CORRIGENDA.

Page xxxii. Add a comma after Winmerleigh.

Page lxxv. To these distinguished Lancashire lawyers may be added, their contem-
porary, Sir Thomas Tyldesley Knight Attorney General and Vice-Chancellor
of the County Palatine, eldest son of Thurstan Tyldesley of Wardley Esq. and of
his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir William Norres of Speke. Having no male
issue by his wife, a daughter of Thomas Charnock of Astley and granddaughter
of Sir Henry ffarington, (see Note, p. 160,) his estate was divided between his two
daughters. (See Note, p. 205.)- Lanc. MSS. vol. xiii. p. 21.

Pages 97, 103, 105, 106, 111, 127, 144, 150, 155, 156, 206, 213, for 1574 read 1572.
Page 175, for Posthumas, read Posthumous.

Page 186, for 1614 read 1619.

Page 186, for p. 481 read p. 655.

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INTRODUCTION.

Of the two Manuscripts comprised in the following Volume the first contains an account of the Household Expenses of Edward Earl of Derby for the year 1561, and of his Household Regulations for the year 1568, and is written in a bold hand on six folio sheets of vellum, the writer being unknown. The other Manuscript, giving an account of part of the Household Expenditure of Henry Earl of Derby for several successive years, consists of twenty-four folio pages of common paper, of which twenty-two are filled, being written in a close hand on both sides. The early writing is that of William ffarington of Worden Esq. a gentleman who held various high offices in the household of the Elizabethan Earls of Derby, and who continued to make the several entries until July 1589, when the style of the writing changes, being less accurate and more indicative of haste. This is continued until March 21st of the following year, when the original writing again appears, and there is no alteration to the end of the book, which is bound in a b