GIFT OF Dp. C. a. Kofold A ^ Y / 6"^ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2008 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/boltonbibliograpOOschorich BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY, Jottings of Book-lore ; WITH NOTES ON LOCAL AUTHORS AND PRINTERS. J AS. C. \SCH OLES, Author of '■''Notes on Turton Tozver,^' '"'' Documentary Notes on Tnrton,''^ '^Memorials of the Bolton Parish Chnrch Organs,'' ^c, &^c. : . . . ■ Books are a blessed dower, for they enshrine Gushes of ja:lory from a fount divine ; Mirrors of mental light, condensed and strong. Pure treasures of philosophy and song ; Teachers of truth, which all should understand, Voices of wisdom, heard in every Mnd. J. Critchley Prince. MANCHESTER : Henry Gray, Cathedral Chambers, 25, Cathedral Yard. 1886. IiiL ^^.M/P'f-'^ * PREFACE. As an apology for the appearance of these Chapters on " Bolton Bibhography and Jottings of Book-lore," it may be observed that the primary cause of its publication was a paper reviewing " Bolton Biblio- graphy of a Century," read before a well-attended Meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, held in the Memorial Hall, Manchester, on the 6th February, 1885, under the able presidency of the Rev. J. H. Stanning, M.A., Vicar of Leigh. That Essay formed Httle more than the outline, or groundwork, of the present production, which, however defective it may be, must attribute its germ to the latent charms of that delightful pursuit — *' Book-hunting." Many admirers, and even collectors, of books are content to be known as "bibliophiles," or, to use a more common, and perhaps a more appropriate epithet, as " book- worms " — possessing minds void of that noble desire to impart a few items of information to others, • who, less fortunate than themselves, are wandering hopelessly thfough the broad fields of genealogical and historical literature, in quest of that which in all probability lies locked-up in the sacred sanctum of some unknown or, may be, some unapproachable book-collector. Not so with the mass of books and pamphlets it has been necessary to inspect, and in many instances to purchase, before anything approaching a complete account of Bolton Bibliography could be written, or Jottings of Book-lore arranged. The essence, so to speak, of what has been gleaned during many years of unflagging investigation of, and careful "weeding " through, the illimitable stocks of booksellers, and of steady research in the principal libraries of the county, and elsewhere, is, in this volume, freely dedicated to the sympathies and use of those wishful to prosecute their inquiries anent the men, manners, and mansions that at one time or other during the past three hundred and fifty years have been associated more or less with the old town of Bolton. Twenty chapters have been deemed sufficient in which to review the various epochs of literature connected with the locality, and also to mention — in some cases rather briefly — the writings of natives who, in their day and generation, were shining lights in M31865 11. ^ PREFACE. the dark ages of superstition and witchcraft, and others, who, in more enlightened times, have, in print, left as legacies to succeeding gener- ations the results of laborious study and the sacrifice of *'the midnight oil." Notices of Authors and Printers are numerous, and great care has been taken in the collection and arrangement of dates during which their works were published. All branches of bibliography receive attention, and though it is almost impossible in a work of ordinary dimensions to describe each of the eleven hundred publications herein treated upon, the principal items of literature have not been forgotten. To the Chapters and Jottings there is subjoined a comprehensive list of books and pamphlets coming within the limits of the subject, and, though it cannot boast of entire completeness, a glance thereat will suffice to show the abundant fruits of a diligent search for local literary works, in the effort to produce the best and most extensive compilation of its kind appertaining to the radius it embraces, and which, for utility, will perhaps be best appreciated by historians and genealogists, and other overs of kindred pursuits. Without imitating the egotism of a well-known character, who says that * ' few authors who write about such things can have such opportunities of knowing them as I have," I cannot conclude without recognising the kindness that has been shown, and the facilities accorded, to me in my labours, not only by private gentlemen, but also by some of the chief librarians of the county, by whose aid I am enabled to produce the following exhaustive record of local literature. To Mr. C. W. Sutton, of the Free Reference Library, Manchester, my special thanks are due for his kindness in glancing through the proofs of these pages, and also to Mr. J. K. Waite, the Public Librarian of Bolton ; Mr. John E. Tinkler, of the Chetham Library, Manchester; Charles Rothwell, Esq., M.R.C.S., J.P., of Bolton; John Fawcett Skelton, Esq., of Bolton; William Taylor, Esq., of Bolton; John Eglington Bailey, Esq., F.S.A., of Stretford ; J. P. Earwaker, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., of Abergele, &c. ; my acknowledgements are gratefully accorded for their united assistance in what has been to me a labour of love. JAS. C. SCHOLES. Boltofti j8th February, iS86. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION— Page 9. CHAPTER I— Page ii. Early Local Authoks and their Works; including the Rev. Thomas Lever's Quaint Sermons ; Lawrence Vaux and his Catholic " Catechismb ; " Dr. Richard Longworth's rare Literary Production of Three IIundred Years Ago. — The Andertons of Lostock : Probable Founders of a Printing Press there Early in the Seventeenth Century. CHAPTER II— Page 18. Scarce Works of an Early Vicar of Deane, a Zbalous Parlia- mentarian ; The Famous Lancashire Petition of 1640, and his Remarkable Poem on the "Drunkard's Prospectivb." — Rev. James Livesey's Rare Sermons, &c. CPIAPTER III— Page 24. Epitome of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Oliver Heywood, B.A., the Great Konconformist Divine. — Rev. Nathanikl Hbywood's Printed Sermons. CHAPTER IV— Page 30. The Rarest Known Locally-written Work, by a Eolton Parish Church Lecturer, entitled '• The Patriarchall Sabbath j '* with Interesting Notes on the Lbaenbd Author. IV. CONTENTS. CHAPTER V— Page 36. " The Lancashirb Levite," his Birthplace, Parentage, and Literature. — The Earlikst Known Grammar School in Bolton. — Rectification of Calamy's Erroneous Statements Begardinq the Rkvs. Zach. Taylor, M.A., Sen. and Jun. — Opinions of some Leading Antiquaries Respecting the Discovery of the Younger- Zaoh. Taylor's Birthplace. CHAPTER VI— Page 50. Introduction of Printing into Bolton.— The First Bolton Printer AND his Earliest Contribution to Bibliography. — Curiosity OF Jackson's Press. — Vicar Whitehead's Published Sermons. — Dr. Cotton's Error Regarding ihe Introduction of Printing into Bolton. CHAPTER VII— Page 58. WoiiKS BY AN Old Blackrod Schoolmaster. — Thk Literature of DoRNiNG Rasbotham, Esq , J.P.— RhV. J. Lemprieres "Classical Dictionary," &c. — Mr. Robert Ainsworth's " Latin Diction- ary." — John Gardner's Establishment and Early Workman- ship. — Sale of the Bolton Public Library in 1793. — Orrell's Scarce Poems : The Execution on Bolton Moor in 1786 ; "Tum Fowt" Fair, Recorded in Rhyme; Notes on Foot- balling Nearly a Hundred Years Ago. CHAPTER VIII— Page 67. The Earliest Hymn - Books Printed in Bolton.— Higham's Officb at Top ok Deansgatk. — Works by Weslbyan Metho- dist Preachers Stationed in Bolton Last Century.— Thk " Minerva" Office.— First Sermon Preached in Bridge- street Wesleyan Chapel. — Witticisms of the JJev. Samuel Bradburn. — A Tribuie to the Memory of .Mr. Bradburn BY Rev. Joshua Mabsden. — The Famous " Bolton Trotter." CONTENTS. V. CHAPTER IX— Page 75. Hurtlky's Type and Neat Workmanship. — The Various Presses OF IlAWi)riTII, SWIN'DKLLS AND WhaLLEY, .SmITH, OQLB, AND Yates.— The Lancashire Kiots in 1812.— Key. Wm. Trobert's First and Last Books.—'* The Herald " and " The Bolton Free Press " Founded. — Commencement of " The Bolton Express" and its STRuaoLiNG Existence.— Brown's In- complete *' History op Bolton." CHAPTER X~Page 81. Early Printkrs of " The Bolton Chronicle," and Notes on Books Executed at that Office. — IIobbrt M. Holden's •' Bolton Literary Journal." — '• Bolton, or Modern Athens." — The Works of tub Key. William Jones, with an Amusing Reminiscence: '* I've a Rod in Pickle for Thee!!" — ]\Ie. Henry Ashworth as an Author. CHAPTER XI— Page 89. Very Rev. Dean Wood's Mathematical Works. — Writings op the Rev. Thos. Bancroft, M.A. — Canon Slade's Voluminous Productions and his Love for Sunday Schools — Sermons by the Rev. William Thistlkthwaite, M.A. — Transfer op Ebenezkr Chapel, its Pastor and Congregation to the Church of England.— The Literature of the Rev. W. Chamberlain, M.A. CHAPTER XII— Page 98. The Works of Mr. Gilbert J. French, F.S.A., and Sir Thomas Bazlky.— The Literature of Rev. Iranklin Baker, M.A. — . WhITILk's " IJISTURY CF BOLTON."— SeRMONS, &C., BY ARCHDEACoN Thicknesse, DD., and Rev. 'J'. S. Wallace, LL.B,— Mr. J. Musgrave's "Origin of Methodism in Bolton." Vl CONTENTS. CHAPTER XIII— Page 105. The " Bolton Beb " and its Pleasant " Hum."—" Thb Boltonian " AND ITS Pbinter.— Rev. Samuel Pagan's Works.— Works by Revs. T. Boston Johnstone and Robert Best. — Mb. Richard Beckett's Publications. — The Miscellaneous Poems of Mr. John Partington, — Photographic Views of Bolton by Mr. Reuben Mitchell. CHAPTER XIV-^Page hi. Early Nonconformity in Bolton, and its Frofusb Literature. — Erection of Bank-street Chapel. — Rev. Robert Seddon's Literary Works.— Treatise on " Transubstantiation," by Rev. Henry Pendlebury, M.A.— Sermons by Revs. Thomas Dixon, Samuel Bourn, and Philip Holland.— Rev. John Holland's Voluminous Writings.— Earliest Printed Catalogue OP A Bolton Library. CHAPTER XV— Page 118. Secession of the Unitarian CnnisTiANS, their First Meetikg- HousK and Appointment of the Rev. George Harris, Writer of Many Unitarian Works. — Attack on Mr. Harris's " Caushs of Deism and Atheism" by Local Dissenting Ministers and Mr. Uichard Carlilb. CHAPTER XVI— Page 125. John Tjllotson's Succession to R. M. Holdkn's Business. — Establishmknt of tub Firm "Tillotson and Son," Printers of THE FibST English Halfpknny Evening Paper, &c.— " Opening OF the Town Hall."— Notes on '* Old Bolton Familiks."— " PoUTICAL and PARLLaiMBHTARY HISTORY OF BOLTON," &C. CONTENTS. VIU CHAPTER XVII— Page 131. Establishment op the " Bolton Independent " (afterwards the " Bolton Guardian "), with Notices op some Books Printed AT Cunliffe's Office. — Local "Advertisers" and Periodicals. — Staton's "Bowtun Luminary." — "Comb Whoam to thi Childer an' Me," and "'J'ay an' Hum Ditty; " Identification of Authors. CHAPTER XVIII— Page 140. Thb Local Muse. — Rev. Robert Andrews' Poetical Talents. — Vicar Bancroft's "Sketches of Manchester," &c.— Notes on Sheldrake's "Turton Fair," and Mr. J. Fawcett Skelton's Poems. CHAPTER XIX— Page 147. Charles Davlin, the Weaver Poet of Bolton.— Miscellaneous Poems by Messrs. Alfred Whitehead, G. W. Marsland, Benjamin Rushforth (the Blind Poet), William Cryer, A. H. Bromilow, and Miss Bingham. — Mr. Bruce's So-called "History of Bolton in Rhyme." CHAPTER XX— Page 153. Works by Local Authors Phinted in 1885, including Rev. John Brown's " Life of John Bunyan," and Mr. W, Pimblett's " Story of the Soudan War," and " English Political History, 1880-1885," &c. List of Local Authors and their Works— Page 158. List op Miscellaneous Local Works— Page 221. List of Local Catalogues — Page 237. List op Local Newspapers and Periodicals— Page 242. BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. INTRODUCTION. COMPLETE history of Boltou Bibliography would necessarily occupy considerably more space than circumstances warrant ; neither would an elaborate treatise win the general reader'4 sympathies. Notwithstanding this,and while almitting that the present ■work makes no special claim to originality, it may be stated that it ■will be the most comprehensive of its kind relating to the town and neighbourhood of Bolton. The subject itself, to a lover of books and book-lore, cannot fail to be highly interesting, and in a measure the same may be echoed on behalf of all classes of readers, or they would not be such. The bibliography of a town is one of its most important characteristics, for nothing more clearly demonstrates the character and dispositions of the people than that which is to be found in their literature. Again, the love of books is now more prevalent than in any preceding age. Not only is the passion for reading more widely B lO BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY diffused, but the possibilities of its gratification have abundantly- increased. " For one book collector in the past," says a recent writer, "there are now hundreds who are diligently studyiug and gathering up that which is interesting, valuable, or curious in literature." It ia more particularly to this large and increasing class that these chapters are addressed, at the same time appealing to all who are hesitating on the verge of the byways of book-lore, and also to those seekiug after that which is curious and quaint. The purport of this work is first to create a greater interest in the literature which has from time to time appeared from the local press, and which is still appearing, and to cultivate a greater sympathy between readers and authors, who either by birth or long residence have become closely allied to the town and neighbourhood. Another object of these notes is, that they may act as an incentive to still further and more elaborate publications. If these ideas be successful the aim of the work will have been fully accomplished. Bibliography, even when simply confined to a locality, is a subject of more than ordinary magnitude— -embracing the productions of the local press.works by local authors printed elsewhere, works by natives residing out of the district, and works by those whose long abode have gained them citizenship. Each of these various branches of literature will, hereafter, receive some little attention, though, of course, a balance may be justly anticipated in favour of Bolton-printed works. CHAPTER I. JIarlt Local Authors and their Works; including the Rev» Thomas Lever's Quaint Sermons ; Lawrence Vaux and his Catholic " Catechisme ; " Dr. Richard Longworth's rarb Literary Production op Three Hundred Years Ago. — The Andertons of Lostock : Probable Founders op a. Printing Press there Early in the Seventeenth Century. ^ tN tracing our steps back to an important period in the history of early religious literature of Eolton, it is gratifying to observe thab there are several books of local authorship, which require more than casual notice. In such cases advantage has been taken of certain •correspondence which has passed during the compiling of these bibliographical notes, between the writer and several gentlemen of •considerable literary attainments, whose high reputation as authorities on this subject is unquestionable. The value of two or three of th© •works in question may be better estimated when the fact of their extreme rarity is known, few copies being in the public libraries. la •one instance, neither the British Museum nor the Lambeth Library has secured a copy, whilst in another case a public depository has not been discovered so as to be mentioned here, though repeated •enquiries have been made. Such books as these cannot fail to b© treasured by whomsoever is fortunately possessed of them, and to a 12 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY local collector, their intrinsic value is much greater on account of their authorship. It is now nearly 350 years since the Rev. Thomas Lever's first book was printed in London. The author was a native of Little Lever,, near Bolton, and graduated at St. John's College, Cambridge, taking his B.A. in 1542, and his M.A. three years later. Honours about this time poured upon him, receiving ordination (along with the Rev John Bradford, the martyr), at the hands of Bishop Ridley in 1550. Mr. Lever was a gifted elocutionist and became one of the preachers of Edward YL In the year of his ordination he preached, and caused to be printed in London, three sermons, the first on February 2nd, in *' Poules [St. Paul's] Churche at London in the Shroudes," the second, ■on the " Thyrd Sonday in Lent before the Kynges Maiestie, and hi» honorable Counsel)," and the third on December 14th, at " Paul'* Crosse." In the following year he wrote " A Meditation vpon the Lordes Prayer," which he preached at "Sayncte Mary Wolchurche, Xondon," and afterwards published it. On the acceesiou of Queen Mary,, in dread of his life, Mr. Lever quitted the country and went to Geneva, T^here in 1556 he wrote and printed a treatise " Of the Right Way from Danger and Sinne, and Vengeance in this Wicked World." On hi* return to England, after Queen Eh'zabeth came to the throne, hfr published two more editions of this work — in 1571 and 1575. 'J he -three London sermons, just mentioned, were also revised, and published together under a new title in 1571, and again in 1870 in Arber'* •' English Reprints." As will be seen none of Mr. Lever's writings were- ■printed in the provinces, for the simple reason that no presses were then established in the north country. These are the earliest knowa v^orks by a local author, therefore licence is here taken for giving prominence to them. In chronological order of local writers, next comes the Rev. Jamea Pilkington, B.D., Lord Bishop of Durham, born at Riviugton, where he founded a Grammar School, which a few years ago was incorporated with that of Blackrod. A number of his sermons, dating AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. I J •from 1560 to 1585, were published ia book-form from the Londott press, and in 1842 reprinted in the " Parker Society " publications. A few words about Lawrence Vaux [or Vause] and his literary works will perhaps be read with interest. He was a native of Blackrod^ in Bolton parish, being born about 1519-20, and from boyhood was religiously imbued, to live the life of a priest being his ambition, and for this he was destined. He was ordained in 1542, and in course of time entered the Manchester College and became a fellow. He afterwards attained to the Wardenship of Manchester Collegiate Church. This was in the reign of Queen Mary ; Lut on the accession of Protestant Elizabeth to England's Royal Tlirone, Vaux left Manchester and took with him the College muniments and plate, which he partly- deposited at Barlow Hall, partly at Standish Hall, and partly ia Louvain, in order that they might not fall into Protestant hands. Those deposited in a little chest in Mr. Standish's hands were to be given back to the Manchester College "as soon as it should be restored to the Catholic faith, or when Catholics should dwell in it." Vaux 'Vvaa laborious in his calling, and well learned — being an exact /grammarian and an ardent opposer of the lleformation. On leavinef Manchester he " fled beyond sea," but returned some time after, and was imprisoned in the Gatehouse, Westminister, being subsequently removed to Clink Prison, Southwark, where he died probably about; 'the year 1585, though the exact date is not positively known. His writings were not, as far as ascertained, very numerous, bub the difficulties and trials he had to encounter in the publication (or rather after the publication) of at least one, were a sufficient excuse for limiting his literary works. His principal book was "A "Catechisme, or Christian Doctrine Necessary for Children and Ignorant ! People." There were many editions printed, the first being at Louvain, Belgium, in 1567, the next at Antwerp seven years later, and in 1583, 1590, and 1599, impressions were put forth at other presses. Very few copies are now known to exist — the Britisli Museum possesses editions for 1574 and 1583, and Lambeth Library for 1590. It is pleasing to notice that the latest volume issued by the " Chcbhaia 14 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY Society" is a reprint of the 1583 edition of the work in question. Ib- is edited with praiseworthy carefulness and ability by Mr. Thomas Graves Law, of the Signet Library, Edinburgh, who has prefaced the reprint with an exhaustive account of the learned author's life. Vaux's •• Catechisme" was deemed " a bold attempt," and it may be surmised^ \7ith0ut indulging in much speculation, that all copies coming within the reach of the promoters of the Reformation were at once seized andl destroyed ; hence their scarcity. Two or three other productions of Vaux's pen were in turn printed, but are likewise seldom offered for sale. One is entitled " An Instruction of the Laudable Customs used in the Catholic Church ; or the use and meaning of holy ceremonies in God's Church," whilst another constitutes " Godly Contemplations for the Unlearned." Richard Longworth, D.D., also merits a brief mention here, on account of his literary contributions. He was born in or near Bolton about 1533, and matriculated as a pensioner of St. John's College, Cambridge, in November, 1549. His B.A. was obtained in 1562-3, and M.A. in 1556. Bishop Pilkington, B.D., of Durham (also a native of the old Parish of Bolton), ordained him priest in 1561-2, and some six years later he was created D.D. In resigning the Canonry of Durham, Dr. Longworth was presented to the Deanery of Chester in 1572-3. He is stated to have been a *' man of business and a clever preacher" — two excellent qualities in one who had the charge and guidance of souls. But as an author — or rather as an acknowledged author — he did not figure high, only one book having emanated from his pen, this being an *' Answer to Articles €xhibited against him by Certain of the Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge," printed in 1569 — just ten years before the date of his death. Some printed •* Letters" are attributed to Dr. Longworth, but their various subjects and whereabouts and places of printing are not forthcoming, though extensive researches have been made. It is very probable that all, or some, of the above-mentioned works are preserved in the Library connected with St. John's College, Cambridge, where the learned writer had graduated. A lucid biographical notice AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 1 5 of Dr. Longworth is given in vol. 1, page 399, of the " Athena^ Cantabrigienses," edited by Messrs, Charles H. Cooper, F.S.A., and Thompson Cooper, and printed in 1858. Probably no other book of local authorship appeared until early in the seventeenth century, when James Anderton, of Lostock, near Bolton, who was said to be one of the most learned writers of the [Romish] Church, ushered into existence an exhaustive work called "The Protestants Apologie for the lloman Chvrch," with the nom de guerre of "John Brereley, priest." Three editions of this treatise are known, viz., 1604, 1608, and 1615 — the latter being printed in Latin. "No other literary product of his appeared until 1620, when he sought safety on the continent, and his " Litvrgie of the Masse " was published at Cologne. In the same year he wrote about " Saint Avstines Religion." Copies of all these works are preserved in the library connected with the Chatham College, Manchester. Two other books are known from this author's pen, viz.: "Luther's Life, &c.," published at St. Omer, in 1624, and an identification of " The Reformed Protestant," besides which nothing more is to hand by this learned scholar, yet a point of interest has been raised as to the locality in which his works were really printed, and it is thought to be extremely probable that Mr. Anderton's (John Brereley 's) press was secretly established and worked at Lostock — the seat of that ancient and opulent family — because about that period it was known that private gentlemen kept printing presses at which many Romish works were produced. la support of this assertion a passage will be given from Mr. John Qee's Catalogue of Books in " The Foot out of the Snare," printed in 1624 ; the writer living contemporary with Anderton. This interesting note, which is certainly one of considerable significance, reads : — ••The Reformed Protestant, by Brerely. — There was a printing house eupprest about some three years since in Lancashire, where all Brerely his works, with many other Popish pamphlets were printed.'* "Whether this sufficiently substantiates the former statement as to the exact place of this illegal and early Lancashire press is certainly 1 6 Bolton bibliography a matter of opinion, yet a word or two may be said in its favour. It cannot be denied tliat the isolated situation of Lostock nearly 300 years ago would just be the spot, above all others, for the performance of secret acts of this kind, and the difficulty of approach would afiord every facility to those engaged in the work, without serious liability to a sudden surprise and discovery. Again, few persons were likely to know the whereabouts of this " printing house ia Lancashire " better than he whose words have just been quoted, who lived amongst and knew almost all the Romish priests of London, and himself an apostate Catholic. Mr. Gee's list of works has been found " remarkably correct," and because of its being but littlo known, and of importance as an historical document, it was inserted in the appendix of vol. 1, of " Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus." The following is extracted from a footnote in Mr. T. G. Law's notes on Lawrence Vaux above mentioned: "In 1613 the Bishop of Chester forwarded to the king an inventory of books found among the effects of one Anderton^ a recusant in Lancashire, deceased. There are reasons for tliiiiking they formed part of a stock belonging to James Anderton, of Clayton, who owned a private printing press in Lancasli"re."* Referring to this fluent Lancashire writer, the Rev. Charles Dodd, in his " Church History of England, chiefly with regard to Catholics," asserts that " John Brereley is either a fictitious name, or at least assumed by James Anderton of Lostock^ in Lancashire," and further observes that he was "a person of singular parts and erudition, as well as master of a plentiful estate; who, having published several controversial treatises, assumed the name of Brierley in order to conceal his person, and secure himself against the penalties he might incur upon that account." In 1577 was born another member of this early Popish family, who was destined to contribute towards the religious literature of the ^ As James Anderton, of Lostock, (John Brereley, priest) did not publish his last book till 1624, identificatioa with James Anderton, of Clayton, who ed ia 1613 is impossible. The note is merely given as bearinfr on the subject. AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 1 7 •country. His name was Lawrence, being the son of Tliomas Anderton, of Horwich, and brother to Christopher Andertou, of Lostock. Lawrence is described as " a learned .Jesuit." He received his early- education at Blackburn Grammar School, from whence he was sent to Christ's College, Cambridge, where on account of his brilliant genius and extraordinary eloquence was commonly called " Golden Mouth Anderton." On proceeding to Rome he entered the ** Society of Jesus " in 1604 (the year in which his relative's first book appeared), and became a distinguished member of the English province. His missionary life, which extended for very nearly 40 years, in times of difi&culty and danger, was chiefly passed in his native county, where he died on the 17th April, 1643, after publishing three works, respectively entitled, "One God, One Faith" (in 1625), " The Progenie of Catholicks and Protestants" (1633) — this from the iiouen press — and " The Triple Cord, or a treatise proving the truth of the Roman Religion" (1634) at St. Omer. A copy of the second of these is preserved in Chetham College Library, Manchester, whilst the British Museum possesses one of the last-named. The Andertons, as will be observed, were staunch Catholics, brave and fearless in times of war, and influential in days of peace. Fear of deprivation or hardship was an alien in the breasts of this knightly family, but, on the other hand, their pride and loyalty elevated them above their fellows, and rather than foreswear the religion of their forefathers, submitted to a sequestration of their vast estates by Cromwell's Parliament, soon after its assumptive establishment. Let these remarks weigh to the credit of the supposed Lostock press or otherwise, such facts as are here set forth will doubtless form the basis of a most interesting item in the history, not only of Lancashire printing, but also of early printing in England. CHAPTER II. ScARCB Works of an Early Vicar of Deane, a Zealous Parlia* MENTARIAN ; ThE FaMOUS LANCASHIRE PETITION OF 1640, ANI> HIS Remarkable Poem on the " Drunkard's Prospective." — Eev. James Livesey's Rare Sermons, &c. EFERENCE will now be made to the Rev. John Tilsley, M.A., Vicar of Deane, and to the poetical lines addressed to Mr^ Joseph Rigby on his " Drvnkard's Prospective, &c," To follow up Mr. Tilsley's character and writings closely it must first be understood that he was a man of learning and "stupendous qualifications for his ministerial work," being endowed with fluency of language, which more particularly characterised his familiar eloquence. In discourse' he- is said to have won the attention and sympathies of his hearers by reverent familiarity ; but, on the other hand, touching the printing and publishing of his more select writiugp, he was almost unapproachable and only permitted very few of his compositions to be put into type. The earliest of these was " A True Relatioa f of the Taking of the Town of Preston" (of which he was an eye witness)^ in a letter to an eminent divine in London. Mr. Tihley evidently took part in the fight, for he says : " We have assaulted and taken Preston," and again, " We were about 900 or 1000 firemen, horse and foot, and about 600 billmen, halberdiers, and clubmen ; our marcb AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 1 9 in the night was tedious, especially to many who had marched the Dight before, and to accommodate us in that, God gave us a faire night, &c." Au original copy of this " Account," which was printed in London in 1642, is in the British Museum, ac is also " A Parsenetic to Lancashire," which was appended to a petition from Lancashire to " the Eight Honourable the House of Peers, and the Honourable the House of Commons," in 1646. At the time of writing the "Paitcuetic" Mr. Tilsley was "lodging" at Westminster, whence he addressed the said work on the 27th August, 1646. The Eev. Dr. Halley, in his " Lancashire : it^ Puritanism and Nonconformity," referring to this publication, says: " [Wardenji Hejricke [of Manchester] and his friends resolved to make a great demonstration against the toleration tf both Papists and St claries. They were well supported by a strong and united party in the county. John Ti'sley, the young and zealous vicar of Dean, drew up a ' humble petition of the clergy, magistrates, gentiy, freeholders, and others in. Lancashire,' which was signed by twelve thousand persons, and presented to the Houses of Parliament. Anything more intolerant has never been presented to the Parliament of England. ... Of these signatures no less than six thousand represented residents in the hundred of Salford. Published under the care (f John Tilsley, accompanied with *a Parcenetick to Lancashire,' it excited great interest among various parties. The Independents were greatly alarmed. In a pamphlet, entitled ' A New Birth of the City Remonstrance,' th^-y severely CI ilicised the petition, and the claims of its supporters. Holiingworth preachtd and Tilsley wrote in its defence. Ultimately an ordinance of parliament was obtained by which Lancashire was constituted an ecclesiastical province governed by a synod, and divided into nine classical districts, each subject to its own classes. This was the most important change which had been made in the religious institutions of Lancashire since the Reformation." Mr. Tilsley was a Puritan of the strongest type, and a faithful adherent to the Par'.iamentariau cause. In this part of the 20 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY fiorthern counties few clergymen devoted themselves so entirely to its advancement as did the euthus'astic curate whilst assisting *' Ihat old rogue Hurrocks th^^t preaches in his grey cloke " at the -ancient Church of Deane. From h's own statement it will be seen that he followed the victori lus army, under Colonel Seaton, to Preston, and, as already stated, wrote an account of the hostilities there. Seeing tl)is and knowing that his efforts were -ever for the downfall of the esisliug Ecclesiastical Government, it cannot be too much to suppose that lie took every advantage of contributing, iu whatever manner lay in his power, towavds its speedy destruction. There is little doubt that h's residence at Deane, during the Crorawellian Rebellion enabled him to be present at least at one of the sieges of Bolton, and, with his ready pen, a description, similar to that of the siege of Pi'eston, mie;ht reasonably be expected. Whether such were written and printed is a fact, perhaps, for ever lost in oblivion, though in all probability the eight-paged tract, purporting to be *' An Exact Relation of the Bloody and Barbarous Massacre at Bolton in the Moor in Lancashire, by Prince Rupert " in 1644, was written by him ; the style of composition and conciseness of the record pointing in a most decisive manner to that end. Mr. H. Gray of Cathedral Yard, Manchester, possesses an excellent copy of this rare publication. Mr. Tilsley was minister at Deane — first as curate and then as vicar, from 1642 to 1662, when he was ejected under the Act of Uniformity ; he afterwards lived in retirement, •principally in Manchester, until his death in 1684. It would, therefore, be during his ministry at Deane that the works mentioned were printed. Mr. J. E. Bailey, F.S.A., in his "Memoir of the Rev. John Tilsley," published in 1884, observes : — " Two noticeable funeral Hsermous were preached by Tilsley : — one at the interment of the Rev. W. Rathband at Cockey, on 1 Cor. iii., 10 ; and the other at Bolton Church, at the interment of Colonel Robert Bradshaw, eminent for Jiis piety, valour, and wisdom in the time of the war." It is AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 21 questionable whether these sermous were ever printed. It may be stated, that lligby's "Ingeniovs Poem, called the Drvukard's- Prospective, or Burning Qlassp," was published in 1656. To that are supplemented several commendatory addresses on tlie work by various local clergymen, including some lines by Mr. Tilsley, from which the following extract is made : — When I behold a bezeling deaddrutik crew Of miscreants ; methiuks ther's iu my view The liveliest emld, m of the lowest pif, That can be seen except one gee to it. God's wrath is stii'd wine of astoni-hment. Which on condemned souls hath its full vent. The Drunkard's wine when it doth so inflame. Doth it not clearly represent the same 'i When as I t^ee thfim swell on the Ale-bench, Bellow, blaspheme, and wallow in the stench. Hell's nothing else I think : or if not it. Yet sure it leades to that infernall pit. Well may we then con( lude, the drunken sot Must pledge himselfe in fire and brimstone hot. It is most sad, and yet most true, they'il find Two hells, one liere, anoiher yet behind. May this thy burning glasse tlie conscience scorch Of Drunkards, while they are j'et in the porth Of hell ; and so most hnppily suspend DirefuU infernall flames woi Id without end. Amen. This effusion is signed: "So singeth and prnyeth your respectful! friend, John Tilsley, Pastor of Deane Ch: Lancashire." Mr. J. E. Bailey, F.S.A., of Manchester, has a MS. volume of unpublished religious poems by Joseph Rigby above referred to. In 1649 another author of local repute — Ellis Bradshaw — wrote and published three pamphlets entitled respectively " An Husband- man's Harrow to pull down the ridges of the Presbyteriall Government,." *' Causes of the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea," and *' The Preaching of the Heavens." Iu the following year he issued ** A true relation vf the strange apparitions seen in the air in and about the 22 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY town of Bolton in the Moors." Five other works of his appeared between 1652 and 1656. Seven of Bradshaw's pamphlets (all printed in London) were purchased for the Free Reference Library, King-street, Manchester, at Mr. James Crossley's (London) sale — a high price being given on account of their rarity. The Rev. James Livesey, minister at Turton Church in 1650, and son-in-law to its patron, afterwards of Chowbentand Great Budworth, was an author of great talent. In 1655 he preached a sermoa before the judges and sheriff of the county of Lancaster, which he designated "Enchiridion Judicum, or Jehosophat's Charge to liis Judges," and caused the same to be printed. Two years later hiii " Catastrophe Magnatum " was struck off ; this was a *' Funeral Sermon on the Right Worshipful John Atherton, Esq., of Atherton, high sheriff of the county of Lancaster." In 1660 a London firm executed Mr. Livesey's third literary production, forming a "Discourse occasioned by the doleful loss of an eminently pious and learned gentleman, viz , Mr. Humphrey Chetham, who died at Turton Tower in 1658-9." Whilst at Chowbenc he wrote a poem of 80 lines ia laudation of Mr. Joseph Rigby's " Drvnkard's Prospective, or burning Glasse," commencing thus : — To need no friends, t'have friends in need. Both good: for thus y' have friends indeed; This will immortalise, when read, Y«)ur fame; advance your hlisse when dead. This Willi hope the jrrave controll, And prove yours ia a heaven-born soule. In tliia glasse purblind eyes may see Drunkards, not men, but monsters be. Dead, yet alive; of humane kind The scab, the shame, also I Snd, Them voluntary Daemons stil'd : Even hell his selfes with them deftl'd." If Mr. Livesey wrote any other works for publication I am not aware of them. All his productions are scarce and consequently valuable.* * At the bouk sale of Richard Wood, EleQ., in Manchester, last year, Mr. Livesey'* iuneral sermon on Humphrey Chelhamiu 1658-9, was sold for 45 j. AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 23 Notes on many other works by Bolton 'authors, who, for the wanb of a local press were obliged to patronize that of London or elsewhere, might be of interest to some readers, but what has already beea given must, however, suffice. Another class or series of books claiming attention are those relating to Bolton, which unfortunately lack authors' names. Many of them were issued from time to time from other than the local press. The earliest to hand is one describing " How the Earle of Derbie's Forces made an onset on the Towue of Bolton," printed in 1643 — the year succeeding the deplorable event. This was followed in 1644 by *' An Exact Relation of the Bloody and Barbaroua Massacre at Bolton in the Moors in Lancashire by Prince Rupert." Then came " The Earl of Derby's Speech on the Scaffold immediately before his execution at Bolton in 1651, exactly taken in shorthand ^s it was spoken," and in 1681 and 1720 two other accounts of tbe Earl's sufferings and execution appeared. mm Z^B|^ IMJOaS mkM M^Ji^^^js^^^SSII CHAPTER III. Epitome of the Life akd Writings of the Rev. Oliver Heywoodj. B.A., the Great Nonconformist Divine. — Rev. Nathaniki*. Heywood's Printed Sermons. HK most celebrated Nonconformist nutlior of local birth was- the Rev. Oliver Hey wood, B.A., who first saw the light of day at a place aptly signalised as being " long famous for glorious professors of the gospel, and powerful preachers." He was the son of Richard and Alice Heywood, of Little Lever, and this was the rural spot of his nativity. From here to the Old Parish Church of Bolton he was borne to pass through the baptismal ceremony a» authorised by the laws of the National Church. This was the first if not the greatest epoch iu the life of one whose eventful career ranics high amongst tlie so-called religious persecutions- of Charles the Second's reign. What could better lead the mind of the studious and thoughtful youth than the striking incident which he would have heard as having occurred at the font, when,, rather than he should be marked by the sign of the Cross, his godmother stepped back, and thus averted the fulfilment of that ceremony it was intended to perform ? It may well be asked what could have created iu the breast of young Oliver such feelings of disloyalty against the rubrics of the Church of his forefathers, more AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 2$ than the denial of the " symbolical sign" at his baptism — not by the negligence of the officiating clergy but by the pre- conceived design of her who promised certain vows for his future welfare ? Sixty-five years after that incomplete ceremonial, the Eev. Oliver Haywood reflected on the circumstance, and under date 15th March, 1694-5, wrote : " Lord God, Thy poor servant knows not the day of my birth, but I am assured, both by my father's writing and the Eegister at Bolton that this is the day of my Baptizing, which was as I suppose not long after my birth, old Adam Hilton (my grandmother Heywood'a brother) was my gofif or godfather (as then used) Mtris Andrews of little Leaver-hall was my godmother so called held me at the font, when the minister (I suppose Mr. William Gregge, that marryed my present wiues sister) had sd : the words, in the name of the father, Son, and holy ghost she stept back off the stone and suffered him not to crosse me with the sign of the crosse from whence and that solemnity arose these meditations. 1, My dear parents presented me to the Lord in the ordinance of baptism, devoted me then and thereby doubtles prayed for me and offered me a pious and liberal education ; 2, yet little did they or such as presented me imagin that the stepping down and preventing that ceremonious rite of the crosse that ib was a presage of my being a N[on] C£onformist] minister, to bear my testimony agt. those superstitious usages, and preaching and suffering so much for the good old cause of Puritanism and Nonconformity, and as little could it be thought that I should live aboue 60 years to see such changes in Civil and Ecclesiastics as I have done since 1640, Bps up, then down, then up again, that I should be a publick preacher above 44 yeares, have such measure of health, liberty, oppertunltys, more than most of my brethren, some good successe and fruit of my poor labours, marry famous Mr. Angler's daughter, print so many books, injoy so many comforts of life, bring up two sons to be ministers, build a chappel, help so many poor ministers and Christians in their necessitys by myself and others and yet have a competency for myself and wife." Thus we have a brief epitome of Mr. Heywood's life, and were more 26 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY than that here submitted the object of the present chapters would be too widely departed from. Therefore what is given of the life and character of that great and early Nonconformist will perhaps be aa incentive to some to look further into the details of his memorable career, of which many interesting accounts have been written, and may be seen in the Bolton Free Library and elsewhere. For those who may be so desirous are recommended the editions by the Rev. Richard Slate, 6 vols., 1826-7 ; and Mr; J. Horsfall Turner, 4 vols,, 1882-5 ; whilst the former includes a reprint of the works written by Mr. Heywood, the latter gives a verbatim transcript of his autobiography, diary, and event-book. The editor, who has displayed much perseverance and painstaking in that which must have been entirely a labour of love, in the preface to the last volume, says : " The dream of my boyhood is now fairly realised. The story of Oliver Heywood had been treasured in the minds of the parishioners of Halifax for many generations, when it was recounted to me — a poor orphan, bookless and friendless. I longed to hear more, « , ," To that craving, undoubtedly, is due the publication of Mr. J, Horsfall Turner's edition of the Rev. Oliver Heywood's Diaries, Reflections, &c. One passage bearing on the subject of local bibliography is prominent in the quotation given above from Heywood's •' Reflections," i.e., that referring to his "printing of so many books." Had Mr. Heywood not been proud of the fact he would never have classed it amongst the most important events of his life. In carefully glancing at the writings of that eminent Puritan, it is found that his first published work was a treatise entitled " Heart Treasure : or an Essay tending to fil and furnish the Head and Heart of every Christian," printed at the " Golden Bible," on London Bridge, in 1667, comprising 336 pages 8vo. It was followed ia 1669 by his work on " Closet Prayer or Christian Duty," printed ia London, for Tho: Parkhurst at the "Bible and Three Crowns;" on October 19th, 1669, four copies of this publication were ordered to be brought to Bolton for distribution. In 1671 "Sure Mercies of David" appeared as the second part of "Heart Treasure," AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. Jtf the preface being dated during the previous year. Several other •ivorks of a similar character are recorded as having been penned by Mr. Heywood between then and 1685, when " The Holy Life and Happy Death of Mr. John Angier"* — one of his most interesting writings — was put through the press in octavo size. In this little volume an interesting note is given of the literature of Mr. Angier, which, on account of his ministry at Ringley Chapel, from 1630 to 1632, has a claim on our attention. In 1647 he caused to be printed a work called " An Helpe to Better Hearts for Bitter Times, iudeavoured in severall Sermons," and in the Epistle Dedicatory prefixed to that book he records some of the most striking incidents of his sufferings and persecutions for Nonconformity. He says, " Though in nine or ten years at Denton Chapel, I preached not above two single years (to my best remembrance) without interruption, and in that time was twice excommunicated ; though Sabbath assemblies were sometimes distractedly and sorrowfully broken up, and my departure from my habitation and people often forced, no means of return left in sight, yet, through the fervent prayers of the Church, God renewed liberty." Mr. Heywood, in his memoir, writes : " It was muttered that Mr. Angier had a hand in a certain book which reflected on the bishop, in consequence of which he was much disturbed, and was in danger of being brought before the High-Commission Court. The book was found in Stockport, casting some reflections upon the archbishop's speech in the Star-chamber ; and though Mr. Angier was suspected of it, yet he professeth his innocence in his diary. But pursuivants came to apprehend him, and this trouble occasioned him to sell the land at Dedham which his father left him, worth £40 a year, turning it into money, as being less visible, and so less subject to danger. God hid his person as He did Jeremiah and Baruch." Beyond the works to which these extracts refer nothing is known of other publications by Mr. Angier. * The Rev. John Angier was minister at Ringley from 1530 to 1652, when he removed to Denton Chapel, where he ministered until his death, in 1677. S$ BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY " Baptismal Bonds Renewed," was the title of another of Hey wood's •works, containing 348 pp., including a preface of 20. Mr. Parkhurst, of London, was printer and publisher, from whom Mr. Heywood received 59 gratuitous copies, besides 100 for which he paid £10 ; twelve of these were sent to Bolton friends. Of this work twelve copies were "better bound then ordinary in calues leath: guilt." A sermon designed for a funeral legacy, called *' Meetness for Heaven," was printed in 1690, when Mr. Heywood paid £7 10s. to Mr. Parkhurst for 20O copies. The foregoing are not the only books written and published by the Rev. Oliver Heywood — on the other hand, he was a voluminous writer, as well as a popular preacher ; and, allowing for the difficulties experienced two hundred years ago in passing works through th© press, much praise is due to that pious author for his literary achievements. The rarity of original editions of Heywood's works is unquestionable, as testified by Mr. Job Orton's letter addressed to a Bury minister early in the present century, an extract of which reads t " The life of Mr. Heywood is worth your perusal, as he seems to have been a very considerable man for his age. I could wish you to borrow of your congregation any books of their old divines, who lived ia Lancashire and the neighbourhood, which tl^y have in their houses. Some of them are extremely valuable, as those of Pendlebury, Nath» and Oliver Heywood, Aired, &c. They were men of distinguished ability, and eminent piety and zeal. Though some of their sentiments are indefeasible, and their language low and mean, yet there is a savour of piety, seriousness, and concern for the interests of religion, and sa much experience of human nature, and the workings of the heart, as are hardly to be met with in any modern compositions. There are also many little and instructive and striking stories, which may be veil adapted, and would render a discourse in which they are introduced popular, pleasing, and useful." Many editions of Oliver Heywood's numerous works have appeared from time to time — a fact which bespeaks the unabated interest taken in them by his admirers in each successive generation. Duriug a life f marked activity, his ministerial duties were mainly performed at AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 29 Coley Chapel,* Yorkshire, though he often preached in the home« of his relatives and friends on visiting the neighbourhood of his birthplace, and on one occasion (1669) he tells us that he preached " funeral sermons for Mr. Park and good uncle francis Critchlaw at Bradshaw Chappel." He preached many times at Cockey Chapel, and also attended divine service in the Old Bolton Parish Church, the sanctuary to which his father had been greatly attached during the revolutionary times of the Commonwealth. The Rev. Oliver Heywood died 4th Nov. 1702, and was buried in Holdsworth's Chapel, Halifax Church. Thus ended the life of one who in his day and generation did as much for the spread of Puritanism and Nonconformity as any of his fearless contemporaries. The Rev. Nathaniel Heywood was a younger brother of Oliver, and, like him, was born at Little Lever, being baptised in the Bolton Parish Church on the 16bh Sept., 1633. In course of time he became Minister of the Gospel at Ormskirk, where his life was entirely devoted to the cause which he had espoused from his youth. He died December 16th, 1677, and went to his grave in peace "after all his violent tossings upon the tempestuous sea of this world." Two years after his death there were some sermons of his printed, entitled " Christ Displayed as the Choicest Gift and Best Master," which were published by his brother Oliver, .^ * He was ejected from here in 1662. CHAPTER IV. Thb Raeest Known Locallt-written Work, by a Bolton Parish Church Lecturer, entitled " The Patriarchall Sabbath ; " WITH Interesting Notes on the Learned Author. ^n^ ROB ABLY the scarcest book of local authorship is one entitled jE^ " The Patriarchall Sabbath," written by John Smith, an early Lecturer at Bolton Parish Church. Though the British Museum is not known to possess a copy of this volume, the Bodleian Library, the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, and also that connected with the Sion College, London, are, on the other hand, more fortunate. . At the present time comparatively little is known of this rare treatise and its author, therefore occasion will here be taken to place on record such scattered data, that have been culled from various sources, relating to the subject. The short^title of the work is "The Patriarchall Sabbath, instituted Gen. ii. 3." It was in all probability twice printed in London, in 1683 and 1694, in the last named year the title was slightly altered. The book contains 201 8vo. pages. By the leading bibliographers of the past twenty years Mr. Smith's work is acknowledged to be extremely scarce, and in reference to it Mr; Robert Cox, F.S.A. Scotland, in his "Literature AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 35 of the Sabbath Question," printed in 1865, says: "Of this work I know nothing beyond what is mentioned by Dr. Isaac Watts, in the following note to one of his discourses on * The Holiness of Times, Places, and People, under the Jewish and Christian Dispensations ;* he says, ' There is a learned author who has written a treatise, 1683, whose running title is ' The Patriarchall Sabbath.' " Again another quotation reads : " There is a copy of this rare book in the Library of Sion College, ^London." Wotton extracts from the work in his "Miscellaneous Discourses," and gives "J, S." as the author's initials. The Rev. Richard Parkinson, B.D., Canon of Manchester, in 1845, wrote: "The book here referred to, ',on the 'Patriarchall Sabbath,* I have not discovered." It may here be advisable, before submitting another and more lengthy note on the book, to observe that the remarks made by the Rev. Canon Parkinson, in his editorial address accompanying " The Life of Adam Martindale," printed for the Chetham Society in 1845, do not refer to John Smith, the Lecturer at Bolton Church, but to a Matthew Smith. The misapplied note appears after Martindale's entry about John Smith, and reads : "This Mr. Smith, who was a native of York, and educated by Mr. Ralph Ward, the minister particularly patronised by Lady Hewley, was the first to cause division in the camp of the dissenters by the new views which he took concerning the imputation of Christ's righteousness. He intitled the book in which these notions were first broached, " The True Notion of Imputed Righteousness, and our Justification thereby ; being a supply of what is lacking in the late book of that most learned person Dr. Stillingfleet,' &c., and it t was followed in the same year by ' A Defence of the foregoing Doctrine against some growing Opposition among Neighbours, Ministers, and others.'" John Smith, so far as can be ascertained from original manuscripts accessible, was appointed to the Bolton Lectureship in about the year 1679, which office had probably been filled since the Rev. Robert Parke's ejectment for Nonconformity in 1662, by the Revs. Robert Harpur and John Lever, successive vicars of Bolton. The first record 3t BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY of Mr. Smith's connection with this town will be found in the valuable register of baptisms, marriages, and burials, kept by Oliver Heywood, where (21 Jan., 1679-80) is entered: "Cozen Ester Heywood, marr. by Mr. Smith, Lect. at Bolton."* It is very singular that no entry corresponding with Mr. Heywood's can be found in the Bolton Church registers from the years 1678 to 1684, from which it is inferred that the marriage, although performed by the Bolton Lecturer, did not take place in this town. It was whilst fulfilling the duties of the Lectureship that Smith wrote his work on "The Patriarchall Sabbath," as appears by the diary of another eminent Nonconformist minister — the Eev. Adam Martindale. The story told of this new work by Mr. Martindale, contains much to reward the attention of those interested in the subject, and on this account a pretty full extract is given, The diarist writes: — " The same yeare [1683] there came out a new booke, intituled The PatriarchaU Sabbath, written by Mr. Smith, Lecturer at Bolton ; in which there are many things of very bad consequence, as I made bold to tell the authour when I met him in Manchester. My cousin Tilsley,+ of Manchester, desired me to write against it ; which I was loath to doe, because then very busie about my manuscript touching ' Kneeling at the Sacrament.* But at last I yielded, designing only six or sevea sheets for the overthrowing of his maine grounds ; the f arre greater , part of his booke lying remote from the vitals of his cause. Whea I had drawne this up, Mr. Moxon, bookseller in Manchester, desired me to give him a copie for the presse ; but I refused then to doe it, being resolved to discourse with Mr. Smith before substantial! witnesses, to see what he was able to say in answer to mine objections, and whether any more tender course could be taken to vindicate the wronged truth, then to expose him in print ; or, at the least, I thought I should not faile to understand where he laid his great stresse, and his fixed sence of things seemingly ambiguous. So I went, and heard him preach his lecture, upon Monday, August 6th'; * Esther Heywood was married to James Lomax, of Little Lever. t The ejected Vicar of Deane, who ended his days in retirement at Manch«st«r. AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 33 and after dinner, before three ancient ministers, all his neighbourEr^ I told him my businesse, and charged him that he had injured: 1, The Holy Scriptures ; 2, the Christian Sabbath; 3, the Church of England; 4, the writers for the Lord's-day. and particularly myselfe ; which foure- ^fold charge I was readie to make good." After these points had been [refuted, "Mr. Smith excused himselfe'by businesse," says Martindale, "and I could never get opportunity afterwards to discuss the rest before competent witnesses." Endeavours were made to get Martindale's papers printed, and 300 copies should have been struck oflf, but through some trifling monetary dispute between the intended publisher, who resided in Warrington, and the London printer, the matter was never put into type, and consequently left unpublished. An interesting entry has been made by the Rev. Oliver Hey wood in his diary (which has jusb | been published in exknso by Mr. J. Horsfall Turner, of Idel, near Bradford) implicating the author of "The Patriarchall Sabbath " ia designing to break up an assembly of Heywood's hearers. The extract reads: "Upon Tuesday, Aug. 14, [16]83, I was to preach at Cozen Th: Woofham's (where my sister Esther Hues). I did think there would be great resort thither, and had some apprehensions of danger — God helped me that morning at brother Okeys to pour out my soul to him, so we went into Darcy-leaver, multitudes of people came, I begun, was helped in prayer, preaching near an hour, then came T. H. son from Bolton, acquainted us of the design of some to break us up, I ceased, some went away, others overed about, I went into an house, sent scouts to watch and give notice, then went to work again, preacht out my sermon, none came, yet we did hear it was a reality, but understanding that [we were broken they came not, the contrivers were 3 or 4 preachers and some others, father forgive them. Mr. Smith, Lecturer, Mr. Lomax, Mr. Stones, Mr. Loe, &c., but Mr. Leaver, vicar of Bolton, dissented, was our friend, blessed be God— so we came away." The Rev. Richard Slate's edition of Heywood's works] fails to give the names, above-mentioned. An original document also relating to Mr. Smith's connection with 34 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY Bolton, and of which the subjoined is a literal copy, came into my hands some time ago through the kindness of the Rev. Canon Powell, Vicar of Bolton : — " 1 May, 1685. — Whereas an accompt is mayd this day w'th Mr. John Smith, lecturer at Bolton, concerninge the profitts arising© from Mr. Gosnal's gift to the Lecturer at Bolton, which accompb 41i. 7s. 8d. is due to mee as a balance for 5 years endinge at Midsummer next, and for that the feoffees are plesed to accomodate mee w'th so much as to make the ballance £10, I promis I will not demand any money from the sd. lands vntill the money so lent be reimbursed to the feoffees out of the profitts of the sd. lands. In witnes hereof I have putt my hand the day & yeer above written. "John Smith. "Wittnesse: Jonas Bijcklet. his marke Law. Obmrod. his marke John "] Hacking." In the year following [1686] the Lecturers' Accounts contain an entry: "Paid by Mr. [Thomas] Marsden [one of the feoffees] to Mr. Smith, the Lecturer, £33 lOa. OOd." Mr. Smith, was succeeded in office by the Rev. Henry Woods. Throughout his residence in Bolton, Smith does not appear to have attended the Church vestries, if we are to judge by the absence of his signature in the old minute book. Besides the work referred to, Mr. Smith is credited with anothei* production, entitled " Christian Religion's Appeal from the Groundless Prejudices of the Sceptick to the Bar of Common Reason," printed in London, 1675. This book was certainly written by a "John Smith," who then held the Rectorship of St. Marie's, in Colchester, but it is scarcely probable that he would resign that living in favour of the small income attached to the Bolton Lectureship. From this circumstance it is almost conclusive that the author of "The Patriarchall Sabbath" and the author of "Christian Religion'^ Appeal" were not identical. An excellent copy of the last-named AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 35 volume, formerly the property of the late Mr. James Crossley, of Manchester, is now before me ; it is dedicated " To the Most Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan." The Dedicatory Epistle refers to "That excellent Treatise of Doctor Stillingfleet." The work is composed of four books, and contains 28pp. of Dedication, Preface, and Contents, and 505pp. of context, quarto size. Since this chapter on Mr. Smith's " Patriarchall Sabbath" appeared in the Bolton Journal an extensive article* on the same subject has been published iu the July No. [1885] of Boole-Lore, in which, besides other notes, are given lengthy extracts from Martindale's Diary and Cox's Literature on the Sabbath Question" bearing on Smith's book. The following interesting information is also included : " After leaving Bolton,. Mr. Smith became the incumbent of Deanhead Chapel, in Scammonden, Huddersfield, where he was resident in 1689. The Rev. Robert Meeke, who was minister of the ancient chapelry of Slaithwaite, enters in his Diary, under date 1694 : ' July 6th, A little before dinner came Mr. Smith, the author of Tlie Patriarchall Sahbath. He took me wholly from my study. July 7th, Read all afternoon ; after dinner Mr. Smith and I went down to' the town ; sent for Mr. Browne ; stayed till towards night. July 10th, I went with Mr. S[mith] homewards, it was a stormy day, being on foot, we called at several houses for shelter.' His death is recorded in the following entry in the Parish Church Registry : ' Mr. John Smith, curate of Scammonden, [buried J May 19th, 1699.' From an entry in Oliver Heywood's ' Northowram Register' we learn that Smith was aged 82. Worthy Adam Martindaie was not alone in his dislike of Smith's theory, which is styled by Whiston, ' That notion of his, which is entirely his own, and in which he is not, as I believe, likely to be seconded by anybody else.' " So much for Nonconformist views of Smith's Treatise, but iu the absence of a " Vindication " of such work, those opinions should be read with the greatest reserve. * By Mr. W. E. A. Axon, M.R.S.L., of Manthester. CHAPTER V. "The Lancashire Levite," his Birthplace, Parentage, and Literature. — The Earliest Known Grammar School in Bolton. — Rectification of Calamy's Erroneous Statements Regarding the Revs. Zach. Taylor, M.A., Sen. and Jun.— Opinions of some Leading Antiquaries Respecting the Discovery of the Younger Zach. Taylor's Birthplace. \Sy EFORE entering fully into the subject suggested by the above strange title, it will be a suitable preliminary to say a few words about the most ancient educatioual institution — the Parish Church, of course, excepted— connected with our old and historic town, and also to refer at greater length to one of its early members, as an integral part thereof, and who, at the same time, became father of a faithful disciple of the Christian Church, who, centuries ago, was unjustly stigmatised as " The Lancashire Levite.** It may not be commonly known that Bolton, like very few other Lancashire centres, has, for more than 350 years, enjoyed the blessed advantage of a Grammar School. The first place of this class in our midst can be traced back to the time of Henry VIIL, in the year 1524, when William Haighe, of Wigan, bequeathed a messuage and tenement in Tockholes to six trustees — including the then Vicar of Bolton— which produced a yearly rental of 333. 4d., " towards the AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 37- maintenance of a schoolmaster to teach a Grammar School in Bolton- for the better improvement and training of youths in the town and parish of Bolton, in learning and other godly exercises and virtues." In 1622, the Rev. James Gosnall, a minister at Bolton Church, died and left the rent of some land in Balderstone to be divided as follows: " A ffour of six parts to the Lecturer at Bolton ; a ffifth part to the poor of Bolton, Little Lever, and Darcy Lever ; and a sixth part to the Mr. & Usher of Bolton School." Robert Lever, by will dated 1641, bequeathed a sum of money " eyther for erectinge and maiutainynge of a ffree School or Chapel." The last-named testator died three years after the date of the will, but it was not until 1657 that such free school was built at a cost of £462 lis. 8d.* For the past 227 years the names of Masters and Ushers of the School have been preserved, and these in 1881 were chronologically arranged and published by Mr. J. K. Waite, the [Public Librarian of Bolton. But, unfortunately, not so with the names of those who, prior to 1658, were entrusted with the " training of youths in learning and other godly exercises and virtues." However, in the absence of an earlier list, recourse has been had to the Bolton Parish Registers, which- contain many entries pertaining to the early masters of the school, and amongst which there is one that demands our attention, viz., the Rev. Zachariah Taylor, M.A., regarding whom some noteworthy facts will be produced, with the object of eliciting greater interest in the present article than could otherwise be expected. According to Lieut.-Col. Fishwick's " History of Kirkham," I find that Mr. Taylor " was born in 1618, graduated at Dublin University, and upon leaving college had some preferment in Ireland, but left that country during the troublous times which ensued." He married Abigail Ward, and in 1644 his daughter Elizabeth was baptised at Manchester, as were also two sons, Jacob and George in 1646 and 1649 respectively. Mr. Taylor became Rector of Grappenhall, in Cheshire, about 1649, and, vide Piccope, of Gorton in 1651; whilst the * From original document n. luting to erection of ihe School amongst writings belonging to the Feoffees. 38 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY Pariah Registers of Manchester for 21 July, 1652, record the baptism of ■*' Jacob, son of Zacherife Taylor, of Manchester," and those of Warrington for 28 November, 1652, contain the baptismal entry of " Samuel, son of Mr. Zackaria Tayllor, minister," He is next found filling the responsible position of headmaster at the Bolton Free Grammar School iu 1653, at the same time residing in Little Bolton, where he apparently remained during his brief connection with the town. This only lasted for a period something short of three years, when he again removed, this time to a curacy under the llev. Robert Bath, at Rochdale. Whilst in Bolton, as appears by an old ^Lancashire Funeral Certificate, preserved in the British Museum, "Mr. Sacary Taylor " was one of those " mynisters " who attended and joined in the cortege at the funeral of the celebrated Humphrey Chetham, Esq., of Clayton Hall and Turton Tower, which took place at Manchester on the 2nd October, 1653. It is recorded that the Rev. Zach. Taylor, when at Kiikham in 1680, observed the request made in the codicil to Mr. Henry Colborne's will, *' to preach monthly a Lecture in the Mother Church, or in some of the Chapels in the Parish"; and also that three years later the Rev. R. Clegg, Vicar of Kirkham, complained to the " Company of drapers" that Mr. Z. Taylor refused to preach on the first Sunday in March, and seven other sermons at Hambletou, Lund and Kirkham or to find a substitute. To this they replied that, " considerine the age and infirmities of Mr. Taylor [they] did think fit to have him ab liberty to preach in what chapel he pleased, so that he preached in some one on a Lord's day in every month." " Throughout the civil war," says Dr. Halley, " he [Zich. Taylor] had been not only a Royalist, but a chaplain in the royal army. Nevertheless, on the defeat of the King's forces, he quietly submitted to the existing government, and holding with the vicar [of Rochdale that no particular form of ecclesiastical discipline was of divine authority, he readily co-operated with the Presbyterians. Quite as favourable to episcopacy as Mr. Bath [the vicar], he would nob do violence to his conscience by professing his assent to everything in the AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 39 Book of Common Prayer. He may with propriety be called an Episcopalian Nonconformist, Being an excellent Scholar, he estab- lished a good reputation as an instructor of youth, and by some invasion of the Act of Uniformity obtained the appointment of master of the grammar school at Kirkham." The exact date of this last appointment, however, is not known, but Lieut.-Col. Fishwick says it was probably in the year 1673 or 1674. The Rev. Zach. Taylor was a friend and intimate associate of the Revs. Henry Newcome, Richard Heyricke (warden of Manchester), Richard Baxter, and many others of equal Presbyterian fame. This is clearly shown in the case of Mr. Newcome, whose diary contains the following entries : — " January 30 [1658] Saturday. I was much used to go to Zachary Taylor's at an evening to play at shuffle-board. I was oft checked for this, lest I was too much concerned in it. " February 12 [1662] Wednesday. Mr. Taylor of Rochdale w'th mee a while, "June 9 [1663] Tuesday. I had an ill night w'th my cough. Rose after 8. Read Jud. xvi. after dutys. Mr. Taylor came in and staid w'th me a while." As will be observed the first entry relates to the period of the Commonwealth, and well illustrates one of the many instances how some of the Presbyterian ministers during that unsettled time — as regarded both the Church and the State alike — passed away their evenings. Dr; Halley commenting on this and other similar way- wardnesses, writes: "One or two extracts may further illustrate his [Newcome's] social life, as well as surprise, if they do not please, those who know the portraits of the Puritans only as they are seen in the caricatures of Samuel Butler." Referring to Mr. Taylor, Calamy, in his "Nonconformist Memorials," says : "Tho' he had been a Chaplain in the King's Army, in the Ciril War, yet he join'd with the Classical Presbytery at Bury, and was Mr* Bath's assistant, and turned out with him in 62. After his being ailenced, he taught School, first at Rochdale, then at Bolton. He waa 40 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY the first Master of the School erected there by Mr. James Leaver of London. From whence he remov'd to a famous School at Kirkham in the Field. He dy'd in Febr. 1692, a3tat 74. He was a very good scholar, and an useful Schoolmaster, a solid orthodox preacher, and a pious man. He was father of Mr. Zachary Taylor, who wrote the Lancashire Levita,'* In the above short sketch no less than three grievous mistakes are made by Calamy, which, unfortunately, have again and again been used by subsequent writers. It would be unpardonable of me to make 80 grave an assertion without submitting clear evidence in support thereof, hence this refutation. In the first place, Mr, Taylor went from Bolton to Rochdale, as proved by the Bolton Registers (extracts from which will be given shortly), and not vice versa ; secondly, the founder of the said school was named Robert Lever, and not James Lever; and thirdly, Mr. Zachariah Taylor, junior, was not author of " The Lancashire Levite," but, on the other hand, was merely called by that malicious epithet by a writer of one of the now rarely.to-be« met-with Surey Demoniack Tracts.t These are indisputable facts^ and should be another and further incentive to compilers of local histories and biographies to accept with greater reserve those state* ments ot chronologers who have largely depended upon outsiders for much information embodied in their notes, and thus become responsible for numerous inaccuracies that are continually creeping into productions which would otherwise be a credit and do honour to their authors. Reverting to the celebrated schoolmaster — Mr. Taylor — it may be observed that though his stay in Bolton was of short duration, it was, nevertheless, accompanied with considerable domestic eventuality. In that time two sons were born, viz., Zachariah, on the 20bh April, 1655, and Richard, on the 13th August, 1655. His children died at the rate of one a year from 1653 to 1655, all being interred at the Bolton Church, where the burial registers record : t Four of the Demoniack Tracts realized £10 48. at the sale bj auction of books belonging to Richard Wood, Esq., Manchester, in 1884. AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 4I "A child of Mr. Taylor of Little Boultou, 4 September. ]653. " A child of Mr. Taylor of Little Boulton, 22 April, 1654. •'Rich: s: of Mr. Zach: Taylor of Little Boulton, 20 August, 1655." Thus, as may be surmised, the reverend schoolmaster's earthly cup was "full to overflowing," and whatever his abilities as a tutor might have been, it would be ungenerous to suppose that his duties at the Boltoa Grammar School could receive that diligent attention which, under brighter circumstances, might have been expected. In the midst of all these troubles he was endowed with a forbearing and patient spirit, and this evidently served him well during his afflictions. Little or nothing is known of his official life whilst in Bolton — no records of masters and ushers having been preserved prior to the erection of the school built at Mr. Lever's expense, which, in all probability, was after Mr. Taylor's removal to Rochdale. One or two local references only are to hand bearing on his professional work, that will permit of repeating. Amongst others under his care at the Bolton School was Humphrey (the son of George Chetham, Esq., of Turton Tower) whose death occurred in 1659, when the Rev. James Livesey (formerly of Turtoa Church) improved the occasion by a cleverly-written sermon, entitled ** The Greatest Loss." This discourse was published in the following year, and therein he recounted with pathetic simplicity some of the more striking excellencies in the character of the deceased young gentleman, not forgetting to refer to the gratitude formerly felt for the interestedness of his kindly tutor ; for, says Mr. Livesey, "How thankful for the pains of his learned Master [Mr. Zach: Taylor]." He had also under his care at Bolton School John Crompton, of Breightmeb (nephew of the Rev. Oliver Heywood), who in after life took hia M.A. degree at Christ's College, Cambridge, and ultimately became an excellent preacher and a serious Christian. The limited sojourn of Mr. Taylor in Bolton prevents the existence of much information other than what here finds an outlet, yet, perhaps, little more is required to create an interest in the second, though principal, part of these notes. From the Minutes of the Presbyterian Classis of Bury it is gleaned that during bis residence in Bolton, and also for some time D 42 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY after bis removal to Rochdale, lie attended their meetings. The same records likewise show that he was " minister at Cockey " Moor about that period, though it may be presumed that his ministrations here only lasted whilst the Bolton Grammar School was under hia supervision. As before s^^ated Mr, Taylor removed from Bolton to Rochdale late in the year 1655, or early in 1656. This is corroborated by the following extracts from the parish registers belonging to the latter place : — Christenings. " William filius Mr. Zacharie Tayler's, clerke, 10 August, 1656. " Mary filia Zacharie Tayler, clerke, 29 October, 1657. "Margaret filia Zachary Taylor, clerke, 19 February, 1659-60. " Elizabeth filia Zachary Taylor, clerke, 18 August, 1661. •• Lyonell filius Zachary Tayler, clerke, 2 December, 1664. " Anna filia Zachary Tayler, clerke, 19 August, 1662." BUBIALS. " A daughter of Mr. Taylor, 16 December, 1658. " A child of Mr. Tayler, 29 December, 1658. *' A child of Mr. Tayler, 8 July, 1659. «' A daughter of Mr. Taylor, 9 De3ember, 1659. " A child of Mr. Zachary Tayler, 5 June, 1665. "A child of Mr. Zachary Tayler, 1 April, 1666." Thus it will be seen that although six children were born to the rev. schoolmaster and curate after he left Bolton, none were christened ♦' Zachary" or " Zachariah," and that fact goes to strengthen, nay, I may say, prove my theory of the •* Lancashire Levite" being a Boltonian. Presuming that the "Mr. Tayler" in above list of burials refers to Mr. Zachariah Taylor, senior, it may be concluded that with about two exceptions all his children died in infancy. The late Rev. Canon F. R. Raines, M.A., F.S.A., of Rochdale, in his "Memorials of Rochdale Grammar School" (1845), remarks that "the Rev. Zachary Taylor, curate of Rochdale, occurs as master of this school in 1654, and he continued here until after 1672." A MS. not© AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 4^ ia the author's copy of that work, now preserved ia Chetham's College Library, Manchester, reads: "He [Rev. Zach, Taylor, sen.] was a disaffected man who was slow to obey the law, bub eager to govern others. I know not what his manners were, but his temper was anti-social. A degree of sourness and nervousness tinctured by a zealous profession of rep;ard for religion, and an implacable hostility towards these who were opposed to him, characterised this man and made those in Rochdale parish who had wealth or influence his natural enemies." In another note in the same book Canon Raines, referring to the Rev. Zachariah Taylor, juu. — "The Lancashire Levite" — says: " I think he was a native of Manchester parish, as Zachary Taylor, of Holt Hall, Rusholme, in that parish had several children christened at the Coll: Church between 1640 and 1650. The Taylors of Moston were of this family : it had many branches." •' The Lancashire Levite ! ! " What a name for a sincere, God- fearing, and ardent minister of the Great Master ! Wliy this cutting sarcasm against one whose whole life was devoted most earnestly to his honoured calling ? In answering this natural question let us for a short space review the life and works of so great a man, whose powerful influence against the superstitious beliefs of the seventeenth century merited from his opponents the epithet by which he was -during that period known. The Rev. Zachariah Taylor, M.A., junior, was he who called forth the bitter spleen of some of his Nonconformist contemporaries, and on account of the prevalent erroneous opinions of genealogists and others regarding the birthplace of this Church of England clergyman, as well as to the venerable sanctuary in which he was made a member of Christ's earthly temple, it is necessary to give in detail what might ■otherwise have sufl&ced in summary. As already notified, young Zachariah Taylor was born the 20th April, 1653, and baptised at Bolton Church the 24th of the same month, which fact now claims for him special mention. In 1656 his learned father is found serving a curacy at Rochdale, whither, it may bd presumed, he removed his household immediately on hia appointmenb» 44 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY 80 that the infant son, about whom we are now particularly concerned^ would not be much older than three years when he was taken from his native town. Like his honoured father he was trained for the ministry, first under advantngeous parental tutorship, afterward* under Warden Wroe, of Manchester, and ultimately under professors at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was admitted on the 19th Aprils 1671 — one day before his eighteenth birthday. In 1674 (at the ag& of 21) he had taken his M.A. degree there. Probably his first call was to a small curacy, but certainty on this point is lackiug. Never- theless from the 9th March, 1679, to 1693, we find him filling the vicariate of Ormskirk. Whilst here — 12th July, 1685 — he married Barbara, daughter of Sir Edward Stanley, third baronet, of Bickerstaff, the grandfaf.her of Edward, Eleventh Earl of Derby.* She died in September, 1689, and was interred at Ormskirk on the last day of that month. Mr. Taylor was again ' married, as is evidenced by his Will, wherein he mentions liis wife " Anne." Speaking of the Rev. Zach. Taylor's residence at Ormskirk (second in surceesion to the Rectory to Rev. Nathaniel Heywood), Mr, James Dixon, F.R.H.S., of Ormskirk, in a paper read before the Historia Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, in 1877, says: "It is worthy of note that this zealous man was not only intent on the extermination of ' witchcraft,' but was hostile to dissent, especially to Quakerism; for we find him putting on record in the Grammar School minute book a protest 'for the clearing of his conscience,' against neglect of catechising, to the spread of Quakerism, now too much ' increasing.* At this time Quakerism certainly did flourifeh around, especially in the township of Bickerstafi", where the Friends had both a ' Meeting House ' and a burial-ground." In 1693 Mr. Taylor resigned the Ormskirk living, and, on the lOth December, 1695, was appointed to the Rectory of Croston by the gift of King William, in succession to the Rev. Mr. Pilkington, who was convicted cf Simony ; the presenta- tion was signed by the King when at Ihe siege of Namur, Belgium. *" History of Kirkham," by Lieut.-Ccl Fishwick, F.f'.A. ; -one of the Chetham Society's Works, j AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 45 Mr, Taylor was recommended by Archbishop Tenisoo, Bishop Lloyd, and Bishop Stillingfleet. Ou the 18th April, in the last-mentioned year, Mr. Taylor preached a sermon on the •• Death of the Righteous, or the Discriminating Circumstances that favour the Departure of a Pious Soul," at the obsequies of "the Honourable and Vertuous Lady Elizabeth, the Relict of Sir Roger Bradshaigh, of Haigh, Knight and Baronet." The sermon was printed in London, in the same year. In 1696, Mr. Taylor was curate at Wigan to Dr. Stratford, Bishop of Chester and Rector of Wigan, as shown by the title-page of on& of the Demoniack Tracts hereafter noticed. Whilst engaged here a literary work was published by Mr. Taylor through a London firm. It bore the title : " The Devil Turn'd Casuist ; or the Cheats of Rome Laid Open at the House of Thomas Pennington, in Orrel, in the Parish- of Wigan, and County of Lancaster," it was printed in 1696. In the following year a circumstance occurred which called forth the greatest vituperation from the pen of Mr. Taylor. The cause of that indignant remonstrance was a publication of a small book entitled : " The Surey Demoniack, or an Account of Satan's Strange and Dreadful Actings ia and about the body of Richard Dugdale, of Surey, near Whalley, ia Lancashire, and how he was Dispossesst by" God's blessing on the Fastings and Prayers of Divers Ministers and People. 1697." " The compilers of this tract," says Lieut.-Col. Fish wick, in his Lancashire Library, " were Thomas Jolly and John Carrington." Mr. Taylor greatly, disgusted at the superstitious nature of this production, lost no time in publishing a severe refutation of its contents, and in 1698 a work appeared named " The Surey Imposture ; being an answer to a late Fanatical Pamphlet entitled, ' The Surey Demoniack.' " The subjoined interesting reference to the Rev. Zach. Taylor's " Surey Imposture " is taken from some good notes amongst the late Rev. Canon Raines's valuable manuscripts, relating to the Rev. Henry Crabtree, an early curate of Todmorden. Canon' Raines writes: *' There are numerous references to Mr. Crabtree in an extraordinary farrago of sense and nonsense published by Mr. Thomas Jolly, of Altham, and other famous Dissenting Teachers, called * The Surey 46 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY Demoniack, &c.' It is said : * Then they sought unto a reputed wise man for help, viz., Dr. Crabtree, who said he was amazed at several things which befel him (Dugdale) whilst under his charge, as particu- larly at his precise foretelling various sorts of weather ; he, at last, confessing, as some told us, that there was no help for him except from the ministers !' Some further particulars are learnt from the Rev. Zachary Taylor, the younger, M,A., and rector of Croston, whose father had been Crabtree's fellow curate and associate iu Rochdale parish. Referring to the passage above quoted in 'The Surey Impostor, being an Answer to a late Fanatical Pamphlet entitled the " Surey Demoniack," ' Mr. Taylor observes with great sharpness : * This is a^ Devilish insinuation of some Bodies to abuse a Minister of the Church of England, for such this Dr. Crabtree as he calls him) was. He wa» as far as I can learn no great scholar, a blunt but an honest man, and served at a poor place for about twelve pounds a ' year, which he- augmented by venturing to give physic to the country people. . . . It appears iu evidence that Richard Dugdale's fits abated whilst he was with Dr. Crabtree.' " Mr. Hunter in his " Life of Oliver Hey wood," says that " Dugdale was afflicted with a disease which baffled the skill of Dr. Crabtree, one of the most eminent of the medical practitioners- in that country ;" whilst Mr. Noble in his continuation of " Granger's History " observes : *' Richard Baxter and [Increase] Mather took great interest in this miserable imposture, and the Dissenting Ministers generally were gulled by Dugdale." Mr. Taylor's work on the " Surey Imposture " was not left long unanswered, as the following title of another pamphlet shows: "A Vindication of the Surey Demoniack as no Impostor ; or a reply to a certain pamphlet publish'd by Mr. Zach. Taylor, called the 'Surey Impostor.' With a further clearing and confirming of the Truth as to Richard Dugdale's case and cure, by T. J. [Thomas Jolly], one of the Ministers who attended upon that afiair from first to last, but replies only as to matter of fact, as he therewithal is more especially concerned, &c., &c., 1698." In this year another tract was also put forth, which^ although purporting to come from " An Impartial Hand," is at once AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 47 belied in the title ? It is headed : " The Lancashire Levite Rebuk'd, or a Vindication of the Dissenters from Popery, Superstition, Ignorance, and Knavery, unjustly charged on them by Mr. Zach. Taylor, in his book entitled ' The Surey Imposter,* in a letter to himself. By An Impartial Hand. With an abstract of the Surey Demoniack." However, Mr. Taylor was well armed, and ere the close of the same year he again came to the front, and in a closely-printed work headed " Popery, Superstition, Ignorance, and Knavery, &c.," forcibly pointed out the shallowness of the arguments adduced by his Dissenting opponents. A second letter appears in 1698, probably from the said *' Impartial Hand," also bearing the Levitish title ; and in the following year the literary warfare is brought to a close, after a continuance of over two years, by a work named "Popery, Superstition, Ignorance, and Knavery, Confessed and fully Proved on the Surey Dissenters. From the Second Letter to an Apostate Friend to Zach. Taylor. To which is added a refutation of Mr. T. Jollie's vindication of the Devil in Dugdale; or the Surey Demoniack." These works were widely circulated and read during the stirring controversy, but by lapse of time they have become very rare and consequently valuable, which has vastly augmented their pi ices. Besides the work here mentioned by Mr. Taylor, jun., several sermons of his are said to have been published in page-form ; but, unfortunately, as yet the titles are not forthcoming except in one instance, viz., "The Decency and Moderation of Christian Mourning: being a sermon preached at Winwick in Lancashire, Nov. 13, 1702, ab the Funeral of John llisley of Risley, Esq.," which was dedicated to Lady Assheton, the deceased gentleman's mother. Though most writers are silent as to the place of this author's birth, it is by some supposed to have been the old town and modern city of Manchester; but the facts I have discovered, and here humbly though authentically submit in refutation of such unfounded opinions cannot fail at once to dispel any lingering desire to maintain such an erroneous supposition; and at the same time, after a lapse of two hundred and thirty-two years, to bring to our good old town in the 48 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY moors whatever honour may be attached to the circumstance of its being the spot, above all others, in which the young clergyman and author made his advent into this ever-changing world, and who, io after years not only became a King's Preacher for the County of Lancaster, but, as already intimated, was the foremost amongst his clerical brethren in crying down with telling force the once too prevalent superstitious beliefs and fanaticisms of Popery and witch- craft. The Rev. Zachariah Taylor's death occurred in 1705, at the age of 52 years, as shown by the date of his Will, though other writers give two years earlier. The Will is preserved at Chester, an abstract of which has been secured and is here submited as a fair sample of such documents of that period, and as containing much valuable genealogical information : " In the Will of Zachary Taylor of Wigan, clerk. Testator directs, firstly, that the funeral must proceed from the house at 3 o'clock prompt, and that nothing but spriggs of Rosemary or Laurel be given to those who accompany the body to the grave, and that Mr. Haddon * preach the funeral sermon (' but be spareing in hia character or omit the giving of any'). Testator appoints his wife Anne, sole executrix, and desires that his loving friends Mr. .John Bagnall, Rector of Donnington, and Mr. Ralph Markland, Vicar of Childwall, assist her in the execution of the Will. Testator gives to each of his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, £200, upon their marriage, providing Thomas Stanley has paid what is owing from him to testator; but if Thomas has not paid it before their marriage the money to be raised out of testator's other estate. Testator also directs that after the decease of his wife his above-named daughters are to receive £100 each in addition to the other bequest. The interest of his estate to be paid to his wife for her life. He also gives £500 to be equally divided between the three daughters of Mr. Richard Downham, clerk ; and directs the residue of his estate to be divided amongst his younger children, viz., Barbara, Edward, Abigail, Zachary, and Dorothy. *lJev. Peter Haddoi», Vicar of Bolton, 1631 to 1721. AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 49 He directs that what books which are nob sold to defray expences be divided bet^veeu his sous Edward and Zvchary." The Will, which is dated "SOth April, 1705," is signed " Za: Taylor (seal)," in a beautifully bold and clear hand, and also by three witnesses. It was proved on the 19th June, 1705. Lieut. -Col. Fishwick, of Rochdale (author of " Tiie History of Kirkham," &c., &c.), courteously replying to a communication announc- ing the discovery of the younger Zichariah Taylor's birth and baptism dates, writes ; — " I think there is no doubt bub that you have found Ziachariahl T[aylor]'s baptism." Mr. John Eglington Bailey, F.S.A., of Stretford, also thinks there is little doubt that the Zich, Taylor, born ab Bolton, and the aubhor of "Tlie Surey Imposture," are identical. Mr, Henry H. Howorth, F.S.A., of Eocles (editor of 2 vols., new series, " Chetham Society" Publications, on " Tlie Vicars of Rochdale," &c.) •observes : " I have no doul)t you have made out the origin of Zach. Taylor ;" whilst the reply of Mr. C. W. Sutton, Chief Librarian of the Public Free Reference Library, Manchester, and compiler and editor of "A List of Lancashire Authors," &c,, reads: " Many thanks for giving me the opportunity of looking over your article on ZacIi. Taylor, You are to be congratulated on the result of your researches respecting his biibhplace." The Hon. and Rev. Canon Bridgeman, Rector of VVigan ^author of the forthcoming work on " The Rectors of Wigan,") has kindly supplied me with the following relative notes : " I find from our old, churchwardens' account books that 'Zich: Taylor' signs himself as * Curate ' of Wig m from 26 March, 1695, to 22 Aprill, 1701 ; after which I do not find his name occur. I find another name as curate on 26 March, 1706. I have looked at the Burials between Ap. 1701 and 1706, but I have not found the entry of his burial. I should think, therefore, he probably gob preferment elsewhere and removed from here." From the above registry extracts there appears a probability that Mr. Taylor simultaneously served the Rectory of Croston and Bishop's Curacy at Wigan. CHAPTER VI. Introduction or Printing into Bolton. — The First Bolton Printer AND his Earliest Contribution to Bibliography. — Curiosity OF Jackson's Press. — Vicar Whitehead's Published Sebmons. — Dr. Cotton's Error Eegarding the Introduction of Printing INTO Bolton. •,. OT only was the town and district of Bolton rich in the production of scholarly writers prior to the establishment of a press here, but also siuce that time the literati of the locality have been well represented, and, with the steady lapse of years, the list of authors and their respective works has been greatly lengthened, more especially in regard to works on theology. Since the advent of the present century there has been no scarcity of works of this class — whether digestible or otherwise signifies little to a bibliographer, who dwells more on the object of his mission than on the subject. From time to time such works have been placed in the hands of the reading community of our town and elsewhere, at prices far in excess of what is paid at the present day. The success of the work then, as now, depended almost entirely upon the author's ability to retain the attention of his patrons, therefore it need notj be questioned if the books so put forth were well received, but — speaking AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. $1 now principally of those appearing during the first half of the- present century — judging from their almost uniform scarcity, and' the corresponding difi&culty experienced in obtaining stray copies, it may reasonably be surmised that few remained unsold at the time of publishing. One case only in contradistinction to the generality of instances presents itself, and that is in regard to a small pamphlet, i.e., an " Address to the Members of the Kstablishment in the Town and Neighbourhood of Bolton," written by "A Dissenter."* In the Rev. Joseph Bealey's Library Catalogue of Books which were ofiered for private sale in 1814, sixteen copies of the tract in question are priced at 8d. the lot. This pamphlet is now extremely scarce, and excepting myself I know of no possessor. The question might well be asked : " What would this anonymous tract be worth now ?" However, one thing alone, like an ignis fatuus, leads on the bibliophile in his selections, who expects at every turn of the- bookseller's stock-in-trade to bring to light " something that nobody else possesses, or even knows about," and that though he does nob quite lose sight of the fact that A book's a book, although there's nothing in't, he will buy such an article if it is a rarity or has a claim to be classed with works then engrossing his more immediate attention. From the year 1785 the art of printing created a new and increased interest in the minds of the inhabitants of Bolton, and an important epoch in the annals of local literature began. A printing press was established here by John Drake, of whom, unfortunately, little is known, beyond the fact that his rude primitive press was unquestionably the first stepping-stone towards dispelling the prevalent and wide- spread ignorance of his fellow townsfolk, and at the same time in opening out greater facilities for their elevation in the social scale. From this period not only has printing made rapid strides, and kept pace with the requirements of the times, but also other pursuits and labours, with similar steady progress, have been crowned * The Rev. Franklin Baker, M.A., in his history of Nonconformity in Bolton, Rives the Rev. John Holland as author, and the date of printing as 1790. 52 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY with a standard of success that has placed the town in the front ranks of its compeers. In 1785 the town's first recorded printer was engaged in "striking off" the pages of a work that will here be introduced as the earliest Bolton-printed book. Without further sentimentality (though there are few pursuits in which a little sentiment is more excusable than the pursuit and admiration of books, and which is essential to the characteristic of a true bibliophile) it is advisable to give the most important details on the subject of Bolton Bibliography. With the year 1885 was ushered in the centenary of book-printing in the ancient town of Bolton — which, by the way, figures in history because of its early church ; its almost impres;nable garrison during the terrible civil wars between King and Parliament in Cromwell's time ; as the scene of the lamentable execution of the Seventh Earl of Derby; as the locality of Inventor Crompton's birth and Sir Richard Arkwright's marriage ; and also as the seat of so much skill in the manufacture of cotton and iron. It was the reflection that this time one hundred years ago Bolton was producing its first literary work, that gave rise to these items of local book-lore. It will now be well to present a few interesting notes regarding a number of literary productions that are, or have been, associated in one way or another, with this town during the past hundred years. As has already been stated the first book of Bolton printing was issued in 1785, or exactly 250 years after the first English Bible was put into type. That local book recounts thrilling incidents which combine to make up the most deplorable part of English history, which, so long as time shall last, will remain a blot on her eventful pages. The volume perpetuates to posterity the horrible •deeds of a Rebellion — when strife assumed such lamentable dimensions that " father against son, and brother against brother fought." This record is an extraordinary monument of early local bibliography. It is large octavo in size, of 476 well-printed pages, including a preface of 24 pages addressed " To the promoters of this work, the gentlemen, tradesmen, and others of the town of AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 53 Bolton and elsewhere," whilst the title reads : " A Description of the Memorable Sieges and Battles in the North of England that happened during the Civil War in 1642-3, &c. ; chiefly contained in the Memoirs of General Fairfax and James Earl of Derby, to which is added the Life of Oliver Cromwell, likewise an impartial History of the Rebellions in the years 1715 and 1745. No more may Britons against Britons rise, Nor her brave warriors meet with hateful eyes ; Nor fields with glitt'ring steel be cover'd o'er; The warlike trumpet kindle rage no more ; Then useless daggers into scythes shall bend. And the broad falchion Into plows! laies end." The book contains a stiffly executed sketch of the scene of the Earl of Derby's execution in Churchgate, Bolton, in 1651, and another of Oliver Cromwell. A second edition of this work was " printed for the author " in the succeeding year. For some time prior to thia date Drake carried on the business of a bookseller, as gleaned from an entry of his marriage in the register at Manchester Collegiate Church. The record reads : " 1776, September 5, John Drake, of Bolton, bookseller, and Naomi Ackroyd, of Manchester." No other ■works from this press have presented themselves, though repeated and careful searches have been made, therefore it is probable that either his death or removal must have taken place shortly after the introduction of book-printing into the town. The fact of his business in Bolton being introduced by bookselling is again substantiated by the title-page of a small 16mo. book, which shows J. Drake to have been the vendor, notwithstanding W. Sergent, of Preston, having printed it. This production — "The French Convert, &c.," — would probably be printed prior to 1783 (which date is written on the cover), though the absence of such record on the first page leaves it an open question. A soiled copy of this little reprint I have recently purchased, not on account of its beauty, but simply for the interest its rarity eoBures. In 1784, another printer was established at Bolton in the person of Benjamin Jackson, who came from Lancaster, where he had 54 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY the honour of being a free burges^s ; he was a son of Mr. Paul Jackson -of that place. In all probability he conducted the business of a miscellaneous or jobbing printer only, between that time and 1786 which seems to have been his first and best year for the publication of reprints of old and popular tracts, such as and including: " Memorable Remarks Concerning the Jews," the 12th edition of " The French Convert," and the 27 ch edition of "The Death of Abel," the sixth edition having been printed at Wigan in 1780, Some unlooked-for, yet none the less acceptable, iuformation on the subject of one of the authors largely represented therein, has appeared (during the compiling of these notes) in a magazine devoted to old time literature, entitled Book-Lore. The interesting material referred to is from the able pen of Mr. \V. E. A. Axon, M.R.S.L., of Manchester, under the heading, *' llichard Burton." After giving a literal copy of the title-page of the book — " A Journey to Jerusalem, &c." — as first printed in 1672, Mr. Axon says ; '* This little book was published by Crouch,* who appears to have added the ' Brief Account.' In 1683 it was augmented and reprinted as * Two Journies to Jerusalem': containing first a strange and true account of the travels of two English pilgrims [Henry Timberlake and John Burrell] ; secondly, the travels of fourteen Englishmen, by T. B. To which are prefixed memorable remarks upon the ancient and modern state of the Jewish nation ; together with a relation of the great Council of the Jews in Hungaria in 1650, by S. Brett, with an account of the wonderful delusion of the Jews by a False Christ at Smyrna in 1666 ; lastly, the final extinction and destruction of the Jews in Persia.' There were editions with various modifications of title, such as 'Memorable Remarks.' 'Judseorum Memorabilia,' &c., in 1685, 1730, 1738, 1759." Athough Nathaniel Crouch waa the real name of the author of the book in question, he chose the unpretentious nom deplume of " R. B.," or " Richard Burton." "He was author," says Mr. Axon, ** of nearly fifty books with long, quaint itle-pages." In addition to the above interesting notes, Mr. Axon * Nathaniel Crouch. AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. g^ lias also, in a more substantial manner, connected himself with the literary history of our ancient town, by contributing; a pithily-writtea pamphlet, in 1879, on "Bolton and its Free Library," which is the ■outcome of a lecture delivered in the Albert Hall, Bolton, durinj; the previous year, under the presidency of the Mayor — the late James Greenhalgh, Esq. — who introduced the lecturer in highly-complimentary terms. The 2nd of October, 1787, brought forth what may unhesitatingly 'be said to be Jackson's best addition to literature, in a well-printed book of 434 pages, on stout hand- made paper, embellished with aa excellent yet quaint engraving representing the burning of the Protestant martyr. Rev. George Marsh, at West Chester, in 1555, with the Deputy Chamberlain of Chester, mounted on horseback, holding forth a reprieve if the martyr would recant, whilst Marsh answers, *' Not upon that condition." The title of this work is ■unusually large — containing 192 words— the substance being "The History of the Worthy Martyr, John Bradford ; the Lives of Revds. Richard Rothwell, of Bolton, and George Marsh, of Dean ; Account of Smithills Hall and the Footprint on the Flag ; and The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs." With this book are generally bound up " Seven Sermons " on various subjects by Robert Russel, which occupy 131 additional pages, also printed by Jackson. The 48th edition of these sermons was printed at Glasgow in 1770, comprising 124pp. 12mo., and its title-page describes the author as of " Wardhurst in Essex." Another book of great rarity, consisting of 472 pages, is **A Complete Picture of Human Life, or Variety of Food for the Mind ;" Jackson was the printer of it in 1787. The compiler of these various works of 1786-7, must be complimented upon his happy selections, and the painstaking manner in which he has placed them before the book-readers not only of his own time but of each successive generation. lb cannot be stated with certainty who that assiduous provider of pabulum for the mind was, but circumstances point to the probability that the printer would be justified in claiming the honour, for ib is a 56 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY singular fact that after he ceased to priut, such works ceased to be- published. So far as ascertained, no other production worthy of note, minus authors' names, emanated from Jackson's office in 1786 and 1787,- but in the latter part of the former year he printed the first sermon in Bolton of local composition bearing the preacher's name. This was " A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Bolton, on Sunday thfr 24th of September, 1786 ; being the next Lord's-Day after ^the Execution of James Holland, on Bolton Moor, for Croft-breaking." It was preached by *' E. Whitehead, A.M., Vicar of Bolton, and published at the request of a respectable body of manufacturers and crofters^ being part of the congregation, to whom it is with great regard inscribed." One of the strongest proofs against the supposition that book-printing was practised in Bolton so early as 1761 — the date given by the Eev. Henry Cotton, in his Typographical Oazeteer — lies in the fact that the said Vicar Whitehead (who, by-the-bye, fulfilled his ministerial duties at Bolton Church for upwards of 51 years) presumably preached a special annual sermon before a Society of Weavers ; three of these sermons, at least, were afterwards printed for distribution — one in 1763, another in 1774, and the last just nine years later — Harrop and Prescott, of Manchester, being the respective printers. Now, it would not be unreasonable to suppose that if a typographical establishment, fitted out with the smallest assortment of plant sufficient for use, existed in the town, its proprietor would have been patronised, anyhow, by the Vicar of the parish, at least in printing his 1783 sermon. In reply to a communication to Mr. W. H, Allnutt^ of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, on the subject of Dr. Cotton's assertion regarding printing in Bolton, that gentleman, who, by-the-way^ is an authority on early provincial printers, wrote on December Ist, 1884 : — " Dr. Cotton's Tyjpogra;phical Gazeteer is a most unreliable authority, full of mis-prints and careless blunders, and I strongly suspect that he has printed the date ' 1761 ' both for ' Bolton ' and • Boston ' by error. His sight was no doubt failing when the second series of his book was compiled, and before he died for some jears hfi AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 57 was quite blind." It is, therefore, conclusive that book-printing ia Bolton is only just a century old, or 66 years younger than the same profession in Manchester. I will cite, at present, but one other production of Jackson's early press, and that is a small octavo volume of 340 pages, printed iu 1788, being " Exercises in Speaking for Young Ladies at a Private School," the title-page is embellished with a well-known pithy couplet of Byrom's — Learn to speak slow, all other graces Will follow in their proper places. All will agree that this is excellent advice, which might be efifectually followed by other than school girls. The date of Benjamin Jackson's death ha^ not been ascertained, bub it doubtless occurred in 1789 or 1790, for in the latter year a large quarto Bible, containing a long list of local subscribers, was printed by Jackson's executors — at least the title-page so indicates. Mr. Thomas Abbatt, printer and stationer, Corporation-street, Bolton, possesses the copy which gives this information. The book throughout is an elegant and, at the same time, elaborate specimen of printing, and if it is to be understood to be of Bolton workmanship in. its entirety, much praise is due to the ability of our early local typographers. A copy of the title-page is here given in extenso : " The Christian's Complete Family Bible, containing the whole of the sacred text of the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha at large. Illustrated with notes and annotations, theological, critical, historical, biographical, practical, and explanatory ; wherein the difficult passages are clearly explained, and the objections of Deists and Infidels answered. Bolton : Printed by the Executors of B. Jackson. MDCCXC." ^B CHAPTER VII. Works by an Old Blackrod Schoolmaster. — Thk Literature op DoRNiNG Rasbotham, Esq., J.P.— Rev. J. Lempriere's "Classical Dictionary," &c.— Mr. Robert Ainsworth's "Latin Diction- ary."— John Gardner's Establishment and Early Workman- ship. — Sale op the Bolton Public Library in 1793. — Orrell's Scarce Poems : The Execution on Bolton Moor in 1786 ; "TuM Fowt" Fair, Recorded in Rhyme; Notes on Foot- balling Nearly a Hundred Years Ago. NE of the scarcest works of local significance by a gentleman living within the old parish of Bolton during the last half of the eighteenth century is " A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Dean, of Middleton, occasioned by reading his Essay on the Future Life of Brute Creatures." The author of this well-conceived epistle was "James Rothwell, master of the Free Grammar School of Blackrod, Lancashire." It contains exactly 124 pages, 8vo. size, inc uding six devoted to subscribers' names— some of which, by the way, belonged to the leading clergy and gentry of South-East Lancashire. In the early pages of his little book Mr. Rothwell deals unreservedly with the nature of, and arguments propounded in, Mr. Dean's Essay, and AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 59 says, " Numbers of your good friends and subscribers are sorry to find that you have so unhappily misemployed your time and your talents upon a subject, which is not likely either to redound to your credit and character, either as an author or a clergyman." No printer's name is given, but the " Letter " is dated from " Blackrod, March 27t,h, 1769," sixteen years before book-printing was known in Bolton. A copy of this is in the Manchester Free Library, and , another (from Mr. Crossley's collection) in my own library. Mr. Richard Dean's "Essay" was in two vols,, 12mo., and printed in 1768. Another work by Mr. Rothwell was printed in Warrington in 1787, being " A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language for the use of Youths," which was inscribed to the governors and trustees of the Blackrod Grammar School. Mr. Rothwell for upwards of 50 years was master of this school, and, according to an obituary notice at the time of his death, he was greatly esteemed as a valuable teacher, a sincere friend, and a man of the strictest probity. He died in the latter part of the year 1798. It is neither through inadvertence nor indifference that notice has been deferred of the literary works of Doming llasbotham, Esq., J.P., but simply from the lack of knowledge as to his printers. His only known personally-edited and printed work of local application is a pamphlet on the " Disorderly Conduct of the People," published in 1779. The printer's name is a desideratum. Another work of ten small quarto pages by Mr. Rasbotham is one of " Verses originally intended to have been spoken at the Breaking Up of the Free Grammur School in Manchester for the Christmas Holidays, in the year 1782." This was printed by J. Harrop, of Manchester, and is prefaced with a letter dated from "Birch House, Farnworth, Nov. 25, 1782," to " Charles Lawson, M.A., head master of the Free School in Manchester," in which the writer says that ib was his intention to have asked permission for his sou to speak the verses at the breaking up of the school (as the title-page indicates), but several reasons had induced him to change his resolution. A copy of these verses is seldom ofifered for sale, bub k 60 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY one, in excellent condition, is preserved in the Free Reference Library, Manchester. Had Mr. Rasbotham lived to carry out his intentions, he would probably have supplied, not only Bolton but the County with a comparable history of its ancient families and of its modern rank amongst the counties of England ; and it is to be regretted that his health failed him before his Herculean task was accomplished. His collections were contained in four partially filled volumes of manuscript notes, chiefly written in Byrom's- original shorthand, the materials being selected from various authors, and enriched with a number of original observations^ illustrated by plans, drawings, and armorial bearings, the production of his own pen. This valuable collection of historic lore waa confided by Mr. Rasbotham's family to Edward Baines, Esq., M.P., "Who welded it together with additional matter, and ultimately produced the well-known county history.* Mr. Rasbotham, who was High Sheriff for the county in 1769, resided at Birch House,. Farnworth, and died iu 1791, when a tablet to his memory was placed in Deane Church, containing an eulogistic inscription written by the Rev. Dr. Barnes, of Farnworth (afterwards of Cross-street Chapel, Manchester). Mr. Rasbotham's will was dated "August 1&, 1791," and the probate "June 17, 1793." That document contains no mention of either books or manuscripts. A most handy book of reference is the " Classical Dictionary." compiled by the Rev. John Lempriere, M.A,, who, from 1790 .to- 1793, was head master of the Bolton Grammar School, founded by Mr. Robert Lever, who died iu the year 1644. Editions of Mr. Lempriere's work have often appeared, though none have been undertaken by local printers. In the year following his appointment to the headmastership he preached a "Sermon at the Opening of St. Peter's Chapel, Swinton, in the parish of Eccles, on Sunday, the 10th April." This was printed in 4to, size, and copies have become extremely scarce. Mr. J. P. Earwaker, M.A., F.S.A,, of Pensarn, * See Baines's " History of Lancashire," 1836 edition. AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 6 1 Abergele, North Wales, possesses the copy supplying this information. One of Lempriere's probable predecessors at the Bolton Grammar School was Robert Ainsworth, who compiled the " Thesaurus Lingu83 Latinse Compendiarus, or a Compendium Dictionary of the Latin Tongue." The first edition was printed about 1736, the second 1746, &c., &c. For many years this has been a standard vocabulary of the Latin tongue. It is nob certain that Mr. Ainsworth was master of the said school, but that he was educated there ther© appears to be little doubt. His death occurred on the 4th April, 1743. Next, we are informed that John Gardner practised printing ia Bolton from 1786 to 1835, but, if this statement be correct, he must necessarily have been very young when he launched out into the art — being born 1767, and apprenticed at Kendal — thus it will be seen that he would only be 19 years old in 1786, at the time of his reputed commencement of business. Be that as it may, it was not until 1792 that he produced, so far as it is known, anything worthy of note in book- work, when he printed the title-page (if not the whole text) of "The Book of Common Prayer, &c.," which fills 548 octavo pages, besides 126 devoted to metrical psalms. There are also bound up with this volume eleven full-page prints, and a frontispiece also illustrating eleven scriptural subjects. I doubt whether anything beyond the title-page was the work of Gardner, In the following year— 1793— a sale catalogue was "struck ofif" by his press, and though it is only, what might appear to some, an insignificant pamphlet of 22 pages, it has become an enviable relic of John Gardner's early workmanship — I only know where to find one copy, and that is in my own library. This being a catalogue of the earliest known Public Library in Bolton, it will be advisable to place the title on record here. It reads thus : " A Catalogue of Books in the Bolton Public Library, which will begin to be sold by auction, at the house of William Rawsthorn, the Legs-of-Man, in Cliurchgate, on Thursday, 14th February, 1793, precisely at two o'clock in the afternoon ; where also will be disposed of two large 1 62 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY bookcases and a table." The library contained 538 works — or about 600 volumes. It must not be thought that this was a Free Library,, but rather a Library from which books could be obtained on loan at a nominal cost, a system very much in vogue before, and for some time after, the formation of the Borough Library in 1853, but now almost obsolete. Another catalogue came from the same press about that time, with the title : " Catalogue of Books, being part of the Collection of Thomas Cooper, late of Lever Hall, Bolton,, to be sold by auction, Nov. 13 and 14, 1793, at the house of Thomas Cooper, the Man and Scythe, in Churchgate, Bolton." A €apy of this publication was sold amongst a bundle of tracts at the second London sale cf Mr. James Crossley's Library, which is the only impression know to be traceable, Gardner also did a similar piece of work for " A Library belonging to a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters, assembling at the Bank Chapel, Bolton," in 1810, which must at the best have been only a second edition, for I possess a copy of an earlier catalogue belonging to the same place, printed in 1790, though without printer's name. This is the most ancient recorded library in Bolton that issued a printed catalogue. The first book of particular note printed by Gardner is one of "Original Poems on a Variety of Subjects ; by James Orrell,'*^ It comprises 216 pages, and includes a list of names of 500 sub« Bcribers, many of whom took more than one copy. I know of only one other Bolton publication earlier than Orrell's poems which gives a list of subscribers; yet in the present case the author must have been considerably gratified at the success of his first (if not his only) publication. The work appeared in 1793, and may be classed among the neatest of its period. Notwithstanding it» extensive issue, stray copies seldom turn up for sale. During my book hunts, extending over a period of 10 or 12 years, I have only seen three copies of this work, all of which I bought, and, remark- able] to say, in these days of astounding prices commanded for "first-editions," I never paid more than 3s. for any one of them. AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 63 In this work two effusious of a decided local character will be found, viz., one " On the Death of James Holland, who was Executed on Bolton Moor on the 18bh September, 1786," which event formed the eubject of the Vicar's sermon on the following Sunday, as has already been stated. The other poem is an "Epitaph on Giles Norris, late sexton of B * * * * * Churchyard." The one on Holland consists of 15 verses of four lines each, which well describe what imagination has ever since failed to convey. It will be remembered that Holland's punishment was consequent upon croft-breaking, and theft of 30 pieces of muslins, upon which the poet thus addresses the culprit: — The tempting muslins did allure thine eye, Not finished till they pass the wldtstcr'shand, Thro' the long dreary night exposed they lie, In beauteous order whitening all the land. And after bringing home the seriousness of the crime the poet, describing the probable last scene in the life of the unhappy man, writes : — Bound in the car, that slow and ^olemn moves. Thy near approach to death the crowds all mourn ; With tears exclaim (and heav'n such grief approves), •The road thou go'st, thou never wilt return.' The author of these poems also included in his book a realistic piece in two cantos, entitled "The Irish Burial." It is an excellent description of not only a farcical funeral, bub of the after-proceedings, in the course of which personal reminiscences are narrated with marked ejBFect between Patrick the Warrior and Donavan the Bard. Pat had spent some time in what was then — over 90 years ago- best known as the "Market-town of Bolton," and consequently relates his remembrances about the same, which might well be grouped amongst the collection of Lancashire folk-lore. A custom prevailed, until recent years, of annually celebrating the Royal Oak Day in the township of Tong ; this being a day of great rejoicing, it took the form of wakes or fair — for which Lancashire is still universally signalized. The one in question being locally beat known 64 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY as " Turn Fowfc Fair." Here a dummy King Charles was inserted in an old oak tree after being carried in procession round the neighbourhood to the great delight and rejoicings of both old and young. To this ancient custom a few lines are devoted : — " I have," quoth Pat, '* Toiig Fold's gay fair explor'd To celebrate the second Charles restor'd ; The loj'al youthful crowd with rapture goes To rouse the monarch from his annual doze Who peaceful slept, in lofty hay-roost laid, Disturb'd to be with oumberous pomp array'd, And borne aloft, the long procession leads Of flowery garlands and of buxom maids ; In reverend oak they fix his highness' grace. Where scarce the leaves conceal his sacred face ; In solemn state he o'er the crowd appear.'^. Nor frowns nor smiles the royal visage wears." This Hibernian character is also made to describe another old local pastime, which, after a discontinuance of nearly a century, has been rekindled (with an essential modification), and is now, probably, in the zenith of its popularity, i.e., the game of Football. The only alteration of any moment is the prohibition of the game being played in the public streets, as was customary at the time of which. Orrell wrote. In answer to the Bard, the patriot replies : — " If thou one wild audacious sport didst see. The niighty mob appears as fierce as we, Where each with lofty look the law disdains, For once I saw the bold Boltonian swains. With wooden shoes, with iron plated strong. Fierce o'er the rattling pavement roll along ; A bladder pent within a leathern case Was toss'd aluft, a smile array'd each face. There might'st thou see some hero rush along. Chief of liis party, ngile, bold, and strong ; With such a force he kicks the bounding ball. His footing fails, and earth receives his fall ; But from his downfal quick, with force alert. He rises in the dignity of din." AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 65 It appears that then, as now, the sport produced great excitement, and resulted in an almost uncivilised brawl, for then would Contending!: clojfs and crashing windows sound. Confusion, tumult, riot reign o'er all. A footnote to this poem states that " the football play does nob at present [1793] exist, for by the exertions of the magistrates this ■foolish custom is totally abolished." So much for footballers and footballing a hundred years ago. Mr. James Orrell is said to have descended from the ancient family of Orrells of Turton Tower ; he was the sou of William and Betty Orrell, of Little Bolton,* being born ou the 12th and baptised on the 19bh January, 1755 ; the last ceremony taking place ab Bolton Parish Cliurch. He was fond of learning, and deemed an apt scholar, receiving his education at the Grammar School in the town of his birth. It appears from the notes of a previous chronicler that the poems above-mentioned were not his only writings, for it is stated in Smithsju's MSS. that he was author of many others which were unfortunately never pub- lished. Whittle, in his " History of Bolton," printed in 1855, gives "William" as the name of this poet on page 399, and as "John" on page 403. Both are wrong as proved by the title-page of the book. James Orrell died April 23rd, 1818, and the probate of his will was issued in the following June. In that document he is styled " Clerk of the Parish Ciiurch of Bolton le Moors." A small pamphlet, apparently of little importance, judging from the title, was worked by Gardner in 1810. A lapse of 76 years has added to its value, it comprises: "Rules for the Management of the Methodist Sunday School, Bolton." A copy lies at the Bolton Library. A short time ago I purchased a twelve page pamphlet, comprising *'A letter to the Rev. Richard Norris, principal of Stonyhurst, occasioned by his correspondence with the Rev. J. W. Whittaker, Vicar of Blackburn, &.c." It, also, was printed by * William Orrell, joiner, and Elizabeth Buffe, spinster, both of Bolton Parish, were married at Bolton Parish Church, 22nd September, 175*, by the Rev. John Chisnall, lecturer. 66 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY Gardner in 1829. The product of this printer's press during the- half-century he was in business was very extensive, and included all classes of work. In 1820, Gardner took into partnership his late apprentice, John Yates, though the union only continued for about three years — a dissolution taking place in 1823. John Gardner was Boroughreeve for Bolton in 1824, and he also filled the office of High Constable of the Hundred of Salford. CHAPTER VIII. The Earliest Hymn - Books Printed in Bolton.— Higham's Office at Top op Deansgate. — Works by Wesleyan Metho- dist Preachers Stationed in Bolton Last Century. — The ** Minerva" Office.— First Sermon Preached in Bridge- street Wesleyan Chapel. — Witticisms of the Eev. Samuel Bradburn. — A Tribute to the Memory of Mr. Bradburn BY Rev. Joshua Marsden. — The Famous " Bolton Trotter." \^y EFORE proceeding with other wojksof later date it will be well to notice the early printing of Hymn-books in Bolton — which' is a class of literature possessing a history of its own. A copy of the earliest known in this series is in my library, the whereabouts of a second copy I cannot tell. Its title-page reads : — " Hymns and Spiritual Songs. By John Dracup, Minister of the Gospel ab Sowerby. Bolton : Printed by B. Jackson, 1787," In this book there are 70 pages containing 64 hymns. No facts are to hand as to the identity of Mr. Dracup, the compiler, beyond that stated ia his title-page. I own another little hymn-book that was "Originally Designed for the use of the Sunday School at Bolton " — some of the hymns were written and others merely selected by Mr. Benjamiu Ehodes, Methodist Preacher, who was stationed at Bolton in 1795 k 68 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY ■and 1796. This is only a second edition, and was printed in 1796. The compiler, in the preface wrote : — " It is about nine years since I published the first edition of hymns for the Sunday School ab Bolton," That would be in 1787, and in all probability was printed by Jackson. In that year, also, Mr. Rhodes in all probability was ministering in Bolton, tliough Musgrave's " Origin of Methodism in Bolton," Stephens' "Chronicles of Wesleyan Methodism," and other authorities fail to record the same. The ground for this supposition, besides, the fact of his collection of hymns being specially arranged for the early Wesleyans, is an interesting extract from the Bolton Parish Church Register of Marriages, which reads: "Benjamin Rhodes, of this parish, Dissenting minister, and E iza- beth Brittan, of tlie parish of Bury, spinster, were married in this church, by licence this 4lh day of January, 1787, by me, E. Whitehead," (Vicar of Bolton). The witnesses to the ceremony were two ardent Wesleyan Methodists, viz : George Eskrick and acharias Busheforth. In 1792 two sets of hymns were struck oflF, the smaller being "Four Excellent Hymns sung at the Parish Church of Bolton," printed by J. Taylor, and sold by Robert Rigby, in the once rural district of Spring-gardens, Bolton. No other memorials of Taylor's press (so far as ascertained) are on record. lu 1799 this limited -collection of hymns was augmented from four to twenty pages, and again in 1802 to sixty-eight pages, both being printed by J. Gardner. A small collection of " Occasional Hymns " also came from this press in 1809, probably for the same church. The first edition of the Rev. William Maurice's " Carmina Evangelica ; or, hymns chiefly collected from various authors " [for the use of " The Church and Congregation of Independent Protestant Dissenters assembling in Duke's-alley, Bolton," was also printed by Gardner in 1792, and its 2ud edition 47 years later by R. M. Holden, of the Mealhouse-lane Press, of whom more in due course. Again, in 1812, Gardner printed the 2ud edition of the Rev. Thomas Jones's "Selection of Psalms and Hymns" — the first having been printed in AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 69 London, 1797. Mr. Jones was the first minister of St. George's- Church, Bolton, the consecration taking place in 1796. Gardner's edition contains 496 pages besides 24 pages of title, contents, and index. A small pamphlet printed in 1803 by W. Jones, of Liverpool, being " A Statement of Facts in Two Letters to a Friend," gives a full account of the erection of St. George's Church, extracts from the Rev. Thomas Jones's first sermon preached therein, and a superabundance of information pointing to the unsatisfactory state of afifairs during the first three years of the Church's existence, Mr. T, Jones left Bolton for Liverpool, -where after much trouble he was instrumental in the erection of a church in the style of the one he had resigned in Bolton, with the material difference that it was to accommodate 2,500 worship- pers instead of 2,000. The pamphlet in question is very scarce. Besides this, Mr. Jones wrote many other small works. The number of Bol ton-printed hymn-books is so voluminous as to necessitate the limitation of these remarks to what is given above, with the knowledge that the antiquity and rarity are a suifficient guarantee of their importance. Another early printer, of whom but little is known, was J. Higham, and whose place of business stood at the top of Deans- gate, Bolton. It will, of course, be well known that Deansgate (a portion of which formed part of the old market-place — in the centre being the ancient market cross, where marriages were formerly announced, and, later, where the Rev. John Wesley preached and stemmed the torrent of persecution by the "Bolton Lions") was one of the principal highways through the town, which will account for the selection of the locality as the best place of busi- ness. Only two productions of the press of Higham are extant — one, a book of 324 pages in 1793, and a pamphlet in 1794. Both these works are from the pen of the Rev. Thos. Taylor, who for 66- years laboured as a preacher of Wesleyan Methodism, and was a friend of John Wesley. It has been repeatedly stated that this Mr. Taylor was a native of Tong Fold, near Bolton, and as such 70 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY lie is included in a list of Lancashire authors published in 1876. This was not the case. The fact is, Mr. Taylor was a Yorkshire- man, being born at lloyda Green, in the parish of Rothwell, on the 10 til of December, 1738, and his death occurred at Birch House, Faruworth, near Bolton, October 15th, 1816. His theological works were very numerous, at least twenty having been printed. In 1793 he was stationed at Bolton along with the Rev. Robt. Miller ■(afterwards his son-in-law) and old Christopher Hopper (who figures , illustriously as one of the earliest Wesleyan Methodist preachers both in Bolton and Manchester). At that time Mr. Taylor engaged Higham to print his "History of the Waldenses and Albigenses," and in the following year, on his re -appointment to Bolton Circuit two years before his first election as President of the Confer- ence), a sermon 'on " The General Depravity of Human Nature," which he had preached in 1766 in the High Churchyard, Glasgow. His other works were printed in various places, according to the author's residence. It is doubtful whether Higham can be credited with more book-printing — none having been discovered during extensive book-hunts preparatory to the writing of these chapters. Another printing estabishment was set up during the latter part of the eighteenth or beginning of the present century, by Thomas Garner, at 155, Deansgate, under the classical name of " The Minerva Printing Office." This is the first instance of dedication in Bolton, and seeing that the favoured patron is the great goddess of wisdom, arts, and war, Boltonians must not forget or discard the suitable appellation. From that distinguished office emanated a pamphlet of 16 pages printed in 1804, wliich comprised "Articles to be observed and kept by the Fourth Female Friendly Society, Established in Bolton, in 1799, for relieving their sick, aged, and infirm, and burying their dead." Garner also printed the fourth edition of Thomas and John Holland's " Exercises for the Memory and Understanding," in 1805, a creditable book .of 432 pages ; also in the same year, *' The Life of Nelson," and a large octavo pamphlet of 64 pages, which, on account of its scarceness and the AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 7 1 memorable occasion upon which it was written, deserves a partial recitation of the title, which is, " God shining forth between the Cherubim ; a sermon preached at the opening of the Methodist Chapel, Bridge-street, Bolton, on Sunday, September 30th, 1804. and at the opening of the Methodist Chapel, ip Wrexham, on Tuesday, January 1st, 1805." The preacher of this extraordinarily lengthy sermon was the llev. Samuel Bradburn, the Methodist Demosthenes, who records in his diary entered at Bolton on the 31st December, 1804, that he had preached in thirty years no less than 9,931 times. On referring to Blanchard's "Life of the Rev. Samuel Bradburn," published in 1870, it will be acknowledged that Bradburn, besides being a preacher of great power and brilliant eloquence, possessed such a lively nature that he could not refrain from indulging in many witticisms at opportune times. On one occasion, when proceeding to the Conference, he was overtaken by another preacher many years his junior, who, as fortune would have it, was for the same destination, though that was not known to at least one of the pedestrians. Bradburn, as usual, was not lavishly dressed ; in fact his attire could boast of many years' service, and consequently wore marks of unquestionable faithfulness. The young preacher, without a second glance at the old man evidently presumed that a few pence would be well received and therefore handed him his travelling bag to carry. The aged veteran, ever ready for a joke, meekly took up the burden and proceeded quietly on his way, followed at a short distance by his '* charitable " patron. Shortly, a passing friend, after the customary salutation, asked the young man : " Who carries your luggage ?" and was answered, ^'That old man in front." "Do you know who that 'old man' is?" enquired the new comer. " No." " Well, sir," continued the friend, *'that is the great Samuel Bradburn, the worthy and honoured President of the Conference." As may be imagined, the information was received with amazement, and as soon as presence of mind returned the astonished junior hurried to relieve the " old man " of his burden, but was stopped in his apologies for displaying «uch ignorance by Mr, Bradburn replying in words to this effect : " No 72 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY apologies, sir, no apologies, I assure you it was not my intention to- carry your bag very far ; on reaching the next bridge I should positively have thrown it over into the river." Thanks to the informant,, for in another minute the bridge would have been gained, and the young man knew that the President would have fulfilled his intention' had not fortune intervened, Before he became a preacher Mr. Bradburn followed the occupation of a shoemaker in Chester, and upon his being chosen President at the Methodist Conference in 1799, a friend signified a hope that the " Cobbler would not go beyond his LastJ^ In reply Mr. Bradburn wrote the following lines, and it is said he was never more troubled about his fornfer trade. Exalted in dignity high, At the head of thia wonderful crew, Ko cobbler at present am I, Praj-, therefore, take care what you do. M}' kit, tlio' longtime laid aside, I can fetill with dexterity use ; And like leather PJl cut up your hide, If you dare my hiuh office to abuse. My tools are made of g» od stuff. Well wax'd and well bii-stl'd my e.id, And my awls will make holes in your bufif. Unless you to business attend. My pincers can hold very fast, My nippers the jack heads can pull, And if I'm in want of a last I can easily work on your skull. On Mr. Bradburn's death in 1816, a beautiful tribute of respect wa» ■written to his memory by the llev. Joshua Marsden, and inserted in his "Amusements of a Mission," printed in America in 1816 and in Blackburn in 1818; ib was also placed at the end of '* Memoirs of the late Rev. Samuel Bradburn," edited by his daughter, Eliza Weaver Bradburn, dated 1816. The first verse will show its theme ; — Could native wit, or eloquence impart. To life a date beyond what mortals know ; Tliou hadst not, Bradburn, felt the mortal dart, And turn'd our songs to elegies of woe : Eut ah ! the brightest child of man Muat 'iieatb the clod lie low. AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 73 Thomas Garner, whose name has been repeatedly clashed with that of "Gardner," resided in Little Bolton, and must have contributed little or nothing to book-printing after Mr. Bradburn's sermon, for his death occurred in 1806, and his widow, Mary, was granted letters of administration of his goods on the 17th January, 1807, the property being sworn under £300. The widow apparently retired from the business immediately after her husband's death, disposing of ib tj J. Haworth (see hereafter), and he, in turn, was succeeded by T. Blundell, wlio, iu 1809, printed a pamphlet of twelve pages, which is not commonly known to modern local book collectors. It is a curious production, and its author, whoever he was, wrote some curious stuff. Its short title is '* First Book of the Chronicles of the Isles." Fortunately for the literary reputation of the town, the subject is not a local one, and it is not likely to have been written by a local man. Other productions of Blundell's press also appeared in the same year. One was entitled " Col. Wardle's Letter concerning an action brought against him in the Court of King's Bench for Conspiracy," whilst two others are still more worthy of citation, not on account of any particular typographical display, but to place on record the once famous, or rather infamous, practice of "Bolton Trotting." The tracts in question were published, in all probability, simultaneously in 1809, which perhaps was the only year that Blundell used his type for pamphlet or book-work. The abstract title of one is, " The Second Price, or, the Bolton Swindler, being an account of the various artifices made use of by R. K., commonly called Squire K„ Lord K., &c., and formerly termed Poor Weaver," the preface to this is signed by "James Hamill, Sweet Green (Bolton), July, 1809." The title of the second production is of a more local character, viz., " The Chronicles of the City-ie-Moors, &c., with the Downfall of the Man of Kayish and all his house." The two relate to one and the same combination of frauds practised by an adventurous weaver named Kay, who swindled the natives of Bolton to the tune of about £6,000 by means of falsely representing himself to be the heir of large estates in the West of England. The pamphlet last named underwent a second edition F 74 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY in 1812, printed by another early 19th century Bolton printer, named J. Hurtley, of Deansp;ate, and the two combined in 1845 from the office of Robert Whewell, of Little Bolton, and published by tlie late George Winterburu, Deausgate, Bolton. Tlie " Chronicles " in the last edition were signed by " Cornelius Marshall, Bolton Moor," but whether he was the hona ilde author of the amusing narrative there is no further proof. The 1845 edition concludes with a poem of nine verses containing four lines each, headed : " The Weaver's Project, or the Bolton Swindler," one verse reads : — To serve him with g'oods and whate'er he miyht want, They hoped that his orders might never prove scant; Both butchers and badgers likewise did admire A nd thought it an honour to serve such a squire. A copy of the first edition of the " Second Price " and one of the second edition of the "Chronicles," are in the Manchester Public Reference Library, and the Rochdale Free Libiary, in 1884, became possessed of a first edition copy of ." The Chronicles." This swindler was made the hero of a story which ran through The Bowtun Luminary, Entitled : " Th' History o' Squire Kay, th' King o' Bowtun Trotters." CHAPTER IX. Hurtley's Type and Neat Workmanship. — The Various OF Haworth, Swindells and Whalley, Smith, Ogle, and Yates. — The Lancashire Riots in 1812.— Rev. "Wm. Probert's First and Last Books.—" The Herald " and " The Bolton Free Press" Founded. — Commencement of "The Bolton Express " and its STRuaoLiNa Existence. — Browns In- complete " History op Bolton." f^J^ ENTION has already been made of J. Hartley, the printer. His workmanship, for beauty of display, by far exceeds that of his immediate predecessor Blundell. He executed the work entrusted to him with considerable taste and artistic arrangement, and introduced new fonts of type, some of which, upwards of seventy years ago, were undoubtedly peculiar to the locality. The first known publication from his office, is " The Bible Interpreter, or the Book of Revelation Opened and its Divine Mysteries Unsealed," by Mr. Benjamin Turner, of Breightmet Fold, near Bolton; it was printed in 1810, and contains 76 large octavo pages. The author showed himself to be no stranger to the muse, as appears by the repeated introduction of poetry into the pamphlet in qufst-ion. Many 76 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY of the pages of this scarce little work are devoted to rhyme, the last piece begin niug : — My feeble pen I now laj' down, Should critics on thy labours frown. They may perhaps thy skill deny, j But who the subject can't outvie ; The abler pens may gain applause. And triumph in a meaner cause. Mr. Turner was writer of several other works, though not widely- known — none being iu the local librai'ies — the earliest was printed in Bolton in 1806 at the " Minerva Office," by J. Haworth, entitled " The Mystic Unmasked, or a serious and candid reply to the principles and doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church." It comprises 42 pages. Another pamphlet printed by Hurtley was "A Military History of Europe since the Commencement of the French Revolution," printed in 1811, a year of great distress among the working classes of th» town. After this no other book-work of his is to hand, though Bolton is indebted to him for its first newspaper on the 1st May, 1813, which he appropriately named The Bolton Hei'dld. As few other of Hurtley's specimens are to hand, it may be excusable to presume that his typographical reign in Bolton was short. A similar remark applies to Swindells and Whalley, the first known partnership in the profession in the locality. In 1814 they produced a little book of " Rules of a Sick Society belonging to the shops under Messrs. Salter and Brown at the Union Foundry, Bolton." Edward Smith is the next on record, his place of business being styled •' The Stanhope Press," where in 1816 he printed the second edition of " A Political Catechism," and, about the same time, '' The Prodigal Child Reclaimed; or the History of Betty Bridge and Betty Ann Hawkins." In the following year he struck off the " Catalogue and Rules of the Union Library held at Mrs. Jardine's Ship Inn, Bolton;" copies of these are in the Bolton Library, though the same cannot be said for Mr. Henry Billinge Piatt's "Appeal to the Public," by the same printer, in 1818. AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LQRE. 77 Some remarkable " Letters on the Subject of the Lancashire Riots in 1812 " were written by Colonel Ralph Fletcher and Dr. Robert Taylor, and printed in Manchester in the succeeding year for J. Scholefield, of Bolton. This correspondence only occupies a pamphlet of 16 demy octavo pages, which is very indiSerently printed, though the substance cannot fail to be attentively perused. In 1815, the first printed work of the Rev. William Probert, for many years pastor of the Unitarian Chapel at Walmsley, was published at Otley, being a treatise on " Calvinism and Arminianism." It contains many excellent traits of the writer's character, which clearly show what must have been his real and moral worth as a member of the society in which he was destined to move during his residence in the rural district of Walmsley. One extract from the preface of the book quoted will perhaps bear out these remarks. The reverend author observed that : " It would be well for the Christian Church if all parties would be more liberal in their sentiments, and more cautious in pronouncing anathemas upon their brethren." If this wise expression of opinion were acted upon, even in the present day, by the heads of our religious institutions a better state of feeling amongst priest, pastor, and people, could not fail to exist. Five years later Mr. Probert published, through an Alnwick firm, a translation from the Welsh of " The Gododin, and the Odes of the Month;" then in 1850 his last known printed work appeared, which was a " Hebrew and English Lexicon Grammar." Other publications are found in the various libraries of the county, to which Mr. Probert's name, as author, is appended. "Rules of the Social Sick List, held at the sign of the Cock (now called the * Star Inn '), Churchgate, Bolton," — a few doors from whence James, the Seventh Earl of Derby, proceeded to the scaffold — was probably the first "page-work" (1820), of John Ogle, printer, Deansgate and Market-street, Bolton, who certainly printed more books than any other resident printer during his term of business. He executed a book of 265 pages, of "Lectures on Modern Sociuianism," for the Rev. Joseph Fox, pastor of Duke'a 78 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY Alley Cliapel in 1824 ; and in 1826 " The First Annual Report of the BoU.on Mechanics' Instituti( n," which was established in the preceding year. Mr. Ogle did not confine himself merely to the miscellaneous branch of the business, but he also established The Bolton Eeflector in 1823, sold at 3d. weekly, and twelve years later — 1835 — became the publisher of the four-year-old Bolton Free Press, this being exactly 50 years after the introduction of book-printing into Bolton. That paper did not meet with much approbation, having had some nine proprietors or publishers in about as many years^ when in 1847 it was finally discontinued. Regarding the life-long struggles for existence of this newspaper of 50 years ago, an interesting record is supplied in the recently published "Autobiography of a Lancashire Lawyer, being the I^ife and Recollections of John Taylor, the first Bolton Coroner." The diarist says : " During the year 1836 a musical acquaintance of mine, Mr. Samuel Heelis, a printer by trade, undertook the management of The Bolton Free Press, and I became bound with him to James "Winder and Thomas Thomasson for £100, advanced by the Radicals to- Heelis, to keep an expiring political paper on its legs, in competition with The Bolton Chronicle. I was editor, without salary, and after three months' struggling Heelis lost about £100, and threw ^up the sponge ; I vowed to attend to my own business in the future ; and the conduct of Winder and Co. to me was anything but friendly. It was understood to be a parfy affair. Heelis had no means ; and after I had rendered a full account of the working of the concern and expressed a willingness to account for the balance, after paying expenses, and consenting to bear a fair proportion with the party at the loss, I considered I had honourably done my duty ;. but this did not satisfy the Radical leaders, and I made a compromise with them, but for ever afterwards broke out from my connection with * the older hands,' who knew how to thrust young men in front,, to fight the battle and bear the risk, and sheltered themselves from the loss in the background." The now rarely-to-be-found pamphlets, *' Memorial of a Beloved AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 79 Aunt" (daughter of Peter Roth well, Esq., Bolton), and "A Brief Memoir of Mrs. De Manneville," of the same place, a lady of great benevolence, were from John Ogle's Market-street press in 1840 and 1843 respectively. At one period Ogle had his son in partnership, when they issued the " Spinner's Guide, or the Manager's Assistant," &c. The senior partner retired from business about 1854. Returning to John Yates, it must not be overlooked that he was the founder of The Bolton Express on 5th July, 1823, which in the following year he sold to James Heaton (see hereafter). Yates also printed several contributions to the bibliography of the town, including the Rev. William Jones's (of Mawdsley -street Chapel) ** Essay on the Deity of Christ " in 1824, and Mr. 'J'. R. Weeton's "Answer to a Certain Scurrilous Publication " in the same year. In 1825, Mr. John Horrocks Ainsworth, of Halliwell, appointed Yates to print his " Essay on Mechanics' Institutes, with a particular relation to the Institute recently established in Bolton," as did also the Rev. W-illiam Thorpe his " Speech on the Protestant Reformation Society at Preston " three years later, John Yates's printing office being in the Millstone Yard, Deansgate. This typographer's death occurred on the 27th October, 1836. He was son of Mr. John Yates, constable for Rumworth, in the parish of Deane, in 1796. In 1824-5 the unfinished " History of Bolton," written by Mr. John Brown, was published by John Kell, as were several other, though smaller works, from time to time. This contribution to local topography, through most painful circumstances, was never completed, and it has become one of the rarest of Lancashire books. The late Mr. James Crossley, in a note written in one of his copies, says: "See Mr. Gilbert French's Life of Crompton for an account of the ingenious and unfortunate author of this history. It was never completed, and the present copy contains all that was published. A copy as perfect as this is exceedingly difficult to meet with." Mr. Crossley purchased the work at Mr. William Bird's sale, but, he observes, "I had to give a very high price for it." He does not state the price, but it may be surmised that Mr. Crossley would have been astonished 8o BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY if he had lived to see that identical copy of "Biown's Bolton," ia which he had scribbled his random remarks, catalogued at £10 10s. Od. In chronological order of book-printers, James Heaton, who kept the once famous Bolton Church and King Library, comes next. In 1824 he purchased the copyright of John Yates's Bolton Express, and five years later he printed the Rev. J. S. Baker's "Farewell Sermon," after its delivery in the Parish Church of Deane, where Mr, Baker was curate. Heaton was the nephew and foster child of an early Bolton bookseller and stationer named Joseph Heaton, whom he succeeded in business on Joseph's emigration to America. James was the son of Mr. John Heaton, farmer, of Deane, and had a son John, who followed the printing profession for a great number of years, executing a vast amount of book and pamphlet work, as did also his father. 'J'he first-known literary work from the ptm of the late Canon Girdlestone, M.A., of Bristol, and formerly Vicar of Deane, for 15 years commencing 1830, was printed by James Heaton and Son in 1835; it bore the title: "Christian Expediency," and was a sermon preached at Manchester Collegiate Church at the Bishop of Chester's visitation. This was only one of many productions of a similar character written by the late lamented gentleman, most of which were printed in the town, notably the one entitled *' George Marsh, the Martyr of Deane : four Advent sermons preached in 1850 from the Martyr's Pulpit in Deane Church," and neatly worked by Henry Bradbury in 1851. George S. Heaton, of the Victoria Printing Works, Bowker's-row, Bolton, founder and publisher of "Heaton's Railway Time Table," is son of the last named John Heaton ; and he commenced the stationery and book-binding business some years after his father sold out. Ou removing to Bowker's-row G. S. Heaton started letterpress printing, which he still continues. CHAPTER X. Early Printers of '• The Bolton Chronicle," and Notes on Books Executed at that Office. — Robert M. Holden's " Bolton Literary Journal." — " Bolton, or Modern Athens.'* — The Works of the Ret. William Jones, with an Amusing Reminiscence : " I've a Rod in Pickle for Thee ! ! '* — Mr. Henry Ashworth as an Author. |HOMAS Cropp was the first proprietor of the Bolton Chronicle, the oldest existing weekly newspaper iu the town, which was started on the 9th October, 1824 ; it was afterwards printed and published by A. R. Martin at No. 1, Newport-street, until September, 1836. William Holcroft and his assignees and others continued tlie same in premises in the Shambles, and elsewhere, until 1841. Next, William Bridge purchased the right of production, and cliose Peter Staton for his printer. In 1850, •James Hudsmith, of 12, Fold-street, became proprietor, and after his decease in 1864, his executors took it up and continued the publication until 1880 at larger premises in Knovvsley-street. It is now the joint property of James Clegq, William Henry Hudsmith, Powell Hudsmith, and Alfred Jones, as is also the Bolton Daily Chronicle, first established September 8th, 1868, which, after a disc )ntinuance for about twelve months, was again started iu 1870, and still appears. 82 EOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY Numerous volumes which contribute to an extensive bibliography have emanated from this office ; the principal being reports of the Bolton Town Council Proceedings from 1865-6 to the present time, numbering 18 vols., under the supervision of Mr. James Clegg, editor of the Chronicle. This gentleman in 1866 compiled and printed a vast amounb of local historical data which forms a valuable " Chronological History of Bolton, from the Earliest Known IJecords to time of publication," and from time to time later editions have brought down notes of events to modern dates. Another interesting work by Mr. Clegg appeared in 1872, giving " Reminiscences of the Bolton Gas Company," being an historical retrospect from 1818 to 1872. The " Autobiography of a Lancashire Lawyer," already referred to, was entrusted to Mr, Clegg's editorship in 1883. The Chronicle office was the seat of printing of these books, also of Mr. B. T. Barton's " Historical Notes of Farnworth and Kearsley," and ** Historical Gleanings of Bolton and District" in 1881-2-3; and many other works by various local followers of literary pursuits. In 1831 " The Substance of Sermons selected from the Manuscripts of the late Rev. Joseph Whitehead " was published in a book of 336 pages, from Holdeu's press, whilst the Bolton Literary Journal, a weekly miscellany, started on the 16Lh October, 1830, and was probably one of the most entertaining and instructive periodicals of its class issued in the district ; unfortunately it had but a short life, and ceased to appear after April 9th, 1831. It was published at the same office. The first work printed in Bolton from the pen of Mr. George Pike, master of a classical and mathematical academy in this town, was entitled " An Essay on Apostacy," which was put forth from J. Ogle's Market-street Press in 1827. Three years later R. M. Holden, of tbe^ Mealhouse-lane Press, printed, fur the same author, a large octavo volume of 434 pages, being " An Essay on Preaching." It was dedicated to the Rev. G. Marsden,* as a token of respect for his *Mr. War.sdeii was a Wesleyan Methodi-'t I'reacher, beiiij^ first stationed at Bolton in J808-9, and au'ain in 1857-9. On his appointment in 1827 he filled the combined offices of President and Secretary of the Couferenco, and in 1829 he published " An Account ol John Thornley, of Bolton." AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 8^ complete devotion to and indefatigable exertions in the best of causes, by his sincere friend, the author." In all probability this was the earliest book of importance issued from the Mealhouse-lane Press — having precedence by one year over the appearance of the Rev. Joseph Whitehead's Sermons. A copy of this interesting " Essay" has not been secured for the Bolton Library — the loan of a private copy having supplied the information for these notes. The following extract elucidates not only the special features of the entire composition, but, at the same time,, throws out clearly the style and character of its author : — " A poet of nature has declared that the muse was never found except by him who could wander through the solitude of creation without feeling alone, and while he traced the meanderings of the rivulet could embody his sublime and rapturous emotions in immortal verse. The same observation is equally true when applied to science. While poetry culls a flowery wreath when wandering with delight through the flowery regions of literature, it is the part of science to toil in the rugged path which leads to her alpine heights, to explore the mine where her treasures are concealed, or to bring the pearl from the bottom of the ocean." A copy of Mr. Pike's last-named "Essay" may be consulted at the British Museum. On the 15th January, 1832, there commenced a magazine which sought to be the Worl:lnr/ Man's Friend, tliough for how lon^ it proved itself so cannot be stated. At least fourteen weekly numbers were published, copies of which the Bolton Reference Library has secured. The printing was also done at the Mealhouse-lane Press. Robert Marsden Holden served his apprenticeship with John Ogle, printer. Market-street, and afterwards began business on his own account in the Old Cloth Hall, or "Shambles," off Deansgate, Bolton, where he worked successfully for some time prior to the erection of larger premises in Mealhouse-lane (now occupied by Mr. Williams, as oil and colour stores). It is sixty years since the establishment of the Mealhouse-lane Press, and from that time the business has been carried on there without intermission by its founder,. -34 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY and subsequently by his brother-in-law John Tillotson, until his removal in 1865 to a still more commodious building in Mawdsley- -street. In 1834 a pamphlet of 16 pages, now of great rarity, was •printed at R. M. Kolden's office with a title of striking originality, viz : " Bolton-le-Moors, or Modern Athens." It constitutes the first ■canto of a local poem couched in expressive and cutting satire, the argument of which is : " An Address to the Muse — The loftiness of the subject noticed — Modern Athens applied to Bolton in consequence of the rising greatness of her people, and the striking similarity of her heroes to those of ancient Greece — The respective writings, orations, and glorious achievements are mentioned of modern Lycurgus, Philopcemen, Demosthenes, and Agamemnon — The spirit of liberty and real patriotism among the people, with the rapid progress of philosophy, arts, &c." In referring to Mr. Naisby's pamphlet, " A Peep into Corruption," printed some seven years previously, by T. Cropp, the satirical author makes the following remarks : — O reader ! Pause awhile, and with contemplative Seriousness minutely peruse his "Peep into Corruption." Gods what a work Of mental labour ! The language how Flow'ry ! The logic how forcible ! The Arguments how convincing ! The effects How beneficial ! ! Boltonians revere Him as their deliverer from Bondage, Honour him as their faithful Lawgiver, Obey and serve him in life, and in death They will pour blessings on his ashes.' This effusion is supposed to be from the pen of a Scotchman mamed Mr. John McKnight, a school-master over 50 years ago in Cross Axes, Bolton, who chose the uniform nom de plume of "Appollonius Rhodius." An excellent copy of this unfinished work came into my possession by inheritance, from my father, who served *n apprenticeship of eleven years— 1830-41— under R. M. Holden. AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 85 In 1842, the Rev. Wm, Jones, minister of Mawdsley-street Chapel^ Bolton, wrote an essay on " Improper and Unhappy Marriages," engaging E. M. Holden to print the same. The mention of Mr. Jones's name brings to my mind an amusing reminiscence of my father's, the narration of which, so long as it relates to a local author and his local printer, will not be accounted a digression from the subject. As before stated, my father (the late James Scholes) was formerly in the employ of Robert M. Holden, and worked under him as an apprentice for eleven years, at a time when trades unions had little or no voice between master and men, and when the hours of labour were " from early morn to late at night." During that period the late James Taylor Staton, founder and editor of tlie now defunct Bowtun Luminary ^ or Tumjowt Telegraph un Bleghurn Lanterun, and author of numerous Lancashire sketches, in dialect, also learned the printing business under the same master. John Tillotson (founder of the firm of Messrs. Tillotson and Son, publishers and proprietors of the Bolton Evening News, the Bolton Weekly Journal, &c.) was another fellow apprentice, and afterwards became proprietor of the establishment. In his day R. M. Holden conducted one of the most extensive businesses in the town — more particularly in the page-work department ; consequently was favoured with a considerable share of the Rev. Mr. Jones's literary work. On that account the reverend gentleman's visits to Holden's workshop were pretty numerous — more especially during the time of the said long term of apprenticeship. On the occasion of one of these visits (I have heard my father relate) it was necessary for Mr. Jones to ascend to the top storey of the office —probably to see his latest contribution to local literature in progress. This task was by no means an easy one to the rev, author, who, by the way, was too stout to be agile. On reaching the summit of the last flight of stairs the preacher was breathless almost to exhaustion; but to his intense relief a seat (?) was awaiting him. 'Jhis had been hastily though cautiously prepared by my father (then a mischievous lad not out of his teens) during the ascent of the robust visitor, whose approach was ■86 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY unmistakably announced by an audible "puffiner and blowing." The seat comprised a slender sheet of "mill-board" (used for book sides) ingeniously placed over a lidless box, care being taken to hide the vacuum beneath. On my father's invitation Mr. Jones hobbled to the uncouth resting-place, and with considerable force, consequent upon his fatigue, threw himself thereon. No sooner was the whole weight of Ilia cumbersome body brought to bear upon the supple " mill-board " than, as might well be expected, the temporary lid gave way, and down went the preacher into the empty box, leaving little more than head, arms, and legs above surface. The half-suppressed titters of the workpeople now swelled into a hearty laugh at the minister's untimely downfall, and my father made himself scarce ■when the " struggling author " shook his clenched fists and vociferated between his gasps for breathy " I've a rod in pickle for thee, Jim ; I've a rod in pickle for thee ! ! " The first, second, third and fourth Bolton Poll Books, in 1832, 1835, 1837, and 1841, were printed at the Mealhouse-lane Press ; whilst "William Bridge executed the fifth (and last) in 1847. A curious pamphlet almost unknown to the present generation, though half a century has not elapsed since its appearance, was put forth from the Mealhouse- lane Press in 1838, viz., "The Cogitations and Opinions of Timothy Grimshaw, Esq., formerly of Dean." I am not able to state, positively, • whether more than 112 pages of these "Opinions" were ever put into type — but I doubt it. The author was a strange man, and wrote some strange things, e.g., the introductory address to the work is headed with a parody on a quotation from Byron : — Years have rolled on, "Bolton Moor," since I left thee. The last work from the Mealhouse-lane Press that it is purposed to mention in this chapter, is, contrary to the stereotyped saying, also the least. It was printed just 40 years ago, and comprises 13 pages measuring 3in. by 2in., including a good margin ; its tide being "The Swearer's Prayer." It is questionable whether a smaller pamphlet was ever printed- in Bolton* AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 87 William Holcroft, of Bradsliawgate, figured prominently for a ■short time in the art of book-priuting — a good specimen appearing in the form of two volumes of sermons by the Rev. William Allen, M.A., who was simultaneously Head Master of the Bolton Grammar School •and Incumbent of Peel. They were printed in 1835 after his death and pathetically inscribed " to the Right Hon. George Lord Kenyon." The year 1832 appears to have been that in which Holcroft, when in {)artnership with John Heaton, printed his first pamphlet : " An Abstract of the Act Relating to Special Constables," with an introduction dated December, 1831. Fifty years ago a number of Bolton Wesleyan Methodists seceeded from the main body, and a pamphlet giving a " Plain Statement of Facts" concerning the same, •was also worked-ofi by Holcroft. A small work was struck off Henry Bradbury's press in 1838, which is worthy of notice inasmuch as it is of a topographical character. This is a " Copy of the Charter of Incorporation of the Borough of Bolton," Charles James Darbishire, Esq., being elected as first Mayor of the town. A production of a similar class appeared from the oflBce of a Liverpool firm, also some forty-seven years ago, viz., " The Railway Companion, from Manchester to Bolton : containing a description of everything worthy of notice on the line." This was evidently issued by way of advertisement when the above-mentioned line was opened in ]838. The late Mr. Henry Ashworth, of the Oaks, wrote, and caused to b» printed, no less than sixteen pamphlets and books between the years 1842 and 1877 — thus contributing most creditably to the ■" Cotton" literature not only of Lancashire but of all the northern counties. The first of this series was printed in 1842 by a firm in the metropolis, where it was also published. It gives "Statistical Illus- trations of the Past and Present State of Lancashire," and is a well- studied compilation. Hastily passing over Mr. Ashworth's intermediate literary works, and referring only to his last, it will be well to quote the title in full, which is : " Recollections of Richard Cobden, M.P., and the Anti-Corn Law League." The first edition appeared in 1877, 88 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY from a Manchester firm, being succeeded by another edition in the following year, published by Messrs. Cassell, Fetter, and Galpin, of London. This volume, which was placed on record through the instrumentality of the recently deceased Sir Thomas Bazley, doubtlessly adds considerably to the historical data of Bolton. The author, amongst other local items, describes how the Charter of Incorporation was obtained for the town, and later on reviews the distressed state of the locality, when, in 1841, no less than 13,000 out of 90,000" persons were receiving parish relief. A notice of his life has been contributed by Mr. W. E. A. Axon to the great " Dictionary of National Biography," now in course of publication. A full list of Mr. Ashworth's works will be found in the comprehensive collection- subjoined to these chapters. CHAPTER XL Very Rev. Dean Wood's Mathematical Works. — Writings op THE llEV. Thos. Bancroft, M.A. — Canon Slade's Voluminous Productions and his Love for Sunday Schools Sermons by THE llEV. William Thistlbthwaitb, M.A. — Transfer of Ebenezkr Chapel, its Pastor and Congregation to thk Church op England. — The Literature op the liEV. W. Chamberlain, M.A. fN close proximity to the old township of Turton, away from the busy uoise of an industrial town, and in a quieb spot, distinguished by the bleak aspect of its almost uncivilised surroundings, once stood the humble cottage home of two poor weavers, who had been taught to gain their livelihood by manual labour. This was the birthplace, and these the parents, of one whose life — from early youth to honoured age — was devoted almost exclusively to the education and moral advancement of his fellow- beings. These brief remarks apply to the Very Rev. Dean James Wood, D.D., who, as a mathematician was classed amongst the foremost of his day, and on that account space is here devoted to acknowledging his contributions to the students' library, For a man of his station in life, the father of Dean Wood possessed considerable G 90 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY knowledge, and opened an evening school for the neighbouring children, where he also instructed his own son in arithmetic and algebra — of which subjects he became so complete a master in after life, to the gratification of his parents. From his father's rude " class- room " he was sent to the Grammar School at Bury, and thence to St. John's College, Cambridge, where, before 1782 he had obtained the high honours of being senior wraugler and a fellow. His extensive knowledge of problematic subjects led to his writing and publishing three or four mathematical treatises, " The Principles of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy " appearing first. This was followed in 1795 ^by "The Elements of Algebra. &c."— the eighth edition being -issued just thirty years later. At intervals from 1796 to 1841 editions have appeared of " The Principles of Mechanics," whilst in 1798 his work on "The Elements of Optics" was put forth. The original impressions of the three last named books were from presses in Cambridge. For thirty or forty years Dean "Wood's books were in common use in the College of which he afterwards became the 31st master — being admitted on the 11th February, 1815. In Thomas Baker's " History of St. John's College, Cambridge," edited by the Rev. J. E. B. Mayor, M.A., in 1869, it is said that the works in question " are remarkable for perspicuity and elegance," and that they " retained their place in the University system of education longer, perhaps, than any similar treatises, written, as they are, ou subjects which from their nature admit of progressive improvement." In 1820 Dr. Wood was appointed to the Deanery of Ely. Throughout his life he was firmly attached to the Church of England, and approved in a most demonstrative manner of its " Scriptural doctrines, decent ceremonial, and moderate discipline." He possessed in a marked degree inestimable qualities which could not fail to command universal admiration and respect. His early academic honours — which he won at the age of 22 — were a proof of his great natural ability. Nothing is recorded of his literary talents being extended to subjects outside the sphere of scholastic works. His death occurred in the College on April 23rd, 1839, and on May Ist he was interred in St. John's Chapel with every possible mark of respect. AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. pr la 1793, on the death of Vicar Jeremiah Gilpin (who three years previously had succeeded Mr. Whitehead on his death), the Rev. Thomas Bancroft, M.A., was collated to the Bolton Vicariate, and in January of that year he authorised John Gardner to print a sermon which he had preached on five different occasions at Chester and Manchester between December 9, 1792, and January 13, 1793. After this, just four years went by before the same printer was again favoured with more of the Vicar's pamphlet work, when an expostulation on " Christian Zeal and Civil Obedience " * was issued, a second edition appearing in 1800. This was followed in 1802 and 1803, respectively, by the well-known "Sermon to the Bolton Volunteer Corps of Infantry," and a " Sermon on the Day Appointed by Proclamation for a National Fast." Numerous other works were written by Vicar Bancroft, one of the most important being printed at Chester, viz., "Prolusiones Poeticge, or selections of exercises in Greek, Latin, and English," dated 1788. A copy is preserved in the •Chetham Library. Previous to this he had published anonymously at Manchester, in 1777, a quarto pamphlet entitled " The Poetical Correspondent ; or Sketches of Manchester in verse, written in letters by a person in Town to his friend at Cambridge." In the Manchester •Guardian for March, 1846, there are some interesting articles on this brochure, founded on a copy which had belonged to the llev. Joshua Brookes, of Manchester, who had supplied the information that the writer was " Mr. Thomas Bancroft, usher of Manchester Free Grammar School, afterwards M.A., Br. Nos. Coll., Oxford, head master of Chester School and Vicar of Bolton," and that the verses were addressed to •* Mr. Miles Popple, an under-graduate, Trin. Coll., Cambridge, Vicar of Brading in the Isle of Wight, 1781." The Manchester Free Library possesses a copy of this rare tract.f In 1881, Mr. J. K. Waite, the Bolton Public Librarian, contributed some interesting notes * My copy of this sermon was presented by " the Author to C. Bayley, Jan. 31, 1797," as notified in Vicar Bancroft's own neat handwriting:. t Extracts from this work will be found in a subsequent chapter of tbtstf Notes. 92 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY about this old local vicar to the Bolton Journal^ and George Ormerod, Esq., F.R.S., D.C.L., suitably mentious Mr. Bancroft (hi* first tutor) in his valuable "History of the County Palatine and City of Chester." Six years elapsed after Vicar Bancroft's death in 1811, before the Rev. James Slade, M.A.. was collated to the living of Bolton — the interim being filled by the Rev. John Brocklebank, Before Mr, Slade's- introduction to the " City-le-Moors " he had proved himself a most painstaking compiler, which augured well for his accuracy in whatever works might follow. The publication in question comprises two volumes of considerable dimensions, being " Annotations of the Epistles," printed in 1816, which afterwards passed through many editions — the seventh was printed in 1833. Canon Slade'a- first work of local execution was his " Plain Jtemarks on the Four Gospels," from J. Gardner's press in 1818 ; next came " Lessons for Sunday Schools," in 1823; and five years later "Twenty-one Prayers for the Sick and Afflicted," and in 1830 " A Letter oa Church Reform to the Lord Bishop of London," which were all publislied by the same printer. Mr. Slade did nob confine himself to Gardner's workmanship, but, on the other hand, W. Holcroft, John Heaton, and William "Winstanley, also came in for a share of th^ vicar's patronage ; besides these, other firms in London and Chester p\t^ several of Mr. Slade'a literary works into type, and were by them published to ensure more extended circulation. Canon Slade's tastes for literature will be more obvious to those who have not been fortunate enough to examine the life and character of that worthy apostle of Christ, when it is understood that from 1816' to 1856 (the year preceding his resignation of the Bolton Vicariate) he had written and published no less than twenty-three works in fieparate form, exclusive of hymn-book compiling (which in themselves almost form a library). Some of those writings had several editions, which augmented the number of works to 38 — with a total of 51 vols. This, within a space of forty years, besides his parochial and other incumbent duties, will aid in showing " what manner of man AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 95 he was " better than the highest eulogium. His literary labours did not apparently interfere much with the ordinary routine of daily life, for his presence in the Sunday school, which more particularly engrossed his attention, was seldom withheld, and the management of that institution acted as a relaxation to his library studies. As a promoter of the highest order of Sunday schools he was invariably acknowledged, and through his instrumentality, immediately followed up by sound advice and timely warning, hundreds of scholars have •passed the initiative study of the Scriptures, and some have risen to positions of ecclesiastical eminence. So long as Sunday schools exist in our town will the name of Canon Slade be associated with them, for his heart was ever warm in their advancement, and the welfare of his numerous scholars was the principal study of his life. In this respect Nothing: can cover his hiloomy beds, And dark beneath. Through the blue heav'ns sweep Birds on the wing :— Are ye the last in sleep, Flowrets of ij-pring .150 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY One amongst the many striking incidents of the uncertainty of mortal life is here brought forward. Little did the writer think ■when penning those last beautiful lines, that before the lapse of many days her sun would have set, or that she, with the "flowr'ets of Spring," would be at rest, though with the impressive difference, that as the little flowers were waiting for the wonderful workings of Nature, she must " 'neath the clod lie low" till called by Nature's God. With -what pathos may it be said that — Death shoots so well he brings all a<;fe8 down. And few escape to wear a patriarch's crown. Next comes Mr. George W. Marslaud's poem on "Regeneration ; or Divine and Human Nature ;" printed in London thirty-five years ago ; and in 1853 another effusion entitled, " Musings of a Spirit," aUo published in the metropolis. In 1869, Mr. Benjamin Rushforth, " the blind poet of Bolton/* dedicated 103 pages of *' Miscellaneous Poems" to James Barlow, Esq., (then Mayor of Bolton) on account of the interest that gentleman had taken in the welfare of the author's afflicted brethren, " who were deprived of the most precious of all physical faculties," and also for the " gentlemanly and christian manner in which he had performed his public and private duties." The pamphlet was printed by William Parkhouse, Bridge-street, Bolton. Another little work was issued by the same author some time previous to the one -under notice, and was well received by the local public. James Stead, of Bank-street, in 1874 printed a small book of poems for the author, Mr. William Cryer. It bears the title " Spring Blossoms," and includes the " Lily of the Valley," " The Snow Drop," "April Morn," "A Welcome to Spring," &c. Though the order of merit due to these " Blossoms " is not of the highest, nevertheless some are pleasant to read, and the critic would stop short on being informed that the pieces "come forth with no great pretentions ; they come not from the conservatory where learning lends its artificial aid, but are rather the favourites of the •cottage, or the wild flowers of the moorland ; they were hastily AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE 151 . gathered ia spare hours by one accustomed to daily manual toil." The best poera in the collection is one on '* The Joys of Friendship and the Muses." Here is a verse : — How far above our meagre praise Are Scottb* and bold Macaulay's lays, \V ho gloried in the golden days And prowess of the Roman : And many a child of meaner song, Whose voice was heard amid the throng, Fell, while the fire was on his tongue, Brought down by death, fell bowman. In the same year Mr. Alfred H. Bromilow (son of Mr. William Bromilow, Town Hall-square, Bolton) produced a series of poems, which he very aptly headed " Betwixt Studies." The printing was done by John Mather of this town. lb was speedily followed by another effusion from the same hand, entitled " The Troubadour," in three cantos, which was printed at Manchester. A tragedy, with the appropriate title, *' Doom'd to Ruin," was also written by Mr. A. H. Bromilow ; the piece was first put on the stage at the Theatre Royal, Bolton, on the 12th February, 1875, and was rewarded with a fair criticism. This local author died in Louvaiu, Belguim, 20th October, 1883, at the early age of 29 years. "The Burning of Westhoughton Cotton Mill in 1812," formed the theme of a tragedy in rhyme by Mr. John Clough, of Westhoughton. It first appeared through tlie columns of the Bolton Weekly Journal, and was afterwards reprinted in pamphlet form in 1832. The author died in 1883. Although there are many local writers of poetry and rhyme of more or less importance besides those already mentioned, only one more will receive special notice here. This would have been passed by as unworthy of attention were it not for its misleading title, 5vhich might succeed in hoodwinking the public. It purports to be "Tlie History of Bolton in Rhyme," whereas it is nothing more nor less than a series of business advertisements, beatea and 152 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY twisted into what the author is pleased to style rhyme. Twenty-two lines are dedicated to " The Inebriates," and then follows a piece- on ** Teetotalers," which reads : There's yet another class to you I'll show, But where they jjet I really do not know ; They're called teetotalers — some wear bits of blue, But that's no odds to either me or you). I will say thin, without the sligbest doubt, That temperance here will never make a rout, Unless it tries to vie in competition. Some rooms to beat the public bars' condition ; Give, nightly, sonj^s or readings, with true spirit. Have homely cheer, and chats of worth or merit ; Be done with foppish talk, like turtle doves. Don't wear tall hats, and lay aside kid gloves. Don't shun the men who wear a common coat. Or get behind their back to cut their throat. The temperance cause may then in triumph rise. And raise thtir banner 'gainst the drinks' surprise, Mr. Harry Bruce is the author of the sentiments in question, and he- describes himself as a "Scribbler." Our American cousin would say to this, *' Yes, and I guess he is about right," for the word with which he dubs his vocation clearly explains everything. Henry Whewell & Co., of Deausgate, have done the printing. The preface or advertise- ment is dated June 16tl), 1885. So ends the history of local poetry down to the centennial year of Bolton book-priutiug. CHAPTER XX. "Works by Local Authors Piqnted in 1885, including Rev. John Brown's "Life op John Bunyan," and Mr. W, Pimblett's " Story of the Soudan War," and " English Political History, 1880-1885," &c. HASTY glance musb be taken at the bookwork of the year 1885 from the local press or by authors otherwise connected with our town. The first in the field was a little pamphlet treating on " A Piece of Hornwrack, its inhabitants and guests," which was quickly followed by a comprehensive " Natural History of British Zoophytes," both by Mr. Arthur S. Pennington, F,I..S., F.R.M.S., of Bolton ; who likewise has in the printer's hands "Memorials of Bidgway Gates School." Several Works — the result of practical expeiience and much research into the constantly varying regulations of the War Office and Admirality — have been published during the past five years by Lieut. Ottley L. Perry, F.R.G.S., of the Bolton Volunteer Battalion of the Loyal North liancashire Regiment. These works deal summarily with the regular forces, but include all details referring to the auxiliary forces. The two books, which have special reference to the routine and woi k of a Volunteer Battalion in camp, have been issued by its 154 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY commanding ofiB-cer to the local Battalion, for whose special advantage, indeed, they appear to have been written. That on " Camps of Instruction" was brought into use at the Rhyl encampment of May, 1885. All Mr. Perrj's military compilations have been printed at the Chronicle Office, excepting one on " Salutes and Rank, Badges, Colours and Small Arms in H.M. Army and Navy " (now in the press), which is being executed by a firm in the Metropolis. The first volume of Aid. H. M. Richardson's " Reminiscences of Forty Years in Bolton," was reprinted from the columns of the Bolton Standard. In passing, it may be observed that the first number of this uncontrollable Tory weekly appeared on Saturday, May 3rd, 1884, price Id., under the editorial care of Mr. James Rowley. The paper ceased December 5th, 1885. Alderman Richardson was elected Mayor of Bolton in 1879, and since then he has occupied a seat on the Aldermanie bench. He unsuccessfully contested the Borough of Bolton as an Independent or Workiugman s Candidate for Parliamentary honours, in November, 1885. "General Gordon in a New Light: the cause of war and the advocate of peace," is the title of a pamphlet of 60pp., 8vo., by the Rev, Charles C. Coe, of Bank-street Unitarian Chapel, Bolton ; it was printed at the Evening News Office, in this town, and published by London and Manchester houses. Only one other little tract is known to have been published for Mr. Coe, viz.: "The Problem of Evil," a sermon. The Rev. John Brown, B.A., a native of this town, nephew of the late Aid. John Brown, of Bolton, and for nine years prior to 1864 minister of Park Chapel, Manchester, and now pastor of the Bunyan Church, Bedford, in December, 1885, published an admirably written work on the " Life and Times of John Bunyan." Of this valuable addition to the history of the life and times of the author of " Pilgrim's Progress," the Literary World, of December 18t-h, 1885, says : " For the future, Mr. Brown's volume will have to be regarded as the Standard Life of Bunyan. His book will serve the double purpose of a permanent work of reference, and a thrilling narrative for AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 1 55 coutinuous perusal. lb will bring credit not only to the writer, but to Nonconformity generally, and to that^ special section of it which he adorns." Mr. Brown was apprenticed to Robert M. Holden, of the Mealhouse-lane Printing Press, but on account of the retirement of Mr. Holden the indentures were cancelled, and Mr. Brown was for a short time afterwards — until he left the business — employed by my respected father (the late James Scholes), at his establishment in Horvvich. Mr. Holden's widow became the third wife of Mr. Brown's father (the late Mr. William Brown). Mr. Brown did not long continue at his profession, preferring that of the ministry, in which calling he has made his mark not only as a preacher of great power but as an author of reliability. Many other works have been published by him, as will be seen by the list appended to these •chapters. Mr. E. Brown, of Newport-street, Bolton, is a younger brother of the minister. In May ^ last appeared from the publishing establishment of Remington and Co., London, a handsome volume of 276pp. demy • 8vo., entitled " Story of the Soudan War ; from the Rise of the Revolt, July, 1881, to the Fall of Khartoum and Death of Gordon, January, 1885." The author of this interesting history is Mr. Wm. Pimblett, editor of the Bolton Guardian, and the subject concerning which he writes is one that for the past five years has engrossed the attention of not only the British nation, but likewise of the civilised world. This literary production is characterised by marked lucidity and instructiveness, and before the end of Chapter I. has been gained the reader cannot fail to notice J>nd appreciate the careful and painstaking research the author has displayed in the necessarily hurried •compilation of facts with which it abounds. A work of this class is not a common commodity from the pen of a Boltonian ; therefore, Mr. Pimblett may pride himself on the happy thought that gave rise to the undertaking as well as to the pleasant and racy manner with which he has so successfully fulfilled his task. As a guarantee of party disinterestedness in writing this history, the author says : — ^* To ensure reliability, official documents have, where possible, beea 156 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY consulted. No statements of party have been accepted, because,, however anxious one is to present * the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,' the lode-stone of bias too often weighs in the scale even when one would carefully eschew it." If this spirit of independence had been displayed by many other writers of our country's history, undoubtedly better and more authentic records- would have been welded together for perusal by the masses, and as- a consequent result a greater amicability would exist between party and party than is evidenced under existing circumstances. Six months had scarcely elapsed from the appearance of the " Story of the Soudan," when another presentable book was published by Elliot Stock, of London, for the same author (Mr. Pimblett). It purports to be an " English Political History, 1880-1835," to which, extensive subject eighteen chapters are devoted, occupying 240 pp. 8vo., including a useful index. The title alone should ensure it a large sale, especially among politicianp, as it leads one to anticipate what it really is — a resume of the more interesting and important events of the five years of Liberal rule, during the period named- under the Premiership of Mr. Gladstone. In a work of this character, it must be very difficult to foibear altogether yielding to the great temptation of laudating the actions of one political party to the dif^paragement of the other. Such, however,. is not the case with the book now under notice, and though it ostensibly favours the workings of the powers that be, it does not hide under a bushel the praiseworthy movements of the Opposition. Neither is the author wishful that the work should be regarded simply as a record of political events as they have occurred during the reign of the second Gladstone Administration, but calls attention to the fact that *'the actions of Government and Opposition are criticised,, not unfairly." To say the least, this new History is based on authentic data, and is, at the same time, wiitten in a most interesting style. A large amount of literature, besides what has here received mention, has been produced from time to time during the past century AND JOTTINGS OF BOOK-LORE. 157 ■by the Press of Bolton. All branches are remarkably well represented — theology, biography, history, travel, poetry, music, and other miscellant'ous productious, of which the first-named, as is generally the •case, numerically heads the list. The list of authors of this class includes uiuuy others besides those heretofore mentioned, whose various styles are peculiar to the respective ages in which they lived ; and whilst much might be said in condemnation of the principles which it was the desire of some to advance, there is a favourable balance oa the side of those in whose expostulations and subsequent productions •may be seen many striking and original beauties which outside the study of theology are rarely to be found. A LIST OF LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. ^HE following list of local authors and their works will form a valuable supplement to the foregoing chapters. Ita compreheu- siveness alone will bespeak it a place amongst the literary specialities of the town. As may be imagined, this extensive collection of book and pamphlet titles, the dates and places of printing, as well as the names of their respective authors, has necessitated the bestowal of much time and the exercise of no small amount of perseverance. Besides simply recording such facts, another feature of considerable importance is introduced,, that is, a sign to indicate where copies of the works may be consulted. Great care has been taken to ascertain this information, ^hich will be particularly valuable in cases where references are desired, and a vast amount of time will be saved by first glancing through this list. A brief explanation is necessary to lucidate the reading of the items ; viz, : When a work has been printed in Bolton^ LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 1 59 the printer's name is put within parentheses " ( )," but if printed elsewhere then the name of such place only is inserted tvithin the parentheses. The date of printing next follows, and finally a sign indicating where the work against which it appears can be seen ; e. g., a * refers to the Free Library, Bolton ; t to the Free Reference Library, King-street, Manchester ; % Chetham College Library, Manchester ; § Library at the British Museum ; % Lambeth Library; \* Bodleian Library, Oxford; and 1] my own piivate library, which will not be used unless the work it accompanits cannot be found in any of the first four libraries indicated. Before closing these prefatory remarks it will be well to observe that the list is composed, first, of woiks by authors of local birth or long residence in the town or neighbourhood ; secondly, works locally printed, and thirdly, works of local significance printed elsewhere, Adams, Rev. Richard (M.A., Vicar of Lever Bridge, 1883 to date). Down with the Puseyites. (London.) Ten Reasons Why we should have Daily Prayers in our own Churches, (London) 1870. Rules for the Sick. (London) 1870. Handbook of the Sunday School. (Manchester) 1871. Handbook of the Catechism, (Manchester) 1872. Clergyman's and District Visitor's Handbook. (Manchestei) 1873. Scripture Reading Book. (Manchestei) 1874. Commentary on the Prayer Book. (London) 1876. Manual of Sick Visitation. (London) 1885. AiNSWORTH, John Horrocks (Halliwell). Essay on Mechanics' Institutes, with a particular relation to the Institute recently establibhed in Bolton. (J. Yates) 1825.t Texts of Scripture on the Holy Sacrament. (H. Bradbury) 1848.* 1 60 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. AiNSWORTH, Robert (Bolton Grammar School). The Most Natural and Easie Way of Institution. (London) 1698.§ 2nd ed., 1736.t Monumenta Vetustatis Kempiana. (London) 1720. § Thesaurus Linguae Latinse Compendiarius ; or a Dictionary of the Latin Tongue. 1st ed., 1736; 2Qd ed., 1746 ;* 4th ed. (London) 1761 ; many other editions. Contributions on Classical Antiquities. AllaRD, Rev. W. (Unitarian, Bury). Memoir of the Rev. Joseph Bealey, late minister of the Presbyterian Chapel, Cockey Moor. (Manchester) 1814.t Allen, Rev. Wjlliam (M.A., of Bolton Grammar School, and Incumbent of Peel). Collectanea Latina ; or easy construing lessons from the best Latin authors. 2nd ed. (London) 1823.:{: An Epitome of the Christian Religion. (VVin- - Chester) 1820. § The Elements of English Grammar. 3rd & 4th editions, (l-ondou) 1824. § Sermons— 2 vols. (W. Holcroft) 1835.t ALLiN, Rev. Thomas (Ebenezer Chapel, Bolton, 1822-4). Sermons Preached at Re-opening of Salem Chapel, Halifax. (Halifax) 1815.* Immortality of the Soul : sermon preached in Ebenezer Chapel, Bolton. Ist ed. (Hanley) 1823;* 2nd ed. 1828. Letter to the Rtv. G. Harris, concerning his remarks in defence of Unitarianism. (J. Ogle) 1823.t The Diflfusiou of Knowledge among the labouring classes. 1825. The Character and Fully of Modern Atheism, &c. 1828. [Note : Author of other works variously printed. His Memoir was written by Samuel Hulme, 1881.]§ LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. l6r ^LLON, Rev. Henry (D.D., Union Cliapel, London). Religious Reasons for Disestablishment. (Guardian Officf) 1872. Anderton, James (Lostock, alias John Brereley, priest.) Protestants Apologia for the Roman Chvrch. 1604, 1608,+ 1615 t Litvrgie of the Masse. (Cologne) 1620.^ Saincb Avstiues Religion. 1620.:!: The Reformed Protestant. Lutlier's Life, &c. (St. Omer) 1624. j Anderton, Lawrence (Horwich, alias Scroop, b. 1577, d. 1647), One God, One Faith. 1625. The Progeuie of Catholicks and Protestants. (Roven) 1633.J The Triple Cord ; or a treatise proving the truth of the Roman Religion. (St. Omer) 1634. § Andrews, Rev. Robert (Native of Bolton Parish). Animadversions ou Dr. Brown's Essays on the Characteristics. Criticism ou the Sermons of the Rev, John Holland, Eidyllia : a poem. (ICdinburgh) 1757-+ Translation of "Virgil into J^Juglish, in blank verse (Birmingham) 1766 + Odes, dedicated to the Honbl. Charles Yorke, Esq. (Birmingham) 1766. § Arrowsmith, Peter Rothwell (Bolton). Juvenile Mendicity in Bolton : A Letter to Thomas Lever Rushton, Esq., Mayor of Bolton. (Henry Brad- bury) 1850.+ 1 62 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. ASHWOETH, Henry (The 0-Af, Turton ; b. 1794, d. 1880). An Enquiry into the Origin, Progress, and Results of the Strike of Operative Cotton Spinners of Preston, from Oct., 1836, to Feb., 1837. (Manchester) 1838.* Statistics of the Depression of Trade in Bolton. (Manchester) 1841.* Statistical Illustrations of Past and Present State of Lancashire. (Loudon) 1842.* Report of the Statistical Committee appointed by the Auti-Corn-Law Conference, 1842. Factory Legislation : Report of the Central Com- mittee of the Association of Millowners and Manu- facturers engaged in the Cotton Trade, for 1844. Report upon the Proceedings in Parliament on the Passing of the Factories Act. The Preston Strike, and inquiry into its causes and consequences. (Manchester) 1854.* Cotton : Its cultivation, manufacture, and uses. (Manchester) 1858.* Be Just to India : Prevent Famine and Cherish Commerce. 1861. Progress of Science and Art as developed in the bleaching of cotton. 1861. A Tour ill the United States, Cuba, and Canada. (James Hudsmith) 1861.* Capital Punishments, and their inj&uence on crime. Our Colonies, their Commerce and Cost, 1862.+ International Maritime Law, and its effect] upon trade. (Manchester) 1864.* Historical Data, chiefly relating to South Lancashire and the Cotton Manufacture. 1866.t Recollections of Richard Cobden, M.P., and the Anti-Corn-Law League. 1st ed. (Manchester) 1877,* 2iid ed. (Loudon) 1878.t LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 1 63 AsHWORTH, Thomas (Turton). Map or Plan of Certain Proposed Keservoirs to be made on or near the River Irwell and certain streams falling into the River Irvyell, all in the County of Lan- caster. (K. M. Holden) 1833.t Atkin, Fredekic. Philosophy of the Temperance Reformation. (Tillot- son and Son.)l| John Ashworth : a Biography. (Bolton) 1875.il Is it Scriptural to Use Fermented Wine at the Lord's Supper ? (T. Cunlifife.)!! Atmobk, Rev. Charles (Wesleyan.) A brief Memoir of the Life and Death of Mr. C. Hopper, Methodist Preacher at Bolton. (Manchester) 1802.* Avert, Rev. John G. (Wesleyan, Bolton). Letter to the Rev. Thomas Berry, minister of Christ Church, Bolton. (H. Bradbury, jun., & Co.) 1842 || Axon, Henry (Bolton). Commercial and General Directory of Bolton [and neighbourhood] 1881 ; revised 1885. (G. S. Heaton,)* Axon, William E. A. (M.K.S.L. ; Manchester.) Bolton and its Free 1 library : a paper read at Bolton in 1878. (Manchester) 1879.* Bailey, John Eglington (F.S.A., Stretford.) Memoir of the Rev. John Tilsley, M.A., Vicar of Deane, near Bolton. (Manchester) 1884.t Baker, Rev. Franklin (M.A., Unitarian Chapel, Bank-street, 1823 ta 1864, b. 1800, d. 1867). The Services at his Ordination. (London) 1825.t Address to the Children of the Sunday School, Bank-street, Bolton, on the Death of a Sunday Scholar (J. Yates) 1826.t 164 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Baker, Rev. Franklin (Continued). A Church EstabUshmenfc Anti-Christian ; a lecture in Bank-street Chapel, Bolton. (J. Ogle) 1832.* Letter to the Rev, John Lyons, M.A., occasioned by a sermon by that gentleman. (J. Qadsby) two editions, 1841. A voice for Ireland. (London) 1847.t The Delta Festival : a poetical bagatelle. 1853. || The Moral Tone of the Factory System Defended. (Manchester) 1850.t The Rise and Progress of Nonconformity in Bolton. (Manchester) 1854.* Life and Times of the Rev, James Woods, commonly called " General Woods." (Robert Kenyon) 1859.* Baker, Rev. J. S. (B.A., Curate of Dean ; native of Southampton). Farewell Sermon preached in the Parish Church, Dean. (J. Heatou) 1829.* Bancroft, Rev. I'homas (M.A., Vicar of Bolton 1793 to 1811). The Political Correspondent; or Sketches of Man- chester in verse. (Manchester) 1777. f Prolusiones Poeticce : or a selection of exercises io Greek, Latin, and English, partly original and partly translated. (Chester) 1788.J Ars Rhetorica : or a Compendium of Rhetoric. (Chester). Sermon, preached in the Cathedral Church in Chester, Wednesday, 30th Jan., being the Anniversary of the Martyrdom of King Charles the First. (Chester).! Sermon, preached before the Mayor and Corporation of Chester, May 29. 1791. (Chester). Sermon, preached at the Cathedral in Chester, the 9th, at St. Peter's, Chester, the 16th Deer, 1792; at St. Mary's, Manchester, the 6Lh, and at the Collegiate LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 1 65 Bancroft, Rev. Thomas (Continued). Church, Manchester, the 13Lh January, 1793. (J. Gardner) 1793.:!: A Serious Address to the Town and Parish of Bolton- le-Moors. (Chester) 1794. 1| The Chain of Duty, or Christian Zeal and Civil Obedience. 1st ed. 1797; 1| 2nd ed. (J. Gardner) 1800.J Sermon preached before the Bolton Volunteer Corps of Infantry, on Thursday, May 6th, 1802, being the day on which they were disembodied and their colours deposited in the Parish Church of Bolton. (J. Gard- ner) 1802.t Occasional Hymns for the use of the Parish Church of Bolton, with Remarks. (J. Gardner) 1802.11 Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Boltou, Wednesday, October 9, 1803, being the day appointed by proclamation for a National Fast. (J. Gardner) 1803. The Englishman Armed against the Infidel Spirit of the Times. (Stockport) 1833. The Credibility of* Christianity Vindicated. (Man- chester) 1834. Three Dissertations : The Divinity of our Saviour ; the Atonement ; the Personalty of the Holy Ghost. (Oxford) 1835. Bannisteb, John (Seedley, near Manchester). John Fawcett : his life and work. (Manchester) 1885.* Bardslet, Rev. James (St. Ann's, Manchester). Church and State: a sermon preached in St. George's Church, Bolton. {Chronicle Office) 1868. Bablow, Dr. John (Boltou). An Account of a Mode of Practice which has been successfully adopted in cases of the Distortion of the Pelvis in Pregnant Women. 1800. 1 66 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Barnes, Kev. Thomas (D.D., at Ccckey Moor Chapel, 1768 to 1780). Discourse delivered at the Commencement of the Manchester Academy. (Warrington) 1786.t Sermons occasioned by the Death of Kev. Thomas Threlkeld, of Rochdale, with an Appendix containing some account of his life aud character. (Manchester) 1806 t [Note : Author of Eight Essays read before the Man- chester Literary and Philosophical Society, and pub- lished in their "Memoirs." 1781-4, &c,]* Barrow, Isaac (Bolton). A Standard Lifted for the People : a sermon preached at Hiudley. (Samuel Gardner) 1839. 1| Barton, Benjamin Thomas (Farnworth). History of Bury and Neighbourhood. (Bury) 1874.* Historical Notes of Farnworth and Kearsley. {Chronicle Office) 1875.* Historical Gleanings of Bolton and District. {Chronicle Office) 1881-2-3.* Bazlet, Sir Thomas (Gilnow, Bolton ; b. 1797, d. 1885). Cotton as an Element of Industry. 1852.t Preface to Mackay's Western India. (Manchester) 1853.t Labour of Life : a lecture. (Manchester) 1856.t National Education. (Manchester) 1858.t Trade and Commerce Axuiliaries of Civilization. 1858.t The Barton Aqueduct, (Manchester) 1859.* Speech on Indian Subjects. (Manchester) 1869,t Note : Also Writer of Miscellaneous Articles.] Bealey, Rev. Joseph (Cockey Moor Chapel ; b. 1757, d. 1813). Observations upon Rev. Mr. Owen's Sermon preached in the Parish Church at Warrington, on 30th January, 1790. (Warrington) 1790.+ LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 1 67 Ebaley, Rev. Joseph (Continued). 'I'he Opposite Ends of the Righteous and the Wicked ; illustrated in two sermons preached at Cockey Moor ; the former on the death of William Smith, a religious weaver, of Harwood, near Bolton, and the latter upon the Execution of John Leaver, ■who was hanged for the murder of John Ashworth, of Rochdale. (Manchester) 1805.t Funeral Discourse on the death of Rev. Dr. Barnes, at the Protestant Dissenters' Chapel, Cockey Moor, 22ud July, 1810 ; also an Address prefixed, delivered at Cross-street, Manchester, at the Interment. (Man- chester) IBlO.t Two Discourses ; one preached at the Unitarian Chapel, Mosley-street, 30th Dec, 1812 ; the other at Cross-street Chapel, Manchester, 10th January, 1813, (Manchester) 1813. f ►Sermon preached at the Protestant Dissenters* Chapel, at Cockey, in Ainsworth. (Manchester) 1813.t Observations upon the Rev. Mr. Owen's Sermon preached in the Parish Church at Warrington. (War- rington) 1790.t Beckett, Richard (Bolton). A Tradesman's Visit to Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine. {Chronicle Office) 1876.* Ten Thousand Miles in Fifty Days. {Journal Office) 1877.* The Egyptian War : a series of letters. {Journal Office) 1882.* Bedfobd, Rev. John (Bolton). Correspondence with the Rev. Wm. Sutclifife. (John Ogle) 1842.11 A Wesleyan Minister's Answer to " A Letter from a Clergyman." (John Ogle) 1842. 1| l68 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Beegeb, Tiev. T. T. (B.A., Vicar of St. James's, 1871 to dale). Several Tracts : Racing to Ruin. Words to Sunday School Teachers. The Door was Shut, &c. 1858-9. Sermons : Will ar man Rob God. Winding up of Earth's Story, &c. (Manchester) 1860-1. The Coming Struggle between liussia, Turkey, and England. The World's Tribulation and the Time of the End. The Eastern Question reviewed in the light of prophecy. (Loudon) 1862-5. Disestablishment and Disendowment. (Bolton)- 1872.* Union of Church and State. (London) 1873. Wrecked on the Breakers : a reply to Rev. Dr. Mellor's letters to the Bishop of ]!ipon. (Manchester) 1873.* Church Property : four nights' discussion with Rev^ J. H. Gordon at Dewsbury. (Dewsbury) 1875. || BSBBY, Kev. Thomas (Incumbent of Christ Church). The Voice of the Rod : a sermon preached at Bury, (Robert Holden) 1832 1 Sermon on the Death of Mr. James Hudsmith, pro- prietor of the Bolton Chronicle^ preached at Christ Church, January 24th, 1864. {Chronicle Office) 1864. || r, Elizabeth (Bolton). Only : a paper read before the Bolton Excelsior Lodge, I.O.G.T. (W. Robinson) 1875.* Best, Rev. Robert (Mawdsley-street Chapel). Appeal to the Inhabitants of Kirkham and Neigh- bourhood upon the Evil of Church Rates. (Manchester)* 1849. Congregational Independency as Old as the Apostles^ (Manchester) 1850. § LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 1 69 Bkst, Rev. Robert (Continued). A Lancashire Minister's Continental Holiday, and what it cost. {Chronicle Office) 1865.* Over the Alps to Rome. {Chrmicle Office) 1867.* Best, William (Organist, Parish Church). Anthems to be used in the Bolton Parish Church, (Geo. S. Heaton) 1st ed. 1871, 2ud 1881.* Sixty-eight Tunes for Hymns. (G. S. Heaton) 1872. Bingham, Miss F. L. ( Harwood Parsonage). Hubert, or the Orphans of St. Madeline. (John Heaton) 1845-* Short Poems, religious and sentimental. (Henry Bradbury) 1848. || Black, Dr. James (F.G.S., &c. ; native of Bolton). A Short Inquiry into the Capillary Circulation of the Blood, &c. (London) 1825.§ A Comparative View of the more intimate Nature of Fever. (London) 1826.§ A Medico-Topographical, Geological, and Statistical Sketch of Bolton and Neighbourhood. 1837.t A Manuel on the Bowels and the 'J'reatment of their principle disorders from Infancy to Old Age. (London) 1840,§ Observations and Instructions on Cold and Warm Bathing. (Manchester) 1846. A Memoir on the Roman Garrison at Mancunium, and its probable influence on the population and lan- guage of South Lancashire. Isted. (Manchester) 1849;t 2nd ed. (Edinburgh) 1856.t A Few Words in aid of Literature and Science, on the Opening of Bolton Public Library. (Henry Brad- bury) 1853.* 170 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Blakbney, Rev. Dr. Transubstantiation as avowed, and the Sacrifice of the Mass set up, by the Rituah'sts iu the Church of England. {Chronicle Office) 1868. || BoARDMAN, Luke (Native of Bolton). A Discourse delivered in Luke Boardman's Ragged School on Sunday, November 11 fch, 1860. (J. T. Staton) 1860. Passages in his Life, &c. 1st ed. (J. T. Staton) 1862; I| 3rd ed. (Easier) 1866 ;* 4th ed. (Tillotson and Son) 1873.* Bourn, Rev. Samuel (sen., Unitarian Chapel, Bank-street, 1695 to 1719). Several Sermons ; with a character of the author in a discourse preached by hiA son at Bolton. (London) 1722.* Bourn, Rev. Samuel (jun., Birmingham). Sermon Occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Samuel Bourn, of Bolton, who died 1719. (London) 1721.* Popery a Craft, and Popish Priests the Chief Crafts- men : a sermon preached on the 5th November, 1735. The Protestant Catechism, or a Vindication of the Protestant Reformation, containing a brief account of the Original of Popery. 1746. Twenty Sermons en the most serious and practical subjects of the Christian Religion. Isted. 1755;* 2ud ed. 1757.11 [Note : Several other Lectures and Sermon8.]+ Bowes, John (Itinerant Preacher). Discussion with Rev. "Woodville Woodman, of the New Jerusalem Church, Kearsley, at the Temperance Hall, Bolton. (Thos. Morris) 1858. LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 171 Bbadbuun, Rev. Samuel (Wesleyan Methodist). The Eternal Home of the Good : a sermon preached in Oldham-streeb Chapel, Manchester, to the Memory of Mr. William Marsden. (London) 1801.11 God Shining Forth from between the Cherubim : a sermon preached at the Opening of Bridge-street Methodist Chapel, Bolton, September 30th, 1804, &c. (T. Garner) 1805.* Sermons Preached on Particular Occasions. (London) 1817.§ [Note : Numerous other Sermons, &c.] f & §. Bradbury, Henry ( Bolton). The Bolton Almanack. 1843 to 1867.* Bradshaw, E. F. (Bolton). Sandycourt ; a tale. (Henry Bradbury) 1875.* Bradshaw, Ellis (Bolton). An Husbandman's Harrow to pull down the ridges of the Presbyteriall Governmont, &c. (London) 1649.+ A Week-daies Lecture or continued Sermon, to wit. The Preaching of the Heavens. (London) 1649.t A New and Clear Discovery of the true and proper and natural Cause of the Ebbing and Flowing of the Maine Sea. (Lodon) 1649.t A True Relatiou of the Strange Apparitions seen ia the Air on Monday the 25 February in and about the Town of Bolton in the Moors, &c. (London) 1650.§ A Compendious Answer to the Brief Survay of the Judgement of Mr. John Goodwin. (London) I652.f Downfal of Tythes no Sacriledge. (London) 1653. § The Quakers' Whitest Divell Unvailed : an answer to a letter by James Naylor, (London) 1654.t The Quakers' Quaking Principles Examined and Refuted. (London) 1656 f The Conviction of James Naylor, and his black spirit. (London) 1656.+ lyZ BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Beadshaw, Ralph (Clioir Master, St. George's Church). Twenty-four Psalm or Hymn Tunes, adapted for Pubh'c Worship. (Loudon) n.d. Beadshaw, 1'homas (Bolton). Friendship's Memorials : Hymns and Miscellaneous- Pieces. (Loudon) 1856.* Beandwood, James (Edgworth ; b. 1739, d. 1826). Letters and Extracts of Letters, (^^anche8ter) 1828.* Beimelow, William (Bolton). Hymns for Christian Worship and the Sabbath School — 1153 in number — with list of authors; — joint- compiler. (Preston) 1871. The Extension of National Uusectarian Education. (Tillotson & Sou) 1874. The Aiusworths of Smithills. (Tillotson & Sou> 1881.* Political and Parliamentary History of Bolton. (Tillotson & Son), vol. 1, 1882.* A Free Church and a Free Ministry, (London) 1884.11 Old Bolton Families. (In the press.) Beindley, Dr. The Teachings of Swedenborg on Marriage, the Intermediate State, Hell, and the Scriptures; a debate with llev. Woodville ^Woodman, at Bolton. (Jamea Hudsmith) 1862.11 Bbiscob, John Daly (Boltou). Hand-book of the History and Topography of Boltou. (Thomas Morris) 1861.* The New Code aud its Effects. (Thomas Morris : 1862.11 [Note: Reviser of Bolton portion of "Baines'ft Lancashire," 1868 ed.; &c., &c.] LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 1 73 eRiscoR, John Potter (Native of Darcy Lever ; Nottingham Public Librarian). Catalogues of the Nottingham Free Public Libraries, 1869-85.* The Literature of Tim Bobbin. (Manchester) 1872* Nottingham Facts and Fictions. (Nottingham) 1st ed. 1872 ; 2ad ed. 1876 ; 2nd series 1877.* Official Catalogue of the Pictures and Objects in the Midland Counties Art Museum. 1879. Wonderful Almanac and Records of the Marvellous, historical, biographical, and social in all ages. (London) 1879 80.* Tlie Book of Nottinghamshire Anecdote. (Notting- ham) 1879. Nottingham Red-Book : annual register of public men. (Nottingham) 1880. Old Nottinghamshire. (London) 1st series 1881 ;t 2ud series 1884.* The Trent Bridge at Nottingham, A.D. 924-1871. (Nottingham) 1882.t Stories About the Midlands. (Nottingham) 1883. § Curiosities of the Belfry. (Nottingham) 1883.t Gleanings from God's Acre : a Collection of Epitaphs. (Edinburgh) 1883. § [N'ote : Author of numerous miscellaneous pamphlets, guide books, almanacs, &c.]§ Brockbank, Qkorqe Parkkr (Bolton). Masonic Calendar for Bolton. (Thos. Morris) 1872 and 1874. By-Laws of the St. George's Lodge, No. 1723, of Free Masons. (Thos, Morris) 1879. History of St. John's Lodge, No. 221, of Free Masons. (Thomas Morris) 1880.* History of the "Anchor and Hope " Lodge, No. 37, of Free Masons ; — ^joint author, (Thomas Morris) 1882.* 174 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bromilow, Alfred Henry (Bolton ; b. 1854, d. 1883). Betwixt Studies : poems. (Jolin Mather) 1874.* • The Troubadour : n, poem. (Manchester) 1874.* [Note : Autlior of " Tales of Terror," and otiier miscellaneous pieces.]* Bromiley, Arthur (Bolton). Tracts on Social Regeneration. (Manchestej) 1850. Brown, Rev. John (B.A., of the Bunyan Church, Bedford ; native of Bolton). The Book of Revelation : a series of expositions, (London) 1866.11 The Disestablishment and Disendowment of the Church of England : a lecture. (Bedford) 1876. God's Book for Man's Life : a series of lectures. (Bedford) 1881!! Personal Relics and Recent Memorials of John Bunyan : a paper. (Bedford) 1882. John Bunyan : his Life, Times, and Work. (London) 1885. [Note : Also Contributor of the Historical Sketch on Bunyan in " The Book of the Bunyan Festival," 1874 ; &c., and author of numerous printed lectures on various subjects.] Bbown, John (Bolton). Historical Gallery of Criminal Portraitures, 2 vols. (Manchester) 1823 + History of Great and Little Bolton — not finished. (Manchester) 1824.* The Basis of Mr. Samuel Crompton's Claims to a second remuneration from Parliament, for his discovery of the Mule Spinning Machine. Ist ed. (London) 1825 ; 2nd ed. (Manchester) 1868.* Memoir of Robert Elincoe. (Manchester) 1832.+ LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 1 75 Bbucb, Habrt. History of Bolton in Rhyme. (Henry Whewell) 1885.11 Buckley, John (Tyldesley). Chronological History of Tyldesley. (Guardian Office) 1878.11 Bullock, Rev. Robert (All Saints' Church). Geography ll^pitomized : or a Companion to the Atlas. (Wigau) 1810.* Burns, Rev. W. (Famworth). A Letter from a Clergyman to his Parishioners, against the Interference of a Wesleyan Preacher in his Parish. (Preston) 1842. || Cannon, James D. (Bolton). Jewish Drama : a poem. Cablilb, Richard. Letter to Rev. George Harris, of Bolton, addressed from Dorchester Gaol, 1823.11 Carrib, John (Bolton). Ancient Things in Angus : a series of articles on ancient things, manners, and customs in Forfarshire. (Abroath) 1881.* Chambbrlain, Rev. Walter (M.A., Vicar of St. John's, 1849 to date). Parochial Centralization ; or remarks on the present state of the Church of England in Provincial Towns, &c. (Henry Bradbury, jun.) 1850. § Restoration and Conversion of Israel. (London) 1854 § Isaiah's Call to England. (London) I860.* The Christian Verity Stated. (London) Ist ed. 1861 ;§ 2ud ed. 1862.* A Plain Reply to Bishop Colenso. (London). 1863.* 176 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. ChamberlaiNj Rev. Walter (Continued). A Public Remonstrance addressed to John Bright, Esq., M.P. {Chronicle Office) 1867.* Letter on the Athanasian Creed, to the Venerable the Archdeacon of Manchester. (Chronicle Office) 1872.* The Case Against the Burials Bill : a paper read before the Rural Decanal Chapter of Bolton-le-Moors. (Manchester) 1875.* The Time of the End. (H. Bradbury) 1st ed. 1878 ;|| 2Qd ed. 1880.§ Short Articles on the Revised New Testament. {Chronicle Office) 1881.* On the Causes that Public Worship is Neglected by the People ; and can they be removed ? {Chronicle Office) 1882.* Scriptural Account of the Sabbath Day. {Chronid Office) 1884 * Easy Words on the Inspiration of Holy Scripture. {Chronicle Office) 1885.* Champness, Rev. Thomas (Wesley an Methodist). True Tales. (Bacup) 1885. [Note : Editor of Joyful News ; and writer of much miscellaneous matter.] Chattor, Rev. William (B.A., All Saints' Church, 1880 to date). *" Sermon on the Anniversary of the Queen's Acces- sion. ((7^romc7e Office) 1882.11 ■Clayton, Rev. George (Cougregationalist). Triumph of Faith in the prospect and crisis of death : a sermon on the Death of Rev. Robt. Simpson, D.D., formerly of Bolton. (London) 1818. § [Note : A voluminous writer.]§ LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 177- CoRRT, John. Life of Lord Nelson. (T. Garner) ? 1805.* Cree, Rev. Robert (Unitarian, Preston). Indifference to the Cause of Truth worse than Infidelity : a sermon preache 1 in Moor-lane Meeting House, Bolton. (Preston) 1825.11 Clarke, P. (Bolton). John Bull's Address to Benjamin on the Opening of Parliament, 1878 : a satirical poem. (J. Mather.) dLEGO, James (Bolton). A Chronological History of Bolton, with Parliamen» tary and Municipal Representation. {Chronicle Ofl&ce) 1866 ; several later editions.* Reminiscences of the Bolton Gas Company from 1818 to 1872 : An Historical Retrospect. {Chronicle Office) 1872.* Editor of the Autobiography of a Lancashire Lawyer ; being the Life and Recollections of John Taylor, the first Coroner of Bolton. {Chronicle Office) 1883.* Editor of the Council Proceedings of the Borough of Bolton. {Chronicle Office) IQSe to 1885.* ■Clough, John (Wes though ton ; d. 1883). A 'Jragedy : Tlie Burning of Westhoughton Cotton Mill in 1812. {Journal Office) 1882 || €oE, Rev. C. C. (F.R.G.S., Unitarian Chapel, Bank-street, 1874 to date). Sermon : The Problem of Evil. (Glasgow) n.d. General Gordon in a New Light, &c. {Evening News Office) 1885.* •Collier, Rev. Francis George (Horwich). History of New Chapel, Horwich. (Wigan) 1877.11 Cooper, Simpson (Bolton). The Accounts of the Bolton Union for 1862. (F. C. W. Latham) 1862, &c.* 178 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Crompton, Dr. Samuel (Surrey ; native of Over Darwen ; grandsott of Inventor Samuel Crompton). Mecii3al Reporting, (r.ath) 1847.t Cxuses of Blindness. (Manchester) 1849.t The Alienation of the Chapel of tlie Deaf and Dumb Scliool, &c. : a letter to the Bishop of Manchester. (Manchester) 1862. t Some Particulars of the Threatened Expulsion from Eenshaw's Blind Asylum, &c. (Manchester) 1863.t Portraits of Sir Isaac Newton. (Manchester) 1866.i* Tycho Brahe : Description of his portrait. (Man- chester) 1876.t Crompton, Thomas Bonsor (Prestolee). Excise Duty on Paper, considered as affeciincj the employment of the Poor. 1851.* Cross, John Ktnaston (M.P. for Bolton 1874 to 1885), Imports, Exports, and the French Treaty. (London) 1881.§ Cryeb, William (Bolton). Spring Blossoms : poems. (James Stead) 1874.* Davison, Rev. William Hope (Congregational Church, St. Qeorge's-rd.). Centenary Memorials of Duke's Alley Chapel. (Joho TiUotson) 1854.* Two Lectures on the Irish Church aud its Defenders. {Guardian Office) 1! Compiler of Hymns for General Worship. (John Tillotson) 1857. Sermon on the Death of the Prince Consort, preached at Bolton, 1861. Davlin, Charles (Native of Cai lisle; settled in Bolton 1829). Gilbart : A poem on the evils of intemperance. (Preston) 1838. The Democrat : A poem. (H. Bradbury, jun., and Co.) 1839.11 LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 1 79 Dawes, Matthew (F.G.S., Bolton). Account of Britiah Burial Places near Bolton, co. Lancashire. (Liverpool) 1852.* Dawson, Thomas (Bolton). A Record of the Commencement and Progress of the Erections and Buildings at "Goose-Coat-Hill," Turton. (J. Tillotson) 1855.* Dbaks, Bev. Joseph (New Jerusalem Church). The Defence of Revealed Religion, being strictures upon the views of the Rev. C. Voysey, B.A. (London)- 1871. The Rev. Woodville Woodman : a biographical dis- course delivered in the New Jerusalem Chuich, Bolton. {Guardian Office) 1872. Dbabden, William (Bolton). Anshont City of Higham Olmonack. (Padiham) 1853. The Safeguard of Protestantism : The Oiigin of Orangeism. (Jas. Stead) 1875.* Defob, Daniel (Native of London ; b. 1661 ; d. 1731). 'Jhe Experiment, or, the Shortest Way with the Dissenters Exemplified. Being the case of Mr. Abraham Gill, a Dissenting Minister in the Isle of Ely, &c. [Abraham Gill was a native of Rivington, near Bolton-le-Moors]. (London) 1st ed., 1705, 2iid ed., 1707.t [Replies to this work v?ere printed in 1707 and 1710.] Dixon, Rev. Thomas (M.A., M.D., Unitarian Chapel, Bank-street, 1719 to 1729). 'Jhe Sovereignity of the Divine Administration. Vindicated. (London) Ist ed.§ ; 2ad ed. 1766.* c80 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Djxon, Thomas (Bolton). Practical Millwrights and Engineers Ready Reckoner, Ist ed. (Henry Whewell); 2ud ed. (London) 1865.§ Treatises on the Side Rule. (Bradford) Ist ed,§ ; 2ad ed. 1876.* Treatise on the Combined Circular, Multi-Circular, and Five-Figures Logarithmic Decimals Slide Rule. (Bradford) 1883. § DOBSON, Rev. Joshua (Unitarian Chapel, Cockey Moor). Religiuus Gratitude Explained, in two sermons preached at Cockey (alias Cockley) New Chapel, ia Lancashire, the one April 16,1747, the other the Lord's Day following. (London) 1747. J Dracup, Rev. John (Sowerby Steep-lane Baptist Chapel). Hymns and Spiritual Songs. (B. Jackson) 1787.11 DUMBELL, John (Warrington). Obseivations Relative to the Birmingham System of Grinding Corn and Making Bread. (Swindells and Whalley) n.d.* Dyson, Joseph (Faruworth ; b. 1781, d. 1867). Rural Congregationalism ; or Farnworth as it was Fifty to Seventy Years Ago. (Manchester) 1881.* Ellis, Rev. Samuel (Duke's Alley Chapel, 1827 to 1843). The Voice of Truth ;— joint editor. (R. Holden) 1832. |{ Entwisle, Ethblbert (Bolton). In Memoriam. Pastimes and Recreations ; an essay read before the Bolton Church Mutual Improvement Society. (G. S. Heaton) 1881.* Entwisle, John (Bolton). Report of the Sanitary Condition of the Borough of Bolton, in a letter to the Mayor. (Henry Bradbury) 1848. § Light upon Dark Places ; or Homes and Hearths of the Poor of Bolton. {Evening News Office) 1884.* LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. l8l Kntwistlb, Robert (Bolton). Hymns for Christian Worsliip and the Sabbath School — 1,153 in number — with list of autliors ; — ^joint compiler. (Preston) 1871. Etheridge, Rev. Benjamin (Baptist Cliapel, Moor-lane, 1846 to 1853). The Christian Brotherhood Exhorted ; an address delivered in the Baptist Chapel, Moor-laue, (Ogle and Son) 1846.* Faikbairn, Sir William (C.E., LL.D., &c. ; b. 1789, d. 1874). Lecture on Labour, delivered in Mechanics' Insti- tute, Bolton, 1865 ; with short Life of Samuel Cromp- ton, appended. (T. Cunliffe) 1865.* Farrar, Joseph (Bolton). Miscellaneous Poems and Songs. Fawcett, John (sen,, Bolton ; b. 1789, d. 1867). The Juvenile Pianist Companion. The Temperance Harmonist. (Glasgow) n.d.* Hymn Tunes and other Pieces, v.d. Ferguson, W. A. (Bolton). The Waverley Novels : an essay read before the Bolton Hesperus Literary and Christian Association. (Manchester) 1873.* Flavel, Rev. John (Devonshire). Divine Conduct j or the Mystery of Providence. (B. Jackson) 1788.* Fletcher, lie v. John (Madeley). An Address to such as Inquire : " What must we do to be saved ?" (John Ogle) n.d.|[ Fogg, Rev. Lawrence (D.D., Dean of Chester ; native of Darcy Lever ; b. 1630, d. 1718). Two Treatises ou the Christian Religion, &e. (Ches- ter) 17i2.§ God's Infinite Grace in Election and Impartial Equity in Preteritiou Vindicated. (Chester) 1713.J 1 82 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. FoRSTER, John (Bolton ; b. 1773, d. 1835). Treatise on the Free Grace of God. 2ad ed. (Bolton) 1820.* Fox, Rev. JoSKPH (Duke's Alley Chapel, 1818 to 1827). Lectures on Modern Sociuianism, delivered in Duke's Alley Chapel, Bolton. (J. Ogle) 1824.* Four sermons preached in Duke's Alley Chapel, Bol- ton. (J. Ogle) 1824.* France, Rev. William (Wesleyan Methodist in Bolton Circuit, 1822-3). The Faith Ouce Delivered to the Saints, Defended : Three sermons preached in the Methodist Chapels, Bolton. (J. Ogle) 1823-11 French, Gilbert James (F.S.A., Bolton ; b. 1804, d. 1866). The Edinburgh Dramatic Tete d '1 ete: or Companion to the Theatre ;— a Serial. (Edinburgh) 1828. Remarks on Minor Accessories to the Services of the Church ; with Hints on Altar Cloths, &c. (Leeds) 1844.* Descriptive Catalogue of Articles of Church Decora- tion. (John Heaton) 1848; 34th ed. (Manchester) 1868. Hints on the Arrangement of Colours in Ancient Decorative Art. 2ud ed. (Manchester) 1850. § The Tippets of the Canons Ecclesiastical. (Man* Chester) 1850. § Notes on the Nimbuf?. (John Heaton) 1854.* Parallel Passages from Two Tales Elucidating the Plot of Guy Mannering. (Manchester) 1855.* A Catalogue of a Library of Buoks chained to an Oak Chest, bequeathed by Humphrey Chetham to Turton Ch.npel, A.D. 1655; with list of subscribers for the rebindiug, &c. (Manchester) 1855.t Bibliographical Notices of the Church Libraries afc Turton and Gorton bequeathed by Humphrey Chetham. (Chetham Society Publication, vol. 38.)* LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 1 83 French, Gilbert James (Continued). An ICnquiry into the Origin of the Authorship of some of the Earlier "Waverley Novels. (Jas. Hud- smith) 1856.* Remarks on the Mechanical Structure of Cotton Fibre. (Manchester) 1857.* On the Banners of the Bayeux Tapestry, and some of the Earliest Heraldic Charges. (London) 1857.* Hisuory and Manufacture of Stained Glass Win- dows, &c. (Bolton) 1857.* An Attempt to Explain the Origin and Meaning of the Early Interlaced Ornamentation found on the Ancient Sculptured Stones of Scotland, Ireland, and Isle of Man. (Manchester) 1858. § Life and Times of Samuel Cromptou, inventor of the Spinning Mule. (Manchester) l8t ed. 1859 ;* 2ud 1860 ;* 3rd ed. 1662.* Decorative Devices for Sunday Schools. (I. Hasler) 1861.* Catalogue of Books on Heraldry, Archaeology, &c., iu the Library of Q. J. French, Bolton, Lancashire. (T. Cunliffe) 1864.* French, Gilbert Joseph (Bolton). The Pleiades : A mythological and romantic extra- vaganza. (Tillotson and Son) 1883.* QEOGHEaAN, Joseph B. (Bolton) A Book of Select Songs, comic and sentimental. (T, Abbatt,)* [Note : Also writer of numerous other effusions.] GiRDLESTONE, Rev. Edward (M.A., Vicar of Deane, 1830 to 1855). Christian Expediency : A sermon preached at Man Chester Collegiate Church at the Bishop of Chester' ^ Visitation. (J. Heaton and Son) 1835 || Home : or, the Friend of his Family the Friend of God. |84 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. GiRDLESTONB, Rev. Edward (Continued). Facts aud Tlioughts for the Additional Curates'" Aid Society. George Marsli, the Martyr of Deane : four Advent sermons preached in 1850 from tlie Martyr's Pulpit ia Deane Church. (Henry Bradbury) 1851.t The Education Question. 1852. . Reflected Truth, &c. GOOCH, BlCHARD. The Masonic Melodist. (W. Holcroft) 1836, Gordon, J. H. (Astley Bridge, Bolton). Helps to Belief ; or. Essays by the Way (Leeds). Old Archie — Archibald Wilson — the Bolton Black- ing Man. (Leeds) 1864.* GnEBNER, Rev. John (Independent Chapel, Egerton). The Expulsion of the Lord Jesus Christ : a farewell sermon. (T. Cunliffe) 1860.|1 Gbeenhalgh, Feederick Thomas (Mayor of Lowell, Mass.; native of Clitheroe). Address at the Commemoration of the Victory of North America in the late Great Civil War. {dironide Office) 1881.* GnssNHALGHj JOSEPH DoDSON (Native tf Clitheroe). Memoranda of the Greenhalgh Family. (T. Abbatt) 1869.* Local Antiquarian Notes. {Journal Office) 1874.* Historical Notes of the Greenhalgh Family from early time, as pertaining to a Foundation Branch known as the " Brandlesome Order." {Chronicle Office) 1877.* Notes on the History of the Township of Breightmet. (Tillotson & Sou) 1879.* Sayings and Doings of the Rev. James Folds, other- wise Parson Folds, Lecturer of Bolton Parish Church from 1755 to 1820, {Guardian Office) 1879,* LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS* 1 85 Greenhalgh, Joseph Dodson (Continued), Local Fragmeuts from the Diary of Captain Roger Dewhurst. {Chronicle Office) 1880; 2nd ed. enlarged, 1881.* [Note: Also writer of miscellaneous historical notes.] Gbbbnhalgh, Nathaniel (Sharpies). Political Pamphlet, addressed to the Electors of the Borough of Bolton. (Manchester) 1846-7. Relations of Capital and Labour : a lecture. {Chronicle Office) 1873.* Gbbbnhalgh, Thomas (Bolton). Lancashire Life ; or the Vicissitudes of Commerce. (Liverpool) 1854.* Kennee Voo ; or the Sacking of Allaroonah, (Lon- don) 1856.* Gbimshaw, Thomas (Bolton), Two Letters : A Tour from Bolton, through Black- burn, to Rishton ; and Laying the Foundation Stone of a Church School at Rishton. (Church) 1864.* [Note : Known as "Radical Grimshaw."] Gbimshaw, Timothy (Deaue). Cogitations and Opinions, consisting of ciitical ob* eervationf, customs, &c., of the people of Bolton. (R. M. Holden) 1838.11 Haddock, Dr. Joseph Wilcox (Bolton). Somnolism and Psycheism. (London) 1849; (New York) 1850 ; (London) 1851 ;* (Leipsic) 1851. How to Cure Disease : Brief Observations on the Physiological Practice of Medicine, &c. (London) 1851. Hague, Rev, Joseph (Kbeuezer Chapel, Over Darwen). The Voice of Truth ;— joint editor. (R. Holden) 1833 II An Answer to the Letter of James Green way, Esq., on the Union of Church and State. (Over Darwen) 1834. N 1 86 ' BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Hall, John (Public Prosecutor, Bolton). Should the Powers of the Statute under which the Director of Public Prosecutions is appointed be en- larged ; and, if so, in what manner ? (London) 1883.[l Hamill, Jambs (Bolton). The Second Price ; or the Bolton Swindler : being an account of the various artifices made use of by R. K., commonly called Squire K, Lord K., &c., and formerly termed Poor Weaver, &c. (T. Blundeil) 1809.* Hampson Thomas (Horwich). History of Blackrod. (Wigan) 1882.* Horwich : Its History, Legends, and Church. (Wigan) 1883.* [Note : Also writer of much miscellaneous fiction.] Handford, Rev. Thomas W. (Claremont Baptist Chapel, 1864 to 1872). The Christian Minister : His Creed and Charaster (6^Mar(iian Office) 1868.11 The Destiny of the Sons of God : A Tribute to the Memory of Samuel Hardman, Bolton. {GiMrdian Office) 1869.* Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury : A Tribute. (T. Abbatt) 1871.* Lahorare est Orare : Miscellaneous Poems. {Guardian Office.) HaNesworth, Thomas H. (Bolton). Infant Classes : a paper before the Sunday Confer- ence, held in Liverpool, 1865. (Liverpool) 1866. Hargreaves, J., & Son (Bolton). Pocket Companion for Managers of Cotton Mills. 1853.* LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 187 Barker, llev. Bailey J. (Duke's Alley Chapel, 1882 to date). Philip Neville of Garritoa : a Yorkshire Tale. (Bradford) 1875.* Jxambles iu Upper Wharfedale. (Skipton).* Christ and the Intellect ; and other sermons and passages. (T. Cunliffe) 1885. [Note : Also editor of " The Duke's Alley Congrega- tional Pulpit," which commenced in September, 1883. {Guardian Office).] Harland, John (F.S.A., Manchester). House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths at Smithells from 1582 to 1621 ; 4 vols, Chetham Society Publications, vols. 35, 41, 43, 46.* [Note : Editor of " Baines's History of Lancashire," 1868, &c., &c.]* Harbison, J. B. (Bolton). Rhymes by a Lancashire Man. (Wm. Robinson). J! Harris, llev. Georgb (Unitarian Chapel, Moor-lane, 1822 to 1825). Statement of the Principles of Unitarian Chris- tianity. (Liverpool). Address to the Congregation of the Independent Chapel, Great George-street, Liverpool. (Liverpool) 1818.t Unitarianism the only Religion that can become Universal. (Liverpool) Ist ed. 1818 ;§ 2Qd ed. 1819.§ Unitarianism and Triuitarianism Contrasted. (Liver- pool) 1820.11 Illustration of the Doctrines of Unitarian Chris- tianity. (Liverpool) 1822.t The Unitarian Christian Association Vindicated. (Liverpool) 1823. t The Causes of Deism and Atheism, (Liverpool) 1823.t 1 88 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Harris, Eev. George (Continued). Motives to Induce Unitarian Christians to Excel their Brethren. (Liverpool) .1823.t Unitarian Christianity Defended: A Reply to Revs. A. Scott, T. Allin, Wm. France, Joseph Fox, and Wm. Junes, and Mr. Richard Carlisle. (Manchester) 1824.11 , [Note : A voluminous writer, and editor of the Christian Pioneer. No less than 27 works of Mr. Harris's, besides the above, are preserved in the British Museum.]§ Harwood, George (M.A., Bolton). An Address on Disestablishment delivered in St. George's School, Bolton. (Chronicle Office) 1872.* Disestablishment ; or a Defence of the Principles of a National Cimrch. (London) 1876.* The Coming Democracy. (Loudon) 1880.* Haijghton, Rev. John (M.A., Ainsworth Church). The Scriptural Doctrine of the Gift of the Holy Ghost. (J. Gardner) 1833.11 Hatvkes, Rev. William (Assistant to Rev. P. Holland at Unitarian Chapel, Bank-street, from 1785 to 1789). Sermon preached at the Monton Green Unitarian Chapel on Good Friday, 1809. (Manchester).t Acquaintance with God the only source of Genuine and Lasting Peace ; sermon composed during his last illness. (Manchester) 1820.t [Note : Author of several other published sermons.jf Hesketh, William (Bolton). Present State of Political Parties. (CJironicle Office) 1874.* LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 1 89 Hewitt, Rjv. David (Curate of Horwich, 1826 to 1853). Piistoral Address to the Inhabitants of Horwich. (John Heaton) 1842. Hewlett, Rev. Alfred (D.D., Vicar of Asfcley, 1840 to 1885 ; b. 1804, d. 1885). Vessels of Wrath and Vessels of Mercy : sermons preached in Astley Chapel. (Manchester) 1834.§ Our Sunday School : its rise and progress. (Leigh) 1844.§ Troubles and Martyrdom of the Rev. George Marsh. 1st ed. (Leigh) 1844,§ 2nd ed. (H. Bradbury) 1878.11 Confessional, scriptural and anti-scriptual. (Tyl- desley) 1877. § [Note : Author of many other \vorks.]§ Hbtwood, Rev. Nathaniel (Native of Little Lever ; b. 1633, d. 1677). Christ Displayed as the Choicest Gift and Best Master. (Loudon) 1679. Hetwood, Rev, Oliver (B.A.; native of Little Lever; b. 1630, d. 1702). His whole "Works published in 5 vols., edited by Richard Slate. (Idle) 1827.* The Nonconformist, or Coley, Register from 1644 to 1702, edited by J. Horsfali Turner. (Brighouse) 1881.* His Diary, &c., 4 vols., edited by J. H. Turner. (Brighouse and Bingley) 1882 3-5.* [Note : For Detailed List of Oliver Heywood's works see vol. ii., p. 3 of last-named publication ; or Slate's edition, vol. v., p. 588.]* Hick, John (J.P., D.L., Bolton and Mytton). . Self-Help : a lecture. {Chronicle Office) Isb ed. 1862 ; 2ad ed. 1884.* Hill, T. (Bolton). Hints to Poor Weavers. (J. Brandwood).* igO BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Hilton, Robert Simon (Bolton). Sunday Closing : Reply to *'* Observer's" Letter. (J.^ T. Staton) 1853. HOLDKN, Joseph (Bolton). Christian Consistency ludispeneahle to Salvation. (Robert Kenyon.) Autobiography, and a Memoir of Mrs. Holden {Guardian Office) 1872.* Holden, Rev. Lawrence (Presbyterian ; native of Bolton ; b. 1710, d. 1778). Twenty - two Sermons on Important Subjects. (London) 1755.§ The Vanity of Crying to God : a sermon. (London) 1757.§ A Paraphrase on the Books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, &c.; 4 vols. (London) 1763.* A Paraphrase on the Book of Isaiah ; 2 vols. (Chelmsford) 1776.§ Holden, Moses (Native of Bolton ; b. 1777, d. 1864). A Celestial Atlas, with descriptive text. 1st ed. (Preston) 1818 ;ll 3rd ed. (Manchester) 1834;t 4Lh ed. Manchester) 1840. Holland, Rev. John (Unitarian Chapel, Bank-street, 1789 to 1820). Address to the Members of the Establishment in the Town and neighbourhood of Bolton, 1790. I^etters to the Inhabitants of Wigan. 1791. Plan of Lectures on the New Testament. (J. Gard- ner) 1794.t Thoughts on Truth, on Prejudice, and on Sincerity. 1795.t System of Geography. 1st ed. (Manchester) 1798 ; || 2nd ed. 1807 ;t 7th ed. (London) 1828.* Sketch of a Plan of General History. 1799. >■ Historical and Practical Questions on the Old and New Testament.* LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. I91 Holland, Rev. John (Continued). Essays ou History. (Manchester) 1803.+ Definitions, Maxims, Proverbs and Precepts ou Grammar, Arithmetic, &c. (Manchester) 1804. || Exercises for the Memory and Understanding. 4Lh ed. (T. Garner) 1805.* Practical Catechism, referring to the Bible for answers. (T. Blundell) 1809.* Series of Questions adapted to Historical Scriptures. 1st ed. (T. Blundell) 1809 ;* 2Qd ed. (J. Hurtley) 1812.* Catalogue of a Library belonging to a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters assembling at the Bank Chapel, Bolton. (J. Gardner) 1810.* Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Ralph Harrison, delivered at Cross-street, Manchester, 1810. (Manches- ter) 1813.t English Grammar. (London) 1813. Sermon on the Wisdom of God, 1815. Sermon on the Death of Peter Smith. 1820. Holland, Rev. Philip (Unitarian Chapel, Bank-street, 1755 to 1789.) On the Nature and Propriety of Public Worship. The Importance of Learning : a sermon preached before an assembly of ministers at Manchester. (War- rinRton) 1760.t A Charge delivered at the Ordination of Revs. Philip Taylor and Robert Gore in 1770. (London) 1770.t Sermon preached at the Ordination of Rev. William Turner, jun., ab Pudsey, Yorkshire, Sep. 25, 1782.t Sermons on Practical Subjects ; 2 vols. (Warring- ton) 1792.t Holland, Thomas. Exercises for the Memory and Understanding ; — Joint compiler. 4th ed. (T. Garner) 1805.* 192 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Holmes, Thomas. Reminiscences of a Continental Holiday. (H. Brad- bury) 1876* Holt, Rev. Robert (M.A., Vicar of Hillesden, Bucks; native of Bolton ; a Popplewell Exhibitioner from Bolton Grammar School). How has it come about that there is a Church ia every Parish in England ? and How are the Parsons Paid? (London) 1885.11 Editor of " The Orraulum : with the Notes and Glossary of Dr. R. M. White ;" 2 vols. (London).§ HoRSLKT, William (Bolton). 'J'lie Musical Treasury : containing psalm and hymn tunes, &c., for the organ and pianoforte. The Congregational : 300 psalm and hymn tunes. Hull, Edward (B.A., F.G.S.). Geology of the Country around Bol ton -le Moors, Lancashire. (Loudon) 1862.* Johnson, Rev. John H. (M.A., Curate of Horwich). Family Readings from the Gospel of St. Luke. Thomas Morris) 1851.11 Johnston, John (M.D., CM., L.S.A., Bolton). Health and Long Life : a lecture before St Andrew's, Literary Society, Bolton, 25th January, 1881. {Guardian Office).* How we spent our Summer Holidays in Norway {Guardian Office) 1884 || JoHNSTONB, Rev. T. Boston (M.A., F.S.Sc, London ; St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Bolton). Harmony of the Gospels. (London) 1874 § A New Year's Wish: A sermon. (Edinburgh) 1879.11 The Gospel in Italy : four lectures. (Edinburgh) 1881.11 The Theology of History. (Thomas Morris.) 1882. Analysis of Joshua, Judges, Jeremiah, Ezra, and LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 1 93 •Johnstone, Rev, T. Boston (Continued). Nehemiah ; — joint autlior. (jVIancliester) 1883. Scotland : its mobto aud its people. {Guardian Office) 1884.11 Analysis of the Books of Genesis and II. Samuel Manchester) 1884-5. The Supreme Excellency of Jesus Christ ; a lecture under the auspices of the Bolton Ministers' Associa- tion, at Bolton. (George Winterburn) 1885. [Note : Writer of numerous articles for magazines.] Jones, Ernest (The Chartist). Reply to Rev. W. Chamberlain's " Remonstrance to John Bright, Esq., M.P." {Guardian Office) 1867.11 Jones Rev. Noah (Unitarian Chapel, Bank-street, 1821-2). A Few Hints for a Lecture proposed to be delivered by the Rev. Joseph Fox in Duke's Alley Chapel, Bolton. (Liverpool) 1823.11 Jones, Rev. Thomas (St. George's Church, 1796 to 1800). The Way to Peace : the substance of several sermons. Isted. 1792; 2nd ed. 1796-7. Jesus Christ all in all : two sermons preached at the ^CousectHtion of St. George's Church, Bolton, on 21st August, 1796. (For J. Gardner) 1796.§ Selection of Pualms and Hymns. Ist ed. (London) 1797;ll 2ud ed. (J. Gardner) 1812.|| Britain's Triumph and Duty : sermon preached iu St. George's Church, Bolton. (Manchester) 1798.* Radical Reform: address to the Inhabitants of Great Bolton. (Manchester) 1798.* Two Letters to a Friend — relating to his connection with St. George's Church, Bolton, &c. (Liverpool) 1803.11 194 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY* Jones, Rev. William (Independeut Chapel, Mawdaley-street, 1808 ts 1842). The Teacher's or Parent's Assistant. (Gardner and Yates) 1821.H An Essay : The Deity of Christ. (J. Yates) 1824.* Address to Young People in early receiving the Lord's Supper. Three editions. Essay on Covetousness, and the Claims of the Eedeemer. (Manchester) 1836.* The Teacher's Help, or prayers in verse. The Faintings of a Standard Bearer : sermon preached at Mawdsley-street Chapel, occasioned by the death of the Rev. W. Thistlethwaite, M.A., of St. George's Church, Bolton. Three editions ; 1838. Essay on Improper and Unhappy Marriages. (11. M» Holden) 1842.11 [Note 1 Also joint editor of the Voice of Ti'uth : a monthly periodical. (R. Holden) 1832-3.]1| Keane, Rev. William (M.A.). England's Curse and England's Cure. (Williaav Robinson) 1859.1i Kennedy, John (Chowbent and Manchester ; b. 1769, d. 1855). Memoir of Samuel Crompton ; with Description of the Mule. (Manchester) 1830.* Lawson, George. Christian Loyalty and Patriotism. (J. Gardner), 1811.t Leigh, Rev. 11. G. (Congregational Church, Farnworth). Sketches of Paris and the Rhine. (Tillotson & Son) 1868.* Lempribre, Rev. John (M.A., Bolton Grammar School Master, 1790 to 1793). Tlie Classical Dictionary, v.d.* Sermon preached at Opening of St. Peter's Chapel, Swinton, in the parish of Eccles, on Sunday, the 10th April, 1791. LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 1 95 Lkvkr, Thomas (B.D.; native of Little Lever; b. 1520, d. 1577). A Fruitful Sermon made in Poules [Sb. Paul's] Churclie at London in tbe Shroudes, the seconde daye of Februari, Anno M.D. and fiftie. 2 editions (London). 1550.§ A Sermon preached ye fourth Sunday in Lenta before the Kyuges Maiestie, and his honorable Counsel!, Anno Domini M.ccccc.l. 2 editions (London) 1550.§ A Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the xiiii day of December, Anno. M.D.L, (Loudon) 1550 § A Meditation vpon the Lordea Prayer at Sayncte Mary Wolchurche, London, Anno. M.D.LL (London) 1551. A Treatise of the Eight way from Danger of Sinne and vengeance in this wicked worlde, vnto godly wealth and saluation in Christe. Ist ed. (Geneva) 1556 ; 2iid ed. (Loudon) 1571-2 ; 3rd ed. (London> 1575.§ [Note : The first three sermons were revised and published together under a new title in 1571, and again in 1870, in Arber's " English Reprints. "]t LrvESET, Rev. James (Turton Church, 1650). Enchiridion Judicum, or Jehosophat's Charge to hi» Judges ; a sermon before the Judges and Sheriff of the County of Laucaster, 26 March, 1655-+ Catastrophe Magnatum : funeral sermon on the Right Worshipful John Atherton, of Atherton, Esq., high slierifif of the county of Lancaster. (London) 1657.t The Greatest Loss : A discourse occasioned by the doleful loss of an eminently pious and learned gentle-^ man, viz,, Mr. Humphry Chetham, who died at Turton Tower in 1658.9. (Loudon) 1660.t ^g6 ' BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. LoMAS, Joseph (Manchester). Lecture on the System Adopted by Packmen, de- livered iu the Temperance Hall, Bolton. (Manchester) •LoNGWORTH, lliCHARD (D.D.; native of Bolton, b, 1533, d. 1579). Answer to Articles Exhibited against him by certain of the Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. 1569. t [Note : Writer of numerous Letters, printed in pamphlet form.] •Lonsdale, William (Organist at the Parish Church; b 1773, d.l833). Psalm and Hymn Tunes. (London) u. d.* Lowe, David (Bolton). The Manager's and Overlooker's Companion in a Cotton Mill. (Robert Kenyou) 1856.* An Introduction to a Cotton Mill. (James Stead) 1871. LoxHAM, Rev. Richard (M.A., Great Lever). Authority and Antiquity of Forms of Prayer. (Roch- dale) 1847.il LoxHAM, Rev. Thomas (M.A.; Rector of Great Lever). Selection of Hymns for the Schools of St. Michael's Church, Great Lever. 1st ed. (James Scholes) 1863 ;lf 2nd ed. (John Booth) 1878.11 LuTHY, Robert (Bolton). On Valves suitable for Working Hydraulic Machin- ery. (Newcastle) 1874.* Lyons, Rev. John (M.A.; Incumbent of St. George's Church, 1838 to 1846). Sermon preached in St. George's Church, Bolton, 27 June, 1841, being the Sunday previous to Election of Members for Bolton. (John Heaton) 1841.11 iiYTHGOE; William (Bolton). A Tract on ProtestauUam, Romanism, and Ritualism. (John Booth) 1868 U LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. I97- Maccall, Rev. "William (Unitarian Chapel, Moor-laue, 1837 to 1840). The Beauty of Death; discourse on the dealli of Miss Mary Haseldeu, delivered iu the Unitarian Chupel, Moor-lane, Bolton. (H. Bradbury, jun., and Co.) 1837.t A Vindication of the People from certain recent Clerical Aspersions : discourse delivered in Unitarian Chapel, Moor-lane, Bolton, 1838. (H. Bradbury, jun., & Co.) 1839.B National Missions. (London) 1855. [Note : Author of many other works, written after leaving Bolton.] Mackie, Dr. Alexander (Warrington), Bolton Directory, with Almanack, for 1849. (R. M. Holdeu) 1848.* [Note : Founder of Mackie's (afterwards Bolton)- Advertiser in 1848, and Bolton Guardian iu 1852 ; the latter he removed to Warrington in 1853. Also author of a number of lectures, &c.]§ Makin, William (Bolton). The Manufacturer's Assistant. (John Ogle) 1827. || Mallett, George (M.R.C.S., Bolton; b. 1803, d. 1871). • A Brief History of Bathing. (John Heaton) 1847.* A Lecture on the Human Skin. {Chronicle Office) 1865. Marsden, Rev. George (Wesleyan Methodist, Bolton Circuit 1808-9, 1827-8-9). Account of John Thoruley, of Bolton. (John Ogle) 182911 Marshall, Cornelius (Bolton Moor). The Clirouicles of the City-Ie-Moors, &e. 1st ed. (T. Bluudell) 1809 ; 2ud ed. (J. Hurtley) 1812 ;* 3rd ed. 1845.* (With the 3rd ed. is printed "A Second Price, or the Bolton Swindler.")* zgS BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Marsland, Georgb W. (Boltou). Regeneration ; or divine and human nature : a poem. (London) 1850.* Musings of a Spirit : a poem. (London) 1853.* Mary, Hannah. Brookdale Hall : a temperance story. (Wm. Robin* son). II Mashtter, Short Memoir of Mrs. Anne Mashiter, by her son, (H. Bradbury & Co.) 1842.* Mather, Rev. Joseph. Socialism Exposed. 1838. Maurice, Rev. William (Duke's Alley Chapel, 1791 to 1796). Carmina Evangelica : or Iiymns chiefly collected from various authors. 1st ed. (J. Gardner) 1792 ;* 2..d ed. (R. M. Holden) 1839.|| Discourse on the Solemn Designation of Missionaries appointed for the Second Mission to the South Seas, 1798. Mercy Triumphant : Discourse on the Execution of a Young Man, Condemned for Forgery. McEnioht, John (Schoolmaster, Bolton). (?) Bolton-le-Moors, or Modern Athens : A satirical poem by Appollonius Rhodius. (R. M. Holden) 1834.|1 English Grammar for Use in Schools. (R. M. Holden). Mc.Quhae, Rev. James. Ordination Sermon of the Rev, Robert SimpsoDy preached at Bolton in 1782. Printed 1784. M'NicHOLL, David. Discourse on the Gospel, delivered in Bridge-streefe Chapel, Bolton, May 17, 1815. (Manchester).* Mbb, Rev. JosiAH (Wesleyan Methodist, Bolton Circuit). A Word to an English Girl ; — joint author. (B icup) 18 LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. I99 Mitchell, Eedben (Native of Bolton). Photographic Views in Bolton and Neighbourhood — with letterpress. (John Booth) 1868.+ [Note : Writer of several accounts of Sketching Tours.] MoOBB, William (Bolton). Letter to Colonel Fletcher, &c. (H. Bradbury, jun., and Co.) MULGRAVE, llev. the Earl of (Vicar of Worsley). Some Causes of England's Social Immorality ; a sermon preached in Worsley Church, July 12, 1885. (J. W. Qledsdale) 1885.11 MUSGRAVE, John (Native of Yorkshire ; sixty years resident in Bolton ; b. 1784, d. 1864). Origin of Methodism in Bolton. (H. Bradbury) 1865.+ Myerscough, John (Touge, Bolton). A Guide to Land Measurers, Farmers and Others. (Thomas Morris) 1854. Naisby, William (Bolton). A Peep at Corruption; shewing the unequal, unjust, and partial assessment of the rate on the leypayera of Great Bolton. (T. Cropp) 1827.* [Note : Writer of a Letter to the Lord Bishop of Chester on the Want of a Reformed Church, in 1850.] Nelson, William. Mining and Sinking. {Journal Ofifice) 1885. Newton, James (Bolton). History of the Anchor and Hope Lodge, No. 37, of Freemasons ; — joint author. (Thomas Morris) 1882.* History of the Lodge of Antiquity, No. 146, of Free- masons, Bolton. (Thomas Morris) 1882.* History of the Royal Arch Chapter of Concord, No. 37, Boltou. ( London) 1885, * 200 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. O'CoNNOB, Rev. Henri (S.J., St. Joseph's, Bedford Leigh). The Only Reliable Evidence Couceruiug Martin- Luther. (Tillotson & Son) 1884. Obeell, James (Native of Bolton ; b. 1755, d. 1818). Original Poems, on a Variety of Subjects. (J. Gardner) 1793.* Owen, William (New Lanark). Au Address to the Master Manufacturers of Great Britain on the present existing evils of the manufac- turing system. (H. A. Swindells) 1819. Pagan, Rev. Samuel (B.A., Lever Bridge Church, b. 1817, d. 1867). The Principles of Reb'gion, &c. (Derby) 1867.§ Sermons on the Christian Life. (Winstanley and Son) 1869.§ Page, Rev. L E. (Wesleyan Methodist, Bolton Circuit). The Captive Set Free. An Allegory (London) 1874. A Guide from Heaven for Life on Earth, (London)' 1874. Life "Worth Living: Thoughts on HoliueciS. (London) 1881. Fulness of Grace the Believer's Heritage. (Loudon)' 3 editions. Holiness and Recreation : an essay. (London.) The Revival we Meed, a Revival of Holiness. (London.) The Sunshine of Religion. (London) 1884. A Word to an English Girl ; — joint author. (Bacup) 1885.11 [Note : Writer of other works, and miscellaneous literature ; also editor of The King's Higltway.l Patteeson, Rev. H. Sheridan (Vicar of Deane, 1877 to date). Notes on the Restoration of Deane Church. 1883 ll Imdn Madhi : or the Moslem Millenium, from the Koran and authentic traditions. (London) 1884.* A Dictionary of the Koran : based upon a topical and analytical concordance, &c. (Loudon) 1884 1| LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 201 Partington, John Heaton (Deane, near Boltou). Au Historiciil Account of the Endowments of the Church iu Uie Pcirish of Deane. (Stead) 1885. || Taulton, Abraham Walter (Native of Bolton ; b. 1812, d. 1876). Editor of the "Anti-Bread Tax Circular," and " 'I'he League ;" also of tlie Manchester Examiner and Times from 1848 to 1854.t PendLEBURY, Dr. John (Born near Bolton). Nature and Study of Medical Science. 1835. Duties of Medical Men. (Manchester) 1836.t Tlie Art of Medicine. (Manchester) 1837.t Pbndlebury, Rev. Henry (M. A.; ordained at Turton 1650; minister of Horwich 1650-1). Plain Representation of the 'JVansubstantiatiou as it is received in the ChurcU of Rome. (Lt)udon) 1687.J Invisible Realities the real Christian's Concernment, with life of author ; Ist ed. (Loudon) 1696.t The Books Opened : being several discourses. (London) 1696 t The Barren Fig 'I'ree. Ist ed. (Rochd .If) 1700 ;t 2ud ed. (Leeds) 1793, &c. Sermons. 2ud ed. (Manchester) 1711. Sacrificium Missaticum, mysterium iniquitatis ; or the Sacrifice of the Mass ; with author's life, by John Chorlton. (London) 1768.t Invisible Realities and The Books Opened, reprinted in one book. Edited by Slate. (Bury) 1816. Pennington, Arthur S. (F.L.S., F.R.M.S., l^olton). A Piece of Hornwrack : Its Inhabitants and Guests. (London) 1885.* Natural History of British Zoophytes. (London) 1885.* O 202 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Tennington, Eooke (B.A., LL.B., Bolton). Reprints from the "Manchester Literary and Philo- sophical Society's Proceedings," 1874 : — 1, On the Ossiferous Deposit at Windy Knol!, CasUeton. 2, A Descent into Eldon Hole, Derbyshire. 3, A Plea for the Word Anglo-Saxon. 4, On Archaic Iron Mining Tools from Lead Mines near Castleton. Reprint from the " Quarterly Journal of the Geolo- gical Society," 1875 : The Bone Caves in the Neigh- bourhood of Castleton. Reprints from the ** Anthropological Society's Jour- nal": 1, On the Relative Ages of Cremation and Con- tracted Burial in Derbyshire in the aSTeolithic and Bronze Periods. 2, Notes on Tumuli and Stone Circles in Derbyshire. The Pebbles in a Bolton Brick-field. {Chronicle Office) 1875.* Barrows and Bone Caves of Derbyshire. (London) 1877.* Reprints from the *' Manchester Field Naturalists* Society's Transaclions " : 1, The pre-historic Age in Derbyshire. 2, Review of the Progress of pre-historic Archsc jlogy in the year 1877. Reprint from the *' Manchester Geological Society's Transactions," 1879 : Upon the Arrangement of a Geological Museum.* Reprint from " The Reliquary "; Pleistocene Mam- malia in Derbyshire, (Derby). [Note : Author of numerous other magazine and newspaper articles.] Peecival, Hon. and Rev. A. P. (B.C.L., Chaplain to King William IV. ). Reply to a Letter ou Church Reform, addressed to the Lord Bishop of London, by Rev. James Slade, M.A., Vicar of Bolton. 1831.§ LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 203 Perry, Ottley L. (F.R.G.S., Bolton). Our Military District', including Statistical Tables, under the New Army lle-organizatiou Scheme. Part I. The Northern District. {Chronicle Office) 1881.* Camp Calls and Daily Routine of a Volunteer Bsit- taliou in Camp. {Chronicle Office.) lab ed., 1882;* 2nd ed. 1883.* Guide to Regimental Guards and Sentries, Piquets and Patrols. {Chronicle Office) 1883.* Guards and Sentries in H.M. Military and Naval Forces ; with an Appendix. {Chronicle Office) 1884.* Salutes, Compliments, and Honours in HM. Army and Navy. {Chronicle Office) 1884,* Useful Notes for a Volunteer Battalion forming a Camp of Instruction. {Chronicle Office) 1884.* Salutes and Rank, Badges, Colours, and Small Arms in H.M. Army and Navy. (London). In the Press. [Note : Author of other migcellaneous productions.] PiCKVANCB, William W. (Bolton). An Essay on War. (W. Pickvauce) 1854. Pike, George (Mathematical Tutor, Bolton). An Essay on Apostacy. (J. Ogle) 182711 An Essay on Preaching. (R. Holden) 1830§ PlLKiNQTON, James (B.D., Lord Bishop of Durham ; native of . Rivington ; b. 1520, d. 1575). Ii^xposition upon the Prophet Haggai. (L )ndon) 1560 § Sermon on Bucer and Phagius. 1562. Exposition upon the Pi-ophet Obadiah. 1562. Letter to the Earl of Leicester. 1562. The Burning of St. Paul's Church in 1561, &c. (London) 1563 § Answers to Popish Questions. (? luliuburph) 1563 § 204 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. PiLKiKGTON, James (Continued). Epistola ad Andream Kingsmill. 1564. Exposition upon certain chapters of Nehemiah, 1585.. Extracts from the Statutes of Kivingtou School. Tractatus de Prasdestiuatioue. [Note : All the above works were re-printed in the " Parker Society " Publications, 1842, edited by the Rev. James Scholefield, M.A.]* PiLKiNGTON, Rev. James (Native of Horwich ; d. 1805). "View of the Present State of Derbyshire ; 2 vols. 1790 ; 2.id ed. 1803.t Doctrine of Equality. 1795. PiMBLETT, William (Native of Boltou). Story of the Soudan War ; from the Rise of the Revolt, July, 1881, to the Fall of Khartoum and Death of Gordon, January, 1885. (London) 1885.* English Political History ; 1880-5. (London) 1885 % Platt, Henry Billinge. Appeal to the Public in Vindication of Character,, addressed to the Bishop of Chester, &c. (E. Smith) 1818. POFB, Rev. W. B. (D.D., Wesleyan Methodist). The Lord of the Strong and of the Weak : discourse in Park-street Chapel, Bolton, 1883. (Loudon) 1884. POTVBLL, Rev. Henby (Vicar of Bolton, 1857 to date). The Beneficial EffeDts of the Bible : sermon preached at St. Paul's Church, Hulme, Manchester. (London) 1870.11 Probert, Rev. William (Unitarian Chapel, Walmsley ; b. 1791, d. 1870). Calvinism and Armiuiauism. (Otley) 1815 § The Gcdodin, and the Odea of the Months : trans- lations from the Welsh. (Alnwick) 1820 § Ancient Laws of Cambria. (London) 1823.* The Elements of Hebrew Grammar; Hebrew Poetry; and Chaldee Grammar. (London) 1832.* Hebrew and English Concordance. 1838.* Hebrew and English Lexicon Grammar. 1850.* LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 205 iRasbotham, Dorking (J.P., Birch House, Farnworth; b. 1731, d. 1791). Codrus : a Tragedy. 1774. Pamphlet on the Disorderly Conduct of the People. 1779. Verses intended to have been Spoken at the Breaking up of the Free Grammar School, Manchester. (Man- chester) 1782.t [Note : Also historical writer, whose notes constitute ft most important part of " Baines's History of Lan- cashire."] ilEDMAYNE, Dr. John T. (Bolton). Micro-Photographs from the Diatomacea3.* Rhodes. Rev. Benjamin (Wesleyan Methodist). Hymns and Divine Songs for Young Persons ; originally designed for the use of the Sunday School at Bolton. Ub ed. 1787; 2ud ed. (Birmingham) 1796.11 II1CHA.RDSON, Henry Marriot (Bolton). Reminiscences oi Forty Years in Bolton. {Standard Office), vol. 1, 1885.* RiGBY, Col. Joseph (Old Peel Hall, Little Hultou). An Ingenious Poem, called the Drvnkard's Prospec- tive, or the Burning Glasse. (Loudon) 1656.+ [Note : Also author of numerous other poems.] (ROBBERDS, Rev. John Goocii. (Cross-street Chapel, Manchester). Questions at the Ordination of Rev. FrankUn Baker, M.A., at the Unitarian Chapel, Bank-street, Bolton, in 1824. (London) 1824,t 'Robinson, Alfred (Ontario, Canada; native of Bolton). Proprietor of The Ayr Recorder. A weekly news- paper. [Note : Also a profuse writer of miscellaneous matter,] 206 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. POBINSON, William Philip (Canada ; native cf Bollon). A Few of the Many Points of Interest noted in &. Tour of Canada, over the System of the Grand Trunk Railway Co. (Toronto) 1885. [Note : Alfeo editor of the Toronto TTeeX'.] ROTHWELL, Charles (J.P., M.K.C. S., L.S.A., Bolton). A Tay an' Puta Ditty. (Mancheatei) 1856.* Christmas Leaves: poems. (T. Cunlifie) 1864. History of the Ciianges in Medical Men and Manners in Bolton. (Tillotsou and Son) 1879.* Some of the Obstacles to the Temperance Cause, (T. Cuuliffe) 1880. What made tlie First Peform Bill a Necessity : a lecture. (Alfred Blackshaw) 1883.* Herakles Goeth to Fetch Kerberos from Hell : a poem. (Alfred Blackshaw) 1884 * The Humours of the Handkerchief in Fact and Fiction. (In the press.) [Note : Also author of many other paemf, &c.] Rothwell, James (Master of the Grammar School, Blackrod). Letter to the Jlev. Mr. Dean, of Middleton, occa- sioned by reading his essay on the Future Life of Brute Creatures. (London) 1769.t A Grammar of tlie English Language. (Warrington) 1787.* Rothwell, Selim (Native of Bolton). Scraps from An Artist's Sketch Book. {Chronicle Office) 1877.* RUSHFORTH, Benjamin (Blind Poet of Bolton). Collection of Poems. Miscellaneous Poems. (William Parkhouse) 1869.t Russell, Rev. Robert (Sussex). Seven Sermons. (B. Jackson) 1787.* LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 207 Rylance, Ralph (Bolton). The Veteran of Literature : Translated from the French. Salter, J.W. (A.L.S., F.G.S.) Fossils around Bolton-le-Moors. (Loudon) 1862.* Scales, Rev. Thomas (Unitarian). Sermon on the Death of Rev. Robert Simpson, D.D., formerly of Bolton : preached at Wolverhampton. (Wolverhampton) 1818.§ [Note : Author of several other similar works and compiler of hymns.]§ ScHOLES, James Christopher (Native of Bolton). A Few Random Rambles in and about the City of Dublin. (James Stead) 1877.* A Few Random Rambles in Derbyshire. {Chronicle Office) 1879.* Notes on Turton Tower and its Successive Owners. {Chromde Office) 1880.* Supplementary to Notes on Turton Tower, &c. {Chronicle Office) 1881.* Documentary Notes Relating to the District of Turton. {Journal Office) 1882.* Biographical Sketch of James Brandwood, an Old Edgworth Quaker. {Evening News Office) 1882.* Biographical Sketch of William Thompson, grandson of Inventor Hargreaves. {Evening News Office) 1882.* Memorials of the Bolton Parish Church Organs, &c. (Manchester) 1882.* Genealogy of the Knowles Family of Edgworth, Quarlton, Little Bolton, and Swiutou. {Evening News Office) 1886.* Bolton Bibliography and Jottings of Book-Lore, {Journal Office). The present volume. 208 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Seddon, Rev. John, M.A. (Native of Little Lever; b. 1716, d. 1769). Preface to the Sovereignty of the Divine Admiuistra- tion Vindicated. 1766.* Discourses on the Person of Christ, &c. (Warrington) 1793. t Seddon, Rev. Robert (Unitarian Chapel, Bank-street, 1692 to 1695), Life of Rev. Henry Pendlebury, M.A. 1696. Sermons ; in the collection of County Farewell Ser- mons. Sergeant, Edward (L.R.C.P., London ; &c., Medical Officer of Health, Bolton). Annual Reports on the Health of Bolton, 1874 to 1884 (variously printed).* Hints on How to Avoid Disease : lecture at Boltoa Church Institute. {Chronicle Office) 1880. H On the Compulsory Notification of Infectious Diseases, with Especial Reference to Bolton. {Chronide Office) 1882. II Sharp, Henry (Bolton). On the Treatment of Steel Plates. (London) 1868.* Sheldrake, William (Turton;. A Picturesque Description of Turton Fair, and its Pernicious Consequences : a poem. (For B. Jackson) 1789.* Shuttle, Tom (? Bolton). Hints for Reforming Reformers ; addressed to the Author of " Radical Reform." (Manchester) 1798.11 Simpson, Rev. Robert (D.D., Duke's Alley Chapel, 1782 to 1791). Animadversions on an Address to the Members of tlie Establishment iu the town and neighbourhood of Bolton. 1790-1. LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 209 "Skelton, John Fawcrtt (Native of Bolton). A Gradely Okeawnt o'th Bowtun Eggshibiahun. (Easier & Co.) 1869 |1 Hawkshaw-Laue ; and other poema. (Manoheater) 1872.* The Gleaner : a selection of poems and songs. (T. Cunliff.) 1876.* , Poems for the Times, (Manchester) 1884 |I [N'ote : Also author of numerous poems of a miscellaneous character.] «LADE, Rev. James (M.A., Vicar of Bolton, 1817 to 1857). Annotations of the Epistles — 2 vols. 1st ed. (Cam- bridge) 1816;* 3rd ed. (London) 1818 ;§ 4Lh ed. (London) 1829 ;§ 7th ed. 1833 § Plain llemaiks on the Four Gospels. (J. Gardner) l«t ed. 1818 ;* 2iid ed. 1820. Lessons for Sunday School?. Isb ed. (J. Gardner) 1823 ;* 2ad ed. (London) 1831 § Sermon preached before the Blackburn Deanery Committee for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. (lilackbuin) 1826.§ Twenty -one Prxyers for the Sick and Afflicted. (J. Gardner) 18 8 ;§ 4Lh ed. (London) 1839 § Christian Unity : sermon preached at the Primary Visitation of the Bishop of Chester. (J. Gardner) 1829 § Letter on Church Reform to the Lord Bishop of London. (J. Gardnei) 1830.* The First Miscellaneous Reading Book for the use of schools. (London) 1831. § Explanation of the Psalms. (London) 1832-34-40 ;§ 1842.* Esplanatiou of the Collects. (London) 1835.§ 2IO BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Slade, Rev. James (Continued). Family Readings from Sh. Jolin. lit ed. (VV. HoU croft) 1836 ;§ 2n(l eci. 1843.* A System of Family Prayer. Isb ed. (W. Holcroft) 1837 ;§ 2uded, (London) 1843.§ Sermon preached on the Death of the Rev. William Thistlethwaite, ^I.A., Incumbent of St. George'ij Church, Bolton. (Four editions) 1838. On the Seven Cliurches of Asia. 1838 40 * Lent Lectures, in the Parish Church, Bolton. (Chester) 1841.* Sermon preached at the Opening of Ciirist Church, Bolton, May 2, 1841. (John Heaton) 1841.§ Sermon preached in Chester Cathedral at Opening of the 'i raining College. (Warrington) 1842.§ Plain Parochial Sermons ; 7 vol«. (Bolton and Cheste.) 1843* Twenty-one Prayers from the Psalms. (Loudon) 1851.* The Duty of Contending for the Faith : sermon preached at Bolton, 1851, at the Primary Visitation of the Bishop of Manchester. (John Heaton) 1851. § Sermon in Memory of the Kev. George Levy, M.A., of Emmanuel Churcli, Bolton. (John Heaton) 1854. |1 Sermon preached at the Parish Church, Bolton, on the Day of Humiliation. (John Heaton) 1854.* Lecture on Education delivered at the Church Institutes of Chester and Bolton. (W, Winstanley) 1866.§ [Note : Also composer of several anthems, and com- piler of •' School Hymns," which underwent, at leiist, nine editions ; and " Psalms and Hymns for Public Worahip," in six editions.]* & 1| , LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 21 r Smethubst, James (Bolton). The Story of Israel's Captivity and Deliverance from Babylon, compiled from the Old Testament Narrative, and embodied in a Service of Song. (William Robin- son) 1883. Smith, David (Native of Bolton). Tables Specially Adapted for Corn Millers, Flour Dealers, &c. (Manchester) 1878 * Smith, Rev. John (Lecturer at the Parish Church, 1679 to 1686). The Patriarchali Sabbath. Printed about 1682-3.*^* Smythb, Rev. Jambs Francis (Olaremont Baptist Chapel, 1876 to 1883). Triumphs of Faith : Biblical Service of Song. (Joseph Rigby and Son) 1878. Stanley, James (Seventh Earl of Derby ; beheaded at Bolton, 1651). History and Antiquities of the Isle of Man. 1779 ;§ reprinted in the "Manx Society's" Publications, vol. 3, (Douglas) 1859 ;t also in the Chetham Society's series, vol. 70, which contains his "Private Devotijus."* Private Devotions and Miscellanies, [Note : No less than 38 items under his name will be found in the British Museum Catalogue ; some of these are reports of military engagements in which he figured.] Staton, James Taylor (Native of Bolton ; b. 1817, d. 1875). What Must we do to be Saved ; — written for the Bolton Social Tract Society. (Hargreaves) 1838.11 Bubby Shuttle un his Woife Sayroh's Visit to Man- chester un to th' Qreight Ilert Eggshibitiou at Owd Trafifort. (Manchestei) 1857.t Owd Wisdom's Lankishire Awmenack for th' year 1860. (J. T. Staton) 1859.* Jiagged Schools : their object and design ; a discourse delivered at the Opening of Luke Boardman's Ragged School, on Sunday, Nov. 11, 1860. (J. T. Staton) IQQOi 212 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Staton, James Taylor (Continued). The Three Graces : a new comic sketch. (J, T. Staton) 1860.t The Husband's Tea Party. (Manchester) 1861.t A Guide to Rivington Pike. (Manchesterjf Pay Your Own Debts. The Rivals. Goinp: for the Census. A Bixchelor'a AVauts, &c.t Haste to the Rescue. The Upper Servants' Christmas Party, &c § Bobby Shuttle uu his Woife Sayroh's Visit to th* Eggshibition at Meckanicks Institution, Bowtun, 1869.f [Note : Editor of *' The Bovvtun Luminary " and *' The Lancashire Luminary," and writer of numerous other Lancashire Sketches.]* Stone, Rev. Thomas (B.A., Curate of Deane). The Christian Religion the last Revelation to be effected of the Will of God. (London) 1831.t Stowell, Rev. H. Church and State : a warning for the times. {Chronicle Office) 1868. Stubbs, Rev. Jonathan Kirk (M.A., Incumbent of Harwood). The Christian Minister's Parting Appeal to his people, preached at Harwood. (J. Heaton) 1842-3-4.* •SuTCLiFFE, Rev. William (Farnworth). Correspondence with Rev. John Bedford. (John Ogle) 1842.11 SWINDLEHURST, J. (Boltou). Summer Evenings with Old Weavers. (Mancbester).^ Tannahill, Robert (Bolton, 1800-2). Poems and Songs. 1815, &c., &c.* Tattersal, Rev. William (Nonconformist). Sermon preached before the Dissenting Ministers of Lancashire and Cheshire, at their annual meeting at J'olton, June 20, 1787. LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 213. Taylor, Dr. IIobkrt (Boltou). Letters on the Subject of the Lancashire Riots in 1812. (For J. Scholefield) 1812.* The Blackfaces of 1812. (Henry Bradbury) 1839. Taylor, John (Bolton). Grammar of the English Language. (J. Ogle) 1821.* Tailor, John (First Coroner of Boltou), i\utobiography of a Lancashire Lawyer, &c.; edited by James Clegg. {Chronicle Office) 1883.* Taylor, Rev. Thomas (Native of Yorkshire ; Wesleyau Methodist ; iu Boltou Circuit, 1793-4, 1807, 1815). History of the Waldenses and Albigenses, who began tlie Reformation iu the Vallies of Peidmont, &c. (J. Higham) 1793.* The General Depravity of Human Nature : sermon preached in 1766. (J, Higham) 1794.* The Character of Christian Ministers, and the People's Duty to them : sermon on the Death of Rev. Thos. Hanby (formerly in Bolton Circuit). (Bury) 1796. [Note : A voluminous writer of works not printed in Bolton.]|| Taylor, William (Native of Boltoii). Visitation of Sunday Scholars : a paper read at the Sunday School Conference, held in Liverpool, 1865. (Liverpool) 1866. Taylor, Rev, Zachariah (M.A. ; native of Little Bolton, b, 1653, d. 1705; Vicar of Ormskirk, 1679 to 1693 ; Rector of Croston, 1695; Bishop's Curate at Wigan, 1696). The Death of the Righteous, or the Discriminating Circumstances that favour the Dejjarture of a Pious Soul. Delivered at Wigan, Apiil 18, 1695, at the obsequies of the Honourable and Vertuous Lady Elizi- beth, the Relict of S«r Roger Bradahaigh, of Hai^h, Kuight aud Baronet. (Loudon) 1695. J .214 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Taylor, Rev. Zachariah (Continued). Tlie Devil Turu'd Causist, or The Cheats of Rome Laid Open in the Exorcism of a Despairing Devil, ab the house of Thomas Pennington in Orrel, in the Parish of Wigan, &c. (London) 1696.*^,* The Surey Imposture ; being an Answer to a late Fanatical Pamphlet entitled, "The Surey Demouiack." (London) 1697.J Popery, Superstition, Ignorance, and Knavery, very unjustly by a Letter in the general pretended, bub as far as was charg'd very fully proveded upon the Dis- senters that were concerned in the Surey Imposture. Isb ed. (f.ondou) 1698. J 2nd ed. 1699. TheDeceucy and Moderation of Christian Mourning: being a Sermon preached at Winwick in Lancashire, Nov. 15, 1702, at the Funeral of John Risley of Risley, Esq. (London) 1703.^ Tebay, Septimus (B.A.; native of Fulwood, formerly resident of RiviugLon, now of Farnworih). Statutes of Ilivington School, (Preston) 1864.* Elementary Mensuration for the Use of Schoola. (Cambridge) 1868.§ Songs in the Lancashire Dialect. Thicknesse, Rev. Francis Henry (D.D., Archdeacon of Northamptoa; Vicar of Deane 1855 to 1868). Happy Homes and How to Make Them. (J. Hud- Bn.ith) 1861.* Prayers for Schools. (Loudon) 1864.§ The Great Commission of the Great King : a sermon. (Oxford) 1870 § Ministerial Tone and Character : an address at Peterborough. A Charge delivered to the Clergy and Churchwar- dens of the Archdeaconry of Northampton. (Brackley or Loudon) 1876 § LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 215 Thicknesse, Rev. Francis Henry (Continued). Religion Among the People ; or what are we doinp; for the Masses ? (Wellington) 1882. Duties of Churchwardens, Ecclesiastical Courts, &€.: a charge. (Northampton) 1884. Thistlethwaitb, Rev. George (M.A.) Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. VVm. Thistlethwaite, M.A. (John Heaton) 1838.* Thistlethwaitb, Rev. William (M.A., Incumbent of St. George'* Church, 1809 to 1838). England's Mercies and Duties : sermon preached in St. George's Church, Bolton, on the Deliverance of Europe from Tyranny and Oppression (J. Gardner) 1814.* The Curate Catechising : an Exposition of the Church Catechism. 1815.* The Church Commentary. 1815 * Fifteen Sermons. (J. Gardner) 1816,* The Boy's Latin Construing Book. (Mancliester) 1833.* A Sermon on the Death of Rev. Thomas Wade of Tottington. (Heaton and Son) 1834.t Expository Sermons on the Pentateuch; 4 vols. (John Heaton) 1837.* Twenty-one Sermons preached in St. George's Church, Bolton, (John Heaton) 1838.* Thorpe, Rev. William (Bristol). Speech on the Protestant Reformation Society at Preston. (John Yates) 1828.* Thwaites, B. H. (Bolton). Our Factories, Workshops, and Warehouses. (London) 1882.* Prevention of Uust in Iron. (Ljadon) 1884.* 2l6 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. TiLSLET, Rev. JoHX (M.A., Minister of Deane 1642 to 1662). " A Perfect llelation of the Taking of the Town of Preston, &c. (Loudon) 1642 § A True Copie of the Petition of 12.500 nnd upwards of the Well-affected Gentlemen, Ministers, Freeholders, and others of the County Palatine of Lancaster ; with long preface. (London) 1646 J ToRBBNS, Lieut.-Col. llOBERT (M.P. for Bolton 1832-4). Wages and Combination ; addressed to the Electors- and Inhabitants of Bolton. (London). \ TUBNEE, B. (Breightmet Fold, near Bolton). The Cliristiim's Monitor : a reply to W. Gadsby. (T. Garnei) 1806.t Mystic Uumufeked. (J. Haworth) 1806.1i The Bible Interpreter : or, the Book of Revelation Opened. (J. Hurtley) 1810. || 'J he Criterion of Religion : or, a Medium between Infidelity and Superstilion. Vabet, Joseph (Organist at St. George's Church). Music for Six Masonic Songs. (Manchester). [Note : Author ot other compositions.] Vaux, Lawrence (B.D. ; native of Blackrod ; b. prob. 1519, d. prob. 1585). A Catechisme, or Christian Doctrine Necessary for Children and Ignorant People. (Louvain) 1567 ; (Antwerp) 1574 :§ 1583 ;§ 1590 ;$ 1599. Reprinted by the Chetham Society, with Memoir, by T. G. Law, in 1885.* An Instruction of the Laudable Customs Used in the Catholic Cliurch ; or the use and meaning of holy ceremonies in God's Church. Godly Contemplations for the Unlearned. Certain Brief Notes of Divers Godly Mutters. 1583j§ 1599. LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 21 7 Waitf, James Kirkbridb (Public Librarian, Bolton, 1870 to date). Catalogues of Books in the Bolton Public Free Libraries. (Tillotson and Son) 1871;* ((rMarcZtan Ofiace) 1874 :* {Chronicle Office) 1879 f 1882.* [Note: Also contributor of numerous historical notes relating to Bolton and district to local newspapers.] Wallace, Rev, 'J'homas Sneyd (LL.B., Curate of St. Paul's Church, 1859 to 1862). Sermons : doctrinal, practical, and consolatory. (Liverpool) 1863. || Wardle, Colonel Gwyllm Lloyd. A Letter Concerning an Action brought against him in the Court of Queen's Bench for Conspiracy. (T. Blundell) 1809.t TVatson, W. H. A Paper read at Bolton on Sunday School Classifica- tion. (London) 1857. Ward, Thomas (Bolton). Outline Facts of Chemistry. (Manchester) 1866.* Webton, T. R. An Answer to a Certain Scurrilous Publication by Richard Guest. (J. Yates) 1824.t Wells, Rev. George Henry (M.A., of Gorton). Sermon on the Death of Rev. Franklin Baker, M.A., preached in Bank-street Chapel, Bolton. (Thomas Rigby) 1867.t Wheeler, Rev. R. T. (M.A., of Blackburn). Sermon on the Lord's Supper, preached at St. George's Church, Bolton, in 1848. (Henry Bradbury, juu.) 1849.11 Whttaker, Rev. J. (M.A., Incumbent of Rivington). Statutes and Charities of Ifivington School, with a Memoir of the Founder. (London) 1837.* 2i8 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Whiteheau, Alfred (Boltou). The Usurper : A tragedy. Miscellaneous Poems. (J, Heaton) 1840.* Whitehead, Rev. Edward (M.A., J.P., Vicar of Bolton, 1737 to 1789). The Use and Importance of Early Industry : sermon preached to a Society of Weavers and other Manu- facturers, in Boltou Parish Church, on Wednesday, December 26, 1753. (Manchester) 1753.* The Duty of Bearing one another's Burdens : a sermon preached before a Society of Weavers, &c., in the Parish Church of Bolton, Wednesday, 4 Jan., 1774. (Manchester) 1774.§ Sermon preached before a Numerous Society of Weavers in the Parish Church of Bolton on Wednes- day, 1st January, 1783. (Manchester) 1783.* Sermon preached in Bolton Parish Church, Sept. 24 h, 1786, being the next Lord's Day after the Execu- tion of James Holland on Bolton Moor, for Croft- breaking. (B. Jackson) 1786.!l Whitehead, Rev. Joseph (Wesleyan Methodist; native of Bolton). The Substance of Twenty-two Sermons, selected from his MSS. (R. Holden) 1831.11 Whittle, Peter A. (F.S.A.— II ; b. 1789, died 1867). Guild Directory, &c., of 1842. History of Bjltou-le-Moors, and the Townships ia the Parish ; also description of the Parish of Deane. (John Croraptou) 1855.* [Note : Also author of Histories of Preston, Lytham, Blackpool, Southport, Stonyhurst, Broughton, and Fernyhalgh ; and notes on Houghton Tower, Pen- wortham, and Samlesbury Hall, &c., &c.] t & § Wilbraham, Rev. C. P. (A former Curate of the Parish Church.) Two Lectures on Palestine, delivered in Boltoa Parish Church Schools. (J. Heaton) 1844.* Scenes beyond the Atlantic : a lecture. (J. Heaton) 1846.* LOCAL AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 2ig WoLFE^^DKN, James Rawsthoun (J.P., Bolton). Present and Prospective Position of the Corporate Finances. {Chronicle Office) 1835.* Woodman, Rev. Woodville (New Jerusalem Church, Kearsley, 1839 to 1872). Discussion with Mr. Gibson, a Mormon elder, at Bolton. (London) 1850. Discussion with Mr, John Bowes, itinerant preacher, at the Temperance Hall, Bolton. (Tiiomas Morris) 1858. Discussion with Mr. Bradlaugh (Iconoclast), ab Wigan, on " The Existence of a God." (London) 1861. Discussion with Mr. Bradlaugh, at Ashton-under- Lyne, on' "Is the Bible a Divine Revelation V* (Lon- don) 1861. The Teachings of Swedenborg on Marriage, the In- termediate State, Hell and the Scriptures ; a debate witli Mr. Brindley, at Bolton, (James Hudsmith) 1862. Baptism, its Nature and Uses, &c. (London.) [Note : Also author of many other works.] Wood, Rev. James (B.D., F.R.S.; native of Turton ; b. 1763, d. 1839). The Principles of Mathematics and Natural Philo- sophy. The Elements of Algebra, &c. (Cambridge) Istea, 1795 ; 2nd ed. 1798 ;t 3rd ed. 1801 ; 8th ed. 1825.t The Principles of Mechanics, &c. (Cambridge) Isb e.-l. 1796 ; t 2ad. ed. 1799 ; 7ch ed. 1824 ; new ed. 1841.t The Elements of Optics, &c. (Cambridge) 1798. Wood, Robert (Bolton). Three Lectures on the Poetry of Cowper, at BoltoD, 1864. 220 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Woods, Edward. Report on the Locomotive Engines Constructed by- Messrs. Hick & Son, of Bolton. (John Heaton) 1841. WOOLLEY, Rev. f KBDEEICK F. (Wesleyan Methodist, in Bolton Circuit,. 1849-51). A Brief Memorial of the late Mrs. R. Topping of Bolton. (John Ogle) 1850.11 WORTHINGTON, Rev. Jeffert (Unitarian Chapel, Bank-street, 1864 to- 1874). A Life of TiOve, a Fitting Preparation for Death : a sermon on the Death of Mr. John Gordon, preached in Bank-street Chapel, Bolton. (Robert Kenyon) 1867.ir Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Franklin Baker,. M.A., preached in Bank-street Chapel, , Bolton. (Thomas Rigby) 1867.t Wright, H. C. (America). Abridged Report of Two Lectures on War or Peace^ delivered in the Temperance Hall, Little Bolton. (Toulmin and Greeuhaigh) 1843. Wright, Rev. John James (Unitarian Chapel, Commission-street,. 1884 to date). Evenin' News; and other stories. (Leicester) 1875.§: Play with Your Own Marbles, and other stories. (Belfast) 1881.§ Little Asker : or Learning to Think. (London.) Ill the press. Yates, Rev, John (Unitarian ; native of Bolton ; b. 1755, d. 1826). Discourse on the Death of the Rev. Dr. Barnes. (Manchester) 1810.t Selection from Harrington School Hymns for th© Public Worship of Children. (Liverpool) 1817.11 A LIST OF MISCELLANEOUS LOCAL WORKS. |iTji "TAVINQ completed Jj}_ X f^od their Works,' an extensive " List of Local Authors ' another series of literary productioni coming in the category of " Bolton Bibliography" is given. This class consists of books and pamphlets relating to local and other subjects, printed in the town, which are unfortunately uuaccom- .panied by their writers* names, thus necessitating a chronological arrangement for better elucidating the manner of their appearance. A number of Reports and Rules of several Friendly and 6ther •Societies, some now obsolete, are also included in the list according to date, though it is advisablo to observe that special searches have nob been made for such minor productions, but that only those coming •under notice unsought-for, as it were, are here recorded ; hence the omission of many which might have been included Ijad their 222 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. importance secured them places in the public and private libraries^ ■which have undeigone a most careful and thorough "weeding" in the almost endless task of compiling this bibliographical list. The same signs are used as iu the previous list, indic.itiug where copies of most of the works are deposited. 1643 and 1844. ITow the Earle of Derbie's Forces made an Onset on the Towne of Boulton, &c. Isb ed. 1643 ; reprinted by the Chetham Society (vol. 2), 1844.* 1644 and 1844. An Exact Eelation of the Bloody and Barbarous Massacre at Bolton in the Moors, iu Lancashire, by Prince Rupert. (London) 1644 ; reprinted by the- Chetham Society, 1844.'" 1651 and 1844. The Earle of Derby's Speech on the Scafifold imme- diately before his Execution at Bolton, in Lancashire, Oct. 15, 1651. Exactly taken in shorthand as it was spoken, and now published for the satisfaction of those that desire to be truly informed. (London) 1651. Reprinted by the Chetham Society (vol 2), 1844* 1680 to 1747. 1681, 1785. England's Black Tribunal : [with a Relation of the Sufferings of James Earl of Derby and others ; and the Earl's death upon the Scaffold at Bolton. J Loudon) 3rd ed. 1680, 5th ed. 1720, 6th ed. 1737, 7th ed. 1747.t Mercurius Politicus ; giving an Account of the execu- tion at Bolton of the Earl of Derby. ' The Trial to Repeal a Patent granted to Mr. Richard Arkwright for Machinery, at Westminster HalL (Loudon).* MISCELLANEOUS LOCAL WORKS. 223 1785 aud 1786. 1786, itiV. / Description of the Memorable Sieges and Battled in the North of Eughind in 1642-3, &c., chiefly contained in the Memoirs of General Fairfax and James Earl of Derby. To which is added the life of Oliver Crom- well ; likewise history of rebellions in 1715 45, Ist ed. (J. Drake) 1785 ;* 2ud (for the editor, Bolton) 1786. •■ Brief chronology concerning the Jews. Epistle of King Agbarus to our Saviour. l^lxtirpatiou of the Jews out of Persia. History of England. Loss of the Halsewell. Memorable llomarks upon Aucienb and Modern State of ihe Jewish Nation. Paul's Epistle to the T-aodiceans. Proceedings about Jews in England in 1655. Proceedings of the Great Council of the Jews. The Counterfeit Messiah. The Death of Abel. The French Convert. Travels of Fourteen Englishmen to Jerusalem. Travels of Two English Pilgrims to Jerusalem. [Note :— xVU these works were printed by B. Jackson, Bolton, and copies of most are deposited in the Bolton Public Library.]* A Complete Picture of Human Life, or Variety of Food for the Mind (B. Jackson).* A Description of Smithills Hall, near Bolton ; with Account of the Print of a Foot ; also Memoirs of Sir Andrew Barton. (B. Jackson.)* History of the Worthy Marlyr, John Bradford; Life of Rev. Richard Rothwell ; Life and Martyrdom of George Marshe, with particulars respecting the print of a foot on the flag shown at Smithills Hall, near Bolton ; also the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs ; also Discourse by Archbishop Tillotson. (B. Jackson.)* 224 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1788. Bolton Grammar School Act.t Exercises in Speaking for Young Ladies at a Private School. (15. Jackson.) II 1790. 1792. 1792 to 1884. 1799. 1801 to 1844. 1804. The Christian's Complete Family Bible ; with Explanatory Notes, &c. (ICxecutors of B. Jackson). Four Excellent Hymns, sung at the Parish Churcli, Bolton. (J. 'J'aylor.) The Book of Common Prayer, &c. (J. Gardner.) Acts of Parliament Relating to Bolton and District.* and |{ Address to the Inhabitants of Bolton on the State of the Cotton Manufactory.* Occasional Hymns for the Use of the Parish Church of Bolton. (J. Gardner.) Rules of a Society for the Prosecution of Felons ; established at the Black Horse Public House in 1801. Ist and 2ijd eds. (J. Gardner) 1801, 1836 ; 3rd ed. (R. M. Holden) 1844. Articles to be observed and kept by the Fourth Female Friendly Society, established in Bolton; begua by 39 members, June 26, 1799. (T. Garner.) Abstract of the Cotton Weavers' Ameuded New Act, passed in the 44th year of the Reign of George III. (T. Garner. )t Select Portions of Dr. Brady's and Mr. Tate's Version of the Psalms, together with a few selected from the old version. Also a collection of Hymns for the use of the Congregation in Leigh Cliurch, (T. Garner) 1804-5. 1806. 1809. 18 .4. MISCELLANEOUS LOCAL WORKS. 22$ Articles to be observed by the First Female UnioQ Society iu Eolton, first begun by 64 members, March 9.h, 1796, for relieving the sick and infirm, burying their dead, &c. (J. Gardner. )t First Book of the Chronicle of the Isles ; contain- ing a curious display of Female Ambition, Assurance^ Success, and Disappointment, &c. (T. BIundell.)§ Occasional Hymns for Public Worship. (J. Gar'duer.)!! m I Rules for the Management of the Methodiat Sunday School, Bolton. (J. Gardner.)* Jl'ilLl. i\\ Militaiy History of Europe, since the Commence- ,\\ ment of the French lievolution, &c, (J. Hurtley.)* j| Selection of Masonic Songs, Duets, &c. (J. I Howarth.)* 1814 to 1884. 1816. Report Read at the First Annual Meeting of Mem- bers composing a Literary and Philosophical Society ia Bolton. (J. Gardner.)l| Rules of a Society for llelieving, in case of Sickness, Workmen of the Shops under R. Salter and G. Brown, at the Union Foundry, Bolton. (Swindells and Whalley.)!! Annual Reports of the Bolton Infirmary and Di8» penaary. (Various printers.) Political Catechism, &c. 2nd ed. (Edward Smith).* The Prodigal Child Reclaimed ; or a History of Betty Bridge and Betty Ann Hawkins. (ICdward Smith.)* 2 26 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1816 to 1820. Bolton Clothing Charity Reports. (Gardner and" Yates.)* Bolton Parish Church Sick Society Reports. (Gard- ner and Yates.)* 1818 to 1885. Directories of Bolton and Neighbourhood. (Various printers.)* 1819. 1820. 1821. 1822. 1823. 1824. llidgway v. Cullingworth : a local law-suit before the Hon. Baron Wood, at Lancaster. (Manchester.)* Rules of the Social Sick List, held at the house of T. Vickers, at the sign of Tlie Cock, Clmrchgate, Bolton. (J. Ogle.) Overseers' Report of Great Bolton. (Gardner and Yutes.)t Eighth Report of the Bolton Auxiliary Bible S( ciety, with list of subscribers. (J. Gardner.)!! Rules of the Unitarian Christian Benevolent Society, assembling in the Meeting-house, Moor-lane, Bolton. (Liverpool. )1| Rules and Regulations of the Great and Little Bol- ton Union Society for Building Houses. (John Ogle.) Rules and Regulations of the Great and Little Bol- ton Building Society. (J. Ogle.) Report of the Overseers of Little Bolton, &c. (J» Yates.)!! Deity of Christ, the Uniform Testimony of the Holy Scriptures. (J. Yates.)* 1826 to 1884. ■SO. im. 1832 to 1847. 1833. MISCELLANEOUS LOCAL WORKS. 22 7 Annual Reports of Uie Bolton Mechanics' Institute. Various printers.)* and |I Letter to the Rev. Ricliard Norris, principal of Stonyhurst, occasioned by his correspondence with the Rev. J. W. Whittaker, Vicar of Blackburn. (J. Gard- ner.)ll Report of Trial of Hampson, gent., v. Ridgway and another, for an assault, 1824. (J. Yates.)* Rules of an Association for the benefit of widows and orphans of Protestant Dissenting Ministers. (T. Cropp.)t Premiums ofifered by the Manchester Agricultural Society ; with rules and conditions for 1830. (R. Holden.)|l Short Appeal as to the Necessity of Forming a Political Union. (T. Cropp.)* Abstract of the Act Relating to Special Constables. (Holcroft andHeaton.)l| The Trotting Gazette; or an Address from one of the many thousand non-Electors of Bolton, to the^ Electors of Bolton, Manchester, Oldham, &c. (R. M. Holden.)t The Five Election Poll Books for the Borough of Bolton. 1st to 4th (R. M. Holden) ; 5th (VVm. Bridge.)* Abstract of a Bill to Regulate the Labour of Chil- dren and Young Persons in Mills and Factories. (R. Holden.)!! Report of the Overseers of the Poor of Bolton.* The Harmonia, for the use of the Ancient Order of the United Oddfellows in Bolton, (Robert Holden.)!! .228 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1834. Observations Drawu from the new Testament oa Primitive Christian Churches. (R. Holden.) Plain Statement of Facts showing the lleasons for a Considerable Number of persons seceding from the Wesleyan Methodist Society ; with some observations relative to the Sunday School, Ridgway Gates, Boltoo. (W. Holcroft.)* 1836. 1837. 1838. 1839. Abstract of Clauses for the Trust Deed of the Boltoa Joint Stock Banking Company. (W. Holcroft.) Letter to the Guardians of the Poor ; with statistical table of the Population of the Great Bolton Uaioa. (R. M. Holdeu.)ll Copy of the Charter of Incorporation of the Borough of Bolton. (EI. Bradbury, jun.) The Railway Companion, from Manchester to Bolton; containing a description of everything worthy of notice on the line, (Liverpool.) Iteport of the Ladies' Charity for the Benefit of Poor Lying-in Women in Great and Little Bolton ; in- stituted 1798. (John Heaton.)l| First Report of the Astley Bridge Church Sunday School Sick Society. (John Heatou.) Twentieth Report of St. George's Sunday School Sick Society. (John Heaton.) Report of the Bolton Benevolent Society, (Joho Heaton.) Rules of the Sharpies Chapel Sunday School Sick Society. (John Heaton.) Rules of the Turton Higher End Burial Society, held at the King William IV., Turton. (John Heaton.) Articles of the Family Burial Society, held at the house of Mr. Thomas Ridyard, Swan Inn, Worsley Stocks. (John Heatou.) MISCELLANEOUS LOCAL WORKS. 229- 1840. 1840^ 1841 I84//-0 IB/A to / 1843. 1884. Tleport of the Great Protestant Meetinp; in St. George's School, Little Bolton, Nov. 9, 1840. (John HeiiLon.)* Memorial of a Beloved Aunt — daughter of Peter Rothwell, Esq., of Bolton. (John Ogle.)|| Short Memoir of ]*]Iizabeth Walker, of Swinton, who died 1834. (R. M. Holden.)!! First Annual Report of the St. George's Missionary Association. (John Heaton.) Rules for Workpeople at Mr, Thomas Kearsley's- Mills, Tyldesley. (John Heaton.) 1885. 1852. Poor Protection Society Reports, printed.)* (Variously Evidence of Witnesses in the Cases of William Pearce and James Bristol, who died at Bolton from want of food. Also on the General Distress. (J. Gadsby.) Abstracts of the Accounts of tlie Borough of Bolton.* Calender of Prisoners at Bolton Quarter Sessions* Statistics of the Borough of Bolton, printers.)* (Various Brief Memoir of the late Mrs. De Manneville, ol Acresfield, Bolton. (John Ogle.)l| The Disfranchising Whigs. (Wm. Bridge.)]] Tweniy-seveuth Report of tlie Bolton Clothing. Charity. (John Heaton.) Eighth Annual Keport of Trinity Church School. Sick Society. (John Heaton.) .230 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1843. Rules of the St, Andrew'^ Funeral Society, held afc Mis. Sarah Manguall's, Cross Keys, Churchgate, Bolton. (John Heatun.) Rules of St. Geurge'o Sunday School Sick Society, (John Heatou.) Fourth Report of the Astley Bridge Church Sunday School Sick Society. (John Heaton.)!] 1845. Population Table of Great Britain and Ireland. (^Chronicle Uffice.)lj Tlie Swearer's Prayer ; or, his oath explained, (R, M. Holdeu.)ll General Advantages of Bathing ; with Description of the Bolton Public Baths. (Robert Greenhalgh.)* Interrogatory Lectures belonging to the I/Oyal Order of Druids at Bolton, 1829, &c. (Thos. Morris. )|| A Letter on Lord John Russell's Passover Bill, directed to Stephen Blair, Esq., M.P. for Bolton. (Hy. Bradbury.) Loyal Orange and National Songs. (James Hud- smith.)!! Short Memoir of the late Miss E. S. Winterbottom, of Bolton-le-Moors. (Henry Bradbury, juu.)ll Curious Revelations concerning the Traffic.ia Strong Drink. (VV. Robinson.) Life of John Wright. (Manchester.) Nolan V. Pettigrew : The evidence sifted by a Voice from the Crowd. (Bolton. )1| 1850 to 1877. Rules of the Permaneub Building Society. (Various printers.) 1846. 1847. 1849. 1850. 1851. 1852. 1853. 1854. 1854 to 1884. 1855. 1855 to 1857. 1855 to 1885. MISCELLANEOUS LOCAL WORKS. 23 1 Monthly Papers from the Bjlton Protestant Associa- tion. (Thomas Mori ii )* Man's Mission ; a Pilgrimage to Glory's Goal : a poem. (H, Giindiod & Sou.)|! Correspondence Relative to a Proposed Sale by the Church State Commissioners of Church Lands situated within the Town of Bolton. (Jas. Hudsmith.) Report of the Proceedings connected with the Opening of the Public Library at Bolton. (Jas. Hud- smith.)* A Curious and Interesting Book of Wonderful [Local and General] Events, from the earliest known records to the present time. (Bolton.) Sketch of the Character of Wiliiam Broughton, of Bolton. (John Tillotsou.)ll Annual Reports of the Bjlton and County of Lancaster Industrial School [formerly Commission Street Ragged School, afterwards Lostock Industrial School]. (Various printers.) Account of the Character, &c., of Susannah Barlow, of Bolton ; also her Funeral Sermon. (John Tillot- 80D.)I| Annual Reports of the Bolton Industrial Ragged School. (Thomas Morris.)* Annual Inaugural Addresses and Riports of the Bolton Hesperus, Literary, and Christian Association. (Various printers) * with exceptions. 232 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1857. Itules of the Phoenix Benefit Building Society; eslab- lished 1857. (James Hudstnith.) Pious Breathings of the late Mrs. Thos. Gregory, ot Altriucham. (VVm. Robinson.)!! Form of Piayer to be used in all Churches and Chapels in England an 1B17.* Catalogue of Protestant Dissenters' Library, Bank Chapel, Bolton. (J. Brandwood) ? 1820-4.* Library of Theology and General Literature in the Unitarian Meeting House, Moor-lane, Bolton. (Liver- pool) 1822.11 Catalogue of the property of Peter Baron, to be sold at Mr. Thomas Gowland's, Mealhouse-lane, Bolton^ July 5, 1824. (J. Yates) 1824. Catalogue of Books, &c., of Rev. William Allen, of Peel Hall, Little Hulton,, to be sold May 7, 8, 9, 1834. (W. Holcrofi) 1834. Catalogue of goods of George Pike, of Bolton. (William Brid-e) 1848. Catalogue of Books in the Bokou Mechanics' Insti- tute Library. (R4 M. Holdeu) 1835 ;1| 1838 ;1| (J- Tillotson) 18561! LOCAL CATALOGUES. 239 Catalogue of the Exliibition of Pictures, &c., at the Bolton Dispensary. (John Heatou) 1838.* Catalogue of the Wesleyau Methodist New Circulat- ing Library, Bolton. (J. Ogle) 1840.* Catalogue of Books belonging to the Church and King Library, Bolton ; with Rules and Names of Members. (John Heaton) 1841.* Catalogue of the Exhibition of Paintings in aid of the Bolton Dispensary and Baths. (John Heaton) 1849.* First Catalogue of the Bolton Public Lending Library. (J. Tillotson) 1853. First Catalogue of the Bolton Reference Library. (J. Joyce, late Ogle) 1853.* Bibliotheca Albinsouiana : Two Catalogues of the Library, &c., of John Albinson, Esq. (Wm. Winstauley) 1856.* A Classified Catalogue of Books in the Bolton Public Library. (Thomas Morris) 1856.* Catalogue of Ancient English Carved Oak Furniture and Library of Books, the property of Matthew Dawes, Esq., F.G.S., F.S.A., of Bolton. (Thomaa Moni^) 1861.* Catalogue of Books, fee, belonging to A. Varley. (Thomas Morris^) 1867.* Catalogue of Books, &c., belonging to Rev. Franklin Baker, M.A., of Bolton. (Tliomas Morri^) 1868.* Official Catalogue of the Bolton Mechanics' Institu- tion Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition. {Evenintj J^ews Office) 1868. 240 BOLTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts of the Rev. William Probert, Minister of the Unitariaa Chapel, Walmsley. (Tillotson & Son) 1871.* Catalogue of Books ia the Library of the School connected with Mather-street Mill ; estab. 1849. (Thomas Morris) 1871. || Catalogue of Books in the Bolton Law Society Library. (Journal Office) 1874.* Catalogue of Pictures, &c,, belonging to Mr. Wolsten- holme, Bolton, bequeathed by her father, the Rev. Tlios. Bancroft, formerly Vicar of Bolton. (Q. S. Heatou) 1878* Catalogue of Books, &c., of Mr. Ellis Greenhalgh.