the lancashire witches by william harrison ainsworth

Two were stationed on either side of the north-eastern extremity of the mountain. There were eight watchers by the beacon on Pendle Hill in Lancashire. Read moreĬHAPTER II.-THE BLACK CAT AND THE WHITE DOVE.ĬHAPTER VII.-THE RUINED CONVENTUAL CHURCH.ĬHAPTER IX.-THE TWO PORTRAITS IN THE BANQUETING-HALL.ĬHAPTER VII.-THE PERAMBULATION OF THE BOUNDARIES.ĬHAPTER IX.-HOW ROUGH LEE WAS DEFENDED BY NICHOLAS.ĬHAPTER XII.-THE MYSTERIES OF MALKIN TOWER.ĬHAPTER XIV.-HOW ROUGH LEE WAS AGAIN BESIEGED.ĬHAPTER XVII.-HOW THE BEACON FIRE WAS EXTINGUISHED.ĬHAPTER VII.-THE ROYAL DECLARATION CONCERNING LAWFUL SPORTS ON THE SUNDAY.ĬHAPTER VIII-HOW KING JAMES HUNTED THE HART AND THE WILD-BOAR IN HOGHTON PARK.Ĭopyright The Lancashire Witches William Harrison Ainsworth CHAPTER I.-THE BEACON ON PENDLE HILL. Noting the sharp spire of Burnley Church, relieved against the rounded masses of timber constituting Townley Park as well as the entrance of the gloomy mountain gorge, known as the Grange of Cliviger his far-reaching gaze passed over Todmorden, and settled upon the distant summits of Blackstone Edge. But the watcher's survey did not stop here. The other tracked the stream called Pendle Water, almost from its source amid the neighbouring hills, and followed its windings through the leafless forest, until it united its waters to those of the Calder, and swept on in swifter and clearer current, to wash the base of Whalley Abbey. One looked over the castled heights of Clithero the woody eminences of Bowland the bleak ridges of Thornley the broad moors of Bleasdale the Trough of Bolland, and Wolf Crag and even brought within his ken the black fells overhanging Lancaster.

The lancashire witches by william harrison ainsworth