, 197

Three tasks, 203

Threlfall, Mr., 7

Throstles, 76

Titmouse, 76

Toft, 91

Tomlyn, a printer, 39

Trafford, 94

Traffords of Trafford, 80

Travis, Anthony, 226

Trumbles, Francis, Quaker highwayman, 63

Turks captured by Quaker sailors, 48

“Twisting in,” 172

Tyas, John, 181

Uppleby, Rev. George, 88

Venables, Alice, 82;
Dulcia, 82;
Sir William, 82

Vestments restored, 90

Vikings’ commerce, 60

Vitalis, 207

Wabee tribe, 31

Wages, 62

Wakefield, 61, 65

Waldegrave, Robert, 39

Walker, C. J. S., 195;
Jacobus, 89;
Thomas, trial of, 167

Walker’s Croft, 225

Walmsley, Mr., 7

Walsingham, 83

Walthamstow, 67

Warburton, Lady, 16

Warburton, Sarah, centenarian, 35

Ward, Dr. A. W., 247, 249

Ward, Robert, 250

Warden, Florence, 15

Warrington, 3, 4, 33, 61, 65;
in 1807, 112

Warwick, the great Earl, 84

Water-ouzel, 77

Watkin, Absolom, 194

Watson, James, centenarian, 25;
John, centenarian, 28;
Rev. Joseph, 26

Waugh, Edwin, 200

Wellington, Duke of, 188, 194, 196

West, Sir Thomas, 224

Westhead, William Wilkinson, 135

West Mead, 17

Westminster Abbey, 87

Whaley, 27

Wharncliffe, Earl of, 192

Whately, Archbishop, 213

White, Charles, F.R.S., 15, 22

White Moss, 183

Whitworth Doctors, 115

Wickfield, Nathaniel, centenarian, 27

Wickstead, Mr., centenarian, 27

Widdrington, Lord, 237, 238

Wigan, 27, 28, 32;
in 1807, 112

Wilcock, Elizabeth, centenarian, 27

Wilford, George, centenarian, 27

Wilkinson, Jemima, centenarian, 33;
T. T., 201

Will of George Manchester, 106

William III., alleged plot for his murder, 4, 8

William IV., 190, 191, 196

Williams, Sir William, 5

Williamson, John, centenarian, 27;
Robert, 89;
Roman Catholic priest, 93

Wills, Gen., 240, 241

Wilmslow, 87, 88

Wilson, James, centenarian, 25, 27;
Rev. John, 38

Wilson, branded for roguery, 9, 12

Windness, William, centenarian, 30

Winwick, 204

Witches, 219

Wolf in St. James’s Park, 66

Wolsey, Cardinal, 86

Womball, a carrier, 9, 12

Woman in soldier’s uniform, 31

Women indicted for being Roman Catholics, 93

Women’s amber ornaments, 57

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John, 195;
William, escapes from ward, 63

Woods, Rev. James, 240

Worcester, 18

Worsaae, J. J. A., 56, 59, 60, 210

Worsley, 35, 83

Worthington, Mr., 93

Wren, 77

Wren’s nest, 75

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Transcriber's Notes

Some presumed printer's errors have been corrected, including normalizing punctuation. Some index entries have been corrected to match the spelling and page numbers in the main text. Further corrections are listed below:

p. 15 Autobiographic -> Autobiographical p. 50 May York -> May-York p. 54 peacable -> peaceable p. 54 Deliverences -> Deliverances p. 79 riends -> friends p. 98 there was a Trafford a priest -> there was at Trafford a priest p. 138 367 -> p. 367 p. 218 indentified -> identified Advertisements olk-lore -> folk-lore Footnote 1 Ley -> Levy

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