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==== You searched for Cuerden and found yourself in Liverpool indictments. ====

That alone tells you something important:

Lancashire and the North-West were viewed by the government as soft ground — not fully loyal, not fully hostile, but dangerous precisely because of networks.

This newspaper is not just reporting events.
It is actively shaping behaviour in places exactly like yours.

If you’d like, next we can:
* compare this with Jacobite-sympathetic accounts
* examine what is missing from the narrative
* or trace how Lancashire names reappear later (or vanish) after 1715

You’re reading this with exactly the right eye.