Lancashire is a great county which has contributed its full share to the development of Science, and thus to the progress of Britain; but our early history is obscure - no surviving trace for instance, of palæolithic man, while the Roman occupation seems to have treated us as a convenient centre for a series of military posts on the great highroads of traffic.

Preface.

With the exception of the Warrington Press, it cannot be said that Lancashire's early excursions in the art of printing produced anything notable - distinguished, that is, for typographical excellence.

Introduction.

[ANDERTON, LAWRENCE, .S.J., 1575-1643]. THE APOLOGIE | OF THE ROMAN CHURCH | devided into three seve-|rall Tractes.

Birchley Hall, nr. Wigan.