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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt:...Holker and John Owen to bring Certificates or else remove out of the Town. Persons having hedges at side of the Highways to lop their Hedges. John Moss to ditch betwixt his Meir hey and John Roscoe's Househill Car Dole. Jas. Taylor of the Mosse Lane is dead. Thos. Taylor his Grandson to come in for his Tenemt. and Thos. his son for part of Mosses and the Herriot paid. Wm. Shawcross is dead and John his son to come in. Herriot not paid. Henry Royle is d.ead. Bylawmen: Thos. Chadwick, Thos. Mosse. 23 July, 1716. After the names of "Le Grand Inquest" Jurors "John Pixton agreed to all yc Verdict (except Ordr upon himself)." Exec's of John Roscoe dec'ed to wood and stay the ffoot of the Water Bank in the Bartfoothough Doal late belonging to Thos. Baxter. Richd. Hilton to bring a Certificate to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Township of S. otherways to remove out of the Town. In the margin "non cul'" not guilty. Thos. Chadwick to remove his Style at the end of Crosford Bridge and ffoot the Bank within his Bankffield. Wm. Mosse to hang dispose of or make away his Dog having bit severall persons, subptxnd, £I it)s. IId. Persons having Ditches lying to the High Lanes leading from Cross fford Bridge to Lostock and likewise from Cross fford Bridge to the ffurther end of the new Lane leading towards Manchester and from the Lane end at Wm. Hampson's leading to Lostock Lane to ditch. Jonathan Robinson al's Barker for digging and getting of Marle upon the Lord's Wast and elsewhere, 3. 4. Margaret Deane for entertaining Vagabonds, 3. d. 24 Sept., 1716. Thos. Moores Senr for grinding his Corn from ye Lord of ye Manner's Millnes sev'all times, 3. d. Constables returned: Thos. Newton, John Mosse, Jur; Thos. Hulme, Jur.; T...