[Footnote 151: Another authority gives 32,000 (Burghall's "Civil War in Cheshire").] [Footnote 152: Lieut.-General Cromwell's letter to the Hon. William Lenthall.] [Footnote 153: Burghall put the killed and wounded at 4,000, and adds that they took 6,000 prisoners!] [Footnote 154: Cal. State Papers, Dom. Ser., 1648-9, p. 219.] [Footnote 155: For full details of this historic incident see "Stanley Papers," "Civil Warr in Lancashire" (Chetham Society), Seacome's "Memoirs," Hughes' "Boscobel Tracts," etc.] [Footnote 156: State Papers, Dom. Ser., iv. 240.] [Footnote 157: Heawood's "Coronation."] [Footnote 158: Published by Chetham Society, vol. xii., old series.] [Footnote 159: "Autobiography of William Stout"; London, 1851.] [Footnote 160: A few years afterwards he was sent to a school in Westmorland, where he was taught both Latin and Greek.] [Footnote 161: The place where the meal was bolted = sifted.] [Footnote 162: The cotton trade had not yet arisen. These goods were coatings, and made of wool.] [Footnote 163: One solitary book, "A Guide to Heaven from the Word," is said on doubtful authority to have been printed at Smithy Door, Manchester, in 1664.] [Footnote 164: Kingston's "True History of the Several Designs and Conspiracies against his Majesty's Person and Government, as they were carried on from 1688 to 1697."] [Footnote 165: For full details of this "plot" see the late Mr. Beamont's introduction to "The Jacobite Trials in Manchester, 1694" (_Chetham Soc._, xxviii.), and also Dr. Abbadie's "True History of the Late Conspiracy," etc.; London, 1696.] [Footnote 166: All well-known Lancashire men, except Sir Rowland Stanley, who lived in Cheshire.] [Footnote 167: _Chetham Soc._, xxviii.] [Footnote 168: See _Lanc. and Ches. Ant. Soc._, vol. v.] [Illustration] CHAPTER IX. RELIGION. Of the non-Aryan tribes who at some remote period lived in the North of England we do not know sufficient to even conjecture what was their religion, if they had any; but judging from analogy, it may be presumed that they had some kind of belief in a super-human power. The tribes who next succeeded these rude savages in effecting settlements in this country were all of the Aryan race, and all that we are able to ascertain as to their religious faith is that when Julius landed in Britain he found that the inhabitants were pagans, and followed a mysterious kind of worship known as Druidism, and that their priests were called Druids, and were not only the arbitrators in disputes, but also judges of crime.