The Lancashire Witches
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The Lancashire Witches

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The Lancashire Witches

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There were eight watchers by the beacon on Pendle Hill in Lancashire. Two were stationed on either side of the north-eastern extremity of the mountain. One looked over the castled heights of Clithero; the woody eminences of Bowland; the bleak ridges of Thornley; the broad moors of Bleasdale; the Trough of Bolland, and Wolf Crag; and even brought within his ken the black fells overhanging Lancaster. The other tracked the stream called Pendle Water, almost from its source amid the neighbouring hills, and followed its windings through the leafless forest, until it united its waters to those of the Calder, and swept on in swifter and clearer current, to wash the base of Whalley Abbey. But the watcher's survey did not stop here. Noting the sharp spire of Burnley Church, relieved against the rounded masses of timber constituting Townley Park; as well as the entrance of the gloomy mountain gorge, known as the Grange of Cliviger; his far-reaching gaze passed over Todmorden, and settled upon the distant summits of Blackstone Edge...

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Information

Publisher
FilRougeViceversa
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9783985945146
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Lancashire Witches
  3. Table of contents
  4. CHAPTER I.—THE BEACON ON PENDLE HILL.
  5. CHAPTER II.—THE ERUPTION.
  6. CHAPTER III.—WHALLEY ABBEY.
  7. CHAPTER IV.—THE MALEDICTION.
  8. CHAPTER V.—THE MIDNIGHT MASS.
  9. CHAPTER VI.—TETER ET FORTIS CARCER.
  10. CHAPTER VII.—THE ABBEY MILL.
  11. CHAPTER VIII.—THE EXECUTIONER.
  12. CHAPTER IX.—WISWALL HALL.
  13. CHAPTER X.—THE HOLEHOUSES.
  14. BOOK THE FIRST.
  15. CHAPTER I.—THE MAY QUEEN.
  16. CHAPTER II.—THE BLACK CAT AND THE WHITE DOVE.
  17. CHAPTER III.—THE ASSHETONS.
  18. CHAPTER IV.—ALICE NUTTER.
  19. CHAPTER V.—MOTHER CHATTOX.
  20. CHAPTER VI.—THE ORDEAL BY SWIMMING.
  21. CHAPTER VII.—THE RUINED CONVENTUAL CHURCH.
  22. CHAPTER VIII.—THE REVELATION.
  23. CHAPTER IX.—THE TWO PORTRAITS IN THE BANQUETING-HALL.
  24. CHAPTER X.—THE NOCTURNAL MEETING.
  25. BOOK THE SECOND.
  26. CHAPTER I.—FLINT.
  27. CHAPTER II.—READ HALL.
  28. CHAPTER III.—THE BOGGART'S GLEN.
  29. CHAPTER IV.—THE REEVE OF THE FOREST.
  30. CHAPTER V.—BESS'S O' TH' BOOTH.
  31. CHAPTER VI.—THE TEMPTATION.
  32. The Legend of Malkin Tower.
  33. CHAPTER VII.—THE PERAMBULATION OF THE BOUNDARIES.
  34. CHAPTER VIII—ROUGH LEE.
  35. CHAPTER IX.—HOW ROUGH LEE WAS DEFENDED BY NICHOLAS.
  36. CHAPTER X.—ROGER NOWELL AND HIS DOUBLE.
  37. CHAPTER XI.—MOTHER DEMDIKE.
  38. CHAPTER XII.—THE MYSTERIES OF MALKIN TOWER.
  39. CHAPTER XIII.—THE TWO FAMILIARS.
  40. CHAPTER XIV.—HOW ROUGH LEE WAS AGAIN BESIEGED.
  41. CHAPTER XV.—THE PHANTOM MONK.
  42. CHAPTER XVI.—ONE O'CLOCK!
  43. CHAPTER XVII.—HOW THE BEACON FIRE WAS EXTINGUISHED.
  44. BOOK THE THIRD.
  45. CHAPTER I.—DOWNHAM MANOR-HOUSE.
  46. CHAPTER II.—THE PENITENT'S RETREAT.
  47. CHAPTER III.—MIDDLETON HALL.
  48. CHAPTER IV.—THE GORGE OF CLIVIGER.
  49. CHAPTER V.—THE END OF MALKIN TOWER.
  50. CHAPTER VI.—HOGHTON TOWER
  51. CHAPTER VII.—THE ROYAL DECLARATION CONCERNING LAWFUL SPORTS ON THE SUNDAY.
  52. CHAPTER VIII—HOW KING JAMES HUNTED THE HART AND THE WILD-BOAR IN HOGHTON PARK.
  53. CHAPTER IX.—THE BANQUET.
  54. CHAPTER X.—EVENING ENTERTAINMENTS.
  55. CHAPTER XI.—FATALITY.
  56. CHAPTER XII.—THE LAST HOUR.
  57. CHAPTER XIII.—THE MASQUE OF DEATH.
  58. CHAPTER XIV.—"ONE GRAVE."
  59. CHAPTER XV.—LANCASTER CASTLE.
  60. FOOTNOTES
  61. COLOPHON