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TRADITIONS

OF

LANCASHIRE.

BY

JOHN ROBY, M.R.S.L.

ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL AND WOOD.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

Fifth Edition.

LONDON:

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,

MANCHESTER: L.C. GENT.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

TRADITIONS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIFTH EDITION.

THE PUBLISHERS' PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION.

FOOTNOTES:

MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.[5]

FOOTNOTES:

PREFACE TO THE FIRST SERIES.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND SERIES.

INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND SERIES.

FOOTNOTES:

SIR TARQUIN.

FOOTNOTES:

THE GOBLIN BUILDERS.

MAB'S CROSS.

THE PRIOR OF BURSCOUGH.

FOOTNOTES:

THE EAGLE AND CHILD.

FOOTNOTES:

THE BLACK KNIGHT OF ASHTON.

FAIR ELLEN OF RADCLIFFE.

THE ABBOT OF WHALLEY

FOOTNOTES:

SIR EDWARD STANLEY.

GEORGE MARSH, THE MARTYR.

FOOTNOTES:

DR DEE, THE ASTROLOGER.

FOOTNOTES:

THE SEER.

SONG.

THE EARL OF TYRONE.

FOOTNOTES:

HOGHTON TOWER.

NOTE ON THE BALLAD, p. 269.

HOGHTON TOWER.

FOOTNOTES:

THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES.

PART FIRST.

FOOTNOTES:

PART SECOND.

FOOTNOTES:

PART THIRD.

FOOTNOTES:

SIEGE OF LATHOM.

FOOTNOTES:

RAVEN CASTLE.

THE PHANTOM VOICE.

FOOTNOTES:

THE BAR-GAIST.

THE HAUNTED MANOR-HOUSE.

CLITHEROE CASTLE;

OR,

THE LAST OF THE LACIES.

FOOTNOTES:

THE GREY MAN OF THE WOOD;

OR,

THE SECRET MINE.

FOOTNOTES:

END OF VOL. I.