The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest
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Ainsworth William Harrison. The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest
INTRODUCTION. The Last Abbot of Whalley
CHAPTER I.—THE BEACON ON PENDLE HILL
CHAPTER II.—THE ERUPTION
CHAPTER III.—WHALLEY ABBEY
CHAPTER IV.—THE MALEDICTION
CHAPTER V.—THE MIDNIGHT MASS
CHAPTER VI.—TETER ET FORTIS CARCER
CHAPTER VII.—THE ABBEY MILL
CHAPTER VIII.—THE EXECUTIONER
CHAPTER IX.—WISWALL HALL
CHAPTER X.—THE HOLEHOUSES
BOOK THE FIRST. Alizon Device
CHAPTER I.—THE MAY QUEEN
CHAPTER II.—THE BLACK CAT AND THE WHITE DOVE
CHAPTER III.—THE ASSHETONS
CHAPTER IV.—ALICE NUTTER
CHAPTER V.—MOTHER CHATTOX
CHAPTER VI.—THE ORDEAL BY SWIMMING
CHAPTER VII.—THE RUINED CONVENTUAL CHURCH
CHAPTER VIII.—THE REVELATION
CHAPTER IX.—THE TWO PORTRAITS IN THE BANQUETING-HALL
CHAPTER X.—THE NOCTURNAL MEETING
BOOK THE SECOND. Pendle Forest
CHAPTER I.—FLINT
CHAPTER II.—READ HALL
CHAPTER III.—THE BOGGART'S GLEN
CHAPTER IV.—THE REEVE OF THE FOREST
CHAPTER V.—BESS'S O' TH' BOOTH
CHAPTER VI.—THE TEMPTATION
CHAPTER VII.—THE PERAMBULATION OF THE BOUNDARIES
CHAPTER VIII—ROUGH LEE
CHAPTER IX.—HOW ROUGH LEE WAS DEFENDED BY NICHOLAS
CHAPTER X.—ROGER NOWELL AND HIS DOUBLE
CHAPTER XI.—MOTHER DEMDIKE
CHAPTER XII.—THE MYSTERIES OF MALKIN TOWER
CHAPTER XIII.—THE TWO FAMILIARS
CHAPTER XIV.—HOW ROUGH LEE WAS AGAIN BESIEGED
CHAPTER XV.—THE PHANTOM MONK
CHAPTER XVI.—ONE O'CLOCK!
CHAPTER XVII.—HOW THE BEACON FIRE WAS EXTINGUISHED
BOOK THE THIRD. Hoghton Tower
CHAPTER I.—DOWNHAM MANOR-HOUSE
CHAPTER II.—THE PENITENT'S RETREAT
CHAPTER III.—MIDDLETON HALL
CHAPTER IV.—THE GORGE OF CLIVIGER
CHAPTER V.—THE END OF MALKIN TOWER
CHAPTER VI.—HOGHTON TOWER
CHAPTER VII.—THE ROYAL DECLARATION CONCERNING LAWFUL SPORTS ON THE SUNDAY
CHAPTER VIII—HOW KING JAMES HUNTED THE HART AND THE WILD-BOAR IN HOGHTON PARK
CHAPTER IX.—THE BANQUET
CHAPTER X.—EVENING ENTERTAINMENTS
CHAPTER XI.—FATALITY
CHAPTER XII.—THE LAST HOUR
CHAPTER XIII.—THE MASQUE OF DEATH
CHAPTER XIV.—"ONE GRAVE."
CHAPTER XV.—LANCASTER CASTLE
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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.
Dreary was the prospect on all sides. Black moor, bleak fell, straggling forest, intersected with sullen streams as black as ink, with here and there a small tarn, or moss-pool, with waters of the same hue—these constituted the chief features of the scene. The whole district was barren and thinly-populated. Of towns, only Clithero, Colne, and Burnley—the latter little more than a village—were in view. In the valleys there were a few hamlets and scattered cottages, and on the uplands an occasional "booth," as the hut of the herdsman was termed; but of more important mansions there were only six, as Merley, Twistleton, Alcancoats, Saxfeld, Ightenhill, and Gawthorpe. The "vaccaries" for the cattle, of which the herdsmen had the care, and the "lawnds," or parks within the forest, appertaining to some of the halls before mentioned, offered the only evidences of cultivation. All else was heathy waste, morass, and wood.
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As she spoke Alizon opened her eyes, and perceiving Richard Assheton, who had relinquished her to his relative, standing beside her, she exclaimed, "Oh! you are safe! I feared"—And then she stopped, greatly embarrassed.
"You feared he might be in danger from his fierce adversary," supplied Lady Assheton; "but no. The conflict is happily over, and he is unhurt."
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