132 History of the 



It does not appear from these records that a Dungeon was 

 erected at either of the places mentioned. Fifteen years afterwards, 

 one was built at Crawshawbooth, at a cost as follows : — 



Exps. of Erecting a Dungeon at Crawshawbooth, purchase 



money, Surrender, Stamp, &c., .. .. .. .. £2^ \f> 6 



And again in 1805 is the following payment for 



Surrender for Dungeon at Crawshawbooth, . . . . . . 0166 



1792-3- 

 To a Wallet for Town's Weights, . . . . . . . . . . 017 



To an Iron Yard, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. o o lo 



To Standard Wine Measures, . . . . . . . . . . 126 



Paid for Weigh balk 066 



1796. 

 Relieving Mary Wilson and a child from Portsmouth to 



Edinburgh with a pass, .. .. .. .. £0 1 o 



The War with France, which commenced in 1793, kept the 

 hands of our Government fully employed ; and responses to the 

 calls for men and money constantly occur in these records of the 

 Greave from the time when Buonaparte entered upon his career of 

 conquest in 1796, down to the year when it terminated so 

 disastrously on the plains of Waterloo. 



• The taxation of the period pressed heavily on the population. 

 The returns from the assessments for this and subsequent years 

 vary in amount from Three to Si.\ Hundred Pounds. 



In these heavy exjjenses are sums paid on account of the 

 Militia and the Supplementary Militia ; for the summoning of 

 (yeomanry) Cavalry to be sworn in, warrants for the apprehension 

 and prosecution of Deserters, iScc. In the year 1798 is a long 

 account of " Extra Expenses " of Supplementary Militia, and 

 Balloting for the same ; and again of " Additional Expenses " in 

 numbering the Inhabitants of Rossendale ; for inquiring into, 

 and rendering an account of their Qualifications in the event 

 of any Foreign invasion. The numbering of the Cattle within the 

 Forest was also part of the Greave's duty on this occasion, and all 

 this was done agreeably to certain Schedules issued by order of the 

 Lieutenancy. 



