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HALIFAX BOOKS
AND AUTHORS.
A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THE
BOOKS WRITTEN BY NATIVES AND RESIDENTS,
ANCIENT AND MODERN,
OF THE PARISH OF HALIFAX
(STRETCHING PROM TODMORDEN TO BRIGHOUSE),
WITH NOTICES OF THEIR AUTHORs'aND OF
THE LOCAL PRINTERS;
COMPRISING MATERIALS FOR THE
LOCAL AND LITERARY HISTORY
M thodisn^ Moi-avianisn., Baptist Denominationalisn.,
i oetry, Hymnology, Law and Ethics, Fiction, &c •
Lists of Vicars, Nonconformist Ministers',
Portraits, &c.
By a HORSFALX. TURNER,
IDEL, BRADFORD.
PKU.XKLV P.:.v.HO .X XHK '■ XKWS » OKKICH, BKIOHOUSK.
1906.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
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CONTENTS. ^
Page.
5 I.— HY. KRABTEBB
6 II.— SAVILES
8 Ill.-'SAVILBS
9 IV.— W. AINSWORTH
10 v.— do.
11 VI.— TILLOTSON
13 VII.— do.
14 VIII.— do.
15 IX.— do.
17 X.— S. OGDEIN
18 XI.— S. MIDGLEY (Bentley.)
19 Xn.— do.
20 XIII.— T. WRIGHT
21 XIV.— J. WATSON
23 XV.— do.
26 XVI.— do.
28 XVII.— J. CRABTREE
29 XVIII.— CAPT. HODGSON
31 XIX.— H. RAMSDMN
31 XX.— WILKINSONS
32 XXI.— T. NETTLETON, E. WATKIN-
SON
33 XXII.— SIR T. BROWNE, H. POWER,
N. HULME
34 XXIIL— BREARCLIFFEi, RITCHIE
34 XXIV.— DEAN BROTHERS, STAN-
HOPE, ALEXANDER, GARNETT.
35 XXV.— P. BRONTE
36 XXVL— W. MITCHELL, Baptist
37 XXVIL— D. CROSlSLEY, do.
38 XXVIII.— D. TAYLOR, do.
39 XXIX.— do. do.
41 XXX.— BOSCO, BOIS, BOYSB
42 XXXI.— SERMONS— Beaitley, Breietou,
Crowther, Graham, PatcJiit, Roote
43 XXXII. — SCHOOLMASTERS — Brigg,
Brooksbank, Fletclier, Topham, C.
Taylor
44 XXXill.-J. BARLOW
45 XXXIV.— HALIFAX PARISH
REGISTERS
46 XXXV.— FAVOUR, List of Vicars
47 XXXVI.— VICARS, Clay, Wilkinson,
Marsh, Hooke, Hough, Burton
49 XXXVII.— D. HARTLEY
49 XXXVIII.— O. HEYWOOD
51 XXXIX.— do. N. HEYWOOD
54 XL.— JOHN MILNER
56 XLI.— Bp. LAKE
56 XLn.— Bps. FARREK, HORSFALL,
TILSON
58 XLIII.— MATTHEW, JOHN AND JOHN
SMITH
Pa-e.
60 XLIV.— JAS. BOLTON
61 XLV.— DEAN M. SUTCLIFFB
63 XLVL— CALDEIRDALE RAILWAY
65 XLVIL— DR. FAWCETT
68 XLVIIL— do. JOHN, junior
71 XLIX.— JOHN FOSTER
73 L.— R. COORB, J. WHITTON
74 LL— MARSDEINS
76 LII.-TOWN, HILLS, N. CUD WORTH
R. ARMITAGB, S. STANCLIFFE
77 LIIL— J. DAWSON, ROBINSON ASH^
LEY, MALLINSON, W. RASTRICK
JAS. ILLINGWORTH, J WAITB
79 LIV.— CLIPPORI>S, HOLDiSWORTHS
HOUGH, PEBBLES, J. SCHOLE-
FIBLD, B. WATERHOUSB
80 LV.— R. KBNION, H. ROOTE J
FEiRRETT, J. MITCHELL
81 LVL— T. WRIGHT, of Birkenshaw
83 LVII.— TITUS KNIGHT, S. KNIGHT &
SONS
85 LVIIL— JOSEPH AND JOHN COCKIN
87 LIX.— SQUARE CHAPEL. — Barling,
Bwing, Mellor, Lawrence, Jowett,
Wadsworth. List of Ministers. Union
Croft Chapel, Ministers.
90 LX.— SION MINISTEIRS.— B. Parsons,
junr., B. Dale
92 LXL— HARRISON ROAD MINISTEKS.-
Keyworth, Obery, Willans, J. C. Gray,
G. S. Smith
Park Ministers. — Bartlett, Bailey,
Blanchford.
Stannary Ministers. Heath Ministens.
93 LXII.— NORTHGATB PRESBYTERIAN
AND UNITARIAN.— List of Egected
1662; W. Priestley, Threlkelds, Ralph,
Dr. Jones, J. Williams, Dunn, W.
Turner, R. L. Carpenter, Millson
95 LXIII.— BOOTH AND LUDDENDEN
FOOT MINISTERSf.— Jas. Cro&sley,
Calverts, D. Jones; Joshua. Nicholson,
A. V. Hall, A. Hall, S. D. Hillman, R.
S. Thomas
98 LXIV.— MIXEINDBN AND OVBNDEN
MINISTERS.— Smiths, Rattray, J.
Bates, G. Huns^worth, J. Poynton; B.
Leighton, Dr. J. Harrison, T. Blast, W.
Wood
100 LXV.— WARLEY MINISTERS.— W. Gra-
ham, Rd. Simpson, T. Hawkins, W.
Hiigill, J. Preston, T. M. Newnes, Dr.
B. Boothroyd
711 1(52
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page.
103 LXVI.-STAINI^iND, RJSHWOKTH,
EIPPONDEN MINISTERS.— S. Bar-
rowclough; Holywell Gri'en. Ministers.
— Calverts, Jovs. WatUsworth, J.
WatUPworth, G. Hunsworfch
106 LXVll.— SOWE'UBY AND SOAVBRBY
BRIDGE MINISTERS.— Ritcliii^ Mol-
i'ett. G. S. Smith
107 LXVIII.-BASTWOOD MINISTEiRS.-
A. Blackburn
109 LXIX.— BLLAND MINISTDRS. — Mrs.
D.-ooksbuiik, J. BrookB))ank, — Bliookfi-
bank, J. Houghton, S. Girle, J. Ruddle,
J. Wraith, F. Bolton, C. Leach
110 LXX.— NORTHOWRAM MINISTERS.-
Dickiuson; List of Students; T.
Hutton, M. Pearson
112 LXXI.— LIGHTCLIFI'E MINISTERS.—
Mrs, J. Wi-ight, H. Pickersgill, G.
Swann; British Sohooi, J. H. Stowell,
H. Storey
114 LXXll.— iUUGHOU^EI MINISTERS.— .1.
Meldrum, ®. Lowell, E. Btell, R. Haxley,
J. B. Lister. J. Horsfall Turner.
117 LXXIII.— [T. B. Chambers,] Brighouee
School
120 LXXIV.— POETS & RHYMSTERS.— A.B.
123 LXXV.— POETS, &c., C.
125 LXXVI.— POETS. &c., D.B.
128 LXXVII.— POETS, &c., E.G.
130 LXXVIIL— POETS, &c., H., and Halifax
Prees
133 LXXIX.— POETS, &c., H.
137 LXXX.— POET'S, &c., I.— M.
139 LXXXI.— POETS, &c., N.— R.
140 LXXXII.— POETS, &c., S.T.
143 LXXXIII.— POETS, &c., T.— W.
144 LXXXIV.— POETS, &c., fugitive pieces;
anonymous.
146 LXXXV.— ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY:
Lister, Clay, Crossley, Hanson, Brear-
cliffe, Priestleys, Smith, of Eland
149 LXXXVL— ANTIQUARIAN WRITERS
151 LXXXVII. do do.
153 LXXXVIII. do. do.
154 LXXXIX. do. do.
158 XC. do. do.
1611 XCI. do. do.
162 XCIT. do. do.
165 XCIII. do. do.
168 XCIV.— ACTS OF PARLIAMENT
170 SIR THOS. BROWNE
170 XCV.-<SCIE1NTIPIC
173 XCVI.— MORAVIAN
176 XCVII.-FICTION .-Pilgrim and Adam,
Female Pilgrim, De Foe's Robinson
Crusoe, &c., Miss Moreton, Zara.
Pago.
177 XCVIII.— E(hnon<l Hoyle, Dr. JokIiuu
Hoyle, Greenwooilfi, Drakes, Favour,
Isaac Smith, J. Lister, Schoolmaster,
Hy. Foster.
180 XCIX.— THEOLOGIANS
182 C— TliEOLOGlANS
185 CI.— THEOLOGIANS
187 OIL— Woikin- Man, Hy. Heap, C. Raw-
son, G. Ryan, .1. Sutcliffe, W. Carlisle,
Dr. Lcgh, Joseph Barker, W. Trotter,
J. Simpson
189 GUI.— QUAKERISM. — C. Taylor, N.
TillotBon, Thorps, S. G. Fryer
190 CIV.— NOVELISTS. -De Foe, Winn, M.
H. Rankin, S. D. Wilson, E. Sloane,
.1. Wlialk\v, Mrs. Hag-ard (Barber), S.
D. Roberts, R. M. Kettle, J. Wriggler-
worth, .1. Ramsden, .1. S. Fletcher, J.
Hartley
193 CV.— BIOGRAPHIES.— B. Wilson, H.
Sugdeii, W. Ktrshaw, H. Shaw, T.
Rawlinsou, M. Stocks, Leyland (libel),
Ingram, A. Oklfield, Fiddler Tliomp-
son, Joe Thompson, T. Sutcliffe, R. H.
Gillmor, S. Baunie, W. Hanson, T.
Cheetham, J. Farrar, F. Crossley, T.
Salt
195 CVI.— R. OASTLEiR
197 CVIL— HISTORICAL
200 CVIIL— POLITICAL, MUNICIPAL, POLL
BOOKS
201 CIX.— GEiNEiRAL BAPTISTS
204 ex.— PARTICULAR BAPTISTS
207 CXI.— BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
210 CXII.— BAPTISTS
213 CXIII.— HALIFAX PHILOS. SOC.
216 CXIV.— LITERARY SOCIETIEiS,
Schoolmasters
219 CXV.— ETHICAL, MEDICAL, &c.
220 CXVT.-AIEDICAL, S('1S;nTIFIC, &c.
223 CXVIL— SOCIETY REPORTS
226 CXVIII.— NEWSPAPERS AND
MAGAZINES
228 CXIX.— ALMANACKS
230 CXX.— HALIFAX PRINTERS
232 CXXI. do. do.
235 CXXIL— METHODIST HISTORY
238 CXXIII.-METHODIST PREuA^CHERS
241 CXXIV. do. do.
245 CXXV. do. do.
247 CXXVI. <lo. do.
250 CXXVI I. do. do.
250 CXXVII.— METHODIST LITERATURE
252 CXXVIIL— METHODIST BRANCHES
255 CXXIX.— NONCONFORMIST AND
PAROCHIAL REGISTERS
257 CXXX.— HISTORICAL, SCIENTIFIC
259 CXXXI.— MI SCELL AJST EOU S
[Reprinted from the " Brigliouse NewB."]
I^alifax Books 6^ Hutbors
BY
J. HORSFALL TURNER, F.R.H.S.
No. I.
HENRY KRABTREE'S ALMANACK
After many years patiencei. or rather im-
patienoe, I was able to meet with this rare
little book a dozen years ago, and have not
seen any other copy mentioned in the thou-
sands of catalogues issued since that date.
A notice of the old Yorkshire astrological
curate appears in a magazine issued by a
Manchester Liteiary Society. Krabtree be-
came curate of Todmurden, and he and his
book are mentioned in Watson's "Halifax."
The title is as foHowis (the words in inverted
oommas being printed with red ink) : —
"MERLINTJS RUSTICUS 1685."
Or, a Country
" ALMANACK,"
yet
Treating of " Courtly Mattel-^" and the most
Sublime Affairs now in A,gitatiou
throughout the whole World.
I. Shewing the Beginning, Encrease and Cou-
tinuaiuce of the " Turkish " or " Ottoman "
Empire.
11. Predicting the Fate and State of the
" Roman " and " Turkish Empires."
III. Foretelling what Success, the " Grand
Seignior " shall have in this his War, in which
he is now engaged against the " German
Emperour."
All these are endeavoured to be proved from
the most probable and indubitable Arguments of
" History"
" Theology "
" Astrology "
Together with the ordinary Furniture of other
Almanacks.
"Beiug the First after Bissextile or Leap Year"
By " Henry Krabtree," Curate of Todmurden
in Lancashire.
The Fourth Beast was dreadful, &c., &c. (.five
lines) Dan. 7.7.8.
London, Printed for the Company of Stationers,
1685.
My copy is in leather with two braSiS clasps,
and a number of blank leaves are bound with it
for making memoranda. The leaves are six
inches by four, and the pages are not uumbei-ed.
Sheet A has eight leaves, sheet B has
eight, thus giving thirty-two pages for the
proper almanack, and these are followed by
Siheet A), eight leaves or sixteen pages, with
head-line " Of the Turkish Empire, 1685." These
last pages are closely printed, having forty-one
lines each, and the word " Finis " at the end
shews the book to be complete.
The page behind the title is ihlank, and the
next contains the address "To the Reader,''
wherein the author says that "The last year
when I heard that the Turks had closely be-
sieged Vienna, and a false report was spread
abroad that they had taken it, I began to write
an Almanack to acquaint the world that the
Ottoman Empire is now groivn to the full
height," &c., &c., "but because I begun so late
it could not be printed, and that was the only
remora, as I was informed by Mr. Thomas Pill-
ing living in London (whom I imployed in that
business) however I thought good tO' adventure
once more, and to transcribe my last year's
Almanack without adding one oubit to its sta-
ture, or altering auj-thing but the Calendar
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part." This preface is followed by notice of
the three eclipses of the coming year 1685, and
of the four quarters. Next a full page is given
on Law Term dates, Hillary, Eiister, Trinity
and Michaelmas, lollowed by a page giving the
Kings froau Egbert 818 to Charles II., whose
reign he dates from 16-18. What we should call
the seventh page is filled with A Table of Inter-
est at Six Pound per cent.; and there are four
lines that the author may have composed: —
•■ Those men do well who lend unto the poor,
Expecting nought of interest for't therefore;
But he who lends to all. and none denies.
Doth shew himself more kinder far than wise."
The double comparative reminds us of Shake-
speare's double superlative, " MoRt unkindest
cut of all."
Each month occupies two pages at the open-
ings, the left side giving the usual figures 1 to
31 (or less), but instead of telling us what day
each cori-esponds with, we have a, b, c, D, e, f,
g, a, b, c, D. Thus wi© discover that January
1st was on a Thursday, as the capital D would
represent the Lord's Day. The third column
intimates the successive Saint days of the
church. The fourth column gives the various
signs of the Zodiac, the ram, the bull, the Heav-
enly twins, and next the crab the lion shines,
the virgin and the scales, the scorpion, archer
and sea-goat, the man that bears the water-pot,
and fish with glittering tails, with figures in-
dicating the time when those Heavenly bodies
were in ascendency. The fifth column gives
weather prophecies about every fifth day; tem-
pestuous weather; clearing again; various
weather and cold blasts. The wary prophet
does not venture too far; "The year begins
much like the ending of the last, with snow,
ur sleet and cold. The eleven days that were
struck out of the calendar in George II. 's time
would make these days correspond with a year
beginning with our .January 12th. The sixth
column is headed " Mutual Asp." and the con-
junctions of stars are indicated by the curious
signs used by astrologers and astronomers. It
seems to have been intended as a guide for con-
jugal relationships.
On the opposite page (for each month) we
have five columns: first the days 1 to 31, and
another column ten days later 11 to 31, th-cn 1
to 10, which I do not clearly understand un-
less it represents the rectified calendar.
The third column of the right-hand page gives
curious iufonnation and remarks that we will
revert to; whilst columns four and five give
respectively the time of the sun's rising and
setting. The curious information on the Jan\i-
ary pa,ge includes : " The Saxons call this month
Wolf Monat, beca.uBe wolves, &c.," " The Latins
called this month .Tanus. because, &c." On the
30th of this month "King Charles I." ^red
letters) of ever blessed memory was by his sub-
jects [a nesit of religious cut-throats] murthered
before his own palace gate at Whitehall. A
star in the Great Bear's thigh at 4 a.m. In
February, if occasion be, you may vomit, purge
and bleed. 'Tis exceeding good to take a little
ciuantity of honey of roses eveiy morning, 3
hours before dinner, it vrxW comfort the stomack
and cleanse the whole I^ody. In March we
find he wrote or cribbaged a distich which shews
that though a poet he was not a total abstainer
from intoxicants :
This month fat mutton's good, old sack no less.
Always provided you avoid excess.
In April — Abstain from wine and strong drink
for it more defiles. the blood in this month than
in any other. In the Dog-days, July, he writes:
" Beware of purging, vomiting and bleeding
whilst the dognstar ruleth. November — The
best exercise is hunting or tracing hares, but
l>e sure that the park or lordship is your own,
then j^ou need not fear an indictment. He
finishes December by advising the reader that
the best physick this month is good meat and
the strongest drink you can get.
Further particulars of the reverend author,
whose name was also spelt Crabtree, will be
acceptably received.
II.— THE SAVILES.
The most famous name in Halifax parish,
particularly in the BUand portion, has been for
five centuries the family of Sayville, Savile,
Savel, &c. Probably they came to England
from Anjou not later than 1135, and took their
family name from a place in France called
Saville, though others think it possible they
are of the princely family Savelli of Rome,
sometimes written Sabelli. Before 1200 they
were a. Kuightlj" family near Barnsley, after-
wards at Tankersley, and intermarried with
many of the chief West Eiding families, in-
cluding the Halifax Copleys, and were of great
eminence in Halifax parish before one of them
married the heiress of Sir John Ellland, who
Avas murdered on retvirning from Brighouse
Manor and Sheriff's Courts about 1330-50. They
have been somewhat prolific, and in matters
matrimonial not always in accordance with our
ideas of legality and chastity. George Savile
in 1670 was Baron Savile, of Elland, and Vis-
count Halifax, and Marquis of Halifax in 1682,
but his son, William, died in 1700, without male
issue. The present " noble houses," Savile,
Mex'borough, Scarborough, may be found in the
peerage books; and many true Savile descend-
ants are found in West Yorkshire cottages.
Our concern is with five Halifax authors of
this name; of two of whom Yorkshire will
always be specially proud, whose portraits are
here appended.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
SIR JOHN,
Eldest eon of Heury Savile, Esquire, who mar-
ried EUeu Eaiusdeu, was bora at Bradley iu
Staiulaud iu 1545, became a great lawyer, aud
was Steward of Wakefield Mauor, nud as such
well kuowp by everybody iu Brighouse, Elland,
Halifax, &c. He was Barou of the Exchequer in
1598, Knight iu 1603, died in 1606, aud was
buried at St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street, London,
but his heart was brought to Metliley Church.
Besides assisting Wm. Camden, the great anti-
quary, he left legal and historical pieces in
manuscript, one of which was printed in Lou-
don in 1675, in old French, a thin folio, edited
by John Richardson, of the luner Temple. Its
title is " Les Reports de divers special cases en
le Court de Common Bank, come Exchequer
en le temps de Royne Elizabeth." I have only
seen the price of one copy mentioned, namely,
Lowndes, 6s.
SIR HEflSTRY, brother of Sir John, see next
article.
THOMAS SAVILLE, their brother, was also
born at Over Bradley in Stainland, died iu
January, 1592, or as we should now call it 1593.
He wrote " Epistolfe varia? ad illustres viros."
Fifteen of these letters to illustrious men were
addressed to Camden aud are printed in Dr.
Thomas Smith's " Letters to Camden," London
1691, quarto. (Quarto was then a small squaie
book generally.) There was another THOMAS
SAVILE whose connection with Halifax I can-
not trace. He wrote "Raising of them that
are fallen; a discourse very profitable"; Avitli
some verses. It is a small quarto, 1606, printed
by W. Welby, London, and dedicated to the
Countess of Huntingdon, the Countess of Cum-
berland, Sir Francis Hastings, and Sir Thomas
Smith. Three copies are noted at sales, 17k.,
18s., 31s., but these are over forty years ago.
I have little doubt that the author was a clergy-
man from Yorkshire, and most likely from Hali-
fax parish, like the following author who in-
scribes his work to Master George Savile, and
also was a poet, namely JOHN SAVILE who
wrote " King James his Entertainment at
Theobalds: with his Welcome to London; to-
gether with a Salutorie Poeme." This small
quarto of fourteen pages was printed by Thomas
Snodham, London, 1603. It is reprinted in
Nicholas Progresses of King James I., and has
sold for 70s. and 28s. '
CAiPT. HENRY SAVILE served under Diake
and Hawkins against the Spaniards in the West
Indies, and in reply to a letter =by the Spanish
General who stated that Drake died of grief
because of the loss of many barques and men,
and that the English fleet fled from the Spani-
ards iu 1695, he published "A Libel of Spani.-^h
Lies found at the Sack of Gales, discoursing
the fight in the West Indies between the English
and the Spaniard, and of the death of Sir Fran-
cis Dra.ke, with an answer confuting the said
Spanish Lies, &c.," London, John Windet, 1596.
^to. Wood's "Athense Oxouienses" mentions
the book, and copies are in the Bodleian Lib-
rary and the Grenville CoHectiou. Watson,
with great probability, claims the Captain as
a Halifax man. One of the several Henry Sav-
iles that Yorkshire sent to Oxford Universitv
before 1600, was HENRY SAVILE, of Skircoat,
Master of Arts, kinsmau of the three brothers
previously mentioned. He wrote several treat-
ises on Chemistry, Heraldry, Antiquities, aud
was besides well versed iu Mathematics, Physic,
and Painting. He also tra\'elled in Italy,
France and Germany. He was buried in the
chancel of St. Martin-le-Fields, London, April,
1617, aged 49, and a monument, with bust, was
placed on the north w-all. His " Antient Exem-
plar of Asser Menevensis " was printed in Cam-
den's Remains, 1602. It describes the disputes
between Grimbald's new Students at Oxford
and the old ones before King Alfred's restora-
tion of the University there. From before 1400
the Saviles were patrons of a chantry at EUand.
HALIFAX BOOKS AIs'D AUTHORS.
SIR HENEY SAVILE.
III.— SAVILBS, Continued.
Sir Henry Savile, as previously mentioned,
was born at Over Bradley in Stainland, Nov.
30th, 1549, and entering Merton College, Ox-
ford, the favourite college for Halifax men,
especially for Saviles, he procured great repu-
tation for his skill in Greek and Mathematics.
He was Proctor in 1575 and 1576. In 1578 he
travelled on the Continent of Europe, and on
his return was appointed Greek tutor to Queen
Elizabeth. In 1585 he was chosen Warden of
his College, and in 1596 Provost of Eton Col-
lege. King James knighted him at Windsor
in 1604. Soon afterwards he lost his only eon,
and thenceforth devoted all his energies and
fortune to the advauoement of learning. In
1619 he founded two profassorships (geometry
and astronomy) at Oxford, and endowed them
liberally. He gave a mathematical library for
the use of the professors, and endowed the
same. He gave books, manuscripts and Greek
types to the Bodleian Libraiy and the Univer-
sity press. He was buried at Eton, Febn.iary,
1621-2, near his only child, Heniy, and there
is also a monument at Merton College. He
was probably the ripest scholar of his time.
The folowing is the complete list of his works
so far as I can gather : —
(1). " Etnglish Translation of part of Taci-
tus." London: 1581, folio.
The notes were translated into Latin by Isaac
Gruter for his Tacitus; Amsterdam : 1649,
12mo.
(2). "View of Certain Militai-j- Matters; or
Commentaries concerning Eoman Warfare."
London: 1598, folio.
Translated into Latin by Freherus; Heidel-
lierg: 1601.
Freherus' translation was reprinted by
Gruter as above.
(3). " Eeruni Anglicaium Scriptores poet
Bedam prjecipui." London: 1596, folio; 1599,
folio; Frankfort: 1601, folio; sells at 40s. to
60s. Translations in Bohn's Antiquarian Lib-
rary. Comprises Mahnesl)ury's, Hoveden's,
Ethelwerd's, &c., histories.
(4). " S. Johiannis ChrysostO'mi Opera,
Grsece." 8 vohimes Eton: 1613; with notes in
volume 8. This Avas a magnificent undertaking
on which he spent many years himself, em-
ployed many assistants to search foreign libra-
ries, and expended £'8,000 in pioducing a thou-
sand copies. The French Bishops employed
Fronto Ducwus, a Jesuit, to reprint it at Paris,
with a Latin translatioii, at a reduced price.
Lady Savile stated that if Sir Harry died she
would burn Chrysostome for killing her hus-
band upon which Mr. Bois replied, "That
would be a great pitj% for he was one of the
sweetest preachers since the Apostles' times."
(5) "Thomse Bradwardini, ArchiepiscopI
olim Cantuariensis de Causa Dei contra Pela-
gium." Londini : 1618, folio; Sir Henry pre-
fixed a life of the Archbishop.
(6). "Nazianzen's Steliteutics," 1610; by
favour of the Bodleian Library.
< 7). " Xenophon^s Ijustitution lof Cyinxs,"
Gr. : 1613, 4to.
(8). Praelectiones tresdecim in principdum
Eilementorum Euclidis, Oxoniae habitse." Ox-
ford: 1621, 4to., two sizes.
(8). " Oratiio coram Eegina EP.izahetha,
Oxonise habita," 1592; piiblished by Barlow in
1658 from the Bodleian MS., 4to.. sells at 6s. 6d.;
and a second edition by .John Lamphire
in Monarchia Britannica, Oxford : 1681.
(10). Latin Translation of King James I's
Apology for the Oath of Allegiance.
(11). Six Le<tters: in Lambecius, Volume 3.
(12). Four Letters to Camden. Camdeni
Epistolse.
(13). One Letter in Volume 4, Strype's
Annals.
(14). Two Letters in Watson's Halifax.
(15). One of the eight at Oxford who trans-
lated the Gospels, Acts, and Eevelations, auth-
orised version.
(16). Defensio Fidei Catholic«e, 1614, see
Wood's "Athen."
(17). Ultima Linea Savilli. Oxon. 1622, 4to.,.
8 leaves.
(18). Manuscripts in Bodleian Library, Ox-
ford, &c., viz.: Orations; Original of Monas-
teries; Union of Eiigland and Scotland; mar-
ginal notes in printed bookjs.
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IV.-EEV. WM. AINSWORTH: "TRIPLEX
IVIEIMORIALEI."
Watson's "Halifax" mentions Ainsworth'g
"Triplex Memoriale/' but omits his "Marrow
of the Bible." In "Halifax Families and
WorthieB," 1883, I stated 1 had a copy of the
latter but had never seen the former. Three
years later I secured the only known complete
oopy of the "Triplex," and reprinted it, with
an appendix. I had sought for this book high
and low for thirty years myself, and came to
the conclusion that if a single copy had sur-
vived fi'Om Mr. Watson's time no one was
more likely to have secured one than our great
Halifax bibliophile, Mr. .Tas. Cro&sley, F.S.A..,
of Manchester. I wrote to the cataloguer of
his books at Manchester, asking for special
care in searching for this book but he reported
that it could not l>e found. However, at the
sale of the portion sent to London it was dis-
covered, and my agent secured this "threepenny
box" book for over three guineas. The copy
bears on the title the aiitograph of "Tho. Lis-
ter,"' and on the fly-leaf Mr. Crossley had
written :— "This book is of the greatest rarity.
I have sought for it without success for thirty
yeans. The copy came from the Shibden Hall
Sale. J.C, June, 1846." Again he writes-.—
"No other copy has turned up since I obtained
this, except a very imperfect one at the Rev.
Jeseph Hunter's sale. It is by far the rarest
boik connected with Halifax. As descended
maternally from a brother of Nathaniel Wat-
erhouse, it is to me a very interesting tract.
Jas. Crossley, May, 1872." Thus, Mr. Cross-
ley's search extended over fifty-six years. By
a singular coincidence, the librarian of the
Congregational Memorial Hall, London, has
informed me by letter this day (March, 1900),
that they have an imperfect oopy, and I think
this is likely to be the Hunter copy secured
by Mr. Wilson, of Guildford. Although print-
ed at York, it is not mentioned in Davies'
"York Press." Mr. Hunter mentions it in the
"Gent. Magazine, " 1829, ii, 498. In conse-
quence of the publicity given to the scarcity
of this book, another copy was discovered at
the sale of Miss Steele's libraiy, Blland, Oct.,
1903, and sold for 16s.
Herewith appears a cop>' of the title-
page. As the reprint is literatim, there is less
need to describe this rarity in detail, but it is
a book full of interest to all Halifax readers,
not only as a memorial of Halifax's greatest
benefactor of ancient times, but on account of
its quaint language. Yet stran.ge to state when
I announced the reprint at two shillings, I
got seven orders (one being from Halifax), and
three of the^e wished to purchase the original
as well for seventy shillings. The original,
however, has found its way back to one worthy
of it, Mr. Lister, M.A., Shibden Hall.
TRIPLEX MEMORIALE:
or,
Tlie fubstancp of three Commemoration
Sermons, wheieof the Titles are these
viz.
I. The Memory of the Just.
TI. A patteiii for pious uses.
III. The fift Beatitude, or.
The mercifuU mans Bleffing.
Preached at Halifax in remembrance of
Mr. Xathaner'. Waterliouse decea.sed.
Whereunto is added an extract out of the
last Will and Testament of the said
Mr. Nathaneel Waterhouse, containing
his several Gifts and Donations for pious
and charitable uses.
By William Ainsworth, late Lecturer
at St. Peters, Chester.
Cyprian Ser. I de Eleemosyna
Bona est oratio cum jujunio, & Eleemosyna
quia Eleemosyna a morte liberat &c
YORK,
Printed by Tho: Broad, 1650.
Description.— Small 8vo. or 12mo.. pp. viii 96
Sheets A— F, 16 pages each; sheet G. 8 pages
The Epistle Dedicatory begins: —
To the right worshipful! Sir .John Savil^
Knight, High Sheri(ffe of the Countie of
Yorke, the Author wisheth all -weale and
happinesse.
The Epistle is followed by an Apologie of tot
Author: —
To the reverend Dodecastv of Minislers
■within the Vicaridge of Halifax who are
ingaged in this Commemoration, especially
to Mr. Robert Booth, now Minister at Hali
fax, the Apolagie of the Author.
In this he mentions his kinship to Mr. Wat
erhouse, and that the Dodecasty, or twelve
Ministers had to preach at Halifax Church, in
rotation, this endowed Monthly Sermon. The
Lightcliffe curate had his turn in December,
so Mr. Ainsworth's three sermons were de-
livered on the first Wednesdays of December,
1647-8-9. These monthly services, I believe, are
still rendered. As the titl»s of the three sei-
mons have been previously given, we will but
add. that the disasters of the late \\-ar and
schisms are very quaintly alluded to.
The second and third sermons are preceded
by a dedication —
To'the right worshipfull Langdale Sunderland
and William Rookes, junior. Esquires, the
Author wisheth all happinesse, comprehended
in the Greek in three words, chairein, ugarcMi
euprottein.
He here speaks of their friendship to him
in the days of his underhand fortune. He
was evidently a royalist, and had grievousJy
suffered for it, as did also his patron Capt^ll^
Laugdale Sunderland, of Coley Hall. Squire
Rookes, of Rookes Hall, was not so conspicuous
in the wars.
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V-^BV. WM. AINSWORTH: "MEDULLA
BIBLIORUM."
MEDULLA B 1 H LIORUM,
THE
M.\iRROW
OF THE
BIBLE,
OR
A logico-theological Analysis of every several
Book of the Holy Scripture together with
so many English
Poeme. o^ntaining the Kcphalaia, or Contents of
every several Chapter in every such Book.
Whereunto ivS adcle<l a Chronological (Marginal)
Annotation of the times and seasons.
Wherein divers acts and occurrences in the
Holy ScJ-ipture hapned.
Partly translated out of an "Annnymons" Lat-
ine Authour. and partly amplified and en-
larged for the benefit of all ihose that desire
a short and plentiful acquaintance with the
Oracles of God, very useful for all Christian
families.
By William Ain.sworth, Philotheolog>on, la-te
Lecturer at St. Peters. Chester.
LONDON.
Printed for George Calvert, at the Half-Moon,
in Paul's Church-yard. 1652.
Description — Small 8vo. or 12mo., pp. xiii un-
numbered, 1—208. Sheet A gives the Title, De-
dication and Epistle tO' the Reader. Sheets B —
O (excepting .T), 16 pages each. Though printed
in London, it is little, if any, superior to the
York book, ns the ifcorder around the title has
been made np in four difi'erent styles.
Besides my own copy, I know of foiir others,
namely: one I got for the late Mr. B. J. Walker,
"Halifax G^iardian"; and I believe the Rev. W.
C Boulter has one; another is in the British
Museum, and the fourth in the Congregational
Memorial Hall, London.
The dedication reads: —
To the Right Worshipful
SAMUEL SUNDERLAND,
ESQUIRE:
W AINSWORTH
Dedicates this Book, Intituled,
The Marrow of the Bible,
Aind -vrishes all the Comforts
Contained in it.
Worthy Sir,
So much of this small piece as was (originally)
in Latine was dedicated to no lesse a Personage
then, a Queen, viz. Queen Elizabeth, of blessed
memon-, whereupon I am induced and moved
to think, that you possibly will not disdain the
same, with its Additions in Etnglish. T am the
more confi.dent in this particiilar, upon these
two (very sufficient) grounds. I. Your bounti-
f\il acceptance of my "Triplex Memoriale,"
■u'hich being of as little worth as Bulk, was
not worthy of such acceptance as it found with
you. 2. The generous and chearful incourage-
ment . . in the enterprize, &c.
Sir, — Your Humble Servant, never unfaith-
ful, though always unfortunate, W. Ainsworth.
Feb. 17, 1651 [1652, present style.]
From this dedication we learn that Captain
Lan^dale Sunderland's uncle Samuel, had pe-
cuniarily assist/od in issuing the "Triplex"; and
from the Epistle to the Reader we learn that
Mr. Ainsworth composed the poetry and excuses
himself for building on the biblical analysis of
an anonymous Latin pamphlet, a small Enchiri-
dion. Datexl AiTgnst 8. 1651, from the least of
a,ll God's Ministers.
Each Book of the Old and New Testaments is
treated in two ways, (a) a synopsis or analysis,
very briefly condensed; and (b), a Poeme con-
taining the contents of each Book. From two
to four lines of rhyme condense the topics of a
chapter. The story of Sampson is slightly more
elaborate, thus: —
Judges.
13 The Philistines again oppresse the land.
Till th' Angel Manoah gives t' understand
Some comfort, he returns a sacrifice,
And Sa.mpson's born anon to victories.
14 Sampson doth marry a Philistian maid,
A.gainst them by this match his plot is lai3.
He riddles at his Nuptials for his life
None can resolve his riddles, hut his wife
With whom they deal and solve them, but
their pay
Cost thirty of their brethren's lives that day.
15 Hie wife's deny'd him, he takes that in
scorne,
And with fir'd Foxes doth destroy the Conie,
With th' Asses Jawbone he doth kill outright
A thousand, divers times he shoMS his migh'f.
16 Carries the gates of Gaza, had a wife
Called Delilah, and she did ?eek his life,
Betray'd him, when she could a fit way finde.
To th' Philistines, whose malice made him
blinde.
And made a Millne-horse of him, till he dy'd,
Thoiigh in his death the Lord his strength
supply'd.
After Colossians, the heavy-sounding "Logico-
Theilogical Analysis" gives place to the simpler
title "A Short Analysis" at the head of each
succeeding book. The poem on Jude is knocked
off in two lines: —
Jude doth foretel false teachers, and their fall.
And of their fall and teaching forewarnes all.
In Bohn's edition of Lowndes' Bibliographer's
Manual, the Marrow alone is mentioned, and
the Nassau copy is there given as selling for
seventeen shillings. It fetches more now. The
"Gent. Magazine" for 1827 (i. 99) and 1829 (ii. 290)
describe the book. A biography of Ainsworth
has yet to be written, and M'hat is known re-
specting him may 'be found in the reprint of
his "Triplex," 1886.
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11
VI. AECHBISHOP TILLOTSON.
During recent years several fraternal soc-
ieties have been established by Yorkehiremen
in London, Edinburgh, New Zealand, South
Alfrica, &c. That this is no modern idea will
l>e seen from the following narrative. The
Yorkshiremen in Loudon in 1678, imitating the
natives of other counties resident in the Met-
ropoliB, estaJblished a Yorkshire feast, and a
notable Yoikshii-e clergyman was invited to
preach a sermon on the same day. They are
called yearly feasts, and the senriou was preach-
ed in Bow Church. Dr. John TiUotson, the
•greatest preacher of his day, very appropriately
was selected for the first occasion. Dr. John
Sharpe, a Bradford man, afterwards Arch-
bishop of York preached the second sermon ou
February 17th, 1680; Dr. George Hickes, Kin^g's
Chaplain, officiated in Jime, 1682. and Dr. Thbs.
Cartwright, afterwards Bishop of Chester,
preached on June 24th, 1684. I have copies of
all these very rare sermons, small quarto, and
I believe no other sermons, have been printed;
though the feast is called a yearly one. Dr.
Hickes' sermon is not called the third so there
may have been others preached, but not print-
ed, in 1681 and 1683.
A
SERMON
Preached at the First
GENE(RAL MEETING
of the
GENTLEIMEIN, and others in
and near LONDON,
Who were Born within the
COUNTY of YOEK.
In the Church of S. Mary-le-Bow,
Decemb. 3. 1678.
By JOHN TILLOTSON, D.D. Dean of Can-
terbury, and Chaplain in Ordinary to
His Majesty.
LONDON,
Printed for Brabazon Aylnier, at the three
Pigeons over against the Royal Exchange in
Cornhill : And William Rogers, at the Maiden
head over against S. Dunstan's Church in
Fleet-street. 1679.
The Eipistl© Dedicatory.
To my Honoured
FRIENDS and COUNTRYMEN.
Mr. Hugh Frankland Mr. Gervas Wilcockes,
Leonard Robinson, George Pickering,
Abraham Fothergill, Edward Duffeild,
William Fairfax, John Topham,
Thomas Johnson, Jam. Longbotham,
John Hardesty, Nathan Holi'oyd,
Stewards of the York-shii-e Feast.
GENTLEMEfN,
THIS SERMON, which was first Preached, and
is now published at your desires, I dedicate
to your Names, to whose prudence and care the
direction and management of this First general
Meeting of our Country-men was committed :
Heartily wishing that it may be some way
serviceable to the healinig of our unhappy
Differences, and the restoring of Unity aud
Charity among Christians, especially thor?e of
the Protestant Reform'd Religion.
Gentlemen, I am
Your affectionate Country-mnn
and humble Servant,
Jo, Tillotpc>n-.
A
SERMON
Preached
At the first general Meeting of the Gentlemen,
and others, in and near London, who were
born within the County of York.
John 13, 34-35. "A new commandment I gire
unto you, that ye love one another; as I have
loved you, that ye also love one another: By
this shall all men know that ye are my dis-
ciples, if ye love one another.
AS the Christian Religion in general is the
best Philosophy and the most perfect Instit-
ution of Life; containing in it the most entire
and compleat System of moral Rules and Pre-
cepts that was ever yet extant in the World :
so it peculiarly excells in the Doctrine of Lcve
and Charity;
Thirdly I shall conclude all with a few words
in relation to the occasion of this pres^'nt
meeting. I have all this while been recom-
mending to you, from the Authority and Ex-
ample of our Blessed Saviour, and from the
nature and reason of the thing itself, this meet
excellent Grace and Vertue of Charity, in the
most proper Acts and Instances of it: But be-
sides particular Acts of Charity to 'be exercit^
upon emergent occasions, these are likewise
charitable Customs which are highly commend-
able, because they are more certain and con-
stant, of a larger extent, and of a longer con-
tinuance: As the meeting of the Sons of the
Clergy, which is now form'd and establish 'd
into a charitable Corporation: And the Anni-
versary Meetings of those of the several coiin-
ties of England, who reside, or happen to he
in London ; for two of the best and noblest
ends that can be, the maintaining of Friend-
ship, and the promoting of Charity. These,
and others of the like kind, I call charitahle
Customs, which of late years have very much
obtained in this great and famous City. And
it cannot but be a great pleasure and satisfac-
tion, to all good men, to see so generous, so
hiimane, so Christian a disposition to prevail
and reign so much amongst us.
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13
And -R-ho, that loves God and Religrion, can
chuse but take great contentment to see so
general and forward an inclination in People
this way? "Which hath been very much cher-
ished of late years by this sort "of meetings:
and that to very good purpose and effect, in
many charitable contributions disbursed in the
best and wisest ways: And which likewise have
tended very much to the reconciling of the
minds of men, and the allaying of those fierce
heats and animosities which have been caused
by our Civil confusions, and Religious distrac-
tions. For there is nothing many times want-
ing to take away prejudice, and to extinguisk
hatred and ill-will, but an opportunity for men
to see and understand one another; by which
they will quickly perceive, that they ar© not
such Monsters as they have been represented
one to another at a distance.
We are, I think, one of the last Counties of
England that have entered into this friendly
and charitable Society; Let us make amends
for our late setting out by quickening our pace,
that so we may overtake and outstrip those
who are gone before us: Let not our Charity
partake of the coldness of our Climate, but let
us endeavour that it may be equal to the ex-
tent of OUT Country; and as we are incompar-
ably the greatest County of Etigland, let it ap-
pear that we are so, 'by the largeness and extent
of our Charity.
in cl(^9 aa tradition says, was insulted by one
of the servants for enquiring if .Tohn Tillotson
was at home. The Archbishop died at Lam-
beth, November 22, 1694. Monuments have
been erected to his memory at Sowerby and
Halifax.
This Sermon ig printed in small quarto : Title
on pa^e i; Dedication, pages iii, iv; Sermon,
pages 1h32; Prayer, page 33; Advertisement (f
Dr. Barrow's "Treatise of the Pope's Suprem-
acy" on page 34; page 35, blank; last page —
Imprimatus, Guil. Jane E.. P. D. Hen. Etpisc.
Lond. a sacris domest. February 25, 1678-9.
The running title reads : A Sermon preached
at the York-shire Feast.
Dr. Tillotson's Works have been frequently
re-printed, and his Memoirs have been
published by Birch and others. He was
the son of Robert Tillotson, of Haugh End in
Sowerby, and was baptised at Halifax, October
3, 1630. His father was a leading Puritan un-
der the ministiies of the Rev. Henry Root and
E«v. Oliver Heywood, and was a manufacturer
and farmer in a small way.
The future Archbishop married Elizabeth,
daughter of Dr. Peter French, Canon of Christ
Church, Oxford, and had an only child Mary
who married .Tames Chadwick, E'sq. Dr. Tillot-
son was under the tutorship of the celebrated
Puritan, the Rev. David Clarksou, a native of
Bradford. It is commonly said that Robert
Tillotson made a journey to London to see his
son, then Dean of Canterbury, and being in a
plain countryman's dress, though probably not
VII.-TILLOTSON .-Continued.
In this article we propose to treat of the
various "Lives" of the famous Archbishop.
Though his father was a member of Mr. Root's
Independent Church at Sowerby, and after-
wards of Mr. Heywood's Presbyterian Church
at NorthoAvram, the son became the leading
churchman of the Establishment in England,
and indeed was largely the means of its ortho-
dox restoration. He had been fitted also by
tuition under the celebrated puritan, David
Clarkson, B.D., a native of Bradford. His
family and tutorial training had prepared him
to guide ecclesiastical affairs with moderation,
and his eloquence was the salvation of the art
of preaching when pulpit oratory in the pulpits
of the Establishment was at a very low ebb.
The first memoir that I know of appeared in
two forms in 1717, as under :
(a) "The Life of the Most Reverend Father
in God, John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canter-
bury (.compiled from the minutes of the Rev.
Mr. Young, late Dean of Salisbury), by F.H.,
M.A'., with many curious memoirs communi-
cated by the late Right Reverend Gilbert (Bur-
net), Lord Bishop of Sarum." This was pub-
lished by E. CurlJ, London, 1717, with portrait,
in folio size.
(b) Also on the same date and by the same
publisher, with portrait, 8vo. size, as under: —
The Life of the Most Reverend Father in
God John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canter-
bury. Compiled from the minutes of the
Reverend Mr. Young, late Dean of Salisbury.
By F. H.. M.A., with many curious Memoirs
communicated by the late Right Reverend Gil-
bert, Loid Bit^hop of Sarum. London, 1717.
Price 3s. 6d., octavo. The frontispiece gives
the fine half-length portrait by White, oppo-
site to which is the title, with a blank page
beliind. Pages iii.-iv. have the preface; v.-viii.
til" contents. The Life runs from 1 to 147;
page 139 contains an engraving of the marble
monument, with bust, arms, &c., erected in
St. Lawrence Jewiy to the memory of the Arch-
bishop. The 'Xife" is followed by some Cor-
rections and Additions, pages ii.-vi.; and "De-
fence" by Mens. Le Clerc, 1-66.
The best known "Life" is that by the Rev.
Thomas Birch, which was issued separately, as
well as forming one volume of the "Life and
Works."
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HALIFAX BOOKS A2sD AUTHORS.
"The Lite of the Most Reverend Dr. John
TilU>tson, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, com-
piled chiefly from liis Original Pai>erfe and
Letters. By Thomas Birch, M.A., Rector of
the United" Parishes of St. Margaret Pattens
and St. Gabriel Fenc.hurch, and Secretary to
the Royal Society." London, printed for J'oii-
sou. &c.. 1752. This is 8vo. size. The iMLge be-
hind the title is blank; pages iii. to vii. con-
tain the dedication to Thomas, Lord Archbishop
of Canterbury, in which the author mentions a
manuscript in Lambeth Library, written by
Dr. Tillotson, in short-hand characters largely.
Page viii is devoted to additions and corrections
The "Life" begins with page 1 and continues
to 395. The appendix number 1, pages 396-4:55,
^ives Memorials of .Tohn Beardnioi'e, M.A.,
written for his inivate satisfaction on the death
of the Archbishop. Number 2, pages 435-441.
records a notice of John Denton, who was eject-
ed from Oswaldkirk in 1662. and Mr. Nathan
Denton, who was ejected from Bolton upon
Derwent. Number 3, (442-450), has remarks on
the sermons, by John .Tortou, M.A. Pages 451-
498 contain a sermon preached at the Morning
Exercise at Cripplegate, Sept. 1661. now first
added to Tillotson's works. The next fifteen
pages give the index of chief persons mentioned.
Lowndes prices the book at 5s. (forty years ago),
and large paper copies at 22s. and 40s. Besides
the first edition I have three copies of the
second, which he priced at 26s., and this is the
edition mentioned in Watson's "Halifax." The
title page is exactly like the First edition, with
one line ejctra — "The Second Edition, corrected
and enlarged," and the date 1753. The cor-
rections on page viii. are left out. The "Life"
fills pages 1-380; Appendix No. 1. 381-415: No.
2, 416-425; No. 3, 426-433; Sermon, 435-469;
Index sixteen pages; errata, 1 page; adveitise-
ment of the "Works; 3 vols, folio, with the
iLuthor's Head engraved by Eavenet."
One of my second edition copies contains an
extra sixteen pages (1-16) between the "Dedica-
tion" and the "Life" ; and this sheet is headed
"Additions in the Second Edition of the Life of
Archbishop Tillotson," and in the 1753 edition
the 2nd appendix i-elating to Dentons is left out
and placed on page 11 as a foot-note. Ar will
be noticed afterwards there was published in
1755, an octavo volume entitled "Remarks upon
Birch's life of Tillotson." EVery biographical
dictionary from the Biographia Britannica to
the National work just completed contains out-
lines of Dr. Tillotson's Life, and Wat^^on's
"Halifax" gives a letter not found elsewhere.
In York Minster Library there are quaito
copies of the Hoirse of Commons Sermon, Nov.,
1678; Sermon before the King. April, 1680;
Thanksgiving. .Tan., 1688-9; before the Qiieeu,
March, 1690; also Oct., 1692; Feb., 1693-4: and
the Sermons, octavo, 1673; Gouge's Funeral,
1682; Frequent Communion, 1688.
VIII.-TILLOTSON (Continued).
THE WORKS
of the
MOST REVEiREND DR. JOHN TILLOTSON,
late
LORD IRCHISHOP OF CANTERBURY:
Containing Fifty-four Sermons and Discoui'ses,
on several occasions;
Together with
The Rule of Faith,
being
All that were published by his Grace HimBclf;
And was collected into One Volume to which
is added
An Alphabetical Table of the Principal Matters,
London :
Printed for B. Aylmer, at the Three Pigeons
against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill. And
W. Rogers, at the Sun against St. Diinstan'
Church in Fleet Street. MDCXCVI.
Though very inconvenient there is something
imposing and satisfying in handling a portly
folio tome. It is not much in the fashion now-
a-days. I got my copy from my friend Abraham
Holroyd, and the following is its description:
For frontispiece there is a beautifully engraved
portrait of the Archbishop in gown, tie and
flowing wig, with a full-fleshed face — a marked
expression in mouth, nose and eyes. It is
surrounded by oval wreath, surmounted by a
cherub, and at the base are the crown, and a
shield of arms, Canterbury impaling Tillotson
(blue, chevron and two sheaves). Maria
Beal, pinx. and P. Vanderbank, sculp. After
the title is a blank page, and this is followed
by the dedication on one page, to the Worship-
ful the Masters of the Bench and the rest of
the members of the Honourable Society of
Lincolns-Inn, signed Your most obliged and
faithful servant John Tillotson. The fourth
page is blank, and the Preface occupies the
next fourteen pages. The next four pages give
the texts for the LIV Sermons, and the Ser-
mons fill pages 1-664. Not a few of the greatest
English writers and orators have expressed
their obligation to these Sermons for their
attainments in ready fluency by mouth as well
as pen, and the Sermons have also been preach-
ed by divines of later date. Sermon 19 was
preached before the House of Commons, Nov.
5th, 1678, in remembrance, of course, of Guy
Fawkes' plot. Sermon 20 is the one preached
at the First General Meeting of the Gentlemen
and Others born within the County of York.
The 21st was preached at Whitehall, April,
1679. Sermon 22 was preached at the Assizes
held at Kingston-upon-Thames, July, 1681, and
dedicated to his friend the High Sheriff of
Sirrrey. The 23rd was a funeral sermon with
brief memoir of Rev. Thomas Gouge a Welsh
Bible benefactor. Sermon 24 was delivered at
the funeral of the Rev. Dr. Whichcot. Besides
sermons preached before the King, there is one
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• on the Ten Virgins preached at Tunbridge
Welle, September 1688, before the Princess Ann
of Denmark; and a thanksgiviii,f>; sermon for
our Deliverance by th© Prince of Orange, Jan.
31, 1688-9. The next one is on Forgiveness of
Injuries, preached before the Qneen at White-
hall, March, 1688-9, and next month another
at Hampton Conrt before the King and Queen.
There are several other Sennons, preached be-
fore the Queen particularly; these are followed
T3y a series preached in St. Lawrence .Tewry
in 1679-80 on the Divinity of Christ, which
had meantime aroused various criticisms. Ser-
mon 49 has a special sub-title and preface,
preached at St. Lawrence Jewry in 1684. It is
entitled Steadfastness in Eeligion. Sermon 50,
on Family Religion, and 51 to 54 on the Edu-
cation of Children hav© always been highly
appreciated; indeed, they will bear re-printing
at the present time, not less for their valuable
advice than for their beautiful flow of language.
Pages 665 to 779 give his famous treatise of
the Rule of Faith (in four parts), introduced
by a separate title-page as follows: —
THE RULE OF FAITH,
or an
ANSWER TO THE TREATISE OF MR. I.S.,
entitled
SURE-FOOTING, &c.
By His Grace John, late Lord Archbishop of
Canterbury.
The Fourth Edition.
London: Printed by J.R. for Brabazon Aylmer
at the Three Pigeons, &c., 1695.
This work was dated from Lincolns Inn,
February, 1665-6.
After page 780. which is blank, there is the
Table of Chief Matters, twenty pages, unnum-
bered.
I have the third edition of the Rule of
Faith: The Rule of Faith, or an Answer to
the Treatise of Mr. I.S., entitled "Sure Foot-
ing," by John Tillotson, D.D., Dean of Canter-
bury, to which is adjoyned a Reply to Mr.
I.S., his third Appendix, &c., by Edw. Stilling-
fleet, D.D. The third edition, London, Braba-
zon Aylmer, 168; octavo. Before the title is
a fly-leaf bearing the imprimatvir, Feb. 1666;
page behind the title is blank; nex£ follow
two pages of ascription to Dr. Stillingfleet.
"The Rule of Faith"— 1 to 271. Dr. Stilling-
fleet's Reply bears a separate titl^-page, Lon-
don, Henry Mortlock, 1688, pages 1-91, and a
postscript of four unnumbered pages.
Though not TillotiNon's, I may mention a
book that I have bearing on his works, namely.
Reason against Raillery, or A Full Answei- to
Dr. Tillotson's Preface against J.S., with a
faither examination. A.D. 1672. There is no
printer's name, or place, to this small octavo
volume. The page after the title is blank,
followed by four unnumbered pages devoted to
the Advertisement, foity to the Preface, and
two to the Index. The treatise fills pages 1 *o
246, with pages 89 to 96 duplicated; and coi:-
cludes witii eleven unnumbered pages, signi-d
by J.S. (supposed to be J. Sergeant).
There have also been folio editions of Dr.
Tillotson's Works as under: —
1699, one volume folio.
1707, one volume folio.
1712.
1714, three volumes folio.
1717, three volumes folio.
1722, three volumes folio.
1752, three volumes folio, with life of the
Author by Thos. Birch, and portrait by Rave-
net. I have none of these seven editions at
hand. The last is considered the best, and form-
erly sold for 52s. to =£4. It is in the Yoik
Minster Library.
IX.— TILLOTSON. Continued.
The octavo editions of Archbishop Tillotson's
works do not seem to have been so numerous
as the folio ones, and I have to quote from
Lowndes respecting the first octavo issue. Vol.
L, dated 1671; Vol. II., 1678; Vol. III., 1682;
Vol. IV.. 1694; &c. to Vol. XIV., small 8vo.
I have the First Volume, published from the ori-
ginals by Ralph Barker, D.D., Chaplain to his
Grace; second edition corrected. London, R.
Chiswell, 1698. It is dedicated to King William
by Elizabeth Tillotson, the Author's Relict,
and niece of Oliver Cromwell. The preface iS
dated "Lambeth, April, 1695; Ra. Barker."
Of Sincerity and Constancy in the Faith ai.d
Profession of the True Eeligion, in several
sermons by the Most Reverend Dr. John Tilli'-
son (being the First Volume published by
Ralph Barker, D.D.) 2ud edition, corrected.
London, R. Chiswell, 1698. Octavo. Page i'.,
imprimatur 1694-5; page iii., dedication to King
William, signed Elizabeth Tillotson; page iv.,
blank; Preface eight pages, contents five page.
Sermons, sixteen, but the ninth was cancelled
(pages 271-6). After pages 1-473 are three pages
of Chiiswell's advertisements announcing (inter
alia) Aiehfcishop Tenison's "Sermon at the
Funeral of Archbishop Tillctson."
The 14th vol. was not i.-sued until 1704. The
next octavo edition that I have met with was
dated 1704 and extended to fourteen volumes.
It formerly sold at 21s.
I have a set of the next octavo edition, twelve
volumes, asunder: Vol. I. — Sermons on Several
Subjects and Occasions, by the most Reverend
Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop cf
Canterbury. London, Ware, Ward, &c., 1742.
Frontispiece — a portrait of the author, 1694.
aged 64, Sir Godf. Kneller, pinx., G. Van de
Gucht, sculp., in a plain oval. Sermons 1-19,
pages 1-454.
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Vol. II., 1742; Sermons 2a-3-l., pages 1-445;
this includes the Yorkshire Feast Sermon.
Vol. III., 1742; Sermons 35-50, pages 1-440.
Vol. IV., 1742; Sermons 51-58, and The Rule
of Faith; pages 447-881. The publisher un-
aooountably continues the pagination from the
third voulme. ignoring the first two volumes.
Vol. v.. 1743; Sermons 59-8-1. pages 887-13-18.
Vol. VI., 1742; Sermons 85-110, pages 1351-
1808.
Vol. VII., 1743; Sermons 111-130; pages 1815-
2-287.
Vol. VIII., 1743; Sermons 131-1.')6, pages 2^89-
3759.
Vol'. IX., 1743; Sermons 157-182, pages 3761-
4222.
'Vol. X., 1743; Sermons 183-207, pages 4225-
4,707.
Vol. XI., 1744; Sermons 208-237, pages 4709-
5130.
Vol. XII., missing.
An Edinburgh edition was issued in 1748 in
twelve volumes. I have this edition: —
The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John
Tillotson, in twelve volumes, Loudon, Tonson,
A:c., 1748; five inches by three; a pocket edi-
tion. Vol. I., frontispiece portrait by Nixon;
general title-leafi, title-leaf for. Vol. I., pages
xxiv., 354.
Vol. II. 347 pages. Vol. VII. 391 page.?.
Vol. IIL, .346 pages. Vol. VITI., 392 pages.
Vol. IV., 336 pages. Vol. IX., 371 pages.
Vol. V. 383 pages. Vol. X., 381 pages.
Vol. VI., 393 pages. Vol. XT., 895 pages.
Vol. XII., 268 and 144 unnumbered pages.
In 1757 another London octavo edition, with
portrait, was issued in twelve volumes; and in
1760 the Edinburgh 12mo., in ten volumes, was
published.
The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John
Tillotson. in ten volumes. Edinburgh, 1759-
1760. Small octavo.
Vol. L, pages XXVIII., 372 (date (1760).
Vol. IL, pages IV., 408 (date 1760).
Vol. III., pages IV.. 416 (date 1760).
Vol. IV.
Vol. v., pages V., 447 (date 1759).
Vol. VI., pages V., 458 (date 1759).
Vol. VII., pages IV., 412 (date 1759).
Vol. VIII., pages IV., 439 (date 1759).
Vol. IX., pages TV., 418 (date 1759).
Vol. X., pages IV., 312, and an tinnumbered
index of 95 pages (date 1759).
Lastly (to the best of my know-
ledge) Priestley, of London, issued an octavo
edition, with Birch's "Life," ten volumes, with
copious inde.T. Indicating the great store set
upon these various editions in the sermon-
reading age before Victoria's reign, it may be
stated that sets were sold by auction at from
209. to 50s.
The original editions of the Archbishop's
small quarto sermons are excessively rare. "On
the Wisdom of being Religious" was finst issued
in 1664. "The Protestant Religion Vindicated"
was published in 1680. In it he argued that
the National Religion was not to be opposed,
a proposition that his father never anticipated.
Though strongly opposed to Popery, he was
moderate towards Dissenters. "The Rule of
Faith, or an Answer to the Treatise of Mr. I.S.
(Sergeant)," entitled "Sure Footing." London,
1666, 8vo. The 1676 edition is in York Minster
I/ibrary, 8vo.; the third edition was issued in
1688, 8vo.
I have a large paper copy, 8vo., own-
f»d by Dr. Bliss, of "Maxims and Discourses,
Moral and Divine" : taken from the Works of
Archbishop Tillotson, and Methodised and con-
nected. London, J. Tonson, 1719. It is dedi-
cated to Cassandra, Countess of Carnarvon, by
Lawrence Eichard, who also signs the Preface.
Pages XV., 1-112. I have also a copy of the
following book which gives more extracts than
Archdeacon Echard's work : "The Beaiities of
the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, carefully se-
lected from his Works, containing the admir-
able system of Early Education, Thoughts on
Religion, Atheism and Infidelity, Immorality
of the Soul, Ac, &o." Dublin, Wm. Gilbert,
1794. 8vo., pages xviii., 1-316.
Dr. Thomas Tenieon, who succeeded as Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, printed his Sermon at
the Funeral of Archbishop Tillotson, 1694; and
Dr. John Williams published a Vindication of
the "Divinity" Sermons, 1695. The first Ser-
mon fHat was printed of Dr. Tillotson's was
published by Dr. Samuel Annesley, in London,
4to., 1661, in the Tenth "Morning ESxercise at
Cripplegate." In the fourth edition, 1677, Til-
lotson's name is given as preacher. Though it
had been more than once published separately
it was not included in his Works before 1752.
In 1680 Tillotson published Dr. Barrow's "Trea-
tise of the Pope's Supremacy," 4to., and in
1675 had issued Bishop Wilkins' "Principles of
Natural Religion," 8vo. He also subsequently
published the sermons of Wilkins and Barrow,
1682, 1683. The Sermon preached before the
King in 1680 was issued in quarto at the King's
command, and was severely criticised on some
points. His "Discourse against Transubstanti-
ation," fourth edition, 1685; "Thanksgiving
Sermon," Jan., 1688-9; "Eiternity of Hell Tor-
ments," 1690; "Divinity Sermons," 1693, and
other publications are mentioned in Birch's
"Life."
Of publications issued against Tillotson, or
controverting his sermons, we can only mention
those by John Austen, and Cornelius Nary
(alias N.C.), and "Cliarge of Socinianism,"
quarto, Edinburgh, 1695. A copy is in York
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Minster Library, and also a "Reply to the
Charge," London, 1695, quarto. ^.tterbury
Vindicated the "Popery Sermon," Barbeyrac
translated the Sermons into French, Beausobre
(1728); and D^Albiac (1706), translated others
into French. The earlier sermons were also
published in Low Dvitch and in 1694 in High
Dutch.
Nahum Tate and Samuel Wesley published
poems on the death of Dr. Tillotson, and
Bishop Burnet preached his funeral sermon.
In 1748 he had become a B.D. Though holding
the incumbency of El land until 1762, he le
signed Halifa.x School in March, 1753, and \je»-
came a tutor at Cambridge, being created Li.L?.
four months later. The Duk© of Newcastle
gave him the vicarage of Damerham in Will-
ahire, which in 1766 he exchanged for vStaus-
field Rector.v, Suffolk, which he held wih tiin
rectory of Lawford in Eisse.x, besides hie Wo il
wardian Professorship, to which he had Open
appointed in 1764. These threj emoluments he
held until his death in March, 1778. He wa»
X.— REV. SAMUEL OGDEN, D.D.
Dr. Ogden was a native of Manchester, where
he was born in July, 1716. There was a monu-
ment in the Cathedial to his parents, — lys
father, Thomas, dying in 1766, aged 75. Samuel
was educated at Cambridge, and was ordained
a deacon at Chester in 1740, and in 1741, haviiig
taken the M.A. degree, a priest at Bugden ii.
Huntingdonshire. In 1744 he became Mast'T
of Halifax Grammar School, and was appointed
curate (or incumbent as we should say) of Co!ey
which he relinquished in 1747 for Elland Church
buried at St. Sepulchre's, Cambridge. In
1758 be published two sermons preached before
the University. Dr. Halifax, who edited hie
works, says there was a rusticity in his ad-
dresses that disgusted strangers, and notwith-
standing the sternness and even ferocity of hi»
countenance, iie was a most humane and tender
hearted man. Gilbert Wakefield's eulogy on
these sermons is given in Williams' "Christian
Preacher," and ia worth repeating — "Like Cice-
ro he lacks nothing to complete his meaning;
like Demosthenes he can suffer no deduction."
Dr. Johnson said that he fought infidels with
IS
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their own weapons. There was a Londou edi.
tiou of the collected sermons in two voliunts,
1786, and a foiirth edition in two volumes, 8vo.,
1788, and a filth edition London, 1805. These
various editions have sold at 12s. to M\, at
former sales, before sermone became a drug m
the market.
A smart poem on Dr. Ogden is often quoted :
"He placed in critice no reliance.
So clothed his thoughts in Arabic
And bade them all defiance."
The second edition of the yermous consiBts
of two volumes, small octavo, as under : —
"Sermons^I. On the Efficacy of Prayer and
Intercession. II. On the Alrticles of Chiistian
Faith, m. On the Ten Commandments, to
which are now added Sermons: IV. On the
Lord's Supper; in two volumes, by Samuel
Ogden, D.D'., &c., with account of the Author's
Life, and Vindication of his Writings. Second
edition, Cambridge, 1780. Vol. I., pages xxviii.,
1-332. Vol. II., page« xii., 1-376; a total of
fiftv-two sermons.
XI.— SAMUEL MIDGLEY.
HALIFAX
and its
GIBBET LAW
Placed in a True Light.
Together
With a Description of the Town; the Nature
ef the Soil; the Temper and Disposition of the
People; the Antiquity of its Customary Law,
and the reasonableness thereof : With an
Account of the Gentry, and other Eminent
Persons Born and Inhabited within the said
Town, and the Liberties thereof: With many
other Matters and Things of great Eemark
never before Published.
To which are added,
The Unparallel'd Tragedies committed by Sir
John Eland, of Bland, and his Grand Antag-
onists.
London, Printed by J. How, for William
Bentley at Halifax, in Yorkshire, 1708.
Such is the title of the first history of Halifax
generally called the Gibbet Book. My copy
measures nearly six inches by three and a
half. It has for a frontispiece a drawing of
the gibbet by J. Hoyle, delin., J. Harsden,
sculp., and opposite the picture is the title
page copied above. In the back-ground of the
picture the beacon is shewn on Beacon Hill,
and a house on the top of Range Bank. At
the foot of Beacon Hill the church tower is
raised a great height above the shops and
houses. I have four other views of the gibbet
differing in some respects from Hoyle's. The
page behind the title is blank. The next two
pages contain the dedication "To the Most
Noble and Mighty Prince, Thomas, Duke of
Leeds, &c., &o., by tlie humblest of Your
Graces Servants, William Bentley. The next
two pages give the preface, and the first chap-
ter begins with page 1, containing an intro-
ductory description. This chapter was prob-
iibily written by Bentley, and could not have
I een written by Midgley, as it refers to events
(town to ITOf). Cliapter II. records the Gibbet
Law (pages 19-54), and Chapter III. (55-69),
states the manner of trial in 1650. Chapter
IV. (70-105) gives notices of the gentry,
worthies, and a list of Vicars. Pages 106 and
108 are blank; page 107 has the second title
ac5 under : —
lievenge upon Revenge :
or an
Historical Narrative
of the
Tragical Practices
of
Sir John Eland, of Eiland,
High-Sheriff of the County of York; Com-
mitted upon the Persons of Sir Robert Beau-
mont and his Alliances in the Reign of Edward
the Third, King of England, &c.
Together
With an Account of the Revenge which Adam,
the son of Sir Robert Beaumont, and his
Accomplices took upon the Persons of Sir John
Bland, and his posterity, herein fully, and
plainly, a48 well as impartially represented
for the satisfaction of the Inquisitive Part of
the World.
The whole being divided into three equal
Parts. Printed in the Year 1708.
The prose narrative runs from 109 to 153,
and the rest of the book (154-174) giveis the
Account of William Lockwood and Adam
Beaumont, Elsqs. It will be noticed that the
ballad account does not appear in this book.
I need not state that the volume is exces-
sively rare, and the only copy I have noticed
as on sale was priced at <i;4. I have a letter
before me that I received in January, 1887,
from the great book collector, Mr. Edward
Hailstone, F.S.A., of Walton Hall, in which
he says "It may interest you to know that the
original MS. of the Gibbet Law of Halifax is
here." It is to be hoped that this manuscript
was sent to York Minster Library with ''he
rest of the Hailstone bequest, but Canon Eaine
told me he had not received (by a large number)
the books that were intended to be deposited
at York. A sight of this manuscript might
lielp us to see how far Bentley made addi-
tions to the original, which has alwaj's been
attributed to Samuel Midgley, son of William
Midgley, of Luddenden. The father died in
August, 1695, aged 81, and the son who prac-
tised physic died the preceding month, namely,
July 18th, 1695, a prisoner for debt in Halifax
gaol. He had been a prisoner for debt in York
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Castle, 1685, wheu Oliver Heywood was incar-
cerated for preaching, and Midglcy was thrice
in Halifax gaol as a debtor. Wliilst in prison
he wrote the Gibl>et Law Book, and Mr. Wat-
son, 130 years ago, .states tliat Midgley's pov-
erty prevented him printing the book wluch
he wrote for his own support, and he not only
lost the benefit of his labours in his life-time,
but had another man's name put to his work
when he was dead. "Sic vos nou vobis &c."
William Bentley was clerk of the parish church
at Halifax.
I have not got a copy of the second edition,
but Mr. Boyne, Leeds, in 1869, describes it in
"The Yorkshire Library." The title differs
considerably in the wording as will be seen ; —
"The History of the Famous Town of Halifax
in Yorkshire. Being a Description thereof.
Their Manufactures and Trade. Of the
Nobility, Gentry and other Eminent PereouB
born and inhabiting thereabout. With a true
Account of their ancient odd customary Gibbet
Law, and their Particular Form of Trying
and Executing of Ciiminals, the like not us'd
in any other Place in Great Britain. To
which aie added, Revenge upon Revenge : or
an Historical Account of the Tragical Prac-
tices of Sir John Elland, &c.
Published for the satisfaction of those who
understand not tliat Prayer :
From Hull, Hell and Halifax,
Good Lord deliver us.
London, printed and sold by E. Tracey at
the Three Bibles on London Bridge, 1712."
The size was a duodecimo, but I have not
seen a copy to make personally a further des-
cription, so I cannot state how many pages
there are.
Of the third, and a recent edition we write
in thj next article.
XII.— SAMUEL MIDGLEY, Continued.
HALIFAX AND ITS GIBBET LAW
Placed in a True Light. Together with .^i-.
(as in the first edition, 1708). Halifax: printed
by P. Darby, for John Bentley, at Halifax,
in Yorkshire, and sold by the Bookselleas in
Town and Country. 1761.
This very early specimen of the Halifax
press was issued at Is. 6d., but fetches about
7s. 6d. or 10s. now. We shall come across the
name of P. Darby again as a book printer. The
paper is very poor, and the type small though
good. There are 95 pages, duodecimo size.
Page 59 contains the second title " Revenj,"?,"
and at the foot " Halifax : Printed by P.
Darby, MDCCLXI. It is a verbatim copy >)f
the first edition, with two vicars' names added,
and John Bentley 's name in the dedicadon
in place of his father's. On account of the
e.xtreme rarity of this book, especially ti;
first and second editions, I determined many
years before I could secure a copy that I ivould
reprint it, so that its contents might be
accessible to the public. Though I have the
first and third editions, I have not seen ed
the one dated 1712. The present generatioi
have not shewn jnucli appreciation of my aim.
but if a few have been gratified, and sa'' ed
the long anxious search that I had, I must
remain contented. Sometime the owners or
copies will be re-couped. The reprint b'f.]s
the facsimile of the 1708 title page, and the
picture of the Gibbet as a frontispiece. 'I he
words "Reprinted for J. Horsfall Turner, -dd,
Bradford, 1886,'' appear above the title. The
book was printed at Bingley in small octavo,
and is a verbatim copy of the originals, pages
viii., 1-51. omitting the Elland Tragedies only,
which I have issued as a separate reprint, bijt
instead of the Tragedies there is an Appenrlix,
pages 52 to 92, giving Mr. Wright's account of
the Gibbet Law, in which he refers to thr<^e
authorities that will be mentioned afterwards
as Halifax Authorg, namely. Rev. W. Clifford.
Mr. Nalson, and Mr. Brearcliffe. The App<n-
dix next gives the additions made in Mr.
Watson's history, and concludes with ihe
usual list of the names of persons beheaded.
Mr. Crabtree's remarks on the Gibbet follow
the list, and these again by notice of a drama
played at Halifax in 1837, entitled "Dennis,
or the Gibbet LaAV." Thomas Crossley'e poem
on Dennis, and Deloney's prose romance,
which introduces Hodgekins, the Halifax
clothier, are next quoted. Sundry little pam-
phlets have been issued respecting the Gibbf-t
but these chap-books are very unsK^tisfactory.
because untrustworthy. One printed by .fohn
Woffenden, Wesley Court, Halifax, 16 pag*-*=,
sold at Id. was taken verbatim from Crabtree.
Tweddell. of Stokesley, printed in his tractafpc
(Number 8), "Halifax Gibbet." in six pngp*=.
with the name of J. R. Robinson, Dewsbinr.
on the title, weighted by bombastic tHIep,
though every word was taken from Watson '=
Halifax. About 1860 W. Armstrong, Man-
chester, issued a twelve-page pamphlet, cue
penny, entitled "From Hell, Hull and Halifax,
Good Lord Deliver Us"; not a new fact in it,
all copied. A Hull magazine reprinted a foiir-
page account by Clucas. all copied. Tin n
there have been newspaper and magazine
articles past reckoning, but all hashed up :is
usual and incorrect.
It is very remarkable that from the time
of Midgley, two hundred years ago, blunders
have been printed and reprinted without veri-
fication. If Midgley searched the Parish Rfpi-
sters, he as well as William Bentley, the pan-h
clerk, neglected to print the list of culprit ".
Next we come to the Rev. Thomas Wr'^hi-,
cm ate at the Parish Church, who in his
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History, 1738, makes tli© astounding statement:
"Thougli I have searched the registers fr^m
1538 very carefully, yet I do not find one f:.e-
cnted till 1568." Past^ing on to Mr. Watson s
History, 1775, we find that although he had
been curate at the Parish Church his list on:its
the first instance mentioned in the Reg'sl^r
and gives the next name wrongly. For a
hundred and thirty years these errors iiave
lieen peri>etuated, and the Corporation «as
misled into cutting them on the tal)let at the
site of the gibl>et in Halifax. The Corporation
have just resolved to amend the carved in-
'^ciiption. It ought to record that it is Known
tliat from the time of King Eldward I., VJ''z.
gibbetings have taken place at Halifax; that
Charles Haworth's name is the firwt on record
in the Parish Register. January 15th, 1531> cM
style; that the Register only dates from 153S;
that Richard Beverley (not Bentley) was tru
second instance mentioned in the Register.
His name has always appeared as Bentley, a
decided mistake. The third is recorded an-
onymously, and besides these three are three
others, .John Brigg, John Bcoppe and Thomas
Waite that are mentioned notwithstanding
"Mr. Wright's avowed carefuilness. From l545
to 1568 there is no entry of a gibbet, but it is
certain the omission was because the registrar
did not feel impelled to so enter cases that
occurred. Mr. Wright is also wrong in several
dates of the months in those he has given, and
misses several other names in both Ihe
fiist and second register books. In one he is
right and Watson Avrong, namely, Henry Hunt,
1576. should be Henry Smith; and ThomaB
Roberts, 1588, he gives as the wife of Thomas
Roberts.
XIII.— REV. THOMAS WRIGHT.
The
ANTIQUITIES
of the Town of
HALIFAX,
in
Yorkshire.
Wherein is given an Account of the Town,
Church, and Twelve Chapels, the Free Gram-
mar School, a List of the Vicars and School-
masters; the ancient and customary Law,
cfvll'd Halifax Gibbet Law, with the Names of
the Persons that suffered thereby, and the
Times when; the public Charities to Church
and Poor; the Men of Learning, whether Na-
tives or Inhabitants, together with the most
remarkable Elpitaphs and Inscriptions in 'he
Church and Church-yard.
The whole faithfully collected from private
Authors, Rolls of Courts, Registers, old Wills,
and other authentic Writings. By the Rev.
Thomas Wright, of Halifax.
Pro captu Lectoris habent sua fata libelli.
Leedes: Printed by James Lister, for James
Hodgson, bookseller in Halifax; and sold Vy
John Wood, at the Dove in Pater-Noster-Row,
Loudon; by the Booksellers of Leeds, and J.
Lord in Wakefield, 1738.
This book measures seven inches by four,
and contains the title page as before, the next
page behind it being blank. This is followed
by pages i. — vi., giving the preface, and 1-207
containing the History. In the preface be
mentions Midgley'g book of 1712, but not the
first edition 1708. He finds fault with the im-
perfections and falsities of the Gibbet Berk;
refers to writings of the Rev. Wm. Clifford.
M.A., and Mr. John Brearcliffe, apothecary.
Mr. Wright expected that the reader will be
surprised that the volume is so lar^e as it is,
if he consider the Barrenness of the Soil. Little
did he expect his successor to print a thick
quarto volume, which we now know could
have been enlarged to a dozen such volumes.
The heading on page 1 takes Midgley's title,
"Hnlifax and its Gibbet Law." Chapter 1
describes the Manor and Grammar School (pp.
If29); Chapter 2, the Church and Vicars (pp.
30-74); Chapter 3, Gibbet Law (pp. 75-iC4);
Chapter 4, Charities to Church and Poor ipp.
104-131); Chapter 5, Literary and Biographies
(pp. 132-177); Chapter 6, Elpitaphs (pp. 177-
196); Appendix, on the Calder, the Gibbet,
and the Warrens (pp. 197-207).
The Rev. Thomas Wright was a native of
Blackburn, born August 12, 1707. Leaving
Blackburn School he entered St. John's Ccl-
lege, Cambridge, and took the B.A. degree. Be
was curate of Halifax Church many years, end
in 1750 was presented to the living (then called
a curacy) of Riiiponden. At Ripponden a
monument was erected to his memory, which
bore the inscription "Here lieth interred the
body of the Rev. Mr. Tho. Wright, A.B., who
was Curate of Halifax near 18 years, and of
Ripponden 4. He died the 8th day of June,
1754, in the 47th year of his age."
Mr. Watson says: "It is remarkable tJjat
Mr. Wright was my immediate predecessor in
both the Curacies of Halifax and Ripponden,
and that we have both wrote the Antiquities
of Halifa.x." We may add "Yes, with a dififer-
encei." Mr. Watsion left Ripponden, after
fifteen years residence, in 1769, and became
Rector of Stockport.
I am not aware that Mr. Wright publishdl
any other book or pamphlet. His History, I
need hardly say, has long been scarce, and can
seldom be bought for less than 17s. 6d. It I. as
once or twice to my knowledge been snapped
up at 10s. 6d., and sometimes priced at 256.
It is one of the books I had to wait years frr,
before I could even get the loan of it, hut
when a copy became my own, in face of a
certain loss in reprinting it, I ventured to
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issue a verbatim copy, in 1884; adding the
much needed index of persons and places, 96
pages, printed at Bingley. By so doing I
offended a young man at Halifax, who had
been fortunate in having a book-collecting
father, Mr. E. J. Walker, editor of the "Hali-
fax Guardian," for whom I had procured
Ainsworth's "MarroAV of the Bible," when I
found a duplicate, and with whom I had long
had friendly associations. The son, in editing
his father's "Notes on the Halifax Eegisters,"
says, "Eecently Wright's Halifax has been re-
printed, and is now offered for sale at a low
price. This is no cause of congratulation.
Its only effect is to lower the value of what
remaining copies of the original edition theie
are in the hands of book collectors, for which
they will not thank the re-printer."
Well, I don't care whether they do or not,
but Mr. Walter shewed in these words sordid
selfishness and crass ignorance. Wright's
Halifax has fetched more since the re-print
appeared than it did before, and it must r'se
in price by its very scarcity.
XIV.— REIV. JOHN WATSON.
The History and Antiquities
Of the Parish of Halifax in Yorkshire.
Illustrated with Copper- plates.
By the Rev. John Watson, M.A.,
Rector of Stockport in Cheshire, and F.S.A.
"I have considered the days of old and the
yeans that are past." — Ps. Ixxvii., 5.
London : Printed for T.Lowndes, in Fleet St.
MDCCLXXV.
This is a portly quarto book of great value,
and can seldom be bought for less than £5.
The frontispiece is a portrait of the autlior
by the Halifax artist-author, W. Williams.
There is next a folded plate of the South East
view of Halifax, Williams del., P. Mazell, sc.
After the title leaf is the dedication to the
Inhabitants of the Parish of Halifax, 2 pages.
The History embraces 764 pages, and the index
ten unnumbered pages.
The third plate, a folded one by Williams,
represents Druidical Remains. After so]»ie
woodcuts is a Miscellaneous Plate of A.nt'-
quities. Next come two folding plates, nam-Jy
a Plan of the Town of Halifax, and a South-
East Prospect of Halifax Church. Publisiied
according to Act of Parliament, 1762. The
last four plates are numbered I., II., III., IV.,
namely. Antiquities of Halifax Church; Monu-
ment of Bryan Waterliouse, &c. ; Antiquities
of Eland Chapel; Monuments to Saviles a d
Thornhills. There is no special excellence in
either the paper or the illustrations, and
though the work is incomparably superior to
Wright's, we know it now to be very deficient,
so much so that it is ridiculous to think tf a
new edition.
Mr. Watson was born at Lyme-cum-Hanley,
in Cheshire, in 1724-5. He became curate at
Halifax Parish Church in 1750, succeeding -Mr.
Wright in the position, and on Mr. Wright^s
death in 1754 he again succeeded him in the
living or curacj' of Ripponden. In 1759 he had
become widely known as an antiqviary, and
was elected F.S.A. in that year. In 1770 Sir
George Warren gave him the Rectory of Stock-
port. After leaving Grammar Schools in Lan-
cashire, he graduated at Brazen-nose College,
Oxford; B.A. in 1745, Fellow 1746, M.A. l'(48.
He settled at Halifax in October, 1750, and
m;irried a Cheshire lady in 1752, and his ec-
ond wife. Miss Jaques, of Leeds, in 1761, at
Elland. In 1766 he obtained a living in Lin-
colnshire. He became a county magistrate in
Cheshire in 1770. He died in 1783. His manu-
scripts have been scattered. Two in the pos-
session of Sir Tatton Sykes, of Sledmere, I
examined at Langton Hall, Malton, by favour
of the squire, the Rev. C. B. Norcliffe, who
claims descent like his ancestor Sir Norcliffe
Norcliffe, from a family that took its name
from Norcliffe, near Shibden, opposite to Sut-
cliffe in Hipperholme. These manuscript voL
umes, small folio size, contain notes from Hey-
Mood's Diaries, &c.
Mr. Watson had previously printed three
separate publications as under : (1) A Discours©^
from Philipp, iv., 5, preached in Halifax
Church, July 28, 1751, entitled. Moderation;
or a Candid Disposition towards those that
differ from us, recommended and enforced;
with a preface containing the reason of its
publication. There were two editions of this
pamphlet. (2) An Apology for his Conduct
yearly on the 30th of January (anniversary of
the execiition of Charles I.) Annexed is a
Sermon preached in Ripponden Chapel on ihe
30tli January, 1755, from Romans xiii., 4, in-
titled "Kings should obey the Laws." This
pamphlet was printed at Manchester, 8vo. size.
(3) A( Letter to the Clergy of the Church,
known by the name of TJnitas Fratrum. or
Moravians, concerning a remarkable Book of
Hymns used in their Congregations, pointing
out several Inconsistencies and Absurdities in
the said Bonk. This was an octavo pamphlet,
printed at Manchester in 1756. We may have
occasion to refer to these three productions,
and although the first Moravian hymn-book
was not a Yorkshire book it was mainly 'sed
here, and owing to the too literal translation
of German hymns, and other uncouth expres-
sions it was certainly open to criticism, anu
eventually was superseded.
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Mr. Watfion also wi-ote articles for the 'Arcli-
aeologia," London, including (1) an Account of
a Eoman Station lately discovered in the bor-
ders of Yorkshire; read to the Society of Anti-
quities, Feb. 20, 1786; (2) A Mistaken passage
in Bede's Ecclesiastical History (Feb., 1766);
(3) Druidical Eemainp in Halifax Parish (No^'.,
1771); this was incoiporated in the History
■of Halifax.
Several other fugitive pieces by Mr. Watson
appeared in different periodic-als Avithout lis
name. A,t the time of his death he had rn:>de
collections for a book on the Antiqiiities of a
part of the County of Chester; and also for
a part of the County of Lancaster. For his
patron. Sir George Warren, he compiled the
"History of the Ancient Earls of Warren and
Surrey, and their Descendants to the Present
Time." The aim was to prove that Sir George
was entitled to the Earldom of Surrey. Tlie
work has generally fetched large prices, live
guineas sometimes, but its iocai value, che
Warrens being the Lords of Wakefield, Halifax
Arc, is not important. It was issued fiom
Warrington in 1782, in two quarto volume.«.
XV.— REV. JOHN WATSON, Continued.
I place Mr. Watson's name here becaase
though his name does not appear as the aiith-
or of the next History of Halifax, it was his
work, and we scarcely know whom to blame
as the plagiarist. The Rev. El. Nelson,
Lecturer at Halifax Parish Church, and Curate
•of Coley, has had to bear the guilt for a !• iig
time of issuing a book that he had no right
to publish without acknowledging the author-
ship. It is to be hoped that he had little
more to do with it than translating the Latin
epitaphs and poems into Eliglish, in which te
has M'on a small space for himself amongst
local poets. He also took part in estimating
the population of the parish, before the Nation
in 1801 felt its obligation.
THE HISTORY
of
THE TOWN
and
PARISH of HALIFAX,
Containing
A Description of the Town,
The Nature of the Soil, &c., &c.
An Account of the Gentry and other Eminent
Persons born in the said Town,
And the Liberties thereof.
Also
Its Ancient Customs,
and
Modern Improvements;
Also
The Unparelled Tragedies Committed by
Sir John Eland of Eland,
and
His Grand Antagonists;
With a full account of the Lives and Deaths of
William Lockwood,
and
Adam Beaumont, Esquires.
Also,
A Catalogue of the several Vicars of
Halifax Church,
With the time of their Institution and Death.
Halifax : El. Jacob, printer.
The frontispiece is a folding plate of the NorUi
West view of Halifax, shewing the viaduct
(North Bridge) and Church, by W. Burgess,
del. and sculp., and Fielding, pinx. After the
title leaf, we find pages 1 to 648, octavo eize,
followed by The Revenge or Eland TragedieB,
which has a separate title leaf, and pagination
1 to 70. This second title reads: —
REVENGE UPON REVENGE:
or, an
Historical Narrative,
of the
Tragical Practices
Sir John Eland, of Bland,
High Sheriff
of the County of York;
Committed upon the Persons of Sir Robert
Beaumont, and his Alliances, in the Reign cf
Edward the Third, King of England, &c.,
together
With an Account of the Revenge which Adam,
the Son of Robert Beaumont and his Accom-
plices took upon the persons of Sir John Elaml
and his poisterity, herein fully, and plaialy,
as well as impartially represented, for the
Satisfaction of the inquisitive part of the
World. The whole being divided into three
equal parts.
Halifax : El Jacob, printer.
1789.
This book was issued in numbers, and with
varying names of publishers as will be 'eeu.
Number 1, pages 1-24. The printer only worked
off eight pages at each time. The thirty num-
bers each contain 24 pages. Opposite page ^26
there is John Hoyle's larger plate of the Gib-
bet, signed 1650; no human figure is i^pre-
sented on it. Complete copies give two other
plates, which being folding ones are often torn
out, namely, at page 647 the Inside View of
the Piece Hall, taken from the West Gatev,-ay,
W. Burgess, del. et. sc, and at page 648, i!-e
Independent Chapel in Halifax. To Bentley's
Account of the Eilland Tragedies there is added
the ballad account, 124 verses of four lines
each. Of the three copies I have of this book,
bearing Jacob's name, only one has the four
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plates complete. The 9 of page 369 is upside
down, and 535 is printed 525. The remainder
s»em to have been issued in three other t^t.vles,
as on one title page there it the impniit:
Halifax, printed by E. Jacobs, bookseller, in
the Corn Market. MDCCLXXXIX. On an-
other: Halifax, printed by EL Jacobs, near the
New Market, for J. Milner, Coni Market. *
MDC(-LXSXIX. A third variation reals:
Halifax, printed for N. Frobisher, York, and
S Crowther, London. [17891. Sometimes ^he
book is called Jacobs', Frobisher's, and
other times Nelson's, but I feel convinced
from the slip-shod editing that the Rev. Fd-
ward Nelson had very little to do with it. It
contains matters that are not found in Mr.
"Watson's volume, and though we cannot ex-
cuse the meanness of the anonymous publisher
iu robbing Watc^on of his dues immediaroly
after his death, T gladly acknowledge the in-
tense pleasure that the perusal of the oid
copy in the Brighouse Mechanics' Library gave
me when I was a member in 1856 or there-
aboiits.
* In Milner's edition page 376 appears on the
jiroper side of the letterpress; 321 has the 2
properly, not upside down; 369 is not altered,
part. After long delay four parts were • ued
altered. I take these comparisons from .Md.
Horsfall Vint's copy with Milner's imprint.
XVI.— EErV". JOHN WATSON, Continiu'd.
Mr. B. N. Alexander, F.S.A., sixty years »f o,
gathered some materials for a new edition of
Watson's "History of Halifax," but made no
further progress. About 1865 Mr. F. A. Ley-
land issued "Proposals for publishing a -utw
and enlarged edition of the History and Anti-
quities of the Parish of Halifax, by the Rev.
John Watson, M.A.." edited with additions and
corrections by F. A. Loyland, with notes f:om
the manuscripts of Mr. John Brerecliife and
Mr. E. N. Alexander. As I was in London in
1866 and 1867, Mr. Leyland induced me to
get a "pass" from Sir T. DutTua Hardy to
examine the local documents I. could find in
the National Record Office. Some of these I
copied and reported to Mr. Leyland, but he
failed to finish his project, and 130 never used
the notes. The three-page folio circular an-
nounced the work iu about six parts of 100
pages each, royal 4to, at 12s. 6d. per part, with
a lai-ge paper, superior edition, at 24s. each
part. After, long, delay four parts were i • uud
at 6a. 6d. each, small paper, 12^ inches by H),
fifty-two pages each part. There it was left
unfinished, and must remain so, for myfr'end
died several years ago, and many of his tub-
scribers pre-deceased him. The covers (there
is no title page) bear the title "The History
and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, by
the Rev. John Watson, M.A., (second tuition),
with additions and corrections by F. A. Ley-
land. The whole considerably enlarged by ex-
tracts from the MS collections of Mr. Jch.'i
Prerecliffe and Mr. E. N. Alexander, F.S.A.,
rtlatuig to the Ecclesiastical affairs. Public
Charities, and Family Genealogies of th'e Pal-
ish of Halifax. London: Longmans, Green and
Co. Halifax: printed and published by R.
Leyland and Son.
The omissions and additions are so numorinis
that there is little of Watson's work uppa^'o'it,
and at the rate of Mr. Leylaud's re-writing.
th> book would have needed thrice six hundred
pages, and have been quite different from the
original. In December, 1892, I had a lettt'r
from the editor in which he says he was work-
ing at the ecclesiastical chapter. At page P7
there is an inserted plan of the Roman Roads
iu Halifax parish. Opposite 123 ts the plaa
of a Roman House at Slack, Outlane. Oppo.?ite
page 171 is the plan-elevation of the north side
of the Parish Church. There are a few other
illustrations with the letterpress, and the 2C8
Iiages carry his account down to 1314. At i he
time when I had last correspondence with Inm,
I had spent a considerable interval in ex.nn-
ining Wakefield Manor Rolls, and somewliot
damped his ardour by stating that it was
foolishness to attempt a history of Halifax
parish from 1300 to 180O without transcribii:g
scores of pages from those Rolls. Since then,
some years after I gave over copying them,
Mr. John Lister has often been there, and the
first two Rolls have been edited by Mr. Paley
Baildon.
Biographia Halifaxieusis :
or
Halifax Families and Worthies.
Compiled by J. Horsfall Turner.
Vol. L
Containing the Biographical and Genealogical
Histor.y of Halifax Parish, from Watson's His-
tory, being about one-half of his book, was
printed for the compiler at Bingley in 1883.
This was issued separately in justice to Mr.
Watson's labours to clear the way for a second
volume, now ready but unprinted, to bring Mr.
Watson's family histories down to the present
time. The first volume is an octavo, pp. xvi.,
374.
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XVII.— JOHN CRABTREB, GENT.
A CONCISE HISTORY
Of the Parish and Vicarage of
HALIFAX,
In the County of York.
By John Crabtree, Gent.
Halifax, Hartley and Walker, printers.
MDCCCXXXVI.
This is an octavo volume, of which the fol-
lowing is the description : Frontiispiece, Steel
plate of Halifax by N. Whittock, del., J. Rogers
sc, pages ix., 1-563. Wood engraving on fly haf
opposite page 108, by 0. Jewitt, 6c., Duffield.
Folding sheet opposite page 313 giving the par-
ticulars of population in 1831. Wesley Chapel,
wood cut, opposite page 340, and opposite page
311 a sheet with wood cuts of Zion and Hanover
Street Chapels, all three drawn by Horner,
•iigraved by Whimper. They take the place of
PAges 341-2. Opposite 359 is a folding plate of
the Plan of the Town by Jas. Day, land sur-
veyor, Halifax. 1835, and opposite 529 a small
plate representing a plan of the Borough, .viih
the Halifax Seal, 1662. Other illustrations
appear with the letterpress, and the view of
the Parish Church (steeple), by J. Horner, en-
graved by G. Bonner occupies page 96 (page 95
being blank.
After the title leaf is the dedication to the
Rev. Charles Musgrave, B.D., vicar, prebendary
of Givendale, to whom thirty-four years hter
(1870) I was brought under obligation by free
access to the Parish Registers, which I wailed
myself of for many months. The Venerable
Archdeacon Dt. Musgrave will come under
notice as an author. Mr. Crabtree was a soli-
citor, I believe, born in London, and the preface
intimates that he suffered from deafness. He
died unmarried in Halifax in 1837. He men-
tions favours received from Mr. James E.
Norris, Mr. Edward Nelson Alexander, "ind
Mr. F. A. Leyland. Pages xi. and xii.,
give Contents and Illustrations respective-
ly. This book has gone up considerably
m price. As a boy I could once have
bought one in Halifax market for 7s. 6d.,
but I had to be content witli my mouth water-
ing; now it is thought very cheap at lUvee
times the price. In some retspects it is a g-jod
supplement to Watson's "History," but I'ke
all tlip Histories of Halifax deficient in the
ancient history that the Wills at York, the
Archl)i.shops' Rolls there, and the Memrjrial
Rolls at Wakefield (not to mention the Rolls
of tiie Sub-Manors), could alone supply. 'There
\\-i*re 750 copies of Crabtree's History printed,
besides 250 on largo paper. Further partica'arR
rei^pecting Mr. Crabtree are desirable. Mr.
J. P. Birtwhistle owned the wood cuts a trw
years ago.
In the last seven articles we have dealt with
old authors of Halifax histories, but other col-
lectors should be named who have not issued
separate works. John Hanson, of Rastric-k,
though he never printed anything, assisted
Camden nearly three centuries ago, and com-
piled the Hanson pedigree, with emblazoned
arms, and a history of Liversedge. Oliver
Heywood was another collector. John Brear-
cliffe, apothecary, Halifax, who died in 1682,
aged 63, was fond of collecting everything relat-
ing to his native town and -parish. Mr.
Watson had twenty folio papers in his hand-
Avriting, intituled "Inquiries for the findin.je
out five gifts given to pious uses by divers
persons deceased, dated Dec. 22, 1651." Thores-
by (in Vic. Leod, p. 68) mentions Brearcliffc's
Catalogue of Halifax Vicars, and inscripi,i )ns
painted under their arms in the library thire
by his care. His "Siirvaye of the howsingis and
lands in the township, 1648, seems to be 1< £t
with his other MSS." Gough, II., 434.
Mr. El. J. Walker and Mr. F. A. Leyland
discovered some of the Brearcliffe manuscripts.
Mr. Walker often refers to them in the looal
Portfolio, which appeared in the "Halifax
Guardian," when he was editor. Mr. .Ithn
Lister is pre-eminently taking the whole of the
parish, the greatest Halifax antiquary now
living.
Watson's Halifax is said by Gough in "B it-
ish Topography," 1780, to want method and
better plates. I have the copy of Gough i hat
belonged to the celebrated Yorkshire Anti-
quary, Joseph Hunter, F.S.A., which bears
numerous notes in his hand writing, one note
on Gough's remark is as follows : "This is
true ; but the work deserved some praise. A
copy of it is in the possession of a gentleman
at Halifax (1828) with many manuscript no<Fs
by Dr. Whitaker as if he meditated to repub-
lish it." On this we may reiterate as a fact
that no one could do justice to the History of
Halifax without consulting largely the Man-
orial Rolls, which Dr. Whitaker never did.
The Doctor includes in a general way the
parish of Halifax in his "'Loidis and Elmete."
or Leeds and district, 2 folio volumes, 1816.
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XVIII.— CAPTAIN HODGSON, COLEY.
Au anonymous book was printed at Edin-
burgh in 1806, the supi;osed editor being llic
faniouis Sir Walter Scott, though it has been
attributed to the scarcely less noted author,
Joseph Ritson, the ballad-collector and anti-
quary. I have had to wait a great uumbej'
of years before I could purchase a copy, which,
though water-stained in the frontispiece, was
thought to be cheajj at half-a-guinea. My old
friend (a native of Slead Syke), Mr. Thoma,s
Thornton Eimpsall, had a fine copy, but he
gave much more for it, and lent it to nie in
1872, when I was living at Mont Blanc, Brig-
house. I copied verbatim pages 83 to 198, t^o
highly did I value the information. It will be
best, however, to describe the full book, al-
though only the pages named refer to Captain
Hodgson. The volume is 8vo. size, with a
small oval frontispiece, the portrait of Sir
Henry Slingsby, Bart. The title-page read.s :
"Original Memoirs, written during the Great
Civil War; being the Life of Sir Henry
Slingsby, and Memoirs of Captain Hodgson :
with Notes, &c." Edinburgh, 1806. The dorse
of the title is blank, then a fly-leaf has "Some
Account of Sir Henry Slingsby," followed by
another blank page. Pages i. and ii.. contents;
iii.-.xvii.. Accounts of Sir Henry vSlingsby, of
Scriven, near Knaresboro', and his family.
Pages 18 and 20 are blank, and 19 only giveis; a
sub-title, " M,emoirs of Sir Henry Slingsby,
Baronet." These Memoirs are recorded from
pages 21 to 81, and page 82 is blank. Our
special interest in the book begin,^ with the
sub-title: —
Memoirs of
Captain John Hodgson,
Of Coalley Hall, near Halifax;
Touching His Conduct in the Civil Wars, and
His Troubles after the Restoration.
Written by Him.self, and now first published
from his manuscript.
The next page, 84, is blank, and 8.5 to 87
contains the "Advertisement, by Joseph Ritson
Esq." The manuscript had been in the
possession of Captain Hodgson's son-in-law,
William Kitchen. Captain Hodgfeon settled at
Ripon, and is thought to have died there soon
after September, 168.3, the date of the last
entry. Pages 89 to 198 are what we claim as
distinctly a Halifax publication. Captain
Hodgson resided at Godley, next at Coley Hall
and afterwards at Cromwell Bottom, all iii
Halifax parish.
He was on the closest terms of friendship
with the Rev. Oliver Hey wood, a presbyteriau
and Congi^gationalist, whilst the Captain wa.s
more definitely *an Inilependent. He was a
widely-known magistrate during the Common-
wealth, and travelled far and wide with Oliver
Cromwell when waging war against Charles I..
He made two great local enemies thereby. Sir
.lohn Armytage, of Kirklees, and Mr. John
Peebles, J. P., Dewsbury, the Clerk of the Peace
for West Yorkshire, son of Mr. Peebles
(Peobles, Peoples, and several other spellings),
a Scotchman who was some time the LightcUfte
preacher. His account of the Sieges of Brad-
ford, and the many encounters in Yorkshire
and various parts of England, as well as in
Scotland and the Isle of Man, are very simply
and briefly recorded from memory; and his
tines and imprisonments are very pathetically
told. The book was useful to Sir Walter ScotV
in Rokeby, and in one of liis novels. I think
I have lately discovered some descendants in
t'\e North of England, who bear the name
Hodgson, but no pedigree has yet been com-
piled of the family. His son Timothy was-
chaplain to Lady Hewley at York, and is often
mentioned by Oliver Heywood in his Diaries.
'The rest of the book under notice needs but
a few lines liere. These pages 199 to 367 con-
tain reprints of tracts bearing on the Cam-
paigns of Oliver Cromwell in Scotland, and
aie given to amplify the references in Hodgson's
Memoirs. The tracts are: The Fight at Leith
(London, 1650); The Elnglish Army in Scotland
(London, 16.50); The Army in Scotland (London,.
16.50): Letters from Scotland (London, 16.50);
Scotch Army at Dunbar (London. 16.50); Lord
General Cromwell's Lettei- from Dunbar (Lon-
don 1650); Cromwell at Stirling (London,
16.50); four other small pamphlets of the same
date, on the Campaign in Scotland. Leaving^
otit the Life of Slingsby and the tracts on the
Campaign in Scotland, the whole of the refer-
ences to Captain Hodgson, with notes on his
family history and an index and illustrations,,
are given in the following edition: —
Autobiography of
Captain John Hodgson,
Of Coley Hall, near Halifax;
With additional notes by
J. Horsfall Turner.
Biii>hoiise, A. B. Bayes, 1882; 82 pages. Is. 6d..
Introdtiction by the Editor, 16 pages. Re-
print, verbatim, pages 17-65. Notes and pedi-
greefi, pages 66-82.
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XIX.— HElSRY ramsden.
A Gleaning
ill God's Harvect.
Foure Choyce Handl'iils;
IGate to Happiiiesse.
Wouuded Saviour.
Epicures Caution.
Generation of Seekers.
~Bj the late .Tiulicious Divine Henry Ranieden,
eometime Preacher in Loudon,
ludg. 3. 2. Is not the gleaning...
London
■Printed for .1. D. and R. M., and are to be
eold by Thomas Slater, at the Swan inn,
Duck-lane, 1639.
I need not state that this is an exceeding-
ly rare book. It is a small quarto, and 1 got
it cheaply at 6s. 6d. Each page has an ob-
long ruling, and the outer margin of each
page is also ruled for notes, but very little
used by the printer. The doibe of the title
is blank, and the next fourteen pages (unnum-
bered) contain the Epistle to the Reader, sign-
ed lohn Goodwine. The Bucceediug eight un-
numbered pages give The Contents of the
ensuing Treatises. The Gate to Happiness,
pages 1 to 99; The Wounded Saviour, 101-1-29;
The Epicures Cavtion, 131-193; The Genera-
tion of Seekers, 195-231.
The celebrated preacher notes the Pauline
doctrine that if drink " offend my brother we
wii not driuke strong drinke while we live,"
" We must not choose such company because
there is danger of infection by their example
and their counsell. It breeds many lusts."
"It hurts the body, soul and estate, and wrongs
the commonwealth and the poore. Wee many
'times speake against drunkeunesse and if there
were not lawes made against it what could wee
•expect but an inundation and catoclieme and
over whelming: Time was, it was the fault
of beggers. As Drunke as a Begger, they used
to saj', but now it is the fault of great ones.
It is a fault not onely of the night and of the
darkenesse, but of the noone day." Home-
brewed beer, balm tea and mint-tea were the
■common beverages in those early days of the
Stuarts.
The author of these four discourses, was
son of Godfrey Ramisden, of Greetland, and
became a pupil at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in
1610. The Ramsden family had then become
one of the leading families in the parish, and
the Crawstone branch have kept up the reput-
ation to this day, in the Ramsden-Fawkes of
HawksW'Orth and the baronets of Byram Hall.
Henry took his degrees in Arts, and became
Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1621,
and five yeare later became a famous preacher
:iii London, being much resorted to for his ed-
ifying and Puritnnical sermons. His brother,
Hugh Ramsden, B.D., baptized at Elland on
March 17, 1594-5, became vicar of Halifax in
Ociober, 1628, but had held the Rectory of
Methley before that date. We see the influ-
ence of the Savilles in these appointments.
Hugh died of a fever at York, .July 161h, 1629.
and was buried at Halifax in the chancel, on
July 19th, and a Latin inscription
and the Ramsden's amis, perpetuate Ids
memory. Henry succeeded his brother in tiie
Halifax Vicarage in August. 1629, both having
been presented thereto by Charles I. Henry
died in March, 1637-8. and was also buried in
the chancel. A Latin in.scriptioii gives his
titles as M..\. and .T.P., and his arms still re-
main on the chancel ceilinT: argent, between
three fluers-de-lis on a chevron sable, as many
rams' heads of the fii.'^t. His widow died at
El land, Alav flth. 168'i. There was a Hugh
Ramsden, of Stainland, 1670, who issued a
penny token. Grace Ramsden. of Hawksworth,
in 1734, founded a school nt Eilland, as shewn
by her will in my "Halifax Faniilie.s." The
two vicars had a biother William, who was
Rector of Edgmund, Shropshire.
XX.— THE WILKINSONS.
On the authority of Wood's "Athense Oxen."
Vol. II., pages 112-543, we learn that Henry
Wilkinson was born in the Vicarage of Halifax,
October 9, 1566, and entered Oxford Lniversity
in 1581, where he was elected Probationer
Fellow of Merton College, by favour of his
kinsman Henry Savile, the warden, in 1586.
He took degrees in Arts and became B.D. In
1601 he had the liviug of Waddesdon, in
Bucks., conferred on him, and was buried there
in March, 1647. In 1643 he was elected one of
the Assembly of Divines. Although he Mas
author of several pieces I only know the two
mentioned by Watson : —
1. — A Catechism for the Use of the Congre-
gation of Waddesdon ; fourth edition, octavo,
London, 1637.
2. — The Debt Book, or a Treatise on Romans
liii., 8. wherein is handled the civil debt of
money or goods. London, 1625, octavo. There
is a copy in the Congi-egational Memorial Hall,
London. We cannot claim his eon as a native
of Halifax, probably; but incidentally we may
mention that thiis son, also named Henry,
wrote several works. One I have now before
me, in small quarto, pages vi., 39, entitled —
A SERMON
AGAINST LUKEWARMENESSE
IN RELIGION.
Preached at Saint Maries in Oxford, the sixth
of September, 1640. By Henrj' Wilkinson,
Batchelour in Divinity of Magdalen Hall.
Printed by order from the House of Commons,
in which he states that he had been suspended
for preaching it, but released by Parliament.
He refers to the Scots having taken New Castle.
yii
HALIFAX BOOKS AJs'D AUTHORiJ.
In spemliug a low lioui.s at the Kawdou Bap-
tist ColU'Ki- Lihraiy. Aiiril. 1904. I met with
three voliiiiics of rare old divinity iu that re-
markable collection made by the Rev. John
Siilclitt'e, ol ()ln<»y, about 150 years ago. The
volumit^ bear the title "'I'liree Decads of Ser-
mons at St. Mary's, Oxford: By Henry Wil-
kinson, D.D.; Oxford, 1660; quarto size, pages
XX., 242; xvi., 19:); viii.. 198. .U the Congrc-
gational .Memorial Hall. London, there i.s an-
other copj' of tlie Tliree Decads; and in the
same Library tliere are also the following
works of Dr. H. Wilkinson: —
The Hope of Glory; a funeral t^ermon for
Mrs. Corbet. Oxford, 1657.
The Doctrine of Contentment, I. Timotliy,
vi., 8. London. 1671, octavo.
Character of a Sincere He>art. and the Com-
fiirts thereof. Collected out of the Word of
Cod. Small octavo, 1671.
Counsels and Comforts for Troubled Con.<ci-
ences; 12mo., 1679.
Two Treatises— (lod's All Sufficiency, and
Christ's rreciousne.c.s. Small 8vo., 1681.
There had l)oen a Vicar of Halifax, Tliomas
Wilkynson, born in Oveuden, wlio became Vicar
before 1437. and made his will in 1481. He
paid for the great chancel window, and his
aims are painted on the chancel roofs. Tlie
same arms are also painted there for .Tosepli
Wilkiuison, a later Vicar, buried nt Halifax
1 the last day (Dec. 31). 1711, after twenty
years vicariate. He liad served as Vicar of
Chapelizod. Dublin, and Rector of Wigginton.
His monument gives his age as sixty. The
fir.st master of Halifax Grammar Scliool was
Richard Wilkinson, B.A.. 1600. Dr. John
Wilkiui^ou is claimed in the Gibbet Book as a
native of Halifax parish. From being a stu-
dent at Oxford he rose to the position of
Divinity Professor there. Wood's Fasti, i.,
173, speaks of hijn as a B.D., Fellow of Magda-
len College. Tutor to Henry, Prince of Wales,
son of James I., President of Magdalen ffal]
and College. He fled from Oxford to the Par-
liament, and was deprived of his presidentship.
Tt is pretty certain that he was the same John
Wilkinson who wrote ".\n Exposition of the
13th Chapter of the Revelations of Jesns
Christ." a quarto booklet, privatelv printed in
1619. (See Anthony a Wood, p. 37).
Whether any of the other Wilkinsons were
nnthors I have not been able to discover, nor
whether Rnbeit Wilkinson, author of "The
"Nferchant Royall. a Sermon at the Nuptials
of Lord Hay and his Lady." was a native of
our wide parish. This sermon is a small
quarto, printed in London in 1607, and is a
whimsical eomnosition in which he attempts to
draw a resemblance between a ship and a
woman. He was also author of "A Paire of
f'ermons Preached to a Paire of Peerless and
SucceediiiQ' Princes CHenry and Charle.s). Lon-
don, quarto, 1614.
XXI.— TWO DOCTORS OF MLDlCINl:.
THOMAS NETTLETON.
A Latin inscription might have been seen
formerly in the chancel of Halifax Church to
the memory of Anna and John, infant cliildren
of Thomas Nettleton, M.D., who died respec-
tively in 1711 and 1717, and of Su.sauua, the
doctor's si«ter, 1718, aged 23. The doctor was
son (if .fohn Nettleton, of Dewsbury, and after
taking the M.D. degree at Leyden, settled at
Halifax. He and Mr. West, of Undcrbank,
near Peniston, were the first to teach Sander-
son, the blind professor, the principles of
mathematics. Dr. Nettleton wrote articles for
the Philosophical Transactions, of great nov-
elty and use, including the heights of hills
indicated by the baiometer; inoculation of
.smallpox; the latitude and longitude of Halifax
and other places in the district. He was the
boldest to practice inoculation, foi' whilst all
other doctors had i)erformed 121 cases he alone
had inoculated 61.
He married in 1708 Elizabeth Cotton, of
Haigh Hall. Barnsley, and had several child-
ren. Though he died at Halifax, .January 9,
1742, he was buried at Dewsbury, where a long
Latin inscription records his virtues, his age
being 58. I am not awaie that he wrote more
than one book (though Watson calls it a pam-
phlet), the title being "Some thoughts concern-
ing virtue and liapi)iiiess in a letter to a
clergyman." London, 1729, octavo, which he
afterwards much enlarged. Tt was re-printetl
in 1736, octavo, and this edition is consideret!
thw best. The third bears the title:
A TREATISE
ON
VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS,
BY
THOM.VS NETTLETON. M.D. and F.R.S.
The Third Edition,
Corrected and very much improved by the
Author.
London, octavo, 1751.
The following is the description of my copy:
After the title and a blank page the preface-
and contents occupy pages i. to viii. The
Treatise fills pages 1 to 263. There was a
.seventh edition, l2mo., printed at Edinbui-gh
in 1774. Dr. Nettleton 's work has always held'
a high place in modern literature because of
the high moral tone in which he expresses
mental, physiological and social possibilities.
The first part treats of affection, goodness,
happiness, object of life, results of deviation,
prevention of errors, human imperfections,
ren.soning powers. The second part concerns
pleasures, pains and external senses, sympa-
thies, social affections, moral sense, virtues and
vices, amiability, beauty in nature, natural'
and acqitired education, the highest good. Part
three refers to pa.ssions, sensual appetites, love
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
of money, depraved imaginations, sense of
T-igl't and wrong, and of honour. Halifax par-
ish ought to be proud oF its claim to tliiis book,
as one, with seveial others tiiat will be bub-
spquontly mentioned, bearing the stamp of true
liliilosophy.
EDWARD WATKINSON.
On thfci south sile of Halifax Chancel is, or
wnH, a pilla:- moi.unient to the memory of
Mary, only daughter of the Rev. Edward Wat-
kir.'^on, curate of Luddenden. She died in
August, 1726, aged Ihree years. Mr. Watkin-
son removed soon afterwards fo the rectory of
Little Chart, in Kent. In .Tune. 1732. he con-
veyed a me.ssuage house, &c., in Vicar-lane.
L<eds, and foi;r cottages in the neighbourhnod
of Leeds, by deed to two Midgley gentlemen,
in tiiiist to provide loaves weekly for Warley
and Midgley poor v.-idows. Afr. Watkinson was
only three and a half years at Luddenden, and
left before June, 1728. He had obtained the
M.D. degree. Having had his house at Little
Chart broken open and plundered he was so
teirified that he durst not live any longer in
the neighbourhood, biit removed to Ackworth,
near Pontefract, where he died October 19.
1767, aged 74; leaviug a widow, then aged 68.
Til the Christian's Magazine. .Tan., 176.5, (here
is a commendation of a booklet of which Dr.
Watkinf-on was the autlinr. entitled "An Ad-
ministration to the Younger Clergy." He was
also the writer of "An Essay on Gratitude,"
and his "Essay on Economy" reached four
editions, being mostly given away. He estab-
lished the Watkin^on's Hospital for poor
people of .\ckwnrth and Pontefract, Mr. Sam).
Saltonstnll (a Halifax family representative!
was the executor, 1767. Enrtlier accounts may
bp found in Saywell's ".Vckworth" and Fox's
"Pontefract."
XXII.— THREE FAMOUS DOCTORS.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE. DR. HENRY
PAVER. AND DR. HULME.
Far more people have heard of Sir Thomas
Browne's faraoun book "Religio Medici" than
have read it, yet it is a fascinating book, and
til • numerous modern editions that have ap-
pe^ired in recent years show that publishers
find a ready sale for it. Sir Thomas wae a
famous M.l5., who won a knighthood in ac-
knowledgement of his leaniing. He was a
native of London, but spent .some time in se-
clusion at Upper Shibden Hall (the one higher
"•> Shibden Dale than Mr. Lister's Mansion).
Universal consent gives this visit as the time
when the doctor wrote his "Religion of a
Medical Man." It was circulated in manu-
script, but it go't copied and re-copied, and
then printed with triors anonymously, so that
the author issued the book as he wished it
ti appear. Sir Thomas died at Norwich, where
h^ had lived many years, and he wais author
of several other works, but Halifax can lay
no claim to them. The collected works were
issued in a big folio in 1686. with his portrait.
This sells for 25s. generally. A Norwich edi-
tion was issued in four volumes, 8vo., in 1836,
with large paper coT)ies as well, selling re-
spectively at 50s. and 4 guineas. Bolin's edi-
tion in three volumes iis a re-publication of
th^ Norwich edition. Browne's Posthumous-
Works were issued in 1712. octavo, one volume.
Besides the "Religio." but not so popular, his
chief l^ooks were "Urn Burial," "Vulgar
Errors." and "Christian Morals."
Of the oldest editions of "Religio Medici" we
only note the first, London, 1642, 12mo., with
frontispiece by Marshall. This was reprinted
i.i 1643. with observations of Sir K. Digby. I
met with a copy of the fourth edition at Raw-
don Bapti.st College a few days ago; London.
1656, 12m0'., 302 pagies, anonymous, but followed
by observations on "Religio Medici" by Sir K.
Digbr. same size, 124 pages.
An edition, probably surreptitious, appeared
ill 1663. folio, with portrait. The London edi-
tion of 1733. 12mo., with life by Dr. .Tohnson.
was held to he the best until recent issues
appeared. It has been translated into almost
every European language. .\lex. Ross wrote a
counter book in 1645 entitled "Medicus ATedi-
catus." In this famous Shibden-dale book ap-
pears the beautiful poem "The night is come.'*
which anticipated the favouiite evening hymns
by Bishop Ken and others.
Sir Thomas died in 1682 aged 77. A mem-
orial of him has been erected at Norwich in
recent years. It was about 16.30 when the doc-
toi" resided in Shibden. So far as I am aware
this is the only Halifax book that has been
honoured by being placed on the Index Purga-
torius of the Roman Church. As the book may
now be had in very neat cloth at one shilling,
xxxi., 262 pages, the reader may find pleasure
a.nd profit, as well as privilege, in ordering it
at any bookseller's shop.
Henry Power, M.D.. practised physic in Hali-
fax, and at New Hall. Elland, and Wright
states that he died there, but Wilson's manu-
scripts inform us that he removed to Wakefield
and this is substantiaited by the Latin inscrip-
tion on a brass plate on the chancel floor of
Wakefield Church. He died in December, 1668.
aged 35. I have not seen his "Experimental
Philosophy." in three books, containing new
experimenta. micro.scopical, mercurial, and
magiietical, 4to., London, 1664.
Nnth;vniel Hulme, M.D.. lived for some time
with his uncle in Halifax. This uncle, .Toeeph
Hulme, was a famous M.D., a friend of Prof.
Wm. Gibson, of Slead Hall, and lived to over
;i4
halh^ax books and authors.
ninety years of ag*'. 'I'lic laiiiily wfie idt^nti-
fied wiH) Noiiponformity in Halifax ami Brad-
ford. Natiianial wiote: "Lihellus de Natiiia
■Causa, Curatioiiequt' Scoibuti. To (liis is an-
nexed a proposal for preventing tlu' seuivy in
the Briti.>li Navy." octavo, London, 1768.
\ X 1 1 r.— MEiUlCAL M EiN : BREARCLl FFE
A^D RITCHIE.
We have already given the names of "Dr."
Midgley, the Rev. Dv. Watkinson, Dr. Nettle-
ton, Sir Thoinae BrowiLe. Dr. Power, and Dr.
Hulrae, nietlical men of olden times, a* autli-
or.s of Halifax booked, we may be excused in
adding John Brearcliffe, an apothecary in
Halifax, his native phuej^ where he died of a
fever. December 4th. 1682, aged 63. Like Mr.
Midgley, but more elaborately, he dabbled in
antiquities, and neither of them printed their
own" eollectious. Mr. Tlioresby, of Leede, ae-
cordiug to the manuscripts of Mr. Wilfeou. of
Leeds, saw Brearcliffe 'e> collectionB relating to
the antiquities of Halifax, in the library at
Halifax Church, biit Mr. Watson said they
were not there from about 1750. For a long
period these manuscripts w«re supposed to be
lost, but the late Mr. F. A. Leyland, the late
Mr. E. .T. Walker, and otherts have met with
a quantity of them and taken copies of some.
The Halifax Historical Society ought to print
these at an early date, especially
(1) A particular survey of all the houseings
and lauds within the townshippe of Halifax,
accordinge to the best information that could
be had, taken the 22ud day of November, 1648.
(2) Halifax inquieryet? for the findeinge out
of severall gifts given to pions uses by divers
persons deceased. Written December 22, 1651.
I believe the apothecary was son of Edmond
Brearcliffe, the parish clerk at Halifax.
James Ritchie, said to have been M.D., was
a dissenting minister at Mixenden Congrega-
tional Chapel, but then Arian in doctrine. He
came from Alton in 1753, and found an almost
empty chapel, which did not improve much in
his ten years' service. Benjamin Patchett, one
of his eldens, was an author that we shall have
to mention shortly. Patchett must have been
a thorn in the flesh, for he was in the habit
of calling out contradictions when the preacher
displeased him. Mr. Ritchie resided at Shaw-
booth, and was very useful and benevolent as
a physician. He died about 1763. His publica-
tions, so far as I have discovered, were: —
"A Criticism upon Modern Notions of Sacri-
fices, being an examination of Dr. Taylor's
Scripture Doctrine of Atonement, in relation to
.Jewish Sacrifices and to the Sacrifice of our
Lord Jesus Christ: To which is added an
appendix containing another notion of JeAvish
Sacrifices, which is exhibited in an anonymous
piece published at London in 1746, ejititled '.vn
Essay on the Natui-e, Design, and Origin of
Sacrifices," 1761.
The .above work he (laboiated into a more
comprehensive one, which he sent to the press,
l)ut died before it was printed. His widow,
liowever, aided by a r<ubscription list (the
names of subscribers api>earing in the work),
brought out the same in two quarto volumes,
printed at Wairington ""in 1766, entitled, "TTie
Peculiar Doctrines of Revelation, lelating to
piacular Sacrifices, Redemption by Christ,
Faith in Him, the ti-eatment of different moral
characters by the Deity under the several dis-
pensations of revealed religion. &c., exhibiteB,
&c., in two essays, viz.. On the Rectitude of
divine moral government of rational creatures,
and the Rectitude, &c., in the treatment of
different moral chariicters under the dispensa-
tions of revealed religion, the Adamical, Patri-
aichal. Hebrew, and Clnistian : to which are
f<ubjoin"d two dissertations on the Office of
.Tesus Christ as Mediator and Surety, and on
the Person of Christ.
XXIV.— THE BROTHERS DEAN.
The Dean family had resided for a long per-
iod in Halifax parish before the birth of the
two authors named below. The "History of
Brighouse" shows that Simon of the Dene
waii amongst the leading men of Hipperholme
graveship from 1300. A branch of them gave
the name to Dean House, near Coley Church,
and in the time of Elizabeth, Saltonstall — a
grand old homestead at Warley — was the home
of Gilbert Deane, who had married Elizabeth,
daughter of Edmund Jennings, of Silsden.
Their son Richard was born at Saltonstall, and
became at seventeen a student in Merton Col-
lege, Oxford, 1587; became B.A. in October,
1592; and M.A. in 1595. It is rumoured that
ho taught a school at Carmarthen, but doubt-
fully. He became Dean of Kilkenny, in Ire-
land, and in 1609 he succeeded Dr. John Hors-
fall, a native of Heptonstall district, as Bishop
of Ossory, but died February 20th, 1612, and
was buried in the Cathedral at Kilkenny un-
der a marble monument, near the Bishop's
throne. Dr. Horsfall was buried in the same
Cathedral and a monument bearing the Hors-
fall's arms still exists there. I am not aware
that either of these Bishops left even printed
sermons, and shall be pleased to receive traces
of their publications.
Eidmund Dean, brother to Richard, entered
Merton College in 1591, aged 19, and after his
B.A. took at Alban Hall the degrees of Bach-
elor and Doctor of Physic. He settled in the
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
35
•city of York, and iJiaetieed tliere^ iintil about
the beginuing of the Civil Wars. He was
author of "Spadaprene Auglica; or the Englisli
Spaw Foiiutaine : l)eing a briefe treatise of tlie
A.cide or Tart Fountaiue iu tlie Fore.-<t of
Knar<>sboio\v, in Yorkshire, by Edniiiud Deaiie,
Doctor of Physicke." This is iu israall quarto
size. London, 1626.
This refers to Harrogate Spa, first diecoveied
by Mr. William Sliugsby about 1.571.
The next edition is entitled "English Spa^v :
or the Glory of Knaresborough." By I)i'.
Edmund Deau; quarto, York, 1&49.
The third ndition was issued in octavo size
in IT'jo. seemingly at Leeds, according to
Messrs. Boyne and Lowndes. This edition con-
tain.s additions by Dr. Stanhope and others. It
is entitled "Spadacreue Auglica, or the English
Spaw, being an account of the waters of Haiio-
gate and Parts adjaceut."
Dr. Michael Staulioije issued hii'^ two Spaw
b(!oks in 1627 ami 1633 respectively, and Dr.
John French puljlished a small 12mo. book in
1652, on the York.shire Spaw, which is said to
have been re-published at Halifax in 1760. but
I have not got a copy. Dr. George Xeale. of
Leeds, wrote on the same waters in "Sjiada-
•crene Eboracensis, or the Yorkshire Spaws near
Knaresborough," and several others before 1700
contributed volumes to the siabject.
William Alexand'er, M.D.. who've name will
he found again I'especting Horley Green Spa. in
Shihden-'lale, pnl)lished an octavo book on
^'Plain and Easy Directions foi- the use of
Harrogate Waters.'" Edinbui'gh, 1773.
THE HORLEY GREEN MLNERAL WATER;
Its New Chemical Analysis and Medicinal
Uses; by W. Alexander, Tif.D.,
Physician to the Halifax Infirmary, &c.;
Author of a Treatise on Sea-Bathing and the
Mineral Springs of Scarborough, &c., &c.
Halifax, Leyland and Son, 1840. This is a
small octavo, with view of Shibden-dale as a
froutispiL'ce, and Horley Green Spa House as
a vignette on the title page. There are x and
50 pages. In the preface he tellrs of the re-
discovery of the Avell since Dr. Garnett and the
first Dr. Alexander wrote about it. He also
refers to his Scarborough book issued aboiit
1833. The preface is dated Lord-street, June
5th, 1840.
Thomas Garnett, M.D., was author of " Ex-
periments and Observations on the Horley
Green Spaw, near Halifax. To which is added
a abort account of two other Miueral Waters
in Yorkshire. Bradford, printed for the auth-
or by George Nicholson. 1790, 86 pages, octavo.
In Dr. Granville's Northern Spas, 1841, there
is a view of Halifax, page 398, wood cut.
XXV.— REV. PATRICK BRONTE.
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COTTAGE POEMS,
by the
Rev. Patrick Bronte, B.A..
Minister of Hartshead-cum-Clifton, near Leede,
Yorkshire.
Halifax, P. K. Holdeu, for the Author.
Sold in London, Wellington, Halifax, Lee<lb,
&c., 1811.
Though the Rev. Patrick Bronte lived most
of his life near the borders of Halifax parish,
he was never a resident within our limits; so
w© only mention this little book as a sample
of the Halifax press, issued by Peter Kenyon
Holden, who was allied by marriage connectionB
with the Byles' family, Bradford, and I believe
the noted Halifax printer was interred in XJn-
deicliffe Cemetery. Mr. Bronte's little 16mo.
book contains xvi. and 136 pages. A good,
clean copy will sell for 15s. or even .£1. Its
size is e^in. by 4in. Mr. Bronte printed some
more books of poems and sermons, but only
two were printed at Halifax. The "Cottage
Poems" have been re-printed in the Collected
Works of his daughters, seven volumes, by
Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co., but without the
introduction, and will be found in the eame
volume as "The Professor." Recent publishers
also have included it in the "Bronte Works,"
but the only collection of the Rev. Patrick
Bronte's Works is the one edited by J. Horsfall
Turner, in crown 8vo., and in quarto size, large
paper copies. This was issued in 1898, at 56.
(or lOe.), and contains 304 pages, with many
illustrations.
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REiV. P. BEOXTE (in old ajre>.
THE RURAL IVIINSTREL:
A Miscellany of Descriptive Poems.
By the Rev. P. Bronte, A.B..
Minister of Hartshead-cum-Clifton.
Halifax, P. K. Holden, for the Author. 1813.
This little volume matches the earlier one
iu .size. Pages xii., 108. This book is quite as
raie as the "Cottage Poems," and has not been
re-printed except in my "Collected Works and
Life of Rev. P. Bronte."
The Cottage in the Wood" and "The Maid
of Killarney" were printed at Bradford, as
also two pamphlets, and two other pamphl<^ts
weie printed at Keighley.
We next come to a sermon printed at Halifax,
demy 8vo. size, namely: —
A FUNERAL SERMON
for the late
REV. WILLLOl WEICtHT?.[AN, M..\.,
Preached in the Church of Ha worth (Oct. 2,
1842.) by the Rev. Patrick Bronte. A.B.
Incumbent.
Halifax, .T. U. Walker, George Street. 18}2.
There are 16 page.<, besides cover; price 6d.
This was re-piinted by Mr. Brown, a nephew
of my friend Martha Brown, about 1886, and it
is copied literation into the "Works." 1898.
Further notices (if Bronte literature must be
found (so far as Hafifax parish is concerned)
in the books written or edited by Mr. F. A.
Lc.v laud and also in ni.\ li.->t. Mr. Leyland, in
two volumes, dwelt on "The Bronte Family,"
aufl I have edited "Charlotte Bronte's Letters,"
coi)ied almost in btilk by Mr. Clement Shorter,,
and also citlier Haworth and Hronle worlcs.
The only son of the Rev. P. BTduie was foi
a tisne clerk on the jailway at Luddendonfoo* ;
the r^cv. Sutcliffe Sowdcn and his brothei' the
R('\. Canon (leorgc Sowden. nativcis of Lower
Sliibilen-dale, were iiiliinaff frifiids of Mr.
Bioiitp and hi.s family.
XXVI.--BAFriST PIONEERS. (aiWILLIA^I
MITCHEL.
AVilliam Mitciliel and his cousin David
Crossley were natives of Hepfconstail di.strict,
living near the Lancashire border, this side of
Todmorden. Crossley was seven years younger
than Mitchel, but had joined a dissenting
oommunity in Rossendale or at Barnoldswick
some time before his cousin, who united him-
self with them in 1681, when in his nineteenth
year. The young man and his boy cousin
trudged over the many wearisome mountain—
oub miles, on dark nip;hts and in stormy weath-
er, to join the faithful, persecuted few who had
continued to hold servic&s. Down to 1696 the
Rossendale dissenting clnircli had its members
living so far away as Keighley, Gildersom*
(near Leeds), Rodhill-end (near Heptonstalf).
&c About 1685 Mitchel became a preacher,
but the history of the religious society iu Ros-
sendale is almost completely lost. We know
certainly that he was the recognised pastoi
there in 1692, for he is so stated in the trust
deed of the chapel erected at Bacup for him
and David Crossley in that year. But he la.b-
oured more as an itinerant minister than a
settled pastor, much of his preaching being
done secretly and in lonely places. How far he
was connected with Barnoldswick does not
appear, the early history being as mystified aa
that of Rossendale. The Bacup trust-deed of
1692 states that the chapel there was erected
for the use of Mr. David Cros.sley ancP
Mr. William Mitchel, both from Yorkshire,
preachers of the Word of God and of the doc-
trine of Christ, to pray, preach and woi'ship
in. and in their absence for all such like-
ministers now called Protestant Dissenters.
Neither the preachers nor the congregation at
Bacup were Baptists at that time, but by 1700'
they had become such, for a number of persons
^\ere transferred by membership from Clough-
fold to form a Baptist Church at Rodhill-end"
and Stone Slack in Heptonstall. in that year.
Before they became Baptists, the cotisius had"
established and ministered to a number of con-
gregations, and David Crossley was the first
tn be baptised, having gone as far as Brooms-
grove, in Worcestershire, to observe the rite.
August 16th, 1692. Five years earlier Crossley
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had attended the services of John Bnnvim. tlie
Bedford tinker, in London, and received some
preparation as an evangelist from the wonder-
ful Dreamer. Bunyan died in 1688. and Hie
youthful David returned to Yorkshire, but evi-
dently had not been immersed at that time.
Mitchel followed the example of his young
cousin by taking the ceremony, and the con-
gregations, hitherto Independentg, became ali*o
Baptists. Up to the time of lii.s death, Febru-
ary 18th, 1705. Mitchel remained nominally
the pastor of the Eoesendale Church, but he pre-
sided for some time at least as the firet min-
ister of the Baptist cause at Rawdon, and \va<5
regarded as such to the time of his death as
shewn by a manuscript volume preserved by
the late Mr. Grimshaw. of Little London, wliicli
he showed me nearly thirty years ago. Mitoliel,
though lacking ministerial tuition and scliolnr-
ship, was a man of great natural abilities. 1)ut
somewhat rough in speech aud unpolished in
manners. He was master of a few fundament-
als, as theology was then taught, and with a
crptivating and earne,~t eloquence he reached
the conscieaces of his own class. He Avas
author of a published sermon entitled "The
Mystery and Power of Faith " which I have
not seen, but after long searching I eecured hi?
pamphlet, entitled as under: —
JACHIN AND EOAZ:
or an
EPITOME
Of the Doctrine and Di.<cipline Instituted
by Christ in the Churches of t he N>w
Testament.
Left as a Dying Legacy to the Faitiiful;
especially them of his Acquaintance in the
Noith-Country.
By William Mitchill.
London, 1707; small octavo, pages viii., 44.
Pages iii. to viii. give the Preface by "D.
Crosley," addressed to the congregations of
West Yorkshire and East Lancashire, wherein
Crossley pays that the aiithor placed the manu-
script in his hands five years before for publi-
cation as a legacy, but the temporary lecovery
from illness delayed its publication. In this
preface we also learn that Mitchel was twice
apprehended under the Conventicle A,ct. fir.st
at Goodshaw Chapel in Lancashire, and sec-
ondly near Bradford, whence he was carried to
York Castle, where he lay till released by
means of Walter Calverley. Esq.. a few days
before King James proclaimed Liberty (1687).
The booklet is a synopsis of Christian Faith
and Duty in paragraphs under various topics-
God, Trinity, Eflection, Scriptures, Baptism,
Discipline, &c. In 1827 the Rev. Thomas Blay-
ney, of the Welsh Baptist Church in Liverpool,
brought out a second edition, printed at Clie.sf-
er, and although nearly a thousand copies were
sold in a few days, there is seldom one heard
of now. A third edition was announced, but
not is.sued. except as a Welsh translation (hy
a clergyman of the Ebtablisiied Cliurch. the
Rev. Henry Griffiths, Llandrygan, Anglesea),.
[lublished by .Mr. Blayney i)i 1828. I have
never seen either of Mr. Blayney's issues. The
Welsh Baptists probably ma\ liave a few cop-
ies in their libraiies. but Welshmen have had
to search long before finding a copy of either
edition. .Ta.chin and Boaz— the two pillars of
Sclonion's Temiilc — are taken as repiesentative
of Doctrine and Discipline. He repudiates
Antinomianism. He is referred to in Hunter's
"Oliver Heywood." Dowson's "Bai)tist Centen-
aiy." Bradford, refers to two manuscript vol-
umes in William Mitchel's writing, lent to-
Mr. Dowson by the Rev. George Mitchell, of
Bacuj). dated September, 1700: (1) Exposition
of Ezekiel xxxvii.. 1-4; (2) "The Difference and
Passage betwixt Egypt and Canaan, or the
.soul's tedious journey." Worn out with con-
stant toil and persecution, Mitchel died in
February. 170,'5, in his forty-,ePcond year, his.
successor at Clonghfold, Richard AVhworth,
writing a poetical epitaph for his gravestone..
XXVII.— BAPTIST PIONEERS, (b) DAVID
CROSSLEY.
The notice of William Mitchel has prepared'
Us slightly for this sketch of his cousin David
Ciossley. who issued and wiote the preface for
Mitchel's "Jachin and Boaz." .\s he was seven
years younger than Mitchel. we learn that he
must have been born about .Tannary, 1669. and
Heptonstall Chapelry was his birthplace. Be
was about twelve when he joined a religiouB
dissenting community supposed to have been
in Ro.ssendale. though possibly Barnoldswick
may claim the relationshiiD. He was from
1681 the constant companion of William
Mitchel on preaching excursions, and some
years later took services himself. David was
brought up by an aged, pious aunt, and though
80 young had great influence on his cousin
William, who became seriously inclined after
th" death of Mitchel's brother. In the pre-
face to "Jachin and Boaz" David says: "I
have not seen ii. more speedy, entire, and'
effectiial change in any, than I was a daily
eye- witness to in him (Mitchel). Though seven
years younger, and in Christ before him, how
soon did he come xij) with me, and as one not
able to brook m}' dilatory steps he as soon
outwent me. ... In reading, meditation,
and prayer he was unwearied. In going to-
hear the Word of God through miles in dark
nights, and over dismal mountains. I and oth-
ers who were his constant companions, must
say he was no less indefatigable." By 1685
Mitchel was an acknowledged preacher, and
Cro.ssley soon afterwards. Bacup chapel was.
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erected for them in 1692, but they were both
considerable itinerants. David sajv in (lie
forenientioned preface: "It pleased Hod to jiut
me also info tlie -work, and by us jointly to
cany it on till ilie nnniber of heaieis was so
great that we had above twenty several movi-
ing-placas legally certified, which we attended
by course with all frequency. I remembci- I
Tnjvelf have lodged in above two hundred of
your several houses on behalf of my unworthy
services in the Oospcl." Thus we learn that
they anticipated Ingham, Wesley, and Whit-
field as itinerant preachers. Like .Tohn Xol-
fton. the Birstal mason, but before this noted
Methodist was born, Crossley, who was of the
sam<* trade, was working at his calling during
the day. reading sermons to hifi aunt from
boyhood, became a devoted disciple at tAvelve,
and a local preacher &oon afterwards. It is
said he read his own competitions to his aunt,
both from manuscript and memory, without
lotting her know the source, until he got her
criticit>ms. For some reason or other, either
trade or religimis curiosity took him to Lou-
don in his teens, and there he became acquaint-
ed with .Tohn Bunyan, whose help and friend-
ship he highly valued. Bunyan died in 1688,
»nd Crossley is said to have been engaged then
as a constant evangelist in London, and to
have remained such until the close of 1691.
It is certain he was a welcome visitor at the
house of Mr. Strudwick, where Bunyan had
died, at the foot of Snow Hill. From a Tur-
key tapestry hanging in the dining-room he
gathered the ideas of a sermon, which he
preacihed in Spitalfields (Pomfret's dwellinjj:-
house), .July 28th, 1691, on "Samson, a type of
Christ." This sermon was published by ur-
gent and general request, and re-printed fifty-
three years afterwards. A bookseller who
Iveard it delivered asked the congregation, be-
fore Mr. Crossley left the pulpit, to press the
author to allow him to print it at his own
expense, and as several had taken shorthand
notes, the sermon was written out, and a
thousand copies printed. The author was then
twenty-two and a half. Shortly afterwards he
returned to Baciip to join his cousin in the
district work, and in August, a few months
later, he went to Bromsgrove, Worcestershii-e,
to be immersed as a Baptist minister. Mr.
Eiccles, the minister there, gave him an open
certificate as a Baptist minister, and his first
charge as such was amongst friends, possibly
relatives, at Barnoldswick, in 1694 and 1695,
though in 1693 the trust deed at Bacup shews
ho was labouring with Mitchel ; and the Bar-
noldswick deed of 1694 proves that he secured
the preaching-house and property at Barnolds-
wick in that year. In May, 1695, he accepted
the charge of a congregation of Baptists at
Tottlebank, beyond Morecambe Bay, in Furn-
«S3. Eight years later, at a great financial
sacrifice, he conveyed the Barnoldswick i)ro-
perty to trustees for the Baptist congregation.
In 1705 he removed to London to become pa.stor
of the ehtirch previour>ly held by Hansard
Knollys. He only remained a few years, a
serious charge having l)een pi-efeired against
him from Rosstmdale. So late as 1719 he was
ia trouble, and under censure, as shown by the
Rawdon meeting of the Association, and in
1720 he wrote a poem entitled "Adam, wlieie
art thou?" in which he expresses penitence,
and, after a time, legained favour and popu-
larity, being chosen pastor at Bacup. His
"Sampson, a type of Christ," passied through
three editions. He also jiublished "The Old
Man's Legacy to his Daughter," "Plain, Hon-
est Directions and Clnistian Counsels." "Expo-
sition of Ephesians V., 22-23," and "Triumph
of Sovereign Grace." He died near Goodshaw,
Lancashire. March 7th. 1744, aged 75, a preach-
er for 57 years, and was buiied in the chuicli-
yard there. During his later years he enjoyed
the friendship and won a splendid eulogy from
the orator-evangelist, George Whitfield.
The only book T have by this author is a
small octavo of 127 pages: —
Triumph of Sovereign Grace,
Or a Brand pluckt out of the Fire :
Being the substance of a' Funeral Discourse
preached at Bacup, May 23. 1742, at the request
and on occasion of the death of Lau. Brit.-^Iifl'e.
late of Clivisher near Burnley, who was exe-
cuted at Lancaster at the Lent Assizes, 1742,
with a brief rehearsal, &c., &c. Enlarged, &c.
bv David Croslv, minister. Manchester, R.
Whit worth. 1743".
XXVIII.— BAPTIST PIONEERS, (c) DAN
TAYLOR.
A demy octavo book containing viii. and 328
I)ages, with a frontispiece portrait of the Rev.
Dan Taylor, aged 71, is a volume of both rarity
and interest. The title page reads: —
MEMOIRS
of the
REiV. DAN TAYLOR,
Late Pastor of the General Baptist Church,
Whitechapel. London;
With extracts from his diary, &c. ;
By Adam Taylor. London, 1820.
Dan Taylor was the founder of the " New
Connection of General Baptists," and claims as
such special mention as a Halifax author. I
do not at present know what relationship
Adam Taylor bore to Dan, biit in the preface
to the Memoirs he states that he was "closely
connected." Adam Taylor wrote a history of
the denomination in two volumes, London,
1818, which sell for 12s. We shall have to
refer to this history afterwards.
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Adam Tajlor, boin 1650, removed from Lan-
cashire in 1680 into the W«st Riding of Yoik-
ehire, and rented some land in Northowrani,
called Horley Green. He was twice 7nanied
and had eleven children. In Febrnary. 1714,
three of his sons and three daughters died of
smallpox, namely, Tamar, Terah, Zara, Er,
Abiah, and Tirzah, and on January 27, 1727,
h? died at the age of seventy-six, and was
buried in the Sivme grave in Halifax Clnuch-
yard. (See my printed volume of "Noncon-
formist Eegister." by Heywood and DickensoTi).
Azor — the twentieth child — was born in 1711,
and he was twice married; the second child
of tho second maniage was Dan, born at Snur
Milk Hall, December 21. 1738. Before he Ava^
five y^ars old he was noticed as being able to
read the "hard chapter," Neh. x. At five ycais
of age he accompanied his father to work in a
coal pit. For some years he saw very
little of the Bun e.xcept on Sundays, and
consecLuently he became stunted in growth. At
one time water burst into the pit and he barely
escaped drowning. When about fifteen he and
hi.i brother John attended Methodist services
at Halifax, and often went as far as Saworth
to hear Mr. Grimshaw. At sixteen Dan was
"confirmed" by a bishop, b\it John, who was
four years younger, refiased. At this time they
attended also the Particular Bapti.'^t Mission
in Halifax. On the death of their mother in
September, 1758, the brothers lived together in
a hired room in Halifax, and at ?pare moments
■were tutored by Mr. Titus Knight, who was
then a Methodist, and taught a school. A year
later, 1760, Dan went to lodge with a Metho-
dist miner, and in September, 1761, after the
milnislter's plersi.*tency, he {preached for the
first time at a cottage meeting at Hipperholme.
At midsummer, 1762. Dan left the Methodists;
with Titus Knight, of Halifax, and James
Crossley, of Holmhouse^ Luddenden, who be-
came Independent ministers and authors.
About August, 1762, by reqiaest of some Metho-
dist seoeeders at the Nook in Wadsworth. he
preached to them several times in the open
air. Next month he removed there, and left
the coal pit, and opened a room for school
teaching and preaching. He became a convert
to Adult Baptism, but the Particular Baptists
of the district refused to. baptise him on ac-
count of some theological difference. He and
,Tohn Slater heard that there was a minister
at Boston, in Lincolnshire, who held their
views, and on February 11, 1763, they set out
to walk the hundred and twenty miles to see
him. The first night they lodged on a hay-
stack, surrounded by flooded meadows. Next
night an innkeeper told them of a fiimilar
minister eight miles aAvay, and they retraced
their steps to his house at Gamston, and Mr.
.Jeffrey baptised Taylor in the river there,
Februarv l6th. On their return Slater was
baptised by Taylor amid local excitement and
opposition. In May, 1763, Taylor attended the
General Baptist .A,s.sociation meeting at Lin-
coln, and the Boston preacher (Mr. William
Thompson) came back to Wadsnvorth with
Taylor and established a society of fourteen
members, and on July 30th, Dian Taylor was
ordained the pastor. The pastor preachei*.
and had collections for a chapel to be built
near Hebden Bridge, clearing ,£22 by services
in LincWnshire, Derbyshire, Leicestersihire,
Notts., etc., and another adventure in the
same localities brought him ,£40 and a horse.
In 1763 Taylor issued his first publication, a
poem, well-intentioned if not classical, an
"Elegy on the Rev. Mr. Grimshaw, of Ha-
worth." The chapel was built at Birehcliff,
aboiit a quarter of a mile from the first meet-
ing house. In November, 1764, Taylor mar-
ried Elizabeth Saltonstall, and they had thir-
teen children. In 1764 he also published a
sermon — "The Absolute Necessity of Searching
the Scriptures." In 1765 he visited Societies
ia Lincolnshire, etc., and found that he dif-
fered on some subjects from the ministers
there.
No. XXIX.— BAPTIST PIONEERS.
^c) DAN TAYLOR.— Continued.
In 1766 his Association Sermon, Lin-
colnshire, was published, "The faithful and
wise steward." This ivas printed at Leeds by
Griifith Wright, 12mo., 71 pages. The second
part of the address was afterwards issued sep-
arately. " The weak Christian encouraged."
The third edition, dated Wadsworth, 1777,
12mo., 24pp., was printed at Leeds by G.
Wright under the title of "Scripture Direc-
tions to Feeble Christians." He took jour-
neys into Lincolnshire, London, &c., in
1767. His two infant children died of smallpox
in January, 1768. At this time he printed two
discourses: "The Mourning Parent comforted."
His first polemical work, 1768, was "An humble
essay on Christian Baptism," which was issued
anonymously. A copy in Rawdon College Lib-
rary, 12mo., 70 pages, was printed in Leeds by
G. Wright, 1766. In 1769 a gallery was added
to the Wadsworth Chapel. From 1769 he and
Mr. Fawcett (afterwards Dr. F.) instituted a
Book Society in Heptonstall for circulating
volumes to subscribers. Mr. Taylor was eo fre-
quently absent from his school duties that he
got an assistant — Mr. G. Birley, 1765-8, after-
wards Gen. Bap. Minister at St. Ives, and Mr.
John Sutcliffe for some time before going to
Bristol Academy. He .settled as Particular
Baptist at Olney. Mr. Sutcliffe was a great
book collector, and his library after his death
in 1814, June 22, came by bequest to Horton
College, and is now at Rawdon. I have spent
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several days at Riwdoii College lately examm-
iu- this unique tliC'(.lot,'i<al libriny, where large
folios and quartoi ahoiunl. dating from 1590
to 1800. Mr. Sutcliffe deserves nvcntioning in
our list as an early, eminent biblopliile. Mr.
Taylor (,as Philauthropos) about 1769 published
an abridgenu'nt of l)i'. Cheyne's "Ruleis and
Observations for Health and Long I-ife." Leeds,
(;. Wright and Son. no date, 12mo., 23pp. In
1770 he and ten other ministers from the Mid-
lands estal)lisiuHl the "New Connection of Gen-
eral Baptists," and from thi.s time Mr. Taylor
wab constantly addressing large cougregatiouB
in the Midlands and London. From 1771 he
found it necessary to open a shop to add to
hi.s income, but it added very little. He pub-
lished a hymn book for the New Connection
in 1772. lluder the signature Philagathus he
issued a tract in verse against the nocinianism
of Prii^tley (Leeds) and (^raham (Halifax). It
was entitled "A Practical Improvement of the
Divinity and Atonement of .Tesus." In Feb.,
1772, Mr. Taylor issued a pamphlet of 100
p;i,ges, 12mo., entitled "The Scriptiiral x^ccount
of the Way of Salvation iu Two Partis," in
answer to Mr. Graham's "Repentance the only
Condition of Final Acceptance," preached at
Leeds, Sept., 1771. In 1772, Mr. Birley printed
for him a pamphlet on mixed communion in
answer to "Candidus": — "C^indidiis examined
with candour, &c., by Philalethes." The same
year he compiled the "Circular Letter" fcr
the Annual Association. He was constantly
travelling, and in November aided his brother
John to found the caiise at Queenshead, where
John became the pastor, and a chapel was
built in 1773. The brothers began to hold min-
isters' meetings, and other ministers joined
tliem in time until the Yorkshire Confeience
giew out of the a.sisembly. Mr. Dan Taylor
collected over <£65 by preaching in the Mid-
lauds towards the Queenshead (now Queens-
bury) Chapel. The chapel was opened Sept.
29th, and John was ordained next day. For
46 years Mr. Dan Taylor presided at the yearly
meetings of the New Connection, except in 1773
when he pressed his oldest ministerial friend
to take it. In 1774 he gave up his shop, and
took a farm at Hirst, where he had a few
iKiarders. In 1775 he gave the charge at an
ordination at Great Yarmouth : this in paraph-
let form was printed. In 1775 he published
Ills chief book. "Fundamentals of Religion,"
dated from Wadsworth, March 4. It is a
12mo., 358 pages, printed at Leeds. He was
constantly employed as a farmer, schoolmaster,
publisher, preacher at home and abroad. "A
looking-gla(?s for Youth" wa.s a tract printed
for scholars; as also "Entertainment and Pro-
fit united, or Elasy Verses on Christianity,"
two edition.s, and "Christmas Verses." "The
Hi-mble Efesay on Christian Baptism" had be-
come very rare, so with difficulty Mr. Taylor
got a copy and rc-printcd it with his name
this time.' On Sept. 3, 1777, (he Halifax Chapel
was opened, and the two brother^ preached.
They had opiMied Shore Chapel shortly before;
^nd the cause at Birciicncliife (Wadswurth)
cci'tinued to prosper. In 1778 Mr. Dan Taylor
took seven journeys to beg foi' money for pay-
ing the debt on Halifax Chapel. The "Annual
Letter" was issued by him as usual; and dur-
ing the year lie preachi'd 290 timci-.. In 1779
he composed a "Catechism for Children and
Youlh," issued next year, and before 1820 had
pa.ssed through eleven editions. The 2nd edi-
tion, 12mo., 36 pp., was printed by G. Wright,
Leeds. "An Essay on the right use of Earthly
Treasure" was issued in 1780, 24 closely printed
pages, 12mo., 2d., printed by G. Wright, dated
from Hirst in Wadsworth. A discussion from
the "Leeds Intelligencer." A;ug., 1780, was re-
print-.d by Mr. Taylor resi-ecting Christ's div-
inity. He wrote under the signature "Scru-
tator," and next year i^sued another tract iu
reply to "Responsor's" rejoinder, 2nd edition,
I,ceds, J. Bowling, 1781, 12mo., 24 pp. The
Halifax Church formed into a separate society
fiom Queenshead at the beginning of 1782, in-
vited Mr, Dan Taylor to leave Wadsworth;
and the Annixal Association advised him to
take Halifax for six months, whilst Mr. J.
Sutcliffe should take Wadsworth. In 1782 Mr.
Dan Taylor printed a funeial sermon on Mis.
Birley. St. Ives, entitled "The Stroke of Death."
In 1781 Mr. Taylor settled completely at Hali-
fax, except for his constant journeys to the
^lidlands and London. He published a book
of 160 pageis, 12mo., at the beginning of the
year on "The Consistent Christian." dedicated
to the Wadsworth congiegation, over whom
^fr. Sutcliffe was ordained at Eiaster, 1784.
The Whitechapel General Baptist Society, after
existing 130 years, had declined to one hundred
and fifty members in 1785, and Mr. D. Taylor
wag asked to remove thence from Halifax. He
had nine children, including twins a few weeks
old, yet acceded to the general request. About
1785 he printed a sermon on "Our Saviour's
Commission explained and improved." Leeds,
Thomas Wright, no date, 12mo., 48 pp. In
1786 he published a "Dissertation on Singing
in the Worship of God," r2mo., 72 pp., London
printed; also "Observations on the Rev. A.
Fuller's pamphlet — 'The Gospel of Christ
worthy of all Acceptation," signed "Philan-
thiopos. This is a 12mo,, 142 pages. Mr. Ful-
ler replied, and in 1787 Mr. Taylor issued "Ob-
servations on Mr. Fullej's reply to Philau-
thropos," in thirteen letters to which Mr. Tay-
lor appended his name. A second edition of
the thirteen letters was issued. "Agnostos"
(Mr. Fuller) replied in 1790, 92 pages, 12mo..
ti which Mr. Taylor replied in a tract "The
Friendly Conclusion"; 12mo,, 28 pages, Lon-
don, 1790. In 1786 Mr. Tavlor officiated at the
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oidination of Mr. Dfiicon, an old pupil, at
Leicester, the pamphlet lecoid extends to 180
pages, 12mo.; also at the ordination of Mr.
Birley, St. Ives, printed. In 1787 lie published
"A Second Dissertation on Singintj in the
"Worship of God," 12ino., 80 pp.. London printed
Next year he issued a t-econd edition of the
"Thirteen Letters to ^\r. Fuller." In 1789 he
piinted "The Interjiosition of Providence in
the Eeoovery of His ^Majesty Geo. III., and
the Association Letters on "Inspiration." "A
Compendion.-; View of the Nature and Import-
,ance of Christian Baptism," issued in 1789,
passed through seven editions in his life-time.
Tlie 2nd edition, 12mo.. 24 pp., is dated 1789.
The same year was printed "The Eternity of
Future Puni.-hment," and "The Eternity, &e.,
re-asserted." In Auptuet, 1790. he published an
octavo volume, of nearly 200 pages, on "An
Essay on the Truth and Inspiration of the
Holy Scriptures," a work which even Chalmers
anl Dick .scarcely superiseded. In 1791, to add
to his narrow income, he opened a bookseller's
sliop and resided on the premises in Bishops-
gate-street, and published a sale catalogue. In
1791 he added a Nonconformist catechism to
his future editions of the Citf^chism for Youth.
The third edition of "Natuie of Christian Bap-
tism," 12mo., 24 pp., was printed in London,
1792. On the death of his wife at the close of
179o he preached her funeral sermon, and in
1794 printed it with an Account of her Life
and Character. In 1796 he printed "Memoirs
of the late Rev. Wm. Thompson, of Boston,
Lincolnshire, to which is prefixed a discourse
occasioned by his death. Left witli nine child-
ren, eight of them daughters, he found it de-
sirable to marry a second time. In 1795 he had
is.-;ued a Fast sermon : "The Cause of National
Calamities," and printed, as usual, the Associ-
ation Letter on the "Depravity of Human
Nature." Besides these, in 179.5 he published
a funeral sermon on Dr. Stennett, entitled "A
Good Minister of Jesus Christ." In 1796 the
circular letter, "Duties of Church Members."
was issued in two forms. Next year he under-
took to train a few ministers, and to publish
monthly "The General Baptist Magazine," Jan.
1798, to Dec, 1800, when it became extinct. In
1802 he prepared a new edition of the "Funda-
mentals of Religion," under the title "The
Principal Parts of the Christian Religion." An
address to his students and subscribers on
"Preparatory Studies ))iior to entering the
Ministry" was printed in 1806. In the same
year he edited a sale catalogue of the Library
of the late Abraham Booth. In 1809 he pub-
lished, in reply to a Unitarian pamphlet, seven
letters on ".Tesus, the only begotten Son of
God." At the close of 1810 his nephew, James
Taylor, was ordained minister at Heptonstall
Slack. Next year, aged 72, he married a third
time, but was shortly afterwards left a widower.
In 1812 his connection with the Academy ter-
minated. In 1814, then over 76 years old, he
preached a dozen times in nine days about
Halifax parish; and was constantly on the
move throughout Mid. and Soutii England,
preaching during the year, and he remained to
the time of his death one of the most popular
ministers of London. In Oct., 1816, he married
a fourth time, but on Dec. 5tli the industrious
and worthy man was buried in Bunliil] Fields,
near John Bunyan, Daniel De Foe, and other
woithies. At least a dozen of the Circular
Letters of the Annual Meetings issued by him
were printed, and he presided and virtuallv
luled over the Association that he founded for
fifty years.
XXX.— BO-SCO, BOIS, BOYSE [WOOD.]
The old manor rolls and charters of this
district, as may been seen in the "History of
Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse,' frequently refer
to a family who, from living near a wood, took
the name Wood as a surname, which was ren-
deied in the Latin writings, Bosco or Bois, or
Bey.se. Thus John de Bosco, John de la Bois,
John Boyse, and John Wood liave all a similar
origin. Johannes de Sacro Boscu was claimed
by Midgley (BentHey, 49) and Wright (p. 137)
as a native of Halifax parish. Midgley prob-
ably based the claim on tradition, and Wright
on a passage in Leiand's Commentary of Brit-
ish Writers, p. 353, which makes the mistake
of thinking that Halifax and Holy Wood are
identical. Like Mr. Watson, I have never met
with the name Sacro Bosco in any ancient,
local deed, though I have seen Sacro Fontem,
Holywell, both at Stainland and other places.
Quite as reliable authority gives Holywood,
near Dublin, as his birth-place, and Dempster
asserted that he was a Scotchman, of Sacer
Bcscus Monastery, now Holywood. Thoresby,
of Leeds (page 194) states that the astronomer
lay on his back on the hill at Halifax to ob-
serve the motion of the stars, when he wrote
his celebrated book "De Sphera." ]\[r. Watson
sitretches his imagination un-necesisarily in
stating that if Halifax has any claim to Holy-
wood's birth-ijlace, the most likely home for
him was at Chapel-le-Groves, Southowram, "a
place for the exercise of religion in very early
times, perhaps as far back as that of the
Druids." The fiction (if it be a fiction) has got
perpetuated on the old Corporation Seal at
Hiilifax, which represented a man holding up
a globe in his hand, and the same seal per-
petiiates another legend, namely a virgin hung
in a tree by her hair, alluding to the common
story of the young woman being put to death
by a priest, which is again based on an errone-
ous etymology of the name Halifax from Holy
hair. Both Holy-wood and Holy-hair are false
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■etymologies. 1 lear we cau lay poor caliiii tor
thib author, but possibly neither Scotland n.u-
Irelami cau prove that he was not a llalitax
man. There is a copy of one edition ot hiw
"Do Sphera" in Halifax Free Libraiy. Of
course the work is in Latin, and many editions.
printed abroad, are very rare, and conbe<iuently
ocetly. They generally fetch two oi- thicf
pounds at sale:*. The Venice edition bears
date 1499: Sphera Mundi cum tribus com-
mentis Cicchi Esculani, Francisci Capuani. et
Jac. Stapulen^iB.
John Boyise, or Boyes, was an assistant
clergyman under tlie celebrated Dr. Favour,
V'^icar of Hialifax. He was a native of the
parish, and at his death gave by will, dated
July 1-i, 1619, the sum of eight pounds to be
lent to the poor of Halifax, hie trustees being
Dr. Favour, William Boyes his brother, John
Boyeti, of Halifax, Humphry Drake, Samuel
Lister. John AVhiteley, and William Whitaker.
In Thoresby's M\iseum, Leeds, was a Manu-
script Catechism, wherein he catechized the
congregation at Halifax, but it is doubtful
whether he printed any book.
William Bois was a native of Halifax, and
was instructed in mutiic and singing, wherein
he afterwards attained great proficiency. He
continued his education at Cambridge but hav-
ing a dislike to Popery he was obliged, in the
time of Queen Mary I., to retire to a place of
safety at Nettlestead, near Hadley, in Suffolk,
where though he had taken orders he lived as
a layman, and became farmer, and married
Mirable Poolye, gentlewoman, who survived
him ten years. On the accession of Elizabeth,
urged by his wife, he became curate and event-
ually rector of Elmesett, near Hadley, and
afterwards rector of West Stow, his brother-
in-law being the patron. He reached the age
of 67, and Ave learn from Peck's Desiderata
Curiosa, viii., 38, that "he was excellently Avell
learned in the Hebrew and Greek, which, con-
sidering the time in which he lived, was al-
most a miracle." He does not seem to have
published anything, but his son (the only child
to reach maturity). Dr. John Bois, born Jan.
3, 1560, proved an ornament to his country,
having had a considerable hand in the trans-
lation of the authorised version of the Bible.
Though we cannot claim Dr. John as a Halifax
man, we may briefly indicate some of his im-
portant works : —
1. Workes of John Boys, Doctor in Divinitie
and Deane of Canterbiirie, folio, 1622.
2. Other editions 1630, 1638. These sell for
10s. or 146. each.
3. Exposition of all the principal Scriptures
used in our Eliglish Liturgie; small quarto,
1610.
4. Exposition of Festival Epistles and Gos-
pels, three parts, small 4to.
5. Exposition of the Last Psalme.
6. Exposition of the Proper Psalmes, two
parts, small quarto, 1617.
7. Remains; quarto, 1631.
8. Veteris Interpretis cum Beza: the four
Evangelists and the Acts; 1655, Svo., is attri-
buted to him.
Another .J. Boyse, of Yorkshire family, was a
celebrated Nonconformist at Dublin, and not-
able author. His "Saciamfllital Hymns." 1693,
and the .second edition, "A Collection of Psalms
and Hymns," 1704, are priced in a catalogue
at ten guineas. " Remarks on Archbishop
King's Inventions of Men in the Worship of
God," small 8vo., 1694; "Discourses on the
Four Last Things, 1724, Dublin, are reparate
publications; the Works of the Rev. Josepli
Boyse, of Dublin, were i^sue(l in two folio vol-
umes, London, 1728.
A Richard Boyes was curate (or incumbent
we should say) of St. Ann's, Southowram. in
1663, but was not an author, I think.
XXXL— STRAY SERMONS.
Eli Bentley was born at Bentley HoUins in
Sowerby township, and became Fellow of Trin-
ity College, Cambridge. In August, 1652, he
became assistant to the Rev. Robert Booth at
Halifax Parish Church, and after Mr. Booth's
death, he continued alone until the ejections,
August, 1662. He fled to Biugley and elsewhere
before the Five Mile Act, and is often mention-
ed in Oliver Heywood's "Diaries." In 1672 he
returned to Halifax, and preached in hie own
house, but in 1675, at the age of 49, he died,
July 31st. He was a man of mild disposition
and greatly esteemed. Calamy states that he
was author of an explanation of one of St.
Paul's epistles, which was printed, but this
I'equires confirmation.
Brian Bentley, the Halifax poet, who died
in 1679, as stated by Hey wood, is now disting-
uished as the local poet of whose writing not
a soFitary line in print or manirscript has been
preserved.
The Rev. Robert Brereton, curate of Ludden-
den, and Chaplain to Colonel Houghton's Regi-
ment, published a sermon on Eccles. xii., 13,
entitled "The Great Duty of Fearing God and
Keeping His Commandments, with their ad-
vantage (if daily observed) to mankind while
on earth," preached in the Chapel of Ludden-
den. May 24, 1741. This was printed by James
Lister, of Leeds, and bears also a short address
to the inhabitants of Midgley, Luddenden and
Warley, in which he tells them that his sin-
cere desire to promote virtue and holiness was
the reason of its being sent amongst them.
Mr. Brereton in 1773 Avns one of the joint rec-
tors in Liverpool.
The Rev. Joshua Crowther, a native of Ell-
and, was a dissenting minister, but afterwards
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conformed, and by the favours of Archbishop
Herrin and Lord Irwin was advanced to the
Vicarage of Otley. He published a sermon.
The Rev. William Graham, a dissenting min-
ister at Warley Chapel, and a Halifax resident,
took a Scotch degree in Arts, and was author
of a sermon, on Matth. x., 34, preached at
Kingston-upon-HulI, June 21, 1758. at the ordin-
ation of the Eev. John Beverley. London,
1759. The object Avas to vindicate Christianity
from the charge of promoting disorders in
society, whether civil or sacred, and to enquire
whence such arose, and to what causes we
must ascribe them.
Benjamin Patchit, mentioned under . our no-
tice of James Ritchie, was an inhabitant of
ITpper Saltonstall in Warley. He published a
pamphlet entitled "A Short Inquiry into the
Proper Qualifications of Gospel Ministers, con-
sidered as the servants not of men but of
Jesus Christ; with some Directions how we
who are hearers may know whether the doc-
trines our ministers deliver from the pulpit are
according to God's will and mind, or not. And
al<?o how we are to attend on the Word preach-
el in a profitable manner." Halifax, 8vo. ,
1759. Benjamin was no small thorn in the
parson's flesh.
The Eev. Henry Eoote, friend of Archbishop
Tillotson before the latter in 1619 engaged at
•Clare-hall, Cambridge, published a 4to. pam-
phlet entitled "A just apoligie for the Church
of Duckenfield," in defence of Mr. Eaton, past-
or there, against tlie charge of Mr. Edwards.
Ir is dated from Sowerby, March 2, 1646, Mr.
Henry Eoote was the greatest local advocate
of Congregationalism at that time. He founded
the Sowerby Congregational cause after his
ejection from Sowerby Church, wheic^ he min-
istered from 1645. He had been a student at
Maigdalen College, Cambridge, and had travell-
ed much in his younger days. He was twice
imprisoned in York Castle for three months
for nonconformity, and afterwards sent for six
months. He died. Oct. 20th, 1669, aged about
80, and was buried at Sowerby. His son
Timothy Eoote. was curate at Sowerby Bridge
Chapel in 1661, but was ejected in 1662. After
long and grevious persecution? he conformed
after 1685.
XXXII.-PEOFESSOES AND l^CHOOL-
MASTEES.
Henry Brigg, mathematician, was born at
Daisy Bank Warley Wood, and was baptit<ed
at Halifax Church, the entry for Feb. 23. 1560,
giving his name "Henricgus filius Thome Bridge
de Warley." A long account of him appears
in "Biographia Britannica," and his life was
written in Latin by the Eev. Dr. Thomas Smith.
"Axithmetica Logarithmica," by Henry Briggs
•was published in 1624, at London, folio tize. A
second edition improved by Adr. Elacq was
issued in 1628, and again in 1633 at Gou(la:>,
both folios. An Efngli.sh translation in folio
appeared in 1631. It was printed also at
the end of .T. Wells' "Sciographia,"' Loudon,
1635, 8vo.
.loseph Brooksbank, of Halifax, became a stu-
dent at Bazen-nose College, in 1682, aged 20,
and after gaining his degree in arts, he Ije-
came a curate, but retired to London to take
charge of a school in Fleet-street, and exer-
cised the ministi-y there. His workti com-
prise: —
1.— Breviate of King's AVhole Latin Gram-
mar, vulgarly called Lilly's, or a brief gram-
matical ta,blc thereof, &c. This was printed
at London in 1660, 8vo.
2.— The Well-tuned Organ, or an Exercita-
tion wherein this Question is fully and largely
di*cusi-^.ed : Whether or no instrumental and
organical music be lawful in holy public as-
semblies: Atfirmatur. This also was printed
in London in 9^ sheets ciuarto, 1660.
3. — Eebels tried and ca.st, in three sermons,
on Eomans xiii., 2. London, 1661, duodecimo
size.
Nathaniel Fletcher, a schoolmaster at Oven-
den, was author of
1. — A Methodist diissected, or a Description
of their Eli'rors.
2. — The Trade.sman's Arithmetic in which is
shewn the rules of common arithmetic so plain
and easy that a boy of any tolerable capacity
may learn them in a week's time without the
help of a master. Halifax, printed bv P.
Darby. (Published in 1761).
Edward Topham was schoolmaster at the
Heath Free Grammar School, near Halifax. He
published a sermon preached at Selby. He
was a batchelor of arts, and Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge. He left the Fuiversity to
take the Halifax School in 1731, but removed
in 1733.
Christopher Taylor, incumbent of St. Ann's,
Southowram in 1652, joined George Fox, the
Quaker, as did Captain Thomas Taylor, of
Brighouse (probably a kinsman), and the Eev.
Thomas Taylor, of Otley, a native of Skipton,
brother of Chii.stopher. The brothers were
voluminous authors, and leading members of
the Society of Friends. Christopher set up a.
famous school at Waltham Aibbey and Edmon-
ton, but removed to Philadelphia, where he
died in 1686. His wife, Frances Taylor died
in Philadelphia in 1685, and her name appears
as the writer of a short Epistle to Friends,
printed at Philadelphia in 1685. As briefly as
possible we chronicle his tracts: — ■
1. — The Whirlwind of the Lord gone forth as
a fiery flying roule. London, 4to, 1655, and re-
printed in 1656, about twenty pages.
2. — A Warning from the Lord : a quarto
broad sheet.
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;j.__Ccrhiin papers wliicii is the Word of the
I,(.rd. to Town of Appleby, &c.. quarto, two
sheets.
1.— A Faithful Witne.<s to tlie Light; witli
postseript to William Ilawortli, Indepoiulent
pieacher. 2 sheets, quarto, 1675.
5._E^)istle to Friends. 1675, one sheet.
G. —Counterfeit Convert Discovered, by Crook
and Bayley, with postscript hy C.T. on Haw-
orth'e wicked pami)lilet. 1676.
7.— Institutiones Pietatis, or G. Fo.x's In-
structions of Godliness turned into Latin for
the use of Christian youth at school, with de-
clensions, conjugations, &c., an octavo volume,
printed in 1676.
8. —Compendium Trium Linguarum, Latinae,
Grwcse and HebraiciP. &c., for youth. C.T.
wa3 aided by his assistant. John Matern a
Geiman. in issuing this 8vo. book; London,
1679.
9._Testimony to the Lord's Power amongst
children. Quarto pamphlet, 1679. Enlarged
edition, email 8vo., 1679, and again in 1680.
10.— Ma,rtha Routh i-e-wrote the last-named
record as "An Account of a Divine Visitation
and Blessing attending the Religious Care and
Exercise of the Teachers of Waltham Abbey
School, printed in Philadelphia in 1797, 8vo.,
and reprinted in London. 1799_ 12mo.
11.— Epistle of Caution to Friends on Roger's
treacheroiiti spirit: pamphlet. 4to, 1681.
12.— On Two Malitious Libels of William
Rogers, 4to, 1692.
13. — Testimony for Isaac Penington : Pen-
ington's Works. 1681; for Thomas Taylor: see
his brother's works, 1697,
XXXIIL— JOHN BARLOW, The Puritan.
In Oliver Hey wood's Diarias is the record : —
"All those times, for thirty years together
and upwards to my coming, theie was a fam-
ous Eixercise maintained every month at Hali-
fax, whereat not only neighbour ministers
preiiched in their turns, but strangers far and
near wei-e sent for to preach it; two sermons
a day, being the last Wednesday in the month ;
multitudes of hearers. It's said this Exerci,-e
A\a^; maintained in Dr. Favour's days (1598-
1623), w-ho was a great friend to Nonconfoam-
ists, maintained two famous men as Lecturers
at Halifax, whom he shrouded under his auth-
ority and interest with the bishop, namely,
Mr. Boys, banished out of Kent for his Non-
conformity, a choice man, very laborious in
the work of the Lord, catechised all the poor,
expounded to them in tlie churf>h one day in
the week, gave them money: I have his cate-
chism which he taught them: and Mr. Barlow,
that writ upon Timothy, a choice man who
had been shrouded under Dr. Favoirr. He is
tliouglit to have removed to Plymouth when
Dr. Clay succeeded to the vicarage. Mr. Ault
was afterwards Lecturer, but removed to
Bury." In another place Heywood tells us that
Favour a.nd Barlow sup])r<'ssed tlie ancient May
Day levelis at Halifax.
In Dr. Bliss's e lition of Wond'.s Athen. Oxen,
ii., 551-2, reference will ))c found to several of
Ml'. Barlow's published sermons, but I have
not seen any of these. I had to wait until
Midisummer, 1904, before I could secure a copy
of his book on Timothy. This is a small
quarto volume, bearing the title (w-ithin an
engiaved portal or arched gateway):
An Etxposition of the
Second Epistle of the Aposlle Paul to Timothy
the first chaptoi-, wherein
1. — The text is logically into its parts lesolved.
2. — The words plainly explicated.
3. — A familiar metaphiase annexed.
4. — The several docti-ines, &c., deduced.
All which is accompanied with familiar and
delightful i-imilitudes, &c., &c
By John Barlow, some time Minister of the
Word at Plymouth,, bixt now resident at Hali-
fax in Yorkshiie. London, hy I.D. for .lohn
Bellamie at the 3 Golden Lyons in Coruehili,
neer? the Royall Euxchaiige. 1625.
The page behind the title is blank; next fol-
low five unuumbeied pages containing the
Epistle Dedicatorie to the Right Worshipful!
Mr. Leonard Pumroy, Maior of Plymouth with
the worshipfull Magistrates hiw brethren, and
to all who have office in that Corporation.
This is signed LB. from Halifax in Yorkshire,
August 19, 1624. After anothei' blank page the
Epistle to the Reader takes up eight pages,
the quaintnci-s of whicili is chiaiacteristic of
puritan writers. " I have especially penned
this portion for that place where and amongst
whom the Lord for a few j-eares by the hand
of His providence oast me As the
shooemaker with his skiune draweth on a close
shoe, the huswife with care oalleth the chick-
ens from under the wangs of their damme, and
the dittie brings to minde the matter and
author on't, .so will a similitude diaw doc-
trines into men's shallow ixnderstaudiugs. . .
Pale-face't envio hath his roost Mith us. He
lookes like a ghost wrapped in a winding
sheete, or peeping out of a coffin. Tliis insa-
tiable cormorant fe;des on the tenderest corps,
diinkes the piiiest blood, and still cryes for
more: so is damninge drunkennesse to these
Cinqiie ports. This chymist turns bodies into
barrels, men into beasts. . . . The pi'oud
trecherous purblind Paijists, ^\ ho brake their
ueckes at Tiburne; the homiuified Godified
Familists as perfect as Adam in paradise, the
mutable new-fangled Anabaptist who will weare
no weapons, wrangles whether hee is to be
baptised on the head or heeles; the strict
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precise Separatist whose uniust rent from our
congregations have made great thoughts of
heart, &o. The next thirteen pages give an
elaborate table of the principal heads or doc-
trines taught by each verse of the chapter.
The Exposition occupies pages 1 to 446.
Another edition of this book, with a Dis-
course of Spiritual Steadfastnese, and five Ser-
mons, was published in London, folio size.
1632.
XXXIV.— HALIFAX PARISH RBGISTEES.
The most valuable book in the whole of
Halifax parish is the fi.rst volume of the old
Register now deposited in the safe underneath
tho Chancel of Halifax Parish Church. It ia
worth thousands of poundsj, and yet this rich
parish continues to run the risk of its lose by
fire or other means, as well as by wear and
tear. It is a, thick, paper, folio volume, which
Halifax CoTporation ought to print literatim
and speedily. The cost would hardly be worth
mentioning, for I dare guarantee a good sale,
and would undertake the whole responsibility
myself for ^100.
Mr. Edward Johnson Walker, who was editor
of the "Halifax Guardian" nearly fifty years,
liked to dip into the delightful, crabbed writ-
ing of this and the second volume, and he in-
trodiiced me to the Ven. Archdeacon Muegrave,
D.D., in 1870, who gave me imlimited aocesa
to the Registers, an opportunity that I fully
availed myself of in copying out all references
to the inhabitants of Hipperholme-cum-Brig-
house. After agitating for the re-printing of
the first vohime, I easily got Mr. Samuel Tay-
lor Rigge, one of the churchwardens, to push
the matter with the clergy, and the Rev. Wm.
Davenport, editor of the "Parish Magazine,"
consented to issue eight pages monthly, as an
appendix, and he called a meeting in May,
1881, of a small committee^ consisting of Mr.
Rigge, Mr. Thomas Turner, now of Norwich,
Mr. John Lister, Shibden Hall, and myself.
Possibly I have overlooked one or two others.
Mr. Lister copied out material for ninety pages
which were printed with the local parish mag-
azine, and then for want of competent copy-
ists, the work was suspended. I went over and
copied about the same amount, but the slow
process of monthly driblets killed the effort,
soi Mr. Rigge wrote me on June 5th, 1882, stat-
ing : "I have got the consent of our Vicar to
publish the first volume of our Registers. I
should be much obliged if you could come over
at your earliest convenience to see our com-
mittee, and if possible to make some arrange-
ment with you for the copying, &c." My time
was too limited (on account of the long distance
from Halifax), and no one else could be got
to join in the labour, so the matter was allow-
ed to drop. The remainders of the 96 pages (in
two sizes, 8vo. and small 4to.) were purchased
by Mr. W. J. Walker and issued as an appen-
dix to the following book: —
Chapters in the Elarly Registers of Halifax
Parish Church,
from the local Portfolio of the late Edward
Johnson Walker, by Walter James Walker,
one of his sons.
Halifax, Whitley and Booth, 1885.
This book was issued in four forms : (1) quar-
to, with the Registers, 96 pages, appendix; (2)
quarto, without the Registers; (3) octavo, with
the 96 pages; (4) octavo, without.
The number of remainders from the parish
magazine was too limited to supply for more
than a portion of Walker's issue.
The quarto copies have for a frontispiece a
plate of Halifax Church, Thos. Taylor, del.,
J. Stewart, sculp. Then follow viii. pages giv-
ing the title, inscription (p. iii.) to Mrs. Sarah
Bracken, poem on the Halifax Burial Register
(p. iv.) by E. J. W., who died May 20th, IBBU.
Preface, dated Luddenden, 1884. The chapters
give "Vicar Favour and his Times " 1-130,
"Commonwealth Iklarriages" 131-136, "Buried
Alive" 137-144, "Remarks on the Registers"
145-154. Index 155-163. Description of plates
164. Preface to appendix and index to appen-
dix i.-vi. The plates inserted are the four
numbered ones from Watson's "Halifax," and
two facsimile pages of the Register, the first
page of the Marriages, 1538, and the first page
of burials, 1538.
Mr. E. J. Walker's article on Vicar Favour
and his times appeared in the "Halifax Guar-
dian" about 1857, in the long series entitled
"Local Portfolio." Mr. Walker was a gentle-
man for whom I, and all local antiquaries,
had great esteem, and his newspaper contri-
btitionfl were eagerly read. I had some per-
sonal acquaintance with him, and l::egan in
1866 a similar series of local sketches in the
"Brigliouse News." His work on tlie "Ack-
royd Family" was privat:ly printed by Col.
Akroyd, M.P. It is a great pity Mr. Walker
did not issue the "Local Portfolio" in book
form, but a fairly complete set of the "Guar-
dian" has been preserved by the Halifax Liter-
ary and Philosophical Society. Mr. Walker
spent a long time at York, making notes from
about 4,000 Halifax mIUs; /ears before I went
to do the same for Halifax and Bradford wills.
The full book, by Mr. Walter J. Walker (in-
oluding the Register appendix) was issued at
12s. 6d. quarto; 6s. 6d. octavo.
The Register itself at Halifax Church con-
sists of 880 pages on thin paper, and is in ex-
cellent preservation except for the first pa^e
and several comers that have been "thumbed."
The baptisms occupy the first half exactly; the
marriages take up pages 441-600, the burials
601-880. As the entries of baptisms average
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about 44 lines per pnse, and burials nearly the
same, and the marriages lose still, the whole
oould be printed in a volume of 880, including
an index. The inestimable volume commences
with 1538, when Registers were first ordered
to be kept, down (o 1592. It is one of the old-
est in Etnghi.nd, and its record of gibbettingis
makes it unusually interesting, but the curious
memoranda inserted in tlie second volume dur-
ing Dr. Favour's tenure give unique speciality
to the eecond. volume.
Vol. II., manuscript, covers the years 1593-
1615.
Vol.III., manuscript, 1616, to May, 1644. Bishop
Lake and Airchbishop Tillotson were baptised
during this interval, and frequent historical
notes are interspersed.
Vol. IV., manuscript, June, 1644 to 1667, but
the marriages extend only to 1646. A serious
plagiie, 1645-6, ravaged Halifax town.
Vol. v., manuscript, 1660-1668, with marri-
ages from 1653.
Vol. VI., manuscript, 1668-1694.
Vol. Vn., manuscript, 1694-1726.
Vol. VIII., manuscript, 1726-1755.
Vol. IX., manuscript, 1755-1791.
From 1754 the marriages are given in separ-
ate volumes, of which there are ten up to
1800.
XXXV.— HALIFAX AUTHORS:
DR. FAVOUR.
Of the early Vicars of Halifax, few have dis-
tinguished themselves as writers or authors.
We can scarcely expect to find any works by
them before the invention of printing, but from
that time., that is since the Reformation, 1530,
we might have expected a few special sermons.
For ready reference the list, so far as it is
known, namely, since 1273, is here given, with
dates of induction: —
Ingolard Turbard, 1274.
John Aaron de Grydinton, 1315.
Thomas de Gaytington, 1321.
Richard de Ovenden, 1349.
John de Standforth (Stainforth), 1349.
Richard de Hetoa, 1362.
John Kynge, 1389.
Thomas de Elland', 1438.
Thomas Wilkynson, 1439.
Richard Symmes, 1480.
Thomas Brent, 1496.
William Rokeby, 1502.
John Taylor, 1521.— He was author of a
sermon on Luke ii. 22, preached February 2,
1508. See Cooper's "Athen Cantab, i. 49, and
Urwick's Hertfordshire.
Robert Hold&worth, before 1534.
John Harrison, 1556.
Christopher Ashburn, 1559.
Francis Ashburn, 1573.
Henry Ledelhajn, 1585.
John Favour, 1593.
Robert Clay, 1623.
Hugh Ramsiden, 1628.
Henry Ramsden, 1629.
Richard Marsh, 1638.
[John?J Wayte, 1642.
Henry Rootc, 16'43.
John Lake, 1647.
Robert Booth, 1650.
Eli Bentley, 1657.
Richard Hooke, 1662.
Edmund Hough, 1689.
Joseph Wilkinson, 1691.
Thomas Burton, 1712.
George Legh, 1731.
Henry Wood, 1776.
Henry William Coulthurst, 1790.
Samuel Knight, 1817.
Charles Musgrave, 1827.
Francis Pigou, now Dean of Bristol.
Arelideacon Brooke, resigned.
Canon Hy. Eld. Savage, 1904.
I am not aware that any of these eminent
men (except Ta,ylor), before Dr. John Favour,
had any sermon or book printed; or left any
composition in writing, though Rokeby and
Taylor became speciailly eminent church
dignitai"ies. About fourteen Vicars were
natives of the paiish.
John Fa.vour was born at Southampton, and
passed to Winchester, and to Oxford, where he
became D.C.L. in 1592. In 1593 he was made
Vicar of Halifax, and in 1608 was also appoint-
ed Warden of Ripon Hospital. In 1616 he was
collated to the prebendship of Driffield, cantor-
ship at York, and Chaplain to the Aj'chbishop.
He has pieviously been referred to, along with
Mr. Barlow and Mr. Boys, as a| notable puri-
tan, and promoter of Monthly Exercises at
Halifax. Mr. Thoresby had in his museum at
Leeds some manuscript notes of sermons by
Dr. Favour preached at the Halifax ElxerciseB;
and also Favour's marginal notes written in a
book, "Fasciculus Temporum," printed about
1485. The only printed book that is known at
pi-esent as Dr. Favour's work is entitled
AtNTIQUITIEl TRIUMPHING OVER
NOVELTIE'.
London, small quarto, 1619, and has been sold
as low as 6s. It comprises 602 pages. Wood's
''Athen. Oxon." gives a glowing oliaracter of
Dr. Falvour, whose book is designed to prove
that "Antiquitie is a true and certain note of
the Christian Catholicke Church and veritie,
against all new and late upstart heresies, ad-
vancing themselves againsit the religious hon-
oxxc of old Rome, whose ancient faith was eo
much commended by St. Paul's pen, and after
sealed with the blood of many mar1;yrs and
worthy Bishops of that See. With other
neoessa^rie and important questions incident
and proper to the same subject."
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTJiURS.
47
The dedication is to Tobie M^i.tthews, Arcli-
bishiop of York, from which we learn that it
was bcgim when the author was sixty yea.rs
old at the desire, and carried on under tJhe en-
courajgement of the said Archbishop. In the
Elpistle to the R«adeiis he refers to the im-
pediments to his work, and his mullitarious
engag'ements, namely, pi'eaohing every »Sab-
bath day, lectii.ring every d?iy in the week,
exerci^sing justice in the commonwealth (he
being- a Justice of the Peace), practii-ing of
physic and chirurgery. Two hundred years
later he had the local reputation of being a
good Divine, a good Physician, and a good
Lawyer, a>s recorded by Mr. Watson. Dr.
Favour m;!ii liod at Leeds Nov. 13, 1595, Ann
daughter of William Povver, rector of Bar-
wicik in El mete. A most interesting tablet,
with bust, may still be seen in the ohanoel
of Halifax Cburoh, showing the doctor in the
pulpit, dressed in cianonicads and i-uffle, his
left hand resting on a skull. There is a
Latin epitaph below. I fear the gravestone
formerly in the chancel, beayring his naane
and a longer Latin epitaph, cannot now be
identified. He died on March 10th, 1623, or
1624 as we should now reckon.
To show the ignorance that then prevailed,
we may refer to one story given by Favour in
his book, paye 334. A woman wept bitterly
when she heard the passion of Christ read in
her own tongue, and tenderly oompaesioned
so great an outrage done to the son of God,
but after a panse, and re-collection of her
spirits, she asked "Where wais this done?"
When it was answered "At Jerusalem, many
thousand miles hence, and about fifteen hun-
dred years a^o," she said "If it wais; so far
off, and so long since, by the grace of God
I hope it might prove to be a lie," and there-
in she comforted heiself.
This woman of compassion lived at the time
when Halifax gibbet was doing deadly execu-
tion.
There is a oopy of Favourr's "Antiquity" in
York Minster Library.
XXXVL— HALIFAX VICARS.
The successor of Dr. Favour, the most not-
able and popular of the ancient Vicars of
Halifax, wag Dr. Robert Clay, born at Clay
House, Greetland, who died in 1628, having
only held the post four years. He is thought
to have been the founder of the vestry library
at Halifax, but to the best of my knowledge
did not publish anything. Ainongst other com-
plaints exhibited against him by a Mr. Smith
{Godolphin's Repertorium) were two, (1) that
he retained Stepheeon, a drunkard and adult-
erer, as curate at one of the twelve chapels,
and (2) that he did not catechize, but only
bought many of Dr. Wilkinson's catechisms
(for every of which he paid twopence, and sold
them to the parishionei-s for threepence), with-
out any examination or instruction for their
benefit.
The catechism was undoubtedly the one by
the Rev. Henry Wilkinson, which we have pre-
viously mentioned.
The brothers Ramsden, Vicars from 1628 to
1638, we have previously mentioned. The latter
one was succeeded by Richard Marsh, who was
born in Hertfordshire in 1585. In 1614 he was
Vicar of Birstall, and held dignified posts at
York Minster. In 1638 he came to Halifax.
In 1641 he was appointed Archdeacon, and in
1644 Dean of Y'ork, but the troubled times
hindered his promotion, until 1660. Charles I.
held him in great estimation. In 1642 he fled
from Halifax, but was caught on Blackstone-
edge and imprisoned at Manchester. He man-
aged to escape to the King at Oxford, and did
not return to Halifax until 1660, when he ap-
peared, as the story goes, with a prayer book
under his arm, and finding Eli Bentley in the
desk, he turned him out, and read the prayers
from the prayer book. He was buried in York
Minster in October, 1663, having resigned Hali-
fax in June, 1662. Walker in his "Sufferings
of the Clergy" states (p. 83) that Dr. Marsh
printed one or more sermons. These must be
very rare, for Mr. Watson had never met with
one, neither have I ever seen further refer-
ence to one, except a sermon in York Minster
Library, 4to. size, preached in the Metrop
Church at York, 26 Septembier, 1624, (when
Vicar of Birstall,) on the consecration of
Stenhouse^ Lord Bishop of Carli.sle.
Richard Hooke, a Cambridge D.D., probably
a Northamptonshire man, according to Ant.
Wood had been minister at Lowdham in Not-
tinghamshire and published a book in 1653,
entitled
The Laver of Regeneration,
And the Cup of Salvation,
in two treatises concerning Baptism and the
Lord^s Supper.
If not a mistake this must have been the first
edition of the following: —
The Laver of Regeneration,
And the Cup of Salvation.
Two plain and profitable discourses upon the
two Sacraments, the first laying open the nature
of Baptism, and earnestly pressing the sorioua
consideration and religious observation of the
sacred vow made by all Christians in their
Baptism. The other pressing as earnestly the
frequent renewing of our baptismal vow at the
Lord's holy table; demonstrating the indis-
pensable necessity of receiving and the great
sin and danger of neglecting the Lord's Supper,
with answers to the chief pretences, whereby
the absenters would excuse themselves; 8vo.,
London, 1684, with a dedication to the inhabi-
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HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
tants of the town and parish of Halifax. The
texte idle John i. 26, and iCor. xi. 28 I am
glad to state that ther© is a* copy in Halifax
Freie' Library. ,, , , ,
Anthony Wood's " Oxon. ' states that h© aJso
piililished one or more sermons, but I have
not seen them nor the tilU'S named, ilis best
known work now, though very rarely mot with,
is : — .
The Nonconformist Champion,
His Challenge Accepted;
or an answer to Mr. Baxter's "Petition for
Peace," written long since but now first pub-
li-hed upon his repeated provocations and im-
portunate clamors that it was never answered.
Whereunbo is prefixed an Eipistle to Mr. Bax-
ter, with some remarks upon his Holy Com-
monwealth; upon his sermon to the House of
Commons; upon his Nonconformist's Plea for
Peace; and upon his answer to Dr. Stilling-
fleet. By Ri. Hooke, D.D., Vicar of Halifax.
London, 1682, 157 pages in octavo. I have
just discovered that I have a copy, and there
is one in York Minister Libraa-y. It is a
small octavo. The first seven words of the
title occupv a line each. London, printed for
Tho. Fleslier. After the title is the usual
blank page, then five pages "To the Reader,"
in which is the uncharitable passage— " Truly
it were to be wisht that Mr. Baxter when he
had written his "Everlasting Rest," he had
gone to it. He hath been so restlesB ever since
and so great a troubler of Israel that without
a deep repentance I fear he will come short of
that Blessed Rest. I judge complements and
soft words not fit for bigots and perturbers of
Church and State." The next page gives
Errata. The treatise covers pages 1-157. Three
pages of bookj advertisements complete the
volume. In thte^ Minster Library there is a
quai-to pamphlet by Richard Hooke, Vicar of
Halifax, and Prebend of York, entitled "'The
Bishop's Appeaie; or an Addresse to the
Brethren of the Presbyteriall Judgement."
Dedicated to Ati'chbishop Frewen. It was
printed at Newcastle by Stephen Bulkley,
1661.
Thoresby, of Leeds, had in his museum an
octavo manuscript in answer to this book,
entitled "The Duelling Doctor Defeated," by
T..T.M.A. [The Just Man's Advocate, alias Mr.
Thomas Sharp, of Horton, Bradford, whose
mark this w^as,] being given to Thoresby by
Mrs. Sharp. I should have taken (but for Mr.
Thoresby's statement,) the initials to stand for
T. Jolly, M.A., the intimate friend of the Revs.
Oliver Heywood and Thos. Sharp. Copies of
Dr. Hooke's a.ttack on Baxter are found in
several public libraries, as the Memorial Hall
Library, London, &c. Dr. Hooke died of a
painful complaint on Jan. 1st, 1688-9. The
monument at Halifax recorded also the burial
Df his son Samuel, a student at Cambridge.
Edmund Hough, M.A., succeeded Dr. Hooke
in 1689. He had been turned out of the Uni-
versity of Cambridge by the Act of Uniformity,
but afterwards conformed and became rector
of Thornton in Craven. He died in April,
1691, and was buried at Halifax. He does not
seom to have issued any printed work, but
Mr. Thoresby had some of his manuscript ser-
mons in his museum at Leeds.
Thomas Burton became Vicar of Halifax in
1712. He was an M.A., and had been rector of
Lofthouse and curate of Yarm, North York-
shire. In 1715 he became prebendary of Given-
dale in York Cathedral. He died in July, 1731,
and was buried in the Chancel of Halifax
Church. The one sermon that he published
indicates hji-; opinion of royal prer.)gativci-.. This
ivas preached in Halifax Parish Church from
Psalm xlvi. 10, on Tuesday, July 7th, 1713,
being the day appointed by Her Majesty for a
Public Thanksgiving for the Peace. London,
1713, 16 pages octavo. At page 7 he says: —
"Kings receive no authority and power from
their subjects, and therefore it is neither reas-
onable nor just that they should be accountable
to them." Such silly, false reasoning was un-
accountable even at that date. He goes on to
state that "some men are for storming Heaven
and snatching God's authority out of His
hands, who has declared that by him princes
reign, and yet they will tell you it is by them
they reign, and the plainest Scriptures in the
world cannot drive them out of this wicked
and blasphemous opinion." Speaking of the
Peace he saj-s: "It is such as our allies could
reasonably desire, 'tis a just and therefore an
honourable peace; a peace that answers all the
ends proposed w-hen we engaged in a most
bloody and expensive war. We ought thank-
fully to own that God overthrew our enemies,
and reduced a powerful prince to sue for peace ;
and it wr 'ild have been hard measure not to
have grantc ■ it to him on such terms as we,
among oui- little selves should think it hard
to be denied it. To take from him what was
his own would be nothing less than robbery,
and to reduce him to such circumstances that
he fhall not be capable of doing us and his
neighbours mischief is as much as any honest
and good man ought to desire; and that he is
reduced to such cireumstannes no man can
doubt but such to whom it is natural to find
fault with everything and wlio are of such a
querulous temper as to complain when they
are not hurt, and who rather than to quarrel
will quarrel even with peace itself, and who
endeavour to disturb the nation with noise and
clamour, without either sense or reason." One
wonders why a foreign prince should not have
equally divine prerogatives as our own. A
more illogical discourse surely was never de-
livered from Halifax pulpit. Vicar Burton
had no monument erected to him at Halifax,
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49
and this sermou is a poor memorial. The
succeeding Vicars have all been men of a higher
stamp, ;.>s well be shewn hereafter. 1 have
mad© the extracLfc, from a printed copy in my
possession.
XXXVII.— DAVID HARTLEfY, M.A.
A Rev. David Hartley was cuiate of Liid-
denden from 1698 and of Illingworth from Oct.,
1706. He came to Northowram first to teach
at the school founded by Oliver Heywood,
and began October 5, 1693. By December he
had gathered fifteen [•scholars, and by the end
of Janiiiury there were twenty-seren. H©
visited Heywood in April, 1702. He enc-
oeedcK:! the Reiv. Edward Wilkinson, who
had held the Illingworth curacy from
October, 1668, and died .Ian. 4, 1704-5. Mr.
Hartley married hie predecessor's diaughter.
May 25, 1707. Be left Illingworth before 1717
to become incumbent at Armley, near Leeds,
where he died, leaving eight children. One of
these was David Hartley, M.A., who was born
at Illingworth, brought up by a Mrs Brooksbank
near Halifax, and passed on to Jesus College,
Cambridge, where he became Fellow. He
first began to practice physio at Newark, from
whence he removed to St. Eldmund's Bury,
afterwards tO' London, and lastly to Bath,
where he died September 30, 1757, aged 53,
loaving two sons and a daughter. The sonis
both became University students, the elder
having a travelling fellowship, and fke younger
entered Oxford in 1757.
David Hartley, M.A., the physician, publish-
ed "A view of the present evidence for and
against Mrs. {Stephen's medicines as a solvent
for the stone, containing 155 cases, with some
experiments and observations," London, 1739,
204 pages, octavo. It is dedicated to the Pre-
sident and Fellows of the Royal College of
Physicians, London, wherein he refers to a
former smaller edition pi;blished the year be-
fore. On page 175 are proposals for making
Mrs. Stephens' medicines public, and a list,
amounting to ,£1387 l3s., is annexed for pur-
chasing the right. These sums were obtained
between April, 1738, and Febriiary following.
He himself bears testimony to the efficacy in
his own case, and was the chief instrument in
procuring a Parliamentary grant of ,£5,000 for
Mrs. Stephens, yet he is said to have died of
the stone after having taken above 200 pounds
weight of the soap. The medicine was made
public in the "Gazette" from Saturday, June
16th, to Tuesday, the 19th, 1739.
Dr. James Parsons, F.R.S., published an
octavo volume, London, 1742, entitled "Ani-
madversions on lithontriptic medicines, par-
ticularly those of Mrs. Stephens, and an ac-
count of the dissections of some bodies of per-
sons who died after the use of them." It was
genei-ally believed that this book proves that
Dr. Hartley's estimate waa wrong, and that
the celebrated medicine had no power of di&-
solving stones. Dr. Hartley wrote against Dr.
Warren, of St. Edmund's Bury, in defence of
inoculation, and some letters by him are in
tile i'hilosophical Transactions. W'a son ha.vB
he was certainly a man of learning, and a re-
puted good physician, but too fond of nos-
trums.
But the work on which his literary fame
rests is entitled: —
Observations on Man,
His Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations,
in two parts. London, 1749, octavo.
The fii-st part contains "Observations on the
frame of the human body and mind, and on
their mutual connections and influences," which
was intended as an answer to Gay's preface
to Law's "Origin of Evil."
The second part treats of the duty and
expectations of mankind here and hereafter,
revealed religion, the being and attributes of
God. the evidences for revealed religion, and
results of violation of the rules of life. There
are 462 pages in the 1749 edition.
XXXVIIL— OLIVER HEYWOOD.
Oliver Heywood, eon of Richard Hey^wod '
of Little Lever, near Bolton, in Lancashire^
was born ihere in March, 1630. present stvie of
reckoning, and from bis birth was des'igned
for the ministry. In 1647 he was sent to
Trinity Colhge, Cambridge, and took the de
gree of B.A. In 1652 he was appointed to the
curacy of Coley Chapel. Hipporholme, and for
nearly fifty years ^^as the leading spirit in
the district in the promotion of Elvangelical
religion. In 1662 he was ejected ivora Coley,
and soon afterwards setthd at a houpe he pur-
chased at Northowram. In 1688 he built a
chapel near his home, and its successor is ap-
propriately named Heywood Chapel. He was
constantly persecuted, and several times im-
prisoned for preaching. He died in March,
1703, new i^tyle, aged 73.
The notice of his works divides itself into
tiiree parts:— (1) The books' he published; (2)
the lives issued concerning him; and (3) the
manuscripts he left. I had a fairlv complete
set of Oliver Heywood's publi-shed treatises,
but pa.rted with them at the request of the
late Marquis of Bute, ;imd I presume they are
now at Cardiff Castle. I have gathered a few
volumes since, and there are fair sets in the
BTitish Museum Library .and in the Congre-
gational Memorial Hall, London.
(1) "Heart Treasiire: or an Essay tending
to fill and furnish the Head and Heart of
eviery Christia'n being the sub-
stance of some sermons preached at Coley, in
Yorkshire, on Mat. xii., 35, by O. H., an un-
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HAIilFAJi: BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
worthy minister of the bloated Gospel. • • •
London. A. Ibbitson for Thos. Paikhurst at
the (ioldeu Bible on London Bridge, 1667. '
This is a small octavo book coutaiumg xvi.,
and 336 pages, the Epi^stle Dedicatory "to my
very loving and dearly beloved friends and
noi"-hbouiis, the inhabitants of Coley, and the
places adjacent," is dated, "From my study at
Coley Hall. .June 4, 1666, Oliver Heywood."
The coilobrated antiauary Joseph JIunter,
states in his " Life of Heywood " that he had
onlv seen one copy of this book (page 205 n),
end that the British Museum Library was
wofuUy deficient at that time in early English
books, having only three or four of Heywood's.
Hunter, a Unitarian, considered this the best
of Heywood^s treatises, and admires the plain
and practical style as well as the great ac-
quaintance manifested with the Fathers, Com-
mentatm-s, and current biography, inter-
spersed with choicte lines from Herbert's
poems. It was for long a great favourite. I
have secured another copy of this rare work.
The first page gives the title, thle second is
blank, pages iii. — iv. — to the Reader, signed,
John Chester. 1667; v.— xi. the E'pistle Dedi-
cator}'; xii — xvi. Contents. The.se pages are un-
numbered. The treatise begins with sheet B,
pages 1 to 287. This is followed by an Appen-
di:c concerning Meditation, pages 288 to 333,
and then follow three pages of advertisements
ox books, a fly leaf, " Impiimatur, Rob.
Grove, for the Lord Bishop of London,
August 1671." Evidently this Mas issued with
the remainder of the sheets, but not when the
first books were sent out.
(2) The same Imprimatur, exactly, is issued
at the beginning of Heywood's next publication
of which I have again secured two copies.
THE SmRB MEIRCTES OF DAVID,
or a Second Part of Heart Tneasure, wherein
is contained the sum and substance of Gospel
mercies purchased by Clirist, and promised,
&c being the fruit of some Medita-
tions \ipon Isa. Iv., 3, by 0. Heywood, an un-
profitable Minister of the Gospel, London,
printed by B. W. for Thos Parkhurst. and are
to be sold at his shop at the Bible and Three
Crowns, in Cheanside, near Mercer's Chapel,
1672."
After the title there is a blank page, then
the Preface to the Reader, to all the Heirs
of_Promise (iii.— xxi.), signed, 0. H., June 3,
1670; page xxii. is blank; xxiii.— xxix. the
contents; xxx., six lines of Errata. The
treatise begins with sheet B, pages 1 — 253. It
is a small octavo, like the Heart Treasure.
(3) "Closet Prayer, a Christian Duty; or a,
treatise upon Mat. vi._ 6, tending to prove
that the worship of God in secret is the in-
dispensable duty . . together with a severe re-
buke by O. Heywood, Minister of
the Gospel. London, Thos. Parkhurst, 1671."
Small octavo, pages xvi., 127; the Epistle to
•the Reader is dated Oct. 31st, 1668,"while6 I
am— Oliver Heywood." Though this bears the
date 1671, it staibM oca pa^e ii.: "There is of
this author two other books printed. Heart
Treasure and the Sure Mercies of David."
My copies give 1672 for " Sure Mercies," but
the Memorial Hall Library has one with the
date 1670, as well as one for 1G72. i have two
copies ot •'Clotet Prayer," and have hud al&o
the second edition; printed in 170U, small
octavo, pa^'es xii., 124.
The British Museum Library catalogue gives
an ediiion for 1687, in octavo, with notes in
manuscript (No. 4,409 e). I have the following
edition: "Closet Prayer, a Christian Duty; or
a Treatise upon Matth. vl.. 6, tending to prove,
&c., by 0. Heywood, one of the ejected Minis-
ters of the Gospel. London, J. Chalmers,
1794." Small octavo, 153 pages, namely, title,
next page blank, E'pistle to the Reader 3—9,
signed. "Whiles I am, Oliver Heywood, Octo-
ber 3lst, 1668." Contents 10— ¥2. Treatise 13—
153. Amongst the advertisements that follow
is one respecting the second edition of John
Mitchel's Female Pilgrim, or the Travels of
Hephzibah, with ten copper plates, 7s., or in
twelve sixpenny parts; a book to be men-
tioned hereafter.
" Closet Prayer," a duodecimo edition, was
issued in 1816, with Life of Heywood, by J.
Kerby, but I have not seen it, nor another
edition, same size, in 1830. This waw probably
the Wesleyan Society publication, edited by
tho Rev. T. Jackson.
(4) " Life in God's Favour, a Discourse
adapted to Death-Threatening Times," is
dated Nov. 9, 1678, and printed in 1679, small
octavo. There are copies in the British
Museum and Memorial Hall Libraries.
"Life in God's Favour, a Seasonable Dis-
course in Death-Threatening Times, being the
substance of several sermons upon Psalm xxx.,
5, by Oliver Heywood, Minister of the
Gospel." Printed by Dr. John Fawcett, 1796,
at Brearley Hall, 26i pages. I have also an
edition ■printed by J. Fawcett, " A New Edi.
tion." Etwood Hall, near Halifax, 1799. The
Address to the Reader, Nov. 9, 1678, is signed
Oliver Heywood, and there are 264 pages.
(5) "Israel's Lamentation After the Lord;
or a Discourse wherein every well-wisher in
Zion is excited and directed how to lament
after the Lord with prayers and tears. . . -
being some Meditations upon I. Sam. 7 — 2.
London, Tho. Parkhurst, at the Three Crowns
and Bible, at the lower end of Cheapside,
1683." This a very small octavo, a.nd my copy
consii-^ts o1' title page, with blank behind, then
An Humble Address to the Righteous God (4
pages); to all the Mourners in Zion, 10 pages,
signed "Thy Soul Friend, 0'. H., Aug. 22,
i|..gi ., rp|.|g treatise occupies 1 — 143 pages.
There is also a copy in the Memorial Hall,
London.
(6) " Baptismal Bonds Renewed, being some
meditations upon Psalm 50, 5, by 0. H. M.A,,
Minister of the Gospel. . . . London, Tho.
Parkhurst, at the Bible and Three Crowns, in
Cheapside, near Mercer's Chapel, 1687." Small
8vo., pages xx., 328. It will be noticed that
Mr. Heywood is erroneously given M.A. I had
a copy, and there is one in the Memorial Hall.
(7) " The Holy Life and Happy Death of Mr,
John Angler." This is a very rare Lancashire
book, written by Mr. Heywood, as may be seen
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from his diary, 1685. He had married Mr.
Angier''© daughter for his first wife. It was
published belore " Baptismal Bonds/' as it is
advertised at fhe end of that book There are
copiec in the Chethaon Library, Manchester,
and in the Memorial Hall Library, small 8vo.,
London, 1685, and also a "Life and Death,"
amall 16mo., no place of printing named, 1677.
(8) " Meetness for Heaven promoted in some
brief Meditations upon Colos. i, 12, designed
for a Funeral Legacy." This is a small 12mo.,
and gives "An Epistle to my dearly beloved
Hearers, Friends and Neighbours, and others
that will be at the cost to buy, or take the
pains to read this small treatise." It was pub-
lished in 1690, and a copy may be seen at the
Memorial Hall, London.
(9) "The Best Eiitail, or Dying Parents Liv-
ing Hopes for their Surviving Children. . .
a discourse upon 2 Sam. 23, 5, wherein is a
collection. ... by 0. H., Minister of the
Gospel. London, Tho. Parkhurst," small 8vo.,
1693, pages xvi and (more than) 94, my copy
being incoinplete. There is a copy in the
British Museum. The book was dedicated to
i'liilip. Lord Wharton,
(10) " A Family Altar erected to the Honour
of the Bbernal God, or a Solemn Est^y to pro-
mote the Worship of God in Private Houses.
Dated Feb. 2. 1692-3." It is a small octavo,
London, 1693. My copy is incomplete, pp. ( )
144. There are copies in the Memorial Hall
and British Museum Libraries.
"Family Altar" was reprinted, with addi-
tions, by the Rev. Chas. Atmore, Wesleyan, at
Liverpool. There is a copy in Halifax Free
Library.
11) ".Job's Appeal, being a Fi:neral Sermon,
delivered at Northowram, occasioned by the
death of Mr. Jon. Denton. Dedicated to Mr.
John Denton, Southwark, near London. It
was published in 1695, and there is a copy in
the British Museum.
(12) ' A New Creature. Dedicated to my dear
Friends and beloved Hearers at Northowram; "
dated Mb.y 3rd, 1695, and published in that
year.
(13) " Heavenly Converse : or a Discouree
concernittg the Communion between the Saints
on Earth and the Spirits of Just Men Made
Perfect in Heaven, grounded upon Heb. xii..
23, by Oliver Heywood, an unworthy Minister
of the Gospel Londoii, printed for
John Back, at the Black Boy, on London
Bridge; 1697, pages xiv., 95.
(14) " The General Assembly, or a Discouree
upon the Gathering of All Saints to Christ:
Comprising some Meditations upon Thess. ii.,
1. Dated Sep. 22nd, 1698; " published in 1700.
(15) " A Treatise of Christ's Intercession,
grounded upon Isaiah liii., 12, . . . together
with a practical application of this comfortable
doctrine." 12mo., 1>701. A copy is in the
Memorial Hail Library.
(16) " The Two Worlds, Present and
Fiiirure, Visible and In\isible, wherein is re-
presented briefly the ur comf oita.ble state of
God's children in this world, and their earnest
expeotat*ion of future happineeb with God.
There is an Epistle to my dear and loving
nephews and others of my natural relations
in Lancashire. De<«mber 30 1G99." Published
in 1701.
York Minster Library has copies of Heart
Trf-asure, 1G67; Sure Mercies, 1671; Closet
Prayer, 1671; Israel's Lamentation, 1683;
Baptismal Bonds, 1687; A New Creature, 1695;
Heavenly Convei-se, 1697; Intercession, 1701,
printed at London, for John Whitworth, book-
Beller, Leeds.
Mr. Oliver Heywood published also the Life
of his brother Nathaniel, and other works.
XXXIX.— OLIVER HEYWOOD (Continued).
Besides the sixteen original treatises pre-
viously mentioned, Oliver Heywood wrote the
" Life of the Rev. Nathaniel Heywood," of
Ormskirk, previously curate of lUingworth,
near Halifax. The preface is dated 1694. He
also published a work written by his brother
Nathaniel, entitled, " Ch,rist Displayed," as
the Choicest Gift and best Master, from John
iv., 10; xiii., 13. It is a 12mo. book, nrinted
in 1679.
"Advice to an Only Child; or Excellent
Counsel to all Young Persons, containing the
Sum and Substance of Experimental and Praic-
tical Divinity," written by an eminent and
judicious divine (Jas. Chadwick, B.A., an
ejected minister, a native of Sheffield, and for
private use of an only child now made public
for the benefit of ail. This was published by
Ml-. 0. Heywood. There is a reprint, dated
1820 (by Rev. C. Atmore, Wesleyan Minister,
if I remember rightly), in the British Llusetim
Library. The " Christ Displayed "' and "Ad-
vice " are advertised in Mr. Heywood's " Best
Eiitail."
The Rev. Oliver Heywood edited and pub-
lished a work for his friend, the Rev. Thomas
Sharp, M.AL, of Little Horton, and prefixed
a short life of the Author. The first word of
the title is in Hebrew character: — or
Divine Comforts, antidoting Inward Perplexi-
ties of Mind, in a Discourse upon Psalm 9 ,
19, by T. Sharp, M.A., late Minister of the
Gospel at Leeds; with some short remarks
upon the author. (Greek characters from
Marc. Antonin, 4, 49.) London, Thos Park-
lurst, and Leeds, John Whitworth, Bookseller,
1700. It is a small octavo, pages xxii (unnum-
bered) and 416.
The preface occupies iii — viii. Remarks upon
tha Author ix— xxii. Treatise 1 — 411. Mr. Sharp
was the eldest son of Mr.Sharp of Little Hor-
ton, who had married tlie sister of the Rev.
David Clarkson. Aibout 1650 he was sent to
Cambridge and placed under the tuition of
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hie uncle, and afterwards under " Mr. John
Tillotson tJiat great n)an, afterwards Archbis-
hop of Canterbury " for ai short time. Mr.
Sharp laboui-©d near Peterboa-ough and then,
about 1660, Squire Arthingtou, of Arthiugtou,
gave him the parsonage of Addhill or Adel, in
succession to his oeceasod uncle William Chuk-
son, but Di-. Hitch of Guiseley opposed him
on the King's return, and he prave way peace-
fully. He attended Bradford Church until Mr.
Aibraham Brookebank, the Vicar, removed to
Reading. In 1672 ^Ir. Sharp licoueed \\ia own
house at Horton for preaohings, and crowds
went to hear him. He married Mrs. Bagnall's
daughter but their only child, a girl, died;
and all the issue of his second wife, daughter
of Mr. Sale, minister at Pudsey, died also be-
fore him, except a son and a daughter. For
some time he preached at Morley, and after-
wards at Mill Hill, Leeds, but continued to
reside at Horton for a long time, then boiight
aind enlarged a house at Leeds as a second re-
sidence. He spent his time and wealth to
grood ])urpose He left theological and poet-
ical effiisions in manusoript. He dietl August
27th, 1693, aged 60, and was buried in the same
grave as Mr. Wales in Leeds New Church.
Mr. Heywood was a large contributor to
Calamy's Nonconformist Memorial, the bulk
of the Yorkshire and Laincashire memoirs of
ejected ministers having been siipplicd by him.
He aided in the publication of other works,
and wrote some that do not seem to have been
published separately. For the Collected Works
of Oliver Heywood, see afterwards under Vint
and Horsfall Turner.
The first separate Life of Oliver Heyvv'ood,
that I know of, was compiled by the Rev.
John Fawcett, afterwards I>.D., Baptist minis-
ter Hebden Bridge, who issued in 1796 or'98, in
monthly parts, 12mo., 216 riages, price 2s. 3d.
The Life of the Rev. Oliver Heywood, with
Historical Sketches of the Times in which he
lived; and Anecdotes of some other Eminent
Ministers in Y^orktshilre, Lancashire, &c;.
Printed and sold at EKvood Hall, near Hebden
Bridp-e. There is a copy i-n the Bradford Free
Library. The second edition (by J. Fawcett,
A.M., thovigh the paper cover gives D.D.) was
printed by Holden and Dovson, Halifax, 1809,
12mo., 214 pages. Between the two editions,
or soon after 1809. there was issued a pirated
abbreviation of Fawcett's work, without his
naime, tinder the title " Memoirs of the Life
of Mr. Oliver Heywood, Minister of the Gos-
pel at Coley Chapel, and afterwards at North-
owram, in the Parish of Halifax. Leeds,
printed by Davies and Booth, 56 pages, octavo,
with portrait by Topham, from an original
painting in the possession of Miss Heywood,
Mansfield. This abbreviation is verbatim so
far as it is printed. Dr. Fawcett confesses his
inability to decipher all Heywood's writing;
and he had only one brief diary to copy from,80
his labour though good was very incomplete,
and the transcripts inaccurate. His errors
are copied into Slate's " Life."
The Christian Knowledge Cottag-e Library,
Vol. I., 1806, gives Memorials of Providence
in the remarkably providential supplies of
Oliver Heywood. In Calamy's Nonconformist
Memorials was a brief notice of Oliver Hey-
wood, •e-writton for the 1803 edition. Con-
sidering Watson's opportunities (for hia
manuscript volume now in tLe hands of Sir
Tatlcn Sykcs contains noteo from Heywood's
Diaries), we are surprised that so little is
given of the famoTiS evajigelist and antiquary
in the History of Halifax, by Watson. An
advertisement in the "^Leeds Mercury," June,
1616, shews that a Rev. W. Farmer, Rev. R.
Slate, proposed to issue Heywood's Life
and Works. This resulted long after-
wards in oo-opertutdon of the Revs.
Richard Slate and William Vint.
Mr. Slate, a Lancashire Independent Minister,
published an octavo volume of 389 pages, en-
titled " Select Nonconformist Remains," 1814,
of which 191 pages record the Life of Heywood
and the seven sermons re-printed in Mr. Vint's
fifth volume. It is an octavo, printed by K.
Ca'ompton, Bury.
Mr. Slate's Memoirs of Oliver Heywood
were issued in a volume under several con-
ditions; one beai-ing a Lancashire printed title
page, also one bearingr London, Birtwistle,
1849 (printed at Idle), a copy of which is in the
Bradford Free Library, and as Vol. I. of
Tint's edition.
The Religious Tract Society, London, in
their Christian Biogi-aphy Series, include
' The Life of the Rev. Oliver Heywood, B.A.,
72 pages, small duodecimo. This is generally
found in a volume with companion biograph-
ies. I have it both ways.
The first real attempt t(o do justice to the
work of Oliver Heywood was acf^omplished in
the five vohimes issued bv the Rev. William
Vint, of Idle, in "The Whole Works of the
Rev. Oliver Heywood, B.A., now first collected,
revised, and arranged, including some Tracts
extremely scarce, and others from unpublished
niarjuscript'5, with Memoirs of his Life. Five
volumes with illustiatioDS.'' The printer was
Mr. John Vint, eldest son of the reverend
editor, and tlie work redounds great credit on
his printing establishment at Idle. The fol-
lowing table shews the scope of the publica-
tions —
Vol. I.— Life of Mr. 0. Heywood (by Slate).
Life of Mr. N. Heywood (by O. H.), Life of
Mr. Anprier (by 0. H.), Lives of Oliver Hey-
wood's Relatives (by 0. H.). Demv 8vo., pages
X. 608. Idle, John Vint, 1827.
Vol. II.— Editor's Preface, signed Willimm
Vint, 1825 : Heart Treasure, Sure Mercies of
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David. Demy 8vo., pages xxviii., 500. Idle,
John Vint, 1825.
Vol. III.— Closet Prayer, Intercession ot
Christ, Life in God's Favour, Israel's Lamen-
tation after the Lord, Job's Appeal. Demy
8vo, pages xiv., 923. Idle, John Vint, 1825.
Vol. IV.— Baptismal Bonds, A Family Altar,
The Best Entail, Heavenly Converse. Demy
8vo., pacres xv., 568. John Vint, 1826.
Yd. v.— Editor's Preface, signed W.V. :
A New Creatxxre, The Two Worlds, Meetness
for Heaven, The General Assembly, Original
Sermons, Youth's Monitor, Index of Subjects.
Demy 8vo., pages Ix., 603. Idle, John Vint,
1826.
The Original Sermons in Vol. V. were
selected from manuscripts by the Rev Richard
Slate for his " Select Nonconformist Remains,"
and are (1 — i) Holiness the Way of Safety,
preached at Pontefract, February 5th and 19th,
1692-3; (5) Nature of Conversion, preached
at Little Lev.M- Ayr;, 29ch lfi86; (6) Deliver-
ance from the World; (7) Stimulus to Duty,
preached at Radcliffe Bridge, April 24th, 1686;
i8> Believers Safe and Comfortable, preached
oc the Death of the R-ev. Snauuel Eaton, of
Dukinfield. This is copied from Dr. Rippon's
Baptist Annual Register, Vol. IV., and bears
the note, " Denton, Jan. 22nd, 1694, upon oc-
casion of the death of Mr. Samuel Eaton, who
died Jan. 9th, buried Jan. 12th; he desired
this office of love from me, and appointed this
text." The manuscript of the Youth's Moni-
tor was in the hpinds of Mr. Samuel Roberts.
M.A., F.R.S., London, in 18811, he having
se-veral other original papers, being maternally
descended from Oliver Heywood. The " Moni-
tor, or Discourse upon Ecclesiastes xii., 1, is
inscribed to "the worthy and respectable
gentleman, Mr. Thomas Westby, heir of the
ancient and religious family of Raveudale, in
Yorlishire, dated Aaigust 28th, 1689."
It remained for one of Yorkshire's most
competent antiquaries to do justice to the life
of Oliver Heywood, as under: The Rise of
the Old Dissent, Elxemplified in the Life of
Oliver Heywood, one of the founders of the
Presbyterian Congregations in the County of
York, 1630—1702, by the Rev. Joseph Hunter,
F.S.A., London, 1842, demy octavo, pages xx,
463. This is a splendid memorial of Heywood,
but unfortunately written rather with the
purpose of vindicating the Arian succesBorB
than g-iving the personal life of Heywood.
The dream Of my boyhood's days was to get
access to the original writings of the gi-eat
local Nonconformist hero, the paa'son of Coley
Chapel, and yet I had sought far and often
until I was thirty-six years of age, and had
taken up my residence in the very same Col-
lege House in which the Rev. William Vint had
edited Heywood's Works 55 years before tho
manuscripts came to me from four different
sources. These manuscripts are embodied in
the five volumes as under : —
The Nonconformist Register of Baptisms,
Marriages and Deaths, compiled by the Revs.
Oliver Heywood iiiid Thos. Dickinson, 1644 —
1702, 1702—1752, generally known as the North-
o\\ ram or Coley Reg-ister. but comprehending
numerous notices of Puritans and Anti-Puri-
tans in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Ch^hire, Lon.
don, &c., with Lists of Popish Recusants,
Quakers, &s., edited by J. Horsfall Turner.
Five illustrations. Brighouse, J. S. Jowett,
1881, crown octavo, 386 pages. The manuscript
of the Register portion is now in the Memorial
Hall, London, and came from Mr. Wilson's
Library Guildford. I had to make some exer-
tion to .secure its safety befoi'e Dr. Newth
discovoi'-l it.
Oliver Heywood's Diaries. &c. (with illustra-
tions), namely the Rev. Oliver Heywood, B.A.,
1630 — 1702, his Autobiography, Diaries, Anec-
dote and Event Books, illustrating the Gene-
ral and Family History of Yorkshire and
Lancashire. Edited by J. Horsfall Turner.
Vol. I. printed for the Editor, by A. B.
Bayes, Brighouse, 1882, 376 pages, crown oc-
tavo.
Vol. II.— Brighouse. A. B. Bayes, 1881, 372
pages, crown octavo.
Vol. III.— Printed for the Editor, by T. Har-
rison, Bingley, 1883, 374 pao-es, crown octavo.
Vol. IV.— Bingley, Harrison, 1885, 357 pages,
crown octavo.
A description of Heywood's manuscripts, so
far as I could ascertain, is printed in Vol. III.
of the Diaries.
The Rev. NATHANIEIL HEYWOOD, Oliver's
bi other, was born at Little Lever, Sept., 1633,
was educated a)t Trinity College, Cambridge,
held the curacy of Illingworth, 1652-5, re-
moved to Ormkkirk about 1657, was ejected
thence in 1662, but remained in that parish
until his death, December 16th, 1677. See the
notice of Oliver for "Christ Displayed" and
" Life of Nathaqiiel Heywood."
XL.— JOHN MILNER.
The Milnors of this parish obtained their
na?ne because from sire to son they succeeded
as the custodians of the lord's corn-mills
either at Brighouse, Halifax, or Sowerby, etc.
John Milner, of Skircoat, married Mary,
daughter of Gilbert Ramsden, and their son
John Milner was baptised alt Halifax in Feb-
ruary, 1627, (or 1628 a> we should now state).
He passed from Halifax Grammar School to
Christ's College, Cambridge, whilst only four-
teen, and took the deg-rees B.A., M.A., and
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B.r>. ITo became curate of Middleton, in Lan-
cashire, but on the Cheshire Kisiug he had
t ) floe to Halifax, where he remained until
16G1, when bis brother-in-law, Dr. Lake,
vicar of Leeds, presented him to the curacy
of Beeston. Dairing this period he was in-
cumbent of Sowerby Bridge Chapel, 1650, awe-
ceediiig John Ailmer (unless this i-eading is
'1 misreading for Milner.) Mr. Watson does
not give his name in the list there. He be-
came B. D. and ministfer» of St.
John's, Leeds, in 1662, and in August,
1673, was advanced to the vicarage of Leeds,
and in 1681 became Prebendary of Kipon. In
168S bein,;? dissatisfied about the Eevolution,
he retired f]cm the vicarage, and was deprived
of all liis preferments. He spent the rest of
hi.5 life at St. John's, Cambridge, and remain-
ed a Nonjuror until his death at the College
February 16, 1702, ip-ed 75. He was buried in
the Chapel of St. John's, Cambridge. His
only son, Thomas Milner, M.A., vicar of ]3ox-
hill, Surrey, fellow of Magdalen Colleg-e, Cam-
bridge, by will, 1722, gave ^1,000 for echolar-
slips to Cambridge from Halifax, Leeds and
Haversham Schook, and his sister Mary added
X200 in 1736.
The works of John Milner, B.D. were rather
numerous : —
(1). Conjcctanea in Isaiam IX, 1, 2, London
quarto, 1673. This was published whilst he
was minister of St. John's, Leeds, and it was
dedicated to Dr. Duport, of Magdalen College.
Dr. Castel, Professor of Arabic at Cambridge,
regarded this as a most excellent essay, where-
in the author shewed incredible reading and
dilio-ence in perusing so many copies, versions,
and various lections, with the best interpi'e-
ters of Saci-ed Writ (Vicar. Leodiensis, 114.
Thoresby's Leeds Church).
(2). A Collection of the Chnrch History of
ralestiiie from the birth of Christ to the be-
ginning of the Elmpire of Diocletian. Londrn,
quarto, 1688.
(3). A short dissertation concerning the
four last Kings of Judah. London, quarto,
1689.
(4). De Nethenim sive Nethinaeis, etc.
Cambridg:' (Cantab.), quarto, 1690.
(5). An Answer to the Vindication of a Let-
ter from a person of quality in the North,
ctncerning the profession of John (Lake), late
Bishop of Chichester. London, quarto, 1690.
(6). A defence of the profession of John
(Take), Lord Bishop of Chichester, made upon
his deith bed, concerning Passive Obedience
and the New Oaths, with some passages of his
I^idship's Life. London, quarto, 1690. Thores-
by omitted to mention the two last in his
Vicaria Leodiensis, p. 116. See Bishop John
Lake, Halifax Author.
(7). A defence of Archbishop Usher against
Dr. Gary and Dr. Is. Vossius, etc., Cambridge,
octavo, 1691.
(8). A Discourse of Conscience, etc., with
reflections upon the author of "Christianity
not Mysterious, etc." London, 8vo., 1697.
(9). A View of the Dissertation upon the
Ephistles of Phalaris, etc.. lately published by
th.; Eev. Dr. Bentley, also of the Examination
of (hat Di&sertation by the Hon. Mr. Boyle.
London, octavo, 1698.
This Dr. Richard Bentley was born at Oul-
bcn, but I believe his ancestors went from
Halifax. The Hon. Mr. Boyle was of the Earl
of Burlington stock, and thev had kinsfolks
residing about Shelf and Birstal.
(10). A brief Elxamination of some passages
in the Clrronological part of a Letter to Dr.
Sherlock.
(11). A further Examination of ditto.
(1/2). An Account of Mr. Locke's Religion.
London, 8vo., 1700.
OS). Animadversions upon Mons. LeClerc's
Reflections upon our Saviour, etc. Cambridge
octavo, 1702. '
Mr. Milner'e sou had also the following
n-anuscripts of his father's: —
(1). A Translation of the Targ-um.
(2). A Chronological History from the Flood
to our Saviour's birth.
(3). Ditto of the five first centimes Anno
Domini.
(4j. Animadversions on the Historical Ac-
ocunt of the Jewish High Priests.
(5). An answer to or Animadversions upon
rt.H. on ControveTsies.
(6). Ditto upon T.C.'s Labvrinthus Cantu-
anonsis (unfinished).
(7). 'Animadversions upon Irenicnm.
(8). A Vindication of the Church of Eng.
laud in reference to Antiphones, Responds
etc.
(9). A Latin comment on ^lart of Genesis.
(10). Ditto upon Psalm I, 42.
(11). Diatriba de igne Purgatorio.
(j2). Fax nova Linguae Sanctae.
Professor Gower, of Cambridge, gave Thores-
b> the following character of Mr. Milner: —
"Great learning and piety made him really
a great man; he was eminent in both, and no-
tl ing but his humility and modesty kept him
fiom being more noted for bejjig so. He was
a blessing to ihe whole society by the ex-
ample he g.ave in every good thing. He died
beloved, and much lamented here, and his
r^emory ;s honourable and preciou"; amongst
us, and will long continue so."
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XLI. BISHOP JOHN LAKE.
In the notice of John Milner we ha.ve re-
ferred to a Defence and Life of his brother-
in-law, Bishop Lake, 1690, and an A,nswer to
a Vindication, concerning the Bishop, 1690.
Lord Macaulay's graphic account of the Trial
of the Seven Bishops will peiTetuate the name
of Dr. Lake, who was born (as Mr. Watson
flays) in Petticoat Linne, Halifax. His name
appears in the Halifax Registers, December
5, 1624, in the baptisms, and his father's name
vvas Thomas Lake. The family name had not
been long known in Halifax parish. From
Halifax Grammar School he proceeded to St,
John's College, Cambridge, before he was
thirteen years old, where he was placed under
the tuition of the poet Cleveland, whoBe
"Poems, Orations, Epistles, etc.," Mr. Lake
and Dr. Drake, vicar of Pontefract, collected
into one volume, to which they prefixed Cleve-
land's Life and Parentalia, and dedicated the
book to Bishop Turner, Master of St. John's;
London, octavo, 1687.
Soon after reaching hie B.A., he was made
prisoner at Cambridge with the royal party,
but escaping, he fled to Oxford, and remained
four years with the King-'s army, there and at
Basing House, Wallingford, etc. When the
royal . cause was at its lowest state he refused
the engagement as he had done the Covenant
before, and entered into Episcopal orders. On
Jaly 26th, 1647, he preached his first sermon
as Lecturer at Halifax Church, but times were
very unsettled, and by 1652 he had removed
to Oldham. In my Yorkshire Genealogist will
be found a portrait of this Halifax worthy.
It is likely he held the post equivalent to th©
vicao- of Halifax, 1647 to 1630, before Robert
Booth. On May 21, 1660, he was made vicar
of Leeds, but the populace were intent on hav-
ing the purit.in preacher, Mr. Eldward Bowles,
of York, and barred the church doors against
Mr. Lake. To secure his induction the officials
had to send for soldiers, aflid he thus got
po'jsession. He preached the first Synod ser-
mon at York with such satisfaction that Dr.
E-itoh, of Guiseley, desired a copy of it, and
shewed it to Bishop Sheldon, of London, who
gave Mr. Lake the rectory of St. Botolph's
Bishopsgate, London, by which means he be-
came intimate with Dean Sancroft of Canter-
bury. In October, 1668, for some unaccount-
able reason he returned to the north, and be-
came rector of Prestwich, and in July, 1670,
prebendary at both York and Southwell, and
rector of Carlton in Notts. As Residentiary
g.t York he became unpopular because he
stopped the custom of waJkino- aboixt in the
Cathedral whilst service was being held in the
Chapel, and a mob had to be driven off the
roof of his house, by the deputy-governor. In
May, 1671, he became Master of Magdalene
Ifospital, near Baiwtry, and in October, 1680,
Archdeacon of Cleveland. The Earl of Derby
gave him the Bishopric of Sodor and Man,
December, 1G82, and Charles II. translated him.
to Bristol in August, 1684. James II. ad-
vanced him in October, 1685, to the Bishopric
of Chichester. In April, 1688, he, with Arch-
bishop Sancroft, ajid five other Bishops, peti-
tioned the King stating their reasons for dis-
obeying the royal order as to reading the
Declaration for Liberty of Conscience. They
refused to appear before the King's Bench as
peers, and were committed to the Tower of
London, June 8th. The great trial took place
15th to 29th, when they were released amidst
almost national rejoicings. He refused to
tak^ the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy
to King William and Queen Mary, for which
he was suspended from office, and would have
been deprive! had he lived a little longer. On
August 27th, 1689, he signed a declaration,
which may be found in Watson's Halifax,
about twenty lines, on non-resistance and
passive obedience.
This declaration caused many pamphlets to
be published for and against, and caused a
national agitation on the subject, which had
hitherto been unthoiight of. Bishop Lake
wius buried at St. Botolph's, September 3rd,
1689, aged nearly 65.
He was author of "A Sermon preached at
Whitehall, May 29th, 1670, published by His
Majesty's command," London, 1671. Also,
"The True Christian's Character and Crown,
preached in St. Botolph's Church, July 15th,
1669, at the Funerr,l of Mr. William Cade,
Deputy of that Ward." London, quarto, 1671.
"A Defence of the Profession of John Lake,
Bishop of Chichester, which he made on his
death-bed, with some passages of his Life,"
quarto pamphlet^ London, 1690. Both these
pamphlets are in York Minster Library.
. XLII. THREE MORE BISHOPS :
FARRER, HORSFALL AND TILSON.
"^rhere is little doubt that Robert Farrer, the
Mairtyr, to whom there is a monument in
llyjifax Church, was a native of Ewood, near
Hc.hden-bridge. Thoresby and Wright corro-
borate the statement. The Farrors were a
leading family in Halifax paa'ish for three
centuries after the Reformation, the head of
th » JEtwood family being county magistrates
in Stuart times. The Bishop owned land at
Revey near Wibsey, and Dr. Johnson, a. Ponte-
fract antiquary, says in his Yorkshire manu-
scripts, that he left lands called Threaphead,
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four miles from Halifax, to his friends.
Possibly this place is near Wibsey. When a
young man, he bpcame a Canon regular of the
Order of St. Austin. He was at St. Marie's
College, Oxford, as.-ociated with the Order in
152t3 and 1533. He had been partly educated
at Cambridge. He became Chaplain to Arch-
bishop Cranmer, and contrary to the practice
and orders of the popish clergy he followed
the example of Cranmer in entering the
marriage state. Willis, in his Cathedrals, I.,
125, says he was the last Prior of Nostel, near
Barneley, to which was annexed the prebend
of Bramham in York Cathedral, and that he
surrendered his Convent in 1540, having a
pension of ^100 per annum allowed him,
which he received until his promotion in 1547,
or 1548, to the Welsh Bishopric of St. David's.
T have a copy of a scarce portrait of the Bis-
hop. Mr. Watson thought that Anthony Wood
and Willis treated his character too severely
when they p.tate that "he became a most
mienrable dilapi<^ator, yielding up everything
to craven courtiers." In the reign of Edward
VI., fifty-six articles and informations were
laid against him by various persons, some of
high standing, and on the fall of his patron
the Dtxke of Somerset, he was detained in
prison, until Mary ascended the throne, and
fiesh troubles came upon him as to faith and
doctrine, negligence, superstition, covetous^
nesg and folly. On February 4th. 1555, he was
examined before the Lord Chancellor (the
Bishop of Winchester) and others, and on the
14th was sent into Wales for condemnation,
his successor. Dr. Henry Morgan, popish Bis-
ho;) of St. David's, condemned him to be de-
graded and burned at Caermarthen on the
south side of the Market-cross, March 30th,
1555, for refusing to renounce his "heresies,
schisms, and errors." He never flinched at
the stake, and was beaten down with a staff.
Fox, in his Book of Martyrs, vindicates Bis-
hop Farier against the statements of Bishop
Godwin, Wood, amd others. Most trivial
things were reported agaimst him such as
riding a Scottish pad, with bridle of white
studs and snaffle, white Scottish stirrups and
wliite spurs, wearing a hat instead of a cap,
whistling to his child, blaming the scarcity of
herrings to the covetousness of fisher's who
took too many breeders previously, and sug-
gesting that a penny coin should be a penny's
woHh of the sajne metal. Two of his chief per-
secutors had been removed from their livings
byliim for lucre and shameless whoi-edom, yet
one became Archbishop of York (Dr. Young),
and the other Bishop of Bangor (Dr. Merrick).
Farrer's chief fault was that he had been
chaplain to the Lord Protector, Somerset. In
the Harleian MSS. (420 Catalogue) are papere
on Bishop Farrer's trial that are not printed
in Fox's Martyrs. (Vol. 5 of Fox's pa.per6 from
Strype). A Marmaduke Farrer, curate of
Luddenden, was buried in 1606.
John Horsfall was descended from the Hoi-s-
falls of Hoiwfall, the old homestead, now a
substaintial farmhouse near Cross-stone Church
He held a living in Yorkshire, but about 1585
became Bishop of Kilkenny, Ireland. I be-
lieve he is the same I.H. (John Horsfall,) trans^
later of Nicholas Hemming's ''The Preacher."
London, 1574, 16mo., also 1576, see Lowndes'
Bibl. under the heading Hemming. Besides
a daughter who married into a wealthy
Irish family of Kilkenny, he had a
son Sir Cyprian Horsfall, whose daughter is
now represented by her descendant, Sir James
Langridgp. of Kilkenny, and Lucan. Bishop
Horsfall's monument, a coat-of-arms, only,
impaling his wife's arms. I saw a month a«o
'August, 1904), at St. Canioe Cathedral, where
he was succeeded as Bishop by another Hali-
faix man. Dr. Deane, in 1690. Recently I have
xeceived a photograph of the monument from
Sir James' talented brother, whose artistic
and aintiquarian tastes are displayed in the
renovations at Kilkenny CathedraL
The following possibly refers to the Bishop :
From Depositions, Durham Ecclesiastical
Court (Surtees Society, XXL, 1845.)
Against Robert Waugh and John Rawe,
Alpril 27, 1567, "circa horam septimam predict!
eacrilegas manus in quendam Johannem
Horsfall, olerioum injecturi, venerunt ad
dictum Johannem in villam et rectoriam de
Weshington, &c.
"Nowe we are glada Horsfall, that we have
got thee here, thou hast done our kinswoman
Isabell Hinde a displeasure, and we will make
thi skinne make her amendes, and, by God's
woundes rather than thou use her thus thou
shalt beare me thy backfuH of strookes,"
holding and shaking his lytaffe at the said
Horsfall. At which words one Robert Waugh
came there also, grinning and shaking a lance
staff, a^nd sware "by God's blood that shalt
thou do," and throwing his staS down drew
out his dagger, stroke at him and cawght the
said Horsfall by the shoulder, holding the
dagger at his hart, and said, "Yea, by God's
hart thou shaJt either make her amends or
this dagger shalbe thi deathe." Wherat the
.said Horsfall, being amased. said, "Sirs, I
have no money." Yes, quod Wawghe, that
hast thou, theefe, and let me see it. Where-
upon the said Horsfall purse being opened
there was found in it 7s., which the said
Wawghe took then and there, and as Isabell
Hind confessed in this court gave afterward to
her 5s., and kept 2te. to himself. Which thing
being done they caused Horsfall there to sit
down aind to make a bill of ,£3 debt of his
hand-writing sealed.
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From Depositions, Durham Ecclesiastical
Court. (Siirtees Society, XXI., IB'^S.) .
Robert Smith, of Foxton, aged fiity said
that he was in the church of Sedgefield in the
time of service (17 Nov., 1568). ^vl;«^n the said
Bryan Headlam did disquiet Mr. Horsfall
there curate, with speaking to lum at that
time viz., the wiid curate thought the two
penitents sat too high up in the church and
spoke to them, and spec-.ally to ono of them.
t<> bit lower. n;iid at last she so did. and there
stood a young man near her whom the said
curate asked whether thai: she was hi8 wench
07 no, and Bry^n replied to the curate She
mav be voures if ye will;" and the said Bryan
had on his oa,p at the time of morning prayer.
Finp lid. imposed on Headlam.
Henn' Tilson is said to have been a native
of Hal'ifax parish, but of which township is
not known. The name lias been common in
So^^erbv and Qvenden. He entered Bahol
College', Oxford, in 1593. and his baptism
Bhould be found at Halifax in 1576. or he may
have been baptized at Heptonstall. In 159b
he took his B.A.. and got a Fellowship m TJni-
vereitv College, where he took his degree of
AI A ' In October, 1615, he succeeded R. Kenion
in' the Vicarage of Eochdale. Aiter some
years residence there he went as Chaplain to
th- Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, who made him Dean of Christ Church
Dublin. Pro. ViccvChancellor of Dublin TJni-
versitv. and Bishop of Elphin on September
03 1639 but was driven a.Avay soon afterwards
on the breaking out of the Irish rebellion.
His son, Captain Henry Tileon. was governor
of Elpl-ii' Castle, and joined Sir Cha.rles ( oot
against the King, so the Bishop delivered the
Cn.stle into the hands of the Lord President ot
Cnnnaught, and about the same time the Bis-
hop's librarv and goods were pillaged by Egan,
the titular Bishop, to the damage of .£400. He
escaped to relatives at Sooth ill Hall, near
Dewsburv, where he remained three years in
poverty. As his family comprised thirteen
persons,. he eked out a subsistence by conse<>
rating a room in the Hall in which to hold
f=ervices, and was aided by local gentlemen,
until Sir William Wentworth, of Bretton Hall,
gave him the curacy of Cumber worth. Thus
tho Bishop became a curate. Walpole, in his
"Anecdotes of Painters." III., 103, (1763), r^
fers to a nephew of the Bishop's, and the
Tilsons remained at Soothill Hall more tham
a century after Bishop Tilson's death, which
is recorded in the Dewsbury Register:
"Henry Lord Bishop of Elphin, buried
April 2nd, 1655," and in the Soothill Chapel,
at Dewsbury, south-east corner, a monument
bore the inscription: "P.M. Reverendi in
Christo Patris Henrici Tilson, (Hen. F.) Elpis
jnxta Halifax, in a^o Bboracenci; denati 31
die Martii, A' 1665 in eodem agro. Viri ob
eruditionem et pietatem insignis." The Til-
son arms, very similar to the Tiilotson's, are
engraved on the moniunent. I am not awai-e
that any printed effusion of hie oxifits.
XLIII.— MATTHEW 8MITH, M.A., AND
TWO JOHN SMITHS.
Tliis gentleman was born in the city of
York in 1650, and was advanceid to Edinburgh
University, whiere he took the degreei of M.A.
On Leaving Scotland he began his ministry
as a Noiioonforni'ist at Warloy and Mixen-
don alternately. At the latter place- the dis-
aenters were ohdefly Antinomians, and Mi-.
Smith had only one encouraging supportei" at
the beginning of his labours, namely John
Hanson, and the Magistrates at that time
were very active in pi'otiecuting Nonoonfor-
iiiists. He was obliged to preach seci'etly,
and had often to hide himself from informers
and sioidiers, yet he \\'ae fortunate enough to
elude their vigilance, and eventually he
gathered a flourisliing congregation. At one
time he had to conceal himself at York, and
again fled into Halifax parish for safety. He
had a living of £200 per annum offered, but
declined it as he refused to conform. In the
latter part of his life bei was afflicted with
the palsy, and died April 29th, 1736, aged
85, and was buried at Mixenden. His book
that created a grea.t stir on account of a
supposed want of orthodoxy, which troubled
Oliver Hey wood and others, was "The Ttne
Notion of Imputed Righteousness and our
Justification thereby, being a supply of what
is lacking in Bishop Stillingfleets book, &c.,
by the Rev. M. S., a country minister." This
wag an octavo voluane, printed at London in
1700. In the samei year, and often boumd
up \\ith it, he issued "A Delenoe of t?ie
foregoing Doctrine against some growing
opposition among Neighbours, Ministers and
others." Mr. Thioresby had in his Leeds
Museum a manuscnpt work by Mr. Smith
entitled "A Treatise concerning the Decrees
of Grod. There are likeiwise printed — Five
Sermons, to whdoh the editor, his son, the
Rev. John Smith, of Mixenden, afterwards
of Bradford, prefixed his father's life, and
added three discourses of his own, London
1737. Tbe book contains 280 pages, a copy be-
ing in possession of Mr. G. T. Rothera,
Halifax. John Smith died at Bradford, April
7th, 1768, aftei' a stroke of palsy, or fit, four
days previously.
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Mr. Josepli Hunter notioes in his life of
Hej'wo'cd, that th© latter preached tlie- funer-
al sermon of a daugliter of Mr. Matthew
Smith of Mixenden, January 19th, 1699, and
remarks that she was buried at the ohapel,
one of the first instances of Oongj-egational-
ists interring at the newly erected meeting
houses, though the Friends' had long practis-
ed it. Hunter states that this Mr. Smith
■was the first of the early minister& to defend
a "More rational Oliristianity," that is
verging towards TJnitai-iamisim, and that he
was the father of Mr. Smith, minister at
Bi'adfoTd, and grandfather of Mr. Smith,
minister at Selby, who was in 1842 living, a
minister Elmeritus. Bp died at Mixenden,
June 29, 1854, aged 95. In the year 1699, there
\\as much uneasiness in the Nonconformist
circle about Mr. Smith's "declensions," and
he had written to Mr. Heywood in explana-
tion. Someone also circulated a paper con-
taining the new theories the year before
beginning of theological ruptures. Mr. Smith
had boon ordained to the ministry by Mr.
Heywood, who was deeply concerned at the
biginning of theological ruptures. Mr. Smith
in 1687, ministered to two conp-egations,
one at John Hanson's in Mixenden, and the
other at John Hall's at Kippingr, where he
first received an invitation to preach, and
had laboured some years, unordained. He
was ordained at John Butry's Shuckden (or
Sugden) Head, near Thornton, equidistant
from both his congregations. He produced
hi8 diploma as M.A. of Edinburgh University
Mr. Smith married a daughter of Lieuten-
ant Sharp, of Horton, cousin to the Rev.
Thomas Sharp, of Adel. Hei- grandfather
had fougjit on the Royalist side. Mr. Smith
not only suffered much pea^secution in the
dark days before the Revolution, but mem-
bers of his congregjation became opponents
because of his inclination to Baxterianism.
"Practical godlineiss is our principal concern"
he stated in a letter , and he described him-
self as being neither a Oalvinist nor an Ar-
minian, hurt, one that treats in media via. He
probably settled at Thornton in 1679, but
left them completely in 1693. The second
Mixenden Ohapel' was built in 1717, on
Smith's own estate, and probably at his sole
expense. Mr. Smith had also regular preach-
ing services at Warley, and he also trained
sevei'al students for the ministry, whom he
engaged as assistants in the- district. It is
difficult to find in SmitJi's book anything but
a clear belief in the doctrine of the Atonc/-
ment. In 1704 he submitted the manuscript
of a treatise on "The Decrees of God," to
Mr. Thoresby, Leeds, which does not appear
to have been published. He was assist-
ed in his later years by his son, the
Rev. John Smith, w:ho had minister-
ed at Warley, and who succee<^lod his
father on his death, in 1736 at Mixenden.
Mr. John Smith had laboured at Warley from
1724, and served alternately at Eastwood
Ohapel. He remained at Mixenden until
1753, when he removed to Ohapel-lane, Brad-
foi-d, now Unitarian. He died in 1768, and
was buried at Mixenden. He had gradually
verged into Arianism in his later years. He
published a "Tteatise on Natural and Reveal-
ed Religion," and a volume of Sermons,
principally his father's, to which he prefixed
a memoir of his father. Another son, Isaac,
Vicar of Hawoirth, was an author. I have
two curious books by him.
To this notice I add a shoit paragraph in
the hope that further light may be thrown on
the identity of tihel conformist clergyman,
John Smith, and on his connection with Hali-
fax.
The following curious book is in my posses-
sion : —
The Doctrine of the Ohurch of England
concerning the Loi-d's day, or Sunday Sabb-
ath, as it is laid down in the Litui-gy, Cate-
chism and Book of Homilies; vindicated from
the vulgar Eii-rors of modem writers, and
settled upon the only proper and sure
basis of God's Precept to Adam, and patri-
archal practice, wherein an Eissay is laid
down to prove that the patriarchal Sabbath,
instituted Genesis 2, 3, celebrated by the
Patriarchs before the Mosaick Law and pro-
nounced with the other nine precepts of the
Decalogue ft'oni God's own mouth. Exodus
20th, writ by God's finger in stone, deposited
in the Ark of the everlasting Covenant, un-
der the inspection of Cherubims, till the
rending of the vail was the same day of the
week, viz. Sunday, whicli Oliristians observe
in memory of the peifecting of the Oi-eation
of the World by the Redemption of Mankind
celebrated by the Patriarchs in hope of their
Resurrection by vertue of Christ's future
Resurrection on that day (Stand ye &c., Jer.
6, 16), London, at the Three Bibles in St.
Paul's Olnxrchyard; Francis Bentley in
Hallifax; and Ephraim Johnston in Man-
chester, Booksellers, 1694-
This is a small octavo book, of xxii un-
numbered pages, and pages 1-291. Pages
iii-viii contain the Epistle Dedicatory to
the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, signed
your Sacred Majesties most Humble Subject,
John Smith. His name does not appear on
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the title-page. Tlie preface to the Intelli-
gent Readers fills pages ix-xxi and is
signed Your Sei'vant in our Oommon Lord,
J.S. The writer nia.intauu>d that Saturday
Sabbath was only local and temporary, pecu-
liar to the Jefws, and Sunday Sabbatii was
the Patriarchial rest day bIoss(xl by Qiod, and
rostotred in Christianity. Tlio Jews adopted
the 6t.h day from their first night's rest after
leaving Egypt. Tlie body of Smith's book is
divider! into cluipters, which shew net only
great knowledge of the Bible but wide ac-
quaintance with theological works of his
time. By references to KLrby Kendal, Kirby
Steven, Kirby Lun.sdale, he was evidently
acquainted with Westnioroland. HLs treatise
shews that the Patriarchs had places for
worship, priests with titlios, festival days,
weekly worship, computation of time, God's
prolepsis or re-st, ancient poets, Jewish and
heathen, Christiaai Fathers, Justin Martyr's
prfotK^st, a.nd numerous other well-dignested
headings indicate the learning and versatility
of this divine in compiling a book of attract>
ive interest from a subject seemingly trivial
and useless. At page 243 he finishes, but at
245 he resumes by an address to the most
Reverend and Right Reverend Fathers in
Grod t'lie Loa-ds Archbishops and Bishops of
the Oliurch of England, the Author's humble
apology foa- stiling- this Tract "The Doctrine
of the Church of England." As guardians
of our Churches doctrine I think it my duty
to make this apology. I learnt fi-om the
Oliurch Catechism when a cat-echumen — ^o<bli-
gationg by vertue of my Baptismal Vow — and
sureties are charged to see tliat their God
Children teach them not as a Olioak-pear
instead of Pap. TTiis is signed Your Lord-
ships devoted in all Filial and Dutiful Obser-
vance, John Smith.
Of Isa,ac Smith, another clerical son, we
shall have fitrther notice in two phamprilets.
XLTV.— JAMES BOI^TON.
I think it has been conclusively proved by
Dt. F. Arnold Lees and in the "Flora of Hali-
fax" that James Bolton supplied the Cata-
logue of Halifajx idants that appears in
AVat&on's History of Halifax, 1775, but it is
known that he recorded the Killarney fern as
growing at Bingley in 1758. In a memoran-
dum book kept by Mrs. Ralph, wife of the
Rev. Jchn Ralph, of Northgate End Chapel,
Halifax, under date January, 1799, is the
entry: On Monday, the 7th instant, died of
a rapid decline the self-taught painter and
naturalist, Mr. James Bolton, much regretted
by all who knew his modest worth, and pair-
tieularly by those of his friends who had the
most frequent opportunities of enjoying his
conversation, and were best acquainted with
his merit. His kind notice of my Sophia and
wish to improve her in drawing I shall never
forget', and the valuable paintings given to
rae by him T shnll o^or value and keep as
memorials of him." Unfortunately this
notice does not rnontiou his birthplac>e, age,
or place of interment. Bolton is cue of the
few Halifax worthies whose memoir appears
in the new Dictionarj' of National Biography.
He contributed sever, (signed) plates draiwn
by him, and engraved by James Sowerb.y bo
Rellian's Flora of Cambridge, 1785, and in
the same year he published
FTLTCES BRITANNIC^.
A History of the British Proper Ferns, with
plain and accurate descriptions and new
figures of all the species and varieties, by
James Bolton, of Halifax, London, B. White,
(Leeds, 1785) quarto, pages xvi., 59, price
13s. 6d., coloured 27s. There are thirty-one
copper plates, and the introduction, in which
he states that he drew atnd etched the whole
himself from careful inspection of the plants,
choosing to do so though he had never prac-
tised the art of etching. In 1790 he ifjsued
(from the Huddersfield Press) the second vol-
ume, chiefly devoted to the horse-tails, and
containing fifteen plates. The work has al-
ways commandel the esteem of naturalists.
His careful precision is noted by the signa-
tures on some of the plates, thus, — "Etched
en the copper immediately from the plant,
September £6, 1790, J. Bolton, Stannary near
Halifax." Bradford Free Library has a
copy. Jn the Todmorden Free 1 ihrnry
is a copy of Bolton's Ferns, w'lh an auto-
igraph letter hy him to .Tames Dickson, the
London botanist. Edward Robson, o;- Darl-
ington, was numbered fimongst his botanical
friends. His great work in Funguses was now
well advanced; "A History of Fmiguses grow-
ing about H.'wlifax, \\ith forty-four copper
plates on which are engraved fifty-one specieB
oP Agarics, wherein their varieties and vari-
ous appearancps in the different stages of
growth are faithfully exhibited in more tha.n
200 figures copied with great care from the
plants when newly gathered and in a state of
perfection. With ?.; particular description of
each species in all its stages, ffora the first
appearance to the utter decay of the plant,
with the time when they v, er> gathered, the
soil and situation in whicn they grew, their
duration, and the pa,rticular places mentioned
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where all the new or rare species were found.
The whole being a plain recital of faots, tho
result of more than twenty years' obBerva-
tions, by James Bolton, member of the Nat.
Hist. Society at Edinbiirgh." Printed for the
Anther, and sold in Halifax by him and by
J. Milner. bookseller, 1788; 3 TOlumes, quarto.
Vol. I.— Title, dedication to the Eiirl of
<'Tain6lx)ron,g:h, introduction dated January 1,
1788. xvi pages History of Agarics growing
about Halifax, 44 pages, and 2 pages of names.
The platee were 44 in number (1 to 44,) all
drawn and engraved by the Author, besides a
■vignette or. page v, and m engraved udd'-
iional title by Bolton, "Historia Fungorum
circa Halifax Fponte nascentium, torn. I. '
Vol. IT.— Hudiersfield, printed for the Au-
thor by J. Brook, bookseller, soli by W.
Edwards and Sons, and J. Milner, Halifax;
1788. Title, introduction continued xix—
XXV. History of Agarics continued, 45 — 7.3.
and 2 pages of names. Arrangement of Aga-
rics pages XXV. to xxxii.— The two volumes
are in Bradford Free Library.
History of Funguses cxDntinued, pages 74 —
92 Index of namefi, cue page. 48 plates
numbered 45 to 92 all by the Author.
Vol. TIL — Huddersfield, printed by J. Brook
for the jVmthor at Stannary near Halifax,
1789; Title, introduction continued, pagee
xxvii to xxxii History of Funguses con-
tinued, pages 93 to 138, with 4 pages of namee.
The 46 plates are not numbered.
A SuFplement, 1791, forming Vol. IV. Title,
introduction continued, pages xxxiii to xlii.
Appendix, pages 139 to 182. GeneraJ index,
twelve imnumbered pages. Forty-four plates.
The copiefc with coloured plates at eight
guineas are on the best royal paper, the un-
eoloured copies are on an inferior paper.
There are 182 copper plates bearing 231 species
exhibited in about POO figures. The original
plates are believed to have been burnt when
E^ton Hall was destroyed l>y fir© in 1810, but
some other drawings, which the Earl of
Gainsborough received from Bolton, are now
in the British Museum.
Bolton's next work was
HARMONIA RURALTS,
or an Essay towards a Natural History of
BRITISH SONG BIRDS,
illustrated with figuiee the size of life of the
birds, male and femsde, in their most natural
attitudes; their nests and eggs, food favourite
plants, shrubs, trees, etc., faithfully drawn,
engraved a<nd coloured after nature; by James
Bolton. 2 volumes, quarto, 1794 and 1796,
each containing forty coloured plates. A
new edition was published in 1830, ai copy
being in Bradford Free Library. The first
edition is exceedingly rare, and fetches seven
guineas now. There is one in Todmorden Free
Library.
From a letter, dated from Stannary-yard,
February, 1792, we find that he was aided in
obtaining specimen birds by his son Thomas,
and his friend John Ingham, master of Cock-
pit School, lUingworth. (Halifax Guardian,
May 10, 1879.) Inghi-m, in 1782, had noted m
l.is memorandum book that Thomas Bolton
owned 400 butterflies, 40 hawks, hundreds of
moths, a great number of beetles, etc
The "Halifax Flora" gives a list of the
Bolton drawings (in colours), in the British
Museum as under: —
(1) Original drawings of Bolton's Ferns, ex-
cept those for eight plates.
(2) Halifax Fungi, 24 drawings, none of theee
used in the printed volume.
(3) Fifty flowers drawn fiom natiire at Hali-
fax by James Bolton, 1785-7, purchased by
the Museum from Williapi Home, F.G.S.,
Leyburn, who still has sixteen water colour
drawings of flowers by Bolton,
This is a splendid record for the father oi
Halifax Naturalists. Surely a portrait of this
local worthy, if in existence, should be secured
for Halifax Town's Museum.
XLV.— DR. MATTHE-W SUTCLIFFE,
(Dean of Elxeter).
The Sutcliffos are distinctly of Yorkshire
origin if not of local birth. From the origin
of surnames we find the Sutcliffes, of South-
oliffe, and Noroliffes of Northcliffe in the east-
ern portion of Halifax parish, and I have
little doubt that all bearing these t^urnaraes
have sprung from parentages of this locality.
Whether Mrs. Anne Sutcliffe can be distinct-
ly traced from Halifax parish or not I am
unable to state. She wrote "Mediations of
Man's Mortalitie, or a Way to true Blessed-
ness," a small duodecimo book, 1634, to which
Ben Johnson and George Withers contribut-
ed commendatory vei-&es. Mr. E. J. Walker
conclusively proved in his "Halifax Guard-
ian" articles that the celebrated divine Mat-
thew Sutcliffe was a native of Halifax parish,
and the list of his books demands a fuller
notice than I can give at present, for the only
work of his in my possession is a La.tin book
on the Monkish priesthood :
MATTHAEI SVTLIVII
de Monachis, oorumque institutis et mori-
bus aduersua Robertum Bellarminum, vni-
«2
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Dtrsaniq; monachorum et menclicantium fra-
trum c-olhuiiom disp\itatio.
Mlatth. 7— Attendite a falsis prophetis.
• Mattli. 15— Omnii> pliviitatio, &c.
llabent (.monaclii) suae obeeruautias regulare-B,
quas carnalibuf! suie operibiis calcant. milit-
antos niatiis canii, quam Christo, &c.
Elxcusiun l^udini p«r Eldin. Bollifantum
1600.
This is a small quarto, and is rather ex-
ceptionally paged, having the fibnu-es for each
leaf and iiot eaicli page. There are 152 leaves.
In the York Minstor Library there is a good
assemblage of Sutcliffe's works, as under: —
SUTCLIFFE, AIATTHBW, Dean of Eixeter.
A Treatise of Eccleeiasticall Di.-eipline, 1590.
The sajne, 1571.
De Presbyterio, ejusque nova in Ecclesia
ChristianiT^ Politieia, 1591.
D© Catholica, Qrthodoxa, et vera Chrieti
Elcclesia Libri duo, 1592.
An Aniswer to a Certaine Libel Supplica-
torie, 1592.
An Answer unto a defence of J. Throkmor-
ton, 11595.
The Examination of Mr. Thomas Cart-
wright's late Apologie, 1596.
Du Turcopii|pi9mo, 1599.
The same, octavo size, 1604.
Adversus B.. Bellarmini de Purgatorio Die-
putationem, 1599.
Do Por.tifice Romano, 1599.
The same octavo size, 1605.
A Briefe Replie to a Certaine Odious and
Slanderous Libel by (Anon), 1600.
A Briefe Refutation of a certaine Calum
nious Relation of the Conference passed
betwixt the Lord of Plessis Marli and
I. Peron, 1600.
De vera Christi Ecclesia, adversus Rob.
Bellarinum. 1600.
De Conciliis et eorum Authoritate adv.
Rob. Bolliiirminum, 1600.
De Monachis (as in my copy), 1600.
A Challenge concerning the Romieh Church,
her Doctrine and Practises, 1602.
De Missa Papistica, 1603.
The Supplication of certaine Masse-priests
falsely called Cattholicis, with an answer,
1604
A Full and Round Answer to N. D., alias
Robert Parsons the Noddie, his foolish
and rude Wame-word, 1604.
An Abridgement or Survey of Poperie unto
Matthew Kellison's Newe Religion, 1606.
This has sold for 18s
The Elxamination and Confutation of a cer-
taine scurrilous treatise entitled "The
Survey of the Newe Religion," published
by Matthew Kellison, 1606.
The Subversion .f R. Parsons his ooufufied
and ivorthless vvoike entitled "A Treatise
of three Conversions of England, 1606.
A Threefold Answer iinto the third part of
a certain Trioblar Treatit-e of tliree sup-
posed Co'Uverisions of England, 1606.
A Briefe Elxamination of a eerta.ine perem-
ptorie menacing and disleal petition pre-
sented to the King's most excellent
Majesty Dedicated to Arohbishop Mat-
hew, York, (proof sheets with corrections),
1606
The same, 1606.
All the above, unless otherwise stated, are
the usual small quarto size.
In the Minster Library there is also a book
by Matthew Sutcliifa that is so different in
topic that we may assume it was written by
another mn^n of the same names as the Dean
of Exeter. This is entitled "The Practice,
Proceedings and Lawes of Armes, described
out of the Doings of the most valiant and ex-
pert Captaiues. London, printed b.v C. Barker,
1593, small quarto, 342 pages, with a dedica-
tion to the Earl of Essex, and a preface. Th's
t-ook has fetched from 7s. to 53s. at book sales.
We may add that Lowndes gives some of
the IMIes la fuller detail than the Mmster
Jjibrary Catalogue; thuis— "A, Treatise of Ec-
clesiasiticiill Disci plire," 1590, contains 230
pages wiih dedication to the Earl of Bath and
epistle to the reader. The colophon is dated
1591.
"An answer to a certain Supplication rathtr
deffamatory, &c. put under the name and
title of a petition directed to her Majestie,"
London, Christr. Barker, 1592, is dedicated to
Sir Edm. Anderson, L.C.J. , of Common Pleas.
This has been sold nt £1.
"An Answer unto a certaine calumniouB
Letter published by M. Job Throkmorton, en-
titled A Defence against the Slanders of M.
Sutcliffe," printed by the deputies of Chr.
Barker, London, 4to., 1594, is a curious tract
containing a great deal of information re-
specting the intrigiaes of the Puritans in the
time of Queen Elizabeth. The 1595 issue has
been sold by auction at 19s. and 21s.
"De Tiareopapismo, adversus Gul Giffordi
Calvinoturcisimum," 1592, has been sold at
14s.
A Challenge concerning the Romish Church
her doctrine and practises, published first
against Robert Parsons and now against
Frier Garnet, 1602, has been sold for 4s. 6d.
The "Subversions of Robert Parsons, &c.,"
has fetched from 6s. to 30s. at sales.
"The Unmasking of a Masse-Monger, who
in tie counterfeit nabit of S. Augustine hath
cunningly crept into th,j closets of many
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
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English Ladies, was piinted at London in
1626, quarto, and ajiother of Sutclifte's books
not to be found at York, is "The Bletssings
of Mount Gerizim and the Curses on Mount
Ebal; or the happj' estate of Protestants com-
pared with the miserable estate of Papists,
was issued from London, without date, small
quarto. This hai3 sold at 13s. and 16s.
It is questionable whether this long list
completes the controversial publications,
Latin and English, of Doan Sutcliffe, further
particulars of whom may be found in Western
Notes and Queries.
Robert Parsons, alias N. Dolman, the
Jesuit drew forth treatises by Edmund Bunny
and Matthew Sutcliffe and Cartwright's list
of books also hinges with SutclifFe's. Parson's
rejjlies include^ Brief Replie to divers mali-
cious imputations by O. E. (Dr. Matthew Sut-
cliffe), 1600; Detection of Notable Untruths
gathered out of Mr. Sutcliffe's New Challenge,
1602, twelvemo; A Confutation of a Vaunting
Challenge made by O. E. (Sutcliffe), unto N.
D. by W. R., 1603, octavo; Answer to O. E.
whether pa.pists or protestants be true Cath-
olics, 1603, octavo.
Thomas Cartwright's reply is "A brief Ap-
ologie of Thomas Cartwright against all such
slaunderous accusations as it pleaseth Mr.
Sutcliffe in his severall pamphlettes most in-
juriously to loade him with," 1596, quarto
tract.
Matthew Sutcliffe and Canon Thomas Bell
of York were great writers and controversia-
lists in the Romanist disputes, especially
against Robert Parsons, and in a minor way
five Yorkshire clergymen entered the lists —
Thomas Morton of York, afterwards Bishop
of Durham, Edmund Bunny of Bolton Percy,
Francis Bunny, Robert Cook of Leeds, and
Dr. John Favour of Halifax. Of the first
three, Sutcliffe Bel! and Parsons, it is diffi-
ciilt to state which made use of the most
violent and reprehensible language. Dr.
Favour's "Antiquitio triumphing over Novel-
tie," 1619, dedicated to Archbishop Toby
Matthew, speaks of the Archbishop's famous
library, now ut Yo'-k Minster, as under: —
"Those multitudes of authors, sacred, pro-
fane, old, new, friends and foes, with whose
works your graces' great and good library
is plertifully furnished." "Seeing I hold that
the most ancient Religion is the best, why
should I not offer it to the most ancient Doc-
tor of Divinitie that I heare of in this land,
and the most ancient Bishop both for age
and consocrtion that I know in our Church,
who hath ruot only read all the Ancient
Fathers with a diligent eye, but hath also
noted them with a judicious pen (as mine eyes
are witnesses, and, God reward you for such
my libertie), and made continuall use of them
in his sermons as any ancient Father in our
Natim, shall I say? Yea in all Christendome
as I dare say and do verily beleeve."
XLVL— CALDERDALE RAILWAY.
A small booklet, the "Companion to the
Manchester and Leeds Railway," 4i inches
by 2i, with a small folding map dated 1841,
was printed by Nicholson and Wilson, print-
ers, Halifax, 96 pages, price Is. It is one of
the rarest of modern Halifax books, so a
description of its contents may be service-
able. Four sections of railways were eventu-
ally constructed joining Liverpool and Hull -.
1. Liverpool to Manchester, 1824, ^ict
1826; opened September 16, 1832.
2. Manchester to Leeds, 1831, &c.
3. Leeds to Selby, Act 1830; opened Sep-
tember 22, 1834.
4. Selby to Hull, Act 1836; opened July
1, 1841.
The Mianchester to Leeds Company was
formed in 1831, when George Stephenson a-^^
James Walker, civil engineers, were engaged
to survey the route, and an Act uas applied
for covering the distance from Manchester
to Brighouse, 34^ miles, but shortened to
Sowerby Bridge subsequently. The Bill was
introduced on February 28, 1831, by Lord
Morpeth, and read the second time on March
11th, but a dissolution of Parliaiment came
in April. On June 28th the re-introduced
Bill, extending the line from SoAverby Bridge
to Leeds, via Brighouse, was committed after
two readings, and on the 12th of July after
seven days investigation was thrown out by
a Committee of 18 against 15. In October,
1835, a new Company was formed with a
capital of ,£800,000, and a Bill was introduced
in February, 1836, and passed both Houees
notwithstanding the opposition of the Canal
Companies and land proprietors, receiving
the Royal Assent July 4th, 1836. The inhabi-
tants of Halifax held a meeting on October
21st, 1836, and resolved to ask the Company
to make a branch to Halifax town, and the
Royal Assent was obtained on July 1st, 1839.
Mr. Robert Gill was the manager and Mr.
Gooch (under Mr. Stephenson) the engineer.
The first sod was cut on August 18, 1837, and
the lino opened from Manchester to Little-
borough on Jiily 3rd, 1839, and the section
from Hebden Bridge to Normanton, 275 miles,
on October 5th, 1840, and the intervening sec-
tion on January 4th, 1841, except Summit
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Tunnel which wais not finished imiil March
let, when the Directors, accompanied by a
bond of niu&ic, rode to Norraanton, the carri-
ages being decorated with flags, &c. The
Guide book at page 39 enters on the York-
Bhire boundary at Gauxholme Viaduct of 17
arches of 35 feet span, and tlie centre one of
60 feet, where the Calder is reached, the Canal
is crossed by a skew-bridge of 101 feet span,
"the finest s^pecimen of a ske^v-bridge in the
world." Todmorden is reached 40J miles from
Leeds. The line paif^^es Stansfield Hall, the
home of the Sntcliffes. Millwood Tunnel (225
yards). Cross-stone Church rebuilt by Govern-
ment in 1834, Rev. John Fennell, incumbent.
Castle Hill Tunnel (192 yards), croa>^ing the
Horsfall valley at Horsfall by five arches of
4") feet span each, enters Horsfall Tunnel (424
yards), Eaistwood Independent Chapel, where
the turnpike road, canal and railway are
close together in rivalry, to Stoodley Bridge,
where Stoodley Pike, erected 18M, can be seen.
Passing Wood Mill (Messrs. Oliver), TJnder-
banks (.residences of Horsfails, Christr. Raw-
don, Geo-. Ashworth,) Calais Mill, to
Charlestown, where a tunnel had to be aban-
doned, and a curve made in the line. Crossing
the road, river a<nd oanal by bridges,
Whiteley's Cotfjon Mill, Mytholm, is reached
Passing St. James,' (land and stone given by
the Rev. J. Aj. Rhodes, — Government paying
the rest; Rev. F. Tollar, inciirabent,) and Mr.
Rhodes' Mansion, several mills, and a tunnel
of 124 yards we bring our journey to Hebden
Bridge, the station for K'eighley, about 11
mile|s '|away. Ci'oiseley'e Gas Works^ and
some extensive cotton mills are noted, and to
avoid bridges the Calder bank had been di-
verted at several points. Ewood Hall, "the
birthplace of Bishop Farrar." Brearley Hall,
Fielden's Faotoiy at Mytholmroyd, the
Worsted Company's mill (occupied by Jona-
than Ackroyd) at Luddendenfoot, Sowerby
Church re-erected in 1762 (Rev. W. H. Bull,
M.A., incumbent), Haiigh End, the birthplace
of Archbishop Tillotson, and a tunnel of 640
yards are points of interest np to Sowerby
Bridge Sta^tion, three miles from Halifax,
whither omnibuses ply on the arrival of
trains. This is 32 miles (by railway) from
Leeds. Hollins, the residence of the Cross-
leys and Woods, St. George's Church con-
secrated October 27th (P1840), a viaduct of
.5 arches of 43 feet span over the Blackstone-
edge-road and the Ripponden beck, the Gas-
works, Mills, &c., of Sowerby Bridge are men-
tioned and the Church, rebuilt 1820, Rev. C.
Rogers, M.A., incaimbent. The deep cutting
of 80 feet with Norland on the hill top to the
right and Sterne Mill (corn) on the left.
are passed, when Woodhouse (home of Richard
Sterne, &c.,) near the mill, and Copley Mill,
property of the Dawson's, comotoview. North
Dean Wood is skirted, and the branch line
to Halifax was designed to join at this point.
Skircoat on the hill, and Salterhebble in the
valley are on view before Elland Tunnel is
entered, 424 yards. Elland Hall, tenanted by
Mr. Lambert, owned by li^ord Scarborough,
affords a short peg on which to hang a note
on the Elland tragedies, and the defunct
market, the trade and other matteiis are re-
corded. The Church of St. Mary, Rev. C.
Atkinson, incumbent, and the Chapels are
mentioned. Ash Grove, the residence of Mr.
E'dwnlrd Rawson, CJromwell bottom and the
stone quarries, Southowram Church (Rev.
John Hope, incumbent), are pointed out, be-
fore entering the cutting whence a large
quantity of stone blocks for the line was ob-
tained. Lillands, the residence of Miss Helm,
being reached, a description of Brighouse is
given, but of course no part of the line was
in Brighouse township. St. Martin's Chiirch,
consecrated in 1831, Rev. John Boyle, incum-
bent, the new parsonage, the trade facilities,
the Navigation Company, the stone, corn,
malt, card a,nd woollen induj^triee, are con-
densed into a couple of pages. The viaduct
of six arches of 4.5 feet span are all in Ras-
trick township, as is the Brighouse Station,
26 miles (by radl) from Leeds, and 34 from
Manchester. "Brighouse and Bradford
Station" was a great omnibus centre for
Huddersfield 4 miles, Halifax 6 miles, Brad-
ford 7 miles, especially for Bradford passen-
ger traffic. Passing along in Rastrick town-
ship, with sight of Clifton and Kirklees,
after leaving Woodhouse, Hie old home of the
Hansona :^nd Armitagos, Bradley Wood cutting
is entered, and Halifax parish is left behind,
and with tlio 38 mere pages we have no special
concern. The total capital had been increas-
ed to nearly two million pounds, but this was
found miich too little. A postscript informs
us that "Omnibiises leave the Railway Office
in Bradford, opposite the Bowling Green Inn,
for Brighouse Station, at 7-15, 8-15, 12-30 and
4 on week-days, with ,T/n extra one at 7 p.m.
on Thursdays; and on Sundays at 8-30 a.m.
and 6-30 p.m. Return from Frighouse at
9-49, 12-19, 5-49, and 8-50 on week-dayc=, with
one at 8-45 p.m. on Thursdays. The Sunday
'bus rajn at li0-20 and 8-50.
As a striking contrast in size to this little
book we pass to Tait and Butterworth's work,
1845, 19^ inches by 13, where at page 2 we are
told that the Company was originally formed
in 1825, but adan'doned the scheme because
of depressed trade, and met again September
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11th, 1830. Eight thousand shares of ^100
each was the capital to begin with. A lew
I'inpo respecting the opening of the section
from Hebrlen Bridge to Normanton, October
5, \SW, reveal to us the excitement that ob-
tained at Brighoufie, as well a^ other places
along the ronte: "The sides of the hills were
lined at nnmerons points by thousands of
individuals of every diversity of age and con-
dition in life, solely for the purpose of seeing
the first train, carriages without horses, on
its winding passage amongst their native hills.
Sixch was the eagerness of multitudes to travel
on the first day that at Sowerby Bridge the
rush of passengers became alarming in the
extreme, and when every seat was occupied,
numbers of adventurous travellers mounted
the tops of the carriages, and failing sitting
room a few daring wayfarers stood upright,
and in t'hat fearful position did they remain
all the way to Hebden Bridge, stooping down
as they passed under the tunnel and the
numerous bridges on the line, and then rising
and cheoiing to the astonished spectator--
A more alarming scene was seldom ever v 't-
nessed, the train was proceeding at the rate
of twenty miles an hour, and if a single in-
dividual had failed to stoop a.t the instant of
passing under the archways, his brains must
have been dashed out, and yet there was no
power to prevent the crowd from thus board-
ing the carriages." The "Leeds Mercury"
spoke of the work as the greatest triumph of
engineering science, and a work of national
importance. The introducion to the book by
E. Butterworth follO'WS the Guide in its de-
scription of the route, but enlarges upon rn*>
chief points of scenery. He mentions one
book or pamphlet I have not seen, namely,
"The Landi=icape View, or Walk to Stoodley
Pike," by J. Holt.
The fwU descriptiim of this large volume
is as under, the plates being loosely inserted:
Views on the Manchester and Leeds Railway,
drawn from nature and on stone by A. F.
Tait, with a descriptive history by Edwin
Butl-erwcrth: published for A. F. Tait by
BradpJiaw and Blacklock, London and Man-
chester, 1845, folio. There are 34 pages of
description, besides Title and Dedication
leaves :
1. Second title; Views by A. F. Tait, Liver-
pool, with Vignette, — the east entrance to
EUaud Tunnel.
2, 3, 4. Manchester Station.
5. Rochdale.
6. Littleborough.
7. Todmorden Valley from above Mytholm
Church.
8. Summit Tunnel, west entrance.
9. Gawksholme Viaduct.
10. Todmorden from the North.
11. Todmorden Viaduct.
112. Whiteley's Viaduct, Charleeton.
13. Hebden Bridge Station.
14. Sowerby Bridge from King's Cross.
15. Halifax.
16. Rastrick Terrace and Viaduct.
17. Brighouse Station (Brighouse and Brad-
ford Station on the signboard .)
18. Brighouse from Clifton Common.
19. Wakefield.
20. Normanton Station.
This well-exec ixted set of lithographs sells
at I8s. now.
XLVII.— JOHN FAWOEfTT, M.A., "D.D.
John, son cf Stephen Fawoett, was born
at Lidget Green, Bradford, on January 6th,
1740, new style. He wa.s one of a numerous
family, and lost his father when eleven
years old. Stephen was then only forty-
nine, and his blind father lived with them
at the time. At thirteen John was put ap-
prentice in Bradford, fortunately to a good
master, and served six years. From child-
hood he was encourafied to read theological
baciks. He heaaid George Whitfield preach
at Water-side, Bradford, twice on one day,
September, 1755, and then began to make
public profession of religion. In Aug:ust,
1756, he again lieard his life-long favourite,
Whitfield, at Bradford and Birstall, and he.
frequently heard the Rev. William Grim-
shaw, of Haworth, who was buried at Lud-
denden, where his son resided (Ewood Hall).
A small community of Whitfield Methodists
met at Bradford and a Mr. Hales, of Wake-
field, preached for them, but he failed to
settlle amoiig^st tlhem. From him Fawcett
imbibed an intense interest in Hervey's
books. Failing to get Mr. Hales for a
minister the community abandoned the idea
of erecting a place of worship. A few scat-
tered Baptists from the Haworth and Raw-
ddn oliapels took up the idea, and a Baptist
cause was established, in which many of the
Whitfield society joined, and Mr. Crabtree,
from Wainsgate, Hebden Bridge, became
thiedtr mjinitster. Under his preaching Faw-
cett became a Baptist, February, 1758. Be-
fore he was twenty, ha\'ing no ho/'e, he
married Susannah Skirrow, of Bingley, and
at twenty he was diligently practising com-
positions in prose and verse. He conceived
that his oocnpation was injurious to his
health, and this tended to strengthen hia
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desire to become a minister. In May, 1764,
he mmoved to Wainsgiite to beoonio tlie
Baptist minister there. 'I'lie first minister
had been Richard Smith (one of the con-
vorts under the Rov. Wm. Gnmshaw, ot
Ha\voith, 1750,) and at his death, August
24 1763, aged 52, was followed by Mr.
Fa'woett. 'During Mr. Smith's illness a Mr.
Jolmson, of Liverpool, preached at Wams-
gate and on his retuxn home issued a book
the "Trial of Two Opinions," in which he
attacked Mr. Smith. The Rev. James Hart-
ley of Haworth, defended his old pastor in
a pamphle1^"Tlio Trial of Two Opinions-
tried." Mr. Fawoett had to begin with a
disturbed community, but the Baptist As-
sociation meeting at Halifax, in May, 1764,
encouraged the Wainsgate Members to per-
severe. John Fostea-, father of the great
Essayist, was Fawoett's intelligent friend
and pliilosopher. Mr. Fawcett was not or-
dained until July 31, 1765, when Messrs.
Hartley, Orabtree, Nutall and Oulton took
part, "in October, 1766, Fawcett's fiist child
a daught-er, was born, and in the following
year his first book was published: "POETIO
ESSAYS;" about eight topics, including
one "On tlie death of Mr. Richard Smith,
Wainsgate." The pamphlet was sold to
friends at sixpence in a very limited edition.
In 1772 he issued "THE CHRISTIAN'S
HUMBLE PLEIA FOR HIS (^OD AND
SAVIOUR," a six-pe^runy pamphlet m answer
to "The Triumph of Truth, &o.," by Priest-
•ley. It is written in blank verse and signed
by Fawcett under the signature Christophil-
us, and at least five editions were issued,
aotmei of tilieoi flnom LjiMidon, without the
Author's knowledge. I have the tliird edi-
tion, London, 1781, 24 pages, octavo. In
March, 1772, he first visited London, and
during nine weeks preached (for Dr.
Gill and others) fifty eight timeis,
besides hearing Oouder, Medley, and
Henry Foster. On Dr. Gill's death he was
iiiA-ited there again, but refused though his
income at Wainsgate was about £25, and his
family \vias increasing. The congregation
managed to make up his salary to £40 at
this time, and he comanenoed tuiition of
young men for the ministry. The first stud-
ents were Abraham Greenwood, the first
minister at Roohdiale, who had been tutored
a short time by his brother-in-law the Rev.
Wm. Armitage, John Hindle, minister at
Halifax and Manchester, Thomas Slater who
became a church clergyman, and George
Townend minister at Accringt>oai, whose fun-
eral sermon Mr. Fawoett preadhjed and pub-
lished. The Rev. Wm. Hartley received some
education at the Academy before settling
at Halifax. A Rev. Mr. Thomas had for
many years laboured at Rodliill-end and
Slack conjointly, though several miles inter-
vened, and he dying in 1772, the Slack people
asked Mr. Fawoett to preach to them, which
ho did frequently, and the cause tliere re-
vived.
Mr. Fawcett's thii-d publication was issued
after a severe attack of stone, and after most
of the family had suffered from smallpox,
one infant boy having died. It is entitled
"THE SIOK MAN'S EMPLOY
or Views of Death and Elternity realized.
Occasioned by a violent fit of the stone, and
publislied for the good of those who would
pay attention to the Divine Call — Prepare
to meet thy God." London, 1774, sniaU 8vo.,
90 pages, and one page advertising a book
never issued, "Free and Full Salvation pro-
claimed to a lost world." "The Sick Man's
Employ" was sold at 8d., and the dedication
to the Wainsgate Flock is dated June 1, 1774.
I have a copy of the first edition, 91 pages,
and in tlie Halifax Free Library there are
Halifax editions, 1802 and 1809, and one
wdthout date, besides 1837 and 1838.
In 1776 be removed to Brearley Hall, which
had a farm attached, and in the hall-body
he held public" sei"vices. Hebden Bridge
chapel was erected as an off-shoot from
Wainsgate in 1777, and a printed circular
soliciting aid was issued. In 1778, Mr.
Fawoett printed his fourth book —
"ADVICE' TO YOUTH
Or the Advantages of Early Piety, designed
for the use of schools, &c., by John Fawoett,
Master of the Boarding School at Brearley
Hall in Midgley, near Halifax "The Epito-
me of Christian Doctrine" was announced in
it. A second edition of "Advice" was soon
afterwards issued at the same price, Is. 6d.
I have the first edition, printed by 6. Wright
and Son, Leeds, 192 pages, 12mio., no date
given. There is an edition in Halifax Free
Library, printed at Halifax in 1836, and one
in 1810, 7th edition. The next publication
was
"THE DEATH OF EUMENIO, A POEM,'
Leeds, printed by G. Wright and Son, 1779,
price 6d., small 8vo., 40 pages, dedicated to
the mouraful relatives and friends of the
late Mr. William Hudson, of Gildersome, the
Eumenio of the poem. It is dated Brearley
Hall, November 29,. 1779. A few elegiac vers-
es on the death of Mr. Wm. Greenwood, of
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Oxenhope, who died five ^Yeeks earlier, are
added to the book of which I have two copies.
Soon afterwards was issued —
"THE REIGN OF DEATH,"
a poem occasioned by the Dec-ease cf tlie Rev.
James Hartley, late of Haworth, by John
Fawoett ; with a funeral sermon on the same
occasion by William Orabtree. Leeds, print-
ed by G. Wright and Son for the Authors,
1780, small 8vo., 104 pages, price one shill-
ing. Mr, Orabtre'e's sermon occupies pages
39-103, the last p^ge being an advertisement
of four of Fawcett's books.
A tribute is also paid, in verse, by Mr.
Fawoett to the memory of Adam Holden, of
Halifax under the style oti Philander. Euphro-
nius was the poetic name given by Mr. Faw-
cett to Mr. Hartley in the poem. I have
two copies of this book, and there is one in
Halifax Free Library. In March, 1782,
aged 79, Mr. Fawcett's mother died, after
years of languishing in bed, and he had
suffered so long from the stone that his life
was likely to be soon ended, but under Dr.
Hey, of Leeds, he began to improve. H© also
abandoned tlie white wig, and giew his own
hair.
"THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE.
RIGHTEOIJS
and their deliverance out of them all ; a
sermon on the Death of Mr. Townend," was
published in 1784, 8vo., 44 pages, price 6d.,
Leeds, Thomas Wright. A copy is in Raw-
don College Library. In 1782 appeared
"HYMNS
adapted to the oircumstanoes of Public Wor-
ship and Private Devotion," price 3s., re-
duced afterwards to 2s. A new edition was
issued about 1816. Copies of both are in
Halifax Free Library.
"ADVICE TO YOUTH,"
reached a third edition, oonected and im-
proved, in 1786. My copy shews that it was
printed by T. Wright, Leeds, 191 pages,
preface dated August, 1786. Price Is. 6d.
At th« en'l is a page of advertisements: —
Poletic Essays, 6d.
Christian's Humble Plea, 6d.
Sick Man's Employ, 8d.
Death of Eumenio, 6d.
Eeigu 01 Death, Is.
Hymns, 2s.
AiHiotions of the Eighteous, 6d.
An Association of Baptist Churches, which
developed into the Yorkshire and Lancashire
Association, was instituted at Colne, May 30
and 21, 1787, and the Circular Letter was the
compo'iition of Mr. Fawoett. Seventeen
churches associated at the beginning. His
daughter, fciarah, aged 18, died on April Ist,
1785, and a tombstone at Hebden Bridge re-
cords her interment there.
Mr. Fawcett's most famous book was writ-
ten in 1787, the preface l>eing dated Brearley
Hall, August 18th, of that year. It is
"AIN ESSAY OX ANGBK. '•
Leeds, pi-inted by Thomas Wright for the
Author, 1787, 12mo., 150 pages and viii pages
of contents and subscribers' list; price Is. 6d.
The (second edition, by the same printer,
and at the same price, pages iv, 176, with pie-
face dated Brearley Hall, October 20, 1788,
appeared at the close of that year.
"ADVICE TO YOUTH; or the advantages
of Early Piety; designed for the use of Schools
as well as young apprentices and servants,
and the British youth in genei'al, to draw the
attention to matters of the greatest importance
in Early Life," reached a, fourth edition
(corrected and improved). By John Fawoett,
master of a, boarding school at Brearley Hall
in Midgley, near Halifax, Leeds, Thomas
Wright, sold by the Author, 1792, 12mo., pages
ii and 146; Is. 6d. Preface dated March, 1792.
In that year Mr. Fawoett was invited to suc-
ceed Dr. Caleb Evans as principal of Bristol
College but his habits of life being fixed he
deolined. Besides covering a wide field of
general reading, his lime was crowded with
sermon writing, teaching, business matteiw
and composing, printing and distributing
books.
In 1793 the Circular Letter to the Baplist
Churches written by him was published. Its
title was
"THE CROSS OF CHEIST THE
CHRISTIAN'S GLORY. "
Several editions <f this pamphlet were issued
by the Author, and for a long period it has
been the basis of a tract isisued by the British
and Foreign Tract Society. In the same year
a penny pamphlet circulated by Mr. Fawcett,
entitled
" CONSTDBRATIONS RELATIVE TO SEND-
ING MISSIONARIES AMONG THE
HBA,THENS, "
led to the formation of an auxiliary society at
Halifax of which he became secretary. The
/I^ap(tis*t ^MisEdouary Society dateis fi^m Octo-
ber, 1792. One of the editions of
"'THE CROSS OF CHRIST CONSIDERED,
in a Letter addressed to Christians of all
Denominations" was issued in 1793, 15 pages,
2d. .About this time the title M.A. was given
to him.
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la the following year appeared
"LETTERS TO HIS FRIENDS BY THE
REV. JOHN PAUKER,
late MinMer of the Gospel at Wainsgate in
Wivisworfih. with a sketch of his life and
character, by John Fawcett, A.M.; Leeds,
printed by Thomas Wright, 1794, 12mo., 214
pages, 28. Mr. Parker was a native of Bar-
noldtiwick in Craven, born March 10, 1725, a
follower of the R^ev. Wm. Grimshaw of
Haworth, and a member of the Rev. Alvery
Jackson's Baptist Chnrch. whom he succeeded
as minister in 1763, at Barnoldswick. To-
wards the clo-se of his life he removed to
Wainsgate Chapel, and continued to preach
after he was totally blind. He died May 29,
1792, aged 68. Mr. Fawcett, in 1795, bou,ght
cheaply a printing press and a small quantity
of type, and amused himself with printing fly
sheett^ in prose and verse to distribute to his
pupils a.nd others. In May, 1796, he bought
further quantities of type, and engaged a
practical printer at Brearley Hall. His first
r,ira was to issue a prospectus for publishing
a "Life of the Rev. Oliver Heywood," and a
treatise by Heywood entitled "LIFE IN
GOD'S FAVOUi?." to appear in monthly
numbeiis. This fin-t edition of HETWOOD'S
LIFE was sold in boards at 2s. 3d. Mr. Faw-
cett had obtained a ccuple or perhaps three
of Hey wood's manuscript pccket books, and
from these, nearly a century after the good
man's death, ocmpiled the first independent
book on his interesting Cc-.a-eer. The^ manu-
script books were secured from the Fawcett
family by Dr. Raffles, of Liverpool, and were
lent to me by Mr. Stamford Raffles, the Liver-
pool stipendiary. Mr. Oliver Heywood, of
Manchester, bought them a few years ago, but
they are printed literatim in my Heyvvood's
Diaries.
XLVIII.
DR. FAWCETT— (Continued).
"THE PRElSEiNCE OF GOD WITH HIS
PEOPLE; "
Erearley Hall, 1796, l*-. pagee, 12mo., is in
Eawdon College Library. At Christrrias, 1796,
Mr. Fawcott removed from Brearley Hall l.o
Ewood Hall, the traditionary birthplace of
Bishop Farrer, the maatyr, and here he con-
tinued his printing operations. He designed
a monthly serial, tlie first volume of which
was issued 1797, under the title of
"MISCELLANEA SACRA, or the Theolo-
gical Miscellany," Printed and sold at
Ewood Hall, near Halifax, 1797, 12mo., 314
pages, published in 3d. numbers; price 29. 6d.
for the bound volume. Vol. I has notice© of
Rev. Timothy Senior, a Uockmondw'ke
student; Mis^ Milne of Longbottom, &c. The
second volume wae issued in 1799, 12mo., 434
pages, in monthly parts as before, or 3s. for
the bound volume. The Ewood press was kept
going steadily for three years when he
printed : —
"ORDER .\ND CONSTITUTION OF A
GOSPEIL CHURCH. "
1797, 58 pages, 12mo., price 6d. ; 2nd edition,
1798.
" SERMON ON THE DEATH OF MRS.
LITTLEWOOD. "
'THOUGHTS ON THE REVIVAL OF
RELIGION. "
These *-hree were original works; the next
* r9°> vtre reprints: —
"GOUGE''S SURE WAY OF THRIVING."
1801, 12mo., a copy is in the Halifax Free
Library.
.VATSON'S CHRISTIAN CONTENTMENT"
" DR. WILLIAMS'S CHRISTIAN
PREACHEB. "
TKe fii-st portion had been printed at Halifax,
hut by sanction of the Author, Dr. WilliamB,
of Rotherham, the work was finished at Ewood
Hall.
"AN ES'SAY ON THE WISDOM, THE
EQUITY AND THE BOUNTY OF DIVINE
PROVIDENCE'" was first issued as a Circu-
lar Letter to the Baptist Associations, but
second and third editions wore shortly taken
up by the public. The fourth edition, printed
and sold at Ewood Hall by John Fawcett,
M.A., 1797, is a 12mo., of 35 pages, price 4d,
"A SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCES OF
CHRISTIANITY, " 1797 12mo., 100 pages,
(cop\ in Rawdon Library), was issued at Is.;
and at the same price—" ENGLISH EXER-
CISES IN SPELLING AND SYNTAX, for
the use of Schools," 12mo., 1796, (in Halifax
Free Library).
"THE HISTORY OF JOHN WISE."
published for the instruction of little child-
ren, and particularly dcijigned for Sunday
Schools has passed through numerous editions,
the large paper ones selling at 6d. ; and the
Religious Trmct Society has also issued
illustrated editione. I can testify to its popu-
larity as a Sunday School gift-book fifty years
ago.
" THE CERTAIN EFFICACY of the Death
of Chrii5t considered in a letter addressed to a
Christian Society, with some remarks on a
pamphlet entitled— "Plain Reasons, &c.," 28
page3. 12mo., price 3d.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
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•"L:rF, IN GOD'S FAVOUR" (hy Olivfr
Heywcod), a new edition, printed at Ehvood
Hall, 1799, 12mo., 264 pages, price 2s. 3d. in
boards, 2h. 9d. bound.
"CHRIST PRECIOUS TO THOSE THAT
BELIEVE, " a practical treatise on Faith and
Love, by Jolir, Favvcett, A.M.; printed and
sold at Ewood Hall, near Hajifax, 1799, 12ino.,
306 pages, 3s. [From Miscell. Sacra II.] The
remainder of this edition was issued with the
date 1800 substituted.
" THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST stated and
improved."
" THE DIGNITY OF THE REDEBMER OF
MEN. "
" ENGLISH GRAMMAR EPITOMIZED. "
V second edition was soon afterwards issued
"ENGLISH GRAMMAR EPITOMI^D, for
the iise of Ewood School." Halifax, printed
by Holder and Dowson, 1804, 12mo., 84 pages,
prico Is. 3d.
In the year 1800 failing health led him to
dispos*^ of hip printing stock to a firm --Ht
Halifax.
1 have two copies of
"Thoughts on the Revival of Religion. P>y
John Fawoett, A.M., Halifax. Holden and
Dowson, 1802, 24 pages, 12m o., l>eing ad-
drosseH to the Baptist Churches at Black-
bnni, June, 1802. The last page is devoted
to advertisements: —
Chiis-tian Preacher, by Dr. Williams.
Sick Man's Employ.
Gouge's SvLVi Way of Thriving.
Wati?ou's Divine Contentment.
Christ PTecioue.
John Wise, 3rd edition
Constitution of Gospel Church.
He wafi a prime-mover in establishing the
Ministerial College at Horton (now at Rawdon)
in 1805. In the same year he built a house
near Hebdeu Bridge Chapel, called Machpelah,
and left Bwood to hia son's family. Richard
Fawoett, his brother, the last survivoa* except
himself of the Bradford family, died January
19. 1807. He had been a prominent Wesleyau
many yeans.
In 1806, Mr. Fawcett issued "HINTS ON
THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, particu-
larly the children of the poor;" (price 4d.),
which quickly reached a fourth edition; a
copy is in Rawdon Library. It was a 12mo.,
S*! pages, printed by Holden atnd Doweon,
Halifax.
"A DISCOURSE ON THEI ATTENTION
AND COMPASSION DUB TO THE
CHILDREN OF THE POOR, " a sermon
preached at Accriugton for the beneht of a
Sunday School, was published at 8d.
"A TENDER ADDRESS TO RETUENING
PRODIGALS, in the form of a Letter," was
printed for distribution at a place rear Brad-
ford, whore a leligious revival A-as taking
place. There are 12 pa^es, 12mo., printed at
Halifax, 1802. A copy is in the Rawdon Lio
rary. A Sermon a,t the opening of a Baptist
Chapel, York-street, Manchester, April 20ti',
1808, was printed in July, 1809. The text vas
"HOLINESS BECOMEIH THINSl HOUSE."
His wife died March 30, 1810, and in Juu-^
1810, at tile Aisisociation meeting at Bradford
he preached, what was virtually her funeral
sermon en "Behold this day I am going the
way of all the earth." This sermon bearing
the title "AN IMPORTANT JOURNEY," hap
palesed tlirough several editions. From 1807
to 1811 he was daily occupied upon a Com-
mentary of the Bible, apd about th© time he
had finished the writing, he received Oi© de-
gree of Doctor in Divinity from an American
University.
The CommentaJ^y manuscript, 8578 pages in
16 volumes, quarto, was sent to London, and
under the title "DEVOTIONAL FAMILY
BIBLE," was issued in 15 parts.
Dr. Fawcett died July 25, 1817, aged 76, but
his works continued in great demand as our
succeeding list shews. To hig "Memoirs" two
sermons were appended, namely the last one
he preached, February 26, 181C, and the As-
sociation Sermon at Bradford, June, 1810 on
•THE IMPORTANT JOURNEY from this
Worl.i to the next."
"ADVICE TO YOUTH," fifth edition.
"ADVICE TO YOUTH, or the Advantages
of Early Piety, designed for the use of Schools,
as well as young apprenticee and servants,
and the British youth in general to draw the
attention to matters of the greatest impor-
tance in early life." By John Fawcett, A.M.
Sixth edition, Halifax, printed for P. K. Hol-
den (Holden and Dowson, printers,) 1807, 2s.,
12mo., 163 pages. There is a copy in Rawdon
Library.
"THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF
CHRISTIAN LIBERTY," the circular letter
to the Baptist Churches, Sheffield, June, 1808,
was printed at Halifax by Holden a.nd Dow-
son, 1808, 12mo., 28 pages, price 4d.
"A FAITHFUL NARRATIVE OF THE
SURPRISING WORK OF GOD IN THE
CONVERSION IN NEW ENGLAND" was
a reprint issued at Is. 6d. Halifax, Holden
and Dowson, Hall End, 1808, 12mo., pages
xvii, 1»— 117. It is signed by Fawcett
and Steadman, from Isaac Watts' edition,
1737.
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"INTn -nUCTORY LETTERS IN AS-
TRONOAii and other Branchevs of Natnial
Philosophy for the us© of tkhools," price
Is. 3d., and "EiNGLISH ELVEKCISES in Spell-
in"- and Syntax, second edition," were issued
about 1809. Probably by John Fawcett, junior.
"THE SICK MAN'S ElMPLOY, or Views of
Death and Eternity Realised, to which are
added Devotionail ELxercises for the Afflicted."
A new oilition. Halifax, Holden and Dowson,
1809, 12mo., 143 pages, price 26.
"THE LIFE OF THE REV. OLIVER
HEYWOOD, with Historical Sketches of the
Timea in which he lived, and Anecdotes of
some other eminent Ministers of Yorkshire,
Lftneaehire, &o. 2nd edition. Halifax, Hol-
den and Dowson, 1800, 12mo., 214 page*^, price
38.
"THE IMPORTANT JOURNEY" from this
world to the next, considered in a sermon de-
livered at an Association at Bradford, June
13, 1810," h/ John Fawcett, A.M. Halifax, P.
K. Holden. 12mo.. 32 pages, price 6d. I have
one or two copies of this issue, and a second
edition. 80 pages, by P. K. Holden, is men-
tioned in Dickr-ns' Bradford Books.
"THE HISTORY OF JOHN WISE, a poor
boy; intended for the instruction of children."
Seventh edition. Halifax, P. Z. Holden, Hall
End, 1810, 12mo., 72 pcges, 6d. This is my
earliest copy.
"ADVICE TO YOUTH," seventh edition.
Halifanc, P. K. Holden, 1810, 12mo., 164 pages,
28.
"AN ESSAY ON AiNGER," third edition,
Dunstable, 1804, pa^es viii, 183, 12mo., is in
Rawdon College Libraiy.
"ENGLISH EXERCISES in Spelling and
Syntax," third edition.
'"AN ESSAY ON ANGER," fourth edition,
Halifax, P. K. Holden, 1812, 12mo., 191 pages,
price 2s. 6d.
"THE DE.VOTIONAL FAMILY BIBUB,
with copioufe Notes and IllustrationB, partly
original, and partly selected from the meet
approved Expositors, ancient and modern,
with a devotional exercise or aspiration after
every chapter. By John Pawcett, D.D., of
Hebden Bridge, near Halifax." London
• printed, 15 parts at 7s. ea>eh, or in shilling
numbers, 3 vols., 4 to., price five guineas, or
supeirior paper at ^68.
"CHRIST PRECIOUS to those that believe,"
2nd edition, Halifax, P. K. Holden, 1812, 12mo.,
pages iv, 300, price 3s.
"ENGLISH EXElRCT'SES." fourth edition.
Is. 6d., and fifth and sixth editions soon after-
wards.
'^ENGLISH GRAMMAR" third edition,
Is. 3d.
"THE FUNERAL SEEMON ON MRS.
CRABTRE'Ei," October, 1791, will be found in
Mann's Life of William Cra.btree, Bradford,
1815.
"AN ESSAY ON ANGEIR," fifth edition,
Halifax, P. K. Holden, 1822, l2mo., 190 pages.
Preface dated October, 1788.
Another edition, called also the fifth, with
a Memoir of the Author, was printed at Lon-
don far the Society for Promoting Religious
Knowledge, ir2mo., pages xxxvi, 156, price 3s.
"ENGLISH EfXElRCISEiS, for the use of
Schools, in two pafftfe," seventh edition en-
larged. Halifax, P. K. Holden, 1823, 12mo..
120 pages.
"THE HISTORY OF JOHN AVISE, a poor
boy, to which are added The Triumphs of
Early Piety. Intended for the instruction of
children." Halifax, W. Nicholson and Sons,
pmall 24mo., xiv and 64 pages, with
frontispiece.
"THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS of the
late John Pawcett, D.D., author of the 'De-
votional Family Bible' comprising Essays,
Sermons and Tracts, now first collected, witli
a Memoir of the ^Vuthor." London and Ber-
wick, 1824, 12mo., pages 310, with portrait by
Freeman. I have two copies of this issue. It
[aontain^ *'EK'idencesi,"' "Anger," "Import£int
Journey," &c. The same, London. 1829, 12mo.
pages iv, 244, with portrait by Freeman.
"ADVICE TO YOUTH, &c.," 2nd edition,
Halifax, Nicholson and Wilson, Northgate,
1837, 16mo., 128 pages. Ibis is really the 8th
edition. I have a small edition, 3 inches by
2, piinted at Bury, published by W. Milner,
Halifax, 1841, 128 pages.
"THE SICK MAN'S EMPLOY, &c., to
which are added Devotional Exercises for the
affficted, and a sermon on the Important
journey from this world to the next, by John
Fawcett, D.D., 1837, Halifax, Nicholson and
Wilson, Cheapside, 12mo., 168 pages. The
Dedication is dated June, 1774.
"AN ESSAY ON ANGER, by John Faw-
cett, D.D.," 6th edition, with a Memoir of
the Author. Hajifax, J. Hartley, Old Market
Place, 1839, 18m o., pages viii, 218. I have
several copies of this edition.
"CHRIST PRECIOUS to those that believe,"
third edition, 1839, Halifax, Wm. Milner,
frontispiece and lithographed title page.
"CHRIST PRECIOUS, &c.," 4th edition,
Halifax, Wm. Milner. Cheapside, 1845, 16mo.,
pargets viii, 264, a re-issue of the third remain-
ders, 1839.
Besides the Memoir by his son (hereafter to
be mentioned) there are notices, and portraits
of Dr. Fawcett 'n the New B\'angelical Mag-
azine, 1820, the Quiver, 1880, Dowson's Brad-
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ford Baptist Church, 1854, Hebden Bridge
Baptist CeiiLenary volume 1878, Scruton's
'Bradford, Bradford .Antiqixary (by Federtaa-)
18&4, &c. I have had special aid in this article
from Mr. Federer.
Th« "SERMON AT HBBDEN BRIDGE on
the Death of Dr. John Fawcett," by William
Steadman, was printed by P. K. Holden, Hali-
fax, 1817, demy-8vo., 37 pages. A copy is m
Eawdon College Library
REIV. JOHN FAWCETT, junior, son of Dr.
John Fawcett, publi&hed "AN ACCOUNT OF
THE LIFE, MESTISTRY AND WRITINGS OF
THE LATE REV. JOHN FAWCETT, D.D..
who was Minister of the Gospel 54 yeaxs, first
at Wainsgate and afterwards at Hebden
Bridge, comprehending &c. ; printed in Lon-
don, 1818, with frontispiece portrait by T.
Hunter, pinx, and T. Ranson, Sc; pages viii,
430, demy-8vo.
Ho also published, in 1817, "A TRIBUTE,
to the Memory of a Young Perison aged 20,
lately deceased (J. H. Fawcett, grandson of Dr.
F.), with Letters, &c., and a Sermon by the
Rev. Thomas Langdon. The 2nd edition, dated
1817, Halifax, P. K. Holden, is a 12mo. book,
pages iii, 88: the Sermon takes 24 additional
pages, preached at Hebden Bridge, October,
1816.
"CHRISTIAN COMMUISTION, printed in
his latTier^s "Miscellanea Sacra," was also
issued as a< separate pamphlet.
" REFLECTIONS AND ADMONITORY
HINTS, of the Principal of a Seminary, on
retiring from the duties of his Station. Leeds,
John Heaton, printer, 1832. Printed in eight-
page sheets, 12mo. size, pages xiv, 90. De-
dication to tho Young Gentlemen who received
their education at the Seminary first estab-
lished a.t Brearley Hall and afterwards re-
moved to Eiwood Hall; by John Fawoett, Feb.
16, 1832; EKvood Hall. I have two copies.
I am not sure that these four items com-
plete the publications isstied by the Rev John
Fawcett, junior. I have "Thoughts on
Christian Communion, addressed to Professors
of Religion of every Denomination," 2nd edi-
tion enlarged, 12mo., 60 pages, by John Faw-
cett, junior; and he undoubtedly had much to
do with the publication of several of the works
issued in his father's old age.
XLIX.— JOHN FOSTER, ESSAYIST.
He was the son cf John and Ann Foster,
of Wadsworth Lane, between Wainsgate
and Hebden Bridge, where he was born on
September 17th, 1770, being the elder son. His
father was a weaver and farmer in a small
way. The father died March 21st, ISU, aged
87, the mother December 19, 1816, aged 82. In
youth he had scarcely any companions except
his brother Thomas, and Henry Horsfall. At
the age of 17 John joined Dr. Faiwcett's Bap^
tist Church at Hebden Bridge. He, like Wil-
liam Ward, the Indian Missionary, became a
student under Dr. Fawcett, at Breaxley Hall,
but at the end of three years Foster went to
Bristol College, with George Hughes, of Bible
Society fame, as president, in August, 1791.
From this time he kept up a correspondence
with Henry Horsfall, many of the letters to
him being incorporated in Foster's Life. For
three months Mr. Foster preached at New-
castle-on-Tyne. Early next year he took
ohai'ge of Swift's Alley Society, in Dublin,
and relinquished it as a failure in twelve
months' time. After some months in York-
shire, he returned to Dublin to teach in a
Classical an^ Mathematical School, where he
rema|ined eight months. After this he so-
journed several months in Dublin and atten-
ded as a hearer in Swift's Alley. He was
somewhat eccentric in opposing clerical dress,
and in decrying stereotyped phrases in reli-
gion, and continued these eccentricities on re-
turning home in 1796. He was not less eccen-
tric in politics and church polity. In 1797 he
was appointed General Baptist Minister at
Chichester, and remained two years and a
half. About Midsummer, 1797, he remove^
tio Battersea to train some negroes for West
African missionary work, but gave way to
another teacher, a native of his own township,
at Christmas. In 1800 he removed to Down-
end Chapel, near Bristol. In the Autumn of
1801 he paid his last visit to Y'orkshire, and
though his parents and brother were living,
he seems to have been dissp^tisfied with all
other old assoioiations. For many years he
had been much of a recluse. In February,
1804, he left Downend for Frome, and whilst
there first published his " Essays," which ran
to a second edition in fotir months, consider-
ably amended. Essays in a Series of Letters
to a Friend, 2 vols., 12mo., 1805. A third
edition was issued in 1806. In 1805 a
swelling of a gland of the neck began
to. seriously affect his preaching powers,
and he resigned at Midsummer, 1806.
He laboured assiduously from this date in re-
viewing books for the " Eclectic." In May,
1808, he left Frome, having married, and set-
tled at Bourton, Gloucestershire, where a son
was born in January, 1810, and four other
children soon followed, of whom two died. In
November, 1817, Mr. Foster returned to Down-
end aa preacher. His sermon on behalf of the
British School Society was enlarged into an
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"Ifesay on the E^'il8 of Popular Iguorance,"
delivered December. 1818, was pixblielied in
1820. In 1821s September, he removed to
Stapleton, near Bristol, and gained popularity
as a monthly lecturer at Broadmead. The
1823 edition of the Four Elssaiys, Mr. Fost^
considered as the final revision of the book,
having a thousand emendations on the second
and subsequent issues. Though comparatively
a poor man, Foster was a great book buyer,
not from ostentation, but a true biblio-
phile. He also secured a good collection of the
best topographical engrnivings. In June, 1836,
at the age of 61, his brother died at Hebden
Bridge, leaving a widow and at least two sons,
and the great Essayist died October 15th,
1843, and was buried ab Downend near Bristol,
leaving two or more daughters to mourn his
loss. This great student and thinker has had
his memory preserved to future book-lovers
in two volumes :
"THE LIFE AND OOBRBSPONDBNCE OF
.TOHN FOSTER,"
Edited by J. E. Ryland, A.M., with notices
by John Sheppard. Two volumes were pub-
lished in London, 8vo. size, 1846, at 24s., and
the second edition, 2vols., 1848, small octavo,
at 16s.. Amongst subseqiaent issues was Bohn's
edition in two volumes, 1852, and again in two
volumes, 8ro., London, Bohn, 1855, 1856. Vol.
1 Steelplate portrait with facsmile autograph,
pages xvi, 1 — ^188; vii, 471. The work finishes
with a list of Mr. Foster's Contributions to
the Eclectic Review, beginning November,
1806, to September, 1820, one article (some-
times two) each month. In December, 1828,
he supplied an article; in 1837 two; in 1838
three; and in 1839 one. Nearly one-third of
the 184 articles have been reprinted in the
"Contributions,'' edited by Dr. Price, 2 vols.,
8vo., 1844.
LECTTJEE8.
Delivered at Broadmead Chapel, Bristol, by
JOHN FOSTER.
First series, London, 8vo., 1844, was issued
at half-a-guinea. The Second series, 1847,
Bvo., at the same price. Copies of these are
in the Rawdon Baptist College Library. The
two volumes were reprinted duodecimo size in
1848, at 12s., and afterwards in Bohn's series.
2 vols., 8vo., at 7s. The third edition of the
First series, printed in 1848 for Jackson and
"Walford, London, contains xii, and 458 pages.
The Rev. J. E. Ryland, Northampton, was
the editor, and the preface is dated 1844. These
Lectures were delivered between January,
1822, and December, 1825. One of the Lectures
has also been reprinted by the Religious Tract
Society, under the title "How to find access
to God."
The second edition of the Second scries was
printed in 1849. the preface being dated March,
1847, from Northampton: pages xii, 1 — 513.
"The Contributions, Biographical, Literary
and Philosophical, to the ECLECTIC RE-
VIEW" were isued in two volumes, 8vo.,
1844, 24s., copies of which are in Rawdon Bap-
tist Library. These were re-published in
Bohn's Standard Library, under the title of
Critical Essays, 2vols., small 8vo., 7s.
"Brief Memoirs of Miss Sarah Saunders,
with Nine Letters addressed to her during
her last illness," was issued in 1847, 18mo.
^vzc, and U'eprinted with K-yland's Life of
Foster, in vol. 2.
ESSAYS
In a Series of Letters on the following
subjects : —
I. On a Man's writing Memoirs of Himself,
II. On Decision of Character,
III. The Epithet Romajitic,
IV. E^^'angelical Religion and Cultivated
Taste,
By John Poster. Sixth edition, London, Ogle
and Co., 1819, demy 8vo., pages xviii, 1 — 446.
There was another edition came out
in 1823, and it has been frequently
reprinted from the author's revised
copies by Bohn, down to 1856 or more recently,
small octavo, at 5s. The 11th edition (Raw-
don College Library) is dated 1835. The
"Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance, to
which is added a Discourse on the Propagation
of Christianity in India," 8vo., London, 1834,
third edition was issued at half-arguinea. The
earliest edition I have noticed is dated 1819.
There have been several editions published by
Bohn, namely 1856, &c.
"FOSTERIANA," consisting of Thoughts,
Reflection- and Criticisms of John
Foster, Feleci'ied fVom periodical pa\p°rs,
not hitherto published in a collective
form, and edited by Henry G. Bohn, small
octavo, London, 1858, at 5s. Several editions
of Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion
in the Soul, with Foster's Introductory Essay,
12mo., have been issued, from 1825. An edition
in Rawdon Library, printed at Glasgow with-
out date, l2mo., has 203 pagps. At least one
funeral sermon on Mr. Foster was printed,
namely, "On seeing Him who is invisible —
A Sermon occasioned by the Death of the Rev.
John Foster, preached at Broadmead, Bristol,
October 22, 1843, by Thomas S. Crisp;" 32
pages.
In the Baptist Library, Rawdon College,
there is a copy of a "Discourse at the Baptist
Missionary Society Meeting, Bristol, 1818, by
John Foster;" Bristol, 1819, demy 8vo., 132
pages. Any of Foster's editions may now be
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bought at eighteenpence per volume, or even
lec*s; but they are sure to go up again in
price.
L.— RICHARD COORE AND JOSHUA
WHITTON.
RICHARD COOREl held the living of Hep-
tonstall from 1645 to 1&19. In 1650 he was at
St. Ann's, Southowram, which he left before
February, 1652, old style, when Christopher
Taylor, afterwards Quaker, succeeded him.
I next meet with him at Tong Church, near
Birstal. He issued an octajvo book of eight
hundred pages, entitled "A, Practical Exposi-
tion of the Holy Bible," framed in consist-
ency with Antiuomian viewfe, according to
the Rev. Joseph Hunter, and to Calamy, who
got his information front Oliver Heyvvood.
Calamy states that he was ejected from Tong
Chapel in 1662, and gives bis title as D.D.,
which I quBstion to be correct. I have made
extracts respecting his family from Tong
Register, and do not find such a degree men-
tioned. The record in Calamy is remarkably
and unaccountably brief. "A sober man and
a good scholar (but inclined to Antinomian-
ism), and his writings were much admired by
people of that stamp. He pra^ctised physic,
and died at Leeds, December 10th, 1687, aged
71," His book — "A Practical Exposition of the
Holy Bible, with the Interpretation of th©
Dreams and Visions in Daniel, together with
the two mystical Books of the Canticles and
Revelations,'' was probably the same work,
or an earlier edition of the same, entitled —
"Christ set forth in all types, figures, etc., of
the Scripture," 1683, small octavo. There is
a copy in the Memorial Hall Library, London.
This is a book of over eight hundred pages,
the fuller title being — "Christ set forth in
all Types, Figures and Obscure Places of the
Scripture, wherein are opened all Dreams and
Visions in the Prophets, and the two Mysti-
cal Books of the Canticles and Revelations.
By Richard Coore, Preacher of the Gospel.
London, 1683. The work is dedicated to that
profligate king Charles II., who probably
never read a word of the Epistle Dedicatory,
not to mention the elaborate treatise. The
first two lines would be enough for gay
Charley; "The God of Mercies hath magni-
fied your Majesty above others for no other
end but that you may comfort and honour
hit afflicted ones They beseech your
Majesty that nothing may be brought into
the church but CHRIST CRUCIFIED for by
it is man regenerated, made a sinner, — a Son
of God, without which man lies dead in sin
and can do nothing that is good and well-
pleasing to God The poor church be-
seeches your Majesty to maintain her true
foundation, Faith in Jesus, and to preserve
it from all mixture."
The foregoing dates at Southowram need
verifying for in the Parliamentary Survey of
1650, we find "Mr. Richard Coore is incum-
bent of Tong, which chapel had a mainten-
ance of £5 and the benevolence of the people.
Mr. Robert Town, of Todmorden, 1&18, El-
land 1652, and afterwards of Haworth, an
ejected minister in 1662, was the chief local
advocate of Antinomianism, and a close friend
of Mr. Coore. Mr. Coore married a daughter
of Mr. Robert Doughty, M.A., Master of
Wakefield School (see Peacock's Wakefield
Grammar School), and Mrs. Coore was pro-
bably sister to two local incumbents, Edward
Doughty, curate of Luddenden, 1664-5, and
John Doughty, Maister of the Heath Grammar
School, HalifajT, 1664, to October, 1688, when
he died. I find references to a Mr. Doughty
in the churchwarden's book at Bingley, 1659,
as receiving £i for preaching in place of the
vicar, who pi-obably had a long illness. From
1651 there are constant entries of local minis-
ters officiating there, largely from Halifax
parish, including Robert Town, Daniel Town,
Christopher -Taylor (or his brother Thomas),
George Thompson of Sowerby Bridge, Eagland
of Heptonstall, Richard Coore, Edmund
Moore, of Coley, Baildon, and Haworth,
Oliver Heywood, Roger Reunion of Rippon-
den, R. Walker of Elland, Jeremiah Marsden
(alias Jeremy Ralphson), and his brother
Gamaliel Mareden of Southowram, sons of
Ralph Marsden of Coley, and Jonathan Fair-
bank of Luddenden, who eventually became
the Vicar of Bingley. Edward Doughty,
"brother-in-law" of Richard Coore conform-
ed, and settled at Luddenden about 1662.
After his ejection at Tong in 1662, Mr.
Coore (or Core as his name sometimes ap-
pears), continued to reside there, and joined
with others in holding secret meetings, called
conventicles. From the Returns of Conven-
ticles, preserved at the Lambeth Palace
Library, we learn that the nonconformists at
Tong "meet every Lord's day in a stone delph
there; of all sorts, very numerous, of the
meanest sort of people, their leaders or
teachers being one Hartley a weaver by trade,
Mr. Nesse (Christopher Neese, M.A., of Leeds),
Mr. Hord (probably Mr. Hird, an Etecleshill
layman). Though Mr. Coore is not mentioned
there is little doubt he had all the chapelry
with him, except the Squire at Tong Hall.
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On May 18, 1672, Mr. Coore obtained a licence
for his house at Tong as a preaching place
under the Indulgence Act, and in the appli-
cation described himself as "of the true
Christian profession, not against Episcopal,
Presbyterian or Independent, but called an
Antinomian." Afterwards he removed to
Leeds where he, in common with some other
ejected ministers, studied medicine, and prac»
tioed in the healing art until he was indicted
at York, as we learn from "York Deposi-
tions,'' and ft true bill was found against him
for practising medicine without licence, May,
1676.
That wonderful chronicler, Oliver Hey-
wood, states in tlie "Norfchowram Register,"
(printed at Brighouse, 1881,); "Mr. Core
foi-merly preacher at Tong, a Nonconformist
that in the time of liberty preacht in a barn
there, died December 14, aged neaa- 80," 1687.
The discrepancies in the date and age as given
in Calamy's account, which was also supplied
by Heywood probably, will be noticed.
The REIV. JOSHTJA WHITTON, M.A., a
native of Sowerby, was educated at Cam-
bridge Univensity, and became chaplain to
Lord Ferdinando Fairfax of Denton, near
Ilkley. He was godfather to Archbishop
Tillotson. Etventually he became rector of
Thornhill, near Dewsbury, and gained con-
eiderable wealtb. By his iplentiiful estate,
and having a large acquaintance and great
influence, he was an excellent friend to his
poor brethren to whom he was purse-bearer
and distributor of the contributions made for
them. When he heard that the Act of Uni-
formity was passed, 1662, he and two other
ministei's hoped that they shoiild have been
able to comply with the terms of it, so as to
keep their livings, and therefore rode to York
(as one said) with their cloak-bags full of
distinctions, but having read the Act, though
they M'ere all men of Catholic principles, as
well as prudence and learning, they returned
with a resolution to quit their places rather
than comply. Mr. Whitton relinquished the
rich rectory of Thornhill and afterwards re-
moved to York. He was a witty man, a good
scholar, an able judicious preacher, a man
of excellent temper, of great integrity, and
unusiial sagacity. He was found dead in his
bed, June 1, 1674, aged 60.
In York Minster Library is a quarto pam-
phlet by J. W. (Joshua Whitton,) printed
at London in 1644, "A Sermon preached at
Kingston-upon-Hull upon the day of Thanks-
giving after the battel! at Heseam Moore,
neare York." ,
LL— THE MAESDEN FAMILY.
One of Oliver Heywood's predecessors at
Coley Cliai>el was "Ralph Maii-wden, a godly,
orthodox and aealous minister, yet much op-
posed by several professors of religicn, John
Lumme, Henry Northend, Michael Hesleden,
&c., who never rested till they got him out.
He was considered by them too strict on dis-
cipline. Old Rhodes, of Hipperholme, drove
him out of his house in Shelf because he re-
fused him the Sacrament (Lord's Supper),
being a profane man, so he removed to North-
owram Green. Mi-. Riohafrd Sunderland, J. P.,
Coley Hall, tooik Mr. Marsden's side, but he
was forced to yield, and Mr. Marsden became
curate of A,shton-under-Lyne, and of Middle-
ton. He had some heavy afflictions in the
latter years of his life. Most of his children
were bom at Coiley, atnd four of his sons,
Samuel, Jeremiah, Gamaliel, and Josiah, be-
came able ministers. He had one daughter
namicd Esther, who married Mr. Murcott, a
famous minister in Ireland, and she was of
extraordinary parts, but is now dead. They
had one son bred up a scholar, now turned
Quaker. Mr. Josiah Marsden, the yoiungest
of the four sons, was the most eminent, but
he is dead in Ireland; his other three brothers
are living." They aJl turned out at the
Ejection of 1662. In 1661i we find Gamaliel
Marsden at St. Ann's, Chapel-le-Bre£ir, South-
owram. He had been a student in Trinity
College, Dnblin, where he continued ten years,
and held a Felloiwship part of the time. He
was tiirned out of the University with Dr.
Winter on King Chajrles' Restoration, 1660,
and came to EIngland. He had but =£5 when
he landed at Liverpool, after buying a horse,
and knew no relations or friends he could re-
pair to, SO) resolved to make his way to Coley,
to find friends of his deceasied father. He first
cailled upon Mr. Oliver Heywood at Northow-
ram, and after staying a feAv nights went to
Joshua Bayley's, Allerton, who made him
w^eloome. He married a young woman of that
family with .£40 yearlj' income, and by other
meains got assistance to the living at South-
owram, Chapel-le-Brears, which he held until
1662, when he was again ejected. He after-
wards went into Holland, and at his return
taught philosophy, &o., to sojme young stu-
dents at Hague Hall. He became eminent as
the pastor of the Congregational Church at
Topcliffe or Woodkirk, near Ardsley, having
succeeded Mr. C. Maj-shall. He died May
25th, 1681, aged 47. His first wife died before
he went into Holland, and his second wife,
the widow of the Rev. C. Marshall, brought
him a competency. He had no family.
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Jeremy Marsden, his brothei-, says he was
a ma,ii of much soiand learning, and skill in
the languages, a very hard student but no very
pleasing preacher. Heywood confirms this
statement and remarks that he was extremely
useful in training up young m©n in academic-
al learning. It is probaiblie that he never
published any treatise.
Josiah Marsden was the youngest of tha
four sons of Ralph Marsden, of Coley, all of
whom suffered as Noncoinformist«. Like hie
brother, Gamaliel, he was a Fellow of Trinity
-College, Dublin, but history has neglected to
give any further particulai-s.
Samuel Marsden was the eldest son. He was
ejected from Neston vicarage, Cheshire, in
1662, and went into Ireland, where he died
in 1677. He had been succeeded at "Cristle-
ton" by Mr. Samuel Slater, another ejected
minister.
Jeremiah, the fourth of these i-emark-
able sons, was so frequently pursued by
persecutors that in London especially he went
by the name Jeremiah Ralphson. Mr. Hey-
wood heard him preach in Londcn in 1683,
under that assumed naane. Jeremiah had
been trained at Christ College, Cambridge,
and had settled at Ardsley Chapel, near
Wakefield. He was born in 1626, and was edu-
cated at Manchester School, but having too
rigid a master, and troublesome timee in
public affairs coming on, he made little pro-
gress. He was then educated by his father,
who about 1647 bestowed the small portion
that he had for him on securing a University
education, where he continued about two
years, but was frequently ill during the time.
Meantime his father died at Naston, June
30, 1648, and tihither Jeremiah went for a
tim«, and taught school for a subsistance. He
became an occasionaJ preacher under his
brother Samuel, the vicar, and assisted other
ministers. On May 24, 1654, he set out for
London with Mr. Jollie to apply to the Triers
for their approbation for the service of the
Gospel. He took with him a certificate of
character, and a suitable application or treat-
ise, but when he appeared before them his
utterance and courage almost forsook him, so
a Mr. Tombes was deputed to hold private
conversation with him, and on a second ap-
pearance was unanimo.usly approved. Although
he had frequent removals, being stationed at
Wyrral in Cheshire, Blackburn, Heapy (?),
besides Northallerton (probably Allerton near
Bradford, for he was certainly at Mr. Bay ley's)
Thornton, Halifax, and Warley, he every-
where found his work to prosper, and gained
convei'ts. For some time he was a preacher
in Ireland, and after his return to England
he was again invited to Carlow, but accepted
instead a post at Kendal, in 1658, with an
augmentation of MO as lecturer for the first
year. He only etayed nine months, having
met with some opposition, and removed to
Hull, where he and his family were planted
in a garrison of safety, and a harbour of
plenty, amongst a number of serious Christ-
ians, with whom he was well accepted. After
the cha,plaincy of about fifteen months he was
driven by the violence of the times "after
some personal restraints to Hague Hall,''
where his brother Gamaliel afterAvards went.
He was accompanied by "H. J. and W. and
Mr. M." to Hague Hall, where he had good
heJp from the i^acfoty of Christians there,
till a sad difference arose about the Oath of
.:Ulegiance. He had a call at this time to
preach at Ardsley, but this tenure was short,
for he refused to conform, rtad went out with
the Two-thousand ejected ministers on Barth-
oilomew's Day, August 24th, 1)662, and had
been a short time in prison before this for
not taking the Oath, being committed to York
Castjle, February 13, 1661, where, he says,
"God made gain to him every way." His
whole life afterwajrcls was a perfect peregrina-
tion. About 1674 he mentions his twenty-
second remove, and exclaims "O my soul,
what a sujournfng state hath thy life been;
now here, then there, and in no abiding pos-
ture. If ever soul had need, thou hast cause
to seek aud look after a better inheritance."
Of his mercies, he gives as one "Never to be
silenced for Christ by human law, or external
force.'-* He blesees God that though he was
often pursued, and hunted from place to place,
from the year 1662 to 1670, his pursuers,
thougii sometimes near him. failed to appre-
hend him. On passing through Coventry he
was stopped by a constable and taken before
the mayor, who found no cause for detaining
him. In London he had many friends who
ahielded him, particularly a good widow, with
whom he and his family lived for some time,
provision was ma^e for him by strangers
without his seeking for it, and once an un-
known friend sent him a, very welcome £5.
After some time in Londoai, he went to Hen-
ley in Oxfordshire, where for about a year
he preached in a bairn till July 13, 1675, when
he was taken, although found only reading
the scriptures, and sent to Oxford prison.
On his release overtures were made for him
to succeed that Leeds wotrthy Mr. Hardcastle
at the Bristoil meefdng-pLace, where our local
worthy John Foster, the essayist, afterwards
settled. After many removals and fourteen
yearsi' continuance about London, he was in-
triiipid to succeed Mir. AiUbx. Oarmichael in
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Lothbury. Sometimes he held his meetings
at Founders' Hall, and afterwards at Dyers'
Hall. In 1682 he had warnings by the im-
prisonment of some ministerial friends in
Newgate of his danger, but he would not de-
sist from preaching on all opportunities, till
at length he was seized and sent to the same
prison, where he and oine of his friends, Mr.
Bampfield, shortly afterwards died. He had
outlived his thre© brothers, having reached
the age of 57. H© tooik the name Ealphson
(after his father Ralph) at the time of the
Yorkshire plot, and by this name alone he
was generally called in London. Mr. Richard
Baxter in 1684 wrote against "Ralpheon" on
account of his rigormis sepaorating principles,
which went so far as to decry parish worship
as idolatry. He was inclined to the notions
of the Fifth MonaTchists, and wrote several
treatises on variotus subjects. I regret I have
never seen one of them, and Mr. Hunter,
F.S.A., had unsuccessfully songlit a manuscript
from which the particulars of his life were
gleaned for Calamy's book. The manuscript
was written by Mr. Marsden, and bore the
title "Contemplatio Vitaie mieerabilis."
LIT.— SOME LITTLE-KNOWN NONCON
FOE MI ST WORTHIES.
When Mr. Heywoqd settled ait Coley in
16.50, amongst the parish ministers was "Old
Mr. KOBERT TOWN at Elland, the famous
Antinomian, who writ som© books ; he was the
best scholar and sobereeb man of that judg-
ment in the country, but something unsound
in principles." He amd his son were regular
preachers at the Bingley and other religious
Exercises. He went from BUand to Haworth,
whence he was ejected in August, 1662. He
died in 1663, aged about 70, a man of estim-
able oliaracter.
Robert, the son, was ejected from Alking-
ton, Lancashire, 1662.
There was Mr. Daniel Tciwn in 1655 at Hep-
tonstall Church, and he evidently oame again
in 1668 to the incumbency, which he held
until 1712. In the ohaneel, near the com-
mixnion table, was a memorial stone bearing
the words "1712, the Rev. Mr. Daniel Towne,
who supplied the cure of eouls in this church
of Heptonetia.ll 44 years, died May 3, and was
buried here the 8th, aged 81. His last text
V. as 'Buye the Triith and sell it not." What
relationship he bore (if any) to the Eev.
Robert Town I cannot stat«; neither have I
tjcen any of the books 'writ' by Robert Town.
Tbere were two MIDGLBYS, vicars of Koch-
dale, father and son, who were famoais Puri-
tans about 1630. Tt is very jprolxible that
tliey were of the same stock as the Midgleys
of Midgley in Halifax, and Headley in Brad-
ford-dale.
Mr. .Toshuiu Hill, minister at Walmsley
Chapel removed to Bramley Chapel, near
Leeds, where lie died only a few hours before
a summons reached his house to appear in
tlie Archbishop's Court to answer a charge
for not we^niring the surplice, and other acta
of Puritan noncoaiformity. He is mentioned
in Calamy's Account, page 81, and in Whit-
aker's Leeds, 209. He died in 1636.
His son, Joseph Hill, B.D., Fellow and Proc-
tor of Magdalene College, Caanbridge, was
born at Bramley in October, 1625. He spent
most of his time after the Uniformity Act in
Holland, and was the author of two Disserta-
tiions, two Sermons, and an edition of
Sohrevellius's Greek Lexicon. An account
of him is given in Calamy's Cambridge list
of the ejected.
A; Mr. JO'SHUA HILL was incumbent of
Lightcliffe frcm December, 1706, to 1739 and was
blind for some time. He had been at St.
Ann's, Chapel-le-Brear, frcan 1698. His
memorial stone at Lightcliffe (in the chancel)
records : "Her© lies injterred the Eiev. Mr.
Joshua Hill, curate oif this chapel near thirty
two years, who was buried June 11th, 1739, in
the 79th year of his age, of whom it has often
been said that he was neither poor, proud,
nor covetous."
EDWARD HILE, M.A., of Christ's College,
Cambridge, had been vicar of Huddersfijcld
before receiving the Rectory of Ci-ofton, near
Wakefield, which (although he had been
Conformist up to thait) date) he relinquished
in 1662 beoausie he could not fall in with the
new settlement. He was a pious, grave and
aged divine, of an excellent temper. Upon
the passing of the Five Mile Act, he removed
into Shibden-dale. He and his wife, after
being married fifty-three years, died within a
few hoiurs of each other, and were buried at
Halifax Church, on January 29th, 1669, he be-
ing nearly eighty years old, she nearly as
old. He, with Ellkanp(h Wales and others, in
1&48, promoted the Vindiciae Veritatis, his
name appearing at the head. In Halifax
churchyard there formerly was the inscrip-
tion: "In memory of Mr. Edwaffd Hill, late
Rector of Croffcom, aged 79 years, and of Ann
his wife, who having been married 53 years,
died both on the same day, and were buried
January 29th, 1668-9.
How far these f«ur were related (if at all,)
remains to be discovered.
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NICHOI.AS CirDWORTH, after s?erving tome
time Ljghtfliffe curacy, came to Coloy before
August, 1619, and remained only a short
time, being succeeded by Oliver Heywood at
Christmas. 1650. "Mr. Cudworth \\'as a good
scholar and a holy man as was hoped, and
a good preacher, but so exceedingly melan-
choily that it obscured his parts and rendered
himself and labours less acceptable. He lived
in Northowram, and in a melancholy humour
he would not have gone to the chapel en a
Lord's Day when people have been waiting
for liim, but said he could not preach, and
so caused a disappointment. At other times
in public he would have expounded a chap-
ter in the fcirenoon till almost twelve o'clock,
and fallen to preaching after, and so kept
them out of time, (^o that he tired people and
they fell off from him, and he could not stay.
He was not at Coley above a year, yet in that
time he would have gathered a church in the
Ocmgregational way, but the Christia,ns in
that congregation being not of the persuasion
did not encourage him in it, and so he did
nothing and wa.s glad tio go away. He went
from hence to Beeston, near Leeds, whence
he was ejected in August, 1662. He was then
an old man. He preached al^o at Ardsley,
Ossett, &c., and wa.s not long resident any-
where. He was very poor; built a house with
difficulty upon Ossett Common; got into debt;
travelled often to London abcait an augment-
ation. He died aboiit the time that the Cor-
poration Act was passed, left a widow and
several children that are now got wp, have
shifted pretty well; live in Wakefield. In
them God remembered his covenaut."
EOBEKT ARMITAGE' w as ejected from Hol-
beck Chapel, 1662, but continued to reside there
in private until the Five Mile A.ct drove him
away, whereupon 'he retired to a private
aorner neaff BJalifax,' and though waitiched
for an advantage against him, he was never
imprisoned. So far wpis he from a party
spirit that it was never known whecher he
was a Presbyterian. Congregationali«t, or
Epif^copalian. He was a pious man, and a
plain iTSeful preacher; a man of spirit, yet
sober, solid and peaceable; very zealous ais a
minister, and strict in reproving sin. He had
been chaplain in the Parliamentary Army.
He died April 20, 1689, aged 78.
Mr. SA;MUEL STANCLIFFE, M.A., was
ejected from Stanmore riectory, Middlesex, in
1662. He was born at Halifax, and educated at
the Free Grammar School, Heath, whence he
pas.=«d to St. John's College, Cambridge. He
is mentioned in Newcourt's Bep. After his
ejection he was pastor of a congregation at
Eotherhithe, which he was obliged tot leave
through bodily weakness and indisposition.
He died at Hoxton, December 12, 1705. He
was a man of no party, an eminent divine,
and had an admirable gift in prayer. He gave
a hundred pounds to Halifax School, where a
tahlet was placed to his memory: "In memory
of the Eev. Mr. Samuel Stancliffe, descended
from the ancient family of Staucliff (Shibden-
dale), in the parish of Halifax, &c. Dietl
December 12, 1705, aged 75." Captain Hodgson,
of Coley, got his wife from this family.
LIIL— OTHER LITTLErKNOWN NONCON-
FORMISTS.
The REV. JOSEPH DAWSON was ejected
frjm Thornton Chapel, near Bradford, in
August, 16G2. He had married Martha Best,
of Shelf, daughter of John Best. The grand-
father, who lived ait Landimer in Shelf, had
three children who lived to be married, name-
ly this John, and Micihael and Mary. Richard
married again and had three more children,
John, Michael aind Maxy. who also lived to be
married. I\Ir. Joseph Dawson was a son of
A.braham Dawson, of Morley, a man closely
identified with Congregationalism, of good
family. Lady Longborough was a direct
descendant. Joseph, on his ejection in 1662.
took up his abode in Shibdendale, and main-
tained a life-long friendlihip with the Rev.
Oliver Hey wood. His sons wire named Abra-
ham, Joseph, Obadiah, Elliezer, Saonuel, and
Eli. The two first named and Eli were non-
conformist miuisiters. The Rev. Joseph Evans
of Sheffield, was great-grandson of the ejected
minister. Ab"^aham was ordained at Atter-
cliffe in 1688, and after serving at Stanning-
ton, near Sheffield, he passed the greater part
of his life as minister at Cottingham, near
Hull. Joseph was ordained oit Rathmel, near
Settile, in 1693, but was ministering at Har-
ford, near Richmond, at the time; and was
afterwarcU mostly at Rochdale. Though liv-
ing in Shibden, the ejected minister went co.n-
stia.ntly to Closes, in Cleckheaton, to preach;
and in 1688 settled at j\Iorley at the old Chapel
retained by the Nonconformists. He was uni-
versally and deservedly esteemed, and is de-
scribed as a very pious and learned man,
greatly esteemed for his integrity, prudence,
humility and meekness. He was a hard stu-
dent and an affectionate preacher; and very
gucceissful in his ministerial labours. He
died in June, 1709, aged 73. Eli Dawson, the
youngest son, had seven sons of whom six
were dissenting ministers, but all left that
piofession, and four of them conformed; Dr.
Benjamin Dawson becoming well-known in the
literary world as author of learned treatises
in the defence of religious liberty; Dr. Thomas
Dawson was an eminent physiciaii at Hackney.
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A MR. ROBINSON was ojected from 0<jt-
tingiham, near Hull, 1662; a man of great
pioty, but clouded with melancholy. II^^ died
soon after his ejectment. A Mr. Robinson,
p&ssibly the same man, was ejected some-
wht-re in the West Riding. lie died at Rae-
trick, and a gravestone at Eilland commemor-
ates his worth.— See "Bridge End Chapel,
Pasters and People."
Mr. WILLIAiM ASHLEY, of Thill, was
ejcoted from the living at Rastirick in 1662.
Dr. Calamy speaks of him a,s also ejected from
Blackrode in Lancashire, but evidently in
error. He was a Lancoi-vhire native, and edu-
cated at Cambridge. He was a preacher at
Rastrick but not fixed when th© Uniformity
Act came intio force. He is described as "a
very moderate pious man, of a pleasing dis-
position and behaviour, generally beloved and
honoured by those who knew him. He was a
very edifying, practical preacher, and Cod
prospered his labours at Hull for converting
many souls. By his prudence and good tem-
per he brought off the people from ?ome ex-
travagancies, and from the rigid opinions
which Mr. Canne, his predecessor, had incul-
cated; composed their differences, and kept
them in peace as loug as he lived. He was
very laborious in his miniei.erial work, and
shunned no opportunity to invite souls to
Christ. His common discourse was pleasant
and profitable, tending to the same great end.
His concern about his people was so ardent
that it contributed to impaio- the vigour both
of his body and mind. He was mighty in the
Scriptures, having an excellent memory,
which was strengthened by dodly exerci.-e.
His preaching was spiritual and experimental,
adapted to comfort the afflicted and raise the
dejected, as tliat of his fellow-labourer in Hull,
Mr. Charles was to ;i waken the self-secure. He
■died April 4, 1695, having been declining some
months, during which time his patience and
resignation were very remarkn/ble. He was
buried in Drypool Church. The notice of Mr.
Charles, of Mickleover in Derbyshire, who
fled to Hull, gives an account of Mr. Ashley's
escape from the Mayor of Hull, and Mr.
Charles' trial, 16S2. The Blackrode ejected
minister, Lancashire, was Mr. Richard Astley,
boi-n near Manchester, eilucated there, was
turned out in 1662 from Blackrode, but be-
came pastor of a dissenting congregation in
Hull, whe^re he died about the year 1691. Mr.
Astley, of Chesterfield, wris a descendant, and
probably also Mr. Astlay, Northgate Chapel.
Halifax.
Mr. JOHN MALLINSON was ejected from
Melling Vicarage in August, 1662. He had
T>een educated at Oxford, and was esteemed
an excellent scholar, but not a very celebrated
preacher. Wo do not know of an.vtliing print-
ed by him. He was a native of Rastrick, and
halving a numerous family, he died very poor
in May, 1685, aged 75.
There was a Mir. WILLIAM RASTRICK, of
Lynno Regis in Noi-folk, a friend of Dr.
Calamy, the author of the leittcT at the end of
the Doctor's Diefence of Moderate Conformity.
He wnote a valuuible manuscript, which was pre-
served by Calamy's descendants, entitled
"Index eorum Theologorum Aliorumque
(2257) Qui Propteir Legem Uniformitatis, Aug.
24, 1662, aib Eteclosia Anglicana secesscrunt.
Alphabetico ordine, ;iic secundum Gradus suos
depositus." William Rastriok's name does
not appear among the ejected, but in Palmer's
edition of Calamy a paragraph is inserted
which shewts that he was son of John Ras-
trick, M.A., of Kirkton in Lincolnshire, who
ministered to a congregation at King's Lynn,
where his son siicceeded him. In William
Rastrick's mfjnuscript, just raentionod, there
is an account of his father, who isuffered much
from persecution, and died at Lynn, August
18, 1727. aged 78. Mr. Ford, of Sudbury,
preached his funeral sermon, which I believe
was printed. There is a monument to him
bea/ring a long Latin inscription, from which
We learn that he was a native of Heckingl^on,
Lincolnshire, and that after holding Kirkton
Vicarage for fourteen years he becaime a
nonconformist voluntarily. He corresponded
with Thoresby, of Leeds, on antiquarian mat-
tors, and was of a local Yorkshire family, it
is assumed. He published an ordination ser-
mon, 1714.
Probably, JAMES ILLINGWORTH, B.D..
Fellow of Etmanuel College, Cambridge, whence
he was ejected in 1662, though stated to have
been born in Lancashire was of Halifax
origin.
I believe the Mr. JOHN WAITE. who held
Halifax Vicarage casually, had been from
1632 to 1660 vicar of Gargrave, and afterwards
vicar of Wetwang in East Yorkshire, whence
he was ejected in 1662, but continued after
that date, and preached in his own house
publicl,y. His wife kept a school, nnd he as-
sisted her. He was not allowed to keep one
himself. Lady Norcliffe gave him £5 yearly,
and otherwise favoiired the nonconformists of
the East Riding. The Norcliffe family uii-
ginated from Norcliffe in Shibdendale. Mr.
Waite had three children, so he tuined farmer,
tending cows and sheep himself, and though
often disturbed by the constable he kept an
open preaching house, and was esteemed
highly by his neighbours, so that they shield-
ed him from imprisonment.
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LlV.— SOME LOCiUu CLERGYMEN.
WILLIAM CLIFFOED, M.A.
Mr Samuel Clifford, B.A., was ejected from
Knoyle rectory, in Wiltshire, in 1662. His
father, Williajn Clifford, was an eminent
minister at Yarlington, in Somers t, in 1630.
Abraham Clifford, proctorat Pembroke Col-
locje, Cambridge, B.D., and Fellow was ejecttd
in Essex, became M.D., and died u London,
1675. He was author of Methodus Eivange'i-
cus. Isaac Clifford, born at Frampion, was
ejected in Dorsetshire, 1662. Samuel Clifford
above mentioned was a scholar at Frampton,
in Dorsetshire, probably they were brotheif,
and their fatiier the school master there. I
give these particulars because I have been
seeking to identify the author of the follow-
ing tract :
THE POWEiR OF KINGS, particu-
la.rly the British Monarchy, assorted and
vindicated in a SERMON preached at
WAKEFIELD, in the County of York, Sun-
day, October the 30th, 1681. By WILLIAM
CLIFFORD, A.M., printed in London by S.
Roycroft for Robert Clavell, and are to be
sold by Francis Bentley, booksoUer, in Balli-
fax, 1682. I have a. copy, and there is one in
Y'ork Minster Library. This is a small quar-
to of iv. and 31 pages. [We shall note a few
other publications that bear the name of
Francis Bentley as a Halifax bookseller, sucili
as John Smiths Sabbath Book, 1694, and
Oliver Heywood's Diaries add further notices. 1
Pages iii. and iv. contain an addriess "To all
Loy.il Subjects. — Gentlemen, being about to
pubb'sh this Sermon, &c. He then attacks in
the Sermon, ^-upposed to be based on the
text "Ag.iinst thee only have I sinned,") the
Genevan puritans and Nonconformist factionis.
He sa\.s — "Kings have power to dispense with
the Law at their pleasure. Neither is thern
the severest punislimcnt the Lnw can inflirf,
but it is in the power of the King to remit
it." Latin, Greek and Hebrew are thrown
i'lto the argument. "It is not long since the
whole Church of England ^\ as martyred in
the cause of her Sovereign Lord. Let those
who were the designers and the actors of that
unevangelical zeal live unpra'alled and die un-
pitied." "The soepter is put into the hands
of Kings by God f Imighty alone." I refer the
more curious to mine annotations upon the
(Hiurch Catechism (in the Fifth Command-
ment) now under the hands of the anianncn-
sis and will Bono cum Deo be ere long ready
for the press. If they demand why in the
reign of Queen Mary the Romish religion and
in the reign of Queen Elizabeth the Reformed
religion prevailed? there can be no other
reason giv:>n but that (next under God) it was
Ex Reginarum arbitrio." Who this benighted
Wil'iam Clifford, M.A., waB, femaius to mc a
puzzle that I wish to resolve, so I must be
contient to add what little I know of him or
another of the same name. Mr. Wright, in
lis preface to the "Aoitiquities of Halifax.' '
1738, staites ihat a late learned clergyman,
Mr. William Clifford, ]\I.A., has been heard to
say that the severe gibbet custom was granted
to preserve the King's deer in tiie Forest of
Hairdwick (Sowerbyshire), but this seems to
carry a greater air of probability than truth."
Except that extremes often meet, one can
scarcely ima^ne this man tio have been at all
relnted to the three ejected clergymen of
Dorsetshire district. The only William Clif-
ford that I can fix in this locality was the
parson at Lightcliffe, \rho was there more than
iweiity years, from before 1678 to after 1700.
when he removed to Haworth Church, and of
him and his children 1 lip.ve gained a few
particulars (See my History of Haworth.)
This William Clifford died at Northowram.
April 18th, 1733. and wa.s buried at Halifax.
April 2lst. He had not preached for some
ye:vs being very old. From my notes I
gather he had a son Grotius, whose son Groti-
us Clifford, jtmior, rG;?ided at Shelf, and was
a nonconformist ! The descendants of Grotius
live in Leeds, as represented by Mrs. Bulmer.
It may be worth noticing that the great
theologian Grotius is quoted with special ap-
proval in the fore-mentioned pamphlet. In
the Minster Library, York, there is a very
small book, 24mo. by a W. Clifford, entitled,
".A Little Manual of the Poor Man's Dayly
Dovotion," printed at Paris in 1682.
MR. JOSIAH HOLDSWORTH, a- native of
Ripponden, was ejected from Poppleton Church
near York. He was for some years a minister
in Esisex, where he was useful to many. After
his ejectment in 1662 he removed to Wake-
field, and aJso for a year preached at Idle
chapel. He died at Wakefield, October 18,
1677, aged 75. He was a very intelligent and
pious man. of a very venerable aspect, and had
great jndgme!it in physic. His eon, also
named Josiah Ho/ldsworth, was ejected from
Sutton, in Yorkshire, in 1662. He had been
educated at Cambridge. .4fter his ejection he
was Siome time chaplain to Sir Richard Hogh-
ton, of Hoghton Tower, Lancashire. In 1672
he was at Heckmondwike, and licensed his
house for preachings under the Indulgence
Act. He died in 1685 in middle age, being
under fifty. He w as a man of great piety,
sincerity, strictness and industry in ministeri-
al work, and blessed with much success, and
the loving memory of his work wa.s maintain-
ed long after his deoth.
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MR. EODMUND HOUGH wivs ejected from
Jesus Oollege. Cambridge, in 1662, but he
afliervvardej conformed and died Vicar of Hali-
fax, sadly persecutod by some party men,
April 1, 1689, aged 59. He is said to have
died of grief. He was a man of great modera-
tion and piety, and behaved in a very friendly
manner to the dissenters.
MR. .TOHN PEEBLES, of Lightcliffe, in
1630, &c., was one of the ejected ministers of
1662, from some place in the West Riding.
Whilsti at Lightc'Hffe many of his children
were born, amongst them .Tohn Peebles, clerk
to the West Riding Magistrates, Justice o»'
Peace,— ithe great perseciitor of Hey wood and
the nonconformists.
MR. JONATH.AN SCHOLFIELD, of Cross-
stone, 16-13, took an active part when the
Royalists and Parliamentarians were in corn-
bad;' about Hepton&tall. He left Heyv^-ood
Chapel, in Lancashire, in 1659 for Dowgles, in
Lancashire, but was ejected in 1662. He and
his numerous family suffered much for non-
conformity. He died in 1667, aged 60. Mr.
Scholfield! of Birmingham (1800), was a des-
cencLant.
DR. EDWARD WATERHOUSE was n cele-
brated Antiquary and Herald author of an
octavo volume: "The defence of Armfi and
Aa-moury," 1660, octavo, 232 pages; a.nd was
believed to be the main contributor to "Mor-
gan's Sphere of Gentry.'' His arms corres-
pond with the Hoilifax Waterhoaises. He was
author of "The Gentleman's Monitor," 1665,
octavo, with portrait of the author; "Apology
for Learning and Learned Men," 1653, octavo;
"Two Brief Meditations," 1653, octavo; "Piety
Policy and Charity of elder Times and Christ-
ians," 1655, 12mo.; " Foresque Ulustraitiis,
or Sir John's de Laudibus Legem," 1663, folio.
with portraits of Sir John, and Dr. Water-
house; "Narrative of the Fire in London,"
1667, octavo, 190 pages, and his portrait.
There was an earlier EdAvard Wnterhouse,
who wrote "The Affairs of Virginia, the mas-
sacre by the Native Infidels upon the English;
and a treatise is annexed, written by Mr.
Henry Briggs (qiiery — .a Yorkshireman), Of
the North West Pivssaue to the South Sea.
London, 1622, quarto. There is sciircely room
for doiabt that both were Halifax men.
LV.— ROGER KECSriON, HEINRY ROOTE.
JOSEPH FERRETT, JONATHAN
MITCHELL.
There had been a Vicar of Rochdnle named
R. Konion, who was succeeded there in Oc-
tober, 1615, by Henry Tilson He could
scarcely b« ROGER KBNION, who held the
living of Ripponden from 1656 to August,
1G6;3. Calamy, pago 837, states that Roger
Kenion had tuinod out in 1662 under the
Bartholomew Act, but afterwards conformed.
Mr. Watson, a successor at Ripponden, saw
a hundred years later, copies (evidently in
manuscript) of Kenion's two last sermonrs
preaohed at Ripponden, August 17, 1663,
wheroin he advises his heaaers not to neglect
the first opportunity of closing with another
pi-eacher for he was persuaded that true?
spiritual bread wovxld be more scarce and
precious than it had been. "In all probabil-
ity they would not find one so curious at a
simile as he. for he says, "We ai-e like unto
a man that is in a pinakle of a, Church, and
seeth out at a hoale, where he can see no-
thing but what is before the hoale, but God
is like unto a man on the top of the pinakle
that seeth round about."
HENRY ROOTE. or Root, was born about
1590, and was educated in Magdalene College,
Oxford, after which he travelled much
abroad, probably with the Saviles. He had
influential friends, who designed to place
him at Denton Chaipel, near Manchester, in
1632, but Mr. Angier, Oliver Heywood's
father-in-law, got the place. He obtained
the neighbouring chapel at Gorton, and in
1634 baptised Mr. Angler's dauglittr, the
future wife of Heywood. In 1613 he and Mr.
Horrooks preached the nuptial sermons when
Mr. Angier married a second time. In the
same year he was placed in charge of Hali-
fax Vicarage, but in 1646 pressure of some
kim' led him to settle at Sowerby Chapel.
In the year 1646 he joined in the famous
Cheshire and Lancashire eontrovei"6y between
the Presbyterians and Independents, and
printed a pamphlet, dated from Sowerby,
March, 1646, entitled: —
A JUST APOLOGY FOR THE CHURCH OF
DUCKENFIELD,
which miiiy be foixnd in one or two Manchts-
ter libraries. At Sowerby, about 1615 6, he
gathered a congregational Church, as part of
the organisation at Sowerby Church, and
held the ppi^torate and living until the Uni-
formity Act, August, 1662, and indeed such
was the attachment of the people to him that
he continued to preach in the Church for
half-a-year after August, without serious
molestation; but re-action set in and he
suffered severely. In Watson's "Halifax"
and Tillotson's "Life" will be found a letter
written about 1649 by the future Archlnsliop
to his respected friend Mr. Root. Roijert
Tillotson, father of fcho doctor, was one of
the leading CongregationaJists with Root,
and afterwards with Oliver Heywood. In
1663, Mr. Root was forcibly taken out of his
own house by three bailiffs, who broke open
the inner door of a room, and hurried him
faster than his age oould bear, not suffer-
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ing him to take his coat, staff or pun-;e_. and
treated him otherwise than gently. He was
suspected of participating in the Yorkshire
and other plots, and was twice prisoner in
York Castle for three months, but discharg-
ed by the justices having discovered the com-
mittment to be illegal. He was sent a third
time U) York Castle, by Sir John Armytage,
of Kirklees, a violent iiaid bitter enemy to
the Nonconformists, shewing no cause, ajid
there he was kept in a small, close room, and
not suffered to have his wife come to him
for a considerable time, or even into the
Castle. At length he was removed into the
oity prison, a filthier place. The whole of
his imprisonment \vi\s near twelve months.
More of his sufferings will be found in tiio
Conformist's Fourth Plea, pages 50, 51. He
died October 20, 1669, and was buried on the
28th at Sowerby, with much solemnity-. — [See
article 31 of this series.]
His son TIMOTHY ROOT, being settled at
Sowerby Bridge Chapel, also joined the
Nonconformists in August, 1662, and suffered
great hardships for many 3'ears. Like his
father, he was an eminently popular preacher
at the various churches and monthly exer-
cises of West Yorkshire, but at length, about
1685, he conformed and became rector of
Howden. He died at Beverley in 1687. In
1670 he had been apprehended at Shadwell
and was sent, with many of the congrega-
tion, to York Castle. Hey wood joined in a
thanksgiving at Slaithwaite on his release.
JOSEIPH FEBRETT, called aJso erroneous-
ly Joshua Farret, was incumbent of Hepton-
stall in 1662, and, according to Watson, was
buried at Halifax. From Calamy we learu
that he was ejected at Pontefract in 1662.
and that he was a oonstnJit laborious preach-
er, of competent gifts and learning. He had
a very good library which he refused to part
with, although much striiitened in his cir-
cvimstances on losing his stated income. He
died in 1663, aged about 64. Mr. Richard
Holmes, Pontefract. historian, in 1889 called
my attention to this man, ssad stated that it
is thought he was buried at the Old Meeting
House in Pontefract. He had acted as Com-
monwealth Vicar, but was not n.ppointed in
the usi;al way, and at the Restoration, 1660,
he retired, Mr. Samuel Drake (son of the
Diari(?t, of whom we shajll further write,) be-
ing appointed April 6th, 1661. The Patent
Rolls gives "Joseph Firra, resigned." . After
his resignation, ?iTr. Ferret established a
congregation at Tanshelf, near Pontefraict.
I have no proof that he nrinted anything.
JOXATH.A,N MITCHELL, the New Eng-
land divine, was taken to America when a
boy by his fatiher, in 1635. From Oliver Hey-
wood's Manuscripts and from Dr. Mather's
Magnalia, (book 4, page 167), we learn that
Mr. Denton, the parson at Coley, and some
local families, lemoved to New Eingland, be-
cause of the persecutions under the Bishops
at the time when the Book of Sports came
out. The Magnalia states that Denton died
in New England, but Heywood says that he
turned about 1659, and died in Essex soon
afterwards. Dr. Mather gives a particular
account of Mr. Matthew Mitchell who went
to America, in 1635, in the saano ship that
carried over Mr. Richard Mather, Minister
at Toxteth, Liverpool. Mitchell was a pious,
wealthy person, and his kinsfolk in Shibdon-
dale and Lightcliffe had considerable wealtli.
His sufferings in Now England were numer-
ous and grievous. Several of his people were
killed by the Pequot Indians, and many of
his cattle were killed or stolen. At another
time his house, barn, and goods were destroy-
ed by an accidental fire. English settlers
also quarrelled with him, and he died from a
painful attack of the stone in 1645, aged 54.
.Jonathan, his son, wjvs eleven years old when
they crossed the Atlantic in 1635. He became
the greatest orator of the colony, and as
preacher and paistor of the church at Cam-
bridge, New Eingland, he was very celebrated.
He died in I1668, and a large account of him
appears in the Magnalia., book 4. "All New
Etngland shook when that pillar fell to the
ground."
LV I.— THOMAS WRIGHT, POET.
I najme this Thomas Wright a poet to dis-
tinguish him from the Rev. Thomas Wright,
of Halifax and Ripponden, author of the small
book, "Antiquities of Halifax," already men-
tioned. He ^vaA generally known as Tommy
Wright, and his celebrated grandson, and
namesake, whose name will stand imperish-
ably in the annaJs of English literature has
preserved to us not only a life-like memoir of
the grandfather, but one of the rarest and
most interesting pictvires of rural life in
West Yorkshire that has appeared in print,
namely: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS
WRIGHT, of Birkenshaw, 1736-1797, edited by
his grandson, Thomas Wright, M.A. F.S.A.,
&c., 1864, small 8vo. Half-title, frontispiece
a woodcut of Lower Blacup, title, preface,
xxxi pages. Autobiography and Appendix
344 pages, published at 6s. Printed at the
Chiswick press. This is an interesting memoir,
giving the social life of the district before
1800. It is not a very scarce book, but one
of my copies is interesting because it bears
the presentation inscription from the emin-
ent French and English antiquai-y who edited
it, to our mutual friend Abraham Holroyd,
of Saltaire, besides a letter of thanks for help
Mr. Holroyd gave in adding notes to the old
manuscript. The word 'howpey' for a horse
completely puzzled the editor, which his
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father and grandfather would easily have re-
cognised. There is no inxlex to the book, yet
I have found it necessary to make a niann-
script one to find readily the references to
one hundred and forty individuals mentioned.
Only a fi-action of thase. however, were con-
nected with Halifax.
Thomas Wright, the poet-controversialist,
v-if* born at the Mulcture Hall in Halifax, on
Mondav, January 27, 1736, about ten o'clock
in the forenoon. ("February 7th is now my
birthday, new style.") "I was baptised at
the parish church in Halifax, February 24th,
1736. I lived with my father and mother, and
grandmother and grandfather Cordingley, at
the Mulcture Hall, where they all lived to-
gether till they all died." His mother died
when he was two years old, and his father a
year or two later. Mrs. Cordingley carefully
tended her daughter's only surviving child,
and had him inoculated by the famous Dr.
Nettleton, an author previously mentioned.
Tommy survived his inoculation, but carried
forwards a pitted skin and a wea,k eye. His
nurse was Mary Moore. the blacksmith's
daughter art Smithy-stake, who married a
joiner from Belly-brigg (Bailiffe Bridge,) call-
ed Jack Wright, yet continued bo live in one
of the Cordingley houses in LoAver Church
Steps. Only old inhabitants wall remember
the disreputable cottage property abutting
the churchyard on the north side, or the
Smithy Stake and Mulcture Hall cloi'e by.
When I first Knew "Mooter Hall" it had pass-
ed from the tenancy of Mr. Stott, engraver,
to be a oommon lodging house. Formerly it
had been the miller^e residence, where he had
deducted his share of the corn that was
brought to the manorial corn-mill. Hence,
its name of Mulcture; and probably the
manor courts had been held there. Tommy
Avent to a school kept by Natty Binns, a lame
man, in one of the Cordingley'e cottages, then
to the charity school near by, taught by
Thomas Simpson. Beacon Hill he calls the
Haynes, and a cottage on the road to Shib-
den Hall he names Wiskem Dandies. He
mentions many folks, both good and bad, that
lived in and near Halifax; the treachery of
Abraham Barraiolough, of Shelf, George Wal-
lace who made leather breeches, Bobby Alex-
ander Avho succeeded his father as a physioia.n.
Billy Wood, who succeeded his father as a
huckster near the church, and so on. His
grandmother had to AvithdraAV into one of the
cottages, and shortly afterwards died, Avhere-
upon he was transferred to her sister Mrs.
Lydia Ellison, of BirkenshaAv, but Ave cannot
folloAv him further on these lines, through his
adventurous history, including his run-aAvay
wedding at Gi-etna Green. For some
time he resided at " Leisterdyke " and
attended Bradford Grammar School.
We need not follow him in all the details of
his life, and only further mention that his
eldc'St son, Thomas Avas born at Lower Bhx-
cup, near Cleckheaton, on Maiich 8th, 1771.
He was fatlier of the noted anticxuary, and
was apprenticed to John aaid George Nichol-
son (father and son) booksellers and printers,
Bradford, and went with George Nicholson's
printing establishment into Shropshire in
1799, and at Poughnil his son, the antiquary,
was born. Old Tommy, the author under re-
view, died on January 30th, 1801, and Avas
buried at Whit-echapel, Cleckheaton. Be-
sides the Aiutobiogiaphy, printed by his
grandson, he was an author on his OAvn ac-
count. His ancestors cajme from Keighley
district to Bradford and Wibsey. He bore
his grandfather's name, Thomas Wright of
the Bowling Green Inn, Bradford, Avhose eon
John Wright was born there, a/ud being ap-
prenticed to a Halifax cabineti-maker, he met
Avith and married Elizabeth, only child of
Thomae Cordingley, of Mulcture Hall, Avhere
she Avas born in November, 1711, and died
there February 19th, 1738, as shcAvn by her
gravestone in Halifax churchyard. I have
not seen (so fair as I remember) a copy of the
first edition of Thomas Wr.if,4it's controversial
poem, and the grandson-editor had only seen
the family copy. The book Avas printed at
Leeds by J. BoAvling, in 1778, under the title: —
A MODERN FAMILIAR RELIGIOUS CON-
VERSATION,
Among people of Differing Sentiments;
A Poetical Ebsa(y.
It Avas Avritten in defence of the person and
teaching of John Wesley, though he was
never a very closely dentified Methodist, as
stated in his own character "Richard" of the
poem : —
i OAvn ingenuously to you,
I think their doctrines nearly true,
I am not. Jemmy, of their sect,
Yet I the people much respect.
Wish Avell to what they chiefly teach.
And often go to hear them preach.
He, hoAvever, became known to John Wesley,
John Fletcher, of Madeley, Avhom he visited
in Shropshire in 1773, and some of their
travelling preachers. In 1775 Mr. (afterwards
Sir) Richard Hill issued aji "Heroic Poem"
scurrilously attacking Mr. Wesley, which
called forth Wright's "Heroic Poem to Rich-
ard Hill," a clever parody, but AA^as not then
printed. The more comprehensive defence of
Armiiiianism soon after followed in verse, and
was issued tio the public in 1778. A second
edition of Avhich I have two copies, followed
in 1812 Avith a "Life of the Author."
A FAMILIAR RELIGIOUS CONVERSATION,
In verse; by Thomas Wright.
Leeds, printed for the editor (by Leak and
Nichols), 1812. It is a small octavo in size,
but printed in sheets of twenty four pages
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each. There are viii pjiid 1-148 pages. The
preface states that this was reprinted from
a eopy corrected and amended by the arithor,
biit there is no indication who iss\;ed this
edition. He altered and added words and
lines that the author had not interfered with.
The notes to th© poem, whicJi takes the form
of dialogues between Richard and James,
shew that Wright was well aoquaiated with
his bible, and the controversial tracts of the
period, including the poem by Titus Knight,
of Halifax, on "Thoughts on the Divine De-
cree." One of the characters speaks of the
sight-seeing crowds flocking to hear Wesley: —
They come, and run, and sweat, and blow,
Press near, squat on their knees they bow.
Peep in their hats; then gape and stare
As if some little God was there.
And fresh enthusiasts are found
For him whenever he comes round.
They run, and he's a wonder still,
Just like the man on Beaeon-hill,
Where numbers throng and make ado
As if there was a puppet show.''
The man on iJeacon-hill was the murderer,
whose body hung in chains there.
The Appendix to the Autobiography gives
nearly sixty pa,ges of poems apart from the
"Religious Conversation," and of a different
and mostly superior poetical character. His
elegy on his daughter Ma.ry, and the poem on
the death of his son John, with the subse-
quent poems on the memory of the same in-
fant son, place the author on an unquestion-
able poetic platform. The Heroic Poem to
Eichnrd Hill, Esqiiire, the family lines to
Joshtia Craven, and the Observations on a
pamphlet entitled "Polyphemus, or a Cj-clops
combatting Truth," complete the poetical ad-
ditions to the chatty biography. Mr. Titus
Knight wro'e the said pamphlet agaiTii-t Mr.
Thomas Taylor, the Wesleyau preacher, who
had been a blacksmith, hence the title Cyclops.
LVII.— THE KNIGHTS.
Mr. Watson has an ungracious note in his
"History" en TITUS KNIGHT, a collier in
this parish, 'vho turned preaicher and pub-
lished a discourse^ printed at Leeds, entitled :
THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS,
being the STibstance of a sermon preached at
the opening if the New Meeting House be-
longing to the Independents, in Blanket Row,
Hull, on Sundaty, April 9, lf769, by Titus
Knight, Minister of the Gospel at Halifax in
Yorkshire."
Little did Mr. Watson anticipate that this
clever collier would become a fajnous preacher,
and father of a Vicair of Halifax, and grand-
father of equally famous clergymen. This
same ex-collier, born December 17, 1719, was
also author of
AMYNTAS AND PHILETUS;
or Christian Conversation illustrated in a
friendly visit to the country; in seven dia-
logues. By 'ritus Knight^ Minister of the
Gospel at Halifax in Yorkshii-e. Leeds, print-
ed for the author and sold by many of the
booksellers in Town and country. There is
no printer's name or date. It '^is duodecimo
size with twenty-four pages to a sheet. Pages
1. to xiv. give the title, preface dated May°.5,
1770, and oontentjs. The Diajogues occupy
pages 1-301. The book shews that Mr. Knight
was not only a great reader and faicile writer,
but also a close observer of nature a,nd human
nature. Notices of him may be found in Dan
Taylor's Life. Knight was one of the early
Methodist converts, and for a while as.-ociated
and laboured with the Wesleyans, but changed
his mind on some theological points. Mr.
Griimshaw, of Haworth, still continued his
friend, and begged money towards procuring
a meeting plaee at Halifax, the iirst of Mr.
Grimshaw's rubscribers being Lady Hunting-
don, who offered to procure episcopal ordin-
ation for ..u.r. Knight. Two cottages in Gaol
Lane, Halifax, Mere converted into a meeting
place which was known as Chapel Fold, the
lease bearing date 1763. Soon the room be-
came overcrowded, and led on by Mr. James
Kershaw, a gentleman of cultur© and great
esteem, st^ps were taken to erect more com-
modious premises. The result was that the
venerable brick building, still known as
Square Chapel, was erected at a cost of over
<i;:i,00O, overlooking the old Parish Church.
The Rev. Henry Venn, Vicar of Hudder.sfield.
collected =£170 towards the cost. The Chapel
was openpd in May, 1772, and was the talk
of the religious world; some of the London
preachers being greatly displeased with the
pride and show, the pulpit having cost ^6100.
A greater contrast than tlie Gaol Lane con-
venticle and the capacious Chapel can scarcely
be imagined. Yet what would the grumblerp
have said if they could have seen the Square
Church spring up to out-do its neighbour—
the brick chapel, now converted into n.
schoolroom !
Mr. Knight has been truly described as a
stirring, energetic and useful preacher. He
was much associated with Whitefield, at whose
chapels in London and elsewhere he regularly
preached during two months of each year.
He wrote the epitaph for Wliitefield's monu-
ment at Tottenham Court Chapel, London,
ivir. Knight resigned his charge, September 13,
1791. and died at Halifax March 2ud, 1793,
aged 74. Besides "The Faith of the Saints"
the sixpenny pamphlet mentioned by Watson,
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and the dialof^ues "Amyntas and Philetus."
he had printed before May, 1770, "A Seiinon
on the Hainousness of Sin, the Insufficiency
of Man's Righteousnes^s, and bhe Fulness of
Salvation in Christ," price 3d.; also a volume
of "Sermons en important Subjects, with a
treatise on the Imputation of Sin and Right-
eousness,"— printed at Leeds in 1766, an octavo
volume at 3s. 6d., a. copy of which is in Hali-
fax Free Library; also a shilling booklet on
"Queries and Observations relating to the
Divinity of the Son of God," and also a
poem entitled "Polyphemus, or a Cyclops
combatting Truth." Mr. Thomas Wright re-
plied in poetry to tliis pamphlet as mentioned
in the last article. On looking at my copy of
"Sermons on Important Subjects, with Treatise
on the Imputation of Sin and of Righteous-
ness," I find it was printed by Griffith Wright,
Leeds, 1766, the prefaice being signed June 20,
1766. It is an octavo volume comprising
twelve sermons, viii. and 349 pages, whilst the
Treatise on Imputation has a second title page
(Leeds, Griffith Wright), and has v. and 101
pages a(dditional. The preface to this part is
dated May, 1766.
A further account of the controversy will be
found in the notice of the Rev. W. Graham.
"Salvation by Christ," a sermon, 1770. is m
Halifax Free Library. "Christian Conversa-
tion" was printed by Henry Martin, Upper
George Yiard, Halifax, and consists of 207
pages, small 8vo., or 12mo., 1845, and is a re-
print of "Amyntae, ic." Mr. Hienry Martin
was editor of the "Halifax Express," and
announced his intention of printing a life of
Titus Knight, with history of Independency
in Hajifax, but failed to do eo. There is an
anonymous pamphlet in Halifax Free Library
that "attacks Mr. Titus Knight on "Liberty of
Conscience: Ciirse ye Meroz, — Letters written
on the occasion of the Opposition to a late
Bill for Liberty of Conscience, first published
in the ''Leeds Intelligencer," and now repub-
lished by desire; to which is added a letter
from a Cobbler to a, Collier [? Titus Knight. 1
of High Renown, 1773
A Memoir of Mr. Knight, with portrait, ap-
pears in the '''EvaaigeUcal Magazine" Septem-
ber, 1793. "Amyntas" represents his own life
and experience, and further notices of him
appear in the Life of Lady Huntingdon, Metho-
dism in Halifax, and Taylor and Fawcett's
Lives.
THE; REV. SAMUEL KNIGHT was born at
Halifax on March 9th, 1757, being the oldest
child (by a -econd marriage) of Titus Knight,
who became the founder and minister of the
Independent Chapel at Halifax, as just re-
corded. Samuel was so frail an infant that>
when Dr. Legh, the Vicar, was officiating at
his baptism, he thought the infant had ex-
pired, and was refusing to proceed with the
ceremony, little imagining that the frail
infajit would become Vicar of Halifax. The
succeeding children of Titus Knight were not
baptised at the Parish Church, as the father
became a decided, but not bigotted Noncon-
formist about 1760. Samuel was taught Greek
from infancy by his father, and at twelve was
placed at JlippeTholme Grammar School,
nn^pr the Rev. Richard Sutcliffe, incumbent
of Lightcliffe. and for two years profited in
the dead languages under the able classical
tuition of Mr. Sutcliffe. For about iowr years
Samuel studied at home, but returned in his
19th year to Hipperholme School as an assist-
ant until he went to College in 1779, aided by
the Elland Society, founded by the Rev.
George Burnett, of Elland, a notable evangeli-
cal clergyman. Samuel entered Magdalene
College, Cambr;idge, on the same day as the
Rev. Thoma4S Rogers, of Wakefield, both
travelling together from Leeds in the same
ooach. Samuel became a Avrangler, and a
Fellow of the College. In March. 1783. he be-
came cura'e under a notable Yorkshireman.
Mr. Adam, of Wintringham in Lincolnshire,
and he kept a school or academy there. In
1794 Lord Carrington gave him the incumbency
of Humberston, but he continuod to reside at
Wintringham, and for some .years also held
the curac.v of Roxby. In 1795 an Act wpa ob-
tained for a new church at Halifax, of which
Mr. Knight became first incumbent in 1789,
on the nomination of Dr. Coulthurst, Vicar of
Halifax. Mr. Knight, with his family,
settled at Halifax in Ajpril. In December,
1817. he relinquished Trinity Church for the
Parish Church, Dr. Coulthurst having died
December 11th, 1817, and his son, the Rev.
.Tames Knight, became curate, holding the
same until 1824, when he removed to Sheffield.
The, Rev. Samuel Knight died at the Vicarage,
Hajifax, January 7, 1827, universally esteemed,
particularl.y by the Elvangelical party. Further
particulars may be found in
SERMONS AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKS
o' the Rev. Samuel Knight, A.M., late Vicar
of Halifax, arranged and revi.'^ed by the Rev
James Knight, Ai.M., vSt. Paul's Church,
Sheffield, to which is prefixed a MEMOIR by
the Rev. William Knight, A.M., St. John's
Church, Hull. Halifax, N. Whitley, 1828.
Vol. I. has a steel-plate portrait of the Hali-
fax Vicar/ ^t is an octavo volume with cxxvii.
pages, preface, contents, and memoir; Works,
pages 1-312 comprising Occasional Sermonn.
Lectures on Philemon, Exposition of Eccl. I.
and II., Pastoral Hints to Parishioners of
Humberston, Family Prayers, &c. Vol. IT.,
Halifax, N. Whitley, 1828, pages xv.. 1-434.
Sermons (35 in number).
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The following are the two pamphlets issued
by Mr. Knight himself: —
"ON CONFIRMATION; for the use of
tho.?e young persons who are d€i*irous of be-
ing confirmed." By the Rev. S. Knight,
A.M., Minister of Trinity Church, Halifax.
Third edition. Halifax, P. K. Holden, 1812,
12 pages.
The first -dition was issued in 1800, and a
fourth edition before 1828.. In 1791, the
vear before the death of his father, he pub-
lished "FORMS OF PRAYER for the Use of
Christian Families," which ran through six-
teen editions belore his own death; and his
son edited and enlarged the work in subse-
quent editions. The foiiitepnth elition, piint-
ed at York in 1820, is a small duodecimo, of
108 pages, inscribed to the parirhioners of
Wintringham. I have a copy of this edition,
and the 19th, York, Thos. Wilson, 1832, 108
pages.
A large octavo pamphlet of twenty-six pages
calls for insertion at this point. It is en-
titled "The R'^membrance and Imitation of
Departed Pastors." A Sermon preached in
the Pairish Church of Halifax, January 11th.
1827, on the occasion of the death of the R«^v.
Samuel Knight, M.A., Vicar of the said
parish; bv the Rev. William Carus Wilson,
M.A., of Tixnstall &c." Halifax, N. Whitley.
Price Is. 1827.
Vioar Knight's two sons were also authors,
as under : —
The REV. JAMES KNIGHT, M.A., Shetrield,
curate at Halifax for six years, published a
^ page pamphlet, 8vo., at Sheffield in 1850.
entitled "Remark,^ on Baptismal Regeneration."
I have also n. copy of the volume entitled
"The Triith and Importance of the Chrifitian
Religion." Sheffield, 1856, small 8vo., pp. x.,
104. He published "Discourses on the Princi-
pal Miracles of Our Lord," 1831, 500 pages,
8vo. " Religion not Speculative but Practical,
a sermon at St. Mary's, Oxford, by the Rev.
J. Knight, M.A., Curate of Halifax; 8vo. (1823).
He also edited and added a second serieif?
to his father's "Forms of Prayer." I have be-
fore me the i9th edition of his father's series
with the third edition of the second series (by
himself) in me volume, printed at Halifax
by N. Whitley, 12mo., pages 175. The York
edition of his father's, 1832, just mentioned,
was therefore not the 19th edition. I have
also the volume printed by Whitley and
Booth, HaJifax, 1858, 12mo., 178 pages. This
is called the ?.5th edition of the original book,
and 19th of the Second Series. In Halifax
Free Library there are copies of the "Forms
of Prayer," printed in 1827 and also 1834.
The 1842 edition was printed by Whitley and
Booth, Halifax, in 177 pages, and in 1845 a.n-
other edition ^\as issued in 108 pages.
The REiV. WIVI. KNIGHT, M.A., Hull,
writer of his father's memoir, issued also a
Sermon on the Death of H. T. Skelton. 1858.
octavo, and probably other works.
LVIIL— RE'V. J. COCKIN, and his Son.
In 1829. Joseph Cockin's Memoirs, a large
volume of viii. and 248 pages, was XJ^i^ted by
John Vint, Idle, for the author the Rev. John
Cockin. An engraved portrait of the Rev.
Joseph Cockin, drawn by Woodman, 1828,
serves as a frontispiece, but a^ much more
characteristic one, drawn by T. Blood, is
given in the second edition (1841) of the
Memoirs of the
REV. JOSEPH COCKIN,
Late Minister of the Gospel at Halifax, in-
cluding accounts of some of his friends; writ-
ten partly by himself and continued by his
son, John Cockin.
To which is added an Appendix. Idle, print-
ed for bhe author, 1829. Sold by Birtwhistle,
Halifax; Baines and Heaton, Leeds; Moore,
Huddersfield; Stanfield, Wakefield. This book
is of gi-eat lisitorical value, locally; the earlier
portion being aiitobiographical. addr&sseil to
his only son, a congregational minister Tike
himself, but not so widely celebrated. Joseph
Cockin was a clothier's son at Hon ley, where
he was boim March 12th, 1755. He was the
third of seven sons. He gives an account of
the deplorajble condition of village life, social-
ly, educationally and religiously at the time
when Wesley, Whitfield, and the Moravians
were evangelizing West Yonrikshire, and th©
persecution he leceived. keenest of aJl from
his father, for associating with the new reli-
gionists; and his mother had secretly to facil-
itate his oi)portuuitieis to change his clothes
aiter work-hoiirs that he could go the four
miles to Huddersfield to hear the Rev. Henry
Venn at the I'arislh Church. Eventually his
father turned him out of the home. He found
a friend and master in Williaon Scholfield, of
Lockwood, who became an esteemed deacon
at Huddersfield Independent Chapel after Mr.
Venn removed. After a year's time Cockin's
father insisted on his returning home, and
the youth joined others in establishing cottage
services. At seventeen he got work in Hud-
dersfield, and in a few months was picked for
militia, proba.bly a piece of trickery, for he
■was under age. He was sent to Leeds, but
managed to get to services at White Chapel.
Mr. Edwards, th© minister, secured his re-
lease from th© militia, and recommended him
as a student to the Rev. James Scott, Heck-
mondwike Independent Academy. Three
others of the Lockwood religious youths en-
tered the same institute ait Heckmondwike and
became useful ministers, Charles Crowe (Nor-
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folk), Samuel Bottomley (Scaiborouf,'h), and
George Gill (Swanland ajnd Market HaT-
borougli). On leaving the Academy Mr.
Cocfcin became minister at Kipping Chapel,
neiaH- Bradfbrd, roceiving the bet^t possible
testimonial from his tutor, the Rev. James
Scott. This letter, written in 1777, iis amongst
my literary treasures. He liad been three
years at Heckmondwike. He had soarciely got
the Kipping society into fliourishing condition
when he became a second Oliver Hcywood in
a limited area as missioner. In 1790 and 1791
the Rev. '.i itus Knight, founder of Square
Chapel, Halifax, had paralytic strokes, and
Mr. Cockin, who had received several invita-
tions from influential congregations and re-
fused, was induced to accept HiUifax at the
end of 1791. From the death of his wife (Feb.
18, 1826, aged 70), Mr. Cockin's health declined
rapidly, aijad he 'died May 23rd, 1828, leaving
a son and four daughters; the Rev. John
Barling having succeeded at Square Chapel.
The volume closes with "An Address at the
Funeral of the Rev. Robert Galland," "A
Memoir of the same Holmfirth minister," "An
Ordination Discourse," and an "Essay on
Ministerial Usefulness."
The second edition, with additions, is a
smalleo" octavo, also printed by John Vint, at
Idle, 1841.
The pamphlets issued by the Rev. Joseph
Cockin are nine in number : —
1.1 Christ(ian Dutyets Recommended; a ser-
mon at the Ordination of the Rev. Robert
Simpson at Bolton, October 2, 1782. There is
a cppy in Halifax Ftee Library.
2. Discourse at the Ordination of the Rev.
Samuel Wydown at York, c. 1796.
3. God's Declared Designs, a motive to Hu-
man EIndeavours; a sermon preached before
the Missionary Society, May 9, 1798.
4. A charge at the Ordination of the Rev.
Charles Dewhirst, Ma^y 28, 1801.
5. Submission undei- Trying Dispensations;
a sermon on the death of Mrs. P. Holden, of
Halifax, preached August 24, 1802.
6. The Loyal Subject; a, sermon preached at
Halifax, October 25, 1809, on the celebration
of George III.'s Jubilee, Halifax, 1809; there
is a copy in HaJifax Free Library.
7. An Essay in Ministerial Usefulness; read
at a Meeting ol Ministers at Halifax, March
20, 1810.
8. The Oppressor Punished; a sermon
preached at Halifax, January 13, 1814.
9. A Speech delivered at Ossett, July 23,
1815, at the Anniversary Meeting of the Sab-
bath School Union.
NumbeT 8 is now before me — The Oppressor
Punished. A Sermon preached at the Square
Chapel, Halifjix, on the day appointed for
Public Thaubsgiving, January 13, 1814, by
Joseph Cockin. Pliblished at the request of
the Congregation. Halifax, P. K. Holden;
price 8d., 1814. We need not state that
Bonaparte was the Oppressor referred to in
this octavo tract of twenty pages, wherein a
parallel is drawn between him and Pharaoh
of Red Sea fame. I haive a copy of No. 7, An
Elssay on Ministerial Usefulness, read at a
lecture liold at Halifax. March, 1810. Halifax,
P. K. Holden, 1810, 16 pages, crown octavo.
It is reprinted in the memoirs.
THE KuL^Y. JOHN COCKIN, only son of
the Rev. Joseph Cockin, was born at Thorn-
ton in 1783, and was not only a resident at
Halifax during his early life (1791, &c.), but
on retiring from the Congiregational ministry
at Holmfirth tie took up his abode once more
at Halifax. He was a scholar under ^^i'. Bates
(another aiuthor) at Halifax. The under-
mentioned book further adds to his Halifax
connection : —
REFLECTIONS AFTER READING, OR
SKETCHES Biographical, Ecclesiastical and
Historical, by JOHN COCKIN.
H. Martin, printeir., Upper George Yard, Hali-
fax, 1843, pages vii., 459, octavo.
There are twenty-four topics, mostly bio-
graphical essays, one of which is local, namely
Oliver Heywood, about 28 pages. John Cockin
waa apprenticed to Mr. Pye-Smith, of Shef-
field, as a bookbinder, before he was trained
at Idle Academy under the Rev. William
Vint, and became minister at Holmfirth in
1806, holding the post until 1849. He was not
only popular at home, but was frequently in-
vited to preach throughout the West Riding.
He was somewhat deformed, "a little lame
man with a corpulent body," but of a humor-
ous disposition. He was not able to walk
much or even to sit well on horse-back, in-
deed, he is said to have fallen two hundred
times from his horse, yet he never sustained
serious injury. For some years, like his
father, he annually visited London on preach-
ing excursions. He was a well-Tead man, and
fluent preacher. He died at Halifax October
17, 1861, aged 78, but was buried at Holmfirth.
Mr. John Cockin was a great promoter of
the West Riding Congregational Union. He
was concerned in issuing the ''Second Circu-
lar Letter," printed alt Leeds, 1833, eleven
pages, but dated from Halifax, September.
The "ThiTd Circular Letter," printed by John
Vint, Idle, 1834, twenty pages, is dated from
Wakefield, September, 1834, and has a paper
by Mr. Cockin on "Nonconformity to Ecclesi-
astical Etetablishments."
In the Bradford Free Library there are two
pamphlets respecting the Rev. John Cockin,
of Holmfirth; first, a Sermon on the Death of
Mrs. Green, 1814, oota/vo; and Letters to the
Rev. John Cockin, 1814. See also Wm. Hat-
ton's pamphlet in reply to John Cockin. Mr.
John Cockin married Mary Bovingdon. of
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87
Amereham, vho vvae of Huguenot descent, and
thoy had two sons to reach maturity. One of
these, Mr. Joseph Cookin, was born at Holm-
firth, March, 1818^ and was educated at Wil-
liamsons's Academy, Cleckheaton, with the
three famous Crossley brothers, of Halifax, ae
fellow-pupils. He was a great reformer of
hxnd-laws, and published a pajnphlet and many
letters on the subject, which do not come with-
in our scope, for he never lived in Halifax.
He had been a soldier at Woolwich, but lived
most of his life at Bradford. A son of his
died juet as iie was beginning a missionary's
life.
i.lX.— SQUARE CILAFEL MINISTERS.
Pfavirig taken notice of the Revs. TituB
Kni'-^hti and Josepii Corkin, the first and second
miniisters of Square Chapel, 1763 to 1828, (in-
clncling tlie first nine ye;ifs at .Chapel Fold,
G.Toi Lane^) we will group together biblio-
grapliical notices of their successors.
In 1827 the REV. .JOHN BARLING, from
Hox'tion Apademy, Ijeciame lat^sistant to Mr.
Coc'rin, an-l nexc year took the sole charge.
"Be was ai man of much talent and virtue,
but having ultimately adopted Unitarian
sentiments, he relinquished Square Chapel in
1833, and went to Bristol, but returned shortly
afterwards to Halifax and attended Harrison
Road Chapel. I have a^ pamphlet, demy octavo,
ef vi. and 50 pagee, printed by Edward Bainee
and Son, Leeds, in 1827, as under: —
THE CHARGE ADDRESSED TO THE EEV.
JOHN BARLING,
at his Ordination over the Independent Church
Assembling in tiie Square Chapel^ Halifax.
By Richard Winter Ha^nilton. Published at
the request of the pastor and the people. In
the Halifax Free Library there are three
worlcfi by Mr. Barling .- —
(1). "Ai Review of Trinitarianism," octavo,
London, 1847;
(2). "Common Doctrines of the Atonement,"
being Two Lectures in the Unitarian Chapel,
Halifax, March 11th, and April 1st, 1849, Lon-
don, 1849;
(3.) "Leaves from my writing desk, being
Tracts on the Question — What do we know ?"
by an Old Student. [Rev. J. Barling.]
In Bradford Free Libraj-y there is an octavo
pamphlet dated 1856 by him, being a "Lecture
on behalf of the National Sunday League."
About 1854-6 he was ministering at the Norths
gate-end Chapel (Unitarian), Halifax. For
some time he lived at Wakefield^ and lastly
at Leeds where he died in 1882, but was buried
at Halifax.
In 1834 the REIV. ALEXANDER EWING,
M.A)., succeeded Mr. Barling, but on his ac-
cession eleveral of the members withdrew and
formed a new congregation in Harrison Road.
In 1839 he published a volume of discourses
on Socinianism. In 1846 he removed to Gos-
port, and two years later was succeeded by
the REV. ENOCH MELLOR, M.A.. who was
minister from 1848 to 1861, and returned from
his Liverpool charge in 1867. Amongst his
publications are the following: —
(1.) "The Atonement, its relation to pardon :
Aji argument and a Defence," by the Rev. E.
Mellor, M.A. Leeds, W. Slade, 1859, small
octavo, pages iii., amd 107.
The Argument was delivered to the West
Riding Congregational Union in 1858, and the
Defence was added in reply to the Rev. T.
HincJts, B.A., Unitarian Minister, of Leeds,
who had published three discourses controvert-
ing Mr. Mellor's address.
(2.) "Rituatlism and its Related Dogmas," is
a crown octavo volume, published at 4s. Its
topics are,— The Christian Ministry not a
priesthood and not an Apostolic Succession,
Baptism not Regeneration, the Lord's Table
not an Altar, Auricular Confession and Priestly
Absolution.
(3.) ''Personal Consecration. The Inaugural
Address delivered before the Autumnal As-
sembly of the Congregational Union of Eng-
land and Wales, Liverpool, October 13, 1863,"
by liitnoch Mellor, M.A., Minister of Great
George Street Cha.pel, Liverpool. London,
1863, 30 pages, orown octavo.
(4.) "Not your Own," by the Rev. E. Mellor,
M.A., a sermon preached on behalf of the
London Missionary Society, in Surrey Chapel,
May li2, 1858. Second edition, August, 1858, 40
pages, no publisher's or printer's name.
(5.) "Breaivers Ahead! Two Letters to the
Bishop of Ripon, by the Rev. E. Mellor, A.M.,
D.D., Halifax." Price 2d. Printed by Theak-
ston, Scarborough, demy 8vo.^ 16 pages, 3rd
edition, 24th thousand, 1873.
(6.) "Statd Churchism. Lectures and Letters
on the ^.bove subject, by the Rev. J. W.
Massingham, M.A., Warrington, and the Rev.
Enoch Mellor, M.A., Liverpool. Edited by
the Rev. Etooch Mellor, A.M." Huddersfield,
G Whitehead, 1886, 112 pages, demy octavo.
A Liberation Society meeting was held in
Huddersfield, at which Mr. Mellor was one of
three speakers, and Mr. Massingham, the
Church Defence Agent, afterwards gave a re-
ply in Huddersfield. This was followed by Mr.
MelJor's reply. A second reply came from Mr.
MajSsingham, and the pamphlet represents the
whole discussion. Th'e version published by
the Huddersfield Church Institute had been
issued before Mr. Mellor's pamphlet, namely—
The Liberation Society:
Three Lectures delivered in the Philosophical
Hall, Huddersfield: —
HAIilFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
(1 ) February 20. 1866, by Mr. Maeeingham.
(2.) March 20, 1866, by Mr. Mellor.
(8 ) by Mr. Maesingham.
Hiicldei-.'^field, George Harper, (1866), 85 pages,
demy octavo. , . t
(7 ) "Clerical Subscription, m reply to Leo-
tures on the Kevision of the Liturgy, by the
Kev C. .1. Vaughan, D.D.," London. 1862.
(8) "Verbatim Eeport of a Sermon on the
Mora' Leseons of Muller's Life." Liverpool,
1664. A copy is in Halifax Frt^e Library.
(9.) "Priesthood in the Light of the Mew
Test.n.menh" 3rfl edition, crown 8vo., aiso
demv 8vo. ,,
(10.) "Living Trees by Living Waters, a
tract. 1856.
(11.) "Why Meddle?"
(12) "Priesthood," 1875.
(13.) "The Hem of Christ's garment, and other
sermons " 1882.
(14.) "Sermon on the Death of Sir Francjs
Crossley," pamphlet, 1872.
(15.) "Life and Character of Enoch Mellor,
D.D." The nett proceeds to be devoted to Dr.
Mellor's Memorial Wing ait Eange Bank, Hali-
fax. Deighton Brothers, 14 pages, crown 8vo.,
woodcut of the new Square Church. This is a
'paper' read to the Young Men's Society by
Abra'ham Nicholl, from which we learn that
Enoch Mellor wa.<=' born ajt Saleudine Nook,
near Huddersfield, November 20th, 1823, aiul
was the son of a woollen manufacturer. Mr.
Wright Mellor, J.P., ex-mayor of Hudders-
field, was Enoch's brother. From Huddcrs-
field College he went to Edinburgh TJiiiverrity,
and made marked progress under Sir Willi nra
Hamilton particularly. After five years there,
he entered the Independent College, Manches-
ter, for two years, and came to Halifax in
1(548. The honorary D.D. from Edinburgh was
granted to him in 1870. He died October 26th,
IbuA.
"The Christian Standard Bearer. In
Memoriam. -ftev. Enoch Mellor, D.D. A Ser-
mon preached in Square Chapel, Halifax, on
Sunday, October 30, 1881. by Rev. .J. G.
Eogers. B.A. London, octavo, 31 pages.
A portrait of Dr. Mellor, "the greatest con-
troversialist who ever resided in Halifax." ap-
peared in the ''Sunday at Home," July. 1882.
"The History of Balaam" (1869); "The Divine
Culture of a Human Life" (1876), are two pub-
lications issued by the EEV. WILLIAM
EOBMRTS, who occupied the pulpit of Square
Church from 1862 to 1866. He had been train-
ed at Hackney College, and catme from South-
ampton to Halifax, after which he settled at
Upper Hollowav, and later at Salisbury.
The KE;v. EEIC ADAMS LAWRENCE suc-
ceeded at Squa.re Church in 1881. He left
Spring Hill College in 1876 for Birmingham
(Steelhouse Lane Chapel.) He published a
sixteen-mo pamphlet, London, 1891, on ''Wh.".t
is a Christian Church? and why should i ]oin
oner' A second edition was issued soon after-
wards. He has also published "The Dislir. -
tive Witness of Congregationalism, an addro:r,
delivered from the chair of the Yorkshiio
Congregational Union, April 6, 1897." (Print-
ed also in the usual Year Book.)
"The Glory of the Throne, a sermon preach-
ed in Square Church, Halifax, in Commemorr.-
tion of Her Majesty's Accession, June, 1837."
In 1905 he removed to St. Anne's.
The REV. JOHN HETSTEY JOWETT, of
Airedale College and Mansfield College, Oxford,
M.A. of Eidmburgh, became minister at JNew-
oastle in 1889, and removed to Birmingham in
1895. Ho has published several religious
works, and is a prolific writer to numerous
magazines. He entered the ministry from
Square Chapel.
"The History of Square Road Congregational
Church, Halifax. A paper by G. P. Wadsworth.
Reprinted from the "Halifax Courier," Dec-
ember, 1889;" thirty pages octavo, includes a
zincograph view of the new church; printed
by Women?dey, Halifax.
"S.S.S.— Square Sunday School. A Short
History compiled by George Priestley Wads-
worth. Issued in connection with the Ee-
Union of Old Scholars, March 14, 1903." Ee-
print of plate of the "Independent Chapel in
Halifax," and 23 pa^ges octavo. The Mixeuden
School is reftrretl to a,s existing befoi-e Eobert
Eaikes established his school in Bristol; which,
as in the case at Gildersorae, ought to be
further investigated. In 1784 three years after
Eaikes' establir-hment, the "Leeds Intelligen-
cer," August 3rd, latates there were six hun-
dred children in attendance from probably
twenty schools. In 1802 the schools had
dwindled away, and in 1804 Square School was
esta.blished. In 1820 the Halifax Sunday
School Union was started, and in 1831 their
finst Sunday School .Jubilee was held. The
Square School had 1>rauches at Caddy Field
and Highiioad Well, besides giving aicl to the
Schools at Norwood Green and Bramley Lane
in 1833. The second " Jubilee " was held in
1836, when 1600 teachers and scholars were pi-e-
sent. Theise gatherings were held -n the Piece
Hall. In 184J, Square Sunday School was
built, and a Day-School established under Mr.
Jennings. The pamphlet gives interesting re-
cords for each year dow7) to 1903. It was
printed by Womersley, Northgate.
The congregation at Square Chapel have
kept iTp the home-missionary spirit, by suc-
couring weak causes at Eange Bank and Union
Croft. The nimistere at Eange Bank have in-
cluded the Eevs. John Fopkins. B. Bond.
Cha>>. Illingworth, Wm. Ad;ims, George Lock
(1872-1880). who removed to Fordiugbridge iu
HantiS., Samuel Knowles (1891-7), now of Bee-
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
89
ford, near Driffield, but none of tliem, so far
as I know, has issued any publication.
Samuel (ireenwood Jowett wa/S for six jeare
a town niiSi-tionary in Halifax, and became Con-
gregational Minister at Windhill in 1883. He
removed to Kirkbymoorside in 1892, and to
South Cave in 1901. He is a native of Hull.
His only separate publications are "A Mem-
orial Sermon preached in Windhill Indei)endent
Chapel, by S. G. Jowett, on Sunday, March
6. 1881."' Bradford, J. M. Jowett, printer,
I88I1, ten pages, octavo, and a broad sheet of
verses on the Windhill Sundav School.
UJMUN CROFT, QUEENSBURY.
Queensbury is a modern name, and the
village ibself is not much older than the name,
though there has been a well-known scattered,
desolate hamlet there for a long period, named
Queenshead after the public-house where
carters and travellers were accustomed to
rest on their toilsome journeys over the moun-
tainous region. The public-house sign bore
the piature of Queen Anne's head, I believe,
and the name of the village vras changed in
1863. We shall have our earliest literary
notice of the localitj- in writing of the General
Baptist Chapel, which was built here in 1773.
when the Rev. Dan Taylor's brother became
the minister, see ''Memoirs of the Rev. John
Taylor, late Paetor of the General Baptist
Church at Queenshead, near Halifax," 1821.
Before the erection of the Baptist. Chapel
the then scattered inhabitanti?^ had no place
of worship for nonconformists nearer than
Thornton. The Methodist New Connexionists
erected a chapel at Ambler Thorn, and in
1842 the Union Croft chapel was built, chiefly
by a number of seceders from the New Con-
nexion, on the expulsion of Joseph Barker,
at the Halifax Conference in 1841, because of
certain publications he had issued. The
Rev. William Trotter, afterwards a welcome
preacher and orator at the Barkerite Chapel
on Rastrick Common, and many years after-
wards at the Brethren's Meeting Rooms at
Slead Syke and Brighouse, left the Connexion
because he thought Mr. Ba.rker had been
harshly treated. Mr. Joseph Barker preached
at the opening of Union Croft Chapel, but
soon afterwards became an avowed unbeliever
and political agitator, so never preached again
at Union Croft. He published numeroUB
works at VVortley, near Leeds (where he had
a printing press,) at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and
in America. He first emigrated there in 1851,
and after some years and many mental con-
flicts he returned, and became an evangelist,
preaiching chiefly among,«t the Primitive
Methodist^i. ^e died at Omaha. Nebraska
(U.S.A.), Ste-ptember 15, 1875. "The Life of
Joseph Barker, written by himself/' was is-
sued in 1880, and a most interesting volume it
is. Union Croft Chapel has been "Independ-
ent" from the first, and the congregation has
never been decidedly anxious to appoint per-
manent settled ministers. They officially style
their community the Union Croft Congrega-
tional Church, but for many years it was
partially euceoured by the congregation at
Square Chapel, Halifax. The first settled
minister was appointed from July 1st, 1855,
by assistance from the West Riding Gongrega-
tional Society, when the Rev. John William
Rolls, who left Cotton Eind Academy in 1842,
came here from Kirby Moorside. The debts
of <£2(K) on the chapel and ,£300 on a minister's
house newly erected were cleared off. Mr.
Rolls' wife is buried at Union Croft. He re-
moved in 1860 to Roxton, Bedfordshire, and
some years later retired to Croydon. His lab-
ours at Union Croft ceased in October, 1859.
The Rev. John Marples succeeded at Union
Croft in July, 1860. He had been previously
at Sheffield and West Burton, and left Union
Croft in Aaigust, 1863, to minister at Darlas-
ton in Staffordshire. For some time lay
preachers and Airedale Students filled the pul-
pit, the chief burden resting on the deaoone
of Sqiiare Chapel, who finally arranged to
couple it with their branch congregation at
Range Bank.
In 1868 the Rev. Charles Illingworth, a
native of Idle, and author of a prize essay
(never printed) on "Working M>en and the
Sabbath," became minister of Range Bank and
Union Ci-oft. He had been a town missionary
some years, and had held the Wyke pastorate
from 1853. After two yeatns he left Union
Croft and Range Bank to take charge of
James Parson's famous chapel, Lendal, York,
1870. After retiring from York he had charge
of Ravenstonedale Chapel. 1887-97. There he
die-, but is buried at the Upper Chapel, Idle.
The A.ev. William Adams, from Peter-
boroiTgh, was the next minister at Union Croft,
but he removed to Luddenden Foot about two
years later, and the Rev. Hugh Kelso, who
came from Market W'eighton in 1873, was the
netit^. He had been pTetviously min.lster at
Donaghy Independent Chaipel, County Tyrone.
In mid-life he was enabled to retire from busi-
ness at Stewartstown on a competency, and
he gave his laboiii-s to village preaching dur-
ing the Irish Revivail. For some time he
studied at Belfast, and he returned to Don-
aghy, the cause he had established, and re-
mained there eleven years. He left Union
Croft in 1873 owing to failing health and
died at Holy wood (Belfast, — the rival of Hali-
fax and the Scotch Holywood as the birthplace
of John de Sacro Bosco,) January 15, 1878.
The Rev. John Ha,rtl6y was minister at
Union Croft from 1893 to 1896, and then left
to take charge of a church in the United
States of Aimerica. There has been no suc-
cessor up to the present.
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HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
LX-SION CHAPEIL MINISTERS.
HALIFAX.
Sion Chapel had been built by the frieiidB
of D;«vicl liaiiaelough, wlio i-c'iiioved to Stain-
land. They were seceders from th© Weeleyan
Methodists. The followers of Joanna South-
cott neL\t occupied the place, but on their de-
olino in 1815, a section of tlie nicnibens of
Square Chapel, by mutual arraaigt^nont, began
a second Independent cause in Halifax, and
engaged tbe buildinj,' for two years. In 1816
tlie chapel was purchased, and re-arranged,
and the REV. EDWARD PAKSONS, junior,
of Homertou College, was invited in 1817 to
the pastorate. He was ordained in 1818, and a
new chapel was luilt in 1819. In 1S26 he re-
moved to Weigh Houw) Chapel, London, but
only reniiiiine<l there two years, and then re-
turned to Leeds, where he was editor of the
"Leeds Times." He afterwards became minis-
ter at Bow and Mile-Eind, London, and died
iu December, 1814. He was the son of the Rev.
Edward Parsons, of Leeds, an author and
minister of great repute, who died in the Isle
of Man in 1833. The Rev. James Parsons, of
York, was brother of the Halifax minister.
The publications of Edward Parsons, junior,
or relating to him, are: —
(1.) PEIRVICES
At the Ordination of the
REV. EDWARD PARSONS, Junior,
At Halifax. April 8, 1818.
The Introductory Discourse,— Rev. J. Reynolds.
Tlie Charge to the Ministers,— Rev. E. Parsons.
The Sermon to the People.— Rev. W. Roby.
Halifax. P. K. Holden, Old Market Place,
1818, demv octa(VO, pages iii., 82.
The Revs. R. W. Hamilton, W. Vint, T.
Hawkins, and S. Bell also officiated.
(2.) Maxims for the Members of a Christian
Church. 1818.
(3.) Selection of Hymns designed as a Siap-
plement to Dr. Watts' Book. Halifax, 1819.
Third edition, 1828.
Halifax Selection of Hymns intended as a
Supplement to Dr. Watts' Psalms and Hymns.
Halifax, 1831. (See Rev, Robert Bell's edition.)
(4.) A Sermon on the Death of George III.,
delivered FebruaaT 16, 1820. Halifax, Holden,
Old Market Place, 1820, 8vo., 35 pages.
(5.) Remarks on the Doctrine of Predestina-
tion. Halifax, 1821. A copy is in the Halifax
Free Library; I have copies of the rest, and of
this as Appendix to No. 7 below.
(6.) History of St. Bartholomew's Day.
Halifax, 1834.
(7.) Justification, by Faith and Works illuB-
trated. A Discourse with copious Notes and
References; by Edward Parsons, junior.
Halifax, T. Walker, 1821, demy octavo. 60
pages with Appendix, containing Remarks on
Predestination, &c., 12 pages, in which he re-
fers to a sermon preached in Halifax, and
published by its author, Abraham Scott,
V.D.-NL (Verb. Dei Min., Minister of the Word
of God.)
(H.) Laws and Regulations of the Church of
Christ assembling in Sion Chapel, Halifax,
agreed to at a Church Meeting held August
nth, 1825.
1 have a demy octavo pamphlet that may be
mentioned in connection with Mr. Parsons'
"Justification, &c.,' namely, "The Doctrines
called Calvinistic, stated and illustrated, in
answer to the Rev. Edward Parsons. By
-.Draham Scott. Printed for the author, 1821,
Newcastle, 55 pages.
Mr. Parsons on returning to Le>ed6, besides
editing the "Leeds Times." published a His-
tory of Lee<l8, Bradford, Halifax, &c.. in the
West Riding," in two demy octavo volumes.
1834.
The Elvangelical Magazine for February,
1821, announced his intention of publishing
a History of Nonconformity in the West Rid-
ing of Yorkshire, but this was never issued.
His History of Leeds, Halifax &c., gives tiag-
ments. Portraits of the following Halifax
ministers may be found in the "Evangelical
Magazine":— Titus Knight (1793), Joseph
Cockin (1794 and 1829), John Cockin (1810),
Edward Parsons, junior, (1826), James Pridie
(1843).
The REV. JAlMElS PRIDIE, from Pendleton,
Manchester, succeed to the pastorate at S'ion.
Halifax, in 1829, and resigned in 1858. From
1855 he had as a co-pastor his siiccessor. I
am not aware of any publications by him,
nor bv his successor the REV. CHARLES
SMITH STURROCE:, B.A., of Spring Hill
College, who was ordained in January, 1856,
resigned in March, 1862, and died in 1864. He
was born at Leith in 1828. In 1863 he was
minister at Leamington, but his health further
declined, and in March, 1864 he died and was
interred at Edinburgh.
In May, 1863. the REV. BRYAN DALE,
M.A., of V/esitern College and London Uni-
versity, removed from Coggeshall Congrega-
tional Church, Essex, to Halifax. For eome
years he has resided in Bradford and actively
served the denomination as Secretary to the
Yorkshire Congregational Union, having for
many years edited the Yorkshire Congrega-
tional Year Book. Before coming to Halifax
he published the History of the Congregational
Church at Coggeshall, and no one is his equal
in ability to write the greatly-desired Congre-
gational History of Yorkshii-e. Sections, prov-
ing the truth of this assertion, have already
appeared as under : —
(1.) "Jubilee Memorial of Sion Chapel and
Schools (Halifax), together with an introduc-
tory sketch of the Rise and Progress of Evan-
gelical Nonconformity in the Parish of Hali-
fax; by Bryan DaJe, M.Ai." Halifax. Simpson
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
91
and Tiffany, Crossley Street, 1867; demy oc-
tavo, 104 pages. From this book we learn that
from Sion there have entered the ministry: —
John Holker (of Clayton West, 1825, Peniston
1830, Clayton West again, 1835-1847); John
Denniston (of Wakefield, 181-0, Knottingiey
1845, died 1859, aged 59); Joseph Gaukroger
(born at Halifax in 1822, ministered at Gain-
ford and Appleton Wiske, became
school-master at Northovvram, and died
November 27, 1866, and some verses by him
may be seen in Mr. Dale's book); John Hodg-
son, (of Lancashire College in 1843, minister
at Oldham); Charles Hargreaves, (Airedale
College, to South Creak© in Norfolk, in 1846);
Thomas Hartley (to Sedbergh in 1864); John
Naylor, B.A., a Missionary to Calcutta, but
settled at Kenilworth); H. W. Holder. Al.A.,
W. H. Brearley, A. F. Bulmer, and F. Eilson.
Probably some of thes^e have issued books or
pamphlets.
(2.) "Lord Wharton and his Bible Charity,"
by Bryan Dale, M.A., Bradford, [1897.] 36
pages, demy octavo.
(3.) "The Good Lord Wharton: His Family
Life, and Bible Charity." By Bryan Dale,
M.A. London. 1901, demy octavo, pages iv.,
140, with frontispiece portrait of Philip, Lord
Wharton.
In these books we have clearly proved to us
the neglect and want of concentrated force in
old Independency in allowing this valuable
nonconformist charity to drift completely out
of their hands. Lady Hewley's charity is a
similar Yorkshire instance.
(4.) ''Bramhope Chapel," by Rev. Bryan
Dale, M.A. Bradford, 1898, 12 pages, demy
octavo, with three plates inserted.
(5.) "The OriginaJ Home of the Pilgrim
Fathers," by Br3an Dale, M.A Bradford,
1901, 277 pages demy octavo, with two plates
inserted.
(6.) "Historical Sketch of Early Noncon-
formity in the City of York," by Bryan Dale,
M.A. York, [1904,] octavo, 29 pnges.
(7.) "A History of Congregationalism in
Flockton, Yorkshire," by Bryan Dale, M.A.
Leeds, [1902,] 23 pages, crown octavo.
(8.) Christmas and New Year Greetings;
leaflets in poetry issued several years.
(9.) "John Wiclif, the Evangelical Doctor
and Morning Star of the Reformation"; Hali-
fax. 1881.
(iJ.) ''The Dark Valley, a Sermon on the oc-
casion of the Decease of John Baldwin, Esq.,
J.P., Clay House, preached in Sion Chapol,
Halifax, August 1st, 1869."
Other Sermons, Papers and Books by Mr.
Dale, are as under: —
Ul.) Labor; or the Religion of Daily Life. A
Sermon. Coggeshall, 1856.
(12.) Manly Principles for Young Men; illus-
trated in the Life and Death of Thomas
Hawkes, martyred in Coggeshall June 10th
1555. 1857.
(13.) Boaz and the Reapers. A Harvest Ser-
mon. Coggeshall, 1860.
(14.) The Public Charities of Coggeshall, 1861.
(15.) The Celebration of the Bicentenary of the
Ejected Nonconformist Ministers in Essex, 1862.
(16.) The Annals of Coggeshall, otherwise
Sunnedon, Essex. J. R. Smith, London, 1863.
(17.) The State of the Continent in relation
to Religious Liberty and Christian Etiort.
Paper before the Congregational Union at
Manchester, 1867.
(18.) Manuals of the Church and Congregation
assembling in Sion Chapel, Halifax, 1864-1886.
(19.) Sion Penny Magazine, 1871-2.
(20.) Popular Primary Education. Address at
a Conference of the West Riding Congregation-
al Union at Bradford, April 7, 1868.
(21.) A New Catechism for u(se in FamilieB
and Schools. Halifax, 1871,
(22.) Address from the Chair of the West
Riding Congregational Union at Sheffield.
April 8, 1872.
(23.) Catalogue of the Library of the Halifax
Literary and Philosophical Society ( a volume
done almost entirely bv himself, when Presi-
dent, 1873-4.)
(24.) The Church Aid Society. Address at the
Jubilee of the Congregational Union at Man-
chester, 1881.
\-j.) The Census in relation to Church Wor-
ship and Work. Paper before the Yorkshire
Congregational Union at Hull, 1882.
(26.) Attendance on Public Worship. Paper
before the Church Aid and Home Missionary
Society, July 5, 1882.
(27.) John Wiclif, the Evangelic Doctor and
Morning Star of the Reformation. Address to
Congregational Union on the Wiclif Quincen-
tenary Celebration, 1884.
(28.) "And Samuel died."_ A Funeral Sermon
for Mr. Samuel Roberts ' Halifax, 1885.
—Disestablishment Address at the Drill Hall,
Halifax, 19 November, 1885.
(29.) The Testimony and Sufferings of Non-
conformity in the Reign of Elizabeth. Lecture.
Congregational Union, 1888.
(30.) The Pulpit Commentary; I. Samuel
(1880), II. Samuel (1838); 325 Homilies on
Samuel, Saul and David.
(31.) The Yorkshire Congregational Year Book.
Edited with Reports, Obituaries and Articles
on Congregational History; 1886-1904.
(32.) Annals of Eva.ngelical Nonconformity in
the Parish of Halifax, in the Halifax and Dis-
trict Congregational Magazine, 1883-7; 39
Articles.
(33.|) Bicentemafl'y of Nonconformity in tihe
village of Newton in Bowland, Yorkshire, 18S6.
(34.) Papers in the Bradford Antiquai'y :
1. Shibden Dale and Sir Thomas Browne's
Religio Medici. 2. Cromwell in Yorkshire. 3.
92
HAIilFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
i\on-Paroohial Registers iu Yorkshire. 4.
James Nayler "The Mad Quaker." 5. Minis-
tere in Parish Churches and Cliapelis during
the Puritan Revolution. 6. Ditto in Bradford.
7. Ditto Round about Bradford.
^3o.) The Pilgrims of the Unibria ; being a
Rhyme of their visit to Boston at the Congre-
gational International Conference, 1899.
(36.) The History of the Halifax Permanent
Benefit Building Society. London, 1903.
(37.) Odd Church Roll (Hull), from "York-
ahine County Magazine,'' reprint. Besides ser-
mons and articles in Magazines and various
Poems.
The REV. ARCHIBALD JOHNSTONE, of
Springhill College, removed from Sion Chapel
to Richmond, in Surrey, 1901.
The REV. GEORGE JOHN WILLIAMS, of
Hackney College, became minister of Sion in
1902.
LXL— SOME MORE CONGREGATIONAL
MINISTERS, HALIFAX.
OLD HARRISON ROAD :
A Hudy of Origins,
By Thomas Key worth,
Author of ''The Narcsborough Victory," Al-
lan Dunsto/n," "A Long Delay," "Granny's
Boy," "Comrades Onoe." Halifax, Mortimer,
1894, small octavo, 64 pages, with woodcut
frontispiece of the chapel.
This book is based largely on a manuscript
written by the Rev. J. Comper Gray in 1866.
Amongst the earlieet founders of this branch-
split from Square Chapel were Mr. Ely Bates,
J.P., who married Hannah, daughter of the
Eev. Joseph Cockin; Mr. James Hoateon, who
married her sister Martha; Mr. William
Birtwhistle, bookseller in Northgate, who died
July 25, 1802, aged .73; Mr. Joseph Cockin
Hoaitson, son of James, whose name will occur
with the Rev. Robert Bell as editors of a Hali-
fax Hymn Book, died 1863; Miary Cockin
(daughter of the Rev. Joseph Cockin), who
died July 2, 1862, aged 76; William Birtwhistle,
woolsorter, ohoir master and composer, who
died February 18, 1866, aged 57, having
published a miisical rendering of " Lead
Kindly Light"; Joseph Priestley, saddler, who
entered Airedale College and became minister
at Smallbridge, near Rochdale, removing to
Birmingham; Framcis Ullathorne Gledhill,
schoolmaster, who went to New Zealand in
1851, •.tnd died there about 1883. aged 80, a
prominent man in the House of Representa-
tives; and others, but how far aiitliors we
haiv© to discover. The Chapel was opened
July 19. 1837, by Dr. R. W. Hamilton, of Leeds,
who had laid the foundation stone. The REV.
JOHN MELSON OBERY, M.A.. was the nrst
minister, June, 1838, to November, 1849, when
he removed to Woodford, Essex. He died at
Kensington, April \ti, 1858, aged 15. Three
young men joined the ministry during his time
from Harrison Road, — Joseph Priestley, George
Hoatson, who entered Rotherham College in
1815, died in Victoria, Australia, 1894, James
Leonard, B.A., only a casual Halifax resident.
Mr. Samuel Smith, afterwards of Bradford,
who published the well-known Chant Book,
and Tune Book, attended Harrison Road. At
this point Mr. Keyworth's book comes to a
close.
Mr. Obery was a native of Walsall, born
1813, and his training and personal qualifica-
tions were of the highest character, being a
refined and elegant scholar with clear and
powerful utterance. I have no pamphlet of
his. He had been educated at Highbury Col-
lege, 1833, Glasgow University. 1835. He re-
moved tio Woodford in Etesex, and died m
April, 1858. He was buried at Brompton.
The REV. PETER RUSSELL WILLANS,
born at Leeds, Aiugust 24, 1824, succeeded to
the pulpit in May, 1850, but his health gave
way in 1855. and he died at York, July 25,
1863, aged 38. I have a book he edited: The
States System of Europe, being a course of
Lectures exposing "Modern Functionaryism and
Diplomacy, by Dr. R. Solger. Edited by Rev.
P. K. Willans. Halifax, T. and W. Birt-
whistle, Northgate, 1854; pp. xxiii., 124 octavo.
The REV. JOHN CLUNIE MoMICHAEL, of
Rotherham College, born at Bridgnorth in
1817 settled at Farnworth 1847, Staleybridge m
1853; came to Halifax from Staleybridge in
January 1856, left for Geelong, Victoria,
October, 1858, and retired to Norwood, near
Adelaide. He died at Kapunda in February,
1898.
The REV. JAMES COMPER GRAY, of
Rotherham College, settled at Halifax in
January, 1859. In July, 1873, he removed to
Arley Chapel, Bristol. He died in 1904 iu
South uAifrica. He was author of '' The'
Class amd the Desk, a Manual for Sunday
School Teachers"; 4 vols., 12mo., 1867.
Topics for Teachers.
The Biblical Museum.
The Sunday School World.
The Hive, or Storehouse, for Sunday
School Teachers.
In March 1875, the REV. GEORGE SAMUEL
SMITH, from Airedale College, who removed
in June, 1885, to Gosport. Mr. Smith will
again be noticed under Sowerby Bridge.
The REV. THOMAS KEYV/ORTH is the
present ministor. Besides the six books men-
tioned, he has issued four books: — A Treacher-
ous Calm; Infra Dig; Temperance Tales;
Dick the Newsbo.y; Oiud four pamphlets: —
Liverpool Amnsemputs; Christian Sailor Boy;
Only Just Sober; Children, but Di;~ciples.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AFTHORS.
93
PARK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
The three congregational churches of the
town of Halifax united to establish a fourth
society in the ir'ark district in 1864, but it was
1868 before the Church was erected, and open-
ed in February, 1869. The first minister was
the REIV. JOHN BARTLETT, of New College,
London, who came from Worcester in October,
1870, and removed to Nottinghatm in Novem-
ber, 1875 and London in 1883. His successor,
the REV. JOHN RENSHAW BAILEY, came
in June, 1878. He was a native of Cheshire,
and cam© to Halifax from Carlisle. He pub-
lished, besides "Progressive Congregational-
ism," 1892, "Old Fashioned Lines,'' 1896,
several sermons including two or three funeral
sermons. His pastorate terminated March,
1893. The REV. F. HENRY BLANCHFORD
was minister from April, 1894, to September,
1898. He removed to Ilkley. He issued a
pamphlet in 1893, the ''Bicentenary of Kidder-
minster Meeting House."
The REV. ALLEN DENNIS JEEFERY be-
came minister in June, 1900. Like many other
churches a manual is now issued yearly. The
one for 1904 has a woodcut o£ the church on
the title page. This year book is printed by
F. King and Sons, Limited, Halifax.
STANNARY CHAPEL
This cause is an off-shoot from Sion Chapel,
because of differences on the temperance ques-
tion.
The ministers have been : the REV. GEORGE
THOMPSON, 1871 to 1880. He was educated
at Rotherham College; ministered at Dundee^
1865, Mexborough, 1867. He removed to City
Road in 1880, Eastbourne, 1891, where he still
resides. The REV. KEITH WALDBN was at
Stannary from 1881 to 1893, and the REV.
THOMAS MAINE (who was educated at Raw-
don College), 1895 to 1902; he had previously
been at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 1891, and is now
in Leeds. He was succeeded by the REV.
ALBERT BAGE in 1903, who had previously
been the Primitive Methodist Minister at
Shipley.
HEATH CHAPEL.
The Rev. Robert Harley, M.A., F.R.S., who
was for a short time at Heath, May, 1892, to
May, 1895, will be referred to under IBrighouse.
The Rev. George Ward Siddall, from Western
College, who had been at Teignmouth from
1888 and in Newfoundland in 1891, oame to
Heath, 1896, July, and left in March, 1904.
Mr. Sykes, of Hornsea^ a native of Hudders-
field, succeeded in 1905.
LXIL— NORTHGATB CHAPEL, HALIFAX.
Nonconformity her© had its origin in ihe
Puritamism of Dr. Favour and his Lecturers
at the Palish Church — Mr. Boys, Mr. Bar-
low, and later Mr. Eli Bentley^ Mr. Robert
Booth, Mr. John Wayte, all of whom have
been previously noted, and a few others re-
main to be noticed. William Aulbe, an as-
sistant to Vicar Ramsden, 1631, and Mj.
Cranidge, assistant to Mr. Wayte, were men
of wide reputation, but I have not met with
any printed effusions by them. Michael
Briscoe vas a famous minister about 1640 at
the Halifax Monthly Etxercises; and the puri-
tanism of Halifax patrish is further evinced
by the remarkably large number of ministers
ejected in August, 16G2, in this parish, or who
were natives of the parish, or sought refuge
in the parish, some of whom afterwards con-
formed, and most of whom ai-e elsewhere
mentioned in these sketches: — Oliver Hey-
wood. Nathaniel Heywood, Henry Root, Tim-
othy Root, Samuel Marsden, Gamaliel Mars-
den, Jeremiah Marsden, Josiah Marsden, Eli
Bentley, Matthew Smith, John Robinson
William Ashley, Roger Kenion, Richard Coore,
Robert Town (senior), Robert Town (junior),
Jonathan Schofield. Joshua Whitfcon, Daniel
Greenwood, John Peebles, Nicholas Cudworth,
Josiah Holdsworth, Samuel Stancliffe, Edward
Hill, Henry Wilkinson (senior), Robert Armi-
tage^ Henry Wilkinson (junior), Joseph Daw-
son, and Joshua Ferrett.
To these twenty-nine probably a few more
m.ay be discovered, such as the Rev. Edmund
Hough, M-A., who afterwards conformed,
married the widow of the Rev. Eli Bentley
in 1679, and became Vicar of Halifax, as al-
ready stated. Another list may be compiled
of the natives of this parish and notably the
sons of these ministers^ who became the pulpit
successors of the ejected ministers. Mr. Eli
Bentley, as opportunity served, conducted
meetings in the house of his brother Timothy
in Halifax, and after the minister's death,
August 2, 1675, the congregation met at Old
Bank-top, with Oliver Heywood as the chief
promoter until 1688_ if not later, but in 1696
the new chapel was opened in Northgate End,
and Mr. Heywood having declined the over-
sight, the REV. NATHANIEL PRIESTLEY
wag chosen. He had been ordained two years
previously with Jonathan Wright, a native of
Hipperholme, who eistablished a society at
Hove Edge, where he died long afterwards.
Mr. Priestley married a daughter of John
Breaircliffe, apothecary, a Halifax antiquarian
author. Priestley was a man of excellent
abilities, an universal scholar, having a good
collection of books', so says the eccentric John
Dunton. He was invited to Mill Hill, Leeds,
but refused. He died September 5, 1728, and
94
HAWFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
was luried in Jlalifax Church, hi,* funeral
sermon being pr<>ached (at Northgate Chiipol)
by Heywooil's suoccissor, the Rev. Thoni.is
I>ickenson. Most of tlie time he was at
Northgate he had as a co-pastor (5n alternate
Sundays the BEV. EBLI DAWSON, of Horton,
son of the Rev. Joseph Dawson, of Shibaen,
and he similarly aisisisted at Horton. Air.
Daiwson continued as sole pastor at Halifax
from 1728 till his death in 1744.
In that j-^-ar the REV. SAMUEiL THREL-
KEILD, of Gla(>go\v University, came from
Penrith to NortKgate. His wife was aunt to
the mother of Wordsworth the poet, whose
poem ''Lucy Gray" was founded on a CaJder-
vale incident. Mr. Threlkeld died in 1766;
Mr. W. Rawson had married his daughter.
Thomas Threlkeld, his son, born April 12th.
1739, was five years of aige^ when brought to
Halifax. He was trained at Daventry anti
Warrington. In 1762 he succeeded the Rev.
Samuel Waiterhouse at Risley, near Warring-
ton. Mr. Waterhouse, who had been previous-
ly at Walmsley, died at Risley, July, 1762,
aged 54. In 1778 Mr. Thos. Threlkeld removed
to Rochdale, and died there Aipril 6, 1806. He
had a most marvellous memory, and knew the
Bible almost by heart, and oould state where
almost any passage could be found. He read
nine or ten la/nguages with profound and
critical skill. He was so short-sighted that
he dare not ride on hoirtseback because he
could not see the ground.
In 1767 the RElV. JOHN RALPH ( of Hoxton
College,) came here from Stamford, and died
here in 1795, aged 59. Mr. Stansfeld, M.P.,
was grandson of Mr. Ralph. The Rev. Wm.
Wood, of Leeds, published "A Sermon preacJi-
ed April 19, 1795, in Northgate Chapel, Hali-
fax, on the death of their late pajstor the Rev.
John Ralph"; Leeds, 19 pp., octavo, 1795. In
1775 a vestry library wag established. The
REV. THOMAS BROADHURST (of Hoxton
Academy) became minister in 1795 and removed
to Bath in 1797, when the REV. JOHN BlCK-
ERTON DBWHIRST, a native of Cotting-
liam, came for a^ few months, in 1798. The
REV. DR. JOHN JONES, author of a Latin
Grammar, and a Greek-Eaglish Lexicon, suc-
ceeded in 1802. His wife was the daughtecr of
Dr. Rees. Dr. Jones, a Welshman, had been
educated at Hackney, and was Socinian
minister at Plymouth, and also a private
tutor in Sir Samuel Romilly's family eome
years. On leaving Halifax he had an academy
in London until his death in 1827. In 1801
he published "The Eipistle to the Romans
analji'f'ed"; -in 1808, "Illustrations of the Four
Gospels"; and another work of his was "Ec-
clesiastical Researches."
In 1804 the REV. JOHN WILLIAMS came
from Norton in Derbyshire, and in 1810 or
1811 removed to Mainsfield. He published
"The Fidelity of Paul as an Apostle and
Minister of the Word: a Sermon (lolivered in
Northgate Eind Chapel, Halifax, April 28,
1811, by John Williams." Halifax, J. Nichol-
son for J. Milner, 8vo., 1811, demy octavo,
20 pages.
In 1812 the REV. RICHARD ASTLEY, of
York College, from Rochdale succeeded, and
removed to Gloucaster in 1826. He married
the only daughter of Mr. Samuel Hey~wood,
Nottingham, Oliver's descendant.
The next ministeo- was the REV. JOSEPH
ASHTON, trained at Manchester College, was
minister at Dukinfield 1814, Knutsford 1820
Halifax 1826, Whitby 1829, Preston 1830 to
1856. This ripe scholatr died in 1864.
JO'SHUAi DUNN, born at Stannary,
Halifax, became a student under Mr.
JoUie at Sheffield, biit his health failing,
he took to the study of phyisdo, and died at
Halifax, September 13, 1709, aged 25, as we
learn from his funeral sermon by Mr. Ash,
of Ashford. This is evidently the same man
who was a, student at Christ College, Cam-
bridge, whose Latin epitaph (written by the
blind Profe%3sor Sanderson) in Halifax Church,
may be found in Watson's book, and in my
"Halifax Families and Worthies."
In 1828 the REV. WM. TURNER, junior,
from York Academy, succeeded. AJl these
from Mr. Threlkeld'* time were more or less
Unitarians. From 1737 thei-e had been burials
at Northgaite. The Rev. William Turner,
junior, M.A.., was author of " Remaiks on
the commonly received Doctrine of
Atonement and Sacrifice," price 6d. ; two
editions before 1840. "The Day of the Lord:
a Sermon preached before the West Riding
Unitarian Tract Society at Wakefield, May
12th, and repeated on a similar occasion at
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May 30th, 1830, by
William Turner, junior, A.M." HaliTax, N.
Whitley, 1830, f.8 pages, demy octavo.
"Lives of Ekninent Unitarians, with aj
not'icf, of Dissenting Academies," by the Rev.
W. Turner, junior, M.A.; London, 1840, small
octavo, pages xi., 1-420.
This book gives an introductory sketch of
Unitarianism in Eingland from 1548, follows
on with Lives of .John Biddle, born 1615, and
eighteen others, but none of them connected
with Yorkshire. The volume, though not so
styled, is the first one, and in 1843, "Lives of
Eminent Unitarians," by the Rev. W. Turner,
junior, M-Ai., vol. ii., was issued as a com-
panion volume, pages iv, 1-452, which con-
tains fourteen Lives, including four that beair
on Yorkshire Church history, namely, Theo-
philus Lindsey, John Disney, William Turner
(of Wakefield, grandfather of Williaan, of Hali-
fax), and Joseph Priestley. The Rev. William
Turner, senior, succeeded the Rev. John
Aldred at Wakefield Chapel, in 1761, and pub-
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
95
lished seveia] wo^-ks. His son in 1782 be-
came minister .-^t Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where
ho haid a prosperous ministry.
William, the younger, was author of "Lec-
tures on Protestant Nonconfonnity," published
at 2s. rd., rexched a second edition before 1840,
and he had also published ''Thoughts on the
Doctrine of Original Sin, being the substance
of three sermons preached in the Presbyterian
Chapel, J^orthgate End, Hialifax. London,
1837." "The Eignt of Individual Inquiry and
Judgment," octavo, 1849, was the laf^t of his
that I have found. I may also mention the
Newcastle volume by his father though in no
wav conne(ited witi) Halifax: "SERMONS AND
0CCAS10N.\X ADDREiSSES, printed at the
request of the congregation in Hanover Square
Chapel, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with a view to
ccmmeiLorate his entramce on the .57th year
of his ministerial sei*vices among them," by
William Turner. Newcastle, 1839, demy oc-
tavo, pages xix., 1-396 The dedication is
dated Felfruary I, 1839, contents (19 sermons
apd 5 addresses). Subscribers includes half-a-
dozen Halifax names. The funeral sermon on
the death of the son was preached and pub-
lished by Edward Higginson, : — Eten>al Life
the Gift of God in Jesus Christ, a sermon
preached in Noirthgate End Chapel, Halifax,
Sunday^ January 9, 1854, on the occasion of
the death of the Rev. W. Turner. London,
1854. A copy maiy be found in Halifax Free
Library. As thei'e may be some confusion in
stating the pedigree of the Turners, the fol-
lowing outline is given: — Rev. John Turner,
born 1689, dissenting minister at Preston and
Walton; died at Kniatsford in October, 1737.
Rev. Wm. Turner, his son, born at Preston
in December 1714. He was LTnitarian minis-
ter a,t Wakefield more than thirty years, and
died in 1794. The Memoirs of the Life and
Writings of the Rev. Wm. Turner, of Wake-
field, were issued by the Rev. Wm. Wood.
The Rev. Wm. Turner, of Newoastle-on-Tyne,
was son of the Wakefield minister, and died
in 1859 aged 97. The son of this very aged
minister was the Rev. Wm. Turner, M.A.,
mathematical tutor at Manchester New Col-
lege (1809-27), and afterwards Unitarian minis-
ter at Halifax.
The REV. JOHN BARLING from Square
Chapel, Halifax, assisted Ml". Turner for some
time, aoid succeeded him in 18.54 but with-
drew in 1856, whea the REV. RUSSELL LANT
CARPEiNTER, B.A., took his place. He pub-
lished "Six Lectures on the Scripture Doctrine
of Reconciliation or Atonement, and connected
subjects." Halifax. 1860.
The REV. PERCY B^IKEWELL. B.A., of
Manchester New College, came to Halifax in
1865, Mr. Carpenter having left at Christmas,
1864. On Mr. Bakewell's resignation in 1868,
the REIV. THOMAS S. SMITH, from the same
college, succeeded l>ut left in 1871. In March,
1872, the REV. FRANCIS BNGL.\ND MILL-
SON, B.A., was the successor, and still minis-
ters there. Amongst his publications are: —
"Tenderness acd Trust, a Christmas Day
Sermon at Northgate End Chapel/' 1881.
"Are we Christians r Ai Sermon preached in the
Northgate End Chapel, Halifax, October 11,
1885, being the hiist of a series of sermons on
Ways of making a Christian Man." Halifax,
1885.
"Lessons on the Title Page and Table of
Contents of the English Bible." London, 1888.
"The Northgate Ehd Chapel Magazine/' seven
monthly numbers, January— July, 1886, 112
pages, octavo, printed by John Nicholson,
Northgate.
Mr. Millson issued in 1896 a small quarto
pamphlet, printed by Womersley, as under: —
A Bicentenary Memorial, or
Two Hundred Years of the Northgate End
Cha^pel, Halifax, A Sketch by the Rev. F. E.
Millson, with Illustrations by Mr. R, E.
Nicholson and MiT. H. R. Oddy, and Lists of
Ministers, Trustees, and Chapelwardens. Hali-
fax. 1896; pages 42, and 8 giving the Order of
Service.
LXIII.— BOOTH AND LUDDEiNDEN FOOT
MINISTERS.
It may be necessary to state that Booth is
a hamlet or district somewhere between Sal-
tonstall, Luddendenfoot and Warley. Further
directions may be got at one of those places.
Wesley and Whitefield, of Etvangelical renown,
formerly paid 'ccasional visits to Haworth,
Elwood, and Heptonstall, but the great apostle
of that locality in the eighteenth century was
William Grimshaw, of Haworth Church, who
often visited Caklerdale, where his son was
a, minister, and whero he himself lies buried.
JAiMES CROSSLEY, who was born at Lower
Saltonstall in Warley, in 1731, was one of the
many converts to Methodism, but was first
•dra\\ii by a powerful sermon at Heptonstall,
when the OTator Whitefield addressed a vast
out-door assembly. Crossley regularly trudged
the weary miles to Haworth Church, and Mr.
Grimshaw became strongly attached to him,
and recommended him as a preacher to Wesley.
The interview of Crossley and Wesley at
Haworth began the dividing line for they
both saw that Whitefield's teaching had gain-
ed theological guidance, so with seven others
Crossley gent out an appeal to Christians of
the neighbourhood to aid them to permanently
establish a religious society. For above two
years they had held services in a large room
at Upper Saltonstall, which became too limit-
ed for the congregations, and Mr. James
Crossley had already been chosen as the minis-
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ter. This appeal beiws the signatures of: —
Jrtm«ji Crossley, James OldfieUl, Reuben Cal-
vert, William Calvert, Joseph Ingham,
Kicharcl Webster, Robert Bufcterworth, Abel
Butterworth. In response a goodly subscrip-
tion came, in small amounts, aaid ground was
purchased at Booth from Jehu Midgley, and
a one-roomed building was erected, largely by
boon labour. Very shortly afterwaids the in-
crease demanded a gallery, tilien another, and
then a third. Mr. James Crossley preached at
the opening in the autiimn of 1761. In 1763
Mr. Crossley was ordained by the Rev. James
Soott, of Heckmondwike Academy, Rev. John
Edwards, of Leeds, and the Rev. Titus Knight
of Halifaix, who had been ordained the day
previously. Mr. Crossley, though only self-
educated, became a notable preacher through-
out the West Riding. He was author of two
pamphlets, but I have only one of them :
GOD'vS INDIGNATION AGAINST SIN,
manifested in the chastisements of his people;
])eing the substance of a* Sermon preached on
the occasion of the unhappy
DEIATH OF JAMEiS OLDFIELD,
who was executetl at TYBURN, near YORK,
Saturday, the 28th dav of April, 1770.
BY JAMEIS CROSLElY,
Minister of tlie Gospel at Booth, near Hali-
fax. (Published at the earnest request of
many of the hearers.) Halifax; printed by
E. Jacob, for the author, 1770. There is a
copy also in the Halifax Free Librairy, which
has also "Two sermons by the late Rev. Jametj
Crossley, Minister of the Gospel at Booth,
with a short aooount of his life." Colne, 1820.
The Oldfield pamphlet of forty pages not only
is a testimony of Mr. Crassley's literary
capacity and biblicail knowledge, but is in-
teresting locally as it shews the indifference of
the public at that time as to the morality of
coining and uttering counterfeit money. James
Oldfield was an officiaj at Booth, possibly the
siame as number two of the eight founders of
the chapel. We may note also the indiffer-
ence of the period in the spelling of names
where one 9 is used for Crosley. James Old-
field had been clerk at Booth Chanel, and be-
ca,me entangled with a gang of coiners, that
district (Turvin in particular) being notorious
in the counterfeiting bueiness. I have not
seen the second pamphlet printed by Mr.
Crossley. It was the charge given at the or-
dination of the REIV. JOHN CALVERT, at
Chesterfield, and is said to contain very clear
and scriptural views of a minister's duties.
This John Ciaivert was born and brouglit up
near Booth, as also another JOHN CALVERT,
who for some time was a local preacTier
amongst tlie New Connexion Methodists here
and a,t ABhton, but in 1808, visiting his re-
lative the Rev. J. Calvert of Kipping, near
Bradford, he was induced by him to enter
Vint's Academy at Idle, for four years. After
this term he served at Grassington six years,
Colne ten years, Morley nineteen yea,rs, and
died in 1817, aged 60 years. DANIEL CAL-
VERT, brother tf this John, al&o was train-
ed at Idle 1818-18211, then undertook Wetherby
with Tadoiister cause two or three years, next
Tosside in Craven, sixteen years, next Calder-
brook, near Rochdale, where he died, but is
buried at Booth.
In 1782, May, Mr. Crassley was induced to
remove to Horton Lane Chapel, Bradford, but
preaolied only one Sunday. He died suddenly
May 19th, 1782, a,ged 51, and was buried at
Booth, when Joseph Cockin preached his
funeral sermon. See also Life of John Fawcett,
D.D., page 121.
JOHN TOOTHILL, who was born at Wils,
den, April 25, 1760, in the same house as his
cousin, the Rev. Jonathan Toothill, of Hopton,
was chosen minister at Booth, and began his
w ork in January, 1783. He had been trained
under Mr. Soott, at Heckmondwike. In
1786, August, he removed to Rainford, where
he laboured over fifty years, and died July
23, 1839, aged 79 years. He often delivered
discourses at the cixlination of Lancashirie
Ministers. The REV. JOSEPH SOWDEfN, a
Oornishman, born 1745, from Morley Chapel
came to Booth n 1787, but removed to
Sowerby in February, 1794, next to Warrii'g-
ton, and in 1801 to Bolton, in 1813 to Black-
burn, where he died June 22, 1822, aged 76.
MR. JONAS HINCHCLIFFE, a Northowram
Student, a native of Lidget, near H(>lmfi\lh,
born 1764, came to Booth in 1794, but in 1801
left a divided congregation to go to Hasling-
den. He returned to Yorkshire, to Allerton
Chapel; afterwards joined the General Baptists
at Horton. He 'iied November 7, 1833, aged
68, and was buried at Booth. MR. JOSEPH
POLLARD in 1802 succeeded at Booth He
was bom at Bradford in 1766, of Unitarian
parents, became a soldier in the 23rd foot
legiment, but purchased his release, became
local preacher amongst Independents, and
ways ordained at Booth, and he died there
October 27, 1825, and a shoi-t memoir of him
appears in the Evangelical Magazine, July,
1826.
MR. JOHN NEWELL, from Idle Amdemy,
succeieded at Booth in 1826, and was ordained
in 1829, but strife soon began, and a law-suit
followed which ended in favoitr of the con-
gregation in 1835. A new chapel had been
built in 1828. MR. REUBEN CALVERT,
brother of the two Calverts already ministers,
youngest of nine children, was born at Warley,
October 2, 1806. After four years at Idle
Academy he settled at Upper Mill, Saddle-
worth, 1832. In 1841 he moved to Hyde, where
he died, December 19, 1856. Also MR. JONA-
THAN CALVERT settled as minister at
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Ipfiwieh and Beecles. 1876; and MR.
THOMAS GREENWOOD at Tunstall; both
from Booth. The Rev. Thomas Greenwood
was born at Booth, near Halifax, .Iialy, 1843.
He minist*>red at Tosside, near Settle, eighteen
months, and Belthorn, near Blackburn, 1870-2,
before entering Nottingham Institute for two
years. In 1874 he settled at Westwood, Notts.,
and in 1876 at Hednesford, Staffs., where he
remained six years. After two years at Tun-
stall he went to KeyAvorth, Notts., in March,
1884, and died there suddenly the same month.
The REV. JOSEPH MASSEY came from
Hyde to Booth in 1836. Though a native of
Blackburn, born 1798, he Avas trained at Idle,
1822-6. After ten years at Hyde, he spent
nearly five at Booth, dying December 8th, 1840.
A notice of him will be found in Abi-am's
Blackburn Independency, and in the Evangeli-
cal Magazine. 1811, compiled from his auto-
biography.
In August, 1812, the REV. DAVID JOXER,
a Student from Idle, succeeded. In 1846 MR.
WILLIAM THOMA.S was sent to Rotherham
College, and afterwards became minister at
Ryecroft in Ashton-under-Lyne, for five years,
College Chapel, Bradford, and in 1861 Queen
Street, Leeds. He was born at Shaw Booth,
Ootober, 1822; died at Leeds, Septem.ber Iflth.
1896. There is ni doubt some of these minis-
tsers and natives were authors of published
pamphlets, and their names may lead to the
discovery of such. Mr. Jones published a
12ma. book as under,
CENTENARY MEMORIALS
of the Church o.nd Congregation Assembling
for Christian Worship in BOOTH CHAPEL,
near Halifa.K. By David Jones, Pastor of the
Church. Halifax, T. and W. Birtwhistle,
printers, Northgate. 1861, pages vi., 1-85, vi.
I have a pamphlet of 16 pages, small octavo,
printed bv T. and W. Birtwhistle, 18 North-
gate, Halifax, 1862.—
THE ACT OF TJNIFORMn^Y—
or The Reason --vhy Dissenters celebrate ihe
Bicentenary of 1662; by the Rev. D. Jonee,
Booth, near Halifax.
In 1869 a new chn,pe<l was built at Booth,
and in 1886 the pra-ent minister, the REV.
GEORGE HUTLEY succeeded Mr. Jones.
LUDDENDEN FOOT.
By way of parenthesis it is worthy of record
in these notices of books and authors that
Mi;. Joshua Nicholson, of Leek in Stafford-
shire, wai5 born at Luddendenfoot, October 26,
1812. He wao a successful silk mnnufacturer
and a zealous Congreigationalist. At the open-
ing of the Nicholson Institute, Leek, includ-
ing a Free Library, Museum and Art Gallery,
genercni-ly erected by him at a cost of ^30,000,
and pi-esiented as a gift to the town, he said :
"I have known what it is to struggle in life;
I have known what privation is, but I have
alwjiys recognised one grand faet, namely, that
we ought, not only to think of oun^lves, but
to regard others; and I never knew a time
when out of the smallest income I possessed I
«ould not affoixl something for somebody else."
He died August 24th, 1885.
The Rev. D. Jones, of Booth, commenced
services at Luddendenfoot (or rather at Den-
holme,) once or twice monthly as "week-night
services" in 1851. Others joined afterwards
in conducting the meetings, and at length
Messrs. Whitworth, proprietors of the mills,
built a chapel for themselves and the work-
people, which was opened on Good Fridav,
April 21t.t, 1859, bv the Rev. Dr. Joseph
Parker. The REV. ARTHUR HALL, of New
College, London, became the minister in July,
and a church was formed in September. At
Mr. Hall's ordinaition, hie brother the Rev.
Newman Hall, LL.B., was the chief spokes-
man. In August, 1861, Mr. John Whitworth
(son of Richard Whitworth, of Little Peel
House, Warley,) the prime-mover at the
Mills, and a great helper at the chapel, died
suddenly, agied 47. He had been Mayor of
Halifax In 1863 Mr. Hall removed to Totten-
ham Chapel, London; next to Hiimpetead
Road, London; next to Clifton Down, and
afterwards to a chapel in Bristol. He has
now, 1904, retired, and resides at Hastings.
The only book he has issued is: "I will; or
the Bov who would go to Sea," which is auto-
biographical. It is a small book, costing 2fy.,
and has had a large circulation. His son
ARTHTTR VINEi HALL was born at Ludden-
den Foot in 1860. He was trained at Cheshunt
College, and he succeeded Mr. Balgarnie at
Scarborough Congi-egational Church, but from
1892 has been minister at Claremont Congrega-
tional Church, Cape Town. He published a
F.mall 18mo. volume of poems, in 1889, —
"Poems by Arthur Vine Hall." Scarborough,
60 pages, square shape.
"Table Mountain. — pictures with pen (in
poetry), brush and oametra," post quarto, 1898,
"England re-visited, — -pictures with brush
and pen (poetry)," post quarto, 1900.
Th^- REV. SAMUEL DAVID HILLMAN, of
New College, London, came to Luddenden
Foot from Cray, Kent, in Ootober, 1863, but
in December, 1870, removed to Ilkley. In 1872
he published "Ebhoes of the Pulpit," 5s. "The
Guiding Light, Advent, Watch-night and New
Year Addiiesses, delivered in Ilkley." (1883,)
210 pages, crown octavo. '"Oneness with the de-
l>arted," a Sermon on the death of Dr.
Macleod, February 7, 1875, with memoir; 45
pages octavo. "In Memoriam : Rev. John
Sowden Brown, Market Weighton." "Aspira^
tion after Heavea : on Deatih of John Peele
Clapham," privately printed.
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The REV. WILtLIAiM ADAMS from Uuion
Croft, Qiieensbury, previously at Retford, came
to Luddenden Foot in August, 1871. He left in
September, 1873, for a chapel in Bristol. He
was a fervid Irishmnoi, and a very zealouB
temperance reformer. He is now abroad, I
believe. The Rev. Thomas Adams, of Butt^r-
shaw, was his j^ounger brother. The Whit-
worth failure in 1874 spread greni havoc in
the village, and there was no riuccessor to Mr.
Adams until February, 1877, when the REV.
THOMAS BOGGITT, from the Nottingham
Institute, a native of Malton, accepted the
invitation to the pastorate. This usefxil man
died July 23rd, 1880, and was cair.ried to Leeds
for interment.
The REV. JOSEPH BOOTH, of Airedale
College, came from Pooklington to Luddenden
Foot in August, 1881. He was son of the Rev.
Bulcoct Booth, cf Newton-in-BoIland. Mr.
Joseph Booth in 1895 went to Low Row and
in 1897 to O'sisett. He is now, 1904, at Gaw-
thorpe, near Ossett, being succeeded by the
present minister at Luddenden Foot, the REV.
BERTRAM CLAUDE BARNARD, M.A., in
1896. Mr. Barnard was trained at New Col-
lege, London, and is M.A. of Edinburgh.
I have a pamphlet, written by RICHARD S.
THOMAS, that may here be mentioned: "In
Mfeii'oriam : Alfred Nicholl." (Engraved block
of the Luddenden Foot Chapel,) Published by
request of the Mutual Improvement Society;
(founded October, 18&4,) Halifax, S. N. Whit-
aker and Son, St. Jamesf's Street. 29 pages,
crown octavo (1884).
LXaV.y-MIXHNDEN AND OVENDEN.
We have already noticed the first three
ministers of Mixenden and their publications:
the Rev. Matthew Smith and his son and suc-
oeseor the Rev. John Smith in No. 43 of this
series, and the Rev. James Ritchie, M.D., in
No. 23: also the book of the ruling elder
Benjaanin Pabchit, given in No. 31. Patohit
(or Patchett) was one of the voluntary
teachers at the Mixenden Sunday School,
which was probably the first in Halifax
Parish and started befoiie Robert Ra^ikes' first
school in 1781L It would be interesting to
prove this, and also the origin of Mr. Hud-
son's, at Gildersome. Matthew Smith, M.A.,
preached at Mixenden from 1683, built a meet-
ing-house in 1689, which was abandoned for a
new one at Hill-end in 1717, and Nathaniel
Skelton in 1732 gave 206. yearly towards its
minister out of Moorside farm, Upper Warley.
Mr. John Smith left Warley to asedst his
aged father, and succeeded him in 1736; re-
moved to Bradford 1753, died April 7, 1768.
aged 63, and was buried at Mixenden. Dr.
Ritchie cam© in 1753, died October 15, 1763,
at Shaw Booth. He had resided previously at
Alton. Tlie fourth minister was lihe REV.
THOMAS EVANS, an Arian or possibly Uni-
tarian, from Denbigh, who settled at Mix,en-
den, June, 1764, and taught a school at the
Old Haai. He <liod Mtiy 25, 1779, aged 65. In
1780 another Welshman, the REV. DaVID
GRONOW, became minister and remained
two yeans. His English was imperfectly
spoken. He was probably Unitarian. An-
other Welshman succeeded February, 1783, the
REV. DANIEL JONES, and coneidoring his
social hilarity and drinking propensities it is
surprising that he remained until March,
1791, when he returned to Wales. An evan-
gelicial successor was found the suune year in
the REV. JAMES RATTRAY, a Scotchman,
but the people disliked his teaching, and starv-
ed him out in two years. He lemoved to
Sheffield. In 1793, the year of his removal,
he published: "The Joyful Sound," two ser-
mons from Psalm 89, 15.
MR. JOHN BATES, a famous schoolmaster
at Halifajc, became minister at Mixenden in
June, 1793, and in 1796 removed to Northow-
ram School. About 1802 he returned to Mix-
enden and held the post until his death April
23, 1815, aged 63. Before 1793 he had been
minister at Stainland for Wesleyans, and ako
a General Baptist and a Wesleyan local
preacher. In the Halifax Free Library there
are two editions of ai work that he issued, —
"ihe Christian's New and Complete Family
Bible, being a new, clear and universal ex-
position and commentary on the Holy Scrip-
tures, containirng the whole of the Sacred
Texts of the Old amd New Testaments, with
the Apocrypha at large, etc., by several emin-
ent divines.'' 1800.
Also, in folio, 1804, printed by Holden and
Dowson, Halifax.
There is also a copy (and I have one) of
"Redemption Redeemed, wherein the most
glorious work of the Redemption of the world
by Jesus Christ is vindicated in its latitude
and extent, &c., &c., &c., by John Goodwin,
a. little modernised and abridged by John
Bates, V.D.M. (Word of God Minister,) Hali-
fax." This is a demy octavo, pages 1-527;
Halifax, Holden and Dowson, Hall End, 1806.
In 1812 he issued Doolittle's Call to Delaying
Sinners
During Mr. Bates' interval at Northowram,
MR. DAVID HOWARD, who had been a
Wesleyan local preacher at Ripponden, minis-
tered at Mixenden from 1797 to 1802. As he
was not ordained he exchanged with Mr.
Harrison, of Allerton, on communion days.
He also traded unsuccessfully as ai corn miller.
Subsequently he settled at Wortley, and was
drowned in attempting to cross a river.
The Mixenden chapel was rebuilt in 1810.
On the death of Mr. Bates some of the con-
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gi-ega,tiou withdrew, and joined the Wesleyans
because they could not have their mind in
eecuriny his son, Mr. J. 0. Botes, for minister
the choice having fallen on the REV. ABRA-
UAiM CLAJRKSON, of Idle Academy, in 1815,
but the unsettled state of affairs led him to
remove (before ordination) to Biiigley. This
took place in 1817, September, and he was not
ordained until 1818, June. He was a native of
E'arlsheaton, and afterwards in 1837 removed
to Batley, where he died in 1850. The REV.
WILLIAM GIBSON, of Idle Academy, follow-
ed in 1819, from Sutton near Thirsk, and he
only remained until 1821, when he removed to
Whitworth in Lancashire. The REV. THOM-
AS SMITH, of Mixenden Hall, who had been
a minister at Selby, gave ground for a school.
He was grandson cf Matthew Smith, M.A., the
founder, and died at Mixenden, June 29, 1854,
aged 95.
In January, 1823, the REV. JOHN PRESTON
from Idle Academy, succeeded, and the cause
revived so much that a larger chapel was built
in 1836. He was born near Preston le Fylde,
Lancashii-e, May, 1795. He removed to
Warley in 1841, and retired in 1851i. He die<l
at Halifax in February, 1853.
The REV. ISAAC BRIBRLEY, of Pickering
Academy, came in 1842, and remained until
1864, when he removed to Great A>ton, Cleve-
land. The latter place he resigned in 1872,
and died next year.
The REV. GEORGEI HUNSWORTH, M.A.,
a native of Rishworth, who was trained at
Rotherham College and Glasgow DuiveTsity,
succeeded Mr. Brierley at Mixenden, and was
ordained there in 1869. He removed to Kid-
derminster in 18r2, and afterwai'ds f-ettled at
Derby in 1881. He published ''Baxter's Non-
conformist Descendants, or Memorials of the
Old Meeting Coiigregational Church, Kidder-
minster, by the Pastor, George Hunsworth,
M.A. Kidderminster, li874, 74 pages, octavo.
He has recently retired, and resides a,t Brad-
ford. Farther particulars see under Rishworth.
The REV. JOSEPH POYNTON, of Aii-e-
dale College, became the Mixenden mini&ter
in 1873, and removed to Wibsey in 1880. He
is author of "The Gospels Compared in the
Revised Version : arranged in parallel coiunins
indicating similarities and differences," by J.
Poynt»n. Bradford, 1900, demy octavo, pages
xi., 179.
Aibout 1883 the REV JAMBS NELSON, edu-
cated at Cotton Etad, came to Mixenden, and
in 1884 removed to Nottingham, in 18~30 to
Donaghmoi-e, and in 1891 to Horton Bank,
Bradford. In 1896 he settled at Narborough,
near Leicester. He is M.A. of Dublin.
The REV. THOMAS BARON, from Walker-
fold (1879) and Forton (1882) came to Mixen-
den in 1885.
OVENDEN.
In 1837 a chapel was opened, but for nine-
teen years services had been held in a school-
room at Ovenden, and in the same year the
REV. EDWARD LEHGHTON, who had left
Rotherham College in 1826, oame from Wigton
m August. In A/ugust, 1^0, he removed to
Loughborough, afterwards to Heanor, Derby-
shire, and died at Hornsey, November 23
1874, aged 73. Mr. Joseph Crossley, Halifax'
married his daughter. Mr. Leighton publish-
ed a volume of lectures, entitled "Joseph a
Model for the Young," 1838. There is a copy' in
Halifax Fxee Library.
The REV. JOHN HARRISON, afterwards
D.D., the second minister, was born on the
Yorkshire Wold^ May 21st,, 1814. He wre
brought up a Wesleyan, but was prepared
by Mr. Bruce, congregational minister at
Howden for Rotherham College, which he left
in August, 1843, for Ovenden. In February,
1846, he removed to Douglas, Isle of Man, and
soon aftecwards turned to the Church of Eng-
land. In 1854 he was ordained at Burelem,
became curate of Rotherham aud later of Shef-
field, and in 1867 was appointed to the living
of Fenwick, where he died February 26, 1883.
In 1859 he published a pamphlet on "Justi-
fication.^'
The following is a very portly book display-
ing great learning and industry:
"WHOSE ARE THE FATHERS?
or the teaching of certain Anglo-Catholics on
the Church and its Ministry, contrary alike
to the Holy Scriptures, to the Fathers of the
first six centuries, and to those of the reform-
ed Chureh of England, with a Catena Patruru
of the first six centuries and of the Englit-h
Church of the latter half of the sixteenth
became curate of Rotherham and later of Shef-
moor, Sheffield." London, 1867, demy octavo,
pages ix., 1-728. This work is so full of
patristic learning that though I have had it
many years I have never mustered courage to
do more than glance at its comprehensive
seope. I have three more of his books that I
know just as little about, namely, "The East-
ward Poi%ition" and "An Answer to Dr. Pusey's
Challenge respecting the Doctrine of the Real
Presence, " " The Primitive Mode of Making
Bishops, being an enquiry as to whether they
were ci^eated chiefly by those over whom they
were to preside, or by one or more of their
own order," by John Harrison, Vicar of Fen-
wick, near Donoiister. London, 1870, demy
octavo, 72 pages. At ihe end "An Amswer to
Dr. Pusey" is announced as nearly ready,
about 700 pages, octavo, I2s. This notice with
the Reviews of ''Wbose are the Fathers?" fill
viii. pageis. My copy of the "Answer to Dr.
Pusey's Challenge" has never been cut open.
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It consists of two large volumes, demy octavo,
as under:
An Answer to Dr. Pusey's Challenge
lespecHng the
Doctrine of the Real Pressence,
in which. &c., &c.. &c.. and tho Fathers of the
first eight centuries. By John Harrison, D.D.
Hdln., Vicar of Fenwick.
Vol. I., 1871. pages xvii., l-67'l.
Vol. II.. 1871, pafieiH iv., 1-388.
"An Antidote to the teaching of certain
Anglo-Catholics foncerning worshipping East-
ward, AJlar Adoration, Clerical Sacrodotalitvm,
Baptism, and the Real Pi-escnce, with an ex-
posure of the Assumption that their Religion
ia "Tlie Bible interpreted by the Church,' by
the Rev. J. Harrifon," 48 pages, lis.
It is evident Mr. Harri«?.on retained his
Puritanism. He was author of sjome othe?
works, besides numerous articles on the High
Ohurdh oonlroversy in R*viowt^ fipul News-
papers. In 1870 the degree of Doctor of
Divinity was conferre<l upon him by Edinburgh
University. Hiis training at Rotherham and
his intimate friondebip with Dr. Falding led
him to bequeath his v;iiluable library to
Rotherham College, and the books are now at
the United College, Bradford.
Mr. Harrison was succeeded at Ovenden m
July, 1847, by the REV. SAMUEL SHAW, who
was born at a hamlet near Saddleworth,
January 31,1821, and was educated at Black-
burn Academy and Lancashire College. He
worked hard to clear off a debt of .£900, towards
which Mr. John Croesley, M.P-. promised the
latter half. In Aiugust, 1855. he> removed to
Middleton in Lancashire, in 1866 to Clevedon,
Someri'^et; and retired owing to ill-health
about 1870 to Penzance, where he died Febru-
ary 28. 1874.
The REV. TIMOTHY EAiST, who had been
minister at Frome and Birmingham, came to
Ovienden in 1855.He was author of a volume
of ler^tuies on "The proper Diety of the Son
of God," and of ether works. He ha.d origin-
ated Springhill College. Birmingham. Although
over eeventy when at Ovenden he was very
vigorous, and the eaui?« greatly prospered, the
membership increasing from a hundred to
one hundred and fifty in the two years. A
sermon by him at MJoorfields, London, in 1814,
greatly influenced John Williams the Er-
romanga Martyr. In 1857, owing to Mrs.
Ekust's health he removed to Brixton and after-
wards to Paignton, Devon; he died ait D«dding-
ton, Oxon, Febrtiary 11, 1871, aged 87.
The REV. WTLLIAiM INMAN, born near
Worksop in 1805, was educated at Rotherham
College and became successively minister at
Keyworth (Notts.) in 1838. Hinckley. Dogiey
Lane (Huddersfield). and Wilsden, before com-
ing to Ovenden in 1860. He died at Worki op
November 15, 1864, and was interred at Oven-
den. In 1867 tihe REV. ROBEIRT INGALL
SENIOR, of Airedale College, became the suc-
oes=«or; removed to Wigan in 1872, and thence
to Goole. His father, the Rev. David Senior,
of Selby and Mi\jlton, resided some time at
Ovenden with his son.
Tlu> KEV. CHARLES TH0M.A8 TRIGG,
born at Chelmsford in 1822, after eome service
in Sussex, was ordained at Sutton near Thirsk,
1859, mini.stered there and at the twin chapel
at Eston for twelve years before coining to
Ovenden in July, 1673, and great prosperity
followed both at Ovenden an^d the Wheatley
and Holmfield branches.
The REV. RICHARD FOTHECRINGHAM.
M.A., of Edinburgh, trained at Airedale Col-
lege, was nunister iiit Ovenden from 1887 to
1891. He removed to Ha^erhii] in 1891 and to
Blaokheath in 1895. The REV. WILLIAM
WOOD, a Primitive Methodist from Sunder-
land, came to Ovenden chapel in 1892, removed
to Falmouth in 1894, and to West Newport,
life, in 1900. He has publislted n,rt.icles in
prese and vense in various magazines and
newspapers, but rone have been issued separ-
ately as yet. " Characters on the Golf Links '*
is now preparing for eeparate reprint, as aiso
"Ti-avels in Egypt, Greece, Palestine, Spain,
Canada, and Unittd States"; and a novel en-
titled ' Moorland Grange," dealing with Oven-
den and Halifax Mill life.
The REV. MATTHEW WHITE:, who was
born at Kirkburton, and was educated at
Pickering Academy under the Rp-v. Ga.brieil
Croft, became minister at Reeth, 1850 to 1872>
and was afterwards chaplain at a Sunderland
Cemetery. He died January 10, 1890, aged 70,
and was biiried at Ovenden, but I am not
aware that he was the minister there.
In 1895 the REV. JOHN LAWSON, B.A.,
from Airedale College, which he left in 1886.
became minister at Ovenden.
LXV.— WARLEIY CONGREGATIONAL
CHURCH.
Oliver Heywood must be regarded as the
founder of the Nonconformist cause at Warley.
In 1672 he got the house of John Butterworth.
licensed as a preaching place, but afterwards
the society was worked from Sowerby. Next
the Rev. Matthew Smith, as already stated,
preached alternately at Mixenden and War-
ley, the Rev. Nathaniel Priestley, of Halifax,
and others giving assistance. In 1691 Mr.
rriestley. three years before his ordination,
was ministering at Warley, as proved in Hey-
wood's diaaies. In 1699 Messrs. Benson, Bair-
stow. and Denton were ordained at Warley.
In 1705 a meeting house was built, at which
relative!-; of Archbishop Tillotson worshipped.
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In the same yeiar, 1705, or earlier, Mr. ISAAC
WILKINSON, a locnJ man. \vas invited to the
pastorate, and liis zealous labours were emi-
nently successful, for in 1715 he had 3O0 hear-
ers, the aisles being also crowded by the in-
creased congregation. He married Esther
Lapidge, and his descendant of same names,
Isaac Wilkinson, settled near Chesterfield
(History of Pontefract, 489). The Rev. fcanc
Wilkinson died in 1721, and was eucoeede'd in
1722 by the REIV. JAMBS HUTHWAITE, (a
student under the Ite'V. Matithew Smith), who
ha- settled at Alfreston, in Derbyshire, in
1715. In 1724 he seems to have removed to
Mansfield, where Hey wood's son had settled,
and in the snime year he married at Mansfield
Phoebe, daughter of Widow Priestley, of
Westercroft, Halifax, March Slst. In 1734 he
became minister of Upper Chapel, Idle, where
he died, leaving a small congregation in great
declension, .lune 25, 1766, aged 77, as i-ecorded
on the gravestone still preserved. His name
was sometimes written phoneticallv Huffit.
Tlie REV. JOHN SMITH, son of Matthew,
became minister at Warley in 1724, and ex-
changetl posts on alternate Sundays with the
RBV. JOSHUAi CORDINGLElY, of E&stwood.
as stated in the Eastwood sketch. After Mr.
Smith left Warley to assist hie father at
Mixenden, Mr. Cordingley continued to la-
bour ait Warley, aided by Mr. Eden, of Elland.
Mr. Cordingley died about li732, leaving a nu-
merous family, one of whom became a Non-
conformist minister, and died at Hull. About
1734, the REV. EVAN STOCK, of Arian creed,
succeeded at Warley, exchanging pulpits with
Mr. Fa.rrer, of Eastwood, and the congrega-
tion^j becoming quarrelsome in their favouri-
tisms for one or the other, both left; Mr.
Farrer tio Elland, and Mr. Stock to Cleckhea-
ton in 1741, where he continued twenty years,
xiie Rev. JOHN FORD took his place at "^War-
lev for about a vear. In 1742, the REV. WIL-
LIAM GRAH.^M, M.A., of a Scotch Universi-
ty, a man of learning and ability, came to
Warley, and great prosperity ensued, until
about 1756, when the congregation began to
notice his Arian teaching, and many of them
withdrew from him and joined dissatisfied
member's of Mixenden Cliapel in establishing a
moi'e congenio.l cause at Midgley. Mr. Gra-
ham left Warley on November 20th, 1763, and
took up his residence in Hialifax, frequently
assisting the minister of Northgate End Caap-
el. Dr. Joseph Priestley, the eminent scientist
of Leeds, afterwanvls of Birmingham, became
his intimate friend, and he dedicated his work,
"Disquisition on Matter and Spirit" to him.
Their theological views very closely coinciile<l,
and Mr. Graham, under the name of Pyrrho
wrote articles for Dr. Priestley's "Theological
Repository." Amongst Mr. Graham's publi-
cations, there are : "Animadversions on Mr.
Brown's Three Essays on the Characteristics,"
1753. "Diana Great at Bphesus, or the Protes-
tant tu:Tied P'apist. A Sermon from Acts xix,
34, preached November 5th, li755, being the anni
versary of the ever memorable Revolution,
1688, by Taoltt Bob," 1754. This signature
stands for the words ''The Author of Letter to-
the Bishop of Bangor," which Letter was
directed to Bishop Pierce, on hiis Sermon be-
fore the House of Lords, January 30th, 1749.
''A Sermon from Matthew x., 34, which h©
preached in Kingston-on-Hull, June 21, 1758,
at the Ordination of the Rev. Mr. John Be-
verley,' London, 1759. "Repentance the only-
condition of Final Acceptance; a Sermon
preached before the Dissenting Clergy in Mill-
hill Chapel," 1772, and directed against Cal-
vinism and Trinitarianism. Mr. Grahajn died
January 28, 17%, aged 75.
The REV. RICHARD SIMPSON, who had in
1745 entered Dr. Doddridge's Aicademy, and
had ministered at Staiuton in Ravenstonedale,
became minister at Warley in August, 1764,
and held the post until his death in February,
1796, and was interred in the chapel, aged 78.
He was author of a book bearing the title
"Seven practical and experimental Discourses
on the most important subjects," printed at th»
office of J. Fawcett, Eiwood Hall, near Halifax,
for the aiuthor's widow, 1800, 136 pa^es, octavo.
They are of the thoroughly evangelical doc>
trine, clearly and forcibly written. He, with Mr.
Crossley, of Midgley, Mr. Fawcett, of Wains-
gate, and another preacher took the monthly
course of services at ai Workhouee in the loca-
lit.v. He walked annually to Westmoreland,
and enjoyed perfect health until verv advanced
age. The REV. THOMAS HAWKINS came
from Aylesbury, and settled at Warley in July,
1796. I have a fine unpublished portrait of this
esteemed minister and author, who resigned his-
pastorate in 1823, and continued to reside in
the locality until his deat.h, February 9th,
1838. A mairble tablet records that he was
78 years old at the time of his death and had
been pastor forty-three years. The chapel was
rebuilt in 1805, and a sohoolroom attached. He
published in 1808, "The Iniquity of Witchcraft,
two Sermons delivered at Warley." The foolish
belief was evidently strongly held in Warley
at that time. It refers to notorious Yorkshire
impostors. He issued in 1808 a "Commentary
on the Etpistles of St. John." This was an
octavo volume, published at six shillings.
"The Doctrine of Original Sin briefly stated
and defended, in a sermon preached at Ayles-
bury, by the Rev. T. Hawkins," small octavo,
32 pages, 6d. Printed at Aylesbury. ''The Lea-
ding Heads of Twenty-seven Sermons, preached
in Northampton in 1749 by P. Doddridge, D.D.,
taken in shorthand by a lady, and transcribed
by the Rev. T. Hawkins, of Warley;" octavo,
5s. The pamphlet aftenvards mentioned, give*
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the REiV. \YILLIAM HUGILL as succossor to
Mr. Hawkins, being ordained at Wailey, .luly
21st, 1839, and resigning his charge Marcli 14,
1841, after which he removed to Worksop. I
have a four page pamphlet, "Sermon Notes,"
by "him, printed by Robert Wliite, Worksop.
His name is altogether omitted by Miall, in
<'Congregationa,lit>m in Yorkshire," and Miall's
date for Mr. Preston's successor in 1823 is
therefore erroneous. He ciime to Warley
from Mixenden, IMay 11th, 1841. Indeed, he
shews this under Mixenden.
The REV. JOHN PRESTON, from Airedale
College, was elected in IMay, 1841, to succeed
Mr. Hugill. He retired to Halifax in 1851i, and
died February I8th. 18.53. He hnd been at Mix-
enden from 182:3-1811. About 1818 a small
pamphlet of seven pages, probably from the
pen of Mr. Preston, was printed by H. Martin,
Malifax. I have a copy of it with maxginal and
footnotevs by :Mr. E. J. Walker. These notes
were copied by Mr. Walker from Oliver Hey-
wood's "Life." The printed matter states that
Heywood got a licence in 1672 for John Butter-
worth's house, and that in 1688 a chapel was
built. In 1805 the chapel was rebuilt with a
sclioolroom attached, and in 1814 Mrs. Elizabeth
Worsley, of London, a native of Warley, gave
by will ,£500 towards a new edifice, and others
of her family supplemented the legacy. It was
opened in June 1846, by the Revs. Dr. Raffles,
Jas. Sherman, J. B. Brown, J. M. Obery, New-
man Hall and John Ely. The cost was .£1,270.
The Rideals, Milnes, and Smiths were the chief
contributoi-s. Mr. Samuel Smith, of Bradford,
whose Chant Books and Tune Books have" been
very popular for more than a generation, was
a Warley man. His son, Mr. Samuel Milne-
Milne, of Calverley, is a well-known antiquary,
and has issued a pamphlet on "Parliamentary
Electoral Districts, &c." In April, 1853, the
REV. THOS. M. NEWNEiS, who had been
trained at Blackburn Academy, came to War-
ley from Matlock. Messrs. Milne gave land for
a new schoolroom, which was opened in 1856.
Mr. Newnes resigned in 1859, and removed to
another congregation before settling at Little
Hadham, Hertfordshire, 1868. His son. Sir
George NeAvnes, is the famous London author,
editor, and publisher. I only know of one
book by the Rev. T. M. Newnes, namely: "Me-
moirs of the Rev. Dr. Adam (Clarke, with stric-
tures, &c.," a duodecimo book, published by
Milner and Sowerby, of Halifax. After two
years vacancy the piilpit at Warlev was ably
filled by the REV. WILLIAM HEWGILL,
M.A., of New College, London, but he removed
in June, 1865, to Farnworth, which pastorate
he held until 1901.
The RE;V. FRANCIS JAMElS, a native of
South Devon, became minister at Warley in
1865. He had been a city missionary in Lon-
don. In 1882, he went to Canada, but
^oon returned to ta,ke up his abode at Gorton,
near Manchester, and died October 29th, 1894,
aged 64. In February, 1884, the REV. JOHN
GASCOIGNE, from RotluM-hani College, suc-
ceeded to the pulpit at Warley. In 1887 he
removed to Brampton, in 1895 to Hydf, and in
1899 to Wakefield.
The REV. JAMES MONCRlEiFF, from the
Yorkshire United College, settled at Warley in
1892, and still labours there.
The REV. BENJAMIN BOOTHROYD, D.D.,
must be given amongst our local authors. "Th*
history of the Ancient Borough of Pontefract,
containing an interesting account of its castle,
and the three different sieges it sustained dur-
ing the Civil War, with Notes and Pedigrees
of some of the moi-tt distinguished Royalists
and Parliamentarians, chiefly drawn from
manuscripts never before priblished; by B.
Boothroyd," Pontefract, printed by the Aii-
thor, 1807, demy octavo. Title, with subscri-
bers' names, contents, and preface xvi. pages.
Introduction and History 496 pages. Appendix,
Charters, &c., xxiv. pages. Plates: (1) All
Saint's Church, S.W., frontispiece. (2) Ancient
Castle, opposite 162. (3) Plan of the Keep, op-
posite 166. (4) Ground plan of the siege, drawn
bv Butterworth of Leeds, opposite page 317,
folded. {5) St. Giles' Church and the Market
Cross. (6) The Town Hall, Corporation Seal,
Siege Coin, and Mayor's Seal, drawn by But-
terworth, opposite page 443. Besides the
ordinary copies at 8s. in boards, there were
some on superior paper at 15s. The book is
still a standard work on Pontefract, though
Fox, Holmes, and othen* ha,ve issned volumes
on the same subject.
Beside his famous translation of the Bible he
issued several choicely printed books whilst at
Pontefract. He had been a student at North-
owram Academy, not Heckmondwike, as stated
on the Warley tablet. He went to Pontefract
in 1792, and thence to Huddersfield in 1818.
There is a tablet to Dr. Boothroyd's memory
in Warley Independent Chapel, Halifax, as im-
der: — -"To the Memory of the Rev. Benjamin
Boothroj-d, LL.D., and D.D., who was a native
and once a poor boy in this village. He was
a student at Heckmondwike Academy, and at
the age of twenty-two became minister of the
Independent Chapel, Pontefract, and after-
wards Highfield Chapel, Hwldersfield, where
he died on the 8th of September, 1836, aged 68.
His simplicity and Godly sincerity endeared
him to all, his Biblical laboiirs raised him to
an eminence attained by few, and he died at a
good old age, crowned with laiboui"s and hon-
ours. He made a complete translation of the
whole Bible, and published it with a Comment-
ary. This tablet was erected by a few friends
and strangers." An octavo portrait was issued
in September, 1824, by Westley, and given in
the Evangelical Magazine, 1824.
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Benjamin iioothroyd wais born at Warley,
October lOth 1768, of very poor parents, wlio
through ignorance or waywardnens did little
tor their son's welfare, but being mentally
quick, he learnt to read the Bible before
reaching his sixth birthday, at the village
school. Eeligion in Warley at thait time was
at a low ebb. His father being a tshoemaker,
soon began to get help from Benjamin, who was
taught a.t the same age how to do easy sums by
a fellow singer at Warley Chapel. He secretly
left his unattractive home, and got work on
the Lancashire borders, bvrt his father having
happened an accident, Benjamin returned to
Warley. He was now the support and comfort
of the family, and by aid of a few simple Chris-
tians he became useful at the Sunday school
and chapel. He got elementary Latin and
Greek books, and was occasionally helped in
his study by Dr. Fawcett, of Brearley Hall, and
eventually was admitted to the Northowram
Academy. His first charge was at Pontefract,
where from 1790 he re-established a decayed
religious society, and founded others in the
district, although his income from his olhce
was less than needed for hits support. In 18ftl
he married Miss Hurst, of Pontefract, who
was the mother of his four sons and four
daughters. She died at Huddersfield in 1832.
To eke outi a living at Pontefract, he started
a bookseller's shop, and this led to a printing
■establishment, which resulted in the issue of
books and pamphlets, as well as local pla-
cards. Amongst his printed puljlications are
Ridgcley's Body of Divinity, Her^-ey's Works,
Scott's Christian Life, Newcome's Version of
the Minor Prophets, the History of Pontefract
by himself, and several funeral sermons for
members of his congregation. I have copies of
his Hervey, &c., and can testify to the excellen-
cy of his tj-pography, paper and binding. He
began to study Hebrew, and works bearing on
Hebrew literature, and in seven years had
reached a high state of efficiency as testified
by the friendship of Dr. Zouch, Bishop Bar-
rington, and Bishop Burgess. Six hours daily
he engaged in manual laboiir at the press, and
thus produced the "Biblia Hebraica," 2 vol-
umes, and the proofs were read by aid from
his wife antl compositor, whom he taught the
Hebrew letters. Henry Tuke, of York, the
Quaker author, induced him to revise and
print a new English version of the Bible, wl'.en
again his wife was the proof reader. In 1818
he became co-p;u;'cor with the Eev. W. Moor-
house, Huddersfield, and eventually sole pastor.
The title LL.D. was conferred upon him about
this time, and in 1824 he received the diploma
of D.D. from Glasgow. He was a great social
refoimer, and very active in arousing the peo-
ple of West Yorkshire, and Congregationalists
everywhere against Colonial Slavery. Sickness
overcame him in 1836. A memoir appears in
the ''Evangelical Magazine," March, 1837, writ-
ten by tlie Rev. Wm. Eccles, of Hopton; a
portrait had appeared previously. At page 374
of the same volume is an interesting account of
Bishop Burgess's visit to Pontefract to see
Dr. Boothroyd. Further particulars of the
doctor may be found in Brace's "Centenary
of the Huddersfield Chapel." "The New Tes-
tament, or History of Christ, as contained in
the Gospels, harmonized by Dr. Doddridge,
with questions and answers," li2mo., was prin-
ted at Pontefract, 1804. There is a copy in
Bradford Free Library. "The Solemnity of the
Day of Death, a sermon preached at Pont-e-
fract on the death of Mr. F. Hurst," by B.
Boothroyd. "Biblia Heljraica, or the Hebrew
Scriptures of the Old Testament without points
after Kennicott &c., with En.glish notes," 4to.,
part 1., 5s. &c. to part VI., royal size 7s. 6d.
"Reflections on the Authorized Version of the
Holy Scriptures, with a specimen of an at-
tempt to improve it," a quarto pamphlet in-
viting subscribei-s for a. royal quarto work in
two or three volumes. An outline of the pros-
pectus appears at pp. 438-9 of the Evangelical
Magazine, 1816. Part I. of ihe New Family
Bible was issued in August, 1817, 4to., 46.
"Great Object of a Christian's Life; a ter-
mon on the death of Mr. R. Hoiighton, surgeon,
Huddersfield;" Is. "A new Family Bible and
Improved Version from corrected Texts of the
Original, with notes critical and explanatory,
and short practical reflections, by Rev. B.
Boothroyd, LL.D.," 4to., volume II., 36s.; vol-
ume III., 32s., 1824. Dr. Boothroyd preached
the ''Fiineral Sermon of the Rev. Jonathan
Toothill, of Hopton," the memoir section being
printed in the "Evangelical Magazine," Octo-
ber, 1826. "Memoir of Mrs. Boothroyd" in the
"Evangelical Magazine," 1832. "The Holy
Bible, new edition," royal 8vo., 30s., 1836.
LXVL— STALNLAND, RISHWORTH.
RIPPONDEN.
In 1754 an undenominational chapel was
erected at Stainland on the site where the
present episcopal church now stands, and vest-
ed in trustees. Mr. Wesley was invited to preach
in it in 1759, and the stated ministers were
elected by the congi-egation with the approval
of the trustees. The REV. JOHN FLOYDE,
M.D., who had been a travelling pieacher
under the Wesleyan conference, and had with-
drawn on the failure of his health, was the
first minister at the Stainland Chapel on re-
cord. He lived at Halifax, and died there in
1799. The REV. SAMUEL LOWELL seems
to have been his successor about 1782, but can-
not have remained long for he went to Brig-
house then or soon afterwards, and removed
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to Woodbridge in 1789. The REV. .lOHN
BATES succeeded, but left in 1793 to become
minister at Mixenden. The publications of
Mr. Lowell and Mr. Bates are elsewhere re-
ferred to so we pass to their successor MR.
SAMUEiL BARROWCLOUGH, a local preacher
of Sowerby, who afterwards became a travel-
ling preacher in the Methodist New Connexion.
1 am not aware thavt he was author of any-
thing betsides a rare pamphlet of which I have a
copy as under: PETERS ETHICS AND
JOSEPH'S ADVICE. Two Sermons preached
before the Amicable Societies .vt Stainland,
June 9, 1794, and May 25, 1795, with some
additions and alterations. By S. Barrowciough,
minister of the goepel. Halifax, J. Nicholson
and Company, Corn Market, 1796.
This is an octavo pamphlet of 95 pages, and
the erroneous apostrophe will be noticed.
When he left Stainland, and when the REV.
J. HANSON succeeded are as uncertain as
the previous dates. Mr. Hanson is said to
have been a student at Idle up to 1803 or 4,
which is probable, though his name doeti not
appear in the official list. He was somewhat
eccentric, and yet amusing. He reported that
"at Stainland we have Wesleyans, Independents
and Church people; an Independent parson in
the pulpit, a Baxterian clerk, a Roman
Catholic organ and a 3runken player, so you
may call us what you like/' After about eight
years' ministry he removed in 1812 to Shelley,
near Huddersfield, but dissension arose on ac-
count of his eccentricities, and he left in 1822.
The Stainland pulpit was occupied after Mr.
Barrowclough's removal by Wesleyans and
Independents alternately, but in 1813 the
weaKest party — the Eipiscopalians demanded
that the church prayer book should be used,
as stated in the trust deed, upon which the
Independents withdrew, and MR. D.WID
BARRACLOUGH, an ex-Wesleyan, who had
preached at the Sion Chapel, Halifax, before
the Congregationalists bought it, wns chosen
minister at Stainland, and remained until 18-j8
when the Episcopalians claimed and got by
a. law-suit the control, so the Wesleyans built
a new place of worship.
The Congregationalists from 1813 occupied
rooms at Jagger Green and next at Scarr Hill,
but in 1814, August 11th, a chapel was opened
by Dr. Hamilton, of Leeds, and Dr. Raffles, of
Liverpool, and a church was constituted. For
three jears students from Idle supplied the
pulpit until 1817, one of them, the REV.
SAMUEL RHODEIS was engaged, and remain-
ed until 1827, when he removed to SmalJbridge.
He resided at Stainland underneath the chajK-I,
and supplemented his salary of ,£70 a year by
weaving, whilst his wife, who had been a
governess at Mr. Holland's, Slead Syke, kept
a draper's shop. After two years* interval the
REV. ROBERT BELL, from Idle Academy, be-
came minister, and he removed to Sowerby
Bridge in 1840. His ministry was very success-
ful during the eleven years. Two books he
published are mentioned under Brighouse In-
dependency. Stainland chapel was enlarged
and a new parsonage built in his time. In
1811 the REV. JOHN BRAMALL, of High-
bury College, minister at Patricroft from 1830,
succeeded Mr. Bell, but removed to Swanland
(Hull) in 1814. In 1850 he removed to Isling-
ton, where he served as secretary of Cheshunt
College, and die<l in January, 18W. The REV.
JOHN HODGSON was re<ommended from
Stainland Chapel to lancashire Independent
College in 1843, and mi).istered for many years
at Oldham. MR. J. F' RTH went from Staiji-
land to the same colU^je in 1851, and settled
in Australia. Possibly these natives have
issued publications. In January, 1846, the
REV. JOHN RAWLINSON, from Lancashire
College, came to Stainland but owing to the
severity of the winters he removed in July,
1850 to Cheltenham and settled at Knot Mill,
Manchester.
The REV. WILLIAM SPENCER BALL,
educated at Cotton End, after ministering at
Cadnam, and Havant (Ha,mpshire), came to
Stainland in 1853 and remained until 1857,
when he removed to Newton-le-Willows, where
he died in 1861, aged 45.
In 1859 the REV. WILLIAM GARNER came
from Denholme, where he had been three
years, but left in 1862.
The REV. JOSEPH HA.LEY, educated at
Lancashire College, ministered at Accrington
from 1856 to 1863, when he became pastor at
Stainland. In 1873 he removed to Lister Hills,
Bradford.
The REV. JOHN WILDE, of Airedale Col-
lege, from Burley-in-Wharfedale, where he be-
gan his labours in 18&4, succeeded Mr. Haley
at Stainland in 1874. I am not aware of any
publications by these ministers except chapel
year books.
liOLYWELX GREEN.
The Day School here was erected in 1852 by
Mr. John Crossley at a cost of ^1,600, and a
Sunday School was commenced in it in 1857.
The school buildings were purchased from Mr.
Crossley at aboiit half the cost by Mes^rB.
Shaw for the Stainland Congregationalists, in
1862 and the place was enlarged and convertol
into a chapel in December, 1866. Next month
n separate church was formed, and the REV.
JOSEPH MASON CALVERT became the pias-
ter. After two and a half years he left (June,
1870). He was a native of Colne (born August
28, 1818, son of the Rev. John Calvert, an Aire-
dale student), minister successively at Pateley
Bridge, (1844), Dronfield, and Allerton (1858),
before going to Holywell Green. A reiati\e
having left him considerable proper'ty he went
to reside at Gargrave; preaching at Grassing-
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ton and district before his removal to Lan-
cashire. He died May 11, 1886, at Nelson-in-
Mardden, and was brought to Bingley Cemetery
to be interred. Th© REV. BENJAMIN
WILKINSON, of Cavendish College, Manches-
ter, followed Mr. Calvert at Holywell Green,
in January, 1871. He was a native of Burn-
ley, born Deceml>er, 1838. He had laboured
at Partington in Cheshire, 1864, and at Horton-
in-Craven from 1865. In April 1872, a new
edifice was commenced, and opened in April,
1874; and a new organ added in 1876, a.nd in
1880, the whole was conveyed by Messrs. Shaw
to trustees, valne about i:20,Oo6. Mr. Wilkin-
son removed in 1882 bo Durham, in 1888
to Barna,rd Castle, and died November 28,
1893.
The REV. DUNCAN GRANT, from Rother-
ham College, commenced his pastorate in
January, 1883. He is now in London, having
resigned in November, 1888.
The REV. J. G. LAYTON commenced his
duties in A.ugust, 1889, and left in 1893. He
is now in Africa.
The REV. W^ JOHNSTONE came from
Kirkstall in December, 1894, and still is the
pastor. The Church Manual for 1904 bears
the imprint of John T. Park, printer, The
Cross, Stainland, 1904.
RISHWORTH.
Joseph Wadsworth and Nathan Whitley at-
tended EUand Church from this place to hear
the evangelical vicar, the Rev. George Burnett,
of whom a further notice will be fotmd in the
reports of the Ellnind Society. On his death
they, and a few others, went to Sowerby In-
dependent Chapel to hear Mr. Joseph Sowden.
In 1804 a Wesleyan Chapel was built at Stones,
and about the samie time the Baptists, of
Steep Lane, Sowerby, established a branch
cause at Rishworth, so the long journey to
Sowerby generally ceased, but in November,
1816, Mr. Isaac Nortcliffe, one of the thre©
men who kept up the Sowerby membership,
began to preach in a chamber at Parak Nook,
and in 1818 a Sunday School was commenced.
For three years he gave voluntary service, and
then a small quarterly allowance was raised
which got lip to 25s. before his death, March
18, 1830, aged 73. In 1P32 land was secured
and a chapel built, Mr. Maslen, of Rishworth
School, being the chief subscril>er, giving £5.
At Elaster, 1833, the edifice was opened, and a
church formed. The pulpit was generally oc-
cupied by students from Bradford, until Sep-
tember, " 1843, when the REV. HANLEY
PICKERSGILL, a native of Keighley, entered
on the pastorate which he held for four years.
His first wife died in 1844, and hie second wife
was Miss Dyson, of Eishworth. He died in
1903 at Lightcliffe. Besides the Wadsworfhs,
Nortcliffes, Whiteleys and Crossleys, another
well-disposed working family was the Huns-
worths, and they supplied a student for the
ministry— the Rev. George Hunsworth, M.A.,
of Mixenden, Derby aaid Kidderminster. The
REV. JOSEPH WADSWORTH, of Clitheroe,
author of a funeral sermon preached on the
death of his tutor, the Rev. William Vint, and
who also published other works, was of the
same family as the man first named in this
article. The Rev. Joseph W^adsworth was
author of : —
'' Lectures on the Apocalyptical Epistles to
the Seven Churches of Asia; nearly 500 pp.,
1825, 12mo, 6s. 6d. There is a most glowing
review of this work in the " Evangelical
Mag'azine, " 1826.
Facts and Truth opposed to Roman Catholic
Infidelity and Error: two Lectures at the In-
dependent Chapel, Clitheroe, by J. Wadsworth.
l8. 6d.
Address to the Students, Airedale College,
by Jos. Wadsworth, Clitheroe, 1838; printed by
request.
He edited at Clitheroe a monthly magazine
entitled " The Voice of Truth, " 1831-3. He
trained several men for the ministry. Another
JOSEIPH WADSWORTH issued in Sept., 1866,
a pamphlet about four inches by three, 30
pages, entitled " Jubilee Memorials of the
Congregational Church at Rishworth, by J.
Wadsworth. " Halifax, T. and W. Birtwhistle,
Northgate, 1866. This is a very commendable
little booklet by Joseph Wadsworth, " a work-
ing man of uninterrupted and anxious toil."
I don't think there has been a stated minister
since Mr. Pickersgill left in 1847.
The works and notices of the REV. GEORGJD
HUNSWORTH, M.A., who now has retired to
Bradford, are sta.ted below. He was bom in
Rishworth 1842, brought up in the small Con-
gregational Chapel and Sunday School known
as Parak Nook, where his father, William
Hixnsworth, was choir master for over 50
years, as well as Deacon, Secretary, Superin-
tendent, &c. He was educated for the ministry
at Rotherham College and Glasgow University
where he took the degree of M.A. and he held
the following pastorates: Mixenden 1869-1872;
Old Meeting House Kidderminster afterwards
known as Baxter Church 1872-80; Victoria-
street Church, Derby, 1880-1904. He then re-
tired from the pastorate and removed to Man-
ningham, Bradford. He published " Memo-
rials of the Old Meeting House, or Baxter's
Nonconformist Descendants," 1874 (Parry &
Co., Shuttle Office, Kidderminster); "Our
duty in relation to the Catholic revival," 1876
(Jas. Clarke & Co., London); an address deliv-
ered at Coventry; ''The darkness is passing
away " (F. Carter, Derby), 1887, a sermon
preached in Victoria-street Church on the oc-
casion of the Mayor and Corporation visiting
the church; "Congregationalism: ideal and
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actual " (John Milton & Co., Chesterfield),
1887, an address from the chair of the Derby-
shire Con^i-egational Union; "Christ and St.
Paul" (F. Cjvrter, Derby), an address at the
Derbyshire Congregational Union meetings
held at Glossop, 1890; and "Light in the
Gloom " (C. H. Stoc-kwell, London)— a volume
of 15 sermons, with portrait of author, 1904.
Also " The Pastor's Farewell," 1904 (F. S.
Carter, Derby).
RIPPONDEiN.
The memorial stone of Ripponden Congrega-
tional Chapel was laid in 18G9 by Mr. Henry
Lee, of Manchester, his brother, Mr. R. K.
Lee, being a great promoter, but died in 1871.
The Church was founded in 1870. The Rev.
STEPHEN HARTLEfY was minister from
July, 1872, to 1876, the Rev. WILLIAM HAR-
PER FOX from August, 1878, to 1892. The
Rev. ARTHUR GILBY, M.A., became minis-
ter in August, 1895. Mr. Hartley was educa-
ted at Lancashire Independent College. On
leaving Ripponden he went to Australia, and
returning settled at Besses o' the Bnrn.Prest-
wich, in 1880. Mr. Fox, an Airedale student,
removed to Malton in 1892 and Bury in 1899.
I am not aware of any publications by them.
LXVII— SOWERBY & SOWERBY BRIDGE.
The Rev. Nathaniel Raifjhband, puritan
minister at Sowerby, removed to York, where
he beca.nie a famous preacher. His brother
William, M.A., of Oxford, was ejected in 1662
from Southwold in Essex, and died at Highgate
in 1695. Their father was a nonconformist
minister though he wrote against the Brown-
iwds. He was silenced in Lancashire. The
Rev. Henry Root, of 'Sowerby, and his son, the
Rev. Timothy Root, of Sowerby Bridge, have
been previously recorded as founders of the
nonconformist cause at Sowerby On the
death of the Roots the congregation became
partially •dispersed, some joining Oliver Hey-
wood's community at Northowram, including
Archbishop Tillotson\s father. About thirty
years later, 1720, the scattered fragments of a
congregation again united, and a chapel was
built, ajnd in 1721 the REV. WILLIAM
DODGE, a useful preacher and physician, was
minister, and remained several years, and was
buried in the chapel in 1743, aged 46. In 1744
the Rev THORBURN Bueceeded, and
he was followed by MR. ANDREWS. Of these
two men we have no memorials.
In 1754 the REV. DiVNIEL PHILLIPS, edu-
cated at Pulheli, Carnarvonshire, and also by
Dr. Latha.m, came to Sowerby from Eastwood.
He is said to have been an Arian. He removed
to Hupton, Norfolk, in 1788. His wife was
buried at Sowerby in July, 1767, aged 48, and
the stone also mentions two of their sons,
buried in the same chapel.
'J'he REV. JAMES TETLEY, junior, a.
native of Sowerby, became student at Heck-
mondwike in 1762. Mr. Phillips lived to the
age of 84, and before his settlement some
seceders had joined in founding Steeji Lane
Baptist Chapel.
The REV. EDMUND BUTCHER, from
Daventry Academy, came to Sowerby in 1788,
but after six months' stay he removed to
London, and in the same year the REV.
JACOB HAKWOOI) succ'eeded. This popular
minister went to Aimerica in 1794, and tlie
REIV JOSEPH SOWDEN, of Trevecca Cui
lege, took his place in February. He was at
luKiependent, ministering at Morley from 178 1,
and Booth Chapel, 1788, and in 1800 removed
to Warrington, thence to Bolton, and lastly
to Blackbuin, where he died in 1822.
The REV. EM HOLLINGWORTH, a
native of Wooldale in Holmfirth, educated at
Northowram Academy, was minister at Brig-
house 1790, and came to Sowerby in May,
1800. He was an ultra-Calvinist, and in many
respects very eccentric. In 1803 he removed
into Lancashire to take charge of a school.
The REV. JAMES HATTON, of Hoxton
Aicademy, came to Sowerby in December, 1803,
and was ordained next year. There is a
monument fro his memory in the chapel. He
died February 11, 1840, aged 66, having been
pastor 36 years. Esther, his wife, was buried
there in August, 1841.
The REV. JOSEPH BOTTOMLEY, born at
Saddleworth, November 2, 1806, was educated
at Airedale College, settled first at Richmond
in 1837, and in September. 1840, at Sowerby.
In 1860 a new chapel was commenced. Mr.
Bottomley died May 19, 1865, and was buried
at the chapel.
In December, 1865, the REV. RICHx\RD
JOHN SARGENT, educated at the Western
College, Plymouth, who had ministered at
Bangalore and at Billericay (Essex), came (o
Sowerby, and remained until July, 1872, when
he took charge of Ponders End Chapel, Lon-
don.
In March, 1873, the REV. MOSEIS PERRY
succeeded. He now resides at Whittington
Moor, Derbyshire (1904), where he settled in
1889.
The REV. WILLIAM CUNNOR EVANS,
trained at Airedale College, after eight years
ministry el-ewheie settled at Sowerby in 1890.
The Rev. John Hanson, of Takeley in Essex,
wa,s born July 17, 1782, in Halifax parish, and
joined the Sowerby Independents under the
Rev. James Hatton. He became minister at
Takeley in 1808. In July, 1851, this gentle-
man, "a rough, unpolished diamond" resigned
his charge, and died January 23, 1857, and was
buried near the pulpit in Takeley Chapel.
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SO WE KB Y BRIDGE INDEPENDENT
CHAPEL.
T'le story of this place 1838 to 1868 is taken
from a pamphlet:, as under: —
" A Brief Memorial of the Independent
Chapel, West Etod, Sowerby Bridge, " October,
1868, twelve pages. Halifax, F. King. Besides
the history of tlie Chapel, the origin of which
wag mooted in October, 1838, and the ground
purchased soon afterwards from Mr. Robert
Edlestone, who contributed JIlOO, resulting in
the opening of the chaiiel on June l((th, 1840,
there are a few dates of ecclesiastical import-
ance. The ''Biigge Chapel," episcopalian,
was built in 1526; in 1632 the walls were rais-
ed and galleries ei'ected, and the present
Sowerby Biidge Church was built in 1819 on
a mew site.
Wesleyan Methodism was preached at Sterne
Mills in 1780; their fir&t chaipel — now a day
school— was built in 1801, and the new chapel
in 1831.
The Primitive Methodists started at Goose
Ne\st, Norland, in 1821, removed to Waterloo
Street, Sowerby Bridge, in the same year; the
present chapel was built in 1838-9, opened
-\Iay, 1839. St. George's, oT Quarry Hill
Church was erected in 1840, and the Reform-
ers' Chaptel, Tuel Lane, in 1852.
The pamphlet was issued by the REV.
RITCHIE MOFFETT, who had been trained
at Rotherham College, and held the Sowerby
Bridge pastorate from March, 1819, to Christ-
mas, 1879, when he resigned; and wais succeed-
ed in July, 1881, by the REiV. A. K. STOWELL
of Rotherham College, grandson of Dr. Stowell,
the College Tutor. The two previous pastors
were the REV. ROBERT BELL, who had been
trained at Airedale College, Idle, and was at
Stainland from 1829 to 1840, Sowerby Bridge
1840 to 1S42, Brighouse (Bridge End), 1812-
1851, whose name appears in this series of
article^ as an author; and the second Sowerby
Bridge minister was the REV. HARFORD
JONES, of Cheshunt College, 1843 to 1&47,
when he retired from the ministry. Mr. Moffett
died January 9th, 1883. The' Rev. Arthur
Knight Stowell's health failed and in March,
1885, he removed to Newton Park, Leeds, where
he still remains.
The REV. JOHN PANDY WILLIAMS, of
Brecon College, (brother of Mr. Rhondda Wil-
liamis, of Bradford), became minister at
Llanelly, &c., in 1873, and succeeded Mr.
Stowell at the Bridge Chapel in 1885. He re-
moved to Derby in 1889, and has published
some volumes of sermons. His successor is
the REV. GEORGE SAMUEL SMITH, of
Airedale College, which he leift in 1876, for
Halifax (Harrison Road). In 1885 he went to
Gosport, and came to Sowerby Bridge in 1890.
His works are : —
1879.— " The Band of Hope: Its work and re-
lation to the Christian Church, " 12p., 8vo.
pamphlet.
1898. — "In jiemoriam : William Ewart Glad-
stone, " Sermon (by request).
Ii900. — " Something Real : A. Narrative founded
on fact, " 8vo. tract.
1891.— We^st End Chapel, Sowerby Bridge,
Jubilee volume (with portraits).
1904.— Airedale College: Historic Sketch. In
''Memoirs of Daniel Eraser, M.A., LL.D. "
Also Editor of Halifax Congregational Maga-
zine, 1883-4. Halifax Band of Hope btar,
1881. Gosport Congregational Magazine,
1886-8. West Emd Congregational Church
Magazine, Sowerby Bridge, 1891-6. Sowerby
Bridge and District Free Church Magazine,
1897-1904.
The REV. REUBEN BRIGGS, M.A., of
Glasgow University, and the REV. W. MIT-
CHELL were sent from Sowerby Bridge to
Airedale College as students. Mr. Briggs is
now minister at Heckmondwike.
LXVIII.— EASTWOOD CONGREGATIONAL
MINISTERS.
xne REV. MATTHEW SMITH, a notice of
whom hats previouisly appeai^ed, established
the* Preribyteriian, now Congregational cause
amongst other places at the Elastwood near
Cross stone Church, in 1693, and he preached
at the Great House in Stansfield alternately
with Mixenden, from 1699; Mr. Wainman (of
Bingley), Mr. Aldred (of Warley), and Mr.
Stevenson being also the chief supplies, but
the first settled minister was the REV.
JOSHUA CORDINGLEY, 1712, who exchanged
alternately with the REV." JOHN SMITH, of
Warley, son ol the foundei-, Matthew Smith,
until about 1730. In 1719 the Chapel at Bent-
head was built; now in cottages. The REV.
EVAN STOCK, of Warley, alternated with Mr.
Cordingley for some time before the death of
the latter in 1734. Mr. Stock and the REV.
ROBERT EDEN, of Elland, took alternate
services for some time. He is called William
Eden in one account, and was not settled at
Ellland before 1738, whereas the Robert Eden
is given as at Eiastwood 1724, and exchanging
pulpits with Mr. Cordingley for seven years.
There is evidently a muddle here that needs
investigation. '"About 1739" THOMAS
FARRAR was the minister, and after two
years and a half removed to Elland. He and
Mr. Stock, of Warley, alternated, and both
left their places together in 1742. We come to
a fixed date 1739, when the REV. ROBERT
HESKETH, of Glasgow Uniwrsity, oame from
Bolton in Lancashire, so Mr. Farrer's date,
1739, is doubtful. In 1744 Mr. Hesketh re-
moved to Northowram, and was succeeded at
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Eastwood in the same year by the REV.
I)ANTE(L PHILLIPS, who had l>een at Ripley,
and iu li753 removed to Sowerby. All theae
names we pass by because they will appear
again in the parish notices. In 1754 the REV.
MICHAJEL MAURICE came to Eastwood, and
In 1770 removed to Pudsey, where he died
three years later. He was ancestor of the
celebrated Professor F. D. Maurice. In 1771,
a third Welshman, from Carmarthen Academy,
the REV. DAVID LEWIS was minister, and
removed to Peniston in 1777, when the RTiV.
THOMAS ROBERTS succeeded, but died at
Eastwood, July 4, 1779, and was followed by
the REV. DAVID SIMPSON, a Scotchman,
from Newcastle, who was a suppotsed Arian,
and was driven out. He removed to Hol-
combe, Lamcashire. In 1784 the REV. EVAN
MATTHlAlo succeeded to the disturbed con-
gregatdon, and in 1786 retired to Newcombe,
Lancashire. Tlie REV. WILLIAM MAINE
came in 1787 and next year vanished to Hol-
combe. The REV. THOMAS JEREMY, after-
wards of Uxbridge, was here a few months
before the REV. THOMAS FORDYCE came
in 1789, but his high pulpit qualifications did
not serve long. In 1791 he was at Stand, Lan-
oashire. Next year the REV. JAMES
HENDERSON, of Edinburgh University, a
diligent pastor, settled, and dying on August
26th, 1804, at Eastwood, left a church with
four members. This century of turmoil is
probably unique in local denominational his-
tory. The Rev. Joseph Cockin, of Halifax,
oame to the rescue by sending students from
Idle Aicademy, one of whom, the REV. JAMES
SCOTT, became tihe minister in 1/807, and the
cause began to flourish, and a new chapel was
built (still remaining as four cottages). In
1814 he removed to Cleckheaton, where he died
in 1852. After three years' interval, the REV.
ROBERT ALLATT, of Rotherham College,
came to Eastwood in 1817, and before his re-
moval to Manchester in 1819,' the cause was
again completely wrecked. Mr. Allatt died in
1834 at Walsall. In January, 1822, the REV.
AMOS BLACKBURN became the minister,
and prosperity returned, and a new chapel
w.as built in 1840. In 1863 he was caairjiinn
of the West Riding Congregational Union.
On January 28, 1864, he was killed at the rail-
way crossing near the chapel and station.
I have three pamphlets referring to Mr.
Blackburn, namely, a tract about four inches
long, entitled " Piety at Home. A Sermon
preached in Elbenezer Chapel, Calderbrook,
July 25th, 1847, on occasion of the Death of
Mrs. Calvert, wife of the Rev. Daniel Calvert,
by A. Blackburn. " Todmorden, Walton,
1847, 36 paiges. (Mrs. Calvert was the daughter
of Ambrose Patchett, of Warley, a worshipper
at Mixenden Chapel.) Also a ''Fimeral Ser-
mon on the Death of the Rev. William Vint,
of Idle." Printed at Idle in 1834.
The other pamphlet, 24 pages, crown octavo,
was printed (in 1864) by R. Chambers, Tod-
morden, price twopence, its title being
" Memoir of the late lamented Rev. Amoe
Blackburn, Congregational Minister at East-
wood, Todmorden, containing a History of the
Church at Eastwood, and other churches he
has been instrumental in establishing; Remini-
sce'uces of his personal Friends; and the beet
extracts from the Funeral Sermons preached
on t)he occasion of his death by the Revs. J.
Parsons, of York, and D. Jones, of Booth. "
He was born at Pinebury Hill, Southowram,.
July 14th, 1800, but the family early removed
to Northowram village. He and his six
brothers and three sisters were frequently seen
at the grandmother's, Mally Blackburn, Slead-
syke, who was mother of seven sons. Amos
was taken by William Knight, solicitor, (son
of the Halifax vicar, and afterwards a clergy-
man)) into his office, and attended Trinity
Church in the forenoon of Sundays, and Square
Chapel in the afternoons; and schoolmaster
Greenwood's night school at stated opportuni-
ties. At sixteen curiosity led him to tramp to
Idle to see the Academy, and soon after Mr.
Cockin recommended him as a student to Mr.
Vint. The Vicar of Halifax pressed him to-
enter the established ministry, but he joined
Idle Academy on trial February 2nd, 1818, and
on March 8th preached his first student's ser-
mou in Idle Chapel. In one year fifteen of
the students walked 17,000 miles to their preach-
ing engagements. Two of them (Mr. Blackbm n
being one,) were overpowered by a storm of
wind and rain when crossing the Moor to
Pateley-bridge, and lay exhausted on the
ground for a long time. He preached nearly
fifty times during the first three montlis
(March — May), and travelled for that purpose
560 miles. ^Ir. Blackburn married Hannah,
daughter of Mr. John Horsfall, of Underbank,
near Horsfall and Cross-stone Church, but she
died in August, 1837, in her 27th year, leaving
an only child, who became the wife of the Rev.
J. Wilde. Mr. Blackburn was highly esteemed
by the Rev. John Fennell, vicar of Cross-stone
the kinsman (bv marriage) of Mrs. Patrick
Bronte. MR. ABRAHAM PICKLES entered
Airedale College from Eastwood, and became-
minister at Thirsk, and chaplain at Hunslet
Cemetery.
The REV. JAMES READ was born in Wilt-
shire, and was educated at Western College,
Plymouth. In 1851 he was at Axminster
Chapel, in 1854 at Atherston, in 1866 at East-
wood, and retired in 1834. He died at Light-
cliffe November 4th, 1893, aged 74.
The REV. JOHN WILSON in 1885 succeeded.
He had been at Staithes in 1872, Clayton We,-t
in 1876, an.l still holds Eastwood pastorate.
He left Nottingham College in 1872.
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LXIX.— BLLAJSTD.
In 1689 the EEV. JOHN LISTER was or-
dained by Heywood and others at Alverthorpe,
and ministered at EiUand in that year, tor
the request to have the house of John Brooks^
bank at Elland licensed for preaching services
was signed by Brooksbank and John Lister in
July, 1689, two months before his ordination,
and he seems also to have ministered to the
Lidget congregation, near Holmfirth, for a
short time by miitual exchanges. Before 1699
he had removed to Tingley (otherwise Top-
cliffe, or Woodkirk,) where he died April 11th,
1707, and was buried in the graveyard still
to be teen in private grounds there. JOHN
BR00K8BANK was a member of Heywood's
church at Northowram, and a man of extra-
ordinary piety and usefulness. He died in
September, 1715. The eccentric bookseller of
London, John Dimton, gives a glowing pane-
gyric on Mrs. Bathshua Brooksbaaik, of E.Iand,
"She lis of a good mien and presence; but
which is much more of a noble genius and
elevation of mind and thought above most of
her sex. Her natural parts, which are extra-
ordinary, being so greatly improved by her di-
ligence in reading the best authors doth make
her a very accomplished gentlewoman. She is
a great friend to learning, and all laudable and
pious designs which she will spare no cost to
promote. She understands a book well, and
hath her closet richly furnished with a curious
collection of the best authors, in the ordering
of which she affects a peculiar nea.tnese, as
she does in her family affairs and concern-
ments, &c.,&c.' Joseph Brooksbank, of Lon-
don, endowed the chapel of the Nonconfor-
mists here, and the Free School. A funeral
sermon for liim wag published by the Rev. T.
Dickenson, of Northowram, with a preface by
the Eev. N. Priestley, of Halifax. Brooke-
bank, aiithor of a folio book, 1660, entitled
"The well-tuned Organ, &c.," is said to have
been an ancestor of the Elland gentleman.
The REV. JEREMIAH BAIRSTOW settled
at Elland in 1669. He died in 1731, aged 61,
and was buried in EUla.nd churchyard. A
gravestone bore a Latin inscription to his
memory, which was composed by his successor,
from which we learn that ''he was a truly
venerable man, if the science of letters, probi-
ty of manners, and sanctity of life have any
claim to that character." He was married to
Widow Clay, of Northowram, at Coley, in
1721. His successor was the REV. HANANIAH
BLSTON, M.A., eon of the Eev. Thomas Els-
ton, of Topcliffe, and of Chesterfield. He ciime
from Malton (where he had married Lydia
Hollings), to Elland in 1731, and died at Elland
in 1738. His gravestone is near Mr. Bairstow's
and the inscription in Latin was compose<l by
MR. CROWTHEE, a member of the Elland
Nonconformist Chapel, who conformed and
became vicar of Otluy. Mr. Crowther was a
dissenting minister for some time probably.
The REV. GEOEGE BEAITHWAITE, educa-
ted at Kendal under Dr. Eotherhani, was min-
ister at E':land about 1740, but conformed, and
was curate at Eastrick, as well as chaplain to
Sir Geo. Sa,vile in Notts. In 1742, the EEV.
THOMAS FAEEAE, a member of the Farrare,
of Elland Park, came here from Eastwood
Chapel, but died in 1745, and was buried in
the Elland Chapel. The EEV. WILLIAM
EDEN succeeded in 1745, preaching here and
at Eastwood alternately. Some confusion in
his name (Eobert), and in dates appears in our
Eastwood sketch. The death of his only eon
(perhaps this was the Eobert -^den) led him
to relinquish his charge in October, 1770. The
EEV. JOHN HOUGHTON was the next minis-
ter at Eilla.nd. He was educated under Dr.
Doddridge, and at Glasgow, and before settling
at Elland, May, 1771, he was at Piatt, Hyde,
a,nd Nantwich successively. In 1782 he re-
moved to Wem, and afterwards followed his
son Pendlebury to Norwich, where he died in
1800. He was author of an Einglish Grammar,
wliich he used in his school at Nantwich, and
he published "The Sacrifice of the Mass," by
Henry Pendlebury, who was a relative of his
first wife. I have a pamphlet by Pendlebury
Houghton, 19 pages, 1822; a funeral sermon on
Saml. Eeid, Liverpool. It notices two other
published sermons, 1801, 1810. The EEV. THQ-
Mxio EEES succeeded at Elland in June, 1782,
and remained until May, 1793, when the EEV.
SAMUEL GIELE came, but left in 1796. He
published a volume of sermons at Newcastle
in 1805. He had had many removals in Lan-
cashire, &c., before "he clo&ed a wearisome
pilgrimage" in 1817.
The EEV. JOSIAH TOWNSEND, a Daventry
student, had settled successively at Leeds,
Narborough, Eotherham, and Fairfield, before
coming to Mland in 1796, which he left in
July, 1819. In September, 1815, the EEV.
JOHN BEATTIE succeeded at Elland, and re-
mained until 1834, when the EEV. THOMAS
STEWAET came and ministered until 1860.
The EBV. JAMES MATTHIAS DIXON was
tfie last minister at the Southend Chapel.
1860-1866, and the ministers at the new edifice,
Christ Church, have been the EEVS. THOMAS
ROBERT DOBSON, 1866-8; JOHN ELLIS.
senr., 1868-71; ABEL BUCKLEY, 1874-8 JAMES
RUDDLE, 1882-4; JAMES TAYLOR, 1897-
1902; JOHN ELLIS (junior) 1902 to the present,
biit he re-sides in Lightcliffe and is missioner
for the district. Mr. Ruddle is author of a
tract published by the Unitarian Society, Lon-
don. He resides at Chorlton, near Manchester.
I expect to find that several of the fore men-
tioned ministers have printed sermons, &c. A
portrait of the Rev. James Wraith, a native of
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Blland, appeared in tlie "Evangelical Maga-
zine," 1800. "Christian Triumph," a sermon
occasioned by the death of the Rev. JameB
Wradth, of HJampstead, by the Rev. Jacob
Snelgar, octavo, Is. 6d. A memoir is inter-
woven with the closing sectron of the sermon.
Mr. Wraith was born at Ellland, May 28th,
1734, but removed when four years old to Mir-
field, his father's native place. Ho wac3 educa-
ted i Mirfield Grammar School, when not en-
giaged working on a farm. After labouring as
a local preacher for fifteen years he became
minister at Bolton in Lancashire in the Spring
of 1772. After ten years' services he removed
to Wolverhampton, and laboured another ten
j'eai-s; in both cases evangelizing the neigh-
bourhood After a few months at Chorley, he
settled at Hampstead for 21 year:>, and died
there May 1st, 1815, aged 80. He was very
widely known about Loudon. The victims of
the Mil-field murders by Patrick Reid were of
this family.
BLLAND CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS.
About 1S20 this cause was started in a hired
room in New-street, with a, Svinday school in
the same place. In August, 1822, the Rev. Ed.
ward Parsons, Halilfax, assisted by the Rev.
Samuel Rhodes, of Stainland, laid the founda-
tion stone of a new chapel, and the place was
opened July 9th, 1823. The Rev. JOHN GAR-
BUTT, from Idle Academy, was the first min-
ister, 1825, being ordained February 3rd,
1826; he died April 29th, and was buried in
the new graveyard, aged 30. The REV. WIL-
LIAM GOTHARD served for twelve monthis
1829, and removed to Balderstone, and in 1834
to Knottingley. The REV. WILLIAM HAGUE
from Rillington, came in June, 1831, and re-
signed in November, 1832. After five years the
REV. SAMUEL ODDIEi, bom at Wyke, edu-
cated at Idle Academy, became minisiter at
Blland in 1838, removed to Ossett in 1844,
which he resigned in 1869, and died at Pateley
Bridge, June 6th, 1879. He was a very
highly esteemed man (Congregational Year
Books, 1860, p. 39; 1868, p. 9; 1880, p. 33), and
was chairman of the West Riding Union in
1868.
The REV. JOHN RHEIBDER, a, native of
Whixley, was sent from Leeds to Idle Acade-
my, became minisiter at Ossett in 1820, removed
to Hamburgh EInglish Church in 1831, settled
at Elland Januairy 1st, 1846. On October 31st,
1854, he left and for a short time was temporary
chiapla n at Airedale College. He died at his
son-in-law's, Mr. Potter, Knaresborough, Feb-
ruary 5th, 1872, aged 79. The REV. JAMES
' ""^^ was the first minister of the new
chapel. He was born at Ipswich in 1814, was
Baptist minister at Shiffnall, next Indepen-
dent minister at Thorne, near Sheffield, and
in 1857 settled at Eliand. In September, 1863,
he removed to Market Deeping, and next to
Billesdon. He died at Leicester, October 1st,
1873. In September, 1865, the Rev. FRANCIS
BOLTON, B.A., of Springhili College, began
his labours and in August, 1872, went to Lan-
c-a.ster. Whilst at Eliand he tianslated from
the German DeHtzch's Conimeiitajy on .Tob
and the Psalms for Clarke's Theological Libra-
ry. He was a native of Luton, born May 7th,
1839. He was a B.A. of London, and was edu-
catel at Berlin and Leipzig, as well as Spring-
hill College. He resigned Lancaster chapel in
1881, and was engaged in secretarial work in
Birmingham down to 1890, when he removed to
Brixton, where he was connected with the
Press agency. In 1897 he retired to Lancaster,
but died Februarv 19th, 1898, aged 59.
The Rev. THOMAS PORRITT was the min-
ister at Elliand for twelve years, 1878-1890. He
afterwairds went to Morey. The REV. SCOTT
COATEiS, the present minister at ErUand came
in 1892.
The REV. CHARLES LEACH, (D.D., of
Ohio), a native of Illingworth, was trained at
Ranmoor, and ministered in Birmingham from
1879, at Queen's Park from 1886, and Manches-
ter from 1897. He is now at Harecoui-t Chapel,
Canonbury, London. His parents removed
from H'ingworth to Halifax during his in-
fancy, and when he became of age he resided
at Ellland. After six years residence there he
entered Rajimoor Methodist College. His
works include "Can I know that I am saved ?"
a tract. "Old, yet ever new," lessons from
O-d Testament life, 5s.; "Sermons to working
men," 4s. 6d. ; "Sunday afternoons with work-
ing men,' 4s. 6d.; "How I reached the mass-
es," 2s. 6d.; "Is my Bible true?" 2s. 6d.;
"Lamps and Lighters; to working men," Is.
6d. ; ''O'ld Friends," Is.; "Homewai'd Bound,"
l6.; "Mothers of the Bible," Is.; "Romance
of Religious Begging," Is. ; "Labour Move-
ment," 3d.; "Knowing Friends in Heaven,"
Is.; "Bethesda Chapel; a Yorkshire dialect
story," Is. 6d.
LXX .— NORTHOWRAM.
The works of the REV. OLIVER HEY-
WOOD have been mentioned previously. The
first chapel was built at his own expense most-
ly and bore his initials O.H. and the date
1688 on a stone, which is built into the pre-
sent edifice. He came to Coley in 1650, and
fvfter his ejection in 1662 continued to preach
in the neghbourhood. He died May 4, 1702,
aged 73, and brass tablets were erected in
Halifax parish church (where he was buried),
and at Northowraim so late as 1902. He was
succeeded by the REV. THOMAS DICKENSON
who haid been educated at Frankland's
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Academy. Mr. Dickenson was ordained at
Grorton Chapel in May, 1694. He continued,
after the s?ime style, th^ Northowram or
Oliver Heywood's Kegister, Avhich I have print-
ed under the title of "Nonconformist Register."
He was born near Manchester in 1669, and
came to Northowram in 1702. In 1705 he
married Hiumah Foster, of Ossett, and they
had twelve children, one of whom was the
EEiV^. JOSHUA DICKENSON, of Gloucester,
who died Deceiiiber 10, 1796, aged 69. The
Northowram minister printed a funeral ser-
mon on the deiith of Mr. .lohn Brooksbank,
of EUand, who died September 23, 171i5, a copy
of which is in Bradford Free Library. The
text was I. Timothy i. 15, and Mr. Nathaniel
Priestley, of Halifax Chape", added a preface
of four pages. I have seen manu.sciipt ser-
mons of his at Braboeiif Manor, Guildford,
3(3 recorded in th.? preface to "Northowram
Register." MR. THOMAS BRADBITRY, the
great London divine and author, was partly
educated by Mr. Thomas Dickenson.
I have a cop.v of the following book, and let
the Rev. M. Pearson, of Northowram. have a
similar one : " Sermons on Several Occasions
by the late Reverend and Learned Thomas
Whitaker, A.M., pastor to a Church at Lteds
in Yortehire, containing — A Discou.rse, &c.,
A Sermon on the Death of Mr. .Joseph Lii-ter,
A Sermon on the Death of Mr. .Joshua Sager,
A Sermon oa the Death of Mr. "^riiomas Els' on,
Life of Mr. .Jer. Gill, Two Sei"mon8 on the
Funeral of the Rev. Mr. Whitaker by Thomas
Dickenson, A Memorial of Mr. Whitaker by
Mr. JoUie, Two Sermons by T. Bradbury. "
London, printed for .John Penrose, bookseller
in Leeds, 1712, xii., 295 pages, small octavO'.
Mr. Dickenson died in December, 1743, aged
73. and is buried at Northowram.
The REV. ROBERT HEhSTTETH, born in
1697, educated at Glasgow, was succ-essively
minister at Bolton-le-Moors, 1722, Carnforth
1725, Walmsley, Eastwood (Halifax parish)
1739, Northowram, April, 1744. He died at
Northowram January 19, 1774, aged 77, and
a gravesrtrone still miarks the place of his in-
terment. He was son of the Rev. Robert Hes-
Kfu.ii, who had been educated by Frank'aud
at Rathmel, and had minisiteTed at Bolton
from 1696, where hiis son was probabl.v born.
In 1716 the father was minister at Bank New-
ton, in 1720 at Winterton near Malham, in
1736 at Tingley, and was buried at Tingley (or
Morley) in 1751. Two Halifoix ministers are
buried in the Tingley ground, (now private
garden and fish-pond!), namely the Revs.
Josiah Holdsworth and Gamaliel Marsden.
In 1774 the REV. SAAIFFT. WALl^FR.
educated at Heckmondwike Academy from
1771, succeeded ilr. Hesketh, and was for a
time very popular. On the death of the Rev.
James Scott, in 1783, the Heckmondwike
students wei-e removedl to Northowram and
continued there twelve years, the students
being : —
Ten who came from Heckmondwike, namely :
John Toothill, became minister at Rainfoid,
died 1839, aged 79.
Houlton, became minister at Kendal and
Saffron Walden.
Timothy Senior, became minister at EHswick.
("See Fawcett's Misc. Sacra.)
Wood (declined).
Kirby, became minister a,t Creek.
John Dawson, liecame minister at Kevwoi-th,
died 1821, aged 63.
Thos. Whiteley, became minister at Foxholes.
Thomas Laird, Ijecame minister at Keighley,
Pudsey .
Plumber, becaane minister at Whitby.
Wm. Peel, became minister at Workington,
died 1848, aged 82.
Twenty spent the full term at Northowram :
J. Lyndall, became minister at Bridlington
and London.
Wiass, died when a student.
Tomlinson, died when a student.
* Brettel, became minister at Gainsboro'.
[* His son, the Rev. Jacob Brettel, Unitarian
Minister at Rotherham, became a notable
local poet. J
Wm. Maiirice, liecame minister at Haslingden
and Fetter Lane.
Crowther, became minister at Clare.
William Vint, l>ecame minister at Idle.
John Hindle, became minister at Haslingden.
Benjamin Sowden, became minister at Horton
in Craven.
Eli HoUingworth, Jjecame minister at Brig-
house.
Eeyner, became minister at Bullhouse.
Benjamin Boothroyil, became minister at
Pontefract, &c.
James Smith, became minister at Gatley.
William StiiTett. became miniteter at Keighley.
Ci'owther, became minister at Stockport.
Samuel Laycock, became minister at Bury,
and Pittsgrove. N.A.
Jonas Hinchclifte. Jiecame minister at Booth,
.\llerton.
David Dewhirst, liecame minister at Keighley.
Sugden, became minister at Whitby, York.
Brown, died when a student.
Four were transferred in 1795 to the care of
the Rev. William Vint, Idle: —
Thomas Taylor, Ossett and Bradford.
Charles Ely, Bury, (who bequeathed his library
to the Academies at Idle and Rotherhom
equally).
Joseph Batley, settled at Marple Bridge.
Abraham Hudswell, Bingley and Morley.
I have rea/son to think that some names
may have Jieen omitted from this list, for Job
Wilson, born at Sowerby in February, 1765,
entered Northowram Academy in 1794 or 5,
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and becivme an eminent minister at Noithwich,
Cheshire, where he was buried after 41 years
service there, as recorded on the tablet thei'e.
He died June 28, 1838.
.Foseph Glendenniug entered Airedale Col-
lege from Northowram. He became minii-^ter
at Greenacres and Knaresborough (1835).
Mr. Walker resigned the pastonijte in 179^,
ceased to be tutor in 1795, and died next year.
In 1796 MR. JOHN BATES, the Halifax
Schoolmaster-author, previously mentioned
uiuler Mixenden, came to preach but did not
reside a(t Northowram. He returned to Mix-
enden in 1799. He was a native of Bradshaw;
maintained the post at Mixenden until his
death April 23, 181i5, aged 63. He was buried
at Halifax South Parade Chapel, but railway
exigencies led the bodies thei-e to be removed
to Stony Rovd Cemetery.
In March, 1801, the BEV. ROBERT HARPER,
succeeded, having been three years minister
at Shelley. During his seventeen years at
Northowram the congregation Ma,s very un-
settled and for most of the time the dissenti-
ents worshipped in a chapel that they built.
He left in 1818. He removed to Grassington,
where there is a tablet to his memory, and he
ministered from 1822 until his death, March
5 1829
The REV. JOHN WHITE, from Idle Ac-
ademy, a native of Harden, became the minis-
ter in 1820; the parties united, and the branch
chapel was made into a cottage and Bold. In
1837 the Heywood chapel was built adjoining
the site of the old one. Mr. White was an
energetic preacher. Old folks at Brighouse
called him the steam -preacher, because of his
great perspiration. A monument at Northow-
ram records his death March 10, 1849, aged 61.,
after 29 years' service. His brother Thomas
was connected with the Daiv School as master.
In the same year the REV. GILES HOYLE
became minister. He was born at Manclief:ter,
July 15, 1793, was in business in Preston be-
fore becoming minister at Milnthorpe, 1826,
Staleybridge 1831, and Ancoats. He died at
Northowram October 27, 1861, and the con-
gregation placed a tablet in the chapel to his
memory as they had done for Mr. White.
The REV. JOSEPH HOYLEl, B.A., of Bramiley
Lane, Lightcliffe, was his son.
In 1862 the REV. JOHN HAGGIS DEEX
succeeded and ministered until July, 1S82.
He was born at Harwich in 1819, was mast.^r
of Allerton British School in 1844. He mai-
ried the daughter of the Rev. Thomas Button,
of Allerton. He continued to preach occasion-
ally, especially at Norwood Green, after re-
tiring to Hipperholme. He died November 9,
1894, and was buried at Northowram. His
successior in February, 1884, was the present
mmisteT, the REV. MARK PEARSON, pre-
viously of the Methodist Free Church, who
has worthily followed Oliver Heywood both
ais evangelist, local historian and free-church-
man. He has published a worthy record of
Heywood and Northowiani, demy octavo, and
larger paper copies in quaitiO': "Northowram:
its History amd Antiquities; with a Life of
Oliver Heywood, and Histories of Heywood
Chapel, Coley Church, Bell School, Old Halls,
Residences and Families of Northowram and
Shibden-Dale, &c., by Mark Pearson. With
Illustrations ajul Maps." Halifax, F. King
and Sons, Broad-street, 1898, pages xvi., 1-322.
A fire at the printing office has so limited the
issiie of these copies that the octavo volume
fetches three times the subscription price.
Mr. Pearson had t>upplied the serials in the
Hailifax Congregational Magazine, namely
" Ivy Green, " " Watty Miles, " " Little Eva, "
''Letting Christmas in," ''Ida Grange," and
"His Sister," but none of these ha.ve had a
separate issue. He liars, in connection with the
Halifax Antiquarian Society ifisued two pamph-
lets, "Northowram O'd Halls," 16 pages, oc-
tavo; aind "Over Shibden," a separate excerpt
but paged 53 to 68.
The first-named deals more largely with
Hipperholme than Northowra.ni ; Westercroit
being the only Noithowram homestead, while
Cinderhills and Coley Hall are in Hipperholme.
''Over Shibden" treats of Hazlehurst, Hang-
iiigroyd and Upper Shibden Hall.
The REV. THOMAS BUTTON , of North-
owram, was born at Eccleshill in 1794. His
mother died when he was fourteen, and from
that time he, like his parents, became a mem-
ber at Horton Lane Chapel, Bradford. He
was trained at Idle Academy from 1813, but
began to preach occaisionally in 1812. He was<
minister at Pocklington for ten years, and
then at Allerton for thirty yea,rs. He estab-
lished the Allerton British School in 1845. He
retired from the ministry nt A'lerton in 1857.
The Rev. J. H. Deex, who had been master of
the school at Allerton, married his daughter,
which accoiunts for his removal to Stone
Lodge, Northowram. He died in 1871, aged
77. I have a pamphlet memorial of him.
LXXI.— BRAMLEY LANE CHAPEL, NOW
LIGHTCLIFFE CONGREGATIONAL
CHURCH.
The Rev. Jonathan Wright, a native of
Hipperholme, was son of Jos. Wright, who
got his house licensed for preaching in 1694.
The house still exists in the fold behind the
capacious Langley house at Thornhill, Hip-
perholme. Jonathan, born in 1659, entered
Frankland's Academy in April, 1680, and for
a time preached at Idle and Horton. He was
ordained in 1694. He settled at Hove Edge
soon afteiwards and ha,d a fixed congregation
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lis
there (called in the list, Liiijhtclifife) in 1715.
He ^vas never curate of Lightcliffe as errone-
ously stated in Watson's list of Lightcliffe in-
cumbents. On November 20, 1700, he married
Dorothy, widow of the Rev. W. CourlattS, rec-
tor of Marston, and daughter of Bryan Dixon,
of Hunslet. Thoresby says: ''Her memory was
extiaor<linary." She could bring home the
greatest part of a sermon she had heard, as
well as if it had been written in shorthand.
This recommended her, it seems, greatly to
ministers, by whom she was much sought
after. Mr. Wright died in 1727, and I remem-
ber seeing and copying the gravestone in Hali-
fax Churchyard that recorded the burials of
Jonathan and Dorothy Wright. The Hove
Edge or Lightcliffe congregation did not con-
tinue after Mr. Wright's death.
A number of Primitive Methodists had
ei-ected a chapel at Bramley Lane in 1823, and
being unable to wield this "Mount 'Zion
Chapel" it was after some time sold to Mr.
John Holland, of Slead Syke, and Mr. Samuel
Hodgson, of Halifax, brotherB-in-law, who
made a trust deed for the Independents, and
for some years the place was supplied by
students from Idle. In 1830 the REV. AN-
DREW SHAWYER, who had ministered at
Rugeley, 1811, and at Bilston, was appointe<i
minister, and held the post nearly ten years,
serving at Sion Chapel, Halifax, in the after-
noons, part of the time. His son, ANDREW
FIELDE'N SHAWYER entered Rotherham
College in that year, 1830, and was minister
at Pateley Bridge, Delph, etc., and died at
Keswick in 1868.
For about a year the chapel was closed be-
fore the REV. HANLBY PICKERSGILL suc-
ceeded in 1841. The West Riding Home Mis-
sionary Society aided in the resuscitation.
Mr. Pickersgill was a native of Keighley, born
in 1815, city missionary in Mauchebter two
j'ears, and came to Bramley Lane in May,
1841, but was not ordajined until July, 1844,
after being nine months at Rishworth. In
1847 he was at Marsden, in 1860 at Wrexham
in 1865 at Tuufitall (Staffordshire). In 1874
he retired to Millthorpe, Westmorland, but
some yearg later came to Lightcliffe where he
died in 1903. He printed one or two poems.
His daughter, who resides in Southowram,
states that he also issued several political and
temperance pamphlets.
In 1844 the REV. GEORGE SWANN, born
at Barton near Barmsley, in 1798, educated at
Rotherham College, ministered at Market Bos-
worth, Bishop Auckland, Stokesley, Attercliffe
and Settle before coming to Bramley Lane.
Assisted by Mr. Titus Salt the cause began
to prosper. He removed to Worksop, and then
to Stafford whei-e he died Aug. 26. 1883, aged 84.
The REV. EDWARD G. CECIL, from High-
bury College, succeeded, but his stay was
short. In 1854 he became assistajit at Surrey
Chapel, London, and removed to Pembury
in Kent before 1865, when I attended "New-
man Hall's."
In 1855 the REV. JOSEPH HOYLEi, B.A.,
of Airedale College, son of the Rev. Giles
Hoyle, of Northowram, came her© from PicKCr-
ing, where he had been for five years. In
January, 1863, he removed to Staindrop. In
ISftl the REV. JOHN THOMSON, of Edin-
burgh and Glasgow Universities, came to
Bramley Lane from Beaminster. He was a
native of Dumfries-shire, and his first pastor-
ate was at Aberdeen (185^-1861). Several rich
families came to reside at Lightcliffe, and a
new clu'.rch was built in 1870 and 1871, Sir
Titus Salt's family being the main contribu-
tors. The REV. DR. CAMPBELL, of
Bradford, resided at Lightcliffe some years,
as did the REV. HENRY BROWN CREAK,
M.A., a Tutor in Airedale College before Mr.
Thomson came. Mr. Creak was buried at
Bramley Lane, February, 1864, aged 42. He
translated Olshausen's Commentary on the
Gospels for the Clark series. The new Church
Avas opened October 18, 1871, by notable
preachers — Binuey, Newman Hall, Dr. Guth-
rie, James Parsons, etc., and Dr. Robert
Moffatt's visit afterwards will be ever treasur-
ed as a red-letter day. Dr. Livingstone also
visited Crow Nest before this time. Sir Titu&
Salt died December 29, 1876, and was buried
at Saltaire. A popular day-school had been
established before 1850, the first master, George
Barber, being buried at Bramley Lane. From
1868 it had been under the British School
system. There was a newspaper quarrel about
its management, and a pamphlet in the Hali-
fax Free Library, printed in 1880, bears the
title, "Reply to the Bramley Lane British
School Committee, December 29, 1879." In
1880 Mr. Thomson removed to Eldad Congre.
gational Church, Guernsey, where he died of
heart disease, March 3, 1885. The REV.
SAMUEL PEARSON, from Lancashire Col-
lege, succeeded Mr. Thomson. He was ordain-
ed November 3, 1881, and in 1892 removed to
Tynemouth. The REV. JOHN HILTON
STOWELL, M.A., Glasgow and Oxon, was at
Barry, 1890, Lightcliffe 1893, Stroud Green
1898 and Aylesbury in 1901.
Mr. Hilton Stowell published "A Short
Catechism for Use in Congregational Sunday
Schools," with preface by A. M. Fairburn,
D.D., revised and improved. London, 1898,
3rd edition, 24 pages, 24mo.
''The Soul's Achievements," sermons, 1904,
price half-crown.
The REV. HAROLD STOREY, B.A., Caius
Coll, Cambridge, was at Dogley Lane, near
Feray Bridge, 1895, and came to Lightcliffe in
1900. He has published a political pamphlet
that I know of.
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LXXII— BBIGHOUSB INDEPENDENCY.
INDEPENDENCY AT BEIGHOUSE;
BRIDGE END CHAPE'L— PASTORS AND
PEOPLE.
(By J. Horefall Turner.)
Brighouso, J. S. Jowett, 1878, four illustrfttii.Mis,
crown octavo, 136 pages.
The ministers at Bridge Emd have been the
BEV. NATHANIEL SCHOLEEIELD, who was
trained at Heckmondwike Academy, settled
here for. a very short time, was ordained at
Henley on Thames in August, 178G, where his
son, Professor James Scholefield, Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge, Canon of Ely, was born. I
have the life of the Profewsor by his widow;
also "Sermon Notes," but his works do not
come within our list. In 1806, Mr. Nathaniel
removed to Oldham, and subsequently to
Over in Clieshire, where he died in 1820, aged
•68
The BEIV. BOBEBT SMITH was the second
Bridge Elnd minister. He Iiad been trained
at Heckmondw-ike, and settled at Leek before
1797. In 1807 he removed to Nantwich. He
died there March 20, 1822, aged 73. The REV.
JOHN MEILDBUM came from Malton to
Bridge Etnd in 1785, and removed next year
to Hatherlow in Cheshire, where he remained
twenty-eight years. In 1796 he published an
octavo volume entitled "The State of Beligion,
a Call for Humiliation." In 1807, he publish-
ed "The Incarnation of the Son of God Il-
lustrated : In three parts, (li) The Necessity of
it established; (2) 'J'he Beality of it proved;
(3) The Blessings of it exhibited. By John
Meldrum. London, 1807, two volumes, demj
octavo. Vol. I., pages xvii., 365; vol. II.,
pages viii., 343. The preface is dated Hather-
low, March, 1807. The books were printed at
Newport, in the Isle of Wight. The Sub-
scriberts^ List takes fourteen pages, amongst
whom are Revs. Dr. Boothroyd, Joseph & John
Cockin, John Calvert, John Hanson (Stain-
land), T. Hawkins, Eev. Henry Horsfall
(Gomersall), Mr. Benjamin Morton (Brighouse)
Rev. Wm. Northend (Brighouse), Rev. Joseph
Sowden (Bolton), Mr. Daniel Sharp (Brighouse),
Daji Taylor (London, six copies), and a few
others from Halifax parish.
At the end is an advertisement of ''The
State of Religion," octaivo, price 3s., and "The
Care of Providence over Life, and the Sin of
destroying it," price 6d., both by Mr. Mel-
drum. The latter is against murder; octavo,
Manchester, 1790. I have a couple of copies
of ''The Incarnation." The manuscript of
this work was given to Mr. Crisp, of Bridge
End, as also of thre© sermons by Mr. Meldrum,
•one of which has been given to me, and is
printed in the Bridge End history. Mr.
Meldrum died April 5. 1814, aged 64.
The REV. SAMUEIL LOWELL became min-
ister at Bridge End in 1786, when the church
was re-formed (the 1780 attempt failed). Mr.
Lowell was a convert under Joseph CocKin,
and named his third son after him. He was
at Stain land in 1781. In 1789 he removed to
Wpodbridge, in Suffolk, and ten years later to
Bristol, where he died November 19, 1823,
agea 64. Of his works I have: — "Sermons on
Evangelical and Prmctical Subjects, designed
chiefly for the use of Families. By Samuel
Lowell." Bristol, 1801; demy octiivo, pages
vii., 396 pages. Two good engraved portraits
have been inserted in my copy, — first and best
''The Late Rev. Samuel Lowed, Bristol," pub-
lished in 1824 for the Home Missionary Society,
T. Wageman, del., R. Woodman, sculp., the
second painted and engraved by N. Branwhite.
PoTtraits are in the Elvangelical Magazine,
1794, and New Evangelical Magazine, 1815, and
there was a life-size portrait of him by Holi-
day. In 1802 he published a discourse entitled
"The Blessings of Peace," preached on the
Thanksgiving Day, and in the same year,
''Elarly Piety recommended from the Example
of Josiah." In 1813 he printed "The Christ-
ian Soldier,*' a sermon addressed to five
hundred Scotch soldiers.
The Folly and Evil Tendency of Supersti-
tion exposed; a sermon by Samuel Lowell, 43
pages, octavo, 1795. on "Consecration of regi-
mental flags, &c."
Nature and Importance of Resignation, on
the deo.th of Mrs. Sizer, by S. Lowell, 1797, 9cl.
Four Sermons for Missionary Society, (Lon-
don, May Meetings, by S. Lowell, and three
others).
Papers by Geo. Griffiths, of Bristol, with
Memoir and Funeral Sermon by S. Lowell.
12mo., 144 pp., 2s. Gd.
He published in 1816 a sermon on the death
of Mr. Richard Reynolds, with memoir, on
whom Montgomery has a poem, — the sermon
bearing the title ''The Loss of Righteous and
Merciful Men lamented and improved." After
Mi-. Lo'wedl's death a book on "Reasons for Dis-
sent," a discourse on the ordination of Rev. J.
Woolridge, was issued 1823. A memoir appears
in the Efvangelical Magazine, February, 1824,
and further information in Gaston's Bristol.
The REV. EO HOLLINGWORTH, from
Northowram Academy, a native of Holmfirth
was at Bridge End in, if not before, 1790. In
1800 he removed to Sowerby, and thence in
1803 to keep ai school in Lancashire.
The REV. WM. NORTHEND, born 1747, a
native of Landimere in Northowram, became
a student at Heckmondwike. He had been
apprenticed to a tradesman at Armley, and
was recommended by the Rev. John Edwards,
of Leeds, to the Southfield Aoademy, Heck-
mondwike, under the Rev. James Scott. He
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thence went to Bridlington to succeed Mr.
Smith, the aged minister, in Maj', 1777. Mr.
Grimshaw, of South Cave, Mr. Wndker, of
Northowram, Mr. Gill, of Swanland, Mr. Bot-
tomley, of Scarborough, and Mr. Lambert, of
Hull, took part in the ordination services.
Before this period Mr. Northend had married
Elizabeth, fourth daughter of the Rev. Robert
Hesketh, Northowram. About 1789 Mr. North-
end removed to Welford, in Northants, and
shortly afterwards to Nayland in Suffolk,
where his wife died in October, 1789. In 1792
he married Miss St(i.mmers, of Nayland; in
1795 they removed to Haslingdeu, but two years
later he received a call to Brighouse, where
he "laboured with diligence and fidelity" (so
says the memoir in the Evangelical Magazine,
November, 1821), until June, 1810, aft^r which
he only preached occasionally. For the lafit
four years of his life he was troubled with
fits of syncope, which deprived him of his
memory. In these years he was eminently
devout. He died April 9th, 1821, at the house
of hiti son-in-law, Mr. Darnsfield, at Slaith-
waite. He was interred at Northowram Chapel,
when Mr. White oificiated. Nearly two thous-
and people attended the funeral sermon at
Slaithwaite, when Mr. Walter preached, and
the Rev. Joseph Cockin preached another a,t
Northowram. He left a son and a daughter,
besides a widow. The memoir is signed by
J.B., and evidently any eccentricity and ultra-
calvinistic peculiarities are generout^iy over-
looked..
He had preache<l at Bridge End in 1781 as
a supply, and in 1797 (orlSOO) succeeded to
Bridge End pastorate, and to eke out a living
kept a schol at the Chapel-house, where John
Cockin was for a time a pupil. Mr. Northend
was 'bought out' in 1810; he died Apri' 9th.
1821, aged 75, and was buried at Northowram,
(but one account erroneously states that he
died at Bridlington).
JOSEPH HEMAS CRISP was invited in
1810, and in 1812 came from Idle College to
take charge. He retired in 1842. and in 1845
removed to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, where he died
January 12, 1869, aged 86. About 500 of Mr.
Crisp's sermons in short-hand were sent to
me, one of which appears in the Bridge End
history.
The REV. ROBERT BELL, of Airedale Col-
lege, settled first at Stainland in 1829, and
whilst there published with Mr. Joseph Cockin
Hoatson (grandson of the Rev. Joseph Cockin),
a supplement to the Watt?' Psalms and
Hymns; Halifax. Whitley and Booth, 1834.
In 1840 Mr. Bell removed to Sowerby Bridge,
and in December, 1842, to Brighouse. The
copy of a printed preachers' plan, 1845, is re-
produced in the Chapel history. In the same
year he published: —
COMFORT FOR THE DYING CHRISTIAN.
A Sermon occasioned bv the DeaJth of
JOHN HOLLAND, ESQ.", of Slead House,
near Halifax, preached in Bridge End Chapel,
Rastrick, on Lord's Day, October 12th, 1815,
by Robert Bell. Published by request. Hali-
fax, H. Martin, Upper George Yard, 1845;
sold by W. Birtwhistle, Halifax, E. S. Keir,
Brighouse; 12mo., 28 pages. Mr. Holland's
family had lived at Broad Oak and Slead
Syke several generations. Mrs. Holland was
sister to Mr. Samuel Hodgson, of the Bowers,
Halifax. The pamphlet is exceedingly rare,
so I reprinted it in the Bridge End volume.
Mr. Bell resigned Bridge End in 1851, and re-
tired to Salterforth in Craven, but died at
his son's residence in Huddersfield, on Decem-
ber 12, 1869, aged 63.
The REV. ROBERT HARLEY, F.R.A.S.,
(afterwards F.R.S., and M.A. of Oxford), suc-
ceeded at Bridge Emd in August, 1854, but had
remained at Airedale College a year after his
call. His publications include, — A Discourse,
December 29th, 1861, on the Death of the
Prince Consort. Brighouse, J. Yates, ''Chron-
icle" Office, 1862, 15 pajges, crown octavo.
Bicentenary Commemoration, August, 1862,
two sermons,— The Nonconformists in Nebu-
,cha.dnezzaT's time, and the Nonconformists
of Charles II. 's time, a parallel in principle,
conduct and results.''
"George Boole, F.R.S., an Essay, Biographic-
al and Bxpositor,y," (From the British Quar-
terly Review, July, 1866,) 43 pages, demy
octavo.
"The Stanhope Demonstrator, an Instrument
for Performing Logical Operations," by Rev.
Robert Harlev, F.R.S., F.R.A.S., Vice-master
of Mill Hill School, formerly Prof, of Math,
and Logic in Airedale College. (Reprinted
from 'Mind,' 1879, 21 pages, demy octavo.)
He re6igne<l Bridge End in February, 1868,
and removed to Leicester, 1868, thence to Mill
Hill, London, 1872, Oxford, 1886, Heath near
Halifax in 1892; London (Forest Hill), 1894.
An engra<ved portrait of him appeared in the
Eivangelicaf Magazine, 1880.
LIST OF PAPERS BY MR. HARLEY.
30 pp., 1860. Demy 8vo. On the Method of
Symmetric Products, and on certain Circular
Functions connected with that Method. Phil-
osophical Transactions. 1861.
24 pp., 1862. On the Theory of the Transcend-
ental Solution of Equations. Castle Hill,
Brighouse, May, 1862.
19 15 pp., 1860—1862. Two papers on the
Theory of Quintics. Dated Castle Hill,
Brighouse.
*12pp., 1863. A Contribution to the History
of the Problem of the Reduction of the General
Equation of the Fifth Degree to the Trinomial
Form.
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16 pp., 1864. On Certain Class of Linear
Differential Kquations.
vi. pp., '1867. George Boole. Obit. Notice.
Koyal Society.
5 pp., 1873. On the Theory of Differential
Resolventis.
4 pp., 1878. On Certain Linear DiflFerential
Equations.
6 pp., 1878. Addendum to Mr. Robert Raw-
eon's Pa.per on Differential Resolvents.
10 pp., September, 1881. "Biograph" Article
by Editor on Rev. Robert Harley.
2 pp., 1881. Note on a Differential Equation.
6 pp., 1881. Supplementary Notes on Same.
24 pp., 1881. Application for post of prin-
cipal, Firth College, Sheffield, testimonials.
3 pp., 1882. Letter to some Old Hill Boys.
14 pp., 1884. Professor Malet's Clashes of
Invariants identified.
6pp., 1886. On the Explicit Form of the
Complete Cubic Differential Resolvent.
7 pp., 1887. On the TJmbral Notation.
3 pp., 11888. On the General Quartine, or the
Incriticoid of the Fourth Degi-ee.
4 pp., 1890. On the Stanhope Log'ical and
Arithmetical Machines.
1891. Lecture on the Power of an Idea.
(Broad-sheet, 3 columns, reprinted from the
"Brighouse News."
11 pages, 1892. On the Interchange of Two
Differential Resolvents.
1893. Sermon on tbe Sublimity of Astron-
omical Research. (6 columns, reprinted on
folio-sheet from "Brighouse News.")
13 pp., 1895. Sir James Cockle, M.A.,r.R.S.
Ma-nchester Memoirs.
Fly-sheet, 1895. Lecture on the Moon. (5
columns from "Brighouse News.")
10 pp. and plate portrait, 1896. Sir James
Cockle, M.A.,F.R.S. Royal Society Obituary
Notice.
1904. The Biographical Press Agency. Article
on Rev. Robert Harley by Editor. — Private.
1904. May No. of Temperance Record. Pp.,
197 — 202. Temperance in the Colleges.
CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS,
Royal Societv, by the Rev. Robert Harley,
F.R.S. 1800-1863. Vol. x. P., 189.
On impossible and certain other surd equa-
tions. Manchester, Phil. Soc. Mem. ix., 1851,
pp. 207—235.
2. On the theory of quintics. Quart. Jour.
Math, iii., 1860, pp. 343^359.
3. On the method of symmetric products,
and its application to the finite algebraic
solution of equations. (Ii859.') Manchester,
Phil. Soc. Mem. xv., 1860, pp. 172—219.
4. On the theory of the transcendental solu-
tion of algebraic equations. Manchester, Phil.
•Soc. Proc. ii., 1860-62, pp. 181-184, 199—201,
237—240'; Quar. Jour. Math, v., 1862. pp.
337—360.
5. On the method of symmetric products,
and on certain circular functions connected
with that method, (i860.) Roy. Soc. Proc. x.,
1860-62, pp. 43---44; Phil Trans. 1861, pp. 327—
.356.
6. On a certain class of linear differential
equations. Brit. Assoc. Rep. 1862 (pt. 2), pp.
4—5; Manchester, Phil. Soc. Proc. iii., 1862-
63, pp. 11 — 14; ManchCister, Phil. Soc. Mem. ii.,
1865, pp. 232—245.
7. On the theory of quintics. (Part 2.)
Quar. Jour, v., 1862, pp. 248—260.
8. On Brings' reduction of the equation of
the fifth degree to a trinomical form. Man-
chester, Phil. Soc. Proc. iii., 1862-63, pp. 69-71.
9. On recent researches on the theory of
equations. Manchester, Phil. Soc. Proc. iii.,
1862-63, pp. 173—177.
10. A contribution to the history of the
problem of the reduction of the general equa-
tion of the fifth degree to a trinomial form.
Quar. Jour. Math vi., 1863, pp. 38—45. Royal
Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers. 1874-
83. Vol. vii., p. 909.
11. On the theory of differential resolvents.
Brit. Assoc. Rep. xxxv., 1865 (Sect.), p. 6;
xxxvi., 18G6 (Sect.), pp. 2—3; xliii., 1873 (v'^ect.).
pp. 17— 21i; London, Math. Soc. Prac. i., 1866,
No. 4.
12. Remarks on Boole's mathematical analysis
of logic. Brit. Assoc. Rep. xxxvi., 1866 (Sect.),
pp. 3—6.
13. On the Rev. T. P. KIRKMAN'S method
of resolving algebraic equations. (1868.) Man-
chester, Lit. Phi. Soc. Proc. viii., 1869, pp.
4—20.
14. On Boole's ''Laws of Thought. Brit.
Assoc. Rep. XL., 1870 (Sect.), pp. 14—15.
Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers,
1874—83. Vol. X. P. 143.
15. Addendum (to the paper by R. RAWSON,
on a new method of determining the differ-
ential resolvents of algebraic equations). (1878.)
London Math. Soc. Proc. 9 (1877-78), pp. 216—
221.
Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers.
1874-83. Vol. X. P. 143.
16. On certain linear differential equation;^.
Brit. Assoc. Rep., 1878, pp. 466—468.
Journ. Math., 17, 1881, pp. 3.52—3.53; 18. 1882,
17. Note on a differential equation* Quar.
Jour., 1881, pp. 352—3; 1882. pp. 41—42.
Other papers appear in subsequent volumes.
The REV. JOHN BROWN LISTER, a Roth-
erham Student and Skipton native, became
minister at Northallerton 1849, lewisham 1852,
and whilst there published a book for ti'.e
young entitled "Success in Life," then removed
to Blackburn, and in January, 1869, to Bridge
End. He removed to Kensingten in 1874.
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The EEV. ANGUS GATBRAITH came from
Whitehaven in January. 1877, to Bridge End,
and remained until (about 1900), and was suc-
ceeded by the REV. E. .TOHNSON SAXTON, of
Barnsley, in 1901.
The REV. JAMES WILLIAM ROSE, of the
United College, Bradford, became minister at
the branch chapel at Waring Green, 1896.
The REV. J. R. HILL preceded him. and the
present minister is the REV. G. P. BROWN.
1904.
LXXIII.— T. B. CHAMBERS.
Althou!j:li ^Iv. Isaac Heaton published the
following pamphlet (12 pages), it was the pio-
ductjon of Mr. Thos. B. Chambers, solicitor,
Brighouse. It is so very rare that I venture
to reprint it literatim, and hope any reader
will supply further particulars of the school
and its maeters. In 1787 the assessment books
shew John Swift as master, and in 1790 a Mr.
West (probably the same that got Rastrick
Free School). Mr. Cra^sley was master some-
where between 1791 and 1818; i;iind Joseph
Boothroyd 1770?
1862.
A L El T T El R
To the
INHABITANTS OE BRIGHOUSE,
Concerning the Foundation of a Charity
School at
BRIGHOUSE,
In the year 1741.
Halifax : Walker, Printer, George Street.
Brighouse, 30th October, 1862.
To the Inhabitants of Brighoiise.
As the present Manter of the School ot
Brighouse, established in 1741 in connection
with the charity of Mrs. Bedford (wliich office
I have now held for 43 years), I beg to com-
municate to you the fact that on the 9th inst. I
was served with a Notice from the Representa-
tive of the late Mr. Joseph Boo-ber, Solicitoi',
Brighouse, of which the following is a copy : —
" Sir, — I hereby give you Notice to quit and
deliver up possession of the Dwellinghoui=e.
School, and premises with the appurtenances
situate at Brighouse, in the Parish of Halifax,
and County of York, which you hold of me as
Tenant tftereof, on the firet day of May next,
dr at the expiration of the currelit year of your
tenancy, which shall expire next after the end
of one half .year from the dnte of this Notice.
Dated this Twenty-third dav of September,
1862.— MARIANNE BARBER.
To Mr. Isaac Heaton. "
Shortly after the receipt of this Notice, by
the recommendation of friends, I consulted
Mr. Cliambers, Solicitor, Brighouse, as to the
right of the parties, who haive given this
Notice, to act upon it and take the school and
house from me, and treat it as their private
property, ajid with his permission 1 now lay
before you a copy of his letter to me, which
gives very full particulars as to the School,.
etc.
COPY.
Brighouse, 27th October, 1862.
Dear Sir, — Since you called upon me with the
Notice served upon you requiring you to quit
and give up the possession of the School and
School House and premises in Brighouse, now
in your occupation as Schoolmaster, I have
exaipined the Court Rolls and other Documents
in my possession as Stewaj-d of the Court
Baron and Manor of Brighouse, for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the circumstance« nnder
which the School was originally established,
and the Trusts which such circumstances
created, whereby the School became a charit-
able institution.
I now place before you Ebctracts from various
documents which I have examined, and other
information on the subject.
" Mrs. Mary Bedford, deceased, Widow of
John Bedford, formerly of Thornhill Briggs,
Eisquire, deceased, by her last Will and Testa-
ment, dated the 13th day of December, 173,'i.
ordered and directed that in case the in hi bit-
ants of Brighouse did within 12 months after
her decease erect and build at Rfighouse a
Charity School, with good free stone and
timber, then she gave and bequeathed unto
her Brother Thomas Bedford, and Reynold
Newstead, of Wakefield, Gentleman, William
Dawson, of Wakefield, Gentleman, and George
Newstead, her Nephew, the sum of Two
Hundred Pounds, to be paid to them by her
Eixecutrtx at the end of twelve months next
after her decease. Upon special trust and
confidence, that they the said Thomas Bedford
Reynold Newstead, William Dawson, and
George NeAvstead (whom she by her said Will
appointed Trustees for this and other charit-
able purposes therein mentioned) should so
soon as they conveniently could lay out and
dispose of the said ,£200 in a purchase of
lands and tenements of inheritance, and settle
the same in such manner that the Rente and
profits thereof should and might be applied
and disposed of for and towards the mainten-
ance, education, and instruction of ten poor
chifdren at the said Charity School, if erected
and founded at Brighouse aforesaid within the
time aforesaid, amd that her said Trustees
should choose a School Master of a sober life
and conversation, and that five poor boys of
Biighonse afore'^aid should be there taught
by the sadd Master to read English well and
distinctly, and to write some plain hand, and
the two first Rules in Arithmetic, to wit, ad-
dition and subtraction, and five poor girls of
Brighouse aforesaid should also there be
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taught to read Eiiglish distinctly, and to knit
and to sew, and should be instructed in tho
principles of the Christian Religion. And
that as often as any one or more of the t-aid
Trustees should die, the survivors or a major-
ity of them should appoint and by Deed m:ike
new 'i"iustee or Trustees in the room of him or
them so dying, and that the heir or heirs of
the said George Newstead should always be
one of the said Trutees and thoir successors
should always nominate and appoint the poor
children aforesaid to be taught, and should
also choose a Master and Dame to teach tlu-m
as aforesaid in the School of Brigliout-e afore-
said. That if the inhabitants of Brighouse
aforesaid did not erect and build such Charity
School as aforesaid within Twelve months next
after the Testatrix's decease, and Notice there-
of given to one or more of them, then by her
Will she gave and bequeathed the said Two
Hundred Pounds to Ellen Newstead, George
Nowstead, and Betty Newstead, and to tlie
youngest child and children of her said Nep-
hew, George Newstead, and Ann his wife, and
she appointed the said Ann Newstead sole
Executrix of her said Will. "
The inhabitants of Brighouse in 1741 ap-
pear to hivve entered into a Subscription, to
raise a fund for the erection of a School and
House in order to secure the benefit of Mrs.
Bedford's bequest as is shewn by various docu-
ments from which the following are extracts : —
" Subscriptions for erecting a School at
Brighouse. "
£ <\ d.
Sir S^ml. Armytage » 5 5
Mr. Daw&on 10 6
Mr. Radcliffe 3 3
Mrs. Gill 2 2
Mr. Walley 5
Jonas Crowther 110
Joseph Naylor (was aet down a
Gua. by Mr. Walley, but as he
promised half a gua. only, he
would pay no more 10 6
Lydia Smith 5
John Clegg 5
Wm. Whitfield 5
Peter Day 110
Mrs. Sharp 110
Mrs. Nicholls 110
Jer. Hargreaves 10 6
James Taylor 10 6
John Horsfall 5
Saml. Holdsworth 5
Mr. Denton 110
Mr. Metcalfe 110
Robert Robinson 110
Dianl. Gill 110
Saml. Walker 10 6
Doctr. Lee .^ 110
Joseph Leeming 2 6
John Ramsden 5
Mr. Haworth 110
Captn. Bedford 110
John Whitworth 10 6
Henry Gill 110
Wm. Drake 110
Mr. Holdsworth 1
Wm. Whiteley 5
^30 8 6
" Mr. George Newstaad told Joseph Naylor,
before the death of the Testatrix, that he
thought Waring Green or at Bonegate would
be proper places for the school to be erected
on, or one of them, he (Mr. N.) came to visit
the school, whilst erecting, and he approved
thereof, and told them to go forward with the
work, and get it finished in due time and the
money left thereto was ready, and he request-
ed Mr. Kadcliffe to enquire for a purchase, in
order to settle the land for the use of the
school pursuant to the Will.
■ The inhabitants of Brighouse ai?ore»5aid
erected such School at Brighouse aforesaid,
within the time limited, at the upper end of
the Town of Brighouse, upon a small parcel
of waste, the herbage wh^eof was of no value,
lying betwixt Peter Day's house, and Mr. Rad-
cliife's close, being upon the highway leading
from Brighouse to Lightcliffe, and the place
most convenient for the Township, contain-
ing nine yards in length, and fivie yards in
breadth, within the walls thereof, togetlier
with a fire-stead therein. Th»re was also
erected a house and chamber at the end there-
of, which was intended for a master to live
in, but the subscription money for building
a school not being sufficient to erect both, Sir
Saml. Armytage paid what was short, and tcoii
the house into his own hands, in order to re-
pay him his money out of the rents and profits
thereof, a-nd a Stone was put over the House
Door and engraved thereon by Sir Samuel's
directions,
■ This House and School were erected by the
Inhabitants of Brighouse, upon the
Charity of the Honoured Mrs. Bedford,
who by Will gave iJ200 to be laid out
in Lands for the Endowment thereof, 1741. "
'' The house is the same breaidth of the school,
and five yards in length, but there is no door
out of the house into the school; the school
is erected with El land Edge stone, which is
the best and most durable stone we have about
us, and is very well walled and timbered. The
north wall of the school is built, where the
south fence from the Waste, of a close belong-
ing to William Radcliffe, Esquire, called the
Riding, stood, and is now as a fence for the
same. ' Query. ' If it will be necessary to
have amy deed or surrender from Mr. Radcliffe
for the north wall of the said school, it being
erected upon his fenoe of the said close. "
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111 the account of " disbursements a})out the
school and house" there is the followiiif,'
entry —
"George ILirper, for ingraving Jl s. <ii.
154 letters 6 5. "
This entry bears out very nearly (a dilier-
ence only of two in) the number' of letteri-i,
which formed the inscription on the head
stone now over the school house door, ami
which inscription appears to have been in-
tentionally ooliterated, moist probably in con-
sequence of the unsuccessful result of the pro-
ceedings which were afteru-<ia-ds instituted by
the inhabitants of Brighouse against Mrs.
Bedford's surviving trustee (Mr. George ^^ew-
stead) to compel the investment of the =£200.
The total sum expended in money in
erecting the school and the schooimaster's
house was ^£62 Os. 4d., from which is deducted
the amount raised by subscriptions, i;30 8s. (jJ.,
balance £,31 lis. lOd.
This balance of £31 lis. lOd., as appears
from a receipt dated 6(.li January, 1743, sii^ued
by Mr. Abraham RadclifFe, Jun., was paid by
Sir Sinml. Armytage, who "took the house
into his own hands in order to repay him his
money out of the rents and profits thereof. "
Not many years after the school and hou; e
were erected all the trustees named in Mrs.
Bedford's will died, e.xcept Mr. George New-
stead; he neglected to invest the ,=£200. and in
li757( :; some of the then inhabitants of Brighouse
acting under the advice of " Mr. Abrahani
Eadcliffe, attorney-at-law, at Brighouse,
made an iijttempt to compel ]Mr. New.-^tead to
invest the ,£200, pursuant to Mrs. J^ediord's
will. The form of proceeding was by petitioi',
from the inhabitants of Brighouse, ''To the
Commissioners of the Co. n mission of l^ious
Uses, within the County of York. " The peti-
tion alleged amongst other matters "That
after the said school was erected, all the other
truistees being dead, and the said George A'ew-
stead, the testatrix's nephew, being the only
surviving trustee, he in hopes to get the Faid
Charity a.mongst his raid children,
ha^ ic^ltogether since endeavoui*ed
to frustrate the said charitable
intesitions of the said testatrix, and notwit'-
standing he has been frequently applied to in
order to fulfil the said trust, hath hitherto
refirsed, and yet doth refuse to perform, or in
any way to fulfil the same. "
Upon this Petition a summons was issued
against " George Newstead, and Ann his wife"
• — which summons was heard on the 11th Dec-
ember, 1754 (?) before the Commissioners of
Charitable Uses at Leeds, and Mr. Wiko-^. t^ e
Recorder, who then sat as .Tudye, being of
opinion '' that as Newstead's children (to
whom the said ^6200 was given in case the in-
habitants of Brighouse did not erect a school
within the time limited in the Will) were not
summoned and made partie«i, the Commis-
sioners could not proceed to a. Decree, there-
fore nothing could then be done. "
1 have also ascertained from a memorandum,
<lated :\ray, 1770 that the school was then let
to Joseph Boothroyd at 30cs. per annum, to be
laid out in the repairs of the Highways of
Brighouse.
By the proceedings taken against Newstead,
it appears he alleged that he had no assets
wherewith to pay the ^200; however, in or
about the year 1790, it became known to the
then inhabitaints of Brighouse, that "a large
Farm and Tenement called Thor-nhill Briggs,
the residence of the above said Mrs. Bedford,"
held by Mr. Newstea-d under Mrs. Bedford's
Will, wa,s about to be sold by him to Messrs.
Peech and Runnington, upon which the Curate
and Chapel wardens of Rastrick Chapel pub-
lished a Notice in the Leeds weekly newg^
paper, calling upon Mr. Newstead, the surviv-
ing 'J'rustee, " to shew cause why the Two
Hundred Pounds were not laid out for the use
of the poor childi-en of Brighouse, according
to the intent and meaning of Mrs. Bedford's
Will. " This Notice seems to have led the in-
tending purchasers to question Mr. New-
stead's title, judging from the following record
of the transaction, namely,-—" Upon this, Mr.
Newstead and his Wife, in order to make the
Title good to the purchasers, granted a lease
for 21 years to a different person, in view of
cutting off the Entail of the Copyhold Lands
(the Estate being so and uncompounded for),
so tliat it became forfeited to the Lord of the
Manor of Brighouse, who holds a Court Bai^n
every year in Brighouse aforesaid; upon in^
formation of this bo the Steward of the Manor,
a Special Court was called, and due proof being
made, the Copyhold Lands were seized by the
Lord of the Manor the day following. After
this, three other courts w^re holden, three
weeks between every court, and proclamations
made, a^nd upon the last and general court
day a number of poor women and children
came into court and desired that the court
would be pleased to do them justice, and their
children might be instructed free at Brighouse
School according to the Will of ^Irs. Bedford,
and the said Will was read in court, and also
Several Scripture Rules were exhibited setting
forth the necessity of having the Will ful-
filled and the children duly taught, and not-
withstanding the purchasers' application for
admittance into possession of the Copyhold
L«nnds, the court adjudged that a part of the
said Lands was incumbered with the payment
of the ,£200, but nothing appeared in court
sufficient for the decision of the dispute."
After this I find some further attempts wepe
made, or were intended to be made, with the
help of Dr. Coulthurst, then the Vicar of
Halifax, to secure the benefit of the ,£200, and
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HAIilFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
to iiuluco the Lord of the Manor of liv'm-
houso to refuse a re-grant of the Copyhold
Lands, except upon tho term« of the ,£200 be-
ing paid. The following extract from an
orFginal letter addressed to " Mr. Crossle.v,
Brighouse, " who was then the Master of the
School, written by the then Minister of Ras-
triciv Chapel, refers to the Charity: —
•'Sir,— 1 went to Hal: (Halifax) to visit four
pereons— all out— Dr. Coulthnrst in Craven-
Mr. Parker returns home to-morrow nt, &c.,
&c.— >as ye Family at Kirklees Hall neiver laid
any claim to ye school, but ye school-house and
additional buildings only, as ye late Sr Saml.
was not only a genteel subscriber to the school
(which he never cbim'd) but went (.several
times to see it when building, and encourag'd
ye workmen, I don't see how Sir G. can re-
turn ye Estate without claiming ye endowmt
& 49 years interest upon it, unless he intends
to join ye trustees in a most cowardly act of
injustice to the Poox of Brighoixse, his own
tenants." (1791.)
I believe that all the attempts to compel the
investment of the i;200 failed; but that does
not aflfect or alter the original foundation of
the school, and I think I have given you above
sufficient information to shew that the house
and school you are now required to quit are
not private property, but part and paix'el of
a charitable school, established by, and belong-
ing to, the inhabitants of Brighouse, for teacli-
ing the Poor Children of Brighouse.
I am. Dear Sir, Yours truly,
T. B. CHAMBERS.
To Mr. Isaac Heaton,
Schoolmaster, Brighouse.
I must leave this important matter to be
dealt with by those parties who wish to pre-
serve to the town of Brighouse, the rights and
interests of its inhabitants in the School, and
remain, — Yonr obedient Servant,
ISAAC HEATON,
Schoolmaster.
LXXIV. -POETS AND RHYMSTEES (A.B.V
I don't intend to draw the line where poets
begin and rhymsters end, for in many cases
there is some over lapping, and even rhymsters
may chronicle interesting local matter. Already
in this series we have given the nii.mes of a
considerable number who have published
poetic effusions or criticised other people's
poetry. Such writers will only be bartdy
named in the following alphabetical list.
The RErV. WILLIAM AINSWORTH, of
Lightcliffe Chapel, published his "Marrow of
the Bible" in rhyme, in 1652. Mv. Watson
in his "History of Halifax" gives a descrip-
tion of Ainsworth's Triplex Memoriale, a book
that I have reprinted, but does not mention
the " Marrow. " The Dictionai-y of National
Biography fails to notice this old, quaint
writer. Before IG.'iO he luul been Lectuier at
St. Peter's, Chester, and in 1647-8-9 and W, ,
he was at Lightcliffe Chapel, and in 1G51-2 at
Sowerby Bridge Chapel, lie was evident;y a
persecuted Royalist, ami ha,d property in
Lightcliffe, as shown in the History of Hip-
perholme, etc. At or before the Restoration
he waw advanced to j?ood posts at Hull. In
1661 he was Lecturer at Holy Trinity, Hull,
but resigned in 1671 on account of ill-health
(Tickell's Hull, 805.) He relinquished also
his interest in the Charter House, of which
he was Master, and was allo\v-e.cl a house in
Sir .John Lister's Hospital (founded by a
worthy branch of the Halifax Listers,) with
an annuity of nearly fifty pounds during tiie
remainder of his life. Mr. Ainsworth says
that parsons were then worse-paiiti and less
honoured than ballad-mongers and pipeis.
See his '* Trinlex "
DISNEY AliEXANDEB, M.D., of Lupset
near VVak+^fiel.J, published "Hone Poeticae, or
Poem^, with notes, by a Retired Physician, "
1790. An edition was issued in 1837, octavo,
pp. xi.i., 177, which sells a/t about 3s. He ha^d
previously resided at Spring Head, HalifauX,
where he published " Christian Holiness,
three discourses preached in the Methodist
Chapel, " 1799; printed by J. Fawcett, Ewood
Hall, 1800, 1€6 pages.
GEIRVASEI ALEXANDEIR, M.D., Halifax,
who died in 1856, aged 83, published a '' Trans-
lation of the Odes of Horace into English
Verse. " There is a portrait of him by Bald-
win, of London.
HENilY ANDEIRTON, who possibly may
have lived on the Lancashire border, issued
"Temperance Songs," printed by J. Walton,
Todmorden, 1836, a l2mo. tract, 12 pages.
C. S. BROADBEiNT, under the letters C.S.B.,
Eliand, besides fugitive pieces in the Ycrk-
shii'e Magazine, 1871, issued a sixteen-mo
booklet, called Hullen i:.ijge. "
H.ii. — ''The Camming Prize Poem,
Halifax, n.d. (c. 1855).
''Ode to Dr. Cuniming by the Heath Boy,
who got birched for writing " The New Crus-
ade. The Gumming Stakes of ^500 werv'
awarded to this ode. "
The REV. PAUL BAIRSTOW, Lightcliffe
Curate, was also a poet and a soldier, accoid-
ing to Oliver Heywood. iie was a native of
Sowerby, and sett ed at Rochester, leaving
benefactions to Sowerby.
T. BAIRSTOW.— AN ORIGINAL SET OV
PSALM AND HYMN TUNES, arranged for
one or four voices, with organ or pianofoito
accompaniment; also eight chants. 38 pages,
oblong 4to., sells at 2s. Halifax, publishoal
for tlip Author, n.d. He also issued
A SECOND SET OF PSALMS AND HYMNS.
HAMPAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
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JOAH BATES, M.A., au eminent Yorkshire
musician, was born at Halifax on M<irch lytn,
1740-41, being the son of the parish clerk, and
he received his early education at the Gram-
mar School under the Eev. Dr. Oyden, ana
learnt music from Hartley, the organist of
Rochdale. He went afterwards to MancTiesttr
to Dr. Parnell's school, and while there he
was much struck by the organ-playing ot
Robert Wainwright, organist of the collegiate
church. He was subi->equently sent to j:.lou,
where he obtained a scholarship on Augu;-t 2.
1756. While he was at Eton he was deprived
of music altogether (not so now), but he Kfpt
up his pra.ctice by playing on imaginary keys
on the table. One of the masters, Mr. G.
Graham, discovered his passion for music,
and, being himself au enthusiastic amateur,
gave him much encouragement. On July 31,
1758, he was nominated for a scholarship at
King s College, Cambridge, but he was not
admitted until May 4, 1760. About this time
he obtaine<l a University Scholarship, and he
took the degree of B.A. in 1764, and of M.A.
in 1767. During his term of residence in
Cambridge he got up, and hinif:€lf conducted,
a performance of the " Messiah " in his native
town, that occasion being the first on which
an oratorio had been performed north of the
Trent. In his orchestra William Herschel,
the future astronomer, played first violin.
Shortly afterwards he succeeded to a fellosv-
ship at King's, aJid was appointed college
tutor. The attention of Lord Sandwich, the
First Lord of the Admiralty, whose second
son was a pupil of Bates, was at this time at-
tracted to his wonderful musical and general
talents, and he made him his private secretary,
and procured for him a small post in the
Post Omce worth ^6100 a year. In March, 1776.
this appointment was vacated for- a more im-
portant and lucrative one, that of Commi'—
sioner of the Victmilling Of&ce, obtained
through the same interest; and in the same
year he was appointed to the post of conduct-
or to the Concerts of Ancient Music, which had
just been started. By this time he had writ-
ten a " Treatise on Harmony, " which was
translated into German. On December 21,
1780, he married one of his pupils. Miss Sarah
Harrop (see hereafter Bates, Sarah). In 1783,
in conjunction with Lord Fitzwilliam and Sir
Watkins W^illiams Wynn, be set on foot the
commemoration of Handel, which took place
in Westminster Abbey, in May and June,
1784. At these performances he held the post
of conductor. Soon after this the King ap-
pointed him a commissioner of the Customs,
and about the same time his name appears as
vice-president of Westminster Hospit^il, and
as director of Greenwich Hospital. He sub-
sequently invested all his own and his wife's
fortune in the unfortunate projfect of the
Albion Mills, and when these were burnt, in
1791, he was nearly ruined. The vexation and
trouble resulting from this mit<;hance biought
on (says Burney) a complaint in his chesty
which finally proved fatal. In 1793 he resign-
ed the conductorship of the Ancient Concerts,
and was succeeded by Mr. ttreatorex; and on
June 8, 1799, he died, aged 59. An original
portrait of Joah Bates and his wife, painted
by F. Cotes, R.A., is in the possession of Mr.
H. Littleton, from the Sacred Harmonic
Society. See the " Third National xortiait
Catalogue, No. 780; and another was engrav-
ed by Daniel, after Dance, 4to.
SARAH BATEiS. a celebrated singer, and
the wife of the preceding Joah Bates, of Hali-
fax, Yorkshire, was born in an obscure place
in Lancashire, of humble parents named
Harrop. She vvas educated at Halifax, the
birthplace of her husband, and worked for
some time in a factory in that town. On one
occasion she gang in public there, and was-
heard by Dr. Howard, of Leicester, who pro-
phesied that " she would one day throw all
the English, nay, even the Italian, female
singers far behind her. " While she resumed
her ordinary occupations. Dr. Howard sound-
ed her praises in London, where she met with
very great success. Here she studied Italian
music under Sacchini, and the compositions
of Handel and the older masters under her
future husband. She was a successful concert
singer, both before and after her marriage
with Joah Bates, which took place in 1780.
Her chief success was made in sacred music,
which she delivered with much impressive-
aess. Among her secular songs the most
famous was FurceH'fi " M<nd Bess. " She is
solid to have brought her husband ^6,000 or
^87,000 as a marriage portion, the tangible re-
sults of her popularity as a vocalist. Her
success, it is said, gave a great impetus to the
cultivation of music among the factory girls
in the North of England. She was remark-
able for her fine and clear articulation, which,
has been compared to that of Garrick in act-
ing. She is said, by a professor of great repu-
tation, to have possessed vast natural re-
quisites for a singer, to which was added high
cultivation. Her voice was full and rich, her
shake brilliant and equal, and her expression,
especially of Handel's pathetic airs, match-
less. She was not confined to the soprano, for
she sung the contralto songs. " He was de-
spised, " and '■ Return, God of Hosts, "
with such feeling and expression as they had
not received since the days of Mrs. Gibber. In
the " Rosy Bower " and " Mad Bess, " of
Purcell, she was inimitable. Mrs. Bates died
at Foley Place, on December 11, 1811.
.r. BAXl'EE, of Barkisland School, h-ar
Halifax, Author of the Young Christrans'
Cyclopaedia, which reached a second »3ition.
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HALIFAX BOOKS AND AinHORS.
ihick duodecimo, \vias also iiiuthor of THl-].
THUNDERSTORM AND THE ATHEIST;
and THi; ABBEY. Two Poems, to which is
subjoined an inteix'stinjir account of Kirkstall
Abbey, in Yorkshire, of which ct'lebrated rum
the latter poem is d<^>scriptive. naiii>dx, R.
Sugden, 1821. small 8vo., paj,'es 72 4. 2s. 6d.
boards. [Ded. to Miiss Bold, of Beld ihUl.
<iated Barkisland School, Februafy, 1821.] A
copy is in Halifax Plulos. Library, and 1 have
a good one, with the engraved title page also.
Mr. Baxter issued a Key to Scripture given in
the Cyclopaedia, price 6d.
RErV. ROBERT BELL (Stain land and hri-^-
house), and Joseph Cockin Ho.ntsou (Ha if ax),
published THE HALIFAX SELECTION OF
HYMNS; intended as a Supplement to Dr.
Watts' Psalms and Hymns. Halifax, Whit-
ley and Booth, 1831. No pagination.
[Preface signed by Robert Bell and Joseph
Cockin Hoatson, August, 1834. Syllabus of
Contents. General Index, with authors' names.
Hymns 1-520. Index, Tables of Scriptures.
Two hymns by Rev. Robert Bell are inserted,
and T. R. T^iiylor's '' There was a time when
children sang. "]
BRIAN BENTLEY.— B.B. was buried at
Halifax, June 9, 1679, where he had lived
with the character of being a good poet, but
for my own part I can say little to thii>, hav-
ing never seen any composition of his either
in print or manuscript. (0. Heywood).
" Brian Bentley, of Halifax (whom they called
the Halifax Poet, because he was a great
versifier) tiaught school in his latter days in
the Back-lane, was well -descended, had a great
estate but had spent it, being very fat, fell
suddenly ill on Lord's day morning, June 8,
1679, and they askt him if he would have a
■cap; he swore he never wore a cap unleese it
was a barley cap, but he, without any sense
and remorse, preafently after breathed his
last, and was buried the day after being June
9. Oh dreadful, god is righteous, he had
given himself to jests and vanity." (Fi'om
■• Oliver Hey wood's Diaries, " edited by
J. Horsfall Turner, pages 139, 262, vol ii.) No
known specimen of his versifying has been
preserved for nearly two hundred years. An
unfortunate and foolish guess has attributed
the Elland Tragedy ballad to Bentley, but
the edition printed by me was taken from a
mi'.nuscript older than Bentley'B day, and bore
the initials J.N., which see.
ARTHUR W-ILLIAM BICKERDIKE, rres-
coft Street, we may venture to mention as
editor of tlie " Beacon Almanack, " Halifax,
which consists of prose and verse, as also the
" Beacon Christmas and New Year's Annual."
Halifax, 1872, 48 pages, 3d.
The writer of the next item is unknow^n, —
" The Boy Bishop, a ballad of Old Halifax, "
14 pages, printed by Leyland, 1877.
JOHN N. BISSELL, for sometime Master
in the Grammar Schools of Qvieen Elizabeth
at Worcester and Halifax, published a volume
of "Poems, ' forty pages, printed in 1861, by
H. He^visides, Stockton.
JOHN BLACKBURN was born at Hebden
Bridge, June 22, 1837, and died .lune 14, 18L'8.
He was a schoolmaster and excelled as orni-
thologist and musiciain. He wrote vel■l■^es and
composed tunes to some of them. His Jubilee
Song, " Hail Mighty Victoria, " was pnbliKh<d.
The last half of his life he spent at Corn-
holme. He was a contributor to the Todmorde.'s
Advertiser nearly forty years in prose and
verse. He was burie<l at Mytholm Church.
JAMES BLAND, Gerrard-street, Halifax.
edited the first series of Wilson'e Clock Alman-
ack, 1865, nearly the whole of it being in
rhyme, and much of it referring to the sale of
Wilson's hats •
JOSEPH BOTTOMLEY, a celebrated music-
ian, was born at Halifax, in Yorkshire, in
1786. His parentage is not recorded, but his
musical education was begun at a very ear y
age. His predilection for music first a.ppeared
at a concert, to which his parents had taken
him, when the effects produced upon him bv
the performance were so remarkable, that a
gentleman ju'esent warmly advocated the
propriety of his being educated for th» pro-
fession. Hie parents, availing themselves of
the intimation, procured him instructions as
soon as possible, and at the age of seven he
performed a concerto on the violin, exciting
at once feelings of pleasure and astonishment
in a nvimerous audience. His studies on the
pianoforte did not commence before he was
eight years of age. At twelve he was remov-
ed to Manchester, where he was placed under
the tuition of Grimshaw, organist at St.
John's Church; and of Watts, the leader of
the concerts. Upon the recommendation of
Watts, he afterwards received instructions on
the violin from Y''aniewicz, who was engaged
at that time to perform concertos at Man-
chester. In 1801, when 15, he was articled to
Mr. Lawton, the organist of St. Peter's Parish
Church, Leeds, who had been an apprentice
to Dr. Miller, ai^ a pupil of the celebrated
Baumgarten. Under this gentleman he ob-
tained considerable theoretical information,
both by his private instructions and from his
excellent musical library. After the comple-
tion of his term with Mr. Lawton, Bottomley
removed to Landon, where he devoted a short
time to the instructions of the renowned
Wolffl. At 19, having finished his musical
education, he announced himself to the pub-
lic as a teacher. Although he was appointed
organist of the Parish Church of Bradford, in
the year 1807, yet Halifax, being a very music-
al town, and affording him much teaching,
became his principal phnee of residence. In
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
123
1820, after teaching in some of the most re-
spectable families in the country, giving in-
struction to several teachers, and leading a
very considerable number of performances,
both sacred and miscellaneous, he was induced
by a liberal salary, to accgpt the situation of
organist of the Parish Church, Sheffield, at
which place he was afterwards stationed. As
a stimulus to exertion, it may not be im-
proper to add that, notwithstanding an inat-
tention to literature in earJy life, and a con-
tinual devotion of time to teaching and
composition, Bottomley found opportunities
of cultivating a<n acquaintance with several
languages. the mathematics, and most of
the sciences. The following is a list of Bot-
tomley's principal published works: — "Six
Exercises for Pianoforte, " '' Twelve Sonatin-
as, " " Two Divertimentos, with Flute Accom-
paniment, " "'Twelve Waltzes." " Eight
Rondos, " Ten Airs with Variations. "
• One Song, ' " One Duet, for two Pianos, "
One Sonata," " Twenty-e^ight Songs, set to
Dr. Watts's Familiar Poems, " etc. All the
foregoing are for the pianoforte, with a small
'' Dictionary of Music, " London, 1816, etc.
Hifi manuscript works, which are num^'rous,
consist of overtures, quintets, one quartet,
trios, concertos, fugues, and anthems.
H. H. BOWMAJST wrote "St. Valentine, or
the Temple of Hymen," for which G. Frederic
Sharp compose<l the music; Halifax, 1892,
octavo.
J. BOWSER, Baptist Minister, Shipley,
wrote HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS.
Halifax, printed for the Author at the office
of J. and G. Nicholson, 1807, 8vo., 300 pages;
or 12mo., pp. 281, viii.
PATRICK BRANWELL BRONTE, only son
of Rev. P. Bronte, 1817-1818. THE BRONTE
FAMILY, with special reference to P.B.B.,
by Francis A. Leyland; 2 vols., 1886. Sells
at 4s. 6d. or 6s. Valuable as giving the poems
of P.B.B. especially. He was for some time a
clerk on the railway at Luddenden Foot. Two
of his father's poetical books were printed at
Halifax.
.JOSEPH BROOHBANK, (Elland Family).—
TBE WELL-TITNED ORGAN, or an exercita-
tion wherein this question is fully and largely
discussed, whether or no Instrumental or
Org/inical Music be lawful in Holy PubUck
Assemblies. Small 4 to. ,1660. Sells at 4p. GI.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, see his " Religio
Medi-ci, " No. 22.
LXXV.— POETS AND RHYMSTERS (2).
THOMAS CHEETHAM, of Ripponden, 1798-
1826. Account of his Life, written by himself,
edited bv George Thomas Cheethim. Bradford,
was printed by J. M. Jowett, Bradfopfl. 18''!.
In contains a poem of seven pages by T .C.
dated 1825, on " The Sabbath. "
REV. JOHN CHETHAM, afterwards spelt
Cheetham, issued his famous Cheetham"s
Psalmody as "A Book of Psalmody, all set in
Four Parts, " in 1718, octavo. He was a
musical clergyman at Skipton and Rotherham,
but little is known about him. He died about
1760.
Ajiother edition appeared in 1730, the
sixth edition in 1741— " A Book of Psahnody,
tunes, chanting tunes and fourteen anthems,
all set in four parts; 6th edition, by Rev. Mr.
John Chetham; sold in Wakefield. 1741. In
1745 another edition came out. In 1787 the 11th
edition appeared, a " Book of Psalmody, Chant-
ing Tunes and fifteen Anthems, " Thomas
Wiight, Leeds, octavo, pages iv., viii., 186,
xii. These editions fetch from 4s. to 6s. as
curiosities.
A BOOK OF PSALMODY, containing a
variety of tunes for all the common meters
of the Psalms in the old and new versions,
and others for particular measures; with
chanting tunes and fifteen anthems, all set in
four parts within such a compass as will most
naitura'ly suit the voices in country churches,
yet may be sung in three or two without a.ny
disallowance's. By the Rev. Mr. John Chet-
ham. 8tli edition, London, printed for Joseph
Lord, bookseller in AVakefield in Yorkshire,
and sold by him at his shops in Barnsley and
Pontefract; by Samuel Howga.te. Joseph Wil-
son and Elizabeth Swale, booksellers in Leeds,
by Mr. WilliamEdwards and Mr. Nath. Binns,
booksellers in Halifax, 1752, 8vo., pages
vi., viii., 186, xv.
For further editions see afterwards under
Stopford and Houldsworth.
WILLIAM COLD WELL is said to have been
a native of Stockwith, and resided during the
greater part of his life at Sheffield. He <lied
at Liverpool, aged 65, in 1836. He was author
of " The Book of Praises, the Psalms of
David, and others; the prophets of Jehovah,"
, in metre, otherwise entitled " Psalms or
Saered Odes of David; " Halifax, 1821, small
octavo. I have not seen this book, but it is
described in Holland's '■ Psalmists of Britain,"
and in Lowndes, page 2004. He also printed at
Halifax in 1820 a volume of "Hebrew Hnr-
iiionics and Allusions," a duodecimo poetical
work. He was also author of "FABLES .^ ^'^
MORAL POEM'S. " 2nd edition, 2 volumes.
Halifax, R. Sugden, 1820. Vol. I.— 117 pages.
Vol. II.— 127 pages. Contents of Vol. I., 13
items — ^La'dy and Rose, Maternal Instinct.
Bee, Youth and Shepherd, Sportsman and
Birds. Conscience, Cynic. Henry and Emma,
Oak, Two Sexes, Dead .Tay, IMan and .-Vnimals,
Mountain Doves. The bal'ad " Henrv and
Emma "—(BRIGHT SHONE THE LUNAR
ORB)— has high merit
124
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Contents of Vol. II., 21 items— Hermit,
Slave, Enslavers, Country, Kinp. Sleep, Laura
and Edwin, River, Sympathy, Fox and Geese,
Kuin, Goldfinch, Old Soldier, Felons, Ra^jtjed
Boy, Younj? Henry, Edwin and Magpie, Orphan
Boy, Wreck, Sailor Boy, Lark.
Tile fi.rst volume seems to have been issued
in 1816, and the c^econd one in 1818, but 1 do
not know where they were printed.
KEiV. THOMAS COX, M.A.. died at Light-
cliffe, January 6, 1887, aged 6-1. Heixd Master
at Halifax Grammar School 1861-83; Lecturer
of the Halifax Parish Church ]871.
Libretto of the Sacred Cantata— JONAH ;
set to music by Dr. J. Varley Roberts, 1876.
His other books will be mentioned elsewhere.
THE REV. HEiNRY KRABTRBE has
rhymes in his ''Almanack" previously de-
scribed, see Krabtree.
FREDERIC WILLIAM CRONHELM has
been described as " the sweetest of Calder
bards. " He was born at Exeter, May 23,
1787. In 1797 the family came to Halifax. His
grandfather was a Hanoverian officer. Before
1808 he issued a small volume of "Poems,
\\%th an Hexametrical translation of part of
the Second Book of Klopstock's Messiah. "
In 1842 he printed for private circulation " A
Wreath for Catherine's Grave, " a thin quarto
volume, inscribed to the memory of his
daughter who died October 11, 1840, aged 12.
This poem of thirty-two lines is a beautiful
gem.
William Dearden (postea) also printed
quarto siize, 1840, on Catherine (Cron-
helm) a. Poem. He wrote fugitive pieces for
the "HALIFAX GUARDIAN," of which he was
editor for some years, and other pieces ap-
peared in Canon Fawcett's " Temple Offer-
ings, " etc. In the '' White Rose of York, "
1834, is a long stirring poem by him entitled
"The Doom of Cordoba, a Tale of the Caliphs,"
the scene of which is laiid in Spain. ' The
Dream of Paradise " gives many Calderdale
references. His privately printed "All Soul's
Church, Halifax, a descriptive poem " was
printed by Whitley and Booth, Halifax,
large octavo size, 1860. I think a volume of
his was printed at Rochdale without date, en-
titled "Poems, Translations, &c., " 204 pages.
Mr. Cronhelm died June 2, 1871.
THE REV. JOHN CROSSE was incumbent
of Crosis-stone Church before he became vicar
of Brnidford. He was not found amongst the
poets tliour^'h an Elegy on Vicar Croi^se was
printed in Bradford, 1816, 44 pages octavo.
DAVID CROSSLEY was born in 1670 near
Todmorden. and worked as a stonemason in
Wnlsden. In eairly life he came in contact with
John Bunyan. the immortal dreamer, and like
Bunyan. travelled about the country preach-
ing the Gospel. He and his cousin William
Mitchell (afterwards the first Ba.ptist pastors
of Rostsendale, 1692.) aften'cled weeknight ser-
vices at Bacup. In 1691 Crossley preached in
Mr. Pomfrot's chapel, Spilafi'dds, London, as
a visitor. A few months after becoming joint-
pastor at Rossendale, Crossley was baptised at
BromFgrove, Worcestershire. August 26. 1692.
He left Bacup in 1695 for To'tlcbank, "thence
in 1705 for Knolly's chapel, London. In 1718
he returned to iancashire, fo'lowed by <lis-
creditable reports, slanderous or otherwise,
which after a long time he lived down, though
expelled from the Yorkshire and Lancashire
Baptist Association. He lesided at Hapten,
near Padiham. and in old age kept a school
at Goodshaw.
1696. THE OLD MAN'S LEGACY to his
daughters, by H.F., edited by D. Crossley.
1736, Another edition.
1720, Adam, where art thou? or the Serious
Parley; a poem.
1743. The Triumph of Sovereign Grace, Man-
chester, 127 pages. A Sermon on the Execu-
tion of Lawrence Britliffe, of Cliviger, for
manslaughter.
169-. Samson a Type of Christ.
1744, Saffison a Type of Christ, another edi-
tion, preface by Rev. Geo. Whitfield.
1851, Samson a Type of Christ.
D.C. was a very portly, heavy man, with
a strong voice, that was heard by thousands
at once when preaching on the hi^l sides of
Yorkshire and Lancn shire. He died at Cross-
ley farm, Tatop, Crawshawbooth, in 1744 and
was buried at Goodshaw Church.
In Alvery Jackson's MS.. (Mr. Ormerod's
possession. Todmorden,) are two poems by
D.C, a hymn and an acrostic. He is mentior-
ed in No. 27 of this series.
JAMES CROSSLEY, the celebrated Man-
chester .Antiquary and Book Collector, born
at Halifax. Edited Antiquarian works. Lived
to be 83. Further notice of him and his
Library Catalogue will be given. He etlited
— " Observations and Instructions, Divine and
Moral, in Verse, by Robert Hey wood, of liey-
w^ood, " for tho Chetham Society. 1869; quarto,
la.rge and small paper.
THOMAS CROSSLEY was a nattve of
Ovenden, and died at HaMfax. September 2,
1843, aged 39. leaving a wife and six children.
POE;i\rS, LYRIC, MORAL, AND HUMOROTTS.
Halifa,x, N. Whiteley, n.d. pages iv., iv.. 139.
[Preface dated near Halifax, December,
1828. Contents, 62 pieces— Dobson's Ghost, tl^e
Calder, Dreaming Cobbler, Kirkstall Abbey.
Robin Hood's Grave, the Seasons, Ballad— BE
STILL, YE HOWLING WINDS. 20 lines.]
HALIFAX. A Poetical Sketch, 1831.
FLOWERS OF EBOR POEMS. Halifax,
Leyland and Son. 1837. Pages xi., 199.
[Preface, dated Ovenden, January 20, 1^37.
Contents, 116 items, very varied in subject, in-
HALIFAX BOOKS AND ATrTHGRS.
125
eluding Christmas Customs, Ballad— I PULL-
ED A ROSE, Bolton Priory, the Cakler,
Natural Scenery, &c.]
SILAS CRYER, late of Halifax, returned to
Bingley.
THE ABSTAINER'S COMPANION, in 3
parts. No. 2, contains 14 Originiil Melodies,
and a Poem entitled the Contrast. Halifa.\.
from the author, Hanson Lane, n.d., printed
by Baildon and Son. Halifax. 32 pp., 32mo.,
2d.
No. 3, prose and poetrv, 3d.
LEISURE MUSINGS,' Keighley, 1865, 232
lines of unmitig:ated doggerel.
LEISURE. MUSINGS; consisting of Origin-
al Poems on Pleasant Subjects, with Appendix
and Beautiful Illustrations. Keighlev,
" Herald " Office. 1876, Pages iv., 72, 6d.
[On Rev. A. Hudson. Bingley; " .lob
Senior—" I'LL RELATE A STRANGE QUEER
STORY. "]
AN ACROSTIC; a poem descriptive of the
Improvement of the Times, and the Horrors
of Intemperance, by Siias Cryer, author of
'' Lines on the Panic." " E'Jegy on Job Senior,"
"On R. C. Wildon, " " Tlie Better Country,"
" The Christian's Warfare. " Price Id.
Bingley. J. Harrison and Son. 1862; 12 page<s.
LXXVI.— POETS AND RHYMSTERS (3).
J.D. was author of " A Monody on the Death
of a Brotiher, " eight page« 12mo., Halifax,
no date.
REV. BRYAN DALE, M.A., Congregational
Minister at Halifax majiy years; removed to
Braxlford. His books have been previously
named. His poetical effusions include —
THE OLD CENTURY and the New. 1900-1.
4pp.
PILGRIMS OF THE UMBRIA : American
Congregaitioual Council, October, 1899; a
rhyme on their visit to Boston. Manchester, J.
C. Norbury, 6, Chepotow Street; 6 pi^ges;
Hymns, in Magazines, and on New \e'~r's
caivis.
ABEL DEAN, fourth eon of Abel Wads-
worth D#an, printer, Halifax, born November
1, 1814; died November 7, 1887. Celebrated
organist at Halifaix and Huddersfield. Com-
duoted the great Sunday School Jubilee Com-
memorations from 1852 to 1885.
HYMN TUNES, a small volume.
" SONG OF THE WILD FLOWEORS," "Music,
Music. "
" COME HOME, " " Come, Oh ! come, " and
many other songs, hymns, etc., some with
words of his composition.
"Collection of Original Tunes," small quarto,
Huddersfield, 1883, sells at 2s.
WILLIAM DEARDEN was born in 1804 at
Helxlen Bridge. He was ediicated at Hepton-
stall Grammar School, and a private school
in the East Riding. He became master of an.
Academy in King Street, Huddersaeld, when
a very joung man, and remained there many
years, 1830-1848. He next removed to HolJius
Boarding School, near Halifax, and after
that was for mainy years a schoolmaster in
Bradford. About 1860 he got pos ession of the
\Tarley Grammar School, and whi.st there I
first became acquainted with him. A memoir
and portrait of him appear in my " Yorkshire
Genealogist." He died Januiiry 24, 1889, and
was buried at Heptonstall. He had a daughter,
and one son— the Rev. Wm. Deafden M.A.,
of the Royal Navy. He was always very active
in local literary circles, and was more or less
acqmunted with P. B. Bronte, the Lake poets,
the two Leylands, etc.
THE VALE OF CALDENE; or the past and
the present. A poem in six books. Halifax,
Walker, 1644. Pages xv., 256, 4.
[Ded. to Fred. Chas. Spenser. Preface,
dated Huddersfield, December, 1844. Topo-
graphical Notes of Hebden Bridge district.]
Parts of this book appeared in his cousin's
Miscellany, (W. Dearden^ Nottingham.)
THE DEA.TH OF LEYLAND'S AFRICAN
BLOODHOUND. 1837, 4 to.
THE STAB-SEEH: a Poem in Five Cantos.
Halifax, Ley land and Son 1837. Pages xv.,
174. i-refnce dated Huddersfield, December
29, 1836.
[Ded. to Fredk. Wm. Cronhelm. Proem.
Canto I. The Lady of Kirklees, II. Pilgrimage,
III. Aerial Voyage, IV. Bridal. V. Last Seal.
Notes 125-173, on Caklene, Comets, Cross-stone,
Astrology, Kirklees, Headless Steed.]
He edited John Nicholson's Poems in 1859;
Bradford.
Mr. Dearden wrote largely to various maga-
zinetj ajnd newspapers, and was editor (and
part proprietor) of Deardeu's Miscellany. He
had a Large Ui-edley of manuscripts, much of
which was unpublished at his death. " Cather-
ine, a poem, " was written in memory of Mr.
Cronhelm's daughter.
WILLIAM DEARDEN, a Yorkshireman,
cousin of the Calder-vale poet just-named,
printed various poetical works at Nottingham,
1838, etc.
DEARDEN'S MISCELLANY, 4 vols., 1839-
40, was a work of superior merit to which
Dean Alford and others contributed excellent
poems. The Vols, sell at 12s. 6d., 15s. Not-
tingham printed.
DANIEL DE FOEi, bom in London, 1663—
1731.
THE) TRUEr BORN E1NGLISH3IAN : a Satire,
with a copious memoir of the Author. Leeds,
Alice Mann, 1836, 40 pages. (Pub. in 1701.)
* We claim that De Foe w^ote his inimitable
" Robinson Crusoe, " 1719, whilst in hiding in
Halifax. He wrote " A Hymn to the Pillory "
after having suffered therein; also ''Jure
126
HALIFAX BOOKS AI>JD AUTHORS.
Divino, " 1707, his longest po m; " Caledonia. "
The first two lines of tti© True Boni Buglisli-
iiian ha\'e been repeatedly quoted:
'' Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a temple there, "
the next two lines are not so well-kno'wn : —
•' And 't will be found upon examination.
The latter has the ln^rf>est congregation. "
Crabtree's Halifax, and writers from Mr.
Watson's time auirm that Halifax has a claim
to '' Jure Divino " and " Robinson Crusoe. "
R. DEMPSTER, Elland, wrote THE GOOD
OLD GAS-LIGHT COMPANY; a song. 32
lines, 1877. 2 pages; dedicated to John Hutch-
inson, Barnsley.
GRACE DICKINSON, an inmate of Halifax
Workhouse, 1861-3. Her amanuensis was Sarah
Thomas, a deaf mute. Mr^ D. died January,
1863. Her husband had become insane, com-
iiiittod suicide and left her with three children.
SONGS IN THE NIGHT: a Collection of
Vei-ses by the late Grace Dickinson, composed
in the Halifax Union Woa'khouse; edited by
the Chaplain, with eome aiccount of the
Auithor. Small 8vo.. pp. xvi., 104. Halifax,
1863. 2nd edition, Wakefield, A. W. Stans-
field, 1863, with frontispiece. 16mo., 96 pages.
WILLIAM DIXON, the Thinking Man's
Ei-iend. Halifax, Wm. Nioholson, 1852; 192
pages, nine of which are poems; the Vale of
Hebden, 1830, etc.
GEORGE DOWNING, a comedian, became
a debtor in Halifax Jail for one year at least,
and he published a volume at Halifax in
1763, as under, " The Temple of Taste, or a
Dish of All Sorts, consisting of Prologues,
Epilogues, Songs, Epitaphs. Epigrams, etc.,
never before printed, to which is annexed a
■new Farce call'd Newmarket, or the Humours
of the Turf, with a sketch of On© Tear's Ac-
count of the life of the Auther lately detained
in HaJifax Jail on a small suspicion of debt. '
I regret I have never seen a copy of this book,
which would have been serviceable in writing
the " History of Wakefield Prison " last year.
My late antiquarian friend, Mr. Wm. Grange,
Harrogate, quotes a poem from this book of
Downing's but knew nothing further of the
writer. It wais evidently printed at Halifax
in 1763.
[EZRA DOYLE, Esq., a pseudonym; tne
author lived !\X. Mixenden probably.],
POLLY'S GAON, or Merriment in dress and
the Folly of Pride. JAMES and POLLY, or the
very funny wedding. BUTTERY DICK, or
the beautiful sweating. And THE BOTTLE
OF GALKER. or Fun in Fermentation. Hali-
fax, printed for the author by W. Nicholson;
u.d.. 52 pages, including covers.
" I recollect when I wor yoiing. "
''Alas! They say old James is dead."
" My neighbour Dick was sent one day, "
" In a Midland town a parson lived. "
It has since been issued by Nicholson antl
Sons, Wakefield, (formerly of Halifax), no
<late, 50 pages, 24 mo.
The following has been erroueoiisly attributed
to Mr. Ben Preston, Bradford: — Dolly's Gaon,
or the Effects of x ride, by a Native Genius,
to which is added Rose and Dolly, etc. Hali-
fax, ('ra))tiee and Son. (1854.)
JOHN DRACUP, a native of Idle, removed
to Great Horton, became Baptist Minisfei- at
Steep Lane. Sowerby. HYIINS and SPIRITU-
AL SONGS. Bradford, John Nicholson and
Son for Jaimes Dufton. 1787, small 8vo., 70
pages.
NATHANIEL DRACUP, brother of .lolui.
left Idle, his native place, in 1729 to reside at
Great Horton, and became a pioneer Methodist;
over forty years a local preacher with a wide
circuit in West Yorks, first class-leader at
Great Horton, opened his house until a preach-
ing place could be got; died in 1798. He wrote
: n Elegy on the Death of Rev. Wm. Grini-
sha.w, Havvorth.
W. DYCHE, B.A, Head Master of the
Higher Board School, Halifax, edited " As
you likie it; with Notes, etc., portrait of
Shakespeare, and 14 other ilhistrations by
Shepperson, crown 8vo., 134 pages.
JOSEPH H. EiCCLES.
This very successful writer of sweet songs
and poems was born at Ripponden, on the 20th
of June, 1824. and was entii-ely self-edtica(ed.
His early days were f^pent in rambling amongst
the woods and fields and on the moorlands
which nearly surrounded his native vale,
thereby fostering a partiality for rural scenes
and sounds and a love for nature. The result
of this training was visible in all he wiote,
for his poetry treats of home and affections
which sprung up and around it, and he sung
of whatever was dear to him in the natund
world. There is a sweet, cheerful strain run-
ning through all his verses, though some-
times a little tinged with melancho'y when
ocaa,sion required it, which always leaves in
us a love for whatever is good in man or
beautiful in natiare. In 1845 he relieved to
Leeds, where he continued writing, and con-
tributed poems and songs to the Leeds and
other papers. One hundred of his songs were
set to music by English. Americ-an, French,
and German composers. He also edited several
dinlect annwals, amonglsit which were " The
Leeds Loiner, " " Tommy Toddles, ■" and
" Tommy's Annual, " which were all exceed-
ingly popular, and had a lai"ge local sale. His
dialect verses and sketches, however, were not
strictly speaking '' native to the Shire, " or
even to the district in which Leeds is situated.
This may probably be accounted for by his
not being brought up in the district where
most of his poems and sketches were composed.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
127
A large number of his songs and poems are
equal in sweetness and genuine feeling (o any
in the English languiige. About the year lS7-i
he isjsued a volume entitled " Yorkshire Songs."
This contained seventy-one et his best dialect
poems, some of them being very humorous.
The late Mr. Abraham Holroyd received Ihe
folloAving information from him in an>s\ver lo
a letter requesting particulars i'.boiit himt;elf :
— " I was born at the village of Ripponden,
near Halifax, on the borders of the B^ack-
stone Bilge, on the 20th of June, 1824. I am
a twin brother, and am self-taught; in truth,
all that was ever spent in giving me an educa-
tion wais 2s. 9^d., at the village school, the
note of which I retain as a relic of the past.
My early days were spent amongst the wooiis
and fields and on the moorlands, and since my
earliest recollections I have l)een a great lover
and admirer of nature. Since I came to Leeds
in 1845, 1 have been engaged ohiefly in chem-
istry. I have read much, and frequently give
lectures. I have a wife and sweet little family,
and we live very happily together. '' Mr.
Bccles died at Leeds on the 7th of August,
1883, regretted by all who knew hfm.
I have one or two autographs of Ecclets given
to me by Mr. Holroyd, and I wouid like to
see an edition of his works with a good por-
trait. His beautiful poem " Bite bigger " has
been copied and recopkM:! into papers and
magazines. Elthical lessons are to be found
in all his prodnotione, scatite^'ed in the Leeds
and most of the Yorkt-hire newspapers, and
Y'orkshire magazines, and brief biographical
notes will be found in the " Yorkshire ilonth-
l.v, " &c. . &c., and in sundry Annuals. The
following note deserves perpetuation, especi-
ally as it introduces a Ma.vor of Leeds, whose
ancestoi-^ wei-e sebi'led at Bridge End, BrJg-
hoirse : —
Mr H. Radestock, Thorner, writes: —
It is above flirty .vears since I made the
acquaintance of the late Mr. J. H. Ecclep.
I, at that time, spoke the English langu-
age indifferently, but the wnlks Mr. Eccles
and I had dnring the bright summer even-'ngs
<"rouni the neighbcurhood of Bellisle and
Middleton Wood .are as fresh in ray memory
now as if they had onb occurred last summer.
He was a thoroughly se.f-fcaught man, and very
fond of botany, and our chief topics on such
evening excursions were the herbal and floral
world, and how we could improve our know-
ledge regaixling the subjects before irs. In the
early par^ of our acquaintance Mr. Eccles
used to write songs for the " Original Christy
Minstrels;" and Mr. William Fox, now of the
Leeds Forge Company, to a great many of h'is
poeitic songs composed suitable and charming
melodies. which at one time became very
popular. In fact, we used to introduce the
same at '' Penny Readings, '' given for the
benefit of the Working Men's Institutions,
here and there, with the valuable help of Mr.
H. R. Marsden's family and fi-iends, long be-
fore that gentileman became Mayor of Leeds.
For a great number of years Mr. Eccles was
connected witth the well-known firm, Messrs.
Hirst, Brooke^ and Hirst, manufacturing
chemists, of Leeds, and whilst in their em-
ployment published the works already named
in "Merotiry Supplement." He also wrote all
tlie "Yorkshire Dialect" poems which tTie
c«ebrated '' Sam the Newsman " used to recite,
and many a hearty laugh and moist eye has
been the reward of his compositions. As
years rolled on so did our friendship, and the
lamentable and sudden death of our friend.
Aid. Marsden, who had just completed the
second year of his Mayoralty for the borough
of Leeds, brought all old friends together to
assist- in preserving the well-known public
benefactor's name in the memory of all towns-
men and of all Yorkshifremen. it was decided
to ftcect a marble monument, to be placed in
a prominent pasition in Leeds, and the site the
monument now stands on, at the top of Albion
street, was granted by the Corporation. It is
an easy matter to say, " We will erect a monu-
ment, " but to collect funds to defray the ex-
penses is a task which Mr. B. Tiffany, as pre-
sident, the numerous committee, and myself
as acting hon. sec, found out to be rather
difficult. On August 9th, 1876. Mr. .Joseph
Hobson, proprietor of the Princess's Theatre,
then the only one in LeetLs, the other two
having been destroyed by fire, granted us the
free use of the theatre to give a miscellaneous
entertainment for the benefit of the fund.
Mr. Samuel Croft, then Mayor of Leeds, gave
his patronage, and attended personally on that
occasion. A leading feature of the programme
on the occasion was a poem by my old friend
Etecles, written purposely for that occasion,
and most ably recited by Mr. Fred French,
of Leeds; whilst the gentlem#n of the com-
mittee surrounded a minature statue of Mr.
Marsden. The amount of money realised by
the sale of the poem, at Id. each, brought the
handsome sum of aboiit £5 to the hands of
the treasurer of the fund. The following is a
coiTcct copy of the poem : —
HENRY ROWLAND MARSDEN.
Not b,v deeds of valour, not by martial fame,
Won he his proud position, gained an honoured
name;
Not by birth or lineage, nor by speech, or pen,
Did he become exaited among his fellow-men !
Amidst the busy thoiisands. who toil from day
to day,
He made his first endeavour, and opened out
the way;
By constant work and watching the upward
path he found.
128
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
When forhine erniled upon him, and all his
offorts crowned;
Stronj,' in faith and purpose, rich in thought
and skill,
Hre gra<sped each form and feature, and shaped
tibem to his will,
But few so kind and earnest, so full of truth
and trust.
As he who softly-slumbers now in the silent
dust.
A friend to honest workmen, who took them
by the hand,
And all their thoughts and feelings could
guess and understand;
Who never met an old face without a word or
smile.
Whom he had known in past dayfi, amongst
the sons of toil.
Friend of the poor orphatu, bhe widow in her
need,
Who talked not of charity, but showed it in
the deed.
A helper in all movements, no matter small
or great,
If for the common welfare you never caH'd
too late.
A nobleman by nature, whom all are proud to
own,
A public benefactor, a credit to our town;
Of such no panegyric, no fulsome words of
praise.
By kindly hearts are needed, his monument
to raise.
The language expressed in the above
will convince the reaider that Mr. Eccles was
a man of talent. Many of his publications,
which are easily obtainable, are deserving of
preservation. Some of his songs have had to
be republished, and in the memories of all who
knew him his name will not be forgotten.
YORKSHIRE SONGS. Leeds, for the
Author by Hirst, Brooke and HirBt, n.d. , pages
viii., 7-182.
[Ded. to J. R. Appleton, Durham. Contents,
71 pieces. Aar litt'e lad. Deein be inches
Grown owd together. T' Weshing Da ay.
Poppin t' Question. T' Pop Shop. Wimmine"
wark iz never dun. T' poor Beggar Boy.
Harvest Hcam. Cut vour coit, tc.j
YORKSHIRE SONGS. Issued in penny
numbers, Leeds, J. Hamer. no date; 12 pages
each and covers.
CHARLES GROVE EDWARDS, son oH Sir
Henry Edwards, (died December, 1901, aged
61). "The Rhine: one of the Competitive
Poems for the Harrow Prize, 1861. " Halifax,
1861.
EiLLAND TRAGEDIES. An old manuscript
version, purchased by Mr. H. J. Bfirber,
Brighouse, for 3,5^., was sold at his death, but
I failed to trace the purchaser. However. T
had previously printed the copy literatim,
prose and verse, in
THE EILLAND TRAGEDIES. viy.._The
Murd<'r.s of Sir Rohcrt Beaumont, of Croshmd,
Hugh de Quarniby, of Quarmby, .Tohn de
Loc-kwood, of Lockwood, Sir John l;land,
senioT, at Brighouse Sir John Eland, junior^
and his son, at Bland, and others, with the
exploits witli notes, pedigrees and
e\ii.dfnceis recently brought to light. Edited
by J. Horsfrill Turner, 1890. 91 pages. 2s.
It was first pariiially printed in Beutley-
Midgley's. Halifax, 1708, again 1712, again
1761. Then by Watson in his '' Halif;i,x, " by
Dr. Whitaker in his " Loidis and Elmete, "
by Crabtree in his "Halifax," and by Tngle-
dew in '' Ballaifls, " but none of them complete.
The EOland Tragedy was undoubtedly written
b">- a locaj man because the topograpliical
notices prove this. The copy I used bore the
initials J.N. or F.N., a.nd was quite three
centuries old. We are also told that it
anciently formed the subject for a rustic
drama, like the Peace Egg. An old Kirklees
nianiii-cript stated "they have a play and a
song thereof in the countrv still. "
SAMUEL ELLIS, organist, born at Halifax.
1776; pupil of Stopford, (editor of Chetham's
Pstilmody), Cboke of Westminster, and others,
wrote —
A CIRCULAR SYSTEM OF SCALES.
A MORNING AND EVENING HYMN.
MS. works on the flute, &c.
LXXVII. POETS AND RHYMSTERS. (4).
JOHN FAWCETT, D.D., M.A.. of Wains
gate, Brearley Hall, Elwood Hall, HtlKien
Bridge, has occupied our attention in articles
47 and 48. He was born at Lidget Green,
Bradford, in 1740, but spent most of his years
in Calderdale, where he died in 1817, July
25th. His poetical works are as iinder : —
"The Death of Eumenio : A Poem." Leeds.
G. Wright and Son, 1779, 6d., 40 pages.
[Ded. to Relatives of William Hudson.
Gildersome, dated Brearley Ball, near Hali-
fa;x, November, 1779. Mr. Hudson, "Eumenio,"
died the same month, November. Pages 35-
39 Elegiac Verses on the Death of Mr. Wil-
liam Greenwood, late of Oxenhope. near
Haworth, September 30, 1779. Advertisement
of ''Poetic BsL*ays" bv the same Hand, Gd., &c.l
"THE SICK MAN'S EMPLOY" (London.
1774), 8d., dated from Wainsgate, , Halifax.
June 1774, contains sundry verses and hymns
b.y Mr. F'awcetit interspersed.
"THEl REIGN OF DEATH, a Poem oc-
casioned by the decease of the Rev. James
Hartley, late of Haworth, by John Fawcett:
.vith ai Funeral Sermon by Wm. Crabtree,"
Leeds, G. Wright and Sons. 1780, Is., 102 pages.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
12^
Part II. on Philander (Adam Holden, Halifax),
7 pages. [Poem, 3-38; Epitaphiniu 2 pages.]
Sells at Is.
''HYMN8, adapted to the Circuinstances of
Public Worship and private Devotion." G.
Wright, Leecfe, for tthe Author, 1782; 288 pages,
rimo., 166 hymns.
"BRIEF SUPPLEMENT TO THE PSALMS
AND HYMNS OF ISAAC WATTS, D.D., re-
commended by J.F.," Etvv-ood Hall, 1816; 3rd
edition, corrected, 32 mo.; London, E. Drake,
1827.
"THE CHRISTIAN'S HUMBLE PLEA for
his God and Saviour; in answer to several
pamphlets lately published by Dr. Priestley
against the Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ."
3rd edition; London, 1781, 6d. pp. viii., 24(644
lines). The second edition, 1780, blank verse.
"POETIC ESSAYS," 6d., dated Brearley
Hall, 1/767.
His hymns are found in nearly all colh'ctions
e.g., Religion is the chief. Praise to Thee, How
precious is the book. With humble heart and
tongue. Blest is the tie, Now in my early dayt>,
Thus for my God, &o.
REV. BENJAMIN FIRTH, founder and
minister of the Wyke Congregational Church,
was the first to build a mill at Brighouse, in
what was after\vard6 cajlled Baines' Square,
between Mill-lane and the Canal. He kept a
private school at Wyke, amd published some
soholai'-tic works besides a "Theological and
Poeticail Class Book," which appeared in 1835.
REV. FREDERICK GARD FLEAY, M.A.,
Leeds, Hipperholme, Skipton, &c., Grammar
Schools; late scholar of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge; author of ''Book of Revelationfi," "Eng-
lish Grammar."
ALMOND BLOSSOMS, small 8vo., 1857.
THE POETRY OF CATULLUS, to which
is added the Vigil of Venus, rendered into
English by F. G. Fleay, squaxe 8vo.; Leeds, C
Kemplay, 1864, pages iv., 47. Preface dated
Leeds Grammar School, February, 1864. Index
37 pieces. In this book two others are announ-
ced, "Hints on Teaching," 'Ballads of Brit-
tany," "Master Pieces of t'he Breton Ballads"
was printed by F. King, Halifax, 1870, 45
Ijages.
A SHAKESPEARE MANUAL, 1876,
2nd edition, by F.G.F., late Head Master of
Skipton Grammar School; small 8vo., 1878.
THREE LECTURES ON EDXTCATION,
1883.
CHRONICLE HISTORY OF THE LIFE
AND WORK OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,
player, poet, and playmaker, two etchings,
1886; published at 15s., 8vo.
CHRONICLE HISTORY OF THE LONDON
STAGE, 1559-1642; 424 pages, demy 8vo.. 1890.
Less fchapi 500 printed.
BIOGRAPHICAL CHRONICLE OF THE
ENGLISH DRAMA, 1559-1642, 2 volumes, 8vo.,
nearly 800 pages, 1891; pub. SOs.
My quondam Hipperholme friend has pro-
dme 1 in liis foui' volumes of "Chronicles,"
books of sterling, standard value.
JOHN S. FLETCHER, "Son of the Soii,"
publisher in Bradford and Leede for a short
time; author of sundry novels and topographi-
cal books. He was born at Halifax in 1863.
Besides novels and antiquarian books he hae
issued : —EARLY POEIMS," small 8vo., 1882,
pub. 2s. 6d.; 1885, Leeds; SELECTIONS FROM
WORDSWORTH, edited with Introductory
Memoir, 12mo., 1883 (Gardner's parchment lilj-
rary.
He has written several articles on Words-
worth, but not yet co'dBcted in volume form;
In Wordsworth Country, Wordsworth's Haunts
&c.
ANIMA CHRISTI, small 8vo., 128 pages,
Bradford, 1884; 1887, 102 pages.
DEUS HOMO (a poem), 12mo., 1887.
HEATHER AND HYACINTH, and fugitive
pieces in newspapers and Yorkshire journals.
POEiMS CHIEFLY AGAINST PESSIMISM
London, 1893, 55 pages. Contents, twenty
pieces, some attractive Bongs.
JOSEPH FLOUNDERS wrote "Poetic Tri-
fles," printed by J. and B. K. Rogers, Journal
Office, Lord-sti-eet, Halifax, 1809, 68 pagef*.
JOHN FOSTER (already mentioned), the
celebrated essayist and Baptist, born at Heb-
den Bridge, published "Essays on Poetical
Criticism."
RICHARD FOSTER, Hebden Bridge, pub-
lished a "Metrical Tune Book," quarto.
NATHANIEL FROBISHER, York, booksel-
ler and editor, was (if not a native) a descen-
dant of the Halifax Frobishers, who will else-
where be found mentioned amongst our au-
thors. Nathaniel Frobisher's "New Select
Collection of Epitaphs, Humorous, Whimsical,
Moral and Satyrical, was printed at York be-
fore 1800, small octavo; see Davies' York Press.
WM. GARFORTH, issued at Hebden Bridge
in 1852, a duodecimo book — "The Masonic Vocal
Manual, comprising Songs, Duets, Glees, &c.,
with Masonic information."
W. H. GARLAND, Mus. Bac, succeeded Dr.
J. Varley Roberts at Halifax on his removal to
Oxford in 1882; succeeded Dr. Monk at York.
In 1886 became conductor of Halifax Choral
Society, founded 1818. Magnificat and Nunc
Dimittis in A. Benedicite, in three keys.
THE REV. W. GRAHAM, Halifax, previous-
ly mentioned, was author of a poem — "Repen-
tance, the only condition of final acceptance."
REV. R. GRAVES, M.A., probably no con-
nection with Halifax, except that his book was
printed there in 1826, small octavo, with por-
trait: ''Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus;
— Meditations, translated from the Greek, with
Life, Notes, &c.
130
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUIHORS.
JOHN GREIENWOOD. Halifax and Le*ds.
PSALMODY, 4to.. 1838; a thick volume. John
Greenwood was electetl by the Let>ds ratepay-
ers in July, 1621, after three days' pol', as
organist at Leeds Parish Church. He secured
2,608 vot«s, Mr. Hopkiiu^on 1,242, Mr. Theaker
59. Processions and great commotion took
place during those days.
THOMAS GREENWOOD is said to have
been a schoolmasteo- in the Yorkshire part of
Todmorden. He was author of "Zeta, Hi'-toric
Glimpses of England and her Sons; and other
poems." Printed for the author by S. Walton,
Todmorden, 1861, small octiivo, pages iv., 113.
There ar« nineteen smaller pieces in the vol-
LXXVIII.— POETS AND EHYMSTEBS.— (5).
LORD HALIFAX.— This writer has no
connection with HIalifoix, exicepi. taking the
title held pretviously by the Saviles, and now
bv the Woods.
"miscellanies by the late Rt. Hon. Lord
Marquetis of Halifax. 8vo., 1700. Sels at 3s.;
edition in 1704 sells at 3fi. 6d.
Dr. Bentley's Dedication of Horace. to
which is iidded a PO'EM in Latin and English
INSCRIBEiD TO LORD HALIFAX. [No
Yorkshire Connection.] 12mo., Lomlon, 1711,
33 pages. Sells at 5s
THE WORKS and Life of the Rt. Hon.
Charles, late Earl of Halifax; portrait, 8vo.,
1715. Sells at 3s.
POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, with
his Lordship's Life and Times. Small 8vo..
1715. Sells at 2s., 4s. 6d.
[Conta,!ns the satire, "The Hind and
Panther, ti-ansversed to the story of the
Country Mouse and the CiW Mouse."]
POETfCAL WORKS. 1716; sells at 2s.,
26. 6d.
MISCELLANIES IN PROSE AND VERSE;
General Resurrection, Satire, Fables, Songs,
Epigrams, Epitaphs &c., 1754. Sells at 3s. 6d.
HALIFAX HYMNOLOGY, See Samuel
Knight, Chetham, Bell. Parsons, Lightclifte,
HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS from
various authors, with some unpublished pieces
Halifax, E. Jacobs, 1772, 12mo.
LiEBSONS SELECTED FROM THEi OLD
VERSION OF THE PSALMS; email 8vo.
Halifax, E!. .lacobs, 1789.
"SELECT PORTIONS OF PSALMS" taken
from the Old and New Versions, and that of
Mr. Merrick; to which are added a FEW
HYMNS from approved authors. Compiled
for the use of the congregation of Hojy
Trinity Church, Halifax. Ha ifax. Ei.
Jacobs, 1798. Pages iv., 180; small 8vo.
[Preface, dated September. 1798. No index._
and authors not named.]
BHIEF SUPPLEflMFlNT to Psalms and
Hymns of Dr. Watts. Recommended by Dr.
John Fiawcett, 2nd edition, corix-cted. ^lalj-
fax, T. Wiulker, Silver-street. 1816, 102 pages,
12ino.. 270 livmns-
PSALMS " AND HYMNS for the Pari: Ji
Church, Halifax, N. WiiitU'v. 1826, 294 pages.
]2m().
Ditto, Appendix; Halifax. Whitley and
Booth, 1837. 134 pages, 12nio.
HALIFAX SELECTION OF HYMNS, a
Supplememi: to Dr. Watts. Halifax. Whitley
and Booth, 1834, 12mo., 520 hymns.
SELECT PORTIONS, &c., for use at Holy
Trinity Church, Halifax, 3i-d edition. Hali-
fax. E. Jacobs, 1805; iv., 180 pages, plus 8
for index, but in .aiuthors' names.
Fifth edition, l&M, Ho!den, pri titer, pp. iv.
180, viij.
Sixth edition, 1823, Holden, printer, pp.,
iv., 180, viii.
COLLEl'ITON OF HYMNS FOR THE
CONGREGATION 01 LIGHTCLIFFE
CHAPEL. 3vd edition, 1819, 74 pages. Hali-
fax, EL Jacobs.
PSALMS AND HYMNS, selected from ap-
prov^ed authoi's, for the Parish Church of
Halifax. First edition 1826.
With Appendix 2nd edition, 1829. Halifax,
N. Whiiiley; pp. iv., 294.
With Appendix, 4th edition, 1837. Halifax,
Whitley and Booth, pages i)v., 292. Pr^tace
dated April 21, 1826. Index of first lines, but
no authors' names, thus spoiling a good hymn-
book.
Appendix. i eparate'y, 32mo., j837, IS-ipp.
New edition, 1838, 32mo.
Edition, 1^,43. The Appendix has also a
separate title pa^e; pages 191 x 94.
[Fifuh] edition, 1847. Halifax, Whitley
and BootJi. 2o9 pages Psalms and Hyiaus,
x'.ppr^ndix to above, new editun; Halifax,
Whitley and Booth. 1847, 112 pas'es.
Edition 1856 (erroneously ^'iven a.^ Fifth on
the title page); with appendix. Halifax,
Whitley and Booth, piages 191 x 94.
Sixth edition. Wbitlev and Booth, 1861, pp.
191 X 94.
HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS com-
pc&ed frjm prophetic writings of Joanna
Southcott, by Philip PtiHen. London, 1813,
pages X., 223.
[Not a Halifax book, but etamped for Soiith-
cottian Chapel, where Sion Independent
Chapel now strands.]
SELECTION OF HYMNS designed as a
Supplement to Dr. Watts. (Rev. El. Pansons.)
Halifax, 1819. Th.ird edition, Halifax, 1828.
PSALMS, &c., (Also Prayer Book of same
date) 180S, Halifax, Holdem and Dowson.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
131
HALIFAX MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
HISTOKICAL RECORD of the Halifiijc
Musical Feistivnl held September 29, 30, and
Octobei- 1. 1830. in the Parish Churcli, for
the Benefit of the General Dispensary, to
wiiich is added an aeooiint of a Ball^ and an
introduction, with a stavcuient of accounts,
&c. Halifax, N. Whitley, "Chronicle" Office,
1830, 4to; 107 pages. Sells at 8s. 6d.
HALIFAX SUNDAY SCHOOL JUBILEES.
Hymns to be sung at the Celebration of the
Halifax S.S.J., in the Piece Hall, on Wednes-
day, September 14, 1831; 8 pages. Halifax.
Hymns at successive gatherings every
five veaas.
PROGRAMME OF HYMNS, &c.,
Seventh Com memo ration in the Piece
HaU, Whit-Tuesday, May 22. 1866.
D/^to. — 8th Commemoration, May 30, 1871
Ditto.— 9th, .iuiit 6, 18:6. 23 pages. CEN-
TENARY, 1880, 28 pp.
Ditto. — Commemorations, 1885, 1890.
THE YORKSHIRE 'MUSICAL MISCEL-
LANY; comprising an elegant selection of
tlie most admired songs in the English
Language. Set to Music. Halifax, E.
Jacobs. 1800. Pages viii., 232. Bevvickian
tailpieces.
[Contents — 110 songs; toasts, two pages.
Neither Authors' nor composers' names given.
"God saye great George our king.
Long live our noble king,
God i?aive vhe king."
The piecies are general, not local: drinking,
amatory, naval and war songs. "The Chapter
of Kings" — The Romans in Eingland they once
did sway, is attributed to a Yorkshire School-
master. Finishes \vith — "God save Charlotte
our Queen."] Sells at 5s., 4s., lOs., 2is. 6cl.,
3s. 6d., Gs.
SPIRITUAL HARP, a Collection of Hymns,
Sengs, Anthems, Chants and Choruses for the
Choir, Congreigation and Social Circle [intro-
duced into Halrfa/X for the Spiritua ist Meet-
ings, but noti a local book,] by J. M. Peebles
and J. O. Baj-reitt. London, 1875. 262 page.-.
"HALIFAX HARMONIC SOCIETY" Rules,
14 pages, 1795. E. Jacobs, printer.
''Selection, with Rules of the Harmonic
Society, 8 pages, 1793, B. Jacobs, printer.
HALIFAX PIECE HALL. A broadsheet was
printed by E. Jacobs for the opening of the
Manufacturers' Hall, Halifax. January 2, 1779,
},iving the description and cost, and a Song
enng at the opening: "When Adam and bis
consort Eve/' 48 linee, besides the chotus
four lines.
WESLEY'S HYMN BOOK, 570 pages, print-
ed by Nicholson, Halifax, c. 1820.
CLERGYMAN'S CHOICE OF A WIFE, &c.
Halifax, 1738; see Hotten's Catalogue, p. 299.
Etching of a Female Ballad Singer, in
leathern dress, UMken from life, by W. Wil-
liams, Halifax, 1759; reproduced in Yorks.
Anthology (Turner), Vol. I.
THE BRITISH SPY.— One day as I rambled
across Kingston Park : ballad of 50 lines.
Haifax, E. Jacobs, c. 1800.
RECREATIONS; poenit^, 30 pages, Halifax,
Holden arid Dowson, printers; c. 1803.
INTEiRBSTING LIFE of Gustavus Vagha,
written by himself, with poems on various
subjects, portrait, 12mo. Halifax. 1812.
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE of Olaudah
Lquano, the African, writ'oen by huimself to
which is added various poems, &c., &c 12mo
Hailifax, 1812.
CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR YOUNG
PERSONS, containing Poetical Allusions to
Onr Saviour's Life and Sufferings &c Hali-
fax, 1823.
HALIFAX CRIBS IN 1830: A Round for
five voices by J. Pudding and Co., n.u., 4
pages, music.
REPORT OF THE, PRINCIPAL SPEECHES
AND SONGS at the Great Whig-RadiciiJ
Banquet at Halifax, Odd-Fellows' Hall
February 3, 1853. Leeds, Mo.xon and Walker'
22 pages. Satirical.
[The Songs are— The Vicar of Leeds, Ak-
royd's song— To be a great friend, Sir Charles
Wood's song— There are bores, Frank Cross-
ley's song— When first I began, and nine
others, including the Rev. Enoch Weller's— -A
persecuted man I stand, and Michael Stocks',
I am a double brewer.
Pedlar's fly-sheet : —The man that could not
get warm. All you who are fond; The Rose of
Allandale, The moon was fair. Printed for
W. Midgley, Russel Street, Halifax. One page
4to.
THE BOY BISHOP, a ballad of Old Hali-
fax, dedicated to the members of St. Sebiis-
tian's Guild, Halifax. 8vo. Halifax 1877.
ANNIE LINN, the Moorland Flower, a
poem; Leeds, 1866. Dated Halifax, January
1866. This was written by JOHN HARTLEY;'
see postar.
DOLLY'^'S GAON, (Pollv's Gaon) see "EZRA
DOYLE."
STANNARY CHAPBL PRIZE POEMS:
Sheet of three columns. Subject "Home."
Poems by H. H. Bowman, Edwin Lund
Thomas Tiffany, 187- .
STANNARY CHAPEL PRIZE POEMS.
1872: Poems by H. H. Bowman, Leah Town-
imd. Grace ELlis Wharton.
TRIUMPH OF FAITH, by "Preceptor." 10
pages, 2d. 1825, Thomas Walker, printer.
Halifax.
BLAIR'S GRAVE, 36 pages, 1815, Halifax,
T. Walker.
i
132
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
THE! PRINCIPLEiS OF THE CHRISTIAN
RELIGION, in PLain and Eimey Verse; by
Pliillip J)oddiklge. Halifax. H. T. Rogers,
1832 ;J2mo., 29 pages.
A CABINET OF JEWELLS FOR THE
CHILDREN OF GOD, by S. DEiACON (? a
Yorkshiremau.) Halifax, Nifholson and Wil-
son, 1838. 32nio., 128 piUges. [NICHOLSON
was edifcoT of poetical works, as for example,
next item.]
THE SACRED GARLAND; or the Christ-
ian's Daily Delight; comprising a text of
Scripture, an Anecdote and an illustration;
itaid Poetry for every day in the year. Hali-
fax Nicholson and Wilson, 1843, li8mo., pp.
It.,' 360; (by W. NICHOLSON.) Nicholson's
firm removed to' Wiikefield, whei-e they still
carry on a flourishing business.
THEI GENERAL RECITER, a uniqi;e selec-
tion of the most admired and popular Read-
ings and Recitationis, &c., frontispiece and
plates by George Crunishank (one by Robert
C). small Bvo., Halifax, 1846.
This first edition, unknown to Reid and
Marchmont, sells for 21s.
NIXON'S ORIGINAT CHESHIRE
PROPHECY; pamphlet in doggerel verse.
Halifax, n.d.
THE FARMER'S BOY by Robert Bloom-
field, printed by Whitley and Booth, Halifax,
1835, 175 pages.
MILNER AND SOWERBY, the celebrated
Halifax printers, ha^-e been pioneers in pub-
lishing cheap editions of Standard works in-
cluding our national poets; including as
follows :
ROBERT BTJBNS, Poetical Works, with a
Memoiir of the Author'© Life, and a Glossary;
32mo., Halifax, William Milner, 1840, pages
xvi., 368.
ROBEiRT BURNS; Complete Works, with
an account of his Life, and a criticism on his
Writings; to whiioh aire prefixed some Ob-
servations on the Character and Condition of
the Scottish Peasantry, by James Currie, with
Glossary and portrait. 8vo., Halifa,x, 1842.
Sells at 2b.
ROBERT BURNS, Complete Works with
Life. &c., by James Currie, M.D., por-
trait. Halifax, Milner and Sowerby, 8vo.,
1857, pages xcviii., 260.
ROBERT BURNS, iimiother of Currie's
edition, 1859, 8vo., portrait; sells at 3s. 6d.
ROBERT BURNS, other editions alter
Currie, small 8vo., no date. Sells at Is..
Is. 6d.
Another edition has eight steel plates, pub-
lished at 2s. 9d. and 3s. 6d.
ROBERT BLOOMFIEILD: The Farmer's
Bov. (18.35.)
LORD BYRON; Select Works; Hours of
Idleness, Einglish Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
Cain a mystery, &c., and Life of the Author.
f2mo., Halifax, William Milner, 1840; pages
xii., 372; portrait. Sells at 4s. 6d.
LORD BYRON; poetical works, with Life
and Coi)ious NotoH. Family edition; small
8vo., 1865, Mi'iH'i' and Sowerby; pages xv.,
702.
LORD BYRON; various other editions by
the sime puhlisliers; also in three distinct
volumas.
S. BUTLER'S HUDIBRAS; Halifax Cottago
Librarv edition; published at Is.
BLAIR, GRAY AND DODD; Cotlsige
Library, Is.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Poetical
and Dramatic Works, with Life of the Author.
A new edition, Halifax, Milner and Sowerby,
1857. pages xx., 430. Frontispiece.
WILLIAM COWPEIR'S Poems.
JOHN DRYDEN'S Works; 2 Vols.
MRS. HEMANS.
THE POETICAL WORKS OF REGINALD
HBBER, late Bishop of Calcutta. Frontispice
portrait. Haifax, Milner and Co., n.d.,
pages xxxviii., 218.
[The Bishop was born at Mialpas, 1783,
but his father and ajicestors resided at Mar-
ton-in-Craven.l
SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D., Lives of the
most eminent English Poets; with critical
oibsei-vations on their works. 2 vols., small
8vo; pages 468. and 437. Halifax, 1835. Sells
at 2s., 3s. 6d., 3s., 2is. 6d.
JOHN KEATS, Poems.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW;
Poetical Works. Haiifax, Milner and Sower-
by, 32mo., pp. ex., 402.
JOHN MILTON'S Poetical Works, with
Life of the AuthOT by Elijah Fen ton. 32mo.,
frontispiece, pages xiv., 431. 1859; lUilner
and Sowerby.
PARADISE LOST, Poem in Twelve Books,
by JOHN MILTON, with Life of the Author.
Halifax, printed (by Hiar'jley and W<ifker) foi-
W. Milner. 1835 Pages viii.. 304. [The Life
pp. iii. — vii., is signed by Elijah Fenton, Staf-
fordshire poet, died 1730, and is followed by
Andrew Marvel's poem on Paradise LoKt.
Good type in this edition.]
Other editions, various sizes, since; includ-
ing Cottage Liibrarv edition at Is.
'I'HO'^IAlS MOORE, Poems, two vols.
HANNAH aiOREI; Poetical Works; con-
sisting of Saci-ed Dramas. Baiilads. Hymns,
Epitaphs and Inscriptions. Halifax, n.d.,
pages xxix., 198 x 214. Froniaspieoe.
A. POPE'S Works. 3 vols., Cottage Library,
Is. per vol.
E'. A. POEl. Poems. Cottage Librarv at Is.
POPE'S HOMER'S ILIAD.
SIR WALTER SCOTT, five volumes. Cot-
tage Library at Is. each. Also larger editions
P. B. SHELLEY; three volumes, Cottage
Llibra.rv at Is. each.
HAXIPAX BOOKS AND ATTrHGRS.
13S
ALso Poetical Works. 8 steel engravings,
Halifax, 1865, small Bvo. " Sells at 4s. 6d.
WILLIAM SHAKEKPBARE, Complete
Works, consisting of his Plays and Poems,
with a critical preface by D'r. Johnson; liife
of the Ani'hor. glossary; new edition, Hali-
fax, Milner and Sowerby, 1860, pages xxiv.,
742; imperial Bvo., portrait. Elditions, 1858,
&c. Sell at 2s. 6d.
JAMBS THOMSON'S Seasons.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH'S poems. 2
vols., Cottage Library at Is. each, and other
editionB.
HEINRY KIRK WHITE. Cottage Library,
Is.
RE;V. W. WALTEKiS {> Yorkshireman),
edited for Messrs. Miner and Sowerby, Pearls
of Sacred Poetry; The Sacred Garland, three
series; Divine Garland, &c.
EDWARD YOUNG, LL.D.
COMPLAINT, OR NIGHT THOUGHTS on
Life, Death, and Immort.;:ility To which is
added a piaraphi*ase on part of the Book of
Job. li2mo., Halifivx, W. Milner, 1835; p.p. xii,
312.
NIGHT THOUGHTS. Halifax, for Hartley
and Walker, 1837; printed by H. Spiuk,
Leeds; frontispiece, pp. iv.. 283.
NIGHT THOUGHTS, 32mo., Haifax, Milner
and Sowerby, 1858, 262 pages.
Collections of Poems; printed at Halifax.
Milner and Sowerby: —
GEMS OF POETRY, 2 vols., Cottage Library.
POEIMS FOR ALL THEI YEAR.
POETICAL KEIEPSAKE.
SACRED HARP, 2 vols.
OLNEY HYMNS.
LOVEE'S OFFEIRING.
POETRY OF LOVEi.
POETICAL GIFT BOOK.
WEDDING GIFT.
NURSERY RHYMES.
EVERGREEIN GIFT BOOK.
FIRST LOVEI AND OTHER POEMS.
FORGET ME NOT.
HEARH^'S EiASEi.
HOURS OF THOUGHT.
I LOVEI BUT THEiE, kc.
LANGUAGE! AND POETRY OF FLOWEiRS.
MY POETIC COMPANION.
ORANGE BLOSSOMS.
POEiTIC GIFT OF FRIEiNDSHIP.
POETRY OF THE AFFECTIONS, 32mo.,
1861, pages xv., 175.
THE TOUR OF DR. SYNTAX IN SEARCH
OF THEI PICTURESQUE. A Poem. Hali-
fax, Milner and Co., n.d. 256 pagec*. with
frontispiece.
LXXIX.-POETS AND RHYMSTERS. (6).
REfV. ARTHUR VINE HALL, son of Rev.
Arthur Hall, born at Ludde-nden Foot.
Two other poetical works by him have been
previously mentioned.
PO'EIM'S: Scaiborough. John Hagyard, u.d.,
60 pages. ,
Dedicated to George Maodonald, LL.D..
preface dated Scaj-borough, March. 1889.
Contents, 18 pieces. Mr. Hall was Congrega-
tional Minister at Scarborough, but is now
at Cape Town. The Rev. Newman Hall was
his uncle.
S. B. HALL was author of. THE TEST OF
FAITH; ISRAFiL A WARNING TO BRL
TAIN and other Poems. Halifax. Whitlev
and Booth. 1839. Pages vii., 2.56.
[Prefoice dated Skipton, May, 1839. Con-
tents—Test of Faith 1—70, Israel 71—166,
Cholera 167—180, Psalms paraphrased (8)^
Miscellaneous Poems 205 — ^^256.]
JOHN HARTLEY. Born at Halifax Oct.
19, 1839. A portrait and biography appears
in the "Yorkshire Bibliographer." ANNIE
LINN; Thp Moorland Flower; small 8vo..
18R6: ptiVifthed anonvmously, .52 pages, print-
ed at Leeds by C. Goodall.
ORIGINAL ILLUMINATED CLOCK AL-
MANACK, Halifax, 1867; afterwards (to the
nresent .vear) by W. Nicholson, Wakefield,
Dialect stories and poems. The issuee
for 1875-6 were edited by Jas. Burnley, and
1873-4 by E. Haihton.
YORKSHIRE DITTIEIS, edited by William
Dearden. Wakefield, 1868, 12mo.
YORKSHIRE DITTIEIS. Fir.st Series; (2nd
edition). Wakefield, W. Nicholson and Sons,
n.d., 143 page®. Is.. 12mo. [Jntrodnction :
Yorkshire Ditties, 1st Vol. being out of
print, a revised edition now issued. Bite
Bigger, To th' Swallow, Plenty o' brass, I'h'
little stranger, Babby burds, Wayvin music.
That's a fact. Stop at hooam Short timer,
Ffet 'oth Booart throo Pndsey, Uncle Ben.
Old Bachelor's etory, Aght o* wark. Another
Babby. Little black hand, Lily's groan.
Native Twang, Shoo'si thi sister. Persevere,.
Roadside flower, a*nd prose bits.
YORKSHIRE! DITTIES. Second Series.
Wakefield, W. Nicholson and Sons, n.d.,
143 pages. Is. 12mo.
[Ded. to Richard Clierry, C.B.] Th' Better
Pai-t, Done Agean, Latter Wit My Gron.
fayther's Days, Heart Broken, Taa Daisy, A
Bad Sooart, All we had. Give it em hot. Th''
honest hard worker, Niver Heed Sing on,
What it is to be a mother, Sooap, Come thi
ways, .Jenny, There's mich expected, Strange
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HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
S*ooa.ry, 'J'ake Heart, Did yo' Iver, Olden
Christmas iiiorniiiK, IJiH.V lUunble's bargain,
liejected, Duffin Jonny, Lost Love, Tli' traitle
sop. To let, A hawporth; prose pieces i'oUovv.]
A SHBAF FROM THE MOORLAND: A
Ck)lleotion of Original poeme. Waketield,
Wm. Nicholson and Son, n.d., 184 pages.
[Ded. to Nicholson Brothers, publishers,
1880. -Contents at the end, Annie Linn, the
MoorlaJid Flower, amd 64 shorter pieces,—
Daftydowmlilly, Eliza, Bonny Nellie, Twins,
Snow in May, The Bells, Hope on, Licensed
to Sell, Peter the pieman. &c.l
JOHN HARTLEIY'S Yorkshire Christmas
Annual, 1879. (Prose and poems).
PEOSrSrVB poems and Startling Stories.
Bradford, 1876, 128 pages.
FRTEIND FOR THEI FESTIVE SEASONS,
Christmas Annual 1879. AVakefield. large
8vo., 66 pp.
Hartley's prose works are numerous and very
popxilar, especially the dialect stories, — Seets
i' London. Seats i' Paris, Seets i' Blackpool,
Grimes' Trip to America, &c.; Yorkshire
Puddin, Many i\ Slilp, A Rolling Stone.
Various editions in books and pamphlets are
regularly being issued.
Undoubtedly he hr.is the greatest popularity
of any Yorkshire writer, and his dialect
poems certainly place him first in that line.
When living in Halifax he was engaged as a
worstedndesigner at Akroyd's Mill ; for a short
time he kept a public-hou&e in Brn/dford, and
gave public recntations at various places.
For some .ye>ars he has been hid away from
the public except by the issue annually of the
inimita.ble "Clock Almanack."
EDMUND HATTON, Bradford. wrote
Fewsee Leets, Chrissie, Dahn in a cellar,
&c., and was editor of the Clock Almanack in
1875-6. James Bland, Halifax, was editor of
the fir sit issue, 1865. (See John Hartley.)
REV. THOMAS HAWKINS, Warley. has
been previously noticed. He piibliehed
ASTRO-THEOLOGY; a poem, and the
Solar System morally improved. 1827, 10
pages, 12mo.
THE LOO'SANDER TRACT, consisting of
Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Veree. by
Loosander Laurestina. Halifax, P. K. Hol-
den. 1818.
[Title page. Address at W(arley) C(hapel)
on Princess Charlotte, 1—6; Emeouragenient,
poem, 1 — 2; Seventeen Missionary HymnB
(original), 1 — 8; C. Cayley's poem and Eteho,
1—2; Reflections on Sons of God, prose, with
two poems, 1— S, Intellect or Mind of Man,
and Rochester, poems, 1 — 8; Reflections, prose
1 — 8; Intellect, part 2, poem, 1 — 4; Faith,
poems and hymns, 1—8; Eirrata, 1 i>age.
Sermons announced for Januar.v — March I8l9,
1 page. Meaning of Loosander, and poem, 1
pag'P-J
The Rev. Thomas Hawkins, from Ailsbury;
ordained in 1796; resigned Warley Independ-
ent Chapel, near Halifax, lti23; died l-obni-
ary 9, 1838. I have a photograph vv^n of
his portrait by Miss Biancker, of Vprk.
Mr. Milne, of Calverley, has the original
picture.
JAMES HEAPS, Rhodes-street, Halifax:
VOICE FROM THE: IMAGE BREAKER
("ICONOCLAST,") on Has Man a Soul?
Halifax, 1859. id., 8 pages; Crabtree and
Son, printer.
WILLIAM HEATON, bora at LuddeucUn
m 1805, died at Halifax, 1871. He was a
oa.rpet weaver, until old age, when he was a
caretaker at the Peoi>le's Park, Halifax. He
died August 14, 1871, and was buried (as
stated on the funeral card now before me) at
Christ Cliurch, Mounii Pel'on. On this card
a-re 24 lines, beginming: — "Take back the
harp, written to his memory by John Hartley
probably. He contributed a story to Hol-
royd's Bradfordian, poems to Country Words,
(Batley), and local newspapers. His "Ould
Malley's Voluntine" was a, favourite poem in
the days of "Penny Readings." My good
old friend Abraham Holroyd gives a very
simple account of a visits to his brother-poet
at Halifax. "In the Autumn of the yes^.r
1861, I was one day in Halifax on businetis
and having done, I found that I could not
return with my third-cla*5s ticket to Brad-
ford for two hours. I therefore decided to
hunt up Mr. WilHam Heaton, of whom I had
heard much fronv my friends, Messrs. Thos.
and Richard Nicholson. On enquiring, I was
told that I should ].robabl.v meet with him in
the little park which Sir Francis Crossley had
presented to the people of Halifax, and of
which William was then the keeper. On
reaching the park I looked round, and pre-
sently spied a man sitting on one of the
benches, and on speaking to hiim I found he
was the one I was in search of. He was slim
in person, and appeared to be between fifty
and sixty years of age. His countenance ^^-i^
exceedingly pleasant, and on my telling him
my name we were chatting awa^y in a moment
as if we had been acquainted all our lives.
" Come to my home in Green Lane, " he said,
"and I will show you my manuscrpts and
we will have a long talk together."
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
135
When we arrived iit the door of the cottage,
he took the key out of his pocket and opened
it. He then told me that he had been t-;. ite
married, and had had two children by his
first wife, bnt all, he said, were then dead,
and he was leift alone in his old age. The
fire was ont in the grate when we entered,
and the room had little furniture in it and
indeed 'ooked dreary. On the walls, which
were only whitewashed, whole poems and odd
verses were scribbled in pencil on all sides of
US. These, he said, were his manuscripts,
and had been written there at the time of
their first composition, and afterwards put on
paper, when wanted for the press. He had
published, with the help of friends by sub-
scription, two volumes of his writings.
These 1 bought of him. Tlie first is eiititJod
"The Flowers of Calderdale," 1847; and the
second, "The Old Soldier; The Wandering
Lover; and other Poems." 1857. A very nice
portrait of the author 'is appended to the
latter volume, but I do not recognise it os a
good likeness.
I found the poems on the walls of the
cottage pure in sentiment and expression, and
almost perfect in rh.vthm; but the spellijig
was that of an illiterate person, and there
wail not the leajsti attempt at punctuat.'on.
This ma.(le me wonder how he had got his
books into order, but he told me that some
friends had assisted h'im in their prepara-
tion; Mr. Wm. Dearden, author of ''The Star
Seer, " being one of them, who lived at "The
Hollins," Wairley. " His first volume had
b°en of no benefit to him." he said. anl
nine''!y-five of his subscribers, on whom he re-
lied, declined taking the copiep. His second
volume was dedicated to the late .Tohn Crnr-s-
ley. of Manor Heath, near Halifax; and the
aruthor, by request, has given an extremely
interesting account of his own life; valuable
as a record of his piinsuit of knowledge under
difPcultfes, and of his attachment amidst all
his povertv and afflictions to the compnnion-
ship of the Muses. As an introduction, is
appended the last poem written by Bernard
Barton, and which was sent to the atithor.
William Heaton lived ten years after my
visit to him, and died in the 14th of Aiigust,
1871. and is buried at Christ Church. Blount
Pellon. Halifax. As he was born in 180.5. at
the bei^utiful and secluded village of ludclen-
den, he would be 65 years of age.
THE 01 D SOLDTFJT?; THE W.ANDERINO
LOVER and other Poems, together with a
Sketch of the Author's Life. Publishe;] hy
request. Halifax, T. and W. Birtwhii'tle.
1857. Pages xxiv., 204, small 8vo.
[Portrait frontispiece Ded. io John Cross-
ley, J. P., Preface dated Green Lane, Halifax,
1857. Contents, 86 pieces: Hclmfirth Flood,
Cal'derdale Po<nns, Cuilingworth, Kirkstall.
Natural Scenery, .Moral Pieces. Poem by
Beamard Barton. Life — born at Luddenden,
February, 1805.]
LINEIS ON ANCIENT FORESTRY. 1814.
broi'idside. ''Green Leaves and Sprigs of
Heather." Is., annoiinced; 20O pages.
FLOWERS OF CALDERDALE, Poems with
Notes, December, 1847. 2fe., Bvo.
["Christmas has come" is a beautiful poem.]
CLIPPINGS FROM THE HEDGES, or
Sketches from Yorkshire Life. No. 4. Th'
O^ild Maid's Dream; (o which is added Ewer
Tom and hie Leather Britches. Halifax,
Baiildon and Son, 1866. 16 pages each, Id.
No. 1, Visit to th' Thump.
No. 2, Th' Oiild Bachelor.
No. 3 Th' Onld Bachelor.
HBBDEN BRIDGE. "The Masonic Vocal
Manual, comprising songs, duets, glees, etc.
together with valuable Masonic information."
Small 12mo., Hebden Bridge, W. Garforth,
[1852.] Anonymous.
J. HELLIWHLL, Halifax, wrote
COITNTY RHYMER, containing the names
and pO'Sitions on the Map of all the Counties
in the Dnited Kingdom, in verse. 1898.
SIR Vv^TLLIA]\r HERSCHEL, LL.D., F.R.S.,
born at Hanover November 15, 1738, son of a
musician. Joined the H&noverian Guards'
band and came to Durham about li755. He
was organist at Halifax Parish Church until
1766, when he removed to Bath, where takinr>;
up astronomy he discovered Franus or
Herschel. He then became Royal Astronomer
at ,£400 a year, and abandoned mTisic as a
profession. Havdn visited him at Slough in
1792. He died August 23, 1822.
Symphony for Orchestra and two Military
ConcertOiS were published by him.
[Stopfoixl succeeded Herschel at Bali-
fax aind held the post fifty years.]
REV. OLIVER HEYWOOD. B.A., bom at
Little Lever, near Bolton; ejected from Coley
Chapel in 1662. founded Nonconformity at
Northowram and elsewhere in Yorkshire.
Poems in Vol. I. of "Diaries," edited by
J. Horrfall Turner; pages 39. 130. 222.
Anagram on 0. Heywood — O Ro, h'de you
well; "My Sou''s a hunted roe," &c. 130
lines, page 213. "Diaries."
ROBERT HEiYWOOD, of Heywood, Lan-
cashire poet. See James Crossley, for Chef-
ham Societv. 1869.
TOM HINCHCLIFFE. celebrated vocalist,
born a)t Stainland, March 20. 1820; worked
with his father as a tailor until 24. His
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HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUl^HORS.
father and five- of Tom's brothers were i,'oocl
musicians. Tn July, 1843, he married Mifis
Holroyd. of Rastrick. About 18^18 he was ap-
pointed liass-singer M Leods Paiish Church;
ami I)<>canie known as the ''!,Meac Yorkshire
basso." With Mr. Inkensall and Mrs. Sun-
derland he was popular throughout the
country, and sang before the Queen. After
the death of his two daughters in 1856, lie
left Leeds, and became Militlia bandmanler
at Hull. ' but foTir years later he tool^ the
■Railway Hotel, Brighouse, which he held
four years, and then managed the Talbot
Hotel in Halifax. In 1870 he took charge of
an inn at Gaaixtolme, which he left in
1879. He died at Halifax, May 12, 1880.
JOSEPH COCKIN HOATSON (grandson of
the Rev. .Joseph Cockin, of Halifax,) ac-
countant and sharebroker, edited with the
Rev. Robert Bell a book of hymns at Hali-
fax. Afterwards he was a clerk at Crossley's
Carpet Works, Dean Clough, Halifax.
JANEI AISTN HODGSON published
A LEAF ON THE CURRENT. Halifax, T.
and W. Birtwhistle. 1873, pages xxiv.. 16h,
12mo.
[Errata slip. Dedication to Rev. J. Moore,
St. Mary's, Halifax. Subscribers. Contents
—poems on Nature 10. Seasons 5, Saored -^u'-
jects 6, miscellaneous .50; preface dated Hali-
fax, October. 1873.]
GElORGEl HOGARTH, editor of the "Hali-
fax Guardian/' fajther of Mrs. Char'ep
Dickens.
WHITE ROSE OF YORK, a Midsummer
Anmial. edited by Geo. H., prose and verse.
Halifax. Whitley and Booth. 18.34. pages
xiii., 336, 12mo. Sells at 2s. Gd.
IMEMOTRS OF THE OPE/RA in Italy,
France, Germany, and Englaiid; 2 VoIp.,
London, small 8vo., 1851; gells at 3s.
Ei. HOLDS WORTH: PHARSALIA AND
PHILIPPA. or the two Philippi in Virgil's
Georgics. attempted to be explained and re-
conciled to History. 4to.. 1742. Sells at 2fi.,
3s. 6d.
REMARE:S AND DTSSEfRTATTONS ON
VIRGIL, with some other Classical Observa-
tions, with Additional RemarkK by Mr.
Spence. Thick 4to., 1768.
It is only assumed that he was a Halifax
man.
JOHN HOLDSWORTH. see Houldsworth.
ISRAEL HOLROYD wrote " THE SPTRITIT-
AL MAN'S COMPANION, containing great
variety of Chants and Anthems, also Times
to the different M^a'=nres of the Psalmr."
Third edition. 1733. 8vo. ; f.<-1]s .-,+ .5s.
Fifth edition, with large additions never
before printed, frontispiece, 1753. 8vo.,
sells at 2s. 6d.
Edition printed at Halifax, n.d.
I.H. [? John Horsfall, or Bishop Jolm
Horsifall, of Kilkenny, native of Hebden
Bridge district.] The following by i.H. is at-
tributed to John Horsfall :
THE DIVEL OF THE VAULT, OR THE
UN?>l.\SKlNn OF MURTHER, in a brief
declaration of the Cacolicke complotfed
Treason lately discovered. A poem on Guy
Faukes' Plot. London, 1606, 4to. ; sells at
,£1, .£4, 17s.
MRS. LOUISA ADECLAJDE HORSFIELD.
Blacker Hill, near Barnsley, afterwards of
Halifax, died December 22. 1864, aged 34.
THE COTTAGE LYRE, 1861.
THE COTTAGE LYRE, being Miscellaneous
Poetry. 18mo, Leeds, John Parrott, 1862
2nd edition, enlarged, 108 pages; sixty-five
short miscellaneous rhymes, by a devoted
Primitive Methodist working-inan's wife.
JOHN HOULDSWORH, see Cheetham's
Pralmody.
Oiganir?t at Halifax Paiish Church from
1819 to 1836, having previously assisted John
Stopford, who was organist there from iTiif!
to 1819. Stopford also issued editions of
C?hetham. Eleven editions of the BOOK OF
PSALMODY by Cheetham or Chetham had
appeared between 1718 and 1787. Mr. Houlds-
worth issued an enlarged and revised edition
in 1832; also in 1834, quarto; 1838 large
octavo; 1814 quarto. The 20th edition was
issued by Pohlmann and Son, Halifax, 1868.
4to.. various sizes, inscribed to Archdeacon
Musgi'ave.
16th edition, 1859, xvi., 2.32 pages, 4to., H.
Pohlmann and Sons, Halifax, for the organ
and pianoforte.
NEW AND EfNLARGED EDITION OF
CHETHAM'S PSALMODY, harmonized in
score witli an arrangement for the Organ or
Pianoforte by John Houldsworth, late
Organist of the Parish Church. Halifax, 5th
edition, Halifax, 1840.
1853. New enlarged edition, by J. Houlds-
worth, organist, Halifax. Parish ChiTrch.
4to., Halifax.
18.55. 4to.
18.56. 4to.. Halifax; published at 18s.; selk^
at 4s. 6d.
1861. Houldsworth's 18Mi edition, small
folio. Halifax; sells at 4s. 6d.
1875. 8vo.
Modern editions, edited by .1. V.Robertfi,
Halifax; with appendix, according to sizes,
from 3s. 6d. to 139.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
137
[WILLIAM HOWORTH.] Biighouse, died
1856. "THE CRY OF TILE POOR: a poem"
[anonymously.] London, 1837; pages iv., 68,
demy octii.vo; published at 3s. Opening son-
net sitfned W.H.
THEi REDEEMER ■. A Poem by William
Hjowortli, Author of "The Cry of the Poor."
London, 18^1-1, 308 pages, royal, octavo; pub-
lished at 8ls.
There are many beautiful staiizas in these
two works, of wbioh few were printe'd.
There is a monument to his memory in
BHghouse Chiirch.
Willi;uu Howorth lived with his sisters at
the house in Bethel Street near the druggist's
shop. He had two uncles clergymen, the R^v.
Wm. Ho worth at Ipswich, and the Rev.
Thomas HowortJi at Idle. Benjamin Greaves,
of Idle, published two editions of "An Megy
to the Memory of the Rev. Thomas Howorth,"
Idl©, J. Vint, printer, 1830. 2d., second
edition.
REIV. CHARLEIS HO'YLE M.A.. Trin. Coll.
Cambridge, a native of Halifax, Chaplain to
the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim.
Byron sneered at his blank epics in ''English
Bards."
EfXODTJS, 13 books, blank verse, published
1808.
THE CALDRON, a Poem.
SBATONIAN PRIZEl POEM.
PILGRIM OF THE! HEIBRTDES.
THRFIK DAYS AT KILLARNEY.
(These four are in tihe Halifax Philos. Soc.
Library.)
LXXX.— POETTS AND RHYMSTERS. (7).
WTLiLIAM INGHAM. (I question whether
he was a resident of Halifax Pai'isli). POETRY
FOR THE YOUNG, on Interesting Subjects.
Halifax, William Nicholson, I860. 256 pages.
[Authors' names omitted.]
HENRY INGRAM, born in Liverpool in
1779, but long i-esideil at Breck near Halifax.
THE FLOWEOR OF WYEI, a poem ; 1815.
(Ha.lifax Philos. Libr.) A Metrical Romance
in six camtos.
MATILDA, a Tale of the Cru^v^des. a poem
in six books. Thick large 8vo., pages xiv.,
390. Halifax, N. Whitley, 1830.
ZULBIMA. al Tale of Peiv:ia ; Cain; St.
Paul at Malt.a, and other Poems. P^ges viii.,
132, HnJifax, Whitley and Booth. 1844.
[Poetical address— To My Book. Contents—
12 items, eight of them minor poems, pp. 10.3 —
132.]
ROSA MACKENZIE KETTLE, Author of
"Lord Maekelyne'e Daughter," "The Mistress
of Langdale Hall," "Smugglers and Forest-
ers," &c., &c. CHRISTMAS BERRIES and
SUMMER ROSEIS, London, n.d., pageti iv., 135.
[Conrtents. De^iication to Annie Lister,
Shilxlen Hall. Poems on Romilly at tlie
Strid; (With hawk on hand, a boy's light
bound). Shibden Htidl; (Winding past thickets
of foliage and fern). Chapel of St. Colomba;
(Over the rush of the railway trains). Wild
Roses of Kirkstall; (High overhead, where
the light wind.s play). The Halls of Ihe We.st
Riding: (Where are our ancient haMs and
towers?] Miss Kettle resided at Parkston©,
Dorset. "The IMistress of Langdale Hall"
(Shibden) and "Hillesden on the Moors" are
Halifax .stories.]
REV. SAMUEL KNIGHT, M.A.. Vicar of
Halifax, «3on of Rev. Titus Knight, Congrega-
tional Minister at Halifax.
SELEICT PSALMS AND HYjNINS, edited by
S.K., Seventh edition, Halifa(X, ,1. Hartley,
1833, 16mo., pages iv., 181, ix . 1st edition'
1798.
REV. TITUS KNIGHT, a collier, became
Independent Minister at Square Chapel, Hali-
fax; author of prose works. Also of
ELEGY ON THE DEATH of the Rev.
George Whitefield. 1771, 18 pages. 3d.
SMITH KNOWLES, born at Shroggs, Hali-
fa.x, April 8, 1842, was adopted by the Rev.
Philip P. Carpenter, B.A., Ph.D., of War-
rington, conchologist; settled in 'Manchester
in 1857. He now resides at Sale; a retired
printer and publisher.
EVERY BAND OF HOPE BOY'S RE-
CITER, 82 numbers of original prose and
poems, at Id. each, published by J. Brook and
Company, Manchester. Also bound in 7 or
3 vols.
LAUGHABLE DIALOGUE.S, 26 penny nura-
bere.
REV. HENRY KRABTREE (Crabtree),
Cnraite of Todmorden. His famous Almanack
has a bit of rhyming. Todmoixlen Burials,
1667, per me, H. Krabtree, curate, Mary dau.
John Biiirstow, of Hollowpin, April 6;
Anne, wife of John Bairstow, of Hollowpin,
April. ".John Bairstow of Hollowpin seeing
both his daiighter and his wife departed in
peace, presently began to offer sacrifice unto
Bacchus for joy. But he continued so long
adoring of him that Apollo, the God of Wis-
dom a.nd Physick, was enraged at him. and
struck him with a pestilentiall ffeaver, which
thing when John felt it violentl.v ragin.g in
him, he confes&e<l his sin, and humbly im-
plored Apollo to CAire him, which ye ingenious
God presently did with I know not what
kinds of purging and corroborative cooling^
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HAUFAX BOOKS AND AIH'HORS.
Julep. And he purged not only ye morbific
matter and nialignanit humouTB hnt also
cleansed hif. body of ye jugs of old Ale &c.,
his throat of ye mutton stakes yt stuck in it.
But lo! as soon as he feJt himself cured, he
forgot to return thanks to Apollo, and bop;nn
again polmel, day and night, to worship Bac-
chus, the God of drunknese. in honour of
whom he Siacrificed (T do not say another
bodys) sheep, and swallowed an ooean of old
ale. But Apollo, seeing ye ma-nitude of his
ingraititude, caused ye sun with hot scorch-
ing beams to dry up aJl ye rivers, fountains,
springs, and streams of strong drinke, and
then was all the liquor— lady's ale— nymphs
and beer— brats lamentably left upon dry
ground and so remain'd in a most pitiful!
posture, weeping, wailing, and wringing their
hands. Which when John BairFtov,- saw and
heard, amd co'ld finde none of the decoction
of malt to comfort ye cockles of his heart
withall. he returned to his own habitation
called Hollowpin, being situated in barren
monntaine a(nd hilly ground, like the land
where Fames aind Invidia dwelt. It is to be
supposed yt being overcbarged with immoder-
ate sorrow his heart burst for very griefe
and he died in a rage for want of a.le, and
came to Todmorden to be buryed May 1."
—("Old Yorkshire," 1889, page 106.)
JOHN J. LAlSTEl, Brighouse, hae; issued
WAYSIDE) THOUGHTS, Miscellaneous
Poems. 143 pages, contains "Jessie's Last
Eequest," a, homely ballad for Band of Hope
recitation, 96 lines, "T?ags and Tatters," and
fifty other pieces, temperance, and religious.
Printed at Manchester, n.d.
Some of tbe poems hi*ve been circulated as
leaflets, e.g. "1 never thanked him, or the
Dying Gipsy La<d," 2 pages, Brighouse, Sep-
tember, 1882; "Saved at Last," 4 pages.
SAMTTEiL L.AW. Barewise near Todmorden,
weaver, published
A DOMESTIC WTNTEH PIEICEI; or a poem
exhibiting a full view of the Author's Dwell-
ing Place in the Winter Season; in two parts,
inteiTBpersed with a great variety of Btiter-
taining Reflections. Leeds, James Bowling,
1772, 8vo., 64 pages.
WILLIAM LAW, School TTsher at Todmor-
den, long resided at Sowerby Bridge. He wrote
THE WANDEORINGS OF A WANDE'EEPv;
refers to Sitoodley Pike &c., a small volume
of poems, issued in parts. Cantos ii. and iii.,
sold separately att 6d. Halifax, 1832.
REV. GEORGE LEGH, LL.D., Vicar of
Halifax, died December 6, 1775; participator
in the Hoadley controverey. He issued
THE CLERGYMAN'S CHOICE OF A WIFE
DBLTNEIATED, a poem, printed by E.
Jacob, Halifaix, 1776, published anonymously
"by a Foreign Bishop, now residing and
preaching in his diocese in Terra Incognita."
The poem is diate<l at the commencement,
April 1st, 1736, and the preface darted, Cam-
bridge, August 30, 1738.
LIGHTCLIPFE.
A COLLECTION OF HYMNS and Oo
casional Pieces, selected for the use of the
Congregation of Lightcliffe Chapel, 3rd edi-
tion. Halifax, Jacob, 1819, pages ii., 74.
[Hymns by Watts, J. D. Carlyle, Byrom's
Christians awake, to Wainwright's Tune,
Mason (Again returns the day of holy rest),
solos for boys and girls.]
SERVICE OF . xiAISE to be used at the
opening of the New Congregational Church,
October, 1871,, 16 pages, Halifax.
REV. J. LIGHTFOOT, D.Sc, M.A., Cross-
stono Vicarage.
CANTATAS.
COMEDIETTA.
Pastor mens Domijius, sacred oratorio,
Halifax. Numerous Songs and Music, pub-
lished by Novello, Pitman, &c. He is author
of seven philosophical or mathematical books
also.
J. LIGHTOWLEIR,
A POEM, SONGS, BALLADS AND
SONNETS, Halifax, Simpson and Tiffany,
1867. 12mo., 100 pages, beautiful frontispiece,
steel-plate.
Predication to E..T., from St. James' Street,
Bradford. Poem on Home Life (9—34), Songs
14, Ballads 3, Sonnets 30. The ballads are—
As I approached Lucette, One day when at
the Garden gate. My love he is a sailor boy.]
JOHN LONGBOTTOM, Poems in "York-
shireman" 1875. TWELVE SCHOOL SONGS,
8vo., 16 pages. Id. c. 1880.
HENRY MARTIN, printer and newspaper
editor, Halifax.
SONNETS & MISCELLANEOUS POEMS;
small 8vo., 72 pages, 1830, printed at Birm-
ingham.
REV. W. MAURICE, native of Ecclesfield,
a Northowram student, edited Bolton Con-
gr^ational Chapel Hymn Book; died 1802.
THOMAS MEYRICK, a Cornishman, left
the Methodist Ministry (Atmore'e Memorials),
and became a curate at Southowram and af tei ■
noon lecturer at the Parish Church. He died
about 1770. He wrote a satirioal poem to a
Cornish clergyman who was addicted to in-
temperance, but fell into the vice himself at
last.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
139
W. MIDGLEiY, printer, Halifax, c. 1)360,
issued bailad^nd-eong-mongers' sheets. At
eur feaste and fairs and at the chief markets
the old song dealer was found with hundreds
of sheets pinned to a canvas some six feet
high, stretched between two poles, 12 to 20
feet apart, and reared against the market or
some other waJl. He ib rarely to be found
now. One of Midgley's sheets gives The Man
that couldn't get warm, and The Rose of
Alia.ndale.
JOSEPH MILLEIB, schoolmaster at Long-
wood (see Meeke's Diary, page 109).
A choice: seolection of family
PEAYE.RS for every Day of the Week, to
which are added a few Divine Poems by the
Collector. Halifax, printed by P. Darby for
the Collector, 1770. Price 6cl.
WM. MILNEtR, Halifax, (Bee Halifax,
MSjIner and Sowerby, poptular publisherts).
Wm. Milner besides bedng a publisher was
an able editor.
JOHN MITCHELIi, anithor of "Tlie Female
Pilgrim," an imitatioTi — a long way behind —
of Bunyan, has an acrostic on his own name,
and a poetical prologue of 140 lines, and the
narrative is intersper^d with similar rhymes.
Printed at Halifax, 1809, by J. Nicholson.
Who was this Mitchell ?
JAMES S. MORGAN wrote "Field and
Fireside Musings." Todmorden, R. Cham-
bers. 1861, pp. vi, 90.
33 poems 9 songs, 11 sonnets, 1 ballad.
One poem is on Todmorden Valley. He was
a native of Tynedale.
J. H. MOSS, Calder House Academy, Heb-
den Bridge.
MISCEILLANEDTTS POEMS, with Notes.
Keighley, 1862, 8vo., 248 pa^gee.
LXXXI.— POETS AND RHYMSTERS. (8).
J.N. or F.N. The early MS. from which I
reprinted the EUlamd Tragedies (ballad sec-
tion) was signed J.N. or F.N., a local man
undoubtedly, and the writing was not less
than three centuries old, and therefore written
before Bryan Bentley was born.
EElV. — NABB, Halifax Clergyman.
CALISTA; OR THE rNTJTJRED BEAUTY:
a Poem founded ooi the fact. Written by a
Clergyman. London, 1759. One Shilling; 24
pages, quarto.
^oon as bright Phoebus beam'd a warmer day,
And vernal blossoms grac'd the rising day;
Of calm retirement smit with ardent love,
Calista hasten'd to her wish'd for grove.
[Claimed by Mr. Watson (Halifax, 1775,) as
the work of a Halifax Clergyman; and my
copy has in old writing "by Mr. Nabb, of
Brazen Noee." I sought a copy thirty years
and have not seen another since I got mine in
1881, costing 9s.]
In 1675, the fiist edition wi^^^ puh'.ished o'. a
book, small 4to., entitled "Calisto; or the
Chaste Nymph, the late Masque at Court,"
and in 1709 "Tottenham Court, a pleasant
Comedy" by T. Nabbs was issued.]
The RE!V. E. NEfLSON, of Coley, and Lec-
turer at Halifax Parish Church, is generally
credited with the versified translations of the
epitaphs in Jacobs' History of Halifax.
WnjJAM NICHOLSON, Halifax, publisher,
removed to Wakefield; poetical publication^
elsewhere named.
REIV. LAURENTIUS NYBERG. from Scan-
dinavia, became a Moravian Minister in
Yorkshire, and married Miss Carter, of Light-
cliffe. Hymns, translated by La Trobe.
Father throned on high, &c.
MISS CHARLOTTE OATES, born at Hali-
fax, April. 1856, brought to Daisy Cottage,
Wyke, when an infant. At 21, sent her first
pcem to a Blackpool paper, and afterwards
frequently contributed to the Cleckheaton and
other local papers. She was buried at West-
field Chapel, Wyke. April 16, 1901. Volume
issued during her lifetime.
MISCEILLANEOUS POEMS. SONGS AND
RHYMES; issued after her death by her
brother (announced), at 4s. with 80 additional
pieces, and portrait.
RBTV. JOHN PARKER, late Minister of the
Gospel, at Wainsgate, in Wadsworth, near
Halifax, LETTERS TO HIS FRIENDS, with
a Sketch of his Life and Character by John
Fawcett, A.M. Leeds, Thomas Wright, 1794
Is. 6d., 214 pages.
[Life, &c. J. P. was bom at Barnoldswick
in 1725, died May, 1793; interred at Barnolds-
wick. Moral and religious verses interspersed
in his letters; one on the death of the Rev.
Isaac Slee, Haiworth, January 13, 1784. He
composed hymns also, to be sung, as lined
out from the pulpit. Specimens are given in
the "History of Barnoldswick Baptist
Church.."]
REV. EDWARD PARSONS, junior. Halifax,
SELECTION OF HYMNS designed as a
Supplement to Dr. Watts'. 32mo., Halifax.
T. 'Walker, 1819, 220 pages; 3rd edition, Hali-
fax, P. K. Holden, 1828. 16mo., 292 pages.
Edition, Halifax, P. K. Holden. 1838. 32mo.
(See his father's collection, Leeds, 1791.)
POHLMANN AND SON, pianoforte &c.,
makers music i)iiblish<'i's. Halifax. The
origrinal founder is buried in Coley Church-
yard, N.W. corner.
140
HLAUFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Sale of Copyrights and Stock of Musical
publications in London, isovember, 1886.
ALFRED W. POLICED, M.A., City of
London School, son of Dr. PolLard, siirgeon,
Eastrick.
ENGLISH MIRACLE PLAYS. Clarendon
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES, re-
printwl from the Clobe edition; e<lited b.v
A.W.P., printed on India paper, pages iv.,
310. 2s. Gd., small 8vo. Larpe paper copies,
crown octavo, parchment, 50 copies at £3 3(S.
1886.
SELECTIONS FROM AND ANNOTATIONS
OF CHAUCER. Sidney's Astrophel and
Stella, 12mo., 1888, published at 7s. 6d.
Shakespetare's Four Folios, introduction by
A.W.P., 1904.
REV. EDWARD RAMSDEN, Incumbent of
St. John's, Braidsihaw, Ovenden.
CHRIST THEI FOUNDATION, or Verses
for the Times. Halifax, 1844.
THE CHRISTIAN MTNTSTBR, or Verses
for the Times. Halifax, WTiitley and Booth,
1842, 12 pages. [Preface dated from .Tumples
House.]
REV. JOHN RASTRICK, M.A., born at
Heckington, near Sleaford. Vicar of Kirton,
died in 1727, aiged 78. EIriidently though
descended from the Yorkshire stock, he was
not a Yorkshireman. Calamy, Vol. ii., 436-7.
Two Manuscript books, 70 pages and 62 pages,
and sundry family and local papers, prose,
poetry, letters, &c., in small, clear hand-
writing; 153. from H. W. Ball, Barton-on-
Humber.
Letters to Thoreshy, Leeds, on Roman
Coins "Gibson's Camden," and "Phil. Trans."
DR. JOHN VARLEY ROBERTS, bom at
Stanningley in 1841, organist at Halifax
Parish Chtirch.
AP PEiNDIX AND SUPPLEMENT TO
CHEETHAM'S Peialmody. See Cheetham and
Houldsworih, Grove's Musicians (Vols iii., and
Appendix 772,') gives biographicni! notice.
SAMUEL DRAKE ROBEIRTS ("Stephen
Wyke." author of "THE: YORKSHIRE
COUSINS, a Novel), of "Wyke and GomersaU ;
now Brisrhouse; born at Bradford, 1832.
STANSFIEILD, a tragedy; Heckmondwike.
Clegg, 1864. 86 pages.
JOSEPH ROBBRTSHAW was bom at
Halifax in 1822, and resided at Luddenden
in 18.36. In 1853 he removed to Keighley under
the employment of Mr. S. C. Lister (Lord
Masham). Edited the " Keighley Visitor "
from Auigust, 1855. He was author of
" Sketches and Traditions of the Yorkshire
Moorlands."
"Me/iitative Hours, and other PoemP,"
Kei-rhley, K. Aked, printer, 1850, 240 page's,
snail octavo. Dedication to Fiank Crosti'oy,
M.P.; 76 pieces, mostly local description.
" Yorkshire Tales and Legends." plioto-
graph, jiiid tinted vignette, sm;ill octavo,
Keighley, 1862; includes "The One Poiitid
Note, fl- tale of Hebden Bridge," "Tom Lee,"
&c
W. ROBINSON was author of
POETIC SKETCHES FROM WHAKFE-
DALE. Halifax, Baildon and Son, 1866, IC
psges.
BENJAMIN RUSHFORTH, a native of
Halifax, was apprenticed to the grocery busi-
ness in that town, but found his omploymeiit
irksome, so ran away and joined the army.
He served under the British flag in various
parts of the world, China, India, &c., for a
suftlcient period to enable him to retire i-ji ji
modest pension, settling down at Bolton in
Lancashire. In course of time he lost Ins
sight, and his income being small he ha<l n
bare living for some ,vears. His love of
poetry grew upon him in his solitude, and
he mana<i:ed by the help of fiiends to print
two small volumes of poems. These particu-
lars T had from his kinsman, Mr. B. H.
Thwaite, C.E., Westminster, late of Brighouse.
I have onlv one of the publications, namely:
MISCELLANEiOUS POEMS by Benjamiis
Rushforth, the Blind Poet of Bolton. Dedi-
cated to the Worshipful the Mayor of Boltoi;,
James Barlow, EbcL. Preface Hated August.
1869, mentions a former publication. Bolton,
Wm. Parkhouse, printer. Bridge Street,
small 12mo., 103 pages; twenty tcpics, mostly
scriptural, and generally good.
LXXXII.— POETS AND RHYMSTEES. (9.)
WYE SALTONSTALL, I presume wab of
the Halifax family, but probably not a native.
"PICTURAEl L0QITE1NTE.S,' or Pictures
drawne forth in Characters, wiiu a poeme
of a maid," 24mo., London, 1631, 180 pages.
vSells at 42s., ^5. Second edition, 24mo.,
1635, sells at 12s. 6d., 23s., 38 characters.
OVID'S HEEOTCALL EPISTLE'S; English-
ed in Verse, by W.S., 24 small copper plates,
12mo., London,' 1636. Sells at 10s. 6d., 12s. 6d.
Editions also in 1626, 1663, 1671, 1677, 1686.
E. L. SCHLICHT, of Smith House and
Wyke, Moravian Church, was a mntical com-
poser and poet. He died March 4, 1769.
REV. JOHN SHACKLETON, formerly of
Hebden Bridge.
THE POEMS OF OSSIAN. originally trans-
lated by J. Macpherson, attempted in English
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
141
verse by the Rev. John Shackleton. 2 vols.,
8vo., Birmingham, 1817. Sells at 2s. 6d.
GEORGE BARNETT SMITH was born at
Ovenden in I&IH. He now resides in North
London. "Poems," 1869.
POEiTS AND NOVELISTS, a Series of
Literary Studies, small 8vo., 1875. Sells at
3s. 6d.
P. B. SHBLLEIY. A Critical Biography,
small 8vo., Edinburgh, 1877. Se Is at Is. 6d',
2s. 6d., 3s., Is. &d., 2s. 5s. 6d.
ILLUSTRATEO BRITISH BALLADS. OLD
AND NEW, selected and edited by G.B.S.,
nearly 300 il ustraitions, very large 8vo., 2 vols,
issued in 24 pai-ts; Cassell and Co., London.
Bound up, sells at 14s., 8s. 6d., 6s.,' 12s. 6d.,
lbs.
Publishers' Edition, 2 vols., imperial 8vo.,
Cassell, 1881. Sells at Ills. 6d., 7s. 6d., ft*.,
15s., 8s. 6d., IGs., 8s., 6s. 6d., 9s.
Fine paper edition, 1881, 27s. 6d.
Publishers' Edition, 1886, 2 vols., imperial
Svo. Sells at 10b. 6d., 10s., 206.
Publishers' Edition, 1834, 2 vols., imperial
8vo. Sells at 7s. 6d.
Mr Barnett Smith is author of many prose
works. He wrote for the Halifax papers
when a youth.
REV. MATTHEW SMITH, Nonconformist
Minister, of Thornton and Mixenden, born
at York; in 1650 married a cousin of Rev.
Thos. Sharp, and daughter of Lieut. Sharp.
THE VISION, OR A PROSPECT OF
DEATH, HEAVEN AND HELL; a poem,
1702. Hiti theological works have been pre-
viously given.
SAMLEL SMITH, Bradford, died at WaiJey
in 1873, aged 68; was buried at Undercliffe
Cemetery, Bradford.
A H.VNDBOOK OF CONGREGATIONAL
PSALMODY; edited by S.S., Harmonises re-
vised by Wi.liam Jackson, Mashii,m. (^Tomc
Sol-fa edition transcribed by J. K. Longbottom
Bradfoixi.) Organ scoi-e 10s. 6d. ; others Is. 6d.
to 6s. Pages viii., 128.
[Preface to First edition dated Bradford,
September, 1863. Index of First lines, of
Tunes, &c.]
THE BRADFORD TUNE BOOK, with Ap-
pendix, Edited by S.S. Harmonies revised by
Wm. Jiickson, Appendix by F. C. Atkinson.
Sol-fa airrangement by T. K. Longbottom.
Prices 2s. to 6s., editions. Pages xi., 176.
Third edition.
Edition, 1863, 24mo., pp. xv., 128.
THE ANCIENT HYMN: TE DEUM; tor
Congregational Use. 24mo., 8 pages
BIBLE PSALMODY, 1859, pages viii. Ob.
PSALMS AND CHANTS for Congrega-
tioual or Private Use. Preface dated 1861 ;
pages -Yiii., 132; numerous edations and sizes;
2iui edit Jon, 2.5th thousand; 48th thousand, &c.
Hi.s son, Mr. Samued Milne Smith, now Mr.
Milne Milne, of Calverley House, Calverley,
is a well-known antiquary.
REV. AUGUSTUS GOTLIEB SPAJNTGEN-
BEH(i, Moravian Missionary at Lightcliflfe
ami Fulneck in Yorkshire, 1/742, &c. See Life
valid portrait) by G. Clemens, Baildon.
Hymns, in German and English.
-Uso author of theological prose works.
FREDEKICK CHARLES SPENCER, a
sclioolmaster, afterwards an siccountant at
Halifax.
THE VALE OF BOLTON, a poetical sketch,
and other poems; sm. 8vo., 140 pages, on
ribbed paper. Halifax, N. Whitley, no date,
frontispiece. Sells at 2s. 6d., 4s. 6d.
THE LADVEOF ELAND, a legend, [EUand
tragedy continued,] and
THE MAID OF CRAG HALL,— &4 lines; in
Hebdeu Bridge Times."
A.S.K. [ABRAHAM SrANSFIELD, Kersal.]
GROUND FLOWERS & FERN LEAVES.
Manchester, 1876, pages xii. 216. Sells at 2s.
[Ded. to William Robinson, F.L.S. Pre-
face dated Kersiil, 1876. Contents — 59 pieces,
including translations from German and
French, chiefly imitations. Botanical sub-
jects mostly. The Hills and Vales of 'liod-
morden) his native plaice.]
ESSAYS AND SKETCHES, (prose, includes
articles on Robert Burns, Return to Nature in
English Poetry, &c.), octavo, pages vii.. 312.
THE SHEPHERD, 28 lines. Translation of
Der Schafer.
THE LAST STRING. Reprinted from
"Manchester Quarterly," 1888, 4 pages, and
cover.
A SUMMER CALL TO THE MOUNTAINS.
■' Manchester Quarterly, " 1886, 3 pp.
NUG.S3; Selections from many years' Scrib-
bliiigs in verse. 1892. Sells at 2s.
SONNETS : Written Impromptu. First
thousand, square 8vo., Manchester, 1900, 144
pages. Sells at 2s. 6d, 3s. 6d.
He now resides neaa- Prestwich.
ELY STANSFIELD, Sowerby, published
PSALMODY EPITOMIZED, a Collection of
Psalm Tunes, in four parts, with an introduc-
tion to Music. 8vo., second edition, Halifax,
1731. Sells at 3s. 6d. See "Halifax Families"
p. 128. I he tunes are most of them the old
Church tenons of two centuries ago, to which
Stansfield added the three parts — contra, medi-
us and bassus, and also interspersed several
tunes of hjs own composition, bearing local
names generally, as Warley (to Psalm 100),
Sowerby (to Psalm 98).
Of local composers who have not issued
books the most familiar are A. Widdop
fhmied at lliingwoitii Church), and George
Lister, of Lightcliffe.
LAURENCE STE4iNE, " Yorick, " of
Coxwold. We simply insert his name beoause
142
HAIilFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
he was a pupil at a school in Halifax parish,
and a branch of his family lived^ here. He
died ill 1768, and was buried at St. George s,
Hanover Square, London,
VERSES on L. Slerme; Lowndes 2510.
\ POETICAL ROMANCE addressed to
' iJsq., of York, small »vo., London, 1769.
Sells at lOs. ^ „ ^^ ,.
•• Tx.^ UNKNOWN WORUD, ' W Imes, on
Heii.ring a Passing Bell.
REIV. C. STOCKDALB, Primitive Methodist
Minister, Halifax.
Poems by himself and Miss xxall, of Darley
in Pateley Bridge Circuit, in "The Conquer-
or's Pa'.m " a memoir of Mrs. Stockdale.
THOMAS STOPFORD, orgajiiet at Halif;),x
Parish Church, president of Halifax Harmonic
Society, 1792.
SACRED MUSIC: consisting of a NEW
BOOK OF PSALMODY, containing variety of
TUNES for all the Common Metres of the
P&alms in the Old and New Versions, and
others for particular measures, with CHANT-
ING TUNE'S AND ANTHEMS, all set in four
parts, within sucli compass by KEV.
JOHN CHETHAM, To which are added
FIFTY-SEVEN NEW TUNES, including
The whole carefully corrected and revised by
Mr. Stopford, Organist, of j^^alifax, properly
figured for the Organ, Harpsichord, &c., &c.
Halifax, Jacobs, 1811. 6s. 6d. pages x., 234
octavo.
[In previous editions of Chetham's
Psalmody the 'tenor cliff' had been the princi-
pal a/ir, but in Stopford's the treble is sub-
Btituted, but the music is printed on four
sets, — tenor, counter, treble, bass, for conveni-
ence of instrumentalists.] See Honldsworth.
MRS. SUNDEIRLAND (Miss Susan Sykes,)
born at Garden Road, Brighouse, in 1819;
died 1905; married Henry Sunderland, of
Granny Hall, Brighouse.
Being a naftive of Granny Hall myself, and
a schoolmate witli her children, and up to the
prei?ent in friendly family acquaintanceship,
it would ill-become me to pass unnoticed the
lady who. though not a composer of poems,
stands supremely a)t the head of Yorkshire
Vocalists of Queen Victoria's reign; and well
deserves the epithets — ''Queen of Song" and
"the Yorkshire .Tenny Lind."
I also well knew old Luke Settle, the Slead
Syke blacksmith, composer of "Settle" ar 1
oither old favourite hymn tunes, who first dis-
covered her talents, and tutored her for some
time.
The SundeirUund Mnsioal Competitions, held
annually, will perpetuate her name and fame.
Portraits of her appear in the History of
Brighouse, and brief notes in "Old York-
shire," vii., 235 and in Grove's Dictionary,
iv., 797.
REV. WILLIAM SUTCLIFFE, Wesleyan
Minister, died 1833.
THE TRIAL OF CAIN; 32 pages, Halitax,
1823; 12mo.
REV. ALEa SUTER, Wesleyan Minister,
Halifax, &c. died 1817.
DEA'lH. JUDGMENT, AND ETERNITY:
poems. 2nd edition, 12mo. Leeds, 1811.
ist edition, Chester, 12mo., 32 pages, 1803.
JOSEPH SWAIN: (? if Viciir of Beeston,
Leeds; a native of Lightcliffe. I would like
to prove this to be the work of Joseph b«aiii_
B.D.)
REDEMPTION: a poem in Eight Books;
with Memoir 12mo,, London, 1806.
DAN TAYLOR, of Quecnshead ^now
Qiijeeusbury between Halifax and Bradtura;,
founder of the "General Baptisbs," i:ee his
"Life"; and "The Author's Removal from
Wadsworth to Halifax," Leeds, 1784.
A DlSSEiRTATION ON SINGING IN THE
WORSHIP OF GOD, 1786. Sells at 2s.
A SECOND' DISSEIRTATIO'N on with
two letters to the Rev. GUbei't Boyce in de-
fence of a former Dissertation; 12mo., 77
pages 1787.
He " wrote an Elegy on Grimshaw, an .
various tracts in verse, Christmas Verses,
Entertainment or Verses for Children (.two
editions), and edited a Hymn Book.
DAKLEY" TEKRY, Dewsbury, son of Joseph
Terry. See next paaragraph.
FJGITIVE POE»MS in -Yorkshire Maga-
zine, I., 267 Country Words of West Riuiug,
&c.
JOSEPH TEiRRY" Member of the Mechanics'
Institution, Brighouse; removed to Dewsbury.
COTTAGE POEMS. Brighouse, John Sid-
dall, 1847. 32 pages.
[Poet's wish. Emigrant's Farewell, Truth
and Error, Seasons, Slave, Beggao- Boy, Kirk-
lees Wood, Brighouse Mechanics' Institution,
October 10, 1846. D'runkards. Teetotaller,
What is our Life? &c.]
COTTAGE POEMS. Second Series, xirig-
houiie, John Siddall, 1848. 32 pages, paper
covers.
[Robin Hood's Tomb. Reply to poetical
critique on the First Sei-ies. Mechanics' In-
stitute, iriend in America, Come and iielp,
Death of my Mother, Things I never like to
see, Religion, Progress, Dmnken John, Be-
reaved Friend, Join us, I live to be free,
Edwin and Ellen (a ballad), Self-improvement,
Soldier's Lament.]
POEMS; by Joseph Terry, Author of
"Cottage Poems," "The Principles Tested,"
&c. Dewsbury Darley Terry, 1874, pages xv.,
160.
[Frontispiece, photo mounted. Memoir
settled in Brighouse after his marriage, left
for Birstall in 1848, thence to Mirfield, lastly
to Dewsbury. Index 86 pieces,— Kir^lees
HAIilFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
143
district, topical, moral and religious, hiawin
and Ellen. "I'wae on a pleasant summer's eve,
is ai ballad of merit.]
JOHN THOMPSON, M.D., was born at
Kendal in 1781, and received his training in
one of the Universities of Scotland, where he
obtained his diploma about 1808. He com-
menced practice at Halifax, where he soon
attained considerable reputation in the treat-
ment of diseases. A monument to his memory,
erected b}- voluntary subscriptions, was plac-
ed in the Northgaite-end Chiapel, Halifax.
Dr. Thompson was the author of the hymn —
Jehovah, God Thy gi-Eioious power
On every hand we see;
O may the blessings of each hour
Lead all our thoughts to Thee.
If on the wings of morn we speed
To earth's remoteeit bound,
Thy right hand will our footsteps lead,
Thine airm our path surround.
Thy power is in the ocean deeps.
And reaches to tJie skies;
Thine eye of mercy never sleeps.
Thy goodness never dies.
From mom till noon, till latest eve,
The hand of Grod we see;
And all the blessings we receive
Ceaseless proceed from Thee.
In all yie varying scenes of time.
On iTtiee our hopes depend;
In ' every age, in every clime,
Oxir riatlier and our Friend.
At the time of his death (in 1818) Dr.
Thompson had only completed his thirty-
sixth vear. He will appear again as a medical
rait her.
RE,V. L. M. THOBNTON, Wesley an minis-
ter. Sacred Poems, 1st edition, Derby. 2nd
edition, Leeds. 3rd edition, dated from Chapei.
town, Halifax. Halifax, for the author by N.
Burrows. 83 pages. Portrait with 1st edition.
Words in Season. Child's Manual announced.
LXXXIII.— POETS AND RHrMSTEIRS. (10).
JOSEPH HORSFALL TUENEK, born at
Cranny Hall. Brighouse, April, 1845. I have
110 right to haul other people before the pub-
lic and leave myself free by mock-modesty.
I collaborated with Abrahiian Holroyd many
years before his death with the intention of
issuing a joint work of Yorkshire Anthology.
On Holroyd's death a circular was issued by
the survivor, but the response was not en-
couraging. Mr. Forshaw was asked to issue
Holroyd's Collection, mostly at Mr. George
Ackroyd's expense, as I had declined the re-
sponsibility. Unfortunately thei'e is scarcely
anything in the volume besides such as had
appeared in Ingledew's book and in Holroyd's
"Garlaml." Having allowed ten years to
elapse I sent out another circular announc-
ing "Ballads and Songs, Ancient a,nd Modern
(hitherto unpublished), coUeoted from rare
Broadsides, scarce Manuscripts, Chap-Books,
Newspapers, Oral Recitations, &c., with
Notes Bibliographical, Biographical, Topo-
graphical. Dialectic, &c., numerous quaint
i\in<l original illustrationK, collected and
edited by J. Horsfall Tnrner, in two volumes,
crown 8vo., 400 pages each, at 5s. 6d. per
volume. None of the Ballads. &c., which have
already appeared in the collections of Halli-
well and Ingledew will be included." The
result has up to the present brought only one
volume :
YORKSHIRE ANTHOLOGY: Ballads and
Songs, Ancient and Modern, (with several
hundred ReiiJ Epitaphs), covering a period of
a thousand yeai-s of Yorkshire History in
Verse; with Notes, Bibliographical, Bio-
graphical, Dialectic, &c., and Quaint and
Original niustrations. Bingley, for the
author, by T. Harrison and Sons, 1901.
Crown 8vo., 436 pages, 7s. 6d. To subscribers
5s. Gd. [Alphabetically arranged by first
lines, A. — I.]
YORKSHIRE ANTHOLOGY.— (2). Ready
for the press, another volume, J.— R. (3).
Ready for the press, another volume S.— Y.
(4). YORKSHTREi ANTHOLOGY, ' Biblio-
graphical and Biographical volume. To in-
troduce E-^itaphs, Folk-rh.ymes, Place-
rhymes, Children's games, &c.. has enlarged
the scope to four volumes instead of two.
THE ELLAND TRAGEDIES, viz.. The
Murders of Sir Robert Beaumont, of Crosland,
Hugh de Quarmby, John de Lockwood, Sir
John de ERand, senior, Sir ,Tohn Eland,
junior, and others, with the exploits. &c., in
prose and verse, with notes, pedigrees, and
evidences recently brought to light; edited
by J. Horsfall Turner. Bingley, T. Harrison
and Sons, 1890; crown 8vo.. 91 pages. Sells
at 2s.
The poem appears in Watson's Halifax,
1775, and was copied into the subsequent
"Halifax Histories'' and into Whitaker's
"■Loidi.?." This version, with an old MS.
copy of not later than 1620. are combi?ied in
my edition. Total 504 lines.
FLOWERS OF IDELDOM. No. 2. Paddy
and the Mormon, an episode of Idel Green;
Id., flysheet.
Fugitive poems in The Templar, Templar
Messenger, Upper Chapel Magazine, &c.
WILLIAM MARSHALL TURNER, Brig-
house.— SELECTIONS and Words of Madri-
gals, Glees, &c., as sung by the Brighouse
Glee and Madrigal Society, with Remarks.
Brighouse. Rushworth; 32 pages, 8vo.
144
HAIilPAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
JOSEIPH WADSWORTH, Organist Halifox.
A SELECTION OF PSALM AND HYMN
TUNES, harraoniz&cl in score, with an ae-
ro mjiaiiim ent for the Organ or Pianoforte.
Ha,lifi«, Pohlmann and Son, 1852; 100 pages,
viii., 4to.
[Composers' namos : — .Toseph Wadsworth.
A. Wadsw-ortli, Dean Chetham, J. Sunder-
land, Orlando Sladdin, Liike Settle, H. Broom-
he<nd, T. Hopkinson, Ely Stansfield, J. Rush-
worth, &c. There is a long and locall.v in-
teresting subscription list.]
TOITN WALTON, Hale.v Hill. Halifax:
A DTALOGITE between a Little-Drop Man
and a Teetotaler. 2ud thousand; January.
1845. Halifax, Nicholson ajid Wilson, 12
pages. Id.
JOHN WALTO'N (? if the same), LINES
ON DR. SKELTO'N, 1850-1 Bradford, 1851,
8 pages.
ACOEPTEiD WIDDOP, Ovenden, died
March 9, 1801. A gravestone exists in
Tllingworth Churchyard over the remains of
this celebrjiited singer and musical compoBor.
Some of his pieces may be found in Holds-
vi-orth's Cheetham's Psalmody. A notice of
him appears in the "^'Halifax GuaixUan"
Almfimaok. 1893.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS wrote—
AN EISSAY ON HALIFAX, a poem in
blank verse; pxiblished anonymously, printed
l)v P. Darbv. Halifax, 1761, small 4to., 24 pages.
A copy is in Halifax (Haley Hill) Museum.
He was an artist, and the Female Ballad
Singer, reproduced in "Yorkshire Anthology"
I., and the frontispiece to Jewitt's Derby-
shire Ballads were drawn by him, in 1759.
Williams was originally a strolling player,
and then commenced printer (? journeyinan),
draughtsman, etc., and settled at Halifax,
where he died. He drew the plates for Mr.
Watson's History, it is reported.
DANIEIL WILSO'N (probably not connected
with Halifax) wrote "Justice and Mercy," a
Sacred poem, photo portrnit and Life, 12mo.,
Halifax, 1883.
ALFRED WILSON founded the "Clock Al-
manack," Halifax; a hatter:
ORinTNAL POEMS; HaMfax, N. Burrows.
1854. 48 nages, 32m n.
EDWARD WORMALD. farmer, MagPon
House, Luddenden-foot, has piibjished two
creditable poems, and has another pamphlet
ready for the press, 1904. The Harvest Lay;
pamphlet. Ode to War, 16 pages.
JOHN WRTOGLBSWORTH. The Crescent.
Grectland, Halifax, died Mnv 25, 1003. oged 46.
GRASS FROM A YORKHIRE VILLAGE:
c. 1894.
THE SWBBTEIST MAID IN GLOWTON:
prose.
PASSING THOUGHTS OF A WORKING
MAN; prose, 1890. was his first book.
IDYLS OF YORKSHIRE.
He was a working man, and wrote under the
name of Hubert Cloudesley. He has left a
large family.
GEORGE WRIGHT:
SOLITARY WALKS, with remarkable
Epitaphs Elegies, and Inscriptions among
the Tombs., 8vo., Halifax, 1816.
THOMAS WRIGHT was born at Halifax,
Mulcture HiUl, January 27, 1736; died at
Birkenshaw; buried at White Chapel, Cleck-
heaton, I8OI1.
A MODEKN FAMILIAR RELIGIOUS
CONVERSATION, among people of differing
sentiments: a poetical essay, Leeds, J.
Bowling, 1778, small 8vo., anonymously.
A FAMILIAR RELIGIOUS CONVERSA-
TION, in Verse; small 8vo., Leeds, Leak and
Nichols, 1812, for the Editor.
[Preface, Life v. — viii., Poem 1 — 148.]
Poems, see Autobiography, edited by Thoi^.
Wright, F.S.A., in article .56, previously.
REV. R. WYNN, Vicar of Scalford, Leices-
tershire :
THE DOOM OF AHAB Brighouse, A.B.
Bayes. 24 pages.
[The writer's son, M. R. Wynne, rector of
West Allington, Grantham, married Miss
Sunderland, of Coley Hall. Hipperholme.]
LXXXIV.— POETS AND RHYMSTERS. (11).
It scarcely comes within our scope to give
a list of fugitive pieces, except in the possi-
bility that some of the foll<)wing may have
issued pamphlets unknown to me.
ABBLARD, Lightcliffe, 1801; see "Liglit-
cliffe Romance:?," b.v the writer hereof.
ANGUS, near Halifax, 181i7; various pieces
in the Yorkshire ^Jagazine, 1817.
C.\THERTNEi BROWNHILL, 1883; Halifax
Congregational Magazine.
JOHN BROOTv, BUand, organist at Halifax.
mni>ical compositions.
MRS. A. B. BOAL, India-rubber Boot Shop,
Halifax; Templar Messenger, 1873.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE (born 1605); in his
"Religio Medici," written" at Upper Shibden
Hall, 1633-7 , contains the beautifiil poem
Elvening hymn.
JAMES BARNEIS, handloom weaver, born
at Withens in Errinp;ton; died at Lobmill,
Hebden Bridge, about 1882. Amongst his
fugitive effusions there are two in the "Heb-
den Bridge Times," 1882, worthy of quotation,
namely,
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
145
wale: to STOOCLEY pike. 116 lines,
" Fair was the morn, the skv wa.s clear. "
The other, 32 Lines, Ijeigins—
"Far in the wood there stands a pretty cot."
•• WILHELM BRONTE. "—Ode written by
Wilhelm Bronte to his wife from Preston,
where he lay condemned to die for the truth's
Bake; 40 lines, "Far, far a\way. " Sent by
"H. T. Hillen/' Boro' Eoad College, to the
" Brighoiise News/' March 11, 1871. ? how
much is fiction.
EDWAED COCKILL, plumber. Bridge End,
Eastrick, published a poem on a card in 1854
on the Old Bridge End Ch.nipel, which was
pulled doSvn, and became the first St. Paul's
Wesleyan Chapel, Brighouse.
JOHN WILLIAM CLAY, of Myrtle Grove,
Eat>trick Common, a working man, has court-
ed the Muse for fifteen yeairs, and might be
worse employed. He writes occasionally to
the Brighouse papers.
SMITH EIMMOTT, Sowerby. had a short
poem in the "Hebden Bridge Times," about
1870; and W.F. had one in the same pa.per.
Probably the lettere stand for the EEV. WM.
FOX, Ripponden, who wrote poems for the
Halifax Congregational Ma,gazine.
THOMAS FARREE, Halifax, 1866, see Hol-
royd's Garland.
I think the following eight items were
written by JOSEPH FOX: —
Sir John Lacy's Wooing, a ballad of Todmor-
den; in "Hebden Bridge Times," September,
1881. by J.F.
Earl Warren's Revenge, a ballad of Hepton-
stall. in "Hebden Bridge Times." January
25, 1882, by Joseph Fox.
Ba.lkd of Yolonde, by F., April, 1883.
Mn,ry Aislabie, by F. March, 1883, 32 lines;
begins — In the land of romance, the north.
Nature, a sonnet.
Death, There came a, beautiful messenger.
The Siren Isle (from Chambers' Journal), 32
lines, begins — Even's purple glory slept.
Calderlee. 24 lines, in "Hebden Bridge Times,"
June, 1883, begins— The light wind bloweth.
Will any reader give particulars of this
copable ballad writer?
T. HALLAS. Stainland, has a poem in the
Halifax Congregational Magazine.
MR. HORSFALL, of Higher Stoodley,
(father of John Horsfall, Blackpool, 1892)]
wrote a humorous, fugitive poem on a Hebden.
Bridge Concert.
MARMADTTXEI HOLDSWOETH, Shelf, wiote
Rhymes on Shelf and its Conservative Club,
1904.
S. H. HAMER. Halifax Historical Societ.\.
wrote The Dancing Princess, a Play for
children in two acts; "Yorkshire Weekly
Post," Christmas, 1902.
MRS. HABElRGHAM, Elland, and Ha berg-
ham (Lancr.)- John H. married Elizabeth
Clay, of Clay-house, Elland. They had two
eons. Clay a^nd John. The latter, born 1650,
lived to be over 75 year old, and led a villain-
ous life as the West Riding Sessions Rolls
testify in notes that I have extracted. He
married Fleetwood, the daughter of Nicholas
Towneley, who wrote the Bad ballad given in
my Yorkshire Anthology, Vol. I., c. 1689.
Corrupted versions may also be found
elsewhere, and 16 lines in Whitaker' Whalley,
II., 182. Mrs. Habergham was buried at
Padiham in 1703.
THO^JAS JORDAN, Albany Chambers,
Halifax, wrote fugitive poems, c. 1900, in
local papens.
REV. THOMAS KEYWORTH, Harrison
Road Chapel, poems in Halifax Congregation-
al Magazine, &c.
THOMAS KEiNWORTHY of Northowram.
and Queensbury (Queenshead), wrote fugitive
pieces to Holroyd's Brndfordian, and local
newspapers. His name is just squeezed into
News.am's book, "Yorkshire Poets," 1845. The
"Halifax Courier," August, 1856, contains a
humorous local piece by him.
FREDERICK LAXTON, Brighouse, whose
portrait aippears in the History of Brighouse,
wrote a rhyme for a Brighouse paper.
JOHN LAWSO'N, Halifax, wrote a piece
that appea-rs in the Bradford Band of Hope
Melody.
REV. WM. EDEiNSOR LITTLEWOOD, for
some time Haad Master of Hipperholme
Grammar School, author of several school
books, wrote HYMNS, which appear in Con-
gregational Sunday School and other Hymn
Books.
S. MELLOR, Ripponden, (postea), wrote
poems for newspapers, c. 1890.
S. MOSS, Halifax, poem in Hadifax Congre-
gational Magazine.
MISS G. G. METCALFE. Halifax Orphan-
age, c. 1900, wrote poem and parody for a
Bradford paper.
J. NICHOLL, Halifax, poem in Halifax Con-
gregational Magaizine.
OLD ABE, Ripponden. 1889, &c., possibly
the same as S. Mellor above.
OEION, in "Hebden Bridge Times," a short
poem on "The Church in the Vallev."
MISS HELEiN JANE ORMEiEOD, daughter
of Thomas Theodore Ormerod, Esq., Brig-
house; she now resides near Torquay.
Fugitive poems, and articles on Musical
topics in the "Leeds Mercury," "Yorkshire
Musician, &c.
THOMAS ORMEROD, elder son of Thomas
Tlieodore Ormerod, Elsq., Brighouse.
Poems in the "Yorkehire Magazine," 1875,
&c., aind in the Bamsley newspapers.
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HMilFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
AUSTIN WILLIAM PEHSTNY, 14, Northgate,
Halifax has issued fugitive poems.
WILLIAM A. PARRY, born at Liverpool
in 1793, a Brighouse schoolmaster, c. 1849,
(father of Geo. Frederick Augustus Parry, a
half-wit of local notoriety,) was a poetaster
of very limited popiilarity. I saw some of his
scurrifouB and crude scribblings forty years
ago, but don't remember a line that was
worthy of preservation. Most villages and all
generations have had similar rhymsters, and
anyone that could use a pen at all was held
to be capable of composing a jingle. Before
I was in my teens, I was asked to compose
four lines for the funeral card of a playmate,
and now happily the effusion has followed 'Old'
Parry'B into oblivion. His topics were—
Eipigram on bachelor John (Aspinall), who de-
manded a poll for the Brighouse surveyor-
ship, 1850; Waterloo (Brighouse) Brass-band,
satire; Peace rejoicings. 29th May, 1856; Brig-
house Power Show, Sept. 2nd, 1857; Murder
of Elizabeth Rayner at Clifton, Dee. 31st, 1832.
GEORGE PILLING, Brighouse, wrote fugi-
tive pieces for the Brighouse papers, 1870.
&c., but the most pungent satire was inserted
in the "News" : —
"An unmanly M...l...y said in a fit
That with Jowett the printer he never would
Wt," &c.
" TOMMY PICKLES, " Ripponden, had a
short fugitive poem, October 1886, entitled
"Only a word." He may be the same as OLD
ABE.
REF^. HANBY PICKMRSGILL, Lightcliffe,
had poems in the Halifax Congregational
Magazine, &c. Probably H. QUIBY was his
nom-de-plnme.
VEN. ARCHDEACON FRANCIS PIGOU,
Vicar of Halifax, now Dean of Bristol, has
issued fugitive poeme, and is author of several
volumes of prose; reminiscences, &c.
RODERICK RANDOM, of Halifax, some-
time a Brighouse resident was a rather cap-
able writer of dialect poems for the Brighouse
'TNTews," 1870, &c., but I do not know his name.
SIR TITUS SALT, Bart., (Crow Nest,) and
Saltaire have been the themes of several
poetical pamphlets and fugitive poems.
JAMES SUTCLIFFE, of Newlands, Warley,
wrote poems for local papers, one of which is
in Holroyd's Garland.
OLIVEIR SUTCLIFFE, Rastrick, poems in
local papers.
JOHN TAYLOR, the London water poet,
wrote "Newes fi'om Hell, Hull, and Halifax."
D. WALTON, Hebden Bridge, poems in the
Hebden Bridge Times, besides a love stoty.
A.Z., Hebden Bridge, wrote a Stanza for
the Cottage Magazine, 1826.
W. BROADBENT, Todmorden, published a
small book of poems.
LXXXV.— HALIFAX ANTIQUARIAN
SOCIETY.
Before September, 1901, the reports of the
Society's proeeedingis appeart'd in the "Hali-
fax Guardian," but were not separately re-
printed. The enirliest reprint was issued in
that month, and i-ecorded ai visit to Shibden
Hall. The pamphlets are octavo size, and the
number of pages is not indiciited before 1904.
(1) Daisy Bank, Dove House and Shibden
Hall; eight pages; Mr. J. Lister, M.A.,
guide.
(2) Token Coinage; Lecture by Mr. S. H.
Hamer; six pages.
(3) Life of Dr. Haldesworth, Vicar of
Halifax; Lecture by Mr. Lister, January ?,
1902; twenty-four pages, but the last three
give "Tom Bell's Cave, a Heptonstall Legend,"
by Mr. H. P. Kendall, of Sowerby Bridge, and
notes on local pictures and manuscripts.
(4) Heralds' Visits to Halifax, or Heraldic
Bearings of Halifax Gentry. Lecture by Mr.
J. W. Clay, F.S.A.. March, 1902; seven pages,
but the last two describe a work on Tokens.
(5) Excursion to Midgley; Kershaw House,
Brearley Hall and Luddenden Church; May,
1902; Mr. J. H. Ogden, guide, five pages.
(6) Excursion to Sowerby, June, 1902. Mr.
H. P. Kendall, guide; eight pages.
(7) Excursion to Greetland and Barkisland,
Jidy, 1902; twelve pages; descriptions by Mr.
Lister.
(8) Prehistoric Man; Ancient Stone Circle
a± Walshaw Dean, July, 1902; six pages.
(9) Visit to Kirklees Priory and Hartshead
Chiirch (and Walton Cross); eleven pages, in-
cluding plan and illustrations, August, 1902.
(10) Antiquities of Elland, September, 1902;
Mr. J. W. Clay, Rastrick, guide; fifteen
pages.
(11) Halifax Surnavmes; sources and signific-
ance, by Mr. C Crossland; four pages.
(12) Sowerby in Olden Times; Constables'
Accounts, 1629 to 1642; by Mr. H. P. Kendall,
November, 1902; five pages.
(18) Halifax Antiquarian Society. Reports
and Balance Sheet, 1902. Second year's re-
port, officers, members, gifts; eight pages.
(14) Local Prehistoric Man, by Mr. Tatter-
sail Wilkinson, January, 1903; eight pages.
(15) Heptonstall in the Middle Ages; by
Mr. J. H. Ogden, eight pages.
(16) Reminiscences of Wakefield Manof
Courts, by Mr. J. Seed, and Mr. J. H. Ogden;
eleven pages.
(17) The Life of Vioar Holdsworth, Part
II., bv Mr. Lister; eighteen pages.
(18) 'Saltonstall, Warley; May, 1903, Mr.
T. Siatcliffe, guide; nine pages.
(19) Northowraim Old Halls (with Cinder-
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
U7
hills and Coley), June, 1903, Rev. M. Pearson,
guide; sixteen pages.
(20) Three Old Homesteadis, Broadbottom,
Fallingroyd and Ma.yroid; July, 1903, Mr. J.
H. Ogden, guide; twenty pages.
(21) Some Soyland Homesteads; September,
1003, Mr. H. P. Kendall, guide; seven pages.
(22) Private Tokens, — Issuers and Die-
Sinkers, by Mr. S. H. Hamer, October, 1903;
five pages.
(23) Sowerby Constables' Account, II.,
[Civil War,] "by Mr. H. P. Kendall, Novem-
ber, 1903; eleven pages.
24) Halifax Antiquarian Society, [Third
year's] Reports and Balance Sheet, 1903; eight
pages; officers, members, gifts.
(25) Exhibition of Pictures, Prints, Curios;
January, 1904; Local Folk Lore, by Mr. Tat-
tersall Wilkinson, of Burnley. (The issues
for 1904 are consecutively paged.) Pages 1 — 9.
(26) Life of Dr. Haldesworth, Vicar of
Halifax. Part III., by Mr. Lister. 11—28.
(27) Private Tokens, Issuers and Die-Sink-
ens, by Mr. S. H. Hamer (illustrat-ed). 29—36.
(28) A Moorland Township. Wadsworth in
Ancient Times; by Mr. J. H. Ogden. 37—51.
(29) Over Shibden. The Hazlehurst. Hang-
ingroyd, &c., and their owners, by Rev. M.
Pearson. 53—68.
(30) Visit to Thornhill. 69—72.
(31) Burlees and Old Town by Mr. J. H.
Ogden. 73—92.
(.32) Ancient Halls of Norland; by Mr. H.
P. Kendall. 93— llli. illustrated.
(33) Two Halifax Vicars (Hooke and Hough).
by Mr. E. W. Crossley. 113—127.
(34) E'xtracts from the Sowerby Constables'
Accounts by Mr. H. P. Kendall, part III.;
pages 129-141.
(35) Reports and Balance Sheet, [Fourth
year,] 1904. 143—150.
( — ) Municipal Technical School. Medals
for Engineers; December, 1903, by Mr. S. H.
Hamer, iHustrated, three pages.
(36) Exhibition of Pictures, Antiques,
Curios, &c., .January 10, 1905; pages 151—156.
(37) Halifax Parish Chiirch. An Elarly
Chajpter of its History, by Mr. J. Lister,
M.A.;pagesl57— 166.
(38) Some Lesons from Old Buildings as
seen from Local Eixamples, by Mr. J. F.
Walsh; pages 167—175.
(39) Sowerby Constables' Accounts, part
IV.; by Mr. "h. P .Kendall; pages 177—186.
(40) The Piece Hall; estimated cost; build-
ers' prices; Samuel and John Hope, 1775; pages
187—194.
(41) Life of Dr Haldesworth, Vicar of
Halifax; Lecture (part 4), by Mr. J. Lister,
M.A.; paiges 195—212.
(42) Antiquarians at Ovenden, May, 1905;
gui<le— Mr. J. H. Ogden; pages 213—230.
(43) Eixcursion to Shelf, June, 1905; guide,
Mr. J. Lister, M.A.; 231—249.
[The volume is still being augumented.]
In this valuable series we have the pub-
lications of
MR. JOHN LISTER, M.A., Shibden Hall
MR. ». H, HAMER, Halifax.
MR. J. W. CLAY, J.P., F.S.A. Rastrick
MR. J. H. OaDElN, Halifaux.
MR, H. P. KENDALL, Sowerby Bridge.
MR. C. CROSSLAND, Halifax.
MR. TATTERSALL WILKINSON Burnlev
MR. T. SUTCLIFFE, Warlev
REV. MARK PEARSON Northowram.
MR. E. W. CROSSLEY, Triangle.
MR. J. F. WALSH, Hipperholme.
Mr. H. P. KENDALL has ajso issued "Local
Incidents of the Civil War." reprinted from.
"The Sowerby Bridge Chronicle," 1904, small
twelve-mo, .35 pages.
Mr. El. W. Crossley completed a volume of
Halifax Wills, pa/rt I. of which had been
issued by Mr. J. W. Clay. Mr. Crossley has
a second volume on the same subject now in
the press.
"Halifa,x Wills," being Abstracts and Trans-
lations of the Wills registered at York from
the parish of Halifax. Part I., 1389—1514.
E;dited by J. W. Clay, F.S.A. (Member of the
Councils of the Yorlts. Archa3ol. Society and
of the Harleian Society.) Eketer, Wm. Pol-
lard. 1893. 40 pages, demy 8vo. "Halifax
Wills," &o. Part II., 1515—1544, with Ap-
pendices A and B. Edited by E. W. Crossley
(Member of the Council of the Yorkshire
Archseol. Society.) Privately printed ("Hali-
fax Guardian" Office, 1904) for the Editor;
pages 41—222.
Mr. Clay issued a pamphlet recording the
inscriptions on the gravestones at EUand
Church. His works will appear subsequently,
as also those of Mr. C. Crossland, Mr. J.
H. Ogden has written antiquarian articles
for very many yea/rs for-^the "Halifax Guard-
ian." with which newspaper he is connected,
and worthily treads in the footsteps of the
late E. J. Walker in historical matters. En-
fortunatel.v there are no reprints of the series
bearing his signature "Graptolite." He has
transcribed the oldest Heptonstall Register,
but it is not printed. We suppose he may
be considered the editor of the
" Halifax Guardian " Almanacks, to
be mentioned hereafter. He and Mr.
Lister are now engaged on the Poll Tax Re-
turns of 1379, so fa^T as concerns Halifax
Parish. These are printed in the Yorkshiie
Archaeological Journal, but they are amplify-
ing the lists by various notes.
148
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Mr. Pea,r8on's "Northowram" has been pre-
viously describe*!.
Mr. John Lister, M.A. Sliilxlon Hnli, I're-
sident of the Halifax Antiquarian Society, a
post he supremely deserves and most ably
fills, has edited for the Yorkishire Archipo-
logical Society, Record Series, a volume en-
titled: "West Eiding Sessions' Rolls, 1,597—
1602, prefa^'ed by certain proceedings in the
Court of the Lord President a.nd Council of
the North in 1595. Edited by John Lister,
M.A., of B.N.C., Oxford, and Barriater-at-
Law, of the Inner Temple. Printed for the
.Society, 1888. Record Seriei*. Vol. HI., demy
8vo., pages xliv. i' — 254.
In volume 9 of the "Journal" there is a note
by him on a deed c. 12^0 endorsed Bridge
Royd, and in volume 16 a note on Seventeenth
Century Builders' Contracts. In volume 15,
there is a notice of the Autobiography of Sir
John Savile, 1607, by Mr. Lister and Mr.
Clny.
In the 10th volume are notices of EUland
Church by Mr. Clay, who also added notes
to Paver's Marriaige Licences, York, after Mr.
Norcliffe's decease: Vols. 10 to 17. Mr.
Lister's contributions to the Bradford Anti-
quarian Society have l>een numerous, and many
of them appear in the "Bradford Antiquary."
The CKiJ-liest local antiquary that I remem-
ber to have met with in old writings was
JOHN HANSON, of Rastrick, and perhaps
his contemporary, SIR HENRY SAVILE. of
St.ainla<nd, should be mentioned at the same
moment. Camden, the Father of Antiquaries,
visited and corresponded with them. Mr.
Hanson's family were under-stewa.rds to the
Saviles, and had access to various manor
rolls and deeds. Mr. John Hanson's manu-
scripts are frequently referred to in the Bods-
worth Notes, Bodleian Library, Oxford, ex-
tracts from which have been pi-inted in va.rious
volumes of the Yorkshire Archseologica]
Journal. The maniiscript history of Liver-
sedge by Mr. Hanson has been In.rgely incor-
porated in my friend Mr. Frank Peel's "Spen
Valley," and the pedigree of the Hansons by
Mr. Ha,nson, with additions, has been edited
for the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal by
(Sir) G. J. Armytage, and from another ancient
manuscript, by me, in the Yorkshire
Genealogist. T remember seeing a local gepea-
logical manuscript by Mr. Hanson at Shibden
Hall; mostly fragmentary notes.
MR. JOHN BRBARCLIFFE. whose anti-
quarian writings still exist, has been previous'y
mentioned. He did not print anything, but
copious use has been made of his notes by the
late Mr. El. J. Walker, in Local Portfolio,
columns of local history that appeared in the
"Halifax Guardian." Mr. P. A. Ley land
copied largely from Brearcliffe, but never got
80 far in his History of Halifax as to use the
extracts. See Leyland's edition of Watson's
Halifax, in Article xvi. The REV. OLIVER
HHYWOOD also calls for notice a.mongst the
early genealogists and antiquaries of Halifax
pairish. In Art.icles xi. to xviii. we have
notices of the printed works of Dr. S. Midg-
ley, (Bentley's assumptions). Rev. Thomas
Wright, Rev. John Watson, Watr-on's abridg-
ments under the .supposed editorships of
Jacob.s. Frobisher. W. M. Winn, or
the Rev. B. Nelson, of Coley Church
and the Parif5h niurch, to Mr.
John Crabtree, some copies of whose history_
I ought to have stated, appear on large paper
octavo, and to Captain John Hodgson's
Memoirs printed more than a century after
his death.
The Priestleys were a literary family but
they had not access to the ancient manor-rolls,
so in the following "Memoirs" we find that
the origin of the family from Priest'ey in
Hipperholme amd its history for four
centuries is overlooked.
" MEMOIRS CONCERNING THE FAMILY
OF THE PRIESTLEYS, written at the re-
quest of a friend b.y Jonathan Priestley. A.D.,
1696, aged 63. Part II. , written in 1779 by
Natha.niel Prieetley, of Northowram, (son of
John, son of said Jonathan)."
These two essays occupy pages 1-41 of York-
shire DiariciS, 1886, issued by the Surtees
Society a»s Vol. 77. The rest of the volume,
pages 43 — 174, is occupied with the Memor-
andum Book of Sir Walter Calverley, of
E«:holt, edited by my friend Mr. Samuel
Margerison.
The Priestley Memoirs start by narrating
that the family had lived in Soyland above
600 years (from 1096!!), but the story begins
with Henry Priestley, of Soylnnd, father
of Robert and .lohn (Recorder of Eipon in
1604). .lonathan, the writer of the first part,
died at Westercroft in Northowram in 1705.
His eldest son Jonathan lived at Winteredge;
the second son was Nathaniel Priestley, minis-
ter at Halifax a.nd Bradford Chapels, and the
third was John, of White Windowr-, whoce
son wrote the second part.
In the "Ducatus Leod," page 542. we le^irn
that Thoresby had in his I^eeds Museum the
manuscript, octavo size, of "Mr. Smith, of
Bland's Letter a/bout Non-conformity and
Mr. Sharp's Answei- thereto." both originals.
This Mr. Smith was the author of the "Pati-i-
archn.l Sabbath," a book previously described
in these Bketches. and Mr. Sharp (of Horton
Hall.) was author of another book T have,—
"Divine Comforts." Thoresby got the MSS.
from the Priestlev fa mil v.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
149
LXXXVI— MODERN ANTIQUARIAN
WRITERS.
MR. EDWARD AKROYD, F.S.A., ex-M.P.,
purchased for ,£175 tlie manuscripts of the
(at.e John K. Walbruii, Ripou. who died in
1869, consisting of materials for a History of
Fountains Abbey, and collections for a his-
tory of Claro and Morley wapentakes, taken
from Dodsworth's ^ISS. British Museum, and
the Public Record Office. These he gave to the
York Minster Library in 1873. Mr. Akroyd
will appear afterwards as an author. He
privately printed a history and pedigree of
the Akroyds, which was really the collection
of Mr. Edward Johnson Walker, who whilst
gathering materials from the wills at York,
made copious notes respectiiiT other Halifax
families at the same time. These notes were
sold (I believed b" his son ^Ir. Walter James
Walker to ^h\ J::hn Stansfeld, of Leeds.
MR. FAIRLESS BARBER, F.S.A., F.R.
Hist. Soc, and his brothers have been speci-
ally prominent as local antiquaries. One of
his brothers Mr. William, the Judge,
j^ave a lecture at Brighouse Church
School about 1856 on local his-
tory, which inci-eased my interest in Buch
matters, and led me to hunt far and near to
borrow the old histtoriee of Halifax. Mr.
John Burgees had a fine collection of books at
Bird.s Rovd (Yorkshire Arch?eol. Journal, Vol.
I.) and lent me one; Mr. .Joseph Holland, of
Wyke Hall, lent me another, besides Oliver
Heywood's Life by Slate; and the Brighouse
Mechanics' Institute had another. Mr. Henry
Jocelyn Barber, the youngest son, was pro-
foundly interested in local antiquities, and
had a good topographical library, and to him
T inscribed my edition of the Elland Tragedies.
But if is to his brother Mr. Fairless Barber,
also a solicitor as was their father, that I owe
my most numerous and pleiasantest associa-
tions. Next to CJanon Baine, of York, the
Rev. C. B. Norcliffe, of Langton Hall, and
Dr. Sykes, of Doncaster, I never met with any-
one who had larger acquaintance with anti-
quarian and genealogical matters respecting
this county. Yet Mr. Fairless published very
little on his own account. He and Mr. .John
Burc;.ess were on the Coiiucil of the Hudders-
field Archaeological Society from its estab-
lishment in November, 1864. Mr. Thomas
Bradbury, Bastrick, was also on the Council,
and Mr. Akroyd, M.P., Halifax, Rev. S.
Hilev, M.A.. EUland, Rev. James Hone, M.A.,
Halifax (also on the Council), Mr. J. R. In-
gram, Halifax, "Mr. F. A. Leylarirl. Halifax,
Mr. T. T. Ormerod, Brighouse, were mem-
bers when there were only a total of 73 in
December, 1865. The first pamphlet issued by
the Society was a Report, 38 pages, illustrated;
the second gives papers read at Slack (Cam-
bodimum.t -vpril. 1866, by J. K. W\'ilker, Ai.D.,
and Fairless Barber; 24, pages, 12mo., re-
printed from the "Huddersfield Examiner."
In September Mr. Barber succeeded the Rev.
Geo. Lloyd, Darlington, ae Secretary, and
sent out a circular printed letter, one page,
touting for members. As secretary he issued
the second report, 16 pages, 8vo., Hudders-
field, 1867. The fifth pamphlet was "On Ro-
man Roads, by J. Savile Stott, Halifax, 8
pages, Huddersfield, 1867." The eighth pamph-
let was bv Air. Barber, on "Some Roman Coins
found at Slack," 11 pages, Huddersfield, 1867.
This is followed by a pamphlet of eight pages
giving the list of members, the rules, and
Mr. Barber's appeal for fundfi for Slack ex-
ploration, March, 1867. There were only
ninety members, the Halifar new ones being
Mr. W. Swinden Barber, Robert Farrar,
F.R.C.S.. Brighouse; J. S. Stott, Archdeacon
Musgrave; Thomas Ormerod, D. G. Sugden,
Richard Sugden. T. W. SutclifFe,
Brighouse; John Taylor, Rastnck;
and a Briyhouse native, Mr. S. J.
Chad wick, solicitor, Dewsbury. The first ex-
cursion report is on a fly-sheet. May, 1867, to
Slack district, but this was a very limited
affair. In August, 1867, under Mr. Barber's
control, the fixst of the famous Members' Ex-
cursions took place to Kirkheaton, Kirkbur-
ton and Almondburv; 19 pages, report. A
fl.v-sheet, one page, taken from the "Brighouse
News," about December, 1867, refers to the
discovery of n quern at Cote farm. Woodhouse
Rastrick. The Third Annual Report, Janu-
ary, 1868, covers 18 pages, written by Mr.
Barber, as also the report of Third Annual
Meeting, 23 pages. A fl.v-sheet, one page, on
Fairfax, 1642, and Mirfield muster, and an-
other four pages on Masters and Servants, "
1601-, are reprinted from the "Brighou.'e
News." sin'riPfl F.B. The Dewsbury Excursion,
August, 1868, 26 pages, was edited by Mr.
Barber. The Report of the Fourth Annual
Meeting. January, 1869, occupies 15 pages, re-
printed from the "Huddersfield Examiner."
The Excursion of August, 1869, was to Wake-
field, 48 pages, reprinted from the "Wake-
field Express." Mr. Barber at this time also
exerted himself in the siale of large photo-
graphs of Rastrick Cross, three varieties of
Roman tiles at Slack, four views of Walton
Cross, and other photographs issued by the
Association; and also in securing subscribers
for Mr. Hailstone's photograph copies of
Portraits of Yorkshire Worthies, exhibited
at Leeds EThibition. In August, 1870, he
issued the Report of the Excursion to Ponte-
fract, .55 pages, reprinted from the 'Tonte-
150
HAlilFAX BOOKS AKD AUTHORS.
fract Advertiser." At thii* meeting the TTiul-
(lersfiekl Society yielded its title to that of the
Yorkshire Aichseolosical and Topographical
Association. Mr. B<arber collected a few sets
of the reports, thus ilar, and had them bound.
The collected volume is necessarily exceeding-
ly rare. I have one and there is one in the
Library at Lee<ls, formerly at Huddersfield.
Thi,-* Library, mostly tho gift of Mr. Turner,
Mil-field, I was asked to catalogue on its ar-
rival in TTuddersfield, and the present printed
catalogue is a,n extension of it.
Besides the more ephemeral publications of
nunual reports and annual excup'ions since
1870, Mr. Barber was largely responsible for
the publication of the "Yorkshire Archaeo-
logicnl .Tournal." The fifth excursion was to
Leeds, 1871, programme and report separately;
the sixth, 1872, wa« to Fountains and Ripon;
the seventh to York, 1873; the eighth to
York, 1874; the 9th to Beverley, 1875, but
there was no reprinted report; the tenth was
in 1876, to Halifax, Shihden Hall, and EUand;
as follows: — ^Programme, illustrated, August
30, 1876, 15 pages, Halifax, Walker, "Guard-
ian" Office. The report was a reprint from
the "Halifax Guardian," 40 pages; papers by
Mr. Lister on Shibden Hall, Mr. Fowler on
EUand Church window, and Mr. Barber on
Halifax Church, are very valuable.
The eleventh excursion was to Skipton and
Bolton Priory, and proved as successful as
the Halifax one, the memories of which have
not yet passed away from the writer. For
some time Mr. Barber's health had been fail-
ing, and signs of mental strain were evident.
For three years I had aided him in the
laborious work of indexing the Journal, and
Mr. G. W. Tomlinson. of Huddersfield, had
been appointed Mr. Barber's co-secretary in
1875. At Mr. Barber's suggestion, and by
his influence I had been enabled to search the
West Riding Sessions Rolls, the Wakefield
Manor Rolls and the Y^'ork Wills, beginning
these pleasant researches in 1872. Such had
been Mr. Barber's strong personality that up
to this period the Society was often jocosely
styled "Fairlesft Barber's Society." The 12th
excursion, Augiist, 1878, was to Selby and
Hemingborough; 13th to Boroughbridge and
KnareslDorough; 14th to Rotherham in 1880,
meantime Mr. .Barber's name disappears and
Mr. S. J. Chadwick, of Mirfield and Dewsbury,
became co-secretary with Mr. Tomlinson.
The Report for 1868 appears at the close of
Vol. I. of the Journal, as also that for 1869,
and in the latter year Part L of the Journal
appeared. From thiat date two parts have an-
nually been supplied to members. Four
partr?. form one volume. In Vol. I. Mr. Bar-
ber has "The Eonian Station at Slack," il-
lustrat<'(I, pages 1—12, a few copies being
l)riut('d (as was the custom afterwards) for the
author. "The West Riding Book of Rates,"
with notice of the death of Mr. .John Burgess,
December 2. 1869, aged 61, — a geologist, oinith-
ologist, as well as antiquary in prosecuting
which he had tnaversed on foot the most
beautiful parts of the country : pages 153 —
168. Reprintc'l 16 nages. Mr. G. J. Army-
tage printed the Hanson jjcdigrec in this
volume.
'I'he preface to the second volume, dated
February, 1873, introduces my dear friend the
Rev. Dr. Robert CoUyer, then at Chicago, as
a Yorkshire antiquary. Pages 129 — 170 contain
"Antiquarian Notices of Clay House in Greet-
land." by the Prince of Yorkshire Antiquaries,
the Rev. Joseph Hunter, author of a "Life of
tlu" Rpv. Oliver Heywood." I have Hun-
ter's copy of Gough's Topography, 2 vols., 4to,
in which he has inserted numerous maiginal
notes to the Yorkshire section. The Clay
House manuscript was written by him in
January, 1845, and inscribed "to the Miss
Baldwins of Clay House, a tribute to their
Historical Taste, KnoAvledge and Curiosity
from a much obliged Antiquarian Friend."
To this paper my friend Mr. Thos. Henry
Rushforth, of Coley Lodge, Baling, contributed
a pictiire of Clay House. Vol. III. has no-
thing from the pen of Mr. Barber except the
reports of 1873 and 1874. The preface acknow-
ledges aid in indexing from myself as in the
previous volume and from Mr. J. W. Clay.
Vol. IV. has only the 1876 report, delivered
at the 12th annual meeting, January, 1877,
from Mr Barber's pen. Vol. V. has a report
on the "West Riding Session Rolls," pages
36iJ— 405. and the 13th and 14th annual re-
ports, the work of Mr. Barber. Vol. VI. has
Extracts from Dodsworth's MSS. relating to
Brighouse. Kirklees, &c., by George J. Army-
tage, F.S.A.. and four pages by James W.
Davis, F.S.A., F.G.S., on "Chipped Flints
found On Moors near Halifax," and the 15th
and 16th annual reports by Mr Barber.
Virtually he had withdrawn from active work
at the end of 1879 and in January, 1881, Mr.
Chadwick became his successor. The obituary
(VI. 460,) justly states that "the success and
progress of the work done by the Association
may be directly traced to Mr. Barber's
iintiring zeal and unselfish devo-
tion. Every nieiiiber will mourn
over his loss as the loss of a personal
friend." My close friendship gained in his
office at Brighouse and in his home at Castle
Hill, enables me to support this testimony.
Vol. VII. opens with a tribute to his memory
from the pen of the Rev. J. T. Fowler, M.A.,
F.S.A., in which we are told that he was born
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
151
at Castle Hill, Eastrick, January 11, 1835. He
died at Pinner near Watford, March 3, 1881,
and was interred there. The "Halifax Guard-
ian" and other local ptapers of March 5th re-
cord his local labours, professional and bene-
volent. Our work must conclude by giving a
list of his publictaions not previously recorded
in this sketch.
''Kelso Abbey," drawn and lithographed by
him, December, 1851.
"An Ebsay in explanation of Fountains
Abbey, read before the Yorkshire Union of
Mechanics' Institutes, May 28. 1874, by Fair-
less Barber, F.S.A."; Leeds, C. Goodall, 1874.
demy 8vo., 13 pages with plan. I have a
similar essay in manuscript by him on Kirk-
stall Abbey, which does not appear to have
been printed.
The next item I have not seen. — "The Church
of St. John the Baptist, Chelmorton," re-
printed fram the "Buxton Advertiser," with
plate, 8 pages octavo, J. C. Bates, Buxton,
printer.
"On a Few Elxamples of Mediaeval Deeds"
by Flairless Barber, F.S.A., a member of the
Incorporated Law Society of the United King-
dom. Reprinted from the "Proceedings,"
Manchester, October. 1878, 32 pages. After
Mr. Barber's death I got the manuscript copies
he had made of Mr. Dixon's deeds, and print-
ed many of them in my "Yorkshire Notes and
Queries," and was not then aware of the
above pamphlet which contains other examples.
I ventured to write to Mr. Dixon suggesting
that the Kirkstall Abbey deeds shoiild be sent
to Leeds Corporation, and this was done. I
liave other copies that have not yet been
printed.
LXXXVII.— MODElEN ANTIQUARIAN
WRITERS.
The mantle of Fairless Barber fell on others
besides myself, and specially so the phase em-
braced in the work of the Yorkshire Archaeo-
logical Society. MR. S. J. CHADWICK,
F.S.A., solicitor, Dewsbury, a native of Brig-
house, and ALDERMAN JOHN WILLIAM
CLAY. J. P., F.S.A., are worthy successors.
SIR GEORGE JOHN ARMYTAGE, BART..
F.S.A., of Kirklees. is just outside our parish
bounds to be inchided in these sketches, other-
wise we should have a long record of work
for the Harleian Society, of which he has
been, if we may invent a term, the Fairless
Barber.
Mr. Cliadwick's articles in the Yorkshire
Journal have treated on "Excavations on the
Site of Almondbury Castle," Vol. XV., "Old
Painted Glass in Dewsbury Church," XV.,
"The Plague in Yorkshire." XV. and XVI.,
"Kirklees Priory," XVI. and XVII.
Mr. Clay's papers have been on "Elland
Church," Vol. X, two parts; "Autobiography
of Sir John Savile, 1564," Vol. XV.. aided by
Mr. John Lister; and Notes to Paver's Mar.
riage Licences, Vols. XVI., XVIT.
In 18*2 Mr. Tomlinson began as sole secre-
tary and we had frequent correspondence, and
in August, 1884, I drew up for him the" out-
line programme to Ukley, Otley and Farnley,
and lent the illustrations, 14 pages. In 1886,
Mr. Chadwick appears as secretary for the
Record Series, the origin of which evolved from
a proposed Parish Register Society
for Yorkshire. The first circular
IS dated May 22nd. 1882, and
subscribed by me and my neighbour Samuel
Margerison, of Calverley. We issued a second
ciicriilar, :\ray .30th, endorsed by twpnty-one
leading Yorkshire antiquaries, calling a meet-
ing at tlvi Leeds Public Library for June 3rd.
Protestation was made against takinj? the
Parish Registers to London, and a Committee
to consider ways and means was appointed.
We met at Leeds, Halifax, &c., but affiliation
with the Yorkshire Archfeological Society
naturally resulted, a,nd after a considerable
time, though Bolton Percy Register was an-
nounced for publication, the title "Record
Series" was adopted, and no register has ever
appeared. Equally useful work has been
done, and a Yorkshire Parish P<^gister Society
was founded many yeai-s afterwards. The Re-
cord Society's annual subscription was fixed at
one guinea. A Yorkshire Historical Society,
promulG-ated by the Rev. R. V. Taylor in 1P84,
collapsed at inception, gracefully climbing
down by suggesting a prior claim of the R-e-
cord Series. A North Riding Record Society
was begun in January, 1883 and produced
thirteen good volumes. Though I have the
publications, I never consented to join the
Society. In 1889 I joined in the formation of
the Leeds Thoresby Society, and soon after in
the founding of the East Riding Society. These
two Societies have published valuable books,
but they are wide of our parish. The Brad-
ford Society will be elsewhere mentioned.
With all this divergence of interests it is
surprising what good, although scarcely
adequate siipport the Record Series as well as
the parent Society have rceived. For some-
time Mr. J. W. Clay was co-secretary with
Mr. Chadwick for the R-ecord Series. Besidos
the nineteen volumes nearly completed of the
Journal (including Hemingborough History),
and a host of Excursion Programmes
and Reports, the Society is still
vigorously prosecuting its labours in
the Record Series, 34 volumes having
1S2
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
already appeared. Mr. Clay is now sole-eecre-
tary for the Record Series, but on the Council
appear the names of Mr. S. J. Chadwick,
Vice-Pi<^sidfnt, Sir G. J. Arniyta^e, Mr. E.
W. Crossley, Kalifa.x, Mr. John Lister, Hali-
fax; with representatives from other locali-
ties. The two phases of work that please me
most as bearinpr on Halifax district I stron(,'ly
urged upon Mr. Tomlinson at the foundation
of the Record Series. Tliese are the ten vol-
umes giving the Index of Wills at York, and
the Wakefield :\l;inor Cniut Rolls, just begun.
Vol. ITT., edited by Mr. John Lister has al-
ready been mentioned. Vol. IV. gives "Ab-
stracts of Yorkshire Wills in the Time of the
Commonwealth." at Somerset House, London,
chiefly illustrative of Sir William Dugdale's
Visitation of Yorkshire in 1665-6. Edited by
John William Clay. F.S.A. (Worksop, R.
White, printer,) 1890, large octavo, page-s iv.
208. Vol. XV. gives "Yorkshire Royalist
Composition Papers, or the Proceedings of the
Committee for Compounding with Delinquents
during the Commonwealth. Vol. \ ." Ddited
bv John William Clay, F.S.A., Member of
the Councils of the Yorkshire Archfeological
and Harleian Societies. 1893. (London print-
ed,) pages viii.. li — 252. Vol. XVTII. is a con-
tinuiation of Yorkshire Royalist Composition
Papers." Vol. TT. Edited bv John William
Clay, F.S.A.. 1895; pages xii., 1—244. Vol.
XX. continues the same, as Vol. ITT. Edited
by John William Clay, F.S.A.. 1896, pages
xvi., 232. All these a.re demy octavo size.
Vol. XXXTV. is Dodsworth's Cliurch Notes,
edited by Mr. Clay, but T have not the vol-
ume at hand. John William Clay, F.S.A.,
J.P., Rastrick, edited — "Testamenta E'bor-
acensia : A Selection of WilLs from the Re-
gistry at York, Vol. VI.,'' published by the
Surtees Society, (Vol. 106), 1902; demy octavo,
pages xi., 1—342; printed at Leeds. In tliis
volume appear the wills of .John Thornhill,
Fixby. 1529; Thomas Savile. of Southowram,
1530 (not 1430); John Holdsworth, of Ashday,
1528; Thomas Sa.vile, of Copley, 1531; Sir
Richard Tempest of Boiling, wTio had lands
in Ovenden and Wadsworth, 1537; Richard
Sunderland, of High Sunderland, 1537; Rich-
ard Holdsworth, of Ashday, 1543; Thomas and
Richard Foxcroft. of Sowerby, 1543; John
Drake. 1544; Rdchard Lister, 1545; Henry
Farrer. of Ewood, 1548. Besides a voiame on
the Visitation of Cambridgeshire, and another
on St. Paul's Cathedral Registers, London, he
has edited for the Harleian Society Hunter's
Minor Gentry, a most valuable work for the
genealogist, we might say unequallc.!. Thei?.-
four volumes are royal octavo, virtually small
quarto size, as under: — Publications of the
Harleian Society, estab. 1869. Vol. 37. "Fam-
iliae Minortim Gentium; Diligentia Joseph!
Hunter, Sheffieldiensis, S.A.S. Volume 1.
Edited by John W. Clay. F.S.A., 1894, pages
xi., 1 — 4-20, xix. Volume 2, 1895, pages vii..
421—828. Volume 3, 1«95. pages vii., 829—1172,
XX. Volume 4, 1896, pages vi., 1173—1454, xx.
For many years the present Sir George J.
Arm.^-tage was secretary of this Society, and
is the only surviving founder of it probably,
(latins' fiom Maich, 1839.
For the Parish Register Society Mr. Cla.v has
edited the Wath Register, and also Vol. T. of
the Elland Register. I suppose this Elland
Register is a separate issue from the privately
printed one, when he printed 300 copies and
generously giave the proceeds to the New
Church fund at Elland. This volume was
issued about Christmas, 1896. "The Rr'giptt:is
of Elland co. Yorkshire. Vol. T., 1.5.59 to 1640.
Edited by John William Clay, F.S.A." Priv-
ately printed for the Editor by ,T. Whitehead
and Son, Leeds; demy octavo, pages iv.. 1—390.
We next approach his heavy task of Du?r-
dale's Visitation of Yorkshire with additions.
This formidable undertaking of bringing Dug-
dale's pedigrees down to present time is not
yet completed. It appears m parts, smali
folio size, illustrated by numerous coats of
arms. Pollard, of Exeter, is the printer The
titles read : —
DUGDALE^'S
VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE
With Additions.
Edited by
J. W. CLAY, F.S.A.
Part I. 1894. pages iii., 1—88.
Part TT. 1896, pages 89—180.
Part TIT, 1897, pages iii.. 181—276.
(Part TV.) 1899, pages 277— 381i, and Title and
Contents vii.
(Part V.) 1901, pages iii., 1—120.
(Part VT.) 1903, pages iii., 121—252.
Still in progress.
T have not information at hand to complete
the list of Mr. Chadwick's publications. I
have the Mirfield Parish Magazine from No. I.
January 1871, to No. 84, December, 1877, con-
taining sections monthly of a history of Mir-
field by Mr. Chadwick. These are continued
in the'Nos. 85—192, December, 1886, and with
greater interest. Probably the have been
continued since 1886. He was author of "Kirk-
lees Nunnery," 36 pages, in the Batley Anti-
quary, 1887. He also issued "Dewsbuiy
Pari.sl) Church, and its Endowments, with
Copies of Terriers, Vicara.ge Etadowment Deed,
&c.," octavo pamphlet, 1886, 52 pages, price
6d. given to the Restoration Fund. Joseph
Hunter's notes occupy pages 37—52.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
153
LXXXVIII.— MODERN ANTIQUARIAN
WRITHRS.
Mr. Thomas Thornton Elmpsall and Mr.
Wm. r'nclworth called a meeting for the forma-
tion of the Bradford Antiquarian Society, on
May &th, 1878. Mr. Bmpsall was voted chair-
man and Mr. Cud worth secretary (pro. temp.)
Mr. E. P. Peterson proposed and Mr. J. Hors-
fall Turner seconded that a Society be formed.
The first meeting was held May 30th, and the
inaugiiral address was delivered July ICth.
The first paper was given in August by J.
Horsfall Turner on "Eccleshill Officials from
li272." ISIarch, 1879, Mr. Enipsall gave a paper
on "Bradford in the 14th Century," and in
August he contributed "The Farnley Wood
Plot," and in January, 1880, "Captain Hodg-
son of Coley." In October, 1880. Mr. Hors-
fall Turner read "Bradford Wills, prior to
150n." mil in October, IS^^O, he added "Brad-
ford Wills, 1500—1550,'' and in September.
1881, a further contribution of Bradford Wills
to 1600. In January, 1881, Mr. Efmpsall's paper
was on "Bradford Church Records," and in
February. ISHs, Mr. Elnpsall gave "Extracts
from the Elarliest Bradford Manor Rolls,
(temp.) Edw. TlI." This year he was de-
graded to the Vice-Presidency to please some
time-servers wlio wished to place Mr. George
Ackroyd in the post of honour. It was a
si<!:nal failure, and Mr. Empsall at the close
was reinstated, not again to lose the post
during his life time. His successive papers
were, — 1882-3, "Xocal Royalist Compounders";
1883-4, continuation of the same; 1884-5,
' iiradford in the ISth century"; 1886, "Brad-
ford in the IGth century"; 1887. "Bradford in
the 17th century," and in 1887-8, "The Boiling
Faniilv." We had. as mav be imagined from
the fact that Mr. ElmpBall and I were natives
of Slead Svke district, several society excursions
over the Bradford boundaries into Halifax
parish, as to Rookes in April, 1S79, Coley and
High Bentley in May, 1879, Shibden Hall in
September, 1879. Many other local visits
were made, including High Sunderland in
1885, Barkisland in 1885. Halifax and Elland
Churches in 1886, Holdsworth and Ovenden
in 1888, and a second visit to Shibden. These
excursions drew into membership two con-
spfcuous workers for the Bradford Society,
namel.v. Mr. George Hepworth, of Brighouse,
who photographed objects of interest during
the excursions and reproduced by his lantern
the views for an anniial meetin? in winter,
1887-8-9, ,and Mr. Lister, of Shibden Hall.
Mr. Lister's papers were looked for annually
as valuable additions of original research. I
think one of his first contribiitions was a
paper "Local Illustrations (Wibsey) of See-
bohm's Etnglish Village Community," given
in Deoeniber. 188-1. In March, 1886, his paper
was entitled "Early Trade in Agbrigg and
Morley Wapentakes." In February, 1887, he
gave "Gleanings from Old Halifax Life."
Meantime Mr. Bmpsall, eided by myself and
two or three others had transcribed many
years of the Bradford Parish Register. I fear
that in the several hands there are many in-
accuracies because some of the transcribers
were very unsafe in reading the old caligraphy.
Another joint effort was in compiling the
Bradford bibliography which goes under the
name of Mr. Bmpsall in the later sections of
the Bradford Antiquary. Mr. Cudworth was
the first editor of th^ journal, but Mr. Fed-
erer, than whom I have neiver found a greater
Yorkshire bibliophile or more devoted friend,
has edited the annual isvsues for several years.
Vol. I., completed in 1888, (five parts), con-
tains articles bearing on Halifax writers, as
under: — Bradford in the 14th century, by T.
T. Empsall; Early Notices of Rookes Family,
by J. Horsfall Turner; Bibliography, by T.
T. Empsall (and others); Bradford Parish
Registers, by T. T. Emnsall (and others);
Bradford Land Tax, 1704, by T. T. Elmpsall;
Farnley Wood Plot, by T. T. Elmpsall; Social
Life in Bradford in li4th century, by T. T.
Bmpsall; Local Royalist Compounders, by
T. T. Empsall; Manor or Lordship of Idel.
with plan. 1.584, by J. Horsfall Turner; Early
Local Wills in York Registry, by J. Horsfall
Turner; Ancient Charters from the Heming-
wa.v Manuscripts, by J. Lister, M.A.; Muster
Roils of Bradford District, temp. Hy. VIII.,
by J. Lister, M.A. ; Local Illustrations of
Village Field System, Avith plan of Odsal
Fields, by J. Lister. M.A.
Volume II., completed in 1895, contains
inter alia, the Bradford Register and the
Bibliography as before, and the Land Tax of
1704; and also Transcripts of Early Local
Wills, as well as transcripts from the Hem-
ingway Charters, by Mr. Lister. Mr. Lister'?
contributions to this volume are, "Early
Woollen Trade in Halifax and Bradford dis
trict," "Manorial Survey. Bradford, 1342";
"Manorial Surveys of Leeds, Rothwell, AI-
lerton, Kippax and Ledstone." Mr. Bmpsall's
papers are, — "Bradford in the ISth Century";
"Bradford Manor Rolls, 14th to 16th Century";
"Lees Hall. ThornhiU": "Boiling Family":
"Slead Hall, LightclifFe" : "Marley Hall,
Bingley"; "High Sunderland, Halifax";
"Local Military Tenures"; "Joseph Lister and
the Siege of Bradford." In 1889 he read two
papers on "Bradford 1650-1700," and in Feb-
ruary, 1891, "Old Local Families." Mr. Lister
read papers on "General Fawcett, a native of
Shibden," in 1889, and three papers on the
154
HAIilFAX BOOKS ANT> AUTHORS.
"Pilgrimage of Grace," in 1890. Mr. J. W.
Clay gave a paper in December, 1888, on
"Yorkshire Heraldic Visitations." In Feb-
ruai-y, 1893 , Mr. Ednpsall gave a paper on
"Joseph Lister of Kipping," and in April,
189C, Mr. .John Lister contribiite<l a fourth
paper on "The Pilgrimage of Grace." "Local
Testamentary Curiosities" Nvas the subject of
Mr. Empsali's paper in January, 1896. In
February, 1897, the Rev. Bryan Dale, M.A.,
formerly of Ilalifax, gave a paper on "Lord
Wharton and his Charities." Mr. Dale has
contributed several other papers. The 1892,
July excursion was to Budding Park and
Spofforth Castle, when J. Horsfall Turner was
cicerone. T find I am credited with giving a
paper that year but T do not
remembei- the subject. The Third
Volume of the Bi-adford Anti-
quary," part I. of a new series, was given to
th© editorship of Professor Federer, who suit-
ably opens Mnth a frontispiece portrait of "^^r.
T. T. Empsall, with a memoir by Mr. W.
Cudworth. Mr. Bmpisall was born near Slead
Syke in August, 1824. He died at Ashgrove,
Bradford, in March, 1896. As a youth he
worked for INIr. Holland, Slead Syke Mills,
and then became a schoolmaster. When I
began to know him more intimately, in 1870, he
had an insurance agency as well as a shop in
Manchester-road, Bradford, and was then a
book collector of antiquarian tastes. From
1873 our friendship became closer, and we
often met for bibliographical chat, all centr-
ing on Lishtcliffe district. He was engaged
in philanthropic works in various directions,
and also was a town councillor some years.
Besides being natives of the same hamlet, at
tending the same Sunday School, though not
at the same time, trained at the same College,
Borough-road, London, workers in the same
denomination, we had generally the same
tastes in literature.
In the new series, the first printed paper is
one by Mr. Elmpsall on "Ancient Monastic
Properties of the District," and in the same
part, July, 1896, is a paper by the Rev. Bryan
Dale, M.A.. on "Shibden Dale and Sir Thomas
Browne."' In part 2, July, li897, is a contri-
bution bv J. Horsfall Turner on "Ancient
EfecleshiU," pages 137—158. The third part
has a paper on Bramhope Chapel, (three il-
lustrations), by the Rev. Bryan Dale, who was
President of the Society, 1897-8. In the fourth
part, July. 1899, he has two papers— "Cromwell
in Yorkshire," and 'Turitan Ministers in
West Yorkshire," and in part five, Jiily, 1900,
a paper on "Non-parochial Registers in York-
shire," based on the lists given in my "York-
shire County Magazine," 1892-3. The second
volume of the new series starts with part 6,
July, 1901, in which Mr. Dale has "The Origin-
al Home of the Pilgrim Fathers," two illustra-
tions. In the 7th part, July, 1902, he has two
articles— "Ministers of Bradford Church and
three Chapels of Ease in Puritan Times," and
"James Naylor, the 'Mi\d Quakei'." In part
9, he has a paper on the Puritan Ministers of «•
the district around Bradford. Part 10 is just ■
due, July, WOr,. ~
Besides these evidences of help received by
Bradford from Halifax parishioners, the Brig-
house press comes in with at least five re-
prints.
"Bradford Historical and Autiqunrian
Society, Aysgarth in Wensleydale." Reprinted
from the "Brighouse News," June 16, 1893;
four pages, double columns.
"Kirkby Lonsdale in Westmoi eland." Re-
printed from the "Brighouse News," .Inly 28,
1894; four pages, double coIunin:s.
"Durham Cathedral and Castle." Reprinted
from the "Brighouse News," Aur,Mist lilth,
1894; four pa,t;es, double cohimns.
"Eixcursion to Malton." Reprinted from the
"Brighouse News," September 8th, 1894; six
pages, double columns.
"Ro.vds Hall and the Rookes Family." Re-
printed from the "Brighouse News," June 1st
1895; six pages, double columns.
Mr. J. Norton Dickons, solicitor, Halifax,
though having his offices there, lives in Brad-
ford, and having no further connection with
Halifax. I think, does not come within our
limits. He has published at least three books
that I value, (1) Bibliogi'aphy of Bradford, (2) -
]\fethodism in Bradford, (3) Roman Yorkshire, ■
with illustrations. ■
LXXXIX.— MODERN ANTIQUARIAN
WRITERS.
JAMES CROSSLEY, F.S.A., was born at
the Mount, Halifax, March 31st, 1800. He
was maternally descended from Nathaniel
Waterhouse, the Halifax benefactor. He was
trained at Hipperholme and Heath Schools,
and later at Manchester, where be became a
solicitor, 1823-1860. He was a regnlar contri-
butor to the early volumes of Blackwood's
Magazine and the Retrospective Review, and
he occasionally assisted Lockhart in bio-
graphies for the Quarterly Review. The
Clietham Society had its origin at his resid-
ence in Booth Street, Manchester, and he be-
came President in 1848, and aided in issuing
110 volumes. He became President of the
Spenser Society and of the Record Society of
Manchester. He edited Potts' Discovery of
Witches," the "Diary and Correspondence of
Dr. John Worthington, 2 vols.," "Tiacts of
Sir Thomas Browne, l2mo., 1822," "Robert
Heywood of Heywood's Observations and In-
structions (in verse)," small quarto, 18titf. In
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
155
1840 he edited "Dr. «ohn Wallis's Letters on
the 'I'riuity, ' from the original manuscripts.
He was a froquent contributor to the London
"Notes and Queries." He was a member of
the Philobiblon Society from its establish-
ment, liis. greatest eminence is as a oook
collector and bibliographer, many of his books
have careful annotations and literary notes.
What our old correspondent Mr. Hailstone
was for Yorkshire Mr. Crossley was for Lan-
cashire in particular, with a large Yorkshire
rivalrj-. Mr. Hailstone invited me twice to
Walton Hall with a view that I should spend
some months in catalogning his vast collec-
tion, biit that I could not accomplish. Mr.
Crossley's library was equally overwhelming,
so much so that when the first sale of a part
of it took place at Manchester the cataloguer
informed me it was impossible to find a copy
of Ainsworth's Triplex, ii however turned up
in the London section of books afterwards,
and I secured it. If the word biblioiuaniae
may be applie<l in a good sense it may be
given to these two collectors, both of whom
allowed their books to be dispersed (with some
exception in Mr. Hailstone's case). Mr.
Crossley's portrait by Mercier is placed over
the entrance to the Manchester Free Library,
where his books ought to have gone, and a
later one by Walker is in Chethani's Library,
Manchester. An excellent photo, will be found
in my old friend Smith's Old Yorkshire, vol.
3. 1882. Messrs. Sotheby, of London, in one
of their catalogues announced for sale : Lot
474, (James Crossley), — ''Julian, or the Eevenge
of tile Aniiesleys, by Cliarles ir'ercival Rad-
cliffe. Three volumes, autograph manuscript,
small 8vo., 1875. A well-written and interest-
ing novel, the product of Mr. Crossley's later
years. It is full of stirring and rapid incid-
ents, told in a smooth and easy style, and
deserves to be printed in ManchestJer, not
only as a creditable worjs of fiction but as a
memorial of the departed worthy, who was one
of the glories of Cottonopolis." I have not
been able to substantiate or otherwise the
authorship of this manuscript, nor trace the
purchaser, May, 1887, but Mr. C. W. Sutton,
than whom Manchester has no equal author-
ity, states that the writing of the novel is
wholly in the hand of HEINRY CROSSJ.Ki,
the author of a manuscript sold the same day
at the Crossley sale,, entitled "Crichton, a
Tragedy; autograph manuscript of a play
written by Henry Ci-ossley, brother of James.
Mr. Sutton says that Henry was the author
also of the novel. Henry must be further
claimed as a Halifax author, having published
a small legal treatise ou Wills; and, being
an accomplished Hebreiv scholar, he wrote
several contributions on Hiblical subjects,
which were printed in sundry periodicals.
Potts' Tancashire Witches was first printed
in 1613; Mr. Crossley edited it for the Chet-
liam Society in 1845. small quarto, (the date
is misprinted 1745). Pages Ixxix., 192, un-
numbered, and 51 pages of notes. Heywood's
Observations, small 4to., Chetham Society,
1869, pages xx., 107. Worthington's L»iary,
small 4to.. Chetham Society, vol. 1, 1847, pp.
viii., 3*J8; vol. 2, 248 pp. for part 1.
MR. JAMElS C:R(>SSLj:.Y'S famous Library
was sold by auction as under: —
(1). Manchester.
Catalogue of a Portion of the Library of the
late James Crossley, x'.S.A., Stocks House,
Cheetham. Seven Days of Sale, May iziu
(188-4) to -May 19th inclusive, at 11 a.m. each
day; 2,682 lots. Compiled by Henry Gray;
printed at Warrington, 294 pages, 3erny
octavo, and paper covers, Is. The Remainder
of the Library will be sold in London during
the year," 1884.
(2). (London.)
Catalogue of the First Portion of the Very
Extensive, Curious, and Valuable Library of
the late James Crossley, Esq., F.S.A., Pre-
sident of the Chetham Society, &c., &c., &c.
Days of Sale (seven), July 2l8t to July 28th
inclusive; 2,824 lots, 1884; demy octavo, pages
ii., 283, and covers.
(3). (London.)
Catalogue of the Second Portion of the
Library of Rare Books and important manu-
scripts of the late James Crossley, Esq., F.S.A.,
President of the Chetham Society, &c. Days
of Sale (nine), June 14th to June 20th in-
clusive; 3,119 lots, 1885, demy octavo, pages
ii., 307, and covers. These three volumes
total 8,625 lots, or about 100,000 volumes.:
(4). Henry Gray, Manchester, issued "A
Descriptive Catalogue. Oetober, 1884, with
Collations and Notes of Rare, Curious, and
Valuable Books, comprising Works on Anti-
quities, Topography, &c., &c., from that por-
tion of the Library of the late James Crossley,
Esq., F.S.A., recently sold in London.
(Bought by, and) offered for sale by Henry
Gray, Manchester; 112 pages and covers,
demy octavo.
The Halifax items, so far as they are men-
tioned, are as under: —
(Manchester Sale : )
Birch's Life of Tillotson. 1753; several copies
of this book and of many others in this list.
Hooke's Nonconformist Champion, lt,o.i.
Browne's Religio Medici, 1736; 8th edition 1682
Edward's Catalogue, 1815; part 1, 1815; Sale
Catalogue, 1828.
Cox's Halifax Grammar School, 1879.
Crouhelm's All Soul's Church, 1860.
Fawcett's Hey wood n.d. Anger 1787, Hymns
1782, Life 1818.
Franks' Sacred Literature, 1802; Genesis, 1802
J. C. Franks' Magi. 1814
John Boys' Elxposition of the Gospel, 1611:
Works, 1629.
Halifaxiana, or Rescued Blossoms, containing
Original Anecdotes, &c. 1805. "Collected by
W. Winn, ' note by Crossley.
156
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Obseivations on the Spring at Well Head by
Pliilofax, a rare broadside, 1760.
J. Calvei-t's Two Sermons by the Rev. Jaraes
Crosslev, liooth near Halifax, 1820.
OastU-r's" Vicarial Tithes 1827; Letter to Hol-
land, Hoole, no date (tract).
Thomas Crossley's Halifax, a poetical Sketch,
1831.
(.Jacobs') Halifax, 1789.
Halifax and its Gibbet Law, 1761.
The Wars of the Jews, Halifax, 1809.
Libel Trial, Brown v. Leyland. 1835.
Pocket (.'ompanion for Harrogate Spaw, Hali-
fax, 1760.
D. Hartley's Christian Religion, 1795.
Slate's Oliver Heywood, 1827.
Hevwood's Closet Prayer 1700, Family Altar,
Liverpool, 1807. God's Favour, Brearley
Hall, 1796, Haywood's Life and Works.
1827.
H. Ingram's Matilda, 1830.
Percival's Letter on the Manchester Dispute?,
Halifax, no date.
Life of Cockin, 1829.
Midgky's Present State of the Whole World.
1694.' (? Halifax.)
Lord Halifax's Miscellanies, 1704.
S. Ogden's Sermons on Christian Faith, 1777;
ditto with Life by Hughes 1832; Sermons
1770.
Akrovd's Improved Dwellings, 1862.
K. Holsworth's Valley of Vision, 1651.
(? Halifax).
J. Hoyle's Rejoynder to Malone's Reply Con-
cerning Keall Presence, 1641.
Halifax Commercial Chronicle and Yorkshire
and Lancashire Advertiser, Nos. 1 — 79, 2
vols., July 4th, 1829, to December 24. 1830.
Halifax Guardian, Nos. 4—26, 1832-3.
Halifax Guardian, 1843-6.
Halifax Journal, complete set, June 6, 1801,
to February 23, 1811, ten vols.
Geo. Savile's Character of Cliarles II., 1750.
Jas. Crosslev on the Death of Jas. Oldlield,
1770.
Rev. J. Crowther on the Death of Olerenshaw,
Bury. 1824.
John Watson's Apology, 1785.
H. W. Coulthurst, Sermon to Halifax Volun-
teers, 1794, 1804.
Slinrisby and Captain Hodgson. 1806.
M. Smith's Ttue Notion of Imputed Righte-
ousness, li700.
Tacitus, with Notes, &c.. by Sir H. Savile, 3
vols., 1698.
Tillotson's Works, 6 vols., 17.26; 12 vols.. 1748;
Beauties of Tillotson, Dublin, 1794; Life by
F.H., 171'7; Reason against Raillery, or a
Full Answer to Dr. Tillotson's Preface
against .I.S., 1672; Remarks on Birch's Life
of Tillotson, 1753 (tract); Sermons, 1749;
Sermons, 1673; Works, 9 vols., 1700.
J. Ogden's Sermon preached at Sowerby, April
8. 1804, to the Western Corps of Halifax
Parish Volunteers, 1804.
W. Turner, junr.. Lives of TJnitarians.
Life of Tillotson, portrait, 1717; Works, 10th
edition, Dublin 1726; Birch's Life, large
paper, 1752; Works, 3 vols., 1752.
Walker's Pai-ish of Halifax Directory, 1845.
Ed. Waterhous's Gentleman's Monitor, 16b5;
Divine Meditations, 1653; Apologiefor Learn-
ing, 1653; Discourse and Defence of Arms
and Armoury, 1660; Fortescutus illustratus;
Treatises de Laudibus Legum AngUae, 1663.
Chas Whilficld's Memoirs of Rev. Isaac Slee,
of Haworth; Halifax, 1801.
Halifax Directory, 1850.
Life and Opinions of Richard Oastler, portrait.
1838.
Case of E'. Akroyd Ridgway. Esq., claiming an
Exhibition; folding pedigree of the Akroyd
family, 1867.
W. Alexander's Horley Green Mineral Water,
1840.
J. B. Wood's Flora Mancuniensis, Halifax, 1840.
Trial of Michael Stocks, 1815.
Portfolio containing Halifax tracts and news-
paper cuttings.
In the First London section: —
Halifax and its Gibbet Law, frontispiece. 17fii
Ainsworth's Triplex, 1650, which I secured for
£3 10s. Od.
W. Alexander's Catalogue of his Library, on
fine paper, 1816; probably the Halifax
gentleman and not the York bookseller?
Wright's Halifax, 1738, several copies.
Browne's Religio Medici, 1642. This is the
surreptitious impression made for Andrew
Crooke. and is very rare. Mr. Crossley in
this and in hiindreds of other books makes
bibliographical notes of great interest, but
they are now dispersed to the four wind«.
Why did not Halifax secure all the local,
if not all the Yorkshire items?
Religio, 2nd edition, A. Crooke, 1643. Dighy <
Observations on Religio Meciic:, 1644.
Bolton's Felices, both parts; 46 t loured plales
of ferns, Leeds 1785-90. Song Buds, lar^e
paper edition, 2 vols., plates, 1794-6 Har-
monia Euralis, Song Birds. 80 coluuved
plates 2 vols, in one, 1830.
A7inie Crossley Cloiigh's Cranleigh, of Craii-
leigh. a story; dedicated to James Crossley,
Esci., by his niece the author, 1873.
Crabtree's Halifax, large paper, 1836.
Jacob's Halifax, 4 plates, 1789.
Favour's Antiquities triumphing over .Vovel-
tie, 1)619.
Watson's Halifax, 1775.
D. Hartley's Observations on Man. with ad-
ditions by H. Pistorius portrait by Blake,
1791; Observations, 3 vols., 1801.
Life of 0. Heywood, 1827.
Ainsworth's Marrow of the Bible, 1652.
D. Crosly. Triumph of Sovereign Grace, Man-
chester, 1743.
Joshua Hoyle. D.D., in Ireland, A Rejoynder
to IMaster ]\Ialone's Reply concerning Real!
Presence, 1611, Dublin.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
15«
The Union Joiirnal oi- Halifax Advei-tiser, No.
1, 1759, Febinary 6tli, to No. 84, September
9, 1760; also 84 parts with index.
Life and Adventvires of Joe Thompson, 2 vols.,
portrait, 1763; (probably not connected wifh
Halifax).
Leyland's Ancient Buildings in Halifax, 25
plates oblong, 1879.
O. Heywood's Works, 5 vols., 1827; several
sets.
Sir T. Browne's Tracts, edited by J. Crossley,
1822.
H. Savile, A Libell of Spanish Lies, found at
the Sacke of Cales discoursing the I'ight In
the West Indies between the English an<l the
Spaniard, and the death of Sir F. Drake,
1596.
Worthington's Diary, edited by J. Crossley,
Chetham Society.
R. Heywood's Observations, edited by J. Cross-
ley, Chetham Society.
Henry Krabtree's Almanack.
Matt. Sutclifte; six treatises; also Practice.
Proceedings and Lawes of Armes, black
letter 1593; the Subversion of R. Parsons,
1606.
John Waite, Of the Creatures Liberation from
the Bondage of Corruption, a rare volume,
printed at York, 1650.
Henry RamS'den's Gleaning in God's Harvest,
1639.
Watson's Halifax, 1775. with marginal notes
and insertions by Canon Raine.
Watson's Halifax, 1775, with marginal notes
by the Rev. Dr. Whitaker. Several othe]-
copies.
Watson's Memoirs of the Ancient Earls of
Warren and Surrey, and their Descendants,
2 vol., portraits, &c., Warrington, 1782;
also a copy with two leaves of corrections,
and folding plate of the Earl drawing \iis
sword.
Second London Sale •.
(W. M. Winn,) History of Halifax, plates,
Halifax. no date. Query if this is not
Jacob's" Halifax and not Winn's Halif axiana ?
This is 60 for it appears again with the
date 1789.
E. Waterhous, Gentleman's Monitor, 1665,
portrait inserted.
Hfvwood's Diaries, J. Horsfall Turner, 1882.
Heywood's Life, Leeds, pirated from Fawcelt's,
no date.
(,Rev. E. Nelson's) History of Halifax, no date,
is arxother copy of Jacob's Halifax, pirated
from Watson's History.
Barrow's Works. 4 vols., folio, published by
Dr. Tillotson.
Browne's Religio, engraved title by Marshall,
1642, one of the two surreptitious editions.
(S. Midgley) Halifax and its Gibbet Law,
frontispiece, no date, several copies.
S. Midgley's Halifax and its Gibbet Law,
1708.
Crabtree's Halifax, two copies, 1836.
W. Waterhouse (? Halifax). Sober Reflections
upon the Act for Chimney Money, 1662.
De Foe's Robinson Crusoe, frontispiece, 1179.
Farther Adventures, Ist edition, map, 1719,
Serious Refections during the Life. &c., of
Robinson Crusoe, with his Vision of the
Angelick World. 1st edition, plate, 1720.
Vie et les Aventures surprenantes de Robin-
son Crusoe et Reflections serieuses et im-
portantes, 3 vols., map and plates, 1st
French edition, Amsterdam, 1720-1.
Major's edition, G. v^ruikshank's plates on
India paper, 4to., large paper, 1883. 100
copies, pp. vii., 563.
Robinson Crusoe, 3rd edition, frontispiece,
1719. Farther adventures 1719, several
copies of 1st edition, as also of Reflexions,
1720. Robinson Crusoe, li722; also 2 vols.,
1747; Reprint of the 1st edition, 1883, Man-
chester edition 1816, another edition 1815,
Crusoniana, Manchester, 1843, Robmson
Crusoe, 2 vols., 1767. (De Foe's list in
Crossley's Catalogue comprises thirteen
pages.)
R. Wilkinson's Saints Travels to the Land
of Canaan, 1650. (? Halifax.)
D. Crosley's Samson, a Type of Christ, li744.
E. Deane's Spadacrene Anglica, 1626; also 1736.
Favour's Antiquitie triumphing, 1619.
H. Fielding's Life of Jonathan Wild, plates
by Phiz, Halifax, 1843.
T. Garnett's Experiments and Observations
on the Horlev Green Spaw, near Halifax.
Bradford, 1790.
Halifaxiana, or Rescued Blossoms, Halifax,
1805, several copies.
History of the Famous Town of Halifax,
frontispiece, 1712. [Midgley's.]
W. Ainsworth's Marrow of flm Bible, 1652.
Browne's Religio, Lugd. Bat., 1650.
J. Harrison ( ? Vicar of Halifax,) Yet a Course
at the Romyshe Fox; a disclosynge or
openynge of the Manne of Synne, co'tayned
in tile late declaratyon of the Popes olde
faj"the made by Edmonde Boner, bysshopp
of London; Zurik, 1543.
0. Heywood's Heavenly Converse, 1697;
Israel's Lamentation, 1683; Heart Treasure,
1667; Sure Mercies, 1672; Baptismal Bonds.
1687; Best Entail, 1693; Family Altar, 1693;
Clojet Prayer, 168/; Christ's Intercession,
1701; Life of John Angier, 1685; Works and
Life, 5 vols.. Idle, 1827; Hunter's Life of 0.
Hey wood. 1842; Remarks upon the Life of
Nathaniel Heywood, dedicated to Lord
Willoughby by Sir H. Ashurst, 1703.
J. Robinson's Eludoxia. or Some probable In-
quiries into Truth, 1658 (? if Halifax man).
M. Sutoliffe's Elxamination of Kellison's Sur-
vey of the Newe Religion. 1606.
J. F. Myers' Map of Halifax Parish, 1834-5.
Potts' Discovery of the Witches, edited by J.
Crossley, Chetham Society, large paper,
only two printed, 1845.
P. Bronte's Rural Minstrel. Halifax. 1813.
158
HA1.IFAX BOOKS AND AUTHOKS.
Wye Saltonstall's PictunB Loquentes, or pic-
tures drawn forth in characters; witu a
Pociue of a Maid, 1635. (Who was this
author?) , ^, , »
J Watson's Sermon in the Parish Church ot
'Halifax, July 28, 1751. Also his Apology,
1751.; and Letter to the Clergy of the Church
of Unitas Fratrum or Moravians, 1756.
Proce<Hiings and Correspondence of the Hali-
fax Troop of West York Volunteer Cavalry;
Halifax, 1805.
Leyland's Watson's Halifax. 4 parts, large
paper.
Singular Life and Surprizing Adventures ot
Joseph Thompson, Halifax. Halifax, 1810.
D Hartley's Address to the Mayor, Corpora-
tion, &c'.. of Hull, 1784.
Brearcliffe's Halifax Charities, a manuscript,
the earliest and most important relating to
the Charities of Halifax, 1651, by John Brear-
cliffe. Apothecary.
Henry Crossley's Crichton, a Tragedy, manu-
script of a play written by James Crossley's
brother.
James Crossley's Portrait, Chetham Society
Library; List of Subscribers, printed on
vellum, and bound in morocco.
Rev. John Heywood (Oliver's son), Common-
place Book, 2 vols.. 8vo., manuscript.
Manuscripts by De Foe. Eidward Fairfax,
Josepn Hunter, John Watson, &c., &c.
Proceedings of the Master and Governors of
the Workhouse of Halifax, 80 pages, manu-
script folio, 1635-1704, bound in vellum,
Joseph Hunter's Collection.
"Charles Percival Eadcliffe" (Henry Cross-
ley, Julian or the Eevenge of the Annesleys,
three vols, in manuscript.
Kev. John Watson, Halifax, Theological
Commonplace Book, 2 vols., folio, manu-
script.
Hy. Baines' Flora of Yorkshire, 2 vols., Hali-
fax, 1840, xxiv., 159; York 1854, 198 pp.
Sir Thomas Browne's Tracts, edited by J.
Crossley; a new edition 12mo., pp. vi., ix.,
183. Edinburgh, 1822; 75 copies for private
distribution.
Horner's Views in Halifax, 1835; 20 views, 1
leaf of List of Subscribers, oblong folic.
George Saville. Marquis of Halifax, L-.lte-s
to a Dissenter on the Declaration of In-
dulgence, 4to., VI pages, 1687.
Lieut. Col. Sutcliffe's Crusoniana, or Truth
versus Fiction, elucidated in a History of
Juan Fernandez, by the Eetired Governor
of that Colony. Vol. I. with illustrations,
octavo, pp. vi., 208. Manchester, 1839, 32
pages. A Statement of Facts (re Samuel
Crompton and John Kay.) Manchester, no
date, 16 pages. Etxposition of Facts relating
to the Rise and Progress of the Woollen,
Linen, and Cotton Manufactures of Great
Britain, with pedigrees of Kaye of Wood-
some, &c. Manchester 1843, 44 pages.
Nabb's Calista, 1759. I secured this for 7s. 6d.
Thomas Percival, of Royton: Letter to a
Friend, occasioned by the late Disputes be-
twixt the Check Makers of Manchester and
their weavers, and the Check Makei-s ill-
usage of Ihe Author. Halifax, (1758,) 56
l)ages.
F. iloldsworth, auctore, 1709; Muscipula,
sive Cambro Myo Machia; Carmen Heroico
Facet um. This is an expurgated edition by
David Hartley.
XC— MODERN ANTIQUARIAN WRITERS.
The REV. THOMAS COX, M.A., of Hip-
perholme, formerly head master of Heath
Grammar School, and Lecturer of the Parish
Church, Halifax, issued a half-page circular
as under: —
"I pmpose publishing by subscription a
work called Clerical Halifax, giving (as far
as practicable) an account of all the Vicars
and Lecturers of Halifax, and of the Incumb-
ents of the twelve old Chapelries since 1558.
There will also be lists of the ^laetcrs of the
three Grammar Schools of the old Paiish;
and mention will be made of a lar;j;e number
of local families, which supplied Clergy dur-
ing the sixteenth anj seventeenth centuries,
when churches and schools eeem to have de-
pended almost entirely on local talent.
The work has taken many years in compil-
ing. I offer it to subscribers at Six Shillings
a copy, but I must obtain some 200 to enable
me to do so. By a tentative circular issued
to a limited number of friends and neighbours
I have obtained moie than 60 subscribfrs,
among whom are the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, the Bishops of Carlisle, Durham, and
Ripon, Canon Westcott, and the Vicars of
Halifax, Leeds, and Almondbury.
My History of Heath Grammar School, of
which I was Master for many years, has gain-
ed great commendation both from Antiquarians
and Reviewers.
I shall be glad to receive subscribers' names
to 'Clerical Halifax' at an early date.
THOMAS COX, M.A.,
Lecturer of the Parish Church, Halifax.
Hipperholme, nr. Halifax,
July, 1885. "
This laudable endeavour did not fructify,
and judging by the manuscript remains at
Mr. Cox's death the announcement was pre-
mature. I think Mr. Lister, 'Shibden, got
the little collection that there was.
Mr. Cox had issued "Two Lectures on the
State of Education in Ehgland in the Six-
teenth Century," 1869, 53 pages. The remain-
ders unsold were bound up with copies of his
History of Halifax Grammar School, with a
leaf of postcript paged 55, 56. These lectures
were delivered at Preston. The original title
seems to have been "Endowed Schools, their
connection with the Universities and tiie
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
169
Church," a copy of whicli is in Halifax Free
Library. The Grammar School history was
issued to subscribers at fe. Gd. (or with the
Lectures 7s. 6d.) and inferior etlitioiui at 4s.
and 5s. In one of the many letters received
from him he joins with me in the hope that
^[r. E. J. Walker will print the Local Port-
folio of the "Halifax Guardian," in book
form. Now that we have a local society, I
think this may be done with revisions. "A
Popular History of the Grammar School of
Queen Elizabeth at Heath, near Halifax, by
Thomas Cox, M.A., Master of the School.
(Quotations from Lily's Euphues, and from
Virgil.) Halifax, F. King, 1879, octavo, pages
xiv., 149. The plates of illustrations need to
be recorded: — 1 Heath School, with small
turret; 2 Old Heath School north yiew; 3
Photo, of Stancliffe tablet; 4 Photo, copy of
Dr. S. Ogden's portrait at St. John's, Cam-
bridge; 5 Photo, copy of engraving of Kev.
Richard Hudson, M.A., set. «6; 6 Photo, of
Rev. John Henry Gooch, M.A.; 7 Photo, of
Rev. Thomas Cox, M.A.; 8 Plate of facsimile
autographs; 9 Plate of Old Heath School,
South View; 10 Interior of the School; 11
Photo, of Mr. Cox and staff at the main-door.
Page 149 is dated 1880. The cover of the book
bears the copy of the School Seal. The fol-
lowing letter may be worthy of preservation: —
" Sir, — As there is now some stir about
writing a history of Yorkshire, allow me to
call attention to the fact that there are
errors in some printed books which seem to
have authority. I have pointed out several
in the 'Notes and Queries' at different times.
I have just gone through Mr. Taylor's 'i'ork-
shire Anecdotes,' lent me by a friend, and 1
mention one or two that I have met with in
that book:— (1) David Hartley, M.D. (p. 198),
was not born at Armley in 1705, as his father
did not go to Armley till about 1717. His
father vras curate of lUingworth, in Halifax
parish, in 1705. and had been located in differ-
ent parts of the same parish for more than
ten years preceding; nor was his son born on
August 30th, if the Halifax register is correct,
which puts down his baptism on June 21. I
may add that David's mother died shortly
after he was born, and that his father married
again in 1707. In 'Leeds Worthies' I tiiink
he is stated to have gone to the university
from a private school, but T have seen a
letter from Mr. Hill, the then master of the
Bradford School, in which he is familiarly
spoken of as one of his scholars. He kept up
a correspondence with an old schoolfellow of
his in the neighbourhood of Halifax for many
years, and I have seen a lai*ge number of
letters of his, in which he states in pai-ticu-
lar many of the views advocated in his great
works. He is to be reckoned among the 'Hali-
fax Worthies' and not those of Leeds. (2)
David Hartley, M.P., ought not to be called
^^on of David Hartley, M.D., of Armley. I
doubt if the M.P. ever resided at Armley at
all; certainly he <iid not do so after he had
graduated, as his father was then dead. (3)
Dr. Ogdeu (p. 281) was not Fellow of King's
College. He was there in the humble capacity
of subsizar; he went to St. John's in l736.
and became a Fellow of that college in 1739.
There is a great deal about him in my 'His-
tory of Heath School,' in which I have had
occasion to correct some other statements of
his biographers, and have also given many
anecdotes about him.
I have found also errors connected with H.
Briggs, of logarithmic celebrity, and of Abp.
Tillotson's baptism, &c., which I have correct-
ed in 'Notes and Queries.' I have also been
able to set straight several inaccuracies in
Holroyd's account of the vicars of Bradtord.
I have been engaged for a long time in get-
ting materials for an account of all the bene-
ficed clergy in the parish of Halifax since
the accession of Queen E'lizabeth in 1558; but
I have many difficulties to clear up before I
can write for the public, and I do not know
how to do so unless I can get help.
But were it not for the interest which I
feel in the subject I should give it up alto-
gether, for I lost about £,W in publishing
the 'History of Heath School.'
If this is the reward which writers of local
history, who wish to be accurate, meet with,
when is anything really valuable to be ac-
complished?— Yours truly, THOMAS Culv,
Halifax, 15th June, 1883.
MR. C. CROSSLAND'S name appears in
the notice of the Halifax Antiquarian Society.
In giving his writings here we anticipate the
record of the Halifax Scientific Society. He
has written numerous articles in "The
Naturalist" dealing with the Fungus Flora
of Yorkshire, between 1891 and 1905.
Numerous articles in the ''Halifax Natui-
alist" dealing with the Place Names, and
the Natirral History of the Parish of Halifax.
1896-1904.
"The Vowel Sounds and Siabstitutions of
the Halifax Dialect": Transactions of the
Yorkshire Dialect Society. Part II., Novem-
ber, 1899.
"Some Place Names in the Parish of Hali-
fax, Considered in relation to Surrounding
Natural Features" : Transactions of the York-
shire Dialect Society. Part IV., June, 1902.
The Cryptogamic portion of the ''Flora of
the Parish" of Halifax : (Crump and Cross-
land); published by the Halifax Scientiiic
Society, 1904. This portion contains the
Mosses. Hepatics, Lichens, Algae, and Fungi,
pp. 146—304.
"A Reprint of the Fungus Flora of the
Parish of Halifax," with the addition of two
hand-coloured plates, and preface; issued by
the Author, 1904.
160
HAIilFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
"The Fundus Flora of Yorkshire," in col-
laboration with G. Massee, F.L.S., F.K.H.S.,
etc., Koyal Herbarium, Kew. Published hy
the Yorkshire Naturalist Union, 1905; SUttpp.
ROmvRT HOWARD, surgeon, and SAMUEL
GIBSON. "A History of the Typhus of nep-
tonstaWL-Slack, which prevailed as an t^\n-
demic durinfj the winter of 1843-4; accom-
panied by Remarks on the Sanatory State of
that Village; together with a Sketch of the
Physical Condition of the Hand-loom Weavers,
by Robert Howard, surgeon, &c.. Two Letters
are appended upon the Geology and Botany
of Heptonstall Hill and its Vicinity by Mr.
Samuel Gibson." Hebden Bridge. W. Gar-
forth, printer, octavo, 83 pages. I have never
seen more than a couple of copies of this
valuable tract. It is dedicated to the Revs.
John Wright and John Gibbons, Weslej'an
Ministers. Mr. Howard dates the preface
from Hebden Bridge, March, 1844. The con-
tents bear on the water supply, causes and
syniptoins of typhus, disinfectants and cure;
on furniture, diet, labour, extreme toil, vital
statistics, eiedical aids, destitution, &c. The
second of Mr. Gibson's Letters gives remin-
iscences of botanical rambles between 1813 and
1644. Open sewers and damp houses were the
cause of the outbreak, but the poverty of the
poor augmented it. Food, utensils, furmtuie.
were all deficient. A more distressful picture
was never penned.
Mr. Gibson's Letters occupy parses 70- -83.
He mentions an address by Mr. J. T. Clay, of
Rastrick. before the British Association, Man-
chester, 1842, and eight volumes of a manu-
script botany of the district by Mr. Wm.
SiitdifPe, of Field Head, Heptonstall, written
about 1796.
J. W. DAVIS, F.L.S.. F.G.S., Chevin-edge,
Halifax, ex-Mayor, was a prolific writer, but
I cannot give suitable list at present. He ob-
tained a good series of views of Halifax Old
Houses, drawn by H. S,ykes, of Huddersfield.
He wrote for my "Ilkley Ancient and Modern"
the geological chapter. He was author of
several geological pamphlets, some of which
are in Halifax Free Library. He edited the
''Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and
Polytechnic Society, with five plates, 1878,"
and other works to be mentioned heieafter.
The REV. JOSHUA FAWCETT, of Low
Moor, Canon of Ripon, besides numerous
books and pamphlets, theological, poetical,
historical, as well as serials, was author of
"A Memorial, Historical and Architectural of
the Church of St. Thomas a Becket, Hepton-
stall, in the Parish of Halifax. By the 'R-ev.
Joshua Fawcett, A.IM.; Incumbent of Wibsey,
Bradford; author of "Churches of Yoi;^,"
"Church Rides," &c., &c. The following
memorial was the substance of a lecture de-
livered at Heptonstall, December 27th, 1818.
and is now published at the unanimous re-
quest of those to whom it was addressed.
(Any profits arising from the sale of this
lecture will be given to the poor of Hepton-
stall.) Bradford, H. O. Mawson, 18-19, 51
pages, 12mo.
He was one of the first to popularize local
history.
WILLIAM GR^MB was a gentleman of
fortune, who lived at Heath in Skircoat, and
wrote "A Short Speech addressed to the
antient and honourable Society of Free and
Accepted Masons in a Lodge, held at the Rose
and Crown in Halifax, upon Friday, June
24th, 1763. Halifax, printed by brother P.
Darby, 1763 and in the year of masonrv 5763.
[REV. B. D'ALH:!
"History of the Halifax Permanent Benefit
Building Society, being a Jubilee Memorial of
this Society. London, 1903, small octavo, 200
pages, illustrated. There is no list of illustra-
tions, of which there are seventeen poi traits,
including the Rev. Bryan Dale, who compiled
the book, 1 believe.
THE VEN. EtDWARD BARBEE, M.A..
F.S.A., Archdeacon of Chester, is author of a
pamphlet, pages 5 — 24, on the ''Churchwardens'
Accounts of the Parish of S. Bridget, Chester,
1811—1847. Extracted from the Chester Arch-
aeological Joiirnal, 1908, demy octavo. He is
author of "The Widows' Mites," funeral ser-
mons on the Rev. Canon Greenall and Mr.
.lohn Tiusley; and of papers on ''Culture or
Utility," for the Association of University
Teaching, Lancashire and Cheshire; "Chester
Cathedral" and "The Church of S. Mary on
the Hill" in the local Archaeological Society's
Journal; and articles in The Treasurv on the
Rev. W. Bright, D.D., Bishop Samuel" Wilber-
force, and Bishop John Pearson; and sundry
articles in The Guardian on antiquarian sub-
jects. I presume he will have printed Visita-
tion A'ddresses.
J. U. WALTIEiR:
THE BEAUTIES OF TLELEY AND ITS
NEIGHBOURHOOD, being a Visitor's Guide
to the Curiosities and Antiquities of the cele-
brated WateringPlace. Halifax, Hartley and
Walker, Cheapside. 1835, 36 pages, 12mo. Mr.
Walker, author of "Methodism in Halifax."
was the author of this the scarcest of al'
Ilkley Guides. The only copy I have seen
cost 18d. It is now an Ilklev curiosity itself.
SAVILE CORREISPONDENCE. Letters to
and from Henry Savile, Esq., envoy at Paris,
and vice-chamberlain to Charles II. and
James II., including letters from his brother
George, Marquess of Halifax. Printed from
a manuscript belonging to the Duke of Devon-
shire, and from originals in the State Paper
Ordce. Edited by Wm. Durrant Cooper,
F.S.A., for the Camden Society, 1858. Small
quarto, pages iv., i — xxiv., pedigree sheet, 1 —
316. The pedigree ranges from Henry Savile,
died 1568, his son being the first baronet. Sir
HALIFAJX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
161
George. 1611, great grandfather of the first
Lord Halifax, whose sons Henrj-, Lord Eland
and William. Lord Halifax, died without male
surviving issue. The family history treats of
Thoruhill, near Dewsbury, rather than of
Halifax parish. The first Lord Halifa:i ktpl
a diary wliich extended to several volumes,
but these are lost. The Earl ol llal'fa:: wa-*
author of "The Character of a Trimmer." The
1^41 letters bear on general rather than locai
history.
JONATHAN CALDWELL :
History of Brighouge and its Co-operative
Society. Brighouse '"News" Office, 1899, 280
pages, small octavo, illustrations. The History
of tlie Society, with portraits and illustratione,
occupy pages 87 — 280.
XCL— MODERN ANTIQUARIAN WRITERS.
.JOHN E. CRAVEN, solicitor, is the author
of "An Historical Sketch of Freeonasonry at
Bottoms, Eastwood, near Todniorden, \ork-
shire. Mancliester printed, 1886; octavo, 95
pages, 7s. 6d.
Considering that there is only one illustra-
tion, Bro. John Greenwood's portrait,
we regard the price as unusually
high. The preface is dated from
Mulcture Hall, Eastwood, from which
we learn that the profits of the sale go to
I^klasonic charities. Elastwood is the name of
an indefinite district. The Lodge story com-
mences with 1796. The lodge on September
5th, 1821 attended the funeral of Bro. WiL
liani Uttley, of Millwood, .at Heptonstall. He
had formerly kept a boarding school at Brig-
house, but in 1817 he commenced a law-suit
which ruined his fortune.
We wonder if this was associated with the
Bedford Charity School at Brighouse. In
1818 he began the printing business at Mill-
wood but failed, after which he became an
itinerant sclioolmaster, a system kept up in
the United States of America a generation ago.
Uttley aided in issuing a Freemason's Melody
Book at Bury in 1818, and composed the songs,
25 and 58. On May 31st, li833, the lodge at-
tended the laying of a corner stone at Cross-
stone Church.
HEBDEN. In Bradford Free' Library there
is a pamphlet attributed to J. Firth, entitled
"The Valley of the Hebden and Visitors'
Companion to Hardcastle Crags''; no date.
I have before me "Guid'^' to Hardcastle Crags,
Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall," with His-
torical Notes. Silvis horrentia saxa fragosi's.
Price 2d. Hebden Bridge, Moss Printeries
Oo., 1894 ; 12mo., 3.5 pages besides a frontis-
piece view of Hebden Bridge from Palace
House, and several pag^s of advertisements.
There are six smaller woodcut-^. It is written
by a man of ability, and on tlie whole is very
commendable. There is a botanical guide ap-
pended, four closely printed pages.
F. W. CRONHELM, whose name appears
amongst the local poets, printed a dainty
booklet, a copy ef which I have recently re-
ceived from Mr. Ling Roth, entitled "The
Rivers and Strean)& of Halifax, by F. \f.
Cronhelm.
Know ye the dell wliere neath the Druid stones
The frightened Hebble hurries past and
moans :
The forest glen where Hebden's rapids gleam;
The crags and shaws that crest the T^rvin
stream."
[Small river map of the parish.]
Halifax, Whitley and Booth, 1859. This
engraA-ed title is followed by 27 pages of letter-
press. 1 think a second edition was issued.
In addition to these notices we miist add
three other items: "Double Entry by Single,
a New Method of Book-keeping applicable to
all kind's of business, and exemplified in five
sets of Books." Dedicated to Hy. Lees Ed-
wards, Esq. London, 1818.
"Thoughts on the Controversy as to a
Plui-ality of Worlds." Londoii, 1858.
"Inquiry into the Origin of the Belief in
Predestination." London, I860.
GEORGE HEPW^ORTH, architect, Brig-
hou.se, enriched the topography of the district
by the following book, published at 25s. in
oblong octavo. "Brighouse : Its Scenery and
Antiquities, by George Hepworth, Architect."
Halifax, B. Mortimer, 1885. Opposite each
platinotype view there is a leaf having one
page of description. As a photographic artist
and lanternist Mr. Hepworth has deservedly
attained wide popularity. The second leaf
contains the dedication to Mr. Lister of Shi fa-
den, who with myself and others aided in
supplying the letterpress. The introduction,
leaf 3, is dated October. 1885, Index, leaf 4,
gives the list of thirty views •. Brighouse 8,
Kirklees 4 Cromwell bottom 1, Coley 2, Ligbt-
cliffe 7, Shelf 3, Shibden 1 Hartshead 2. i-ias
trick Church, and New Hall, EUand. The-
Subscribers' list appears on the fifth 'eu'i
The thirty leaves of letterpress are numbered.
One of my copies gives the south
view of Coley Church, another
the north. Some copies have an extra view^
namely, Brighouse Low Mill, back as well
las front ; so states a subsequent circular which
gives lithographed view of the old mill and
the "Oalder" Bridge. Mr. Hepworth has
also issued Srcmie newspaper reprints at 3d.
each from tlie "Brighouse News." under the
tifle that I used in that paper many years
ago, "Fragni^^nts of Licnl History," (I) Brig
house Lower Mills, (2) Hipperholme-cum-Brig-
house Overseers' Accounts, 1769, \S) SatcHfFa
Wood. 1891. 8 pages, (4) South-hoime, 1«91, It
1«2
HALIFAX BOOKS Aim AUTHORS.
pa<,'ee. Eambles iu Yorkshire: I., Homes of
the Fairfaxes, 1887; II., Bank Holiday in
Wensleydale, 1898, 12 piv^eti; HI., Valley of the
Don. These were reprints from the "Brig-
house News." "Lifit of Yorkshire Photographs
taken by the author."
ALFRED INGHAM, a native of Halifax, so
he told me in 1880, wrote "The History of
.\lt.rincham and Bowdon, and the Barony of
Bunham," illuatrated quarto. Altrincham,
1879, pages xi., 1—195, with three leaves added.
Plates— Bowdon Church, Bowdon Church Re-
stored, Facsimile of Altriaicham Chart<»r,
1290, Dunham Hall 1697. Booth pediprree ohait.
Scolds' bridles. Dunham Church, Altrincham
Market Place, Brooks' Bank.
CHARLEFY JESSOP, Brighouse, wrote
"Brighouse in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries," 23 pages, small octavo, reprinted
from the ''Brighouse Echo." January. 1892.
Councillor .Tessop iulierit<i the antiquariaa
tastes of his kinsman Mr. Thomas Jessop, who
was, like himself, trustworthy clerk for MessrB.
Barber, solicitors. He also issued a, "History
of the Brighouse Mechanics' Institution, by
the President, C. .lessop." Brighouse, .John
Hai-tley, "Echo" Office, 1894; 25 pages.
JOHN LONGBOTTOM was the author of a
pamphlet, price Id., of ''Ancient Halls of
Halifax Parish, with drawings by Harry Long-
bottom." Reprinted fi-om the "Halifax Free
Press," 1891. The object was worthy of more
details and better paper. The sketches are:
Howroyde, Sowerby Wood Lane, Warley reel
House, Kershaw House (Luddenden), High
Sunderland, Haugh End, Brearley Hall, Shib-
den Hall, Holdsworth, Heath, Barkisland.
FRANCIS A. LEYLAND'S name will be
found under Watson's "Halifax," new
edition. He wrote "The Bronte Family
with special reference to Patrick Branwell
Bronte." by Francis A. Le.vland: In two
volumes: Vol. I. London 1886, pages xvi.,
1 — 312; Vol. IT. pages ix., 302, crown octavo.
Branwell's poems, and his connection with
Calderdale are the specialities of this work,
which notwithstanding its adverse critics,
with whom I partially join, will again rise iu
interest. It only fetched 4s. at bookstalls a
few years ago. Another book bearing largely
on Branwell Bronte should be mentioned in
this series, namely Grundy's Pictures of the
Past, because Francis H. Grundy narrates
his experiences in Calder Valley as a railway
engineer, and was intimately acquainted with
young Bronte at Luddendenfoot.
JOHN LEYLAND, son of Francis A. Ley-
land, must be recorded amongst our topo-
graphical writers, having not only issued 'an
interesting series of Halifax views (to be men-
tioned shortly) but also two popular works at
least, one on the Yorkshire Coast Seenery,
and the other on Derbyshire Scenery.
JOHN MITTON was the eon of Thomas Mit-
ten of Geslingroid, Barkisland, wtiere he was
born, but I have not the exact year. He died
in London about the close of 1736. Scient:gtB
have been so few in Halifax parish that it
is a pity we know so little of Mt. Mitton. In
Mr. Thoreshy's Museum at Leeds wag a manu-
script diary by Mr. John Mitton, of Barkis-
land, giving an account of the rising and
falling of the barometer, the point of the
compass the wind was upon, some account of
the temperature of the air, as rain, enow,
frost, mist, &c. , from October, 1710, i;ntil
December, 1713.
ROBERT NALSON was an antiquarian col-
-lector of whom one desires to learn more. He
compiled a folio volume in manuscript, bear-
ing the title. "Miscellanea sive Observa-
tiones CoUectanise," 1665. Mr. Watson pos-
sessed this book and states that it comprised
a vast variety of subjects, chiefly transcripts,
interspersed with a few original papers and
others so scarce that they are n«arly as valu-
able as if they were known originals. Mr.
Wright mentions this (or another of his manu-
scripts) which had fallen into ill-hands, and
had several pages relating to Gibbet execu-
tions torn out before the book was returned.
Mr. Watson says this does nut appear true
from the book, which leads me to think there
were two books or two copies. Mr. Wilson,
the noted Leeds antiquary, whose letter on
the Gibbet appears in Wright's "Halifax,"
wrote two folio \'t)lumes, manuscript only, on
English Historians, and includes Mr.
Nalson "whose manuscripts were left
to Halifax Church Library," but
nothing of the sort were there
in Mr. Watson's time and he thought Mr.
Wilson had made a mistake. Mr. NaJson had
heen confirmed by Archbishop Frewen in 1664.
at Bishopthorpe, when about 39 years of age.
XCII.— MODERN ANTIQUARIAN
WRITERS.
W. RANGER, ESQ., Superintending In-
spector, made his ''Report to the General
Board of Health of the Town of Halifax,"
1851, 161 pages octavo.
J. V. ROBERTS, Mus. Doc, Oxon, Organist
and Choirmaster, Halifax, published an octavo
pamphlet, 16 pages, Halifax, 1878, entitled,—
"History of the Halifax Parish Church Organ."
A series of articles on the Organs of the dis-
trict appeared in the "Halifax Guardian,"
Local Portfolio columns, many years ago.
WILLIAM HENRY SECKER, Head Master
of the Parish Church School. Halifax, issued
a reprint from the "Halifax Guardian" of
"A Brief Account of Illingworth Church, and
the Paiticulars connected with its Restoration
and Re-opening, September 25, 1872."
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
1^3
JOSEPH HORSFALL TURNED has written
"The Annals of Lightcliffe and Coley
Churches" reprinted fVoin the ''Brif'lioiise
News," "Moravians in Lightcliffe," "The
Society of Friends," ''Fragments of Local
History," all from the "Brighouse News'' be-
tween 1867-71.
"Brighouse Local Magazine," two numbers
only, July and August, 1871, 32 pages, 12nio.
Halifax, F. King, 1871.
''Our Principles and Mission, an Address
be.uii)^ on the Good Templar Movement, by
Bro. Horsfall Turner." Price One Penny. 12
pages, small octavo, Sunderland, Campbell and
Co.. 1872.
"Nonconformity in Idle, with the History of
Airedale College, by J. Horsfall Turner. Three
engravings and six photographs." Brighouse,
J. S. Jowett, 1876, crown octavo, pages 1 — \^2.
"Independency at Brighouse; or Bridge End
Chapel — Pastors and People. Four Illustra-
tions.-" Brighouse, J. S. Jowett, 1878, 136
ipages, crown octavo.
''Haworth Past and Present: A History of
Haworth, Stanbury and Oxenhope. Twenty
illustrations." Brighouse, J. S. Jowett, 1879,
181 pages, crown octavo.
"Tlie Nonconformist Register of Baptisms,
Marriages, and Deaths, compiled by the Revs.
Oliver Heywood and T. Dickenson, 1644-1702,
1702-1752. generally known as the Northowram
or Coley Register, but comprehending ntimer-
ous notices of Puritans and Anti-Puritans in
Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, London, &c.;
with Lists of Popish Recusants, Quakers, &c.
Edited by J. Horsfall Turner. Five illustra-
tions. Brighouse, J. S. Jowett, 1681, 368 pages,
cixiwu octavo.
"The Rev. Oliver Heywood. B.A., 1630-1702;
His AHtobiography, Diaries, Anecdote and
E'vent Books, illustrating the General and
Family History of Yorkshire and Lancashire.
In three volumes, with illustrations. Edited
by J. Horsfall Turner." Vol. I. Printed for
the Editor by A. B. Bayes, Brighouse, lfc82,
pages iii., 1 — 375.
Vol. II., Brighouse. A. B. Bayes, 1881, pages
iii., 1—372.
Vol. III., "In Four (previously stated three)
Volumes. Bingley, T. Harrison, 1883. 374
pages, crown octavo. After printing was
comuienced with the 1881 volume, other matter
came to hand sufficient to make four volumes,
and some of this being of earlier date appear-
ed in 1882 as the first volume though printed
after the second.
Vol. IV., Bingley, T. Harrison, 1885, 357
pages.
"Autobiography of Captain John Hodgson,
of Coley Hall, near Halifex; His conduct in
the Civil Wars, and his troubles after tii?
Restoration. First edited in 1806 bv Jo?f-^'!i
Rit^on, Esq., or Sir Walter Scott. With ad-
ditional notes by J. Horsfall Turner. Brig-
house, A. B. Bayes, 1682, -82 pages, crown
octavo.
In No. 18 of these articles there is a descrip-
tion of Hodgson's Memoirs, 1806. Since that
article appeared my son (in Scotland,) has
set the editorship clearly as under: —
''I have been rather puzzled by your title
page to 'Captain Hodgson.' 'First edited in
1806 by Joseph Ritson, Esq., or Sir Walter
Scott, ■ you say : and on the first page of
your introduction; 'When (as is said,) Sir
Walter Scott was the means' ... etc. Now
Joseph Ritson died in 1803. Scott had known
him well, and I find him writing October 14th
to George Ellis asking him to enquire about
any MSS. left by Ritson. Then in Lockhart's
'Life of Scott': "About the same time he
(Scott) issued, though without his name, a
miscellaneous volume entitled 'Original Mem-
oirs written during the Gr»at Civil Wars;
being the Life of Sir Henry Slingsby, and
Memoirs of Captain Hodgson, with Notes, &c.'
Scott's preface consists of a brief but elegant
and interesting biography of the gallant
cavalier Slingsby; his notes are few and un-
important. This volume (by which he gamed
nothing as editor) was put forth in October
by Messrs. Constable." This quotation is
under the date 1806.— I don't know whether it
cleans up any doubt in your own mind, but
the quotations from your book above
seem to suggest that you were at
that time in doubt about the editor-
ship, and that you didn't know the
date of Ritson's death. At the time (ISOe) Scott
was plain Mr. Walter S.; his title came
later." [Stanley Horsfall Turner, M.A., &c..
Lecturer in Economics, Aberdeen; Assist, a ro-
fessor at Glasgow.]
'' Biographia Halifaxiensis; or Halifax
Families and Worthies. A Biographic-
al and Genealogical History of Halifax
Parish. Compiled by J. Horsfall Turner.
Vol. I. Printed for the Compiler. Bingley, T.
Harrison, 1883, crown octavo, pages xv., 1-^374.
This Vol. I. is exclusively Mr. Watson's work,
and printed separately in justice to his re-
searches. Vol. II., consisting of original
matter collected by myself was announced,
but has not yet appeared.
"The Antiquities of Halifax, by the Rev.
Thorns Wright, of Halifax, 1738. Reprinted for
J. Horsfall Turner, Idel, Bradford." Bingley,
Harrison, 1884, 100 pages, crown octavo. The
editor justifies the reprinting of this and other
rare local books because of the great difii-
culties he experienced in obtaining sight of
the original editions, and of the great expense
(insurmountable to poor lads with tastes
similar to his own,) in purchasing a copy of
any one of the originals. Yet even these cheap
editions are not placed readily upon the
shelves of the public libraries, where fiction
is represented by the ton.
164
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
"Ilkley: Ancient and Modern, by the Rev.
Robert Collver, D.D., New York, U.S.A., and
J. Horefall Turner. Witli Chapters on^ its
Geologv, uy J. W. Davis, F.G.S., F.S.A.,
FLS, (Halifax); Botany by F. Arnold -uees,
FL8.; Fauna by W. Eaglo Clarke, W. Deni-
sonRoebnck, and J. W. Tiiylor; Prehistoric
'lemains bv .T. Horsfall Turner, &c. Eighty
illustrations." Otley, W. Walker, 1885, demy
octivo; also large paper copies quarto, pages
283, and xcvi.
"Triplex Memoriale, or the Substance of
Three Commemoration Sermons preached
at Halifax in remembrance of Mr. Nathaneel
Waterhouse deceased... by William Ainsworth,
Theologus, Lecturer at St. Peter's, Chester.
York, 1650. Reprinted for J. Horsfall Turn-
er," 18S6. crown octavo, pages yi., 66. This
book and the original copy have been previous-
ly described; s^ee Ainsworth, Curate of
Lightoliffe.
"Hallifax and its Gibbet Law placed in a
true Light. Together with a description of
the Town, the Nature of the Soil, &c.. &c.
Reprinted for J. Horsfall Turner. 1886, crown
octavo, pages viii., 96." "The remembrance of
the many years' search for a copy of this
book, the difficulty of getting a day's loan of
it when found, and the high price of four
guineas beiag asked for a copy on sale, prompt
me to make it possible for the poorest boy to
obtain the information contained in its pages.
I resolved that as soon as I could afford, I
would purchase these local books and reprint
them that others might not worry for the
sight of them as I had done."
"The Registers of Topcliffe and Morley,
Baptisms 1654-1830, Burials 1654-1888, edited
by William Smith, F.S.A.S., Morley. Printed
for and at the expense of J. Horsfall Turner."
1888. Bingley, Harrison; demy octavo, il-
lustrated, pages xii., 232. Four copies were
printed on specially strong paper, besides the
large edition.
''Idle or Idel in Olden Times : A Lect^^re
delivered in the Old Chapel, (Rev. H. Harri-
son, Vicar, in the chair,) by J. Horsfall
Turner." Reprint, Saltaire. 1890, crown
octavo, 51 pages.
"Charlotte Bronte's Letters, or the Story of
the Brontes as told by herself, edited by J.
Horsfall Turner from the Original Letters,"
crown octavo, 380 pages, printed at Bingley by
T. Harrison, 1890. Though a thousand copies
were printed all were destroyed except an
imperfect one lent by Miss Nussey to Clement
K. Shorter, and a dozen the property of the
editor. Five of these have been sold to the
great libraries, London and Oxfonl, at five
pounds each. Mr. Shorter acknowledgeh^ his
indebtedness to this volume, and afterwards
when printing a portrait of the editor, made
due reference in the "Sketch" to the Bronte
hibours of J. Horsfall Turner, Founder of the
Bronte Society.
"The E'lland Tragedies, viz: The Murders
of Sir Robert Beaumont of Crosland, Hugh de
Quarmby of Quarmby, John de Lock wood of
Lockwood, Sir John Eland at Brigl\oase, Sir
John EUand, junior, and his son at EliuUd, &c.,
with exploits as recorded in ancient manu-
scripts in prose and verse, with notes,
pedigrees and evidences recently brought to
light. Edited by J. Horsfall Turner. Printed
foi- the Editor by Harrison, Bingley, 1890:
orown octavo. 91 pages. (These events took
place in 1330-1350.)
''Yorkshire Notes and Queries."
"Yorkshire Folk-Lore Journal."
"Yorkshire Genealogist."
''Yorkshire Bibliographer."
These four magazine*;, edited by J. Hoi'sfall
Turner, and printed for him at Bingley, demy
octavo, were issued in twenty-two parts, 1,700
pages, 550 illustrations. They are intended ta
be bound up in complete volumes as under: —
"Yorkshire Notes and Queries." Sixty il-
lustrations. Vol. I. Printed for the Editor,.
1888; pages iv., 256.
"Yorkshire Folk-Lore Journal." Thirty il-
lustrations. Vol. L, 1888; pages iv., 242.
''Yorkshire Notes and Queries, with which i&
incorporated Yorkshire Folk-Lore Journal. '
90 illustrations. Vol. IL, 1890; pages iv.^
36(1.
"Yorkshire Genealogist." Fifty illustrations.
Vol. I.. 1888; pages iv., 258.
"Yorkshire Bibliographer." Forty-six il-
lustrations. Vol. I., 1888; pages iv., 256.
"Yorkshire Genealogist, with which is incor-
porated the Yorkshire Bibliographer," 159*
illustrations. Vol. II., 1890; pages iv., 315.
"Yorkshire County Magazine, with which are
incorporated the Yorkshire Notes and
Queries, Yorkshire Folk-Lore Journal, York-
shire Genealogist, and Yorkshire Bibliograph-
er," 160 illustrations.
Vol. I., 1891, pages viii., 368 demy octavo.
Vol. II.. ]S92, 96 ilustrations, pages viii., 2-18.
Vol. III., 1893, 137 illustrations, 256 pages.
Vol. IV. 1894, lOS illustrations, 256 pages;
printed by J. E. Watmough, Idle. The pre-
vious volumes were all printed at Bingley.
Several articles were reprinted from these-
sarials, e.g. : —
A Day at Skipton, 36 illustrations.
A Day at Bingley, 14 illustrations.
A Day at Haworth. 14 illustrations.
A Day at Bolton Priory, 13 illustrations.
A Day at Ilkley. Pictorial Guide, 50 illustra-
tions.
The Constable Family.
Joseph 17irhardson, printer-author, 34 pages.
Thorpe Salvin Parish Register. 1592-1726, 64
pages.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
165
These eight and others were from the pen
of the editor. Lord Fredk. Cavendish, a
Memoir, 12 pages, was written by Lady Fredk.
"The History of Brighouse, Eastrick, and
Hipperholiue; with Memorial notes on Coley,
Lightclitfe, Northowram. Shelf, Fixby, Clifton
and Kirklees. By J. Horsfall Turner, F.R.H.S..
170 illustrations. Incorporation Memorial."
Printed for the author by Harrison, Bingley,
1893, demy octavo, 33-t pages. There is also
a large paper edition, quarto.
"The Old History of Bradford, li776; with the
Memoirs of General Fairfax, Battles of Leeds,
Wakefield, Manchester, Preston, &c., the Sore
Calamities and the Taking of Bradford, &c.,
edited, with additions, by J. Horsfall Turner,
Tdel, 1891. crown octavo, pages 96.
"Ancient Bingley : or Binsley, its History
and Scenery. By J. Horsfall Turner, J. P., 180
illustrations. Bingley, 1897, demy octavo, 312
pag«s. There is also a large paper edition,
quarto size.
"Bronteana. The Rev. Patrick Bronte, A.B.
His Collected Works and Life." This volume
gives The Works and the Brontes of Ireland;
edited by J. Horsfall Turner; illustratione
1898, crown octavo; Harrison, printer, Bing-
ley; pages 306. There is also a large paper
edition, crown quarto. Another volume of
Bronteana is still due to appear. P. Bronte's
Cottage Poems and Rural Minstrel, both
printed at Halifax, are here reprinted, he
being at the time minister at Hartshead. Also
Mr. Bronte's funeral sermon on the Rev. W.
Weightman, of Haworth, printed by J. U.
Walker. Halifax, 1&42, is reprinted,
"Historical Notices of Shipley, Saltaire, Idle,
Windhill, Wrose, Baildon, Hawksworth,
Bccleshill, Calverley, Rawdon and Homforth,
by J. Horsfall Turner;" with illustrations.
Reprinted from the "Shipley Express," Idle,
1901, small quarto, double columns, pages iv.,
116. Half of a second volume is printed.
"Yorkshire Anthology : Ballads and Songs,
Ancient and Modern (with several hundred
real Epitaphs), covering a period of a thousand
years of Yorkshire History in verse; with
notes Bibliographical, Biogi^aphical, Topogra-
phical, Dialectic, &c., and quaint and original
illustrations, by .J. Horsfall Turner." Bingley,
Harrison, 1901, 436 pages, crown octavo. It is
proposed to complete the work in four volumes.
'"The Annals of Wakefield House of Correc-
tion for three hundred years; with notices of
Ancient Prisons and obsolete punishments,
particularly the Manorial Gaols and Customs
of Yorkshire, the County prisons of 1 ork,
Northallerton, Beverley, &c., township Kid-
ootes, embracing a general survey of the social
and moral history of Yorkshire from Elizabeth
to Victoria; illustrated. By J. Horsfall Tur-
ner, from notes largely supplied by Captain
Armytage, J. P.. D.L." Harrison, Bingley,
i'J04, crown octavo, 270 pages.
"Lightcliffe Romances: by J. Horsfall Tur-
ner. Illustrated. 24 pages quarto, double
columns, reprinted from the 'Brighouse Echo."
''Upper Chapel Year Book, Idle : " ten years,
32 pages each.
"Idle Upper Chapel Magazine;" edited one
year.
"Arms of Yorkshire Families," over 40u il-
lustrations: over 300 pages already printed,,
demy octavo, 1905.
"Halifax Books and Authors," reprinted in
double columns quarto, from the -'Bnghouse
News," 1904-5, now in progress.
A small book on the "West Riding Bridges,
by Fairless Barber, F.S.A., and J. Horsfall
Turner," was announced but not printed owing
to Mr. Barber's illness. His co-worker has
onlv his own notes from the Sessions Rolls
ready for the press. He announced a reprint
of Krabtme's Almanack, 1685, noticed in the
fij'st chapter of this series, but has not pro-
ceeded with it. The "Bradford Antiquary"
has, besides bibliographical notes, &c., a tran-
script, with plan, of the Survey of Idle in
1580, transcribed by him. The Scheme of
Operations of the Yorkshire Dialect Society
bears the authorship of .J. Horsfall Turner,
and the Bronte Bibliography of the Bronte
Society is largely his compilation, whilst the
Bronte Chronology (another of the Society's
pamphlets), although bearing the name of J.J.
Stead, is an abbreviation of Mr. Turner's
manuscript chronology, compiled at the re-
quest of the Bronte Council. For another
flagrant piracy, see Field, postea. The notices
of Idle township and Coley district in Cud-
worth's "Round about Bradford" were sup-
plied by J. Horsfall Turner.
A volume on "The Quakers in Yorkshire"
has been announced, but not yet issued, and
two other volumes are completed in manu-
script: (1) ''Primitive Methodism in York-
shire," and (2) "Upper Chapel Burial
Register, Idle." The latter is now at the
printers.
XCIIL— MODERN ANTIQUABIAN
WRITERS.
THE FIELDS OF SOWEiRBY NEAR
HALIFAX, AND OP FLUSHING, NEW
YORK, with some notices of the Families of
, by Osgood Field, F.S.A., &c. Lon-
don printed for private circulation only, 1895;
small folio, illustrated. Pages vii., 132. The
frontispiece is a plate of Old Field House,
(Sowerby); Halifax Church. Wakefield Manor
(from Speed's Map, 1610), pedigree sheet 1460-
1600, Field House, Sowerby, Wakefield Manor
(from map 1894), pedigree sheet, 1600-1700, are
insertions. The first half of this book concerns
Halifax, the rest is American. By Mr. Fair-
less Barber's introduction I -eupplied Mr.
Field with the whole of the first part, over
166
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
sixty pages, and sent him all the notes in it
from York Wills, Wakefield Manor Kolls, and
the Halifax and local Church Registers. I
have still all those notes with, a mass of
others in manuscript, and many letters from.
Mr. Osgood Field to prove the statement. Vet
he (thoughtlessly, I presume,) forgets to ac-
knovvledgo this substantial help, and having
H\ud that the book was out, I wrote to re-
mind him that I had not got a copy, it c^me,
and on perusing it, I made good the omission
by calling the attention thereto of the "Hali-
fax Guardian'' and the London "Athenseum."
No reply has been vouchsafe<l. Were I to use
ray notes i might be considered a plagiarist.
Fields, Saltonstalls, Mitchells, Dentons, i^air-
banks, Northends, and other Halifax families,
are mantioned with dates ranging from 1306.
All these families sent off branches to America
in Stuart times. The Hon. W. D. Northend
sent rfte, a few years ago, a portly book on
the NOE<rHElNDS, of Yorkshire and America.
A pedigree and history of the SALTON-
STALLS has been printed by a member of the
family in America. A few years back a Mr.
Fairbank came across to make further genea-
logical researches, and he gave me a thick
pamphlet, pages 55 and 16, octavo, referring
to the FAIRBANKS, of Sowerby and Light-
cliffe. There is no printer's name or date
THE FAIRBANKS FAMILY: Fayerbanks,
Fairebanckes, &c.; of Sowerby, Barkieland,
Lightcliffe, about 1600, giving the American,
descendants. The Appendix gives the wills of
George Fairbanke, Sowerby, 1650, and Jona-
than Fairbanks, America, 1668. The book
was privately printed about 1882, somewhere in
America.
HT STORY OF THE FAMILY OF STANS-
FIE'LD in the Parish of Halifax, and its
numerous branches. By John Stansfeld.
Leeds; with many etchings and illustrations.
Printed for private circulation; Leeds, Good-
all and Suddick, 1885, quarto, pages viii., xii.,
1 — 459. Insertions — Full length portrait of
Robert Stansfeld, Arms and supporters colour-
ed, the Author and his dog, Heptonstall Old
Church, New Church, Old Church interior,
and thirty other plates, with sixteen sheet
pedigrees, aJl of which are recorded on pages iii.
and iv. The bulk of the material was sup-
plied by Mr. E. J. Walker and his son Mr-
Walter J. Walker. The Heptonstall and
Halifax Registers have afforded much in-
formation, thus giving the book interest to
those families who have been allied to the
ancient Stansfields of Halifax parish. The
book is most elaborately got up, and of great
local value.
ERNEIST RICHMOND HORSFALL TtTRN-
ER, B.A., Councillor of Llanidloes, Mont-
gomeryshire, born in Rastrick,, January, 1870,
is author of "Wanderings in Cardiganshire,
being a descriptive sketck of its Picturesq^ue,
Historic, Antiquarian, Romantic and Tradi-
tional Featurieis; with 160 illustrations. *
Bingley, Harrison & Sons, (1902), demy octavo,
291 pages. Also large paper copies, quarto
sizte. The illustrations are nearly all the
work of the author.
JOHN HY. PRIESTLEY is author of "The
History of Kipponden and its Three Surround-
ing Townships, — Soyland, Barkisland, and
Rishworth." Ripijonden, Joseph Mellor,
printer, 1903, small octavo, pages 114, with
three inserted leaves of illustrations.
EDW^ARD JOHNSON WALKER, editor of
the' "Halifax Guardian," in which he printed
a Local Portfolio for several yaaxs, of his-
torical matter. He compiled the Akroyd
pedigree, and his son \Valter .laines Walker
edited the "Chapters on the Early Registers
(;f ITafifax Parish Church" from tlie Local
Portfolio. These were added to 96 pages of
the parish register which had been printed
in monthly sections in the Halifax Parish
Church Magazine, 1881. These 96 pages were
also struck off in qtiarto size, hand made paper,
so Mr. W. J. Walker's venture appears also
8vo. and 4to., 1885; see Halifax Parish Re- ^'
gisters. previously described. ■{
OLDE ELAND, BEING REMINISCENCES
OF ET.T.AND, by Lucy Hamerton, together
with. Chapters on the Antiquities of LlLand
by J. W. Clay, F.S.A., Preface by Ernest
Winter, Rector. . Illustrated. Elland, W. H.
Gledhill, 1901, crown octavo, pages xv., 188;
twenty-one sketches named.
A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF BRIG-
HOUSE AND RASTRICK and district, il-
lustnated. (Written by Jonathan Caldwell,
Brighouse.) Publielied by Pike, Brighton,
about 1894, quarto, 16 pages, and covers.
Illustrations, — Aid. W. Smith (Mayoi\ Brig-
house Church, Kirkstall Abbey; the rest are
with the letterpress, including Kirklees, Croiw
Nest, Hebden, and four Halifax views.
EARLY HALIFAX, by W. Clucas. Reprint-
ed from the "Hull Quarterly," 1885, small
quarto, 8 pages besides cover.
FROM HELL, HULL, AND HALIFAX,
Good Lord deliver us; to which is added ex-
amples to the Rules given in "The School-
master," small octavo, Manchester printed, 12
pages. 7th edition is the same as the 4th with
new cover.
J. RYLEY ROBINSON, of Dewsbury, palms
off the old Halifax Gibbet story, in one of the
Stokesley tractates, with the blunders repeat-
ed and nothing new added.
A HANDBOOK OF THE PEOPLE'S PARK,
Halifax, containing amongst many other
particulars, a description of the Grounds,
Fountains, Lakes, Plants, Vases and Statues.
Halifax, James Lord, 1657, (Birtwhistle,
printer,) 20 pages, 12mo.
HALIFAX BOOKS ANB AUTHORS.
167
A DESCRIPTION OF ALL SOULS'
CHURCH, and Parochial Burial Ground,
Haley Hill, Halifax. Founded by Edward
Akroyd, Esq., simvll quarto, 31 pages, 1860,
Wliitley and Booth, printers. Cover bears
Mr. Akroyd'e arms impaling those of his wife;
with lithographed frontispiece of the Church.
Amongst the HAILSTONEi manuscripts, in
the Bradford Free Library are papers on
Halifax Parish Church Windows, 1854, and
on Shelf lands.
The EEV. GEORGU EYRE EVANS, of
Aberystwyth, who writes antiquarian articles
to the Cardiganshire papers, and is autEor of
several antiquarian works, has transcribed
Elland South End Chapel Registers, Baptisms
1741t-1816, Burials 1829-1835. but they are not
printed.
My dear old friend the REV. CANON
HULBERT, of Almondbury, printed a pamph-
let on "The Origin of the Elland Society." I
regret I did not secure one, though I have
some of the annual reports.
Amongst illustrations we shall have to call
attention to J. MOOREf'S book,— "A Terrier
or Field Book of every close in the Township
of Halifax, 8vo., 1797. A copy is in Bradford
Free Library.
J. H. ARNOTT and SAMUEL WASHING-
TON, Lightcliffe published in 1827, a "Plan
and View of Halifax," surveyed by them. Sold
b.y N. Whitlev, Halifax.- There is a copy in
Halifax Free Library. In {he same*year, 1827,
THOMAS DAT published a "Plan of the
Town and Township of Halifax, and parts of
the adjacent Townships of Northowram,, South-
owram, and Skircoat." J. F. MYERS, sur-
veyor, published a Map of the Parish of Hali-
fax from an actiial survey made in 1834-5.
My copy is on rollers, but some are in cases.
Besides the Ordnance Survey maps, six
inches to a mile, published at Southampton,
of which 312 sheets at 2s. 6d. e?ich complete
Yorkshire, and another series at one inch to
the mile, the various towns were issued separ-
ately at five feet to the mile, 2s. each sheet.
Halifax occupies 13 sheets, Todmorden (with
Lancashire sections) 5 sheets.
In addition to Longbottom's crude drawings
of Halifax Halls, and the late Mayor Davis's
series drawn by S,ykes; Horner's, I/eyland's
and S>nith's series must be mentioned.
.TOHN HORNER published: —
"Buildings in the Town and Parish of Hali-
fax. Drawn from Nature, and on stone by
John Horner." Halifax, published by
Robert Ley land, but printed by C. Hullman-
del, 1835; folio. List of plates in litho-
graphy, without any letterpress.
1. Title as above, with gateway at High
Sunderland; a Roman Altar dedicated to
Foi'tune, found at Slack; a British Cinerary
Urn and a bronze Celt (disproportionately
drawn.)
2. Old Houses in Nortligate, taten down lS24.
3. Old Market in 1800.
4. Old Buildings in the Woolshops, takea
daun 1833.
5. Old Buildings in Halifax.
6. Old Houses in Lower Kiikgate, taken dowa
in 1825.
7. High Sunderland.
8. Sunny Bank in Greetland.
». Hope House, the seat o-f Ckristr. Raweoai,
Eeq.
10. Stoney Eoyd, the seat of Mrs. Rawson.
n. Shibden Hall.
12. Scout Hall in Shibden-dale.
13. Howroyde, the seat of Lady Mary Horton.
14. Holdsworth House, near Ovenden.
15. Wood House (Skircoat).
16. Co ley Hall Gateway.
17. Luddenden Old Church.
18. Haugh End, Sowerby, birthplace of Arch-
bishop Tillotson.
19. Sowerby Bridge Church, built 1520, taken
down 1820.
20. Wood Lane Hall, Sowerby.
A well executed and interestng collection of
Views. His view of Halifax is sometimes
found on the margins of Watson's Halifatx,
bound by Edwaixis.
MR. JOHN LEYLAND--Views of Ancient
Buildings in the Parish of Halifax, 1879',
quarto. Halifax, R. Lejdand and Son. I have
not the list of drawings at hand.
MR. J. R. SMITH, Halifax, in 1894,
published a dozen local views of
old Halifax Streets. Elach plate
is dedicated to a local gentleman, and the set
were issued for 50 shillings. The list is — Old
North Bridge; Waggoners' Inn, Northgate;
Woolshops; Market Street; Old Market;
Crown Street (two); Hall End; Silver Street
(two); Swine Market; Corn Market.
WTLLIA:\" WILLIAMS is notice<l in Bryan's
Dictionary of Painters, 1849, as artist of two
etchings of Halifax 'tct\vn. Redgrave's Dic-
tionary of Artists states tlxat Williams was a
subject and portrait painter who obtained a
premium from the Society of Arts in 1758, and
practised in London later. He exhibited at
the Royal Academy in 1770. In 1778 he sent
"The Good Samaritan," and "Trinculo and
Caliban." In 1787 he contributed rustic
scenes and "Banditti Sleeping." In 1788 he
sent some portraits, and ''Venus attended by
the Graces." Val. Green engraved some
Shakespearian subjects by him, and Jukes en-
graved his two works, "Marriage," and
"Gallantry." Nodal's Art in Lancashire,
claims him as a Manchester man. Hie draw-
ings of a male and a female ballad singer axe
elsewhere mentioned.
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HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
XCIV — ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.
The following list is one of the several that
should be given before data can be complete
for a history of Halifax parish, as these Acts
testify tho origin of good roads, canals, en-
closures of common lands, raii»tiys, family
estate troubles, incorporations, privnate and
public companies, commercial and social
progress. The present list is arrange<i chrono-
logically, and will be followed by another
series, including Charities, &c.
ROADS. Anno octavo Georgii II. Regis. An
Act for repairing and widening the Road
from the Town of Rochdale leading
over a certain Craggy Mountain called
Blackstone Edge and from thence to the
Towne of Hallifax and Ehland in the County
of York. (1735.)
WOOLLEN CLOTH. Anno undecirao Georgii
II. R-egis. (1738.) An Act for the better
regulating the Manufacture of Narrow
Woollen Cloths in the West Riding of the
County of York. Anno decimo quarto
Georgii II. Regis. (1741.) An Act for con-
tinuing an Act passed in the Seiventh Year
of the Reign of His present Majesty—" To
explain and amend a former Act passed in
the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His late
Majesty King George the First, for the
better regulating the Manufacture of Cloth
in the West Riding of the County of York,
and for making the said Acts more effectual.
ROADS. Anno decimo quarto Georgu II.
Regis. (1741.) An Act for repairing and en-
larging the Roads from the Town of Selby
to Leeds, and from thence (in two
several branches, one through Bradford and
Horton, and the other tlirough Bowling and
Wibsev) to the town of Halifax, in the same
Riding.
ROADS. Anno decimo quarto Georgii II.
(1741.) An Act for repairing' the Roads
from ft place called Redhouse near Don-
caster to Wakefield; and through the said
Town of Wakefield, by Dewsbury, Hightown,
and Lightcliffe, to the town of Halifax.
Anno vicesimo quarto Georgii II. Regis.
(1751.) An Act for explaining and amending
so much of an Act (14 Geo. IT., from NSelby
as above,) as relates to that part which lies
between Selby and Leeds, and for repairing
the road from Tadcaster over Bramham
Moor, Win Moor, Seacroft to Halton Dyal.
NAVIGATION. An Act for Extending the
Navigation of the River Oalder to, or near
to Sowerbv Bridjze. in the Parish of Halifax:
and for making navigable the River Hebble.
Halig or Halifax Brook from Brooksmouth
to Salterhebble Bridge. 88 pagee octavo,
1758, Loudon.
WATER, &c. An Act to amend ami render
effectual an Act made (2 Geo. III.) for supply-
ing the Town of Halifax with Water; and
for better paving, cleansing and lifi^htiiig
the streets and other places there, and for
removing all Nuisances, Incroachments, and
Obstructions within the said town, and pre-
venting the like for the future. 1>762.
NAVIGATION. An Act for Extending the
Navigation of the River Oalder to Salter
Hebble Bridge, and to Sowerby Bridge, in
the County of York, and for repealing an
Act for that purpose. 1769.
DIVORCE. An Act to dissolve the Marriage
of Edward, Viscount Ligonier with Penelope
Pitt his now wife, and to enable him to
marry again; and for other purposes theie-
in mentioned. 1772. This Act consists of
three folio leaves, six par,'e«, and humbly
sheweth and complaineth to your most ex-
cellent Majesty, .your true and faithful sub-
ject the Right Honourable Edward Viscount
Ligonier, of the Kingdom of Ireland, that
in the month of May, 1766, your said subject
did intermarry with Penelope Pitt, one of
the three daughters of George Pitt, of Strat-
field Sa-y, Southampton, Elsquii'e, by Pene-
lope his wife, heretofore Penelope Atkins,
sister of Sir Richard Atkins, Baronet;" —
the co-respondent. May, 1771^ was Count
Vittorio Amadeo Alfieri; — action against
Count Alfieri was tried at We.stminster, in
1771, when the Count failed to appear; "a
libel in the Bishop's Consistory Court, Lon-
don, was exhibited, and divorce sentence
obtained against Viscountess Ligonier ; the
petitioner hath not any issue by the said
Viscountess, and stands deprived of the
comforts of matrimony and liable to a
spurious issue to succeed to his title, estates
and fortune unless the said marriage be
annulled and declared void by Act of Parlia-
ment; May it therefore please your most
excellent Majesty out of your princely good-
ness and compassion, &c., to grant a dis-
solution of marriage, &c.. &c., and leave to
marry duripg her lifetime any other woman
lawfully, the issue to be legal heirs, &c."
Fifty years ago the tradition remained, but
not one, who saw her was then living, that
"Lady Legoneer" formerly lived in Light-
cliffe. By purchasing this Act of Parliament
for half-a-crown I got to know who she was.
The accounts of her were much to her dis-
credit as a Lightcliffe inhabitant, for
though the peerages state that she married
a certain Captain after her divorce of 1772.
she had a man named Wright as her param-
oiir. Forty years ago I saw at Mr. Thomp-
son's, Chapel-le-Brier, an oil painting of a
hunting scene in which Penelope and the
Incumbent of Southowram ai'e pi'ominent
figures. A printed account of the trials may
occasionally be purchased for a high figure.
Her father was Earl Rivers, her uncle Earl
of Chatham, her husband Lord Ligonier,
whose uncle, a famous Hi.^noverian soldier,
fought at the 1745 rebellion, and Count
Alfieri was the famous Italian dramatical
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
169
author and poet. What became of her
during her last years I do not know.
miLIFAX CHARITIEiS. (See Ainsworth's
Triplex.) An Act for Uniting and better
Regulating the Charities of Natliianiel Water-
house, within the Town and Parish of Hali-
fax 1777.
WORSTED. Acts of Parliament. Published
by order of the Committee of Worsted Manu-
facburers in the Counties of York, Lancaster
and Chester. (London,) 1783, 104 pages, 8vo.
SMALL DEBTS.— An Act to repeal so much of
an Act made (20 Geo. IIL). as relates to 'the
more easy and speedy Recovery of Small
Debts within the Parishes of Halifax, Brad-
ford, Kighley, Bingley, Guiseley, Calverley
Batley, Birstal, Mirfield, Hartshead cum
Clifton, Almondbury, Kirkheaton, Kirk-
burton, and Huddersiield, and the Lordship
and Liberty of Tong, and the granting
of other powers for these purposes. 1793.
CANAL. Act for Making and Maintaining a
Navigable Canal from Sowerby Bridge
Wharf to Manchester, and also certain
Cuts. 1794.
CHURCHES. Act for Building a New Church
or Chapel in the Town of Halifax. (Trinity
Church.) 1795.
M^ORTMAIN. Anno tricesimo octavo, Georgii
IIL, Regis. (1798). An Act fur vesting
divere Lands and Hereditaments in the
Parish of Halifax (Sowerby Bridge, for Canal
purposes,) in Tnistees and their Heirs, upon
certain Trusts therein mentioned, discharg-
ed from all claims of the Cl'own in respect
of any Forfeiture incurred under or by virtue
of the Statutes of Mortmain.
WOOLLEN. Account of the Proceedings of
the Merchants, Manufacturers and others
concerned in the Wool and Woollen Trade
of Great Britain; that the Laws respecting
the Exportation of Wool might not be alter-
ed in arranging the Union with Ireland, &c.
London. 1800.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. Act for Relief of
Friendly Societies. Halifax, 1817, octavo.
(In Bradford Free Library.)
PAVING, &c. Act for Paving, Lighting,
Cleansing, Watching and Improving the
Township of Halifax, and for supplying the
same with Water. Royal Assent, June 17,
1823.
CANAL. Act to enable the Company of the
Proprietors of the Calder and Hebble Navi-
gation to make a Navigable Cut or Canal
from Salterhebble Bridge to Bailey Hall
near to the Town of Halifax and to
amend the Act relating to the said Naviga-
tion. 1825.
ROAD. Map of Turnpike Roads, Leeds to
Halifax. 1824-5.
ROAD. An Act for making and maintaining
a Turnpike Road from Godley Lane Head,
near Halifax, to Northowram Green, in the
West Riding of the County of York. Roval
Assent, 21 March, 1827. Recites that an Act
was passed 5 George IV., with the same title,
which Act was now repealed and the amend-
ed Act was passed. M. Stocks, Halifax, was
the solicitor, and I have his copy with
signature: folio, 18 pages. The particulars
given afford an insight to social and paWic
conditions before a railway wae thought of.
TITHES. .\n Act for Extinguishing Tithes and
payments in Lieu of Tithes, Mdrtuaries, and
Elaster Offerings, and other Vicarial Dues
and Payments within the Parish of Halifax,
and for making compensation to the Vicar
in Lieu thereof, and enabling him to grant
certain Leases of Lands belonging to the
Vicarage. 1829.
REISBRVOIRS. An Act for making and main-
taining certain Reservoirs in the Township
of Risliworth, in the Parish of Halifax, in
the West Riding of the Count*' of York.
Royal Assent, 14th June, 1839. Norris and
Rudd. Solicitors, Halifax; folio 58 pages.
These are the books that ought to be care-
fully preserved at the Halifax Town Hall,
and may I suggest to both Halifax and
Brighouse Corporations, as also to the sever-
al District Councils, that a bibliograplncal
list of all the reports, acts, and other printed
matters be occasionally printed, and that
copies he especially deposited at the Free
Libraries, i-eference departments. This list
should include an index of plans and maps;
and the old Township Manuscript Bookb
and papers are too valuable to be ignored.
The various Clerks should be authorized to
gather these and make lists at once. The
cost will be a trifle; the benefit incalculable.
The long Act concerning Rishworth Reser-
voirs is of legal as well as historical value.
Whei-eas there are mills, factoiies and other
premises situated on or near the line oi
course of the flowing of the waters in the
brook Ryburn — (here the poetry ceases, and
we get to water-wheels, engines and
maohiner.v, enlivened by the names of the
old freeholders, and suggestive place-
names like Green Withens Clough and
Castle Dean.) Has Rishworth District
Council a copy of this ? or even Haifax Town
Council ?
SMALL DEBTS. An Act for the moi<e easy and
speedy Recovery of Small Debts within the
Parishes of Halifax, Bradford, Keighley,
Bingley, Guiseley, Calverley, Batley,
Birstal, Mirfield, Hartishead-cum-Clifton,
Almondbury, Kirkheaton, Kirkburton and
Huddersfield, and the Lordship or Liberty
of Tong, in the County of York. Royal
Assent. 24th August, 18.39. Morris and Rudd,
Halifax, and Rich. Ridehalgh, Bradford,
Solicitors; folio, 38 pages. Mr. Ridehalgh
was a native of Ripponden. The preambhe
recites the Act of 33 George III., a copy of
which is printed in an old history of Hali-
fax, which Act is amended by this one.
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HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Those who will take the trauble to read
"Wakefiold Prison" history will find the
great advance miule by these Acts upon the
conditions mentioned \iuder the ancient
Debtors' Prison at Halifax.
There was printed at Halifax in 1839 an
Abstract of Acts for the more easy and speedy
recovery of small del)ts within the parishes
of Halifax, &c. A copy is in Halifax l''r©e
Library.
I.MPKOVEMEiNT AC'i'. "An Act, 16 and 17
Vict., for the Improvement of the Boronp;h
of Halifax, and for other purposes, and an
Appendix containing the Principal Acts and
Parts of Acts now in force within tb©
Borough relating to the Improvement of the
Borough. Halifax. W. R. Phelps and R.
C. Bowring, "Courier" Office, 1854, octavo,
pages 207, Ixxi. The Schedule of owners,
including the Marchioness of Hertford, &c.,
mav be useful.
PAVING, &c. Act for Paving, Lighting,
Cleansing, Watching, nnd Improving the
Township of Halifax, and for supplying the
same with Water; 1823; with Rules, &c., of
the Trustees acting under the Act, collected
and confii'med at a General Meeting of the
Trustees, November 2, 1842. Halifax. 1842.
At present we will only give one more copy,
the solicitor being Mr. Fairless Barber, and
the printer. Bayes, 80, Biiggate, Brighouse.
WATEIR. Clifton Water Supply Company,
Limited. October 8th. 1874, sixteen pages
quarto. The jurisdiction is otitside our
limits.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE'S TERCENTEN-
ARY.
To the memory of Sir Thomas Browne,
some years of whose life were spent at Up-
per Shibden Hall, a statue was unveiled at
Norwich yesterday, where he spent the last
45 years of his life in active work as a
physician, and wrote isome of bis books.
That by which lie is best known, "Religio
Medici," fwas written at Upper Shibden
Hall, where he dwelt in some seclusion. He
is reputed to have taken his M.D. degree
at Ley den, but Professor Osier, of Oxford,
told the "Physical Pupils" of Guy's Hospi-
tal the other day that he had failed to find
Browne's iname on the records at Leyden.
The first edition of "Religio Medici" was
not published until 1642, five years after
he had gone to Norwich, but it is well es-
tablished that he wrote it during his i-esi-
dence at Upper Shibden Hall. Bentley,
writing during the lifetime of Dr. Edward
Browne, Sir Thomas's son, says that Sir
Thomas "fixed himself in this populous and
rich trading place wherein to show his
skill and gain respect in the world ; and
that during hig residence amongst us, and
in his vacant hours, lie writ his admired
piec«, 'Religio Medici.' " Mr. Edmund
Gosse, in "English Men of Letters," says
concerning Sir Thomas's residence at Shib-
den that "the entire absence of documents
at this period of Browne's career is much
to be lamented, since, when his private
correspondence begins to be preserved,
some fifteen years later, we find him still
keeping up old friendships at Halifax."
On© of these correspondents at Halifax was
Dr. Henry Power, to whom he addfessed,
in 1647, a letter of advice as to thfi method
to be pursued in the study of medicine,
and in 1648 Power wrote to Browne from
Christ's College, Cambridge, expressing a
desire to reside for a month or two at Nor-
wich, in order to have the advantage of
Browne's personal guidance, for at Cam-
bridge there are "such few helpes" that he
fears he will "nxake but a lingering pro-
gresse."
The date of the great work is pretty
clearly fixed asl635, at which time Browne
was no doubt at Upper Shibden Hall, by
tlie preface to the first authorised edition
in 1643, in which Browne says, "This. I
confess, about seven years past, with some
others of affinity thereto, I had at leisur-
able hours composed." He further states
that he wrote it when thirty years of age.
—From " Brighouse News," Oct. 20th, 1905.
XC v.— NATURAL HISTORY LITERATURE.
THE FLORA O^F YORKSHIRE; with two
plates; by Henry Baines, sub-curator to the
Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Halifax,
Leyland and Son, 1840; large octavo, pages vi.,
map of the county, i — xxi., 1 — 160. The local
men who assisted Mr. Baines are recorded as
Mr. S. Gibson, Hebden Bridge; Mr. John
Nowell, of Todmorden; and Mr. John How-
arth, of Todmorden. The botanical wealth of
Hebden Valley is specially noted. A map of
Upper Teeadale is inserted opposite page 72.
THE FLORA OF THE PARISH OE HALI-
FAX, by WILLIAM B. CRUMP, M.A., and
CHARLES CROSSLAND, F.L.S. Halifax
Scientific Society. 1904. This work was issued
with the Halifax Naturalist, but having sepa-
rate pagination. On the title it bears a vig-
nette map of Halifax rivers and streams as
given in Cronhelm's " Rivers and Streams of
Halifax." 1847. The book is a demy octavo,
pages i. — Ixxv., 1 — 316. The introduction
deals with the geology and meteorology of the
parish (1130 square miles), plant distribution
and associations, historical and biographical
sketch, and bibliography. The Flora incor-
porates the work of James Bolton, including
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171
some of his unpublished work in the British
Museum, also besides modern investifjatione
the Herbaria of Roberts Leyland, S. Kinp, S.
Gibson, and John Noweil, 1815-1860. Th*- book
was printed by F. King and Sons, Halifax.
Due notice is taken of the valuable works of
James Bolton, which is followed bv a memoir
of ROBERTS LEYLAND (born 1784, son of
William Leyland), whose Herbarium of plants
is deposited at the Belle Vue Museum, HaJJ-
fax. Roberts was father of J. B. Leyland,
sculptor, and F. A. Leyland, antiquary. He
was one of the founders of the Halifax Liter-
ary and Philosophical Society, 1830, and died
Novr. 15, li&47. His grandson, John Leyland,
topographical author, possesses some volumes
of letters written to him bv eminent botan-
ists. SAiytUEL GIBSON was born at Hebden
Bridge about 1790, and died May 2lst, 1849,
ag©d 49. He was, like his father, a white-
smith, but meeting with an accident, and
having nine children to care for, he took an
inn at Mytholmroyd and established a museum
there. This failed, so he had to sell his col-
lection and live in a cottage. Mr. JAMES
CASH, in 1873, gives a glowing account of
Gibson as botanist, geologist, entomologist,
and conchologist in " Where There's a Will
There's a Way : An Account of the Labours of
Naturalists in Humble Life." His fossils,
exhibited at the British Association meeting,
Manohes+er. 18f'2, were purchaspd for the Man-
chester Museum, and are now at Owens Col-
lege. A collection of insects he had to sell
for about £2, was soon after his death sold
again for ^45. Many of the naturalist au-
thors of his time acknowledge help that lie
rendered. He had no schooling except ai a
Sunday school. His collection of seeds and
seed-vessels passed to the authorities of Sal-
ford Museum, Peel Park, and the British
flowering plants went to Mr. Phillips, M.P.,
Manchester, whose daughter. Lady Trevelyan,
at Mr. Crump's suggestion, gave them to
Halifax Corporation. SAMUEIL KING, young-
est son of John King, Lane House, Midgley,
was born June 12th, 1870. He became gar-
dener at The Hollins, Warley, and began a
nursery at Lane House. His sight failed
him, yet he continiaed for many years to be
the minister at Butts Green Baptist Chapel,
Warley. About 1860 he removed to Bank
Bottom, Luddenden, and presented his herba-
rium to the Halifax Literary and philosophi-
cal Society in 1876. He died January 10,
1888, and was buried at Butts Green Chapel.
Charles Eastwood, his nephew, was a contri-
butor to Miall's Flora. He died December 21.
1895. JOHN NOWELL was born at HarAey
Wood Springs, in 1802. He was taught at
Shore Chapel, by the minister, the Rev. John
Midgley, but began botanical studies under
Hdmund Holt, of Lumbutts. His portrait
and collection of mosses are at the Todmorden
Free Library. He died October 28, 1867, and
was buried at Cross-stone Church. The " Man-
chester Guardian," No'vember 5, 1867, gives
an account of his labours, and Mr. Abraham
Stansfield, junr., gives a notice of him as " A
Lancashire Moss Gatherer," m his " Essays
and Sketches." When Baines' Flora was re-
written by Mr. J. G. Baker (Kew Gardens, a
Yorkshire worthy), in 1854, Noweil was en-
trusted with the part of the supplement deal-
ing with Voikjshire mosses, and Dr. ("arriug-
ton, "Flora of the West Riding," 1862, ac-
knowledG;('s indebtedness to Noweil. Emi-
nent bryologists vieited and corresponded
with him. John Howarth and William
Greenwood were his frequent companions on
exouraions. They and ABRAHAM STANS-
FIELD founded the Todmorden Botanical So-
ciety in 1852. Stansfield, the first president^
was born January 12, 1802, at Hugon Croft,
Shore, in Stansfield. In 1844 he started as
nurseryman at Vale Gardens. He contribu-
ted the botanical chapter to the " History of
Rossendale," 1868, by Newbiggin. He died
August 15, 1880, in Cheshire; see Hebden
Bridge Almanack, 1882. There is a portrait
of him at Todmorden Free Library. His son
Abraham is elsewhere mentioned as an author
and noet.
The Haley Hill Working Men's
College, Colonel Akroyd founder, fostered a
scientific society about 1860, circulated a man-
uscript magazine until 1866, when the " Cir-
culator " began to be printed, 2d. each Dum-
ber, R. Leyland and Son, publisher, and lived
two years. Ovenden Naturalist Society wag
begun in 1865. John Walker, born at B'mtb-
town. June 24, 1839, was the leading local
spirit at this time. He resided at Lee House,
Shibden, in 1880, and at Coley Mill Ho,-tie m
1890, where he died May 16, 1895, and was in-
terred at Lister Lane Cemetery, Halifax, tits
collection is at Belle Vue Museum, Halifax.
The Halifax Geologist's Field Club was start-
ed in 1874, and is now known as the Halifax
Scientific Society, who issued the "Halifax
Naturalist," eight volumes, and the " Flora
of Halifax,"' from which this note is taken.
Mr. Heniy Thjma? Soppitt, born at Bradford
in 1858, removed to Halifax in 1894, aiul
there April Ist, 1899, was an ardent worker,
and his name will be associated with Halifax
microscopic fungi in future. His work ap-
pears in the Yorkshire " Naturalist." The
five pages of bibliography given by Messrs.
Crump and Crossland include the following
" separate " publications, excluding articles
in the " Naturalist," " Halifax Naturalist,"
&c.
JAMElS BOLTON. 1785-90. Filices Britan..
2 vols; 'Fur.gises," 1788-91, 4 vols.
HEINRY BRINES' Flora, 1840.
Supplement hy Baker and Now.^11, 1854.
Flora of We«t Riding Miall and Carrington.
" A List of Plants used by the Halifax Medi-
cal Botanic Society, stating the times when
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they flower, and the places where they grow,"
Halifax, Nicholson and Wilson, Cheapside,
1854, eif,'ht pa^'es, lEmo.
"The Circulator, a monthly Magazine of
Literature, Science, and Art; by members of
the Haley Hill Literary and Scientific Soci-
ety," 1867.
" West Yorkshire," by J. W. Davis and F.
A. Lees, elsewhere noticed.
" Guide to Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge
etc., 2nd edition," 1894. Botany by J. Need-
ham.
THE HALIFAX NATTJEALIST AND REU
CORD OF THE SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY.
Vol. I., April 1896 to February 1897 (bi-
monthly). Conducted by W. B. Crump, M.A.,
editor, Charles Crossland, and J. Wms. Sut-
oliffe. Halifax, F. King and Sons, 1897, demy
octavo, pages iv., 1—102, with geological map
of the Parish by C. E. Fox. There is a col-
oured fungus piate. The articles are all on
local natural history, except two of mine on
the origin of Halifax family names.
Vol. ii., Halifax, F. King and Sons, 1898;
pages iv., 1—124. Besides the natural history
articles there are papers by Robert Law,
F.G.S., on " Prehistoric Man," John Longbot-
tom on " Crosses in Halifax Parish," and
" Old Time Punishments."
Vol. iii., 1899, pages iv., 1—132. The out.
side articles include "The Halls of Halifax
Parish," by John Longbottom. "Metal Work
from Benin." by H. Ling Eoth, "Cinerary
TJrns at Todmorden," by Robert Law, "James
Spencer," an obituary, with a list of his arti-
cles in the "Circulator," Manchester; "Geo-
logical Transactions," " Yorkshire Magazine,"
"Naturalist," Science Gossip." Yorkshire Geo-
logical Proceedings,** etc. Mr. Spencer was
born at Luddenden, April 27, 1834, died at Ak-
roydon. July 9, 1898. "Old Warley" and
" Royds " are two more antiquarian articles.
Vol. iv., 1900, pages iv., 1—116. The remain-
ders of these four volumes were destroyed by
a fire at the printers, so the work is scarce.
In this volume Mr. Longbottom continues his
notices of the old halls of the parish.
Vol. v., conducted by W. B. Crump, M.A.,
C. E. Moss, B.Sc, editors, and Frederick Bar-
ker. Halifax, for the Society, by F. King
and Sons, Ltd., 1901, pages iv., 1—124. Mr.
C. Crossland contributed " The Origin of
Some Halifax Surnames," Mr. J. Longbottom
on " Fowles and Vermvn;" " E'arly Halifax
Bibliography" by J. Horsfall Turner; Fijian
Collection at Halifax Museum, by H. Ling
Roth.
Vol. vi., edited by W. B. Crump, M.A., and
J. T. JoUey, M.A. Halifax. King, 1902, pages
iv., 128. "Painting of Halifax," by N. T.
Fielding," used in Jacobs' Halifax ; " Fijian
CfUeotion, etc," by H. Ling Roth, "Antiquar-
ian exhibition." 1901i; "Halifax Bibliography"
by J. Horsfall Turner, are items in addition
to the usual natural history subjects..
Vol. vii., 1903, pages iv., 116. " Upper Sal-
tonstall," )jy John Longbottom, "Halifax
Placo Names," by Charles Crcsslami, bmeu-
ton's Halifax Water-works scheme, flint chip-
pings, Warley winnower; besides natural his-
tory.
Vol. viii., 1904, pages iv., 104, conducted bv
W. B. Crump, M.A., J. T. Jolley, M.A., C.
Crossland, F.L.S. Special articles appear as
under: — "Plaster Work, Arms, &c., on Old
Halls," by Hugh P. Kendall; "Old Porches,"
by the same; "Dialect Words," by W. 13.
Crump. With this volume the valuable
serial became defunct.
JAMEIS W. DAVIS and F. ARNOLD LEES,
F.L.S., M.R.C.S . " West Yorkshire : an ac-
count of its Geology, Physical Geography,
Climatology, and Botan.w" Part i., Geology
by Jas. W, Davis, F.G.S., F.L.S. , hon. sec.
Yorks. Geol. and Polyt. Society, President
Halifax Geol. Society.
Part ii., Physical Geography and Botanical
Topography, by J. W. Davis and F. A. Lees.
Maps and plate. Second edition, London 1889,
demy oetavo. pp. xL, 1^ — 414. 2 maps in pock-
ets, 21 plates. It contains references to the
following local literary contributions : —
Dr. W. H. ALEXANDER. Mineral springs
of Halifax Parish geologically considered.
List of Fossils by J. Gibson 1841. W.R.
Yorks. Geol. and Polytech. Soc, i.
CAPT. T. BROWN. Fossil Shells in Tod-
morden Valley, 1841. Manchester Geol. Soc. i.
J. T. CLAY, Rastrick. Boulders of granite
and other crystalline rocks in the valley of
the Calder, near Halifax, 1841. W.-n,.Y.
Gteol., 1.; also in British Association Report,
1842.
J. T. Clay: Yorkshire Drift and Gravel.
W.R.Y. Geol., i.
Dr. J. INGLIS. Nautilus from Halifax
Coal Beds. Rep. Brit. Assoc, 1847.
SAML. BAINES. Brighouse. Yorkshire
Flagstones and their Fossils. W.R.Y. Geol.,
ill., 1859. Difference in Deposition of Coal,
iv.. 18''0 'fi-cp .Tohn .Tames' Bradford.)
E. W. BINNEY. Ebccursion to Halifax,
Hipperholme, Lightcliffe, and Low Moor.
Manchester Geol. Soc, iv., 1864.
J. SPENCER. Geology of th<- Parish of
Halifax. Millstone Grit Rocks. Manchester
Geol. Soc, ix., 1870.
W. CARRUTHERS. Vegetable Structures
in Halifax Lower Coal Beds. 1871, Croydon
Microscop. Club.
GRREN. DAKYNS, WARD, «nd RUSSELL.
Geology of Dewsbury, Huddersfield, and Hali-
fax. 1871. Geol. Survey Memoir, Svo., Lon-
don. Sheet 88 of one inch surrey, 1874.
RUSSELL and HOLMES. Coal Strata of
Halifax and Bradford, 1872. Geological sheet
43,
JOHN ATTKEiN. Fish in Millstone Grit.
Hebden Bridge, 1874. Manchester Geol. Soc.
iii.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
17a
J. SPEflSrCEiB. Third part of Description
of Millstone Grit, Halifax. Manchester Geol.
Soc, xiii., 1874. Geology of Hard-bed Coal,
1876, Naturalist i.
J. W. DAVIS. Erratic Boulders of Calder
Valley; W.K.Y. Geol. 1876. Bone Bed, lower
ooal measure. Fish; July Jrl. Geol. .Soc, 1876.
Fish Eemains, lower coal measure, W.E.Y.
Geol., 1876. Trees in lower coal measure,
W.E.Y. Geol., 1876.
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Eng-
land and Wales. Explanation of sheet 88,
illustrating the geology of the neighbourhood
of Dewsbury, Hudderefield, and Halifax, by
A. H. Green, J. R. Dakyns, J. C. Ward, R.
Russell. London, 1871, ten pages, demy oc-
tavo.
W. ALEXANDEflB, besides the notice in
article 24, was the author of the following: —
Treatise on the Various Modes of Bathing,
with the analyses of the Mineral Springs of
Scarborough and all their Medicinal Uses, by
W. AK'^'- I'der: Scarborough. i8"J2, 8vo.
Horley Green Mineral Water: its new Chemi-
cal analysis and Medicinal Uses, b,\ \v^. Alex-
ander, M.D. Halifax 1840. Powers of Dis-
infecting Agents as Auxiliary to Sanitary
Measures; Leeds, 1849. Adulteration of
Food and Drinks; Halifax, 1856. Adultera-
tion of Food; Halifax, 1857. On Sea Bathing
and Mineral Waters of Scarborough; Halifax,
1882, 8vu.
JOHN WATERHOUSE, F.R.S., F.E.A.S.,
P.G.S., &c. Eight Years Meteorology of
Halifax, being a record of observations taken
at Well Head during the years 1866 to 1873—
inclusive. Halifax, Walker, " Guardian "
Office, (leorge Street, 1874, Win. x 9.
GEORGE FIELDING, a native of Rippon-
den, settled at Hull about 1800, and acquired
an extensive practice as surgeon. He was for
nearly forty years connected with the Infirm-
ary, where there is a marble bust to him. In
1813 he published a volume of " Surgical
Cases, with Practical Observations. In 1822,
"A Case of Transverse Fracture of the Pa-
tella, in which long unison was procured."
He also contributed to the London Medical
and Physical Journal, the London Medical
G&zette, and the Medico-Chirurgical Transac-
tions of Edinburgh. He was an active sup-
porter of the literary institutions of Hull.
HENKY POWER, Dr. of Physick.
I am pleased to add to the previous notice
of this local worthy tha,tl I have siecured a
copy of his book :
Experimental Philosophy,
in Three Books,
Containing New Experiments, Microscopical,
Mercurinl, Magnetioal, with some Deductions,
&c. London, 1664, small quarto. The first
fly-leaf bears the imprimatur, August, 1663;
the second leaf gives on one page the title;
tlu' next ten leaves contain the preface sig-ned
and dated from New Hall, near Haliiax, Ist
August, 1661; a folding sheet of nine diagrams-
follows next, and this is succeeded by the
Microscopical Observations, pages 1—83. llie
mioi'oscope had recently been invented, and
its revelations filled the author's mind with
delight. 'Ihough not new to modern readers,
his description (wiltli quaint spellings and
dialect words now and again interspersed,) are
pleasant recoids of the new ^\■onders learnit
from ob&erving the flea, fly, bee, moth, louse,
spider, cuckoo-spit, woolly boys, &c. He
several times refers to the books of Dr. Brown,
"iiiv ever honoured friend," author of Religio
Medici. Tlie second book— the Mercurial, hii,s
a aeparate title page, dated 1663. It was be-
gun, he says, in 1653. It occupies pages 85—
149. He records experiments with mercury at
th.e base and the top of Halifax Hill; and
at Pendle Hill, accompanied by Messrs. Town-
ley, of Townley Hall. The third book— Eix-
periments Magnetical, has also a separate title-
page, dated 1663, and embraces pages 151—170.
The next page is a sub-title— Observations
about Cole Mines, treating specially of ciiok-
ing and fire damps, 171—181. The Conclusion
is contained in pages 183—193, and the Errata
is given on page 195. One sentence from this
Conclusion will raise our estimation of the
HUand Philosopher;— "There is a world of
people indeed, but few men in it.' In this
sentence he anticipated Carlyle of our own
day. He continues— "Mankind is but pre-
sei-ved in a few individuals, the greatest part
of humanity is lost in earth, ami their souls
so fixed in that grosser moi€% of themselves
(their bodies) that nothing can volatilize
them, and set their Reasons at liberty." His
attack on student graduates is rich. He com-
pares their proficient wranglings as no more
than a heat tvv-ixt two oyster-wives in Bil-
lingsgate. Dr. Power will be more than a
mere name to me after perusing this interest-
ing tome.
XCVI.— MORAVIAN LITERATURE.
"The Life of Bishop Spangenberg; The Life
of Augustus Gottlieb Spangenberg, Bishop of
the Unity of the Brethren. From the German
of Charles T. Ledderhose, Incumbent of St.
George, in the Black Forest. (Translated by
the Rev. Godfrey Clemens, of Baildon and
Fulneck.) London, 1855; octavo, pages v.,
1-18; steel plate portrait. I3ishop Spangenberg
was the chief ruler of the Brethren at Light-
cliffe, and afterwards at Fulneck, near Leeds.
He was bom July 15, 1704, at Klettenberg in
Prusisia. He was educated at Jena. He for-
sook law, and joined the Moravian Brethren.
In 1726 he had taken his M.A. degree, and in
April, 1730, he visited Herrnhut, accompanied
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by Godfrey Cleniene, ancestor of the Mr.
Clemens wlio translated tliis "Life." ^ From
this time his iissooiation with Count Zinzen-
dorf boi-aine very intimate, and the Count re-
commendcHl him to the Kin;,' of Denmark for
a responsible university post. He prefeiTed
to adhere to his woik at Jena, and next year,
1731, he declined to become profeseor of iJiv-
inity at Halle, but at the wish of the Kin^ of
Prussia he undertook the post. For adhering
to the Brethren he was removed from Ins
office. In 1735 he was commissioned to visit
London to arrange a missionary station in
Georgia, under General Oglethorpe. He went
to Georgia and other parts of America to
superintend missions. John Wesley and Ben-
jamin Ingham, the latter a Yorkshire clergy-
man, became acqviaiuted with him at this
time, i-esulting in the Moravians taking charge
of Mr. Tngha.m's societies which he established
after the acquaintanceship. Mr. Spangen-
berg was general superintendent in England
from April, 1741, his reside^nce at that time
being in London. He visited the Yorksaire
meetings, and arranged to take charge of the
same. Smith House, in Lightcliffe, was chosen
as a place of residence for the ministers after
the model of Marienborn, and the party ar-
rived on June 17th, 1742. Count Zinzendorf
spent eight days at Smith House in February,
1743. At Smith House Spangenberg
composed hymns for the Congrega-
tional use, one of them being,
"When simplicity we cherish." In January,
1744, he removed to Silesia, and in June was
consecrated a Bishop, and he was frequently
engaged in interviews with the Kings of
Europe, and preaching before several. His
publications were nearly all in German. He
issued the "Life of Count Zinzendorf" in
eight parts, 1772-5; "E'xposition of Christian
I>octrine, as taught by the United Brethren,"
1777, — its Latin title being "Idea fidi Fia-
triim," and it has been translated into several
languages. His brother George became Baron
de SpangenbeTg, Privy Councillor under the
Emperor Joseph. Bishop Spangenberg died
at Berthelsdorf September 18, 1792. One of
my copies of his "Life" was given to me by
Mr. Clemens, the translator, but his name.does
not appear. He states that he "translated it
for Mr. Daniel Benham, who published it at
his own expense."
"An Account of the Manner in which the
Protestant Church of the Unitas Fratrum,
or United Brethren, preach the Gospel, and
carry on their Missions among the heathen.
Translated from the German of the Rev.
August Gottlieb Spangenberg." London, 17?'=!,
demv octavo, pages viii., 128. Preface is dated
178o!
"An Exposition of the Christian Doctrine
as taught in the Protestant Church of the
United Brethren or Unitas Fratrum. Written
in German by Augrust Gottlieb Spangenberg,
with a preface by Benjamin La Trobe, 1784,"
was published at 5s.
"The Life of Nicholas Lewis Count Zinzen-
dorf, Bishop of the United or Moravian Breth-
ren, (1700— 17G0), by the Rev. August Gottlieb
Spangenberg. Translated from the Gernian by
Samuel Jackson, with introductory preface by
the Rev. P. La Trobe. London, 1838, demy
octavo, pages xxxv., 511; frontispiece portrait
of Zinzendorf. This is compiled from the
eight parts, issued 1772-5. The first two parts
had been translated into English soon after
their appearance in German.
PEITEIR BOHLER.
"Memorials of the Life of Peter Bohler,
Bishop of the Church of the United Brethren,
by the Rev. J(ohn) P(rior) Lockwood, witii an
introduction by the Rev. Thomas Jackson.
London, Wesleyan Conference, 1868, 12mo.,
pages vii., 143; steel plate portrait of Bishop
Bohler, an excellent one, I presume, having
compared it with one I got many years ago
from Herrnhiit. Enlargements of the por-
traits of Spanrrenherg and Bohler should adorn
the walls of tlie Brighouse Art Gallery, for
though their residence in Lightcliffe was in
each case short no greater worthies ever re-
sided there. Mr. Jackson was a voluminous
Yorkshire author. Mr. Lockwood, my old cor-
respondent, was descended fiom the Ilkley
mechanician John Prior, and he dates the pre-
face from Shinley. He published two or three
other biographical books that I value. John
and Charles Wesley went to America on mis-
sion work under General Oglethorpe, the
philanthropist, with whom were Spangenberg
and other Moravians. After over two years
service in Georgia. John Wesley writes — "I,
who went to America to convert otheis. was
never myself converted to God." In 17?8 the
Wesley brothers returned, and they met in
London with Peter Bohler who had been sent
from Grermany en roiite to America. The in-
terviews cleared the doubts and difficulties of
the brothers, and Bohler passed on to America.
The Wesleys received their general orthodoxy
from the Church of England, but tlieir doctrine
of justification by faith from the Moiavians
who claim descent from the Bohemians, of
whom John Hues and Jerome of Prague were
confessors, and they were influenced by the
writings of the great Yorkshire Reformer
John de Wycliffe, 1324-1384. The Act of Parlia-
ment by which the Moravians are recognized
as an episcopal protestant church in England,
is indirectly an item of Yorkshire biblio-
graphy, as also the "Report of 'he Parliament-
ary Committee on the Brethren's Petition.
1749," folio, 156 pages. This trives the legal
history, tenets, and economy of the Brethren.
The Bohemian protestant church dates from
1457; the Moravian renewal at Herrnhut from
June, 1722. Peter Bohler CBayler,) was born
at Frankfort on Maine, December 31, 1712. In
July, 1737, John Wesley was entertained at
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his father's house in Frankfort. Peter was
eduoated at Jena University, where he became
a convert under Spangenberg, and in 1732 was
introduced to Count Zinzendorf at Jena. In
1734 he entered the University of Leipzig, but
aoon returned to Jena, and became a lecturer
or Junior Profesisor. Ou Deicember 16, 1738,
he was ordained by Count Zinzendorf and
Bishop Nitschman, and sent to minister at
Oxford in England. Reachin;,' London, John
Wesley at once gave to him a letter addressed
to Zinzendorf from John Tolschig, of Georgia.
Oon versing in Latin, friemlslup was at once
struck, and the Wesley brothers went with
Bohler to Oxford, February. 17, 1738, and th«
Wesleys date their "spiritual conversion"
from that visit, and about a hundred others
in Oxford became followers of the Latin
preacher. In May, Bohler left London for
Carolina and Georgia. The voyage took 134
days, owing to contrary winds and no wind.
The Rev. George Whitfield on January 1st,
1740, reached Savannah and became co-worker
with Bohler, who led the evangelical company
through dense forests, where whiteman had
never trod, to the forks of the Delaware to
take possession of 5,000 acres purchased bv
Whitfield for j;2,200. Bohler returned to Eng-
land, setting sail in a leaky old vessel January
29, 1741, but reached Bristol in 27 days. By
Spansenherg's request he left Loudon for
Yorkshire, where thousands had been aroiised
to religious interest by Benjamin Ingham, the
Wesleys, Whitfield, John Nelson. Wi'liam
Delamocte. John Toeltschig, Philip Henry
Molther, &c. The chief work centred between
Halifax and Leeds, Bradford and Huddere
field, so there is no wondei that Liglitclifffc
became the Moravian head quarters with
Bohler the lead'-r at tha^ time, and in Nov-
ember. Ii741. accepted the charge of a body of
German emigrants who were expected in the
Spring of 1742, but did not ai-riye until .Tune.
Me;uitime he married on Febriiary 20th, Miss
Eli/abeth Hobson, evident! j a Yorkshire wy-
n'an Their children were Anthony Peter,
■»U3. Christian. 1746, Benigua, l"4^ Lfivs.
1751, and (it is believed') Louis Frederic who
died ^,t Bethlehem (America") in 1815. Thr
Bishop's widow died at Fulneck in Majcli,
1781, nearly six years after her husband's
death. The gravestone (629) may still be seen.
Bohler took charge of the American conting-
ency and proceeded thither in the Spring,
whilst Spangenberg liad care of the York-
shire party. In November, 1744, Mr. Spangen-
berg took his place in Ameiica. In January,
1748, he was made a Bishop bv Zinzendorf,
.John de Watteville and John Nitschman. The
new Bishop, who could preach to Jews in
Hebrew, and to others in Latin, Greek.
Arabic and German, was now a fluent English
speaker, and had charge of the English con-
gregation. In May, 1753. with a party of
seventy emigrante. he returned to take Spang-
enberg's place in Amei-ica. In March, 1755,
he returned to England, but left his wife in
New York, and, landing at Newcastle, he
hastened across country to Fulneck, which had
taken the prominence of Smith House, and
soon after he crossed to Gennany. From 1756
he was in Germany, but set sail for America
and became assiistant to Spangenberg for eight
years. In 1761 he returned and spent his
time mostly in Germany, but died in London,
and was buried at Lindsey House, Chelsea,
where a small stone records "Petrus Bohler,
a Bishop of the Unitas Fratrum, departed
April 27, 1775, in the 63rd year of his age."
"Memorial Days of the Renewed Church of
the Brethren. Translated from the German.
Printed at Ashton-under-Lyne, 1822, octavo,
pages iii., 224. Preface is dated Herrntiut,
1821. There is no Yorkshire matter in it,
except reference to John Toltschig's expatria-
tion, 1724. Though the chief Yorkshire mis-
sioner we know very little of hjs Yorkshire
career, and much of this is from John Nelson's
Journal, where he takes the Wesleyan side.
"Four Familiar Conversations on the His-
tory of the Church of the United Brethren;
for the instruction *of youth; arranged from
Bishop Holmes's History of that Church.
Ashton-under-Lyne, 12mo., 92 pages; preface
dated Fairfield Sisters' House, 1844, by the
Warden. In 1728 John Toltschig and two
others were sent to England as a deputation
to give information to some inquirers in Lon-
don, and thus the American mission of 1734
had its beginning under Spangenberg. In
1735 the second company of 26 persons pro-
ceeded to Georgia.
"An Epitome of the History of the Church
of the United Brethren, in the way of ques-
tion and answer, for the information of young
persons." Bradford, 1850: small octavo, pages
iv., 96. The editor of this work was the Rev.
.T. Carey, of Horton, but he does not give his
name. He begins his story with St. Paul at
lUyricum, (Rom. xv.), St. Jerome of Illyrioum
in .390, the Sclavonians, 680 Waldensians of
Bohemia 1176, to the Bohemian and Moravian
protestants,— all Anti-papal. Mr. Carey es-
tablished the serial "Fraternal Messenger,
Vol. II., 1853, 512pp."
"A Concise History of the Unitas Fratrum
commonly called Moravians." London,
1862, 12m o.. pages vii., 190.
"Yorkshire Centenary Jubilee, of Congrega-
tions of the United Brethren in Wyke, Mir-
field, Gomersall and Fulneck. April, 1855.
Published by the Fulneck Jubilee Committee."
Small octavo, 105 pages.
"A Short History of the Moravian Church,
by J. E. Button, M.A." London, 1895; octavo,
pages vii., 280. The Rev. J. E. Button is a
native of Fulneck.
"Historical Sketches of the Missions of the
United Brethren for propagating the Gospel
among the Heathen; by the Rev. John Holmes,
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author of a History of the Protestant Church
of the United Brethren. Second improved
edition. Bradford, T. Inkersley. 1827, demy
octavo pages viii., 470. Preface to first edi-
tion is dated Dublin, 1818; to the second,
Pulneck. Leeds, 1826.
The Moravian Almanack, 1869.
The Moravian Almanack, 1870, second year
of issue, 56 pages, 24mo.; gives a list of
Moravian literature, of Ministers, &c.
The Messenger, Monthly Journal, 1870.
The Life of James Hutton, by D. Benham,
gives the fullest account of the first settle-
ment of the Moravians at Lightclifte, and next
to this is Hasse's pamphlet on Elarly English
Moravians.
XCVII.-SOME WRITERS OP FICTION.
"Dialogues between a Pilgrim and Adam;
Noah, Cleophas." Pages iv., 328, demy octavo,
( ) Leeds, B. Baines, printer. The edi-
tor's preface ' is signed Asa Moor, Wiggles-
worth in Craven, August 27, 1801, in which
he states that he prints from the edition of
1769,
"Dialogues between a Pilgrim, Adam, Noah,
and Cleophas, containing the History of the
Bible and of the Jews, &c., &c., originally
translated from the Dutch. To which is pre-
fixed (affixed) An Historical Catechism; and
the Christian Eteonomy. Halifax, J. and J.
Nicholson, 1806, demy octavo, pages vi., 337;
Historical Catechism, 30 pages; Christian
Economy, 30 pages.
Dialogues between a Pilgrim, Adam, &c.,
with two engraved titles by Topham, of Leeds.
Leeds, printed by B. Dewhirst, and the other,
Halifax, printed by J. Nicholson and Co.,
demy octavo, ( ), pages, vi., 337; Christ-
ian Economy, 30 pages; Historical Catechism
(Inchbold and Gawtrees, printers, Leeds), lli
pages; list of eleven plates. Scripture Scenes.
Dialogues between a Pilgrim, Adam, Itc.,
engraved title, Leeds, B. Dewhirst. Frontis-
piece and eleven engravings, ( ) pages,
iii., 416, including the Eteonomy; Historical
Catechism, (J. Nicholson and Co., printers,
Halifax). They printed all this book as shewn
by their names on page 337. The plates differ
and the text is amplified.
Dialogues, &c. Elngraved title, Leeds, B.
Dewhirst; frontispiece of Samuel and Elli by
Topham. Second title page gives Leeds, B.
Dewhii-st, 1813, pages vi-, 337; Christian
Economy, 30 pages; Historical Catechism, 18
pages; Leeds, B. Dewhirst; eleven illustra-
tions but differing from Nicholson's list.
JOHN MITCHEL.
The Female Pilgrim, or the Tiavels of
Hephzibah, under the similitude of a dream,
in which is given, &c., &c., illustrated with
copper plates. To which is added a Supple-
ment of the Female Pilgrim, or the Travels
of Evangelistus, containing a succinct narra-
tion, &c., the marriage of the Prince of Salem
and Princess Hephzibah; to which is annexed
a Dooi- to the Heart, a Key to the Allegory."
Halifax, J. Nicholson, 1809, large octavo, pages
xxiii., 1^408; ; Elvangelistus, 1-90; six plates,
four by Livesey of Leeds, and two by Topham
of Leeds. The allegory is in tlie style of
Bunyan's inimitable work, but a long way
behind it. John Mitchel, whoever he was, in-
troduces his name in an acrostic poem in the
preface, and inserts several poems in the work,
evidently originals. He was a talented lay-
man.
J. NICHOLSON, Halifax, 1811, issued the
remainders with a new title, and a printer's
blunder — "The Female PirLgim."
DANIEL DE FOE, the voluminous writer
ad controversialist, is said to have written
two of his most famous books whilst hiding
himself at Halifax. Being forced to flee from
London on account of his political writings.
he took up his abode in Back-lane, Halifax,
at the sign of the Rose and Crown, where he
was known to Dr. Nettleton, the physician
whom we have already noticed, and to the Rev.
Nathaniel Priestley, of Noi-thgate Chapel. The
Priestleys were constantly doin;;; business
with i"elatives and others in Lond'^n, and be-
ing well-known Nonconformists were just the
people to shield the writer. As de Foe wrote
for a living, he would not be anywhere long
without using his pen. Indeed his journey in
these parts has been printed, and there is
good ground for accepting Mr. Watson's state-
ment, written soon after the famous man had
been buried at Bunhill Fields, London, that
it was here where ["De Jure Divino," and] ?
"The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe'' were
wiritten. Mr. Watson rather ungracefully
gives De Foe a mean character when he states
what was never attempted to be proved, that
Alexander Selkirk, who had been cast on the
Island of Juan Fernandes, gave De Foe the
manuscript memoir to methodize for the press,
but struck out this novel, and forestalled and
robbed Selkirk of his reward. There is no
doubt that Selkirk had thus been cast adrift
for De Foe seems to allude to him in the pre-
face to the third volume "Serious Reflections"
— "There is a man alive and well known, whose
life> most part of this story directly
alludes to."
DE FOE'S " ROBINSON CRUSOEl "
"Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,
with engravings from designs by Thomas
Stothard, R.A., engraved by Charles Heath,
and a Sketch of De Foe by Henry .1. Niooll.
London, John Hogg, 1883, lai-ge octavo, pages
xxxvi., 510. The plates, of which a list is
given in the book, were prepared iov the edi-
tion of Robinon Crusoe, published by T-
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
177
Cadell and W. Davies in 1820. They have
been steel-faced for this edition. The first
and second parts were issued in April and
August, 1719; the third was sent out a year
later than the second.
Robinson Crusoe, par Daniel de Foe, precede
d'une notice sur sa vie et ses ounragee. Paris
Firmin Didot, 1870, octavo, 454 pages. No
illustrations. "Daniel Foe naquit a Londree
en 1663; d'un simple boucher; mourut a Is-
lington en avril 1731." Since I saw his giave-
six>ne, a very insignificant upright one, in
Bunhill Fields, the youth of England have
erected a more worthy memorial in its plac«.
This French translation is well done in all
respects, but the birth should be given 1661.
Abri<lged for School Reading Books. — "Life
and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robin-
son Crusoe, of York, mariner, by Daiuiel de
Foe, edited for school use with explanatory
notes, &C-, by Alfonzo Gardiner," (a Leeds
Schoolmaster). Eldinburgh, Chambers, 1884,
octavo, pages vi., 322. My friend Gardiner
has edited a favourite boys' book in fine style,
the illustration, notes, and division into
chapters being well done.
"Robinson Crusoe" abridged for use in
Schools; with illustrations. Bell's Reading
Books, London, 1897, pages iv., 170. This is
very much abbreviated.
Life and most Surprising Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner, who lived
eight-and-twenty years in an uninhabited
ifllftnd on the coast of America, near the month,
of the great river Oronoko. With an account
of his deliverance thence and his after surpris-
ing adventures. London, WTiitaker; Edin-
burgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1818, 177 pages, 12mo.,
frontispiece and other rude engravings, and
poor i)aper.
There are several other editions mentioned
in our notice of James Crossley's library. The
issue in demy octavo, printed by Holden, Hali-
fax, about 1800, for J. Walker, publisher,
Halifax, demands special mention. It has
510 pages, with engraved title, and seven quaint
plates. The book was issued in numbers. Mr.
Walker also advertises, as issued in numbers,
a large folio family Bible; the Methodist
Manual; Simpson's Plea for Religion; Fleet-
w^ood's Life of Christ; Baxter tn Conversion;
and Venn's Whole Duty of Man.
Thomas Gent, the York printer, whilst a
journeyman labourer in London, issued "The
Life and most Surprising Adventures of Rob-
inson Crusoe, of York, mariner. The whol«
thre© volumes faithfully abridged and set
forth with cute proper to the subject. Lon-
don, printed by E. Midwinter, 1722, 12mo.,
376 pages. Mr. Davies, York, bad a copy.
There are thirty woodcuts rudely ©xecnted
from Gent's grotesque designs.
Btran^es Aventnres 4e Robinson Crusoe,
avec une Ettude sur I'Auteur, par Battier,
Paris, 1877. 8vo., elegantly printed on papier
de Hollande, with 8 coloured illuetrations after
Fesquet, &c., morocco super extra, unout, top
odges gilt, by Riviere. £2 2s.
Some notice of De Foe in HJalifax will b©
found in the Halifax Congregational Maga-
zine I. 253.
Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe, including an Account of his Ship-
wreck and Residence for twenty-eight years
on an unknown Island, &c. Written by him-
self. Halifax, n.d., 8vo.
Robinson Crusoe, Chap-book, IB pages, rude
woodcuts, Leeds, J. Roberts
ANONYMOUS.
"The Authentic and Interesting History of
Misg Moreton, and the Faithful Cottager, to
which is added Zara, A Moral Tale. Omnia
Vincit Amor." Halifax, M. Garliok, 1816,
12nio., 228 pages. Zara, 88 pagee additional.
M. Garlick, printer of "Zara"; M. Garlick and
Co., of "Miss Moreton."
There is an edition dated 1821.
XCVIIL— SOME MORE CLERGYMEiN.
THE HOYLES. As with the families
of Mevei'al other local authors that
we have named, the Hoyles have re-
sided in the parish ever oiuce surnames
were adopted, that is, before 1400, or even
1300 in many oaees. The Hoyles take their
name from their original place of residence,
possibly places of residence, for there were
Foyles of Hoyl© or the Hole in Hipperholme,
Hoyles of the Hole in Sowerby, besides a
family similarly named from the Hole in
Colne Valley. I believe these had not a com-
mon origin, neither had the Booths of Hali-
fix and Holmfirth, any more than the numerotiR
Smiths, Milners, and Walkers.
Besidee EDMOND HOYLB, whose work on
"Games" reached numerous editions, claimed
conclusively by Mr. B. J. Walker, in the
"Halifax Guardian" Portfolio, as productions
t a Halifax man, we have JOSHUA HOYLEI,
D.D., who was born in Sowerby, educated at
Magdalene Hall, Oxford, became Fellow of
Trinity College, Dublin, and Divinity Professor
there, as well as D.D. In hie duties as Pro-
fessor he expounded all the Bible in daily
lectures, which lasted fifteen years, and whilst
this was in progress he took a similar serieg
in Trinity College Church, and in ten years
expounded all the New Testament (except one
book and part of another), and aU the prophets,
Solomon and Job. He usually preached three
times ©very Lord's Day, and on all holy days.
H© gave a course of lectures in the Bellarmine
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Controversy. In 1641, on the outbreak of the
Irish Rebellion, he returned to Bnglaiul, and
,y^ made Vicar of Stepney, near London, but
failed to satisfy his pai-ishioners, being too
gcholastical in hiis style. He wa^ selected in
1&13 as one of the Assembly of Divmeb. He
furnishetl evidence against Archbishop Laud
on his trial, on matters that concerned Dub-
lin University. The Parliamentary Com-
mittee appointed him Master of University
College. Oxford, and the King's Protossor of
Divinity. In vindication of his tnend Arch-
bishop Usher, he wrote "A Eejomder to Wil-
liam Malone, Jesuit, his reply concerning the
Sal Presence." Dublin, l&il, 662 pages,
thick quarto. Dr. Hoyle died December 6,
1654 and was buried in the Lniversity Col-
lege Chapel, demolished soon afterwards, now
the College quadrangle, Oxford. I find a short
memoir of Mm in Reid's "Westminster
Divines." IL, 45. Paisley, 1815; see also
Wood, Calamy, and Walker.
THE GREENWOODS. From the origin of
«nn7ames in Yorkshire, the Greenwoods have
euiname. m ^alderdale, taking their
resided in ^PPJ^^ ^ ^ear Heptonstall.
SSdes aTamoS LoTdot Schoolmaster of thi«
Sme. we must mention at least two famous
clergymen, as under-.—
DANIEL GREENWOOD, D-D., was born m
th?to.^ship of Sowerby, became Fust Fel ow.
and arerwavd- Principal of Braseii^nose ol-
We Oxford, 1648, and Vice-chancellor or the
Umv. sity 1. 1650 and 1651. He was a great
supporter' of the Parliament, '^^^ consequently
was ejected at the Restoration, 1660 He re-
ined . Studley in Oxfordsliire, and seem^ t.
ijsve held the rectory, living very P^va^-^^
,^urmg hit wife's lifetime. Anthony Woiod
reports that he was a severe and good gover-
nor both as principal and vice-chancellor. The
doctorship was conferred upon him m 164a.
On the death of his wife, he resided with his
nephew, Mr. DANIEiL GREENWOOD, rector
of Steeple Aston, near Dedington, Oxfordshire,
where he died January 29, 1673, and was buried
in the chancel there. A monument was erected
to his memory, the inscription on which is
copied into Le Neve's Monumenta, I., Ii57. His
age was 71.
The nephew, DANIEL, was son of John
Greenwood, and was born in Sowerby, becajne
scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge, and in
1648 by favour of his uncle was made Fellow
of Brazen-nose College. Oxford, several of the
Fellows having been ejected that year because
of their attachment to the King. In 1653 he
was presented to the rectory of Steeple Aston.
Oxfordshire. He died at Woodstock in 1679,
a,nd was buried near his uncle, a marble
tablet commemorating liie virtues. He was 51
years old. He published two sermons: —
(1). A Sermon at Steeple Aston, at the
Funeral of Mr. Francis Croke of that place,
August 2nd, 1672, from Isaiah Ivii., 1-2. Ox-
ford. 1680, quarto.
(2). A Sermon at the Funeral of Alexander
Croke, of Studley, in Oxfordshire, Esquire,
buried at Chilton in Bucks., October 24, 1672,
from 2 Cor. vi., 7-8. Oxford. 1680, quarto.
JAMEtS GREENWOOD, Sur-Master of St.
Paul's School, author of the "Eiiglish Gram-
mar," was possibly not a Yorkshireman, but
of longer or shorter ancestory it is certain
the Greenwoods are of Yorkshire origin. It
is probably the commonest name in Halifax
at this day. "London Vocabulary: English
and Latin, 1767, pages viii., 96. iMmo., illustrat-
ed with quaint cuts. 15th edition.
JOHN GREENWOOD, puritan, executed at
Tyburn in 1593, Query if a Yorkshireman?
His Answer to Geo. Gyffard is a single leaf.
A copy is in York Minster Library. A Plaine
refutation of Giffard's Donatists of England.
Other works, published collectively.
REV. WM. GREENWOOD, M.A., Rector of
Thrapstone, Northants., was son of T. Green-
wood, Halifax. The Elector's wife died July,
1829, aged 69.
THE REV. HENRY GREENWOOD is pre-
sumed to have been a Yorkshireman, and al-
most as likely to have been from Halifax
parish. York Minster Library has four
pamphlets that he wrote, namely, "The Race
Celestiall," London, 1628; "The Blessedest
Birth that ever was," 1628; "A Joyful Tract-
ate of the most blessed Baptisme that ever
was," 1628; "The Javier's Jayle Deliverie, a
Sermon," 1628.
THE DRAKES. From very early times
the Drakes resided in Shibden-dale, and prob-
ably took the surname from a drake or
swampy district there. Of the same famliy
as the reverend authors connected with Ponte-
fract, was the REV. FRANCIS DRAKE, who
lived part of kis time in Halifax and died
there. He was an M.A., and besides a practic-
al exposition on the Church Catechism, which
Mr. Watson says was in manuscript, he wrote
and published — "The Nature of Lying, and of
Moral Tnith, set forth in two sermons, from
Ephesians iv., 25, preacl^d in the Church of
Halifax. Preceded by a short address to the
reader. Halifax, P. Darby, 1760, 40 pages, 4to.
The DRAKE'S DIARY, recording the events
of the Sieges of Pontefract in the time of
Charles I., is published in one of the volumes
of the Surtees Society. Vicar Samuel Drake,
of Pontefract, was a Shibden man. He pub-
lished an Assize Sermon, York, 1670. His
descendants have a long history as clergymen,
and medical men, and authors at Pontefract
and York, including Dr. Drake, the York
historian, and Dr. Nathan Drake of more re-
cent times, author of "Literary Hours," &c.
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179
JOHN DRAKE, vicar of Dunnington, Eipon,
was a native of Halifax parish, but I am not
aware that he printed anything.
NATH. i>RAKE, M.A., & Vicar of Weighton:
A Sennon aj^ainst Bribery; preached .July 8,
1695, in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter in
York, before the Right Honourable Mr. Justice
Nevill, and Baron Turton. London, printed
for W. Kettilby, St. Paul's Church Yard, and
Francis Hiklyard, Bookseller in York, 1695:
small quarto, 23 pages. Dedication to Ingleby
Daniel, Esq., High Sheriff of the County of
York. There is a copy in York Minster
Library, and I have one.
WILLIAM DRAKE, M.A., Rector of Full
Sutton, Chaplain to Lord Viscount Blaney.
A Sermon preach'd at Hatfield, October 6,
17'15, on occasion of the present Troubles at
Home and Abroad." York, printed for John
Hildyard, 1745, 6d., 32 pages octavo. Dedicated
to the Archbishop of York, the Lord Lieuten-
ant (Earl of Malton), Wm. Simpson, Esq., and
the rest of the Worthy Gentlemen, Deputy
Lieutenants of the West Riding. It
is against the Rebellion and Roman-
ism. T have a copy of this sermcu, and there
is one in the Minster Library, York.
DR. FAVOUR. A memorial of Dr. John
Favour, Vicar of Halifax, born at Southamp-
ton in Januarj', 1556-7, is preserved there in
the Hartley Institiite. It is a copy of the first
edition of the authorised version of the Bible,
giving Exodus xiv., 10 twice over, and bears
an inscription signed by John Favour, July,
1612, whicli shews that he presented it to his
native town, "that it may be chayned to a
deske in the Councell Chamber of the Audit-
house for the edification of those that shall
reade therein, as also by the sight thereof the
good Magistrates may be put in mind of Mercy
and .ludgement, and to doe all things to God's
glorie and in love to their brethren."
The REV. ISAAC SMITH was son of the
Rev. Matthew Smith, of Mixenden, but un-
like his father and brother he conformed. I
have copies of the only two publications he
issued, and they are of the extremest rarity;
in fact I do not know of anv others : —
"THE TRADITIONS OF THEI CHURCH no
way destructive of Religion, a SERMON
pi-each'd at Bingley Church on Sunday, Sep-
tember 12, 1731. By Is. Smith, Minister of
Haworth, near Keighley, Yorkshire. London,
Jer. Batley, printer, 1731, 6d., small quarto,
pages iv., 21. "To Richardson Ferrand, Esq.,
— Sir, The great Esteem I always had for your
Merit, both as a Gentleman and a Scholar,
ever since I had the happiness of your Ac-
quaintance, makes me lay hold on every op-
portunity of shewing it; and as the following
Sermon happen'd to be preach'd before you,
I beg leave to Dedicate it to one who knows
both how to Approve or Censure it according
to the Rules of right Reason and Judgment.
I am. Sir, Your most humble and devoted
Servant, Isaac Smith."
The second pamphlet was given to me by
my venerable and deceased friend Canon Hul-
bert, of Almondbury, —
"A Letter to the People of Haworth Parigli,
by Isaac Smith, M.A.; occasioned by His
late Suspension." London, 1739, no printer's
name, pages viii., 56, octavo. Mr. Smith had
offended the authorities by marrying couples
who came beyond his chapeli-y; a few further
accounts may be seen in my "Haworth Past
and Present," and page 229, note, "Halifax
Congregational Magazine, I."
PETER SUNDERLAND'S Lectureship,
Bradford Church. .Samuel and Peter Sunder-
land, of Coley Hall, were benefactors to many
churches in the West Riding. Mr. A.' B.
Sewell, Bradford Parish Church, has a pamph-
let of 33 pages quarto, entitled:— "A Letter
to the Rev. Dr. Legh, Vicar of Halifax, re-
lating to the present misunderstanding be-
tween the Vicar of Bradford and his Lecturer.
By B. Kennet, A.M., Vicar of Bradford.
Leeds, John Hirst, 1733.
Mr. John Lister had been appointed tem-
porarily in the place of Mr. Hill, deceased, as
master of the Bradford Grammar School.
Mr. Lister, however, succeeded to the School
at Bury, and Mr. Butler to the Bradford
School. The Vicar objected to the claim there-
by made to the Lectureship. Reprinted in
"Bradford Antiquary," July 1805
REV. HENRY FOSTER, M.A., wag the
youngest of five sons of a shallon manufactur-
er near Heptonstall, and was bom in 1745.
When he was seventeen he had a severe in-
fectious complaint, and his father died from
the same disease at that time. Henry was
educated at Heptonstall School, and in 1764
proceeded to Queen's College, Oxford, where
his tutor. Dr. Fothergill, guarded and educated
him. In 1767, September, he was ordained
deacon by the Bishop of London, and priest
two years later, in both cases by titles from
Mr. Romaine of Blackfriars' Church, whom
he assisted. Mr. Newton, of Olney, Cowper's
friend, strongly urged Mr. Foster to become
assistant at Olney, but he preferred to re-
main in London, and accepted the Lectureship
of St. Etthelburga, Bishopgate Street, chang-
ing the same shortly afterwaixls for a similar
post at Blackfriars Churches. On resigning
this post and the curacy many years later he
received a piece of plate as "A Token of
Gratitude from the pai-ish of St. Andrew-
Wardrobe, London, to the Rev. Henry Foster
for his faithful discharge of the duties of
Curate and Lecturer for more than twenty
years." About 1769 he had been chosen a
preacher at Watling Street Church, and m
1774, at London Stone Church, acd in 1775 at
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St Peter's, Cornhill. Tie was also Co-minister
with Mr. Cecil at Lothbuiy. and for twelve
years (the inaxiinuni limit) he was lectiirer
at Spitalfields. With these ougafjements, it
was his custom to average from five to eight
aermons weekly. He had offers of livinj,'fi at
Claphain, in Surrey, and other good posts.
In 1IS07 he was licensed by lUshop I'orteus to
St. Janios', Cierkenwell. He laboure<l in-
dustriously until his death. May 26th, 1814,
aged 69, and a tablet was erecte<l in the
Cliurch to his Memory. He published nothing
of his own but a sermon preached in New-
gate to Malefactors, some of whom manifested
utter callousness during its delivery. He alt»o
edited an edition of Leighton's Exposition of
St. Peter. Mr. Newton's Life of Grinishaw is
not iaappropriately addreese<l in the form of
letters to Mr. Foster. The "Evangelical Maga-
zine" for February, 1815, gives a eulogistic
niemoir, with a portrait, of our local worthy.
REIV. HENRY FOSTER. M.A., Minister of
St. Jamee', Cierkenwell. "The Bible Preacher,
or Closet Companion for every day in the year,
consisting of 365 Outlines of Sermons in a
series from Genesis to Revelations, to^'ether
with six complete sermons, printed from his
own manuscripts; with memeir by Rev. S.
Piggott, A.M." London, 18'2-1., small octavo
size, pages xxxvi., 676. There is a very email
subscription list, with only two Halifax names
and perhaps tie Rev. W. Sutcliffe, Amotherby,
near Malton, was a native of the parish. The
memoir of Foster is very interesting. He wag
bom at Heppinstall (Heptonstall) in the begin-
ning of 1745, etlucated at Heptonstall School
until January, 1764, when he entered Queen's
College, Oxford. His father was a shalloon
maniifacturer, who dietl of a fever, and left a
widow with five sons and a daughter, about
1762. Mr. Henry Foster published a sermon
preached at Newgate, and edited Leighton's
Exposition of St. Peter. He died May 26, 1814,
aged 69. His portrait, thougli taken by stealth,
is considered a good one.
XCIX.— SOME MOREI CLEKGYMEN.
REV. WILLIAM GRJMSHAW. "Memoirs of
the late Rev. William Grimsliaw, A.B., minis-
ter of Haworth, with occasional refiections; by
.lohn Newton, Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth;
in six letters to the Rev. Henry Foster, Minis-
ter of St. James's, Cierkenwell." London.
1814; pages iii., 169, small octavo. A pirated
edition was rudely printed on coarse paper at
Haworth by GTe«nwood many yiears afterwards.
The Rev. H. Foster was ta native of Hepton-
stall. I have also the edition printed in Lon-
don in 1799, 187 pages, for the Society for the
Rtdief of poor, pious Clergymen of the Estab-
liahed Church; sold by Edwards and Son.
Halifax; Stanwfield, Bradfortl; Binns and
Brown, Leeds; lt2mo., pages iii., 187. Grim-
sluiw was Iwrn at Brindl© near Preston Sept.
3, 1708. He became dwicon in 1731 and settled
at Todmorden. In 1742 he removed to Haworth.
He die<l April 7, 176.'}, and was buried at Uid-
denden; the REV. HENRY VENN, Vicar of
Huddersfiold, preached his funeral sermon
there, and next day (Sunday) at Hawortli. I
have a copy of it. Ho had been married twice,,
and his only son died without issue in 1765,
whose widow married for her third husband
the REV. JOHN CROSSE, of Cross-stone. The
Religious Tract Socieity issue a tract bj Grim
shaw (No. 261), "Is it well with you ?"
"William Grimshaw, Incumljent of Haworth^
1742-63, by R. SPBNCE HARDY." London,
1860, pages vii., 287, octavo. A second edition
in 1861.
" Christ the Joy of the Christian's
Life and Death his'Oain; a sermon preached
April 10, (1763), in Haworth Church on the
Death of the Rev. William Grinishaw, A.B.,
Minister of the Parish, and published at the
request of hie Friends. To which is added a
Sketch of his Life and Ministry; by H. VENN,
A.M., Vicar of Huddersfield," 36 pa,ges, octavo,
Leeds, G. Wright, 1763. "The Life and Writ-
ings of the late Rev. William Grimshaw, A.B.,
Minister of Haworth; by WILLIAM MYLBS."
London, 1813. The first edition was issued in
1806 from Newcastle on Tyne, 199 pages, 12m o.
"Life of Charles Wesley, by Thomas Jackion,"
2 vols., 8vo., gives copious notices of Grimshaw,
as does Timothy Crowther in his "Methodist
Manual." "An Answer to a Sermon lately pub-
lished agiainst the Methodists by the Rev.
George White, A.M., Minister of Colne and
Marsden; by Mr. William Grimshaw, B.A.,
Minister of Haworth; 86 pages, 12mo. This is
reprinted by Myles.
The Religious Tract Society has a Memoir
of Grinishaw in their biographical series.
Mr. Orimuhaw also supplied an account
of the Origin and Growth of Methodism in
West Ytorkshire to Dr. Gillies, Glasgow, and
M appears in the Appendix to the Doctor's
Historical Collections.
THE REV. JOHN CROSSE, Cross-stone
Church. "The Parish Priest pourtrayed in the
I ife, Chararter and Ministry of the Rev. John
CroQse, A.M., late Vicar of Bradford, and
Chaplain to Earl de la Warr; by the Rev.
William Morgan, B.A., Christ Church, Brad-
ford. Bradford (1841), octavo, pages xxiv., 228.
poitrait as frontispiece. Mr. Cros.se, "the blind
Vicar of Bradford,'' was born in London in
1739, educated at Hadley near Darnet, a place
that brings fco my mind a day's outing therei
In 1816,he became incumbent of Cross-stone and
Toflmorden. Mr. Grimshaw had left Todmor-
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den in 1742 for Haworth. His sou had married
a lady named Gibson, of Bridgeroyd, near
Todmorden, and after Ms death she married
a Mr. Sutcliffe, father of Mr. W. Sutcliffe, of
Bath, who had two volumes of Mr. Crpsso's
Manuscript diaries and notes. Mrs. Sutcliffe,
his mother, married for her third husband
Mr. Crosse. She possessed several relics of the
famous Haworth incumbent, including a Large
bible used by Mr. Crosse afterwards in the
Bradford Church pulpit. After six years at
Cross-stone and ten at White Chapel, Cleck-
heaton, Mr. Crosse became Vicar of Bradford
in 1784. He re-printed a tract on "A Serious
Address to persons presenting a child to be
baptized" which had been wTifcten by the Rev.
John Scott, of Hull. Mr. Morgan republished
it in 1838. Mr. Crosse in 1816 had Mr. John
Fennell for a curate at Bradfordi Mr. j?'en-
nell, near kinsmian of Mrs. Bronte, became
Incumbent of Cross-stone. Mr. Crosse publish-
ed several easy little books for children, the
largest being "An Attempt to assist yo.uth in
the great and important work of Religion,
containing select passages of prayers, &c.,
particularly recommended for the use of Sun-
day Schools." Mr. Raikes' second letter ex-
planatory of Sunday Schools was written to
BKidford, presumably to Mr. Crosse.
"Attempt to Assist Youth in Religion. For nee
in Sunday Schools," 24mo., 47 pages, Bradford,
1797. Another edition, 12mo., 140 pages had
been previously issued, and a 12mo. edition,
47 pages, was printed in Bradford, in 1819.
Mr. Crosse died in 1816; his funeral
©ermon was delivered by the REV. JOHN
FHNNE'LL, "Funeral Sermon on the Rev.
John Crosse, late Vicar of Bradford, June 23,
181/6''; 28 pages octavo, Bradford, 181ft
"Elegy on the Rev. John Crosse, A.M., late
Vicar of Bradford," Bvo., 44 pages, Bradford,
1816. Memoir of the Rev. John Crosse, A.M.,
Vicar of Bradford, by the Rev. Wm. W.
Stam.p, is in the "Wesleyan Methodist Maga.-
zine," 1844, in which we are told that Mr.
Crosse published, about 1791>, a pamphlet in
reply to the scurrilous attacks of Mr. BaJd-
wyn, — "A Letter to the Inhabitants of the
Town and Parish of Bradford." He also
issued somift time before his death an Appeal
to the parishioners. He was author of a
pamphlet in Defence of the Church; entitled
"A Reply to Objections brought against the
Church of England," Bradford, 8vo., 26 pages,
1/798. Congratulatory Address to the Rev.
John Crosse, on his spiritual health, &c., &c.,
197 pages, 1791, scurrilous t^act by "Trim''
(Rev. Edward Baldwyn). Letter "to the In-
habitants of Bradford, in reply to "Trim,"
pages vi., 58, 1791, Bradford.
REV. ALFRED BROWN, M.A.
(For the Parishioners of Galverley.) A
Reminiscence of the Ministry of the Rev". Al-
fred Brown, M.A., for thirty-one years the
faithful and beloved Vicar of the Parish.
Lee<ls, 1877. This pamphlet was gra-
tuitously distributed by Mrs. Jane Brown
as a memorial of her husband, and I was fav-
oured with several copies. The first xii. pages
give a brief memoir, the rest give outlines of
seven s&rmons, out of above 2,,500 in manu-
script. His first sermon as curate of Calverley
was delivered August 18, 1839, and his iast as
curate was on December 26, 184.1. He then b&-
oanie incumbent of Cross-stone, which he re-
linquished in 1845, having succeeded his father-
in-law, the Rev. S. Redhead, as Vicar of Gal-
verley, where he continued until his death. A
more general favourite, as Vicar of a Parish,
I never heard of, and I found him to be in
every respect a thorough gentleman, when, al-
though a stranger, and non-parishioner, he
gave me from 1873 onwards unlimited acceBB to
the Calverley Parish Registers. From dates
1568 to 1«12, I copied all the Idle, Thackley,
Wrose and Windhill entries without any let
or idea of payment, and this labour so excited
the curiosity of the Clerk's son, my then young^
friend Mr. Samuel Margerison, that he began
to copy the olde.st books and printed them in
three volumes. He has since done much anti-
quarian research and scarcely less as an accom-
plished botanist. Our esteemed friend Vicar
Brown died in December, 1876. "Two Sermons
preached in the Parish Church of Calverley
by the Right Rev. Bishop Ryan, D.D., Vicar
of Bradford, and the Revi. Henry Arnold
Favell, M.A., Sheffield, on the Death of the
Beloved Vicar of this Parish." Bradford, H.
Gasbarth, 1877, 33 pages, small octavo. Mr.
Brown was a native of Leeds.
A small 24mo. pamphlet of a Children's Ad-
dress by Mr. Brown was also privately printed
by his widow for distribution to the children
of Calverley. I have a copy.
CHARLES ROGERS, Incumbent of Sowerby
Bridge. "Memoir of Thomas Rogers, A.M."
Wakefield, 1832, small octavo, pages xiii., 248.
The Rev. Thomas Rogers was Chaplain at
Wakefield Prison; his son, the author of the
memoir, kept a private school at Sowerby
Bridge, or rather took private pupils to board
"Memoir of the REV. J. W. DEW, Incum-
bent of St. James's, Halifax. H. Martin, "Elx-
press" Office, Upper George Yard, Halifax,
1836, 64 pages, diminutive 64mo. John Worgan.
Dew, born Feb. 7, 1797, at Coleford, Gloucester-
shire, was prepared for ordination by the Rev.
John Heslop, Haxby Hall, York. In December^
1824, he became curate at Wigginton, York. In
1826, June, he was appointed Cfurate at Round
hay under the Rev. Charles Musgrave, and in
December, Chaplain to Viscount StrathalLan
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HALIFAX BOOKS AM> AUTHORS.
He had married Anne daughter of Mr. trott
Wonnald, of Harrogate. His next curacy was
at Whitkirk, and in 1831. Autumn he was pre-
eeuted to St. James's. HAtlifax. by ,Mr Mub-
irrave, Viaar of Halifax. St. Jaine* s Uiurch
was i^onsec.rated Sciptomher 2-2nd, 1831, and
i[r Dew came January let, 1832. He died
Seirtember 5. 1834, and the congregation placed
a tablet to his memory in t^^^^^i)^^'^'^,^,^
"A Brief Memoir ot the REV. JOHN
riMEBY HASLAM, B.A., St. Johns
College, Cambridge, late ^J^'^^^'n'''], jf
the Church Missionary Tnetitubou. Cotta,
Ceylon; with a preface by ttie
Ven. Archdeacon Hill." London 1857.
small octavo, pages xv., 136 frontispiece of the
Tne^titution. Archdeacon Hill dat^ from Soar-
borough, July, 1856. Mr. Ha.lam was ..orn m
the neighbourhood of Halifax June 13 1811
and was educated at Heath SchooJ until 1825,
when he was placed under the tuition of the
Eev J W Brooks, Bast Retford, but m 1828
his father died atnd he returned to Yorkshire
*nder the tuition of the Rev W. H. Bull of
Sowerby. He entei ed St. John's, Cambridge
in 1832 He had established an evening scliool
af Sowerby Croft for youthe, two miles from
his home, and starteti a religious mission at
Norland. In 1837 he married, at Chesterfield,
Miss Denton, who prepared to join him in
missionai-y work. In 1838 they saiJed to
Ceylon, and he quickly mastered Singhalese
sufficiently to address audience^, and began
Sanscrit. ' In 1843 he ti-anslated MiU'b Life of
Christ from Sanscrit into English and from
English into Singhaleee, and part of it was
published for use in the schools. The vest
was set aside to give place to his revision of
the Singhalese Bible. In 1845 he compiled an
Arithmetic for the Institution and a vocabul-
ary in Singhalese and English, explaining Eng-
lish grammar, for students learning Euglish.
He translated Watts' Catechism of Scripture
History for the use of the Schools, and wrote
sermons on the Apostles' Creed for Catechiate,
He was also the means of erecting some native
churches. He died March mh, 1850. The
Memoir waa edited or written by the Rev. W.
Knight, Secretary of the Church Missienaiy
Stociety.
THE REV. GEORGE BURNETT, incumbent
of Mland, died on July 8th, 1798, aged 58. He
was a convert under the evangelical labonrt; of
Mr. Walker, of Tiniro. He became t urate to
?vlr. Venn, Vicar of Hv^ldeisfield. He was pre
sented to the living of Mland by Dt. Legh.
Vicar of Halifax. The people of Elland were
at that time described as remarkably rough,
and inimical to the Qospel. Mr. Burnett be-
gan a Wednesday evening service, visited from
iouse to house, and started cottage preachings.
He expended an ample fortune in deeds of
charity, ajid his holiness of life was extraor-
diuaiy. He was not so tolerant of dissenters
art Mr. Venn. He was author of a Catechism,
/Halifax Congregational Magazine. IL, 273).
RBV. G NICHOLSON, Assistant Curate of
St Anne's and St. John's, Halifax; author of
a " "Vindioation of the Divine .\uthonty
of the Holy Scriptures; aiddresse<l to Deists,
&c.; he also published
The Practical Knowledge of Christ essential
to the Christian; enforced in a Sermon upon
John xiv. 9, and preached in the Parish Church
of St John's, Halifax, Februairy 5, 1809. Man-
chester, for the Author, 1809, 18 pages octavo.
"The Patience of the Cliurch. A Sermon
preached in the Parish Church of Halifax,
Friday, September 3, 1847, at the Triennial
Visitation of the Lord Bishop of Ripon, by
JOHN BURNET, LL.D., Rural-Dean, Vicar of
Bradford." Bradford, 1847, demy octavo, 16
pages.
REV. E. M.. HALL*, M.A., Curate of Preston.
"A Farewell Discourse preached in the
Parish Church of Preston, Lancashire, on Sun-
day, March 12, 1826." Halifax, 36 pages, demy
octavo. The Rev. Edward Moorhouse Hall be-
came incumbent of Idle, and possibly was a
curate within the old Halifax parish. I have
a large framed t)ortrait of him. three-quarters,
lithographed by Day, of London.
REV. JOSHUA FAWCETT, M.A., Incum-
bent of Wibsey, Chaplain to Lord Radstock.
(See his History of Heptonstall Church, ante.)
"Ministerial Faithfulness promotive of Minis-
terial Success. A Sermon preached at the
Visitation of the Lord Bishop of Ripon, in the
Parish Church orf (St. Peter's?) Halifax. Sep-
tember 10, 1850. Bradford, 1850, 2d., 19 pages,
octalvo.
There is a funeral sermon on Canon Fawcett,
preached by the REV. R. JUDD, of Rastrick
and Halifax, printed in 1865.
The REV. A. J. HARRISON, B.D., of Light-
cliffe Church, has issued se/veral volumes, one
of which is enstitled "An Eventful Life," pub-
li.shed by Cassell and Co., London. This auto-
biography, and his other publications must be
passed over at present. His "Ascent of Faith"
was published in 1893.
C— SOME MORE CLEKGYMEN.
REV. JOHN BOYLE, Incumbent of Brig-
house, was the author of
"The Mutual Obligation of Minister and
People, stated and enforced, with prefatory re-
marks touching a presentment of the Church-
warden of Brighouse at the Second Triennial
Visitation of the Lord Bishop of Ripon, held
at Halifax on Tuesday. July 27, 1841." Wolver-
hampton, 1841, 12 pages; addressed to the
Parishioners of Brighouse, in which he ably
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183
defemls himself against a cliarge of neglecting
funerals in June and July, 18 H, the Eev. H.
Busfield, of Coley, being hie deputy. He states
he had been upwards of twelve years in Orders.
The real pamphlet to which the twelve pages
just described are prefixed, bears for title
"The Mutual Obligation of Ministers stated
and enforced : A Sermon, May 7, 1837, when
opening an Evening Service at the Collegiate
Church, Wolverhampton, by the Eev. John
Boyle, B.C.L., one of the ministers of the said
church. Wolverhampton, 20 pages, (1837.)
This pamphlet announces three other works
by Mr. Boyle: — Sermons, on Leading Points of
Doctrine and Duty, 2nd edition, 12mo., 5s. 6d.;
Keligion the basis of Xational Security, Is.;
Truth of Christianity from Agiippa's Confes-
sion to St. Paul, Is. Also, to be published in
a few days (1837), Eeasons for preferring the
Worship of the Established Oliurch, 6d. In
Halifax Free Library there is "Confirmation,
its Object and Obligations explained," by the
Eev. John Boyle, Incumbent of Brighouse.
Halifax, 1841.
JOHN PHILLIPS, M.A., of Pembroke Col-
lege, 0.>cford, sometime Assistant Curate of
Brighouse, publi<shed: — (1) "The Signs and
Duties of the Times: A Sermon preached in
Brighouse Church, July 30, 1848. Published
by request." Brighouse, E. S. Keir, 1848, 16
pages. (2) He refers to a discourse that he had
preache<l to them, and published, in Autumn,
1846, on prophetical matters unfiiifilled. (3)
"The Lord's Hand lifted up : A Sermon preach-
ed at Brighouse Church, September 28, 1849,
being the Fast specially observed as a Season
of Humiliation on Account of the Prevalence
of Cholera Morbus, by the appointment of the
Lord Bishop of Eipon.'' Brighouse, E. S.
Keir, Commercial Buildings, 1849, 12 pages.
The whole of the money arising from the sale
will be given to the Church iIi.*?.sionary Society.
Dedication to the Eev. Joseph Birch, M.A.,
Incumbent. He condemns Sunday postal
business and grants to Eomanist purposes.
"Reminiscences of the Rev. John Phillips,
sometime Assistant Ctirate of Brighouse. By
REfV. GEORGE SO^VDEN, M.A., Vicar of
Hebden Bridge, and Rural Dean of Halifax."
Halifax^ Whitley and Booth (1892), 15 pages
crown octavo. Canon Sowden, a native of Sut-
clifFe Wood Bottom, Lightcliffe, sent me a couple
of copies of this pamphlet. I am not sure
whether Canon Sowedn printed anything else,
except a localized Magazine for his parish, in
which he gives some Bronte reminiscences. He
begins his notice of Mr. PhiUips by stating
there is a marble tablet near the vestry door,
Brighouse Chui'ch "In memory of the Re(v.
John Phillips, M.A. ,of Pembroke College, Ox-
ford, late Curate of Brighouse, who died Dec-
ember 21st, 1851, aged 38 years. One that fear-
ed God and eschewed evil." Five vears after
resigning his post at Brighouse he died. "He
was absolutely unique," in having and follow-
ing a way of his own. Like Mr. Birch, his
Vicar, he wa.s an E^'angelical of the Evange-
licals, and was too independent to have full
charge of a living, because some things h©
would not do. We get little glimpses of Mr.
Sowden's training in this sketch, when he was
curate eight years at Stainland, and eight more
at Houghton-le-Spring. Alter a holiday in
Italy, Mr. Phillips decided to master the
Italian language, and, to enable him to con-
verse with someone, he taught his housekeeper
a little of it. Th Rev. Wm. Fryer, of Brig-
house, and the Rev. Henry Deck, of Halifax,
stayed with him one night and found him in
surplice and hood next morning, ready to con-
duct most literally famf-j prayer, and to aid
in the singing, he played the violin.
Rev. El(dward) J(ackson) LOWE, M.A.,
Curate of Brighouse, published a tract on
"Harry and Jack, or a Conversation between
a Yorkshire stoneniason and liis friend about
the Bible." Keir, printer, Brighouse, 1855, Id.
REV. WM. ROBT. MORRISON, M.A.,
(Curate of Brighouse).
1. Yoke of Bondage, a Sermon on the Ter-
centenary of Queen Elizabeth's Accession;
November 21, 1858, delivered in Brighouse
Parish Church; Brighouse, J. and A. Rush-
worth, 15 pages.
2. "The Thoughtless Young Man." First of
four addresses to Young Men, delivered in the
Parish Church of Brighouse, January 3, 1858;
Brighouse, Rushworths, 10 pagee,
3. "Sin." Second Address, January 10, 15.58;
11 pages.
4. "Morality not Religion, or the First and
Great Commandment. The Third of a Series
of Four Addresses to Young Men, prsached in
the Parish Church, Brighouse, Sunday, Janu-
ary 17, 1858. Brighovise, J. and A. Rushworth,
11 pages.
5. "The Christian Young Man," fourth ad-
dress, January 24, 1858; 10 pa.ges.
6. "Christian Privileges, a fifth and last ad-
dress, January 31, 1858; 12 pages.
7. "Treasure Rightly used, a Farewell Ser-
mon preached at Brighouse, September 25,
1859, by the Rev. W. Robt. Morrison, M.A.,
Incumbent of St. James', Halifax, on resigning
the Curacy of Brighouse. Brighouse, J. and
A. Rushworth, 1859; 15 pages. Probably Mr.
Morrison printed others at Halifax.
REV. DAVID :\1ERED'ITH, late Incumbent
of Elland. "An Address on Confirmation."
Fifth edition. Huddersfield, J. E. Wheatley,
16 pages, small octavo, no date.
REV. J. GILDERDALE', M.A., Lecturer of
the Parisih Church, Halifax.
"A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Brougham
on National Education." Huddersfield, J.
Brook, printer, 1838, 28 pages, demy octavo.
184
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
''\n Essay on Natural Religion and E«»v©la-
tion," post octavo, 76. 6(1., 1837. A copy is in
Halifax Free Library.
In the press: "A Course of Family Prayers
for one month." This was issued in 1838. A
copy is in the Halifax Free Library.
WILLIAM EDWARD CHAPMAN, Vicar of
St. Mary's, Sowerby.
'The Believer's Expectation: A Sermon
preached in the Church of St. Bartholomew,
Ripponden, March 23, 1873. London, 16 pages,
octavo, no date This is a Funeral Sermon,
or rather a Memorial Sermon, (for Funeral
Sermons were formerly preached on the day
of the funeral,) in remembrance of Margaret,
wife of the Rev. Ja-mes Sanders, M.A., In-
cumbent of Ripponden, who died March Itith,
1873, aged 69 years. Mr. Sanders had just re-
signed his incumbency after 26 years' service.
REV. WILLIAM GILLMOR, M.A., Perpetual
Curate of Illingworth.
"The Unity of the Church; an Essay."
Halifax, Leyland and Son, 1810, pages xi., 63,
duodecimo. ' Dedication to Bishop Longley.
The historical notes are very interesting.
"National Sin the Cause of National Judg-
ment: A Sermon preached in lUiugworth
Church, March 24, 1847, (the Fast day). Hali-
fax, Leyland and Son, 1847, 24 pages, 12mo.
In it are advertised 'The Pue System,' a Letter
to the Ven. Arehdeacon of Graven, and "The
Unity'' as above.
"The Preface to Croly's New Interpretation
of the Apocalypse was published as a reprint
by permi<5«ionl at N. Whitley's, Crown Street,
In 1829."
REV. JAMBS GRATRIX. M.A., Inoumbent
of St. James's Cliurch, Halifax.
"The Little Horn of Daniel's Fourth Beast
identified with the Papacy. A Sermon at St.
James's, Advent Sunday, December 1st, 1850"
Halifax, Whitley and Booth, 1850, 20 pages,
demy octavo. In the Halifax Free Library is
another pamphlet, octavo, by Mr. Gratrix. It
was printed at Halifax in 1843, but I have not
the title at hand.
WILLIAM WILLMOTT, M.A., Curate of
Halifax.
"A Sermon preached in the Parish Church,
Halifax, Sunday, December 21i, 1817, being an
afFentionate tribute to the memory of Henry
William Coulthurst, D.I>, , late Vicar of Hali-
fax." Halifax, Is., M. Garlick, 1818, demy
octavo, 24 pages. The inscriptions on the
monuments in the Parish Church and in
Trinity Church are neatly written on the fly
leiaf. lithographa.
REV. FREDEiRTCE: RUSSELL, M.A., of St.
Mary HaU, Oxford; and Tncuml>ent of Trinity
Church, Halifax.
"Popery! and the Duty of Adhering to the
Principles of the Ref onnation : A Sei'mon
pi-eached at Trinity Church, Halifax, Novem-
ber 5, 1839. Halifax, Leyland and Son, 1839,
octavo, pages iv., 64. This is a beautiful speci-
iiu-a of Lo'ylands' paper and type>.
"A Harmony of the Evangelical History of
the Suffei-ings, Death, Burial, &o., of .Tesus
fHirist, in which the Narrative of the Four
Evangelists are arranged in Parallel Columns";
demy octavo, 2s. volume, page^ xii., 48. Hali-
fax, Leyland, 1839. There is a page of adver-
tisements mentioning Mr. Russell's works.
"A Catechism of the Christian Religion,
translated from Catechism us Ileidelbergensis,"
1828, 12mo., 3s.
"An Analysis of the Second Decade of Livy,'*
1828, octavo, 59. 6d.
"England Prepare," a General Fa.st Sermon,
Southampton, 1832, octavo, Is.
"The Family Lecturer; Short Expositions
of Scripture; Part I." Southampton, 1635,
octavo, Is. 6d. A second volume announced.
"First Annual Report of the Romscy District
Visiting Society." Romsey, 1834, octavo, 6tl.
"God's Free Grace in Man's Redemption;
Farewell Sermon at Romsey, March, 18-34.
Romsey, 1834, octavo, 3s. 6d.
Preparing for the press in two vols., 8vo.,
"A Preservative against Re-union with the
Church of Rome.'
JAMES FRANKS, A.M., of Halifax, Chap-
lain to the Earl of Hopetoun.
"Sacred Literature, or Remarks upon the
Book of Genesis, collected and arranged to pro-
niote the knowledge and evince the excellnce
of the Holy Scriptures. Halifax, printed for
the author by Holden and Dowson, 1802, large
octavo, pages xxxii., 33 — 480. There is a goodly
list of subsci'ibers, including a large sprink-
ling of Halifax book-buyers, larger than a
Halifax clergyman would find to-day probably.
This list is interesting, as mentioning local
worthies of a century ago; the Alexanders, Mr.
Asserati, of Hipperholme School, the Bates',
Rev. Thomas Burton, Rastrick, Vicar Coult-
hurst, Vicar Crosse of Bradford, Capt. Dearden,.
Drakes of Ashday, Edwards of Pye Nest, Rev.
John Fawcett of Ewood, and Rev. John Fawcett
(junior) Ewood, Freeman of Cromwell bottom.
Rev. Thos. Hawkins, Warley, Horsfalls, of
Halifax and Huddersfield, Rev. Thos. Howorth
of Idle, Rev. E. Hoyle of Stockport Grammar
School, the Ingrams, Kershaws, Rev. Samuel
Knight, Lees, Listers, Mellins, Milne, Mitchell,
Rev. A. Moss of lUing^vorth, Rev. J- Moss of
Sowerby, jMajor Nicholls, Ellaud, Rev. Joseph
Ogden, Sowerby, ir'riestleys, Capt. Ramsden of
Halifax, Rawsons, RusHorths of Elland, Rev.
Thos. Sutcliffe, Luddenden, Rev. J. Swaine.
Farnley, Wainhouses, Walkers of Crow Nest,
Waterhouses, Rev. .John Watson of Coley, Rev.
R Webster of Ripponden, Rev. W. Willmott
of Halifax, and many others. The book it<3elf
is interesting and instructive
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
185-
"The Pious Mother; or Etyidences for Heaven.
Written in 1650 by Mns. Thomasfen Head for
the benefit of her children. Published from
the original MS. by James Frankis, A.M., and
Curate of Halifax. Printed for the Author, and
sold by Edwards. Loudon; Edwards and Son,
Halifax; Binns, Leeds; Brooke, Huddersfield;
no date, 119 pages, 12m o. The work had been
previously sent to Vol. 2 of the Theological
Miscellany by Mn Franks.
His son, the REV. J. C. FRANKS, Vicar of
Huddersfield, also comes within our scope as an
author.
REV. J. H. WARNFORD, M.A., Incumbent
of All Saints, Halifax, published, interalia,
''Right Choice, beinjr Thoughts on Luke x.,
42." Halifax, 1862.
"An Urgent Q^iestion, l>eing Thoughte on I.
Kings, xviii., 21." Halifax, 1865.
"Search, being Thoughts on John v.. 39."
Halifax, 1866.
"Resit for the Weary; Thoughts on Matt, xi.,
28." Halifax, 1871.
"The Great Name, or Thoughts for Christ-
mas: Matt. i.. 21." Halifax, 1872.
"Triple Welcome; Thoughts on Rev. xxii.,
17." Halifax, 1873.
"What Think ye of Christ. Matt, xxii., 41."
Halifax, 1875i.
"The Great Gift, a Tract for Christmas."
Halifax, 1876.
REV. WM. EODEINSQR LITTLEWOOD, Head
Master of Hipperholme Grammar School, after-
wards Vicar of St. Thomas's, Finebury Park.
" A Garland from the Parables."
" Elssentials of Etnglish History."
"Etsisentials of New Testament History."
" Story of the Wanderer."
" Down in Dingbyshire."
" Visitation of the Poor."
" Bible Biographies."
" Lovely in their Lives."
Also many articles in the Religious Tract
Society's list, &o. These titles I got from him
in April, 1882; additions are needed.
REV. JOHN HENRY GOOCH, M.A., Halifax
Grammar School
What should National Education be? The
Inaugural Address delirrered at the First Meet-
ing of the Halifax Church School Teachers' As-
sociation March 18, 1854
Apostolic Ministry and its Work; a Sermon
preached at the Visitation of the Ven. Arch-
deacon of Craven, in the Parish Church of
Halifax, May 23, 1855 Halifax, 1855.
Sons of God here, Sons of Glory hereafter ; a
Sermon preached in Elland Church. Halifax,
1850.
CI.— SOME MORE CLERGYMEN.
REV. R. BAYFIELD. "The Work of an
Elvangeliet, a Sermon preached in Halifax
Parish Church, Friday, June 19, 18i6." Copy
in Halifax Free Library.
W. C. BELL, M.A., "Peace with God and
Peace on Earth. Some Counsel to Churchmen
and others concerning the Atonement Dispute."
Halifax, octavo, 1888. Copy in Halifax Fi-ee
Library.
WM. HOWIE BULL. Sermon preached
at the Visitation of the Right Iteverend Charles
Thomas, Lord Bishop of Ripon, in the Parish
Church of Halifax, September 10, 1814." Hali-
fax, 1844. Copy in Halifax Free Library.
REV. JOHN BUHNET, LL.D., Vicar of
Bradfoixl. "The Patience of the Church, a
Sermon preached in the Parish Church of
Halifax, September 3, Ii8i7, at the triennial
Visitation of the Bishop of Ripon. Second
edition, Bradford, octavo, 16 pages, 1847.
REV. WILLIAM RAMSDBN SMITH, Brad-
ford. "The Motives and Method of Ministerial
Heedfulness; a Sermon preached at the Visita.
tion of the Ven. Archdeacon IMusgrave, in the
Parish Church of Halifax, June 14, 1854,"
octavo, 12 pages, 1854. He also published a
funeral sermon oa Dr. Burnet, Vicar of Brad-
ford, 1870, and a sermon on behalf of the Soc.
Prom. Gospel in Foreign Parts. Bradford,
1852.
REV. JOHN DENNIS CAREfY. "Sermons
preached at St. James' Church, Halifax; with
preface by the Rev. J. L. Holbeck." Halifax,
octavo, about 1875. (Halifax Free Library.)
REV. SAMUEL DAJSTBY. "Steadfastness in
the Faith, and Activity in the Cause of Christ,
a farewell Sermon preached at the Parish
Church, Huddersfield, February 28, 1847."
Halifax, 1847. (Halifax Free Library.)
REV. JOHN ELLISON. Incumbent of Sower-
by Bridge. "Sermons for Children." 1865. A
copy is in Halifax Free Library.
REV. HILKIAH BEtDFORD HALL, B.C.L.
".lohn the Baptist, a course of Advent Lec-
tures." Halifax, 1863. (Halifax Free Library.)
"The Christmas Spirit, a Sermon preached
in Halfax Parish Church, December 30, 1866."
Halifax, 1867. (Halifax Free Library.)
ALL SOULS' CHUUCH, HALIFAX. In
Halifax Free Library are three pamphlets
connected with this Church;— the "Descrip-
tion of the Church, at Haley Hill," 1859, and
"Hitherto hath the Lord helped us: A Ser-
mon preached in All Souls', January 26, 1868,
by the Rev. Alfred Barry, D.D., principal of
Cheltenham College." Halifax, T. J. and F.
Walker, "Guardian" Office, demy octavo, 14
pages.
"Consecration Sermon preached in All Souls'
Church, November 2, 1859, by the Lord Bishop-
of Durham." Halfax, 1859.
186
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
"Some of tlie Sermons preached during the
Octave of the Dedication of All Souls' Church,
of Durham." Halifax, 1859.
" E EEV. J. LIGHTFOOT, D.Sc, M.A..
Vicar of Cross-etone, Todmorden, is author of
a "Text Book on the ThiBty-Nino Articles,"
4e. 6d.; "Studies in Philosophy," 4s. 6tl.;
"Logio and Education," 2s.; "Elementary
Logic," 2s.; "Elementary and Advanced Al-
gebra," 5s.; "Pastor meus Dominus, sacTcd
oratorio," 2s. 6d. ; "The Great Keligious of the
World"; Philosophy of Revelation," pauipli-
let; and numerous songs and m^^8io.
REV. HEINRY WILLIAM CKDTJLTHURST,
D.D., Vicar of Halifax, see Funeral Sermon
by Willniott, and notices in Parson's Leeds
and District, and Oastler's Titlies.
"Evils of Disobedience and Luxury. A Ser-
mon preached before the XJniyensity of Cam-
bridge, October 25, 1796, the anniversary of
his Majesties Accession, by H. W. Coulthurst,
D.D. Cambridge, pages iv., 22, 1796.
CTIARLES MUSGRAVE, D.D., Archdeacon
of Craven, Vicar of Halifax, and formerly
Fellow of Trinity College, Cainbridge.
"A Charge delivered June 16th, 1840, and
three following days at Skipton, Leeds, Wak^
field, and Halifax.'" Halifax, Whitley «nd
Booth, 1840, 26 pages, small octa.vo.
"For private distribution: A Charge by
Archdeacon Musgrave, D.D., May 8 — 12, 1865."
Halifax, T. J. and F. Walker, 1865. 24 pages.
Amongst other topics he treats of the neglig-
ence in the care of Parish Registers. I have
reason to remember his geniality and kind-
ness in allowing me to copy the Halifax Regis-
ters, for nearlv twelv-e-months' spare moments.
MUSGRAVE, (Rev. Charles, D.D., Vicar of
Halifax, Archdeacon of Craven,) A Sermon
preached in Rip.m Cathedral on Sunday, July
31st, 1842, at the Ordination of tht Lord
Bifehop of Rip 311. Halifax, Whitley and Booth
1842, 20 pages.
"Address and Collects at the Lajiuc; of the
Foundation Stone of the New Almshouset, i.;:l
School belonging to the Waterhouse Chtritie
June 26th, l855, Halifax, Whitley and Booth,
Crown Street, 1855, 14 pages, 6| x 4^.
"A Sermon preached in the Parish Churca
of Halifax, on the Thanksgiving Day, May 4.
1856, on the Proclamation of Peace. Halifax,
Whitley and Booth, Crown Street, 1856, 14
pages, 6|in. x 4J.
For private distribution. "A Charge by Arch-
deacon Musgrave, D.D., May 22—25." Halifax,
Walker, George Street, 1860, 24 pagef, Ifimo.
"A Sermon preached at the Consecration of
St. James' Church, Meltham Mills, November
lith, 184f5, and printed for private distribution
at the request of the family of the Founder."
Halifax, Whitley and Booth. Crown Street,
1184^, demy octavo, 22 pages.
'■■Sermon at the Halifax Parish Church,
April 1, 1827, on his Induction to the Vicar-
age," 8vo., 16 pages, Halifax, 1827. (Halifax
Free Library.)
"Charge prepared for the Visitation, May,
1874, but unavoidably through illness unde-
livered." For private dibtribution. Halifax,
Walker, 1874, 23 pagee.
"C^^arge of Archdeacon Musgrave, prepared
for his intended Visitation, May 10 — 14,
1875." Halifax, 1675. ('Halifax Free Library.)
THE REV. FRANCIS PIGOU, D.D., Vicar
of Halifax, (Vicar of Donoaster; now Deian of
Bristol), Chaplain to the Queen.
"Faith and Practice, a selection of Sermons
preached in St. Philip's Chiilpel, Regent Street,
London." 1865.
"Conversion, a Sermon preached in the
Parish Church, Doncaster, February 4, 1872."
Fourth edition, Doncaster, 1872.
"Purity, a papea-," October, 1884, Croydon.
"Life and Life Eternal, a Sermon, Halifax,
1873."
"A Sermon on Loyalty, pre-ached at the
Parish Church of Halifax, at the Parade Service
of the 22nd West Yorkshire Yeomanry Ca.v-
alry, Sunday, July 22nd, 1877." Halifax, Whit-
ley and Booth, Crown Street, 1877, 16 pages,
octavo.
"Friendly and Trade Societies. A Sermon
preached in the Parish Church of Halifax,
May 20th, 1877." Halifax, Whitley and
Booth, Crown Street, 1877, 17 pages, octavo.
"A Pastoral Letter to his Parishioners."
Halifax, J. Farrar, Union Street, 1877, 19
pages, octavo.
"Sermons preached m the Parish Cliurch of
Halifax, May 16, 1878, at the Clocing Services
previous to Church Restoration." Halifax,
Whitley and Booth, Cl-owi. Street, 35 pages,
octavo.
"A Sermon praiaehed in the Parish Church
of Halifax, Sunday, October 12th, 1879, on the
Re-opening after Restoration." Halifax,
Whitley and Booth, 1879, 14 pages, octavo.
"Unity : An Address to the Clergy of the
Deanery of Halifax," March 20, 1876 A copy
of this and other of his addresses are in the
Halifax Free Library.
"Friendly and Trade Sooietaes, a Sermon
preached in the Parish Church, Halifax," May
20th, 1877.
"Addresses at the Elarly Celebration of Holy
Communion." 1878.
"Salvation of Acceptance, a Sermon in the
Parish Church, Halifax," n.d.
"UTltimate Cessation of War, a Sermon
preached at All Souls' Church, Haley Hill,
July 21, 1878, at the Parade Service, 2nd W. Y.
Yeomanry Ca.valry."
"Intemperance. What is the Duty ..t the
Christian in Relation to it. A Seruion p'-i-achtd
in the Parish Church, Halifax, in connection
with the Halifax United Temperance Mission,
November 16, 1879." London, 1879.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
187
"Address to District Visitors and Sunday
School Teachers." London, 1880.
Since becoming Dean of Hrietol, he has
is3ue<l several volumes, including his most in-
tereting work of "Keminiscenceti."
THi: REV. JOSHUA INGIL\M BROOKE,
Vipar of Halifax, Archdeacon, has issued for
private circulation a series of Charges at his
Visitations.
THE REV. DR. WM. SCORESBY, Vicar of
Bradford, published (inter alia), "The Posi-
tion of the Church and the Duties of Church-
men to unite for her Defence; an Address at
the formation of the Bradford Church Institu-
tion, July 4, 1843." Halifax, Walker, 1843,
28 pages, 12mo.
REV. H. O. CROFTS, D.D.. Halifax; "Suffi-
ciency of Divine Revelation." No. 6 of tlie
"Yorkshire Pulpit," Leeds. 1860.
REV. J. STACEY, Halifax; "The Church
and the age, or a Working Church the want of
the Times," crown octavo. 1657.
The REV. HENRY VENN, A.M., Vicar of
Hudderstield, published a "Sermon preached
at a Visitation of the Clergy held at Wake-
field, July 2, 1760. It was printed in 1761, with
a Halifiux publiciher, but 1 am not sure that
it wafi printed in Halifax. There is a copy
in the Halifax Free Library.
REV. GEORGE. LEGH. Vicar of Halifax,
printed "The Uncharitablenes? of Modern
Charity, " under the pseudonym, fhile-
lentherus Trin itoniensis, small octavo, Lon-
don, 1732.
RICHARD HOLDSWORTH is assumed to
have been a Halifax man. In York Minster
Library there is his- "Sermon at St. Mary's,
Cambridge. March 27th," quai-to, printed at
Cambridge, 1642.
"The Valley of Vision, twenty sermons,"
quarto, bv Richard Holdsworth, appeared in
1651.
He was Dean of Worcester, born 1590, died
1648, and serve<l on the Assembly of Divines,
1643.
MR. BOYS was a famous preacher at Hali-
fax under Dr. Favour, the Vicar. Mr. Hey-
wood had a copy of BoyG' "Catechism." ITe
had been banished out of Kent for non-com-
pliance with the ecclesiastical authorities. The
Theological Works of John Boys, D.D., Dean
of Canterbury, were issued in 1610, 1615, 1630.
Mr. Boyse, the Nonconformist author of Dub-
lin, was son of Matthew Boyse, of Leefls.
Oliver Heywood's friend.
DR. THO\*.!AS HGRTON. whose Theological
Works, I have in a folio volume, 1674, has been
supposed to have been a local worthy, but I
find he was born in London.
RICHARD STANFIELD, who wrote "Sum-
mon to Dye, &c.," 18m o., 1702, is another
doubtful local author.
ROBERT TOWN born 1.592, B.A. of Oxford,
1614; minister at Hey wood, 1640; Todmorden,
1648; Elland, 1652; Haworth, 1655; died aged
72. He was brother of John Towne, Vicar f
Kiklwick, and father of Rebert, of Accnijijtou;
and uncle of Daniel, of Heptonstall Hi-
sertion of Grace, 1654; Monomachia, 1654.
CIL— THEOLOGICAL WRITINGS.
A WORKING MAN, who thinks for himself;
Todmorden, May, 1856.
"One of the Jury on Apostolical Succession
against Priests and Prie*ithood« ; a plain word-
ed address to the people of Todmorden and all
whom it concerns. Price l^d. Todmorden,
Samuel Ward Walton, 1856, Itl pages. It refers
to the "gentlemen, Priests, at Cross-stone."
DR. GUMMING: New Crusade opened in
Halifax by Dr. C. against the Church of Eng-
land under instruction and connivance from
certain of her priests. Halifax. 1855. (Halifax
Free Librarv.)
REV. HENRY HEAP, Vicar of Bradford,
was a native of Langfield. He was prepared
for the ministry by the Rev. John Crosse, of
Cross-stone, and the Rev. Samuel llnight, of
Halifax. He published "A Sermon preached
at the Consecration of St. Paul's Church,
Shipley, November 1, 1826," quarto, 21 pages.
Bradford, 1826.
"A Sermon in Bradford Parish Church, July
5, 1830, on the death of Geo. IV.," octavo, 23
pages. ' Bradford, 1830.
Layman of the Parish. (CHRISTOPHER
RAWSON, ESQ., Hope House.) Spiritual Re-
tirement; Select Passages and Gracious
Promises from the Holy Scriptures, and Pray-
ers to comfort the drooping Spirits of the In-
valid in the Decline of Life, by a Layman of
the Parish. Halifax, 1838, 8vo. In Halifax
Free Librarv, edition, 2 vols.. Halifax, 1841.
REV. GEORGE RYAN, D.D. The Dialogist,
or the Young Christians' Auxiliary; being a
series of Conversations on a variety of Import-
ant Subjects connected with the Divinity of
the Christian Scheme, and the importance of
personal and experimental piety, chiefly de-
signed as a check against the influence of in-
fidelity. By the .Rev. George Ryan; two
volumes, l2mo., Halifax, Nicholson and Wilson,
(1837). Mr. Ryan was a well-known Congrega-
tional Minister in Yorkshire, but not connected
with the Halifax chapels.
JOSEIPH SUTCLIFFE, not the Wesleyan
Minister, I presume. "Tlie Albion Catechism,
illustrating the Doctrines and the Duties of the
Christian Religion; designed for the use of
private families, and of Sunday Schools. Hali-
fax, Holden and Dowson, 1806. small octavo,
110 pages. The Catechism is followed by a
poem entitled "Poor Lubin," written in ballad
6t.yle : "Young Lnbin was a shepherd's boy."
188
HALIFAX BOOKS AiND AUTHORS.
WILLIAM CARLISLE: An Es«ay on Evil
Spirits; or Reasons to prove their existence;
in opposition to a Lecture delivered by the
Rev N T Heineken, in the Unitarian Chapel,
Bra.dfoKl; by William Carlisle. Third edition,
enlaved and corrected. Printed for the author
(h\ T Walker, Silver Street, Halifax,) 1827;
small 'octavo, pages 176. The preface is dated
Dudley HiU. Bradford, January 14, 1825. Mr.
Heineken did not auieten or lay the evil spirits
for a paper war arose calling forth several
volumes, copies of which belabour my book
shelves rather than my brain, but as they
were issued from the Bradford press we will
pass them by. People would look twice at 3s.
now-a-davs before purchasing "Evil Spirits,"
for or "against. Carlisle's first edition was
issued at Bradford, in 1825, the second at
Halifax, 1825.
DR. LBGH, Vicar of Halifax, was supposed
to be concerned in issuing "The Shaver." I
have an early edition of it and in Halifax Fi-ei;
Library is "Sermons occasioned by the Expul-
sion of Six Young Gentlemen from the
University of Oxford for Praying, Reading,
and Expounding the Scriptures. Humbly
dedicated to Mr. V.C.R. and the H— ds. of
H— s. by the-r humble servant, 'The Shaver.' "
Halifax ,1604.
JOSEPH BARKER. A Life of this remark-
able man has been printed by his nephew at
Leeds. Joseph Barker announced in May,
1841, a pamphlet on Baptism; also a reply to
A. Scott's pamphlet; a new periodical called
the Christian Investigator, and correspondence
with the Book Room Committee. The last was
issued as "The Church and the Press," 2d.
He published before this date "Duty of Christ-
ians to support poor members, with remarks
on Benefit Societies, Life Insurances, &c.," Id.
"Christian Perfection," 4'd.
"Tolertition, Human Creeds, &c.." a letter to
Thomas Allin, id. This gives the sentimen*-s
of Wesley and Kilham.
"Both sides of the Question," three Staf
fordshire Letters. 24 pages.. Newcastle.
"Church and the Press," 42 pages, 12mc.,
Newcastle.
"True Statement of Facts," in reply to T.
Allin, 12 pages, Halifax, Nicholson -^nd Wilson,
Cheapside.
"Water Baptisms," a letter to T. Aliin.
Brief Report of Conference of Methodist New
Connexion in the case of Joseph Barker and
Wm. Trotter ; by J.B. and W'.T., 4-0 pages,
Newcastle (1841).
"The Evangelical Reformer," 3 vols., 12mo.
"The Overthrow of Infidel Socialism, or the
Religion of Christ, and the Society System of
Robert Owen contrasted," 72 pages.
"The Abominations of Infidel Socialism ex-
posed, being a brief but full exhibition of the
horrible loathsomeness and impiety of R.
Owen's System from his own works," Id. I
can hardlv allow these harsh words to pass
without protest. I thought ditierently when I
visited his grave at Newtown Church, Mont-
gomery, and I treasure a letter written by
Owen. He was before his day.
"Human Creeds," from the "Evangelical
Reformer," id.
"The Oldham Discussion oi\ the Influence of
the Religion of Christ; Joseph Barker, Minist-
er of the Gospel, and Lloyd Jones, Socialist
Missionary, with appendix," 216 pages.
"Deoeitfulness of Sin, or the Madness of Pro-
crastination," a sermon. Id.
"Obligations of Professing Christians to seek
the Salvation of their Fellow ISlen," a sermon.
"The Scripture Doctrine of Justification," Id.
"Memoirs of Peter Shaw, John Haigh, \nn
Thomas, and James HoUingsworth," 84 pages.
"Mercy Triumphant, or Teaching the Child-
ren of tiie Poor to write on the Sabbath Day,"
2nd edition, 2d.
"Christianity Triumphant, or an enlarged
view of the Character and Tendency of the
Religion of Christ, &c.. &c., substance of dis-
cussions with the Socialists in the Northern
Counties," 3s.
"Truth against Misrepresentation; a reply to
T. Allin and S. Hulme, Dudley; 24 pages,
Newcastle, 1841.
"Truth and Innocence defended against
Priestly Calumny"; 12 pages,, J. Barker,
printer, Newcastle (1844V He had meantime
begun to print for himself.
Joseph Barker v. Brewin Grant-. Christian
Sacraments explained and defended; Origin
and Authority of the Bible: a public Discus-
sion between J.B. and B-.G. held at Halifax on
ten nights, January 22 — February 8, 1855.
London, 1855.
WILLIAM TROTTER:—
"Lecture on the Use of Money,"' delivered
at Bradford Ebenezer Chapel, Id.
"Foolishness of God wiser than men; a reply
to Win. Scott's Common Sense," l^d.
"A Brief Report of the Proceedings of the
Confei-ence of the Methodist New Connexion,
in the case of Joseph Barker and Wm. Trotter.*^
40 pages, Newcastle, no date (1841).
"The Justice and Forbearance of the Metho-
dist New Connexion Conference as they were
illustrated in the case of W. Trotter, giving
a complete account of his trial before the
Halifax Conference; with an appendix contain-
ing a full answer to sundry tracts or pamphlets
by .1. W. Robinson and T. Allin, and a more
copious Report, &c.," S6 pages, small octavo.
1841i, Nen'castle. One can hardly conceive that
dear old friend Trotter, one of the mildest
men I ever knew, could have been drawn into
this terrible paper war. The Brighour;e sup-
porters of the two expelled ministers opened
a preachiii.T place opposite Rastrick Common
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
189-
School, biit the cause died out in a short time,
Mr. Trotter joining the (Plymouth) Bi-ethreu.
"The More Elxcellent Way, or Feeling and
Principle compared/' a sermon.
I have some other publications of Mr.
Trotter, published when he resided at Otley and
lastly at York; such as "Good News, a monthly
magazine for the Young," "Plain Papers on
Prophetical Subjects."
JOHN SIMPSON, Primitive Methodist Minis-
ter, "Recollections and Characteristic Anec-
dotes of the late Rev. Hugh Bourne." Leeds,
1859, 24 pages. Hugh Bourne was the founder
of the Primitive Methodists. I have an auto-
graph by him, and w^ould like one of William
Clowes. Mr. Simpson, during his residence in
Halifax district, was the great chapel builder
and debt-payer of his denomination.
The Prodigal Son; an Authentic Narrative
by John Simpson (Primitive Methodist Minis-
ter.) Fourth edition. Leeds, 1849, 36 pages.
Fifth edition, 15th thousand. Leeds, 1850, 36
pages.
Rev. John Simpson, Author of "Smiles and
Tears," "Here and Hereafter," &c., published:
"The Conqueror's Palm, or Memorials of the
late Mrs. Stockdale. wife of the Rev. C. Stock-
dale, Primitive Methodist Minister, togetlier
with Two Sermons preached in Improvement of
her death. Leeds, 1865, 64 pages, small octavo.
The sermons were preached at Sowerby Bridge
and Halifax.
"The Young Soldier's Death-Bed," a Halifax
Narrative; Liverpool, 1865, 24 pages, 12mo.
"The Two Sons, a contrast," 2nd edition, 6d.
"Zion's Complaint and tlie Lord's Encour-
agement. A Sermon on the death of James
Crossland and othei-s. December ^1, 1865,
preached in Ebenezer Chapel. Halifax." Liver-
pool, 24 pages, 12mo., 1865.
cm.— SO:\IE QUAKER LITERATURE.
"An Account of the Charitable Trusts in
Brighouse Monthly Meeting, of the Society of
Friends, in the year 1872." Bradford, John
Diale and Co., 1872. ai pages, small octavo.
This tract sbews what tbe Friends have been
rather than what they are now. In Halifax
parish there are Meeting-houses at Brighouse
(1869), and Halifax (1743), and the old Meet-
ing-house at Birds Royd, Rastrick (1681). In-
deed Brighouse is strictly speaking a
misnomer for both buildings are in Rastrick.
There are besides the two burial grounds at
Halifax and Rastrick, one at Barkisland or
Rishworth (1723), and one at Broadcar, El-
land (1693). Sowerby Street burial ground,
given by John Smith. Norland, in 1738, has
been leased from 1868 for 999 years at £7 per
year rental. The Harweod Well Meeting
House and Burial Ground were established ia
1696. The Meeting House has been closed
since a.bout 1743, and has been converted into
two cottages, adjoining which three others
have been built yielding .£20 yearly to Hali-
fax Meeting, which receives also the £7 from
Sowerby Street. Brighouse Preparative Meet-
ing have ^£20 for annual distribution to their
poor:— ^2 from Thomas Walker in 1705, £5
from 'I'homas Green in 1714, £3 from Eliza-
beth Beaumont in 17^5, and £10 from Jamea
Taylor in 1747. It also gets £5 I3s. for similar
uses from the Liversedge Meeting House, now
two cottages and a croft, including a burial
ground, conveyed in 1700 to Trustees.
The Shelf charity originally consisted of a
house «md croft in Shelf, devised in 1729 by
William Hollings, of Bowling, to the Trustseg
of Bradford Meeting House for the benefit of
the poor of that Meeting. It now con^sts
of four cottages and two crofts vielding a
yearly rental of ^612 IDs. to Bradford.
Brighouse also shares in Brighouse Monthly
Meeting charaties of Emanuel Elam, ^li2 IQs
yearly; of Charles Harris, £& 5s. yearly; and
the Monthly Meeting School Fund, about £84
yearly.
A Catalogue of Books belonging to the
Friends of Halifax Meeting, 1&16, 8 pages
l(2mo.; Halifax, Leyland and Son. Catalogue'
of Books in Friends' Meeting House Library"
Halifax, 1870. H:alifax, F King, 8 pages Th«
manuscript volume "Minutes of Halifax Meet
mg, 1724 to 1828" should be interesting
"Notice, Brighouse, 1870. A Library of
B'Ooks for the iise of the public, free of
charge. Apply within." Catalogue, 1—164,
on folio sheet.
CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR, ex-minister of
Southowram: Faithful and True Witness to
the Light. Also postscript in answer to some
base Lyes and Reflections cast upon me by
William Howarth, an Independent Preacher
4to. pamphlet, 1675.
"The Counterfeit Convert Discovered, or
Wm. Haworth's Book ('The Quaker converted
to Christianity re-established') Refuted by
J.C. and W.B., with the Postscript answered
by C.T., 24/4/1676, 4to.
"Institutiones Pietatis, In quibus Saluber
rima vitae Prsecepta. (For use of Youths at
School). 8vo., 1676.
"Compendium Trium Linguarum Latinee
Graecaj, and Hebraic^ : (Part bv John Matem'
a German, assistant to C.T.,) London, 8vo '
1679. ■*
A Te^imony to the Lord's Power and Blessed
Appearance in and amongst Children 4to
pamphlet, 1679.
"Reprinted, with addition of Letters, 8vo
1679.
"Reprinted, London, 8vo., 1680.
190
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
"The Whiii-wiiKl of the Lord gotte forth
as a Fierv Flying Roule. with an Alarm
eouude<l .against the Inliabitants of the North
Countroy, (particularly addressed to tlio Rul-
ers, Priests and people of Wostmerland.)
London, Giles Calvert, 4to. pamphlet, 1655
Keprinted 1656.
"A Warning from tho Lord to this Nation.
4to. tract. No place or date.
"Certain Papers which is the Word ol the
Loixl. (To the Town of Appleby.) 4tr
pamphlet. No place or date.
"Epistle to Friends in the Truth. Wr.iten
at Waltham, 8/11/1675. 4to. tract, nu place
or date.
"Account of a Divine Visitation an<l Blt-.s-
ing at Waltham Abbey School. Edited by
M.R. Philadelphia, 8vo. pamphlet, 1797.
The same, 12mo., 1799.
"Teatimony for Isaac Penington, in P.'s
Works, 1681.
"HIpistle of Caution to Friends, regarding
W.E.'s "Christian Quaker." London, 4to.
pamphlet, 1681.
"Something in Answer to Wm. Roger's
libels in the "Christian Quaker," a further
Caution to Friends. London, 4to. pamphlet,
1682.
"Testimony concerning him by Wm. Yard-
fey in "Collection! of Memorials, 1788.'"
(Died in Pennsylvania 1686, bnried at
Philapelphi^.)
FRANCBS TAYLOE (wife of Christopher):
Epistle to Friends 1685, 8vo. tract.
She died in 1685; buried at Philadelphia.
Christopher 1'aylor, after leaving Southow-
ram Chapel (St. Ann's in the Grove, or
Chapel-le-Briers,) had a Friends' School at
Waltham and Edmonton. His brother Thom-
as Taylor hiad been preacher at Qtley Church
and became a leading supporter of George
Fox, the Quaker. I have the collected Works
of Thomias Taylor, in a quarto volume.
Whether Captain Thomas Taylor, the parlia-
mentarian soldier, wias of this family I can-
not say. Captain Taylor and his wife's
famil.v — ^the Hansons, of Brighouse Park —
joined the Friends. Fox preached several
times at Captain Taylor's, Brighouse.
NATHAN TILLOTSON, of London, wrote
an Epistle of Love and Caution to the Inhab-
itants of Kettlewell and places adjoining.
London, 8vo. pamphlet, 1747. Disowned by
Friends 3/3/1749, "addicted to Drinking,
Oambling, and afterwards leaving his family
and Creditors."
"Mr. N. Tillotson, relative of Abp. T.
married Miss — , with ^7,000." Gents.' Mag.
JOSEIPH THORP, Halifax, was author of
Gospel Invitation, Address Delivered at Dub-
lin, September 13, 1863. L-ondon (For) S.W.
Partridge, 18mo. tract, 1863.
"Address to Friends in Ireland. Dublin,
R. Chapman, 12mo. tract, 1864.
FIELDEIN THORP, his son, of York school-
master; A Few Considerations on the Non-
Necessity of Water Baptism. He has written
other works.
Testimony to the Authority of Christ in the
Church and the Spirituality of the Gospel
Dispensation. This tract was reprinted by
order of the Brighouse Monthly IMeeting, by
Pickard, Leeds, 12m o., 18tO.
ISAAC STICKNEY of Hull, father of Mrs.
Ellis, (the well-known authoress and wife ofa
Miaidagasoar Missionary), wrote "There was
a great deal of time lost!'" Halifax, Nichol-
vd Wilson, 12mo. tract. J. L. Linncy,
of York, reprinted the same
'MJT OR\CE FRYER, of Toothill, wife
of WiHiam Harvey, Leeds, printed in her ad-
vanced years » small volume of Remin-
iscences that I have read, but I have not got
a copy. It describes Toothill district in the
early days of Queen Victoria. Has any
reader a copy to spare?
CIV.— FURTHER NOTES ON NOVELISTS
DANIEL DE FOE: To the previous notice
I wish to add a few lines. "The Life and
Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe, of York, mariner, &c.," Vol. I., Lon-
don, Stockdale; M'ith illustrations by
Stothard, engraved by Medland, 1790, demy
octavo, pp. xii., 389. Printed list of illustra-
tions. Vol. LI., pp. v., 456, and advertise-
ments. Life of D^ Foe by Geo. Chalmers,
with De Foe's portrait. Daniel Foe, born
about 1663, was son of James Foe, London, a
dissenter, and grandfion of Daniel Foe, of
Elton, Northants. The author of Crusoe died
in April, 1731, leaving a widow, Susannah,
and two sons and four daughters. The sons
were Daniel, of Carolina, and Benjamin. Of
the daughters, Hannah and Henrietta were
unmarried, Sophia was wife of Henry Baker,
and Maria had rarifiied a man named Langley.
The Langleys, of ITipperholme, were great
London carriers, and traders, but whether
one married Maria Foe remains undiscovered.
About 1713 De Foe wrot%, "After this I was
a long time absent in the North of England."
Chalmers states — "The place of his retreat is
now known to have been Halifax,'' and Mr.
Watson's statement that Jure Divino was
written at Halifax must be incorrect for it
was first piiblished in 1706, and tha't he is
equally mistaken in mentioning an improper
use of the Selkirk adventures. The Alexander
Selkirk story appeared in 1712, when Captain
Woodes Rogei-s published his Voyages narrat-
ing the discovery of Selkirk in February, 1709,
at Juan Fernandez, where he had been isolat-
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ed. The Captain's record intimates that Sel-
kii"k had no pen, ink, paper, and had made
no journal. Ringrose's account of Captain
Sharp's Voyages refers to the same incident;
and Danipier had discovered a Mosqnito
Indian on the same island. As "Robinson
Crusoe" was not issued until April, 1719, and
the second part until August, 1719, and the
third part, "Serious Reflections," in August,
1720. De Foe had kept his manuscript of the
first part about four or five years (if written
in Halifax.) before printing it. This is ex-
ceedingly likely; first, because of his persecu-
tion, and secondly, because of his poverty.
Moreover, it would be almost miraculous to
find a man of De Foe's temperament calmly
resting at Halifax, and we have nothing else
to fill up his tinie, besides four bantering
pamphlets. He says "Observing here," that
is, in his northern retreat, "the inso'^ence of
the Jacobite party, and how they insinuated
the Pretender's rights into the common
people, I set pen to paper again by writing
'A Seasonable Caution' and to open the ej^es
of the poor ignorant country people, I gave
away this all over the Kingdom." The other
pamphlets were "What if the Pj'etender
should come ?" "Reasons against the Succes-
sion of the House of Hanover," "What if the
Queen should die?" Thus whilst Halifax
miist relinquish, in all probability "Jure
Divino," we may add four pamphlets. The
Old Pretender came in 1715.
THOMAS DEILONEtY cannot be claimed as
a Halifax writer, but the following book by
him gives some notices of Halifax Gibbett:
"Thomas, of Reading, or the Sixe Worthie
Yeomen of the West, now the sixth time
corrected and enlarged. By T.D.., London,
printed by Eli^a Allde for' Robert Bird, 1632,
126 pages. (One of the Yeomen was Hodge-
kins, of Halifax. T have the reprint, issued
also in large paper.
W. M. WINN is credited with the author-
ship of Hialifaxiana or Rescued Blossoms,
containing Original Anecdotes, &c., illumin-
ated with a Learned Exordium. Halifax,
1805. A copy is in Halifax Free Library.
:\riCHAEJ. H. RANKIN, of Halifax, wrote:
Challenge of Barletta : a Tale of Chivalry by
the Marquis D'Azeglio. From the Italian by
M.H.R. London, 1837.
SARAH DTTCKETT WILSON -. The Knights
of the Golden Key, and other Stories. Lon-
don, n.d. I am told this lady was connected
with Halifax, either as resident or by birth.
S.S. — The Lottery of Death. A Russian
Tale of Passion and Intrigue. London, c.
1890. A copy is in Halifax Free Library. The
author is given as a local writer.
EDWARD SLOANE: Ei'^says, Tales and
Sketches. Halifax, Leyland and Son, Corn
IVIarket, 18i9, 168 pages, 8vo.
REY. JAMES WHALLEY, Curate of Cross-
stone, Todmorden, was author of "The Wild
Moor: a Tale founded on Fact," with pre-
face by the Rev. Whiteley Mallinson, M.A.,
Incumbent of Cross-stone, and late Fellow of
Magd. Coll., Canib. Leeds printed, 1869;
sma.'ll octavo, pages 104. This is a very
scarce yet modern book, dealing with the
moorland between Ileptonstall and Haworth.
Mr. Whallev was a native, and duly appreci-
ated the interesting associations of Haworth.
The Brontes, Grimshaw, Oxenhope Church,
Charity Sermons, Snow Storms, Astrology,
Patronymics, Crow Hill Bog eruption, and
Folk Lore; other subjects as well, all of
which are fascinating to the Bronte student
are here briefly dwielt upon. It was issued
in cloth as well as in paper covers. I have
one of each.
From the HALIFAX PRESS, amongst
other tales, there have been issued—
Peter Parley's Forget'me-not; Tales for
Leisure Hours. Halifax, no date, 12mo.
Miss Mitford's Juvenile Tales; 1861, 32mo.
Oliver Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, 1850.
Little Dudley, a story for Children, by C.G E.
Halifax, 1868.
Juvenile Tales, Halifax, Milner, 1851, 459
pages, 32mo., was written by Edmund Riley,
assistant schoolmaster to Mr. Hinchliffe,
Horton Green. He died unmarried and in
poverty.
MRS. JOHN HA(^tGARD, eldest daughter
of Mr. Fairless Barber, of Castle Hill, Ras-
trick, has written "The Tanjeena Tree," and
other works of fiction. His youngest daugh-
ter, who died in 1901, wrote "The Roa;(.U
Mender," "The Ga-thering of Brother Hilari-
us," and "The Grey Brethrea" under the
nom -de-plume of Michael Fairless. Miss
Barber and her sister were born at Ca.stle
Hill, Rastrick.
(SAMUEL DRAKE ROBERTS,) Wyke,
Gomersall, Brighouse, 1905: —
"The Yorkshire Cousins," by Stephen
Wyke. London, 1896, octavo, pages viii.,
448. The plot is partly laid near Llanidloes
in Montgomeryshire. In 1863, \vhen a young
man, he published Stansfield, a Ti-agedy,
mentioned previously in the list of poets.
MISS R. M. KETTLE, of Parkstone, Dor-
set, authoress of many novels, has been an
occasional Halifax visitor.
"The Mistress of Langdale Hall: a Romance
of the West Riding." By Rosa Mackenzie
Kettle. London, 1872, octavo, pages iii., .336.
The frontispiece represents Shibden Hall
("Langdale Hall"), by Clara Mackenzie Kettle.
The Vignette on the title gives "Hazledon
Crags from a drawing by the Author." The
dedication to John Lister, Eisq., of Shibden
Hall, in memory of happy summers spent
under his roof, is dated from Heath side.
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HALIFAX BOOKS AM) AUTHORS.
(Dorset), January, 1872. The whole story
centres at Shibd^n Hall.
"Hilleeden on the Moors. A Romance of the
West Riding. By Rosa Mackenzie Kettle,
author of The Mistress of Langdale 11 all,
Smuf,'Klers and Foresters, Lewell Pastures,
Over the Furze, Under the Grand Old Hills,
My Home in the Shires. Author's edition,
1877, octavo, pages iii., 331. This is a Hali-
fax and Calder-dale story.
"The Carding-Mill Valley. A Romance of
the Shropshire Highlands. By Rosa Mac-
kenzie Kettle," author of The Falls of the
Loder, Lord Maskelyne's Daughter, Fabian's
Tower, The Wreckers, Memorials of Charles
Boner, Elarl's Cedai-s, Sea and the Moor,
Ranger's Lodge, La Belle Marie, &c.
Author's edition, 1882, pages iii., 364.
"Christmas Berries and Summer Roses,''
has been noticed in our poets' section. She
has also published "Light on the Sandhills,
Oaks of Fairholme, Coastguard Station,
Autumn Leaves." At this time she resided
at Callandar, N.B. Only three of the volumes
are connected with Halifax, namely, Lang-
dale Hall, Hillesden, and Christmas Berries
(partly written at Shibden Hall).
JOHN WRIGGLEiS WORTH; " Hubert
Cloudesley."
"Idylls of Yorkshire, by Hubert Cloudesley,
Author of Passing Thoughts, the Sweetest
Maid in Glowton, Grass from a Yorkshire
Village, Adventures of a Remarkable Twain,
&c." EllLand, Henry Watson, Limited, South-
gate; no date, pages iv., 292, ootavo. Tlie
preface is signed by Wrigglesworth, Greet-
land. The book comprises ten stories, large
type, good paper
"The Sweetest Maid in Glowton A York
shire Story by John Wrigglesworth, "Hubert
Cloudesley"), author of "Passing Thoughts,"
"Sketches from Eeial Life," "In the Cnto near
Death." Halifax, "Guardian" Office, 180
pages small octavo; 1894 on the cover. See
the poets' section respecting the autlior, a
working man of Greetland, now deceased.
"Passing Thoughts of a Working Man,''
was out of print in 1894; but the author pro-
mised to find me a copy. He was evidently
unable to do so, and the next news I had re-
specting him was an account of his death.
MR. J. RAMSDEOST, a Greetland young man,
has issued a book in answer to Dr. W.
Wright's Brontes in Ireland.
"The Bronte Homeland or Misrepresenta-
tions Rectified, by J. Rameden," 168 pages,
not including nine illustrations.
JOSEPH S. FLETCHER, "A Son of the
Soil," vt^as born at Halifax in 1863.
"The Wonderful Wapentake; illustrated by
J. Ayton Symington. London, 1895, octavo,
pages xi., 251. Frontispiece, Wentbridge.
The wapentake is tliat of Osgoldcross, or
Pontefract district. The sketches are selec-
tions from the "Leeds Mercury," written
under the pseudonym "A Son of the Soil."
The eighteen etchings are specially good.
"The Remarkable Adventure of Walter Tre-
lawney, Parish Prentice of Plymouth, in the
year of the Great Armada." Re-told by J. S.
Fletcher, author of When Charles the First
■was King; Through Storm and Stress, &c.
Frontispiece by W. S. Stacey. Edinburgh,
1894, 216 pages.
Picturesqne Yorkshire, 3 volumes, was is-
sued in numbers, and afterAvards in volumes.
The illustrations are the best part of the
work; the rest is gazetteer clippings. He
has issued poetical and other works.
JOHN HARTLEY.— "Yorkshire Puddin, a
collection of the most popular Dialect Stories
from the pen of John Hartley," author of
Yorkshire Ditties, Clock Almanack, Seets i'
Lundun, &c. ; Wakefield, Wm. Nicholson and
Sons, no date, but dedication giveg Christmas,
1876, pages 379, octavo; portrait frontispiece.
Most of the pieces are in good Halifax dialect.
"Many a Slip. A Domestic Romance."
Wakefield, Nicholsons. Dedication to "Rt.
Hon. James Stansfield, M.P. for my native
town," is dated London, January 1, 1878;
pages 313 octavo, coloured frontispiece.
"A Rolling Stone, a Tale of Wrongs and
Revenge." Wakefield, Nicholson. Dedication
to his wife, October, 1878; pages 306, octavo,
coloured frontispiece.
"Seets i' Blackpool, Fleetwood, Lytham,
and Southport, as seen bi Sammywell Grimes
an' his wife Mally." Wakefield, Nichol-
sons, small octavo, pages 124.
"Seets i' Paris. Sammywell Grimes' trip
with his old chum Billy Baccus, his opinion
o' th' French, and th' French opinion o' th'
exhibition he made ov hissen." Wakefield,
Nicholsons, small octavo, 137 pages; dedica-
tion to John Stansfield, Esq., Haliiax, Novr.,
1878.
"Seets i' Lundun: a Yorkshireman's Ten
Days' Ttip."
"Grime's Trip to America. Ten Letters
from Sammywell to John Jones Smith."
Wakefield, Nicholsons, email octavo, 121
pages. Dated, Bradford, 1877.
" Yorkshii-e Ditties.'' First series; also
second series; see our poetical section.
" A Sheaf from the Moorland : A Collec-
tion of Original Poems." See poetical sec-
tion,
Yorkshire Tales: Amusing Sketches of
Yorkshire Life. First series, also second
series.
I gave a sketch, portrait, and bibliography of
Hartley in the "Yorkshire Bibliographer."
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
193
CV.— BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.
BENJAMIN WIISON, Salteiliebble :
"The Stiugglte of an Old Chartist, what he
knows, and the piirt he has taken in various
movements. ' Contents: Peterloo Massacre,
Chartist Leaders, 1839 and '48, Township
Affairs, Plug Drawing of 1812, Co-operative
Movement, Reform League, 1667 Reform Bill,
Halifax Borough and Municipal Election^*,
&c. Price 3d. Halifax, John Nicholson (W.
C. Womersley), 1887, demy octavo, 40 pages.
Wilson was born at Skircaat Green in August,
1824. This pamphlet ubouudis in matters of
public inteirest.
HENRY SUGDEN, J.P. :
"In Memoriam. Aid. Hy. Sngden, J.P.;
Reprinted from the "Brighouse News,"
October, 1902; octavo, 72 pages, illustrated.
Henry Sugden was the fifth lion of Thomas
Sugden, who established, with several of his
sons, the famous firm of Com Millers bearing
their name at Brighouse. He Avas born Feb-
ruary 24, 1837, and died September 30, 1902.
He entered early into the business of a cotton
goo'ds manufacturer, first at Ripponden, then
on his own account at EUand, 1858, and Brig-
house, 1865. His public engagements, politic-
al, philantliroi>ical, educational, religious,
were enough to exhaust an ordinary man,
without the cares of a big firm. It was his
own persistency that kept him from being
Mayor of Ihe new Borough of Brighouse. He
served as an Alderman of the Borough and
also of the Wetst Riding Council, and was like-
wise a County Magistrate. The Liberal,
Temperance, and Educational organisations
equallv claimed him as champion.
WILLIAM KERSHAW:
"A Narrative of the Peninsula Veteran,
William Kershaw, being a ooncjse and faith-
ful account of the numerous encounters and
hair-breadth escapee to which a soldier is ex-
posed in military warfare." Halifax, Wm.
Nicholson, Cheapside, 1862, 32 pages, small
octavo. Kershaw was born in April, 1788, at
Stansfield Mill, Norland.
RT^'-7. HARRY SHAW Author of "A Vision
of Advent," &c.. see poetical section. Mr.
Shaw is a native of Mirfield. "Fragments of
Ministry." Halifax, Ashworth and Birkhead,
1899, octavo, pages viii.. 118. Twenty-five
prose fragments, a souvenir of his four .years'
ministry in Halifax (Methodist Free Church
or New Connexion.)
THOMAS RAWLINSON :
"Justice and Mercy, or Alice the young
orphan wanderer reclaimed, by Thomas Ra.w-
linson; author of Halifax Tracts, &c., an
affecting narrative, illustrated, in connection
w-ith the Town Hall. Halifax": 2d., 1870, no
printer's name; 16 pages, small octavo. This
is a temperance and religious pamphlet by a
town mi.ssionary. of King Cross, January,
1870. There is a rough woodcut of Thomas,
Alic-e, and three policemen.
"An Authentic Report of the Trial of MIC-
HAEiL S'J'OCKS, Esq., for wilful and corrupt
Perjury at the Yorkshire Lent Assizes, 1815,
before Judge Thompson and a Special Jury.
Huddersfield, (London printed,) 1815, demy
octavo, 16 pages. John Bower and Samuel
Holdsworth w«r€ the complainants, who stat-
ed that in January, 1806, Michael Stocks took
away 10,000 tons of coals belonging to their
co-partnership, without the knowledge of the
complainants, and other encroachments after
in at date, in Northowram. The result of
this long trial was tliat the jury returned a
verdict of NOT GUILTY.
LEIYLAND. A Full Report of a Trial for
Libel: Browne v. Leyland and others, at
York Spring Assizes, April, 1835. Halifax,
Leyland and Son, Corn Market, 1835, 123 pages
8i X 5i.
CAPT. INGRA!M:
Proceedings and Correspondence of the
Falifax Troop of West York Volunteer Cav-
il ry previous to the la.te Court of Inquiry
holden at Leeds, October 10 and 11, 1805, on
the conduct of Capt. Ingram, to which are
added Minutes taken in Court by a Member
of the Troop. Halifax 1805.
ARTHUR OLDFIELD, Rastrick :
A Collection of Testimonies as to the ability
of Arthur Oldfield as Overseer and Printers'
Manager; 20 pages, oblong 12mo., choicest
printing and paper. There is a fine zinco-
portrait, with biographical notes of a worthy
Rastrick workman who married the sister of
Mr. John Samuel Jowett, Brighouse. He was
a technical teacher as well as a printer at
Leeds, Birmingham, Harrogate, &c., and at
Birmingham published a very useful technical
handbook, — "A Manual of Typography." I
regret I do not know his whereabouts at
present.
"The Singular Life and Surprising Adven-
tures of JOSEPH THOMPSON, known by
the name of Fiddler Thompson, of
Halifax, with an account of the various
Irardships he endured, the wick-
edness of common Fiddlers and Fid-
dling, his practice as a Horse Rider and a
Juggler, narrow escape from death, his being
a Fiddler on a oriiise in a Privateer, his
cruelty as a husband, father, &c., and his
subsequent conversion and devotedness to Go<l."
Wakefield, Nicholson and Son, no date, 32mo.,
78 pages. I regret I have not a copy of the
original edition, so cannot describe it. "I
was born in Halifax," he says. Like Jonathan
Saville, he suffered ae a Town-Apprentice.
His disgusting story was written about 1808,
I imagine, and he lived a vicious life from
about 1770 to 1786, when he became a Metho-
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HALIFAX BOOKS A^D AUTHORS.
dist. His mother died in 1795 aged 76. He
mentions the sudden deaths of his relative^,
including a cousin, Joe Thompson. Fiddler
Thompson died March 5, 1812, and was buried
in South Parade Chapol Yard, Halifax.
I fail to find in these particulars any sub-
stantiation of a book, advertised as a Halifax
book ae under: —
"Life and Adventurer of Joe Thompson— a
narrative founded on fact. Written by him-
self." 2 Vols. New edition. London, 1775.
12mo. A rakish life— refers now and again to
his visits to Yorkshire. "Born in the West
Riding, where his father was a clergyman."
There is nothing of Yorkshire in it, nor of
Halifax, though so stated in a Catalogue: —
YORKSHIREi.— Life and Adventures of
Joe Thompson, of Halifax, a Narrative found-
ed on Fact; First Edition, with portraits of
Joe T. and Miss L. Rich, 2 vols. IGmo. calf,
rebacked, Fin© Copy, Scarce, 14s. 1775.
It is a silly lewd romance probably printed
at Bath or London.
T. STTTCLTFFE. of Burnley, afterwards of
Salforth, a descendant of the SutclifEes of
Stansfield, so he stated.
1. Crusoniana, or Truth versiis Fiction
elucidated in a history of the Islands of Juan
Fernandez by a retired Governor of that
Colony, plates, 8vo.. Manchester, 1843, very
rare .
2. Pedigree of the Kayes of Woodsome, and
Greenhalghs, of Brandlesome.
3. The Elartliquake of Juan Fernandez in
1835. Manchester, 1839.
4. Rise and Progress of Woollen and Cotton
Manufactures, Manchester, 1813. Sutcliife
the adventurer was Grandson of Kaye of
Bury, and born in 1790. He lost his posses-
sion at the earthquake and came to Man-
chester. Died in London iii poverty in 1849.
GILLMOR :
Diary of the late Richard Hooker Gillmor,
Esq., Ensign, 92nd Highlanders. 84 page»s,
octavo, Farrar, Union Street, Halifax, 1871,
16m 0.
SAMUEL BAUMB:
Life, Letters and Last Hours of Samuel
Baume, late of Halifax, dedicated to Opera-
tives, Keighley, 1853, l!2mo.
WILLIAM HANSON:
Life, written by himself (in his 80th year),
and revised by a Friend. Halifax, 1883). Copy
in Halifax Free Library.
THOMAS CHEiETHAM. of Ripponden, An
Account of the Life of, by Himself, l'^25.
Bradford, J. M. Jowett, 1870, 33 pages, 12mo.
JOSEPH FARRAR, J.P. : A few events, in-
cidents and experiences in the Life of Joseph
Farrar, J.P., of Bradford, written by him-
self. Printed for private circulation. Brad-
ford, 1889, pages vii., 83. I am indebted to
Mr. G. H. Farrar for a copy. There is a
portrait frontispiece, and a fdding pedigree
which shews the Halifax origin of Mr. Far
rar's family, and a page or two about the
Farrers of Warley.
SIR FRANCIS CROSSLEY, BART,, 24
pages, small octavo, London, Religious 'i'ract
Society, Biographical Series, 1.028; view of
Some liey ton, on the title. Sir Francis was
the youngest son of John Crossley, Dean
Clough Carpet ?*Iills, and was born October
26, 1817. His brothers were Thomas, Robert,
John, and Joseph. In !852 Frank Cros&ley
became M.P. for Halifax, and paesed en to
be member for West Yorkshire until 1869,
when he stood for the North West Riding.
He died January 5, 1872. Concise accounts
of his benefactions are given m this pamphlet.
CRO'SSLEY (Frank, Esq., M.P., after\\ ardP
Sir Francis,) published Canada and the
United States; a Lecture delivered n the
Odd Fellows' Hall, Halifax, Monday, January
2lBt, 1856, Halifax, T. and W. BirtAhiiUe, 22,
Northgate, 1856 40 pages .6in. x 4
"SIR ^riTUS SALT, BARONET: His Life
and its Lessons. By Rev. R. Balgarnie, Scar-
borough, with portrait and photogi-aphic II-
luvstra-tions." Scarborough, Theakstone and
Co., 1877, octavo, pages xv., 319. 'J he photo-
graphs comprise an excellent likeness of Sir
Titus, as anyone who knew him will testify;
his birthplace at ^Morley; view of Saltaire;
Crow Nest, Lightcliffe; Salt Statue, Bradford;
Saltaire Mausoleum. A third edition was
reached in 1878. For some years Sir Titus
Salt lived at Crow Nest as a tenant; he came
back again as owner, and died there. He was
emphatically a man of deeds but not words.
"Saltaire and its Founder, Sir Titus Salt,
Bart." by Abraham Holroyd. Saltaire, 24
pages and paper covers, 1871i, 3d. This was
the first edition my friend Holro.vd issued, but
its title was "Life of Sir Titus Salt, Bart.,
with an Account of Saltaire."
"Saltaire, and its Founder. Sir Titus Salt,
Bart.," by Abraham Halroyd, 1871. 2nd edi-
tion, small octavo, 40 pages, with Gelder's
engraving of Sir Titus, as frontispiece. Salt's
aj*ms are on the title page. My good friend
Holroyd sold me the block portrait.
"Saltaire and its Foimder, Sir Titus Salt,
Bart.'' Third edition, Bingley, T. Harrison
for Abraham Holroyd, 1873, 91 pages, 12mo.,
plates — Sir Titus Salt, Saltaire Mills, Saltaire
Congregational Church. Higher Schools, In-
stitute.
"The Late Sir Titiis Salt, Bart., Founder
of Saltaire. A brief resume of His Life and
Works; an acc-ount of the Funeral, the ad-
dress given on that occasion. Sir Titus's will,
&c.. People's edition, tenth thousand. Salt-
aire, B. Allsop, 1878. Reprinted (mostly) from
the "Shipley and Saltaire Times," September
1878, 24 pages octavo. The "Times" report
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195
Avai3 also issued in a large broadsheet, Janu-
ary 6, 1877. Mr. AUsop also issued an Album
of Saltaire Views, at 6d.. a series of the same
in photography.
"Sir Titus Salt, Bai-t. ; Life Lessons, by Rev.
T. Nichokon, Clecklieaton. Bradford, 16
pages, octavo."
"Sir Titus Salt, Bart.," 24 ^ ^ 4to., with
coloured litho-portrait. January, 1877.
Crow Nei«t, Lightcliffe : Catalogue of the
Contents of the Mansion, to be sold by Auction
July (1878), Davis and Shoeemith. (Sir Titus
Salt's.) 50 pages quarto.
Sir Titus Salt and George IMoore; by
James Burnley. The World's Workers series,
Casisell and Co.. 1891. &c., three editions,
small octavo, 66 pages appropriated to Sir
Titus. 67—128 to George Moore.
The Rev. B. Wood, Bradford, published a
funeral eermon Sir Titus Salt's death, Jan.,
1877, 11 pages, crown octavo
Further notes on Saltaire in Dickons'
Bradford Bibliography, pages 1.30-1 146, 163
238.
CVL— RICHARD OASTLER.
"Sketch of the Life and Opinions of
Richard Oast'er." Leeds, Joshua Hobson,
1838, 20 pages, double columns, imperial
octavo, frontispiece x^oitrait, lithographed by
Edward Morton from W.P. Frith's painting
with facsimile autograph.
Qastler was born in Leedi, December 20,
1789. He was educated at Fulneck, but his
parents were Wesleyans. His father, Robert
being a Wesleyan when young, was rhivm
from home on that account, and livt-d It r
many years at Thii-sk with his uncle, md
both of them were great friends of John Wes-
ley, who often stayed with them. When
Robert Oastler died, in July, 1820, Mr. Thomas
Thornhill, of Fixby, asked Richard to take
his father's place as steward, and he i-emoved
to Fixby in .January, 1821. He had long been
an active politician on the Tory side, and a
staunch Churchman, yet he wap a reformer,
as witness his "'Vicarial Tithes," and "Letter
to the Archbisliop of York." He became a
Slave liberationist, a Poor Law Reformer, and
Chid-Factory Act advocate, along with M. T.
Sadler, M.P.. many years before settling in
Fixby. A libel case brought by Wm. ]\Ioore,
of Huddersfield, with damages of £1,000, came
off with a farthing damages. T have had a
similar case myself, before the Lord Chief
Justice. ^Ir. Oastler issued "Letters to the
Duke of Wellington." "Facts and Plain
Words," "Right of the Poor to Liberty and
Life," "Letter to the Agricultural and In-
dustrial IMagazine," 1834.
In May, 1838, he was dismissed by Mr.Thorn-
hill for political cau^s. At this juncture
the pamph'et under notice was printed, and
I agree with my friend, the late T. T. F^mpsall,
that it is largely autobiographical, though
l)rribably written by Joshua Hobson. it is a
most capable as also a very rare pamphlet.
"The Fleet Papers, being Letters to Thomafl
Thornhill. Eisq., of Riddlesworth in Norfolk,
from Richard Oastler, his pi'isoner in the
Fleet, with occasional communications from
Friends. Vol. I., I have not got.
Vol. TI.. No. I, January 1, 1842. Price 2d.
"This is New Year's Day. Good Morning to
you;. A happy new year to you and the Fixby
heire.«s !" So it proceeds; eight pages weekly;
printed in London; imperial octavo, each one
sent from "The Fleet Prison," and each ad-
dressed to Thomas Thornhill, Esq., who must
have felt terrible stings.
No. 41, October 8th, 18i2 is the last copy I
have at hand. The gifts of food, money,
books, tobacco, wine, &c., that were sent to
hi)n he duly chronicles as his "Rent Roll."
"October 15, a Huddersfield friend sent ™e a
box of preserves. The fruit was grown in
Fijby Gardens !"
"October 17. Lord Feversham sent me a
hamper of gamei." He never forgets to rub in
the "Rent Roll;" "The Rent Roll" next week.
Fleet Papers are embraced in three or four
volumes, January 2, 1841, to September 7. 1&44.
"The History of the Factory Movement, or
Oastler and his Times, by W. R. Croft." Hud-
dersfield, 1888, small quarto, pages viii., 141
rubricated borders, and beautiful frontispiece
portrait, taken from the steel-plate copy that
may be occasionally seen in cottages of Hali-
fax district, one of which at each place should
adorn the walls of the Halifax and Brighcuse
Free Libraries; It was about 1830 that Mr.
Oastler tackled the question of the Factory
Movement, and the criielty to children, which
earned for him the title of the Factory King.
John Fielden, M.P., of Todmorden, was a par-
ticularly ardent co-worker with Oaf'tler.
Fielden issued a pamphlet on "The Curse of
the Factory System," 24iiiO., 1836. On the
same stibject a very scarce book is entitled,
"The History of the Short Time llovement,"
by "Alfred," (Samuel Kydd).
Mr. Oastler acknowledged a debt of .^3,000
to Mr. Thornhill, being the excesses for
several years of the INtanagement Fund at
Fixby, which being hurriedly demanded Mr.
Oastler could not meet, so was committed to
the Fleet Prison, December 9, 18J0. For a
long time Oastler refused to make any com-
promise, and Thornhill insisted on the debt.
A meetin.g was called at Brighouse, a public
subscription raised, and Mr. Oastler was re-
leased, and reached Brighouse on Shrove
Tuesday, February 20, 1844, when the "Factory
.»;i
196
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Kiu<r" had a royal progress to HudderBlieid.
The" Rev. G. S. Bull and Jonathan Schofield,
of Rastrick, were amongst the prinie-ni overs.
Oastler soon joined Lord Ashley in the Ten
Hours Movement, which became Law in June,
1847.
"Richard Oastler's Reply to Richard Cob-
den's Speech at Leeds, 18th December. 1849."
People's Edition, 1850, demy octavo, London,
47 pages, 6tl. Dated from Broadstairs, Kent,
January 19, 1850. Free Trade is the topic of
discussion.
"Convocation: The Church and The People,
by Richard Oastler." London, 1860, demy
octavo, pages iy., 77. Dated from Conway,
April, 1860.
"The Home: The Altar, the Throne, and
the Cottage. Edited by Richard Oastler."
No. I, Vol. L, London, Saturday, May 3rd,
1851, Id., quarto, 8 pages. Dated from Nor-
wood, Surrey. "The Home" appeared weekly.
My set is very incomplete, besides finishing
with No. 84, Vol. 3, December 4th, 1852. Vol.
2 began with No, 36, January 3rd, 1852. I
think there were eight volumes issued.
Vicarial Tithes, Halifax: a True Statement
of Facts and Incidents. By Richard Oastler.
Steward to Thomas Thornhill, Esquire, and
Delegate for the Township of Fixby. Hali-
fax, P. K. Holden. 1827, demy octavo, 187
pages, 4s. Preface dated Fixby Hall, Novem-
ber 3i), 1827. This is a history of the small
tithes of Halifax parish. Vicar Coulthurst,
who died December.ll, 1817, and Vicar Knight,
who died January 7. 1827, are highly com-
mended by Oastler. The work is a valuable
contribution to local history, and bears con-
siderably upon the after-trials of Mr. Oastler.
Richai-d Oastler died at Harrogate, August
22nd, 1861, and was buried in Kirkstall Church-
yard. T shall neve}' forget the crowd that
thronged Huddersfield Pari,-h Church when tlie
Rev. G. S. Bull preached his funeral sermon.
A meeting was called at Brighouse to erect a
memorial, and the statue in Foxster Square,
Bradford, was the outcome.
My son. who was lately assistant-professor
at Glasgow University, and now fills the Ec-
onomic chair at Aberdeen, has supplied me
with a list of Oastler's pamphlets, but doubts
its completenesis.
PAMPHLETS, &c., BY RICHARD OASTLER,.
Letter to Mr. Holland Hoole. Manchester,
1832.
A few words to the Friends and Enemies of
Tra.des Unions, 1833.
Infant Slavery: Report of a Speech in favour
of the Ten Hours' Bill, Preston, 1833.
Facts and Plain Words, Leeds, 1833,
Letter on the New Poor Law Act, Augut^t,
1834. 8vo., 4 pp., Bradford.
A well-seasoned Christmas Pie for the "Great
Liar of the North," prepared, cooked, &c.,
Atkinson, Bradford. IM pp.
Anotlier edition, 23 pp., 8vo, Atkinson,
Bradford.
Slavery in Yorkshire, Monstrous Barbarity, 3
pages, 8vo., Atkinson, Bradford, 1835.
More work for the Leeds New Thiefcatchers,
Huddersfield, 1836.
A Letter to the Archbishop of York, Hudders-
field, 1836.
The Un.iiist Judge or the "Sign of the Judge's
Skin,'' Leeds, 1836.
The Rejected Letter, Leeds, 1836,
A letter to thoee Millowners who oppose the
Ten Houre' Bill, 1836.
A Letter to the Millowners who are the
friends of the Factory Childreri, 1836.
The Ne\T Poor Law,— A Speech, 1837.
Right of the Poor to Liberty and Life,— A
Speech, London, 1838.
Reply to Richard Cobden's Speech, London,
11850.
Factory Legislation; a letter on the Special
Report of the Executive Committee of the
National Association of Factory Occupierp,
16 pages, octavo, London, 1855.
Brougham v. Brougham.
Free Trade — not proven.
Letters to "Leeds Mercury," "Leeds Intelli-
gencer/' and "Northern Star," &c.
There is a brief memoir of Oastler in "IMen
of Leefls," pa.ges 53-59, with a microscopic
portrait.
A triie and correct report of a most marvel-
lous and interesting meeting (reported late-
ly to have been held in a certain wood) to
discuss the Factory Question, and the
speeches thereon, 12mo., 4 pp , Wardman,
Bradford, no date, about 1833.
A letter to thote sleek, pious. Holy, Devout
Dissenters, Messrs. Get-all, Keep-all. Grasp-
all, Scrape-all, Whip-all, Gull-all, Cheat-all,
Cart-all. Work-all, Sneak-all, Lie-well,
Swear-well, Scratchem, &e. The Share-
holders in the "Bradford Observer" in
answer to their attack on Richard Oastlei
in that paper of July 17th, 1834, &c., &c.,
8vo., 34 pp., J. Atkinson, Bradford, 1834.
Tracts, being letters to the Shareholders of
the "Bradford Observer," 8vo., J. Atkinson,
Bradford, 1834-6.
Eight letters on Reform to the Duke of Wel-
lington, with copious notes on the West
Riding, 8vo., 136 pp., Huddensfield, 1835.
Letter to the Viscount Morpeth on the West
Riding Nomination Riots. 12mo., 32 pp..
London, 1837.
Richard Oastler: A Sermon preached in St.
James' Church, Bradford, September list,
1861, by the Rev. G. S. Bull, Birmingham,
with an Appendix, 12mo., 16 pages, G, F.
Sewell, Bradford, 1861.
HALIFAX BCK)K9 AND AUTHORS.
197
Sketch of the Life of Richard Oai^tler, with
an account of his funeral obseqviies, and the
three Funeral Sermons preached on the oc-
casion in Bradford, September, 1861^ by the
Rev. G. S. Bull, 8vo., 36 pages; Auty, Brad-
ford. 186L
(Mr. Bull also preached Funeral Sermons at
Sheepridge and Huddersfield, perhaps the
same as the printed ones.
Other items on the Factory Question include:
Eeiport and Resolution^ of Deputies from
Hand-Loom Worsted Weavers of Bradford,
Leeds, Halifax, &c., 12 pages, 12mo. Brad-
ford, no date.
True and Correct Report of a meeting of
birds and beasts in a certain wood
to di,scu«t^ the Factory Question, 44 parses,
8vo., Bradford, not date.
Questions by the Factory Commissionei's,
1833, a sheet.
Factory Child's Friend, 1833.
Ten Hours' Bill, was it passed by a Liberal
or Tory Government ? 20 pages, Bradford.
The Rev. Gea S. Bull, before going to Birm-
ingham, was incumbent of Bierley, and print-
ed at Bradford sevei-al pamphlets on the Fac-
tory System, including— The Elvils, 1832, 36
pages; The Poor Law Act. 1834, 4 pages; Bene-
fit Societies, 1834, 16 pages; Lecture on Poor
Law Act, 1834, 12 pages; Homes of Old Eng-
land, six verses dedicated to Oastler. sheet
printed at Bradford, &c.
CVIL— SOME HISTORICAL BOOKS.
CENSUS OF HIPPEEHOLME-CUM-BRIG-
HOUSE, April ISOl; April, 1811; small folio.
This book was "printed at Jacobs' Office, Hali-
fax," that is the head lines and rulings.
Probably each township in Halifax parish got
a copy in which to enter the returns. Bach
page shows : — Houses : Inhabitants, Inhabited.
No. of families, Einpty; Persons of all ages:
Males, Females,, Total; Occupations:
Farmers, Tradere, Gentry, Total. Every
householder's name appears, and sometimes
two families are set down for one house. The
gentry column is used for wives, children and
all, or nearly so, who do not figure as house-
holder. Eighteen names appear on each page.
There are 32 pages for the 1801 census, number-
ing for Brighouse quarter 595 persons, Light-
cliffe Chapelry 1480, Coley Chapelry (Hipper-
holme section) 820, /total 2,895.
The 1811 census is entered in the same book,
filling 34 pages, Brighouse quarter 900 persons,
Hipperholme 2,448, total 3,348. There are
thirty more pages unfilled.
There should be similar books in existence
for 1821—31—41—51^-61—71—81—91—1901; and
every township should have similar sets. Will
the District Councillors make thorough
searches for these and similar valuable records,
and liave a list of them printed in their next
Council Reports ? Also, will they get the Clerks
to have a dozen sets of the anniial printed
Reports bound together, and deposit one at the
nearest Free Library. They will find the
money spent on this work A VALUABLE IN-
VESTIVIENT. Mark my words I
CIVIL WAR TRACT:
A Proclamation published through all the
Garrisons of the North. &c. The Sentence of
War passed upon divers souldiers that
Mutinyed at Halifax: 1648.
"A Handbook descriptive of the various In-
stitutions in Haley Hill and Copley, 1865."
Halifax, T. and W. Birtwhistle, 6d., pages iv.,
109. This is a useful handbook, shewing the
advantages for literary improvement that Col.
Akroyd institutetl, along with H. Akroyd Ridg-
way, B.A., the Rev. C. R. Holmes, M.A., Rev.
J. B. SidgTvick, M.A., Dr. J. W. Garlick, and
others, and possesses historical valie.
"The Order of the Consecration of All Souls'
Parojchial Burial Ground and of the Laying of
the Corner Stone of All Souls' Church, Haley
Hill, Halifax, April 25th, 1856. Leeds, T.
Harrison, 1856, 20 pages.
COPLET, Description of St. Stephen's
Church; consecrated October 30, 1865. Halifax,
E. Leyland and Son, 1865, 16 pages.
COUNTY BOROUGH OF HALIFAX: AK-
ROYD MUSEUM, Art Industries, Archaeology
and Antiquities, Bankfield. Catalogue of Ex-
hibits,, compiled by Arthur Crabtrae and J.
Whiteley, 1898.
J. W. CLAY, F.S.A.:
Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with ad-
ditions. Part vii. Exeter, Pollard, 1905; small
folio, pages iii., 253 to 386.
"Okie Eland, being Reminiscences of Elland
by LUCY HAMEETON, together with chapters
on the Antiquities of Elland, by J. W. Clay,
F.S.A., &c. Preface by Ernest Winter, Rector."
Illustrated. Elland, W. H. Gledhill, Westgate,
1901, small octavo, pages xv., 188.
The list of Vicars includes: — John Strenger
1459, James Butterfield 1644, Michael Savile
1561, Robert Mylner 1565, Skofield 1566, John
Leigh 1577, Richard Worrall 1588, Adam Wright
1592 , Costan Mawde 1593 (buried November,
1600), Joshua Smith (possibly deputy) 1596,
aged nearly 74, John Thompson 1633. Robert
Houldsworth 1651, Abbot (temporary) 1652,
Robert Towne c. 1650, R. Walker 1656, Josiah
Broadhead 1663 (died at Batley 1685), Peter
Ashton, M.A., 1667 (died November, 1698),
Richard Petty 1699, Jeremiah Bairstow 1721,
(died 1731), George Smith (died 1733), Thomas
Aldereon, M.A., 1734, William Stacklionse 1746,
198
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Robert 0„'(len (refiigned December 1'761), Samuel
Ogden ( ), George Burnett, M.A., 1768,
Thomas Watson 1793, Cliristopher Atkinson,
M.A., 1802, WiLliam Atkinson (Ids son) 1843,
David Meredith 1849, Edward Sandford 1853,
I'rancis Mueson 1872, Etrnest Winter 1893.
REV. GEO. WALTER ROBINSON, Curate
of EUand, was author of a Volume of Sermons.
Other curates there of last century were: —
The Eev. Alex. Charles Eraser, and Rev. Hugh
Stamer, before Mr. Robinson, and after him
the Rev. Charles Heath, the Rev. George
Langton Beckwdth, Rev. Francis Innes Jones,
Rev. F. Musson, Rev. J. R. Coghlan, Rev.
Robert Rutherford, Rev. R. G. Irving, Rev.
A. Barrington Orr, Rev. W. J. Kendle, and
thirteen othere, 1881-1900. I am not aware
that any of these curates, except Mr. Robinson,
were authors.
SOWERBY. Letter to the Archbishop of
York of the Inhabitants of Sowerby asking that
their Township be constituted into a distinct
Paxish. 1763.
SAMUEL DYEIR, CM., Euston Road, Lon-
don, was formerly an asisstant at Mr. Limoy'iy
Academy, Brighouse. I suppose the CM.
means certificated master. The following book
was issued at the cost of Mr. Clement Black-
burn, Brighouse. "Dialect of the West Riding
of Yorkshre" : a short history of Leeds and
other towns. Brighouse, John Hartley, 1891,
small octavo, pages 143. Tlie most curious
part of the book is the list of subscribei's, a
large proportion of the short list being Signers
and Signoras in Italy, Portugal, and other
foreign pai-ts, with a few Brighouse names
sprinkled in. The history of Leeds is a fraud,
and the chaff on Lundy's Giessen title, Dr.,
is one of the hundred curiosities of this unique
little book.
EDWARD AKROYD, M.P., Bank Field,
Halifax. ""The Yorkshire Penny Bank; a
Narrative, with an introduction by Edward
Akroyd, M.P. Leeds, 1899, pages iii., 73 octa-
vo. Mr. Peter Bent evidently compiled pages
21-73.
"The Present Attitude of Political Parties,"
by Edward Akroyd, F.S.A. Leeds, 1874, im-
perial octavo, 83 pages.
"The Church in its Relation to the State
and to Nonconformity.'' A paper read at the
Chiirch Congress, Leeds, 1872.
"HALIFAX FLOUR SOCIETY, Limited.
Established 1847. Jubilee 1897." The inner
title gives "May, 1847. Jubilee celebration.
May, 1897." Manchester, 1897, large octavo.
110 pages. Numerous portraits and views
YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S
SHOW; Souvenir of Halifax, 1895.
HALIFAX: What to see, 1697.
THEl NEW BUXTON GUIDE, containing a
concise account of the Properties of its Medica«I
Springs. Halifax, i)rinted for the author,
(Who was he?) Hall Bank, and sold by Mr.
Moore, Post Office, Buxton; no diite.
W^EiST RIDING RIVERS:
To the Sanitary Acthorities of Halifax, Hud-
dersfield, Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, Dews-
bury, and other adjacent Towns and Villages
now discharging their sewerage into the
Rivers Calder and Aire. 1876. Letter by
James A. Paskin. M.I.C.Ei.
"AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORICAL RE-
CORD of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen
Victoria, with a detailed account of the princi-
pal Eivents. Published as a Memento of the
Completion of Her Jubilee, June 21st, 1887. 2d.
Todmorden, T. Dawson; The inner pages are
London printed.
EXCURSION TO MYTHOLMROYD by the
Teachers and Elder Scholars of the Kirkgate
Wesleyan Sunday School; programme, June 6,
1865, small quarto, seven pages; Bradford, M.
Nelson, 1865. I have not seen a copy.
PBOPLE''S PARK, Handbook. "Halifax,
printed by Birtwhistle for James Lord. 1857,
20 pages.
GEORGE J. HOLYOAKE wrote "The
Historv of Co-operation in Halifax," c. 1868.
EDWARD PARSONS, JUN.
"Histories of St. Bartholomew Day." Hali-
fax, P.K. Holden, 1824, small octavo, pages
vii., 143, and page of errata. Dedication to the
Nonconformist Ministers of Halifax, dated
from Halifax, January li, 1824. The French
massacres occupy the first part and the Eng-
lish perseciitions under the Stuarts the sec-
ond section.
"The Civil, Ecclesiastical, Literary. Com-
mercial and Miscellaneous History of Leeds,
Halifax, Huddersfield, Bradford, Wakefield,
Dewsbury, Otley and the Manufacturing Dis-
trict of Yorkshire. 2 Vols, demy octavo, 1834,
Leeds, F. Hobson; Vol. 2, pages v., 503. Be-
sides other Halifax Notices the History of the
Parish occupies pages 279-393 of this volnme.
REV. WISI. EDENSOR LITTLEWOOD,
MvA., Head Master of Hipperholme Grammar
School,
"The Essentials of EbgHsh History, contain-
ing a concise History of Eingland, a systematic
view of important events, dates, battles, sieges,
treaties, institutions, eminent men, &c., for
Schools and Students; 7th edition, London,
1881. pages vii., 157; crown octavo.
"E'ssentials of New Testament Study" ; 548
pages, five maps and plans, crown octavo,
7s. 6d.
REV. FREDK. GARD FLEAY, M.A., Head
Master of Hipperholme Grammar School, pre-
viously at Leeds, and afterwards at Skipton
HALIFAX BOOKS ANT> AUTHORS.
199
School, has been mentioned under the poets.
Besides an English Grammar and a work on
Teaching, he was author of "Shakespeare
Manual," 1876, octavo, pages xxiii., 312. "A
Chronicle History of the Life and Work of
William Shakespeare, player, poet, and play-
maker. Two etched illustrations. London,
1886, large octavo, pages viii., 364.
REIV. JOHN WATSON, M.A. Further notes
respecting the Halifax historian may be use-
ful. He became Eector of Stockport, August
2, 1769, on the death of the Eev. Leigh Rich-
mond, being presented thereto by Sir George
Warren, Knt. His first wife was Susanna
Allon, of Barnsley. He was considered a
noted Whig. Besides a memoir of him in
Bamaker's Cheshire, there is an interesting
account of him by James Crossley in the Man-
chester Grammar School Register, (Chetham
Society, I. pp. 12-15.) Mr. Crossley treasured
Mi\ Watson's velvet cap, and makes the re-
mark, "When Mr. Watson put it on, woe to
the profane, whether of his household or not,
who intruded! for he strictly held to the patri-
archal ' Jus Divinum,' though he rejected the
regal.'' Mr. Crossley had also Dr. Whitaker's
annotated copy of Watson's Halifax. Mr.
Watson's Halifax manuscript notes for a new
edition unfortunately got dispersed. The por-
trait in his Halifax, by Williams, has below,
with other matters, his ai'ms: Argent on a
chevron engrailed azure bet\veen three mart-
lets sable, three crescents or; for Allon, his
first wife, on an escutcheon of pretence, sable
a cross potent on The portrait by Stringer is
considered a better one than Williams'.
Concerning his publications we may add that
the "Moderation" pamphlet, 32 pages, reached
a second edition. The "^Apology" 41 pages, and
"Kings should obey," (pages 43-56) may be
seen in the Portico Library, Manchester, (Ad-
lington Tracts, Vol. xxi.). The Letter to the
Moravian Cliurch, 42 pages gives criticisms of
the absurdities of their early Hj-mn Book.
Besides the Archaeological articljes, Mr. Ear-
waker describes the most celebrated of his
books, issued in 1782, — "Memoirs of the Ancient
Barls of Warren and Surrey, and their des-
cendants to the present time." Warrington,
1782, 2 vols, quarto, full of beautiful illustra-
tions, chiefly heraldic, artistic, including be-
sides vignettes, over fifty plates. The portrait
of Mr. Watson, engraved by Basire in 1780,
from D. Stringer's painting is given in
facsimile in Elarwaker's Cheshire. A poetical
reply to John Byrom, of Manchester, on turn-
ing to the east, and bowing to the name of
Jesus, was written by Watson for the "Hali-
fa.x TTnion Journal," 1760. Gilbert Wakefield
(Life, I., 162) thought Watson had the best of
the dispixte.
Mp. Watson published a sermon as under,^
"The Necessity of Laws and a proper obedi-
ence thereto, enforced in a sermon preached
before the Hon. Baron Smyth at the Assize
held at Lancaster, March 25, 1764''; Halifax,
1764, small quai-to.
Mr. J. G. Nichols, F.S.A., in "The Herald
and Genealogist, 1871, states that the "Earls
of Warren," 1782, was the third edition, and
that the first issue was in 1776, without illus-
trations, pages vi., 427, and probably only six
copies were sent out to friends to annotate and
correct. The copy in the Library of the Royal
Institution, London, is the only one that has
been recorded as in existence. In 1779 a sec-
ond edition, 15 copies only, sent to antiquarian
friends to be annotated, was printed. Tlie
late E. P. Shirley, Elsq., had one of these.
The third and public edition was set up "de-
novo," 1782.
Mr. Watson intended to publish a Volume
of Cheshire Histoiy, or History of Stockport
Parish. His MSS. were carefully preserved
by his descendants. They are described in
Mr. Earwaker's Elast Cheshire, p. 399, Vol. I.
Mr. E. says "There can be no doubt that Mr!
Watson was a most careful and painstaking
antiquary. He does not, however, seem to
have been possessed of much critical acumen.
He was a scholar and a gentleman, clear in
his statements, and accurate in all his work,
and not carried away by an overw^helming de-
sire to unduly magnify the importance of his
labours." The R^v. Gilbert Wakefield, who
was for some time his curate at Stockport,
having married his niece, says of him : —
("Memoirs of G.W.," 1804, Vol, I, 1.59-161,)
"he was a very lively, conversable, well-in-
formed man, and one of the hardest students
I ever knew; his great excellence was his
knowledge of Antiquities. He was by no
means destitute of poetical fancy, had written
some good songs, and was possessed of a most
copious collection of bon-mots, facetious
stories, and humorous compositions of every
kind, both in verse and prose, copied out with
uncommon accuracy and neatness."
Mr. W. died at Halifax March 14th 1783,
aged 59, his death being thus noticed in Stock-
port Register: "1783, March, The Rev. John
Watson, M.A., Eector of Stockport, was buried
the 18th." He left a son by his first wife, a
clergyman, who died without issue ; and by
his second wife one son, the Rev. John
Watson, Vicar of Prestbury, who died in
April, 1816; and Miss Anne Watson, who died
at Macclesfield, April 20, 1855, aged 90.
REV. JOHN WATSON, Junr., M.A., son of
the Halifax Historian, born June 12, 1762,
matriculated at Oxford from Brasenose College,
17th Febrxaary, 1781, his father being then
200
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
curate of Rippondeii. He took his B.A. degree
15th February, 1785, and that of M.A., 29th
April, 1788, nearly two years after his present.a-
tion to the Vioarage of Prestbury, Cheshire,
(June 25, 1786). By his wife Lettice, daughter
of the Rev. Hy. Offley Wright, of Mottram,
he had bvo sons, John, a Fellow of Braeenose
College, Oxford, and died in 1875, unmarried;
and Lawrence, who was killed <at St. Sebastian
in 1818; and two daughtere, Jane, now living,
the wife of George Robinson, Elsq., and Lettice,
now dead, who married a Captain Arden and
left issue. He died April 14, 1816, in the 54th
year of his age, and was buried at Prestbury
on April 23. A Mural tablet on the north
side of that church records tlie interment of
himself and wife. His grandfather, Legh Wat-
eon, and Rev. Joseph Watson, D.D., of Wal-
brook, and Hewytt Watson of Dublin, and
Eldmund Watson of Stockport, were eons of a
noted centenarian deer -keeper, John Watson of
Lyme, whose life is rcorded, p. 308-9, of Ear-
waker's Blast CheshixeL
The Rev. John W., junr., held also the In-
cumbency of SaJtersford Chapel in Prestbury
from 1801 to 1815.
CVIIT.— POLITICAL AND MUNICIPAL
LITERATURE.
[THE EARL OE HALIFAX.]
"Some Cautions offered to the Co^nsidera-
tion of those who are to chuse Members to
serve in the Ensuing Parliament." London,
1695, small quarto, 32 pages.
"Tlie Address of the RT. HON. SIR
ROBjiiRT PEEL. BART., to the Electors of
the Borough of Tamworth. Halifax, Whitley
and Booth, 3, Crown Street, 1834, 12 pages.
POLITICAL SATIRE: "Report of the Prin-
cipal Speeches and Songs at the Great Whig-
Radical Banquet, at Halifax, in the Oddfel-
lows' Hall. February 3, 1853. Leeds, Moxon
and Walker. 1853, demy octavo, 22 pages,
partly in rhyme, on Akroyd, Wood, Crossley.
JOilN SNOWDEN, Halifax:
"Radicalism Vindic^Tied ; a paper prepared
for Square Road Young- Men's Oongrp{j:ational
Society, November 18, 1866, being a reply to a
paper by Mr. Brskine to the same Society."
Id. Halifax. Simpson and Tiffany, Crossley
Street, 1867, 16 pages octavo.
T\\e Liberationists Unmasked, by an ex-
dissenting minister. A Lecture at the
Mechanics' Institution, Halifax, March 6.
1874, by the REV. ROBERT CHRISTISON."
Leeds. 1874, 26 pages octavo.
HALIFAX BOROUGH ELEICTIONS.
"The Poll Book (January 5, 1835.) contnip.
incr a correct list of all the Erectors who polled.
distinguishing the Candidates for whom they
voted, checked by the Itetuniing Officer, also
the names of the Registered Voters who did
not vote together with an Analysis of the
Poll. Halifax, Hartley and Walker, 1835,
demy octavo, 16 pages.
Theise Poll Books are of great utility to
geneifilogists. The four Htllands of Slead
House, father and thi-ee sons, voted for Wood
and Prohcroe, as did the two Macaulejis (of
Slead Hall family,) Attorneys, and three Hali-
fax Horsfalls. Wortley was the other
candi<lata.
William Waddington, Gibbet Street, was re-
jected for saj'ing he couhl not vote with safety
against one of the candidates, and William
Jennings did not say for whom he woiald vote.
"Poll Book," &,c..^ July 25th, 1837. Halifax,
Hartley and Walker, 23 pages, octavo; can-
didates — Protheroe, Wood, Wortloy.
"Poll Book," &c., July 29, 1847. Halifax, J.
Hartley and Son, Old Market Place, 26 pages,
octavo; candidates — Edwards, Wood, Miall,
Jones. Seven Horsfalls voted, and gave the
votes, 2, 3, 5, 4, respectively. The famous
Crossley brothers voted for Miall and Jones.
"Poll Book," &c., July 6, 7, 8, 1852. Halifax.
William Nicholson, duodecimo, 24 pages. Can-
didates, Wood, Crossley, Edwards, Jones.
"Poll Book," &c., January 3, 4, 5, 1853. Wm.
Nicholson, printer, 24 pages, duodecimo. Can-
didates, Wood and Edwards.
"Poll Book," &c., March 27, 28, 1857. Wm.
Nicholson, Cheapside, li2 pages, demy octavo.
Candidates, Wood, Crossley, Bclwards.
In the Free Library at Halifax there are
copies of the following pamphlets:
1. Halifax Borough Election, December 11,
1832.
a The Poll Book containing a correct list of
all the E'ectors who polled, distinguishing
the Candidates for whom they voted. Hali-
fax, 1833.
. Ditto, 1835, 1837, 1852, 1853, 1*^57.
3. The House John Bull built. Wood and'
AVortley ejection squib.
4. Halifax Borough Election, July 25, 1837.
The Poll Book, distingixishing the Candidates
for whom they voted names of Voters
who did not vote, &c. Halifax, 1837.
5. Copy of the Register of EFectors for the
Borough of Halifax. Halifax, IS^.S.
6. West Ridincr Election: Poll for Two
Knights of the" Shire, Augiist 3 and 4, 1837.
Mark Millbank, High Sheriff; Candidates,
Rt. Bon. Geo. Wm. Fredk. Howard (Lord
Morpeth"), Sir Geo. Strickknnd. and the Hon.
Stuart Wortley. Leeds, 1838, 8vo.
7. Register of the Electors to vote for Mem-
bers in Parliament for the Borough of Hali-
fax: 1832, 1835, 1838, 1848.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
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In the game Library are copies of the
HALIFAX BURGESS EOLLS, 1852, 1876, 1878,
lboz-90, (others since probably.).
Act for the Improvement of the Borough, and
for other purposes, and an appendix contain-
ing the Principal Acts and parts of Acts now
in force within the Borough. Halffax, 1854.
Halifax Corporation Year Books, 1879-1S90,
(olthei-s since probably.)
Report of Medical Officer of Health, w ith
Sanitai-j- InspC'Ctor's Report for the Borou;^'h,
December 31i. 1885. Halifax.
Halifax Public Library: Reports, 1883-9.
Annual Report, 1891, with Report of the
Parks Committee on the Akroyd Museum and
Art Gallery. Reports 1892-3. Halifax, 1694.
Ditto, 1894-5.
Halifax Public Libraries at Belle Vue, Bank-
field, &c. Report September 30, 1895 to Sep-
tember, 1896.
WILLIAM RANGER, Superint. Inspector.
Public Health Act: Report to the General
Board of Health on a Pi-eliminary Inquiry
as to Sewerage, Drainage, and Supply of
Water, &c., of the town of Halifax. 1851.
WILLIAM RANGER. ESQ.,
Report to the General Board of Health on
a Preliminary Inquiry into the Sewerage, &c.,
of Northowram and Southo^^Tam. London,
1850.
Halifax Poor Law Union.
Statement showing the number and names
of Paupers relieved, the amount expended,
the balances, &0., for each township for the
half-year ending September 29, 1876.
Borough Bye Larws.
Bye Laws passed by the Council of the
Borough of Halifax, December, 1849. Hali-
fax, 1850.
Halifax Borough.
Abstract of Accounts. 1886. Corporation
Water BilL Proceedings, 1888.
Halifax Borough.
M.O.H. and Sanitary Inspectors' Reports,
1897.
The Town Clerk's Report on the Halifax
Corporation Act, 1898.
County Borough of Halifax.
Report of the Medical Officer of Health, to-
gether with the Report of the Sanitary In-
spector, December 31, 1892.
Ditto, December 31, 1893.
Borough of Halifax.
Report on the Elpidemic of Small Pox in
1892-3, presented to the Health Committee
by DANIEL AINLEY, M.R.C.S., L.E..C.P.,
M.O.H.
Will Borough and District Councillors see
that copies of all reports are sent to the Free
Libraries, and keep carefully filed and indexed
copies at the Offices?
CIX.— " GENEHAL BAPTIST" HISTORY.
REV. ADAM TAYLOR (nephew of the Rev.
Dian Taylor, Founder of the New General
Bapcist Denomination.).
The History of the English General Baptiste.
In Two Parts. Part First, ft|he English
General Baptists of the 17th Century. London,
1818, demy octavo, pages xiv., 492 pagee. Part
Slecond,— Tlie Nejw Connection of General
Baptists. London, 1818, pages viii., 495.
The dedication is dated from Shakespear's
Walk, (London,) March, 1818.
The Author claims that the General Bap-
tists are a more ancient body than the Particu-
lar Baptists. He sketches Foreign Baptists
from A.D. 200 to the Reformation, and English
Baptists from Augustine to 1600. He next
traces General Baptists from John Smyth,
1590, and finishes in volume I., with
1700. In this volume therefore there is very
little that concerns Yorkshire. William
Pardee, a General Baptist Minister, dedicated
a work to his friends and converts in Wor-
cestershire, Leicesterehire, and Yorkshire. He
must have been an old man at his death,
August, 1692. He extended his preaching ex-
cursions into Yorkshire. Other itinerants had
also reached Yorkshire, (see Edwards' Gang-
raena,) and Edwards also mentions anabap-
tists about Sowerby. Birch's Life of Tillotson
confirms this apparently, for "Robert Tillot-
son is said to have become a baptist soon
after the birth of his son John in 1630. '
Francis Smith, an eminent general baptist in
London, published a work in Oliver CromM-ell's
time, which he dedicated "to all that are
called to be saints, especially my dear friends
in the West Riding of Yorkshire," and styles
them fellow travelLei-s, who had rendered
themselves to Christ as their Saviour, — their
king to Txile them, their priest to make atone-
ment for them, and their prophet to teach
them; in a word, their all in all.'' I more
than suspect that we shall discover this
FRANCIS SMITH to have been a Yorkshire-
man, and not unlikely, a Sowerby man, whose
name may be found in the Quaker and other
recusant lists. He was a London bookseller
and publisher, but he had been a regular
preacher for tiwenty years in 1672, though he
may not have been a recognised pastor. His
name appears on the title of Jeffery's Whole
Faith of Man; the Confession of Faith, 1660;
the Apology after Venner's insuiTection, 1661;
and he published before 1660 "Symptoms of
Growth and Decay in Godliness, in eighty
si^ns of a living and dying Christian, with
the Causes of Decay and Remedies for Re-
covery." A second edition, enlarged, was
issued in 1672, dedicated to Sir Thomas Foster^
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^nd recommended by four Baptist Minititer-:.
JefFei-y, Morley, Wrig-lit and Monk, In 1680 he
published a folio pamphl<>t, entitled "An Ac-
count of tlie injurious proceetliiigs of Sir
George Jeffreys, Knight, kite Eecorder of Lon-
don, against Francis Smith, &c." Smith hiul
reprinted, with some observations, an Act of
Common Council for restraining the expenses
of the Lord Mayor, &c., and the notorious
Judge began a series of illegal persecutions
against him, despite his requital by the jury;
but Smith was discharged by proclamation.
From 1660 to 1688 he suffered constant persecu-
tion for patriotic as well as religious causes,
and was often imprisoned, and his books seized
to the value of .£1,100, including other damages.
Prom 1671 to 1689 he was often imprisoned for
religious convictions. In 1689 he had to appeal
to White's-Alley Church for relief. He died
December 22, 1691, after three years of tran-
quility, and was buried at Bunhill Fields,
London, the monument, copied in Adam Tiiy-
lor's History, I., 347, stating that he had been
Keeper of the Customs to King William III.
Tliis stone was restored by his descendant,
Thomas Cox, 1761. The ^Iinute Book of the
General Assembly, 1689 to 1728, shews that in
1692, "brother Beeves was authorized to go
into Yorkshire to preach the gospel, plant
churches, and set those in order that are
there." JOHN COX attended the 1692 As-
sembly as the Yorkshire representative, and
some years afterwards was proposed as a
candidate for the ministry in Yorkshire, and
after some hesitation was approved by the
Assembly. Probably he wag the same man as
.John Cox, of York, who in 1701 maintained
several strange notions, and pretended himself
to be specially c-ommissioned to restore the
whole law of Moses, and a^mainst whom the
Lincolnshire Baptist Association made its
protest, 1702. All the Yorkshire societies died
out before or about this dat« so far as can be
discovered. The Sheffield Society applied in
1(700 for assistance from Lincolnshire Associa-
tion.
In 1703 MR. EDWARD HOWARD was the
Sheffield Minister.
Before turning our attention to the Second
Volume of Adam Taylor's History we may
state that the two volumes are not only in-
teresting, but they are rare, and sell for 12s.
aA present. There was a split from the General
Assembly in 1697, when the General Associa-
tion was formed, but neither branch conceans
us in Yorkshire, except as bordering on Lin-
colnshire.
From Vol. 2, we learn that the New Con-
nection of General Baptists w^as formed in
1770. aO^AVID TAYLOR, Ian evangelist em-
ployed by Lady Huntingdon, occasionally
itinerated in Yorkshire from about 1741, and
his co-worker, Stephen Dixon, joined the
Moravians in Yorkshire soon afterwards.
Di>:on was expelled a yeivr Later, and his friend
William Kendrick left the Brethren on that
account, ami both started a Baptist cause at
Barton in Leicestershire. The cause in York-
shire started in 1762 near Halifax. DAN
TAYLOR, boin 1738, preached his first sermon
as a Methodist at Hipperholme in Se])tember,
1761, but in .Tune, 1762, he with John Slater,
.John Parker, William Crossley and a female
whose name is not recorded, formed an inde-
pendent Society at the Nook, Wadsworth, under
a tree. In a few weeKs the meeting place was
fixed at Wadsworth Lanes in a cottage " ith the
chamber floor partly removed, and the place
was registered in autumn. During the week-
tlays Taylor conducted a school there. Dan
Taylor shortly afterwards adopted the Baptist
doctrine, and became a Baptist, being immers-
ed at Gamston in Nott.=!., Febiuary, 1763. John
Slater had gone with him, but was not baptised
until their roffcium to Wadawoi-th. They had
learnt of the existence of some General Bap-
tists in the Midlands, and Taylor attended
their annual meeting at Lincoln in May, 1763,
and the Wadsworth Society liecame affiliated
frherewith. In 1764 they built Birchcliff
Chapel. The Yorkshire Society established a
kind of Class-Meeting, called Weekly Ex-
perience Meetings. In 1770 the Church had
sixty-nine members. In 1762 the Rev. W.
Thompson, of Hull, began to move his congre-
gation towards General Baptist views, but left
in li763 for Boston in Lincolnshire, the new
chapel of which was opened June 24, 1764,
when the Rev. Dan Taylor preached thrice.
Mr. Taylor published the Memoirs of W.
Thompson afterwards. They were the real
workers in forming the New Connection at the
Meetings at Lincoln, September, 1769, and
Lontlon, June 7, 1770, when separation from
the old association actually took place. Mr.
Dan Taylor was chosen the first Chairman, and
preached the Sermon. They were called Free
Grace General Baptists to distinguish them
from the old Gieneral Baptists. Dan Taylor's
name appears first of nineteen who sign the
Declaration of Faith. The Second Association
meeting was also held in London, May 22-24,
1771. Next year the London District and the
Midlands (with Wadsworth) had separate meet-
ings, but this division weakened the southern
section, and many of the societies declined.
The northern association met in 1772 at Lough-
borough, namely seven churches. Mr. Dan
Taylor began to train ministers soon after
this date, the REV. J. DElACON, of Leicester,
1782, was one of the earliest. In 1772 he was
training young men as local preachers.
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203
RICHARD FOLDS, JOHN TAYLOE (Adam's
brother), JEREMY INGHAM, who became
minister at Maltby in Lincolnshire, 1775,
where he remained until his death in 1798, and
others. An offshoot from Birchcliff became
established at Shore, and in 1777 a meeting
house was opened there by the Taylor brothers.
Queenshead Meetings had been established
before Shore. 'ITie Halifax society in 1783
urged for Mr. Dan Taylor as their minister,
and it was eventually agreed to, whilst MR.
•lOHN SUTCLIFFE became the minister at
Birchcliff, which continued to prosper, and
sent an offshoot to Worsthorn near Burnley in
1776, and Richard Folds became minister, 1780,
and removed to Longford in 1789, but left
them next j-ear. E'arly in 1772 John
Bairstow, of Queenshead, became a con-
vert, and with Jonathan Scott, promoted
preachings at Queenshead Inn in November
and December, 1772. The Rev. John Taylor
was appointed minister, exchanging every
fourth week with his brother at Birchcliff.
The Church was formed in August, 1773, being
the second to be established in Yorkshire, and
the new Meeting-house opened, September
29th, 1'773, the day before the ordination of
John Taylor, who removed from Halifax to
Queenshead in November, 1774. In 1782 the
Halifax Societv was fonned as an offshoot
from Queenshead. In 1785, JONATHAN
SCOTT became the minister at Gamston and
Retford, where he died July 24, 1794, aged 54;
and in 1784 JOSEiPH ELLIS, of Queenshead,
entered the ministry. In 1793 he was at Halifax,
and was labouring there in 1818. The Halifax
Society, after cottage preachings from 1772,
first met in a hired chamber in Jail Lane in
1775. The Haley Hill Chapel was opened on
September 3rd, 1777, by the Taylor brothers.
In 1780 J. BATEIS removed to Haley HiU and
became the minister, in addition to conducting
a school durinpr the week. We have mentioned
him as an author and Independent Minister.
He only remained at Haley Hill Chapel for
a year. The Halifax Church became separate<l
from the Qiieenshead one in 1782, and Mr. Dan
Taylor was appointed its pastor in October,
1783, but was induced to remove to Loudon in
July, li785. Mr. Dan Taylor composed the
Circular Letter, 1772, and also the next one,
1777, and most of those issued annually from
the latter date, notably 1779, which gives the
nature of the Association. In 1800, MR.
JAMBS TA^TLOR, of Queenshead, younger son
of the Rev. John Taylor, who had just finished
his training at London Academy, where he was
the first student, was chosen minister at Derby.
In October, 1807, he removed to HeptonstaJl
Slack. Mr. Sutcliffe, during whose ministry
at Birchcliffe the chapel had been enlarged.
1793, died October 4, 1799, a^ed about fifty.
MR. A. BARKER was his successor. Mr.
JOHN SPEaSrCER wa.s at that period the
minister at Shore. In 1791 JOSEPH BINNS
was dismissed from Queenshead to become
ministea- at Gosberton, in Lincolnshire, and
about 1795 removed to Bourne. In 1800 dire
distress prevailed in Halifax district, and
many respectable families had to enter the
workhouse. In 1788, the REV. W. BURGESS,
of London, succeeded Mr. Dan Taylor at Hali-
fax, but left because of the poverty of the
people in April, 1791, to minister at Fleet, in
Lincolnshire. In 1785 a cause was established
at Longwood, and in 1789, MR. JOHN BOOTH,
of Halifax, was called to the ministry there,
walking between the two places for fifteen
years without a salary. In 1804 his horse fell
upon him when going to Leeds on business,
and he was kept at home several months, hav-
ing a broken leg. Meantime the struggling
Longwood society dwindled away. Mr. Booth
continuetl with the Halifax society until his
death in 1813, at an advanced age. The pub-
lications of Mr. Dan Taylor have been already
recorded. A blind member at Wadsworth
suggested an Academy, and in 1779 Mr. D.
Taylor wrote for the public a "Plan," but the
Academy was not established until January,
1798, when the Rev. D. Taylor. London, be-
came tutor. RICHARD INGHAM, of Hepton-
stall Slack, had been sent to the London (Mile
End) Academy, and settled at Duffield Chapel
in August, 1812. The Birchcliffe minister in
January, 1803, having suddenly left the neigh-
bourhood, and his name being struck off the books
they chose one of their members, H. HOLLIN-
RATTB, as pastor, biit he spent a year at the
Academy under Mr. D. Taylor, July. 1804, to
1R05, and then returned to Birchcliffe. In
1807, a split at Birchcliffe took place, and thus
started the Heptonstall Slack cause at an old
meeting-house built by MR. THOMAS GREEN-
WOOD was a century earlier.
After his death it was frequently closed.
MR. R. THOMAS for a lone time preach-
ed there and at Rodhill (Rothwell) End
alternately, and the Reverend John Faw-
cett preached in it until Hebden Bridge
Chapel was erecte^l. From Mr. Fawcett's re-
moval to Hebden Bridge to Ithe 1807 split it
was seldom used. After the Slack Chapel was
built by the General Baptists, the old meeting-
house was Tised by them as a week-<lay and
Sn.ndav School.
MR. JAMBS TAYLOR, of Derby, be-
came the first minister at the General
Baptist Chapel, Slack, in O^^tober, 1807. The
new chapel was opened in October. 1808, by his
father. Mr. Spencer continued at Shore after
1817. In 1817 the Queenshead cause assisted in
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starting a congregation at Apperley Bridge,
})ut no permanent socie'ty was established.
INIr. EJ.lis continued at Halifax until after
1817. ME. GEORGE DEAN, a Queenehead
member, became minister at Burnley, in place
of -Mr. Eoul'ils, who turned out to be a very un-
tiuitabk paitor. The Shore denomiuiition e^tab-
lished an ofF-shoot at Lidgate.
Mr. Burgess, of Fleet, died December 11. 1813.
Mr. Dan Taylor died November 26, 1816.
Members. Eetab.
In 1817 Bircholiff had 199 1763
Heptonstall Slack 177 1807
Shore 36 1795
Queenshead 142 1773
Halifax 71 1^82
Burnlev 25 1780
Lidgate 11 1816
Stavlevbridge 80 1808
Total, Northern district
741
In 1802, after the failure of Mr. Dan.
Taylor's "General Baptist Magazine," the
London Association requested the REV. ADAM
TAYLOR to publish "The General Baptist
Repository." It appeared half-yearly until
1810 when quarterly issues commenced.
"The General Baptist Repository: compre-
hending Biographical and Historical Memoirs,
Youths' Museum, Eissays, Thoughts on Select
Passages of Scripture, Anecdotes, Queries and
Solutions, Correspondence, Elxtracts, Deaths,
Missionary and Religious Intelligence, Origin-
al Poetry and a Register ol General Baptist
Occurrences, including Ordinations, &c.
published at the request of the New Connec-
tion of General Baptists by Adam Taylor.
Vol. 11., London, [1808,] pages iv., 296, small
octavo. Besides many references to the Rev.
Dan Taylor and the Rev. .John Taylor there
is a history of Queenshead General Baptist
congregation, from 1772.
There wa« no village at Queenshead when
the Baptists started there. Besides the Queen's
Head Inn, and an older house near it that
had been the inn, there were only a few scat-
tered, cottages, and the nearest village was
two miles away. Jobn Taylor and John
Bairstow, converts to Dan T.^iylor, Baptist
minister at Wadsworth, Avere the originators.
After one Sunday at John Bairstow's, Hazle-
burst, the nex;t meeting was at the old ho\ise
near the Queen's Head, John Taylor taking
three Sundays there and one at Wadsworth in
exchange with his brother the Wadsworth
niinister. The new consregation biiilt for
themselves a chapel adjoining the Queen's
Head, commencing to prepare the ground by
boon labour Elaster Monday, April 12, 1773.
Mr. Dan Taylor begged about =£60 outside the
district, and they mustered .£20. The chapel
was opened September 29, 1773, and next day
Mr. John Taylor was ordained minister. He
had resided at Halifax until his ordination.
A branch was sent off to form a new church
at Haley Hill, Halifax, in 1782, and Joseph
Ell lis, one of the Queenshead members, became
its first minister. Another member, Joseph
Binns, in li789 became minister at Gosberton,
and later at Bourne. Mr. J. Scott ha<l become
a minister before these, proceeding to Retford
and Gamston, but died before 1809. John
Bates left the Baptist ministi y to become In-
dependent Minister. James Taylor was or-
dained in 1804 over the Baptist Church at
Derb.v, George Andrew and George Dean were
ministers locally. A portrait of the Rev. Dan
Taylor, a prolific local author, appeared in the
Gospel Magazine, and a larger one was an-
nounced in the G.B. Repository, 1808.
ex.— PARTICULAR BAPTIST HISTORY.
" MEMOIRS of the late WILLIAM CRAB-
TREE. First Pastor of the Baptist Church at
Bradford, to which is added a Sermon at the
Oixlination of the Rev. Joshua Wood, of Hali-
fax, Auguist 6, 1760. By Isaac Mann. Bradford,
T. Inkersley, 1815, 120 pages, 12mo. The pre-
face is dated Shipley, Augiist, 1815. One of
my copies has a portrait of Mr. Crabtree by
Topham of Leeds, from the painting in pos-
sei^ion of Mrs. L. Barraclough. William
Crabtree was born in Wadsworth township,
December 3rd, 1720, and lost both parents when
an infant. He became a shalloon weaver. Like
most of the biographies that concern that
period we have dark pictui-es of the social and
leligious condition of the ]>arish. Under
Grimsha/w's sermons at Haworth, he became a
changed man, and attended Wainsgate Baptist
Chapel, where ME. RICHARD SMITH, one
of their number, became pastor in June, 1750,
and Crabtree became Deaoon, "with Abraham
Ashworth. The Rev. Alvei'y Jackson, of Bar-
noldswick, and the Rev. Henry Clayton, of
Heaten and Salendine Nook, were the ministers
at Mr. Smith's ordination. The Rev. James
Hartley, of Haworth, had attended Mr. Smith's
ministry some years before 1750. In 1753 Mr.
Crabtree was invited to become the first pastor
of the Baptist Church, Bradford, and the
Church was formed in December. .John Faw-
cett, afterwards D.D., joined the Bradford
Church in 1758, and succeeded Mr. Smith at
Wainsgate in 1763. Mr. Crabtree preached the
ordination sermon printed with the memoir
when, on August 6th. 1760, the REV. JOSHUA
WOOD succeeded the REV. CHARLES BAM-
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FORD at Halifax. Mr. Bam ford afte^\\^^l■ds
ministered at Okenshaw (^Blackbnrn), Accring-
ton, and ^'Powl Moor," Scammonden. Some
of the Halifax members became Sandemanianfi,
whereupon Mr. Wood i-emoved to Salendine
Nook. Mr. Crabtree assiste^d at the ordina-
tions of Mr. Colbeck Sugden at Cowling Hill,
and Mr. Wilbraham at Bridlington, in 1/760,
Mr. Fitwcett at Wainsgate in 1764, John Dra-
ciip at Bingley in 1768, John Boatson at Sutton
in 1769, John Hindle at Halifax in 1777, and
in establii-ihing churches at Leeds, Farsley, &c.,
1765, and sent out t^yo ministers from his Brad-
ford congregation, William Rowe^ of Farsley,
and William Shaw, of Collingham. Mr. Crab-
tree died February 14, 181K He vrae author
of a funeral sermon on the death of the Rev.
James Hartley, Haworth, and a sermon at the
opening of Mr. Price's chapel, Leeds, Januarj,
1789. He had also officiated at the following
ordinations, — David Kinghorn, Bishop Burton,
1771; William Rowe, Sutton, 1771; John
Bowser, Sunderland, li777, and Shipley, 1782;
Mr. Law, Wainsgate, 1779; Isaac Slee, Haworth
1781; Thomas Langdon, Leeds, 1782; Thomas
Mellor, Wainsgate, 1784; and several others.
WILLLAM CRABTREE published "The
Prosperity of a Gospel Church considered in
a Sermon delivered at the Bbenezer Chapel,
Leeds, Janiiary 14, 1789." Bradford, for the
author by George Nicholson; 6d., demy octavo,
42 pages. Preface dated Bradford, February
14, 1789. Lately published by the same author,
"The Christian Minister's Farewell to his
Flock, a Sermon occasioned by the Death of
the Rev. James Hartley, late of Haworth." Tie
full title of the book is "The Reign of Death,
a Poem occasioned by the Deceai^e of the Rev.
James Hartley, late of Haworth, by John
Fawcett; with a Funeral Sermon on the same
occasion by WILLIAM CRABTREF." Leeds,
C. Wright and Son, for the authors, 1780, Is.,
octavo, 104 pages. Crabtree's Sermon is en-
titled "The Christian Minister's Farewell to
his Flock, and occupies pages 39-100.
The Principles and Prospects of a Servant of
Christ. A Sermon delivered at the Funeral of
the late RE!V. JOHN STJTCLrPFE, A.M., of
Olney, on June 28t'h, 1814, with a brief memoir
of the deceased; by Andrew Fuller. 48 pages.
Is. 6d.
He was bom near Halifax on the 9t.h of
August, 1752, O.S., and when abo^it seventeen
he became a decided Christian under the Rev.
John Fawcett, joining the church in May, 1769.
In 1772 he entered Bristol Academy, and in
1775 became minioter at the Baptist Chapel.
Olney. He was a great force in the Baptist
Church, both at home and in the mission world.
He had a gi^at thirst for reading, which not
only led him to acctimulate one of the best
libraries in the country (theologically, that is),
but to endeavour to draw his people into a
habit of reading. His library he presented to
the Baptist College, Bradford, and I can speaK
of the rarity and numbers of its books, folio,
quarto and octavo, lliere is scarcely another
like it out of London. His friendship with
John Newton and Cowper the poet give special
interest to the life of this local worthy. He
died June 22nd, 1814. Mr. Fuller's biographical
summary gives him a most excellent character.
("New E'vang, Mag.," 1815.) The Revs. John
Siutcliffe (Olney) and Andrew Fuller (Ketter-
ing), published Two Discourse^ at the North-
amptonshire Association, 1791, 12mo., 30 pages.
" A Brief History of the BAPTIST CHURCH,
HEiBDEN BRIDGE, Yorkshire; with Ad-
dresses given at the Centenary Services, held
November 20, 1877. London, 1878, 12mo., pages
iii., 94; frontispiece portrait of the Rev. Dr.
.John Fawcett, from the engraving in Faw-
cett's Bible; issiied in boards and in cloth.
The addresses are by the "Revvs. Chae. Williams,
W. H. Ibberson, Dr. Stock, W. Medley, M.A.,
Jae. Dann, and Ei. Parker, and Mr. J. S.
Wright, of Birmingham.
H.ANDBOOK OF BAPTIST CHURCH,
RTSHWORTH; Church Formed 1803. Rip-
ponden, W. H. Stansfield, printer, 1880. Ig.
pages, 12mo. This booklet states that in 1800
there wa^ no place of worship in the town-
ship. Occasionally a local preacher would
hold cottage meetings. A few inhabitants had
joined the Baptist Chapel at Steep Lane. In
November, 1801, Joseph Slmw, of Salendine
Nook, was invited to hold monthly cottage
meetings. Within twelve months they became
weekly meetings. In the Spring of 1803 the
foundation of a new chapel was laid, on land
secured in March, 1802. In April, 1803, nine
members from Steep Lane, and four newly-
baptised converts were fomied into a church,
at a meeting held in a barn at which four
Baptist ministers officiated — Mr. Hyde of
Salendine Nook, Mr. Hirst of Bacup, Mr. Har-
greaves of Ogden, and Mr. Rigby of Blackley;
and bv Aiitvimn the chapel was opened. In
November, 1806, MR. LUKE ROEBUCK, of
Sheffield, became pastor. In I8I1I a S-unday
School was started, and in December, 1812,
Mr. Roebuck resigned. MR. THOMAS MEL-
LOR was minister from 1815 until his death
in April, 18.52. In 1853 MR. ELY DYSON"
succeeded, but left in 1862. In 18^4. MR. T. R.
TAYLOR became minister and left in 1866.
In iSn MR. W. EDDTSON succeeded but
only remained until September, 1872. In
January, 1874, the REV. J. WILKINSON was
elected pastor, and he issued the "Handbook"
in 1880. Pages 6-15 giv© the Declaration of
Faith and Church Covenant; 16-18, Order of
Services, and hints on conduct of Members, &c.
WILLIAM A. LIVINGSTONE, pastor at
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Brearley, has written : —"Tbet.e Sixty Yeare:
An Historical Account of Brearley Baptist
Church and Sunday School, 1845-1905." My-
tholmroyd, Waddington and Sons, "News"
Office, 50 pages, octavo, 1905.
Dr. John Fawcett took up his resid<>nce at
Brearley Hall about 1775, but removed to
Ewood Hall a few years later, and the Baptist
Meetings evidently were transferred also to
Ewood. His eldest son Mr. John Fawcett was
the chief worker in establishing a preaching
place and Sunday School at Mythohnroyd in
1799, but this venture ultimately died away.
His second son James Fawcett, grandson of
the Doctor, having built Greenfield, he, with
Mr. John Hodgson and Mr. John Riley, in
1845 established a Baptist cause again in
Brearley. The Revs. John Crook, of Hebden
Bridge, and Peter Scott, of Shipley, officiated
at the formation of the Church in March, 1846.
For seven years there was no settled pastor,
but voluntary help was given by two of Mr.
James Fawcett's brothers, MR. WILLIAM
FAWCETT, who had been pastor at Sutton-in-
Craven, and Mr. Stephen Fawcett, a deacon
at Hebden Bridge. MR. WILLIAM NICHOL-
SON, printer and author, Halifax, afterwards
minister at Steep Lane, Mr. Wm. Littlewood,
6choolmaster, Rochdale, and Dr. F. H. Bow-
man of Halifax, now of Manchester, often
preached at Brearley at that period. In 1853
Mr. James Fawcett died, aged 55. There is a
good portrait of him in the pamphlet, as also
of his son John C. Fawcett, who died in Janu-
ary, 1904, aged 83. In 1853 the REiV. PETER
SCOTT, a Scotchman, became the first minis-
ter. He had been a student at Horton College
four yeans, minister at Colne twelve yeaxs, at
Shipley sixteen years, and Sutton six years,
and he laboured at Brearley twelve more. In
1865 he resigned, and died in October, 1866, at
Steep Lane, at the house of the Rev. Wm.
Haigh. In Februar5% 1867, the REV. PHILIP
LEWIS, from Rawdon College, settled as minis-
ter. A new edifice was opened in 1875, the
prime mover being Mr. John Hodgson, whtee
portrait is given in the bookLet. Mr. Lewis
resigned in 1882, and removed to Chipping
Camden. In 3v.]y, 1883, the REV. FREIDElRlCK
ALLSOP succeeded and remained until May,
1896, when he removed to Northallerton. The
REIV. R. H. RICBY, from Aylsham in Nor-
folk, succeeded Mr. Allsop, but two mill-fires
had driven the people elsewhere for work, and
in leBS than three years he left the chapel and
the denomination, becoming a medical student
at Leeds, and now practices at Pontefract. In
1899, the REV. WM. A. LIVINGSTONE was
appoined. The REV. RICHARD HOWARTH,
of Heaton, Bradford, was brought up at
Brearley.
REV. ISAAC MANN, Baptist Minister,
Shipley, Bui-slem, Maze Pond (London):
" Short Discoursei-; on the Lord's Prayer, chiefly
designed for the use of Country Villages, by
Isaac Mann, with a Recommendatory Preface
by Rev. John Fawcett Hebden Bridge, and
Rev. W. Steaidman, Little Horton Academy."
Printed at Hanley, 1814, 145 pages, 12mo. Mr.
;\lann'.s introduction is dated from Burslem,
and «tates that the Short Discourses were de-
livered nt Steep Lane Baptist Chapel, Sowerby.
'I'he Hecoiid editi ,u has 151 pagei*, and the Brad-
ford edition, 1823, 145 pages. His Life of
Ci'abtree has just been mentioned.
" The Triumph of Divine Mercy exemplified
in the Life and Death of Mr. Joseph Mann,
Late of Bridlington, in the East of Yoikshire,
to w^hich are added Memoirs of Mrs. Ann Mann,
wife of Mr. Jotseph Mann." By I.{saac)
Mann. Bradford, T. Inkersley, for the Author,
1820, 52 pages, 12mo. Tlie Author, a Baptist
minister, dates the preface Shipley, May, 1820.
His father, Joseph Mann, was born at Upper
Limehouse, in Northowram, March 3, 1784. He
was a shalloon weaver like his fatJier William
Mann, of that place, a Coley churchwarden.
Joseph Avas brought up by his grandfather
Crowther at Plowroyds until twelve years of
age, when he returned to his parents until
sixteen, and again removed to Mr. Crowther'e.
Before he was eighteen he became a soldier and
served in Ireland above a year. He was half-a-
year a labourer in Ireland, but got a chance
to work his passage to Whitehaven, and thence
trudged to Halifax. After labouring near
Pontefract three yeans, he became a weaver of
worsted stuffs at Boynton, near Bridlington,
about 1768. After wanderings in Lancashire
and Yorkshire he settled at Hunmanby, and
married Ann Prankish, March 7, 1769, and
joined the Wesleyans in 1781.
The REV. JOSEPH GAWKRODGBR, of
Bridlington, missioned Hunmanby in the Bap-
tist cause, and Joseph Mann became a convert
in May, 1782. He brought up a large family,
and lived in comfortable circumstances in his
old age. In September, 1819, he removed to his
son's residence at Shipley, and died March 16,
1820. Dr. Steadman preached his funeral ser-
mon. Mrs. Ann Mann was born at Hun-
manby in 1747, and died December 10, 1816.
Their son Isaac Mann, M.A., was also a native
of Hunmanby.
I scarcely imagine the following will com-
plete the list of Mr. Isaac Mann's publica-
tions : —
" Enquire into Obligations to Missionise, by
Dr. Carey, with Life of the Doctor," 12mo.,
60 pages.
"Theological Eissays on Christian Doctrines ol
the Holy Scriptures," 12mo., pp. 238, printed
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by Inkensley, Bradford, 1823. There is a list
of Subscribers.
"Achan discovered in the Camp of Israel,"
(Bradford, 1816,) Inkersley printe<i an edition
at Bradford in 1824, 12ino., 51 pages.
" Bsisays on the Atonement of Christ," &ecoud
edition, 12mo., 204 pages. Inkersley's edition,
1824, has 2C4 pages.
" Cottage Piety, or Use of True Religion in
Humble Life," 12mo., 153 pageis, printed by
Inkersley, Bradford, 1825.
" Christian Baptism considered," 12mo., 40
pages, Bradford, 1825.
^' Importance of Christian Character," 1827,
12mo., 40 pages.
" Memorials of Christian Friendship," 'dvd
edition, 12mo., 372 pages.
"Eminence in Piety essential: a sermon to
the Baptist Students, 1829." Preface dated
London, 1829; 46 pages, printed the same
year by John Vint, Idle.
*' Twelve Lectures on Ecclesiastical History
and Nonconformity," octavo, 54 pages.
■'' Strictures on Rev. N. T. Heineken's (Brad-
ford) reply to Mr. William Carlisle (Dudley
Hill, Bradford), in whioh is proved the close
alliance that exists between Socinianism and
Deism," octavo, pages xi., 196. Bradford, T.
Inkersley, 1826.
"Sauls' Visit to the Witch of End or, a Sermon
delivered at Shipley, October 11, 1818." The
first edition was dated from Crag Cottage,
Windhill, September 11, 1814, by Wm. Peel,
for gratuitous distribution. The second
edition of 3,000 was printed by John Vint at
Shipley, 1852, 28 pages, for Wm. Peel.
Bishop Isaac Mann, of Cork, li78l, was not
connected with Yorkshire, I presume.
CXI.— PARTICULAR BAPTISTS'
ASSOCIAJTION.
Nature and Importance of Repentance. The
Ministei-s of the Denomination of Particular
Baptists assembled in Association at Hebden
Bridge, June 11 and 12, 1794, send greeting to
the Several Churches they represent.
" Thoughts on Revival of Religion, by J.
Fawcett, M.A.," 24 pages. Halifax, Holden
and D'o^vson, 1802.
'■ Family Religion. The Ministere of the
several Baptist Churches assembled in Associa-
tion at Bacup, May 31, June 1, 1803, send
Cliristian Salutation to the respective com-
munities at Barnoldsavick, Cowling
Hill, Gildersome, Halifax, Hebden Bridge,
Leeds, Masbro', Rawden, Salendine Xook,
Sutton, Wainsgate, (and ten congregations in
Lancashire.)" Halifax, Holden and Dowson,
1803, duodecimo, 24 pages.
"The Christian's Love to the Word of Cod.
The Ministers of the several Baptist ChuriJies
asisembled in Association at Hebden Bridge,
May 23 and 24, 1804, send," &c., the same
churches with Blackburn omitted. Halifax,
Holden and Dowson, 1804, 24 pages. The
Northern Education Society was established at
this meeting, from which Horton College had
its origin.
•• The Nature and Importance of Christian
Watchfulness. The Ministers of the several
Baptist Churches, assembled in Association at
Salendine Nook, June 5 and 6, 1805, send," &c.
(Rochdale and Sheffield are added.) Rochdale,
J. Hartley, 1805, 24 pages.
JOHN FAWCETT, A.M., was author of
"The Important Journey from this World to
the Next; a Sermon at the Bradford Associa-
tion (Baptist), June, 1810. Halifax, P. K.
Holden, Gd. 32 pages, no date.
The Profitable Hearing the Word; a Circular
Letter addressed to the several Baptist
Churches meeting at Barnoldswick,
Bradford, Bramley, Cowling Hill, Gildersome,
Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Leeds, Masbio',
Ogden, Pendle Hill, Rawden, Rushworth,
Salendine Nook, Sheffield, Sutton in Craven
Wainsgate, York, and tien in Lancashire :
Manchester Association Meeting, June 5 and
6, 18111 Halifax, P. K. Holden, Hall E!nd,
demy octavo, 20 pages.
Baptist Association of Lancashire and York-
shire: — Two Sermons at the Baptist Associa-
tion Meetings at Hebden Bridge, 1814, by
Messrs. Stephens and Steadman. Halifax,
Holden, 1814, 46 pages, 8vo., Steadman's Ser-
mon was on the Cross of Christ, 24 pages.
" The Advantages of Union among Brethren:
A Sermon preached to the Baptist Association
for the Counties of York and Lancaster at
Hebden Bridge, May 29th, 1828, by PETER
SCOTT." Colne, H. Eiarnshaw. 1828, demy
octavo. 64 pages. "The Author's first attempt
at publication," dated Colne, November, 1828.
Mr. Scott settled afferNvards at Idle, and
Brearley near Halifax.
" The Practicability and Advantages of fre-
quent Intercoiirse between the Churches with
a view to their general prosperity : The Circu-
lar Letter of Yorr^shire and Lancashire
Association, asse'mbled at Halifax, June 10
and 11, 1829. Colne, H. E'amshaw, 1829, demy
octavo, 13 pages.
Tlie Yorkshire Churches in the Association,
with their ministere, were, — Baraoldswick
(Smith), Bradford two (Steadman, Godwin),
Bramley (Colcroft), Cowling Hill (Walton),
Eaiby (Wilkinson), Parsley (Foster), Gilder-
some (Scarlett), Halifax (Thompson), Heaton
(Spooner), Hebden Bridge (Jackson), Horsforth
(Yeadon), Keighley (Nichols), Leeds fAck-
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worth), Masbio' (Welsh), Melthani ( ),
Kauden (Hughes), Rishworth (Melior), Salen-
dine Nook (Hyde), Shetflokl (Laroiu), Shipley
(Kdwaixis), Steep Lane, Sutton, Wainsgate
(H.oh'oyd).
" The History of the Yorkshire and Lanca-
eliire Association." Tbe Circular Letter of
the West Elding of Yorkshire Association of
Baptist Churches assembled in Halifax, May
2*2nd and 23rd, 1839, maintaining generally
the doctrines, &c., &c. Bradford, 1639, 2;j
pages.
A Centenary Memorial of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Association of Baptist Churche«,
18S7. Bramley, 80 pages.
'"The Circular Letter of the West Riding
of Yorkshire Association of Baptist Churches,
May 17-19, 1842," printenl at Leeds by John
Heaton. is not immediately connected with
Halifax except that the bulk of the 4.7 pages
are devoted to ''A Historical Account of the
Churches in the Association," by Mr. Dowson,
of Bradford. It is a pity he did not enlarge
upon these sketches for he was just the man
to give a respectable history of the denomina-
tion in Yorkshire. We will give the lists of
ministers connected with Halifax up to 18-42,
as recorded by Mr. Dowson, because the names
may suggest the ^Titers of pamphlets not
otherwise mentioned in this series, and as
there is no Yorkshire Baptist History the ap-
proximate dates of the establishment of the
ParticTilar Baptists in the Riding may be use-
ful for referencei: —
1680, Eawdon, wrongly spelt Raw den many
years.
1698 or earlier, Barnoldswick in C)-aven,
claimed now to be the oldest in York-
shire.
*[1703, Eodhill Ehd, defunct.]
1711, Sutton in Craven.
1743, Salendine Nook, near Huddersfield.
1749, Gildersome.
*1750, Wainsgate, near Heptonstall.
*1751, Steep Lane in Sowerby.
1752, Haworth.
1752, Shipley.
1753, Bradford.
*1755, Halifax.
1756, Cowling Hill, near Kildwick.
1762, Bingley.
1774, Bramley.
1777, Farsley.
*1777, Hebden Bridge.
1779, Leeds.
1882, Long Preston.
1788, Pole Moor, near Slaithwait&.
*1789, Blackley, near E'Uand.
1789, Rotherham.
1795. Lockwood.
1801, HorsfoTth.
*1803, Rishworth, neiar Eipponden.
*lfi07, Millwood, near Ci'oss-etone.
1808, Idle.
1809, Keighley.
1811, Meltham.
1815, Wakefield.
1819, Earby in Craven.
1819, Ossett.
1820, Chapel Fold. Heckmondwike.
1820, Slack, near Keighley.
1821, Haworth Hall Greent
1822, Crigglestone.
1824, Bradford second.
1824, Mirfield.
1826, Stanningley.
1826, Heaton, rejoined Bradford 1840.
18;32, Hunslet.
1835, Golcar.
1836, Cullingiworth.
1836, Sheffield second.
Of these forty-three, the seven starred ones
come within the Halifax borders. The intro-
duction of cotton manufacturing to Brig-
house brought many Baptists from Rippon-
den district, and they attempted to form a
society about 1859, but failed.
The WAINSGATE pastors have been : —Mr.
Richard Smith 1*750, died 1763; Mr. John Faw-
cett 1764, left in 1777; Mi<. John Law, Mr.
George Melior, Mr. William Wraf.hall. Mr.
John Parker 1790, died 1793, aged 68; Mr. John
Brearley 1798, resigned 1799; Mr. Isaac Nor-
mingtou 1800, Mr. Mark Holroyd 1810, resigned
in 1835 and removed afterwards to America,
Mr. Joseph Garside 1837, removed to Ogden
1839. There was no minister in 1842. The
Rev. John Sutclifle, of Olney, went from this
church in 1771, into the ministry.
The Steep Lane pastors have been Mr.
Matthe^v Scott li751, Mr. John Dracup, a
native of Idle, 1761, but removed after seven-
teen years to Rodhill EInd, near Hebden
Bridge. The Methodists .occupied the Steep
Lane Chapel at the first, and these ministers
were not Baptists. The place must have been
carried on apart from Methodism. In 1779
Mr. James Bartle became the pastor, and held
the office until 1784, when Mr. Dracup was
asked to return, which he did as a Baptist,
and remained until his death. May 28, 1795.
He published a Hymn Book that is very rare
now. The story of Rodhill Etod Chapel needs
to be sought out. Mr. Wm. Wrathall, former-
l.v at Wainsgate, and Mr. John Moss were suc-
cessivelv ministers after Mr. Dracup, and in
October, 1807, the Rev. Isaac Mann came, be-
ing ordained in August, 1809, and removed to
Shipley, Burslem, and Maze Pond, London.
Mr. Thomas Milnes succeeded at Steep Lane
in 181)1 and removed to Haslingden in 1823.
Next year Mr. Lawrence Shaw came and four
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years later left for MaLton. Mr. Joseph Sliaw
followed iu 1829 and resigned in 1835. The
pastorate was vacant in 1812. 'J^he second
cliapel was erected in 1820.
'i'he Halifax Baptist ministers have been —
Mr. Bamtord 1755, who had been a member
oi' the Baciip church, and removed in 1760,
settling successively at Accrington, Tottlebank,
Heyburn, Littleborough, and Pole Moor, 1793,
<lied there September, 1804. In August, 1760,
Mr. J. Woo<l, late an Independent Minister at
Wakefield, became the Halifax pastor, and
soon after land was secured for a chapel. A
score of the members having em braced Sand-
emanian teaching were expelled, and other dis-
turbances led Mr. Wood to resign. He after-
wards settled at Salendine Nook. In 1772
Mr. William Hartley, a Waimsgate member,
trained under Mr. Faiwoett for a short period,
was chosen pastor, but resigned in 1779. He
was at Bingley in 1792. Another of Mr. F'aw-
cett's student's followed, namely, Mr. Hindle,
a popular preacher but very irritable, who left
in 1789, and had several short pastorates after
that date. Mr. T. Cherry, from Wellington.
Somerset, was the next pastor at Halifax, but
a discontented section caused him to resign
in 1790. Discontent continued until December,
1792, when Mr. Wni. Hartley returned to the
otiice, but left in 1795, and was followed by
Mr. Wade, from Accrington, who left in 1799
for Hull. Mr. William Ackroyd, a member of
the Hebden Bridge Church, became pastor in
1800, and resigned in January, 1825. He died
April 30, 1826. An offshoot at Halifax return-
ed to the parent church when Mr. C. Thomp-
son, a student from Horton, was ordained in
August, 1826. He issued a pamphlet,—
Triumphs of the Gospel : A Sermon preached
in the Baptist Chapel, Halifax, October 1, 1826,
by Charles Thompson, Halifax, 1826.
In January, 1831, Mr. Whitewood succeeded,
and a new chapel was opened in September,
1834. Mr. Whitewood was minister in 1842.
The He))den Bridge ministers have been pre-
viously mentioned: Rev. John Fawcett, 1777,
died July, 1817. Amongst the ministers he
trained were — William Ward, Serampore mis-
sionary and author; John Fawcett, junior,
who started a pastorate at 17 years of age;
William Fawcett, his brother, of Barnoldswick
and Sutton, who died at Florence, December
17, 1874, father of William Mitchell Fawcett,
barrister; John Foster, of B'l-istol, essayist;
John Sutcliffe, of Olney; W. Ackroyd, of Hali-
fax; John Sutcliffe, of Millwood; Townsend,
of Accrington; Joseph White, evangelist at
Bradford. For the Mytholmroyd School, Mr.
Fawcett wrote the booklet, " John Wise." In
1816 Mr. Abraham Webster, of Pole Moor,
succeeded Di". Fawcett and resigned next year.
He came from Liverpool to Pole Moor in 1808;
returned to Pole Moor in 1823, and died in 1828.
In 1821 Mr. John Jackson came froiii Accring-
ton, but left in 1832. In 1834 Ur. John Crook,
from Boroughbridge, succeeded to the pastor-
ate and held it in 1842.
The Blackley ministers were — Mr. Jameis
Cartledge, the founder of the cause, 1789, who
gave his services frequently. Mr. Hindle was
the fi.rst settled minister. He came from Hen-
ley in Staffordshire to EUand and thence to
Blackley. After two years he removed to Hull.
He was at Halifax in 1789. He was only two
years at Blackley, the congregation bein.g much
reduced. In 1796 Mr. John Kowland, from
Newcastle-upon-'l'yne, settled at Blackley and
removeil to Pershill in March, 1798. Mr. John
Eigby, from Bramley followed in May, 1798,
and held the post until December, 1839. In
1841 Mr. Joseph Hirst, a member at Pole Moor
was chosen, and ordained in April, 1842.
The Rishworth ijastors have been — Mr. Luke
Roebuck, of Sheffield, January, 1807. In
1815, November, Mi?. Thomas Mellor, of the
Salendine Nook Church, was chosen and held
his post in 1842.
Miilwootl ministers have been — Mr. John
Sutcliffe, the first minister, who held the pastor-
ate till his death. The congregation started
with som.e members of the Inghamite Church at
Harley Wood, near Todmorden, who with their
minister were expelled on account of holding
"Believer's Baptism." Ingham's books will be
elsewhere mentioned. The expelled party be-
gan to meet at the disused Eodhill Etud Chapel
(built about 1703, as a branch from Rossendale.)
Mr. Dl'acup, who became the pastor in 1772,
left after a few years. The ex-Inghami'tes dis-
posed of the meetinghouse at Rodhill End to
the Methodists, and built the Millwood chapel
in 1808. In 1816 Mr. John Driver succeeded
Mr. Sutcliffe and remained about thirteen
years; afterwards settling at Lumb in Rossen-
dale. Mr. Wm. Fawcett, Horton students, and
others served the pulpit from 1829 to 1836,
when Mr. Templeton followed, but left in 1837
for America. Mr. Baker, of Horton College,
accepted the pastorate in 1842.
Other Baptist ministers referred to in
this pamphlet who were identified with Hali-
fax parish are — John Parker, a Uiative of Bar-
noldswick, who succeeded Alvery Jackson, at
Barnoldswick, in 1763. Parker died at Wains-
gate.
John Dracup in 1768 settled at Bingley. and
was ordained but removed soon after to Roch-
dale.
William Hartley in 1779 was ordained at
Bingley, retired at the close of 1790, removing
successively to LookAvood, 1795 — 1804, Newcastle
and Stockton; at the latter place he died, aged
82.
210
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
William Crabtree, of Bradford, whose works
are elsewhere described. He died February l-\,
1811, aged 90.
John Sharp had fornierly been presi'dev
amongst the Inghamites, but had left ihom
and joined the Halifax B^aptiste. He was oi-
dained at Farsley in June, 1807, but had be^in
a Baptist preacher some years before. He died
at Farsley in September, 1821, aged 78. Hit'
son, the Eev. Daniel Shai-p, D.D., became a
noti\ble Baptist Minister in Boston, U.S.A.
Benjamin Dickinson, from the Halifax Bap-
tist Church, became the first minister of the
Eotherham Church, then Independent, but
eventually embracing Baptist doctrines, about
1789. It is not unlikely that he was a descend-
ant of the Northowram minister.
Henry Clayton, a Baptist of Rodhill-End,
preached for some years at Salendine Nook be-
fore the Chapel was establisheid in 1743, when
he was chosen pastor, and continued in the
office thirty-three years. He died December,
1776.
Isaac Mann, student at Horton, became
minister at Burslem, removed to Shipley ill
August, 1814, Maze Pond in London in October,
1826, where he died.
Peter Scott came from Colne to Shipley in
January, 1831, and settled in Halifax parish
afterwards.
John Walton, from the Halifax church, be-
came minister at Sutton, and was ordained in
1780 and resigned in 1808 on account of old age.
The West Riding Association was separated
from the Lancashire one in 1837 at the Halifax
Meeting. In 1838 the fia-st meetin.g was held
at Leeds; Mr. W. Faweett wrote the Circular
Letter. The 1839 meeting was at Halifax,
wheri Mr. Larom wrote the Ciicular Lettei- on
the History of the two Associations. The 1840
meeting was at Bradford, and the 1841 at
Sheffield.
The Rev. Abraham Greenwood, a native of
Delph, but elsewhere stated as of Barnoidswick
by Lewis, was a student under the Rev. John
Faweett, Bwood Hall. His mother died at
Colne, October 9, 1793, ag«'d 72, as stated in
the " Evangelical Magazine.'' One of her
daughters was the wife of the Rev. William
Armitage, Independent Minister at Chester.
Abraham Greenwood, about 1800, became minis-
ter at Bingley, and was succeeded by John
Greenwood in 1806. MR. ABRAHAM GREEN-
WOOD was author of a very rare book : "An
Affectionate Addi'-ess to Young People, publish-
ed with a design of engaging their attention to
those subjects which most affect their present
and fviture welfare:" printed and sold at
Bi-earley Hall, near Halifax, 1796, duodecimo,
41 pages, Hvith leaf of advertisement, signed
John Faweett, July, 1796, announcing Miscel-
lanea Sacra, No. li, monthly at 3d. each, one
sheet each time to contain "part of the Works
of that eminently pioiis and persecuted Di-
vine of the last century, the Rev. Oliver Hey-
wood, and in the remaining i^art will be in-
serted Original Pieces. &c. The Works of Mr.
Heywood ai'e very scarce and yet extremely
valuable Tlie Editor has in his possession
a diary in M'S., written by Mr. Hey wood's own
hand; he is also furnished with many particu-
lars of the Life of this excellent man which
he means to commuiiicate tO' the public." Mi.
Fawcett's other books are advertised : —Advice
to Youth, 4th edition; Auger, 2nd edition;
Parker's Life and Letters; English Exercises,
two parts; Cross of Christ, 2d.; Hymns, Id.;
Baptist Catechism, 2d.; Sure Way to be Happy,
Id.
The History of the Baptist Church, Barnoids-
wick, by the Rev. Evan R. Lewis, 1893, pages
xii., 87, demy octavo, printed at Cwmavoii,
gives interesting particulars of David Crossiey,
Alvei-y Jackson, Abraham Greenwood and
John Parker. Abraham Greenwood was boju
at Barnoldswiok, January 21, 1749-50. He be-
came a pupil of Mr. Armitage, Independent
Minister at Delph, and for nearly three years
under Mr. Faweett. He married Alvery Jack-
son's daughter, and became pastor successively
at Rochdale, Dudley, Oakham, and Killin-
holme (Lincolnshire), and was at the last place
twenty years. He published also a pamphlet
on Baptism, which was also issued in Welsh.
CXII.— MORE BAPTIST LITERATURE.
REiV. W. WALTERS:
The Halifax Lectures; third series. No. 7.
Martin Luther, a Lecture; in the Odd Fellows'
Hall, Halifax, Sunday, February 27, 1859; Id.
Halifax, Wm. Nicholson, Cheapside, 16 pages,
octa-vo.
The Second Series, ten Lectures, Id. each,
or in a volume at Is., advertised as on sale.
SLEE, of Haworth, who died January 13,
1784, (see "Yorks. Geneal." Vol. II., 285);
Memoirs of the late Rev. Isaac Slee, first a
presbyter of the Ei^glisli Established Church,
and afterwards Pastor of the Baptist Church
at Haworth. By Charles Whitfield," 12mo.,
pages xi., 167. Halifax, 1801.
T. H. HUDSON, late Missionary in the
West Indies.
" Christian Socialism, explained and en-
forced, and compared with Infidel Fellowship,
especially as profounded by Robei-t Owen and
his disciples." Halifax, Nicholson and Wil-
son, 1839, pages iii., 320, small octavo; inscrib-
ed to the Baptist Congregation. Queenshead.
HALIFAX BOOKS Al^D AUTHORS.
211
Preface dated Queenshead, May, 1839. Sone
copies beai- for the title page, "The Youug
Man's Defence against Infidelity." A copy in
Halifax Free Library bears the date 1844,
London.
THE: KEV. JAMBS TAYLOR, nephew of Dan,
became minister at the Slack Chapel. He is-
sued a "Brief Supplement to Dr. Watts'
Hymn Book." ADA.M TAYLOR was of the
same family. Be published the history of the
General Baptists, and Lives of Dan Taylor,
John Taylor, and other books. I believe there
is a copy of the following item in the Halifax
Free Library.
JOHN TAYLOR:
" Memoirs of the Rev. John Taylor, late
Pastor of the General Baptist Church at
Queenshead, near Halifax, chiefly compiled
from a MS. -svritten by himself; by Adam
Taylor." London, 1821.
The Christian Religion, an Exposition of its
Leading Piiucipleis, Pl-actical Requirem^its,
and Etxperimental E^ijoyments; by the REV.
DAN T.\YLOR, Avith Life of the Author. 1820.
A Sermon occasioned by the death of Mrs.
Elizabeth 'J'aylor, with a short Account of her
Life, and Description of her Character, by
D. TAYLOR; 82 pages, 1b. 1794. London.
The Cause of National Calamities and the
certain means of preventing or removing
them; a sermon on i. Sam. xii., 14, by D.
Taylor, 40 pages, octavo; Is.
The Consistent Christian, or Truth, &c., re-
commended to Professors : Substance of five
sermons, corrected, 2nd edition, with appendix;
100 pages, octavo, 1795, Is. 6d. The sermO'nK
were delivered in 1783 at Wadswortii.
A Good Minister of Jesus Christ, a Sermon
on the death of Dr. S. Stenuett, by DAN
TAYLOR, 40 pages, octavo, 6d,
A Letter to the Churches on the Universal-
ity of our Saviour's Death; printed at the re-
quest of the (Baptist) General Assembly, by
D. Taylor, 24 pages, 3<1.
Memoirs of the Life, Character, Experience,
&c., of the late Rev. Wm. Thompson, of Bos-
ton', Lincolnshire, with Discourse occasioned
bv 'his death, by Dan Taylor. 12mo.
'Letters on the duties of Church Members to
each other; 3d.
Nature and Importance of Preparatory
Studies prior to entering the Christian Min-
istry : A Sermon at Loughborough Academy,
bv b. Taylor; Is.
Jasus the only begotten Son of God; versus
D. Davies; in seven letters by Rev. D. Taylor;
Is 6d.
(Rev Dan Tavlor died November 26, 1816.)
The Entire Works of the REV. DAN TAY-
LOR, late pastor of the General Baptist
Church, Whitechapel, London, edited by hie
nepheAv, Adam Taylor, was announced m the
Evangelical Magazine, October, 1831, as pre-
pai-ing for publication in 2 vols., demy 8vo.
Halifax Discussion: —
" The Credibility and Morality of the Four
Gospels. The only authorize<l and verbatim
Report of the Five Nights' Discussion at Hali-
fax, between the REV. T. D. MATTHIAS.
Baptist Minister; and Iconoclast. Sheffield,
Robertshaw, 1860, pages iv., 184, crown octavo.
Preface signed By Iconoclast, Sheffield, Janu-
ary, 1860.
THE REV. W. JONES, minister at Hebden
Bridge Chapel, had previously been master of
a Board School in Bradford. My friend had
been trained like myself at the British Col-
lege, Borough Road, London, and relinquished
his school in Bradford for the pastorate of
Leeds Road Baptist Chapel, Bradford, whence
he passed to Hebden Bridge. In Bradford he
wrote — "Education and Temperance; a paper
read at a Conference of Teachers, April 7,
1877, eight pages, Bwdford Band of Ho]3e
Union."
REV. JAMES HARTLEY, Haworth, a
Wainsgate convert, was author of — "The
Head-stone brought forth; a Sermon occasion-
ed by the Death of Mr. Joseph Greenwoo<l."
1755.
" The Trial of the Two Opinions, tried, &c."
1767.
" The Christian's Triumph over Death and
the Grave; a Sermon occasioned by the De-
cease of Mrs. Beatson," 1744. Further particu-
lars are given in Dr. Fawcett's Life, page
206.
Mr. Hartley's memory is commemorated in
a pamphlet previously recorded :
" Poem by John Fawcett, and Funeral Ser-
mon by Wm. Crabtree, on the Decease of Rev.
James Hartley." Leeds, 1780, 104 pages.
" Divine Mercy, or the Refuge of Sinners in
distress; a discourse at the Funeral of Mrs.
Littlelwood, Rochdale, May, 1799, by J. FAW-
CETT, with address by J. Hindle," 50 pages
octavo. Is.
Thoughts on Christian Communion, 2nd edi-
tion enlarged; by J. FAWCETT, Junior,
l2mo., 60 pages, 6d.
" Shore General Baptist Chapel Centenary,
August 11, 1877. A paper by the REV. J. K.
CHAPELLE"; pamphlet. There is a Quaker
burial ground, with stones dating from 1663,
neai- the Chapel. The Shore Ministers have
been REV. W. NICHOLSON, 1781, REV. J.
STANSFIELD, REV. J. SPENCER,, 1819, REV.
J MIDGLEY, 1819, REV. W. ROBERTSHAW,
1844, REV. JOSEPH HORSFALL, 1852, REV. T.
GILL, 1862, REV. J. MADEN, 1868, REV. J.
K. CHArELLB, 1876.
Mr. Nicholson's name frequently appears in
these papers as an author and publisher.
212
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
The Yorkshire Baptist Year Book for 1005
gives us nearly a complete list of the congre-
gations, both General and Particular, within the
Halifax Parish boundaries :
Halifax, Pellon Lane, 1755.
,, North Parade, 1774, D. Tait Patterson,
1904.
„ Trinity Eoad, 1851.
„ Lee Mount, 1892, D. B. Davies, 1899.
,, Pellon, 1903, A. Charlton, 1904.
Hebden Bridge, Birchcliffe, 1763. [The Rev. H.
Hollinrake, pastor here, died in Janu-
ary, 1855, aged 79.]
„ Brearley, 1&46, W. A. Livingstone, 1899.
„ Heptonstall Slack, 1807, E. G. Thomas, 1903.
„ Hope, 1777, Wm. Jones, 1891.
„ Nazebottom, 1872, (P. R. Monk, removed
to Borough Road, London).
„ Wainsgate, 1750, J. Jack, 1901.
Norland, 1864.
Eishworth, 1803.
Sowerby Bridge, 18S1, J. Fox, 1896.
Steep Lane, 1779, W. Haigh, 1864.
Totlmorden, Roomfield, 1717, H. Briggs, 1871.
„ Wellington Eoad, 1»45, T. Cotes, 1888.
„ Lydgate, 1859, W. L. Stevenson, 1884.
West Vale, 1871, D. R. Lewis, 1895.
Blackley, 1793, E. Briggs, 1874.
Liland Edge 1863, T. E. Lewis, 1897.
Queensbury, 1773, G. Binns, 1900.
Annual Meetings of the Yorkshire Union have
fceen held at Halifax in 1856, 1865, 1875, 1891; at
Hebden Bridge, 1850, 1867, 1885; and at Eoom-
field in 1901. Shore Baptist Chapel, though not
in this list, is in Yorkshire.
JOHN SUTCLIFFE was born about four
miles from Wainsgate, on the borders of Lan-
cashire. His parents attended Eodhill End
Baptist Chapel fortnightly, and the alternafe
Sunday, when Eodhill Eliid was close.d
they went to Wainsgate. In 1769,
when in his seventeenth year, John
joined Wainsgate Baptists. He was then
assistant at Dan Taylor's School at Birchcliffe.
In 1771 John resided at Straithey Head. Be-
fore 1773, he had joined the Bristol College,
having walked the 200 miles in about seven
. days. In October, 1775, he became minister at
Olney, after a short term at Trowbridge, and
six months at Shrewsbury and six at Birming-
ham. He died June 22, 1814, having bequeathed
his library to Horton Baptist College, Bi-ad-
ford. Another Eev. John Sutcliffe, school-
master, Heptonstall, died April, 1876. He had
been Baptist minister at Staley Bridge eigh-
teen years before returning to his native place.
MR. JOSHUA WOOD, Baptist Minister at
Halifax, was born in October, 1734, became of-
casioual preacher at Shipley, Leeds and Wake-
field amongst Congregationalists. He settled
as a Blaptist at Halifax, and afterwards be-
came co-pastor at Salendine Nook with the Rev.
Heni-y Clayton. For a short time he Wat;
minister at Prescott in Devonshire. Mr. Woo<l
died in September, 1794. He was author of an
Association letter on Religious Zeal. His ser-
mon at the ordination of Mr. Crabtree appears
in Isaac Mann's Life of Crabtree, Bradford,
1815.
Eodhill Eiid (or Eodwell Eiid) and Stone
Slaciv were Baptist preaching places about three
miles asunder. THOMAS GEEENWOOD was
the first pastor and died in 1742. He was suc-
ceeded by EICHAED THOMAS, who died in
1772, and the EEV. JOHN DEACUP was the
third.
HYMNS AND SPIEITUAL SONGS. By
John Dracup, Minister of the Gospel at Sower-
by. Bolton, printed by B. Jackson, 1787; pages
iv., 3-70, 12mo.
There are sixty-four poems in this book,
evidently all composed by the Baptist Minister
of Sowerby. As the book is exceedingly rare,
and sells at 10 shillings, I append a specimen
(two verses of six) of his poetical abilities :
that I could bxit now lay hold
By faith on Christ my Lord !
that I noAv, divine'.y bold,
Could venture on his Word !
What ail8 this tim'rous heart of mine?
This heait of unbelief:
If I can all to Him resign.
Why walk I thus in grief.
He was a native of Idle, and broth-
er of Nathaniel Dracup, of Horton, a Metho-
dist pioneer of Bradford. In the Hebden Bridge
Almanack, 1875, there is a sketch history of
Eoddall Hey Independent (afterwards Baptist)
Chapel, giving the names of the trustees. May
1st, 1704, and their successors in 1760, and 1776.
It was sold to the Wesleyans in 1808.
The Halifax Trinity Eoad Baptist Church
held its Jubilee in 1901. It was formed from
Pellon Lane in May, 1851, and held its first
meetings at the Assembly Rooms in Woolshops
and the Mechanics' Institute in Horton Street.
In November, 1851, the ground was bought, and
in August, 1852, the stone-laying took place.
The REiV. WM. WALTERS, of Camberwell, be-
came the first settled pastor in July, 1853. The
chapel was opened in August, 1854. In May,
1860, Mr. Walters left, and after a short tem-
porary charge under the REV. T. B. PIKE, the
EEV. JOHN HORN, of Rochdale, became min-
ister in September, 1860. From May, 1862, the
EEV. JONATHAN BASTOW. of Madison Col-
lege, U.S.A., occupied the pulpit for a few
months, and the EEV. JOSEPH DEEW. of
Newbury, for eleven months. In November,
1865, the EEV. FREDx^RlCK TIMMIS suc-
ceeded, but left in February, 1870. The EEV.
J. H. GOEDON had temporary charge for four
HAIJFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
213
months. In the autumn of 1871 the REfV.
.1A..\[ES PARKER cvame from Salendine Nook,
and remained twenty-one years, removing to
Ilford in 1892, when the REV. HENRY DAVLS,
of Meltham, succeeded, and removed in 1900.
Blaokley Baptist Cliapel claims its descent
from Salendine Nook, where Henry Clayton, a
Heptoustall man, was preacher. James Cart-
ledge, one of his hearers, established a chapel
at Blackley, nair Elland, in 1789, and frequenU
ly preached in it until he secured the services
of the REV. JOHN HTNDLE, an eloquent
preacher, who had come from Hanley to Bl-
land, and thence to Blackley. He only remain-
ed two years probably awing to his irai^cible
temper. After a vacancy of three years, MR.
JOHN ROWLANDS, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
accepted the position in li796, and he gave place
in May, 1798, to MR. JOHN RIGBY, who es-
tablished a new church-menrbership and re-
mained the pastor for forty years, to Decemlier
1839. The pastorate was vacant for nearly
three years before the REV. JOSEfPH HIRST,
a Pole Moor Member, accepted an invitation.
His ministry extended from April, 1842, to
April, 1870. The story from 1870, remains to
be recorded. In 1905 the Rev. Roger Brigg^
unveiled a tablet to the memory of Mr. Cart-
ledge, who died in June, 1793, and of the two
long pastorates (1798 to 1780). Another tablet
Avas unveiLed bearing the names of Deacons of
the Church.
R. INGHAM, Sheffield, and Halifax: -'Christ-
ian Baptism." Sheffield, 1871, demy 8vo.,
pages xvi., 652. Part Second, 1868, demy 8vo.,
114 pages.
" Abridgefl Handbook on Christian Baptism,"
6d., Sheffield, small octavo, pages vii., 76. 1864.
'■ The Theology of the Commission on the
Subjects of Christian Baptism," demy octavo,
pages xii., 116. Preface dated from 25, Aked^s
Road, Halifax. Sheffield, D. T. Ingham, print-
er. 1868, Is. 6d.
CXIII.— HALIFAX PHILOSOPHICAL.
SOCIETY.
Catalogue of the Wonders of Nature and Art
in the Halifax Eixhibition for the joint benefit
of the Infirmary and General Dispensary, the
Literary and Philosophical Society, and the
Mechanics' Institution, at the Museum and
New Assembly Rooms, Harrison Road, Halifax,
1841. My copy has 48 pages, octavo; H. Martin
and R. Leyland and Son.
Catalogue of tbe Books belonging to the Hali-
fax Subscription Library. Halifax, 1*42, 8vo.
Supplement to the Catalogue, December,
1«56; 1857.
Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the
Halifax Literary and Philosophical Society,
1874.
Supplementary Catalogue, 1875-8.
The foregoing five pamphlets are in the Hali-
fax Free Library.
" Literary and Philosophical Society, Halifax.
Catalogue of Portraits of Old Halifax
Worthieti; exhibited at the Annual Soiree, Jan.
3, 1867, at the Assembly Rooms, Harrison
Road"; demy octavo, 13 pa^es, R. Leyland and
Son. These pages are too precious to be lost,
so we append the list of the portraits : —
Jonathan Akroyd, d. 1839, aged 66; father of
Col. A., M.P.
John Aked, modeller of Old Ttistram and
Ro^-al Arms in the parish church, painted
by himself.
Robert Alexander. M.D., F.S.A. d. 1827, agetl
83.
GBRVASE ALBXANDEIR, M.D., author of a
"Translation of the Odes of Horace into
English Verse," 6d. 1856, aged 83; portrait
by Baldwin of London.
Oapt. John Alexander, R.N., Cheltenham;
medallist for gallantry and wounds, off Toul-
on; d. 1859, aged 74; portrait by Baldwin, of
London.
John Appleyard, Warley, benefactor, d. 1865,
aged 89. William, his brother.
Mrs. Armitage, d. 1861, aged 77.
Thomas Atkinson, Boothtown, d. 1865, aged 72.
Luigi Balerna, Halifax, died in Como, 1864,
aged 64.
Wm. Baldwin, manufacturer, d. 1845, aged 69.
Robert Baldrey, d. 1818, aged 58.
Joshua Bentley, Broad Pavement, d. 1830.
Joseph, his brother, Well Heaid family, d. 1820,
aged 72; by Thomas Binns.
Francis Bland, d. at the age of 73.
Thomas his son d. at the age 69.
Sir Thomas Browne, wrote Religio Medici, c.
1635, at Shibden, photo of portrait at Man-
croft, Norwich.
G. Buckstone Browne d. 1839, aged 53; by
Horner.
Wm. Brearley, "Billy Curran," a character,
d. c. 1830, aged 60, -water-colour drawn by
Thomas Binns.
Rawdon Briggs. M.P., d. 1857, aged 66.
Thomas Bradley, engineer to Calder Navigation.
John Brierley, local volunteer, 1800, militia
1813, dep. constable Feb. 1815, official 40 years,
d. 1863, aged 77.
Henry Ormerod Cadney.
John Caygill, donor of Piece Hall site.
His infant-son in go-cart.
Rev. Joseph Cockiu, died 1828.
Mr. and Mrs. Cooke, Warley, Medallions in wax.
HenrA' William Coulthurst, Vicar, J.P., died
1817.
H. W. Coulthurst, a miniature.
Mrs. Crossley, mother of Sir Francis.
John Craven, d. 1859, aged 57.
214
HAI.IFAX BOOKS A^D AUTHORS.
Col. John HoLlins Dearden, J. P., d. 1837, aged
60; by T. Binns.
E<ev. J. W. Dew, St. James'.
Jolin Duckworth, radical, of Pi-obity Lodge.
Leonaixi Duncan, d. 1861, aged 77; by B. Dium-
mond.
Robert Edleston, d. 1865, aged 88; by W. R.
Waller, 1847.
Henry Lees Edwards, father of Sir Henry, d.
1848, aged 72.
His wife, daughter of Joseph Priestley, White
Windows, d. 1852, aged 71.
John Edwards, Pye Nest, d. 1823, aged 84.
His wife, d. 1803.
John Edwards, solicitor, d. 1828, aged 66.
His wife, d. 1835, age<l 73.
•General Sir W^illiani Fawcett, K.B., born at
Shibdeu Hall, governor of Chelsea Hospital,
died, 1604; by Ward, after Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds.
Captain John Fourness, Ovendeu, d. 1717, aged
50; he fought with Marlborough.
Samuel Fourness, his father, d. 1687, aged 25.
-Jane, with, her son John (Capt.) infant.
Samuel Farrar, d. 1860, aged 72.
Tom Farrar, artist, (painted in Dutch style),
Tom Farrar, artist, painted by himself.
Isaac Green, Horley Green, d. 1865, aged 70.
John Hadwen, Kebroyd, d. 1862, aged 57; by
Inues.
John Hadwen, Dean House, d. 1852, aged 78;
copy by Innes.
Wni. Haigh, Joint Stock Bank, d. 1853, aged 53.
Bernard Hartley, d. 1860; aged 58.
William Hatton, d. 1857, ag&d 63. [Methodist
author's son I presum.©.]
William Hetodeu, d. 1838, aged 45.
Matthew Highley, d. 1866, aged 73; by Innes.
John Holds'w'orth (Johnny Holdorth), Shaw
Lodge, d. 1857, aged 60.
James Holroyde, d. 1848, aged 77.
W. a. Holroyde, d. 1858, aged 59.
Wm. Fredk. Highley, d. 1857, aged 54, succeed-
ed his father, James Highley, as assistant
overseer and Veeti-y Clerk.
Thomas Holmes, d. 1848, aged 75; by Binnb,
1832.
His wife, d. 1846, aged 64; by Binns, 1832.^
Rev. John Hope, Southowram, d. 1853, by Thos.
Binns. (There are large framed lithographs
of Mr. Hope).
Martha Dou. and coh. Thomas Binns, Rish-
woi-th Hall, Bingley, wife of Joshua Horton,
Sowerby, died 1694, aged 75, buried at Sow-
erby.
Joshua Horton, of Chaderton, her eldest son,
died 1708, aged 51, buried at Oldham.
Mary, his wife, d. 1708, buried at Oldham.
Martha, his sister, born at Sowerby, 1656.
John Gill, Rotherham, husband of Martha, last
pamed.
Thomas, (son of Joshua Horton, Chaderton),
born at Chester, 1685, J.F., Governor of
Mann, d. March, 1757.
Sir William Horton, Chadwton, High Sheriff
of Lancashire, J. P., Bart., in 1764, d. 1774.
Susaama, wife, daughter of Francis Watts.
Joshua Horton, Howroyde, (brother of Sir
Wm.), J. P. for Yorks., D.L., d. 1793, aged 73
years. Son of Governor Thos.
Ann, first wife of Joshua Horton, Howroyde.
Mary Bethia, second wife.
Thomaw Horton, her son; Lt. Col., J. P., D.L.,
born 1766; buried at Elland; married the
daughter of the Earl of Aberdeen.
Joshua Thomas Horton, Vicar of Ormskirk.
buried there, J.tr. for Yorkshire and Lanca-
shire, d. 1845, son of Thomas Horton, How-
royde.
Samuel Hodgson, born at Halifax, 1757, me-
dallion engraving.
Rev. Richard Hudson, Hipperholme School.
[Framed lithographic engraving.]
John Hughlings, 30 years Coll. of Excise, d.
\mS, aged 82.
Wm. Huutriss, died 1837, aged 57.
[Fielden's View of Halifax, c. 1767. Robin-
son's View of Old Market.]
Rev. Thomas Harcastle, Bramham, ej. 1662;
ancestor of Fredk. Hardcastle, Halifax Com-
mercial Bank.
Jonathan Hall, Elland, d. 1764.
Mrs. Hall, his wife, by Kneller.
Wm. Hoyland, junr., d. 1863, aged 71.
Wm. Heap, d. 1866, aged 84.
Walter Heath, d. 1859, aged 40.
James Inglis, M.D., d. 1851, aged 37.
Jonathan Illingworth, Governor of Old Work-
house, c. 1800.
Thomas Illingworth, beadle.
Wm. Irving, Wheatley, d. 1837, aged 79.
.lohn Ingham, bust by Jones.
Ktienne Jarry, d. 1858, aged 82.
James Kershaw, Shaw Hill, of Square Chapel,
c. 1772.
William, his son. Clerk of Court of Requests.
d. 1841, aged 71; by Thomas Henry Illidge.
Rev. Titus Knight, of Square Chapel.
Rev. Samuel Knight, his son, vicar of Halifax.
M. S. Kenny, M.D., Halifax Infirmary.
Rev. George Legh, LL.D., Vicar, d. 1775, aged
82; by By ran.
Roberts Leyland, printer, scientist, d. 1847,
aged 63; by Thomas Binns.
Wm. Henry Leyland, his brother; miniature
by Horner, 1806.
F. A. Leyland, senr., d. 1859, aged 71; painted
from a sketch by Baldwin.
J. B. Leyland (son of R.L.), sculptor, d. 1851,
aged 39; by Waller.
James Lister, Shibden Hall, d. 1826, aged 83.
Ann Lister, Shibden Hall, d. 1&40, aged 49.
HALIFAX BOOKS A^D AUTHORS.
215
Thomas Li.ster, clockmaker, d_ 1814, agwl 69
John Mitchell, Ovenden, d. iu London
Jane Biotivven M. his wife, d. 184.2 aged 72- bv
-biuns. ' •'
I>r. Moulson, Halifax Infii-marv, d 1839
rhomas Mi.ne, VVarley, d. 1843, agetl 87.
Sarah Milne, Waxley, d. 1840, aged 71
William Miluer, founder of puljlishing firm of
Miluei- and Soweiby.
F. H. Nicholson, d. 18&1, aged &1.
Mrs.Nicholson, O .1 Co.k Hold, d. 1837 aged 55
Wilnam Norris, d. 1818, a^ed 65; bv Phillips.
James E. Norris, d. 1842, aged 49; by T. H
lUidge.
Dr. ZsichoU, Halifax, c. 1800.
Thomas Preston, Greenroyd, d. 1821, aged 70;
by Scolt.
Joseph Priestley, J. P., White Windows, d 1819
aged 80.
His Avife, daughter of Mr. Leah, d. 1820.
Two bracelet miniatures of her also.
John Priestley, Triangle and Tliorpe House d
1«01, aged 47.
Mr. jfiercy.
Thomas Piercy his son, d. 1853, aged 78.
Dr. Wm. Paley, Halifax Infirmary, and Ripon.
Lt. Col. Geo. Pollaixl, J. P., D.L., Proof En-
graving.
Jesse Ramsden, F.R...S., optician, born at
Salterhebble iu 1735, inventor of astronomical
iiistrumenlo.
Daniel Ranis.den, Mayor, d. 1865, aged 76.
Wm. Rothwell, Capt. of Halifax Volunteers.
Wm., his son, d. 1844, ag^ed 73; another in black
shade.
John Riley, J.P., Brearley, d. 1862, aged 51.
James, his son.
Richard Ramsden, D.D., Dep. Prof., Trin. Coil-
Cambridge, born at Halifax, d. 1831, aged 70.
Col. Ramsden, his brother. Heath, d. 1851,
aged 82.
Anne, wife of Col., d. 1827, aged 56; miniature
by Freeman, of Liverpool.
Christopher Rawson, Stoney-rojxl, born 1712.
Grace, his wife, daughter of Jeremiah Rawson,
Cottiaigley.
William, their son, born 1750.
Catiheriue, their daughter, born 1746.
John Raiwson, Stoney-royd, d. 1815, aged 71.
Neliy, his wife, d. ia37, aged 84.
William Rawson, J. P.. D.L., d. 1828, aged 78.
Christr. Rawson, J.P., D.L., first Pres. of Lit.
and Phil. Soc, d. 1849. aged 72. Another
whole length in black profile.
Wm. Henry Rawson, Haugh End, d. 1865, aged
78; photograph.
Stansfield RaAvson, d. in Cumberland, aged 84,
another in black outline.
Thomas Wni. Rawson, Greenroyd, d. 1864, aged
50; painted by Horner, 1840.
Jeremiah Rawson, of Shay, d. 1889.
Thomas Rigge, d. 1716. aged 36.
John Rhodes, D.L., banker; by R. Kirkpatrick.
Francis Waterhouse, d. 1859, aged 90.
Harriet Huyshe Wat^'rhouse, d. 1854, aged 83.
Samue; Waterhouse, d. 1851, aged 72.
Ann I'rothero Waterhouse, d. 1853, aged 76.
John Waterhouse, d. 1847, aged 73.
Sir George Savile, Bt., M.P., engraving after
Wilson. ^
John Smeatoii, F.R.S., Calder Navigation, d.
1792, aged 68; by Brown Bromley.
Robert Stansfield, Field Hmuse, d. 1855, aged 72.
George Stansfield, Field House, d. 1805, aged 70."
George Smith, Halifax, d. 1843, aged 46.
Joshua Smithson, Savile Green, d. 1837.
Alexr. Suter, Wes. Minister, d. 1846, aged 55.
Dan Sugden, musician, d. 1846, aged 53; bust
by J. B. Ley land.
Wm. Simpson, Heath, d. 1809, aged 72.
Joseph Sunder:and, Halifax Infirmary, d. 1835.
Thomas Swale, schoolmaster, d. 1842; water-
colonr tlrawing. Any relation to the famous
Mathematician and Schoolmaster of Liver-
pool and Idle?
John Styring, Cro^vn Street; Ijlack shade.
John Sutcliffe, Silver Street; Lodge Probity.
Samuel Stead, solicitor.
Luke Staveley, d. 1835, aged 95; on copper by
Sir Joshua Reynolds about 1780.
Mrs. Staveley, his wife, on copper by Reynolds.
William, their son, d. 1815; by Foulson at 12
years of age.
Daniel Stansfield, Hope Hall, grandfather of
Judge S., d. 1769, aged 49.
Samuel Thwaite, Union Bank, d. 1851', aged 52.
Dr. Tillotson, Archbishop, d. 1694, aged 64.
Rer. Wm. Turner, junr., M.A., Noithgate Etnd
Chapel, d. at Halifax, 1853, aged 66; bust.
Wm. Tongue, Halifax Savings Bani, d. 1853,
aged 75; by Joshua Horner.
John, son of James Waddington, born 1753,
dra.wn by Williams, c. 1760.
John Waterhouse, d. 1847, aged 73, and his
wife, d. 1839, aged 68; seated at a table.
Christr. Ward, Elllen-royd, d. 1835; chalk.
Rev. John Watson, Coley.
J. U. Walker, "Halifax Guardian," d. 1864,
aged 51.
John Whiteley, of Whiteley and .Sons, d. 1833.
Joseph Whiteley, J. P., d. 1859. aged 66.
Charles Whiteley, Countv Court Treasiirer, d.
1857, aged 77. "
Robert Whiteley, his uncle, drowned at Brook-
Foot, 1803, aged 48; drawn by Sam Farrar.
Johnny Worral, c. 1759, by Williams.
Old Ballad Singer, c. 1759, by Williams.
Samuel WhiteKvood, born at Newbury in Berks.,
minister at Halifax, died I860, aged 66.
William Walsh, d. 1866, aged 62.
Abram Wood, Piece Hall Ti>easurer.
James Stuart Wortley, M.P.
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halifa:^ books and authors.
HALTF.VX LlTERuARY & PHILOS0f»'HICAL
SOCIETY.
Annual Report of the Council and Pioceed-
iiiig!? for the year ending October, 1877. Haii-
fax, K. Ley! and and Son, Corn Market, 1877,
demy octavo, 20 page«. Eoiuan cinerary urnis,
found at Midgley, had been presented to the
Museum; Mr. Samuel King, Luddenden had
given 1810 botanical specinien.s; a Jonathan
Keighley half-penny, 1666, by Mr. A. Campbell,
an emu's egg from South Australia, by my-
self, and other donations are recorded.
The Fifty-ninth Report of the Council and
proceedings, Halifax, 1890, is in the Halifax
Free Library, where a complete set ought to
be deposited.
Halifax Literaj-y and Philosophical Society.
Eixhibition of Antique Oak Furniture and other
Works of Art in commemoration of the
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the
Society. 1880. Halifax, Whitley and Booth,
6d., square 12mo., 58 pages. Mr. J. Lister's
Introductory Remarks on the House Furniture
of the old Hall illustrated by the examples
produced and suitably arranged as the House
Body or Hall, the Parlour and Bed-room, mostly
lent by Mr. Lister and Mr. Joshua T. Horton;
long settle, oak-tables, chairs, spinning wheels;
the portraits of Mr. John Caygill, who gave
the ground on which the Piece Hall was built.
Miss Jenny Caygill (Lady Ibbetson ),Mr. and
Mrs. Jonathan Hall; oak chests, tapestry.
Amongst the curiosities were, — ^the gibbet-axe,
pillory, manacles; two manuscript short-hand
books of sermons, 1662-3, preached by 0. Hey-
wood, E. Bentley, Dr. Hooks, &c. ; a prescrip-
tion book of a Halifax Medical Man, 1634,
Heraldic Manuscript by John Hanson, of Ras-
trick Woodhouse, c. 1620 or earlier; Halifax
Parish Population, 1701-1801. manuscript;
local inventories, mason's contracts, letters,
passport, &c. ; election circulars, 1726; Rent-
roll of Leicester's land, Halifax Parish, 1608:
all lent by Mr. Lister except the last which
was supplied by the Rev. F. E. Millson.
Amongst a large collection of engravings, paint,
ings, &c., were specimens of local artists,—
Pease Sykes (water colour drawing of Clough
House, Greetland), H. Sykes (Halifax Parish
Church, two, Shibden Hall, interior, Barkis-
land Low Hall), and Henry Sykes' series of Old
Houses, (lent by Mr. James W. Davis,) namely
Dam Side in Shibden, three. Limed House in
Shibden, Hag Stocks. Stancliffe, Scout Hall.
Staups Hall, and Shibden Hall, all in Shibden
dale; Barkisland Upper Hall; Howroyde. two;
High Trees, two, and Sunny Bank in Greet-
land; Halifax Woodhouse. two; Elland New
Hall three; HuUen Edge, two; High Sunder-
land, Bowers, Crowstone. Mr. Davis also lent
the series of Ha^lifax Houses by Mr. John Lry-
land, namely Howroyde, Barkisland, Elland,
N©w Hall, Erringden, Clay House, Crown Street,
Mulcture Hall, Woolshops., Old Cock Hotel,
Swan Coppice, Old Market, Kershaw House,
Midgley Broadfold, Brearley Hall, Binroyd,
Norland Lower Hall, Boothroyd, Shibden, Hali-
fax, Hollinhey, Bentley Royd , Swift Place,
BroacWoottom.
CXI v.— INSTITUTIONS AND LITERARy
MEN.
HALIFAX SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARY:
Catalogue of the Books. Instituted 1767.
Halifax, Whitley and Booth, 1842, demy octavo,
162 pages; my copy is largely interleaved and
many additions neatly written thereon. List
of Subseribers, li842, is appended. There are
some Halifax books in the list including "Phil-
osophy of Shakespeare, with Remarks by M.
H. Rankin," "Pilgrim of the Hebrides, Poems
by Rev. C. Hoyle," "Three Days at Killarney,
a Poem by Rev. C. Hoyle."
TODMORD'EIN has had many literary socie-
ties, and, of course, drew its members from the
Halifax portion as well as Todmorden town-
ship. It had a Book Club from 1798 to 1902,
when it was sold by auction. Toadcarr Lib-
rary was formed in 1817 and Crosslee Library
a few years later. They were united under the
name Harleywood Library, but theological
squabbles, after some years' prosperity, killed
it. The second Toadcarr Library in time was
merged in the first Todmorden Mechanics' In-
stitution, established 1863, biit declined some
years af ter'H ards. ITie Todmorden Natural
History Society was establishetl in 1828; but
declined in 1843. Out of the two defunct
societies arose the Todmorden Literary and
Scientific Society, and this declining, the
Athenaeum arose for a few years. The Todmor-
den Botanical Society began in 1852, and a
second Mechanics' Institute in December, 1859.
The Institute was dissolved in 1872.
Of these there existe^l in 1885, the Book Club
of 1798, the Botanioal Society (1852), and the
Scientific Association (established 1879). The
Todmorden Piosecution Society of 1817 was in
existence in 1885. In this year Hebden Bridge
had its Mechanics' and Scientific Institution.
There were musical societies, of great fluctxia-
tions. at both places for more than a century.
The Revs. Dan Taylor and John Fawcett were
leaders in a book club long before any of these,
as shewn by the Memoii's of each of those
worthies.
SOWERBY BRIDGE MECHANICS' INSTI-
TUTE: Catalogue of the Exhibition of Paint-
ings, Curiosities, Models, Apparatiis, and
Specimens of Natural History at the National
School Rooms, Sowerby Bridge, for the bene-
f
HALIFAX BOOKS AKD AUTHORS.
217
fit of the Mechaiiics' Institution; with the
names of the contributors, October 14, 1839.
Halifax, Leyland and Son, Corn 3Iarket, 1839,
demy octavo, 37 pages. " Third thousand."
Local items include i>aintings by Joshua
Horner; portrait of Rev. J. C. Franks, paint-
ings by T. Farrar, John Murgatroj-d,— Illing-
■\v-orth, Samuel Baldwin, portrait of Stephen
Hartley, Schoolmaster at Sowerby Bridge before
1800, drawn by Fielding, Drawing in chalk by
G. Hedley of a gentleman of Halifax, portrait
of an old gentleman by Binns, Alto Eelievo
in white marble of the head of an African
bloodhound, by J. B. Leyland, The Ladye of
Kirklees, a sketch in clay suggested by Dear-
den's Star Seer, by J. B. Leyland; two dra'w-
ings of stained glass in Eilland Church east
window, by F. A. Leyland, jiinr.. Model of
Halifax Gibbet, Unique a-stronomical clock
made by John Sutcliffe, wax portrait of Madam
Moorhouse, Ballad Singer by J. Farrer, Cases
of birds lent by Joseph and Samuel Gibson,
H-enry Clayton, &c., g-eological specimens by
W. H. Rawson. Model of Sowerby Bridge
Church, Luke Crossley's sword, 1745, Portrait
of John Furness, firet iron founder, Sowerby
Bridge, South View of Sowerby Bridge Old
Chiirch, scientific curiosities by W. H. Eaw-
son, junr.; Ripponden, 1789, by Fielden, por-
trait of Joseph Sunderland (Coley?) by Binns.
BRIGHOUSE Mechanics' Institution: "Ad-
dress delivered by the Rev. T. P. Kirkman,
M.A., F.R.S., Rector of Croft, near Warring-
ton, on presiding at the Twenty-fii"st Soiree,
Januai-y 7, 1868" Brighouse, J. Yates, 1868. for
the Committee, 16 pages, octavo. It is mostly
on Church Cursing and Priestcraft.
Brighouse has had a Naturalist Society many
years. What publications have been issued I
do not know.
Very few second-hand booksellers of Halifax
parish (MR. J. TEAL, of Halifax, about 1880
being an exception,) have issuetl Catalogues of
neHv and second-hand books, although they had
a notable precursor in the famous bookbinder.
Eld wards.
THOMAS EDWARDS, bookseller, Halifax,
was a famous man in his day in the book world.
Part I.— A CArALOGUE OF A VERY VALU-
ABLE AND SELECT COLLECTION OF
BOOKS, in most languages, and every branch
of literature, containing now on sale
for ready money only, the prices printed in
the Catalogue, and marketl in the first leaf of
every book at Thos. Eldwards'e. Bookseller,
Halifax; price 3s. 181'5. The second part will
very shortly be published. Demy octavo, pages
ii , 1—258, i.; gives 7282 items. Watson's
Halifax, gilt edges, with view of Halifax under
the gilt, 1775, is priced ^3 10s. Whitaker's
Craven, 2nd edition, 1812, large paper, ^18 18s.;
ordinary size <£5 15s. 6d. J. Bolton's Fungusses
growing about Halifax, and the British proper
Ferns, 5 vols., etched and coloured by the
author, since dead; very scaice, bound in
RussiaJi, gilt, ^14 146 Od., Halifax, 1788. De
Foe's Robinson Crusoe pliatee, 1791', 7s. 6d.;
two vols., plates, 1790, £4: 4s., published by
Heron; one vol., 1759, Is. John Bates' Bible,
plates, Halifax, 1804, i;3 13s. 6d. Boys' on the
iipistles and Gospels, 1638, folio, 8s. Tillot-
son's Works, folio, portrait, 1707, 15s. Best
edition of Tillotson, 3 vols., 1752, £3 3s. Od.
John Fawcett's Bible, 2 vols., 1811, £5 5s. Od.
Boys' On the Epistles and Gospels, octavo.
1615, 3s. 6d. Brown's Religio Medici, portrait,
octavo, 1672, 5s.; 1678, Is. 6d. Bolton on Hap-
piness, 1618, 2s. 6d. ; Four last Things, por-
trait, 1633, 5s. Holdsworth's Angells Inspec-
tion, 1650, 3s. Meldrum's Incarnation, 2 vols.,
1807, 12s. Nettleton on Virtue, 1729, 2s. 6d.;
1751 edition, 3s. Wilkinson's God's All Suf-
ficiency, 1681, 2s. 6d. Coore's Types and
Figures of Christ, 1683. 3s. Hooke's Noncon-
formist Champion, 1682, Is. Heywood's Israel's
Lamentation, 1683, Is. Knight's Amyntas and
Philetus, 1780, 2s. Several more Halifax books
are mentioned, and of the eight thousand
volumes in the firet catalogue one-third of
them are in Latin, French, Italian, Dutch, and
bear dates from 1490 to 1814. Edwards must
have been a classical scholar as well as one of
the largest book dealers in the provinces. It
is well known that he was one of the best book-
binders of his age. I am equally surprised
with the wealth of the books he accumulated,
and the prices, consFdering the value of money
at that time, that thev commanded.
FkANCIS BEiNTLEIY, in the time of Oliver
Hey wood, was an eminent bookseller in Hali-
fax.
SAMUEL BAINElS, Holroyd House, Priestley
Green, Lightcliffe. "Catalogue of a Magni-
ficent Library, Consisting of upwards of 400O
volumes (I total them to 4526, besides cases of
birds, shells, &c.,) the genuine property of Mr.
S. Baines, Lightcliffe, to be sold by auction
by Messrs. Hard wicks and Best, on April 19,
20, 21, 22, 1865, at Holroyd House. Leeds,
demy octavo, 39 pages. For the many who
knew Mr. Samuel Baines as an enterprising
manufacturer and merchant, there were few
that knew he was an eminent geologist and
bibliophile. The features of the Library con-
sisted of scientific and historical works;
philosophy, poetry, biography, voyages, topo-
graphy, botany, history, geology, ornithology,
physiology. Natural philosophy, and art. In
addition there were collections of shells, miner-
als, fossils, birds in glass cases, philosophical
apparatus. Mr. Baines came to grief by trust-
in" a man in the Midlands in business matters.
218
HALIFAX BOOKS AJMD AUTHORS.
He was the eon of John Baines, of Shelf, and
a monument to him is to be seen on the north
side of Coley Church. Samuel Baines was a
generous supporter of the Brighouse Mechanics'
Institute, and gave a large number of book
prizes. For the first prize in Arithmetic in
li857 I obtained of his gift,— Ritson's Robin
Hood, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Bujn's
Poem's, Goldsmith's Plays and Poems. His
name is mentioned in James' Bradford as a
geologist. I am not aware that he printed any-
thing.
THE REV. GEORGE LElEi was born at Eil-
land. He was for a time a tutor at Belper, and
afterwards conducted a large day school in
Hull.and was minister of the "Unitarian Chapel.
He was joint-proprietor and at one time editor,
of the "Rockingham" newspaper. His zeal in
literature and science is lauded by Frost in the
literary notice of Hull. He died May 19, 1842,
aged 72, and was buried in Holy Trinity
Chiirch.
W. DEARDEiN, printer, Nottingham, cousin
of Wm. Dearden, the local poet, Wariey, was
editor and publisher of " Dearden's Mis-
cellany." Vols. I. and II. W. Dearden, printer,
Nottingham, demy octavo, 1839, pages viii.,
792. Besides contributions by Dean Alford, Jas.
Montgomery and other famous authors, there
.axe papers by Dearden, the poet. Paper amd
type are as commendable as the exce'.lence of
the contributions.
WILLIAM HELLIWElLiL does not come under
our heading as an author, but if he may not
be described as a walking encyclopcedia, he was
a book worm, — a rare entomological specimen.
He was born at Popples near Blackshawhead,
in Stansfield, Octob&r 19, 1826, and was the
eldest of nine children. From a very early age
to his death he was a cotton operative, very re-
tiring in disposition, never married, a tee-
totaler ajid vegetarian, rambling far and near
to pick up a book at bookstalls, and searching
catalogues of old books with avidity. The
rudiments of education he got at a night
school. At fifteen he took a strong liking for
the study of languages, and by twenty had
made great progress in Hebrew and Greek. For
the next twenty years he worked during leisure
hours at French, German, Cliinese, Arabic, and
several other languages, yet^ had no use for them
and had no one in his country life to converse
with in anything but the Yorkshire dialect. An
old theological friend of mine affirmed that our
education and knowledge can't be wasted, it
may be useful in a world to come. Helliwell's
must answer this end. Philosophy, science and
mathematics were also his favourite subjects.
He died June 7, 1878.
J. BAXTEIR, Barkisland School. "TTie
Yoiing Christian's Cyclopaedia; a Compendium
of Christian Knowledge, consisting; of a series
of lessons in Morality. Virtue and Religion,
carefully selected from the best Authors. Coni-
piLed chiefly for the instruction of the young
, intended for the use of young persons
of both sexes at school and for families. 2nd
edition, revised, enlarged and much improved."
Halifax, R. Sugden, 1819, 7s., small octavo,
pages 1., 1-606, frontispiece. Dedication, Oct.,
I18I8, to Lady Mary Horton. The author will
also be foVind in the list of poets. Mr. Baxter
died May 1, 1830, having been master there
twenty-three years.
BEiNJAMIN FIRTH:
" The llieological and Poetical Class Book,
or the School-boy's Companion to the Bible;
designed for Schools and Families in general
and for Sunday Schools in particular, consist-
ing of elegant extracts, &c., with appropriate
questions. By B. Firth. Idle, J. and G. Vint,
printere, 1835. pages xxxvi., 478, octavo. The
preface is dated from Manor House Academy,
Hartshead Moor, January 1, 1835. Mr. Firth
at one time was a manufacturer in Brighouse.
He foundel Wyke Congregational Chapel and
became its minister. This book is in itself a
worthy memorial of the man.
WILLIAM LUNT)Y, Master of the British
School, Rastrick (Common):
" An Outline of Natural History, or an ele-
mentary treatise on the classification of the
Annual Kingdom, with questions, designed
principally for the use of the above institvi-
tion." Brighouse, El S. Keir, no date, 11 pages
duodecimo.
" Geographical Class Book of Palestine, for
the \ise of Sabbath and Day Schools." Hud-
dersfield, R. Brook, 1849, small octavo, pages v.
55. The preface is dated Rastrick, January 1,
1849. He also printed a little French text
book, "Le Lecteur Fl'ancais." A notice and
portrait of him appear in the History of Biig-
house, as Dr. Lundy.
WILLIAM H0R8FALL:
"A Small Help to the Study of English
Grammar." Halifax, Whitley and Booth, 1849,
pages iv., 68, duodecimo size. This book rxms
particularly on the conjugation of verbs. The
author was a native of Hebden Bridge. I be-
lieve he had a school at Elland. His
son conducted a school some twenty years ago
at Baildon Bridge, and is now a clerk in the
Rate Office, Bradfoixl.
WILLIAM DYCHE, B.A. Halifax, was author
of Lectures on the Teaching of Elementary
Science. Halifax, 1892, 8vo.
MR. GREENWOOD, of Vale School, Tod-
morden, was a Yorkshireman, and his poetry
has been previously mentioned. MR.
MORGAN, another Todmordeu poet, lived in
Stansfield township.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
219
" Arithmetics] . Historical and Geograpliical
Table Book" lay J. Holt and W. Thornton,
British School, Halifax, 18 pages. They were
assista'nt-ni asters there to Wni. Corke, about
1865. W. Thornton died young. He was born
at Well Hole, Rastrick.
G. C. HEAVITT, of Rippondeu, author of
''Cardboard Sloyd," "Constructive Teaching,"
Diplome of the German Manual Training As-
sociation, was author of a large octavo book
[about 1890,1 entitled "The Swedish Course of
Cardboard Modelling, containing diagrams and
directions for making one hundred models."
Halifax, F. King and Sons; 128 pages. He
aljo wrote "Carton Work, a graduated course
of modelling in paper, suitable for Standards
I., II. and III. Halifax, F. King and Sons,
[about 1830], square octavo, 93 pages.
TITUS BAERACLOUGH, Master of Shelf
Board School. Halifax, aifterwajrds of Idle.
"How to Teach Arithmetic. Eclipse Mental."
Book III. Parts A, B, in one volume, pages iv.,
88, xii., crown octavo. Part C. pages iv., 84,
xii. The three parts are also sold bound to-
gether.
CXV.— ETHICAL TOPICS. ETC.
ARTHUR T. LOXGBOTHAM, soncitor.
Clerk to the Guarelians of the Halifax Union: —
•'The English Poor Law and its Administra-
tion in the Halifax Union. Reprinted from
the 'Halifax Courier,' " February, 1902, 30
pages small octavo. This is both a general
and Local history of the Poor Lav,- System, and
forms the basis for a much-needed book on the
subject.
"ilodern Dthicks, and Mental Philosophy;
in a series of Letters to a Friend. By a
PHYSICO-THEOLOGIST, Halifax." Halifax,
.T. Nicholson, Giove Street, 1843, large octavo,
pages vii., en-ata slip, 1-123. I am not able to
state who was the aiithor of this thought-
ful volume. I fear it has been too meta-
physical for many to read it.
GEORGE M. RILBY, B.A., L.L.B.: —
Halifax Law Students' Society : Prize Essay
Competition, 1885. An E«say upon "The Law
of LibeL and the Theory of Privilege," First
Prize. Halifax, Whitlej- and Booth, Crown
Street, 22 pages. The Society was established
in 1881; prizes were given in 1883-4-5.
WILLIAM DIXON: —
■'The Thinking Man'o Friend; or a Series
of Religious and Metaphysical Dialogues de-
signed as a confutation of Infidelity, and to
furnish motives to moral, religious and intel-
lectual excellence. Halifax, Wm. Nicholson,
Cheapside, 1852, 12mo.. 192 pages. A few poeme
are appended, including Hebden "Vale, 1830.
JOHN LORD. Halifax: —
"The Commercial Compendium, an Epitome
of the Law of Bankruptcy, "with full and copi-
ous abstracts of the Bankruptcy Act, 1861, and
the Acts of Parliament preceding it, and the
Schedules, &c., to which is added a Popular
Treati.se on the haw of Bankruptcy. Is. Hali-
fax, T. and W. Birtwhistle, (1862,) small octavo,
pages vi., 70.
JOHN WALTON, Haley Hill, Halifax,
January, 1845: —
"A Dialogue between a Little Drop Man and
a Teetotaler," 12 pages. Id., second thousand.
In rhyme, nearly 600 lines."
SHAKESx FARE INN, HALIFAX.
Printed summons form, (no printer's name.)
West Riding of Yorkshire. To
of in the said Riding.
We Avhose names are hereunto subscribed and
seals affixed, two of his ^Majesty's justices of the
peace in and for the said riding, Do hereby
summon you, personally to appear before us,
at the Shakespeare Inn, Ward's Ehd, in Hali-
fax, in the said riding, on the
day of at the hour of ten in
the forenoon of the same day to shew cause
why you refuse to pay the overseers of the
poor of the township of the rate
or assessment made for the relief of the poor
of the same township for year, other-
wise we shall proceed as if you had appeared.
Given under our hands and seals this
day of in the year of our Lord
182...
JOHN EjjWARD WAINHOUSE', v. Sir Hv.
Edwards, 1873, &c.
■' West Riding Law in Halifax."
" Smoke, its Vouchers and its Victims," 1880.
" A Letter to Sir Henrv Edwards, Bart " 1880
GENERAL SIR WILLIAM FAWCETT,'
K.B., born at Shibden Hall, translated from
the French, "Count Sax's Reveries, or Memoirs
of the Art of War," amd from the German
"Regiilations for the Prussian Cavalry."
"Regulations for the Prussian Infantry,"
"Prussian Tactics." He died in 1804.
YOUTH IN CONFERENCE:—
First Annual Report, Conference of Mutual
Improvement Societies and Young Men's
Classes of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Bradford, February 3, 1894. The Secretary
was James W^. Sutcliffe, 27. West View, Hali-
fax. The papers read, and here printed were
by E. J. Hartshorn, Huddersfield. Chas. Ei
Moss. Halifax. .1. H. Heighton, Bradford.
Dtmy octavo. 31 pages on hand made paper,
without printer's name. 1894.
Second Annual Conference, Halifax, February
16, 1895. 2d., 31 pages. Papers read and re-
220
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AU'JHORS.
ported— Uriah Bairstow, Halifax, F. L. Moor-
lionse, Huddersfield.
Yorkshire Conference of Youth. The Third
Annual Report, February 8, 1896, 3d., 32 pages,
demy octavo, hand made paper, no printer's
name. The papers read and printed are by
W. J. Beal, B.A., Huddersfield, and J. Haze-
lip, Leeds. The Conference was at Hudders-
field.
"Youth in Conference." Leeds, 1897; 31
pages, 3d. Mr. R. Whiteley, Brighouse, was
the General Secretary, and Mr. James W. Sut-
cliffe, of Halifax, the Publication Secretary.
"Youth in Conference." Waiefield, 189S; 35
pages, 3d. One of the two papers printed bears
the authorship of Mr. Robert Halstead, Hebden
Bridge, on "Co-operation or Democratic In-
dustry; the Hope of the Futiire." Jas. W.
Sutcliffe, Treasurer. I believe the fifth pamph-
let, 1898, was the last one printed, though the
Society still exists. The last meeting iTuder
the old name was held at Bradford, February
18, 1899, and in February, 1901, it was succeed-
ed by the Yorkshire Debating and Literary
Union, established at the Huddersfield meeting.
JAMj^iS HORSFALL, of Healey Nursery,
Rochdale, and Robert Law, F.G.S., commenced
to search for flints on the Halifax Parish
Moors in 1879, and in 1882 they embodied the
results in a paper for the "Yorkshire Geolog.
and Polytech. Society." I am not sure whethet
we can claim Mr. Horsfall amongst Halifax
authors.
DR. ASPINALL MARSD'EN, Lightcliffe: —
"The New Medical Aspect of the Temper-
ance Question. Being the Substance of a Lec-
ture at Brighouse, Ootober, 1903, and at Hij)-
perholme." Octavo, 10 pages. Brighouse, J.
Hartley.
ASPINALL MARSDEN, Surgeon, Medical
Officer of Health, Lightcliffe; Feb. 1904. "Lead
in Water v. Arsenic in Beer. A National
Question," quarto, four pa^ges, double
columns; John Hartley, Limited, Brighouse.
EDWARD CROSSLEIY, M.P. : Gymnastics
without Apparatus, adapted from Ling's
Swedish System. Halifax, 1882.
Who is the Man of Sin? tract, Ryde, 1892.
8vo.
What is the Atonement? A. E. Dimmer, 12,
John-street, Ryde, 1892.
Tract on the Prophecies of Daniel; Arthur
Andrews, George-street, Ryde, 1892.
Christ the Bearer of our Sins, 2nd edition.
The Witness of the Stars, by Dr. E. W. Bul-
linger, refuted in a letter by Ed^ward Crossley.
1894.
Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnical
Society :
Paper on Lime and its Uses in Agriculture,
read at Halifax, March 12, 1845, .by HENRY
BRIGGS, Overton, near Wakefield. 3d., Wake-
field, 1845, 111 pages demy octavo.
J. W. GARLICK, &c.: —
Surgical Pathology: A Thesis by Julius CIo-
quet. Translated from the French by J. W.
Garlick, M.R.C.S., and W. Cotterthwaite,
M.R.C.S. London, 1832, 12mo.
THOMAS HETY GARLICK-.—
An Introductory Lecture on Geology delivered
at the Halifax Mechanics' Institution, Jan. 16,
1833. Halifax, Whitley and Booth. 1833, 32
pages small octavo. Dedication to Christopher
Rawson, F.G.S., President of the Lit. and Phil.
Society, and to John Waterhouse, juur., Presi-
dent of the Halifax Mech. Inst.
The preface refutes the charge of atheism at-
tributed to the author by the "Halifax and
Huddersfield Express" reporter.
FREiDERICK SMITH GARLICK. M.R.C.S.,
for Twenty Years Medical Officer and Public
Vaccinator for the Halifax District of the Hali-
fax Union : —
"An Etesay on Vaccination." Vaccination
was discovered and first practised by Dr. Ed-
ward .Jenner, 1796. Halifax, Wm. Nicholson "
and Son, 1868, 48 pages octavo. This is an in-
teresting history.
THOMAS M. DOLAN, M.D., L.R.C.P.,
F.R.C.S.E., Medical Officer Halifax Union In-
firmaries : —
"Pauperism and Drink, with some Remarks
on the Medicinal Value of Alcoholic Beverages,
and the Mortality from Alcohol in Workhouses.
London 1880, Is. Reprinted from the 'Medical
Press and Circular'; large octavo, 28 pages."
Several pamphlets on Medical and Sanitary
Sciences by Dr. Dolan may be seen at the Hali-
fax Free Library.
Medical Reform; Halifax, 1881.
Vaccination, its Place and Power; London,
1883.
Poor Law Medical Service,— Past, Present,
Future. 1885, H.ydrophobia; M. Pasteur and
his Methods, 1886.
CXVI.— MEDICAL, SCIEINTIFIC, &c.
The "Rocks" of Stansfield Moor are shewn
in a series of engravings published at Man-
cliester in 1831 bv THOMAS STACKHOUSEL
A Life of ABRAHAM STANSFIELD, Pre-
sitlent of th.e Todmorden Botanical Society,
was announced as preparing for publication by
his son. He was born at Hugeon Croft, near
Kebcote in Stansfield, on January 12, 1802,
and lived in a rock house at Fastends, (hence
its name.) Abraham, senior, edited the "Tod-
morden Comet," which had a very flitting ex-
istence, and later, for a short time, tlie
"Ancient Free Gardeners' Magazine," (c. 1844).
HALIFAX BOOKS AA'D AUTHOR^.
221
111 1844 lie set up as Niimeiyiuan at Elccles-
hohiie, Vale. With hLs sons, ami John Nowell
and others, he starte-d in 1852 the Todiiioiilen
Batanical Society. He and NoweLl compiled
a Floi-a of Todmoiden, still in manuscript
He died August 12. 1880.
ABRAHAM STANSFIELD, (KelsaU, eon,)
"Moss Gatherer^: A Lancashire Specimen."
Eeprint from "^Manchester Quarterly," July,
188J. Good description of Todmorden D'isti-ict,
and notdce of John Nowell, of Stajisfield; pages
205-218, -with special cover.
"Rambles in the West Riding, with a glance
at the Flora." Reprint from the "Manchester
Quarterly," April, 1884; pages 155-172, with
covei".
"A Difficult Lancashire Place Name (Tod-
morden.) " Reprint from " Mancheb.ter
Qxiar-terly," October, 1884, 16 pages.
"A Summer Call to the Mountains." "Man-
chester Quar-terly," 1886, 3 pages, and covers;
poem.
"The Last String." "Manchester Quarterly,"
1888, 4 pag^s, and covers; poem.
JOHN HENRY TURNER. My namesake is
a native of Hill Top, W^arley, where he wae
born in 1863, but has resided many years in
Brighouse, and has made himself generally
useful as a Councillor of the Borough, a Sun-
day School worker, &c.
'"A Tour in Athens, Palestine, and Cairo."
Reprinted from the "Brighouse News." Brig-
house, 1904, 94 pages, with inserted illustra-
tions, — Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Turner in eastern
costume, Parthenon, Nazareth (2), Jezreel,
Dragomen, Bethlehem, Wailing Place, Sphinx,
Bethel (new) Chapel, (Brighouse). The profits
from the sale of this pleasant memorial were
given to the building fund of the new Bethel
Chapel.
JOHN BLACKBURN, born at Hebdeu
Bridge, June, 1837, died June, 1898, prolific
writer to th.e "Todmoixlen Advertiser"; in-
cluding natural history, poetry. He lived at
Cornholme for some years, bvit was biiried at
Mytholm Church.
HARRY HOYLE, Ripponden, who died
October 8, 1809, aged 31, was a painter of
natural history subjects of extraordinary
merit.
SAMUEL GIBSON, an eminent naturalist,
born at Sowerby Bridge, died at Hebden
Bridge, May 21, 1849.
"Hooks and Eyes, or Scraps for the Curious."
Halifax, Cooper Brothers, "Times" Office, no
date, 24 pages. Publishei-s of the "Halifax
Times" and the "Brighouse and Elland Ex-
press"; no author's name is given.
S. THOMPSON: "Invaluable Remedies,"
Id., 12 pages, li2mo. John Copley, printer,
Waterhouse Street, Halifax.
" LEX VALERIA, " 13, George Street, Hali-
fax: "A Voice from the Main Drains, being
an Epitame of the Mysterious Procreati,;n,
Embodiment and Accouchment of a Drainage
System : translated from an MS. recently ais-
coveied near the Old Town Hall; Dedicated tc
Committees. 12pp., (c. 1863.)
J. I. IKIN, Sui-geon, &c., Halifax:
Eloge upon Baron G. Dupuytren, late
Surgeon-m-Chief, &c., to Charles X., by L.
Pariset. IVanslated, with Notes by J. I.
Ikin. 1837 Whitley and Booth, Hahtax, 60
pagts.
AVILLIAM SOTTANSTALL, of Sowerhy,
Yorkshire:
"Elements of Ca npanalogia; or an Estray
on the Art of Rinyi'jg; containing in addition
to the ciuthor's own works, the Isitest dis-
coveries -n the Art of Ringing ocmmuuicated
by the most celebrated composers in the King-
dom, whose names are attachetl to their vari-
ous pioduotions." Part Second. Huddei*6-
field, G. and J. Brook, Westgate, 1867. Small
qotavo, pagies vil.,il-xiii., i-xx., 12-962. My
copy has a mounted photo of the author, sur-
rounded by handbells, as a frontispiece.
I have not seen Part One, and am not aware
of any more. Behind the title are verses on All
Soul's Church Bells, Halifax, by L. A. H.
(Horsfield), Booth Town, 1864, and on next leaf
a lithograph vieiw of the Church. The fol-
lowing leaf bears a dedication to Lieut. Col.
Akroyd, M.P., 4th West Yorks. Rifle Volun-
teers. It is to be regretted that Mr. Sottan-
stall adhered to the coiTupted way of spelling
his name SALTONSTALL. The introductory
remarks on the antiquity of bells and the
origin of change ringing are of general in-
terest, as also the chapter on bell-inscriptions,
many of them being Yorkshire examples. My
friend Mr. Byre Poppleton has almost finished
the list of West Riding bells in the "Yorkshire
Archaeological Journal.'' Mr. Sottanstall was
born July 9th, 18O0. The rest of this bulky
volume is taken up with masses of figures, a
Avondertul collection of permutations, and oc-
casional notes on ringers and contests.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, M.D., Senior
Physician to the Halifax Infirmary and Dis-
pensary, and Consulting Physician to the
Union Fever Hospital :
"The Adulteration of Food and Drinks;
published at the request of the Halifax Liter-
arj' and Philosophical Society." Caveat
emptor. Halifax, William Nicholson, Cheap-
side. 1856, demy octavo, 32 pages, copiously il-
lustrated.
Dr. Alexander's little book on "The Horley
Green Mineral Water, its new Chemical
Analysis and Medicinal Uses," 5fi., has been
previously mentioned. He was author also at —
:222
HALIFAX BOQKS AND AUTHORS.
"A Treatise on Dyspepsia."
"The Mineral Waters of Scaiborough."
"The Vital Statistics and Sanitary Condition
of Halifax."
"The Horley Green Spring."
"On Disinfecting Agents," &c.
J. W. MILIxEIB, Rastriok:
"Money and Trade: A Plea for Bi-Metal-
lism." Brigliouse, John Hartley, "Echo"
Office, 1894, 23 pages, duodecimo.
• SURGEON SNYPB" :
"Remarks on Physicians, Surgeons, Drug-
gists and Qi;acks; addressed to Members of
Parliament, the Medical Profession, and the
People of Great Britain." Halifax, H. Martin,
1845, 2s. 6d., 65 pages, demy octavo.
H. LING ROTH, Hon. Curator of Bank-
field Museum, Halifax; author of an elaborate,
famous and bigihly ilhistrated work on
Sumatra, &c. : —
"Coiunty Borough of Halifax: Bankfield
Museum Notes"; demy octavo.
No. 1. The Fijian Collection, 3d., reprinted
from the Halifax Naturalist, 1900-1, profusely
illustrated, 27 pages, F. King and Sons, Ltd.,
printers. The articles were given to the Hali-
fax Literary Society in 1868 by Mr. George
Boyne, a native of Halifax, from Fiji and
California.
No. 2. The Burmese Collection, 2d., re-
printed from the Halifax Naturalist, 1901,
profusely illustrated, 18 pag-es, F. King and
Sons, Ltd.
No. 3. The Dean Clough Mosaics, Id., 8
pages, well illustrated. This is a specially in-
teresting local note book; interesting to manu-
facturers as well as artists.
In the Halifax Free Library there are speci-
mens of the following publications: —
DAVID SMITH: Dyer's Instructor, com-
prising Practical Instructions in the Art of
Dyeing Silk, Cotton, Wool, and Worsted and
Woollen Goods. Wakefield, 1876, 12mo.
"Atonement of Jesvis Christ," a sermon :
Halifax, 1889, by D. Smith.
W. BINNS: Elementary Treatise on Ortho-
graphy Projection, being a New Method of
Teaching Mechanical and Engineering Draw-
ing. 2 Vols. 1876.
HALIFAX Scientific Society; Botanical Sec-
tion. Tenth Session.
Plain Statement of Facts in favour of the
Cow Pox, by JOHN THOMSON, M.D. (See
Poets). Halifax, 1809.
FANNY MART THOMSON (Frances Green-
wood, of Northgate.) Memoranda of a Journey
to Moscow in 1856. Liverpool, 1859.
J. L. CLIFFORD SMITH: (? Halifax man.)
Narrative of the Discovery of the Great Central
Lakes of Africa. Halifax, 1877.
H. FRANKLIN PARSONS: {Y Halifax man.)
The Trias of the Southern Part of the Va'.e of
York. Leeds, 18H0.
YORKS. GEOLOGICAL, &c. Pioceedings of
Gf'ological and Polytechnic Society of West
Riding of Yorkshire at the 13th quarterly
meeting, iiekl at Halifax, March 3, 1841.
Al.VAN MILLSON, M.A., F.R.G.S.: Yoruba,
addressed to the Members of the Manchestei'
Chamber of Commerce. 1891. Reprinted from
the Manchester Geographical Society.
FREDK. H. BOWMAN, F.G.S., F.C.S.,
Halifax, now D.Sc, F.R.S. Eldin., Consulting
Bingineer (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical),
Chemist, &c. . of Manchester. Two of his works
are in Halifax Free Library, namely " The
Scientific Aspect of Prayer," 1875, and "Inter-
mediate Text Book of Physical Sciences," 1886.
He is author of "The Structure of the Cotton
Fibre," and "The Structure of the Wool
Fibre," two thick octavo volum(;i5, *.vell il-
lustrated, upon which most of the technical
education in regard to cotton and wool in-
dxistries is based. Mr. Bowman's services as
Lecturer on llie Generation of Power from
Fuel, and similar subjects are in special de-
mand at Universities and Technical Colleges.
±iis articles in Scientific Journals are numerous.
WILLIAM ACKROYD, F.I. Chemistry,
M.Ph.S. : "The History and the Science of
Drunkenness. With Illustrations." Man-
chester, 1883, pages v., 128 octavo, four plates.
Hla.ving written many articles on Ancient
Drinking Customs for tbe "Good Temp;ar"
(London) and "Templaa- Messenger" (Bradford)
I very highly appreciate the ti\vo-thirids of
Mr. Ackroyd's book that treats on the History,
and not less the third that deals with the
Scientific aspect
Colour Matching by WALTER EtMMOTT,
"The Origin of Colour, bv W.A.," 15 pages.
1893.
"EHementary Chemical Analysis Tables,"
2nd edition, 8 pages, cardboard. 1894.
"Marsh-Berzelius Arsenic Deposit," 1902.
"Radium Compoimds: The Colours of
Iodides," 8pp., 1003.
"Radium Ra,ye on Alkali Metals, &c.," 6pp.,
and cover, 1904.
Colour Matching by WALTER EMMOTT,
Wm. Ackroyd, and HEEBERT CROSSLEY,
1887. Mr. Ackroyd published "The Old Light
and the New, or Colour and Photography,"
illustrated, 102 pages, 1896. This Avas printed
at Bralford, and in it he announced "Analysis
and Balance Work for Students of Elementary
Inorganic Chemistry." Articles by Mr. Ack-
royd appeared in the "Chemical News," 1876,
1877, and a series in 1893; in the "Phil. Mag.,"
1876, and in the "Journal of Soc. of Dyers,"
April and August, 1887.
HALIFAX BOOKS AI^D AUTHORS.
223
"Eesearches on Moorlaml Waters (I.
Acidity,) by William Arkroyd, was published
1899.
Selective Absorption; 8 pages, with cover,
from the "Philosophical Magrazine, December'
1876. '
Transverse Absorption of Li<,'ht; 8 pages,
cover, from the "Chemical Newt; " October
1877.
In Cassell's Science for All, and their Re-
creative Science (160 pages. Sports and Pas-
times), are signed articles by him, whilst in
their Popular Educator, and in Ward Lock's
Chil '.5 In-tructor, lu has supplied auonymouB
; rti:L\s.
He was born at Soiwerby Bridge in 1852, and
received his special training at the Normal
School of Science, London, 1871-8, under
Huxley, &c.
Mr. Ackroyd held several p.ublic offices in
Halifax. He contributed papers to the British
Association, including one in 1901 on ''Salt
Circulation and its Geological Bearing," given
also to the Yorks. Geol. Soc, reprinted, with
plates, pp. 4i01-121, 1902. Mrs. Ackroyd is now
principal of the Pupil Teachers' Centre, Brig-
house.
DR. JOHN WOOD is credited, assisted by
others, as the author of "Flora Mancuniensis,
or a Catalogue of the Flowering Plants, Ferns,
&c., within fifteen miks of ilanchester, but
Richard Buxton, of Manchester, and James
Crowther were the principal contributors.
The book is octavo size, printed in 1840 at
Halifax by Leyland and Son. I am not sure
that any of the three writers were natives of
Halifax parish.
JOHN SUTCLIFFE. C.E'., was author of
"A Treatise on Canals and Reservoirs, and
fhe best mode of dei^dgning and executing
them; with observations on the Rochdale,
Leeds and Liverpool, and Huddersfiekl Canals.
&c., &c. Printed at Rochdale for the author
by J. Hartley, and sold in Bradford, Halifax,
&c., 1816, octavo, pages xiv., 413.
Mr. Ling Roth had an article in the "Halifax
Courier," November 12, 1904, on "Some Tln-
kirown Halifax Explorers," wherein he gives
evidence that JOSEPH FROBISHEfR, American
traveller, was born at Halifax, Old England.
He found the statement as a marginal note
in Mackenzie's Voyages, 1789-93, a book print-
ed in 1801. to be seen in the Halifax Literary
Society's Library. Josleph Frobisher Avas a
fur ti-ader in 1775, and his brother Benjamin,
who had resided at Montreal from 1759, be-
came also pioneer in the same trade. Joseph
married a French lady, and they became very
wealthy, and had a large family. Joseph died
September 10, 1810. aged 62. BENJAMIN had
died April 15th, 1787, and his funeral sermon.
preached by the Re^v. D. C. Delisle, was print-
ed and published. It is dedicated to Messrs.
Frobisher, merchants, though "To perpetuate
the memory of .your late Brother demaude<l not
the exertions of my pen." This was addret-s-
ed to Joseph and Thomas. The latter died
September 12, 1788, aged 41, at Montreal. Mr.
Ling Roth found in the Halifax Registers the
records of the baptisms of these three Canadian
travellers : —
1740, February 18, Benjamin.
1741, March 24, Sally.
1714. June 6, Thomas.
1746, December 29, Eliz.
1748, April 18, Joseph.
11749, December 26, William.
These are all entered as children of Joseph
i'lobisher, ropemaker, Halifax. To this in-
formation, Mr. Hargrove, J. P., Clifton, York,
sxipplied the dates of birth of the four eons,
and added that of Nathaniel, born December
2, 1752, who died December 13, 1799. William
died July 19, 1830. NATHANIEL, whose name
appears on some of the title pages of Watscn's
Halifax, pirated edition, became an eminent
bookseller in York, before 1789, and left de-
scendajits. William remained at Halifax until
his mother's death in April., 1790, when he
settled at Aberford, Avhere he is buried. His
grandchildren now reside at Headingley. Mr.
Joseph H. Frobisher, parish church organist,
Halifax, was son of Richard, of Southowram,
wliose grave may be seen there, dated August,
1825. His connection with the Halifax family
has not been made out.
CXVII.— SOCIETY
REPORTS.
ELLAND CLERICAL SOCIETY.
My friend the late Canon Hnibert printe<l
a history of this Society, pamphlet size, but
I have not seen one. The Society was started
in the time of the Rev. George Burnett, In-
cumbent of Elland, A\ho had been curate with
the Rev. Henry Venn, Vicar of Huddersfiekl,
and they were anxious to aid young men who
were likely to turn out evangelical clergymen.
The meetings were always held at Elland un-
til a Vicar of Eiland arose, long after Mr.
Burnett's death, whose theological sympathies
weie not supposed to have been deeply evan-
gelical. . ,
I have only two of the annual repoi-te at
hand, namely : "Elland Clerical Society.
Annual Report for the year ending April, 1877.
Leeds, 1877, 23 pages, demy octavo. During
tlie year fifteen young men received help from
the Society; three at Oxford, twelve at Cam-
224
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
bridge; the sum amotniting to JCGIO. Tliits
f-ociety aided Samuel ilarsden, wlio became the
tinit luissionei- to Austi'alia and New Zealand,
and Thomas Thomason, who kiboured in India,
and traniilated the Bible into Hindustani.
These, and many since, i-eturnetl to the Society
all that had been expended upon them. Canon
Ciosthwaite, Knaresborough, -was the Treaeurer
in 1877. The donation list from 1777 is printed
and incdudes the names of famous philanthrop-
ists of long ago, including Rev.W. Bomaine, Hy.
Thornton, Wm. Wilberforce, the Earl of Dart-
mouth, John Thornton, of London, Rev. Geo.
Burnett, Mrs. Boverie, Re^-. 'J\ T. (^400 re-
turned expeiiises). Rev. Samuel Settle, Rev. J.
W., India (,£150 returned). Hiss Harrison,
Sheftield, and many more down to 1875, Mrs.
Biizth. Kershaw, Halifax, dglOO. The list of
past members, from the time of Henry Venn,
and hi& curateis John Riland and George Bur-
nett is very interesting and includes several
Halifax Ministers and natives, such as John
Orosse, Vicar of Bradford, Joseph Atkinson,
Cross-stone, Richaxd Ramsden, D.D., Prof, at
Cambridge, Joseph Ogden, Sowerby, Dr. Coult-
hurst, Halifax, James Franks, Sowerby Bridge,
Samuel Knight, Halifax, Christr. Atkinson,
Elland, James Knight, Sheffield, Charles
Rogers, Sowerby Bridge, J. C. Franks, Hud-
dersfield, John Hope, Soiithowram, Fredk.
Russ?ll and J. Gilderdale, Halifax, John Boyle,
Brighouse, Joseph Birch, Brighouse, T. Rid-
ley, Sowerby, D. Meredith, Ellland, Jas.
Gratrix, Armitage Bridge, W. R. Morrison,
Islington, Archdeacon Musgrave, Alfred Brown,
Calverley, &c. John Ellison, Sowerby Bridge,
is the only Halifax name then in membership.
The 1879 Report, Leeds, 23 pages, states that
^486 had been paid towards the fifteen
sti; dents.
The above-named MR. BURNETT, Erland,
was author of a Catechism, but I have not got
a copy.
"Articles of a COW CLUB, established the
13th day of May, 180.5 at the house of Mr.
John Lancaster, Inn-keeper, in Brighouse.
The Lord protect us and Reason be our guide.
Halifax, printed at Jacob's Office, near the
New Market," 1816; 8 pages, small octavo.
The Society or Club was established to raise
a fund for the relief of those members who
may suffer losses (by death, we assume), in
keeping cows. All had to attend the half-yearly
meetings at the Black Swan to pay the half-
yearly dues, and 3d. each for liquor for the
good of the house. A cow-leech was paid to
examine the cows, and attend them in illness.
RASTRTCK SOCIETY FOR PROSECUTING
FELONS. Established Novembe^r 17th, 1806.
The following Rewards will be paid by the
Treasurer of this Society, out of their Fund,
to any Person not being a Member thereof,
who shall give Infoimation, or apprehend any
Person or Persons guiity of the following
Offences, against any Member of this Society,
or conviction of the Offender or Offenders, viz. :
£ s. d.
For Burglary 3 3
Highway or Footpad Robberies ... 3 3
Stealing or Maiming any Horse,
Mare, or Gelding, Cow, Sheep,
Lamb, or Hog 3 3
Wilfully setting Fire to any House
Outhouse, &c 5 5
Cutting Tenters, or taking Wool out
of Yards, &c. 3 3
Stealing Potatoes or Turnips 10 6
Robbing Orchards or Gardens ... 10 6
Breaking Gates, destroying Fences,
&c 10 6
The following Persons are appointed a
GOTilMITTEE to conduct the Affairs of the
Society for the ensuing Year: — Thomas
Aspinal, senior, Wm. Avison, John Clay, Wm.
EiarnshaAv, John Fryer, Jonas Gledhill, Thom-
as Helm, John Hanson, Jonas Wilkinson.
Jacobs, Halifax, Printer.
This quarto poster, 11 inches by 9, required a
journev to Halifax to find a printei-.
BIBLE ASSOCIATION, Brighouse. Eules.
At a Meeting of several friends of the British
and Foreign Bible Society at Brighouse,
March 10, 1819, resolved that a Ladies' Bible
Association of Brighouse, Rastrick, So'uthow-
rani, Lightcliffe and Clifton be formed, &c.,
&c., that Mrs. Holland and Mrs. Clay be pre-
sidents, &c., (fifty eight other Ladies as a
Committee); eight pages, octavo, Holden,
printer. Old Mairket Plactei, Halifax. BibUsis
cost trom 5s. to 13s. 4d., New Testaments Is.
4d. to 3s. 4d.
"The First Report of the Ladies' Bible As-
sociation for Bi-ighouse, Rastrick, Southowram,
Lightcliffe, CUfton, &c." Halifax, P. K.
Holden, 1819, 12 pages; 98 names of ladies,
headed by EHizabeth Clay, and Elizabeth Hol-
land, date October 28, 1819."
The list of subscribers is of local interest.
I have to thank Mr. J. J. Lane for this local
pamphlet.
" Rules and Regulations of the Loval
GEORGE'AN SOCIETY established for the
purpose of aiding and assisting the members
thereof in sickness, old agie, and infirmities."
Halifax, April, 1814, Jacobs' Office, 20 pages
octavo. The Society had been established
^■ebruary 7, 1779, for mutual sick-aid under
the name of the Friendly Society, and new-
rules made September 9, 1793, when the name
was changed as above. The sick grant was
nine shillings per Aveek. and a death or burial
fund existed.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
225-
Rules revised November, 1835 Halifax 1836
BRIGHOUSE YOUNG :\IE!N'R CHRISTIAN
ASSOCIATION. 1st Year's Report, 1871,
Brighouse, 10 pages. Geo. Healey, Treasurer;'
J. Horsfall Ttimer, Secretary. Founded by
the Secretary, October, 1870. Receipts ,£37,
all raised by Tea and Lectures, except ^1. Ex'-
penses i'21 10s. Od. Bible Study, Lodging
House Mission, Lectures by John 'Ashwortli^
of Rochdale, and Arthur Mursell, Sunday
C osing of Public-Houses, &c.
Second Report, 1872, 12 pages, Brighouse.
Jowett. Lectures were given by Lord Wm.
Pitt Lennox and the Rev. Arthur Hall.
Report, 1873, 11 pages, Brighouse, J. S.
Jowett.
BRIGHOUSE TBCVIPBRANCE and BAND
OF HOPE SOCIETY. Fourth Annual Report,
Sh/ove Tuesday, 1867; 8 pages, J. Yates,'
printer.
Report, 1869; 8 pages, Jowett. printer.
Eighth Annual Report of the Brighouse
Temperance Society; February 21, 1871. Brig-
house, J. M. Jowett, 1871, 8 pages.
Brighouse Temperance Festival-. Hymns for
Shrove Tuesday, February 13, 1872, 4 pages.
Jowett, printer.
Ninth Annual Report, same date, 1872, 8
pages, J. S. Jowett, printer. Commercial
Street.
Tenth Report, 1873, 8 pages. Jowett, printer.
BRIGHOUSE MECHANICS' INSTITU-
TION. Established October, 1846. Rules, re-
vised and corrected May, 1870. Brighouse, J.
Yates, Commercial Street, 1870, 8 pages.
Rules, revised and corrected December, 1851.
Brighouse, J. Yatee, 1853, 10 pages.
Report, &c., 1870. Brighouse, Jonas Yates,
1871, 12 pages.
BAILIFFE BRIDGE Sunday School An-
niversary Hymns, August, 1849, four pages,
Bri|;house. W. Siddall.
RASTRICK. Form of Consecration of the
New Burial Ground; Monday, September 3,
1860. Halifax, Whitley and Booth, Crown
Street, 1S60, 8 pages.
BRIGHOUSE WORKING MEN'S READING
ROOM. The Committee will hold a Dog, Pig,
and Poultry Show, September 7, 1867, behind
the Black Bull Inn. Prize list, &c., 3 pages
quarto.
ROYAL INSURANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE
BRIGADE for Brighouse and District. Re-
port for 1872. H. J. Barber, 3 pages.
BRIGHOUSE HEALTH: Annual Report on
the Health of the Borough of Brighouse, m
1893, by Meredith Y^oung, M.B., CM., M.O.H.
Brighouse, 1894. _„„r. ^
ANCIENT ORDER of FORESTERS, Court
Copy Friendly Society. Report of thirtieth
E-xecutive Council, 1863, Halifax Lodge. Hali-
fax. 1664.
Fifty Fourth Annual Report of the British
Schools for Children of All Religious De-
nominations, Great Albion Street, Halifax.
Halifax, T. and W. Birt whistle, 18, Northgate
1867. 12pp. demy 8vo. Wm. Corke, John Holt',
masters. Gives a list of Donors from 1813.
Forty-Fifth Report of the HALIFAX SUN-
D.\Y SCHOOL UNION, April, 1865. Halifax
'!'. and W. Birhwhistle, 1865, 44pp. demy 8vo!
A set of such reports ought to be preserved at
the Free Libranes.
In Halifax Free Library there are: —
(k) HALIFAX SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION :
77th Report, March, 1897.
12.) Boys' Camp at Filev : Report 9th year
1897. ' ^
(3.) First Annual Report of the Committee
of the RAGGEa> SCHOOL, Winding Road,
Halifax, established March, 18.57. Halifax
1858.
(4.) WAKEFIELD DIOCESAN Conference,
1896. Meeting at Halifax, October 21. Report.
(5.) Independent Order of RBCHABITES;
Salfor-1 Union. Seventh Annual Report &c.
1896, Halifax.
v6.) YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAI, SO-
CIETY'': Catalogue of Halifax Show, 1882
(7.) HALIFAX ART SOCIETY:
Catalogue, 1884, Sixth Ebchibition, illustrated.
1885, Seventh „ „
1886, Eighth „ ,,
1888, Tenth „ „
Secretaries would oblige by collecting sets
of such Reports for the public libraries.
BRIDGE END CHAPEL, Brighouse.
" Rules of the Funeral Society belonging to
the Bridge End Independent Sunday School,
Brighouse," four pages, Brighouse, Samuel
Baton, 1834. I believe Eaton was the first
Brighouse printer. " Rules of Bridge End
Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society";
1 page, J. M. Jowett, Commercial Street, Brig-
house. John Marshall Jowett, of the
"Advertiser," Bradford, never resided at
Brighouse. His son John Samuel Jowett work-
ed up, and succeeded to the business.
" Whitsuntide Dialogue," 7 pages, about
1855, on Acts xvii. W. Siddall, printer, Brig-
house.
" Sunday School Anniversary Hymns, Whit-
suntide, 1840,'' 3 pages, Keir, printer; ditto,
1811; 1851. 4 pages, W. Siddall; 1854. Whit-
Monday, four pages, J. Yates, Brighouse.
Hymns for the Opening of the New Independ-
ent Chapel, Wednesday, January 16th, 1856.
Morning, 4 pages; Evening, 4 pages; Mrs.
Suuderland. soloist, at both services. Revs.
Enoch Mellor, M.A.. Halifax, and J. R. Camp-
bell, M.A.. Bradford, preachers. Opening
Hvmns, three sheets, four pages each, January
20th, 1856: Revs. Hy. Allon, Prof. Eraser,
226
HAI.IFAX BOOKS A^D AUTHORS.
Hy. Allon. J. Yates, printer of tliese five
papei-s. Sheets for Whit-Monday and the
■October Sunday School Anniversary appear
continuously.
"Bridge Elnd Sunday School, Brighouse;
Catalogue of Books in the Library." Brig-
house, J. Yates, 1S66, 27 pages.
Bridge Elnd School. Catalogue of Jubilee
Exhibition; Marcb, 1887. Brighouse, J. Hart-
ley 32 pages octavo, mostly advertieementts.
The Schoolroom and class-rooms were well
filled uith curiosities, models, natural history,
handicraft old and modern, pictures, crockery,
■ornithology, photographs*, portraits, autographs,
Bridge End Chapel and other local relics, &c.,
&c.
CXVIII.— NEWSPAPEES AND MAGAZINES.
" The UNION JOURNAL or Halifax Ad-
vertiser," was first issued on February 6th,
1759. It existed about two years, and was a
weeikly paper.
"The HALIFAX JOUENAL" began June
•6th, 1801, and expired February 23, 1811. Its
full title was "The Halifax Journal, and York-
shire and Lanca^shire Advertiser," printed
by Holden and Dowson, Hall-end, four pages
folio, double crown, 6d., the stamp duty being
1^. on each paper. The first issue is dated
■June 6, IBOli. There were five columns on each
page. It mentions the deatii of John Milner,
bookseller, and J. and W. BUTTERWOETH
ask for orders as engra.vei's and copper plate
printers of Bull. Green. I assume they are the
same as the firm afterwards at Leeds, one of
whom published a portly volume entitled "Ad-
ventures of a Minor," and therefore an author
that comes within our range. On July 4, 1807,
J. and B. K. Eogers became the publishers at
6, Lord Sti-eet, Halifax. A copy of the 1801
•Journal is in the Halifax Literary Society's
Library.
There was a WAKEiFIEILD and HALIFAX
JOUENAL in 1812.
HALIFAX COMMEECIAL CHEONICLH
■ commenced July 4, 1829, printed and published
by N. Whitley, Crown Street, four pages, of
five columns, about 2 feet by 18 inches, 7d.,
the Newspaper Stamp Duty being 4d. Messrs.
Whitley and Booth presei've the handpress on
which the paper was printed. Tlie paper only
survived about 79 numbeirs, or about eighteen
months; to December 24, 1830. Its full title
was "The Halifax Commercial Chronicle, and
Yorkshire and Lancashire Advertiser."
The HALIFAX and HUDDEESFIBLD EX-
PEElSS was started in 1831, a weekly paper
Issued on Wednesdays by Wm. Gawthorpe and
Henry Martin. It existed several years.
HALIFAX GUARDIAN, 1st number, Dec.
1st, 1832. .vJE. HOGAETH, a Halifax resid-
ent, was asked to undertake the editorship. He
was author of a. "History of Music" and "T]ie
History of a Village Festival" (lUingworth
Oratorio). The full title of the new paper was
T'le Halifax Guardian, and Huddersfield and
Bradford Atlvertiser," four pages, six columns
each, hand printed by Elizabeth Whitley and
Jolni Booth, Crown Street; price 7d., including
4d. for Stamp Duty, and advertisements Were
taxed. Mr. Hogarth removed to London in
1834, and Mr. F. A. Cronhelm (father of
F.W.C.) took his place as editor.
In 1838 Mr. James Uriah Walker got posses-
sion of the paper, and his brother Mr. Edwd.
Jolin.son Walker became editor. Mr. E. Ley-
land printed the paper about 1836, and in 1837
it was printed in LeC'ds. Mr. J. U. Walker
died in January, 1864, and his brother Edwd.
J.W., in May, 1880, aged 62. In August, 1841,
the paper was increased in size to eight pages
of six columns each, and still further enlarged
in January, 1847, though the price was reduced
from 7d. to l^d. In June, 1855, the cost was
3d., afterwards reduced to 2d., and in Febru-
ary, 1891, to Id. In 1864 Mr. Thos. Jas.
Walker became proprietor, his uncle being
editor. Mr. T. J. Walker died in July, 1888.
There was a HALIFAX EEFOEMBE in 1848,
and I have seen a HALIFAX GAZETTE men-
tioned as an early newspaper.
September, 1842, No. 1. HALIFAX FEEE
FEBSS, published hy Henry Martin, four pages
of three coLumns each. Price one penny
monthly. A copy of the announcement of this
serial, in form a humorous proclamation by
the Hermit of Beacon Hill, the Mo.nk of Clark
Bridge and the Knight of Skircoat Moor, dated
August 11th, is given in Leach's Halifax Al-
manack, 186G. Next month it was announced
as a weekly paper.
The HALIFAX COUEIEE dates from Janu-
ary 8tli, 1853.
The first issue of the TODMOEDEN ECHO
was on March 16, 1887, and the last on Sep-
tember 18, 1889.
The TODMOEDEN ADVBETISEE was estab-
lished on November 'sth, 1853, and after 46
monthly issues became a weekly, as the TOD-
MOEDHN and HEiBDBN BEIDGE ADVEE-
TISEE, August 8th 1857.
The TODMOEDEN TIMELS was commenced
in 1858, but elsewhere stated as June 14, 1862,
for the first number.
Todmorden had a newspaper for a few
months about 1803 entitled "PLAIN
SPBAKEE." About 1834 J. N. Walton printed
The TODMOEDEN OMNIBUS, but this died
in a few months. In 1840 J. N. Walton printed
the COMEfT, a satirical paper, which
HALIFAX BOOKS AI^D AUTHORS.
only lived for thirteen issues, fortnightly,
the last one being dated January 30,
1841. The TODMORDEIN POST, afterwards
called the TODMOEDEIN TniBS, was started,
and also another HEiBDEN BRIBGEi CHRON-
ICLEi; all short-lived. The TODMORDEN
AND DISTRICT NEWS had a better fate. Its
first issue was July 2, 1869. On January 7
1854, the HEBDEN BRIDGE CHRONICLE
was first issued, the Rev. Sutcliffe Sowden
being the chief literary contributor. It was
issued monthly by W. Garforth, printer, and
died with the issue for December 6th, 1856.
Sutcliffe Sowden was brother of his successor
Canon George So>\vden, both natives of Sut-
cliffe Wood Bottom, near Hove Edge.
The BRIGHOUSEl and RASTRICK CHRON-
ICLEi was a monthly paper, one penny, first
issued in January, 1859, by Jonas Yates,
quarto size. I foolishly allowed my copies to
be destroyed when I went to reside for two
years in Loudon in 1865. The newspaper had
been defunct a fdw years then probably.
I have before me a copy of Vol. II. of the
HEBDEN BRIDGE TIMES and CALDEK
VALE GAZETTE, July 5, 1832, to June 27,
1883. The first number was issued July 6,
1881. The pub isher was John Firth Ashworth;
12 pages, four columns each. Id., the first 52
numbers were ^d. each. It is replete with
matters of local interest, poetical, historical,
topical.
The BRIGHO'USE; NEWS was established by
John Samuel Joavett, but bore his father's im-
print John Marshall Jowett. It was issued as
a half-penny paper, monthly in 1868, Avhen my
set starts Numbers 1 to 14 I have not got,
nor numbers 136-7-8. Number 139, July 2,
1870, begins the weekly series, one-halfpenny,
four pages of four columns each. After August
19, 1871, thle size of the paper was enlarged.
The BRIGHOUSE ECHO was established by
Mr. John Hartley on June 21st, 1887.
The BRIGHOUSE GAZETTE was started by
A. B. Bayes, printer, 80, Briggate, Brighouse.
He also issued Brighouse Time Tables.
Monthly, small octavo. No. 1, July, 1872;
mostly advertisements; 16 pages, gratis. From
No. 3 I contributed to a page monthly of
Memorabilia. Mr. Bayes, and his brother A.
W. Bayes, artist, London, are natives of Lang-
field, and were formerly supporters of the
Friends' Meeting, Todmorden.
Jowett's Brighouse Railftvay Guide and
Monthly Diary. 37, Commercial Buildings,
Brighouse, December, 1886.
Brighouse Free Press; Messrs, Ashworth.
CAW'l HRA WOODHEAD was born in E^land
Road, Brighouse, in 1859. I knew him as a
scholar at the Church Day School and as an
apprentice at the "Brighouse News" Of&ce.
In 1881 he went to Natal, "where he eventually
rose to the post of editor of the " Natal
Mercury," in succession to Sir John Robinson,
who became the first Prime 3Iinister of the
colony,
SIR THOMAS BROOKE^HITCHING, born
at Halifax in 1859, was apprenticed to the
printing trade at EUand. He removed to Lon-
don and has served as Sheriff of the city.
THE COMMERCIAL COU^EGE MAGA-
ZINE; June and July, 1861. Walker, printer,
George Street, Halifax; demy octavo, 32 pages,
with plate of fanciful autographs of Dickens'
characters, and a plate of marching music. It
seems that two ephemeral publications pre-
cedeil tliis Magazine, as the "first part of a
history of Making Place Hall Commercial
College appeared in a recent number of our
Magazine." In the second part given in this
number we have notices of Soyland (South-
land), Bay tings, Ripponden, Making Place
(1713), Tiin Bobbin and the Queen of the
Booth, Sammy Hill, Jonathan Akroyd.
No. 10, December, 1862, and January, 1863.
3d., with illustrated lithographed cover; pages
219-234, and eight lithographed plates, also,
prospectus, 16 pages; printed by Walker,
" Guardian Office," Halifax. William Dove,
principal, with twenty resident masters.
Terms, ten to twelve guineas quarterly; with
some extra charges. There were no 'day
scholars,' and the accommodation provided for
170 resident pupils. The boys formed them-
selves into captains and managing committees.
No. 16, Dtecember, 1863, and January, 1864.
3d., 48 pages, with seven lithographed plates
and Prospectus, 16 pages. Walker, George
Street, Halifax, printer. Mr. Dove's name will
be written large when the history of education
is written for Halifax parish. He was buried
at Hartshead many years after the date of
this number, and Mr. T. K. Holdsworth, who
had a private school at Brighouse in succes-
sion to Mr. Lundy, removed to Making Place.
ST. ANNEX'S, SOUTHOWRAM, QUARTER-
LY MESSENGEiR AND REICORD, I have
only two numbers of this serial, No. 12, July,
1873, and No. 13, October, 1873, Id. each, 8
pages, demy octavo. The Rev. Wm. Laycock,
incumbent, -was the editor. My article was en-
titled "St. Anne's and Two of the Curates, —
Gamaliel Marsden and Christopher Taylor. It
was printed in Brighouse. My friend, the
aged incumbent, was a very broad-minde<l
man towards Nonconfoi-mists.
"JACOB HALIFAX." No. 4, August, 1871,
Id., quarto, pages 49-64. Halifax, J. Simpson,
printer, Crossley Street. A local skit.
LIGHTCLIFFE PARISH MAGAZINE.. Vol.
viii., June, lS92, Id., qiaarto, Halifax, Wliitley
and Booth, 1892 four pages besides advertise-
228
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
ments. Rev. Alex. J. Harrison, B.D., Cantaur,
Vicar, John S. Barry, M.A., John Berry, M.A.,
curates.
THE NONCO'NFOEMTST MONTHLY. Vol.
v., No. 54. Brighouse, March, 1897; quarto
16 pages. Mr. Caldwell condensed from my
Hey wood's Diaries, &c., a life of Oliver Hey-
wood, in a series of Chapters. John Hartley,
printer, "^'Efcho" Office, Brighouse and Elland.
I would like to see a compliete set of this serial.
THE HALIFAX AND DISTEICT CON-
CfREGATIONAL MAGAZINE. Vol. I., 1888-4.
Halifax, F. King, demy octavo, (monthly num-
bers from March, 1883,) iv., 288 pages. Rev.
G. S. Smith, editor.
Vol. IL, 1884-5, iv., 288 pages. F. King.
Vol. III., 1885, iv., 266 pages. F. King.
Vol. IV., 1886, iv., 284 pages. F. King.
Vol. v., 1887, iv., 288 pages. F. King,
printer; Rev. A. Craven, Wyke, editor.
Vol. VI., 1888, iv., 288 pages, Rothera and
Tattersall, printers, Crown Street.
Vol. VII. 1889, iv., 284 pages, Rothei'a,
printer. This was the last issue.
■ THE' NORTHGATEi-EIND CHAPEDL. MAGA-
ZINE. No. 1, January, 1886. Rev. F. E..
Millson, editor. No. 7, July, 1886. None
others issued, 112 pages, demy octavo. Printed
by John Nicholson, Northgate, Halifax.
LOCAL MAGAZINE, two numbers only, see
J. Horsfall Turner.
" THE HALIFAX GOOD TEMPLAR'S
GUIDE," August, 1875, Id.. W. B. Woodrwv,
Hanson Lane, printer, 24 pages, 32mo, quarterly.
JOHN HARTLEY'S YORKSHIRE CHRIST-
MAS ANNUAL, 1879; imperial octavo. 6d.,
Wakefield, W. Nicholson and Sons, 66 pages;
prose and verse. I am not aware whether any
more appeared after this first Annual.
I would like to hear from anyone who will
amplify the descriptions of this article.
CXIX.— ALMANACKS.
HENRY LEACH, Registrar of Births and
Deaths, Halifax, was editor of a very useful
Almanack, which commenced before 1865. I
i-egret I have only two of his issues, and should
be pleased to Learn where others may be seen.
"The Halifax Almanack and Parish Y'ear
Book for 1865. Contents, fifty headings. Pub-
lished by Hy. Leach, 3, St^annary Road, Hali-
fax. 3d., 144 pages including advertisements.
The permanent value of this Year Book is the
Ivistorical or chronological matter that crowds
its pages. It forms the basis of a much-de-
sired volume— The Annals of Halifax Parish.
'^F printer's name does not appear.
The 1866 issue, 144 pages. Compiled by Hy.
Leach, was printed by Copley Ramsden, North-
gate, ;id.
The HALIFAX PARISH ALMANACK was
first issued in 1870. but T have on y the one for
1873, being the Fourth Year of Publication,
Halifax, F. King, Northgate, 3d. Only pages
i. — xxiv. are local or of local value, the rest
being a London Almanack.
ARTHUR W. BICKEiRDlKE.
Th' Beacon Almanack for 1873, in the York-
shire Dialect. Halifax, Ashworth, 1873, 56
pages. This is announced as the first issue,
and in it Th' Beacon Christmas Annual in the
Yorkshire twang, 1872, by Arthur W. Bicker-
dike, Prescott Street, was advertised. Prose
and verse are interspersed. The 1874 issue I
failed to get ; 1875 has 48 pages, printed at the
"Times" Office, Halifax, 3<.l. 1876, 49 pages.
The Dewsbre BACK AT MOOIN OLMENAC,
an t'West Ridin Historical Calendar for t'year
1865, (Yorkshire Dialect) be Mungo Shoddy,
Esq., B.M.A. Price a penny. Detwsbury, Wm.
Bentley, /16 pageis. This sierial began with
1863, I presume, as the issue for 1872 is given
as the 'tenth year of publication.' Dewsbury,
Bentley, 16 pages.
1875 was the next issue, 'the eleventh year'
so it seenis there were no ijublications for
1873-4. Brighouse, printed for the proprietor
by J. S. Jowett. 37, Commercial Buildings, 16
pages. For 1876, the twelfth year, the word
Dewsbury disappears from the title; Brig-
house, wholesale at th.e "News" Office. 16
pages.
1877, thirteenth year, published at Brighouse,
yet bears the imprint of Edgar Barker, Cleck-
heaton. 1878, fourteenth yeiar, wholesale at
the Brighouse "News" Office.
" The BRIGHOUSE ECHO HISTORICAL
ALilANACK," the title on some copies being
"The Elland Echo." First Year of Publica-
tion 1899, Id. Published by John Hartley,
"Echo" Office, Brighouse. Mr. Hartley, my
old schoolmate, was apprenticed to Jonas
Yates, printer, at the "Chronicle" Office, Brig-
house. After working some years in Spen
Valley he returned to Brighouse and establish-
ed the "Eicho," a weekly newspaper. Besides
the London printed Almanack inserted, there
i'^ the new feature of zincograph portraits of
the district councillors, &c., and views of
buildings. With these portraits the permanent
interest of each issue is maintained. I pre-
sume the Elland edition will have differfnt
portraits from the Brighouse one. I have the
Elland edition for 1899, and the Brighouse
editions for 1900-1-2-3-4-5-6, each year the
local matter, including a chronology, increas-
ing in bulk and value.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
22»
CLOCK ALMANACK.
Next to the Pogmoor Almanack by Tom
Tre.ldLehoyle, of which I have a fairly good
set, no Yorkshire annual has achieved such
popularity as the Clock Almanack, indeed for
some years it has placed Tom TreddlelioyJe (C.
Rogers, of Barnsley,) in the shade.
" Time works wonders. The Halifax Original
Illuminated Clock Almanack, 1865, containing
a Chronological Table in rhyme, &c., &c.,
edited by .JAMES BLANT)." 3d., printed for
Alfred Wilson, hatter, at the Illuminated
Clock, 14, Corn Market, by T. J. and F.
Walker, George Street, Hahifax. Rhyme is
the predominant feature of .Tames Ii)iin<;'s
efforts. AVhether one •\vas issiied tor 1866 or
not, 1 do not know.
" The Halifax Original Hhiminated Clock
Almanack, 1867, in the Yorkshire Dialect, by
JOHN HARTLEY." I have an imperfect
copy of this — the first issue of Wilson's Clock
Alnranack by John Hartley, the Yorkshire
Dialect Writer, prose and verse, printed by
Walkers (T.J. and E.) at the "Guardian"
Office, Hiilifax. and I lack a copj- of the
second, issued for 1868. The 1869 Almanack,
price 3d., to be had of Mr. C. Wilson, II-
himinated Clock, 14, Corn Market, was also
printed by Walkers, 48 pages. The cover for
1870 has the well-known coloured illustrations
with the clock bearing the words "Wilson,
Hatter," 56 pages, printed by Walkers. That
for 1871 Avas printed by Walkers, but the one
for 1872 by W. Nicholson and Sons, Halifax,
for Charles R. Wilson, The Illuminated Clock,
Corn Market, 52 pages. Wm. Qyles and Son,
Bradford, printed the 1873 issue, and EDMUND
HATTON was the editor, 52 pages. His name
appears on the 1874 Almanack as editor, 52
pages; Byles, Bradford. Mr. Hatton resided
at Bradford. The 1875 issue bears not the name
of an editor; 52 pages, B.yle3, Bradford. The
same applies to the 1876 Almanack.
In 1877 the same illustrated cover appears
but the clock reads "John Hartley's," instead
of "WiLson, Hatter," and is given as "by
John Hartley," 52 pages, but still printed at
Bradford. This was the 11th year of publica-
tion, but they ignore Bland's issues. The
printers for 1878 were W. Nicholson and Sons.
Wakefield, wbo acquired the proprietorship
and issue the serial annually, at the same
price, 3d. The associations of John Hartley
and Nicholsons with Halifax ceased about 1873.
I have copies for the years 1879 to 1885, but
I lack the one for 1886. From 1887 Almanack
to the present, I have failed to get 1889, 1890,
1892, 1894-5-6, and all after 1897 except 1902,
which contains 64 pages.
TODMORDBN AND HBBDEIN BRIDGE
HISTORICAL ALMANACK. This is the most
complete Almanack series, covering thirty-six
issues, of which 1 have a full set, that Halifax
parish has produced. The first number is an-
nounced to the public from Todmorden, Dec.
1, 1865, by W. Barker and J. Firth. They
were associated in publishing a Guide to
Hardcastle Craggs, as well. This first issue
has sixty pages, and is replete with local in-
formation including a historical chronology.
The second issue, — for 1867, sixty-three pages,
printed at the "Advertiser" Office, Todmorden,
for W. Barker and J. Firth, 3d. ['J'he Todmor-
den and Ilebden Bridge Advertiser, after an
existence of forty-six monthly issues, that is
from 1853, became a weekly journal in August.
1857.] The Almanack for 1868, third year, was
the same size, price; and had the
same printer and proprietors. The
fourth issue, for 1869, has a frontispiece
of the Fielden Monument. The sixth issue,
1871, bears the names of Barker and Dawson,
Rise Lane, for Barker and Firth. There were
no issues for 1872 and 1873; the seventh, (that
for 1874), was printed by T. Dawson, Rise Lane,
for Firth and Dawson. Mr. Barker had mean-
time died, March 4, 1/873. He leamt printing
under Mr. R. Chambers, Todmorden, and was
the moving spirit in establishing the
"Advertiser." He also gave the practical
energy in piinting the Almanacks, but took
no part in their literary production. The 1875
issue bears the same publishers' names, but
1876 simply says T. Dawson, and has a frontis-
piece portrait of James Hardman, and the
issues grow gradually thicker. The frontis-
piece for 1877 is a portrait of Thomas Fielden.
engraved plate copy; T. Dawson, Rise Lane.
Grimston Park is the subject of the plate for
1878; T. Dawson, Oxford Street. For 1879
issue the plate represents Edwd. Lord. The
Almanack for 1880, and some, if not all after-
wards, were also sold in a better binding, with
clotii covers, 144 pages including advertise-
ments. This is specially a Bronte volume,
with illustrations. Most of the s-ucceeding
volumes have frontispiece portraits. In 1885
the pages were increased to 160. In the 1897
volume there are several plates of excellent
portraits, and this was continued up to the
36th year of publication, 1903, price 3<1.
1 am told that the Almanacks for 1904
and 1905 have not been issned. The
37th issue appeared for 1906. To indicate the
numerous Yorkshire historical items and bio-
graphies would take much space.
The chief featiare of the To<lmorden and
Hebden Bridge Almanack was the biography
of local public men; that of the next series of
Almanacks, as follows, is local history.
230
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
" The 'Halifax Guaitlian' Historical. Alinau-
ack and Illustrated Literary Companion, price
2d. Printed at the 'Guardian' Office, Halifax,
George Street. I am sorry I have not a copy
of the first number, 18D2, but I have the rest,
vvSth some duplicates, to li905. If not the
editor, Mr. J. H. Ogden is a considerable con-
tributor to its pages, especially the local
history topics. Of the 136 pages, for 1893, 56
of thom are London printed matter. The
speciality of this issue i^ in the local subjects
ranging "between 1800 to 1810; that for 1894
ranges from 1829 and 1830; for 1895 the chief
items date 1831 to i:S33; and a few local por-
traits, with local historical notes are found in
thie 1896 issue; 1897, the principal sxibjeftss,
locally, are the charities, and population
statistics; 1898, although the local matter has
doubled in bulk, and a special Jubilee pamph-
let is added to the London Literary Companion,
the pi'ice remains' at 2d. Local aiticles now
appear, such, as the political history of the
borough, the yeomanry families of Elizabeth's
reign, and chi'onological i-ecord of events. The
jfiSTie for 1899 is a distinct advance to book
form, with special articles of the Civil War
time, and Daniel De Foe; and fairly well il-
lustrated. Bach year from 1900 to 1906 the
size as well as the local historical sketches in-
crease. It now reaches 300 pages including
advertisements and London printed matter.
CXX.— HALIFAX PRINTERS.
P. DARBY:
A Treasury of Maxims and Proverbial Say
ings. Divine and Moral; extracted Partly from
the Sacred Scriptures, and the Writings
The whole so modell'd as to
become a Proverbial Catechism for Youth, and
a Oommon Directory of Converse and Conduct
to All. Halifax: Printed by, and for P.
Darby, and sold by Meissrs. Edwards and
Binns, Booksellers, in Halifax; Mess. Sco-
field and Bamford, Booksellers, in Rochdale;
Mess. Lord and Meggot, Booksellers, in Wake-
field; and Mr. Wood, in Bradford. Mdcclix.
12mo., 51 pages. Introduction dated July 9,
1759. There is no indication of the Author,
but Dr. Doddridge's "Rise and Progress" is
highly commended. Bound up with "A
Treasury," and certainly printed also by
Darby, for the type and ornamental leads are
identical, there is a volume of 100 pages: —
"Invisibles, Realities, Demonstrated in the
Holy Life and Triumphant Death of Mr. John
Janelway, Fellow of King's College in Cam-
bridge. By James Janeway, Minister of the
Gospel. The Tenth edition. To which is added
the Life of the Revd. Mr. James Hervey,
Author of Meditations among the Tombs, &c.
London: Print e<l and Sold by the Booksellers
in Town and Country.
There is no date affixed, but we may safely
give 1759, for Mr. TTervoy died on ChriKtmas
Day, 1758. Sheet B is the first, beginning
with page 3, and the title is a fly-sheet, so it
is possible a separate volume may have been
issued with sheet A. and some variation.
E. JACOBS' Commercial Directory, 175r,\
see T. Turner, in "Halifax Almanack." Also
the "History of Halifax," and "Halifax
Journal."
PETER KENYON HOLDEN, buried at
TJndercliffe, Bradford : Independent Academy,
Idle. Repoit, June, 1816, to June, 1817. Tutor
Rev. William Vint. Halifax, P. K. Holden,
Old Market Place. 1817, demy octavo, 20
pages, and West Riding Map of Independent
i|Oongi->eigationsi. Tliis uhews two at Halifax,
two at Northowram (a temporary split), Eiast-
wood. Booth, Mixenden, Sowerby, Warley,
Stainland, Edland, Brighouse. The precursor
of this Academv was at Northowram from 1782
to 1797.
Report, 1818, Halifax, Holden, 29 pages.
fceport, 1819 ., ,, 38 pages.
Report, 1820, „ ,, 27 pages.
Report, 1821, ,, ,, 29 pages.
Report, 1822, ,, ,, 29 pages.
Report, 1823, „ ,, 31 pages.
Report, 1824, ,, ,, 31 pages.
Report, 1825, was printed by J. Vint, Idle.
There was an addenda of four pages to the
1824 Report bearing on the continuity of the
Rotherhani and Idle Colleges from the North-
owram Institution.
An Address delivered to the Students in the
Independent Academy at Idle, June, 1823, by
Edward Parsons, Leeds; Halifax, P. K. Holden,
1823, demy octavo, 24 pages. Mr. John Hol-
land, Slead House, during these and the fol-
lowing years up to 1845, was the chief sup-
porter from Halifax district. Mr. Adam
Hiold'jn, bookseller, Liverpool, and Mir. W.
Byles, printer, Bradford, claim relationship
with Mr. P. K. Holden.
HOLDEN AND DOWSON :
" The Saints' Everlasting Rest, or A Treatise
of the Blessed State of Saints, &c., by Richard
Baxter, with Allein's Alarm." Halifax,
Holden and Dowson, Hall-end, 1805, demy
octavo, 317 pages, Baxter's portrait, by Ridley,
as frontispiece. Another edition bears date
1809. "A Call to the Unconverted, &c., de-
signed as an Appendix to the Saints' Rest,"
by Richard Baxter. Halifax, Holden and
Dowson, Hall-end, 1806, demy octavo, pages
iv., 104.
HALIFAX BOOKS AJs^D AUTHORS.
231
" A Ciumb lor a Soldier, or ;i Stroke in the
King's Defence," by T. ALLEN. Halifax,
Holden and Dowson, Hall-end, 1807, deniy
octavo, 10 pagas. Allen was a Wesleyan
minister in Halifax.
" An Alarm to the Unconverted Sinners,"
by Joseph Alleine. Halifax, Holden and Dow-
eon, 1807, demy octavo, 9-i pages.
Davies and Booth, Leeds, issued the Saints'
Rest, 1814, and A Call to the Unconverte.(i,
181i5, and the Alarm, 1815, with the eaiiie
frontispiece by R. Baker, Leeds, as one book,
demy octavo, 603 page.s.
Other books printed by Holden were : —
Richard Baxter's Treatise on Conversion.
Halifax, P. K. Holden, Hall-end, and J.
WaJiser, 16, Old Market Place. 1812. 8vo.
Richard Baxter's Now or Never. 91 pages,
8vo.
Richard Baxter's Fifty Reasons why a Sin-
ner ought to Turn to God. 1812. 30 pages,
8vo. Also an edition bears date, 1608, 22 pages.
Thomas Doolittle's Call to Delaying Sinners.
1812, 72 pages, 8vo.
J. LISTER:
" The Wars of the Jews, with the most de-
plorable History of the Siege and Destructinn
ot the City of Jerusalem, and the Burning of
the Temple by the Romans under the command
of Titus Vespasian, &c., and the strange ap-
paritions. Elpitomized from Josephus. In two
books." Halifax, J. Lister, near the Old
Church, 1809, demy octavo, frontispiece p'.ate
by Lawson, pages iv., 216, rude printing, and
two coloure of paper.
From the Halifax press, probably Holden's,
there were issued at this time: —
Tlie Christian Preacher, or Discourses on
Preaching, by Several Etminent Divines, Eng-
lish and Foreign, revised and abridged, with
an Appendix on the Choice of Books, by Ed-
ward Williams, D.D. (See Dr. John Fawcett.)
Halifax (1800.) 12mo.
Meditations and ConteonpLations by the late
Rev. James Hervey, A.M. Halifax, 1801, 12mo.
Naval RecordeT, containing Authentick
Memoirs of the late Lord Viscount Admiral
Nelson, Baron of the Nile, Duke of Bronte,
4c also Memoirs of the moet
illustrious British Admirals and Naval
Uihcers, &c. Halifax, 1806. 8vo.
Infernal Conference, or Dialogues of Devils,
by John Macgowen. Halifax, 1806, 8vo.
T. WALKER, Silver Street, printer:
An Account of the Rise and Progress of the
Unitarian Doctrine in the Societies at Roch-
dale, Newchurch in Rossendale, and other
places formerly in connexion with the late
Rev. Joseph Cooke in ten Letters to a Friend;
by John Ashworth, Rochdale. Halifax, T.
Walker for the Author, 1817, 78 pages, octavo.
This pamphlet had its origin in controversy
respecting grants from Lady Hew ley's trustees,
Wakefield, to followercs of the Rev. Joseph
Cooke, an expelled Wesleyan Minister of
Rochdale district, who died in 1811, aged 35.
Dr. Disney Alexander, of Wakefield in 1817,
previously of Halifax, adds a letter to this
pamphlet, addressed to Dr. Thomson, antiio;-
and poet, (see Halifax Unitarian Chapel
notice,) in commendation of Mr. Cooke. The
work is more theological than historical.
M. GARLICK, printer, Halifax:
A Remarlvable Narrative of the Murder of a
French La.dy, to which is added Religious
Sketches from the Prison and the Convict's
Tale. 1817, 32 pages, demy octavo.
Michael Garlick succeeded to the business
of Jonas Nicholson, bookseller. Crown Street,
Halifax, who died on June 30th, 1808, aged ?,8.
There were issued from one or other of the
Halifax presses at this period the followiv:g
books, all in the Free Library at Hal'fnx: —
Meditations and Contemplations. By JcinGt.
Hervey, A.M. Halifax, 1811. Edition 1815.
Lectures for the Benefit of those Children
who are educated at Sunday Schools. Halifax,
1810, 12mo.
Life of Gustavus Vassa, with Poems. Hali-
fax, 1812.
New Testament with Explanatory Notes by
the Revd. John Wesley, A.M. Halifax, 1822.
Discourse suitable for Young Christian;-, by
the late William Paley, D.D. Halifax, 1821.
Lectures on Modern Socinianism, delivered in
Duke's Alley Chapel, Bolton, Lancashire, by
JOSEPH FOX. Halifax, 1824. [Mr. Fox has
been mentioned as a local author previously.]
Dialogue between a Pilgrim, Adam and Noah,
and Simon Cleophas, containing the Histon*
of the Bible and the Jews. (See Asa Moor.)
Halifax, 1826.
Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius
Antoninus, translated from tlfe original Greek,
with Life, Notes, &c., by the late Rev. R.
Graves, M.A. Halifax, 1826, 12mo.
HARTLEIY AND WALKER:
Watts' Logic, or the Right Use of Reason in
the Inquiry after Truth, &c. 1838, 32ino.,
pages viii.. 352; frontispiece and vignette title.
Life of Lord Nelson, 344 pages. 32mo. Hali-
fax, J. Hartley, printer. Old Market.
N. WHITLEY :
Reasons for Contentment, addressed to the
Labouring Part of the British Public, by the
hite Rev. Wm. Pa.ley. D.D., Archdeacon, &c.
Halifax, N. Whitley, Cro'wn Street, 1831, 16
pages, duodecimo.
WALTON, Todmorden:
"The Trial of the Witnesses of the Resur-
rection of Jesus; by Bishop Sherlock, with
Memoir of the Life of the Author, and an
232
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
account of the controversy that gave rise to
the Tract. Printed for H. Pohlman, Halifax,
by Walton, printer. King Street, Todmorden,
18;i8; 32iuo, pages xviii., 87.
NICHOLSON and WALKEiR. Bunyan's
Pilgrims Progress, New edition, I8OO, pp. viii.,
im.
J. AND J. NICHOLSON, Halifax:
Dialogues between a Pilgrim, Adam, Noah,
and Cleophas, containing the History of the
Bible, &c., from the Dutch. 1806, vii., 337
pages. Also, A New Historical Catechism, 30
pagies, and The Christian (Economy, 30 pages.
(See Asa Moor.)
Macgowan's Infernal- Conference, or Dialogue
of Devils. 1807, 324 pages, octavo.
J. NICHOLSON AND CO.
A Narrative of the Life of John Marrant of
New York, in North America, giving an ac-
count of his conversion when only fourteen.
&c., &c., authenticated by the Rev. W. Ald-
ridge. Halifax, J. Nicholson and Co., 1613.
JOSEPH NICHOLSON .-
"The Constitution of England; or an Ac-
count of the Etnglish Government; in which
it is compaixl with the Eepublican Form of
Ci<over!nmieait, and jthe othe^r ^lonarohies in
Europe. By J. L. de Lolme, advocate, citizen
of Greneva." Halifax, Joseph Nicholson, 1822,
demy octavo, pages xvii., 1-516, with frontis-
piece portrait. This is a good specimen of
Joiseph Nicholson's press. "News from the
Invisible World; '' demy octavo, pages viii., 468.
There is an edition also in the Halifax Free
Library dated 1840, octavo.
"A Remarkable Narrative of the Murder of
a. Friench Lady; to w'hich is added Religious
Sketches from the prison and the Convict's
Ta'e." Halifax, J. Nicholson, 18i4, demy octavo
32 pages.
"Nixon's Original Cheshire Pi'cphecy, in
doggerel verse, published from an authentic
manuscript, to which is now added the
prophecy at large, &c., &c." Halifax, J. NichoL
sion and Co., 6d., 48 pages, 12mo.
"The Servant's Companion, comprising the
most perfect, easy and expeditious methods of
getting through their work; rules for setting
out tables and sideboards, for conducting large
and small parties, witli an Appendix of useful
Receipts and Tables." Halifax, J. Nicholson,
Grove Street, 1835, 48 pages.
Presumably from Nicholson's press, there
are in the Halifax Free Library: —
The Truth of Revelation demonstrated by
An Appeal to Existing Monuments, Sculpture's,
Gems, Coins, and Medals. By a Fellow of
several Learned Societies. Halifax, 1831.
Voyages round the World, by Capt. Jn«.
Cook, with Life, and Appendix, 32 mo. Hali-
fax, 1887.
Pilgrim's Progress fi-om this World to that
which is to come, delivered under the simili-
tude of a dream, &c with the
pilgrimage of his wife and children, by John
Bunyan. In Three Parts. Halifax, 1837, 8vo.
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, with
Notes by Mason. Halifax, 1837, 12mo.
Cabinet of JdiveJs for the Children of God;
by S. Deacon. Halifax, 1838, 48mo.
Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of
Jesus, by Bishop Sherlock, with Life of the
Author. '^Halifax, 1838.
Call to the Unconverted, by Richard Baxter.
Halifax, 1839, 48m 0.
CXXL— HALIFAX PRINTERS, Continued.
NICHOLSON AND WILSON, Cheapside.
" Hydropathy, or the Efffectual Cure of Acute
and Chronic Diseases by the use of Cold Water
only, with directions for its application, as
practised by the Inventor Vincent Priessnitz.
Halifax, 1842, octavo, 60 pages, small
print.
"The Young Man's Self-teaching Grammar
of the Ehglish Language, with very copious
exercises, and a systematic view of the deriva-
tion of words, comprising Anglo Saxon, Latin,
and Greek lists, with the English, Latin and
Greek prefixes and affixes which explain the
etymology of about 7,000 Einglish words ; also
punctuation, style, rhetoric, and a complete
elementary system of composition. By W
NICHOLSON. 3rd edition, ISTicholson' ana
Wilson, Cheapside, Halifax, 1844, 176 pages,
duodecimo. The preface is dated Halifax,
1813. Mr. W. Nicholson's name will be found
amon^i:st the Baptist ministers.
WILLIAM NICHOLSON, Cheapside, Hali-
fax. Frontispieoei to most of these little bcoks:
" The Babes in the Basket, or Daph and her
Charge. 32mo., 1861, pages 160. A Catalogue
of books at the end, eig'ht pages, including
" FIDDLEiR THOMPSON," " FAWXETT'S
JOHN WISE," and some of NICHOLSON'S
own editing «uc.h as Ready Reckoner, Walk-
ingame's Arithmetic, &c.
" The Book to suit the Young, prose and
poetry," no date, 128pp., 64mo.
" The People's Hajidbook of Phrenology,
comprising a short account of its history and
principles, with plain directions for readily
attaining a knowledge of the science; illustrat-
ed, 12mo., no date, 72 pages.
Dream Book, 160 pages, 64mo.
Divine Breathings; 100 meditations, with
account of James Waddell. Preface signed W.
NICHOLSON; author unknow},, 128 pages,
64mo.
IIALIFA-X BOOKS AJsD AUTHORS.
W. NICHOLSON AND SOXh;, Ilaliljix.
"Jesus Calls, or Youth invited to Heaven;
to which is added The Three Boses, or The
Wav that Children enter the Heaven, y
Jerusalem. By W. NICHOLSON, 1864, 158
pages, 32nio., beautifullj' printed and bound.
List of Books, 2 pages.
" The New Family Herbal, comprising a
description and the medicinal virtues of
British and Foreign Plants founded on the
works of eminent modern English and American
writers on the medical properties of herbs; to
which is added, The Botanic Family Physician,
Valuable Medical Receipts, and important
directions on diet, clothing, bathing, air,
exercise, &c., by Matthenv E.obin;:.on, 10th
edition, 1869, 480 pages, 24 coloured plates.
" Nicholson's Walkingame's Arithmetic,
simplified and improved according to modern
advancement in Arithmetical Science, &c., by
Francis Walkingame; improved bv W.
NICHOLSON. Halifax, 1865. Preface dated
by W.N.. 1852, pages 172 and 20.
" Home Thoughts and Public Utterances, on
Eutertainin;,' and Practical Subjects, by Wil-
liam Affleck, Minister of the Gospel, 222 pages,
dedication to Charles Watson, Halifax, a great
disseminator of temperance tracts; preface
dated Yeadon, June, 1866. My good friend and
neighbour was a wonderfully eloquent man,
who cauie from a coal pit to adorn the pulpit.
The following items are in the Halifax Free
Library, and belong to one or other of the
Halifax printers of this date.
Bruce's Travels through part of Africa,
Syria, Egypt, &c. Halifax, 1840, 32mo.
Life of Col. Jas. Gardiner, with the Christian
Warrior, animated and crowned; by Philip
Doddridge, D.D. Halifax, 1841.
Sermon on Entire Sanctification as preached
by Samuel Hick, Halifax, 1844.
Practical View of the prevailing Religious
Systems of Professed Christians, by Wm.
Wilberforce. Halifax, 1846.
Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ by the Rev. John Fleetwood,
D.D. Halifax, 1846.
Simple Sketches, bv the Rev. John Todd,
edited by J. Brace, junr. Halifax, 1846, 32mo.
Sturm's Reflections on the Work of God,
and of His Providence throughout all Nature.
Halifax, 1847.
Memoirs of Mrs. Susan Huntington, late of
B:ston, America, consisting of Extracts from
her Journals, &c. Halifax, 1847.
Holy Dving, by Jeremy Taylor, D.D. Hali-
fax, 1852," 32mo.
Gathered Rose, or the Young Disciple taken
to Heaven, being the Life of Caroline Smeklh,
America; A Narrative of Facts. Halifax, 1852.
Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, selected froia
the most authentic sources. Halifax, 1853,
32mo.
History of the Russian War from its com-
mencement in 1853. Halifax.
Good Seed for the Lord's Field, by James
Smith, Cheltenham. Halifax, 1857.
Life of Joseph, in eight books, by John Mac-
gowan, Halifax, nd.
Richardson's Natural History, an Introduc-
tion to Animated Nature. H!alifax, nd.
Some of the foregoing items are probably
specimens of Milner's press, as well as
Nicholson's. I am not aware that any one has
yet written a history of our Yorkshire Print-
ing Press, although Mr. Davies has set a good
example in his book on the ''York Press."
P. DARBY, mentioned in our last article,
printed : —
"A Pocket Companion for Harrogate Spaw, or
a particu-ar account of the several Medicinal
Springs at or near that place, shewing their
diflferent nature and use towards restoring
health and strength, with directions how to
use the waters with advantage. Published
originally by J. French, M.D., and now revised
by one who has received great benefit by using
the waters," 56 pages, 12mo. Halifax, printed
by P. Darby for J. Wood in Ivegate, Bradford,
1760. Bradford's earliest printea-s were also
named Nicholson, 1785, and no one has elucid-
ated their genealogy. We find that ''Fairfax's
Memoirs," printed at Leeds by Bowling, in
1776, was sold by J. Hartley and G. Nicholson
in Bradford. Both Hartley and Nicholson are
names of Halifax printers. In 1781. John
Nicholson. of Keighley, opened a shop in
Bradford as a bookseller. Nicholson and Son
printed a Sermon by the Rev. T. Lillie, preach-
ed at Keighley in July, 1784, 52 pages, printed
at Bradford (presumably), in 1785. Medley's
Hymn Book, 2nd edition, was printed at
Bradforth, by George Nicholson, 1789. This
George is said to have been the son of John
Nicholson, Keighley, and was born in 1760. I
have not tested this when examining the
Keighley Church Register. He moved his press
to Manchester about 1797, Ludlow 1799, Pougnill
1801, Stourport 1808, and probably Halifax
in 1810," and died at Stourport in November.
1825. Yet there was a firm in Bradford in
1829 bearing the name G. and E. Nicholson,
printers. Besides the Halifax variations we
have at Bradford — John and Son 1783, Nichol-
son 1788, George 1789, John 1794, J. 1816, G.
and B. 1829, and at Manchester G. and Co.,
1797. The Halifax names run — J. and J.
1806, J. and Co. 1813, Joseph 1822, J. 18^4-1835,
Nicholson and Wilson 184>2. Wm. 1861, Wm.
and Sous 1864.
234
HAJLIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
George was the author or editor ot several
works, and he is iiotice.d in a paragraph in the
Diet, or Natioual Hiof,MMphy, by C. W. Sutton.
I hope any reader, wlio knowe the addressee
of the Nicliolson descendants, will place mf*
iu communication ^^ith them. It does not
follow that they are all of one stock, but it
is very probable. Perhaps Mr. Wm. Nichol-
son, at one time Baptist Minister, also author
and' printer, was of anotlier family, or the
Milners were marriage relations.
WM. MILNER, Cheapside.
Lectures on Eevivals of Religion, by Charles
G. Finney. Complete edition. 1849, 32mo.,
pages xvi., 560. It also advertises ''Burnham's
Pious Memorials," "Triumphs of Faith" pub-
lished by Miluer, and two Looks by MR W.
NICHOLSON, namely, "The Sacred" Garland,"
1838, and "Pearls cf Great Price, or a Book
that will suit you. Mr. Nicholson became a
Baptist Minister in Halifax parish. Why
Milner should print for Nicholson 1 cannot
understand unless Wm. Nicholson had no
relationship to the Nicholsons, printers.
" The Life oi Jesus Chiist,"' by the Rev.
John Fleetwood, D.D., 1645, 640 pages, 32mo.
Vei-y neat and cheap "work, with frontispieces
and double title pages.
" The Death of Abel, in Five Books. From
the German of Gtssner." 1845, pages xvi., 144.
''The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, cod-
sistiug of One Thousand and One Stories.
Ir39, pages viii., 566
" Todd's Lectures to Children, familiarly 11-
lustratin;jr important truth, by John Todd.
Northampton " 1815, 128 pages.
'■ Divine and Moral Songs tor Children, by
I. Watts, D.D., 1845, 32 pages.
'' Tiler'^i Natural History of Birds, Beasts
and Fishes; pages viii., 476, with Gelder's
•woodcuts. Mr. Tiler was Independent Minister
at Oisett.
" Sturm's Reflections on the Works of God,
and of His Providence throughout all nature,"
1845, pages xvi., 672.
" Tae Pasterns Stories," 158 pj^es, Bewickian
woodcuts.
" A Golden Treasury for the Children of
God, consisting of select texts of the Bible,
with practical observations in prose and verse,
for every day in the year. By C.H.V.
Bogatzky." New edition, revised and correct-
ed, 1845, pages xv., 384.
The Young Man's O-wn Book; a Manual of
Politeness, Intellectual- Improvement, and
Moral Deportment. Halifax, Wm. Milner,
Cheapside, 1845, pages xii., 372, 32mo., frontis-
piece.
Wesley's Christian Perfection. Halifax, W.
Milner, 1845, 125 pages.
MlLNEfl{ AND ( UMPANY, Hiilifa.x.
" The Birthday Present, and other Stories;
by Maria Ed;.^ewoith; Halifax, no date, 160
pages.
MILNER AND SOWEiRBY, printers, Ha ifax.
Dainty, cheap volumes; frontispieces, and
double title pages:
" True Riches, or Wealth without Wings, a
Tale for the Rich and Poor," by T. S. Arthur,
no date, 32mo., pages viii., 152. A Catalogue,
18 pages, is added of books printed by this
him.
'• The Cottager's Kitchen, Fruit and Flower
Gardens; directions lor management, by J.
H. Ciark"; 1866, pagf^i 446; and an eight-page
list of books.
" Scientific Dialogues, for Young People, in
wliich the. Natural and Elxperimental philos-
ophy are fully explained, by the Rev. J. .Joyce,
complete, with 200 woodcuts, 1866, 576 pages.
Dairyman's Daughter by Legli Richmond.
I851i, Wm. Milner, printer, 128 pages, 61mo.
Heart and Hand, or Triumphs of Mutual
Love, 1862, 128 pages, 64mo.
Religious Cjurtihip. 1859, pages viii., 312.
History of the Russian War, 1853-6, 1856;
Milner and Sowerby, printers, 448 pages, 32mo.
The compiler dates the preface from Halifax,
June, 1856. Besides the usual title there axe
the engraved frontispiece and tit e page.
Emblems Divine and Moral by Francis
Quarles. 1857, 319 pages, 32mo., numerous
vignettes ; poetry.
" Buffon's Natural History," 384 pages, with
wooilcuts. "The Cottage Library" Series. In
the list of books issued by them appear some
Halifax works, e.g.. HOYLEi'S Games, FAW-
OETT'S Advice to Youth, NELSON'S Journal,
FAWCETT'S Christ Preciou.j, ROBINSON
CRUSOE, &c.
■'Paul and Virginia, from the French of St.
Pjerre." 1853, 115 pages.
" Infernal Conlerence, or Dialogues of Devils,
concerning the many vices which abound in
the social, civil and religious world, by the
Rev. John Macgowan, V.D.M., London." 1865,
336 pages, portrait.
'' Token for Children; the Lives of Young
Children," by Rev. Jas. Janeway. Halifax,
1860, ItiS pages, 64nio.
' ' The House of the Seven Gables, by Na-
thaniel Hawthorne," 1855, pages vii., 376; list
of books, six pages.
'' Solitude : by Zimmerman, with Life of the
Author," 1853, 451 pages.
" The Book of Family Woi-ship, by the
Author of 'The Sacred Harp,'" &c.. Dedica-
tion dated Dublin, 1834, J.M.L.; pages xv.,
236; list of books, 3 pages.
HALIFAX BOOKS A.\D AUTHORS.
235
"The Youn},' Man'ii Book of Amusements,
coiitalnin;,' the most iiiteieeiia;; and instructive
experiments, popukar tricki and chani^jes in
cards, and the art of making fireworks; 1852,
384 pages. Wm. Milner only on the Colophon.
'■ Tae Works of Fl.avius Josephus, the learn-
eJ and authentic Jewish Historian, and cele-
brated warrior; to which are added Three
Dissertations concerning Jesus Christ, John
the liaptist, James rhc Ju«t, God's Command
to Abraham, &j., trans ated by William Whis-
ton, A.M., Cambridge. Cumplet*- in one vo-
lume 1852, imperial octavo, pages vii., 710,
in doubl? columns, a fine specimen of the
Halifax press.
Fenimnre Cooper's "Last of the Mohicans; a
narrative of 1757," 4-18 pages. 32mo.. with
catalogue of books printeJ by them, 32 pages,
amongst which I only notice MuiTay's Gram-
mar, UOBINSGN CRUSOE (octavo), Tiler's
Natural History, Walker's Dictionary uith
10.000 additional words, by Francis R. Sowcr-
by, ROBIN HOOD'S Gar and. Cook's Voyages,
Eokebv, FAWCETT'S Christ Precious, Hoyle'd
Games, NELSON'S Journal, W. NICHOL-
SON'S E(ok that will .suit you. Life of Mrg
Fletcher, Rays of Gold, by REV. W. WAL-
TERS (of Halifax), and FAWCETT'S Advice to
Youth, that may ba classed among it York-
shire books.
"The Tutor's Assistant: being a Compen-
dium of Practical Arithmetic, and a complete
question book, containing, &c." By Francis
Walkmgame, 179th eaition, corrected. Hali-
fax, Milner and Sowerby, 1854, octavo, 192
pages.
" Elisha. by the Rev. F. W. Krum'uacher,
D.D., Elberfield, translat<>d bv J D. Haas;"
with portrait. Halifax, Mi.'ner and Souerby,
18 >4. pages iii., 377, octavo
CXXTL— METHODIST LITEEATURE.
WILLIAM HATTON (Lightcliffe).
'' A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress
of the Local Preachers and local preaching
among the Methodists; with their abi'ities
for the work and general. usefulness; to-
geither with a few thoughts addressed to
those who are about to engage or who have
lately engaged in that important work: by
William Hatton. The profits, if any, will
be given to the Methodist Missionarj- Society.
Leeds, Ekiward Bajnes. One Shilling, octavo,
72 pages. The preface is dated Prospect
House, near Halifax, November 10, 1817.
There' is an "Addenda to W. Hatton's Local
Preacher, occasioned by Remarks made upon
that pamphlet," 8 pages, printed by R.
Sugden, Halifax. This is dated six weeks
later than the former. In the preface to the
first pamphlet Mr. Hatton states tliat he
wrote more largely on the subject eome years
before, and this is the substance of the manu-
script. The pamphlet is exceedingly rare, — I
do not remember seeing another copy, but
the pamphlet I shall describe next is probably
rarer etil. I sought it inces^ntly for forty
years, ami at last met with a copy at Prestx)n
for 2s. 6d. It was "A Sketch of Metho<iiKm
in Halifax and its Vicinity, from its (om-
mencement in the year 1741, to the present
period, 1824. "Better late than never.'' By
W. Haito:i. Halifa.K, Thomas Walker, 1824,
12mo., 3G pages. The preface is dated Hali-
fax, May 30, 1824, in which he states he got
the idea from EVeret's "Methodism at Shef-
field.' Jolm Wesley's first visit to Halifax
was on June 2n-l, 1742, at the invitation of
Mrs. Holmes, Smith-house, in Lightcli(;e,
where he preached. She built a house lor the
Moravians, adjoining Smith House. Mr.
Wesley visited Dr. Legh, Vicar of Halifax,
and returned to Smith House. His other
visits are recorded, namely February, 1746. to
Skircoat at the invitation of a society estab-
lished by Christr. Hopp-er and John Bennet;
1/747, Skircoat; 1748, Skircoat and Halifax
Cross; 1753, Heptonstall ; 1755, Todmorden
and Heptonstall; also ihvood; 1757, Halifax
and Heptonstall; 1759, Stainland and Hali-
fax; 1761, Elwood and Halifax; 1764, Hepton-
stall and Halifax; 1766, Ewood, Ha.ifax,
Heptonstall; 1770, Halifax, and Hoohole,
near Mytholmroj'd ; 1772, Ewood, Heptonstall
and Halifax; (He stabes that Mr. Giimshaw's
widoiv had married Mr. Lockwood, and her
sister was the relict of Mr. Sutcliffe. The
statement is different in the life of the Rev.
John Crosse;) 1774, Halifax Church, Hepton-
stall Church, Ewood, Smith House; 1776,
Halifax; 1773, Halifax, Heptonstall, Ewood;
1781, Greetland; 1782, Heptonstall, Halifax;
1784, Greetland, Halifax, Heptonstall; 1786,
Halifax, Heptonstall, Greetland; 1788, Hali-
fax, Sowerby Church; 1789, his last visit to
iHalifax. Mr. Weisley was *in Yorkshire at
many other times when he did not include
Halifax in his rambles. In August, 1767. he
preached in White Chapel yard to a vast
crowd, and proceeded to Daw Green, Dews-
bury, where twenty thousand are said to have
been present to hear him. The incumbent of
White Chapel, Cleickheaton, Mr. Eastwood,
was one of several clergymen in the district
between Hawoi-th. Keighley, and Bingley on
the north and Dewsbury and Huddersfield on
the south, who assisted the Methodists. MR.
KASTWOOD. a Halifax man of whom little
is known, extended his preaching excursions
23(J
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
to Methodist Societies as far as "Mr. Priest-
ley's, Binroyd, Norland, wheif every Whit-
Momiay for some years lie preached to niu.ti-
tudes in the early part of Methodism." At
and near a house in Ward's Eiid, Halifax, Geo.
Whibcfield preached once or ofteuor, and MIbb
Boisauquet, of Batley, afterwards the wife of
the Eev. J. W. de la Fletcher, held meetings
tliere.
John Hatton, of Ligrhtoliffe, presumably
William's father, became a convert under
John Nelson in 1741!, and was an in-
tiuential Methodist the rest of his
life. A memoir of him appears in
the Arminian Magazine, 1793, and anecdotes
concerning him in W. Hatton's book, pp. 4,
29. There is very little more in this pamphlet
than the record of Wesley's visits, besides a
list of the preachers from 1785 to 1824.
'' A Reply to the Rev. John Cockin occasion-
ed by his severe reflections ou an extract from
the address of the Methodist Missionary
Society for the Halifax District; to which
is added a supposed Dialogue at Sea between
Twenty-eight Missionaries of the Calvinian
and Two of the Arminian Persuasion. By W.
Hatton, one of the Committee who drew up
the Address." Second edition. Leeds, J.
Capes, 1815, 6d., demy octavo, 34 pages. The
advertisement to the second edition is dated
Leeds, July, 1B15.
The first Halifax preiaching house was built
in li752 at a cost of <£30'0, advanced by the
Rev. Wm. Grimshaw, of Haworth, and Wil-
liam Greenwood, of Mixeuden; the trustees
being Titus Knight, Thomas Dickinson, &c.
This building was turned into cottages (one
of which was occupied by Jonathan Savile in
1824), when the second chapel was built in
1775, on land purchased from George Stans-
fiekl, Leeds. The new ohapel was enlarged in
1812.
J. U. WALKER, sou of Thomas Walker,
printer, wrote: "A History of Wesleyan
Methodism in Halifax and its Vicinity from
its commencement to the present period."
Halifax, Hartley and Walker, 1836, small
octavo, pages viii., 279. This is a worthy
history of Halifax Methodism up to the date
of its publication. Dare no one tackle the
woik of the past 70 years? Amongst these who
had entered the ministry seventy years ago
there were from Halifax,— SAMUEL HODG-
SON JOSHUA KEIIGHLEIY, MATTHEW
LUMB, JOHN DENTON, ROBERT CROW-
THBR (died 1833 at his brother Isaac's,
Rochdale), JONATHAN CROWTHER. SAMU-
EL BROADBENT.
William Buck'ey Haigh. Leeds, in 1830,
published a "Synopsis of Wesleyan Methodism
in Yorkshire," 50 pages, printed at Leeds. In
it he states that Halifax became the head of
a circuit in 1785, "and is now a District town";
Halilax (727 members), lilingfuorth (110), El-
laud (113), Soutliowram (265), Ovenden (126),
Blackmires (48), Mount Tabor (57), Pellon (0),
Leu Lane (12), Dam Head (16), Skircoat Green
(43), Bank Tup (0;, Park Nook (0), Upper Edge
(32), SalteihebbLe (34), Cinder HUls (15), Walter-
cLougli (0), Cromwell Bottom (.0), Lee Bridge
(0), Booth-town (0). Sowcrby Bridge became
the head of a circuit in 1812: Sowerby Bridge
(580 memb?rs), Greetland (100), Ripponden
(175), Sowerby (90), Mill Bank (26), Mount
Pleasant (0), Holywell Green (0), Stainland
(130), Woodhead (0), King Cross (0), Highroad
Well (0), Kittymoor (0), Barkisland (0).
Todmorden became the head of a circuit
in 1799. Most of its preaching stations eeem
to be in Yoikshire : Todmorden (246 members),
Heptonstall (250), Hebden Bridge (220), My-
tholmroyd (210), Luddenden (160), Rodwell-end
(70), Mankinholes (90), Blaokshawhead (50),
Deen Chapel (0). Thorns Greese (26), Lane
Bottom (0), Smithy Stead (0), Stones wood-
bottom (0), Clough Foot (0), Under bank (0),
Cross-ends (0), Field Hirst Mill (0).
Brighouse (152), Lightcliffe (0), Hipperholme
(0), weire with Cleckheaton in 1830.
The Halifax Circuit Ministers, 1785-1829,
lieie : —
1785 — John Allen, Thomas Johnson.
1786— John Allen, Alexr. Suter.
1787 — John Good^vin, Jon. Parker.
1788— John Goodwin, John Shaw.
1789 — Wm. Thompson, John Shaw.
1790— Wm. Thompson, Jos. Ehtwistle.
1791— John Pawson, Jos. Ebtwistle.
1792 — John Pawson, Robert Lomas.
1793 — Chas. Atmore, Robert Lomas (Great Re-
vival Year).
1794— Chas. Atmore, George Gibbon.
1795— John Pritchard, George Gibbon.
1796— Wm. Thorn, Joseph SutclifPe.
Kilhamite disturbance; New Connexion
established.
1797— Thos. Taylor, Eobt. Miller.
1798— Thos. Taylor, Joseph Collier.
1799— Geo. Highfii'ld, John Booth.
1800— Geo. H]glfie!d, Joseph Drake.
1801-2- James Bogie, Jas. M'Donald.
1803— Jolm Gaulter, John Crosby.
1804 — The sahio two and James Needham.
1805— J. Sutcliffe, Zech. Yewdall, Jas. Needham
1806— J. Sutcliffe Zech. Yewdall, Wm. M'Kit-
trick.
1807— Alex. Suter, Thos. Bartholomew, W.
M'Kittrick.
180S— Alex. Suter, Thos. Bartholomeiw, Henry
S. Hopwood.
1809— Jonathan Crowther, John Dionoaster,
Henry S. Hopwood.
HALIFAX IJOOKS AND AU'lHORS.
237
1810 — Jouathan Ciowth<?r, John Doncaster,
Abrm. E. Tarrer.
1811>— Jabez Bunting, Wm. Leach, M. Dawee,
(Zech. Yewdall, supem., 1811 to 1828)
1812— The same four.
1813 — Chae. Atmore, Thos. Vasey, junr., Hy.
Ransou.
1814 — Chas Atmore, Thos. Vasey, junr., Robt.
Martin. (Besides Z. Ye^wdall there was
Alex. Suter at Halifax as Supernnmer-
ary, 1814-6.)
1815— Cleland KirJipatrick, Mark Day, Robt.
Wood.
1816— Cleland Kirkpatrick, Mark Day.
1817-8— Robt. Hopkins, Joseph Fowl»r.
1819-20— Wm. Miles, Cuthbert Whiteside.
1821-2-^ohn James, Eldward B. Lloyd, W.
Sutcliffe, sup. 1822.
18:i3— John J;imes, Wm. Theobald.
1824-5-6— Tlieoph. Lessey, W. Vevers, and Geo.
Chambers in 1825.
1827-8 — J. Waterhouse, Geo. Marsland.
1829 — J. W^ajterbouse, Geo. Marsdaud, James
Topham.
1830— A. E. Farrer, E. L. Lusher, Jas. J. Top-
ham.
1831.— A. E. Farxer, E. L. Lusher, John Bumby
1832 — Farrer, Lusher, Wm. Bnnting.
1833-4r— Fan er, Andr. Aylmer, Wm. Bunting,
Galland.
1835— Galland. P. Duncan, G. Turner.
Halifax had in 1824, 650 members, and 950
in the rest of Halifax Circuit. The Halifax
Methodists supported Sunday Schools, in their
chapels mostly at Church Lane, Black Horse-
fold, Skircoat Green; Elland, Southowram,
Shibden, Blackmires, Mt. Pleasant, Illing-
worth, and Mixenden : 1824.
Sowerbv Biidge Ministers, 1812-1829, were: —
1812 — T. Jackiron, senr., Joseph A^ar.
1813— T. Jackson, senr., W. Stones.
1814-5— W. M'Kittrick, T. Walker.
1816— J. B,>rdsall, E. Wood.
1817 — J. Burdsall, G. Mainwaring.
1818— W. Bird. G. Mainwaring.
1819— W. Bird, John Thompson.
1820— T. Preston, John Thompson.
1621-2— T. Pra^on, W. Theobald.
1823-4^G. Thompson, E. Nicholson.
1825-6-7— Philip Garrett, John Summer.
1828 9— Thomas Pinder, Edw. Simmer.
Todmorden Ministers, 1799-1829, were: —
1799— Robt. Lomas, James Tbwnley.
1800— Eobt. Lomas, Wm. Leach.
1801— Theoph. Les«ey, Ed. Hare.
18302— C. Kirkpatrick, John Chettle.
1803— C. Kirkpatrick, Isaac Muff.
1804^Sam Gates, Isaac Muff.
1805-6 — J. Crowther, J. Walmsley.
1807-8— C. Atmore, J. M'Donald.
1809-ia-T. Cooper, W. Leach, and Benj.
Barrett, 1810.
1811-12— J. Parkin, P. Hai^doastle.
1813-14— John Stamp, Mark Day.
1815— C. Gloyue, S. Stnvell, Robt. Etaimett.
1816— C. Gloyne, S. Sewell, Robt. Pickering.
1817— T. Bartholomew, J. Worreil, Robt.
Pickering.
1818— T. Bartholomew, J. Worrell, Wm. Vevers
18.9-20— Jas. M'Donald, Thos. Laycock, Wm.
Vevers.
1821-2— \[. Lumb, J. Fearnside, J. Heap.
1823-4— T. Get", R. Melson, J. Heap.
1825— J. Brookhouse, W. Bird, R. Heap.
1826— J. Brookhouse, W. Bird, W. Poole.
1827— John Fairborne, Thos. Thompson, John
W. Pipe.
1828— John Fairborne, Thos. Thompson, John
Hague.
1829— i?. Derry, E. Bentham, John Hague.
The Cleckheaton Ministers, serving but not
residinr^ at Brighouse, were: —
1817— Richard Heap.
1818-9— T. Harris, John W. Pipe.
1820 — John Simpson, junr., Jarvis Shaw.
1821 — John Simpson, Marmaduke Revell,,
Supern.
1822 — John Lee, W^m. Wilkinson, Marmaduke
Revell.
1823 — John Lee, John Armitage.
1824 — John Smithson, John Armitage.
1825 — John Smithson, Edwd. Wilson.
1826 — J. Womersley, Isaac Woodcock.
1827 — J. W'omersley, Isaac Clayton.
1828 — Robert Cronvther, Isaac Clayton.
1829 — Robert Crowther, Joseph Forsyth.
The most serious blow to early Methodism
in Halifax town was the defection of Mr.
Titus Knight, who took ha:f the congregation
away when he opened Jail Lane Chapel. Up
to 1765 the preachers had been more like comete
than planets, as for example, William Damey,
David Taylor, John Nelson, John Bennet,
Tliomas Lee and Thomas Mitchell, but Mr.
Grimshaw, of Hawortli, was the general super-
intendent, with local workers in Titus Knight,
Dan Taylor and others. When Mr. Grimshaw
died in 1763, Mr. John Pawson became the
head of Haworth circuit. The minutes of
Conference in 1765 give for the first time the
names and stations of the preachers, and
Halifax was attached to Birstall circuit. The
preachers in 1765 were John Mnrliu, John
Pawson, Parson Greenwood, but none of them
resided in Halifax. In 1766 there were four —
James Oddie, Thos. Hanby, Daniel Bumstead
and Moeley Cheek. Oddie withdrew as a
travelling preacher in 1771, Bumstead in 1775,
and Cheek turned clergyman in 1769. In 1767
the Birstall preachers were D. Bumstead,
John Nelson, Thos. Briscoe, Thomas Westall.
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HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
In 1768, C. Hopper, Thos. Lee, D. Bumstead
and Parson Grtenwood were stationed. In
1769 Halifax circuit was taken from Birstall
and j.iimd to Bradford, the preachorts being
Joliu Oliver and Thos. Lee. Next year Christr.
Hopper and George Wad.sm orth were the
preachers. The latter died in 1797 after 27
yeai-s' labours. In 1771 T. Hanson and J.
Atley were appointed, and next year J.
MORGAJST took T. Hanson's place, and wae
the first to reside in Halifax. Mr. Tho.
Taylor suiceeded Mr. Atley in 1773, and was
aided by Wni. Barker and Thomas Tennant,
and a new impulse in Halifax attemkd Mr.
Taylor's labours particularly. In 1774 Mr,
Taylor and Mr. Brammah had the Bradford
circuit, and greater prospei'ity followed. In
1775 John Allen, J. Waldron and Samuel
Smith were the ministers but MR. WALDRON
was chiefly at Halifax. In 1776 John Allen,
Thos. Lee and James Hudson were appointed
to Bratlford circuit, but Mr. Hudson [an or-
dained clergyman), after seven years travels,
left in 1777, when Messrs. Hopper, Benson,
and Le:- were successors. Next year C. Hopper,
Thos. Johnson and J. Murlin served, and in
1779 A. Mather, T. Johnson, and T. Briscoe.
JOSHUA KEIGHLEY and SAMUEL HODG-
SON, two Halifax natives, began to travel as
preachers in 1780. Keighley first went to
Northampton circuit. He died at Elgin, Aug.
10, 1787. Samuel Hodgson was dro^\ned April
20, 1795, by the capsizing of a boat when
crossing the Wear. In 1780 the Bradford
circuit preachers were — Alex. Mather, James
Hindmarsh and John Fenwick. HINDMARSH
resided at Halifax Chapelhouse. He began to
travel in 1771 and his health failed in 1783.
Th appointments of 1781 gave Samuel Brad-
burii, JOHN FLOYDEl and John Oliver, and
next year S. Bradburn, THOS. MITCHELL
and J. BENSON, three of the most famous
orators in different styles, that Yorkshire
Methodism can boast. In 1783 Alex. Mather,
J. BENSON and W. Dufton succeeded, and in
tuis year MATTHEW LUMB, of Sowerby, was
called to travel in the Dales circuit (Meth.
Mag. xiv.). In 1784 the preachers were Valton,
TAYLOR and Shaw. Halifax was now made
the head of a circuit, and the ministers have
been previously recorded. The second of the
Bradford circuit preachers had resided at
Halifax some years; in 1785 accommodation
was made for two. In 1786 FIDDLER
THOMPSON became a Methodist convert under
Mr. Suber. His "Life" has been already re-
ferred to. In 1789 John Denton was celled
out to travel in Chester circuit. ROBERT
CROWTHER., born at Booth Town in 1762,
joined two of his elSer brothers— TIMOTHY
and JONATHAN, as travelling preachers. In
May, 1790, Mr. Wesley preached at Bradshaw,
this being his final visit to the parish. He
died March 2, 1791; Mr. Wni. Thompson, the
Haliiax Superinteiidenl, presided at the 1791
Conference. In 1797 there was the unceasing
agitation of Mr. Kilham's party, when many
of the Societies in Halifax parish were split
in two, or almost annihilated. In 1799, the
terrible "barley-broad time," parts of Halifax
circuit were given to a new ciicuit at Tod-
mordon. The plan for 1802 gives the Halifax
preaching placts as eight en, — Halifax, Greet-
land, Bradshaw, Whichfitld, Hovu E.dge (Brig-
house chapel having gone to the Kilhamites),
Blland, Raslrick, Jagger Green, Skircoat Green,
Skircoat, Menrcloug.i, Whtatley, Ripponden,
Woodheal, Hanging Lee, O^enden Wood,
Sowerby, Lindley, and Fellgreave. After 13
years at Hove Eldge, the BrighousH Methodists
got possession of the old chapel, and the
Kilhamites built one near it, 1810. SAMUEL
BROADBENT, in 1815, was called from Greet-
land to become a missionary in Ceylon. A
Tract Society was formed in February, 1822,
by the Halifax Methodists. They became
general in various denominations, and served
a good purpose in those days of costly
literature and drudging toil.
CXAlll. METHODIST PREACHERS.
JOSEiPH AGAR was preacher at Drif&ekl in
1810, Bury 1811, Sowerby Bridge 1812, New
Mills 1813-4, Bridlington 1815-6, Leeds 1817,
Spilsby 1818-9, Birstall 1820, Glasgow 1821-2,
Shelheid 1823. He continued to labour until
1830. When at Spilsby, 1819, he issued a
pamphlet, 32 pages, on Methodistic Revivals.
JOHN ALLEIN died in 1810. The Minutes
of Conference and the Methodist Magazine
will assist anyone to discover particulars of
these men by referring to the date of death.
Allen began to itinerate in 1766.
JOHN ARMITAGB became a preacher in
1809, was at D^wsbury in 1810-11, Thirsk 1812-3,
Darlington 1814, Stockton 1815, Knaresborough
1816-7, Ashton 1818, Bingley 1819, Pocklington
1820-2, Cleckheaton 1823.
CHARLES ATMOREI was at Grimsby in
1781, Scarborough 1782, York 1783, Colne 1784r5,
Edinburgh 1786-7, Oolne 1788, Newcastle and
ALnHvick until 1793, when he was at Halifax.
From 1795 to 1803 he was at Bristol, London,
Birmingham and Manchester. In 1803-4 he
was at Wakefield, then two years at Liverpool;
1807-O Todmoixien, Leeds in 1809-10, Hull 1811-
12, Halifax 1813-4, then mostly in London until
1823, when he was at Sheffield. He was a
prolific writer, and his memoir in the
"Magazine^' for 1845 gives useful Yorkshire
history. He reprinted Oliver Heywood's
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
239
Family Altar wken at Liverpool, 1807. In
1801 at Bristol he printed his portly volume
the "Methodist Memorial, or Lives of deceased
preachers.'' "A Short Account of Mrs. Eliza
Atmore," was printed at York, 1791, 36 pages.
A Funeral Sermon for Mr. Thomas Hanson
33 pagCK, was printed in 1804; a Discourse on
the Government of the Tongue, at Leeds, in
1810, 23 pages. This title lie may have got
from Edward Etyner's book, ami the injxt
from Abraham Woodhead's, "The Whole Duty
of Man, or Christian Companion"; London,
1811, quarto, 444 piages. I have a sermon on
Luke xiii., 24, printed by Atmore in 1809,
and also a thick volume he issued in Hull,
1813, on Cliandler's History of Persecution.
Besides other works, he is.'^ued "Select Portions,
a Plan for the Profitable Beading of the Holy
Scriptures in Family Worship." Halifax,
1815, l2mo., 24 page®.
" A Short Account of Mrs. Eliza Atmore,
who departed this Life August 22, 1794, to
which are subjoined some of her Letters.
York; Wilson, Spenoe and Mawman, 1794,
duodecimo, 36 pages. Mrs. Atmore died at
Haliiax, August 22, 1794, aged 37.
Select Portions, or a P'an for the profitable
reading of the Holy Scriptures, 24pp., 12mo.
Halifax, 1815.
Sermon on the Death of Mr. Thomas Hanson,
preached at Horbury Methodist Chapel, Oct.
28. 1804. Wakefield, 1804.
JOHN BUMBY. A Mr. Bumby, travelling
preacher, a native of Thirsk, was an author.
JOHN BIJEDSALL, 1796 Ashby, 181il-5
Rotherham, 1816-7 Sowerby Bridge, London
afterwards, died 1861. He was author of the
"Life of Elchard Burdsall, York," 3rd edition,
1823, 272 pages, 12mo. "Sinner's Tears," 167
pages, 18mo., "Memoirs of Bev. J. Strawe,"
1842, -s'O pages, 12mo. A Sermon in "Sermons
on Important Subjects," 1832.
WM. BIRD, Hinckley 1806, Sowerby Bridge
1818-9, next at places in Lancashire. He pub-
lished a sermon at Preston, 1825, 23 pages,
octavo, entitled "Salvation by Faith."
BEN J. BARRETT, Basingiwold 1807, To<l-
morden 1810, Grassington 1818, Holmfirth
1820-1, &c.
THOMAS BARTHOLOMEW became an
itinerant in 1782. He died in 1820. He was
baptised at Kelghley as the son of Sarah
Bartholomew; his father is said to have been
Jeremiah Carrodus.
JOHN BOOTH travelled from 1779 to his
death in 1820. He was author of a sermon
"The Character and Etod of a Perfect Man,"
22 pages, 12nio., Leeds, 1814. "A Sermon on
the Millennium of Glory of the Latter Days."
Dewsburv, nd., 24 pages, 12mo.
DAVID BAEEACLO'UGH, 1^787 Avas expelled.
JOHN BENNETT began to itinerate in 1747;
specially in Derbyshire, Cheshire, South York-
shire and Lincasliire. In December, 1752, he
seceded and estab.ished a Society at Bolton-le-
moors.
JAMES BOGIE, Edinburgh 1782, Halifax
1801-2, was mostly out of Halifax.
W. iiiVRKER. I fail to find further par-
ticulars of this preacher.
WM. BKAMM-UI had one sermon no matter
Avhat the text, and yet popular and succei-sfui.
He died about 1780.
JABEZ BUNTING, Oklham 1799, Sheffield
1807-8, Halifax 1811-12, Leeds 1813-14, Loudon
afterwards; died 1858. Life by his son T.P.B.,
1861. He edited Cruden's Concordance, 1815,
and his Sermons, 2 vols., were printed in 1862.
JABEZ BLTNTTNG, Wesleyan Minister, was
author of "Jxtstifioation by Faith: A Sermon
at Leeds, July, 1812, pi-eached at the Confer-
ence." Fourth edition, corrected. London,
1830. Preface dated Halifax, March 31, 1813,
24 pages, demy octavo. The third edition was
printed at Leeds by Jas. Nichols, 1814, 23
pages. The second (or first) edition, Leeds,
1813, 28 pages. Memoir of Thomas Hoiy,
Sheffield, 1832, 24 pages. Memorials of Rev.
Richard Watson, 1833, 88 pages.
WM. M. BUNTING travelled from 1824 to
1866. He published the Letters of Mrs. Bulmer,
1842.
SAMUEL BROADBEINT, a native of Gieet-
land, was sent to Pont-de-Galle 1815, Ceylon
1816, Trincomalle 1817, GalLe 1818-9, Madagas-
car 1820-1, Boschuana Country 1822-3. He died
in 1867. He was author of "Tlie Missionary
Martyr of Namaqualand— Rev. Wm. Thre'-fall,"
second edition, London, 1860, 170 pages, Ifiiiio.
(2) A Sermon on the Sabbath Day.
(3) "A Narrative of a Mission to the Baro-
longs," 1865, 204 pages, 12mo.
|4) '■ Anti-Scriptural. Marriages the Ruin of
Souls, and a Curse to the Church."
(5) "The Pious and Princely Shoemaker —
Joseph Watkins," 1852, 33 pages, 18mo.
WILLIAM BUTTEEFIBLD was born near
Halifax (Atmore's Methodist Memorial, 1801).
In 1784 he began to itinerate and continued
until his death at Darlington in 1794.
JOSEPH BENSON travelled 1771 to 1821.
He was a voluminous writer, some of his
boo'ks being printed in Yorkshire, especially
at Hull.
ROBERT BENTHAM, Shrewsbury 1812,
Woodhouse Grove 1821-2.
DANIEL BUMSTEAD, a native of Col-
chester, began to travel in 1762. but like
many other etirly preachers in Methodism re-
linquished the arduous toils and privations
of those times. He settled to a business in
London, and died in 1797.
240
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
'' The Life ami Dtvith of Aun Cutler, who
was made a principal instrument in the l)e-
ginning of tlie late revival of tlie woik of
(foil in Yorkshire, Laucatihire, &e., by WM.
BRAMWELL, preacher of the Go^pe., to which
\s added Choice Wt'sl<'yan Anccdoti's. Halifax,
Nicholson and Wilson, Cheapside, 1848, 32
pages, small 12uio. On tho covei- the printer's
advertise "Tlie Bible Companion, Scripture
Pronouncer and Expositor," 488 pa^'es. Is. 6d.
Ann Ci;tler's Life contains references to the
Revival at Greetland, Dewabury, Birstall, &c.
Amongst the Anecdotes is Jonathan Saville's
"Interment of Old Bigotry."
The Life of WM. BRAMWELL was printed
at Halifax in 1860, 32mo. Larger edition ap-
peared in 1848, small octavo, but not printed
at Halifax. Jas. Sigston, Leeds, waw author
of the Memoir, 8th thousand in 1839.
JONATHAN CEOWTHHR began his public
work in 1781-5 at Scarborough; Isle of Man
in 1786, Inverness 1787, Dalkeith 1788, Col-
chester 1789, Redruth 1790, Penzance 1791, Cork
1792, Waterford 1793, Nevis 1794, Plymouth
Dock 1795, Worcester 1796, Shrewsbury 1797-8,
Rochlale 1799-1800, Blackburn 1801-2, Keighley
1803-4, Todmortlen 1805-6, York 1807-8, Halifax
(his native place) 1809-10, Bury 1811-12, Stock-
port 1813-4, Wednesbury 1815, Birstal 1816,
Northwich 1817-8, Burslem 1819, Broseley 1820,
Madeley 1821-2, Warrington, super-numerary,
1823.
JONATHAN CEOWTHER, senior, died in
1824. His publications are "Truth and Matter
of Pact"; the Bristol disputes, 1794, 23p.. 12mo.
The Crisis of Methodism. Bristol, 1795, 24
pages, 12mo.
Christian Order, Liberty without Anarchy.
Bivstol, 1796, 24pp.
Sermon at Stourport on Mrs. Wright's Death.
Worcester, 1797, 24pp.
Petitioning for Preachers; Strictures. York,
1809, 12pp.
Scripture Gazetteer, 2nd edition, 1810, 8vo.j
544pp.
Apology for Liberty of the Press. Halifax,
1810, 8 pages.
Portraiture of Method! m, 1811, 8vo., 356 pages.
Second edition, 1815, 5i2 pages, octavo.
Life of Dr. Coke, Leeds, 1815, 8vo., 544pp.
The title page of my copy reads "The Life
of the Rev. Thoanas Coke, LL.D., a Clergy-
man of the Church of England, but who
laboureJ among the Wesleyan Methodists for
the last thirty-eight years of his life, &c.,
Written by a person who was long and inti-
mately acquainted with the Doctor. Leeds,
1815, Alex. Cumming, publisher, portrait by
Freenian from Rhodes' painting, Leeds. Mr.
Crowther has carefully suppressed his name
from this valuable biography and history.
" Tliouglits upon tlie Finances, or Temporal
Affairs of the Methodist Connexion; contain-
ing Elucidating Statements and Interestin;;
Calculations, ana intcrsp r.--ed with appropriate
Remarks on the Affairs of Methodism^ written
just before the Confeience of 1817. Lie.is, lor
the Author, by Daview and Booth; demy
octavo, 48 pages.
" The Scripture Gazetteer, or the Geography
of the Bible; bdng a full and particu ar ac-
count of the various countries, cities, towns,
rivers, mountains, &c., mentioned in the Old
and New Testaments, compidsing and epitome
of Ancient and Modern History chronologically
arrangfcitl, &c., &c." Halifax, P. K. Ho den,
Old Market Plac?, 1826, demy octavo, 512 pages,
two maps. This was a good work in its 'd.iy.
The maps are missing in both my copies.
JONATHAN CROWTHER. The Methodist
Manual; or a short History of the Wesleyan
Methodists, includ ng their Rise, Progress, and
Present State, comprising also the Life and
Character of the Rev. W. Grimshaw, Minister
of Haworth. By J. C, "who has been more
than 30 years a Member, and above 25 years
a Travel ing Preacher among them. Halifax,
Printed for J. Walker, No. 10, Crown Street,
by P. K. Hol'en, 1810, 216 pages, iv., iii.. Bin
by 5. Preface dated Halifax, March 14, 1810.
TIMOTHY CROWTIiER, itinerated from
1784-5 Wilts., 1786 Plymouth, 1787 Derby, 1788-9
Sussex, 1790-11 Redruth, 1792-3 St. Austle, 1794
Taunton, 1795-6 Blackburn, 1797-8 Colne, 1799-
1800 Keighley, 1801 Sheffield, 1802 Castle Don-
nington, 1803-4 Whitby, 1805-6 Blackburn, 1807
Newcastle, 1808 Liverpool, super., 1809-10
Wetherby, 1811 Northwich, 1812 Warrington,
li813-4 Wigan, 1815 Leeds, super., 1816-8 War-
rington, super., 1819, &c., Northwich, super.
ROBERT CROWTHER, 1789, died January,
1833, at his brother Isaac's, Rochdale. In 1790
he was at Colchester, 1791 Snssex, 1792 Canter-
bury, 1793-4 Leek, 1795 Macclesfield, 1796-7
Chester, 1788-9 Gainsborough, 1800 Lymi,
1801-2 Doiby. 1803-4 Shrewsbury, 1805-6 Salis-
bury, 1807-8 Southampton, 1809-10 Burton, 1811-
12 Chesterfield, 181i3-14 Loughborough, 1815-6
Cromford. 1817-8 Derby, 1819-21 Bakewell,
1822-3 Gi-imsby. He does not seem to have
come near Halifax his native town.
JONATHAN CROWTHER, junr., minister
from 1823 to 1856. master of Kingswood School,
w s airthor of nine publications, possibly more.
A Sermon on the Death of tlie Rev. D.
M'AUum was printed at York in 1827, 34
pages octavo. Mr. Cromther does not seem to
h ive been ordained until 1827 as under —
Addi-ess at the Ordination of the Rev. John
B dl, Jonathan Crowther, and others, at the
Manchester Conference, 1827, by Richaid
Watson; 42 pages, demy octavo.
HALIFAX BOOKS A^D AUTHORS.
241
JOHN CKWCTLF. began in li797-8 at Hinck-
ley; in 180J at Todmoiden, and the rest of
his life mostly in tiie ^Jiddle and South of
England. He died in 1850, having published
t\vo book.-j, "Objections against Romish Tran-
substantiation," and "Stricture on Popery,"
Walsa 1, 42 pa^es.
ISAAC ('LAyTO^\ 1801 at Tluttorcl, eanie
into Yorkshire in 1807, and served many
circuits.
JOSEIPH COLLIEE, 1795 Chester, was at
Oliham 1796-7, Halifax 1798, Wakefield 1799,
Hudder -field 1800-1, remained in Yorksliire
until 1810.
GEORGE CHAMBERS, I have no further
knowledge of, at present.
THOMAS COOPER, 1781 in Sussex, 1805-b
Leeds, 1809-10 Todmnrden, settled at Liverpool
in 1821 ais supernumerary.
JOHN CROSBY began to travel in 1783, and
died in 1816.
JOSEPH eOO'KEl began to itinerate in 1795.
He was expelled, and became Unitarian, (ste
Hal fax tracts.)
WILLIAM DARNETY. 1742 to 1779, was au
eccentric bold Scotchman, founder of William
Damey's Societies, a friend and co-worker
with Grimshaw. He sett ed near Colne some
years before his death, which took place in
1780. He Avas author of a famous "Collection
of H.vmns, in four parts/' Leeds, James Lister,
1751, 296 pages, 12mo. Most of them are mere
jingles. "The Fundamental Doctrines l^aid
open" was printed at Glasgo^v, 1755, 292 pages,
16mo.
.MARK DAWES, 1809 Leigh, 1810 Ormskirk,
1811(-2 Hianfax, 1813 Birstall, 1814-5 Luton,
1816-7 Knares borough, &c.
MARK DAY, 1808-1823. There were also a
Matthew Day, and a Simon Day who had
travelled many years.
JOHN DENTON, native of Halifax parish;
li789 Chester, 1790 Liverpool, 1791 Macclesfield,
1792 Bursleiu, 1793 Penzance, 1794 Shrewsbury,
1795 Rochdale, 1796 Blackburn, 1797-8 Colne,
1799 Louth, 1800 Otley, 1801-2 Keighley, 1803-4
Birsta;, 1805 Derby, 1806-7 Loughborough,
1808-9 Ashby, 1810 Nantwich, 1811-2 Hinckley.
1813-4 Burton. 1815 Towcester, 1816-7 Congleton,
1818-9 Wolverhampton, 1820-1 West Bromw ich,
1822-3 Newcastle-under-Lyme.
FRANCIS DERRY, 1802 Kettering, was in
the south and centre of England up to 1818,
when he came to Barnsley, 1820 to Malton, &c.
J. DONCASTER was at Dundee in 1790,
came to Etngland in 1801, Halifax 1809-10, then
to Gainsborough 1811, Sheffield 1814, &c.
" Friendly Hints principally addressed to the
youth of Bieixies, uniting subjecbs 'the most
pleasing and instructive relative to the duties
of this life and the joys of immortality, inter-
epeised with striking anecdotes; partly
original, but chiefly eelectei from the best
authors. 2nd edition, enlarged, Gainsborough,
1812, octavo, 211 pagts. Preface dated Halifax,
February 7, 1811; second preface, Gains-
borough, January 1, 1812.
" Edection of Grace and Reprobation of
Justice, a sermon preached at Delph, Dec.
13, J807." Halifax, 1808, 34 pages, octavo.
PEllER DUNCAN in 1819-182;5 aboured in
the West Indies. He died in 1862. He wrote
"A Narrative of the Wesleyan Mission to
Jamaica," 1849, 399 pages, octavo. "A Letter
of Exposure to 'J'aylor. Bath," 1852, 56 pages.
JO.SEPH DRAKE, 1794-181S.
SAMUEL DUNN, 1819-1849, was a very
proline writer. We have only need to mention
the Halifax one©, but probably seme more of
his publications were printed at Halifax, as
query, ''Memoirs of E. J. Hatton," "Funeral
Seimon for the Rev. J. Waterhouse," "A
Second exposure of the Misrepreeentations and
Calumnies of the Kev. W. Gilmoor," 1844, 12
pages.
The Separate State, a sermon at South
Parade Chapel, Halifax, May 29, 1843, on the
Death of the Rev. Thos. Galland, A.M. 12mo.,
28pp. London, 1843.
The Heavenly State; a Sermon preached in
Wesley Chape!, Halifax, Sunday, May 12,
1844, on the occasion of the death of the Rev.
Beni'v Moore. 1844.
SAMUEL DUNN, Broad Street Chapel,
Halifax. Twenty Lectures on Eminent Scrij)-
ture Characters. J. U. Walker, Halifax,
1845, 62 pages, square 32mo. Preface, dated
Halifax, March, 1845, on the expiration of his
term as a travelling preacher. Two pages
of advertisements of his other publications aa-e
given, but they do not seem to have any con-
nection with Halifax. They are Memoirs of
Seventy-Five Divines, authors of the Morning
Exercises, Svo., 5s., Gospels Harmonized. 8vo.,
10s. 6d., Adam Clarke's Christian 'Theology,
12mo., 6s. 6d. fifth edition, John Goodwin's
Christian Theology, 12mo., 6s., John Calvin's
Christian Theology, 12mo., 6s., Christian
Theology for every day in the year, 12m o.,
3s., Funeral Sermons, 6d. each, on Rev. R.
Treffry, Rev. J. Waterhouse, Rev. T. Galland,
Rev. H. Moore, Memoirs of Mr. Allen, Cornish-
man; three tracts.
CXXIV.— METHODIST PRElACHEOEtS
(Continued).
ROBERT EMMETT was at Skipton in 1811;
Mansfield 1812-3, Barnsley 1814, Todmorden
1815, and then went northwards.
JOSEPH EfNTWISLB, 1787-1841, started his
\vork in Oxfordshire. 1788-9 Birstall, 1790-1
Halifax, 1792 Bradford, 179S Leeds, 1794-5
242
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Colne, 1796-7 Wakefield, 1798-9 York, 18U0-1
Hull; he then Avent cjouth until 1818-9 Shet-
fiolil, 1820-2 Bradford. In 1823 he leinoved to
Birmingham. Joseph Hutwisle, juiir., began
to labour in 1823 at Wednesbury, and Wm.,
another son, at Kingswood School in 1820.
.Sometimes the name appears Ebtwistle, but
I have two autographs of the father without
the second t. The father sent out at least
five publications, 24 pages up to 76 pages each,
the Memoirs of Rev. J. Pawson, L(vc<lt5, 1809,
being one. Joseph, the son, published a
Memoir of his father; Bristol, 18-18, 576 pages,
12mo.. a second edition of which appeared in
1854, London, 468 pages, 12mo. He also printed
a Tadoaster Centenary Sermon, "The Salt of
the Earth," li839, 32 pages, octavo. William
also printed a pamphlet on Christian Obliga-
tion; Stourbridge, 1826.
A1BRAHAM E. FARRAR, 1807 to 1849, began
at Hull 1807, York 1808-9, Halifax 1810, New-
castle 1811-2, Sihields 1813-5. Rotherham 1816-7,
Hull 1818-9, York 1820-1. Leeds 1822-3.
He was author of ''The Condemner of
Methodism condemned, and the Detector of
Priestcraft detected." Newcastle, 1614.
Religious Instruction of Children Enforced:
A Sei-mon to the Teachers and Friends of the
Hull Sunday School Union, first anniversary,
1820. 2nd edition, improved. York, for the
Author; no date; 24 pages, demy octavo.
Advertises his "Christian Youth's Instructor,
or Bible Class Book," 2s.
The Juvenile Bible Class Book, being Selec-
tions in the words of the Authorized Text,
1825, 156 pages.
Tlie Benefits of Messiah's Advent. A Ser-
mon, 1842, 15 pages.
Sketches of Popular Antiquities, for Young
People. Second edition, 1850, 144 pages.
JOHN FARREIR, senior, 1797, ministered at
Bingley in 1822-3, and in other Yorkshire
circuits before that date. JOHN FARRER,
junior, second master at Woodhouse Gi-ove
School in 1823, was author of several Biblical
works, dictionaries, geographies, &c., 1844-57.
J. FAmBORNE began his labours at
Brechin in 1802, came to Otley in 1810, Skip-
ton 1817, the rest mostly in Lancashire.
JOHN FENWICK, 1755-1787, is described as
a man of property and very useful before he
itinerated. He had small ministerial gifts,
much zeal but little Christian knowledge.
Yet I find he was author of tVo tracts,
(1) An Appeal to all men of Common Sense,
in answer to John Helton, by John Fenwick,
late farmer; 1779. 12 pages.
(2) Remarks uiKvn an anonymous Appeal to
the Wesleys and all in Connexion with them.
Leeds, 1784, 8 pages.
Perhaps lie was not rfuch a mimic and bore
as Michael Fenwick, who Avas struck oit the
list of preachei-s in 1'781, and yet stuck like a
loc-ch to the Conference public meetings uutil
he died, near Bridlington, In 1797, during a
thumler storm.
J. FEARNSIDE, Howdcn 1807, Biietall 1S16,
Pontefiact 1817-8, Adaiugham 1810-20, Tod-
moiden 1821-2, Blackburn 1823.
JOSEPH FOWLER. Kettering 1811. Ponte-
fract 1814-6, Halifax 1817-8, Huddersfield 1819-
20, Cht-ster 1821-2.
JOHN FLOYDE became an itinerant in
1770. He was a man of great ability, and was
an acceptable preacher. He studied medicine
during his travels, and in 1782 desisted from
travelling and .-.ettled at Halifax as a surgecn
and apothecary, where he became very suc-
cessful, and at the same time ministered to
a congi'cgation at Stainland. He removed to
Leeds and served both callings there for some
years, but, becoming reduced to indigence, he
ended his daj's at Exley near Elland in July,
1798, and was buried at Halifax as previously
stated under Stainland. A tablet gives his
death as on July 13, 1799, aged 49, and his
uife thirteen days later, aged 33.
WILLIAM FUGILL was a native of Roth-
well near Leeds, and one of the early Metho-
dist preachers, very useful and acceptable, but
was excluded in 1764 under a charge of pride
or insurboixlination. In 1767 he was restored.
but relapsed as before.
GEORGE GIBBON 1780, died 1816.
ROBERT GAMBLE, a native of the West
Riding, was a local preacher at Sowerby, and
admitted to the itinerancy in 1785. In 1788
he was sent over with another Halifax worthy,
Matthew Lumb, as missionaries to the Wesrt
Indies. In February, 1791, Gamble died of a
putrid fever in St. Vincent's.
PAUL GREENWOOD began his travels in
Yorkshire in 1746. He was a Keighley man,
and his mother died there the same morning
that he died at Warrington, March, 1767. He,
John PaiHson and Daniel Bumstead took
charge of Hawoi-th district when Grimshaw
died.
J. GAULTER began to travel in 1785 in the
Isle of Man. After serving in Lancashire he
reached Wakefield in 1800-2, Halifax 1803-4,
Leeds 1805-6, Bradford 1807-8, thence went to
Lancashire and London. He edited David
Simpson's Plea for Religion, with the Life of
Sampson, and Notes. Liverpool, 1812, 472 pages.
SAMUEL GATES 1787 to 1821. He was
author of a Sermon — An Important Question,
Tunstall, 1812, 28 pages; A Sermon on I Cor.
I., 30. Burslem, 1812, 23 pages; Exposition of
Lord's Prayer, York, 181ii, 100 pages.
PARSON GREENWOOD 1763-1811.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
243
PHILIP GAEREfTT, Wesleyau Methodist
Minister, 1799-1843, published 'A Digest of the
Minutes of tile Methodist Confer<mces from
the first held in London by the late Rev. John
Wesley, A.M., in li744 to the year 1826. Hali-
fax, Tuoniaa Walker, 1827; octavo, pat;es viii.,
341. The preface is dated from Scwerby
Bridge. The history and doctrines of Metho-
ism are clearly stated in this volume. A
Scourge to Calumny, on the case of the Brig-
h/ousc" chapel; Manchester, 1811, 28 pay:es, 12mo.
Substance of a Discourse on the Dtath of
Dl-. Adam Ciarke. Keighley, no date, W
pages, 12uio. An Easy Method of Construct-
ing Mathematical Tables, including Logarithms
of Numbers, Lines, Tangents, &c. Keighlev,
C. Crabtrte, 1838, small octavo, pages x., 300.
THOMAS GALLAND, M.A., 1816 to 1843, was
a native of Hull, I believe. He published a
Sarmon on Acts xxvi., 24; Louth, 1818, 21
pages. After serving at Lincoln he came to
Beverley, where he published Principles ex-
emplified by Practice, in a letter to A. Atkin-
son and others; 1825, 60 pages.
Letters from a Minister in Leeds to his
Friend in the Country. Letds, 1627. 8 pages.
Second series, 37 pages.
Sermon on Acts xvii., II., in "Sermons on
Important Subjects," 1832.
Syllabus of a Course of Theological Instmc-
tlons (ni Halifax & Leeds). Leeds, 1842, 16p. 12mo.
WILLIAM GRIMSHAW, buried at Ludden-
den, 1763, wrote An Answer to White's
Sermon against the Methodists; Preston,
1749, 98 pages.
Lives of Grimshaw, by Newton, Myles,
Hardy, &c.
DAVID GRIFFITHS, 1845, was author of
"The Friskney Decoy for Birds spiritualized,
and Satan s Decoy for SouLs exposed. Ser-
mon, 1S49. Harmony of the Gospels, mainly
founded on Gresswell, 1857, 140 pages, 12mo.
Kin;.<dom of the Blessed; a Sermon in
Memory of the late Richard Kershaw Lurnb,
Esq., J. P., Halifax; (in Halifax Free Library).
CHARLES GLOYNE. 1793 Colne, 1794 Dews-
bury, 1795-6 Colne, 1797 Huddersfield, came to
Todmorden 1715-6.
THOMAS HANBY, 1755 to 1797, was a native
of Carlisle, born December, 1733. He was
President of the Conference in 1794, less than
three years before his death. He published
"An Explanation of Mr. Kilham's Statement
of Preachers' AlloA^-ance," anonymous, 24
pages, 12mo.
SAMUEL HODGSON was born at Halifax,
February 22. 1759. The preachers regularly
catechised the children at that time, so he
was brought up a Methodist from infancy.
In 1775 he got a ticket as Methodist member,
and two years later became a local preacher.
In 1780 he began to travel. In July, 1789,
he married Miss Sarah Garnett of "Bradlorth."
In the same year he went to Bristol circuit,
in 1780 to Leeds, and next year, 1791-2, to
York. In 1793 he v/ati appointed for Sunder-
land, and remained there until he was
drowned, April 20, 1795, by the overturning
of the fej-ry boat when crossing the Wear.
About a score persons were drowned. He
wrote notes on his own life for the Arminian
Magazine. It was not separately published I
ihink.
IMIILIP HAEDCASTLE, 1829 to 1864, was
author of "The Pilgrim Patriarchs and their
Spiritual Seed.'' London, 1862, 32 pages octiivo.
ElDWAliD HARE, 1798 to 1818, wab a Hull
man, and author of at least fifteen books and
pamphleirs, printe)d at Sheffield, Leeds, &c.
His Pulpit Remains, with Life, edited by the
Rev. J. Benson, appeared in 1821, 416 pages.
REV. J. B. HOLROYD, Wesleyan Methodist
Minister, 1808-1862, My friend Mr. Abraham
Holroyd claimed this gentleman as a relative,
and told me he was a native of Shelf. In this
he wa,s mistaken for the conference notice of
his death gives Low Moor. I have a collection
of his tracts bearing his signature and the
book plate of Abraham Holroyd to whom it was
given by the author.
■'Remarks and Illustrations, on a Letter
from the Rev. J. L., Roman Catholic Priest
at Scarborough, to a Member of the Methodist
Society in that town, professing to contain a
brief account of the principal articles of their
faith; the omissions in part supplied, its in-
consistencies exposed by extracts from the
Councils, Canons, Bulls, &c." Scarborough, J.
Ainsworth, 1827, 56 pa^es, 12m o. Published by
the same author.
" The Majesty, Humility and Benevolence of
Jehovah; a Sermon," octavo, 6d. Alnwick,
1821, pages 17.
" Tae Doctrines of the Methodists stated and
defended v. Rev. D. Paterson of Alnwick," 6d.
" Tables for a Methodical Reading of the
Scriptures," 1812, 16pp., 3d.
"Memoir of William Allan, a collier," 3d.
"The Contrast; interesting memoirs of a
Gentleman and a very Poor Man," Id.
'•The Decayed Tooth," Id.
"Joseph the Fisherman," Id.
" Jiistorical Sketches of Christianity in
England," 3 vols., l2mo., 1826-1834.
" The Foundations of the Church of Eng-
land undermined by the workings of her old
enem3% in a Letter to Bishop Bowstead, Lich-
field"; (by J.B.H., anonymous.) London, for
the author, 1843. 3d. 12 pages, duodecimo
" Refutation Refuted; or a Reply to the Rev.
J.L., Roman Catholic Priest at Scarborough,
forming an Appendix to the Remarks and U-
244
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
luetratioms/' by J. B. Holroyd. .Scarboiough,
1827, 76 pagas, ]2mo.
'•A Reply to Methodism Unmasked by the
Rev. J.L., Roman Catholic Priest at Scar-
borough, in which the Abominations of the
Church of Rome are further ejcposed." Deiws-
bury, tJailey and Elmpson, 1828, 40 pages, 12mo.
A Chronological and Alphabetical List of all
the Itinerant preachers that have been and
now are in the Weeleyan Methodist Connexion.
Haslingden, 1819, 28 pages.
Tilings Ancient and Modern, or Fifteen
parallels between propery and poganism. 1851.
ROBERT HOPKINS, 1781 to 1827; his Life
Mias published by the Rev. B. Hopkins, St.
John's College, Cambridge. Sheffield, 1828,
102 pages.
( HRISTOPHBR HOP-' BR, 1747 to 1802,
published "The Substance of a Discourse at the
Opening of Woodhouse Preaching House,
Lee<ls; 1770, 20 pages, 12mo. "The Plain
Man's Epistle to Every Child of Adam," New-
castle, 1766, 39 pages, has been ascribed to him.
His Memoir by Charles Atmore was printed at
Manchester in 1802, 54 pages, 12mo.
The REV. ABRAHAM HAIGH, traveUer
from 1803 to 1810, died at his father's, at
Sjwerby, April, 1810.
JOHN HAGUE! began to travel in 1815, but
did not come into Yorkshire until mu?h later.
RICHARD HEAP, 1813 at Thirsk, next in
Scotlan.l until 1817 at Cleckheaton, and remain-
ed about Lancashire and Yorkshire years
afterwards.
THOMAS HARRIS was at Stafford in 1813,
Cleckheaton in 1818-9, Wakefield 1820-1,
Rotherhani 1822-3.
H. S. HOP WOOD, 1806 at Chesterfield.
Halifax 1808-9, Pontefract 1810-1, Rotherham
1812-3, Hull 1814-5.
GEORGE HIGHFIELD, 1785 Scotland, 1786
York, 1799 and 1800 at Halifax, spent many of
his vears in Y'orkshire.
THOMAS HANSON travelled from 1760 to
1S04. ^ , ,
THOMAS JOHNSON was born at Wakefield
in 1720. In 1748 he heard the Methodists for
the first time. He wrote his autobiography
for the Arminian Magazine. In 1752 he ^be-
came an itinerant, and laboured until 1784,
when his health failed, and he settled at
Birstall. He died October 18, 1797. He suffer-
ed persecution in his earliest travels.
THOMAS JACKSON, a famous Methodist
minister and author, was a native of East
Yorkshire. Amongst numerous other volumes
he issued an edition of Oliver Heyv.ood's
Closet Prayer. He began his ministry m 1804
at Spilsby. In 1812-3 he was at Sawerby Bi'idge.
.fOHN JAMES had travelled from 1807 at
Wrexham, &c., came to Halifax from Leeds m
1821-3. He died in 1832.
JOSHUA KE'IGHLEi' was born at Halifax.
After being a local preacher several years lie
was called out as a traveller in 1780. In 1786
he received impoksition of hands from the Rev.
John Wesley and was appointed to Inverness
circuit. Next year he was appointed co-worker
in Edinburgli and Glasgow, but he was taken
ill at Elgin of a fever, and die<l August 10,
1787. Extracts from his Journal appear in the
Arminian Magazine. In 1781 he was labour-
ing about Carmarthen and Pembroke.
JAMES KERSHAW, one of tlie fixst itinerant
preachers, \vas probably a native of Halifax
parish or Birstall. He desisted in 1757
or 1767, and settled at Gainsborough, where
he became famous for his quack uiedicmes. It
ifl said that he died at Ashby de la Zouch. He
wrote a Comment on Revelations, dialogue-
wise, and he issued a poem anonymously. Tlie
Elssay on Revelations, 2 yols., 1780, was a l2mo.,
pages 303, 274. In 1765 he published an
'■ Earnest Appeal to the Public v. the Preface
of Aspasio Vindicated," Edinburgh, 1765, 139
pages. In 1767 he printed ''A Letter to the
Author of Thoughts concerning Methodism";
Ne(vvcajtle-on-Tyne, 18 pages; and the «a,-ie
year "A Second Letter," 20 pages.
Of JOHN KERSHAW, who laboured largely
in Yorkshire from 1789, and who became the
London Book Steward, I have no particu'ar.*
at hand. He died in 1855, and zhe Rev. Luke
H. Wiseman, M.A., preached his funeral ser-
mon, 1855, 38 pages, 12mo. I am also uncertain
as to the claim we have to include LAWRENCE
KEIRSHAW, wdio began to travel in 1802. and
laboured mostly in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
I have his "Antidote against Distraction, oi
an endeavour to serve the Church, by Richaid
Steele, M.A. ; abridged and corrected, with a
Memoir of the author by L. Keishaw. Re-
printed by W .A. Justice, Houden, for L. Ker-
shaw, Gainsboro', IS12, octavo, pages xxvii, 179.
C. KIRKPATRICK began to travel in 1791
in Somersetshire. In 1802-3 he was at Tod-
morden, in 1816 and 1816 at Halifax.
ALEXANDElR KILHAM had no connection
with Halifax parish except indirectly as the
founder of the New Connexion. He was an
Old Wesleyan, 1785 to 1796. In 1792 he issued
''An Address to the Methodist Society in
Newcastle,'^ 24 pages. In 1795 his pamphlev—
"The Progress of Liberty among Methodists"
—appeared, 60 pages. In the same year an-
onymously he issued "Address to the Confer-
ence," 23 pages. "An Account of the Trial
of A.K. at Newcastle," Alnwick, 1796. Ex-
amination of the London Methodistical Bull,
1796, 36 pagi s. "Appeal to the :\Iethodists of
Alnwick," 1796. 12 pages. "Remarks on T.
Hanby's pamphlet," 1796, 12pp. "Conference
Trial," July. 1796, 2nd edition, Leeds, 53 pages.
"Defence," Salford, 1796, 58 pages.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHOES.
245
CXXV.-WESLBYAN PREACHEHS.
MATTHEW LTJ.MB was author of-
"A PtMv Animadveisious upon a pamphlet
eutitleJ 'An Earnest unci Affectionate Address
to the People called Methodists,' and given
away in the Market Phue of Skipton by th.e
Sexton of the Church/' Skipton, Jacobs and
Thompson, 1804, 51 pages, octavo. Was thia
Jacobs related to the Halifax printer? Mr.
Lumb was a native of Halifax parish, and be-
gan to travel in li783. His circuits were The
Dales, Inverness, Berwick, West Indies,
Antigua, St. Vincent, Barbadoes, Glasgow]
Berwick, Barnard Castle, Ripon 1798-9, New-
ca-;tle, Whitby 1802, Skipton 1803-4, Isle of
Man, Chester, Preston, Blackburn, Addinglvam
1812-3, Skipton 1814-5, Keighley 1816-7, Knare.s-
bro' 1818, Belby 181i9-20, Todmurden 1821-2,
Blackburn 1823.
ROBEORT LO'MAS became itinerant in 1789,
and died in 1810.
THEOPHILUS LESSEIY, travelled 1808 to
1841.
" Four Sermoirs on the Priesthood of Chi i; t."
Halifax, T. Walker. 1827, large octavo, 174
pagets. Preface dated Halifax, February 7,
1827. He also published three separate ser-
mons, but not in Yorkshire. He was probably
the son of a travelling preacher of the same
names who set out in 1786.
^^TLLIA:\I leech uvas called out in 1799,
his first circuit being Huddersfield. In 1800
he was at Todmorden, a.nd again in 1809-10.
In 1811-12 he Av:a.s at Halifax, removing for
the next two years to York. He laboured
until 1846. He published ''Rules for Prayer
Meetings," 3rd edition, Sheffield, 1824, 16
pages; "Account of Miss Speak of Tadcaster,"
2nd edition, 1826, 35 pages; "Essay on Case
Meetings," Bristol, 1831, 34 pages.
THO'-MAS LEEi was born in Keighley parish
in 1717. He was a convert under Wm. Grim-
shaiw, and began to travel in 1758 in Lincoln-
shire. He died in 1786, September.
THOMAS LAYCOCK became a traveller in
1796 at Colne. He laboured mostly in Y'ork-
shire. In 1819-20 he was at Todmorden.
JOHN LEE began to travel in Burton
circuit in 1803, and passing circuits in Lin-
colnshire and Cumberland he came to Pateley
Bridge in 1820-1. Cleckheaton 1822-3.
ROBERT L. LUSHER was in Newfoundland
in 1817, Montreal in 1818-9, Quebec 1820, came
to Halifax 1821-3. ^
EDWARD B. LLOYD, 1813 to 1823. He was
author of '^A. Treatise on Religious Fastmg,
being an attempt to examine the Authority,
Nature, Design and Observance of that Dutv,
18^3 96'pa.o-es, 12mo. Mr. Lloyd was killed the
same year by the upsetting of a coach as he
was going to the Conference at Sheffield.
J. CROSBY LEPPINGTOX 1832-1859, was
Author of a book and pamphlet, anti-Rcmanfst.
Was he the same gentleman who retired to
Bonegate, Brighoiise?
JONATHAN -M ASKEW was born at Bingley
in 1713. He was not only a convert under the
Rev. W. Grimshaw, but he lived with the
Ha worth incumbent some years. He travelled
with his master in Yorkshire and Lancashire,
and was widely known as "Grimshaw's Man."
He was terribly persecuted, especially at
Guiseley on one occasion where he was nearly
murdered. He was a fearless man, never
flinching from admonishing sinners to fl e f rem
the wrath to come. His plain, pathetic appealg
were powerful. Before 1752 he had been called
out by Mr. Wesley as a traveller. '-Ten such
men would carry the world before them,"' was
Wesley's testimony. In 1753 he was removed
fiom Newcastle to Manchester, and afterwards
to Haworth circuit, which at that time em-
braced Halifax district. He married at this
time and settled at Deanhead, and foniied for
himself a circuit between Rochdale and Hali-
fax, amongst the hills and doughs of the
ir'ennine Mountains. He died at Deanhead
August 3, 1793, aged about 80. He had preach-
ed at home as a 'local' up to the last.
ALEXANDER MATHER was a leader in
his day. He was a Scotchman, born at Brechin
in 1733. In 1752 he removed to London and
married. In 1757 Mr. Wesley sent him to
Epworth circuit, Lincolnshire. He was a born
orator, and a deep student of human nature
particularly. Failing health led to his retire-
ment to York. He was President of the Con-
ference in 1792. He died in August, 1800. He
was author of "A Supplement to Dr. Coke's
State of DeHvsbury House," 1788, 27 pages.
"Address to Methodists on the State of their
Temporal Affairs," (in reply to Alex. Kilham,)
by Pawson and Mather, 1796, 19 pages. The
same two issued "An Appeal with Word of
Advice, in reply to a Newcastle adtlress," 1796,
20 pages. "Address to Methodists," Jlan-
chester, July, 1797, 12 pages.
Defence of the Conference in the Expulsion
of Alex. Kilham. London, 34 pages. Two
Sermons in Meth. Mag.. 1796.
JAS. MACDONALD, 1784 to 1833, was author
of "Strictures on Methodism," 1804, 128 pages;
"Ob-ervations on the Inquisition," 1815, 24mo.;
"Address to Preachers on Education of their
Children," Rochdale, 1821, 39 pages; "Memoir
of Rev. Joseph Benson," 1822, 541 pages; new
editions of Howe's Blessedness. 1812; Brcoke's
Mute Christian; Precious Remedies. He
laboured first in Ireland, then Chester and
Lancashire, Halifax in 1801-2, Todmorden in
1807-8, and in 1819-20. He was Assistant
Editor in London, 1811-16.
246
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
JAMES A. MACDONALD, who bt^{,'aii to
travel in 1847, besides other works printwl
elsewhere, issued "The Everlasting Covenant,
two t*naons," Hdlifax, no date, 36 page.^,
email octavo.
ROBERT MARTIN, 1804 to 1833, was author
of: "A Serious Address to the Leaders,
Stewards, and Members of the Methodist
Societies, on the Divine Appointment of the
Christian Ministry, the necessity and. im-
portance of supporting it, &c. Halifax,
Thomas "Walker, Silver Street, 1815, demy
octavo, 32 pages. An Address to the Committee
of the Sunday Schools in Bury on the im-
propriety of teachiag children to write on the
Lord's Day. Bury, 1819, 8 pages, 12mo.
Doctrine of Eternal Sonship. Oxford, 1821,
72 pages, octavo.
His first circuits wei-e in Scotland, in 1807
Lincolnshire, 1814 Halifax.
W. M'KITTRICK began his itinerancy in
1803 at Almvick; in 1806-7 at Halifax, 1814-5
Sowerby Bridge; and followed at other places
in Yorkshire.
G. MANWARING started at Alnwick in
1812, was at Bingley in 1815-6, Sowerby Bridge
in 1817-8, Edinburgh 1819-20.
ISAAC MUFF began work at Blackburn in
1792, and was in Yorkshire 1793 to 1810, and
at other dates aftei-wards. He was at Tod-
morden in 1803-4.
GEORGE MARSLAND began his work in
1819 at Garstang, and was sometime in Edin-
burgh.
ROBEIRT MELSON, 1803 to 1852, wrote De-
fensive Armour against the Sword of Calumny
(v. New Connexion Controversy), Ashton, 1815,
•60 pages.
Scriptural Baptism; two Discourses at
Heptonstall. Halifax, 1824, 39 pages, 12mo.
The Union Family Altar, 12m o.
An attempt to promote Brotherly Affec-
tion and Christian Union, 2nd edition, 1828,
60 pages, l2mo.
He had travelled in Lincolnshire, Scotland,
and Lancashire before coming to Yorkshire in
1816. In 1823 he was at Todmordeu;
THOMAS MEYRICK was a native of Corn-
wall, and was brought up for the Law, but at
an early period joined the Methodists as an
itinerant, and was eminently successful. An
intemperate clergyman called forth a poem
from Mr. Meyriek on the evils of intoxicating
drinks, but I have not seen the poem. At
Newcastle-on-Tyne Mr. Meyriek had a
malignant fever. He decided to give over
travelling, and got episcopal ordination, and
was appointed to Southowram curacy, and also
taught a School. He fell a victim to the vice
he had satirically condemned, intoxication.
So states Mr. Atmore, and also that he was
made Afternoon Lecturer at Halifax Clmrcli,
where he died about 1770.
ROBERT MILLER, 1788 to 1829, wrote "A
Small Sketch of Scripture Doctrines which are
tauyht amongst the Methodists." Halifax,
1798, ^ pages, 12mo.
A Sermon on thcDuty of Parents. Wakefield,
1600, 24 pages, 12mo.
Advice to Yoi;ng Women on Courtship.
Nottingham, 1809, 12 pages.
England's Sins, Repentance, &c., Nottingham,
1809, 24 pages.
Address to Methodists on Sunday School Cor-
respondence at Macclesfield, 1811, 12 pages.
Mr. Miller came to Halifax 1797-8 from Lan-
cashire.
THOMAS MITCHELL was born in Binglt ^
parish, December 3, 1726. He joined the army
at the outbreak of the Scotch rebellion, but
obtained his discharge in 1746. He became a
convert uuider Grimshaw, and, with Paul
Greenwood, assisted as a local preacher. Be-
fore 1751 he 'was oat as an itinerant, and
besides othei- persecutions nearly lost his life
in Lincolnshire by a lawless mob. They
stripped him of his apparel, painted him from
head to foot with white paint, loUed him into
a pond, and drove him out of the parish with
nothing but an old coat upon him. He
laboured on until about 1786, and died after
forty 3-ears' service. He was a mere exhorter
and not qualified to make a sermon. "A
Short Account of the Life of Mr. Thomas
Mitchell," 1781, 24 pages, IQmo.
J. MORGAN, who laboured in Halifax parish,
was John^ I think, and not James. The latter
was author of the "Life of Thomas Walsh,"
"The Crucified Jesus," 1772, and three other
works. He withdrew to Dublin and died there
in 1774. The other preacher, John Morgan,
was a plain, rough, pious man, with a large
family, and many trials, but still a talented
preacher. He died in 1782, leaving a wife and
eight children.
JOHN MURLIN was a Comishman, born
in 1722. In 1749 he joined the Methodists, and
in 1754 he became an itinerant although he
suffered from rheumatism, and could have re-
tired on his wife's fortune. In 1787 he retired
to High Wycombe, where he died in 1799, and
was buried in Wesley's Viavilt. City Road,
Loudon. He was called the Weeping Prophet.
He publLshed, with initials only, A Letter to
Richaiid Hill, Esq., on Hill's Five Letters to
Mr. Fletcher. Bristol. 1775, 42 pages.
Sacred Hymns on Various Sixbjects. Leeds,
1781, 56 pages, 12mo., and a second edition at
Bristol, 1782, 75 pages.
EHegy on Mr. Fletcher and other Poems, 3rd
edition. High Wycombe, 1788, 132 pages, 12m o.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
•14.7
WILLIAM MYLBS; 1777 to 1828.
A Chronologfical History of the People called
Methodj.sts of tiio Coiuiexion of the late Rev.
John Wesley, 1729-1802; 3r<l edition enlarged.
London, 1803, pages xii., 358, octavo. We do
not claim thi.s as a Halifax book, but it is a
nece sary reference volume on early .Methodi.-m
in Yorkshire generally. The Wesleys were
called Mtthodi-Jts in 1729 at Oxford. Benjamin
Ingham joined the Methodist stiidents there
in 173J. Mr. Delamctte, who "went with We.sley
and Ingham to America in 1735-7, is mentioned
soon after. Ingham and Delamotte were the
first missioners about Lightcliffe and Birstall.
In May, 1738, Weedey and some Moravians
formed a Society in Fetter Lane, London. In
July, 1740, he separated from the Moravians,
because of theological difference with Mr.
Bohler and Mr. Molther. May, 1742, John
Wesley visited John Nelson at Birstall. In
1745 William Grimshaw became a co-worker.
Mr. MyLes givcts a list of Wesleyan Chapels
in Yorkshire for 1802, and includes: — Brad-
shaw 1774, Greetland 1779, Halifax 1754. Hep-
tonstiill 1766, Sourby 1786, Stainland 1758, but
he omits Brighouse.
The first edition of the Chronological His-
tory wa.s dated from Eochdale, 1798, 24 pngeis.
The second edition, Liverpool, 1800, 223 pages.
The fourth edition, 1813, 486 pages.
Mr. Myles ^vas author of many more works
before 1806. He came to Halifax 1819-1820.
Two of his works belong especially to Halifax,
namely : —
" Remarks on Building Chapels in the Wes-
leyan Methodist Connexion." Halifax, R.
Sugden, 1821, demy octavo, 48 pages. This is
a history of building notes from the Confer-
ence minutes, &c.. 1739-1820.
"Life and Writings of tlie late Rev. William
•Grimshaw, A.B., Minister of Hawoith. New-
castle, 1806, 199 pages, 12mo. Duodecimo,
second edition, 2.s. 6d.
CXXVL— METHODIST PREACHERS.
JOHN NELSON ivas born at Birstall in 1707.
When ten years old he began to be interasted
in religious matters, and attended the Epis-
copalians and Nonconformists, Romanists and
Quakers in succession, in Yorkshire and in
London. He heard Whitfield in Moorfields and
Weslej' at Fetter Lane before he found a settle-
ment. Returning to Yorkshire, Nelson began
local exhortations, and in May, 1742, was visit-
ed by John Wesley.
" The Case of John Nelson, written by him-
self." 3rd edition, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1744,
36 pages 12mo. Sixth edition, Bristol, 1761.
An Kxtract of John Nelson's Journal.
Bristol, 1767, 169 pages, 12mo.
The first edition from the Wesleyan Book
Room was a 12mo., 144 pages, 1762.
" An Extract from the Journal of Mr. .John
Nelson, Preacher of the Go.-:pel, containing an
account of God's Dealings with him from his
youth to the 42nd year of his age. Wiitten
by himself." Halifax, R. Sugden, HaLl-end,
1824, li2mo., pages 192. Another Halifax edi-
tion, 1841.
"An Extract, &c. Halifax, Wm. Milner,
Cheapside, 1SJ4, 24nio., 160 pages. This edition
omits a few pages given at the end of the 1824
edition. John Nelson "was born in Birstall
parlih, Octobsr, 1707; he, like his father, was
a stone mason. Working in London, he had
opportunities of hearing John Weslsey and
Philip Henry Molther (Moravian,) preach.
On returning to Yorkshire he heard Benjamin
Ingham and David Taylor preach, and Peter
Bohlei- when he came to supply for Mr. In;^-
ham; but Nelson thought that Mr. Tolschig
discouraged Bohler's friendship with Nelson.
"After some time there were twenty preachers
come to Smith House, four oi" five of them
weie clergymen who had been with Mr.
Wesley." Nelson had now to take definite
side;, and gave in his adhesion to John Wesley.
After being pressed for a soldier and released
he found that Richard Viney, of Lightcliffe,
Spangenberg's a.ssistaut, had got some in-
fluence in Birstall, and was leading the people
from Wesleyanism. Nelson's Journal runs up
to 1749. From that time he travelled as a
preacher until his death -luly H, 1774, and was
buried at Birstall.
ROBERT NICHOLSON began his work in
Scotland in 1811, got through Durham and
reached Sowerby Bridge in 1823.
JAMBS NEIEDHAM became itinerant in 1799,
and died in 1818.
JAMBS ODDIE was one of first band of
Yorkshire Methodists, 1746, and very useful,
but disgraced himself in the eyes of some
zealots because he took to ti'ade at Yarm, 1771,
and got rich. He married for his secoml wife
the widow of Mr. tTolbeck, Keighley, but a
separation took place in 1785. He continued
to reside in Keighley, and left the Methodist
Society. A little before his death he united
■with Mr. Atlay at Dewsbury and preached for
a short time. He published "A Word of Con-
solation to such as mourn under a Sense of
Sin," with a short Account of the Author,
1761. 4th edition, 1816, 63 pages. Mr. Oddie
was author of "A Sermon on the Resurrection,"
Leeds, 1790. 22 pages, 12mo.
JOHN PAWSON, 1762 to 1806, was a con-
siderable writer after 1795. In 1797 he pub-
lished the Funeral Sermon on Thomas Hanby,
248
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
16 paKOri, ii"'(-l anotlifi- for 1). Bumstead, same
year, 16 pages; aLso one for A. Mather, Leeds,
18(M), 36 pages. Hiri autobiography and family
history was printed at Leeds in 1801, 124 pages.
Sermons on Various Subjects, Leeds, 1801, 440
pages. Tire same, with Memoir by Entwisl..^;
Leeds, 1809.
JOHN W. PIPE began travelling in 1818-9
at Cleckheatou, after wkich ha -went to London.
THOMAS PEEISTO'N, 1798-1831, published
"The Death of the Righteous, a funeral ser-
mon for Mr. Robinson, Bridlington. York,
1819, 29 pages. He began hi.s travels at Edin-
burgh, 1798, and was at So^verby Bridge 1820-2.
JOHN PEITCIIARD, 1771 to 1814, issued a
"Sermon occasioned by the Death of Captain
Webb." Bristol, 1797, 31 pages.
JONATHAN PARKIN travelled from 1782
to 1817.
THOMAS PINDER commenced at Thetford
1799, came to Birstall circuit in 1818.
ROBERT PICKERING began at Shipley 1811,
was at Todmordeu 1816"'7, remove'd thence to
Barnsley.
HENRY RANSON began at Darlington in
1812 and came to Halifax next year, removing
to Basingwold for 1814-5.
MARMADUKE REVELL was itinerant from
1799 to 1823.
JOSEPH SUTCLIFEE, M.A., 1786 to 1856.
''An Introduction to Christianity, designed to
preserve Young People from Irreligion and
Vice." Second edition, improved. Printed by
J. and B. K. Rogers, "Jonrnar' Office, Lord
Street, Halifax, 1808, small octavo, pages ii.,
323. The dedication is dated Howden, July,
1801. The introduction dated Leeds, May,
1808. The la.st page gives "Books written by
Joseph Sutcliffe" ; list of five given, but these
are not all, for he issued more than thirty.
He Avas a native of Baiklon, I believe. The
Doctrine of Justification by Eaith, &c.; four
eermons, printed at Halifax, 1808, 50 pages,
8vo. "The Albion Catechism" previously men-
tioned, and queried as his work, is included in
a list of his by Dr. Osborne. Sutcliffe's Gram-
mar, Geology, Ostervald translated from the
French, beLsicle? his theol gi -al works pronounce
him a talented scholar, well supporting his
M.A. degree. He was at Halifax in 1796 and
again in 1805-6.
WILLIAM SUTCLIFEE; 1804 to 1833, was a
poet as Avell as a preacher. He published
"The Trial of Cain, a poem," Halifax, 1823,
thirty-two pages, 12mo. He travelled in Neva
Scotia. We.?t Indies, and Canada, and came
home to Halifax, 1?22, Manchester, 1823, as a
eupernumerary.
ALEXR. 8UTER. 1779 to 1817, was also a
poet. "Death, Judgment and Eternity," a
poem in three parts. Chester, 1803, 38 page^.
12mo. "Thoughts on the Sabbath and it>
Dutie,;"; Bradford, 1813, 21 pnges, octavo.
He and his family settled in Halifax.
JOHN SHAW began his itinerancy in 1763,
and notwithstanding his extraordinary corpul-
ence he travelled thirty year,s, finishing his
course at Pocklington in 1793.
W. W. STAMP, author of Method.sin in Brad-
ford, published a "Memoir of the Rev. John
Crosse, M.A., (of Cross-stone, and Bradford);
1844, 17 pages, octavo.
JOH.\ STAMi^ began to travel in 1787 in
The Dales. Besides many other Yorkshire
circuits he was in Tcdmcrden 1813-4.
WILLIAM STONES began 1809 at Newbury,
was at Soaverby Bridge in 1813.
JOHN SMITHSON started in Norfolk in 1821.
JARVIS SHAW in 1809 wa; at Brackley; in
1820 at Cleckheaton.
SAMUEL SEWELL, at Salisbury 1803,
reached Todmorden in 1815-6.
JOHN SIMPSON, junior, at Dudley 1805, was
at Cleckheaton in 1820-1.
EDWARD SUMNER and JOHN SUMNER
started their itinerancies in the South West
of England.
DAVID TAYLOR was a conspicuous leader of
Methodism in Cheshire and Derbyshire, and
extended h.'s rambles through South Yorkshire
to Calderdale. His marriage by a mode not
prescribed by law, caused an estrangement in
many of his friends. He thereupon left the
Methodists and laboured with the Moravians,
but there was not freedom enough with them,
so he turned Quaker but found no rest, and
on returning to Methodism found that his gifts
as a preacher had vanished. He died about li780.
HE^NRY TAYLOR, of Rcssendale, was first
a Methodist local preacher, then became a
Particular Baptist and served some years in
Birmingham, &c., but in 1788 was accepted as
an Itinerant at Liverpool. Leaving Sheffield
he died o;i his way to the West Indies, 1798.
THOMAS TENNANT was born in London in
1741. In 1770 he travelled with Mr. John
Wesley, and was next sent to Newcastle circuit.
Although extremely nervous he travelled 22
years, then retired to London in 1792. pnd died
there next yef"'
WILLIAM THOMPSON, an Irishman, born
in 1733, became itinerant in 1757 in England.
He became the first President of Conference
after Mr. Wesley's death, 1791. He died at
Birmingham, Mav 1st, 1799.
GEORGE THOMPSON began his work in
Scotland in 1802, and cam:^ via the Isle of
Man to Lancashire. In 1823 he was appointed
to Sowerby Bridrre circuit.
JOHN THOMPSON became itinerant in 1810,
and was at Sowerbv Bridge in 1819-20, after
which he went to Skiptcn.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHOR.S.
249'
THOMAS THOMPSON Laboured iu the
Middle of Kngland from 1809.
W. THBOiiALD began labours at Bedford iu
1810. Ill 1811-2 he wat; at Sowerby Bridge aiid
in 1823 at Halifax.
JAMES TOWNLEY be-an at Cautcrbuiy in
li796, came lo Todmorden 1799, thence to Lon-
don, &c., and died in 1833. He became D.D.,
and was author of at lea.st eight volumes be-
tiveeu 1814 and 1832, biblical and eccl«oiastic<iI
arciiseoiogy.
WILLIAM THOM became a leading Kilham-
ite or New Connexionist. He travelled from
1774 to the split in 1797. He publisiitd a
''Serious Call to Servants of the Methodist
Society in Leeds," 1796, 11 pages. ''Outlines
of a Constitution tor the Methoaiit New Itiner-
ancy; wich Appendix by W.T. and A.
Kilham." Leeds, 1797, 48 pages.
GEORGE TCTRXEE began to travel in 1824.
He was author of "Erternal Election and Ee-
probation inseparable; a reply to J. Har-
greaves," 1833, 64 pages, 8vo.
" We-ileyaii Economy founded on New Testa-
ment Principles; reply to Rev. T. AUiii,"
Halitax, 1835, 44 page-j, 12mo.
■'Justification by Faith alone," 1836, 24
pages.
"Justification by Faith alo'ie; or Wesley and
Watson V. REV /ABRAHAM SCOTT" (native
of Eri;;!:ouse), 1837, 68 pages octavo.
'' Tlie Old Protestant Doctrine of Justifica-
tion by Faith asserted, or Wesley and Watson
V. Rev. Abraham Scott," 1838, 56 pages.
" Rt marks upon the late Controversy re;-p?ct-
ing tJi9 Doctrine of Justification by Faith : a
final answer to the Rev. Abraham Scott,"
1838, 14 pages octavo.
• Christianity Triumphing, a Sermon."
Burslem, 1838, 19 pages.
" Brief Memoirs of Susanah Hardciistle,"
1838; also tdition in 1843.
" Constitution and Discipline of Wesleyau
Metholism, 1841, 319 pages.
'' Divine Validity of Infant Baptism by
Sprinkling," 1844. 68 pages; also 1864.
'' Mr. Wesley, Annotator and Polemic," 1844.
" Democratic Ectlesia.sticism v. Congrega-
tionalism," 1851, 121 pages.
"Spiritual Life delineated and exemplified;
a Memorial of Miss Ann Taylor, of Halifax;
1819, l8mo. There is a copy in Halifax Free
Library, dated 1851.
The REV. THOMAS TAYLOR, 1761-1816,
Wesleyan Methodist preacher, who wrote
pamphlets also under the signature PHIL-
ALETHES, was a somewhat prolific author.
REDEEMING GRACE; a short account of
God's Dealings with Thomas Taylor; 4th edi-
tion, Leeds, J. Bowling, 1785. 60 pages, small
octavo. The preface is inscribed to the Rev.
J. Wesley, November 1, 1779. Taylor was
born at Roth'well in November, 1738, and was
a .seventh son, and therefore according to aa
idea, whicii partly survives still, endowed with
good luck and prescience. He attended the
casual preachings of Paul Greenwood, the Rev.
George Whitfield, the Rev. Benjamin Ingham;
and lastly the Rev. John Wesley at Birstall,
1761, and he became at once a travelling
preacher in Wales.
He published at Manchester ''A Cry to the
rrofessor's Conscience, or Thoughts, Words,
and Actions.''
" The Word of God a hid Treasure, being the
substance of a Sermon delivered at Hepton-
stall, February 29, 1775, published at the re-
quest of the hearers; second edition, Leeds,
J. Bowling, 1783, 23 pages.
" Concordance to the Holy Scriptures," by
T.T., 4s. 6d.
" Sons of Darkness a Sennon at
Birmingham." 4th edition, Leeds, 1785, 24
pages.
" Divinity of Son of God Sermon at
Sheffield in May, 1784. 2nd edition, Leeds,
1785, 24 pages.
" Sorrows of Time Funeral Sermon
at Chester, January, 1768, on the Death of
Miss Mary Gilbert. Leeds, James Bowling,
no date, 22 pages.
" A Time for all Things; being a Sermon
delivered at Halifax, by Thomas Taylor. Leeds,
.J. Bowling, 1785, 23 pages.
" A Sabbath Day's Journey to the Heavenly
Canaan," 2nd edition, 1784, there is no printer's
name and no author's name, but I assume it
was Taylor's.
" A Solemn Caution against the Ten HoriLv
of Calvinism by PhUalethes, Lately escaped
(evidently Taylor, see preface); 2nd edition,
1780, no printer's name, 24 pages; inscribed to
John Wesley, December, 1779.
'' An Appeal to the Public whether a Calvin-
ist can, with a good conscience, be a Minister
of the Church of England: by Philalethes.
1780, no printer's name, 12 pages.
" The World turn'd TJpside-down : being the
Substance of a Sermon at York, May, 1781; by
T. Taylor; 2nd edition, Lee.ds, J. Bowling,
1784, 24 pages.
Character of Christ's Ministers, and the
People's duty to them. A Sermon at Oldham
on the death at Nottingham, of the Rev.
Thomas Hanby : by Thomas Taylor, V.D.M..
Blackburn, 1798, 24 pages, 12mo.
Funeral Sermon for Rev. Thomas Hanby:
Blackburn, li798, 24 pages.
He printed many more booklets at York,
Leeds, Hull, Birmingham, Manchester, &c.
Britannia's Mercies and her Duty: consider-
ed in t'wo discourses delivered in the Methodist
250
HALIFAX BOOKS AKD AUTHORS.
•Chapel at Halifax on Thursday, November 29,
1798, being a general Thanksgiving Day, by
Thomas Taylor, V.D.M. 12mo., Lecdi, 1799.
Second edition, Birmingham, 1802, 32 pages,
J2mo.
CXX VI I .— IWBTHOD'I .ST PRE ACHElRS.
THOMAS VASEIY died in 1818, atler 17
years itinerancy. He is called junior, an<l
was probably son of another Thomas who be-
gan to travel in 1775, and was for eleven
years in various part.s of Yorkshire, but not
in Halifax district. Tlie Life of the Rev.
Thomas Vasey, by his widow, 378 page-;, octavo,
was printed at Halifax in 1874.
WILLIAM VE'VERS, 1813 to 1850, had been
at Gateshead, Morpeth, Holmfirth and Burn-
ley before he settled at Todmordeu 1818-20.
Prom 1821 to 1823 he laboured in Glasgow.
All his eil'eiven bookl.ets Avere printed after
1827, thrtMJ of them at Leeds, 1829, 1837, 1839,
possibly others.
JOHN VALTON, 1775-1794, was born in
France in 1740, and broiight up a rigid
Romanist. In 1759 by the influence of a
nobleman he got a Government appointment
in ElLgland. A Sermon in a Methodist
preaching house in London was the means of
leading him to join the Society about 1764.
He began to vi.sit prisoners in London in
1767, and Mr. Wesley hearing of his work
asked him to [join the itinerancy. He did
.not comply until August, 1775. In 1783 his
labours in the West Riding were eminentlj-
f.uccessful and large numbeis joined the
societies, but his exertions went beyond his
.strength. In 1786 he went to Bristol,
married a lady of piety and fortune, but his
health had been l^ndermined, and he had to
retire to Kingswood. His wife died in Nov-
ember, 1793, and he, in the next year, was
buried near her in St. George's, Kingswood.
Our Baildon woi-thy, the Rev. Joseph Sut-
oliffe, previously mentioned, published "The
Life and Labours of the late Rev. John
Valton, written by himself; edited with
Addresses and Letters, by Joseph Suteliffe,
A.M.," London, 1830, 138 pages, 12mo.
GEIORGEI WADSWORTH became a travel-
ler in 1770, and after twenty-five years'
service was afflicted with the palsy, 1795; and
died June 12, 1797. From indirect evidence
I assume we may name him as a Halifax
parish native.
JOHN WALKER, Wesleyan Minister, of
Mytholmroyd, was author of ''Rhymes of the
Watchman for every night in the year."
octavo, pp. iv., 572, Bradford, 1862. He wa.s
author of -'Views of a Watchman rri the Wa'Js
of Zion," 1857.
FRANCIS A. WEST, 1822 to 1869, wrote a
considerable number of pamphlets, but only
a few of them are connected with Halifax,
e.g., "The Presence of God with his People;'
a ctnteuary sermon preached at Halifax."
1840, 64 pages, octavo.
A Pa,storail Leit:r on the Revival of Re-
ligion: 1843, 18 pages, 32nio.
A l''uneral Sermon for the Rev. Thomas
Galland: 1843, 35 pages, octavo.
" Memoirs of Jonathan Saville, of Halifax."
1843, 64 pages, 12mo.
"Memoirs of JONATHAN SAVILLE, cf
Halifax; including his autobiography." By
Francis A. West. Second edition. Leed^i, R.
Inchbold, 1844, 61 pages, small octavo, frontis-
piece portrait, painted by G. Drake engvuved
by T. A. Dean. The first preface Is d:.tfd
October, 1843, the second February, 1844. 'I he
first edition is in Halifax Free Lib'.arv.
Jonathan Saville was born at Great Uorlon,
December 9, 1759. His father, a me^n'i^r at
Kipping Independent Chapel, was kil'ed at a
quarry. His mother, a Moravian, died when
he was under four years of age, so he soon
experienced the cruelties of town-apprentice-
ship, and endured lameness for the rest of
his life. From 1782 his stor.v is interwoven
with Halifax Methodism to the date of his
death. May 26, 1842.
'' Memoirs of Jonathan Saville, of Halifax,
including his Autobiography" by Francis A.
West. Third edition. Leeds, 1848, 70 pages,
12mo., 6d. Mr. West dates this edition from
Manchester, December, 1847, and states that
he has learnt, that bccsides the two former
editions, it has been reprinted in America.
The Wesleyan Conference Book Room now
issue West's "Memoirs of Jonathan Saville,
of Halifax, including his Airtobiography,"
but there is no portrait; 70 pages, 24mo.
CUTHBERT WHITESIDE! began his
itinerancy at Banbury in 1796, In 1819-20 he
was in Halifax Circuit.
W. WILKINSON began his travels at
Cicckheaton in 1822, and went to Oxford next
year.
ROBERT WOOD became a travelling
preacher in 1811 at Bramley, in 1813 was at
Woodhouse Grove, in 1815 at Halifax, 1816 at
Sowerby Bridge, 1817-8 Sheffield, 1819 Wake-
field, after that Liverpool, Bristol, &c.
JOS. WORRALL began at Louth in 1808.
He spent 1817-8 at Todmorden.
JOHN WALKER, 1831 to 1868. Wesleyan
Minister, published "Views of a Watchman
on the Walls of Zion"; Halifax, John Nichol-
\ 1. Northgate, 1857, small octavo, 162 page-.
The preface is dated from Mytholmroyd.
Rhymes of the Watchman for every Night
in the Year; Bradford, 1862, 572 pages, 12mo.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
251
THOMAS WESTALL wai o:ie of Wesley's
first lay preacher.^, and laboured for forty
years bafore retiring to Bristol, where he
died in 1794, aged 75. He had been persecuted
and imprisoned in Cornwall for preaching.
ZEiC'HARIAH YEWDALL was born at
Eccleshill, his ancestors being Quaker.j, and
the family had been of yeomanry clabs at
Idb from before 1570. He was fiist stationed
at Pembroke, 1779, and after travelling in
circuit.4 in Wales, Ireland, England and
Scotlnid, came to Ha'ifa.x 1805 6. From ISll tc
the time of his death, about 1824, he was a
supernumerary at Halifax. A portrait, with
memoir, may be found in the Methodist
Magazine.
This bibliography and history requires
carrying forwaixis from 1834 to the present,
and e.-pecially I hope same time to go through
my set of the " Arminian and Methodist
Magazine " to compile a list of natives of
Halifax parish who have been called to the
itinerancy, with a list of their portraits, and
notices of any books thej- have printed. This
al.vo may help to a completer notice of lay-
authors, and of writers who have written
against Methodism. A few items are here
appended.
N. FLETCHER; Vindication of the
Methodist Dissected. Halifax, 1750, 16 pages.
I am not aware that I have seen this very
rare pamphlet; nor Sladdin's, of 1749.
JOSEPH THOMPSON, Southowram;
Singular Life and Surprising Adventures of
Joseph Thompson of Halifax, alias Fickller
Thompson; written by himself. Reprinted
by Nicho'son, Wakefield, 78 pages, 48ino. See
previous notice.
JOHN SLADDIN. of Ovenden, is the only
one of this name that I am aware of who
has issued a book, though for fifty years
Orlando Sladdin and his sons, of Brighouse,
have been well-known musicians, and com-
posers. The family name is obtained from
a place, Sladedean, on the high lands of
Halifax and Bradford boundary.
John Sladdin's pamphlet is entitled '' A
Brief Description of the Methodists, and a
Confutation of their dangerous Principles."
with a short addres.s to the Archbishop of
York, and a preface to the Reader. York,
'8vo., 1749.
DISNEY ALEIXANDER, M.D.
" Prospectus of a wjrk intended for publica-
tion, and entitled The Four Gospels, trans-
lated frcm the Greek, with Notes critical,
moral and explanatory, calculated to
facilitate the study, develop the beauties, and
illutrate the truth of the evangelical
history." Halifax, P. K. Holden, for the
Author, 1*15, demy octavo, 108 pages. The
prospectus is really the Preface to a proposed
work in two octavo volumes, which I think
were not issued. He was author of '"Christian
Holine&s illustrated and enforced in three
discourses preached at the Methodist Chapel,
Halifax, November and December, 1799, in-
cluding additional observations. Printed at
the office of J. Fawcett, Ewcod Hall, near
Halifax, 1800; small octavo, 107 pages.
''Reasons for Methodism briefly stated, in
thr^e L.tters to a Friend. Halifax, J. Nichol-
son and Cj., 1796, 83 pages octavo. There was
a London edition, 1799, 72 pages, price 6d.
Dr. Alexander lived at Wakefield some years.
ANONYMOUS.— •• A Serious and Candid
Audrtss to the Methodist Societies in
the Halifax and other Neighbouring
Circuits. Halifax, September 1, 1797.
Halifax, printed at Jacobs Office,' 24mo.,
•)0 pages. "'Dear Friends, — My mind has for
•some time been painfully exercised in con-
templating the agitated state of our Connexion
in the.je parts." An address from the Halifax
Circuit, asking for lay-delegates to be admitted
to Conference, had been rejected in that par-
ticular request. The writer was evidently in
favour of lay representation. Was it D.
ALEXANDER, W. HATTON, or some other
Halifax worthy.^
In Halifax Free Library the following five
pamphlets may be seen:
False Zeal expotsed; a Sermon preached in
the Methodist Chapel, Halifax, on Sunday,
February 9, 1800. Halifax.
Expositions of the Proceedings of the Old
Methodist Conference, &c. By a Member of
the Old Methodist Society. Halifax, 1817.
Rules, Orders and Regulations for the Gov-
ernment of the Beneficent Society, &c., for
reliei of disabled Preachers of the Methodist
New Connexion, &c. Halifax, 1816.
Address of the Methodists of the New Con-
nexion to the British Public, by order of the
Ministers and Lay Representatives assemble<l
at Halifax, May 9, 1817, in their 21st Annual
Conference.
Substance of a Sermon preached in Hanover
Chapel, Halifax, August 15, 1817; occasioned
by the death of Jonathan Akroyd,
Eisq. London, 1847.
I am not now prepared to follow up the
literature of the branches from Methodism in
Halifax parish, though the societies here have
had close connection, first with the Kilhamite
1 upture of 1797 and the Barkerite expulsion of
fortv years later. Besides these the Primitive
Methodists and the Wesleyan Reformers have
a short series each of publications, and the
latter is followed by the writings of the
Methodist Free Church members.
252
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
I Ihink the foUowiug pamphlet was printed
in Halifax, (a copy may be seen in the Free
Library there), ''The Substance of a Sermon
preached at the opening of Ebenezer Chapel,
Leeds, May 7, 1797, by Alex. Kilham."
JOSEIPH BAEKEH published " A True
Statement of Facts," addressed to the
Methodist New Connexion, on his expulsion.
Halifax, Nicholson and Wilson, 11 pages,
(about 1&41).
WILLIAM TEOTTEIR, in sympathy with
Joseph Barker at that time, wrote ''Justice
and Forbearance of the Methodist New Con-
nexion Conference at Halifax. (Bradford),
1841, 96 pages; dated from Bradford. He was
author of a pamphlet, 34 pages, printed at
Bradford, 1811, entitled "The foolishness of
God wiser than the wisdom of Man; a Letter
to Abraham Scott in answer to SCOTT'S Com-
mon Sen.se in the business of Life." In the
same year and place he printed a Lecture,
"On the Use of Money," 24 pages, and ''Pro-
ceedings on Laying the Foundation Stone of
Croft Street Chapel, Bradford," 4 pages. He
haid reason afterwards to is-jue a tract of 16
pages, printed in Bradford, ''Be not deceived!
A word of warning to any who are in danger
of being deceived by Joseph Barker."
AMICUS: Wesleyan Reform— The Delep;ates
and their Admirable Manifesto. Halifax, 1850.
DAVID WHITELEY, Lister Lane, Halifax,
published '' Illustrious Local Preachers,"
edited by David Whiteley. Wesley Centenary
Commemoration Volume. Bradford printed,
1891, 320 pages, octavo, "Tlie Methodists have
this year, Avith great rejoicing, celebrated the
centenary of John Wesley's DEATH." It is
very unusual to rejoice at a go'od man's death.
Mr. Whiteley. I prefer to rejoice at receiving
your book, giving twenty-one biographical
sketches, and thirteen portraits. Of the
fcwenty-one— all or mostly Yorkshiremen—
Jonathan Saville, Thomas Midgley, William
Garrett, Aid. Alfred Ram-:den, Samuel Hoyle,
Thomas Eigg, and Jonathan Dodgson are the
Halifax examples.
CXX VIII .— MEITHODI h T BRANCH ES .
I am not pi-epared to give lists of books by
members of the different branches of Metho:^-
ism at present.
After the "Old Bodv," we ought to gather
materials for the Kilhamites or METHODIST
NEW CONNEXION, dating from 1796. f
would like to know if any reader can inform
me where a complete set of the Methodist New
Connexion M,a,gazine, or a fairly long run of
the volumes may be seen. A similar series of
the vearly Conference minutes would be of
great iielp to me. The EE(V. ABRAHAM
SCOTT, born at Brighouse in 1801, was one
Of tlie moit prolific of the New Connexion
authjrs. 1 have some of his controversial
pamphlets, but hope to get a more complete
list belore printwg tliem. He was a preacher
for forty-one years, and died in 1850.
Frojn the Ne-w Conuexi.nists two biiinehe.-,
have sprung, having a local intei-est, namely
the BARKERITE.-; and the .«ALV .A'l'lON
ARMY. .Jo>eph Barker and William Trotter
havi' l)6r'n previously mentioned. They were
considerable .authors. Barker particularly so.
Baiker's list scarcely belon,gs to Halifax parish,
and it would be capable of filling a small
pamphlet, for he printed at Wortley, New-
castle, &c., a large number of miscellaneoiis
book-, besides works written by himself. I
have' just secured over seventy of his tracts.
Barker v. Brew'in Grant, Discussion at
Halifax, 1855.
His Life has been published, and a strange
eventful record it gives, from Methodist,
Agnostic. Secularist, and other phases, to finish
in Primitive Methodism. His friend William
Tiotter was very much different in every
re;*pect, and a division naturally resulted.
Tlie Barkerite chapel was at Eastrick, opposite
the Common School. Mr. Trotter joined the
"Brethren," and occasionally preached at
Slead Syke and Brighoiise.
He resided some years at Otley, and York,
where he was identified with the "Brethren,"
and issued "Good News for Young People," a
monthly magaz.tne, '^Peace in Believing," a
paniplil'^t. Lectures on Prophecy, and series
of tracts.
The second branch from the New Connexion
is only of local interest because the Eev. Wil-
liam Booth wa.:; minister at Brighouse one
year, and here his son T. Br.amwell was born.
"GENERAL" BOOTH'S chief work is
"In Darkest England and the Way Out," a
thick octavo volume of wide circulation.
SALVATION AEMY PUBLICATIONS.
By the General [Rev. Wm. Booth.]
Salvation Soldiery. Stirring Aiddresses on the
Requirements of Jet-sus Christ's Service.
Every page full of Burning Truths. 158
pages. Illustrated. Gilt Edged, Cloth 2s.
6 1.; l.s. 6d.; Paper, Is.
The General's Letters. Eem.arkable Series of
Letters published in "The War Cry" of 1835,
dealing with Neutrality, Courage, Eealities,
&c.. &c. 204 pages. Half Calf, 5s.; Cloth,
2s.; Paper, Is.
The Training of Children. Important to
Parents. This book shows how to make
Children into Saints and Soldiers. '260
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HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
25a
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The Salvation Army Directory. No. I. For
Young Children. Prepared with a view to
Training Salvation Army Children in the
Love of God and the Knowledge of Hie Will.
29 pages. One Halfpenny.
The Salvation Army Directory. No. II. For
Childien of from Ten to Fourteen years of
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Orders ,and Kigiilations for Field Officers. New
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3s. 6d.
Orders and Regulations for Soldiers of the
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Paper, Id .
Tne Wliy and Wher?fore cf the Rules and
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HoM- to be Saved. One Halfpeunv, or 3s. per
100.
A Ladder to Holiness. One Halfpenny, or 3vS.
per 100.
Holy Living: Or, What the Salvation Army
Teaches About Sanctificatioji. 32 pages. One
Penny, or 6s. per 100.
Pitrity of Heart. A Collection of Letters to
Salvationists on Pergonal Holiness. 118 pages.
Cloth, le.; Paper, 6d.
R-eligion for Eivery Day. Vol.. I. An invalu-
able Work for every Salvationist, dealing
with matters affecting SouL, Body, Family,
Business, &c. 190 pages. Cloth, Is. 6d;
Paper, Is.
Love, Marriage, and Home. Being Vol. II. of
Religion for Every Day. 190 pages. Cloth,
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Religioii fcr Every Day. Two vols, in one.
370 pages. Cloth Boards, 3,s.
Faith-Healing. A Meuiorandirm specially
written for Ofhcers of The Salvation A^mJ^
31.
From a medal, with eight-pointed star,
issued in 1883, I learn that the seventeenth
anniversary of the Amiy was held July 7th,
1882.
By the Late Mrs. General Bootli.
Life and Death. Stirring Addresses to the
Unsaved. Thong >tful and Powerful Appeals.
206 pages. Half Calf, 5s.; Cloth Gilt, 2s.
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Godliness. Searching Disquisitions on Im-
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Is.
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Religion should read this book. Christs of
the Nineteenth Century compared with the
Christ of God; Cowardly Service v. the Real
Warfare, &c. 1G8 pagee. aoth, 23.; Paper,
Is.
The Salvation Army in Relation to the Church
and State, Deals wfth important questions
relating to tke Church in its Political and
National Character. 92 pa^'es. Half Calt,
4s. 61.; Cloth. Is.; Piiper, 6d.
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Paper, Is
By Chief of the Staff,
[T. B. Booth, born at Brighouse.]
Books that Bless. A Serievs of Pungent Re-
views, reprinted by request from "The War
<'ry." Just the sort of literature to keep
the heart warm and enthusiastic for soul/=.
191 pages. Cloth, Is. 6d.; Linen, Is.
Servants of All A description of the Officers
of tire Army and their Work.. 167 pages.
Cloth Bevelled Boards, is. 6d.; Cloth, Is.;
Paper, 6d.
Social Reparation; Or, Personal Impressions
of Work for Darkest England. 124 pages.
Cloth, Is.; Paper, 6d.
On the Banks of the River. A Brief History
of the Last Days on Earth of Mrs. General
Booth. 142 pages. Illustrated. Clotli
Boards, Is.; Paper Covers, 6d.
Bible Battle-Axes. A Reprint of Short Scrip-
ture Studies from "The Field Officer"
magazine. Carefully revised. Published in
•eparat ■ form by request. 178 pages. Cloth
1«.
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The Life of Mrs. Booth, the Mother of the
Salvation Army. Two Volumes. Profusely
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Abridged Edition of the above. Containing
practically the bulk of the original matter,
with all the Portraits and Uliistrations.
536 pages. Cloth, Bevelled Boards, 3s. 6d.
Catherine Booth, a Sketch by Duff, 6d.
By Commissioner Railton.
Twenty-One Years Salvation Army. A Sketch
of The Salvation Army Work from its Com-
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Boards, Is. 6d.; Paper Covers, Is.
The Army Book Department, London, issue
besides their famous "War Cry" weekly, "The
Young Soldier" weekly, "Social Gazette"
weekly, "All the World," a missionary month-
ly, and ''The Deliverer," a monthly on
Women's Social Work, a number of religious
works, original and reprinted, as John Allen,
Geor;^e Fox, David Stoner, Isaac Marsden,
Peter Cartwi-ight, Musical Works, &c.
254
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
The next branch of Methodism we should
refer to was founded by Jliigh Bourue and
William Clowes nearly a hundred years ago,
and formerly known as KANTBKS but now
as PRIMITIVE .AlEITHODISTS. Neither of
the men were identified with Halifax paiish,
thoutjh Mr. Clowe« laboured mostly in East
Yorkishire'. The lives of both men have been
published, and that of Clowes givcis valuable
glimpseci of Yorkshire social life from 1810.
I have gone tlu'ough all the Primitive Metho-
dist Magazines, and have the Annals of the
Society for Yorkshire ready for the press.
The REV. JOHN SIMPSON has been the most
prolific of their local writers. He aftel•^vards
left the Connexion. Of his works I
have the "Life of Hugh Bourne," 1859; "The
Conqueror's Palm, a funeral sermon on Mrs.
Stockdale,'' wife of the Halifax minister, 1865;
''Zion's Complaint," Halifax, 1865; "Young
■Sold'iei-'sDieath-be^" Hialtifax, 1865; "Smiles
and Tears," &c.
The REIV. A. HEBBLEfTHWAITE:, another
of their ministers published at Halifax
in 1864, "^'Mind Immortal; an El&say."
The Methodist branches, noiw united as the
"METHODIST FRE'iB CHURCH, require their
local bibliography and history compiling.
These lines show that much remains to be
done. The REV. THOMAS LAW, of the
National Free Church Council, is a native of
Sawerby, and the REV. DAVID BROOK, D.D.,
of Southport, is an E'lland man. He has no
separate publications, though .se^•era.l sermons
have appeared in Magazines.
Disney Alexander's book on Methodism, 1799,
and William Hatton's reply to Cockin, 1815,
have been previously mentioned. Latwrence
Kershaw, mentioned before, was a native of
Sowe.rby .
'*■ Short History of Blackshawhead Wesleyan
Chapel and Stunday School." Tcdmorden,
Waddington and Sons, "News" Office; 31
pages crown octavo. This pamphlet, issued by
a Committee, contains the portraits of Mr.
William Barker and Mr. Richard Oklfield.
The cause dates from 1812, the Ijurial ground
from 1817. The Itinerant Ministers are re-
corded from 1799 to 1905. The Trustees' names
for 1816, 1855, and 1892 are given.
The list of ministers up to 1829 we have
previously given, and take this opportunity to
complete the list as a means of ready refer-
ence : —
1830— Etencis Derry, Robert Bentham, Chas.
Cheethani.
1831— Peter Prescott, John Farrar, sen., Chas.
Cheetham.
1832— Peter Prescott, John Farrar, sen., Wm.
Sleigh.
1833— James Sykes, William Jewitt, Wm
Sleigh.
1634— Joseph Roberts, sen., William Jewitt,
Wm. Wilson (4).
1835 — John Buajstcad, John Ai-iiiitag<', Wm.
Wilson (4).
1836-7 — John Bumstead, -Vmbruse Freeman
Robert Day.
1838-9— Thomas Hill, Thos. :Moxo)), Wm. W.
Annetts.
1&40-2— Benj. Frankland, Thos. EbkersL-y, Chas,
Taylor.
1843-4 -Thos. Blwards, Wm. B. Thoriieloe, Jas.
P. Fairbourne.
l84")-6— Luke Barlow, Robt. Totherick, .lohn
Hanson.
1817— John Bell, John Simon, Thos. Richard-
.son, ('has. Taylor, (Super.)
'.848— John Bel.!, Robert S. Hardy, Thos.
Richardson.
1849— John Bell, Robert S. Hardy, John Lud-
dington.
1850— Aquilla Barber, Ro)>ert S. Hardy, John
Luddiugton.
1851 — Aliraham Watmough, John S. Ridsdale,
Thompson Hesk.
1852-3— Wm. Sugden, Thos. J. Walker, George
Greenwood, Tliomas Eckersley, super-
numerary 1852-1860.
1854— Wm. Sugden, Wm. P. Peck, George
Greenwood.
1855-7— John Boyd, John Walker, Wm. P. Peck.
1857— John Boyd, J6h.n Walker, Wm. J. Sulli-
van t.
1858— Wm. B. Stephenson, Samuel Merrill,
Wm. J. Bullivant.
1859-60- Wm. B. Stephenson, Samuel Morrill,
Wm. Foster.
1861— Thos. Dunn, Joseph Little, Felix. H.
PickeTsgill.
1862— Thomas Dunn; the Circuit being divided.
1863— Joseph T. Sanger.
1861— Joseph T. Sanger, Edward Dixon.
1865— Eiclaard Stepney, Jas. W. E'acott.
1866 — Richard Stepney, Wm. Kendrew,
1867 — Benjamin Slack, Julius Brigg.
1868— Jas. Brownell, Julius Brigg.
1859-71 — Jacob Turvey, Daniel Pearson.
1872-4— John Hornby^ John W. Blackett.
1875-6— Timothy R. Moxon, Biward Dixon.
1877— Timothy R. Moxon, James Fletcher.
1878-1880— Jolin Fletcher, W. B. Lowther.
1881-2— W. G. White, Joseph Kendrew.
1883— W. G. White, Edward Crump.
1884-5— Joseph R. Cleminson, Thos. Ayrton.
1886— W. D. Johnson, Thos. Ayrton.
1887-8— W. D. Johnson, Wm. PaLlister.
1889— Henry Bunting, Wm. Pallister.
1890-1— Heiiry Bunting, Thos. Hitchon.
1892— Samuel Sheard, Thos. Hitchon.
1893-4— Samuel Sheard, Walter Hy. Gregory.
HALIFAX BOOKS AInD AUTHOR.S.
1695— Eauard A. Wain, Walter Hy Gifgory,
1896-7— ElJward A. Wain, John W. Smith
189&-Tli.mari Hollis, John W. Smith.
1899-190U— Tlicmas Hollis, Jas. Eo-ers.
19011— Ja.s. Bryant, Jas. RoKers.
1902-3 — Jas. Bryant, John Bennetts.
190J^W. J. Eogc-rs, John Beujiett^.
1905 — Henry Scaues, Herbert Waterworth.
Several of the above were authors of books
and pamphlets.
CXXIX.— NONCONFORMIST AND
PAROCHIAL KEGLSTERS.
The following bookn are in the custody of
the Re;>-istiar General at Somerset House,
London, and were gathered together by an Act
cf Parliament about 1839, when all Noncon-
formist Registers were required to be forwar led
to London. Whilst on one side we may be
„'lad that by this action the Government have
b--eu the mean.s of preserving many bookis that
woula otherwise have been lost by carelessness.
Nonconformists have cause to be indignant at
the selfish, dog-in-the-manger way in which
the owners of these books have been and are
still treated v, hen they apply to see and ask
leave to copy all or even selections of any one
book. I am pei-sonally mortified at the
thought that I can go to the Record Office,
London, British Museum, and a dozen
more depooitories of our national muniments
and copy gratuitously anything I please, and
I am made welcome by any Vicar in York-
shire to copy parish registers for historical
purposes, and yet when I want to copy one of
the books for a place of which I am a trustee
I am not allowed to do it, nor pay anyone else
to do it. When it Av,as proposed a score years
ago by Mr. Borlase to call up all the Parish
Registers of England, I issued a circular
■(along with my friend Mr. S. Margerison.) in-
viting the Vicans and Antiquaries of Yorkshire
to meet at Leeds and oppose the scheme. The
Meeting was held, piotest entered and the
scheme was abandoned. Out of that meeting
sprang the Yorkshire Record Society. I shall
never be content until Nonconfonniste de-
mand free access to those documents that
their predecessors relinquished, and demand
al:o that the heads of the variouis denomina-
tions may claim them back again, provided
that suitable security cf preservation and ac-
cess be given to suitable students by the
Quakens' Yearly Meeting, Methodist Confer-
ences, Congregational Unions; or preferably —
County Record Offices. To the last-named I
wou'd remove also Parish Registeis and Town-
ships Books of date before 1837. In the
"Yorkshire County Magazine" for 1892
I printe 1 a liiit of the Yorkshire Nonconform-
ist Registers, taken from the official list of
1859, and from the Yorkshire ones I now ex-
trac a list of those bearing on Halifax Parish.
AMBLER THORN, Northowram, .Methodist
N^w Connexion, founded 1805, J. Ramsden,
minister (in 1837), one book of births and
baptisms, 1803-1837.
BLA( KMIRES, Halifax, Wesleyan, founded
1819, book of burials 1820-1836, births and
baptisms one book 1820-18^7.
B()LTON BROW, Sowerby Bridge, We>leyan,
founded 1803, book of births, baptisms an;d
burials 1804-1837.
BRIGHOUSE, Bridge End Chapel, Indepen-
dent, founded 1781, Joseph Hemas Crisp,
minister (in 1837), birthu and baptisms 1782-
1837, burials 1800-1837.
BE.1GH0U.se, Bethel Chapel, Methodist New
Connexion, J. Rams<len, minister (in 1837),
births and baptisms 1800-1837.
BRTGH0U8E, Wesleyan, founded 1796, births
and baptisms, 1796-1832; burials, 1796-1837.
CLAYTON, Queenshead, Baptist, founded
1773. Thomas Hall Hudson, minister (in 1837),
4 books, burials, 1831-1837; births, 174^-1829*
] 823-1837.
EASTWOOD or Stansfield, or Myrtle Grove.
Independent, founded 1699, Ames Blackburn,
minister (in 1837), births and baptisms 1771-
1827, another 1815-1837, burial-; 1779-1837.
ELLAND, Southgate or Southend, Presbyter-
ian, founded 1740, Thomas Stewart minister
(in 1837), baptisms 1741-1816.
(S.^e MS. copy by E.yre Evans.)
ELLAND, Wesleyan, founded 1808, births and
baptisms 1807-1826, burials 1832-1837
GREETLAND, Wesle.van. founded 1778, births
and baptf3ms, 1788-1828, burials 1788-1837.
HALIFAX, Pel'.on Lane, Baptist, founded
1736, Samuel Whitewood, minister (in 1837),
births 1779-1837, burials 1785-1837.
HALIFAX, Northgate End, Presbyterian,
founded 1709 (error), William Turner,
minister (in 1837), birtlis and baptisms 1747-
1817, baptisms 1812-1837, bnriaLs 1812-1837.
HALIFAX, Wade Street, Sion, Independent,
founded 1817, James Pridie. minister (in
1837), births and baptisms, 1818-1837.
H.a.IFAX, Braniley Lane, Lightcliffe, Inde-
pendent, founded 1823, no minister (in 1837).
births and baptisms. 1«31-1837.
HALIFAX, Squar?, Independent, founded 1763,
Alex. Ewing, M.A., minister (in 1837), births
and bapitisms, 1763-1812, burials 1771i-1812,
births 1812-1837. burials 1812-1837.
HALIFAX, Booth near Luddenden, Indepen-
dent, founded 1761, Jos?ph Massey, minister
(in 1837), births and baptisms 1785-1836,
burials from 1785.
256
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
HAL/IJt'AX, South Parade, Wesleyan, founded
1776. births and baptisms, 1772-18^7, burials,
1778-1837. births and baptisms, 1814-1837.
HAIJFAX, Salein, jMethodi^t New Connexion,
founded 1806, John Bakewell, minister (in
1837), births and baptisms 1806-1819, 1819-
1837.
HALIFAX, Elbenozer Primitive Methodist
founvled 1823, births and baptienis, 1828-1837.
HALIFAX, St. Maty'.s, Roman Catholic,
founded li827, births and baptisim,, 1827-
18-10, marriages 1833-1840.
HEPTONSTALL, Elbenezer, Baptist, founded
1777, John Crook, minister (in 1837), birtlis
1745(?)-1837.
HEPTONSTALL SLACK, Mount Zion,
Baptist, founded 1807, William Butler,
minister (in 1837), births 1789-1837, burials,
1808-1837.
HEPTONSTALL, Wesleyan, founded 1769,
births and bantisms 1804-1817, 1798-1837.
ILLINGWO'RTH MOOE, Wesleyan, founded
1798, births and baptisms, 1798-1832, 1831-
1837, burials 1830-1819, 1830-1837.
^MANKINHGLEiS, W&sleyan, founded 1825,
births and baptisms, 1822-1837.
MIDGLEiY, Methodist New Connexion, found-
ed 1819, J. Eamsden. minister (in 1837),
births and laptisms l?03-837.
MILL BANK, Sowerby, Wesleyan, founded
1819, births and baptisms, 1819-1836.
MILLWOOD. Echoboth, Bapti-t, founded 1808,
Peter Bucannon Templeton, minister (in
1837), births 1699-1832.
MOUNT TABOR, Wesleyan, founded 1820,
births and baptisms, 1821-1837.
MYTHOLMROYD, Sjwerby, Wesleyan, found-
ed 1806, birth.c and baptisms 1806-1828, 1836-
1837 buriaLs 1806 1837.
NORTHOWRAM, Independent, founded 1672,
John White, minfster (in 1S37), births and
baptisms, 1744-1760, 1761-1771. 1774-1837,
1813-1817.
[The original manuscript is in the Memoria!
Hall Library, London, Mr. Wilson, of Gi.ild-
ford, having pro^^ented a large number of
book's thereto. This manuscript not being
amongst them, I wrote to Dr. Newth, and he
found it at Guildford, and had it mounted.
repaired and bound. It was then lent to me
to be copied, and I printed it as previously
stated, bi^t only including 1644 to 1750, that
is, the Rev. Oliver Hey wood's entries and
those of the Rev. Thomas Dickinson.]
OVENDEN, Mixenden Chapel, Independeiit,
founded 1688, John Preston, minister (in
1837), births and baptisms, 1742-1807, 1821-
1837. burials 768-1802, 1829-1837.
OVENDEN, Providence Chapel, Independent,
founded 1837, Ekiward Leighton, minister (in
1837), births, 1837.
OVENDEN, Zion, Methodist New Connexion,
founded J. Ramsden, minister (in 1837),
births and baptisms, 1779-1800, 1800-1823,
1818 1829. 1829-1837.
OVEXDEX, Wesleyan, founded 1824, births
and baptisnus 1828-1810.
ETSHWORTH, Road.side, Baptist, founded
1802. Thomas Mellor, minister (in 1837),
births, 1802-1821, 1824-1837.
SHEILF; Whi(difield, Wesleyan, founded 1791,
J. B. Holroyd minister (in 1837). births and
baptisms 1807-1837, baptisms 1641-1857.
S0DTM0WRA:M, Wesloyan, founded 1806, two
books, baptisms and burials, 1807-1840.
SOWERBY, Sowerby Green Old Chapel, In-
dependent, founded 1720, James Hatton,
minister (in 1837), births and baptisms,
1740-1837.
SOWERBY, Wesleyan, founded 1788, births
and baptisms, 1798-1837, burial^ 1803-1837.
SOWERBY, Boulderclough, Methodist New
Connexion, founded 1824, J. Ramsden,
minister (in 1837), births and baptisms, 1824-
1837, burials 1824-1834,
STANSFIELD, New Chapel. Inghamite,
founded 1798, births and baptisms, 1811^1835.
STAINLAND, Independent, founded 1755, D.
Barraelough, minister (in 1837), births and
baptisms, 1779-1824, 1824-1836, burials, 1786-
1824, 1824-1836.
STONES, Soyland, Wesleyan, founded 1803,
births and baptisms 1804-1813, 1818-1837,
burials 1804-1837.
TODMORDEN, Langfield, Wesleyan, founded
1780, births and baptisms, 1887-1837.
WADSWORTH. Birchcliffe, Baptist, founded
1764, Henry Holldurake, minister (in 1837)
births 17851812, 1812-1837, burials 1816-1837.
WARLEY, Independent, founded in 1705,
Thomas Hawkins, Minister (in 1837), births
and baptifsms 1748-1836, burials 1751-1837.
The Society of Friends, or Qiiakers, besidfs
duplicates or originals at the Monthly Meet-
ing Centre?., and Devonshire IMeeting House,
London, have Registers at Somerset Hous3, as
under, —
[For the Yorkshire ones, see Yorkshire County
Magazine, 1893.]
BRTGHOUSE ilONTHLY MEiETING, com-
prising' L:eds, Bradford, Hudderisfield, &c.
Births, 1641-1707. 1641-1803, 1795-1837.
Marriages, 1650-1705, 1650-1797, 1795-1827, 1826-
1836.
Burials, 1656-1707, 1656-1776, 1776-1837.
Brighouse Preparative (local) Meeting: births
1701-17G3; burials, 1701'-1763.
Halifax Preparative Meeting: births, 1654-
1837; marriages, 1660-1832; burials 1670-18-38.
Leeds, Bradford, Giklersome Preparative
jMeeting, also Todmorden, are omitted in
the present list.
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
257
Seventy years have gone since these books
were removed from Yorkshire to London,
and in that time numerous chapels have been
established, so that the number of Noncon-
formist Eegistercj now scattered in the parish
ought to be very j^reat. Is it so? Are they
preserved? I tear there is great n<'g'.€ct mani-
fested, i:ot only by the ministers but by the
trustees. On th's account, and as au incentive
to orhers to tlo likewise, I have printtd a
1 olunie of 160 pa;jfes, crown octavo, 19()6. en
titled "The Burial Registers of Upper Cliapel,
Idle, with Notice; of the Quak-r Burial
Ground and a private Burial Place at Thack-
ley."
Besides the Parochial Registers at Halifax,
Ellland and Heptonstall Churches there ai'e
old Registers at the ten other ancient Chapels
of Elase, Rastrick, Coley, Lightcliffe, lUing-
worth, Rippondei), Sowerby, Southowratn,
Luddenlen, Croisstone, Sowerby Biidge; be-
sides Trinity in Halifax, and more recent es-
tablishments nince 1800.
Halifax Paiochial Registers, including all
the townships except those in Blland and
Hepton tall cliapelries, commence with 1538.
Only thC' fiist ten years cr so have b'en print-
ed, namely in Wa:ker's Halifax Regiitere, and
in Yorkshire Notes and County Magazine.
Th ' firs EUland Register has been printed by
Mr. J. W. Clay. It commences with 1559, but
there is a break 1590 to 1639. Ripponden, Ras-
trick, Soweiby Bridge and Norland are in-
cluded with Elland. Heptonstall Registers
.start %vith 1593; the second book with 1653.
Crosstone Register dates from 1678, baptisms
and burials. Lawton says that Coley Registers
aae included with Halifax previous to 1813,
which is true, but Coley has an old Register
long before that date. St. John's in the
Wilderness, in Brringden or Turvay was con-
secrated in 1816, and the register dates from
1821. Hebden Bridge Church dates from
March, 1832. Illingworth Registers begin with
1695. Lightcliffe Register commences in 1704.
Luddenden, in Midgley and Upper 'Warle3-, has
registers from 1653, but very imperfect until
1738. Rastrick Register book dates from 1719;
Rippomien from 1684, but in poor condition
until 1726, Southouram, or St. Anne's in the
Grove, or Chapel le Briars has a baptismal
register from 1800. The Burial R'^:gister only
dates ^iv^ith the present church, consecrated
1819. Sowerby Registers begin with 1643 for
burials and 1668 for baptisms. Mai riages were
then entered at Halifax. Sowerby Bridge
baptisms are recorded from 1709, and marriages
1732 to 1751, when the privile,T;e was suspended.
There were no burial records until 1821'.
CXXX.— MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
B. W. CROSSLEIY, Triangle. Mr. Crossley is
now Hon. Secrctai-y of the Yorkshire Archsec-
logical Society. He has just issued his second
volume of "Halifax Wilis," 1545-1559; demy
octavo, pages viii., 268. Like the former
volume, under the joint editorship of Mr. J.
W. Clay and himself, it covers the ancient
parish, including Heptonstall and Elland.
THE LUDDITES. Only because some of the
misguided men of this agitation lesided at
Halifax, Rastrick, and other places in the
parish, have we need to mention some books
on the subject : —Reports of Proceedings at
York at the Trials, January, 1813. I have
editions printed at Leeds and London in 1813,
and anothei- at HuJdersfield. My late friend
Frank Peel, of Heckmondwike, reprinted the
account of tJie trial, with many additional
notes in his "Rising of the Luddites," which
ran to three editions. In a lesser degi-ee of
local interest, we have at least four novels
treating, on the subject. Par excellence is
Charlotte Bronte's "Shirley," of which there
are many editions; and next is "Rookery MilT'
by Mrs. M. A. Jagger, of Honley. G. A.
Henty's "Through the Fray," although full of
topographical blunders, is an interesting
volume; and lastly Mr. D. F. El. Sykes' little
vohime '''Bill-o'-Ben's" is a Huddersfield con-
tribution.
HALIFAX ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. In
continuation of the notice in Number
LXXXV., we have now to add —
(44) Woodhall and Copley Hall; excursion.
July. 1905; guidie, Mr. T. Sutcliffe; pages 251-
262."
(45) Excursion to Risliworth, September,
1905; guide, Mr. H. P. Kendall; pages 263-280.
(46) Ancient Pottery; lecture by Mrs. E. A.
Law. October, 1905; pages 280-1.
(47) The Royds (Family) of Eishworth : pages
282-288.
(48) Rastrick Chapel and School, by J.
Lister, M..\., Lecture, November, 1905; pages
289-306.
(49) The Sowerby Constables, 1685-1708; Lec-
ture by H. P. Kendall, February, 1906; pages
307-322.
(_) Report and Balance Sheet, 1905. Tliis
has seven pages, bearing pages 307-313 — which
duplicate with Mr. Kendall's pamphlet. Last
mentioned.
(— ) Death of Mr. J. H. Ogden, January,
1906; pages 1-15.
( — ) Tt^kens issiied by Overseers of the Poor
and the Workhouse Authorities; S. H. Hamer,
Lecture, March, 1906; pages 3(3-58.
258
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHOR.S.
(— ) Life of Dr. Haldeeworth, Vicar of ILili-
fax; part v., by J. Lister, M.A., April, 1906;
pages 59-82.
(— ) Poll Tax, Lay Subsidy, 1379, Parish of
Halifax; with Notes on Local Eet-urn-j; also
Ec'iital of Halifax and Heptontitall 1139, by
J. Lister, M.A., and J. H. Ogdeii, 87 pages,
printed lor the Society at tho "GuarJiaii"
Office, 1906.
WILLIAM PRIEISTLEIY, ESQ., ..f Clitie
Hill, Lightcliffe, afterwards of Boston Spa,
Avas a great eucourager of music and litera-
ture. I have copifd a manuscript Catalox:ue
of Books to b& presented to the Vicar of Hali-
fax in aid of the Restoration of thje Ancient
Library in the Crypt of the CrurcJi of St.
John the Baptist. From Mr. B. J. Walkei-'«
notes we learn that the bequest read, — "I have
given to thei Library in the Church of St. John
the Baptist at Halifax, and to the Literary
and Philosophical Society there Kundry books
and manu;cripts (catalogues of which will be
found with my will), which I wish my wife,
if she be so disposed, to retain for her own
use during the tei'm of her natural life."
January 1, 1856, W. Priestley. "I desire that
twenty pounds may be preisented to the Vicar
o'l Halifax for the purpose of erecting shelves
for the reception of the above-named books.
W. Priestley. '' The books eventually came
and were arranged on the shelves by my friend
Mr. Walker in 1862. How many books, and
what, were previously there I do not know,
but there should be an old manuscript
catalogue, and I believe Mr. Li.ster, of Shib-
den, h.as written a full catalogue in recent
yieai'Si.
Notices of old Halifax bibliophiles, such aa
the old-time lawyer, Nicholas Hanson., of Eas-
trick, who mentions several books in his will
nearly three centuries ago, as well as more
modern book collectors, including' Jotn Bur-
gess, of Eastrick, migM form a brief chapter
in this series ; but this must be left to a future
date,
Mr. Priestley's list gives the titles of over
four hundred-and-fifty volumes, mostly
theological, patristical, and liturgical, with a
few biographical and antiquarian or topo-
graphical works. A fair sprinkling of these
ar-^ Yorkshire items, but I can only recosrnise
a few books by Halifax authors, e.g.,
Ogden's Sermons, 1788, 4th edition, ISmo.
Dugdale's Trouble® in England, folio, 1681,
gives the name Francis Priestley, page 363, as
a Member of Parliament, whereat there is a
marginal note by Mr. Wiliam Priestley— ''See
the family MS." The copy of Whitaker's
Thoresby's Leeds, folio, has some Halifax
views inserted, and the Craven Dialect, ex-
tended by interleaves to four volumei3, has
numeroius Hiilifax dialect words added. Mr.
Priestley was well versid in local history and
(for his day) in etymolo;,'y; many of the books
bear marginal notes by him. He was, like hiis
ancestors — the Walkers and Priestleys, of
Lightcliffe, on fiiendLy terniis \i-ith the
Moravian musicians, and the oratorios at
Lightcliffe Chuich were widely celebrated.
Most of the books in the list were printr^d
between 1730-1808, but some date from 1610 to
1730.
JAMES W. DAVIS, F.S.A., F.G.S., &c.,
Hon. Sec;
Procei'dings of the Yorkshire Geological and
Polytechnic Society. New Series, Vol. x., paj^es
X., 479. History of the Yorkshire Geological
and Polytechnic Society, 1837-1887, with Bio-
graphical Notices of somei of its ilembeis.
Halifax, Whitley and Booth, 1883; demy
octavo.
MR. J. TRAVIS CLAY, Rastrick, became
Secretary and Treasurer in 1842, but resigned
in 1844. "
MR. HEINRY BRIGGS, of Overton, Wake-
field, was one of the originators ot the Society.
He was the third son of Mr. RaVdon Briggs,
and was born at Wards Eiid, Halifax, August
10, 1797. He married Miss Milnes, of Flock-
ton. He died at his son's house, Dundee,
October 4, 1868. He, with hi- brothere Wil-
liam and Henry Carrer Briggs, and Samuel
Fletcher Tonge, of Halifax, established the
Whitwood Collieries about 1844.
MR. HENRY BRIGGS' paper on "Lime"
has been already mentionel. He contributed
a paper on Flax Growing.
.JOSEPH CHARLESWORTH, of Wakefield,
(son of John C, Halifax, and grandson of John
C. Halifax, architect, li7O0,) was born in 1749,
but removed to Wakefield in 1780, and died in
1820. His son Joseph C, of Lofthouse, born
1778, died 1845, was another of the founders
of the Society.
J. GIBSON, of Hebden Bridge, was one of
the most energetic, practical geologists of the
early years of the Society.
A brief notice of MR. JOHN WATBRHOUSB,
F.R.S., F.G.S., F.R.A.S., &c., from the pen
of Dr. F. H. Bowman, occupies two pages.
He was born at Halifax August 3, 1806. His
notes on a voyage round the world have not
be?n published. He published a complet? work
on the Meteorology of Halifax. His botanical
garden was famous in his day. He waB
esteemed an able astronomer, geologist,
electrician, microscopist, violinist, &c. He
died Febrnary 18, 1879.
HAUFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
259
JOHN LISTER, M.B.. J. P., Shilxlen Hall,
was born in Lonlton June 18. 18U2; the only
son of John Listei- hy his wife Ann, daughter
of Stephen Moiris. As M.R.C.S., he- was
surgeon on an East Indian Conipany'K ve'i.sel.
He married Louisa Ann. daughter of Major
Grant, of St. Vincent, W.I., an.l practis d in
London and Isle of Wi^ht. At Sandowu he
studied geology ancl astronomy. In 1853 he
succeeded to Shib leii Hall estate on the death
of his cousin Miss Anne Lister. He was a
Member of the Royal Institution, and F.G.S.,
F.Z.S., F. Geogr. Soc, F. Anthrop. Soc, &c.
He die;l August 6, 1867, and was buried at
Southowram. He was father of the present
noted antiquary, Mr. John Lister, Shibden Hall.
WILLIAM ALEXANDEIR, M.D., J. P., died
April i;i, 1«88, at Blackwall, Halifax, aged 81.
He contributed a paper in 1841 on Halifax
Parish Mineral Springs. He and Mr.
Christopher Eaw,-Jon his cousin, and the Rev.
Wm. Turner, Northgate Chapels, were early
members of the Yorkshire Geologiciil Society.
His son Reginald G. Alexan-.ier, M.D., states
that he was born September 3, 1806, the son
of Gersa^se Alexander, M.D., and grandson •!'
Dr. Robert Alexander, of Hopvvood Hall, Hali-
fax. For seA^erali generations there had
been membeBs of the family in the professions
of either Law, Physics, Divinity, Army or
Navy, and the Dr. Robert just named had a
son in ■Each profession. Dr. William, the
.subject of the notice, was M.D., Bdiu., and
F.R.C.P., London. For nearly sixty years he
was a physician in Halifax. His cousin, Ed-
ward N. Ab'xaiTder, F.S.A., registrar of the
County Couit, was one of the founders of the
Halifax Literary and Phiksophical Society,
and also of the Halifax Agricultural Socdety.
Ano!:her coiisin was Robert Alexander, Q.C.,
born 1795. MR. RICHARD CARTER.. C.E., of
Halifax and Barnsley, read papers in 1857, on
Colliery Ventilation; and MR. SAMUEL
BAINEI-l, of Lightcliffe, in 1858, read one on
Yorkshire Flagstone Fossils, and another
next year. MR. TRAVIS CLAY had read a
paper in 18 U on Yorkshire Drifts and Gravel©.
Mr. Eivans' paper in November, 1865, refeired,
int r alia,, to the Roman Coins found at Light-
cliffe in 1827. MR. F. A. LEYLAND gave a
paper on Roman Roads in Halifax parish in
1861, and on Yorkshire Roman R'jads in 1870.
MR. JAS. W. DAVIS became Secretary in
April, 1876, and contributed many papers. In
1877 the name "West Riding" Ava.s dropped,
and Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic
Society adopted.
MR. WM. CASH, Halifax, became Treasurer
in 1883. Mr. Cash and Mr. Hick contributed
a paper on the Flora of Halifax Coal Measures.
HALIFAX PIECE HALL. E. Jacobs, the
Halifax printer, issued a broadsheet at the
Opening of the famous Piece Hall. The left
column bears the particulars:
" COPY OF A SONG, sun^ at the opening
of the Manufacturers' Hall, in Halifax, Jan.
2ud, 1779, with some details of the cost of
the building taken from the estimate of the
Manufacturers' Hall, in Halifax, by Samuel
and John Hope, (aichitects), 1775. Tlie
estimates were for the north, east, south, and
west sides respectively : —
£. li. .[.
North .side 1,950 17 8
Ea-Jt „ 2,815 18 Hi
South „ 1^923 12 Hi
West „ 1,770 9 2£-
J;8,460 18 9^
The Port.-r's Lodge, outside the Hall, and a
room under the Arcade, brought the total
co.t to „e9,692 Os. ll|.d. Supenntending and
contingencies were reckoned at ,£100 for each
side. The cost was met in this way. Donilijn
of condition of building the Hall in this place,
^8840. There are. 315 room.^. These were t;ken
at a subscription of ^28 4s., though, as Hie
treasurer say.s, at the upshot there were about
six or eight rooms sold by auction, which did
not make full .£28 4s. The treasurer was out
of pocket on presenting his account about £1."
The right column gives the song, six stanzas
of eight lines each, with a chorus to each
verse of four lines, but the author is not
named. " A SONG sung at the opening of the
Manufacturers' Hall in Halifax, January 2nd,
1779: When Adam and his consort Eve, &c."
CXXXL— MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
TIMOTHY CROWTHEE., s^n or Jo.-eph, was
born at Northowram, "Thur.sday ye 20 of
December, 1694, at Hi hours a.m.," so given by
liini;-elf as an tndor.-ement upon an "Bitimate
Figure of the Heavens" lor that date. In early
life he removed to Skipton where he became
pari.sh clerk. His wife Ann was born in 1694
and died in 1768. Tliey had four ;ons and
four daughters. Their sons Avere — Samuel,
1722-1788, who succeeded as parish clerk, and
was also master of the Clerk's School there,
foundetl by William EJ-mistead, clerk;
Timothy, li723-1740: John, , saddler, 1732-1764;
and Joseph, 1734-1772. The father began to
write a Journal in 1714, in which he entered
astrological notes and drawings, axioms in-
cantations, weather signs, and family notices.
260
HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
The curiou.s majiuscript i.s in the liaiuls of
Mr. W. H. Bawison, of Skipton, the author of
famous Avorks on German Socialism. Twenty-
five years ago, I ur^^ed him to print it, ')nt he
has not yet done so.
CrowthoT was the astrologer mentioned by
John Wesley in his Journal, July 24, 1761.
Aphorisms from various astrological auth-ors,
weather prognostications, cures for Kings's
Evil, detection of witches, cure of bewitched
persons, exorcisms, &c., are the topics; with
incantations on the Trinity, and on the Pom'
Oospels, &o., written full. Timothy died Feb.
22, 1761, and it se'Cms that his son Samuel
followed in his profession as Clerk, School-
master, and astrologer for he was oonsultipd
by tlie Overseers of Bramley in 1783 and 1781.
JOSEIPH HULiMB was the second sou of
Samuel Huhne, Congregational Minister of
Littl ■ Hortoi;, a clos? friend of Dr. Dodd.idge.
Jo.seph waiS inte^nded by hi= father as a
minister, but he was subsequently placed
under the famou-5 physician Dr. Nettleton, a
Halifax author already mentioned. Next he
removed to L3yden, and took the M.D. degree
.and published on that occasion an inaugural
thesis, " De distillations catarrho-a, dated
1745. After completing his studies at Paris he
succeeded Dr. Nettleton at Halifax, and was .a
wise adviser to his friend Dr. Wm. Gibson, of
Slei^d Hall, who died a drunkard. He was a
water-drinker, and died February 2, 1806, in
his 92nd year, and a tablet records hi.s burial
in Northgate Chapel. Dr. Nathaniel Huhae,
previously mentioned a.s a Halifax author, was
hi.s nepheAV.
FRYERS, of ToothiH, R;i -trick. .Mi.ss M.
A. Fryer, of Toothill, wiis the writer of a
small privately-printed book of reminiscences.
T have only seen one copy. It contains rer
ligious experiences, and family reminiscences,
with references to the old home at Toothill.
Whfu the book was printed she was the wife
of Mr. HfTvev, of Leeds, member of the Society
of Friends. Notices of the book and of the
works of other Fryer descendants are given
in the History of Brighouse.
"OLD WILDS" by Megson, of Bradford, is
the story of Tom and Sam Wild, proprietors
of a famous travelling theatre, that was almost
a sin? qua nou at Brighouse, Halifax, EiMand,
and other local feasts. There is much Halif.ix
matteT in it. including the death and burial
there of Old Wild; otherwise it is not a Hali-
fax book.
JESSE RAMSDEN, F.R. Society, and a
member of almost all the learned societies of
Europe died at Brighton, (Brightelmstone,) on
Noveml:»er .5, 1800. His merits a.s an artist in
tV.e mathematical line were above all eulosium,
and his death was i-egretted by every
astronomer in Euiope. I am not pi-epared at
present to give a li>t of the ijcientific papers
by this famous Halifax worthy.
'DR. RICHARD BENTLEIY. Halifax misses
the honour of enrolling the famous Scholar
amongst its worthies. Captain Bentley, of
Halifax parish was a soldier on the royalist-
side, and die<l whilst a prisoner. The family
lost con'iderable property by their adhesion
to royalty, but Captain Bentley's son Thomas
retained an estate at Woodlesford in Rothwell.
Thomas married for his liecond wife, in I66I1,
Sarah, daughter ot Major Richard Willie, of
Oulton, another royalist officer. Tlie learned
Dr. Bentley was the first born of this marriage,
January 27, 1662, Oulton being the place of
his nativity. His Life, and Analysis of his
ipuhlioations, may be read in Dr. Je'bbb'
volume of "English Men of Leittea-s Serits."
At Wakefield School, Bentley was a pupil
under John Baskervill, previously of Hipper-
holme School, a member of Emm. Coll., Oamb,
WALLACE BENTLE/Y, Consultin;,' Mechan-
ical Engineer, Crosdey Street, Halifax.
Sketches of Engine and Machine Details;
profusely illustratel. Halifax. 1898, 8) pages,
large octavo.
He is al-o author of
Questions in Machine Construction.
Questions in Applied Mechanics.
Rules and Definitions. [Sixpence each.]
F. FAWLEY, Halifax.
Rules and Tables for Plumbers, Mechanics
and other allied trades. Sixpence.
J. WILFRID DRAKE, of Thornleigh, Hali-
fax, September 1897.
" Notes on a Visit to Italy," octavo, pages
iii.. 98. Derby, 1897.
MICHAEL FAIELFHS, (Miss E-arber. one of
the two daughters of Mr. Fairless Baxber,
F.S.A., Castle Hill, Rasti-ick.)
" The Gathering of Brother Hilarius."
London, John Murray, 19D2, octavo, pages viii.,.
172. This is the eecond impression January,
1902. The first edition was issued in October,
1901. A fascinating tale of ancient date, bear-
ing on the Black Death period, and without
anv padding.
[TODMORDEIN.]
The Richest Man in Todmorden, and other
stories about Riches and Happiness : published
by the Religious Tract Society, no date, 178
pages, 12mo. (Onl3' 28 pages appropriated to
Todniorto?!, i.e , Todmorden.)
DIRBCTORTE'S. Most of these historically
and genealo.'?ically useful volumes include the
parishes or towns around Halifax, as well as
that town. Holden i" 1814, Bnines and Par-
sons in 1822, White for several years, Kelly,
HALIFAX BOOKS A^D AUTHORS.
i61
Jones, Smith (of Rastrick), Burtou, and othera
hAve included the wholo or part of Halifax
pansh m aotne or their books, rau{,'ing chiefly
from 1822 to the present.
REiV. WI\r. TTJE.NEIR, Wakefield.
Address to Ministers at Halifax. 1781, on St.
Paul'a Sense of Soundness in Religion, was
printed.
REV. WILLIAM WOOD.
A Sermon preached April 17, 1795 to the
Congregation of Protestant Dis.senteas in
North-gate. Halifax, on the death of their late
Pastoi', tho Rev. John Ralph. Leeds, Binns
and Brown, 1795, demy octavo, 19 pages.
REV. JOHN WILLIAMS.
The Fidelity of Paul, &c., A Sermon at
Northgate Chapel, Halifax, April 28th, 1811.
Halifax, J. Nicholson for John Milner, Corn
Market, 1811, 1«. demy octavo 20 pages. This
farewell sermon is dedicated to the Northgate
Congregation.
WILLIAM SHACKLETON, Schoolmaster at
Heptonstall, is commemorated by a marble
tablet at Htptonstall Church, erected by his
scholars. He was niawter of the' Free Grammar
School for thirty-six years, and died Novem-
Vxr 16, 1805, aged 60. The elab on his grave-
stone adds — Quique inter primos eui ordinis
claruit humanitate ornatu.s. I am not aware
that he published anything. The Rev. Henry
Foster had been a pupil there under Mr. Paw-
son, and later under Mr. Sutcliffe. I am not
aware that he published anything.
DEEfD OF SBTTLBMEINT of the Halifax
Joint Stock Banking Company, establiehfd
under the authority of the Act, 7 Geo. IV.
Directors, &e. Halifax, Whitley and Booth,
Crown Street: 1831, large octavo, 89 pages.
Dated November 25, 1829. The Second Supple
mental Deed, April 4. 1853. and the Supple-
mental Deed, August 8, 1843, occupy pages 59
to 89.
DEED OF SETTLEMENT of the Halifax
Commercial Bank, established July 1, 1836,
under the Act 7 Geo. IV., with an Abstract of
the Act. Capital ^£100,000. Halifax, H.
Martin, "Express" Office, Upper George Yard,
demy octavo, xi., 60. Rawdon Briggs, Wil-
liam Briggs, George Pollard, Jonathan Akroyd,
John Holland and h.is son William, Royston
Oliver and George Binns were names to conjure
by. A share was ,£10.
DR. JOSEPH DYNELBY. In Heptonstall
Church there is a tablet bearing the inscrip-
tion —
Hie sepulta jacent o-sea Joseph! Dyneley,
M.D., Bdin. qui sequalium suorum in artibns
Medicinse et Humanitatis Literis, facile
princeps extitit; vir et socis semper cams acdln
omnes pro re benignus otiique gaudium necnon
aeriorum oruameutum. Obiit 9 die Sept, 1814,
anno affeoto aetatis 38.
Did the doubly-learned Doctor publish any-
thing?
REV. GEO. A. HAYWARD. Bnghoiuw. I
am indebted to my friend Prof. Federer for
calling my attention to two pamphlett* an
Under : —
" The Rev. C. DodgBon's New Tests of
Orthodoxy. A Lt-tter to the Baxl of Shaft««-
bury, President of tho Church Pastoral Aid
Society, in consequence of th« Refusal of the
Lord I3ir>hop of Ripon to confer Priests' or<lers
upon the Rev. Geo. A. Hayward, B.A., nomin-
ated to the curacy of Brighou.se by Joseph
Birch, M.A., late of Pembroke College, Oxford,
pei-petual curate of Brighouse"; 2nd edition,
with enlarged appemdijc, London, 1853, 56 pages,
small octavo. The prefa<-e is dated January
15 1853; the address is dated December 2, 1852.
The. bulk of this pamphlet, pp. 17-56, comprises
the Appendix. Mr. Hayward hiid been at
Elstow previously. "Remarks on the Bishop of
Ripon 's Reply to the Memorial of Certain of
hi.s Clergy on the case of Mr. Hayward, in a
Letter to his Lordship by the Rev. John
Charge, Rector of Copgrove"; Kuaresborough,
J. D. Hannam, 1853, 32 pages, 6d. Mr. Charge's
Memorial was signed by thirty other York-
shire clergymen.
REV. JOHN HAR,RI90N, Ovenden -.
The Cry of Christendom for a Divine
EFrenikon. A p'ea with all the Churches for
the Rights of the People; duistianity and
Peace. (Dr. John Harrison, Fenwick.) 1889.
8vo., p.p. 16, and 191.
HALIFAX CONGREGATIONAL CHXTRCHES.
Souvenir of the Missionary Exhibition,
(London Missionary Society), Victoria Hall,
Halifax, October 18-28, 1905; price 2d., illus-
trated, 48 pagee; Mortimer, printer, Halifax,
JS05.
REV. GEORGE SWANN, born 1798 at
Barnsley, previously mentioned as a minister
at Bramley Lano Chapel, Lightcliffe, was
author "The Autumn Wreath: a Selection of
Original Poetry." Stafford, 1869, pages vi.,
96, twelvemo.
REV. THOMAS HAWKINS, Warley. He
has been noticed in the poetical and Congrega-
tional Section. He published "A Testimony of
Respect for Departed Worth; being the sub-
stance of a Funeral Sermon on the I>ea.th of
Mr. Anthony Ward." Halifax, Holden and
Dowson, 1803; 32 pages, l2mo. His name does
not appear on the title but the inscription is
signed T.H., Warley Town, April 12, 1803.
Mr. Hawkins published "Astro-Th*ology, a
Poem, and the Solar System morally improv-
ed," 1827, 60 pages, 12mo.
262
Also. "Com,ueutary on th. rir.t^ ^;'^"^S^ot
Thiixl Epistles of St. John." Halitax, 1808,
'T^CBOSSLAND, F.US.. Hon Sec. York-
alu.e Mycological Committ^^e ^^"^^^^^^.^f^;^-
F L S &c., Kew.) Fungus Flora of Yorksliire,
a" complete account of the Fung^ oi h^
County! in Transaction, of Yoib. Naturalist
Union. Part I., pages 1-52; Part IL, JuU,
1905 pages viii.. 53-396; printed at Huh.
EEV ANGUS GALBRAITH, Br.ghou.e;
Catalogue of Surplus Books, on sale at the
HALIFAX BOOKS A^'D AUTHORS.
Man«e, November, 1900; 12 pages octavo.
"News" Office, Brighouee.
COLEY HALL Catalogue of Furnishmgs to
be Soil by Auction, July 10 ami 11. 19%; 56
pages, octavo. G:l.. "News'' Office, Brxghou^
There is an introductory history of the Hall
by J. Caldwell, with illustraticns of the
Mansion, gateway, and old furniture.
We must new bring tlii^ series of articles
to a conclusion, thou-h we have much still
toreco d in the wav of "Halifax Bibliography.
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