And in Fawkes the gloomy and superstitious enthusiast.
One doctrine I have endeavoured to enforce throughout,--TOLERATION.
From those who have wilfully misinterpreted one of my former productions, and have attributed to it a purpose and an aim utterly foreign to my own intentions, I can scarcely expect fairer treatment for the present work.

But to that wider and more discriminating class of readers from whom I have experienced so much favour and support, I confidently commit this volume, certain of meeting with leniency and impartiality.
[1] Vide _History of England_, vol.ix.New Edition.
CONTENTS.
PAGE DEDICATION iii PREFACE.
v Book the First.
THE PLOT.
CHAPTER I.

AN EXECUTION IN MANCHESTER, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 1 II.

ORDSALL CAVE 10 III.

ORDSALL HALL 12 IV.