But no prayer was said over him.

And the superstitious believed that the body was carried off that very night by the Fiend, and taken to a witch's sabbath in the ruined tower on Rimington Moor.

Certain it was, that the unhallowed grave was disturbed.

The body of Paslew was decently interred in the north aisle of the parish church of Whalley, beneath a stone with a Gothic cross sculptured upon it, and bearing the piteous inscription:--"_Miserere mei_." But in the belief of the vulgar the abbot did not rest tranquilly.

For many years afterwards a white-robed monastic figure was seen to flit along the cloisters, pass out at the gate, and disappear with a wailing cry over the Holehouses.