Excerpt from Bell-Founders in Lancashire and Cheshire and the Adjacent Counties, in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Paper, Read Before the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 6th March, 1890 In this paper I am anxious to direct attention to the fact that during the seventeenth and the early part of the eighteenth centuries there existed two bell foundries, the one in Lancashire and the other in Cheshire, which seem to have been held in good repute, and which were largely employed in casting bells for the various churches in the two counties, and also probably for those in other counties as well. These two bell foundries were situate, the one at wigan, in Lancashire, and the other at congleton, in Cheshire, but until quite recently little, if anything, has been put on record concern ing them. This is more especially the case with regard to Wigan, (although Mr. Sinclair, in his History of Wigan, has a few references to this sub ject, ) but Mr. Head, in his recently printed History of Congleton, has given several interesting partien lars about the Congleton bell foundry, which I shall make use of. 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.