xviii Contents. 



CHAPTER n. 



Musical abilities displayed by tlie inhabitants of the Forest of Rossendale — 

 The "Dcighn Layrocks "—Sketch from the pen of Edwin Waugh— 

 Psalm Tnnes and Chants composed by the " Deighners "— " Old 

 Simon" — Hand-loom days — Anecdote of two Masical cnthnsiasts — 

 Anniversary Services at Lumb Chapel — Description of the Singers' 

 Gallery— The Minister peruses the Sacred Volume— His earnest prayer 

 -The old-fashionod instruments at Lumb supplanted by tho Organ— 

 The Hallelujah Chorus— Unspeakable value to mankind of these 

 glorious Musical Productions, . . . Pp. 258-265 



CHAPTER III. 



Visits of Remarkable Men to Rossendale — John Wesley — George Whitefield 

 — Christopher Hopper — William Gadsby — Fergus O'Connor — Mary 

 Harrison, aged 108 years — Sharueyford Mill — Changes in Baonp — 

 Bull-baiting formerly a common spurt in Rossendale — " Abb o' th' 

 Yate" — Tho Thrutch — Th' Arks o' Doarden and Pike Law — Legend 

 connected with Hell Clough — The belief in Witchcraft — Tong Boggart — 

 The Goodshaw Witch — Account of the killing of a Rossendale Witch or 

 Wizard, from Harland and Wilkinson's " Lancashire Fulk-Lore " — 

 Another Rossendale Witch— His Satanic Majesty at Crawshawbooth — 

 Story of a bewitched cow — Edwin Wangh's references to Rossendale, 



Pp. 266-277 



BOOK EIGHTH. 



CHAPTER I. 



Result of the fulfilment of the decree of Henry VII. — Growth in tho 

 number of tho Population— Corn Mills in Rossendale — Introduction of 

 the Woollen Manufacture daring the reign of Henry VIII. — The Wool 

 at first greased with butter in lieu of oil— The processes of Carding, 

 Spinning, and Weaving originally performed by hand — Invention of the 

 Shuttle — Application of Water power in turning the Machinery — 

 Prejudices against the Water-turned Machines — Arkwright's Inventions 

 for Spinning Cotton — Invention of the Steam Engine — Woollen 

 Carding Mills in Rossendale from forty to fifty years ago — Spinning 

 and Weaving formerly entirely domestic processes — Lawrence Hard- 

 man, of Greens Spotland — John and James Hardman, merchants — 

 Prior to the erectiju of large factories, the warp and wool " put out " 



