Excerpt from 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, Vol. 6: From the Year 1675 to 1687 We have now reached a period when a most unfortunate break in the continuity of these Court Leet Records occurs. F rom Michaelmas, 1552, to Easter, 1687, the records of the Courts, save for a break of a few years during the Civil War, 1642 to 1647. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Drawing on recent debates about the methods of book history, this book explores in detail the foundation and development of Chetham's Library, in Manchester, from its foundation in 1655 until the end of the seventeenth century.