---- Musical Festivals, 260 ---- Phœnix Tower, 74, 184 ---- Prince Maurice at, 183 ---- Races, 74 ---- Records of, 31 ---- Roman, 70, 77 ---- Roman legions at, 3 ---- Roman wall of, 4 ---- Roman work, 71 ---- St. Bridget’s Church, 69 ---- St. Martin’s ” 68 ---- St. Michael’s ” 69 ---- St. Olave’s ” 69 ---- St. Peter’s ” 68 ---- seventeenth century house in Whitefriars, 99 ---- Siege of, 180-193 ---- Sir Nicholas Byron, Governor of, 181 ---- the key to Wales, 21 ---- Trade Guilds at, 151 Chestnut, a “coppity-co,” 256 “Chief of men,” 2, 32, 203 Chief-Justiceship of Chester, 29 Cholmondeley, 195 ---- family, 202, 262 ---- Hall, 16 ---- Lady Mary, 199 Christleton, 183 ---- Rush-bearing, 239 Church, alabaster effigy in Barthomley, 116 ---- bell, Frodsham, 254 ---- Bunbury, 116, 117 ---- Farndon, 223 ---- of St. John, Chester, 14 ---- of St. Oswald, 41 Churches, music in, 259 ---- timber-framed, 61-69 Churchyard crosses, 208, 210, 211 Circuits, judicial, 27 Civil war in Cheshire, 16 Clarke, Dr. Samuel, 122 Clulow Cross, 212 Combermere Abbey, 14, 34, 35 ---- Field-Marshal, 203 ---- legend, 253 Commonhall Lane, Chester, almshouses in, 86, 87 Congleton bell, 254 Constable de Lacy, 24 Copyhold tenure, Manor of Halton, 113 Cornage, 244-246 Corpus Christi, feast of, 147 ---- procession, 161 Corvysors’ Playe, The, 164, 165 Costume of players, 145 “Counting-out” rhymes, 257 County Flint, 25 ---- Hall, Chester, 30 ---- Palatine of Chester, 1, 19-32 Court, Bidston, 99 ---- Leet, Halton, 106-113 ---- of Exchequer, Chester, 31 ---- Old Consistory, 100 _Creation and Fall_, a Mystery Play, 145 Crewe, 195, 200 ---- Hall, 16 ---- Randolph, 124 ---- Thomas, 124 Crewes, 204 Cross at St. John the Baptist, Chester, 210 ---- at St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill, Chester, 209, 212 ---- Bebington, 211 ---- Bow Stones, 212 ---- Bromborough, 210, 212 ---- Clulow, 212 ---- Disley, 210 ---- Eaton, 213 ---- High, Chester, 208, 209 ---- Lymm, 213 ---- Macclesfield market, 213 ---- Neston, 210 ---- Over Peover, 212 ---- Shocklach, 211 ---- Wallasey, 211 ---- West Kirby, 210 Crosses, boundary, 208 ---- churchyard, 208, 210, 211 ---- destroyed, 209 ---- “High,” 208 ---- Ludworth, 212 ---- Macclesfield Public Park, 212 ---- Market, 208, 212, 213 ---- preaching, 207, 210 ---- Sandbach, 213-217 ---- weeping, 208 Croughton Hall, 16 _Crucifixion, The_, a Mystery Play, 166 “Crypt, ye Olde,” 78 “Curfew,” 254 _Curse, Old Mab’s_, 262 Customs, some Cheshire, 230-263