i:-;i. ^^^j'_jMiwniiiiiin» "• ^m-^m'- U-A .a-iii^hAKV-6. (Tin K^ ^^Vtll£ >- ' ui 1 i ,\vv.ijli>ii^\iri'-6i/' ^ I i 1; jUfV ^^^^i t-fl ■>? (/LViifivn (LC^g?^ _ ItXtf^'X 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. u >H' 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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.-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 Lee 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. 10 HAUFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 adcleon, 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. HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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. 12 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. HALIFAX BOOKS AKD AUTHORS. 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." 14 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AKD AUTHORS. 15 • 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. IG HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 17 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 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 Appetuated, 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 21 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. 22 HALIFAX BOOKS A^D AUTHORS. HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 23 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 24 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. ^anuatu anrtcjym.'UCCCCCSXS.. tAr Bodi/ a/" ^3^7 HALIFAX BOOKS A^D AUTHORS. /^3fio Mere JTeepr/A t^^.xf^- /'■^•/-'■•■y "^ ] V 26 HAUFAX BOOKS AJsD AUTHORS. 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. HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 27 f/u^^ ?-4t>3 28 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 nohoiise, 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. m HAUFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. o > HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 31 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. 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 rearing 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 fsboio\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. 1 I Hk L ,^^W^^M ^ 1 RE.V. P. BRONTE (in middle life). 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. 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 37 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.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. 38 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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. HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 39 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 4»' HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. several days at Riwdoii College lately examm- iu- this unique tliC'(.lot,'i, 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. 44 HALIFAX BOOKS AIsD AUTHORS. ;j.__Ccrhiin papers wliicii is the Word of the I,(.rd. to Town of Appleby, &c.. quarto, two sheets. 1.— A Faithful Witne.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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 45 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 46 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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- 48 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, HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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- 50 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 51 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 52 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 5a ^ ^ ^^'=^r ^ ^ ^ js:^u c * — ^ ^ ^ ^i^ 1 ~^^- ■tl ^ ^ ''^■"-R ^ 1- Vj 1^ =a 'I >» :-^ ^^ — lu V V 'A ^.s. 1_ ^ 54 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 55 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." 56 HAIilFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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, HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 57 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. 58 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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. HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 59 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 60 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 — ^oe, 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 61 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 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. 63 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 64 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 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 66 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 67 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 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. 69 •"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. 70 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. "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- HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 71 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 72 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. "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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 73 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. 74 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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. HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 75 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 76 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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. HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 77 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. HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. A MR. ROBINSON was ojected from 0een 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. HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 79 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. 80 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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- HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 81 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 82 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 83 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 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). HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 85 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- 86 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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. 90 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 reniiiiineed6, besides editing the "Leeds Times." published a His- tory of Leeached (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- 96 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND ATJTHGRS. 97 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,pearted," 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. 98 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 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. 100 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AITIHORS. 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 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. TTATiTPAX BOOKS AND AITTHGRS. 101 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 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* 102 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AmUORS. 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. HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 103 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 104 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AirrHORS. 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 dieer, 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 106 HAIilFAX BOOKS AND AUTHOKS. 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. HAIJFAX BOOKS ANT) AUTHORS. 107 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 108 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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. BLAIilFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 109 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, 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 HAIJFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. Ill 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, 112 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 HALTFAX BOOKS AND AXTPHORS. 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 extiaoras 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. 121 JOAH BATES, M.A., au eminent Yorkshire musician, was born at Halifax on Mequently 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 obtainescriptive. naiii>dx, R. Sugden, 1821. small 8vo., paj,'es 72 4. 2s. 6d. boards. [Ded. to Miiss Bold, of Beld ihUl. , 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 pnbliKhJD 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 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- 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 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 134 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; 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 136 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&eical 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. 146 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; guieen 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 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 contribiiteSSLj:.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 annith'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 notice762. 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 moioctrine, 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AJ^D AUTHORS. 175 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, 176 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 AUTHORS. 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 180 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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, 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 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; aiddressecford, sometime Assistant Curate of Brighouse, publi, , 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 is3ueical, 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 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 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. HALIFAX BOOKS A^S'D AUTHORS. 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 separatearish. 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- HALIFAX BOOKS AND ArTHORS. 205- 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 206 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 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 HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 207 by Inkensley, Bradford, 1823. There is a list of Subscribers. "Achan discovered in the Camp of Israel," (Bradford, 1816,) Inkersley printer. 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. 216 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 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-mindeeigationsi. 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 Ci2. 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— 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. 238 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 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«oiasticeph 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 pages. Cloth, Bevelled Edges, 2s. 6d.; Limp Cloth, Is. 6d. HALIFAX BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 25a Tli^ Doctrines of the Salvation Army. 119 pages. Limp Clotli, 6tl. 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 age. 65 pages. Id. Orders ,and Kigiilations for Field Officers. New (1901) ElitJon. 631 pages. Bed Clotli Boards 3s. 6d. Orders and Regulations for Soldiers of the Salvation Army. 161 pages. Cloth, 6d.; Paper, Id . Tne Wliy and Wher?fore cf the Rules and Kegulation.i of the Salvation Army. 107 pages. Cloth, Is. 6d.; Paper, &d. 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, Is. 6d.; Paper, Is. 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. 6d.; Cloth, 2s.; Paper, Is. Godliness. Searching Disquisitions on Im- portant Phases of the Spiritual Growth. 177 pages. Half Calf, 5s.; Cloth, Gilt Edges, 2s. 6d ; Cloth, 2s.; Paper, Is. Practical Religion. One of the grandest books of tUf age. Invaluable for Teachers of Sanctification. 214 pages. Half Calf, 5s.; Cloth, Gilt Edges, 2s. 6d.; Cloth, 2s.; Paper, Is. Popular Christianity. All Seekers after True- 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. Aggressive Christianity. Series of Papers on .Christian Warfare. 193 pages. Half Calf, 5s.; Cloth, Gilt Ed^es, 2i. Cd.; Tloth, 2s.:' 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«. By Commissioner Booth- Tucker. The Life of Mrs. Booth, the Mother of the Salvation Army. Two Volumes. Profusely Illustrated. Cloth, 15s. 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- mencement. Illustrated. 254 pages. Cloth 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. Ramst 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 diehop of Ripon to confer Priests' orea.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. i ^0^ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Los Angeles This book is DUE on the last date stamped below. ^SW\S} umw'y^ ^RARYa xt\EUNIVER% _xlOSANGEIi:j :=^ X Turner — 202U Halifax books H13Tfi and auihors. 1 i