[117] Dr. Whitaker's History of Whalley.

[118] Mr. Baines, in his History of Lancashire (vol. iii. p. 760), says that in Wavertree is an ancient well with a rude, unintelligible inscription, of the date of 1414, which is thus charitably rendered by the villagers:—

"He that hath, and won't bestow,
The Devil will reckon with him below."

Or,

"He who here does not bestow,
The Devil laughs at him below."

[119] "Agmond," in Notes and Queries, vol. vi. p. 305.

[120] Baines's History of Lancashire, vol. iii. p. 497.

[121] Medii Ævi Kalendarium.


WITCHES AND WITCHCRAFT.