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id: 14414
title: Lancashire Idylls (1898)
author: Mather, Marshall
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  ''Well, it''s i'' this way, Mr. Penrose,'' said the old woman. ''Mr. Penrose is ill i'' bed,'' replied old Joseph, ''but I seed Mr. Hanson fra Burnt Hill Chapel, and he promised as he''d be here in defend her own, ''all reet; but if thaa durnd mind I''ll tell Mr. Penrose abaat Dickey o'' Wams.'' "Nay, lass," I said, "I durnd know." "Why," hoo says, "I think as Arriving at the cottage, Enoch told his wife how he had given Mr. Penrose the history of his old flute, whereupon the good woman time has come, as I said it would.'' But the words of Mr. Penrose--heeded not when uttered--rang out clear and telling: ''God moves in a mysterious way, doesn''d He, Mr. Penrose?'' said old woman said: ''I think we mud as weel put th'' leet aat naa thaa''s ''Thaa knows, Amos,'' said he, ''I look at it i'' this way.


id: 15986
title: Th'' Barrel Organ
author: Waugh, Edwin
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  the road, and looking round at the hills, he said, "Nea then. "Well, Skedlock," said Nanny, "thae''s getten Joseph witho, I see. "Eh, Skedlock," said Nanny; "aw us''t to think I could ha'' done a bit, "Well, but, Nanny," said Skedlock, laying his hand on the old woman''s "Well, well," said Nanny, "that wur a bonny come off, shuz heaw. "Well, I''ll tell yo, Nanny," said Skedlock. weshin'' shirts an'' things.'' ''Nay, sure!'' said Betty. "Aw''ll tell tho what, Skedlock," said Nanny; "that woman''s a terrible father, th'' new weshin''-machine''s come''d!'' ''Well, well,'' said Isaac, th'' owd''st daughter looked hard at it, an'' hoo said, ''Well, this is th'' cannot tell what to make o'' this!'' Th'' owd woman wur theer, an'' hoo Then th'' owd woman coom in, and hoo said, ''Isaac, whatever "Well, well," said th'' owd woman; "they geet ''em reet at the end of ''Come here, yo singers,'' said Dick,


id: 15493
title: The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest
author: Ainsworth, William Harrison
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  "John Paslew, Abbot of Whalley, it was said, headed the list," replied "Thou wilt not die, I tell thee, Cuthbert," cried Bess; "Nicholas hath "It''s true," replied the little girl; "ye knoa ye would, Alizon, Look at "Have a care, Sir Ralph," said Nicholas, noticing that Master Potts was "You will do us good service then, Master Potts," replied Nicholas. "A good and sufficient reason, Master Potts," said Nicholas, laughing; "You shall have mine, at all events, Master Potts," replied Nicholas; "Nay, I but threw out the hint, good Master Nicholas," replied Potts. "Tell thy mother," said Mistress Nutter, in a tone calculated only for "In that case Alizon Device must be a witch," cried Richard; "and I "Have a little patience, good Master Richard," replied Potts, turning up "Very likely not," replied Mistress Nutter, "and in that case Master "I will go," replied Richard--"but you shall come with me, old woman."


id: 26045
title: The Light of Scarthey: A Romance
author: Castle, Egerton
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  "Good uncle," she said, going up to the old man and kissing his cheek, "Pulwick; you come from Pulwick?" said Sir Adrian musing; "true, René "And now you live with Sir Adrian, in that little isle yonder," said boyish days, but now, Sir Adrian, the _man_ is in love with the "Poor René!" he said, when the man had left the room, "one would think "Hark," said Sir Adrian, "our good René!" as we rowed along, and every time I met Sir Adrian''s eye I smiled at world--Madeleine!" His look met that of Sir Adrian in full, and even "What a man you are, upon my soul, Sir Adrian!" cried Captain Jack, So Molly was in love with Sir Adrian Landale, and he--who knows--was "Upon my word, Adrian," said Mr. Landale, clenching his hand nervously "Thank you, Molly," said Sir Adrian, turning to her with shining eyes. At times Sir Adrian would watch him with great eyes.


id: 40874
title: Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire
author: Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
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  "It would be a good thing," said Mrs. Ogden, with her slow and distinct Betty and little Jacob, Mrs. Ogden was placed upon the sofa, and Mr. Prigley went to fetch some brandy from the dining-room. receive little Jacob at the parsonage during Mrs. Ogden''s absence; but Milend there had been no news of a favorable or even hopeful kind, Mrs. Ogden was anxious to proceed to Twistle immediately, and Mr. Prigley had "Well, Mrs. Ogden," said the Doctor, "I''ve come wi'' bad news for you fortune, and Mrs. Stanburne''s natural liking for little Jacob was by no When little Jacob left with Mr. Prigley, Mrs. Stanburne was very kind to Jacob Ogden had bought a good deal of Colonel Stanburne''s fine old "We were coming to see Mrs. Ogden," said Lady Helena; "do you know if "I could so like to go to little Jacob weddin''," said Mrs. Ogden one day


id: 41347
title: The Great Civil War in Lancashire (1642-1651)
author: Broxap, Ernest
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  century, though not bearing directly on the Civil War. Clarendon''s "History of the Great Rebellion" presents the Royalist The Earl of Derby, Charles'' general in Lancashire, had an In mere numbers the royalists in Lancashire were probably at all times By far the ablest of the Lancashire Royalists, and next to Derby the King was to join the Earl of Derby against Manchester and then to march that "all Lancashire except Manchester is in royalist hands."[94] into Lancashire to join with Earl Derby and to clear out that county, a defeat of two Parliamentarian troops of horse by Lord Derby''s royalist part of the county and near Lathom House. Lancashire royalists, and the Earl of Derby promised that if Lathom were siege; and the royalists state that he was killed by the Earl of Derby The End of the First Civil War. There was now no longer a royalist army in Lancashire; the only places


id: 40584
title: Lancashire: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes
author: Grindon, Leo H. (Leo Hartley)
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  days to come England will point to Lancashire as the cradle also of Lancashire with the Church of Rome has been noted from time different from that of the county in general, Lancashire presents a First in the long list of Lancashire manufacturing towns, by reason of years ago the Lancashire cotton towns seemed to vie with one another The industrial history of the important Lancashire cotton towns, the present day, on the lower Lancashire river-banks, of plants The Lancashire cotton towns owe their existence essentially to the Lancashire before the time of George II., Bolton leading the way with to bear upon the general spirit of the town, the original Lancashire No county in England needs so much water as Lancashire, and life of working Lancashire, though not a manufacture, indicated by the the few in Lancashire more than a hundred years old which possesses a


id: 43910
title: The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire
author: Partington, S. W.
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  The presence of Danish place-names marks the district which they From the middle of the tenth century men bearing Anglo-Danish names Coming from the north-east another Norse and Danish settlement sprang work exist at places with Scandinavian names, such as Kirkby-Moorside, century old, "that in Cheshire there is a place called Brunburh near is derived from an old Norse word "hoop," for a small land-locked bay, Danish kingdom in England, we find the names of the following Jarls: coming of the Norse in 900 A.D. Some Anglian districts were refounded under Danish names, and became is Danish, Saxon, and English, three words meaning water. all place-names of Danish origin which provide many surnames in the The Norse place-names of Wirral prove that these lands were waste and Isle of Man, whose Bishops were men bearing Danish names, and therefore especially after the year 950, pure Danish or Scandinavian names begin


id: 45153
author: Croston, James
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  of Alderley; John Leigh, Esq., The Manor House, Hale; Thomas Helsby, to the time when, ages ago, a Sir William Stanley, by his marriage in Alderley church of Sir Thomas Stanley, who died in 1591, says: "He ancient house to the time of Sir Thomas Stanley, the sixth in direct 1683, having had by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Leigh of the eldest son of Sir John Thomas Stanley, the family living--the Feb. 21.--Edward, son of Sir John Thomas Stanley and Margaret, About the time of Sir John Stanley''s marriage with the heiress of account of Adlington Hall and the Leghs.[32] Sir John, having refused of that house, grants to Sir John Stanley and dame Margaret, his wife; Sir Peter Legh could have been little more than thirty years of age Stanley; when King Henry visited Lathom, the Earl''s sister, Sir John In the year of Elizabeth''s accession Sir Peter Legh caused the church

title:
  Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire A Wayfarer''s Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive.


id: 46090
title: Lancashire Sketches Third Edition
author: Waugh, Edwin
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  back a few yards, leaving an open ground like a little market-place. by, and said it was "a fine day." Turning round to look at the sands, This fine old England of ours will some day find, like the rest of the country talk; and the old man was just asking me what the town''s folk the town without looking at the old rhymer''s resting-place. what the place looked like in the old time, when the first rude hall hall-house, standing a little off the road, called "Newcroft." This common people were housed in those old days when the hall was in its out-of-the-way road, nearly two thousand years old, and leading to writer has said of the place, that it looks like a great funeral on its "You''ve lived here a good while," said I to the old man, "and know all something like those old books which people hand from generation


id: 58183
title: Haworth''s
author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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  "Th'' chap''s getten gumption enow, i'' his way," he said to Haworth. "If it wur na fur th'' bit o'' comfort I get theer," said the poor woman, "Happen ye''d loike to go wi'' us," said Janey to Murdoch, one day. "They''ve coom," she said, in passing Murdoch on her way to her father. "I wish tha''d coom up an'' talk to her some day thysen," said Janey. Miss Ffrench got up and turned toward the door to speak to Mrs. Briarley, who that moment arrived in great haste carrying the baby, out "I met Mr. Haworth, too," said Miss Ffrench. "Leave your work a bit and come into my place," he said to Murdoch. "Look here," he said to Murdoch, "there''s a room nigh mine that''s not in "Ffrench has taken a great fancy to thee, lad," Haworth said, drily. "It''s the first time for _him_?" said Haworth to Miss Ffrench afterward.


