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stocks at one time for gambling. Their names were Cheetham, 
Cracker, and Stitch. You must excuse these names being given 
in the vernacular. I have known the time when, if you asked 
for a person by his proper name you would probably not have 
found him. sh 
The paper was interspersed by humorous anecdotes. The 
curious Wapentake Law received notice, and a story in con- 
nection with an attempted enforcement at Worsthorne was 
graphically told. An episode in connection with the Stocks in 
the same village, in which figured Old Jim o’th Halstead, the 
village constable, was also related, as well as one concerning a 
former master and dame of the ancient manorial house of 
Burwains. 
Mr. Wilkinson concluded his paper with a few details of the 
ancient and important family of Parkers of Extwistle. An old 
manuscript—a deed of agreement bearing date Feb. 13th, 1634 
—was exhibited, and was examined with much interest. 
Amongst those who took part in the conversation which 
ensued was Mr. Richard Charles, who entertained the audience 
by giving his recollections of persons, places and events in the 
early years of his long life. One incident which he narrated we 
reproduce. After observing that his father was born in 1773, 
and his grandfather in 1745, and that his grandfather who bore 
the name of Sagar, lived at Fenny Fold, in Hapton—Mr. Charles 
said that he had been told by his grandmother, whose birthplace 
was Fenny Fold, that in the “ fatal 45,” a small party of the 
Pretender’s followers left the main body who were proceeding 
towards Manchester with Prince Charles Edward, and came on 
a foraging incursion into the Hapton district. They drove the 
eattle away from her father’s farm, and the country-folk were so 
alarmed that they killed their poultry and hid them. Her father 
took the meal which was in the house, and placing it in a bag, 
secreted it in a sewer. Evening coming on, the good dame wept 
for apprehension as to how supper should be provided.: Just 
then, however, there came lowing home a cow which had escaped 
the marauders’ hands. The animal was peculiar in its habits, 
and would never associate with the rest of the herd; and as it 
had been grazing apart in a plantation, it had avoided becoming 
the prey of the soldiery. The anxiety of the mother then gave 
place to joy and gratitude for the cow furnished the milk, which 
along with the meal produced from its hiding-place, enabled 
them to enjoy their customary repast. 
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