UC-NRLF $B 755 Elfl %WAX WQEimE mm GIFT OF JANE KcSATHER ] SI BlOGRAPHlA HALIFUXIENSIS : OB, Halifax Jfamilus anb Mortljus. A BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF HALIFAX PARISH. COMPILED BY J. HORSFALL TURNER. Vol I. Printed for the Compiler. BINGLEY : T. HARRISON, PRINTER, BOOKBINDER, PUBLISHER, ETC., QUEEN STREET. SAlflER HUTS JtiUvT. JoJuiWatcrlitrw-s ^j/ IWvfax ///r/Z-fYgnes Ayj/cy^ ^^^utnty anrrcJJM.'SlCCCCCXSX. ivi7446ao Digitized by the Internet Arciiive in 2008 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/biographiahalifaOOturnrich ? 3SO vmrmm>, ^£^ lil;il::i:::.i:L;.ii;:^^IU I'lAuir. C3X, ccx' /f.jai ^J^'/Ae/ t/ia/i^^ ^c^>/tai/u^ AftJ^ti-t'/^^ *^i^/c///t'u c^t.^'lft/u/(^oAAu/y^i /.401 CpTt. 7P7^ y>jo. ^p.S4S. J!.p.4^o. 3^.Si. np3J4. VT)C ijcc itS-si^ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Page Eev. J. Watson's Portrait, Frontisiiiece. Plate I. — Waterhouse's Brass - - . . 175 Lacy's Arms 165 Lacy's Gravestone - - - - 165 Savile's ,, - - - - 172 ,, II. — Dr. Favour's Monument - - - 157 Waterhouse's Gravestone - - I74 Sunderland's „ - . . 173 ,, III. — Savile's Monument at Elland Waterhouse's „ at Halifax - - I75 ,, IV. — Savile's ,, at ^lland '> >» »> ■ - „ V. — Slater's Token - . . . 6 Learoyd's ,, 5 Dolliffe's ,, - . . . 5 Seal of Syon - - - - - Halifax Seal, 1662 Urn found at Halifax IHC — Jesus, a "charm" carved on old HOUSES British Celt found at Skircoat . Gibbet Axe Gibbet Scaffold - - - - *** Tlie Pages engraved on the Plates refer to " Watso7i'$ Halifax:' Tntroductio N [N this volume, the reader has presented before him one half of Mr. Watson's "Halifax," (that is the Biographical Portion), a book that is seldom found in the market, and fetches over four guineas when one is offered for sale. More than a hundred years have passed since the book was printed, and, as might be expected, many of the pedigrees require amplifying and correcting, and a large number of others, representing the leading families of the parish to-day, — the yeomanry of the past six centuries, demand admittance. Even some of Mr. Watson's "Worthies " require re-writing, as, for example, the Memoir of General Guest ; and equally worthy " Worthies " have honoured the parish since his days, not to mention such as Capt. Hodgson, Bishop Horsfall, and others, that escaped the notice of our indefatigable historian. It was deemed just to leave Mr. Watson's collection as far as possible as he printed it, and thus build on his foundation. The Editor has promises of new pedigrees, revised ones, and original biographical sketches for the next volume, and respectfully solicits further assistance. J. H. T. Idel, Bradford, Dec. 2nd, 1882. CONTENTS Tradesmen's Tokens ... Lords Halifax : Montagu and Savile Charitable Donations : Barkisland EUand Halifax Biographical History of Parish Coats of Arms Halifax: Vicars Lecturers ... Epitaphs Testamentary Burials Elland: Epitaphs ... Curates Testamentary Burials Heptonstall : Curates Testamentary Burials Eastrick: Curates EippoNDEN : Epitaphs. Curates LuDDENDEN : Curatcs CoLEY : Epitaphs Curates Illingworth : Curates SowERBY Bridge : Curates Lightcliffe : Epitaphs, Curates St. Ann's, Southowram : Curates Sowerby: Curates Crostone : Curates pages. 5— 6 7— 8 8—19 20— 39 39— 73 73 — 139 139 — 141 141 — 152 152 — 153 153 — 176 177 — 178 178 — 183 183 184 184 185 185 — 186 186 — 187 187 — 188 188 188 — 189 189 — 190 190 190 191 191 — 192 192 — 193 193 CONTENTS. pages. Manorial Survey, 1314 193- -198 Earl Leicester's Lands 198- -199 Census, 1763, &c., 200- -201 Pedigrees, Alphabetically arranged... 202- -276 Halifax: Chantries 276- -283 1 Fountain's ... 284- -290 Lands St. John's, Jerusalem 290- -292 belonging to Lewis Priory ... ^ Kirklees ... 292 293 Elland: Chantry ... 294- -297 Heptonstall: Chantries ... 298 Longevity ... 298 Gibbetted Persons ... ,.. 299- -300 Benefactors: Halifax ... 300- - 307 Heptonstall ... ... 307- -815 Hipperholme ... 315- -328 Midgley ... 328- -332 Northouram ... ... 332- -335 Norland ... 335- - 836 Ovenden 336- -338 Eastrick ... 338- -342 Kishworth ... 342- - 346 Stansfield ... 346- -349 Skircoat ... 349- -351 Sowerby ... 352- -362 Soyland ... 362 - - 366 Southowram ... 866 Warley ... 867 Wadsworth ... 867 Bishop Copley ... ... 868 !8i00raplljia ^alifasunsts. -$- [From Watson's "Halifax," 4to, 1775, and Jacob's Beprint (with abridgements) of the same, 8vo.] We''' shall now give some account of such tradesmens tokens as have been coined within this i3arish, and come to our knowledge. First.— EICHARD DOLLIFFE. In the center a swan. Rev. round the edge, IN HALLIFAX. 1666. In the center, HIS HALFE PENNY. The DoUiffes were owners of the Swan inn, in Hahfax, and if they had any arms this might belong to them. Second,— EDWARD. NOVBLE. AT. YE. In the center, a Cock. Rev. IN. HALLIFAX. 1668. In the center, HIS HALFE PENY. Third,— GABRIELL. LEAROYD. In the center, THEIR HALF PENY. Rev. HOLLIFAX. GL. 68. In the center, a full blown rose. These three were in the possession of the Rev. Mr. Watson, late rector of Stockport. f Fourth,— On one side, JOHN. DEANE. 1667. In the center, IN. HALLIFAX. On the other side, GABRIELL. LEAROYD. In the center, THEIR HALF PENY. This belongs to Mr. Benjamin Bartlet, of London, late of Brad- ford, in Yorkshire, F. S. A. * Jacob's Edition, page 42. Mr. Watson writes, at page 70, — " I shall conclude this chapter with an account of such tradesmen's tokens as have been coined within this parish, and come to my knowledge." Jacob un- graciously ignores Mr. Watson's labours, omits the Author's name from the title-page, hides himself invariably in the editorial "We," and yet gives almost a literatim copy. He re-arranges some of the chapters, and omits the pedigrees and Latin sentences. He substitutes ' says ' for ' sais,' ' uncle ' for ' unkle,' ' Eland ' for ' Ealand.' t These are in my possession, Watson. 6 BIOGRAPHIA Fifth,— JOHN. EXLEY. In the center, a crown over a cross patee. Rev. IN HALLIFAX. 1667. In the center, HIS HALFE PENNY. Sixth,— JOHN. PARKER. 1667. In the center, on a shield, the Drapers arms. These two also belong to Mr. Bartlet. Seventh,— TIMOTHY OLEAROID. In the center, A PENNY. Rev. OF. HALLIFAX. 1670. In the center, a Dolphin. Eighth,— HVGH. RAMSDEN IN. In the center, a full blown rose, seeded. Rev. STAINLAND. 1670. In the center, HIS PENNY. — These two last from copies in the hands of John Wilson, Esq ; of Broomhead, in Yorkshire. Ninth, — JOHN RHODES. In the center, a lion rampant. Rev. IN. HALLIFAX. In the center, ^f^* This, by its size, must have gone for a farthing. The lion rampart was probably part of a coat of arms, for Guillim, in his Heraldi-y, page 364. edit. 1724. says, "that Rodes of New Halifax, as he calls it, bore Argent on a cross engrailed between four lions rampant, gules five besants." Tenth,— lOHN. CLAYTON. In the center, a swan. Rev. OF RIBONDIN. 1668. In the center, HIS HALF PENY. N.B. This John Clayton, was buried at Ripponden April 15, 1688, as appears by the register. Eleventh,— ABRAHAM SLATER. In the center, a fleur de lis. Rev. OF EALAND. ... In the center, HIS HALF PENY. These three'^ last were in the possession of the late Rev. Mr. Watson aforesaid. Snelling, in his View of the copper coin and coinage of England, page 27, in the list of places where he has found these tradesmens tokens to have been made, mentions Light- cliff, near Halifax, and at page 28, Stainland, in Yorkshire, both in this parish. At page 30, is the following coin en- graved, ROBERT. WATMOVGH. 1667. In the center, A loaded horse. Rev. CARRIER FOR HALLYFAX. In center, HIS HALFE PENNY. On the subject of these [" numinorum famuli" I] we shall only observe, that private persons, especially those in trade, found themselves under a necessity of assuming this power of coinage, owing to the want of copper money coined by authority; they first made their appearances about 1648, * These three are in my own possession, Watson. HALIFAXIENSIS. 7 and kept gradually increasing till 1672, when they were cried down by proclamation. [A few of the above (1, 3, 11,) are engraved by way of specimen in the Miscellaneous Plate. Watson.] The town of Halifax has the honour to give title to the noble family of MONTAGU, of Horton, in the county of Northampton. — The first person on whom the dignity was conferred, was Charles Montagu, who, on the 4th of December, 1700, was made baron Halifax, in the county of York, with limitation of that honour to George Montagu, esq ; eldest son and heir of Edward Montagu, esq; his eldest brother, and the heirs male of his body ; the reasons for this royal act of favour are copied from the preamble to the patent in CoUins's Peerage, Vol. III. page 694. and are such as reflect the highest lustre on his character. His merit employed the pens of the best writers of the time, amongst the rest, the author of a poem in the Spectator, Vol. VIII. No. 620. to this purport. Whom shall the muse from out the shining throng Select, to heighten, and adorn her song ? Thee, Hallifax. To thy capacious mind, man approv'd, is Britain's wealth consign'd. Her coin (while Nassau fought) debas'd and rude, By thee in beauty, and in truth renew'd. An arduous work ! Again thy charge we see, And thy own care once more returns to thee. ! form'd in ev'ry scene to awe and please, Mix wit with pomp, and dignity with ease : Tho' call'd to shine aloft, thou wilt not scorn To smile on arts thyself did once adorn : For this thy name succeeding time shall praise, And envy less thy garter," than thy bays. * He ivas knight of the garter. October 26, 1714, he was advanced to the dignity of earl of Halifax and viscount Sunbury, with limitation of those honours to his nephew above-mentioned, who succeeded to them on the death of his uncle. May 19, 1715. Previous to this, the town had given title to George Savile, who, in the 10th year of the reign of Charles II. was created baron Savile of Eland, and Viscount Halifax ; and in 1682, farther 8 BIOGRAPHIA advanced to the title of marquis of Halifax, which continued till August 31, 1700, when, at the death of William, son of the above George, without issue male, the title became extinct. [The Savile pedigree here follows in Watson's 4to History.] AN ACCOUNT OF THE OHAEITABLE DOlSTATIOlsrS WITHIN THE VICAKAGE OF HALIFAX. BENEFACTIONS IN THE TOWNSHIP OF BARKISLAND. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF THOMAS GLEDHILL, Of BARKISLAND, Dated March 23, 1056. " T GIVE and bequeath the sum of one hundred and — I twenty pounds, of lawful money of England, to be -^ bestowed upon lands, to the uses following, that is to say, to and for the only use of a lawful preaching minister of the word of God at Kipponden Chapel, that shall be settled there from time to time ; my will and mind is, that the profits of the same lands, from year to year, to succeed- ing ages, shall come and be paid to the hand of such Minister, or Ministers, for ever; which said sum of one hmidred and twenty pounds I have given in my life time into the hands of my uncle, Joshua Horton, of Sowcrby, in the said county, Esq; in treating him to bestow, or cause to be bestowed, the said moneys upon lands, in some convenient * Jacob, p. 98 ; Watson, p. 649. HALIFAXIENSIS. 9 place, to the best profit he can, and to put it into feoffees estate, himself being one, the profits whereof to be collected to the use of the abovesaid Minister of Ripponden. And in commemoration whereof, or for which gratuity of augment- ation, the said minister or mmisters, shall preach one Sermon yearly, upon the first day of May, if it be not of the Lord's day, and if so, then in the week following, at the Minister's choice of the day. And if there fall out any time of vacancy that there be no preaching Minister of the Gospel at the place aforesaid, my will and mind is, that at the time or times of such vacancy, the profits of the same lands shall go and be paid to the most needful poor people of the township of Barkisland, especially to such as are laborious, and endeavour to keep themselves from being chargeable to the said town. And also I have given into the hands of my uncle, Joshua Horton, the sum of fifty pounds, by him to be bestowed on lands as aforesaid, at his best discretion; the profits of which lands shall be vested by feoffees as aforesaid, and yearly paid to the most needful poor of the township of Barkisland, from time to time to succeeding ages for ever, especially to such as labour to keep themselves from being chargeable to the said town." In consequence of the above donation, the said Joshua Horton, of Sowerby, Esq ; Thomas Horton, of Barkisland ; Richard Firth, of the Height, in Barkisland; and John Ramsden, of Bowers, in Barkisland, as trustees, purchased an estate in Gleadchff, in Northouram, of one Nathan Hoile, of Halifax, for the sum of 170L the original purchase Deed of which is at the seat of Sir Watts Horton, at Chaderton, in Lancashire, with other papers, &c. respecting the title. The present rent is SI. 10s. per annum, of which 61. yearly is paid to the Minister of Ripponden, and the rest to the poor of Barkisland. There has not, that we'^ know of, been any conveyance of this trust since the above purchase. Where the original Will is to be met with we* cannot tell, for there are no wills in the office at York from 1652 to 1660. • I. [Watson.] 10 BIOGRAPHIA EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF SARAH GLEDHILL, Of LONDON, LATE OF BARKISLAND, Dated October 13, 1657. -I do give and bequeath the sum of two hundred pounds current EngHsh money, unto the use of a School- master, for teaching such poor children of the township of Barkisland, whose parents are, or shall not be able, to bring them up in learning ; and I do will that my Executors, here- after named, bestow the said sum of two hundred pounds in some convenient place, in the purchase of lands, and put the same in feoffees estate, the profits whereof to be yearly gathered by such feoffees, and their heirs, to succeeding ages for ever, and paid by them, from time to time, to such Schoolmaster, or Schoolmasters, as shall be by them in their discretions placed or appointed in the town or township aforesaid ; for which said yearly profit the said Schoolmaster shall teach such a competent number of poor children of the said town and township of Barkisland, to read English, and to write, or cast account, or farther learning, as the said feoffees shall think meet and convenient, and as the said money so raised will extend." In pursuance of the above, an indenture was executed, July 10, 1658, between John Walker, of the Closes, in Great Gomersal, in the parish of Burstal, yeoman, of the one party, and Joshua Horton, of Sowerby, Esq; Elizabeth Horton, of Barkisland, (Executors of the last will and testa- ment of the above Sarah Gledhill,) and Thomas Horton, of Barkisland, Gent, of the other party, wherein, for the con- sideration of the sum of 200/. paid by the said Joshua and Elizabeth Horton, the said John Walker sold to Joshua and Thomas Horton, aforesaid, and their heirs, a messuage or tenement in Great Gomersal aforesaid, with several closes of land thereto belonging, three of which were known by the name of Brookhouses, near adjoining to the said messuage HALIFAXIENSIS. 11 or tenement, one whereof lay on the east part of the said messuage, and the other two on the west and south parts of a bam belonging to the said messuage ; also three other closes of land, called by the said name of Brookhouses, described in the said indenture, by the lands on which they abutted. In 1763, the heirs of the above named Executors agreed to have a new trust deed executed, and the Trustees therein appointed were William Horton, of Chaderton, Esq ; (after- wards Sir Wilham Horton, Bart.) Joshua Horton, of HowToyd, John Lloyd, (then) of Holme, Richard Beaumont, of Whitley, and Thomas Patten, of Bank, near Warrington, Esqrs. The School has lately been repaired, the estate surveyed, and the yearly rent fixed at sixteen pounds per annum. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF ELIZABETH HOKTOIST, Of BARKISLAND, Bated July 13, 1670. I give and devise unto the poor people of Barkisland, the sum of five pounds per annum for ever, to be paid forth of the rents, issues, and profits of one messuage, and the lands and tenements therewith used in Barkisland, called Pearce-hey, to be distributed amongst them at the discretion of the owners for the time being, for ever, of Barkisland-hall. Item, I give and devise to the Minister of the Gospel of Ripponden Chapel, five pounds per annum for ever, he preaching a Sermon there on every Good Friday yearly for ever, to be paid forth of the rents, issues, and profits of the said messuage and lands called Pearce-hey, in Barkisland aforesaid, provided such Minister for the time being be an orthodox person, and such as the owner of Barkisland-hall 12 BIOQRAPHIA for time being for ever shall approve of, and in case of non- approbation, and so long as such dislike shall continue, then the said five pounds per annum shall be paid and distributed to the poor people of Barkisland aforesaid." The above sums are paid agreeable to the intention of the donor by the present owner of Barkisland-hall. This extract was made from an attested copy out of the Office at York, [in my own possession, Watson.] Thomas Horton, Esq. who died about 1698, left by Deed the one half part of a farm or tenement called the Hill-top, near Steel-lane, in Barkisland, to the Minister of Ripponden Chapel, who, in consideration and commeration thereof, is to preach yearly for ever, a Sermon upon St. Thomas's Day. This account is taken from the copy of an old terrier without date, in the Register Book belonging to Ripponden Chapel. The whole is regularly fulfilled ; and the rent paid yearly to the Minister of Ripponden is four pounds five shilhngs. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF WILLIAM HORTON, Of HOWROYD, Esq. Dated October 8, 1718. I give unto my Executors and Trustees aforesaid, the sum of sixty pounds of lawful money, which I order them to put out at interest, until that they, or the survivors of them, or the heirs of the survivors of them, can purchase a small estate or annuity therewith ; and I do further will and order, that my said Executors and Trustees, and the owners of Howroyd aforesaid, shall, for ever, pay, imploy, and dis- pose of the growing interest thereof, until such purchase be made, and of the rents, issues, and profits of such estate or annuity, so to be purchased as aforesaid, from the time of Buch purchase, to such use and uses as are herein after HALIFAXIENSIS. 18 mentioned, that is to say, one moiety, or half part of such yearly interest as aforesaid, and of the said yearly rents, issues, and profits of the said annuity, or purchase, unto the Curate of Kipponden for the time being, to be paid on every twenty-fourth day of June, for ever, to him, to preach a Sermon in Ripponden Chapel, on every the said twenty- fourth day of June for ever. And the other moiety, or half part of the said interests, and of the said rents, issues, and profits, to be yearly, on every Easter Monday for ever, paid and distributed unto and amongst the poor people of Barkis- land, at the discretion of my said Executors, and the owners of Howroyd aforesaid, or the major part of them. — And in default or want of preaching such Sermon as aforesaid, that then, and so often as such default shall happen to be made, I order that such interest, or rents and profits, as should have been paid unto the said Curate of Ripponden, to preach such Sermon or Sermons, shall be paid and distributed unto and amongst the poor people of Barkisland aforesaid, as aforesaid. A quit-rent of three pounds per annum was purchased with the above money, out of a farm in Blackwood, within Sowerby, called Jackson Ings, and it is regularly paid as directed, the land tax being first deducted by the owner of the farm. Mrs. Mary Horton, of Howroyd, widow of the above William, did, by an indenture, executed Sept. 27, 1749, make an addition of thirty shillings yearly, for preaching the above Sermon, but not living twelve calendar months after the date thereof, as the last Mortmain Act requires, the money is not paid. 14 BIOOBAPHIA EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF JAMES EILEY, Clerk, Dated May G, 1723. A. FTEE giving to Joseph Eiley, of Kirkcliffe, in Soyland, his brother, and to his heirs, a tenement situate on the common, or waste, called High-Moor, in the township of , in trust, to pay out of the rents thereof, yearly, the sum of five pounds, to the several persons and uses therein mentioned ; the last benefaction in the Will runs thus: — "Item, I will that one pound, part of the residue of the said five pounds, payable out of tiie said yearly rents and profits, be paid by the said Joseph Eiley, and his heirs, upon the second day of February yearly, and every year, for ever, to the Overseer or Overseers of the poor for the township of Barkisland, in the said county of York, for the time being, and to their successors. Overseers of the poor of the same township, for the use of, and to be distri- buted to seven poor widowers, or widows, and for want of such, to the most necessitous persons of the said town of Barkisland, at the discretion of the aforesaid master or owner of Kirkcliffe, and of the said Overseers, and one or more of the chief inhabitants of Barkisland aforesaid, which said several yearly payments of one pound, (alluding to other payments named in the Will, besides this to Barkis- land,) to be made by the said Joseph Eiley and his heirs, as abovesaid, I will that the same be respectively made and paid at the times above-mentioned, the time and space of full three months intervening betwixt the times that the said yearly rents and profits of the abovesaid tenement or dwelling house shall become due and payable to the said Joseph Eiley, and his heirs, and the respective times of payment of the several and respective sums of one pound above-mentioned." The above James Eiley was Curate of Hartshead, and Domestic Chaplain to Sir John Armitage, of Kirklees. The charity is regularly distributed. T HALIFAXIENSIS. 15 BOUNTY MONEY TO RIPPONDEN CHAPEL. HIS Chapel (which is situated in the township of Barkisland) has received Queen Anne's bounty once, as appears by the following account : On the 9th of June, 1726, an agi'eement was made and executed between Richard Nayler, of Hepton-bridge, in the parish of Hahfax, and William Sunderland, Clerk, Curate of Ripponden, wherein the former sold to the latter, and his successors in the said Curacy, for the sum of three hundred pounds, one messuage in Soyland, called Crosswells, and another messuage also in Soyland, called Blackshaw-clough, with lands, &c. to each of them belonging. These farms lie together, and have upwards of thirty days work of land belonging to them. The rest of the money was laid out in the purchase of a croft adjoining to the Curate's house at Ripponden, and two cottages by the said croft, in value about six pounds a year. The clear yearly value of this Chapel, as given by the Governors of Queen Ann's Bounty, in their Return, printed in 1736, pursuant to an order of the House of Lords, of the 16th of April in that year, at page 218, was twenty-two pounds, thirteen shillings and four-pence ; and we beg leave to observe, once for all, that at the same page of this book, which is in folio, is contained the clear yearly value, as it stood in the second and third years of Queen Anne, when the Act was passed for makinfj more pjf'ectual her Majesty's gracious intentions for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor Clergy, by enabling her Majesty to grant in perpetuity the revenues of the first fruits and tenths, and also for enabling any other persons to make grants for the same purpose. It is said in Ecton's Thesaurus, that the above Bounty was obtained by means of Mrs. Mary Horton, and others, in the year 1724. Since writing the above, we''" have met with a Deed bearing date the 23rd day of September, 1730, between Nathan Fielden, of Soyland, of the first part, and the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, Mary Horton, of Howroyd, widow, Charles Radcliffe, Elkana Hoyle, and Samuel Hill, * I have met with a Deed indented. Watson. 16 BIOGRAPHIA of the second part ; wherein, for the sum of 400L the said Nathan Fielden did sell, for the use of the Curates of Ripponden, Blackshaw-clough, and the customary or copy- hold messuage or tenement called Crosswells, both in Soy- land; also the houses and little croft which he had at Ripponden. [A Memorial of this Deed was registered at "Wakefield, October 16, 1730, in Lib. 200, p. 126, and No. 173, Watson.] RIPPONDEN CHAPEL- YARD. Ann Horton, of Barkisland-hall, spinster, William Horton, of Coley-hall, Esq ; Richard Horton, of Howroyd, brother to the said William, Thomas Horton, of Chaderton, Esq; Susanna Beaumont, of Whitley, widow, and Peter Bold, of Bold, Esq; sold by indenture, dated July 10, 1729, one hundred and seventy square yards of a close called the Holme, and ninety square yards of a garden, for enlarging the Chapel-yard at Ripponden, and removing the old chapel there, in order to rebuild it on higher ground, at a greater distance from Ripponden-brook, to prevent such damages as it had some time before sustained, by the flooding of the said brook. The Archbishop's Licence for rebuilding Ripponden Chapel was dated April the sixth, 1729. The sum got by Brief was 541/. Os. 4d. besides the sub- scriptions of the neighbouring Gentlemen. COPY OF A CLAUSE IN THE CODICIL ANNEXED TO THE WILL OF THOMAS HOLROIDE, OF HALIFAX, The Will is dated May 29, 1729, and the Codicil March 8, 1729-30. ''JL RV give a rent-charge of five pounds per annum out of my two farms in Bottomley, in the township of Barkisland, now or late in the occupation of Susan Whiteley, to the Curate of Ripponden Chapel, for the time being, for ever, HALIFAXIENSIS. 17 for reading the Prayers according to the Liturgy of the Church of England, every Wednesday and Friday, in the morning, throughout the year." These Farms are called by the name of Wormald, and the money is regularly paid as directed. PART OF A DEED CONTAINING Mrs. MARY HORTON's CHARITY TO THE POOR Of BARKISLAND. " _1_HIS Indenture, made February 16, 1743, between Mrs. Mary Horton of Howroyd, in Barkisland, in the county of York, widow of the one i)art, and Tho. Horton, of Chader- ton, in the county of Lancaster, Esq ; of the other part, witnesseth, that the said Mary Horton, in consideration of five shillings to her now in hand paid by the said Tho. Horton, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and for the charitable uses, intents and purposes herein after mentioned, and for divers other good causes and consider- ations her thereunto moving, she, the said Mary Horton, hath given, granted, bargained, sold, and confirmed, and by these presents doth give, gi-ant, bargain, sell, and confirm unto the said Thomas Horton, his heirs and assigns, one annuity, or clear yearly rent of thirty shillings, of lawful money of Great Britain, to be yearly issuing and payable, without any manner of deduction whatsoever, at the Feasts of Pentecost, and St. Martin the Bishop in winter, by equal proportions, for ever, out and forth of all that one messuage or tenement on Stainland Green, in Stainland, in the county of York aforesaid, called or known by the name of the New Laith, and three closes of land, arable, meadow, or pasture, thereto belonging, or therewith used or enjoyed, called the Lath Croft, the Kiln Croft, and the Town Ing, or by what other name or names soever the same, or any of them are, or have been called or known, containing together, by esti- mation, three days work and a half, be the same more or less. To have and to hold the annuity or yearly rent of 18 BIOGRA.PHIA thirty sliillings aforesaid, unto the said Thomas Horton, his heirs and assigns, to the use and behoof of him the said Thomas Horton, his heirs and assigns, for ever ; In trust, nevertheless, that he, the said Tho. Horton, his heirs and assigns, and the owners of the capital messuage of her the said Mary Horton, at Howroyd aforesaid, shall yearly, for ever, -pay, distribute, and dispose of the said annuity, or clear yearly rent of thirty shillings, on every Easter Monday, for ever, unto and amongst such of the poor people of Barkis- land aforesaid, as the said Thomas Horton, and his heirs, and the owners of Howroyd aforesaid, for the time being, shall judge do best deserve the same, in such proportions as they shall think lit." [The rest of the Deed gives power to Thomas Horton, and his heirs, to enter upon the premises in case of non-payment; and concludes with a covenant relating to Mary Horton's title to the estate. It was regis- tered at Wakefield, March 9th, 1743, in Book S. S. p. 106, Number 154, and inroUed in Chancery, April 6th, 1744. Watson.] The money is yearly distributed by the present owner of Howroyd. The original Deed is at the seat of Sir Watts Horton, at Chaderton, in Lancashire, from whence the above was €opied. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF Mrs. ANN HORTON. Dated August 2, 1745. I give and devise unto Peter Bold, Esq ; and his heirs for ever, all my messuages, lands, tenements, and heredita- ments whatsoever. — But my earnest desire is, and I do hereby signify it to the said Peter Bold, Esq ; that he or his heirs do, so soon as he or they can, after my decease, gi-ant, or settle in trust, or otherwise, a rent charge of four pounds a year, to be for ever issuing out of all that my messuage HALIFAXIBNSIS. 19 situate in Barkisland, and now in the tenure of Timothy Turner, and the lands thereto belonging, by two equal portions, at Michaelmas and Lady-day in every year, and to be by the Overseer or Overseers for the time being, of the poor of Barkisland aforesaid, with the advice and assistance of six of the chief inhabitants thereof, distributed, from time to time, within the space of ten days next after Michaelmas-day and Lady-day, yearly for ever, amongst such of the poor inhabitants, for the time being, of Barkis- land, as shall belong to, and not have public relief of or from that town. And it is also my earnest desire, that the same rent charge may be settled firmly according to law, so as not to be defeated by any of the Mortmain Laws, or otherwise, however, save by the death of the Granter or Grantees within twelve calendar months next after such grant or settlement made, and so as the same may be well recovered by the said Overseers for the afore mentioned use and pur- pose, from time to time, as the same shall become due, for ever, by distress and sale of goods in like manner as afore- said. The messuage from whence the above rent charge arises is called Steel-lane. The premises have not yet been settled in trust, or otherwise, but the money is regularly distributed ev^ery year, by order of the owner of Barkisland-hall. The original Will is at Bold, in Lancashire, from whence the above was copied. RICHARD FIRTH, of Ripponden, gave (but whether by Will or Deed is uncertain) two messuages, or cottages, with appurtenances, at Ripponden, for which the Minister of the Chapel there was to preach five Sermons upon the first Wednesday in the several months of April, May, June, July, and August, in the said Chapel at Ripponden successively, and annually for ever. [This account is taken from the copy of an old terrier, without date, in the Register Book belonging to Ripponden Chapel. Watson.] The intention of the Donor, as expressed above, is regul- arly fulfilled. This account is taken from the Register Book at Ripponden Chapel. 20 BIOGRAPHIA E A L A N D . EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF ROBERT INMAN, OF EALAND, Bated April 12, 1638. -I give, devise, and bequeath unto my brother George Eamsden, of Greetland, and Joseph Kamsden, of the same, my nephew, their heirs and assigns, one annuity or yearly rent of twenty shillings, of lawful money of England, to be issuing forth of those messuages or tenements, called the Lee, with the appurtenances, in Old Linley, within the township of Stainland, in the county of York, and forth of all the lands, tenements, closes, and hereditaments, to the same belonging, or with the same now or commonly demised, used, or occupied, and forth of all other my lands and tene- ments in Old Linley aforesaid, which I late bought and purchased of William Holdsworth, payable yearly on the Feasts of Pentecost, and St. Martin the Bishop in winter,, by equal portions, to have, hold, levy, and take the said annuity, or yearly rent of twenty shillings, in form aforesaid, to be paid unto them the said George Eamsden and Joseph Bamsden, their heirs and assigns, for ever. Nevertheless, in trust and confidence, and to the intent and purpose that they, the said George Kamsden and Joseph Eamsden, and their heirs, and the survivor of them and his heirs, shall dispose of the same yearly rent of twenty shillings, and all the profits thereof, from time to time, to and for the use and better maintenance of a Preacher, who shall preach the word of God at the parochial Chapel of Eland aforesaid, from time to time, to succeeding ages for ever, the first payment thereof to be made at the Feast of Pentecost, or St. Martin the Bishop, in winter, which shall next ensue the day of my decease." Then follows a clause, impowering the said George Eamsden and Joseph Eamsden, their heirs and assigns, to make distress on the premises in case of non payment of the said sum of twenty shilHngs, or any part thereof, for the space of twenty days next ensuing either of the said Feasts HALIFAXIENSIS. 21 whereon it became payable, being lawfully demanded. The above was copied from the Eegister-book at Eland. EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF HENRY WILSON, OF ELAND, Dated June 28, 1052. " JL give, devise, and bequeath unto Gilbert Savile, of Greetland, Gentleman, and to Abraham Dyson, Jeremy Bentley, and to John Whittel, of Whittel Place, in Eland, Yeoman, and to their heirs for ever, five closes of new land in the Broad Car, which my father purchased of Sir William Savile, Bart, as also one house, or cottage, with the ap- purtenances in Eland aforesaid, and one backside thereunto belonging, now in the tenure or occupation of Joseph Whxteley, or his assigns ; and also one ruinated house, or house-stead, and one backside thereunto adjoining, with the appurtenances, in Eland aforesaid, between the smithy now in the tenure of John Gillot, and the house now m the occu- pations of Jonas Clay and Brian Eawnsley there ; and also all my parts and purports of the said smithy, and the two houses now in the tenures of the said John Gillot, Jonas Clay, and Brian Kawnsley, or their assigns ; and also one whole chamber now or late in the tenure of Sarah Hinch- lifi'e, or her assigns, and one whole shop, with the aj)purten- ances, in Eland aforesaid, now in the tenure or occupation of John Hanson, or his assigns, with all other ways, pass- ages, waters, watercourses, easements, and hereditaments whatsoever, to the above granted premises, or any part thereof belonging or appertaining, or to, or with the same now or commonly demised, used, or occu^^ied, with all their rights, members, and appurtenances, in Eland aforesaid, as they are severally mentioned in one deed of sale past to me from Elias "Wilson, lying near the Cross, in Eland, which he, the said Elias Wilson, lately purchased of Mr. John Farrar, of Brearly, to have and to hold the said five closes, BIOGRAPHIA with one house and appurtenances, and one house or house- stead and backside with appurtenances, and part of the smithy, and two houses, and one chamber, and one shop, with appurtenances, unto the said Gilbert Savile, Abraham Dyson, Jeremy Bentley, and John Whittel, and to their heirs and assigns for ever, yielding therefore unto me, and my heirs, the rent of one red rose, in the time of roses, if it be asked, of intent, and confidence and trust, that they the aforesaid Gilbert Savile, Abraham Dyson, Jeremy Bentley, and John Whittel, shall first pay out of the same all such rents as now are accustomed to be paid by me the above- said Henry Wilson, and the profits of the said five closes, homes, backsides, and part of the smithy, and two houses, and over chamber, and one shop, with the appurtenances above-mentioned, my will and mind is, shall be used and employed by my said Trustees, Demisees, and their heirs for ever, to and for him and his use, benefit, and commodity, who from time to time, to succeeding generations for ever, shall be stipendiary Preacher or Minister of God's word, at and in the parochial Chapel of Eland aforesaid, the said Minister or Preacher having the consent of the said Trustees beforenamed, or their heirs or assigns, or any three of them. Item, I give to the aforesaid Gilbert Savile, Abraham Dyson, Jeremy Bentley, and John Whittle, fifty pounds, to be paid by my Executors to them, or any two of them, towards building of an house upon the ground I lately bought of Elias Wilson, near the Cross, in Eland, to be paid when the foundation of the house shall be laid, which house, my mind and will is, shall be used and employed by my said Trustees, and their heirs for ever, to and for the use of the Minister of God's word, at the parochial Chapel of Eland aforesaid, and chiefly for the said Minister to live in if he be married, or otherwise, if he shall desire it, he having the consent of my said Trustees, or their heirs or assigns, as abovesaid." "Memorandum. It is Henry Wilson's will and mind, that during that time that there is not such a Minister at Eland, as his aforesaid Trustees, their heirs or assigns, shall approve of, that then the said profits, formerly given to a Minister, shall be disposed of by them to such a Minister as the aforesaid Trustees, their heirs, or any three of them. HALIFAXIBNSIS. 5SO shall think fit, the said Minister officiating and doing service for the same in the parochial Chapel of Eland aforesaid." This Memorandum was added to the Will before it was sealed and signed. The whole was transcribed from the Eegister Book at Eland. Jeremy Bentley, one of the Trustees, took upon him the care of building the house, and laid out, besides the fifty pounds left by the above Will ( including the purchase of an old smithy, &c. on which part of the house was built,) of his own money, forty-five pounds, for which he had a quit rent of three pounds per annum out of the house and land left by Henry Wilson, granted him by the rest of the trustees, till he should be satisfied some other way. At this time the interest of money was eight per cent. This yearly quit rent of three pounds was paid till about 1676, after which there were only forty shillings per annum received till 1689, when Jeremy Bentley, of Woodhouse, grandson and heir of Jeremy Bentley, one of the Trustees above mentioned, coming to his age, did eject the tenants on the Minister's house, in order to recover the arrears due to him ; but by the mediation' of friends, he agreed to abate the 14/. in arrear, also SI. spent in law, together with 2L of the principal money, which was 45/. and in consideration of 43/. paid by John Savile, of Methley, Esq ; Brian Thornhill, of Fixby, Esq; Thomas Horton, of Barkisland, Esq; Thomas Eamsden, of Crowstone, and Robert Whittel, of Eland, Gent, he did resign over, and confirm the said premises wholly to them and their heirs, and to the survivor or survivors of them, and his heirs for ever, to the intent that they may be fully possessed of them, in trust for the Minister of Eland. The five closes above named contain about four acres of land. ^^zJks"^ 24 BIOGBAPHIl. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF Mrs. FRANCES GRANTHAM, Who died March 12, 1692. ■" X gr give and bequeath to the poor of Eland and Fikesby^ to be paid on Christmas day yearly for ever, as followeth, to twenty poor men one shilling a piece ; and to twenty poor women one shilling a-piece, and to twelve boys one shilling a piece ; and to secure the payment of this money, my will and mind is, that fifty -two pounds be put into such hands as my sister Thornhill shall think meet, that the interest there- of may yearly pay the same." It is also said that Mrs. Grantham gave ten shillings yearly to the poor of Eland, and the same sum to the poor of Kastrick and Fixby. JOSEPH BEOOKSBANK, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, did by indenture, executed Oct. 4, 1712, convey to- Trustees, a messuage or tenement, with a barn, an orchard, a yard, and a croft, con- taining one acre, in or near a street in Eland, called the Westgate, and also four selions of land in a field at Eland, called Longmanslands, or Lowmost-town-field, one land being in number the thirteenth, another the thirty-fifth, another the thirty-fourth, and another the forty-fifth ; and also four lands in the middle or Stainland-steel-field, one land lying in the lower shutt there from the footway, in number the thirty-third land, and two lands lying in the upper shutt from the marshes, in number the sixteenth and seventeenth lands, and from the footway to Stainland the sixty-second land ; and also four lands lying in the High- town-field ; one land lying from the Lidgate, in number the eleventh land, ranging clear through the field, and commonly accounted for two lands ; and two other lands, lying from Oyl Mabb-top, in number the fifteenth and sixteenth land. Also six messuages or tenements at the west end of the town of Eland, in a street or place there called the Town- end. Also a messuage or tenement called the Little Upper Harper Boyd, in the township of Norland, containing by estimation ten days work : HAIilFAXIENSIS. 25 In trust, that the said Trustees, and such other person or persons on whom the said trust from time to time should devolve, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs and assigns of such survivor, should permit a certain messuage or tenement in E aland, (mentioned in the ahove indenture to have been late in the occupation of one Law- rence Manknowles, School-master, and intended by the said Joseph Brooksbank to be settled as for a free school, for the educating and teaching forty poor children, boys and girls, belonging to the town of Ealand,) to be from time to time, for ever hereafter, used and enjoyed as and for the school- house of the said free-school. And should yearly out of the clear rents and profits of the above granted messuages, lands, and premises (after the necessary charges in repairing and supporting the same should be from time to time deducted) pay, or cause to be paid, by equal quarterly payments, unto a School-master, for teacliing the\aid forty poor children to read the English tongue, till such time as they can readily read the Bible, and repeat without book the Catechism, (commonly called the Assemblies Catechism) the clear sum of ten pounds, without deduction of or for any manner of taxes. And upon farther trust yearly to expend the sum of thirty shillings in buying of ten Bibles and twenty Catechisms, (commonly called the Assemblies Catechisms) to be yearly distributed and divided amongst the said forty poor children, in such manner as the major part of the Trustees, for the time being, shall think fit. — And if, after the above mentioned trusts should be fully satisfied and discharged, there should, out of the clear yearly rents, issues, and jirofits of the above granted premises, remain in the hands of the said Trustees, more monies than were sufficient to discharge the said trusts, and such necessary charges of repairs as aforesaid, and after incident charges in execution of the said trusts, then upon farther trust to pay yearly the overplus, if any, unto such School-master, for the time being, as an addition to his allowance, or salary, for teaching the forty poor children above-mentioned, and for no other use, intent or purpose whatsoever. And to the end the trusts mentioned in the said indenture might be the better performed, it was there- in declared, that the School-master of the said free-school should be, from time to time, chosen by the said Trustees, BIOGKAPHIA or the major part of them ; and that upon every vacancy of the School-master's place, or office, by death or otherwise, another School-master should by them be elected, within three calendar months next after such vacancy. Also, that the said Trustees, or the major part of them, for the time being, should have the sole power, of nominating and elect- ing the said forty poor children, to be taught to read as aforesaid, and of removing or displacing the same, or any of them, from time to time, and of putting others in the room of those who die, or are dismissed, or go away from the said School. And also, that in case the said School- master should be negligent or careless in the discharge of his duty, or otherwise misbehave himself in his said office, it should be lawful for the said Trustees, or the major part of them, for the time being, from time to time to remove and displace such School-master, and to elect and place another in his room. The said School-master also, for the time being, was not at any time to receive or take any fee or reward from the parents, relations, or friends of all, or any of the said poor children, for or in respect of their being taught to read as aforesaid, (the wages, or salary thereby allowed him only excepted,) under the pain of forfeiting and losing his place or office of School-master. "When the Trustees were reduced to two, or under, the survivor or survivors, were to convey to others ; and if at any time the Trustees for the time being, or any of them, should not be suffered to perform the trusts in them reposed, or the said School-master should in any wise be obstructed in the performance of his office, then, and in either of the said cases, the said Trustees for the time being might, and they were directed and enjoined, to reconvey and assure the above messuages, lands, and premises to the use of the said Joseph Brooksbank, his heirs and assigns for ever." HALIFAXIENSIS. 27 EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF Mrs. FRANCES THORNHILL, Dated the last Day of July, 1718. I give and bequeath the sum of nine hundred pounds to be laid out to pious and charitable uses in manner follow- ing, viz. I devise and give the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, and the interest thereof, into the hands of the heir and chief of our family of Fickisby, my nephew, Thomas Thornhill, Esq. to be the first Trustee. And my will and mind is, that his heirs, being the principals of our name and family of Fickisby aforesaid, shall successively for ever be Trustees to see the said one hundred and fifty pounds laid out in a purchase, for building or making a proper habit- ation for teaching and improving ten poor girls in spinning wool, knitting, sewing, reading, and writing, and to be taught the Catechism of the Church of England, and private prayers for them every morning and night. And for the continuance of this my good intention for ever, I devise four hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain, being further part of the said nine hundred pounds, to rest in the heir of Fickisby's hands for the time being, whom I desire to consult with the Minister of Eland afore- said for the time being, to chuse a proper Master and Dame to teach and instruct the said ten poor girls as is above mentioned, and pursuant to the intent and meaning of this my last will, the interest of which said sum of four hundred pounds, my mind is, shall be annually laid out and paid for the salaries of the said Master and Dame, and maintenance of the said poor girls, in such manner and pro- portion as the said heir of Fickisby, or Trustee for this my charity for the time being, shall see proper and convenient. And my desire is, that the said poor girls may, from time to time, be chosen out of the greatest objects of charity which shall then be living in Fickisby, and the town and parish of Eland, so as the said school may be preserved and kept up for ever for the purposes aforesaid, And my will and mind is, that the heir and owner of Fickisby for the time being, take great care in his choice of 28 BIOGBA.PHIA a Master and Dame as aforesaid, for the good teaching and lookmg after these ten poor girls, so that they may have all necessaries provided for them, and that the said Master may read unto them the prayers of the Church of England, every night after the girls give over work. And also I devise two hundred pounds more, part of the said nine hundred pounds, to rest in the heir or owner of Fickisby land for the time being, for ever, to the end that the Minister of Eland, for the time being, may receive the interest thereof, as an augmentation for his better subsist- ence. And my will and mind is, in consideration of the said interest to be paid to the said Minister, that he do and shall read every morning, in the Church of Eland, the common prayers of the Church of England, at six of the clock in the morning in summer, and at eleven o'clock in the morning in winter, and the charity girls, with their Master and Dame, may attend and be present at the said times and hours of prayer and devotion. And my will and mind is, that if in case the Minister of Eland refuse to attend and read prayers, according to this request and intent, that then the said interest of the said two hundred pounds, designed for the Minister aforesaid, I desire, and my mind is, that the same may go to the said poor girls, for their better maintenance and subsistence. Item, my will and mind is, that that part of my will only that relates to the charity-school of Eland, and the Minister of the same, be read every Christmas-day in the morning, between prayers and sermon, in the Parish-church of Eland." The above was copied from the Eegister-book at Eland. THOMAS CHAMBEKLAIN, Of Skipton in Craven, who died October 29, 1721, gave by will twenty shillings per annum, for ever, to be distributed amongst four poor widows in Eland, by the Minister and Churchwardens, on the 6th day of June yearly ; the pay- ment whereof is charged on a house at the south end of Eland, belonging, in 1727, to William Chamberlain, Salter, in Halifax. The above account was taken from the Eegister-book at Eland. HALIFAXIENSIS. 29 EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF GRACE RAMSDEN, OF HAWKSWORTH, IN YORKSHIRE, Dated Dec. 13, 1734. A. .FTER leaving to the Trustees named in her Will, one clear annuity or yearly rent of three i)ounds ten shillings, and after the decease of several persons mentioned in the said AVill, and failure of issue, as there at large is expressed, one other annuity or yearly rent of thirteen pounds, issuing out of several tenements in the parish of Bingley, the Will proceeds thus : — " And whereas my sister (Mrs. Susannah Ramsden) had it in intention to found a school in Eland, in this county, for the instruction of poor boys in the English tongue, but died without founding the same, now I do hereby give and devise to Sir John Lister Kay, Richard Richardson, the son of W^illiam Richardson, Gregory Rhodes, John W^ilkinson, the Reverend Thomas Hudson, Samuel Hill, Elkanah Hoyle, Gilbert Brooksbank, John Dyson, and William Wilkinson, (her Trustees), and their heirs, to the use of them, their heirs and assigns, all those my several farms, lands, tene- ments, and hereditaments, situate, lying, and being in the parish of Bingley, and now or late in the several occupations of William Jennings, and Thomas Laycock, or their assigns, with the appurtenances, and of the yearly value of thirty- two pounds, upon special trust and confidence, that they, my said devisees, and their heirs and assigns, at all times, after my decease, shall and may receive and take the rents, issues, and in'ofits of ihe* same to them demised promises, and order and dispose thereof in manner following : First, I will, that in case I shall not in my life-time pur- chase a convenient house or building in Eland aforesaid, and settle the same in trust, to be made use of as a school for the instruction of such poor children as are hereinafter described, then, that my said devisees of the said tenements and premises, raise money, not exceeding forty pounds in the whole, and shall apply the same, or so.much thereof as 30 BIOGRAPHIA to my said Trustees shall seem requisite, to the purchase of one house or building, or of a plot or parcel of ground, situate in Eland aforesaid, and near to the church there, such tenements so to be purchased to be of the nature of freehold, and the estate therein to be purchased to be an absolute fee-simple in possession. And if an house or building, which I would rather have to be purchased if it conveniently may be, cannot be purchased in convenient time, then that my said Trustees, having pur- chased such plot of ground as aforesaid, shall apply the residue of the said money, remaining after payments of the consideration of such purchase, to the erecting an house or buildings thereon, convenient for the purpose herein after mentioned. And I will, that such building, so purchased or erected as aforesaid, all which I would have done within the space of one year next after my decease, shall at all times thence- forth be made use of as a school-house for the teaching of poor boys of the township of Eland with Greetland, the children of such parents lawfully settled there, who in the judgment of my said Trustees shall not be of ability to pay for teaching of their children. And to that intent I will that my said Trustees, devisees of my said tenements in the occupation of William Jennings and Thomas Laycock, shall, immediately after the purchase or erecting of the said school-house, elect a grave man of good life and conversation, a true member of the Church of England as by law established, a good Grammar Scholar, and an expert Writer, and Arithmetician, and shall appoint the person so elected to be master of the said school ; and at all times thenceforth, so long as he shall continue Master of the said school, shall pay to him, out of the rents and profits of the said devised tenements, yearly and every year, the sum of twenty pounds, of lawful British money, without any deduction thereout, on any account whatsoever, at two usual Feasts in the year, that is to say, the Feasts of the Annun- ciation of the Blessed Virgin, and St. Michael the Archangel, by equal portions, the first payment to be at such of the said Feasts as shall first happen next after his being insti- tuted Master as aforesaid. And I will, that, upon the death or removal of the said Master, or his ceasing to be Master of the said school, the HALIFAXIENSIS. 81 Trustees of the said school-house and devised tenements last mentioned, for the time being, assemble at the said school- house, or the greater number of them who shall there assemble, on public notice of the vacancy of such school, or place of Master, to be given in the church or church-yard, on a Sunday, immediately after the Morning Service is ended, and within fourteen days after such vacancy, of the time of meeting at such school-house, for a choice of a new Master, which time of meeting shall not be within less than fourteen days after such notice, shall and may elect and appoint another fit person, so qualified as aforesaid, to be Master of the said school, and so from time to time, and as often as the place of Master of the said school shall be vacant, a new Master so qualified as aforesaid, shall and may be elected and appointed, in the manner, and by the Trustees of the said tenements, for the time being, as is herein before directed touching the election and appointing of a Master, upon the first vacancy of the school or place of Master. And that my said Trustees and Devisees, and their heirs and assigns, shall, out of the rents and profits of the said to them devised tenements, as aforesaid, pay to the Master of the school, for the time being, such annuity or salary of twenty pounds, as is herein before directed to be paid to the first Master of the said School, and at the same days herein before provided for payment thereof. And if any Master of the said school shall die, remove, or be disx^laced by my said Trustees, as is herein after provided, then I will, that my said Devisees and Trustees, their heirs and assigns, shall and may apportion the salary to become payable at such of the said Feasts as shall happen next after such vacancy of the said school or place of Master, between or amongst the said Master so removing, or being displaced, or the Executors or Administrators of such Master by whose death the school shall become vacant, and the person or persons by whom the office or place of Master of the said school shall be supplied, till the appointment of a new Master by my said Trustees as aforesaid, and such succeed- ing Master as they, my said Trustees for the time being, or the major number of them, in their discretions shall think meet. And forasmuch as I would have the said school duly attended, I will and recommend to the Minister of the 82 BIOGRAPHIA church of Eland, for the time being, that immediately upon the vacancy of the said school, or place of Master, so often as such vacancy shall happen, the said Minister shall provide a fit person to teach and instruct the poor children therein, until a Master shall be appointed by my said Trustees and Devisees to supply the vacancy of the said school, or place of Master. And I will, that the person so provided by the said Minister shall have a share, or part of the said twenty pounds yearly salary, proportioned to the time he shall so serve the said school. And my will and mind also is, that my said Devisees, their heirs and assigns, of the said tenements in the possession of the said Thomas Laycock and William Jennings as aforesaid, or the major number of them, at all times after erecting of the said school -house, and electing and appointing a Master thereof, shall and may, at their will and pleasure, to be expressed in writing, signed by them, or the major number of them, and to be notified to the Master of the said school for the time being, remove or displace not only such first appointed Master, but any other person or persons who thereafter shall be appointed Master or Masters, or to serve as Master or Masters, either by my said Trustees for the time being, or by the Minister of the said church of Eland, and in manner herein before directed for the appointment of a new Master upon a vacancy, elect and appoint another fit person to supply the place of Master of the said school, in the place and stead of the Master so by my Trustees amoved or displaced. And my will and mind is, that the Master of the said school, for the time being, shall, on every day of the week throughout the whole year, (not being the Lord's Day, or other day appointed by the Church or State to be observed as a Holy Day, except the last ten days of the Month of December, and except three days before and three days after either of the great Festivals of Easter Sunday and Pentecost, and except also the afternoons of every Saturday in the year,) both the forenoons and afternoons of such days, (ex- cept as before excepted,) diligently apply himself at the said school to the teaching of poor boys, the children of such poor persons lawfully settled in Eland with Greetland, as aforesaid, which boys I would have to be twenty-four in number, to read the English language, and write a plain, HALIFAXIENSIS. 33 legible hand or character, and to understand common arith- metic, so as the said children may be thereby better qualified to gain a livelihood than the children of such poor parents usually are. And I will, that the poor boys to be first admitted after erecting the said school-house, and so taught there, shall be nominated by my said Trustees of the said school, or the greater number of them, and that all other the said boys to be therefore admitted to be taught there, shall be nominated thereunto by the Trustees for the time being, or the greater number of them, or in case of default of such nomination by the space of one month next after the said boys there taught shall not be in number twenty-four, then by any two or more of such Trustees. And I will that the Master of the said school, for the time being, shall also faithfully instruct the said poor children in the Principles, Doctrines, and Precepts of the Christian Keligion, and shall particularly oblige them to learn the Catechism of the Church of England, and to repeat the same to him without book, at least once in every week, after they have so learned that they shall be able to repeat the same to him, and that on such occasions he shall explain the same, or some parts thereof, to the said children, in a manner suited to their capacities ; and that at all times whilst the said children are under his care, he shall watch their be- haviour, and in a proper manner, by gentle means if it may be, and if not, by modern punishment, restrain them from all immoralities and indecencies. And my will and mind also is, that the Master of the said school, for the time being, on every day of the week in which the Morning Service, according to the Liturgy of the Church of England, shall be read in the said church of Eland, shall devoutly attend the same Service there, and oblige his said scholars to attend there with him, and take care that they behave themselves there decently, and with due reverence, as their respective ages will admit. And I will that my said Trustees shall ap]3ly the residue of the rents and profits of the said tenements, in the possession of the said William Jennings and Thomas Lay- cock, after satisfying thereout the Master's said salary, to the buying of books as shall be requisite' for the learning of the said boys, till they can read well the English Bible, and 34 BIOGRAPHIA for the buying of paper, quills, and ink, for such of them as shall be taught writing and arithmetic, which writing and arithmetic I would have taught to every of the said boys, after he can read well in the Bible, for the space of six months next after. And I will also, that there be given to every one of the said boys that shall be taught and instructed at the said school till he can read well in the Bible, besides his Bible, a new Common Prayer Book, and a Whole Duty of Man, at his quitting the said school, which books my Trustees, for the time being, shall also provide out of such residue of the said rents and profits of the said farms so to them devised, after payment of the said salary to the said Master, as afore- said. And as for and concerning the said annuity of three pounds ten shillings, herein before devised to my said Trustees, the same is to them devised upon trust, that so much of tlie sum of fifty shillings, part thereof, as shall be requisite, shall be yearly, and every year, expended in pro- viding and laying in coals for a fire to be kept in the said school-house, during the winter season, for the benefit of the said Master and scholars there ; and that the residue of the said fifty shillings, or so much of such residue as shall be needful, be laid out, as occasion shall require, in the support- ing and keeping in repair the said school-house. And as to the sum of twenty shillings, residue of the said annuity of three pounds ten shillings, I will that the same shall and may be expended by my said Trustees, for the time being, at any meeting or meetings to be had by them, or the greater number of them, in Eland aforesaid, touching the said school, or the trust thereof, which I desire may be at the least once in every year, and as often as my said Trustees in theii* discretion shall see meet. And I recommend to them, and every of them, that at such their meetings, or on any other occasion, they, or any one or more of them, do visit the said school, and enquire into the conduct of the Master of the said school, and the proficiency of the poor boys there, in their learning and knowledge. And for the encouragement of the said poor boys, I will that so much of the said annuity of three pounds ten HALIFAXIENSIS. 35 shillings as shall not be expended in any year, shall be dis- tributed to and amongst such of the said boys, as in the judgment of my said Trustees, or the major number of them, shall appear to have best behaved themselves. And as for and concerning the said annuity of thirteen pounds, herein before devised to my said Trustees, in case the same shall become payable, I will that the same be ex- pended and disbursed for the benefit of the poor children thereafter to be taught and instructed at the said school, in such manner as to my Trustees for the time being shall seem meet, only I will that from and after such annuity of thirteen pounds shall take place, the number of poor boys to be taught in the said school-house shall be increased, and that such additional boys shall be children of like poor parents, and be in like manner nominated, taught, in- structed, governed, and provided for, as is herein before limited, of and concerning the poor boys to be admitted to the said school, before the falling of the said last mentioned annuity. And for the better continuance of the said trust, my will is, that my said Devisees and Trustees of the said farm and school-house, within three months next after the decease of any two of them, shall elect two other honest men, of good real or personal estate, and, if to my said Trustees shall seem meet, residing in or near Eland aforesaid, to be with such survivors co-trustees of the said school-house, farms, and annuities, and shall convey the same school-house, farms, and annuities, to the use of themselves, and such like new elected Trustees, and their heirs and assigns on the trusts herein thereof before limited ; and that in the like manner, from time to time, and at all times, so often as any two of the Trustees of the said school-house, farms, and an- nuities, for the time being, shall die, the survivors of them shall, within three months next after, elect two such other honest men of good estate, (and if to such survivors it shall seem meet), residing in or near Eland aforesaid, to be with them co-trustees of the said trust premises, and convey the same to the use of such survivors and new elected Trustees, and their heirs and assigns, on the said trusts herein before thereof limited. And I also will that the Trustees for the time being, of the said school-house and premises, or any two or more of 86 BIOGEAPHIA them, shall have power and authority, at their will and pleasure, to turn out, and remove from the said school, and from all benefit and advantage thereof, any poor boy there admitted to be taught and instructed, on complaint to them made of the misbehaviour of such poor boy. And my will and mind further is, that the Master and scholars of the said school shall at all times conform them- selves to such rules and orders as the Trustees of the said school-house and premises shall institute and appoint, so as the same rules and orders be not repugnant to what I have here directed. Provided further, and my will is, that it shall be lawful to and for all and every the Trustees of the said tenements herein before devised to be sold, and Trustees of the said school-house, farms, and annuities, for the time being, to deduct and retain to themselves by and out of the rents and profits of the said tenements devised to be sold, and farms, or either of them, and by and out of the said annuities, or either of them, so to my said Trustees respectively devised, all such sum or sums of money, .damages, costs and charges, as they shall or may respectively reasonably expend, sustain, bear, or be put unto in or about the executing of the trusts hereby in them reposed, or any of such trusts or in defence thereof, or of the titles of the said to them respectively de- vised premises, or any part thereof, and that such Trustees shall not be answerable one for another, or one for the acts, receipts, deeds, or defaults of the other, but every of them severally for his proper acts, receipts, deeds, or defaults only, and none of them for more money than they shall respectively actually receive. JOSEPH BKOOKSBANK, Of Hackney, in the county of Middlesex, Esq ; did, by Indenture, executed June 5, 1756, convey to the Kev. Joseph Brooksbank, of London, Joseph Hulme, of Halifax, M.D. the iiev. John Smith, of Bradford, John Gream, of Heath, near Halifax, Gent. Richard Taylor, of Norland, Clothier, and the Rev. Joshua Dodson, of Cockey Moor, near Bolton, in Lancashire, all that messuage, or tenement, and one cottage, called by the name of Cinder-hills, in the township of Southouram, and also eight closes of land to the same HALIFAXIENSIS. 37 belonging, known by the names of the Upper Ing, the Lower Ing, the Long Field, two Coal-pit Brows, the Little Steass Mires, the Sough Mires, and the Small Long Close, in trust that they, and such other person and persons on whom the trust therein mentioned should, from time to time, devolve, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs and assigns of such survivor, shall yearly out of the clear rents and profits of the above granted messuage and cottage, and lands, (after the necessary charges of re- pairing and supporting the said messuage and cottage, and of the execution of the trusts thereby created were, from time to time, deducted), in the first place pay, or cause to be paid, by two equal half yearly payments, as the said rents shall come in and be received, the clear yearly sum of ten pounds of lawful money of Great Britain, without deduction of or for any manner of taxes, to the Minister, for the time being, of the Congregation of Protestant Dissenters meeting or assembling for the worship of God, in the present Meetmg-house made use of for that purpose at Eland, in the county of York, so long as there shall be such a Minister, and the exercise of divine worship by Protestants dissenting from the Church of England shall be permitted therein by the laws of this realm, and no longer. And on this further trust, that the said Trustees, for the time being, shall yearly out of said rents expend the sum of forty shillings, in the purchase of such books of piety and devotion as they shall think fit, to be by them given and distributed amongst the forty poor children taught at the free-school in Eland, which was formerly founded and en- dowed by Joseph Brooksbank, deceased, grandfather of the above named Josej)h Brooksbank, owner of Cinder-hills aforesaid. And upon trust, to pay, or cause to be paid, all the re- mainder of the said clear rents and profits of the said premises yearly unto the School-master, for the time being, of the said school, as an addition to his allowance, or salary, for teaching and instructing the said children in manner directed by the said Joseph Brooksbank, founder of the said school, and to and for no other use, intent, or purpose what- soever. 38 • BIOGRA,PHIA When the Trustees are, by death, reduced to two, or under, the survivor or survivors are to convey to as many as are necessary to make the number seven. Provided always, and the w^hole agreement was on this express condition, that if the Trustees for the time being, or any of them, shoukl not be i^ermitted to perform all or any of the trusts in them reposed, or if the exercise of divine worship by Protestants dissenting from the Church of Eng- land, shall not be permitted in the said Meeting-house by the laws of this realm, or if the said School-master, for the time being, shall be in any wise obstructed in the perform- ance of his office, pursuant to the resolution and intention of the said Joseph Brooksbank, founder of the said school, it should be lawful to and for the said Trustees, for the time being, and they were directed and enjoined to reconvey, and assure the above granted premises to the use of the said Joseph Brooksbank, his heirs and assigns for ever. Ealand Chapel, (which has parochial rights), was, in 1736,. returned by the Governors of Queen Ann's Bounty, to have had, 3d of Ann, a clear yearly value of twenty- six pounds ten shillings. BOUNTY AT EALAND CHAPEL. The money for this purpose was subscribed about the year 1724, by means of Mr. John Lancaster, and others, but no purchase was made with it till after the year 1733, when a farm was bought by the then Curate, Mr. Thomas Alderson, called Blean Farm, in the parish of Askarth, near Askrig, containing about thirty days work of land, with liberty of thirteen cattle gates, in four different pastures, and a common right for an hundred sheep. This farm was let, in 1764, for twenty-one years, at the clear yearly rent of seventeen pounds. A ME. WHITTLE, Of Marshall-hall, is said to have left twenty shttlings yearly out of that estate, to the Curate of Ealand ; but this only appears from old Terriers in the Office at York, not from either Will, or Deed, therefore the Curate's title to it is uncertain, for nothing of this sort is recoverable at law, unless the lands out of which it is issuable, can be ascer- tained. HALIFAXIENSIS. 39 As for the Terriers, they seem to have been made on the supposition that the money was fixed upon those lands, because paid by the owners of them ; but there ought to be a better assurance than this. For this reason there was an intermission of payment for some years in Mr. Petty' s time, till he acknowledged it a bounty, and not a right. THE EEV. MR. STOCKS, Eector of Kirkheaton, is likewise said to have given to the Curates of Ealand, a close in Stainland, worth ten or twenty shillings a year ; but we can give no particular account of this, any more than we can of six pounds a year, said to be bequeathed to the poor of Ealand, by a Mrs. Preston, of Methley. HALIFAX. BRIAN OTES, Of Halifax, surrendered, by copy of court-roll, into the hands of the Lord of the Manor, bearing date 2 Henry VIII. (1511), one cottage, and two closes of land, containing by estimation three acres, with appurtenances, in Halifax, to the use of certain feoffees, and their heirs, in trust, as appears by his Will, dated April 28, 1529, to the use of the said Brian for life, and after his decease, to the Church- wardens of Halifax, and theii* successors for ever, they paying six shillings and eight-pence yearly, for ever, to the amending of an highway between Halifax and Shipden Brook, six shillings and eight-pence for a dirge or mass, in the Parish Church of Halifax, to be sung or said, and the rest of the profits to the Morning priest there. Mr. John Brearclifie says in a manuscript, writ in 1651, that these closes were called Lister Lands, and belonged to one John Exley, of Halifax." The above land lay below Goldsmith's grave, in the way from thence towards the Bull Close ; the cottage is taken away, and the charity was detamed by the said John Exley, who had the land at that time. None of the above charity is now paid, except that for repairing the Highway. [Mr. Wright, page 105, says, none of the charity was paid in 1738, except that for repairing the highway.] * From a manuscript, wrote by Mr. John Brearclifie, an Apothecary in Halifax, called by him, " Halifax Inquiries for the finding out of several gifts, given to pious uses, by divers persons, deceased Dec. 22, 1651. 40 BIOGRAPHIA By an inquisition taken at Guisley, April 10, 1667, it was found, that at the court of John Waterhouse, late of Shibden, Gentleman, deceased, and Kobert Waterhouse, son and heir of the said John Waterhouse, holden of the Manor of Hali- fax, October 12, in the 4th and 5th year of the reign of Philip and Mary, that Brian Bates, of Wakefield, and Eliz- abeth his wife, surrendered int(j the hands of the Lord, the reversion, after the decease of the said Elizabeth, of one messuage, four closes of land, and a yearly rent of twelve shillings, issuing out of certain lands in Halifax, to the use of Thomas Lister, William Lister, and James Lister, and their heirs for ever ; and that after the decease of the said Brian and Elizabeth, the said Thomas Lister, William Lister, and James Lister, did surrender into the hands of the Lord of the said Manor, one annuity, or yearly rent of twenty shillings, issuing out of the said messuage and four closes of land, unto certain other Trustees, to the use of the poor people within the town of Halifax, yearly, to be dis- tributed for ever upon Good Friday, by the discretion of the Lord of the said Town of Halifax, and his heirs, and of the Churchwardens of the church there, with liberty to the said Lord and Churchwardens to make distress upon the pre- misses, in case of non-payment of the said yearly rent. And it was farther found, by the said inquisition, that the said messuage and closes of land, after the death of the said Elizabeth Bates, came to the possession of Elizabeth Blyth- man, of the city of York, widow, who had received the whole rents and profits thereof for several years, and converted the same to her own use, without paying the said sum of twenty shillings yearly to the poor of Halifax, as directed ; where- upon the Commissioners, after a due hearing, did decree, that the said Elizabeth Blythman should, within twenty days after notice of the said decree, pay to the Church- wardens and Overseers of the Town of HaUfax, for the time being, and others named in the said decree, the sum of thirty-three pounds, being the arrears then due ; and that the said Elizabeth Blythman, and the heu-s, owners, and occupiers of the said messuage and closes, chargeable with the said charitable use, should for ever after yearly pay the said twenty shillings, according to the direction of the Don- or. And to the end the said charity might the better be secured and kept up, Samuel Mitchel, John Brearciiffe, HALIFAXIENSIS. 41 Joshua Dunn, Samuel Greenwood, Thomas Eigg, Joseph Fourness, and Thomas Hinde, were hy the said Commission- ers appointed Trustees thereof, with power, in case of death, to the survivors, to make new election. To which decree the said Elizabeth Blythman and Jasper Blythman, Esq. did exhibit their exceptions in the Court of Chancery, Nov. 28, 1667, to which an Answer was filed, on behalf of the poor of Halifax, Nov. 28, 1668 ; and Nov. 27, 1669, the cause being heard before the Eight Honourable Sir Orlando Bridgman, Lord keeper of the Great Seal of England, the exceptions were over-ruled, and the Decree of the Commissioners confirmed by a Decree of that Court, the Exceptants to pay the Eespondent costs of suit. The above messuage and lands are said in Brearcliffe's Manuscript, to go by the name of Yeathouse, and to lie at Blackledge Steel ; they are also called by the same name in the Eegister-book at Halifax. This charity both Mr. Brearcliffe and Mr. Wright have attributed to one widow Pymond, who was no other than Elizabeth Bates above-named. — She married to her first husband Eichard Pymond, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, who lived in Wakefield, and left by his Will, dated May 20, 1547, many legacies, but none to Halifax.''' In the above manuscript of Mr. Brearclifte, are the in- formations of two evidences, to prove that the sum payable out of Yeathouse, to the i^oor of Halifax, was forty shillings yearly ; and one of them, the wife of one Eobert Dean, of Priestley, said she had gone with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Blythman, who was buried at Eland, March 7, 1633, to help her to distribute the same. This is a difiiculty not easily to be solved ; it is, however, we think, safer to follow the words of the above Inquisition, and particularly the surrender therein quoted, which makes it only twenty shillings. The premises belong, at present, to Sir Watts Horton, of Chaderton, Baronet, who pays the money as directed. The original Decree relating to the above, was in the hands of the late Mr. Valentine Stead, of Nottingham, who permitted us to take a co]3y of it, and whose sudden death deprived us of the benefit of many valuable papers, relating to the charities in this parish. * Nov 7, 1547, she married Brian Bates, and was buried Jan. 20, 1552. 42 BIOGRAPHIA EICHAED CLARKE, Of Halifax, gave to the poor of that town, six shillings and eight-pence, yearly for ever, to be paid out of his house near Loveledge-lane, in Halifax, as appears from the copy of a court-roll, in the time of Robert Waterhouse, Esq. dated April 15, 1597. In Mr. Brearcliffe's Manuscript, from whence this account is taken ; it is said, that Richard Clarke gave this house to one Robert Cunliife, who either sold or mortgaged it to Humphry Drake, and that in 1651 it was in the hands of John Drake, Minister, son of Humphry, who paid the six shillings and eight-pence yearly, since which we have seen no account of it. This John Drake was Sub-dean of Rippon, Prebendary of York, and Rector of Dunnington. SIR RICHARD SALTONSTALL, Knight, Alderman of London, (who was Sheriff there in 1588, and Lord Mayor in 1597,) left by will, about the year 1600, one hundred pounds to buy rents with ; which rents were yearly to be distributed in the Parish Church of Halifax, to the poor of the said town and parish, in money or bread, at the discretion of the Clmrch-'wardens for the time being. All this (as Mr. Brearcliffe observes) was confirmed by an Award, made July 8, 43 Eliz. also by the consent of Dame Susan Saltonstail, Samuel Saltonstall, and others, her children ; and the said Dame Saltonstall and Samuel being Executors to the said Sir Richard, were to bestow the said hundred pounds to the most profit, before the 25th day of March next after the said Award. It could not, however, be found, by the Inquisition taken at Halifax, in 1651, in whose hands the money arising from this charity remained, nor whether the same had been dis- posed of or not ; and Mr. Wright thought it was long since lost, or converted to private uses. HUGH ATWELL, Parson of St. Tewe, in Cornwall, gave, March 10, 1605, one pound thirteen shillings and four-pence, to the use of the poor of Halifax town, to be lent to some poor man for HALIFAXIENSIS. 43 year, to be disi^osed of by the Magistrates and Officers of Halifax, which money was for a time lent accordingly. In 1608, it was lent by Symon Binns and Thomas Taylor, Constables, to one Allan Pennington ; and Jane Crowther, the Benefactress, gave her word for it. This is Mr. Brear- ■cliffe's account ; but in Halifax Register, under the year 1605, it is said to have been given to keep the poor in work, the stock to remain for ever, the gain to be the poor's ; to be at the disposition of the Magistrates and Officers of the town of Halifax, or else such as they shall think fit, for the true -disposition thereof. I have seen no farther account of this. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF BRIAN CROWTIIER, OF HALIFAX. Dated September \)lh, ICOG. I do will, give, devise and bequeath to John Favour, Doctor of Laws, and Vicar of Halifax, Robert Law, of the same, &c. and their heirs for ever, to the use of tHe poor of the town of Halifax, one annuity, or yearly rent of ten pounds of lawful English money, yearly issuing, and to be received in the Feasts of St. Martin and Pentecost, by even portions, of, in, and forth of all and singular the said messu- ages, lands, tenements, reversions, possessions and heredita- ments in Armin aforesaid, and the first i3ayment thereof to begin in whether of the said Feasts shall first and immedi- ately happen next after the decease of me, the said Brian €rowther. And I will and grant, that for want of payment of the said yearly rent of ten pounds in the Feasts aforesaid, and by the space of twenty days then next following, that it shall be lawful for the persons aforenamed, and their heirs, to dis- train in and upon the said tenements and premises in Armyn aforesaid, till they be of the said yearly rent of ten pounds fully satisfied and paid. And I will, and my mind is, that the said yearly rent of ten pounds shall be distributed to and amongst the said 44 BIOGEAPHIA poor of the said town of Halifax, by and at the discretion of six honest and sufficient persons of the said town of Hahfax, whereof I will that the said Vicar there, and the Church- wardens of the said town for the time being, shall be three." This Benefaction, Mr. Brearcliffe observes, was dealt all the days of Dr. Favour, who died March 10, 1623, after this it remained unpaid till his successor, Dr. Clay, gave it to the poor at Christmas in 1627 ; it was then converted to the Workhouse. — So far the manuscript. On the 16th of August, in the 9th year of the reign of Charles the first, an indenture was executed (a copy of which is in our possession) between Sir Arthur Ingram, the elder,, of the city of York, knight, and Sir Arthur Ingram, the younger, Henry Eamsden, Vicar of Halifax, Samuel Crow- ther, Nathaniel Waterhouse, and others, reciting, that whereas the said Samuel Crowther pretended to have a title to a rent-charge of ten pounds a year, issuing out of certain lands, &c. in Armine, in the county of York, supposed ta have been granted to him, John Favour, Doctor of Laws, Vicar of Halifax, and others, by the last will and testament of Brian Crowther, deceased, in trust for the poor of Halifax aforesaid ; the said Samuel Crowther, vv^ith the consent of divers of the best inhabitants in Halifax, and for the con- siderations afterwards in the said indenture mentioned, released, and for ever quit claimed the same to the said Sir Arthur Ingram, the elder, and Sir Arthur Ingram, the younger, their heirs and assigns for ever. And in lieu thereof, the said Sir Arthur Ingram, the elder, and Sir Arthur Ingram, the younger, did for them, and their heirs, grant and assign to the said Henry Eamsden, &c., their Executors and Administrators, the yearly sum of twenty pounds, to arise and be payable out of an annual rent of three hundred and forty- six pounds ten shillings, which was made payable to the said Sir Arthur Ingram, the elder, and Sir Arthur Ingram, the younger, from one John Smithson, who held under them certain lands and tene- ments in Halifax, Skircoat, Northouram, and Southouram,. by lease to him, his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, for the term of one hundred years : To have and to hold the said yearly rent of twenty pounds to the said Henry Eamsden, &c., their Executors, Administrators and Assigns, for and during the term of eleven years, from thence next HALIFAXIENSIS. 45 following the date of this indenture ; and after the expiration of the said term of eleven years, the j^early sum of ten pounds during the residue of the said term of one hundred years in the indenture to the said John Smithson mentioned, which indenture was dated August 81, 2 Cha. I. This latter sum of ten pounds yearly was made payable out of two messuages and two water-cornmills in Siddal, South- ouram, and JSldrcoat, or some of them, and out of all houses, buildings, lands and tenements to the same belonging, to be paid to the said Henry Eamsden, &c. their heirs and assigns, in the south porch of the Church of Halifax, at the Feasts of St. Michael, and the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, by equal j)ortions, the first payment thereof to begin at the Feast of St. Michael, which shall be next after the determin- ation of the said term of one hundred years, with power of distress in case of non-payment after twenty days, and a forfeit of ten shillings for every such default. At an inquisition taken at Hahfax, February 16, 1651, it was found, that the above yearly rent of twenty pounds was paid for eight years and a half next after the date of the above indenture ; after which it was received and with-held by one Anthony Foxcroft, so that there remained in arrear, at the time of taking the said inquisition, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five pounds ; the Commissioners, there- fore, decreed, that the said Anthony Foxcroft should pay the said sum of one hundred and twenty-five pounds to Thomas Binns, the surviving Trustee ; twenty-five pounds whereof was to be distributed to the poor of Halifax, and the remain- ing hundred pounds bestowed upon lands, rents, or heredita- ments of inheritance, in fee simple, and the profits thereof distributed to the poor of Halifax, in such manner as the said yearly rent, or sum of ten pounds, was by the above Indenture directed to be disposed of. Also Anthony Foxcroft, the younger, of Halifax, Joseph Fourness, of Booth's Town, Kichard Blackett, of Halifax, John Brearclifle, Kobert Allensou, and Daniel Greenwood, of the same, were appointed co-trustees wdth Thomas Binns; and to these, Anthony Foxcroft, in obedience to the above Decree, did by Indenture, bearing date Jan. 4, 1652, grant an annuity of six pounds fifteen shillings, out of four closes of land, at Goldsmith's Grave, near Halifax, i)ayable to the said Trustees, their heirs and assigns, for ever, at Lady-day 46 BIOGRAPHIA and Michaelmas, to be distributed according to the will of Brian Crowther, with a clause of distress in case of non- payment for twenty days. This annuity is the same which Mr. Wright, page 131, says he could procure no particular account of. September 17, 1698, seven Trustees were added to the above, but how, or by what authority, is uncertain.'-' Under an account of the above charity were formerly the following lines, on a tablet hanging at the quire door, in Halifax Church : " Some labour hard to leave their children store, Some stir and strive t' advance their stock in blood ! Some work for Commonwealth, which are bless'd more, And happy they that care for Church's good, And leave for poor, for widows, orphans, food. Thus he that had no children of his own, Hath left for many children to be taught ; Who father is to caitifes of this town. And hence to Heav'n is gone, with works full fraught, Whose gracious deeds shall never come to naught. His body now here lies at quiet rest, His soul with God shall evermore be blest. In hope poor Saints do crave, In faith so do, so have. B.C. ELLEN HOPKINSON, and JANE, Formerly wife of Brian Crowther, built in their life-times the alms-houses in Halifax, containing eighteen rooms for as many poor widows, and two rooms for a School-master ; the former was buried January 15, 1610, [and is said in Halifax Begister to have been, '^ Ficmina pia, qucc medictatem XenoUochii codijicavit ut vidtiarum domicilium esset in perpetuum"] and the latter died about three years after. Mr. Wright says, '* Over the Alms-houses door, on a stone in the wall is the following inscription " : " In favour of Church and Commonwealth, to the glory of the Blessed Trinity, these Alms-houses were built by the Christian Charity of Ellen Hopkinson, and Jane Crowther, of the family of Hemingway, of the Overbrea, sisters, widows, for eighteen widows of the town of Halifax, and one Master, to teach poor Children the Catechism, whose * Mr. Crowther's burial is thus entered in Halifax Begister: — Sepnltus est Januarii 12, 1607, Brian Crowther, dc Halifax^ qui legavii SchoUe Grammat. Vicar, di'. Halifax viginti libras, et pauperibns ejmdem viU(C decern libras annul redditm ex dominin sive manerio de Aniiyn, in comitatu Eboru. in perpetuum. HALIFAXIENSIS. 47 memory be blessed for ever. — Blessed is he that judgeth wisely of the poor ; the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble, Psalm 41. 1610." These Alms-houses being rebuilt, were made to contain twenty-four rooms, twenty for twenty widows, three for the Master, and one at the time of this information not used. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF RICHARD SOMERSCALES, OF HALIFAX. Dated March 17, 1012. A. .FTER leaving certain estates in Ovenden and Halifax (no otherwise described than by the names of the tenants and occupants ) to his sister, then wife of John Holdsworth, for life, and vesting the same in Trustees, it follows : " My will, mind, and meaning is, that the said Robert Law, Richard Nichol, Humphry Drake, John Hayley, Thomas Pighles, and John Crowther, (his Trustees), and their heirs, and the survivors of them, and their heirs, shall, from and after the decease of the said Alice, my sister, yearly, and from year to year, for ever, dispose, distribute, and take all the whole rents, issues, and profits of all the said messuages or tenements, closes, hereditaments, and in'emises, with the appurtenances, in Ovenden and Halifax, to and amongst the poor and needy of the said towns of Ovenden and Halifax, at the discretion of my said feoffees and their heirs, with the assistance and help of the Churchwardens of the said two towns, for the time being, save that I will twenty shillings shall be given out of the first year's profits of the premises, after my said sister's decease, towards the repairing of Illingworth Chapel, situate in Ovenden aforesaid ; and I do appoint the Vicar of the Parish Church of Halifax, and his successors, for the time being, to take an account yearly of my said feoffees and their heirs, of the distributing and dis- posing of the rents, issues, and profits aforesaid, to the use of the poor aforesaid ; and I do hereby charge my said feoffees, and every of them, and their heirs, to deal faithfully and uprightly in the disposing of the said rents, issues, and 48 BIOORAPHIA profits of my said lands and tenements, according to the true meaning of this my last Will and Testament, as they will answer me at the dreadful Day of Judgment. And, nevertheless, my will and meaning is, that the said feoffees, and their heirs, shall, from time to time, have to them allowed out of the said rents, issues, and profits, all costs and charges by them to be paid or disbursed, in or about the repairing of the houses and buildings of the ]3rem- ises, or in the defence of the title of the aforesaid lands, tenements, and premises, and also all other their reasonable costs and charges in or about the performance of this my present Will and Testament." The abovesaid Eichard Somerscales, got his estate by labour, being first a poor Shepherd, and towards his latter end a Waller. [Lord Oxford's collection of MSS., British Museum, No. 797.] He died April 8, 1613. In 1651, one Daniel Greenwood, who was then a feoffee in trust, made oath, that the proportion for Halifax town, being four pounds thirteen shillings and four-pence yearly, had been truly i^aid to that time, and that the lands, from whence the said monies came, lay at the Espes, near Mount Pellan, in Halifax. The other estate, according to Mr. Wright, is at Bradshaw-Lane-Ends, in Ovenden. Dec. 26, 1664, the feoffees then in trust, being for Halifax, Daniel Greenwood, John Bretcliffe, and Thomas Eigg ; and for Ovenden, John Illingworth, James Bates, and Abraham Brigg, executed to each other reciprocally, articles of agree- ment, that it might be certainly known, how much of Eichard Somerscales' charity ought to be distributed to the l^oor of Halifax, and how much to the poor of Ovenden ; in which it was agreed, that so much of the premises as lay •within the township of Ovenden, should belong to the poor of Ovenden, and so much as lay within the township of Halifax, should belong to the poor of Halifax. This agreement, it ought to be observed, divides the body, which, according to the donor's Will, should consist of six feoffees, seized jointly of all the premises, both in Ovenden and Halifax, into two distinct bodies, each acting separately from the other ; it remains, therefore, to be considered, how far these agreements are valid, and whether they do not affect later conveyances, &c., relating to this charity. In 1710, Abraham Brigg conveyed to Messrs. Skelton and HALIFAXIENSIS. 49 Stott, as Trustees for Ovenden ; and by deed, dated January 19, John Batley, Thomas Bigg, John Hoh-oyd, Samuel Steed, WilHam Chamberlain, Jonathan Steed, Thomas Holden, and Eobert Butterfield, were put in trust ; but why so many were appointed, or whether it was for Halifax only, we can- not say. The estate in Ovenden, belonging to this charity, was, in 1738, and had been for eighty years before, let for three X)ounds a year ; that in Halifax for six pounds. The following is on a stone on the west wall of Halifax Church. "Mr. Eichard Somerscales, of Halyfax, who died April the 8th, A.D. 1613, and who, by his last will, gave all his lands in Halyfax and Ovenden (after the deceas^of his sister) to the poor of the said towns for ever, amongst whom he gave forty shillings to his sister's husband for the term of his life." EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF JANE CEOWTHER, OF HALIFAX. Dated Jan. 18, 1013. I give, devise, and bequeath unto John Favour, Doctor of Laws, and Vicar of Halifax, Samuel Lister, of Southouram, William Slater, George Bentley, William Whitaker, and Humphry Drake all of Halifax aforesaid. Yeomen, and their heirs, for ever, one annuity or yearly rent of eight pounds, of lawful money of England, yearly, issuing and to be levied of, in, and forth of all that the manor, lord- ship, or grange of Arnforth, or by what other name or names soever the same is called, with the appurtenances, in the town, township, and parish of Long Preston, and all the lands, houses, tenements and hereditaments thereunto belonging, which rent I late had and purchased, to me, my heirs and assigns for ever, of John Pudsey, of Arnforth, Gent, with my whole power and authority to distrain of and for the same, and all sums of money and penalties to be forfeited nomine poense for non-payment of the same, or any 60 BIOGRAPHIA part thereof, of intent and purpose that they and then- heirs shall for ever dispose, bestow, and employ the aforesaid annuity, or yearly rent of eight pounds, and every part thereof for and towards the maintenance of one School and School-master, who shall teach the children of the poorest people of Halifax to read and learn their Catechisms, thereby to know their duties towards God, and enable them the better unto several services in the Church or Common-wealth. Item, I do give and devise the sum of ten pounds, to be lent from time to time, for ever, to the godliest and poor people of Halifax, the securing whereof so to remain for ever to the disposition and discretion of my Executors and Over- seers." Jane Cro■v^ither was buried Jan. 24, 1613. In 1651, fifty- two pounds of these rents were behind, and a great deal of money spent in suing for the same. The Trustees were constrained to release the said annuity, and to take an 100 pounds in lieu thereof, which sum of one hundred pounds was, by Samuel Lister and Humphrey Drake, put to interest to John Greenwood, of Elfabrough-hall, in Sowerby, who repaid it, and it was, by the consent of Thomas Lister, of Shibden-hall, Executor to the said Samuel Lister his father, put out for eight pounds yearly to Joseph Lister, his late brother, and one Jonas Peverson, the said Thomas taking bond for the same in his own name. Joseph, during the life, paid the said eight pounds yearly to the School-master, and Thomas paid it also for one year after the death of the said Joseph, which happened Dec. 27, 1644 ; but at the Inquisition taken at Halifax, Feb. 16, 1651, it was found that the said Thomas Lister had not paid the yearly interest of eight pounds to the then School-master for five years last past, but that he had paid the said School- master, Thomas Marshal, five pounds yearly, which he said was of his own free will, and not any part of the interest of the said hundred pounds ; this caused a bill to be filed in Chancery against the said Thomas Lister, complaining, that the Devisee of the Will of Jane Crowther had sold or conveyed away, the yearly rent of eight pounds, by her left to the use already mentioned, or had otherwise granted and released the same to the tenant of the laud charged with the payment thereof, and had accepted of the sum of one hundred pounds for the same, which sum had been let out to interest for some HALIFAXIENSIS. 51 time, and the profits thereof iinployed as dh-ected ; but after- wards the said Devisees severally dying, and Samuel Lister, the survivor of them, before his death, receiving in the said hundred pounds, Tho. Lister, his heir and executor, had i3ut out the same to interest, and taken security in his own name, refusing to re-pay the said hundred pounds, or any interest for it, or to secure the same for the charitable use for which it was left, and praying for relief. To these complaints we have seen no other reply than what is contained in an Indenture, dated May 16, 1657, between the said Thomas Lister of the one part, and Henry Power of Halifax, Doctor in Physic, Samuel Lister, of Sliib- den-hall, son and heir apparent of the said Thomas Lister, Robert Hall, of Booth-town, and Samuel Mitchel, of Halifax, of the other part, wherein it is said that the Trustees of the Will of Sarah Crowther, or some of them, did grant away their estate, interest, and right in and to an annuity of eight pounds a year, by her left for the sum of one hundred pounds ; and that Samuel Lister, father of the said Thomas, did put out the said sum of one hundred pounds at interest, in the name of the said Thomas Lister, as heir to the surviving Trustee, and that the said Thomas, endeavoring to have put to interest the said sum, for the advantage of the school to which it was left, the creditors in whose hands it was, died, and their heirs and executors became insolvent, whereby the legacy was lost ; in regard, however, that the said sum was so let out as aforesaid, and in full satisfaction for the same, the said Thomas Lister did, by this Lidenture, for and from him, his heirs and assigns, grant and confirm to the said Henry Power, &c. one annuity, or yearly rent charge of five pounds, out of a messuage, or tenement, in Southouram, with lands, &c. thereto belonging, called the Haines, to hold to them, their heirs and assigns, in trust for the purposes mentioned in the Will of the said Sarah Crowther, and to be for ever payable, at, or in, the south porch of Halifax, at the Feasts of Pentecost, and St. Martin the Bishop, in winter, by equal portions, with power of distress in case of non-pay- ment for twenty days ; and in case no distress could be found and the said annuity was unpaid for forty days, to enter and take the profits of the said tenements, till the arrear was paid. At an Inquisition executed at Halifax, May 14, 1719, it was found that the above rent had been duly paid and applied 62 BIOGKAPHIA to the charitable use ; that all the Grantees of the said rent were dead, and that Samuel Lister survived his said Grantees his cousin and heir being James Lister, of Shibden-hall, Gentleman, whereupon the Commissioners decreed, that the said James Lister, should convey the said yearly sum of five pounds to Samuel Stead, John Eamsden, Thomas Butterfield, Daniel Whitaker, Thomas Drake, Joseph Ellis, John Hill- house the elder, Abraham Milner, and James Edwards all of Halifax, and to their heirs and assigns, for the use of the said school, according to the Will of Jane Crowther. In obedience to which Decree, the said James Lister did, by Indenture, dated October 21, 1721, convey the same to the Trustees last named, except John Hillhouse and James Edwards, who were then dead, with a clause, that when any five of them should die, the survivor or survivors should, within three months after, at the request of Jonathan Stead and John Caygill, of Halifax, (made imrties in the Deed,) their Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, and the major part of the Governors of the late Nathaniel Waterhouse's workhouse in Halifax aforesaid, for the time being, for ever, grant and assign over the said yearly rent to such other nine l)ersons of Halifax, their heirs and assigns, as the said Jonathan Stead and John Caygill, their Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, and the major part of the said Governors should nominate and appoint, in trust, for the purposes mentioned in the Will of Jane Crowther. In the year 1761, we were particularly informed, that after no application for near thirty years, Jane Crowther's charity was then well managed by the acting Trustees ; that the School was kept in part of the Alms-houses given by Jane Crowther and Ellen Hopkinson, and the Master duly paid ten pounds a year, for teaching twenty i)oor children to read, write, and say their Catechism. ISABEL MAUD, , Of Halifax, Widow, gave by Will, dated June 12, 1G14, to the School in the Alms-houses in Halifax, ten pounds, for the buying of some annuity towards the maintenance thereof, to be disposed by the Overseers of her last Will, who were Dr. Favour, Samuel Lister, Samuel Mitchel, and John Clough. Also to the poor of the town of Halifax eight pounds to be lent, from year to year, to four Tradesmen for ever ; and HALIFAXIENSIS. 53 that her Overseers, or the most part of them, should take such order th::t the continuance thereof might remain. The above is entered in Halifax Kegister. She also gave twenty pounds to Coley Chapel, but for what purpose we have not seen. Hn/lfax Inqniriea, wrote In/ Mr. BrearcUjf'e. Query : if she was not widow of John Maud, of Halifax, who gave in 1608, one hundred and twenty one pounds four shillings to pious uses, but in what particular manner is now unknown. RICHARD NICALL, Of Halifax, gave by Will, dated March 20, 1017, to Robert Law and Thomas Houlden, and their heirs, as feoffees in trust, a yearly rent of thirteen shillings and four-pence for ever, out of an house and certain lands in Halifax, to be, by and with the consent of the Church-wardens for the time being, paid to the most needful poor of Halifax town. Mr. Wright, p. 114, says this house and lands lie at Mount-Pellon, quoting Mr. Brearcliffe for his assertion, but I can find nothing of this in his manuscript, which only says farther that the money was detained by Richard Nicall, the son, who was Executor to his father. JOHN BOYES, Clerk, Minister of Halifax Church, gave by Will, dated July 14, 1G19, the sum of eight pounds, to he lent to the poor of Halifax, at the discretion of his Overseers, or the greater part of them, viz. Dr. Favour, William Boyes, his brother, John Boyes, of Halifax, Humphry Drake, Samuel Lister, John Whiteley, and William Whitaker. Halifax Register, An. 1620. ALICE HAW^ARTH, Widow, (as appears from an inquisition taken at Halifax, February 16, 1651,) gave by her last Will, dated February 6, 1622, the sum of twenty pounds to be paid by her Execu- tors to Anthony Foxcroft, and others, to purchase lands or rents, and with the assistance of the Church- wardens of Halifax, to distribute the profits thereof, amongst the poor, impotent, and aged people of the said town. 64 BIOGRAPHIA And by the said Inquisition it was found, that Abraham Parkinson, and Ellen his wife, were Executors of the said Will, which Abraham acknowledged the said twenty pounds to be in his hands, also that neither principal nor considera- tion had been paid, though the said Alice had been dead twenty-eight years : alledging for himself, that he was never required by the said Anthony Foxcroft, or others in the Will named, to pay in the same ; in respect, however, that the same had continued so long in his hands, he was willing to pay, in lieu thereof, the sum of twenty-five pounds, or else, by good and sufficient assurance, to convey to the said Anthony Foxcroft, and such other persons as the Commis- sioners should think meet, and their heirs, one annuity or rent charge of twenty-five shillings to be issuing out of his lands and tenements in Halifax for ever. The Commissioners therefore did decree, that the said Abraham Parkinson should pay to the said Anthony Foxcroft, Richard Blacket, John Brearcliffe, and Robert Allenson, of Halifax, or some of them, the sum of twenty-five pounds, before the twenty-fourth day of June next following, and that they, as Trustees, should purchase with the same, to them and heirs, for the use of the poor of Halifax, and according to the intent of the last AVill and Testament of the said Alice Hawarth, one annuity or rent charge of twent}'- five shillings, or else some lands or tenements of the same annual value ; or else the said Abraham Parkinson was to make to them the like conveyance and assurance. In obedience to which Decree, Abraham Parkinson did, by his Indenture, executed August 26th, in the year 1652, give and confirm to the said Anthony Foxcroft, Richard Blacket, John Brearcliffe, and Robert Allenson, their heirs and assigns, for ever, as Trustees of Alice Hawarth's charity, one annuity or yearly rent of twenty-five shillmgs, issuing forth of all that one messuage, or tenement, and of all houses, barns, buildings, and gardens thereto belonging, lying on the south side of a lane leading from Goldsmith's grave to Brainth- waites on the moor ; and also four closes of land, all adjoin- ing to the south side of the said lane, some of them adjoining on the said house, payable yearl}^ at the Feasts of St. Martin and Pentecost. This farm is called Parkinson Houses, and was the propei-ty of Mr. Samuel Stead, of Rochdale. I have heard of no new HALIFAXIENSIS. 65 deed since that of Parkinson's. The minutes of the above Inquisition, wrote by Mr. Brearcliffe, were in the hands of the late Mr. Valentine Stead, of Nottingham. GODFEEY WALKER Gave forty shillings a-year, for ever, to the Vicar of Hali- fax, for a sermon to be i3reached in Commemoration of him, in the parish church of Halifax, in the month of April, for ever. He was buried April 4, 1G33. This account is taken from Mr. Wright, p. 114. A paper which I met with in the box belonging to the Trustees of Crowther and Hopkinson's charity says, that Henry Riley, of London, Esq ; by Will, (confinned by Gill's bargain and sale), gave forty shillings per annum, for ever, to the Vicar of Halifax, for a sermon to be lireached in com- memoration of Godfrey Walker, and Catharine his wife, in the parish church of Halifax, in the month of April, for ever, to be paid on the third Wednesday in April, yearly, out of a tenement called Netherhouse, in Hij)perholme-cum- Brighouse. 'O' ANN SNYDALL, Of Halifax, gave by Will, dated June 23, 1688, twenty shillings yearly, for ever, to have a sermon preached in Halifax church, every St. Peter's Day, by the Vicar or his substitute. A manuscript, however, in our i)ossession, on what au- thority we know not, says, this sermon was to be preached on that day, wherein, in the revolution of the year, it should fall out that she should be buried, if it be not on the Lord's Day, and if it be, then the day after. She was buried June 29, 1638. The word Substitute, in this Will, seems to mean the Vicar's Curate, or any Clergyman whom the Vicar may think proper to substitute in his place, to preach the said sermon ; but Mr. Brearcliffe says, this substitute, we (the Enquirers into Halifax Charities in 1651,) conceive to be none other than whatsoever Minister is substituted in the room of the Vicar for the Ministry of Halifax, which John Ryall, the Executor of the said Testatrix, well knowing, did, in the years 1643 and 1644, pay unto Mr. Eoote, then Minister of 56 BIOGRAPHIA the same place, the said sum of twenty shillings, according to the true meaning of the said Will and Testament. Afterwards, the said John Ryall refused to pay the same, because there was no Vicar or Substitute at Halifax resident there, but a Stipendiary Minister. This explains the passage in Mr. Brearcliffe's manuscript, where he says, that the money in 1651, rested in John Ryall's hands. Mr. Wright, p. 37, says that with Mrs. Ann Snydall's legacy of twenty pounds, and some addition of Vicar Hooke's (which was eleven pounds), the close behind the Vicarage-house was purchased. The inhabitants of Sowerby gave towards this seven pounds ten shillings, for Dr. Hooke's consent to their having a licence from the Archbishop of York to bury and baptize at Sowerby Chapel. The close was purchased in 1668, of one Nicholas Elberke, of Halifax, as appears by a Deed made by him to Feoffees in trust for the Vicars of Halifax. NATHANIEL WATERHOUSE, Of Halifax, is the next benefactor in order of time, but to give a proper account of his charities, we must go back to what is called the Corporation Charter of Halifax, or the Letters Patent which he obtained of King Charles the First, in these words : '' Charles, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whom these presents shall come greeting. Whereas by the humble petition of our well-beloved and faithful Subjects, the inhabitants of the town and parish of Halifax, in the county of York, we are given to understand that the said town of Halifax being anciently and yet a place of great clothing, most of the inhabitants within the same town and parish being Clothiers, is now of late much im- poverished, and like to be ruined, by reason of the great multitude of poor people there daily increasing, which hath occasioned many able men within the said town and parish to remove from thence to other places, being oppressed with the heavy burden of the assessments towards the mainten- ance of the poor within the said parisli, there being above forty pounds paid monthly to the poor there, and most HALIFAXIENSIS. 67 years eighteen or nineteen months assessments collected for one year. And for that Nathaniel Waterhouse, Gentleman, one of the Petitioners, hath given a large house within the said town, to the end the same might be employed for a work- house, to set the poor within the said town and parish on work, yet in regard the^e are no Justices of the Peace within or near the said town, to govern and well order the said house, (the poor people in the said town and parish being most of them idle and disorderly people, imbezzliug or spoil- ing the work brought to them,) the said house is become of no use, but is like to return to the donor, it beiug not employed according to his intent ; wherefore the inhabitants of the said town and parish have humbly besought us, that we would be graciously pleased to take the premises into our royal and gracious consideration, and to grant unto the Petitioners, that the said house may by our Letters Patent under the Great Seal of England, be made and established a workhouse for ever, for the setting of the poor within the said town and parish on work, by the name of a workhouse for the said poor within the said town and i)arish of Halifax; and likewise to grant unto the Petitioners, that thirteen of the most able and discreet persons within the said town and parish may be nominated and elected Governors of the said house, by the name of the Master and Governors of the workhouse for the poor within the said town and parish of Halifax, and that the said Master and Governors may be a Body Politic for ever, and may have a perpetual succession ; and that any of our Subjects may have power to give to the said Master and Governors, and their successors, any lands or tenements whatsoever, to the yearly value of one hundred pounds, towards the maintenance of the said workhouse, and that the said Master and Governors, and their successors, may have power to take, receive, and purchase any such lands, tenements, or possessions, so to be given by any of our said subjects, without licence of Mortmain, and that they, or the greater number of them, may have power to make bye-laws and constitutions for the well ordering and govern- ing of the said workhouse, and may have power to search any suspected houses within the said town and parish, for idle vagabonds, ruffians, and sturdy beggars, and to take such idle vagrant persons, and sturdy beggars and ruffians, 58 . BIOGRAPHIA as shall be found witliin any such suspected houses, and to place them in the said workhouse, there to be set on work, and to be corrected and punished according to the good and wholesome laws of this our realm of England. And that we would be further graciously pleased to give unto the Petitioners such further powers, for the well order- ing and governing the said workhouse, and the poor people therein to be placed and employed, according to a like Grant made by our late predecessor King Edward the Sixth, for the government of Bridewell, in the city of London. Know ye therefore, that we, for the considerations afore- said, graciously inclining and condescending to the humble suit of the said Petitioners, and being of our own princely inclination willing and desirous to cherish and promote all pious and charitable works of that nature, and to establish the said house according to the good intent and meaning of the said donor, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have made, constituted, ordained, and es- tablished, and by these j)resents, for us, our heirs, and successors, do make, constitute, ordain, and establish, that the said workhouse heretofore given by the said Nathaniel Waterhouse as aforesaid, situate within the said town of Halifax, shall forever hereafter be, and be called by the name of a workhouse for the poor within the town and parish of Halifax, in the county of York, and to that use shall be for ever hereafter employed. And for the better government, ordering, and guiding of the said poor in their employment, and punishing of those that shall be found obstinate and refractory, we further will, constitute, ordain, and appoint, that thirteen of the ablest and most discreet persons in the said town and parish shall be for ever hereafter a body corporate and politic, by the name of Master and Governors of the workhouse for the poor within the town and parish of Halifax, in the county of York. And to the end that this charitable and pious work may take the better effect, we will, and by these presents, for us, our heirs, and successors, of our like especial grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, do grant, ordain, and consti- tute, that the said Master and Governors of the said work- house, and their successors, for ever hereafter shall be one body corporate and politic of themselves, in matter, deed, HALIFAXIENSIS. 59 and name, by the name of Master and Governors of the workhouse for the i)oor within the town and parish of Hali- fax, in the county of York. We do for us, our heirs, and successors, incorporate them into one body corporate and poHtic, by the same name for ever to continue really and fully, we do, for us, our heirs and successors, erect, make, ordain, create, constitute, and •establish, by these presents, and that by the same name they may have perpetual succession : and that they and their successors, by the name of Master and Governors of the workhouse for the poor within the town and parish of Halifax, in the county of York, shall and may, for ever hereafter, be able and capable in law to have, purchase, receive, and possess, lands, tenements, rectories, tytlies, liberties, priveleges, franchises, jurisdictions, and heredita- ments whatsoever, to them and their successors, in fee and perpetuity, or for term of life or lives, or years, or otherwise howsoever, and also goods and chattels, and all other things whatsoever, of what kind or quality soever they be ; and also to give, grant, lease, assign, and otherwise to dispose the same lands, tenements, and hereditaments, goods, and chattels, as they please, and to do, perform, fulfil, and execute all and other things and matters whatsoever to them belonging and appertaining ; and that by the name of Master and Governors of the workhouse for the poor within the town and parish of Halifax, in the county of Y^'ork, they shall and may, for ever hereafter, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in whatsoever Courts and places, and before whatsoever Judges and Justices, or other Officers or Ministers of us, our heirs or successors, or other persons whatsoever, in all and singular actions, pleas, suits, complaints, causes, matters, and demands whatsoever, of what kind, nature, or form soever they be, in as ample manner and form as any our liege people within this our realm of England, or as any other body corporate or politic within the same. And that the said Master and Governors of the said work- house for the poor, within the town and parish of Halifax in the county of York, and their successors, for ever hereafter, shall have a common Seal, to serve for the causes and business of them and their successors, to be done and executed ; and that it shall and may be lawful, to and for 60 BIOGEAPHIA the said Master and Governors of the said workhouse, and their successors, for the time being, the same Seal, from time to time, to break, change, alter, and make anew, as to them shall be thought expedient. And further, of our own especial grace, and of our royal authority, certain knowledge, and mere motion, we do, for us, our heirs and successors, as much as in us lieth, give and grant unto the said Master and Governors of the said workhouse for the poor, within the said town and parish of Halifax, and their successors, for ever, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Master and Governors, for the time being, or the major part of them, at all times, and from time to time hereafter, when and so often as they please to assemble themselves and meet together at the said workhouse in the said town, or in any other convenient place within the said town, and in those assemblies and meetings (when and so often as to them shall be thought expedient, and as necessity shall so require) to ordain, con- stitute, and make such fit, wholesome, and honest laws, ordinances, statutes, rules, and constitutions, as shall be expedient for the right government and well ordering of the workhouse, and the poor therein to be maintained and em- ployed ; and also full power and authority to examine all and singular persons idly wandering within the town and parish of Halifax aforesaid, and to compel them to labour and work in the said workhouse for their living. And we do also, by these presents, give and grant, for us, our heirs and successors, unto the said Master and Govern- ors of the said workhouse for the poor, within the said town and parish of Halifax, and their successors for ever, full power and authority for them, or the major part of them, from time to time, to nominate, appoint, make, and ordain such and so many Officers, Ministers, and Governors under them in the said workhouse, as they, or the greater part of them, shall think fit and meet, who shall, from time to time, oversee and provide, that the poor therein may be well and honestly ordered and provided for, and also to order and govern them in such manner, as to them shall seem meet and convenient, without the impeachment of us, our heirs or successors, Justices, Escheators, Sheriffs, Ministers, Servants, or other the subjects of us, our heirs or successors whatsoever, any statute, law, or ordinance heretofore made HALIFAXIENSIS. 61 or done, or hereafter to be made or done, to the contrary notwithstanding, so as the said ordinances, laws, rules, and statutes be not contrary or repugnant to the laws and statutes of our realm of England or i^rerogative royal. And moreover, we will and grant, for us, our heirs and successors, to the said Master and Governors of the said workhouse, for the poor within the said town and parish of Halifax, and to their successors, for ever, that it shall and may be lawful, as well to and for the said Master and Gov- ernors of the said workhouse for the time being, and every or any of them, as to and for such Officers, Ministers, and Governors, as the aforesaid Master and Governors, or the major part of them, shall appoint under their common seal, from time to time, to be Officers, Governors, or Ministers under them, as aforesaid, or any two or more of them, so to be ai^pointed as aforesaid, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, diligently to find out and search (by all the lawful ways and means they can use, whereby they may best come to the light thereof, according to their wisdoms and discretion) all and all manner of taverns, inns, victuall- ing-houses, alehouses, diceing and gaming-houses, within the said town and parish of Halifax, as well within liberties as without, and also all and singular suspicious houses or places whatsoever, within the said town and parish, for the discovering and finding out of all and all manner of ruffians, vagabonds, sturdy beggars, idle, vagrant, and suspicious persons, and to apprehend not only such ruffians, vaga- bonds, sturdy beggars, idle, vagrant, and suspicious per- sons, but also the tenants, masters, keepers or occupiers of such houses or places where such persons shall be found, and upon examination, to be taken by the said Master and Governors for the time being, or any one or more of them, and every of them, into the said workhouse to commit, and there to detain and compel them to labour and work as aforesaid, or by any other lawful ways or means to punish, as to them shall seem meet and expedient, unless the said tenants, keepers, or occupiers of such houses and places can honestly and justly excuse and discharge themselves before the Master and Governors of the said workhouse for the time being, wherefore such ruffians, vagabonds, sturdy beggars, idle, vagrant, and suspicious persons, be so ui)held and cherished by them, or permitted to lie, be conversant, ©a BIOGRAPHIA or to frequent their houses, or unless such men and women so suspected, and being vagabond persons as aforesaid, shall sufficiently make it appear, that he, she, or they be of honest and good conversation, and by what means they do maintain themselves, and for what cause they do so wander and daily frequent such suspicious houses, and such secret and pro- hibited places, and also shall find such sufficient security, that they, and every of them, shall afterwards honestly demean themselves. And furthermore, we do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant to the said Master and Governors of the said workhouse, and their successors, for ever, that it shall and may be lawful, to and for the said Master and Governors for the time being, or the major part of them, from time to time to appoint such correction and order in the premises, as unto them, or the major part of them as aforesaid, shall be thought convenient and most commodious ; and that it shall and may be lawful, to and for every and any of the said Officers, Governors, and Ministers under them, from time to time, to execute and perform the same accordingly, without the impeachment of us, our heirs, and successors. Justices, Escheators, Sheriffs, Ministers, Servants, or other the subjects of us, our heirs and successors whatsoever, any statute, law or ordinance heretofore made or done, or hereafter to be made or done to the contrary notwithstanding. And for the better execution of our will and i3leasure in this behalf, we have assigned, nominated, constituted, and made, and by these presents' do, for us, our heirs and successors, assign, name, constitute, and make the said Nathaniel Waterhouse to be the first and modern Master of the said workhouse, willing that the said Nathaniel Water- house, in the said office or place of Master of the said work- house, shall remain and continue from the time of the taking of his oath of Master, as hereafter in these presents is expressed, until the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, which shall be in the year of our Lord God, one thousand six hundred thirty and six, and from thence until a new election shall be made of another Master, in form hereafter mentioned, and he be sworn in form hereafter mentioned in these presents ; and that after the said Feast of St. Michael, HALIFAXIBNSIS. 63 which shall be iu the same year of our Lord God one thous- and six hundred thirty and six, a new election of another Master shall be made, and oath by him taken, as is expressed ; the said Nathaniel Waterhouse shall be prime Governor of the said workhouse, next in order to the Master thereof for the time being, during his natural life, unless for ill aberr- ing, or other just cause, he shall be removed from that place or office of Prime Governor of the said workhouse as afore- said ; and if the said Nathaniel Waterhouse shall happen to die before the said Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, which shall be anno Dom. 1686, then our will and i)leasure is, and we do hereby ordain, that the said twelve Governors for the time being, or the major part of them, shall elect and swear one other of the said Governors to be Master of the said workhouse until the said Feast of St. Michael, which shall be in the year of our Lord God 1636, and from thence until another Master shall be chosen and sworn, as in these presents is hereafter mentioned. And we do further, by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant unto the said Master and Governors of the said workhouse, and their successors for €ver, that it sluill and may be lawful to and for the said Master and twelve Governors, or the major part of them for the time being, once in every year for ever, that is to say, on the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel yearly, (if it be not on Sunday, and if Sunday then the next day after,) to €lect and choose one of the ablest and discreetest persons of the said twelve Governors of the said workhouse, to be Master of the same for one year then next following, and until another shall be elected and sworn, as hereafter is mentioned ; and after every such election made, and before the person so elected be admitted to the execution of his office, the person so elected, within seven days after, shall take his corporal oath before the Master, and the rest of the Governors for the time being, (or so many of them as will be present), for the due execution of his office of Master of the said Workhouse. And as often as any Master of the said workhouse shall happen to die within and before the expiration of his year wherein he shall be Master, we do by these presents, for us, .our heirs and successors, give and grant unto the twelve Governors, or the Major part of them, for the time being, 64 BIOGRAPHIA full power and lawful authority, from time to time, to elect and choose out of themselves another Master, who being so duly elected and sworn, as hereafter is expressed, shall con- tinue Master of the said workhouse until the next ensuing- Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next after his election, and from thenceforth until another of the said Governors shall be duly elected and sworn Master of the said work- house as aforesaid ; and as often also as it shall happen any Master of the said workhouse, in form aforesaid elected, after his election made, and before his oath taken, to die, or refuse to take the said place upon him, that then, and so often we will, for us, our heirs and successors, that there be the like election forthwith made, and that the person so to be newly elected, taking his oath as is hereafter mentioned, shall execute the place of Master of the said workhouse, in form aforesaid. And we have also assigned, named, constituted, and. appointed, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do assign, name, constitute, and make, our well beloved Anthony Foxcroft, Gentleman, Kobert Exley,. Thomas Binns, John Power, Thomas Radcliife, Eichard Barraclough, Thomas Lister, Simeon Binns, Hugh Currer, Samuel Clough, Samuel Mitchel, and John Wade, to be the first twelve present and modern Governors of the said work- house, to continue in the said place of Governor during their several and respective lives, saving when and for such time only as they shall be Masters, unless they shall be removed as hereafter is mentioned. And we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant unto the said Master and Governors, and their successors for ever, full power and lawful authority, that they, or the major part of them, immediately from and after the decease or removal, as hereafter is mentioned, of any of the said twelve Governors by these presents constituted, or of any other Governor or Governors hereafter to be elected and made, may from time to time elect and choose one or more Governor or Governors in his or their place or stead, which shall so happen to die or be removed, out of the ablest and discreetest inhabitants within the said town and parish ; who, within convenient time after his or their election, and before his or their admission into the place of Governor or Governors of the said workhouse, shall take his and their HALIFAXIENSIS. 65 corporal oath before the said Master and surviving Govern- ors for the time being, or the major part of them, for the due execution and performance of the said place, and after such oath taken, shall continue Governor, or Governors, of the said workhouse during his and their natural lives respect- ively, saving for such time only as he and they shall supply the place of Master of the said workhouse, unless for misbe- haviour in his or their place, or places, or other just or reasonable cause he or they should be removed from the same ; and every of them, after the time of his being Master ended, shall return again unto his place of G(;vernor, in the same rank, order and antiquity as he was before ; and if it shall happen that any of the said twelve Governors, by these presents constituted, or hereafter to be elected and sworn, as aforesaid, shall misbehave, or misdemean him or them- selves, in his or their said place, or places, of Governor, or Governors, or if there shall be any other just or reasonable cause to remove him, or them, then it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Master, and the rest of the said Governors, or the major of them, for the time being, upon or for such misdemeanors, or other reasonable and just cause, to remove, displace, and put out, any such Governor or Governors, and thereupon in the i^lace and stead of him or them so removed, to elect and swear one or more of the ablest and discreetest of the inhabitants within the said town and parish, as the case shall require, to be Governor or Governors of the said workhouse, to continue during his or their natural life or lives respectively, unless for misbe- haviour, or other just cause as aforesaid, he or they shall be removed from the same. And so the like course to be held from time to time, when as often as occasion shall be, and also when and as often as it shall happen any Governor or Governors of the said workhouse, after his or their election, and before his or their oath taken, shall die, or refuse to take the said place upon him or them, that then and so often there be a like election forthwith made ; and that the person or persons so to be newly elected taking his or their oath as aforesaid, shall execute the place of Governor or Governors of tlie said workhouse in form aforesaid. And to the end that justice may be the better done and executed within the said town, and the extents, limits and (5b BIOGRAPHIA precincts thereof, and that the said workhouse and persons therein to he placed and employed may be the better ordered and governed, our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby, for us, our heirs and successors, constitute and a^^point, that the said Nathaniel Waterhouse, named for the present Master, and the said Anthony Foxcroft, being the first named of those appointed to be present Governors, shall be justices of peace, within the said town of Halifax, that is to say, the said Nathaniel Waterhouse for the time that he shall be and continue Master of the said workhouse, and the said Anthony Foxcroft, as Prime Governor, for so long as the said Nathaniel Waterhouse shall continue Master, and after a new Master chosen and sworn as aforesaid, then the said Master for the time being, during his time of being Master, and the said Nathaniel Waterhouse, as Prime Gov- ernor, during his life, unless he shall be removed as afore- said, shall be Justices of the Peace within the said town and liberties thereof; and so from time to time for ever, after the Master for the time being, during the time of his being Master, and the Governor for the time being next in order to the Master, according as they are in and by these presents named and ranked, and as hereafter they shall be in antiquity by election, during the time of being Prime or next Governor, to be from henceforth for ever Justices of the Peace within the said town of Halifax, and the extents, Umits, and precincts of the same, to do and faithfully to execute all things whatsoever to the j^lace and office of Justice of the Peace belonging, in as ample a manner as any Justice of the Peace within the West-Kiding of our said county of York, may or ought to do within the said Riding, according to the laws and statutes of this our realm of England made and provided, and according to the true intent and meaning of these presents, and to send or com- mit, when there shall be cause, to the common Gaol or Gaols aj)pointed, or to be appointed for the said Riding, as other Justices of the Peace there. And our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby, for us, our heirs and successors, will and command the Sheriffs of the said county of York, and their Under Sheriffs, Gaolers, and others, whom in that behalf it shall or may concern, to receive and take all prisoners to be committed by them the said Master, and Governor, or cither of them, for the time HALIFAXIENSIS. 67 being, into their charge and custody, and them to detain and keep in prison until they shall be discharged by due course of law, which said Justices of Peace for the said Town of Halifax, and every of them, for the time being, before he or they be admitted to execute the office of Justice of Peace, shall also for ever hereafter respectively, according to the laws and statutes in such cases made and provided, each, and every of them take his corporal oath upon the Holy Evange- list, (that is to say) the Master for the time being before the last Master, and the rest of the Governors for the time being or so many of them as will be present, and the Prime Gover- nors next in order to the said Master for the time as aforesaid,, before the then Master, and the rest of the Governors for the time being, or so many of them as will be personally present,, for the due execution of the said office of Justices of the Peace within the said town, during the several and respective times of their being Master and Prime or next Governor respective- ly, as aforesaid. And we do hereby give and grant full power and authority imto our well-beloved Sir William Savile, Baronet, John Farrer, Esq; and Henry Eamsden, Clerk, or to any two of them, to administer an oath upon the Holy Evangelist unto the said Nathaniel Waterhouse, for the due execution of the place and office of the Master of the said workhouse, accord- ing to the true intent and meaning of these presents, during the time he shall continue Master of the same, and also for the executing the office or place of Justice of the Peace within the said town of Halifax, during the time of his being Master there, according to the laws and statutes in that behalf made and j)rovided. And we do also, by these presents, give like power and authority unto the said Nathaniel Waterhouse, to administer an oath upon the Holy Evangelist unto every of the said twelve modern Governors before particularly named, for the due execution of their jDlaces respectively, during the time they shall continue in the same, accordmg to the true intent and meaning of these x)resents ; and also to administer an oath upon the Holy Evangelist unto the said Anthony Fox- croft, for the due execution of the office of Justice of the Peace within the said town of Halifax, during the time he shall continue prime or next Governor, as aforesaid, according to the laws and statutes in that behalf made and provided. 68 BIOGRAPHIA And these our Letters Patents, or the enrollment thereof, shall be unto the said Sir William Savile, John Farrer, and Henry Eamsden, and unto every of them, and unto the said Nathaniel Waterhouse, and unto the succeeding Masters and Oovei-nors of the said workhouse, for the time being, and unto every of them, a sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalf. And further we will, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do grant unto the Master and Governors of the said workhouse, or to their successors, for ever, that if any person or persons inhabiting within the same town or parish of Halifax, and being unto the offices or places of Master or Governor of the said workhouse, in due and lawful manner elected and chosen, according to the true intent of these presents, and having thereof notice to him or them respectively given, shall deny or refuse to have, hold, or take upon him, or them, the execution of the said offices or places of Master, Governor, or Governors of the said workhouse respectively, that then, and so often, and in every such case, it shall and may be lawful to and for the Master and Gover- nors of the said workhouse for the time being, or the major part of them, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, to tax, assess, and impose upon all and every ^uch person and persons so as aforesaid refusing to have, hold, and take upon him or them the execution of such office or place as aforesaid respectively, such reasonable fines, for the contempt and offence in that behalf, as to them the Master and Gov- ernors of the said workhouse, for the time being, or the major part of them, shall be thought meet and convenient. And further, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the Master and Governors of the said workhouse, for the time being, the same fines so taken and imposed, to levy, have, and receive, from time to time, by distraining of the goods and chattels, and cattle of such i)ersons so refusing, to the use of the Master and Governors of the said workhouse, for the time being, or otherwise to sue for the same by action of debt, information, bill, or plaint, in any of our Courts of Kecord, or other Courts, in the name and to the only use and behoof of the said Master and Governors of the said workhouse for the time being, and their successors for ever. And further we will, and for us, our heirs and successors, do give and grant, by these presents, unto the said Master HALIFAXIENSIS. 69 and Governors of the said workhouse for the poor within the town and parish of Halifax, in the county of York, and to their successors for ever, special license and free and lawful power and authority to have, purchase, and possess to them and their successors for ever, in fee and perpetuity, or for time of life, lives, or years, or otherwise howsoever, messuages, lands, tenements, rectories, tythes, rents, reversions, liberties, privileges, franchises, jurisdictions, and other hereditaments, as well of us, our heirs and successors, as of any other person or persons whatsoever, which are not liolden of us, our heirs or successors, in capite, or by Knight's service, or of any other person or persons by Knight's service whatsoever, so that the said manors, lands, tenements, rectories, tythes, rents, reversions, or other hereditaments, do not exceed in the whole the clear yearly value of one hundred marks, over and above all charges and reprizes, and over and above the said workhouse, with the appurtenances. And also we will, and for us, our heirs and successors, do give and grant by these presents, unto all and every person and persons whatsoever, like licence, and free and lawful power and authority to give, alien, sell, dispose, and convey unto the said Master and Governors of the said workhouse, and to their successors for ever, in fee, or perpetuity, or for term of life, lives, or years, or otherwise howsoever, messuages, lands, tenements, rectories, tythes, rents, reversions, liberties, privileges, franchises, jurisdictions, and other hereditaments, and also all goods and chattels, of what kind or quality so- ever they be, according to the true intent and meaning of these presents, the statute of lands and tenements not to be put in Mortmain, or any other statute, act, ordinance, or provision heretofore had, done, obtained, or provided, or any other matter, cause, or thing to the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding. And we will and grant, by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, to the said Master and Governors, and their successors for ever, that these our Letters Patents, or the Enrollment thereof, shall be unto all and every the said Master and Governors of the said workhouse, for the time being, and their successors for ever, a sufficient warrant and discharge for the doing, executing and performing of all and singular the premises, according to the true intent and meaning of these presents, although express mention of the ^70 BIOGRAPHIA true yearly value or certainty of the premises, or any of them, or of any other gifts or grants by us, or by any of our pro- genitors or predecessors, to the said Master and Governors of the workhouse for the poor within the town and j)arish of Halifax, in the county of York, heretofore made in these j)resents, is not made, or any statute, act, ordinance, provi- sion, proclamation, or restraint to the contrary thereof here- tofore had, made, ordained, or provided, or any other thing,, cause, or matter whatsoever in any wise notwithstanding. In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents. Witness ourself at Canterbury, the fourteenth day of Sep- tember, in the eleventh year of our reign. WOLSELEY.'^ N.B. — As the original of the above is supposed to be lost, this is printed from a careful comparison of several copies. It may be worth remarking that the original was produced at Halifax to the Commissioners of Pious. Uses in the year 1719, as appears from an Inquisition by them signed relating to the workhouse there. The Letters Patents thus obtained, the Master, Prime Governor, and modern Governors therein named, did quahfy themselves for their respective offices, October 9, 1635. The form of the Master's oath, used on this occasion, was,. "You shall duly execute the office and place of the Master of the workhouse for the poor, within the town and parish of Halifax, in the county of York, according to the true intent and meaning of his Majesty's Letters Patents, during the time you shall continue Master of the said workhouse." And changing the term Master for Governor, the Govern- or's oath the same. October 12, 1685, a warrant was granted by Sir William' Savile, Baronet, and Henry Kamsden, Clerk, requiring the Churchwardens and Overseers within the town and parish of Halifax, to assess and gather of the inhabitants within the said town and parish, six months assessments for the poor, accordmg to the monthly assessment then assessed upon the said inhabitants, over and above the assessments already then assessed, and to pay the same to the Master and Governors of the workhouse, because there wanted a convenient stock for the setting on work and maintaining of the poor within the said town and parish. HALIFAXIENSIS. 71 At the meeting held Oct. li, 1635, Treasurers were appointed; and at the Court held October 21, 1635, a Clerk, Overseer, and Beadle were chosen, the workhouse ordered to be repaired, and a room to be enlarged and made ready therein, for the meeting of the Master and Governors; the wheels, &c. to be viewed, and the seal of the Castle declared to be the Common Seal for all their business about the said workhouse, till farther order should be taken for changing or altering thereof. At other Courts, orders were made for such as were likely to become chargeable to the town and parish, to be re- moved ; such as kept them in their families contrary to order, were fined ; security was taken from all who received any stranger to dwell in their houses, that such stranger should not be chargeable to the town and parish; such as were convicted of swearing, keeping or using gaming-houses, and tippling at unseasonable hours, were fined; such as em- bezzled, spouted, or spoiled their work, or were idle, or unruly, or made a practice of begging, were whipped, set to work, or sent to the place of their settlement, and sometimes allowed only bread and water for several days : And, in short, such strict regulations were made, and put in exe- cution for keeping the poor in order, that near seventy different persons from December 9, 1635, when this ]3unish- ment was first inflicted, to the lOtli of October, 1638, when it seems, for a time, to have ceased, were whipped at the whipping-stock within this workhouse, and some of them repeatedly. December 21, 1635, Sir William Savile, of Thornhill, Baronet, composed a difference between the Master and Governors of the workhouse, and the inhabitants of HaUfax, by awarding, first, that every man within the parish, for giving of four-pence, should have bond given him by the Master and Governors, that neither they, nor any of their issue, should be chosen Governors without their own con- sent, provided they came in before Candlemas following. Secondly, That whereas there was an intention to have six months assessment within the parish, they should be contented with three months assessment within the whole Vicarage; and, thirdly, that if any thing there promised could not lawfully be done, the Patent should be mended at the charge of the town. 72 BIOGRAPHIA This caused a petition at the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, that the three months assessment appointed by warrant from Sir Wilham Savile, Baronet, John Farrer, Esq., and Henry Kamsden, Clerk, three of his Majesty's Justices, to be paid throughout the whole Vicarage of Halifax, to the Master and Governors, for a stock for the poor, might be released to Heptonstall and E aland ; but the Court, January 18, 1635, confirmed the warrant, and ordered that such as refused to pay, should be apprehended and carried before a Justice of the Peace, to be bound to appear at the next Sessions. At the Court within the workhouse, January 19, 1635, an acquittance was given to Mr. Ramsden, for seventy- two pounds nine shillings and eight-pence, by him paid towards procuring the above Letters Patent. This money Mr. Ramsden had received on account of the workhouse, after it was agreed by the Overseers, Church- wardens, and several inhabitants of the town and parish, to procure a government to be established for the setting the poor on work within the said town and parish, by Letters Patent, and consisting of different benefactions, not left for this particular purpose, but to be employed to good uses in general. Several parishioners excepted against such application thereof, but the matter being referred, by joint consent, to Sir William Savile, on hearing the allegations on both sides, he approved of what had been done. At the Court held January 27, 1635, the Master and Gov- ernors agreed to divide the town into five precincts, in which particular members were to make view every month, and give in at the next meeting a particular account thereof, and also to keex3 privy watch therein once every fortnight at least. The poor in the workhouse, as ordered at the Court held March 23, 1685, were to work every year, between Michael- mas and Lady-day, from six in the morning till nine at night, having fire and candles at the house charge ; and from Lady-day to Michaelmas, from five till eight o'clock, save only in September, when they were to work from morning to night, being allowed half an hour at breakfast time, and an hour at dinner. Thus was this workhouse regulated and managed, under the inspection of him who gave it, as appears from the HALIFAXIENSIS. 7B original Book of Kules, &c. kept therein, a copy of wliicli was in the possession of the late Mr. Watson, taken from the original, lent by the late Mr. Stead of Nottingham. In this manuscript is a remarkable chasm, from December, 1638, to October 1682, excepting which, it is a continued register of what was done in and about the workhouse, from its first institution, to September 29, 1704, at which time the last entry was made in it. Besides this, there was also a book of accounts, both which were produced at the dispute in 1721, this latter marked A, and the former B. A copy of the will of Mr. Waterhouse next follows. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF HALIFAX PARISH. THE design of the following chapter is to give some account, in alphabetical order, of such authors, and persons of note, as have been born, or have Hved, in the parish of Halifax. AIN S WORTH, WILLL\M, Curate of Lightcliffe, in this parish, published " Triplex memoriale, or the substance of three commemoration sermons, whereof the titles are these, viz. 1. The memory of the Just. 2. A pattern for pious uses. 3. The fifth beati- tude, or the merciful man's blessing. Preached at Halifax in remembrance of Mr. Nathaniel Waterhouse, deceased. "Whereunto is added, an extract out of the last Will and Testament of the said Mr. Nathaniel Waterhouse, containing his several gifts and donations for pious and charitable uses. By William Ainsworth," late Lecturer at St. Peter's, Chester. York, Printed by Thomas Broad, 1650." This book, which contains ninety-six pages in octavo, begins with an epistle dedicatory to the Eight worshipful Sir John Savile, Knight, High Sherift* of the county of York. * His " Marrow of the Bible " is not mentioned here. I have searched for a copy of the " Triplex " for many years, but have never seen one. 74 BIOGRAPHIA Next follows the Author's Apology to the reverend Dodecasty of Ministers within the vicarage of Halifax, especially to Mr. Bobert Booth, then Minister there. In this he mentions his being related to Mr. Waterhouse. The first of these sermons was preached December 1, 1647, from Psalm cxii. 6. The second, December 6, 1648, from Nehemiah, xiii. 14 ; and the third, December 5, 1649. The two last dedicated to the Eight worshipful Langdal^ Sunderland, and William Eookes, junior, E&qrs. to whom the Author says " he was bound in those days of his under-hand fortune, wherein (as every bird will have a peck at an owl) he had suffered very foul things from all sorts of hands." This work contains several strong complaints of the poverty of the Clergy in those days ; particularly at page 78, where he says, " The Ministry in this Church of England is, for the most part, the poorest trade that any man drives, the inferior sort of Ministers having neither a competency while they live, nor provision made for their families after their death, contrary to the practice of other reformed churches. Every man thinks he is at liberty to pay to the Minister or forbeare, though he be content to be bound in every thing else. Men would have Ministers to burn like lamps, but will afford them no oyle to keep in the light ; like Pharaoh's hard task-masters, they think we should make brick without straw." And a little farther, " The poorest Ballad-singer and Piper in the country live better of their trades than Ministers do." We shall only observe, that if this was the case in the succeeding reign, it is not to be wondered at that so many Curates suffered themselves to be ejected from the Chapels in this neighbourhood. — It is said, that Mr. Ainsworth taught school, notwithstanding which he declares, that by reason of the late civil storms he was as poorly provided of accommodations for study, as Cleanthes was for writing his philosophical notes, when having wrought all day long in the vineyards, lie wrote at night on bare stones instead of paper. BEEARCLIFFE, JOHN, An Apothecary in Halifax, where he was born, and where he died of a fever, December 4, 1682, aged 68. He wrote HALIFAXIENSIS. 76. collections relating to the antiquities of Halifax in Yorkshire, a manuscriiDt which the late Mr. Wilson, of Leeds, (Author of the manuscript collections of the lives and writings of English, Scotch, and Irish Historians, their several editions, and where their manuscripts are deposited, now lodged at the Free-school in Leeds) says Mr. Thoresby, the Antiquary, saw in the library at Halifax Church, but to our own knowledge, there has been no such thing there for more than twenty years. The title of one of these papers was, " A particular survey of all the houseinge and lands within the townshippe of Halifax, accordinge to the best information that could be had, taken the 22nd day of November, 1648." This Mr. Brearcliffe seems to have been fond of collecting together every thing which fell in his way, relating to the affairs of his native town and parish. Amongst the rest, we have twenty pages in folio, in his own hand writing, intitled " Halifax inquieryes for the findeinge out of severall gifts given to pious uses by divers persons deceased. Written December 22, 1651." BENTLEY, WILLIAM, Born in Halifax, and the reputed Author of a book, called " Halifax and its Gibbet Law placed in a true light. To- gether with a description of the town, the nature of 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 inhabiting within the said town, and the liberties thereof." '* To which are added, the unparalled tragedies committed by Sir John Eland, of Eland, and his grand antagonists. London, printed by J. How, for William Bentley, at Halifax, 1708." It contains 174 pages in 8vo. The son of the above William Bentley caused another to be printed at Halifax, by P. Darby, in 1761. The first edition is that which Wright, in his History of Halifax, quotes by the name of the Old Gibbet-law Book. It leads off with a short dedication to the Duke of Leeds, signed by William Bentley, from whence many have con- cluded, that he was the author of it ; but there is reason to believe that it was wrote by one Dr. Samuel Midgley, of Halifax. Next follows a preface. 76 BIOGRAPHIA Chapter I. contains a short description of Halifax, and the origin of its name ; encomiums on its air, and the church, and how, and when the rectory became impropriate, with the number of chapels under the said church, and an account of the Free Grammar-school near the town, and some observations on the trade of Halifax. Chapter II. treats of the Gibbet-law. Chapter III. contains a narrative of the manner of trying felons at Halifax, and executing of them at the Gibbet. Chapter lY. gives an account of eminent persons within the i)recincts of Halifax, concluding with a catalogue of the Yicars of Halifax church. To all which is added a piece, called, "Revenge upon Revenge, or an historical narrative of the tragical i3ractices of Sir John Eland of Eland, High Sheriif of the county of York, committed upon the persons of Sir Robert Beamont, and his alliances, in the reign of King Edward III, together with an account of the revenge w^hich Adam the son of Sir Robert Beamont, and his ac- complices, took upon the persons of Sir John Eland, and his posterity." This William Bentley was Clerk of the i^arish church of Halifax. BENTLEY, ELI, Was born in the township of Sowerby, in this parish, at an house called Bentley HoUins. Calamy, vol. ii. page 804, says, that he was Fellow of Trinity College, in Cambridge ; that in August, 1652, he became assistant to Mr. Booth, at Halifax, and after his death continued alone till August, 1662. He lied before the Five Mile Act, but in 1672 re- turned to Halifax, and preached in his own house. He died July 31, 1675, aged 49. The character which this Author gives of Mr. Bentley, is, that he was a man of good parts, a solid, serious Preacher, of a very humble behaviour, and very useful in his place ; that he lived desired, and died lamented. On his death bed he thus expressed himself to a particular friend: "God will take a course with these unreasonable men, that require such terms of communion, as a man can- not with a safe conscience subscribe to." HALIFAXIENSIS. 77 He was Author of aii exx^lanatioii of one of St. Paul'& Epistles, whicli was printed, but is now very scarce. It is so scarce, that we have some suspicion he has mistaken this- name for that of J. Booth, [? Boyse,] mentioned below. For the inscription over Mr. Bentley's remains, see the epitaphs belonging to Halifax Church. BENTLEY, BKIAN, Was buried at Halifax, June 9, 1679, where he had lived with the character of being a good Poet ; but for our own part, we can say little to this, having never seen any com- position of his, either in print or manuscript. BREEETON, ROBERT, Published a Sermon from Ecclesiastes xii. 13. entitled, " The great duty of fearing God, and keeping his command- ments, with their advantage (if duly observed) to mankind, while on earth, preached in the Chapel of Luddenden, May 24, 1741. — Leeds, printed by James Lister." Mr. Brereton (who was, in 1773, one of the joint Rectors in Liverpool) was at that time Curate of Luddenden, and Chaplain to Colonel Houghton's Regiment. Before the Sermon, is a short Address to the inhabitants of Midgley, Luddenden and Warley, in which he tells them that his sincere desire to promote virtue and holiness, was the reason of its being sent amongst them. BRIGG, HENRY, Was born at an liouse called Daisy Bank, adjoining to W^ar- ley Wood, (not as a Wood has expressed it, in an obscure hamlet, called Warley Wood.) His life has been wrote in Latin by the Reverend Dr. Thomas Smith. Also by the late Dr. Ward, in his lives of the Gresham Professors, page 120, who sets oft' with saying, that the time of his birth is uncertain. In Halifax Register is the following entry, which we think will determine the dispute : " Henricus, filius Thome Bridge de Warley, bapt. 23, Feb. 1560." The different spelhng of the name will make no alteration, if it be considered how little care was used to be taken in this respect, and also that 78 BIOGRAPHIA Bridge is generally here pronounced Brigg, or Briggs. As for other particulars relating to this very learned, and useful man, we refer the Keader to the Author above-mentioned, and to the Biographia Britannica, where he will receive ample satisfaction. BROWN, SIR THOMAS, Is said, in Bentley's History, page 89, to have fixed himself in this parish, in his juvenile years, as a Physician, and to have wrote here, his Religio Medici. Wright, page 152, asserts the same, adding, that he com- posed this Piece at Shipden-hall, near Halifax, where he lived about the year 1630. Whence these Anecdotes were obtained we cannot say, for little or no tradition of this sort remains there now. Mr. Watson, late Rector of Stockport, had an edition of his Works in folio, printed at London, in 1686, and Wright quotes another at London, in 1736. The first of these has an engraved head prefixed to it, done by Robert White, and underneath these arms: — Argent, two bendlets sable, between as many ogresses. For crest, on a Knight's helmet, with open beaver, a wreath, above all, a lion sedant. BOSCO, JOHANNES BE SACRO. Bentley, page 49, and Wright, page 137, have both mentioned this great Mathematician, &c. as a native of this parish. The first of these, we believe, depended upon report, and the second on what he read in Leland's Commentary de Scriptoribus Britannicis, page 353. But the conjecture there is certainly built on a wrong foundation, that Sacrobo- scus is the same as Halifax ; for this may signify holy face, or holy hair, but cannot mean holy wood, nor did we ever see this name in any deed relating to Halifax parish. We should be glad to shew, that Halifax was really the birthplace of this valuable man, for, as ten cities are said to have laid claim to Homer, the writers even of three kingdoms have contended for this extraordinary genius. Leland, as above, that he was an Englishman, and Thoresby, in his Topography, page 194, affirming that he lay on his back on the hill at Halifax, to observe the motion of the stars, when HALIFAXIENSIS. 79 he wrote his celebrated book, De Sph^era. Dempster assert- ing that he was a Scotchman ; and Stanihurst, and others, that he was born at Dubhn. If Hahfax parish has any right to him, the most Hkely place for him to be born at, is, we think, in Southouram, where is now the Chapel in the Groves, for we take that to have been used as a place for the exercise of Keligion in very early times, perhaps as far back as that of the Druids. — If Ireland gave him birth, he came from Holy-wood, in the county of Dublin ; and if he had his name from any part of Scotland, it was from the Monastery called Sacer Boscus, or Halywood, mentioned in the Monasticon, vol. ii. page, 1057. The Corporation Seal at Halifax, had a virgin hung in a tree by her hair, and a man holding up a globe in his hand, the first alluding to the common story of the young woman being put to death by the Monk ; and the second, to the above John's treatise on the Sphere ; it was a little unfortu- nate that the first of these is a disputed fact, and that the latter lays claim to a man who probably was never in Halifax parish in his life. BOYSE, JOHN, Was Preacher at Halifax Church in the time of Dr. Favour, the Vicar there. He was born in or near Halifax, and left a legacy to the poor there. It does not appear that any thing he wrote was printed, but in Thoresby's Museum ( see Topo- graphy, page 539.) was a Manuscript Catechism of his, wherein he catechized the congregation at Halifax ; and his principles for the i)oor people there. BOIS, WILLIAM, Born in Halifax, and, according to the custom of the time and place, instructed in music and singing, wherein he after- ward attained to great proficiency. His education was at Cambridge, and having a dislike to Popery, he was obliged to retire to some place of safety in the reign of Queen Mary, and he seems to have pitched upon Nettlestead, near Hadley, in Suft'olk, where, though he was in Orders, he took a farm, and lived as a Layman, marrying there Mirable Poolye, a Gentlewoman of good family, who survived him about ten years. 80 BIOGRAPHIA In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Mrs. Bois urged her husband to act in the Ministry ; on which account he took ui3on him to serve the Cure of Elmesett, near Hadley ; and, after the death of the Incumbent, was presented by the Lord Keeper, to the Rectory ; and not long after to the Rectory of West Stow, at the presentation of his brother-in-law, Mr. Poolye. He died in the G8th year of his age. He had several children by his wife, but none lived any considerable time but one, who x3roved an ornament to his country, viz. Dr. John Bois, born Jan. 3, 1560, who had a considerable hand in the present translation of the Bible, and the sketch of wdiose life may be seen in Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, lib. viii. page 38. In this sketch we are further told, page 40, that the Doctor's father was a great scholar, being excellently well learned in the Hebrew and Greek, which, considering the time he lived in, was almost a miracle. BOOTH, ROBERT, First Curate of Sowerby Bridge, afterwards Minister of Halifax, where he was buried July 28, 1657. In Bentley's History of Halifax, page 81, we are told, " that this Mr. Booth, was a man of that worth and excel- lency in learning and divinity, that he deserved the title of another Apollos, and seemed, like Jeremiah, and the Baptist, to be separated from the womb to the ministerial office ; so temperate and healthful, so industrious and indefatigable in the labours of his study, and so divinely contemplative in the exercise of his mind, that he appeared to be made up of virtue, being a stranger to all things but the service of heaven, for when he spoke to his congregation from the pulpit, it was with that power of truth, and elegance of style, that he charmed his hearers into love and admiration." BROOKBANK, JOSEPH, Son of George Brookbank, of Halifax, was entered a Batler in Brazen Nose College, in Michaelmas Term, 1632, aged 20, took a Degree in Arts, went into Orders, and had a Curacy. At length retiring to London he taught a school in Fleet street, and exercised the Ministry there. HALIFAXIENSIS. 81 He published, 1. Breviate of King's whole Latin Grammar, vulgarly called Lilly's ; or a brief grammatical table thereof, &c. London, 16G0, 8vo. 2. The well tuned Organ ; or an exercitation, wherein this question is fully and largely dis- cussed. Whether or no instrumental and organical music be lawfully in holy public assemblies. Affirmatur, London, 1660, 4to. in nine sheets and a half. 3. Kebels tried and cast, in three sermons, on Romans xiii. 2, &c. London, 1661, 120- BURTON, THOMAS, Was M.A. and Vicar of Halifax. He published a Sermon preached in the parish church of Halifax, from Psalm xlvi. 10. on Tuesday July 7th, 1713, being the day appointed by her Majesty for a public thanksgivmg for the peace. London, 1713, containing 16 pages in 8vo. The principles advanced in this discourse are something extraordinary. At page 7, he says, " Kings receive no authority and power from their subjects, and therefore it is neither reasonable nor just that they should be accountable to them. — Some men are for storming Heaven, and snatch- ing 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 says, **It is such as our allies could reasonably desire ; 'tis a just, and therefore an honour- able peace ; a peace that answers all the ends proposed when we engaged in a most bloody, and expensive war." " We ought thankfully to own, that God overthrew our enemies, and reduced a powerful Prince to sue for peace ; and it would have been hard measure not to have granted it to him on such terms as we, among our 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 shall 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 circumstances — no man can doubt, but such to whom it is natural to find fault with every thing, and who are of such a querulous temper 82 BIOGRAPHIA 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." CRABTEEE, HENRY, Sometimes wrote Krabtree, was born, as some have thought, in Norland, as others, in the village of Sowerby, where he was initiated in school learning with Archbishop Tillotson. He has left behind him the character of being a good Mathematician and Astronomer. He published '' Merlinus Rusticus, or a Country Almanack, yet treating of courtly matters, and the most sublime affairs now in agitation throughout the whole world. 1. Shewing the beginning, encrease, and continuance of the Turkish or Ottoman Empire. 2. Predicting the fate, and state of the Roman and Turk- ish Empires. 8. Foretelling what success the Grand Seignior shall have in this his war, in which he is now engaged against the German Emperor. All these are endeavoured to be proved from the most probable, and indubitable arguments of history, theology, astrology, together with the ordinary furniture of other Almanacks, by Henry Krabtree, Curate of Todmurden, in Lancashire. — London, printed for the Company of Station- ers, 1685," COCKCROFT, WILLIAM, Born, as we take it, at Souterhouse, in Wadsworth, where his father, and elder brother Thomas lived. He was of the family of the Cockcrofts, of Mayroyd, in Wadsworth. He was an apprentice in Halifax, and afterwards a Cadet in Mark Ker's dragoons ; went to America, and married an Indian Lady, and was made Colonel of one of the provincial regiments in the province of New York, which regiment he commanded under Sir William Johnson, against the French, under M. Deskau, when, in the year 1766, the English arms were crowned with victory. HALIFAXIENSIS. 8B CEOWTHEE, [ JOSHUA,] Was born at E aland, and was first a Dissenting Minister,, afterwards he conformed, and being recommended by Lord Irwin to Archbishop Herrin, he was, by his mterest with the Crown, made Vicar of Otley, in Yorkshire. He pubHshed a Sermon, but we can give the Eeader no account of it. DEAKE, FEANCIS, Lived part of his time in HaHfax, and died there. He took the degree of M.A. and pubhshed, '* The nature of lying and of moral truth, set forth in two sermons, from Ephes. iv. 25, preached in the church of Halifax. Halifax, printed by P. Darby, 1760," forty pages in 4to. preceded by a short address to the Eeader. The Author has also wrote a practical expo- sition on the church catechism, which is still in manuscripts DEANE, EICHAED. This Eichard was son of Gilbert Deane, of Saltonstall, in this parish, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Edmund Jennings, of Silsden, in Craven ; that he was born at Salt- onstall, and having been educated in Grammatical in his own country, became, at seventeen years old, a Student in Merton College, in 1587, where continuing about five years as a Portionist he retired to Alban-hall, where he took the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, in October, 1592, and that of Master three years after, which was the highest Degree he took m this University. A note, which came from Caermarthen, in Wales, asserted that he had taught School there, but we doubt the truth of it. He was made Dean of Kilkenny, in L-eland, and, in the year 1609, succeeded Dr. Horsfall in the Bishopric of Ossory. He died on the 20th of February, 1612, and lies buried in the Cathedral at Kilkenny, under a marble monument near the Bishop's throne. DEANE, EDMUND, Brother to the above Eichard, entered a Student in Merton College, in Lent Term, 1591, aged nineteen, where he took 64 BIOGRAPHIA one Degree in Arts, and then retired to Alban-liall, where he became Bachelor and Doctor of Physic. He settled in the city of York, and practised there till about the beginning of the Civil Wars. We have before us a small quarto pamphlet of his, in- titled, " Spadacrene Anglica, or the English Spaw-Fountaine ; being a brief Treatise of the acide or tart Fountain e, in the Forest of Knaresborow, in the West-Riding of Yorkshire. As also a relation of other medicinall waters in the said forest. By Edmund Deane, Doctor in Physicke, Oxon, -dwelling in the city of York." London, 1626. The medicinal water at Haregate (commonly called Harrowgate) is here described, and recommended, and it appears that the first person who discovered it to have any quality of this sort, was one Mr. William Slingsby, a Gentle- man of a family in this neighbourhood, who, about 1571, having drank of this water, found it to have the same virtues as those at Spaw, in Germany. FAVOUR, JOHN, Born at Southampton, where he was educated in grammatical learning, but finished for the University at Archbishop Wykeham's school at Winchester. He was elected Proba- tioner Fellow of New College, in 1576, and two years after was made complete Fellow. June 5, 1592, he proceeded Doctor of the Civil Law, and, according to Wood's Athenae, page 487, was made Vicar of Halifax, January 4, 1593. August 1, 1608, he was made Warden or Master of St. Mary Magdalen's Hospital at Ripon. March 23, 1616, he was collated to the Prebendship of Driffield, and to the Cantor- ship of the Church of York. He was also Chaplain to the Archbishop, and Residentiary. In the late Mr. Thoresby's Museum (Topography, page 539) were the heads of some Manuscript Sermons, preached at the exercise at Halifax by this Vicar. In the same place were also Manuscript marginal notes upon a very scarce book, called. Fasciculus Temporum, published about 1485, in the infancy of the art of i)rinting. But his most con- siderable composition was a book printed in London in 1619, containing 602 pages in quarto, and intitled, "Antiquitie triumphing over Noveltie ; whereby it is proved, that Anti- quitie is a true and certaine note of the christian catholicke HALIFAXIENSIS. 86 church and verity, against all new and late ui3start heresies, advancing themselves against the religions honour of old Rome, whose ancient faith was so much commended hy St. Paul's pen, nnd after sealed mtli the hloud of many martyrs and worthy lUshops of that See. With other necessarie and important questions, incident and proper to the same sub- ject." It begins with a dedication to Tobie Matthews, Archbishop of York, wherein it appears, that the work was begun when the author was sixty years old, at the desire, and carried on under the encouragement of the said A.rchbishop. Next follows an epistle to the readers, wherein, amongst the im- pediments to this work, he reckons up preaching every Sabbath-day, lecturing every day in the week, exercising justice in the commonwealth, practising of j)liysic and chirurgery. This serves to confirm what is said of him in Halifax to this day, that he was a good Divine, a good Physician, and a good Lawyer. The Doctor, as an instance of the ignorance of the common people, when the Bible was kept from them, tells us, at page 834, a story of a woman, who, when she heard the passion of Christ read in her own tongue, wept bitterly, and tenderly compassloned so great outrage done to the Son of God ; but after some pause, and recollection of her spirits, she asked, where this was done ? and when it was answered, many thousand miles hence, at Jerusalem, and about fifteen hundred years ago; ''then (says she) if it was so far off, and so long ago, by the grace of God it might prove a lie," and therein she comforted herself. This learned, useful man died March 10, 1(328, and was buried in Halifax church. Thoresby, p. 260, says that he married at Leedes, Nov. 12, 1595, Ann, daughter of William Power, Rector of Berwick, [in Elmete.] See the epitaphs belonging to this church. FARRER, ROBERT, Bom in Halifax parish, perhaps at Ewood, for Thoi-esby, j)age 196, seems to think that he belonged to the family settled at Ewood, and Wright, page 140, says positively that he was born there. Dr. Johnson, in his Manuscript Collections for Yorkshire, says he left lands to his friends, 56 BIOGBAPHIA called Threapliead, within four miles of Halifax, but I know not the situation of it. He became, when a young man, a Canon regular of the Order of ISt. Austin, but in what priory or abbey is uncertain. Having partly received his academical education in Cam- bridge, he retired to a nursery for the Canons of St. Austin, in Oxford, called St. Marie's College, situated in the Bayley, where he was in 1526, as also October 14, 1533, when, as a Member of the said College, he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, having a little before opposed in Divinity. About the same time be became Chaplain to Archbishojy Cranmer, after whose example he married, a practice at that time disallowed amongst the Popish Clergy. Willis, in his Survey of the Cathedrals, vol. I, p. 125, says he was the last Prior of Nostel in Yorkshire, to which was annexed the Prebend of Bramham, in York Cathedral, and that he sur- rendered his Convent in 1540, and had a pension of £100 per annum allowed him, which he received till his promotion in 1547, or 1548, to the Bishopric of St. David's, where, as Willis, p. 121, tells us, he became a most miserable dilapi- dator, yielding up everything to craving Courtiers. But this writer, I think, treats his character too severely; as likewise does A. W^ood. In the reign of Edward VI. fifty-six articles and inform- ations were laid against him, by George Constantine, David Walter, his servant, Thomas Young, (after Archbishop of York,) Eowland Merick, LL.D. (afterwards Bishop of Bang- or,) Tho. Lee, Hugh Eawlins, and others. He was, partly on the importunate suit of his adversaries, partly on the fall of the Duke of Somerset, by whom he had been promoted and maintained, detained in prison till the death of King Edward, and the coming in of Queen Mary^ when he was involved m fresh trouble ; for he was now accused, and examined for his faith and doctrine, as he had before been for abuse of the authority committed to him, for wilful negligence, superstition, covetousness, and folly. February 4, 1555, he was examined before the Bishop of Winchester (who was Lord Chancellor) and others, and being kept in prison uncondemned till the fourteenth day of the same month, he was sent down into Wales, there to receive sentence of condemnation ; and being several times brought before Doctor Henry Morgan, the Popish Bishop of St. HALIFAXIENSIS. 87 David's, and refusing to renounce liis heresies, schisms, and errors, as the said Morgan called them, he was degraded, condemned, and hurned at Caermarthen, on the south side of the Market-cross there, March 30, 1555. It was remarkable that one Jones coming to the Bishop a little before his execution, lamented the i^ainfulness of the death he had to suffer ; but was answered, that if he once saw him stir in the i^ains of his burning, he should then give no credit to his doctrine. And what he said he fully performed, for he stood patient- ly, and never moved, till he was beat down with a staff. The character of this man, is very differently related, Bishop Godwin asserting, that his ruin was owing to his own rigid, rough behaviour : A. Wood, that his doings were unworthy, and that he was not able to answer the first set of articles exhibited against him. On the other hand. Fox, in his Book of Martyrs, seems clearly of opinion, that the first prosecution against him was unnecessary, and malicious ; and that the second was com- menced because he was a Protestant. It is certain that some of the articles which he was put to answer in the reign of Edward VI. were to the last degree frivolous, and shewed themselves to be the offspring of a revengeful mind, such as riding a Scottish pad, with a bridle with white studs and snaffle, white Scottish stirrups, and white spurs — wearing a hat instead of a cap — whistling to his child — laying the blame of the scarcity of herrings to the covetousness of fishers, who, in time of jDlenty, took so many that they destroyed the breeders ; and lastly wishing, that at the alteration of the coin, whatever metal it was made of, the penny should be in weight worth a penny of the same metal. It is no great wonder, indeed, that malice should shew itself on this occasion, for it seems that two of the chief managers of this persecution. Dr. Young and Dr. Merick, had been removed from their offices by this Bishop, as he writes to the Lord Chancellor, "for their covetous respect to their own glory, and lucre, not regarding the reformation of sin, and especially of shameless whoredom." The fall of the Duke of Somerset, then Lord Protector, to whom he was Chaplain, seems, in fact, to have been his greatest guilt ; it certainly exposed him to the resentment 88 BIOGRAPHIA of those who wished him ill ; and who, we think, got very- little credit to themselves as Keformers of religion, by their conduct towards him. Amongst the Harleian MSS., (see No. 420, of the Catalogue,) are several papers relating to the trial of Bishop Farrer, not printed in Fox. The book is called the 5th vol. of Mr. John Fox's Papers, bought of Mr. Strype. FLETCHEE, NATHANIEL, A Schoolmaster, in Ovenden, in this parish, wrote 1. A Methodist dissected, or a description of their errors. 2. The tradesman'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 by P. Darby. No date, but it was published in 1761. FOE, DANIEL DE, Being forced to abscond on account of his political ^vrit- ings, resided at Halifax, in the Back-lane, at the sign of the Eose and Crown, being known to Dr. Nettleton, the Physic- ian, and the Kevd. Mr. Priestley, Minister of the Dissenting Congregation there. Here he employed hunself in writing his piece, ** De Jure divino," amongst other things ; but in particular he is here said to have composed " The Adventures of Eobinson Crusoe," the subject of which was taken from the papers of Alexander Selkirk, who had been left some time on the uninhabited island of Juan de Fernandas, and had given his memoirs to this Daniel, to methodise, who, instead of doing as his friend desired, struck out this entertaining Novel, and by the pub- lication of it prevented Alexander's design of making some advantage from a recital of his adventures. To this, the Author seems to allude in the Preface to the 8d. vol. called, ** Serious Eeflectious," when he says, " That there is a man alive, and well known too, the actions of whose life are the just subject of these volumes, and to whom all or most part of the stoi*y most directly alludes, which may be depended upon for truth." HALIFAXIENSIS. 89 GEAHAM, WILLIAM, A Dissenting Minister, living in Halifax, and late Preacher at Warley cbapel, in that neighbourhood, took in Scotland a Degree in Arts. He published a Sermon from Matthew x. 34, which he preached in Kingston upon Hull, June 21, 1758, at the Ordination of the Eev. Mr. John Beverley. London, 1759. The design of it is to vindicate Christianity from the charge of promoting disorders in society, whether civil or sacred ; and to enquire whence such arose, and to what causes we must ascribe them. GR^ME, WILLIAM, A Gentleman of fortune, who lived at Heath, in Skircoat, near Halifax, was the Author of "A short Speech addressed to the antient and honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons in a Lodge held at the Rose and Crown, in Halifax, uj)on Friday, the 24th of June, 1763." Halifax, printed by Brother P. Darby, 1763. — And in the year of Masonry, 5763. GREENWOOD, DANIEL, D.D. Born in the township of Sowerby ; was first Fellow, and afterwards made Principal of Brasen Nose College, in Oxford, by the Parhament Visitors in 1648, and was Vice Chancellor of that University in 1650 and 1651 ; in this latter year he was at the head of an association for the Parliament, rais- ing, at the charge of the Heads of Houses, &c. 120 horse, and allowing the Governor of Oxford to acquaint the Council, that they had engaged to raise a regiment of foot out of the University and city. This place he held no longer than the Restoration, when he was ejected from it. We find him afterwards called Rector of Studley, in Ox- fordshire, though Wood, in his " Fasti," says only, that on this event, he and his wife retired to Studley, and continued there in a private condition till her death. This Author, under the year 1649, tells us, that this Daniel then took his Degree of D.D. and that he was a severe and good Governor, as well in his Vice Chancellorship as Principality. 90 BIOGRAPHIA After his wife's death, he lived in the house of his nephew, Mr. Daniel Greenwood, Rector of Steeple-Aston, near Ded- ington, in Oxfordshire, where dying Jan. 29, 1673, he was buried in the chancel of the church there, and soon after had a monument put over his grave with the following in- scription, printed in Le Neve's Monumenta Anglicana, vol. I, p. 157, "Memorial Reverendi, pii, doctiq; Viri Danielis Greenwood, S.T. Professoris, Sowerbiae in Com. Ebor. nati, Coll. ^n. Na. apud Oxoniense, primo Socii, dein Principalis, et eiusdem Academiae per duos annos Vice Cancellarii ; qui obiit 29 Jan., Anno Dni, 1673, aet. suae 71." GREENWOOD, DANIEL, Son of John, was born in Sowerby abovesaid, became Scholar of Christ's College, Camb. and in 1648 was made Fellow of Brazen Nose College, in Oxford, by the endeavours of his uncle. Dr. Daniel Greenwood, the Principal of the said College, several Fellows being that year ejected on account of their attachment to the King. In 1653, he was presented by the College to the Rectory of Steeple Aston, in Oxfordshire. He died of an apoplexy at Woodstock, in 1679, and was buried near the grave of his uncle above-named. Over his remains was a table of marble, fixed to the North wall of the chancel above named, with this inscription : " Heic etiam deponuntur reliquiaB rev. viri Danielis Greenwood, hujus ecclesiae per annos xxv Bectoris, qui smgulari erga Deum pietate, pauperes munifi- cente, et omnibus quibus innotuit humanitate feliciter decurso huius vitae stadio in cjclest. X3atriam festinans, triste sui desiderium moriens reliquit, Oct. xiv. An. Dom. 1679, aet. suae 51." He pubUshed, 1. A Sermon at Steeple Aston, at the funeral of Mr. Franc. Croke, of that place, Aug. 2, 1672, on Isaiah l.vii, 1-2. Oxford, 1680, 4to. 2. A Sermon at the funeral of Alexander Croke, of Studley, in Oxford- shire, Esq., buried at Chilton in Bucks, Oct. 24, 1672, on 2 Cor. vi, 7-8, Oxford, 1680, 4to. GUEST, [JOSHUA.] It is said that General Guest, (who bravely defended Edenburgh Castle against the Rebels in 1745,) was once a HALIFAXIENSIS. 91 servant at the Angel Inn at Halifax, which greatly redounds to his honour, as probably he was j)romoted for his merit. His parents lived at Lidgate, in Lightcliffe. — See the epitaphs there. [A fuller account will be given in vol. 2.] HARTLEY, DAVID, M.A. Was born at Illingworth, in this parish. His father was Curate there, and married, May 25, 1707, a daughter of the Reverend Mr. Edward Wilkinson, his predecessor. This Curacy Mr. Hartley afterwards resigned for the Chapel of Armley, in the parish of Leeds, where he died, and left be- hind him eight children. This son David was brought up by one Mrs. Brooksbank, near Halifax, and received his academical education at Jesus College, Cambridge, of which he was a Fellow. He first began to practice physic at Newark, in Nottinghamshire, from whence he removed to St. Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk. After this, he settled for some time in London, and lastly went to live at Bath, where he died September 30, 1757, aged 53. He left two sons and a daughter. His elder son got a travelling Fellowship, and his younger was entered at Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1757. He pub- lished, "A View of the present evidence for and against Mrs. Stephen's Medicines as a Solvent for the Stone, con- taining 155 Cases, with some Experiments and Observations." London, 1739. This book, which contains 204 pages in octavo, is dedicated to the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Phy- sicians, London, wherein the Author informs that body, that about a year before, he published some cases and experi- ments, which seemed to him sufficient evidences of a dis- solving power in the urine of such persons as take Mrs. Stephen's medicines, tho' he did not then enter into the discussion of that point, but left the facts to speak for them- selves ; finding, however, that a quite contrary conclusion had been drawn from those instances, and others of a like nature, as if the medicines did not dissolve, but generate stones ; he therefore republishes the same cases and experi- ments, with all cases favourable or unfavourable, perfect or imperfect, which he had been able to procure, hoping that he had obviated all objections, aud even proved a dissolving power in the medicated urine. 02 BIOGRAPHIA At page 175, of this book, are proposals for making Mrs» Stephen's medicines pubhc, and a list is annexed of th& contributions for this purpose, from April 11, 1738, to Feb- ruary 24 following, the amount of which was £1387 13s. He was the chief instrument in procuring for Mrs. Stephens the £5000 granted by Parliament. His own case is the 123rd in the above book. He is said to have died of the stone, after having taken above two hundred pounds weight of soap. Mrs. Stephen's medicine was made public in the Gazette, from Saturday June 16th, to Tuesday, June 19th, 1739. James Parsons, M.D., Fellow of the Koyal Society, published an octavo, j)rinted in London, 1742, containing *' Animadversions on Lithontriptic medicines, particularly those of Mrs. Stej)hens, and an account of the dissections of some bodies of persons who died after the use of them." In this book are several cases laid down in Dr. Hartley's own words, and afterwards critically examined, in order to shew (particularly from those in whose bladders stones w^ere found after death) that that celebrated medicine had no power of dissolving stones in the kidneys or bladder. And it must be owned, though with regret, that this Writer has succeeded in his proofs. Dr. Hartley is said to have wrote against Dr. Warren, of St. Edmund's Bury, in defence of Inoculation ; and some letters of his are to be met with in the '' Philosophical Transactions." He was certainly a man of learning, and a reputed good Physician, but too fond of nostrums. The Doctor's most considerable literary production, is a work intitled " Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations, in two parts." London, 1749, 2 vols, octavo. The first part contains ** Observations on the frame of the human body and mind, and on their mutual connections, and influences." The work, it seems, took its rise from the Revd. Mr. Gay's asserting the possibility of deducing all our intellectual l^leasures and pains from association, in a dissertation on the fundamental principle of virtue, prefixed to Law's translation of King's origin of evil. The sentiments in this piece, led our Author to enquire into the power of association, and to examine its consequences HALIFAXIENSIS. 99 in respect of morality and religion, and also its pliysicial cause, when by degrees many disquisitions foreign to the doctrine of association, or at least not immediately connected with it, intermixed themselves; for this reason, he has added thereto vibrations, and endeavoured to establish a connection between these ; and has taken a great deal of pains to shew the general use of these two in explaining the nature of our sensations. The second part contains "Observations on the duty and expectations of mankind," before which is an introduction,, in which he says, that the contemplation of our frame and constitution appeared to him to have a iDeculiar tendency to lessen the difficulties attending natural and revealed religion, and to improve their evidences, as well as to concur with them in their determination of man's duty and expectations; with which view he drew up the foregoing "Observations on the frame and connection of the body and mind " ; and in prosecution of the same design, he goes on in this part, from this foundation, and upon the other liluenomena of nature, to deduce the evidences for the being and attributes of God, and the general truths of natural rehgion. Secondly, Laying down all these as a new foundation whereon to build the evidences for revealed religion. Thirdly, To enquire into the rule of life, and the particular ai:)plications of it, which result from the frame of our natures, the dictates of natural religion, and the precepts of the Scripture taken together, compared with, and casting light upon each other. Fourthly, To enquire into the genuine doctrines of natural and revealed religion, thus illustrated, concerning the ex- pectations of mankind here and hereafter, in consequence of their observance, or violation of the rule of life. HEYWOOD, OLIVER, Son of Richard, was born at Little Lever, in Bolton parish, in Lancashire, March 1629, and baptized in Bolton church the 15th of the same month. He was designed by his parents for the Ministry from his birth, and he was also himself inclined that way. In 1647, he was admitted Pensioner in Trinity College, Cambridge, under the tuition of Mr. Akhurst. Here he took S4 BIOGRAPHIA the degree of B.A. but was afterwards called home from thence, his father not being able to support him there. Here for some time he lived retiredly, but at length became Sb Preacher, by the advice and solicitation of the neighbouring Ministers; and having preached some time about the country occasionally, he was invited to Coley Chapel, in this parish ; soon after which, viz. Aug. 4, 1652, he was ordained in Bury Church, in Lancashire, by the Ministers of the second classes there. He married to his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Angier, of Denton, in Lancashire, in 1655, by whom he had several children. He had several disputes with part of his congregation ; some were displeased with him because he would not admit all comers promiscuously to the Lord's Table without dis- tinction ; others, because he would not thank God for killing the Scots. Once he was carried before Cornet Denham, by some of Colonel Lilburne's soldiers, and the Cornet told him that he was one of the Cheshire rebels ; but by the mediation of friends he was dismist. His annual income from Coley did not exceed £36 per annum ; but he held a Lecture every Thursday, for several years, at the house of one Samuel Hopkinson, at the Stubbing, in Sowerby, for which he had a consideration : He had also a small paternal estate in Lancashire, exclusive of what he might receive from Mr. Angler's effects. He had a presentation to the vicarage of Preston, in Lancashire, worth at that time an hundred pounds per annum, sent him by Sir Richard Hoghton, of Hoghton Tower, but on some account or other he declined it. After the Restoration of King Charles II. he was prosecu- ted in the Consistory Court at York for not reading the Common Prayer a year before the Act of Uniformity com- menced, and suspended ab officio; the susi^ension was published at Halifax, June 29, 1662. On this he forbore preaching at Coley, but did not attempt to get off his suspension, because of the Act of Uniformity, which was to take place in Aug. following, and to which he could not conform. Before it took place, however, he ventured to take leave of his flock, by two or three days preaching among them. HALIFAXIENSIS. 95 November 2, the same year, an excommunication was published against him in Halifax Church ; on which he went to York, but found that nothing could be done for him, unless he would take the oath " de parendo juri, et stando mandatis ecclesiae," which his conscience would not permit him to do. In 1664 came out the "Writ de excommunicato capiendo," but he was not taken, though he ventured to preach to a few in his own house, and now and then even officiating in public churches, where there was a vacancy, with the leave of the Churchwardens. On the coming out of the Five-mile Act, he left his family, and went into Lancashire and Cheshire, returning home but seldom. After the edge of that Act was a little worn off, he took more liberty, and preached often publickly in the chapels of Idle, Bramhup, Bramley, Farnley, Morley, Pudsey, and Hunslet. In 1669, preaching occasionally in a private house near Leeds, he was carried before the Mayor, who sent him to prison, but released him the next day at the intercession of some friends. July, the same year, he preached in Coley Chapel, in the absence of Mr. Hoole, the Minister, at the desire of several of the people, for which a warrant was issued out to distrain upon ten pound's worth of his goods, but Calamy tells us that nobody would buy them. At last he was restored, by the King's declaration, March 15, 1672, to ministerial employment in his own house, by Licence, as appears from a private register kept by himself. He ventured, however, to preach at Alverthorp, Lassel-Hall, Sowerby, AVarley, &c. on the week-days. On the calling in of those Licences he met with fresh troubles ; for August 15, 1680, he was again cited into the Consistory Court at York, with his wife and others, for not going to the Sacrament at the Parish-church at Halifax ; and for contempt in not appearing, they were all excom- municated, the sentences being read in Halifax Church, Oct. following, but keeping private, the storm soon blew over. After this, he was indicted at Wakefield Sessions for a riotous assembly in his own house, and fined fifty pounds, for non-payment of which, and not finding sureties for his 96 BIOGRAPHIA good behaviour in forbearing to preach, he was committed to York Castle, where he had both an expensive and trouble- some confinement, and from which he was not freed without much difficulty. After a fatiguing, troublesome life, he died March 4, 1702, in the 73rd year of his age. In a manuscript of his, sent to one Mrs. Hannah Stans- feld, in Sowerby, he says, " I have now been above fifty years labouring in the Lord's vineyard, studying, praying, and preaching, at home and abroad, travelling where Provi- dence hath called, and have arrived well towards two years beyond the age of a man ; now at last I am incapacitated for travel, not only with age, but a very sore shortness of breathing, called the asthma, so that I am confined much to mine own house, only can study, preach in my chapel, and exercise myself in writing books, and sermons, for those that desire them." Thoresby, page 542, says he had a Diary of this Oliver Hey wood's, whereby it appeared, that in one year he preached one hundred and five times, besides the Lord's days, kept fifty days of fasting and prayer, nine of thanksgiving, and travelled fourteen hundred miles in his Master's service. In another part of his Diary are the following entries : " This year, 1G77, I preached, besides Lord's days, sixty times, kej)t fasts, eight days of thanksgiving, and travelled eleven hundred and ninety-eight miles. " This year, 1678, I preached sixty-four times on week- days, have kept fifty fast-days, four days of thanksgiving, and travelled one thousand and thirty-four miles. " This year, 1679, I preached seventy-seven times on week-days, kept fifty-two fast days, seven days of thanks- giving, and travelled thirteen hundred and eighty-six miles." Under June 2, 1678, is the following remarkable passage : *' Lord's day. Preached too long, being under a mistake a whole hour. I was employed six hours. Not weary." His printed works are these: 1, ''Heart Treasure," 1667. 2, "Closet Prayer," 1671. 3, "Sure Mercies of David," 1672. 4, "Life in God's Favour, 1679. 5, "Israel's Lamentations," 1681. 6, " Mr. Angier's Life." 7, "Bap- tismal Bonds," 1687. 8, "Meetness for Heaven," 1690. 9, "Family Altar," 1693. 10, "Best Entail," 1693. 11, " A New Creature," 1693. 12, " Job's Appeal," 1695. 18, " Heavenly Converse," 1697. 14, " The Two Worlds," 1701. HALIFAXIENSIS. 97 15, **A Treatise of Christ's Intercession," 1701. Besides which he printed and prefaced several books of others. In the above Diary, which I saw in the hands of Mr. Dickenson, of Northouram, are these entries : [Jan. 18, 1677 — Aug. 1670. See Vol. 2, Heywood's Diaries, just printed.— J.H.T.] Thoresby had a MS. copy of this [Angier's] Life, with notes and additions by Mr. Newcome, of Manchester. The following is in Halifax Kegister : "Mr. Oliver Hey- wood, of Northouram, Gierke, aged twenty-five years, and Mrs. EHzabeth Angier, of Denton, Gentlewoman, aged twenty-one years, were published at the public meeting place, called Halifax Church, at the close of the morning exercise upon three Lord's Days, viz. April the 1st, the 8th, the 15th, 1655." Their marriage is not inserted in that Eegister. I have seen, in the possession of the late Mr. David Stansfield, of Halifax, an original three quarters painting of this Oliver Heywood. HEYWOOD, NATHANIEL, Brother to Oliver, was born at Little Lever aforesaid, in September, 1683, educated in Trinity College, in Cambridge, and afterwards with Mr. Edward Gee, of Eccleston. His first preferment was lUingworth Chapel, in this parish ; from thence he removed in 1657, to Ormsku-k, in Lancasliire, where he continued till he was silenced in 1662. This account is from Calamy, page 391 ; but if Mr. Hey- wood did not remove from lUingworth till 1657, he had ceased to be Curate there in 1656, for a Mr. J^radshaw signed a receipt in that year, as Curate of lUingworth, in the ]3ook of Accounts belonging to Mr, Waterhouse's Trustees, at Halifax. On the liberty, in 1672, he licenced Bickerstaff and Scaresbrick, both in Ormskirk parish, preaching there each week alternately. He died December 16, 1677. After his death some Sermons of his were printed, entitled, " Christ displayed, as the choicest Gift, and the best Master," 8vo. 1679. They were published by his brother Oliver, who wrote the Epistle Dedicatory thereto. Calamy tells us that one of his hearers, when he was going to quit his Living, expressing a desire for him still to preach in the Church, Mr. Heywood said he would as gladly VO BIOGRAPHIA preach, as they could desire it, if he could conform with a safe conscience ; to which the man replied, " Oh, Sir ! many a man, now-a-days, makes a great gash in his conscience, cannot you make a little nick in yours ? " HOOKE, EICHAED, Probably the same who is mentioned in Wood's "Fasti," I)age 2G1, as having taken his degree of B.A. from New Inn Hall, in Oxford, in 1635, and supposed to be a Northampton- shire man ; if so, he took the rest of his Degrees at Cambridge, being D.D. When he was M.A. he was Minister of Lowdham, in Nottinghamshire, and wrote, " The Laver of Kegeneration, and the Cup of salvation, in two treatises concerning Baptism, and the Lord's Supioer." London, 1653. This is Wood's account, and if true, shews that this per- formance had a second impression, for we have seen a work under his name, entitled, " The Laver of Eegeneratiou, 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 serious consideration, and religions 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 indispensable 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, Printed, 1684, with a dedication to the inhabitants of the town and parish of Halifax. The first discourse is from John i. 26, the second from 1 Cor. xi. 28. Wood says, that he also published one or more Sermons. He was likewise Author of ''The Nonconformist Champion his challenge accepted, or an answer to Mr. Baxter's ''Petition for Peace," written long since, but now first published, upon his repeated provocations, and importunate clamors, that it was never answered. '• Whereunto is j)refixed, an Epistle to Mr. Baxter, with some remarks upon his Holy Common-wealth ; upon his HALIFAXIENSIS. 99 Sermon to the then House of Commons ; upon his Non- conformist's plea for peace, and upon his answer to Dr. Stilhngfleet." London, 1682, 157 pages in 8vo. Thoreshy, in his Museum, (Toi3og. p. 542) had an Bvo. MS. in answer to this, entitled "The Duelling Doctor defeated," hy T.J.M.A. (The just man's advocate, alias Mr. Thomas Sharp, whose mark this was,) heing given hy his widow [to Thoreshy.] Dr. Hooke died January 1, 1688-9, having languished for some time under great pain of a fistula. See the epitaphs at Halifax Church. HOYLE, JOSHUA, Born at Sowerhy, received his first academical education in Magdalene-hall, in Oxford, and heing afterwards invited to Ireland, was made Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin ; there he took the Degree of D.D. and was elected Divinity Pro- fessor in that University. In this office he exi3ounded the whole Bible through in daily lectures, and in the chiefest books ordinarily a verse each day, "which work held him almost fifteen years. Some time before he ended that work, he began the second exposition of the whole Bible in the Church of Trinity College, and within ten years ended all the New Testament (excei)ting one book and a piece) all the Prophets, all Solo- mon, and Job. He preached also and expounded thrice every Sabbath for the far greater part of the year, once every holy-day, and sometimes twice. To these may be added, his weekly lectures (as Professor) in the controversies, and his answers to all Bellarmine's writings. On the breaking out of the Irish Eebellion, in 1641, he came into England, and was made Vicar of Step- ney, near London, but being too scholastical, he did not please the parishioners. He was constituted about this time, one of the Assembly of Divines, and furnished evidence against Archbishop Laud, on his trial, as to matter relating to the University of Dublin, whilst he w^as Chancellor thereof. At length, by the favour of the Committee of Parliament for the reformation of the University of Oxford, he became Master of University College, and the King's Professor of Divinity. He was respected by Dr. Usher, the learned Primate of Ireland, in whose vindication he wrote, "A Eejoinder to 100 BIOGRAPHIA William Malone, Jesuit, his reply concerning the real pre- sence." Dublin, 1641, in a thick quarto. Dr. Hoyle died December 6, 1G54, and was buried in that little old Chapel of University College, which was pulled down in 1668, and which stood in that place which is now the middle part of the present quadrangle, in that College. HULME, NATHANIEL, M.D. Lived for some time in Halifax with his uncle, . . . Hulme, M.D. He wrote, " Libellus de natura, causa, curationeque Scorbuti. To this is annexed a i)roposal for preventing the Scurvy in the British Navy, octavo." London, 1768. KNIGHT, TITUS, A Collier in this parish, who turned Preacher, published a Discourse, printed at Leeds, entitled, " The Faith of the Saints, being the substance of a Sermon preached at the opening of the New Meeting House, belonging to the Inde- pendents, in Blanket-row, Hull, on Sunday, April 9, 1769." By Titus Knight, Minister of the Gospel at Halifax, in Yorkshire. [A clever Collier too, Mr. Watson, and father of a Vicar of Halifax.] LAKE, JOHN, Was born, as I have been several times credibly informed, in that part of Halifax called Petticoat-lane ; his father's name was Thomas, and he was baptised at Halifax, Decem- ber 5, 1624, as appears from the Register there. — His first education was at the Grammar- scbool near Halifax, from whence he was sent to St. John's College, Cambridge, before he was complete thirteen years of age, and put under the care of the famous Mr. Cleveland, whose Poems, Orations, E]3istles, &c., he and. his friend Dr. Drake, Vicar of Ponte- fract, collected into one volume, to which they prefixed his Life and Parentalia, and dedicated them to Bishop Turner, then Master of the College, octavo. London, 1687. When he was B.A. he was made prisoner in College with the royal party, but escaping from thence, he fled to Oxford, and continued four years in the King's army. He was at Basing-house when it was taken, as also at Wallingford. — ^ HALIFAXIENSIS. 101 Wlieii the royal cause was at the lowest, he refused the Engagement, as he had done the Covenant hefore, and entered into Episcopal Orders. — July 26, 164:7, he preached his first Sermon, as Lecturer, at Halifax, but continued not long in that employment on account of his principles. In 1652, he went, as t take it, to Oldham, in Lancashire. May 21, 1660, he was made Vicar of Leeds, but met with so much opposition from those who were for introducing Mr. Bowles, of York, that the Church doors were barred against him, and they were under a necessity of sending for a party of soldiers to secure his induction. Being appointed to preach the lirst Synod Sermon at York, he performed it with so much applause, that Dr. Hitch, then Kector of Guiseley, and his great friend, desired a copy of it, which, without his knowledge, he shewed to Dr. Sheldon, Bishop of London, who soon after gave Mr. Lake the llectory of St. Botolph's without Bishopsgate, London. Here began (what he esteemed the principal honour and felicity of his life) his friendship with Dr. Sancroft, then Dean of St. Paul's, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, who had a particular esteem for him. He returned, for some reason or other, to his native soil, and having, October 17, 1668, been instituted to the Rectory of Prestwich, in Lancashire, he was collated, July 16, 1670, to the Prebend of Fridaythorp at York, and on the same day to the Prebend of Halloughton, in Southwell, and to the Rectory of Carlton, in Lindrick, both in Nottinghamshire. He was now Residentiary at York, and endeavouring to break the bad custom of walkmg in the body of the Cathedi*al during the time of divine service, he was insulted by the rabble, who, after breaking open the south door of the Minster, followed him home, assaulted him in his own house, and even took off a great part of the tiling, so that he was obliged to be rescued from them by Capt. Honeywood, the Deputy Governor. May 7, 1671, he was collated to the Mastership and custody of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalene, near Bautry ; and October 9, 1680, installed Archdeacon of Cleveland. Being nominated by William Earl of Derby to the Bishop- ric of Sodor in Man, he was consecrated December, 1682. And thence, by King Charles II, he was translated to Bristol 10^ BIOGRAPHIA August 12, 1684, with liberty to liold Lis Prebend in com- mendam. In the time of Monmouth's Eebellion, he went down to reside at Bristol, by order of King James II. though he was- at that time much afflicted with the gout, and narrowly escaped being taken by the Duke's forces. His conduct on that occasion was so pleasing to the King, that, before his return, he nominated him to the Bishopric of Chichester, in which he was confirmed October 19, 1685. April 27, 1688, King James II. having renewed the Dec- laration he had set out the year before, for liberty of conscience, to favour the cause of Popery, was resolved to oblige the. Clergy to read it in all their Churches ; but Dr. Lake having first prevented the sending down the Declar- ations into his Diocese, went up to London, and after con- sultation with Archbishop Bancroft, and five other Bishops,, at Lambeth, they agreed to petition the King, and therein to lay before him their reasons which inclined them to dis- obey the Order of Council which had been sent to them. This Petition was delivered accordingly on the 18tli day of May ; and for this, such as had signed it were cited to appear before the Council; where refusing, on account of their Peerage, to give bonds to appear in the Court of King's Bench, the Archbishop, and six other Bishops, (amongst whom was Lake) were committed to the Tower by a warrant signed June 8th, and on the 15th were brought to the King's Bench Bar, arraigned, tried, and acquitted on the 29th, to the great joy of the generality of the people. At the Kevolution he refused to take the Oaths of Allegi- ance and Supremacy to King William and Queen Mary, for which he was suspended ab officio, and would have been deprived had he lived a little longer. August 27, 1689, he made the following Declaration (which, no doubt, was meant as a vindication of this last act of his conduct) before Dr. Green, the Parish Minister, Dr. Hicks, Dean of Worcester, Mr. Jenkins, his Chaplain, Mr. Powell, his Secretary, and Mr. Wilson, his Amanuensis. *' Being called by a sick, and I think a dying bed, and the good hand of God upon me in it, to take the last, and best viaticum, the Sacrament of my dear Lord's body and blood, I take myself obliged to make this short recognition and profession. HALIFAXIENSIS. 103 "That whereas I was baptised into the Eeligion of the Church of England, and sucked it in with my milk, I have constantly adhered to it through the whole course of my life, and now if it so be the will of God, shall die in it, and I had resolved, through God's grace assisting me, to have died so, though at a stake. "And whereas that Eeligion of the Church of England taught me the doctrine of non-resistance and passive obedi- ence, which I have accordingly inculcated into others, and which I took to be the distinguishing character of the Church of England, I adhere no less firmly, and steadfastly to that, and in consequence of it, have incurred a suspension from the exercise of my office, and expected a dein-ivation. I find in so doing much inward satisfaction, and if the oath had been tendered at the peril of my life, I could only have obeyed by sufi'ering. "I desire you, my worthy friends and brethren, to bear witness of this upon occasion, and to believe it as the last words of a dying man ; and who is now engaged in the most sacred and solemn act of conversing with God in this world, and may, for ought he knows to the contrary, appear with these very words in his mouth at the dreadful tribunal. Signed, Johan. Cicestrensis." This declaration caused many pamphlets to be published pro and con ; and may be considered as the beginning of the disputes on this subject, which, though but imperfectly at that time understood, is now too clear to need a comment. Sir John Dalrymple, in his Memoirs, page 396, says, "the above was a weak declaration from a weak man, yet as the last words of a martyr, it was spread through the nation, and at that period of civil and religious ferment, added the impulses of religion to those of party in enthusiastic minds." On the 21st of August, before the making of the above declaration, he had been seized with a trembling fit, which was the forerunner of a malignant fever, and convulsions, which carried him off. On the application of painful remedies, he said, "And is life worth all this, at threescore years and five ? " He died August 30th, 1689, and was buried in St. Botolph's Church, September 3rd. 104 BIOGRAPHIA We cannot find that he published anything except two Sermons, viz. 1, **A Sermon preached at Whitehall, May 29th, 1670, published by his Majesty's command," London, 1671. 2, "■ The true Christian's Character and Crown, preached in St. Botolph's Church, July 15, 1669, at the Funeral of Mr. William Cade, Deputy of that Ward." Lon- don, 1671, 4to. MAESH, EICHAUD, Was born at Finhamsted, in Hertfordshire, in 1585, and educated at Cambridge, (though some have said that he was Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.) He took the Degree of D.D. at Oxford, in 1636. In 1614, he was made Vicar of Birstall, in the West-riding of Yorkshire ; in 1625, Prebend- ary of Southwell; and in 1634, he succeeded Archbishop Bramhall in the Prebend of Husthwaite, in the Church of York. April 17, 1638, he was inducted into the Vicarage of Hali- fax, as appears by an entry wrote with his own hand. In 1641, the King presented him to the Archdeaconry of York, or of the West-riding of Yorkshire ; and in November, 1644, nominated him to the Deanry, on the death of Dr. Scott, the King being then at Oxford ; but the confusions of those times would not permit him to be elected, much less installed, till the Restoration, when the former of these was performed August 17, and the other the 20th, 1660. Dr. Peter Heylin made great interest, by his friends, to obtain this dignity, but was denied, to make way for Dr. Marsh, whom King Charles had so great a value for, that he desired him to be one of the Chaplains to attend him, when the Parliament had got him into their hands in 1648. He was also Prebendary of Rippon, and as Walker, in his Sufferings of the Clergy, page 82, says. Vicar of Bourson, in Yorkshire, but we know not any such place. And as the Doctor had these good preferments, so he was a great and very early sufferer for his attachment to the King his patron ; for in 1642, he had his living of Halifax sequestered, for delinquency, to the use of the forces under Lord Fairfax, himself narrowly escaping from the town, but taken prisoner at Blackstone-edge, and carried to Man- chester, where he was confined for some time, till he made his escape from thence, and got to the King at Oxford. HALIFAXIENSIS. lOS Thus he lost the benefit of his living for eighteen years together, and saw Halifax no more till the Restoration, when he returned, Sept. 16, 1660, and took possession of his Church again. An old man, who was present, told Mr. Beckwith, of York, ''that the Doctor went into the Church, with his Prayer-book under his arm, and finding Eli Bentley officiat- ing there, he turned him out of the Desk, and read Prayers himself." The loss which the Doctor sustained at Halifax (besides other i^laces) amounted to more than four thousand i)ounds. He did not live long to enjoy his Deanry, for he died Oc- tober 13, aged 78, and was buried the 15tli, 1668, in York Minster, near the Grave of Matthew Hutton, Arclibishop of York, in the south aisle of the choir, and over him was an atchievement with his arms, impailing Grice, of Wakefield, but that atchievement is destroyed, and there only remained, in 1766, an escutcheon hung up near his grave, with his arms, viz. Gules, an horse's head couped argent. (That in Halifax Church is erased.) He had resigned the Vicarage of Halifax some time before his death. He had been Chaplain to King Charles I., to Archbishop Laud, and to Dr. Matthews, Archbishop of York. He was three times married. His first wife was the daughter of Mr. Stephens, by whom he had, 1, Tobias, born in 1683, (so called, we presume, after his j)atron the Arch- bishop) ; 2, Henry, baptized at Birstal, November 16, 1637 ; 3, Frances, married to Lewis West, father of Captain Richard West, of Lnderbank, whose only daughter married Mr. Fenton, of Underbank; 4, A daughter, married to Mr. Driffield, of Rippon ; 5, Another daughter, married to Mr. Wymberley, of Post-Witham. The Doctor's second wife was Elisabeth, daughter of Robert Batt, of Okewell-hall, near Birstal, and Fellow and Vice Master of the University College, Oxford, by whom one daughter, Catharine, born in trouble ; for when her mother was big with child of her, the soldiers coming into the house in search of Dr. Marsh, and not finding him, supposed he might be hid in bed, and therefore stabbed their swords into the bed where his wife was laid, and so frightened and wounded her, that it immediately threw her into labour, and she expired almost as soon as she was delivered. 106 BIOGRAPHIA The Doctor fled to save himself, and a trusty servant-maid made her escape with the child in the night, with nothing but her shift on, carrying it in that condition in the dark, for fourteen miles, to a relation of the Doctor's, where it remained till the Kestoration, when her father was at liberty to return. This daughter, Catharine, married Mr. John Kay, of Gomersal, near Birstal, and died at Howley-hall, about 1730, leaving, by said Mr. Kay, 1, Robert Kay, of Howley-hall, whose daughter married Mr. Thomas Beckwith, of York ; 2, Martha, wife to Dr. Eobert Tomlinson, Rector of Wickham ; which Martha was, in 1766 in her 104th or 105th year, and gave part of this account. The Doctor's third wife was Frances, daughter of Mr. Grice, of Wakefield. She was buried in York Minster, July 25, 1665. Mr. Beckwith, above-named, had, in 1766, an original painting of Dr. Marsh in his robes, which seemed to have been done when he was about sixty years of age. The wives and children of delinquents being, by public ordinances, allowed the fifth part of the estate and goods which had been seized upon, the following Petition was sent in against Dr. Marsh, which we took from a paper, dated in 1650, containing a set of reasons against their receiving the said fifth part ; but what was the effect of it we cannot tell. *' 1, Dr. Marsh was long since cast out of the Vicarage of Halifax for misdemeanors. " 2, As wee conceive the said Dr. Marsh was never actually sequestered, or if hee was, never yet made his composition. " 3, There was never any yett settled by authoritty in the room of the said Viccor to receive the profitts, except Mr. Wayte, who was appointed Viccor by the late Lord Fairfax. "4, The wholle profitts of the Vicarage doe in a manere wholy consist in Easter dewes, and Comunicant two penses, which wee conceive in equitty cannot be demanded, seeing thatt Easter comunicants have soe longe seased. ** 5, The people in that Viccarage have beene att greate charge in mayntayneing the Ministers, there beeing 12 chappelreyes in the said Viccarage att which they have had for the most part preaching Ministers, and very little or noe mayntayneance to most of them. HAIilFAXIENSIS. 107 '* 6, Tlie said Dr. Marsh had, when hee was expelled the Viccarage, several other Liveinges, as att Bh-stall, Yorke, Eippon, Sussex, hee was the latte Kinges Chai^layen, and one of the hie Comishon att Yorke, besides he hath a good •estate of his owne in land, to the valeu of £30. per ann. and upwards. " And whereas itt is declared, tliatt this now demanded is for his children, being a fifth part, wee make bold humly to certiefie, thatt if itt should bee expected, and the people forst to pay itt, the greattest part of itt must come from those that are in far greater nesesitie then any of his children is likely yett to come too, and from those who have hazerded their lives, and laid out their estates in the Parliament's servise, and whose sufferings and loses have be^n very ^eate. " The Peticioners unanimously, as well the inhabittants within the mother-church whom the said small tithes did chiefely concerne, and all the rest of the Vicarage, make it theire humble request, that the said Dr. Marshe's order for his fifth part may bee called in, and that the same, and all the rest of the said tithes or Easter oblacions may either wholy bee taken of, or otherwayes that the said tithes may be devided amongst the several Chapells and Mother-church, as the same was certified by the Com', for the West Eideing of the county of Yorke upon an Act or Order of Parliment." It must be observed, that the estate of one John Marsh, D.D. who was said to have been late of Halifax, in the county of York, was declared forfeited for treason, by an Act of November 18, 1G52, but this we have reason to think was a misnomer. Walker, in his Sufferings, &c., page 83, says, that the Doctor had one or more Sermons extant, but I have not seen any account of them. MAKSDEN, GAMALIEL, A Student in Trinity College, Dublin, where he continued "ten years, and part of the time was Fellow there. He was turned out with Dr. Winter, on King Charles' Restoration, and came to England. He had but five pounds when he landed at Liverpool, and inew no relations or friends he could repair to ; but resolved 108 BIOGRAPHIA to go to Coley, in this parish, where his father had been minister. There he found friends, and was fixed in St. Ann's Chapel, in Southouram, from whence he was ejected by the Act of Uniformity. He afterwards went into Holland, and, at his return, taught Philosophy, &c., to some young Students at Hague- hall. He was also Pastor of the Congregational Church at Woodkirk. He died May 25, 1681, aged forty seven. MIDGLEY, SAMUEL, The real Author of the History of Halifax, which goes under the name of William Bentley. — This man was a prisoner for debt in York Castle, in 1G85, where he was acquainted with Oliver Heywood. He was also three times in Halifax jayl, for debt. Here it was he wrote the above History; and here he died, July 18, 1695. His poverty prevented him from printing the Book, which he wrote for his own suj)port; 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 non vobis, &c." He xn'actised Physic, and was the son of William Midgley, who was buried at Luddenden, August 21, 1695, aged eighty- one. MILNER, JOHN, The second son of John Milner, of Skircoat, near Halifax, by Mary, daughter of Mr. Gilbert Ramsden, was baptized February 10, 1627-8. The foundation of his great learning was laid in the Grammar school there, from whence he was sent, at fourteen years of age, to Christ's College, Cambridge,, where he took the' Degrees of B.A., M.A. and B.D. He was first Curate of Middleton, in Lancashire, but was forced thence, on Sir George Booth's unsuccessful attempt to re- store King Charles II. a little before the fight at Worcester. After this he retired to the place of his nativity, where he lived till 1661, when Dr. Lake, then Vicar of Leeds, and his brother-in-law, gave him the Curacy of Beeston, in his parish. In 1662, he took the Degree of B.D. and the same year was made Minister of St. John's, in Leeds. He was elected Yicar of Leeds, and was inducted thereto August 4, HALIFAXIENSIS. 109 1673, and March 29, 1681, was chosen Prebendary of Eipon. In 1688, not being satisfied about the Revohition, he retired from his Vicarage, and was deprived of all his Preferments ;tf on which he retired to St. John's, in Cambridge, where he spent the remainder of his days, continuing a Nonjuror till his death, which happened in the said College, February 16, 1702. He was buried in the Chapel there, on the 19th, aged seventy-five, leaving an only son, Thomas Milner, M.A. Vicar of Bexhill, in Sussex. It is remarkable, that both Bishop Lake and he were born in Halifax parish, both educated in Cambridge, were both Vicars of Leeds, and both lost their preferments for Non- jurancy, in 1688. His Works are these: 1. — Conjectanea in Isaiam ix. 1, 2. London, 4to., 1673." This he published whilst he was Minister of St. John's, in Leedes. It was dedicated to his learned friend. Dr. Duport, Master of Mag- dalene College, Cambridge. Dr. Castel, Professor of Arabic at Cambridge, called this " a most excellent Essay, wherein the Author shewed incredible reading and diligence, in i3er- using so many cojues, versions, and various lections, with the best interpreters of Sacred Writ. " See Vicaria Leodien- sis, p. 114. 2. — A collection of the Church Histor}^ of Palestine, from the Birth of Christ, to the beginning of the Empire of Diocletian, London, 1688, 4to. 3. — A short Dissertation concerning the four last Kings of Judah. London, 1689, 4to. 4. — De Nethenim sive Nethinjeis, &c. Cantab. 1690, 4to. 6. — An Answer to the Vindication of a Letter from a Person of Quality in the North, concerning the Profession of John, late Bishop of Chichester, London, 4to. 1690. 6. — A Defence of the Profession of John, Lord Bishoj) of Chichester, made upon his death bed, concerning Passive Obedience, and the New Oaths ; with some passages of his Lordship's Life. London, 4to, 1690. These two last are omitted by Thoresby, in his Vicaria Leodiensis, p. 116. 7. — A Defence of Archbishop Usher against Dr. Cary and Dr. Is. Vossius, &c., Camb. 1694, 8vo. 8. — A Discourse of Conscience, &c., with Eeflections upon the Author of Christianity not Mysterious, &c., London, 1697, 8vo. 110 BIOGRAPHIA 9. — A View of the Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, &c., lately published by the Rev. Dr. Bentley, also, of the Examination of that Dissertation, by the Hon. Mr. Boyle. London, 1698, 8vo. 10. — A brief Examination of some Passages in the Chron- ological Part of a Letter written to Dr. Sherlock. 11. — A further Examination of ditto. 12.— An Account of Mr. Locke's Religion, London, 1700, 8vo. 13. — Animadversions upon Mons. Le Clerc's Reflections upon our Saviour, &c., Camb. 1702, Bvo. He also left the following manuscripts behind him, which came to the hands of his son : 1. — A Translation of the Targum. 2. — A Chronological History from the Flood to our Saviour's Birth. 3. — Ditto of the five first Centuries, A.D. 4. — Animadversions on the Historical Account of the Jewish High Priests. 5. — An Answer unto, or Animadversions upon R.H. on Controversies. 6. — Ditto upon T.C's. Labyrinthus Cantuariensis. This he lived not to finish. 7.— Animadversions upon L'enicum. 8. — A Vindication of the Church of England in reference to Antiphones, Responds, &c. 9. — A Latin Comment on part of Genesis. 10.. — Ditto upon Psalms 1, 42. 11. — Diatriba de igne Purgatorio. 12. — Fax nova Linguae Sanct^e. I will only add the character which Dr. Gower, Lady Margaret's Professor at Cambridge, gave of this Mr. Milner, to Mr. Thoresby. " Great learning and piety made him really a great man ; he was eminent in both, and nothing but his humility and modesty kept him from being more noted for being so. He was a blessing to the whole Society, by the example he gave in every good thing. He died beloved, and much lamented here, and his memory is hon- ourable and precious amongst us, and will long continue so." HALIFAXIENSIS. Ill MITTON, JOHN, Son of Thomas, was born at Geslingroid, in the township of Barkisland, in this parish, and died at London about the latter end of the year 1736. He turned his thoughts, it seems, to natural j)hilosophy, for in Thoresby's Museum (Topog. page 543) was a manuscript diar}^ giving an account of the rising and falling of the Barometer, the point of the compass the wind was upon, and some account of the temper- ature of the air, as rain, snow, frost, mist, &c., from Octo. 1710, till December, 1713, by Mr. John Mitton, of Barkis- land, near Halifax. NABB, .... Wrote a Poem in 4to, called, ** Calista, or. The injured Beauty, a Poem founded on fact." London, 1759. It is anonymous, and only said to be written by a Clergyman ; but the Author, who resided some time at Halifax, being dead, I have ventured to give the public as much as 1 knew of his name. NALSON, ROBERT, The Collector of a folio manuscript, intitled, " Miscellanea sive Observationes collectanife," and signed Robert Nalson, 1665. This volume (which is in my own collection,) consists of a vast variety of subjects, chiefly transcripts, but inter- spersed with original papers, and others so scarce that they are nearly as valuable as if they Avere known originals. Wright, at page 80 of his history says, this manuscript unfortunately fell into ill hands, and had several pages, all of them relating to the Gibbet Executions, torn out, before the book was returned to the proper owner. Where he re- ceived that information I cannot tell, but it appears not from the book itself. The late Mr. Wilson, of Leeds, in his manuscript account of the English Historians, in two volumes folio, now at the Free Grammar School 'at Leeds, says, that Mr. Nalson left manuscripts to Halifax Library, but nothing of that sort appears now, and I judge it to be a mistake. — The Author tells us, that he received confirmation from Archbishop Freuin in 1664, in his own chapel at Bishopthorpe, and that he was then about thirty -nine years of age. 112 BIOGRAPHIA NETTLETON, THOMAS, Son of John, born at Dewsbury, settled at Halifax, and practised Physic there for several years with great success, having taken degree of M.D. at Ley den. He and Mr. West, of Under-bank, near Penniston, in Yorkshire, were the first who instructed Professor Sanderson in the principles of mathematics, and the Doctor used to say, that the Scholar soon became more knowing than his Masters. In the Philo- sophical Transactions appear several pieces of the Doctor's, which were communicated by Dr. Jurin, who was his friend and acquaintance, viz. " An account of the height of the Barometer at different elevations above the surface of the earth." We have here the altitude of Halifax Bank determined at five hundred and seven feet ; and after some observations on the air, follows a table, shewing the number of feet ascend- ing, required to make the mercury fall to any given height in the tube from thirty to twenty-six inches ; as also the number of feet descending, required to make the mercury rise from thirty to thirty-one inches ; and also a table shew- ing the number of feet required to make the mercury fall one tenth of an inch from any given height in the tube from thirty-one to twenty-six inches, In Vol. vi. page 121 of the " Transactions" abridged by Reid and Gray, is an account of inoculation of the small-pox, by the Doctor ; and at page 129, another treatise by him on the same subject. In a paper of Dr. Jurin's, page 131, it appears, that Dr. Nettleton had inoculated sixty-one i:)ersons, when all others in England (as far as could be gathered) had only inoculated one hundred and twenty-one. At page 161, is a discourse by the Doctor, shewing that the refractions of the air are different at different times. From his observations it like- wise appears that Halifax is in the latitude of 53. 47. that the height of Blackstone-edge, at Kobin-hood's-bed, is two hundred and thirty-nine yards and a quarter ; that Halifax Bank bears from this 60° from north to east ; Manchester 40. 30. from south to west ; Rochdale 70. 20. from south to west. The Doctor was Author of a i^ami^hlet, intitled, '* Some Thoughts concerning Virtue and Happiness, in a Letter to a Clergyman." London, 1729, 8vo., which he afterwards much HALIFAXIENSIS. 118 enlarged. It was reprinted in 1736, and 1751, at London, both in 8vo. but the former of these is the more valuable, because it had the Author's finishing hand. The design of this valuable work is to shew that happiness is the end of all our actions ; how we deviate from our true happiness ; and how these deviations may be prevented. He has also given us some excellent rules for the management of our several passions, and has undeniably proved, that virtue is the best and chiefest good ; that it is not only the support and ornament of society, and beneficial to mankind in general, but the truest, and most substantial happiness to every particular person, as it yields the greatest pleasure, both in its immediate exercise, and in its consequences and effects ; that it gives a relish to all other pleasures, and where it is wanting, there can be no true nor lasting j)leasure, but all will be bitterness, horror, and remorse, without the least mixture of any thing gentle and agreeable. The following story is told of the Doctor : That being in company with several Gentlemen, one of them was laying great stress on Dean Echard's account of Cromwell's selling himself to the Devil before the Battle of Worcester ; affirm- ing, that the bargain was intended to be for twenty-one years, but that the Devil had put a trick upon Oliver, by changing the twenty-one into twelve, and then turning hastily to the Doctor, asked him, "What could be the Devil's motive for so doing ? " The Doctor, without hesitation, answered, '' That he could not tell what was his motive, unless he Avas in a hun-y about the Eestoration." The Doctor married, March 30, 1708, Elizabeth Cotton, of Haigh-hall, by whom he had several children. He died January 9, 1741-2, at Halifax, and was buried on the 12th, at Dewsbury, wdth the following epitaph on the south wall of the Church. H.S.E. THOMAS NETTLETON, M.D. Artis suae Facultate Prope singulari insignis ; Aliarumque Artium Quae ad Humanitatem excolendam Et Virtutem promovendam pertinent, Laude cumulatus. 114 BIOGRAPHIA Modesta Ingenii Sagacitas vere amabilem, Pietas autem nou simulata, Comitate condita Gra vitas, Ac simplex Morum Candor Amabiliorem praestiterunt. Nee Fama; celebritati, Nee Divitiarum incremento studiiit ; Eum ratus uberrimum solertine quasstum, Quamplurimus prodesse. Indolem banc adprime liberalem Natura ingenuit, Yitae institutum aluit. Studium denique bumanioris Pbilosopbiae, Ac diuturna cum Viris maximis Sandersono, Halleio, Newtono, Consuetudo abunde confirmavit. Scriptis Auctor limatissimus, Atque boc Monumento perennioribus, Elegautem Virtutis, et Felicitatis imaginem Mirus Artifex adiimbravit : Illustrissimum antem Exemplar Nativo colore Yitae expressit. Tot, tantisque Dotibus ornatus Yixit annos LYIII. lY. Id. Jan. MDCCXLI. OGDEN, SAMUEL, Born, as I take it, in or near Manchester, was Curate of Coley, in this parisb, afterward Master of the Free Grammar- school near Halifax, and Curate of Eland. He was Fellow of St. John's College, in Cambridge, where he took the Degree of D.D. and was made Yicar of Damerham, in Wiltshire. He published two Sermons, preached before the University of Cambridge, in 1758, one from 1 Thess. v. 13. upon May 29, being the Anniversary of the Restoration of King Charles II. the other from Deut. iv. 6. on June 22, being the Anniversary of the Accession of his Majesty King George II. Both dedicated to his Patron the Duke of New- castle, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He has also published some Sermons on the Efficacy of Prayer and Intercession, printed at Cambridge. The Doctor was chosen Woodwardian Professor of the University of Cambridge. HALIFAXIENSIS. 115 PATCHIT, BENJAMIN, An inhabitant of Upper Saltonstall, in the higher part of Warley, in this parish, pubhshed a pamphlet, intitled, *' A short Inquiry into the proper Qualifications of Gospel Minis- ters, considered as the Servants, not of Men, but of Jesus Christ ; with some Directions, how we, who are Hearers, may know whether the Doctrines our Ministers deliver from the Pulpit, are according to God's Will and Mind, or not. And also how we are to attend on the Word preached in a profitable manner." Halifax, 1759, 8vo. POWEK, HENRY, Took the Degree of M.D. and practised Physic in HpJifax, from whence Wright, in his History, page 171, says, he re- moved to New Hall, near Eland, and died there; but Wilson, in his manuscript account of the English Historians, already mentioned, tells us, that he removed from Halifax to Wake- field, where he died December 23, 1GG8. He wrote a Treatise, intitled, "Experimental Philosophy, in three books, contain- ing new Experiments, microscopical, mercurial, and mag- netical," 4to. London, 1G64. The Doctor was buried at Wakefield, for on a brass plate on the chancel floor in the Church there is the following inscription : "M.S. Desideratissimi Capitis HENRICI POWEEI, Medicinee Professoris, Ingenio, judicio, Moribus excultissimi, Qui si vixisset diutius Non in Arte solum, verum etiam in Humanitate Bene multa Coum ipsum, Pergameumq ; docuisset. Si quid dubites, Hospes, si repugnes, Ecce ! Non in re microscopica, et hydrargyrica, Sed in reliqua philosophica, medicaque PowERi singularis eruditio, Perennitatis in Larario, (Justa cum Doctorum admu'atione) Tum ex peremptis hie illic morborum seminibus Cum ex editis in lucem Doctrina3 pignoribus Jamdudum inclaruit. Annos natus XXXV. non major obiit. Yir cognitione quam astate grandior. Obiit XXIII Decembris, MDCLXVIII." 116 BIOGRAPHIA EAMSDEN, HENRY, Was sou of Geoffry Ramsden, of Greetland, in tins parish, and was admitted a Commoner of Magdalene Hall, in Oxford, in 1610. He took the Degrees in Arts, and was elected Fellow of Lincoln College, in 1621, and five years afterwards, leaving that place, became a Preacher in London, and was much resorted to for his edifying and puritanical sermons. At length, on the death of Hugh Ramsden, his elder brother, he was made Vicar of Halifax, where he continued till his death, in 1637, and was buried in the Chancel of Halifax Church, with an inscription to his memory, which see amongst the Halifax Epitaphs. After his death were published, under his name, by John Goodwin, with his Epistle before them, four Sermons, viz. 1. — The Gate to Happiness, on Romans vi. 8. 2. — The wounded Saviour, on Isaiah liii. 5. 3. — Epicure's Caution, on Luke xxi. 34. 4. — Generation of Seekers, on Coloss. iii. 1. The book was intitled, '' A Gleaning of God's Harvest." London, 1639, 4to. The Register at Halifax has this entry: ''Henricus Rams- den, filius Galfridi Ramsden, de Greetland, infra Vicariam de Hallifax, frater natu minor, M.A., Socius Collegii Lincoln- iensis, Oxon. inductus est Vicarius de Hallifax decimo calend. Septembris, Anno 1629.' His widow died at Eland, May 11, 1682. RICHIE, JAMES, - Is said to have been M.D. He was a Dissenting Minister at Mixenden Chapel, in this parish, and practised Physic in that neighbourhood. His publications were : A Criticism upon modern Notions of Sacrifices, being an Examination of Dr. Taylor's Scripture Doctrine of Atone- ment examined, in relation, 1. — To Jewish Sacrifices. 2. — To the Sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. To which is added an Appendix, containing an Examination of another Notion of Jewish Sacrifices, which is exhibited in an anony- mous piece published at London in 1746, and intitled, "An Essay on the Nature, Design, and Origin of Sacrifices." London, 1761. HALIFAXIENSIS. 117 Tliis was intended as a prelude to a larger work afterwards printed, and intitled, "The peculiar Doctrines of Kevelation, relating to piacular Sacrifices, Redemption by Christ, Faith in him, the Treatment of different moral Characters by the Deity, under the several Dispensations of Revealed Religion, &c., exhibited as they are taught in Holy Scripture, and the Rationale of them illustrated, in two Essays, viz. 1. — On the Rectitude of divine moral Government, in the Treatment of Rational Creatures. 2. — On the Rectitude of divine moral Government, in the Treatment of different moral Characters, under the several DispensatioDs of Revealed Religion, viz. the Adamical, Patri- archal, Hebrew, and Christian. To which are subjoined two Dissertations, viz. 1. — On the Office of Jesus Christ as Mediator, and Surety of the New Covenant. 2. — On the Person of Jesus Christ." "With a Preface to the whole. Warrington, 17GG, 2 vols. 4to. This Work was posthumous, though the Author had put the finishing hand to it, and had even sent the manuscript to the press. It was published by subscription, and sub- scribers' names were printed. ROOKEBY, WILLIAM, Bom, as Wilson asserts, in his manuscript account of Eng- lish Historians, at Kirk Sandal, in Yorkshire, though Tanner says that he was born in Halifax. He was educated, says Wood, in his Athenas, vol. i. page 659, partly in an ancient Hostle for the reception of Canon- ists in St. Aldate's parish in Oxford ; he himself being after- wards Doctor of the Canon Law. He was made Rector of Sandal, where he was born, and Vicar of Halifax. In 1498, according to Sir James Ware, vol. i. page 153, he was made Lord Chancellor of Ireland by King Henry VII., but Wood fixes this to the year 1515, not knowing that this was his second election into that high office, which he is supposed after this to have held for life. In 1507 he was advanced to the Bishopric of Meath, by Pope Julius II. and the same year called into the Privy Council by King Henry VII. And was afterwards, by the same Pope, translated to the See of Dublin, January 28, 118 BIOGRAPHIA 1511-12, and on the 22nd of June following had restitution of the Temporaries . In 1518, he convened a Provincial Synod, the Canons of which are yet extant in the Ked Book of the Church of Ossory; and were from thence published by Sir Henry Spelman, tom. ii. page 726. See also Wilkins, vol. ii. page 660. He died November 29, 1521, and his body was buried (says Sir James Ware) in his own Cathedral of St. Patrick's, Dublin, only his heart was conveyed into England, and de- posited in the monument of his ancestors. This may be true, but it is directly contrary to the words of his Will, which ordered that he should be embowelled, and his bowels and heart buried in the Church of Halifax, within the choir, and his body to be buried in the new Chapel at Sandal, and thereon a tomb of stone to be made, and about the same to be written : "Ego Willielmus, Dublin, Archiepiscopus, quondam Rector istius EcclesiEe, credo quod Redemptor mens vivit — Qui obiit — cujus animae proi3itietur Deus, Amen." There is no ]3roof, it must bo owned, that his body was conveyed to Sandal. That his heart and bowels were buried at Halifax seems certain, for Wright, page 43, says, they were buried in the Chancel of Halifax Church, and over them was laid a stone, with the figure of an heart engraved thereon ; and that when the Chapel, which he had ordered to be built on the north side of Halifax Church, was finished, they were removed into it, with the stone which lay over them, which yet remains, though his heart and bowels may not be there, for the earth has been suffered to be opened, and once, if not oftener, the little lead box which contained them has been dug up. The Archbishop beautified and repaired the Vicarage- house at Halifax. ROOTE, HENRY. This was the person whom Mr. Tillotson (afterwards Arch- bishop) consulted, in 1649, about taking the Engagement at Clare-hall, Cambridge. He published a pamphlet, intitled, "A just Apologie for the Church of Duckenfield," 4to. This was a defence of one Eatorr, who was at the head of a HALIFAXIENSIS. 119 congregational Assembly there, against the reflections of one Edwards, and is dated from Sowerhy, March 2, 1646. SAVILE, Sir JOHN, Eldest son of Henry Savile, Esq ; of Bradley, in the town- ship of Stainland, in this parish, by Ellen, daughter of Mr. Eobert Ramsden, was born at Bradley, in 1545, and entered a Commoner of Brasen-Nose College about the year 1561 ; from whence, before he took any Degree, he was removed to the Middle Temple, where, being called to the Bar, he became Autumn Reader of that House in 1586, Steward of the Seigniory or Lordship of Wakefield, and was called to the Degree and Honor of the Coif in 1594, made one of the Barons of the Excliequer 1598 ; and about the same time, one of the Justices of Assize. When King James came to the Crown, he not only continued him in his Baron's place, but conferred on him, July 23, 1603, a little before his Coronation, the honour of Knighthood, being one of the Judges who were to attend that solemnity. He died at London, Feb. 2, 1606, aged sixty-one, and was buried in St. Dunstan's Church in the West, in Fleet-street ; his heart being carried to Methley Church, in Yorkshire, and buried in the south aisle there, and a monument erected over it, with the figure of the deceased, cut in stone, in his Judge's robes, and the following inscription : "M.S. Yiri clarissimi et Judicis integerrimi Johannis Savile, Equitis Aurati, Scaccarii Regii Baronum unius, ac ex speciali gratia Regis in proprio Comitatu suo Justiciarii Assiz. Filii et Haeredis Henrici Savile, de Overbradley, in Stainland, juxta Eland, in isto agro Eboracen. Armig. ex antiqua Savillorum prosapia oriundi. Que sedo die Februarii, Anno Dom. 1606, iT?tatis 61. Londini (ubi corpus ejus in Ecclesia Sancti Dunstani in Occidente inhumatur, Cor vero secundo hie inter Antecessores) placidissime in Domino obdormivit. " Vir fuit X3ietatis zelo, ingenii perspicatia, morum suavit- ate, rerum Principis et Patriae agendarum dexteritate, variis et exquisitis animi dotibus undique conspicuus. "Ex uxore prima, Jana. filia Richardi Garth, de Morden, in Com. Surr. Armigeri, habuit Henricum Savile, i^ostea Militem et Baronettum, ia hoc tumulis repositum ; Elizabeth- am, uxorem Henrici Gooderick, Militis, modo viventem. 120 BIOGRAPHIA Ex uxore secunda, Elisabetha, filia Thomas "Wentworth, de Elmsliall, in Co. Ebor. Armig. liabuit Johannem Savile, superstitem, prefati Fratris sui successorem et liaeredem x)ro- pinquum, et Helenam, qn^ in minovie aetate obiit. "Patri pientissimo filiiis obsequntissimus superstes sup- radictus hoc amoris memoraeulo parentavit." Camden, vol. ii., page 857, sais, that his work was much indebted to the learning of this Sir John Savile, and himself to his civility. He left behind him at his death several pieces fit for the press, of which only the following is made public, " Eeports- of divers special Cases, as well in the Court of Common Pleas as of the Exchequer, in the time of Queen Elizabeth." London, 1675, in a thin folio, printed in old French, in a black character, and published by John Eichardson, of the Inner Temple. SAVILE, Sir HENKY, Brother to Sir John, last named, was born at Bradley afore- said, November 30, 1549. In the beginning of the year 1561, he was admitted into Merton College, Oxford, and January 14, 1565, took the degree of B.A., soon after which he was elected Fellow of Merton. April 30, 1570, he pro- ceeded M.A. reading for that degree on the Almagest of ' Ptolemy, which procured him the reputation of a man ■wonderfully skilled in the Greek language, and the Mathe- matics. In this last he voluntarily read a public Lecture in the University for some time. Having now great interest, he was elected Proctor for two years together, viz. 1575 and 1576, an honour not very common, for as the Proctors were then chosen out of the whole body of the University, by the Doctors and Masters, and the election was not, as now, con- fined to particular Colleges, none but men of learning, and such as had considerable interest, durst aspire to that honor. In 1578, he travelled into France, and other countries, where im^n-oving himself in several branches of useful learn- ing, and the knowledge of the world, he returned a very accomplished gentleman ; and was made Tutor for the Greek tongue to Queen Elizabeth, who very much approved of him. In 1585, ho was chosen Warden of Merton College, through the Queen's favor ; and in 1596, she made him Provost of Eaton College. King James I. expressed a particular regard HALIFAXIENSIS. 121 for him, and would have advanced him either in State or Church, but he decHned it, and only accepted of the honor of Knighthood from him at AVindsor, September 21, 1604. About that time, losing his only son, he thenceforth devoted his time and fortune to the interests of learning. In 1619, he founded two Lectures, or Professorships, in the University of Oxford, one for Geometry, and the other for Astronomy, which he endowed with a salary of £160 a year each, besides a legacy of £600 for purchasing more lands for the same use. He also furnished a hbrary with mathematical books, near the Mathematical School, for the use of his Professors. He gave £100 to the mathematical chest of his own a^ipointing; adding afterwards a legacy of £40 a year to the same chest, and to the University and his Professors jointly. He gave likewise £120 towards the new building of the Schools ; several rare manuscripts, and printed books to the Bodleian Library, and a good quantity of matrices, and Greek types, to the Printing-press at Oxford. Part of the endowment of the above Professorships was the manor of Little Hays, in Essex, as appears from Morant, vol. i, page 41. Sir Henry died February 19, 1621-2, at Eaton College, and was buried in the Chapel there, on the south side of the communion table, near the body of his son Henry, with tliis inscription over him, on a black marble stone : *' Hie jacent ossa et cineres Henrici Savill, sub spe certa resurrectionis ; natus apud Bradley, juxta Hallifax, in Com- itatio Ebor. Anno Dom. 1549, ultimo die mensis Novembris; obiit in Collegio Etonensi, Anno Dom. 1621, 19 die mensis, Februarii. A sumptuous monument was also erected to his memory on the south wall, at the upper end of the choir of the Church, adjoining to Merton College, with the following inscription : M.S. HENEICUS SAVILE, MILES, Colleffii ' Mertonensis Custos, ^ 1 Etonensis Praepositus. Svi Exwias corporis frustra sit qui hie quaera. Servat praenobile depositum Etona, Perennem virtvtvm ac benefactorvm memoriam 122 BIOGRA.PHIA Quibus collegium utrumq ; Q. Academiam imprimis Oxouiensem complexus est, Ipsumq ; adeo Mvndvm liabet sibi debeiidi revm, Affectvs insvper pientissimse Uxoris, Possidet iste lapis. B.M.P. Margareta, Conjvx obseqventissima, In hoc vno qvod posvit pie immorigera. Obiit Ac Dni M,DCXXI, Febrvar. xix. The works of this learned man, are, 1. An English translation of part of Tacitus. London, 1581, fol. He added some notes, which Isaac Gruter trans- lated into Latin, and published at Amsterdam, in 1649, 12mo. 2. A view of certain military Matters, or Commentaries concerning Eoman warfare. Folio, London, 1598. Trans- lated into Latin by Freherus, Heidelberg, 1601, but having become exceeding scarce, was re-printed by Gruter, who subjoined it to the notes above-mentioned. 3. Kerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam prfecipui. Fol. London, 1596, 1599, and at Frankfort 1601. This collection contains Malmesbury's History, Hoveden's Annals, Ethelwerd's Chronicles, &c. Wharton (Pref. Anglia Sacra,) sais that Sir Henry printed Malmesbury's History from an incorrect manuscript. It seems as if the above Historians were expected by Sir Henry to have come from a more noble hand than his own, as may be collected from the following Letter of his amongst the Harleian MSS. Brit. Museum, No. 374, folio 24, directed to his most speciall good frend Ma^". John Stowe, in Cornewall, in London. " After my most hartie commendacions, being verie glad and desirous to lieare from you, trustinge in our Lord that you be in good health, or els I might be hertelye sorie, for that I have founde at all tymes good favoure of youe since our first acquaintance, and other acquaintance in London I have none but that I have by your means, as good Master Hare, unto whom I pray youe commende me, and desire him to let me understande in what towordsnes his good workes for the priveleges of Oxforth is ; and forther I besech you to certifye me, if Wigornensis is ininted, and wheare I may sende to buye it, and the price ; and gladlye of all other I woulde understande that your last booke weare forthe, that I might sende unto you for one or twoe for my money. HALIFAXIENSIS. 123 Forther I woulde understande if my Lord's Grace be aboute to print Eoger Howden, Maulbesburie, and Huntingtone, and in what forwardnes they be. Good owlde Frend lett me have your letter in the premisses, and, God willinge, it shall be recompensed or it be longe ; and I must forther desire you to have answer e by this bearer at this time. From Halifaxe, this first of May, By your lovinge Frende, Henry Savill. The following Letter, taken from the said manuscript. No. 530, folio 1, will shew, I think, in what year the above was written. "Mr. Stowe. '* After my hartie commendacions, your letter, dated the tenthe of May, I receaved at Halyfax with thanks, and synce I am come to Oxford, wheare I made enquirie to knowe weare the booke showlde bee that Master Hare showlde sende hyther, as your letter dyd ymporte, and as yet I can- not heere of the same, thearfore I desyer you to goo unto the good Gentleman, Master Hare, in my name, and re- qweste hym to let me understande by whome, and abowte what tyme, hee sente the booke, and to what place liee made his direction, and whoo showlde have the custodie thearof, for greate pitie yt weare that so worthie worke showlde be embeazeled ; and I pray you with speede to certefy me in writynge and delyver your letter at the signe of the Owle, that yt maye be delivered unto the Carryer, Richard Barker, who commethe homeward on VVensdaye nexte. " Further I praye you let me knowe whoo is the Prenter of Wygornensis, and wheare he dwellethe, and who is the Prenter of your booke. I have heere sente you a mild six- pence to dryncke a qwarte of wyne in your travell. Thus wisshinge you healthe, I byd you farewell. Oxon, this Sonedaye Trinite, 21 Mail, 1592, your lovinge Friend, Henry Savill. " Directe your letters, I praye, to Master Henrie Shir- bourne, over agaynste Merton Colledge, to be delyvered to me. 124 BIOGBAPHIA 4. Sir Henry next published a fine edition of St. Chrysos- tom's Works, with this title in the middle of a well- engraved copper-plate " S. Johannis Chrysostomi Opera, Greece, octo vohiminibus, Eton®, in Collegio Regali, 1G13." In the pre- face he tells the Reader, " that he had visited himself, about twelve years before, all the public and private libraries in Britain, and copied out from thence whatever he thought useful for his design ; and had then sent learned men into France, G-ermany, Italy, and the East, to transcribe such parts as he had not already, and to collate others with the best manuscripts, acknowledging that he had received con- siderable assistance from several learned foreigners there mentioned." In the 8th volume are inserted Sir Henry's own Notes, with those of the learned John Bois, Thomas Allen, Andrew Downes, &c. The whole charge of this impression cost Sir Henry eight thousand pounds. As soon as it was finished, the Bishops and Clergy of France employed Fronto Duceeus, a learned Jesuit, to reprint it at Paris, with a Latin translation, which lessened the price of Sir Henry's edition ; yet we are told, that the thousand copies which he printed were all sold. This work required such long and close application, that Sir Henry's Lady thought herself neglected, and coming to him one day into his study, she said " Sir Henry, I would I were a Book too, and then you would a little more respect me ! " To which one standing by, replied, " You must then be an Almanack, Madam, that he might change every year." Which answer displeased her. The same Lady, a little before Chrysostome was finished, when Sir Henry lay sick, said, " If Sir Harry died, she would burn Chrysostome for killing her husband." Which Mr. Bois hearing, told her, ** that would be a great pity, for he was one of the sweetest Preachers since the Apostles* times ; with which she was so well satisfied, that she said, ** She would not do it for all the world." 6. Thomas Bradwardini, Archiepiscopi olim Cantuariensis, de Causa Dei contra Pelagium. Londini, 1G18, fol. This book was printed from six MS. copies, carefully collated with each other. He has prefixed thereto Bradwardine's Life, compiled by himself. It is dedicated to K. James, and con- chides with what Sir Henry calls, " Ad suos Mertonenses Epistola posterior." HALIFAXIENSIS. 125 6. Nazianzen's Steliteutics, 1610. Towards this, he was favoured with the MS. Epistles of Nazianzen out of the Bodleian Library, which was a singular courtesy, and done because of his affection to the storing, and preserving of the Library. Oldys' Brit. Libr. 247. 7. Xenophon's Listitution of Cyrus, Gr. 1613, 4to. 8. Pr^lectiones tresdecim in principium Elementorum Euclidis, Oxonias habitae. Oxon, 1621, 4to. These were his own Lectures ; some of them when he was Junior Master. 9. Oratio coram Eegina Elizabetha, Oxonife habita An. 1592, published by Mr. (afterwards Bishop) Barlow, in 1658, from the original in the Bodleian Library, and also by Dr. John Lamphire, in the second edition of Monarchia Britan- nica, Oxford, 1681, 8vo. 10. Latin Translations of K. James the First's Apology for the Oath of Allegiance. 11. Six Letters of his, -wTote to Hugo Blotius, and Sebastian Tengnagelius. Lambecius, vol. 3. 12. Four Letters of his to Mr. Camden. Camdeni Epistolas, &c. 13. One Letter of his, 4th vol. of Strype's Annals. Be- sides these, it should be remembered, that he was concerned iji the new Translation of the Bible, now in use, done by the command of King James I. being one of the eight persons at Oxford who undertook to translate the four Gospels, Acts, and Eevelations. He also left behind him several manuscripts, some of which are now in the Bodleian Library, such as, 1. Orations, 2. Tract of the Original of Monasteries. 3. Tract concerning the Union of England and Scotland, written at the command of King James I. He also made several notes with his pen in many of his books, particularly in Eusebius's Ecclesias- tical History, made use of by Henry Valesius in his edition of that History, in 1659. Likewise in those books which he gave to the Mathematical Library in the School Tower, in Oxford, and in many others. Sir Henry is mentioned as a Member of the Society of Antiquaries, in the Introduction to the Miscellaneous Tracts, relating to Antiquity, published by the Society of Antiquaries of London, in 1770, page 21. So well did he deserve the character given of him, that he was Musarum Patronus et Literarum Maecenas, being an encourager of all sorts of 126 BIOGRAPHIA useful learning, and universally well spoken of by all disin- terested Scholars. There is a painting of him in the Picture Gallery at Oxford. SAVILE, THOMAS, Younger brother to Sir John and Sir Henry just mentioned, born likewise at Over Bradley, in Stainland, was admitted Probationer Fellow of Merton College, in 1580, and after- wards proceeding in Arts, he went abroad, and travelling through various countries, improved himself in several parts of learning. After his return, he became, through the in- terest of his brother, one of the Fellows of Eaton College, where he did credit to his brother's choice, being reckoned amongst the first rate Scholars. He was made Proctor of Oxford, April 5, 1592, and died the 12tli of January follow- ing, at London ; from whence his body was removed to Oxford, and interred with great solemnity in the choir of Merton College Church, the following eulogium to his mem- ory, being entered in the Kegister of that House: " Fuit Sidus lucidissimum, qui apud suos, et exteros, literarum et virtutis fama ac morum urbanitate percelebris, &c." He wrote, " Epistola3 variie ad illustres viros." Fifteen of these were wrote to Camden, and are published by Dr. Thomas Smith, of Magdalen College, Oxford, in a book in titled, '*V. CI. Gulielmi Cambdeni, et illustrium Virorum ad G. Cambdenum Epistola?, etc." London, 1691, 4to. This was the reason why Camden, in his Preliminary Dis- course to the Brigantes, calls this Thomas his learned friend in 1582 ; and it is something strange that Wood, in his Fasti, page 127, should have any doubt of this being the same person, when, in his A thenar, he had mentioned the above fifteen Letters. SAVILE, HENEY, Of Shaw-hill, in Skircoat, in this parish, commonly called Long Harry Savile, was of the Saviles of Bank, near Halifax, entered a student of Merton College in 1587, (his kinsman, Mr. Henry Savile, being then Warden,) and was soon after made one of the Portionists, commonly called Postmasters. After he had taken the Degree of B.A. he left Merton College, and retired to St. Alban-hall, where, in 1595, he HALIFAXIENSIS. 127 took the Degree of M.A. Being all this time under the inspection of his kinsman, he became an eminent Scholar, especially in the Mathematics, Physic, (in which faculty he was admitted by the University to practise, ) Chemistry, Painting, Heraldry, and Antiquities. Afterwards for the completing of his knowledge, he travelled into Italy, France, and Germany, where he greatly improved himself. He wrote several things, but, I think, committed nothing to the press. He gave Camden the "Antient exemplar of Asser Meneven- sis," which he published in 1602, and which contains the story of the discord between the new Scholars which Grim- bald brought with him to Oxford, at the restoration of the University by King Alfred with the old Clerks which Grim- bald found there. This Henry Savile lived for some years after his return from foreign countries, in the j)arish of St. Martin in the Fields, near London, and died there April 29th, 1617, aged forty -nine years, and was buried in the Chancel belonging to the parish Church there, a monument being set over his grave on the north wall, with his bust to the middle, carved in stone, and painted, the right hand resting on a book, and the left on a death's head. The in- scription worn out. One Henry Savile, Esq ; was Captain of the Adventure under Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins, against the Spaniards in the West Indies, and wrote a book called, " A Libel of Spanish Lies found at the Sack of Cales, discoursing the Fight in the West Indies between the English and the Spaniards, and of the death of Sir Francis Drake ; with an Answer, confuting the said Spanish Lies, &c." London, 1596. This was an answer to a letter wrote by the Spanish General, asserting that Sir Francis Drake died of Grief, because he had lost so many barks and men, and that the English Fleet fled from the Spaniards in 1695. This Captain Savile is supposed to have been a relation of the above. In Queen Elizabeth's time, three Henry Saviles of York- shire, were matriculated as Members of Merton College, Oxford, viz. one, son of Plebeian, in 1588, another, son of an Esquire, in 1593, and a third, son of an Esquire, in 1595. 128 BIOGRAPHIA STANSFIELD, ELY, Of Sowerby, published a book called " Psalmody eiDitomised ; being a brief collection of plain and useful Psalm tunes, both ■old and new, in four parts, with a plain and familiar intro- duction, by way of question and answer." A second edition of this was printed in London in 1731. These tunes are most of them the old Church tenors, in use above an liundred years ago. The contra, medius, and bassus, the Author has added. He has likewise intermixed several tunes wholly of his own composition. The introduction seems to be a good one. Amongst several local tunes, he has given us '^Warley " new tune to Psalm c ; and " Sowerby" tune to Psalm xcviii. SLADDIN, JOHN, Of Ovenden, in this parish, i^rinted a pamphlet intitled, ** A brief Description of the Methodists, and a Confutation of their dangerous Principles." York, 1749. 8vo. It has a short Address to the Archbishop of York, and a Preface to the Eeader. SMITH, MATTHEW, Was born in the city of York, in 1650, and was sent, after he had made a sufficient progress in classical learning, to the University of Edinburgh, where he took the degree of M.A. Soon after his return from thence he began his Min- istry amongst the Dissenters, preaching alternately at Warley and Mixenden, in this parish. At the last of these places, he had only, at the beginning, one person (whose name was John Hanson) to encourage his preaching, the Dissenters from the establishment in that neighbourhood being then chiefly Antimonians. The Civil Magistrates being at that time severe with such Nonconformists as held any public assemblies, he was obliged to preach privately, often in the night, and to hide himself from their resentment; and though parties of soldiers were frequently detached to secure him, he was always fortunate enough to elude their vigilance, and at last when times were more settled, he had a flourishing congregation. One part of his life he was settled at York, but was forced to fly from thence into the parish of Halifax, to avoid the opposition which he met with. He was offered a living in HALIFAXIENSIS. 12^ the Church of £200 per annum, but having some scruples about conformity, he decHned it. Towards the latter part of his life he was afflicted with the palsy, and died April 29, 1736, aged 85, and was buried at Mixenden. He wrote a book with this title, " The true notion of imputed Kighteousness, and our Justification there- by, &c., by the Rev. M. S., a Country Minister, London, 1700, 8vo., to which is added, "A Defence of the foregoing Doctrine, against some glowing Opposition among Neighbors, Ministers, and others." Printed in the same year. He also wrote a Treatise concerning the Decrees of God, the manu- script of which was in the late Mr. Thoresby's Museum. See Topog. p. 543. There are likewise printed of his, five Sermons : to which the Editor, the Rev. Mr. John Smith, first a Dissenting Minister at Mixenden, afterwards at Bradford, in Yorkshire, and son of the above Matthew, has prefixed his father's life, and added three discourses of his own. London, 1737. The above John Smith died at Bradford, April 7, 1768, after a severe stroke of the palsy, or, as some thought, a disorder of the convulsive kind, which carried him off in about four days. TAYLOR, JOHN, Concerning whose birth Dr. Plot, in his History of Stafford- shire, page 277, says, "that it seldom falls out that three children are born together, either perfect or living, and yet this happened at Barton, in Staffordshire ; one Taylor, who lived in a little cottage there, having three sons at a birth, which being presented as a rarity to King Henry VII. as he came that way (perhaps to hunt in Needwood), he ordered them to be put to school ; and they all lived to be men, and to be Doctors, coming to good preferment." At page 296, the same Author tells us, "that this John Taylor, who was then Dr. of Laws, Archdeacon of Derby and Buckingham, and was Master of the Rolls in the time of King Hen. VIII. and the oldest of the three above- mentioned, built, in 1517, the Chapel of Barton, on or near the place where the cottage stood wherein he was born, as appeared from the inscriptions in Saxon characters, in re- lieve work, over every other pillar of the north and south sides of the Nave of the said Chapel : 130 BIOGRAPHIA Over the first pillar, "J. T. liorum trium^!^ Gemellorum natu maximus," Over the third, " Decretorum Doctor, et Sacrorum Can- onnm Professor ; " Over the fifth, " Archidiaconus Derbias et Bukkynham, nee non et " Over the seventh, '* Magister Rotulorum, illustrissimi Regis H.YIII. An. Reg. sui 20." On the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth pillars were I)laced interchangeably his coat of arms. Wood, in his Fasti, vol. i. page 34, informs us, that this John Taylor, Dr. of Decrees, and of the Sacred Canons beyond the Seas, having been lately incorporated at Cam- bridge, desired the same favour at Oxford, which was granted ; adding, that he had been Rector of Sutton Cole- field, in Warwickshire, Clerk of the Parliaments which sat in 1515, (in the seventh year of the reign of Henry VIII.) and Prolocutor of the Convocation of the Clergy, which was dissolved December 21, the same year; that he was made Master of the Rolls in 1528, having before been employed in several embassies beyond the seas, and discharged in 1534 ; that he succeeded Rokesby, Archbishop of Dublin, in the Vicarage of Halifax, and died in 1534. Willis, in his Survey of Cathedrals, vol. i , p. 440, sais, that this Dr. Taylor was made Prebendary of Litchfield, being admitted to the Prebend of Eccleshall there, Jan. 3, 1508, which he quitted in 1532. His Archdeaconry of Derby he resigned in 1528, but his other Archdeaconry he seems to have held till his death. TILLOTSON, JOHN, Born at Haugh-end, in the township of Sowerby, in this parish. There is the less reason to be particular about the actions of his life, on account of the following publications, viz. "1. The Life of the most revd. Father in God John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury, compiled from the minutes of the revd. Mr. Young, late Dean of Salisbury. By F. H. M. A. with many curious memoirs, communicated by the late right revd. Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum." London, 1717, Bvo. '* This should have been Trimelloram. HALIFAXIENSIS . 181 " 2 The Life of the most revd. Dr. John Tillotson, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, compiled chiefly from his original Papers, and Letters. — By Thomas Birch, D.D." London, 8vo. 1753, second edition. 3. His Life inserted in the Biographia Britannica, page 3944. "We shall, therefore, only take notice of what these, and others have omitted. It is very remarkable, that Wright, in his Hist' of Halifax, page 154, speaking of the dispute relating to the Archbishop's being baptized in the Church, says, " I myself have twenty times looked at his name in the register, and to the best of my remembrance, there were four others christened the same •day with him, whose names were all wrote down in the same hand, and same ink, without the least interlineation." Such an information as this, one would think, might be de]3ended upon as exact ; and yet when we searched the same Register, we found his name to be the last of seven, who were baptised together, and entered in these words, «'Bapt. Octr. 3, 1630, John Kobert Tilletson, Sourb." The following original Letter, which is in my possession, seems not to have been known to any of the Compilers of the Archbishop's Life. "For his much respecd. frend Mr. Roote, att Sorbey, are these. in Yorkeshire. " Sir, *' To excuse the slownes and infrequency of writeing, is growne a tl;iing soe complementall and common in the front- ispeece of every letter, that I have made choice rather to put myselfe upon your candor to frame an excuse for mee, then goe about my selfe to doe it. " I cannot but thankefully acknowledge my engagements to you for your kindnes showne to mee, both when I was in the country, and at other times ; I shall not here let my pen run out into complementall lines, gratitude (and that as much as may bee) being all that I desire to expresse. "As for our University affayres, things are as they was [so in original] before I came into the country, only wee have lesse hopes of procuring Mr. Thomas Goodwin for our Master then we then had. "Wee are in expectation of the 182 BIOGRAPHIA Visitors every day, but what will be done at their cotnming- wee cannot guesse. *' The Engagement is either comming downe hither, or (as I heare) already come, to which how soone wee shall bee called upon to subscribe, wee knowe not ; as for my selfe I do not (for .present) at all scruple the taking of it, yet be- cause I dare not confinde too much to my owne judgement, or apprehension of things, and because matters of such serious consequence require no little caution and consider- ation, therefore I shall desire you (as soone as with con- venience you can) to returne mee your opinion of it in too or three lines. " Mr. Eich. Holbrooke desired me to present his respects to you and your wife, to whome alsoe I desire you to present my best respects, as alsoe to your son, Joh. Hopkiuson, and his wife. Noe more, but your prayers for him who remains, Yours whilst JOH. TILLOTSON." Clare-Hall, Dec. 6, 1649. What sort of answer was given to the above, does not appear, but as Mr. Roote, who at that time was Preacher at Sowerby Chapel, was one of the Puritans, it is j)robable that he would not dissuade Mr. Tillotson from complying with that Engagement here mentioned, which was an Act sub- stituted in the room of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supre- macy, and was ordered to be taken by every one who held either Office, or Benefice, " that they would be true and faithful to the Government established, without King or House of Peers. Add to this, that Mr. Tillotson, who at that time was an Under-graduate of Clare-hall, and very young, was under the care of Mr. Clarkson, a Tutor there, who also was a Puritan, and attached to the Government then in being. It does not appear however, that Mr. Tillotson long adhered to the principles, especially the religious ones, which he may have been supposed to have received either from his Father, or College Tutor, for his writings breathe a quite different spirit from the stiff rigid sentiments of those times ; in particular, when Dean of Canterbury, he preached before his father at Sowerby Chapel, against the doctrine of Calvin, HALIFAXIENSIS. 133 j)robably with an intent to rectify his father's notions ; and one Dr. Maud, who had frequent disputes with the Arch- bishop's father about predestination, asking him, how he Hked his son's discourse ? the old man repHed, in his usual way when he asserted any thing with earnestness, *'I pro- fess he has done more harm than good." The following anecdote was told by the late Kev'd. Mr. Tillotson, Sur-master of St. Paul's School, who had it from Dr. Seeker, when Bishop of Oxford. — When the famous Duke of Buckingham j^resented Dr. Tillotson to King Charles II. after saying that he introduced to his Majesty the gravest Divine of the Church of England, he stepped forward, and in a lower tone said to the King, "And ol so much wit, that if he chose it, he could make a better comedy than ever your Majesty laughed at." But on what grounds the Duke said this we cannot con- ceive, for the Doctor has left no specimen of this kind of wit behind him. Perhaps he had an inclination to serve the Doctor, and knew that this was one effectual way to recom- mend him to the King. It is commonly said about Sowerby, that Robert Tillotson went to London to see his son, then Dean of Canterbury, and being in the dress of a plain countryman, was insulted by one of the Dean's servants, for enquiring if John Tillotson was at home ; his person, however, being described to the Dean, he immediately went to the door, and in the sight of his servants fell down upon his knees to ask a blessing of the stranger. TILSON, HENRY, Born, as it is said, in the parish of Halifax, but in what particular part is uncertain. The name has been common in several townships there, especially in Sowerby and Oven- den. He was entered a Student at Baliol College, Oxford, in 1593, was made B.A. in 1596, soon after which he got a Fellowship in University College, and there took his degree ofM.A. In October 1615, he succeeded R. Kenion in the Vicarage of Rochdale, in Lancashire, where, after he had resided some years, he went Cha^^lain to Thomas Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who made him Dean of Christ 184 BIOGRAPHIA Church, in Dublin, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dublin, and Bishop of Eljohin, to which he was consecrated September 23, 1639 ; but this he did not long enjoy, on account of the rebellion which soon after broke out. Sir James Ware, in his History of the Irish Bishops, page 635, says, that on the 16th of August, 1645, he delivered the castle of Elphin into the hands of the Lord President of Connaught ; his son. Captain Henry Tilson, who was Gov- ernor of Elphin, having just before joined with Sir Charles Coot in opposition to the King's interest. And about the same time, his library and goods were pillaged by Boetius Egan, the titular Bishop of Elphin, his damages amounting to the sum of four hundred pounds. He himself fled for safety into England, and settled at Soot- hill-hall, in the parish of Dewsbury, where some of his relations lived, and where he resided three years, intending to have returned, but never did. Having thirteen persons, however, in his family, and being stript of his income, he was obliged to have recourse to such means for subsistence as his station in the Church put in his power ; for this purpose he consecrated a room in the said Hall, called to this day the Bishop's Parlour, where he privately ordained, and did weekly the offices of a Clergy- man, some of his neighbours being both hearers and bene- factors to him ; till Sir William Went worth, of Breton, out of compassion to his distressed circumstances, employed him to preach at Comberworth, allowing him a salary to support him. Thus was this Prelate obliged to stoop to become a country Curate ! The following extract from the Register belonging to Dewsbury Church, shews when and where he was interred. *' Henry Lord Bishop of Elphin, buried the 2d day of April, 1655." In the south-east corner of the said Church, in a Chapel which belonged to the Soothills, of Soothill, is a monument on the wall, with this inscription : ''P.M. Beverendi in Christo Patris HENRICI TILSON, Hen. F. Episcopi Elphinensis In Hibernia, HALIFAXIENSIS. 185 Nati Ao 1576, juxta Halifax, In Agro Eboracenci, Denati 31 Die Martii, A^ 1655, in eodem Agro. Viri ob Eruditionem et Pietatem Insignis. Parentis charissimi P. Nathan Tilson. , Hen. F. Hen. N." The Arms on this monument are, Or, a bend cotised be- tween two garbs azure, charged with a mitre of the field, which are so like the Arms of Tillotson, that one would almost imagine that their names, if not their families, were originally the same. I have credibly been informed, that the late James Tilson, Esq., who died at Cadiz, said this Bishop's family came originally from Tilston, in Cheshire ; if so, they were absolutely the same. For a nephew of the Bishop's, see Walpole's Anecdotes of Paintings, vol. iii., p. 103, edit. 1763. The Tilsons long farmed Soothill-hall ; they were there in 1748. TOPHAM, EDWARD, "Was Schoolmaster at the Free Grammar-school, near Hali- fax, and published a Sermon, preached at Selby, in Yorkshire. Wright, page 25, calls him Matthew. WATKINSON, EDWARD, Was M.D. Rector of Little Chart, in Kent, and some time Curate of Luddenden Chapel, in this parish. Having had his house at Little Chart broke open and plundered, he was so terrified with what was done, that he durst not live any longer in that neighbourhood, but removed to Ackworth, near Pontefract, in Yorkshire, where he died, Oct. 19, 1767. He published, "An Essay on (Economy," (of which he printed four editions, chiefly to give away.) "An Essay upon Gratitude." "An Admonition to the younger Clergy;" a recommendation of which may be seen in the Christian's Magazine for January, 1765, page 29. 186 BIOGRAPHIA WATSON, JOHN, The Author of this- book, was the eldest son of Legh "Watson, by Hesther, daughter, and at last heiress, of Mr. John Yates, of Swinton, in Lancashire. He was born in the township of Lyme-cum-Hanley, in the parish of Prestbury, in Cheshire, March 26, 1724, O.S. and having been brought up at the Grammar-schools of Eccles, Wigan, and Manchester, all in Lancashire, he was admitted a Commoner in Brazen-nose College, Oxford, April 7, 1742. Li Michaelmas Term, 1745, he took the Degree of B.A. June 27, 1746, he was elected a Fellow of Brazen-nose College, being chosen into a Cheshire Fellowship, as being a Prestbury parish man. On the title of his Fellowship, he was ordained a Deacon at Chester, by Dr. Samuel Peploe, Bishop of Chester, December 21, 1746. After his year of Probation, as Fellow, was ended and his residence at Oxford no longer required, he left the College ; and his first employment in the Church, was the Curacy of Runcorn, in Cheshire ; here he staid only three months, and removed from thence to Ardwick, near Manchester, where he was an Assistant Curate at the Chapel there, and private Tutor to the three sons of Samuel Bu-ch, of Ardwick, Esq. During his residence here, he was privately ordained a Priest at Chester, by the above Dr. Peploe, May 1, 1748, and took the Degree of M.A. at Oxford, in Act Term, the same year. From Ardwick he removed to Halifax, and was licensed to the Curacy there Oct. 17, 1750, by Dr. Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York. June 1, 1752, he married Susanna, daughter and heu-ess of the late Revd. Mr. Allon, Vicar of Sandbach, in Cheshire, vacating thereby his Fellowship at Oxford. September 8, 1754, he was licensed by the above Dr. Hutton, on the presentation of George Legh, LL.D. Vicar of Halifax, to the Perpetual Curacy of Ripponden, in the parish of Halifax. Here he rebuilt the Curate's house, at his o's\ti expence, laying out above four hundred pounds upon the same, which was more than a fourth part of the whole sum he there received, notwithstanding which, his worthy suc- cessor threatened him with a prosecution in the Spiritual Court, if he did not allow him ten pounds for dilapidations,^ which, for the sake of peace, he compHed with. « Watson's " Halifax," 4to., London, 1775. HALIFAXIENSIS. 187 February 17, 1759, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in London, being invited to accept of that lionour by the Eight Hon. the Lord Willoughby, of Parham, President of that Society. July 11, 1761, he was married at E aland, in Halifax parish, to Ann, daughter of Mr. James Jaques, of Leeds, Merchant. August 17, 1766, he was inducted to the Rectory of Men- ingsby, in Lincolnshire, being presented thereto by the Right Hon. Lord Strange, then Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster, which he resigned in the year 1769, on being promoted to the valuable Rectory of Stockport in Cheshire. His presentation to this, by Sir George Warren, bore date July 30, 1769, and he was inducted thereto August the 2d following. April 11, 1770, he was appointed one of the Domestic Chaplains to the Right Hon. the Earl of Dysart. April 24, 1770, having received his Dedimus for acting as a Justice of the Peace in the county of Chester, he was sworn into that office on that day. He has published, 1. a Discourse from Philipp. iv. 5. preached in Halifax Church, July 28, 1751, in titled. Moder- ation ; or, a candid Disposition towards those that differ from us, recommended and enforced : with a Preface, con- taining the reason of its publication. The first impression of this being quickly sold, it passed through a second edition. 2. An Apolygy for his Conduct yearly, on the 30th of January, printed at Manchester, in 8vo. and annexed to this, is a Sermon preached in Ripponden-chapel, on the 30th of January, 1755, from Romans xiii. 4. intitled, ** Kings should obey the Laws." 3. A Letter to the Clergy of the Church, known by the name of Unitas Fratrum, or Moravians, concerning a re- markable Book of Hymns used in their Congregations, pointing out several Inconsistencies and Absurdities in the said Book. — This also was printed at Manchester, in 1756, 8vo. 4. Some account of a Roman Station lately discovered on the borders of Yorkshire, read before the Society of Anti- quaries, Feb. 20, 1786, and printed in the Archteologia, vol. •i., p. 215. 188 BIOGRAPHIA 5. A mistaken passage in Bede's Eccles. Hist, explained ; read Feb. 27, 1766, Arch, i., p. 221. 6. Druidical Remains in or near the parish of Hahfax, discovered and explained; read Nov. 21, 1771. Arch, ii., p. 853. This last is reprinted in the History of Hahfax, with alterations. Also several other fugitive pieces of his have been pub- lished in different j)eriodical Papers without his name ; and he has in manuscript, ready for the press,-- An History of the Antient Earls of Warren and Surry, proving the Warrens of Poynton, in Cheshire, to be lineally and legally descended from them. He is also preparing to publish the Antiquities of a part of the County of Chester ; likewise those of a part of the County of Lancaster. WILKINSON, HENRY, Born (sais Wood, Athena^, ii., p. 112,) in the Vicarage of Halifax, October 9, 1566 ; entered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1681 ; elected Probationer Fellow of Merton College, by favour of his kinsman, Mr. Henry S a vile, the Warden, in 1586; i)roceeded in Arts; took the Degree of B.D. and in 1601 had the Living of Waddesdon, in Bucks. In 1643 he was elected one of the Assembly of Divines ; and dying March 19, 1647, was buried at Waddesdon. He wrote, 1. A Catechism for the Use of the Congi-egation of Waddesdon, which has been several times printed in octavo; and the fourth impression came out at London in 1637. 2. The Debt Book, or a Treatise on Romans xiii. 8., wherein is handled the civil debt of money or goods. London, 1625. octavo ; and some other things. He had a son Henry, for whom see Wood's Athena; ii., p. 543. WILKINSON, JOHN. In Bentley's History of Halifax, page 81, it is said, that "Doctor Wilkinson was born in Halifax parish, and brought up in Oxford, where he attained to that eminency in learn- ing, as to become Divinity Professor in that University." This we take to have been the same who is said in Wood's Fasti, vol. i. page 173. to have had the honour, when he was B.D. and Fellow of Magdalen College, to be appointed * Afterwai'ds printed. HAIilFAXIENSIS. 139 Tutor to Henry Prince of Wales, eldest son of King James I. He was afterwards President of Magdalen Hap, and finally, President of Magdalen College. It seems that the Doctor fled from Oxford to the Parliament, and was deprived of his Presidentship. WRIGHT, THOMAS, Born at Blackburn, in Lancashire, August 12, 1707, was educated in the Grammar School there founded by Q. Eliz. about 1567 ; took the Degree of B.A. at St. John's College, Cambridge ; was several years Curate of Halifax, which he left in the year 1750, being then presented to the Curacy of Eipponden. He died in June 1754, having wrote " The Antiquities of the Town of Halifax, in Yorkshire ; wherein is given an account of the Town, Church, and twelve Chapels, the Free Grammar School, a List of the Vicars and School-masters ; the ancient and customary Law, called 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 Natives or Inhabitants ; together with the most remarkable Epitaphs and Inscriptions in the Church and Church Yard. The whole faithfully collected from printed Authors, Rolls of Courts, Registers, Old Wills, and other authentic Writings." Leeds, 1738. With a Pre- face. It is remarkable that Mr. Wright was my immediate pre- decessor in both the Curacies of Halifax and Eipponden, and that we have both wrote the Antiquites of Halifax. COATS OF ARMS. There is in this [Halifax] church an antient and very curious wooden cover to the font, which font the register tells us was re-erected in 1660. Also the royal arms, placed between the body of the church and the chancel, and facing both. On account of these, there is the following entry in an old church book : " 1704, paid to John Aked, for Queen's arms, in part, ten pounds fifteen shillings." iid BIOGRAPHIA . This John Aked was an inhabitant of Halifax, and has put his name thereon ; it is said, however, that they were finished in London ; be this as it will, both the arms and supporters are done in a very masterly manner. On the roof of this church are painted, in different compart- ments, the following arms, (1.) Wilkinson ; ( 2.) Archbishop Tillotson ; (3.) Savile, impaled with four others, viz. 1st, Gules, three lions passant guardant ; 2dly, Howard ; 3dly, Warren ; 4thly, Gules, a lion rampant argent. (4.) Arch- bishop Sharp ; ( 5.) Lister ; ( 6.) Farrer, a martlet for differ- ence ; (7.) Farrer, no distinction. (8.) Sable, a chevron between three escallops argent. — ( 9.) Cockcroft, of Mayroid, but the colours, as I apprehend, mistaken ; a martlet for difference; (10.) Same arms, crescent for difference; (11.) Greenwood, impaled with another coat, forgot. — ( 12.) Pres- cot; (13.) Argent, a chevron gules between three elephants passant sable. (14.) Argent, a fess between three crescents gules. (15.) Savile. (16.) Argent, a lion rampant gules. (17.) Argent, on a pale gules between two three towers of the first, and in chief, gules, a crescent bet wen two escallops (18-) Naylor ; (19.) Argent, on a fess sable, between three crescents, as many mullets, gules, or some- thing like it ; for this, and two others quartered with it, I could not distinctly make out, owing to their great distance from the eye, (20.) Midgley, of Midgley. (21.) Argent, a plain cross azure. (22.) Argent, two bars gemells gules, and in chief three torteauxes. (23.) Argent, three pales sable. (24.) Same as the last. (25.) Lister, but wants the canton. (26.) Waterhouse. (27 and 28.) The Cloth- workers' arms. (29.) Lindley. (30.) Drake, impaled with (31.) Or, a chevron gules between three towers argent. (32.) Argent, in chief gules, three escallops (33.) Azure, on a chevron argent, between three grifiins passant or, three escallops gules. (34.) Naylor. (35.) Murgatroyd, as I take it. ( 36.) Sable, a fess lozengy, and in base an escallop argent, on a chief indented of the second, three escallops of the first. (37.) Same as No. 35. (38.) Sable, a chevron between three roses argent. ^39.) Midgley of Midgley. (40.) Livesey. (41.) Argent, two bars nebule, over all a bend gules, quartered with, Argent, a chief indented sable. — (42.) Ramsden, of Crawstone. (43.) Argent, three crosses forme, five times pierced of the field. (44.) Gules, a griffin HALIFAXIENSIS. 141 passant or. [ Some of these are now left out, and the arrangement is totally different. — J.H.T.] After these follow the arms of the Yicars, which I shall insert in the list of the Vicars, each under his respective name. LIST OF THE VICARS OF HALIFAX CHURCH. l.nrNGOLARD TURBARD, or TURBERD, or, as I have I seen it wrote, TURBAT, was probahly one of the Monks of St. Pancrace, at Lewis. He was the first Vicar of this church, being presented thereto by the Prior and Con- vent of Lewis, who, by themselves, or assigns, i)resented every Vicar to this Church till the time of Dr. William Rokeby, inclusive. This Vicar's presentation bears date January 25, 1273, and he was inducted into the living May 3, 1274, and died May 28, 1315. — Arms, Azure, a fess ermine between three turbats naiant, proper. 2. John, called Aaron de Grydinton, instituted 11 calend. July (June 21,) 1315. His institution dated at Burton, near Beverley, as by Will, de Greenhill's register at York, vol. II. folio. 87. — Arms, Gules, a fess or between two frets, argent. 3. Thomas de Gaytington, or Getingdon, instituted on the nones (or 5th) of June, 1321, who died September 10, 1349. — Arms, Argent, on a bend sable three goats passant of the first. 4. John de Standford, or Stamford, wrote also Stainforth, and Stamforth, was instituted, according to Mr. Wright, February 7, but as by other authorities, February 4, 1349, and died either on the 20th or 29th of October, 13G2. Arms, Barry of six argent and azure, a canton, or. It must here be observed, that a Richard de Ovenden is put down in one of the manuscripts which I saw at York, marked Af 39, as Vicar of Halifax, and said to be instituted October 8, 1349, but no notice is taken of him either by Mr. Wright, or on the roof of Halifax church, which might be owing to his having enjoyed this benefice so very short a 142 BIOGRAPHIA time. If he was Vicar, I take him to have been the first parish man who was presented thereto. 5. EicHARD (son of Henry) de Heton, instituted, according to Mr. Wright, November 3, but by a manuscript at York, November 10, 1362.— Died March 9, 1389. He was of the Hetons of Over Shibden, in Northouram, as is evident from the copy of a deed in my possession ; whereby he, by the express name of Kic. de Heton, Vicar of the church of Hahfax, conveys in trust all his lands, tene- ments, &c., in Northouram, in a certain hamlet in the said vill, called Overshypden, in the 4th year of the reign of Eichard II. 1380. And in 1389, a grant was made, by con- sent of sir Ric. de Heton, Vicar of Halifax, to Will. Heton, Esq., of Schipden, son of said Richard, by certain trustees, of all the lands, tenements, &c., in Over Schipden, in the vill of Northouram, called Schipden-hall, and Hyngandrode, which they had of the feoffment of the said Richard. Arms of this Vicar, Argent, on a bend sable, three bulls heads cabossed of the first, half faced looking to the left. — This coat is borne by a family in Devonshire, of this name. 6. John Kynge, inducted March 13, 1389, who died March 13th, or 14th, 1437. — Arms, sable, three escallops on a chevron argent. N. B. Here in my manuscript list, occurs Dominus Thomas Eland, as Vicar of Halifax, said to be instituted May 20, 1438, but he is not noticed either in Wright, or on the roof of the church. If he really was Vicar, it is probable that he was of the Eland family in this parish, as I take his iDredecessor John Kynge to have been of the family of that name in Skircoat, for he gave lands, &c., in Skircoat, to Henry Savile, and Elen his wife, in the 4tli year of the reign of Henry IVth or Vth. 7. Thomas Wilkynson, born, as tradition informs us, at Brackenbed, in Ovenden, within this parish, and instituted, says Mr. Wright, page 40, May 16, 1439. His will bore date in 1477, as we are told by Dr. Favour, in his book intitled " Antiquity triumphing over Novelty," page 330 ; and he died, says Mr. W^right, January 25, 1480. I cannot but take notice here that I have the copy of a deed dated August 5, in the 16th year of the reign of Henry VI. which was in the year 1437, wherein express mention is made of Thomas Wilkinson, Vicar of the church HALIFAXIENSIS. 14B of Halifax ; what Mr. Wright says therefore of the time of his institution must be false, as must also the account of the time of the institution of Thomas Eland. It is also remarkable, that amongst the testamentary burials at Halifax, inserted in Torr's manuscrix3t, at York, it is said that Thomas Wilkinson, Vicar of Halifax, made his will June 1, 1481, and left his soul to God Almighty, Samt Mary, and all Saints, and ordered his body to be buried in the parish church of St. John Baptist, Halifax. Arms of this Vicar, Gules, a fess varie, in chief an unicorn currant, argent, armed . . . between two roses or, in a bordure He made, at his own expence, the great ™idow in the chancel. 8. EicHARD SiMMYS, or SiMMs, distinguished in my manuscript list, by the title of Magister, as all the Vicars before him had been by that of Dominus. He was instituted, says Wright, February 11, 1480, (i. e. 1480-1,) and died November 10, 1496. He seems to have been an Halifax parish man, from the institution deed of Willeby's Chauntry. Arms, Ermine, three increscents gules, wliich coat was also granted (as we are told by Guillim, p. 91,) to Edward Syms, (or Symmes,) of Daventry, in Northampton shu-e, in 1592, by Kobert Cook. 9. Magister Thomas Brent, L.D. instituted November 27, 1496. He resigned this Vicarage, and it was the first instance of its having become vacant any other way than by death. Arms, Azure, a Fer de Moline argent, pierced of the field. 10. Magister William Rokeby, instituted 14th of June, 1502. — Died November 29, 1521. Arms, impaled with the Archiepiscopal arms of Dublin, argent, on a chevi'on sable, between three rooks closed proper, three mullets of the field. An account of him was given in the list of the Halifax parish Worthies, as also of Dr. Taylor. 11. John Taylor, LL.D., instituted some time in the year 1521. — Mr. Wright thinks he resigned the vicarage before his death, which happened in 1534, but of this there is no proof. — Arms, Gules, on a chevron between three dolphins naiant argent, a fleur de lis, and on each side of it, a grey- hound counter current, sable. 144 BIOGBAPHIA These arms do certainly belong to the name of Taylor ; but Plot, in his History of Staffordshire, page 296, has given ifS the following, from the chapel of Barton, in the said county, built by the Doctor himself, viz. Sable, on a chevron argent, three violets slipt, the flowers of the second (Q.?) the stalks and leaves or, between three children's heads €ouped at the shoulders, also of the second haired, and vested of the third, in a chief of the same a ® azure, be- tween two roses gules, seeded of the chief. Now if these were really the Doctor's arms, by what authority are the others put up here ? This gives one a suspicion about some of the rest. The reader, however, has them as I found them. 12. Dominus Egbert Holdesworth, L.D., the time of whose institution is uncertain. He was of the family of the Holdsworths, of Astey, (or Ashdale) in Southouram, and was possessed of an estate in that township. He was murdered in the night time by thieves, in the Vicarage-house, which stood on different ground from the present one. — An old manuscript says, this event happened in the great chamber of the north, and the lower part of the house, in a part thereof turning towards the east. He was buried at Halifax, May 10, 155G, without any inscription, under the great tombstone in the south chapel, which he built in his life time at his own expence. — Arms, Argent, on the stump of a tree raguled in bend, a crow perched near the top, proper. It is to be noted, that the inscription relating to Dr. Holdesworth, already mentioned in the description of this south chapel, makes him to be the twelfth Vicar, thereby excluding from the list, both Eic. de Ovenden, and Tho. de Eland. 13. Dominus John Harrison, instituted July 13, 1556, Cnot May 3, as in Wright, for that was before the death of his predecessor,) being presented thereto by the Lady Ann Cleve, as my manuscript list informs me, but other accounts say that the benefice of Halifax was not granted to the Lady Ann when the manor there was settled upon her for life, but that the same was kept in the King's hands ; be- sides, we are told that the Lady Ann Cleve died in 1666, which was before the date of this presentation. HALIFAXIENSIS. 145 He was buried at Halifax, 17th February, 1558, as by the Eegister there; but Mr. Wright says, 15th February, 1559. Arms, Argent, three lions (or bears) paws erased and erected, gules. 14. — Christopher Ashburn, instituted in the beginning of Lent, 1559. — He was the first Protestant Yicar here. — In his time the Vicarage of Halifax is said to have offered to Queen Elizabeth by address, to raise three or four thousand men against the northern insurgents, but she found she had no need of them. This has been quoted as evidence of the good effects of the diligent preaching of the Gospel ; particularly by Arch- bishop Gryndall, in his letter to the Queen, to dissuade her from abridging the number of Preachers ; the words are these : *' "What bred the rebellion in the North ? W^as it not "Papistry, and the ignorance of God's holy-word, through ''want of preaching? — And in the time of that rebellion, " were not all men of all estates that made profession of the '* Gospel, most ready to offer their lives for your defence ? — *' Insomuch that one poor parish in Yorkshire, which, by ** continual XDreaching, had been better instructed than the "rest, Halifax I mean, was ready to bring three or four "thousand able men into the field, to serve you against the " said rebels." As this Gentleman was so remarkable for doing good by his preaching, it is a pity that he should have been guilty of letting the Vicarage-house run strangely out of repair, as Mr. Wright has expressed it, page 49, or, as I have seen it in a manuscript " of defacing and selling off much of the " housing of the Vicarage." In Halifax Eegister is the following note. " Memorandum, That the yere of our Lorde, 1565, John " Eamsden, of Langley, Gentleman, dyd recover of Xpofer "Ashburn, Clerk, Vicar of Halyfax, by the lawe, certayn " sumes of money for the dett of Sir John Herrison, prede- " cessor to the sayd Xpofer, by means of certayn offring days, " spent and endyd befor the death of the sayd Herrison, " which the sayd Xpofer, at his entrye, recevyd for them for "longe tyme after; the four offring dales were only at " Ester payable, and neverthelesse provyd by the lawe to be 146 BIOGRAPHIA ■*' dewe every several day, and therfore so many of tlie offryng ** days as were expyrd before the deatlie of the sayd Herrison, " were provyd to be hys goods." " Wytnes herof, the whole multitude of people then ^' lyvynge within the sayd vicarage of Halifax, per me, XPo* *' Ashburn, tunc ibm Vicar." Mr. Wright, page 49, says, he takes this to be the same person mentioned in Willis's Survey of Cathedrals, page 170, as Eector of one of the medieties of Bishop's-hill, York, and admitted Prebendary of Tockerington, in the Cathedral there, August 27, 1570, which prebend he resigned, as it seems he did also the Vicarage of Halifax, in 1573. Afterwards, as Willis again informs us, papfe 155, he was made Prebendary of North Newbald, in the said Cathedral, which place he held till his death. He was buried at Hali- fax, December 7, 1584, as by the register there. 15. — Franci^ Ashburn, son of the above Christoj)her, was M.A., and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; he was instituted June 3d. according to Mr. Wright, but my manu- script says the last day of June, 1573, having been presented by Queen Elizabeth, his father, no doubt, having resigned in his favour, whilst he had a friend at Court. But this resignation was not of so much benefit to the family as was hoped for, because he died soon after his father, July 18, 1585. Arms of Ashburne, Gules, a fess between six martlets argent, born by a family of the name in Worcestershire. These arms are repeated on Halifax church roof, on account of the father and son. 16. — Henry Ledsam, or Ledsham, D.D., Fellow of Merton College, in Oxford, presented by Queen Elizabeth, and in- stituted September 12, 1585. — He resigned the vicarage November 29, 1598, and was murdered in London, in 1598, by one who afterwards was hanged at Tyburn, and confessed the fact just before his execution. Arms, Quarterly, sable and argent, four leopards heads counter- changed. 17. — John Favour, L.D., who, according to my manu- script, was instituted December 8, 1693, having been pre- sented by Queen Elizabeth. Mr. Wright sais he was inducted January 4, 1598, which should be, as we reckon now, 1594. He died March 10, 1628. H ALIFAXIENSIS . 147 Arms, Parted per pale, argent, three eagles with two heads displayed sable and vert, three dolphins naiant proper, two and one, each coat dimidiated. — For an account of this Vicar, see my list of the most considerable persons belong- ing to this parish. 18. — Robert Clay, D.D. of the family of Clay, of Clay- house, in Greetland, in this parish, where he was born, was educated in Merton College, Oxford, where he took his Doctor's degree, July 19, 1609. He was instituted, according to my manuscript, to the vicarage of Halifax, March 18, but as Mr. Wright sais, March 20, 1623, having been presented thereto by Sir Henry Savile, Knight and Baronet. He died April 9, 1628, leaving by will to Merton College one hundred pounds, for two sermons yearly to be preached to the University, by a Yorkshireman, if any such was Fellow or Chaplain of that College ; who, in his prayer, was to mention Dr. Clay, sometime Vicar of Halifax, as the founder of those sermons. See Wood's Fasti, vol. i., p. 184. He was buried in the library (which he is said to have built) in Halifax church, April 14, 1628, with the following inscription on his grave-stone : "Robertus Clay, S.T.P. Vicarius de Halifax, obiit Aprilis nono die. Anno Domini 1628." The Register contains the following entry : " Robertus Clay, D.D. Oxoniensis Merton, post quadrinum apud Halifax multa cum diligentia et pastorali cura in zodiaco animarum cursum attigisset, dulciter et quiete placida [this should be placidam] vitam transmisit in €elestia. Obiit Aprilis nono, et sepultus decimo quarto ejusdem mensis, Anno Dom. 1628." This character agrees not with the articles exhibited against him by one Smith, and to be found in Godolphin's Repertorium Canonicum, page 189. " 1. — That he read the holy Bible in an irreverent and undecent manner, to the scandal of the whole congregation. 2. — That he did not do his duty in preaching; but, against his oath and the ecclesiastical canon, had neglected for sundry mornings to preach. 8. — That he took the cups, and sundry vessels of the church, consecrated to holy use, and employed them in his own house, and put barm in the cups', that they were so 148 BIOGRAPHIA polluted, that the communicants of the parish were loth to drink out of them. 4. — That he did not observe the last fast (proclaimed upon the Wednesday) but on the Thursday, because it was- an holiday. 6. — That he retained one Stepheson in one of the chapels of ease, who was a man of ill-life and conversation, viz. an adulterer and a drunkard. 6. — That he did not catechize according to the parish canon, but only bought many of Dr. Wilkinson's catechisms, for every of which he paid two-pence, and sold them to the parishioners for three-pence, without any examination or instruction for their benefit. And that he, when any commissions were directed to him to compel any person in his parish to do penance, exacted money of them, and so they were dismissed, without inflict- ing any penalty upon them, as their censure was. And that he and his servants used divers menaces to his- parishioners, and that he abused himself, and disgraced his function, by divers base labours, viz. "he made mortar, "having a leathern apron before him, and he himself took a "tythe pig out of the pigsty, and afterwards he himself gelded it." And when he had divers presents sent him, as by some flesh, by some fish, and by others ale, he did not spend it in the invitation of his friends and neighbours, or give it to the poor ; but sold the flesh to butchers, and the ale to ale-wives. And that he commanded his curate to marry a couple in a private house without any licence ; and that he suflered divers to preach, which peradventure had not any licence, and which were suspected persons and of evil life. But how far these charges were true does not appear, a prohibition having been granted in the case. Arms, Gules, on a chevron ingrailed between three trefoils slipt argent, a mullet sable. 19. — Hugh Ramsden, B.D. educated likewise at Mei-ton College, of which he was Fellow. He was baptized at Ealand, March 17, 1594; was inducted into the Vicarage of Halifax, Oct. 7, 1628, on the present- ation of King Charles I. having been before made Rector of Methley, in Yorkshire. He died of fever at York, July 16, and was buried in Halifax chancel, July 19, 1629. See the HALIFAXIENSIS. 149 inscription to his memory in the epitajjlis belonging to Halifax church. The Eegister there has this: "Hugo Kamsden, filius Galfridi Eamsden, de Greetland, infra Vicariam de Hallifax, B.D., inductus est Vicaiius de Halli- fax, 7° Oct., 1628, primoque anno Vicariatus nondnm expleto, febri perperacuta correptiis mortuus est 17° calend. Augnsti, 1629. tristi sui apud omnes bones, pacisq; Ecclesiae cultores, relicto desiderio." Arms, Argent, between three fleiirs de lis on a chevron .sable, as many rams' heads of the first. 20. — Ht:nry Kamsden, brother to Hugh, was instituted to this Vicarage at the presentation of King Charles I. accord- ing to my manuscript August 15, but after Mr. Wright, August 19, and inducted the 23d. He died March 23, and was buried March 28, 1638. Arms, same as last. 21. — Richard Marsh, D.D., instituted at the presentation of King Charles I. April 12, 1638, and inducted April 17, following. He was obliged to fly from his living in 1642, to which he did not return till after the King's restoration. — Arms, Gules, a nag's head erased, argent. After the Doctor's departure, I find that one Wayte was appointed Vicar by the Lord Fairfax, but how long he offici- ated there I cannot tell. Mr. Wright, page 61, sais, that Mr. Root was Minister here in 1643 and 1644; John Lake, in 1647 and 1649, (which is true, see a mem. of his at the end of vol. iii. of the Register.) Then Robert Booth, in 1650, who was buried at Halifax, July 28, 1657. Lastly, Eli Bentley, born in Sowerby, who was Assistant to Booth, and after his death continued in the place till he was turned out for refusing to comply with the Act of Uniformity, as we are told by Mr. Wright, who has taken his description from Calamy's Account of ejected Ministers, vol. ii., page 804, 2d. edit. • This writer says, that Bentley was bred at Cambridge, and was Fellow of Trinity College there ; that he became assistant to Booth in August, 1652— that he fled before the five-mile act, but in 1672 returned to Halifax, and preached in his own house : and that he died July 31, 1675, aged 49. K 150 BIOGRAPHIA The character he gives of him is, that he was a man of good j)arts, a solid serious Preacher, of a very humble be- haviour, and very useful in his place ; that he lived desired^ ^ and died lamented. I have somewhere seen that after the removal of Mr. Eoot, Halifax was served, till the return of Dr. Marsh, by stij)endiary Priests, which from several circumstances, I believe to be true. 22. — EicHA-RD HooKE, D.J)., instituted June 10, 1662, at the presentation of King Charles II. and inducted the 29th or 30th following. He died January 1, 1688-9. Being an Author, the farther account of him is inserted in the list of Authors. Arms> Gules, a fess between six fleurs de lis, argent. 23. — Edmund Hough, M.A., inducted June 26, 1689, on the presentation of King James II. From the first edition of Calamy's Account of ejected Ministers it appears, that this Mr. Hough was turned out of his Fellowship) in Jesus College, Cambridge, by the Act of Uniformity ; after this, however, he thought fit to conform, and was made Rector of Thornton, in Craven, and Vicar of Halifax. He died April 1, 1691, and was buried in the chancel at Hahfax, with an inscription over him, which see amongst the Epitaphs. Arms, Argent, a bend sable. Mr. Thoresby had some manuscript sermons of this Vicar in his museum. In Halifax register is this entry: " Edmundus Hough, A.M. inductus erat in Vicar, de Halifax per Jacobum Roberts, Vicar, de Bingley, 26° die Junii, 1689. Sepultus 3° Aprilis, 1691. — Vir de tota ecclesia tarn pietatis quam doctrinse ergo optime meritus, industrius Pastor, et efficax Evangelii Concionator quondam dignus. Coll. Jesu Cant. Socius, et. Ecclesise Thorntonensis doctus et diligens Rector, tandem hujus Ecclesiae sedulus per biennium Vicarius." 24. — Joseph Wilkinson, M.A. instituted Sept. 7th, or 17th and inducted October 26, 1691, having been i^resented by King William III. He was first Vicar of Chapel-izod, near Dublin, and Pre- bendary of Casterknock, in the Cathedral of St. Patrick's, Dublin, afterwards rector of Wigginton, in Yorkshire. HALIFAXIENSIS. 151 He died December 28, 1711, aud was buried in the chancel at HaUfax, the 31st following. For the inscription over him see the Epitaphs. — Arms, Gules, a fess vaire, in chief an unicorn passant or, in a bordure. . . . 25. — Thomas Burton, M.A., Rector of Lofthouse, and curate of Yarum, in Yorkshire, was instituted March 28, and inducted April 3d. or 4tli, 1712, on the presentation of Queen Anne. March 1, 1715, he was made Prebendary of the Prebend of Gevendale, in the Cathedral of York. He died July 22, 1731, and was buried in the Chancel at Halifax, without any memorial of him, July 25, 1731. Arms, Quarterly, first, a fess between three talbots' heads, couped or. — 2dly, Azure, a spread eagle and a chief or, first as fourth, second as third. 26. — George Legh, LL.D. inducted, as Mr. Wright sais, October 2, 1731, but another account sais, August 2. Pre- sented by King George II. He has since been made Prebendary of York, in the Bottevant-hall there. He was a Cheshire man, and the arms of his family are, argent, a lion rampant, gules, langued and armed azure, a crescent for difference. He died the 6th of December, 1775, in the 82d year of his age, and was buried in the Vestry at Halifax, where an elegant monument is erected, with the following inscription : "Near this place, in the same vault, are deposited the remains of the Rev. George Legh, LL.D. and his two beloved Wives, Frances and Elisabeth ; to whose joint memory this Monument is erected. He was Vicar of this Church and Vicarage of Halifax above forty four years ; during which time he interested himself, with laudable zeal, in the cause of religious liberty and sincerity ; being the last survivor of those worthy men, who distinguished themselves by their opposition to ecclesi- astical tyranny. He defended the rights of mankind in that memorable Hoadlian controversy. The Bible he considered as the only standard of faith and practice. — To the poor and distressed, and public charities, he was a generous benefactor. By his Will he ordered Bibles to be given for the benefit of the Poor. 102 BIOGRAPHIA He did honour to his profession as a Clergyman and Christian. — He was esteemed when hving, and in death lamented. — He died composed on the 6th of December, 1775, in the 82d. Year of his age. His Wife Frances died Dec. 9th, 1749.— Elisabeth, Feb. 8th, 1765. 27. — The Eevd. Henry Wood, D.D. the present Vicar of Halifax, was inducted February 14, 1776. LIST OF LECTUllERS AT HALIFAX CHUKCH. J. Booth. — Eli Bentley. — ... Mitchel. — ... Lambert, came in 1676. — ... Hanson. — Francis Parrot, above fifty years. — John Holdsworth, in 1740. — Samuel Sandford, made Vicar of Huddersfield, and afterwards Eector of Thornhill. — .... Charlesworth. — .... Meyrick. Mr. Wright, p. 165, sais, that John Lake, (afterwards Bishop of Chichester) was Lecturer in 1647; but at p. 61, he had told us, that he was at that time in possession of the living. It may not be amiss to insert here the form of a decla- ration enjoined in the Act of Uniformity of public prayer, 14 Cha. II. made by one of these Lecturers, and transcribed from the original. "I Thomas Hau son, Clerk, and M"* of Arts, now to be " admitted Lecturer of the Parish Church of Halifax, in the " county and diocese of York, do declare that it is not law- ** full, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take armes against *'the King: And that I do abhorr that trayterous position *' of taking arms, by his authority, against his person, or *< against those that are commissionated by him. And that ** I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England, " as it is now by law established. Tho. Hanson." Then *' follows the certificate. " This declaration and acknowledgement was subscribed *' by the above named Thomas Hanson, Lecturer of Halifax, *♦ in the diocese of York, before me. Witness my liand and << seal, this second day of October, in the year of our Lord, ** 1683." In the margin, the small Archiepiscopal seal, and «' under it, "Joh. Ebor." HALIFAXIENSIS . 153 A Mr. Mitchel was hired in 1669, by the consent of the town and i3arish, either as Lecturer, or Curate, but probably the former ; however the Vicar at present chuses both, by custom. EPITAPHS IN THE CHURCH AND CHURCH-YAKD AT HALIFAX. THE method I shall observe herein will be to give those belonging to each respective family apart, in an alpha- betical manner, that they may be sooner found by inspection. ALLENSON. On a stone of blue marble- in the South Chapel : " Under this marble is interred the body of the reverend and learned James Allenson, A.M. Rector of Thornton, in Craven, who died the 26th and was buried the 29th day of November, 1730. ALDERSON. On a tomb-stone over Ann Alderson, of Bull-close, in the Church-yard: "She was of an admirable, sweet, obliging temper, free from censure, passion, and pride, generous, charitable, and respectful, a person worthy of imitation.'" BROADLEY. In the wall of the south-side, over a door, on a brass plate : ** Mr. Jo. Broadley, late Minister at Sower by Chapp. died Feb. 14, 1625, and Mary, his wife, also died March the 2d, 1625, and here lie buried. Here lies interr'd a zealous grave Divine, Meek, loving, lov'd, only with sin at strife ; Who heard him, saw life in his doctrine shine, Who saw him, heard sound doctrine in his life ; And in the same cold bed here rests his Wife. Nor are they dead, but sleep ; for he ne'er dies That waits for his sweet Saviour's word, Arise." * I was more than displeased to find that during the 1880 renovations this blue stone was deliberately cut in two, and a stone covering Vicar Knight had part of the inscription cut off, when half-a-yard at the bottom might have been taken instead, without detriment. This was even worse than boiling the oak pews ! 164 BIOGRAPHIA BATLEY. Near the font, on a marble monument in the north wall : " Near this place is interred, the body of John Batley, late of this town, Salter. A man just in his dealings, exemplary in his life and conversation, a kind and affectionate husband, a tender and indulgent parent, a pious and sincere Christian ; he finished this life, hoping for a happy immortality. To his memory, Susannah, his widow, caused this monument to be erected. He departed the 28th day of July, 1717, aged 6Q years, and one day. — In the same place lieth the body of Thomas, eldest son of the said John Batley, who departed this life the 28tli day of March, 1702, aged 19 years, 7 w^eeks and 2 days." BKEAECLIFFE. On a pillar on the south side of the font : An epitaph on Ester, late wife of Edmond Beearcliffe, of Halifax, who died June 16th, 1629, and on Favour, their son, who died March 5th, 1628. " Here rest three Saints ; the one a little Brother, The Favour of his scarce surviving Mother : Then she expired, and bore unto her tomb, An unborn infant coffin'd in her w^omb." This Mr. Brearcliffe, as we are told by Mr. Wright, was, October 1, 1623, made Parish Clerk by Dr. Favour, then Vicar, and having a son christened the 14th of March follow- ing, out of gratitude, called him Favour. BENTLEY. On a gravestone in the South Chapel : " Eli Bentley, son of Richard Bentley, of Sowerby Dene, M.A. some time Fellow of Trinity College, iu Cambridge, and late Minister of the Gospel at Halifax, departed this life July SOtli 1675, in the 45th year of his age." On a stone in the Church-yard : " Here were buried three children of the Rev. Mr. Daniel Bentley, Curate of Tiling- worth, and of Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of John Wads- worth, late of Holds worth. Also the Rev. Mr. Daniel Bentley, who was Curate of lUingworth above 30 years, died the 15th of November, 1748." HALIFAXIENSIS. 155 OAYGILL. In the north-east corner of the Quire, is erected a neat monument, with the following inscription : Sacred to the Memory of John Caygill, Esq., Who departed this hfe the 22d of May, 1787, Aged 79 Years. CEOWTHER. On a tomb in the Church-yard : " Here lietli the body of Henry Crowther, who was born in Norland, died at Ball- Oresn, in Sowerby, December 21, Anno Dom. 1635." Round the border these lines : '* Eighty-four years I liv'd ; wouldst thou so do. Be thou, as I, quiet, chaste, and temp'rate too. Norland me gave, and Sowerby took my breath ; Man knows the place of birth, but not of death." DEAN. Round the border of a stone near the font : *' Here lieth the body of Robert Dean, eldest son of Robert Dean, of Exley, who died January 7, 1619." Within the border : " Here resteth the body of Ann, the wife of Mr. Robt. Dean of Exley, who departed this life the 19th day of September, 1661. There is a God with whom 1 trust My soul shall triumph, when my body is dust." DOLLIFE. On a brass plate behind the Governor's pew ; " Here resteth the body of Mary, the wife of Richard Dollife, of Halifax, who was buried the 12th of August, Anno Dom. 1659. Reader, here lies intomb'd a virtuous wife. Whose sweet deportment whilst she had a life Procur'd her husband's love, her friends' delight, But th' grief of both since she hath bid good night. Also Richard Dollife, her husband, who departed this life the 14th of September, 1681, in the 64th year of his age." 186 BIOGRAPHIA Tradition says, that the above four hues were composed by Archbishop Sharp, when a scholar at Bradford school, which is probable enough, as they seem to be the composition of a school-boy. DUN. On a marble monument upon the wall of the south side of the Chancel. M. S. Hie juxta conditur Quod reliquum est Joshua Dun, Filii Joshuie et Marine Dun, de Halifax, Collegii Christi dum apud Cantabrigienses floruit Alumni Quin et Collegii et Academise decoris et ornamenti. Nunc proh dolor ! tristis iisdem desiderii ; Juvenis erat, si setatem ; si spectas dotes, vir eximius ; Si quern eximium reddere valeant Probitas, summum ingenii acumen, acre judicium, Artium scientia, morum suavitas, urbanitas. Sese quantumvis ad omne literarum genus aptum natum^ In Medicina persertim excolenda, seu potius ornanda, Exercuit ; In qua tam mirificos fecit progressus, Ut brevi istius Facultatis peritus admodum prodierit : Summatim, Nisi quodtantum mortalibus fata invidissent virum. Ad morbos propulsandos, Et ad redintegrandas labefactatas hominum vires Plane natus videbatur : Ast heu ! buam aliis potuit sibi-metipsi non concessum est Opem afferre ; Variolis enim correptus, i3ost duodecem dies, Cum spes jam eum revaliturum effulserat. Inter seros nepotes vix ffiquiparandus, Haud certe unquam superandus, occubuit, Die 18 Sept. mdccix, annos natus xxv. Nee procul ab illo recumbit Pater ejus Joshua Dun, Qui obiit 7° Aug. A. D. 1715. ^Etatis sua) 80. Et mater ejus Maria Dun, Quae obiit Apr. 5o A. D. 1729. J^:tatis 87. HALIFAXIENSIS. 157 The above, Mr. Wright, page 180, says, he was told was drawn up by the ingenious Mr. Nicholas Sanderson, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge. In English.- Near this j)lace lie the remains of Joshua Dun, son of Joshua and Mary Dun, of Halifax, student of Christ College, shedding a lustre on it and the University while he lived at Cambridge, and at his death deservedly lamented : — In the flower of his age, he was endowed with those qualities which render a character truly respectable. Though born with a propensity for universal literature, he excelled chiefly in the healing art ; in which he made so amazing a progress as to become very skilful in that faculty. To sum up all, he seemed born to relieve the distresses of his fellow creatures, had not divine wisdom thought flt to release so great a man fi'om the ties of mortality at so early a period. Being taken with the small-pox, after an illness of 12 days, he finished life on the 13tli of September, 1709, aged 25, with a character hardly to be equalled by posterity. Near his grave rests his Father, Joshua Dun, who died August 17, 1715, aged 80 ; as also his Mother, Mary Dun, who died April 5, 1729, aged 87. FAVOUR. On a gravestone in the chancel: "Hie Dormit Johannes Favour, Doctor sanctissmus hujus Ecclesia^ Occubuit seris, heu ! quod non serius, annis ; Nee longaeva magis quam bona vita fuit. Quam sacre velavit speciosum pectore corpus, Dignum equidem tumulo nobiliore tegi. Qui quidem extremam fldus permansit ad horam, Non illi tumulus, sed diadema decus. Theologus, Medicusq ; obiit, Jurisq ; peritus : I, sequere in coelos, qui modo salvus eris." In English. - Here sleeps John Favour, a pious Doctor of this Church. Loaded with honours, as with years, He mounts above the starry spheres ; Releas'd from earth by pitying fate, Tho' worthy of a longer date : * These translations do not appear in Watson. They were probably supplied to Jacob by the Rev. E. Nelson. 158 BIOGEAPHIA How weak the monument we raise, To equal his deserved praise ! Whose soul was undismayed by death, And faithful to his latest breath. Reader, pursue him to the skies, Who shalt, like him, in glory rise. On a pillar on the south side of the quire is a monument, ■erected to the memory of the above Dr. Favour, who is placed as in a pulpit, drest in his robes, and in an attitude of preaching, with one hand on his breast, and the other on a skull, which rests on the cushion before him. Jo. Favour, LL. Doct. Medici peritiss. et hujus Ecclesise Pastoris vigilantissimi. ' ' Corpora et aegrotant animas ; fremit undiq ; rixa, Scilicet orba suo turba Favore jacet. En Pastor, Medicusq ; obiit, Jurisq ; peritus : I sequere in coelos, qui modo salvus eris." In English.- Jo. Favour, LL.D., practitioner in physic, and a most vigilant Pastor of this Church. '' With sick'ning heart and fainting breath. We hear the sound of Favour's death ; The pastor, friend, physician is no more. Pursue him. Reader, and with him adore." FAUCIT. On a brass plate near the font : " Here lieth the body of Hugh Faucit, of Halifax, buried the 8tli day of April, A.D. 1641 ; and also Hugh Faucit, his son, was buried the 19th day of August, 1G68. Ut enim per Adamum omnes mori- untur, sic per Christum omnes reviviscent." FOURNIS. On a monument, upon the north wall of the chancel: *' Near this place is interred the body of Captain John FouRNis, who died the 10th, and was buried the 12th of November, 1717, aged 85 years." Several more of this family are mentioned here, and on a tablet on one of the pillars on the north side of the chancel, for which see Mr. * This translation does not appear in Watson. It was probably supplied to Jacob by the Rev. E. Nelson. HALIFAXIENSIS. 159 Wright, p. 180, 181. [After ''35 years," read ''and at a small distance are interred the bodies of two of his children ; Jane, his daughter, died the 25th, and was buried the 28th of July, 1720, aged 5 years 11 months; Susannah, his daughter, died the 20th, and Avas buried the 22d of July, 1722, aged 5 years and 2 months." On a tablet on the north side of the chancel, on one of the i3illars : " Mr. Joseph FouRNEs departed this life the 3d day of March, 1676, aged 73 years. Hannah Fournes, his daughter, born Aug. 7, 1666, departed this life Apr. 27, 1680. John Fournes, his son, was born Jan. 8, 1664, departed this life Oct. 29, 1683. Samuel Fournes, his son, born Dec. 7, 1662, departed this life Feb. 20, 1687. Ph.ebe, daughter of Mr. S. Fournes, was born Oct. 14th, 1687, and died the 21st of March, 1699.] Capt. Fournis lived in Halifax. GAUKROGER. On a stone in the church-yard : " Here lieth the body of John Gaukroger, who faithfully discharged the office of Parish Clerk of Halifax for the space of 22 years. He de- parted this life the 6th day of May, 1707, in the 62d year of his age. He lived beloved, and died lamented of all that knew him." GREAME. On a grave-stone in the chancel : " Here lieth the body of Hannah, the wife of Henry Greame, of Shaw-Hill, in Skir- coate, who departed this life the 13th day of Sept., 1727, in the 67th year of her age. She, that does take her rest within this tomb. Had Rachael's face, and Leah's fruitful womb, Abigail's wisdom, Lydia's faithful heart, Martha's care, and Mary's better part." On a neat monument in the Quire, is the following in- scription : William Greame, of Heath, near this Town, died in April, 1739, aged 44. He married Mrs. Frances Kirke, of Alverthorpe, who died in October 1752, aged 57. IGO BIOGRAPHIA Their Children were John, William, James, Elizabeth, and Ann, who, with their Parents, are all buried in this Quire : where also is interred Mrs. Elizabeth Kirke, twin- sister of Mrs. Frances Kirke : She died in January, 1756. This monument was erected with every sentiment of gratitude and respect, by the executors of William Greame last mentioned, who was a Captain in Sir George Savile's Batalion of Militia. An amiable and benevolent temper, joined to an uncommon penetration, and a clear knowledge of men and things, rendered this gentleman a truly valuable member of the community, and of course universally be- loved and honoured. In December 1764, he married Elizabeth Dorothea Zouch, youngest daughter of Charles Zouch, late Vicar of Sandal- magna, and died on May the 27th, 1776, aged 36. Frances, his only child, who was born about three months after her Father's death, is now (1769) living. GIBSON. On a monument in the north west corner of the church : *' Near this place is interred Elizabeth Gibson, of Slead- Hall, who died A. M. S. 23. A.D. 1690. And Robert Gibson, of Slead-Hall, who died A. ^. S. 63. A. D. 1691. And Michael Gibson, the son of Michael Gibson, of Slead- Hall, who died A. ^. S. l^- A. D. 1711. And Rhenetta, the wife of Robert Gibson, who died A. M. S. 84. A.D. 1715. And Elizabeth, the wife of Michael Gibson, who died A. M. S. 52. A. D. 1722. And Michael Gibson, of Slead-Hall, son of Robert, who died A. M. S. 72. A. D. 1738. And Robert Gibson, of Slead-Hall, son of Michael, who died A. M. S. 43. A. D. 1746. Also William Gibson, M. D. Anat. Prof. Can- tabrigiae, who died Feb. 16, 1753, aged 39." HEALD. On a gi-ave-stone in the chancel : "Hie tecti jacent cineres Jeremi^, filii M" GuLiELMi Heald, nuper Vicarii de Donag- hadee, in Hibernia, qui 22^^ /Etatis anno animam Deo HALIFAXIENSIS. 161 inspiranti retribuit, 5° die Augusti, 1685. Quern tiietur ac diligit Dens, Juvenis supremum mortis intrat limitem." On another stone in the chancel : " Qn^ris advena, quid hac abdita incarceratur iirna, leKquiie mortales immortaUs animae terrigenas mortalitatis sufe exuvias ad Dei judicis iisq ; adventnm hie deponentis, coelo jam triumphantis, si modo virtus pietatis patientia) virtus coelum animis leternitati maturis aperit. Nomen humati Lector ambis, Gratia est, Filia M" Gulielmi Heald, Uxor Francisci Priestley, quae geminam p»rolem fiecunditatis suse partem hie praemitteus, ipsa post pluscuhim dierum expiravit 16 die Novembris, Anno Dom. 1685. ^tatis 30. In English. Here lie the ashes of Jeremy, son of Mr. William Heald, late Vicar of Donaghadee, in Ireland, who yielded his soul up to God who gave it, August 5, 1685, aged 22. The youth whom God protects and loves, From earth, with pleasing hope removes. You ask, stranger, what this hidden Urn contains. Answer. — The frail remains of an immortal soul, putting off its earthly tabernacle till its Judge appear, — and now triumphing in glory, if piety and patience can open heaven to minds matured for eternity. Ask you the name of the inten-ed '? It is Grace, the daughter of Mr. William Heald, wife of Francis Priestley, who died a few days after the birth of her two children, viz. November 16, 1685, aged 30. HILL. On a tomb in the church-yard is an inscription to the memory of Mr. Edward Hill, late Rector of Crofton, aged 79 years, and of Ann, his wife, who having been married 53 years, died both on the same day, and were buried in that tomb, Jan. 29, 1668. The account which Calamy, in his list of the ejected Ministers, p. 793, gives of this Clergyman, is this: "That he was M. A. of Christ's College, Cambridge ; that he had been formerly a Nonconformist, but could not fall in with the new settlement in 1662 ; that he was a pious, gi-ave, ancient Divine, of an excellent temper ; that on the coming 162 BIOGRAPHIA forth of the Five-mile Act he removed to Shibden, near Halifax ; and that he and his wife had lived together forty years, and died within two hours of one another in Jan. 1668-9." Mr. Wright adds, that he had likewise been Vicar of Huddersfield, and died at Shipden-Hall. HOOKE. On a marble monument in the chancel : "P. M. Eichaedi HooKE, S. T. P. Eegimini tam ecclesiastico quam sseculari Anglicano fidelissimi, qui per viginti sex annos huic Ecelesise praefuit Vicarius, tribus Archiepiscopis Ebor^'^^ ^ sacris, Hospitiorum sancti Johannis beataeq. Mariae Magdelenensis sub agro Eipponensi Magister, Ecclesiae Ebor^^^ Southwell^^^ RippoNENSisQ. Canonicus. Obiit 1™° Jan. ^tatis su£e 6Q. Anno Domini 1688-9. On a gravestone in the chancel : *' Matilda, filia Richaedi HooKE, D. D. Vicar, de Halifax, obiit 9 Sept. A. D. 1667. ^tatis suas 18." And below: "Samuel Hooke, filius Eichardi Hooke, M.A. Socius Coll. Jesu Cantabr. vir egregie doctus, et insigniter plus, a societate Jesu in terris exaltatus est ad societatem Jesu in coelis, Aug. 12, 1687. ^Etat. suae 24." On a stone near the above : " Anna Hooke, Matildae soror, obiit Dec. 15. An. 20. A. D. 1667. In coelum tendentibus non est aetatis ratio, non gradus : Majorem natu praecessit minor, quam (sancte invidens) sequuta est, ah cito nimis ! Innuptae in terra Virgines in coelo nuptas : At semper Virgines aeternum cum Sponso gaudent. Eliz. Hooke, filia Ei. Hooke, Virgo pia et casta terrestre tabernaculum pro domo caelesti commutavit, Aug. 30. A. D. 1687. ^tat. suae 26." In English. Erected to the memory of Eichard Hooke, S.T.P., equally faithful in his ecclesiastical and civil departments, who was Vicar of this church 26 years ; Master of the Seminaries of St. John and Mary Magdalen's, in the county of Eippon, Canon of Southwell, &c. He died January 1, 1688-9. On a gravestone: "Matilda, the daughter of Eichard Hooke, D.D., Vicar of Halifax, died Sept. 9, 1667, aged 18. And below, " Samuel Hooke, son of Eichard Hooke, M.A., Fellow of Jesus' College, Cambridge, a man remarkable for his learning and piety, being raised from the society of Jesus* HALIFAXIENSIS. 163" College on earth to that of Jesus in Heaven, Aug. V2, 1687, aged 24." Near the above. — "Ann Hooke, sister to Matilda, died Dec. 15, 1667, An. 20. The j'ounger died before the older, who (impelled by a sacred emulation) too quickly- followed. Unmarried on earth they are united above. In a state of lasting virginity they rejoice for ever with their God. Elizabeth Hooke, daughter of Ei. Hooke, a chaste and pious virgin, changed an eartbly habitation for a heavenly mansion, Aug. 30, 1687, aged 26. HOUGH. The following inscription was put over Vicar Hough, who was buried in the Chancel : " JSacrum memoriie Edmundi Hough, A M, e Coll. Jesu Cant, quondam Socii, Parochi^B de Thoknton postea Eectoris, tandemq ; hujus Ecclesia& Prsesidis ; qui concionandi perspicuus, disserendo facundus, pietate catholicus, post exiguum autem Olicanre temporis impensum morienti hanc desideratam requiem sibi dedit Deus. Obiit 1^° die Aprilis, 1691. Anno ajtatis 59." There is an English one to the memory of the same, on a stone in the Chancel, taken from part of the above. It was a great mistake in the writer of the above epitaph to call Halifax by the name of Olicana, for that was un- doubtedly the Koman station at Ilkley. In English. Sacred to the rtfemory of Edmund Hough, M. A., Fellow of Jesus' College, Cambridge, afterwards Eector of the parish of Thornton, and lastly Yicar of this Church, a perspicuous preacher, an able rhetorician, and of catholic piety. After a short residence at Halifax, he obtained his desired rest, April 1, 1691, aged 59. HOLDSWOETH. On the wall in the South Chapel : " Near this place lieth the body of Tno. Holdswoeth, of Ashday, in Southouram, Gentleman, who departed this life the 23d of June, 1709 ; and also the body of Mrs. Phebe Holdswoeth, his wife, the daughter of James Oats, of Landshead, in Northouram, who departed this life the 12th of October, 1709 : And also the body of Maey Holdswoeth, the daughter of William Midgley, of Halifax, Gentleman, and wife of Tho. Holds worth, son of 164 BIOGKAPHIA the above mentioned Tho. Holdsworth, who departed this life the 25th of October, 1710." HOLDEN. On a stone in the Church-yard, near the sun door, round the border: ''Hicjacent Anna, Arthur, Johannes, Lionel, Tobias Holden, universa Gowaini et Annas Holden de Hali- fax, Anno Domini 1642." Within the border : *'Ne doleas Genetrix, toties ad funera i^regnans Horrida ne timeas mater ad arma ferax. Ante togam minor imi3ietas, cita sanctior urn a ; Plurimus ille x^arens solus ad astra parens." In English. " Here rest Ann, &c., the entire issue of Gowen and Ann Holden. Lament not, mother, oft the fruitful womb, Is but an ante-chamber to the tomb ; In tender love tli' inspirer of our breath, Prevents our sorrows by a speedy death." HOLLINGS. On the south wall in the Chancel: ''Near this place lye the remains of Jeremiah Hollings, late of Shipley, in this county, Esq; and also of Mary, his mother, widow and relict of Mr. Isaac Hollings, late of Shipley aforesaid. She was one of the daughters and coheirs of Mr. Jeremiah Ross- endale, formerly of Shaw-hill, in Skircoat. He ) -, ., J August 23d, 1738, aged 26. Shepy^^lMay 9th, 1744, aged 53." The above is cut on a very neat monument, at the foot of which are the heads of three cherubims, above the writing a Sarcophagus, the marble rises in the form of a pyramid, on which are the arms of Hollings impaled with those of Rossendale. KITCHINGHAM. In the Wall in the Nortli Chapel : William, son of Wm. KiTCHiNGHAM, of Slvircoat, buried the 26th of July, 1670. Martha, his daughter, was buried the 19th of June, 1695, and Sarah, his wife, was buried the 30tli day of July, 1704. Wrif/hty p. 187, omitted by Watson. HALIFAXIENSIS. 165 LACY. Dr. Johnson in liis MS. Collections for Yorkshire, sais, that in Halifax Church was the following, in antient characters : "Here lietli enclosed the body of John Lacye, of Brerely, Esq; who was buried the 19tli day of August, in the year of our Lord God . . . ." (This date should be 1585.) Part of this stone I saw in 1764 ; it had cut upon it the figure of a man in armor laid on his back, a cushion under his head, and a lion at his feet ; on one side hung a large sword, and a small one on the other ; his hands were joined on his breast in a praying posture ; on his left arm a shield, with the following coats of arms : 1. Arg6nt, six ogresses, three, two, one, for Lacy. 2. Gules, three crescents argent, on a chief of the second three garbs or. 8. Gules an eagle displayed argent, for Soothill, of Soothill. 4. Argent, three bendlets sable ; all these quarterly impaled with Argent, a chevron between three crosses formee, fitchee gules, for Woodrove, of WooUey. The above Dr. Johnson sais farther, that under the arms of Lacy were in old characters, *' Orate pro anima Magistri Joannis Lacye." It is not improper to mention here, that on a grave-stone in the Chancel is a large cross, on one side of which is a sword of lead laid in the stone, and on the other, in a shield, the ogresses as above. LISTER. In the south west comer of the Church, on a neat monu- ment : " H. S. E. Jacobus Lister, de Shibden-hall, Gen^- qui Nov. 14, A.D. 1729, yEt. 56, triste sui desiderium viduse liberisq ; decem reliquit. Prosiliunt lacrimne — sed adest spes certa salutis, Christus, qui mortis vincula rupta dedit. Hie jubet ut memores recolamus gaudia vit» Venturse, et cseli quae bona civis habet. In English. James Lister, Gent., who left a disconsolate widow and ten children. Nature will weep — but repress the tear. Since Christ and his salvation are so near. 166 BIOGRAPHIA Tlie gospel loud invites us to rejoice, AVho wou'd not hearken to a Saviour's voice ? His dear requests witli pleasure we obey, And wait the morning of a happier day. In the same grave is interred the body of Mary, widow of the said James Lister. She died Jan. 5, 1756, aged 79. Bless'd are the dead proclaims the voice above Who die in Christ, abiding in his love. They rest from labor in the peacefull tomb, Shall rise to glory in the life to come. J. L. F. N. M. P. C. These last letters stand for Johannes Lister filius natu maximus X3oni curavit. He was a Clergyman, lived at Shibden-hall, and composed the above. HADDOCKS. Near the Font, in a neat gilted frame, is the following inscription : Near this place, lie the remains of Joseph Maddocks, of Cold-Blow, near Dublin, in Ireland, Who died the 22d and was buried the 24th of March, 1769, aged 74 Years. "Those who sleej) in Christ, will he bring with him." MAUD. On a grave-stone in the Chancel : " Hie situm est corpus Thom;e, filii Jonath. Maud, de Halyfax, M. A. qui obiit Decemb. 22, A. D. 1682. Si mea cum matris valuissent vota, dedisses Funus idem nobis, quod tibi, nate, damus. Sed quoniam votis nostris Deus obstitit aequus, Ante mea et matris funera, ftmus habe. In English. Here is deposited the remains of Thomas, son of Jonathan Maud. HALIFAXIENSIS. 167 Had Heav'n vouchsaf'd to hear thy parents' pray'r, Then- sad sepulchral rites had been thy care ; Impartial wisdom did the wish deny, And took thee earlier to a world on high. MIDGLEY. On the wall in the north chapel : " Near this place resteth the body of ^Iary, daughter of William Midgle^, Master of Arts, late of Headley, now of Sowerby, who was born March 3, 1G06, and departed this hfe November 7, 1704. Mortal by birth, short my stay, here sleeps my dust, My better part joins consort with the just." Above this : "Exuviae GuLiEL:sri Midgley, A. M. Curat, dc Sowerby, juxta depositee Mail 10°, 1706. Anno yEtatis 31." MITCHELL. On a brass plate near the font. " Here resteth the body of James Mitchell, late of Crow-nest, in Hipperholm. He was buried the 1st day of October, A. D. 1679 ; and also three of his children. Ann was buried the 3d of April, 1668. Elisabeth was buried the 29th of May, 1676. Samuel, he was buried January the 30th, 1676. Non abiit, sed obiit, modo rediturus." NETTLETON. On a stone in the chancel: *' Hie recxuiescit Anna lilia Thomas Nettleton, M. D. nata 23 Octob. 1709. Obiit 23 Jan. 1710-11. — In eodem tumulo conditur frater ejus Johannes Nettleton, nat. 25 Dec. 1715. Obiit 6 Apr. 1717. — Et eorum Amita Susanna Nettleton, qu;e obiit 12° Apr. A. D. 1718. ^tatis 23." In English. Here rests Ann . . . Nettleton, born Oct. 23, 1709. Died Jan. 23, 1710. In the same grave is interred her brother, and their aunt. PAREAT. On a stone in the chancel : " Here is inteiTed the body of the Rev. Mr. Francis Parrat, who was Lecturer of Halifax above fifty years, and died the 22d of December, in the 82d year of his age, 1741. 168 BIOGRAPHIA PRE SCOT. . On a grave-stone in the north chapel : " Hie jacet Phebe, Uxor GuLiELMi Prescot, Chirurgo- Medici. Obiit 10° die Martii, 1704-5, iEtatis sucHb 36. Et cum ilia dormiunt una Nepotes duo, Nathanael, et Gulielmus Farrer. [In the same grave are interred two grand- children, Nathaniel and William Farrer.] In the south chapel, on a monument on the wall: *'Mary, the daughter of Mr. John Prescot, of Halifax, was buried near this place the 18th day of May, 1708. And in the same grave is interred the body of the above-named Mr. John Prescot, Practitioner in Physic and Chirurgery, who died the 11th day of November, 1728, in the .53d year of his age. Also Sarah, his wife, who died June 10, 1739, in the 56th year of her age. RAMSDEN. On a pillar in the chancel: "Hie jacet Hugo Ramsden, filius Galfridi Ramsden, de Greetland, infra Vicariam de Halifax, Bacc. in S.S. Theol. olim Socius Collegii de Merton in Ac. Ox. postea Rector de Methley, in Comit. Ebor. demum Vicarius de Halifax. Yir dubium sanctior, an doctior, ingenii acris, judicii subacti, eruditionis multiplicis, qui omne tempus deperire existimabat quod non aut musjeo impertiabatur ; qui dum vixit toti circumjacenti Regioni doctrina sua praelucebat, et magis exemplo ; atq ; moriens triste sui apud omnes bonos, pacisq ; Ecclesiie cultores reliquit Desiderium. Inductus est Vicarius de Halifax Non. Octob. An. Salutis 1628, et decimo septimo Calend. Augusti sequentis vitam cum immortalitate commutavit. Hoc mcerens monumentum posuit Frater ejus natu minor, ejusq ; in Vicaria de Halifax impar successor, Henricus Ramsden." To the word " commutavit," there is the same on a tablet in Methley church, put there in 1680 by one Robert Nalson. On a pillar opposite to the above: ''Hie jacet Henricus Ramsden, filius natu secundus Galfridi Ramsden, de Greet- land, infra Vicariam de Halifax, Artium Magister, necnon Collegii Lincoln, in inclyt. Oxon Academ. quondam Socius, tandemq ; Vicarius de Halifax, ibidemq ; fratris sui Hugonis permagni. Licet multiq ; nominis decessoris hand impar successor, vir equidem multijugis eruditionis, et quod famili- am ducit, spectatne admodum probitatis, quo sane egregie HALIFAXIENSIS. 169 viguit, quicqnid est, quod in aliis aut suspicimus eruditi, aiit quod veneramur sancti, literarum periude decus ]oietatisq ; exemplum per duo prteter propter annorum lustra memor stationis muiierisq; sui liuic summopere invigilabat Ecclesia^ ardens vita, verboq ; lucens, quo temporis decursu fidelis erat populi pastor, causie pauperum propuguator acerrimus, pacis EccIesifT) streuuus assertor, Justici^^ publicae, uti pro officio tenebatur, promptus licet cautus tamen et nequus dispensator, liujusce loci ordiiiis regimiuisq ; politici cum primis author, tandem lethali correj)tus victusq ; febri triste sui apud omnes relinquens desiderium, gratamque memorianl non sine justitio luctuque publico spiritum in manus Domini reddidit, placideq ; spe resurrectionis fultus obdormivit anno Salutis 1G37. septim. calend. Martii. Hoc moerens monu- mentum posuit frater ejus Gulielmus Ramsden natur minor, Eectorque Ecclesiie de Edgmund, in agro Salop. In English. Here lie the remains of Hugh Ramsden, son of G. R., of Greetland, B.A. ; formerly Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, afterwards Rector of Methley, and lastly Vicar of Halifax ; a pious learned man, of a penetrating judgment, who thought that time was lost which was not employed in the church or study. His example cast a lustre on this place and its environs, and at his death he was deservedly re- gretted by his parishioners. He was collated to this Vicar- age, October, 1G28, and put on immortality the 17th of August following. His younger brother and successor, Henry Ramsden, erected this testimony of affection to his memory. In memory of Henry Ramsden, second son of G. R., M.A., and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, afterwards Vicar of Halifax, which office his brother Hugh Ramsden had enjoyed before him ; a person well known for his learning and j)ro- bity, (the ornament of letters) and an exemplar of piety, faithful in the discharge of his function, and particularly attentive to the Church's interest for near eight years, ex- emplary in his life and conversation, a zealous defender of the poor, a strenuous asserter of peace, a ready yet impartial dispenser of public justice, and a principal promoter of the political order and good government of this place ; being arrested by a violent fever, to the unspeakable regret of all, 170 BIOGRAPHIA lie rendered his soul into the hand of God, and calmly slept in Jesus, March 7, 1G37. His hrother William Kamsden, Rector of Edgmund, Shropshire, erected this monument to his memory. EICHARDSON. On a gravestone near the font: "P. M.-- Johaxnis Eich- ABDSON, obiit anno Salutis 1702^^", iEtatis suae 89^^. Sarah, daughter of the above John Richardson, and wife of the Rev. Mr. Stephen Carr, of Honley, died Easter Eve, 1755, aged 00." ROSSENDALE. "Here lieth the body of Jeremiah Rossendale, of Shaw- hill, in Sldrcoat, who departed this life the 18th daj' of January, in the second year of his age. Anno Dom. 1694. And also the body of Mr. Jeremiah Rossendale, his father, who departed this life May 17th, and was interred May 27th ^ 1(]96." ROBERTS. On a stone in the Church-yard, opposite the great door; " Here lieth the body of John Roberts, of Hipperholme, who departed this life the 10th of November, in the year of our Lord 1721, and in the hundred and fourteenth year of his age." [Also the body of Ann, wife to the abovesaid John Roberts, who departed this life the IGtli day of June, 1728. Wright, p. 196.] Tradition sais, that he wanted a month. He was a carrier by trade, and used to say, that he had never drank above half a pint of liquor of any kind, at one draught. ROKEBY. On a monument formerly in the Chapel on the north side of the Church, but now removed : " Orate pro anima Will- iKLMi RoKEiJY, Jur. Can. Profess, ac etiam Episcopi Medensis ct deinde Archiepisc. DubUn. Capelhe fundatoris istius, qui obiit 29 Novembris, An. Dom. 1521." In English. Pray for the soul of William Rokeby, Professor of Law at Cambridge, also Archbishop of Dublin and Founder of that College, who died Nov. 29, 1521. * To the memorj- of John. HALIFAXIENSIS. . 171 SAYEE. Facing the Nortb-Isle in Halifax Clmrcli, on a very elegant monument, is the following inscription : Near this Place are clepositecl the remains of Mary, the Wife of Thomas Sayek, of Halifax, Gentleman, and Coheiress of William Cockcroft, of Mayroyd, Esquire. • She died the 12th of May, 1779, aged 36 years. This monument is erected to her memory, by an affectionate and afflicted husband, as a respectful token of his esteem for those virtues which adorned her heart, and endeared her to him, and to all who had the happiness of an acquaint- ance with her. Ask not, pensive Eeader, a recital of those virtues, which her humility Avished her to conceal ; This silent marble refers thee for information, to the tears and cries of the sick and needy, who lost in her a sympathetic attendant on their distress, and a generous reliever of their wants : And to the regret of that concourse of every age and rank, who paid an honourable and voluntary tribute to her merit, by accompanying her remains to their interment. If her amiable example excite thy imitation, forget not to adoi)t her noblest praise, by fulfilling every duty of nature and society, from a i)rinciple of affection and gratitude to God, the Friend, the Parent, the Redeemer of Mankind. SHARP. On a tablet in the Chancel, an angel in clouds, blowing a trumpet, and on a cloth hanging from it, these words : *' Jo- annes, Dominus Archiepiscopus Eborum, 1704." Arms of Sharp painted near the inscription, impaled with those of the See of York. 172 BIOGRAPHIA This was put up in honour to his memory, as he was born in the neighboring parish of Bradford. SAVILE. In the Chancel, round the border of a stone, in antient characters : '* (Pray) for the (Sa)wl of Thomas Savile, of Coplay, Esquyer, the .... of July, (and) in the yeire of ewer Lord God mcccccxxxi." Dr. Johnson sais, the following was round a gravestone in the Chancel, in old characters: "(Pray) for the Sawl of Thomas Savile, of Copley, Esquyre . . . (d)ay of July, the year of our Lord God mcccccxxxi," which must, I think, be an imperfect copy of the above. He has given a drawing of this Thomas Savile, in armour, in a praying posture, with the Savile's arms on one side of his head, and those of Beaumont on the other. See Plate 1. SCARBROUGH. On a stone near the font : " Here lietli the body of Susan late wife of Richard Scarbrough, of Halifax, who was buried November 17, A. D. 1678. Spes prolis, Sponsi fulcrum, Matrisq ; Susanna Solamen, tumulo hoc, hei ! moribunda jacet. Non tollitur relatio, cui est Mariti melioratio. Tempus celerrime aufugit. Li English. Approach and drop the tribute of a tear, A faithful wife sleeps unmolested here. Prop of her sinking spouse while life remain'd, Who all a mother's tender cares sustained ; Such virtue dies not with the mould'ring tomb ; Heir to the glories of a life to come. STEAD. " Near this place is interred the body of Mr. Valentine Stead, Merchant, who died May the 16th, 1758, aged 70. Also Naomi, his wife, who died October the 9th, 1740, aged 47. And seven of their children. Also two children of Valentine Stead the younger, who erected this monument." Near the font, on a grave-stone : " Here lieth the body of Mary, the wife of Samuel Stead, of Halifax, who was buried HALIFAXIENSIS. 173 the 29th of May, 1734, aged 82 years and 6 months. She was wife of the abovesaid Samuel Stead, Salter, 58 years and 6 months." Also Samuel Stead, husband to the abovesaid Mary, who departed this life the 4th day of December, 1786, aged 80 years, 10 months, and seven days. Mr. Wright, id. 195, remarks, that this Gentleman lived to see of his children, grand children, and great grand children sixty -one in number. SMITH. On a stone in the Church-yard : " Here lieth the body of Daniel Smith, the son of Matthew Smith, of Halifax, who departed this life the 28th day of February, Anno Domini 1729, in the 18th year of his age. Under this stone here lies, as you may see, A lovely child, who once was dear to me, Dearer to God, who took him hence away, With whom I leave, until the final day. Methinks I hear my lovely child say here. Weep not for me, but for your children dear ; Make haste to follow me, and then you'll see, What is i^rovided in eternity." SOMEKSCALES. On a stone on the west wall of the Church: **Mr. Richard SoMERscALEs, of Halyfax, who died April the 8th, A.D. 1G18, and who, by his last will, gave all his lands in Halyfax and Ovenden, (after the decease of his sister,) to the poor of the said towns for ever, amongst whom he gave 40s. to his sister's husband, for the term of his life." SUNDERLAND. Dr. Johnson sais, that the following was in the south isle of the Chancel : " Here lieth the bodies of Robert, son of Richard Sunderland, of Coley, Esq : and Judith, his daughter, who died January 19th, 1(328. February 8th, 1623." This was round a stone, on which were cut, in bad proportion, the figures of a man and woman kneeling down together ; over their heads, On a shield, three lions passant ; and for crest. On an helmet a goat's head. See Plate 2. 174 BIOGBAPHIA TILLOTSON. In the Chancel, in letters of gold, on a tablet, with the arms of the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury imi^aled with his own : JoHANES TiLLOTSON, Archiepus Cantuar. natus Sowerbitne, renatus Halyfaxie, 3*^° 8^"^, 1630. Denatus Lambethcne, 22<> Novebris, A. D. 1694. ^tatis sure 65." In English. Archbishop of Canterbury, born at Sowerbv, baptized at Halifax, Oct. 3, 1630, died at Lambeth, Nov. 22d, 1694. Aged 65. THURSTON. On a stone in the Chancel : •' John, the son of John Thurston, Gentleman, died the 6th of December, 1663. Orimur, morimur, oriemur.'"' Blest babe, who art so soon become A man in Christ, with him at home." WATERHOUSE. In the North Chapel, on a stone with a man in armor upon it, in old characters : " Here lyeth the body of Robert Waterhouse, of Halyfax, Esquyer, which departed this life the .... of June .... (hav)ying lyved, as one that should dye." Mr. Wright has called the above John, instead of Robert, and has put Gregory instead of Bryan, in the next epitaph. The wife of the above Robert was buried in St. Michael Bel- fray's Church in York. See Drake's Ebor. p. 839. She died may 1st, 1592. See Plate %. Near the above, but now destroyed (as supposed) was another figure of a man in armor, with this inscription round, in old characters : " Here lyeth the body of Bryan Waterhouse, of Halyfax, Gentleman, which departed tliis life the iv day of October, in the year of our Lord God, 1589. Humanius est deridere vitam quam deplorare." In Dr. Johnson's MS. Collections is the drawing of a tomb said to be removed out of the North Chapel when the stairs were made which lead to the north gallery there, at the head of which was a shield of arms, viz. Waterhouse,. * Wc rise, we fall, we ehall arise. HALIFAXIEXSIS. 175 Or, a pile ingrailed sable, quartered with Savile, parted per pale quarterly, 1. Bosseville, of Guntliwaite. 2. Bendy of thirteen pieces, or and argent. 3 .... A lion rampant . . . over all a bend gules ; fourth as first. Under these a scroll and motto, "Virtus viucint omnia." On the top of the tomb lay the figure of a man in armor, holding on his breast a shield with the same arms as above. On one side of his head were, on a shield, the arms of Waterhouse, on the other the coats of Waterhouse and Savile, quartered; on one side of his feet, Waterhouse impaled with Bosseville, and on the other, Waterhouse impaled with the same quarterings as are impaled in the shield on his breast. The above stairs were made in 1700. See Plate S. In the middle isle of the Church, on brass plates, fixed to a seat near the pulpit, which are all torn oft' except the heads, a man kneeling, with a book in his hand, and opposite to him a woman kneeling, and a string of beads hanging down from her waist. On a label over the man, in old characters: *' Miserere mei Deus, et salva me." On another label near the woman, in like characters : *' Miserere mei Deus, secun- dum magnam misericordiam." On a brass plate over their heads : " I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord. He that belie vetli in me, though he were dead yet shall he live, and he that liveth and believeth in me shall never die." Underneath, in the above characters : " John Waterhows, of Halyfax, and Agnes, hys wyff, which John dep'ted from thys worlde the xxvii day of January, anno Dm. mcccccxxx. — Something wanting both at beginning and end. See Plate 1. On the north side of the Church, where the deceased particularly desired to be buried, is a tomb, on which is wrote : " Here lietli the body of Mr. John Waterhouse, of Lower Eanns, in Northowram, who died Axn'il 4th, 1759, aged 60." On the west end of the tomb : ** Oh Christian Pteader ! often think Christ will appear, How shall I then in judgment stand ! " WATKINSON. On a pillar on the south side of the Chancel: "H. M. Memorial sacrum Mari-e, filife unica? Piev^^^ Dn^ Ei»wardi Watkinson, CapelloB de Luddenden in hac Yicaria Curat. 176 BIOGKAPHIA Qiias nata vesperi praecedente Pascha, Anno 1723, febre per- quam maligna Correpta occidit (heu nimium fugax et multum flebilis) Augiisti 24*^, 1726." In English. This monument was erected to the memory of Mary, only- daughter of the Rev. Edward Watkinson, Curate of Ludden- den, in this Vicarage. She was born on Easter-Eve, 1723, and being taken ill of a violent fever, quitted this life August 24, 1726. WAINHOUSE. On a brass plate near the font : " Here lieth the body of Michael Wainhouse, late of Binroyd, in Norland, buried the 21"* day of October, A. D. 1684. Ut morions viveret, vixit ut moriturus." [That in dying he might live, he lived as one ready to die.] WILKINSON. On a grave-stone in the Chancel: ''Joseph Wilkinson, A. M. quondam Vicarius de Chapel -Izod, juxta Dublin, in Hibernia, et Prebendarius de Castroknock, Ecclesiae Cathe- dralis Sancti Patricii Dublin, postea Rector de Wigginton comitatu Ebor. et tandem huic Ecclesi® par viginti annos praefuit Vicarius. Obiit 28 die Decembris, Anno Dom. 1711. ^tatis suae 60." Joseph Wilkinson, M.A., formerly Vicar of Chapel-Izod, near Dublin, Prebend of Castroknock, the Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, Dublin ; afterwards Rector of Wigginton, m the County of York, and lastly, Vicar of this Church for near 20 years. WILSON. At the bottom of the middle isle : *' Ann, the daughter of Mr. John Wilson, Curate of Honly, was buried the 4th day of November, 1725." At the south end of the West Walk, in the Church, on a stone fixed to the wall : ** Here lyeth the body of John Wilson, formerly Clark of the Parish Church of Halyfax, who was buried the 7*^ day of November, 1701." This man, who was Clark of Eland, was made Clark of Halifax by Dr. Hooke ; and Wilson, in the course of a dis- pute which happened between them, having arrested the HALIFAXIENSIS. 177 Doctor, the latter persuaded the other to shew him his licence, and when he had got it in i^ossession would never suffer him to officiate any more. TESTAMENTARY BURIALS at HALIFAX. FROM MR. TORR'S MS. July 12, 1402, John del Burgh, of Halifax, made his will^ and left his soul to God Almighty, St. Mary, and All Saints, and ordered his body to be buried in the parish church of Halifax. Nov. 21, 1437, Henry Savyle, of Halifax, Esq; Soul and body as above. March 3, 1439, Kichard Pek, of Southouram. Soul as above, body in the quire of the parish church of Halifax. April 20, 1459, John Sayvell, of Copley, Esq ; Soul as above, body in the church, or church-yard of Halifax. June 1, 1481, Tho. Wilkinson, Vicar of Halifax, already mentioned. April 4, 1482, William Marshall, Eector of Kirk-SandaL Soul as above, body in Halifax church. Feb. 3, 1484, Kichard Waterhouse, of Warley. Soul as above, body in the church or church-yard of St. John. Baptist, Halifax. April 29, 1510, Henry Savile, of Copley. Soul as above, body in the New Warke of Halifax. Feb. 15, 1530, Tho. Savile, of Bladeroyd, in Southouram. — Jan. 5, 1533, Thomas Savile, of Copley, Esq; — 1533, John Waterhouse, of Skircoat. — 1535, Edward Waterhouse, buried in the church -yard at Halifax. — 1538, Eichard Waterhouse, of Shipden, body to be buried in the church of the holy prophet St. John Baptist, of Halifax. — 1541, John Hling- worth, of lUingworth. — 1543, Edward Waterhouse, of Skircoat. — 1543, William Illingworth. — 1545, Humphry Waterhouse, of Shelf. Soul to God Almighty, hoping through Jesus Christ to be saved. "Here Protestantism "began to shew itself, and mankind began to act more from " principles of reason, and common sense, than to bequeath " their souls to the Virgin Mary, and all the Saints, who are 178 BIOGKAPHIA '' only in the same condition that all living Saints will ''shortly he placed in, and who cannot help if they are " applied to." 1545, John Waterhouse, of Skircoat. — 1554, Henry Savile, of Copley. — 1556, John AVaterhouse, of Thollinges, in War- ley.— 1556, Richard Midgiey, of Midgley.— 1569, Thomas Savile, of Copley. — 1570, Hugh Lacey, of Brearley, in Midg- ley, Esq ; — 1570, Thomas Savile, of Southouram, Gent. — 1578, Anthony Waterhouse, of Warley, Gent. — 1586, Abra- ham Sunderland, of High Sunderland, Gent. — 1620, John Holdsworth, of Astey, Gent. THE PRINCIPAL EPITAPHS AT EALAND, AKE THESE I A S H E T N . On a grave-stone in the Chancel : " Hie in spe Christiana requiescit Petrus Asheton, A.M. Ecclesiie AnglicanoB Presby- ter, et Parochi^e de E aland in sacris Administer : Orthodoxic Fidei et DoctriniB san^e Theologus : Pietatis Exemplar : Pacis Cultor ! Qui per decursum annorum triginta et unius fideliter pastorali functus munere, et reciproco omnium amore remuneratus, placide gregem simul cum anima Deo vocanti resignavit 3 Omo Qctobris, A. D. 1691. iEtatis 55*0. Fil. Die Mensis A.D. Thomas, ] ( 22^0 \ Deci>ri« ( 1684 ) 13«o Johannaes, [ obiit -. 9°° [ Maii \ 1675 j- l^^o Petrus, J ( 9°o J Junii [ 1674 j 1"^° " Hie etiam (cum Infante) jacet Samuel filius Eich. Petty, Curati de Ealand, qui unicam P. Asheton filiam uxorem sibi adjunxit. Obiit Aug. 22, A.D. 1709. .Etatis sure 2^^. " Hie etiam jacet Susanna ejusdem E»^ Petty filia. Sepulta fuit 11™"' Aprilis, A. D. 1711.— .Etatis sure 8^°." On a grave-stone in the Chancel : *' Reliquiae hie repositse Petri Asheton, Curati de Milnraw, in com. Lancastri, (filii Petri Asheton ])ropiq ; tumulati) qui animam Deo resignavit 5'° die Aug. 1718. ^tatis 42."^ "Atque Rich^ Petty, Curati de Ealand, qui animam efflavit vivacem 7°^° die Martii, 1728. — iEtatis suae 49." HALIFAXIENSIS. 179 111 English. " Here rests in christian hoi3e, Peter Ashtox, A.M. pres- byter of the English church, and curate of E aland ; a divine of (an) orthodox faith, and sound doctrine ; an example of primeval piety, and a lover of peace : After having faithfully discharged the pastoral office 31 years ; being universally beloved, he caliiilv resigned his flock, together with his aoul, at the call of God"', October 30, 1691, aged 55. In this place (with an infant) sleeps Samuel, sou of Kichard Petty curate of Elland, who married the only daughter of P. Ashton. He died August 22d, A. D. 1709, aged 2 years. Also, Susanna, the daughter of llichard Petty, was interred here, April 11, A. D. 1711, aged 8 years. In this place are deposited the remains of Peter Ashton, curate of Milnraw, in the county of Lancaster, son of P. Ashton, deceased, who resigned his soul to God, August 5, 1718, aged 42. Kichard Petty died March 7, 1723, aged 49." BOSWELL. In the North Quire, the figure of the greatest part of a woman, in a praying posture, and four children below, also X-raying, over the children's heads the names Elizabeth, Mary, Jane, Dorithy. On the right side of the woman's head the arms of Savile ; on the left, those of Boswell im- paled with .... a saltire ingrailed .... in a chief three roses . . . . — Inscription round the stone: ''Here sleepeth the body of Francis, daughter of Godfrey Boswell, Esq; wife of John Savile, of Newhall, Esquire, whose soul returned to God that gave it, February 20, 1009, aged 00 years." BAIESTOW. In the Chapel yard : " Keliquiie hie reponuntur Jeremet: Bairstow, Viri, si quid venerationis sibi vendicant. Liter- arum scientia, rerum sacrarum peritia, morum probitas, vitie sanctitas, reveri'i reverendi. Qui postquam per aiinos trigiuta et amplius, gregi quodam christiano Pastor fidelis invigilasset, officii rationem, animamq ; Deo reddidit 27 Julii, 1731." This was composed by the Eev. Mr. Elston. See below. In English. *' Here is deposited the remains of Jeremy Bairstow, a a truly venerable man, if the science of letters, probity of 180 BIOGRAPHIA manners, and sanctity of life have any claim to that character, during a term of more than 30 years. He was a faithful and vigilant Pastor over a christian congregation, and commended his soul to God July 27, 1731." CLAY. From Dr. Johnson's manuscript : " Hie jacet sepultus Johannes Clay, de Clayhouse, qui obiit decimo octavo die Junii, 1616." On the same stone: "Here lieth Captain John Clay, deceased, September 13, 1643." In English. " Near this place lies interred John Clay, of Clayhouse, who died June 18, 1616." ELSTON. In the Chapel-yard : " M. S. Hanani^ Elston, A. M. qui ingenio acri, limato, subacto, morum probitate, et aperto illo animi recte sibi conscii candore, veram pietatem, iidem, humanitatem, c^litusq; demissam Christianis libertatem, excolebat, tuebatur, promovebat : Qui magnas opes, famamve mortaleis inter neque quseritans, neque assecutus, suorum tamen amorem bonorum omnium, quotquot ilium norant, benevolentiam conciliaret, sib summi certe Judicis savorem adeptus est. Quis enim Viator meliore jure beatam speret immortalitem ? Obiit 22 Junii, 1738." This was composed by the Eev. Mr. Crowther, late Vicar of Otley. In English. " Sacred to the memory of Ananias Elston, M. A. who, with a penetrating, correct, yet well-go-verned judgment, by (a) probity of manners, and an open undisguised candour of mind, conscious of its integrity, cherished, defended, and promoted true piety, faith, humanity, and christian liberty ; who, without cither seeking or acquiring opulence and fame, conciliated the affections of his friends, and the kind regards of all good men who knew him. We trust he has obtained the favour of his Judge for what mortal traveller had better grounds to hope for a happy immortality ? He died 22d June, 1738. HALIFAXIENSIS. 181 ELLISTONES. In the Chapel-yard, over Henry Ellistones, who died at Howroyde, 1697: " Ullamne in rebus humanis, Lector, certitudinem esse reris, cum ipsum hominen una dissolvat hora?" In English. *' Can you suppose, reader, there is any stability in human things, when a single hour can dissolve the man himself? " GRANTHAM. On a marble monument : " Heare lyes the body of Thomas Grantham, of Muxe, in the county of Yorke, Esq ; sonne of Thomas Grantham, late of Goltho, in the county of Liucolne, Esquire. He married Frances, the second daughter of Sir George Wentworth, of Wooley, and departed this life the first day of April, at Fixby, in the 35th year of his age, Anno Dom. 1668." " John Grantham, the youngest sonne of the saide Thomas Grantham, of Goltho, departed this life the seventh day of March, at Fixby, in the 17th year of his age, Anno Dom. 1667, and lyes in this Queare." " Heer lyes the body of Frances Grantham, wife to Thomas Grantham, Esquire, who died March 12, 1692, and lyes interred in her husband's grave. Beside them lyes Vincent Grantham, their only son, who died when he was 12 years of age, whose bodyes now rest in peace, waiting the resurrection of the just." HORTON. On a marble monument near the communion table : " Near this place below lies interred the body of William HoRTON, of Howroyde, Esq. who died in the 64th year of his age, 1715-16. He married Mary, the youngest daughter of Sir Richard Musgrave, of Heaton-Castle, in the county of Cumberland, Baronet, by whom he left two sons, William and Richard ; the eldest, William Horton, of Coley, Esq. died in the 38th year of his age, in 1739, and Richard Horton, the younger son, of Howroyde, Esq. who died a bachelor, in the 35th year of his age, in the year 1742. In memory of whom this monument was erected by the relict and mother of the 182 BIOGRAPHIA deceased, and present possessor of Howroyde, Mrs. Mary Horton, who designedly omitted many deserved praises, lest some honour should thereby redound to herself," Arms, Horton impaling Musgrave. On a white marble monument near the Communion Table : **In memory of Thomas Horton, of Barkisland-hall, and Everilde, his wife, daughter of John Thornhill, Esq. of Fekisby, by whom he had six sons and five daughters, of which the only survivors were, Elizabeth, married to Richard Bold, Esq. of Bold, in Lancashire. Susanna, married to Richard Beaumont, Esq. of "Whitley- hall, and Anne Horton, here interred, Aj)ril the 22d, 1750. By whose order this monument was erected." Arms, Horton quartered with Gledhill, Barkisland, and Thornhill. There is a mistake made on the above monument, by misplacing the names of Elisabeth, and Susanna, but it is here corrected. HOILE. In the Chapel-yard over one John Hoile : Deo, ac conjugi pius, Justus ac propositi tenax, amicis certus, omnibus affabilis, ac si quid ultra est, sit tota vita pro epitaphio. Vade, et tu fac similiter." In English. Devout towards God, affectionate to his Wife, just and steady to his purpose, sincere to his friends, affable to all, and if aught remains, let his whole life be his Epitaph. — Go and do thou likewise. HANSON. From Dr. Johnson's Manuscripts: ''Here sleepeth the body of Nicholas Hanson, one of the Attornies of the Common Pleas, Servant to Sir John Savile, Baron of the Ch''. a favourer of religion, whose soul returned to his Saviour November 7, 1613." The oldest date upon the grave-stones at Ealand is this " John Hanson de Woodhouse, 1599. ^t. 82." There are also above twenty pieces of poetry in this Chapel-yard, but the composition is not worth recording; we shall, therefore, only take notice of a singularity on one of HALIFAXIENSIS. 183 the grave-stones, which is an anagram upon one Maria Tailour, which it seems will make A mari alto rui, and then follows this observation, by way of allusion : " From seas of woes, which were due to my crimes Death snatcht me hence, to go to rest betimes." There is also a cou]3let over one Elizabeth Brooke, which has been a little admired : " She was — but room forbids to tell you what ; Think v/hat a wife should be, for she was that. CURATES OF E ALAND. It is impossible to give a perfect list of these ; the following is the best which I can make out : Thomas Stkenger, Chaplain of the Parochial Chapel of Elande, 1459. .Tames Butterfield, 1544 married to Elizabeth Gill. See Halifax Register. Michael Savile, July, 1561. Robert Milner, Curat, de Eland, sej)ult. December 22, 1565. Richard Worral, entered to the Curacy, 1588. CoNSTANus Maud, was buried November 17, 1600. Edward Sunderland, A.M. of Clare-hall, Camb. entered to the Curacy in 1601, was buried February 1, 1632. John Thompson, entered in 1633. Robert Houldsworth, 1651. .... Abbot, in 1650, and 1652. Robert Towne, 1652, for whom see Calamy's account of ejected Ministers, page 809. R. Walker, 1656, and to March, 1661. JosiAH Brodeheade, Marcli 2, 1663 and 1664. Peter Asheton, A.M. March 4, 1667. Buried at Ealand, November 3, 1698. Richard Petty, March 5, 1699, and 1703. Jeremiah Bairstow, 1721, died July 28, 1731. George Smith, died December 4, 1733. Thomas Alderson, March 1734. Samuel Ogden, D. D. March, 1747. George Burnet. There was also one Hugh Gledhill, Curate here, but at what time uncertain. 184 BIOGRAPHIA TESTAMENTARY BURIALS AT ELAND. FROM TORE'S MS. 1399, John Satv^ill, of Eland Chevalier. 1529, John Thornhill, of Fixby, to be buried within the chapel of our blessed Lady St. Mary, of Eland, in St. Nicholas Quire, or in the Chancel thereto adjoining. 1545, John Sayvill, of Newhall, Gen. 1566, Henry Sayvil^ of Bradley. 1567, John Thornhill, of Fixby. 1580, Thomas Savile, of Eland. 1583, Elizabeth, widow of John Thornhill, of Fixby, esq. 1598, Bryan Thornhill, of Fixby. 1607, John Thornhill, of Fixby, esq. 1669, John Thornhill, of Fixby, esq. LIST OF CURATES AT HEPTONSTALL, FROM DIFFERENT AUTHORITIES. "T"rENEY VI, Thomas Marshall, of Heptonstall, Cap- ^^ Xl ellanus.— 1572, WilHam Mitchell.— 1579, William Ireland. — 158G, John Hanley. — 1647, Eichard Coore. — 1652, James Crouchley. — 1655, Daniel Towne. — 1656, Eagland.— 1660, Diglin.— July, 1662, Ferret.— July, 1663, and to 1665, Jeremy Hay.— 1668, and to 1703, Daniel Towne. — 1713, Thomas Greenwood. The list from Heptonstall Register is this; 1609, Booth.— 1615, Scholfeilde.— 1630 and 1631, William Smith.— 1632 and 1633, Leonard Burton.— 1636 and 1641, Eobt. Gilbodie.— 1644, Ma. Boothe.— 1645 and 1649, Eichard Coore.— 1654, James Chrichley.— 1661, Will. Aiglin.— 1662, Joseph Ferret. He was buried at Halifax. — 1663 and 1667, Jeremy Hey. — 1669 and 1712, Daniel Towne, who died May 3, 1712. — 1712 and 1744, Thomas Greenwood, who had in this last year for his successor, Toby Sutcliffe, the present Curate. All the above I have found to be Curates in the years specified. HALIFAXIENSIS. 185 TESTAMENTARY BURIALS AT HEPTONSTALL. ROBERT SHAGH, buried in the church-yard of the chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr, of Heptonstall, 1467, in the 7th year of the reign of Edward IV. This from a manuscript m the British Museum, Harleian Collection. No 797 ; and from hence may be seen, among numberless other instances which might be produced, what little distinction was formerly made in this parish, between the words church and chapel ; they sometimes were certainly meant to convey the same idea, as where Richard Waterhouse, of Shelf, ordered by will, in 1617, some legacies to be paid in the chapel church of Coley. Laurence Stansfeld, of Stansfeld's, Will, proved March 10, 1534, his body to be buried in the church or chapel of Heptonstall. George Wheatley, of Heptonstall's, Will, proved August ii5, 1586, his body to be buried in the chancel at Heptonstall, amongst the bodies of other faithful people. Registers at York. In the chancel, near the communion table, is the following epitaph in capitals : " 1712. The Revd. Mr. Daniel Towne, who supplied the cure of souls in this church of Heptonstall 44 years, died May 3, and was here buried the 8th, aged 81. His last Text was, Buye the truth and sell it not. Prov. xxiii. 23." In one of the isles is an antient grave-stone, the in- scription round which is worn out, but a Calvary Cross is still visible thereon. On one of the windows are the arms of Stansfield, of Stansfield ; date in old numerals, 1508. CURATES OF RASTRICK. 1411, Dom. Johannes Pip', as by deed. — 1630, or there- abouts, Roger Attey. — 1650, Waterhouse. — Feb. 26, 1652, and to 1655, John Kaye, Pastor of Rastrick. — 1655 ... ... Mitchel.— 1656 to 1658, Jones.— Feb. 1661, Eobinson.— Feb. 1664, Matthew Shirt.— Feb. 1666, John Baskervile.— Feb. 1674, Peter Bell.— Feb. 1676, Dennis 186 BIOGRAPHIA Hayford.— June, 1688, Hanson.— March 5, 1689, Walker.— 1694 and, 1703, Kobert Laycock.— Feb. 1713, Edward Waring.— Feb. 1719, John Metcalf.— Feb. 1748, George Braithwaite. N. B. Mr. Eobinson abovementioned was one of the ejected Ministers. See Calamy, vol. ii page 818, where also a Mr. Ashley is said to have been a Preacher at Kastrick, though not a fixed one. — For him see Calamy, vol. ii. page 183, 184, 818. EPITAPHS AT RIPPONDEN. AINSWOETH. The oldest stone in this Chapel-yard is over one Henry AiNSwoRTH, and is dated March 29th, 1657. HILL. On a handsome well cut tomb- stone erected over a vault : *' Here lies interred the body of Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Elisabeth Hill, of Sojdand, who departed this life the 23d of July, 1729, aged 15 years. "Also the body of Ann, their daughter, who died the 3d of April, 1730, aged 5. '* Also of Joseph, their son, who died the 14tli of January, aged 3. " Also of Samuel, their son, who died the lltli of June, 1732, aged 12. "Also the body of Deborah, the wife of James Hill, of Soyland, who died the 9th of October, 1741, aged 84. " Also of James, son of the aforesaid Samuel and Eliz. Hill, who died the 16th of January, 1753, aged 30. *' Also of Betty, wife of Eichard Hill, (daughter of Eoger Kay, neav Bury, in Lancashire), who lived unblameable thro' life, and died lamented, the 25th of October, 1747, aged 19. "Also the body of Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Hill, of Soyland. She died the 1st of July, 1756, aged 65 years. "Also of Samuel, son of Eichard (and grandson of Sam- uel Hill,) who died 22d of October, 1756, aged 10 years and 8 months. HALIFAXIENSIS. 187 LIVE SAY. " Here was interred the body of John Livesay, A. B. of Brazen Nose College, Oxford, wlio died the 5*^ day of April, Anno Dom. 1730, in the 31*'' year of his age. Also the body of Hannah, his wife, relict of Mr. John Hoyle, late of Royde, in Soyland, who died the 13'^ day of March, 1729, aged 40 years." SUNDERLAND. ''Here was interred the body of John Sunderland, sen*" Curate of Ripponden, who departed this Ufe the 218* ^^y of April, Anno Dom. 1720." N. B. The stone on which this is cut, was laid down since the old Chapel was destroyed. There was a stone fixed in the wall of the old Chapel, with this inscription : " Juxta, Johannis Sunderland, hujus Sacelli nuper Pastoris, deposits) sunt exuviae, die Jnnii 23, Anno Dom. 1720." On another stone : " Here was interred the body of John Sunderland, jun. Curate of Sowerby Bridge, Sep. 15th, 1715." And on the same : '* Here was interred the body of the Rev. Mr. William Sunderland, A. B. Curate of Rippon- den above 29 years, who died the 1st day of March, 1749, aged 73 years." WRIGHT. "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 8*^ day of June, 1754, in the 47th year of his age." CURATES OF RIPPONDEN. 1588 and 1593, Henry Sharrock— April 6, 1650 and 1655, Isaac Allen. — 1656, and to August 1663, Roger Kenion — April 6, 1664, Ralph Wood, who was buried at Ripponden, Feb. 16, 1696-7.— 1699, John Sunderland.— August 1720, William Sunderland, who died March 1, 1749-50. — May 17, 1750, Thomas Wright took possession. — At Martinmass, 1754, John Watson took possession, and after fifteen years resident there, removed to the Rectory of Stockport. 188 BIOGRAPHIA The above Roger Kenion was turned out, (as Calaruy, page 837, informs us), by the Bartholomew Act, but after- wards conformed. We have copies of his two last sermons preached at Ripponden, August 17, 1663, wherein he advises his hearers *' not to neglect the first opportunity of closing with another, for he was persuaded that true spiritual bread would be more scarce and precious than it had been." In all probability they would not easily find one so curious at a simile as he; for in the latter sermon he says, "We are like unto a man that is in a pinakle of a church, and seeth out at a hoale, where he can see nothing but what is before the hoale, but God is like unto a man on the top of the pinakle, that seeth round about." CURATES AT LUDDENDEN. 1526, John Robinson. — 1606, Marmaduke Farrar, buried in that year; see Halifax Register. — 1634, Nathaniel Welch. —1652 and 1662, Jonathan Fairbank.— June 1664 and 1665, Edward Doughty. — June 1666, Robert Dewhirst. — June 7, 1671, Gregson.— June 1672, Hall.— March 3, 1674, Robert Sutcliffe. — January 1676, Edward Dean. — June 1678, James Roberts. — June 1682, Sunderland. — June 1698 and 1702, David Hartley.— June 1706, Thomas Greenwood. — 1710 and 1713, Robert Laycock.— June 1720, John Earnshaw. — June 1722, George Smith. — June 6, 1724, came to be Curate Edward Watkinson, M. D. who staid there three years and seven months. — June 1728 Joshua Brooksbank, buried May 9, 1740. — June 174.0, Robert Bre- reton. — June 1743, John Grimshaw. — June 1749, John Welsh.— 1750, Benjamin Travis.— 1761, Thomas West. EPITAPHS AT COLEY. BRAMFIT. IN the Chapel-yard: "Here lieth interred the body of Joseph Bramfit, who departed this life July 10, 1733, in the 88d year of his age ; and also Susanna, his daughter, HALIFAXIENSIS. 189 who died the same day, in the 7th year of her age ; also Phebe, his daughter, who died the same day, in tlie 5th year of her age : Behold a loving husband, and his two daughters lay ; They smother'd were by smoke all on one day." HUDSON. Between the body of the ChajDel and the Chancel, on a plain stone monument : " Near the door of this seat lie the remains of John Hudson, sou of the Kevd. Mr. Thomas Hudson, and of Martha his wife, late of Hipperholm, who died July 21, 1739, aged 4 j^ears. SHARP. Within the Chapel, at the west end, on a stone monu- ment : " Near this place lie interred the body of Ann, late wife of Nathan Sharp, of Hipperholm, Clerk, who departed this life the 20*^, and was buried here the 22^^ of March, 1727, aged 52 years and 7 months. *' As also the body of her husband, Nathan Sharp, who departed this life the 9*^, and was buried the 12*^^ of May, 1733, aged 58 years and 10 months." Arms below, Sharpe, which, to the best of my remem- brance, were. Azure a pheon argent, within a bordure of the second, charged with eight torteauxes ; impaling, Priestley, viz. Gules on a chevron argent, three grappling irons sable, between three towers of the second, issuant out of each a demi lion rampant, or. This Mr. Sharpe was School-master at Hipperholme near thirty years. There are some other epitaphs, and a few of them in the poetic strain, but the composition is too low for the press. CURATES OF COLEY. 1530, Richard Northend, Capellanus in capella de Coolay. — 1613, Gibson. — 1631, Richard Denton. — August, 1649, Nicholas Cudworth. — 1652, Oliver Heywood, ejected from thence in 1662, (See Calamy, vol. ii. page 804, &c.) 190 BIOGRAPHIA. He was succeeded by John Hool, who was also Curate here in 1670.— Nov. 1G71, Moore.— Nov. 1672, Ichabod Fournes. — Nov. 4, 1674, Andrew Louthian. — Dec. 1676, George Hovie.— 1682, and 1689, Timothy Elhson.— 1703, Nathan Sharpe. — November 1733, John Holdsworth. — Nov, 1741, Samuel Ogden. — Nov. 1747, Henry Whitworth, who died July 15, 1768. A Mr, Marsden was Curate here before Oliver Heywood. See Calamy, vol. ii. page 810. CUEATES OF ILLINGWOETH. 1578, John Best, buried at Halifax, February 22, 1578.— 1650, Richard Clarkson. — 1652 to 1655, Nathaniel Heywood, (See Calamy, vol. ii. page 394). — 1656, Bradshaw. — 1658 and 1664, Paul Greenwood.— Oct. 1668, Edward Wilkinson, who died Jan 4, 1704.— Oct. 1706, David Hart- ley.— Oct. 1717, Daniel Bentley.— Jan, 1748-9, J. Grimshaw. CUEATES OF SOWEEBY BEIDGE CHAPEL. 1635 and 1646, Robert Booth.— 1651 and 1652, Ainsworth. — 1652 and 1653, Thompson. — 1655 and 1658, Daniel Bentley,— Sept. 4, 1661, and Sept. 3, 1662, Timothy Eoot. He was turned out by the Bartholomew Act, (says Calamy, vol. ii. page 837), and afterwards con- formed. — September 1663, and 1664, Elnathan Bains. — 1665, John Brotherton.— September 1670 and 1701, Berron. — 1703, John Sunderland, who died September 15, 1717. — 1717, Thomas Dunn. — September 1718, John Lup- ton, buried March 25, 1730. — September, 1730, Abraham Sharpe, who died April 17, 1732. — September, 1732, William Stackhouse, — Eichard Fisher, who entered, July 1746. HALIFAXIENSIS. 191 EPITAPHS AT LIGHTCLIFFE CHAPEL. In the Chapel-yard : * ' Here is interred the body of Mary^ the mother of Colonel Guest, of Lidgate, in Lightcliffe, who departed this life Sept. 10, 1729, aged 88." At the east-end within the Chapel: "Here lies interred the Eevd. Mr. Joshua Hill, Curate of this chapel near thirty -two years, who was buried June the 11th, in the 79tli year of his age, A. D. 1739, of whom it has often been said, that he was neither poor, proud, nor covetous." With some others, not worth publishing. CURATES OF LIGHTCLIFFE. 1630, John Peebles, Preacher at Lightclive, (Halifax Register.)— 1634, John Burtomood.— 1647, 1649, and 1650, Wilham Ainsworth. — 1650 Heald. — December 1, 1652, John Bell.— 1655, Hopkins.— 1656, and 1661, Seddon. — December 1668, and 1673, Alexander Bate. — 1673, Paul Bairstow. — December, 1677, Walker, late Minister of Lightcliffe.— 1678, and 1700, Wilham Clifford.— 1703, Thomas Greenwood. — December, 1706, Joshua Hill. (He was blind for some time.) — Jonathan Wright," Light- cliffe, died June 25, 1727.— October, 1739, Richard Fisher took possession. — December, 1746, Geo. Braithwaite. — Dec- ember, 1746, Benjamin Travis. — March, 1752, Richard Sutcliffe. In Mr. Dickenson's manuscript register at Northouram, it is said that the above William Clifford died in Northouram, April eighteen, 1732-3, and was buried at Halifax ; that he was many years Curate at Lightcliffe, afterwards at Haworth, and was very old, having not preached of many years. CURATES OF ST. ANN'S. 1650, Richd. Core.— February, 1652, Christopher Taylor, Quaker. — 1653, Waterhouse. — 1656, Smethurst. — * A Dissenting Minister; never Ciu-ate. 192 , BIOGEAPHIA January, 1661, Gamaliel Marsden, ejected by the Act of Uniformity. See Calamy, vol. ii. page 810. — 1663, Eicliard Boy. — January, 1665, Christopher Fisher.— 1666, Eichard Boyes again. — January, 1668, Brooke. — January, 1670, Clegg.— January, 1675 and 1689, Thomas Walker. — But 1676, in January, Nehemiah Feme occurs as Curate. N.B. There is no certainty who was the licensed Minister about this time, for the above Mr. Clegg received part of Mr. Waterhouse's annual legacy to the Curate of St. Ann's, in 1679 and 1680, and afterwards when Thomas Walker is mentioned as Curate there. January, 1698 and 1703, Joshua Hill. — 1708, Stephen Carr. — January, 1714, John Sheffield. — January, 1716, John Godley, who signed "no graduate." — 1718, Thomas Lister. — January, 1731, Thomas Haldsworth. — September, 1746, entered Eichard Sutcliffe. — Martinmas, 1750, entered Thomas Meyrick. CUEATES OF SOWEEBY. 1572 and 1583, Adam Morris, who went Chaplain to a regiment in Ireland, and was buried at Halifax, September 24, 1591. John Broadley, who, during the building of the last chapel, preached thirteen Sundays on the dial- stone in the chapel-yard, without so much as a shower of rain to disturb him. He was buried at Halifax, February 14, 1625, and called in the Eegister there. Pastor dignissimus. 1635, Nathaniel Eathband, M. A. also March 16, 1645. 1646, Henry Eoote, also, May 8, 1662. Mr. Calamy, vol. ii. page 809, says that in 1645 (which must be soon after the death of Mr. Eathband,) he gathered a congregational church, and was Pastor to them till 1662 ; that he preached in his chapel for half a year after Bartholomew-day, but was, at length, dragged out of his chapel, and sent to York Castle, where he continued three months. He died October 20, 1669, ap:ed about 80, and was buried at Sowerby. He was educated at Magdalen Coll. Camb. and was a consider- able traveller in his younger days. May 1064, Edward Wilkinson. — May 1665, Christopher Jackson.— May 6, 1668 to 1670, Bovile.— May 1672, HALIFAXIENSIS. 193 James Bowker, who was banished for criminal conversation with a daughter of Mr. Farrer, of Gatelands. — May 167G^ Christopher Etherington, who died suddenly, January, 4^ 1678-9, and was buried at Sowerby.— May 1679 and 1682, John Witter, who was buried at Sowerby, December 27, 1697, aged 66. — Benjamin Baron, or Berron, and son, held Sowerby and Sowerby Bridge. — The elder was afterwards Vicar of Bradford.— May 7, 1701, WilHam Midgley, who died of a palsy. May 7, 1706, and was buried in Halifax church, aged about 30. — 1708, Archibald Young, who was thrown out at York by the Inhabitants of Sowerby, and was afterwards Curate of Haslingden, in Lancashire. — 1710,. Richard Marsden, who left Sowerby that year. — 1711, Nicholas Jackson, who was buried at Sowerby, February 11, 1729.— May, 1730, John Sheffield, who died November 23, 1735, and was buried at Sowerby. — May 1736, Christopher Gunby, who was buried at Sowerby. — 1750, John Welsh,. M. A. CURATES OF CROSTONE. 1650, Smethurst.— 1652 and 1662, George Stott.— August 1663 and 1665, Robert Dewhurst.— August, 1670, Gregson. — August, 1671, John Sunderland. — August, 1682 and 1689, Richard Robinson, who died April 28, 1690. — 1703, Thomas Ferrand. — September, 1706, Archibald Young. — 1708, and 1711, and 1714, and 1716, Edward Metham.— August 1728, Michael Godley. — August 1732, Joshua Brooke. — December, 1734, entered John Grimshaw. — August, 1744, Tobit Sutcliffe. — August, 1745, John Welsh. — 1750, John Law, who died September 6, 1768. EXTRACT FKOM THE SURYEY Of the MANOR of WAKEFIELD, Made in 1314. AT the head of my copy of this record, is wrote, "E " libro vocato, JDomisday-booke ; " and then follows, *' Extenta redditus et servicii liberorum sokse de Wakefeild, 194 BIOGRAPHIA "facta ad natal. Dni. anno Dni, 1314." What relates to Halifax parish is as follows : " Fekisbye, Will, son of Tho. 4e Totehill, 4s. Peter, son of William, 3s. Jowortlie, relict of Eobert, 3d. Hen. son of Constan. 14d. Barnard, 18d. Tho. son of Adam, 2s. Eob. son of Eichard, 21d. Alan, son of Alan, 20d. John, son of Eobert, 3s. Eastricke, Will, son of Annabel, 5s. 3d. Will, son of Walter, Id. ob. Alexander de Eastricke, 2d. Staynelande, Iho. de Thorne- ion, 10s. Hen. de Frankyshe, 6d. foreign service from both, 2s. 9d. Brighowse, Hugh de Totehill, 3s. 3d. Tho. del Eoods, 18d. Hipperholm, the tenants there, and in Priest- ley, 3s. Presteley, Hen. de Northend, 4s. 3d. Eic. del Eooks, 4s. Id. ob. Tho. del Brooke, 15d. Alice de Colde- ley, 15d. Tho. de Eooks, 3s. 6d. EHas del Brooke, 7d. ob. Hugh de Prestley, 6d. Hen. de Copley, 2s. Elias de Shelfe, 4d. ob. Northourome, John de Birstall, Id. Shipden, Adam de Stancliffe, 8s. 6d. Eob. son of Christian, 13d. ob. Eob. de Eigge, 3d. John de Shipden, 8s. Margaret de Bentley, 12d. Shelffe ; the men of sir John de Thornhill, for foreign service, 4s. 6d. Midgley, Dns. Adam de Ever- ingham, for the vill of Midgley, 2s. Eastricke, John del Okes, for one tenement, and one bovate of land, 4d. Alex, del Okes, one ten. 8 acres, Id. Eichard, son of Maud, for five acres, 2s. ob. Skircoit and Norlande ; the men of Tho. de Langfeld, Matthew de Bosco and John de Lepton, for foreign service, 2s. The men of Tho. de Thorneton, for the same, 10s. The men of Tho. de Langfeld, for the same, 6s. And the men of Tho. de Thornehill, 12d. — And then follow the words, ''Finis terras liberie." Graveship of Fekisbye and Eastricke. — Peter, son of Will, one ten. 5 acres, called bordelands, for homage, fealty, and 8s. yearly. John, son of Eob. one ten. two bovates, and three acres for homage, fealty, and 3s. Eob. son of Eic. one ten. and one bovate, for horn, fealty, and 21d. Tho. son of Adam, for hom. fealty, and 2s. Alan, son of Alan, one ten. two bovates for hom. fealty, and 20d. Bernard, one ten. one bovate for hom. fealty, and 18d. Henry, son of Constance, half a bovate for hom. fealty, and 13d. ob. Jowet, half a ten. and half a bovate, for hom. fealty, and 8d. All these were due at Michaelmas, Purification, and Pentecost; and every one who held the aforesaid eight HALIFAXIENSIS. 195 "bovates, was to give for a bovate, and take fourpence half- penny at the feast of St. Andrew. The said tenants paid yearly, for two ploughs to plough the said eight bovates, eight-pence in the time of spring, and if they had more, they paid four-pence for every plough, except Peter, son of Will, who paid nothing. And the above, and all other householders who kept fires in the moiety of the vill of Fekisby, gave each for reaping 3d. at the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, except the said Peter ; and there were then five houses which had fires ; if they increased, they were to pay more, at the will of the lord. Lands granted from the waste of the said vill. Piichard, son of Thomas, 4 acres, for 16d. Hen. son of Tho. -1 acres, for 12d. Hen. son of Will. 3 acres, for 12d. Eic. de Anne- ley, 4 acres and half for 18d. Tho. son of John, 5 acres for 20d. Hen. de Totehill, 2 acres, for Bd. Will, son of Stephen, 2 acres, for 8d. Tho. at the wood, 2 acres, for 8d. Eve, wife of Hugh, 3 acres, for 12d. Beatrix, daughter of Tho. 3 acres, for 12d. Tho. de Yelitherigg, half an acre, for 3d. all due at the times above-mentioned. The nativi in Eastrick. Adam, son of Ynon, one tene- ment, half a bovate, and ten acres, for 6s. 4d. and repair of Wakefield mill dam. Eoger, son of Matthew, one ten. half a bovate, and six acres, for 3s. for tak. 14d. and repair of said dam. Will, de Wodehowses, one ten. half a bovate, for 2s. for tak. 2d. and repair of said dam. The same person 12 acres, for 4s. Eoger de Wodhous, one ten. 5 acres, for 19d. and for tak. 5d. Beatrix, wife of Alan, one ten. half bov. 12 acr. for 7s. and repair of said dam. Matthew, son of Eichard, one ten. half bov. 10 acres, one rod, for 6s. 5d. for tak. 12d. and said repair. Matthew de Totehill, one ten. half bov. and 4th part of a bov. &c. for 9s. lid. and said repair. Will, de Totehill, one ten. 4tli part of a bov. 3 acres for 2s. Tho. del Okes, one ten. half bov. 12 acres and half, 16s. 2d. and said repair. John Seele, one ten. half bov. 7 acres, for 4s. 4d. Hen. son of Modest, one ten. 6 acres, 2s. John de Botherod, one ten. half bov. and 4th part of a bov. and 8 acres, for 6s. 8d. He was also to reap one day, and plow as he plowed his own land, or give 4d. for a whole plough, 2d. for half, and repair said dam. John Coward (one MS sais Crowder,) one ten. half bov. 6 acr. for 6s. shall reap to the value of a penny, and repair said dam. John, 196 BIOGRAPHIA son of Alexander, one ten. half bov. 6 aer. for 5s. 5d. and said repair. Hen. son of John, one ten. half bov. and 4th part of a bov. 17 acr. for 8s. 9d. ob. qa. and said repair. Adam . . . one ten. 9 acr. 1 rod and half, for 3s. 4d. Will, son of Hen. one ten. 8 acr. for 2s. 6d. qa. and one penny reaping. Tho. de Rodes, one ten. 4th part of a bov. 6 acr. for 3s. 4d. ob. one penny reaping, and said repair. Will, son of Hugh, 4 acr. for lod. John, son of Ric. one ten. half bov. 10 acr. and half, for 5s. 6d. one penny reaping, and said repair. Peter, son of Hen. one ten. 5 acr. and half, for 18d. and one penny reaping. Margery, d. of Ynon, one ten. half acr. 1 rod, for 4d. Hen. s. of Peter, one ten. half bov. 8 acr. for 4s. Id. and said repair. John, s. of Ric. one ten. 4th part of bov. and acre, for 3s. 6d. and said repair. Will. s. of Adam, 3 acr. for 9d. Roger, s. of Matthew, half of 9 acr. for Id. ob. Alex. Cissor, 2 acr. 4th part of a rod, for 9d. John, s. of Roger, 4 acr. for 13d. Hen. s. of Will. 4 acr. for 12d. ob. Alex, de Brighouse, 1 acr. and half rod, for 7d. ob. John de Shepele, 10 acr. for 3s. 4d. Rog. de Brighowse, sen. 1 acr. and half, for 16d. Peter de Sowtcliff, 4 acr. half rod, for 16d. ob. Symon de Shipden, 1 acr. for 4d. Free tenants. John del Okes holds freely one toft, one bov. for 4d. and for plowing 4d. if he have ale or plough, if not, he shall pay nothing, and for reaping 3d. Alex, de Okes holds freely one ten. 8 acr. for Id. and for reaping 3d. Ric. s. of Maud, holds freely 5 acr. for 2d. ob. "All the ** nativi in this graveship shall make the mill dam of Wake, " and pay marchet money for the said bovates, which they "hold, and grind all their corn at the mill of Rastrick, and " pay for take 6s. 8d." This may serve as a specimen of the whole survey. What is farther worth remarking therein so far as it relates to the parish of Halifax, I shall here set down. Graveship of Hipperholm. One Tho. son of Tho. was to pay 8d. for the take of Hogs for one bovate ; and for grinding of malt 2s. and for other lands to plow with 4 oxen or pay 2d. and reap or pay Id. Also to assist the grave in di'iving cattle taken in making distress throughout the whole grave- ship, to Wakefield, as often as he should be called upon by the said grave. Several others were bound in like manner, and, in case of refusal, were to be fined. Some of the free tenants of Hipperholm were tied to give to the lord for a HALIFAXIENSIS. 197 whole plough 4d. and for as many beasts as they should plough with, two oxen in one yoke, one penny, and for reaping one penny. Under the free farm of Northouram. The men of John de Eland for foreign service 8s. The men of sir John Thornhill, for the same, 4s. 6d. The forinseca of Stainland, 2s. 9d. The pannage of Hipperholm, comuni- bus annis four pounds, and 4s. 6d. for take, and 3s. 8d. for plow work, 2s. for grinding, 3d. for Bak stones from one Tho. del Northend, 2s. 9d. for reaj)ing, and an hundred shillings for perquisites of court. The rents which sir John de Eland receiyed yearly in the graveship of Hipperholme were of Will, de Sunderlande 19s. Id. of John de Sunder- lande, 12s. lOd. of Symon de Supeden, 3s. and of Tho. Bland, 6d. Graveship of Sowerby. Here the lord has a manor in his chase. Will, de Townend for his lands bound to grind at the mill of Soland at the twentieth vessel, to assist in mak- ing the eldest son of the lord a knight, in marrying his eldest daughter, and shall go a hawking with the lord as often as he shall come thither, for the first day at his own charges, and if not, shall x>ay Id. Several others were bound to the same service. Each of the tenants in the manor of Sowerby having hogs, to give for every hog 2d. and for an hoggete Id. for take, worth yearly on an average in Sowerbye, Warluley, and Soland, in an hundred hogs, and as many hoggets, if the sows bred as usual, 30s. The hogs to be reckoned at Michaelmass, and the money to be paid at Martinmass. There is in the forest an iron forge, which may continue for ever, worth 91. 12s. yearly, viz. 4s. in each week, except fifteen -days at Christmas, and fifteen days at Easter and Whitsontide. The lord may have in the forest five score cows and bulls in three vaccaries, and eight score fat beasts may be in Baytinge, where may be agisted, besides the aforesaid beasts, an hundred great beasts between the feasts of St. Helen and St. Giles, worth yearly 40s. The pannage of the whole graveship worth yearly about 100s. The herbage in Hadreschelfe 24s. HerJjage in Man- kanhulls 16s. Escape .of the cattle of Midgley and Ludding- den 10s. Escape at Eybume 5s. The mill at Soland 46s. 8d. The mill of Warlulley 26s. 8d. Perquisites of court 101. Escape of beasts out of Northland 2s. 6d. Agistments 198 BIOGRAPHIA in the common pasture 36s. 8d. In Soland. John de Hole was bound in all things as Will, de Townend above- mentioned, as were several others in this district. All the rents arising from seventeen tenants here amounted to 69s. lid. ob. These paid to the lord for foreign service 2s. Rishworth paid foreign service to the same 12d. Out of which were paid to sir John Eland for his life 2d. yearly. Warley. Here the men of Tho. de Langfeild, Matthew de Bosco, and John de Lepton ; as also the men of Tho. de Thorneton, and Tho. de Thornhill, are said to pay the same foreign service money as already mentioned Jn this survey after Skircoit and Norlande ; and the tenants are said to hold their respective lands in this township, " per servicium de Sowerbye." In the margin is wrote " Skircotes & Northe- land." At the foot of this survey was wrote, *' The sum total of " the whole extent 3751. 16s. lid. ob. qa." The whole of earl Warren's rents in the north parts is also there made to amount to 6681. 3s. 6d. ob. qa. out of which there was paid yearly about 1001. to constables, watchmen, and gate keep- ers at castles. ACCOUNT OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER'S LAND IN HALIFAX PAKISH. QUEEN Eliz. did, by letters patents under the seal of the dutchy of Lancaster, bearing date at Westminster, 9 Oct. in the 8th year of her reign, grant to the right hon. the earl of Leicester, 522 acres one rood and half of land, and a parcel of land containing by estimation eighty yards in length, and forty in breadth, four watercourses, and two parcels of land and waste within the gi*aveship of Sowerby. Also 221 acres, two roods and half of land, and certain pieces of land containing by estimation fifty yards in length, and twenty in breadth, with one watercourse, in the grave- sliip of Hipperholme. Also twelve acres and half a rood of land in the graveship of Rastrick, together with certain HALIFAXIENSIS. 199 parcels of land (tlie whole being new improvement) in tlie gravesliips of Holmefritli, Wakefield, Stanley, Tliornes, and Alverthorp, all wliicli were parcel of the demesne lands of the lordship of Wakefield. He had also in the same letters patents, a grant of lands in the graveship of Bradford ; to hold of the said queen, &c. all the above premises in free and common soccage, and not in capite. These lands, &c. the said earl did, b}- indenture made Dec. 6, 9 Eliz. grant to sir Thomas Gargrave, of Kinsley, knt. and Henry Savile, of Lupset, esq; and their heirs for ever, to hold the same, together with the said letters patents, on the conditions in the said letters patents mentioned. The rent for the above lands to the crown was four pence for every acre ; and at the death of a principal tenant four pence, in the name of a fine or heriot ; also the like fine on every alienation, and suit of court. 200 BIOGRAPHIA NUMBER of INHABITANTS in tlie PAEISH of HALIFAX, in 1763 and 1764, &c. In Halifax division, 1764. Hei}tonstall division, 1764. ,houses Halifax ...1312 Empty 40 Fami- lies. 1272 Stansfield up- houses Empty Fami-I lies. 1 Skircoat ...' 263 12 251 per third ... 129 3 126 Warley ... 503 16 487 Stansfield mid- Midgley ... 224 7 217 dle third ... 207 4 ! 203 Sowerby ... 618 31 587 Stansfield low- Ovenden ... 616 19 1 597 er third ... 140 5 135 Northom-am 660 30 630 Langfield 139 2 [ 137 Shelf 186 6 180 Eringden 183 6 1 177 Hipperliolm 367 15 352 Heptonstall ... 367 15 1 352 Southouram 466 18 194 448 Wads worth ... 396 8 1 388 ; 5215 5021 1561 43 1518 In Eland division, 1763. TOTALS. Brigliouse ... houses Empt 77 3 y Fami- lies 74 Eastrick ... Fixby Iftft' 11 \ t'7n 56 2 54 Eland Greetland ... 262, 23 122' 6 1 239 116 Houses . 8579 Old Linley... Stainland ... 42' 2 201' 6 1 40 195 Empty 335 Barkisland... Soyland 267 17 264' 9 ! 250 255 Families . 8244 Eisli worth ... Norland 131i 2 195 17 i 129 178 Population (?) .. . 41220 1803 98 1705 1 HALIFAXIENSIS. 201 The whole number of families in the above table, taken from the vicar's Easter books, is 8244, and if we allow but five to a family, the amount will be 41,220 ; an amazing in- crease, if Camden's information was any thing near the truth, which he received as he travelled through these i3arts, that the number of inhabitants in this parish was about twelve thousp.nd men ; in which yet I am apt to think he was not very much mistaken ; for in the certificate of the archbishop of York, and others, 2 Ed. VI. concerning chantries, &c. it is said, that "in the parrysh of ''Hallifaxe the nomber of houslyng people is eight thousand five hund- red, and is a great wide parrysh." And during the rebellion in the north, when every protestant, who could carry arms, was zealous to shew his attachment to his religion and the queen, archbishop Gryndall sais, in a letter to queen Eliza- beth, that the parish of Halifax was ready to bring three or four thousand able men into the field. But the most striking instance of the increase of inhabitants in this neighbourhood is from an old paper in my possession, which I shall here faithfully transcribe. " By this underwritten yow may " gather the great encrease of howsinge and people within ^* the towne of Halifax in not many yeares by paste, written ^' by John Waterhowse, of Shipden, and some time lorde of " the mannor of Halifax. " Note, there is in Halifax this yeare 1566, of housholders ^' that keepes fires and answers Mr. vicar in his fermours of " dutyes as householders 20 and six score and noe more (as *' I am crediblye enfoiTaed ;) and in the time of John Water- " house, late of Halifax, deceased, who dyed at Candlemas, *' 26 yeares agoe, att his deathe beinge very neare 100 yeares " of age (I trow three yeares under,) and when he was but a *' childe there were but in Halifax in all 13 howses. God ** be praysed for his encrease." There were but then in Halifax, about the year 1443, when Mr. Waterhouse was born, thirteen families ; these in about 123 years were increased to 520, and in less than 200 years more to 1272 families, and they are at present, I think, increasing more than ever, ov/ing to the flourishing state of their trade, which is not confined to this town, and the precincts thereof, but extends its influence to the remotest corners of the parish, planting colonies in parts which, in former times, could scarce be said to be inhabited ; thus in 202 BIOGRAPHIA Fixby are 54 families, where, in 1314, were only five houses which had fires, as appears from the extent above recited. As an addition to the above, it appears from the register book at Heptonstall, that there were baptised in the parochial chapel there for twenty years, beginning at 1741, 3714 children, and for twenty years before that period only 2375, so that there was an increase of 1339. Buried there in twenty years, beginning at 1741, 2220, and for twenty years before that period, only 1792, so that there was an increase of 428 ; the country must therefore, of course, have many more inhabitants in it than formerly ; a truth which is often attested by living witnesses. And these improvements have been made in some of the most wild and mountainous parts of that parish, which Camden has described to be " solum *' sterile, in quo non modo commode vivi, sed vix vivi possit." BARKESEY, OR BARSEY, IN BARKISLAND. The family which it gave name to, had considerable possessions, and perhaps were the first improvers of the land hereabouts, which lies in a pleasant and tolerably fruitful valley. Some of their names I have met with in dated deeds, which shew thej^ were in being during a great part of the fourteenth century. At Oaks, in Rishworth, is a deed, wherein John, son of Alan de Barkesay, grants to John, son of Richard de Barkesay, certain lands, lying near the brook called Blakeborne, within the divisions of Stainland, Barkeslana, and Greteland. Dated at Barkesay, in 1326. At the same place is a deed of land, quit-claimed here, which for its conciseness is worth in-eserving. "^ciant *' l^resentes & futuri, quod ego Matild. de Eues, dedi, con- *' cessi, relaxavi, & omnino de me & heredibus meis quietum *' clamavi, Johanni filio Roberti de Clay, & heredibus suis, ** vel suis assignatis, totam terram quam emi de Ada patre ** meo in Barkesay, pro quadam summa pecunia3 mihi pro- " priis manibus data. In cujus rei testimonium sigilhmi "meum ai)posui. Hiis testibus Ric. de Schaye, Tho. Cler. **Rog. del Haye, Johe de Ponte, & aliis." A John de Barksey entered into possession of Clogh-houses in Barkisland, (which John de Clay had held,) at the court HALIFAXIENSIS. 203 of the prior of tlie hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, in England, held at Batley, 41 Edw. Ill, 1367. BKISKO. Height [in Barkisland,] probably takes its name from its situation, standing high on the side of a steep hill. Dr. Johnson, in his MS collections for an History of Yorkshire, sais, this is a place of great antiquity. It was, some years ago, the residence of the family of the Firths, who bore for their arms. Or, a fess between three mallets, sable ; and afterwards of Musgrave Brisco, esq ; whose pedegree is as follows. The first lords of Byrkscaye, in the county of Cumberland, took their surname from the place of their habitation, which has been written Byrkscaye, Birkskeugh, Briskugh, Briskoo, Brisko, Brisco, and (as the families in Northamptonshire and Herefordshire write it,) Briscoe. Their arms are, Arg. three greyhounds current in pale, sab. Kobert de Brisko had Allan de Brisko, who had Jordan de Brisko, who had Kobert de Brisko, who was witness to a deed in 1292.- He married Matilda, daughter of sir John Crofton, knt. lord of Crofton, &c. She released her dower and feoffment to her eldest son John, in 1318. She had by the said Robert, another son Isold, who, as John died s. p. inherited the estate, and married Margaret, d. and h. of sir John Crofton, of Crofton, knt. by whom the manors of Crofton, Whinnow, and Dundraw. This Isold had Christopher Brisko, of Crofton, who kept fourteen soldiers in pay at Brisco Thorn upon Hesket. He had Robert (one MS. sais Richard) who married Isabel, d. of Will. Dikes, of Warthol, in Cumberland, by whom Robert, who married Katharine, d. and h. of Clement Skelton, of Pettrelwray, by whom John, who married Jennet, d. of Tho. Salkeld, of Corkby, by whom Richard, Roger, Simon, Christopher, and three daughters. Richard married Elizabeth, d. of John Leigh, of Frisington, by whom Robert, who married, 1st, Barbara, d. of John Coldale, of Haryngton. 2dly, Mabel, d. of Robert Carlisle, esq ; By his first wife he had John, who purchased the Leigh's part of Orton, from Wilfrid Lawson, and Maud, his wife, widow of Tho. Leigh, of Isal, to whom he had given his estate, and another third part thereof from Tho. 204 BIOGRAPHIA Blenerliasset, of Carlisle. He took for his crest, a greyhound sab. bearing an hare proper. This John married Ann, d. of Will. Musgrave, of Hayton-castle, who died before his father sir Edward. By her he had William, who married Jane, d. of William Orfeur, of High-close. He purchased the advow- son of the rectory of Orton, and some remaining parts of the manor. He had John, who married Mary, d. of Tho. Braithwaite, of Burnside, in Westmoreland, esq ; about 1582, by whom Wilham, who died in 1687-8. He was member of parliament for the city of Carlisle, as several of this family had been successively before. He married, 1. Susanna, d. of sir Kandolph Cranfield. 2dly. Susanna, d. of Francis Brown, inerchant and citizen of London. By his first v^^ife he had John, who died in 1690, having married Mercy, d. of Will. Johnson, of Eibblesworth, com. Durham, by whom, I.William, who died s. p. John, a justice of peace for the county of Cumberland, who married Catharine, d. of sir Richard Musgrave, of Hayton, in Cumb. hart, by whom, 1. Richard, who married Margaret, d. and h. of Tho. Lampleugh, of Lampleugh, esq. 2. John, of Crofton, D. D. who married Catharine, d. of John Hilton, of Hilton-castle, com. Durham, esq: by whom, 1. John; 2. Richard, killed in Germany; 3. Hilton, dead s. p. 4. Horton, 5. William Mus- grave, 6\ James, 7. Catharina Maria, dead s. p. 8. Dorothy, who married Jacob Morland, esq : 9. Margaret. William, 3d son of John, was a clergyman, and M.A., he married Margaret Langstaff, by whom, 1. Richard, and 2. William Musgrave, also, 3. Catharine, 4. Mary Horton, and, 5. Ann. Musgrave, 4th son of John, married Mary Fletcher Dyne, d. and h. of Edw. Dyne, of Lankhurst, in Sussex, esq ; by whom, 1. Richard Horton, 2. John, 3. Edward Dyne, 4. Wastel; also a daughter, named Mary Horton, who died very young. James, 5th son of John, married, and had issue. Wastel, 6th sou of John, married, 1st, . . . Beckford, in Jamaica ; 2dly, . . . Campbell, no issue. Ralph, 7th sou of John, married Dorothy Rowland, by whom Dorothy, and Anna Maria. Thomas, 8th son of John, died an infant. The said John had also four daughters, viz. 1. Dorothy, who married, 1st, Richard Lampleugh ; 2dly, . . . Ward. 2. Ka- tharine, who died young ; 3. An-other Katharine, who mar- ried John Holmes, of Holme-hill, in Cumberland ; and 4. Ann, who died young. The last named Katharine had John, Edward, and Katharine, who married .... Somner, esq ; who, in 1766, was next in command to lord Clive. HALIFAXIENSIS. 205 COPLEY— See Savile. CROMWELLBOTHOM— See Lacy. PEDEGREE OF DEAN, OF EXLEY. William DeaD, of Exley, married Isabel, daughter of John Bairstow, by whom Robert, to whom his father gave Exley ; and William, who had the Spout-house and Yeat-house in Halifax, and who married Judith Hanson, who surviving him, married, secondly, Jasper Blythman. She was buried at Eland, March 7, 1633. Robert lived part of his time at Exley, but removed to Priestley, in Hipperholme, where he was living Jan. 12, 1651. He married Ann by whom Gilbert, William, and five daughters. Gilbert was a Lawyer, and belonged to the Six Clerks' Office ; he had William, and a daughter married to Bishop Lake, which daughter was buried at Halifax, Feb. 22, 1699-700, aged 71 ; he also had other daughters, one of which married Kirk, of Oller- thorp. The above William, as well as his father Gilbert, was a man of a melancholic temper. During their indispo- sition, the estate was much impaired, yet so intailed, that, for default of male issue, after the death of William, it came to Robert Dean, mentioned below, who enjoyed it several years, and at last sold it to Mr. Henry Greame, being at that time an hundred pounds per ann. William, son of Robert, above named, was apprentice to a Turkey Merchant, and being taken prisoner by the Turks, and losing all his effects, he returned to London, and having sold all his estate in Yorkshire, went a second voyage, and was taken by the Tartars, and confined several months in great misery. Being redeemed by exchange of prisoners, he returned to London, and died soon after ; he had Robert, and a daughter. Robert was sent down from London, a child of four years old, to one Mr. Savile, of Greetland, who was his father's agent, and with whom effects were left for the child's education, in case the father met with bad fortune. This Robert married, and had a numerous family. The daughter was left in London, but married, and had children. 206 BIOGEAPHIA I know not whether this family ever laid claim to any coat of arms, but the Deans, of Dean-house, in this xmrish^ bore, Argent a fess dancy, in chief three crescents gules. DRAKE AND SHIBDEN. Shibden formerly gave name to a family, who on some account or other, changed their name to Drake. The following account of whom was drawn up from deeds and family papers by the late Mr. Drake, of York, author of the ''Eboracum, &c." assisted by the late Dr. Burton, of York,, author of the " Monasticon Eboracense." William de Schepden, of Nether Schepden, lived temp. Edward I, as by charter dated at Schippedene in 130G, had John de Schipeden, alias Drake, and William. John had John, as by deed 36 Edw. III. He had also John Drake, of Schipeden, as by deed 2 Hen. IV. This John had likewise a son John, as by deed 9 Hen. VI. This last John had Eichard, who lived, as by deed, temp. Edw. IV. He had John, as by charters dated 1443, 1476, and 1483, as also by his marriage settlement deed : he married Cecilia, daughter of John Roper, of Thornton, in Bradford-dale, by whom William, Laurence, Robert, John, Elizabeth, Alice, and Ellen. William lived temp. Hen. VII, as by deed, and married Christobella, daughter of by whom John, who lived temp. Hen. VIII, as by deed. Ho had Thomas, of Horley-green, in the same township, as by deed temp. Phil. & Mar. (Mr. Drake sais nothing when the family sold Shibden, but it is plain that it had taken place at this time,, by this Thomas being removed to Horley-green ; I find also» in the Testamentary Burials at Halifax, extracted from Mr. Torr's MS. that Richard Waterhouse, of Shipden, was buried in 1538, 27 Hen. VIII; so that either this Thomas, or his father, disposed of the old family estate.) Thomas had, 1. William, commonly called William of the Lee, in Halifax parish ; 2. Gilbert ; 3. Humphry, of Pikeley ; 4. Sibilla, or Isabella, who married Mr. Robert Bentley, (and quasre if not a son called John.) William had, 1. Joseph, who married a daughter of Quously, of Lightclift'e, whose father and mother lived to be each an hundred years old. 2. Nathan of Godley ; 3. Jeremy ; 4. Timothy, of London, merchant ; 5. Susan, who married Lister, of'- Shibden-hall ; 6. *Qu : Did not the Estate pass by this marriage into the Lister's family? Richd. Waterhouse might be merely a Tenant . HALIB'AXIENSIS. 207 Pli^ebe, who married Hemingway, of Sliibden-mills ; 7. Esther, who married Humphry, sou of Humphry Drake ; 8. Grace. Nathan above named, second son of William, was a soldier in the civil wars, and served as one of the garrison of Pontefract-castle, for which he lost Godley, &c. He had Samuel, D.D. Eector of Hansworth, and Vicar of Ponte- fract, who was expelled from his Fellowship at St. John's, Cambridge, and afterwards served the King at the siege of Newark ; he married daughter of Abbot ; his sisters were, Elizabeth, married to Stables, of Ponte- fract; and Mary, to Knowles, of Pontefract. Jeremy above named had Timothy ; Abraham, a merchant at New- castle ; Jonathan ; Grace, and Esther. Timothy, the eldest, was brought up by his uncle Timothy, who left him a good estate. He married, and had Kichard, D.D. Precentor of Sarum, and the Publisher of Bishop Andrews's " Greek Devotions." Both he and his father were Benefactors to Pembroke-hall, in Cambridge, and their Arms are in the Catalogue in the Library. Josei)li, who married daughter of Quousley, had Joseph, Thomas, Susan, and Esther. Thomas had William, Elizabeth, and Esther. Joseph, last named, had, 1. Mar- maduke, 2. John, (who had William,) 3. William, 4. Thomas (who had Jeremy, Joseph, John, William and Elizabeth,) 5. Nathan, 6. Elizabeth, 7. Mary, 8. Maud, and 9. Esther. Nathan, last named, was Eector of Kir by Overblows, and had Eobert, Nat, Joseph, Mary, and Betty. Gilbert, second son of Thomas Drake, of Horley-green, above mentioned, married Alice, daughter of Christopher Booth, of Booth's-town, near Halifax, 1 Edw. VI, by wdiom John, Sibilla, and Isabella. N.B. — This is agreeable to the account drawn up by Drake and Burton ; but these Gentle- men seem to have made a mistake ; for in one of Mr. Drake's deeds, dated in 1494, there is mention made of John Drake, son, and heir apparent of this William. The question is, whether William, or Gilbert, married Alice Booth ; for I have copies of two other pedegrees of this family, which agree that John, who married Grace Bairstow, as below, was son of the said Alice. I rather think, that Alice Booth was- the wife of William, not Gilbert, and that this William was father of John, who married Grace, daughter of John BIOGRAPHTA Bairstow, of Northbridge, near Halifax, by whom, 1. John, 2. Thomas, 3. Francis, M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, s. p. 4. Samuel, 5. Daniel, who married the daughter of Holdsworth, by whom John. John, the eldest, married Mary, daughter of John Hoyle, of Hoyle-house, in Hipper- holme, by whom Thomas, s. p. Thomas, second son of John, was Eector of Thornton in Craven, and married, about 1625, Mary, daughter of Christopher Foster, of Leighbourn, in the Bishopric of Durham, by whom William, of Barn- oldswick Cotes, living in 1067, Justice of Peace for the West-riding, who married Mary, daughter of John Stilling- ton, of Kelfield, near York, by whom William, Thomas, Francis, John, Eobert, Mary, Ursula, who married Henry Gill, and Margaret. William married Abigail, daughter of Yates, a Merchant, at Blackburn, in Lancashire, by whom William, Francis, Mary, Ann, and Abigail. William died in 1758, and left his estate about Halifax to his kins- man, Mr. Francis Drake, of York. Humphry Drake above mentioned, son of Thomas, and brother to William, and Gilbert, lived at Pykeley, and had Humphry, who married Esther Drake, his uncle William's daughter, by whom 1. Nathaniel, s. p. who was a Fellow of a College in Oxford, and 2. John, Sub-dean of Kipon, Pre- bendary of York, and Piector of Dunnington, who married Grace Hey, relict of Foxley. This John had, 1. Hum- phry, 2. Gilbert, s. p. 8. Esther, 4. Susanna, who died unmarried, and 5. Frances, who married Eidsdal, of Kipon, by whom Edward. Humphry the eldest, married Catharine Rigby, of Cosgrave, in Northamptonshu-e, by whom, 1. John, 2. Christopher, 3. Montague. 4. Humphry, died young; 5. Humphry, 6. Catharine, 7. Susan, 8. Sarah, 9. Elizabeth, and 10. Mary. Samuel Drake, D.D. born at Pontefract, made Vicar there at the Restoration, and wrote the life of his tutor and friend Mr. Cleveland, married daughter of Abbot, as above, had by her, 1. Francis, 2. Samuel, of Leeds, Clerk, who married daughter of Benson, but died s. p. 8. Nat, who had Thomas, Nat, Samuel, and Richard. 4. John, 5. Edmund, 6. Ann, and 7. Elizabeth, who married Stapleton, D.D. Francis the eldest was M.A. and succeeded his father in the vicarage of Pontefract. He married, first, Hannah, daughter of Paylin, of York, merchant; 2dly, HALIFAXIENSIS. 209 Elizabeth, daughter of John Dixon, of Pontefract, by whom Francis and Margaret. This last Francis was Fellow of the Eoj^al Society, Author of the " History of York," the " Parlia- mentary History of England down to the Eestoration," and of several tracts in the " Philosophical Transactions." He married Mary, daughter of John Wodyear, of Crookhill, near Doncaster, by whom 1. Francis, Yicar of Womersley, Lecturer at Pontefract, and Fellow of Magdalene College, Oxford ; 2. William, first sent to be third master in West- minster school, and afterwards presented to the school of Felsted in Essex, by the right honourable the Earl of Win- chelsea and Nottingham. This William married Mary, daughter of Nat Drake, of Lincoln. He had two younger brothers, John and Henry, who both died young. The above Francis, by his first wife, Hannah Paylin, had 1. John, 2. Samuel, 3. William, 4. Frances who died young; 6. Frances, who married Thomas Barnard, of Leeds, Clerk, and G. Hannah, who married Francis Lascells, of Pontefract, Clerk. John the eldest, B.D. Prebendary of York, succeeded his father in the Yicarage of Pontefract ; he had Elizabeth, who married Fenton ; Samuel, the second son, Avas D. D. Kector of Frecton and Holme, in Spaldingmore, Author of the life of Archbishop Parker, or, as another account sais, the publisher of a beautiful edition of Arch- bishop Parker's " Antiq. Britan. 1729." He married Eliza- beth, daughter of Darcy Dalton, Clerk, by whom Samuel, Elizabeth, and Frances. His younger brother William was captain of a man of war, and married Judith, daughter of Edward Langley, of Hipperholme, near Halifax, by v\^hom Samuel, s. p. and Edward, a Surgeon and Apothecary in Y^'ork, who married Elizabeth, daughter of George Coates, of York, by whom Judith, born 1752. The above pedegree is such as, for antiquity and authen- ticity, will not often, in private families, be exceeded; it begins before surnames were in use, and it is extracted from antient deeds, and other evidences, which are still preserved, and collected together. Concerning the family taking the name of Drake, there was an account of it in the writings belonging to the late Abraham Sunderland, esq ; but whether those writings are now in being I cannot say, so that proba- bly this anecdote is lost. Tradition sais, that this family came originally from Devonshire, where was lately an 210 BIOGRAPHIA oi^ulent family of the name of Sir William Drake, which had been long settled there, and of which the famous sir Francis Drake was a branch. The arms which some of this family have used are, Argent, a wivern, his wings displayed and queue nowed gules, the same, except the addition of legged or, which an old manuscript collection of arms in my possession gives to a Devonshire family of this name, and which, viz. argent, a cockatrice gules, the said MS. sais was born by Francis Drake, of Buckland, esq ; in Devon. (Bart. 20 James I.) whose crest was, a rheine deer's head erased or, attired, and collared with a crown sable. ELLAND. The best account I can give of this once famous family is this : Leisingus de Eland, as by deed sans date, and who gave name to Lasing-croft, in Yorkshire, married, and had Henry de Eland, who married the daughter and coheir of Whit- worth, who bore, argent, a bend sable, in chief a garb gules. By her he had sir Hugh de Eland, as by deed sans date. He married and had sir John de Eland, who was living 30 Hen. III. and also 3 Edw. I. for in this latter year a riot was presented at Brighouse Turne, upon John Eland and John Quermby, about a distress which Eland had taken from Quermby, for aid to make his son a knight, for lands in Stainland. This sir John married, and had sir Hugh de Eland, who married Joan, daughter and coheir of sir Richard Tankersley, knt. This sir Hugh is said to have died 3 Edw. II. He was witness to a deed of John earl Warren, dated at Koningsburgh, 5 Oct. 1 Edw. II. 1307, wherein the earl confirmed to the free burgesses of Wakefield and their heirs their privileges, viz. to each a toft of an acre in free burgage, for six-pence rent per ann. with liberty of free trade in all his lands in Yorkshire, and wood to burn; for which charter they gave to earl Hamelin, his countess, and son, seven pounds ; and amongst the witnesses was Hugh de Elond, the grandfather of this sir Hugh. Besides this confirmation, the said earl John, by the deed above-named, granted to the said burgesses to be toll free in all liis lands for all wares and merchandize of their own manufacture, and that they should not be obliged to answer at any court but his, called HALIFAXIENSIS. 211 Burman-court, in Wakefield, unless for tresi}asses against himself; and that whatsoever goods should be bought of any burgess for him or his use, at certain rates, should be j)aid for withm forty days, and pawnage for every hog 2d. and pig Id. and to have commonage for all cattle but goats, in all woods, moors, &c. except New and Old Park, and the great meadow, (only not in fawning time,) and that they might inclose and hedge their corn ground, and fright away his deer from thence without horn. This Hugh also had re- leased, on the Monday next before the Feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul, (June 30,) 1306, by the name of Hugh, son of John de Eland, to Thomas de Langfeld, and Elen his wife, and others, ten marks of yearly payment, which see under the account of the manor of Barkisland. Sir Hugh had, by Joan his wife, 1. sir Thomas de Eland, 2. Bichard, 3. Margaret, and, 4. Wymark. Of these, Margaret married to her first husband, John Lacy, to whom, and to his heirs by the said Margaret, her father gave, by deed, in 1293, all his land in Southouram, and all his tenants there, and their services, except his manor of Eland, and the service of his tenants in Eckisley, and the pasture in the Stony-bancke, for a rent of 26s. yearly, and suit to his mill. They had issue. The said Margaret married, to her second husband, AVilliam, the constable of Nottingham castle, when earl Mortimer was there taken prisoner. In a book, intitled " The Cronicles of Englonde, with the fruyte of tymes, im- "prynted at London by Wynkyn de Worde, in 1528," folio 114 and 115, is the following account how this William de Eland betrayed earl Mortimer : " In haste came unto kyng ''Edward syr Willyam of Mountagu, that than was in the " castell, and pryvely tolde him, that he nor none of his " company sholde not take Mortimer without counseyle and " helpe of Wyllyam of Eland, constable of the same castell. " Now truly sayd the king, I counseyle you that ye go to the " constable, and comaunde hym in my name, that he be "yourfrende, and your helpe for to take Mortimer. — Than " went forth the foresayd ^lountagu, and came to the con- " stable of the castell, and told him the kynge's will. And *' he answered and sayd, the kynge's wyll shold be done in " as moche as he myght — and so he swore and made his ** othe. Than sayd syr Willyam of Mountagu to the con- " stable — Us behoveth to werke, and do by your advyse for 212 BIOGKAPHIA " to take Mortymer, sytli that ye be keper of the castell, aud " have the keys in j^our warde. Syr, sayd the constable — *' the gates of the castell ben locked with the lockes that " dame Isabell sente hyther, and by nyght she hath the keys "therof, and layeth them under the levesell of the bedde " tyll on the morowe, and so ye may not come into the " castell by the gates in no maner of \Yyse ; but I knowe an '' aley that stretcheth out of the warde under the erth into ''the foresayd castel, that goth into the west, whiche aley " dame Isabell, the quene, ne none of her men, nor Morty- ''mer, ne none of his company, knoweth it not. And so I " shall lede you through that aley, and so ye shall come into "the castel without espyenge of ony men that be your " enemyes. — And Willy am Eland— prively lad syr William " of Mountagu and his company by the foresayd way, under "the erth, tyl they came into the castel, and went up into "the toure where as Mortymer was in. — Than toke they "Mortymer as he armed hym at the toure's dore." The existence of the other daughter is proved from a deed in the chartulary of Whalley Abbey, folio 234, wherein Eobert de Mitton grants to Gilbert de Notton, for his homage and service, and 20s. of silver, two bovats of land in Wordelword, and two bovats in Heleye, which Hugh de Elond, father of Eichard de Elond, gave with Wymark his daughter, in free marriage to Jordan de Mitton, grandfather to the said Eobert, paying yearly 4s. of silver at the feast of St. Oswald, of which 2s. was to be yearly paid at Martinmass to Hugh de Elond. From hence also I think it appears, that Eichard de Eland, by the manner of his being mentioned here, was the eldest son of sir Hugh, but dying i)erhaps in his minor- ity, without issue, in the life time of his father, the said sir Hugh was succeeded in title and estate by his son, sir Thomas de Eland, who married and had sir John de Eland, knight of the shire for Yorkshire, with sir William Gram- mary, 14 Edw. HI. and sheriff of Yorkshire, 15 Edw. HI. in which year it is said, that he marched privately in the night, at the head of a body of his tenants, and put to death three neighboring gentlemen in their own houses, an account of which will be given below. This sir John married three wives, 1. Alice, daughter of sir Eobert Lathom, who bore, or, on a chief dancette, az. three plates. 2dly. Ann, daughter of Eygate, s. p. 8dly. Olive By Alice, his first HALIFAXIENSIS. 213 ^fe, he had 1. Sh* John de Eland, who had a son, name unknown, and Isabel. 2. Thomas de Eland, esq ; 3. Henry, 4. Margery, 5. Isabel, and, 6. Dionysia. In the account of the feodary of the honour of Pomfret, of the lands and tene- ments in Eland in the hands of the lord, by the minority of the heir of Thomas de Eland, is £G 18s. 2d. for the term of "Whitsontide, 1350. After the death of sir John de Eland, and his son and heir, sir John Savile, of Tankersley, pur- chased, in 1350, the wardship of Isabel Eland, daughtqj: of the said sir Jolm, from the lord of the honour of Pontefract, for £200. See "Comput. seneschall. honoris de Pontfrete," p. 17. After this purchase he married her, and in her right became possessed of the estates belonging to that family. By tlie above-named Olive, sir John Eland had Eobert, and James, which last died s. p. Kobert married Alice, daughter of Fitz-Eustace, by whom, Thomas Eland, of Carlinghow, in Batley, who is mentioned as son and heir of Eobert Eland, of Carlinghow, in a fine, 1 Hen. VI. This Thomas married Alice, daughter and coheiress of Serfe, of Neway, by whom Eobert, who married Jane, daughter of Eobert Holme, of Beverley, by whom Eobert Eland, of Car- linghow, who married Eosamond, daughter of Humphry Littlebury, of Kelton, in Lincolnshire, by wdiom, Marma- duke Eland, of Carlinghow, who married Cecily Butler, of Hertfordshire, by whom William, Giles, Marmaduke, Francis, Isabel, Ann, and Margaret. The arms which Eland, of Eland, is said to have borne, are, Barry of six pieces, argent and gules, on the latter six martlets, or, three, two, and one ; but I find several vari- ations, particularly the charter of the manor of Brighouse (already mentioned) was sealed, 19 Edw. III. by sir John Eland, to Jolm his son, and Alice his wife, with an escallop shell, and Eland, of Essex, bears argent, on a bend gules, three escallops, or ; but the coat of Eobert Eland, esq ; in a MS. in the British Museum, No. 2118, is, gules, two bars argent, between eight martlets of the second, three, two, and three. EXLEY, OE ECCLESLEY. I have several copies of undated deeds, wherein the Ecqles- leys of Ecclesley, within Southouram, are mentioned, but they were never lords of a manor here. o 214 BIOGRAPHIA In the 31st of Edward I. a royal pardon was granted, at Dunfermelyn, to Eicliard, son of Will, de Ekclesleye, for the death of William, son of William de eye (here was a flaw in the parchment,) the motive for which pardon was, the good service which the said Eichard had done the king- in Scotland. Another royal pardon, in general terms, was- granted, 38 Hen. VI. to Kobert Eklesley, late of Southouram,. Yoman. One Henry de Grene de Ecclesley granted by deed,, without date, land in the vill of Ecclesley, to Eichard, son of Eoger de Ecclesley. Test. John de Lascy, Hugh de Coppeley, Eichard de Hipperum, William de Ecclesley. — Elen, daughter of Henry, son of Hugh de Ecclisley, grants to Eichard, son of Eoger de Ecclisley, lands in Ecclisley, by deed without date. Test. John de Eland, William de Astay, son of William the Steward, Adam the Brewer, of Schircotes, Henry de Astay. — Eobert, brother of said Elen, grants the same. Test. John de Lascy, Hugh de Coppeley, William de Astay — William de Ecclisley grants, by deed without date, to said Eichard, son of Eoger, a place called Grenebawale,. on the north side of a way leading from Schircotes-bridge to Southouram, and a messuage, for exchange of the Pighill, in Ecclisley. Test. John de Eland, John de Lascy, Hugh de Eastrick, Hugh de Coppeley, Eichard de Hipperum, William, son of Henry de Haye, Henry, son of William the Steward, William, his brother. — Eobert, son of Henry, son of Hugh de Ecclisley, grants to said Eichard, son of Eoger, land in Ecclisley, for a rent of one arrow yearly. Test. John de Lascy, Hugh de Eastrick, Hugh de Coppeley, John de Greteland. — He also grants to him five acres and a half in Ecclisley. Test. Hugh de Eastrick, William, son of Simon de Northland, William, son of Henry de Haye, Helias, son of Walter de Schircotes. — Henry, son of Hugh de Ecclisley, gi-ants to said Eichard, half quarter of an acre there. Test. John de Lascy, Hugh de Eastrick, William de Ecclisley, William de Astay, Adam the Brewer, of Schir- cotes. — William, son of William de Dewisbyri, grants to said Eichard, a certain Pighill, within Ecclisley. Test. John de Eland, John de Lascy, Hugh de Eastrick, William de Astay, Alan de Fekisby, Eoger de Bradeley. All these deeds without date. Hugh de Eland, by deed, without date, grants to Hugh," son of Swain de Eclesley, all his demain lands there, except HALIFAXIENSIS. 215 his park, mill, and assarts, in consideration of twelve-pence yearly rent, the homage and land of Ric. his hrother, and Basia, his sister, and receiving reasonable aid when he made his eldest son knight, or married his eldest daughter. Test. Hen. de Greetland, Henry de Crumwell, Eichard, son of Hugh, Roger de Rastrick, and Hugh, his son. Thomas Pek, Chaplain, and Henry del Scolefeld, confirm to John de Eckylslay, and heirs, lands, &c., which they had of the gift and feofiment of John de Eckylslay, in the vill and territory of Southouram ; for want of issue to said John, then to Richard de Eckylslay and heirs, remainder to Thomas, son of John de Waterhouse, and heirs, remainder to right heirs of said John de Eckylslay, 2 Hen. IV. — Roger, son of Richard de Eldisley, grants by deed, without date, to Richard, son of William, his brother, lands called Le Croftys, and another parcel lying near the Grene. Test. Thomas de Thornhyll, and Matthew de Bosco. — Isabel, relict of Richard Eckilslay, of Burton, quit claims to John Beamonte, of Murefeld, Gentilman, her right of dower in a messuage called Eckilslay, in the vill and territory of Eck- ilslcy and Southourome. Test. Richard Beamonte, Esq ; Alexander Paslew, esq ; John Wilkin sone, Thomas Eckil- slay. — John Beamonte regrants the same, 17 Hen. YII. to Alexander Paslew, of Redilsden, John Boswell, of Gunthwait, esqrs. and John Hall, Chaplain. Test. Thomas Sotill, Richard Beamonte, esqrs., John Rokes de Rokes, Richard Bairstow, of Brownhurst. — Henry, son and heir of Thomas de Ecclisley, grants to Richard, his brother, all his land in Ecclesley. Test. Robert de Hulton, John de Bairstow, Michael de Gretlond, William de Bradelee, Thomas de Hemingway, John de Nortcleve, sans date. Hugh, son of Robert, the clerk of Priestley, and Rose, his wife, daughter of William de Ecclisley, grant to John, son of William de Ecclisley, a sixth i^art of all the land in Ecclisley, which William de Ecclisley, father of said John, formerly held. Test. Ingolard Turbard, Vicar of Halifax, Hugh de Eland, John, his brother, Henry de Rissworth, Thomas de Coppeley, Richard de Ecclisley. EARRER. The following is the pedegree of the Farrers, who are the oldest family which appear to have been settled at Ewood. 216 BIOGRAPHIA An Henry Farrer bad Henry, and John ; the former of these who wrote himself Henre Faror, was of Eawood and Brearley, and was a Justice of Peace, as Thoresby, p. 196. in a pedegree of the family, tells us, 32 Eliz. or 1590; but I meet with Henry Ferrer, of Ewwod, and John his brother, in a deed 28 H. VIII, or 1536. This Henry purchased Clubcliffe, in Methley, of sir Edward Dymock, knt. built a great part of that house, and also Eawood. He married Slary, daughter of John Lacy, of Brearley ; but having no issue, his estate came to his brother, John Farrer, of London, esq; according to Thoresby; but I find John Farrer, of Elfabrugh-hall, brother to Henry Farrer, of Eawood, 28 Hen. VIII, as above. This John, by Isabel had Henry, John, Charles, and (Thoresby sais) Humphrj^ a Divine. Henry, the eldest of these, married Ann, daughter of William Barcroft, of Barcroft, 1 & 2 Phil, and Mar. He sold Ea- wood to his brother John, and having bought lands in Lincolnshire, he settled there, as did his posterity. John Farrer, of Eawood, esq; was Justice of Peace 14 Cha. I. and Treasurer for lame soldiers in the West-riding of Yorkshire, and is named in the corporation charter of Halifax. He married, first, Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Mr. Nicholas Hanson, of Eland, by whom John, Henry, s. p. and Mary, who married Mr. John Green, of Liversedge. John married, first, Ellen Banister, by whom, 1. Jonathan; 2. Dorothy, who married Mr. William Foxcroft ; and 3. Abigail. He married, 2dly, Dorothy West, s. p. and, 3dly, Judith, daughter of Mr. Edward Oldfield, by whom seven children. John Farrer, who married Dorothy Hanson, married to his second wife, Susan, daughter of Mr. Anthony Waterhouse, by whom, I.William; 2. Edward, first Fellow, and after- wards Master of University College, Oxford ; 3. Susan, who married Mynheer Isaac Van Ogarden, a Dutch man. William Farrer, of Ewood, the eldest, was a Justice of Peace thirty years, and died of a paralytic stroke at his son's in law, Mr. Greenwood, of Stapleton, Oct. 8, 1684 ; he married Frances, (see below) daughter of Richard James, of Portsmouth, by whom, 1. John, 2. William, 8. James, a soldier; 4. Henry, Rector of Hemsworth, who man-ied Mary Brearley, widow ; 6. Richard, a Physician ; 6. Mary, who died unmarried ; and, T.Frances, who married James Greenwood. John, the eldest, died March 22, 1722-3, HALIFAXIENSIS. 217 having married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of James Creswick, of Beghall (or Beal,) near Ferrybridge, B. D. by whom James, and Lydia, who died, and was buried at Hah- fax, Oct. 1719, having married Mr. Samuel Shaw, of Bristol, merchant. James, who died suddenly, Dec. 18, 1718, married, August 1696, Mary, daughter of Mr. John Brearley, of Eochdale, by whom James, lord of the manor of Wortley, in 1764, and William, who died s. j). Fan-er, of Eawood, bore. On a bend ingrailed sable, three horse shoes argent. The Epitaph of the above Henry Farrer, who removed into Lincolnshire, seems, by the time, to be that which Le Neve, in his Monumenta Anglicana, vol. i. j). 152. has given us out of Wisbich church, in the Isle of Ely, thus : " M, S. "Hie jacet Henricus Farrour, arm. una cum charissima " uxore Margareta, ex qua 56 annos Tori socia xvii liberos " genuit. Ha?c obiit Sept. 26. A° Dom. 1670, ^t. su.ne 72. *' Ille vero Aug. 22, A° Dom. 1672, ^tat. suae 82." I have followed Thoresby in mentioning Frances, daughter of Richard James, of Portsmouth; but in Drake's Eboracum, p. 341. is her epitaph, thus: "Here lyeth the body of Tho- "masin, wife to William Farrer, of Ewode, within the *' vicarage of Hallifax, and county of York, esquire, daughter " of Eichard James, of Portsmouth, esquire, who departed "this life Jan. 10, 1660." FIXBY— See Thornhill. GLEDHILL AND HORTON. At Howroyd is a beautiful pedegree on vellum of this family, &c., entitled "The pedegree of John Gledhill, of " Barkisland, collected out of antient deeds and evidences, " finished, perused, and confirmed by William Seager, knt. " alias Garter, principal king of arms, in 1632." The " following is an exact copy of it. Richard de Barkisland " had Thomas and Robert. Thomas had Peter and John. "Peter had two daughters, one of which married Henry 218 BIOGEAPHIA *' Gledhill, who had William, who had Adam, as by deed, "1327, who had John, as by deed, 30 Edw. III. who had ** Thomas, as by deed, 27 Hen. VI. who had John, as by *' deed, 16 Edw. IV. who had Thomas, as by deed, 18 Hen. *' VII. who had John, as by deed, 35 Hen. VIII. This John '' was twice married, as proved by deed, 37 Eliz. By his *' first wife he had Thomas and Michael. Thomas had ''John, Thomas, Richard, Elizabeth and Judith." Wrote "under, " This pedegree, with the armes thus marshaled, I " doo ratifie, alowe, and conferme. Witnes my hand, this " 25th day of June, 1632. William Segar, Garter." Near the arms, (viz. for Barkisland, parted per pale, sab. and gules, on a bend, or, three martlets of the first ; and for Gledhill, azure, three lozenges in fess, argent,) are these words : " This peternall and ancient coate of Gledhill was " granted and alowed by pattine, with the hand and scale of " sir Richard St. George, knt. Norroy kinge at arms, unto " Thomas Gledhill, of Barkisland, in the county of Yorke, "Dec. 24, 1612." The arms of Gledhill, in a window at Barkisland Hall, and in other places, are, argent, three lozenges in fess, azure ; the reason of which difference I do not understand. John Gledhill, who, in the above pedegree, is said to have been twice married, had by his second wife a son John, who, I think, removed from Barkisland to Leedes ; by his first wife Cecily, daughter of John Thornhill, of Fixby, esq; he had Thomas and Michael. Thomas bought the manor house called Cromwelbottom, of John Lacy, for £700. 9 James I. He married Edith, daughter of John Harrison, of Leedes, whose will is dated in 1636. By her he had John Gledhill, of Barkisland, Thomas, s. p. sir Richard, s. p. Elizabeth, and Judith. Of these, John married Sarah, daughter of William Horton, by whom Sarah, s. p. and another who died young. Sir Richard was knighted by the marquess of Newcastle, and slain at Hesssaymoor, near York, in 1644. He was captain of a troop of horse in the regiment of sir Marmaduke Langdale. Elizabeth married in 1636, William Horton, esq ; who became in her right pos- sessed of this estate at Barkisland. The account of this family of Horton is as follows : Their original settlement seems to have been at Horton, in Bradford-dale, in Yorkshire. It appeareth that one HALIFAXIENSIS. 219 Bobert de Horton maniimittecl a bondman or villain to his manor of Horton, long before the days of Henry Lacy, last of that name, earl of Lincoln, who died in 1310, for the deed is very antient, and of a Saxon character ; it is also certain that the Hortons had a manor house in Great Horton, and a mill, and certain demesne lands thereto be- longing, the scite of which house is known to this day, and some of the grounds bear the name of the Hall-lands. Hugh de Horton was lord of Horton in 1292, and one of the same name, probably the same person, had lands in Northouram in 1314. I have mentioned the earl of Lincoln here, because about the same time that he gave the honour of Pontefract to king Edward I. about 1293, and took the same honour in tail, this earl had inclosed three acres of the wastes or common of Horton, very near unto Bradford, for ihe attachment of his mill-dam, and for ease and liberty about his mill of Bradford ; but concerning this in closure, a dispute arose between him and Pugh de Horton, lord of the waste there, which was ended about 22 Edw. I. and it was agreed by writing indented, that the earl should have the three acres to him and his heirs, and should pay therefore to the said Hugh Horton and his heirs three shillings of rent, and that the said Hugh de Horton should warrant it against all his tenants of Horton. This parcel of land is known at present by the name of Tyrrels, and the 3s. are paid for the same to the lord of Horton. But when queen Philippa held the honour of Pontefract in dower, about 9 Edw. III. this rent was detained ; whereupon Hugh Leven- thorpe, then lord of Horton, petitioned the queen for receipt of it, who referred the cause to Skergell and Neigham, her stewards of the honor, who charged a jury at Bradford to enquire of the right. These found that Henry Lacy did improve three acres of land in Little Horton, of the sale of Hugh Horton, then lord of Horton, which Hugh was grand- father to Hugh Leventhorpe, the petitioner. On this verdict, a warrant was made to the graves of Bradford to pay the rent to the lords of Horton, according to the first composition. In a MS. in my possession is the following entry relating to this subject: *'Etiam annualem firmam *' solutam Galfrido Leventhorpe pro placea in Horton ad- quisita de Hugone de Horton, antecessore ejusdem *i 220 BIOGRAPHIA " Galfridi, & cui per successionem ipse est li?eres per Henri- " cum Lacy nuper comitem de Lincoln. Keddendo anuuatim "predicto Hugoni & lieredibus tres solidos ut in quadam "litera Eegis de warranto pr?e solutione ejusdem summas ''receptori directa. Dat. apud Westm. 20 Jimii, 5 Hen. V." This lordship of Horton, which thus clearly belonged to a family who took their name from it, is divided into two hamlets, viz. Horton Magna and Horton Parva ; the first containing twenty-seven oxgangs and an half, the latter about eighteen oxgangs. It continued in the name of Horton, till the lands belonging to that family came to the Leventhorpes by marriage ; from the Leventhorpes it also went by marriage with Alice, sister and heir of one Oswald Leventhorpe, to John Lacy, esq ; a descendant of whom, called also John Lacy, sold it to Joshua Horton, of Sowerby, esq; a younger branch of the above family of Horton, of Horton, whose great great grandson, sir Watts Horton, of Chaderton, in Lancashire, bart. now enjoys it. I have not been able to procure, or make out an uninter- ruj)ted pedegree from the antient lords of Horton to the present owner of that manor, but I doubt not the truth of that descent, on account of its having been so satisfactorily proved to the Herald's office, as appears by the following authentic paper. Mrs. Ann Horton, of London, having her arms challenged by some of the officers belonging to the college of arms, she produced her proofs in support of her right to the same^ which caused the following grant to be made, which was entered in the college of arms, in a book marked Grants, vol. vii, p. 533, 534. '' To all and singular to whom these ** presents shall come, John Anstis, esq ; garter principal " Idng of arms, and Peter le Neve, esq ; norroy king of arms, '* send greeting. Whereas Mrs. Ann Horton, youngest " daughter, and one of the three coheirs of Thomas Horton, " of Barkisland, in the west riding of the county of York^ " esq ; deceased, by Everilda his wife, daughter of John " Thornhill, of Fixby, esq ; and great grandchild of William *' Horton, of Barkisland aforesaid, gentleman, by Elizabeth, " daughter of Thomas Hanson, of Toothill, gentleman, all " in the aforesaid county of York, hath represented unto the ** right honourable Talbot Yelverton, earl of Sussex, and *' knight of the most noble order of the bath, and deputy HALIFAXIENSIS. 221 ** (with the royal approbation) to the most noble Thomas, " duke of Norfolk, earl marshal, and hereditary marshal of *' England, that her ancestors having, for many generations, '* lived in the credit and reinitation of gentlemen, whose "father left her above eleven hundred pounds per annum, " did bear for their arms, gules, a lion rampant within a ** border ingrailed, argent, charged on the shoulder with a *' boar's head, couped, azure ; and for the crest, on a wreath " of the colors, a rose gules, seeded, barbed, and surrounded ** with two laurel branches j)roper, as descending from the ** family of Horton, of Horton, within the parish of Brad- *'ford, in the said west riding, wlio flourished there in the ''reign of Edw. I. as appears by an antient folio MS. now " remaining in the hands of Mr. Midgley, of Scolemore, in "the said parish of Bradford. And the said Mrs. Ann " Horton having farther represented unto his lordship, that " the coat arms above mentioned now remain, and are to be " seen in the several houses of Barkisland-hall, Howroyd- " house, and Sowerby, all within the parish of Halifax, " either in painted glass, stone, or plaister, as the same " doth appear by an affidavit made for that purpose, which " said houses were and are now possessed by several of the " Horton s, all of her family, for above four- score years ; as " also the same coat arms in several funeral and other *♦ escutcheons, some whereof are much above an hundred "years old, and agreeable to the draught in the margin " of her memorial : But in regard that the descent of the "family of Horton, of Barkisland, was certified in the Visit- " ation Book of Yorkshire, made by William Dugdale, esq; "Norroy king of arms, ann. 166G, by Edward Hanson, on "the behalf of Thomas Horton, (father of the said Ann "Horton,) then a minor, aged fifteen years, through whose "neglect no arms were then exhibited; the said Mrs. Ann " Horton hath therefore prayed his lordship's warrant for " our exemplifying and confirming the same coat of arms to "her, which, together with the crest, may be likewise law- " fully borne by all the descendants of her great grandfather "respectively, with their due differences, according to the "usage and custom of arms. And forasmuch as his lord- " ship, being well satisfied of the truth of the premises, by a " certificate annexed to the said memorial, did, by warrant "under his hand and seal, bearing date the 2d day of this 222 BI06RAPHIA •"instant August, order and direct us to exemplify and con- ^' firm the same coat arms and crest accordingly : Now know •''ye, that we the said Garter and Norroy, in pursuance of ■** the consent of the said earl of Sussex, and by virtue of the ■"letters patent of our offices to each of us respectively "granted under the great seal, have confirmed, and do each "of us confirm, exemplify, and confirm unto the said Mrs. "Ann Horton the same coat arms above expressed, to be *' borne and used by her, the said Ann Horton, which, "together with the crest above described, shall and may be ^' likewise lawfully borne by all the descendants of her great •"grandfather respectively, with their proper differences, ac- •" cording to the law and practice of arms, without let or ■" interruption of any person or persons whatsoever. In "witness whereof, we, the said Garter and Norroy king of " arms, have to these presents subscribed our names, and ^' affixed the seals of our several offices, the tenth day of " August, in the 12th year of the reign of our sovereign lord, *' George, by the grace of God king of Great Britain, France, •" and Ireland, defender of the faith, annoq. Dom. 1725. " Signed and sealed by Anstis." At p. 535 of the said vol. of Grants, is a warrant from the «arl of Sussex, reciting, " That whereas he had, by warrant "under his hand and seal, dated 2 August, 1725, directed *'John Anstis, esq; Garter principal king of arms, and " Peter le Neve, esq ; Norroy king of arms, to exemplify and *' confirm to Mrs. Ann Horton the above arms and crest; ** and the said Norroy did twice absolutely refuse to comply "with the same; in order to do justice to the family of *' Horton, he did thereby order and direct, that the said ** exemplification and confirmation should be as effectual " according to the law of arms, as if the said Norroy had " also sealed and signed the same." This warrant was dated 10th Feb. 1720-7, and a memorandum is annexed thereto, dated 24 April, 1727, signed by James Green, blue mantle, importing, " that the reason why Norroy refused to " execute the above was, because the same proofs had not "been produced to him, as had been to Garter," which could not be done, as he was then, and for several months after, at his seat at Great Wickingham, in Norfolk, ninety miles from Loudon. Also it appeared to the said Blue Mantle, on a due examination of the several books in the HALIFAXIENSIS. herald's office,' that the above arms belonged to the name of Horton, in Grafton's alphabet, and he did not find the said arms to be claimed or borne by any other family of that name, amongst the different arms and families of the said name of Horton. To this account of the arms of the Hortons of Barkisland, Sowerby, Chaderton, and Howroyd, it may be added, that all others of the name have different coats, of which there are about seven ; that I have seen the same on a seal which belonged to Joshua Horton, of Sowerby, esq ; who died in 1679 ; that Dr. Buckley, of Pontefract, in Yorkshire, is said to have known the collateral derivation of the families from Horton, of Horton, and also knew that the above coat belonged to Horton, of Horton, and was acquainted with the reason of the addition of the boar's head. The motto used by the present heir of this family under the above arms, is "Pro Kege et Lege." In 1603 lived William Horton, as appears by deed. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hanson, of Toothill, in the parish of Halifax, which Elizabeth made her will July 16, 1660, and was then in her old age. By her the said William had, 1. William, 2. Joshua, (whose pedegree will be given under tbe article of Sowerby,) 8. Thomas, 4. Sarah, and 5. Elizabeth. These are all mentioned in the will of Thomas Hanson, dated 27th July, 1673. Of these, Sarah married John Gledhill, as already mentioned. Eliza- beth had no issue. Thomas was brought up a merchant at Liverpool, and the following inscription is on a board, and fixed to a pillar under the east gallery of the parochial chapel of our Lady and St. Nicholas, at Liverpool : " Here *'lieth interred the body of Thomas Horton, of Liverpoole, *' merchant, sonne of William Horton, of Barkisland, in the *' county of Yorke, gentleman, who married Frances, eldest ** daughter of Thomas Throppe, of the citty of Chester, *' alderman and justice of the peace. He dyed the 30th day *' of March, 1660." Over the inscription are the arms of Horton, (as above,) with a crescent for difference, impaled with cheeky arg. and sab. on a fess or, three martlets of the second, which also I have seen painted on a tablet at How- royd, with a martlet's wings displayed, or, for crest. This Thomas had no known descendants. 224 BIOGRAPHIA William, eldest sou of William above named, bought Howroyd, in Barkisland, where he lived, his residence be- fore this XDurchase having been at Firth-house, in that neighborhood. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Gledhill, of Barkisland-hall, by whom, 1. Thomas, 2. William, 3. Elizabeth, 4. Sarah, and 5. Judith ; of these, William married at Kipponden, Dec. 12, 1700, Mary, fourth daughter of sir Richard Musgrave, of Heyton-castle, in Cumberland, bart. and died Feb. 19, 1715-6, having had, by the said Mary, two sons, viz. William Horton, of Coley, esq ; justice of ]3eace, who was baptized at Eipponden-chapel, Feb. 11, 1702, and died in 1739-40. Richard, baptized at Eipponden, Nov. 11, 1706, and died at Howroyd, s. p. William, last named, married Mary Chester, by whom Mary, who died unmarried, and was buried at Eland, in June, 1769 : and a son, who died young, of the small-pox, and was buried at Eland, in August, 1730. I have been well informed, that this child was a second time attacked by this disorder in the natural way, about a week after his recovery from the former, and died of it. Elizabeth, last named, married William Batt, of Oakwell, in Burstall parish, esq ; by whom William, Gledhill, and Judith. Sarah, second daughter of William, married Alexander Butterworth, of Belfield, near Rochdale, esq ; by whom William, Alexander, and Elizabeth. Judith, youngest daughter of William, married Joseph Finch, of Weston Hanger, in Kent, merchant. She died in child- bed, in Kent, (after her husband's decease,) Oct. 12, 1678, and the child and her were carried to London to be buried. She left six children. Thomas, eldest son of William, by Elizabeth Gledhill, was born April 2, 1651, and died Jan. 2, 1698-9, buried at Eland. His will is dated Dec. 20, 1698. He married, in 1672, Everild, daughter of John Thornhill, of Fixby, esq ; by whom, 1. Elizabeth, who married Richard Bold, of Bold, in Lancashire, esq ; who lived some time at Crawstone, in Greetland, and whose descendants are now in possession of Barkisland-hall, and whose coat armor is, argent, a griffin passant, sab. but see Guillim, p. 189. 2. Susanna, who married Richard Beaumont, of Whitley, in Yorkshire, esq ; a descendant of whom was married to the rev. John Watson, author of this book. 8. Gledhill, baptized at Bipponden. HALIFAXIENSIS. 225 Dec. 31, 1G85, and died young. 4. Ann, baptized at Eippon- den, Nov. 3, 1687. 5. Thomas, baptized at Ripponden, May 9, 1689, who also died young ; as also did, 6. Everild and William, two other of their children. Ann was interred at Eland, Aioril 22, 1750. Her father gave i^5000. a-piece to her two sisters, and settled his estate, of £1100. per annum, on her, and her issue male, obliging her, if she married, to take an Horton, or one who should assume the name. Barkisland-hall, above-mentioned, was probably built by ■ John Gledhill, who married Sarah, daughter of William Horton, for he lived there in the reign of K. Clia. I. and in the window of the hall part are the painted figures of a man and two children : under the first, a3tat. 36, 1641 ; under one of the children, astat. 4, 1641; under the other, jetat. 2|, 1641. Over the back door is cut in stone, " Nunc mea, mox *'hujus, sed postea nescio cujus ; " which may be seen in Camden's Remains, p. 125, edit. 1636. H this was put there by the above John Gledhill, the observation was soon remarkably verified, when the estate passed into the name of Horton, and, after a very short possession, to that of Bold. HORTON. Sowerby Hall, once the seat of the eldest branch of the family of Horton, whose pedegree is as follows : Joshua Horton, esq ; second son of William Horton, of Barkisland, born in 1619, was Justice of the Peace in the West-riding, and purchased the manor of Horton, in Brad- ford-dale, Stansfield-Hall, &c. He died of the stone at Sowerby, 7 April, 1679, and was buried there, aged 60. He married Martha, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Binns, esq ; of Rushworth, in the parish of Bingley, who died July 23, 1694, and was buried at Sowerby. By her he had, 1. Joshua, who only lived three months. 2. Sarah, born June 22, 1654, and who died Sept. 4, 1670, 3. Martha, born April 30, 1656, who married John Gill, esq; of Car-house, near Rotherham, by whom two sons and one daughter; 4. Joshua; 5. Elkana, a Counsellor, born at Sowerby, Aug. 31, 1659, and buried s. p. at Sowerby, Jan. 28, 1728-9. He lived at Thornton, and left his estate to his nephew Thomas. 6. Thomas, M.D. born Nov. 26, 1660, and died in London, s. p. March 4, 1694, buried in St. Thomas's church, Southwark. 226 BIOGRAPHIA He married daughter of Watmougb, of London, M. D. and left his estate in Halifax to his eldest brother. (N. B. Joshua, Elkana, and Thomas Horton, three brothers, were all Gentlemen Commoners of Brazen Nose College, Oxford.) 7. Elizabeth, who died young. Joshua, the eldest surviving son of Joshua, was born at Sowerby, Jan. 22, 1657, and died Dec. 15, 1708, being buried in his chapel at Oldham church. He purchased Chaderton, and lived there. Feb. 27, 1678, he married Mary, daughter of Eobert Gregg, of Bradley, or Hapsford, in Cheshire, who died Dec. 27, 1708, as it is said, of grief, for the loss of her husband, and was buried in the same place with him. By her he had thirteen children, of which I can only put down the follow- ing : 1. Thomas, who died young ; 2. Thomas, who succeeded to the estate ; 3. William, baptized Oct. 12, 1686 ; 4. Sarah, baptized Jan. 6, 1687, who married Thomas Williamson, of Liverpool, Merchant. 5. Ehzabeth, baptized May 28, 1689, who married William W^illiamson, of Liverpool, Merchant. 6. Mary, baptized Feb. 4, 1690. 7. William, baptized Sept. 27, 1692. 8. Joseph, s. p. baptized March 8, 1693. 9. James, baptized April 18, 1695, died unmarried. 10. Mary, s. p. baptized August 13, 1696. 11, Martha, who married Eichard Clayton, of Adlington, in Lancashire, esq; on the 80th of Nov. 1697. 12. Jane, who married John Parr, of Liverpool, Merchant. Thomas Horton, son of Joshua, was born at Chester, May 4, 1685, and died March 18, 1757, at Manchester, buried at Oldham. He was Justice of Peace for Lancashire, and Governor of the Isle of Man for the earl of Derby. He married Ann, daughter and coheiress of Eichard Mostyn, of London, Merchant, a younger branch of sir Eoger Mostyn's family, of Mostyn, in Wales. She died at Chaderton, June 17, 1725, and was buried at Oldham, in the 39th year of her age. By her the s^id Thomas had, 1. Mary, living and unmarried in 1774. 2. Sir William Horton, High Sheriff for Lancashire, in 1764, and before that an acting Justice of Peace for the county of Lancaster, created Baronet by patent, dated Jan. 19, 1764, died in Feb. 1774. 3. Ann, living and unmarried in 1773. 4. Jane, who died Oct. 24, and was buried at Oldham, Oct. 29, 1768. 5. Susannah, who married, March 24, 1742, George Lloyd, of Holme, near Manchester, esq; by whom several children. 6. HALIFAXIENSIS. 227 Joshua, of Howroyd, in Yorkshire, who married, to his first ■wife, Ann, daughter of George Clarice, esq ; sometime Gov- ernor of New York, who died, s. p. May 25, 1764. Arms of Clarke, Azure, three escallops in pale or, two flanches ermine. To his second wife, Mary Betliia, daughter of the Rev. John Woolin, Eector of Emley, in Y^orkshire, and Vicar of Blackhurn, in Lancashire, by whom, 1. Thomas, 2. Joshua Sidney, and others. 7. Thomas, seventh child of Thomas, died young, at Castletown, in the Isle of Man. 8. Sarah, the youngest, is living and unmarried in 1773. Sir William above-named married Susanna, daughter and heir- ess of Francis Watts, of Barnes-hall, in Yorkshire, esq ; by whom, 1. Sir Watts, 2. Thomas, and 3. William. N.B. The pedegrees of Horton, of Sowerby, and Horton, of Barkisland, which were drawn up by myself, I entered in the HerE^ld's office in London, March 1766, in a book intitled 5th D 14, p. 237. For an account of this family, siee under Barkisland, as also for their arms. Sir William Horton's motto was. Pro rege et lege. There are at Chaderton two fine heads of Martha, wife of the above Joshua Horton, esq ; of Sowerby, and a portrait of her son Thomas, the Physician ; also another of William, grandson of the said Martha. One of Joshua Horton, esq; of Chaderton, in 1700, and Mary his wife, same date. Like- wise Thomas Horton, of Chaderton, esq ; drawn in the character of Governor of the Isle of Man, sir William Horton, and his Lady, all three half lengths, by Hamlet Winstanley. Watts, son of sir William, by Henry Pickering, who also drew, at Howroyd, the portraits of Joshua Horton, of Howroyd, and both his wives. HANSON AND EASTRICK. At Rastrick lived a considerable family, who took their name from this vill, and whose pedegree I have added, taken from a MS. pedegree at Fixby, another in my own possession, and a third mentioned in Wright's History, p. 135, intitled, " Observationes quaedam collectse tam ex antiquis chartis, & *' rotulis curiarum, & aliis scrip tis, & genealogiis, quam de " progenia & familia in Rastricke, olim vocata Rastricke, ac *'modo Hanson." Roger de Rastrick lived about 1251. His name is found in many Deeds in the time of Henry III, amongst the chief 228 BIOGRAPHIA men of the weapontake of Morley. He held lands in Rastrick, Skircoat, and Clayton, in Bradford-dale. I have the copy of a Deed without date, wherein Henry de Eland, father of sir John de Eland, grants to this Roger, by the name of Roger, son of William de Bingley, and his heirs, for his homage and service, two bovats of land in Rastrick, one of which, Alexander, son of Alexander, held with the said Alexander, and all his sequel : the other held by Lei- singus, son of Herbert, with the said Leisingus, and all his sequel. This was confirmed by Emma, daughter of Hugh, son of Orme de Batelin, and Assulf her son and heir. He also grants to him Linlands, with other lands. It is probable that the above Roger, after this grant, removed to Rastrick, and settled there, having other estates, and the services of several villains, as appears by Deeds. He used a proper seal, with this inscription, sigill. rogeri de rastricke. He had, 1. Hugh, 2. John, the Chaplain, to whom his father gave a toft with a garden, in the vill of Rastrick, which one Alexander formerly held, and three acres of land in the fields of Rastrick, and fifteen pence of a yearly rent, and all the service thereto belonging, out of a farm which Simon, his son, and Adam the Smith, of Huddersfield, son of the said Simon held. His third son was, 3. Simon, who occurs by the name of Simon le Faber (or Smith) de Rastrick. This Simon had Adam, and Hugh. Adam lived at the Castle in Rastrick, and had Simon. Hugh, son of Simon, had William. Hugh de Rastrick, son of Roger, lived in the time of Hen. III. and Edw. I, and resided at Linlands. He is witness to a Deed, by the name of Hugh de Rastrick, mentioned in Burton's Monasticon, p. 313, along with Matthew de Shep- ley, and others, which Matthew was witness to a Deed in 1257. He gave to Leisingus, son of Orme de Rastrick, the moiety of an assart in Rastrick, called Hee Hawkeswode ; confirmed to John the Chaplain, his brother, the yearly rent of fifteen pence above mentioned ; gave to his brother Simon an assart in Rastrick, containing four acres (super toftum Raveri) for six-pence yearly rent ; also to Adam, son of his brother Simon, the land which his father hel^ of him, viz. the moiety of three bovats, which Leisingus, son of Herbert, held of Roger, father of the said Hugh, in Rastrick, for two shillings yearly rent. Also to Hugh, son of his brother HAIilFAXIENSIS. 229 Simon, all the laud in Eastrick, which Leisingus, son of Eve, held, with the building thereon, and a messuage and other lands in Eastrick. This Hugh married Agues by whom John de Eastrick and William de Eastrick. John gave by Deed without date, to Simon, son of Adam, at the Castle of Eastric, for his homage and service, &c. two acres in the lower field of Eastric. Eound the seal append- ant to the Deed, in capitals, s. johannis de rastric. He also gi*anted to John de Toothill, for his homage and service, two acres in Eastrick, by Deed without date. A MS. pedegree at Fixby sais, this John had an only daughter Helen, married to one Alan de Eastrick, who died i Edw. Ill, by whom John, who, it seems, when his mother became a widow, was called the son of Elen, or Elenson. This John married Margaret, daughter of Eoger le Teyler, by whom Isabel, who married John, surnamed Scot, by whom Helen and Alice. Here the above pedegree ends, and so far I find it confirmed by evidence, that one John, son of Elen de Eastrick, was witness to a Deed 32 Edw. III. And in one of the Plarleian MSS. N° 797, under the article of Eastrick, are these words: '*! Alice, daughter of John Scot, of *' Eastrick, and Isabel my mother, have given to Elen, ** daughter of John Scot, for a certain sum of money, all *'that land and meadow called Linlands, in Eastrick." They were contemporaries with one Hugh de Eastrick, for they granted by Deed without date to John de Barne de Tothill, and heirs, three roods of land, abutting on one side on the garden of the said Hugh, and on the other, on Le OUerode : three of the witnesses to which Deed were living in the year 1287, viz. Eobert de Bosco, Matthew de Fekisby, and Alexander de Fekisby. However, notwithstanding these proofs, in a beautiful pedegree of this family, belonging to Mr. Eoger Hanson, of Halifax, but not authenticated by any of the Heralds at Anns, the above John de Eastrick is said to have had a son John, who had Henry de Eastrick, who had John de Eastrick, alias Hanson (a contraction of Henry's son,) and from hence the addition of de Eastrick was dropt by this branch of the family, and that of Hanson used in its room. Here the disagi-eements in the two pedegrees begin to disappear, for I find John, son of Henry de Eastrick, a party in a Deed dated in 1337, and one of the , witnesses was John, son of Elen aforesaid. This John p 230 BIOGKAPHIA married Alice, daughter and heiress of Henry de Woodhouse, which Henry was son of Alexander de Woodhouse, who married Beatrice, daughter and heiress of Thomas de Totehill. By the said Alice the said John had a son, John Hanson, of Woodhouse, who married Cecily de Windebank, by whom John Hanson, of Woodhouse, who married Cecily, daughter of John Ravens [1] aw, by whom John Hanson, of Woodhouse, who married Catharine, daughter of John Brooke, by whom John Hanson, of Woodhouse, who married Agnes, eldest daughter of John Savile, of Newhall, esq; by whom John Hanson, of Woodhouse ; 2. Edward Hanson, of Nether- Woodhouse ; 3. Thomas Hanson, of Rastrick ; and 4. Arthur Hanson. John, the eldest son, lived at Woodhouse, in Rastrick, and was buried at Eland in 1599, aged eighty- two, as appears from a grave-stone there, and which is said to be the oldest date they can shew. He married, first, Margaret, second daughter, and one of the three coheiresses of Thomas Woodhead, sometime of Howroyd, in Barkisland ; secondly, Margaret, daughter of Robert Wade. By his first wife, he had, 1. John Hanson, of Woodhouse; 2. Thomas, 3. Nicholas, who had Robert and Dorothy ; and, 4. Judith, married to Jasper Blythman. John, the eldest, died in the seventy- third year of his age; his will was dated Au^^ust 14, 1621. He married Joan, daughter and heiress of William Rayner, of Liversege, by whom, 1. John, who died an infant ; 2. Ag- nes, who married Richard Lawe, of Halifax ; 3. Mary, who married Walter Stanhope, of Horsforth ; 4. Grace, who died s. p. 5. Margaret, who married Thomas Brooke, of New- house ; and, 6. Katharine, who died s. p. Thomas, second son of John Hanson, by Margaret Woodhead, married Margaret, daughter and coheiress of John Royde, of Shaw, in Soyland, by whom, 1. John, who died an infant; 2. Thomas, of Brighouse, who died s. p. 3. Arthur, who married Sarah, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Bothom- ley, by wham John, Thomas, Joseph, Richard, Joshua, and Judith ; 4. Richard, who married Elizabeth Jenkinson ; 5. Robert, 6. Joseph, 7. Margaret, and, 8. Judith. Richard, last named, had Thomas Hanson, of Backhall, buried at Eland, Jan. 6, 1695, aged sixty-four; and John, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Brooke, of Huddersfield, by whom John, Richard, Elizabeth and Mary. Thomas, last HALIFAXIEXSIS. 231 named, married Hester, daughter and heiress of John Farnel, by whom John, and Thomas, who married a daughter of Anthony Foxcroft, by whom Anthony. John, the elder brother, of Backhall, married a daughter of George Booth, of Snowden, by whom, 1, Thomas, 2. John, s. -p. 3. Dorothy, who married Abraham Dyson, of Sunnybank ; 4. George, of Backhall, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John 8tott, by whom John, Roger, Nathan, Esther, Robert, Rebecca, and Elizabeth ; 5. Mary, who married John Dawson ; 6. Esther; 7. Rebecca, who married Thomas, son of George Booth, of Snowden ; 8. Sarah, and 9. Eleanor. Thomas, eldest son of John, married Martha, daughter of Nathan Gledhill, by whom John, who died an infant, Thomas, Nathan, Arthur, George, Edward, Joshua, Richard, Joseph, Mary, Esther, and Agnes. Edward Hanson, of Nether Woodhouse, second son of John, by Agnes Savile, was buried at Eland, Dec. IG, 1601, in the eighty-second year of his age ; his will dated Nov. 30, 1601. He married, first, Joan, daughter of Edward Kaye ; second and third wives unknown ; he married, fourthly, Nov. 2, 1590, to Margaret Malinson, widow, daughter of Edward Hoile, of Hoile-house, in Lightclifife. She died Feb. 23, 1614, and was buried the day following, ann. netat. 87. By his first wife he had Thomas Hanson, of Tothill, buried at Eland, Aug. 3, 1623, ann. let. 71 ; his will dated July 27, 1623. He married Katharine, daughter of Thomas Brooke, of Newhouse, who was buried at Eland, Feb. 4, 1621, in the 74th year of her age. By her he had 1. Edward; 2. Elizabeth, who married William Horton, of Barkisland ; 3. Katharine, who married Thomas Sharp ; also Abraham Beaumont ; 4. Mary, who married William Mallinson ; and, 5. Agnes. Edward, the eldest, married Dorothy, daughter of John Gledhill, of Barkisland, and Cecily his wife, daughter of John Thornhill, esq. By the said Dorothy he had Edward, Dorothy, and Margaret. Edward Hanson, of Woodhouse, married Jane, daughter of Thomas Beaumont, by whom John, Edward, Dorothy, Margaret, Catharine, Mary, Jane, Elizabeth, Frances, and Cecily. Thomas Hanson, of Rastrick, third son of John, by Agnes Savile, married Jennet, daughter of John Gledhill, of Little- Even, in Barkisland, by whom, 1. Roger, 2. Thomas, of 232 BIOGRAPHIA Eastrick, who married Martha, daughter of Edward Naylor,. by whom John, and Eoger. 8. John, of London, who married Frances, daughter of John Pritcliard, hy whom John, Thomas, and Edward. 4. Robert, of Rastrick, who married Sarah, daughter of Wilham Thor^De ; 5. Ehzabeth, and G. Judith. Arthur, fourth and youngest son of John, by Agnes Savile, had 1. John, of Norwood Green, who had Edward^ and John. 2. Edward, who had John, and Margaret, who married Richard Wilton. The following grant was in the hands of Mr. Roger Hanson, of Halifax ; " To all and singular unto whom these *' presents shall come. William Ryley, esq; Norroy King " of Armes, sendeth greeting. Whereas Edward Hanson, of *' Woodhouse, in the county of Yorke, gent, hath requested *' me to confirme and declare those Annes which have *' formerly been born by his Ancestors. I do therefore, by " these presents, confirme and allow the said Edward Han- *' son to bear the said Armes and Creast hereafter mentioned, **viz. Or, a cheveron counter componed, argent and azure, ** between three martlets sable. And for his Creast, On a ** helme a chapeau azure, lined argent, a martlet volant *' sable, mantled gules, doubled argent. Which coate and " creast I the said Norroy do by these presents allowe and " confirme unto the said Edward Hanson, and the heires of " his body lawfully begotten, to bee born and used by them ** in banners, j)ennans, shieldes, and scales, in warr and ** peace, with theire several respected differences for ever. «' In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of my *' office, and subscribed my name, the 17th day of July, ** 1652. William Ryley, Norroy King of Armes." The Arms of Rastrick, of Rastrick, were. Argent, a chev- ron between three roses gules, and, as one account adds, barbed and seeded proper. Woodhouse, of Woodhouse, in Rastrick, according to Mr. Hanson's pedegree, bore, Azure, a chevron between three mullets or ; but in Hopkinson's Collections the mullets are pierced of the field. Windebank, (as in the above pedegi*ee,) bore, Vert, a chevron between three hawks standing, wings displayed, or. Ravens[l]aw (as above) bore, Sable, two fesses argent, ■wavy, on a chief of the second three ravens proper. HALIFAXIENSIS. 233 Brooke, (as above,) bore, Argent, on a bend sable, a lure, ^itli a line and ring or. This was borne by Joshua Brooke, of Newhouse, in the township of Huddersfield, as appears by a seal appendant to a Deed dated in 1647. Kay, (as above,) bore. Argent, two bendlets sable. . Prichard, (as above,) bore. Gules, a fess or, between three escallops argent. The following Certificate was granted to one Elias Ras- trick, said to be a descendant from the above ancient family. ''Frater Andreas ab Arco, Ordinis Minorum, &c. in ''partibus Orientalibus Apostolicus Commissarius totius ** terrfE sanct^e Gustos, ac Sanct<^ Montis Sion Servus & Oardianus. *' Universis & singulis Christi fidelibus proBsentes nostras ••'inspecturis, lecturis, pariter & audituris, salutem in Dom- *' ino sempiternam. Notum sacimus & attestamus, Domin- *' um Eliam Eastricke, Anglum, ad liauc sanctam, Jeruso- '* limorum urbem provenisse, necnon terram sanctam, nempe ^'gloriosissimag resurrectionis Domini Christi sepulchrum ; ^' sacratissimos montes, Calvariae scilicet, ubi Salvator noster •** propria morte nos redemit in cruce ; Oliveti, ubi in caelum "mirabiliter con seen dit ad Patrem; Sion, augustissim^ Eu- *' charistiffi sacramenti institutione, Spiritus Sanctie missione, •** compluriumque nostra salutis mysteriorum celebrations ^' insignis ; Thabor, naturu, & gloriosa transfiguratione, " Patrum testimonio vetustorum, & beatitudinibus admirabili- *' ejusdem Domini sermone decorati. Pr^eterea, sanctissimum ** nativitatis Domini Pr fS ft M ft . «^ ;• ^ $-1 O . I o Q -^ 'o DO g 1 1 1 > CQ ^ .2« 1 =3 ^ cc o P^ ■ o 1 a c3 «4-l o 03 .-. H *ai O "A , — ■ — « . — ■ — . ,r\ oT r-H ^ o -£3 "s 1 i p£4 -*-3 3 ^ 03 i 03 OJ oPh no Johannes ter), Capel. o 3 3 1 i 3? A i 03 aid a o a o ft ft ft ft ft ft ft g oa oi GQ O Ha "T? a> n3 c3 <£) oa ^ o « O 03 CZ2 CQ o EH ;^ a o 44 o E-k HALIFAXIENSIS. 295 I do not find that there was more than one Chantry at Ealaud, the history of which is this. By an inquisition taken at Pontefract, 19 Ric. II. the Jurors say, that it is not to the damage of the Lord the King, if the King grant to John Neele, Parson of Tankersley, John Wath, Vicar of the church of Huddresfeld, John de Dishford, Chaplain, and Will, de Heton, that they may of new make, establish, and found, a certain Chantry of one Chaplain in the chapel of Elande, annexed to the parish church of Halifax ; and may give and assign to a Chaplain of the Chantry aforesaid, one messuage with appurtenances in Elande, and a certain yearly rent of eight marks, to be perceived out of the manor of Wyke, near Okenshaw, and of one messuage, 200 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, and six acres of wood, with the ai)purtenances, in Himsworth. In consequence of this, the above-named persons founded the said Chantry for one Chaplain, presentable by Sir John Savill, Knt. and Isabel his wife, and their heirs, within fifteen days from the time of any vacation, for the said Chaplain to celebrate therein, at the altar of St. John Baptist, for the good estate of John Duke of Acquitain and Lancaster, of John Sayvill, Knt. and Isabel his wife, and the children of the said John and Isabel, and for the souls of the said Duke, and said John and Isabel, and the souls of their children after death ; and for the souls of Henry late Earl of Lancaster, John Sayvill, and Margery his wife, parents of said John Sayvill, Knt. also of Thomas de Eland, and Joan his wife, parents of the said Isabel, of John Eylay, Thomas Cross, Chaplain, and Richard Schepard, of Eland, and the friends and benefactors of said John Sayvill, Knt. and Isabel, and for the souls of all the faithful deceased. It does not appear who was first appointed to this office, as the first person in the above table is one Broughton, nominated by Isabel, relict of Sir John Sayvill, between five and six years after the foundation of the Chantry. This Broughton is said to have resigned to one Ralph Pillay, but at what time is uncertain. I have copies of two deeds, dated Feb. 16, 1411, in both which he is called " Radulphus de Pillay, Capellanus Cantorie de Elande ;" and the same stile is given in another deed, dated 37 Hen. VI. 1459, to John Lister. 296 BIOGRAPHIA The manner of the institution to this Chantry may be seen in Woolsey's Eegister at York, fol. 51. from which I took the following : "Decimo die mensis Novembris, Anno Dom. 1520, Jo- hannes Halywell, Capellanus ad Cantariam perpetuam S. Johannis Baptiste, in Capella de Eland, Ebor. Dioces. per mortem Dom^ Eob. Gledehill, ultimi Capellani eiusdem vacantem, ad presentationem Tho. Sayvill, Gen. dicte Cantarie hac vice patroni ratione cuiusdam donationis, sive concessionis, advocationis, sive iuris patronatus dicte Can- tarie, sibi et Eob". Waterhous, cum clausula ilia coniunctim et divisim per Hen. Sayvill, Arm. verum ipsius Cantarie patronum fact, admissus fuit, et canonice institutus in eadem, etc. et prestito obedientie iuramento mandatum erat directum Archidiacono Ebor. aut eius Officiali, ad inducen- dum eundem Dominum Johannem Halywell, aut eius Pro- curatorem, quemcuncq ; nomine suo in corporalem posses- sionem dicte Cantarie, etc." In the Certificate of the Archbishop of York, and others, concerning Colleges, Chantries, &c. in the order and survey of the King's court of the augmentations, and revenue of the crown, dated Feb. 14, in the 2d year (as I take it) of Edw. the Vlth, this Chantry is thus described : '♦ The Chuntrie in the Chapell of Heland, in the Poch of " Hallifaxe. John Sysson, incumbent of the foundacoii of " John Savyle, Knt. to the entent to pray for the sowle of "the Founder, and all Xpen sowles, and to do dyvyne *' service in the said chapell, and to mynystre Sacrements "in the same, havynge thereunto belonginge 1800 people." (N.B. This 1800 is wrote in a later hand, and something put out where it stands, in the attested copy on stampt paper, from whence this is taken.) " The same is in the Poch abovesaid, distunte from the " P'och Church two myles. The necitie is to have divyne " service and sacrements and sacrementalls done and myn- " ystred ther. Ther is no land alienate or sold sithence the " 4th day of Februarye, Anno E. E. Hen. 8^. 28^." "Goods, ornaments and plate perteynynge to the same, " as apperyth by the inventorye, viz. Goodes valued at 18s. " 8d. Plate at 52s. First, the Mancon-house of the said " Incumbent, rented at 2s. 6d. and one annuall rente, goynge HALTFAXIENSIS. 29t "fiirth of the lands of Sir Henrie Savell, Kut. lienge in " Wyke, of 106s. 8d. Sum of the said Chuntrie 109s. 2d. " wherof payable to the King's Ma"®, for the tenths 10s. lid. *' And so remanyth £4 18s. 3d." In the list of pensions and annuities paid in 1553, to Incumbents of Chantries, published in Willis's History of Abbies, v. ii. p. 291. the pension to John Scisson, at Eland, is only called £5, but, from other authorities, I judge this to be a mistake. It is worth remarking, that from what has been said it evidently appears, that Eland chapel was not erected purely as a chantry chapel, since it was more than a century after its being first built that we hear of a chantry Priest there. The argument, therefore, made use of, to exclude the Vicar of Halifax from presenting to this, because it has been a chantry chapel, and privately endowed, is ill founded, both because it was set up merely as a chapel of ease to Halifax ; and supposing it had been otherwise, yet we find, that the Priory of Lewis first granted it to the Vicar of Halifax, and afterwards the King himself did the same, when, after the dissolution, he was impowered by statute to present to this living. There was a Light kept up here in former times, as I find by deed, but when founded I cannot say. The original deed I saw at Okes, in Eishworth, importing that Walter de Frith granted to John his son a moyety of his land in Arnaldelyes, and a moyety of the land which he bought of Tho. de Thornton, lying within Boynley (Bottomley) and Barkeslond, and a moyety of the land which he bought of Hugh, son of Julian, and others, paying yearly to Hugh de Eland a farthing and half farthing (quadrant, et dim. quad- rant.) to Tho. Thornton two pence of silver and one half- penny, to John de Barkislond one arrow feathered with a goose feather ; and also paying yearly to the said Walter three-pence and one halfpenny of silver at Martinmass, and after the death of the said Walter the same to go to the Light of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the church of Eland (debent reverti ad Lumen beate Marie Virginis ecclesie de Eland.) There is no date to this deed, but amongst the witnesses are Hugh de Eland, Hen. de Eisseworth, and Tho. de Coppeley, all whom I find about the year 1287. 298 BIOGRAPHIA HEPTONSTALL. Tlie chantries which were founded therein were these, as inserted in the Archhishop's certificate mentioned under E aland : 1. A chantry there (no Founder's name mentioned) worth yearly five pounds. 2. The service of our Lady there, worth four pounds yearly. From this there is a variation in Willis's History of Abbies, v. ii. p. 292 ; for under the title of Heptonstall is this : ** Virgin Mary's Chantry. To Richard Michell, Incumbent, £3 12s." But I have an old MS. wherein the sums to both agree with the Archbishop's certi- ficate, as does Steven's Supplement to the Monasticon, vol. i. p. 68. In the list of the tythes paid in the vicarage of Halifax, in the reign of Hen. VIII. is the following entry : " For the lands in Stansfeld belonging to the Chauntry of ** the blessed Virgin Mary in the church of Heptonstall, 12d." LONGEVITY. In Halifax Register is this entry, Roger Brook, of Halifax, sepult. 11th day of October, 1568, of the age of 6 score and 13 years. One John Roberts, of Hipperholm, also died Nov. 10, 1721, in the 114th year of his age. There was one Littleton, in Rishworth, in 1700, aged 100. Nathan Wood, near Baitings, in Soyland, was buried Dec. 25, 1704, aged 108. Dec. 3, 1708, died Peter Ambler, of Shelf, aged about 108. In the year 1757, there were seven sons and daughters of one John Firth, of Sowerby, then living and well, the eldest of which was 87 years old, and the youngest 69. HALIFAXIENSIS. GIBBET LAW. The following is a list, carefully collected from the Eegis- ter Books at Halifax, of such persons as have been beheaded there, since entries were made of such tran- sactions. " Eiciis Beverley [Bentley-] de Sowerby decollat. 20 die Martii, 1541. — QuidamExtraneus capitalem subiit sententiam 1° die Jan. 1542. — JoEes Brygg, Capellanie de Heptonstal, capitalem subiit sententiam 16° Septembris, 1544. — Jolies Eco^Dpe, de Eland, capitalem subiit sententiam ultimo die Martii, 1545. — Thomas Waite, de Halifax, capitalem subiit sententiam, & suit sepultus 5° die Decemb. 1545. — Richard Sharpe, de North™, John Learoyd, de North"^, beheaded the 5th day of March, 1568, for a robbery done in Lancashire. — William Cokekere was headed the 9th day of Oct. 1572. — John Atkinson, Nicholas Frear, Richard Garnet were headed at Halifax, the 9th day of January, 1572. — Richard Stopforthe was headed the 19th of May, 1574. — James Smyth, de Sowerby, was headed at Halyfax, the 12th of Febr. 1574. — Henry Hunt was headed at Halyfax the 3d of Novemb. 1576. — Robert Bayrstall, alias Fernesyde, was headed the 6th of February, 1576. — John Dicconsone, de Bradford, was headed the 6th of January, 1578. — John Waters was headed at Halifax, March 16, 1578. — Bryan Cassone was headed at Halyfax, the 15th of October, 1580. — John Appleyard, de Halyfax, was headed the 19th of Febr. 1581. — John Sladen was headed at Halyfax, the 7th of Febr. 1582. — Arthur Firthe was headed the 17th of Jan. 1585. — John Duckworthe was headed at Halifax, the 4th of Oct. 1586. — Nicholas Hewett, de North™, Thomas Masone, vagans, were headed the 27th of May, 1587. — Ux. Thorn. Robarts, de Halifax, was beheaded the 13th of July, 1588. — Robert AVilson, de Halifax, was headed the 5th of April, 1589. — Decollatus Petrus Crabtrye, Sorby, 21 Decemb. 1591. — Decollatus Barnard Sutcliffe, North™, 6th of January, 1591. — Abraham Stancliffe, Hal. capite truncatus, Sept. 23, * This has always been recorded as Bentley, but there is not the slightest doubt that it is Bcti-ley, i. e. Beverley. There is an earlier entry in Halifax Register which was discovered by the late Mr. E. J. Walker : " Carolus Hawworth capitalem subiit sentenciam Xmo die [January, 1539.] We should no doubt have had many other instances if the Registers had been commenced earlier. 800 BIOGKAPHIA 1602.— Ux. Peter Harison, Brad. decoU. Feb. 22, 1602.— Christopher Cosin decollatus Dec. 29, 1610. — Thomas Briggs decollatus, April 10, 1611. — George Fairbanke, preditissimus nebulo, viilgo vocatus Skoggin, ob nequitiam. Anna, ejusdem Georgii FiUa spuria, ambo meritissimt! ob furtum manifestum decollati, Dec. 23, 1628. — John Lacy, perditi- ssimus nebulo & latro, decollatus Jan. 29, 1623. — Edmund Ogden decollatus April 8, 1624. — Eichard Midgley, of Midg- ley, decollatus April 13, 1624. — Ux. Johan. Wilson decollata July 5, 1627.— Sara Lume, Hal. decollata Dec. 8, 1627.— John Sutcliffe, Sk. [Skircoat,] decollatus 14 May, 1629.— Eichard Hoile, Hept. decollatus Oct. 20, 1629. — Henry Hudson. Ux. Samuel. Ettai ob plurima furta decollati, Aug. 28, 1630. — Jeremy Bowcock, de Warley, decollatus April 14, 1632. — John Crabtree, de Sourby, decollatus Sept. 22, 1632.— Abraham Clegg, Norland, decollatus May 21, 1636. — Isaac Illingworth, Ovenden, decollatus Oct. 7, 1641. — John Wilkinson, Anthony Mitchell, Sowerby, decollati Aj)ril 30, 1650. In all forty-nine; of which five were executed in the six last years of king Henry VIII, twenty- five in the reign of queen Elizabeth, seven in that of king James I, ten in that of k. Charles I, and two during the inter-regnum. BENEFACTIONS : CONCLUDED. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF ISAAC BOWCOCK, OF TONGUE, [tONG.] Dated Feb. 11th, 1669. " "T" GIVE so much money as will buy so much land for the I preferring or putting forth of five poor men's sons to trades yearly, as are not to be put forth town j^rentices, or for the relief of such as are in necessity, and not through wastfull expences, nor such as have relief from the parish, or for setting in trade or stocking such young persons as are hopefull to make good use of it, at the discretion of my Feoffees hereafter named. — Item, I give to the townships of HALIFAXIENSIS. - 801 Halifax and Ovenden my lands in Ossett, that the rents may be yearly bestowed after the same manner (alluding to the clause above) by my Feoffees chosen for that end, and that six pounds thereof be given to Ovenden. — For Halifax and Ovenden I chuse and ordain Mr. Fournes, John Illingworth, William Illingworth, John Hodgson, James Hodgson, his brother, Daniel Greenwood, and John Brearcliffe, Feoffees for both towns jointly; and my mind is, that if any of these die, the rest shall meet together and choose another before anything be acted ; and I give power to my said Feoffees to buy lands, to make out what I leave not in lands already purchased, to make leases, receive rents, give acquit- ances, and every such matter as may be necessary for the performance of my Will herein." In the Manuscript, from whence the above was taken, was wrote under : "A true copy, taken 8th of March, 1670, by me John Brearcliffe." This is one of the charities which Mr. Wright, p. 131, sais, he could procure no particular account of; he has told us, however, that the farm lies at Osset-yate. The last choice for this charity, which I know of, was by Deed, dated Dec. 22, 1710, and the Trustees then chosen neglected to convey, as the Will requires, for the late Mr. John Caygil was the only surviving Trustee, and whether he took care to fill up the trust before his death is uncertain. The farm, as I am informed, lets for eighteen pounds per annum, and is capable of being raised. It is also said that there are coals in it. Samuel Sunderland, Esq; of Harden, in the parish of Bingley, but of the family of the Sunderlands, of High Sunderland, near Halifax, gave, but whether by Will or Deed I have not seen, the sum of two hundred x^ounds, to purchase therewith ten pounds a year, for the use of the Vicars of Halifax Church for ever. With this money a purchase was made of a field adjoining to Southgate, in Halifax, and another in Southouram, called Haivkinijioid, See more of this Gentleman's benefactions, in the township of Hipperholme. He was buried Feb. 4, 1676. 802 BIOGRAPHIA EXTKACT FROM THE WILL OF ALICE OROWTHER, Widow, Dated Oct. 12, 1722. '' T HEREBY give and devise all that cottage, and an I outhouse to the same belonging, scituate in the Dean Clough, now in my own occupation, and also all those four other cottages, or tenements, scituate and being in the Dean Clough aforesaid, (then follow the names of the oc- cupants,) with all and singular the appurtenances whatso- ever unto the said cottages, or any of them belonging, or in any wise appertaining, unto Joshua Marcer, of Halifax, Hardwareman, and Timothy Scholfield, of Halifax aforesaid, Hempheckler, and their heirs and assigns, and the survivor of them, and his heirs and assigns for ever, as my Feoffees or Trustees, in trust to the several uses hereafter mentioned (that is to say) that they the said Feoffees or Trustees, and the survivor of them, and his heirs and assigns shall for ever hereafter, after my decease, after paying of all my just debts, funeral expences, and probate of this my Will, legacies, and other incident charges, distribute and pay out of the rents, issues, and profits of all my said cottages, unto and amongst such poor, indigent and poor housekeepers, and other poor people, within the town and township of Halifax, as have not any allowance from the town and township of Halifax, the same to be given and distributed by my said Trustees, by such sums of money, and to such person and loersons, as they in their judgment shall think necessary and fit, and to be paid to the said poor people at Christmass yearly for ever." From an attested copy. N.B. A memorial of the above was registered at Wake- field, July 5, 1723, in Book S. p. 466, No. 634. The Trustees of this Charity, about thirty years ago, assigned over their power to the Churchwardens and Over- seers of the Poor of Halifax, who still execute the same. ^?^- HALIFAXIENSIS. 808 EXTKACT FKOM THE WILL OF WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN. Dated Sept. 22, 1728. " "T" GIVE, devise, and bequeath the sum of twenty I shillings per annum of lawfull money of Great Britain, yeariy, from and after my decease, to be paid to the person that reads praj'ers twice every day in Halifax, and for want of such usage or reading prayers twice every day, ihen I hereby give, devise, and bequeath the said sum of twenty shillings yearly unto the Lecturer, or Afternoon Preacher in Halifax Church for ever. And I do hereby charge the same shall be paid forth out of the housing in Mr. James Ingham's occupation." This is all I was allowed to take out of the above Will, and it is sufficient to prove, that Mr. Wright, p. 129, was mistaken in sujoposing, that the Testator had limited the times of reading prayers, as above, to eleven o'clock and two. Probably that Author (any more than myself) had never a copy of this Will in his own possession ; for I am credibly informed, (though he is silent about it,) that Mr. Chamberlain left also six shillings yearly, for which the twelve widows in the alms-houses are to have each a dinner and a pint of ale every Christmas-day ; likewise twenty shillings yearly for ever, payable out of the whole estate given to his daughter Mary, for teaching the Blue-coat children in Mr. Waterhouse's Hospital to write, at the dis- cretion of the said Mr. Waterhouse's Feoffees. This Benefactor died May 15, 1729. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF ELIZABETH BINGLEY, Dated May 12, 1729. " nr GIVE and devise all those my two cottages in or I near the lane leading to Mount Pellon, at the upper end of Halifax town, with their and every of their appurtenances, now in the several tenures or occupations of me the said Elizabeth Bingley, and John Morris, the rents, 804 BIOGRAPHIA issues and profits thereof to go and be to and for the Header of Prayers twice every day in Halifax Church for ever ; and if Tjrayers reading twice every day shall cease from being read, then to the Lecturer or Afternoon man in Halifax Church for the time being, for ever." Her Executor was John Holt, of Halifax. This Bene- factress was born in 1684, died May 14, 1729, and was buried on the 16th following. These premises being copy- hold, were conveyed by Lord Irwin, by Deed, to Trustees^ for the uses mentioned in the AYill. Maky Drake, of Halifax, widow, who was buried, as Mr. Wright sais, in June, 1729, left twenty shillings yearly for ever, to the Lecturer at Halifax, and his successors, for preaching a Sermon every second Wednesday in June for ever. John Tenant, of Halifax, Grocer, left the interest of ten pounds yearly for ever, for reading prayers twice every day in the parish Church of Halifax. He died, as Mr. Wright sais, about the year 1729. A messuage or dwelling-house in Bury-lane is the security for this. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF JOHN" SMYTH, of Heath, Esq.; WHEEL AS I built a school at Halifax, I do devise and give the same unto those persons called Governors of Mr.. Waterhouse's charity there, and to their successors for ever, for them from time to time to elect such a School-master as shall be approved of by my son, John Smyth, and his heirs, or such persons as shall hereafter for the time being for ever be owner or owners of my estate at Halifax, to be upon every vacancy nominated and put into the said school by him or them, to teach six poor boys or girls, whose parents pay no assessments therein, to read, and not elsewhere. And I give and bequeath to the said Governors, and to their successors for ever, all that my- house in Halifax aforesaid, let to John or Thomas Bairstow for eleven years, under the yearly rent of four pounds, and * This bouse is in Noi-tbgate. HALIFAXIENSIS. 305 the window money, in trust only for them and their succes- sors, to let, set, and dispose thereof as will he most advan- tageous for that purpose, to any person or persons, other than the School-master there, and his successors for the time being, and to receive the rents, issues and profits thereof for ever, and to pay the same over, by half yearly paj^ments, to such Master and Masters for ever, teaching six poor hoys or girls as aforesaid, there to be placed by the said Governors, or the major part of them, for ever, with the advice and assistance of the Churchwardens and Over- seers of the Poor there, if desired. And I do revoke and abrogate this my last request to the Governors of Mr. Water- house's charity, in case they or any of them, or any of their successors, shall ever suffer the said School-master or any of his successors, to live in the said Bairstow's house or School-house, for so long time as they shall permit him or them to inhabit in either of the said houses. Item, I give, devise and bequeath to my said son John Smyth, his Executors and Administrators, the farm in Reavey, in the parish of Bradford, and county of York, I hold by lease under William Eookes, Esq ; wherein there is yet above eighty years to come, and will so long subsist, and is of the clear yearly value of fifteen pounds per annum, and in the present tenures or occupations of George Kellet and Thomas Dewhirst, he and they yearly paying out of the issues, rents, and profits thei-eof, four pounds of lawful money, by four quarterly payments in every year, to Abigail Marshall, now of Halifax, an old widow, during her natural life only, and also in trust for the several charitable uses, intents and purposes herein after mentioned and appointed, that is to say, upon trust and confidence that my son John Smyth, his heirs and assigns, shall and do pay, or cause to be paid, given and disbursed, out of the rents and profits of my said farm at Ecavey, during the continuance of the said lease, the several gifts and disbursements, and to and for such uses, intents and purposes, and upon such terms, provisoes and conditions, subject to such limitations, devises, order and appointments as are herein after directed, devised, be- queathed, ordered and appointed, viz. the sum of forty shillings per annum to the Vicar of Halifax, and his success- or or successors, upon every twenty-ninth day of September and twenty-fifth day of March, by equal portions, in every 806 BIOGRAPHIA year during the said term, for preaching, or procuring to be preached, two charity sermons, in Hahfax Church, in the afternoons of one Sunday in every month of June, and of one Sunday in every month of December year- ly, during the said term, the first sermon to be i^reached in June next after my decease ; and catechize or cause to be catechized all the poor boys or girls that shall from time to time be taught in the said school in the summer seasons every year ; and in default of any and every such catechiz- ing or preaching, it is my will and mind that nothing be paid or liable to be paid by my said son John, or his heirs or assigns, to the said Vicar or his successors that year, and every year any such default or neglect shall happen in ; and I give that year, and every such years, payment of forty shillings a year as aforesaid, wherein every or any such default shall happen, to my said son John, his Heirs, Ex- ecutors, and Administrators. And I desire the Church- wardens of the said town of Halifax for the time being, ta go about the Church when every such sermon is preached, there to collect the charity of well-disposed persons, for the benefit of such poor children as shall from time to time be taught in the said school, in the manner now used at Wake- field and Leeds. Also that my said son shall yearly pay unto the said Governors and their successors, on every twenty-fifth day of March, five shillings and six-pence, to be laid out as follows, (viz.) three shillings and six-pence for a good and well bound Bible, with the Common Prayers and Singing Psalms in it, and eighteen-pence for the Whole Duty of Man, and six-pence for putting these letters fol- lowing, /. i>. of Heathy Esq \ with the year of our Lord when so given on the back, and give the same so marked to one of the said six poor boys or girls, that shall yearly be put apprentice out of the said school (if any such there be,) if not, then to any other of the poor boys or girls aforesaid, to be yearly put out as herein mentioned. And I desire the ' Governors and their successors to take the trouble of exe- cuting this last request, and the Churchwardens and Over- seers to see it done, or else no money to be paid. And also it is my desire, that the said Governors or Feoft'ees, and the Churchwardens and Overseers for the poor of Halifax afore- said, will meet every first Monday in June in every year, at some convenient place in Halifax aforesaid, to enquire into HALIFAXIENSIS. 307 the said trust, and regulate and settle the same as they shall see occasion ; and that my said son John Smyth, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, shall, out of the rents and profits of my said estate at Eeavey, spend ten shillings at every such meeting or meetings." Mr. Smyth was living in the year 1730, but how long after I cannot tell. On the south end of this school is the fol- lowing inscription. " Hoc sedificium de fiindo extruxit pro- *' priis suis sumptibus Johannes Smyth, de Heath, in hoc ** comitatu, armiger, quo pauperiorum pueribonis moribus ** honestentur, idem ut exemplo fuo alios ad hujusmodi opera *' excitarat, annuam quandam stipem Ludi-Magistro in per- ** petuum de suo solvendum addixit anno Salutis 1726." Importing, that Mr. Smyth erected that edifice at his own charge, for the education of poor men's children ; and that he might excite others by his example to the like good works, he had settled an annual stipend for ever on the School-master, in the year 1726. Jonathan Turner, of Halifax, Butcher, left by Will (but at what particular time I have not learned) forty shillings yearly to the poor prisoners in Halifax Jail, to be given them in bread. This annuity is charged on some housing in Cheapside, in Halifax, or the street leading from the north end of Southgate to Bull Green. These are all the perpetual Charities in the township of Halifax which I know of ; except three pounds a year to be lent to three poor Tradesmen of Halifax, from year to year, by the Churchwardens, given by William Whitaker ; but of this I can give no farther account, than that it is thus entered in the second volume of the Eegister-books belong- ing to Halifax Church. HEPTONSTALL. John Greenwood, of Cottingley, gave (as appeared by the copy of a Deed, dated Feb. 20, 1598, produced to the In- quirers after Charities at Halifax, Dec. 22, 1651) the sum of forty pounds, to be lent from year to year, for ever, to the Poor of Heptonstall parish, by the discretion of the Church- wardens for the time being of the said parish. The above is mentioned both in Mr. Brearchffe's manu- script, and in Halifax Register, vol. ii. 308 BIOGRAPHIA For Paul Greenwood's legacy to the Preacher at Hepton- stall, see under Wadsworth. EXTKACT FROM THE WILL OF RICHAED NAYLOR, OF BURNT ACRES, IN ERINGDEN. Dated }hiy S9. 1609. ''"T"TTHEEEAS I by one Indenture or Deed, bearing VV date the tenth day of February, which was in the year of our Lord 1604, have given, granted, and con- firmed unto George Halstead, Anthony Naylor, of High Hurst, in "Wadsworth, Eichard Naylor, of Heptonbrigg, Henry Naylor, of Eringden, and Kobert Halstead, one my annuity or yearly rent of three pounds five shillings yearly issuing forth of certain lands and tenements, with their appurtenances, in Ovenden, to have, hold, receive and take the same unto them the said George Halstead, Anthony Naylor, Eichard Naylor, Henry Naylor, and Eobert Halstead, their heirs and assigns, for ever, upon confidence and trust, and to the intent only that they should, within the space of six months next after my decease, lawfully convey and as- sure the said annuity or yearly rent of three pounds five shillings unto such person and persons as I shall, by my last Will, name and appoint, as in and by the same Deed more plainly may appear. My will and mind is, that they the said George Halstead, Anthony Naylor, Eichard Naylor, Henry Naylor, and Eobert Halstead, and their heirs, and the survivors or survivor of them, and his or their heirs, shall yearly and every year, from and after my decease, for ever, faithfully disburse the said annuity or yearly rent of three pounds five shillings to the uses hereafter following, and in such sort as is hereafter declared, viz. thirty-two shillings and six-pence, the one half hereof, for and towards the keeping and maintaining of a Preacher at Heptonstall for the time, so as he be a Master of Arts, yearly, from and after my decease for ever, to be paid at the Feast of St. Jolm Baptist, for all the year. Item, I give and bequeath the other thirty-two shillings and six-pence, together also with HALIFAXIENSIS. 309 the other thirty-two shillings and six-pence, if it shall at any time fortune that there be no Preacher at Heptonstall for the time so leing, shall yearly and every year after my decease for ever, be bestowed and employed at the discretion of them the said George Halstead, Anthony Naylor, Eichard Naylor, Henry Naylor, and Kobert Halstead, upon and to- wards the maintaining of the poor children of and within the parish of Heptonstall." Taken from Heptonstall Kegister. By Deed, dated June 2, 1747, George Halstead, of Hougham, in Eringden, eldest son and heir of George Hal- stead, formerly of Hougham aforesaid, which last George was brother and heir of Eobert Halstead, late of Burnt Acres, in Eringden aforesaid, which Robert was eldest son and heir of Robert Halstead, of Height, in Eringden afore- said, and which last named Robert was the surviving Trustee of the Annuity left by the above Richard Naylor, conveyed the same to Henry Cockcroft the younger, of Burlees, in Wadsworth, Jonathan Greenwood, of Hanging Royd, in Heptonstall, Luke Crosley, of Great House, in Stansfield, and John Sutclifie, of Hoo-Hoyle, in Eringden aforesaid, in trust for the purposes contained in the grant of the said Richard Naylor; in which Deed of Conveyance it is declared, that the above annuity is issuing or payable out of three closes of laud, meadow, and pasture, called the Gould Pit, the Great Hay, and the south end of the Crag in Mixenden, within the township of Ovenden, containing, by estimation, seven acres. Also that, upon the death of two of the said Trustees, the survivors should elect two good, able, honest, and sufficient men, inhabitants of the parish of Heptonstall aforesaid, in their room ; and this rule and order to be for ever hereafter observed, to perpetuate, as much as possible, the charitable donation of Richard Naylor, the Testator, as aforesaid. 010 BIOGRAPHIA EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF ABRAHAM WALL. Dated Sept. 12, 1638. ** nr GIVE and bequeath unto the Churchwardens, for JL the tune being, of the Church or Chapel of Hepton- stall, in the parish of Hahfax, in the county of York, where I was born, twenty shillings a year for ever, for to buy three Bibles, for the use of poor men's childi-en, where most need shall be, they being capable to read in them. And I give unto the said Church or Chapel of Heptonstall, for ever, four pounds, upon condition that they, the said Church- wardens, and other Antients of the same place, provide some one honest man to instruct or bring up poor honest men's children in learning. And I give unto the same Church or Chapel of Heptonstall, for ever, three pounds yearly, for the sending and placing of one of the same scholars up to London, to be apprentice, whom the Churchwardens of the time being shall think fittest, with the consent of a Vestry ; and if this my yearly gift to the said poor children of Hep- tonstall be not duly performed, then I wholly give it to the town of Halifax, to the same use, for so many poor children as the Churchwardens, and other of the Antients there, can get to be taught and brought up in learning, and the twenty shillings yearly for Bibles, and the three pounds yearly for the preferment of poor men's children to prentice." From the Eegister at Heptonstall. N.B. One copy of the above Will is dated Sept. 20, 1638, but is probably a mis- take, as he only died on that day. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF CHARLES GREENWOOD, Clerk, RECTOR OF THORNHILL. Dated July 14, 1642. " "VTOW for and touching the messuage and tenement, jj\ with appurtenances, in Heptonstall, situate near the Church-yard there — which I have now made into a HALIFAXIENSIS. 811 School-house, and the two messuages, tenements, and farms, and all the lands, closes, and grounds therewith, now or commonly demised, used, or occupied, with aj^pui-tenances in Golden aforesaid, forasmuch as it hath pleased God to put me in mind to build a Free Grammar school within the township of Heptonstall aforesaid, and to make provision for some small maintenance of the annual rent or value of twenty pounds ten shillings for a School-master, who shall teach school of the children and inhabitants of the town and parish of Heptonstall aforesaid ; therefore, in the first place, my will and mind is, and I hereby devise, that the said John Greenwood, son of Robert Greenwood, John Greenwood, of Elfaburgh-hall, William Mitchell, Thomas Greenwood, of Learings, and Eichard Eobertshaw, and their heirs, and the survivors and survivor of them, and his and their heirs, shall, by force and virtue of these ]3resents, and of the Deed of Feoffment, stand and be Feoffees, and seised of the said messuage or tenement, with appurtenances, in Heptonstall aforesaid, now made into a School-house ; and my will and mind is, that the same shall remain and con- tinue for a School-house to succeeding ages for ever, unto which said John Greenwood, son of Robert, and other his co-feoffees, and their heirs, and the survivors and survivor of them, and his heirs, I hereby give, devise, and bequeath the same accordingly to the only use aforesaid : And also my will and mind is, and I do hereby devise, that the said John Greenwood, son of Robert, and other his co-feoffees, and their heirs, and survivors and survivor of them, and his and their heirs, shall, by force and virtue of these presents, and of the said Deed of Feoffment, stand and be Feoffees, and seised of the said two messuages, tenements, and farms, and all the lands therewith occupied, with appurten- ances in Golden aforesaid, to the use and for the main- tenance of a sufficient School-master, which hath well profited in learning, for teaching of children and inhabit- ants of the town and parish of Heptonstall aforesaid, within the said School-house to succeeding ages for ever, unto which said John Greenwood, son of Robert, and other his co-feoffees, and their heirs, and the survivors and sur- vivor of them, and his heirs, I hereby give, devise, and bequeath the same lands and tenements in Golden above- said, to the Feoffees abovesaid, and their heirs, for the only 812 BIOGRAPHIA use and maintenance of such a School-master as aforesaid, to hold of the chief Lords of the fee thereof by the services therefore due and of right accustomed." The Testator also left rents for the founding two Fellow- ships and two Scholarships in University College, in Oxford, of which he had been Fellow, appointing Anthony Foxcroft, of Halifax, and Thomas Eadcliffe, his Executors, the latter of whom obtained a Decree in Chancery against the former, who, for nonperformance of the said Charles Greenwood's Will was imprisoned in the Fleet, and during the time of his imprisonment, the said Eadcliffe got a Sequestration of the said Foxcroft's estate in that Court, yet nothing was obtained so as to put the Testator's intentions in execution, so that the College was wronged of this benefaction, as also, (according to Groome, in his Dignity and Honor of the Clergy, p. 253,) it was of fifteen hundred pounds more, given by the said Mr. Greenwood tov/ards building a new quadrangle there. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF CALEB COCKCKOFT, OF LONDON. Dated Nov. 2, 1643. *' "T" GIVE twenty pounds to the parish of He]3tonstall, JL whereof ten pounds of it for Wadsworth, and ten pounds for Heptonstall and Eringden, which money shall be lent to twenty poor men, to buy them bread corn, from two years to two years, and with one sufficient surety, and to be lent by the advice of the Minister, Churchwardens, and Overseers of the Poor, and to be lent where they see most need to lend, and to be lent to such men who have no relief from the parish at all, and this in the least not to be any hindrance to the charity of those townships, but a help to poor men to buy corn at best hand, and cheapest." The original of this Will is in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury ; the above was copied from Heptonstall Eegis- ter. By an Inquisition at Halifax, Feb. 16, 1651, it appeared, that, in 1647, the Minister and Churchwardens distributed the money according to the donor's Will, but it was not found that they made any account thereof to their successors or others. HALIFAXIENSIS. 818 EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF JOHN GEEEJSTWOOD, OF LEABINGS, IN HEPTONSTALL. Dated Feb. 10, 1687. " ~T~ GIVE, grant, and bequeath unto the owner or I inheritor of Learings, in Heptonstall, and to the Churchwardens and Overseer of the same for the time being, and to their heirs and successors for ever, one annuity, or yearly rent, of forty shilhngs a year, issuing out or forth of one messuage and tenement, with appurtenances, in Stans- field, commonly called Dovescout, with my full i^ower to distrain for non-payment thereof, in trust and confidence, and of intent and purpose that the said owner of Learings, Churchwardens and Overseer of Heptonstall, and their heirs and successors, shall yearly pay the one moiety or half part thereof unto Daniel Town, Curate at Heptonstall, for preaching every year a Sermon upon the first Wednesday in June yearly, at Heptonstall, during his natural life, if he be able in body, and can be admitted ; and after his decease, it is my will and mind that the owner of Learings, Church- wardens and Overseer, and their heirs and successors, shall pay the same to the Curate of Heptonstall for the time being, he performing as aforesaid for ever. And of intent and purpose also, that the said owner of Learings, Church- wardens and Overseer of the Poor, for the time being, and their heirs and successors, shall every two or three years, at their discretion, for ever, pay and distribute the other moiety, or half part of the said annuity, with a poor man's child, male or female, of the township of Heptonstall, where most need is, to place them apprentices to some trade or occupation to get their living without begging." From Heptonstall Register. 314 BIOGRAPHIA EXTKACT FROM THE WILL OF JOHN OEEENWOOD, OF HIPPINGS, IN STANSFIELD, Dated Dec. 13, 1705. ''"T" WILL that he who shall be lawfully admitted asParson I or Minister of Heptonstall, to officiate there, shall preach a Sermon upon the first Wednesday in August yearly, for ever, in lieu of which Sermon, and his yearly wages for Hip- pingsland, 1 give him and his successors twenty shillings yearly, for ever. Also I give unto the poor of Stansfield twenty shillings yearly for ever, to be bestowed on canvas cloth, by the Churchwardens of the same town, and their successors yearly, for ever, and to be by them distributed unto such poor persons as they, for the time being, shall think fit objects of charity, or have no relief; both which said two legacies I do hereby authorize both the same Minister and Churchwardens to have, perceive, and receive, and take out and forth of one messuage and tenement in Wadsworth, called Crimsworth, now in the possession of Joshua Dawson, or his Assigns. — And if it shall happen that the said sum of forty shillings shall be behind, and unpaid, on the said first Wednesday of August, as is said yearly for ever, that then it shall and may be lawful for the same Minister, and his assigns, and also the same Churchwardens, and their assigns, successively, for ever, to enter into the same mes- suages, and tenements, and premisses, and make distress according to law." From the Register at Heptonstall. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL- OF THOMAS SUNDERLAND, OF HATHERSHELF, IN SOWERBY. Dated Nov. 13, 1721. _J' "T" GIVE and devise unto Henry Cockcroft and Abraham I Farrer, and their heirs, one annuity or yearly rent of twenty shillings, to be issuing and payable out and forth HALIFAXIENSIS. 815 of one messuage and lands thereunto belonging, called New House, in Tui-vin, and all my estate, right, interest, title, claim, and demand, into or out of the same messuage or lands, or any x^art thereof, provided he or the}', pay yearly to such orthodox Curate, or Parson, of Heptonstall Church or Chapel, in this county, for the time being, as shall be conformable to the present Established Church of England, both in doctrine and discipline, and shall, on the second Wednesday in the month of March, for ever, preach one Commemoration Sermon, for, or on account of, my only son and child, Thomas Sunderland, whom it pleased Almighty God, in that month, to take to himself." From the Eegister at Heptonstall. HEPTONSTAL CHAPEL. The parochial Chapel of Heptonstall was, in 1747, aug- mented by lot, with two hundred pounds, part of Queen Ann's Bounty; in consequence of which, a purchase was made of a messuage and lands thereto belonging, called West-crnJt-Jtead, in the parish of Bradford, Chapelry of Ha- worth, and Township of Oxnop, yielding the clear yearly rent of eight pounds ten shillings. In 173G its clear yearly value was returned to have been ten pounds ten shillings, 3d of Queen Anne. HIPPEEHOLME cum BEIGHOUSE. Original Endowment of Lightcliffe Chapel. EicHARD EooKES gavc by Indenture, dated 1 March, 20 Henry VIII. one parcel of ground in the end of a close wherein the Chapel of Lightcliffe standeth, and also 13s. 4d. a-year for ever, out of the rest of the said close, towards the maintenance of a Priest there. The following yearly rents were also given to the said Chapel : , By John Smith, out of his chief messuage called] ^ o Eoyd House, . . . . ) — Eichard Waterhouse, out of his lands within the) g g hamlet of Priestley, - - - j 3 4 3 4 3 4 3 4 3 4 1 4 1 1 816 BIOGRAPHIA — Edmund Fairbank, out of Lis two messuages, and) all his lands at Lidyate, in Liglitcliffe, - j —James Waterhouse, out of his lands and tene-] ments in Northwood, - - - j — John and Thomas Thorpe, out of three chief) messuages and lands in Liglitcliffe, - } — Eichard Cliffe, out of Cliffe house, and lands) thereto belonging, in Lightcliffe, - - j — Edward Hoyle, out of Hoyle House, and all the] lands, &c., thereto belonging in Lightcliffe, j — John Scolfield, out of his messuage and lands in ) Lightcliffe, - - - - j — Gilbert Saltonstall, out of his messuage and) lands in Lightcliffe, - - - j — Eichard Scolefield, out of Gibhouse, and lands) thereto belonging, - - - ) — William Whiteley, out of his New House, and] two acres of land called Eastfield Knowle, in i Lightcliffe. - - . . J Original Endowment of Coley-Chapel. John Eysshworth, of Coley, Esq; and his son John Eysshworth, of CoUyn, conveyed a parcel of land in Coley, within the vill of Hipperholm, held of the capital house or hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, in England, as it lay between Edwardrode on the east, the King's common, or waste ground, on the west, Coolay Slakke on the north, and a certain inclosure called Wynters, on the south, and a yearly rent of twenty shillings, payable out of a messuage, with lands, in Shelf. At the same time also, Matthew Oglethorp, of Thornton, conveyed a yearly rent of three shillings and four-pence out of all his lands and tenements in Hipperholm ; Eichard Eookes, of Eodeshall, a yearly rent of three shillings and four-pence, out of a messuage, with lands, in Shelf; Thomas Fournes, of Bothes, a yearly rent of three shillings and four-pence, out of a capital messuage, with lands, in Shelf; Eichard Haldeworth, of Hipperholm, a yearly rent of three shillings and four-pence, out of his capital messuage and lands lying on the north side of Hip- perholm; Henry Batte, of Haylay, a yearly rent of three HALIFAXIENSIS. 317 shillings and four-pence, out of a messuage and lands in Noi-thouram ; William Cowper, of Kighley, a yearly rent of three shillings and four-pence, out of a messuage, with lands, called Deynehouse, in Shelf; John Boy, of Northou- ram, a yearly rent of three shillings and four-pence, out of lands and tenements in Shelf; Thomas Northend, of Hip- perholm, a yearly rent of twenty-pence, out of all his free lands and tenements in Hipperholm ; and William Salton- stall, of Shelf, a yearly rent of twenty-pence, out of a messuage and lands in Shelf, to certain Trustees named in a Deed, dated the 15th of November, 21 Hen. VIII. in trusty as appears by another Deed, dated the 14th of February, 21 Hen. VIII. for the use of a chapel and cemitery, to be made^ founded, and built on the parcel of land above named ; the aforesaid yearly rents or annuities to be received yearly at Pentecost and St. Martin in winter, by equal portions, amongst other things to the use and sustentation of Kichard Northend, Capellane in the said chapel, and his successors, saying, singing, and celebrating Divine Offices therein for ever. This account is taken from two original Deeds belonging to the late Mrs. Horton, of Coley. William Thorpe gave, as appears by a Deed of Feoffment, dated the 9th of February, 28 Hen. VIII. the yearly sum of six shillings and eight pence, payable out of his messuages, lands, tenements, &c. in the town and fields of Shelf, to be for ever bestowed at the discretion of certain Feoffees there- in named, to and for the amending and repairing of highways, or helping of poor maidens towards marriage, or other things necessary; and after the death of Isabel his wife, the whole rent of the above messuages, &c. to the use of a Priest, to sing within the township of Hipperholm, and there to pray for the soul of the said William Thorpe, and others. The above Deed of Feoffment in Latin, with an English one of the same date, to declare the uses thereof, were in possession of the above Mrs. Horton, of Coley. Robert Hemingway, of Upperbrea, gave by Will, dated March 3, 1613, forty pounds, towards the maintenance of a Preacher at Coley Chapel, to be bestowed at the discretion of his Executors ; they were also given for the same purpose, by Isabel Maud, of Halifax, widow, twenty pounds ; by 318 BIOGRAPHIA Agnes Koyde, of Northouram, five pounds ; by Matthew Wliiteley five pounds, by their several Wills ; eight pounds were likewise given to the same use, by Henry Northend and Joseph Wood ; with which sums, Richard Sunderland, of Coley-hall, Esq ; and seven others, as Trustees, did purchase of one William Kershaw, of Wike, a messuage or tenement in Wike, in the parish of Burstal, with a close of land and meadow called Mappleynge, divided into two parts, in one of which the said messuage standeth ; and also a house or cottage in Wike aforesaid, and a close of land called Far- hinging Royds, divided into three closes. This purchase was made with the approbation of all the inhabitants within the Chapelry of Coley ; and for the better explaining the true intent and meaning of the conveyance and assurance made of the premises to the said Richard Sunderland, and others, by the said William Kershaw, and to the end the rents, &c. might for ever afterwards be employed for the use aforesaid, it was covenanted and granted in an Indenture, bearing date Oct. 11, 17 James I. made between the said Richard Sunderland and others, of the one part ; and Abraham Sunderland, of the Middle Temple, Esq ; Joseph Midgley, of Overbrea, M.A. and others, of the other part, that the said Richard Sunderland, &c. should pay yearly the said rent, by equal portions, at Martinmass and Pentecost, to the preaching Minister at Coley aforesaid, for the time being, towards his maintenance, and in no other manner, nor to or for any other use. When only three Trustees sur- vive, they were to convey to others in three months. I have seen no Trust Deed relating to the above, of a later date than Jan. 3, 1658, which, with another made in the year 1687, were in the hands of Mr. Simpson, of Hipperholm. Richard Sunderland, Esq., of Coley-hall, gave by Will thirty shillings a-year, for ever, out of a tenement in Shelf, to the preaching Minister at Coley Chapel. His Executors were his three sons, Abraham, Samuel and Peter Sunderland. He was buried June 25, 1634. This estate was afterwards sold by his grandson, Langdale Sunderland, Esq., to John Lum, of Westercroft, in Northouram. He also gave tythe- rents within Hipperholme cum Brighouse, amounting to twenty two shillings and sixpence yearly, to the Chapel at Coley, which rents, as I take it, had been iDarcel of the Rectory of Dewsbury. HALIFAXIENSIS. 819 William Birkhead, of Brookfoot, in Southouram, e:ave by Will, dated Dec. 29, 1638, the sum of five pounds, to Samuel Hoyle, of Hoyle-liouse, in Lightcliff, and Eobert Hargreaves, of Hipperholme, in trust, and to the intent, that they should bestow the same on some parcel of land, or yearly rent of inheritance, the one half of the yearly profit whereof should be paid yearly to the Curate or Preacher of God's Word at Lightcliffe, and the other half to the poor people of Light- cliffe and Hipperholme, from time to time, to succeeding ages for ever. His Executor was his brother, John Birkhead, of Gomersal. In 1651, as appears from some minutes of an Inquisition taken in that year at Halifax, the above five pounds remained in the hands of Samuel, son of the above Samuel Hoyle, who paid the benefit thereof as directed. For William Birkhead's benefaction to the poor of Brig- house, see under Rastrick. EXTKACT FROM THE WILL OF MATTHEW BEOADLEY OF LONDON, Dated Ocr, 15, 104 I GIVE to my brother Isaac Broadley, of Halifax, my tenements, with all the appurtenances, situate in the township of Hipperholme, to him and his heirs for ever, provided he pay out of the same yearly, the sum of five pounds per annum towards the maintenance of a Free School, to be erected near Hipperholme aforesaid, where my Executor shall appoint. Item, I give towards the erecting of the said Free ^)chool the sum of forty pounds. Also I do give unto Matthew Broadley, (he was sole Executor, and son of Samuel Broadley,) the sum of one thousand pounds, for which Sir William Waters, and Sir Thomas Chamberlain, Knt. and Richard Spencer, Esq ; stand bound, provided that upon receipt thereof he bestow five hundred pounds thereof, partly upon settling a convenient yearly means for the afore- said Free School, and partly in providing fifty-two shillings in bread yearly to be given by twelve-pence each Sunday, at Ooley Chapel, to the poor of Hipperholme town and the Lane-Ends." 820 BIOGKAPHIA Mr. Brearcliife's manuscript, called Halifax Inquiries, sais, that the estate left to Isaac Broadley, was called Lane-Ends, in Hipperholme ; also that Matthew Broadley's Will was dated Sep. 6, 1648; in the first Settlement Deed of Hipper- holme school, described below, this Will is likewise said to have been dated August 31, 1648. These variations I men- tion, to make the discovery of the original more certain, though the first has the most authorities. May 22, 1661, an Indenture tripartite was made between Samuel Sunderland, of Harden, Esq ; of the first part ; Matthew Broadley, of London, Gent. Executor of Matthew Broadley, late of London, Esq; deceased, of the second part ; and William Farrer, of Midgley, Esq; John Lake, of South- ouram, Clerk, A-braham Mitchel, of Halifax, Stephen Ellis, Richard Langley, Nathan Whiteley, Joshua Whitley, Joseph Hargreaves, Henry Brighouse, Joshua Scolfield, and Joseph Lister, all of Hipperholme, of the third part, reciting, that whereas Matthew Broadley, party to these presents, had received one thousand pounds, and being willing to perform the will and good intention of Matthew Broadley, deceased, he had, with the advice and consent of some of the principal inhabitants of Hipperholme and Halifax, agreed with the above Samuel Sunderland for the purchase of certain lands and tenements, with the sum of five hundred pounds, agreeable to the Will of the above Testator : This Indenture therefore witnesseth, that the said Samuel Sunderland, for the said consideration, hath sold, &c. to the said Matthew Broadley, William Farrer, &c. their heirs and assigns, for ever, two messuages or tene- ments, two barns, two stables, two gardens, two folds, and all outhouses, orchards, lands, and all other appurtenances thereto belonging, in Hipperholme aforesaid ; and one close of land in Lightcliffe, within the said township of Hipper- holme, called Brookroyd, lately divided into three closes ; one other close of land, called Highroyd Ing, and one other close of land, in Lightcliffe aforesaid, called the Heyroyd Ing ; and also one annuity or yearly rent charge of eleven pounds, issuing out of a messuage or tenement, with lands, at Brookfoot, in Southouram, and also out of a water corn mill, called Brookfoot mill, at Brookfoot aforesaid ; and also one other annuity, or yearly rent charge of thirty shillings, issuing out of certain messuages and lands in Shelf, to have HALIFAXIENSIS. 321 and to bold the said messuages, lands, rent charges, &c. to the said Matthew Broadley, William Farrer, &c. their heirs and assigns, for ever, in trust, to receive and apply the issues and profits thereof yearly, for ever, as well for the yearly payment of the said annual sum of fifty-two shillings at the Chapel of Coley aforesaid, by twelve pence to be laid out in bread every Sabbath-day, for the better maintenance and relief of the most poor, aged, maimed, needy, and im- potent people of Hipperholme, and the Lane Ends of Hipper- holme aforesaid, or to such, or so many of the said poor people of Hipperholme, and the Lane Ends of Hipperholme, and in such manner as the said Matthew Broadley, &c. and the survivor and survivors of them, their heirs and assigns, shall from time to time, find most necessitous and indigent, and in their discretion shall think most meet to be relieved therewith, so as at no one time there be under the number of four poor persons to share and have the said charitable allowance. And also for the support, and keeping in repair of the School-house for the said Free School, to be erected in or near the town of Hipperholme aforesaid, from time to time, for ever hereafter, as often as need shall require ; and to take and employ all the residue of the said yearly rents, profits, improvements, and advantages made, or to be made, of the said premises, (which they might let to the best yearly value and advantage, so ns no lease or leases thereof exceeded the term of twenty-one years, and to be made in possession, or at least not above two years before the expira- tion of the old lease, or leases thereof, the old accustomed rents of the premises, or more, being reserved,) together with the said annual rent of five i3ounds, for the mainte- nance, stipend, &c. of one learned, able, and sufficient person, being a Graduate of the Degree of Bachelor of Arts at the least, of and within one of the Universities of Cam- bridge or Oxford, to be School-master of the said Free School, to educate and instruct in Grammar, and other literature and learning, the scholars and children of the township and constablery of Hipperholme cum Brighouse only, gratis, and without any other reward, and allowance ; and the rents and profits of the said premises (such deduc- tions as aforesaid being made) to be paid to the said School- master half yearly by equal portions. If the rents became 822 BIOGEAPHIA raised to a greater yearly value, such increase and augment- ation was to be employed and disposed of, for the better maintenance of the said School-master for the time being, and to no other use, intent, or purpose ; except that any suits in law or equity, or other trouble or incumbrance concerning the said premises, or any part thereof, should happen ; in which case, the Trustees were impowered to deduct the expences attending the same, out of the yearly profits of the said premises, and pay the overplus to the said School-master. When the place or room of the said School- master shall happen to become void by death, resignation, deprivation, or otherwise, that then, and so often the Trus- tees for the time being, or the greater number of them, were impowered, within one month next after such avoidance, by writing under their hands and seals, to nominate and appoint one other learned and fit person, qualified as aforesaid, to be School-master of the said Free School : And if no School-master is by them within two months chosen as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for the Vicar of the Vicarage of Halifax aforesaid, for the time being, by writing under his hand and seal, to nominate and appoint a meet and fit person, qualified, and at the least of the Degree aforesaid, to be School-master of the said Free-school ; the said School-master to be allowed, ordered, directed, and placed, or displaced, by the Trustees, or the greater number of them, for the time being, according to such rules, orders, and allowances as shall be made by them, or the greater number of them, in writing under their hands and seals, for the rule, government, and well ordering of the said Free- school. School-master and poor people, and as to them, and the greater part of them shall seem meet and convenient ; which rules and orders were agreed to be con- clusive, and binding to the said School-master, poor people, and all others concerned therein, to all intents and purposes the same not being repugnant to the Laws and Statutes of this kingdom, nor contrary to any Ecclesiastical Canons or Constitutions of the Church of England which shall be then in force. And for the better ordering and government of the said Free- school, the Trustees for the time being were to have full power and authority for ever, to visit, order, place, or displace the said School-master for the time being, and HALIFAXIENSIS. 828 to reform and redress all and every the disorders, misde- meanors, offences, and abuses in the said Free-school, School-master, or in any of the said poor people, or in, and touching their allowances, government, order, and disposing thereof, and for any lewdness, drunkenness, common swear- ing, profaneness, breaking the orders made for the regulating and government of the said Free-school, or for any other just cause whatsoever, as shall be, by the said Trustees for the time being, or the greater number of them, declared in writing, under their hands and seals, to be a sufficient cause of suspension, deprivation, and displacing, and by the same writing to deprive, suspend, turn out, and displace the said School-master, and to elect and place another qualified as above, in his room, to be intitled to the same benefits and advantages as the School-master so deprived, &c. When only three Trustees shall be living or resident within the township of Hipperholme, or vicarage of Halifax, they shall, together witli the non-residentiaries, convey and assure the above premises, with the profits thereof, to nine other sufficient persons inhabiting in Hipperholme, or the vicarage of Halifax, so always that there be at least six of the said Trustees inhabitants in Hipperholme aforesaid. It ought to be observed, that there are several defects in Matthew Broadley's Will, such as, no person appointed to build the School, nor, being built, by whom or how it should be kept in repair, nor who should put in or displace the School-master, nor what children (boys or girls) or of what towns or places they were to be, nor in what art or science they should be instructed, nor whether the yearly means to be settled for the School should be by the revenue of land to be purchased with the money, or with the interest of the money, or by some employment of the stock of money, or otherwise ; nor was any one appointed to distribute the bread to the poor, nor any number of poor mentioned to whom it was to be distributed : To remedy which defects, the above-mentioned Indenture tripartite was made ; yet, notwithstanding the agreements therein contained seem to be good and necessary, yet, in the eye of the law, they are no other than arbitrary proceedings amongst other parties than the Testator himself appointed, and because not warrantable by the Will, perhaps not altogether safe to those who put the same in execution. If also any breach of trust 824 BIOGKAPHIA was to happen, or of the above agreements supposing them vaUd, no provision of remedy was directed for it, nor who should complain thereof if the Executor should die, or be absent out of the kingdom. Besides, the Testator's gift to his brother and his heirs, of his land in Hipperholme, pro- vided his said brother paid five pounds per annum to the School, was, in construction of law, void ; for as Isaac Broadley was brother and next heir to Matthew the Devisor, the law would say, that the said Isaac took the land by descent, and not by the Will. The same was also void in law, because there was no person extant who could, by taking advantage of the condition, compel the payment of the money ; for Isaac Broadley, who was to pay it, being also heir at law, none but himself could enter to the land for non-payment thereof, according to the provisoe. For these reasons, the said Isaac refused to pay the said annuity till the arrears amounted to sixty pounds, and the Trustees had no remedy till about the year 1661, when laying their grievances before Council, they were told, that notwithstanding the above gift of five pounds per annum could not be recovered by law, yet, as it was made to a charitable use, such as a Free-school, which is a gift within the Statute 43 Eliz. c. 4, of Charitable Uses, it might be made good by that Statute, on a Commission to be pursued out of the Chancery by virtue of that Statute, and an Inquisition thereupon to be found and taken, and a Decree to be made by the Commissioners, with a Decree of Confirmation in Court for payment, (viz.) as well of the arrearages since the Testator's death, as of the growing rent; and though part of the land was copyhold, which cannot by law be devised or charged by a Will, yet that it might be so charged to a charitable use ; however, that the Free-school might be so charged, and so the annuity decreed to be paid out of the whole. On this account, and for the greater security of the Trustees named in the above Indenture tripartite, application was made to a Commission for Pious Uses at Halifax, August 29, 1662, on which the Commissioners, after reciting the Will of Matthew Broadley, and that it was by Inquisition found that the said Will had been fulfilled according to the intentions of the Testator, except that Isaac Broadley had not paid the sum of five pounds per annum as directed, or HALIFAXIENSIS. any part thereof, in respect tlie Free-school was not erected and finished till Michaelmas last past before the date of the said Inquisition, did order, adjudge, and decree, that the several sums of forty pounds and five hundred pounds, received and disposed of according to the Will of the donor, should for ever stand firm and stable, for and towards the maintenance of a School-master to teach the said Free- school within and for the township of Hipperholme, whereof fifty-two shillings to be first taken out of the same, to be laid out and bestowed in bread, to be given by twelve-pence each Sunday, at Coley Chapel, to the poor people of Hipper- holme and the Lane Ends : And that the five pounds per annum, given by the said Matthew Broadley, should stand and be kept uj) for ever ; and the said Isaac Broadley, his heirs and assigns, were adjudged to pay to William Farrer, Esq; John Lake, D.D. Abraham Mitchel, Stephen Ellis, Richard Langley, Nathan Whiteley, Joshua Whiteley, John Scolfield, Henry Brighouse, Joseph Hargreaves, and Joseph Lister, Feoffees for the use of the said Free-school, nomin- ated and aj)proved of by the said Commissioners, the said sum of five pounds yearly for ever, towards the maintenance of the said Free-school erected in Hipperholme, to be paid out of the rents, issues, and profits of the lands and tene- ments in Hipperholme aforesaid, at one entire payment at or upon the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel. One Trust Deed relating to the above was Dated April 80, 1697, another July 30, 1714. Samuel Sunderland, Esq ; of Harden, in Bingley parish, (already mentioned under Halifax) gave, by indenture, made June 30, 1671, to Richard Hooke, D.D. and Vicar of Halifax, Stephen Ellis, of Hipperholme ; Richard Langley, of Priestley -green ; Nathan Whitley, of Rookes ; Joshua Whit- ley, his brother ; William Brooke, of Ethercliffe ; and Joseph Lister, of Thornhill-briggs, and their heirs, all that messuage or tenement (part whereof had been converted into a School- house) and the lands, buildings, &c. thereto belonging in Hipperholme. And also all that other messuage or tene- ment, with lands, buildings, &c. thereto belonging, at Norwood-green, within the township of Hipperholme cum Brighouse, in trust, after the decease of the said Samuel Sunderland, to the use of the School-master for the time being of the Free Grammar School, for and in respect of the V 826 BIOGRAPHIA township of Hipperholme cum Brighouse aforesaid, the same School-master being thereunto lawfully licensed, and being of a degree of Bachelor of Arts at least, upon condition that the same School-master, and his successors for the time being, shall well and truly satisfy and pay, or cause to be paid, forth of the rents and profits of the lands and tenements first mentioned, the yearly rent or sum of six pounds to an Usher Master of the same school, at the Feasts of Pentecost, and St. Martin the Bishop in winter, or St. Martin and Pentecost, as the same shall happen to fall next after the decease of the said Samuel Sunderland, by equal portions, for ever, the same Usher Master to be from time to time nominated and elected by the above Feoffees and their successors, or the major part of them, and to be lawfully licensed and admitted thereunto, with power of distress on the said premises to the said Usher Master, in case of non payment of the said yearly rent, or any part thereof, for twenty days after the same becomes due. And upon farther trust, that the yearly rents and profits of the other messuage or tenement, with its appurtenances, at Norwood-green, be paid to the most indigent and necessitous poor i)eople of and within the township of Hipperholme cum Brighouse aforesaid, for ever, on the Feast-days of St. Thomas the Apostle, and the Nativity of St. John Baptist, or St. John Baptist, and St. Thomas Days, or Feasts, as the same shall happen to fall next after the decease of the said Samuel Sunderland, by equal portions, in or at the aforesaid School- house, by the Ministers, Churchwardens, and Overseers for the- poor within the Chapelries of Coley and Lightcliffe, from time to time. When the seven Feoffees above-named be- came decreased by death to the number of two of them and no more, the survivors were, within three months, to elect and appoint the Vicar of Halifax for the time being, (in case he was not one of the surviving Feoffees,) and six of the most able and discreet Inhabitants of the township of Hip- perholme cum Brighouse, or seven, if the said Yicar be one of the two surviving Feoffees, the conveyance of the premises to be made at the reasonable request and costs of the said Master and Churchwardens, and this order, way, and course to be observed, and kept for ever. The Feoffees were also to take effectual care that the said buildings upon the Lands, HALIFAXIENSIS. 827 granted by this Deed, and the fences thereof, be from time to time kept in sufficient repair, that the charity might not be impaired. The Testator (as ah-eady observed) was buried Feb. 4, 1676. Mr. Wright, p. 127, sais, that this Mr. Sunderland gave, amongst other benefactions, seventeen pounds a year for ever to the Free -school of Hipperholme ; to the use of the poor of Hipperholme eight i^ounds a year for ever ; and to the successive Curates of the Chapel of Coley five pounds a year for ever ; all which Mr. Kobert Parker, of Bingley, his Executor, saw rightly and truly performed; but Mr. Thoresby's account, in his Topography of Leedes, p. 583, differs from this, for according to this Author he left yearly to the poor of Norwood-green eight pounds, to Hipperholme school eighteen pounds, and to Coley Chapel twenty shillings. On the School porch at Hipperholme is this inscription : " Libera Schola Grammaticalis Hipperholmiae a Mattheo ** Broadley, armigero, primitus fundata, post a Samuele " Sunderland aucta, qui ambo patri^ chari, et pauperibus "benefici, hoc legatum famre suae monumentum posteris "reliquere, 1661." Over the gateway leading to the School- master's house, " S^- Sunderland, Arm»- dedit, 1671." On the inside of the same, *' Sumptu N. Sharps, 1729." Thomas Whitley, of Sinder-hills, gave by Will (but of what date I know not) forty pounds, to be kept up as a stock, and the interest thereof to be distributed yearly amongst the poor people of Hipperholme, by his executors, with the assistance of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the said town, according to their several necessities. The Executors were James Oates, John Whitley, of Wheatley, Michael Whitley, of Shelf, and John Whitley, of Eookes, who seem not to have put this part of the Will in execution ; for at a commission of pious uses it was decreed, August 29, 1662, that Joseph Furness, and Phebe his wife. Executors of the above James Oates ; Judith Whitley, Eichard Law, and Hester his wife, Executors or Administrators of the above Michael Whitley ; Grace Wliitley, and Joshua Whitley her son. Executors or Administrators of the above John Whitley, of Eookes ; and Thomas Lister, Executor of Sibil Whitley, who was Executrix of the above John Whitley, of Wheatley, should pay to the poor of Hipperholme the said sum of forty pounds, with three years interest, and twenty shillings 828 BIOGEAPHIA for the charges of prosecuting tlie Inquisition and Decree ; which monies not being paid as decreed, a subpojna in the nature of a Scire-Facias was awarded out of the Court of Chancery, against the parties concerned. Joshua Gates entered into a bond of one hundred x>ounds, in his Hfe-time, to secure forty shilhngs a-year to the Preacher at Coley Chapel for ever, out of a parcel of land in Shelf, to be paid at Martinmass and Pentecost, by equal j)ortions, which bond was found, in 1651, (as appears from Mr. Brearcliffe's Manuscript,) to be in the hands of one Eobert Birkhead, of Shelf. Susanna Danson was a benefactress to Coley Chapel, as appears from the following inscription on a stone erected on the right hand side of the way leading from Huddersfield to Bradford, at a place called Cockhill-clough : " Mrs. Susanna '' Danson gave the two adjoining Closes to Coley Chapel for *' ever, and they came into possession Oct. 1730." One account sais, she left fifty shillings yearly in lands within Sbelf, for a Sermon on Good-Friday. Bounties to Lightcliffe Chapel. This Chapel had Queen Anne's Bounty by lot, in 1749 ; the purchase was at Sheard-green, in Lightcliffe ; also by benefaction in 1759, when a farm called Barley Croft was bought, at Blackshaw head, in Stansfield ; lastly, in 1763, by benefaction, in consequence of which, a contract was made in 1764, for a farm in Northouram, called Oatsroyd. In 1736, the clear yearly value of this Chapel was returned to have been, 3d of Queen Anne, ten pounds eleven shillings and six-i)ence ; and that of Coley, thirteen pounds twelve shillings and two-pence. MIDGLEY. EicHARD Deyne, of Dcyneliouse, son and heir of John Deyne, of Myggelay, gave to John Myggelay, son of Eobert Myggelay, Eichard Sladen, of Myggelay, the younger, Eichard Patchett, of the same, William Ferroure, son and heir apparent of Henry Ferroure, Eobert Shawe, son of James Shawe, and Eobert Thomas, of Myggelay aforesaid, one yearly rent of thirteen shillings and four-pence, issuing out of a messuage with lands and tenements, called Herre- bothlegh, in Luddyngden, within Myggelay aforesaid, to the HAIilFAXIENSIS. use of John Eobynson, Capel-lane, in the Chapel of St. Mary, of Luddyngden aforesaid, and his successors in the same Chapel, for the time being, for ever, and payable at the Feasts of Pentecost and St. Martin in winter, by equal portions, or within forty days after each of the said Feasts, with power of distress to the above Trustees, and their heirs, if the said yearly rent is unpaid for forty days after it be- comes due as aforesaid. This extract I took from the original Deed, in Latin, lent by the late Curate of Luddenden. It was dated at Mygge- lay, March 6, 17 Hen. VIII. and is in the form of a charter. It is said that Richard Deyne left the above, because he had IdUed in a duel one Brooksbank, of Bankhouse, in AVarley. John Crossley, of Kershawhouse, in Midgley, gave (as appears from a table in Luddenden Chapel) two pounds two shillings yearly, to the Curate of Luddenden, for preaching a Sermon every first Wednesday after the sixth day of March. One account makes this only forty shillings. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF JOHN MIDOLEY, OF MIDGLEY. I GIVE to the Curate of the Chapel of Luddenden, for the time being, and his survivors. Curates there, for ever, one fulling mill, or paper-mill, with one holme or croft thereto belonging, to preach a Sermon yearly, and every year, for ever, upon every sixteenth day of Feb- ruary from and after my decease ; and also one loft in the said Chapel which was erected therein, (and is now standing,) by my deceased brother William Midgley, to and for the use and benefit of the said Curate for ever." In Luddenden Chapel is kept a Faculty obtained by the above William Midgley, for erecting the loft here mentioned, dated in 1703. The money arising from this benefaction, is said, in a table in Luddenden Chapel, to be two pounds ten shillings yearly ; but it now makes three pounds yearly, besides the loft, which raises about ten shillings more. 830 BIOGRAPHIA Edward Watkinson, Clerk, (Eector of Little Chart, in Kent, and D.D. but formerly Curate of Luddenden,) con- veyed by Deed, dated June 2, 1732, to John Dearden, of Warley, Esq ; and Stephen Atkinson, of Midgley, Yeoman, a messuage, dwelling house, or tenement, with the ap- purtenances, in Leeds, in a place there called the Yicar- lane, of the clear yearly rent of four pounds, with two cottages or tenements, with the appurtenances belonging to the said messuage, and standing in the fold or back-side adjoining, of the clear yearly rent of one pound six shilhngs ; and also two cottages or tenements, with the appurtenances, at Hunslet, in the parish of Leeds aforesaid, of the clear yearly rent of one j)Ound ten shillings ; to hold to the said John Dearden and Stephen Atkinson, their heirs and assigns, for ever, in trust that they shall, with the rents and profits of the said premisses, purchase two shillings' worth of bread, viz. twelve two-penny loaves weekly, and every week, for the benefit of twelve poor widows, viz. six within the township of Midgley aforesaid, and six within the township of Warley aforesaid ; and in default of such number of widows there, then for the benefit of the most necessitous persons in the said townships, to be distributed to them by the Chapel Wardens of the Chapel of Luddenden, for the time being, upon every Sunday in the year, soon after Morning Service ; four of the said widows to be chose out of the said township of Midgley, by the Chapel Warden of that township for the time being, and other four of the said widows to be chose out of the said township of Warley, by the Chapel Warden of that township for the time being ; and the remaining four widows by the said John Dearden and Stephen Atkinson, viz. two out of each township; and for want of such widows, and to supply their places, other necessitous persons to be chose by them in like manner, out of the said townships, so as always to make up the number of twelve ; and after the death of the said John Dearden and Stephen Atkinson, the said twelve poor widows, or necessitous persons, in their stead, shall be chose by the said Chapel Wardens for the time being, for ever, viz. by the Chapel Warden of Midgley, six out of the said township of Midgley, and by the Chapel Warden of Warley, six out of the said township of Warley ; the said twelve poor widows, or necessitous persons, to be HAIilFAXIENSIS. 331 personally present at the distribution of the said bread, un- less prevented by sickness, or some bodily infirmity ; the said Chapel Wardens, immediately after such distribution, to enter into the books, which were given them by the said Edward Watkinson for that purpose, the names of the said twelve poor widows, or necessitous persons, and the day of the month and year when the said bread was so distributed ; and in the absence of the said Chapel Wardens, that the said John Dearden and Stephen Atkinson shall distribute, or cause to be distributed, for so long as they shall live, the said loaves, and make choice of the said twelve j)oor widows, or necessitous persons, viz. six out of each township. Pro- vided nevertheless, that whenever it shall happen that the rents and profits of the said premises shall fall short to purchase so much bread, the Chapel Wardens for the time being shall only buy so much as the clear rents or iDrofits thereof will admit of, and make distribution thereof proportion- ably amongst such poor persons as aforesaid : But as at the time of this donation the rents of the said premises would pur- chase more, therefore so long as the same should so continue it was the desire of the said Edward Watkinson, that each such poor person should have, upon every Trinity Sunday, sixpence in money, and upon every Sunday next before Christmas Day, twelve-pence in money, and upon every Easter Sunday sixpence in money, over and besides the said bread, the remaining clear yearly rent to go and be de- tained by the person who shall take the trouble to collect the rents, and look after the said premises ; and if the rents shall fall short, the distribution thereof, both in bread and money, shall be proportioned thereto, so as the person who shall take the trouble of looking after the premises, and collecting the rents, and paying the same over to the said Chapel Wardens, shall have yearly five shillings for his or their trouble therein. N.B. The Deed signed by Edward Watkinson is to remain in the hands of the Vicar of Halifax, for the time being ; and that signed by the Trustees with the said Edward Watkinson, his heirs and assigns ; and a Memorial of the former was registered at Wakefield, August 18, 1732, in Book EE. p. 183, and number 269. The bread was first given on Trinity Sunday, 1732 ; and the Doctor gave two register books, one signed Midgley, and 832 BIOGRAPHIA the other Warley, to enter the names of the widows in, and the time when they had bread given. Luddenden Chapel obtained Queen Anne's Bounty by lot, in 1732, with which, and with other contributions made in the Chapelry, a farm was bought in Midgley, called New- earthhead, of the yearly rent of eight pounds, as appears from a table in the said Chapel. Its clear yearly value in 1736, was returned to have been, 3d of Queen Anne, three pounds thirteen shillings and four-pence. NOETHOUEAM. EXTEACT FKOM THE WILL OF KOBEET HEMINGWAY, OF OVERBREA, IN NORTHOURAM, Dated March 3, 1013. " T GIVE the sum of ten pounds, to be lent, from time I to time, to certain of the most religious and honest poor, or decayed tradesmen, of the township of Northouram, at the discretions of my Executors and Over- seer, and after their decease at the discretion of the Vicar of the parish church of Halifax, and the Churchwarden of the town of Northouram for the time being, with the assis- tance of one honest and sufficient man of the said town, whom I request to take, from time to time, sufficient security for the continuance thereof." In this Will he also gave ten pounds to the Free Grammar School near Halifax. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF JEKEMIAH HALL, OF DUBLIN, DOCTOR OF PHYSIC, Dated March 1, 1687. " T GIVE and bequeath the sum of fifty pounds sterling, I to purchase as much ground in Booth-town as will be sufficient to build thereon an house for two old men and HALIFAXIENSIS. 333 two old women, natives of Booth-town aforesaid, to live in, as also a little school-house ; and for the building of the said houses I also give fifty pounds more ; and in case a con- venient house can be found already built, then the said sums to go for the purchase of such an house ; this said hundred pounds to be paid out of the money in my cousin Jonathan Hall's hands. Item, I give and bequeath also out of the money in my cousin Jonathan Hall's hands, the sum of one hundred pounds sterling, together with the interest of a mortgage I have for two hundred and thirty pounds sterling, upon Mr. Thomas Hodkinson's estate, in and near the town of Wentworth, of which I am in possession — both which sums are towards the maintenance of the poor people, and the sum of five pounds per annum to those that shall teach in the school gratis ten poor boys and girls, those that are natives of Booth-town, or near it." Of this part of the abovementioned Will, Jonathan, Abraham, and Joseph Hall were Trustees and Overseers ; of these, Jonathan died in the life time of the Testator, and Abraham and Joseph, pursuant to the Will, purchased with the said sum of one hundred pounds, by surrender, three copyhold cottages, or dwelling houses, in Booth's-town aforesaid, with the appurtenances, to the use of themselves, their heirs and assigns, for ever, in trust, to be disposed of by them, and their heirs, according to the trust reposed in them, by the said AVill ; they also repaired, altered, and converted the said cottage houses into four dwellings and a school-house. After this the said Abraham died, and Joseph Hall, the surviving Trustee, by lease, release, and surrender dated May 1, 1695, conveyed all his interest in the estate at Wentworth, to the use of himself, and Joseph Wilkinson, James Oates, Nathaniel Priestley, John Longbottom, Tho- mas Hall, and William Bradley, and their heirs, in trust, that they and their heirs, and the survivors and survivor of them, and their and his heirs, should be Feoffees, and be seized of the said estate at Wentworth, and also of the said school-house and four cottages, and an annuity of twelve pounds ten shillings, to the uses mentioned in the above Will, with this additional clause, amongst others, that the Trustees, or the major part of them, might place or displace the said School-master, and four poor people, when they 334 BIOGRAPHIA thought proper ; and that when only three of the said Trus- tees were living, they should convey to four others sufficient, and so in like manner conveyances to be ever made on the like trust and confidence. The above mortgage money being paid in, the Trustees last named j)urchased therewith, and with the annuity above- mentioned, an estate in Ovenden, called Brock-holes ; the purchase deed of which is dated the 9th day of September, 1707 : and also one other estate at a place called Moorfalls, in Northouram, with five closes of land adjoining upon one another, and some or one of them adjoining to the messuage and buildings there, (excepting one coal-pit and pit -hill in the south-east corner of one of the said closes,) and one other close of land to the said messuage belonging, lying on the east side of the highway, leading from Halifax to Brad- ford (except the coals which can be gotten from under the same without digging or breaking any of the soil or ground thereof) the purchase deed of which is dated the 18th day of February, 1709. Of the above Trustees, all (except John Longbottom) died without transferring their trust to others, and the said John, about the year 1730, conveyed to Thomas Burton, Edmund Briggs, Jonathan Longbottom, John Bargh, Benjamin Wilk- inson, Joseph Hall, and Kobert Wood, on the same trust as in the former Deed, and under the same covenants. Of these also the said Joseph Hall became the surviving Trustee, who, in the year 1759, conveyed to George Legh, LL.D. Vicar of Halifax, John Lister, of Shibden-hall, Clerk, Cyril Jackson, of Halifax, Doctor of Physic, Jonathan Nicholl, and John Crabtree, both of Booth-town, Jeremy Lister, of Northouram, Samuel W^aterhouse, of the same place, Jonathan Hall, of Eland, Benjamin Wilkinson, of Northouram aforesaid, John Watkinson, the younger, of Ovenden, John Mitchell, of Holdworth, and James Carr, of Halifax, with a particular clause in the Deed, that when these shall, by death, or otherwise, be reduced to three in number, the survivors shall, in like manner, convey to - - others on the like trusts in those presents declared. HALIFAXIENSIS. 335 EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF JOSEPH CKOWTHEE, OF WHITHILL, IN NORTHOURAM, Dated Oct. 30, 1711. Y virtue of one surrender of the same date with B this my Will thereby impowering me, I do hereby give, devise, and bequeath all that copyhold messuage, or tenement, with the appurtenances, situate and being in Northouram, and all barns, buildings, closes, lands, com- mons, easements, and hereditaments whatsoever to the same belonging, now in the tenure or occupation of Widow Bothomley, or her assigns, unto Joseph Wood, of Northou- ram aforesaid, Yeoman, his heirs and assigns, in trust only, that the said messuage and premises, and the rents and profits thereof, may at all times, for ever hereafter, be enjoyed and received by a School-master, duly chosen and lawfully licenced, who shall, from time to time, yearly for ever, teach twelve of the poorest childi-en, natives of Northouram, in the new erected school on Northouram-green, whose parents are least able to pay for them there." From an attested copy. NOKLAND. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF EDWAKD WAINHOUSE, Dated September 18, 1680. " "T~ GIVE and bequeath to the old people and poor -JL persons of this town of Norland, two parts of the yearly rents and profits (the whole being divided into three) which shall arise and issue out of that messuage or tene- ment called Butterise, in Norland aforesaid, during the natural life of my said wife, and the third part also after her death, reserved to her before out of the same, to have and to hold the said messuage or tenement to the said poor people, and their successors, for ever, as aforesaid, and the rents of 886 BIOGRAPHIA the aforesaid messuage or tenement to be paid at Mid- summer and Christmas, by equal portions, to the Overseers of the poor of this town, for the time being, yearly, and the Overseers to take one or two of the Heads of the town to the distribution of the said rents, and but a little thereof to those persons which have allowances, or nothing at all of it. And I do hereby authorize the Overseers of the poor, with one or two of the Heads of the said town, to sett and lett, or to farm lett, the said messuage or tenement, as often as need shall require." In a Terrier belonging to Sowerby-bridge Chapel, wrote in 1727, it is said that Edward Wainhouse left yearly to the poor three pounds five shillings. OVENDEN. Original Endowment of Illingworth Chapel. Henry Savile, Lord of Ovenden, gave one acre of land out of the waste thereof, by a Deed bearing date January 26, 17 Hen. VIII. to James Bawmeforth, and others, as Feoffees, in trust, that they should stand seized thereof to the use of a Chapel there, to be built to the honor of the Virgin Mary, paying therefore to the said Lord one red rose yearly. For this see the Kegister at Halifax, vol. ii. also the Old Church Book at Halifax. In Brearcliffe's manuscript, called Halifax Inquiries, &c. dated Dec. 22, 1651, are also these words : *' Item, we find by divers other Deeds, bearing date in the time of King Henry VIII. made from the said Henry Savile, Lord of Ovenden, that he gave divers parcels of lands in Ovenden to certain Feoffees and their heirs, and in the said Deeds mentioned no use ; but after we find by a Deed, made by the said several Feoff'ees, in the 8d year of Queen Elizabeth, with a schedule thereunto annexed, that he gave out of the said lands certain small rents to the Chapel of Illingworth ; but the townsmen do think that the whole lands were given to the said use, and not the rents only." An Inquisition taken at Halifax, Feb. 16, 1651, runs thus: ** We find that one acre of land, long ago taken in from the wastes of Ovenden, in part whereof the Chapel of Illingworth HALIFAXIENSIS. 83T is built, and one house, called Chapel-house, and a barn there- unto belonging, are builded. And also one other acre of land, late taken from the wastes of Ovenden, and heretofore bought by one John Best, of George, late Earl of Shrewsbury, and others ; — And also one annuity of seven shillings yearly, issu- ing out of three acres and a half of laud in Bradshaw, in Oven- den ; — And one other annuity of five shillings yearly, issuing out of three acres of land, with the apjDurtenance, in Brad- shaw; — One other yearly rent of six shillings, yearly issuing (as we conceive) out of certain lands and tenements, with their appurtenances, in Ovenden ; — One other yearly rent of four shillings, yearly issuing out of one rood of land in Ovenden ; — One other yearly rent of two shillings, yearly issuing out of one acre of land in Bradshaw, in Ovenden ; — And one other annuity of fifteen shillings, yearly issuing out of one house or tenement, and the buildings thereupon built, and three roods of land, meadow, and pasture, by esti- mation, called Sawre Parke, in Ovenden, were by deed indented, bearing date Dec. 25, 1G40, granted and conveyed by Joseph Wood, of Old Laughton, in Ovenden, and Luke Crowther, the elder, of Holdsworth, in Ovenden, unto John Doughty, of the University of Oxford, and others, and their heirs for ever, as Feoffees in trust, to the use and behoof of, and for the maintenance of, the Preacher of God's Word for the time being, at the Chapel called lUingworth Chapel, and of such other person or persons after him as shall j)reach the Word of God at the said Chapel, and officiate the cure there successively from time to time to succeeding gener- ations for ever ; and for want of such Preacher at the said Chapel, then for and during such time of vacancy of a Preacher only, to the use and behoof of the poor people inhabiting within Ovenden aforesaid ; or of the Supervisors of the highways in Ovenden, for repairing and amending the highways there, at the discretion of the said John Doughty, and the rest of the said Co-feoffees, and their heirs. And we find, that the same hath been duly performed hitherto. "Also we find, that one house body in Ovenden, called Scausby, was leased by Mr. John Bairstow, and other Feoffees, for the Chapel of Illingworth, Oct. 11, 1647, to Isaac Walton, for 21 years, for one shilling and six-pence yearly, to be paid towards the maintenance of the Minister of the same Chapel." 338 BIOGRAPHIA For the Benefactions of Kichard Somerscales, and Isaac Bowcock, in Ovenden, see under Halifax. Illingworth Chapel had only twelve pounds sixteen shillings j^early of a certain endowment, 3d of Queen Anne ; it was augmented Dec. 29, 1718, with the Queen's bounty by benefaction, through the contribution of Mr. John Wilk- inson, and others. The purchase deeds are dated Jan. 1, 1721. The estates bought with the four hundred pounds are all in Ovenden. One is called Lower Scawsby, to which belong thirty-five days work of land ; another Upper Scaws- by, to which belong thirteen acres of land; and a third Ainsworth-house, with some cottages, and closes of land, but no particular quantity mentioned in the deed. EASTEICK. EXTBACT FKOM THE WILL OF JOHN HANSON, OF WOODHOUSE, Dated August 14, 1621. " "T" FREELY give, devise, and bequeath unto Walter I Stanhope, of Horsfirth, Thomas Brooke, of New- house, my sons in law, and to Richard Law, son and heir of Richard Law, late of lialifax, deceased, John Stanhope, and Thomas Brooke, and to Thomas Hanson, son and heir apparent of my brother Thomas Hanson, to Edward Hanson, of Netherwoodhouse, Thomas Hanson and Robert Hanson, of Rastrick, my cousins, one close of land and meadow in Rastrick, called the Little Southedge, which I late bought of John Goodheir, and so much of one other close, called the Wellclose, as is freehold land; and I intend to surrender the residue of the same close to the said persons, to the uses hereafter declared ; To have p,nd to hold, to them the said Walter Stanhope, &c. and to their heirs for ever, in trust and confidence, nevertheless, that they shall stand and be seized of the said two closes, to pay yearly forth of the same a rent-charge of twenty shillings towards the maintenance of Divine Service in the chapel of Rastrick, and for teaching HALIFAXIENSIS. 339 of a school there. And whereas the trade of making of cloth is a great helj) to many poor persons, and would be much more if men would be advised in the fear of God to make true cloth, my meaning is, that sixteen pounds of my goods shall remain as a stock in the township of Rastrick, to set poor and honest workmen in labour, but the property of the said goods shall remain and be unto Alexander Stock, Clerk, Parson of Heaton, and Edward Sunderland, Clerk, Preacher of the Word of God at Eland, and with their successors. Parsons of Heaton, and Preachers of the Word of God at Eland, from time to time, to succeeding generations for ever. Also I devise to them, the said Alexander Stock and Edward Sunderland, and their said successors, four pounds more, by them to be employed, with the said sixteen pounds, to the use of the poor afore- said, according to such note of direction as I have left under mine own hand for the same, so there be no employment thereof made to any Clothier that useth either to flock or. strain their cloth deceitfully." Transcribed from an old manuscript in my own possession, formerly belonging to Edward Hanson, of Woodhouse. William Birkhead, of Brookfoot, in Southouram, as appears from an Inquisition taken at Hahfax, Feb. 16, 1651, and which belonged to the late Mr. Stead, of Nottingham, gave by Will, dated Dec. 29, 1638, out of his last third part of his personal estate, commonly called the '''Death's part, unto Edward Hanson, of Netherwoodhouse, in Rastrick, and Richard Law, of Shelf, the sum of five pounds, in trust, that they should bestow the same on some parcel of land, or yearly rent of inheritance, to be yearly paid to the poor people of Rastrick and Brighouse, from time to time, to succeeding generations for ever. This money was not come to the hands of the said Trustees at the time of taking the above Inquisition. * For the meaning of this expression, see Burn's Ecclesiastical Law, vol. ii, p. 782. 840 BIOGRAPHIA EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF MAEY LAW, of Ealand, Dated Feb. 4, 1701. " ~r GIVE and bequeath all those lands, tenements, and _JL premises, with their appurtenances, ( at Lower Woodhouse, and in Rastrick,) which are in the tenure and occupation of John Bottomley, Jonas Preston, and John Malinson, unto Thomas Hanson, of Bothroyd, in Rastrick, and to his heirs and assigns, and to the Minister of Rastrick, and his successors for the time being, to the uses, j)urposes, and intents hereafter limited and expressed, and to none other use, intent and purpose whatsoever ; that is to say, all that messuage and tenement at Lower Woodhouse afore- said, in the tenure of the said John Bottomley, (being of the yearly value of six pounds or upwards) to the use and towards the maintenance of four poor widows, to be chosen within the town and township of Rastrick, at the discretion of the said Thomas Hanson, and his heirs, and the said Minister of Rastrick, and his successors for the time being, for ever. And all those messuages, lands, tenements, and premises in Rastrick aforesaid, in possession of Jonas Preston and John Mallinson aforesaid, to the use and be- hoof of endowing a School in Rastrick aforesaid, for the teaching and instructing twenty poor children to read and write, to be chosen within the town of Rastrick and Brig- house, at the discretion as abovementioned." The widows have each thirty shillings clear, and the School-master eleven pounds yearly. Rastrick Chapel received Queen Anne's bounty in 1720, by means of Sir John Armitage, and John Bedford, Esq ; before which the returned certainty was five pounds per annum. I have the copy of a Deed, dated June 11, 1605, reciting, that whereas John Thornhill, and others, had petitioned Sir John Fortescue, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, shewing, that there had time immemorial been an antient Chapel within the township of Rastrick, called St. Matthew's Chapel, within which divine service had been celebrated, and also a school for the education of youth above fifty years ago, which Chapel, for want of due main- tenance for keeping a Curate there, had for the greatest part HALIFAXIENSIS. 341 of fifty years last past been profaned, and converted to other uses, till it was reformed by the statute temp. Eliz. for reviving of things given to charitable uses ; since which time the said John Thornhill, and others, had bestowed great sums of money in repairing and enlarging the same, and maintaining divine service therein for a year last past ; and that every Sunday and holiday a great number of people did resort thereto, and were likely so to do if divine service were continued, for that a great part of the inhabitants of the said township were two miles distant from their Parish Church of Eland, the ways foul in winter, and the cause- ways decayed for want of repairing ; by reason whereof many who were willing to be present at divine service at Eland twice a day, were inforced in the afternoons to be absent ; and many of the younger sort had taken occasion thereby to occupy themselves on Sundays and holidays in the after- noons at unlawful games ; which abuses had been greatly reformed the last year, and were likely to continue so, if divine service might be provided for. And for that the said township of Rastrick was very small, consisting of not above twenty-four families, and the greatest part thereof poor cottagers, and the whole township not containing above twelve oxgangs of land, and therefore unable to bear the charges of celebrating divine service, or instructing youth in the said Chapel, and therefore humbly intreated his Honour to grant licence to the said Petitioners, &c. to inclose and improve from the waste and commons within the said town- ship, some few acres of ground, as might be least hurtful to the inhabitants there, and to convert the same to the use and benefit of those who should celebrate divine service, and keep a School in the said Chapel ; for which grounds they were willing to pay yearly to his Majesty four-pence of new rent for every acre. On perusal of which petition, and con- ference had with Sir John Savile, one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, who lived within two miles of the said Chapel, and affirmed the contents of the said Petition to be true, and that by means thereof the inhabitants of the manor of Brighouse, which are more remote from the Church than the inhabitants of Rastrick, may likewise resort to the said Chapel ; also that none had right of common in the said inclosures to be made, except the said Petitioners, and 842 BIOGRAPHIA others the inhabitants of Kastrick aforesaid : It is, there- fore, this 11th day of June, 3d James, ordered and decreed by the said Chancellor, that the Steward of the Manor of Wakefield should grant, by Copy of Court-roll, ten acres of said wastes and commons to said Petitioners and their heirs according to the custom of said manor, to be inclosed and improved, for the maintenance of some honest person, from time to time, who shall say divine service in the said Chapel as aforesaid, the said Petitioners paying yearly four -pence for every acre so inclosed, at the Feast of St. Michael, to the Grave of the said township of Eastrick. EISHWORTH. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF JOHN WHEELWEIGHT, OF NORTH SHIELDS, Dated October 14, 1724. <' T GIVE, devise and bequeath all and singular my _|_ messuages, houses, lands, tenements, and here- ditaments whatsoever, situate and being in the county of York and elsewhere, unto John Wheelwright, of Norland, in the county of York, Miller ; Ely Dyson, of Clay-house, in the county of York, Merchant ; and Abraham Thomas, of Dewsbury, in the said county of York, Clothier; upon trust, for the building a School at Dewsbury : And upon this farther trust also, that the said John Wheelwright, Ely Dyson, and Abraham Thomas, do and shall, with all conve- nient speed after my decease, out of my personal estate herein after devised to them, pay and apply the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds for the building of a School at Kushworth, in the said county of York, and that my said Trustees for the time being do and shall also out of my real estate pay the yearly sum of ten pounds to a School-master for ever, at four equal quarterly payments, to wit, at Candle - mass, May-day, Lammas, and Martinmass, in every year, for the teaching and instructing of twenty boys and girls, to be chosen by my said Trustees, from time to time, out of HALTFAXIENSIS. 843 the poorest tenants children, living on any of my estates ; and so many of the boys and girls as shall not be elected out of my said tenants children, shall be chosen by my Trustees, for the time being, out of the poor of the parish where the said School stands, the said Master to teach them to read and to write, and to prepare as many boys for the Latin tongue as my said Trustees shall judge to have capacity to learn the same : And I do hereby order that the said twenty children do always consist of more boys than girls. And my will further is, that my said Trustees do and shall, out of my said estate, pay, at four equal quarterly payments, to wit, Candlemas, May-day, Lammas, and Martin- mass, in every year, the clear yearly sum of forty pounds to a School-master for ever, sufficiently in- structed and skilled in the Latin and Greek languages, and of sound principles, according to the doctrine of the Church of England by law established, who shall teach and instruct as many of the aforesaid poor boys as shall from to time to time become fit to learn the Latin and Greek tongues ; and that the said number of twenty boys and girls to be taught by the said two Masters as aforesaid, be from time to time kept up, and still to consist of a majority of boys. And I give full power to my said Trustees for the time being, or any two of them, to choose such School-master and School- masters, and from time to time to place, and for any misde- meanour, neglect, or other just cause, to displace them, or any of them, according to their discretion. And my will further is, and I do hereby order, direct, and appoint, that my dwelling-house, commonly called by the name of Goat- house, in Rushworth aforesaid, be fitted up and made con- venient, and so continued by my said Trustees, for the lodging of the said two Masters, and also for the lodging, boarding, and entertaining of the twenty boys and girls beforemen- tioned, for ever. And I also order, will, and direct, that my said Trustees, and such other person and persons as shall be duly elected in their or any of their steads and places, after their, any, or every of their deaths and deceases, do, and shall yearly, for ever, pay and apply out of my said estate, the sum of five pounds for the maintenance of each of the said twenty boys and girls at the said Goat-house, the same to be paid at equal payments, to such person and persons as shall from time to time have the care and management of 844 BIOGRAPHIA the said boys and girls, at the end of every week : And also that my said Trustees do, and shall yearly for ever, pay to a sober, discreet, and careful woman, to be employed in the dressing of victuals, washing, bed-making, and other the necessary looking after the twenty boys and girls aforesaid, the sum of ten pounds, at four equal quarterly payments, (to wit,) at Candlemass, May-day, Lammas, and Martinmass, in every year, such woman to be chosen and displaced, from time to time, by my said Trustees, as they shall see cause. And my will also is, that the said Goat-house shall be sufficiently furnished, and kept furnished, by my said Trustees, with beds, bedding, and all other necessary furni- ture, for the entertainment and intent aforesaid, out of my said estate. And I do also hereby will, order, and direct, that each and every of the said boys shall, at his age of six- teen years, or thereabouts, have the sum of five pounds paid or applied by my said Trustees, out of my said estate, for and towards the fitting him for, or putting him an apprentice to some trade, occupation, or business, such trade or occu- pation to be in the choice of the boy and his parents, or relations, except only one of the said boys, that shall be best capable of University education, which I do hereby order shall, at the age of eighteen years, or so soon as he shall have school learning sufficient, be sent to Cambridge or Oxford, and shall be there maintained by my said Trustees, out of my said estate, at the rate of forty pounds per annum for four years, and no longer ; after the expiration of which four years, another boy shall be sent upon the same footing as the former, and so to be continued one after another for ever ; all and every such boy and boys to be from time to time chosen and elected by the said Trustees, or the majority of them, with advice of the Head School-master for the time being. Item, I give all my houshold goods whatsoever, with all my books that belong to me, either at North Shields, or any where in Yorkshire, towards the furnishing the aforesaid Goat-house, the said books to be catalogued, and carefully placed in some fit room, towards the foundation of a library, for the use of the twenty boys and girls aforesaid, and the said two School-masters. Item, my will is, and I do hereby direct, that in case the said John Wheelwright shall die without heir male, that then it shall be in the power of my other two Trustees, or their successors, to elect and appoint HALIFAXIENSIS. 845 another person of the sir-name of Wheelwright, who shall be invested with, and entitled unto, the same powers, profits, and privileges, as the said John Wheelwright is by this Will, in all respects whatsoever. And I do also order, that upon the deaths of the other two Trustees, Ely Dyson and Abraham Thomas, the survivor of them, and the said John Wheelwright, or his heir male, or such other person of the name of Wheelwright as shall be appointed as aforesaid, do and shall elect and appoint other Trustees, whom I desire may be honest, able, and faithful persons, living in the tenements wherein the said Ely Dyson and Abraham Thomas now dwell, in case there be any such, and for default of such, the two surviving Trustees to choose such other person and persons as they shall think fit to be Trustees from time to time, as often as occasion shall require. Item, I hereby order, will, and declare, that in case of any neglect or defaults happening by my said Trustees, or their succes- sors, to be elected as aforesaid, in not making of such elections of Trustees as aforesaid, or in the not duly per- forming the several trusts hereby in them reposed, or the non-payment of any of the bequests and charges hereby made by me upon my said estates, or any misapplication thereof, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this my Will, that then, and upon any such complaint made, and not otherwise, I do hereby authorise and impower the Arch- bishop of York, for the time being, to enquire into, and rectify all and every such abuse or default, and to put the same again upon the footing hereby intended, but without further power to intermeddle therein. Item, I do hereby will, order, and appoint, that the clear yearly sum of one hundred pounds per annum shall be, from time to time, paid out of my said estate, to such person and persons who shall more immediately be concerned in the managing and looking after the several trusts aforesaid, the said sum to be paid at four equal quarterly payments in every year. And I do hereby appoint the said John Wheelwright, during his natural life, to manage and look after the same ; and after the death of the said John Wheelwright, it is my mind that the said other Trustees shall choose the son of the said John Wheelwright to manage the several trusts aforesaid, and after his decease, shall choose of the issue male of the body of the said John Wheelwright, and for default of such issue, 848 BIOGEAPHIA shall choose and elect another person of the sirname of Wheelwright, to manage and look after the trust aforesaid. And my will is, that all my estate, both real and personal, shall be chargeable with, and subject to, the several uses, trusts, legacies, devices, and charges, herein before mention- ed ; and whatsoever surplus may arise out of and from my said real and personal estate, over and above the discharge of the several trusts, legacies, orders, directions, and devices aforesaid, the same shall go and be applied by my said Trustees to the purchasing of lands. And it is my will, that the profits thereof shall always be applied to and for the better maintenance and support of the said twenty children, or to the enlarging of the number of scholars there, or for the sending of more of them to the University, as the said augmentation may allow of, in such manner as my said Trustees shall think fit. And I also hereby will and desire, that constant prayers may be read in the said Schools every morning and evening, by the Masters thereof, and that the said children be religiously and virtuously brought up and educated, according to the Doctrine of the Church of England as by Law established. Item, I will, and hereby order, that my said Executor and Trustees, or any of them, shall not demise or grant any part of my several estates, for any term or terms exceeding twenty- one years, nor shall they, or any of them, receive any greater or other rents upon any such lease or demise, than the same are now actually rented at, or let for." John Wheelwright, above-named, was appointed sole Executor of this Will. The above extract was made from a copy of the Will, lent by one of the Trustees. STANSFIELD. For John Greenwood's Benefaction to the poor of Stans- field, see under Heptonstall. HALIFAXIENSIS. 347 EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF MAKY HUTTON, of Pudsay, Dated July QO, 1720. '' T GIVE and devise to Eobert Milnes, of Wakefield, JL William Lupton, of the same place, Eobert Holds- worth, of Fetherston parish, Jonathan Priestley, of Winter- edge, in Hipperholm, Eichard Northorp, of Kirkheaton parish, Anthony Ehodes, of Barnsley, and Joseph Armitage, of Heckmondwike, and their heirs and assigns, all and singular my tenements situate at Horton, Bowling, or either of them, in the tenures or occupations of William Booth and John Thornton, or their respective assigns, but upon special trust and confidence nevertheless, that my said Trustees shall, at all times after my decease, receive and take the rents, issues, and profits of the same so to them devised premises, and having thereout first deducted such sums of money as they, or any of them, shall have respec- tively disbursed in or about the reparation or improvement of the said to them devised j)remises, or otherwise touching the same, or in or about the execution or defence of the trusts thereby to them reposed, or any of such trusts, or the title of the said to them devised premises, or any part there- of, shall yearly, and every year, pay over the clear re- mainder of such rents and profits, after such deductions as aforesaid, to such Preaching Protestant Dissenting Ministers as are herein above described, (i. e.) of the Presbyterian or Congregational Persuasion,) who shall be respectively the settled Preachers or Teachers at the several and respective Chapels or Meeting-houses now used, and duly recorded, at the General or Quarter Sessions, as places of Eeligious Worship hereinafter mentioned, (then follows the names, vhole year, the sum of forty shillings, and to the poor of Sowerby chapelry forty shilHngs, and these payments to continue for ever, and to be paid on the first day of June, and first day of December, or within twenty days after each day, by equal portions ; but if my said brother, or his heirs and assigns, shall neglect or refuse to pay the said payments, or either of them, then I give and bequeath my said lands in Crowellshaws aforesaid, to Edmond Tattersall and Timothy Bentley, and to their heirs, for ever, upon trust, to pay the said several yearly payments for ever ; and my will is, that the first pay- ments be made on such of the said days as shall first happen within twelve months after my decease." Taken from an attested copy at Whitewindows, in Sowerby. Edward Wainhouse, of Butterisse, in Norland, gave, by Will, dated Sept. 18, 1686, to the old people and poor persons of the town of Sowerby, such as did not receive allowance from the town, two parts of the yearly rents and profits of an house in Sowerby-dean, during the life of his wife, and after her decease, the whole for ever to the said poor people, for the time being, and ordered that the rent 858 BIOGRAPHIA should be paid at Christmas, by one entire payment, to the Overseers of the poor of Sowerby, for the time being ; and that the Overseers should take one or two of tlie Heads of Sowerby, to see the distribution of the rents ; and also im- powered the Overseers, and one or two of the Heads of the town, to let the said house to farm, for the use of the said poor persons, so oft as there should be occasion ; but the Executor, Josiah Stansfield, never made the inhabitants of the town of Sowerby acquainted with the said charitable bequest, letting the house to whom, and for what he pleased, and receiving the rents thereof to his own use, for about twenty years ; on which the Overseers of the poor for the town of Sowerby petitioned the Justices of Peace at the Quarter Sessions, in 1708, but what relief was obtained I have not seen. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF PAUL BAIKSTOW, Clerk, OF ROCHESTER, Doled March 31, 1711. " A FTER leaving a messuage, or tenement, with lands, /A,, in the j^arish of Meopham, in Kent, to his sister- in-law, Mary Goodwin, of Trottescliffe, for life, and after her decease, to John Tillotson, of London, James Stansfeld, of Bowood, and Henry Barrell, of Eochester, their heirs and assigns for ever, in trust, after the death of his said sister-in- law, to sell the same, and with the money arising from the sale thereof, to purchase a freehold or copyhold estate of inheritance, in or near the parish of Halifax, the Will pro- ceeds thus ; *' In trust, that they, my said Trustees, shall and do, by and out of the rents and profits of the said premises, so to be purchased in or near Halifax aforesaid, pay unto the School-master, for the time being, of the School of Sowerby, in the parish of Halifax, &c. the yearly sum of sixteen pounds, for and in consideration of his teaching twelve poor children, living within the chapelry of Sowerby, whose parents, at the time of such childreus being elected to the said School, are not worth in real or personal estate above fifty pounds, and to be nominated and chosen HALIFAXIENSIS. 359 by the Minister and Churchwardens, or Chapelwardens, of the said parish or chapeh-y, for the time being ; and also in trust that they, ray said Trustees, shall and do, out of the residue of the said rents and profits, from time to time, repair the tomb of my father, Michael Bairstow, and Ann, his wife, in Sowerby Church or Chapel yard, and pay the yearly sum of twenty shillings to the Minister of Sowerby, for the time being, for preaching a Sermon upon every Feast day of St. Michael the Archangel ; and shall distribute the remainder of the said rents and profits, if any be. to and amongst such poor persons of the said parish or chapelry of Sowerby, who do not receive alms of the said parish or chapelry, in such manner as the said Minister and Church- wardens or Chapelwardens shall direct ; and that my said Trustees shall take care to transmit the estate and premises, so to be purchased in or near Hali-fax aforesaid, to posterity, subject to the trusts aforesaid, in such legal and proper manner as they shall be advised by Counsel ; and that my said Trustees shall be paid all such reasonable and necessary charges out of the said estates as they shall be at in the due execution of this their trust : And in case a purchase cannot be had and made by my said Trustees of an estate in or near Halifax, for the purposes aforesaid, in a short time after the sale of my farm and lands in Meopham aforesaid, then my mind and will is, that all interest that shall or can be made by my said Trustees of the principal moneys arising by the sale of my said farm and lands in Meopham aforesaid, shall be added to the said principal moneys, and be all laid out and invested in the purchase of an estate in or near Halifax aforesaid, for the uses, intents, and purposes aforesaid, as soon as a purchase can be had." After the death of the above Mary Goodwin, Henry Barrell, the only surviving Trustee, sold the estate in Meop- ham for six hundred and thirty pounds, which he soon after laid out, together with fifteen pounds fifteen shillings more, in the purchase of six hundred pounds South Sea Annuity Stock, till a purchase of an estate in or near Halifax could be met with ; after which, he bought, for the use of the above Charity, an estate in Thornton, in Bradford parish, called Nether Headley, or Heathley, for which he paid six hundred and sixty pounds. The purchase deeds were regis- tered at Wakefield, May 5, 1735, in Book G.G. page 554. 860 BIOGRAPHIA No. 779. The present overplus, after paying the School- master sixteen pounds, is thirteen pounds per annum. Bounty to Sowerby Chapel. It appears by an Indenture at Chaderton, in Lancashire, dated March 9, 1722, that Elkana Horton, of Gray's Inn, Esq ; in consideration of two hundred pounds from the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, and one hundred pounds left by Edward Colston, of Mortlack, in Surry, Esq ; sold to Nicholas Jackson, Clerk, Curate of Sowerby, and his success- ors, for ever. Lower Langley, alias Nether Langley, in Nor- land, containmg eighteen acres, or thereabouts, of the yearly rent of seven pounds ten shillings ; also a farm, called Birch Farm, in Sowerby, of the pearly rent of seven i)ounds ; like- wise the Lane Ends. The bounty was obtained in 1719. N.B. Edward Colston left a large sum for the augment- ation of small livings, and his Executors, at the request of the said Elkana Horton, allowed an hundred pounds to Sow- erby Chapel, and Mr. Horton himself allowed another hundred pounds in the purchase. The certainty at this Chapel, 3d of Queen Anne, was seven pounds yearly, accord- ing to the return already mentioned ; but in Ecton's Thes- aurus, twelve pounds two shillings and eight-pence. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF ELKANA HOETON, OF THORNTON, IN BRADFORD PARISH, Dated Sept. 19, 1728. " "T TAVING observed that the worst case of the poor I I is a sordid habitation, I have erected six apart- ments at Sowerby, in the parish of Halifax, and county of York, for the habitation of three men, and three women, all born in the chapelry of Sowerby aforesaid, and inclosed some ground before the same, to be divided into six gardens, for their several uses ; also a middle room, or Oratory, for their daily assembling in for prayers, all which I give to the HALIFAXIENSIS. 361 six men and women I have already put into the said apart- ment, and successors, for ever, as shall be chosen by my said Trustees, and such others as their learned Counsel shall advise. I will that all the said three men and three women be of the age of sixty, and unmarried, and remain so during their continuing in their apartments, or be removed, or changed that condition, for this reason only, because the said apartments are not sufficient for more than one. I give unto each of the said six, two shillings and six pence a month, to be paid them at the end of each calendar month ; I will that one of the six (1) men be capable of reading dis- tinctly, and that twice every day, at nine o'clock in the fore- noon, and three in the afternoon, (excepting Sundays in the afternooD, on which day at the hour of five in the afternoon,) he assemble the other five persons, by ringiug a bell, and at those hours he read a chapter out of the New Testament, and a proper Prayer out of Bishop Parker's Book of Devo- tions, or some other, to which Reader I give five shilHngs quarterly for doing it ; and I require that all decently and punctually be present thereat, and that such Reader take an account of abseuters, and mark them down as often as they are so, and shew the same to such Trustees as shall be ap- pointed to pay them their allowances, to the end they shall deduct a halfpenny a time for every omission, and give the same to the Reader, excepting a reasonable cause of absence be given ; I will that regard be had to the virtue and good nature of the x)ersons chosen in, and they be such as have kept off the parish by their own industry, which I expect they continue to make out my allowance a competency, which will be better for their health and virtue, than a pro- vision that would have kept them in entire idleness, my design being to reward past, and encourage future industry, that others observing the regard I pay thereto, may qualify them to be successors in the said apartments upon vacancies therein ; and I hope I may well expect that if any of the six persons shall, in a more advanced age, become incapable to work, and thereby my allowance become insufficient for their maintenance, that such addition be made by the parish as will do it, but in case of refusal, they cannot but expect such refused be turned out to their entire care, and accord- ingly it shall be done, and others chose to succeed. I will, (1) So in the original. 862 BIOGRAPHIA that so mucli of my real estate, or as much other estate he purchased, as will raise yearly sufficiently for paying the said allowances clear, and also keep the huildings in good repair for ever, and if more he set out than will do it, the overiDlus to be divided equally amongst the said six, and be settled in trust as Councel shall advise." From an attested copy at Chaderton, in Lancashire. Robert Brooke left an house, at Hunslet, near Leedes, to the poor of Sowerby, the rents to be paid yearly. This house was sold about thirty years ago, for ten pounds, and the money put out to interest. SOYLAND. At Chaderton, in Lancashire, is an original indenture tripartite, made Nov. 7, 35 Eliz. witnessing that one Thomas Priestley had surrendered at the same time into the hands of the Lord of the Manor, one parcel of ground, the east side thereof containing in length twenty- one yards and half, the west nineteen yards and half, the north nineteen yards, and the south thirteen yards and half, as the same abutted on the lands of the said Thomas Priestley on the west and north parts, and on the highway leading from Ripponden to Soy- land on the east part, and the highway leading from Rippon- den to the Baitings on the south part, as the same lay inclosed, with the buildings, &c. thereon, in the occupation of Henry Sharrock, Clerk, Minister of Ripponden, to the use and behoof of certain Feoffees therein named, their heirs and assigns, for ever ; paying therefore yearly to the said Thomas Priestley, his heirs and assigns, for ever, the rent of six shillings and eight-pence on every first day of May, with penalty of twenty shillings if the said rent be unpaid for a year, and lawfully demanded, as by the said surrender more at large will appear. This indenture also farther witnesseth, that the said surrender was to the use and behoof of the Preacher or Minister of the said Chapel of Ripponden, for the time being, and his successors, or such as shall do and celebrate Divine Service in the said Chapel ; the Feoffees and their heirs to receive the profits arising from the premises, and to apply the same only for the public use and behoof of the whole Chapelry of Ripponden, for the maintenance of HALIFAXEENSIS. 863 Divine Service there for ever, as is aforesaid. When only four of the said Feoffees remained, the surviving four Feoffees were to assure, surrender, and convey the said premises to the use and behoof of them the said four survivors, and their heirs, and to the use and behoof of the heirs of the said Feoffees that then shall be deceased, and their heirs, for ever, to the uses, intents, and purposes above- said, and no other ; and this course, in re-assuring and sur- rendering, to be observed for ever, as often as the interest and estate of the premises shall be in the hands of four Feoffees only. And lastly, all the parties to this indenture, and all the inhabitants of the Chapelry of Eipponden, j)rayed the Lord President of the Council then established in the North, and, in his absence or default, the Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster, the Lord Chancellor of England, Lord Keeper for the time being, that in case of any suit or controversy concerning the premises, they would vouchsafe to see the true intent and meaning of those presents exe- cuted, and performed. The copy of the Surrender, said to be of the same date with the above presents, is by mistake dated Nov. 7, 80 Elizabeth ; the dimensions also of the ground are mistaken in the said surrender, which is at Chaderton, and which ought to be corrected by the deed above quoted. The Feoffees named in the above indenture were. Sir George Savile, Knt. John Savile, of Bradley, Esq; Thomas Gledhill, son of John Gledhill, of Barkisland, George Firth, of Firth-house, John Kamsden, of Bowers, Ellis Wormall, of Hill-house, Thomas Bothomley, of Bothomley, Michael Foxcroft, of Kebroide, Henry Priestley, of Baitings, Thomas Foxcroft, of Soyland, Nathan Hole, of Lighthasels, Michael Hole, of Blackshayclough, Richard Royde, of Beestonhirste, John Crosley, of Smalees, John Firth, of Eoyde, John Crosley, of Moor, younger, Richard Hole, of Burntmoor, Michael Godley, of Godley, John Firth, of Gootehouse, John Holroyd, of Scolecar, William Holroyd, of Cowcrofte, and Gilbert Holroyd, of the same, Yeomen ; but who were the four survivors of these, or whether they conveyed as directed, is uncertain. The Curates of Ripponden have generally, since this time, lived in the above house; but in the year 1754, when I took possession of this Curacy, the building was so ruinous and 864 BIOGRAPHIA incoiiveDient, that it was found necessary to rebuild it, which I did at my own expence, to the amount of more than four hundred pounds, the inhabitants not giving the least assistance ; and the present Curate, Mr. Thomas West, ■obliged me farther to allow him the sum of ten pounds, to repair the barn there, which was not to his liking. Such, it seems, is the law relating to Dilapidations ! John Kiley, of Brigroyd, in Soyland, (as appears by the cop3^ of a court-roll in my possession, diited at Wakefield, at the Court Baron of William Craven, Knt. and Edwin Wiatt, Esq; Lords of the Manor of Wakefield, in trust, for the use of Elizabeth Clapham, widow, held there Feb. 24, 34 Car. II.) surrendered, on the 25th of January, 34 Car. II. into the hands of the Lords of the Manor, the reversion, (after the death of the said John,) of a messuage or tenement called Field-end, in Soyland, with appurtenan- ances, and also of a mansion-house at Farrow-height, with two inclosures lately taken from Soyland-moor, containing, by estimation, six acres and half, to the use of John Gawk- roger, of Flathead, in Soyland, and Jeremy Biley, of War- ley, and their heirs, in trust, for the use of Martha Riley, of Brigroyd, and her lawful heirs ; and for want of such, in trust, to pay the rents and profits thereof to the Overseer of the poor of Soyland, for the use of the poor of the said town, for ever : to be paid and distributed to the said poor, at the discretion of the said John Gawkroger and Jeremy Kyley, and their heirs, and the Overseer of the said poor, for the time being, for ever. This Charity is withheld, and has bean so for some time, I cannot even find that ever it was paid. A com.plaint was lodged at the last Commission for Pious Uses in the West Riding, but was offered too late to have proper notice taken of it. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF ELKANA HOYLE, of Soyland, Dated March 28, 1718. ** T GIVE and devise unto the Curate of Ripponden for _!_ the time being, for ever, one annuity or yearly sum of three pounds, of lawful money of Great Britain, to be HALIFAXIENSIS. 365 for ever issning, going forth, and yearly paid out of my messuage, farm, or tenement, lands, tenements, heredita- ments, and premises, with appurtenances, at or near Light- hazels, called Lower Hoyle Heads, in the possession of Abraham Platts or his assigns, to be yearly paid to such Curate as aforesaid for ever, on the Ascension-day of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, commonly called Holy Thursday, provided such Curate preach a Sermon on that day in Eipponden Chapel aforesaid, and provided such Curate be a sound orthodox Preacher and Divine, according to the usage of tlie present Church of England as by law established, and shall have had University education, and come to be Curate there with the consent and good liking of the Owners of Upper Swift Place ; or else, in default of such Sermon to be preached, or for want of such Curate so qualified, or good liking and consent as aforesaid, I do give the said three pounds per annum to the poor people of Soy- land aforesaid, for the time of such neglect, disqualification, or dissent." The above was taken from an attested copy of the Will. The money has generally, if not always, been paid to the Curate of Ripponden for the time being, except from the year 1755 to the year 1701 inclusive, when it was given to the poor people of Soylami, my principles not corresponding with those of the Owner of Upper Swift Place. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF JAMES KILEY, of Kirklees, Clerk, Dated May 6, 1723. " A FTER giving to his brother, Joseph Riley, an estate ix in trust, to pay out of the same live pounds yearly to several persons and purposes, amongst other be- quests is the following: — " Item, I will that one pound, further part of the said five pounds, be paid by the said Joseph Riley, and his heirs, yearly, and every year for ever, upon the second day of February, to the Overseer or Over- seers of the poor of the township of Soyland for the time being, and to their successors. Overseers of the poor of the same 866 BIOGRAPHIA township, for tlie use of, and to be distributed to seven poor widowers or widows, and for want of such, to the most necessitous persons of the saiti town of Soyland, at the discretion of the Master or Owner of Kirkchffe, and of the Overseers, and one or more of the chief inhabitants of Soy- land aforesaid. This charity is regularly distributed. See another part of this "Will under Barldsland. SOUTHOUEAM. Original Endowment of St. Anne's Chapel. In Mr. Brearcliffe's MS. and also in the 2\ volume of the Eegister belonging to Halifax Church, is the following entry. "We find, that by a Deed, bearing date the 21st day of February, 21 Hen. VIII. John Lacy, of Cromwellbothom, Esq ; doth give to Thomas Savile, of Exley, with others, as Feoffees in trust, four closes of land in Southouram, (in one of the which a Chapel of St. Anne, by him the said John Lacy, with his neighbours, is built,) of intent that they the said Feoffees shall be seized thereof to the use of the said John Lacy and his heirs for ever, paying out of the same thirteen shillings and four-pence yearly for ever, to him that shall celebrate Divine Service in the said Chapel ; and if it happen there be no Chaplain there by the space of forty days, then for all that time of the vacation the said rents shall be paid to the Chaplain that celebrateth or saith Divine Service at the Altar of St. George, in the Parish Church of St. John Baptist, of Halifax." St. Anne's Chapel had but a certain endowment of three pounds per annum, before the Rev. Mr. Thomas Burton, Vicar of Halifax, Thomas Holdsworth, and John Smith, Gent, raised, in 1720, two hundred pounds, in order to ob- tain the Queen's Bounty. It had also a lot in 17*56, and the whole six hundred pounds were laid out, in 1762, in the purchase of an estate in Sutcliffe Wood, of the clear yearly value of twenty-four pounds. HALIFAXIENSIS. 367 WAKLEY. Benefactions to Sowerby Beidge Chapel. In a terrier, belonging to Sowerby Bridge Chapel, wrote in 1727, are the following particulars. One Chapel-house worth one pound eight shillings per annum. One cottage- house, given to the Chapel by Mr. Samuel King, eighteen shillings per annum. The title-deeds belonging to the Queen's Bounty are dated Nov. 2, 1724. The estates bought with this money are, the Lower Brig Bottom Farm, contain- ing nineteen days work of land, then let for twelve pounds ten shilliugs a year; a farm called Earoyd, containing thir- teen days work, rent seven pounds eight shillings a year ; and a Farm called Gate Head, containing nine days work, rent four pounds a year ; but these rents are considerably raised since that time. The Certainty, 2d and 3d of Queen Anne, was six pounds a year. A MS. in my possession sais, the Bounty was ob- tained for this Chapel Dec. 1, 1719, by Mr. Joseph Taylor, and others. WADSWORTH. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF PAUL GKEENWOOD, OF OLD TOWN, IN WADSWORTH, Dated April 4, 1600. " T GIVE unto my brother, John Greenwood, and his 1 heirs for ever, all that my tenement called Raw- holme, which my will is, that my said brother and his heirs shall demise for the rent of forty shillings only, and shall for ever pay twenty shillings thereof yearly unto the poor people of Wadsworth, and the other twenty shillings yearly for ever towards the maintenance of a Preacher, being a Master of Arts at Heptonstall." 368 BIOGRAPHIA COPLEY. [I cannot find that this Parish has given to the Church of England any more than four Bishops, yet all men of real worth and primitive piety. The first of these to be mentioned in the order of time is Kobert Copley, vulgo Grosthead, sprung from the old family of Copley's, of Copley, whose pedigree Mr. Thoresby runs as high as the Norman Advent. He was first Arch-Deacon of Leicester, and was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln in 1235, at Beading : A very severe man in his Visitations of the Clergy, and had several quarrels with the Pope, which occasioned his suspension in 1252, as Isaackson tells us in his Chronological Tables. He was, (says Mr. Cambden in his Britan, p. 352, Lond. Edit. 1587), considering the age he liv'd in, incredibly learned both in Letters and Languages ; a terrible Reprover of the Pope ; an Adviser of his King, and a Lover of Truth. He died in 1253. Wright's Halifax, p. 139.] 869 PEIl^CIPAL FAMILIES AND PEESONS, TOL. I. --$- AiNSWORTH, 73, 186 Aked, 139, 140 Alderson, 153 Allenson, 153 ASHBURN, 145, 146 ASHETON, 178 At WELL, 42 AuMUND, 293 Bairstow, 179, 358 Barkesland, 291 Barksey, 202, 290 Batley, 154 Bentley, 75, 76, 77, 149, 162, 154, 356 Bingley, 303 Birkhead, 319, 339 Bois, 79, see Boyse Booth, 80, 149, 152 Bosco, 78 BOSWELL, 179 BowcocK, 300 BoYEs, 53, 79 Bramfit, 183 Brearcliffe, 74, 154 Brearton, 77 Brent, 143 Brigg, 77, 283 Brisko, 203-4 Broadley, 153, 319—25 Brooke, 362 Brooksbank, 24, 36, 80 Brown, 78 Burton, 81, 151 Caygill, 155 Chamberlain, 28, 303 Charlesworth, 152 Clarke, 42 Clay, 147, 180, 290 Clayton, 6 COCKCROFT, 82, 312 Colston, 360 Copley, 244, 368 Crabtree, 82 Cromwellbothom, 235 Crossley, 329 Crowther, 43, 49, 83, 155, 302, 335, 351 Curates : — — Abbot, 183 W. Aiglin, 184 bis (W.) Ainsworth, 190, 191 T. Alderson, 183 I. Allen, 187 P. Asheton, 183 — Ashley, 186 E. Attey, 185 E. Bains, 190 J. Bairstow, 183 P. Bairstow, 191 J. Baskervile, 185 A. Bate, 191 J. Bell, 191 P. Bell, 185 D. Bentley, 190 bis E. Bentley, 152 870 Principal Faihilies and Persons. Curates : B. Berron, or Barron, 190, 193 J. Best, 190 R. Birron, 350 — Booth, 184 J. Booth, 152 R. Booth, 190 M. Boothe, 184 - — Bovile, 192 ' T. Bower, 294 J. Bowker, 193 R. Boyes, 192 bis — Bradshaw, 190 G. Braithwaite, 186, 191 R. Brereton, 188 I. Broadhead, 183 J. Broadley, 192 — Brooke, 192 J. Brooke, 193 J. Brooksbank, 188 J. Brotherton, 190 J. Broiighton, 294 (x. Burnet, 183 J. Burtomood, 191 L. Burton, 184 J. Butterfield, 183 S. Carr, 192 — Charlesworth, 152 R. Ckrkson, 190 — Clegg, 192 bis W. Clifford, 191 bis R. Coore, 184 bis, 191 J. Crouchley, Critchley, 184 bis N. Cudworth, 189 E. Dean, 188 R. Denton, 189 R. Dewhirst, 188, 193 — Diglin, 184, see Aiglin E. Doughty, 188 J. Doughty, 850 T. Dun, 190 — Eagland, 184 J. Earnshaw, 188 T. ElUson, 190 C. Etherington, 193 J. Fairbank, 188 M. Farrar, 188 N. Fern, 192 T. Ferrand, 193 J. Ferret, 184 bis C. Fisher, 192 R. Fisher, 190, 191 I. Fourness, 190 — Gibson, 189 R. Gilbodie, 184 H. Gledhill, 183 R. Gledhill, 294 J. Godley, 192 M. Godley, 193 P. Greenwood, 190, 350 T. Greenwood, 184 bis, 188, 191 — Gregson, 188, 193 J. Grimshaw, 188, 190, 193 C. Gunby, 103 — Hall,'l88 J. Halywell, 294 J. Hanley, 184 — Hanson, 186 T. Hanson, 152 D. Hartley, 188, 190 J. Hay, 184 bis D. Hayford, 186 — Heald, 191 N. Heywood, 190 0. Heywood, 189 J. Hill, 191, 192 J. Holdsworth, 152, 190, 350 R. Holdsworth, 188 T. Holdsworth, 192 Principal Families and Persons. 371 Curates : J. Hoole, 190 — Hopkins, 191 G. Hovie, 190 W. Ireland, 181 C. Jackson, 192, 350 N. Jackson, 193 — Jones, 185 J. Kaye, 185 R. Kenyon, 187, 188 J. Lake, 152 — Lambert, 152 J. Law, 193 R. Laycock, 186, 188 T. Lister, 192, 350 J. Lister, 291 A. Louthian, 190 J. Liipton, 190 G. Marsden, 192 Pt. Marsden, 190, 193 — Marsh, 350 T. Marshall, 184 C. Maud, 183 J. Metcalf, 186 E. Metham, 193 — Meyrick, 152 T. Meyrick, 192 W. Midgley, 193 R. Milner, 183 — Mitchell, 152, 153, 185 W. Mitchell, 184 ~ Moore, 190 A. Morris, 192 R. Northend, 189 S. Ogden, 183, 190, 350 F. Parrot, 152 J. Peebles, 191 R. Petty, 183 R. Pillay, 294 J. Piper, 185 N. Rathband, 192 J. Roberts, 188 — Robinson, 185, 186 I. Robinson, 188 Ric. Robinson, 193 H. Roote, 192 T. Roote, 190 S. Sandford, 152 M. Savile, 183 — Scholfield, 184 — Seddon, 191 A. Sharpe, 190 N Sharpe, 190 H. Sharrock, 187 J. Sheffield, 192, 193 M. Shirt, 185 — Smethurst, 191, 193 G. Smith, 183, 188 W. Smith, 184 W. Stackhouse, 190 R. Stoke, 294 G. Stott, 193 T. Strenger, 183 — Sunderland, 188 E. Sunderland, 183 J. Sunderland, 187, 190, 193 W. Sunderland, 187 Ric. Sutcliffe, 191, 192 Robt. Sutcliffe, 188 T. Sutcliffe, 184, 193 J. Sysson, 294 C. Taylor, 191 — Thompson, 190 J. Thompson, 183 E. Topham, 350 D. Towne, 184 pass R. Towne. 183 B. Travis, 188, 191 — Walker, 186, 191 R. Walker, 183 T. Walker, 192 bis E. Waring, 186 — Waterhouse, 185, 191 372 Principal Families and Persons. Curates : E. Watkinson, 188 J. Watson, 187 N. Welch, 188 I. Welsh, 188, 193 bis T. West, 188, 350 H. Whitworth, 190 E.Wilkinson, 190, 192 E. Wilkinson, 349 J. Witter, 193 E. Wood, 187 E. Worral, 183 J. Wright, 191 T. Wright, 187 A. Young, 193 bis Danson, 328 Dean, 5, 83 bis, 155, 205-6, 328 De Foe, see Foe dolliffe, 5, 155 Drake, 83, 206—210, 304 Dun, 156 Ealand, Elland, 142, 210 — 213, 288-9 Ellistone, 181 Elston, 180 ExLEY, 6, 213—215 Farrer, 85, 215—217 Faucit, 158 Favour, 84, 146, 157 Firth, 19, 277 FixBY, 260 Fletcher, 88 Foe, 88 FouRNis, 158, 352 Foxcroft, 352 Gamel, 288 Gawkroger, 159 Gaytington, 141 Gibson, 160 Gledhill, 8, 9, 10, 217—225 Graeme, 89, 159 Graham, 89 Grantham, 24, 181 Greenwood, 89, 90, 307, 310-2, 313, 314, 357, 367 Greetland, 292 Grydington, 141 Guest, 90, 191 Haigh, 354 Hall, 332-4 Halstead, 309 Hamerton, 234-5 Hanson, 152, 182, 227—233, 338 Harrison, 144 Hartley, 91 Hawarth, 53 Heald, 160 Heaton, 142 Hemingway, 317, 332 Heywood, 93, 97 Hill, 161, 186, 191 HOLDEN, 164 Holdsworth, 144, 152, 163 hollings, 164 HOLROYD, 16 HooKE, 98, 150, 162 HOPKINSON, 46 HORBURY, 284-8 HoRTON, 11, 12, 17, 18, 181, 217—225, 225—227, 360-1 Hough, 150, 163 HoYLE, 99, 182, 364 Hudson, 189 HULME, 100 Hunter, 283 HuTTON, 347-8 Inman, 20 KiTCHINGMAN, 164 Knight, 100 Krabtree, see C. Kyng, 142, 367 Pbincipal Families and Persons. 373 Lacy, 165, 285—237, 238-9, 366 Lake, 100, 149, 152 Lambert, 152 Law, 340 Learoyd, 5 Ledsham, 146 Legh, 151 Leicester, Earl, 198 Lister, 165, 239—240 LiVESEY, 187 Haddocks, 166 Marsden, 107 Marsh, 104, 149 Maud, 52, 166 Meyrick, 152 MiDGLEY, 108, 167, 329 MiLNEfe, 108, 290, 351 Mitchell, 152-3, 167, 352-4 MiTTON, 111 Montagu, 7 Nabb, 111 Nalson, 111 Naylor, 308 Nettleton, 112, 167 NiCALL, 53 Noble, 5 Gates, 328 Ogden, 114 Olearoyd, 6 Otes, 39 Ovenden, 141 Parker, 6 Parrat, Parrot, 152, 167 Patchit, 115 Power, 115 Prescot, 168 Priestley, 240-1, 362 Eamsden, 6, 29, 116, 148, 149, 168, 169 Kastrick, 227 Rhodes, 6 Kichardson, 170 Eichie, 116 Riley, 14, 364, 365 Rishworth, 316 Roberts, 170 RoKEBY, 117, 143, 170 RooKEs, 241-3, 315 RooTE, 118, 149 Saltonstall, 42, 243-4 Sandford, 152 Savile, 7-8, 119, 120, 126 bis, 127, 172, 244-7, 248—251, 251—256, 294, 336 Sayer, 171 SCARBRO', 172 Sharp, 171, 189 Shibden, 206 Simpson, 256-7 Sims, 143 Sladdin, 128 Slater. 6 Smith, 178, 173 Smyth, 304 Snydall, 55 somerscales, 47, 173 Stamford, 141 Stancliffe, 350 Stansfield, 128, 257-8 Stead, 172 Sterne, 258 Stocks, 139 Sunderland, 173, 187, 259 — 260, 301, 314, 318, 325 Taylor, 129, 143 Tenant, 304 Testmientary Burials : — Burgh, 177 Holdsworth, 178 IlliDgworth, 177 bis Lacy, 178 Marshall, 177 874 Peincipal Families and Persons. 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