Lancashire Folk-lore / Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County Palatine

by John Harland; Thomas Turner Wilkinson

[107] This story Mr. Roby derived from the same MSS. of Barritt, and also the statement of the real crime for which Arrowsmith was executed, and his alleged prophecy as to the Kenyons. Barritt says the dead hand was brought to Manchester about the time of the troubles in 1745, to cure a poor Papist lad, who came with Hill.

[108] See Roby's Traditions of Lancashire.

[109] Baines's Lancashire, vol. iii. p. 638.

[110] Pictorial History of Lancashire.

[111] Mannex's Hist. and Topog. of Lancashire.

[112] Baines's History of Lancashire, vol. iii. pp. 638-9.

[113] Mannex's History and Topography of Lancashire.

[114] From a Correspondent.

[115] The Tablet, July 26, 1856.

[116] Scarsdale.