This is interesting too. Jean in Nova Scotia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Murphy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 11:32 AM Subject: [CHS] Local history, Part 8; a Xmas present > Wishing listers safe and happy holidays, and best wishes for 2001! > > Local history, part 8 (1611 - 1699 ). > > 1611 - [Liverpool's] arms [is decided to be] a gull. > > 1615 - 231 tuns of wine arrived in Liverpool, in two vessels. [ A tun > = approx. 954 liters = 209.7 Imperial gallons = 251.6 US gallons - > ed.] > > 1617 - ordered that, "If anyone speak evil of the Mayor, he shall > lose his freedom." > > 1624 - in the Register office, Chester, there is a Liverpool parish > register of the this date: 21 burials, 4 marriages, and 35 baptisms. > > 1626 - King Charles I grants a charter, by which the town of > Liverpool was made a body corporate and politic, by the name of > Mayor, Baliffs, and Burgesses, July 4. The election of Mayor, & c. > then fixed to be held annually on St. Luke's Day for ever. > > 1628 - the fines of the town [of Liverpool] ordered to be collected > towards purchasing [a set] of bells; King Charles I sells his rights > in Liverpool to the citizens of London. > > 1629 - a bellman appointed to warn at night about fires, locking > doors, state of the weather, & c. > > 1635 - a bridge ordered to be built at the south side of the town [of > Liverpool], over the Pool, where the sluices are, and a quay and > harbour to be made the for the succour of shipping. > > 1643 - [Liverpool] taken by Colonel Aston, commanding the > parliamentary forces, the latter end of May or the beginning of June; > there were in the town about 1600 horse and foot, and 10 pieces of > ordnance. > > 1644 - the town besieged and taken by storm, 26th June, after a > vigorous defence, by Prince Rupert, nephew of Charles I. The siege > lasted [??] days. Repossessed by Lieut.-General Sir John Meldrum, in > October following.; 20 pounds distributed for the relief of the > widows and children of those who were killed in the siege of the > town; Persons not appearing at beat of drum to watch and do garrison > duty, to be fined; St. Nicholas's Church used as a prison for > prisoners of war. > > 1645 - [Liverpool] again held by the parliamentary forces. Lieutenant > J. Ashurst, governor. > > 1646 - street watch to be kept on account of the sickness at > Warrington; The mud walls about the town ordered to be repaired, but > no innerworks to be made. > > 1647 - Portmoot put off on account of the sickness at Liverpool; Two > dictionaries to be provided for the use of the school, and to be > chained; Liverpool made a free and independent port, and not subject > to the Chester officers. > > 1648 - Colonel Birch, governor. This man, in revenge for an affront > put upon him by the Earl of Derby, made his children (then reinstated > in the Knowsley estate) prisoners, and confined them in the Tower of > Liverpool eighteen months, not allowing them even bread for their > subsistence; that necessary of life they were obliged to beg from > their [own?] impoverished friends. The Earl of Derby previously had > [Colonel Birch] trailed under a hay cart at Manchester, and ever > after he went by the name of the "Earl of Derby's carter."; register > of baptisms to be kept [in Liverpool]; also of marriages and deaths. > > 1649 - beggars ordered to be shipped off to Barbadoes [sic]. > > 1651 - a plague; 200 person's died, and were buried in Sickman's Lane > [Addison Street in 1849]. > > 1654 - roof of the Town Hall ordered to be lathed and tiered over > with lime and hair, and made handsome; a lantern to be fixed at the > High Cross, at the time of dark moon, and also at the White Cross; > all the gates at the street ends to be taken away, and the mud walls > to be pulled down and levelled. > > 1656 - about 60 paupers belonging to the town; a new cuck stool > (ducking chair for scolds) erected at the bottom of Dale Street. > > 1659 - an Act of Parliament passed for demolishing the Castle. > > 1662 - Bills to make the rivers Mersey and Weaver navigable opposed > by the town. > > 1664 - ordered, "That persons taking apprentices shall enrol their > indentures in the town-clerk's office, within a month after the date > of the indenture; penalty 13 shillings and 4 pence. > > 1665 - another plague in {Liverpool]; the fair put off on account of > the plague being in small towns and villages in Cheshire. > > 1672 - ordered, "that all the [Liverpool] Council that do not appear > to attend the Mayor in decent manner, in cloaks or coats, shall > forfeit 6[shillings] and 8[pence]. > > 1674 - the Corporation procured a new lease of the township and manor > from Lord Molyneux for 1000 years. About the year 1778 they purchased > the reversion of the estate.; the Townhall built, with an Exchange > underneath for the use of the merchants; taken down in 1747. > > 1676 - ordered, "That foreigners shall not be made free of the town > without the consent of the Corporation.; King Charles II grants a > charter to [Liverpool], July 4. > > 1679 - the battlements of the pool bridge ordered to be repaired. > > 1685 - King James II grants a charter to [Liverpool]. > > 1690 - King William II attended by Prince George of Denmark, the Duke > of Ormond, the Earls of Oxford, Portland, Scarborough, Manchester, > &c. left London on the 4th of June; visited Liverpool on the 11th; > embarked his army, then encamped on Wallasey Leasowes, and on the > 14th arrived at Carrickfergus, in Ireland.; 10 marriages, 116 > baptisms, and 158 burials [in Liverpool]. > > 1693 - charge (on the 5th November) for punch and ale, 38 > [shillings]; coal, turf, and tar barrel for bonfire, 3[shillings] > 2[pence].; the earliest charts of authority, [then] known, of the > entrances to the rivers Mersey and Dee, were published by Captain > Grenville Collins, R.N. and dedicated to King William III. > > 1695 - King William III grants a charter to the town, September 26; > paid Edw. Accres for mending the cuck stool (ducking chair for > scolds) [15 shillings?] > > 1699 - [Forty pounds] collected for the Vaudois and French refugees.; > Mr. Robert Marsh, of London, merchant tailor, gave [fifty pounds] to > the Corporation; the interest yearly to the poor, April 28. > > End of Part 8. In the New Year, Part 9 will deal with the 18th C. > Please keep requests for Parts 1-7 until January. Thanks. - AM > > > -- > Allan Murphy in Tokyo is researching: > > COTTRELL - and variants - Neston 1700s > Birkenhead 1850+ > MURPHY - IRE? > Liverpool 1840 > Birkenhead 1861+ > SKELLEY - IoM? Wales? > Tranmere 1830+ > TRELFORD - and variants - Woodchurch since the year dot > UNDERWOOD - Leicestershire? > Birkenhead 1861+ > > - member of the FHS Cheshire http://www.fhsc.org.uk > - volunteer transcriber for the Immigrant Ships Transcibers Guild > http://istg.rootsweb.com/ > > > ==== CHESHIRE Mailing List ==== > The Family History Society of Cheshire: > http://www.fhsc.org.uk/ >