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On the 12th March 1537, Paslew was conveyed back to Whalley for
execution, where, in a field called the Holehouses, immediately facing
the house of his birth, a gallows was erected, on which Paslew and
Eastgate suffered punishment or martyrdom, for the story varies
according to the bias of the party by whom it is told. Haydock was
carried to Padiham, and died there the same ignominious death on the day
following. The monks, driven from their asylum, escaped into France,
with the exception of a few, who lingered near the scenes of their
former enjoyments, hovering like departed hopes round the ruin to which
they clung.
[Illustration: HORNBY CASTLE.
_Drawn by G. Pickering. Engraved by Edw^d Finden._]
FOOTNOTES:
[14] Whitaker's Hist. Whalley.


SIR EDWARD STANLEY.

"Why, then, the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open!"
"God never wrought _miracles_ to convince atheism, because His
ordinary works convince it."--_Bacon_.
"No man doubts of a Supreme Being, until, from the consciousness of
his provocations, it becomes his interest there should be
none.


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