item: #1 of 11 id: 14414 author: Mather, Marshall title: Lancashire Idylls (1898) date: None words: 59267 flesch: 86 summary: The startled listener was none other than Mr. Penrose, the newly-appointed minister, who was awaiting a funeral, long overdue. As Mr. Penrose looked in the direction from which the voice travelled, he saw a shovel thrown out of a newly-made grave, followed by the steaming head and weather-worn face of old Joseph, the sexton, all aglow with the combined task of grave-digging and singing. keywords: 'em; abaat; amanda; amos; child; come; day; doctor; dog; durnd; enoch; eyes; face; god; good; hand; heart; home; hoo; know; lad; lass; lay; let; life; light; little; long; love; malachi; matt; men; milly; miriam; moors; moses; mother; naa; noan; owd; penrose; rehoboth; sin; stood; tell; thaa; thee; think; time; voice; wife; woman; years cache: 14414.txt plain text: 14414.txt item: #2 of 11 id: 15493 author: Ainsworth, William Harrison title: The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest date: None words: 235002 flesch: 78 summary: A shout that made the rafters ring again followed the address, after which a couranto was called for by the host, who, taking Mistress Nicholas Assheton by the hand, led her into the body of the hall, whither he was speedily followed by the other guests, who had found partners in like manner. Before relating how the ball was opened a word must be bestowed upon Mistress Nicholas Assheton, whom I have neglected nearly as much as she was neglected by her unworthy spouse, and I therefore hasten to repair the injustice by declaring that she was a very amiable and very charming woman, and danced delightfully. keywords: abbey; abbot; alizon; answer; arms; assheton; attorney; away; beneath; bess; black; boh; care; case; chamber; chattox; child; church; course; dark; daughter; day; death; demdike; device; dick; door; dorothy; earl; elizabeth; eyes; feet; fell; figure; fire; foot; forest; girl; gone; good; grave; green; hag; half; hand; having; head; heart; heaven; help; high; hill; hoghton; hold; hour; house; james; jem; jennet; john; king; lady; left; life; like; little; look; lord; majesty; man; master; master nicholas; mistress; mistress nutter; moment; monk; mother; nance; nicholas; nicholas assheton; night; nowell; nutter; open; party; paslew; pendle; place; poor; potts; ralph; reeve; return; richard; richard assheton; roger; room; rough; round; set; sir; sir richard; sister; speak; squire; stone; stream; sure; tell; thee; thomas; thou; thought; thy; time; tower; voice; water; way; weel; whalley; white; witch; witches; woman; word; young cache: 15493.txt plain text: 15493.txt item: #3 of 11 id: 15986 author: Waugh, Edwin title: Th' Barrel Organ date: None words: 6414 flesch: 94 summary: What dun yo think but th' blunderin' foo,--at after o' that had bin said to him,--went and 'liver't th' weshin'-machine at th' church, an' th' organ at th' Hollins Farm. Well, well, said th' owd woman; they geet 'em reet at the end of o', then? Aye, said Skedlock; but aw've noan done yet, Nanny. keywords: betty; dick; hoo; little; nanny; neet; organ; owd; robin; skedlock; wur cache: 15986.txt plain text: 15986.txt item: #4 of 11 id: 26045 author: Castle, Egerton title: The Light of Scarthey: A Romance date: None words: 167147 flesch: 79 summary: And, at the time when Sir Adrian Landale, of Pulwick, eighth baronet, adopted it as his residence, it was far from being such. Sir Adrian Landale, in his sea-girt fastness, still absorbed in dreams of bygone days, loosed his grasp of faithful René's shoulder and fell to pacing the chamber with sombre mien; while René, to whom these fits of abstraction in his master were not unfamiliar, but yet to his superstitious peasant soul, eerie and awe-inspiring visitations, slipped unnoticed from his presence. keywords: adrian; adrian landale; air; arm; black; blood; brother; captain; child; cold; course; cousin; day; days; dead; dear; death; door; eyes; face; fellow; friend; girl; god; good; hand; head; heart; home; honour; house; island; jack; know; lady; landale; leave; left; life; light; like; lips; little; look; love; madeleine; man; master; mind; miss; molly; moment; morning; mother; new; o'donoghue; past; place; poor; pulwick; renny; rené; rest; return; room; round; rupert; savenaye; scarthey; sea; ship; silence; sir adrian; sister; smile; smith; sophia; soul; tanty; thing; thought; time; voice; way; white; wife; woman; words; world; years; young cache: 26045.txt plain text: 26045.txt item: #5 of 11 id: 40584 author: Grindon, Leo H. (Leo Hartley) title: Lancashire: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes date: None words: 60360 flesch: 61 summary: Other Lancashire towns--Darwen, Oldham, Southport, and Preston, for example, have latterly possessed themselves of capital libraries, so that, including the fine old collection at Warrington, the number of books now within reach of Lancashire readers, _pro rata_ for the population, certainly has no parallel out of London. The mind is arrested not more by the variety than by the magnitude of Lancashire work. keywords: abbey; beauty; building; case; castle; century; character; church; cotton; county; day; district; early; east; england; english; feet; fine; general; good; great; green; ground; half; hall; henry; hills; history; home; house; illustration; interest; john; kind; lancashire; lancaster; life; like; little; liverpool; local; manchester; manufacture; manufacturing; men; mersey; miles; modern; nature; near; new; north; number; old; original; parts; people; period; place; portion; present; principal; remains; ribble; river; sea; south; time; tower; town; trees; view; water; way; west; work; world; years cache: 40584.txt plain text: 40584.txt item: #6 of 11 id: 40874 author: Hamerton, Philip Gilbert title: Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire date: None words: 141063 flesch: 73 summary: Little Jacob is expected at dinner-time, and little Jacob loves pudding, especially apricot roly-poly. Little Jacob, little Jacob, come, my lad, come; it's nobbut old Sarah an' Jim. keywords: alice; anison; bardly; bed; captain; chapter; child; church; colonel; colonel stanburne; come; day; days; doctor; door; edith; face; farm; father; fire; friend; good; hall; hand; helena; house; isaac ogden; jacob ogden; john; john stanburne; kind; lady; lady helena; left; life; little; little jacob; look; man; manner; men; milend; mind; miss; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; people; philip; philip stanburne; place; poor; present; prigley; room; sarah; shayton; sootythorn; stanburne; stedman; tell; thing; thought; time; twistle; uncle; way; wenderholme; whittlecup; wife; woman; work; years; young cache: 40874.txt plain text: 40874.txt item: #7 of 11 id: 41347 author: Broxap, Ernest title: The Great Civil War in Lancashire (1642-1651) date: None words: 86497 flesch: 75 summary: At Oswestry, where Meldrum was also engaged, there were taken prisoners Tyldesley and other Lancashire royalists, who had taken refuge there after being driven out of their own county. Lord Strange was accompanied by his eldest son Charles, a boy of 14, Lord Molyneux, Sir George Middleton, Sir Alexander Radcliffe, Mr. Tyldesley of Myerscough, Mr. Farington of Worden, and other prominent Lancashire royalists. keywords: 8vo; account; arms; army; assheton; attack; august; bolton; book; c.w.t; captain; castle; charles; cheshire; colonel; committee; county; cromwell; day; days; derby; discourse; earl; end; england; following; foot; forces; garrison; general; having; house; john; king; lancashire; lancaster; lathom; left; letter; liverpool; lord; manchester; march; miles; mss; near; net; north; order; parliament; parliamentarian; party; place; present; preston; prince; prisoners; publication; rigby; royalists; rupert; siege; sir; soldiers; strange; thomas; time; town; troops; university; vol; war; warrington; way; wigan; work cache: 41347.txt plain text: 41347.txt item: #8 of 11 id: 43910 author: Partington, S. W. title: The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire date: None words: 48129 flesch: 74 summary: From the year 880 when Halfdene divided the lands of Deira among his followers the conditions of life became those of colonists, and the Danes settled down to cultivate their own lands, learning the language of the earlier Angles, teaching them many words, and ways of northern handicraft, and gradually intermarrying and forming the vigorous character of body and mind which denotes the modern Englishman. From the middle of the tenth century men bearing Anglo-Danish names held high positions in the Church; Odo was Archbishop of Canterbury, his nephew Oswald was Bishop of Worcester and afterwards Archbishop of York in succession to Oskytel, and many Norse names appear as witnesses to Royal Charters. In the manors bearing English names the sokemen numbered two-fifths of the population, while in those manors with Danish names they formed three-fifths of the population. keywords: a.d; anglo; art; century; coins; conquest; country; cross; crosses; cumberland; danes; danish; day; days; death; districts; england; english; fact; find; form; god; good; great; half; hill; history; house; illustration; influence; john; king; lancashire; lord; man; means; men; modern; names; near; norman; norse; north; number; odin; origin; page; people; period; place; present; right; runes; runic; saxon; scandinavian; settlements; stone; tenants; tenure; time; way; west; wheat; word; work; year; yorkshire cache: 43910.txt plain text: 43910.txt item: #9 of 11 id: 45153 author: Croston, James title: Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive. date: None words: 178379 flesch: 54 summary: The first-born of this marriage was a son, Thomas de Tyldesley, who became serjeant-at-law to King Henry IV., but, dying without issue, the estates on the death of the father descended to his younger brother, Hugh de Tyldesley. Sir John Thomas Stanley died in London, November 29th, 1807, and was buried at South Audley. keywords: addition; age; alderley; arms; army; battle; bishop; body; bore; brereton; brother; building; captain; cartmel; castle; cause; chapel; character; charles; cheshire; chief; children; church; city; close; colonel; country; court; crown; date; daughter; dawson; day; days; death; derby; duke; earl; edward; elizabeth; england; english; esq; estates; family; father; fell; field; following; force; forest; fox; free; friends; general; george; god; good; great; green; half; hall; hand; having; head; heir; heiress; henry; high; hill; history; home; house; hugh; husband; james; january; john; king; knight; lady; lancashire; lancaster; lands; law; left; legh; life; line; little; living; london; lord; lyme; macclesfield; manchester; manor; mansion; march; margaret; marriage; mary; memory; men; moreton; mother; mrs; nantwich; near; new; north; occasion; office; order; parish; park; parliament; party; people; period; peter; peter legh; piers; pilkington; place; possession; present; prince; queen; reign; remains; rev; richard; right; rivington; road; robert; roger; room; round; royal; scene; school; second; service; set; sir; sir john; sir peter; sir thomas; sir william; son; sons; spirit; stanley; story; street; swarthmoor; thomas; time; tower; town; tradition; tyldesley; way; white; wife; william; willoughby; work; years; york cache: 45153.txt plain text: 45153.txt item: #10 of 11 id: 46090 author: Waugh, Edwin title: Lancashire Sketches Third Edition date: None words: 134808 flesch: 74 summary: I found afterwards that this Newcroft was, in old time, the homestead of the great Cheshire family of Warburton, of which family R. E. E. Warburton, Esq., of Arley Hall, is the present representative. Such places had an awful interest for the simple hinds of Lancashire in old times; and, in remote parts of the county, the same feeling is strong yet with regard to them. keywords: abeawt; air; appearance; bed; bit; black; blue; boggart; book; building; character; church; close; clough; cottage; country; day; days; deawn; distance; district; door; edge; end; england; esq; evening; eye; face; family; fields; fine; fire; folk; following; foot; friend; garden; general; good; great; green; half; hall; hamlet; hand; head; heart; heywood; hills; history; house; i'th; inhabitants; island; john; jone; kind; know; lad; lancashire; land; left; life; little; living; look; looking; low; man; manchester; manufacturing; mary; men; miles; mind; mon; moor; native; nature; neaw; neighbourhood; new; night; north; o'th; open; owd; parish; parts; people; place; poor; present; quaint; quiet; remember; rest; road; rochdale; round; sam; scene; school; sea; set; sir; son; south; spot; stands; stone; summer; tell; theer; things; think; thought; tide; time; town; trees; valley; view; village; water; way; white; wild; wind; woman; woods; work; world; wur; years; young cache: 46090.txt plain text: 46090.txt item: #11 of 11 id: 58183 author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson title: Haworth's date: None words: 100796 flesch: 92 summary: From Mrs. Briarley Murdoch heard numberless stories of Haworth, presenting him in a somewhat startling light. These gentlemen peremptorily refused to give any definite explanation of their eccentricities of conduct of the night before and were altogether very unsatisfactory indeed, one of them even going so far, under the influence of temporary excitement, as to be guilty of the indiscretion of announcing his intention of doin' fur one or two enemies of his cause when his term expired, on account of which amiable statement three months were added to said term upon the spot. keywords: 'em; aye; bit; briarley; chair; chap; chapter; day; door; end; eyes; face; father; fellow; ffrench; fur; getten; good; hand; haworth; home; house; janey; jem; life; look; man; miss; moment; mother; mrs; murdoch; night; place; room; tell; tha; theer; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; woman; work; wur cache: 58183.txt plain text: 58183.txt