[42] Passages in the Life of a Radical, vol. i. p. 130.
[43] History of Droylsden, p. 67.
[44] Mr. John Higson's Notices of Droylsden.
[45] See Pictorial History of Lancashire, p. 189, and Whitaker's History of Whalley, p. 342.
[46] History of Blackpool, p. 332.
[47] In his L'Allegro, where he
"Tells how the drudging goblin sweat
To earn the cream-bowl duly set,
When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn,
His shad'wy flail had thresh'd the corn,
That ten day-labours could not end;
Then lies him down the lubber-fiend,
And stretch'd out all the chimney's length,
Basks at the fire his hairy strength,
And, cropful, out of doors he flings,
Ere the first cock his matin rings."
[48] Pictorial History of Lancashire.
[49] Sketches of Lancashire Life, p. 192.