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LANCASHIRE
HISTORICAL & DESCRIPTIVE NOTES
BY
LEO H. GRINDON

Lancashire

EMIGRANTS AT LIVERPOOL

LANCASHIRE

BRIEF HISTORICAL AND
DESCRIPTIVE NOTES

BY
LEO H. GRINDON
AUTHOR OF
'THE MANCHESTER FLORA'; 'MANCHESTER BANKS AND BANKERS';
'LIFE, ITS NATURE, VARIETIES, AND PHENOMENA'; ETC.

WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS

London
SEELEY AND CO., LIMITED
Essex Street, Strand
1892

PREFACE

The following Chapters were written for the Portfolio of 1881, inwhich they appeared month by month. Only a limited space being allowedfor them, though liberally enlarged whenever practicable, not one ofthe many subjects demanding notice could be dealt with at length.While reprinting, a few additional particulars have been introduced;but even with these, in many cases where there should be pages thereis only a paragraph. Lancashire is not a county to be disposed of sobriefly. The present work makes no pretension to be more than an indexto the principal facts of interest which pertain to it, the details,in almost every instance, still awaiting the treatment they so welldeserve. If I have succeeded in marking out the foundations for asuperstructure to be raised some day by an abler hand, I shall becontent. It is for every man to begin something, to the best of hispower, that may be useful to his fellow-creatures, though it may notbe permitted to him to enjoy the greater pleasure of completing it.

Some of the commendations passed upon Lancashire may seem to come ofthe partiality of a man for his own county. It may be well for me tosay that, although a resident in Manchester for forty years, my nativeplace is Bristol.

LEO GRINDON.

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