CONTENTS.


INTRODUCTION.

The Last Abbot of Whalley

[Chapter I.][The Beacon on Pendle Hill.]
[Chapter II.][The Eruption.]
[Chapter III.][Whalley Abbey.]
[Chapter IV.][The Malediction.]
[Chapter V.][The Midnight Mass.]
[Chapter VI.][Teter et Fortis Carcer.]
[Chapter VII.][The Abbey Mill.]
[Chapter VIII.][The Executioner.]
[Chapter IX.][Wiswall Hall.]
[Chapter X.][The Holehouses.]

BOOK THE FIRST.

Alizon Device

[Chapter I.][The May Queen.]
[Chapter II.][The Black Cat and the White Dove.]
[Chapter III.][The Asshetons.]
[Chapter IV.][Alice Nutter.]
[Chapter V.][Mother Chattox.]
[Chapter VI.][The Ordeal by Swimming.]
[Chapter VII.][The Ruined Conventual Church.]
[Chapter VIII.][The Revelation.]
[Chapter IX.][The Two Portraits in the Banqueting-Hall.]
[Chapter X.][The Nocturnal Meeting.]

BOOK THE SECOND.

Pendle Forest

[Chapter I.][Flint.]
[Chapter II.][Read Hall.]
[Chapter III.][The Boggart's Glen.]
[Chapter IV.][The Reeve of the Forest.]
[Chapter V.][Bess's o' th' Booth.]
[Chapter VI.][The Temptation.]
[Chapter VII.][The Perambulation of the Boundaries.]
[Chapter VIII.][Rough Lee.]
[Chapter IX.][How Rough Lee was defended by Nicholas.]
[Chapter X.][Roger Nowell and his Double.]
[Chapter XI.][Mother Demdike.]
[Chapter XII.][The Mysteries of Malkin Tower.]
[Chapter XIII.][The Two Familiars.]
[Chapter XIV.][How Rough Lee was again Besieged.]
[Chapter XV.][The Phantom Monk.]
[Chapter XVI.][One O'Clock!]
[Chapter XVII.][How the Beacon Fire was Extinguished.]

BOOK THE THIRD.

Hoghton Tower

[Chapter I.][Downham Manor-House.]
[Chapter II.][The Penitent's Retreat.]
[Chapter III.][Middleton Hall.]
[Chapter IV.][The Gorge of Cliviger.]
[Chapter V.][The End of Malkin Tower.]
[Chapter VI.][Hoghton Tower.]
[Chapter VII.][The Royal Declaration concerning Lawful
Sports on the Sunday.]
[Chapter VIII.][How King James Hunted the Hart and the
Wild-Boar in Houghton Park.]
[Chapter IX.][The Banquet.]
[Chapter X.][Evening Entertainments.]
[Chapter XI.][Fatality.]
[Chapter XII.][The Last Hour.]
[Chapter XIII.][The Masque of Death.]
[Chapter XIV.]["One Grave."]
[Chapter XV.][Lancaster Castle.]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

[Nicholas Assheton and the Three Doll Wangos
Leaving Hoghton Hall.]
[Alvetham and John Paslew.]
[The May Queen.]
[Nan Redferne and Mother Chattox.]
[Mother Chattox, Alizon, and Dorothy.]
[Alizon Alarmed at the Appearance of Mrs. Nutter.]
[The Incantation.]
[Potts after Being Thrown from his Horse.]
[Richard Overhears the Mother Chattox and the Sexton.]
[The Ride through the Murky Air.]
[The Phantom Monk.]
[Alizon Defies Jennet.]