. Traditions of Lancashire . ng the house ofhis birth, a gallows was erected, on which Paslew andEastgate suffered punishment, or martyrdom, for the storyvaries according to the bias of the party by whom it istold. Haydock was carried to Padiham, and died thereQ 3 230 THE ABBOT OF WHALLEY. the same ignominious death on the day following. Themonks, driven from their asylum, escaped into France,with the exception of a few, who lingered near the scenesof their former enjoyments, hovering, like departed hopes,round the ruin to which they clung. SIR EDWARD STANLEY. Q 4- Why, then, the worlds mine o
. Traditions of Lancashire . ng the house ofhis birth, a gallows was erected, on which Paslew andEastgate suffered punishment, or martyrdom, for the storyvaries according to the bias of the party by whom it istold. Haydock was carried to Padiham, and died thereQ 3 230 THE ABBOT OF WHALLEY. the same ignominious death on the day following. Themonks, driven from their asylum, escaped into France,with the exception of a few, who lingered near the scenesof their former enjoyments, hovering, like departed hopes,round the ruin to which they clung. SIR EDWARD STANLEY. Q 4- Why, then, the worlds mine oyster,Which I with sword will open ! God never wrought miracles to convince atlieism, because hisordinary works convince it. — Bacon. No man doubts of a Supreme Being, until, from the consciousnessof his provocations, it become his interest there should be none. — OF THE ToNGUE. Men are atheistical because they are first xicious, and question theinith of Cluistianity because they hate the practice. — I .SIR EDWARD STANLEY. Jhe following will, perhaps, be thought misplaced as apolemical subject. But in relating what may be conceivedas the true motive that incited Sir Edward Stanley tothe founding of that beautiful structure Hornby Chapel,we may be allowed to show the operation as well as theeffect; — to trace the steps by which his conversion froman awful and demoralizing infidelity was accomplished. We have borrowed some of the arguments from LesliesShort Method with the Deists, condensing and illustratingthem as the subject seemed to require. We hope to bepardoned this freedom; the nature of the question wouldnecessarily refer to a range of argument and reply in fre-quent use ; and all that we could expect to accomplishwas to place the main arguments in such a position as toreceive the light of some well-known and self-evidenttruth. The dark transactions to which the Parson of Slaid-burn obscurely refers, may be found in WhitakersWhalley, p. 475, 47
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