LANCASHIRE IN FICTION: 
THE STORY OF THE COUNTY AS TOLD BY THE 
NOVELISTS. 
Mr. J. H. NODAL, who read this Paper, March 19th, 1878, 
supplied the following Biographical Note :— 
FIRST PERIOD: To tar Enp or tue Firrenenta Century. 
Traditions of Lancashire. By John Roby. Published in 1829 
and 1831. 
SECOND PERIOD: Henry Eicurs to James First: A.D. 1530 
to 1620. 
i. Dissolution of the Monasteries. Prologue to Ainsworth’s 
Lancashire Witches. 
ii. Persecution of the Roman Catholics, A.D. 1605. First 
Book of Ainsworth’s Guy Faux. 
ili. Trial and Execution of the Pendle Forest Witches, and 
King James’s Visit to Lancashire. Ainsworth’s Lan- 
cashire Witches. (Founded upon Potts’s Discoverie of 
Witches and Nicholas Assheton of Downham’s Journal 
in the Chetham Society’s Publications.) 
THIRD PERIOD: Tae Crvm War (First Part, 1642-1646). 
Ainsworth’s Leaguer of Lathom. 
(No fiction founded on the later portion of the war.) 
FOURTH PERIOD: Tue Jacozire REepeuions. 
i. The Rising in 1715. Ainsworth’s Preston Fight. 
ii. The Rising in1745. Ainsworth’s Manchester Rebels. Sir 
Walter Scott in Waverley, chap. 57, just touches upon 
Prince Charles Edward’s Invasion of Lancashire. 
