Charity Schools. It derived its name from Knut, or Canute, who here forded the river with his Danes, and defeated the Saxons in a great battle.
This town has a singular Marriage Custom. On the morning of the ceremony, it is usual for the friends of the happy pair to strew the street before their doors with brown sand, upon which they form fanciful devices with white sand, and over this artificial carpet strew various flowers which the season may afford; thus producing an emblem of the harmony and beauty of the social compact; and the pure feelings which generally accompany "young love"—alas! I fear we must allow—an emblem also of their evanescent nature: each wayfaring man that passes by carries away a portion of the sand, and the wind bears away the flowers; and the wear and tear of the world bears away the delicate feelings, and the gentle attentions, to which love first gave birth; and the flowers of courtship, are they not too often allied to thorns by marriage! (For Races, see Index.)
For Chester—see page 39.
Tarporley, a market town, parish, and township, in the hundred of Eddisbury, pop, of parish 2,391, of town 995; An. As. Val. £2,866. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the manufacture of stockings and breeches. Market on Thursday; fairs, May 1st, the first Monday after August 24th and December 11th. The church is dedicated to St. Helen; the living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
