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• History of Manchester

• Historical sketches and personal recollections of Manchester. Intended to illustrate the progress of public opinion from 1792 to 1832. (C. Gilpin; [etc., etc.], 1851), by Archibald Prentice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorials of Manchester streets. (T. Sutcliffe, 1874), by Richard Wright Procter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The annals of Manchester: a chronological record from the earliest times to the end of 1885. (J. Heywood, Deansgate and Ridgefield, 1886), by William E. A. Axon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mediæval Manchester and the beginnings of Lancashire (The University press, 1904), by James Tait (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cobden as a citizen; a chapter in Manchester history. (T.F. Unwin, 1907), by William E. A. Axon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alderman Cobden of Manchester : letters and reminiscences of Richard Cobden (Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., 1891), by E. W. Watkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The trial of Feargus O'Connor, esq., (barrister-at-law) and fifty-eight others, at Lancaster, on a charge of sedition, conspiracy, tumult, and riot. (A. Heywood;, 1843), by Feargus O'Connor and Great Britain. Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jacobite trials at Manchester in 1694. From an unpublished manuscript. (Printed for the Chetham society, 1853), by William Beamont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mamecestre: being chapters from the early recorded history of the barony, the lordship or manor, the vill, borough, or town, of Manchester (Printed for the Chetham society, 1861), by John Harland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collectanea relating to Manchester and its neighbourhood, at various periods (Printed for the Chetham society, 1866), by John Harland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Everett's panorama of Manchester &c. (J. Everett, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A disclosure of parochial abuse, artifice, & peculation, in the town of Manchester; which have been the means of burthening the inhabitants with the present enormous parish rates: which other existing impositions of office, in a variety of facts, exhibiting the cruel and inhuman conduct of the hireling officers of the town, towards the poor. To which is added, a book of county rates, shewing the exact proportion of every hundred in this county, and of every township in the hundred of Salford. (Sold by J. Thomson, 1796), by Thomas Battye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mancuniensis (W. Willis, 1839), by Richard Hollingworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The battle of the press, as told in the story of the life of Richard Carlile (Bonner, 1899), by Theophila Carlile Campbell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A letter to the inhabitants of Manchester, containing strictures on a late meeting, held at the police-office, and on the origin, nature, and tendency of a declaration there adopted. (W. Cowdroy, 1817), by Algernon Sydney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manchester banks and bankers: historical, biographical, and anecdotal. (Palmer & Howe, 1878), by Leo H. Grindon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manchester : its political, social and commercial history, ancient and modern (Whittaker, 1836), by James Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Manchester fifty years ago. (J.E. Cornish;, 1881), by Josiah Thomas Slugg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Manchester. In four books. (J. Murray, 1773), by John Whitaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manchester streets and Manchester men. (J.E. Cornish, ltd., 1906), by T. Swindells (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Volume of court leet records of the manor of Manchester in the sixteenth century (Chetham soc., 1864), by Manchester (England). Court-leet and John Harland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorials of bygone Manchester, with glimpses of the environs (Palmer and Howe ;, 1880), by Richard Wright Procter, Marshall and Co Simpkin, and Palmer & Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manchester, old and new (Cassell and Co., 1894), by William Arthur Shaw and H. E. Tidmarsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manchester and its neighbourhood (Printed for the Chetham society, 1866), by John Harland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chetham hospital and library, with the historical associations of the building and its former owners (Sherratt & Hughes, 1910), by Albert Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annals of Manchester (Bancks and co., 1839), by C. H. Timperley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes and observations, critical and explanatory, on the papers relative to the internal state of the country (E. Wilson, 1820), by John Edward Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Manchester. (J. E. Cornish, 1875), by James Croston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mancuniensis (W. Willis, 1839), by Richard Hollingworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alderman Cobden of Manchester letters and reminiscences of Richard Cobden, with portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, and index (Ward Lock;, 1891), by E. W. Watkin and Richard Cobden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genealogy of the family of Mark, or Marke; county of Cumberland. Pedigree and arms of the Bowscale branch of the family, from which is descended John Mark, esquire; now residing at Greystoke, West Didsbury, near Manchester ... To which is added a copy of an old vellum roll; compiled in 1746, for Jacob Mark of Dublin ... Also a collection of biographical excerpts and Appendix of genealogical notes, compiled by John Yarker. (Priv. print., Palmer Howe & co., 1898), by John Mark and John Yarker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manchester in 1844 : its present condition and future prospects (Simpkin, Marshall, 1844), by Léon Faucher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manchester banks and bankers : historical, biographical, and anecdotal (Palmer & Howe, 1878), by Leo H. Grindon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Battle of The Press: As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile by His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell, by Theophila Carlile Campbell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses: Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith; with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial, by William George Hylton Jolliffe Hylton, J. B. Smith, and Edward Stanley, ed. by F. A. Bruton (Gutenberg ebook)

• Speeches delivered at the Town Hall of Manchester, January 23rd, 1847 : at a meeting to promote the better observance of the Sabbath and to adopt a memorial to the Directors of the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway in approbation of their conduct in discontinuing passenger trains on the Lord's Day. (T. Sowler, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Relics of old Manchester and Salford (John Heywood, 1887), by Albert Nicholson and Doulton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Siege of Manchester. (Printed for the author by J. Leigh, 1822), by John Palmer and John Rosworme (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lord Strange his demands propounded to the inhabitants of the town of Manchester concerning a pacification and laying down of armes : with the valiant answer and resolution of the commanders and souldiers in denying and withstanding the said demands : also the names of the Scots elders and ministers chosen by the commissioners of Scotland to be sent to the Assembly of Divines appointed by the Parliament to be holden at London for the setling of religion. (London : Printed for Th. Cook, October 8, 1642), by James Stanley Derby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true & exact relation of the several passages at the siege of Manchester between the Lo. Strange his forces and the towne vvherein is evidently seene the wonderfull mercy of God in their deliverance / written by one that was an eie-witnese ... ; also a protestation of Master Hotham and divers other knights and gentlemen against the 14 articles of pacification and neutrality. (London : Printed for Edward Blackmore ..., Octob. 12, 1642), by One that was an eie-witnesse (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true & exact relation of the several passages at the siege of Manchester, between the Lo. Strange his forces, and the towne : wherein is evidently seene the wonderfull mercy of God in their deliverance / written by one that was an eie-witnesse, and an actor in most of that service ; also a protestation of Master Hotham, and divers other knights and gentlemen, against the 14. articles of pacification, and neutrality. (London : Printed for Edward Blackmore ..., Octob. 12. 1642), by One that was an eie-witnesse and John Hotham (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A volume of court leet records of the manor of Manchester in the sixteenth century. (Printed for the Chetham society, 1864), by Manchester (Greater Manchester) Court-leet and John Harland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documents relating to the plague in Manchester in 1605, with other memoranda, 1593-1606. (Printed for the Chetham society, 1909), by William E. A. Axon, William Sorocold, and Geoffrey Daniell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Continuation of the court leet records of the manor of Manchester, A.D. 1586-1602 (Printed for the Chetham Society, 1865), by Manchester (England). Court-leet and John Harland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bradshaw's Manchester journal. (Bradshaw & Blackstock, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manchester sessions. Notes of proceedings before Oswald Mosley (1616-1630), Nicholas Mosley (1661-1672), and Sir Oswald Mosley (1734-1739), and other magistrates. (Printed for the Record Society, 1901), by Ernest Axon, Oswald Mosley, Manchester (England). Public Free Libraries, Manchester (England). Court of Petty Sessions, and Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Lancashire) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The constables' accounts of the manor of Manchester from the year 1612 to the year 1647, and from the year 1743 to the year 1776. Printed under the superintendence of a committee appointed by the municipal council of the city of Manchester, from the original books of accounts in their possession. (H. Blacklock and co., printers, 1891), by Manchester (England) and J. P. Earwaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Court leet records of the manor of Manchester, from the year 1552 to the year 1686, and from the year 1731 to the year 1846. (H. Blacklock and Co., Printers, 1884), by Manchester (England). Court-leet, J. P. Earwaker, Manchester (England). City Council, and Manchester (England). Court baron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manchester and its neighbourhood (Printed for the Chetham society, 1866), by John Harland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The constables' accounts of the manor of Manchester from the year 1612 to the year 1647, and from the year 1743 to the year 1776 : printed under the superintendence of a committee appointed by the Municipal Council of the city of Manchester, from the original books of accounts in their possession (J.E. Cornish, 1891), by Manchester (England), J. P. Earwaker, and Manchester (England). Court-leet (page images at HathiTrust)

• The admission register of the Manchester school, with some notices of the more distinguished scholars. (Printed for the Chetham society, 1866), by Manchester (England). Grammar school and Jeremiah Finch Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Hanging Ditch: its trades, its traders and its renaissance. (Sherratt & Hughes, 1910), by Henry Broadhurst Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manchester streets and Manchester men. (J.E. Cornish, ltd., 1906), by T. Swindells (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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