This contains inter alia:
Part 3 of Fasti Mancunienses [?the rough draft].
Notes on the Ffarington family, the Earls of Derby.
Extracts from the Lichfield Registers of Presentations to Lancashire Churches, 1298 to 1541.
Copies of letters from Richard Johnson, Fellow of the Collegiate Church of Manchester, 1634-5.
From the Chetham private papers, series of extracts from the private papers of Humphrey Chetham esq, Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 much crossed out as if recopied elsewhere.
Copy of the Annales Cestrienses, [printed by the Record Society].
Notes from a Commonplace Book of James, 7th Earl of Derby, belonging in 1865 to the Rev John Webb of Ross, Herefordshire. [Made use of in the Stanley papers published by the Chetham Society].
Very full pedigree of Butterworth of Belfield drawn up by Mr George Moss, 1856, with a series of extracts from the Rochdale Registers relating to the Butterworths.
Extracts from the Registers of the Archdeaconry of Richmond, Bishop Langley's Register at Durham. Series of baptismal and other certificates relating to the Baldwin family.
Original sermon preached by Dr. Moldsworth, vicar of Rochdale, 1862.
Copy of a document from the Lichfield Register, 1449, relating to the Archdeaconry of Chester.
Copy of the account of the Wardens of Manchester, drawn up in 1664 from a MS in the Herald's College.
Draft pedigree of the Fenton Family.
Rough draft of the pedigree of Travis.
Pedigrees of the Rawstorne family, in the handwriting of the Rev. G. J. Piccope.
Pedigree of Astley of co Stafford, and of Blackburn, Livesey, Stakes, co Lancs.
Pedigree of Atherton of Preston, in the handwriting of the Rev. G. J. Piccope.
Other miscellaneous papers.