Identifier: countiesofenglan01ditc (find matches)
Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ad now some six thousand inhabitants;Liverpool in 1673 was a bold, safe harbour, in which,at high-water, ships could ride at ten fathoms. Newtrades had also developed. The manufacture of fustians,linen and woollen cloths, and other fabrics was carriedon in several places. Pottery was extensively made inLiverpool. In many of the smaller towns were fulling,or, as they were called, walk mills; and in many of thecottages, and even in private houses, a pair of loomsformed part of the fittings. The unpopularity ofWilliam III. was as pronounced here as in other partsof the kingdom, and culminated in what was known as the Lancashire Plot, which originated in the mistakenefforts of the friends of James II., who attempted toraise up a party of supporters to his claims to the throne.One of the chief actors in this plot was Dr. Bromfield,who, disguised as a Quaker, rapidly passed through thenorth of England with this object in view, and havingpaid a visit to Scotland, he returned to Croxteth, the
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Lancashire 109 seat of Caryl, Lord Molyneux, who was Lord Lieutenantof the county, and in whom he found a sympathizer ifnot an active supporter. This plot included the deathof the King. Two other Lancashire conspirators wereEdmund Threlfall, of Ashes, in Goosnargh, and ThomasTyldesley, of Myerscough Lodge. The plot was soondiscovered, and the Justices of the Peace at the adjournedQuarter Sessions at Manchester informed the Secretaryof State that the gaols were full of Irish RomanCatholics, and others were secreted in private houses, andalso that boxes containing weapons had been discovered.Lund and Threlfall and others were arrested and sentfor trial. Full details of this plot, and the trial atManchester of other Jacobites in 1694, are given invol. xxviii. of the Chetham Society. in the time of William and Mary (1689-1694), CeliaFiennes, sister of the third Viscount Saye and Sele, rodeon horseback through some parts of the county, and leftrecords of the then appearance of some of the

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