Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire. / A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.	PAGE
A Railway Ramble—The Roman City on the Ribble—A Day Dream at Ribchester	1
CHAPTER II.
Marple Hall—The Bradshaws—Colonel Henry Bradshaw—The Story of the Regicide	21
CHAPTER III.
Over Sands by the Cartmel Shore—Wraysholme Tower—The Legend of the Last Wolf	76
CHAPTER IV.
An Afternoon at Gawsworth—The Fighting Fittons—The Cheshire Will Case and its Tragic Sequel—Henry Newcome—“Lord Flame”	102
CHAPTER V.
The College and the “Wizard Warden” of Manchester	157
CHAPTER VI.
Beeston Castle	213
CHAPTER VII.
Whalley and its Abbey—Mitton Church and its Monuments—The Sherburnes—The Jesuits’ College, Stonyhurst	242
CHAPTER VIII.
Adlington and its Earlier Lords—The Leghs—The Legend of the Spanish Lady’s Love—The Hall	283
CHAPTER IX.
The Byroms—Kersall Cell—John Byrom—The Laureate of the Jacobites—The Fatal ’45	361
CHAPTER X.
Hall-i’-th’-Wood—The Story of Samuel Crompton, the Inventor of the Spinning Mule	408

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