Organisation founded in 1971 to raise public awareness of paganism, and eliminate discrimination against pagans.
19th-century movement in support of the closure of shops on Saturday afternoons.
Enclosure in which stray domestic animals, cattle, sheep, pigs, geese were kept until their owners paid a fine to collect them.
Fine payable to the ecclesiastical courts for the crime of fornication, as an alternative to a session on the stool of repentance.
Chaplain of Newgate Prison and author of criminal biographies, the most important of which is that of Elizabeth Sawyer.
Owner with her husband of a notorious molly house in 18th-century London.
Name given to two sex offenders, one in London and the other in the nearby village of Hackney, active in 1681 and 1712 respectively.
Hollowed out stones or boulders containing vinegar to disinfect coins, usually placed at or near parish boundaries, relics of medieval plagues.
Leigh’s silk industry grew after 1827 in and around the area of the old parish when silk was woven on domestic hand looms and later in weaving sheds using silk yarn supplied from Macclesfield by agents from Manchester.
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