VII. THE ROYAL DECLARATION CONCERNING LAWFUL SPORTS ON THE SUNDAY
VIII. HOW KING JAMES HUNTED THE HART AND THE WILD-BOAR IN HOGHTON
PARK
IX. THE BANQUET
X. EVENING ENTERTAINMENTS
XI. FATALITY
XII. THE LAST HOUR
XIII. THE MASQUE OF DEATH
XIV. "ONE GRAVE"
XV. LANCASTER CASTLE




INTRODUCTION.

The Last Abbot of Whalley.




CHAPTER I.--THE BEACON ON PENDLE HILL.


There were eight watchers by the beacon on Pendle Hill in Lancashire.
Two were stationed on either side of the north-eastern extremity of the
mountain. One looked over the castled heights of Clithero; the woody
eminences of Bowland; the bleak ridges of Thornley; the broad moors of
Bleasdale; the Trough of Bolland, and Wolf Crag; and even brought within
his ken the black fells overhanging Lancaster. The other tracked the