THE MANCHESTER REBELS
OF
THE FATAL '45.
Faithful unto Death
Faithful unto Death
Page 246.
The Manchester Rebels
OF
THE FATAL '45

BY
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH

With faltering voice, she weeping said,
"O, Dawson, monarch of my heart!
Think not thy death shall end our loves,
For thou and I will never part!"
SHENSTONE.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY FREDERICK GILBERT

LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS
BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL
NEW YORK: 416 BROOME STREET
1880



BY W. HARRISON AINSWORTH.
Uniform with this Volume, each with Six Illustrations.
  • THE TOWER OF LONDON.
  • WINDSOR CASTLE.
  • ROOKWOOD.
  • THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES.
  • GUY FAWKES.
  • SAINT JAMES'S; Or, The Court of Queen Anne.
  • OLD SAINT PAUL'S; A Tale of the Plague and the Fire.
  • CRICHTON.
  • THE FLITCH OF BACON; Or, The Custom of Dunmow.
  • MERVYN CLITHEROE.
  • THE MISER'S DAUGHTER.
  • JACK SHEPPARD.
  • BOSCOBEL; Or, The Royal Oak.
  • OVINGDEAN GRANGE; A Tale of the South Downs.
  • THE SPENDTHRIFT; A Tale.
  • THE STAR-CHAMBER.
  • PRESTON FIGHT; Or, The Insurrection of 1715.


INSCRIBED
TO THE
RT. HON. THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD,
K. G.,
WITH EVERY SENTIMENT
OF
RESPECT AND ADMIRATION.
PREFACE.
All my early life being spent in Manchester, where I was born,bred, and schooled, I am naturally familiar with the scenes I haveattempted to depict in this Tale.
Little of the old town, however, is now left. The lover ofantiquity—if any such should visit Manchester—will search invain for those picturesque black and white timber habitations, withpointed gables and latticed windows, that were common enoughsixty years ago. Entire streets, embellished by such houses,have been swept away in the course of modern improvement.But I recollect them well. No great effort of imagination wastherefore needed to reconstruct the old town as it existed in themiddle of the last century; but I was saved from the possibilityof error by an excellent plan, almost of the precise date, designedby John A. Berry, to which I made constant reference during mytask. Views are given in this plan of the principal houses thenrecently erected, and as all these houses were occupied by PrinceCharles and the Highland Chiefs during their stay in Manchester,I could conduct the Rebel leaders to their quarters without difficulty.One of the houses, situated in Deansgate, belonged to mymother's uncle, Mr. Touchet. This is gone, as is Mr. Dickenson'sfine house in M                        
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