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QUOTED IN THE SECOND EDITION,

PUBLISHED SINCE 1809.

Baines.-Baines, Edward, History, Directory, and Gazeteer, of the County Palatine of Lancaster. Liverpool. 1824. Octavo, 2 volumes.

Burrow.-Burrow, The Rev. E. I.-A. M. F. L. S. MEM. GEOL. Soc. Elements of Conchology. London. 1815. Octavo.

M. G. S. &c.
Outlines of the

Con: & Phil:-Conybeare, Rev. W. D. F. R. S. & M. G. S. &c.
and Phillips, William, F. L. S.
London. 1822. Octavo, Part I.
Geology of England and Wales.

Ency: Met-Encyclopædia Metropolitana, or, Universal
Dictionary of Knowledge. London. 1818.-1826.
Quarto.

Eng: Flo:-Smith, Sir James Edward, The English Flora. London. 1824. Octavo, 3 volumes.

Graves.-Graves, George, F. L. S.-The Naturalists PocketBook, or Tourist's Companion. London. 1817. Octavo.

Gregson.-Gregson, Matthew, F. A. S.-Portfolio of Fragments of the History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Lancaster. Liverpool. 1817. Folio.

Loudon.-Loudon, J. C. F. L. S. H. S. &c. An Encyclopædia of Gardening &c. London. 1825. Octavo, 3rd Edition.

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BOOKS QUOTED IN THE SECOND EDITION.

Otley.-Otley, Jonathan, A concise description of the English Lakes, and adjacent Mountains. Keswick, 1825. Duodecimo, 2nd Edition.

Parkes. Parkes, Samuel, F. L. S. M. R. S. The Chemical Catechism with notes, Illustrations & Experiments. London. 1818. Octavo, 8th Edition.

Smithers.-Smithers, Henry, Liverpool, its Commerce, Statistics and Institutions. Liverpool. 1825. Octavo.

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NORTH MEOLS.

ORMSKIRK.

THE approach to this place from Liverpool is extremely

picturesque and beautiful. The road begins to ascend almost immediately on passing Aughton church, and continues to do

This village is about two miles S. S. W. of Ormskirk. The living is a Rectory valued in the King's books at 147. 5s. 5d. John Plumbe Tempest Esq. is Patron, and the Rev. George Vanbrugh L. L. D. Incumbent. The Church is dedicated to St. Michael. In 1801 the population amounted to 987, and in 1821 to 1279 persons. These consist of about 238 families, of whom 135 are chiefly employed in agriculture, 50 in trade &c.—and the remaining 53 are engaged either in professional pursuits or unemployed. In 1803 the Poor's Rates at 3s. 11d. the pound, amounted to 598%. Os. 2d. At present the annual rent Parish, according to the estimate of the County Rate is 87301.

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The Parishes of Aughton, Ormskirk, Halsall and North Meols, are

in the Hundred of West Derby, in the Deanery of Warrington, and in the Archdeaconry of Chester.

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so for about a mile along the side of a hill. On the summit
of this, commanding a most extensive prospect, stands a wind-
mill, which is seen for many miles round. On the left, the
Irish sea and the flat marshes and the lands along the coast
are occasionally visible. On the right, the view is obstructed
by the above named eminence, and immediately in front rises
Ormskirk church with its double head, calculated to excite
some surprize in the mind of the traveller.
A range of hills,
now called THE PENINE CHAIN,* extending northwards,
forms a very conspicuous feature in the back ground of the
landscape, and gives a finish to the picture, extremely in-
teresting.

ORMSKIRK + is a handsome town, consisting principally of four streets crossing each other at right angles nearly, leaving an extensive opening in the centre, which is the market place. The living is a discharged Vicarage, valued in the King's books at 447. 5s. 6d. and is in the gift of the Earl of Derby. This noble family have possessed the patronage since the dissolution of the monasteries in 1540, before which time, it belonged to the Priory at Burscough. It was endowed with Queen Anne's Bounty in 1719. The Rev. Joseph Thomas Horton, M. A. is the present Incumbent.

The market day is on Thursday, and there are two annual fairs, Whit-Monday and Tuesday, and the eighth of September.+ There were races annually in July, on Aughton Common,

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Ormskirk, a 3 or 4 miles from Liverpool, and about a 2 miles from Lathom, a parish church in the town, no river by it, but mosses on each side." "It has a market and fair, and has been the burial place of the Stanley's only since the time of Elizabeth, when Edward, Earl of Derby, who died 1572, appointed a chapel to be built in this church for that purpose. This place has been rendered famous by the discovery of a medicine accounted sovereign against the bite of a mad dog, compounded by William Hill Esq. of this place, whence it is called the Ormskirk medicine." Gough's Camden's Britannia, Fol. Ed. 1789. Article Brigantes, P. 137.

until 1815, when they were discontinued, and the ground was enclosed.

Table of the distances of Places, and their bearings, from Ormskirk.

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N. B. These bearings are taken from Greenwood's Map.

The Parish contains the Townships of Ormskirk, Burscough, Lathom, Scarisbrick, and Bickerstaffe with Skelmers

"The Charter of King Edward the Second reciting and confirming the grants of the donors," preserved in the office of the Duchy of Lancaster, has been translated from Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum by Mr. Riddiough of Ormskirk, to whom I am under the greatest obligations, for this, and other, very valuable communications.

"Edward by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland. and Duke of Aquitaine, Archbishop &c. We have seen the charter which our Lord Edward of famous memory, formerly King of England, our father, made to our Beloved in Christ, the Prior and Convent of Burscough in these words :-Edward by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland &c. &c.-Know ye that we have granted and by this our charter have confirmed to our Beloved in Christ, the Prior and Convent of Burscough, that they and their successors for ever may have one market every week on Thursday at their manor of Ormskirk in the county of Lancaster, and one fair there every year of five days continuance, to wit, on the eve, and on the day, and on the morrow of the beheading of St. John the Baptist, and for two days following unless that market and that fair should be to the injury of neighbouring fairsWherefore We will &c..

Witnesses.

These venerable fathers

Robert of Bath and Wells.
William of Norwich.
Godfrey of Worcester.
Our brother Edward.

William of Valencia
Our Uncle, &c.

Bishops.

Given under our hand at Westminster the 28th day of April, in the fourteenth year of our reign."

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