JAMES CROSSLEY, Esq., F.S.A., PRESIDENT. REV. F. R. RAINES, M.A., F.S.A., HON. CANON OF MANCHESTER, VICE-PRESIDENT. WILLIAM BEAMONT, Esq. THE VERY REV. GEORGE HULL BOWERS, D.D., DEAN OF MANCHESTER. R. C. CHRISTIE, Esq., M.A. REV. THOMAS CORSER, M.A., F.S.A. W. A. HULTON, Esq. THOMAS JONES, Esq., B.A., F.S.A. WILLIAM LANGTON, Esq. COLONEL EGERTON LEIGH. REV. JOHN HOWARD MARSDEN, B.D., F.R.G.S., CANON OF MANCHESTER. REV. JAMES RAINE, M.A., PREBENDARY OF YORK. ARTHUR H. HEYWOOD, ESQ., TREASURER. R. HENRY WOOD, Esq., F.S.A., HON. SECRETARY. CHETHAM MISCELLANIES. VOLUME THE FOURTH. CONTAINING, I. SOME ACCOUNT OF GENERAL ROBERT VENABLES, OF AN- II. A FORME OF CONFESSION GROUNDED VPON THE ANCIENT III. A KALENDER CONTEYNING THE NAMES OF ALL SUCH GENT. AND OTHERS AS UPON HER MATY'S PRYVYE SEALES HAVE PAID THERE MONEY TO SIR HUGH CHOLMONDLEY KNYGHTE COLLECTR OF HER HYGHNES LOANE WITHIN THE COUNTIE OF CHESTER. IV. HISTORY OF WARRINGTON FRIARY. PRINTED FOR THE CHETHAM SOCIETY. M.DCCC.LXXII. ADVERTISEMENT. In laying before the Members a Fourth Volume of the MISCELLANIES, the Council of the CHETHAM SOCIETY have the satisfaction of announcing that materials are already in preparation for a Fifth; and they take this opportunity of inviting contributions from the Members and other persons interested in antiquarian pursuits. They may repeat what they have already expressed in their Advertisement to their First Volume, that nothing which tends to throw light on the habits, customs, and institutions of our race can be uninteresting to those who make mankind their study. Thus old wills, letters, deeds, authentic examples of early heraldry, materials for elucidating topography, or family, county, and general history, examples of the progress of language and of the arts, may each and all find their appropriate places in these Volumes. |