Contents. xiii 



CHAPTER II. 



Description of tho Greaves' Accounts— Explanation of the various Kates 

 for the County Palatine of Lancaster— I. The Subsidy- Ii: The 

 Fifteenth— III. The Oxley— IV. Tho Jlaimed Lay— Y. The Prisoners' 

 Lay— VI. The Soldiers' Lay, or County Lay— Extracts from the 

 Greaves' Book— The Bridle or Brank for Scolding women— The 

 Ducking Stool — The Bridle formerly used in the Township of 

 Pilkington— Finger or Guide Posts— The Rebellion of 1715 — Trophey 

 Money — The Rebellion of 1745 — List of the Posts for Eossendale 

 Militia, 1744-5- The taking of Carlisle and Stirling— Watch and 

 Ward- Stocks in the different villages in Eossendale — Sabbath, 

 breaking and Profane Swearing— Old Custom of the Churchwardens — 

 The Town Box— Bacup Stocks — Impressing for the Navy— Dungeons 

 at Bacup — Minute respecting Dungeons at Newchnrch and Goodshaw 

 Chapel— Dungeon at Crawshawbooth— The war with France — 

 Expenses on account of the Militia — Numbering the Inhabitants- 

 Able-bodied men in Eossendale capable of actual service — The Peace 

 of Amiens — Threatened Invasion of Great Britain — Meetings held in 

 Eossendale for the Defence of the Nation— Eeturns made by the 

 Greave — Prisoners formerly conveyed to Holmes Chapel — Public 

 Notices in the Church- Cloughfold Pinfold— List of Pinders from 1747 

 to 1753— Workhouse Accounts for 1734-5, . . Pp. 108-137 



CHAPTER ni. 



Other Officers appointed by the Halmot Court — The Office of Ale- Taster— 

 The Ale-Taster's Oath— Richard Taylor, the Eossendale Ale-Taster— 

 His Eccentricities — His Petitions to the Court- Died, a martyr to 

 duty, ...... Pp. 138-145 



BOOK FIFTH. 



CHAPTER I. 



Eongh'Lee — View of the landscape from the hill — Chapel erected there — 

 Traditions respecting the Chapel — Description of the same — Fragments 

 of Stones bearing inscriptions found — Conjectures respecting the 

 foundation of the Chapel— The "Waste of Brendewode "— The Old 

 Hall, Newballhey, . . . .Pp. 146-149 



