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actually broke out, the High Church Tories gave to the Jacobite 
cause,” was ‘the humiliating reflection which must have offen 
intruded itself, that their party was in a false position” (p. 267). 
Whether the position was a false one or not, there is no doubt of 
the fact that it was maintained for another thirty-five years. At 
the outbreak in 1745, the diminished number of the Roman 
Catholic adherents of the Jacobite cause was more on account of 
the repressive measures taken after 1715 than in a loss of friend- 
ship with the High Church Tories. We must assume that they 
had some knowledge of history, yet for fifty years they never 
ceased plotting to place on the throne a prince who, even if he 
ruled the state to their liking, would be a consistent and bitter 
enemy of their Church. Was not the fact this—that they found 
the blood of their fellow-citizens up; their hands were not only 
on their swords, but they had in some cases actually drawn them. 
They meant to fight, and in these parts, with Liverpool held by 
a bold and defiant garrison of staunch supporters of the king, a 
regiment of dragoons quartered in Manchester, and Wills ad- 
vaneing quickly through the county to meet the northern Lords 
and their followers, they saw clearly, as we do now, that the 
game was too dangerous. With their promises they had misled 
many brave and gallant men to an awful fate; but with a cow- 
ardice that nothing can justify, the members of the High Church 
Tory party of Lancashire stopped at home and kept their heads 
on their shoulders. 
The broadsides containing reports of the trials of some of the 
Lancashire Jacobites of 1715, referred to in the paper, and which 
are of great rarity, if they are not indeed unique, were exhibited. 
SOIREE.—BURNLEY OLD AND NEW. 
November 10th, 1885. 
J. ARTHUR WADDINGTON. 
Diskovons ALFRED STRANGE. 
** ) JAMES LANCASTER. 
W. LEWIS GRANT. 
The object of this Soirée was to bring together for exhibition a 
collection of Maps, Plans, Prints, Photographs, Portraits, &c., 
throwing light upon the past history of Burnley, or illustrating 
its aspect at the present time. 
The members of the Committee above mentioned were very 
greatly assisted by Mr. Wm, Waddington, Market Inspector, and 
take this opportunity of recording their obligations to him, 
