THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES £be Catbefcral Cburch of Makcfielfc* ii \ki i ii , i. n a« v . \ THE HISTORY OF OF HU Saints, Wafeefielfc NOW &\)t d&nfyt'btul (tfyuvci) OF Zbc Diocese of Mafcefielb BY JOHN W. WALKER, F.S.A., M.R.C.S. Eng.; L.R.C.P. Loud. WAKEFIELD W. H. MILNES, RADCLIFFE PRINTING WORKS 1888 U3i PREFACE. It is now more than sixty years since Sisson's " Historic Sketch of the Parish Church, Wakefield " appeared, and since that time much has come to light with regard to the early history of the fabric and of the men into whose hands the patronage passed. The recent restoration, and the diligent and careful researches of Mr. J. T. Micklethwaite, F.S.A., accompanied by the papers which Mr. James Fowler, F.S.A., read before the Society of Antiquaries, have done much to elucidate the growth and the decoration of the building itself. When a student of medicine in London, I spent a good part of my leisure time in the Library of the British Museum, and in the Record Office, searching out and copying any documents that related to Wakefield Church, and in this way collected a mass of information, which, added to that since gained by a study of the fabric itself, and to researches at York and Oxford, has resolved itself into the present volume. I must acknowledge with gratitude the free access which has been permitted to the account books and the registers by the Vicar, the Rev. Canon Straton, and the Churchwardens ; the great and valued help given by Mr. J. T. Micklethwaite, F.S.A., whose section on "the growth of the fabric" forms such an interesting feature of this work. I must also express my obligations to Mr. James Fowler, F.S.A. ; Mr- H. A. Hudson for permission co examine the Archbishops' Registers at York ; the Rev. Canon Raine for help with the York wills and registers ; My- W. H. Seeker, B.A., and 63J2330 Mr- Foster for copying extracts from the Dodsworth M.S.S. in the Bodleian Library, Oxford ; Mr. H. M. Walker, B.A., for researches in the University Library, Cambridge ; Mr. J. L. Fernandes for permitting me to see some documents in his possession relating to the Nowell Chantry; Mr. W. B. Burrell, the late secretary to the Restoration Committee, for the loan of the minute books of that committee ; Mr. W. H. Milnes, junr- for the two beautiful drawings of the panelling and misericorde figured on pages ioo, 101 ; Mr. John Binks for the loan of two woodcuts ; and Mr. W. G. Buckley, clerk at the Cathedral, for much help in my examination of the building itself. JOHN W. WALKER. BOYNCLIFFE, WAKEFIELD, September, 1888. CONTE NTS PAGE Chronological Table of Events. ... ... ... xi. — xvi. Section I. The History of the Patronage, with copies and translations of the Deeds of Transfer from successive Patrons ... i Section II. The Rectory and Rectors ... ... ... ... ... 27 Section III. The Growth of the Fabric ... ... ... ... ... 36 Section IV. The Chantries, their foundation and suppression... ... 49 Section V. The Painted Glass, Mural Paintings, and Church Furniture of the XVth and XVIth Centuries 84 Section VI. Changes consequent upon the Reformation. Church Furniture of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries. The Communion Plate ... ... ... ... ... 102 Section VII. Alterations and Repairs to the exterior of the Fabric at various dates. ... ... ... ... ... ... 138 Section VIII. The Restoration of 1859 — 1886 ... ... ... ... 144 Section IX. The Painted Windows ... ... ... ... ... 166 Contents. — Continued. Section X. History of the Cambden and Jane Lectureships — their Incumbents ... ... ... ... ... ... 184 Section XI. The Vicars, Curates, Choir Masters, Organists, and other Officials ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 190 Section XII. The Foundation of the Bishopric ... ... ... ... 202 Section XIII. Mural and other Inscriptions. Testamentary Burials ... 210 Section XIV. Extracts from Churchwardens' Account Books, Registers and Terriers ... ... ... ... ... ... 267 Index 318 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND PLANS. South Elevation of the Church, about 1690 ... Frontispiece Arms of the See of Wakefield ... ... ... Title Page Plans of the growth of the fabric ... to face pages 36, 37, 3 8 > 39. 4°i 4i Plan of the Church, its altars and furniture in 1530 ... 48 Arms depicted in the fifteenth century glass ... pages 84 — 94 Wall painting of an Angel censing ... ... to face page 97 Misericorde in quire, showing crescent and fetterlock page 100 Panelling in quire, showing crescent ... ... ... 10 1 Savile Stall-end in quire ... ... ... ... ... 101 Wall painting of the figure of Death ... to face page 109 Plan of the Screen ... ... ... ... ... 114 Interior view of the Church, looking west, in 1824 ... 120 Design on the Cathedral Plate ... ... ... page 131 Hall marks on the Cathedral Plate ... ... 131 — 135 South-east view (exterior) of the Church, in 1800, to face page 141 South-east view (exterior) of the Cathedral, in 1888; from a photograph by Messrs. G. & J. Hall ... T ^g View of the interior of the Cathedral, looking east, in 1888; from a photograph by Messrs. G. & J. Hall ... 154 View of the interior of the Cathedral, looking from the north door across to the Pilkington Chapel, in 1888 ; from a photograph by Messrs. G. & J. Hall ... ... 160 The Waits' Badge page 307 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS.* Eleventh Century. 1086. Church mentioned in Domesday Book, then in possession of the Crown. 1088-91. Church given by William Rufus to the second Earl Warren. 1091-97. Church granted by Earl Warren to the Priory of S. Pancras of Lewes. Twelfth Century. 1 180 (circa). A north aisle added to the church, which had hitherto been an aisleless cross church, with a central tower. Thirteenth Century. 1200. Geoffrey Plantagenet, Archbishop of York, confirmed a pension of 60s. out of this benefice, to the monks of Lewes. 1220. (circa.) A south aisle added to the church. 1237. June. Dom. Richard de Lethebroch instituted as Rector. 1242. Kal. May. Dom. P. de Fyghelden instituted as Rector. Fourteenth Century. 1318. Dom. William Oliver, rector. 1322. June 25. A chantry founded in the church by John de Wakefeld. 1325. Aug. n. The church granted by the Prior of Lewes to Hugh de Spencer, the younger. 1325. Kal. Aug. Dom. William de Cusancia, presented as Rector. * This is intended not merely as a Chronological Table, complete in itself, but a gathering up into consecutive order of the items which our arrangement into sections has necessarily dispersed through the book. XI. Fourteenth Century. — Continued. 1329. Aug. 10. Archbishop William de Melton consecrated the new church. 1348. July 8. Gilbert le Despencer was fined of the advowson of the church. Aug. 6. The patronage of the church was given by Edward III. to S. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster. Nov. 30. The church appropriated to the Dean and College of S. Stephen's Chapel by the Archbishop of York. 1349. June 20. Ordination of the Vicarage of Wakefield by William de la Zouch, Archbishop of York. 1349. June 21. Thomas de Drayton, the first Vicar, presented by the College of S. Stephen's. Oct. 8. Henry de Grenehod, instituted as Vicar. 1362. May 11. John de Whytelay, instituted as Vicar. 1369. Aug. 6. John Stadefete, instituted as Vicar. 1372. May 26. William Woderove, instituted as Vicar. Fifteenth Century. 141 6. John Bolteby was Vicar. 1420-40. A new tower was built at the west end, the nave and aisles being lengthened twelve feet to join on with it. The clerestory added soon afterwards. 1425. Jan. 3. Robert Bever, instituted as Vicar. 1440. John Lounde, Vicar. 1443. Feb. 28. John Preston, instituted as Vicar. 1458. The chancel rebuilt, with aisles to the line of the original transepts, and of full length with the choir. 1462. Sep. 23. Thomas Rogers instituted as Vicar. 1470. Comparative date of the present edifice. 1475, Dec. 20. A chantry founded at the altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Sir John Pilkington, of Stanley, Knight. 1478. Sep. 25. A chantry founded at the altar of S. Peter, by Roger Nowell, of Wakefield. 1495. Nov. I2, Tne Soothill chantry founded by Henry Soothill. Fifteenth Century. — Continued. 1493. June 22. A chantry founded "in the quere of Sanct Nicholas," by William Graystoke. Sixteenth Century. 1502. July 31. Thomas Knolles presented as Vicar. 1546. June 13. Thomas Robertson S.T.P., appointed as Vicar. Suppression of chantries by Henry VIII. 1549. Destruction of Images and removal of Pictures ordered by Edward VI. 1 553. The chantry priests pensioned off. 1559. March 24. Richard Robertson instituted as Vicar. 1585. Churchwardens' accounts commence. 1589-90. A new pulpit was made. 1592. The great loft was made. 1593. April 20. Edward Mawde, A.M. instituted as Vicar. 1598. May .3. William Lister, M.A. instituted as Vicar. Seventeenth Century. 1600. "The whole Church was washen wth lyme and paynted." 1606. "The Church paynted with oyl cullors & whited." " The p'titions betwixt the quiers removed." The first long gallery erected. 1613. April. Church registers commence. 1620. Feb. 28. Timothy Maude, M.A., S.T.P., instituted as Vicar. A large amount was spent this year for work at the church. 1620-1. Probable date of Earl Strafford's organ. 1625. Aug. 15. James Lister, M.A., instituted as Vicar. 1628. Church porch repaired. 1634-6. The upper part of the chancel screen made, and the lower part of the screen cased with work of the period. 1635-6. The new pulpit made. 1650. Joshua Kirbie appointed as the first lecturer, under Lady Cambden's will. 1653 Thomas Parker, a Commonwealth Vicar. 1655-60. Thomas Walker, S.T.P., Vicar. Seventeenth Century. — Continued. 1 66 1. Present font erected. 1677-8. Feb. 16. Obadiah Lee, instituted as Vicar. 1 69 1. Dec. 4. Sir Lyon Pilkington obtained the Pilkington chapel from the churchwardens. Eighteenth Century. 1700. December 18. Thomas Scott, M A. instituted as Vicar. 1703. New chimes bought. 1704. New bells obtained. 1708. A new pulpit erected. 1 7 14. Feb. 1. A great wind blew down some yards of the steeple. 1715. The spire partially rebuilt. 1719-25. Large bills were paid for church improvements, the south side of the church was re-cased, and the windows re -spaced. 1729. May 12. George Arnet, A.M., appointed Vicar. 1 75 1. July. 10. Benjamin Wilson, M.A., instituted as Vicar. 1764. Oct. 17. Michael Bacon, D.D. instituted as Vicar. 1 771-7. Large sums spent on the church, partly for cramping the the spire and battlements. 1778. A new clock obtained for the tower. 1779. A peal of eight new bells by Pack and Chapman placed in the belfry. 1787-90. The north-east corner rebuilt. 1789. Sep. 5. Memorial stone of the vestry under the east window laid. 1793. The "old alter" pulled down. 1795. "A compleat sett of new chimes" contracted for, to be made by Goodall, of Tadcaster. Nineteenth Century. 1800. The whole of the interior walls coated an inch thick with plaster. 1802. Sir John Soane reported on the unsatisfactory state of the tower and spire. Nineteenth Century. — Continued. 1803-4. The spire strengthened (?) with iron bands on the recommendation of Sir John Soane. 1805. Sep. 20. Richard Munkhouse, D.D., instituted as Vicar. Nov. 11. A new organ was built and set up in the church by Mr- Gray, of London. 1 8 10. Feb. 3. Samuel Sharpe, A.M., instituted as Vicar. 181 3. Law proceedings taken to compel the Lay-Impropriators to repair the chancel. 1 81 7. Jan. New peal of ten bells, by Thos. Mears of White- chapel, hung in the belfry. 1 81 8. Removal of the houses at the west end of the churchyard. 1820. New wall built around the churchyard of Woolley edge stone, the copings from Newton quarry. 1 82 1. Dec. 20. The font of 1661, again brought into use. 1823. July. Mr- Mountain, of Hull, examined the tower and spire, and suggested that fifteen feet of the latter should be taken down and rebuilt. 1823, Nov. The spire strengthened, and raised 2 yards in height. 1842. May. Weather boards placed on the spire. 1847. April 5. Public pathways through the churchyard stopped up. 1853. The church warmed and lighted by gas. 1854. Feb. The clock in the tower lighted by gas. 1855. March 9. The Rev. S. Sharp, A.M. died. Nov. 7. The Rev. Charles Joseph Camidge, M.A. instituted as Vicar. 1856. Deer- J. Emmerson appointed organist, and Edward Scott, choirmaster. Dec. 13. The Churchwardens memorialize the Mayor to allow the pump in front of the west end of the church to be removed. 1857. March 27. Mr- G. G. Scott made a report on the church, preparatory to restoration. 1858. The tower recased. 1860-61. The spire rebuilt- Nineteenth Century. — Continued. i860. Aug. The patronage of the Vicarage of Wakefield transferred from the Crown to the Bishop of Ripon. 1866-8. The chancel restored, and the east window inserted 1872-4. The church closed for the restoration of the nave and its aisles. The series of painted windows in the south aisle put in. 1874. Nov. 3 Church re-opened for Divine service. 1875. Au &- 2 - The Rev - N- D. J. Straton, M.A. instituted as Vicar. 1878. The east window of the north chancel aisle restored. The organ made to face westwards, and enlarged. 1 88 1. The south porch restored by Major Barker. Oct. 10. Memorial stone of a new vestry laid. 1886. The south side of the church recased. June. The Mackie memorial windows inserted in the north aisle of the nave. 1887. Jan. J. N. Hardy, F.C.O. entered on his duties as organist. Feb. 14. M. H. Peacock, M.A. appointed honorary choir-master. Oct. The Stewart memorial windows inserted. 1888. May 17. The foundation of the see of Wakefield gazetted. 27. The first ordination held in the church. June 25. Dr. Walsham How installed as first Bishop of Wakefield, in the cathedral, by the Archbishop of York. SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE PATRONAGE. THIS CATHEDRAL is dedicated to "All Saints," which would in early times be "All Hallows;" in Torre's Manuscript, written between 1650-90, it is described as "All Hallows;" also in the Harleian MSS., No. 1408, as "All Hallowes in the Pavement, Wakefielde." The Reverend Canon Raine, in an article on the dedication of the Yorkshire Churches,* says, that " All Hallows has been changed, unfortunately I think, to All Saints." This dedication is indicative of a Saxon foundation of the Church, and Arch- deacon Churton says, "Many of the Saxon Churches were dedicated to All Saints. Indeed it is probable that wherever there is a Church so dedicated it is of Saxon foundation." f In an engraving of the Church made about the year 1690, it is described as "All Souls," which name it seems to have borne throughout the eighteenth century. The earliest actual evidence of a Church in Wakefield is the mention of it in Domesday Book. The following is extracted from the Reverend William Bawdwen's translation of that record, which was printed at Doncaster in 1809, and was made from the edition of the record printed in 1780. "Land of the King. In Yorkshire." Page 15. "In Wake- field with nine Berewicks, — Sandal, Sowerby, Warley, Fixby, Midgley, Wadsworth, Crosstone, Langfield and Stansfield, — there are sixty carucates and three oxgangs, and the third part of an oxgang of land to be taxed ; thirty ploughs may till this land. This Manor was in the demesne of King Edward. * Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. II. p. 183. f " Early English Church.'' 2 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH There are now there in the King's hands four villanes, and three Priests, a?id two Churches, and seven sokemen, and sixteen bordars. They together have seven ploughs. Wood pasture six miles long and four miles broad. The whole is six miles long and six miles broad. Value in the time of King Edward, sixty pounds ; at present, fifteen pounds." (A carucate contained as much land as one plough would cultivate, about 120 acres; a borate or oxgang was about 15 acres, or about as much as one ox could plough in a year.) As Domesday Book was compiled about 1086, it may safely be inferred that the Churches then mentioned were of Saxon origin, as very few Churches were built during the Conqueror's reign, the country being in such a troubled condition. These two Churches were undoubtedly at Wakefield and Sandal ; Dr. Whitaker thinks that the third priest ministered at Horbury,* as within fifty years from Domesday a Chapel is known to have existed there, and Chapels are never men- tioned in that record ; and Mr. Micklethwaite tells me that the tower of old Horbury Church was certainly older than Domesday. On page 241 of Bawdwen's translation occurs the following passage, "according to the verdict of the men of Morley Wapentake, concerning the Church of St. Mary, which is in Morley Wood, the King has a moiety of the alms of the three Festivals of St. Mary, which belongs to "Wakefield. Ilbert and the priest who serves the Church have all the rest." Dr. Whitaker thought from this, that the parish of Wakefield had been taken out of the original parish of Morley ; but Mr. Taylor | conclusively proves that Dr. Whitaker was mistaken, as Wakefield never was in Morley Wapentake, and he shows that the Patron, Ilbert de Lacy, and the priest of the Church in Morley Wood, had been allowed by the Owner of Wakefield to retain a moiety of the alms referred to. Dewsbury put forward a claim to be the mother Church of Wakefield, but there is very little to substantiate it. * " Loidis and Elmete," p. 274. + " Rectory Manor of Wakefield," p. 7. OF WAKEFIELD. 3 In 1349, among the list of expenses of the Proctor of Devvsbury Church is the following account, " Hire of a certain pasture for lambs coming of tithe of Dewsbury and Wakefield, jQo 4s. od. " ; as the Rev. Joseph Hunter says, "This entry is the only one in these accompts which can afford the least countenance to the claim set up by Dewsbury for the super- iority of its Church to that of Wakefield.''* In a manuscript (which I have in my possession) by the late Rev. Dr. Naylor, who purposed writing a history of the Lower Division of Agbrigg, I find the following, " my father remembers that the old man who was the Clerk of Dewsbury, when he was a boy, told him he had heard his grandfather speak of coming to Wakefield for three or four groats in lieu of a certain number of waxlights given annually for the High Altar of the Church at Dewsbury ; but when the value of the currency altered so materially that this sum was not worth the trouble of fetching, the custom of doing so fell into disuse. The old man's grandfather lived near two hundred years ago." I have carefully searched the Churchwarden's Accounts from 1585 downwards, and cannot find a single entry of a payment made by the Church of Wakefield to that of Dewsbury. If the payment had ever been made, it is unlikely that it should have been discontinued, however small the tribute might be. We also learn from Domesday Book that King Edward the Confessor was the owner of the Manor of Wakefield. He died on the 5th of January, 1065 — 6, and was succeeded in the ownership by Harold II. who was killed at the battle of Hastings, October 14th, 1066 ; his possessions came to William the Conqueror, who held the Manor at the time of the Domesday survey. It is not known when the Earls of Warren became possessed of the Church, but the first Earl Warren, who had married Gundred, the Conqueror's daughter, died June 24th, 1088; and between the years 1091 and 1097 the second Earl Warren gave the Church of Coningsburgh and all its dependencies, and the Church of Wakefield with its * Dewsbury, its Ecclesiastical History. B 2 THE CATHEDRA I. CHURCH dependencies, to his father's monastery of St. Pancras of Lewes in Sussex. Hunter says,* "the date of this donation, about which there has been some misconception, is to be collected from the names of the witnesses, among whom are three bishops, named Ralph, Gundulph, and Walkeline ; these bishops were contemporary in their respective sees only during that interval. The grant is very extensive, both in new donations and in confirmations of the gifts of his father : " " In Eborasira vero dedi eis " In Yorkshire, indeed, I ecclesiam de Coningeburg cum have given to them the Church aliis ecclesiis decimis et terris et omnibus suis appendiciis : et ecclesiam de Wakefeld cum pert : suis." of Coningsburgh, with the other Churches, tithes, lands and all its appendages, and the Church of Wakefield, with its dependencies." The third Earl Warren confirmed the grant in these words "Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Willielmus comes de Warrena dono concedo et hac presenti carta mea con- firmo Deo et S. Pancratio de Lewes et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus pro salute anime mee et Willielmi patris mei et omnium successorum nostrorum ecclesiam de Coning- burgh cum ecclesiis capellis terris et decimis et omnibus ad eas pertinentibus scilicet ecclesiam de Braythewell cum pertinentiis ecclesiam de Don- ingthon cum pert, ecclesiam de Herthill cum pert, ecclesiam de Fishlak cum pert, ecclesiam de Hetfeld cum capella de Thorne et omnibus pert, ecclesiam de " Know all present and to come, that I, William, Earl of "Warren, give, concede, and by this my present charter confirm to God, St. Pancras of Lewes, and the monks serving God there, for the health of my soul and of my father William and all our successors, the Church of Coningsburgh, with the Churches, Chapels, lands, tithes and all things pertaining to them, the Church of Braithwell with its dependencies, the Church of Dunnington with its dependen- cies, the Church of Harthill with its dependencies, the Church of Fishlake with its dependencies, the Church of Hatfield with the Chapel of Thorne and all its Parva Sandale cum capella de dependencies, the Church of * "South Yorkshire," I. 105. OF WAKEFIELD. Hernoldesthorp cum omnibus pert, ecclesiam etiam de Wake- feld cum capella de Horbyry et omnibus pert, suis ecclesiam de Halyfax cum omnibus pert, suis ecclesiam de Dewsbyry cum capella de Hertesheved et omnibus pert, suis ecclesiam de Birton cum omnibus pert, suis ecclesiam de Maiori Sandale cum omnibus pert, suis et si forte terre in quibus site sunt predicte ecclesie in alterius alicuius dominium quam in raeura sive per homagium et servicium sive per maritagium sive aliquocunque modo deve- nerint volo nihilominus et percipio ut predicte ecclesie et omnes alie quas habent de feodo meo predicti monachi ad sustentationem eorum libere et quiete semper remaneant ita ut nullus omnino hominum in eisdem ecclesiis aliquod ius advocationis sive presenta- tionis sibi possit vindicare preter ipsos monachos meos quibus totum ius quod unquam habui vel habere potui in eisdem ecclesiis dedi et con- cessi nullo mihi vel heredibus meis in eisdem ecclesiis iure retento hiis testibus Radulpho de Waren Hugone dePetroponte Radulpho de Playz Rob. de Frivele Reginaldo de Waren Sandal Parva with the Chapel of Harnoldsthorpe (?) with all its dependencies, also the Church of Wakefield with the Chapel of Horbury and all its dependencies, the Church of Halifax with all its dependencies, the Church of Dewsbury with the Chapel of Hartshead and all its depen- dencies, the Church of Burton with all its dependencies, the Church of Sandal Magna with all its dependencies. And if by chance the lands in which the aforesaid Churches are situated shall have come into any other persons domain but mine, either by homage and service, or through marriage, or in any other way, nevertheless I will and assume that the aforesaid Churches and all others which the aforesaid monks hold by my bequest, shall be preserved to them for their maintenance, freely and peaceably for ever, so that no one can claim the right of advowsons or presentations in the same Churches, except my monks themselves, to whom I have given and conceded what- ever right I had or could have in the same Churches, in its entirety, not keeping back any right to myself or to my heirs in the same Churches. Witness to this Ralph de Warren, Hugh de 6 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Adam de Poning Gwyd dc Petroponte, Ralph de Playz, Mencecourt Willielmo de Robert de Frivele, Reginald Drossio et multis aliis." de Warren, Adam de Poning, Gwyd de Mencecourt, William de Drossius, and many others." This grant was entered in the chartulary of the monks of Lewes, and copied in Watson's " Memoirs of Earls Warren and Surrey," Vol. I., p. 91. According to Dodsworth, who saw in a chartulary of the Priory of Lewes, then in possession of the Earl of Dorset, the above grant was accompanied by the ceremony of cutting a lock of hair from the heads of the Earl and Reginald, his brother, in the presence of Archbishop Theobald and other distinguished ecclesiastics. The Prior of Lewes now appointed priests to take charge of the Church, and in the year 1200 we find that Arch- bishop Geoffrey Plantagenet confirmed to the monks of Lewes a pension of sixty shillings out of the Church of Wakefield, but Hunter"' considers that this was nothing more than such a pension as was often granted to the religious houses out of benefices which belonged to them. The next change was that the prior and monks of Lewes in 1325, granted the Churches of Wakefield and Dewsbury to Hugh de Spencer the younger, Earl of Gloucester, and the inspeximus and confirmation by King Edward the Second, dated nth August, 1325, may be found upon the Patent Rolls of 19 Edward II. Hugh de Spencer was hanged about the 24th of Novem- ber, 1326, and his estates were forfeited to the Crown, although his son, Gilbert de Spencer, remained in possession of the above advowsons, and these were confirmed to him by Edward III., April 26th, 1345, but he was fined of them on July 8th, 1348, as the following deeds show. Patent Roll, 18 Edward III., Part 1, m. 18. "Rex omnibus ad quos etc "The king to all whom salutem. Constat nobis per etc : Greeting. It is evident to inspeccionem rotulorum Cancel- us from an inspection of the * "South Yorkshire," II., 336, Note. OF WAKEFIELD. larie nostre quod dominus Edwardus nuper Rex Anglie pater noster litteras suas patentes fecit in hec verba. Edwardus dei gratia Rex Anglie Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aquitanie omnibus ad quos pre- serves littere pervenerint salu- tem. Inspeximus cartam quam dilecti nobis in Christo Prior et Conventus de Lewes fecerunt dilecto et fideli nostra Hugoni le Despenser filio Hugonis le Despenser Comitis Wynton et Alianore uxoris eius in hec verba. Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis presentem cartam inspecturis Adam Prior Lewentis et eius loci conventus salutem in domino noveritis nos unanimi consensu et voluntate tocius capituli nostri dedisse conces- sisse et hac carta nostra con- firmasse pro nobis et succes- soribus nostris nobili viro domino Hugoni le Despenser filio domini Hugonis le Despenser Comitis Wynton et Alianore uxori eius advoca- ciones ecclesiarum de Dewes- bury et Wakefeld in Com. Ebor. habendas et tenendas eisdem Hugoni filii Hugonis et Alianore ad totam vitam utriusque eorun- dem Hugonis filii Hugonis et Alianore una cum libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus ac aliis Rolls of our Chancellor that our father, Edward, lately King of England, made a patent in these words : Edward, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, to all to whom the present letters shall come, greeting. We have inspected a deed which our chosen in Christ, the Prior and Convent of Lewes have made with our true and faithful Hugh le Despencer, son of Hugh le Despencer, Count of Wynton, and with Eleanor his wife, in these words : To all sons of Holy Mother Church who shall see the present deed. Adam, Prior ot Lewes and the Convent of that place, greeting in the Lord, know ye that we, by the unani- mous will and consent of our whole Chapter, have given, granted, and by this our charter confirmed for us and our suc- cessors, to the noble Lord Hugh le Despencer, son of Lord Hugh le Despencer, Count of Wynton, and to Eleanor his wife, the advowsons of the Churches of Dewsbury and Wakefield in the County of York, to be had and held by the same Hugh, son of Hugh, and by Eleanor, for the life of each of the same Hugh, 8 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH universis et singulis ad prcdictas advocaciones ubicumque ct qualitercumque spectantibus seu eciam pertinentibus sine ullo retenemento de capitalibus domi- nis feodi illius per servicia inde debita et consueta Ita quod post mortem eorundem Hugonis filii Hugonis et Alianore predicte advocaciones una cum libertati- bus liberis consuetudinibus ac aliis universis et singulis ad easdem advocaciones ubicum- que et qualitercumque spectan- tibus seu eciam pertinentibus sine ullo retenemento remaneant Gilberto filio eorundem Hugonis filii Hugonis et Alianore et here- dibus ipsius Gilberti tenende de capitalibus dominio feodi illius per servicia predicta imperpe- tuum Et nos predicti Prior et Conventus et successores nostri Priores et Conventus loci illius advocaciones predictas cum libertatibus liberis consuetudini- bus et omnibus aliis ad eas ubicumque et qualitercumque spectantibus seu eciam pertinen- tibus sine ullo retenemento pre- fatis Hugoni filii Hugonis et Alianore ad totam vitam utrius- que eorundem Hugonis et Alianore et post mortem eorun- dem Hugonis filii Hugonis et Alianore prefato Gilberto et heredibus suis sine ullo retene- son of Hugh, and of Eleanor, for due and customary service, with liberties and free customs and all other things howsoever and wheresoever referring to the aforesaid advowsons, or even appertaining to them, free from the control of the Lord of the Manor. Again, that after the death of the said Hugh, son of Hugh, and of Eleanor, the aforesaid advowsons, with the liberties, free customs, and all other things howsoever and wheresoever referring to the aforesaid advowsons, or even appertaining to them, free from control, shall pass to Gilbert, son of the same Hugh, son of Hugh and of Eleanor, and to the heirs of the same Gilbert, to be held from the Lords of the Manor, for the aforesaid services, for ever. And we, the aforesaid Prior and Convent, and our successors, Priors and Convents of that place, will guarantee for ever the aforesaid advowsons with the liberties, free customs, and all other things, howsoever and wheresoever referring to them, or even appertaining to them, free from control, to the aforesaid Hugh, son of Hugh, and to Eleanor, for the life of each of the same Hugh, son of Hugh, and of Eleanor, and after OF WAKEFIELD. mento warantizabimur imper- petuum sicut predictum est. Hiis testibus Magistro Roberto de Baldok Archideacono Mid- dlesex domini nostri Regis Cancellario domino Galfrido le Scrope Capitali Justiciario eiusdem domini nostri Regis dominis Willielmo de Bereford et Willielmo de Herle Justicii eiusdem domini nostri Regis de Banco suo coi Magistro Henrico de Clifford Johanne de Denum Gilberto de Southeby et aliis. Datum in capitulo nostro Lewentis vicesimo sexto die mensis Julii anno domini milliario trecentesimo vicesimo quinto regni vero dicti domini nostri Regis decimo nono. Nos licet advocaciones predicte de nobis ut dicitur teneantur in capite de gratia tamen nostra speciali donacionem concessione et confirmacionem predictas ratas habentes et gratas eas pro nobis et heredibus nostris quantu in nobis est prefatis Hugoni fiiii Hugonis et Alianore ac predicto Gilberto et heredi- bus ipsius Gilberti concedimur et confirmamus sicut carta predicta rationabiliter testatur nolentes quod predicti Prior et Conventus seu successores sui aut prefati Hugo filius Hugonis et Alianora seu predictus Gilber- the death of the same Hugh, son of Hugh, and of Eleanor, to the aforesaid Gilbert and to his heirs, free from control as is aforesaid. Witnesses, Master Robert de Baldock, Archdeacon of Middlesex, Chancellor of our lord the king, Lord Alfred le Scrope, Chief Justice of the same our lord the king, Lord William de Beresford and William de Herle, Justices in Banco of our lord the king, Master Henry de Clifford, John de Denum, Gilbert de Southeby, and others. Given in our Chapter of Lewes the twenty- sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord thirteen hundred and twenty-five, in the nineteenth year of the reign of the said our lord the king. We grant that the aforesaid advowsons are held in chief of our favour, and we hold the aforesaid gift by special conces- sion, and the confirmation as valid, and acceptable to us and our heirs, as far as we can speak for them, and we grant it to the aforesaid Hugh, son of Hugh, and to Eleanor, and to the aforesaid Gilbert, and the heirs of the same Gilbert, and we confirm it, as the aforesaid charter clearly sets forth ; being unwilling that the aforesaid THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Trior and Convent, or their successors, or the aforesaid Hugh, son of Hugh, or Eleanor, or the aforesaid Gilbert, or the heirs of the same Gilbert, by reason of these grants should be injured, molested, or in any other way spoiled by us, or our heirs, Justices, Escheats, Vis- counts, or other Bailiffs or Ministers. In testimony of which we have caused these patents to be made. Witness our hand at Havering-Atte- Bower, the eleventh day of August, in the nineteenth year of our reign. Now we have confirmed the contents of the aforesaid letters of our father, at the request of the aforesaid Gilbert, in its present form as here shown. In testimony of which, etc. Witness the king at Westminster, the 26th day of April, (i345)-" Feet of Fines, Yorkshire. 20 to 28 Edward III. Trinity Term, 22 Edward III. 1348, July 8. "Hec est finalis concordia "This is the final agree- facta in Curia domini Regis merit made in the Court of our apud Westmonasterium a die lord the king at Westminster, sancti Johannis Baptiste in on the 1 5th day after the feast quindecim dies anno Regni of St. John the Baptist, in the Edwardi Regis Anglie tercii a 22nd year of the reign of conquestu vicesimo secundo et Edward, the third since the regni ejusdem Regis Francie conquest, king of England, nono coram Johanne de Stonore and in the 9th of the reign Willielmo de Shareshulle Rogero of the same king over France, tus vel hcredes ipsius Gilbcrti ratione permissorum per nos vel heredes nostras Justiciaries Esc?etores Vicecomites aut alios Ballivos sen Ministros nostras vel heredum nostrorum quos- cumque occonentur molestentur in aliquo seu gaventur. In cuius rei testimonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste me ipso apud Havering atte Boure undecimo die Augusti anno regni nostri decimo nono. Nos autem tenorem litterarum ipsius patris nostri predictarum ad requisi- cionem prefati Gilberti tenore presencium duximus exemplifi- cando. In cuius etc : Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium xxvi die Aprilis." OF WAKEFIELD. ii Hillary Ricardo de Kclleshulle Ricardo de Wylughby Johanne de Stonforde et Thoma de Fencotes Justiciaries et aliis domini Regis fidelibus tunc ibi presentibus Inter ipsum domi- num Regem querentem per Johannem de Clone qui sequitur pro eo et Gilbertum le Despenser deforciantem de advocacionibus ecclesiarum de Dewsbury et Wakefelde unde placitum con- vencionis summonitum fuit inter eos in eadem Curia scilicet quod predictus Gilbertus recog- novit predictas advocaciones esse ius ipsius domini Regis et illas ei reddidit in eadem Curia Habendas et tenendas eidem domino Regi et heredibus suis imperpetuum et pro hac recog- nicione reddicione fine et Con- cordia idem dominus Rex dedit predicto Gilberto centum marcas argenti." in the presence of John de Stonore, William de Shareshulle, Roger Hillary, Richard de Kelleshulle, Richard de Wylughby, John de Stonforde and Thomas de Fencotes, Justices, and other faithful men of our lord the king, then and there present, between our lord the king himself, complainant, who was represented by John de Clone, and Gilbert le Despenser, defendant, concern- ing the advowsons of the Churches of Dewsbury and Wakefield, and the decree of the Court has been carried out by them, in that the aforesaid Gilbert has recognised the aforesaid advowsons to be the property of the lord the king, and in the same Court has restored them to him to be had and held by the same lord the king and his heirs for ever ; and for this recognition, surrender, and final agreement, the same lord the king has given to the aforesaid Gilbert a hundred marks of silver (£66 i 3 *4^)-" Edward III. having founded the Chapel of S. Stephen's, Westminster, endowed it with his Great Hospitium in Lombard Street, London, also with the patronage and advowsons of the Parish Churches of Dewsbury and Wakefield ; in this manner the Church of Wakefield passed out of the King's hands into those of the Dean and Canons of i2 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH S. Stephen's, Westminster, with whom it remained until the dissolution of the monasteries. The following, copied from Dugdale's " Monasticon Angli- canum," is the deed by which the Church passed out of the King's hands : " Ecclesia Collegiata, sive " The Collegiate Church or capella regis S. Stephani, infra Royal Chapel of S. Stephen, pallacium regale Westmonast- within the royal palace of erii. Carta regis Edwardi tertii Westminster. Charter of King de prima fundatione ejusdem." Edward III. on the first founda- tion of the same." Pat. 22. Ed. III. p. 2. m. 3. " Rex universis presentes " The King to all who shall litems inspecturis salutem. see the present letters, Greeting ; * :;: ::: :;; Et quia bona est :;: ::: :|: * And because that negotiatio, per quam largiendo arrangement is a good one, by transitoria declinantur, et which in bestowing gifts tem- oeterna felici commercio subro- poral things are put aside, and gantur, capellam quandam by a happy interchange, eter- speciosam in pallacio nostro nal things are substituted, we apud Westmonasterio situatam, have caused a certain spacious in honore beati Stephani, pro- Chapel situated in our palace thomartyris, per progenitores at Westminster, in honour of nostros nobileter inchoatam, the blessed Stephen, the proto- nostris sumptibus regiis fecimus martyr, nobly begun by our consummari ; in qua ad ancestors, to be finished at honorem omnipotentis Dei, et our expense ; in which to the specialiter beatissimas genitricis honour of Almighty God, and ejus Mariae et dicti Martyris, especially to His blessed ordinamus volumus constitui- mother Mary, and the said mus, et auctoritate nostra regia martyr, we ordain, will, con- perpetuo stabilimus, quod sint stitute, and by our royal ex nunc decanus unus et authority establish for ever, duodecim canonici seculares, that there may be from now cum totidem vicariis, et aliis a dean and twelve secular ministris congruentibus divina canons, with as many vicars, pro nobis, ac progenitoribus et and other suitable ministers, OF WAKEFIELD. 13 successoribus nostris, in partem satisfactionis eorum de quibus in extreme* judicio rationem erimus reddituri, celebraturi imperpetuum ; et tarn nocturna quam diurna officia cum nota dicturi singulis diebus in com- muni secundum formam ordi- nationis nostras inde plenius faciendge ; quibus et eorum successoribus imperpetuum Hospitium nostrum magnum in strata de Lombarde-strete civitatis nostras London, situa- tum ; unacum patronatibus et advocationibus Ecclesiarum parochialium de Dewesbury et Wakefeld, Eborum diocesis, quae imperpetuum ipsos Decan- um et canonicos transferenda adquisivimus, conferimus, con- cedimus et donamus in liberam, puram et perpetuam elemosinam, ab omni exactione seculari libera penitus et quieta : Concedentes eisdem nihil- ominus harum serie licentiam specialem ; quod iidem Decan- us et Canonici dictas Ecclesias sibi et successoribus suis appro- priari facere valeant ; et eas sic appropriatas recipere, et in usus suos proprios retinere, Statuto de terris et tenementis ad manum mortuam non ponendis edito non obstante. Volumus etiam dictis Decano et ministris to celebrate divine service for us, our ancestors, and success- ors for ever, as a partial expiation for those sins for which we shall have to answer at the last judgment, and to say the nightly and daily offices together each day according to our prescribed form, there more fully set forth ; to whom and to whose succes- sors for ever, we bequeath, grant and give in free, pure and perpetual alms, our great house in Lombard Street, in our City of London, together with the patronage and advowsons of the Parish Churches of Dewsbury and Wakefield, in the Diocese of York, which we have got transferred for ever to the said Dean and Canons, absolutely free and exempt from all secular taxation. We grant them also special licence in their arrange- ment that the said Dean and Canons may cause the said Churches to be appropriated to them and to their successors, and to receive them when so appropriated, and keep them for their own special use, the statute passed concerning lands and tenements not under mortmain being no hindrance. We will also to the said Dean and other Ministers serv- H THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH aliis inibi servituris tantum de errario nostro annis singulis elargiri, quod cum emolumento de prasdictis Hospicio et Ecclesiis proveniente ad eorum victum et supportationem onor- um sibi incumbentium juxta condesceniam status sui interim sufficiens videbitur et honestum, quousque de bonis immobilibus terris seu redditibus ad suffici- entiam congruam et honorem nostrum, videlicet usque ad summam quingentarum librar- um annuatim per nos contigerit provideri ; quae omnia promitti- mus et pollicemur bona fide nos efficaciter impleturos ; et ad hoc nos et hseredes nostros regios et bona nostra mobilia et immobilia, ubicunque in Anglia existentia firmiter obligamus, In cujus, &c. ; T rege apud West- monasterium sexto die Augusti." It now remained for the Archbishop of York, in whose diocese Wakefield was, to appropriate the Church to the Dean and College of S. Stephen's Chapel, and this was done on the 30th of November following, by William de la Zouch, Archbishop of York, who reserved to himself and his succes- sors the annual pension of twenty shillings, and to his Dean and Chapter, ten shillings, also a suitable .portion for a Vicar. "This we learn from the instrument of appropriation in the Consistory Court of York ;* it is in the form of a letter from William (Zouch) Archbishop of York, to the Dean and College of St. Stephen's, Westminster, and after reciting that the work is ing there, that so much be granted yearly from our treasury, as together with the emoluments arising from the aforesaid House and Churches, shall seem honor- able and sufficient for their maintenance, and for the support of the burdens incumbent on them, until we shall have pro- vided from secure property, houses or rents, a sufficiency suitable to our honour, a yearly sum of five hundred pounds ; all which things we promise in good faith that we will fully carry out, and to this we bind ourselves, our royal heirs, and our real and personal estate wherever existing in England. In proof whereof, etc. Witness the king at West- minster, the 6th day of August." Dewsbury, its Ecclesiastical History, by the Rev. J. Hunter, 1834. OF WAKEFIELD. 15 good to promote divine worship, and that a petition has been presented from the Dean and College, setting forth that the endowments of their Chapel are small and insufficient, and that the King, their founder, has given them the advowson of the Church of Wakefield, with a view that it should be appropriated to them for their better support in pursuit of the pious intention of the King ; the Archbishop, with the consent of the Chapter, appropriates the Church of Wakefield to them," William de Cusancia, " now the Rector, yielding up possession. A Vicar is to be appointed, to have the cure of souls, by the Dean and College ; and the Archbishop and the Dean and Chapter of York are to be prayed for by the Dean and College. Furthermore, in recompense of the injury done to the Church of York, and in sign of the subjection of the Church of" Wakefield, " there is reserved out of the profits an annual sum of" thirty shillings ; to wit, twenty shillings to the Archbishop, and ten to the Dean and Chapter. This instrument was executed at the Archbishop's Manor of Ripon, on the last day of November, 1348. " The method of proceeding when a Church was to be appro- priated, is a part of our Ecclesiastical Antiquities which has received little illustration. Some light may, however, be now- thrown upon it, from the accompts of Edward Savage, Proctor of the Church of Dewsbury, and from which I shall here extract the entries relating to the appropriation of this Church. (Edward Savage, was Proctor of the Church of Dewsbury, from 1348 to 1356, and his accompts on skins are now before me.) £ s. d. The expenses of the Dean of Pontefract and the Vicar of the same, and of twelve Rectors and Vicars belonging to the said Deanery, being at Dewsbury on the Friday next after the Feast of St. Catherine the Virgin, for the purpose of valuing and examining each portion to the said Church belonging, and remaining there for a day and a night o 7 3 To the Dean and his clerk for their labour on the said day 030 i6 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH £ Expenses of Mr. Michael de Norburgh and others, de patria, returning from York on die Monday next after the Feast of St. Andrew, and remaining there two days and two nights, pro possessione et appropriatione in dicta ecclesia capienda o 14 7 To Mr. William de Fakenham, Notary, for making divers instruments 068 To Mr. Robert de Alreford for his expenses in prosecuting this business with the Archbishop of York, and for procuring the vicarages made at Wakefield and Dewsbury 200 For the precept of Sir John de Bukyngham, and Mr. Richard de Heton for the same business by the precept of the said John 1 o o To a certain Notary by Mr. Richard de Hey- ton, and for divers expenses by him incurred in prosecuting the said business 104 For a letter of Mr. Michael de Norburgh, and the expenses of Mr. Robert de Alreford, Mr. Richard de Heyton, the Dean of Doncaster, the Vicar of the same, and of twelve parishioners at Dewsbury, and twelve parishioners at Wakefield, for taking an inquisition, and certifying the Archbishop, on the Monday next after the feast of S. Barnabas the Apostle, for one day and one night o 17 7 For the expenses of the said Mr. Robert and Richard going to Ripon, at one time for two days and two nights, and at another, five days and five nights, about prosecuting the said business, and the making a Vicarage " 125 The arrangement was finally completed, and the Ordination, as it is called, of a Vicarage, perfected by an instrument, which bears date at Ripon, 20 June, 1349. OF WAKEFIELD. '7 The Ordination of the Church of Wakefield. " In Dei nomine Amen. Universis S'ca? Matris Eccl'ia? filiis ad quoru : noticiam pre- sentes l'ra? p'venerint, Will'mus p'missione &c. Salutem in sin- ceris amplexibus Saluatoris. Nouerit Uniu'sitas v'ra Quod cu : nos nup : ad laudem Dei, Sui cultus augmentu : et num- eri in agro D'nico laboran : multiplicaconem, Eccl'iam p'o'ia- lem de Wakefeild n'ra? diocess p : Rectorem seculare : solita : gubernari, Dilectis nobis in p'p'o Decano et Collegio libera? Cap- ella? in Palacio Excellentissimi principis et D'ni n'ri D'ni Edwardi Dei gratia Regis An- glian et ffrancia? illustris apud Westmonasteriu : in honorem Dei et b'ta? Maria? Virginis Matris eius ac S'ci Stephani prothomarteris constructs? et fundatse et successoribus suis ex causis I'timis auct'ate n'ra ordin- aria et pontificali de consensu dilectoru : filioru : Cap'li Eccl- 'iae n'ra? Cathedralis b'ti Petri Eboru : unanimi et expresso, canonice appropriaverimus et in usus suos proprios et successoru : suoru : concesserimus p'petuo possidend : reseruata ordinacom n'ra? de ipsius Eccl'ia? de Wakefeild fructibus, redditibus " In the name of God, Amen. To all the sons of Holy Mother Church, to whose notice the present Letters shall come, William, by permission, etc. Greeting, in the sincere embraces of the Saviour. Know your whole body, That, since we lately, (to the praise of God, the growth of His worship, and the increase of the number of labourers in the Lord's field, from lawful causes, by our ordinary and pontifical author- ity, with the unanimous and express consent of our beloved sons of our capital Cathedral Church of the blessed Peter of York,) have canonically appro- priated the Parish Church of Wakefield in our Diocese, accustomed to be governed by a secular" Rector, to our be- loved in Christ the Dean and College of the free Chapel in the Palace of the most excellent prince and lord, our lord Edward, by the Grace of God, the illustrious King of England and France, at Westminster, (to the honor of God, and the blessed Virgin Mary His mother, and of Saint Stephen the Prothomartyr, built and founded,) and to their success- That is, not a regular, or member of a Monastic Institution. THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH et proventibus pro p'petuo Vicario in eadem Eccl'ia seruituro, porcone congrua ex qui Idem Vicarius congrue sus- tentari valeat, et incumbentia sibi onera debite suppo'itare, prout in aliis L'ris n'ris patent- ibus de Decano et Collegio super appropriacone huius confect : plenius continetur, Nos volentes, prout ex officii n'ri debito tenemur pro Vicaria in eadem Eccl'ia de Wakefeild canon ice ordinand : disponere et consult- ius et puidere quantu : cu : Deo poterimus in hoc casu, Dei Omnipotent : nomine invocato, auct'ate n're ordinaria et Pontifi- cali ad Ordinaconem super Vicaria d'cse Eccl'iae de Wake- feild faciend : et porcenibus eidem p : nos assignand : p'pe hiis futuris temporibus duratur : habita priuntus sup : hiis inform- acone plenaria p' Inquisiconem sufficientem de mandato n'ro l'time inde facta :, procedimus in huic modum, Imprimis ordi- namus, statuimus, volumus et decernimus in hiis script :, Quod in d'ca Eccl'ia de Wakefeild, sit unus p'petuus Vicarius secu- laris prouidus et discretus ad regimen animaru : exdicend habilis ydoneus et honestus p d'cos Decanum et Collegiu et successores suos nobis et ors, and to the use of them- selves and their successors, have granted to be held for ever ; reserving in our ordina- tion from the fruits, rents, and profits of the Church itself at Wakefield, for a perpetual Vicar to serve in the same Church, a suitable portion from which the same Vicar may be able to be suitably maintained and duly to support the burdens incum- bent upon him, like as in our other Letters Patent made con- cerning the Dean and College about this appropriation is more fully contained ; We, being willing, (like as in duty of our office we are bound in behalf of the vicarage to be canonically ordained in the same Church of Wakefield,) to arrange and more advisedly to provide, (as far as by God's help we are able in this case, after invoking the name of God Omnipotent, by our ordinary and pontifical authority,) with respect to the ordination of the Vicarage of the said Church to be made at Wakefield, and the portions to be assigned to the same by us, that it may endure perpetually in future times, (full information having been first obtained about these things by a proper inquisi- tion lawfully made on this behalf OF WAKEFIELD. 19 Archie'pus Eboru : success- oribus n'ris qui pro tempore fuerunt Sede plena, et ea vacante, Decano et Cap'lo eiusd : Eccl'ire v'rre Ebor :, vel assente Decano, eidem Cap'lo v'l cus- todibus spiritualitat : eiusdem Eccl'iae Ebor : p'sentand : ac p : nos et successores n'ros Sede plena, et ea vacante p : d'cos Decanu : et Cap'lum vel absente Decano p : eidem Cap'lum (ut premittetur) admittendus et instituendus canonice in eadem. Qui quidem Vicarius cu : dili- gentia debita Curum animaru : po'ia n'rum d'cae Eccl'iae de Wakefeild gerat, habeat, et exorciat ac p'sonale resideat in ead : ; Cuius Vicaria ex n'ris ordinacone, assignacone, pariter et decreto consistat in po'iconi- bus infra script : vizt. in uno manso competenti cu : domibus sufficientibus scilicet Aula, dua- bus ad minus Cameris, Coquina, Stabulo, grangia, et una domo pro animalibus et necessariis ipsius vicarii competentibus, cu : uno gardino circu'vente et clausura circu'quad'lit sufficienti, sumptibus d'corum Decani et Collegii inveniend : et constru- end : hac prima vice, quant : vicinius com'ode fieri poterit Eccl'iae memoratae. Item habeat Vicarius, qui pro tempore fuerit by our mandate,) Proceed in this manner ; In the first place we ordain, order, will, and decree in these writings, that, in the said Church of Wakefield there shall be one perpetual secular Vicar, circumspect and discreet, to be set apart for the rule of souls, suitable, fit, and virtuous, to be presented by the said Dean and College, and their successors, to us and to our successors, Archbishops of York for the time being, the see being full, and it being vacant, to the Dean and Chapter of our same Church at York, or in the absence of the Dean, to the same Chapter, or to the keepers of the spiritualities of the same Church at York, And by us and our successors, the see being full, and it being vacant, by the said Dean and Chapter, or in the absence of the Dean, by the said Chapter, (as is permised,) to be admitted and instituted canonically in the same. Which Vicar also with due diligence shall have, hold, and exercise the cure of souls of the parish- ioners of the said Church of Wakefield, and shall personally reside in the same ; Whose Vicarage, from our ordination as well as assignation and decree, shall consist in the c 2 THE CATHEDRAE CHURCH in eadem, Oblacones omnes et omnimodas in ffest : princi- palibus ac aliis anni temporibus et diebus quibuscu'q : ad d'cam Eccl'iam quabi'cu'q : provcn- ientes, Mortuaria etiam viua, necnon Decimas quadragesi- males quascu'q :, ac lini, canabi, albi, vituloru :, agnorum, pull- anoru :, porcelloru :, apu :, cerse mellis, suaru :, pulloru :, colum- bell :, signoru : tarn in corpor- ibus quam in pecunia numerata, fructuu : et herbagij, ac feni gardinoru : et croftoru : totius p'o'ise Eccl'ias suprad'cse, mol- indinoru : quoru'cu'q : tarn constructorum quam constru- endoru :, ac omnes et omnim- odas obvencones et minutas decimas in quibuscu'q : rebus consistant, d'cge Eccl'ise quabi'- cu'q : p'tinentes, una cu : decima lanse quando in pecunia et non in velleribus soluitur seu debeat exsolui. Item totu : alteragiu : ad d'cam Eccl'iam de Wakefeild ubicu'q et quabi'cu'q : et in quibuscu'q : locis spectans quouismodo ac pcipi consuetu : Salua pencone xl solidoru : qua : optinens quartam p'tem Eccl'ise de Birton, Rectori Eccl'ise de Wakefeild soluere consueuit, et habet exsoluere in pu'li. Hab- eat etiam d'cus Vicarius omnes denarios b'ti Petri, et pro pane portions underwritten, viz. : in one competent mansion with sufficient buildings, that is to say, a hall, two chambers at the least, a kitchen, a stable, a grange, and one house for animals and necessaries proper for the Vicar himself, with one garden surrounded and enclosed with a sufficient fence around it, to be found and constructed at the expense of the said Dean and College, for this first time, as near as possible to the Church spoken of as can con- veniently be done. Item, the Vicar for the time being shall have all and all manner of oblations in the principal feasts and at other times of the year, and on what days soever accru- ing in what sort soever to the said Church, also quick mortua- ries, together with the quad- ragesimal tithes, whatsoever, and [the tithes] of flax, white hemp, calves, lambs, foals, pigs, bees, wax, honey, swine, fowls, pigeons, cygnets, as well when they are to be paid in kind as in money, of fruits and herbage, and of the hay of gardens and crofts of the whole parish of the said Church, of all mills what- soever, as well those built as those hereafter to be built, and all and all manner of obventions OF WAKEFIELD. 21 bened'co de p'o'ianis dicte Eccl'iam et solui consuet :, unalu : omnibus oblaconibus et obuen- conibus in sponsalibus, purifica- conibus mulieru : et baptismat : puuloru :, ac cera in exequiis et sepulturis mortuoru :. Ad d'cos vero Decanu : et Colegiu :, d'cam eccl'iam de Wakefeild in usus proprios optinen': p'tineant et remaneant in futuru : terrse prata, redditus firmse p'quisit : Cur : ac omnes et omnimod : decimas garbaru : et feni, preter decima : feni Gardinoru : et croftoru : (ut p'fertur) ac lanse totius p'o'ise suprad'cse, preter qua : decima : lanas quando in denariis debeat exsolui, quo huic ad vicaria p'tineat suprad'cam, habeant etiam d'ci Decanus et Collegiu : porcones garbaru : et feni Capellae de Horbury et Botham ac Heton in p'o'ia de Dewsburie, necnon porcones decimal garbaru : et feni : de D'm'cis in p'o'ia de Sandale ad dictam Eccl'iam de Wakefeild p'tinentes. Ac etiam decimam herbagij siluaru : et porcon siluos q : ceduae ferrifodinoru :, carbonu : subterraneouru : infra p'o'iam Eccl'ias de Wakefeild pred : seu loca decimacorius eiusdem constructern :, Prouiso quod in casu quo d'ci Decanus et Collegiu : decimas huius and small tithes in whatsoever things consisting, belonging in any sort whatsoever to the said Church, together with the tithe of wool when it is paid or ought to be paid in money and not in fleeces. Item, all the Altarage wheresoever and of what sort soever and in whatsoever places appertaining to the said Church of Wakefield, and in whatsoever manner it has been accustomed to be received ; save a pension of forty shillings which he, hold- ing a fourth part of the Church of Birton, has been accustomed to pay to the Rector of the Church at Wakefield, and has to pay in money. The said Vicar shall also have all the pence of Saint Peter, and also what has been accustomed to be paid for blessed bread from the parishioners of the said Church, together with all oblations and obventions in espousals, purifications of women, and baptisms of child- ren, and wax in exequies and burials of the dead. To the said Dean and College, how- ever, holding the said Church of Wakefield for their own use, there shall belong and remain in future the lands, meadows, rents, farms, perquisites of the Courts, and all and all manner of tithe, THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH hcrbagij, siluae ceduse ferrifod- inoru : et carbonu : recuper- au'int et p'ciperint in futuru : in p'te vel in toto, quod extunt de hie p'cept : decimis, decinia : vera haru : decimaru : d'eo Vicario annis singulis soluere teneantur, d'eus insuper Vicarius subeat et suppoitet onera infra scripta, vizt. soluat procuracones Archiep'o et Archi'no loco debit, et consuet : Synodalia, ac denar . b'ti Petri. Invenet etiam unu : Capellanu : in Eccl'ia de Wake- feild pred :, et aliu : Capellanu : in prefata Capella de Horburie, ac omnes alios ministros minis- trantes in diuinis pot fieri consueuit, Et ipsius Eccl'iae Rector invenire hactenus tene- batur suis sumptibus et expensis, Item luminaria ac lampades tam in Eccl'ia quam in Capella pred'eis, ac panem et vinum pro celebracone diuinoru' in eisdem ac oblata temp'e paschali in d'eis eccl'ia et capella distrib- uend : invenire teneatur suis sumptibus et expensis, Cancellos vero d'earum eccl'ise de Wake- feild et capellse de Horburie, ac libros et vestimenta earundem repare et abluere quotiens opus fuerit, teneantur, per hoc tamen d'eos Decanu : et Collegiu : ad invenconem libroru : et vesti- of garbage, and hay, except the tithe of hay of gardens and crofts, (as is before stated,) and of wool of the whole parish above mentioned, except what tithe of wool ought to be paid in money, which henceforward shall belong to the Vicarage before mention- ed. The said Dean and College shall also have portions of the garbage and hay of the chapel of Horbury, and of Botham and Heton,* in the Parish of Dews- bury ; also portions of the tithe of garbage and hay from the Demesnes in the Parish of Sandal, to the said Church of Wakefield belonging ; and also the tithe of herbage, of woods, and portions of wood which fall down, of iron mines and coal mines made within the Parish of the Church of Wakefield aforesaid or places belonging to the same tithing. Proviso that in case that the said Dean and College shall have recovered and received in future the tithes of this herbage, fallen timber, iron mines and coal mines, in part or in whole, which are from this time to be received in tithes, they shall be held to pay in each year to the said Vicar a true tenth part of these tithes. Moreover the said Vicar shall Kirk Burton and Kirk Heaton. OF WAKEFIELD. 23 mentaru : qui p : p'o'ianos debeant et consueu'ant inveniri, vel vicariu : suprad'cum ad repaconem eorundem non inten- dimus onerari, decimas etiam papales et regales cu : occurr- erint, necnon procuracones Cardinaliu : et Ap'licas Sed : Legatorum et Monicoru : quor- u'cu'q : quoteris ipsaru : soluto imineat integraliter no'i'e d'cse eccl'ias de Wakefeild, p'dicti Decanus et Collegiu : et succ- essores sui agnoscere, subire et soluere teneantur. Csetera vero onera ordinaria et extraordinaria (si quae imineant in futuru :) ad d'cum vicariu : spectent et debeant p'tinere. Quos quidem Mansu :, p'ventus decimas, ob- lacones et obvencones suprad'cas p : congrua sustentacone Vicarij (ut p'mittitur) limitatas, ordina- mus volumus et pronunciamus p'tinere debere ad p'petuum Vicariu : in d'ca eccl'ia de Wakefeild p'petuis futuris tem- poribus seruituru : ut pfas quam- l'it ex uuit eidem Vicario plenarie assignamus ; decimse vero maiores garbaru : et feni, redditu : p'quisit : Cur : et cetera emolumenta quaecu'q : d'cae eccl'ise p'tinentia p : porcone d'corum Decani et Collegii supuis limitata, eisdem Decano et Collegio et successoribus suis sustain and support the burdens underwritten, viz. : he shall pay the procurations due and accust- omed to the Archbishop and Archdeacon of the place, the Synodals, and the pence of the blessed Peter. He shall find also one Chaplain in the Church of Wakefield aforesaid, and another Chaplain in the before mentioned Chapel of Horbury, and all other ministers serving in divine things, as has been accustomed to be done, and the Rector of the Church itself was hitherto held bound to provide at his own cost and expense. Item, the lights and lamps as well in the Church as in the Chapel aforesaid, and the bread and wine for the celebration of divine rites in the same, and the offerings to be distributed at the time of Easter in the said Church and Chapel, he shall be bound to find at his own cost and expense ; — the Chancels however of the said Church of Wakefield and Chapel of Horbury, and the books and vestments of the same, they shall be bound to repair and wash as often as may be needed ; By this however we do not intend to burden the said Dean and College with finding books and vestments which ought, and 24 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH ex hiis n'ris ordinacone assigna- have been accustomed, to be cone pariter et decreto rema- found by the parishioners, or neant et p'tineant integraliter the aforesaid Vicar with the p'petuis temporibus p : futuris. reDair of them. Also the Papal In quorum omniu : testimoniu : and Regal tenths when they atq : fidem Nos Will'mus Eboru : shall occur, also the procura- Archie'pus suprad'cus, has n'ras tions of Cardinals and Legates subscriptam ordinaconem con- of the Apostolic See, and of all tinentes fieri mandauimus has Monks whatsoever, as often as patentes, quas n'ri sigilli appen- the payment of these shall fall sione ferimus com'uniri. Dat : altogether in the name of the in Manerio n'ro Ripon vicesimo said Church of Wakefield, the die mensis Junij anno D'ni aforesaid Dean and College and Millesimo tricentesimo quad- their successors shall be held to ragesimo nono, et Pontificatus acknowledge, undertake and n'ri septimo." pay. The other burdens how- ever ordinary and extraordinary, (if any shall occur for the future) shall belong to, and ought to belong to, the said Vicar. These buildings, incomes, tithes, oblations, and obventions before mentioned, limited to a suitable maintenance for the Vicar, (as is premised,) we ordain, will, and pronounce, belong and are due to the per- petual Vicar in the said Church of Wakefield, to be enjoyed in all future times, and these, of whatsoever sort they consist, we assign in full to the same Vicar ; the great tithes however of garbage and hay, the rents and perquisites of the Courts, and other emoluments whatsoever belonging to the said Church, above limited for the portion of the said Dean and College, to the same Dean and College and to their successors, by these our ordination as well as assignation and decree, shall remain and belong in full to all future times. In Witness and assur- ance of all which, we, William, the aforesaid Archbishop of York, have ordered these our letters patent to be made which contain the subscribed ordination, which we order to be con- firmed by the affixing of our seal. Given in our manor of Ripon on the twentieth day of the month of June, in the OF WAKEFIELD. 25 year of our Lord one thousand three hundred and forty-nine, and the seventh year of our Pontificate."* The Dean and College of S. Stephen appointed as the first Vicar, Thomas de Drayton, who was instituted on June 21, 1349,'r and they continued to present, whenever a vacancy occurred, until the dissolution of Monasteries and other Religious Houses, when, in the first year of Edward VI., 1547, they surrendered to the Crown, who appointed Vicars until the year i860, when, by an exchange of livings with Robert (Bickersteth) Bishop of Ripon, in whose Diocese Wakefield was situated, Queen Victoria transferred to, and vested in, the Bishop and his successors, the patronage of the Parish Church of Wakefield. The Order in Council was granted in August, i860, and the exchange was as under : — The Vicarage of Wakefield ; value in Liber Regis ,£29 19^. 2d. ; nett income ^385, with a house ; Catterick Vicarage with Tunstall Rectory ; value in Liber Regis ,£25 2s. id. ; nett income ^816, and a house ; in exchange for Crayke Rectory, in the County of Durham ; value in Liber Regis ^10 ; nett in- come ,£690, and a house ; Redmarshall Rectory, in the County of Durham; value in Liber Regis ^"17 18^. i\d. ; nett income ^259, and a house. The Bishop of Ripon first exercised his privilege in August, 1875, when he appointed the Rev. Norman Dumenil John Straton, M.A., as Vicar, in the place of the Rev. Charles Joseph Camidge, M.A., who had resigned in May of the same year. In the Taxation of Pope Nicholas IV. (which was made about the year 1292, and was a grant from the Pope to King Edward I of a tenth of the incomes of the Clergy, to defray the expense of an expedition to the Holy Land), Wakefield Church is valued at £,3$ 6s. Sd., and the pension to the prior of Lewes from the Church at £$. In the Valor Ecclesiasticus, or King's Book (which was compiled about 1536, that Henry VIII. might know the value of every benefice, in order to obtain the first fruits on the * The copy of the Ordination and the translation are both taken from Mr. Taylor's " Rectory Manor of Wakefield." f Torre's "Archdeaconry of York," p. 661. 26 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH appointment of a new Vicar), the Vicarage is valued at ,£29 iqj\ 2d. ; the Synodals at 4s. ; Procurations, 7s. 6d. In a Register of Church livings, taken in 1654 (Common- wealth period), showing the actual income, patron, and character of the incumbent, Wakefield is thus stated : — " Wakefield, in possession of Sir John Savill. Vicaridge ^20. Incumbent. The Vic. is vacant." The income of the Vicar of Wakefield at the present time according to the Clergy List, is ^450 and a house. SECTION II. THE RECTORY AND RECTORS. WE have now traced the history of the Vicarage from the time of its institution, and the following account of the Rectory of Wakefield, which in time became separated from the Church, is chiefly taken from Mr. Taylor's comprehensive and valuable work, entitled "The Rectory Manor of Wakefield." At the dissolution of the Monasteries and other Religious Houses, the College of St. Stephen, which was valued at ,£1,085 10s. 6d. a year, was surrendered to the Crown, in the 1st year of Edward VI. The Rectory of Wakefield, as part of the possessions of the College, also came into the King's hands ; and was leased to Henry Savile, of Lupset, one of the Queen's Council in the North, Surveyor of the Crown lands for the Northern Counties, and Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1568. In 1606 James I. granted the Rectory Manor to William Vernon and Christopher Naylor. The following is a translation of the Grant to them : — " The King to all to whom, &c, Greeting. Know ye that we, (as well for and in consideration of the lasting good or faithful and acceptable service to us by our very dear and very faithful cousin and counsellor, Lewis, Duke of Lenox, already in many ways done and performed, as for divers other good causes and considerations us at present specially moving, also at the humble petition, nomination, and requisition of the aforesaid Duke of Lenox,) of our special grace, and of our certain knowledge and mere motion, have given and granted, and by these presents for ourselves, our heirs, and successors, give and grant, to our well- beloved the undermentioned William Vernon, of Soothill, in the County of York, gentleman, and Christopher Nayler, of Wake- 28 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH field, in the same county, gentleman, and to their heirs and assigns, All those our two Rectories of Wakefield and Dewsbury, In our County of York, with all the rights, members, heredita- ments, and appurtenances to the same Rectories, and either of them appertaining or belonging, by the particular thereof of the annual rent or value of Ninety-seven pounds, and all and singular perquisites and profits of the Courts of the same Rectories, and each of them appertaining or belonging, by the particular thereof of the annual value of ten shillings, lately parcel of the posses- sions lately of the King's Free Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Stephen, the Proto-martyr, lately existing within the Palace of the Lord the King, at Westminster; except however always, and to us, our heirs and successors solely reserving, all and singular advowsons and free dispositions and right of patronage of all and singular Churches, Vicars, Chaplains, and all other ecclesiastical beneficiaries whatsoever, or to some parcel thereof belonging, pertaining, incident, appendant or in- cumbent ; To have, hold, and enjoy the aforesaid Rectories, , unto the before-mentioned William Vernon and Christo- pher Nayler, their heirs and assigns, to the sole and proper use and behoof of the before mentioned William Vernon, and Christopher Nayler, their heirs and assigns in fee farm for ever ; To be held of us, our heirs and successors, as of our manor of East Greenwich, in our County of Kent, by fealty only in free and common soccage, and not in cafiite nor by Knight's service ; and yielding and paying yearly to us, our heirs and successors, of and for the aforesaid Rectories of Wakefield and Dewsbury, in the aforesaid County of York, with all and singular their appurten- ances, and for the perquisites of the Courts to the same Rectories, pertaining above by this present gift and grant, Ninety-seven pounds and ten shillings, to the receipt of the Exchequer of us, our heirs and successors, or to the hands of the Bailiffs or Receivers appointed for the time being, at the Feasts of St. Michael the Archangel, and the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by equal portions to be paid for ever for all other rents, services, exactions, and demands whatsoever, in like manner, to us, our heirs and successors in any way to be yielded, OF WAKEFIELD. 29 paid, or made," &c. : "Of which thing," &c. : "Witness the King at Westminster, the fourth day of August. By writ of the Privy Seal," &c. The Advowson, being reserved by this Grant to the Crown, became detached from the Rectory Manor, and continued to be the property of the Crown until i860, as we have already seen. It appears from the following deed, dated February 23rd, 1657, which relates to the tithes of Holm, in the Parish of Almondbury, that William Vernon and Christopher Naylor in reality held the Rectory for Sir George Savile of Thornhill, who paid the purchase money. Whereas the late King James by his Highnesse Lettars Patents, sealled with the Great Seale of England bearing date att Westminster the ffourth day of August in the ffourth year of his highnesse raigne of England ffrance & Ireland & of Scotland the ffortieth, Did, for the consideracons therein men- tioned, give and grant unto William Vernon of Soothill, and Christopher Nailor of Wakefield in the said County, Gentlemen, their heires and assignes, in fee ffarme for ever (amongst other things), All those two Rectoryes of Wakefeld & Dewsburye, in the said County of Yorke, with all their rights, members, hereditaments & appurtenances whatsoever to the said rectories, And whereas the said Wm Vernon & Christopher Nailor (for and in consideration) that the purchase of the said Rectories & premisses & the sums of money & consideracons for the same was made &: payd by S r George Savile, late of Thornhill in the said County, Knight and Barronet, ffather of S 1 ' John Savile of Lupsett in the said County, Knight, and the said Letters Patents thereof taken in the names of the said William Vernon and Christopher Nailor, by the appointment of the said Sr George Savile, in trust & for the onely use and benefitt of him, the said S r George Savile, his heires and assignes for ever (who have had ever since, held, taken or occupied the said Rectories & premisses & the issues, rents & profits thereof accordingly, ) The Rectory next came into the possession of Sir John Savile of Lupset, son of the above Sir George Savile. He was High Sheriff of the County in 1649, and as a Justice of the Peace he 30 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH frequently performed the marriage ceremony in the Parish Church at Wakefield, during the Commonwealth, between the years 1655 and 1659. As lay impropriator, Sir John Savile was bound to keep the Chancel of the Church in good repair, but he seems to have neglected this duty, for we find that he was indicted at York Assizes on July the 22nd, 1658, for not repairing it, (See depositions from York Castle; Surtees Society, 1861. No. lxxxi), and in the Churchwardens' accounts for 1658, are the following : — ■ £ s. d. Paid p : a presentment against S r Jno Savele, the 31th July 1658 at Yorke Assizes, charges 2s. od. o 04 00 Pd. for an Inditement against Sr Jno Savele o 01 00 Mr. Taylor suggests that the payment of forty shillings, mentioned in the Terriers of 1746 and 1809, asunder: — "Also by the impropriators by virtue of an award in a controversy between them and a former Vicar, concerning the Chancel, forty shillings yearly, to be paid at Lady Day and Michaelmas, equal payments," was the result of the proceedings thus taken against Sir John. Sir John Savile died on May the 5th, 1660, and was succeeded in his estate and in the possession of the Rectory of Wakefield by his eldest son Thomas, who was born in 1648 ; in his will, dated June the 17th, 1676, he bequeaths -'All that' my Rectory or Parsonage impropriate of Wakefeld in the said County of York " to his sister Anne and to his brother-in-law, John Harris, her husband. Thomas Savile was buried at All Saints' Church, Wakefield, on the 3rd of September, 1677. After the death of John Harris, a suit was commenced in the Court of Chancery for the administration of his estate and effects, and on the 19th June, 1694, a decree was made for the sale of his property. Richard Witton, Esquire, and John Smith, stapler, both of Wakefield, were the purchasers of the Rectory or Parsonage Impropriate of Wakefield, and the Manor of the Rectory of Wakefield with all the rights thereof, for the sum of ,£13,500, the Indenture is dated July 29th, 1699. By an Indenture, dated the 18th January, 1704, made between Richard Witton of the one part, and John Smith of OF WAKEFIELD. 3i the other part, reciting the Indenture of the 29th July, 1699, and that two thirds part of the purchase money had been paid by Richard Witton, and one third part thereof by John Smith, ® • ® * OF WAKEFIELD. 41 Death, — which, in many places, put a stop to church building, and very likely did so here. We find that work stopped by the Black Death was never begun again in some places, and remains unfinished to this day. At Wakefield, the check lasted for fifty years. The church consecrated in 1329, had no steeple. At that time, towers were not so common amongst parish churches, as they came to be later, but most of the larger ones had them, 01 were having them built in the first quarter of the fifteenth century, and the good people of Wakefield, who had probably not forgotten that their church once had a tower, then began to think of giving it one again. For reasons stated before they did not put it in its old place, but on new ground about ten feet from the west end of the church (Fig. V.), where it might be gone on with at leisure, without interfering with the use of the main building. We know from the bequest of a mark towards the work, that it was going on in i42o :: and it may have been begun before that. When the tower was finished, and perhaps sooner, it was united with the church by taking down the west end and adding a bay to the arcade on each side, and lengthening the aisles (Fig. VI.) The added pillars follow the fftrms of the older ones next to them, being round on the north side, and octagonal on the south. The arches are copied from those of a century earlier, but have the labels omitted. The lean-to roofs were continued westward, as is shewn by the corbels for them which remain. The addition of the tower may be looked upon as the completion of the rebuilding begun early in the fourteenth century. But it was also the beginning of another series of works, which completely transformed the church once again, and made of it the new building which Leland saw (Fig. VII.) A clerestory was first added to the nave, which may have been darkened by the removal of its end window to the west side of the tower. Then the chancel, with its side chapels, was built new from the ground. * Will of Joan de Thorp, for which see Section iv. 42 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH In 1458, Thomas Haukin, of Wakefield, left forty shillings to the fabric of the Lady chapel, sub tali condicione quod fiat usque ostium cfiori in longitudine, hut only twenty shillings if that were not done. :;: It is not quite clear what this means ; but it seems to fix the date of the beginning of the new chancel. The chapels were both made the full length of the chancel. But opinions must have been very closely divided about it ; for walls still remain under the floor, which shew that they were actually begun and carried up for some height on the shorter plan. In width, the chapels were made equal to the projection of the old transepts, and the end wall was partly kept and worked up with the new on the south side ; and, though evidence is lacking, it is most likely that the same was done on the north. The new chancel had a clerestory which made it the same height as the nave. In 1475, we find painted glass given to the east windows, so that the work must, by that time, have been done, or nearly so. Then last the aisles of the nave were rebuilt and also made of the width of the transepts, and so all trace of the cross form disappeared from the plan, and the church was brought into much the same form that we see now. The growth of the church was then complete. Much has been done to it since the sixteenth century, but it has been what is called "restoration," more or less like what it professes to be, according to the skill of the operator, and has not altered the form of the building. The outside is now all new. The spire has been rebuilt and the tower cased. The wall of the south aisle of the nave and the clerestories throughout have been cased more than once, but are old on the inside, The other walls have been both rebuilt and cased, and there appears to be nothing old left in them, except some of the north nave aisle wall, below the windows. The divisions of the bays have been altered in all the side walls that have been rebuilt, and we know the old ones only from Sturt's print. But the old roofs remain everywhere, and show that no change has been made in the shape of the church. * Test: Ebor: Surtees Soc : Vol. 26, p. 21S. OF WAKEFIELD. 43 Having traced the history of the fabric, it remains to say something about its fittings. Nothing is left much older than the year 1500, and very little is recorded. When the church was in the condition shown on Fig. I. it must have had three altars — one in the chancel, and one at the east side of each of the transepts. After the fourteenth century rebuilding (Fig. IV.) three altars were consecrated in 1329. Those of All Saints in the chancel, Our Lady in the south transept, and St. Nicholas in the north. These stood on the sites of the earlier altars, which may have had the same dedications. We read also of an altar of St. Peter, in area boriali, the site of which is not certain, but it was most likely at the east end of the north aisle. We find bequests made to the lights of these saints, and more than once St. Katherine 's tight is mentioned with the others, and perhaps there may have been an altar of St Katherine at the end of the south aisle, corresponding with that of St. Peter on the north.' ;: Images are mentioned, but we can not tell exactly where they stood. As a rule the image of the saint to whom an altar was dedicated stood near, and generally north of it. And there were other images in churches besides those connected with altars. A very complete refurnishing seems to have followed its rebuilding at the end of the fifteenth century. Some of the work of this time remains, and a good deal more did so twenty years ago. But the guardians of the church, whilst looking well after its material interests, have unfortunately understood its historical and artistic worth only imperfectly, and have cast out, or allowed others to take away, much which was both of value itself, and important for the light it shed on the church's past. Several of the windows contained panels of painted glass, chiefly made up of fragments of late fifteenth century work of great beauty. Some came into the hands of Mr. James Fowler, and are now I believe with the rest of his collection in the York Museum. What has become of the rest I do not know. There was also a * A light does not necessarily imply an altar, as it might be placed before an image only. But later we meet with St. Katlierines c/ioir, which I think does imply an altar — choir being used in Yorkshire in the sense of chapel, to denote the part of a church in which an altar stood. 44 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH great deal of good woodwork which had formed parts of pews and of screens, and a number of loose panels with an inscription divided amongst them, which 1 blame myself much for not having copied and put into order. I much fear that no copy exists. I did make some notes, and from them and other sources I have made out the plan (Fig. VIII.), which shows the church as it was about the time of Leland's visit.* The altars were in number and dedication the same as in the fourteenth century, and the positions were similar, but the enlargement of the side chapels of the chancel had caused their altars to be moved further to the east. The present stalls and desksf in the chancel and the screens behind them, are the old ones with missing parts replaced by new. The lower part of the screen in the chancel arch is also old. It formerly went up higher than the present seventeenth century screen, and had a gallery on the top, the entrance to which on the north side still remains. The stair to it seems to have been a wooden one, in the south-west corner of the North Chapel ; and there used to be marks on the rail of the screen, behind the stall at that place, which seemed to show that the way to the stair was by climbing on to the stall, and going through the screen ; and the south jamb of the arch, between the aisle and the chapel, was cut away for this stair. The loft was only used occasionally by musicians, or minstrels as they called them then, and convenience of access to it seems not to have been thought of much importance. In some places it was only by a moveable ladder. Above the gallery was a large cross or rood, the making of which seems to have been going on in 1491, when a legacy was left towards it. The holes which received iron stay bars for the cross were found when the plaster was stripped off the arch in * In this plan I have shewn the irregularity of the walls and also the windows and buttresses, which I have not thought it necessary to put in the small plans showing the growth. In the earlier stages they must all have been conjectural. t On the east standard of the southern desk are the arms of Thomas Savile of Lupset, and Margaret Basworth his wife, who no doubt were benefactors of the work. The owl, the Savile crest, is set on the poppy head. The stalls and desks would in the ordinary course come after the rood screen, and I should put them at about 1500. Thomas Savile died in 1505. OF WAKEFIELD. 45 1866. The painting above the arch — described in a paper by Mr. James Fowler in the Eccksiologist for 1868 — and of which some yet remains, was probably done when or soon after the cross was set up, and is part of the same composition. The screens in the three eastern arches on each side are modern. It must have been intended to put screens to all the arches, and probably it was done, but that next east of the stalls, on the south side, was the only one which showed positive- evidence of it. There were some marks of the screens between the aisles and the chapels, but nothing to tell of their form ; nor anything of those which once enclosed the altars of St. Peter and St. Katherine.* It is most likely that, as is shown conjec- turally in the plan, the eastern bay of each aisle was enclosed, and had doors towards the west and towards the nave, to allow of free passage about. I do not remember to have seen any trace of a piscina in any part of the church. But there used to be two curious little recesses, or "pigeon holes," in St. Nicholas's chapel. They were formed in the screen work of the choir, in the space between the sloping back of a stall — I think the second from the east — and the upright boarding of the screen. They were rather like the recesses in walls often called aumbries, but were very small and had not had doors. Their use is very uncertain. The late Canon Camidge had them destroyed, because he thought they were confessionals. The pewing of the church came after the furnishing of the chancel, and it was going on in 1508, when William Graystoke, of Wakefield, left ten pounds towards this work;! which would go as far as ^150 to-day. Until the body of the church was stripped in 1872, many of the sixteenth century seats remained in position. The backs had been taken away and * Several references to >SY. [Catherine's choir (1503, 1505, 1538), leave no doubt that such a chapel existed after the last rebuilding, and it is almost certain that it was in the south aisle. Sancle George altar is mentioned in the will of Robert Nevell of Wakefield (1524) printed in Test : Ebor : Surtees Soc. LXXIX., p. 175. It is not certain that this was in the parish church, but there was an image of St. George there. t Test: Ebor: Surtees Soc: liii. 335. 46 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH the upper halves of the ends sawn off; but the lower halves and the seat boards remained under the later seats in the nave. In the aisles they had been removed, though many pieces were worked up in the pewing. But the sills were found in place. The pews were of a type very common at their date, and had solid square-topped ends, larger and more handsomely carved than those now in the church. From such notes as I took, I have set these pews on the plan (Fig. VIII). The widths of the passages were taken from the sills, and are right ; but I am not quite certain how far the several blocks extended eastwards. They most likely stopped against the screens of the chapels of St. Peter and St. Katherine. . I am pretty sure that I have got their full extent to the west. The number and position of the seats in the north block in the nave are right. Something of each remained there. In the other blocks, they were less perfect and the restoration is, to some extent, conjectural. The arrangement was such as we should expect to find in work of the time. It was usual, in well-furnished churches, to have pews in the chapels at the sides of the chancel, which could be used by worshippers either at the high altar or at the altars of the respective chapels. And there were marks here of the raised floors of such pews, outside the side screens of the chancel on each side. In 1516, Richard Peke willed to be buried in St. Nicholas' choir, even enens my stall^* which shews that such pews did exist, at least, in that chapel. On this evidence, I have put them on the plan. It was common to have pews on both sides of the chapels, but as there was no evidence of them here, except on the choir side. I have only suggested them on the other. I have indicated seats and desks within the two smaller chapels also. There is no direct evidence of them, but it was usual to have them, especially near altars at which chantries were founded. They were appropriated by the patrons of the chantries, and used as private pews during the public services. * Test: Ebor : Surtees Sec : lxxix. p. 73. OF WAKEFIELD. 47 Of the other mediaeval furniture and ornaments, nothing now remains. The old font was probably broken by the Puritans in the seventeenth century, and a new one :;: was provided at the Restoration. I have shewn a font on the plan in what is the most likely place for it. If it were not there, it was probably against the second pillar from the west, on the north side. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, such a church as this would most likely have a pulpit, but, if it had, we know nothing about it. We have mention, in wills, of sundry images and lights, but little to tell us of their places. There is a pulley in the ceiling opposite the first pillar from the east in the Lady chapel, which probably marks the place of a hanging light ; and, in a line with it, just opposite the south door of the chancel, is an iron eye from which another may have hung. We have now followed the story from the first that we can learn of it, to the time of Leland's visit, and have described as well as we can that new church fair and large which he saw. The story does not stop there, but henceforth it is to be read chiefly in written records. But the fabric, too, has still something to tell. How some over zealous ones, when, in Queen Elizabeth's time, the order came for the removal of rood lofts, took this away by cutting through the posts of the screen, and leaving nothing of it above the handrail ; and then how the reaction came, and the sons of these men set up the screen again, and did their best to undo the mischief. f How, too, the church suffered during * This is rather a handsome font of its kind, but it has suffered a good deal. At one time it was turned out of the Church and a very mean thing put in its place. It was brought back when Mr. Sharp was Vicar. The bowl and stem are of the seventeenth century. There was a base to it of the same date, which is still lying in the garden of the old vicarage, and twenty years ago there were remains of a contemporary oak cover in the chamber over the porch. t The screen, as we see it, is not exactly what it was in the time of James I. Then the fifteenth century work was seen only in the lower part of the doors. The awkward way in which it now appears at the sides is due to the mistaken action of the " restorers." It was once cased with good work of the same date as the upper part, but the casing had been taken away on one side, and the " restorers," instead of putting it back, thought fit to strip the other side, and patch up the earlier work, which was much mutilated, and has now become practically new. 4 8 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH the Puritan usurpation, and was cared for at the Restoration. How each generation has altered the church to suit its idea of the seemly performance of the services * How by gradual encroachments the church came to be parcelled out and treated as the private property of a few. And last, how the people have again obtained their rights in it, how once again men give of their substance to adorn it, and how it is fitted for a service such as could never have been kept up there before. Surely the chapter which tells of the " restoration " is one of the most important in the history. The antiquary may regret that some things which might have been kept have been lost. But the Churchman sees in it the proof that the old Church is still young. The story will go on, much yet will be done, and we ask only that they who do it will not wipe out the old record to make way for the new. * A curious arrangement of this sort, which has now quite disappeared, ought to be mentioned. It used to be the custom in many places, especially in the North of England, for communicants to enter the chancel either at the offertory or at the invitation Ye that do truly, and to take places which they kept to the end of the service, the clergy going round and communicating them there, instead of at the altar rail. Many large churches had their chancels fitted up for this use. Here the choir stalls were used, and when two pews were put at the west end of the chancel, taking the places of some of the stalls, the fronts were made to fold down, so that the places within might still be available for communicants. This work was probably of the last half of the seventeenth century. W THERE IS POSITIVE EVIDENCE- IS KNOWN TO H*VE EXISTED BUT FOR TH E NOT EVIDENCE. _ J.T.MlCKLETHWAn-E..lNVENlT ws ECIlISSiB SECTION IV. THE CHANTRIES— THEIR FOUNDATION AND SUPPRESSION. THE Chantries at Wakefield were served by priests, who lived in Ratten Row (now known as Bread Street), in Northgate, and in some old timber-built houses, which consti- tuted the northern boundary of the Churchyard, one of which was built by Giles Kaye, priest to the Pilkington Chantry in 1519-20, as is ascertained from documents deposited in the Rolls Court ; his initials were carved in old English characters, enclosed by a circular scroll, on the obtuse angle of a richly carved beam ; in addition to this, the wafer emerging from the chalice — the ancient symbol of the priesthood — was cut in bas-relief on the oaken pinnacle which formed the centre ornament of the gable. The Chantries in the Church, that we know of, were : — A Chantry founded by John de Wakefeld, on June 25th, 1322. The Pilkington Chantry, founded at the altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the south aisle, by Sir John Pilkington, of Stanley, Knight, December 20th, 1475. The Nowell Chantry, founded September 25th, 1478, by Roger Nowell, of Wakefield, at the altar of the Blessed Apostle Peter, in the north aisle of the Parish Church of All Saints', Wakefield. The Soothill Chantry, founded November 12th, 1485, by Henry Sotehill (Sothill, Soothill or Sottell, as he is variously called). The Graystoke Chantry, in "the quere of Sanct Nicholas," founded by William Graystoke, mercer, of Wakefield, on June 22nd, 1493. 5° THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH The earliest Chantry of which we have any record, was founded by John de Wakefeld, on June 25th, 1322. The licence to found it is on the Patent Roll of 15 Edward II. (1322), Part 2, m. 3. " Rex omnibus ad quos etc salutem — Licet de communi consilio regni nostri statutum sit etc — per finem tamen quern Magister Johannes de Wake- feld Capellanus fecit nobis- cum concessimus et licenciam "The King to whom, etc., greeting — Seeing that it has been agreed upon by the com- mon council of our realm, and by the agreement which Master John de Wakefeld, Chaplain, made with us, we have granted dedimus pro nobis et heredibus and given licence for us and nostris quantum in nobis est our heirs, as much as is in eidem Johanni quod ipse quin- our power, to the same John, que messuagia duas shopas et that he may give and assign quartern partem unius mes- five messuages, two shops and suagii cum pertinenciis in the fourth part of one mess- Wakefelde dare possit et assi- uage with the appurtenances, gnare cuidam capellano divina in Wakefield, to a certain pro anima ipsius Johannis et Chaplain, for the celebration animabus patris matris fratrum of divine service, every day, in sororum antecessorum et bene- factorum suorum ac omnium fidelium defunctorum in Eccle- sia Omnium Sanctorum de Wakefelde singulis diebus cele- braturo habenda et tenenda eidem Capellano et success- oribus suis capellanis divina singulis diebus in Ecclesia the Church of All Saints', at Wakefield, for the soul of the same John, and the souls of his father, mother, brothers, sisters, ancestors and his bene- factors, and all the faithful dead, to be had and held by the same Chaplain and his successors, Chaplains, for the celebration predicta pro animabus predictis of divine service, every day, in celebraturo imperpetuum. Et eidem Capellano quod ipse predicta mesuagia shopas et quartern partem cum pertinen- ciis a prefato Johanne recipere possit et tenere sibi et sucess- the aforesaid Church, for the aforesaid souls, for ever. And to the same Chaplain, that he may receive and hold from the aforesaid John, the aforesaid messuages, shops and the fourth OF WAKEFIELD. 5i oribus suis predictis in per- petuum sicut predictum est tenore presencium similiter licenciam dedimus specialem Nolentes quod predictus Jo- hannes vel heredes sui aut prefatus Capellanus seu suc- cessores sui racione statuti predicti per nos vel heredes nostras inde occasionentur in aliquo seu graventur Salvis tamen Capitalibus dominis feodi illius servitiis inde debitis et consuetis. In cujus, etc. Teste Rege apud Eboracum xxv. die Junii. Per finem unius marce. part with the appurtenances, for himself and his aforesaid suc- cessors for ever, as is aforesaid, by the form of the present letters, we have given special licence, being unwilling that the aforesaid John, or his heirs, or the aforesaid Chaplain, or his successors, by reason of the aforesaid statute, should be thus hindered in any way or oppressed by us or our heirs, provided that proper and accustomed dues be paid to their feudal lord. Whereof, etc. Witness the King, at York, 25th of June. For a fine of one mark. The following deed, which also relates to this Chantry, shows an augmentation of the stipend of the priest who served it : — Patent Roll, 16 Edward II. (1323) part i., m. 31. Pro execu- Rex omnibus ad The king to all whom it may ~°l\. us , . e *\ quos, etc. salutem. concern, Greeting. Because Williclmi hhi ^ ' Germani de Wakefeld. Quia accepimus per inquisicionem quam per dilectum clericum nostrum Thomam de Burgo Eschsetum nostrum citra Trent- am fieri fecimur quod non est ad dampnum vel prejudicium nostrorum aut aliorum si conce- damus Thome Thorald clerico de Alverthorp et Rogero de Lancastri executoribus testa- menti Willielmi filii Germani de Wakefeld quod ipsi tresdecim solidatas et quatuor denaratas we have learnt by enquiry, which we have caused to be made by our chosen priest, Thomas de Burgo, our Escheat- officer on this side the Trent, that it is not to our or any other person's harm or injury, if we grant to Thomas Thorald, priest, of Alverthorpe, and to Roger de Lancaster, executors of the will of William, son of German de Wakefeld, that they may grant and assign thirteen solidi (one solidus equalled E 2 52 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH redditus cum pertinentibus in Civitate Eboraci pervenientes de Mesuagio quod Thomas de Beningburgh Orfevere de Ebor- aco tenet in eadem Civitate que de nobis tenentur in capite et quas prefatus Willielmus in tes- tamento suo legavit prefatis executoribus suis ad execucio- nem testamenti sui inde faciendi dare possint et assignare cuidam capellano missam de beata Maria virgine in ecclesia omni- um sanctorum de Wakefeld singulis diebus celebraturo Habendas et tenendas sibi et successoribus suis capellanis missam de beata Maria virgine in eadem ecclesia singulis diebus celebraturis in augmen- tacionem sustentacionis predicti Capellani et successorum suo- rum imperpetuum. Nos per finem quern predicti executores fecerunt nobiscum concessimus et licenciam dedimus pro nobis et heredibus nostris quantum in nobis est eisdem executoribus quod ipsi predictum redditum cum pertinentibus dare possint et assignare prefato capellano Habendum et tenendum sibi et successoribus suis predictis in augmentacionem sustentacionis sue de nobis et heredibus nos- tris per servicia inde debita et consueta imperpetuum. Et i8x. 5!^. of current English coin), and four denarii (one denarius equalled i\d.) rents and monies in the County of York, arising from a messuage which Thomas de Beningburgh, goldsmith of York, holds in the same county, which are held in capite from us, and which the aforesaid William, in his will, bequeathed to his aforesaid executors, that they might pay them to a certain Chaplain, in order that he might celebrate mass to the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the Church of All Saints, Wakefield, every day, to be had and held by him and his successors, Chaplains, that they might celebrate mass to the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the same Church every day, in augmentation of the stipend of the aforesaid Chaplain and his successors, for ever. We, for the purpose which the aforesaid executors have set forth to us, have granted and given licence, for us and for our heirs, as far as we can speak for them, to the said ex- ecutors that they may be able to give the aforesaid payment, with the appurtenances, and to assign them to the aforesaid Chap- lain, to be had and held by him and his successors, as aforesaid, OF WAKEFIELD. 53 eidem capellano quod ipse pre- in augmentation of his stipend dictum redditum cum pertinen- from us and our heirs, for due tibus a prefatis executoribus and customary service for ever, recipere possit et tenere sibi et And we have given special successoribus suis predictis de license to the same Chaplain, nobis et heredibus nostris per that he may receive the afore - servicia predicta imperpetuum said payment, with the appur- sicut predictum est tenore pre- tenances from the aforesaid sencium similiter licenciam executors, and hold them for dedimus specialem Statuto de himself and his successors, as terris et tenendis ad manum aforesaid, from us and our heirs mortuam non ponendis edito for the aforesaid services, for non obstante. Nolentes quod ever, as is aforesaid, by the predicti executores aut prefatus form of the present letters, capellanus vel successores the statute, which was passed sui ratione premissorum per concerning lands and holdings nos vel heredes nostros unaffected by Mortmain, not Justiciarios Escaetores vice- preventing it. Being unwilling comites aut alios Ballivos seu that the aforesaid executors or Ministros nostros quoscumque the aforesaid Chaplain, or his occonentur molestentur in successors should be injured, aliquo seu gaventur. In cui molested, or in any way spoiled etc. Teste Rege apud Ebora- by reason of these grants, by us cum xv. die Julii. Per finem triginta solidorum or our heirs, Justices, Escheat Officers, Viscounts, or other Bailiffs or Ministers. In testi- mony of which, etc. Witness the King, at York, the 15th day of July (1323). For a fine of thirty solidi. The Pilkington Chantry was founded, December 20th, 1475, by Sir John Pilkington, of Stanley, Knight. The following abstract of the original deed of foundation was made by Joseph Hunter, Esq., F.S.A., and is still in the possession of Sir L. M. S. Pilkington, of Chevet, Bart. " Omnibus, &c. Sir John Pilkington, Knight. Salutation in Him by whom King's reign and Princes decree justice. 54 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Whereas, the most excellent and most dread Prince Edward IV., by his Letters Patent, dated June ist, in the 15th year of his reign, to the praise and honour of God and of the Blessed Virgin, and of All Saints, granted to me and my heirs, Licence"" to found a perpetual Chantry of one Chaplain at the Altar of the Blessed Mary, in the South Aisle [Arcu] of the Parish Church of All Saints', at Wakefield, for the health of the said Prince, and of his brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and of the said John and Joan his wife ; and for their souls when dead : and for the souls of the Father and Mother of the said John, and for the souls of Gilbert Parr, Thomas Hall, and John Leycester, and for the souls of all for whom I am bound to pray, and of all faithful deceased. [The Letters Patent are here recited ipsisimis verbis.] Know that I, the said John Pilkington, with the consent of George, Archbishop of York, and with the licence of the Dean and Chapter of the Free Chapel of St. Stephen, in Westminster, Rectors of the said Parish Church of All Saints, and with the consent of all and every one interested in this affair, Found the said Chantry ; [with daily service as above, but Richard, Duke of York, father of the two Royal brothers, is now named as a person to be remembered in the services]. He appoints James Smethurst, to be the first Chaplain ; reserves to himself and his heirs, the power to nominate his successors, but if no appointment is made for three months after avoidance, then the Abbot and Convent of Kirkstall are to nominate. The Chaplain is to say in his Mass, the Collect, Deus qui Caritatis, with the Collect of the Day, and in it make special mention of him the said Sir John Pilkington and Joan his wife ; and after our death, the Collect, Inclina Dotnine aurem tziam, naming our names. He shall also say in his Mass, A cunctis nos, and another for the dead, Adjuva nos Deus. He shall say, in private, Exaudi nos Domine Deus, Incipe Domiue, Mundat et muniat, Ascendant ad te. He further ordains, that the Chaplain shall say Placebo and Dirige twice a week in the Church, or Cemetery, for him and his heirs — unless he be hindered by necessary business, — also Mass of Requiem shall be said once * Pat. Rot. 15 Edw. IV., Part 3, M. 9. OF WAKEFIELD. 55 a week, for the souls of him, his wife, and his heirs, reciting their names. The Chaplain is to be obedient to the Vicar in all lawful things, and to be present at Vespers, and on all Sundays and Festival days, if there be no reasonable cause of absence with the license of my heir. He also ordains, that on the Feast day of St. Cedde [Chad] which is celebrated on the 2nd day of March, the anniversary day for the souls of me, my wife, and my heirs, shall be kept and celebrated, and that there be then said distinctly and devoutly Placebo and Dirige, with commendation secundum usum Ecclesice Cathedralis Ebor, with Mass of Requiem, in which the persons to be commemorated are to be mentioned by name ; and on every feast day of St. Cedde, when Mass is over, there shall be distributed thirteen pence among thirteen poor people present at the Mass, out of the annual rent of nine marks, which I have bought for three hundred marks of Richard Brown, the Prior and the Convent of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist of Pontefract. The Chaplain is prohibited from holding any other Ecclesi- astical office, and if he accept any, the Chantry is to be accounted void, and another Chaplain to be appointed. The Chaplain to be constantly resident, except for one month in the year. Not to frequent Taverns and Alehouses, nor play at Dice or Cards, or other dishonest games, and if three times convicted of doing so, to be deprived. On his admission, he is to make oath before the Vicar and Churchwardens, that he will not alienate any of the goods belonging to the Chantry or corrupt the writings and evidences. If he be disabled, by reason of infirmity, he is not to lose his office, but shall hold it as long as he lives, praying for the health, or for the souls, of the persons above named. In case of vacancy, the founder begs the Churchwardens will be so good as to appoint a person to discharge the duties till a successor be regularly appointed, which person shall receive a salary proportioned to the length of the time of his service. 56 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Two copies of this Indenture were made — one for the Abbot and Convent of Kirkstall, the other for Smethurst, the Chaplain. There is suspended the Seal of the Founder, which is of red wax ; the impression not distinguishable. The date is 20th Deer- 1475. I 5 Edw. IV. The subordinate documents to the above, are as follows : — (a.) Richard Brown, Prior of St. John, of Pontefract, has granted to Sir John Pilkington, Knt., an annual rent of nine marks, to be paid at the High Altar in the Parish Church of All Saints, in Wakefield, in equal portions, at Pentecost, and St. Martin in the winter, no acquittance not made there to be of any avail. Sir John and his heirs may distrain on their manors of Ledston, or Whitwoode, or any other, if not paid within five weeks of the time when it is due. Done in their Chapter House, 20. Deer., 1474, 14 Edw. IV. (b.) Omnibus, &c. : Sir John Pilkington, reciting the purport of the above grant, and then that he had granted to James Smethurst, Chaplain of the Perpetual Chantry of Sir John Pilkington, Knt., at the Altar of the Blessed Mary the Virgin, in "arcu australi," of the Parish Church of Wakefield, the said annual rent of nine marks, to him and his successors, in pure alms. Dated 28. Deci". 1475. 1 5- Edward IV. In his will, Sir John Pilkington did not forget his newly- founded Chantry, as will be seen by the following extract : — " In the name of God. Amen. I, Sir John Pilkyngton, Knight, of hole mynde, all if I be grieved with Seknes : at Skipton, the xxviij. daye of June, mcccclxxviij. My Body to be beried, at the pleasir of God, and oure Lady, in my Chauntery in the Kirk of Wakefeld. Item, I witte to my said Chauntery j Messeboke, j Chales gilt, ij Crowettes of Silver, ij Vestiments, ij Albes, To the Kirkwark of Wakefeld x Marc, To the High Alter in the same Kirk j Messeboke, To every Monke in Fontaunce Abbay vjs. viij d. so that ilkone of thame severally saye Messe of Requiem for my Saule wt in v dayes, they have knawlege of my Deth : they especially in thair Memento forgyffing me all maner of Bargans had between thame and me. To the making of the Abbay Kirke of Fontaunce x £. &c ; &c ; Sec;" OF WAKEFIELD. 57 This will was proved ult. June, 1479. The fifteenth century glass in this chapel is described in Section V. The Priests who served this Chantry from its foundation to the Supression of Chantries by Hen. VIII. were — Name. Date of Institution. Patron. James Smetherste Dec. 20. 1475. Sir J. Pilkington. John Spyve Cap. July 27. 1483. Nominated by Charles. Pilkington, Knt., as guardian of Edward Pilkington, son of Sir John, a minor. Egidius Kaye Sep. 15. 1506. Sir Arthur Pilkington. William Swanne June 1. 1543. Assigns of Sir A. Pilkington. This incumbent received a pension of \oos. per annum at the dissolution. The Chantry was valued by the King's Commissioners, the Freehold at io8x. the Copyhold at £2 ; and the following is their certificate : — The Chantrie called Pylkington Chantrie in O r Lady Quere in the paroche Churche of Wakefeylde. Willm. Swanne* Incumbent of the foundacon of John Pylkington Knight to thentent to pray for the Sowle of Kinge Richard the thirde the founder sowle and all Xpen sowles and to do dyvyne service in the hye Quere of the sayde Churche as apperyth by a foundacon dated the xxth day of Decembre anno dni mcccclxxv. and also bounde to kepe one yerlie obbet to the yerlie charges of xiij^ to poore people. The same is within the saide Church the neccitie is to pray for all Xpen sowles and to do dyvyne service in the Church wyche ys daly mayntenyed ther & to helpe the curate the pochyners beyng in nomber mm. ther is no landes alienate or solde sithens the iiijth day of Febr. anno RR Henr. viij. xxvijmo. Goodes ornaments and playte p'teninge to the same as by the inventorye apperyth viz : — goods valued at xiiijj. ixd. & plate valued at vj/. \]s. \]d.\ * In another Certificate, William Swanne is described as " 61 yeres of age indyfferently learned." f The Plate weighed xxiiii ounces duble gylt. 58 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH The saide Incumbent haith and receyvith yerlie one Annuytie or Annuall Rent of vj/. yerlie goinge furth of the lands p'teyninge to the late desolved monastery of Pountfrett as by the Recordes of the same more playnelie may appere. Sum of the Rental! vj/. Whereof Paiable to the Kinges Matie for the tenth yerlie xijs. Sum of the allowance xij^. and so remanyth cviiji 1 . In 1 69 1, the then holder of the Pilkington estates, Sir Lyon Pilkington of Stanley, Baronet, wished to obtain possession of what had been the Pilkington Chapel before the Reformation, and he entered into an agreement with the Churchwardens to let him have it as a burying place for himself and his heirs, on condition that he kept it in good repair. In the Churchwardens' account book it is noticed thus : — 1 69 1. Spent at sealeing writeing wth S. Lyon - - 066 The deed of Agreement ran as follows : — (On Parchment 29 j inches from side to side, i7a from top to bottom). THIS INDENTURE made the fourth day of December in the third year of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady William and Mary King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith, &c. Anno Dni 1691 Between S r Lyon Pilkington of Stanley in the County of York Baronet of the one part and Thomas Birkhead, Obed Lupton, Timothy Willson, Thomas Binnes, Stanniford Dixson, Roger Gill, John Bennet, & Daniell Wright, all of Wakefeild in the said County Gentlemen of the other part. WHEREAS the said Sr Lyon Pylkington did obtaine a Citation out of the Ecclesiasticall Court at Yorke and did cause the same to be published in the parish Church of Wakefeild aforesaid whereby he did Cite the present Churchwardens and other the inhabitants wtbin the said parish to shew cause why he should not have the South Chancell of the said parish Church confirmed to him and his heires for a burying place or Dormitory alledgeing that the same did anciently belong to his Ancestors as by the said Citation relation being thereunto had more fully may appear whereupon the said Thomas Birkhead, Obed Lupton, Timothy OF WAKEFIELD. 59 Wilson, Thomas Binnes, Stanniford Dixson, Roger Gill, John Bennet, & Daniell Wright present Churchwardens of the said parish did give publique notice in the said parish Church for a generall meeting of the Parisioners to Consult what was fitting to be done and as many as thought fitt met and did agree that the said Churchwardens should wait upon S 1 ' Lyon and know his demands and thereupon the said Thomas Birkhead, Obed Lupton, Timothy Willson, Thomas Binnes, Stanniford Dixson, Roger Gill, John Bennet, & Daniell Wright did wait upon the said S 1 " Lyon who agreed that hee would produce his writeings and shew them to Richard Witton Esqi" a Councellor att law and that he would be satisfyed with what he should determine and the said Church- wardens and Parishioners did agree likewise to stand to the judgement and award of the said Richard Witton whereupon the said Richard Witton did peruse the said writeings of the said Si" Lyon Pilkington and thereby found that King Edward the fourth in the fifteenth year of his Raigne with the Assent of ye then Archbishop of York and the Dean and Chapter of Saint Stephen's Chappel in Westminster being Rectors of the Parish Church of Wakefeild did grant to S* John Pilkington S r Lyons Ancestor Lycence to found a Chantery in the South Quire of the said Church which Chantery the said S r John Pilkington did accordingly erect in the said Quire and did endow the same and was afterwards himself buryed there whereupon the said Richard Witton did desire a meeting of the said Sr Lyon Pilkington and of the Churchwardens and Parisioners aforesaid who mett in the said Parish Church and upon a full hearing of both parties the said Richard Witton wth the consent of both sides and all the persons then present did doom and award that the said Sr Lyon Pilkington and his heires should have Apropriated to him and them for a dormitory or burying place for himself and his family two Arches at the East end of the South Quire the same containing eight yards and halfe in length and seaven yards and a quarter in breadth and that the said Sr Lyon Pilkington and his heires should from thenceforth from time to time as often as any of the walls pillars Windows or Roofe of that part of the said South Chanced should stand in need of building repairing pointing, painting, or 60 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH washing, should build repaire, point, paint, amend, and wash, the same and every part thereof and should acquit indempnifie and discharge the said Churchwardens and their Successors and the rest of the Parisioners of the said town and parish of Wakefeild from all Charges and Expences concerning the same and that neither of the said Churchwardens nor their Successors nor any other of the Parishioners within the town or parish of Wakefeild aforesaid should claim any right of burying in that part of the said South Chancell nor Interrupt or disturb the said S r Lyon Pilkington or his heires in the quiet enjoyment of the same for a Dormitory or burying place for him and his heires, NOW THIS INDENTURE witnesseth that in pursuance of the said award & agreement and that the same may be more binding and obligeing and for and in consideration of the surame of five shillings of lawfull money of England in hand paid by the said Thomas Birkhead, Obed Lupton, Timothy Willson, Thomas Binnes, Stanniford Dixson, Roger Gill, John Bennet, and Daniell Wright, Churchwardens to the said S'' Lyon Pilkington before the sealing and delivery hereof the receipt whereof he the said Sr Lyon doth hereby acknowledge and thereof and every part thereof doth clearly and absolutely acquitt exonerate and discharge the said Thomas Birkhead, Obed Lupton, Timothy Willson, Thomas Binnes, Stanniford Dixson, Roger Gill, John Bennet, and Daniell Wright Churchwardens their heires succes- sors and every of them by these presents and for divers other good causes and valuable considerations him the said S r Lyon Pilkington thereunto moveing HEE the said S r Lyon Pilkington doth for him and his heires Covenant, promise, grant and agree to and with the said Thomas Birkhead, Obed Lupton, Timothy Willson, Thomas Binnes, Stanniford Dixson, Roger Gill, John Bennet, and Daniell Wright, Churchwardens their heires and succssors that he and his heires shall and will from henceforth for ever maintain uphold and keep the said East end of the South Quire containing eight yards and halfe in length and seaven yards and a quarter in breadth and all the Pillars Walls Windows and Roofe wth all needfull necesary and convenient Repaires and in as good Plight and Condition to all intents and purposes as the OF WAKEFIELD. 61 rest of the said Quire or Chancel is or shall be kept and main- tained and uniforme to the rest of the Chancels belonging to the said parish Church and shall save harmeless and indempnifie the said Thomas Birkhead, Obed Lupton, Timothy Willson, Thomas Binnes, Stanniford Dixson, Roger Gill, John Bennet and Daniell Wright Churchwardens their heires and successors and allso all other the inhabitants and parishioners of the said parish from all Charges and Expences whatsoever upon that account. And the said Thomas Birkhead, Obed Lupton, Timothy Willson, Thomas Binnes, Stanniford Uixson, Roger Gill, John Bennet, and Daniell Wright Churchwardens aforesaid for and in Consideration of the summe of five shillings them in hand paid by the said Sr Lyon Pilkington before the ensealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof they the said Thomas Birkhead, Obed Lupton, Timothy Willson Thomas Binnes Stanniford Dixson Roger Gill, John Bennet, and Daniell Wright, Churchwardens aforesaid doe hereby acknowledge and thereof and of every part thereof doth clearly and absolutely acquitt exonerate and discharge the said Sr Lyon Pilkington and his heirs and every of them by these presents and for divers other good causes and valuable Considera- tions them the said Thomas Birkhead, Obed Lupton, Timothy Willson, Thomas Binnes, Stanniford Dixon, Roger Gill, John Bennet and Daniell Wright, Churchwardens aforesaid thereunto moveing they the said Thomas Birkhead, Obed Lupton, Timothy Willson, Thomas Binnes, Stanniford Dixon, Roger Gill, John Bennet and Daniell Wright Churchwardens aforesaid doe for themselves their heirs and successors Covenant promise grant and agree to and with the said S* Lyon Pilkington and his heires that the said Sr Lyon and his heires shall and may for ever here- after or so long as he and they shall maintaine uphold and repair the said East end of the said Chancell peaceably and quietly use and enjoy the aforesaid East end of the South Chancell containing eight yards and a half in length and seaven yards and a quarter in breadth as a dormitory or burying place for him and his heires and that neither they the said Thomas Birkhead, Obed Lupton, Timothy Willson, Thomas Binnes, Stanniford Dixson, Roger Gill, John Bennet and Daniell Wright 62 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Churchwardens aforesaid nor their Successors who shall here- after be Churchwardens for the said town and Parish of Wakefeild aforesaid shall in the least interrupt or disturb the said S r Lyon or his heires in the quiet enjoyment of the same for the uses aforementioned, IN WITNESS whereof the parties above named to the parts of these Indentures interchangeably have sett to their hands and Seales the day and year first above written. LY: PILKINGTON Seal of Pilkington in red wax : a cross patonce, above, a mower with his scythe. (On the back) Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of Richard Witton Richard Thompson William Woods Thomas Foster The Agreement betwixt Sr Lyon Pilkington and the Church- wardens of Wakefeild concerning the south Quire. 7th December, 1691. Having obtained possession of the Chapel, Sir Lyon placed a board on the east wall, with his arms, Argent, a cross patonce voided gules, painted on it, and below, this inscription : " This South Chantery was founded by Sr John Pilkington Knt- in ye 15th year of ye reign of K. Edwd ye 4th. after the conquest by vertue of his Majties letters Patents bearing date at Westminster ye 20th day of Debr. Ano. Dom. 1475 : & * s maintained at ye proper charge of Sr Lyon Pilkington of Stanley within this Parrish Barronet who is lineally descended from ye above said Sr John Pilkington." There is also a wooden effigy of a mower with his scythe, the crest of the Pilkington family. A wooden helmet with crest, gloves, sword and a pair of spurs are also upon the walls of this Chapel. In 1690, when the old engraving of the church, drawn by W. Beaumont, and engraved by J. Sturt, was executed, this chapel had two south windows in place of the one now existing, but this was altered before the large monument to Sir Lyon Pilkington was erected by his grandson Lionel, who succeeded to the title and estates in 1716. OF WAKEFIELD. 63 The monument is of white marble, and consists of a full length figure reclining under a canopy, with the following inscription beneath : — M. S. LYON PILKINGTON, Baronetti, Viri Supremis hisce, quos solvimus, honoribus In tantum digni, Quantum a suis olim bene meruit, Et ab aliis, quousq. innotuit, universis : Qui, capaci, et pene ad omnia versatili, ingenio, Avitam et vere liberalem Excoluit virtutem. Summis sequus, inferioribus fungi muniis Non dedignatus est. Justitiae strenuus, et (quoad potuit) assiduus, Cultor Custosq., Quam suas intrare non passus est aedes, Alienis expulit Discordiam, In Amicitiis vel conjungendis vel confirmandis, Pro egregia, qua erat, Humanitate, Promptissimus Author et Adjutor. Nihil molestiae, Nihil incommodi detrectavit, Dummodo prodesset quamplurimis. Hac tarn felici dotatus indole, Hominumq et Rerum peregrinando gnarus, Morumq. simul perpolitus Elegantia, Haud inutilis vixit Patriae Civis, Nee injucundus amicis Interfuit Comes. Obiit A.D. 1 7 14. /Etat. suas 54. Dilectissimi Conjugis latus claudit AMATA, quam primam sibi junxerat, Uxor, Et octo Liberorum felix Parens ; Qua? obiit A.D. 1696. ^Etat suas 36. 64 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Lyon, sex Filiorum maximus, Patriarum Virtutum Hasres, Ah (oh ! properatas moriendi vices !) Tituli vix vix biennium, Parentum reliquiis addidit Suas, A.D. 1716. JEt. 34. Avo et Patri posuit Lionellus. On a mural tablet is inscribed, — M. S. THOM^ PILKINGTON, EARTH- Cui Avorum Res, virtus, honos Haereditati ; Solum non contigit Eorum ^tas provectior Natus 1773 obiit 181 1. On a mural marble tablet, — Sacred to the memory of ISABELLA— Wife of Revd. RICHARD HAWKSWORTH, and youngest Daughter Of Sir Michael Pilkington, Bart. of Chevet near this Place. Born Aug. 29th, 1780. Died April 30th, 1809. Aged 28 years. On a stone in the floor, — Here lyeth the Bodjs of Charles And Elizabeth Pilkington, Son And Daughter of Sr Lyon Pilkington of Stanley, Barronet, Who Both Departed This Life In the yeare of our Lord 1689. OF WAKEFIELD. 65 Another stone bears the following inscription, relating to a former master of the Grammar School, who was buried here during the period that this Chapel belonged, not to the Pilkington family, but to the Churchwardens. Hie jacet Corpus JOHANNIS BASKERVILE S.T.B. Quondam Scholas Wakefeldiensis Ludimagistri, Qui obiit May 15, 1681. During the restoration of the Church, Sir Lionel M. S. Pilkington, Bart., of Chevet, put the interior of his Chapel into good repair, removed the plaster from the walls, inserted new windows, and painted the ceiling to correspond with the south aisle; again, in 1886, he restored the exterior, recasing the whole of it, and built a new parapet to take the place of the decayed one. In the ceiling of this chapel is a pulley running north and south, from which, in pre-reformation times, a lamp may have been suspended before the altar of the Virgin, to whom this chapel was dedicated. There are nine hatchments on the walls and pillars of this chapel, with the following arms emblazoned on them : — ( 1 ). Argent, a cross patonce voided gules, in the dexter chief the badge of Nova Scotia ; impaling Argent, a cross sable, in the first quarter a fleur-de-lis gules. These are the arms of Sir Lyon Pilkington, third baronet, and Ann his wife, only daughter of Thomas Eggleton, of Grove, Bucks. Beneath is the inscription, — Near this place lieth Interred the Body of Dame Ann Pilkington, late wife of Si" Lyon Pilkington of Stanley Bart. To whom she bare issue six sons & two daughters, her persons vertues were both Ornaments to her Quallity. She departed this life Aprill ye 4. 1695. yEtatis suae 34. (2.) The cross patonce of Pilkington, and the badge and motto of Nova Scotia, differenced with an annulet. (3.) The hatchment put up after the death of Charles Pilkington, son of Sir Lyon, 3rd baronet. F 66 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH (4.) The arms of Sir Lionel Pilkington, 5th baronet, who died, unmarried, 11 Aug. 1778. (5.) Argent, a cross patonce voided gules, in the dexter chief the badge of Nova Scotia ; impaling azure, on a fesse, between three ostrich feathers argent, as many martlets sable. Beneath, the motto of Nova Scotia : Fax mentis honesttz gloria. The arms of Sir Thomas Pilkington, seventh baronet, who died July 9, 181 1, and was buried here; and those of his wife, Elizabeth Anne, eldest daughter of William Tufuell, Esq>\, of Langleys, Essex ; she married, secondly, William Mules, Esq., and died 1 84 1. (6.) Argent, a cross patonce voided gules, in the dexter chief the badge of Nova Scotia ; impaling Per fesse azure and gules, a tower tripple towered or. These are the arms of Sir Michael Pilkington, sixth baronet, who died February 6, 1788 ; and those of his second wife, Isabella, daughter of the Rev. William Rawstorne, of Badsworth. (7.) Argent, a cross sable: argent, a cross patonce voided gules, above which is the badge of Nova Scotia ; azure, three demi-lions or. Beneath, the motto : Fax mentis honestce gloria. These are the arms of Sir Lyon Pilkington, third baronet, and his first wife, Amy Eggleton, also his second wife, Lennox, daughter and heiress of Cuthbert Harrison, of Acaster Selby, York. (8.) Quarterly, 1 Pilkington, 2 Burrell, 3 Eggleton, 4 Harrison, impaling, sable, a chevron between three leopard's faces or. The arms of Sir Lyon Pilkington, fourth baronet, who was buried at Wakefield, June 26, 17 16, aged 34, and those of his wife, Anne, daughter of Sir Michael Wentworth of Woolley, Knt ; she married secondly, Sir Charles Dalston of Heath Hall ; thirdly, John Maude of Wakefield, and died August 15, 1764, and was buried at Wakefield. The arms of the above-mentioned Sir Michael Pilkington, and his wife, Isabella Rawstorne, who, after his death, married Major Thomas Hewetson, and died February 15, 1823, aged 75 years, and was buried at Wakefield. OF WAKEFIELD. 67 Thk Nowell Chantry was founded, September 25, 1478, by Roger Nowell of Wakefield, at the altar of the blessed Apostle Peter, in the north aisle of the Parish Church of All Saints, Wakefield. This altar was probably fixed either against the north chancel pier in the nave of the Church, and faced westwards, or on the west side of the screen that separated the north chancel and nave aisles. * This chantry is sometimes called the Thurstan or Banaster chantry, but erroneously ; Sir Thurstan Banaster was cousin to Roger Nowell, the founder, and is mentioned in the deed of foundation, which, however, clearly shows that the chantry was not only founded, but also endowed by Roger Nowell, whose name it was to bear. The following is a copy of the original document, deposited in the Rolls Office. [Pat. Rot. 18 Ed. IV., p. 2., m. 24.] : — "Rex Omnibus ad quos etc; "The King to all to whom, salutem. Sciatis quod ex certa etc., greeting. Know that, to sciencia et mero motu nostris de gracia nostra speciali ad laudem Dei et gloriose Virginis matris ejus et Omnium Sanc- torum concessimus et licenciam dedimus per presentes pro nobis et heredibus nostris quantum in nobis est Henrico Sotehill Roberto Hall Clerico Johanni Forman Clerico et Willielmo the glory of God and His holy Virgin Mother Mary and All Saints, from certain knowledge and genuine impulse, and of our special favour, we have granted and given licence by these presents, for ourselves and our heirs, as far as in our power lies, to Henry Sotehill, Robert Hall, Clerk, John Forman, Rerysby Capellano feoffatoribus Clerk, William Reresby, Chap- Thurstani Banastre filii et heredis Rogeri Banastre ad usum ipsius Thurstani feoffatis quod ipsi seu eorum aliqui seu eorum aliquis unam cantariam perpetuam de uno Capellano perpetuo divina ad altare beati Petri Apostoli in arcu boriali Ecclesie parochialis omnium lain, feoffors of Thurstan Banas- ter son and heir of Roger Banaster, for the use of the said Thurston feoffee, that they one or all may make, found, erect, establish and build one per- petual chantry, for one perpetual chaplain to celebrate divine service for ever at the altar of See Plan of the Church in 1530. F 2 68 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Sanctorum cle Wakefelde pro salubri statu nostro ac pro anima predilectissimi patris nostri Ricardi nuper ducis Ebor ac pro animabus predictorum Rogeri Banastre et Thurstani Banastre et animabus omnium fidelium defunctorum juxta ordinacionem eorundem Henrici Sotehill Roberti Hall Johannis Forman et Willielmi Rerisby in hac parte faciendam celebraturo imperpetuum facere fundare erigere stabilire et creare possint seu eorum aliquis possit. Et quod dicta cantaria cum sic erecta fundata creata et stabilita fuerit cantaria Rogeri Nowell consanquinei predicti Rogeri Banastre et Thurstani Banastre beati Petri Apostoli in arcu boriali ecclesie parochialis Om- nium Sanctorum de Wakefelde inperpetuum nuncupetur et quod primus capellanus cantarie predicte cum cantaria ilia erecta fundata creata et stabilita fuerit et successores sui capellani can- tarie predicte sint unum corpus perpetuum ac persone habiles et capaces in lege ad perquiren- dum et recipiendum sibi et successoribus suis imperpetuum quendam annuum redditum septem marcarum ex dono pre- predicti Rogeri Nowell per manus ipsius Rogeri Nowell et the blessed Apostle Peter, in the north aisle of the parish church of All Saints, Wakefield, for our health, and for the soul of our beloved father, Richard, late Duke of York, and for the souls of the aforementioned Roger Banaster and Thurstan Banaster, and for the souls of all the faithful dead, according to the order of Henry Sotehill, Robert Hall, John Forman, and William Reresby. And that the aforesaid chantry, when it shall have been thus erected, founded, built and established, shall be called for ever the chantry of Roger Nowell, cousin of the aforesaid Roger Banaster and Thurstan Banaster, sacred to the blessed Apostle Peter, in the north aisle of the parish church of All Saints, Wakefield, and that the first chaplain of the aforesaid chantry, when that chantry shall have been erected, founded, built and established, and his successors, chaplains of the aforesaid chantry, shall be one body for ever, and persons fit and capable by law to acquire and receive for themselves and their successors for ever each year an income of seven marks, by grant of the aforesaid Roger Nowell, through the hands of Roger Nowell himself and his OF WAKEFIELD. 69 heredum suorum annuatim imperpetuum percipiendum et solvendum modo et forma quibus continetur in quibusdani scriptis indentalis tripartitis inter ipsum Rogerum Nowell et heredes suos ex una parte et prefatos Henricum Sotehill Robertum Hall Johannem For- man et Robertum Reresby heredes et assignatos suos ac Robertum Gargrave Ricardum Peke seniorem Robertum Chal- oner Johannem Lake Thomam Grice Thomam Lyster Ricar- dum Turton Thomam Cokson Robertum Grice Willielmum Hill Thomam Turton et Henri- cum Kent ex altera parte factis et specificatis habendum et per- cipiendum sibi et successoribus suis in sustentacionem suam imperpetuum absque impedi- mento seu impeticione nostri heredum vel successorum nos- trorum quorumcunque. Dura tamen per inquisiciones inde debite capiendas et in cancel- lariam nostram retornandas compertum existat quod id fieri possit absque dampno seu pre- judicio nostri vel heredum nos- trorum predictorum aut aliorum quorumcunque. Concessimus eciam per presentes prefato Rogero Nowell ac Capellanis predictis et eorum cuilibet post- heirs, to be received and paid annually for ever, only in the form in which it is set forth in certain written threefold inden- tures, between Roger Nowell and his heirs of the one part and the aforesaid Henry Sote- hill, Robert Hall, John Forman, and Robert Reresby and their heirs and assigns, and Robert Gargrave, Richard Peke senior, Robert Chaloner, John Lake, Thomas Grice, Thomas Lyster, Richard Turton, Thomas Cok- son, Robert Grice, William Hill, Thomas Turton and Henry Kent, of the other part, made and specified to be had and received by them and their suc- cessors for them and their support for ever, free from hin- drance or harm from our heirs or our successors whomsoever, provided that, on examination then duly made and handed in to our Chancery, it is found, as far as possible, free from harm and prejudice to us or our heirs aforesaid, or any other whatso- ever. We have granted also by these presents to the aforesaid Roger Nowell and the aforesaid chaplains, and to any of them, after the aforesaid chantry shall have been founded, that those chaplains and any of them may have perpetual succession, and 7° THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH quam cantaria predicta fundata fucrit quod capellani ill i et eorum quilibet habeant et habeat successionem perpetuam et quod primus Capellanus Can- tarie predicte cum cantaria ilia erecta fundata creata et stabilita fuerit et successores sui Capel- lani Rogeri Nowell et heredum suorum ad Altare beati Petri in Arcu boriali Ecclesie parochialis Omnium Sanctorum de Wake- felde imperpetuum nuncupetur et quod per hujusmodi nomen pro omnibus cantariam illam tangentibus placitare et implaci- tari respondere et responderi possit et possint in quibuscum- que curiis et placeis in omnibus et singulis accionibus realibus et personalibus et mixtis coram quibuscumque judicibus spirit- ual ibus et temporalibus tarn coram nobis et heredibus nos- tris quam in quibuscumque aliis curiis nostris et heredum nostrorum ac aliis curiis tem- poralibus et spiritualibus quibus- cumque imperpetuum Statuto de terris et tenementis ad manum mortuam non ponendis aut aliquo alio statuto facto non obstanto. In cujus, etc. Teste Rege apud Ponntefrette xxv die Sep- tembris. per ipsum Regem." that the first chaplain of the aforesaid chantry, when that chantry shall have been founded, builded, erected and estab- lished, and his successors shall be called chaplains of Roger Nowell and his heirs, at the altar of the blessed Peter in the north aisle of the parish church of All Saints, Wakefield, for ever, and that by his name, be- fore all who have any dealings with this chantry, he and they may cite or be cited, answer or be answered, in all courts and places, in every action real and personal, and before all judges spiritual and temporal, as well before us and our heirs, as in all other of our courts, and of those of our heirs, and other courts temporal and spiritual, for ever ; the statute about lands and tenements held under mortmain, or any other statute made ; not- withstanding. Whereof witness the King at Pontefract, the twenty-fifth day of September ; for the King himself." OF WAKEFIELD. 71 The following is the list of Chaplains appointed to the Nowell Chantry. Date of Institution. Name. Patron. Sep. 25. 1478 William Reresbye Roger Nowell, Ar. Feb. 8. 1483 William Aleyn, L.B. Cap. do. March 14. 1489 Tristram Yate, Cap. John Nowell, Ar. May 28. 1497 Nic. Croft, Cap. do. April 8. 151 1 Robert Boiling, Cap. John Nowell de Whalley Armiger. Edward Woode At the dissolution of Chantries, the following certificate was made by the Commissioners, in reference to this one. (Roll 65, No. 50). The Chauntrie at the Alter of Saynt Petre in the said Churche called Bannaster Chauntrie. Edward Woode, * Incumbent of the foundacon of Thurstane Banaster to thentent to pray for the sowle of the founders and all Xpen sowles and to do dyvine service in the said church in the high quere and is bounden to kepe one yerlie obite for the founder as apperyth by a foundacon of the same dat quinto die Junii anno dni mcccclxxx. The same is within the said Paroche Churche the necessitie is to pray and to ayde the service in the Quere dalye — ther is no landes alienate or solde sithens the iiijth day of February anno R.R. Henr VIII. xxvij. Goodes Ornamentes and Plate p'teninge to the same as apperyth by the Inventorie, viz : Goodes valued at xij5\ x]d. Plate xlvij-r.f The said Incumbent haithe and receyvyth yerlie one annuall Rent of iiij/. xiijs. i'ujd. goinge furthe of the lands of Roger Nowell in Wakefielde, Stanley, Owlesthorpe, Bradforde, Standall and Wentbrige. The Freehold was valued at £4 4s. The Copyhold at £2. The last Incumbent, Edward Woode, was allowed a pension of £4 4s. annually. The Soothill Chantry was founded, November 12th, 1495, * In another certificate Edward Woode is described as "52 yeres of age, well learned and teacheth youth." t The Plate weighed xj ounces iij dwt. 72 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH by Henry Sotehill (Sothill, Soothill or Sottell, as he is variously called), who held the Manors of Wrenthorp and Ardsley, and lived at Soothill Hall, Lower Soothill, a little way above where the present Batley station now stands. Only a few fragments of the outbuildings remain, and a room called Bishop Tilson's parlour. I have not been able to find the licence to found this chantry, and of the founder himself, or his family, very little is known ; neither can we, with certainty, fix the situation of the chantry within the church ; but I am inclined to think that its altar was placed westward of the south chancel pier, or on the west side of the screen that separated the south chancel and nave aisles, and so corresponded with the Nowell chantry altar in the north aisle. * The Commissioners' Certificate on this Chantry runs as follows :— (Roll 65, No. 48). The Chauntrie of iiij preystes called Southyll Chauntrie in the saide Churche. John Wilson, t Thomas Harrison, John Gybson, and William Sproxton Incumbentes of the foundacon of Henry Southill to thentent the said Incumbentes shuld pray for the sowle of the founder and all Xpen sowles and to singe service daly in the saide quere every worke day and iiij yerlie obbettes to be kept to the charges of xiiijj-. iiij*/. as apperythe by the foundacon dat' xijmo die Novembris anno dni mccccxcv. The same is within the said Churche the necessitie is to pray for all Xpen sowles and to do dyvyne service daylye in the saide Churche, ther is no landes alienate or solde sithens the iiijth day of Febr. Anno R.R. Hen. viij xxvijmo. Goodes, Ornamentes and Plate X p'tenynge to the same as by ij Inventoryes apperythe : viz : goodes valued at vijV. iijj. \]d. and plate at x\vs. i)d. First of the lorde chief Justice of England by thandes of Hugh Savell fermor of the cheif manor of Wrenthorpe p'tenynge to the * See Plan of 1530. f In another Certificate these priests are mentioned as " Thomas Henryson indifferently learned but studious in scripture, Thomas Tomer well learned, John Wylson and William Croxton somewhat learned." J The Plate weighed xxxv ounces, whereof gylte xxij oz. parcell gylte xiij oz. OF WAKEFIELD. 73 sayde Chauntrie for the Rent goinge furthe of the same by yere xx/. ixs. ixd. A certen Rent payde by the said lorde cheif Justice of xs. yerlie — one cotage with a cloyse in the tenure of John Pecke viijs. — one cotage and two croftes in the tenure of Xpofer Feylde viij.?. — one cotage and two croftes in the tenure of Richard Aglande xvjs. — one cotage and two croftes in the tenure of Widowe Adde xs. — one cotage with one crofte in the tenure of Widowe Hanson v]s. viijd. — one crofte in the tenure of Widowe Hahurst viijjr. — one cotage with one crofte in the tenure of Widowe Fuller xjs. — one cotage with one crofte in the tenure of Will'm Farbarne ixs. — one cotage and ij croftes in the tenure of Wfflam Taylyor ixs. — and one cotage and ij croftes in the tenure of Willam Gyllson xijs., in all xxvli. xvijs. vd. Sum of the Rentall xxvli. xvijs. vd. whereof paiable to the Kinges Maiestie yerlie for the tenth xWijs. id. — to the Kinges grave at Stanley yerlie ii]d., and to the heires of Robert Skargyll Knight a yerelie Rent of xxxiijj - . iiij^. paid by the handes of the cheif tenande of the landes of the said Chauntrie goinge furthe of wch landes it is not knowen lxxvji". viijd. Sum of the allowance lxxvj^. viijd'. And so remanyth xxij/i. ixd. Two of the incumbents, John Wilson and William Croxston, received pensions of ioos. each. The other two were appointed to be assistants to the Cure, at a stipend of £7 per annum. The Chantry lands were granted to Sir Thomas Gargrave of North Elmsall, the price paid by him being ^558 14^. 2d. The Graystoke Chantry, in " the quere of Sanct Nicholas," was founded by William Graystoke of Wakefield, mercer; the date of foundation being June 20, 1498. This, also known as the Trinity Chantry, was situated at the east end of the north chancel aisle. In his will,* dated December 2, 1508, William Graystoke desires "to be buried within the parishe churche of Allhalowes in Wakefeld, in the quere of Sanct Nicholas, there as Marjore, my wiffe late discessid, was buried. For my mortuary my best horse. To the mending of hie comond wais nyght aboute Wakefeld * Test : Ebor : Surtees Society: Vol. iv., p. 335. 74 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH x marc To the mending of the payment in Wakefeld towne x marcs. To be gyffene to xxti yong madyns to ther mariage x marcs. I bequeath a cloth of Arais worke, sometyme a hangyng for a hall, to the church of Wakefeld. To the stalling of the same church £x. To be disposid and warede of a Ledgend for the same church x marc. I bequyeth for ij cowchers called grett Portasses for the hight chore of the same church £xx. Eor ij pare of sensers of silver xxti marc. Richard Greystoke of Wakefield, dyer, whose will is dated June 13, 1517, bequeaths "xxi. to be bestowde of on vestemente, to have my name and my wiffe's name, Elesabeth, sett upon it, and to be occupide at the high alter." At the suppression of Chantries, the Greystoke Chantry was valued at, the Freehold £4. js. 2\d; Copyhold 40^. \\\d. The Chantry priest. Christopher Stead, received a pension of £4 V- 2d. There was an image of S. Nicholas near this altar, of which we find mention in the year 15 16. The Commissioners reported on this Chantry, as follows : — (Roll 65, No. 49). "Christopher Steide,* Incumbent of the foundacon of Wilbm Grastoke to thentent to pray for the sowle of the founder and all Xpen sowles and to singe service daly in the highe quere of the saide Churche and is bounde to kepe one yerlie obbet of vjs. viijd. to be distribute to poore people as apperythe by the foundacon dated xxmo die Junii anno dni mccccxcviii. The same is within the saide paroche church the necessitie is to pray and singe as before is saide, ther is no lands solde or alienate sithens the iiijth day of Febr- A° R.R. H. VIII. xxvijmi. Goodes Ornamentes and plate perteyning to the same as by the Inventory apperythe, viz : goodes valued at xviij^. \]d. and plate at xlvj\t First one tente with thapptnances in the tenure of Widowe Rawson xv]s. — one tente in the tenure of John Killingbecke xvjs. — one tente in the tenure of John Bromeheide xxs. — one * Described elsewhere as " 58 yeres of age, indifferently learned." t The Plate weighed xj ounces 1 dwt. parcell gylte. OF WAKEFIELD. 75 house in the tenure of Willam Casson viij-f.- — one tente in the tenure of Edwarde Hoppay xxviijj". — one close nere Wyndhylle in the tenure of the saide Edwarde xs. — one tente in the tenure of Peter Balle and other xxs. — one tente in the tenure Willam Dyamonde xvj^. and one cotage in the tenure of Beatrix Tonge iijs. iiij^. in all. Sum of the Rentall vij/z. xiij^. injd. whereof. Paiable to the Kinges Matie for the tenth xs. viijd. to theires of Robte Skargyll Knight for quyte Rent iiji\, goinge furthe of the howse in the tenure of John Bromeheide viijd. paid furth of the same to Kirkgate graveship viijV. payd to the same graveship goinge furth of Killingbeck house iijd. — payd to the Balif for Burgage Rent furthe of Willam Casson howse iijd. — -To the same Balif for Burgage Rente of Edward Hoppay Howse iijd. — to the heires of Woodroff for quyte Rent goynge furthe of one cloyse nere Wyndhill xijd. — to the said Balif for burgage Rente of Peter Balle howse iijd. — to Kirkgate graveship for the same howse id. ob. to theires of Woodroffe for a Rent payde furthe of the howse in tholdinge of Widowe Childe ijs. — to the saide Balif for Burgage Rente goinge furthe of the howse in tholdinge of Willam Dyamonde vjd. — to the lady Service ijs. goinge furthe of all the prmysses in all xxjs. vijd. ob. Sum of the Allowance xxjs. vijd. ob. And so remanyth vjli. xjs. viijd. ob. On December 21st, 1548, part of the property of this Chantry was granted to Messrs. Warner, Leigh and Bate. There was another Chantry of Our Lady in the Church, the origin and use of which is given in the Commissioners' Certificate, as follows :— (Roll 65, No. 51). The Chauntrie of O r Ladye in the sayde paroche Churche. " In the same is none Incumbent but voyde sithens the Statute and of no foundacon but onlie landes gyven to the mantenance of the same by well disposed men of the same paroche to thentente to have Goddes service the better mantened in the saide Churche and to pray for the sowle of the founder and to helpe the Curate to mynyster Sacramentes and Sacramentalles. 76 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH The same is within the said Church the necessitie is to have Goddes service mantened in the said Church albeyt ther is none Incumbent of the same ther is no landes alienate or solde sithens the iiij day of Februarye Anno r.r. Henrici viij xxvij m o- Goodes ornaments and plate perteninge to the same as by the Inventory apperythe viz. goodes valued at xv)s. \xd. and the plate* at lxxvjj. First a fre Rent goinge furthe of one tente in Colycgate in the tenure of John Jeffrason xiij s. iu]d. A rente goinge furthe of the tente of John Robert in the Market stret and bred bothes iujs. A rent goinge furthe of one tente ther in the tenure of Thomas Grice vijj. A rent paid furth of John Smith tente iji". A rent paid furth of Roger Bates tente ther xijd. Thomas Sharpe holdyth one tente ther ui)s. \\)d. ob. one tente ther in tholdinge of Edward Weddopp xxiiji-. One cotage in Northgatstrete in the tenure of Myles Talyo* i]s. — one tente with thapp'tnances in Kirkegate in the tenure of Casson v]s. x]d. A rent paid furth of Thomas Popiloyle tente x\]d. A rent paid furth of the tente of John Frere v)d. A rent paid furth of the tente of Willam Sugar \ii]d. ditto Hoppay ther iij.r. ditto Sugar \]d. A fre Rent of Thomas Grene furth of the tente ther ij^. Dymonde tente \)s. John Sidall tente x\i\]d. John Newall tente xijd. John Oxenfeilde House xijd. Oliver Dymonde house \]s. ]d. ob. thother tente of said Oliver xd. ob. etc : etc : xijd: rent furth of the house of John Bradforde. Item one crofte in Stanley in the tenure of John Nowell xxijd. One crofte in Fallinge vijs. and one crofte in thende of Sandall xviijd. Sum of the Rentall ^vij viijV. \]d. allowce xxs. xd. On March 28, 1549, the property of this Chantry was granted to Warner, Leigh and Bate. Sometimes a Chantry was founded by the parishioners to provide a living for an additional priest, who might help in the services of the church. The Morrow Mass Priest, whom we often find named in old accounts, was a cantarist of this kind. * The Plate weighted xix ounces parcell gylte. OF WAKEFIELD. 77 In the will of Thomas de Cote of Wakefield, tanner, the following notice of this priest occurs : — The will is dated 1 Oct. 13. Henry VIII. " Also a cottage lying in the street by the New Park side, within the Graveship of Horbiry, to the use of graves and war- deynes and priests of the lode service, otherwise called Morne Priest service, or the service of Corpus Christi feild within the aforesaid psh. Church of Wakefeld." In the Chantry Certificates we find this reference to the one at Wakefield. " The Service of the Morrowe Masse prest in the saide churche. Thomas Turner incumbent — ther is no foundacon of the same but the ordinance of the p'ochians the to thentent to have masse said at V of the clocke in the mornynge for all the servandes & laborers in the said pshe and is bounde to kepe the quere at all devyne service in the said church — and haith landes gyven for the maintenance of his levinge by the well disposed p'sons of the said p'oche, and the residence of his levynge he haith of the devocon of the same p'ochians and is charged with iiijor yerlie obites to the value of xxijd. Goods valued at xiiij.y. Plate* at iiijH- One house in Westgate in Tenure of John Jackson xxs. „ „ ,, John Grene viijs. ,, Northgate „ John Kelshawe xvjs. A Chambre in the Bucher Rawe viijs. One house in Snydall in tenure of Richard Thornton vjs. &c. &c. &c. Sum of the Rentall iiijli. xs. \)d. Sundry payments out xvs. v)d. ob. And so remanyth cxxiiij.y. xd. ob." The property of this Chantry was granted to Warner, Leigh and Bate on Dec. 21, 1478. From the following wills we learn some interesting particulars about the Altars at the Church in 1401 and 1420 : — * The Plate weighed "xvj ounces dubble gylte." 78 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH The Will of " In Dei nomine, Amen. Die martis proximo post festum Sanctum Marci Evangeliste, Anno Domini mccc primo Ego Ricardus Bate, coriarius, de Wakefeld, compos mentis mee, facio testamentum meum in hunc modum. In primis com- mendo spiritum meum Deo omnipotent^ et Beate Marie, et omnibus Sanctis, et corpus meum ad sepeliendum in cimi- terio ecclesie Omnium Sanc- torum de Wakefeld. Et lego pro mortuario meo unum equum cum cella et freno, et collobio duplici, et gladio ac pelta, non plum. Et ad V cereos com- burendos circa corpus meum in die sepulture mee V libras cere. Et cuilibet capellano venienti ad dirige meum ii)d. presbiterio vero parochiali in]d. clerico vero ijd. Et cuidam capellano ydoneo celebraturo pro salute anime mee, per unum annum integrum immediate post decessum meum Cs. Et ad fabricam majoris ecclesie beati Petri Ebor. iiij^/. Et summo altari ecclesie de Wakefeld ijj. Item beate Marie eiusdem ecclesie ij.f. et lumini eiusdem vjd. Item ad lumen Sancte Crucis vj^. Et ad fabricam ecclesie de Wake- * Test : Ebor : Part I Richard Bate.* " In the name of God, Amen. On the Tuesday next after the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist A.D. 1 40 1, I, Richard Bate, tanner, of Wakefield, being of sound mind, do make my will in manner following. Firstly, I commend my soul to Almighty God, and the Blessed Virgin, and all Saints, and my body to be buried in the graveyard of the Church of All Saints in Wakefield. And I bequeath for my mortuary one horse, along with a saddle and bridle, and -a lined garment, and a sword and buckler ; no more. And for 5 wax candles to burn around my corpse on the day of my burial, 5 lbs of wax. And for any chantry -priest coming to say my Dirige, 3^. ; to the parish-priest <\d. ; and to the clerk 2d. And to some suitable chantry priest who shall cele- brate mass for the repose of my soul, for one year complete, immediately after my decease, loos'. And towards the struc- ture of the great Church of St. Peter at York, qd., And to the high altar of Wakefield Church 2S. Item, to the Blessed Virgin in the same church 2s., and to the light of the same, 6d. Item, , — Surtees Society, 1S36. OF WAKEFIELD. 79 feld xij//. Item ad emenda- cionem cimiterii murati noviter xijd. &c. &c. Et Agnetum uxorem meam constituo principalem execu- torem, deinde Simonem Catnay conductorem, ac Johannem Polland de Wakefeld capella- num supervisorem." towards the light of the Holy Cross 6d. And towards the structure of Wakefeld Church 12^. Item, for the improve- ment of the burial ground, newly walled in, i2d. &c., &c. And I appoint my wife Agnes, executrix in chief; next Simon Catnay as director, and John Pollard of Wakefield, chantry-priest, as overseer." The Will of Joan de Thorp. "In Dei nomine Amen. In duodecimo die Aprilis Anno Dni Mccccvicesimo. Ego Johanna de Thorp de Wakefeld relicta Johannis de Thorp de eadem marcer sana mente et aliqualiter aegra corpore coram Willielmo Wardale capellano parochiali de Wakefeld Johanne de Holme Thomas Swaynson capellano Olivero Sireson dia- cono Johanne Hyndlay et aliis condo testamentum meum in hoc modo. In primis lego ani- mam meam deo omnipotenti qui earn ex nihilo creavit et Sancte Marie ejusdem genetrici et Omnibus Sanctis ejus et cor- pus meum ad sepeliendum in cimiterio ecclesie Omnium Sanc- torum de Wakefeld. Item lego pro mortuario meo unam vac- cam. Item lego summo altari dicte ecclesie v]s. \u)d. Item lego nove fabrice monasterii " In the name of God, Amen. On the twelfth day of April in the year of our Lord, 1420 ; I, Joan de Thorp of Wakefield relict of John de Thorp, mercer of the same place, of sound mind, but otherwise sick, in the presence of William Wardale, chaplain, of the parish of Wake- field, Joan de Holme, Thomas Swaynson, chaplain, Oliver Sireson, deacon, John Hyndlay, and others, I make my will in this manner. First, I leave my soul to God, Almighty, who created it from nothing, and to his Holy Mother Mary, and to all His Saints, and my body to be buried in the graveyard of the Church of All Saints at Wakefield. Item, I leave for my mortuary one cow. Item, I leave to the high altar of the said Church 6s. 8d. Item, I leave to the new building of the 8o THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Sancti Petri Ebor. vjs. vujd. Item lego sex libras cere com- burendas circa corpus meum in die sepulturo meo. Item lego cuilibet sacerdoti istius ecclesie existenti ad exequias meas et sepulturam meam v]d. Item lego Johanni Wollay j quart brasii ordiacii. Item lego alteri clerico iijV. et cuilibet clerico cum superpellicio ad (exequias) meas venienti )d. Item lego cuilibet sacerdoti istius parochie ad exequias meas existente in die sepulture \\]d. Item lego lumine Sancte Crucis v)d. quoli- bet anno per totam vitam dicti Johanni et Oliveri. Item lego duobus hercez sanctorum Marie et Magdalene m]d. et lumini Sancti Petri \\]d. durante vita de Johanni et Oliveri. Item lego luminibus Sanctorum Nichole et Katherine in toto \]s. Item lego lumini Sancti Johannis Baptiste \]s. Item lego servicio Sancte Marie ecclesie predicte xxj-. Item lego nove fabrice campanilis nostri xiij^. m]d. Item legotribus familiabus meis xd. dividendas inter eas sequis porcionibus. Item lego Johanne uxor Rogeri Taillour istius ville iiij quart brasii ordiacii. Item lego ad Otlay v]d. Item lego ad reparacionem vie inter pon- tem et altam crucem ad finem monastery of St. Peter at York 6s. &d. Item, I leave six pounds of wax to be burnt around my corpse on the day of my burial. Item, I leave to every priest of the said church who attends my exequies and burial, 6d. Item, I leave to John Wollay one quarter of barley malt. Item, I leave to each parish clerk 3d., and to every clerk with a sur- plice who atends my exequies, id. I leave to every priest of the said parish who comes to my exequies on the day of my burial, 3d. Item, I leave to the light of the Holy Cross, 6d., each year throughout the life of the said John and Oliver. I leave to the two hearses* of Saints Mary and Magdalene, 4^., and to the light of St. Peter 3d., during the life of John and Oliver. I leave to the lights of Saints Nicholas and Katherine together, 2s. I leave to the light of S. John the Baptist, 2s. I leave for the service of S. Mary in the aforesaid church, 20s. I leave to the new fabric of our bell-tower, 13s. 4^. I leave to my three domestics, iod., to be divided between them in equal portions. Item, I leave to Joan the wife of Roger Taillour of that town, four quarters of barley malt. OF WAKEFIELD. de Kergate iijx. iiijd?. Item residuam omnium bonorum meorum non legatorum lego et do Olivero Couper capellano meo ad ordinandum et cum pre- dictis bonis meis disponendum prout melius viderit expediri saluti anime mee et Johannis de Thorp nuper mariti mei et saluti anime cujusdam femine nomine Gudith quondam uxoris predicti Johannis atque saluti animarum parentum nostrorum et omnium fidelium defunctorum sicut pre- dictus Oliverus vult respondere nobis pronominatis coram suramo judice in die judicii quern quidem Oliverum facio et constituo executorem meum. Factum die et anno supra- dictis. Pr. 26. Nov. 1420." Item, I leave to Otlay 6d. Item, I leave to the repair of the road between the bridge and the high cross at the end of Kirkgate, 3-f. 4d. Item, the rest of all my property not willed I leave and give to Oliver Couper, my chaplain, for the dispensation and disposal of my aforesaid property as he shall see to be most profitable for the health of my soul, and that of John de Thorp, my late husband, and for the health of a certain woman, Gudith by name, a former wife of the aforesaid John, and for the health of the souls of our parents, and of all the faithful dead, as the aforesaid Oliver wishes to answer us when called before the Great Judge at the day of judgment, and this same Oliver I make and constitute my executor. Made the day and year above said. Proved 26. Nov. 1420." * " The first ecclesiastical use of the word seems to have been to signify the triangular candlestick, made of bars crossing each other like a harrow, in which twenty-four lights were placed for the service of Tenebne, or mattins and lauds, for the three latter days of the last week in Lent. Sometimes its shape was that of a triangular stand upon a foot, containing fourteen yellow wax candles and one of white wax in the centre. These candles symbolized the eleven faithful apostles and the three Marys ; the white candle representing the Saviour. In the Tenebrre service fourteen psalms were said, and as each was finished a taper was extinguished. The white taper, still lighted, was concealed near the altar so as to leave the church in total darkness." The word afterwards came to signify a light frame of woodwork used to set over the body of the deceased to support the pall, while the service for the dead was being said. Lastly it was applied to the funeral chariot or car. — Peacock's Church Furniture. 82 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Guild s.* Allied in some respects to the Chantries were the Guilds, which Wakefield, like most English towns, possessed, until the Reformation swept them away. These Guilds were associations of men and women for common objects of public and individual benefit ; they were not strictly religious bodies, but existed for lay purposes, though some of them maintained a chaplain and made provision for services in the Church, as well as furnishing with lights, the altar of the saint, to whom the Guild was dedicated. Each Guild had its annual meeting, usually on the day of the Saint specially honoured by the members, when all the brethren and sisters clad in their livery and hoods marched in procession to the church, carrying the lights which formed a part of the religious rites, there to make the prayers enjoined by their rules, to hear mass and to give their offerings, afterwards they met in good fellowship at the Guildhouse for the festive dinner. The Guild provided for the decent burial, and burial-service of its members, also wax-lights for burning around the corpse ; each brother and sister of the Guild had to make an offering for masses for the soul of the departed. These guilds were first attacked under the Act for the Dissolution of Colleges (37 Hen. VIII. c. 4), but were entirely swept away by the Act of 1 Edw. VI., c. 14, which vested in the King all sums of money devoted " by any manner of corporations, GILDS, fraternities, companies or fellow- ships, or mysteries or crafts," to the support of a priest, obits, or lights ; and all manors, lands, tenements, and other hereditaments belonging to the said corporations, GILDS, fraternities or com- panies, and fellowships. From the will of Thomas de Cote, of Wakefield, tanner, we learn that there was a " Geild of Seynt George within the psh. Church of Wakefeld," for he directs his Trustees, Tho. Tempest, arm., Richard Turton, senior, Tho. Hergrow, Wil. Richardson, draper, Cristofer Feild and George Kay, to hold a messuage in a * My information on this subject is almost entirely taken from the late Mr. Toulmin Smith's work on English Gilds, published for the Early English Text Society, from which I quote extensively OF WAKEFIELD. 83 street at Wakefeld called Kyrkgate, to the use of the (Gravn) or Wardens and priests of Seint George Servyce and Geild within the psh. Church of Wakefeld, and their successors, Gravn or Wardens for the time beyng, and to all other priests there in time to come, haveing the said servyce to prey for my saull, my fader's saull, my moder saul, and all Christian saulls — and the Trustees to sur- render to them a cottage in Thorns and a parcel of ground wtbin the graveship of Sandal to the said graves and priests of St George; a parcel of meadow lying near the Brecke at Wakefeld, belonging to Jane, now my wife, to the use of Jasper Goldsmith for life, paying to the aforesaid gravyn yearly i6<1 and to the Chapel of our Lady on Wakefeld Bridge 4^ yearly, and on the death of the said Jasper then to the wardens aforesaid.* There was also an altar to St. George, for Roberte Nevell in his will, dated May 15, 1524, bequeaths "my chamlett jacket, to make a vestymente to Sancte George altar. "f In the Court Roll of the Manor of Wakefield, another Guild is mentioned, "1527 Gild Sc. Xpofer infra ecclesiam de Wakefeld, cepit de vasto." " 1529, July 1. Richardson William to Altofts William. To the use of St Christopher in Wakefield Church." * (From Wilson's Yorkshire Deeds. Add* MSS. t Surtees Society : Vol. 79, p. 175. G 1 SECTION V. THE PAINTED GLASS, MURAL PAINTINGS, AND CHURCH FURNITURE OF THE XVth AND XVIth CENTURIES. THE Painted Glass in the Church at the end of the fifteenth, or beginning of the sixteenth century, was largely heraldic, with inscriptions running along the bottom of the window, stating by whom the glass was put in, or to whose memory it was inserted. Of the figures of Saints and others in it, at this period, we know very little ; but we are indebted to Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, Marshall to Norroy King of Amies, who visited the Church in the year 1584, and made notes of the heraldry then existing in the glass: copies of which are in the Harleian M.S.S., No. 1394; also to Roger Dodsworth, who came to Wakefield about 1640, and his account may still be seen in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. From these sources, we learn that there was : — In the great East window. On the right side, A knight kneeling in his coate, a Saviles armes on his brest, behind him 9 sonnes, each having his coate on his brest. Quarterly. 1. Argent, on a bent sable, three owls of the first. (Savile). 2. Gules, two bars gemelles, and a chief argent. (Thornhill). 3. Argent, on a bend gules, three escallops or. (Tankersley). 4. Sable, an inescutcheon argent, eight mart- lets in orl of the second. (Rochdale). OF WAKEFIELD. 85 Thomas Savile, of Newstead, married a daughter of Sir Richard Tankersley, Knight ; his son, Sir John Savile, Knight, of Tankersley, married Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of Rochdale ; their descendant, Henry Savile, of Tankersley and Thornhill, married Elizabeth, daughter and sole heiress of Simon, son and heir of Sir Brian Thornhill, of Thornhill. Sir John Savile, the donor of this window, a grandson of the above Henry Savile, married Alice, daughter of Sir William Gascoigne, of Gawthorp, Knight. Sir John died on the morrow of the Feast of S. Basil, 1482. His widow took the vow of chastity, 3rd July, 1482. On the left side of the window, A woman kneeling, having Gascoigne and Savile's coat impaled ; behind her, eight daughters. Argent, on a bend sable, three owls of the first. (Savile). impaling. Argent, on a pale sable, a conger's head erect and couped or. (Gascoigne, of Gawthorp). Underneath was this inscription : — Orate pro bono statu Johannis Savile militis seneschalli dominii de Wakefeild et Alicie uxoris sue et omnium liberorum suorum anno Domini mcccclxx. The phrase "pro bono statu" shows that Sir John Savile was living at the time when this window was inserted ; otherwise the phrase "orate pro anima" would have been used. The east window of the Pilkington chapel was filled with painted heraldic glass, and the following inscription beneath : — Pilkinton et Johanne uxoris sue et E eorundem qui istam fenestram fieri fecerunt anno gracie MoccccoLxxovto. 86 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH The arms in this window were :- 1 vlT/ Argent, a cross patonce voided gules. (The arms of the Pilkington family.) Party per pale, gules and azure, three lions rampant argent. Argent, a manch sable. (Hastings.) Argent, a lion rampant purpure. (Balders- ton). Sir John Pilkington, who founded the Chantry, married Jeanne, the late widow of Thomas Langley, a daughter of William Balderston, of Lancashire. The window on the South side of the Chapel contained two shields. OF WAKEFIELD. 87 Argent, a cross patonce voided gules, an annulet or. Party per pale, first Pilkington, second Balderston. Below, the inscription. Pilkinton armigeri filii et heredis Domini Johannis Pilkinton militis. The window on the north side of the great east window had an inscription, which ran thus : — Orate pro bono statu magistri Thomas Challoner, vicarii ecclesie parochialis de Pontefracte ac eciam pro animabus Thomas Challoner et Katherine uxoris sue. Vitrata est hec fenestra anno Domini MCCCC. octogesimo primo. According to Torre, Thomas Challoner was instituted to the Vicarage of Pontefract, July 20, 1465 ; he died there, and was succeeded by Richard Beryman, August 3, 1483. In the same window was a shield, bearing the five wounds, supported by two angels, the following words being written round about like a ring. lord with this sheild thou hus defend when this world is att an end. As there were other coats of arms of Challoner in the church, it is probable that they were contained in this east window of the north chancel aisle, but Dodsworth does not mention any exact locality for them. The Challoners lived at Stanley Hall, at the time when these windows were inserted, but their estates passed to Thomas Savile, by his marriage with Catherine, daughter of John Chaloner. Azure, three mascles or, a chief indented gules. (Challoner,) 88 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH The same impaling Ermine, a engrailed gules. (Scargill.) saltire The same impaling Argent, three covered cups sable. (Novvell.) Nowell impaling Argent, a fesse sable, three mullets in chief of the second. (Townley.) The Scargills were lords of Stapleton. The Nowells at this time must have been an important family ; we have already noticed the foundation of a chantry by Roger Nowell ; the arms here mentioned refer to the marriage of Roger Nowell to a grand-daughter of John Towneley of Towneley, Esquire ; she was his second wife, and the mother of his children. The windows on the north side of the Quire contained ; In the first, or most easterly. A knight kneeling ; below, this inscription ; Orate pro bono statu Ricardi Staynton (the rest gone), and the arms of Staynton. OF WAKEFIELD. 89 Gules, on a fess or, between three crosses patcc argent, a lion passant guardant of the field. In the second window were the arms of Peck of Wakefield, and families allied to them. The Pecks lived at Haselden Hall, in Northgate. Argent, on a chevron engrailed gules, three crosses pattee of the first. (Peck.) Quarterly of four. 1 st and 4th. Argent, fretty sable, over all a label of three points gules. (Middleton of Stockheld.) 2nd and 3rd. Argent, a cross patoncee sable. (Copley of Co. York). Impaling Argent, on a bend sable three spout pots, of the field. (Sewer.) The arms of Peck impaling Argent, six pellets, 3, 2 and 1. (Botham.) Below, the inscription Orate pro bono statu Ricardi Peck armi- geri et Johanne uxor eius et filiorum eorundem qui istam fenestram fieri fecerunt. 9 o THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH In the third window was this inscription, Orate pro animabus Roberti Barnby et Katherine uxoris sue et omnium defucntorum et pro prosperitate Agnetis Roberti et Anne uxor eius qui istam fenestram fieri facerunt. In the fourth window no coloured glass. In the fifth, this inscription, Oliverus Hulgar quondam vicarius de Wakefeild fecit istam fenestram cuius animas propicietur Deus. Amen. On the south side of the Quire no arms are noted, only the following inscriptions. In the second window from the east. Kneeling in the glass a man and his wife and nine children, four sons and five daughters. Roberti Cokson et Agnetis uxoris eius Thomse Cokson et Ysabelle uxoris eius et pro animabus liberorum eorundem. In the third window. Orate pro animabus Christopheri Hobson et Juliane uxoris sue Johannis Kent omnium fidelium. In the fourth window. Orate pro columitate Johannis Horburi et uxoris sue et pro animabus The second window in the south aisle of the nave contained the following arms and inscriptions. Argent, a chevron between three crosses formee fitchee gules. (Woodrove.) Impaling, Argent, on a bend between six martlets gules three bezants (Wortley). OF WAKEFIELD. 9i Woodrove, impaling, Argent, three hammers sable. (Hamerton). Sir Richard Woodrove, or Woodruffe, of Woolley, Knight, married Jane Wortley. John Woodrove, Esquire, of Woolley, married Elizabeth, daughter of Laurence Hamerton, Esquire, of Hamerton, and widow of Thomas Aldwark, of Aldwark. At the bottom of the window : — fuit Elisabeth soror Ricardi Hamerton militis et Alia Laurertii Hamerton Ar. vixit. Either in the same window, or in the next, were the arms of Woodrove alone, and Woodrove impaling Neville. Argent, a chevron, bet- ween three crosses formee fitchee gules. (Woodrove). and Woodrove, impaling, Argent, a saltier gules. (Neville), with this inscription below : — Orate pro bono statu Johannis Woderove et Elisabethe uxoris sue qui istam fenestram fieri fecerunt. In the window behind the south door : — 000 STT* iilTi MWIlllHIfl ^--.-=^ -_■- WIS HiBIlllll Wn StfiK £ i pz: _-4^r -^^ iiiiiininiiiiiiiiiiii™ viiLiLiiiJiJL wllMMIiiilBl jf_|jy v * & * 'K NmmiJi — ' s/ >ni 2=3T Quarterly, 1 and 4. Barry of six, argent and azure, in chief three lozenges gules. ( Fleming). 2 and 3. Barry of six, ermine and gules, three crescents sable. (Watertonj. 9 2 THE CATHEDRAE CHURCH The Flemings lived at Sharlston Hall, the most distinguished member of the family being Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln, founder of Lincoln College, Oxford; he erected Crofton Church, and died in 1431. His arms are carved on a stone shield in the front of the south porch of that church. The Watertons lived at Walton Hall, from about 1435, to the death of '• Squire " Charles Waterton, which took place May, 1865. Since then the Walton estate has been sold. In other windows of the Church were the following arms : — A falcon volant argent, within a fetterlock or. This was the badge of the house of York, who, when contending for the Crown of England, used as a badge, a falcon trying to expand its wings and to force open the lock, but when Edward IV. ascended the throne, the falcon was represented with expanded wings, within an open fetterlock, or free without a lock. Or, a spread eagle gules. The arms of Henry Sooth ill, who founded the Soothill Chantry in 1485. Or, a fesse dancette sable. The arms of the Vavasours of Haslewood Co., York. OF WAKEFIELD. 93 Argent, a chevron azure. The arms of the Swillingtons of Swillington, co. York. Argent, a bend between six martlets sable. The arms of the Tempests. On May 12th, 1659, the following arms were noted in the windows of the north aisle : "Si^TrT^illyjiy Cheeky, or and azure. The well known badge of the Earls of Warren, in whose possession the Church of Wakefield formerly was. Lozengy, argent and gules. The arms of the family of Fitzwilliam. 94 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Azure, three crowns, or. The arms assigned to Saint Edmund, King of East Anglia, and Martyr. They also occur in the chapel of Abbot Thomas Ramryge (about a.d. 1500), in the Abbey Church of St. Alban's, and again sculp- tured in the chapel of Abbot John de Wheathamstede, in the same church (about a.d. 1440). Gules, a fesse between six crosses, or The arms of the Beauchamp family. Or, three chevronels gules. The arms of the Earl of Gloucester. Argent, on a fess dancye sable three bezants. The arms of Burgh. In a high south window were also the arms of Warren. Of the rest of the glass we know little ; previous to the last restoration some fragments remained in the windows, but not a single complete subject existed. From the collections which can OF WAKEFIELD. 95 now be seen in the museum, located in the grounds of S. Mary's Abbey, York, and in private hands, it is obvious that from the naturally drawn and well-proportioned figures, with fine tints, transparent shading, and great delicacy of finish, that the windows when perfect must have been very fine, lustrous and gem-like. The remains consist of : — Fragments of plain, very deep soft purple ; the same lighter in tint, and lavender ; brilliant emerald green, primrose, lemon and golden yellow, orange, saffron, cherry-red, pink and rich ruby, purple and amethyst. Fragments of various figures, generally yellow-haired and nimbed ; of one holding a rosary in the hand ; of a nun, n imbed ; of a female saint, holding a book ; of another in close fitting- dress, with tight sleeves, singing from music ; of a naked Christ, probably part of a crucifixion ; of a king, crowned ; of a female figure, holding a sword ; of a young virgin saint, holding a white lamb in the folds of her mantle (St. Agnes) ; of an Archbishop, holding his cross ; of a crowned figure ; of a hand holding a book, upon which rests a lamb, being part of a representation of S. John the Baptist ; of a hand, holding a book ; of a female figure, holding a spiked wheel in her hand (St. Catherine) ; of an angel, with golden wings covered with feathers ; of a figure of a dead Christ, covered with wounds, taken down from the cross — the wounds are symmetrically arranged, and three drops of blood issue from each ; head of an Archbishop, with mitre and cross (S. William of York ?) ; figure, holding a wool-comb (St. Blaise) ; of a figure in plate armour ; hand of a figure, holding a scallop-shell (S. James) ; head of a saint, wearing a wreath of flowers ; of a female saint, holding a palm in her hand ; of a man ; of a Bishop, holding his mitred head in his hands (S. Denis) ; of a balance — the end of the beam and cords attached, holding a scale (S. Michael). Fragments of drapery, some of them falling in broad and ample folds, reaching to the feet ; pink, red, purple, yellow, white, with and without yellow stain, and blue. Fragments of back-ground of ruby, diapered with oak leaf; of blue, diapered with embroidery ; of white glass stained yellow, diapered with maple-leaf. 96 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Fragments of canopy, many very rich and elaborate ; one, with in the centre a demi-angel, in a dalmatic, playing a harp ; on one side, an angel playing a rebec ; on the other side, another, the instrument gone ; fragments of column, base, and pavement. Fragments of pattern glass, stars of many rays — gold and brown. Fragments of details of figures, parts of crowns, part of a crozier — with head much elaborated, springing from a cluster of little canopies and pinnacles. Only one fragment of heraldry remained : a sheaf of feathers, coming out of the wreath of a helmet. Of this date (1470) is the painting over the chancel arch, of which only a fragment now remains in the south-west spandrel, this has been so minutely described by Mr. Fowler in a paper read before the Society of Antiquaries in December, 1867, that I extract from it ; he says, ' ' The piers, capitals, and lower third more or less, of the architrave mouldings had once been painted in oil, a very deep rich full purple with veins of pure blue in imitation of porphyry or marble ; the spandrels and upper two thirds (less or more) of the architraves in distemper, a sufficient quantity of blue being exposed to indicate what had been, doubt- less, the field of a regular series of pictures On lifting a sheet of plaster in the south-west spandrel of the choir arch, there was found the figure of an Angel in an attitude of adoration, censing ; part doubtless of a large picture originally filling up the whole of the space above the arch. The height of the figure is 4 feet 3 inches ; from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other is 5 feet ; the height of the feet from the floor is 29 feet 3 inches, and that of the flat wood roof from the head about 5 feet. The stars which powder the field average 6 inches in diameter, and are about a foot apart." "The Angel is represented with four wings; two being arched over the head and spread in the air, while one on either side is at rest The knees are slightly bent, so as to add to the effect of suspension, the atmosphere being represented by patches of blue sky and stars of varied number of points and different colouring, Jrf,; <^ > OF WAKEFIELD. 97 but having all a wavy black outline. From the left hand which is held to the side, through the right which is elevated, there pass some cords, which, after crossing the right wing, terminate in a censer. There may originally have been a representation of the vast company of the redeemed whom no man can number, and this may have been intended for the Angel who presented their prayers before the throne with much incense. (Rev. vij, and viij, 3-4) The execution is highly conventional. The outlines are thick and black ; the whole aspect is fiat and meagre, without any attempt at perspective ; the limbs are stiff and angular, and the wings symmetrically placed and impossible. The expression of the countenance can scarcely be gathered from the fragment that alone remains, but the eye is large, wide open and gazing. There are but two furrows on either side the face, and these rudimentary ; one beneath the ala of the nose, and one beneath the corner of the mouth. There is no abdomen. The legs and lower wings emerge together from the waist on a level with the elbows, and articulate with the thorax. The drapery is confused, and can scarcely be regarded as more than filling in ; it follows the outline of the figure, but while the tippet upon the shoulders is distinctly ermine, the rest of the body with the exception of the hands, face and feet, is covered with what we must suppose intended for feathers. The colouring, even, does not aim at being natural, it is simply decorative ; that of the face, hands, feet and lower wings is white, with in the case of the face and hands, the intro- duction of a little flesh-colour ; of the arms, legs upper wing-covers and thurible, red ; of the under side of the upper wings, purple ; of the line down the centre of each feather, yellow ; of the outlines throughout, black ; and of the chain of the censer, a mixture of red and black. The northern stars and sky are azure ; the southern stars have each white points and a red centre." The Corbels supporting the roof of the nave are mostly of carved limestone. H 9§ THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Counting from the east those on the north are : — i. A face with small pursed-up mouth and distended cheeks. 2. Three fleur-de-lys ; one facing south, one east, and another west. 3. A mask, with enormously wide mouth and protruded tongue, flat nose, large pointed ears like an animal, and hair like the mane of a quadruped, combed back on each side. 4. Bunches of grapes alternating with vine leaves. 5. A mask, with wide open fish-like mouth, flat nose, distended cheeks, and large ears. 6. A rabbit. 7. Five conventional square-shaped leaves placed side by side. 8. (Probably modern), a face, with wide open fish-like mouth protruding lips, small eyes, thick flat nose, and a leaf on either side of the face. Counting from the east those on the south side are : — 1. A face with small pursed-up mouth, and swollen eyes and cheeks. 2. A face with extremely small mouth. 3. Foliage. 4. Grotesque face with swollen eyes, snub nose, small circular mouth, with distended cheeks, as if whistling. 5. Foliage. 6. Grotesque face, with small eyes, flat nose, wide half-moon shaped mouth, and distended cheeks. 7. Mutilated. 1. A pig eating acorns (modern). At the junction of the south arcade with the chancel arch, and below the easternmost window of the clerestory is a blank shield, supported by a winged creature with two small hands, and a very small flat face looking over the shield. The flat wood roof is divided into squares, and in the choir these are again subdivided into four squares each. At the point of intersection of the large squares are carved bosses, some of which are very interesting, especially those in the north chancel aisle, where are the three fleur-de-lys on a shield (commonly called the arms of the city, but this should be azure, one fleur-de-lys or) ; the monogram of the word Maria ; a falcon within a fetterlock, the badge of the House of York ; a rose within a fetterlock ; the cross keys of S. Peter ; a bird ; the initials J. L. ; and various grotesque faces. In the chancel, in front of the altar is a demi-angel winged. In the Pilkington chapel, the initials R.S., with a barrel or tun beneath; the sacred monogram, TH - S in a wreath ; a face with OF WAKEFIELD. 99 legs and arms but no body ; the letters R.Y. ; and on a half-boss, a thistle. In the south chancel aisle, the letters T.E. ; and a grotesque face with a stout square beard. In the nave are the falcon and the fetterlock ; the Savile owl ; a lion rampant ; a mermaid with a comb in one hand and a circular mirror in the other ; an angel holding a shield; the monogram PFFS ; a dog; and various grotesque faces. Interspersed with all these are grotesque masks, York roses with foliage, conventional leaves and fruit. These bosses are of the same date as the roof of the nave, which was erected about 1470-75. Church Furniture. The Rood Screen ran across between the piers of the chancel arch, where the present screen stands. The lower half of the present screen formed part of the original fifteenth century rood screen. It was surmounted by a large cross, or rood, bearing figures of our crucified Lord, our Lady and S. John, the beloved disciple." The mortises (now filled up with cement) in the soffit of the arch, secured the chains or rods for steadying these images upon the screen. Access to the top of the screen was obtained by a wooden staircase, starting from the north-west corner of the choir stalls, winding round the pier, and going through the passage in the wall on the north side of the chancel arch. The top of the screen was on a level with the caps of the chancel-arch piers. In addition to the rood screen, there were screens between the aisles of the nave and chancel ; the richly carved screens behind the choir stalls, still remain; the stalls were twenty-five in number — twelve on the south and thirteen on the north side. The seats, or misericords, can be raised, and all have carving beneath ; those that are marked with an asterisk being the original designs, the others having been inserted at the last restoration. * In 1491, John Tattersall left $ s - ^d. to the rood, from which it would appear that it was then being made. H 2 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH On the north side. i.*Fruit and leaves. 2.*Pelican in her piety. The legendary story was, that the pelican, her young being slain, mourned over them three days, and then wounding herself in the breast, restored them to life with her blood. 3.*Foliage. 4. Foliage. 5. Fruit and leaves. 6. Rose. 7. Grotesque. 8. Rose. 9. Grotesque. 10. Leaves. 11. A flower. 12. A dragon. 13. A flower and fruit. On the south side. 1. Grotesque. 2. "Flower. 3.*Flower and leaves. 4.*Grotesque. 5.* Rose. 6.* Crescent and fetterlock — the badge of the house of Northumberland. Mr. Fowler wrote thus, in the Yorkshire Archsological Journal, Vol. I., p. 150: — " I am not aware that a chantry was founded at Wakefield, for the soul of Henry, third Earl of Northumberland, who was the chief commander of the Lancastrian army, in the battle of Wakefield (Tuesday, December 30, 1460), and fell three months after, at the battle of Towton (Palm Sunday, the 29th of March, 1461); but, should it be found hereafter, that such was the case, then this was probably the seat of his chaplain ; or, possiby, his son may have contributed to the rebuilding and refurnishing of the Church, as an act of restitution to the town, for the ravages of his father's troops ; or, as an act of propitiation to the York faction, to whom, then victorious, he was indebted alike for his Earldom and his liberty (having been thrown into the Tower upon the death of his father), especially as King Edward IV. himself, as duke of York and lord of the neighbour- ing Castle of Sandal, appears to have likewise contributed the falcon and fetterlock — the falcon alone, the fetterlock and rose, etc., being several times repeated on the bosses of the roof of the north aisle of the choir. On four of the ancient panels of the choir desks, again, an elegant little crescent is introduced into the design, but with such exquisite grace and harmony, that its meaning has hitherto been overlooked, and OF WAKEFIELD. it has been considered merely ornamental. Two of the crescents are in front of the misericord abovementioned, and two in front of a seat from which the misericord has been removed." 7.* Grot- esque. 8.* Rose. 9. Rose. 10. Rose. 11. Grotesque. 12. Flower and fruit. k)i.3.sOn the south side, the principal stall-end, which faces east- wards, bears two carved owls, and a coat of arms, which is that of Thomas Savile, of Lupset, and Margaret Basworth, his wife, assumed after his marriage in 1482 ("1482. Aug. 21. Licence to the parish chaplain at Wake- field, to marry Thomas Savile and Margaret, daughter of Thomas Basworth, in Wakefield Church. Banns once." Test. Ebor. Vol. III., p. 346. Surtees Soc. Vol. 36), and borne until his death in 1505. Argent, on a bend sable, three owls of the field, with a mullet for difference, impaling, on a bend a martlet, between two cinquefoils and a crescent, the border engrailed with ten plates. Beneath this shield is some nice carving. This stall-end establishes the date of the choir woodwork, which was made, probably, soon after this marriage. The rest of the old woodwork has gone, with the exception of two carved stall-ends, which are now worked up in the 102 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH new stalls of the south aisle of the nave. A beautifully carved stall-end was found in the course of the last Restoration, buried beneath the box-pews in the nave. Some of this stalling was done in 1508, for in his will, dated Dec. 2, 1508, William Greystoke, of Wakefield, Mercer, left " To the stalling of the same churche, ten pounds." SECTION VI. CHANGES CONSEQUENT UPON THE REFORMATION- CHURCH FURNITURE OF THE XVIIth AND XVIIIth CENTURIES— THE COMMUNION PI ATE. THE next step in the history of the Church was in the 16th century, when the Reformation took place. In March, 1536, the act for the suppression of the smaller Monasteries was passed (27. Henry VIII. c. 28), and the larger ones soon shared the same fate. In the autumn session of 1545, an act was passed to confer upon the King the property of all colleges, free chapels, chantries, hospitals, fraternities and guilds. The death of the King, soon after the passing of this act, prevented any great amount of damage arising from it ; but it formed a precedent, which was speedily followed in the next reign, when a Bill was brought in, conferring the same rights on Edward VI. Commis- sioners were appointed to certify as to the value of the Chantries, &c, and the following certificate as to those at Wakefield is in the Record Office.* "Certificates of Chantries and Colleges. Henry VIII. and Edward VI. Yorkshire — West Riding. Made by virtue of the King's Commission, which was issued 21 June, 1548. Wakefield having houseling people [communicants] to the number of 2000. The Chantry of our Lady there There is no Incumbent now. * A copy of this deed was published in the Wakefield Journal and Examiner in March, 1867, by the Rev. T. Ambler Bolton. io 4 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Freehold £4 os. id. Copyhold 56^. \\\d. (pension £2.) The Chantry of four priests there called Soothill Chantry The Incumbents whereof have none other living but ^24 4s. *jd. in freehold lands thereto belonging equally divided among them, viz. to Thomas Haryson, n6x. \\d. Thomas Turner, 11 6j. 1 \d. John Wilson, n6i\ \\d. (pension 100^.) William Croxston, 116s. i\d. (pension iooj - .) Thomas Harrison and Thomas Turner appointed to be Assistants to the Cure, and each of them to have for his living ^7 to be paid by the receiver. The Chantry called Pilkington Chantry William Swanne Incumbent there Freehold ioSs. Copyhold £2 (pension \oos.) The Trinity Chantry there, alias Graistok Chantry Christopher Stead Incumbent there Freehold £,4 ys. 2\d. Copyhold 40s. w\d. (pension £4 js. 2d.) Thurston Chantry there Edward Woodde Incumbent there Freehold £4 4s. Copyhold £2 (pension -£4 4s.) The services of the Manor Map there Richard Northern Incumbent there Freehold 585. io\d. Copyhold i8i\ (pension 58^. lod.) The Chantry of two Priests upon Wakefield Bridge The Incumbents whereof have no other living but whereof freehold ^10 2s. 2 id. Copyhold ^3 4s. 6d. thereto belonging, equally divided between them, viz. to „ . TT Freehold ( 101s. i$d. Tristram Harton n , ,, { „„ » Copyhold ( 32s. T>d. Tt . , ■, c t Freehold I 101s. ild. Richard Stele Copyhold ( g M< 3 J. Pension of each 100s. OF WAKEFIELD. 105 The Chantry in the Chapel of Mary Magdalene there Richard Batt Incumbent there Freehold 275-. io^d. Copyhold 22s. 8d. (pension 37^. 10^.) The Chantry within the Chapel of St- John there George Leighe Incumbent there Copyhold 3™ 6d. Freehold £2. The Chantry in the Chapel of St- Swithin there Thomas Westerman Incumbent there Freehold 415. $d. Copyhold 7,8s. *}\d. (pension 41s. $d.) Assistance to the Cure. MEMORANDUM. Whereas in the said parish of Wakefield the said Cure of 2000 houseling people have been served by the help of the foresaid fourteen chantries and stipendiary priests. It is right expedient and necessary that there be priests or ministers appointed of the said Chantries, and stipendiary priests, whose abilities apoeareth in the certificate, and others to succeed them in perpetuity to help to serve the said great Cure, having none less but a vicar and two parish priests, whereof one serveth in a chapel two miles distant from the parish church [Horbury]. The vicarage being but of the yearly value of ,£20, and the parsonage [Rectory] in the King's Majesty's possession, of the yearly value of £47." From this will be seen the state of the Church at that period, and ever since (until the recent Restoration), the history of the Church has been one series of acts of disfigurement and spoliation. On February 21st, 1548, an order was sent to all the bishops, to cause the absolute removal of all images from churches, the Injunctions of September, 1538, having only ordered the removal of those which had been abused with pilgrimages or offerings, or which had candles set before them. We know that the following images existed in the Church previous to the Reformation : — " Our Lady," in the Pilkington Chantry, mentioned in the will of Roberte Nevell, 1524 ; and in Richard Turton's will, 1538 106 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH " St. NICHOLAS," in the Greystoke Chantry, in the wills of Richard Peke, 1516; Richard Bunney, 1535; Thomas Grice, 1546 ; and Brian Bradford in 1558. "St. George," in the wills of Thomas Gargrave, of Alver- thorpe, 1 5 14, Thomas Cote in 1522, Roberte Nevell in 1524. " St- Peter," in the Nowell Chantry, in 1478. " St. Stephen," in the Chancel, in 1437. " St. Christopher," mentioned by William Richardson, July 1, 1529. "All Hallows."* in 1521 and 1535. " S T - Katherine " (probably), the light of, is named in Joan de Thorp's will, 1420 ; St. Katherine's quire is mentioned in the will of Thomas Savile of Lupset, in 1505, and in Sir John York's, priest of Wakefield in 1502-3. There were lights to the Blessed Virgin, and the Holy Cross, as is shown by Thomas Bates' will, 1401, and to SS. Peter, Nicholas, Katherine, and John the Baptist, mentioned in Joan de Thorp's will, 1420. | Even if these images were not removed then, they would be at the accession of Elizabeth, when the commissioners set out with a fierce zeal to take down and burn or destroy all images and roods, and to deface all paintings on the walls of the churches, which in their opinion were idolatrous. Probably, at this time the coat of hard and adherent greenish Roman cement wash was applied, which covered the angel over the choir arch, and was met with in several parts of the choir, when the walls were stripped of plaster at the time of the restoration. During the reign of Edward VI., commissioners were sent out to take an inventory of all the church goods, and these inventories are now in the Record office, many of them quite illegible from damp and neglect in former years. The following one, which refers to Wakefield, is quite eaten away on the outer edge, so that all the words on each side close to the margin have perished. * " It is beyond all doubt that a figure which in some conventional way stood as a representative of All Hallows did exist. There was a strict rule that the image of the patron saint or ' head hallow ' of each church should be placed in the chancel, and in the many churches dedicated to All Saints there would be a question how the rule should be obeyed. It is very likely that there were several ways of doing it, but one of them was to put up an actual image, and call it that of All Hallows." J. T. Micklethwaite, F.S.A. Archaologia, Vol. xlvii t See Section IV. OF WAKEFIELD. 107 Exchequer Q.R. Church Goods. Yorkshire. m. 12. Oct & Nov Edw. VI. The Survey off Ch... Goodes in the Westryddynge of Yorkshire. [a.d. 1552] [m. 12] Wakefeld \ I[n] pimis One Chalyce duble gylt weyng xxvi ounc of Copper gylt on other ii Crosse staues to the pewter one pax 1 of Copper great pax of Copper one pyx 2 one Crismatory 3 of Copper & gyl of laten 4 one pytcher of laten one C sylke sett wt garters certen payntyd one blewe Cloth to cover the alter for Lent one cope of cloth of gold vestment & ii tunacles of the same albes therto one vestment checkery copper & gylt wt an albe ii tenucle cremysen velvett one Cope of bl Inbrotheryd wt boxes of gold one & ii tunacles of blacke velvett Inbrotheryd wt boxes of gold therunto one Cope of Chamy & grene one cope of blake satt wrought wt flowers one vest frowred damaske wt a cross one vestment of whit sat an albe one vestment wt an albe one vestment wt out albe one Covery wrought wt pyctures on very old ii fayre quysshyn work iiii other old quyssyn of Sylk for the lcttom ii large nother lesse one Care cloth. io8 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH good & evyll fyve large other towells good one large Cubbord iiii [m. 12. d] bord towe pair of ons of Wodd one great byble volume in Englysshe the paphracs in ynglysshe sexe boks of the Sext \ the byble in laten one halywater fatt iii handbells one laver of laten thre car fyve great bells hangyng in the of VVakefeld one Chyme one Clok to them wt stryngs Ropes & all other necessary to them one lytle bell in Clok howse on other bell called g bell. ) From the year 1585, we have documentary evidence of the changes which have taken place in the Church, as in that year the Churchwardens accounts commence, and are continued with only one or two slight breaks up to the present time. From them we learn that in the year 1586, " the Church was paynted," and again in 1600, "the whole Church was washen wth lyme and paynted"; this was done in a rough imitation of marble, the red colour being applied first and the yellow splashed on afterwards ; it was seen on several of the nave piers, but best on the south eastern-most one, during the progress of the restoration in 1872-3. In 1606, " the Church was paynted with oyl cullors and whited " ; this was 1. Pax. This is used when the mass is celebrated by a high dignitary. The pax is sometimes a crucifix, sometimes a reliquary, sometimes a tablet with a figure sculptured or enamelled upon it. Having been kissed by the celebrant, and by him handed to the deacon, it is carried by the latter to the rest of the clergy. 2. Pyx. The sacred vessel to contain the consecrated eucharistic elements, which are preserved after consecration. It was sometimes in the form of a dove suspended over the altar, or a box, and was generally made of the precious metals, or at least plated with gold or silver. 3. Crismatory. The vessel for the oil consecrated on Holy Thursday by the bishop, and used in baptism, confirmation, and extreme unction. 4. Laten. A hard mixed metal, nearly similar to brass, much used in for- mer times for ecclesiastical vessels and sepulchral monuments. *Ji " Scale of Feet. 1 2 3 4 5 DEATH. OF WAKEFIELD. 109 also in imitation of porphyry or marble, and the best example found was on the piers of the chancel arch. At a later period this was covered with a coat of yellow ochre wash, and in the year 1623, the following entries occur in the accounts, pd Clarkson for the whitting of the Church. pd the Paynter for Sentences payntinge upon the wallcs. pd for painteinge ye posies in ye Church. These sentences were painted on the south side of the north, and the north side of the south arcade, between each pair of arches, in black letter within scroll borders ; but the remains of them were scarcely discernible on the plaster being removed in 1872-3. In the spandrels of the tower arch facing the body of the Church were two allegorical figures, the southern one representing Time, and the northern one Death. ::: Time was represented as an old man, naked or very slightly clothed, holding in his right hand a scythe, the blade of which crossed his legs, with above and to the right an hour-glass, which may possibly have been held in the left hand of the figure ; below was a bracket and an inscription. Death was painted as a Skeleton, ochre yellow with strong black outlines, the right leg crossed over the left, reclining with his left fore-arm and hand on the cornice of a tomb of "classical design," while the right elbow rested on the surmounting ball of the same, and the wrist and back of the hand supported the head. Beneath was the inscription — Memento Mori — and a supporting bracket of scroll work similar to that around the texts. (See Illustration). The execution of both these figures was poor, that of the skeleton being particularly bad. The handle of the scythe of Time, the frame of the hour glass, and the bones of the skeleton were ochre-yellow, the rest black or whitewash. In 1632, the ten commandments were set up at the east end of the Church, for there is this entry : — " pd to Marke the paynter for writeing the ten commandments.'' These decorations would be in obedience to the 82nd Canon (1. James I. 1603), enjoining " that the Ten Commandments be set up on the east end of every church and chapel, where the people may best see and read the * Proc. Soc. Antiq. Lond. 2. b. vi. 130. no THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH same, and other chosen sentences written upon the walls of the said churches and chapels, in places convenient." In 1682, the Commandments were again painted, as we find : — " To James Oldfield for writing the Comandment, 03 : 12 : 00." Late in the sixteenth century it seems that the congregation was too large for the original pewing of the Church, for in 1592, "The great Loft was made," and 1606-7, the first long gallery was erected, the roof above being "latted and playstered " in the following year. Throughout the whole of the seventeenth century various entries are made of permission being given to certain people to erect pews or build lofts, such as the following : — December 7th, 1653, Whereas, Edward Watkinson, and George Radcliffe, Danyell Oley, and Richard Norfolke wanting convenient seats for their famylies and willing to build a loft of their owne proper cost and charge being fower pues without prejudice to any, wee the Vicar and Churchwardens do give our full consents witnes our hands Thomas Parker, Vicar. George Radcliffe Robert Rhodes Thomas Bark John Jackson Richard Radley Reynald Wood Izaak Gibson Joseph Stocks Churchwardens. September the third 1659. Memorandum. There was a loft builded in the Church at Wakefield by the consent of the Vickere and the Church wardens at the charge of those whose names are below expresst and this is opon ye north side off the Church before the ould loft the one end joyneinge to the first new loft toward the east and the other end to the second loft end to the west and it coste building aboute twentie three pounds the loft contains six pues, and they are by joynt consent sitt in by ye psons followinge (the pews and their occupants here follow) James Clayton John Bennett V Churchwardens that yeare. John Wetherell Tempest Taylor OF WAKEFIELD. in Memorandum, 1691. That Abraham Barber and Robert Gunson did erect and build one stall or pew at their own proper charges and costs (viz.) the stall or pew next behind the great Church dore, commonly calPd the Weding Church Dore, and that then the said Abraham Barber and Robert Gunson had the said stall or pew confirmed to them after a public citation published in the said church of Wakefield, and no person or persons not then claimed any right to the said seat or pew. Witness our hands, Ob. Lee, Vic. (and the Churchwardens.) Aug. 26, 1 69 1. Miles Sandifirth, clerk, then curate at Wakefield did erect one stall or pew in the church at Wakefield. As the parishioners erected these pews at their own cost, they were considered private property, and were handed down from father to son, or sold, either separately, or along with the residence of the vendor, and thus were, in no sense, church property. The following is a copy of a deed of convey- ance of a pew, in the south alley of Wakefield Church. THIS INDENTURE, made thee Fowerth day of Jan'y- in the seccond year of the Reign of ouer Sovereign Lord Georg the seccond, by the Grace of God of Great Britton, France and Ierland King Defender of the Faieth : Anno Dom. 1728. Between James Hebding, senior, of Thornes, in the Couenty of York Cloth maker of the one part and Stephen Hebden, Butcher of Wakefield : of the other part Witnesseth that the said James Hebden for and. in consideration of the sum of Three pouends Ten shillings of good and Lawful Brittish Monny to him paid in hand by the said Stephen Hebden at & befooer sealing and Delivery of these presents the Resipt whearof is hearby acknowledged and for Divers other good Causes and Considerations him hereunto moveing Hath Granted Bargaiened and sold and by these presents Doth Grant Bargon and sell unto the said Stephen Hebden his heirs Extors Admintors and Assigns All that pew in Wakefield situate in the soueth side ii2 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH of the soueth lie in the said Church adjoiens Thomas Beaumont on one side and Joseph Lum of Silcoats on the other all which said premisses were late in the posson of the said James Hebden Senior But now in the Tenure or Occupation of him the said Stephen Hebden or his Assigns To have and to hold all and Singulor the said pew or seats with their Appurtenances unto said Stephen Hebden his heirs and Assigns to the onely proper use and behoof of the said Stephen Hebden his Heirs and Assigns for Ever and the said James Hebden Senior the said pew and seats above Granted unto the said Stephen Hebden his Heirs and Assigns against him the said James Hebden Senior and his Heirs Against them and Every of them and against all person and parsons Claiming under him or them shall and will as much as in him lyeth for ever defend by these presents In Witness whereof the said James Hebden Senior have hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year full above written. JAMES HEBDEN. Seald and delivered And it is agreed by the in the presence of us said Stephen Hebdin to Benjm. Skelton alow Mary Hebdin his Joseph Lee. sister to sit in the saide pew. This pew was again sold in 1732, again in 1749, again in 1836, and lastly in 1841 ; and at the Restoration in 1872, was given up to the Churchwardens by the last purchaser. As these pews were built at different times and by different people, it was only likely that they should be of all heights and shapes, and such we find was the case, for in 1636 the pews were made uniform, as the following entry shows : — 1636. " By vertue of a comission it was appoynted that the Church- wardens together with the p'ishioners of Wakefield should make their pewes or seates in their church uniforme & according to order prescribed by authority." And again in 1 7 1 2, "Memorandum. That in the year 17 12, when all the pewes in the church was made uniform, etc." OF WAKEFIELD. 113 An Oak staircase was built to the north gallery, by one of the Churchwardens, as the following inscription, which was on the wall near to, shows : This Pair of Stairs was built at the charge of Matthew Meager, of Wakefield, Merchant, An. Dom. 1680. A Loft was built by the Churchwardens in 1682, and in 171 1 the old loft was pulled down ; this was probably the one known as the Great Loft, which was erected in 1592 ; and afterwards long galleries, full of pews, were built — one the whole length of each aisle of the nave, and one across the west end, in which the organ stood. In 1 75 1, the south loft was plaistered, and little alteration seems to have taken place from this time until the last restoration, when all the galleries were pulled down. In 1606, the church was " beautifyed "; "the p'titions betwixt the quiers removed." These were the side screens separating the choir aisles from those of the nave, which were put up about 1470. The lower half of the rood-screen was left at this time; but, in the year 1634, the Churchwardens wished to increase its height, and before doing so, they visited some of the churches in the neighbourhood, to see how this was to be done ; as these accounts testify. £ s. d. pd for our charge when we went to Bradforth to take a view of the Church ... ... ... o 3 6 Charge in going to Doncaster to view the Church 030 There is no entry of a visit to the church of St. John, at Leeds, which was then being built by John Harrison, a wealthy citizen of that town ; but, when the two screens are compared, there can be no doubt that the new one at Leeds was the one selected to be copied, and it is most probable that the same hand designed them both, many of the details being identical in the two. From the Churchwardens' books we learn the particulars as to the maker and the cost. 1 ii 4 THE CATHEIXRAL CHURCH £ s. d. 1634. pci to Francis Cunby his men for makeing the ptition & other worke in the church ... 15 14 8 pd to Speight for wood for the frame of the ptition ... ... ... ... ... 2 o 8 1635. This year the ptition betwixt the Quire and Church was finished & cost ... ... 18 03 2 The lower part of the screen was much mutilated to case it with Jacobean work at this time. This is well shown in Mr. Micklethwaite's drawing of the screen before the restoration. On the south side is seen the casing which Francis Cunby and his men affixed ; on the north side the old mullions are exposed, with the mouldings hacked away down to the floor line, and the remains of three traceried panels. The upper part of the screen consists of an arcade composed of diminishing Jacobean pilasters, with scroll work on the face, back and sides, with Ionic capitals, carrying a double entablature ; the frieze being elaborately carved with dragons and other characteristic ornaments, the fleur de lys of Wakefield being incorporated in the design. The present frieze is a reproduction of the original one. The doors were removed in the early part of this century, Sisson says, to make way for the pulpit ; anyhow, they were for a long time laid aside in the parvise, until Mr Micklethwaite hunted them out, and had them refixed when the chancel was restored. The first Pulpit that we have any record of, was made in 1589-90, and a sounding-board was added to it in 1607. " It m to Robte Crofte for bordes and nailes and workmanshipe of the cover over the pulpit xn>. mjd." A new one succeeded it in 1635-6, and the account of it runs thus : — " The new Pulpitt was made coste ,£18 oSj\ 6d." We have no means of ascertaining anything as to its shape or size, but in 1665, an ' houre glass' was added to it. For some reason or other, the parishioners seem to have become dissatisfied OF WAKEFIELD. 115 with this pulpit, for we find that in the year 1708, a new one costing ^30 was erected, the churchwardens receiving ^5 for the old one. This is the present pulpit of carved oak, but when originally made, it was a "three-decker," with a large sounding- board, surmounted by a dove. This sounding-board, which is beautifully inlaid and carved, is now converted into a table, and stands in the Pilkington chapel. An hour glass for the pulpit was bought on May 8th, 1745, at a cost of one shilling. The pulpit is shown in the engraving of the church made at the beginning of this century. The earliest mention of a Font is in 1607, when "The fonte was repaired, gilded and wrought in oyle cullors"; and again in 1635, "the funte was raised and guilded coste ,£03 ooi'. o6d. A curious entry occurs in 1654. "pd George Walton for an yron frame for the Christening bason, 4s." This may mean, that the font was broken by the soldiery during the Civil Wars; for we know that on May 21, 1643, during the battle at Wakefield, the room over the south porch was broken into by the Parliamentary forces ; or, the font may have been damaged by the Puritans in their first zeal to demolish what had served their predecessors. Anyway, this entry shows that some care was taken to preserve the old font; but in 1661 it was superseded by a new one, bearing the initials of six of the churchwardens for that year, viz. : — Francis Wheatley, Thomas Bargh, William Denison, Henry Williamson, John Robinson, John Farebanke. On one of the panels is C. R. II. 1661. (Carolus Rex.) The font consists of an octangular bason, with panelled sides, standing upon a moulded and shafted stem, and a high moulded base; the latter is now in the garden of the Wakefield Conservative Club, formerly the Vicarage house, and its place is taken by a small fiat base. n6 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH When first set up it was probably placed in the same position as at the present time, viz., at the west end of the south aisle, but in 171 1 it was removed to the west end of the nave, in front of the tower arch. In the year ijgo, Dr. Bacon, who was then Vicar, gave orders for a new font — "a kind of wooden egg-cup " — to be made, to take the place of the old one, which he thought obstructed the view of the charity children, who sat in the tower beneath the west gallery. The old font was then put into the room over the south porch, where it remained until 182 1, when at the suggestion of the Rev. S. Sharp, the Vicar, it was brought out and re-dressed by George and William Perkin, masons ; a new canopy, so-called Gothic, was added, made from the designs of Mr. R. H. Sharp, Architect, of York. On the 20th day of December, 182 1, the font was replaced in its original position at the west end of the middle aisle, a*id re-opened for public bap- tism ; the three children of one of the churchwardens, John Hartley of South Parade, being the first to receive baptism at it. The Homily Desk at the back of the stalls in the south aisle of the chancel, is the original one, which was set up in obedience to the eightieth Canon, about 1603. The present book is not the earliest one, having been bought in 1736, at a cost of twelve shillings ; it is fastened with brass chains to the front of the desk, and contains the autographs of each vicar since the time of the Reverend George Arnet, during whose vicariate it was fixed in its present position. The Alms Box. By the Canons of 1603, the Churchwardens were required to " provide and have a strong chest with a hole in the upper part thereof, to be provided at the charge of the parish, having three keys, one of which was to remain in the keeping of the Vicar, the other two in the custody of the churchwardens ; which chest was to be set and fastened in the most convenient place to the intent the Parishioners might put into it their alms for their poorer neighbours." In conformity with this Canon, the Churchwardens provided an almsbox, which was fixed against OF WAKEFIELD. 117 one of the piers south of the communion table, and had some nice old iron scroll work upon the lid, and stood on a short oak pillar, tapering from the top to the base. In 1 87 1 the paint and varnish were cleaned off this alms box, but another coat of varnish was laid on, and it was placed close to the Priest's door, near the Pilkington Chapel. An Organ was presented to the Parish Church of Wakefield by Thomas, Earl of Strafford, who is believed to have also given the organ at York Minster, as in the York accounts for 1639 this item occurs : — " To Mr. Horsley for strikeing my Lord Deputy's coate on the organs 4s* Earl Strafford was tried and condemned for high treason, and beheaded on Tower Hill, May 12th, 1641, and was buried at Wentworth. He was possessed of very extensive property in the town and neighbourhood of Wakefield, which was sold by auction, May 18 14, at the Strafford Arms Hotel, after the death of his descendant, the Right Hon. William, Earl of Strafford. The Wakefield organ was most probably given about 1620-21, for in the former year Sir Thomas Wentworth was elected member of Parliament for the County of York, and after one short session in London returned to Wentworth Woodhouse, where he resumed his studies and sports ; after this he seems to have spent very little time here ; in 1627, being committed to the Marshalsea for refusing to contribute to a subsidy for the king ; and in 1633, being appointed A^iceroy of Ireland, which office he held until 1640. It would appear more likely for him to have given the organ to Wakefield, while living in the neighbourhood, and while being member for the county, than when away in Ireland (although the York organ appears to have been given by him during his Vice- royalty) ; and there is the following entry in the Churchwarden's book under the year 1624 : — " Item to ye Organist 5^;" showing at any rate that there was an organ then, but there is no previous record of either organ or organist at Wakefield. * Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, VI., 352. nS THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH This Organ probably shared the fate of nearly every instrument in the kingdom at the hands of the Puritans, during the Civil Wars ; and when the Roundhead soldiery of Fairfax entered the Church on Whitsunday morning, May 21st 1643, after their capture of the town, in all likelihood, they " spoiled the organ," as we know they did at so many places. Nothing further is known of the Organ until 1717, when the Churchwardens " Spent with Mr. Smith about repairing ye Organ ;£oo 05X. od." and in 1725, wilful damage was done, for there is this entry, "pd to the bellman for crying ye damaging of ye Organs 00 : o : 3d.'' but we have no information as to the extent of the injury. In the year 1743, the Churchwardens considered that the Organ was not in a satisfactory condition, and in consequence they held a meeting " at the black swan," when it was decided to raise a public subscription, and the following items occur in their account books, 1743, "Expended in gooing to Stanley to S r Lyon's (Pilkington) for his subscription munny 6^." "Expended at several times in colecting the subscription money for Organ, 10 s. 6d." I am inclined to think from the carving that it was at this time that our present organ case was made ; it is certainly not of much earlier date; but we know nothing of the organ it con- tained, or even who the maker was. According to Mr. J. L. Fernandes, who wrote an interesting paper on the Organ in the Wakefield Journal for October 25th, 1867, a sacred drama was to be performed in the Parish Church in 1767, at the opening of the organ, he says that "in the absence of authentic information it may be assumed that the proceeds would be applied to defray the expenses of some repairs or alterations connected with it." I can find no account of any alterations or any reference to the organ in that year; but in 1771, Mr. Harley received "for repairing the organ ^36 15s. od., and again ^10 2s. od. in 1777. In 1787, January 31, the following account occurs " Paid Orggonnest for repairing the Orgon £40." This repair seems to have lasted until 1804, when at a meeting of of the Inhabitants held in the Vestry, on April nth, Mr. Daniel OF WAKEFIELD. 119 Smallpage in the Chair, it was resolved unanimously, "That it appears to this Meeting that the Organ now in the Parish Church has thro' decay become bad and insufficient for the purpose for which it was intended." Resolved unanimously: "That such parts of the said Organ as are incapable of repair shall be renewed with such additions as may be deemed necessary." Resolved unanimously : " That the Churchwardens be now invested with full powers to carry the above resolutions into effect. D. Smallpage, Chairman, Jno. Shackleton ; Jno. Halliday ; W. Whitaker ; Wm. Waller ; H. W. Hodgson ; Joseph Armitage ; John Noble ; John Harrison ; John Robson, Junr ; Wm. Robinson ; John Drake ; Jno. Pulleine ; Rd. Everingham ; John Hutchinson ; John Craven ; John Clarkson ; Wm. White." The Churchwardens being thus empowered applied to Mr. Wm. Gray, an eminent organ builder of London, who supplied them with the following estimate : — Wakefield, May 19th, 1804. An estimate by Wm. Gray Organ builder of London to build a new Organ and fix the same in the old Organ Case in the Parish Church of Wakefield, Yorkshire. The Organ to have three separate rows of keys, viz : Great Organ, Choir Organ, and Swell, the compass of the Great Organ and Choir ditto to be from GG long octaves up to F in all inclusive. The Swell from Tenor F to F in all inclusive. The Organ to have two large pair of bellows, and a set of feet pedals from the lower Octave of the Great Organ. The composition of stops as below. Great Organ. Two open Diapa- sons in mettle Choir Organ. Open Diapason met- tal throughout Swell. Open Diapason Stop do. throughout One stop ditto Principal^ Stop Diap- ason Flute Pipes y 4 6 4 Principal Cornet 3 ^ Pipes ranks ! 333 Flute I Pipes 12th f 93 2 15th Mixture 2 n inks Trumpet Hautboy 15th ) THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Great Organ. Sexquiattrc 3 ranks Tierce Mixture 2 do. Cornet 4 do. moun- ted Trumpet through out Choir Organ. New invented Violoncello. Principal Swell. Pipes Great Organ 932 Choir do. 464 Swell do. 1.XT, Total No. of Pipes 1729 The whole of the before mentioned work to be done with the best dry well-seasoned materials (warranted). To be packed and completely erected in the before-mentioned Church within fifteen months from the time the order is given, for the sum of 630 guineas, Carriage of Organ and gilding of front pipes only excepted, the packing case to be returned. W. Gray would allow 50 guineas for the materials belonging to the old organ. Signed, Wm. Gray. The actual cost of the organ was ^,661 10s. od. as per estimate, to this was added ^67 4s. od. for additions not specified in the estimate, viz., gilding the Front Pipes, making the swell to C in the Bass, making the lower octave of Open Diapason in the Choir Organ. Total ^728 145. od. The carriage of the organ from London cost ^36. In October, of the following year, a timepiece was fixed over the organ, which is shown in the engraving in Sisson's '* Historic Sketch of the Parish Church." The next addition seems to have been in the year 1837, when, at a meeting of the parishioners held in the vestry, it was agreed that Mr. Booth of Wakefield should make the following additions to the organ, viz. : — 17 new pedal keys coupled to great organ, 17 double open diapason pipes from GGG upwards; 17 open diapason pipes from GG upwards ; new cremona stop in choir organ. In 1864, when the west gallery was taken away, Sir (then Mr.) Gilbert G Scott advised that the organ should be placed in the north chancel, and it was further enlarged by Mr. Booth, who, in fc, Ol y OO ft; y Z *i h »?) i$ 1=3 t3 OF WAKEFIELD. 121 1867, added a new double open diapason on the pedals. The organ was rebuilt and enlarged by Mr. Alfred Kirkland, of Wake- field and London, in 1879. Sir G. G. Scott re-designed the case, which was made to face westwards, instead of towards the choir, as it had previously done ; this involved an addition of much new woodwork, and, at the present time, the front of the case may be said to be the only part of the eighteenth century organ remaining in the church. The following parts, put in by Mr. Kirkland, were entirely new at this time : — In the great organ, the open diapason, the stop diapason, the hohl flute ; in the swell, the stop diapason, the viol d'amour, the voix celeste (the two latter stops being presented by J. L. Fernandes, Esq.), and the oboe ; in the choir organ, the stop diapason, clarabella, flute, piccolo, and the clarionet ; the pedal organ was entirely re-arranged and was nearly all new. The instrument is worked by two sets of bellows ; the heavier one possesses three feeders, and is worked by an iron wheel and three throw crank, and when in full play two blowers are required. The present size of the organ is 33 feet wide by 17 feet deep; its height extending to the ceiling. Above the front pipes, which are gilded, is some good tracery work, which is surmounted in the centre by a musical trophy, at either side by a mitre, and at the corners by a cushion on which rests a crown and two sceptres ; below the pipes in the centre are some cherubs' heads. The side of the organ is divided into five panels, the three centre ones being filled with wooden pipes, the two outer ones with cylindrical metal pipes. The following is the present capacity of the organ : — Great Organ, CC to F, 55 Notes. 1. Double Open Diapason 16 Feet Wood and Metal 54 Pipes. 2. Large Open Diapason 8 „ „ 54 >. 3. Open Diapason 8 „ „ 54 „ 4. Gamba (C) ... 8 „ „ 42 „ 5. Stop Diapason 8 „ Wood and Metal 54 ,, 6. Principal 4 >, » 54 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH 7- Hohl Flute (C) 4 Feet ... Wood 42 8. Twelfth 3 „ Metal 54 9- Fifteenth 2 „ 11 54 IO. Mixture, 4 Ranks ... various ,. 216 1 1. Trumpet 8 Feet » 54 Swell Organ CC TO F, 54 Notks. i. Bourdon 16 Feet Wood ... ... 54 2. Open Diapason 3 „ Wood and Metal 54 3- Stop Diapason 8 „ )) )5 54 4- Torpodion (C) (Bass \ 8 „ Metal ... „ 42 Grooved to No. 9 1 5- Viol D' Amour 8 „ Wood and Metal 54 6. Voix Celeste... ... i (Grooved to No. 5) » 8 „ Metal ... „ 42 7- Principal 4 „ 54 8. Mixture, 3 Ranks ... various „ ... ... 162 9- Trumpet 8 Feet 54 IO. Oboe 8 „ 54 1 1. Clarion 4 „ 54 Pipes. Choir Organ, CC to F, 54 Notes. Double Open Diapason 16 Feet Wood and Metal 54 3 „ 54 Pipes. Open Diapason Stop Diapason Clarabella (C) (Bass Grooved to No. 3) Flute Piccolo Bassoon and Clarionet Spare Slide. Wood and Metal 54 ... Wood 42 Wood and Metal 54 „ 54 11 54 Pedal Organ, CGC to F, 30 Notes. Double Open Diapason 32 Feet Wood ... Open Diapason ... 16 ,, ,, Bourdon ... ... 16 „ ,, Principal ... ... 8 ,, ,, 30 3° 3° 30 Pipes. OF WAKEFIELD. 123 5. Flute 8 Feet Wood ... ••• 30 M 6. Trombone ... 16 ,, Metal ... ■■• 3° » 7. Clarion 8 „ ••• 30 „ 36 Stops. 1986 Pipes. Couplers. 4 Double Acting Composition Pedals. 1. Swell to Great. 3. Swell to Pedal. 2. Swell to Choir. 4. Great to Pedal. 5. Choir to Pedal. The Bells are first noticed in the Survey of Church goods taken in 1552, when there were "fyve great bells hangyng in the (tower) of Wakefeld, one lytle bell in the clok howse, on other bell." In the Churchwardens' accounts they are thus set down : — 1586, a bell was cast. 1589-90, the frebell was new cast. 1595-6, The first bell was cast new. 1602, the little 2 bell casten. In 1639, the bells were rehung by Tho. Talor, and the wood for the frames was brought from Haw Parke near Walton. In 1704, some new bells were obtained from Mr. Smith, bellfounder, the cost being defrayed partly by subscription and partly by the Churchwardens, as the following entries show. £ s. d. Spent when we agreed for ye new bells ... ... o 5 6 pd John Butterworth for hanging the new bell and mending ye other .. ... ... 4 12 6 pd John Shaw for fetching ye Bell ... ... o 15 o Paid Mr Smith Belfounder more to make good the subscriptions ... ... ... ... 14 14 6 In 1739, the bells were rehung on new frames, by James Harrison, of Barrow-in-Lincolnshire ; and on a beam which supports the bells, on the south side of the belfry, facing the door, is carved, Geo. Arnet, Vicar ; Saml Moor, John Banks, Benjn Micklethwait, Franc Norton, Saml Knowls, Philip Haist, John Scott, Robt Lumb, Churchwardens ; James Harrison, of Barrow- in-Lincolnshire, Bellhanger, 1739. The parishioners appear to have become dissatisfied with these bells in 1778, for at a meeting 124 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH held in the Vestry on November 26th, it was unanimously agreed, that a Peal of Eight new Hells should be contracted for in exchange for the old ones. The Churchwardens applied to Messrs. Pack and Chapman, of White Chapel, London, who supplied a new Peal of Eight bells at a cost of ,£124 6s. yd., and the old bells ; the new tenor bell weighed 24 cwt, and the rest of the peal were in proportion. These bells soon seem to have fallen short of the requirements of the parish, for on the 8th of June, 1816, only 37 years after the bells were cast, it was resolved, at a Public Meeting, held in the Vestry " that the whole Peal be recast, with the addition of two new bells, so as to make a complete Peal of Ten Bells." The work was entrusted to Thomas Mears, bell-founder, White-Chapel, London, who cast the following bells : — CWT. QR. LB. Treble 7 1 10 2nd 7 8 3rd 8 6 4th 8 2 5th 9 18 6th 11 2 4 7 th 13 2 26 8th 16 L5 9th 21 1 14 Tenor 3 1 9 Cwt. 133 2 o and presented twelve handbells for the use of the Ringers, for the time being ; on the tenor bell of which was engraved : — " For the use of the Ringers of the Parish Church, Wakefield." "1817." The amount paid to Mr. Mears was ^580 16.?. $d., but the total cost, with the carriage from London, fixing and Insurance, was ^765 js. 5^. The inscription on the Tenor bell runs thus : — Wakefield Parish Church. 18 16 The Revd S. Sharp, M.A., Vicar. T. Mears of London fecit. OF WAKEFIELD. 125 Below this, the names of the Churchwardens. S. Statter, I F . , . J. Lodge, I , P , . T tv ' Kirkgate. i x>- 1 r West? ate. I. Dixon, > a J. Bingley, J \ inches, the height being 2J inches, the weight 14 oz. 7 dwt. each. They are shaped like a dinner plate, with a rim one inch wide, and a slightly raised moulding on the edge, standing on a short thick foot ; in the centre of the paten is the flaming badge, and around it on one paten, " My Flesh is Meat Indeed, St. John, 6 & 55 th >" and on the other " Jesus said I am the Bread of Life, St. John 6 & 48." The hall marks are very indistinct, only the two hind legs of the lion passant being discernible ; but there is no doubt that they were made by the same maker and at the same time as the flagons and chalices above mentioned. The Spoon was given by Mr. J. L. Fernandes, because he saw the late Vicar (Rev d - C. J. Camidge) remove a fly out of the wine, 136 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH with his penknife, during a celebration of the Holy Communion ; and, resolved that this should not occur again, he requested the Vicar to procure a spoon at his (Mr. Fernandes') charge. The length of the spoon is 8 inches, of the bowl 2J, its width being 2 inches, and the length of the Apostle is 1^ inches. The Apostle is at the end of the spoon, but it is difficult to decide which of the twelve is represented. On the back of the spoon is the inscription " Presented by J. L. Fernandes to All Saints' Church, Wakefield. 1869." With the crest of Fernandes. The hall-marks are J. & J. W., Queen's head, Lion passant. The Mace was bought by the Churchwardens in December, 1865. The cost of the head was ^5 10s. od., of the staff and tip jQi is. od. Total cost £6 1 is. od. The length of it is 46 inches, of the head 10 inches, and of the tip 4f inches. The head is a plated silver, chased, floriated cross ; a dove standing with outstretched wings, on the top ; the staff is of ebony, and the tip at the lower end of plated silver. The eight collecting Alms Dishes were presented by Mr. W. H. B. Morrison, Churchwarden, at Christmas, 1882, to take the place of the oak dishes, which were new in 1875, at the re-opening of the church. The new ones are of brass, circular dishes, with a twisted cord pattern round the edge of the rim. On the rim are inscrip- tions in Old English small letters : (1) 23 Blessed ■ be ■ the • man ■ that ■ provideth ■ for ■ the • sick • and ■ needy. (2) © He • that ■ hath ■ pity ■ upon ■ the ■ poor ■ lendeth ■ unto • the ■ Lord. (3) SB He " that ■ soweth ■ plenteously ■ shall ■ reap ■ plenteously. (4) © Lay • not ' up ■ for ■ yourselves ■ treasure ■ upon ■ the earth. OF WAKEFIELD. 137 (5) ffl God • is • not ■ unrighteous ■ that ■ he ■ will ' forget your ■ works. (6) S To • do • good • and ■ to ■ distribute ' forget * not. (7) © While • we " have ■ time ' let ■ us ■ do • good -to ■ all men. (8) © Behold ■ Lord ■ the ■ half ■ of ■ my • goods • I ■ give to • the • poor. Underneath each plate, in the centre, is inscribed : Presented by Parish Church Wakefield t- 1882 * W. H. B. Morrison. SECTION VII. ALTERATIONS AND REPAIRS TO THE EXTERIOR OF THE FABRIC AT VARIOUS DATES. LITTLE has been said, as yet, about the exterior of the Church. The erection of the tower, as we have seen, took place from 1420 onwards, and we know nothing further of it until the time of Churchwardens' accounts ; from them many particu- lars as to repairs and rebuildings are obtainable, the earliest being in 1 60 1, when the upper part of the steeple was poynted ; the " square and spyre " were again pointed at a cost of £53 js. od. in 1666, and dressed in 1686, when the amount paid for ale for the masons is entered in the books. In a diary extending from 1712 to 1737, written by a Mr. Joseph Willis, grocer, of the Corn Market, Westgate,* the follow- ing entries occur, " Feby. 1, 17 14, a great wind which blew several Barnes down and Wakefield church Wethercocke, being on a Tusday"; "Friday, Aug. 12, 17 15, was the first stone laid in repairing Wakefield church porche, and on Thursday the 25 was the Wether Cocke set up again." How much of the spire fell with the weathercock at this time we are unable to say, and curiously enough the accounts here fail us, as none appear for the two years*i7i4-i5, but in the next year there is the following, "To the workmen when they had finished the church ^o 2s. 6d.; of course this may apply to any other work, and not to the spire at all; but from another diary, that of Mr. John Hobson of Dodworth Green, we learn that " it blew down some yards of the stone-work of Wakefeild Steeple." In 1738, the churchwardens called a public meeting at which they set forth the necessity of repairing the spire of the Parish * Hewitt's Wakefield, p. 224. OF WAKEFIELD. 139 Church, in order to prevent it falling ; the parishioners empowered them to have it attended to at once, and agreed that the expense should be met by a parish rate. From 1771 to 1777 large sums were spent by the churchwardens on repairs to the church, and the spire was cramped ; but this was not very effectual, for on the 17th of November, 1796, the Inhabitants of the Town and Parish resolved that the Tower and Spire should be surveyed, and that a Report as to the necessary repairs should be drawn up. Messrs. Lindley and Watson, of Wakefield, were the Architects appointed to inspect and report, and they found the Spire in a very decayed and dangerous condition, and recommended that it should be taken down with as little delay as possible ; they found the Tower walls strong and good inside, but that the exterior required casing, and finally they thought that a new Spire should be built. Their estimate of the cost of the work was, as under : For casing the Tower with the best £ s. d. Woodmoor stone 2,400 For taking down and rebuilding the Spire 850 The inhabitants of Wakefield seem to have been alarmed at the expense, so they took further advice, and Messrs. Bernard Hartley and Samuel Taite were consulted, with the result that they considered that more durable stone than Woodmoor should be used, that the spire should be taken down, and the tower to the bottom of the windows where the bells hang. This report still more alarmed the people, who at once passed a resolution that Mr. Wyatt and Mr. Soane of London, be requested to come immediately to Wakefield to examine the state of the Tower and Spire. Mr. Soane came down, and after examining the structure, made out a very long report, dated October 25th, 1802, to the effect that the holes in the masonry should be filled up, the stone- work of the pinnacles and battlements repaired, the walls of the tower prevented, by chain bars of iron or timber chains, from spreading outwards, from the weight of the spire thereon. This report was acted upon, and the spire was surrounded by iron bands at various distances, which were intended to bind the masonry together, but, as Mr. Fowler says, " the result was that the mischief, so far from being remedied, was indefinitely Mo THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH increased, by the alternate expansions and contractions of the metal by heat and cold, so that the masonry was well nigh rent in pieces by the very means which were taken to prevent it." Probably it was about this time that the crockets, or those which remained, and which had ornamented the spire, were cut away, to give an uniform appearance to the structure. The cost of these repairs was very great, as the accounts for 1803-4 testify; Mr. John Soane being paid for his services, ^67 165. In less than twenty years the churchwardens were again com- pelled to seek professional advice as to the state of their Spire, and this time they applied to Mr. Charles Mountain of Hull, who in a long report, on July 8th, 1823, recommended that as far as 15 feet from the top should be taken down and rebuilt, that the whole of the spire inside and outside should be carefully pointed ; if these repairs were done as Mr. Mountain suggested, he had no doubt that the spire would be perfectly secure and capable of resisting the weather for a century to come. These repairs were done, and the upper 15 feet taken down, and when rebuilt, 6 feet were added to the height, in November and December of the same year. A new lightning conductor was put up in the following April. In 1842, during the spring, weather boards were affixed to the spire as a protection againt wind and rain. From 1638 to 1642, the battlements and pinnacles were under repair; and in 1657, the whole of the south side was pointed from one end to the other, and again in 168 1-2, along with the east and west ends, and the south porch. The north-east corner of the chancel was rebuilt by John Watson, builder, in 17 18; William Musgrave having the joiner's work in connection with it ; and in another seven years, John Watson contracted to build "three windows and 2 pillars of ye church for ^80 - 5 - o " ; which these were, we have no means of knowing. In 1724, the south side of the church was re-cased, or rather it was commenced in that year, but until 1729 there are large sums paid yearly to John Watson, who did the mason's work ; it was at this time that the old OF WAKEFIELD. 141 transept windows, shown in the first plate, disappeared ; the bays on the south side were re-spaced, so that the original design of the church was lost. The north side was re-cased about the years 1787-90 by Kitson and Parking. These rebuildings destroyed the old work ; the new windows were of a very debased type, the heads of each panel being round, and without cusps ; the ornamentation of the buttresses and parapets was entirely epaulets and buttons ; and at this time, probably, much of the old glass was broken and lost. The east end was the last to be repaired, and at a meeting held on February 25th, j 789, it was agreed that a Vestry-room should be built at the outer side of the east end of the church ; the foundation stone was laid on September 5th, when ten shillings and sixpence was placed under the corner stone of the new vestry ; for some reason or other the faculty to build was not obtained until October the 23rd ; this vestry was placed underneath the east window, and in style agreed with the rest of the church. Another change, early in the eighteenth century, on the south side of the church, was the alteration of the windows in the Pilkington Chapel ; originally there were two windows between the east end and the priest's door, but when in 17 16 Sir Lionel Pilkington erected the large monument to his Grandfather and Father the two windows* were taken out, and one placed in the centre instead. In May, 1839, the parapet on the South side was much damaged by a severe storm, and a portion of it was rebuilt. The Roofs have been re-leaded at various times, and there are five sets of inscriptions which show the date, officers of the church at the time when the work was done, and also the plumber. * These windows are shown in the drawing of the church, made about 1690, by W. Beaumont, and engraved by J. Sturt, where it is described as " All Souls." A copy of this engraving is in the possession of Mr. Geo. Beaumont of Heath; two similar engravings, but with the name corrected to "All Saints," and dedicated by the artist to Nicholas Fenay (who died March 21, 17 10), are now in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries of London. A fourth engraving, with the name of " All Souls," was sold in London about six years ago ; I can hear of no others of this date. The view of the church facing the title page, is copied from one in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries. 142 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH They are Over the North side of the Nave, May the Eye that seeth all things Ever Protect the Church. Rev. S. Sharp. Vicar I. Statter R. Hodgson W. Batt I. Hardcastle G. Kitchin I. Marshall T. Field W. Robinson Churchwardens I. Drake. Plumber. 1813. Surely this is the House of God. Revd. S. Sharp, Vicar S. Statter I. Dixon I. Lodge I. Soulby S. Tengatt G. Westerman I. Wormald T. Dixon Churchwardens I. Drake, plumber, 1818. Over the South side of the Nave, An Eagle, Rev. S. Sharp holding tt; inks ^ 1Can An Eagle, claw an "° - oval facet. D. Maude G. Ridsdale E. Steer H. W. Hodgson J. Hall W. Ottley OF WAKEFIELD. I. Halliley J. Battey Churchwardens J 43 R. Backhouse Plumber 1812. God Preserve the Church of England. Over the South Chancel Aisle, M. Wortley I. Backhouse W. Beale T. Tunstall W. Richardson W. Ottley I. Smith E. Midgley Church Wardens I. and S. Backhouse plumbers, 1778. Over the North Chancel Aisle. M. Bacon, D.D., Vicar I. Hartley R. Webster I. Audsley W. Spicer B. Thompson I. Harrison T. Wetherill G. Green Churchwardens 1800 Let all things be done decentley and in order. I. Drake, plumber. SECTION VIII. THE RESTORATION OF THE CHURCH; 1857—1887. IN 1S48, a movement was set on foot by the Vicar, the Revd- Samuel Sharp, to re-seat the Church, in order to obtain increased accommodation. A plan of the church, showing the proposed alterations was prepared by Messrs. Vickers and Hugall, architects, of Pontefract, and this was approved of by the Bishop of Ripon, the Archdeacon of Craven, and the Rural dean of Wakefield. It was proposed to remove all the pews on the floor of the nave, to take up the floors throughout, to cover the whole area with a layer of concrete, to relay all the tombstones in their original positions, and to alter the positions of the Pulpit, Prayer desk, and Eagle Lectern ; it was also proposed to warm the church with hot water. For some reason or other this plan was never carried out, and nothing was done until the year 1857, when the Vicar, the Revd. Canon Camidge, and the Churchwardens, requested Mr. George Gilbert Scott to examine and report upon the condition of the fabric of the church, with a view to its complete restoration ; the following is Mr. Scott's report on the state of the Church : RESTORATION OF THE PARISH CHURCH. To the Churchwardens of the Parish of Wakefield. Gentlemen, — I have, in compliance with your request, made a careful examination of your Parish Church, with a view to forming an opinion as to the work required for the restoration of its several parts, with the probable cost of the same. The first work which seems called for is the restoration of the tower. This very fine structure, erected probably at the close of OF WAKEFIELD. 145 the 14th century, has become so decayed and suffered so much from injudicious repairs as to have lost nearly all its original beauty, excepting that of which it would be difficult to rob it — its magnificent outline and proportion. The stone having probably become decayed to some depth, it seems to have been reduced throughout with the pick, so that none of the old surface now remains, or at most a very small amount of it. The doorway and windows have been taken out and renewed in very bad taste, and the same has been the case with the parapets. The spire is equally decayed, and has lost all its crockets, the seats of which are still discernible. The interior of the spire is decaying so rapidly that the floor is deeply overlaid with the accumulated dust which is constantly falling from its surface. Besides the super- ficial decay above mentioned, both tower and spire have defects of a more important character. The buttresses are so shattered that their utility in strengthening the structure is greatly impaired. The stair turret is shattered throughout its height, and the spire is a good deal cracked. I would recommend a complete restoration of the entire structure. The buttresses and stairs should be almost rebuilt ; the windows and doorway renewed ; a new parapet and pinnacles ; and the external basemoulds and ashlar in great measure renewed. I would, at the same time, recommend that the vaulting of the lower stage of the tower, which was prepared for in its first erection, but seems never to have been completed, should now be carried out. The restoration of the spire is somewhat difficult. It might be partially repaired, but then the crockets could hardly be replaced, as they ought to be, in the solid of the quoins ; and in that case the internal and external decay would continue constantly to reduce the thickness of the stonework. On the whole, I am inclined to recommend that it should be rebuilt from the top of the tower upwards. I estimate the cost of the perfect restoration of the tower and spire at about .£3,500. I now proceed to the body of the church and chancel. This appears to have been erected in the 14th century, some- what earlier than the tower, but to have been much altered in the L 146 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH 15 or 1 6th, and again thoroughly debased within the last century or less. The object is to remove in some degree the meanness of character induced by these more recent works. With this view I would recommend all the parapets and pinnacles to be renewed ; the watertubes of buttresses altered ; the window tracery every- where renewed, and such other ameliorations as appear necessary. I would, at the same time, set upright the north-eastern pillar of the chancel, which is very much out of the perpendicular. The cost of these works I estimate as follows : — That to the east end, including some consequent alterations in the vestry, ^800. That to the aisles and clerestory, ,£1,800. The other great work which is needful is the refitting of the interior. This should, if undertaken, be done in oak, and in a manner worthy of the church. There are remains of very noble, ancient seats, which would serve as a guide, at least to the best parts. I estimate this work at ^1,900. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your very faithful servant, GEO. GILBERT SCOTT. 20, Spring Gardens, London, March 27, 1857. On April 16th, 1857, the newly-appointed Bishop of Ripon, Dr. Bickersteth, presided over a meeting in Wakefield, to consider Mr. Scott's report, and the measures to be adopted for the restora- tion of the Parish Church ; it was then resolved that immediate measures be taken for its restoration, and a strong committee was formed; over ^1239 was subscribed at the luncheon which followed, and by the end of June this sum had risen to -£33°°- Mr. Wm. Shaw of Stanley Hall offered all the stone that might be necessary, "even if it were to rebuild the whole Church," from his quarry at Barnsley, and Messrs. J. C. D. and Joseph Charlesworth offered stone from their best quarry; these OF WAKEFIELD. 147 generous gifts were however declined, as the architect advised that the Milnesbridge stone should be used for the restoration of the tower, which recommendation the Committee followed. On May 20th, 1858, the contract with Joseph Latham for re-casing the tower for ^3370 was signed; and on July 17th, the foundation stone was laid by the Vicar, the Rev. Canon Camidge ; as the work progressed, it was found necessary to rebuild the stair turret, which was much decayed. The west doorway was opened out, and the mouldings were copied from some found in the Church, which were thought to have belonged to the original west doorway, but are now known to be of earlier date than the tower, so must have come from some other part of the church ; by September 1859, the whole of the work in connection with the exterior of the tower was com- pleted, and in the following month the Restoration Committee decided that the taking down and rebuilding of the spire should be proceeded with, and a contract was entered into with Mr. Latham to complete the work for ^880. The old spire, which had been seen so many alterations and additions, was finally taken down, and in the ball under the vane a small copper case was found, enclosing two parchments, of which the following are copies : "The Tower and Spire of this Church repaired in the year 1803, M. Bacon, Vicar, Francis Maude, Charles Mann, Joseph Hall, James Wilby, George Addy, John Hurst, Joseph Issott, Ralph Walker, Churchwardens for the Town and Parish. I. H. Fecit. Wm. and Geo. Parkin, stone-masons ; Robert Greaves, plumber ; Jerh. Clapham, brazier ; John Hampson, whitesmith. Gn. Braithwaite, Curate ; M. J. Naylor, Lecturer ; Thomas Rogers, master of the Grammar School and Evening Lecturer; Henry Clementshaw, Organist, September 10th, 1803. The spire of this church partly rebuilt and repaired in the year 17 15." " This scroll was found in the ball under the vane, the 28th of June, 1823." The second parchment reads thus : " In consequence of the dangerous and dilapidated state of L 2 148 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH the upper part of the spire of this church, arising probably from the vane having been stationary for nearly 20 years, and during that time having acted as a powerful lever, it was deemed necessary to take down 15 feet and rebuild the same in the most substantial manner. It also afforded an opportunity of raising the spire to its original height, which in the repairs of 1 7 15 had been diminished. These repairs were completed in September, 1823, the following gentlemen holding appointments at the time: — Samuel Sharp, A.M., Vicar; Churchwardens for the town, John Hartley, John Scargill, Richard Nichols, Jonathan Barthrop, Thomas Shaw, Robert Wright ; Churchwardens for Stanley and Alverthorpe, John Gill, Charles Adams; G. W. Lewis, Curate; M. J. Naylor, B.D., lecturer, and head master of the Grammar School ; Thomas Rogers, M.A., evening lecturer, and chaplain to the House of Correction; J. L. Sisson, M.A., second master of the Grammar School, and evening reader ; John White, organist ; Stephen Priestley, parish clerk ; John Addey, constable of the town ; Charles Mountain, architect ; George Perkin, stone mason ; William Hardisty, whitesmith. Height of the tower from the ground, 105 feet; height of the spire from the tower to top of the vane, 132 feet; total height of the tower and spire 237 feet. Richard Nichols, Bookseller, Scripsit, September 30th, 1823." Upon the back of the last parchment was inscribed : — "9th May, 1 86 1. These two parchments were found in the ball of the vane of the parish church after the restoration of the tower and spire just now completed. The height of the tower is 105 feet; of the spire to the top of the stone-work 135 feet; of the vane above that 7 feet ; total 247 feet. Edward Latham, Wakefield, builder ; Joseph Latham, Wakefield, foreman." The first stone of die new spire was laid by the Vicar's wife, Mrs. Camidge, on June 19th, i860, and on the 22nd of November the top stone was placed on the spire by Mr. C. E. Camidge, then an undergraduate at Oxford, now Bishop of Bathurst. The parchments found in the old vane were placed in the cock, which now forms the vane, the measurements of which are, Length from bill to tip of tail 33 inches. / c South East View of The Cathedral Church of Wakef OF WAKEFIELD. 149 Breadth of tail (the widest part) 18 inches. Weight of the cock 28 lbs. The spire was built with crockets, as the old one had originally been ; though for many years none had been visible, they having, at some previous time, probably 17 15, being cut off from their seats. The roof of the tower was now groined and vaulted, this was intended to have been done at its first erection, but for some reason or other was never accomplished. The unsightly gallery that concealed the west window was removed, and the organ removed into the north chancel aisle. The first restoration work in the chancel was commenced in 1865, by the bequest of £800 from Mr. Ingram, towards the filling in of the east window with stained glass, and in the following year the committee appealed for subscriptions to defray the cost of the complete restoration of the chancel and its furniture. The vestry under the east window was pulled down, and the east end of the chancel re-cased, the stonework of the window being new ; over this window a canopied niche was erected, con- taining the figure of William de Melton, Archbishop of York, who consecrated the church in 1329. The figure was the gift of the Rev. H. Dawson. The nave was screened off from the chancel and its aisles, so that service might be uninterrupted. The plaster was removed from the walls and pillars, exposing on the east side of the chancel arch the weathering of the old high-pitched roof of the fourteenth century church, before a clerestory was added. The stones were re-dressed, without much regard to the old mason-marks, which existed in abundance. A new pavement, of stone and marble in the diamond pattern, was laid upon the surface of the old one, covering up the gravestones with their inscriptions ; a copy of the latter was however taken, and brass plates in the floor now show where the various tombstones are. The screens dividing the chancel from its aisles were cleaned and restored, and lengthened to the east wall ; the screens in the three eastern arches on each side, and the whole of canopy being new. ISO THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH The choir stalls were scraped, and several new ones added, chiefly on the north side ; benches for the choir boys were placed in front of the stalls, which had carved ends and panelled fronts ; the whole of the new woodwork was of oak, in harmony with the old work. Thompson of Peterboro' contracted to do the wood- work of the chancel, and, in addition to what has been already described, erected a new altar table, and new oak rails across the sanctuary. The floor within the rails was laid with encaustic tiles by Godwin of Hereford, and contains representations of the arms of England ; of Wakefield ; of the see of Ripon, on which Wakefield was dependent at the time of the restoration of the church ; and of the Vicar, Canon Camidge. Two large brass gas standards were fixed within the altar rails, but these have since, unfortunately, been covered with paint. The Reredos was presented by the Reverend Henry Dawson, and designed by Sir Gilbert Scott. It is carved out of Farleigh Down stone, the foundation being Caen stone. The general design is Perpendicular. There are three panels bearing figures in bass-relief, between and at the sides are figures of angels, under canopies, bearing shields charged with the emblems of the Crucifixion. On the left, under a canopy, is an angel having a shield, which bears the cord, and the spear crossed by the reed carrying the sponge. In the first panel is represented the agony in the garden ; an angel has appeared to Christ to strengthen him, while the three disciples — Peter, James and John are sleeping. The next angel bears on a shield the crown of thorns and three nails. The centre panel shows Our Saviour seated, clothed with the scarlet robe, the crown of thorns upon his head, and the reed in his right hand, the soldiers bowing the knee before him and mocking, " Hail, King of the Jews." The third angel bears on a shield the coat without seam, and the three dice, with which the soldiers cast lots for its possession. The right hand panel contains a representation of the scourging of Our Lord, immediately after his trial by Pilate; OF WAKEFIELD. 151 S. Peter I believe in S. Andrew Our Father S. John God the S. Philip which art S. Thomas Father, &c. S. Bartholomew in Heaven, 8. Simon S. Matthias &c. Christ, with hands tied, passively submits to the two soldiers, who, with knotted scourges, are inflicting the punishment. The last angel carries a shield, bearing the purse containing the thirty pieces of silver for which Judas betrayed his Master. Behind the altar is fixed a brass plate, on which is inscribed : — To the Glory of God this Reredos with the two tablets is dedi- cated by the Revd- Henry Dawson, M.A. a.d. 1869. At the east end of the sanctuary on either side of the reredos the wall was painted ; on the left hand side (as the observer faces it) are representations of the twelve Apostles, with the Creed and I^ord's Prayer, arranged in the following order. S. James the Great S. James the Less S. Matthew S. Jude Each figure is under a canopy, and holds a scroll containing an article of the Belief, in accordance with the tradition, that before they separated for their work of evangelization, they united in preparing a common confession of faith, towards which each furnished one Article of Belief, the several Articles being assigned as follows S. Peter : I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth : S. Andrew : And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, S. James the Great : Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, S. John : Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried, S. Philip : He descended into hell ; The third day he rose again from the dead, S. James the Less : He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty ; S. Thomas : From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. S. Bartholomew : I believe in the Holy Ghost ; S. Matthew : The holy Catholic Church ; The Communion of Saints ; 152 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH S. Simon : The Forgiveness of sins ; S. Matthias : The Resurrection of the body, S. Jude : And the life everlasting. On the right of the Reredos are figures of the Prophets, bearing scrolls inscribed with a verse from their writings. Isaiah : ' Behold a Virgin shall conceive.' Daniel : ' His dominion is an everlasting dominion.' Amos : ' I saw the Lord upon the altar.' Haggai : Then come the first four commandments, next Jeremiah : ' I will raise unto David a righteous Branch.' David : with a harp, as the sweet Psalmist of Israel. Obadiah : ' The kingdom shall be the Lord's.' Zechariah : Then the remaining six commandments, and Ezekiel : Hosea : with a book. Jonah : 'Out of the belly of hell cried I.' Malachi : with a book. All the figures are surrounded by a chaste border. The Altar Cloth of purple velvet, with the sacred monogram and the York rose worked in gold, in alternate squares, was presented by Mrs. Elias Holt. The richly worked kneeling cushions for the Communion step, were the gift of Miss Mackie. Two brass book stands for the altar table have since been presented, one with the following inscription : — In Memoriam F. W. W. E. O. W. IHS- Obiit Oct. 19. 1876. Obiit Oct. 24. 1879. * The inscription on the other one runs thus : In Memoriam. Sarah Micklethwaite. IHS' Ob. Ap. 6. 1883 OF WAKEFIELD. 153 The members of the choir defrayed the cost of painting the chancel roofs. Two of the south aisle windows were filled with painted glass, the one the gift of the Maude family, the other, over the priests' door, being presented by Mr. J. L. Fernandes. Seats were fixed in the south chancel aisle, westwards of the Pilkington chapel, and in the north aisle, westwards of the organ, which had been removed here from the tower. Brass gas stan- dards were fixed in the choir, and in the aisles, the gift of Mr. J. L. Fernandes. When the restoration of the chancel was nearing completion, the Committee requested Mr. Scott to supply plans for the restoration and reseating of the nave; and in July 1872 this work was commenced, the nave being boarded off from the chancel, where divine service was conducted for some months, but as progress was made, it became necessary entirely to close the church, and the congregation met in the Corn Exchange. The galleries were taken down, and the high-backed pews cleared out ; in removing the latter in the nave, the workmen found a beautiful old stall-end of fifteenth century workmanship, buried beneath the pews. The whole of the pavement was taken up, but, unfortunately, no record was kept of where the gravestones came from, so that when replaced, the position of many of them was altered. The plaster was taken off the walls and pillars, and then the fragments of paintings and sentences, previously described, were found ; and also, one of the wedged-shaped stones, enriched with the star ornament of late Norman work, which had formed the crown of an arch ; as well as a fragment of the tracery of a window of the church consecrated in 1329. Several of the pillars were almost entirely rebuilt, especially those on the north side of the nave. New windows, copies of the fifteenth century ones, were put in to take the place of those of the eighteenth century, with their round-headed lights, the new windows being composed of four cinquefoil-headed lights, with tracery above. The plaster was taken down from the aisle roofs, exposing once more the oak beams, and these ceilings were restored and decorated through the generosity of Mr. J. L. i54 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Fernandas, whose arms — argent, five waves azure, the centre one bearing a dolphin naiant of the first, impaling those of Nowell — Argent, three covered cups sable — are emblazoned on a boss near the centre of each aisle. Bosses bearing the monograms of the churchwardens in office during the restoration were fixed in the roof of the south aisle v above the font. J. C, (James Cardwell) ; J. D. G., (John Dodds Goldthorpe) ; W. S., (William Statter) ; E. H., (Elias Holt); J. H., (J. Howden); W. W., (William Watson); W. H. G., (William Henry Gill); J. B., (John Brown). The roof of the nave was freed from dirt and paint, and bosses bearing the arms of the Corporation of Wakefield, — azure; three fleur-de-lis or. ; the arms of the See of Ripon, argent ; on a saltire gules, two keys in saltire, wards downwards or ; on a chief of the second, a holy lamb proper ; and those of the Vicar, Canon Camidge, argent ; five lozenges conjoined in bend gules ; on a chief azure, three escallops of the first ; were added to the ceiling. An apparatus for heating the church with hot air was laid down by Haden & Son of Trowbridge, but this has now (1888) been replaced by one to warm the church with hot water pipes by Oakes & Son of Wakefield. New oak benches with carved ends were erected so as to form a central and two side alleys, sitting accommodation being provided for 1200. The paint and varnish were removed from the screen, and the Jacobean casing was taken away from the south side, exposing once more the old mullions and the traceried panels, which were in a better condition than those on the north; the latter were restored, a great part being new work. A new frieze and cornice were added ; the frieze was copied from some fragments of the old one which were found in the loft over the south porch, and which were inserted in the new work ; it is almost identical with the frieze in the screen at St. John's Church, Leeds ; the cornice was copied entirely from the one in that church. The doors, which had lain for more than half a century in the loft, were brought out, View of The Cathedral from The Tower, looking Eastwards c OF WAKEFIELD. 155 repaired and re-fixed ; Mr. Henry A. Dawson bearing the cost of this work. The pulpit, freed from its coats of varnish, was altered, a new pedestal and base being fixed, and it was placed near the north pillar of the chancel arch, and a staircase added. Two old stall ends, of sixteenth century date, were worked up with the new, to form the ends of stalls in the south aisle, and a piece of carved oak, probably screen work from the chancel, was inserted into the back of the stall nearest the south porch. The font was painted and gilded, and a chain, with weight and pulleys to elevate the canopy, was added. Large brass gasaliers of six branches were suspended from the ceilings of the nave and its aisles. A handsome brass eagle lectern was given by the Rev. Canon Camidge, in memory of his son, as the inscription on it shows : — " Dedicated to the service of God by the Vicar, C. J. Camidge, M. A. and his Wife, in memory of a beloved Son, a.d. 1866." The oak reading desk was presented by Mr. Christopher Dibb. Through the munificence of Messrs. Foljambe, Stewart, Coates, Harrison, Bulmer and Goldthorpe, all the windows of the south aisle were restored and filled with painted glass ; the west window of the south aisle was put in as a token of regard to the Vicar and Mrs. Camidge. The west window of the tower was presented by the Rev. Ambler Bolton. The Church was re-opened for divine service on November 3rd, 1874, when the sermon was preached by Dr. Bickersteth, Bishop of Ripon. Nothing further was done until the close of 1878, when the east window of the north chancel aisle was taken out, and new stonework, similar to that placed in the corresponding window of the south aisle, or Pilkington chapel, was put in. This was followed by a re- arrangement of the organ, so that the key-board should face to the west instead of to the south, as formerly, and it was also increased in size. At Christmas, 1880, Major Barker generously offered to recase the south porch, and in the following spring this was done, an iron gate taking the place of the heavy oak doors. 156 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Upon the dial stone, taken down during the rebuilding in May, 1 88 1, was an inscription, painted, and nearly illegible with age, which ran thus : ** \%. ^ %> ^ _o Ex Dono % . ^ Roberti Watson • ** An. Dom. 1722. The porch was rebuilt in 17 15, and was altered from the original one, as seen in Overton's old print of the church. In the small room over the porch, the Governors of the Grammar School and Wakefield Charities, in bygone times, held their meetings ; on Whit-Sunday, May 21st, 1643, the Parliamentary soldiers, after the battle of Wakefield, broke into this room, and defaced and scattered the papers and documents. A faculty to erect a new Vestry on the north side of the chancel was obtained on June 8th, 1881, and on the 10th of October the memorial stone was laid by the Vicar, Canon Straton, the inscription on it being : This Vestry was erected by public subscription and the Memorial Stone laid Octr 10th 1 88 1. a.d. by Norman D. J. Straton, Vicar. Churchwardens. Thomas Walker, Chairman James Cardwell, Treasurer John Saville, Secretary Henry A. Dawson George Fawcett William Hall John J. Martin Jesse A. Thornton Messrs. J. O. Scott of London, and Wm. Watson of Wakefield, were the architects. Huddersfield stone was used in the con- struction of the building. The size of the vestry room is 22^ ft. OF WAKEFIELD. r 57 oy 20 ft., external measurement, and its floor is on a lower level than that of the chancel. The cost of the vestry was rather more than ^1000. The Church Congress met at Wakefield in October, 1886, and the Vicar made strong efforts to have the buttresses, parapets and finials of the church restored before the meeting. Major Barker again came generously forward to restore the stone- work west of the south porch ; his example was followed by Sir L. M. S. Pilkington, Bart., who offered to re-case the walls of his chapel ; the portion between the south porch and the priests' door was done by the congregation. In pulling down the largest buttress, Messrs. Summers, the contractors, found two oblong leaden plates, each 7^ inches in length by 4 inches in breadth, which had been imbedded in the stonework, when the south side of the church was re -cased in 1724-5. One of the plates bears the York rose surmounted by the crown of state, with a feather on either side. Below is the following : VICKER THOMAS SCOTT IOHN NEWHALL IOHN MOGSON RICH.VRD BVRKIT IOHN RICHARDSON RICHARD SPINK ROBERT TOMLISSON IOSEPH GLOVER 1725 CHURCH WARDENS. The other plate has evidently been added by the sexton, who, not to be outdone, has scratched his own name on a piece of lead. WILL B R I G G S Saxton. When the buttress was rebuilt, the plates were not put back again, but a bottle was inserted, containing copies of the Wakefield 158 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Herald and Express, the Yorkshire Post, the last Parish Church Guide and Statement of Accounts, with the following, written on parchment : " In the name of God, Amen. In the month of September in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six and in the fiftieth year of the reign of her most Gracious Majesty Victoria (D.G.) Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, this scroll is deposited in commemoration of the restoration of eleven buttresses and other stone work on the south side of this Parish Church of Wakefield. The whole cost has been defrayed as follows : — For three buttresses by Major Joseph Barker, J. P., of Holmefield, Thornes. For three more and repairs to the Pilkington Chantry by Sir Lionel Milborne Swinnerton Pilkington, Baronet, of Chevet. For the remaining five buttresses the Churchwardens, from contributions made by themselves and others. This portion of the work is intended to complete the general restoration of tower, spire, south porch, windows, organ, new vestry, and oaken stalls in place of pews. Dedicated to the glory of Almighty God and the free use of all devout worshippers, and to make the edifice suitable for a Cathedral Church for the first Bishop of Wakefield who, it is trusted, will be appointed next year. All this has been done at great cost of labour and money, the free-will offerings of the friends of the Church, and this memorial thereof is here placed in the time of these officials. The Right Reverend William Boyd Carpenter, Lord Bishop of Ripon. The Reverend Norman Dumenil John Straton, Vicar of Wakefield and Canon of Ripon. The Reverend Henry Gason Ince and the Reverend John Wright Moore, Curates. James Cardwell, Benjamin Edward Depledge, James Fowler, John Edward Kaye, Vicar's Wardens. OF WAKEFIELD. 159 Thomas Senior, William Aked Statter, „,..,,. TTrl . . Y Parishioners Wardens. John William Whitaker, Francis Henry Wood, John Saville, Sacristan ; William G. Buckley, Parish Clerk ; William Storrs, Verger ; Reuben Reynolds, Mayor of the Borough of Wakefield ; William Watson, Architect ; John Summers, George Summers, Builders." In June of the same year the two memorial windows to the late Mr. R. B. Mackie, M.P. for Wakefield, and his brother, Mr. David Mackie, were presented, and fixed in the north aisle ; and in the following year the Stewart family gave two painted windows in memory of their father and mother. When the Bishopric of Wakefield was an accomplished fact, two carved oak kneeling desks and a credence table were placed in the sanctuary ; and a brass lectern, for use within the rails of the Communion table, was presented by Mrs. Rowland Childe and Mrs. Rothery, bearing the following inscription : " Presented to the Wakefield Cathedral on the day of the enthronement of the First Bishop of Wakefield by Rosa Childe and Elinor Rothery. June 25th, 1888." The throne was erected, from the designs of Mr. Watson, at the east end of the choir stalls at the south side of the chancel. Description of the Present Cathedral. The Cathedral Church of All Saints', Wakefield, consists of nave and aisles, chancel with aisles, a vestry on the north side of the chancel, a south porch, and a tower and spire at the west end. The style of architecture is mainly late Perpendicular. The roofs are flat, and in the nave, the chancel and the aisles are surrounded by a panelled parapet, with crocketed pinnacles surmounting buttresses, which stand between the windows. The windows are of four lights each, with a head of tracery above ; except the tower and three east windows, which are all 160 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH larger. Above the east window, externally, is a canopied niche, containing a figure of William de Melton, Archbishop of York, who consecrated the church on the feast of S. Laurence, August 10, 1329. Over the south porch is a small room, the parvise, lighted by two windows looking southward, above which a sundial is placed. The tower and spire are the most striking features of the whole edifice, and rise majestically from the west end ; on each side of the tower are two belfry windows, below which, on the south and west sides, there is the face of a clock ; under the battlements the peculiar machicolation, faithfully copied from the old work, may be seen ; the tower is embattled, and has a crocketed pinnacle with a finial at each corner. The spire, of octagonal form, is crocketed, and bears a cock for a vane. On entering the church by the west door it will be seen how remarkably the chancel inclines to the south, so that more of the north wall can be seen than the south. Various fanciful reasons are given for this, but it is probably only the result of being built at different times ; the same peculiarity may be observed at the parish church of Stratford-on-Avon, but there the chancel inclines to the north. The number of arches in the north and south arcades do not correspond, there being seven on the north side, and eight on the south ; the difference being due to the periods in which the two were built. The north arcade being first built in the Norman style, with large round arches, the south arcade in the early English style, with narrow pointed arches. 1 he pillars on the north side are, counting from the east, three moulded, or in the decorated style of architecture, next a round Norman, fifthly a moulded, and lastly two round ones ; on the south side they are all early English, or copies of them, alternately round and octangular. The west or tower arch is by far the finest in the whole edifice, three fine shafts on either side support the caps which carry the three principal groups of mouldings of the arch, while the two intermediate mouldings run from the base all round the arch without a break. This closely resembles the View of The Cathedral from the North Aisle, 1888 OF WAKEFIELD. 161 easternmost pier in the nave of Winchester Cathedral, built by William of Wykeham, about 1400. At the east end of the north arcade may be seen the passage through the wall, which led from the winding stair to the rood loft; and in the masonry between the arch at the end of the south aisle and the south wall of the church, the blocked up doorway can be observed, which led to the stone staircase, now walled up. There is no trace of a piscina in any of the walls, the reason being that during the eighteenth century the walls, in the situation where the chantry altar stood, were to a great extent rebuilt. The stalls in the nave and aisles are arranged in four groups, being separated by a centre and two side alleys ; the pulpit is near the north side of the chancel arch, the reading desk being in a corresponding situation on the south side ; the eagle lectern stands in the nave in front of the doors of the screen. The choir stalls in the chancel face north and south, but on each side are returned at the west end, where they join on to the screen which separates the nave and chancel. The chancel is entirely screened off from its aisles and from the nave. The organ nearly fills up the north chancel aisle, although, at the east end, sufficient space is left to form a choir vestry. There are no old brasses to be found in the Cathedral, nor any tombstones earlier than the seventeenth century. On the west wall of the south nave aisle the Royal arms of George III., dated 1773, are affixed. In the Church- wardens' accounts there are frequent notices of the royal arms, such as : 1605. For setting of the king's (James I.) Arms up. 1695. Paid Xtopher Walton for lorn work about ye Ks arms 090 Paid for takeing down ye K's armes 010 o Paid for painting ye K. Armes. (on the death of Queen Mary.) 2 10 o M 162 THE CATHEDRAE CHURCH On the west wall of the north aisle a tablet is placed, on which is painted the following : — The Righteous shall be in everlasting Remembrance. A List of ye Pious and Worthy Benefactors to this Town and Parish. To the Church. Mr. RicM Wilson gave to y° Vicar & Reader Mr. Edwd Watkinson gave for y° use of a Preaching Minister, in this Church Wm Denison gave to the Vicar and his Successors for ever a moiety of ye Cliftield Tythe, of ye value of about /. s. d. 02 12 05 100 00 00 Per Anm Mr. /. s. d. Dr. Knowles gave 03 OO OO Per Anm Mr. Cave gave 05 OO OO Per Anm Doctor Lister gave 00 06 08 Per Anm Mr. Blythe gave 12 08 04 Per Anm Mr. Savile gave 06 OO OO Per Anm Mr. Dan Oley gave 01 10 OO Per An m Mr. Thompson gave 02 00 OO Per Anm Mr. Ley bourn gave 01 OO OO Per Anm 06 00 00 Per An m : To the Poor, & other Parish uses : /. s. d. Mr. Wm. Denison gave 04 00 00 Per Anm Mr. Rich: Norfolk gave 00 10 00 Per An m The Lady Bowles gave 500 00 00 Mr. Wharton gave 20 00 00 Mr. Rich : Wilson gave 01 06 02 \ Per Anm Mr. Bunny gave 00 19 06 Per An m Mr. Sproxton and Mr. Lowden gave 06 1 5 00 Per Anm Mr. Pymond gave 05 00 00 Per An™ Mr. Baites gave 08 15 00 Per An m The Lady Hutchin- son gave Mr. Cotton Home built an Alms-house for 10 poor Men and 10 poor Women, & gave for their maintenance Rich: Taylor, Esq 13 01 06 Per Anm : Mr. John Foster 02 10 00 Per Anm : Mr. Tho. Pease 01 12 06 Per Anm; 08 00 00 Per Anm ; 54 °7 00 Mr. Ryley Mr. Tho : Binns Mr. Tho : Horsfield Mr. Tobit Sill Mr. Wm. H award Mrs. Sugden of Beverley 05 00 00 Mr. Zach. Moore 20 00 00 Mr. Tho : Harrison 10 00 00 Mr. John Kirke 20 00 00 Mrs. Franc Burdett 20 00 00 20 00 00 10 00 00 20 00 00 30 00 00 30 00 00 OF WAKEFIELD. 163 On another tablet, near the west end of the north aisle is recorded : — Go and do thou likewise. To the Free Schoole. The High and Mighty Princess Elizabeth of E : F : & Ir : Queen, of most blessed memory granted her Letters Patents for ye Erecting and Establishing of this Schoole with a Power for ye Purchaseing of Lands for ye Maintenance of ye Same for Ever. Geo : Savile y° Eld', Esq?., gave ye Croft where ye Schoole now stands and gave towards y e building of ye Schoole Geo : Savile, Esq r . his Son, Tho : Savile, Esqr. another of his sons gave Per Anm The Lady Mounson gave Per Anm Mr. Tho. Cave, gave 61. os. od. Per An. now worth Per An m He gave likewise to Clare Hall in Cambridg a Moiety of y e Tithes of Warmfield, to maintain two Scholars of this Schoole to be preferrd thither according to his last Will. /. s. d. i % I. s. d. 80 00 5 8 16 8 10 10 Mr. Tho. Bramley, Lon Merit Per Anm : 4 2 4 John Freiston, Esq. Per Anm : 4 Sr Richd Gargrave R nt Per Anm : 1 1 Mr. Richife, this windoiv is placed. 1874. The West or Tower window consists of five long lights and a head of tracery above ; the painted glass in it was executed by Hardman of Birmingham. The subject is the Resurrection. In the centre light is Christ, seated in Majesty above a bow of many colours ; in his hand the Book of Life, from which the dead are to be judged ; around, occupying the side lights on either side, a band of Apostles : S. John, holding a chalice ; S. Peter, with the keys of heaven and hell ; S. James the Less, with a club, the instrument of his martyrdom ; S. James the Great, with a staff; S. Paul, with a sword; S. Bartholomew, with a flaying knife ; S. Jude, with a boat ; S. Laurence, with a gridiron ; King David playing on his harp ; Abraham and Moses. Within this circle, a band of Virgins and Martyrs, prominent among whom are the Virgin Mary with a lily in her hand; one wearing the crown of martyrdom and bearing a palm-branch, also the symbol of a martyr ; a bishop wearing a mitre ; an old man carrying a cross. Below, in the centre, is S. Michael, holding a sword in his right hand, while with the left he weighs the souls of the dead in the scales. At the bottom of the window are seen the dead rising ; in the first light are two angels blowing the trump, and the sea giving up its dead ; in the second, bishops and priests rising from their graves ; among them, the donor of the window, the Reverend Ambler Bolton, in a surplice, with hands clasped in prayer, is the most prominent figure ; in the third light, the dead rising from their graves, and in the fourth, the sea giving up its dead. The tracery is filled with angels "full of sweetness, delicacy, and grace." OF WAKEFIELD. 179 On a brass let into the wall on the right hand side of the doorway is inscribed : In Memoriam. The West window of this church was inserted to the Glory of God and in memory of his Father Mother and Aunts all of Wakefield by Thomas Ambler Bolton Vicar of New Basford Notts. who died 15th December 1868 Aged 52 Years. The second and third windows in the north aisle of the nave (counting from the west end,) were filled in with painted glass by Mr. Kempe of London, in October, 1887. The general design of the windows is similar to those on the south side of the nave. The second window contains the Patriarchs. In the first light Abraham is depicted holding a label in his leit hand, on which are the words, Deus providebit sibi victimcun holocausii fili mi. At the foot of the pedestal is written, Abraham. In the second light Isaac is represented, holding a scroll on which is inscribed, Det tibi deus de rore cceli. In the lower compartments of these two lights is one scene, the sacrifice of Isaac, who is bound, kneeling upon an altar of wood laid upon stones, whilst close by is Abraham, with the knife in his right hand, the left outstretched in awe at seeing the Angel of the Lord, in glory, descending from heaven, and pointing to a scroll, on which are the words, N011 excudas manu. tuu. sup. pueruu. Near to stands a ram caught by the horns in a bush. In the third light is the figure of Jacob, leaning upon his staff, upon which both hands are crossed. n 2 180 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Lastly comes Joseph, represented as the ruler of the land of Egypt, clad in rich apparel, holding a vine branch with leaves and grapes, significant of the abundance which he had stored up in the seven years of plenty. The lower compartments of these two lights represent the blessing of the two sons of Joseph by their grandfather Jacob, who is raised up on his bed for this purpose. Ephraim and Manasseh kneel before the old man, whose hands are crossed, so that the right hand should fall on the head of the younger son Ephraim, to the evident surprise of Joseph, who stands near. In the back- ground are two figures, a female, and an old man. The tracery lights are filled with two rows of winged angels singing from musical notes the Gloria tibi. Running across the bottom of the window is the inscription : hi the reverence of God and in pious memory of William Stewart, of Wakefield, who died on the 14th day of December, 1886, his children have caused this window to be made. The third window contains the leaders of the children of Israel. In the first light is Moses, bearing in his left hand the two tables of stone, on which were written the Ten Commandments ; in his right hand is the rod, which twice became a serpent, with which he smote the waters that were turned into blood, and with which he smote the rock at Horeb. In the second light is a figure of Aaron, attired in the high priest's robes; the mitre, the ephod, the pallium, the girdle of the ephod, and the breastplate of judgment. In his right hand the High Priest holds the chains of a golden censer, and in his left the rod which budded. The two lower compartments of these lights represent the burning bush. Moses with bare feet is watching the miracle, and long tongues of flame leap forth from the bush. In the third light is Joshua, clad in a full suit of bright steel armour. In his right hand he holds a lance, whilst the left rests on a curiously shaped shield, on which are representations of the sun and moon, which stood still on Gibeon and in the valley of Ajalon. The fourth light is filled by Gideon, clad in complete plate OF WAKEFIELD. 181 armour. In his right hand is a large twoedged sword, and with his left he leans on a shield covered with devices of pitchers, in allusion to his midnight attack on the Midianites. The lower compartments exhibit Gideon in full armour, his horse near to, his lance against a tree, hi§ helmet on the ground, whilst he, on bended knee, seeks a sign from God ; and this is shown. The fleece is spread out upon the ground, and the dew of heaven is seen descending upon it alone, the earth around remaining dry. Above the clouds are three angels displaying a scroll, on which is inscribed, Rorate cceli de super et nubes pluant justum. The tracery lights are similar to those in the preceding window. Along the bottom of the window runs the inscription : In the reverence of God, and in pious memory of Anne the wife of William Steivart, of Wakefield, who died on the 27th day of February, i8jg, her children caused this window to be made. The fourth and fifth windows of the north aisle are also by Kempe of London. They were presented in June, 1886. In the first light of the fourth window is a figure of David, wearing a royal crown, and playing on a harp. In the second light, Solomon is depicted, in a golden crown, holding in his right hand a sceptre, and in his left a green book, his own writings. In the next light is King Hezekiah in plate armour, with a golden sceptre in his right hand, and the sun-dial of Ahaz in his left. In the last light is the scribe Ezra, holding the roll of the Law in his hands. The lower compartments of these four lights form together a representation of the Adoration of the Magi. The Holy Mother is seated, with the Infant Christ upon her knee, the three Magi, Caspar, Balthazar and Melchior worshipping, and offering their gifts. Melchior is represented as a negro on a brown horse, which is led by an attendant, whilst another carries a golden cup ; Balthazar as an Asiatic, having dismounted from a camel, with two attendants, one holding a covered cup; Caspar as a European, kneeling before i8 2 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH the Holy Child, and attended by a page holding his crown on a cushion in one hand, and a banner in the other. By the side of the Virgin is Joseph leaning upon his staff, and in the back-ground is a stable with an ox and ass. In the lower right hand corner, on a scroll is inscribed : In the reverence of God, and in affectionate memory of David Alackie, who died December jot/i, 1880, this window is dedicated. A.D. 1886. The fifth window contains the major prophets. In the first light, Isaiah is represented, holding in his hand a scroll, on which are the words, Ecce virgo concipiet et pariet filinm. In the next light is the prophet Jeremiah, holding a scroll, inscribed, Ecce dies venient dicit Dominus et suscitabo David gcr men justum et regnabit rex et sapiens erit et faciet judicium et justitiam in terra. In the third light, Ezekiel holds a scroll, Ecce gloria Dei Israel ingrediabatur per viam orientalem. Lastly comes Daniel, holding a golden mace in one hand, in the other a scroll with the words, Suscitabit Deus call regnum quod in teternum non dissipabitur. Below, in the four compartments of this window is a representation of the Adoration of Jesus by the Shepherds. An Angel holds the Holy Child in a cradle, near to stands Mary, and behind is Joseph ; in the back-ground is the stable with an ox and ass in it. The shepherds, in the light nearest to the Holy family, are worshipping the Saviour, one of them kneeling with clasped hands. In the other two lights the angel Gabriel is appearing to the shepherds, his right h*nd raised in salutation, the left holding a sceptre ; on a scroll are the words, Nolite timere ecce enim evaugelizo vobis gaudium magnum. The tracery lights in this and the preceding window are similar ; the two rows of lights are filled with crowned angels, winged and feathered, standing on golden wheels, in pairs, each pair being alternately red and blue on a blue or red OF WAKEFIELD. 183 back-ground. They are singing from musical notes the anthem, Gloria tibi. In the lower right hand corner is a scroll inscribed : In the reverence of God, and in affectionate memory of Robert Bownas Mackie, for some time Member of Parliament for this Borough, who died fune 18th, /88j, this window is dedicated. A.D. 1 8 86. SECTION X. HISTORY OF THE C A MB DEN AND JANE LECTURESHIPS : THEIR INCUMBENTS. THE Afternoon or Lady Cambden's Lectureship was founded by Elizabeth, Viscountess Cambden, and the following is a copy of so much of her will as relates to it : The last Will and Testament of Elizabeth, Viscountess Cambden Dowager bearing date the 14th day of ffebruary in the year of our Lord God 1642, and remaining in the registry of the Prerogative Court. I give and bequeath unto the Wardens and Commonalty of the mistery of Mercers of the City of London I mean to the body corporate or Corporation of the said Mercers by what name or addition soever the same is called made and known (if they will take the same according to the intent of this my Will) otherwise to the company of Merchant Taylors of London the sum of three thousand and one hundred pounds of lawfull money of England therewith to buy and purchase the inheritance of two Church Livings Parsonages or Rectories antiently appropriated to some Abbey Monastery or Religious House or Houses now commonly called Appropriations or Impropriations of one hundred pounds a year or more to either of them if the said summe of 3000/ and 100/ will reach unto it, the same to be in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire or Bishoprick of Durham (if conveniently it may be) and if they cannot fitt themselves in those places, then to buy them in some other places or Counties of the Land, where either of the said Companies (if the said Mercers will not undertake the business) shall best fit themselves with such Liveings to be purchased, and finds most want of preaching Ministers : and the same Church Livings or Appropriations so purchased and had my Will is shall OF WAKEFIELD. 185 be from time successively for ever by one of the said two Companies after their wonted Customs and elections by most Voices at their general Courts conferred bestowed and conveyed upon two worthy Ministers respectively that have taken Degree of Master of Arts at the least, and not conferred upon any for favour friendship or affection or upon Letters, for and during such term and terms and in such manner and form, and wth such cautions and provisions, as if they or either of them prove non-residents or have any other Benefice or Church Livinge with Cure of Souls besides, or shall neglect their charge, or otherwise misbehave themselves, that the said Company shall then think fitt to remove them ; that then the said Wardens and Commonalty and their successors from time to time for ever shall and may remove dis- place and dismiss him them or either of them, and elect or place another or others in his or their rooms according to their good discretion. And I heartily intreat the said Wardens and Commonalty for God's sake that they will be very careful from time to time to make choice of such as be well known to be honest discreet and learned men (and being such as are not under the age of seven and twenty years) fearing God and painfull in the Ministry and that by their Life and Conversation and Doctrine they may winne many souls to Christ Jesus. And for their charges of counsell travaill and conveyances about the said Appropriations or Impro- priations my Will is that the said Mercers (or Merchant Taylors if the said Mercers refuse) shall discount such charges as they shall disburse either to Counsell or to find out such Appropriations or Impropriations or otherwise out of the said summe of 3000 and 100 pounds aforesaid, wch said summe of 3000 and 100/ my Will is shall be paid to the said Company of Mercers or Merchant Taylors (if the said Mercers refuse) within eighteen months after my decease. Probat apud London coram ven-viro Willo Menie Sec Legu du Commiss, &:c. Septimo die Mensis Augusti Anno Dni 1643. juramento Thoma' Merii Armigeri unius Execut. Rolles servient ad Legem alter Executori. 186 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Under the terms of this will the Mercers' Company, who accepted the bequest, founded two lectureships, the one at Wake- field, the other at Grantham. The Lecture at Wakefield was first given on Wednesdays, but this was soon changed to Sunday afternoon. The ministers who have held the lectureship are the following : Joshua Kirbie,* born in 1617, and educated at Oxford; he was appointed the first lecturer in 1650. On one occasion he was imprisoned for praying publicly for Charles I. He refused to subscribe to the Act of Uniformity. Being shut out from the Church he lectured in his own house, and was then committed to York Castle, March, 1663. He was buried in his own garden in Kirkgate, June 12th, 1676. Obadiah Lee, was, Mr. Taylor thinks, f a son of the Revd. Obadiah Lee, Vicar of Wakefield, he died and was buried in the High Quire of the Church on Jany 29th 1702. Samuel Disney, M.A., was born in 1705, and became a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he was appointed Cambden lecturer February 12. 1 73 1 , and died July 22<-l 1741, aged 36 years, and was interred at the east end of the churchyard. John Scott, Clerk, M. A., appointed Lecturer Aug 21. 1741. He was appointed Curate of Horbury in 1761. Benjamin Forster was lecturer from September 3, 1766 to 1772; he wrote some amusing descriptions of Wakefield and its inhabitants in a series of letters to his friend Mr. Gough, which have been preserved. He was appointed Rector of Boconnoc in Cornwall. Christopher Atkinson was the next lecturer, being appointed in 1773, he had been Curate at Wakefield since 1761, and was Head Master of the Grammar School for thirty seven years, he held the appointment of lecturer for twenty two years, and died on New Year's day 1795. Martin Joseph Naylor, D.D. was appointed lecturer and instituted April 2, 1795; ne was DOrn at Batley Carr near * Wakefield Worthies, by the Rev. J. H. Lupton, M.A., 1864. t Rectory Manor, p. 359. n. OF WAKEFIELD. 187 Dewsbury in 1764; at Queen's College, Cambridge he was third wrangler of his year, and was then elected a Fellow. He obtained the head-mastership of the Grammar School, and after- wards had conferred upon him the vicarage of Penistone, which he resigned on becoming rector of Crofton, at which place he died Nov. 21 1843 in his 80th year. Joseph Senior, LL.D. the present lecturer, appointed in 1844. The Sunday Evening or Jane Lectureship was founded in the year 1801. It sprang from the preparation classes, held in the spring of that year, for the confirmation candidates by the ReW- Thomas Rogers, Head Master of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School and Afternoon Lecturer at the newly erected church of St. John's. These classes were well attended, not only by the candidates themselves, but also by the townspeople, so much so that Mr. Rogers suggested that on their conclusion a Sunday evening lecture should be given in the Parish Church.* When this was first mooted, several influential parishioners waited upon the Vicar, and said, "What have you done, Doctor? The church will be filled with rogues, and vagabonds, and all the bad characters in the town, who under covert of darkness and night will make it their rendezvous." "Do you think so?" said the Doctor. "Certainly," they replied. "I am glad to hear it," rejoined the aged minister of God ; " we can never get them to come by day." Subscription lists were opened, and the RevJ- Robert Pugh, Vicar of Donnington in Lincolnshire, executor of the will of the Rev^l- Joseph Jane, late vicar of Iron Acton in Gloucestershire, who left ^4000 to be laid out to the best advantage for the service of true religion, contributed two sums of ^250 and ,£300 respectively for the support of a Lecturer, as will be seen from the following extract from the Deed of Trust, "THIS INDENTURE made the twenty sixth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and one Between The Reverend Robert Pugh Vicar of Donnington in the * " Memoir of Thomas Rogers, A.M." 1832. p. 75. 188 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH County of Lincoln of the one part and the said Rober Pugh. The Reverend Michael Bacon Doctor in Divinity Vicar of Wakefield in the County of York The Reverend Thomas Rodgers Master of Arts of Wakefield aforesaid Clerk, William Hey of Leeds in said County of York Esquire John Ridsdale Merchant and Thomas Rayner Gentleman both of Wakefield aforesaid and Henry Dunderdale of Leeds aforesaid Merchant of the other part Whereas The Reverend Joseph Jane late Rector of the Church of Iron Acton in the County of Gloucester deceased in and by his last Will and Testament in writing bearing date the second day of September which was in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty one after divers specific and pecuniary legacies therein contained did appoint The Reverend John Pugh late Vicar of Rauceby and Cranwell in the County of Lincoln Clerk since deceased his residuary Legatee and did request him to lay out Four thousand pounds Bank Stock Three per cent reduced annuities to the best advantage for the service of true religion And Whereas the said John Pugh by his last Will and Testament in writing bearing date the twenty first day of November One thousand seven hundred and ninety five did appoint his Brother the said Robert Pugh to be his substitute in every respect in regard to the said Joseph Jane's Will namely in laying out to the best advantage for promoting true religion the whole or residue of the Four thousand pounds stock three per cent reduced annuities and every other matter relating to the said trust And Whereas the said Robert Pugh being of opinion that the appropriation of Two hundred and fifty pounds stock part of the said legacy or sum of Four thousand pounds Bank stock reduced annuities for the purpose of having prayers read and for the establishment of a Lecture or Sermon for declaring the doctrines and enforcing the duties of the Christian Religion according to the Articles of the Church of England in such manner as may best tend to the edification of the common people to be preached or delivered on every Sunday evening in the Parish Church at Wakefield aforesaid as hereinafter expressed will be an application of that sum agreeable to the will and intention of the said Joseph Jane hath caused so much of the OF WAKEFIELD. 189 said stock to be transferred to the first four of the said parties of the second part and hath invested in their names other monies in the purchase of Three hundred pounds Bank Stock reduced annuities and both the said sums of Two hundred and fifty pounds and Three hundred pounds now stand in the names of the said Robert Pugh, Michael Bacon, Thomas Rogers and William Hey in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England."* This along with the subscriptions realized a sum of about ^1050, which was invested in three per cent, consols, pro- ducing about ,£32 per annum. In addition to this an annual subscription was instituted, which for many years realized a large amount. The Revd. Thomas Rogers was appointed the first lecturer July 16, 1 80 1, and preached his first sermon on Sunday evening, July 26 th 1 80 1 ; he held the appointment until his death on Feb. 14th 1832, giving his last lecture on November 6th 1831. He was succeeded by the Rev'l- E. Ridsdale, and the succeeding lecturers have been the Revs. J. Lister, R. Bickeridge, and James Taylor, late Head Master of the Grammar School, since whose resignation the senior Curate of the Parish Church has been appointed Evening Lecturer. The amount of the Trust Fund is now ^1080, and this is invested on Mortgage at 5 per cent, interest. The nett sum of ^50 pounds a year is paid to the Lecturer, and the yearly balance is put away to meet contingencies. The present Trustees of the Lectureship (1888) are : The Vicar of Wakefield, The Revd- Canon Straton, M.A. Daniel Burton Kendell, M.B., Heath House, Wakefield. The Rev) that part of the diocese of York, which is comprised within the limits of the three ecclesiastical parishes of Woolley, Warmfield and Crofton. 3. The parish church of All Saints, Wakefield, subject to the rights of the patron and incumbent of such church, shall be the Cathedral Church. 4. The Bishop of Wakefield is constituted a body corporate, and is hereby invested with all such rights, privileges, and juris- dictions as are possessed by any other Bishop in England, and is subject to the metropolitan jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York. 5. This order shall come into operation on the publication of the same in the London Gazette. C. L. Peel. The Bishop elect was commissioned by the Archbishop of York to hold an ordination in the new Cathedral on Trinity Sunday, May 27th, and in the evening he preached his first ser- mon there. On Tuesday, May 29th, he presented his letters patent to the Archbishop of York, and made and subscribed the usual oaths and declarations, and on the 23rd of the following month the Bishop did homage to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle. The Enthronement and Installation of the first Bishop of Wakefield. On Monday, June 25th, 1888, the last stage in the completion of the Wakefield Bishopric took place by the enthronement and installation of Dr. Walsham How, 208 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH The day's proceedings commenced with a reception of the Bishop at the Town Hall, where three addresses were presented ; the first, on vellum in the form of a scroll, from the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Wakefield ; the second, from the rural deanery of Silkstone, presented by Colonel Spencer Stanhope, C.B. ; the last, from the clergy and laity of the new diocese of Wakefield, read by Canon Brooke, rector of Thornhill, as senior Rural Dean. After the Bishop had replied, there was an adjournment to the Corn Exchange, where luncheon was provided, his Grace The Archbishop of York presiding. After luncheon, a procession was formed at the Town Hall, consisting of the laity of the diocese, the county and borough magistrates, the bishopric and reception committees, the clergy in surplices, to the number of about 200, the Mayor and Corporation, the Cathedral Choir and staff, Archdeacons and Deans, the Bishop of Wakefield and the Archbishop of York. The streets were densely crowded as the procession wended its way to the Cathedral. The Cathedral was filled to its utmost capacity by those who had obtained tickets, and by the members of the procession. After the evening prayers had been read, the Archbishop of York preached the sermon, at the conclusion of which, he proceeded to the Holy Table, and directed Mr. T. S. Noble and Mr. H. A. Hudson to read the Letters Patent, which was done at the entrance to the choir, the Archbishop, meanwhile, standing before the Holy Table, and the Bishop before him. This done the Archbishop declared his purpose to enthrone and instal the Bishop in obedience to the Royal Letters Patent, and certified that the proper oaths and declarations had been taken by the Bishop. His Grace then advanced to the Throne followed, by the Bishop, and holding the Bishop by his right hand placed him in his throne, saying : " We, William, by Divine Providence Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan, lawfully authorised, rightly and duly proceeding, do admit you, William Walsham, sometime Bishop Suffragan of Bedford, to the position of first Bishop of Wakefield, and instal you as such Bishop with all the rights, OF WAKEFIELD. 209 dignities, and appurtenances thereto belonging, saving always to Us and our Successors all our Archi-episcopal Rights, and the Dignity and Honour of our Cathedral Church of St. Peter in York ; and we charge you in the Lord with the cure of souls within the said diocese, and with the oversight and government of this Cathedral Church, and of all the churches in the diocese, and we pray our Heavenly Father that He will have you in His Holy keeping, and will grant you a large measure of His Holy Spirit, that you may be enabled to discharge the duties of so weighty an office, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." The Archbishop then said "The Lord bless you, and keep you," etc., after which the Bishop of Wakefield said the Lord's Prayer, and a Hymn having been sung, during which an offertory amounting to jQ\$7 for "The Cathedral Daily Services Susten- tation Fund " was taken and presented ; the whole congregation joined in the Te Deum, and the Service was closed with the Benediction pronounced by the Archbishop. SECTION XIII. MURAL AND OTHER INSCRIPTIONS. MANY of the memorial stones to the dead have disappeared, but Dodsworth copied some of the more important ones on January 21, 1640, and from his notes in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, I quote the following, which have now gone : — Hie jacet domina Isabella Asheton vidua nuper uxor Johannis Asheton militis et mater Gulielmi Mirfeld militis quae obiit vj die Maii anno domini mcccclxxxviii. On the same stone these arms : Argent, a mullet sable, and vert two lions passant guardant, argent. Here lyeth buried Elizabeth Maud wief of John Maud the younger who dyed ye 8 day of July 161 8. Of your charity pray for ye soul of Richard Lister esquire deceased in ye year of our lord god mdxxv on whose soul Jesus have mercy. Orate pro anima Isabella? Rokley quondam uxor Rogeri Rokley armigeri quae obiit secundo die Junii anno domini mdxxiii. On the same stone these arms : Argent, a fesse between seven lozenges sable, three in chief and four in base ; also, Argent, a bend sable between six martlets of the second. Hie jacet Thomas Knollis Sacre Theologii Professor Collegii Magdelene Oxoniensis preses ecclesie de Wakefeld Vicar qui quidem Thomas obiit ix die Maii Mcccccxvij cuius anime propitietur deus. Ac etiam orate pro eius anima et pro animabus parentum suorum et per gratiam dei. Miserere mei deus secundum magnam misericordiam tuam, OF WAKEFIELD. 211 Here under this stone lyeth buried ye bodies of Christopher ffylde mercer and Elizabeth his wief which Christopher deceased ye 30 day of November in ye year of ye incarnation of our lord god mdlvii on whose soul Jesus have mercy. Here lyeth buried John Bissert marchant Burgess of Glasco in Scotland who dyed ye 27 of June 1617. Of your charity pray for the soul of Ric. Pymond citizen and Marchant Taylor of London & Marchant Vintner which deceased ye xxvi of June anno domini mcccccxlvi on whose soul Jesus have mercy Amen. This written on a ledge of Brasse on ye same stone : Miserere mei deus secundum magnam misericordiam tuam et secunda multitudinem miserationum tuacum, dele iniquitatem meam. Amplius lana me ab iniquitate mea munda me, quoniam iniquitatem ego cognosco et peccatio mea coram me est semper. Tibi soli peccavi et malum coram te feci ut justificias in sermoni- bus tuis et vincas cum judicaris. Here lyeth buryed Richard Pek of Wakefield Esq and Alice his wife dau. of Peter Midleton of Stokeld Knight he had issue ii sons & iiii dau. He dyed anno domini 15 16 24 Junii. These arms : Quarterly, i and 4 ; Argent, on a chevron engrailed gules, three crosses patee of the first. 2 and 3 ; Gules, a cross patonce or, on a chief azure three buckles of the second. Crest ; on a torce, an armed hand, couped at the wrist proper, grasping a bunch of cornflowers argent and vert. Here lyeth buried John Pek of Wakefield Esq and Jane his wife da : of John Anne of ffricklay Esq. he had issue ix sons and ix da : he dyed at Wakefield the 4 of January anno domini 1558. Here lyeth Martin Birkhead esquire late Queen's Attorney & Justice of Peace & Quorum who dyed the 6 of July 1590. On ye same stone : © HENRICUS DE ABERFORD PRIOR. p 2 2i2 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH SIR CHRISTOPHER STEAD we wish with Christ whose bones herein are layde Aboue doth shew when he was Prest below what tyme he dyde 27. Feb : 1579. On a gravestone in the north aisle : Hie jacet Arthurus Frickley Curia Wakefeld, 25 Sept. 1664. On a raised tombstone near the high altar, was an inscription in memory of Gervase Hatfeild Esq. and Grace his wife, daughter and heiress of Edward Savile of Stanley Hall. He was buried June 4. 1654. Also the arms of Hatfeild — Ermine, on a chevron sable three cinquefoils argent, impaling the well known arms of Savile. Here lyeth the body of Emanuel Gilbey of Wakefield, Gent, one of the younger sons of Sir George Gilby, of Boat, Co. Nott, Knt. who died March, 1660. Etat sue 57. The following monuments are now fixed to the walls of the church On a south pillar within the altar rails, In Memory of the REVD MICHAEL BACON D.D. Forty Years Vicar of this Church. He died 19th of August, 1805. Aged 76 years Also OF WAKEFIELD. 213 In Memory of GRACE BACON, Widow of The Revd Michael Bacon D.D. She died on the 14th day of September 1827. in the 79th year of her age. On the base of the same pillar is fixed a brass, stating that the body of the Rev<-1 Michael Bacon is buried near to. On a south pillar in the chancel, Ermines, on a fesse gules between two escallops or, an escutcheon of pretence, argent, a chevron gules between three crosses fitchee sable. On a brass plate, under a beautiful female figure in marble, bearing an urn, With the tenderest and Most affectionate Remembrance Of our ever dear and honoured Parents, William and Sarah Ingram, and of our beloved Brothers, William and John Ingram, and with a firm Faith, In the Truth of that most holy Religion, which giveth us the joyful Assurance, that we shall be again united, in a State of never-ending Happiness ; This Monument is placed, by Francis and Elisa Ingram. 2i 4 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Willm. Ingram died June XXVII MDCCLIII Aged XLIX. Sarah his Wife died Deer. VIII MDCCLXXX aged LXXV. Iohn Ingram Second Son of Wm. & Sarah Ingram died XIII Novemr. MDCCLVIII Aged XXI. Wm. his elder Brother died XIV Octr. MDCCLXX aged XXXIV. In the north chancel aisle are the following : A hatchment bearing the arms of William Fenton, who died April 7th, 1837. Argent, a cross between four fleur-de-lis sable. Per pale, sable and argent, a fesse gules, in second quarter two crosses patee, and in third quarter one, impaling ; Argent, a fesse gules fretted argent, in chief a lion passant gules. Near this Place is interred the body of Mr. Francis Wheatley, Who died Aug. ye 21st, 17 14, aged 44. Also of Elisabeth his second wife OF WAKEFIELD. 215 daughter of Mr. Toby Sill, She died ye 15th February 1735 ; Aged 56. They had issue three sons, and six daughters, viz. Thomas, Francis, George, Susan, Elizabeth, Ann & Dorothy. Near this Place lieth interrd the Body of Iohn Ridsdale, Son of Edwd. Ridsdale, of Ripon, who died May the 24th 1765, aged 67 Years. Also the Body of Susan Ridsdale Wife of the above Iohn Ridsdale, Daughter of Francis Wheatley, of Wakefield, who died March the 12th, 1770, aged 67 years. They had Issue six sons & four Daughters, three deceased before their Parents ; The surviving seven, from an affectionate regard to the memory of their worthy Parents : have erected this Monument. In Memory of THOMAS FOLJAMBE of Holme field near Wakefield, (Second Son of John and Abigail Foljambe of Rotherham,) who died November 10th 185 1 in his 77th year. Also of EDWARD who died March 1st 1825 aged 19 years. and of JOHN HENRY who died August 15th 1826 Aged 19 years. Also of ELIZABETH who died January 15th 1826 216 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH at Hastings and was buried at Ore Church Sussex Aged 17 years. The above were the children of the said Thomas Foljambe and Elizabeth his wife, also of ELIZABETH, the wife of the above named Thomas Foljambe, who departed this life the 22nd November 1859. This Monument is erected in affectionate Regard to the Memories of Mary Ridsdale, wife of Mr. Edward Ridsdale, and Daughter of Mr. Francis Wheatley of Wakefield, who departed this life March 26th, 1767, and had Issue one Son and two Daughters John, Mary and Susan ; Susan died July 28th, 1769. Also of Elizabeth, his second wife, daughter of the Rev. William Romley, of Whitgift, who died May 25th, 1786, and had Issue three Sons and six Daughters, Edward, William Romley, and George, Susan, Elizabeth, Susanna Maria, Emma, Frances and Jane. Edward & William died May nth, Susan May 29th, 1779, and Jane, June 15th, 1786, Mary died Aug. 13th, 1788, aged Twenty-three years. Also Richard Edward, who died 21st Novr- 1797, aged 1 year, And Mary Ann who died 8th .\pril 1804, aged 6 years, The Son and Daughter of Edward Ridsdale by Elizabeth his third wife, the Daughter of Richd. and Martha Milnes of Flockton, by whom he had Issue Martha, Richd- Edward and Mary Ann. Also the above-mentioned Edward Ridsdale, who died the 14th April, 18 15, aged 81 years. In the sure and stedfast Hope of a blessed Immortality, thro' the merits of his Saviour and Redeemer. OF WAKEFIELD. 217 Prope jacet quicquid mortale Mariae (per dies xxvi) Uxoris Francisi Wheatley de Wakefield Lintearii, filiae Gervasii Coale nuper de Rampton in Nottingamia Generosi. Obiit 2410 die Iunii Anno Christi 1701. OZtatis suae 23^0. Si tarn subiti lector velis decessus causa, en tibi. In resurrectione, neq : uxores ducunt neq : nuptum dantur, sed sunt ut Angeli Dei in Cselo. Proin cum sancta, pura, casta, ad omnem statum parata, Resurrectionis semper expetiverit, mirari intra Mensem viduu : desinas. This tablet is erected to the memory of MAJOR FRANCIS SMALPAGE, Captain in the 8th Regiment of Bengal Light Cavalry, a native of this town, and only son of the late Daniel Smallpage Esqre formerly of Heath. A brave and meritorious officer, a devoted husband and father, an affectionate relative and friend. He met his untimely fate whilst attempting, in discharge of his duty, to cross a mountain torrent, near Mirzapoor in the East Indies, on the 24th July 1838, in the 49th year of his age. " In the midst of life we are in death." 2i8 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Ermines, on a cross quarterly pierced argent four millrinds gules ; impaling ; Gules, on a chevron azure, a cinquefoil argent between three martlets of the second. Memoriae GULIELMI TURNER Generosi Sacrum. Occidit Gulielmus Turner, quern veris deflevit defietque lacrymis et maestissima Conjux et Patria ; heu nimis, nimis immersus negotiis, occidit, caute quoad alios, solens anxie et intente agere, in istis nitens sedulo, sic ut pariter parabat et tuebatur amicitias, suae salutis cum dispendio, hinc ex improviso, praepropere sed ut ccelo quam terris dignior, nobis subductus est occubuit. Qui lenis, comis, serenus, verax, quique vitae integer, prudens, fidus, pius, insons, constans sibi, parum constituere ut studium, sic maximum illi decus. Ardeliones, Faces seditionis et quieta moventes averruncabat, expressum erat virtutis exemplum, et raro licet diurnent optimi, posteris narrabitur, in animis bonorum et in fama rerum superstes erit. Imagines quae marmore aut sere finguntur, intereunt ; simulacra purpuratorum imbecilla, forma virtutis aeterna, hujus sunt aliqui manes, et turn letho obruendi immanem terris, quum atteret locusta lucum. Sed quorsum ad caros dolemus rogos et tristes elegos concinnamus, hie novum sydus ccelitum additur Choro, et si venalitio odore fragrantiores beatulorum Urnae, non alia quam Gulielmi nostri beatior aut sanctior Umbra. Obiit 21 die Junii 1690. yEtatis suae Trigessimo Octavo. In Memory of HENRY CLEMETSHAW, Upwards of fifty years Organist of this Church ; Who died May 7th 182 1, Aged 68 years. OF WAKEFIELD. Now like an Organ, robb'd of Pipes and Breath Its Keys and Stops all useless made by Death, Tho' mute and motionless, in ruins laid, Yet when rebuilt by more than mortal aid, This instrument, new voic'd and tun'd shall raise To God, its Builder, Hymns of endless Praise. 219 * JAMES RICHARDSON M.D. died 1 8th- March 1820, in the 74th year of his age. For a period of nearly half a century His professional abilities diffused their Salutary influence In this town and neighbourhood. His prompt attention to the poor, And his kindness in the hour of sickness Gained him many sincere friends ; A few of whom, With permission of his family, Have caused this monument to be erected to his memory. In the Choir vestry, Azure, a chevron ermine between three arrows or, feathered and barbed argent, on a chief of the last three daws sable, a canton gules charged with a mul- let or ; impaling ; Per chevron embattled or and sable, three fleur-de-lis, countercharged. To the memory of of William Dawson of Copley Hall, Esqr. and of Catherine his wife, Daughter of Thos- Edmunds of Worsborough Esqr- She died June 6th, 1741, in the 39th Year of her age. Also of their children, Catherine & Walker Dawson ; Catherine died young. Walker Dawson, Esqr- died Septr 3rd, 1753, without Issue and was interred near this place. 220 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Sacred to the Memory of HALLTLEY WILLIAM HODGSON, of this town, Merchant, who departed this life July 6th 1812, aged 32 years. Also of ELIZABETH HODGSON, wife of the above Halliley William Hodgson ; who departed this life July 17th 1821, aged 42 years. This Tablet is erected as a small tribute of filial affection, and Gratitude, by William Atkins Hodgson, and Elizabeth Hodgson, their only children. Argent, a chevron between three martlets gules. This Monument is erected in memory of Ann Waddington, daughter of John Waddington, of Wakefield, Gentleman, by Sarah his present wife ; Daughter of Rich. Austwick of Pontefract, Gent, born June ye nth. 1705, died October ye 29th. 17 18. In the south chancel aisle, Near this Place lyeth interred ye Body of MR. JAMES SILL, Mercer, who died ye 20th of Feby- 1725, aged 62 years. Also ye Body of MARY his Wife, who died ye 7th of Sep""- 1699, aged 27. & of TOBY their Son, who died an Infant. OF WAKEFIELD. 221 Adjacent to this lyes Interred the body of Iohn Totty late of Seacroft, Gent : who departed this life the 21st Augt- 1703. Likewise the body of Iohn Totty, son of ye Said Iohn Totty, who departed this life the 18th Febr- 1693. Also the body of Sarah Totty, Daughter of the Said Iohn Totty, who departed this life the 1 ith Januiy- 1700. MARTHA filia Gualteri Fowke, gen. de comit. Stafford : ger- mana soror Phinea? Fowke, M.D. Coll. Med. Lond. socii. Uxor fidelissima et pientissima Edm. Farrer A.M. Scholarchce, matura caelo discessit Idibus Apri. Die Dominica diet. Palroarum. Anno G^ra? Christiana? 1701. CEtal. suce 50. Quce, cui debetur vincenti palma dabatur. Laboribus potius quara Annis confectus discessit etiam ipse Edm. Farrer 7. Id. Apr. A./E. C. 1703. .Ftat. sua? - - Uxoris pientissima? desiderabili nunc consortio in oeternum fruiturus. To the Revered Memory of JANET daughter of GEORGE MUNRO of Calderbank, and the beloved wife of DANIEL MAUDE of Wakefield. She was largely endowed with loveliness of person, with gentleness of manners, with sweetness and benevolence of disposition ; and on these natural graces were engrafted the sound principles of true religion, which were her guides through a virtuous life. She died July 8th 1824. Aged 29 years. 222 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH By which afflictive dispensation of the Almighty, Five infant children were bereaved of the example and tender cares Of a pious Mother, and her sorrowing husband of a most affectionate consort. To the memory of DOROTHY, wife of RAWSTORN BRADSHAW of Lum in the County of Lancaster, by whom She had fourteen children, and ended her state of probation of 42 years, Sept. 24, 1737. In all the changing scenes of this short life, She was what could be wished for, As Daughter, Sister, Mother, Friend and Wife. On the south wall, Near this place lies the body Of ELIZABETH, the wife of William Marsden late of this town, Attorney-at-Law, who died the 14th Aug. 1766. aged 37 years. Also the body of FRANCIS their son a Captain in the 5th regt. of foot, who died the 12th Feb. 1780. aged 27. And also the body of the said WILLIAM MARSDEN who died the 6th Feb. 1793, aged 66. In respect to the memory of her parents and her affectionate Brother, This monument was erected March 1790 By Hannah Maria the wife of John Carr. OF WAKEFIELD. 223 On one of the spandrels between the arches in the south choir aisle is a hatchment, with the arms of Francis Maude ; Argent, three bars gemelles sable, over all a lion rampant gules, charged on the shoulder with a cross crosslet fitchee or ; impaling the arms of his wife, Hannah Nettleton, Sable, — two serpents entwined in saltire argent, the heads respecting each other. On another spandrel, Near this Place Lie interred the bodies Of WILLIAM OATES of Wakefield Gent, Who died The 1 6th of Nov- 1737, aged 65 Years. And of GARTRUDE his Wife who died 3rd of Deer- 1729, Aged 48 Years. Also of their Sons WILLIAM, SAMUEL, RICHARD & FRANCIS. William died The 13A of July, 1730, aged 21 Samuel, Richard & Francis died very young. In the south nave aisle, In Memory of THE REVEREND THOMAS ROGERS AM. Formerly of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Thirty one years Sunday Evening Lecturer in this Church, Who died the 13th day of February 1832 Aged 71 years, 224 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH This Monument was erected by public subscription, As a tribute of respect For his character, and a record of his long and pious labours. In Memory of FRANCES Wife of George Westerman, Esq. Late of this place, Who died November 9th 181 7. Aged 31 years Also the above-named GEORGE WESTERMAN, ESQ. of Sandal. Who died March 21st 1845, Aged 80 years. Sacred to the Memory of JOHN WHITE. Professor of Music, Who was Born at York on the 8th of January, 1779. Died 24th August, 1831, Aged 52. He was for many years Organist of this Church, And of that of St. Paul, at Leeds, as well as of the Church at Harewood. Which appointments he continued to hold, with great credit to himself and with unvarying satisfaction to the respective Congregations, until the close of his earthly career. OF WAKEFIELD. 225 His musical attainments were of the highest order as a Violinist, and more especially as a Conductor of Oratorios He stood almost unrivalled. To his judicious and persevering zeal and diligence may be ascribed much of the extensive and successful cultivation of Choral Music for which this County is now so distinguished. No Admirer of Sacred Music, who recollects the performance of the Grand and Solemn Choruses, which have resounded through this District, will withhold his Tear of Regret, as he recalls to mind, in the Record of this Tablet The Master Spirit which so ably directed them. His remains lie interred at Harewood, a spot which had been long endeared to him by many interesting associations. His children, in grateful remembrance of one of the best and kindest of Fathers, have erected this Monument to his Memory, which will long be deservedly cherished, for the amiable and benevolent qualities of his heart, by his Relatives and numerous Friends. At the west end of the south aisle, Ermines, on a fesse gules three escallops or. Memoriae Sacrvm FRANCISCI ET CHRISTIANS ■ Parentum Pientissimorvm Carolinae filiae ornatae et amabilis Franciscae Vxoris carissimae optima? in hac aede 226 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Svb eodem lapide conditorvm Iohannes Ingram, Ipse idem Filivs pater maritvs Fide stabili et salvtifera In dei omnipotentis misericordia Et generis hvmani redemptoris Promissis et meritis Pietatis causa Non sine lacrymis Posvit Anno salvtis MDCCCXXXIII. * Sacred to the memory of THOMAS TOOTAL of Chevet near Wakefield who died as he lived in the faith and fear of God in Christ Relying on the sure promises of the Gospel, on the 24th day of March 1802, aged 47. "Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh." Matt. Ch. xxv. v. 13. Also of ELEANOR MINETHORPE his wife who survived him 37 years Left by the providence of God in the sole charge of a numerous family She devoted herself under his guidance To the faithful and affectionate discharge of her important duties and died in the blessed hope through Christ of a joyful resurrection on the 20th day of February 1838, in the 82nd year of her age. " Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." 1st Thess. Ch. iv. v. 14. Their mortal remains rest in the Vicarage Croft. OF WAKEFIELD. 227 Under the tower, Quarterly. 1 and 4. Ter pale argent and sable, a chevron countercharged. 2 and 3. Gules, two bars or, on a chief three plates ; impaling, or, a fesse between three mullets argent. Underneath are interred Wilfrid Lawson, Son and Heir of Edward Lawson of Little Usworth, in ye County Palatine of Durham, Esqr. who dyed 4 Ap. 1705, aged 80, And Mary, his wife daughter & one of ye Co-heirs of Joseph Watkinson of Ilkley in this County, Gent, who dyed 28 Oct : 1704. aged 70. Also Joseph Lawson, their Son, who dyed 22 Ap : 1696, aged 26. The said Wilfrid Lawson & Mary left only Elizabeth their daughter and heir, marryed to Richard Witton of Wakefield, Esqr- who erected this monument. Near this Place is also interred Mary, one of the daughters of ye said Richard Witton and Elizabeth, who dyed very young. y Per chevron embattled or and azure, three martlets countercharged. Infra positoe sunt reliquiae Christopheri Hodgson, M.D. Viri Fide Incorrupta, Prisca Morum Simplicitate, Singulari erga omnes Benevolentia, Eximii, Quern, Sodalem jucundissimum, Amicum certissimum, Q 2 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Lugent omnes, quibuscum familiariter vixit. Vitam In omni Honestate, Humanitate, Pietate versatam, Ab Oblivione vindicet hoc Monumentum. Ob. Jan: 14, 1768. setat. 60. Elizabeth, Widow of the above Christopher Hodgson, M.D. Daughter and Heiress of Marmaduke Rookes, Esq. of Barrowby in this County, Died March 15th, 1789, aged 73. Or, a chevron counter-componee, argent and azure, between three martlets sable, impaling, a chevron counter-componee ; Crest, on a chapeau argent turned up sable, a martlet with wings endorsed sable. Near this lies Interred Martha the wife of Ralph Hanson, Esq. Late Captain in the 1 9th Regt- of Foot ; Daughter of Metcalf Procter, Esq. of Thorpe Super Montem : and sister to Katherine, Countess of Effingham. Died on the 22nd of Deer- 1791. Aged 52 Also in memory of the above Ralph Hanson Er- who died at Ripley in this County, on the 18th day of November 1815, aged 78. Also of Katharine, only child of the said Ralph and Martha Hanson, and Widow and relict of Benjamin Dealtry Esquire of Thorpe and Lofthouse ; who on his decease assumed the name and arms of Procter, and died on the 15th February, 1851. Aged 76 years. OF WAKEFIELD. 229 Argent, two bendlets azure, a canton ermine. In Memory of Thomas Oates of Wakefield, Esqr-, who departed this Life the 24th of Dec*'- 1783. Aged 71. Also of Elizabeth his Wife, who died the 5th of Sepr. 1791. Aged 82. Also William, their Son, who died the 1 9th of Augt. 1S03. Aged 57. Susanna their Eldest Daughter Married William Crowder late of Wakefield Esquire and died at Bath the 22nd of April 1806. Aged 65. Elizabeth their Daughter Married John Crowder of Brotherton Esquire and died at the Hot Wells Bristol, the 26th of June 1789. Aged 41. The remains of the two Sisters were interred near to each other at Clifton near Bristol. Argent, a lion rampant gules, impaling. In Memory of WILLIAM DUNDAS, ESQUIRE, late Lieutenant Colonel of the Royals, who died 14th January, 1795. Aged 56 years. Also of MARY his W T ife, who died 19th of October 1773. Filial Affection erected this MONUMENT. Quarterly. 1 and 2. Quarterly argent and gules, a label of three points in chief azure, each point charged with three bezants in pale. 3 and 4, azure a fesse sable, between three arrows of the second, in chief three martlets. RICHARD KENNETT, ESQ. Of Copley Hall in this County, Dyed Oct. 8th 1790 & lyes interr'd near this Place. 230 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH A Character so well known, and so universally beloved wherever known, Needs not the Eulogy of this Monument. Dedicated to his Memory By his Sister, Hannah Pownall. She married Richard Astell, Esqre. of Everton in the County of Huntingdon, who died 23rd Jany. 1777. In Augt- 1784 She married Thomas Pownall Esqr- late Governor of Massachusets Bay & South Carolina, &c. Who died 25th Jany- 1805, She died 5th Day of Jany- 1807. Sacred To the Memory of NICOLAS FENAY, of FENAY, Esqr- & of JANE his Wife, who died, the former March 21st, 17 10; the latter August 15th, 17 13 ; and likewise Four of their Children who all died Young. And of MRS. MARGARET THORNTON, Sister to the aforesaid JANE FENAY, who departed this Life in the year 1 715. And Also, To the Memory of MRS. JANE FENAY, Daughter of the above-named NICHOLAS & JANE FENAY, who caused this Monument to be Erected: She died unmarried March 20th 1766, aged 75. Whose Elegant manners, whose unaffected Piety, whose Vivacity and Chearfulness, whose Hospitality and Generosity, By rendering her Life a happy mixture of Christian and Social Virtues, Endeared Her throughout the course of that Life to a very numerous Acquaintance, who sincerely lament her Loss. OF WAKEFIELD. 231 On a Monument of white marble, — Ermine on a bend between two unicorns' heads, erased azure, three lozenges, or. Crest. A denri bull rampant, issuing from a ducal coronet or, armed and horned of the same, and gorged with a collar azure, charged with three lozenges, and rimmed of the second. Manibus Sacrum Hannah Johannis Smyth de Heath Armigeri Antiqua Virtute et Moribus Uxoris Sola qua? Ricardo Harrison hujusce Oppidi Generoso Proles Nata Maritum Filiis tribus Filiabusq ; binis auxit, Maturaq : Caelo. multum etsi desiderata Terris Kalend : Februarii Anno post Xtum natum mdcxciii. ad Superos Concessit. Thomas item Infantis filii sunt Maternis intra Bimensem Elizabethaeq : Filiag post Undecennium Absolutum Octobris Kalend : vn Appositi Cineres. Umbris etiam hoec justa hunt Mariae exiteratis Nuptiis Ejusdem Pientissimse Conjugis. Gul : Wilton de Stead syke in Parsecia Halifaxiensi Gen : Sobolis Unicae atque ex Asse Haeredis, Et Johannis Mitchel de Scout ibidem in Vicinia Generis Antiquitete haud inhonesti Viduae. Quas Marito Bonisq. Multis flebitis Occidit Ante Maias Kalend : x. Anni mdcc : Beneath, on the same Monument, — M S IOHANNIS SMYTH Armigeri Superius Memorati Reaveise juxta Bradfordiam Nati. Vixit annos lxxvi et Menses tres et quo die Christus Corpore humano indutus primum visit Terras, Hie eodem post Annos mdccxxix reliquit Tres duxit Uxores Pias, Castas, Honestas Duos Suscepit Filios, totidemq : Filias, Prolem non degenerem. Assiduitatem in Mercatura Singularem Fidem et Morum Simplicitatem Numinis Indulgentia multis opibus Beavit. has autem nee amplificavit nee amplificatas. Tenuit Famae cum dispendio. 232 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Or, three bars gemelles gules, surmounted of a lion rampant sable, impaling ; Azure, three lions rampant crowned or. Near this place are interred, the Remains of MRS. MARTHA FAIRFAX, and a Male Infant, Wife to THOMAS FAIRFAX, Esqr. of Menston, and only Daughter of Dr. Richd. Ford of Little Liversedge ; She was a beautiful and graceful Person, and Mistress of all ye Accomplishments, that a good Education could give, & had besides a Taste of the Greek & Latin Writers, not usual in her Sex ; And of such an affable and courteous Temper, as made her beloved & lamented by all that knew her, particularly by her sorrowful Husband Who, in Gratitude to her Memory, has here fixt this Monument. Born January ist, 1676, Died January 26th, 1706. Sable, a water-bouget argent, in chief three plates ; impaling ; Argent and sable a chevron countercharged. Crest, an owl argent, ducally gorged or. H. S. E. RICHARDUS WITTON Iuris-Consultus, vere doctus, Et Idem integerrimus, Intima Legum Adyta Qui penetravit, Sedulusque dubias Composuit Lites. OF WAKEFIELD. 233 Non Pre forensi Se ita abdidit, Ut Humanioribus in Literis Restaret Hospes. ^, .. ( Salut : 1 7 18. Obnt, 15 : Ap. An : { ^ 01 ( ^Etat : 69. Nee Indigna tali est Conjuncta Viro, Elizabetha Wilfridi Lawson, Primaria de Stirpe Lawsonorum Apud Ottadinos oriundi, Filia Unica, Et ex Asse Haeres. Corporis et Animi Gratiis prsenitens Elegans, frugi, in Loco Magnifica, Irrupta Utrumq : tenebat Copula, Amor Supremo vix solvebat Die. _, .. I Christ : nat : 1727 Obnt 29 Aug : An : ^ . ' y & ^tatis 61. At the west end of the north aisle, Ermines, on a fesse gules, three escallopes or ; Crest, a lion rampant. In Memoriam. IOANNIS INGRAM patris optimi qvi die tricesimo Ianvarrii Svpremvm svvm obiit anno salvtis mdcccxli aetatis lxxiv. Item Mariae Annae sororis qvae vixit annis xxxm. Decessit die decimo septimo Ianvarii A.D. mdcccxl. Deo scilicet animas reddidervnt Romae Vrbis intra mvros sepvlcrvm habent Necnon gratiae Rvth vxoris dvlcissimae quae obiit apvd Yotes Covrt In comitatv Cantii die octavo Ivnii A.D. mdcccl nata annos xxxm. Hoc monvmentum Hvge Franciscvs Ingram faciendvm cvravit. 234 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH In the north aisle, Sacred to the memory of MARY The beloved wife of John Marsden, of Walton House, Wakefield ; who died the /7 th day of September, 1872. Aged 65 years. " Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord." This tablet was erected by her bereaved husband. Her remains are interred in the Wakefield Cemetery. Argent, a fesse counter-raguly azure, between three demi-lions gules crowned or, impaling ; azure, a lion rampant or, between three cross crosslets of the last. Crest, a demi-lion gules, crowned or. S. M. JOHANNIS COOKSON, M.B. Viri Humani, Probi, Eruditi ; Qui postquam In hoc oppido et ejusdem Vicinia Per Annos LII. Medicinam fecisset, Viribus tandem Arthritide et Senectute Fractis, Spe futuri fida Naturae cessit Vicesimo septimo die Aprillis Anno Salutis Humanae MDCCLXXIX ^Etatis suae LXXIX. Patri bene merenti Filioe Hoc posuere marmor. ^ In memory of the truly pious and worthy SAMUEL UISNEY, M.A. Lecturer of this church, OF WAKEFIELD. 235 and formerly Fellow of C. C. C. Cambridge who died July 2 2d, 1741, aged 36 years. He was fourth son of the rev. John Disney, M.A. vicar of St. Mary's Nottingham, only son of Daniel Disney of Lincoln and of Swinderby in that County Esqr- and married Margery, fourth daughter of Francis Procter of Thorpe super montem Esqr. by Elizabeth his wife, eldest daughter of Richard Metcalf, of Thornborough Hall Esqr- both in the county of York ; by whom he left one surviving son, SAMUEL DISNEY, LL.B. late vicar of Halstead in Essex. who died July 10th 1786, aged 48 years. and was buried there agreeably to his own request. This stone is also intended to preserve the memory of MRS. MARY PROCTER, third daughter of the said Francis Procter Esqr- who died January 13th- 1780. aged 73 years. Mrs. Margery Disney erects this monument, in testimony of her affection for her hosband and sister. MDCCXCI. Argent, a bend sable, between two fleur-de-lis of the second, impaling and sable, in fesse three dog's heads erased. Hie Jacet Gulielmus Denison, de Wakefeild, Generosus. Regibus fidus, amicis certus Stabilisq : Integer vitse beneficus comis verax Classis suce decus, recti rigidus Satelles 236 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Primaevae castissimaeque Religionis, Occidit, nulli Flebilior Quam Saras, Consorti pientissimae, Quae parentans hoc monumentum Non Famae suae Sacrum, Sed Famae ejus, Qui ipse sibi Monumentum, posuit. Obiit 13. Decemb. mdclxxxiv. Nigh him lies Sarah, his wife, who Died 5th of June, 1700. Near this Place are deposited the Remains of MR. WILLIAM LAWSON, of this town who died a Batchelor the 6th of March 1735 in the 39th Year of his Age. This Monument was Erected by the Direction of his Niece, Mary Johnson. On a brass fixed to the north side of the north chancel pier, fit nmnorg of Parim $qsz$ ^aglor $): §: lector of Crofton — mxh forlji ftbz gears Qitzxnaon ^zchxxzx of fljis (ftljurdj formerly ^ellofo of Qnzzn's €allz$z Cambribgc anb fkab ^Taster of ESMefielb Grammar Stljool |)e bico llobember 21 : J 843 ageb 80 gears gdso of |tebecta Iris foife faljo bieb $mte JJ 1 822 ageb 65 gears : OF WAKEFIELD. 237 Inscriptions on the Floor of the Cathedral. Brasses within the Communion rails, In Memory of WILLIAM FENTON, ESQR. of Thorp on the Hill who died April, 7th 1837 ; Aged 73 Years. Here lieth interred the Body of JOHN BROMLEY, of Wakefield, Gentleman who departed this life nth Day of Nov*' 1723. Hie requiescit quicquid Mortale FRANCISCCE nuper uxoris Guliemi Thorold de Wakefield Generosi Necnon Annce filice eorundum Quarum altera obiit 14 Maii 1696 altera 26 Aprilis 1690. Here lyeth the body of MR. FRANCIS PITT of Wakefield. who departed this life the 27th day of Jany- 1721 in the 49th Year of his Age. And also the said REYNOLD NEWSTEAD Died 2 2d Dec- 1740 Aged 61. ! 3 8 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Sacred to the Memory of Charlotte, the lamented Wife of Edward Fenton, Esqre of Leeds, and the only Daughter of Edward Dyne Briscoe, Esquire, of the Heights near Halifax, and of Wakefield. She departed this life the 27th day of December 1827, aged 28 years. " In the midst of life we are in death." Here lieth the body of MR. JOSEPH ELLIS late of Halifax who departed this life the 22nd Day of March 1748. And also here lieth the body of ELIZABETH his wife, Who Died April the 12th 1765 Aged 60 Years. On a shield-shaped brass, much worn, Here lyeth Interred MARY Late Wife of Reynold Newstead Who Dyed The Sixth of March 1707. In the 27th year of Her Age. Was Onely Daughter of C . . . Reynold Graham youngest Brother to the Right Honble. Richard Viscount Preston. y^ M. S. Desideratissimi Capitis, Henrici Poweri, Medicinae Professoris ingenio, judicio, moribus excultissimi, Qui si vixisset diutius, Non in Arte solum, verum etiam in Humanitate bene multa Coum ipsum, Pergameumq, docuisset. Si quid dubites Hospes, si repugnes, Ecce ! OF WAKEFIELD. Non in re Microscopica &: Hydrargyria, Sed in reliqua Philosophica, Medicaq : Poweri singularis Eruditio Perennitatis in Larario (justa cum Doctorum admiratione) turn ex peremptis hie illic Morborum seminibus, cum ex editis in lucem doctrinoe Pignoribus jamdudam inclaruit. Annos natus XXXXV. non major obiit Vir, cognitione, quam ?etate grandior. obiit XXIII. Decembris. MDCLXVIII. ^ 2 39 Inscriptions on the Floor of the Chancel. When the chancel was paved with tiles the stones bearing the following inscriptions were covered over, but brasses were placed over the inscriptions to show where each was situated : i. Here lieth interred the Body of Thomas Walker of Dewsbury Drysalter, who dyed March ye 6th a.d. 1735 a ged 37 years. Also the body of Mr. Joseph Walker of Wakefield Mercht youngest son of the above Mr. Thomas Walker who dyed May ye 1 ith a.d. 1797, aged 63 years. Also the body of Martha Walker, Relict of the above Joseph Walker who died May 1st 181 1 aged 74 years. 2. Brass plate containing Here lieth the Body of Mrs. Eliz. Steer wife of Mr. Charles Steer, Mercht. in this Town who departed this life 4th Nov. 1749 in the 21 year of her age Also are interred here Henry Steer, OBt 21 Sep r - 1721 /E 4 years Rob. Steer OBt 2 d Mar 1772 M 10 D Sons of the above Charles Steer by his second Wife. 2 4 o THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH 3. Here lyeth Three Children of Mr. Bradley of Wakefield and Mr. Wm. Ingram who married Sarah the Daughter of the said Mr. Bradley November 13th 1758 was here interred the Body of M r - John Ingram Son to the above said Mr. William and Sarah Ingram Aged 2 1 years. Also here is interred the body of Wm. Ingram Esqr- Eldest Son of the said Mr. Wm. and Sarah Ingram who died the 14th of Oct 1 "- 1770 aged 34 years. Here also is interred the Body of the above named Mrs. Sarah Ingram who departed this life ye 8th Decembr. 1780 aged 75 years. Also the Body of Miss Elizabeth Ingram Daug. of the above William & Sarah Ingram who departed this life the nth Day of September 1785 aged 52 years. 4. Here lieth the Body of Catherine Daugr. of Francis Ingram who died the 15th of March 1793 in the 12th year of her age. Also the body of Ann Daugr. of Francis Ingram who died Novr- the 4th 1 80 1 aged 24 years. Also the Body of Thomas Frederick Ingram second son of John and Frances Ingram who died April 18th 1807 aged 2 years. Also the body of the above Francis Ingram Esqr. who died 28th of August 181 5 aged 76 years. Also the body of Christian Relict of the above Francis Ingram who died 17th of February 18 16 aged 74 years. Caroline Daughter of John Ingram died 7th of April 181 8 aged 18 years. Frances the wife of John Ingram died 15th of September 1831 aged 65 years. Also the Body of Sarah Ingram Daughter of the above Francis and Christian Ingram who died 21st September 1842 aged 69 years. 5. Also the body of Mary Ingram Daughter of the above Francis and Christian Ingram who died 22nd March 1847 aged 64 years. Also Henry youngest son of Francis Ingram who died March 13th 1850 aged 69 years. OF WAKEFIELD. 241 6 youngest . . . Body of Mrs. Elizabeth Naylor Daughter of Mr. Wm. Naylor who departed this life Deer, ye 13th 1765 aged 71 years. 7. Here lieth interred the Body of Alexr. Hatfield Esqr. late of Wakefield who departed this life ye 28th of April 1777 aged 57 years. Also the remains of his Daughter Susannah Hatfield who died 26th of June 181 2 aged 56 years. 8. Blank. 9. Here lyeth Interred the Body of Mrs. Hannah Smyth late of Wakefield who departed this life the 5th of Deer- 1775 in the 85th year of her age. 10. Here lyeth the Bodys of Mrs. Susan Adam Widdow who Dyed the 18th Day of March 1681 aged 74 Mrs. Susannah Sill daughter of Sill Gent. She Dyed . . March 1692. Toby Sill Gent Son of Mrs. Susan Adam. He Dyed . . . September 1695. . . . Wife of Toby Sill . . dyed ye 20 . . . n. H. B. Buried March ye 2nd 1680 F: M: Buried Oct. ye I2 th 1694 S : M : Buried March die 31st 1695 W : S : Buried February ye 23rd 1704 E : S : obijt January ye 27, 1707 H. Bradley Son of H : B : Buried August ye 13th 1710 Eliz : Bradley buried May ye 11, 1711. Brass Plate containing : Here is interred the Body of Chas. Nettleton son of the Revd. Chas- Nettleton late Rector of Bulwick in the County of Northampton who departed this life April 12 th 1736. Priscilla Scott died Nov r - the 15th 1756 aged 74 Years. 242 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH 12. Blank 13. Here lieth the Body of Robert Hopkinson Gentleman who was buried the 5th day of March Ano Domini 1745-6 aged 40 years. 14. Here lieth the Body of John Hide Gentleman who was buried the 14A day of February Anno Domini 1 750-1. Aged . . 8 years. Also lieth the Body of Thomas Percevall Gentn. who was burried the . . th of January 1753 aged 62 years. 15. Here lieth Interred the Body of Mr. John Coap of Wakefield who departed this life the . . . 1 721 aged 3 . . Here lieth Interred the Body of Mrs. Mary Spink of Wakefield who departed this life the 19th day of February 1732. 16. Here lieth the Body of Alicia the Daughr. of William Richardson who died Deer- the 15th 1771 aged 9 months. Here also lieth the Body of William the son of the above William Richardson who departed this life the 30th day of May 1776 in the nth year of his age. Here also lieth the Body of Mary wife of the above William Richardson who departed this life the 25th Day of March 1786 aged 58 years. Here also lieth the Body of the above William Richardson who departed this life the 6th day of June 1788 aged 72 years. 17. Here lieth the Body of Mr. William Maude of Flanshaw who departed this life April ye 5th a.d. 1708. Also Abraham his Son who died an Infant. Also Willm his Son who died in the 7th year of his age. Also Ann his Daugr. who died June ye 24th a.d. 17 16 Aged 20 yrs. Also Mrs. Elizabeth Maude Wife of the above said Mr. William Maude who Died April the 21st a.d. 1743 in the 73 d year of her Age. Here lieth the Body of Mr- Danl Maude Mercht. Son of the OF WAKEFIELD. 243 above said William & Elizth. Maude who died the 1st of Nov*- 1759 aged 62. Here lieth the Eody of Daniel Maude of this Town Merchant who died Octr. 7th 1787 aged 61. Also of Ann his Wife who died May 12th 1823 aged 76. 18. Iron Plate containing: Here Lyeth Inter'd ye Body of Priscilla Smith Wife of Mr- John Smith of the Parish of Ecclesfield who died 8th May 1730. Aged 67 years. Also ye Body of Frances Serjeantson her Grandaughter & Daughter to Robert Serjeantson Esqr- of Hanlith in Craven who died 25th June 1729. S . . . to the Memory of Mrs. Sarah Smith who died Jan. 8th mdcclxxv aged 83. A Gentlewoman who's piety was unaffected who's bounty was extensive who's benevolence was universal and who's example was highly worthy of Immitation. Also the body of her Sister Elizabeth the wife of Richard Popplewell Esqe- of Temple Bellwood in the County of Lincoln who died Octr. 22nd 1751 aged 56. 19. [Most of the letters obliterated] here lies interred the Body of Sarah Cowper . . departed this life September . Anno in the 50 Year 20. Here lieth the Body of George son of Richard & Clementina Tennant who departed this life the 9 of July 1789 aged six months. Also the body of Ann Glover daughter of William Charnock who died the 15th of January 1807 aged 63 years. a 1. Here lieth the body of Elizabeth the daughter of Richard Tennant who died 21st March 1778 in the 21st year of her age. Also the Body of Ann Wife of Richard Tennant junr. she died the 7th of January 1780 in the 23rd year of her age. Also the Body of Ellen Wife of Richard Tennant she died the 21 January 1785 aged 70 years. R 2 244 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Also the Body of the above named Richard Tennant Senr who died the 31 of March 1802 aged 78 years. 22. To the Memory of Wingfield Clarke Son of the late John Clarke of Stanley Esqr- who dyed at London the 18 day of March 1749-50 and was interred here the 2nd day of April following in the 22nd year of his age. Here also is interred the body of Hannah Clarke Widow of the said John & Mother of the said Wingfield Clarke who died the 26th of December 1753 in the 45th year of her age. 23. Here lieth the Body of Rebecca Pollard daughter of Richard Law of Woodhouse in the Parish of Eland Gent and Wife of Thomas Pollard of Wakefield Ironmonger who dyed ye 20th day of June Anno Domini 1713. Her soul I hope is now at rest And joyn'd in consort with ye Blest. 24. Here lieth the Body of Mrs. Tottie Wife of Samuel Tottie of Methley who died the 7th of Feb. 1778. aged 82 years. Here also lieth the Body of Ann Stockdale their daughter Wife of John Stockdale who departed this life the 16th day of July 1781 in the 54 th year of her age. Also to the Memory of the above John Stockdale of Wakefield who departed this life 1st Dec. 1810 in the 80th year of his age. Peaceful thro' life in frugal paths he trod Averse to sin . . we trust he is with God. 25. Here lieth ye Body of Mrs. Catherine Dawson 1741. Walker Dawson Interred Sep 12, 1753. Richard Kennett Esqe Interred Oct 20, 1790. 26. Here lieth interred William the son of William Brown Attorney at Law in Wakefield who died 29 of August 1750 aged 5 years & 3 months. Also Thomas the son of Thomas Hewitson Esqr & Dorothy his Wife who died 26th Novr 1787 aged 12 weeks. OF WAKEFIELD. 245 Also Dorothy the Wife of Thomas Hewitson Esq. daughter of William Brown who died 25th of Jany 1789 aged . . years. Also William Brown her Father who died 31st Deer 1791 aged 84 years. Also Thomas Hewitson Esqe late Major in his Majesty's Regiment of Foot, who died 16th of Novr- 1794 aged 53 years. And also Dorothy Brown Widow and Relict of the above William Brown who died the 6th day of Septr 1793 aged 86 years. The following inscriptions are on the floor near the pulpit : Here lieth the Body of Martha Stocks Walton the Daughter of John and Elizabeth Walton who departed this Life the 12th of July 1810 Aged 2 Years and 8 months. Here lyeth the Body of John Harrison late of Wakefield who departed this Life ye nth Day of Aprill Anno Domini 1695 yEtatis sure 62. Also Mary, His wife dyed ye 3rd of Aprill 1706, ^Etatis suae 78 M,L. 1734. Mary Lawson Elizabeth Lawson Died Nov br - 2nd I743 . Lucia second daughter of John Harrison, Merchant died Deer- 8th 1828. Aged 20 Years. Also the Body of the last named John Harrison, who died on the 8th day of October 1848 Aged 75 Years. Also Anne, Relict of the last named John Harrison who died on the 12th day of February 1854, Aged 75 Years. To the memory of R. Jno. Son of the above J. & A. Harrison who died in California, Oct 1st 1853. Aged 52 Years. On the floor of the centre aisle, commencing at the east end, Here lyeth ye Body of Laurance Horrocks late of Wakefield who departed this life ye 18th day of Feb. Anno Domini 1686. On a brass, Here lieth the Body of Mr. William Spink Merchant He departed this Life Ienvary the 5 in 1738 Aged 71 Years. Here lyeth the y Mary the wife of est Taylei 246 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH of cottes in the Parish of Wakefield who departed this Life the 16 of August 1670. Here lieth interred the Body of Willia Willson of Bragg lane q Departed this life the *■ p of June 1757 in the 3 Year of his Age ^ Also William his Son d April ye 6th 1758 Aged 10 Here lies ye Remains of Mrs. Marth Spink Wife of Mr. H — Spink Merchant who departed this life the 7th of August 174 — •? Aged 74 Years. Here lieth the Body of Christopher Grozer, who departed this life April 16th 1766. Aged 53 Years. Also William, the Son of the above said, who departed this life September the 15th 1766 Aged 15 Years. Also the Body of Elizabeth, Wife of James Orwin, who departed this life the 20th of November 1795 Aged 61 years. Also the Body of the above said James Orwin, who departed this life the 26th of January 1813 Aged 51 Years. On a white marble tablet let into a stone, Mary the Wife of Dan : Smalpage Died Novbr 1st 1 71 1 Aged 52 Years. Danl Smalpage Died Decbr 6th 1755 Aged 67 Years. Here lieth the Body of Henry, eldest son of Benjamin Dixon of Wakefield Solicitor, and Mary his Wife, who died 13th July 1835, Aged 4 Years and 9 months. Also of Mary Elizabeth Daughter of the above named Ben- jamin and Mary Dixon who died the 14th of June 1837 Aged 9 months. Also of Benjamin second son of the above named Benjamin OF WAKEFIELD. 247 and Mary Dixon who died the 1st day of April 1844 Aged nine years Cut away. . . Ledger of Wren(thorpe ?) who departed this . . 14th day of Deer 1770 in the 69th Year of her Age. Also the Body of the above Samuel Ledger, who departed this Life the 23d of October 1778 in the 80th Year of his Age. Here lieth Interred the Body of Mary Scholey wife of James Scholey who departed this life ye 29th May 1767 Aged 68 years. Also the Body of the above said James Scholey of Wakefield, Sadler, who departed this Life the 23d day of June 1769 in the 70th Year of his age. Mary Goddard, died 17th of April 1828, in the 70th Year of her Age. Here lieth Interred the Body of Hannah Gargrave Daughter of Richard Gargrave who departed this Life the 13th day of Decem- ber 1744 Aged 43 Years. Here lieth the Body of John Parkhill, who died May 29th 1750 Aged 72 Years. Arabela, also, Daughter of Capt. David Parkhill, died Augt. 30th 1783. Aged 14 weeks. Ann Rachill, also, daughter of D. Parkhill, died March 13th 1783. Aged 16 Years Elizabeth, also, Daughter of D. Parkhill, died July nth 1786 Aged 6 months. Maria, also, Daughr of D. Parkhill died Novr 24th 1788. Aged 17 Years. Also Capt- David Parkhill, died Novr 30th 1808. Aged 70 years. In memory of Francis wife of George Westerman of Wakefield who died November the 9th 181 7. Aged 31. Also of the above George Westerman of Castle Grove Sandal who departed this life the 21st day of March 1845 ' n tne 81 st Year of his Age. 248 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH In Memory of Elizabeth, Relict of the late George Bennett, Painter, who departed this life the 20th of March, 1809, aged 52 years. Also of George Alfred son of Joseph and Hannah Bennett and grandson of the above Elizabeth Bennett who died the 1st of February 1831 Aged three years. Here lieth the Body of Mary Johnson daughr of Thomas Johnson of Caistor Lincolnshire, she died April the 23rd 1783 Aged 13 years. Cut away. Also Mary his daughter, who died an Infant. Also the Body of ye above Jonathan Goodwin who departed this life Nov. the 16th 17 — in the 79th year of his Age. Here lieth the body of Ann, daughter of Thomas Wormald died Feb? 7th 1765 in the 2nd year of her Age. Also Ann, his Daughter died April 21st 1781 Aged 14 Years. Also Elizabeth, his daughter died April 23rd, 1792, aged 24 years. Also Ann, his Wife died January 1st, 1796, aged 66 years. Also of the above, Thomas Wormald, died December 9th, 1799, aged 66 years. Here was Interd the Body of Alice the wife of Jas Hebden of Snowhill, who died the 13th of March 1742 Aged 45 Years. Also the Body of the said James Hebden who died ye 29th of March 1755, Aged 57 Years. In Memory of James Hebden of Woodside who died 19th of July 1795, Aged 71 Years. Also Ann Barlow, Sister to the above James Hebden of Woodside, who departed this life the 10th of March 1799, Aged 81 Years. Here lie ye Remains of four Children of George Bucktrout Crocer in Wakefield. Viz. : Robert, Margaret, George and Charles All died in their Infancy. OF WAKEFIELD. 249 Also Frances and Alice who died very young Ano Domini i75i- Also lieth the Body of Johannah the wife of George Bucktrout who died of her eleventh child ye 16th of March 1753 Aged 40 Years. Mary died Nov : 3d Aged 19 Months. Here lieth the Body of John Bradley, Currier, who died the iothofOct. 1791 Aged 81 years. . . . . and die you must . . . . Among the Just. Also Margaret the Second Wife of John Bradley who died October the 17th 1822 Aged 93 Years. Here lies Interred the Body of Mrs Elizath Wright Relict of Mr Joseph Wright who died Novr 3d 1778 in the 75th Year of her Age. Also ye Body of Hannah wife of Benjn Twigg of Hull Daughr of ye above Elizath Wright, who departed this life Novr ye 5th 1796. Aged 66 Years. Also the Body of Mary Gill of Wakefield daughter of the above Elizabeth Wright who departed this Life October 3rd 181 1. Aged 80 Years. Here lieth interr'd the Body of William Hilton who died the 20th of Deer 1782 aged 34 Years. Also the Body of Elizabeth Hilton Sister to the above said William Hilton, who departed this life the second day of M — 1783. Aged 32 Years. Here lieth the Body of Jas. Haigh who departed this life the 8th day Augt- 1791 in the 54th Year of his Age. Also the Body of Mary Haigh Wife of the above James Haigh who departed this life the 10th Deer. 1706 aged 70 Years. Also Elizabeth, only child of the above mentioned James and Mary Haigh, and Widow of the late Harold Bent, Esquire, of Mitholm, near Halifax. She was born on the 20th Augt- 1770. and died on the 2nd Deer- 1852. 250 THE. CATHEDRAL CHURCH Lettice Ramsden, ob : 24th Augt- A.D. 1801, JK 67. Sarah, Daughter of the above and Relict of the Revd- John Taylor of Horbury ob : 23rd Novr- 1844. ^Et 84. Here lieth the Body of Francis the Son of John Waugh, who died 26A day of Sepr- 1775. Aged 16 years. Also the Body of Richard, Son of the above John Waugh, who died the 23d day of May 1 — Aged 31 Years. Also the Body of the above John Waugh, who departed this Life the 13th of October 17 — ■ Aged 65 Years. Also the Body of Elizth- Waugh Relict of the above John Waugh and Mother of the said Francis and Richard Waugh, who died the 10th of June 1804, aged 81 Years. On a brass shield on a stone with ornamental scroll-work around, Here was Interr'd ye Body of Jno Richardson who departed ys Life the 10th Day of August Anno Dom: 1725 In the 30th year of his Age. On a brass let into a plain stone, In Memory of William Coppindale Jun* of Wakefield, Gent, who Departed this Life Septembr ye 12th A.D. 1726. In the 30th year of his Age. And Lies Here Inter'd. And also Margaret His Daughter Who Died October 1 7th. In the third Year of her Age. Here lyeth y e Body of William, Son of Joseph Shillito of Wakefield who departed this life ye 15th day of Feb: Anno Domini. 17 10. Here also lyes ye Body of Susannah Shillito, who Died April ye 25th 1 7 14. C. S. died ye 9th of June 17 16. Here lieth the Body of Jane the wife of Daniel Shillito who died the 27th of Feby- 1773. Aged 72 Years. Here lyeth ye Body of John Wormal of Woodside who died ye 1 st of Aprill 1713- OF WAKEFIELD. 251 Also lieth the Body of Samuel Son of the above named John Wormal, who departed this life ye nth of June 1748 in the 51st Year of his Age. Also the Body of William Wormal, Son of the above Samuel Wormal, who departed this life the 19th of Jamy. 1790. Aged 63 Years. At the top of the pewing, north aisle, Here lieth Interr'd the Body of Onesimus Cowper of Wakefield Who departed this Life ye 12th day of April 1745. Aged 66 Years. Also Susannah his Wife Exit 5th March 1748. Aged Si. Here lieth the Body of Thomas Horsfall of Wakefield Inkeeper who departed this Life the 25th day of March 1740 in the 32(1 Year of his Age. Also on the north side of this stone, was Interred ye Body of Thomas Wombwell who Died Sept. ye 21st 1740. Aged 32 Years. Here lies the Body of Hannah the wife of Jonathan Twigg Cloth Dresser who died the 24th of Deb r 1767 Aged 42Years. Here also lies the Body of the above said Jonathan Twigg, Cloth Dresser, who departed this life the 29th of October 1775. In the 50th Year of his Age. Also the Body of Mary the second wife of the above sd Jonathan Twigg who departed this life the 21st day of May 1774 in the 40th year of her Age. North aisle, Sacred to the Memory of William Harrison Esq late of South Parade Wakefield, who departed this life the 17th December 18 — Aged 79 Years. With the Tenderest and most Affectionate regard this Stone is placed here in Memory of Mary Wife of Stephen Priestley who departed this life Feb>y 21st 1810. Aged 48 Years. Also the Body of Stephen Priestley. 29 Years Clerk of this Church, who departed this Life July — 1838. Aged 74 Years. 252 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Here lieth Interr'd ye Body of Elizabeth Wife of John Houlden who died Aug the ist 1791. Aged 47 Years. Also Ann Carr who died Oct. the 4th 1797. Aged 39 Years. Also the Body of the above said John Houlden, who died December the 4th 181 2. Aged 72 Years Let Sacred Harmony and Praise Employ your constant Breath. You're then, Prepar'd for length of Days Or fit for Sudden Death. of Joshua Hud swell, who departed this Life the nth Day of May 1 781 in the — Year of his Age. Also the Body of Mary Hudswell, Relict of the above Joshua Hudswell who departed this Life the 2nd of July 1812 in the 81st Year of her Age. In Memory of John Everingham, of Wakefield, who died 14th October 1790, Aged 68 Years. Also of Jane Everingham, Wife of the above who died 24th February 1794. Aged 77 Years. Also of John Everingham Son of the above who died 8 th April 1827, Aged 70 Years. Here lies interred the Body of Sarah, Daughr of Mr. Jeremiah Naylor, who died the 19th Decemr 1788, aged 9 weeks. Also Sarah, Wife of the above Mr. Jeremiah Naylor, who died the 18th of May, 1796, aged 28 years. Also Mary Ann, Daughter of the above named Jeremiah and Sarah Naylor, who died the 27th of December 1827, Aged 32 Years. Also Katherine (Widow) Second Wife of the above Jeremiah Naylor, and Daughter of the late .... Foljambe of Rother- ham ; died 15th June 1849, in her 78th Year. Also John, Son of Jeremiah and Sarah Naylor, who departed this life on the 4th of February 1856. Aged 63 Years. Sacred to the Memory of Hannah, the Wife of John Naylor OF WAKEFIELD. 253 Esq. of Belle Vue, near Wakefield, who died 29th April, 1823, aged 70 years. Also of the Aforesaid John Naylor Esqr. who died January 24th 1830 in the 79th year of his age. Here lies interred the Body of Hannah, the daughter of Mr. John Naylor, who died July ye 10th 1776, aged 8 weeks, Also John his Son, died June the 26th, 1780, aged 16 days. Here lies interred Eliza, the infant daughter of William and Eliza Naylor, who departed this life on the 18th of Sept. 18 12, aged 18 days. Here Lyeth ye Body of Sauil Eueringham of Stanley who died ye 3d of Iuly 1 7 1 1 . Also Susannah ye Wife of Savil Everingham dyed ye 28th of Janry 1726. Also Susannah ye Daughter of Wm Harrison dyed ye nth of FebT 1727. Here lieth ye Body of Mary the Widow of Richard Buxton of Wakefield who departed this life the 1st of November 1720. Also the Body of John Buxton of Wakefield Son of the above Richard Buxton who departed this life the 28th of April T 75 T - Here rests the mortal remains of Eliza the Wife of William Naylor Esqr. of Wakefield and Daughter of Edward Brooke, Esqr. f Chapel Allerton, who departed this life on the 19th day of November, 1819, in the 31st Year of her Age. Also the above named William Naylor Esqr who was born on the 2nd February 1775, and departed this Life on the 26th March 1839, aged 64 years. Here lie the Remains of Mrs. Frances Topham, Wife of Mr. Timothy Topham, Wakefield who died the of September, 1800 aged 72 years : Also the above mentioned Timothy Topham who died the 21th of September, 181 1 in the 71 Year of his age. 254 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH On a white marble slab let into a stone Iohn Smalpage Died Debr. ist 1800. Aged 46 Years. Dory. Smalpage Died Sepr- 2nd, 1806. Aged 73 Years. Here lies the Body of Mr- John Rust, who died April the 2d 1735- Aged 33 Years. On a small brass, HERE LYETH the Body of Mr. ROBERT MASON Gent. Who Departed this Life January the 6th 1758 aged 38 years. Here lieth Interred the Body of Elizabeth Plowes wife of John Plowes Wakefield Dyer who departed this life the 29th Day of November 1747 aged 44 years. Also John their Son, died 1748 Aged 15 Years. Here lieth Interred the Body of the above said John Plowes Dyer, who departed this life the 18 of Feby 1772 Aged 75 Years. On a small brass let into stone, Here Lyeth ye Body of Mr- Robert Bever who Departed this Life SthAprill 1728 aged 58. Also Frances Granddaughter of ye said Richard Sisson, died 2nd November 1827, Aged 69 Years. Ann Sisson Relict of the above Richard Sisson, died 25th February 1829 Aged 69 Years. Here lies the Body of Elizth Skilbeck Daughter of Mr- John Skilbeck of Hull who departed this life the 5th day of May 1763 in the 21st year of Her Age. In the north chancel aisle, Here lieth the Body of Richard Morville, who departed this life the 15th Day of November 1808, Aged 55 Years. Also Elizabeth, Relict of the above Richard Morville, who departed this life the 6th Day of May 181 6, Aged 66 Years. OF WAKEFIELD. 255 Here lies the Body of Charles, the Son of Charles Mann, Grocer of Wakefield, who died Deer 8th 1808, Aged Seven Months. Also the Body of Sarah Wife of the above Charles Mann, who died Deer 29th 1809 Aged 38 Years. Also Joseph, Son of the above, who died May nth 1810, Aged 4 Years. Here Lieth ye Body of Mrs- Esther Woollin who died Iuly the 31st 1736 Aged 67. Here lyes Mr. Ioseph Woollin, an active Friend to the Town & to the Poor. He dyed the 27th of Febry 1760 in ye 59th Year of his Age. Here also lye Iohn and Ioseph Woollin (who died young) Sons of ye Revd Iohn Woollin and Mary Bethia his Wife. Here Lyeth Interred the Body of Mary Clarebrough, Wife to Henry Clarebrough of Wakefield Gentleman who departed this life the 17th day of September Ano: Dom : 1725. Likewise the Body of her Sister Ann Braithwait, who died the 19th day of January 1756, in the 88 Year of her Age. Edith the Wife of John Burton of Wakefield Esq* Daughter and Sole Executrix of Richd : Meager of Wakefield Merchant was Buried July the 5th 1722. Also John was Buried the 19th of September 17 16. Edith was Buried the 23d of June 1 71 7. John was Buried ye 22^ of August 1718. And Matthew was Buried the 15th of May 1722. Children of y e Said John Burton by Edith his Wife. On brasses, Margaret Sharp died July 24th 1840 aged 67 years. Here Lyes interrd ye Body of Mr- Marm : Shepley of Wakefield who Departed this Life the 7th of March 1722 & in ye 35th year of his Age. 256 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH In the south chancel aisle. On white marble let into stone, William Willis, Esq*"- Died 12th June 1809, Etat : 48. Similar, Joseph Willis, Esquire, Died 28th June 1770, Etat : 34. William Downes, Gent : Died 17th April 1775, Etat : 70. Here Lye dyed Aged Samuel Liversedge 1715 49 Margaret his Wife 1701 Robert their Son 1710 Also John Liversedge \ their Son j 1756 58 Ann his Wife 1737 39 Mary Ann & Richard their Infant Children Richard Appleby 1789 55 Also John Liversedge died the 10 of October i 795 * Here lies the Body of Marion, Wife of Matthew Stocks of Wakefield, and Daughter of the late Revd- Andrew Hally of Lundie in Scotland, who departed this life the 7th day of February 181 1 aged 25 Years. She Dived Respected, and Beloved, and Died Lamented, Looking for the Resurrection of the Just. Also the Bodies of Samuel, and Alexander, twin children of Matthew and the above departed Marion Stocks, they died on the 19th and 20th of April 1813 aged 2 Years and 3 Months. Happy Babes. H. S. I. Revd. Christr- Atkinson, A.M. per XXXVII Annos OF WAKEFIELD. 257 Scholse Vacfeldiensis Magister, et per XXII Ecclesiae ejusdem Concionator pomericlianus et Elizabetha Uxor. Quam boni ; dicant Vicini laudantes, Quam chari ; Cognati desiderantes, Quam pii : Liberi lugentes. Hoc pietatis et moeroris pignus P Richardus Atkinson. _., ... f Kal. Jan"- A. D. 1795. Ille obnt . ' J0 I Ao ^Etatis, 63. , .. ( quo Die Maii A.D. 1771. Hoec obnt j . „ . " ( Ao ^Etatis 40. Here lieth Inter'd the Body of Mr. Michl- Barstow & Ruth his dear Wife Daughter of Wm. Fenton Gent, by whom he had Issue two Sons and 4 Daughters. He departed this life ye 20th day of June 1755. M 89. Jeremiah Bastow Gent, departed this life April ye 12th 1765. Aged 67. & Sarah his Wife April ye 1st 1766, Aged 54. Also the Body of William the Son of William and Elizabeth Barstow, he departed this Life the 3rd of March 18 10: aged 22 years. Also the said William Barstow Son of the above named Jeremiah Barstow, who departed this Life May 24th 1839, aged 86 years. Also Elizabeth his Wife, who died August 5th 1841, aged 78 years. Here lyeth the Body of Francis the Son of Mr- John Maude of Wakefeild who departed this life the 1st of June 1714. Here also Lyeth ye Body of Martha the Daughter of Mr. John Maude who died the 8th of February 17 16. And also Frances his Daughter died the 12th of March 1718. 258 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Also Gertrude his daughter died ye 4th of March 17 19. Mr- Francis Maude Merchant, who depated this life ye 20th of May 1734 aged 41 years. Also Mrs. Barbara Maude his wife dyed the 5th of June 1735, in the 43d year of her age. Also Thomas their Son dyed the 18th of Octor 1747 aged 15 years. Barbara their daughter buried 22to John Savil of Medley Esqie for a fox head ... ... ... ... 00 . 01 . 00 Pd. by Peter Roosbeck for ourchants and philomots ... ... ... ... 00 . ij . 02 oo . Ol 02 o oo 2 I • 5 6 o 4 OF WAKEFIELD. 271 To Hen Hudson to Will Naylor man for 7 heighhoclges ... 1683. To Mary Benton for a moldwarpe 1687. Communion wine, March, 6 gall. 1 pint 1 pint of canary July 4. 1 gallon Sep. 17 & 25 7 gallons 1 qts of claret 2 pints of canary ... ... ... 1.11 Jan. 1 st. & 8. 8 gallons, 2 qts f claret 2 pints of canary ... ... ... 1.16 Care Sunday 3 gallons 2 qts ... . . . » Palm Sunday 4 gallons 1 qts ... ...[ Easter Even 4 gallons ... ... . . . f Easter day 8 gallons 1 pt Canary 4 — Total wine 9 . 4 Wine to strange Ministers Novemb 5, Jan. 30, Feb 6, Christmas Day ... 2 . 14 To Mr. Hebden for ye Clock ... ... 20 . o 1689. Pd for taking up the Swine traps .. . ... o . 1 Pd, the waites for playing ye 5 of Novem ber ... ... ... ... ... o . 2 Pd to ye ringers when ye Bpp came ... o . 5 1 69 1. Spent at ye Crowne when we came in ... o . 5 Spent at sealeing writeing wth S. Lyon ... o . 6 1692. Spent on strange Minister yt. preached for Dr. Staplton ... ... 0.6 1700. Spent in going about the parish to keep people fro drinke on the Suuday ... 0.16 for prosecuting several fornicators ... o . 6 1701. Spent in rideing the parish ... ... o . 5 Pade for ye suplys of ye Cure during the » vacancy ... ... ... ... ... 4 . o 1705. Pd. toward ye silver bason .. . ... ... 4 . 10 1706. Paid Lockwood for mending ye Sally Poll o . 3 272 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH ■7°9- 1 7 1 1. 1717. •725- 1732 J733- 1736. 1 70S. The Comunion cloath, carriage & makeing The new pulpitt Received for the old pulpitt Allowed the Parish churchwardens for goeing to Leeds with ye man & woman to doe penance ... Paid Mr. John Hubank for wyne... To Will Hargraves for wyne To Mr. Francis Wheatley for wyne Tho. Bragg for wyne To Mrs. Rooth for wyne ... To the Labourers for carrying out the Rubbish when the old loft was puld down Spent with Mr. Smyth about repairing ye Organ June 13. Paid Jno. Briggs for the Lent of 3 sheets for 3 persons to do pennance July 29. Paid Jno. Watson $s. upon a bargain made with for building three windows & 2 pillars of ye church for ^80 55. od Pd. more to the bellman for crying ye damaging of ye Organs ... Oct. 8 Pd. for the loan of 7 sheets for Penances Pd. Mr. Denby the Organist a years salary Pd. Edmund Stringer for a Book of Homilies Oct : 1 o Pd. for a sheet for Stringer to do penance in Jan. 18 Pd- ye Ringers by ye request of several neighbours Doctor Potter being mad Archbishop of Canterbury 1 737. June 23 Pd. for a sheet for Eliza Redhead penance ... 14 . 12 6 3° • 5 • 5 22 . *9 8 8 16 6 2 8 2 7 7 • !9 °5 OF WAKEFIELD. 273 1743. Aug. 15 Expended about the organ at the black swan ... ... ... ... 6 Expended in gooing to Stanley to S r - Lyons for his subscription munny ... ... 6 Nov. 6 Expended at several times in col- ecting the Subscription money for Organ 10. 6 1747. June 2 Turnpike for ye Bishop ... ... 1 . 3 1748. Paid at Pontefract for dinners when we attended upon the Bishop & paying at the Turnpike for the Bishop ... ... 1.14. 4 1754. Oct 19 To Cash for 1 Umbrello ... ... 2 . o . o To Box and carriage for do. ... ... 4.0 1758. Aug 13 By going to meet the Bishop at Sandal 3 Houses ... ... ... 1 . o 1 761. July 25 To the Ringers for ringing the news of taking Pondicherry and drubing the French ... ... ... ... 10. 6 Sept 25 Pd. Priestly and 7 helpers for illuminating the Church ... ... 5.0 1770. Jan 2 Dame Lofthouse for bringing out the Umbrella ... ... ... ... 5 . o May 26 Dame Lofthouse { year for Um- brella ... ... ... ... ... 5 . o 1771. A meeting at Bull ... ... ... ... 12. 6 1778. May 23 Paid Wm. Lumb and G. Goodall for new clock and the chimes repairing 105 . o . o Paid Wm. Lumb for gilding the clock face 2.0. o 1779. June 22 By a Peal of 8 New Bells, pd. Pack and Chapman ... ... ... 124 . 6 . 9 By carrge and insurance of Bells, pd- Mr. Martin ... ... ... ... ... 18. 19. o By Thos- Beckett, for leadg Bells up and down ... ... ... ... ... 16. o 1780. Nov 5 Expenses attending a disorderly man ... ... ... ... ... 10. 1 June 28 Turnpikes at meeting Bishop ... 1 . o 1782. Aug 3 Paid for 19 doz of wine at 22/6 . . 21 . 7 . 6 40 . . 10 . 6 3 2 ■ , 14 . 9 46 . 18 . 46 . 16 . *3 • 6 67 . 16 . 274 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH 1785: July 5 Pd. for 22 doz of wine ... ... 24 . 15 1787. Jany 31 Paid Orggonnest for repairing the Orgon ... 1789. Sep. 5 Put under corner stone of Vestry ... 1791. Aug. 20 Paid for 33 doz" wine x 799- J une 2 ° Paid for 28 dozn wine 1800. Paid for 26 doz of wine ... 1 80 1. Ap. 17 Pd. Ringers for ringing for Admiral Nelson's Victory 1803. July 16 By Jno. Soane (Architect) pd his a/c 1803. Dec 10 By Doctor Bacon for one year use of the Vicarage Croft as a Burying ground for the Parish, due 9 inst. at ^10 . 10 . o a year. retd. 5.5.0 5 . o . o 1805. Oct 28th By ringers on Dr- Munkhouse's Induction ... ... ... ... 1 . 1 . o Nov 11 By paid Thos- Potter for the attendance of singers during the putting up of the Organ ... ... ... 2. 2. o Dec. 5 By paid Mr- Gray as per bill for Organ in full ... ... ... ... 576 . 4 . o 1806. Oct 6 By Mick Wilde for makeing a time piece over the organ & fixing ... ... 6. 16. 6 1807. Sep. 28 By C Mann for Wax Candles for one year in a bill ... ... ... 65 . o . o 1808. Ap 4 To cash of Mr- Orwin on conviction of Boys breaking the Sabbath ... ... 5 . o Vestry 13 March, 1809. Agreed that no Wine be order'd but for the use of the Communion Table, one Bottle to each Minister who officiates at the Table, and one dozen to the Vicar at Christmas. Present H. W. Hodgson and for occasional proper uses, viz. to Joseph Hall Clergymen Strangers who preach, and D. Maude other good & laudable purposes, D.M. G. Ridsdale The above Memorandum Joseph Batty. was wrote above Five months after the resolution was passed. W. O. OF WAKEFIELD. 275 Agreeable to the above, one dozen of wine was sent to the Vicar the following day, but was returned with the following note : " Dr- Munkhouse returns compliments to the Churchwardens, begs to thank them for their intention of presenting him a dozen of wine, but at the same time to decline accepting it, on the grounds, that from long established custom, The Vicar of Wakefield can (he believes) claim, as a right, a certain quantity of wine." Vicarage March 14th 1809. N.B. — The above resolutions were at a full meeting of the Churchwardns. reconsidered, and ordered that the above be rescinded, and orhers substituted, which see in Order Book. D. M. 181 5. June 24th Paid the Ringers for ringing on account of Lord Wellington's Victory over Bonoparte at Waterloo ... ... ... 2.2.0 1817. Sep 27 M r - Mears (for new bells)... ... 230 . 16 . o 1821. Sep. 14. By Ringers at laying the first stone of Stanley Church ... ... ... ... 1.1.0 There are frequent accounts of penances at the church, after the Puritan reaction. The notices are as follows : / s. d. 1679. To Jos. Green for black bess penanc sheet 00 . 05 . 06 1725. June 13. Paid J no Briggs for the Lent of) \ 00 . 01 . 06 3 sheets for 3 persons to do penance ' 1 731 Nov. 6. Paid for the loan of two white Sheets ... ... ... ... ... 6 1732. Oct. 8. Pd. for the loan of 7 sheets for penances ... ... ... ... 1 . 9 1735. Nov. 1. Pd. for a sheet that — had to do penance in ... ... ... ... 1 . o 1736. Sep. 27. Pd. for two sheets ye women did penans in ... ... ... ... .8 t 2 276 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Oct. 10. Pd. for a sheet for Stringer to do penance in ... ... ... ... .4 1 737. June 23. Pd. for a sheet for Eliza Redhead penance ... .. ... ... ... .4 1750. Dec. 26. To Priestley for a sheet & attending a woman's penance 5 . o These penances are, with the exception of the first, during the vicariates of the Revs. Thomas Scott and George Arnet, but on Sunday, August 25th 1850, a penance was performed in the Parish Church by sentence of the Ecclesiastical Court on a person who had defamed the character of a lady in Wakefield. A Recantation was repeated by the penitent after the Vicar, and then signed by the interested parties. The Stocks stood in the Churchyard on the north-west side of the church, and are shown in the steel engraving prefacing Sisson's Historic Sketch of Wakefield Church, 1824. They were last used in 1841. An Old Chain leaded into the wall at the junction of the north aisle with the tower in the interior of the Church, is said to have been used for the purpose of fastening up persons who disturbed the service. The Registers at Wakefield commence in 16 13, but there are in the Archbishops' Registry at York the registers for the years 1600, 1602 and 1604, copies of which I have made, and as these can nowhere else be seen I have thought them worth printing in full.* Anno dni 1600 : A Register made for the towne and parish of Wakefeilde in the xliij yeare of the reigne of our most gratious Sovrayne March xxv 1600 : * I am indebted to Dr. John Sykes, F.S.A., of Doncaster, for calling my attention to these registers. OF WAKEFIELD. 277 Ann Dalomie Daughter of William dalomie buried the xxv daye. Alice Ingle Daughter of Nicholas Ingle baptized same day. Ihon Smawfoote Sonne of mathew smawfoote baptized the xxvjth daye. Elizabeth Talor wife of francis Talor buried xxvijth daye March 1600. Aprill 1600. lames wayvynge buryed the iiij daye. Iayne Hall d. of Iohn Hall baptized same daye. Rychard Thackrowe sonne of Thackrow buried same day. Ihon Rychardson sonne of George Rychardson buried same daye. Agnis wayving wife of george wayvinge buried vth daye. Issabell Alland d. Thomas Alland baptized same daye. Margaret Townend wyfe Richard townend buried viijth daye. George wilkynson s. George Wilkinson buried the ixth day. Ihon Kyghley s of peter Kyghley bapt the same daye. Anne medley d. Edward medley bapt xi daye. William Harryson sonne of Bryan harrison bapt same daye. Sarah Walker daughter Ihon Walker buried xiijth daye. nothus Allice Pannyley wth Ihon gaseelne had a child in the house of Issabell allayne called Sarah baptized same daye. Issabell Walker d lames Walker baptized xviijth daye. Ihon Cookeson And margret goddard maryed xxth daye. Michaell Bradley buryed xxjth daye. Margery Kynge buried same xxth day Aprill 1600. Ihon Goodall buryed the xxth daye. Robart Sheppard buryed the xxiijth daye. William Bromehead s. of Edwarde bromhead buryed xxiiijth. Dorothy Otts wyfe of marmaduke Ottes buryed xxvth daye. Issabell Stanley d. peter Stanley bapt. same daye. lone Fforde of Robart fford buryed xxvjth daye. Rycharde Taler had a child buryed unbapt xxviijth daye. Ellen townend d. Thomas townend buryed the same. Rychard browne S of Henrye browne buryed xxixth daye. Percyver Greene buryed the same xxixth daye of Aprill 1600. 278 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Maye 1600. Willm Kaye S of Robarte Kaye baptized the first daye. Willm Thackerow and agnis leigh maryed the iiijth daye. Thomas wolriche s. of Thomas wolriche buryed vijth daye. Willm whyteheade & allice Tyas maryed viijth daye. Thomas Shuttleworth s. of Thomas Shuttleworth bapt xth daye. Sibell Hardwick wife henry hardwick buryed xjth daye. . Robart Hoopes buryed xiith daye. Ihon Denis & Katherine Cookson maryed the xiijth daye. Allis walton d Charles Walton baptised xvijth daye. Mathew hodgeson Allis Robinson maried the xviijth daye. Robart Balmeforth Ellen wortley maryed the same daye. Thomas Tayler allice Cook maryed xxth daye. Iayne Sandes wyfe of Ihon Sandes buryed xxijth daye. Iayne wharton wife Thomas Wharton buried same daye. Katheryn Stainforth d Ihon Stainforth baptized xxiijth daye. William Ffroyne Ienet Sudwell maryed xxvth daye. Ihon Iackson buryed the xxvjth daye. leonard Sharpe S Thomas Sharpe buryed xxviijth daye May 1600. Iune 1600. Robart Balye & Allice ffawconer maryed first day. Rychard Taler buried the same daye. Issabel Priestley buryed vij daye. Ierenne Bolton S ffrancis bolton babtized viijth daye. Ihon Hoopes Sonne Hoopes bapt same daye. Ihon ffeilde Sonne Roger ffeilde bapt xith daye. Cartherit Nayler wife of Ihon nayler buryed xiijth daye. George Rychardson Anne megson maryed xvth daye. Robarte Swift Agnis heaton maryed the xvijth day. Allice Brighton d Rycharde Brighton buryed xviijth day. Robart Greenwood Anne warryner maryed the xvijth daye. Edward Walker S of Ihon Walker baptized same daye. Robart Armitage S of Miles bapt same daye. Elizabeth glover wyf Thomas glover buryed xixth day. Rychard Nayler Sonne Xpofer nayler baptized same daye. OF WAKEFIELD. 279 Allice Claton wife of Ihon claton buried xxjth daye. Margret d. Rychard hodgeson bapt same daye. ffrancis Oleye and marye mattersonse maryed xxvth daye. Hugh helagh and Issabell benson maryed xxixth daye. Marye Somerster d of Thomas Somerster bapt same daye. Henry Cave s of lawrance cave bapt same xxixth June 1600. Iulye 1600. George Robinson s Thomas Robinson buryed first day. Rychard Poole Elzabeth moone maryed second day. Issabel Waker d of Edwarde Walker bapt same day. Ihon fhdlyn s of Thomas ffidlinge baptized the v daye. Nicholas Hoole and Ellen nayler maryed vjth daye. Ffrancis Hemyngewaye d. of Edwarde hemingwaye bapt same day. Thomas Lowden sonne of francis bapt the xijth of Iulye 1600. Ffrancis morvale s of Robarte morvayle buried xijth daye. Wm. Lewis sonne of Ffrancis lewis baptized xviij day. Ihon sternthwat buryed the xxith day. Ffrancis Thompson wyfe of henry thompson buryed xxth daye. Nicholas broadbent Agnis dickonson maryed xxvijth daye. Xpofer Boyngonse s of Thomas boyngonse bapt same daye. Allis baytman doughter of henrye Baytman bapt same day. The wyfe of Anthony Dobson buryed same daye. Ffrancis Swyft had a child buryed unbaptized xxixth July 1600. August 1600. Ellyn Ellysmough d Iossua Ellysmough bapt iijth daye. Ffrancis Richardson & beatrix megson maryed the vth daye. priscilla Denis d Ihon Denis bapt vjth daye. Sarah Maud d Ihon Maude bapt same day. James Smyth Elzabeth metson maryed xth day. George Shuttleworth buryed xiiijth day. Xpofer Cookson s Ihon Cookeson bapt xvth day. Wm. Peaker had a child buryd unbap. the xvjth daye. Danniell Hodgson sonne Ihon Hodgson buryd xvijth daye. Henrye Cockhill Elzabeth Rodley maryed xixth daye. 280 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Elzabeth Rowe d of Roger Rowe bapt xxth daye. Rychard Stafford Elzabeth aglond maryed xxiijth daye. Robart fford s George forde buryed same daye. nothus Mychall Atkynson wth issabell crowdeson had a child in the house of Robt. Dimond called Elzabeth xxiiijth daye. Rychard Roodes & Rebecka mawd maryed xxvjth daye. Willm Sym sonne of Xpofer babtized xxxith of August 1600. September 1600. Elzabeth Atkynson d of michaell Atkynson buryed second daye. Jenet Tayler & Nicholas Taler baptized third daye. Sarah Boyth d Laurence boyth bapt the vth day. Ellen Lancaster d Wm lancaster bapt vij daye. Robart thurlstone sonne Ihon thurlstone bapt same daye. Jenet wyfe of leonard Saunderson buryed viijth daye. Willm Pollerd s of Willm Pollarde bapt xth daye. Elzabeth Shuttleworth wyfe Thomas S. buryed xith day. Agnis Eshall d Thomas Eshall bapt the xiiijth day. Sarah Thwates d of Rycharde Thwates bapt xxijth day. Rychard Waynwright Jayne Atkynson maryed xxiijth daye. Robart Ogden s of Mathew Ogden bapt xxiiijth daye. Willm Ffoster s. of George Ffoster bapt same daye. Agnis Sharpe wife Ihon Sharpe buryed xxvth daye. Marye lockewood buryed the xxvjth daye. Nycholas Atkyson Jane thornton maryed xxviij daye. priscilla Baly doughter Willm Balye bapt same day. October 1600. Willm Chambers buryed the iiijth day. Tenant Empson francis byrom maryed vth daye. Andrew Rose sonne of Ffrancis Rose bapt same day. Ihon Clarkeson s of brian bapt same daye. Thomas donford sonne Xpofer donford bapt same daye. Ffrancis Scholey wife of Thomas Scholey buryd xij day. Robart Smyth s. of Xpofer Smyth bapt same xii of October 1600. OF WAKEFIELD. 281 Robart hewit s of Thon hewit baptized same xijth daye. Ffrancis brooksbanke s of Ihon brooksbanke bapt xiijth day. Ihon brooksbank had a child buryed unbapt same day. Willm Seele s of Rychard Seele bapt xvijth daye. Mary Somerster d Thomas Somerster gent buryd xviijth day. Robart Smyth s of James Smyth buried the xixth day. Rychard Pell s Rychard pell bapt same day. Dorothy Atkynson d Rychard Atkynson baptyzed same day. Willm Casson s of Wm Casson baptized xxvjth day.- James broadbent S of Anthony broadbent bapt same daye. Thomas Oxley sonne of Ihon Oxley bapt same daye. Nycholas Cromock S of labron Cromocke bapt xxviijth Edward Mylner S of Ihon Milner buryd the xxixth day. November 1600. Priscilla fleminge d Ihon fleminge gen. bapt iiijth daye. Thomas Oxley s of Ihon Oxley buryd the vjth day. Willm. michell s of Ihon michell buryed viijth day. Henrye Kyrkham and Ienet peaker maryed the same day. Robart webster s of Arthur webster bapt ixth daye. Rychard Sharpe & Susan bingley maryd xjth day. Thomas Dickson Elzabeth Michell maryed same day. Willm. Rawson s of lames Ravvson baptized xvth day. Henrye Thompson Margaret browne maryd xvjth daye. Ihon Whalley S of Ihon Whalley bapt same daye. Ienet wood d Randall wood bapt xvijth day Issabell Buckley wyf of Rycharde buckly buryed xixth day. Ihon Fleminge S of Rychard fleminge buryed xxith day. Ieny Craven d of Ihon Craven buryed xxijth daye. Iayn Iewit d Robart Iewit buryed xxiijth daye. Thomas Cowp and Elzabeth hall maryed xxvth day. Xpofer wilson S. of George Wilson babtized xxvjth day. George Dighton buryed xxixth daye Novembr 1600. December 1600. Iayn Gayle buryed first daye. Elzabeth hutton d Gilbert hutton bapt xij daye. > THE CATHEDRAE CHURCH Tenet Iewit d Ihon Iewit bapt vij daye. Katherin Brooke d Iarvise brooke bapt same daye. Xpofer Lightfoote & Ienet baytman maryed ixth daye. Edward Rydall had a childe buryed unbapt xijth daye. Will.ni. Dickson s. of Thomas Dickson bapt same daye. Xpofer Rychardson s of George Ryc'son bapt same daye. Thomas Thornton and Margaret Illingworth marid xiiij day. Ihon Nayler Anne Roper maryed same daye. Robart Empson s. of Roger Empson bapt same daye. Henrye Casson Dorothy leicester maryed xvjth day. Ihon payts & mary Burnebey maryed xvijth day. Issabel lewis wyfe Robart lewis buryed xixth daye 1600. Elzabeth fleminge d Rychard fleminge bapt xixth daye. Xpofer Rychardson s of George Rychardson buryed xxth daye. Alice Toltye d of Ihon Totty bapt xxi. Robart Casson buryed xxiijth day. ffrancis gargrave wife of Matthew gargrave buried xxiiijth day. Jane mason d of Myles mason bapt xxvijth day December 1600. Januarye 1600. Anne yayle wife of Henrye yayle buryed first daye. James hepworth had a child buryed unbapt the iijth daye. Mary Benet d of Edward Benet bapt iiijth daye. Thomas mathon s Rychard mathon bapt same daye. Robart Tripet s of Rychard Tripet bapt xjth daye. Roger Rawson buryed xijth daye. Rychard Staniclyfe buryed xiijth daye. Anne Smyerd d thomas smyeard bapt xiiij daye. Ihon morehouse sonne of Willm morehouse bapt same daye. Dorothy milnes wife of Wm milnes buryed xvth day. Ihon Iackson s of Robart Iackson bapt xviijth day. Thomas hopwood Margaret Denton maryed xixth daye. Elzabeth Robinson d Robert Robinson bapt same daye. Sarah hole d nicholas hole bapt the xxth day. Mathew longley s of Ihon longley bapt the xxiijth. Robart Smyth sonne of Ihon Smyth bapt xxith daye. Sarah hole d nicholas hole buryed xxiiith daye. OF WAKEFIELD. 283 George lombe buryed the xixth daye. Giles Bradleye buryed the xxiiijth daye. Beatrix marshall d martin marshall bapt xxvth day. Iayne dineson d Thomas dinison bapt xxviijth daye. Dinis Beele buryed xxx day January 1600. Februarye 1600. Willm Sable s of Ihon Stable buryed first day. Ihon norden and Agnis Rayneforth maryed same daye. Ihon Rop s of Ihon Roper bapt same daye. nothus Willm Beckwith w* Alis nawde had a child in the house of Alice chamber called George bapt same day. lames Broadbent Allice noble maryed second day. Willm Woode Issabell Stapleton maryed same day. Robart Stead s of Alexander Stead bapt same day. Xpofer Tandner s of Ihon Tandner bapt same daye. Issabell Allan wife Thomas Allan buryed iiijth daye. Ihon Briggs buryed the same daye. Marye Kyrke d Xpofer Kyrke bapt vjth day. Thomas Hardwicke had a child buryed unbapt same daye. Elzabeth Beeston d Rychard beeston bapt vijth daye. Ihon Alland Iayne Cookson maryed the viijth daye. Thomas Honhy Allice tompson maryed xth daye. Allice taler wife Bryan taler buriede the same daye. Margery Dawson wife of Ihon Dawson buryed xth daye. Barbaray norfocke d Ihon norfocke bapt xjth daye. Margret Armestronge d Ihon Armestronge bapt xiiijth daye. Ihon Siddall Grace megson maryed the xvjth daye. Ihon Clarke Elzabeth Shuttleworth maryed xvijth daye. Elzabeth Hill d of Thomas Hill bapt xviijth daye. Thomas Smarfoote s of Robart Smarfoote bapt xxth daye. Barbara norden d of Iohn norden bapt same daye. Robart Stead s. of Alexandr stead buried xxjth day. Thomas Smarfoote s of Robert Smarfoote buryed xxijthday. Susanna Rychardson wyfe Ihon Rychardson buryd same day. Rebecca nayler d of Robart nayler bapt same day. Thomas glover & margerye Eshall maryed same day. 284 THE CATHEDRAE CHURCH Susan Tickhill d Hugh Tickhill bapt wiijth day. Rychard lewis s of peter lewis bapt xxvth daye. Agnis Powy d of Ihon Powy buryed the xxvijth day of february 1600. March 1600. Henry Hudswell s. of Rychard hudswell buryed vijth day. Rycharde Siddall s. of Robart Siddall bapt same day. Elzabeth Hardwicke d of Silvester Hardwicke bapt same day. Martin Ffarrer d of Hugh Ffarrer bapt viijth daye. Wylliam Wood s of Willm Wood bapt same day. Liddea laburne d of Oswald laburne bapt same daye. Grace Fford d. of Robart Fford bapt same daye. Anne Thackerow daughter Willm thackerowe bapt Ihon Spencer buryed xjth day. Elzabeth Scratcharde & Andrew scratcharde bapt xvth day. Anne Somerster wyfe of Thomas Somerster buryed the xvijth day. Ellen hargrave d lames hargrave buryed xxixth daye. Sarah Cowper d Mathew bapt the xxijth daye. Margaret Gybson d Robart Gibson baptized same day. Sarah lobson d of Allen Iobson buryed xxiijth day. Elzabeth Goldsmyth d of Robarte goldsmythe buryed same day. Robarte Hodgson sonne of William hodgson bapt xxv daye of March 1600. (None for 1601.) March the xxvth day 1602. Ihon Thornton So : of Robart Thornton buried xxvjth daye. Beatrix haldsworth wife of Alverye buried same daye. Robart Walsh sonne of Robart Walsh buried same daye. Ihon Stafford so. of Rychard bapt xxviijth daye. Ralph Hardye son of Anthony bapt same daye. Ihon Robinson sonne of Ffrancis Rob. buried same daye. Aprill 1602. Willm Shan sonne of Rychard bapt first daye. OF WAKEFIELD. 285 Ieremy mawde sonne of Ihon mawd bapt same day. Easter Ffoster dought : Brian Ffoster bapt v day. Rychard Hepworth S. of lames Bapt the same day. Effam Ryley wife of nicholas buried vjth day. Allis Burrow wife of Thomas buried ixth daye. Henrye Atkinson s. of Thomas bapt same daye. Elzabeth Chadwick d of Ihon buried same daye. Edmond Walker & dionis Rayner maried xijth daye. Beatrix Ellis wife of Robart Ellis buried xiijth daye. Willm Hole s of Nicholas hole bapt the xiiijth day. Anne Rychardson d of george Rychardson bapt same day. Dorothy morton d of Cuthbert burid the xvth day. Thomas Sharpe and Issabell Walker maried xviij day. Ihon Taler s of francis taler bapt same day. Allen Chambers buried the xxijth daye. Henry Gibson buried the xxiiijth day. Iayne Cookeson d of Ihon Cookeson bapt same day. Ric Clarke and Margret walker maried xxviij day. George moughson s of James bapt xxviij day. Christibell townend doughter of Thomas townend buried the xxxth daye of Aprill 1602. Maye 1602. Thomas Clarke sonne of Ihon Clarke buried first daye. George gyll had a child wth Elzabeth tansley called Elzabeth Tanslaye the same daye. Margret Rychardson d of Ihon Rye bapt iijth daye. Robart Barker & Elzabeth Brigge maried iiijth daye. Thomas Shep alius milner buried viith day. Ianet the wife of Ihon windle buried viijth daye. Willm Iackson s of Wm Iackson bapt same daye. Thomas Hardwick a child buried unbapt xth daye. Ihon Kighley buried the xith day. Willm Hemingewaye s. of Edward bapt xiijth day. Willm sonne of Martin Burrows bapt same day. Iayne Smith d Robart Smith bapt same day. Robart margon s of Rye margan bapt same day. 286 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Allice prince d W m Prince bapt xiiijth daye. Allis deneson d of Giles deneson bapt xvjth daye. Ihon Wheatley sonne of . . Wheatley buried xvijth. Willm Browne & Elzabeth Dimond maryd xviijth day. Lois netletonn d of thomas nettleton bapt xxvth day. Rychard Siddall s of Robart Siddall bapt xxvjth day. Issabell Wood d of Randall Wood burid xxviijth day. Ihon Dirrye buried the same daye. Edward Wilson & Margaret Hurst married the xxxi daye of maye 1602. June 1602. Pervivell Rose sonne of Ihon Rose bapt the iiijth day. Thomas Norton dorothy phillip maried vjth day. Elzabeth Casson d Ffrancis Casson bapt the same day. Susan Wilby do. of phillip wilbe bapt same daye. Kathreen the wife of Ihon Smith buried vij daye. Steven metcalfe & dionis taler married viijth day. Susanna Brooke do Ihon Brook bapt the ixth day. Beatrix Elistones do Wm Elistones bapt same daye. Allis Burrow d of thomas Burrow buried xijth daye. Ffrancis Ellis and Iayne Rychardson maryed xiijth daye. Ihon Ffierley buried the same daye. Willm Lewis sonne of peter lewis bapt same daye. Thomas Deneson thelder buryed xiijth daye. Ihon Stooles sonne of Ihon Stoles buried xvth daye. Rychard Crowder s of Edward bapt xvith daye. Mary Briggs do. of Willm baptized same day. Brian Ffrickley a child buried unbapt xvijth daye. Thomas Dalomye son of Ihon Dalome bur xxvth day. Edward the sonne of Rychard Sikes buried xxiijth. Allis Scot do. of Robart Scot bapt xxiiijth day. Ffrancis Smith buryed the xxxth daye. Rychard lawe buried the same day, June 1602. July 1602. Nicholas Hanson sonne of Edward buried j daye. OF WAKEFIELD. 287 Ihon Poole & Elzabeth parker maried iiij th daye. Mathew godyson and Dorothy Ramsden maried same day. Marye Pollard do Willm Pollard bapt same daye. Ffrancis Walker d of George Walker bapt same daye. Xpofer moberley buried the v daye. George Iowit son of Robart Iowet bapt vij daye. Thomas Cooke son of Rycharde buried viijth day. Allin bromehead d of Ihon Bromh. bapt. xith day. Elzabeth wood d of Ihon wood bapt same day. Rychard Pirkills son of Robart pirkils bapt xviijth day. Issabell the wife Wm smith thelder buryed xxijth daye. Ihon sonne of thomas shuttleworth bapt xxiij daye. Thomas Barber sonne of Ihon barber bapt xxvth daye. Robart Beeston son of m maduke buried xxvijth day. Henrye browne son of Wm Brown bapt xxixth day. Rychard Scot & Sarah Gibson maryed the same xxixth day 1602. August 1602. Rychard Scot and Sarah Gibson maried j day, Ihon newby sonne of lames bapt iiijth daye. Issabell Walker do. of Roger Walker bapt vjth daye. Robart Cockhill son of george bapt same daye. Thomas Cooke son of Richard bapt same daye. Ffrancis Oxleye d of Ihon Oxley bapt same day. Issabell goodall d thomas buried same daye. Robart Scot son of Ihon Scot buried viijth day. Hanna laburne do Oswald bapt same daye. Elzabeth Cooke do Rye. Cooke bapt same daye. Iayne hall doughter Willm Bapt xth daye. Thomas the sonne of thomas boyth bapt xith day. Thomas Dawson son of Allis Dawson buried xijth. Elzabeth the do. of Alexander stead bapt xvth day. margaret hole d. of Robert hole buried xyjth day. Willm Dalamye & briget headleye marid xvijth day. Willm Claye & Allis Kent marid same daye. Ienet Pattan wife of thomas patten buried xxjth. 5 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH George sampson son of George bapt xxijth daye. Sarah Sykes d. of thomas sikes bapt same day. Rebecca Crosby d of ^, obcrt ^ Crosby bapt same day. ' \ Thomas/ margaret Pond buried the xxiiijth daye. Ihon Burton and Ienet maried xxv'-h day. Willm Hallewell the sonne of Willm hallewell bapt the xxixth daye of August 1602. September 1602. Willm Briggs sonne of Ihon Briggs bapt first daye. Ihon Taler son of francis taler buried ij daye. Laurance Clark j child buried unbapt same daye. Issabell hardye wife of Rye hardye buried hjth daye. Rychard hardye a child buried unbapt same day. Laurence Crodeson & margery stanefeld maried vth day. Ianet lile wife of thomas buried the vjth daye. Margret Kadman had a child buried unbapt ixth daye. Ihon Ellis & allis Rawden maryed xijth daye. Ihon Hatefeld son of Iarvis hatefeld bapt same daye. Elzabeth hawksworth do of thomas bapt same daye. Gilbert lam a child buried unbapt xviijth day. Ihon ffrobisher & margret Ayneley maried xixth day. Thomas Wilson had a child wth Rosamond hell bapt the xxith called Issabell. Henrye Casson son of Henry Casson bapt same daye. Ihon kirke & marye Burrow maryd same daye. Brian poole & Ianet Ffishborne maryed same daye. Agnis Robinson doughter of Thomas burid xxiiijth day. Brian Rose s of Ihon Rose buryed xxvjth daye. Robart wolrich s of Thomas wolrich bapt same day. Willm Eshall son of Thomas Eshall bapt same day. Anthonye Riddlesden & Elzabeth Berkit maryed the same xxvjth daye of September 1602. October 1602. Elzabeth Atkinson d. of nicholas Atkinson bapt first day. Marye nayler d of Xpofer nayler bapt ij daye. OF WAKEFIELD. 289 Thomas wetherwike s of Xpofer bapt iij daye. George Oxley son of Andrew buried ixth daye. George Nayler son of Edward bapt xth daye. Marye ffrobisher d of Rychard bapt same daye. Agnis baitman wife of peter buried xjth day. Ffrancis Hutton d of Gilbert Hutton bapt same daye. Iayne Sternson d Rychard bapt. the xiijth daye. Willm ffidlin son of Henrye buried xiiijth daye. Crara Smith d of Xpofer bapt the xvth daye. Lure morbayh d Robart morbaih bapt same day. Robart Iepson buried the xvjt-h daye. Ihon Watterhouse son of Robart bapt the xvijth daye. Anne Cockson d of Leonard buried same daye. Brigit Taler d of Rychard taler bapt xviijth daye. Elzabeth hanson d of Willm hanson bapt xxth daye. Thomas Watkinson s of Edward bapt the xxjth day. Robart Chester & Agniss Gest maried the xxiiijth daye. Ihon farefax s of Willm ffarefax bapt xxvth daye. Roger Evans & marye Gibson maryed the xxvjth day. Daniell Claton & Dorothy nathwood marid vjth day. Robart mounson & Sarah Savill maried xxviijth. Elzabeth Aglond wife of Thomas buried the xxixth daye. Allis Hallewell wife of Robart buried xxxth daye. Ihon Roper sonne of sammuell Rop. bapt same day. brigit lewis d. of francis lewis bapt the xxxjth of October 1602. November 1602. Mathew Roper & Anne Leiverfeeige marrid vijth day. Marye ffeild d of Roger ffeild bapt same day. Andrew Empson S of ffrancis bapt same day. Hanna Laburne d of Oswald buried xijth day. Margaret Ryley d of Wm. Ryley bapt. xiijth daye. Rychard Ball wth Ellin Cockhill had a child named Richard xiiij. Willm- nowell & Jenet Eshall maried same daye. Robart wolrich s of Thomas buried xvjth daye. Rychard hardye & Edeth moberley maried same daye. 29 o THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Willm Storer and Iaine Rawdon maried same daye Thomas harreson & Ienet Rishforth maried same daye. Ihon Ryley son of Tristrum bapt xvij* daye. Ihon higgon buried the xixth day. Thomas Aglond buried same daye. Henrye Eshall & Allis Eshall marid xxjth daye lames Greenwood son of Robart greenwood bapt same day. George Birkhead buried same daye. Rychard hill & Susan Watterhouse maried xxiijth daye. Bettris Cane wife of thomas Cane burid xxvijth daye. Willm thompson sonne of miles bapt xxviijth daye. Mary Sinyeard d of Thomas bapt same daye. Elzabeth Beeston d of Robart Beeston bapt same daye. Susanna Aldinge d Robart bapt same daye. Rychard Collis & Elzabeth Phillip maried same day. Thomas lewis d of Xpofer bapt same daye. Margaret Riddlesden doughter of Anthony Ridlesden Bapt the same xxviijth day of November 1602. December 1602. Dionis Iowit d of Ihon Iowii bapt thyrde daye. Ihon Wood & Sibell Walker maryed the vth daye. Elzabeth Armstronge do : of Ihon buried same daye. Adam Atkins and Ienet Lewis maried xijth day. Roger Wood s. of Wm. Wood bapt same daye. Abigaile hardwicke d. of Silvester bapt same day. Anne Casson buried same daye. Ihon Smith had a child buried unbapt xiijth daye. Ihon Evans S. of Roger bapt same day. Agnis Cookson buried the xvjth day. Thomas morehouse S of Willm bapt the xvijth day. Elzabeth barker d of Robart barker bapt same day. Allis Siddall do. of Robart Siddall bapt xxjth day. Annie Smith do. of Brian Smith bapt xxvth daye. Barnabas Oley sonn of Ffrancis Oley Clarke bapt xxvjth day. Robart Walker wth Anne Smith had a child named Thomas 27 day. OF WAKEFIELD. 291 Ffrancis hoile a child buried unbapt the same xxvij. Margret Scot wife of Iohn Scot buried xxixth day. lames Cowpe buried the xxxth daye. Allis Whitehead d. of Willm bapt the xxviijth day. George Roome sonne of Roger Roome bapt the same xxviijth daye December 1602. Ianuary 1602. Roland Dineson buried the first daye. Iayne goodale d of francis bapt same daye. Willm Rawson s of lames Rawson buried iijth day. Wm. ashton had a child wth Margret hardwick named Ellin Baptized the vjth day. Ellin goodale wife of francis buried viijth daye. Ed newsome buried the ixth daye. Katherine Berkwith wife of Brian buried xjth daye. Jainet Grene wife of Ihon grene buried xiijth daye. Rychard sonne of Thomas Staubert buried xvijth day. Elzabeth the wife of Mathew hindle buried xxvijth day. George Ellis buried the xixth daye. Allis Brigge d of lames Brigge bapt same day. Easter Swift d. of Robart Swift bapt xxvth day. Thomas Dawson & Elzabeth smith marid xxiijth day. Robart Cockson son of leonard bapt the same day. Issabell west d of Anthony west bapt xxvjth day. Robart pickersgill sonne of Thomas bapt xxxth day. Thomas Clarkson sonne of Thomas buried same day. Ihon Evans sonne of Roger Evans buried same day. Robart quest sonne of George quest buryed the xxxjth daye of Ianuarye 1602, Februarye 1602. Robart Chester buried the first daye. Marye Canesworth d of Rychard bapt the ij daye. Edward lockwood s of ffrancis bapt the same daye. Robart metcalfe son of Steven bapt v daye. Roger Turner & Brigit nalson maryed the vjth daye. 292 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Marye Taler do. of Edward taler bapt same daye. Elzabeth wilson do. of Edward bapt same day. Roger Knowles sonne of lauro knowles bapt same daye. margret Lancaster wife of willm buried viijth daye. Elzabeth guest wife of Thomas gest buried xth daye. Robart Arnall s of Ihon Arnall bapt xith daye. Rychard Lister & Francis Rose maried xiijth daye. Easter hewit d of Ihon hewit bapt same daye. Willm Woodroffe s of Ihon woodroffe buryed xvth daye. Thomas Dinison and Allis Knowles maryed xvjth day. Katherin Rychardson buryed the xixth daye. Willm Claye son of Willm bapt the xxth daye. Sarah Browne d of Mathew browne bapt same day. Robart Bawmforth son of Robart bapt xxiiijth daye. Willm Ashton & margaret hardwick maried same daye. Willm Arundale son of Edward bapt same daye. Marye Iackson d of Robart Iackson bapt same day. Issabel grenway d of Wm grenwaye bapt same day. Rychard megson s of Edward megson bapt xxvth day. Thomas Sharpe s of Allen Sharp bapt xxvith day Loncelot Benet son of Willm Benet bapt xxvijth daye. Thomas Sharpe son of Allen sharp buried same daye. Thomas Addye and Dorothye Sharp maried the xxviijth day of ffebruarye 1602. March 1602. Ihon Hardye s of Rychard hardy bapt v daye. Isaac Ransley s of Rychard Ransley bapt vj daye. Daniel mawd son of Ihon Mawd bapt same daye. Ihon Bower s of Thomas Bower burid vijth daye. Crare hill d of Henry hill bapt ixth daye. Mathew Brawne taler had a child buried unbapt same. Rychard Wood buried the xth daye. Launcelot hebden so. of Willm Burid xijth daye. Anne Danbrough wife of George buryd same daye. Margaret Wood d of Randall bapt the same daye. Daveye Roper sonne of Ihon Roper bapt xiijth daye. OF WAKEFIELD. 2 93 lames Atkinson sonne of Rychard bapt same daye.. ffrancis Clarke so. of Ihon Clarke bapt same daye. Elzabeth Otes d of Thomas Otes bapt same daye. Marye Ingle d of Nicholas Ingle bapt xvjth daye. Margery Leavenwood buryed xviijth daye. Ihon hustler s. of Thomas hustler bapt xviijth daye. Anne milner d of Ihon milner bapt same day. Robart Kaye in norgate buried the xxth daye. Richard Kaye sonne of Robart Kaye thelder bapt same day. Andrew boynehouse so. of Thomas bapt the same daye. Anne wetherwicke do. of Xpofer buried the xxith day. Allis dineson daughter of Giles denison burid xxiiij day. Anne Rychardson doughter of george Rychardson buried the same xxiiij th daye of march 1602. (1603 mising.) March 25 1604. Samuell Roper sonne of Samuell baptized xxvth daye. Ioseph Clarkeson sonne of Thomas bapt the same daye. Rychard Lillye sonne of Henrye bapt same daye. Mary I doughters of Xpofer Wetherheed bapt same xxvth daye. Agnis doliffe late wife of Giles Doliffe buried xxvijth daye. Grace do. of Gervise Hatefelde bapt xxvjth daye. Ienet do. of Xpofer Wetherhead buried xxvijth daye. Marye do. of Xpofer Wetherhead buried xxixth daye. Xpofer hollinge buried same daye. Rychard Menth buried the xxxth daye 1604. march. Aprill 1604. ffrancis do. of willm Casson baptized first Aprill. Dorothy do. of Anthonye hardye bapt same daye. Elzabeth wife of Rychard Hoytill buried samedaye. Mathew newton buried second daye. Robart Danbye buried the iiijth daye. Ieffra Sheppard buried the vth daye. 294 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Allis Gibson do : of Robart Gibson bapt same claye. Grace Liley do : of Edward buried the vjth daye. Iayne do : of Robart Smith buried same daye. Robart Dowise so . of Ihon Dowise bapt vijth daye. George hopton so : of Benet bapt same daye. Thomas Eldinge buried the same daye. Iohn so . of George Berke bapt the ixth daye. Ihon hargrave and Allis Birkhead married the xth daye. Mathew sonne of willm Wilson bapt same daye. michaell so : of willm smith bapt the same xth daye. margery do : of Randall woode buried the xvjth daye. Elzabeth wife of Iohn Stable buried xvijth daye. Anne hawksworth do : of Thomas buried same daye. mathew smarfoote so : of mathew bapt same daye. Thomas Goldinge and Elzabeth Akeroyde maryed same daye. George so : of Iohn Brookesbanke buried xxjth daye. Robart Gill and Elzabeth Lockewood married xxijth daye. Allis Oldfielde buried the xxijth daye. Dudbert Burton so : of miles bapt same daye. Iayne wife of Iohn Brookesbanke buried xxvjth daye. Charles walton childe buried the xxvijth daye. Robart Smith buried the xxviijth daye. Edward sonne of willm pollerd bapt xxixth daye. Iohn sonne of Henrye Agland bapt same daye. Susanna Woode wife of Randall buried same daye. Xpofer Smith buried the xxxth daye of Aprill 1604. Maye 1604. Elzabeth Rychardson do : of George baptzed the first daye. Elzabeth wood wife of Ihon wood buried second daye. Ellin Harryson buried the iiijth daye. Marye do : of Robart hallewell bapt viijth daye. Iayne do : of Iohn Thompson bapt ixth daye. Willm Speight buried the xjth daye. ffrancis Scarbrough so : of Samuell buried xij daye. marye do : of Rychard lewis bapt xvijth daye. Ienet wife of Hugh Knowles buried same daye. OF WAKEFIELD. 2 95 Ihon woode buried the xxvth daye. Willm Healey buried the same xxvth of maye 1604. Allis do : of william Tharkerowe baptized xxvjth daye. Rycharde wainewright had a child buried unbapt same daye. Ienet do : of Rychard waynewright bapt same daye. margaret walker do : of Roger bapt same daye. margaret do : Rychard Banes buried same daye. marye cheriholme do : of Edward bapt xxviijth daye. Edward so : of Iohn Blackburne bapt same daye. Ienet waynewright do : of Rychard buried xxixth daye. Iohn Turton buried the same xxixth daye 1604. Iune 1604. Willm Perkin had a child buried unbapt seconde daye. Ihon Roodes and marye Smith maried the third daye. lames Kitson and margaret moberleye maried the xth daye. Hugh duckworth so : of Edwarde bapt same daye. dorothy do : of Iohn Smyth bapt same daye. Elzabeth do : of ffrancis Ellis bapt the same daye. Anne do : of Willm hallewell bapt the xiijth daye. Elzabeth do : of Willm Claye bapt same daye. Xpofer Allen and Anne Chapman maried the xvijth daye. Rycharde lightoler and Dorothy Rouse maried same daye. ffrancis do : of ffrancis Yowle bapt same daye. Robart so : of Iohn Cookeson bapt xxiiijth daye. Anne do : of Thomas Soulden bapt same daye. Thomas so : of Robart Allen bapt the xxvth daye. Savage Browne buried the xxvjth daye. Anne do : of Rychard Arundale buried xxvijth dave. Edward Robinson had a child buried unbaptized xxviijth. Elzabeth Otes do : Thomas buried xxixth daye. Ihon so : of Henry Agland buried same daye. marye michill had a child wth Robart Pollarde called Elzabeth bapt same xxixth daye of Iune 1604. Iulye 1604. Ienet peach do : of Ralph buried the ixth daye. 296 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Edmond Crampton buried the xiijth daye. Ienet do : of Robart Roodes buried xiiijth daye. nicholas so of Ihon Prance bapt xvth daye. Elzabeth do of Willm lancaster bapt same daye. nicholas Spinke buried the xxjth daye. Willm so : of Rychard Appleyarde bapt xxijth daye. Ienet Temple had a child wth Rychard wilkinson called xpofer bapt the same daye. lames Greenwood buried xxviiijth daye. Willm Sheppard buried same daye. Thomas Whittecarse and Anne Raynforth maried same daye. Ihon hargrave and Ienet Hall maried xxixth daye. Robart so : of ffrancis Taler bapt same day. Rychard honley and Allis Kaye maried the xxxth daye. Ellin do : of Ihon Bromehead buried same daye. August 1604. Elzabeth do : of Charles Woodcocke buried second daye. Elzabeth wife of Iohn Brooke buried iiijth daye. xpofer whittecarse and Anne hampshire maried vth daye. Daniell nayler son of xpofer bapt same daye. George son of George Clarke bapt same daye. Robart son of Laurence Robinson bapt same daye. Robart Eldinge had a childe buried unbapt xiijth daye. Rychard so : of henrye nevill bapt xiiijth daye. Willm so : of willm Hanson bapt xvth daye. Iohn so : of Robart Skelton bapt xvijth daye. Thomas Cromocke buried the xviijth daye. Marye do : Rychard Seeile bapt same daye. Robart so : of Ihon Mawde bapt the xixth daye. Peter so : of Abraham leenth bapt same xixth of August. Sibell do : of Iohn norden bapt xixth daye. Agnis do : of nicholas Taler bapt same daye. lames so : of Robart Greenwood burried xxvjth daye. Thomas so : of Thomas Sinyeard bapt xxvjth day. Daniell so : of Thomas Alley bapt same day. Thomas so : of Rycharde Roose bapt same daye. OF WAKEFIELD. 297 Edeth do : of Richard Atkinson bapt same daye. Elzabeth do : of Thomas hawksworth bapt same daye. Robart so : of Ihon Woode bapt xxixth daye. Luce do : of Robart morvaile buried xxxth daye. September 1604. Dorothy milner dow : of Willra milner bapt iijd daye. Elzabeth Lawis do : of Peter Lawis bapt same daye. Anne Knovvles had a child w*h george ffisher called lames bapt the same daye. Elzabeth do : of Thomas browne bapt iijd daye. Emmet Windle had a child buried unbapt Wth Iohn Cooke basse borne the iiijth daye. Edeth do of Rychard Atkinson buried vth daye. Iayne wife of Rychard browne gent buried same day. Ihon so : of Rychard harrison bapt ixth daye. Margaret do : of Iohn Rychardson bapt same daye. Dorothy do of Ihon Collier bapt the xth daye. Robart so : of Alexander stead bapt the xijth daye. Marye do of Rychard ffrobisher bapt xiiijth daye. Mr- C Robarts buried the xvjth daye. Margret wife of george freare buried same daye. Thomas so : of George Cockhill bapt same daye. Nicholas so : of Thomas ffell bapt same daye. Alveraye haldsworth buried the xvijth daye. Ffrancis Rawson buried same day. Iohn son of Daniell Claton bapt xviijth day. Mathew so : of Ihon Royle bapt the xxith day. Elzabeth do of Willm morehouse bapt xxiijth daye. martin so of Rychard Dawson bapt same daye. Dorothy do of Gilbert hutton bapt same daye. Dorothy do of Ihon Crowdson bapt same daye. Xpofer Roose and marye Shaw maried xxiijth daye. Elzabeth do : of Willm morehouse burried xxiiijth daye. Ellin do : of Iohn Ashton buried xxvth daye. Edmond Heptenstall buried same day. Issabell Scawbert buried the xxixth daye. 298 THE CATHEDRA], CHURCH Ellin do : of George ffreare buried same daye. Issabel do : of Edwarde Hemingewaye bapt xxxth daye. October 1604. Marye do : of William Bevit bapt iiijth daye. 1 Rycharde so : of Allen Sharpe bapt vth daye. Martin Rychardson buried the vjth daye. Joseph so : of Silvester hardwicke bapt vijth daye. Marye do : of Robait Sheppard bapt same daye. Thomas so. of Anthony west bapt xth daye. Rychard so of Rychard Poyle bapt same daye. Ienet wife of Robart Gibson buried xvijth daye. Margret do : of leonard norton buried same daye. Alleson wife of Ihon beane buried the xxth daye. Allis do : of Willm Dawson bapt the xxith daye. Ihon Empson so. of Roger bapt the same daye. willm son of willm Sheppard bapt same daye. Ihon Thornton & Susan fflather maried xxiijth daye. Ralph ffoster & Iayne Ienkinson maried same daye. Robart so : of Henrye Bateman bapt xxiiijth daye. Willm Elliot buried same daye. Katherine Smithson had ij children wth Oswald Ellismony bapt same daye called Ihon & Anne. Ihon and Anne children of Katherine smithson buried xxvth daye. Elzabeth Roodes wif of Xpofer buried xxvijth daye. Ihon so : of Roger Empson buried xxviijth daye. Edwarde so : of Edward lile bapt same daye. Iayne do : of willm habersone buried xxixth daye. George Wilson and Anne Shepard maried xxxth daye. November 1604. Elzabeth wife of Thomas Patten buried the first. Willm Walker so of Edward bapt same daye. Anthony Dobson and Edith Spivye maryed same daye. Elzabeth do : Ihon hargrave bapt same daye. Willm hobson buried iijd daye. OF WAKEFIELD. 299 lames so. of Robart Greenwood bapt iiijth daye. George nayler had a child buried unbapt vjth daye. Issabell do. of lames Brigge bapt ixth daye. Ionye Dawson do : of Xpofer bapt same daye. Ioseph So : of Robart watterhouse bapt xith daye. Martin Atkins so : of Adame bapt same daye. Agnis do : of Xpofer ffoster bapt same daye. lames so. of Robart Grenwood buried xiijth daye. Priscilla Dewise do. of Iohn buried same daye. Robart so. of Laurence Robinson xviijth daye. Willm Dixon & Anne Law maried the xiijth daye. Agnis do : of Iohn mogson bapt the xxith daye. Iayne do of ffrancis goodale buried same daye. Ienet do : of Rychard Cooke bapt xxiijth daye. Stenen Wilfra buried same daye. Iohn Cockeson so : of Leonard bapt xxvth daye. Henrye so of Willm Shau bapt same day. Thomas hardwicke buried same daye. Allen Chambows wife buried xxvjth daye. Iohn so : of Ihon Lee bapt the xxviijth daye. Anne do : of willm Prince bapt xxxth daye. Allis do : of willm Carpnell bapt the same xxxth of november 1604. December 1604. Iohn so : of Iohn Oxley bapt seconde daye. Anne do : of Thomas boynehouse bapt same daye. Robart Lombe and Issabell Cromocke maried iiijth daye. Willm Riddlesden and Sarah hanson maried same daye. Willm Dixon & Ellin duckvvorth maried same daye. Agnis hurst buried the seventh daye. Issabell do of miles Thompson bapt same daye. Agnis wife of Xpofer Ihonson buried same daye. margaret wife of lames Casson buried viijth daye. Iayne do : of Rychard Hardye bapt the ixth daye. henrye so : of mathew browne bapt the xth daye. Ienet do. of Robart Swift bapt same daye. 3 oo THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Gilbert so. of Ihon Wood bapt same daye. Dorothy do. of Ralph Robson buried xiiijth daye. Bettris do. of Miles Burton buried same daye. Xpofer so. of ffrancis Casson bapt xvjth daye. Gilbert so. of Xpofer Ihonson bapt same daye. Elzabeth Browne had a child wth Edward Shepyd called Edward bapt the same daye. Gilbert so : of Ihon Wood buried same daye. Iayne do : Rychard bawes bapt same daye. Robart Denton had a child buried unbapt xxvjth daye. Agnis do : of Miles Armitage bapt same daye. Rychard Watterhouse buried the xxvijth daye. Sibell do of Iohn norden buried xxviijth daye. Xpofer so : Steven metcalfe bapt xxx of December 1604. January 1604. Allis Claye do. of Ihon Claye bapt the first daye. Anne Reedall had a child wt ffrancis thwate called Edward bapt the vjth daye. Dinis Clarkeson had a child wth Ihon flather called Alexander bapt the same daye. Brian harrison had a child buried unbapt vijth daye. Anne do : of Willm nowell bapt viijth daye. Iohn Rychardson so : of ffrancis bapt xith daye. Raynald so : of Rychard Allen bapt xith daye. Willm so : ffrancis mathew bapt same daye. Willm so : of Willm hodgeson bapt xijth daye. Elzabeth wife of Thomas Dineson buried xiijth daye. Lancelot so of lancelot Glover bapt same daye. Iayne do : of Henry Casson bapt same daye. Rychard Arundale buried the xvth daye. Elzabeth do. of Robart Smalfoot bapt same daye. Adam Clarke buried same daye. Robart howle and Marye Walker maried same xvth daye. George lancaster and Dorothy Stead maryed xxth daye. Edmond Brook & mergorye maud maryed same daye. Iohn so : of Willm Budine bapt same daye. OF WAKEFIELD. 301 Xpofer so : of Iohn Iowit bapt same daye. Elzabeth Gouldthorpe buried same xxth daye. margret do : of Ihon Rychardson buried the xxjth daye. Vincent Atkinson buried the same daye. Elzabeth do of Edward hill buried xxiijth daye, James so : of Iohn Walker buried same daye. Issabell wif of Iohn Spivye buried xxiiijth daye. Issabell Walker buried same daye. Laurence so : of thomas hardwick buried xxvth daye. Thomas so : of Rychard Brighton bapt same daye. Robert so. of Robart Skelton bapt xxvijth daye. Willm hyndswell and Anne Armitage maried xxviijth daye. lames Stockes & Margaret Walker maried xxixth daye. Robart so : of Xpofer Rose bapt xxxth daye. Dorothy do of Brian murgetroyde bapt xxxjth daye. ffebruarye 1604. Marye do. of Brian Beckit bapt second daye. Rychard so : of Laurence Crowdson bapt same daye. Allis do of Iohn hall bapt same daye. Iohn hall & Katherine Cooke maried iiijth daye. Alexander Perkin & Margaret Gunson maried same daye. Anne wife of Willm Iohnson buried same daye. ffrancis do of George Redman buried same daye. Willm Beeston & Anne Roydes maried the vth daye. Issabel wife of Iohn Gouldsbrough buried yjth daye. Robart smith and mary whittecarse maried xth daye. Willm so of henry Craves bapt same daye. Iudeth do : of Robart nayler bapt same daye. Ienet j do : of Thomas Glover bapt same xth daye. Margaret ' Margaret do of Thomas Glover buried xith daye. Margaret wife of Xpofer Siddall buried xiijth daye. Willm so : of William Briggs bapt xvijth daye. Anne do of Willm Peaker bapt same daye. Elzabeth do of Edward Crowder bapt same daye. Elzabeth gargrave buried the xviijth daye. 3 o2 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Iayne Cooyland buried the xixth daye. Issabell do : of Thomas Bateman bapt xxith daye. Anne do : of Ihon mayson bapt xxvth daye. Elzabeth Craven buried xxviiith daye of ffebruarye 1604. lames so. of Thomas Browne baptized the second daye. Iudeth wife of Mr. Rychard Bull baptized iijd. daye. Grace wife of George grason buried the vth daye, Margaret do. of Willm waller buried same daye. Ienet do of Thomas Glover buride vjth daye. Allis do of Iohn Iubbe bapt same daye. Iohn Goodyer buried the viijth daye. Thomas so. of Willm thackerowe bapt xth daye. Samuell s. of Iohn maud bapt xth daye. lames so. of Robert Bamforth bapt same daye. Issabell do of Rychard ffleminge bapt same daye. lames so. of thomas browne buried xith daye. Ralph so. of Thomas Baines bapt xiijth daye. Alexander so : of Thomas Boyth bapt same daye. Ralph Sidgewick wife buried same daye. Iohn so of Iohn Robucke bapt xvjth daye. Iohn so. of Roger Thornton bapt xvijth daye. Willm so of Rychard machon bapt same daye. Robart woode a child buried unbapt same daye. Willm Balye a prisoner buried xxjth daye. Margerye do : of Iohn Arnall bapt xxijth daye. Thomas so of Robart Coolton buried xxth daye of march 1604. The registers from 1605 to 1612, inclusive, are missing from the series at York. The Registers commence in March, 1613, but under an entry dated June, 1705, reference is made to three earlier ones, which were in existence at that time; one dated April 9, 1578, another 1589, the third April 9, 1612; nothing now is known of these books. The Volumes are bound in brown leather, with the exception of the first two which have parchment bindings, and the leaves, OF WAKEFIELD. 303 until the last few years, are of parchment, but now made of paper. The earliest existing one has the following heading on the first page : Wakefeildiensis Regestrum baptizator, Nuptor, et Sepultor, 1613 Accurate' Collect' et conscript, ex industria Francis : Jubb. Clici. p'ochialis. tertio jam anno elapso post electione eius ad eundm Officii. The earliest entry is 1613. Aprilis. Ester filia Johannis Bodley baptizata quarto die Aprilis. (Ten were baptized in April and eight in May.) Novembris. Lion fil: Arthuri Pilkyngton ar: bapt: xiiij die. 1614. Maij. Alicia fil: Gawbi Stocke, bapt. viij die (Stocke was the dogwhipper). Julij. Ellenora filia Philippi Isaac ludimagr liberi gramat. schola, baptizat xxx die Julii ano suprdnt. February. Franciscus filius Francisci Jubb, clerici p'ochialis baptizat eodm die (xth) Natus vero vjt° die Februarij. 1620. Septembris. Beniamin filius Cotton Horne gen: baptiz : xviijo die. (Cotton Horne was the founder of the almshouses.) 1625. Junij. Edwardus filius Tymothei Mawde sacrse theologian p'fessoris apd Wakefeild baptizat Decimo die Junii. 1626. Martij. Richardus filius Jacobi Lister Clerici Vicarii Wakefeldiens, baptizat octavo die Martii. 1628. Decembris. Margareta 1 filice Dni Johis Savile Milite of Lupsett { Elizabetha ) baptizat ibm primo die Decembris. 1642. ffebru : Notus, Eliz : a base child begott upon the body of — Mason by John Clegg, 12th. 1652. Janua : John, son of Mr- George Radcliffe, 23th (the celebrated Dr. John Radcliffe). 304 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH 1653. November. Cambdena, daughter of Mr- Joshua Kirbie, Lecturer, 20th. 1655. Octobr. Gervas, son of Gervas Hatefield of Stanley, gent, borne the eight day of Septemb 1 " 1655. Sep. John s of Abraham Hudson, bapt xvjth by Mr. Parker. 1657. Januarii. Godsgift the Sonne of Mr- Joshua Kirbie Lecturer, borne 7th baptized the xth day. 1663. Januarii. Love god's word, s. of Thomas Roebucke bapt 31th day. 1672. July. Thomas son of Sr William Wentworth, Knight, baptized 17th day. 1685. Octo. John son of S r Lyon Pilkinton, Baptized 16. 1687. Octobr- Samuel son of Mr- Miles Sandiforth Curate, Bapt. 19th day. 1689. April. Thomas son of Abraham Barber, Parish Clarke was Borne April 15th betwixt 8 & 9 at night, Bapt. the 25th day. 1690. June. Helinor d. of Mr. Clayton, Rector of Crofton, bapt 15 day. 1695. March. James son of Mr- James Seale & Mountibanck, Bapt. 5. 1 701. Feb. Charles son of Mr. Tho. Scott, baptized 23rd. 1 7 1 1 . Feb. Henry son of Mr. Thos- Clarke, Master of the Free Schoole, 15th. 1729. October. Ann dr of the Reverend Mr. George Arnett, Vicar, 9th. 1 753. William & Joseph two brothers the sons of Jno Hey a Quaker, deceased, the first 18, the other 17 years of age, were Bapd Deer 23rd 1753, By the Revd Mr. Benj : Wilson, Vicar. 1763. Augt- Richard Brown, a Black from Carolina, 12th. 1764. April. John Wakefield a Child left at a house in Kirgate abt 2 years of age. 12th, Octr- John Vernon, a Black from Antiga, abt 22 yrs old. 4th. 1783. March. Mary d r of an unknown person 1. OF WAKEFIELD. 305 1794. Nov- Anne cF of the Revd. William & Anne Bawdwen born 5th October 1794. i7 l11 - The Font, erected in this Church in the reign of King Charles the second, bearing date 1661, which had been displaced some years ago, has, by directions of the Vicar and Churchwardens, been beautified, and is this day re-opened for public Baptism, at which time the following three children of Mr- John Hartley of this Town, one of the Churchwardens for the Current Year, were christened, December 20th 182 1. 1821. Dec. 20. Elizabeth, born July 3, 1818 Matilda, born Aug. 15, 18 19 Caroline, born March 25, 182 1 Regestrii Nuptor. 1613. drs. of John & Elizabeth Hartley, South Parade, Banker. 161 3. Aprili. Johanem Crowder et Elizabeth Willson xxvijmo die Aprili. Septembr. Phillippi Isaac ludimagistri libere grama : Schola et Anna Roades xxiij die Septembr: 1638. June. Jacobum Lyster Vicarii de Wakefeld et Suzanna Mawde 280 die. 1655. Marriages were celebrated during the Commonwealth period before Sr. John Savile of Lupset, Justice Warde, Justice Clayton, Mr. lies, Aid. Hicke of Leeds, Justice Pickeringe, Mr. John Savile of Methley, Justice Washing- ton, Justice Fenton, Justice Frank, Mr- Walker, Vicar, Mr. Kirbie, Lectr, Mr. Richard Booker ministr- of Kirk- thorp. 1709. Mr. Thomas Scott, Vicar, and Mrs. Katherine Smith, mar. May 25 th 1613. Regestrii Sepultor : 16 13. Martij : Sibilla ux. Willi Barlow sepulta xxvjto die. 1622. Novemb : Petrus Hallom qui seipsm vulneravit, et postea obit vjo die sed inhumatus viijo die. w 306 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH 1624. Junij. Willmus Lister doctissimus vir nup vicarius Ecclesie de Wakefeilde sepultus apud Sandall magna sexto die Junij. Anno supradicto. 1625. Julij. Tymotheus Mawde sacrse theologie p'fessor Vicarius Ecclise de Wakefeild sepultus Decimo die Julij. Augusti. de peste. Seth Browne sepultus vijmo die Augusti (131 deaths are recorded " de peste " out of 205 burials that took place between Aug. 7. 1625 and January 15, 1625). 1637. Januarij. Francis Jubb, Clarke, sepult xxij die Januarij. 1640. August. High Quire. Dame Sarah, the lady Mouuson, 6th day. 1 64 1. Decemb 1 '- Alice wife of Allen Kent childbed 23th day. 1642. August. James Nayler pinder of Stan : 20th Septe : Dorothie Kay, uxor Rici Kay, who died in childbed, bur. in the middle Alley, 17 th Septe : Elizabeth uxor Willm Whalay, who died of a tymphanie 22th Novebr- Michael Pitt, a prisoner nth Januarie. Jane Mountaine advena 26. 1643. May. 30 souldiers buried eod. die (21th) (On Whit Sunday, May 21st 1643, Sir Thomas Fairfax assaulted and carried Wakefield). Francis Walker's four souldiers — 22. (Several entries occur of "souldiers" buried, especially in April, May, June & July, 1645 ) From August 2, 1645 to August 2, 1646 there are 407 entries of burials, of these 245 are stated to have died "de peste." 1646. ffebi". Quier. Hellen wife of the Worll S r - Arthur Pilkington 5th 1649. Septem : A childe of John Towes and Sister by her made away 10 th 1650. August. John Sikes died by ye dampe in a pitt 2nd Peter Flockton bur. the 8th day of Feb. 1670 beyond y Bridge. Martha wife of Stephen Oxlay bur. the first day of August 167 1 in the field beyond the bridge. OF WAKEFIELD. 3°7 MEMORANDUM yt * The Waites of this towne of Wakefield began theire Watch, upon the 17th day of October in the yeare of Lord god 1670. their Names are as followeth Wm. Shaw Tho : Shaw frates in unum. Thomas Watson 1657. March. Ann, daughter of . . servant to Margaret Wood, poisoned herselfe, buried backside ye church 20th die. 1660. Memorandum that the right worshipfull Sr John Savile de Lupset departed this life upon the fifth day of May, and was buried at Horburie upon the 8th day. Grace Lea or Leigh a poore pensioner buried ye 25th day. June. North side. Thomas Walker sacrse theologie pfessor vicarius Ecclesie de Wakefield sepultus fuit vicessimo septimo die Junii, he died the 25th day. 1662. Aprill. nothus, another Childe found in the Ings buried 22 th day. Mr. William Bedforde minister of the gospell of Jesus Christ, and Curate here at Wakefield, under the revend Mr. James Lister vicar buried the 23th day. Maii. Andrew Binnes a quaker, buried in the old field the xth day. Septemb : Will Wilson kild in a coale pitt & buried the xxiijth day. Feb. North Quire. Robtus Doughty ye ludimagistr libere gramatical Scholar Wakefieldiensis sepult fuit die Martis vicessimo quarto die ffebruarii. A° supdto. * The Waits badge is still kept in the Town Hall. The one from which the engraving is taken is of silver about four inches by five inches in size, with loops to fasten it on by. W 2 3 o8 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH 1663. December, in Rich : Ellis gar . . the wife of M*- . . Holdsworth minister, buried the 8th day. 1665. August. An infant was found murthered at Wm Green's was buried the third day. 1666. Januarii. high qr- Katharine the lady Armitage was buried the thirteenth day of January 1666 in the high quire. 1670. August, high qr- Susanna the wife of Mr. James Lister vicar of Wakefield buried ultimo die. 167 t. February. Mr. John Northern Student at University Colledge in Oxford, died at Robt- Bradleysthe 18th day. 1675. June. William Shaw musician bur. the 6th day. Jany. Thomas Lee an old Batcheler buried the xith day. 1677. August. Si'- Matthew Wentworth dyed ye first day. Jan. Mr. James Lister Vicar of Wakefield was buried the xvijth day of January 1677. 1 68 1. March. Robert Thompson Clarke of Wakefield buried the 6th day. May 16. Mr. John Baskervile buried in woollen May 16 affidavit certified May 17. (This was in accordance with the Act of Parliament, 30. Car. 2. c. 3. s. 7., which ordered all bodies to be buried in woollen, as this branch of industry was then languishing ; it came into force August 1, 1678 and continued for about fifty two years. About 5700 burials in this manner took place at Wakefield ) 1678. Judith Smith widdow buried in woollen, Augt 6th An affidavit certified of her being soe buried, Aug. nth. 1 72 1. March 20. Certified then to the Churchwardens and overseers of the poor that Thomas Collier, Sarah North, Lidia Butterfield and John Townbill had been buried above eight day agoe and that no affidavit had been brought in to Certifie their being buried in Woollen. 1689. Dec. Harman Dutchman buried 19 day. 1695. April. Side quier. Sir Lyon Pilkington's Lady 6. 1700. H.Qr- September. Mr. Obadiah Lee, late Vicar buried 17. Mr. Joshua Kirkby was buried in the Garden belonging to his dwelling-house. June the 12th 1676. OF WAKEFIELD. 309 1702. January. H. Q. Mr- Obadiah Lee Lecturer Kirkgate Buried 29th 1712. Aug. John Old, the Bell man Buried 8th 1 7 16. July. Ann D: of John Robert (slaine with a horse) nth 1722. Novembr. Hannah Wilson & Ann Wilson in one coffin 2lth. 1723. Nov. S. Q. Mr. John Wilson, Vicar of Hutton pannel, 21st 1724. Sept. James King a Scotchman 15th 1729. April. The Reverend Mr. Thomas Scott late Vicar, 17th. 1730. Jan. N. Q. Abraham Barber Parish Clerk of Wakefield, who was clerk 50 Years. 30th 1733. July. John Beck Westg : Aged 102 and upwards. 29. 1 735. June. M>". Tho : Cherryholm Post Master. 16. 1737. Deer- Ch. Mr- Joseph England, Master of ye Char. Sch. 29. 1750. October. The Reverend M>". George Arnot Vicar, 15. 1752. March. Ch. Master Drurey Phips a School Boy. 18. 1764. Sept. The Revd- Mr. Benjn. Wilson Vicar. 6th. 1779. Augt- S.I. Mrs. Mary Walton, at night. 9. 1 781. June. John Hill at 10. o clock Night. 14. at 1. o'clock William Son of Jno. & Ann Wollon Q 30. 1784. April. Joshua Laycock Hang'd himself at the] Black Bull in this Town, being Boot Catcher. 1786. March. A Stranger found in the river (pauper) 18. 1788. Febry. Vault. Sr- Michael Pilkinton Baronet, 18. 1789. April. Mr- William Fitton Parish Clerk, 9th t 7 9 5 . Jan: S. Q. The Revd- Christhofer Atkinson Lectr. at this Church, 5. 1805. Aug. H. Q. The Revml Michael Bacon, D.D. Vicar, Aged 76 years. 26. 1888. Hannah Abell. Kirkgate. August 15th, 93 years. In 1809-10 the cause of death is frequently stated, chiefly, Smallpox, Decline. Fever, Inflammation of Bowels, Water in Brain, Scarlet Fever, Complaint of Teeth, Dropsy, Childbearing, hooping cough, measles, worm fever, &c. ; but of about 216 deaths, 22 are returned from Small pox, and 5 from childbearing. 3 io THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH At the end of the Register book 1613-40, are two Licenses to eat meat in Lent : To all people to whom these presents shall come James Lister vicar of Wakefeld and preacher of God's word, Sendeth greeting, Whereas Alice Lister wife of Richard Lister Clerke who now soiourneth wth her sonne Willm. Paulden of Wakefeld, by reason of her olde age & many yeares & stub, and long contynued sicknes, is become so weake, and her stomack so colde, not able to digest colde meates & fish, who by the counsell of Phisicions is advised to absteine from and to forbeare the eateing of all manner of fruits fish and milke meates : Know yee therefore for the causes aforesaide and for the better strengthening & recovery of her health, I the saide James Lister do hereby give & grant libertie and licence to her the saide Alice Lister att her will and pleasure att all tymes, as well during the tyme of Lent, as upon other fasting daies and fish daies (exhibiting by the lawes to eate flesh) to dresse and eate such kinde of flesh as shal be best agreing to her stomack & weake appetite. In witnes hereof I the saide James Lister have hereunto sett my hand the eight daie of ffebruary in the Sixt yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles by the grace of God King of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland Defender of the faith &c. and in the yeare of our Lord god 1630. James Lister Vicar. A similar licence was granted to Elizabeth Jepson wife of Richard Jepson, on the first daie of March, 1630. Copy of the last Terrier. Q true Hiro perfect Cop of ifje terrier, of all the Houses, Rights, &c, belonging to the Vicarage of Wakefield, given in at the primary Visitation of the Most Reverend Father in God, Edward by divine providence, Lord Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan, holden at Wakefield, the 23rd day of June one Thousand, Eight hundred and Nine. By the present Vicar, Churchwardens, and Other substantial Inhabitants of the Same, whose names are hereunto Subscribed. OF WAKEFIELD. 311 A Vicarage House, now built with Stone and Brick, and coverd with Stone, Containing thirteen Rooms, Kitchin, Brew- house, Cellar, a Stable and hay-chamber, built with Brick and covered with Stone. A Garden and a Croft adjoining, together about one Acre, fenced with part stone and part brick wall. ^Uso another little croft or paddock at the back of the House, containing about one Rood, and lying betwixt a Close and a Garden belonging to Peregrine Wentworth Esqr fenced with part paild and part brick wall, and one part hedged. gdso a Moiety of the Cliffield tythe given to the Vicarage, by the last will and Testament of Wm. Denison, Gent. 2Uso the Intrest of one Hundred pounds, given by Mr. Ed : Watkinson, out of an House or Houses now Occupied by Mr- Thomas Crowther & Tennants in Westgate. ^dso the fifth part of some Lands given by Mr- Rd Wilson, which at present make one pound, six Shillings and ten pence pi" annm. gJso by the Improprietors by Virtue of an Award in a Controversy between them and a former Vicar, concerning the Chancel, forty shillings, Yearly, to be paid at Lady Day & Michaelmas, Equal payments, gilso a Composition for Tythe Herbage of a peice of Ground, lying near Kirkthorp, on the other side of the River, called Deffers, Five Shillings, to be paid at Easter Yearly now in the Occupation of John Smith, Esqr- ^Iscj by the Will of Mr. Smith, late of Heath for preaching two charity Sermons, one in June, the Other in December, and for Catechising the charity Children, forty shillings pr annm. j3dso in pursuance of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the thirty third Year of his present Majesty, Intitled an Act for Dividing and Inclosing the Open common fields, Ings, Commons and waste Grounds, within the townships or Graveships of Wake- field, Stanley, Wrenthorp and Thorns in the parish of Wakefield, in the West-Riding of the County of York, the following allotments were by the Commissioners under the said Inclosure, set out and awarded to the Vicar of Waked in lieu of all Vicarial or Small tythes and Ecclesiastical Dues, Moduses, Compositions or other Payments in lieu of Vicarial or small Tythes, and of all Tythes of what nature or kind soever, (Mortuaries, Easter offerings and Surplice fees Excepted,) which arise and grow due to the 312 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Vicar within the said town or townships No. 90 on the plan containing 5a. ir. 5p. situate upon Whinney moor, bounded East- ward by old Inclosures, Westward by Horbury road, and South- ward by Thornes road. gUso No. 479 Containing 9a. or. 5p. situate upon the outwood near Carr-gate bounded Eastward and Southward by an allotment intended to be awarded to the Duke of Leeds, Westward by Lawns, and Southward by old Inclosures and an allotment intended to be awarded to the Duke of Leeds. |3Uso No. 505 Containing 80a. ir. op. (which includes an Incroach- ment containing oa. 2r. 13P.) situate upon the outwood near spring well Hill, bounded Eastward by potovens road and Allot- ments intended to be severally awarded to John Woollen and Ann his wife, Mary Bethia Horton, John Milnes, the Revnd Isaac Tyson & Mary Bethia his Wife, & Thomas Johnson & Martha his Wife, Wm Sharp, Joseph Young, Saml Smalpage and the Duke of Leed, Westwards by allotments intended to be severally awarded to the Duke of Leeds and John Eadon, North- ward by the Coal Road and allotments intended to be severally awarded to George Waugh, Elizabeth Simpson, Thomas Beaumont, Rd Collet, Joseph Holdsworth, & Thomas Chippindale (In trust for John Gill,) and Shepley Watson, & Southward by allotments Intended to be Severally awarded to Matthew Harper, Robert Pearson, Thomas & Wm. Tew, John Woollen & Ann his Wife, Mary Bethia Horton, John Milnes, the Revd Isaac Tyson & Mary Bethia his wife, Thomas Johnson & Martha his Wife, Samuel Land, the Duke of Leeds & John Eadon. %tea No. 609 Containing 50a. ir. op. (which includes an Incroachment containing ia ir. 9p.) situate on the outwood near Lawns, bounded Eastward, by allotments intended to be severally awarded to the Devisees of Joseph Issot, John Ridsdale, the Trustees of Stanley and Alverthorp Poor, the Duke of Leeds & Lingwell gate road, Westward by Lawns Road and allotments intended to be severally awarded for Clay for the Roads, the I Hike of Leeds John Parker and Old Inclosures, Northward by Lawns road and allotments intended to be severally awarded to the Duke of Leeds & John Ridsdale, & Southward by allotments intended to be severally awarded to Benjm Mitchell, Wm Brittlebank, the OF WAKEFIELD. 313 Devisees of David Drury, Messrs. John Lee, Shepley Watson, & Joseph Armitage, Robert Pearson, Wm. Beal, the Trustees of Stanley & Alverthorpe Poor, John Parker, the Duke of Leeds, Elizabeth Harrison and Grand stand Road. 2Usa No. 837 Containing 17a. 3r. 3op. situate upon the outwood near Cockpit Houses, bounded Eastward by Leemoor Road & the township of Stanley, Westward by Cockpit Houses road, Northward by allotments intended to be severally awarded to the Duke of Leeds, Thos. Pepper, Joseph Spink & the town- ship of Stanley, and Southward by Upper lake Lock road, and the township of Stanley. Qtea No. 867 containing 13a. 3r. 35P. situate upon the outwood near Cockpit Houses, bounded East- ward by an allotment intended to be awarded to Lady Irwin, Westward by Leemoor road, Northward by Irwin's road, & Southward by an allotment intended to be awarded to the Proprietors of the Coal r*ad. 2Uscr No. 886 containing 17a. ir. 2ip. situate upon the Outwood, near Cockpit houses, bounded Eastward by an allotment intended to be awarded to the Duke of Leeds, Westward by Upper Lake Lock road, and an allotment intended to be awarded to Messrs. John Lee & Shepley Watson, Northward by allotments intended to be severally awarded to the Proprietors of the coal road & Messrs. John Lee & Shepley Watson & Southward by lower Lake Lock road. %ho the tythe of the Fruits of the Gardens, Orchards, & Crofts, together with Mortuaries, Surplice Dues, Easter offerings, & Small Tythes, (Excepting wool) throughout the Chappelry of Horbury. ^Iso the Church Furniture, consisting of eight bells, a Clock and Chimes, Organ, three large and seven small brass branches of Candlesticks. — l^dso the communion plate, Viz One large silver flaggon, Gilt; The gift of Mrs. Hanh Redshaw to Wakefield Church the 25th of Deer- 1723. One large silver ditto Gilt Magno Deo Triuni, Thomse Scot Indigni hujus Ecclesins Vicarii Donarium cujus animae omniumque ex hoc poculo digne bibentium propitius sit Deus. One large Silver Flaggon, Deo et Ecclesiae de Wakefield 1743. Two small silver Flaggons, Wakefield, 1767, One silver Cup, The words which I speak are Spirit and Life, St. Jno 6th & 63^1 v. One silver cup, Wakefield My blood is 3M THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH drink indeed, St. Jno 6*h & 55th v. One smaller silver Cup & one chalice for the Use of Wakefield Church, June 18th 1740. One large Silver Dish 47 oz. 10 dwts Deo et Ecclesiae de Wakefield D. D. D. Gulielmus Malin, M.B. & P. Anno Domo. t6o . One salver my Flesh is meat indeed, St. Jno 6th & 55th v . One Ditto. Jesus said I am the bread of life, St. Jno 6th & 48th v . All the above plate are silver and gilt ; Total 464 oz. 18 dvvt. The Church and Church Yard Fence, are Repaird at the Charge of the Parish, (Excepting the South and Middle Chancell the former of which is repaird by the Families of Mr. Pilkington late of Stanley, And the other by the Impropriators of the Great Tythes.) The Clerk and Sexton paid by the Parish and Appointed by the Vicar. The weight of the Communion Plate belonging to Wakefield Church : — One large silver Flaggon One Ditto gilt, The gift of Mrs. Han. Redshaw One Ditto gilt, The gift of the Revd- Mr- Scott One Chalise, My Blood is Drink indeed One Ditto, The words which I speak are spirit and life ... One small Ditto & Stand in a Case, for Use of Wakefield Church 18th June 1740 Two small silver flaggons gilt One large silver Dish gilt Gulielmus Malin ... One Silver solver gilt My flesh is meat indeed One Ditto. Jesus said I am the bread of life Total Oz. Dwt . 98 18 • 77 '3 • 79 2 20 ■ 20 2 )-, r 3 16 j 35 5 ! 36 5 ■ 47 10 ■ 14 7 • 14 7 .464 18 Ri. Munkhouse, Vicar. George Ridsdale Daniel Maude Jno. Hallilay Halliley Wm. Hodgson Joseph Hall Joseph Batty Wm. Ottley Church Wardens. ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. p. 17, 1. 9, for since read whereas. p. 21, 1. 23, for blessed read consecrated. p. 44. Since Mr- Micklethwaite, wrote his section, I have seen a letter written many years ago by Mr- George Wentworth of Woolley Park, in which he gives the inscriptions on the old oak panels of the pew used for giving out the dole of bread to the poor; the names are, no doubt, those of donors to this charity, and it is to be regretted that in so many cases the surnames are missing. The inscriptions given by Mr. Wentworth are : Robert Burton John his son Margaret His wyf John Robert Margaret Burton His wyf Weners deceased. p. 49, 1. 6 from bottom, for 1485 read 1495. p. 66, 1. 22, for Amy read Ann. p. 128, 1. 18, for Chartry read Chantry, p. 147, 1. 19, dele been. p. 149, 1. 5, for being read been. p. 194. Since the sheet was printed I have received from Canon Sharp, of Horbury, the following particulars as to the history of his father, the Revd. Samuel Sharp, Vicar of Wakefield : Samuel Sharp was the fourth son of John Sharp, of Gildersome, and Sarah, his wife, daughter of Richard Hey, of Pudsey. He was born at Gildersome, August 4th, 1773, and educated by the Revd. Hammond Robertson at a private school near Heck- mondwike, from whence he proceeded to Magdalene College, Cambridge, of which his uncle Samuel Hey was then President. Taking his degree of B.A. in 1796, he was shortly afterwards ordained by Archbishop Markham to the curacy of VVheldrake, near York. In 1799 he took his M.A. degree, and became curate to his uncle Dr- John Hey, Rector of Passenham and Calverton, Bucks, and Norrisian Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. In 1804, Mr- Sharp became curate at Wakefield, and in 1807 was appointed incumbent of the small living of Edale in Derbyshire, which he held with the curacy of Wakefield until the time of his appoint- ment as Vicar in 18 10. In that year he married Margaret, daughter of the Revd. George Alderson, Rector of Birkin. ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. 317 p. 4, 1. 5, Ralph, Gundulph and Walkeline were respectively Bishops of Chichester, 1091-1125; Rochester, 1077 -1 108; and Winchester 1070- 1097. p. 6, 1. 25, for Patent read Close. p. 20, 1. 26-7, 2nd column, for white hemp read hemp, milk, p. 25, 1. 8. after Crown, insert but Queen Mary by deed, dated 31st October, 1558, conceded the Vicarage of Wakefield, along with other Rectories and Vicarages, to the Archbishop of York ; on the accession of Elizabeth an Act was passed, 1 Eliz. cap. 4, resuming the advowson of all Vicarages which belonged to Queen Mary at and before 8th August, 1555 ; thus Wakefield came back to the Crown in 1559. p. 41, after 1. 12, insert the following note. — Since Mr. Mickleth- waite wrote this section I have discovered the following document, which shows not only the date of the erection of the tower, but also the curious manner in which the funds were raised for that purpose. [translation.] Archbishop Bowet's Register. Book 18, fo. 88. Henry, &c. To our beloved sons in Christ, the dean of our deanery of Pontefract, and also the perpetual vicar of the parish church of Wakefield in our diocese, and to the parish chaplain of the same, greeting. On the part of certain parishioners of the said church of Wakefield complaining, as has been shown us, that as the bell-tower of the said church is to be built new from its foundation, and that for its rebuilding and completion they and their fellow-parishioners have willingly set aside the rates, tenements and rents, which are held for that purpose in the said parish. Nevertheless some parishioners of the said church have wrongfully refused to contribute of their tenements and rents, according to the assessment or contribution made on that behalf for the construction and completion of the aforesaid building, to the manifest prejudice and hurt of the bell-tower. Wherefore we charge and command you, jointly and separately, that, making enquiry as to who resist and rebel against our premises, you or each of you effectually warn and induce the same not to omit but without delay to contribute to the cost of this notable construction and its completion out of their tenements and rents according to the method which has long been laudably observed in such cases. Otherwise that, in our stead by ecclesiastical censures, ye compel or that each of you compel all and singular those men, as is customarily allowed in the premises, to make a reasonable contri- bution to the aforesaid construction and repair. Writing back to us, when you or any of you is properly required on behalf of the 318 ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. said parishioners, by your or their letters patent, containing the list of those who have carried out the present mandate. In order therefore that we may more effectually incite the minds of the faithful to the repair or construction of the said bell-tower by the alluring gifts of indulgences, confiding in the immeasurable mercy of Almighty God, and of the Blessed Virgin Mary his mother, and also in the merits and prayers of Saints Peter and Paul his Apostles, also of the blessed confessors, William, John and Wilfrid, our patrons, together with those of all Saints, we grant, in the mercy of the Lord, to all our parishioners and others, whose diocesans will ratify and accept this indulgence of ours, being truly contrite, penitent and shriven of their sins, who give or bequeath any of the goods entrusted to them by God, or in any other way afford help in charity to the repair and construc- tion of the said bell-tower, forty days indulgence proportionately by these presents, to last only during our good pleasure. Given at the Priory of Saint Oswald of Nostell, the 14th day of the month of June, in the year of our Lord, 1409, and in the second of our translation. p. 75. 1. 10 from bottom. The Chantry of Our Lady, here men- tioned, was undoubtedly the same as Wakefield's Chantry, and this Certificate should have followed the other deeds relating to that Chantry on p. 53. p. 77, 1. 32, for 1478 read 1548. p. 92, 1. 21, for 1485 read 1495. p. 104, 1. 26, for Manor Map read Morrow Mass. p. 115, 1. 18, the yron frame was to hold a moveable bason, which was the Puritan idea of a font, and not to preserve the old font. p. 131, 1. 4 from bottom. By his will, dated Aug. 25th, 1698, William Malin gave a rent-charge out of a house in Church Street, Rotherham, to the trustees of the General Poor of the Town of Wakefield, for ten poor widows. p. 140, 1. 24, for againt read against. p. 146, 1. 6, for watertubes reid watertables. p. 166, 1. 19, for Romanorum ;wi Romanus. p. 179. The most westerly window in the north aisle of the nave was filled with painted glass by Mr. Kempe in January, 18S9 ; the subjects being Adam, Eve, Enoch, and Noah in the four large lights, with, below, in the smaller panels, the Temptation and the Fall of Man. One small panel is filled with the inscription : — In the reverence of God : and in memory of William and Sarah Bywater, her parents, and ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. 319 Henry Bywater her brother, Ann Fawcctt, of Wakefield, who died March 30th, 1887, caused this window to be made. p. 183. The stained glass in the half-window, near the organ, in the north chancel aisle, was inserted at Easter, 1809, and represents the Annunciation ; in a small panel is the inscrip- tion : — To the Glory of God and in Memory of Joseph Lupton, many years master of the Green Coat School in Wakefield, and of Maria his wife, their children dedicate this window, a.d. mdccclxxxix. p. 186, between Obadiah Lee and Samuel Disney place Daniel Sill, MA., licensed Feb. 15th, 1702. p. 186, 1. 23. The Rev. Benjamin Forster was of Benet College, Cambridge; B.A. 1757; M.A. and Fellow 1760 (in which year he was Curate of Bromfield and Chignell Smeely, Essex); B.D. 1768. He was presented in 1772 to the united Rectory of St. Mary Abchurch and St. Laurence Pountney in the gift of Benet College, Cambridge, to whom he suffered it to lapse, on being presented by the late Lord Camelford's Father to the consolidated Rectory of Boconnoc and Broadoake, to that of Cherichayes St. Michael, St. Stephen and St. Deny's and the Vicarage of Cherichayes, all in the County of Cornwall. Mr. Forster died at Boconnoc, Dec. 2, 1805, aged 70. — Literary Anecdotes of the XlXth Century. p. 190. Catardus, rector of Wakefield, makes a deposition that he holds the tithes of Wakefield, not as rector, but as farming them from the prior of Lewes (Dodsworth MSS. 117, fo. 97). The date of the deed, as ascertained from the witnesses to it, must be between 1154 and 11 60, thus Catardus is the first known rector of Wakefield, and must be placed before Richard de Lethebroch. p. 191. 1. 16. John Preston, Priest of Wakefield, is mentioned in the Act of Attainder, 1 Ed. IV. passed against the Lancas- trians, who fought at Wakefield, " Tywesday the XXX day of Decembr," as one of those convicted of high treason, and whose possessions were forfeited to the king. He died in 1467, and was buried at St. Margaret's, Westminster. p. 192, 1. 11, for Croperdy read Cropredy. p. 194, 1. 18, between son of and Dr. Camidge add Matthew Camidge and brother of. p. 195, 1. 11, add On Dec. 4, 1888, Canon Straton was installed as Archdeacon of Huddersfield and Canon of Wakefield. 1. 5 from bottom. Omit Daniel Sill as a curate, and after Miles Sandiforth, who became Vicar of Hooton Pagnell in 1691, 3 2o ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. add the following: — William Lamplugh, licensed June 12, 1693. Mr. Burrow in 1705, became usher of the Grammar School in January, 1706. Mr. Paley, from 1705 to 1716, he also became usher of the Grammar School. Mr. Settle, from 1716 to 1737. John Coppindale, Cave Scholar at the Grammar School in 1740, curate from Oct. 1, 1751 to 1754, when he became Vicar of Hooton Pagnell, which he held until his death in 1768. p. 196, 1. 3. Jo. Armitage was appointed Vicar of Hooton Pagnell in 1769, where he remained until 1797. 1. 6, for 1766 read 1758. 1. 22. John L. Newmarch became Vicar of Hooton Pagnell on leaving Wakefield. p. 198, 1. iS. Henry Wilson succeeded E. Scott as choirmaster in 1857. p. 209. On Dec. 4, 1888, the two Archdeacons for the Diocese of Wakefield, Canon Straton as Archdeacon of Huddersfield, and Canon Brooke as Archdeacon of Halifax, were insti- tuted ; and on the same occasion eight honorary canons were installed with the following stalls assigned unto them : St. Aelred, Canon Straton ; St. Alcuin, Canon Brooke ; St. Beda, Canon Sharp ; St. Chad, Canon Kemp ; St. Cuthbert, Canon Sowden ; St. Edwin, King and Martyr, Canon Kirby ; St. Hilda, Canon Whitby; St. John of Beverley, Canon Bardsley. On Dec. 27, 1889, two more canons, the Revs. E. Snowden and J. H. Warneford, were assigned the respective stalls of St. Oswald and St. Paulinus, and there are still the stalls of Ss. Wilfrid and Willibrord to fill. p. 211, 1. 13, for secunda read secundum, and for tuacum read tuarum, and on next line for lana read lava. p. 256, 1. 9 from bottom, for Dived read Died. p. 273, 1. 11. Umbrello. This umbrella would be one of the large ones opening to a diameter of five feet or so, which was fixed into a moveable shaft shod with an iron spike at the bottom to stick into the ground, so as to cover the minister while engaged in the Burial Service at the graveside. They were common in the last century. p. 276, 1. 13. On Feb. 27, 181 5, William Hepworth, a shoemaker, did penance in the Parish Church for defaming the character of an old woman named Elizabeth Blacketer. They both lived in Cock & Swan Yard, Westgate, and the suit was carried on by one George Robinson, out of spite to the cobbler. INDEX INDEX Aaron 180 Abell, Hannah 309 Aberford, Henricus de 211 Abraham 167, 178, 179 Acaster Selby 66 Acquitaine, Duke of 7 Act of Uniformity 186 Adam 171, 177 Adam, Prior of Lewes 7 Adam, Susan 241 Adams, Charles 148 Adde, Widow 7$ Addey, John 148 Addy, George 147 Addye, Thomas 292 Additional Home Bishoprics Society 204 Advowson of Wakefield 29 Agbrigg 3 Agland, Henry 294, 295 Agland, John 294, 295 Aglande, Richard 73 Aglond, Elizabeth 280, 289 Aglond, Thomas 289, 290 Ahaz, Sun-dial of 1S1 Ajalon, Valley of 180 Akeroyde, Elzabeth 294 Albe 56, 107 Alderson, Rev. George 315 Alderson, Margaret 315 Aldwark 91 Aldwark, Thomas 91 Aldinge, Robart 290 Aldinge Susanna 290 Aleyn, William 71 All Hallows I, 270 All Hallows, Image of 106 All Saints 1, 54, 67, 78, 141 All Saints, Altar of 43 All Souls 1, 141 Allan, Issabell 283 Allan, Thomas 283 Alland, Issabel 277 Alland, Ihon 283 Alland, Thomas 277 Allen, Ray 11 aid, 300 Allen Robart, 295 Allen, Rychard 300 Allen, Thomas 295 Allen, Xpofer 295 Alley Daniell, 296 Alley, Thomas 296 Allot, John 164 Almondbury 29 Alms Bason 130, 131, 132 Alms Box 116, 117 Alms Dishes 136 Alreford, Robert de 16 Altar Cloth 152 Altar, High 3, 46, 56, 74, 78, 79 Altofts, William 83 Alverthorpe 51, 106, 148, 199 Alverthorpe Poor, Trustees of 312, 313 Amory Robert, 259 Amos 152 Amyas, Ralph 265 Angel, Figure of 96, 97 Anne, John 21 1 Antiquaries, Society of 96, 141 Apostolic See 24 Appleby, Richard 256 Applethorpe 19 1 Appleyarde, Rychard 296 Appleyarde, William 296 Appropriation of the Church 14, 15, 18 Arais worke 74 Archbishop Gray's Registers 190 Archbishops' Institutions 192, 193, 194 Archbishops' Registers 192 "Archdeaconry of York " 25 Ardsley, Manor of 72 Area of the Cathedral 165 Armitage, Agnis 300 Armitage, Anne 301 Armitage, Joseph 119, 313 Armitage, Lady Katherine 308 Armitage, Miles 278, 300 Armitage, Rev. Joseph 196 Armitage, Robert 278 Armitage, Wilfred 163 Armstronge, Elizabeth 290 Armstronge, Ihon 283, 290 Armstronge, Margret 283 Armytage, Joseph 31, 32 Arnall, John 292, 302 Arnall, Margerye 302 Arnall, Robart 292 Arnet, Ann 304 Arnet, Rev. George 116, 123, 193, 276, 304 Arthington, Henry 163 Arundale, Anne 295 Arundale, Edward 292 Arundale, Rychard 295, 300 Arundale, William 292 (318) INDEX. Asheton, Isabella 2IO Asheton, John 210 Ashton, Ellin 297 Ashton, John 297 Ashton, William 291, 292 Atkins, Adam 290, 299 Atkins, Martin 299 Atkinson, Charles 199 Atkinson, Rev. Christopher 186, 196, 256, 309 Atkinson, Dorothy 281 Atkinson, Edeth 297 Atkinson, Elizabeth 257, 2S0, 288 Atkinson, Henrye 285 Atkinson, James 293 Atkinson, Tayne 280 Atkinson, Mychall 280 Atkinson, Nycholas 280, 288 Atkinson, Richard 257, 281, 293, 297 Atkinson, Thomas 285 Atkinson, Vincent 301 Audsley, Joseph 125, 143 Aumbries 45 Austwick, Richard 220 Aylesford, Earl of 133 Aylestone, Rector of 195 Ayneley, Margret 288 Backhouse, I. 143 Backhouse, R. 143 Backhouse, S. 143 Bacon, Rev. Doctor 116, 127, 143, 147, 1S8, 189, 194, 212, 213, 274, 309 Bacon, Grace 213 Badsworth 66 Bagshawe, Rev. Edward B. 196 Baines, Ralph 302 Baines, Thomas 302 Baites, Mr. 162 Baitman, Agnis 289 Baitman, Peter 289 Balderston, Arms of 86, 87 Balderston, William 86 Baldock, Robert de 9 Ball, Rychard 289 Balle, Peter 75 Balmforth, Robart 278 Balthasar 168, 174, 181 Baly, Priscilla 280 Balye, Robart 278 Balye, William 280, 302 Bamforth, James 302 Bamforth, Robert 302 Banaster chantry 67, 71 Banaster, Roger 67, 68 Banaster, Sir Thurstan 67, 68, 71 Banes, Margaret 295 Banes, Rychard 295 Bank of England 189 Banks, John 1 23 Barber Abraham ill, 200, 304, 309 Barber, John 261, 287 Barber, Mary 261 Barber, Thomas 287, 304 Bardsey 133 Bargh, Thomas 1 15 Bark, Thomas no Barker, Elizabeth 290 Barker, Major 155, 157, 158 Barker, Robert 285, 290 Barlow, Anne 248 Barlow, Sibill 305 Barlow, William 305 Barnby, Anne 90 Barnby, Katherine 90 Barnby, Robert 90 Barnett, Mr. 176 Barnsley 146 Barrow in Lincolnshire 123 Barrowby 228 Barthrop, Jonathan 148 Barstow, Elizabeth 257 Barstow, Jeremiah 257 Barstow, Michael 257 Barstow, Ruth 257 Barstow, Sarah 257 Barstow, William 257 Barton, Rector of 190, 191 Baskerville, Rev. John 65, 308 Basworth, Margaret 44, 101 Basworth, Thomas 101 Bate, Mr. 75, 76, 77 Bate, Agnes 79 Bate, Richard 78, 264 Bateman, Henrye 298 Bateman, Issabell 302 Bateman, Robart 298 Bateman, Thomas 302 Bates, Roger 76 Bates, Thomas 106 Bathurst, Lord Bishop of 148, 197 Batley 72, 203, 207 Batley Carr 186 Batt, Richard 105 Batt, W. 142 Battlements, The 139, 140, 160 Batty, John 163 Batty, Joseph 34, 143, 274, 314 Bawdwen, Anne 305 Bawdwen, Rev. William 1, 2, 196, 305 Bawes, Jayne 300 Bawes, Rychard 300 Bawmforth, Robart 292 Baytman, Allis 279 Baytman, Henrye 279 Baytman, Jenet 282 Beadle 200 Beadle's costume 201 (319) INDEX. Beak, W. 143, 313 Beamond, Thomas 265 Beane, Alleson 298 Beane, Ihon 298 Beauchamp, Arms of 94 Beaumont, George 141 Beaumont, Thomas 112, 312 Beaumont, W. 62, 141 Beaver, Ann 259 Beaver, Peter Richard 259 Beaver, Timothy 259 Beck, John 309 Becket, John 35 Beckett, Thomas 273 Beckit, Brian 301 Beckit, Marye 301 Beckwith, William 283 Bedford, Bishop Suffragan of 205, 206, 208. Bedford, Rev. William 195, 307 Beele, Dinis 283 Beeston, Elzabeth 283, 290 Beeston, Marmaduke 287 Beeston, Robart 287, 290 Beeston, Rychard 283 Beeston, William 301 Beevor, Rev. Thomas 195 Belle Vue 253 Bells, The 108, 123, 124, 139, 267 Benet, Edward 282 Benet, Loncelot 292 Benet, Mary 282 Benet, William 292 Benningburgh, Thomas de 52 Bennett, Elizabeth 248 Bennett, George 248 Bennett, George Alfred 248 Bennett, Hannah 248 Bennett, John 58, 59, 60, 61, no Bennett, Joseph 248 Benson, Issabell 279 Benson, Robert 133 Bent, Elizabeth 249 Bent, Harold 249 Bentley, Michael 164 Benton, Mary 271 Beresford, Lord William de 9 Berewicks I Berke, George 294 Berke, John 294 Berkit, Elzabeth 288 Berkwith, Brian 291 Berk with, Katherine 291 Beryman, Richard 87 Bethany 169 Bethlehem 168 Bever, Rev. Robert 191, 264 Bever, Robert 254 Beverley 162 Bevit, Marye 298 Bevit, William 298 Bickeridge, Rev. R. 189 Bickersteth, Robert, Bishop of Ripon 25, 146, 155 Bingley 133 Bingley, Arms of Lady 133, 134 Bingley, Elizabeth, Lady 133 Bingley, J. 125 Bingley, Lord 133 Bingley, Susan 281 Binnes, Andrew 307 Binnes, Thomas 58, 59, 60, 61, 162 Birkhead, Allis 294 Birkhead, George 290 Birkhead, Martin 211 Birkhead, Mary 164 Birkhead, Nathaniel 164 Birkhead, Thomas 58, 59, 60, 61 Iiii kin, Rector of 315 Birstal 203, 207 Bishop, Gundulph 4 Bishop, Ralph 4 Bishop, Walkeline 4 Bissert, John 211 Black Bess 2715 Black Death, The 40 Blackburne, Edward 295 Blackburne, John 295 Blythe, Mr. 162 Bocannoc 186 Bodleian Library 84, 210 Bodley, Ester 303 Bod ley, John 303 Boiling, Robert 71 Bolteby, Rev. John 191 Bolton, Rev. T. Ambler 103, 155, 179, 178 Bolton, Francis 278 Bolton, Jerenne 278 Bonehouse 268 Book of Common Prayer 192 Booker, Rev. Richard 305 Booth, Mr. 120 Bordars 2 Botham 22 Botham, Amis of 89 Bovate 2 Bower, Ihon 292 Bower, Thomas 292 Bowles, Lady 162 Boynehouse, Andrew 293 Boynehouse, Anne 299 Boynehouse, Thomas 293, 299 Boynegonse, Thomas 279 Boynegonse, Xpofer 279 Boyth, Alexander 302 Boyth, Laurence 280 Boyth, Sarah 280 Boyth, Thomas 287, 302 Bradford, Brian 106, 265 (3 2 °) INDEX. Brad ford e 71 Bradforde John 76 Bradforth 113 Bradley, Elizabeth 241 Bradley, H. 241 Bradley John 164, 249 Bradley, Margaret 249 Bradley, Michaell 277 Bradley, Mr. 240 Bradleye, Giles 283 Bradshaw, Dorothy 222 Bradshaw, Rawstorn 222 Bragg, Thomas 272 Braithwait, Ann 255 Braithwaite, Rev. Gawen 147, 196 Braithwell, Church of 4 Bramley, Colonel 193 Bramley, Thomas 163 Brawne, Mathew 292 Bread Street 49 Bread Pew 315 Bred Bothes 76 Brigge, Allis 291 Brigge, Elzabeth 285 Brigge, Issabell 299 Brigge, James 291, 299 Briggs, Ihon 272 283, 288 Briggs, Mary 286 Briggs, Miles 164 Briggs, William 157, 286, 288, 301 Brighton, Allice 278 Brighton, Rycharde 278, 301 Brighton, Thomas 301 Briscoe, Edward Dyne 238 British Archrelogists' Handbook 165 Brittlebank, William 312 Broadbent, Anthony 281 Broadbent, James 281, 283 Broadbent, Nicholas 279 Bromehead, Allin 287 Bromehead, Edwarde 277 Bromehead, Ellin 296 Bromehead, Ihon 287, 296 Bromehead, William 277 Bromeheide, John 74, 75 Bromhead, Wm. 163 Bromley, John 237 Brook & Fryer 34 Brook, Edmond 300 Brooke, Canon 205, 208 Brooke, Edward 253 Brooke, Elzabeth 296 Brooke, Jarvise 282 Brooke, John 286, 296 Brooke, Katherin 282 Brooke, Susanna 286 Brookesbanke, George 294 Brookesbanke, Jayne 294 Brooksbanke, John 294 Brooksbanke, Francis 281 Brooksbanke, John 281 Brotherton 229 Brown, Dorothy 245 Brown, Henrye 287 Brown, Mrs. Henry 198 Brown, John 154 Brown, Rev. Michael 197 Brown, Richard 55, 56, 304 Brown, Thomas 163 Brown, Widdow 163 Brown, William 244, 245 Browne, Elzabeth 297, 300 Browne, Henrye 277, 299 Browne, James 302 Browne, Jayne 297 Browne, Margaret 281 Browne, Mathew 292, 299 Browne, Rychard 277, 297 Browne, Sarah 292 Browne, Savage 295 Browne, Seth 306 Browne, Thomas 297, 302 Browne, William 286, 287 Bucher Rawe 77 Buckley, Issabell 281 Buckley, William George 159, 200 Buckley, Rycharde 281 Bucktrout, Alice 249 Bucktrout, Charles 248 Bucktrout, Frances 249 Bucktrout, George 248 Bucktrout, Johannah 249 Bucktrout, Margaret 248 Bucktrout, Mary 249 Bucktrout, Robert 248 Budine, John 300 Budine, William 300 Bukyngham, Sir John de 16 Bull, Judeth 302 Bull, Rychard 302 Buhner, Elizabeth 176 Buhner, Rev. William 176 Bulwick 241 Bunney, Rychard 106, 265 Burdett, Mrs. Franc : 162 Burgh, Arms of 94 Burgine, Elizabeth 264 Burgine, Mathew 264 Burgo, Thomas de 51 Burials in Woollen 308 Burkit, Richard 157 Burnebey, Mary 282 Burrell, Arms of 66 Burrow, Allis 285, 286 Burrow, Mary 288 Burrow, Rowland 163 Burrow, Thomas 164, 285, 286 Burrows, Martin 285 Burrows, William 285 Burton, Bettris 300 (32l) INDEX. Burton, Church of 5, 21 Burton, Dudbert 294 Burton, Edith 255 Burton, Janet 28S Burton, John 255, 288, 315 Burton, Mathew 255 Burton, Miles 294, 300 Burton, Vicar of 191 Bury 196 Butterfield, Lidia 308 Butlerworth, John 123 Buttresses 141, 145, 146, 157, 158, 159 Buxton, John 253 Buxton, Mary 253 Buxton, Richard 253 Byrom, Francis 280 Caen Stone 1 50 Caistor 248 Caldecote 33 Calderbank 221 Calverton, Rector of 316 Cambden, Elizabeth, Viscountess 184 Cambden Lecturers 186 Camborne, Rector of 197 Cambridge, University Church 125 Camidge, Dr. 194 Camidge, Mrs. 148, 155, 178 Camidge, Rev. C. E. 148, 197 Camidge, Rev. Canon 25, 35, 45, 135, 144, 147, 150, 154, 155, 178, 194, 197 Candylestyckes 128 Cane, Bettriss 290 Cane, Thomas 290 Canesworth, Marye 291 Canesworth, Rychard 291 Canterbury, Archbishop of 272 Canterbury, diocese of 190 Carr Gate 32, 312 Cardwell, James 154, 156, 158 Carlton, Rector of 197 Carpenter, Right Rev. W. B. 158, 204 Carpnell, Allis 299 Carpnell, William 299 Carr, Ann 252 Carr, Hannah Maria 222 Carr, John 222 Carr, Rev. Henry Bryan 198 Carucate 1, 2 Caspar 168, 174, 181 Casson, Anne 290 Casson, Elizabeth 263, 286 Casson, Francis 286, 293, 300 Casson, Henry 164, 282, 288, 300 Casson, James 299 Casson, Jayne 300 Casson, Margaret 299 Casson, Robert 282 Casson, William 75, 76, 281, 293 Casson, Xpofer 300 Catnay, Simon 79 Catterick Vicarage 25 Cave, Henry 279 Cave, Lawrance 279 Cave, Scholar 192, 193 Cave, Thomas, 162, 163 Cecil, Sir Robert 191 Censer 74, 97, 128 Chadwick, Elzabeth 285 Chadwiek, Ihon 285 Chalice 56, 107, 128, 129, 130, 133, 135 Challoner, Arms of 87 Challoner, John 87 Challoner, Katherine 87 Challoner, Thomas 87 Chaloner, Robert 69 Chamber, Alice 283 Chambers, Allen 285 Chambers, William 280 Chambows, Allen 299 Chancel 23, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43. 44, 45, 46,47, 48, 58, 59, 60, 61, 67, 72, 73, 96, 98, 99, 106, 109, 114, 116, 127, 140, 145, 146, 149, 150, 153, 155, 156, 157, 159, 160, 161, 164, 168, 213, 214, 220, 254, 256 Chandeliers 126, 127 Chantries, Foundation of the 49 Chantries, Suppression of the 49 Chantry Altar 161 Chantry, Banaster 67, 71 Chantry Certificates 77 Chantry, Graystoke 49, 73, 74, 104, 106, 128 Chantry, Nowell 49, 67, 71, 72, 88, 106, 128 Chantry of Our Lady 75, 128 Chantry, Pilkington 49, 53, 57, 58, 85, 98, 104, 105, 128, 158, 165 Chantry Plate 128 Chantry, Soothill 49, 71, 72, 92, 104, 128 Chantry, Thurston's 67, 104 Chantry, Trinity 73, 104 Chantry, Wakefeld's 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 Chapel of Our Lady on Wakefield Bridge 83 Chapel Allerton 253 Chapelthorpe Hall 125 Chaplains 28, 50. 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 79, 81, 100, 101, 148 Chapman, Anne 295 Chappell, Rev. William Pester 197 Charity Sermons 311 (3 22 ) INDEX. Charles I. 1S6 Charles II. 1 1 5, 305 Charlesworth, J. C. D. 125, 146 Charlesworth, Joseph 31, 32, 146 Charnock, Ann Glover 243 Cheriholme, Edward 295 Cheriholme, Marye 295 Cherryholm, Thomas 309 Chester, Robart 289, 291 Chevet 53, 64, 65, 158 Chibchase, Elizabeth 264 Chibchase, Joseph 264 Chibchase, Mary 264 Chichester 39 Chichester Cathedral 165 Child, John 200 Childe, Mrs. Rowland 159 Childe, Widowe 75 Chippindale, Thomas 312 Chimes 108, 125, 126, 267 Choir 45, 48, 59, 62, 72, 77, 88, 90, 96, 9S, 99, 100, 101, 113, 114, 121, 153, 219, 223 Choir Masters 198 Choir Stalls 150, 161 Choral Scholarships 198 Church Congress 157, 195, 204 Church Furniture 99, 103, 313 "Church Furniture," Peacock's 81 Church Plate 71, 72, 74, 76, 77, 107, 128, 129, 130—137, 313 Churchwardens 199 Churchwardens' Accounts 267 — 276 Churchyard 49 Churton, Ai'chdeacon 1 Civil Wars 115, 118 Clapham, Jeremiah 147 Clare Hall, Cambridge 163, 192, 193 Clarebrough, Henry 255 Clarebrough, Mary 255 Clark, Laurance 288 Clarke, Adam 300 Clarke, Francis 293 Clarke, George 296 Clarke, Hannah 244 Clarke, Henry 304 Clarke, John 244, 283, 285, 293 Clarke, Richard 285 Clarke, Thomas 285, 304 Clarke, Wingfield 244 Clarkeson, Brian 280 Clarkeson, Dinis 300 Clarkeson, Ihon 280 Clarkeson, Joseph 293 Clarkson, John 119 Clarkson, Thomas 291, 293 Claton, Alike 279 Claton, Daniell 2S9, 297 Claton, John 279, 297 Claye, Allis 300 Claye, Elzabeth 295 Claye, Ihon 300 Claye, William 287, 292, 295 Clayton, Helinor 304 Clayton, James 1 10 Clayton, Justice 305 Clayton, Rev. — 304 Clayton, Richard 163 ( - ;le gg> John 303 Clemetshaw, Henry 147, 19S, 21S Clerestory 41, 42, 98, 146, 149 Clerkenwell 197 Clerks, 200 Cliffield Tythe, 311 Clifford, Henry de 9 Clock, 108, 125, 126, 266 Clok Howse 108, 123 Clone, John de 11 Coale, Gervase 217 Coap, John 242 Coates, Mr. 155 Coates, Sarah 174 Cockeson, John 299 Cockhill Ellin 289 Cockhill, George 287, 297 Cockhill, Henrye 279 Cockhill, Robert 163, 287 Cockhill, Thomas 297 Cockpit Houses 313 Cockson, Anne 289 Cockson, Leonard 289, 291, 299 Cockson, Robart, 291 Cokson, Agnes 90 Cokson, Robert 90 Cokson, Thomas 69, 90 Cokson, Ysabella 90 Collet, Richard 312 Collier, Dorothy 297 Collier, Ihon 297 Collier, Thomas 308 Collins, Rev. George Grantham, 198 Collis, Rychard 290 Colyergate 76 Commandments, Tables of 109, 1 10, 127, 152 Communion Cloth 107, 127, 272 Communion Table 117, 127, 269,270 Communion Wine 271, 273, 274 Confessionals 45 Coningsburgh, Church of 3, 4 Cook, Alike 278 Cooke, Elzabeth 287 Cooke, Jenet 299 Cooke. John 297 Cooke, (Catherine 301 Cooke, Rychard 287. 299 Cooke, Thomas 287 Cookeson, John 277, 279, 285, 295 Cookeson {Catherine 278 Cookeson, Robart, 295 (3 2 3) INDEX. Cookson, Agnis 290 Cookson, Jayne, 283, 285 Cookson, John 234 Cookson, Xpofer 279 Cool ton, Robert 302 Coolton, Thomas 302 Cooper, Charles, 260 Cooyland, Jayne 302 Cope 107 Copley, Arms of 89 Copley Hall 219 229 Coppintlale, Margaret 250 Coppindale, William 250 Corbels 97 Corn Exchange 153, 208 Corn Market 138 Cornwall 186, 197 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 186 Corpus Christi, Service of 77 Cote, Jane de 83 Cote, Thomos de 77, 82, 106 Cotterill, Rev. William Thomas 198 Couper, Oliver 81 Coventry, St- Michael's Church 165 Cowchers 74 Cowp, Thomas 281 Cowpe, James 291 Cowper, Mathew 284 Cowper, Onesimus 251 Cowper, Sarah 243, 284 Cowper, Susannah 251 Court of Chancery 30 Crampton, Edmond 296 Cranwell 188 Craven, Archdeacon of 144 Craven, Elzabeth 302 Craven, Jeny 281 Craven, John 119, 281 Craven, Proctor for the Archdeaconry of 195 Craves, Henry 301 Craves, William 301 Crayke Rectory 25 Craystork 200, 268 Credence Table 159 Crete, Bishop of 176 Crismatory 107, 108 Crockets 149 Crodeson, Laurence 288 Croft, Nicholas 7 1 Crofte, Roberte 114 Crofton. Church of 92 Crofton, Parish of 206, 207 Crofton, Rector of 187, 196, 236, 304 Cromock, Nycholas 281 Cromock, Labron 281 Cromocke, Issabell 299 Cromocke, Thomas 296 Croperdy 192 Crosby, Rebecca 288 Crosby, Robert 288 Crosby, Thomas 288 Crosland. William 126 Crosstone 1 Crowder, Edward 286, 301 Crowder, Elizabeth 229, 301 Crowder, John 229, 305 Crowder, Rychard 286 Crowder, Susannah 229 Crowder, William 229 Crowdeson, Issabell 280 Crowdson, Dorothy 297 Crowdson, Ihon 297 Crowdson, Laurence 301 Crowdson, Rychard 301 Crowettes 56, 128 Crowther, Thomas 311 Croxton, William 72, 73, 104 Cruddling Quarry 32 Cunby, Francis 114, 269 Curates, The 195 Cusancia, William de 15, 190 Dalomie, Ann 277 Dalomie, William 277 Dalomye, Ihon 286 Dalomye, Thomas 2S6 Dalomye, Willm 287 Dalston, Sir Charles 66 Damascus 175 Danbrough, Anne 292 Danbrough, George 292 Danbye, Robart 293 Daniel 152, 182 David 152, 178, 181, 182 Dawson, Allis 287, 298 Dawson, Catherine 219, 244 Dawson, Henry A. 155, 156, 198 Dawson, Ihon 283 Dawson, Jonye 299 Dawson, Margery 283 Dawson, Martin 297 Dawson, Rev. H. 149, 150, 151 Dawson, Rychard 297 Dawson Scholarship 198 Dawson, Thomas 195, 287, 291 Dawson, Walker 219, 244 Dawson, William 219, 298 Dawson, Xpofer 299 Dealtry, Benjamin 228 Death, Figure of 109 Dedication of the Church 1 Deffers 311 Denby, Mr. 19S, 272 Deneson, Allis 286 Deneson, Giles 286 Deneson Thomas 286 Denis, Ihon 278, 279 Denis, Priscilla 279 (3 2 4) INDEX. Denison, Allis 293 Denison, Giles 293 Denison, Sarah 235 Denison, William 115, 162, 164, 235, 3" Denton, Margaret 2S2 Denton, Robart 300 Denum, John de 9 Depledge, Benjamin E. 158 Dewise, Priscilla 299 Dewsbury 2, 3, 15, 16, 22, 29, 1S7 Dewsbury, Church at 3, 5, 6, 7, n, 13. 15 Dewsbury, Church Proctor of 3, 15 Dewsbury, Clerk of 3 "Dewsbury. Its Ecclesiastical His- tory" 3, 14 Dewsbury, Parish of 22 Dewsbury, Rectory of 28, 29 Dial 267, 268 Dial Stone 156 Dibb, Christopher 155 Dickonson, Agnis 279 Dickson, T. 125 Dickson, Thomas 281, 282 Dickson, Will™. 282 Dighton, George 281 Dighton, John 163 Dimensions of the Cathedral 164 Dimond, Elzabeth 2S6 Dimond, Robt. 280 Dineson, Elzabeth 300 Dineson, Jayne 283 Dineson, Roland 291 Dineson, Thomas 300 Dinison, Thomas 283, 292 Dirrye, Ihon 286 Dismas 166 Disney, Daniel 235 Disney, Margery 235 Disney, Revd.John 235 Disney, Rev. Samuel 186, 234, 235 Dixon, Benjamin 246 Dixon, Henry 246 Dixon, T. 142 Dixon, Mary, 246, 247 Dixon, Mary Elizabeth 246 Dixon, William 299 Dixon, W. Vibart 189 Dixson, Stanniford 58, 59, 60, 61 Dobson, Anthony 279, 298 Dodsworth 6, 191, 210 Dodsworth, Roger 84, 87 Dodworth, Green 138 Dogwhipper 200, 201, 268 Doliffe, Agnis 293 Doliffe, Giles 293 Domesday Book 1,2, 3, 36, 196 Doncaster 1, 113 Doncaster, The Dean of 16 Doncaster, Vicar of 16 Donford, Thomas 280 Don ford, Xpofer 280 Donnington, Vicar of 187 Dore, Weding Church 1 1 1 Dorset, Earl of 6 I )oughty, Robert 307 Dowise Ihon 294, 299 Dowise, Robart 294 Downes, William 256 Drake, J. 119, 142, 143 Drayton, Thomas de 25, 190 Drossius, William de 6 Drury, David 313 Duckworth, Edwarde 295 Duckworth, Ellin 299 Duckworth, Hugh 295 Dugdale 12 Dundas, Mary 229 Dundas, William 229 Dunderdale, Henry iSS Dunmore, Earl of 197 Dunnington, Church of 4 Durham, Bishoprick of 184 Durham, County of 25 Durham, Dean of 192 Dykes, Fred 198 Dyamonde, William 75, 76 Dymond Ann 128 Dymonde, Oliver 76 Eadon, John 312 Eagle Lectern 155, 161 " Early English Church" 1 Early English Text Society 82 East Anglia, Ring of 94 East Ardsley 203, 207 East Ardsley Church 127 East Greenwich 2S East Indies 217 East Window 166 Ecclesfield 243 Ecclesiastical Antiquities 15 Ecclesiastical Commissioners 203, 206 " Ecclesiologist " 45 Edale 316 Eden 171 Edmunds, Thos. 219 Edwards, Sir Henry 202 Edward, The Confessor 1, 2, 3 Edward I. 25 Edward II. 6, 7, 50, 51, 53 Edward III. 6, 10, 11, 12, 17 Edward IV. 54, 56, 59, 62, 67. 70, 100 Edward VI. 25, 27, S2, 92, 103, 106, 125, 128, 192 Effingham, Ralherinc, Countess of 228 Eggleton, Arms of 66 (325) INDEX. Egglelon, Thomas 65 Egypt 175, 1S0 Eland 265 Eldinge, Robart 296 Eldinge, Thomas 294 Elias 167 Elistones, Beatrix 286 Elistones, Wm. 286 Elizabeth, Queen 47, 106, 129, 163 Elliot, William 298 Ellis, Beatrix 285 Ellis, Elizabeth 238 Ellis, Elzabeth 295 Ellis, Francis 286, 295 Ellis, George 291 Ellis, Joseph 238 Ellis, Ihon 288 Ellis, Richard 308 Ellis, Robart 285 Ellisinoney, Oswald 298 Ellyott, John 264 Ellysmough, Ellyn 279 Ellysmough, Jossua 279 Elmsall, Roger 164 Emmerson, Joseph 198, 199 Empson, Andrew 289 Empson, Francis 289 Empson, Ihon 298 Empson, Robart 282 Empson, Roger 282, 298 Empson, Tenant 280 England 14, 60, 72, 165, 184 England, Arms of 150 England, Great Seale of 29 England, Joseph 309 England, King of 7, 10, 17, 29 England, Queen of 58, 163 English Parish Ghurches 37 Enthronement of the First Bishop 207 Ephesus, Bishop of 176 Ephraim 180 Eshall, Agnis 2S0 Eshall, Allis 290 Eshall, Henrye 290 Eshall, Tenet 289 Eshall, Margerie 2S3 Eshall, Thomas 280, 288 Eshall, Willm. 288 Essex 66 Eunice 176 Evans, Ihon 290, 291 Evans, Roger 2S9, 290, 291 Eve 171 Evening Lecturer 147, 148, 189, 223 Evening Reader 148 Everingham, |ane 252 Everingham, John 252 Everingham, R J - 119 Everingham, Sauil 253 Everingham, Susannah 253 Exeter College, Oxford 198 " Express " 158 Ezekiel 152, 182 Ezra 181 Fairfax, Martha 232 Fairfax, Sir Thomas 118, 306 Fairfax. Thomas 232 Fakenham, William de 16 Fallinge 76 Farefax, John 289 Farbarne, William 73 Farebanke, John 115 Farefax, William 289 Farleigh Down Stone 150 Fairer, Catherine 258 Farrer, Charles 258 Farrer, Edmund 221 Farrer, Hugh 284 Farrer, Martin 284 Fawcett, George 156 Feild, Marye 289 Feild, Roger 289 Fell, Nicholas 297 Fell, Thomas 297 Fenay, Jane 230 Fenay, Nicholas 141,230 Fencotes, Thomas de 1 1 Fennell, William 189 Fenton, Arms of 214 Fenton, Charlotte 238 Fenton, Edward 238 Fenton, James 33 Fenton, John 33 Fenton, Justice 33 Fenton, Kirkby 33, 34, 35 Fenton, Thomas 33 Fenton, William 31, 32, 33, 214, 237, 257 Fernandes, Arms of 154 Fernandes, Jose Luis 118, 121, 127, 135. 136, 153. 154, 168 Fernandes, Maria Jose Lucena 16S Feylde, Xpofer 73, 82 Ffarrer, Thomas 132 Ffawconer, Allice 278 Ffeilde, Ihon 278 Ffeilde, Roger 278 Fforde, Jane 277 Fforde, Robart 277, 280, 284 Ffricklay 2 1 1 Ffroyne, William 27S Ffylde, Christopher 211 Ffylde, Elizabeth 21 1 Fidlin, Henrye 289 Fidlin, William 289 Fidlyn, Ihon 279 Fidlyn, Thomas 279 Field, Roger 164 (3^) INDEX. Field, T. 142 Fierley, Ihon 286 Finch, Heneage 133 Fishborne, Janet 288 Fishlake, Church of 4 Fisher, George 297 Fitton, William 200, 309 Fitzwilliam, Arms of 93 Fixby 1 Flagon 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134. 135, 269, 270 Flather, Ihon 300 Flather, Susan 298 Fleming, Arms of 91 Fleming, John 163 Fleming, Richard 92 Fleminge, Elzabeth 282 Fleminge, Issabell 302 Fleminge, Ihon 281 Fleminge, Priscilla 281 Fleminge, Rychard 281, 282, 302 Flockton 216 Flockton, Peter 306 Foljambe of Rotherham 252 Foljambe, Abigail 215 Foljambe, Edward 215 Foljambe, Elizabeth 171, 215, 216 Foljambe, J. & T. 34 Foljambe, John 215 Foljambe, John Henry 215 Foljambe, Thomas 155, 171, 215, 216 Font 47, 115, 116, 155, 268, 269, 305 Fontaunce Abbay 56 Ford, Grace 284 Ford, Richard 232 Forde, George 280 Forman, John 67, 68, 69 Forster, Rev. Benjamin 186 Foster, Agnis 299 Foster, Brian 284 Foster, Easter 2S4 Foster, George 280 Foster, John 162 .Foster, Ralph 298 Foster, Rev. John 33 Foster, Thomas 62 Foster, William 280 Foster, Xpofer 299 Fowke, Gualterus 221 Fowke, Martha 221 Fowke, Phineas 221 Fowler, James 43, 45, 96, 100, 139, 158 France, King of 10, 17, 29, 58, m P'rance, Queen of 58, 163 Frank, Justice 305 Fraser, Bishop 206 Freare, Ellin 298 Freare, George 297, 298 Freare, Margaret 297 Freeman, John M. 196 Freiston, John 163 Frere, John 76 Frickley, Arthur 212 Frickley, Brian 286 Frivele, Robert de 6 Frobisher, Mary 289 Frobisher, Marye 297 Frobisher, Ihon 288 Frobisher, Rychard 289, 297 Fuller, Widowe 73 Fyghelden, P. de 190 Gabriel, Archangel 172, 173, 1S2 Gallery 44, no, 113, 116, 149, 153 Gargrave, Elzabeth 301 Gargrave, Francis 282 Gargrave, Hannah 247 Gargrave, Matthew 282 Gargrave, Richard 247 Gargrave, Robert 69 Gargrave, Sir Richard Knt. 163 Gargrave, Sir Thomas 73, 106 Garner, Brian 164 Gasaliers 150, 153, 155 Gascoigne, Arms of 85 Gascoigne, Sir William 85 Gaseelne, Ihon 277 Gawsworth, Rector of 198 Gawthorp 85 Gayle, Jayn 281 " Gentleman's Magazine " 194 George II m George III 161 George, Archbishop of York 54 Gest, Agniss 289 Gest, Thomas 292 Gestas 167 Gethsemane 170 Gibeon 180 Gibson, Allis 294 Gibson, Henry 285 Gibson, Izaak 110 Gibson, Jenet 298 Gibson, Marye 289 Gibson, Robart 294, 298 Gibson, Sarah 287 Gideon, 180 181 Gilbey, Emanuel 212 Gilby, Sir George 212 Gill, John 148, 312 Gill, Mary 249 ('■ill, Robart 294 Gill, Roger 58, 59, 60, 61 (Jill, William Henry 154 Glasco 211 Gloucester, Arms of the Earl of 94 Gloucester. Earl of 6 Gloucester, Richard, Duke of 54 Gloucestershire 187, 188 (3 2 7) INDEX. Clover, Elizabeth 278 1 Hover, Jenet 301, 302 Glover, Joseph 157, 262 Glover, Lancelot 300 Glover, Margaret 301 Glover, Robert 84 Glover, Thomas 27S, 283, 301, 302 Goddard, Margret, 277 ( 1-oddard, Mary 247 Godley, Abraham 259 Godley, Anne 259 Godley, John 259 Godley, Michael 259 Godley, Sarah 259 Godwin 150 Godyson, Mathew 287 Goldinge, Thomas 294 Goldsmith, Jasper 83 Goldsmith, Oliver 193 Goldsmyth, Elzabeth 2S4 Goldsmyth, Robarte 284 Goldthorpe Family 155, 176 Goldthorpe, John Dodds 154 Goodale, Ellin 291 Goodale, Francis 291, 299 Goodale, Jayne 291, 299 Goodall, George 125, 126, 273 Goodall, Issabell 287 Goodall, John 277 Goodall, Thomas 287 Goodfellow, Elizabeth 263 Goodfellow, John 263 Goodfellow, Simon 263 Goodwin, Jonathan 248 Goodyer, John 302 Gough, Mr. 186 Gouldsbrough, Issabel 301 Gouldsbrough, John 301 Gouldthorpe, Elzabeth 301 Grace, Rev. Allen Z. 197 Graham, C. Reynold 238 Graistoke, Gilbert 265 Grason, George 302 Grason, Grace 302 Grammar School 32, 65, 163, 193, 198, 3°7, 309 Grammar School, Governors of the 156 Grammar School, Headmaster of the 147,148, 173,186, 187, 189, 192, 193, 196, 198, 236, 304 Grand Stand Road 313 Grant, Alice 163 Grant, Fran: 163 Grantham, Lectureship at 186 Grantham Parish Church 165 Grastoke, Thomas 265 Graveyard 38 Gray, William 119, 120, 274 Graystoke Chantry 49, 73, 74, 104, 106, 128. Graystoke, Marjore 73 Graystoke, William 45, 49, 73, 74, 102, 128, 265 Greaves, Robert 147 Green, G. 143 Green, Joseph 275 Green, William 308 Green, Percyver 277 Greenwood, James 290, 296, 299 Greenwood, Robart 278, 290, 296, 299 Grene, Janiet 291 Grene, John 77, 291 Grene, Thomas 76, 163 Grenehod, Henry de 190 Grenway, Issabel 292 Grenway, William 292 Gretton 192 Greystoke, Elizabeth 74 Greystoke, Richard 74, 265 Grice, Henry 164 Grice, Robert 69 Grice, Thomas 69, 76, 106, 265 Grindle, Archbishop of York 129 Grove 65 Growth of the fabric 36 — 48 Grundy, William 134 Grozer, Christopher 246 Grozer, William 246 Guest, Elzabeth 292 Guildhouse 82 Guilds 82, 83, 103 Gundred 3 Gundulph, Bishop 4 Gunson, Margaret 301 Gunson, Robert 1 1 1 Gybson, John 72 Gybson, Margaret 284 Gybson, Robart 284 Gyll, George 285 Gyllson, William 73 Habersone, Jayne 298 Habersone, William 298 Haden and Son 154 Haggai 152 Hahurst, Widowe 73 Haigh, J as. 249 Haigh, Mary 249 Haist, Philip 123 Haldsworth Alveraye 297 Haldsworth Alverye 284 Haldsworth, Beatrix 284 Halifax 202, 203, 207, 249 Halifax, Church of 5 Hall, Allis, 301 Hall, Elzabeth 281 Hall, Jayne 277, 287 Hall, Jenet 296 Hall, John 277, 301 (328) INDEX. Hall, Joseph 34, 142, 147, 263, 274, Hall, Matty 263 Hall, Robert 67, 68, 69 Hall, Thomas 54 Hall, William 156, 287 Hall Marks 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136 Halle well Allis 289 Hallewell, Anne 295 Hallewell, Marye 294 Hallewell, Robart 289, 294 Hallewell, William 28S, 295 Hallilay, John 34, 143, 314 Hallom, Peter 305 Halley, Rev. Andrew 256 Halstead 235 Hamerton 91 Hamerton, Arms of 91 Hamerton, Laurence 91 Hamerton, Richard 91 Hampshire, Anne 296 Hampshire, W. 125 Hampson, John 147 Handbells 108, 124 Haneson, Thomas 290 Hankin, Thomas 42, 264 Hanson, Edward 286 Hanson, Elzabeth 289 Hanson, Katherine 228 Hanson, Martha 228 Hanson, Nicholas 286 Hanson, Ralph 228 Hanson, Sarah 299 Hanson, Widow 73 Hanson, William 289, 296 Hanyson, Ellin 294 Hardcastle, Eliza 258 Hardcastle, Elizabeth 258 Hardcastle, John 142, 258 I Iardcastle, Nelly 258 Hardisty, William 148 Hardman, Messrs. 168, 175, 177, 178 Hard wick Henry 278 1 lard wick, Laurence 301 Hardwick, Margret 291, 292 Hardwick, Sibell 278 Hardwicke, Abigaile 290 Hardwicke, Elzabeth 284 Hardwicke, Joseph 298 Hardwicke, Silvester 284, 290, 298 Hardwicke, Thomas 283, 285, 299, 301 Hardy, Joseph Naylor 199 Hardye, Anthony 284,293 Hardye, Dorothy 293 Hardye, Issabell 288 Hardye, Jayne 299 Hardye, John 292 Hardye, Ralph 284 Hardye, Rychard 288, 289, 292, 299 llarewood, Organist of the Church at 199, 224, 225 Margrave, Ellen 284 Hargrave, Elzabeth 298 Margrave, James 284 Hargrave Ihon 294, 296, 298 Margraves, Will 272 Harleian M.S.S. 84, 12S Harley, Mr. 118 Harman, 308 Harnoldsthorpe, Chapel of 5 Harold II. 3 Harper, Matthew 312 . Harris, Anne 30 Harris, John 30 Harris, Rev. Joseph Montague 198 Harrison, Ann 260 Harrison, Anne 245 Harrison, Arms of 66 Harrison, Bryan 277> 3°° Harrison, Cuthbert 66 Harrison, Elizabeth 260, 313 Harrison, James 123, 125 Harrison, John 113, 119, 143, 245 297 Harrison, Lucia 245 Harrison, Mary 175, 245, 260 Harrison, Mr. 125, 155 Harrison, Richard 231, 297 Harrison, Robert 175 Harrison, Samuel 260 Harrison, Samuel Fozard 175 Harrison, Sarah, 175 Harrrison, Susannah 253 Harrison, Thomas 72, 104, 162, 164, 195 Harrison, William 251, 253, 277 Harthill, Church of 4 Hartley, Bernard 139 Hartley, Caroline 305 Hartley, Elizabeth 305 Hartley, T. 143, 148 Hartley, John 116, 305 Hartley, Matilda 305 Harton, Tristram 104 Hartshead, Chapel of 5 Haselbury 191 Haselden Hall 89 Haslewood 92 Hastings 216 Hastings, Arms of 86 Hastings, Battle of 3 Hatefeld, Jarvis 288 Hatefeld, Ihon 288 Ilatfeild, Arms of 212 Hatfeild, Gervase 164, 212, 266,293, 304 Hatfeild, Grace 212, 293 Hatfield, Alexr. 241 (3^9) INDEX. Hatfield, Church of 4 Hatfield, Susannah 241 Havering- Atte- Bower 10 Ilawe Parke 123 1 1 award, Willm. 162 Hawksworth, Anne 294 Hawksworth, Elzabeth 288, 297 I [awksworth, Isabella 64 Hawksworth, Richard 64 Hawksworth, Thomas 288, 294, 297 Head ley e, Briget 287 Healey, William 295 Heath 141, 217, 231 Heath Hall 66, 189 Heath House 189 Heaton, Agnes 278 Hebden, Alice 248 Hebden, James 248 Hebden, Launcelot 292 Hebden, Mary 118 Hebden, Stephen III, 112 Hebden, William 292 Hebding, James III, 112 Hedon, Vicar of 197 Height of Tower and Spire 165 Helagh, Hugh 279 Hell, Rosamond 288 Hemingewaye, Edward 285, 298 Hemingewaye, Issabell 298 Hemingewaye, William 285 Hemsworth 189 Hemyngewaye, Edwarde 279 Hemyngewaye, Francis 279 Henry VIII. 25, 36, 57, 71, 72, 74, 76, 77, 82, 103 Heptenstall, Edmond 297 Heptonstall, Charles 200 Hepworth, James 282, 284 Hepworth, Rychard 285 Hereford 151 Hergrow, Thomas 82 Herle, William de 9 Herlington, Robert 265 Heton, Chapel of 22 Heton, Richard of 16 Hewetson, Major Thomas 66 Hewit, Ester 292 Hewit, Ihon 281, 292 Hewit, Robart 281 Hewitson, Dorothy 244, 245 Hewitson, Thomas 244, 245 Hey, Dr. John 315 Hey, John 304 Hey, Joseph 304 Hey, Richard 316 Hey, Samuel 315 Hey, William 188, 189, 304 Heywood, Benjamin 31, 32 Heywood, John Pemberton 31, 32 Hezekiah 181 Hicke, Alderman 305 Hide, John 242 Higgon, Ihon 290 High Cross 81 High Hampton 197 High Quire 31, 57, 71, 74, 186 Hill, Crare 292 Hill, Edward 301 Hill, Elzabeth 283, 301 Hill, Henry 292 Hill, John 309 Hill, Richard 290 Hill, Thomas 283 Hill, William 69 Hillary, Roger 11 Hilton, Elizabeth 249 Hilton, William 249 H indie, Elzabeth 291 Hindle, Mathew 291 Hobson, Christopher 90 Hobson, John 138 Hobson, Juliane 90 Hobson, William 298 Hodgeson, Margret 279 Hodgeson, Mathew 278 Hodgeson, Rychard 279 Hodgeson, William 300 Hodgson, Christopher 228 Hodgson, Danniell 279 Hodgson, Elizabeth 220, 228 Hodgson, Halliley William 119,220, 274. 314 Hodgson, Ihon 279 Hodgson, Robert 34, 142, 284 Hodgson, William 34, 284 Hodgson, William Atkins 220 Hoile, Francis 291 Holdsworth, Joseph 312 Holdsworth, Minister 308 Hole, Margaret 287 Hole, Nicholas 282, 285 Hole, Robert 287 Hole, Sarah 282 Hole, William 285 Holliday, John 119 Hollinge, Xpofer 293 Holm, Tythes of 29 Holme, Joan de 79 Holmefield 158, 215 Holmes, Abraham 200 Holt, Elias 154 Holt, Mrs. Elias 152 Ploly Child 168, 173, 175, 182 Holy Cross, Light of 79, 80, 106 Holy Cross, Shrewsbury, Church of the 205 Holy Ghost 173 Holy Land 25 Holy Water 108 Homily Desk 116 (33°) INDEX. Honhy, Thomas 283 Honley, Rychard 296 Hoole, Nicholas 279 Hoopes, Ihon 278 Hoopes, Robert 278 Hooton Pagnell 309 Hooton Pagnell, Vicar of 196 Hopkinson, Robert 242 Hoppay, Edward 75, 76 Hopton, Benet, 294 Hopton, George 294 Hopton, Lady 193 Hopwood, Thomas 282 Horburi, John 90 Horbury 2, 250, 307 Horbury, Chapel of 5, 22, 23 Horbury, Christopher 265 Horbury, Church of 2 Horbury, Curate of 186 Horbury, Graveship of 77 Horeb 180 Hornby, Rev. Robert W. B. 196 Home, Benjamin 303 Home, Cotton 162, 303 Horrocks, Laurance 245 Horsfall, Thomas 251 Horsfield, Thomas 162 Horsley, Mr. 117 Horton, Mary Bethia 312 Hosea 152 Houlden, Elizabeth 252 Houlden, John 252 Hour Glass 114, 115 House of Correction 148 How, Right Rev. W. W. 205, 206, 207, 208 How, William Wybergh 205 Howden, J. 154 Howie, Robart 300 Hoyland 169 Hoytill, Elzabeth 293 Hoytill, Rychard 293 Hubank, John 272 Huddersfield 156 Hudson, Abraham 304 Hudson, H. A. 208 Hudson, John 304 Hudson, Mr. 127 Hudswell, Henry 284 Hudswell, Joshua 252 Hudswell, Mary 252 Hudswell, Rychard 284 Hulbert, Rev. Reginald M. 197 Hull 140, 249, 254 Hulgar, Rev. Oliver 90, 191 Hunter, Rev. Joseph 3, 4, 6, 14, 53 Hunter, T. 196 Hurst, John 147 Hurst, Margaret 286 Hurste, Agnis 299 Hurt, Rev. Richard N. 189, 197 Hustler, Ihon 293 Hustler, Thomas 293 Hutchinson, John 119 Hutchinson, Lady 162 Hutton, Dorothy 297 Hutton, Elzabeth 281 Hutton, Eranci.s 289 Hutton, Gilbert 281, 289, 297 Hyndley, John 79 Hyndswell, William 301 lies, Mr. 305 Illingworth, Margaret 282 Impropriators, Lay 30 Impropriation 31, 32 Ince, Rev. Henry Gason 158, 198 India, Empress of 158 Ingle, Alice 277 Ingle, Mary 293 Ingle, Nicholas 277, 293 Ingram, Ann 240 Ingram, Caroline 240 Ingram, Catherine 240 Ingram, Christian 225, 240 Ingram, Christiance 168 Ingram, Elisa 213 Ingram, Elizabeth 240 Ingram, Family 166 Ingram, Frances 240 Ingram, Francis 168, 213, 225, 240 Ingram, Henry 240 Ingram, Hugo Francis 233 Ingram, John 213, 214, 226, 233,240 Ingram, Mary 240 Ingram, Mary Ann 233 Ingram, Mr. 149 Ingram, Sarah 213, 214, 240 Ingram, Thomas Frederick 240 Ingram, William, 213, 214, 240 Inn, Black Bull 309 Inn, Bull 273 Inn, Black Swan 118 Inn, Crowne 271 Installation of the Bishop 207 Ireland, King of 7, 29, 58, 1 1 1 Ireland, Queen of 58, 158, 163 Iron Acton 187, 188 Iron plate chiste 129 Irwin, Lady 313 Irwin's Road 32, 313 Isaac 179 Isaac, Ellenor 303 Isaac, Phillip 303, 305 Isaiah 152, 182 Issott, Joseph 147 312 Jackson, John 77, no, 163, 278, 282 Jackson, Marye 292 Jackson, Robart 282, 292 (33l) INDEX. Jackson, William 285 Jacob 179, 180 Jalland, Rev. Alfred E. 198 James I. 27, 29, 47, 101, 161 Jane, Rev. Joseph 187, 188 Jeftrason 76 Jenkinson, Jayne 298 Jepson, Elizabeth 310 Jepson, Richard 310 Jepson, Robart 289 Jeremiah 152, 182 Jerusalem 167 Jewit, Jayn 281 Jewit, Jenet 288 Jewit, Ihon 282 Jewit, Robart 281 Jhonson, Gilbert 300 Jhonson, Xpofer 300 Jobson, Allen 284 T obson, Sarah 284 Johnson, Anne 301 Johnson, Martha 312 Johnson, Mary 236, 248 Johnson, Thomas 312 Johnson, William 301 Jonah 152 Jones, Rev. Henry 196, 197 Jordan, River 174, 177 Joseph 18 Joses 167 Joshua 180 Jowit, Dionis 290 Jowit, George 287 Jowit, Ihon 301 Jowit, Robart 287 Jowit, Xpofer 301 Jubb, Francis 200, 303, 306 Jubbe, Allis 302 Jubbe, John 302 Judas 151 Jupiter, Priest of 175 Kadman, Margret 288 Kay, Dorothie 306 Kay, George 82 Kay, Richard 306 Kay, Robert 163, 278 Kaye, Allis 296 Kaye, Egidius 57 Kaye, Giles 49 Kaye, John Edward 158 Kaye, Richard 293 Kaye, Robert 266, 293 Kaye, William 278 Kelleshulle, Richard de 1 1 Kelly, Rev. John 196 Kelshavve, John 77 Kcmpc, Mr. 169, 179, 181 Kendell, Daniel Burton 189 Kennett, Richard 229, 244 Kent, Allice 287, 306 Kent, Allen 306 Kent, Henry 69 Kent, John 90 Kighley, Ihon 285 Kilby, Rev. Thomas 196 Killingbeck House 75 Killingbecke, John 74 King's Commissioners 57, 71, 72, 74, 75, 103, 126, 195 Kirbie, Cambdena 304 Kirbie, Godsgift 304 Kirbie, Rev. Joshua 186, 304, 305, 308 Kirk Burton 22 Kirk Heaton 22 Kirkby Wharfe 195 Kirke, John 162, 288 Kirkgate 34, 75, 76, 81, 83, 125, 186 Kirkthorpe 305, 311 Kirkthorpe, Vicar of 193 Kirkiand, Alfred 121 Kirkstall, Abbot and Convent of 54, . 56. Kitchin, G. 142 Kitson, James 295 Kitson and Parking 141 Kneeling Desks 159 Knolles, Rev. Thomas 191, 210, 265 Knowles, Allis 292 Knowles, Ann 297 Knowles, Dr. 162 Knowles, Hugh 294 Knowles, Jenet 294 Knowles, Lauro 292 Knowles, Roger 292 Knowls, Samuel 123 Kyghley, Ihon 277 Kyghley, Peter 277 Kynge, Margery 277 Kyrke, Marye 283 Kyrke, Xpofer 283 Kyrkham, Henrye 281 Laburne, Hanna 287, 2S9 Laburne, Liddea 284 Laburne, Oswald 284, 287, 289 Lacy, Ilbert de 2 Lady Chapel 42, 47 Lady Day 30, 31 Lady Service 75 Lake, John 69 Lake Lock Road 32, 313 Lane, Gilbert 28S Lamerie, Paul 133, 134 Lancashire 196, 222 Lancaster, Ellen 280 Lancaster, Elzabeth 296 Lancaster, George 300 Lancaster, Margret 292 (332] INDEX. Lancaster, Roger de 51 Lancaster, William 280, 292, 296 Lancastrian Army 100 Langfield 1 Langley, Thomas 86 Langleys 66 Langton, Mr. 35 Laten 107, 108 Latham, Edward, 148 Latham, Joseph 147, 148 Lavers and Barraud 166 Lawe, Anne 299 Law, Richard 244 Lawe, Rychard 286 Lawis, Elzabeth 297 Lawis, Peter 297 Lawns 32, 312 Lawson, Edward 227 Lawson, Elizabeth Wilfrid 233 Lawson, Joseph 227 Lawson, Mary 227 Lawson, Mary Elizabeth 245 Lawson, Wilfrid 227 Lawson, William 236 Laycock, Joshua 309 Lay Impropriators 30, 33, 34 Lazarus 169 Lea, Grace 307 Leamington 194 Leathley 193 Leavenwood, Margery 293 Lectern 107, 144, 155, 159 Lecturer, Jane, 147, 14S, 189 Lecturer, Lady Cambden's 147, 148, 186, 187, 196, 236 Lectureship, Jane 187, 189 Lectureship, Lady Cambden's 184, 187 Ledger, Samuel 247 Ledston, 56 Lee, John 31, 32, 299, 313 Lee, Joseph Lee, Rev. Obadiah m, 186, 193, I95> 3o8, 309 Lee, Thomas 308 Leeds, 35, 1 88, 199 Leeds, Duke of 312, 313 Lee Moor 32 Lee Moor Road 313 Leenth, Abraham 296 Leenth, Peter 296 Leicester, Archdeacon of 192 Leicester, Dorothy 282 Leicestershire 33, 195, 197 Leigh 75, 76, 77 Leigh, Agnes 278 Leighe, George 105 Leighton, John 262 Leighton, Mary 262 Leiverfeeige Anne 289 Leland, John 36, 41, 44, 47 Lenox, Lewis, Duke of 27 Lethe broch, Richard de iyo Leventhorp Hall ^^ Lewes, Adam, Prior of 7 Lewes, Chapter of 9 Lewes, Convent of 7 Lewes, Monks of 6 Lewes, Prior and Convent of 6, 7, 8, 10, 25, 190 Lewes, Priory of 6 Lewes, S*- Pancras of 4, 6, 7, 9, 25 Lewis, Brigit 2S9 Lewis, Francis 279, 2S9 Lewis, Rev. G. W. 148, 196 Lewis, Jeanet 290 Lewis, Issabell 282 Lewis, Marye 294 Lewis, Peter 284, 286 Lewis, Robart 282 Lewis, Rychard 284, 294 Lewis, Thomas 290 Lewis, Rev. Walter Allen 198 Lewis, Wm. 279, 286 Lewis, Xpofer 290 Leybourn, Mr. 162 Leyboum, Oswald 164 Leycester, John 54 Liber Regis 25 Licenses to eat Meat 310 Lichfield, Bishop of 205 Lichfield, Cathedral 165 Lightfoote, Xpofer 282 Lighting of the Church 126 Lightning Conductor 140 Lightoler, Rycharde 295 Lile, Edwarde 298 Lile, Janet 288 Lile, Thomas 288 Liley, Grace 294 Liley, Edward 294 Lillye, Henry 293 Lillye, Rychard 293 Lincoln, Bishop of 92 Lincoln Cathedral 192 Lincoln College, Oxford 92 Lincolnshire 184, 187, 188 Lindley & Watson 139 Lingwell Gate Road 312 Lister, Alice 310 Lister, Dr. 162 Lister, Rev. James 189, 192, 193, 195- 303. 305, 3°7> 3°S, 310 Lister, Martin 164 Lister, Richard 163, 213, 292, 303, 310 Lister, Susanna 308 Lister, Rev. William 163, 192, 306 Liversedge 232 Liversedge, Ann 256 (333) INDEX. Liversedge, John 256 Liversedge, Margaret 256 Liversedge, Mary Ann 256 Liversedge, Richard 256 Liversedge, Robert 256 Liversedge, Samuel 256 Local Board of Health 125 Lockewood, Elzabeth 294 Lockwood, Edward 291 Lockwood, Francis 291 Lodge, J. 125 Lodge, T. 142 ,Loft 44, no, 113, 154, 268 Loft, The Great no, 113, 267 Loft, Rood 44, 47 Lofthouse 228 Lofthouse, Dame 273 " Loidis and Elmete " 2 Lois 176 Lockewood, Marye 280 Lombard Street II, 13 Lombe, George 283 Lombe, Robart 299 Londesborough, Lord 195 London 141, 146, 156, 163, 166, 169, 179, 184, 185, 202, 205, 211 London, Bishop of 206 London, City of n, 13, 117, 119, 120, 121, 124, 129, 132, 133, 134, I35> !39 London Date-mark 131 London, East 205 London Gazette 207 Longley, Ihon 282 Longley, Matthew 282 Lonsdale, Lord 194 Lounde, John 191 Louth 165 Love, Rev. Alfred 197 Lowden, Francis 279 Lowden, Mr. 162 Lowden, Thomas 279 Lower Division of Agbrigg 3 Lower Soothill 72 Lum 222 Lum, Joseph 112 Lumb, Henry 172 Lumb, Robert 123 Lumb, William 126,273 Lundie 256 Lupset 27, 29, 31, 44, 101, 106, 307 Lupset Hall 31 Lupton, Rev. J. H. 186 Lupton, Obed 58, 59, 60, 61 Lymming, Rector of 190 Lyster, Thomas 69 Mabson, Ann 264 Mabson, John 264 Macarthy, Rev. F. 197 Macclesfield 198 Mace 130, 136 Machon, Rychard 302 Machon, William 302 Mackereth, John 196 Mackie, David 159, 182 Mackie, Miss 152 Mackie, R. B. 159, 183 Magdalen College, Oxford 191, 210, 223 Magdalene College, Cambridge 315 Magi, Adoration of the 174, 181 Magi, Three 168, 174, 181 Maker's Mark 131 Malachi 152 Malin, Guliehnus 131, 314 Manasseh 180 Manchester, See of 206 Mann, Charles 147, 255, 274 Mann, Joseph 255 Mann, Sarah 255 Manor Map 104 M argon, Robart 285 M argon, Rye. 285 Maria 98 Marke 109 Market Drayton 195 Market Stret 76 Markham, Archbishop of York 315 Marsden, Elizabeth 222 Marsden, Francis 222 Marsden, John 234 Marsden Mary 234 Marsden, William 222 Marshall, Beatrix 283 Marshall, T. 142 Marshall, Martin 283 Marshalsea 117 Marshe, Jacob 135 Martha 169 Martin, John J. 156 Martinmas 31 Mary 169 Mary, Morley Wood, Church of St. 2 Mary, Mother of James 166 Mary, Queen 161, 192 Marys, Three 81 Mason, Jane 282 Mason, Myles 282 Mason, Robert 254 Mason, Thomas 133 Mason, William 128, 264 Mass 78, 82, 129 Mass of Requiem 54i 55> 56 Mathew, Francis 300 Mathew, William 300 Mathon, Rychard 282 Mathon, Thomas 282 Mattersonse, Marye 279 Maud, Elizabeth 210 (334) INDEX. Maud, John 2io, 279 Maud, Mergorye 300 Maud, Samuel! 302 Maud, Sarah 279 Maud, Tho. Maude, Abraham 242 Maude, Ann 242, 243 Maude, Arms of Francis 223 Maude, Barbara 258 Maude, Daniel 33, 34, 142, 221, 242, 243, 258, 274 Maude, Elizabeth 242, 243 Maude, Family of 153 Maude, Frances 169, 257 Maude, Francis 31, 32, 147, 168, 169, 257, 258 Maude, Gertrude 258 Maude, Hannah 169 Maude, Jane 169 Maude, Janet 221 Maude, John 66, 163, 169, 259 Maude, Martha 257 Maude, Mary 258 Maude, Timothy 192, 303 Maude, William 242, 243 Maude ley, Mr. 130 Mawd, Daniel 292 Mawd, Ihon 292, 302 Mawd, Rebecka 280 Mawd, Robart 296 Mawde, Daniel 314 Mawde, Rev. Edward 163, 192, 265, 3°3 Mawde, Ihon 285, 296 Mawde, Jeremy 285 Mawde, Rev. Timothy 306 Mawde, Suzanna 305 Mayor of Wakefield 159 Mayson, Anne 302 Mayson, Ihon 302 Meager, Matthew 113 Meager, Richd. 255 Mears, Thomas 124, 125, 275 Medley, Anne 277 Medley, PMward 277 Meggitt, Ann 260 Meggitt, John 260 Meggitt, Joseph 259, 260 Meggitt, Lucy 260 Meggitt, Mary 259, 260 Meggitt, William 260 Megson, Anne 278 Megson, Beatrix 279 Megson, Edward 292 Megson, Grace 283 Megson, Rychard 292 Melchior 168, 174, 181 Melton, William de 149, 160 "Memoirs of Earls Warren and Surrey " 6 Mencecourt, Gwyd de 6 Menston 232 Menth, Rychard 293 Mercers' Company 184, 185, 186, 196 Merchant Taylors 184, 185 Messeboke 56 Metcalf, Richard 235 Metcalfe, Robart 291 Metcalfe, Steven 286, 291, 300 Metcalfe, Xpofer 300 Metson, Elizabeth 279 Meurant, Rev. Arthur Richardson 197 Michaelmas 30, 31 Michell, Elizabeth 281 Michell, Ihon 281 Michell, Willm. 281 Michill, Marye 295 Micklethwait, Benjam 11 - 123 Micklethwaite, J. T. 2, 36, 106, 114, 316 Micklethwaite, Sarah 152 Middlesex, Archdeacon of 9 Middleton, Arms of 89 Midgley 1 Midgley, E. 143 Midianites 181 Midleton, Peter 211 Milner, Anne 293 Milner, Dorothy 297 Milner, Ihon 293 Milner, Thomas 285 Milner, William 297 Milnes, Dorothy, 282 Milnes, John 312 Milnes, Martha 216 Milnes, Richard 216 Milnes, Wm. 2S2 Milnes, W. H. 131 Milnes Bridge 147 Milnthorpe 189 Mirfield, Gulielmus 210 Mirzapoor 217 Misericordes 99, 101 Mitchell Benjm- 312 Mitchell, John 231 Mitholm 249 Mitton, Henry 196 Moberley, Edeth 289 Moberley, Xpofer 287 Moberleye, Margaret 295 Mogson, Agnis 299 Mogson, John 157, 299 Moor, Saml- 123 Moore, Rev. John Wright 158, 19S Moore, Zacb. 162 Moorehouse, Wm. 163 Monasteries 25, 27, 103 Monastic Institution 17 " Monasticum Anclicanum " 12 (335) INDEX. Monuments of Superstition 129 Morbalgh Lure 289 Morbalgh, Robart 289 Morehouse, Elizabeth 297 Morehouse, Ihon 282 Morehouse, Thomas, 290 Morehouse, William 282, 290, 297 Morley, Parish of 2 Morley Wapentake 2 MorK-y Wood 2 Morne, Elizabeth 279 Morne Priest Service 77 Morrison, W. H. B. 136, 137 Morrow Mass Priest 76, 77, 128 Morrowe Masse Prest, Service of the 77 Mortmain 53, 70 Morton, Cuthbert 2S5 Morton, Dorothy 285 Morvale, Francis 279 Morvaile, Luce 297 Morvaile, Robart 297 Morvayle, Robart 279 Morville, Elizabeth 254 Morville, Richard 254 Moses 167, 178, 180 Moughson, George 285 Moughson, James 285 Mounson, The Lady 163, 266, 306 Mounson, Robart 289 Mountain, Charles 140, 148 Mountaine, Jane 306 Mowbray, John 163 Mules, William 66 Munkhouse, Rev. Richard 194, 274, 275- 314 Munro, George 221 Mural Paintings 96, 109, 153 Murgetroyde, Brian 301 Murgetroyde, Dorothy 301 Musgrave, Archdeacon 202 Musgrave, William 140 Mylner, Edward 281 Mylner, Ihon 281 Nalson, Brigit 291 Nathaniel 172 Nathwood, Dorothy 289 Nativity of Christ 173 Nave 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 46, 67, 72, 90, 97, 99, 102, 108, 113, 116, 127, 142, 149, 153. 154, 155. 159. 164. 179, 223 Nawde, Alice 283 Nayler, Cartherit 278 Nayler, Daniell 296 Nayler, Edward 289 Nayler, Elizabeth 241 Nayler, Ellen 279 Nayler, George 289, 299 Nayler, James 306 Nayler, John 278 Nayler, Judeth 301 Nayler, Marye 288 Nayler, Rebecca 283 Nayler, Robart 283, 301 Nayler, Rychard 278 Nayler, Xpofer 278, 288, 296 Naylor, Christopher 27, 28, 29, 163 Naylor, Eliza 253 Naylor, Hannah 252, 253 Naylor, Jeremiah 252 Naylor, John 252, 253, 282 Naylor, Katherine 252 Naylor, Mary Ann 252 Naylor, Rebecca 236 Naylor, Rev. Dr. 3, 147, 148, 173, 186, 236 Naylor, Sarah 252 Naylor, William 241, 253 Nazareth 16S Needham, Rev. J. J. 197 Nether Poppleton 194 Nettletown, Lois 286 Nettletown, Thomas 286 Nettleton, Arms of Hannah 223 Nettleton, Charles 241 Nevell Robert 45, 105, 106, 265 Nevell, Roberte 83 Nevill, Henry e 296 Nevill, Rychard 296 Neville, Arms of 91 Neville, Philip 265 Nevinson, William 264 Newall, John 76 Newark Parish Church 165 New Basford 179 Newby, Ihon 287 Newby, James 287 Newcastle 176 Newhall, John 157 Newmarch, Rev. J. L. 196 New Park 77 Newsome, Edward 291 Newstead 85 Newstead, Mary 238 Newstead. Reynold 237, 238 Newton, Mathew 293 Nicholas IV., Pope 25 Nichols, Richard 148 Nicholson, Ellin 262 Nicholson, Mary 262 Nicholson, Robert 262 Nicholson, William 262 Noble, Allice 283 Noble, John 119 Noble, T. S. 208 Norburgh, Mrs. Michael de 16 (336) INDEX. Norrlen, Barbara 283 Norden, John 283, 296, 300 Norden, Sibell 296, 300 Norfocke, Barbaray 283 Norfocke, Ihon 283 Norfolk, Richd. 162 Norfolke, Richard no Norman Style 160 Norman Tower 38 Norman Work 153 North Chapel 44 North Elmsall 73 North Devon 197 North, Sarah 308 Northern, John 308 Northern, Richard 104 Northgate 34, 49, 76, 77, 89, 125 Northumberland, Henry, Earl of 100 Northumberland, Badge of the house of 100 Norton, Franc 123 Norton, Leonard 298 Norton, Margret 298 Norton, Thomas 286 Norwich Cathedral 165 Norwich, Diocese of 190 Notts 179, 212, 217 Nova Scotia, Badge of 65, 66 Nowell, Anne 300 Nowell, Arms of 88, 154 Nowell Chantry 49, 67—71, 72, 88, 106, 128 Nowell Family 88, 168 Nowell, John 71, 76 Nowell, Robert 264 Nowell, Roger 49, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 88 Nowell, William 289, 300 Oakes and Son 154 Oakhill Park, Liverpool, Vicar of 197 Oates, Elizabeth 246 Oates, Francis 223 Oates, Gertrude 223 Oates, Richard 223 Oates, Samuel 223 Oates, Thomas 229 Oates, William 223, 229 Obadiah 152 Ogden, Mathew 280 Ogden, Robart 280 Old Brasses 161 Old Bullion 130, 270 "Old English Plate," 129 Old, John 309 Old Stall Ends 155 Oldfield, James no Oldfielde, Allis 294 Oley, Barnabas 290 Oley, Danyell no, 162 Olcy, Francis 279, 290 Oliver, William 190 One Barrow Lodge 33 Orange Free State, Bishop of the 197 Order in Council 25 " Order for the Communion " 192 Ore Church 216 Organ 113, 117— 123, 149, 153, 155, 158, 161,272, 273,274 Organ Case 118, 119, 121 Organist 118, 147, 148, 19S, 199, 218, 224, 274 Orwin, Elizabeth 246 Orwin, James 246 Orwin, Mr. 199 Osmotherly, Vicar of 196 Otes, Elzabeth 293, 295 Otes, Thomas 293, 295 Otlay 81 Otley 261 Ottes, Marmaduke 278 Ottley, William 34, 126, 142, 143, 3H Otts, Dorothy 277 Our Lady, Altar of 43, 78 Our Lady, Chantry of 75, 103, 128 Our Lady, Chapel of 47 Our Lady, Figure of 99, 105 Our Lady, Quere of 57 Our Lady, on Wakefield Bridge, Chapel of 83, 104 Outwood 32, 312 Outwood, S. Mary Magdalene 207 Owler, Lyght 205, 268 Owlesthorpe 71 Oxenfeilde, John 76 Oxford 84, 132, 148, 186, 210 Oxgang 1, 2 Oxlay, Martha 306 Oxlay, Stephen 306 Oxley, Andrew 289 Oxley, Francis 287 Oxley, George 289 Oxley, John 28 1, 287, 299 Oxley, Thomas 281 Pack and Chapman 124, 273 Painted Glass 42, 43 84, — 96, 129, 141, 149, 153, 155, 159, 166—183 Paintings, Mural 96, 97, 108, 109, 268 Palclen, Gregory 164 Palmerston, Lord 194 Paunyley, Allice 277 Papal Tenths 24 Parapets 141, 145, 146, 157, 159 Parker, Elzabeth 287 Parker, John 312, 313 Parker, Rev. Thomas no, 193, 304 Parkhill, Ann Rachill 247 (337) INDEX. Parkhill, Arabela 247 Parkhill, Captain David 247 Parkhill, Elizabeth 247 Parkhill, John 247 Parkhill, Maria 247 Parkin, George 147 Parkin, William 147 Parson Impropriate 35 Parsonage, The 30 Parr, Gilbert 54 Parvise, 160 Passenham, Rector of 315 Patent Rolls 6 Patronage, The 1 Pattan, Jenet 287 Pattan, Thomas 287 Paten 128, 130, 133, 134, 135 Paten Covers 130 Patten, Elzabeth 298 Patten, Robert 164 Patten, Thomas 298 Paulden, William 310 Pax 107, 108 Payts, Ihon 282 Peach, Jenet 295 Peach, Ralph 295 Peacock, Matthew Henry 198 Peaker, Anne 301 Peaker, Jenet 281 Peaker, William 279, 301 Pearson, Robert 201, 312, 313 Pease, Thomas 162 Peck, Arms of 89 Peck, John 89 Peck, Richard 89 Pecke, John 73 Pek, Alice 211 Pek, Jane 211 Pek, John 211 Pek, Richard 211 Peke, John 265 Peke, Richard 46, 69, 106, 265 Pell, Rychard 281 Penances 199, 272, 275, 276 Penistone, Vicarage of 187 Penrose, Rev. John Trevenen ic Pentecost 56 Pepper, Thomas 313 Percevall, Thomas 242 Perkin, Alexander 301 Perkin, George 116, 148 Perkin, William 116,295 Peterborough 39, 150 Petroponte, Hugh de 6 Pews 44, 46, no, in, 112, 113, 153, 158 Pewter 129, 130 Phillip, Dorothy 286 Phillip, Elzabeth 290 Phips, Master Drurey 309 144. Tickeringe, Justice 305 Pickersgill, Robart 291 Pickersgill, Thomas 291 Picture of the Ascension 127 Pighel, Robert 164 Pighells Mr. 266 Pilate 150, 151 Pinder, Henry 201 Pinder of Wakefield 201 Pilkington, Anne 66 Pilkington, Arms of 65, 66, 86, 87 Pilkington Chantry 49, 53 — 58, 104, 105, 128 Pilkington Chapel 58, 65, 85, 98, 115, 117, 141, 153, 155, 157, 158, 16S Pilkington, Charles 57, 64, 65 Pilkington, Dame Ann 65, 66 Pilkington, Edward 57 Pilkington, Elizabeth 64 Pilkington, Elizabeth Anne 66 Pilkington, Hellen 306 Pilkington, Isabella 66 Pilkington, Jeanne 86 Pilkington, Joan 54 Pilkington, Lennox 66 Pilkington, Mr. 314 Pilkington, Robert 265 Pilkington, Seal of 62 Pilkington, Sir Arthur 57, 306 Pilkington, Sir John 49, 53, 54, 56, 57, 59, 62, 86, 87, 128, 265 Pilkington, Sir Lionel 62, 66, 141 Pilkington, Sir Lyon 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 118, 304, 30S Pilkington, Sir L. M. S. 53, 65, 157, 158 Pilkington, Sir Michael 64, 66, 309 Pilkington, Thomas 64, 66, 163, 266 Pilkyngton, Arthur 303 Pilkyngton, John 304 Pilkyngton, Lion 303 Pinnacles 139, 140, 145, 146, 159 Piscina 45, 161 Pitt, Francis 237 Pitt, Michael 306 Plantagenet, Archbishop Geoffrey 6 Playz, Ralph de 6 Pled wick House 168 Plowes, Elizabeth 254 Plowes, John 254 Pollard, John 79 Pollard, Marye 287 Pollard, Rebecca 244 Pollard, Robert 295 Pollard, Thomas 244 Pollard, William 164 Pollerd, Edward 294 Pollerd, William 280, 287, 294 Pond, Margaret 288 (338) INDEX Pondicherry 273 Poning, Adam de 6 Pontefract 55, 70, 87, 144, 220 Pontefract, Dean of 15 Pontefract, Deanery of 15 Pontefract, Monastery of 58 Pontefract, Vicar of 15, 87 Pontefract, Vicarage of 87 Poole, Brian 288 Poole, Ihon 287 Poole, Rychard 279 Popiloyle, Thomas 76 Popplewell, Elizabeth 243 Popplewell, Richard 243 Porch, The 138, 140, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 175, 268 Porkills, Robart 287 Porkills, Rychard 287 Portasses 74 Posies 109, 268 Pottell potts 129, 269 Potter, Right Rev. Dr. 272 Potter, Thomas 274 Power, Henry 238 Pownall, Hannah 230 Pownall, Thomas 230 Powy Agnis 284 Powy, Ihon 284 Poyle, Rychard 298 Prance, Ihon 296 Prance, Nicholas 296 Prayer Desk 127, 144, 155, 161 Preston, John 191 Preston, Viscount 238 Priestley, George Shaw 200 Priestley Mary 251 Priestley, Peter 200 Priestley, Stephen 148, 200, 251 Priests' Door 117 Primrose, Dr. 193 Prince, Allice 286 Prince, Ann 299 Prince, William 286, 299 Procter, Beilby and Co. 126 Procter, Elizabeth 235 Procter, Francis '235 Procter, Mary 235 Procter, Metcalf 228 Procurations 24, 26 P'titions 113, 114, 268, 269 Pugh, Rev. John 188 Pugh, Rev. Robert 187, 188, 189 Pulleine, John 119 Pulpit 47, 114, 115, 126, 127, 144, 155, 161, 267, 268, 269, 272 Puritans 47, 48, 1 15, 118 Pymond, Mr. 162 Pymond, Richard 21 1 Pyx 107, 108 Quarter Jacks 125 Queen's College, Cambridge 187, 236 Queen's College, Oxford 191 Queen's Council 27 Quest, George 291 Quest, Robart 291 Radcliffe, Dr. John 131, 303 Radcliffe, George no, 303 Radcliffe House 131 Radcliffe Library 132 Radclyff, Alexander 266 Radclyff, Grace 266 Radley, Richard no Raine, Rev. Canon 1 Ralph, Bishop 4 Rampton 217 Ramryge, Abbot Thomas 94 Ramsbotham, Rev. Thomas 196 Ramsden, Dorothy 286 Ramsden, Lettice 250 Ransley, Isaac 292 Ransley, Rychard 292 Ratten Row 49 Rauceby, Vicar of 188 Rawden, Allis 288 Rawdon, Janie 290 Rawson, Francis 297 Rawson, James 281, 291 Rawson, Roger 282 Rawson, Widowe 74 Rawson, William 281, 291 Rawstorne, William 66 Rayneforth, Agnis 283 Rayner, Dionis 285 Rayner, Thomas 188 Raynforth, Anne 296 Reading Desk 127, 155, 161 Record Office 103, 106 Rector Impropriate 35 Rectory 27, 31 Rectory Manor 29 "Rectory Manor of Wakefield" 2, 25, 27, 186 Rectory Pew 35 Rectors 15, 17, 21, 23, 27, 35, 54, 59, 191 Redhead, Eliza 272 Redman, Francis 301 Redman, George 301 Redmarshall Rectory 25 Redshaw, Crest of 132 Redshaw, Hannah 131, 132, 313, 314 Reedall, Anne 300 Reformation 58, 82, 102, 105 Register of Church Livings 26 Regal Tenths 24 Religious Houses 25, 27 Registers 276 (339) INDEX. Reredos 150, 151, 152 Reresby, William 67, 68, 69, 71 Restoration 47, 48 Reynolds, Reuben 159 Rhodes, William 164 Rhodes, Robert no Richard III. 57 Richardson, Alicia 242 Richardson, Cooke 263 Richardson, Francis 279 Richardson, Harriet 263 Richardson, James 219 Richardson, John 157, 250, 263, 277 Richardson, Mary 242 Richardson, Robert 263 Richardson, Susannah 263 Richardson, William 82, 83, 106, 242 Richmond 194 Riddlesclen, Anthony 2S8, 290 Riddlesden, Margaret 290 Riddlesclen, William 299 Rideing the Parish 199, 271 Ridsdale, Edward 215, 216 Ridsdale, Elizabeth 216 Ridsdale, Emma 216 Ridsdale, Frances 216 Ridsdale, Francis Wheatley 262 Ridsdale, George 34, 142, 216, 261, 274. 314 Ridsdale, Jane 216 Ridsdale, John 188, 215, 216, 312 Ridsdale, Martha 216 Ridsdale, Mary 216 Ridsdale, Mary Ann 216 Ridsdale, Rev. E. 189 Ridsdale, Richard Edward 216 Ridsdale, Susan 215, 216 Ridsdale, Susanna Maria 216 Ridsdale, William Romley 216 Ringers 124, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275 Ripon 16, 215 Ripon, Arms of the See of 150, 154 Ripon, Archbishop's Manor of 15, 24 Ripon, Bishop of 25, 144, 146, 155, 158, 204 Ripon, Bishopric of 203, 206 Ripon, Canon of 158, 178, 194, 195 Ripon, Diocese of 25, 202, 206, 207 Rishforth, Jenet 290 Roades, Anna 305 Robarts, C. 297 Robert, Ann 309 Robert, John 76, 309 Roberts, Mr. 164 Robertson, Rev. Hammond 316 Robertson, Richard 192 Robertson, Thomas 191 Robinson, Agnis 288 Robinson, Allis 277 Robinson, Edward 295 Robinson, Elzabeth 282 Robinson, Francis 164, 284 Robinson, George 279 Robinson, John 1 15, 284 Robinson, Laurence 296, 299 Robinson, Robert 2S2, 296, 299 Robinson, Thomas 164, 279, 288 Robinson, W. 119, 142 Robson, Dorothy 300 Robson, John 119 Robson, Ralph 300 Robucke, John 302 Robucke, Love Cod's Word 304 Robucke, Thomas 304 Rochdale 85 Rochdale, Arms of 84 Rodley, Elzabeth 279 Rogers, Rev. Thomas 147, 14S, 187, 188, 189, 191, 223 Rokley, Isabella 210 Rokley, Roger 210 Rolls Court 49, 83 Rolls Office 67 Roman Empire 38 Romley, Rev. William 216 Rood Lofts 47, 161 Rood Screen 44, 99, 113 Roodes, Elzabeth 298 Roodes, Jenet 296 Roodes, Ihon 295 Roodes, Robart 296 Roodes, Rychard 280 Roodes, Xpofer 298 Rookes, Marmaduke 228 Roome, George 291 Roome, Roger 291 Roosbeck, Peter 270 Roose, Richard 296 Roose, Thomas 296 Roose, Xpofer 297, 301 Rooth, Mrs. 272 Roper, Anne 282 Roper, Daveye 292 Roper, Ihon 2S3, 289, 292 Roper, Mathew 2S9 Roper, Sammuell 289, 293 Rose, Andrew 280 Rose, Brian 288 Rose, Francis 280, 292 Rose, Ihon 286, 288 Rose, Pervivell 286 Rose, Robart 301 Rotherham 131, 215, 252 Rothery, Mrs. 159 Rothwell 33 Rothwell Haigh 31, 32, 33 Rouse, Dorothy 295 Rowe, Elzabeth 280 Rowe, Roger 280 (34o) INDEX. Royal Arms 161 Roydes, Anne 301 Royle, Ihon 297 Royle, Mathew 297 Rust, John 254 Rychardson, Anne 285, 293 Rychardson, Elzabeth 294 Rychardson, Francis 300 Rychardson, George 277, 278, 282, 285, 293, 294, 301 Rychardson, Jayne 2S6 Rychardson, John 2S3, 285, 297, 300, 301 Rychardson, Katherine 292 Rychardson, Margaret 285, 297, 301 Rychardson, Martin 298 Rychardson, Susanna 283 Rychardson, Xpofer 282 Rydall, Edward 282 Ryley, Effam 285 Ryley, Ihon 290 Ryley, Margaret 289 Ryley, Mr. 162 Ryley, Nicholas 285 Ryley, Tristram 290 Ryley, William 289 Sable, Ihon 283 Sable, William 283 S. Agnes 95 S. Alban, Abbey Church of 94 S. Andrew 151, 170 S. Andrew, Feast of 16 S. Andrew Undershaft 205 S. Anna 174 S. Asaph, Diocese of 205 S. Barnabas 175 S. Barnabas the Apostle, Feast of 16 S. Bartholomew 151, 172, 178 S. Basil, Feast of 85 S. Blaise 95 S. Catherine 95 S. Catherine, Feast of 15 S. Cedde, Feast of 55 S. Christopher 83 S. Christopher, Image of 106 S. Denis 95 S. Edmund 94 S. Elizabeth 173 S. George, Altar of 45, 83 S. George, Geild of 82, 83 S. George, Image of 45, 106 S. George's, Kidderminster 205 S. James the Great 95, 150, 151, 167, 170, 178 S. James the Less 151, 171, 178 S.John 99, 150, 151, 167, 169, 170,178 S. John of Pontefract, Prior and Convent of 55, 56 S. John, Chapel of 105 John, Cubitt Town, Vicar of 197 John, Leeds, Church of 113, 154 John, Wakefield, Church of 187, 194, 196, 198 John the Baptist 95, 173, 174, 177 John the Baptist, Feast <>f 10 John the Baptist, Light of 80, 106 John's Colle 1 idge 131 Joseph 168, 173, 174, '175, 176, 182 Jude 151, 152, 17S Katherine, Altar of 43, 45 Katherine, Chapel of 46 Katherine, Choir of 43, 45,46, 106 Katherine, Image of 106 Katherine, Light of 43, So, 106 Laud, Sherrington, Rector of 192 Laurence 178 Laurence, Feast of 1 60 Longinus 167 Luke 174 Margaret's, Walmgate, York 194 Mark's, Clerkenwell, Vicar of 197 Martin, Feast of 56 Mary 12, 17, 28, 52, 54, 67, 78, 79, 128, 151, 167, 168, 172, 173, T 74> I 75» J 76, 178, 182 Mary, York, Abbey of 95 Mary, Altar of 49, 54, 56, 65 Mary Axe, Rectory of 205 Mary, Chapel of 28, 128 Mary, Festival of 2, 28 Mary, Hearse of 80 Mary, Light of 47, 78, 106 Mary Magdalene 166, 174 Mary Magdalene, Chapel of 105 Mary Magdalene, Hearse of 80 Mary, Morley Wood, Church of 2 Mary, Nottingham, Church of 235 Mary, Redcliffe, Church of 165 Mary, Service of So Matthew 151, 172, Matthias 151, 152, 172 Michael 95, 178 Michael, Feast of 28 Nicholas, Altar of 43 Nicholas, Chapel of 45 Nicholas, Choir of 46, 49, 73 Nicholas, Image of 74, 106 Nicholas, Light of So, 106 Pancras of Lewes 4 Paul 167, 175, 176, 178 Paul's, Greenwich, Vicar of 107 Paul, Leeds, Church of 224 Paul, Prebendary Stall in the Cathedral of 205 Peter 21, 23, 49, 98, 150, 151, 167, 169, 170, 173, 178 Peter, Altar of 43, 45, 67, 68, 70, 7i (341) INDEX. S. Peter, Chapel of 46 S. Peter, Image of 106 S. Peter, Light of So, 106 S. Peter, York, Cathedral Church of 17, 78, 194, 209 S. Peter, York, Monastery of 80 S. Philip 151, 171 S. Philip's, Hull, Yicar of 198 S. Silas 176 S. Simon 151, 152, 170, 172 S. Stephen 12, 17, 174, 175 S. Stephen, Westminster, Chapel of 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20,21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 175, 190 S. Stephen, Dean and Chapter of 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 54, 59 S. Stephen, Image of 106 S. Swithin, Chapel of 105 S. Thaddeus 173 S. Thomas 151, 169, 171 S. Timothy 176 S. Titus 176 S. William of York 95 Salisbury, Cathedral of 165 Salisbury, Diocese of 191 Salisbury, Earl of 191 Sally Poll 271 Salop 195, 197, 205 Sampson, George 288 Sandal, Castle of 100 Sandal Magna 1, 2, 5, 22, 76, 83, 168, 192, 224, 306 Sandal Magna, Church of 5 Sandal Magna, Parish of 22 Sandal Magna, Vicar of 189, 197 Sandal Parva, Church of 5 Sandal Threehouses 273 Sandes, Jayne 278 Sandes, Ihon 278 Sandiforth, Rev. Miles, III, 195, 304 Sandiforth, Samuel 304 Sarum, Treasurer of 192 Saunderson, Jenet 280 Saunderson, Leonard 280 .Savage, Edward 15 Savell, Hugh 72 Savil, John of Medley 270 Savile, Agnes 85 Savile, Alice 85, 163 Savile, Arms of 44, 84, 85, 99, 212 Savile, Catherine 87 Savile, Edward 212 Savile, Elizabeth 85, 163, 303 Savile, George 163, 164, 265 Savile, Henry 27, 85 Savile, John 156, 303, 305 Savile, Margaret 303 Savile, Mr. 162 Savile, Sir George 29 Savile, Sir John 305, 307 .Savile, Thomas 30, 44, 85, 87, 101, 106, 163, 164, 265 Savile, William 163 Savill, Sarah 289 Savill, Sir John 26, 29, 30, 31, 85, 274 Saville, John 159 Saxon Churches 1 Sayvell, Jennett 265 Scarbrough, Francis 294 Scarbrough, Samuell 294 Scargill, Arms of 88 Scargill, John 148 Scatchard, Andrew 163 Scawbert, Issabell 297 Scholey, Francis 280 Scholey, James 247 Scholey, Mary 247 Scholey, Thomas 163, 280 Scoley, Rev. Thomas 195 Sconces 126 Scot, Alice 286 Scot, Ihon 287, 291 Scot, Margret 291 Scot, Robert 265, 286, 287 Scot, Rychard 287 Scotland 211, 256 Scotland, King of 29, 58 Scotland, Queen of 38 Scott, C. 198 Scott, Charles 304 Scott, Daniel 260 Scott, Elizabeth 263 Scott, J. O. 156 Scott, John 123, 186 Scott, Priscilla 241 Scott, Rev. Thomas 132, 157, 276, 305, 3°9, 3*3, 314 Scott, Sir Gilbert G. 37, 120, 121, 144, 146, 150, 153 Scott, Thomas 193, 304 Scout 231 Scratcharde, Andrew 284 Scratcharde, Elizabeth 284 Screen, The 44, 45, 46, 47, 67, 72, 99, "3, "4, 149, 154 Scrope, Lord Alfred de 9 Seacroft 221 Seal, James 304 Searjeantson, Frances 243 Serjeantson, Robert 243 Seeile, Marye 296 Seeile, Rychard 296 Seel, Rychard 281 Seel, William 281 Senior, Joseph 187 Senior, Thomas 159 Sentences 109, no (342; INDEX. Settle, Rev. Thomas 195 Sewer, Arms of So, Sexton 201 Shackleton, Alice 262 Shackleton, Dorothy 264 Shackleton, John 119, 264 Shackleton, Richard 262 Shackleton, William 262, 264 Shan, Rychard 284 Shan, William 284 Shareshulle, William de 1 1 Sharlston Hall 92 Sharp, Dorothy 292 Sharp, John 316 Sharp, Margaret 255 Sharp, R. H. 116 Sharp, Rev. Canon 316 Sharp. Rev. Samuel 47, 116, 124, 142, 144, 148, 173, 194, 196, 316 Sharp, Sarah 316 Sharpe, Agnis 280 Sharpe, Allen 292, 298 Sharpe, Ihon 280 Sharpe, Leonard 278 Sharpe, Rychard 281, 298 Sharpe, Thomas 76, 278, 285, 292 Sharpe, William 312 Shau, Henrye 299 Shau, William 299 Shaw, John 123 Shaw, Marye 297 Shaw, Thomas 149, 307 Shaw, William 146, 307, 308 Sheffield 202 Shep, Thomas 285 Shepard, Anne 298 Shepard, Elizabeth 253 Shepard, Mary 263 Shepard, Sarah 263 Shepard, Stephen 263 Shepley, Marmaduke 255 Sheppard, Jeffra 293 Sheppard, Marye 298 Sheppard, Robart 277, 298 Sheppard, William 296, 298 Shepyd, Edward 300 Sheriff of Yorkshire 27, 29 Shillito, Daniel 250 Shillito, Jane 250 Shillito, Joseph 250 Shillito, Susannah 250 Shillito, William 250 Shrewsbury 205 Shuttleworth, Eizabeth 280, 283 Shuttleworth, George 279 Shuttleworth, Ihon 2S7 Shuttleworth, Thomas 278, 280, 2S7 Sidall, John 76 Sidall, Allis 290 Sidall, Ihon 163, 283 Siddall, Margaret 301 Siddall, Robart 284, 286, 290 Siddall, Rychard 284, 286 Siddall, Xpofer 301 Sidgewick, Ralph 302 Sikcs, Edward 286 Sikes, John 306 Sikcs, Rychard 286 Silcotes 112 Silkstone, Rural Deanery of 20S Sill, Rev. Daniel 195 Sill, James 220 Sill, Mary 220 Sill, Susannah 241 Sill, Tobit 162 Sill, Toby 215, 220, 241 Simpson, Elizabeth 312 Simpson, Rev. John P. 196 Sinyeard, Mary 290 Sinyeard, Thomas 290, 296 Sireson, Oliver 79 Sisson, Ann 254 Sisson, Rev. J. L. 114, 120, 148 Sisson, Richard 254 Skargill, Robert J^, 75 Skelton, Benjamin 112 Skelton, John 296 Skelton, Robart 296, 301 Skilbeck, Elizabeth 254 Skilbeck, John 254 Skipton 56 Slater, Eleanor 263 Slater, Elizabeth 263 Slater, Leonard 263 Slater, Prudence 263 Slater, Rebecca 263 Slater, Ruth 263 Slater, Thomas 263 Sleaford 192 Smalfoot, Elizabeth 300 Smalfoot, Robart 300 Smallpage, Deniel 119, 217, 246 Smalpage, Dory 254 Smalpage, John 254 Smalpage, Major Francis 217 Smalpage, Mary 246 Smalpage, Samuel 312 Smarfoote, Mathew 294 Smarfoote, Robart 2S3 Smarfoote, Thomas 283 Smawfoote, Ihon 277 Smawfoote, Mathew 277 Smethui>tc, James 54, 56, 57 Smith, Annie 290 Smith, Brian 290 Smith, Crara 289 Smith, Dorothy 295 Smith, Edward 266 Smith, Eizabeth 291 Smith, Francis 286 (343) INDEX. Smith, Issabell 287 Smith, Jane 285, 294 Smith, John 30, 31, 76, 143, 243, 286, 290, 295, 311 Smith, Judith 308 Smith, [Catherine 286, 305 Smith, Mary 295 Smith, Michael 294 Smith, Mr. 11S, 123 Smith, Priscilla 243 Smith, Robert 163, 285, 294, 301 Smith, Sarah 243 Smith, Toulmin 82 Smith, William 287, 294 Smith, Xpofer 289, 294 Smithson, Anne 298 Smithson, Ihon 298 Smithson, Katherine 298 Smyeard, Anne 282 Smyeard, Thomas 282 Smyth, George 265 Smyth, Hannah 241 Smyth, James 279, 281 Smyth, John 231, 282 Smyth, Mary 231 Smyth, Robart 280, 281, 282 Smyth, Xpofer 280 Snowden, "William 196 Snydall 77 Soane, John 139, 140, 274 Sokemen 2 Solomon 181 Somerster, Anne 284 Somerster, Marye 278, 281 Somerster, Thomas 279, 281, 284 Sonyer, Thomas 164 Soothill 27, 29 Soothill, Arms of 92 Soothill Chantry 49, 71, 72, 73, 92, 104, 128, 195 Soothill Hall 72 Soothill, Henry 49, 67, 68, 69, 72, 92 Soulby, J. 142 Soulden, Anne 295 Soulden, Thomas 295 Sounding board 1 14, 115 South Kirby 191, 192 South Parade 116, 251 " South Yorkshire " 4, 6 Southeby, Gilbert de 9 Sowerby 1 Speight 114 Speight, William 294 Spencer, Eleanor le De 7, 8, 9, 10 Spencer, Gilbert le De 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 Spencer, Hugh le De 6, 7, 8, 9, IO Spencer, John 2S4 Spicer, W. 143 Spink, H. 247 Spink, Joseph 313 Spink, Martha 246 Spink, Mary 242 Spink, Richard 157 Spink, William 245 Spinke, Nicholas 296 Spire, The 41, 42, 126, 138, 139, 140, 145, 147, 148, 149, 158, 159 160, 165, 269, 270 Spivie, George 164 Spivye, Edith 298 Spivye, Issabell 301 Spivye, John 301 Spoon 130, 135, 136 Spring Gardens 146 Springwell Hill 32, 312 Spronton, Mr. 162 Spronton, William 72 Spyve, John 57 Stable, Elzabeth 294 Stable, John 294 Stadefete, Rev. John 190 Stafford 221 Stafford, Ihon 284 Stafford, Rychard 280, 284 Stainforth. Ihon 278 Stainforth, Katheryn 278 Stair Turret 145, 147 Stair, Winding 161 Staircase 113, 161 Standall 71 Stanefeld, Margery 288 Stanffeld, Rev. Simon 191 Stanhope, Colonel Spencer 208 Staniclyffe, Rychard 282 Stanley 32, 49, 53, 58, 62, 64, 65, 71, 73, 76, 118, 148, 198, 207, 253, 3". 313 Stanley, Christopher 265 Stanley Church 196, 275 Stanley, Derby, Vicar of 197 Stanley Hall 87, 146, 212 Stanley, Issabell 277 Stanley, Peter 277 .Stanley Poor, Trustees of 312, 313 Stanley, Vicarage of 198 Stansfield I Stapleton 88 Stapleton, Issabell 283 Starter, J 142 Statter, S. 125, 142 Statter, William 154 Statter, William Aked 159 Staubert, Rychard 291 Staubert, Thomas, 291 Staynton, Arms of 88 Staynton, Richard 88 Stead, Alexander 283, 287, 297 Stead, Dorothy 300 Stead Elzabeth 287 Stead, Robert 20, 283, 297 (344) INDEX. Stead, Sir Christopher 195, 212 Stead syke 231 Steer, Charles 239 Steer, Edward 34, 142 Steer, Elizabeth 239 Steer, Henry 239 Steer, Robert 239 Stele, Richard 104 Stephaton 166 Sternson, Jayne 239 Sternson, Rychard 289 . Sternthwat, Ihon, 279 Stewart, Anne 181 Stewart, William 155, 172, 173, 180, 181 Stewart, William Henry 189 Stockdale, Anne 244 Stockdale, John 244 Stocke, Alice 303 Stocke, Gawbi 303 Stockes, James 301 Stockheld 89 Stocks, The 276 Stocks, Alexander 256 Stocks, Joseph no Stocks, Marion 256 Stocks, Matthew 256 Stocks, Samuel 256 Stokeld 211 Stones, Hannah 260 Stones, Joseph 260 Stonforde, John de 1 1 Stonore, John de 11 Stooles, Ihon 2S6 Storer, William 290 Storrs, William 159 Story, John 164 Stott, Rev. Edward N. 197 Strafford, Thomas, Earl of 1 17 Strafford, William, Earl of 117 Stratford-on-Avon, Church of 160 Straton, Rev. Canon N. D. J. 25, 156, 158, 189, 195, 202, 205 Straton, Rev. George W. 195 Stringer, Edmund 272 Stmt, J. 42, 62, 126, 141 Sudwell, Jenet 278 " Sufferings of the Clergy " 193 Sugar, William 76 Surerpes, Rector of 190 Surtees Society 30, 42, 45, 46, 78, 82, 101 Sugden, Mrs. 162 Summers, J. and G. 157, 159 Sutcliffe, Rev. J, G. 197 Swaine, William 57, 104 Swaynson, Thomas 79 Swift, Easter 291 Swift, Jenet 299 Swift, Robart 278, 291, 299 Swillington 33, 93 Swillington, Arms of 93 Swine Traps 271 Swithing Lane 132 Swyft, Francis 279 Sykes, John, M.I). 276 Sykes, Sarah 288 Sykes, Thomas 288 Sym, William 280 Sym, Xpofer 280 Synodals 26 Tadcaster 145 Taillour, Joan 80 Taillour, Roger 80 Taite, Samuel 139 Taler, Agnis 296 Taler, Allice 283 Taler, Brigit 2S9 Taler, Bryan 283 Taler, Dionis 2S6 Taler, Edward 292 Taler, Francis 285, 288, 296 Taler, Ihon 285, 288 Taler, Marye 292 Taler, Nicholas 296 Taler, Robart 296 Talor, Elizabeth 277 Talor, Francis 277 Talor, Thos. 123 Talyor, Myles 76 Tandner, Ihon 283 Tandner, Xpofer 283 Tankersley 85 Tankersley, Arms of 84 Tankersley, Richard 85 Tanner, Rev. James 197 Tansley, Elizabeth 285 Tattersall, John 99, 265 Tayler, Jenet 280 Tayler, Mary 245 Tayler, Nicholas 280 Tayler, Thomas 278 Taylor, Franis 163 Taylor, Rev. James 189 Taylor, Rev. John 196 Taylor, Rich. 162, 266, 277, 278, 2S0 Taylor, Sarah 250 Taylor, Thomas 2, 25, 27, 30, [86 Taylor, Tempest HO Taylyor, William 73 Tempest, Arms of 93 Tempest, Thomas 82 Temple, Jenet 296 Tenebrae 81 Tengatt, S. 142 Tengate, S. 125 Tennant, Ann 243 Tennant, Clementina 243 Tennant, Elizabeth 243 (345) AA INDEX. Tennant, Ellen 243 Tennant, George 243 Tennant, Richard 243, 244 Tentho, Papal 24 Tentho, Regal 24 Terrier 30, 130, 310—314 Tew, Percy 189 Tew, Thomas 312 Tew, William 312 Thackerow, Anne 284 Thackerow, Willm 278, 284 Thackerowe, Thomas 302 Thackrowe, Rychard 277 Tharkerowe, Allis 295 Tharkerowe, William 295, 302 Theobald, Archbishop 6 Thirsk, Vicar of 197 Thomas, Rev. C. E. 189 Thomes 311 Thompson, B. 143 Thompson, Francis 279 Thompson, Henry 279, 281 Thompson, Ihon 294 Thompson, Jayne 294 Thompson, Miles 290 Thompson, Mr. 150, 162 Thompson, Richard 62 Thompson, Robert 200, 308 Thompson, William 290 Thornbrough Hall 235 Thome, Chapel of 4 Thomes 83, ill, 158, 199 Thomes, Vicarage of 197, 198 Thornhill 29, 85 Thornhill, Arms of 84 Thornhill, Rector of 205, 208 Thornhill, Simon 85 Thornhill, Sir Brian 85 Thornton, Ihon 284, 298, 302 Thornton, Jane 280 Thornton, Jesse A. 156 Thornton, Margaret 230 Thornton, Richard 77 Thornton, Robart 284 Thornton, Roger 302 Thornton, Thomas 282 Thorold, Anna 237 Thorold, Francis 237 Thorold, Thomas 51 Thorold, William 237 Thorp, Gudith de 81 Thorp, Joan de 79, 81, 264 Thorp, John de 79, 81 Thorp, Will of Joan de 41, 79, Thorpe Hall 33 Thorpe, Super Montem 228, 237 Thurlstone, Ihon 280 Thurlstone, Robart 280 Thurston Chantry 67, 104 106 235. Thwaite, St. George 197 Thwate, Francis 300 Thwates, Rychard 280 Thwates, Sarah 280 Tickhill, Hugh 284 Tickhill, Susan 284 Tilson, Bishop 72 Time, Figure of 109 Tithes, Great 24 Tithes of Warmfield 163 Tomlison, Robert 157 Tompson, Allice 283 Tonge, Beatrix 75 Tootal, Eleanor Minethorpe 226 Tootal, Thomas 226 Topham, Mrs. Frances 253 Topham, Timothy 253 Torre M.S.S. 1, 25, 87, 191 Tottie, Samuel 244 Totty, John 163, 221 Totty, Sarah 221 Tottye, Alice 282 Tottye, Ihon 282 Tower 138, 139, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149, 153, 158. 159, 160, 165, 178 Tower Hill 117 Towes, John 306 Townbull, John 308 Towneley, Arms of 88 Towneley, John 88 Townend, Christabell 285 Townend, Ellen 277 Townend, Margaret 277 Townend, Rychard 277 Townend, Thomas 277, 285 Townson, Rev. William 197 Towton, Battle of 100 Transepts 37, 38, 40, 42, 43, 141 Trent 51 Trinity Chantry 73, 104 Trinity College, Cambridge 195 Tripet, Robart 282 Tripet, Rychard 282 Trowbridge, 154 Tufnell 66 Tunacles 107 Tunstall, F. 143 Tunstall, Rectory of 25 Turner, Roger 291 Turner, Rev. Thomas 72, 104, 195 Turner, William 218 Turton, John 295 Turton, Richard 69, 82, 105, 265 Turton, Thomas 69 Twells, Rev. Edward 197 Twigg, Benjn- 249 Twigg, Hannah 249, 251 Twigg, Jonathan 251 Twigg, Mary 251 Tyas, Allice 278 (346) INDEX. Tyson, Mary Bethia 312 Tyson, Rev. Isaac 312 Tythe, Cliffield 162 Tythes 20, 21, 24 University College, Oxford 308 " Valor Ecclesiasticus " 25 Vavasour, Arms of 92 Verger 200 Vernon, John 304 Vernon, William 27, 28, 29 Vespers 55 Vestments 56, 107 Vestry 118, 124, 141, 149, 156, 157, I 58, 159, 161, 219, 274 Vicarage 16, 18, 19, 22, 26, 27, 193 Vicarage Croft 226 Vicarage Garden 47 Vicarage House 115 Vickers and Hugall 144 Victoria, Queen 25, 159, 207 Villane 2 Waddington, Ann 220 Waddington, John 220 Waddington, Sarah 220 Wadham College, Oxford 205 Wadsworth 1 Waits 271, 307 Wakefield, Arms of 150, 154 Wakefield, Battle of 100, 115, 156 Wakefield, Bishop of 158, 159, 207, 208, 209 Wakefield, Bishopric of 159, 195, 203 205, 206 Wakefield Bishopric Movement 202 Wakefield Bridge 81, 83, 104 Wakefield Cemetery 194 Wakefield Charities 156 Wakefield Conservative Club 115 Wakefield, Diocese of 208 Wakefield, Foundation of the Bishopric of 202 Wakefield, German de 51 Wakefield, John 304 Wakefield, John de 49, 50, 51 " Wakefield Journal and Examiner " 103, 118 Wakefield, Lecturers at 186, 187, 189 Wakefield, Manor of 3, 83 Wakefield, Ordination of the Vicarage of 17 — 25 Wakefield, Parish Church of All Saints 16, 17, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 45, 49, 50, 52, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 67, 73, 74, 77, 78, 79, 82, 83, 93, 101, 119, 120, 124, 126, 128, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 137, 138, 144, 146, 148, 158, 191, 207 Wakefield, Parish of 2, 20, 33, 34, 60, 62, 79 Wakefield, Pinder of 201 Wakefield, Rector of 17, 21, 23, 190 Wakefield, Rectory of 27, 28, 29, 30, 3'» 32 Wakefield, Registers of 192, 276 — 310 Wakefield, Rural Dean of 144, 195 Wakefield, Steeple of 138 Wakefield, Vicar of 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31, 32, 132, 158, 163,173, 178, 186, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196 197, 202, 204, 210 Wakefield, Vicarage of 25, 194 Wakefield, William de 51, 52 "Wakefield Worthies" 186 Wakeline, Bishop 4 Walker, Edmund 285 Walker, Edward 278, 279, 298 Walker, Francis 287, 306 Walker, George 287 Walker, Issabell 277, 279, 285, 287, 301 Walker, James 277, 301 Walker, John 258, 277, 278, 301 Walker, Joseph 239, 258 Walker, Margaret 285, 295, 301 Walker, Martha 239 Walker, Mary 258, 300 Walker, Ralph 147 Walker, Rev. Dr. Thomas 193, 305, 307 Walker, Robert 290 Walker, Roger 287, 295 Walker, Sarah 277 Walker, Sibell 290 Walker, Standish 258 Walker, Thomas 156, 239, 258 Walker, William 298 Waller, Margaret 302 Waller, William 119, 302 Walmersley, Incumbent of 196 Walsh, Robert 284 Walton 123 Walton, Allis 278 Walton, Charles 278, 294 Walton, Clementia 259 Walton, Elizabeth 245 Walton, George 115 Walton Hall 92 Walton, John 245 Walton, Martha Stocks 245 Walton, Mary 309 Walton, Xtopher 161 Ward and Hughes 168 Ward, Justice 305 Wardale, William 79 Warley 1 Warmfield, Curate of 196 (347, INDEX. Warmfield, Parish of 206, 207 Warner, Mr. 75, 76, 77 Warran, Mr. 129 Warren, Arms of 93, 94 Warren, Karl of 3, 4, 6, 93 Warren, Ralph de 5 Warren, Reginald dc 6 W'arriner, Robert 163 Warriner, Anne 278 Washington, Justice 305 Waterhouse, Joseph 299 Waterhouse, Robert 164 Waterhouse. Rychard 300 Waterton, Arms of 91 W r aterton, Charles 92 Watkins, Rev. James 196 Watkinson, D. B. 262 Watkinson, Edward no, 162, 163, 289, 311 Watkinson, Henry 163 Watkinson, Joseph 227 Watkinson, Maria 261 W r atkinson, Symeon 200 Watkinson, Thomas 289 W r atson, John 140, 272 Watson, Rev. John 6 Watson, Roberte 156 Watson, Shepley 31, 32, 312, 313 Watson, Thomas, 307 Watson, William 154, 156, 159 Watterhouse, John 289 Watterhouse, Robart 289, 299 Watterhouse, Susan 290 Waugh, Elizabeth 250 Waugh, Francis 250 Waugh, George 312 Waugh, John 250 Waugh, Richard 250 Waynewright, Jenet 295 Waynewright, Richard 280, 295 Wayving, Agnis 277 Wayvinge, George 277 Wayvinge, James 277 Weather boards 140 Weathercock 138, 148 Webster, Arthur 281 Webster, John 125 Webster, R. 143 Webster, Robart 281 Weddopp, Edward 76 Wellington, Vicar of 197 Wellington, Lord 275 Weners 316 Wentbrige 71 Wentworth, George 316 Wentworth, Peregrine 311 Wentworth, Sir Matthew 308 Wentworth, Sir Michael 66 Wentworth, Sir William 304 Wentworth, Thomas 304 Wentworth, Woodhouse 117 West, Anthony 291, 298 West Ardsley 203, 207 West Doorway 147 West, Issabell 291 West, Thomas 298 Westerman, Frances 224 Westerman, Francis 247 Westerman, George 125, 142, 224, 247 Westerman, Thomas 105 Westgate 34, 77, 125, 138, 189, 191 Westminster 10, II, 12, 14, 17, 28, 29> 3i. 54, 59, 62, 175, 190 Westmorland, Jose] >li William 35 W r eston Westhall, Prebend of 192 Wetherell, John no Wetherhead, Jenet 293 W T eatherhead, Mary 293 Weatherhead, Xpofer 293 Wetherill, T. 143 Wetherwicke, Anne 293 Wetherwicke, Thomas 289 Wetherwicke, Xpofer 289, 293 Whaley, Elizabeth 306 Whaley, William 306 Whalley 71 Whalley, Ihon 281 W r harton, George 164 Wharton, Jayne 278 Wharton, Mr. 162 Wharton, Thomas 278 Wheathamstede, Abbot John de 94 Wheatley, Ann 215 Wheatley, Dorothy 215 Wheatley, Elizabeth 214, 215 Wheatley, Francis 115, 214, 215, 216, 217, 272 Wheatley, George 215 Wheatley, Ihon 286 Wheatley, Maria 217 W 7 heatley, Susan 215 Wheatley, Thomas 215 Wheeler, Rev. Joseph 196 Wheldrake 316 Whinny Moor 312 Whitaker, Dr. 2 Whitaker, J. W. 159 Whitaker, W. 119 White, Ann 261 White, Edward 199 White, Elizabeth 260 White, Hannah 261 White, John 148, 199, 224, 261 White, John Deane 261 White, J. Tolson 35 White, Margaret 261 White, Richard 260 261 White, Sarah, 261 White, Thomas 260, 261 (34S) INDEX. White, William 119, 261 Whitechapel 124 Whitehead, Allis 291 Whitehead, William 291 Whitgift 216 Whittecarse, Mary 301 Whittecarse, Thomas 296 Whittecarse, Xpofer 296 Whittington, Rector of 205 Whitwoode 56 Whyteheade, William 278 Whytelay, Rev. John de 190 Wickersley 33 Wilby, James 147 Wilby, Phillip 286 Wilby, Susan 286 Wilde, Michael 274 Wilfra, Stenen 299 Wilkinson, George 277 Wilkinson, Rychard 296 Wilks, Mary 262 Wilks, Sarah 262 Wilks, Thomas 262 William and Mary 58 William the Conqueror 2, 3 William of Wykeham 161 Williams, Mr. 127 Williamson, Henry 115 Willis, Joseph 138, 256 Willis, Professor 37 Willis, William 256 Willson, Elizabeth 305 Willson, Timothy 58, 59, 60, 61 Willson, William 246 Wilson, Ann 309 Wilson, Edward 286, 292 Wilson, Elzabeth 292 Wilson, George 281, 298 Wilson, John 72, 73, 104 Wilson, Hannah 309 Wilson, Mathew 294 Wilson, Rev. Benjamin 193, 304, 309 Wilson, Rev. John 309 Wilson, Richard 162, 164, 31 1 Wilson, Thomas 288 Wilson, William 294, 307 Wilson, Xpofer 281 Wilton, William 231 Winchester Cathedral 161 Windle, Emmet 297 Windle, Janet 285 Windle, Ihon 285 Windsor 206 Windsor Castle 207 Witton, Elizabeth 227 Witton, Mary, 227 Witton, Richard 30, 31, 59, 62, 227, 232 Woderove, Rev. William 191, 264 Wollay, John 80 Wollon, Ann 309 Wollon John 309 Wollon, William 309 Wolrich, Robart 288, 289 Wolrich, Thomas 288, 289 Wblriche, Thomas 278 Wombwellj Thomas 251 Wood, Elzabeth 287, 294 Wood, Francis Henry 159 Wood, Gilbert 300 Wood, Issabell 286 Wood, Jenet 281 Wood, Ihon 287, 290, 294, 295, 297 300 Wood, Margaret 292, 294, 307 Wood, Randall 281, 286, 292, 294 Wood, Rev. William 196 Wood, Reynald no Wood, Robart 297, 302 Wood, Roger 290 Wood, Rychard 292 Wood, William 290 Woodcocke, Charles 296 Woodcocke, Elzabeth 296 Woodde, Edward 71, 104 Woode, Susanna 294 Woodmoor 139 Woodroffe, Elizabeth 163 Woodroffe, Ihon 292 Woodroffe, Percivall 265 Woodroffe, William 292 Woodrove, Arms of 90, 91 Woodrove, Elizabeth 91 Woodrove, John 91 Woodrove, Sir Richard 91 Woods, William 62 Woodside 250 Woollen, Ann 312 Woollen, Burials in 308 Woollen, John 312 Woolley 66, 91 Woolley, Parish of 206, 207 Woolley Park 316 Woolley, Vicar of 198 Woollin, Esther 255 Woollin, John 255 Woollin, Joseph 255 Woollin, Mary Bethia 255 Woollin, Rev. John 255 Worcester, Bishop of 205 Wormal, John 250, 251 Wormal, Samuel 251 Wormal, William 251 Wormald, Ann 248 Wormald, Elizabeth 248 Wormald, I. 142 Wormald, Thomas 24S Wors bo rough 219 Wortley, Arms of 90 Wortley, Ellen 278 (349) INDEX. Wortlcy, Jane 91 Wortley, M. 143 Wrenthorp 311 Wrentliorp Church, Chandelier at 127 Wrenthorp, Manor of 72 Wright, Daniell 58, 59. 60, 61 Wright, Elizabeth 249 Wright, Joseph 249 Wright, Robert 148 Wright, Rev. William 197 Wyatt, Mr. 139 Wyllughby, Richard de 11 Wyndhylle 75 Wynton, Count of 7 Yate, Tristram J l Yayle, Anne 282 Yayle, Henrye 282 York 16, 19, 31, 52, 53, 66, 95, 99, 100, 116, 117, 152, 157, 190, 191, 192, 194, 224 York, Archbishop of 14, 15, 16, 19, 23. 24, 31, 32, 54, 59, 129, 149, 160, 190, 191, 204, 206, 207, 208, 209,315 York Assizes 30 York Castle 30, 186 York, Church of 15, 209 York, Consistory Court of 14 York, County of 7, 27, 28, 29, 30, 52, 58, 89, 92, 93, in, 117, 133, 188 York. Dean and Chapter of 14, 15, 19, 3i» 32 York, Diocese of 13, 17, 203, 206, 207 York, Duke of 100 York, Ecclesiasticall Court at 58 York, House of 92, 98 York Minster 117, 176 York Museum 43 York, Richard, Duke of 54, 68 York, See of 202 York, Sir John 106, 265 Yorkshire I, 4, IO, 43, 107, 1 19, 165, 184, 191 " Yorkshire Archaeological Journal " 1, 100, 117 "Yorkshire Deeds " (Wilson) 83 " Yorkshire Post " 158 Yorkshire, Sheriff of 27, 29 Yorkshire, West Riding of 103, 107, 128 Young, John William 198 Young, Joseph 312 Yowle, Francis 295 Zechariah 152 Zion Chapel 196 Zouch, Dr. 193 Zouch, William de la 14, 17, 24, 31 (350) LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. Aldam William, Frickley Hall, Doncaster. Alderson, Charles S., Ilolmleigh, St. John's, Wakefield. Atkinson, J. G., M.D., The Grange, Rotherham. Barton, George Heniy, Brookside, Market Rasen. Bathurst, The Lord Bishop of, Bishop's Court, Bathurst, New South Wales. Beaumont, Herbert, Bond Street, Wakefield. 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