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In Gregson's map, dated 1598, " Longridge" and " Langridge Hills" 

 figure conspicuously. 



The Stuarts. 



According to a return of the Recusants made in 1613, taken from 

 the Harl. MSS. in the British Museum, we find it stated that particular 

 mention is made of the number of Eecusants in the parish of Goosnargh ; 

 no mention is made of any in Longridge, while the other parishes in 

 this district are returned all together. "A brief abs. of the Recusants 

 and Mn-commumcants retd. by the Parsons and derates, etc., of toivns and 

 parishes, etc., in Lancaster, A.I). 1613." 



Longridge is thus mentioned by Michael Drayton, the poet, in 1622. 

 In his Polyolbion, published in that year or 10 years before, Drayton, 

 tracing the Eibble's course, thus speaks of Longridge in the quaint 



fashion then in vogue : — 



So Long-ridge 1, once arrived on the lancaatrian Land, 

 Salutes me, and with smiles me to his soil invites, 

 As Hodder that from home attends me from my spring : 

 Then Calder coming down, from Blackstone Edge doth bring 

 Me easly on my way to Preston, the great town, 

 Wherewith my banks are blest : whereat my going down. 

 Clear Darwen on alocg me to the sea doth drive. 

 And in my spacious fall no sooner I arrive. 

 But Savock= to the north, from Longridge" making way, 

 To this my greatness adds, when in my ample bay. 

 Leland, who made a tour through Lancashire (1544-50), says -.—''A 

 mile without Preston I rode over Savok, a bigge brook, the which 

 rising in the hills a iii or iv miles of on the right hand, not very far of, 

 goeth into Eibel.' 



Harrison, chaplain to Lord Cobham, writing in the XVIth centui-y 

 says :— " As for the Sannocke brooke, it riseth somewhat about Long- 

 ridge Chappell, goeth to Broughton towne, Gotham Lee Hall, and so 



into Eibell." 



The brook was diverted into the resei-voirs belonging to the Preston 



Corporation. 



iThe reader wiU notice the hyphen in ^ " Savok," qu. "Is, av, uch "the liigh 



Long-ridge in the first line, a poetical ^^'''v^^v''"/' ? r '''r^'''^' f^ w.^^"?; 



license which adds force to the poet's =In the last line but one the .vord i. 



argument. spelt as now. 



