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Chester Archaeological Society 
Contents of Journals, 1887–2002-03
 
Volume 79 (2004-05)* 
  • D Mullin 'I: Neolithic Stone Axeheads from Cheshire'
  • M Reid et al 'II: Archaeological Observations at Snow Hill Car Park, Nantwich, Cheshire'
  • N Herepath 'III: Finds from Cheshire recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme 2004'
Volume 78 (2003-04)* 
  • M Nevell 'I: The Late Prehistoric and Romano-British settlement of the Mersey Basin: a study in marginality'
  • A Jones 'II: Some unusual Roman antefixes from Chester'
  • D J P Mason 'III: The Heronbridge Archaeological Research Project. An interim report on the 2002 and 2003 seasons of the Society's new fieldwork initiative 
  • S Matthews 'IV: Viking settlement in the Wirral'
Volume 77 (2002-03)* 
  • D Mullin 'I: Grimston Ware. Examples of Early Neolithic Pottery from North and East Cheshire'
  • N Fairburn and others 'II: Brook House Farm, Bruen Stapleford. Excavation of a First Millennium BC Settlement'
  • N Fairburn and others 'III: Birch Heath, Tarporley. Excavation of a Rural Romano-British Settlement' 
  • M Nevell 'IV: Legh Oaks Farm, High Legh. The Value of Sample Excavation on Two Sites of the Late Prehistoric and Roman Periods'
  • R Heawood and others 'V: Excavations at Warrington Friary 2000'
Volume 76 (2000-01)* 
  • K J Matthews 'I: The Iron Age of North-West England. A Socio-Economic Model'
  • S Penney & D C A Shotter 'II: Further Inscribed Roman Salt Pans from Shavington, Cheshire'
  • S Matthews 'III: St John's Church and the Early History of Chester'
  • N J Higham 'IV: The Tatton Park Project, Part 3. The Post-Medieval Estate and Halls: Grandeur to Decline'
  • G Barnes 'V: New Bridge, New Road, New Church. The Building of Grosvenor Street in Chester'.
Volume 75 (1998–9)* 
  • C Howard-Davies & K Buxton 'I: Excavations at Church  Moss, Davenham 1995-6: a post-glacial environmental sequence in mid-Cheshire'
  • D J Robinson 'II: The Romans  and Ireland again: some thoughts on Tacitus' Agricola chapter 24' 
  • D C A Shotter 'III: Chester: the evidence of Roman coin loss'
  • D C A Shotter 'IV: Middlewich: the evidence of Roman coin loss'
  • N J Higham 'V: The Tatton Park project, part 2: the medieval estates, settlements and halls'
Volume 74 (1996–7) 
  • R Coppack 'I: Alex Bruce (Member of Council 1987-1996)'
  • N J Higham & T Cane 'I: The Tatton Park project, part 1: prehistoric to sub-Roman'
  • T Austin 'II: Viking-period Chester: an alternative perspective'
  • S Matthews 'III: Archbishop Plegmund and the court of King Alfred 890-923' 
  • M J B Hislop 'IV: A medieval building contract from Storeton, Wirral' 
Volume 73 (1994–5) 
  • J T Driver 'I: Brian Ernest Harris (1933-1988): some personal recollections'
  • D J P Mason 'II: "And the walls came tumbling down": excavations adjacent to the City Walls in St John Street 1988'
  • D F Petch 'III: Cunedda and the foundation of Gwynedd'
  • S W Ward 'IV: The archaeology of medieval Chester: a review'
  • A C Thompson 'V: The annual eyre of the Justice of Chester c 1300-1450'
  • N J Tringham 'VI: A visitation of Tarvin prebend, Cheshire, in 1317'
  • D A Johnson 'VII: The Cheshire estates of the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in 1472-3'
  • J A Bruce 'VIII: Giles Gilbert Scott and the Chester war memorial' 
Volume 72 (1992–3)* 
  • M N Morris & T J Strickland 'Foreword'
  • D F Petch 'Obituary: Frederick Hugh Thompson (1923-95)'
  • G Lloyd-Morgan 'The early growth of archaeology in Chester: 1849-95'
  • G Lloyd-Morgan 'The Newstead years 1886-1947'
  • G A Webster 'Reflections on archaeology and the creation of the Grosvenor Museum 1948-55'
  • F H Thompson 'The education of an archaeologist in a time of change 1955-62'
  • D F Petch 'Filling the gaps - a decade of growth 1962-73'
  • T J Strickland 'Archaeology at the cross-roads: 1973-89 - interesting pastime or sober profession?'
  • M N Morris 'The future of Chester's past: 1989-96'
Volume 71 (1991)* 
  • A T Thacker 'Introduction: the earls and their earldom'
  • R H C Davis 'Geoffrey Barraclough and the lure of charters'
THE EARLDOM 
  • C P Lewis 'The formation of the Honor of Chester 1066-1100'
  • D Crouch 'The administration of the Norman earldom'
  • J A Green 'Earl Ranulf II and Lancashire'
  • P Dalton 'Aiming at the impossible: Ranulf II Earl of Chester and Lincolnshire in the reign King Stephen' 
THE CHARTERS 
  • M T J Webber 'The scribes and handwriting of the original charters'
  • J G H Hudson 'Diplomatic and legal aspects of the charters'
  • T A Heslop 'The seals of the twelfth-century earls of Chester'
  • D Quin 'A bibliography of the published works of Geoffrey Barraclough' 
Volume 70 (1987/8)* 
  • D J Freke & R Holgate 'Excavations at Winwick, Cheshire, in 1980, 1. Excavation of two second millenium BC mounds'
  • D J Freke & A T Thacker 'Excavations at Winwick, Cheshire, in 1980, 2. The inhumation cemetery at Southworth Hall Farm, Winwick'
  • D W Griffiths 'A group of late Anglo-Saxon hooked tags from Cheshire'
  • R McNeil & R C Turner 'An architectural and topographical survey of Vale Royal Abbey'
  • S Ainsworth, P Everson & W R Wilson-North 'Two rectangular enclosures on Stamford Heath, Christleton, near Chester'
  • N J Higham 'Hough Hall: the trial excavation of a moated platform in Mere township, Cheshire'
  • J W Laughton 'The house that John built: a study of the building of a 17th-century house in Chester' 
  • P Morgan 'Obituary: Professor John McNeal Dodgson (1928-90)' 
Volume 69 (1986) 
  • P Carrington 'The plan of the legionary fortress at Chester: further comparisons'
  • D J P Mason 'The prata legionis at Chester'
  • R H White 'Viking-period sculpture at Neston, Cheshire' 
  • R C Turner, C B Sale & J A A Rutter 'A medieval garden at the Belgrave Moat, Cheshire'
  • D K Maxfield 'Pardoners and property: John Macclesfield, 1351-1422, builder of Macclesfield Castle'
  • J C Grenville & R C Turner 'Two timber-framed houses in Chester'
  • A N Brown ,J C Grenville & R C Turner 'Watergate Street: an interim report of the Chester Rows Research Project'
  • Obituary: Dr B E Harris 
Volume 68 (1985) 
  • P Carrington 'The Roman advance into the north-western Midlands before AD 71'
  • P Carrington 'The plan of the legionary fortress at Chester: a reconsideration'
  • D J P Mason 'The status of Roman Chester: a reply' 
  • G R Stephens 'The Roman aqeuduct at Chester'
  • G LLoyd-Morgan 'Records of 'aurei' from Chester'
  • S Ward 'Recent work on the medieval wall of Chester'
  • J P Dodd 'Domesday Cheshire: some agricultural connotations'
  • M J C Evans 'The clergy of the City of Chester, 1630-1672' 
  • G W Place 'The repatriation of Irish vagrants from Cheshire 1750-1815'
  • A N Brown, B Howes &R C Turner 'A medieval stone town house in Chester' 
Volume 67 (1984) 
  • B E Harris 'The debate on the Rows'
  • T J Strickland 'The Roman heritage of Chester'
  • S Ward 'The Rows: the evidence from archaeology'
  • A M Kennett 'The Rows in the city records'
  • J A Rutter 'Lifestyle in the Rows, with particular reference to a collection of pottery from 11 Watergate Street, Chester, found in 1884'
  • A N Brown 'The Rows debate: where next?'
  • The Rows conference
Volume 66 (1983) 
  • T J Strickland 'The defences of Roman Chester: discoveries made on the East Wall 1983'
  • A C Waddelove & E Waddelove 'Watling Street south of Chester'
  • M M Brown & D B Gallagher 'An Anglo-Viking cross shaft from Thornton le Moors, Cheshire'
  • J M Maddison 'The choir of Chester cathedral' 
  • G W Place 'Parkgate as a port'
  • M A R Ockrim 'Thomas Harrison and the rebuilding of Chester Castle: A history and reassessment' 
Volume 65 (1982)* 
  • T J Strickland 'Chester: excavations in the Princess Street/Hunter Street area,1978-1982. a first report on discoveries of the Roman period'
  • T J Strickland 'The defences of Roman Chester: a note on discoveries made on the North Wall, 1982'
  • M J Green 'Tanarus, Taranis and the Chester altar'
  • E H Brotherton-Ratcliffe 'Some recent discovered tile variations at Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire'
  • J P Dodd 'John Stanley Warrener, c 1583-1639'
  • C Hargreaves 'Social areas within the walls of Chester, 1861' 
Volume 64 (1981)* 
  • N J Alldridge 'Aspects of the topography of early medieval Chester'
  • J P Dodd 'The growth of a middle class in Frodsham manor 1300-60'
  • G Lloyd-Morgan 'Jet and shale in the archaeological collections of the Grosvenor Museum, Chester'
  • G Warrington 'The copper mines of Alderley Edge and Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire' 
Volume 63 (1980)* 
  • T J Strickland 'First century Deva: some evidence reconsidered in the light of recent archaeological discoveries'
  • J C Mc Peake, M Bulmer & J A Rutter 'Excavations in the garden of No 1 Abbey Green, Chester 1975-77: interim report'
  • G Lloyd-Morgan 'Further antique mirrors from Cheshire collections'
  • A R Myers 'Tudor Chester'
  • S W Baskerville 'The establishment of the Grosvenor interest in Chester 1710-48'
  • P Howell 'The other "Harrison of Chester"'
  • M H Ridgway 'The early plate of Chester cathedral' 
  • Obituary: Professor Alexander Reginald Myers (1912-80) 
Volume 62 (1979)* 
  • M Bulmer 'An introduction to Roman samian ware, with special reference to collections in Chester and the north west'
  • P H W Booth '"Farming for profit" in the fourteenth century: the Cheshire estates of the earldom of Chester'
  • P Edwards 'The horse trade of Chester in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries'
  • A M Kennett 'The history of the City Record Office at Chester' 
Volume 61 (1978)* 
  • P R Hough 'Excavations at Beeston Castle 1975-1977'
  • G Lloyd-Morgan 'Some small Roman bronzes in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester'
  • J A Rutter 'A pit group from Barton village, Cheshire, and an unprovenanced curfew fragment in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester'
  • G P Higgins 'The militia in early Stuart Cheshire'
  • B E Harris 'A nineteenth-century Cheshire historian: John Parsons Earwaker 1847-1895'
  • S Harrison 'The Reverend Samuel Cooper Scott and his diary'
  • M H Ridgway 'Church plate of the diocese of Chester (part ii)' 
Volume 60 (1977)* 
  • G Rowley 'The excavation of a barrow at Woodhouse Lane, Gawsworth, near Macclesfield'
  • P Carrington 'The planning and date of the Roman legionary fortress at Chester'
  • M Henig 'Some notes on gems and finger rings in the Grosvenor Museum'
  • G Lloyd-Morgan 'Mirrors in Roman Chester'
  • B Edwards 'A Chester Mithraic figure recovered?'
  • P Greene & P Hough 'Excavation in the medieval village of Norton 1974-1976 (part i)'
  • A Leigh, P Davey, D Morgan & T Pierce 'Excavations at St Elphin's rectory,Warrington'
  • M Ridgway 'Church plate of the diocese of Chester (part i)' 
Volume 59 (1976)* 
  • P J Davey 'The distribution of Bronze Age metalwork from Lancashire and Cheshire' 
  • D J P Mason 'Chester: the evolution and adaptation of its landscape'
  • D J P Mason 'Chester southerly by-pass 1975 (Excavations near Eaton Road, Eccleston)' 
  • D F Petch 'An inscription from Chester'
  • M Henig 'An intaglio from Chester'
  • P H Alebon, P J Davey & D J Robinson 'The Eastgate, Chester 1972'
  • L Laing 'Some pagan Anglian finds from Deeside'
  • J P Greene, L Keen & B Noake 'The decorated mosaic tile floor from Warrington Friary: a reassessment'
  • L Keen 'Baguley Hall Manchester'
  • J H Harvey 'Two early nurseries: Knowsley, Lancs and Knutsford, Cheshire' 
Volume 58 (1975) 
  • M Buchanan et al 'Watling Street in the grounds of Eaton Hall'
  • D F Petch 'Excavations in Eaton Road, Eccleston, Chester'
  • D J Robinson & T E Ward 'Excavatons on the site of the Chester telephone exchange extension, 1971'
  • T Ward 'Excavations in Goss Street, Chester, 1971'
  • T Ward & D G Wilson 'Goldsmith House site, Goss Street, Chester, 1972'
  • E H Brotherton-Ratcliffe 'Excavations at Grange Cow Worth, Ellesmere Port,1966 and 1967'
  • E H Brotherton-Ratcliffe 'Motorway Archaeology, M56, 1973'
  • A Brown et al 'Excavations at Halton Brow, Runcorn, 1967'
  • P V Webster 'The later Roman occupation at Wilderspool'
  • D Hill & D Wilson 'Frontier dykes in the Wrexham area, recent work, 1972'
  • P Greene 'A crop mark in Cilcain parish, West Flintshire, 1972 and 1973'
  • B E Harris 'Ranulph III, Earl of Chester'
  • J S Morrill 'William Davenport and the "silent majority" of early Stuart England'
  • Obituary: B T Williams
Volume 57 (1970/1)* 
  • Obituary: R V H Burne
  • D F Petch 'Excavations on the site of the Old Market Hall, Chester, second summary report 1968-70. With an appendix on a slate-cut inscription by D F Petch and D J Robinson' 
  • J T Driver 'The Mainwarings of Over Peover: a Cheshire family in the fifteenth and early sixteenth century'
  • F O'Gorman 'The Chester election of 1784'
  • C D Rogers 'The case against the school boards of Cheshire 1870-1902 
Volume 56 (1969)* 
  • F H Thompson 'Excavations at Linenhall Street, Chester, 1961-2'
  • G D Squibb 'The Deputy Heralds of Chester' 
  • R Sherlock 'Chandeliers by Chester brassfounders' 
Volume 55 (1968)* 
  • D F Petch 'The praetorium at Deva'
  • V Nutton 'A Greek doctor at Chester'
  • D F Petch 'Earth-moving machines and their employment on archaeological excavations'
  • J McN Dodgson 'Place-names and street-names at Chester'
  • H Robinson 'Cheshire river navigations with special reference to the River Dee'
  • Obituary: Miss A F Estelle Dyke 
Volume 54 (1967) 
  • F H Thompson 'Excavations in Bolland's Court, Chester,1954 and 1959'
  • F H Thompson 'Excavations at Castle Hill, Oldcastle, near Malpas, 1957'
  • F H Thompson 'Excavations at Woolworth's, Chester, 1959
  • F H Thompson 'Notes on two Chester building sites, 1960' 
  • D Sylvester 'Parish and township in Cheshire and NE Wales'
  • D Nuttall 'A history of printing in Chester' 
Volume 53 (1966) 
Volume 52 (1965) 
  • D B Kelly 'Excavations at Watergate House, Chester, 1959'
  • K E Jermy et al 'King Street - A Roman road in central Cheshire'
  • S M Rutland 'St Mary's nunnery, Chester 1964. An interim report'
  • R V H Burne ' The treatment of the poor in the eighteenth century in Chester' 
Volume 51 (1964)* 
  • J B Whitwell & S M McNamee 'Excavations in Foregate Street'
  • A J Farrington 'A note on Gherbod the Fleming'
  • M H Ridgway 'The medieval parclose screens from Bunbury church'
  • B C Redwood 'Audlem Free Grammar School'
  • Monumental inscriptions at St Bridget's, St Martin's and Matthew Henry's Chapel, Chester'
  • Obituary: Thomas Keith-Hill; Marjorie Venables Taylor 
Volume 50 (1963) 
  • K E Jermy 'The Roman road in Wirral'
  • T Jones 'The "Mabinogion" and the four branches of the Mabinogi"'
  • R V H Burne 'The evolution of the English castle' 
Volume 49 (1962) 
  • F H Tompson ' Infirmary Field excavations, 1957'
  • F H Tompson ' Excavations in Nicholas Street, 1957'
  • M H Ridgway ' Coloured window glass in Cheshire, 1550-1850'
  • R V H Burne ' Domesday Book and Cheshire'
  • S T B Percival ' The Basnetts during the 16th and 17th centuries'
  • A F E Dyke ' Watergate Street, 1961'
  • Miscellanea: Stone axe-hammer from Norbury; Stone axe-hammer from Pinsley Green; Flint arrow-head from Thurstaston; Roman spindle-whorl from Hartford; Finds from the River Dee; Roman finds from Newgate Street; Finds from Bridge Street; Late Saxon pin from Linenhall Street; Finds from Liverpool Road; Scottish ring-brooch from Mancot; Coins - various 
Volume 48 (1961) 
  • K E Jermy 'The Roman road in Wirral'
  • M St J Way 'Watling south of Aldford'
  • F H Thomson ' Notes on Roman roads in Cheshire'
  • R V H Burne 'Richard II and Cheshire
  • J Beck 'Some aspects of education in Cheshire in the seventeenth century
  • Miscellanea: Flint knife from Ruabon Mountain; Flint arrow-head from Bickerton Hill; Bronze Age burial from Beech Hall, Macclesfield; Supposed barrow in Dunham New Park; Coins - various 
Volume 47 (1960) 
  • R V H Burne 'Life in St Werburgh's Abbey in the fourteenth century'
  • H E Boulton ' The Chester Infirmary'
  • R C Gwilliam ' The building of the present Town Hall, Chester'
  • Miscellanea: Stone axe-hammer from Old Withington, near Macclesfield; Fragments of Roman military diploma from Middlewich; Roman wall in Lower Bridge Street; Roman pottery from Foregate Street; Stone piscina from Aldford; Finds from Bangor-on-Dee; Coins - various 
Volume 46 (1959) 
  • M H Ridgway & D J Cathcart King 'Beeston Castle, Cheshire'
  • A H Burne 'Offa's Dyke - boundary or barrier?'
  • D F Petch & F H Thompson ' Excavations in Commonhall Street'
  • F H Thompson ' Excavation in Weaver Street'
  • W J Williams 'The fortress of Deva'
  • Miscellanea: Perforated stone hoe from Stockport; Socketed bronze axe and Roman altar from Helsby; Roman lead weight from Christleton; Coins -various; Quern stone from Bridge Trafford; Medieval cellar in St John Street, Chester 
Volume 45 (1958) 
  • P H Lawson & J T Smith 'The Rows of Chester: two interpretations'
  • J W Clarke 'The building of the Grosvenor Bridge'
  • D F Renn 'The Water Tower at Chester'
  • D J C King 'The donjon of Flint'
  • Miscellanea: Hammer-stone from Agden, nr Altrincham; Bronze razor from Holywell; Brooches from Lloyds Bank, Chester; Coins - various (Agden hoard) 
Volume 44 (1957) 
  • R V H Burne 'Chester under the Black Prince'
  • G Webster & K Barton 'An 18th-century rubbish pit, Trinity Street, 1953'
  • F H Tompson & F W Tobias 'Excavations in Newgate Street, Chester, 1955'
  • R C Gwilliam 'The Chester tanners and Parliament, 1711-1717'
  • Miscellanea: Stone axe from Kingsley; Stone axe from Oxton; Circular hammer-stone from Frodsham; Flint arrowhead from Marton; Finds on County Offices site, Chester; Coins - various; Quillon dagger from Congleton; Congleton hoard 
Volume 43 (1956) 
  • R V H Burne 'Chester Cathedral, 1787-1837'
  • G Webster 'Excavation of the Roman remains east of Trinity Street, 1950-1953'
  • D Tudor Jones 'The ancient chapel of the Lords of Cholmondeley'
  • Miscellanea: Worked flints from Hoole; Roman lead weight from Alvanley; Roman building in Pepper Street, Chester, Pilgrim's flask fom Meols; Medieval chalice from Pulford
  • Obituary: F H Crossley; J H E Bennett 
Volume 42 (1955) 
  • R H M Dolley 'The mint of Chester (part i)'
  • R V H Burne 'Chester cathedral in the eighteenth century (part ii)'
  • G Webster 'A section through the legionary defences on the west side of the fortress' 
  • Miscellanea: An expanding flint axe from Lyme Park 
Volume 41 (1954) 
  • B R Hartley 'Heronbridge excavations: bronze-worker's hearth'
  • B R Hartley & K F Kaine ' Roman dock and buildings'
  • R V H Burne 'Chester Cathedral in the eighteenth century'
  • J W Clarke 'Mollington Hall'
  • A F E Dyke 'St Peter's parish boundaries'
  • Miscellanea: A perforated stone axe from Bexton; A perforated stone axe from Edge; A Roman capital; Roman material from the Bars; A Roman coin from Saighton; Roman pottery found at Middlewich; The Telephone Exchange site, St John's Street; A medieval timber road at Nantwich 
Volume 40 (1953) 
  • G Webster 'Excavations on the legionary defences at Chester, 1949-52 (part ii)'
  • R V H Burne 'Chester Cathedral after the Restoration'
  • J W Clarke 'The Chester Scholars or the Gentlemen Bellringers of St John's'
  • Miscellanea: Worked flints from Frodsham; Stone axe-hammer from beeston; Perhistroic and later finds from Ashton; A bronze palstave of an Italian type; Roman coin found at Romily; Roman coins found near Chester; A stamped tile and pottery from Reaseheath Hall; Medieval spade found near the Eastgate; A late medieval purse mount 
Volume 39 (1952) 
  • B R Hartley 'Excavations at Heronbridge, 1947-48'
  • G Webster 'Excavations on the legionary defences at Chester 1945-52 (part i)'
  • J H E Bennett 'The Black Friars of Chester'
  • R V H Burne 'The history of Chester cathedral in the reigns of James I and Charles I'
  • M J Groombridge 'The city gilds of Chester'
  • Miscellanea: Polished stone axe from Ashton Brook; Granite axe from Hollowmore Heath; Cinerary urn from Kelsall; Palstave from Great SuttonRoman coin from Antrobus; Roman lead weight from Chester; A decorated lead spindle-whorl from Tarvin; A medieval tile from Linenhall Street, Chester 
Volume 38 (1951) 
  • I A Richmond & G Webster 'Excavations in Goss Street, Chester, 1948-9'
  • G Webster 'Chester in the Dark Ages'
  • R V H Burne 'Chester Cathedral in the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth'
  • J R Beresford 'The churchwardens' accounts of Holy Trinity, Chester, 1532 to 1633'
  • Miscellanea: Stone implements in Cheshire; Roman walling under Northgate Brewery; Roman column from Commonhall Street; Roman inscription found in Watergate Street; A Roman lead weight 
Volume 37 (ii) (1949) 
  • F H Crossley & J C Wolley Dod ' An architectural histroy of the church of Malpas in the County of Cheshire'
  • E Dyke 'Chester's earliest directories'
  • A J Taylor 'The cloister of Vale Royal Abbey'
  • Miscellanea: The foundation-date of the churches of St Werburgh and St Peter on Chester; The Old Bishop's Palace, Chester 
Volume 37 (i) (1948) 
  • R V H Burne 'The dissoution of St Werburgh's abbey'
  • R V H Burne 'The founding of Chester Cathedral'
  • J H E Bennett 'The Old Bishop's Palace, Chester'
  • M H Ridgway 'An introduction to the making of coloured window glass with special reference to the early glass destroyed and extant in Cheshire'
  • M H Ridgway & G B Leach 'Further notes on the glasshouse site at Kingswood, Delamere, Cheshire'
  • F H Crossley 'A disputed Cheshire will of the early 17th century' 
Volume 36 (ii) (1948) 
  • R Newstead 'Records of archaeological finds'
  • E Birley 'The status of Roman Chester'
  • Miscellanea: The Chester property of the Nunnery of St Mary, Clerkenwell, in the twelfth century; Scottish coin and gold ring finds 
  • Obituary: R Newstead 
Volume 36 (i) (1946) 
  • R V H Burne 'The falling towers of St John Baptist's Church, Chester'
  • A F E Dyke 'A Cestrian looks at Watergate Street'
  • E J D Morrison 'The hearth tax in Chester'
  • Miscellanea 
Volume 35 (ii) (1945) 
  • F H Crossley 'Fourteenth-century steeple-building in Cheshire and surrounding districts'
  • Obituary: R A Thomas; W H Evans 
Volume 35 (i) (1942) 
  • F H Crossley 'Post-Reformation church building in Cheshire during the 17th and 18th centuries'
  • C E Stevens 'Notes on Roman Chester'
  • 'Some surprise finds of prehistoric and Roman periods from Ashton, near Chester'
  • Obituary - Frank Simpson 
Volume 34 (ii) (1940) 
  • F H Crossley 'The renaissance of Cheshire church building in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries'
  • C W Baty 'Note on tracery designs amd their relation to subjects in painted glass' 
Volume 34 (i) (1939) 
  • R Newstead & J P Droop 'Excavations at Chester, 1939: the Princess Street clearance area' 
Volume 33 (1939) 
  • [R Newstead] 'Records of archaelogical finds'
  • [...] 'The rebellion of Sir George Booth'
  • [...] 'Monastic influence on the construction of parochial churches' 
Volume 32 (ii) (1938) 
  • F H Crossley 'Cheshire churches in the twelfth century' 
  • J H E Bennett 'The hospital and chantry of St Ursula the Virgin of Chester' 
Volume 32 (i) (1937) 
  • F H Crossley 'On the importance of fourteenth-century planning in the construction of the churches of Cheshire'
  • J C Dewshurst 'The Quarter Sessions records of the County Palatine of Chester'
  • T S Willan 'Chester and the navigation of the Dee' 
Volume 31 (ii) (1936) 
  • F H Crossley 'Cheshire church towers' 
  • W J Varley 'Maiden Castle, Bickerton' 
Volume 31 (i) (1935) 
  • H E Bennett 'The White Friars of Chester' 
  • A L Browne 'Sir John Throckmorton of Feckenham, Chief Justice of Chester' 
  • G C Whittick & J A Smythe 'Note on four Roman leads from the Grosvenor Museum' 
  • Miscellanea 
  • Obituary 
Volume 30 (ii) (1933) 
  • R Stewart-Brown 'The Old Dee Bridge' 
  • F Simpson 'The Newgate' 
  • F H Crossley ' On the constructional design of church timber roofs in Cheshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire' 
  • W J Williams 'The Roman ditch at Heronbridge' 
  • Miscellanea: Bovium 
Volume 30 (i) (1933) 
  • J A Petch et al 'Excavations at Heronbridge (1930-31)' 
  • W J Williams 'The Watling Street at Heronbridge' 
  • Miscellanea 
Volume 28 (ii) (1929) 
  • J Brownbill 'The Troutbeck family' 
  • H T Dutton 'The Stuart kings and Chester Corporation' 
  • J H E Bennett ' A letter of confraternity of the Grey Friars, Chester' 
  • Miscellanea 
  • Obituaries 
Volume 28 (i) (1928) 
  • G P Crawford 'The diary of George Booth of Chester, and Katherine Howard, his daughter, of Boughton, near Chester, 1701-1764'
  • G P Crawford 'The family of Proby in Chester and Ireland'
  • F Simpson 'A few Cheshire worthies' 
  • Lord Archbishop of Wales 'Druidism' 
Volume 27 (ii) (1928) 
  • R Newstead 'Records of archaeological finds at Chester'
  • P H Lawson 'Schedule of the Roman remains of Chester, with maps and plans' 
  • Miscellanea 
  • Obituary: H Taylor 
Volume 27 (i) (1926) 
  • F Simpson 'The 13th-century crypt, Bridge Street, Chester'
  • F Simpson 'The Royal Oak inn, Chester'
  • H J Hewitt 'Communications and transport in medieval Cheshire' 
Volume 26 (ii) (1925) 
  • F Simpson 'Chester Castle, AD 907-1925' 
  • P H Lawson 'The Commonplace Book of John Crewe of Utkinton, Co Chester, circa 1640-1650' 
  • R G Collingwood 'Jupiter Tanarus' 
Volume 26 (i) (1925) 
  • A G K Hayter 'Report on Roman potters' marks found in Chester' 
  • H J Hewitt 'The trade of Chester in the reign of the three Edwards' 
  • Miscellanea 
Volume 24 (ii) (1922) 
  • P H Lawson 'Family memoranda of the Stanleys of Alderley, 1590-1601 and 1621-1627' 
  • W J Williams 'The cult of Mithra in Deva' 
  • J T Davies & F W Longbottom 'Catalogue of the Roman coins in the Chester Museum' 
Volume 24 (i) (1921) 
  • J H E Bennet 'The Grey Friars of Chester' 
Volume 23 (1920) 
  • F G Wright 'Chester Blue Coat Hospital' 
  • J H E Bennett 'Arms and inscriptions sometime in the church of Saint Bridget, Chester' 
  • W F J Timbrell 'The medieval stall-end in Hawarden parish church, and contemporary panels in Eastham Church' 
  • R H Linker 'A short account of the life of George Clarke, Lieutenant-Govenor of New York, 1736-1745' 
  • Obituary: F J Haverfield 
  • Review: A Cheshire parish, being a short history of Ince
Volume 22 (1918) 
  • H Taylor 'A deed of transfer of family property by Randle Holme III, and Randle Holme IV in 1690'
  • P H Lawson 'On five letters of Henry Maynwaring of Chester, Merchant, to Thomas Trafford of Bridge Trafford, Co Chester, 1588-9'
  • J C Bridge 'Kenrick Edisbury (Surveyor of the Navy, 1632-1638), and his descendants; being a brief account of the family of Edisbury of Marchwiel, Co Denbigh'
  • F Simpson 'The City Gilds of Chester: the Bricklayers Company'
  • R S Brown 'The execution of criminals in Cheshire'
  • R M Montgomery 'Some early deeds relating to land on the north side of Eastgate Street, Chester'
  • G W Haswell 'The abbey church of Saint Werburgh, Chester, in pre-Norman times'
  • Chester artists
  • W W Tasker 'Matthew Henry's chapel'
  • J H E Bennett 'Hatton Hall'
  • Obituary: R H Morris
  • Review: County folkore 
Volume 21 (1915) 
  • F Simpson 'Leche House' 
  • Exhibition 
  • H Taylor 'Chester's oldest newspaper' 
  • J H E Bennett 'Cheshire and "The Fifteen"' 
  • J Hall 'Chester newspapers about one hundred years ago' 
  • M Parry 'Chester Welsh painting' 
  • F Simpson 'The City Guilds of Chester: the Skinners and Feltmakers' Company' 
  • L M Farrall 'Holy Trinity Church, Chester: records of three centuries' 
  • Archdeacon Barber 'Chester Cathedral: the recent work in the cloisters and refectory' 
  • Obituary 
  • Review: Registers of a city church 
Volume 20 (1914) 
  • F Simpson 'The City Gilds of Chester: the Smiths, Cutlers and Plumbers' Company'
  • R Stewart 'Notes on the Chester hand or glove'
  • J Hall 'Two letters by the Beverley family of Huntingdon, near Chester'
  • J C Bridge 'Items of expenditure from the 16th-century accounts of the Painters, Glaziers, Embroiderers and Stationers' Company, with special reference to the Shepherds'Play"'
  • J H E Bennet 'Two Elizabethan chamberlains of the Palantinate of Chester'
  • Exhibitional evening
  • H Taylor 'A Roman Centurion of the 20th Legion'
  • Miscellanea 
Volume 19 (i and ii) (1912-13) 
  • F Simpson 'Cilcain and its parish church'
  • J C Bridge 'The organists of Chester Cathedral: Part I, 1541 to 1644; Part II, 1663 to 1877'
  • J H E Bennett 'The Berringtons of Cheshire'
  • M V Taylor 'The 16th-century Abbots of St Werburghs, Chester: some notes on documents relating to the Abbey and other religious houses of Cheshire; and a medieval guide book to Chester'
  • H Cooke 'The ancient abbey of Vale Royal'
  • Obituary: F Sanders
  • Miscellanea 
Volume 18 (1911) 
  • E Barber 'Parkgate: an old Cheshire port'
  • J Hall 'Royal charters and grants to the City of Chester'
  • R C Bosanquet 'On a Roman urn from Wroxeter in the Grosvenor Museum, and other pottery of the 1st century AD'
  • F Sanders 'George Cotes, Bishop of Chester 1554-1555'
  • F Simpson ' The City Guilds or Companies of Chester, with special reference to that of the Barber-Surgeons'
  • E Barber 'Ancient boat in Baddiley Mere'
  • Obituary: T S Gleadowe; W Shone
  • Miscellanea 
Volume 17 (1910) 
  • E Barber 'The trade and customs of Chester in the 17th and 18th Centuries as shown in some old parish registers'
  • J Hall 'The Feodary's returns for Cheshire in the18th Elizabeth, 1576'
  • F G Slater 'The story of Ince in the 18th century; extracted from the parish records and other sources'
  • E Barber 'The baptistery of the cathedral'
  • J Hall 'Report on the Earwaker MS collection in the Grosvenor Museum library, Chester'
  • Chester pageant 1910
  • Inventory of Chester Corporation plate, insignia, and regalia
  • In memoriam: T N Brushfield
  • Miscellanea: The painting in the south aisle of the church of St Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester; Frescoes in Chester Cathedral 
Volume 16 (1909) 

Part i 

  • R Newstead 'On a recently discovered section of the Roman wall at Chester'
Part ii 
  • H Lloyd 'The Pentice and other ancient law courts in Chester'
  • H Taylor 'On the discovery of three documents furnishing additional evidence relating to the family of the Randle Holmes of Chester'
  • H G Slater 'Some early 18th century brasses in Ince church'
  • E Barber 'St.Plegmund; and his connection with Cheshire'
  • P T Godsal 'The Conquest of Britain by the Angles; in the light of military science'
  • E Barber 'Chester cathedral: the mosaics' 
  • Miscellanea: Visit of the Cambrian Archaeological Association; A preliminary note on the Roman remains discovered in Chester during the year 1909; On the Roman remains discovered on the site of Allen's Buildings, Bridge Street 
Volume 15 (1909) 
  • Earl Egerton of Tatton 'The Cheshire gentry in 1715: drawn from the Ashley Hall portraits at Tatton
  • J C Bridge ed 'The diary of Nehemiah Griffith Esq, of Rhual, Mold, for the year 1715'
  • 'The 1715 rebellion; letters from John Rutherfoord, Esq, and William Elliott, Esq'
  • E A Fishbourne 'The Church of All saints, Gresford; a guess at its architectural history'
  • J Hall 'Acton Church and Dorfold Hall; a description in 1907'
  • P F A Morrell 'The parish registers of the parish of Burton'
  • E Barber 'The S Oswald's reredos; and the frescoes in Chester Cathedral'br 
  • Miscellanea: North Welsh rectors; Roman wall near Pepper gate'
  • Obituary (the late Mr Edward Hodkinson) 
Volume 14 (1908) 
  • F W Longbottom 'A few notes on the voins of the Potter-Meols collection'
  • H Gollancz 'The Chester Mystery Plays'
  • F Sanders 'The Quaker in Chester under the Protectorate'
  • F Simpson 'The River Dee'
  • J C Bridge 'The Cheshire soldiers of fortune of the XIV century: Sir Hugh Calveley; Sir Robert Knolles; Appendix'
  • Notes
  • Obituary (the late Dr Stolterfoth)
Volume 13 (1907) 
  • F Sanders 'Bishop Chadderton's visitation articles'
  • G W Haswell 'Notes on Chester street-names past and present (northern section)
  • W E Brown 'Notes on Chester street-names past and present'
  • W Fergusson-Irvine 'Notes on the history of St Mary's nunnery'
  • F Sanders 'John Bird, DD, Bishop of Chester 1541-1554'
  • E Barber 'Chester Cathdral: some details of its architecture often unnoticed'
  • Miscellanea 
Volume 12 (1906) 
  • E Barber 'Chester Cathedral: the Jacobean work'
  • E barber 'The chruchwardens' accounts of S Martin's, Chester, from 1683 to 1816'
  • W E B Whittaker 'The Glynnes of Hawarden'
  • Miscellanea
Volume 11 (1904) 
  • E Barber 'The chruchewardens' accounts of the parish of S Bridget, Chester, 1811-1847'
  • F Simpson 'The "Cheshire Regiment" or 22nd regiment of foot'
  • W E B Whittaker 'On "Peculiars" with special reference to the "Peculiar" of Hawarden'
  • J C Bridge 'Horns (Part i)' 
  • J C Bridge 'Horns (Part ii)'
  • T N Brushfield 'Reminscences of Ralegh'
  • E Hodkinson 'Notes on the architecture of Basingwerk Abbey, Flintsthire'
Volume 11 (1903) 
  • Canon Morris 'Gleanings from the muniment room of the Town Hall of the City of Chester (Stuart period)
  • W Fergusson Irvine 'Chester in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; being notes on a number of recently discovered documents relating to the City, dating from the year 1178'
  • E Barber 'The ancient glass in the church of S Mary-on-the-Hill'
  • E Barber 'S Werburgh and her shrine'
  • F Sanders 'George Lloyd, Bishop of Chester 1605-1616'
  • H Taylor 'The early Chester deeds, 1270-1490'
  • Obituary (His Honour Judge Wynne Ffloukes) 
Volume 7 (1900) 
  • F Haverfield 'Catalogue of the Roman inscribed and sculptured stones in the Grosvenor Museum'
Volume 6 (1899) 

Part i* 

  • T N Brushfield 'The salmon clause in the indentures of apprentices'
  • F Haverfield 'The antiquity of place-names'
  • S W Williams & H Taylor 'Effigy in Holy Trinity church, Chester'
  • H Taylor 'Six early deeds relating to property in Northgate Street, Chester'
  • J C Bridge 'Two Chester madrigal writers: Thomas Bateson and Francis Pilkington'
  • J C Bridge 'Souling songs'
  • F Haverfield 'Roman altar discovered in 1896'
  • T F Tout 'Owain Glyndwr and his times' 
  • R H Morris 'John Wythines'
  • Obituary
  • Miscellanea
Parts ii-iii 
  • G W Haswell 'Shocklach churchyard cross'
  • H Taylor 'On some early deeds relating to the families of Hoton of Hooton and Stanley of Storeton'
  • W H Price and Editor 'Early marriages in the diocese of Chester'
  • R H Morris 'Bishop Lloyd's Palace'
  • Miscellanea
  • H Beswick 'Discovery of remains of a Roman building in Northgate Street, Chester'
  • Anon 'Cheshire records transcribed from the originals in the Public Record Office'
  • R H Morris 'Side lights on the Civil War in Cheshire, 1643-5'
  • R Newstead 'Discovery of Roman remains in Bridge Street, 1899'
Volume 5 (1893-5) 

Part i 

  • F A Hibbert 'The gild history of Chester'
  • H Taylor 'The Chester city companies'
  • G W Shrubsole 'On the Roman earthenware water pipes in the Grosvenor Museum'
  • G W Shrubsole 'The locality of Great Boughton in the time of the Romans'
  • T C Hughes 'The misericordes in Chester cathedral'
  • E A Ebblewhite 'Cheshire names'
  • R H Morris 'A Romano-British shield' 
  • W F Irvine 'Notes on the Domesday Survey, so far as it relates to the Hundred of Wirral'
  • H Taylor 'Sir Nicholas Hauberk, Knt, Constable of Flint Castle 1396-1407'
  • H Hughes 'Plas Mawr, Conway' 
  • F Haverfield 'The origins of Deva'
  • Miscellanea:- J C Bridge 'The Recorders'; F H Williams 'A Roman hypocaust'; E W Cox 'Fragments of a Saxon cross found at West Kirby'; E W Cox 'Flints found in Wirral'; St Mary's on the Hill; Note on Misericorde 19
  • Obituary
Parts ii and iii 
  • J Romilly Allen 'The early Christian monuments of Cheshire and Lancashire'
  • G W Shrubsole 'Gloverstone, Chester'

  • T N Brushfield 'The Rows of Chester' 
  • E W Cox 'The origin and date of Chester Rows'
  • H Taylor & H R Hughes '"Popish recusants" in Flintshire in 1625'
  • Obituary (J P Earwaker) 
  • Miscellanea:- F Haverfield 'Squeezes'; J Wiseman 'Dean of Chester's speech to James II'; 'The Old White Bear Inn'; 'Roman villa, Chester'; 'Old Eastgate';
Part iv 
  • F Haverfield 'The characteristics of Roman Chester'
  • E W Cox 'Diserth Castle'
  • H Taylor 'The history of Diserth Castle'
  • W Fergusson Irvine 'The Bishop of Chester's visitation book, 1592'
  • H Taylor 'A transcript of old Chester deeds'
  • Miscellanea:- 'The Rows of Chester'; 'Old houses in Chester'; 'Assembly Book'; 
Volume 4 (1890/1) 
  • F Sanders 'Thomas Cartwright DD, Bishop of Chester, 1686 to 1689'
  • J Romilly Allen 'The early Christian monuments of North Wales'
  • H Taylor 'The Flintshire militia, with a short biography of Sir Roger Mostyn, Knight and Baronet, its first colonel'
  • R H Morris 'The Roman pigs of lead discovered near Chester'
  • F Haverfield 'The administration of the Roman mines'
  • G W Shrubsole 'On a settlement of prehistoric people in Delamere Forest'
  • J P Earwaker 'The four Randle Holmes, of Chester, antiquaries, heralds, and generalogists, c 1571 to 1707
  • S Cooper Scott 'Notes on the new west window of the church of S John Baptist, Chester'
  • H Taylor 'Notes on some medieval goldsmiths in Chester'
  • J Godson 'The bells of St Michael's, Chester'
  • G W Shrubsole 'List of prehistoric remains found in Cheshire'
Volume 3 (1888-90) 
  • W de Gray Birch 'On some manuscripts, relating to St Werburgh's Abbey, Chester, preserved in the British Museum'
  • J P Earwaker 'Notes on the registers and churchwardens' accounts of St Michael's, Chester'
  • G W Shrubsole 'On a recent find of a centurial stone in Chester'
  • S Cooper Scott 'Extracts from the churchwardens'accounts and vestry minutes of St John's, Chester'
  • G W Shrubsole '"The walls of Chester: are they Roman or Edwardian?"'
  • R Mowat 'Notes on the tombstone of M Aurelius Alexander, in Chester'
  • Hubner 'The Roman inscriptions of Deva (Chester)'
  • H Taylor 'An unpublished diary of the Rev Peter Walkden in 1733-4'
  • W T Kenyon 'Malpas town, parish, and church'
  • G C Richardson 'Recent discoveries at Vale Crucis Abbey'
  • G F Browne 'On a sculptured stone with a runic inscription in Cheshire'
  • W Dallow 'Notes on the Overchurch runic stone'
  • Proceedings of the session 1888-9:- inter alia 'Early charters realting to St Werburgh's Abbey'; 'The hundred of Wirral';
  • Proceedings of the session 1889-90:- inter alia 'The Overchurch runic stone'; 'The Chester minstrels'; 'The life and times of Thomas Cartwright, Bishop of Chester, 1686-89'; 'The hundred of Wirral'; 'Chester music festivals';
Volume 2 (1888) 
  • I M Jones 'Official report on the discoveries of Roman remains at Chester, during the first repairs to the North wall, in 1887'
  • W Thompson Watkin 'The Roman inscriptions discovered at Chester, during the first repairs to the North wall, in 1887'
  • W de Gray Birch 'Notes on a sculptured stone recently found in the North Wall of the City of Chester'
  • E P Loftus Brock 'The age of the walls of Chester, with references to recent discussions'
  • The discussion of the above paper
  • Mr Brock's reply to the various speakers
  • W de Birch Gray 'The inscribed Roman stones recently found at Chester, during the second series of repairs to the North Wall'
  • J P Earwaker 'The ancient parish books of the church of St Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester'
  • H Taylor 'Notes upon some early deeds relating to Chester and Flint'
  • Proceedings of the session 1887-8:- inter alia T M Lockwood 'Notes on the architecture & c of the fourteenth century';
Volume 1 (1887)  
  • J P Earwaker 'The ancient charters and deeds at High Legh, Cheshire, belonging to Lt-Col H Cornwall Legh'
  • J Hewitt 'Notes on the medieval architecture of Chester, with special reference to the Rows and the crypts'
  • E W Cox 'Notes on the history of Wallasey Church'
  • G W Shrubsole 'The traffic between Deva and the coast of North Wales, in Roman times'
  • W T Ready 'Description of Roman coins found at Eccleston, near Chester'
  • Proceedings and papers of the session 1882-3:- inter alia A T Bannister 'Notes on the Roman altar found at Chester in 1648'; 'Roman coin found in Flintshire'; J E Bailey 'Christopher Goodman, Archdeacon of Richmond, rector of Aldford & c'; W Thompson Watkin 'Letter on the Roman altar found in 1648';
  • Proceedings and papers of the session 1883-4:- inter alia J S Howson 'Footprints of the Twentieth Roman legion'; G W Shrubsole 'The City Walls of Chester: is any part of them Roman?
  • Proceedings and papers of the session 1884-5:- inter alia A Baker 'The parish churches of the diocese of St Asaph'; G W Shrubsole 'Deva: its walls and streets, or Chester in the time of the Romans'; J S Howson 'Notes on the old Chapter Books of Chester Cathedral'; G Preston 'The Roman streets of Chester'
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