[Footnote 204: "A True and Exact Relation of the Death of Two Catholics," etc.; London, 1737.] [Footnote 205: See "History of Kirkham," _Chetham Society_, xcii., also article in "Bygone Lancashire"; London, 1892.] [Footnote 206: "Bygone Lancashire": London, 1892.] [Footnote 207: Including North Meols, which is omitted in the survey.] [Footnote 208: The names were those who were considered "fit to be of the classis."] [Footnote 209: St. Michael's-on-Wyre and Lytham are left out.] [Footnote 210: Written by the Rev. Richard Heyricke. Both these tracts are now very scarce.] [Footnote 211: "Lancashire: its Puritanism, etc.," i. 465.] [Footnote 212: "Lancashire Quaker Literature" (Fishwick), _Trans. of Lanc. and Ches. Ant. Soc._, 1887.] [Footnote 213: They so designated the church.] [Footnote 214: "Notitia Cestriensis," _Chetham Society_, xix.] [Footnote 215: See "Lancashire Nonconformity," by the Rev. B. Nightingale also Dr. Halley's "Lancashire Puritanism," etc.] [Footnote 216: The original meeting-house was at Castle Hey.] [Illustration] CHAPTER X. THE REBELLIONS. The most striking event in Lancashire in the beginning of the eighteenth century was the rebellion of 1715, which arose out of the Highland feeling in favour of the elder Stuart line, and the discontent of the lairds with the recent Parliamentary union. Those who planned the insurrection were in hopes of obtaining the support of the Roman Catholics in the North of England, who still owned the Pope as the supreme head of their Church. In September, 1715, the Earl of Mar raised the royal standard of "James VIII. and III." at Braemar, and was shortly afterwards at Perth with an army of 12,000. In the rising, of which this was the prelude, the Presbyterians in Lancashire attached themselves to the Whig party, whilst the Roman Catholics took the side of the Tories. A writer on this subject[217] says: "That the Roman Catholics in Lancashire should have appeared in arms during the movement of 1715 can excite no surprise whatever. They were stimulated by a deep recollection of long bygone persecutions, to which, as a cause, they referred their existing political and religious grievances. This historical retrospect comprises in its earliest date the persecutions and degradations which they underwent in the reign of Elizabeth, and the sympathy which they subsequently met with from the unfortunate Charles, who was the first to show concern for their sufferings and civil disabilities."