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Parish Church. It bore the incription, ‘Orate pro anima 
Johannis Foldys, capellani qui istam crucem fieri fecit, Anno 
Domini MCCCCCXX.” It may cause some little surprise to 
find an ecclesiastic erecting a market cross, but a quotation 
from Thoresby’s ‘‘ Ducatus Leodiensis’’ will throw some 
light upon this point. In speaking of the village of Kepstorn, 
he says, ‘This place also belonged to the said abbey 
(Kirkstall). The derivation of the word points to the fact 
that it is ‘‘ vendendi locus,” and that such not only belonged 
to religious houses but were often celebrated in the very 
churchyards is notoriously known, and in many places (par- 
ticularly at Burnley in Lancashire) I have seen crosses yet 
standing in the churchyards with as many steps round for the 
convenience of the sellers of provisions as any modern market 
places.” At Blackburn we find a somewhat similar instance, for 
we are told that John Paslew, Abbot of Whalley in 1535, re- 
erected the market cross of that town, which bore the following 
inscription, ‘‘ Fac me cruce custodire congerei gratia, quando 
corpus morietur, fac ut anime donetur Paradisi gloria.”* Ifit be 
remembered that the churchyard was not enclosed until 1754, 
and the above facts are borne in mind, the apparent anomaly will 
become less remarkable. The octagonal base and the head 
(placed upon a rough stone shaft) now stand upon the lawn 
behind Towneley Hall, whither they were removed in 1789. 
The cross previous to its removal to Towneley had _ been 
much maltreated. ‘It was destroyed,” says Dr. Whitaker, 
“by a drunken rabble, hired for the purpose a few years ago, 
(this was written in 1801,) the last instance probably of 
Puritanical fury, for. such it was, which has been directed 
against the ornaments of an English Church.” ‘But this,” 
says Mr. T. T. Wilkinson, in his history of the Parish 
Church of Burnley, “requires a little modification. The pillar 
itself had been considerably defaced by the wanton damage com- 
mitted by the crowds who daily congregated on the steps pre- 
viously to the enclosure of the yard, and its final destruction is 
reported upon trustworthy evidence, to have been accomplished 
by a drunken barbarian who, for a certain wager agreed, as a 
proof of courage, to level it to the ground.” Under whatever 
circumstances the mutilation of this cross may have taken place, 
it is very desirable that it should be restored, not only to its 
original position in the churchyard, but also to that dignity of 
form which led to its being characterized as ‘stately,’ ‘tall, and 
shapely,’ by persons who had the privilege of seeing it in all its 
former beauty. 
Dr. Kerr informs me that Habergham-Haves had also its 
market or “‘ butter” cross, and this cross stood in a field, still known 
as Cross Field, a few hundred yards to the rear of the Bull and 
* So printed in the paper from which I have taken it. 
