INDEX

This is a cumulative index of people, places and principal topics appearing in the text of the articles. Peers are listed under their title, not their family surname. Tables within and appendices to articles, footnoted material and book reviews are not indexed.

Abbots Cotton 25 Baptists and Baptism 89 Accrington 92 Barnett, William 81, 84 Africa 95, 102, 142 Barnston 113 Agden 22 Barraclough, Geoffrey 19 Agnes de Malpas 29, 30 Beaunion 24 Allen, Thomas 75, 76 Beatrice, daughter of David American civil war 100, 102 the Bastard 9 Anglesey 24 Beatrix, daughter of Einion Anglicans and Anglicanism ap David 15 70, 71, 72, 74, 81, 89, 98, Beatrix, daughter of Ralph ab 99 Einion 12 Arkell, T. 38 Beatrix, sister or daughter of Ashley, Anthony Ashley- an earl of 24 Cooper, Lord Ashley, Beckett, Gilbert A. 93-94 later 7th Earl of Belvoir 13 Shaftesbury 78 Belward family 4, 11, 12, 13- Ashton 46, 92 19, 21,22-23, 24, 26, 27, Adantic 128 29, 30, 31 Australia 131 Belward, Richard, son of pastoral association 131 William Belward, see wool exports 131-32 fitzWilliam, Richard Belward, Robert 14 Bache 5, 6, 7 Belward, William 10, 11, 13, Bacon, Francis 65-66 14,15,16-18,19, 22, 23, Baines, F.R. 51 26, 28, 29, 30, 31 Baldric 6 Bierhead, Caesar Darius Bamber, Robert 150, 154 Nicodemus 104 bananas 132 Billeheld 6 Index 215

Billinghay 39 Bromley Davenport, William Birchenall, John 76 85 Birchenough, John 84 Broughton 45 Birkenhead 126, 127, 128, Brownbill, John 16-17, 21 144, 147 Broxup, Charles 143 Birmingham 79, 142, 150 Bunbury 55 births, strange and Burnley 44, 92 monstrous 63-64, 66 master cotton spinners Black Death 33 and manufacturers Blackburn 40, 45, 127, 149 association 135 Blackrod 46 butter 116 Blundell, William 57-66 Byram, John 113-24 Bolton 46, 127 Byram, Sarah 113, 115, 122 Bombay 137 Booth, John 13, 28 Caird, Sir James 117 Boode 109,128 Calke Abbey 29 Botesdale 39 Cambridge 156 Boughton 25 Camden, William 5, 7, 13, 14, Bradford 68, 150 22, 28 Bradwell, D. 83 Canterbury, diocese 36 Brereton family 13 visitations of 39 Brereton, Sir William 15 Cardiff 150 Briant, Revd Henry 78, 80, Carlisle 151 83 Catholics and Catholicism 57, Bridgewater canal 128 66, 72, 108 Bristol 36,132 catde and catde epidemics Brocklehurst family 69, 71, 118,120 81, 84, 85, 87 census and census returns 34, Brocklehurst, Charles 81 40, 113,120-21 Brocklehurst, Fanny 81 ecclesiastical of 1851 70, Brocklehurst, F.D. 81, 86 90 Brocklehurst, John 69, 84, Chadwick, David 85 87, 89 Chambers, J.D. 121 Brocklehurst, P.P. 81, 84 chantry certificates of 1546- Brocklehurst, T.U. 84, 87, 88, 48 34-37, 39, 40, 41,44- 92 51,54 Brocklehurst, W.C. 81, 84 charity and charitable Brocklehurst, W.W. 81 activities 67-92 Bromfield 26 Chartists and Chartism 88 216 Index cheese and cheese making Cholmondeley, Hugh 8-9 113, 115, 116-17, 118, Chrisdeton 1, 6, 20, 22, 25, 120, 121, 122 28 Chelmsford 150 Church of dioceses 1-2, 3, 28, 31, 55, 149 58, 68, 72, 76, 79,113, churchwardens 34-35 114,115, 116, 121 city status 149-55 agricultural show 120, Clackclose 37-38 122 Clegg, Alderman 97 baronies of 2 Clitheroe 44 visitations of 1, 12, 14-15, Cloghall, Dick 104-05 17 clover 116 Cheshire Domesday 21, 27, Clulow, Elizabeth 73, 75, 76 28 Clyde Navigation Trust 143 Chester 58, 72, 109, 120, 126, Cobden Treaty 90 151 Colne 44 Abbey 4, 5, 6, 7, 24, 25, Colne & District coloured 31 goods manufacturers diocese 40, 45, 55 association 135 justiciar of 18, 20, 21 comic history and histories StJohn 55 93-112 sheriff of 20 72, 73 Chester, earls/earldom of 1, Congregationalists and 8, 23-24 Congregationalism 70 Chester, Hugh I Earl of Cooper, Alderman 101 Chester 3 corners and cornering 138-39 Chester, Hugh II Earl of cotton manufacturing, Chester 15, 19, 24, 25, 26 manufacturers and trade Chester, Ranulf I Earl of 68, 76, 85, 92, 95,126, Chester 5 127, 128, 129,130, 133- Chester, Ranulf II Earl of 35, 137-39, 145-46, 147 Chester 2, 23, 24 Cranage 1 Chester, Ranulf III Earl of 2, 25 Chester 15-16, 19, 21, 31 Crewe, Thomas 81 Chester, Richard Earl of Croxteth 100, 109 Chester 7 crusades 21 Childwall 47 Cuddington 2 Cholmondeley 1 46 Cholmondeley family 14 Index 217

Daston, Lorraine 65 Ednowen of Handley or David ap Griffith 106 Hampton 22 David the Bastard 14, 20 Education Act of 1870 79, 90 David the Clerk 12, 14, 19- Edward the Confessor, king 21,22, 23, 28, 29, 30 of England 99 Davidson, Sir John, created Edward VI, king of England 1st Viscount Davidson 108 151, 152, 154 Edward VIII, king of Britain Davies, Mary 58-59, 60, 61, 150 63 Egerton 14, 22 demography, see population Egerton, Wilbraham Denton 131 Egerton, 2nd Baron and Derby 68 later 1st Earl Egerton 81 Derby, earls of 100, 107-10, Einion ap David 5, 15, 22, 112 23, 24 Derby, Edward Stanley, 3rd Elders & Fyffes 132 Earl of Derby 100 Elizabeth, princess 154 Derby, Edward Stanley, 14th Emma, wife of William Patric Earl of Derby 100-01 12 Derby, Edward Stanley, 17th Erdeswick, Sampson 5, 7, 9, Earl of Derby 152, 154 10, 14 Derbyshire 29, 55 Everton 100, 104 Digby, Kenelm 64 diocesan returns of 1563 34- farming and farming 37, 39, 40, 44, 45-51 accounts 113-24 Dod, J. Phillip 114,115, 116, Farndon 1, 2, 25 120 Fisher, F J. 33 Dodes, John 64 fitzAlexander, Kenright 18 Dogdyke 39 fitzHugh, Robert, baron of Domesday Book 1, 3, 6, 13, Malpas 3-5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 21 14, 17, 21,23, 25, 30,31 18, 22 fitzNigel, Robert 28-29, 30 Durham 55, 155 fltzRobert, Richard 18 Dyer, Alan 36, 37, 45, 47, 48 fitzWilliam, Orme 18 fitzWilliam, Richard 8, 17-20, Easter rolls 44, 45 21,29 Eastham 130 fitzWilliam, Robert 28, 29 Eccleston 47 fiztWyon, David 18 Flixton 51 218 Index

Flodden Field 155 Gryffifth, Margaret 62 Forwood, Arthur Bowyer 1 110 Guildford 150 Fox, George 155 Freeston, Revd Joseph 85 Hampton 18 fruit and the fruit trade 131, Hardinge, Sir Alexander 152 132, 133 Harold, king of England 93- Fulwich 25 94 Hardepool 147 Garnet, W J. 152 Harwood 40 Garstang 47, 50 harvest failure 33 Garston 126,127 Hastings, battle of 93-94 Geddes, J.H. 131 hat manufacturing and General Steam Navigation manufacturers 131 c o .142 Hatcher, John 54 George III, king of Britain Haydock, Roger 101 155 Heap, Mr and Mrs 80, 83 George VI, king of Britain Heath, James 81 149,150-51,152,153, Heath, Peter 35 155 , Thomas 21, 22, 27 coronation of 149, 150, Henry I, king of England 7 153 Henry II, king of England Gilbert the Clerk 12, 27-28 11,20, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, Glasgow 96 31 Gloucester diocese 36-37 Henry III, king of England Gloucestershire 13, 36 20,27,100,107 Gogh, Philip 14 Henry VIII, king of England Golbourne, David 14 37, 49, 93,149 Gomorrah 106 Hereford 151 Goodman 14 Holland, David 84 Gore’s directory 98 Hollingsworth, T.H. 33 grass 116 Holmes, Randle 7, 20, 24 114 Holt 26 Great Reform Bill 94 Home Office 150, 151, 152, Greg, Samuel 68 153 Gresfesac, Robert 6 Home Secretary 151 Griffith ap Cynan 23 horns, human 57-66 Gruffydd ab Owain 6-7, 9, Horton 22 23, 30 hosiery manufacturers 68 Index 219

Hoskins, W.G. 49 Kreider, Alan 37 household size and multipliers 37-39, 40, 54 Lamport & Holt 147 ‘houseling people’ 34-37, 39, Lancashire 33-55, 57, 68, 95, 40, 41,45-51,55 126,127, 129, 137,138, Howell, James 63-64, 66 141, 142, 146, 153 Hull 150 Lancaster 46, 149-55 Humber 55 Ashton Hall 154, 155 Hutchinson, Anne 64 bishop suffragan 152 Huyton 47-48 castle 152 charter 155 immigration 41, 50 council 150-51,152, 154, Improvement Act of 1847 89 156 Industrial Schools Act of Dalton Square 154, 155 1865 78 Duchy of 151, 152, 153, influenza 33 154 Innocent III, pope 15 parish church 154 Ireland and the Irish 96-97, priory 154 99, 106 sheriff of 18 Ithell ap Tudor 17-18 town clerk 154, 155, 156 town hall 154 Jackson, James 84 Laslett, P. 38 Jamaica 132 lay subsidy of 1524-25 49-50 Jerusalem 100 Lee, Samuel 4-5, 25 John, king of England 20, 27, Leeds 150 100, 106 Leek 70, 72 Jones, Richard, Earl of Lees, J.B. 76 Ranelegh 60 Legh, John 28 Leicester 150 Kegworth 4, 11, 29 Leicestershire 28, 29 Kenclerk 14 Leigh, Charles 61, 62-63 Kendal 51 Letitia de Malpas 4, 5-9, 10, Kent 36-37 14, 29, 30 Kershaw, James 81, 87 Lewisham 143 King, William 5 Leycester, Sir Peter 4, 5, 20 Kirkby Ireleth 45 Leyland 48 Knowsley 100, 109 Lincolnshire 13, 39 Knowsley Hall 100 Litde, Richard 14, 17, 19 72 Litde Crosby 57 220 Index

Little Sutton 113 Llywelyn, prince of Gwynedd Pool Farm 113 15-16 Littleton 5, 6 London 38,61,64, 79, 99, Liver, Dick 95-97 131-32, 144 Liverpool 48, 79, 83, 94-112, Luscombe, John 2-3 120, 125-48 51 Bold Street 101 Lyve 104, 105, 106 Canada dock 130 civil war siege 101 Mabella de Malpas 4, 9-10, cotton brokers 14, 30 associadon 134, 146 67-92 cotton exchange 134, baths 71, 85, 87, 90 138, 145, 146 Brook Street 79, 80 cotton trade in 95, 126, Buxton Road 73 127, 128, 129, 130, 133- Christ Church 88, 90 35, 137-39, 145-46, 147 dispensary 71, 86, 87 diocese 149 education in 71, 91 docks 97, 128, 129 fence almshouses 71 Gateacre 94 fence hospital 71 Irish in 96-97 fire brigade 81 Liverpool Institute 98 girls’ high school 71 Liverpool life 98 grammar school 71, 80 Liverpool mercury 98 Higher Hurdsfield 73 Lord Street 101 Hurdsfield 86 mayor 101, 102, 106 infirmary 71, 85, 86, 87, parliamentary elections 88 and representation 101, King Edward Street 108, 111 chapel 71, 84 public health in 110-11 Mill Street meeting house slavery and slave trade in 71 95, 102-03, 111, 112 Park Street Methodist Theatre Royal 111 New Connexion chapel town council 97, 101, 84 104,105, 106, 108, 110, parks 71 111 public library 71,85 Welsh builders in 104-07 public services in 71 Liverpool and Manchester ragged and industrial railway 128 school 67, 78-84, 90 Index 221

relief association 87, 89- church 21, 27 90 Man, Isle of 97, 99 religion and religious Manchester 40, 48-49, 73, 95- organisations in 70-71 96, 99, 109, 111, 125-48 St Michael’s church 71, chamber of commerce 75 133, 137, 138 St Paul’s church 78, 88 city council 140, 143-44 St Peter’s church 88 cotton association 134, St Peter’s working men’s 145, 146 institute 88 diocese 149 school of art 71, 90 dry dock 141 Sunday school 71, 74, 84, Mode Wheel locks 141 90 royal exchange 127, 134 Sunderland Street Ship Canal and ship canal Wesleyan chapel 67, 72- company 109, 125-48 78, 83 town hall 144 Sutton 89 Trafford Park 133 Town Yard 73 Margaret Rose, princess 154 Turnock Street 78 Margery de Malpas 20 useful knowledge society Matthews, Toby 66 71,86 May, John 81, 85 Victoria Park 71, 87 meat, frozen 132, 133 voluntary organisations in Medway 36 70-71 Mere, Jane 64 volunteer drill hall 71 Mersey 99, 109, 127 Waters Green 73 Mersey Docks and Harbour West Park 71, 85, 86 Board 127, 139, 143, 144 West Park museum 71, Mersey Docks bonds 115, 87 119, 122 workhouse 85 Methodists and Methodism Madeley Manor 115 69, 71, 72-74, 75, 76, 77, Maelor 6, 23 89, 98 Maillard, Richard 8, 9, 30 Middleton 42, 45 Maillard, William 19 Middleton, R.H. 151, 152-53 Mair, William 81 Minnesota, university 57 Malpas 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 22, 23, Molyneux family, from 1771 24,31 earls of Sefton, from barons/barony of 1-32 1831 barons Sefton of casde 26 Croxteth 100, 107-10 222 Index

Molyneux, Sir Richard 108 Oldham 127 Morecambe 154 Ormerod, George 3, 4, 5, 8, Mortymer, lord of Wigmore 9,10,11,12,14, 21,22, 25 30.31 Muckleraw, Andrew 96 Ormskirk 50, 110 Municipal Reform Act 94 113 Overton 17, 18, 21 Nelson bros 132 Owen family 113, 122 New England 64 Owen, Robert 68 New Lanark 68 Newcasde-under-Lyne 120 Padiham 44, 45 Newcasde-upon-Tyne 147 Pagitt, Ephraim 64 Diocese 149 Palliser, D M . 36, 45, 47, 48 Newchurch in Pendle 44 parish registers 54 Newchurch in Rossendale 44 Park, Katherine 65 Newton in Makerfield 46 Parr, Edward 150, 151, 155, Nichols, John 11, 12, 27 156 Nicholson, Joshua Oldfield Patric family 4, 8, 11-12, 19, 70 21,22-23, 24, 26, 27, 29, Nigel de Puis 29 30.31 Norfolk 38 Patric, Isabella 12 Norham 42, 55 Patric, Richard 8-9 Norris, Alderman 101 Patric, Robert 11, 21, 22 north and north east Patric, Robert junior 12 Lancashire cotton Patric, William 9, 11, 22, 26, spinners and 31 manufacturers Patric, William junior 12 association 135 Pearson family 78 North West trade, commerce Pearson, George 73, 74, 75, and economy 125-48 76 Northumberland 55 Peckforton 6, 7 Nottingham 150 Pen and ink sketches 98, 101 numerals, Arabic and Roman Pennines 55 44-45, 46-47 Persian Gulf 139 Phillips, Colin 33 oats 115, 116 pigs 116 O ’Flighty, Phelim 96 Plymouth 150, 156 O ’Gaunt, John 155 population levels 33-55 oil industry 133 Index 223

Porcupine 97, 98, 104, 105, Robert fitzWilliam 10 106, 111, 112 Robert of Rhuddlan 6 Port of London Authority Roe, Charles 88 143 Rome 100 Portsmouth 78, 150 Rotterdam 142 potatoes 115, 117 Rowton 28 Pott Shrigley 55 royalists and royalism 57 Presbury 55 R.S.P.C.A. 85 Prescot 46, 50 99 Preston 126 Ryle family 69, 78 Prestwich 50-51 Ryle, John 73-74, 76, 77 probate series 33-34, 46 St Albans diocese 149 Quakers and Quakerism 70 St Patrick 99 Salt, Titus 68 rabbit skins 131 Saltaire 68 ragged school movement 78 Sanders, Henry 25 Ralph, baron of Malpas 4-5 Sandford family 19 Ralph ab Einion 12, 22-26, 57, 58 31 Schofield, R.S. 33, 34, 37, 54 Ramsbotham, Herwald 151, Scotland and the Scots 96 152 Seathwaite 45 Rand, John 68 Sefton 50 Ranger, Morris 138 Sellar, W.C. 93, 94 Rawlinson, Joshua 135 Seward, Dorothy 155 Raynes, W.L. 156 Sheffield 150 Redgrave 39 Shepherd, William 94-97, Renwick, George 141 102, 111, 112 Richard III, king of England Shildrick, Margaret 63 108 Shimmin, Hugh 97-104, 111, Richard the Clerk 18 112 Richard, husband of Letitia ships and shipping 129, 130, de Malpas 8, 9 131,134, 135-37, 139, Richardson 14 141, 146, 147 Richmond, archdeaconry of conferences 136-37, 147 55 Shockhead, Flora 104 Ripley, Henry William 68 Shockhead, Jerry 104-05 Ripon diocese 149 2, 22, 31 Robert de Tremons 6 Shrewsbury, earl of 7 224 Index

Shropshire 19 Thorley, Joshua 76 Siddorn, Elizabeth 114 Thornycroft, John 81 Siddorn, Sarah 114 Thorp, John Walter Hook 70 silk manufacturing and 1, 6, 7 manufacturers 67-92 Tiverton 1 Sinden, Revd W. 81 Touchstone, Timothy 95-96 Smallwood, John B. 76 Toxteth Sodom 106 St Patrick’s church 97 South America 147 The true and wonderful history of Southport 100 Dick Tiver 94, 98 Spain 131 Truro diocese 149 Spurstow 1 Tunnicliffe, Joseph 71, 86, 88 Stafford 72 Turner, David 62 Staghall, W.B. 81 Twist, Tim 95-96 Stanley family, from 1485 Tyne Improvement earls of Derby 100, 107- Commission 143 10,112 Tyneside 141 Steenstrand 138-39 typhus 33 Stephen, king of England 2, 24, 28, 29 Unitarians and Unitarianism Stockport 72, 73, 83, 120, 69, 94, 98, 112 131 Stockton 22 Vernon, William 18 Stoke, chaplain of 18-19 Victoria, queen of Britain 155 Stoke-on-Trent 150 diamond jubilee 150 Strutt family 68 Styal 68 Wadsworth, J.B. 81 Suez canal 130 Wakefield diocese 149 Suffolk 39 Wales and the Welsh 1, 2, 3, Swansea 150 4, 6, 7, 15, 24, 26, 104-07 50, 92 Tailard, Morville 18 Wars of the Roses 108 Tailard, William 18 Warton 51 T anglus t/T anglwst/ Wesley, John 72, 73, 74, 75, Tangwysd 15-16 76 1066 and all that 93 Wesleyans 98 Thomas de Cotgrave 14, 17, West Derby 106, 108 19 casde 99 Thompson, Hamilton 37 Index 225

workhouse and poor law Whitaker, Whitehead & co. in 99 138 West Indies 111 Whitefield, George 72 Westminster, marquesses, Whitehaven 97 later dukes of 80, 81, 82, Whitgreve, Thomas 15,16 85, 114, 117,120 Wigan 46 Westminster, Hugh Lupus Willan, T.S. 49 Grosvenor, 3rd Marquess William de Bermingham 20 and 1st Duke of William de Malpas 14 Westminster 81, 82, 114, William de Overton 14 117 Winwick 46 Westminster, Richard Wirral 58, 113 Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess wool and the wool trade 131 o f Westminster 80, 81, 32 82,114,117,120 Wrexham 26 Westminster, Robert Wrigley, E.A. 33, 34, 37, 54 Grosvenor, 1st Marquess Wychough 25 of Westminster 114, 117 Westminster Abbey 149, 153 Yeatman, R.J. 93, 94 Westmoreland 121 York 72, 144, 151 Whalley 35, 44, 45 Yorkshire 131 abbey 18, 63 North Riding 55 wheat 115, 116, 117 West Riding 55, 68