Prescot, C.

Stockport, 17th Oct., 1803 : a requisition, signed by several inhabitants of this town, being addressed to us, to convene an early meeting, for the purpose of deliberating on the necessity of forming a corps of reserve in the town ... to resist the enemy, should he be so successful as to penetrate into the interior of the country to the manufactories ... / C. Prescot, J. Philips.