Amongst the unclassified several tokens bore religious emblems, such as "the bleeding heart" and the "dove and olive branch"; and the "eagle and child" was a favourite design. Crests or family arms were also often used, but in these cases there is nothing to indicate the occupation of the person who issued the token. During the century to which the Lancashire plot just recorded formed a fitting close, Lancashire had witnessed many stirring events--the monarchy had been destroyed, the Commonwealth set up, and the rule of kings again established; Roman Catholics had persecuted Protestants, and Puritans had tried their best to repress Roman Catholicism; and in each and every case this county had done its share: if battles were to be fought, the Lancashire lads were in the thick of them; if religious creeds had to be repressed, in their mistaken zeal, there again were the people of this county to the fore. But, notwithstanding wars, plagues, persecutions, insurrections, and a host of minor evils, Lancashire still progressed, her towns increased in number and in size, and her sons were leading the van in all matters of trade, commerce and enterprise. Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, and other large towns were attracting to them men, not only from the surrounding districts, but from all civilized countries; whilst the woollen and other goods manufactured in the county had already obtained a world-wide fame. Amongst other industries introduced during this century was bell-founding, which trade was carried on in Wigan with considerable success as early as 1647, and many church bells in the surrounding districts came from this foundry. [Illustration] [Footnote 124: The author read a paper on "The Lancashire Demoniacs" before the Hist. Soc. of Lanc. and Ches. (vol. xxxv.), in which this subject is more fully gone into.] [Footnote 125: This case does not belong to the seventeenth century, but it is inserted here as bearing upon the subject, and only occurred four years before the century began.] [Footnote 126: "The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the County of Lancaster, with the arraignment and trial of nineteene notorious Witches, etc., etc.; London, 1613." Reprinted by the _Chetham Soc._, vol. vi., old series.] [Footnote 127: See _Lanc., and Ches. Ant. Soc._, x. 215.] [Footnote 128: Some of these tracts are now very scarce.] [Footnote 129: One of these was found near Rochdale a few years ago. (See "History of Rochdale," p. 535.)] [Footnote 130: Satirical poem, Hopkinson's MSS., xxxiv. 85.] [Footnote 131: "Nicholas Assheton's Journal," _Chetham Soc._, xiv.] [Footnote 132: Liverpool Municipal Records.] [Footnote 133: The _Chetham Society_, vols. ii., xlii., and lxvi., contained full details of the Civil War in Lancashire. From this source many of the following particulars are taken.]