ternal and
circumstantial evidence. The inscription on Webster's monument in the
chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, at Clitheroe, is too characteristic and
curious to be omitted. I give it entire:--

"_Qui hanc figuram intelligunt
Me etiam intellexisse, intelligent._

[Illustration]

_Hic jacet ignotus mundo, mersusque tumultu
Invidiae, semper mens tamen aequa fuit,
Multa tulit veterum ut sciret secreta sophorum
Ac tandem vires noverit ignis aquae._

* * * * *

_Johannes Hyphantes sive Webster,
In villa Spinosa supermontana, in
Parochia silvae cuculatae, in agro
Eboracensi, natus 1610 Feb. 3,
Ergastulum animae deposuit 1682, Junii 18,
Annoq. aetatis suae 72 currente._

_Sicq. peroravit moriens mundo huic valedicens,
Aurea pax vivis, requies aeterna sepultis._"]

But it is necessary to proceed from the authors on witchcraft to that
extraordinary case which forms the subject of the present
republication, and which first gave to Pendle its title to be
considered as the Hartz Forest of England.

The Forest of Pendle is a portion of the greater one of
Blackburnshire, and is so called from the celebrated mountain of that
name, over the declivity of which it extends and stretches in a long
but interrupted descent of five miles, to the water of Pendle, a
barren and dreary tract. Dr. Whitaker observes of this and the
neighbouring forests, and the remark even yet holds good, "that they
still bear the marks of original barrenness, and recent cultivation;
that they are still distinguished from the ancient freehold tracts
around them, by want of old houses, old woods, high fences; (for these
were forbidden by the forest laws;) by peculiarities of dialect and
manners in their inhabitants; and lastly, by a general air of poverty
which all the opulence of manufactures cannot remove." He considers
that "at an uncertain period during the occupancy of the Lacies, the
first principle of population" (in these forests) commenced; it was
found that these wilds, bleak and barren as they were, might be
occupied to some advantage in breeding young and depasturing lean
"cattle, which were afterwards fattened in the lower domains.
_Vaccaries_, or great upland pastures, were laid out for this purpose;
_booths_ or mansions erected upon them for the residence of herdsmen;
and at the same time that herds of deer were permitted to range at
large as heret