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Introduction Ch. 1 - The Beacon on Pendle Hill
37:04 -
Introduction Ch. 2 - The Eruption
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Introduction Ch. 3 - Whalley Abbey
29:48 -
Introduction Ch. 4 - The Malediction
17:03 -
Introduction Ch. 5 - The Midnight Mass
17:45 -
Introduction Ch. 6 - Teter Et Fortis Carcer
20:37 -
Introduction Ch. 7 - The Abbey Mill
27:24 -
Introduction Ch. 8 - The Executioner
13:27 -
Introduction Ch. 9 - Wiswall Hall
10:25 -
Introduction Ch. 10 - The Holehouses
10:46 -
Book 1 Ch. 1 - The May Queen
27:29 -
Book 1 Ch. 2 - The Black Cat And The White Dove
14:54 -
Book 1 Ch. 3 - The Asshetons
41:17 -
Book 1 Ch. 4 - Alice Nutter
32:37 -
Book 1 Ch. 5 - Mother Chattox
49:30 -
Book 1 Ch. 6 - The Ordeal By Swimming
29:36 -
Book 1 Ch. 7 - The Ruined Conventual Church
62:33 -
Book 1 Ch. 8 - The Revelation
29:42 -
Book 1 Ch. 9 - The Two Portraits In The Banqueting-Hall Part 1
45:26 -
Book 1 Ch. 9 - The Two Portraits In The Banqueting-Hall Part 2
47:11 -
Book 1 Ch. 10 - The Nocturnal Meeting
54:51 -
Book 2 Ch. 1 - Flint
31:35 -
Book 2 Ch. 2 - Read Hall
17:29 -
Book 2 Ch. 3 - The Boggart's Glen
18:34 -
Book 2 Ch. 4 - The Reeve Of The Forest
21:52 -
Book 2 Ch. 5 - Bess's O' Th' Booth
30:25 -
Book 2 Ch. 6 - The Temptation
31:40 -
Book 2 Ch. 7 - The Perambulation Of The Boundaries
46:51 -
Book 2 Ch. 8 - Rough Lee
26:51 -
Book 2 Ch. 9 - How Rough Lee Was Defended By Nicholas
26:48 -
Book 2 Ch. 10 - Roger Nowell And His Double
19:12 -
Book 2 Ch. 11 - Mother Demdike
29:34 -
Book 2 Ch. 12 - The Mysteries Of Malkin Tower
26:26 -
Book 2 Ch. 13 - The Two Familiars
49:46 -
Book 2 Ch. 14 - How Rough Lee Was Again Besieged
25:56 -
Book 2 Ch. 15 - The Phantom Monk
16:43 -
Book 2 Ch. 16 - One O'clock!
33:26 -
Book 2 Ch. 17 - How The Beacon Fire Was Extinguished
25:38 -
Book 3 Ch. 1 - Downham Manor-House
64:54 -
Book 3 Ch. 2 - The Penitent's Retreat
13:27 -
Book 3 Ch. 3 - Middleton Hall
28:53 -
Book 3 Ch. 4 - The Gorge Of Cliviger
24:51 -
Book 3 Ch. 5 - The End Of Malkin Tower
31:50 -
Book 3 Ch. 6 - Hoghton Tower
54:35 -
Book 3 Ch. 7 - The Royal Declaration Concerning Lawful Sports On The Sunday
30:38 -
Book 3 Ch. 8 - How King James Hunted The Hart And The Wild-Boar In Hoghton Park
38:04 -
Book 3 Ch. 9 - The Banquet
27:19 -
Book 3 Ch. 10 - Evening Entertainments
28:22 -
Book 3 Ch. 11 - Fatality
14:18 -
Book 3 Ch. 12 - The Last Hour
17:02 -
Book 3 Ch. 13 - The Masque Of Death
13:11 -
Book 3 Ch. 14 - "One Grave"
4:43 -
Book 3 Ch. 15 - Lancaster Castle
6:56
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Eight watchers gather beside a beacon on Pendle Hill in November 1536, looking across moors, forests and streams toward Whalley Abbey. William Harrison Ainsworth opens his historical novel with the Pilgrimage of Grace, a rising bound up with the suppression of religious houses. Armed sentinels, monks and a banner representing Abbot John Paslew establish a Lancashire landscape where religious allegiance carries political force.
The book also follows fears of witchcraft in the district. In a later conversation, Roger Nowell and a rector discuss Mary Baldwyn's death and the duties of magistrates and clergy, while Potts records their words and cites the king's views. Their exchanges show how belief in hidden powers shapes judgments about suffering and responsibility. Detailed scenery and argumentative dialogue give readers a way into the novel's historical atmosphere, with local places, church authority and supernatural suspicion closely connected.
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- Language
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