Harvard College Library Feb. 1, 1912 Gift of Charles Jackson LIVERPOOL: T. BRAKELL, PRINTER, COOK STREET. This Volume has been edited by the Assistant Secretary, under the direction of the Council. The Writers of Papers are solely responsible for the facts and opinions contained in their respective communications. ERRATUM. Page 149, line 2-For 268, read 26. gr. [grains.] NOTE. In reference to this coin (No. 6, p. 149) Mr. Roach Smith still adheres to his original reading of the inscription, that it should be EVPARDVS EPS."-ED. The cost of printing Mr. Mayer's paper was defrayed by the Author. The cost of Plates Nos. I to VIII, illustrating Mr. Smith's papers, was defrayed partly by the Society and partly by the Author. Plates IX, X, and XI, were printed at the expense of Dr. Kendrick, the Author of the paper they illustrate. NICHOLAS WATERHOUSE, Esq., Durning Road, Liverpool. Curator. Mr. H. ECROYD SMITH, Aldboro' House, Egremont, Birkenhead. Treasurer. JOHN G. JACOB, Esq., 56, Church Street, Liverpool. Hon. Secretary. D. BUXTON, Ph.Dr., F.R.S.L., Oxford Street, Liverpool. Assistant Secretary. Mr. CHARLES DYALL. Lyceum, Bold Street, Liverpool. CONTENTS. [Papers marked thus are Illustrated.] Address to the Members of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. By the Rev. A. Hume, D.C.L., LL.D., &c., President....................... *Reliques of the Anglo-Saxon Churches of St. Bridget and St. PAGE On the Art of Pottery. By Joseph Mayer, F.S.A., Vice-President 47 An Essay on Songs and Ballads, illustrated from Shakspeare and those current in Lancashire. By the late John Harland, F.S.A., *Archæology in the Mersey District, 1870. By Henry Ecroyd *On recent discoveries at the Roman Site at Wilderspool, near Warrington. By James Kendrick, M.D. Inventory of Church Goods and Chantries, in Cheshire, temp. Edward VI. By the Rev. Mackenzie E. C. Walcott, B.D., F.S.A., |