Manchester: its political, social and commercial historyWhittaker, 1836 - 538 pages |
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... ment in the ninth year of Edward II . reign . He and his successors of the same title distinguished themselves in the battle of Cressey ; during the succeeding wars of the Roses , * in the battle of Bosworth Field , where , by his ...
... ment in the ninth year of Edward II . reign . He and his successors of the same title distinguished themselves in the battle of Cressey ; during the succeeding wars of the Roses , * in the battle of Bosworth Field , where , by his ...
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... ment of the rectorial estates to the new edifice . This liberal offer being accepted , a new structure was reared on the site of the present erection . John Huntingdon , D.D. , Rector of Ashton - under - Lyne , was the first Warden of ...
... ment of the rectorial estates to the new edifice . This liberal offer being accepted , a new structure was reared on the site of the present erection . John Huntingdon , D.D. , Rector of Ashton - under - Lyne , was the first Warden of ...
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... ment . Soon after her accession , Queen Elizabeth erected a Commissioners ' Court of forty - four to complete the Reformation , under whose direction the College of Man- chester , which hitherto had been only a local institution , had ...
... ment . Soon after her accession , Queen Elizabeth erected a Commissioners ' Court of forty - four to complete the Reformation , under whose direction the College of Man- chester , which hitherto had been only a local institution , had ...
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... ment , banishment , and death as felons , without benefit of clergy . The terrible operation of this enactment throughout the kingdom is matter of history . There is every reason to suppose that Lancashire participated to the full the ...
... ment , banishment , and death as felons , without benefit of clergy . The terrible operation of this enactment throughout the kingdom is matter of history . There is every reason to suppose that Lancashire participated to the full the ...
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... ment of those dying by the plague , and as the site of lazar - houses in case of a future visitation . * On a former occasion the ground now connected with Didsbury chapel had been similarly consecrated as the last resting - place of ...
... ment of those dying by the plague , and as the site of lazar - houses in case of a future visitation . * On a former occasion the ground now connected with Didsbury chapel had been similarly consecrated as the last resting - place of ...
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afterwards amount annual annum appointed Ardwick Ashton-under-Lyne assessment attended average Blackburn Bolton Boroughreeve Bury canal cent Charity Chat Moss Cheetham Cheshire chester coal Collegiate Church Collyhurst Commissioners Committee cotton Crumpsall Dalton Deansgate Derby Didsbury districts Ditto Droylsden Duke Earl elected employed England erected expense factories Female Hall hands Harpurhey Heaton Norris Hulme hundred Hundred of Salford improvements increase inhabitants Institution John June King labour Lancashire Lancaster land Liverpool London Lord Majesty Male manufacture meeting ment Messrs miles mills Moss Newton obtained occupied officers Oldham operation paid parish Parliament parties Peel persons poor population pounds present Prestwich prisoners railway Rector residence river Medlock Rochdale Royal Salford Hundred School shew silk Society Stockport streets Stretford subscription thousand tion total number town TOWNSHIP trade Trustees Vicar wages Warden Warrington weavers whilst Wigan yards yarn
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Page 463 - He was a man, take him for all in all, We shall not look upon his like again: I know that statement's not original: What statement is, since Shakspere?
Page 459 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 414 - The hours of attendance shall be from nine to twelve in the morning and from two to five in the afternoon.
Page 149 - An eminent manufacturer in that age," said he, " used to be in his warehouse before six in the morning, accompanied by his children and apprentices. At seven they all came in to breakfast, which consisted of one large dish of water-pottage, made of oatmeal, water, and a little salt, boiled thick, and poured into a dish. At the side was a pan or basin of milk, and the master and apprentices, each with a wooden spoon in his hand, without loss of time, dipped into the same dish, and thence into the...
Page 61 - ... having of May games, Whitsun ales, and morris dances, and the setting up of maypoles and other sports therewith used, so as the same be had in due and convenient time, without impediment or neglect of divine service...
Page 364 - How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle ! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
Page 151 - Manchester merchants began to give out warps and raw cotton to the weavers, receiving them back in cloth, and paying for the carding, roving, spinning, and weaving...
Page 372 - But lo ! the dome — the vast and wondrous dome, To which Diana's marvel was a cell — Christ's mighty shrine above his martyr's tomb ! I have beheld the Ephesian's miracle; — Its columns strew the wilderness, and dwell The hyaena and the jackal in their shade; I have beheld Sophia's bright roofs swell Their glittering mass i...
Page 506 - I have succeeded better than many who surround me, in the different walks of life, it has been chiefly, nay, I may say almost solely, from unwearied assiduity. It is not so much from any superior genius that one man possesses over another, but more from attention to study and perseverance in the objects before them, that some men rise to greater eminence than others.
Page 511 - ... the left, and taught him to do homage to no authority before that of truth. Fixing his eye on the highest views of science, his experiments had never an insulated character, but were always made as contributions towards some important end, — were among the steps towards some lofty generalization. And with a most happy prescience of the points towards which the rays of scattered experiments were converging, he had more than once seen light, while to other eyes all was yet in darkness ; — out...