... events coumiected with the i history of Maimohester. In the earlier decades there were two political factions iii the town; Whigs andTories, ?? and Jacobites, I as they were then more commonly designated; the former having their headquarters at the Angel ...

... quarryman, and deemed it no degradation to glory in his achievements. In those days Preston was a stronghold of the aristocratic Whigs. In 1796, before he had completed his twenty-eighth year, John Horrocks was invited to enter the lists, in the Tory interest ...