. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. osite Page53 opposite 91 no opposite 167 194 265 opposite 275 NANTWICH. 10. II. 13- 14-15-i6. 23- 24. 25- 29. Stone Pulpit in the ChurchShields of Arms {Plate) (Fac-simile of original drawing temp. Eliz The Church Interior {Plate) Plan of the Church {Plate) ... Bosses in Chancel groining {Plate) ... Sweet-briar Hall, Hospital Street Gateway to Wrights Almshouses {Plate) (Re-produced from a plate byOld Grammar SchoolGrotesque Carving ...Old Houses i
. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. osite Page53 opposite 91 no opposite 167 194 265 opposite 275 NANTWICH. 10. II. 13- 14-15-i6. 23- 24. 25- 29. Stone Pulpit in the ChurchShields of Arms {Plate) (Fac-simile of original drawing temp. Eliz The Church Interior {Plate) Plan of the Church {Plate) ... Bosses in Chancel groining {Plate) ... Sweet-briar Hall, Hospital Street Gateway to Wrights Almshouses {Plate) (Re-produced from a plate byOld Grammar SchoolGrotesque Carving ...Old Houses in High StreetArms and Crest of iVIaistersonWilbrahams Widows AlmshouseArms and Crest of WilbrahamChurchs Mansion ...Arms and Crest of MainwaringArms and Crest of WettenhallArms and Crest of MinshullPortrait of John Gerard (Fac-simile slightly reduced from the engrav Arms and Crest of Wicksted •enes J. P. Earwaker, Esq.) J. Richardson). ing in Gerards Herbal opposite 284 opposite 308 opposite 330 opposite 332 353 opposite 370 377 395 403 415 420 430 436 441 457 463 470 481496 PREFACE. NE has well observed that the past is in itself a treasure; and the same feeling which leads us back to the recolleftion of infancy carries us still further along the mighty waste of time. In these pages an attempt is made to trace the history of Nantwich, an ancient market town in Cheshire, from the time of the taking of the Domesday Survey to the present year; bridging over that interval of more than eight centuries with a series of local events in chronological sequence, and linking the present with the past by re-peopling the town with inhabitants of by-gone days. This self-imposed task has entailed no small labour; for, as Sterne has said, when a man sits down to write a history, though it be but the history of Jack Hickathrift or Tom Thumb, he knows no more than his heels what lets and hindrances he is to meet with in his way, or what a dance he may be led by one excursion or anot
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