Identifier: traditionsoflanc01roby (find matches)
Title: Traditions of Lancashire
Year: 1829 (1820s)
Authors: Roby, John, 1793-1850
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Publisher: London : Longman
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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After the dispersion, imprisonment, and execution of
the principal leaders of the rebellion, the day of reckoning
and retribution was at hand. Shrewsbury, by the king's
orders, sent a herald with a troop of horse, who, taking
Paslew, Eastgate, Haydock, and some others of the monks
prisoners, they were arraigned at Lancaster and convicted
of high treason. On the 12th March 1537, Paslew was
conveyed back to Whalley for execution, where, in a field
called the Holehouses immediately facing the house of
his birth, a gallows was erected, on which Paslew and
Eastgate suffered punishment, or martyrdom, for the story
varies according to the bias of the party by whom it is
told. Haydock was carried to Padiham, and died there

Q 3

230 THE ABBOT OF WHALLEY.

the same ignominious death on the day following. The
monks, driven from their asylum, escaped into France,
with the exception of a few, who lingered near the scenes
of their former enjoyments, hovering, like departed hopes,
round the ruin to which they clung.

SIR EDWARD STANLEY.
Q 4

" Why, then, the worlds mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open !"

" God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his
ordinary works convince it." — BACON.

" No man doubts of a Supreme Being, until, from the consciousness
of his provocations, it become his interest there should be none."
— GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE.

" Men are atheistical because they are first vicious, and question the
truth of Christianity because they hate the practice." — SOUTH.
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HORNEBY CASTLE

SIR EDWARD STANLEY.
Q 4

THE following will, perhaps, be thought misplaced as a
polemical subject. But in relating what may be conceived
as the true motive that incited Sir Edward Stanley to
the founding of that beautiful structure Hornby Chapel,
we may be allowed to show the operation as well as the
effect; — to trace the steps by which his conversion from
an awful and demoralizing infidelity was accomplished.
We have borrowed some of the arguments from " Leslie's
Short Method with the Deists," condensing and illustrating
them as the subject seemed to require. We hope to b
epardoned this freedom; the nature of the question would
necessarily refer to a range of argument and reply in fre-
quent use ; and all that we could expect to accomplishw
as to place the main arguments in such a position as to
receive the light of some well-known and self-evident
truth. The dark transactions to which the Parson of Slaid-
burn obscurely refers, may be found in Whitaker's
Whalley, p. 475, 476.
The same historian remarks in another work, — " From
several hints obliquely thrown out by friends as well as
enemies, this man appears to have been a very wicked

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