The Raines Lancashire Manuscripts Volume 13

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  • Reference
      GB 418 Raines/2/1/13
  • Former Reference
      GB 418 Raines C.6.46 Volume 13
  • Dates of Creation
      19th century

Scope and Content

Familia Lancastriensis; or, Genealogical Descents of the Nobility and Gentry of the County Palatine of Lancaster, from original Records, in several hands, and the manuscripts of Sir John Byron, Sir George Booth, Mr John Hopkinson, Richard Thornton Esq, Recorder of Leeds; Mr Ralph Thoresby, antiquary and Mr John Lucas, a native of Lancashire, schoolmaster in Leeds.To which is added a catalogue of the Lancashire Gentry and their Arms, by Captain Boothe of Stockporte in Cheshire, with additions. By Thomas Wilson, S.S.A., London, and copied from his manuscripts by Robert Spencer, jun, of Leeds, for John Entwistle of Foxholes, co Lancs, Esq, 1790.

As Volume 12, continued S to W: Evidences of Entwistle, Chadwick, Tonge, Radcliffe of Ordsall, Leech of Greave, etc; Middleton Grammar School; Saddleworth Church; Piccope's Extracts from Wills; Little Merely, Radcliffe, Belfield, Faling.