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bridge, and placed over his remains a rude stone with scissors 
carved upon it, as a warning to his brother “snips.” The 
markings upon the stone, as will be seen in the illustration, bear 
some faint resemblance to a pair of scissors, but not sufficient to 
lead us to give full credence to this story. ‘Tailors’ Cross” has 
been supposed by some to be a corruption of ‘‘ Templar’s Cross,” 
but we are afraid that none of these theories are more worthy 
of acceptance than is the suggestion of a farmer who lived near the 
spot, that ‘it might a bin a sun-dial.’’ What the real object of 
its erection has been, we are at a loss to say, and must be con- 
tent for the present to place it amongst the class of wayside 
crosses. It stands on the roadside near Colne, in a little meadow 
on the eastern side of the Foulridge reservoir. A cross very 
similar in character exists in the parish of St. Buryan’s in 
Cornwall. 
THE EMMOTT cRoss.—In the grounds of Emmott Hall just 
within the boundary wall, there stands a cross with tall octagonal 
shaft, crowned with a cap of the same shape, upon four 
sides of which are certain letters half obliterated, but sup- 
posed by Dr. Whitaker to have been the monogram IHS. 
and the omega. In his paper on the residence, ‘“ giving 
to the cross its name,’ Mr. Strange thus speaks of this 
“mysterious relic,” :—‘‘ Among a copse of trees skirting the 
road to Wycollar, it stands there still, growing green with 
age,and unnoticed by those who in the quiet humdrum of 
Lancashire pastoral experience trudge by indifferently, as they 
pursue their daily round of bucolic life and labour. To my 
thinking it is a wayside cross, and perchance in days gone by it 
was used in that capacity, the sight of it affording comfort and 
consolation to the weary, footsore pilgrim, who had to face 
the dangerous bleak escarpment of the Boulsworth range, on his 
way to the smiling valleys of Yorkshire and the south.” 
COMBE HILL cross.—About a mile and a half from Wycollar on 
the road to Howarth, just before arriving at the new Keighley reser- 
voir, may be seen the base stone and what may possibly have been 
part of the upright shaft of Combe HillorCam Hilleross. This was 
no doubta wayside cross, but beyond that it appears to have another 
useful office to fill. In my opinion this and other crosses such 
as Widdop, Reaps, Duke’s cross, &c., have served in the capacity 
of guideposts to the traveller, (overtaken in a mist, or by the 
swiftly lowering shades of night), who might be traversing these 
lonely roads, which a century ago must have been indeed difficult. 
to trace. ‘ This opinion was confirmed by a conversation I had 
with an old man who was mending the roads in the vicinity of 
Nogworth cross. Amongst other things, when asked if he had 
heard what was the object of these crosses, he said that “« Joonas 
Lee said as they were put up 250 yer sin, for guideposts for’t pack 
