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To Stony Moor this buck then fled, 

 Where we did think him almost dead ; 

 To Storth and Foulscales then he hied, 

 And then to pleasant Hodder side ; 

 But had not Famous labour'd sore, 

 We'd hunted all the forest o'er. 



I also give a verse from the Burnley Haymakers (sung by Eobin 

 O'Green, Vixit, 1790) : 



Help goddess muse to sing of revelations. 

 Fanatic dreams or news from the stars. 

 Knowledge refined, mysterious speculations, 

 Secondary causes of peace or wars. 



See how the plotting heavens 



In a summer's even. 

 Together make weather at their own dispose, 



And to the Sons of art, 



Their secrets do impart 

 And all their consultations most willingly disclose, 



" Eobin O'Green's portrait," says Mr. W. Waddington, of Burnley, 

 to whom I am indebted for much interesting information, " hung for 

 many years at Towneley Hall, it was an engraving, resembling some 

 of the figures in Tim Bobbin's Human Passions Delineated. There is a 

 tradition that this picture was once exhibited in the House of 

 Commons to shew what Lancashire men were like." 

 Rev. Cha tiles Boakdman, D.D. 



Dr. Boardman, to whom further reference is made in Chapter II., is 

 one of the solitary authors we have in Longridge. He has contributed 

 articles and reviews to various periodicals ; has been librarian at 

 Stonyhurst and several other colleges, and has compiled a catalogue of 

 the older MSS., and also of the Black Letter books in the Stonyhurst 

 library, the latter of which has been privately printed. 



