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From the first year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1558) down to 1832, Newton was represented in Parliament by two members, and just before its disfranchisement in 1832, its 500 families were of more account in the State than Manchesters 50,000, Lancashire having 14 members for its six boroughs of Clitheroe, Lancaster, Liverpool, Newton, Preston, and Wigan.
In 1558 the two representatives for Newton were Sir George Hawarde and Richard Chetwoode, Esq. |
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An old Indian Mutiny Veteran, who served diligently and faithfully throughout the mutiny of 1857-1858.
Having been asked by several, of my friends to give a short sketch of my eventful career, I have pleasure in dedicating to them my autobiography in the hope that they will at last confirm a statement I have often made, that I am a most singular man.
As it is about fifty-eight years ago since my enlisting in the army, I must respectfully request that my readers will forgive me for any mistakes I may have made herein. | |  |
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By WILLIAM BEAMONT. Second Edition, 1878
Time, that great clock which requires no winding up, and possesses what so many dreamers have sought for and sought in vain—the secret of perpetual motion—has also, like other clocks, from time to time, but at longer intervals, its striking times which summon attention and invite us to pause and look back, promising in return something which from the past shall teach the present how to improve the future, and instruct while it amuses us.
CONTENTS.
Part 1. Etymology of Winwick.
Part 2. Oswald, King of Northumbria.
Part 3. The Domesday Survey.
Part 4. The Church.
Part 5a. The Rectors of Winwick. 1192 - 1520
Part 5b. The Rectors of Winwick. 1520 - 1610
Part 5c. The Rectors of Winwick. 1610 - 1659
Part 5d. The Rectors of Winwick. 1659 - 1764
Part 5e. The Rectors of Winwick. 1764 - 1866
Part 6. The Winwick Chantries.
Part 7. The Grammar School.
Part 8. Some Winwick Antiquities.
Part 9. Some Winwick Names and Notabilities.
Part 10. Some Funeral Inscriptions in the Church and Churchyard.
Part 11. Bibliography
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14th May 1915: EXTRA ORDINARY SCENES.
Earlestown on Monday night was the centre of a scene absolutely unprecedented in its history. The primary cause was of course; the bitter feeling that has been gradually growing stronger against German aliens throughout the country a feeling which reached fever heat on the day following the sinking of the "Lusitania," gathered in intensity on the Sunday, and then, when Mondays papers told the tale of how Liverpool, had set the example on Sunday evening, it rose to such a height here that there Was no containing it, and "on Monday" night it reached delirium point. |
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| This is a brief history, with some details and diagrams of the local North-South route through Lancashire of the M6 Motorway, with particular reference to that part of the M6 in close proximity to Newton-le-Willows. |
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| This commemorative booklet outlines the history of the Works and its development under railway ownership in the intervening hundred years when it was successively owned by the LNWR from 1853-1923; the LMS from 1923 to 1947, and by the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission from 1st January 1948 to the present date. | |  |
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I recently found this text in the google books system, It is something which was read in the late 1870's to the 'Historic Society' in Warrington Museum by John Babson, Esq, the text didn't come with any images, and the subject matter which it covers is quite wide, some of the details and idea's contained in the article could with hindsight be argued to be wrong, but it is very interesting and is a great window to the views held in the locality by the historians of the society in that time. |
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Volunteers were enrolled in England for the American War in 1778. They were again enrolled, in 1793-4, in consequence of the threatened invasion of revolutionary France.
In presenting the colours to St. Peters Church on July 19th 1862 the right Rev. Piers Calveley Claughton, Bishop of Colombo, said, "These colours formerly belonged to the old Newton Volunteers, when that corps was absorbed in the Wigan Local Militia. They were deposited with my father as colonel of the regiment when that service ceased." | |  |
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