Assheton, Edmund, 96 Assheton crest, 81 Ashton, Sir Thomas, 83, 84 Atkinson, F. R., 185 Babelon, Ernest, 56 Babies for sale, 70 Babs, 71 Bacup, 33 Bailey, Mrs., centenarian, 29 Baker, Daniel, drowned, 97; Sir Thomas, 61, 65 Bamfield or Bampfield, Francis, 42; Sir John, 42; Thomas, 42 Bamford, Samuel, 173, 175; trial, 184 Banbury, 68 Bankes, Legh, 10, 11 Baptist preacher and sea captain, 46 Barcelona, 45 Barclay, Alexander, career of, 245; mention of Manchester, 246 Barley-bird, 76 Barton-in-Kendal, 30 Bauwens, Liévin, 119 Baxter, John, 93 Baxter, William, centenarian, 66 Bayley, Christopher, 94; James, 229 Bedloe, William, 14 Beggarwoman’s fortune, 64 Belfast, 36 Belgium and spinning machinery, 119 Belgrade, 64 Bell, James, priest, executed, 93 Berry, John, printer, journalist, etc., 61, 65, 70 Bexwyke, Hugh, 223, 224; Joan, 223, 224 Bickerstaffe, 26 Bickersteth, Anne, centenarian, 30 Billinge, Anne, 37; Charles, 37; Lydia, 37; Margaret, 37; Mary, centenarian, 36; William, 37 Birds’ feathers, 77 Birds’ language, 76 Birley, Capt., 183; H. H., 185 Birmingham, 186, 196 Blackbird, 77 Blackburn, 30, 78 Blackley, 235 Blackpool, 33 Blainscough, 93 Blake, Admiral, 45 Blakesley, Mrs., centenarian, 27 Blanketeers, 174 Blue titmouse, 77 Blundell, William, trial, 4, 24 Boardman, Mrs., centenarian, 29 Boardman, Bolton dwarf, 136 Boggart, flitting, 210 Bolton, 24, 94, 112, 136 Bolton Percy, 88 Bone and Skin, 228 Booksellers, 61, 65 Booth of Barton, 95 Boothe, Anne, 90; John, 90; Marget, 90 Boston, Mass., 19 Bowker, James, 201 Bradshaw, Rev. Joseph, 88 Bradford, 61, 65 Bradley, Mr., 61, 65 Braidley, B., 185 Branded for roguery, 9 Brandwood, Ellin, centenarian, 27 Bread baking, 223 Brereton, Col. Uriah, 9, 12 Brereton, Sir Urian, 87 Brierley, Ben, 200 Briscoe, William, centenarian, 28 Bristol, 18, 62; murder at, 17 Broadnax or Broadneux, Major Robert, centenarian, 25 Brome, H., 42 Bromfield, Dr., a Jacobite Quaker, 5 Brookes, Rev. Joshua, 34 Brookes, Mrs., 69 Brooks, John, 186 Breweries, 227, 230 Buckinger, Matthew, death of, 64 Buddhist stories, 219 Burnley, 24, 28, 204 Burt, James, 192 Bury, 30, 68 Byrom, John, 228 Cannel coal ornaments, 112 Canterbury, Archbishop of, 192 Cape Hone, 51 Carlisle, 34 Carmarthen, 17 Carpenter, General, 239 Carr, 28 Catharine of Liverpool, 163 Cecil, Lady Mildred, 95 Centenarians, Lancashire, 22-38 Chaderton, William, Bishop of Chester, 91, 92, 93 Chaffinch, 77 Chambers’s Cyclopædia, 65 Chapels wrecked, 235 Charles II., 47, 233; and Quaker sailor, 53 Cheetham, 230 Cheetham Hill, 36 Chester, 44, 61, 65 Chetham, Humphrey, 98 Childe of Hale, 133