ADVERTISEMENT. 



We question very much if any County has had more of its History written 

 than the County Palatine of Lancaster. Lieut. -Col. Fishwick, in his " Lancashire 

 Library," enumerates no fewer than 700 books dealing with the 1 1 istory of the 

 County Palatine which had been written up to 1873. It is, then, as a small 

 contribution to the large and valuable Lancashire library that the Author has, by 

 the favour and assistance of a generous public, been enabled to issue a History of 

 Longridge and District. He ventures to think that he has seiied a fitting 

 oppoitunity, as the old order is fast changing, and the memories of the past are 

 fading away. 



•.*It is only due to the .Subscribers that the following explanation should be 

 given of certain changes which the author has been compelled to make. Two 

 views— "The Panoramic view of Longridge," and " Whittingliam Asylum," 

 promised in the prospectus are omitted (much to the author's regret), owing to 

 unsurmountable difficulties. That the Subscribers have not suffered is clear from 

 the subjoined statement :— Thirty pages have been aJded to the work; the Illus- 

 trations of the Processional Cross and Bishop's Chair, in the Catholic Church at 

 Longridge, and of St. John's College, Orimsargh; a Sectional Plan of the District ; 

 two Plates of Geological and Botanical Specimens ; and a Plate of the Cave- 

 Browne-Cave Coat of Arms, have also been added. I ought not to omit my 

 thanks to my publisher, who, under rather annoying circumstances, has turned out 

 with such promptitude a work which, as regards print, paper, and binding, is a 

 credit to the book trade of Preston. 



NOTICE. 

 The Author begs to inform the public that a very limited number of copies of 

 this work can be obtained on application to Mr. Whitehead or himself. Prices : 

 Small Copies, 7/6 ; Large Paper, 15/-. 



