K

Kegworth, town, Lei. charter, school,
church, 405.
KESTEVEN Division,Lin. 751-808.
Kidworth, village, Lei. encampment,

barrow, school, church, 439, 440.
Kirkby-Hall, seat, Lei. 487.
Kirkby, De Bp. memoirs of, 492.
Kirby, Muxloe, chapelry, do. old
mansion, ib.

KIRKHAM, small town, Lan. 117,118.
Kirkland Hall, seat, 115.
Kirkstead, village, Lin. abbey, me-
moirs of Hugh Kirkstead, 708.
Kirton, wapentake, Lin. 732-736.
Kirton, village, Lin. 735; church,
font, 736.

Knaith, village, Lin. 661; memoirs
of Thomas Sutton, 662.
Knaptoft, village, Lei. encampment,

465.

Knowsley, seat, Lan. park, mansion,
228; singular inscription, 229;
portraits and anecdotes of the first
eight Earls of Derby, Margaret
Countess of Richmond, and Char-
lotte Countess of Derby, 229-234;
pictures, 235.

Kyme, priory, Lin. anecdote of Sir
Gilbert Talbois, 760.

L

LANCASHIRE, general deserip-
tion, history, topography, and lo-
cal beauties of, 5 to 312; ancient
inhabitants, 5: conquest by the
Romans, 7; Roman stations and
roads, 7-9; divisions and subdivi-
sions, 10; ecclesiastical history,
11; forests, 12; honour, 14;
duchy, county palatine, 15, 16;
soil, surface, 17; mineralogy, 18;
rivers, 20-22; canals, 23-38;
mosses, 38-42; agriculture, 42;
horned cattle, 43; population, 45-
47; representation in parliament,
castles, religions houses, 48;
bridges, roads, 49, 50; bounda
ries and dimensions, 51.
Lancaster canal, description of, 30-
33.

LANCASTER, county town of Lan-

cashire, Roman History of, sta-
tions, antiquities, coins, 51-54;
Saxon history, 55, 56; castle, his-
tory, description and dimensions of,
$7-63; parish church, monuments,

65, 64; situation, public buildings,
shambles, bridge, theatre, alms-
houses, schools, 64-66; manufac-
tures, trade, custom house, town-
hall, 66; parliamentary represen-
tation, corporation, 67; salt-marsh,
ib,; inland navigation, aqueduct
bridge. 68.

Lancaster, duchy of, grant, descent,
&c. of, 15, 57, 130, 131.
Langley Hall, seat, Lei. an ancient
priory, 406.

Langoe wapentake, Lin. 755-757.
Langton,district, Lei.440-448;compre-
hending Church Langton, Memoirs
of the Rev. Wm. Hanbury, 440-
446; West Langton, church, cha
pels, 446, 447; memoirs of Walter
de Langton, a native, 447, 448;
East Langton, memoirs of Thomas
Staveley, a native, 448.
Langton, Walter de, memoirs of,
447, 448.

Langton, village, Lin. barrows, 714.
family, anecdotes of, ib,
Lathom-House, seat, Lau. 220; he-
roic defence of by Charlotte coun-
tess of Derby, 221; description of
the house, 221, 222.
Lathom, township, Lan. 223.
Laund, priory, Lei. memoirs of Tho-
mas Cromwell, 414; mansion, cha-
pel, monument, 416.

Lawress wapentake, Lin. 656-660.
LEICESTER, its Roman history,

names, 330; Roman antiquities,
332, 333; milliary, 333, 354; Jew-
ry-wall, 335, 336; ancient bishop's
see, 837, 338; history of the town,
338-342; Domesday records re-
specting it, 339, castle, 340-342;
Newark, buildings of, 342, 343;
abbey, death of Cardinal Wolsey,
344; mint, series of coinage, 345;
charters, 346, 347; parliamentary
history, 347, 348; churches, St.
Nicholas, 348; St. Mary, 349,
350; ancient hall, 351; All Saints
church, 351, 352; St. Martin's,
352-358; curious parochial entries,
335; royal touching for the evil,
336; St. Margaret's, 358; chapels,
gaols, 359; schools, 359, 360;
hospitals, exchange, hotel, theatre,
360; New-walk, King Richard's
bedstead, 361; stocking manufac-
ture, origin, and extent of, 362-
364; Dr. Farmer, a native, 364.
LEICESTERSHIRE, general de
scription,

seription, history, topography, and
local beauties of, 313 to 522; situ-
ation, boundaries, 313; Roman
roads and stations, 313-316; anci-
ent lordships, townships, and cas-
tles, with their founders, 317; ab-
bies, priories, nunneries, with their
respective founders, 318; hun-
dreds, ecclesiastical divisions, 319;
population, 320; rivers, 321, 322;
canals, 322, 323; soil and natural
characteristics, 323, 324; sheep
and cattle, high prices of, 325;
manufactures and produce, 326;
Stilton cheese, process of making,
327; Charnwood forest and bills,
328, 329; extent of the county,
520.

Leeds and Liverpool canal, descrip-

tion of, 33.

LEIGH, town, Lan. vicarage, dairies,
240; manufactories, 241.
Leven Sands, description of, 76, 77.
Lever, Sir Ashton, anecdotes of, 286.
Leverian Muscum, commencement,
exhibition, and disposal of, 286.
Leyland, hundred, Lan. 172-178.
township, Lan. population,
church, 178.
LINCOLN, city, situation, suburbs,

etymology, 593; description of a
Roman station, 594; Roman roads,
and stations connected with it,
595, n.; Roman antiquities, 596-
602; historical account of themy,
602-613; diocess, 613, 614; bish-
ops, 615-627; cathedral, 627-
641; its situation and beauty, 627;
history, 628-630; dimensions, 630,
631; architecture, 631-635; mo-
numents, 635-639; cloisters, chap-
ter house, 639; library, officers,
640. Churches; St. Bennet's, 642;
St. Mary de Wigford, St. Peter's
at Gowts, 643, 644; St. Martin's,
644; parishes, population, trade,
644; privileges, representation,
645; corporation, 645, 646; cas-
tle, 647, 648; mint wall, 648;
Chequer gate, ib.; Lucy tower,
St. Giles's hole, Priory, 649; Grey
Friars, Deanry, vicar's college,
650; bishop's palace, 651; Johu
of Gaunt's palace, Jew's house,
652; Stonebow gateway, High
bridge, market-house, grammar
schools, Blue-coat school, 653;
county hospital, house of industry,
county gaol, 654; city gaol, as-

sembly room, theatre, 655; Dr.
Willis, a native, 655, 656.
Lincoin cathedral, its situation and
beauty, 627; history and succes-
sive improvements, 628-630 ; parts
and dimensions, 630, 631; archi
tecture, 631-635; western front,
631; transept and choir, 632;
nave and central tower, 633; win-
dows, chapels, 634; riches, 635;
monuments, 635-639; cloisters,
chapter-house, 639; library, Ro-
man urn, officers, 640.

diocess of, 613, 614.

-, bishops of, chronological
account of, 615-627.
LINCOLNSHIRE, general descrip-

tion, history, topography, and lo-
cal beauties of, 523 to 808; an-
cient inhabitants and limits, 524;
Roman roads and stations, 524,
525; Car-dyke, Roman canal,
526; Anglo-Saxon history, 527,532;
Danish incursions and barbari-
ties, 529-531; improvements un-
der Alfred, 531; lords and manors,
532; encampments and castles,
533; diocess and see, 533, 534,
613-627; archdeaconries, deane-
ries, and parishes, 535; monaste-
ries and hospitals, 536-538; eccle-
siastical architecture, 539-542;
seats, 542-545; geographical fea-
tures, natural characteristics, and
agricultural practices, 545-556;
horses, neat cattle, 549; sheep,
550; rabbits, 551, 552; geese.
553; feus, rivers, draining, &c,
556-588; political charaéter, 588;
wapentakes, hundreds, population,
589, 590; maintenance of the poor,

591.

Lindley-hall, seat, Lei. 482; William
and Robert Burton, natives, 482-
484.

LINDSEY, a division of Lincoln-
shire, 592-724.

Lilly, William, anecdotes of, 402-404.
LIVERPOOL, town, Lan. rapid ad-

vance of, 179, 180; observations
on etymology, 180; ancient his-
tory, 181, 183; charters, 182, 184;
acts of parliament, 185, 186; cor-
porate government, 187; causes
of the present prosperity of the
town, 188; docks, 189; dimen-
sions, 190; comparison with those
of London, ib.; officers, regula,
tions, &c. 190-192; dock duties,
3G4
progressive

progressive increase of, 192; cur-
rent expenditure, 193; table of
the quantity and qualities of mer-
chandize imported, 194; list of
ships entered inwards and cleared
outwards, 195; commerce of Bris-
tor and Liverpool compared, and
the peculiar local advantages of
each port, 196: observation on
the slave trade, 197, 198; table of
the progressive increase of the
slave trade in the last century,
199; public structures, 199-208;
Liverpool exchange, 200; town-
hall, 201; corn-exchange, custom-
house, 202; churches-St. Nicho-
las, St. Peter, 202; St. George,
St. Thomas, 203; St. Paul, St.
Ann, St. John, Trinity, 204;
Christ, St. Mark, Welsh and
Scotsh, 205; Blue-coat hospital,
infirmary, 206; poor-house, la-
dies charity, theatre, 206; Athe-
næum, Lyceum, news-rooms, mu-
sic-hall, assembly-rooms, botanic-
garden, 207, 208; boundaries and
extent of borough, streets, build-
ings, 208; population, 209; in-
come and debts of the corporation,
parliamentary representation, 210;
military history, ib.; town besieg-
ed in civil war, 211; situation of
Liverpool, extent and boundaries
of the town and suburbs, 212;
eminent natives, ib.
Lockington Hall, seat, Lei. 405.
Lodington, village, Lei. 416.
Lodington Hall, seat, ditto, 416;

wells, Roman remains, 417.
Lonsdale, hundred, Lan, 51-
105.

Lose-Coat Field, battle of, 611.
Lostock Hall, ancient seat, Lan.
298.

LOUGHBOROUGH, large town, Lei.
371; court-chamber, manufactures,
canal,372; peculiar disease, schools,
church, chapels, 373; Dr. Richard
Pulteney, a native, 520, 521.
LOUTH, town, Lin, situation, scenery,
695; religious houses, free-schools,
696; churches, St. James's, archi-
tecture, date of building, costs,
dimensions, 696-698; vicarage-
house, hermitage, St. Mary's
church, 698; meetings, charters,
town-hall, assembly-room, theatre,
manufactories, 699; canal, remark-
able springs, 709.

Louth Park Abbey, its foundation,
&c. 701.

Louth Eske wapentake, Lin. 695-
703.

Lovedou wapentake, Lin. 761-763.
Loyne, or Lune, river, Lan. 20.
Lubbenham, village, encampment,
448, 449.

Ludborough wapentake, Lin. 692.
Ludford, village, Lin. 703.
LUTTERWORTH, town, Lei. peculiar
ancient vassalage, 466; cotton-
manufacture, 467; hospital, church,
John Wickliffe, 468.

M

Makerel, Dr. or Captain Cobler,
anecdots of, 657, 695.
Malkin Tower, Lan. 134.
MANCHESTER, town, Lan. proofs of
a Roman station at, 251; view of
the present state of the town, ib.;
ancient history, and antiquities,
252; inscriptions, and observation
on, 253, 254; Roman roads, ib.;
Roman summer camp, described-
by Mr. Whitaker, 254-256; histo-
ry of the town under the Saxous
and Normans, charters, 256; suc--
cessive barons, 256, 257; college
founded, its establishment and en-
dowments, 257, 258; wardens who
obtained the episcopal honour,
259, n.; Bishop Oldham's gram-
mar-school, its endowment, &c.260;
college buildings, 260; books, 261;
Humphrey Chetham, school found-
ed by him, 261-263, n.; collegiate
church described, its monuments
and ornaments, 262-264; military
history of the town, pestilences,
acts of parliament for building
churches, and for other improve-
ments, 265, 266; public buildings:
infirmary, dispensary, lunatic hos-
pital, asylum, poor-house, sunday-
schools, 266; public baths, lying-
in hospital, house of recovery,
strangers' friend society, borough-
reeve's charity, 267; literary and
philosophical society, philological
society, circulating libraries, por-
tico, 268; agricultural society, re-
pository, theatre, assembly rooms,
269; concert-rooms, new bailey
prison, barracks, 270; civil go-
vernment, sessions, courts, 270,
271; manufactures, 272, 273; rise

and progress of cotton manufac-
tures, 274; machines for spining,
275; persons employed, 276; in-
vention of, and successive improve-
ments in, spining engines, 277,
278;
Sir Richard Arkwright's ma-
chines, their great effect, and ex-
tensive adoption, 278; his patent
contested, the trade laid open,
279; beneficial consequences, 280;
mode of carding and roaving cot-
ton, 281; abridgement of labour
in, and the magnitude of, cotton
manufactures, 282; Manchester
commercial building, population,
283; eminent natives, 284.
Mancunium, a Roman station,

287.

Manchester, Bolton, and Bury canal,
description of, 35.

Manley, wapentake, Lin. 675-680.
Markland, Jeremiah, anecdotes of,
239.

Marlborough, Sarah, duchess of, 702.
Martin-Meer, Lan. mode of draining,
&c. 224, 225.

Meadows, seat, Lan. 238.

Medbourn, village, Lei. Roman sta-
tion, pavement, 450.

Melton, De, Abp. memoirs of, 494.
MELTON MOWBRAY, town, Leí. 490;

ancient and recent possessors of
the lordship, 491; battle at, trades-
men's tokens, manor oven, 492;
church, 492, 493; schools, 494;
eminent natives, viz. Bp. de Kirk-
by, Abp. De Melton, 494; Orator
Henley, 494-498.

Milliary, or Roman mile-stone, in-
scriptions on, 333-335.

Mint, at Leicester,

coinage at, 345.

succession of

Misterton Hall, seat, Lei. 469.
MIDDLETON, town, Lan. church,
school, 290, 291.

Mitton, Little, hamlet, Lan. manor-
house, sculptures, 164.
Mitton, Great, village, Lan. church,
monuments, singular inscription,
165, 166.

Monasteries, &c. in Lincolnshire:

name, order, date of foundatioon,
grantees, and situation of, 536-
538.

MONUMENTS and TOMBS: of Bi-

shop Remigius, Bishop Bloet, 636;
Catherine Duchess of Lancaster,
Joan Countess of Westmoreland,

Elinor, Queen of Edward I. 637;
Batholomew Lord Burghersh, 638;
John Lord Welles, 639; Sir Tho
mas Grantham, 644; Lady Mar-
garet Wylughby, 722; Sir John
Lockton, 754; Carr family, 759;
Chief Baron Bury, Chief Justice
Ryder, William Cust, 769; of the
Bertie family, 781; Richard Cecil;
Earl and Countess of Exeter, 806; of
the Huntingdon family, 376; Henry
Lord Grey, 396; Sir William
Skipwith, 417; Kenelme Digby,
Esq. and lady, 438, 439; Sir Ar-
thur Hesilrige and two wives, Sir
Thomas Hesilrige and wife, 453;
Sir Richard Halford, 458; first
Earl of Harborough, 499; William'
Lord Sherrard, 500; first eight
Earls of Rutland, 501-534.
Monson family, anecdotes of, 657,
658.
Morecambe-bay, 71.

Morleyes Hall, ancient seat, Lau.
remains of, 242, n.

Moor Tower, Lin. 708.
MOUNTSORELL, town, Lei. 365;
castle, ancient history of, 365, 366;
Charley-forest stones, 367; cross,
chapels, ib.

Mule, a machine so called, 282.
Muslins, first made in England in
1781, 280.

Myerscough, forest, Lan. 13.
Myerscough House, seat, Lan. 115.

N

Naseby, battle of, 428-431.
Ness Wapentake, Lin. 791-808.
Newark, in Leicester, buildings of,
342, 343.

NEWTON, Small town, Lan. situation
of, 242; ancient lords of, parlia-
mentary representation, subterra-
neous passages, battle at, 243.
Nocton Park, seat, Lin. priory, 756.
Norton, village, Lei. church, 451.
Norton Disney, village, Lin. church,
inscriptions, 754.

Norton Place, seat, Lin. 670.
Noseley, village, Lei. hall, portraits,
pictures, 452; church and monu-
ments, 452, 453.

NUNNERY, Grace-dieu, Lei. 377.
NUNNERIES, at Torksey, 661; at
Heynings, 675.

Oadby,

Oadby, village, Lei. 469.
OLDHAM, small town, Lan. 289.
Ormerod House, seat, Lan. 148.
ORMSKIRK,town,Lan. manufactures,
church, monuments, 218, 219.
Osbaston Hall, seat, Lei. 488.
Oswald, king of Northumberland,
place of the death of, 244; opinion
of Camden and others refuted, ib.
Quston, village, Lei. abbey, 454.
Overborough, village, Lan. the Ro-
man Bremetonacae, proofs of its
having been a Roman station, en-
; campments, pavements, altar,

roads, 101, 102.
Oxford Hall, seat, Lan. anecdotes
of John Blackburne, Esq. 248.

Papillon Hall, seat, Lei. 449, 450.
Pendle Hill, Lan. peculiar soils of,
133, 134.

Penwortham, priory, Lan. 113.
Percival, Dr. anecdotes of, 249.
Pickwell, village, Lei. Rev. William

Cave, a native, 454.
PICTURES: at Staunton Harold, 382;
at Donnington Park, 400, 401 ; at
Skeffington Hall, 420; at Nose-
ley, 452; at Gopsal Hall, 485,
486; at Belvoir Castle, 515, 518;
at Holker Hall, 75, 76; at Ashton
Hall, 104; at Adlington Hall, 176;
at Knowsley, 229-255; at Ince
Blundel, 312.

Pilling-moss, Lan. phenomenon at,

115.

Pinchbeck, village, Lin. mansion,
coin, 744.

Plate glass, manufactory of, 227.
Ponton, Great and Little, villages,
Lin. church, 778.

POOR of Leicestershire, number of,
maintenance of, and expenditure
on account of, 518-520.
PORTRAITS: Duchess of Cleveland,
Admiral Penn, Sir Jaines Lowther,
Thomas Wriothesly Earl of South-
ampton, 75; Vandyck, Lord Rich-
ard Cavendish, Sir Thomas Riston,
76; Duke of Hamilton and family,
104; Lord Widdrington, 145;

Jean de Paresa, Edward Parker,
Esq. 170; Archbishop Laud, Nell
Gwyn 176; Margaret Countess
of Richmond, 230; Charlotte
Countess of Derby, 234; first
eight Earls of Derby, 229-234;
Sir Robert Shirley, King Charles
II. King Charles's beauties, Mr.
Burdett, 882; James I. and his
Queen, 395; King Edward IV.
Duke of Clarence, 399; Cardinal
Pole, Duke of Suffolk, Earl of
Leicester, Jane Shore, Duchess of
Hainault, nine Earls of Hunting-
don, Henry Lord Loughborough,
Dr. Harvey, Sir Daniel Hinsius,
Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir John Char-
din, Sir Godfrey Kneller, W.
Prynne, Alexander Pope, Edmund
Waller, Samuel Butler, Duke of
Berwick, Robert Boyle, Dean
Swift, Duke of Buckingham, Earl
of Northumberland, Earl of Der-
by, Earl of Warwick, Earl of
Leicester, 400; Jane Shore, Sir
Christopher Packe, Sir Gervas
Clifton, Sir James Houblon, 417;
Earl of Holland, Pope Paul III.
Charles II. General Monck,
Charles I. Henry VIII. James I.
William III. Queen Anne, 420;
Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 434; Peter
the Great, Sir Arthur Hesilrige,
Duke of Buckingham, Earl of
Holland, King Charles I. and his
Queen, Oliver Cromwell, 452;
Charles I. and II. 457; Handel,
485; John Marquis of Granby,
516; Earl of Mansfield, Lord Ro-
bert Manners, Sir Josua Rey-
nolds, General Oglethorpe, Earls
of Chatham, Kitty Fisher, Dukes
of Rutland, Henry VIII. Lord
Chaworth, Sir Isaac Newton.
Duke of Monmouth, Charles I.
Lord George Cavendish, 517; Sir
Thomas Heneage, 704; Sir Ro-
bert Cecil, Sir C. Turner, 705.
POULTON, Small town, Lan. 116.
PRESCOT, town, Lan. situation of,
collieries, manufactories, 226.
PRESTON, borough town, Lan, situa-
tion, 106; representation, corpora-
tion, 107; church, chapels, mili-
tary history, rebellion, 108; cere-
monial of the guild-merchant, 109-
111; buildings, markets, town.
hall, 112.

Prestwich, parish, Lan. 288.

Prestwould,