Quarto volume, lettered C on the spine. Pages 24 x 19 cms. Bound in full dark blue cloth. Corrections made in red ink by John Harland (1806-1868), Dec 1853. Various sequences of pages.
The volume consists of 8 sections, each independently paginated and bound together.
Part I
Pages
1-9: Life of John Angier (1605-1677), Minister at Dinton, abridged from the print of 1685.
Part II
1-13: Index of names of people and places in the (printed) Calendar of Pleadings (Ducat. Lanc., 3 vols).
Part III
1-37: Calendar to Pleadings, Surveys etc. relating to the parish of Manchester (extracted from Ducat. Lanc., 3 vols).
Part IV
Baronia de Manchester (from Kuerden's MSS in Chetham's Library, ff. 274-82. Collated and corrected by John Harland).
1-5: The Gresley Family, 1086-1310.
5-6: De la Warre Family, 8 John-Edw II.
6-25: Extent of the Manor of Manchester, 1322.
25-6: Placita T. Paschae, 32 Edw I, Rot. 71 (1303). Re. churches of Manchester and Ashton.
27-8: Inspeximus of inquisition of Roger de la Warre, taken at Preston, 1359.
Part V
The Wests (Barons de la Warre).
a: Genealogy.
b-d: Abstracts from Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, 1415-1475.
Part VI
Translations of documents transcribed in Part IV, 6-28.
1-19: Extent of the Manor of Manchester.
20: Pleas at Easter Term, 32 Edw. I, Roll 71.
21: Inspeximus of inquisition of Roger de la Warre taken at Preston, 1359.
Part VII
Monumental Inscription of John Radcliffe of Ordsall (1589).
1-40: Abstract of deeds: Trafford, Radcliffe, Holland, Bamford, Barton, Grelley, Pilkington and other families.
40-3: Chapelries of Manchester (Inquisition, 17 June, 1650).
47-87: Pedigrees and genealogical notes relating to various families, including the Pilkingtons, the Croxtons, the Egertons of Egerton and Ridley, the Leighs of East Hall and West Hall, the Hultons of Farnworth, the Radcliffes, the Booths of Barton, the Orrells, the Ridges (from Placita de Quo Warranto, Com' Lanc'; Calendars of Chancery Proceedings, Pleadings and Depositions, etc).
49-50: Note on W. Crabtree's Astronomical Work.
88-90: Chancery Proceeding, temp Henry VI. John Buron, sheriff of Lancaster, v. Sir John Pilkington, knight, re seizure of plaintiff's cattle in reprisal for distress levied for non-payment of green wax.
91-3: Extracts from Nonarum Inquisitiones in Curia Scaccarii temp Regis Edwardi III (relating to churches in Salford Hundred).
93-6: Extracts from Abbreviatio Placitorum (1300-1325).
97-102: Extracts from Abbreviatio Rotulorum Originalium (1274-1376).
102-6: Extracts from Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium (1259-).
106-7 & 110-11: Extracts from Rotuli Hundredorum (1276).
108-9: Foedera, Litterae et Acta Publica.
112-3: Pedigree of Goushill (from Thornton's Nottinghamshire, p. 306).
113: Strangeways Memoranda.
113-5: Testamentu[m] Tho[mas] del Booth of Barton (Latin, for translation see p. 202).
116-7: Salford Charter.
118-9: Extracts from Placita de Quo Warranto, Derbyshire (Nicholas de Langford, Robertus de Greilley (Grelley)).
120-3: Extenta Manerii: For extending or surveying a Manor. (English and Latin.)
124: Ryven Pyke: "A Noate of a Taxacon for the Watching of the Beacon att Ryven Pyke", 1588. (From Harl. MSS Cod. 1926, printed in Edward Baines's The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, ed. James Croston (Manchester: J. Heywood, 1888-93), III 229.)
125: Excessive number of ale houses and bakers in Manchester, temp Eliz. Letter from the Judges Clench and Rodes to Deputy Lieutenant (Harl. MSS Cod. 1926).
125-7: "The Enormities of the Sabbothe are theis" (ex eodem codice). (Printed in Baines's The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, Croston's edition.)
128: Sir Cecill Trafford's Deeds, 11 Jul 1652 (Harl. MSS Cod. 2112).
128-30: Account of some transcripts of deeds in the possession of Mr Worseley (ex eodem codice).
130: Fines de Cor' Banco in Com' Lancastr' (temp Edw III).
131-2: Abstracts of Final Agreements in the Bag of Pedes Finium, Com' Lancastr' in the Record Office, Chapter house, Westminster (temp Edw III).
133-53: Civil War Tracts (see Ormerod's 'Civil War Tracts', Chetham Society, Old Series vol 2).
154-61: Inventory of Whalley Abbey (printed in 'Coucher Book or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey', vol 4, Chetham Society, Old Series vol 20).
161-5: Official correspondence on the death of Mr Houghton by the Baron of Walton in a riot at Lea in the reign of Elizabeth (Harl. MSS Cod. 1926, 6995. See Baines's The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, Croston's edition, IV 59).
165-6: Letter of John Dee, Warden of Manchester, commending the case of Mr Nicholson, whose house has been destroyed (Lansdowne MSS Cod. 158).
167: Funeral expenses of S[i]r R. Ashton of Middleton (Harl. MSS Cod 2129).
167-70: Note relating to the Wests, the Lords de la Warre; abstracts from Parliamentary Writs.
171: Titles and dates of old statutes.
172-3: Extracts from Statutes of the Realm: assize of bread and ale.
173: Writ relating to military service against Llewellyn, 1277 (abstract from Rot. Claus. 5 Edw I m. 2d).
174-82: Abstracts from Parliamentary Writs relating to military service: the Grelleys, Roger de la Warre, the Longfords, etc.
184-5: Abstract from Placita de Quo Warranto, Com' North': Johannes de la Warre.
186-7, 188-93 & 206-7: Abstracts of deeds, from Kuerden's MSS.
187-8: Charles I's letter to the Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1642.
193-4: Clarke's Charity: proposed exchange of lands etc (abbreviated from an advertisement in the Manchester Guardian, 5 Jul 1834).
195: Description of Elizabeth's charter to the Collegiate Church of Manchester.
200-1: Act for building St Ann's church, 1708.
202-4: Will of Thomas del Booth of Barton (translation, for Latin version see p. 113).
208-9: Extract from Dugdale's Baronetage, vol. I, p. 608: Greslei.
216: Index of Articles.
217-22: Index of Names.
222-6: Index of Places.
Part VIII
"Eye-salve for England, or the Grand Trappan detected, In a plain and faithful Narrative, of the horrid and unheard of designs of some Justices and Deputy Lieutenants in Lancashire, treacherously to ensnare the lives and estates of many Persons of Quality in that County, as also in the Counties of York and Chester. By Evan Price, who suffered long and grievous imprisonment there, for not complying with them to carry on their wicked designs".
Transcript of a rare tract, c. 1663.
(At end) Copy and description of the representation of a cross and globe on the original deeds of confirmation of William, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, when the Church of Manchester was made Collegiate, dated 1421.