Digitized by tine Internet Archive in 2008 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/annalsofmanchestOOaxon ANNALS OF MANCHESTER: A CHEONOLOGICAL EECOED FKOM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE EKD OF 1885. EDITED BY WILLIAM E. A. AXON, JOHN HKYWOOD, Dkansgate and RiDGEriELD, Manciiesikr; AND 11, Paternoster Buildings, LOXDOX. ISSO.. TO GEORGE MILNEH, President of the Manchester' Literary Chtb, WHO HAS EARNED AN HONOURED PLACE AMONGST MANCHESTER WORTHIES OF THE PRESENT, THIS RECORD OF THE WORK OF THE MANCHESTER WORTHIES OF THE PAST IS DEDICATED.