Chapter I: Preliminaries 9

" II. The Leaders on Both Sides 23

" III. The Siege of Manchester 37

" IV. First Operations of the Manchester Garrison 53

" V. The Crisis. January-June, 1643 67

" VI. Remaining Events of 1643: and the First Siege of
Lathom House 89

" VII. Prince Rupert in Lancashire 115

" VIII. End of the First Civil War 135

" IX. The Second Civil War: Battle of Preston 159

" X. The Last Stand: Battle of Wigan Lane: Trial and
Death of the Earl of Derby 177

Index 205

MAPS AND PLANS

Map. Lancashire, to illustrate the Civil War. _Frontispiece_

PLANS IN TEXT.

I. Manchester and Salford in 1650 see page 43

(_Reproduced from Owens College Historical Essays, p. 383_).

II. The Spanish Ship in the Fylde, March, 1642-3 see page 72

III. The Battle of Whalley, April, 1643 see page 82

IV. Liverpool in 1650 see page 128

(_Reproduced from Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Session 6, 1853-4, Vol. 6, p. 4_).

V. The Campaign of Preston, 1648 see page 164

VI. The Campaign of Wigan Lane, 1651 see page 191