When Catholics were reduced

to worshiping in houses.

"It had been the residence of John Entwistle. There is a Latin inscription on the gable.' I am told by one of the oldest Protestant tradesmen that when he was a boy he remembered a big room at the top of the house with 'strange arrangements'; but he had never heard that it had been a place of Catholic worship, or that it was called a Mass house'; Abbot O'Neill, O.S.B. of Aughton. In 1701 the Jesuit Fr. Gillibrand is said to have 'helped' at Ormskirk."

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