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Identifier: countiesofenglan01ditc (find matches)
Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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se yarne, and here, he adds, they burn sum canalebut more se cole, of wich the pittes be not far off.Ormskirk Leland describes as a town without a river,but surrounded by mosses. Of Preston he records thatit had a market-place, and the town itself was fair,and it had only one parish church. Of Lancaster hereports that the old town was said to have been almostburnt, and formerly stood partely beyounde the BlackFriars; the new town was built near the descent fromthe Castel. Referring to the town walls, he adds thathe espiyed in no place that the Toune was everwaullid. Charles I. found it necessary to raise money veryoften by subsidies, from the writs for which we mayglean a few items bearing upon the relative conditionsof various places in the county. Thus, in 1635, it wasstated that if all the towns were to be taxed accordingto their estate, Liverpool was to pay little, being verypoor. Lancashire had to furnish one ship of 400 tonsburden, 160 men, and ;^i,ooo, towards which Preston was
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Manchester Church, as seen from Stanvhurst, Saiford. Lancashire 107 to raise ^^40, Lancaster £^0, Wigan £$0, Liverpool only£2$, and Clitheroe and Newton £y los. each. In 1643 a sum of ;^2,ooo was levied upon the county,at a general meeting of Deputy-Lieutenants, to aid SirThomas Fairfax and his soldiers, and it is of interest tonote the proportion ordered to be collected in eachhundred. Blackburn raised £2^1, Salford £24.^, WestDerby ;^I95, Ley land ;^99, Amounderness ^^239, Lons-dale ii^300.^ The treasurer for this fund was HumphreyChetham, of Clayton Hall. Of the Civil Wars, which began in 1642, and onlyended, as far as Lancashire was concerned, in 1651, it isnot possible here to treat; the tale has often been told.The people of Lancashire were strangely divided, inmany cases families providing fighting men for the Kingand for the Parliament. The Roman Catholics weremostly on the side of the King, and suffered severely fortheir loyalty. A striking example of this is furnishedi

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