AND' DIRECTORY, Pafclifhecl the Wter End of the Year 179.), For the Yec.r 179*. I'rice 2S. Cd. jgf

. J bio SCHOLES's

MANCHESTER AND SALFORD DIRECTORY:

OR,

AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE

MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS,

AND ^

PRINCIPAL INHABITANTS;

With the new Numbers as afixed to their Houfes.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

Afhort Sketch of the Hiftory of I An Account of the Pofts goinj Manchester. J out, &c. An alphabetical Lift of Country | Account of Stage Coaches going Manufacturers, Whitfters, &c. » out from the different Inns. An alphabetical Lift of the Streets, I Situation of the Affurance Offices, Squares, Lanes and Paifages. » with the Names of the Agents. A Lift of Carriers, by Land and i Situation of the Fire Plugs and Water; with the Days of their t Engine Houfes, with the -•ames arrival and return. " of the Conductors k Fire-men.

WITH

OTHER MATTERS OF USEFUL INF0RMATI6N.

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Manchester: FUNTBD BY SOWLER AND RUSSELL, MDCCXCIV. ,, CONTENTS.

A Page. -fjf Short Sketch of the Hiftory of Manchefter v. Magiftrates ailing for the Hundred of Salford xiii. A Lift of the Boroughreeves, Conftahles, &V. of the Towns of Manchefter end Salford xiv. Officers of the Infirmary, Lunatic Hofpital and Afylum . . , xv. A Lift of the Mafonic Lodges in Manchefter, with the Timet of meeting xvi. Alphabetical Lift of the Merchants, Manufaelurers and Prin­ cipal Inhabitants of Manchefter and Salford I Alphabetical Lift of the Country Manufatlurers, Whitfters, £aV. I£J Alphabetical Lift of the Streets, Squares, Lanes and Pajfages, with a Reference to tlieir Situations 173 Names of the Fourteen Diftrifls of Manchefter, with the Over- feers of the Poor for each Diftricl 181 His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater's Navigation 184 Old Navigation .' 186 Pofts going out, with the Rates of Foreign Poftage ..... i8jr Royal Mail Coaches, with the Times of going out, the meafure- ment of the Stages, the Fares to the different Stages, end the Price of Carriage of large and fmall Parcels . . .188 Coaches, with the Times of going out from the different Inns l8g An Alphabetical Lift of Carriers to all Parts of Great Britain, with the Times of coming in and going out 19 X The Affurance Offices, with the Names: of the. Agents; Situation of the Fire Plugs and Engine Houfes; with the Names of the Condudvrs and Fire-men 198 Appendix , 20O >OOS(>0()OOOOO<>OOOQO«0<)OOO<>CK>OOCX>OOO<)0<)0

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S K E T C II

HISTORY OF MANCHESTER,

(Firft published in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.)

ANCHESTER, a town of Lancafhire in , fituated in \V. Long. 2. 42. N. Lat. 53. 27. Mr. WhitakeM r conjectures, that the ftation was firft occupied by the Britons about 500 years B. C. but that it did not receive any thing like the form of a town till 450 years after, or 50 years B. C. when the Britons of Chefhire made an irruption into the territories of their ibuthern neighbours, and of con­ fluence alarmed the Seftuntii, or inhabitants of Lancafhire, fo much that they began to build fortrefles, in order to defend their country. Its Britifh name was Mancenion, that is, " a place of tents:" it was changed, however, into Mancunium by the Romans, who conquered it under Agricola in the memor­ able yeur of the Chriftian aera 79. It appears alfo to have been called Mandurfuedum, Mandueffidum, Manucium, and Mamceftre; frorh wich laft it feems molt evident that the prefent name has been derived. It is diftant from 182 miles, and from Edinburgh 214; (landing near the conflux of the Irk and the Invell, about three miles from the Merfey.

Manchefter was accounted a large and populous town even 50 years ago; but fince that time it is fuppoled