Lancashire
place · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
our county of Lancashire · that country
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Northern county named as a centre of new industrial and urban growth.
new cities sprung up in Lancashire and the northern counties where there had formerly been nothing but wastes dotted with townlets and villages.
Popular sympathy or sagacity had, it might be argued, proved more far-sighted than educated conservatism, whilst the patience with which the Lancashire “hands” endured the sufferings arising from the cotton famine gained for them general respect.
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
English industrial region whose machine-made textiles drove commercial expansion during the Napoleonic Wars
The cheapness of English goods became the marvel of the universe, and the machine-made stuffs of Lancashire and Yorkshire gave an impulse to English commerce scarcely equalled even during the period of railway construction and the gold discoveries.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The English county whose Sunday-recreation disputes and recusant population occasioned the 1618 Declaration of Sports.
Our express pleasure therefore is, that the laws of our kingdom and canons of the Church be as well observed in that county, as in all other places of this our kingdom:
Our dear father of blessed memory, in his return from Scotland, coming through Lancashire, found that his subjects were debarred from lawful recreations upon Sundays after evening prayers ended, and upon Holy-days;
It is true that at our first entry to this Crown and kingdom we were informed, and that too truly, that our county of Lancashire abounded more in Popish Recusants than any county of England, and thus hath still continued since, to our great regret, with little amendment, save that, now of late, in our last riding through our said country, we find both by the report of the Judges, and of the Bishop …