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A History of the County of Lancaster
… including 3 of inland water. This name has disappeared. Camden in his Britannia records a traditional but inaccurate …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… to fortify his manor-house there and to inclose a park. 58 Camden states that the earl was 'in fear of certain outlawed …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… introductions, she obtained the ear of Lord Chancellor Camden and through his powerful pleading a Private Act was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 49; he also remarks that Bury had 'but a poor market.' Camden, on the other hand, calls it a market town 'not less …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… ii, 159. Raines, ut sup. quoting Cartwright's Diary (Camden Soc.), in which the bishop states he dismissed the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… translation naturally followed. This was copied into Camden's Britannia, but a corrected reading was given by Dr. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… about 1 miles north of Turton Tower, was described by Camden 14 as a 'proper fair house,' but this probably refers …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the Cop Cross, formerly stood west of the village. 6 Camden notices the use of turf here for fire and candle … Raven Meols 8 extends to 658 acres exclusive of foreshore. Camden states that there was a small village named Alt Mouth …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of the earls of Derby, within a mile of Prescot.' 108 Camden passes it over. Until the Civil War Lathom was the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in the town; no river by it, but mosses on each side.' 3 Camden, writing fifty or sixty years later, merely says that … town by the earl of Derby, in 1684. Leland, Itin. vii, 47. Camden, Brit. (ed. 1695), 749. Duchy of Lanc. Pleadings, …