[155] For full details of this historic incident see “Stanley Papers,” “Civil Warr in Lancashire” (Chetham Society), Seacome’s “Memoirs,” Hughes’ “Boscobel Tracts,” etc.

[156] State Papers, Dom. Ser., iv. 240.

[157] Heawood’s “Coronation.”

[158] Published by Chetham Society, vol. xii., old series.

[159] “Autobiography of William Stout”; London, 1851.

[160] A few years afterwards he was sent to a school in Westmorland, where he was taught both Latin and Greek.

[161] The place where the meal was bolted = sifted.

[162] The cotton trade had not yet arisen. These goods were coatings, and made of wool.

[163] One solitary book, “A Guide to Heaven from the Word,” is said on doubtful authority to have been printed at Smithy Door, Manchester, in 1664.

[164] Kingston’s “True History of the Several Designs and Conspiracies against his Majesty’s Person and Government, as they were carried on from 1688 to 1697.”