Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
by John Roby
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- TRADITIONS OF LANCASHIRE.
- JOHN ROBY, M.R.S.L.
- ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL AND WOOD.
- IN TWO VOLUMES.
- VOL. I.
- Fifth Edition.
- LONDON:
- GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,
- MANCHESTER: L.C. GENT.
- CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
- TRADITIONS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIFTH EDITION.
- THE PUBLISHERS' PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION.
- FOOTNOTES:
- MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.[5]
- FOOTNOTES:
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST SERIES.
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND SERIES.
- INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND SERIES.
- FOOTNOTES:
- SIR TARQUIN.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE GOBLIN BUILDERS.
- MAB'S CROSS.
- THE PRIOR OF BURSCOUGH.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE EAGLE AND CHILD.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE BLACK KNIGHT OF ASHTON.
- FAIR ELLEN OF RADCLIFFE.
- THE ABBOT OF WHALLEY
- FOOTNOTES:
- SIR EDWARD STANLEY.
- GEORGE MARSH, THE MARTYR.
- FOOTNOTES:
- DR DEE, THE ASTROLOGER.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE SEER.
- SONG.
- THE EARL OF TYRONE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- HOGHTON TOWER.
- NOTE ON THE BALLAD, p. 269.
- HOGHTON TOWER.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES.
- PART FIRST.
- FOOTNOTES:
- PART SECOND.
- FOOTNOTES:
- PART THIRD.
- FOOTNOTES:
- SIEGE OF LATHOM.
- FOOTNOTES:
- RAVEN CASTLE.
- THE PHANTOM VOICE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE BAR-GAIST.
- THE HAUNTED MANOR-HOUSE.
- CLITHEROE CASTLE;
- OR,
- THE LAST OF THE LACIES.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE GREY MAN OF THE WOOD;
- OR,
- THE SECRET MINE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- END OF VOL. I.
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