THE

LANCASHIRE WITCHES.

A Romance of Pendle Forest.

BY

WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH, ESQ.

Sir Jeffery-Is there a justice in Lancashire has so much skill in witches
as I have? Nay, I'll speak a proud word, you shall turn me loose against any
Witch-finder in Europe. I'd make an ass of Hopkins if he were alive.

SHADWELL.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

[THE AUTHOR RESERVES TO Himself the RIGHT OF ISSUING A
GERMAN TRANSLATION IN PRUSSIA.]

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

HARVARD COLLEGE

OCT 22 1800

LIBRARI

Mijist fund (3 vola)

C. WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND.

3611

49-183 21.2

TO

JAMES CROSSLEY, ESQ.

* (OF MANCHESTER.)

PRESIDENT OF THE CHETHAM SOCIETY,

AND THE LEARNED EDITOR OF

“The Discoverie of Witches in the County of Lancaster,”