Archaeological, Architectural, and Bistoric Society, FOR Che County, City, and Leighbourhood of Chester. PATRONS: HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, K.G. THE RIGHT REVEREND THE LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER, F.S.A. THE RIGHT HON. LORD DE TABLEY, PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER OF THE FREEMASONS OF CHESHIRE. COUNCIL: THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR OF CHESTER THE REV. PRINCIPAL OF THE TRAINING COLLEGE T. R. P. ROYLE LIEUT.-COL. P. S. HUMBERSTON FREDERICK POTTS REV. H. GRANTHAM PRESIDENTS. MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL REV. C. B. GRIFFITH ALEXANDER LAMONT REV. CANON GLEADOWE TREASURERS-WILLIAMS & Co., OLD BANK. Archaeological: ISAAC ENGLAND EWEN, ECCLESTON. HON. CURATOR-GEO. W. SHRUBSOLE, F.G.S., NORTHGATE STREET. Ladies and Gentlemen desiring to become Members, are invited to send in their names to either of the Secretaries, under the above addresses, or through any Subscriber. Subscriptions are due from January 1st, and should be paid by March 25th in each year, to Mr. GEORGE FRATER, The Old Bank, Chester. AFTER numerous delays and disappointments,-for many (probably all) of which, the EDITORIAL SECRETARY fears, he must himself alone be held responsible,-the Members of the CHESTER ARCHITECTURAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL, AND HISTORIC SOCIETY are here presented with the Third VOLUME of its PROceedings. For all those at first sight unseemly and unreasonable delays. there is but one excuse to offer, viz:-long protracted Illness of a most dangerous and distressing kind, and from which it cannot be said that he is even now more than partially recovered. And yet this one plea, it is hoped, will be regarded as valid and sufficient by that always friendly and sympathetic tribunal of critics,—his brother Members. And now along with a gradual, even if but temporary, return to rather better health has come the desire to prove of some little further service to the Cheshire Antiquarian Cause; and as an earnest of that wish, this completion of VOLUME III. of the Journal will he trusts be generously and lovingly accepted. Of the Contents of the present VOLUME it will not be necessary to say much by way of PREFACE. Prominent as a contribution to Archaeological Literature generally, but to that of this COUNTY and CITY OF CHESTER in particular, we have the learned and exhaustive Paper by DR. BRUSHFIELD on "the ROMAN REMAINS OF CHESTER," as exemplified by those discovered in BRIDGE STREET in 1863. Of that Lecture (or rather Lectures, for it had perforce to be divided in twain and so form the material for two consecutive Meetings,) it is only due to record that no previous work done for our Society had drawn larger audiences, or received from outside critics such high and well-deserved encomiums. 66 MR. WORTH HOARE'S Lecture on the OLD ENGLISH MANOR OF STALEY or Stayley" (now largely merged in the Borough of STALYBRIDGE), was the first attempt, and that a successful one, at a History of the Modern town, traced from its Roman origin through its Bucton Hill and the not far off Milandra Castle, and so, by occasional glimpses at its modest life in the middle ages, leading us down to the more ambitious Cheshire Cottonopolis' of to-day. MR. BEAMONT's Lecture on "RICHARD III." forms a scholarly chapter of English history, based on the dramatic story immortalised |