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TRADITIONS

OF

LANCASHIRE.

Second Series.

BY J. ROBY, M. R. S. L.

"Time has spared the epitaph on Adrian's horse,- confounded that of
himself."

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

MDCCCXXXI.

PREFACE.

In presenting another and concluding series of Lancashire Traditions to the public, the author has to express his thanks for the indulgence he has received, and the spirit of candour and kindness with which this attempt to illustrate in a novel manner the legends of his native county has been viewed by the periodical press.

To his numerous readers, in the capacity of an author he would say farewell, did not the "everlasting adieus" everlastingly repeated, warn him that he might at some future time be subject to the same infirmity, only rendered more conspicuous by weakness and irresolution.

Rochdale, October, 1831.