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THEOSOPHY. 
By T. H. ROBERTS. March 11th, 1890. 
It is a matter for regret that no synopsis of this lecture is 
procurable. 
BURNLEY SEVENTY YEARS AGO: 
ITS BY-WAYS. 
By JAMES GRANT. March 18th, 1890. 
In my previous paper (see Vol. V. of ‘ Transactions”) I 
attempted by means of a little story, in which two men—uncle 
and nephew, Stansfeld by name, were the principal figures—to 
bring before my fellow-townsmen the appearance presented by 
this town 70 yearsago. The different buildings then to be found 
in St. James’s street were mentioned in my previous paper, but 
we did not follow our friends further than ‘“ Bottom of Town 
Brig,” near the Cross Keys Inn. Permit me then to invite you 
to accompany our friends in their various movements. The first 
house passed after crossing the bridge (then much narrower than 
it is now) was occupied by Mr. Marsland, the iron-founder ; 
separated from this house by a street were the ruins of Peel’s 
factory. This factory—a woollen factory—had been burnt down, 
but the blackened walls remained for many years a saddening 
spectacle. The ground was not cleared of these ruins, I believe, 
until the late Mr. Hindle Raweliffe built the houses and shops 
to which his name clings, and I am told that the cellars of those 
houses are large, strongly built, and capacious, being in fact 
adaptations of the cellars at the mill. The road between Mr, 
Marsland’s house and Peel’s factory led to Crow Nest, an 
aristocratic settlement on the outer edge of ‘‘The Meadows.”’ 
The names Crow Nest and Meadows are bucolic: the names 
remain, the characteristics have changed. Some of our leading 
Burnley families lived at Crow Nest, amongst others the Bean- 
lands, who having made a competency at ‘‘ The Thorn,”’ retired 
to rest in this nest. Anthony Buck, who came to Burnley just 
before the Burnley Bank broke, set up house here, and so, too, 
did John Moore, Esq., the first Mayor of Burnley. Amongst 
the meadows in the rear, Marsland’s workshop had just risen 
from the ground, and there is probably not a single other instance 
