Lives of the Fellows of Manchester College. By the late
Rev. F. R. Raines. Edited by Frank Renaud, M.D. Part I. (Printed for the Chetham Society.)—Manchester Parish Church was made into a College for secular priests by the last Lord Do La Warre in 1422. It was in sore peril of dissolution in Reformation times, and finally came to an end when the bishopric was established. This volume gives a list of the Fellows, with such notices as could. be collected, down to 1703. We can hardly say that there are any eminent names in the list, though some have sufficiently emerged from obscurity to merit a place in "The Dictionary of National Biography." Even when the individuals are of little importance, their lives reflect more or less the great movements of the day. The antiquarian and local value of the book is, of course, con- siderable.
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