Calendar of the Markland Deeds and Papers

Deeds, letters, manuscripts

Deposited in Wigan Public Library in April 1930

Some twenty-two deeds and twenty-seven miscellaneous papers, ranging in date from 1215 to 1784, which have been in the possession of the ancient family of "Markland of the Meadows," of Wigan, have been deposited in the Wigan Public Library by Mr. Arnold W. Boyd, of Frandley House, near Northwich, Cheshire, on behalf of the grand-daughter and the great-granddaughters of the late James Heywood Markland, D.C.L., F.S.A., F.R.S., of Wigan (1788-1864). Several of the documents relate to official matters in Wigan, and as two members of the Markland family were Members of Parliament for Wigan, others being Mayors of the ancient and loyal Borough, the documents are of considerable interest to Wigan. The following calendar of the documents has been compiled by Mr. Arthur J. Hawkes, F.S.A., Borough Librarian of Wigan, with the assistance of the Rev. T. C. Porteus, M.A., B.D., F.R.Hist.S., of Coppull, in abstracting the deeds