Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Volume 8; V. 20 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...some time bore the derisive pseudonym of " Carnatic Hall." The Baker-Dawson, whose name appears on Bennison's map, was the son of Captain Dawson. Qore't Annals. + Bilines' Liverpool, p. 444. 5 Qore't Annals. Unities, p. 406. As one of the customary honours conferred on the possessors of wealth, Mr. Baker was of course appointed a Justice of the Peace; and it is related that a thief, having been caught in the act of purloining some blankets belonging to a neighbouring farmer, was brought before his Worship. It does not appear that his legal learning was very profound, or that he had supplied himself with a substitute in a clerk; so turning over a volume, Burns' Justice, he observed that he could not find any law for blankets " But meastur," said Hodge indignantly, "be'ant there naa laa for staling a mon's guds?" On this hint it appears the blindness of justice disappeared, and the culprit was appropriately disposed of, perhaps, as he gazed on the privateer's-man magistrate, feeling with Captain Macheath--"Since laws were made for every degree, To curb vice in others as well as in me, I wonder there's not better company On Tyburn tree." Baker, if my conjecture is correct, was elected Mayor 1795, and died in office February 7th, 1796; he had been Bailiff in 1785. In April, 1814, John Blackburne, who is then described as late of Liverpool, more late of Garston, then of Hawford Hall, county Worcester, conveyed to Arnold Harrison, The strand in front of the land belonging to Ashton Byrom, lately contracted to be sold by Byrom to Harrison, with all and singular the fisheries, rights, privileges, franchises, immunities, advantages and appurtenances thereto; the sole and exclusive right of collecting sea...