The Lancashire Witches

William Harrison Ainsworth

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Title: The Lancashire Witches
       A Romance of Pendle Forest

Author: William Harrison Ainsworth

Release Date: March 29, 2005 [EBook #15493]

Language: English







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Illustration: NICHOLAS ASSHETON AND THE THREE DOLL WANGOS LEAVING HOGHTON HALL.

Nicholas Assheton and the Three Doll Wangos Leaving Hoghton Hall.

THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES.

A Romance of Pendle Forest.

By

William Harrison Ainsworth, Esq.




Third Edition.

Illustrated by John Gilbert.


London: George Routledge & Co., Farringdon Street. 1854.


To James Crossley, Esq., (of Manchester,)

President of the Chetham Society, And the Learned Editor Of "The Discoverie of Witches in the County of Lancaster,"—

The groundwork of the following pages,— This Romance, undertaken at his suggestion, is inscribed by his old, and sincerely attached friend, The Author.



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.