uses, 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 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.

[Illustration: HORNBY CASTLE.

_Drawn by G. Pickering. Engraved by Edw^d Finden._]

FOOTNOTES:

[14] Whitaker's Hist. Whalley.

SIR EDWARD STANLEY.

"Why, then, the world's 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 becomes 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._

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
demoralising 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 be pardoned this freedom; the nature of the question
would necessarily refer to a range of argument and reply in frequent
use; and all that we could expect to accomplish was 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 Slaidburn" obscurely
refers may be found in Whitaker's "Whalley," pp. 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 person, of a cast and character very uncommon in
those unreflecting times." "There certainly was something very
extrao