The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . have partly stood of the which is the sul)ject of one of the illustrations to this chapter(jxige 22;j). Whitaker, the great authority on Lancashire history, Avas unable a date to the Hall, Imf it is evident to the nuxhru oliserver that portionsare of considerable anti(iult\-. Manv nuist have been the changes, however, since the•six-feet walls were built. The work of Bichard Towneley in \Cy2S is known, andthe addition was by W. Towneley in 1711. A still late
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . have partly stood of the which is the sul)ject of one of the illustrations to this chapter(jxige 22;j). Whitaker, the great authority on Lancashire history, Avas unable a date to the Hall, Imf it is evident to the nuxhru oliserver that portionsare of considerable anti(iult\-. Manv nuist have been the changes, however, since the•six-feet walls were built. The work of Bichard Towneley in \Cy2S is known, andthe addition was by W. Towneley in 1711. A still later member of the familyremoved turrets, gateway, chapel, and .sacristy to their i) ])osition, hut therebuilding had been begun a few years earlier. The portraits, as is olten tlie case, tellin great measure what the Towneleys were in their day and generation: one died atWigan Lane, another at Marston Moor; one Avas an eminent antiquary, IIudil)ras into French, another collected art treasures, secured to thetxiistces of the British Museum bv means of a Parliamentar\ 278 RIVERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. [The Ribble. Some of the most interesting of the old Towneley relics were believed to have beenbrought from Whalley Abbey, built upon a spot which, before streams were pollutedhv factories, Aielded fish from the river, and feathered game from the woods and heather,whilst the forest and park around the old Hall furnished abundance of then must have been a delightful tnwn, lying in its hollow, environed by swell-inf moors and crystal streams. This is the country of wliich Ihilip (Mll)ert Ilamertonoften pathetically speaks in his Autobiography, though the voice of Nature, towhich he refers in one of his poems, must even in his young days have been thickenedliere and there bv the smoke of tall cliiiiuieys, and marred by tlie echo of raucoussounds from foundry and loom. Proud Pi-eston is an appellation wliieh luul its significance in another g
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