Editing Openai/6967cb19-00ac-8006-95fb-cdd2efe1177b (section)

=== Assistant: No problem — that makes sense now 👍 ===
No problem — that makes sense now 👍
You’re looking for a cleaned transcription of the first page of the Liverpool indictments list, keeping Name + Place of Abode, lightly normalised so it’s readable but still clearly early-18th-century.

I’ll do three things only (as you asked earlier):
* replace the long ſ with modern s
* join obvious hyphenated line-break words
* lightly correct OCR noise where it’s unambiguous ➡️ No modernisation of spelling or meaning

==== Stamford Mercury, Saturday 9 February 1715 ====
“A List of the Names of the Gentlemen, &c. against whom Bills of Indictment are found at Liverpool”

===== Thomas de Protus, of Liverpool =====
Fermick Robinson, of Liverpool
James Finch, of Liverpool
Thomas Wamsley, of Liverpool
Richard Birches, of Liverpool
Cram Lydall, of Liverpool
Henry Nicholson, Gent., of Liverpool
John Shields, of Liverpool
Walter Tankard, of Liverpool
William Hogg, of Liverpool
John Larr, Bart., of Liverpool
George Hodson, of Liverpool
Thomas Goode, of Liverpool
George Cowling, of Liverpool
Robert Coop, of Liverpool
James Calton, of Liverpool
Richard Cootling, of Liverpool
Henry Cooper, of Liverpool
Roger Dunkinson, of Liverpool
Edward Duckworth, of Liverpool

Thomas Brierly, of Preston
John Barrow Westby, of Preston
John Brocholes, of Preston
Edward Bewick, of Preston
Henry Hoskinson, of Preston
John Kitching, of Preston
Tomgar Langdale, of Preston
Francis Leigh, of Preston
Edward Coore, of Preston
John Jackson, of Preston

Henry Newsham, of Walton-le-Dale
Thomas Darwen, of Walton-le-Dale
John Gyson, of Walton-le-Dale
Thomas Garside, of Walton-le-Dale
John Huthersall, of Walton-le-Dale
Richard Holland, of Walton-le-Dale

Alderman Osbaldeston, of Lancaster
John Pleasington, of Lancaster
Robert Pleasington, of Lancaster
Richard Pottlethwaite, of Lancaster
Thomas Paris, of Lancaster
Richard Dansford, of Lancaster

==== This is the key historical point: ====
* Liverpool was the assize town for this circuit
* Indictments were found there, even when the accused lived across Amounderness, Leyland Hundred, or Furness
* The list reflects jurisdiction, not residence

In short:

: 

Given the date (1715), the context is almost certainly:
* Jacobite-related oaths / refusals
* or suspected correspondence / financial support

Which neatly explains:
* no offence stated
* wide geographic spread
* inclusion of “Gent.” and civic figures

If you want, next I can:
* map these names to Cuerden / Walton / Preston families
* check which later appear in oath rolls or forfeiture lists
* reconstruct how this page fits with the missing Gale fragments

You’re asking exactly the right questions here.