A return made by the clerk of the peace under a statute of 1714 of the names of those who failed to take oaths of loyalty to the king before justices of the peace, and thus were deemed to be convicted recusants under the terms of the act.
The return was made only a few months after a Jacobite rebel army including many Lancashire men had been defeated at the battle of Preston, and presumably identifies possible Jacobite sympathisers still at large. The occupation or status of each individual is given.