Excerpt from Warrington in 1445: As Described in a Contemporary Rent Roll of the Legh Family, in the Possession of Thomas Legh, Esquire, of Lyme Park

Minutes like the following occurring in various places, shew that it has been carefully examined by the writer. As for instance, at pages 218 and 236 of the original, we read corrigitur istuc; and at page 260, corrigitur hucusque. It is bound in a strong original binding, which is probably as old as the volume; but the letter ing on the back, Manuscript relating to Lyme Estate, has evidently been added at a later period, and is probably not more than a century and a half old. With a particu larity unusual in such cases, the writer has been careful to record the exact date of his manuscript. He tells us that it was begun on the third Wednesday of Lent, in the year 1465, [i.e. According to the civil and legal computation] and in the sixth year of King Edward IV. We can only reconcile the above year of Grace with the year of the King's reign, by supposing that the writer adopted the civil and legal. And not the historical computation; for as Edward IV. Began to reign, according to the latter, on the 4th of March, 1461, and as the manuscript was commenced on the 5th of March, the writer of the manuscript must necessarily have written the year 1466, unless he had been guided by the computation which we have supposed. But a passage in Hollinshed's Chronicles, (p. Will serve to make this matter more clear - King Edward says he, was proclaimed in the year of the world 5427, and from the birth of our Saviour 1461, after our accompt, beginning the ywr at Christmas, but after the usual accompt of the.

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