PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. HOW THE INFANT HEIR WAS STOLEN.
CHAPTER II. MANCHESTER IN 1745.
CHAPTER III. INTRODUCES DR. DEACON, DR. BYROM, AND COLONEL TOWNLEY.
CHAPTER IV. SIR RICHARD RAWCLIFFE.
CHAPTER V. INTRODUCES OUR HERO.
CHAPTER VI. ADVICE.
CHAPTER VII. RENCOUNTER NEAR THE OLD TOWN CROSS.
CHAPTER VIII. BEPPY BYROM.
CHAPTER IX. THE TWO CURATES OF ST. ANN'S.
CHAPTER X. CONSTANCE RAWCLIFFE.
CHAPTER XI. THE BOROUGHREEVE OF MANCHESTER.
CHAPTER XII. THE RESCUE.
CHAPTER XIII. CONSTANCE MAKES A DISCOVERY.
CHAPTER XIV. ST. ANN'S SQUARE.
CHAPTER XV. HOW SALFORD HOUSE WAS SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION.
CHAPTER XVI. TOM SYDDALL.
CHAPTER XVII. HOW TOM SYDDALL WAS CARRIED HOME IN TRIUMPH.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE MEETING IN THE GARDEN.
CHAPTER XIX. MRS. BUTLER.
CHAPTER XX. THE JACOBITE MEETING IN TOM SYDDALL'S BACK ROOM.
CHAPTER XXI. BEN BIRCH, THE BELLMAN OF MANCHESTER.
CHAPTER I. HOW MANCHESTER WAS TAKEN BY A SERGEANT, A DRUMMER, AND A SCOTTISH LASSIE.
CHAPTER II. THE PROCLAMATION AT THE CROSS.
CHAPTER III. FATHER JEROME.
CHAPTER IV. GENERAL SIR JOHN MACDONALD.
CHAPTER V. HELEN CARNEGIE'S STORY.
CHAPTER VI. CAPTAIN LINDSAY.
CHAPTER VII. A RESIDENCE IS CHOSEN FOR THE PRINCE.
CHAPTER VIII. INTERVIEW BETWEEN SECRETARY MURRAY AND THE MAGISTRATES.
CHAPTER IX. ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST DIVISION OF THE HIGHLAND ARMY. LORD GEORGE MURRAY.
CHAPTER X. THE DUKE OF PERTH.
CHAPTER XI. ARRIVAL OF THE SECOND DIVISION.
CHAPTER XII. THE YOUNG CHEVALIER.
CHAPTER XIII. THE PRINCE'S INTERVIEW WITH MRS. BUTLER AND THE TWO DAMSELS.
CHAPTER XIV. THE PRINCE'S MARCH TO HEAD-QUARTERS.
CHAPTER XV. THE PRINCE'S LEVEE.
CHAPTER XVI. THE ILLUMINATIONS.
CHAPTER XVII. A QUARREL AT SUPPER.
CHAPTER XVIII. CAPTAIN WEIR.
CHAPTER XIX. CAPTAIN WEIR IS INTERROGATED BY THE PRINCE.
CHAPTER XX. THE DUEL.
CHAPTER XXI. CASTLE FIELD.
CHAPTER XXII. FATHER JEROME COUNSELS SIR RICHARD.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE PRINCE ATTENDS SERVICE AT THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE PRINCE INSPECTS THE MANCHESTER REGIMENT.
CHAPTER XXV. AN UNSATISFACTORY EXPLANATION.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE RIDE TO RAWCLIFFE HALL.
CHAPTER XXVII. RAWCLIFFE HALL.
CHAPTER XXVIII. A STARTLING DISCLOSURE.
CHAPTER XXIX. THE MYSTERIOUS CHAMBER.
CHAPTER XXX. A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE.
CHAPTER XXXI. SIR RICHARD RAWCLIFFE'S CONFESSION.
CHAPTER XXXII. ATHERTON'S DECISION IS MADE.
CHAPTER I. AN OLD JACOBITE DAME.
CHAPTER II. ATHERTON'S GIFT TO CONSTANCE.
CHAPTER III. A RETREAT RESOLVED UPON.
CHAPTER IV. HOW THE MANCHESTER REGIMENT WAS WELCOMED ON ITS RETURN.
CHAPTER V. A FRESH SUBSIDY DEMANDED.
CHAPTER VI. A FALSE MESSAGE BROUGHT TO HELEN.
CHAPTER VII. A COURT-MARTIAL.
CHAPTER VIII. HELEN PLEADS IN VAIN.
CHAPTER IX. TOGETHER TO THE LAST.
CHAPTER X. MR. JAMES BAYLEY.
CHAPTER XI. THE VISION.
CHAPTER XII. THE RETREAT FROM MANCHESTER TO CARLISLE.
CHAPTER I. COLONEL TOWNLEY APPOINTED COMMANDANT OF THE CARLISLE GARRISON.
CHAPTER II. ATHERTON TAKEN PRISONER.
CHAPTER III. THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.
CHAPTER IV. SURRENDER OF CARLISLE TO THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.
CHAPTER I. THE ESCAPE AT WIGAN.
CHAPTER II. THE MEETING AT WARRINGTON.
CHAPTER III. ATHERTON TAKES REFUGE AT RAWCLIFFE HALL.
CHAPTER IV. AN ENEMY IN THE HOUSE.
CHAPTER V. A POINT OF FAITH.
CHAPTER VI. A LETTER FROM BEPPY BYROM.
CHAPTER VII. ATHERTON QUESTIONS THE PRIEST.
CHAPTER VIII. THE SEARCH.
CHAPTER IX. WHO WAS FOUND IN THE DISMANTLED ROOMS.
CHAPTER X. A SUCCESSFUL STRATAGEM.
CHAPTER XI. ATHERTON MEETS WITH DR. DEACON AT ROSTHERN.
CHAPTER XII. A SAD COMMUNICATION IS MADE TO DR. DEACON.
CHAPTER XIII. A JOURNEY TO LONDON PROPOSED.
CHAPTER XIV. JEMMY DAWSON'S LETTER.
CHAPTER XV. THE PARTING BETWEEN MONICA AND HER MOTHER.
CHAPTER XVI. THE JOURNEY.
CHAPTER I. MONICA VISITS JEMMY IN NEWGATE.
CHAPTER II. COLONEL CONWAY.
CHAPTER III. CUMBERLAND HOUSE.
CHAPTER IV. THE TRIAL OF THE MANCHESTER REBELS.
CHAPTER V. THE NIGHT BEFORE THE EXECUTIONS.
CHAPTER VI. THE FATAL DAY.
CHAPTER VII. FIVE YEARS LATER.
THE MANCHESTER REBELS
OF
THE FATAL '45.
Faithful unto Death
Faithful unto Death
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The Manchester Rebels
OF
THE FATAL '45
BY
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH
With faltering voice, she weeping said,
"O, Dawson, monarch of my heart!
Think not thy death shall end our loves,
For thou and I will never part!"
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY FREDERICK GILBERT
LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS
BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL
NEW YORK: 416 BROOME STREET
1880
BY W. HARRISON AINSWORTH.
Uniform with this Volume, each with Six Illustrations.
- THE TOWER OF LONDON.
- WINDSOR CASTLE.
- ROOKWOOD.
- THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES.
- GUY FAWKES.
- SAINT JAMES'S; Or, The Court of Queen Anne.
- OLD SAINT PAUL'S; A Tale of the Plague and the Fire.
- CRICHTON.
- THE FLITCH OF BACON; Or, The Custom of Dunmow.
- MERVYN CLITHEROE.
- THE MISER'S DAUGHTER.
- JACK SHEPPARD.
- BOSCOBEL; Or, The Royal Oak.
- OVINGDEAN GRANGE; A Tale of the South Downs.
- THE SPENDTHRIFT; A Tale.
- THE STAR-CHAMBER.
- PRESTON FIGHT; Or, The Insurrection of 1715.
INSCRIBED
TO THE
RT. HON. THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD,
K. G.,
WITH EVERY SENTIMENT
OF
RESPECT AND ADMIRATION.
