CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.PAGE
A Railway Ramble—The Roman City on the Ribble—A Day Dream at Ribchester [ 1]
CHAPTER II.
Marple Hall—The Bradshaws—Colonel Henry Bradshaw—The Story of the Regicide[ 21]
CHAPTER III.
Over Sands by the Cartmel Shore—Wraysholme Tower—The Legend of the Last Wolf [ 76]
CHAPTER IV.
An Afternoon at Gawsworth—The Fighting Fittons—The Cheshire Will Case and its Tragic Sequel—Henry Newcome—“Lord Flame” [ 102]
CHAPTER V.
The College and the “Wizard Warden” of Manchester [ 157]
CHAPTER VI.
Beeston Castle [ 213]
CHAPTER VII.
Whalley and its Abbey—Mitton Church and its Monuments—The Sherburnes—The Jesuits’ College, Stonyhurst [ 242]
CHAPTER VIII.
Adlington and its Earlier Lords—The Leghs—The Legend of the Spanish Lady’s Love—The Hall [ 283]
CHAPTER IX.
The Byroms—Kersall Cell—John Byrom—The Laureate of the Jacobites—The Fatal ’45 [ 361]
CHAPTER X.
Hall-i’-th’-Wood—The Story of Samuel Crompton, the Inventor of the Spinning Mule[ 408]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Prospect Tower, Turton[ 3]
Ribchester Bridge[ 7]
Marple Hall[ 20]
Autograph and Seal of Colonel Bradshaw[ 34]
President Bradshaw[ 47]
Autograph of John Bradshaw[ 49]
George Fox’s Chapel, Swarthmoor[ 77]
Grange-over-Sands[ 79]
Wraysholme Tower[ 89]
Heraldic Glass at Wraysholme[ 91]
Gawsworth Old Hall[ 105]
Gawsworth Cross[ 109]
The Rev. Henry Newcome[ 143]
“Lord Flame’s” Tomb, Gawsworth[ 153]
John Dee, the “Wizard Warden”[ 156]
The Manchester College[ 196]
Mortlake Church[ 207]
Beeston Castle[ 212]
The Phœnix Tower, Chester[ 240]
Abbot Paslew’s Grave Stone, Whalley Church[ 246]
Ancient Cross, Mitton Churchyard[ 263]
The Hodder Bridge[ 265]
Stonyhurst[ 269]
Adlington Hall[ 282]
Autograph of Sir Urian Legh[326]
Sir Alexander Rigby[ 333]
Autograph of Thomas Legh[ 338]
Kersall Cell[ 360]
John Byrom’s House, Manchester[ 381]
Hall-i’-th’-Wood[ 409]
Hall-i’-th’-Wood: South Front[ 412]
Staircase, Hall-i’-th’-Wood[ 415]
Heraldic Shield, Hall-i’-th’-Wood[ 417]
Oldhams[ 429]