THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES
 
 CHURCHWARDENS 
 
 OF 
 
 GIGGLESWICK. 
 
 638 1883. 
 
 COMPILED BY 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW
 
 DA 
 
 STACKHOUSE, 
 
 NEAR SETTLE, 
 
 MARCH I3TH, 1884. 
 
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 Amongst the books deposited in the safe at 
 Giggleswick Church is a very old one, much worn and 
 tattered, but recently touched up and rebound in vellum ; 
 and in this book have been recorded, year by year, the 
 names of the Churchwardens, and in many cases, those 
 of the overseers and other parochial officers. 
 
 Thinking that this is a matter of general interest, 
 I have extracted the list of churchwardens and arranged 
 them in tabulated form. 
 
 It may be as well to state that from time imme- 
 morial, there have been four wardens at Giggleswick, 
 one each for Giggleswick, Settle, and Stainforth, and 
 (until the year 1851,) one for the townships of Rathmell 
 and Langcliffe alternately. In 1851 however, Langcliffe 
 was created a Vicarage, (Settle and Stainforth remaining 
 perpetual curacies,) and from that date the fourth 
 warden has represented Rathmell only. 
 
 A few items from other Church books, in connec- 
 tion with the Churchwardens or their accounts, are 
 
 added. 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW.
 
 Six large and fifty small paper copies printed for private 
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 i6 
 
 EXTRACTS 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 CHURCHWARDENS' MINUTE BOOKS, &c. 
 
 I5TH SEPTEMBER, 1749. 
 
 WHEREAS the Churchwardens for this parish have 
 usually been allowed for the several accustomed meetings or 
 attendances yearly as hereafter mentioned, to wit ; for the 
 Quarterly meetings, sixteen shillings ; for their attendance 
 on Easter Mondays, six shillings ; for attendance on ringing 
 days, ten shillings ; on the perambulation days, eight shil- 
 lings ; and upon stating their accounts, four shillings, which 
 said several allowances amount unto the sum of two 
 pounds four shillings, which is thought by a majority of the 
 gentlemen called the Four and Twenty, at their meeting this 
 day, too considerable. Therefore it is hereby ordered, that 
 for the said several meetings or attendances the Church- 
 wardens for the time being shall only have allowed the sum 
 of one pound four shillings. And it is further ordered that 
 the said gentlemen for the time being, called the Twenty four, 
 shall at their several meetings pay and bear their own 
 expenses thereof, any order heretofore made notwithstanding. 
 
 WILLM. BANK. THOS. BRAYSHAW. 
 
 WM. HALL. WILL. BANKS. 
 
 WM. BRADLEY. HUGH HALL. 
 
 THOS. SETTLE. 
 
 Let it be remembered that the order above was oppos'd 
 and look'd upon as ridiculous and foolish by us whose names 
 are now subscribed. 
 
 JNO. FOSTER. JON. SETTLE. 
 
 GEO. CARR. THOS. LISTER. 
 
 HENRY TOWN. 
 Cross'd by me. 
 
 A. LISTER, 
 
 Vicar. 
 
 This last note by the Vicar refers to a large cross he had made over 
 the entry, thus cancelling the same.
 
 The " Gentlemen called the Twenty four " seem to have 
 had good times when they met to elect churchwardens. It 
 would appear that they either held their meetings at, or ad- 
 journed immediately afterwards to, one of the Inns in 
 Giggleswick. A Mr. Paley kept one inn, a Mr. Waller the 
 other, and the Twenty four patronised each alternately. 
 They had plenty of refreshments, which they duly inserted in 
 the accounts, and for which the parish had to pay. The 
 amount spent on these occasions varied, at times (for instance 
 in 1782,) the average amount spent was three shillings and 
 eightpence for each person who attended, and at other times 
 (1763, &c) the amount came to three shillings each, and yet 
 at the same time these good people were a strange mixture 
 of extravagance and economy, for at one of these same meet- 
 ings in 1763, the twenty four whilst spending the parish money 
 freely on themselves, resolved " That Thomas Storey shall 
 not be employed in the Church work for the next year, his 
 Bill being thought very extravagant." 
 
 The resolution of Sept. 1749, set out before, was aimed 
 at this practice of having refreshments at the public expense, 
 but, as we have seen, this reform was upset by the high- 
 handed action of the Vicar and a minority of the Twenty four. 
 
 A favorite method the Churchwardens adopted in order 
 to raise funds to cover their refreshment bill, seems to have 
 been to sell the bell ropes and to spend the money so obtained, 
 at the meetings of the Twenty-four. Certain it is that new 
 bell-ropes seem to have been required far oftener than could 
 have been reasonably expected. 
 
 Another example of the jealousy with which the Church- 
 wardens guarded the parish expenditure, always excepting 
 that spent on their own enjoyment, is to be found in the 
 following resolution : 
 
 " November the 2oth, 1735. 
 
 Be it Remembered that it was unanimously agreed upon 
 by the Vicar and Twenty-four men then met together, that 
 Robert Young and Richard Smith of Settle, Glaziers, shall 
 for ever hereafter be discharged for doeing any work or being 
 any further einploy'd in any work hereafter to be done, in or 
 about this church, for the gross abuses and ill usage the 24 
 balieve the parish has sustained by the said Robert Young 
 and Richard Smith."
 
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 "July 8th, 1742. 
 Spent by the Twenty-four in taking the accounts 
 
 of the Churchwardens, and hiring the great 
 
 Bell carrying to York at the same time i ^ o 
 
 In 1761 the seats in the Church were repaired at a cost 
 of ^35 2s. 4d. 
 
 In 1788 the Churchwardens' accounts do not seem to 
 have been satisfactory to the Twenty-four, and the meeting 
 accordingly adjourned to another date " when the Church- 
 wardens are requested to exhibit their accounts sufficiently 
 authenticated." 
 
 " July ist, 1795. Whereas the roof of the Chancel is 
 out of repair, and some doubt arises who are to repair, the 
 Churchwardens for the time being are hereby directed to 
 apply to the Spiritual Court or elsewhere, in order to get a 
 copy of any Record or information they can." 
 
 In 1815 the church yard was enlarged by taking-in a 
 portion of the Grammar School yard, the Governors of the 
 School giving their consent. 
 
 In 1820 21 the Church was repewed and the Churchwar- 
 dens paid to the Committee appointed to manage such 
 repewing, the sum of 151 45. od. for " public sittings." 
 
 1835. It was resolved that the Church be underdrawn 
 and the Churchwardens were empowered to raise ^"100 for 
 that purpose. 
 
 In 1838 there was a strike amongst the bellringers, which 
 was terminated by their demand for an increase of wages 
 from 145. 8d. to i each per annum being agreed to. 
 
 About the same tims complaints becams frequent that 
 the church was cold and damp, and this was remedied at a 
 cost of ^"142 I2S. gd. 
 
 In 1841, James Pulman, one of the Churchwardens, be- 
 came Bankrupt, and we find the Twenty-four resolved in the 
 year following that " the Churchwardens shall put down in 
 their accounts the sum of 2, 33. id. as lost by James Pulman, 
 the late Churchwarden, and shall give credit for the sum of 
 i los, being compensation paid by the said James Pulman 
 for his debt." But this did not cover the loss the parish 
 sustained, as in 1843 we find that the sum of 5 155. 70!. was 
 retained by the Churchwardens for 1842 "and applied, as 
 stated by them, to the payment of several bills which were 
 passed in their account as paid by Mr. Pulman, but which 
 proved to have been not so paid."
 
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 SALARIES. 
 
 The following item relates to an official whose services 
 are now happily dispensed with. 
 
 " March the 2ist, 1736. Beit Remembered that it is this 
 day agreed upon by the Twenty-four men then met together 
 that whoever hereafter acts as Dog-whipper to avoid distur- 
 bance in the church, shall receive five shillings a year for his 
 pains and noe more, and be subject to the orders given." 
 
 This official's salar}', as we shall see later on, was after- 
 wards raised to ten shillings. 
 
 In 1747 the Twenty-four seem to have had some bother 
 about the wages due to the clerk and sexton, as I find the 
 following entry. 
 
 " The Twenty-four present Feb. ye 3rd, do order yt no 
 standing dues for ye Clerk and Sexton be allowed for ye 
 future, being charged in particulars, as appears by some bills 
 that Mr. Wm. Hall has in his keeping." 
 
 " What was allowed for Standing during ye year 1707 : 
 
 s. d. 
 
 Washing Linning .......................... o 6 8 
 
 For Register writing and parchment .......... o 8 6 
 
 Sending it to York .......................... o i o 
 
 For Cleaning ye Church, &c ................. o 3 o 
 
 For taking care of ye clock .................. o 8 o 
 
 For taking care of ye cloths and dressing ye 
 
 plate .................................. o 6 6 
 
 For dressing leads .......................... o i 6 
 
 For dressing grayte ........................ o o 6 
 
 This does not seem to have worked well, for in the fol- 
 lowing year we find the following resolution entered : 
 
 " agth June 1748. Agreed by the gentlemen called the 
 Twenty-four that James Jackson is to have thirty shillings for 
 taking care, dressing &c. as under : 
 
 Washing Linning and mending. 
 
 Taking care of the Clock. 
 
 Candlestick cleaning. 
 
 Oil for Bells and Clock. 
 
 Cleaning Plate. 
 
 Dressing Church and Church Gates. 
 
 Stoneing Church yard. 
 
 Dressing the Leads. 
 
 Attending on the Communion Days, and taking care of the Cloths. 
 
 Dressing the Bells.
 
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 I promise to take care of things as above for the year 
 ensuing. As witness my hand. 
 
 His letter. 
 
 JAMES X JACKSON. 
 
 Whether Jackson or the Twenty-four rued of their bar- 
 gain I cannot say, but at a later stage of the same meeting 
 the office was transferred from Jackson to William Paley, who 
 promised to perform the duties for the very moderate sum of 
 twenty-six shillings per year. 
 
 This stipend however was increased to two guineas the 
 following year, and the few members of the Twenty-four who 
 attended the meeting called to discuss this weighty matter, 
 seem to have been so exhausted by their deliberations that 
 they consumed sixteen shillings worth of refreshments, duly 
 paid for out of the parish funds. 
 
 Fourteen years afterwards, in 1762, William Paley again 
 had his salary raised, this time to -2 ios., but out of this he 
 had to provide fuel. 
 
 Aug. nth, 1772. ' Agreed by the Four and Twenty that 
 Thomas Hargraves is to have five shillings per year for keep- 
 ing the clock in proper repair. Also that John Higson is to 
 have ten shillings per year for whiping the dogs out of the 
 Church and keeping the doors shutt." 
 
 Sept. 3rd, 1773. " Mr. Moor to have the sum of five 
 pounds and five shillings allowed for directing the musick 
 for one year." 
 
 This Mr. Moor seems to have held his office of choir- 
 master for five years, as we do not find his name mentioned 
 after 1777, but in 1796 we find the parish again in want of 
 some one to direct the singing, and a committee was ap- 
 pointed "to procure a proper person to instruct such as are 
 disposed to learn to sing in the Church." The salary to be 
 given was five guineas, but for some reason or other the 
 Committee does not seem to have been successful, and in the 
 following year the resolution was rescinded. 
 
 In 1804 the " Churchwardens allowance for the peram- 
 bulation was increased to two guineas. I cannot ascertain 
 what sum had been allowed them up to this time, but, as we 
 saw in the resolution of i5th Sept., 1749, they had an allow- 
 ance of eight shillings a year at that date. The last occasion 
 on which this payment is entered in the minute book is in 1844. 
 
 BRIEFS. 
 
 In former times when a Church had to be rebuilt, from
 
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 fire or other cause, or a great calamity had befallen a town 
 or body of men, it was customary, (having first obtained the 
 sanction of the Ecclesiastical authorities,} to send a notifica- 
 tion to every parish, stating the amount of the loss or damage, 
 and requesting that a collection be made in aid of such 
 rebuilding, or ior the relief of the sufferers. 
 
 Such intimations were styled " briefs," and I give par- 
 ticulars of such "briefs " for an average year. 
 
 " An account of the Briefs collected by the Churchwardens in the year 
 1746, when read, and how much collected in each. 
 
 Rodington Church in Com. Salop. s. d. 
 
 Charge, 1007. Collected June agth .... o 2 6 
 
 Garstang Church, in Com. Lancaster. 
 
 Charge, /IQIO. Collected July 27th .... o 3 8 
 
 Weston Turvile, in Com. Bucks, Loss by fire, 
 
 /I2I4. Collected August 24th o 3 9 
 
 Hythe Church, in Com. Kent. 
 
 Charge, 1100. Collected September 28th 023 
 
 Poulton Church, in Com. Lancaster. 
 
 Charge, 1047. Collected October 26th .. o i nj 
 
 Meole Brace Church, otherwise Brace Meole 
 Church, in Com. Salop. 
 Charge, 1000. Collected November i6th 033 
 
 Shillington Church, in Com. Bedford. 
 
 Charge, ^2087. Collected December 2ist o 3 yj 
 
 Flixton Church, in Com. Lancaster. 
 
 Charge, 1108. Collected February 8th .. o 2 6 
 
 Mold Church, otherwise Mount Alto Church, 
 
 in Com. Flint. 
 Charge, 1959. Collected April 26th o 2 4$ 
 
 Wyke, Townhope, &c., in Com. York, Here- 
 ford, &c. Loss by fires, HOJ, &c. Col- 
 lected J une i4th o 3 4 
 
 /' 9 3i 
 Quakers o 2 2 
 
 The last occasion on which I can find a list of briefs is 
 for the year 1827. Few particulars are given in the account, 
 which is as follows : 
 
 s. d. 
 
 Leek and Heaton. Fire. Lancashire 105^ 
 
 Ingoldmells. Fire. Lincoln o 9 o 
 
 Walton on Trent Church, Derby o o 6 
 
 Weston Begt*ard Church, Hereford o o 6 
 
 Uttoxeter Church, Stafford o o 7 
 
 Rushtor Spencer Church, Stafford o o 9 
 
 Beeley Church, Derby o o 8 
 
 Wistaston Church, Chester o o 8
 
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 The great difference in the amount collected on various 
 occasions is worthy of note. 
 
 A memento of the persecution to which members of the 
 Society of Friends were subject to, is to be found in the fol- 
 lowing Entry : 
 
 " May ye soth, 1688. 
 
 " We whose names are here subscribed do consent and 
 aggree w'th ye present Churchwardens of Gigleswick and yir 
 successors yt charges soever they are at in prosecuting Sam- 
 uel Watson of Knight Stainforth for non-payment of his 
 Churchgold" (qy. Churchrate) "yt it shall be upon ye parish 
 account, and allow'd them, as witness our hands." 
 
 WILLIAM ARMITSTEAD CHARLES NOWELL 
 
 THOMAS CARR R. PRESTON 
 
 THOMAS CLAPHAM HUGH ST 
 
 THOMAS ARMITSTEAD Jo. LISTER 
 
 THO. CARR . THOS. BRAYSHAW 
 
 WILLIAM LAMB WILLIAM PALEV 
 
 ADAM LAWSON JOHN COOKSON 
 
 JOSIAS DAWSON HUGH HALL 
 
 LEONARD CARR CHR. BROWNE 
 
 T. DAWSON WM. PALEY (Settle) 
 
 WILLIAM FOSTER ROBERT COOKSON 
 
 " STRAINGE PARSONS." 
 
 There seems to have been a custom at Giggleswick 
 Church to pay any Clergyman who came to preach there the 
 sum of one shilling. A separate account of these payments 
 headed "An Account of the Strainge Parsons" was kept, in 
 which was also entered the name of the Churchwarden who 
 made the payment. 
 
 A copy of this account for one year may be interesting, 
 so we will take the year 1741 2 as an example. 
 
 s. d. 
 
 "June ye 2ist, 1741, paid Mr. John Carr, of Settle,. . . . 
 
 George Jackson 
 ye 28th. Mr. John Carr, of Settle . . Wm. Paley 
 
 July ye 5th. Mr. Ward preached Sam. Lucas 
 
 ye lath. Mr. Twisleton James Carr 
 
 ye 25th. Mr. Chamberlaine .... George Jackson 
 
 September ye i3th. Mr. Bows Wm. Paley 
 
 October ye i8th. Mr. Swainson Sam. Lucas 
 
 November ye ist. Mr. Carr James Carr 
 
 ye 8th. Mr. Wade George Jackson t o
 
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 January ye 3rd. Mr. Carr Wm. Paley i o 
 
 January ye loth. Mr. Sedgwick Lucas i o 
 
 ye 1 7th. Mr. Swainson James Carr i o 
 
 March ye yth. Mr. Weatherherd Jackson i o 
 
 March ye 28th. Mr. Swainson Paley i o 
 
 April ye 1 8th. Mr. Sidgwick Lucas i o 
 
 Mr. Bows, when Oyster Dredgers .... 
 
 j. Carr i o " 
 
 To the last item no date is fixed. It would seem that 
 Mr. Bows had come round collecting for some distressed 
 oyster dredgers. 
 
 The second name in each entry is that of the Church- 
 warden who paid the "strainge parson," and from the above 
 list it would appear that the worshippers at Giggleswick 
 Church had no lack of variety in their preachers. 
 
 I cannot say at what date the payment of one shilling 
 was discontinued, but the record of the " strange parsons" 
 ends in 1846. 
 
 The following extract is noteworthy as showing that in 
 1757 the Sacrament of the Holy Communion seems to have 
 only been administered three times a year, in addition to 
 Easter ; and that it was, even at that day, an "antient custom" 
 for the Vicar to provide the Bread and Wine at his own cost 
 at Easter. 
 
 " Sept. 1 3th, 1757. This day agreed between the Rev. 
 Mr. Thomson and us whose names are hereunto subscribed 
 for and on behalf of the Parish of Gigleswick, That the 
 Churchwardens for the time being shall and will yearly and 
 every year pay to the said Mr. Thomson the sum of three 
 guineas on condition he shall provide Bread and Wine sufi- 
 cient for three sacrament days, usually bought by the Parish, 
 so long as he the said Mr. Thomson shall conform to the 
 antient custom of procuring Bread and Wine suficient at 
 Easter at his own expense. The first year to comence the 
 week before Easter last." 
 
 ( Here follow the signatures.) 
 
 This allowance was afterwards in creased to four guineas, 
 in 1795 to four guineas and a half, and in 1796 to five guineas, 
 in consequence of " the high duty for wine." 
 
 J. W. LAMBERT, PRINTER, SETTLE.
 
 CHARTERS 
 
 AND OTHER 
 
 EARLY DOCUMENTS 
 
 RELATING TO 
 
 GIGGLESWICK CHURCH 
 
 WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW. 
 
 * * *
 
 STACKHOUSE, 
 
 NEAR SETTLE, 
 
 SEPTEMBER 2OTH, 1884. 
 
 In the year 1837 the Surtees Society issued a volume 
 containing the Charters and Account Rolls of the Priory of 
 Finchale, and in 1872 the same society published The Regis- 
 ter, or Rolls, of Walter Gray, Lord Archbishop of York. It 
 is from these two volumes that the documents contained in 
 this pamphlet are extracted, but I have considered myself as 
 justified in reprinting them in the form of one of this series of 
 "Local Tracts" for two reasons, in the first place because 
 the above-named works are very scarce, the issue being 
 limited, and in the second place because the Latin docu- 
 ments are untranslated, and are therefore lost on many of us, 
 whose knowledge of that language is very shaky, and as I 
 myself am one of that unhappy number, I have gratefully to 
 record my thanks to the REV. J. J. MILNE, M.A., of Hever- 
 sham, for the assistance he has rendered to me in the work 
 of translation. 
 
 I have contented myself with very few notes on the 
 various documents, and persons mentioned therein, as I 
 propose to issue two further pamphlets with reference to 
 Giggleswick Church. 
 
 In sending out this, the third of my series of " Local 
 Tracts," (which, I may here state, I hope to issue quar- 
 terly), I take the opportunity of asking my friends to 
 communicate to me, at any time, notes on Local History, 
 biography, antiquities, customs, traditions, family history, 
 folk-lore, place-names, sayings, legends, superstitions, worthies, 
 societies, publications, engravings, or on any other subject 
 of local interest. By so doing they will confer a great favor 
 on me. 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW.
 
 Twelve large and one hundred small paper copies printed for 
 private circulation.
 
 EARLY CHARTERS AND DOCUMENTS 
 RELATING TO GIGGLESWICK CHURCH. 
 
 I. 
 
 Carta Henrici de Puteacho * de Ecclesiis de Wictona et Gicheleswic. 
 
 UNIVERSIS sanctae matris ecclesiae filiis ad quos 
 litterae istae pervenerint, Henricus de Puteacho salutem in vero 
 salutari. Noverit universitas vestra me concessisse et dedisse, 
 et hac present! karta mea confirmasse intuitu pietatis Divinae, 
 et salutis animae patris mei, et matris meae, et animae meae, 
 et Dionisiae uxoris meae, omniumque parentum meorum, 
 Deo et Beatae Marise et Beato Cuthberto et Sancto Godrico 
 et Monachis Dunelmensibus Deo et Beatae Mariae et Sancto 
 Godrico apud Finchale servientibus, ecclesiam de Wictona, 
 cum omnibus ad eum pertinentibus, et ecclesiam de 
 Gichelswic, cum omnibus ad earn pertinentibus, in puram et 
 perpetuam elemosinam, liberam, et quietam ab omni servitio 
 seculari et exactione, cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis 
 consuetudinibus, quascumque unquam praedictae ecclesiae 
 de Wicthona and Gicheleswic liberius honorabilius vel quietius 
 tenuerunt et possederunt ; scilicet in villa, et extra villam, 
 cum toftis et croftis, in bosco, in piano, in viis, in semitis, in 
 moris, et marasiis, in aquis, in molendinis et stagnis, in pratis, 
 in pasturis, et in omnibus aliis aisiamentis ad predictas 
 ecclesias pertinentibus. Hiis testibus, magistro Henrico 
 camerario, magistro Alano de Richemund, Roberto de 
 Hadigtona, magistro Willielmo de Blais, magistro Ricardo 
 de Haitona, magistro Waltero de Dunelmo, magistro Waltero 
 de Hadigtona, Willielmo de Besewilla et aliis multis. 
 
 Seal of Henry de Pudsey (for representation of which see Fig. i), 
 is appended by a silk label. 
 
 * This Henry de Pudsey was one of the sons of Hugh Pudsey, who 
 was Bishop of Durham from 1153 to 1196, his mother being Adelis de 
 Percy, and it was through her that Henry acquired his rights in the Parish 
 and advowson of Giggleswick, that place forming part of the Percy Fee.
 
 Translation. 
 
 Deed of Henry de Pudsey, concerning the Churches of Wicton 
 and Gigeleswick. 
 
 TO all the sons of the Holy Mother Church whom this 
 letter shall reach, Henry de Pudsey sends his sincere 
 greeting. Let your community know that I have granted 
 and given, and in this my present deed confirmed with a view 
 to my reverence for God, and the safety of the soul of my 
 father, and my mother, and my own, and that of Dionysia 
 my wife, and those of all my ancestors, to God and the 
 blessed Mary, and the blessed Cuthbert and St. Godric and 
 to the Monks of Durham who minister to God, and the 
 blessed Mary and blessed Cuthbert and St. Godric at 
 Finchale, the Church of Wicton with all things per- 
 taining to it, and the Church of Giggleswick with all 
 things pertaining to it, for a pure and perpetual chari- 
 table bequest, free and secure from all secular service 
 and exaction, with all liberties and free customs which- 
 soever at any time the aforesaid churches of Wicton and 
 Giggleswick more freely, honourably, or securely have held 
 and possessed ; that is to say, in villa,* or out of villa, with 
 tofts, t and croftsff, in wood, in the open, in highways, in foot- 
 paths, in moors and marshes, in waters, in millstreams and 
 lakes, in meadows, in pastures, and in all other easements 
 pertaining to the aforesaid churches. These persons are wit- 
 nesses, Master Henry, the chamberlain, Master Allen de 
 Richmond, Robert de Hadigton, Master William de Blais, 
 Master Richard de Haiton, Master Walter de Durham, 
 Master Walter de Hadigton, William de Besewill, and many 
 others. 
 
 II. 
 
 A.D. 1208. JOHANNES Dei gratia rex Anglise,dominus 
 Hyberniae, dux Normannise, Aquitanise, et comes Ande- 
 gaviae, archiepiscopis, episcopis, abbatibus, comitibus, 
 baronibus, justitiariis, vicecomitibus, prspositis, et omni- 
 bus ballivis et fidelibus suis salutem. Sciatis nos concessisse 
 
 * Villa means a country house or farm. 
 
 t Toftum A messuage, or rather the place where a messuage has 
 stood. 
 
 ft Croftum A small slip of ground near a houss.
 
 et hac carta nostra confirmasse rationabilem donationem quam 
 Henricus de Puteaco fecit priori et monachis de Finchal de ad- 
 vocatione ecclesise de Gycleswik ; habendum et tenendum 
 in perpetuum, hbere et quiete, integre, plenarie, et honorifice, 
 cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus, sicut 
 carta praedicti Henrici quam inde habuit rationabiliter tes- 
 tatur. Testibus dominis, W. London., E. Elyensi, P. Wyn- 
 ton., S. Wygorn., et H. Sarr,, episcopis, G. filio Petri comite 
 Essex, Willelmo Briwer, Roberto de Turnham. Data per 
 manum Hugonis de Well', Archidiaconi Well', apud Winton, 
 xix die Octobris, anno regni nostri nono. (Reg. Giffard 77a.) 
 
 Translation. 
 
 i^Uft, by the Grace of God, King of England, Lord of 
 Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitain, and Count of 
 Andegavia, to the archbishops, bishops, abbots, counts, 
 barons, judges, viscounts, wardens, and to all bailiffs and to his 
 faithful subjects, sends greeting. Knew ye that we have granted, 
 and by this our Charter have confirmed, the reasonable gift 
 which Henry de Pudsey hath made to the prior and monks of 
 Finchale concerning the advowson of Giggleswick, to have 
 and to hold in perpetuity, freely and quietly, completely, fully, 
 and honourably, with all its liberties and free customs, as the 
 Charter of the said Henry, which he had at that time, reason- 
 ably testifies. Witnessed by W. Lord Bishop of London, 
 E. of Ely, P. of Winton, S. of Wigorn, and H. 
 of Salisbury, G. son of Peter, Earl of Essex, Wm. Brewer, 
 Robert de Turnham. Given by the hand of Hugo de Wells, 
 Archdeacon of Wells, at Winton, the igth day of October, 
 in the gth year of our reign. 
 
 III. 
 
 Carta Willielmi de Percy.* 
 
 UNIVERSISsanctae matrisecclesiaefiliishancpraesentem 
 cartam visuris vel audituris, Willielmus de Percy, salutem. 
 Noverit universitas vestra me, caritatis intuitu, et pro salute 
 animae Henrici de Percy patris mei, et pro salute animae rneae, 
 et pro anima Johanna? uxoris meae, et pro animabus omnium 
 antecessorum, successorum, et heredum meorum, dedisse, 
 
 * William de Percy, Lord of the Percy Fee in Craven, and immediate 
 ancestor of Percy of Northumberland, died 29 Henry III (A.D. 1244), and 
 was buried in the Monastery of Sallay, founded by his ancesters.
 
 concessisse, et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse Deo, et 
 Beatae Marise, et Sancto Johanni Baptistee, et Sancto Godrico 
 de Finchal, et Priori et Monacbis ibidem. Deo servientibus, 
 advocationem ecclesiaede Gyckeleswic,et omne jus et clamium 
 quod in eadem ecclesia habui, vel habere potui, cum omni- 
 bus pentinenciis suis et libertatibus, absque ullo retinemento, 
 inpuram et perpetuam elemosinam. Et ut haec mea donatio, 
 concessio, et confirmatio, rata, illibata et stabilis perpetuis, 
 temporibus perseveret, presentem cartam sigilli mei impres- 
 sione munuvi. Hiis testibus, Roberto de Cokefeld, Vicecomite 
 Ebor*, Henrico de Percy fratre rneo, Marmeduc de Tweng, 
 Galfrido filio Gafndi, Waltero de Percy, Hugone de Leley, 
 Stephano de Menhil, Roberto de Plumton, Jordano de L'Estre, 
 Willielmo Britone, Simone de Bruntoft, Jordano Hayrun, 
 Willielmo de Hessewell, et multis aliis. 
 
 (Seal wanting, but see hereafter.) 
 
 Translation. 
 
 Deed of William de Percy. 
 
 TO all the sons of the Holy Mother Church who shall 
 see or hear read this present deed, William de Percy sends 
 greeting. Let your community know that I, with a regard for 
 my affection for, and for the safety of the soul of, Henry de 
 Percy my father, and for the safety of my own soul, and for 
 the soul of Johanna my wife, and for the souls of all my 
 ancesters, successors, and heirs, I have given, granted, and 
 in this my present deed confirmed to God and the Blessed 
 Mary, and St. John the Baptist, and St. Goderic of Finchal, and 
 to the Prior and Monks who minister unto God at that place, 
 the advowson of the Church of Giggleswick, and every right 
 and claim in the same church which I have had or could 
 have, with all its pertinences and liberties, without any re- 
 serve, for a pure and perpetual charitable bequest. And in 
 order that this my gift, grant, and confirmation may remain 
 established, settled and fixed for all times, I have confirmed 
 this deed with the impression of my seal. The following being 
 witnesses, Robert de Cokefeld, Sheriff of Yorkshire, my 
 brother Henry de Percy, Marmaduke de Tweng, Galfrid the 
 son of Galfrid, Walter de Percy, Hugo de Leley, Stephen de 
 Menhill, Robert de Plumton, Jordan de 1'Estre, Wm. Britone, 
 Simon de Bruntoft, Jordan liayrun, William de Hessewell, 
 and many others. 
 
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 IV. 
 
 Transactio inter Prior em de Finchale et Laurentium Clericum (pro 
 solncione pensionis de Gigleswik. 
 
 HAEC est composicio facta inter Johannem Priorem de 
 Finchall et Laurentium personam de Gykeleswic, in pre- 
 sencia Domini Henrici de Puteaco patroni ipsius Prioris, 
 scilicet quod predictus Laurentius assignavit predicto Priori 
 de Finchall omnes obvenciones et decimas de Setel, magnas 
 et minutas, exceptis oblacionibus, et exquiis mortuorum ; et 
 omnes decimas villatae de Rothemel, exceptis decimis lactis, 
 et oblacionibus, et exequiis mortuorum, pro solucione pensionis 
 ecclesise de Gikeleswic : unde prius reddidit viginti marcas 
 eidem Priori, in vita Adse de Thornhouer qui percipit duo- 
 decim marcas in eadem ecclesia. Et cum predictum Adam in 
 fata decessisse, vel habitum mutasse contigerit, idem Lauren- 
 tius solvet predicto Priori de Finchalle xx Marcas annuas, 
 nomine pensionis de ecclesia de Gykeleswic, vel adcrescet 
 super easdem decimas prenominatas usque ad xx marcas. 
 Et erit in electione predicti Prioris capiendi xx marcas vel 
 incrementum super easdem decimas ad valenciam xx mar- 
 carum. Hanc composicionem affidavit predictus Laurentius 
 tenendam in manu Henrici de Puteaco sine frande, et dolo. 
 Quod si quandoque a solucione cessaverit, vel contra factum 
 istud venerit, renuncians omni priviligio, appellacione remota, 
 judicio stabit Decani et Capituli Ebor., et dabit decem marcas, 
 nomine pcenae, predicto Priori. Hiis testibus, domino S. 
 Decano Ebor., Priore de Bridlington, H. thesaurario Ebor., 
 Henrico de Puteaco, Ada de Novo Mercheto, Hugone de 
 Feritate, Henrico de Nova Mercheto, Rogero de Everley, 
 Radulpho Haranc, Rudulpho filio Ricardi, Roberto de Crave 
 et aliis. 
 
 (To this document have been attached three seals : the first is 
 that of the Prior of Finchale of which a representation is given in 
 Fig 3, as far as it is preserved ; the second is that of Henry de 
 Puteaco (See Fig. i) ; the third is wanting). 
 
 Translation. 
 
 Transaction between the Prior of Finchale and Lawrentius, Clerk 
 in Holy Orders (for the payment of the stipend of Giggleswick). 
 
 THIS is an agreement made between John,* Prior of Fin- 
 chale, and Lawrentius, parson of Giggleswick, in the presence 
 
 * This John was the second Prior of Finchale, and ruled the priory 
 about the year 1225.
 
 II 
 
 of Master Henry de Pudsey, patron of the said prior, that 
 is to say, that the aforesaid Lawrentius has assigned to the 
 aforesaid Prior of Finchale all the revenues and tithes of 
 Settle, great and small, except offerings and burial fees, and 
 all tithes of the village of Rathmell, except tithes of milk and 
 offerings and burial fees, for the payment of the stipend of 
 the Church of Giggleswick ; first paying thereout the sum of 
 twenty marks to the same Prior during the life of Adam de 
 Thornhouer who has a claim of twelve marks on the same 
 church. And when it shall happen that the aforesaid Adam 
 shall have departed this life or changed his abode, the same 
 Lawrentius shall pay to the aforesaid Prior of Finchale 
 twenty marks a year, under the name of stipend of the Church 
 of Giggleswick, or shall make the said above-mentioned tithes 
 amount to the sum of twenty marks. And the aforesaid Prior 
 shall have the option of taking twenty marks, or an increase 
 over the same tithes up to the value of twenty marks. And 
 the aforesaid Lawrentius has given his word that this agree- 
 ment shall remain in the possession of Henry de Pudsey with- 
 out fraud and deceit. But if at any time he shall have stopped 
 payment, or, contrary to the deed this shall have happened, 
 renouncing claim to every privilege, without appeal, he shall 
 stand his trial before the Dean and Chapter of York, and 
 shall pay ten marks, under the name of penalty to the afore- 
 said Prior. The following are witnesses, The Lord S. Dean 
 of York, the Prior of Bridlington, H. Treasurer of York, 
 Henry de Pudsay, Adam de Novo Mercheto, Henry de 
 Feritate, Henry de Novo Mercheto, Roger de Everley, 
 Radulph Haranc, Radulph son of Richard, Robert de Craven, 
 and others. / 
 
 V. 
 
 A.D. 1230. UNIVERSIS sanctae matris ecclesiae filiis 
 ad quos praesens scriptum pervenerit, Radulphus prior et con- 
 ventus Dunolm. ecclesiae salutem in Domino. Noverit univer- 
 sitas vestra nos praecise et absolute commisisse ecclesias de 
 Wilton etdeGykeleswic,et jus patronatusearundemordinationi 
 venerabilis patris nostrae, domini W. Dei gratia Ebor., archie- 
 piscopi, Angliae primatis, perpetuo duraturae ; ratum et 
 gratum habituri, et inviolabiliter, imperpetuum observaturi, 
 quicquid de illis duxerit ordinandum. Ita tamen quod 
 occasione illius ordinationis monachus noster canonicus non
 
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 * fiat, aut nomine canonici censeatur. Actum est hoc anno 
 gratiae MCC tricesimo, iiij. kalendas Junii, anno archie- 
 piscopatus dicti venerabilis patris nostri Walter! quintode- 
 cimo. Teste sigillo nostro. 
 
 (Reg. Mag. Alb. pars ii, 8, 9 ; Claudius B. iii. 6 ; Reg. Giffard, 77. 
 Translation. 
 
 To all the sons of the Holy Mother Church to whom these 
 presents shall come, Ralph the Prior, f and the Convent of 
 the Church of Durham send greeting in the Lord. Let your 
 community know that we have concisely and absolutely 
 entrusted the Churches of Wilton and Giggleswick, 
 and the right of patronage of the same, to the per- 
 petual ordination of our venerable father, Walter, by the 
 grace of God Archbishop of York, Primate of England, who 
 shall exercise it firmly and kindly, and keep inviolate for ever 
 whatever he shall think ought to be ordained concerning 
 them. So also, whatever the monk our prebend [omit to do] 
 let it be considered as done, or else let a note be made in the 
 name of the prebend. This decree was made in the year of 
 grace 1230, on the 2gth of May, in the I5th year of office of 
 the said Walter, our Venerable Father. Witness our seal. 
 
 VI. 
 
 A.D. 1230. UNIVERSIS sanctae matris ecclesiae filiis 
 ad quos praesens scriptum pervenerit, Rudulphus prior et 
 conventus de Finchal salutem in Domino. Noverit univer- 
 sitas vestra nos praecise et absolute commisisse ecclesias de 
 Wilton et de Gykeleswyk et jus patronatus earundem ordina- 
 tioni venerabilis patris nostri domini Walteri Dei gratia Ebor. 
 archiepiscopi, Angliae primatis, perpetus duraturae ; ratum et 
 gratum habituri et inviolabiliter imperpetuum observaturi 
 quicquid de illis duxerit ordinandum. Actum est hoc anno 
 gratiae MCCXXX, iiij., kalendas Junii, anno archiepisco- 
 patus dicti venerabilis patris nostri W. xv. Testo sigillo 
 nostro. (Reg. Mag. Alb. pars ii., 8, 9, &c.) 
 
 Translation. 
 
 To all the sons of the Holy Mother Church to whom 
 these presents shall come, Ralph the Prior, and the Convent 
 of Finchale send greeting in the Lord. Let your community 
 
 * I fancy some word like "faciat" should be inserted here, 
 t Ralph was the third Prior of Finchale.
 
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 know that we have concisely and absolutely entrusted the 
 Churches of Wilton and Giggleswick, and the right of 
 patronage of the same, to the perpetual ordination of our 
 Venerable Father, Walter, by the Grace of God Archbishop 
 of York, Primate of England, who shall exercise it firmly and 
 kindly, and keep inviolate for ever whatever he shall think 
 ought to be ordained concerning them. This decree was 
 made in the year of Grace 1230, on the 2gth of May, in the 
 1 5th year of office of the said Walter, our Venerable Father. 
 Witness our seal. 
 
 VII. 
 
 EBOR 5 id. Junii 1230. THE Prior and Convent of 
 Durham, and the Prior of Finkhal, having submitted the 
 church of Gikeslwik to our ordination, we ordain as follows, 
 with the assent of our Chapter : ' Ob reverentiam beatorum 
 Cudberti et Godricii, domum de Finkhal nostrae provisionis 
 beneficio honorare volentes,' we appropriate the Church of 
 Gikeleswik to the use of the Monks of Finkhal, after the 
 death or cession of Walter, the present rector, reserving a 
 perpetual vicarage therein. 
 
 (From Archbishop Gray's Register). 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Appropriatio Ecclesia: de Gikelswyk per Archiepiscopum Ebor. 
 
 A,D. 1230. OMNIBUS Christi fidelibus ad quos 
 presens scriptum pervenerit, Walterus Dei gratia Ebora- 
 censis Archiepiscopus, Angliae Primas, salutem in Domino. 
 Noveritis quod cum dilecti filii Prior et Conventus 
 Dunolmensis et Prior de Finkhal ecclesias de Gikeles- 
 wik et de Wihton et jus patronatus earundem libere, 
 precise, et absolute, nostras commisissent ordinationi, per- 
 petuo duraturae, nos de voluntate es assensu Capituli nostri 
 ita de illis ordinavimus ; videlicet, quod, ob reverentiam 
 beatorum Cuthberti et Godricii, Domum de Finkhal nostrae 
 provisionis beneficio honorare volentes, ecclesiam de Gigkeles- 
 wik Priori et Conventui Dunelmensi concessimus in usus 
 monachorum Deo et beato Godricio apud Finkhal ministran- 
 cium, post decessum, vel qualemcunque cessionem, Walteri 
 ipsius ecclesiae nunc rectoris, in perpetuum libere converten- 
 dam, salva in omnibus auctoritate et dignitate Eboracensis 
 ecclesias ; salva etiam competent! vicaria perpetua in eadem
 
 *4 
 
 ecclesia Vicario assignanda, qui in eadem personaliter minis- 
 tret, et nobis et successoribus nostris de spirituabilus respon- 
 deat. Ecclesiam autem de Wihton, quae cum fuerit Ebora- 
 censis Ecclesiae prebenda, sicut nobis manifestis constitit in- 
 diciis eidem hactenus exstitit minus licite subtracta, nobis 
 et ecclesise nostrse Eboracensi in perpetuum reservavimus. 
 Ita quod dicti Prior et Conventus Dunolmensis, aut Prior de 
 Finkhal, nichil omnino juris in ipsa, aut in jure patronatus 
 ejusdem, ullo umquam tempore sibi possint vendicare. Et ,ut 
 haec nostra ordinatio perpetuae firmitatis robur obtineat, pre- 
 senti scripto tarn sigillum nostrum quam sigillum Capituh 
 nostri est appositum. Actum apud Eboracum quinto idus 
 Junii, anno Domini millesimo ducentesimo tricesimo. 
 
 (The seal of Archbishop Grey affixed. Reverse : The heads of St. 
 Peter and St. Paul, with the circumscription -f ORATE PRO NOBIS s'ci 
 DEI APO'LI. The Archbishop was Walter Gray, formerly Bishop of Wor- 
 cester, who was translated to the see of York 27th March 1216, and died 
 ist May 1255. 
 
 Translation. 
 
 Appropriation of the Church of Giggleswick through the Arch- 
 bishop of York. 
 
 To all faithful followers of Christ to whom this present 
 writing shall come, Walter, by the Grace of God Archbishop 
 of York, Primate of England, sends his greeting in the Lord. 
 Know ye that when my beloved children the Prior and 
 Convent of Durham and the Prior of Finchal entrusted the 
 Churches of Giggleswick and Wikton and the right of patron- 
 age of the same freely precisely and absolutely, to our ordina- 
 tion, which is to last for ever, We, by the will and assent of 
 our Chapter have thus ordained concerning them : that is to 
 say, because of our reverence for the blessed Cuthbert and 
 Godrick, wishing to honour the House of Finithall with a 
 gift made in our forethought, we have conceded the Church 
 of Giggleswick to the Prior and Convent of Durham, to be 
 freely handed over for ever to the use of the Monks who 
 minister to God and the Blessed Godrick at Finkhal, after 
 the departure, by death or otherwise, of Walter, the present 
 rector of that Church, in all things the authority and dignity 
 of the Church of York being preserved ; there being main- 
 tained also in the same Church a perpetual Vicarage to be 
 assigned to a competent Vicar who may personally officiate
 
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 in the same, and to be answerable in spiritual matters to our- 
 selves and our successors. But the Church of Wikton, which, 
 whilst it has been a prebend of the Church of York, as is 
 evident to us from manifest proofs, but up to the present time 
 has been separated from the same, having been illegally taken 
 away from us, we have reserved in perpetuity for ourselves 
 and our Church at York. So that the said Prior and Convent 
 of Durham, or the Prior of Finchal cannot ever at any time 
 claim to themselves any power whatever over it, or in the 
 right of patronage of the same. And in order that this our 
 ordination may continue in force for ever, to the present writ- 
 ing both our own seal and that of our Chapter is affixed. 
 Written at York on the gth day of June, 1230. 
 
 IX. 
 
 THORP, 6 id., Dec. 1231 (1230). THE Prior and Con- 
 vent of Durham, the Prior of Finchale, and Walter de Ves- 
 tiario, having submitted the Church of Gygleswic to the 
 ordination of us and J., sub-dean of York, with the consent 
 of the consent of the said sub-dean, we thus arrange the 
 matter : The said Walter resigns the Church. He shall re- 
 ceive fifty five marks per ann. from the ' camera' of the Prior 
 and Convent of Durham, through the Prior of Finchale, every 
 year, at York. By the hand, &c. 
 
 (From Archbishop Gray's Register). 
 
 X. 
 
 EBOR., 6 kal. AUG. 1231. ON the resignation of 
 Walter de Vestiario, we have inducted the prior of Finkehale 
 to the Church of Gygleswic ; a proper perpetual vicarage to 
 be ordained therein on the death of the said Walter. 
 
 (From Archbishop Gray's Register). 
 
 XI. 
 Carta Walteri Ebor., Archiepiscopi. 
 
 A.D. 1232. OMNIBUS Christi fidelibus ad quospresens 
 scriptum pervenerit, Walterus Dei gratia^Eboracensis Archie- 
 piscopus, Angliae Primas, salutem in Domino. Noveritis nos 
 ad resignacionem Walteri de Vestiario induci fecisse Priorem
 
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 de Finkhall in corporalem possessionem ecclesiae de Gikeles- 
 wyk. Salva competent! vicaria perpetua in eadem ecclesia 
 post decessum dicti Walteri ordinanda. In cujus rei testi- 
 monium sigillum nostrum duximus apponendem. Data apud 
 Eboracum, vj to kalendas Augusti, Pontificatus nostri anno 
 sexto decimo. 
 
 Translation. 
 
 Deed of Walter, Archbishop of York. 
 
 To all faithful followers of Christ to whom the present 
 writing shall come, Walter, by the Grace of God Archbishop of 
 York, Primate of England, sends greeting in the Lord. Know 
 ye thart We, on the resignation of Walter de Vestiario have 
 caused the Prior of Finkhal to be inducted into corporal pos- 
 session of the Church of Giggleswick. A perpetual vicarage 
 must be appointed in the same church for a competent minis- 
 ter after the decease of the said Walter. In testimony of 
 which circumstance we have caused our seal to be affixed. 
 Given at York, the 27th July, in the i6th year of our Pontifi- 
 cate. [A.D. 1232.] 
 
 XII. 
 
 Bulla Gregorii Papa. 
 
 A.D. 1232. GREGORIUS episcopus,* servus servorum 
 Dei, dilectis filiis Priori et Conventui de Finkhall, ordinis 
 Sancti Benedicti, salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. 
 Justis petencium desideriis dignum est nos facilem prebere 
 assenum, et vota, quae a racionis tramite non discordant, 
 effectu prosequente complere, Ea propter, dilecti in Domino 
 filii, vestris justis postulacionibus grato concurrentes assensu, 
 ecclesiam de Gikeleswyk cum pertinentiis suis, quam de con- 
 cessione venerabilis fratris nostri Eboracensis Archiepiscopi, 
 capituli sui accedente consensu, canonice proponitis vos 
 adeptos, sicut earn juste ac pacifice possidetis, vobis, et per 
 vos monasterio vestro, auctoritate apostolica confirmamus et 
 presentis scripti patrocinio communimus. Nulli ergo omnine 
 hominum liceat hanc paginam nostrae confirmacionis infrin- 
 gere, vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Si quis autem hoc 
 attemptare presumpserit indignacionem Omnipotentis Dei et 
 beatorum Petri et Pauli Apostolorum ejus se noverit incur- 
 surum. Data Lateran' v to idus Marcii, Pontificatus nostri 
 anno iiij to . 
 
 * Pope Gregory IX. (Ugolino, bishop of Ostia, and a cardinal). 
 Elected and enthroned igth March, 1227. Died 2ist August, 1241.
 
 Translation. 
 
 GREGORY, POPE, servant of the servants of God, to 
 his beloved children the Prior and Convent of Finkhall, of 
 the Order of St. Benedict, sends greeting and an apostolical 
 benediction. To the just request of your petitioning it is 
 right that we should give a ready assent, and by putting them 
 into effect should fulfil your wishes, which are not at variance 
 with the dictates of reason. For these reasons, beloved children 
 in the Lord, We, readily complying with your just demands, 
 confirm with apostolic authority to you, and through you to your 
 monastery, the church of Giggleswick with its pertinences, 
 which, according to the concession of our venerable brother, 
 the Archbishop of York, with the additional consent of his 
 Chapter, you assert that you acquired in a manner in accord- 
 ance with the canon, as also you retain possession of it in 
 accordance with justice and peace, and we furnish you with 
 the additional support of this present writing. Let no man 
 whatever therefore venture to infringe this page of our confir- 
 mation, or with rash daring to go contrary to it. But if any 
 one should presume to attempt this, let him know that he will 
 incur the indignation of the Omnipotent God and of the blessed 
 Peter and Paul his Apostles. Given at the Lateran, nth March, 
 in the 4th year of our Pontificate. [A.D. 1232] . 
 
 XIII. 
 
 CAW AD, 7 id., Sept., 1249. THE Archbishop appro- 
 priates the Church of Horton to the nuns of St. Clement, 
 York, ' inducente nos paupertate et inopia ; ' the advowson of 
 which has been given to them by ' nobilis mulier ' Alicia de 
 Staveley : reserving to the Church of Gikeleswic its pension 
 therefrom. 
 
 (From Archbishop Gray's Registers). 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Ordinatio Vicaria de Gykleswyk. 
 
 A.D. 1259. OMNIBUS Christi fidelibus presentes 
 literas visuris vel audituris G. * miseracione Divina Ebor. 
 Archiepiscopus, Angliae Primas, salutem in Domino sempiter- 
 nam. Noveritis nos, de assensu Prioris et Conventus Dunel- 
 
 * This is Bishop Godfrey de Ludham, alias Kimeton.
 
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 mensis ac Prioris de Fynchall, Vicariam perpetuam in ecclesia 
 de Gykleswyk taliter ordinasse, videlicet quod vicarius, qui 
 pro tempore fuerit, habeat decimas garbarum de Lanclyve et 
 de Stainford sub monte, et decimam feni tocius parochiae, 
 molendinorum, ortorum, albi, ancarum, et etiam gallinarum. 
 Item habeat omnes oblaciones altaris per annum, decimas 
 personales, et mortuaria quae de vivo non fuerint animali ; et 
 mansum de terra ecclesiae ad inhabitandum, quod tenuit 
 quondam Henricus Thoppan. Vicarius autem contentus in 
 predicta ecclesia se altero presbitero [ita] personaliter reside- 
 bit, facietque ecclesiae et parochise tam in ministris quam aliis 
 honeste et congrue deserviri ac onera tam Archidiaconalia 
 quam synodalia sustinebit. In cujus rei testamonium presenti 
 scripto sigillum nostrum duximus apponendum. Data apud 
 Cawod, idus Maii anno Domini MCC quinquagesimo nono. 
 
 Translation. 
 
 Ordination of the Vicarage of Giggleswick. 
 TO all faithful (servants) of Christ who shall see or hear 
 read these present letters. G [odfrey] , by the Divine Grace 
 Archbishop of York, Primate of England, sends eternal 
 greeting in the Lord. Know ye, that we, with the assent of 
 the Prior and Convent of Durham and the Prior of F'inchal 
 have ordained a perpetual vicarage in the Church of Giggles- 
 wick in the following manner, viz., that the Vicar for the time 
 being shall have tithes of the sheaves of Langclifte and of 
 Stainforth-under-the-hill,* and a tithe of all the parish hay, of 
 grist, of garden produce, of wages, of geese, and also of hens. 
 Also he may have all oblations of the altar from year to year, 
 personal tithes, and those mortuaries f which are not paid 
 for a living animal ; and the house on the church land to live 
 in, which Henry Thoppan formerly held. Now the Vicar 
 shall be content to reside in the aforesaid church in person, 
 with another priest, and shall take care that the duty is per- 
 formed to the Church and Parish both in services and other 
 things, both in an honest and fitting manner, and shall per- 
 form duties both archidiaconal and synodical. In testimony 
 of which thing we have affixed our seal to this present writing. 
 Given at Cawood, the i5th May, in the year of our Lord 
 1259- 
 
 * This was the old name for Stain forth, to distinguish it from Knight 
 Stainforth (now known as Little Stainforth). 
 
 t A mortuary was anciently the best animal of a deceased parishioner, 
 which became the property of the Incumbent of the Parish' in which he 
 died.
 
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 XV. 
 
 Dismissio Esclesia Parochialis de Gigleswyk. 
 
 A.D. 1439. H^EC indentura facta inter Johannem per- 
 missione Divina Priorem ecclesiae Cathedrahs Dunelm. ex 
 parte una et Rogerum Tempest de Broghton armigerum, 
 Christoferum Alton capellanum, et Johannem Armested 
 yoman, ex parte altera, testatur, quod dictus Prior concessit 
 et ad firmam dismisit dictis Rogero decimas garbarum ac 
 omnes fructus ad parochialem ecclesiam de Gigleswike spec- 
 tantia, exceptis decimis et porcionibus vicario diets ecclesiae 
 assignatis Habenda [for one year's rent ^44.] Dat Dunelm. 
 i Feb., 1439.* 
 
 Translation. 
 Leasing of the Parish Church of Giggleswick. 
 
 THIS Indenture made between John, by devine per- 
 mission Prior of the Cathedral Church of Durham, on the 
 one part, and Roger Tempest of Broghton, Esquire, Christo- 
 pher Alton, clerk, and John Armisted, Yeoman, on the other 
 part, bears witness, that the said Prior has granted and 
 leased to the said persons, Roger, &c., the thithes of sheaves 
 and all fruits, things pertaining to the Parish Church 
 of Giggleswick, except the tithes and portions assigned to the 
 Vicar of the said Church, to be held for one year, rent ^44. 
 Given at Durham ist Feb., 1439. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 Carta Prioris Et Conventus de Fsnkhale Facta Simoni Filio 
 
 Swani. 
 
 UNIVERSIS sanctae matris ecclesiae filiis ad quos pre- 
 sens scriptum pervenerit, Radulphus Prior et Conventus de 
 Finkhale, salutem in Domino. Noverit universitas vestra 
 nos dedisse, concessisse, et presenti carta nostra confirmasse 
 Symoni filio Swani unum tofptum cum omnibus pertinenciis 
 suis in Gicleswic in quo dictus Swainus pater suus quondam 
 
 * There are other Leases of Rectorial Tithes, and parcels of the glebe 
 land. In the latter the lessees are of the family of Carr, afterwards of 
 Stackhouse.
 
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 mariebat, et totum Briggeholm, habendum et tenendum sibi et 
 heredibus suis de nobis et successoribus in perpetuum, in feodo 
 et hereditate, libere, quiete, pacifice et honorifice, reddendo 
 inde annuatim nobis et successoribus nostris duos solidos 
 ad duos terminos, scilicet, duodecim denarios ad Pentecosten 
 et duodecim denarios ad festum Sancti Martini in hyeme, 
 pro omnibus aliis serviciis. Et ut haec nostra donacio, con- 
 cessio et confirmacio futuris temporibus robur optineant 
 presens scriptum sigilli nostri apposicione roboravimus. Hiis 
 testibus, Elya de Gycleswic, Henrico de Stainford, Ricardo de 
 Hortun, David de Setle, Ranulfo filio suo, Symone mercatore 
 de Gycleswic, Richeman, Kallei, Johanne filio Arnaldi de 
 Stainfordei, Waltero Tusard, Willielmo de Routhemelei, et 
 Ada de Palei et aliis. 
 
 (The seal of the Prior of Finchale, for a representation of which see 
 Fig. 4, is appended to this Deed). 
 
 Translation. 
 
 Deed of ttie Prior and Convent of Finchal made with Symon ^ 
 sou of Swain. 
 
 TO all the sons of the Holy Mother Church to whom 
 this present writing shall come, Ralph the Prior and the 
 Convent of Finkhal, send greeting in the Lord. Let your 
 community know that we have granted, conceded, and by this 
 our present deed confirmed, to Symon, son of Swain, the mes- 
 suage with all its appertenances in Giggleswick, in which the 
 said Swain his father formerly used to live, and the whole of 
 Briggeholme, to have and to hold for himself and his heirs 
 from us and our successors for ever, in fee and perpetuity, 
 freely, quietly, peacefully and honourably, to pay thence every 
 year to us and our successors two shillings at two fixed dates, 
 viz., 12 pence at Pentecost, and 12 pence at the Feast of St. 
 Martin in winter, for all other services. And in order that 
 this our gift, concession, and confirmation may have force for 
 future times, we have confirmed the present writing by the affix- 
 ing of our seal. These being witnesses : Elias of Giggleswick, 
 Henry of Stainforth, Richard of Horton, David of Settle, 
 Ranulph his son, Simon the merchant, of Giggleswick, Riche- 
 man, Kalley, John the son of Arnold of Stainforth, Walter 
 Tusard, Wm. of Rathmell, and Adam de Paley, and others.
 
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 XVII. 
 
 Carta Domini Willielmi de Perci (De I Tofto et Crofto cum 
 pertinentiis in Giggleswik reddendo II s . Ecclesia Ibidem). 
 
 WILLIELMUS DE PERCY, omnibus hominibus suis, 
 clericis et laicis, Francis et Anglis, presentibus et futuris, 
 salutem. Sciatis me concessisse et present! carta mea con- 
 firmasse Suaino filio Normanni totum toftum cum omnibus per- 
 tinenciis suis in Gileswic in quo Gospatricius quondam mane- 
 bat, per [terras] divisas quse fuerunt inter ipsum Gospatricium 
 et Willielmum clericum, et totum Brigholme cum omnibus per- 
 tinentiis suis illi et heredibus suis, tenenda et habenda de 
 Deo et de ecclesia de Gileswic et de persona ecclesiae ejusdem 
 et de successoribus suis in perpetunm, in feodo et hereditate, 
 libere et quiete et honorifice. Reddendo inde annuatim Deo 
 et ecclesiae de Gileswic et personae ejusdem ecclesiae et suc- 
 cessoribus suis duos solidos pro omni servicio et exactione, 
 scilicet ad Pentecosten duodecim denarios et ad festum 
 Sancti Martini duodecim denarios ; sicut carta ejusdem per- 
 sonaa, quam inde habet, testatur et proportat. Hiis testibus 
 
 testibus, Henrico de Percy fratre meo, Jordano de stre, 
 
 Radulfo de Bonevill, Helia de Gileswic, Ricardo de Setel, 
 Roberto de Setel, Richeman, et aliis pluribus. 
 
 (The Seal of William de Percy, for representation of which see Fig. 2, 
 is annexed). 
 
 Translation. 
 
 Deed of William de Percy, concerning the payment of two shillings 
 
 to the Church of Giggleswick for one toft and croft with its 
 
 appurtenances there. 
 
 WILLIAM DE PERCY, to all his servants, both clerical 
 and lay, French and English, present and future (sends) 
 greeting. Know ye that I have conceded, and with this my 
 present deed have confirmed, to Swain, son of Norman, all 
 the toft with all its appurtenances in Giggleswick in which 
 Gospatric formerly used to dwell, and the land lying between 
 that of the said Gospatric and that of William the clerk, and all 
 Brigholme, with all its appurtenances, to him and his heirs, 
 to be had and held from God and the Church of Giggleswick 
 and the parson of the same church and his successors for 
 ever, in fee and perpetuity, freely and quietly and honour-
 
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 ably. He must pay thence annually to God and the Church 
 of Giggleswick and the parson of the same church, and to his 
 successors, two shillings, as payment for all service and ex- 
 action, viz., 12 pence at Pentecost, and 12 pence at the Feast 
 St. Martin as the deed of the same parson, which he has from 
 thence, testifies and purports. The following are witnesses 
 my brother Henry de Percy, Jordan de [L'E] stre, Ralph de 
 Boneville, Helias of Giggleswick, Richard of Settle, Robert 
 of Settle, Richeman, and many others. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 Resignacio Symonis filii Swayn [de terra sua vocata Briggeholme 
 cum Pertinenciis Facta Priori et Monachis de Finchall,] 
 
 OMNIBUS hoc scriptum visuris vel audituris, Simon 
 filius Swayn de Gykeliswyk, salutem in Domino. Noveritis 
 me resignasse et quietum clamasse de me et heredibus meis 
 totam terram meam quae vocatur Briggeholme, cum pertinen- 
 tiis, sine aliquo retenemento, Deo et Beato Godrico et domino 
 Ricardo Priori de Finchehal et suis successoribus et monachis 
 ibidem Deo servientibus, in perpetuum, pro quondam summa 
 pecunise quam mihi prse manibus in magna necessitate mea 
 pacavit. Ita, videlicet, quod ego Simon nee heredes mea in 
 predicta terra aliquod jus vel clameum possimus exigere vel 
 vendicare, Et sciendum quod ego Simon filius Swayne car- 
 tam quam habui de domino Radulfo quondam Priore de Fin- 
 chehal cum carta clomini Willielmi de Percy predicto Ricardo 
 Priori de Finchehal et monachis ejusuem loci reddidi et 
 quietam clamavi. Et ego vero Simon filius Swayn de Gyke- 
 liswic et heredes mei totam illam terram de Briggeholme cum 
 pertinentiis dicto Ricardo Priori de Finchehal et suis suc- 
 cessoribus et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus contra omnes 
 homines et feminas warrantizabimus, acquietabimus et defen- 
 demus in perpetuum. Hiis testibus, domino Helie [ita\ de 
 Cnolle, Willielmo Fleming, domino Johanne vicario de 
 Gikeliswik, Thoma de Mallum, Roberto de Stayneford, 
 Radulfo de Berburne et aliis. 
 
 Oval seal of the smallest size, white wax, a stag couchant 
 
 SIMON . . LI SWEN .
 
 2 4 
 
 Translation. 
 
 Surrender by Simon, son of Swayn, of his land called Briggeholme, with 
 its appurtenances, to the Prior and Monks of FinchaL 
 
 TO all who shall see or hear read this writing, Simon, 
 son of Swayn of Giggleswick sends greeeting in the Lord. 
 Know ye that I have resigned and renounced all claim on the 
 part of me and my heirs, to the whole of my land which is 
 called Briggeholme with its appurtenances, without any re- 
 servation, to God and the Blessed Godrick and Sir Richard,* 
 Prior of Finchal, and his successors, and the monks who 
 serve God at the same place, in perpetuity, in consideration 
 of a certain sum of money, which being forthcoming when I 
 was in a great strait, assisted me. Therefore, neither I, 
 Simon, nor my heirs, can put forth or assume any right or 
 claim over the aforesaid land. And let it be known that I, 
 Simon son of Swayne, have given up and resigned all claim 
 to the deed which I had from Sir Ralph, formerly prior of 
 Finchal, together with the deed of Sir William de Percy, to 
 the aforesaid Richard, Prior of Finchal, and the Monks of 
 the same place. And assuredly I, Simon son of Swayne of 
 Giggleswick, and my heirs will warrant, acquit and maintain 
 in perpetuity, against all men and women, the whole of that 
 land of Briggeholme with its appurtenances to the said 
 Richard, Prior of Finchal and his successors and the monks 
 who at that place perform the service of God. The following 
 are witnesses Sir Helias de Crtolle [Knowles] , William 
 Fleming, Sir John,! Vicar of Giggleswick, Thomas of Mallum, 
 Robert of Stainforth, Ralph de Berburne, and others. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 Resignacio Agnetis Uxoris Syms .. Swayn [de Terra et Prato 
 in Brigholm.] 
 
 A.D. OMNIBUS Christi fidelibus ad quos presens 
 scriptum pervenerit, Agnes quondam uxor Simonis filii 
 Swayn de Gikelswic, salutem in Domino sempiternam. 
 Noverit universitas vestra me remisisse, et omnino quietam 
 
 * Prior Richard de Eskerick is said to have made his canonical 
 obedience to the Archbishop of York in May, 1284, doubtless as Rector of 
 the Church of Giggleswick. 
 
 t It was customary to give the clergy the title of ' Sir.'
 
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 clamasse totum jus et clamium quod habui, vel aliquo modo 
 habere potui, racione dotis, in terra et prato de Brigholm, 
 quae quondam fuerunt Symonis filii Swayn quondam viri mei, 
 pro quatuor solidis argenti michi in tota vita mea annuatim 
 reddendis ad duos anni terminos, medietatem scilicet ad 
 Pentecosten, et aliam medietatem ad festum Sancti Martini 
 in hyeme. In cujus rei testimonium presens scriptum sigilli 
 mei impressione roboravi. Hiis testibus, domino Ada tune 
 vicario de Gikeswic, Roberto de Stamford Scotan, Nigello 
 de Stanford sub monte, Stefano tune ballivo de Setel, et 
 multis aliis. 
 
 (Small oval seal of white wax : a Fleur-de-Lis) . 
 
 Translation. 
 
 Renunciation by Agnes, wife of Simon, son of Swayn, of the land 
 and meadow called Briggeholm. 
 
 TO all faithful servants of Christ to whom this present 
 writing shall come, Agnes formerly wife of Simon, son of 
 Swayn of Giggleswick, sends eternal greeting in the Lord. 
 Let your community know that I have surrendered, and have 
 altogether renounced every right and claim which I had, by 
 reason of my dowry, over the land and meadow of Brigge- 
 holme, which were formerly the property of Symon son of 
 Swayn, my late husband, for four shillings in silver to be paid 
 to me annually for the rest of my life at two fixed dates of 
 the year, that is to say, half at Pentecost, and the other half 
 at the Feast of St. Martin in winter. In testimony of which 
 things I have given force to this writing by the impression of 
 my seal, The following are witnesses Sir Adam then Vicar 
 of Giggleswick, Robert of Stainforth Scotan, Nigel of Stain- 
 forth-under-the-hill, Stephen then Bailiff of Settle, and many 
 others. 
 
 XX. 
 
 Resignacio Thoma filii Henrici Cupman de tribus bovatis thrrce 
 Terra in Gikliswyk [in Craven facta Priori de Finchal.] 
 
 A.D, 1279 UNIVERSIS Christi fidelibus presens 
 scriptum visuris vel audituris, Thomas films Henrici 
 Coupeman de Gykeliswyke in Craven, salutem in Domino. 
 Noveris me remisisse, resignasse, et omnino pro me et
 
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 heredibus meis in perpetuum quietam clamasse Deo et 
 Beatae Marise et Beato Johanni Baptistae et Beato Godrico 
 et Priori de Finkehall, et ejusdem loci Conventui et eorund- 
 em successoribus omne jus et clameum, quodcumque 
 habui, vel habere potui, seu potero, in tribus bovatis 
 terra? cum pertinenciis in villa et territorio de Gikeles- 
 wyke in Craven, de quibus ipsos, per breve Dimini Regis de 
 morte antecessoris, corum Justiciaries apud Eboracum itiner- 
 antes, anno Domini MCC.LXX. nono inplacitavit [sic] ita 
 quod nee ego, nee heredes mei, seu aliquis nomine nostro, in 
 dictis tribus bovatis terrae cum pertinenciis, seu in earumden 
 aliqua parte jure hereditario aliquid juris vel clamii exigere 
 vel vendicare possimus in posterum. Et ut base mea resig- 
 nacio, remissio, et quieta clamancia perpetua gaudeant securi- 
 tate et rirmitate presens scriptum pro me et heredibus meis 
 sigilli mei impressione roboravi. Hiis testibus dominis 
 Ranulfo de Daker tune vicecomite Ebor., Willielmo Fleming, 
 militibus, domino Ada tune vicario de Gykeleswyke, Nigillo 
 filio Willielmi de Stayford [ita] , Roberto filio Aubray de 
 Setel, Waltero Hayre de eadem, Laurencio de Gykeleswyke, 
 Ricardo Rascy de Setel, Raynero de eadem, Roberto de Stay- 
 ford, Ricardo de Paley, Johanne clerico, hujus scripti notario, 
 et aliis. 
 
 Small oval seal of white wax : a Fleur-de-lis. 
 
 Translation. 
 
 Renunciation by Thomas, son of Henry Cupman, of three oxgangs 
 of land in Giggleewick (in Craven, made to the Prior of Finchal). 
 
 TO all faithful servants of Christ who shall see or hear 
 read this present writing, Thomas son of Henry Coupeman 
 of Giggleswick in Craven, sends greeting in the Lord. Know 
 ye that I have surrendered, resigned, and altogether as far as 
 concerns me and my heirs in perpetuity, have utterly re- 
 nounced in favour of God and the Blessed Mary and the 
 Blessed John the Baptist and the Blessed Godnch and the 
 Prior of Finchall, and the Convent of the same place, and 
 the successors of the same, every right and claim soever 
 which I had, or have been able or shall be able to have, over 
 the three oxgangs* of land with its appurtenances, in the 
 manor and territory of Giggleswick in Craven, concerning 
 
 * An oxgang of land contained an uncertain number of acres, vary- 
 ing from 13 to 30.
 
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 which I brought an action before the travelling justices at 
 York, in the year of our Lord 1279, a short time before the 
 death of our late Lord, the King, so that neither I, nor my 
 heirs, nor any one else in our name, over the said three 
 oxgangs of land with its appurtenances, or over any part of 
 the same can by hereditary right put forth or assume any 
 claim for the future. And in order that this my resignation 
 and perpetual renouncing of all claim may enjoy security and 
 power, I have given force to the present writing as far as 
 concerns me and my heirs by the impression of my seal. 
 These being witnesses : Lord Ralph de Daker, then Sheriff 
 of Yorkshire, Sir William Fleming, Sir Adam then Vicar of 
 Giggleswick, Nigel son of William of Stainforth, Robert son of 
 Aubrey of Settle, Rayner of the same place, Robert of 
 Stainforth, Richard de Paley, John the Priest, the notary of 
 this Deed, and others. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 To the Worship/nil Sir and Reverent Fader in God the Priour 
 
 of Durham. 
 
 WORSHIPFULL Sir, and Reverent Fader in God, I 
 commende me to you with all my hert ; and ye will undirstond 
 ther is a vicerege in Craven, of Gigilswik, of the which the 
 presentacion longith to you, as of the right of your chirch of 
 Fyncall, wherfor I pray you hertly that ye wold be tender 
 Lord and furtherer to a prest of myn Sir William Hacforth,* 
 the which is servant to my ryght wurshippfull Lord and fadir 
 th' Erie of WestmT, so that he might be preferred to the 
 next avoidaunce of the same vicarege, considerynge that he 
 is on able Prest and virtuous. And this you lik to do att the 
 contemplacion of this my writyng as y may do thyng to your 
 plesaunce en tym to com. And Almyghte God gyf you right 
 gode lyf, graciously to endure for his mercy. Writen at Hert 
 the Monday next eftir Saynt Luke daye. 
 
 THOMAS LORD OF CLIFFORDE. 
 
 * This letter of recommendation was attended to. William Hackford 
 was presented to the Vicarage of Giggleswick on the aist of September 1438, 
 and held the living for two years. The writer of the letter was Thomas 
 Lord Clifford, eight Lord of the Honor of Skipton, the son of John Lord 
 Clifford and Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Lord Percy, who was slain in 
 the battle of St. Alban's in 1455. His father the Earl of Westmoreland, 
 of whom he speaks was the second husband of his mother. Hert, from 
 whence the letter is dated, is Hart, in the County of Durham, which, with 
 its appurtenances, had been granted to the family of Clifford upon the 
 forfeiture of Bruce in 1306.
 
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 XXII. 
 Letter from the Prior of Durham to Thomas Lord Clifford. 
 
 RYGHT wirshipfull mayster, I recomend me to yow, 
 besekand God that he evermor will send his blessing apon 
 yowe to kep yow in saule and body to hys plesyre. And like 
 yowe to weet that I haff resavyd yowr full honorabill lettre 
 contenyng two maters. On is to giff our assent to a pension 
 to S r William Hakforth, yowr prest, to be had of the kirke of 
 Gygleswyk, and to the vicary of the same kirke voide be re- 
 signacione of the said Sir William Hakforth to presennt S r 
 Christofer Altam,* whom ye said S r William has desyryd theto 
 to be presennt, whilk mater at the reverence of your mayster- 
 ship is fulfillid. The secund mater, in yowr wyrshipfull lettre 
 contenyd, is to graunt the S r William the first voidance of a 
 prebend in Hemyngburgh, in the whilk mater, likit yowr 
 maystership to undrestand that both the King and my Lord 
 of Durham at diverse times has writyn to my brethir and me 
 for the first voidance of a prebend of owr patronage, and 
 also other diverse Lords, of the whilk some of yowr awen kyn, as 
 my Lord yowr uncle of Northumbrland for his son, and also 
 Sir William Eure for his son, has send lang tyme sythen for 
 thair fortherance till some prebende whilk noon yhett is spede, 
 bod, as I at the reverence of yow fortherid Sir William Hak- 
 forth to the vicar of Giglesswik, and now til have a pension 
 therof, so my liste and my will is and sail be to forther hym 
 when itt goodly may be. And Almyghty God haff you evermor 
 in his gracyus keping. Writyn att Durham the ix day of 
 Septembre. [1440] . 
 
 * Altam seems to have been presented upon the resignation of Hack- 
 forth, but his name does not occur in the list of Vicars given in Whitaker's 
 Craven. 
 
 XXIII. 
 
 Liter a missa Domino De Cliff or de. 
 
 A.D. 1446. WIRSHIPFULL and my right goodeLorde, 
 I recommende me to yowe in my most humble wyse, thankyng 
 your goode Lordshippe * whilke yhe haffat all tymez effectually 
 shewide to the kirke of Seynt Cuthbertt and his mynisters, 
 beseking yow of your goode contynuance. And as for the 
 
 * Some words seem to be wanting, between the words ' Lordshippe ' 
 and ' whilke ' in this sentence, but so it is in the copy.
 
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 mater concernyng vicar of Gigleswike, for wham your said 
 Lordshipp late by the vicar sennde your letteres to me, 
 please it you to consave that my predecessor and the Chapi- 
 ter his brether, att the gret instaunce and prayer of the 
 right wirshippfull S r Thomas Percy knyght, graunted and 
 promyste that thay wald have recommende S r Richard 
 Fulthorpp, a chapeleyn of his, to the vicary of Gigleswike, what 
 tyme som ever the said vicar att now is incumbent wald re- 
 signe or leve his vicary aforsaid, whilke promysse and 
 graunte I and my brether moste of honesty and trewth kepp 
 and fulfill. And wheer your Lordshipp desires that the vicar 
 myght have the kirke aforsaid bounden to hym undre our 
 common seall for oon annuell pension duryng his lyffe, trewly 
 we have noon auctoritee no power by the common law to 
 bynnde the kirke in ony sich pension, bod, att the rever- 
 ence and contemplacion of your goode Lordshipp, we will, 
 as patrons of the said kirke, giff our consenntt and goode 
 will undre our common seall that our right wirshipfull Lorde 
 cardinall of Yorke by hys auctoritee ordinary assigne to the 
 said vicar a competent porcion yherly to be resavide of the 
 fruites and reveneux of the said kirke and also to bynnde the 
 said kirke and the vicars therof for tyme beyng to the trew 
 and hale payment of the said pension als lang as the vicar 
 aforsaid leves. And if I and my brether myght doo ony moor 
 in this mater, by the common lawe, to the plesaunce of your 
 goode Lordshipp, we wald be full gladde to fulfill your entennt, 
 and that knowes our lorde Jhu', who have you in his gracieux 
 kepying and giff you mykill worshipp lanng to endour for his 
 mercy. Wreten att Durham the vj. day of Decembre [1446] .* 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 To my very good Lord the Priour of Durham be this delyvered.\ 
 
 MY LORD PRIOR, in my right hartie maner I com- 
 mend me vnto you. And where it pleasyd you at my last being 
 in Durham to gyve unto me your tythe in Gygleswyk, the 
 whiche I have gyven unto my son Thomas Clyfford, and at 
 
 * This is another letter on the subject of the Vicarage of Giggleswick, 
 with respect to which a strange traffic was carrying on. Sir Thos. Percy's 
 chaplain, Richard Fulthorpe, was presented on the 2gth July 1447, and 
 we hear no more of Altam until the year 1461, when, by his will dated 
 in that year, he desires to be buried in the Church of Giggleswick. 
 
 t The superscription of the letter.
 
 FIG. 5. 
 
 FACSIMILE OF SIGNATURE OF HENRY, 
 
 
 
 EARL OF CUMBERLAND. 
 
 FIG. 6. 
 
 FACSIMILE OF SIGNATURE OF 
 SIR ARTHUR DARCY.
 
 suche tyme as he was with yow for the same ye made a steye 
 by reason of S r Arture Darcye, whose mynd and pleasur 
 therin I trust ye shall know. In consideracion wherof, and 
 according to the graunt ye made before my lord of Westmer- 
 land, Henry Evers and me, I disire you to graunt the same 
 tythe under your Convent seale unto my said son ; and, ye 
 this doyng, I shalbe glad to sho you lyke pleasure ; as knoweth 
 our Lord, who proserve you. From Carlesle the vj th day of 
 December. 
 
 Your Lover,* 
 
 HENRY CUMBERLAND. 
 
 XXV. 
 
 To my good Lord Prior off Durhem'. 
 
 MY LORD PRIOR, where as ye dyd make a promyze 
 to me y l I chulld have y e taking off y e parssonage of Gygls- 
 in Craven lyke as my grantfather Sir Rye. Tempest hadd off 
 yowr grant from y e hows' of Dureme, my lord so ytt is y* my 
 good lord y e erlle of Cumberland & my good frend S r Thomas 
 ClyfFord hath soe intrettyd me y 4 I gyff to them my tenant 
 right oft y e same & allso I doo requyre yow to lett them have 
 ytt & y e promyze y l yow dyd make to me I clerly releas to 
 them & God send you & yowr hows virtewsly to prosper. 
 From London the xv day off Agust at yowr lordschyps to 
 comand. f 
 
 ARTHUR DARCY. 
 
 * The words " your lover Henry Cumberland," of which a facsimile 
 is given in Fig. 5, are in the handwriting of the Earl himself. 
 
 t This letter is printed literatim. The whole is in the hand-writing 
 of Sir Arthur Darcy, and, as may be conceived from his autograph, (see 
 Fig. 6,) it was no easy matter to decypher it.
 
 AS will be seen, we have translated some of the 
 documents printed in this Tract, literally, in other cases 
 we have given a very free translation of the Latin, as we 
 thought, (for reasons which we need not enter on here,) 
 that, whilst one style was more suitable in some places, 
 the other was best adapted for other portions, as it is 
 no easy thing to translate old Legal documents in Latin, 
 especially the "dog Latin" in which most of them are written, 
 into modern English, at the same time retaining the general 
 style of the originals. 
 
 T. B. 
 
 J. W. LAMBERT, PRINTER, SETTLE.
 
 PARISH OF GIGGLESWICK. 
 
 POLL TAX, A.D. 1379. 
 
 FOLLOWERS OF LORD CLIFFORD, 
 A.D. 1510. 
 
 ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROSECUTION 
 OF FELONS, A.D. 1743. 
 
 LAND TAX, &c., A.D. 1800. 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW
 
 STACKHOUSE, 
 
 NEAR SETTLE, 
 
 DECEMBER 2OTH, 1884. 
 
 This, the fourth of my series of " Local Tracts," 
 consists in a great measure of lists of names of former 
 inhabitants of the Parish of Giggleswick. To a stranger 
 these lists will be exceedingly dull, but for those whose 
 ancestors and connections have lived in this parish for 
 generations, I venture to hope there will be a certain 
 amount of interest in tracing the old names in the 
 successive lists, which prove the tenacity with which the 
 old Craven families cling to their native dales. 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW.
 
 Twelve large and one hundred small paper copies printed 
 for private circulation.
 
 POLL TAX, A.D. 1379. 
 
 IN the second year of the reign of King Richard the 
 Second (A.D. 1379,) the Parliament granted to the King a 
 subsidy to enable him to carry on war against France, this 
 subsidy being raised by a tax payable by all persons above 
 the age of 16, (other than ecclesiastics and notorious mendi- 
 cants,), according to their state and degree. The total amount 
 raised in the West Riding was ^604 195. 4d., and of this sum 
 the following townships in this neighbourhood contributed as 
 follows : 
 
 s - d- 
 
 Langclyff ( Langcliffe) . . . . 084 
 
 Balghom ( Malham) . . . . o 16 2 
 . Hamlych ( Hanlith) . . . . . . o I 10 
 
 Scothorp ( Scosthrop) . . . . o 5 10 
 
 Preston ( Long Preston) . . . . 0156 
 
 Calton . . . . . . o 15 o 
 
 Oterburn ( Otterburn) . . . . 056 
 
 . Rauchmell ( Rathmell ) .. .. o n 10 
 
 Setle ( Settle) . . . . . . o 17 10 
 
 Helyghfeld ( Hellifield) . . . . o 17 4 
 
 Halton West . . . . . . o 10 10 
 
 Wyglesworth ( Wigglesworth ) .. 0120 
 
 Kyrkby ( Kirkby Malham) . . . . 050 
 
 Gygleswyk ( Giggleswick) . . . . i i 8 
 
 Staynford ( Stainforth) . . . . i 12 o 
 
 Ayreton ( Airton) . . . . 0710 
 
 Clapham . . . . . . . . 136 
 
 . Austwyk ( Austwick) . . . . i 6 6 
 
 Horton ( Horton-in-Ribblesdale) . . 0170 
 
 We thus see that the then parish of Giggleswick, con- 
 sisting of the Townships of Giggleswick, Settle, Rathmell, 
 Langcliffe, and Stainforth, contributed the respectable sum of 
 4 us. 8d. 
 
 Comparing the above amounts with those of some other 
 West Riding Townships, we may note that
 
 Sheffield paid 
 Huddersfield 
 Halifax . . 
 Bradford 
 and Leeds . . 
 
 s. 
 
 6 n 
 019 
 012 
 13 
 30 
 
 From the returns we can approximately estimate the 
 number of inhabitants of each village, and the relative impor- 
 tance at that day, not only of one township in the parish with 
 another, but of each and all of them as compared with other 
 places in the county. 
 
 The lists for this parish are as follows : 
 
 LANGCLYFF 
 
 Willelmus films* Thome & vxf iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus filius Ade & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Laurencius filius Ade & vx . iiijd. 
 Laurencius filius Johannis & 
 
 vx. ..... iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus ffysch'r & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Prest & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Thomas Forester & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Ricardus de Carr & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Edmundus Suerdson & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Thomas Ineson & vx . xijd. 
 
 Thomas Robertson & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes de Armetstede & vx iiijd. 
 
 (LANGCLIFFE.) 
 
 SeruientesJ Ricardus filius 
 
 Laurencii . 
 Alicia vx Ade 
 Agnes filia Nicholai . 
 Matilda de Thorp 
 Matilda filia Willelmi . 
 Emma ffyscher 
 Cecilia filia Willelmi . 
 Matheus ffyscher . 
 Agnes Prest . 
 Alicia filia ejusdem 
 Patricius Syke 
 
 Summa|| viij.s. iiijd. 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 
 RAUCHMELL (RATHMELL.) 
 
 Willelmus de Cote & vx 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Johannes filius Alani & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Thomas filius Ade & vx 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Curtays & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Saylebank & vx 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Webstre.ft Textor, & 
 
 Ricardus de Carr & vx 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 vx vjd. 
 
 Hugo Schether & vx 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus filius Agnetis & vx iiijd. 
 
 Thomas Milner & vx . 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Hendley & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Ricardus filius Johannis & vx 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Robertas filius Willelmi & vx iiijd. 
 
 Adam Camle (?) & vx . 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus de Gisburn & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Godson & vx . 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Robertas filius Alane & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus filius Ade & vx . 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Seruient Magota Daudwyfe iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Swane & vx . 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Matilda Daudoghter . . iiijd. 
 
 Henricus Forster & vx . 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Tillot' de Carr . . . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Lyndsey & vx 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Alicia de Akedeyn . . iiijd. 
 
 Adam filius Ricardi & vx 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Anabilla Daugoghter' (sic) . iiijd. 
 
 Ricardus filius ejus & vx 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Matilda sororJJ ejus . . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Kokheued & vx . 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Agnes de Broghton . . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Walesman & vx. . 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Rydhowt . . iiijd. 
 
 Thomas filius Walteri & vx . 
 
 iiijd. i Johannes Daudson . . iiijd. 
 
 
 Summa xj.s.x.d. 
 
 Son. tWife. JServants. Daughter. ||Total. HWeaver. JJ Sister.
 
 SETLE 
 
 Johannes de Wadyngton & vx iiijd. 
 
 Simod Nicholson & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Laurencius Nellsori & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Walker & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Robertus Betonson & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Robertas Nellson & vx . . iiijd . 
 
 Willelmus Sclater & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus de Lyndesay & vx vjd. 
 
 Johannes Smeth & vx . . vjd. 
 
 Willelmus Broket &vx . iiijd. 
 
 Robertus de Clare & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Wayt & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Adam filius Willelmi & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus de Clore & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Adam de Ottlay & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Rogerus Snell & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes de Hege & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Adam de Grene & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Symon Kyd & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Brunson & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes de Langclyffe & vx iiijd. 
 
 Thomas de Kyme & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Thomas Schayl & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Simon Belhyrd & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Lauson & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus de Ouersetle & vx iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Cleuache & vx . iiijd. 
 
 (SETTLE.) 
 
 Thomas Megson & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Hanricus (sic) Helynson & vx iiijd. 
 
 Johannee Blyth', Milner,* & vx iiijd. 
 
 Johannes de Watre & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Baillie & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Thomas Manhyrd' & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Stele & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Tyllson & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Thomas deWaddesworth&vx iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Hunter & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Elias Neleson & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Dyrton & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Magota de Yelbank . . iiijd. 
 
 Alicia de Gadby . . . iiijd. 
 
 Agnes Jonwyfe . . . iiijd. 
 
 Tillot' Clynch . . . iiijd. 
 
 Hngo de Burn . . . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus filius Elie . . iiijd. 
 Seruie (sic) Thomas Hunter- 
 
 Wilhelmus Monk & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes de Bland & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus de Laukland & vx iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Jonson & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Abraham filius Ade & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes de Bolton & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes filius Ade & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Walterus Forstre & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Ricardus de Bank & vx. . xijd. 
 
 Willelmus be Bank & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Ricardus Prest & vx , . iiijd. 
 
 Robertus de Bentham & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Wylkynson & vx iiijd. 
 
 Robertus Baillieman & xx . iiijd. 
 
 Thomas Cockeued & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus de Bank junior & vx iiijd. 
 
 Nicholaus Skynner & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Jermowth & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes de Grenfell & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Cockeued & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Brone &vx . . iiijd. 
 
 man .... iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Lawghman . . iiijd. 
 
 Nell' de Hege . . . iiijd. 
 
 Adam Broketman . . iiijd. 
 
 Alicia de Lytton . . iiijd. 
 
 Agnes Broket . . . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Toller . . , iiijd. 
 Summa xvijs. xd. 
 
 GYGLESWYK (GIGGLESWICK.) 
 
 Thomas Verty & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Ricardus de Heton & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Tailliour & vx . vjd. 
 
 Johannes de Bland & vx . vjd. 
 
 Willelmus de Langclyff& vx iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus de Vicars & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Ricardus Ward & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes de Skar & vx. . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Clerc & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes de Telghfeld' & vx iiijd. 
 Laurencius de Armetsted', 
 
 ffrankleyn, & vx . . xld. 
 
 Willelmus filius Thome & vx iiijd. 
 
 Adam filius Thome & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Hunter' & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Ricardus de Grenfell' & vx . iiijd. 
 Wiilelmus filius Ricardi' & vx iiijd. 
 
 Adam de Palay & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes de Palay & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Walterus de Wod' & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Styegh' & vx . iiijd. 
 
 "Miller.
 
 GYGLESWYK (GIGGLESWICK) continued. 
 
 Willelmus Kyd' & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Seruient' Robertus Vessy . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus filius Thome . iiijd. 
 
 Agnes relicta Ricardi . . iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus de Norham . . iiijd. 
 
 Matilda Kemp . . . iiijd. 
 Johannes seruiens Willelmi de 
 
 Laukland' . . . iiijd. 
 
 Emma Harpour . 
 Willelmus de Grenfell' 
 Isabella de Vicars 
 Henricus Vicarman 
 Johannes Vicarman 
 
 Summa xxjs. viijd. 
 
 STAYNFORD (STAINFORTH.) 
 
 Robertus de Staynford, domi- 
 nus Ville .... xxs. 
 
 Willelmus de Austwyk & vx iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus filius Roberti & vx iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Wayes & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes filius Ricardi Tyllson 
 & vx iiijd. 
 
 Gilbertus Milner & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Lemyng & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Stephanus Milner & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Tomson & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Hugo Coyllyer & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Robertus Hyrd & vx . . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Turpyn & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Henricus Tomson & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Johannes Preston & vx . iiijd. 
 
 Thomas filius Ade & vx . iiijd. 
 
 vjd. 
 
 Thomas Symson & vx . 
 Johannes filius Wilellmi & vx 
 Henricus de Laukland & vx 
 Willelmus Schyrwod & vx 
 Ricardus Walays & vx 
 Robertus Tailliour & vx 
 Johannes ffeton & vx . 
 Adam filius Roberti & vx 
 Adam Benhowre & vx . 
 Thomas Emanson & vx 
 Willelmus Walays & vx 
 Ricardus de Craueu & vx 
 Robertus Magson & vx 
 Adam Derakes & vx. 
 Seruient Agnes ftyscher 
 Matilda filia Roberti . 
 Robertus Gybson 
 Johannes Robynson Hyrd 
 Summa xxxij .s. 
 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 vjd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 iiijd. 
 
 Willelmus Walker & vx 
 Henricus de Braychawe & vx 
 
 The different amounts paid by different individuals 
 shewed- their relative positions. An ordinary householder 
 would pay ^.d. Thomas Ineson of Langcliffe, and Richard 
 de Bank of Giggleswick, were either merchants or innkeepers, 
 and accordingly had to pay twelve pence each ; those who 
 paid six pence were either tradesmen or artificers. 
 
 The local swell however, was Robert de Stain ford, Lord 
 of the Manor of Stainford (Stainforth.) The family has now 
 become extinct. A Chapel that belonged to them is in the 
 north-east corner of Giggleswick Church. 
 
 The person of next importance to him seems to have 
 been Lawrence de Armistead of Giggleswick, who, being a 
 franklin, had to pay 35. 4d.
 
 FOLLOWERS OF LORD CLIFFORD, 
 A.D. 1518. 
 
 THE Parish of Giggleswick was formerly part of the 
 Percy Fee, (the Duke of Devonshire is still Lord of the Manor 
 of Settle,) and in accordance with the custom of Feudal days 
 many of the Tenants of the Lord were liable to be called on 
 to serve under him in case of war. From the Household 
 Book of Henry, Lord Clifford, made in the 2nd year of King 
 Henry VIII, (A.D. 1510 1511,) we find that at that date the 
 following men from this parish were liable to be called on to 
 serve. The word "also" is used in the same sense that we 
 now put "ditto." 
 
 GYGRESWYCK (GIGGLESWICK.) 
 
 Robt. Stakhouse, a bowe, able, and 
 
 horse and harnes. 
 John Webster, a bowe also. 
 
 Thomas Paley, a bowe also. 
 James Carr, a bowe also. 
 Thomas Browne, a bille also. 
 Jack Stakhouse, a bowe also. 
 Rich. Brashay, a bowe. 
 Rich. Wilson, also. 
 Robt. Burton, a bille. 
 John Brashay, a bowe. 
 
 SETTYLL 
 
 Rich. Browne, a bowe, able, and 
 
 horse and harnes. 
 Will-m Talyr, a bowe also. 
 Oliver Foster, a bowe also. 
 Rich. Cokeson, a bowe also. 
 Will-m Knolle, a bille also. 
 Adam Browne, a bille also. 
 Rogr. Yveson, a bowe also. 
 Rawlyn Lawson, a bowe also. 
 Allen Procter, a bille also. 
 Henry Hpelson, a bowe also. 
 Rich. Carr, a bill also. 
 Rich. Tenant, bille. 
 Alan Proctor, also. 
 Edward Lawson, also. 
 Adam Browne, a bowe. 
 Oliver Taleyor, also. 
 Thomas Sume-skale, bille. 
 
 Thomas Taleyor, also. 
 Thomas Preston, also. 
 John Stakhouse, also. 
 Will-m Ryley, also. 
 Thomas Armested, also. 
 Henry Armested, also. 
 John Taleyor, also. 
 Henry Taleyor, also. 
 Thomas Newhouse, also. 
 Oliver Stakhouse, also. 
 
 (SETTLE.) 
 
 Will-m Symson, also. 
 Robert Taleyor, also. 
 John Watkynson, also. 
 Will-m Lawson, also. 
 Will-m Carr, a bowe. 
 Nicoll Carr, bille. 
 Robt. Medoppe, a bille. 
 Rich. Londe, a bowe. 
 Rich. Jackson, also. 
 Rogr. Carr, also. 
 Hug. Carr, also. 
 Will-m Taleyor, also. 
 Gyles Kokeson, also. 
 George Kokeson, also. 
 John Kokeson, also. 
 John Holson, also. 
 Rich. Lawson, also.
 
 10 
 
 STONEFORD (STAINFORTH.) 
 
 James Foster, a bowe, able, horse 
 
 and harnes. 
 
 Adam Palay, a bowe also. 
 Robt. Twisleton, a bowe also. 
 Rich. Franklyn, a bowe also. 
 Rich. Chew, a bowe also. 
 James Armisted, a bille also. 
 Adam Palay, a bille. 
 Rogr. Lawson, also. 
 
 Rogr. Swaynson, a bowe, 
 Rich. Palay, also. 
 James Armested, a bille. 
 John Kokeson, a bowe. 
 Olivr. Armested, also. 
 Henry Lawkland, also. 
 Will-m Foster, a bille. 
 John Yveson, also. 
 Rogr. Yveson, a bowe. 
 
 LANGCLYFF (LANGCLIFFE.) 
 
 Rich. Browne, a bowe, able, horse 
 
 and harnes. 
 
 Roger Yveson, a bowe also. 
 Henry Pacock, a bille also. 
 Robt. Kydson, bille. 
 
 Rich. Kyng, also. 
 Robt. Kydd, also. 
 Will-m Yveson, also. 
 John Stakhouse, a bille, 
 Rog. Browne, a bowe. 
 
 Nicholson, the "Airedale Poet" takes this list as the 
 muster-roll of those soldiers who fought under Lord Clifford 
 at the battle of Flodden, two years later, viz., on the gth 
 Sept., 1513, and on this supposition introduces many of the 
 names found in the list into his poem entitled " The Lyre of 
 Ebor." 
 
 The two following passages in this poem relate to this 
 parish. 
 
 " Hundreds of names with care great Clifford kept 
 Of those who centuries in the dust have slept, 
 Who fought at Flodden, by their chieftain led, 
 Nor sheathed their swords till every foe had fled. 
 Marton sent forth bold Arnold in his mail, 
 Four noble Tennants fought from Longstrodale ; 
 Hawkswick and Flasby, and old Hellifield, 
 Sent Listers, who were never known to yield. 
 Arncliffe and Sutton of the triumph shared, 
 For these had sons who dangers never feared ; 
 Old Giggleswick, beneath her scraggy scar, 
 Had fifty sons, who bravely fought in war. 
 Stackhouse and Preston, with the bow and bill, 
 Fought, with the Brayshaws, on old Flodden hill ; 
 The Summerscales, from Settle, cut their way 
 Through files of Scots on that eventful day ; 
 And Keighley's warriors, led by Smith and Hall, 
 Unparted fought, and made the Northerns fall."
 
 II 
 
 "Old Castleberg, the torrent-wasted scar, 
 Uprears his head, where Romans met in war, 
 When on its topmost point the watch-tower stood, 
 And deep below, beheld the rolling flood. 
 Britons and Saxons have contended there, 
 And on the ramparts mixed spear with spear ; 
 The warriors, tumbling headlong down the steep, 
 Pressed with their armour, plunged into the deep 
 But Time, who leaves behind all earthly things, 
 And overtakes fresh objects with his wings, 
 Has left so far behind swift-pinioned Fame, 
 She could not reach us with a warrior's name."
 
 ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROSECUTION 
 OF FELONS, A.D. 1743. 
 
 IN the middle of the last century, when the laws of the 
 country were very severe on a criminal when caught, but the 
 means for apprehending offenders and bringing them to 
 justice were cumbersome and deficient, it was customary for 
 the inhabitants of a parish to form an Association for the 
 purpose of mutual assistance when any of the members had 
 been wronged or robbed. This parish was not behindhand 
 in forming such an Association, and the list of members 
 comprised nearly all the principal inhabitants of the 
 neighbourhood. 
 
 The Agreement mutually entered into, and the names of 
 the subscribers, are as follows : 
 
 " SKljettHS the expence that attends the prosecution of 
 persons guilty of Felony, and other Crimes and Misdemeanors, 
 is so great that they frequently go unpunished, to the great 
 encouragement of Idleness and Villainy ; To prevent which, 
 as much as in us lye, It is agreed and concluded upon by, 
 between, and amongst us who have hereunto subscribed our 
 hands, being inhabitants of the Parish of Giggleswick, in the 
 County of York, in manner as followeth. 
 
 Jfirsl, It is agreed, and we who have subscribed our hands 
 do mutually consent thereto, that all and every person and 
 persons whatsoever, that shall at any time hereafter be found 
 guilty, of any felony, murder, Robery, or other Crime, Mis- 
 demeanor, or unlawfull attempt whatsoever, against the 
 persons, houses, goods, or chattells of us or any of us, That 
 then and in such case such person or persons so guilty, or 
 suspected *s6 to be, shall be pursued, apprehended, committed, 
 and prosecuted, at the Joint and Equal Expence of every of 
 us who have consented unto and subscribed this Agreement, 
 so as such prosecution be carried on by and with the consent 
 of five or more of us.
 
 13 
 
 it is further agreed that when, and as often as it shall 
 hereafter happen that, such Crimes and Misdemeanors as 
 aforesaid, shall be done or committed, and the person or 
 persons guilty thereof cannot easily be apprehended, that 
 then and in such case it shall and may be lawfull, to and for 
 any of us to publish and propose such a reward as shall be 
 deemed reasonable by five or more of us, and the same to be 
 paid at the joint and equal expence of us who have hereunto 
 set our hands. 
 
 jutfr we do hereby further agree that when, and as often 
 as shall hereafter happen that, and of us subscribers hereto 
 shall be obliged to prosecute any person or persons for such 
 crimes or misdemeanors as aforesaid, and cannot conveniently 
 spare so much money as must be necessarily expended in 
 such prosecutions, That then and in such case such prose- 
 cutors shall, by publick notice published at the door of the 
 Parish Church of Giggleswick aforesaid, Desire all persons 
 that have subscribed this Agreement to meet at a time and 
 place therein mentioned, and the majority of us that shall 
 meet pursuant to the said notice, shall determine what sum 
 ought to be raised for carrying on such prosecution. And 
 we hereby Agree that the same shall be raised and paid by 
 us all share and share alike. 
 
 Sltttb lastly we who have hereunto subscribed our hands 
 Do hereby severally promise to pay to such prosecutor or 
 prosecutors, (as shall at any time hereafter carry on any 
 prosecution by virtue of this Agreement,) our and each of 
 our several shares and proportionable parts of the expence of 
 such prosecutions on demand, the same being equally and 
 fairly divided amongst us. 
 
 AS WITNESS our hands this ninth day of November 
 in the year of our Lord 1743. 
 
 The names of all those persons that signed the Agreement 
 for prosecuting Rogues, dated gth November, 1743. 
 
 Wm. Dawson 
 Charles Nowell 
 Sus. Harris 
 Susan Whalley 
 Anth. Lister 
 Bryan Waller 
 John Kendall 
 Richd. Brayshaw 
 Wm. Brown 
 
 Allan Carr 
 Jno. Foster 
 Wm. Carr 
 Robt. Brown 
 Wm. Bradley 
 John Hirdsworth 
 Jos. Morley 
 Anth. Lister (Vicar) 
 Jno. Richardson
 
 Thos. Brayshaw 
 Thos. Clapham 
 Edwd. Cooke 
 Wm. Hall 
 Jno. Lister 
 Edmund Wilson 
 John Hargraves 
 Henry Town 
 Jane Hargraves 
 J. Bell 
 Sarah Carr 
 Jos. Hall 
 Margt. Hargraves 
 Robt. Roberts 
 John Windsor 
 Wm. Bousfield 
 John Tatham 
 Robt. Hardcastle 
 Wm. Peart 
 R. Barnard 
 James Johnson 
 Richd. Moore 
 John Paley 
 John Armitstead 
 Chris. Picard 
 Rich. Dobson 
 John Armitstead 
 Isaac Armitstead, 
 Thos. Preston 
 George Carr 
 Thomas Settle 
 
 Christp. Clapham 
 Wm. Birkbeck 
 Wm. Birkbeck, jun. 
 Thos. Williams 
 Richard Horner 
 Jer. Bowskill 
 Thos. Taylor 
 Samuel Lucas 
 Sarah Maud 
 Anthony Clark 
 Thomas Tomlinson 
 Thomas Lawson 
 Wm. Tyson 
 William Pailey 
 John Shackleton 
 Wm. Carr 
 Edward Slater 
 Jos Bell 
 Hugh Hall 
 John Shackleton 
 Charles Abbotson 
 Wm. Hargraves 
 Wm. Birkett 
 William Husband 
 Thomas Carr 
 William Carr 
 Robert Mason 
 Roger Armitstead 
 Robert Armitstead 
 Lawrence Knowles 
 William Silverwood
 
 TAXES FOR THE TOWNSHIP OF 
 GIGGLESWICK, A.D. 1800. 
 
 IT is of course the privilege of every Englishman to 
 grumble, and there is nothing John Bull likes to growl at so 
 much as the taxes, and it must in justice be admitted that he 
 frequently has good cause for thus giving vent to his feelings. 
 
 Some time since the Tax collectors' accounts for the 
 year 1800, so far as they relate to this parish, fell into my 
 hands, and I think they are interesting as shewing what taxes 
 our ancesters had to submit to, for, although they had not 
 those "sweet boons" the Sewerage and other like rates that 
 we are now blessed with, they had to pay heavy taxes on 
 windows ; i IDS. od. for each male servant ; i 45. od. if 
 they kept one saddle or carriage horse, and 3 ias. od. if 
 they kept two ; 6s. od. for each cart horse ; 45. od. for a dog, 
 and g 125. od. for a four-wheel carriage, of which there only 
 seems to have been one in the parish. 
 
 The accounts are as follows : 
 GIGGLESWICK LAND TAX FOR 1800. EXONERATED. 
 
 i s. d. 
 
 Atkinsons Isabel and Alice ... ... ... ... 3 3 3 
 
 Brayshaw Thomas ... ... ... ... ... 217 9^ 
 
 Bolland Agnes... ... ... ... ... ... o 16 5f 
 
 Birkbeck John... ... ... ... ... ... o 5 8 
 
 Barker John ... ... ... ... ... ... in i 
 
 Brown Robert... ... ... ... ... ... i g i 
 
 Clapham Thomas ... ... ... ... ... 913 o 
 
 Clapham John, Revd. ... ... ... ... o 10 2 
 
 Do. for Mr. J. Hargraves ... ...036 
 
 Carr William ... ... ... ... .. ... 2 19 2 
 
 Claytons & Walshman ... ... ... ... o 7 6
 
 i6 
 
 s. d. 
 
 Cork Richard ... ... ... ... ... ... o o 4 
 
 Clapham Thos., for Tythes .. ... ... ... i 6 2 
 
 Dawson Richd., Revd. ,068 
 
 Foster John ... ... ... ... ... .. 2 2 n 
 
 Frankland Richard ... ... ... ... ... 316 2 
 
 Frankland John ... ... ... ... ... 2 16 3 
 
 Green Richd. Robt. Germain ... ... ... o o i 
 
 Hesleden William ... ... ... ... ... i 15 ii 
 
 Hardacre Richard ... ... ... ... ... 119 i 
 
 Hargraves Agnes ... ... ... ... ... o 6 6 
 
 Jackson James ... ... ... ... ... o 3 9 
 
 Kirkley Thomas ... ... ... ... ... 015 8 
 
 Lister Anthony ... ... ... ... ... 9 5 2 
 
 Lund John ... ... ... ... ... ...142 
 
 Lawson William ... ... ... ... ... on 5 
 
 Maudsley Henry ... ... ... ... ... 212 2 
 
 Maudsley Thomas ... ... ... ... ... i 14 o 
 
 Moreley Wilson ... ... ... ... ... 211- 7 
 
 Occupier of Bull Ing, Henry Wood ... ... o i 8 
 
 Occupier of New Hall, Wm. Kendal, for Morley o i i 
 
 Paley Wm., Revd i 18 iif 
 
 Paley Thomas ... ... ... ... ...013 
 
 Stackhouse Anthony ... ... ... ... ... o 3 lof 
 
 Stackhouse John ... ... ... ... ... o 711 
 
 Slinger Francis ... ... ... ... ... o 3 o 
 
 Silverwood Robert ... ... ... ... ... o o 8 
 
 Shackleton Ann, Trustees ... ... ... ...003 
 
 Wood Henry ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 13 i 
 
 Wildman William i 18 n 
 
 Total Exonerated ^"64 15
 
 I? 
 
 LAND TAX NOT EXONERATED. 
 
 Yearly. Quarterly. 
 
 s. d. s. d. 
 
 Armitstead John, Oxscarr Gates ... o 8 of ... o 2 o 
 
 Backhouse Mrs. Jane ... ... i 18 3^ ... o 9 7 
 
 Bradley Elizabeth ... ... ... o 2 7 ...o o 7f 
 
 Bradley Mary, Adam Lawson ... o 6 o ...**o i 6 
 
 Barrow Elizabeth ... ... ... o i o ...o o 3 
 
 Bank William... ... ... ...075 ... o i lo 
 
 Brennand James, H. Wood... ...013 ... o o 3f 
 
 Brown Edward ... ... ... o 2 2 ...o o 6 
 
 Coar Thomas ... ... ... ... o o 8 ...o o 2 
 
 Clapham John, Vicarage ... ... o 2 n ... o o 9 
 
 Dawson Stephen ... ... ... o i 4 ...o o 4 
 
 Foster W r illiam ... ... ... o i 4 ...o o 4 
 
 Green Rebecca ... ... .. o 2 2 ... o o &J- 
 
 Green Richd. Robt. Germain ... o o 3 ...o o of 
 
 Greenwood John, for Sugden ... o o nf ... o o 3 
 
 Hodgson Pheby ... ... ... o 2 8 ... o o 8 
 
 Hutton William ... ... ... o o 4 ...o o i 
 
 Johnson Jane, Stephen Dawson .. 116 6 ...o 9 i^ 
 
 Kirkley Thos., for Poor Close ... o 2 6 ...o o j\ 
 
 Kidd John ... ... ... ... o o 3 ... o o of 
 
 Moore Margaret ... ... ... o 5 4 ...o i 4 
 
 Occupiers of Mill, Jno. Birkbeck & Co. i 12 2 ... o 8 o 
 
 Overseers ... ... ... ... o o 6 ...o o i^ 
 
 Preston Wm., Paley Green .. ... 8 [9 4 ... 2 4 10 
 
 Do. for Trustees of Shutfield o 4 o ... o i o 
 
 Pollard Elias ... ... ... ... o o 3 ...o o of 
 
 Preston Mary ... ... ... ... o o 2 ...o o o^ 
 
 Ralph John ... ... ... ... o i 4 ...o o 4 
 
 Towler John, John Johnson... ... o 7 10 .. o i n 
 
 Taylor Robert and Agnes ... ... o 3 o ...o o 9 
 
 Tennant Elizabeth ... ... ... o 2 8 ...o o 8 
 
 Tennant Christopher... ... ... o o 10 ... o o 2^ 
 
 Tomlinson John ... ... ... o i i ...o o 3^- 
 
 Wilman John, per Place ... ... i 911 ...o 7 5f 
 
 Waller John, per Tyson ... ... o 2 10 ... o o 8 
 
 Not exonerated 19 9 n ... 4 17
 
 i8 
 WINDOW TAX &c., FOR 1800. 
 
 Yearly. Quarterly. 
 
 Backhouse Jane, s. d. s. d. s. d. 
 
 26 Windows ... ... n 2 o 
 
 House Duty ... ... o 3 4 
 
 i Male Servant ... i 10 o 
 
 1 four-wheel Carriage 9 12 o 
 
 2 Horses (saddle) ... 3 12 o 
 i Horse (cart)... ... o 6 o 
 
 i Dog ... ... ... o 4 o 
 
 26 9 4 ... 6 12 4 
 
 Brayshaw Thos., 
 
 12 Windows ... ... 2 16 o 
 
 House Duty ... ... o 3 4 
 
 i Horse ... ... i 4 o 
 
 i Horse... ... ... o 6 o 
 
 4 9 4 ... i 2 4 
 Brennand Robert, 
 
 6 Windows ... ... .. ...o 4 6...O i \\ 
 
 Bolland Agnes 
 i Male Servant 
 i Saddle Horse 
 i Cart Horse ... 
 
 i 
 i 
 ... o 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 6 
 
 o 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 
 Bentley Anthony, 
 6 Windows 
 2 Cart Horses ... 
 i Dog 
 
 ... o 
 ... o 
 
 ... o 
 
 4 
 
 12 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 o 
 o 
 
 
 Bank Wm., 
 6 Windows 
 i Cart Horse ... 
 
 ... o 
 ... o 
 
 4 
 6 
 
 6 
 o 
 
 
 Bolland Fawcett, 
 9 Windows . . 
 i Saddle Horse 
 i Cart Horse .. 
 
 i 
 i 
 ... o 
 
 7 
 4 
 6 
 
 
 
 o 
 o 
 
 
 Barrows Elizabeth, 
 6 Windows 
 
 
 
 
 O A 6 .... O I li
 
 19 
 
 Yearly. Quarterly. 
 
 s. d. s. d. s. d. 
 Clapham Thos., 
 
 15 Windows ... ... 4 12 o 
 
 i Male Servant ... i 10 o 
 
 i Cart Horse ... ... o 6 o 
 
 680 ... i 12 o 
 Clapham Wm., 
 
 20 Windows ... .. 7 12 o 
 
 1 Male Servant ... i 10 o 
 
 2 Saddle Horses ... 3 12 o 
 4 Cart Horses ... ... i 4 o 
 
 13 18 o ... 3 9 6 
 Clapham John, 
 
 14 Windows ... ... 4 o o 
 
 House Duty ... ... o 3 4 
 
 i Male Servant ... i 10 o 
 
 i Saddle Horse ... i 4 o 
 
 i Cart Horse ... ... o 6 o 
 
 i Dog 060 
 
 7 9 4 i 17 4 
 Carr Wm., 
 
 15 Windows ... ... 4 12 o 
 
 House Duty ... ... o 3 4 
 
 1 Saddle Horse ... i 40 
 
 2 Dogs ... ... ... 012 o 
 
 6 ii 4 ... i 12 10 
 Carr John, 
 
 8 Windows ... ... i i o 
 
 1 Saddle Horse ... i 4 o 
 
 2 Cart Horses... ... o 12 o 
 
 2 17 o ... o 14 3 
 Carr Thomas, 
 
 8 Windows ... .. ... ...i i o...o 5 3 
 
 Dawson Stephen, 
 
 6 Windows ... ... o 4 6 
 
 i Saddle Horse ... i 4 o 
 
 i Cart Horse ... ... o 6 o 
 
 i Dog o 4 o 
 
 i 18 6 .. o 9 7 
 Ducket John, 
 
 6 Windows ... . . . o 4 6 
 
 i Cart Horse ... ... o 6 o 
 
 o 10 6 ... o 2
 
 Frankland Richd., 
 10 Windows ... 
 2 Cart Horses ... 
 i Dog 
 
 Frankland Jno., 
 i Saddle Horse 
 
 Foster John, 
 1 8 Windows ... 
 House Duty ... 
 i Male Servant 
 2 Saddle Horses 
 3 Cart Horses... 
 12 Dogs 
 
 Fearnside La wee, 
 6 Windows 
 i Saddle Horse 
 i Cart Horse ... 
 i Dog 
 
 Green Rebecca, 
 
 20 
 
 s. d- 
 ... i 14 o 
 
 ... 12 
 
 ...040 
 
 Yearly. 
 
 s. d. 
 
 2 10 
 140 
 
 16 3 4 
 
 i 18 6 
 .046 
 
 ... 6 8 o 
 ... o 3 4 
 
 ... I 10 
 
 ... 3 12 o 
 ... o 18 o 
 
 ... 3 12 o 
 
 ... o 4 6 
 ... i 4 o 
 ...060 
 ...040 
 
 
 Hargreaves Agnes, 
 15 Windows ... 
 House Duty ... 
 
 Harrison Ann, 
 
 ... 4 12 o 
 
 ... o 3 4 
 
 4 15 4 
 .. o 14 6 
 
 
 Hargraves John, 
 6 Windows 
 3 Cart Horses ... 
 i Dog ... 
 
 Hodgson Phebe, 
 
 ...046 
 ... o 18 o 
 ...040 
 
 i 6 6 
 ... o 4 6 
 
 
 Hargraves Jno., 
 
 
 ... o 4 6 
 
 Quarterly. 
 s. d. 
 
 O 12 
 
 o 6 o 
 
 o 10 
 
 o i I* 
 
 3 10 
 
 o i if 
 
 o 4 6 ... o i I* 
 Appealed off.
 
 21 
 
 Holden Rebecca, 
 
 
 
 Yearly. 
 
 s. d. 
 . i 70... 
 
 Quarterly. 
 
 s. d. 
 069 
 
 I 1% 
 I l 
 O I l 
 
 o 19 4 
 o 2 7* 
 
 05^ 
 
 I l 
 O I l 
 I l 
 
 2 7 10 
 
 Hutton Wm., 
 6 Windows 
 
 
 
 . O 4. 6 . 
 
 Johnson Gilbert 
 
 
 
 . o 4 6 ... 
 
 Johnson Jno., 
 6 Windows 
 
 
 
 . o 4 6 ... 
 
 Kirkley Thos., 
 13 Windows ... 
 House Duty 
 i Cart Horse ... 
 Kendall Jno., 
 6 Windows 
 i Cart Horse ... 
 
 Knight Jno., 
 6 Windows 
 2 Cart Horses ... 
 i Dog 
 
 Knight Lawrence, 
 6 Windows 
 
 ... 3 
 ... o 3 
 ... o 6 
 
 o 
 
 4 
 o 
 
 3 i? 4 " 
 o 10 6 ... 
 
 i o 6 ... 
 . o 4 6 ... 
 
 ... o 4 
 ... o 6 
 
 6 
 o 
 
 ... o 4 
 
 O 12 
 
 ... o 4 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Kidd John, 
 6 \Vindows 
 
 
 
 o 4 6 ... 
 .. o 4 6 ... 
 
 Kayley Lettice, 
 6 Windows 
 
 
 
 Lister Anthony, 
 15 Windows ... 
 House Duty ... 
 i Male Servant 
 i Saddle Horse 
 i Cart Horse ... 
 6 Dogs ... 
 
 Lund Jno., 
 12 Windows ... 
 i Saddle Horse 
 i Male Servant 
 i Cart Horse ... 
 i Dog 
 Lund Mary, i Horse 
 
 ... 4 12 
 
 ... o 3 
 
 I 10 
 
 ... i 4 
 ... o 6 
 ... i 16 
 
 o 
 4 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 9 ii 4 ... 
 
 ... 2 l6 
 
 ... i 4 
 
 I 10 
 
 ... o 6 
 ... o 4 
 ... i 4 
 
 o 
 o 
 o 
 o 
 o 
 
 
 
 7 4 o ... i 16 o
 
 Lawson Wm., 
 12 Windows ... 
 House Duty 
 
 Maudsley Thos., 
 i o Windows ... 
 i Saddle Horse 
 2 Horses 
 i Dog 
 
 Maudsley Henry, 
 
 22 
 
 *. 
 
 ... 2 l6 
 
 ... o 3 
 
 d. 
 
 o 
 4 
 
 Yearly. Quarterly. 
 s. d. s. d. 
 
 2 19 4 ... o 14 10 
 
 3 14 o ... o 18 6 
 . o 4 6 ... o i ii 
 
 ... i 14 
 ... i 4 
 
 ... O 12 
 ..04 
 
 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 
 
 Maudsley Joseph, 
 6 Windows 
 2 Cart Horses ... 
 
 Mellisent F., 
 Taxed Cart 
 i Horse... 
 
 Moore Margaret, 
 
 ... o 4 
 
 ... O 12 
 
 6 
 o 
 
 o 16 6 ... o 4 ii 
 
 i 10 o ... o 7 6 
 .1 7 o . . o 6 Q 
 
 ... i 4 
 ... o 6 
 
 o 
 o 
 
 
 
 Monkhouse Thos., 
 6 \Vindows 
 
 
 
 .. o 4 6 ... o i it 
 
 Preston Wm., 
 15 Windows 
 House Duty ... 
 i Saddle Horse 
 2 Cart Horses ... 
 
 Newsolme Henry, 
 6 Windows 
 i Cart Horse ... 
 
 Paley Mary, 
 15 Windows ... 
 House Duty 
 
 Preston Jno., 
 6 Windows 
 3 Cart Horses ... 
 
 ... 4 12 
 ... o 3 
 ... i 4 
 
 ... O 12 
 
 o 
 
 4 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 6 ii 4 .. i 12 10 
 o 10 6 ... o 2 7^ 
 4 15 4 ... i *3 10 
 
 ... o 4 
 ... o 6 
 
 6 
 o 
 
 ... 4 12 
 ... o 3 
 
 o 
 
 4 
 
 ... o 4 
 ... o 18 
 
 6 
 o 
 
 5 7i
 
 23 
 
 s. d. 
 
 Settle Margaret 
 6 \Vindows ... ... ... ... 
 
 Yearly. Quarte 
 s. d. s. 
 
 o 4 6 ... o i 
 o 4 6 ... o i 
 o 4 6 ... o i 
 o 4 6 ... o i 
 o 4 6 ... o i 
 o 4 6 ... o i 
 o 4 6 ... o i 
 o 4 6 ... o i 
 
 2 15 o ... o 13 
 i 7 o ... o 6 
 o 4 6 ... o i 
 o 6 o ... o i 
 
 o 16 6 ... o 4 
 WINDOWS, &c. 
 
 .007! 
 . o 4 iot 
 .069 
 
 rly. 
 d. 
 
 I* 
 I* 
 
 I* 
 I* 
 I* 
 I* 
 I* 
 I* 
 
 9 
 9 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 H 
 3i 
 
 r> 
 
 Smith Hannah, 
 
 Silverwood Robert, 
 
 Seedle Thos. 
 6 \Vindows ... ... .. ... 
 
 Taylor Robert, 
 
 Tennant Elizabeth, 
 
 Tomlinson John, 
 
 Towler George, 
 6 Windows 
 Wood Henry, 
 8 Windows ... ... i i o 
 i Saddle Horse ... i 4 o 
 i Cart Horse ... ... o 6 o 
 i Dog ... ... ... o 4 o 
 
 Waller John, 
 g Windows 
 
 Wildman William, 
 6 Windows 
 
 Waller Thomas 
 i Cart Horse ... 
 
 Preston Wm., 
 6 Windows .. ...046 
 2 Cart Horses ... ... o 12 o 
 
 June 2ist, 1800. LAND, SESSES, 
 
 Bradley Elizabeth, Land 
 9 Sesses... 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c.... 
 
 Bradley Mary, Land 
 9 Sesses .. 
 
 .016 
 076 
 
 Adam T.awQnri 
 
 r n
 
 2 4 
 
 s. d. s. d. 
 
 Barrows Elizabeth, Land ...... o o 3 
 
 9 Sesses ... ... ... ... ...o i i 
 
 One Quarter's Windows ...... o i i 
 
 Brennand James, Land ... 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 I 
 
 
 
 H Wood 
 
 
 
 
 ol 
 
 Backhouse Jane, Land ... 
 9 Poor Rates ... ... ... 
 
 O 
 
 
 
 9 
 o 
 
 7 
 6 
 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c.... 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 4 
 
 90 
 
 
 Armitstead John, Land 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 Z 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 r i 
 
 Brayshaw Thos., 9 Sesses 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c 
 
 3 
 
 i 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 9 
 4 
 
 
 Brown Edward, Land ... 
 9 Sesses ... ... ... ... .. 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 O 
 2 
 
 9 
 
 Q 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oo 
 
 1 
 
 Bank William, Land 
 
 O 
 
 I 
 
 7 
 
 4 
 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c 
 
 O 
 
 2 
 
 7i 
 
 ol 
 
 Barker Jno., 9 Sesses 
 Jos. Maudsley, One Quarter 
 
 I 
 
 o 
 
 J 3 
 
 4 
 
 if 
 
 y-i 
 
 A 
 
 Clapham John, Land 
 9 Sesses ... ... ... ... ... 
 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 ii 
 
 I 7 
 9 
 of 
 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c. 
 
 I 
 
 i? 
 
 4 
 
 o n 
 
 T 3 
 
 Clapham W r m. 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c.... ......... 3 9 6 
 
 Bolland Agnes, 9 Sesses ...... o 18 4^ 
 
 One Quarter's Servant & Horses ... o 15 o 
 
 i 13 4 
 Bolland Fawcett, 9 Sesses ... ... o 15 9 
 
 One Quarter's Horses and Windows o 14 3 
 
 i 10 o 
 Clapham Thos., 9 Sesses ... ... o 7 i 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c ... .. i 12 o 
 
 ---- i 19 i
 
 25 
 
 s. d. s. d. 
 
 Coar Thos., Land o o 2 
 
 gSesses... ... ... ... ...o o 9 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c.... ... o 5 3 
 
 Carr Wm., 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c. 
 Carr John, 9 Sesses 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c.... 
 
 ... i 
 
 3 
 ... o 
 
 12 
 
 II 
 H 
 
 10 
 
 3 
 3 
 
 c T Q ,, 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c. 
 Frankland John, g Sesses 
 One Saddle Horse, one quarter 
 
 Fearenside Lawrence, g Sesses ... 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c.... 
 
 ... 2 
 ... O 
 
 ... 2 
 ... O 
 
 19 
 
 6 
 
 i 
 9 
 
 o 
 3 
 
 5 I0 4 
 
 12 6 
 
 3 5 71 
 
 Dawson Stephen, Land 
 
 ... 
 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c. 
 
 ... O 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 Per Johnson 
 
 
 ... 2 
 
 12 
 II 
 
 10^- 
 
 
 Foster*J ohn, g Sesses 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c, 
 
 ... 2 
 
 ... 4 
 
 12 
 
 
 10 
 
 4 l 
 
 6T O T T-l- 
 
 Foster Wm., Land 
 g Sesses 
 
 ... o 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 4 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Green Rebecca, Land 
 g Sesses 
 One Quarter's Windows 
 
 ... o 
 ... o 
 ... o 
 
 O 
 
 3 
 
 i 
 
 o 
 
 n A 8 
 
 Hargraves Agnes, g Sesses 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c. 
 
 ... o 
 
 ... I 
 
 4 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 T 8 A 
 
 Hodgson Phebe, Land ... 
 g Sesses ... 
 
 ... o 
 ... o 
 
 
 
 j 
 
 8 
 6 
 
 
 One Quarters Windows 
 
 ... o 
 
 i 
 
 
 
 Johnson John, Land ... ... ... 091^- 
 
 9 Sesses .. .. 229 
 
 2 ii loft
 
 26 
 
 s. d. s. d. 
 
 Green Richard, Land ... ... ... o o of 
 
 g Sesses ... ... ... ... ...o 3 g 
 
 Robert Germain, 3/9 received 3 9f 
 
 Greenwood Jno., Land ... ... ... o o 3 
 
 9 Sesses ... ... ... ... ...o i 6 
 
 Hutton Wm., Land ... ... ...o o i 
 
 9 Sesses... ... ... ... ... o i 10^ 
 
 One Quarter's Windows ... ... o i i 
 
 -- 03 i 
 
 Kidd John, Land... ... ... ... o o of 
 
 g Sesses ... ... ... ... ... o 2 of 
 
 One Quarter's Windows ... .... o i i- 
 
 - 033 
 Kirkley Thos., Land ... ... ... 007^ 
 
 9 Sesses ... ... ... ... ... o 19 8J 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c. ...019 4 
 
 i 19 7f 
 Maudsley Thos. 9 Sesses ... ... 4 II lof 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c. ... o 18 6 
 
 One Quarter, Henry's Windows ... o i if 
 
 - 5116 
 Occupiers of Mill Land ... ... ... o 8 o 
 
 9 Sesses ... ... ... ... ... i 17 
 
 John Birkbeck ............ 2 
 
 Do. ..... ...... o 4 
 
 - 2 ii ii 
 
 Lister Anthony, 
 
 One Quarter's Windows &c. ... ... ... 2710 
 
 Lund Jno., 9 Sesses ... ... ... i 7 o 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c.... ... i 16 o 
 
 33 
 Lawson Wm., 9 Sesses ... ... ... 094$ 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c.... ... o 14 10 
 
 Moore Margaret, Land ... ... ... o i 4 
 
 9 Sesses .. ... ... ... ... o 5 7^ 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c.... ... o 6 g 
 
 o 13 81 
 
 Overseers, Land ... ... ... ...o o i 
 
 g Sesses ... ... ... ... ... o 3 4^
 
 27 
 
 s. d. s. d. 
 Paley Mary, 9 Sesses ... ... ... 2 2 4^ 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c.... ... i 3 10 
 
 3 6 2 1 
 Preston Mary, Land ... ... ... o o o 
 
 9 Sesses... ... ... ... ...o i 6 
 
 o i 6J 
 Smith Hannah, 9 Sesses ... ... o i 3f 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c.... ... o i i 
 
 O 2 5^" 
 
 Preston Wm., Land ... ... ... 2 5 10 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c.... ... i 12 10 
 
 9 Sesses ... ... ... ... ... 9 14 7^ 
 
 J 3 J 3 3i 
 Pollard Elias, Land ... ... ... o o of 
 
 9 Sesses ... ... ... ... ...o i 6 
 
 o i 6f 
 Ralph Jno., Land... ... ... ... o o 4 
 
 9 Sesses ... ... ... ... ...o i 6 
 
 One Quarter, per Dawson ... ... o 7 3f 
 
 o 9 if 
 Towler Jno., Land ... ... ... o i ii\ 
 
 9 Sesses .. ... ... ... ...076 
 
 9 Si- 
 Taylor Robert, Land ... ... ...o o 9 
 
 9 Sesses... ... ... ... ...o 6 o 
 
 One Quarter's Windows ... ... o i i 
 
 o 7 io 
 
 Wood Henry, 9 Sesses ... ... . .. 3 o 9 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c.... ... o 13 9 
 
 Brennand's ... ... ... ... o 2 2^ 
 
 Bull Ing... ... ... ... ... o i io 
 
 3 18 6f 
 
 Silverwood Robert, Windows ... ... o i \\ 
 
 9 Sesses ... ... ... ... ...o i 6 
 
 Ann Shackleton ... ... ...o i 6 
 
 o 4 H 
 Tennant Elizabeth, Land ... ... o o 8 
 
 9 Sesses ... ... ... ... ...o i 6 
 
 One Quarter's Windows ... ... o i i 
 
 o 3 3i 
 
 Tennant Christopher, Land ... ... o o 2f 
 
 9 Sesses ... ... ... ... o i \\ 
 
 014
 
 28 
 
 s. d, s. d. 
 
 Tomlinson Jno., Land ... ... ... o o 3^ 
 
 9 Sesses ... ... ... ... ... o I 6 
 
 One Quarter's Windows ... ... o i i 
 
 Wilman Jno., Land 
 9 Sesses ... ... ... ... 
 
 ... o 
 ... i 
 
 7 
 
 T T 
 
 5* 
 
 iw 4 
 
 
 
 
 119 
 
 d. 1 
 
 Waller Jno., Land 
 
 ... 
 
 ... o 
 
 O 
 3 
 
 8 ! 
 
 
 One Quarter's Windows 
 
 ... 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 Trt 
 
 Wildman Wm., Windows 
 9 Sesses ... ... ... 
 
 ... o 
 ... o 
 
 i 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 
 Hardacre, 9 Sesses 
 
 ... o 
 
 2 
 
 7* 
 
 
 September 2oth, 
 Armitstead John, Land ... 
 
 1800. 
 ... o 
 
 2 
 TO 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Brayshaw Thos., 
 ii Sesses 
 
 . 4. 
 
 T 
 
 7 
 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c 
 
 ... I 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 50 
 
 J J 
 
 Backhouse Jane, Land ... 
 ii Sesses 
 
 ... O 
 ... 2 
 
 9 
 
 o 
 
 j 
 7 
 6 
 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c.... 
 
 ... 6 
 
 12 
 
 4 
 
 
 Bradley Elizabeth, Land 
 ii Sesses 
 
 ... o 
 ... o 
 
 
 
 c 
 
 11 
 7_a 
 
 n 
 
 
 One Quarter's Windows 
 
 ... o 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 A.1 
 
 Bradley Mary, Land 
 1 1 Sesses ... ... 
 
 ... 
 
 ... o 
 
 i 
 o 
 
 o 13 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 4f 
 
 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 Bank Wm., Land 
 1 1 Sesses . . ... 
 
 ... o 
 
 ... o 
 
 i 
 
 8 
 
 10* 
 
 III 
 
 
 One Quarter's Windows, &c.... 
 
 Brenand Jas., Land 
 ii Sesses 
 
 ... o 
 
 ... o 
 ... o 
 
 2 
 O 
 
 013 
 
 3l 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 r> o 
 
 il
 
 29 
 
 s. d. s. d. 
 
 Barker John, n Sesses ... ... ... 2 o 9^ 
 
 J. Maudsley, One Quarter ... ... o 4 i 
 
 2 4 ii 
 
 Barrows Elizabeth, Land ... ... o o 3 
 
 ii Sesses ... ... ... ... o i 4^ 
 
 One Quarter's Windows ... ... o i i 
 
 029 
 
 Brown Edward, Land .. ..'. ... o o 6| 
 ii Sesses ... ... ... ...o 2 9 
 
 3 3i 
 Bolland Agnes 
 
 ii Sesses i 2 5^ 
 
 One Quarter's Servant and Horses ... o 15 o 
 
 i i? 5i 
 
 Bolland Fawcett, 
 
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 J. W. LAMBERT, PRINTER, SETTLE.
 
 ' COLLECTANEA 
 GIGGLESWICKIANA." 
 
 PART I. 
 
 WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 COMPILED BY THOS. BRAYSHAW.
 
 STACKHOUSE, 
 
 NEAR SETTLE, 
 
 October, 1886. 
 
 In this number of my " Local Tracts " I have 
 thrown together a few miscellaneous items relating 
 to our parish. I trust the illustrations I have given 
 with them will add to their interest. 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW.
 
 Twelve large and one hundred small paper copies printed 
 for private circulation.
 
 '. COLLECTANEA GIGGLESWICKIANA.' 
 
 I have only come across a single copy of an old Settle- 
 printed " Broadside," and as this is also, so far as I know, the 
 earliest specimen of typography now in existence, from the 
 press of that town, it possesses double interest for us. 
 
 The broadside consists of the two following poems, but 
 unfortunately the poet's name is not given, and I fear is now 
 irrevokably lost, a sad commentary on the wish he expresses 
 that "Our names shall be recorded amongst those who are 
 great," as I consider the second of his effusions to be "a thing 
 of beauty and a joy for ever." 
 
 FAREWEL TO OLD ENGLAND. 
 
 Farewel to Old England since we must leave the shore, 
 
 And perhaps never see our dear island no more, 
 
 Leaving father and mother and sister to moan, 
 
 And all for the sake of onr dear darling swain. 
 
 Here is something to relate which grieves my heart sore, 
 
 That's to go and leave my charmer whom I adore. 
 
 In fair London city I took great delight, 
 
 Both in pleasure and pastime by day and by night 
 
 For the music in Hyde Park so sweetly did play, 
 
 Ten thousand strange faces we SEE every DAY 
 
 But now it's all over we must play there no more 
 
 We must go to hear the music where the cannons do roar. 
 
 Come, come my brave lads LET us never repine, 
 With honor and glory our army WE'LL join, 
 With our 36 pounders we'll face our proud FOE, 
 We'll make them surrender wherever WE go, 
 If it BE our lot to fall in THE FIELD 
 My lads BE not daunted we NEVER will yield. 
 
 And if to Old England WE return back again, 
 
 FREE from all sorrow vexation and pain, 
 
 Our fathers shall sing and our mothers REJOICE 
 
 And it's all for the sake of their own darling boys 
 
 Our names shall be recorded amongst those who are great, 
 
 And for ages to come shall read of our fate.
 
 THE FALSE-HEARTED LOVER. 
 
 It was early in the spring, 
 
 I went on board to serve the King, 
 
 Leaving MY dearest dear behind, 
 
 She oft told me her heart was mine, 
 
 When I had her all in my arms. 
 
 With solemn vows and kisses sweet 
 
 Love, we will be married next time we meet 
 
 O then I sail'd on the raging seas. 
 
 O then I spy'd my opportunity. 
 
 In writing letters to my dearest dear 
 
 But not a word could from her hear 
 
 O then I came to her fathers hall, 
 
 And for my fair one aloud did call 
 
 Her father made this reply, 
 
 Above all Men she does you deny. 
 
 then I ask'd him what he meant 
 He told me married she had been. 
 
 My daughter is married for a term of life 
 So pray young Man seek another wife 
 
 1 curse your gold and riches bright, 
 For I have lost my heart's delight 
 
 And all false lovers that such vows doth make 
 
 That may break their vows for riches sake 
 
 If you sent letters into this town, 
 
 I do declare I have had none but one, 
 
 The faults my fathers it is none of mine, 
 
 So do not blame young women kind. 
 
 I do declare I must leave this town 
 
 Since hard fortune has on me frown, 
 
 I'll plow the ocean till I die, 
 
 And I'll shun all womens company 
 
 O stay O stay young man said she, 
 
 There is far handsomer girls than me 
 
 There is far handsomer girls than I 
 
 So go no more where the bullets fly. 
 
 Then as he walk'd up London streets 
 
 He kicked a letter before his feet, 
 
 And on the bottom these lines was wrote 
 
 Love seldom seen and soon forgot. 
 
 [HAYES, PRINTER, SETTLE,
 
 PROPOSED CANALS TO SETTLE. 
 
 Every now and then we find in the history of the com- 
 mercial world, that some mania seizes on the minds of 
 promoters and speculators. A few years since, the electric 
 light ; forty years since, railways ; and last century canals, 
 were a craze of the investing public, and this craze found 
 partial vent in the proposal to connect this town with the 
 southern parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire, by means of a 
 canal. In 1774, the canal between Leeds and Liverpool 
 was nearly completed, and some inventive genius thought it 
 a pity that an important place like Settle should be left out 
 in the cold, so a route for the proposed canal, which was to 
 join the Leeds and Liverpool one at Foulridge, near Colne, 
 was actually surveyed and prospectuses printed. 
 
 Another projected canal was to run from Settle to Lan- 
 caster, by way of Ingleton. One of the main features of this 
 latter scheme was a great tunnel under Huntworth. 
 
 The terminus of the first-named canal seems, from the 
 plan, to have been at a spot called " Paley Puddle," and I 
 should fancy it was situate in what is now " Duke Street," in 
 Settle. 
 
 Query ? Was not Duke Street originally Duck Street. 
 
 The " Case " in support of the formation of the canal 
 was as follows : 
 
 " CASE IN FAVOUR OF THE SETTLE CANAL." 
 
 "The advantages derived from Canal Navigations to a 
 commercial and manufacturing country, are so numerous and 
 so generally understood, that it is unnecessary to enumerate 
 them.
 
 " At the time when the grand communication between the 
 Eastern and Western Oceans, by means of a canal from 
 Leeds to Liverpool, was under contemplation, various bran- 
 ches were proposed to be made to the trading towns and 
 places lying near the line of it ; and particularly a branch 
 was proposed, and actually surveyed, from Settle, in the 
 County of York, to join the same, between Gargrave and Foul- 
 ridge near Colne, in Lancashire ; but the grand canal being 
 an undertaking of so great a magnitude, it was thought proper 
 to defer applying to Parliament for powers to make the canal 
 from Settle, until the grand canal should be cut near to the 
 place of junction. 
 
 " That the grand canal is now cut within a few miles of 
 the proposed junction, and the inhabitants and tradesmen of 
 Settle and other places in Craven, in Yorkshire, being anxious 
 to partake the benefit of a Canal Navigation, have thought 
 proper to apply to Parliament for powers to make the pro- 
 posed branch to Settle. 
 
 " It is presumed very few countries stand so much in need, 
 or would be so much benefitted by a canal, as that through 
 which the proposed canal runs, and in order to form a judg- 
 ment of its importance, it may not be improper to observe : 
 
 " That there are no coal mines within many miles of its 
 course ; that coals are now brought by land carriage at a 
 very great expense, whereby the poor are distressed, the in- 
 crease of manufactures greatly hindered, and the improvement 
 ment of lands discouraged, although the country abounds 
 with limestone, which, when burnt, is a manure peculiarly 
 adapted to that country. 
 
 " That the land-owners through the extent of country, 
 in the line of the proposed canal, generally prohibit the use 
 of the plough in the best soil, well knowing that coarse and 
 barren lands, when manured with lime, will produce good 
 crops of oats, though otherwise of little value ; yet thousands 
 of acres of this improveable ground lye almost useless, occa- 
 sioned by the present great expense and difficulty of procuring 
 coals for burning that abundant stock of limestone which
 
 nature has hitherto in vain distributed ; hence this country 
 in its present situation, is not able to produce grain sufficient 
 for its own consumption, so that the inhabitants are under a 
 necessity of bringing malt, wheat, flour, &c., from very con- 
 siderable distances by expensive land carriage, which the 
 execution of this branch will prevent. 
 
 " That vast quantities of grit-stone suitable for building 
 and other purposes are placed upon and towards the extrem- 
 ity of this branch ; but the south part of the line and for 
 several miles upon the grand canal, on each side of the 
 junction, is destitute of this useful article ; besides this, there 
 are many inexhaustible quarries of blue-flags, grit-flags, ex- 
 cellent blue slate, and grit-slate in the neighbourhood of 
 Settle, which will undoubtedly pass along this branch, and 
 the grand canal, to a considerable distance. 
 
 "That great quantities of goods and merchandise now 
 pass by land carriage, at a very great expense, from London, 
 Hull, Sheffield, Leeds, Halifax, &c., through Settle to Ken- 
 dall, and the north-west parts of this Kingdom, and of heavy 
 manufactured goods from Kendal to the London market and 
 other places, the expense of which will be greatly reduced by 
 means of this canal. 
 
 " That if the proposed canal was completed, there is not 
 the least doubt but it would be the means of increasing the 
 trade and manufactures now carried on at Settle, and in the 
 neighbourhood, to the unspeakable advantage of the country."
 
 10 
 
 OLD SEARCH WARRANT. 
 
 Divisions \ To the Constable of Giggleswick in the 
 
 of Stain- 
 
 cli/e and said Division. 
 Ewcross,in 
 the West- - 
 Riding of 
 
 the 
 
 County of 
 York. / 
 
 THESE are in his Majesty's Name to charge 
 and command you that, taking to your 
 Assistance sufficient Men within your Constable- 
 wick, (who are hereby required to assist you ac- 
 cordingly) you to make a General Privy Search in 
 the Night of the 24th Day of April Inst., through- 
 out your said Constablewick, and also at all other 
 Times, so often as you find Occasion, for the find- 
 ing out and apprehending all Rogues and Vaga- 
 bonds, and wandering idle Persons : And all such 
 as shall be found dangerous or incorrigible, that 
 then you cause such to be brought before some of 
 his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said 
 Riding, to be farther dealt withall according to 
 Law. And herein fail not. This our Warrant to 
 continue in Force Three Months. 
 
 GIVEN under our Hands and Seals, being two of 
 his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said 
 Riding, the 8th Day of April in the Year of our 
 Lord 1784. 
 
 L.S. 
 
 HEN. WICKHAM, Q 
 
 L.S. 
 
 J. A. BUSHFEILD. Q
 
 II 
 
 THE EBBING AND FLOWING WELL AT 
 GIGGLESWICK. 
 
 This remarkable Well is situated about a mile to the 
 north of Giggleswick. It is very unpretentious affair, to 
 the casual observer being nothing more than one of the 
 ordinary roadside wells, so frequently to be found in this 
 neighbourhood, that have been erected for the use of the way- 
 farer and passing horses and cattle. And even should the 
 tourist who visits the well take the trouble to stay some time, 
 it by no meajis follows that he will be rewarded for his pains, 
 because in very wet or very dry weather, the ebbing and 
 flowing of the well almost entirely ceases, but when there is 
 a medium supply of water it is commonly in full activity, 
 rising and falling rapidly, sometimes without intermission, and 
 at other times with irregular intervals. 
 
 The distance between its flux and reflux varies from a 
 few inches to half a yard. Different explanations of this 
 phenomenen have been given, but none that satisfactorily 
 accounted both for the reciprocation and its irregularity, as 
 well as for the influence of wet and dry seasons, until a solu- 
 tion on the principal of the double syphon was given by the 
 late Thomas Hargreaves, of Settle, who constructrd a model, 
 which exactly imitated the eccentric habits of the Well, and 
 this model was for some time disposited in the library of the 
 Settle Mechanics' Institute. It is impossible to explain the 
 solution without the aid of a diagram. 
 
 As to the origin of this Well, the local legend is that 
 " once upon a time " a nymph, who dwelt in this locality, was 
 seen by a satyr, who at once fell in love with her. Finding 
 his attentions becoming inconviently pressing, the nymph fled 
 away from him, with her tormentor in hot pursuit. To her 
 consternation she found that he was rapidly gaining on her, 
 and so she prayed to the gods to change her into a spring, so 
 that she might escape him. The gods acceeded to her re- 
 quest, and the Well, as it ebbs and flows, is supposed to be 
 the nymph panting.
 
 12 
 
 Drayton, in his " Polyolbion " (published in 1612), has 
 put this legend into verse, as follows : 
 
 In all my spacious tract, let them (so wise) survey 
 My Kibble's rising banks, their worst, and let them say ; 
 At Giggleswick, where I a fountain can you show, 
 That eight times in a day is said to ebb and flow ! 
 Who sometime was a nymph, and in the mountains high 
 Of Craven, whose blue heads, for caps, put on the sky, 
 Amongst the oreads there, and sylvans, made abode 
 (It was ere human foot upon those hills had trod), 
 Of all the mountain-kind and since she was most fair ; 
 It was a satyr's chance to see her silver hair 
 Flow loosely at her back, as up a cliff she clame, 
 Her beauties nothing well, her features, and her frame, 
 And after her he goes ; which when she did espy, 
 Before him, like the wind, the nimble nymph did fly. 
 x They hurry down the rocks, o'er hill and dale they drive, 
 To take her he doth strain, t'outstrip him she doth strive, 
 Like one his kind that knew, and greatly fear'd his rape, 
 And to the Topic gods by praying to escape, 
 They turn'd her to a spring, which, as she then did pant, 
 When, wearied with her course, her breath grew wondrous scant, 
 Even as the fearful nymph then thick and short did blow, 
 Now made by them a spring, so doth she ebb and flow. 
 
 Some twenty or thirty years after Drayton published his 
 "Polyolbion," Richard Braithwaite, better known as "Drunken 
 Barnaby," passed through Giggleswick on one of his tours, 
 and he has made mention of the well in the following Latin 
 verse : 
 
 Veni Giggleswick ; parum frugis 
 Profert tellus clausa jugis ; 
 Ibi vena prope viae 
 Fluit, refluit, nocte, die, 
 Neque norunt unde vena 
 An a sale vel arena. 
 
 This is freely translated as follows : 
 
 Thence to Giggleswick most sterile, 
 Hemm'd with rocks and shelves of peril, 
 Near to th' way as traveller goeth, 
 A fresh spring both ebbs and floweth ; 
 Neither known the learned that travel 
 What procures it, salt or gravel. 
 
 I suppose the last line refers to the belief that was for- 
 merly entertained, that the ebbing and flowing of the well had 
 some mysterious connection with the tides.
 
 '3 
 
 Many travellers and tourists have taken notice of the 
 well in their published works. A writer in the " Gentleman's 
 Magazine " for 1760 says the well " is enclosed in a quadrangle 
 of stone flags of about two foot square, and had formerly 
 proper outlets for the current to enable the spectator to dis- 
 tinguish the degrees of its rise and fall with more exactness. 
 But it is now much neglected and out of order, which is a 
 little surprising, as it is the capital curiosity of the country." 
 
 The illustration I give is a facsimile of a curious old 
 picture engraved by Buck and Feary in 1778. From this it 
 seems that the well was at that day situated a short distance 
 above the road, (the new highway runs higher up and close 
 to the well), and from it two copious streams flowed into 
 Giggleswick Tarn, which then lay at the foot of the scar ; the 
 road crossing the head of the tarn by a ford. The inscription 
 at the foot of the engraving is as follows " The amazing 
 Flowing and Ebbing Well in Giggleswick Scarr, in the Road 
 to Kendal." 
 
 Montagu, in his " Gleanings in Craven," Burlin in "The 
 Northern Star " for 1817, and a host of others, testify to their 
 astonishment at the ebbing and flowing of the well ; but it has 
 been reserved for a recent writer to doubt its peculiarities. 
 Mr. Burkill, however, in his foolish " Reminiscences," puts it 
 down as a " sell," and compares it to spirit-rapping and such- 
 like nonsense. Mr. Burkill courteously states that " the 
 aborigines at Settle thoroughly believe in in it, however, and 
 are not at all pleased to hear anyone express disappointment 
 or disbelief." That a casual visitor should express " disap- 
 pointment " if he does not see the well ebb and flow may be 
 natural, but Mr. Burkill's "disbelief" has not much weight 
 against the belief of " the aborigines at Settle" simply because 
 he did not observe anything peculiar in the well when he 
 paid it a chance visit one Christmas morning. 
 
 In connection with this well I may mention an old cus- 
 tom that is still kept up in the neighbourhood. On the 
 afternoon of every Easter Sunday, hundreds of children and 
 young people take a piece of " black Spanish " and a bottle 
 to the well, and by dissolving the lump of " Spanish" in a 
 bottleful of the water of the spring they concoct a sweet drink.
 
 H 
 
 When the water in the well is at the lowest point there 
 may occasionally be seen what is known as the "silver thread." 
 This is nothing more than a tiny current of air running from 
 end to end of the well, but on account of its rare appearance 
 the superstitious consider it as a token of good luck to the 
 person who is fortunate enough to see it. 
 
 It was " the spirit of the well." that according to the 
 local legend, gave the magic bridle to Nevison, the highway- 
 man, when he was pursued, by the aid of which he was enabled 
 to ride up Giggleswick Scars, at the point still known as 
 " Nevison's Nick," and also to leap over the chasm at the 
 head of Gordale, and so escape. 
 
 The Rev. Thomas Cox, in his history of Yorkshire, pub- 
 lished in the last century, has the following account of the 
 well : 
 
 Giggleswick, a Village situate upon the River Ribble, where 
 at the foot of a very high Mountain, is the most noted spring 
 in England for Ebbing and flowing ; sometimes thrice in an 
 hour, and the water subsides three quarters of a yard at the 
 reflux, though thirty miles from the Sea.
 
 GRANT TO HOLD FAIR. 
 
 Settle has had several charters granted to it at various 
 times for the holding of fairs and markets. The following 
 grant of one to the Earl of Burlington is now in the British 
 Museum : 
 
 A CONFIRMATION to Richard, Earl of Burlington and his 
 heirs of an antient Weekly Market on Tuesday, and a Fair 
 yearly held for three days on the Vigil, upon the day, and on 
 the morrow of St. Lawrence within the manor of Setel in the 
 County of York. AND ALSO a grant to him and his heires of 
 severall other new ffaires to be held yearly within the towne 
 of Setel in the said County on the days following, vizt. 
 One ffair on the Tuesday next before Palm Sunday for the 
 buying and selling all sorts of Cattle, goods, wares, and mer- 
 chandizes. Another on the i5th of April for sheep, another 
 on Tuesday next after Whit-sunday, for all sorts of cattle, 
 goods, wares and merchandizes, another on the 23rd June 
 for lambs, another on the I2th of October for sheep, another 
 on the' Tuesday next after the i6th day of October for all 
 sorts of cattle, goods, wares and merchandizes, and another 
 on Fryday in every other weeke during three months succes- 
 sively, yearly, to begin on ffryday before Easter, for buying 
 and selling all sorts of cattle. 
 
 According to Her Majestie's pleasure signified by War- 
 rant, under Her Royal Signe Manual, countersigned by Mr. 
 Secretary Boyle, subscribed by Mr. Solicitor Generall. 
 
 John Tench, Deputy to Thomas Gosling, Esq. 
 [Inscribed on the back.] 
 
 " DACQUET for the Most Noble John, Duke of Newcastle, 
 Lord Privy Seale. Sealed the 24th day of May, 1708.
 
 i6 
 SHORT EXTRACTS FROM SUBSIDY ROLLS. 
 
 In a Subsidy Roll temp. Edward I., I find that Henry 
 de Percy* paid a Knight's fee of 75. 2f d. for 2^ carncates of 
 land in " Gikeleswike " (Subsidy Roll No. z g 8 ). 
 
 In a roll of the Assessment of the " Vicesima " in the ist 
 year of Edward III. in the various Wapentakes in the West 
 Riding of Yorkshire, I find under the heading of Staincliffe : 
 
 GIGLESWYK. 
 
 D. Willo. le Chapman ... ... iij s vi d 
 
 D. Rad. de Bank ... ... iij s iij d 
 
 D. Rico de Saylbank ... ... ii s iij d 
 
 D. Ad. de Lawkallides (?) ... ii s ix d 
 
 D. Laur. fil Rogi ... ... ii s iij d 
 
 D. Johne de Gr . . . st . . ... iiis 
 
 D. Johne de Cochend ... ... iis 
 
 D. Rico fil Laur ... ... xii d 
 
 (Subsidy Roll No. *) 
 
 A later Roll of the Assessment of Tenths and Fifteenths 
 (also temp. Edward III.) contains the following. 
 
 WESTRICHING. STAYNCLIF. 
 
 De. Ad de Grenefell 
 De Willo. Chapman 
 De Johe fil Serlou 
 
 GYCLESWYKE. 
 
 De Rico. Husband 
 
 De Johe le lang 
 De Rico fil Laurenc 
 v De Thorn, del Sterr (?) 
 
 (Subsidy Roll ? M. i. Coll. ii.) 
 
 * In the year 1316 the Abbot of Furness and the heirs of Henry de 
 Percy were returned as Lords of the Townships of Giggleswick and 
 Settle.
 
 SETTLE TOKENS. 
 
 During the iyth Century there was a great scarcity of 
 of copper coinage in England, the result of which was that 
 many tradesmen coined their own pence and half-pence, these 
 coins being known as tokens. Amongst others, Settle trades- 
 men issued three separate tokens, viz : two pennies and one 
 half-penny, and of these tokens I give engravings. 
 
 The first is as follows. Observe, round the edge : 
 
 WILLIAM TAYLOR - IN . SETLE 
 In the field : the arms of the Drapers' Company. 
 
 Reverse, round the edge : 
 
 I WILL . EXCHAING MY - 
 In the field : 
 
 PENNY . 1668. 
 
 From the arms on the obverse, we conclude that William 
 Taylor was a draper. 
 
 The second token has on the obverse, round the edge : 
 IOHN - & STEVEN - SIDGSWICK
 
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 In the field : an arm grasping a circle with a bar across it. 
 
 Reverse, round the edge : 
 
 OF- SETTLE WILL . EXCHEINGE - 
 
 In the field : 
 
 THEIR . PENEY - 1672. 
 
 We do not know what trade the Sidgswicks carried on, 
 probably the circle with the bar across it has some reference 
 to it, but what it is, we cannot say. 
 
 The Third token is a half-penny one, and is the most 
 noteworthy of the set. On the obverse : round the edge : 
 
 FOR THE - COMPANY . OF- 
 In the field : 
 
 AGREED - IN ONE- 
 With two hands clasping each other. 
 
 Reverse, round the edge : 
 
 GROCERS IN SETTLE- 
 
 In the field : 
 
 THEIR . HALFE PENNY.
 
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 This token is particularly valuable from the fact of 
 its being what is called a " town piece," that is, issued 
 by a corporation, company, or public body. Out of the 
 four hundred tokens issued in Yorkshire at this period, 
 there are only two such " town pieces " viz : the one we are 
 now discussing and one issued by the overseers of the poor 
 at Bridlington, and what makes it more remarkable is the 
 fact that, so far as I can discover, it is the only one of the 
 10,000 tokens issued in England during the latter half of the 
 i yth century, that was issued by a company of traders. It 
 shews us that even two hundred years ago the benefits of 
 united action were known and appreciated by the shrewd 
 tradesmen of Settle. In an old number of the Settle Chronicle 
 there is a query by some writer who had come across one of 
 these Settle Tokens " Was the business of the tradesman so 
 large as to render it necessary for him to have a special mint 
 of his own ?"
 
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 THE OLD SUN-DIAL ON CASTLEBERG. 
 
 On the opposite page I give a facsimile reproduction, 
 though of course much reduced in size from the original, of 
 the very scarce and curious old engraving of the Sun-dial at 
 Settle. 
 
 This Engraving bears the inscription " The very extraord- 
 inary Sun-dial facing the Market place at Settle in the West 
 Riding of Yorkshire. Drawn engraved and publish'd by S. 
 Buck and J. Feary according to Act of Parliament, May 
 i8th, 1778." 
 
 Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith, in his " Illustrations of 'Old York- 
 shire" gives a photograph of this engraving, and has the 
 following remarks on the subject: "Yet upon strict enquiry 
 we find the very tradition of this unique structure to have be- 
 come lost to the memory of the oldest inhabitants. The Rev. 
 Dean Howson, who was educated at the neighbouring 
 Giggleswick Grammar School, informs us, however, that he 
 remembers old people who had heard of, if they had not seen 
 it. Apparently large slabs of limestone, engraved with letters 
 to indicate the hours from 8 to 12, have been inserted in the 
 turfy slope of the hill, and the pinnacled Scar on its summit 
 formed the gnomon of this singular dial, which seems to have 
 been altogether unknown to the late Mrs. Alfred Gatty when 
 inditing her recent work " A History of Sun-Dials." 
 
 The Rev. John Hutton, passing through Settle on a tour, 
 in the year 1779 (the year following the one in which the pic- 
 ture was engraved), has the following remarks on Castleberg, 
 and as he makes no reference to the Dial we may safely 
 conclude that it was not in existence at the date of the en- 
 graving. 
 
 " As we approached towards Settle in our return, a white 
 rock like a tower, called Castleber, immediately above the town, 
 and about 20 or 30 yards in perpendicular height, engaged our 
 attention, We were told a curious anecdote of this rocky 
 mount. As limestone was daily got there to supply a kiln at 
 the bottom, the inhabitants had the lime-burner presented at 
 the court of the Lord of the Manour, fearing that if any more 
 was dug out, the rock might fall and bury the whole town in 
 ruins, a stone having once tumbled down and broken through 
 a garden wall beneath, in its impetuous course torards the
 
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 houses. Twelve wise and just men were impanelled as jurors, 
 and sent to view this impending nuisance ; the verdict they 
 returned was that if ever it fell it would tumble not towards the 
 town, but the direct contrary way. On the other side it rests 
 against the base of an high mountain. The hills and moun- 
 tains all round were limestone to a prodigious depth ; yet, 
 strange to tell, we were informed there was a monopoly of 
 this commodity, one lime-burner, or one company of lime- 
 burners having engrossed the whole of it." 
 
 Having arrived at the conclusion that the Sun-dial did 
 not exist at the time the engraving was made, leads us on to 
 consider the point " Did it ever exist ?." Having regard to the 
 fact that we have no mention whatever of it previous to 1778 ; 
 that it was not there in that year, and that there has certainly 
 been no such thing since, I am forced to arrive at the conclus- 
 ion that the only answer we can give to the query, is "No.." 
 The tradition is a pleasing one, and I wish I could place cre- 
 dence in it, but when we come to examine the point carefully, 
 it seems to be clear that there never existed such a Sundial 
 as is represented in our illustration. Of course it is quite 
 possible that by natural marks on the hill, or something of 
 that sort (in lieu of the large slabs aspostrayed), the villagers 
 may have been able to make a rough guess at the time, but 
 even this I doubt. 
 
 It is true that Dr. Whitaker, in his " History of Craven," 
 accepts the tradition of the Sun-Dial, as he remarks : 
 
 " The Summit of Castleberg once formed the gnomon of 
 a rude but magnificent Sun-dial, the shadow of which, passing 
 over some gray self-stones upon its side, marked the progress 
 of time to the inhabitants of the town beneath ; an instrument 
 more antient than the dial of Ahaz. But the hour-marks have 
 long been removed, and few remember the history of their old 
 benefactor, whose shadow now takes its daily tour unobserved." 
 
 It is evident from the words "few remember," that the 
 learned Docter had no very strong evidence to support his 
 belief. 
 
 My readers may have noticed that an outline sketch of 
 the engraving forms the background of my book-plate, of 
 which a copy appears on the cover of these " Local Tracts."
 
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 AGRICULTURE IN 1793. 
 
 In 1793, Commissioners were appointed by the Govern- 
 ment to inspect and report on the state of Agriculture in the 
 kingdom. The following items are extracted from the report 
 issued by the Commissioners : " At Settle and Skipton, we 
 found that land let so high as 405. and 505. per acre, while, 
 from the best accounts we could receive in the country, 205. 
 and 305. was then considered as a high rent, and in many 
 places it was much lower." 
 
 " As for the old rich pastures about Skipton, Settle and 
 other places, it is not easy to say what they have originally 
 been sown with. 
 
 Leaving Grassington we passed through a wide range of 
 uncultivated moors, and arrived at Settle. At this place we 
 saw the finest grass we ever viewed. Indeed the richness of 
 the soil is hardly credible to those who have not seen it, and 
 the possessors were unanimously of opinion that it is of greater 
 value to them when kept in grass, than when cultivated by the 
 plough. 
 
 The nature of the soil in the neighbourhood of Settle is 
 what is called a hazel mould, incumbent upon a dry bottom. 
 The farms are generally small, and the occupiers seldom have 
 leases. Great part of the higher grounds are still common, 
 and consequently unimproved ; they are pastured with sheep 
 and Scots cattle, which are afterwards fed off upon the lower 
 grounds. The sheep bred here are called the Malham breed, 
 and we received favourable accounts of them. Considering 
 the great quantity of waste ground, it is surprising the prop- 
 rietors have not turned their attention more to planting, as 
 we received great complaints of the scarcity of wood. Coals 
 are likewise scarce which it was thought might be remedied, 
 if proprietors were disposed to hold out rewards or favourable 
 leases to those who discovered them.
 
 2 3 
 
 At Settle we had an opportunity of seeing a great show 
 of fat cattle of the country breed. They were all long horned, 
 and seemed in shape, skin, and other circumstances, to be 
 nearly the same as the Irish breed. We learned that of late 
 there had not been the same attention paid as formerly to 
 keep the breed pure, by selecting proper bulls. 
 
 Be that as it may, the long horned breed of cattle which 
 prevails over the western part of this island, from the thick- 
 ness of their skin, and the hardness of their constitutions, are 
 much better calculated to undergo the vicissitudes of this 
 climate, than the short horned breed of the eastern coasts. 
 
 Price of labour. A man servant about ten guineas per 
 year, with board and washing in his master's house ; a woman 
 about five guineas, with the same ; day labourers in husbandry 
 about as. or as. 6d. per day, finding their own victuals : about 
 ten years ago is. or is. 2d. was the common price; the ad- 
 vance owing to the introduction of the cotton manufactory 
 into a country so little populous. They work from six to six 
 in the summer, and from eight to dark in winter. 
 
 Price of provisions for the last year ; beef, mutton, veal 
 and pork, about 4^d. per pound of sixteen ounces ; butter 
 about is. or is. id. per pound of 22 ounces ; wheat about 8s. 
 per Winchester bushel : oats 28 or 303. per quarter. 
 
 Parish of Giggleswick : 
 
 2,200 Inhabitants 
 16,500 Acres by estimation 
 14,685 Acress grass 
 315 Acres arable 
 150 Acres waste 
 300 Acres, in oats 
 15 Acres barley 
 
 500 acres are occasionally plowed in small quantities."
 
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 COL. THORNTON'S TOUR. 
 
 In 1802 or 1803 Colonel Thornton of Thorn ville Royal, 
 Yorkshire, undertook a tour in Scotland and the North of 
 England. His remarks on Settle are as follows : 
 
 Trotting on briskly (from Kirkby Lonsdale), I perceived, 
 to the left, that stupendous and well known mountain Ingle- 
 borough and came in view of a town which I took for Settle ; 
 passed under the high and romantic rocks called Giggleswick 
 Scar, and saw a well by the road side, which struck me to be 
 the one I had heard so much of that ebbs and flows ; but I did 
 not perceive that singularity while I remained, which indeed 
 I could not do so long as I wished, fearing I should arrive too 
 late at Marshfield. 
 
 Proceeded and entering the town, I was informed that what 
 I had conceived to be Settle was Giggleswick, but that I had 
 not deviated above a quarter of a mile from the road. Soon 
 arrived at Marshfield, the seat of Mr. Parker, near Settle ; 
 and on the groom's taking my mare, enquired when dinner 
 would be ready, but can scarcely say whether I was most 
 vexed or satisfied on hearing that it would not be ready for 
 an hour and a half; I had understood from my friend Sir 
 Michael Le Fleming, who is related to Mr. Parker, that his 
 dinner hour was three o'clock, and had made what expedition 
 I could, but the trot at which I had come, surpassed all my 
 former journeys, for though I had gone a little out of the road, 
 forming a ride of thirty three miles and a half, I found, by my 
 watch, I had performed this journey in two hours and forty- 
 two minutes ; and when the road, which is rather hilly, is con- 
 sidered, and the low state to which bad Highland hay and 
 worse corn had reduced my horses, with the time taken up in 
 feeding the mare at Kirkby Lonsdale, I think about fourteen 
 minutes, it was performed in a surprising short time. 
 
 The mare I rode was certainly a very astonishing crea- 
 ture, not fourteen hands high, and mistress of sixteen stone, 
 she won several trotting matches of sixteen miles within the 
 hour, but her bottom was her great fort, for it appeared to 
 me, as the ride will testify, that she varied very little in the 
 two hours and twenty-eight minutes she was on the road.
 
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 My friend not being returned from his morning ride, I 
 soon got dressed, and amused myself before dinner with 
 admiring the infinite neatness that reigned both within and 
 without in every department of this very enviable little 
 pavilion.* 
 
 It gave me great pleasure on our meeting to find my old 
 acquaintance, and his lady, in that perfect health which is 
 commonly enjoyed by those who inhabit the salubrious air of 
 Craven. 
 
 We passed the remainder of the day in the most social 
 manner, and in the course of the evening, the conversation, 
 turning amongst other things, upon the subject of expeditious 
 journeys, occasioned by my ride in the morning. 
 
 Morning charming; the air rather sharp. Mr. Parker be- 
 ing politely desirous of showing me the objects around him 
 most worthy of attention, we mounted or horses, and after 
 passing through some noble pastures, clothed with the finest 
 grass, and chequered with herds of long-horned, or as they 
 are generally called Craven Cattle, and sheep, came on the 
 edge of the moors, where indeed the road was but indifferent. 
 
 With some difficulty we got to Malmstarn, [Malham 
 Tarn] a sporting seat of Mr. Lister, brother-in-law to Mr. 
 Parker. 
 
 We found that gentleman at home, and after showing me 
 the inside of his lodge, which is commodious enough, he gave 
 me some idea of his future plans of improvement ; no place in 
 England can be better situated for the amusements of the 
 field. In the "tarn" or little lake, which lies directly in the 
 front of his house is very good trout and perch fishing, and 
 both fish are esteemed the best of the kind. I saw some very 
 fine ones of both sorts. Trout are taken of six or seven pounds, 
 and perch of not much inferior weight. There is also the 
 best moor-game shooting in the county, and no better cour- 
 sing even at Newmarket. 
 
 * Since the above was written, this charming box has been destroyed 
 by fire ; but, to a man of Mr. P's forture, as most of the valuable furniture 
 was saved, it was of less consequence and gave scope to his elegant taste 
 in rebuilding a larger, though not more desirable, residence.
 
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 Having some spare time before dinner, Mr. Parker was 
 pleased to show me, as we returned from Malham, at the back 
 of Marshfield, and directly above the town of Settle, a white 
 rock, not unlike a tower, called Castle-Bar, about nineteen or 
 twenty yards in perpendicular height. I confess I wa much 
 pleased with it. This natural precipice has been much assis- 
 ted by art, and will be daily more so, and rendered additionally 
 awful by quantity of limestone dug from the cavity at its base, 
 to supply an adjacent kiln. 
 
 Mr. Parker, being a member of the Falconer's Club, and 
 one of the finest promoters of conviviality at home and abroad, 
 had contrived to invite several of those jolly mortals to meet 
 me at dinner, when we passed the remainder of the day together 
 most happily, and recounted the different long flights we had 
 had after kites, herns, hares, &c. 
 
 Rose early, wishing to get to Thornville as soon as poss- 
 ible. Passed through Settle, a small town, but possessed of 
 some trade, and a market-place so spacious that it is out of 
 all proportion to its size. The houses here, in general, are 
 old and low, and there are but very few good ones, which may 
 be owing to t^ro causes : the situation of the town, which is 
 directly under rocky hills, and its Parish Church being at 
 Giggleswick, near to which the gentry have erected very neat 
 boxes, and formed a kind of separation from the tradesmen. 
 
 Having sent on my servants the night before, I rode one 
 of Mr. Parker's hacks, at a trot, I believe, it had not been 
 accustomed to, in order to get to Skipton to breakfast.

 
 SETTLE IN 1822. 
 
 On the opposite page I give a facsimile of a view by 
 George Nicholson, the artist, of " Settle on a Market Day." 
 The Sketch was made in 1822 and gives a good idea of the 
 place at that date. The view is taken from the front of what 
 is now Mr. Leemmg's shop. In the back ground is Castle- 
 berg, before it was planted and laid out as gardens. In the 
 centre is the old Tolbooth, which stood on the site of the 
 present Town Hall. To the right is the building now occu- 
 pied by Mr. Thomas Clark, and to the left the picturesque 
 but unsavoury " shambles." 
 
 What I am most puzzled about is the object in the right 
 foreground. It looks very much like a draw-well, but I hardly 
 think it can be intended for one. 
 
 Judging from the attitude of the figures in the picture, 
 trade does not seem to have been particularly brisk. 
 
 The following description of the town at the early part 
 of this century, is from Daye's " Picturesque Tour", and is a 
 fitting accompaniment to the engraving. 
 
 "From Skipton it is sixteen miles to Settle. This town 
 is situated in the midst of barren hills, which present their 
 rocky fronts to the eye from all points. Romantic as the 
 situation may be, the town itself is equally so, the houses 
 being the most whimsical, picturesque, and odd anywhere to 
 be met with. The market place in particular, had to me, the 
 strangest effect imaginable ; it not appearing like English 
 nature. The evening being fine and clear, the lengthened 
 shadows of the houses were swept over the foreground, redu- 
 cing the whole to one expansive dark ; except where, here and
 
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 there on its verge, a small group of figures glittered, from an 
 elegant touch of the departing rays of the sun. Full in the 
 light appeared the market house, raised on an arcade, above 
 which, in a gallery that leads to different dwellings, were seen 
 various people, busily employed in humble occupations. Add 
 to the whole, by way of back--ground a tremendous cliff, 300 
 feet high, which impends fearfully over the back of the town, 
 in the most terrific manner, and some idea of the scene may 
 be formed. 
 
 In Settle, many of the houses about the market place, 
 have their ascent to the upper storey on the outside ; and 
 where the cliff, or scar, which hangs frowning over the town, 
 can be brought into the view, a subject highly picturesque 
 will be obtained. On the whole, had I come all this way 
 without meeting one object worthy of my attentton, I should 
 have been satisfied for my trouble with what I found here. " 
 
 ROMAN CATHOLICS IN 1604. 
 
 In 1604 a Return of all Roman Catholics was ordered to 
 be made by King James I., and from this Return we find that 
 only one, viz. a widow called Margaret Frankland, was living 
 in the Parish at that time.
 
 ANCIENT POWER OF ATTORNEY. 
 
 The following old deed of the year 1248 is interesting : 
 
 Noverint universi per presentis me Alicium filiam Petri 
 Tempest militis attornasse et loco meo posnisse delectum 
 michi in Christo Rogerum Tempest fidelum attornatum meum 
 ad recipiendum seisinam de et in Cunctis terris et tementis 
 in Villis et territorus de Gygleswyk Setyll Rawthmell Gare- 
 grave Newton et Conyston secundum vim forman et effectum 
 cujusdam Carte Ricardi Pudsey Thome Dank de Gygleswyk 
 Thome Quarf et Ade de Walsthawe inde mihi confectum 
 ratum et gratum habituro quicquid predictus attornatus mens 
 fecit nomine meo in premissis. In cujus rei testimonium 
 presentibus sigillum meum apposin Datum xx die Semptem- 
 bris Anno regni regis Henrici Sextio post conquestum Anglie 
 Sexto. 
 
 (Translation.) Know all by these presents, that I, Alice, 
 daughter of Peter Tempest, Knight, have attorned and put 
 in my place, my beloved in Christ, Roger Tempest, my 
 faithful attorney, to receive in my name full and peaceable 
 possession of and in all lands and tenements in the vills and 
 territories of Gygleswyk, Setyll, Rawthmell, Garegrave, 
 Newton, and Coniston, according to the force, form, and 
 effect of a certain charter of Richard Pudsey, Thomas Dank, 
 of Gygleswick, and Adam de Walsthawe, I thenceforth hold- 
 ing as done, ratified, and satisfied whatever my said attorney 
 has done in my name in the premises. In testimony whereof 
 to these presents I have affixed my seal. Dated 2oth Septem- 
 ber in the 6th year of the reign of Henry the 6th after the 
 conquest.
 
 LOCAL NOTES 
 
 prir^led, as revised, frem ihe fettle fjeusehold J\lmanac far 1896.) 
 
 (Compiled by "(ghos. ^rayshaw. 
 
 SETTLE : 
 
 CRAVEN PRINTING & STATIONERY COMPANY, LIMITED.
 
 LOCAL NOTES. 
 
 Joseph Broader, of Settle, invented a " System of Artificial 
 Memory," 1827. 
 
 Sir Joseph Banks was descended from the Giggleswick family 
 of that name. 
 
 There was a " Soke Mill" at Anley in A.D. 1080. 
 Weekly Offertories commenced in Settle Church in 1864. 
 
 The interior walls of Giggleswick Church were formerly 
 covered with Texts and Scroll-work. 
 
 Settle Mechanics' Institute was founded in 1831. 
 20,000 Sheep were shown at Settle " October" Fair in 1859. 
 There was a great Hurricane at Settle, January jth, 1839. 
 Dr. Pococke saw the Sundial on Castleberg in 1750. 
 There are 1461 Pipes in Giggleswick Church Organ. 
 
 The boys of Giggleswick School used to " beat the bound- 
 aries " once every year. 
 
 Dr. George Birkbeck was born at Settle, January ioth,i776. 
 C. Walker, P.D., of Settle, invented a System of Shorthand. 
 
 Settle Mechanics' Hall was formally opened by the Earl 
 of Carlisle in 1855. 
 
 The Settle Mining Company had a capital of ^"1000. 
 The Countess Gyllenborg died at Settle in 1766. 
 The last Bull-baiting at Settle was at " Halsteads." 
 Settle was first lighted with Gas in January, 1853. 
 
 Barker's Beck, Settle, was supposed to be haunted by a 
 headless man. 
 
 Mr. John Hare first acted in public at the Mechanics' Hall, 
 Settle, in 1863. 
 
 Hat-making was formerly carried on in Settle.
 
 The " Settle Chronicle" appeared from 185410 1866. 
 
 A fatal fire occurred at King's Mill in 1829. 
 
 The Settle Temperance Society was founded in 1834. 
 
 The making of Base Coins was formerly extensively carried 
 
 on at Settle. 
 There was a fatal accident at Giggleswick Station in Feb. 
 
 1857- 
 
 Two Gallows stood at Settle in A.D. 1278. 
 There was a fire at King's Mill in February, 1854. 
 
 The Settle Market Charter used to be read once a year, at 
 the Cross. 
 
 Tom Sayers visited Settle in 1862. 
 
 A Maypole formerly stood in Upper Settle. 
 
 The " Amicable " Society was founded at Giggleswick in 1789. 
 
 Much Ingleton Coal used to be sold at Settle. 
 
 Pope Gregory issued a " Bull " respecting Giggleswick 
 Church in A.D. 1232. 
 
 The old Halberds, Standard Measures, &c., of Settle are 
 now in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire. 
 
 Giggleswick Fair was re-established in 1842. 
 
 Settle used to be a great centre for the Leather Trade. 
 
 The Highlanders passed through Settle in 1729. 
 
 The Lancaster and Settle Mail Coach was started in 1839. 
 
 Ten Gallons of Wine were used at Communion Service in 
 Giggleswick Chrirch on Good Friday, 1739. 
 
 There was an outbreak of Cattle Plague at Settle in 1749. 
 
 The Benevolent Society (Wesleyan) was established at Settle 
 in 1806. 
 
 Only 8 prisoners were brought before the Settle Magistrates 
 in 1854. 
 
 A Ballot for the Militia was held at Settle in 1766. 
 The Settle Cricket Club was founded in 1854. 
 
 A Proclamation against Rogues and Vagabonds was made 
 at Settle in 1598. 
 
 The Market Place, Settle, is 507 feet above sea level. 
 Settle is situate Lat. 54-4' North ; Long. 2'i6''34" West.
 
 The Order of Foresters established a Lodge at Giggleswick 
 in 1853. 
 
 Dean Howson was born at Giggleswick in 1816. 
 
 ^760 was raised for the local " Patriotic Fund " in 1855. 
 
 Astley's Circus visited Settle in 1822. 
 
 Settle Market Charter was confirmed in 1708. 
 
 The Giggleswick Tithe dispute was settled in 1845. 
 
 Giggleswick School obtained a Royal Charter in 1553. 
 
 Schemes for three Railways through Settle were made in 
 1845. 
 
 The " Craven Magazine " was published at Settle in 1836. 
 The Settle Wesleyan Sunday School was opened in 1809. 
 John Wesley preached at Settle in 1777. 
 
 The Primitive Methodists were first established at Settle 
 in 1836. 
 
 The Settle Independent Chapel was opened in 1817. 
 
 Tradition says that four Knights formerly lived at Little 
 Stainforth. 
 
 A Local Volunteer Force was raised in 1794. 
 Victoria Cave was first known as " The Clay-Pits." 
 
 A Flag-Pole was erected on Castleberg to commemorate the 
 Queen's Coronation. 
 
 The present Rifle Corps was established at Settle in 1859. 
 
 Richard Frankland was excommunicated and absolved in 
 Giggleswick Church. 
 
 There was a great " Bachelors' Ball " in a field near 
 Stackhouse in 1839. 
 
 In Bulkeley's poems is a Sonnet " By Settle Railway 
 Bridge." 
 
 Queen Adelaide passed through Settle in 1840. 
 
 The Railway from Skipton to Ingleton was opened in 1849. 
 
 Paley sent a Fly-Orchis from Settle, as a " prodigious 
 rarity." 
 
 The present fountain in Settle Market Place was erected 
 in 1863. 
 
 The Rev. Oliver Hey wood visited Settle in 1679.
 
 Giggleswick Select Vestry for poor-relief was established in 
 
 1824. 
 About ^1000 was spent in exploring Victoria Cave. 
 
 The gth of August was locally celebrated as " Kennel " 
 night. 
 
 " The old wives of Bruncton " was a standing toast at 
 Giggleswick School Dinner. 
 
 General Lambert was at Settle in 1641. 
 
 Giggleswick Church will seat 350 fewer people than before 
 Restoration. 
 
 Giggleswick Township Cottages were sold in 1834. 
 
 Roger Dodsworth, the Antiquary, was at Giggleswick in 1620. 
 
 The old Parish Constables of Settle were paid ^15 and 2, 
 per annum. 
 
 Denny, the Classical itinerant, was buried at Giggleswick 
 in 1748, 
 
 Part of King's Mill was formerly a snuff manufactory. 
 Many Settle men fought at Flodden Field in 1513. 
 
 The Vagrant Ward at Giggleswick had 373 occupants the 
 first year it was opened. 
 
 A madman caused a panic at Giggleswick Church in 1833. 
 The Settle Sunday School Sick Club was founded in 1848. 
 Stainforth and Rathmell Churches were consecrated in 1842. 
 
 Wm. Dewsbury introduced Quakerism into Settle, about 
 1652. 
 
 The Victoria Hall (then " Music Hall") was opened in 1853. 
 Gray, the poet, visited Settle in 1769. 
 
 William Birkbeck, of Settle, was the first Quaker Magistrate 
 
 in England. 
 
 The Cattle Plague broke out at Settle in Oct., 1865. 
 Four Settle Tradesmen issued Tokens in the i7th century. 
 The Settle Union Farmers Association was founded in 1854. 
 700 copies of No. i of " The Settle Chronicle " (February 
 
 1854) were sold. 
 
 There was a great flood in the Ribble, October 25th, 1855. 
 The County Court at Settle used to be held monthly. 
 The " Oyster Patty " was published at Settle in 1835.
 
 Giggles wick Workhouse now has under 40 inmates ; in 1841 
 it had 1 80. 
 
 A Fire occurred in Chapel Square, Settle, June, 1853. 
 Mr. Carr, of Stackhouse, invented a Steering Apparatus. 
 
 The Banns of a Marriage were publicly forbidden at 
 Giggleswick Church in October, 1842. 
 
 The Heating Apparatus at Giggleswick Church exploded 
 in 1856. 
 
 Henry III granted Stockdale to Sawley Abbey. 
 The 5th of November is St. Alkelda's day. 
 Settle Cricket Club first played at Cammock. 
 
 The Rev. R. Ingram preached at Zion Chapel in November, 
 1854. 
 
 The Footbridge at " The Locks" was erected in 1857. 
 
 Lord Morpeth cut the first sod of the Little North Western 
 Railway, at Cleatop, in 1846. 
 
 A Fire occurred at Langcliffe Place in May, 1857. 
 
 The Settle Choral Society was established in 1850. 
 
 Tom Thumb visited Settle in 1866. 
 
 The Settle Horticultural Society was founded in Oct., 1848. 
 
 The death-rate of Settle has steadily diminished during 
 late years. 
 
 Settle and Stainforth Quakers' Meetings were licensed in 1689. 
 
 The Settle Almanac, containing 12 pages, was first issued 
 in 1840. 
 
 Previous to 1856 Settle was lighted with "Vegetable-Gas." 
 
 Of several Local Pamphlets not a single known copy now 
 exists. 
 
 The last conviction at Settle for " Profanely Swearing" was 
 in 1857. 
 
 Settle Waterworks have been in operation nearly 150 years. 
 The Settle Literary Society was established in 1770. 
 The Area of Settle Township is 4490 acres. 
 The Settle Savings Bank was established in 1818. 
 
 Of the Main Road through Settle, 2 miles, 5 furlongs, 121 
 yards are in the Township.
 
 8 
 
 The Annual Rental of the house property in Settle is esti- 
 mated to be ^6147 per annum. 
 
 Giggleswick Church is 132 feet long. 
 
 Only one Carriage was kept in Giggleswick Township in 1800. 
 
 Marshfield was burnt down about 90 years ago. 
 
 Six electors of Settle went to York to vote in 1708. 
 
 In 1792 beef was 4d. a Ib. in Settle. 
 
 Plans for restoring Giggleswick Church were prepared 
 in 1852. 
 
 100 years since there were 800 acres of ploughed land in 
 Giggleswick Parish. 
 
 There were 51 householders in Giggleswick in 1379. 
 
 In Burkill's " Reminiscences " the Ebbing and Flowing 
 
 Well is stated to be " a sell." 
 
 The Percies owned " the town of Settle " in A.D. 1225. 
 In 1877 the Rainfall at Settle was 69-10 inches. 
 The Northern side of Settle Bridge is very ancient. 
 
 Furness and Fountains Abbeys owned much property about 
 Settle. 
 
 E. Waddington was " Slayne in Settle "in December, 1642. 
 A Penny Bank was first established at Settle in 1857. 
 Giggleswick Sewing School was opened in 1859. 
 It was first proposed to light Settle with Gas in 1824. 
 Rope-making used to be carried on at Settle. 
 
 The first sod of the Settle and Carlisle Railway was cut at 
 Anley, November, 1869. 
 
 The oldest Chalice of Giggleswick Church is dated 1585. 
 Henry III granted Settle Market to Hy. de Percy. 
 
 The old Talbot Inn used to be the headquarters of the 
 Leather Dealers. 
 
 Walker's " Stenography " is one of the scarcest of local 
 works. 
 
 The oldest known View of Settle is a drawing in the British 
 Museum. 
 
 The Rev. R. Ingram published a work against duelling. 
 
 " Mischief Night" used to be annually observed at Giggleswick.
 
 25 Giggleswick boys went to St. John's College, Cambridge, 
 between 1631 and 1674. 
 
 The first Quakers' Meeting in Settle was held at Widow 
 Armistead's. 
 
 Arthur Caterall, of Giggleswick, claimed 450 for damage 
 done by the Parliamentary Troops. 
 
 In 1379 Settle Householders paid 173. lod. "poll tax"; 
 Giggleswick, 2 is. 8d. 
 
 In 1800 Mrs. Backhouse, of Giggleswick, paid 11 2s. od. 
 
 for window tax. 
 The Registers of Giggleswick Church from 1627 to 1653 
 
 are lost. 
 
 Jackson and Troughton were two Settle Printers last 
 
 century. 
 The Constables of Giggleswick made a general search for 
 
 Rogues and Vagabonds, 24th April, 1784. 
 
 In 1773 Pennant said the Inn at Settle was the most 
 comfortable one he was ever at. 
 
 Knitted Woollen Stockings used to be made in large 
 quantities in Settle. 
 
 Many local persons ate described in the novel called " Jabez 
 Oliphant." 
 
 It has been suggested that the name " Bell Hill " is derived 
 from The Hill of Baal." 
 
 " The Folly " was never completed owing to lack of funds. 
 
 Giggleswick Church Tower is probably 100 years older than 
 the body of the Church. 
 
 Bigland, in 1812, said the death rate of Settle " is about one 
 in sixty." 
 
 In the "Northern Star" (1817), Giggleswick Tarn was 
 described as " a large and beautiful Lake." 
 
 A number of Roman Coins were found near Giggleswick 
 in 1783. 
 
 In 1822 the " Royal Union " Coach started from Settle, on 
 its way from Kendal to Leeds, every day at noon. 
 
 Thomas Foster, by Will dated 1692, left $ per annum to 
 the poor of Giggleswick. 
 
 Dr. Windsor, the Botanist, was born at Settle, in 1787.
 
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 Dr. Lettsom was apprenticed to Dr. Sutcliffe of Settle. 
 
 Football was formerly played in Kirkgate every Shrove- 
 Tuesday. 
 
 In West's " Antiquities of Furness " is a diagram of the 
 supposed action of the Ebbing and Flowing Well. 
 
 Furness Abbey received 5 6s. od. rent from Stackhouse 
 
 in J 535- 
 The Settle and Carlisle Railway was opened for passenger 
 
 traffic, May ist, 1876. 
 
 Settle has presented and endowed two Lifeboats. 
 The first confirmation at Settle Church was in 1866. 
 
 The first Agricultural Show at Settle was a " Sweepstakes 
 Shew," in 1848. 
 
 The first burial (that of C. Edmondson) in Settle Church 
 Yard was in January 1839. 
 
 The Rev. B. Waugh (of " Prevention of Cruelty to Children " 
 fame) is a native of Settle. 
 
 The " Giggleswick School Olio" appeared in 1845. 
 Tom Twisleton's Poems have run through five editions. 
 The Craven Bank was established in 1791. 
 
 The Settle " Association for the prosecution of Felons'* was 
 formed in 1743. 
 
 King John confirmed the grant of Giggleswick Church to 
 
 Finchale Priory, in 1208. 
 A pool of water suddenly appeared near Settle, in 1791. 
 
 The first marriage (James Hartley's) at Settle Church was 
 in 1849. 
 
 Some people consider Giggleswick Church to be dedicated 
 
 to "Hali-keld" or " Holy Well." 
 There were great festivities at Settle when the Crimean 
 
 War ended. 
 Settle Agricultural Show was not held from 1866 to 1877. 
 
 The Friendly Societies of Settle used to have a " Club Walk" 
 every Whit-week. 
 
 The Rev. R. Jngram laid the Foundation Stone of Settle 
 
 Church. 
 The Wesleyans first began to preach at Settle in 1760.
 
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 The Children of Giggleswick Workhouse used to perform 
 " St. George" as " pace-eggers," every Easter. 
 
 The i2th March used to be "potation day" at Giggleswick 
 School. 
 
 Hutton published his " Tour to the Caves near Settle " 
 in 1780. 
 
 There are 25 Faculty Pews in Giggleswick Church. 
 
 The first Catalogue of the Settle Library contains 46 Works. 
 
 A Consistory Court was held in Giggleswick Church in 
 February 1890. 
 
 Giggleswick Church was reseated in 1822. 
 Giggleswick Grammar School was restored in 1851. 
 
 " Robin Hood's Mill " near Stackhouse is supposed to be an 
 underground waterfall. 
 
 In 1749 there were legal proceedings respecting the Chancel 
 of Giggleswick Church. 
 
 There used to be a Lime Kiln at the base of Castleberg. 
 Forty years since, Gas was 125. per 1000 cubic feet in Settle. 
 
 The Rev. James Carr, founder of Giggleswick School, died 
 in 1528. 
 
 There were 16 members of the Settle Literary Society 
 in 1777. 
 
 There were 62 dances at Balderston's "Juvenile Ball" at 
 Settle, in October, 1817. 
 
 J. Williams lectured on " The Advantages of Drunkenness," 
 at Settle, in 1835. 
 
 Each Member of the old Benefit Societies of Settle used to 
 expend 2d. in drink at every meeting. 
 
 A White Swallow was caught at Settle in 1793. 
 
 Marshfield formerly belonged to the Parkers of Browsholme. 
 
 Geo. Woods dedicated a volume of Poems to Dr Butterton. 
 
 Six Pamphlets were issued in the Giggleswick School con- 
 troversy, 1861 1864. 
 
 In 1604 the only local Roman Catholic was Margaret 
 Frankland, of Rathmell. 
 
 Her Majesty has only once passed through Settle Station, 
 viz: May 2ist, 1891.
 
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 The boys of Giggleswick School used to scramble for figs 
 every i2th of March. 
 
 A Purse of 200 guineas was presented to William Wildman, 
 when he left Settle, in 1879. 
 
 The Settle Amateur Dramatic Society first performed in 
 January, 1880. 
 
 Until 1817 the Craven Bank Notes had a view of Castleberg 
 on them. 
 
 The Keighley and Kendal road was made about 1755. 
 There was a burglary at Mearbeck in 1842. 
 
 700 children had tea in the Snow Castle on the Green, on 
 the 6th March, 1886. 
 
 300 years ago Giggleswick school-boys commenced work at 
 6-30 a.m. 
 
 1155 persons signed the pledge in the " Blue Ribbon Mission," 
 at Settle, February, 1883. 
 
 Tom Twisleton and "Poet Close" wrote each others 
 epitaphs in poetry. 
 
 The Hand-weavers of Settle were in great distress in 1828. 
 The old part of Giggleswick Workhouse was built in 1834. 
 
 The Settle Temperance Hotel Company (1883) had a capital 
 of ^"3000. 
 
 It was proposed to re-make Giggleswick Tarn as a memorial 
 of the Queen's Jubilee. 
 
 The Ebbing and Flowing Well is called " Giggleswicke 
 Spring " in a very old map. 
 
 The Craven Bank used to issue (inter alia) both one pound 
 and one guinea notes. 
 
 There was no funeral in all Giggleswick parish, for a period 
 of 13 weeks, in 1788. 
 
 The Salvation Army " Attacked Settle," March 6th, 1886. 
 
 There were 32 Candidates at the first Settle Parish Council 
 Election, in December, 1894. 
 
 Samuel Watson was fined for preaching " in the burying- 
 
 place " at Settle, in 1670. 
 
 An Ancient Stone Circle formerly existed above Cleatop. 
 Many remains of the Red Deer have been found on High Hill.
 
 A "Sociable" Society was established at Settle in 1781. 
 
 The present Bishop of Oxford (Dr. Stubbs) lived in Settle 
 when a young man. 
 
 The " New Police " commenced their duties in Settle in 1857. 
 The old Bass Fiddle of Giggleswick Church still exists. 
 
 The Countess of Warwick gave Giggleswick Church to 
 Henry de Pudsay, about 1160. 
 
 It is supposed that the Tumuli above Stackhouse are the 
 burial places of Danes. 
 
 Giggleswick School Seal probably belonged to an old 
 Religious House. 
 
 Edward VI endowed Giggleswick School with property worth 
 ^23 35. od. per annum. 
 
 A Skirmish with the Highlanders is believed to have occurred 
 near Gildersleets, in 1745. 
 
 The Rev. Rowland Ingram was the first president of the 
 Settle Mechanics' Institute. 
 
 In 1678 the Husband family, of Rathmell, were the only local 
 Roman Catholics. 
 
 Five regiments of Cavalry were at Settle, under General 
 Lambert, in August, 1651. 
 
 The serial " Adventures at Sea " (Settle, 1841) was not a 
 success. 
 
 The British Canoe, found in the bed of Giggleswick Tarn, is 
 8ft. ain. long. 
 
 Mrs. Linnaeus Banks, the Authoress, has close associations 
 with Giggleswick. 
 
 The then Vicar of Giggleswick refused to allow a Memorial 
 Sermon on Princess Charlotte to be preached in 1817. 
 
 T. B.
 
 ROBINSON 
 MEMORIAL 
 WINDOW 
 
 A.D.ISSS^HCARVED STONE 
 
 HEAD
 
 NOTES 
 
 PART I. 
 
 WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW. 
 
 SETTLE : 
 
 PRINTED BY THE CRAVEN PRINTING COMPANY, LIMITED. 
 MDCCCLXXXV.
 
 STACKHOUSE, 
 
 NEAR SETTLE, 
 
 AUGUST, 1885. 
 
 In No. i of this Series of " Local Tracts," I gave 
 a list of the Churchwardens of Giggleswick from A.D. 
 1638 to the present time, together with extracts from the 
 minute-books of the meetings of the "Twenty-four;" 
 and in Tract No. 3 I printed the Charters and other 
 early documents relating to the Church. In this number 
 I give a series of miscellaneous notes referring to the 
 history and fabric of the Church, and I hope to complete 
 the subject at an early date. The photographic Illustra- 
 tions to this number are permanent platinotypes by Mr. 
 A. Horner, of Settle. 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW.
 
 Twelve large and one hundred small paper copies printed 
 for private circulation.
 
 NOTES ON GIGGLESWICK CHURCH. 
 
 To a stranger, Giggleswick Church presents few 
 points of interest ; but for almost every native of the parish 
 it has some tender association. But independent of this it 
 must, as the mother Church of, and the oldest building in, 
 this large parish, be a centre of attraction to us, and when 
 we survey the old grey walls, we involuntarily call to mind 
 the great changes they have witnessed, not only in the village 
 that clusters round them, but even in the form of worship 
 followed in the building itself, for we must remember that the 
 Church was built in pre- Reformation times, when Roman 
 Catholicism was the national faith. 
 
 The earliest record of this parish extant is in 
 the entry in Domesday Book, and there is no mention in it of 
 a Church at " GHIGELESVIC " at that time, but this omission 
 is by no means conclusive proof that such did not exist here ; 
 indeed from the amount of land that was liable to taxation, 
 and from the total absence of the word " waste " (which bore 
 such dreadful testimony to the sufferings of the people in 
 many parts,) I think that the place was in a fairly prosperous 
 condition, and that in all probability there was one here. 
 
 The first mention of the Church that we can find 
 is in one of Dodsworth's MSS. in the Bodleian Library, 
 in a Charter of Matilda, Countess of Warwick, (daughter 
 of William de Percy,) by which she gives and grants to 
 Henry de Pudsay, his heirs and assigns, her town of Settle, 
 and the rents of Giggleswick, with the advowson of the Church 
 there, for fifteen marks in silver, and one palfrey, &c. The 
 date of this Charter is probably about 1160 or 1170. From
 
 the attestation of a Lawrence, Parson of " Guckilswic," to 
 a charter of William de Percy the younger, the Church evi- 
 dently existed, and was unappointed, in the reign of Stephen 
 (A.D. 1135 1154-) One Henry was a parson of " Gukles- 
 wic " about the year 1200. 
 
 In a previous number of these " Local Tracts " 
 I have set. out various charters and documents, and from 
 these we see that Henry de Pudsay granted the church of 
 " Gichellswick " to the Priory of Finchale, probably out of 
 compliment to his father, Hugh Pudsay, (Bishop of -Durham, 
 from 1153 to 1166) and William de Percy granted theadvow- 
 son of " Gyckleswic " Church to the same priory about the 
 year 1227. This was confirmed by King John in the gth 
 year of his reign. 
 
 The prior and convent of Durham, as patrons of the 
 subservient priory of Finchale, exercised the right of present- 
 ing to the Vicarage of Giggleswick, from the first institution 
 which occurs in the registers of the See of York, to the Dis- 
 solution of religious houses in 1538, after which the Crown 
 became the patron, until about the year 1600 when the 
 Advowson was granted to a W. Brooke. 
 
 The living is now in the alternate presentation of 
 the Hartley and Coulthurst families. 
 
 Let us now say a word or two as to the Parish of 
 Giggleswick. It is a very extensive one, its area being 18500 
 acres. In addition to the Township of Giggleswick it com- 
 prises Settle, Stainforth, and Rathmell, in each of which 
 places there is a church, the livings being perpetual curacies. 
 The Vicar and Parish Clerk of Giggleswick consequently 
 take their share of all fees paid for funerals, weddings, &c., at 
 these churches. Langcliffe formed part of the ancient parish, 
 but in 1851 it was made an independent one. The houses at 
 the " Locks " still remain in Giggleswick however. The 
 name of the street in Settle called " Kirkgate " reminds us of 
 the time when it was the most direct route from the town to 
 the (at that period) only church in the parish. 
 
 Dr. Whitaker, in his history of Craven, describes the 
 Church as being " a large, uniform and handsome buliding,
 
 exactly in the style of the other churches in Craven, which 
 are known to have been re-built in the reigns of Henry VII. 
 and Henry VIII. 
 
 It consists of nave of four bays, with clerestory ; 
 chancel, with east window of six lights ; north and south aisles 
 to both nave and chancel ; square west tower and south 
 porch. The whole building appears to be of third Pointed 
 style." 
 
 It is estimated that it will seat a thousand people, 
 which is a small number considering the size of the building, 
 but the square pews seem specially designed to afford accom- 
 modation for the smallest number of people in a given area. 
 However, it is, for the present, amply sufficient for the wants 
 of the scant congregation, for the great bulk of the population 
 follow the example set them by their spiritual leader, the Vicar, 
 and religiously abstain from attending the services of the 
 church, or taking the slightest interest in it. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to St. Alkelda, and I can 
 only find one other Church Middleham that is dedicated 
 to the same saint, and strangely enough this Church also was 
 appropriated to the Priory of Finchale. Of this Saint we 
 can glean but little information, as her name does not occur 
 in any of the best known martyrologies, but the following 
 account is given by W. G. M. J. Barker (a Roman Catholic 
 writer,) in his History of Wensleydale. Speaking of Middle- 
 ham Church he says : 
 
 " Saint Alkelda is said to have been the daughter of 
 a Saxon Prince, or Earl, who, on account of her religion, was 
 put to death by strangulation, by the Danes. In the east 
 window of the chantry of our Blessed Lady, her passion was 
 depicted in stained glass ; portions of the representation are 
 still there. She was shown in the act of being strangled by 
 two females who had twisted a napkin round her neck. Pos- 
 sibly the scene of her suffering was the site of the present 
 church or a little to the west of it ; for it is certain that her 
 sacred remains repose somewhere in the edifice, and a spring 
 which rises not far off, is named St. Alkelda's Well. The
 
 water of this fountain was accounted beneficial for weak eyes, 
 and the writer knew a Protestant lady, who died not long 
 since at an advanced age, who, in early youth, was accus- 
 tomed to repair to it, every morning, and who received much 
 relief from its strengthening qualities. Certain fee-farm rents 
 in Middleham are required to be paid upon St. Alkelda's 
 Tomb, and were regularly deposited on a stone table (most 
 probably an altar), in the middle of the nave, as also were some 
 annual doles of bread, until the stone was removed, within 
 the memory of persons recently living." 
 
 St. Alkelda's day is observed on the 5th of Novem- 
 ber. Lawton, in his " Collections relative to the Dioceses 
 of York and Ripon " states that the Church is dedicated to 
 St. Alkeld, who was a nephew of King Ina, and Bishop of 
 Sherborne. He died A.D. 709. I think there is little doubt 
 however that St. Alkelda is our real patron Saint, and not 
 St. Alkeld. 
 
 In Pope Nicholas's first taxation, A.D. 1292,- the 
 church is valued at ^"33 6s. 8d. : but in A.D. 1318 a new tax- 
 ation was made on account of the invasion of the Scots, and 
 it was found that this parish had suffered so severely that the 
 annual value was reduced to ^"14 35. 4d., or considerably less 
 than half its previous amount ! 
 
 The Vicarage is valued in the King's books (26 
 Henry VIII) at ^"21 35. 2d. ; and in the Parliamentary Sur- 
 vey, vol. 1 8 it is stated : " Vicarage 50. The parish church 
 is well situate for the most conveniency of the whole parish." 
 
 In " Notitia Parochialis," No. 809, the following 
 return is given by the Rev. R. Ellershaw, who was appointed 
 Vicar in 1686 ; "the Vicarage is endowed with the corn tithe 
 of two small villages, called Langcliffe and Stainforth-under- 
 Bargh, with Easter dues, small tithes and surplice fees. En- 
 dowment dated in 1249. The right to the advowson not well 
 known but supposed to belong to the heirs or assigns of 
 Josias Dockeray, D.D., late Rector of in the County of 
 Northumberland. Above ^"30 per annum. Signed, Richard 
 Ellershaw, Vic."
 
 The living was augmented in 1732 with 200 to 
 meet a benefaction of similar amount from Mr. Anthony 
 Lister. 
 
 A decree in the Exchequer, in Michaelmas Term, 
 37th Eliz., as to tithes, is unreported. The following are the 
 dates of the faculties that have been granted in connection 
 with the fabric : 
 
 2nd February, 1738, Faculty to build a gallery. 
 
 5th March, 1742 ditto. ditto. 
 
 4th March, 1785 ditto. ditto. 
 
 gth February, 1810 ditto, and to re-roof the church. 
 1 7th December, 1819, faculty to re-pew the church. 
 i2th March, 1822, confirmation of allotment of pews. 
 
 Additional burial ground was consecrated in 1817 
 and again in recent years, but there is every prospect that 
 ere long, further enlargement, or a Cemetery, will become 
 necessary. 
 
 The Registers of the Church commence in 1558, and 
 go "on to 1627. There is then an interval of 26-^ years, viz. : 
 from the end of March, 1626 (i. e. 1627) to the end of Septem- 
 ber, 1633, of which we can find no records, and I fear they 
 have unfortunately been destroyed like so many others, 
 during the civil war. 
 
 They contain but few items of interest, as successive 
 Vicars seem to have made their entries as brief as possible, 
 and to have avoided making any memoranda in them relating 
 to the parish, as was the practice in many other places. 
 
 In previous editions of the " Encyclopaedia Britan- 
 nica " there is the startling information that Giggleswick 
 Church stands on the top of a rock 300 feet high, to which 
 the ascent is by steps cut in the limestone rock ! This is 
 doubtless a confusion with Castleberg. 
 
 I propose in the first part of these " Notes" to confine 
 myself almost exclusively to the fabric of the Church, leaving
 
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 almost all the historical details, monumental inscriptions, &c., 
 to a future part, and in order to describe the building more 
 clearly, we may as well take an imaginary tour round it. 
 
 Let us first start at the old Market Cross (of which 
 a plate and account are given in No. 2 of these Tracts). 
 This is the sole remaining relic of the ancient importance of 
 Giggleswick as a market town. At the base of it note the old 
 pillar which is one of the two that formerly supported the 
 stocks. Its sister post was broken off some time since and 
 has several times been replaced by a poor and imperfect imita- 
 tion, but this I am happy to say has lately been removed. 
 We next come to the Lych-gate, which is of comparatively 
 modern origin. The old Vicarage formerly stood close by 
 this. It is commonly supposed that the portion of the 
 Church-yard lying between the Lych-gate, and the "Black 
 Horse" Inn is not consecrated ground. This Inn was formerly 
 part of the buildings connected with the Church and several 
 niches for the reception of statues of Saints may be seen in 
 its exterior walls. 
 
 There is a convenient entrance from this Inn to the 
 Church-yard, and dark tales are told respecting the Church- 
 wardens, when it was the duty of these officials to leave the 
 Church, whilst the sermon was proceeding, in order to see that 
 all public houses were closed. 
 
 From the Lych-gate a good idea of the general ex- 
 terior of the Church may be obtained. The building is a very 
 long one and disputes with Kildwick the title of " The Lang 
 Kirk of Craven". Near the West entrance to the Church yard 
 may be seen a very ancient relic of our Parish in the old stone 
 coffin which lies just under the wall. Its only use of late 
 years has been to serve as a trough for watering the sheep 
 which, until a few months since, used to pasture in the Church- 
 yard. Of course we are entirely in the dark as to the person 
 whose last resting place this coffin formed, but from the hollow 
 being very narrow and only long enough to serve for a person 
 of from 5 feet 3 inches to 5 feet 6 inches in height, it seems 
 likely to have been that of a woman. It may indeed have been 
 the coffin of one of the Monks formerly attached to the 
 Church.

 
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 ANCIENT TOMBSTONE 
 IN GIGGLESWICK CHURCH YARD.
 
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 Nearly opposite the small porch is an old stone pillar. 
 I fancy this has been the stand for a sundial, but it has been 
 so worn away that it is imposible to say for certain. 
 
 On examining the East exterior wall of the Tower, 
 we can see very plainly the former pitch of the roof, which 
 used to be much higher than at present. The tradition is that 
 the roofs of all the Churches in this neighbourhood were 
 lowered owing to the one at Gargrave slipping down. The 
 exterior of the Tower possesses little of interest ; the gargoyles 
 are curious, the clock has only one pointer, and is hardly a 
 first class time-keeper, and the West window is the best fea- 
 ture of this part of the building. This is really a very nice 
 little window and it is a pity that it is hidden from the view 
 of the congregation by the " Singing Gallery''. 
 
 On many parts of the walls of the Church may be 
 seen what are known as " Mason's Marks". I give represen- 
 tations of four of these, which are found in different parts of 
 the building. The third of these is the one most common. 
 
 The stones on which these are found were probably 
 part of the Church which previously existed on the same site 
 as the present one. These marks were made by the old Free- 
 masons who assisted in the rearing of the edifice, when the 
 members of that body were really operative. 
 
 Over the small South entrance to the Church note 
 the sun-dial, one of the numerous ones in this locality. I 
 fancy this has been an old work touched up in modern times. 
 
 At the base of the buttresses on each side of this 
 porch there can still be seen the foundations of two of those 
 of the former Church 
 
 Just outside this porch there is a slab of stone, on 
 which may be traced the outlines of a double cross. In the
 
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 centre of the stone is a representation of a spear, on one side 
 a sword, and on the other something that I fancy has been 
 intended for a chalice. The lines on this stone are hardly 
 discernible now, but Miss Sutcliffe made an accurate sketch 
 of it more than forty years ago, when the markings on it were 
 pretty clearly denned and it is from her sketch that I am en- 
 abled to give a representation of the stone. It is supposed to 
 have marked the grave of some Ecclesiastic or Crusader, but 
 what his name was or his deeds will never be known. May I 
 respectfully hint to the Churchwardens that a few shillings 
 would be well spent in the removal of this stone to some place 
 where it would be less exposed, what with the constant wear 
 and tear owing to people walking over it, and the cement with 
 which some builders have carelessly smeared it, the figures on 
 it are almost obliterated. 
 
 In going round the outside of the Church note the 
 incised stone on the North side of the East window. This is 
 a relic of the former Church and has evidently been part of a 
 larger figure, but the stone has got broken or displaced when 
 the Church was rebuilt ; note also the carved stone head near 
 the Robinson memorial window. 
 
 There are very few ancient tombstones remaining in 
 the Church-yard. It is difficult to account for this unless it 
 be that in early days the gravestones were composed of the 
 soft stone found in the neighbourhood so that the inscriptions 
 have been effaced by the hand of time. 
 
 Having completed our tour round the exterior let us 
 go inside the Church. Here there is not very much of interest 
 and the whole place is in a dreadfully dilapidated condition. 
 Dirt, damp, decay and discomfort seen to reign here supreme, 
 and the Churchwardens are totally unable to fight against these 
 drawbacks, with the very limited means placed at their dis- 
 posal by the congregation. In going round the inside of the 
 Church we will commence at the North-east corner. Here 
 note the stained glass window erected by the Executors of the 
 late Miss Alice Atkinson, to the memory of the Revd. John 
 Clapham. This window has a very odd effect at a short 
 distance owing to the red wings of the angels. This part of 
 the Church is the Stainford Chapel, and Dr. Whitaker states
 
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 that in it there were formerly twocumbent statues, undoubtedly 
 of the Stainfords. This chantry was dedicated to our Lady, 
 and was founded by Robert Stainford, the annual value 
 being four pounds. Tempest's Chantry also was on the North 
 side of the Church and probably adjoined the Stainford Chan- 
 try. The annual value oi the Tempest Chantry was \ 135. 
 4d. There also existed in the Church the Roode Chantry, 
 founded by James Carr, Priest, the annual value of which 
 was 6 is. od. 
 
 On the north side of the church there are two stained 
 glass windows ; one in memory of Jane Robinson, 1858, the 
 other in memory of William Robinson, 1872. The glaring 
 colours of these windows are hardly considered to be in the 
 best style of this branch of ecclesiastical art. Between 
 these two windows is a very imposing Table of Charities, but 
 this is now little less than a mockery as many of the benefac- 
 tions left for the poor of this neighbourhood have been suffered 
 to lapse, and others have been swallowed up by the Grammar 
 School. The second window from the West in the North 
 aisle is modern, there having been a doorway in its place 
 until comparatively recent times. Many of the pews in the 
 north aisle have the initials of their former occupiers carved 
 in the woodwork. In the northwest corner we find the heating 
 apparatus, which is admirably adapted for roasting part of 
 the congregation and leaving the remainder to freeze. Until 
 recently it was a favourite amusement of the parish clerk to 
 diversify the service by " firing up " with great pomp and 
 clatter just before the sermon, but this interlude is now dis- 
 pensed with. The font was erected in memory of the Rev. 
 Rowland Ingram, the following inscription running round it : 
 
 41 Stttiqimm iwfrs ^tftttcra gamit oxmbit 0tolair gugram, !$&., 
 $ijcaris SttBfl Sffnwtti mbxrrsl. 
 
 The date is incorrectly given in Whitaker's 'Craven' 
 as 1815. The pews near the font are found by the church 
 officials to afford an excellent repository of wood for fuel. The 
 bier generally ornaments this part of the church also, and 
 this leads me to ask if some more appropriate place could 
 not be found for these things. To the east of the font is the 
 family vault of the Paleys, where lie the remains of the 
 parents of the celebrated Archdeacon Paley.
 
 Close to the tower is an old painting of the Royal 
 coat of arms; the date of this work of art is 1716. This 
 probably fit into the roof in former times, but I suppose that 
 when the pitch of the roof was altered it became necessary to 
 remove the painting, and in order to adapt it to its present 
 position it was necessary to cut off the top. 
 
 The porch of the church was re-built in 1815 ; it is 
 repairable by the owners of Close House. 
 
 In the south aisle note the Geldard memorial win- 
 dow and the monument to the memory of Richard Frankland, 
 dated 1698. This monument is a plaster one and has evi- 
 dently been cast in the same mould as that to the memory of 
 General Lambert's son in Kirkby Malham Church. The 
 heating pipes form the principal decoration of the wall of the 
 south aisle. In the south-east corner of the church is the 
 Dawson chapel, and it may be noted that the capital of the 
 pillar nearest the east end in the south aisle differs from all 
 the others. It is difficult to account for this, but probably 
 the fact of its propinquity to the chapels may be the reason. 
 There are two hatchments bearing the arms of the Dawson 
 and Pudsay families in the Dawson Chapel. 
 
 On the wall opposite to the small porch may be seen 
 a curious carved stone head, the hands of the figure being 
 represented as trying to tear open the mouth. In the centre 
 of the church is a handsome brass candelabra for twelve 
 lights. This was put up in 1718, the inscription on it stating 
 that Richard Brayshaw, John Armistead, Fran. Clapham, 
 and Richard Lawson were the churchwardens at the time. 
 
 The pulpit is undoubtedly the principal object of 
 interest in the church. The date of it is 1680, and it may be 
 noticed that the capital of the pillar against which it 
 rests is much cut about, probably to accommodate a previous 
 construction. The pulpit is in the style known as a " three- 
 decker," consisting of the pulpit proper, with sounding board 
 above, the reading desk, and the clerk's snuggery. It is of 
 fine old oak curiously and handsomely carved. On the 
 panels are the names and badges of the Twelve Tribes of 
 Israel, but in carving these badges the artist has obeyed the
 
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 PANEL OF PULPIT, IN GIGGLESWICK CHURCH. 
 
 Tract, No. 5.
 
 15 
 
 Biblical instruction not to make " the likeness of anything 
 that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the 
 water under the earth." In front of the Reading desk is 
 carved the inscription : 
 
 HEAR IS THE STANDARDES OF 
 THE ISRAELITES WHEN THE TO 
 CANAN CAM AGENEST THE CANANITES 
 
 This refers to the carvings above mentioned. On 
 the side are carved the initials L.L, R.C, T.C, and W.K, these 
 being the initials of Lawrence Swainson, Robert Carr, Tho- 
 mas Clapham, and William Knipe, who "were the church- 
 wardens for the year 1680. The panels of which I give a 
 photograph represent Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Gad, Naphthali, 
 and Asher. 
 
 The badges and names of these tribes as carved are : 
 
 REVBIN. WAVES, ("unstable as water.") 
 
 SIM. SWORD. ("Instruments of cruelty.") 
 
 LEV. A SCROLL. 
 
 GAD. FLAG OF BATTLE. ("He shall overcome.") 
 
 NAPH. A HIND LET LOOSE. 
 
 ASH. CUP. ("Royal dainties.") 
 
 On the pillar to the West of the pulpit is an old brass 
 in memory of Lawrence Swainson, A.D. 1773. 
 
 One of my illustrations shows the old carved "poor 
 box" with its quaint inscription " Remember the pore." The 
 date of this is 1684, but the effect of it is spoilt by its being 
 placed on a stand with the date 1844 conspicuously carved 
 on it. 
 
 The Communion rails are probably the oldest pieces 
 of work in the church. They bear the initials T.A., W.W., 
 L.K., and T.S. These evidently refer to the Churchwardens 
 for the year in which the rails were erected, and as they 
 are not applicable to the holders of that office for any year 
 for which we have a list of churchwardens, that is since A.D.
 
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 1638, they must be prior to that date. Within the communion 
 rails are two fine old oak chairs. The flooring here is in a 
 dreadful condition, earth and rushes being immediately below 
 the carpet. The east window of the church is a very large 
 and particularly ugly one. It is a disputed point whether it 
 is of the original height or not. For my own part I venture 
 to think that the top of it has been removed at the same 
 period when the pitch of the roof was lowered. 
 
 In the Harleian M.S.S. in the British museum is a 
 roughly drawn sketch of a coat of arms that was formerly 
 emblazoned in one of the windows of Giggleswick Church. I 
 give a copy of this shield. I believe it is intended to represent 
 the arms of the Tennant family, and part of the pedigree of 
 that family is given in the same M.S.S. It probably formed 
 part of the window erected in the church in the year 1518, 
 which bore the inscription : 
 
 &0H0 stain fjfo&arM &BH*ai *t $g:arpr.ete xxotiz 
 t\m fce igrkga gwtmxtans isiius tttltm tt filiamm filiarowijH* 
 je0nim qni istam fmtatram fieri fecmmt ^.8* vattttt 0mm0 0jcia&0, 
 tt *M0 ttia Pmri 0jciafri 0at avtttwwxi 0ria&0." 
 
 From a manuscript dated 1620 we find the east win- 
 dow of Giggleswick church was at that time ornamented with 
 five figures " having shaven crowns and habited in blue 
 coats," and this, taken in connection with the fact of the 
 emblazoned coat of arms just mentioned, makes it seem 
 probable that many of the windows of the church were for- 
 merly filled with stained glass. 
 
 In the view I give showing the general interior of 
 the church some faint idea may be gathered of the unspeak- 
 able ugliness of the galleries. Just over the font is a large 
 pew, ornamented with staves, which is sacred to the church- 
 wardens. Behind that is the gallery where the singers hold 
 forth and this is flanked on each side by galleries, con 
 sisting of Faculty pews. But for the fact that they are 
 Faculty pews these hideous erections would probably have 
 been removed ere this, but we can only live and hope. Some 
 few years since an attempt was made to get them removed,
 
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 COAT OF ARMS FORMERLY IN ONE OF THE WINDOWS 
 OF GIGGLESWICK CHURCH.
 
 and this was nearly successful, but the efforts of the promo- 
 ters were frustrated by the firmness of a good old lady called 
 Miss Lund, who declared that if any attempt was made to 
 remove the gallery in which she sat, she would take her seat 
 in her pew, and let them pull her down along with the gallery. 
 The post of honour in the singing gallery is now occupied by 
 a small but sweet organ. Before that a harmonium did duty 
 here, and again prior to that a bass fiddle discoursed sweet 
 sounds. Some people have the bad taste to think that the 
 bass fiddle was by no means the worst of the lot. The con- 
 gregation of Giggleswick church have rather a curious habit 
 of turning round to the west during the singing of the hymns, 
 so as to face the choir. The windows of the church are all 
 leaded and it is curious to note that where a pane has been 
 cracked it has been carefully repaired by putting a strip of 
 lead along the fracture. The clerestory windows are worthy 
 a passing glance. A great portion of the church is under- 
 mined with vaults. For sanitary reasons these have all been 
 carefully cemented up. 
 
 Amongst the plate of Giggleswick church are three 
 old chalices. Two of them bear the inscription " Giggles- 
 wick Communion Cup, 1731," but one of these has the Hall 
 mark for 1652. The third chalice has the following inscrip- 
 tion engraved round the rim of the bowl : 
 
 -|- THE COMMVNION CVPP BELONGINGE TO ' THE 
 PARISHE OF IYGGELSWICKE MADE IN ANO 1585. 
 
 The spelling " lyggelswicke " is very curious. I can 
 only hazard the conjecture that the I stands for J, so that 
 the word would read " Jyggleswicke." 
 
 The services of the church are free from the least 
 trace of Ritualism, but for my taste there is too much clerk 
 and too little congregation audible, but as a rule the small 
 number of the " Flock " accounts for the small noise they 
 make. Except on Easter Sunday, when the volunteers attend 
 church, a full congregation is rarely seen, and on this one 
 occasion in the year they are not an unmixed blessing.
 
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 The mention of the volunteers reminds me that on 
 the occasion of the funeral of one of their members, many 
 years since, the firing party delivered a volley inside the church. 
 
 It is rather interesting to note the opinion of a 
 stranger respecting the service at Giggleswick Church, so I 
 extract the following from the " Reminiscences" of J. Burkill, 
 whose very stupid book has had such a (deservedly) small 
 circulation in this neighbourhood that it will probably be 
 fresh to most of my readers : 
 
 " And what a study were those old musicians in the gallery (assum- 
 ing to sing in parts) . Their music (?) would have passed muster BEFORE 
 "TUNES CAME UP." It would have afforded a splendid study for Thos. 
 Faed, R.A. The Vicar was a rosy-faced man of middle-age, and in 
 splendid condition. With a fine voice, which was well modulated, and a 
 perfect pronunciation, every word he uttered could be heard distinctly in 
 every part of the church. It was both solemn and impressive. I won- 
 dered if he were a Justice of the Peace as well as Vicar and a Reverend 
 Father in God. If he were not, I thought he ought to have been, and then 
 Shakespeare's lines would have been " tres apropos " : 
 
 " Then the Justice, with fair round belly 
 " With fat-capon lined " 
 
 The late Charles Mathews was the model of volubility in ". Patter 
 versus Clatter," but his Reverence at Giggleswick would " beat him into 
 fits." The rapid manner in which he hurried some of the Prayers suggest- 
 ed the idea that turkey and plum-pudding at the vicarage were ordered at 
 a given time, and that he was " making-running " to be in at the feast. Such 
 were my irreverent ruminations. The sermon which followed was fully 
 fifteen minutes long by the parish clock, and the congregation were dis- 
 missed by noon, to go to their homes, and to feast upon the " bread that 
 perisheth." I have no hesitation in pronouncing this church and service as 
 one of the Natural " Curiosities of Craven." 
 
 In concluding this part of my notes on Giggleswick 
 church, may I, as an attendant at that church, express a 
 hope that the time is not far distant when the building shall 
 be restored and the abuses that at present exist shall be put 
 an end to. In regard to the first point the galleries ought to 
 be cleared away entirely, the roof raised to its former pitch, 
 the east window restored, another form of heating apparatus 
 in place of the present one, the lime and whitewash removed 
 from the walls in the interior, and the height of the pews 
 lowered. I fancy the nucleus of a fund for such work is al- 
 ready in existence. Will not some well-wisher of the old 
 church take the matter in hand ?
 
 REPRINT 
 
 POEMS 
 
 ON THE 
 
 MEETING OF VOLUNTEERS AT SETTLE, 
 
 I N -1794, 
 
 AND ON 
 
 LORD NELSON'S VICTORY, 
 
 IN 1798, 
 
 I D D .
 
 STACKHOUSE, 
 
 NEAR SETTLE, 
 
 SEPTEMBER, 1885. 
 
 One of the scarcest of Local Works, and one that 
 is known to but few of the present generation, is a little 
 pamphlet by R. Kidd, formerly Assistant Master at 
 Giggleswick School. This consists of two poems, the 
 first being inspired by a meeting at Settle, in 1794, of 
 some of the Yorkshire Yeomanry Volunteers who were 
 enrolled in considerable numbers during the war panics 
 at the end of the last century; the other being in com- 
 memoration of Lord Nelson's Victory of the 2nd August, 
 1798. 
 
 I have thought fit to reprint these poems, firstly, 
 on account of their rarity ; secondly, because the author 
 was a local man ; thirdly, because one of them relates to 
 a matter of considerable local interest ; and fourthly, 
 because the poems themselves are so unlike anything else 
 that ever has been, or in all probability ever will be 
 written, that on this account I think them worthy of 
 being reproduced and preserved. I have retained the 
 errors in spelling as in the original. 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW.
 
 Twelve large and one hundred small paper copies printed 
 for private circulation.
 
 A POEM 
 
 ON THE 
 
 MEETING OF THE GENTLEMEN 
 
 YORKSHIRE C VOLUNTEERS, 
 
 AT SETTLE, IN CRAVEN, 
 2ist August, 1794. 
 
 BY R. KID I). 
 
 Late Writing Master, and Teacher of the Mathematics, at the Free Grammar 
 School, of Giggle swick , near Settle, now Land Surveyor. 
 
 SETTLE : 
 
 PRINTED AND SOLD [FOR THE AUTHOR] BY T. TROUGHTON, MAY BE 
 
 HAD OF W. BAYNES, 55, PATER NOSTER ROW, 
 
 LONDON.
 
 PEEFACE. 
 
 T T 7HENEVER an Author submits his Works to Public 
 inspection, an invidious Critic will stigmatise every 
 imperfection with malevolence, and reject Beauties highly 
 meritorious. Others again, actuated by a greater generosity 
 in Criticism, will more impartially comment upon Faults, and 
 m some measure approve of real Elegancies. 
 
 Regardless however, of such enmity ; these Poems are 
 humbly dedicated to gentlemen, as liberal in their sentiments, 
 as they are patriotic in their services to the State ; who I am 
 persuaded will candidly read this work, and censure as it 
 deserves. I am far from supposing that it is altogether irrep- 
 rehensible, a Task to which I am by no means adequate : 
 But as noble Actions in all ages have been the themes of 
 Poetry, I was sensible the Subjects of the following verses, 
 were deserving of celebration ; for which reason, I have en- 
 deavoured to effect that, tho' I may have failed in the attempt, 
 yet it detracts nothing from the intention of promoting valour: 
 At least it may incite some abler pen to resume the subject, 
 and to extol magnanimity of Spirit in more copious strains.
 
 GENTLEMEN, 
 
 THAT YOU MAY INVIOLABLY MAINTAIN A FIRM 
 ATTACHMENT TO THE KING'S MOST 
 
 ROYAL PERSON, 
 AN UNSHAKEN FIRMNESS TO THE BRITISH 
 
 CONSTITUTION, 
 
 AN UNRIVALLED FORTITUDE IN THE 
 PROTECTION OF THE PUBLIC WELFARE, 
 
 
 
 AN UNITED RESOLUTION IN 
 
 REPELLING FOREIGN INVASION, AND 
 
 REPRESSING INTERNAL COMMOTIONS; AND 
 
 IN SHORT, 
 
 AN HEROIC PERSEVERANCE, IN THIS 
 YOUR GLORIOUS CAUSE, 
 
 IS THE SINCERE PRAYER 
 
 OF HIM, 
 
 WHO HAS THE HONOUR 
 TO SUBSCRIBE HIMSELF, 
 
 GENTLEMEN, 
 YOUR MUCH OBLIGED, 
 MOST OBEDIENT, 
 AND VERY HUMBLE SERVANT, 
 
 ROBERT KIDD.
 
 THE YORKSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 A NOBLE Subject now demands my Lays, 
 Ye Volunteers ! I'll sing your worthy Praise ; 
 Oh ! could my Muse do Justice to your Name, 
 Enroll'd in Lists of never-ending Fame ; 
 Oh ! would Minerva round my Brow entwine, 
 And could my Numbers equal my Design ; 
 I'd cull Expressions in Miltonian Strain, 
 And Pope's sweet flowing Verse I'd strive to gain : 
 But ah ! my Muse in vain attempts to rise, 
 Creeps low on Earth, nor mounts the lofty Skies ; 
 I feel myself unequal to my Theme, 
 Tho Genius flags accept my best Esteem ; 
 I know your Prudence (for a gen'rous Mind, 
 Spurns at Contempt, when the Intent is kind ;) 
 Will substitute the Wish, instead of Deed, 
 Mistakes forgive, while you with Candor read. 
 
 Ye Yorkshire Gents ! ye gallant Volunteers ! 
 You stand distinguished you have no Compeers ! 
 You are Free-oft'rings at Emergence' Voice, 
 You're led by Honour, and you act by Choice : 
 You have just Motives ; may you gain your Ends, 
 Preserve yourselves, your Country and your Friends : 
 What conscious Pleasure must elate your Breast, 
 To quell Sedition, make your Kingdom blest ; 
 T' extirpate Anarchs from a happy State, 
 To make them tremble with impending Fate ;
 
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 To stem the Torrent of Confusions Tide, 
 And dire Effects of Democratic Pride ; 
 To quash the Tumults, Riots, Mobs and Rage, 
 And disaffection of the present Age. 
 
 All hail ye Gents ! all hail this festive Day, 
 Success attend it, with propitious Ray ; 
 May loyal Meetings your Importance spread, 
 You guard the Nation, and the King's your Head : 
 May Glory's Splendor with enliv'ning Beam, 
 Illume your Steps nor Shadows intervene ; 
 May Emulation in the high'st Degree, 
 Excite your Souls to Intrepidity ; 
 You are selected in one common Cause, 
 A Corps of Strength, a Standard of the Laws : 
 By Virtue's Buckler may you shield this Land, 
 Truth in your Heart, and Mercy in your Hand ; 
 But if Protection should stern Justice call, 
 Unsheath the Sword and make the Rebel fall : 
 Let every Traitor of seditious Breath, 
 Be scourg'd with Rods, and let his Stripes be Death : 
 Keep stubborn Villains in profoundest Awe, 
 By British Pow'r, by British Arms and Law : 
 A Soldier's Merit, is a Soldier's Due, 
 And who is greater than a Soldier true ? 
 Who serves his Country in contentious Days, 
 Shall wear the Garland of his Country's Praise ; 
 Shall wear an Emblem of deserv'd Renown, 
 A deathless Laurel, an immortal Crown. 
 
 Permit me Gents, a Question here to ask, 
 I'll give the Answer, and save you the Task : 
 What is't that prompts your valliant Souls to move ? 
 'Tis manly Courage and your Country's Love ; 
 'Tis not Ambition, that's an empty Name, 
 Which sinks degraded in the Lists of Fame ; 
 'Tis genuine Merit of intrinsic Kind, 
 Much better felt, than by a Pen defin'd ; 
 Let your own Hearts the brave Emotions know, 
 Unaw'd by Fear, and uncompell'd by Law ; 
 You're Volunteers, and Volunteers I sing, 
 The Country's Bulwark, Chieftains to your King. 
 But should you e'er be call'd to Action's Field, 
 The Cause itself will Satisfaction yield ;
 
 II 
 
 And should you not, the Exercise alone, 
 
 Will pay the Labour, and the Costs attone : 
 
 Be't as it may 'tis politic and just, 
 
 To've Corps defensive, of undoubted Trust ; 
 
 To've Force internal, able to repel, 
 
 Invasive Foes, and all their efforts quell ; 
 
 To crush Rebellion in the very Bud, 
 
 To save your own, but spill the Rebel's Blood. 
 
 When Danger threatens, it's discreet to guard, 
 And be equipt impending Blows to ward ; 
 The Object's glorious, and the Means are grand, 
 Gents deckt in Arms to save their native Land ; 
 Not by Compulsion, not for Love of Gain, 
 You're Volunteers, and Volunteers of Fame ! 
 Whose Bosoms glow, with patriotic Zeal, 
 With public Spirit and with public Weal ; 
 The Work is noble, and the Call is great, 
 'Tis Constitution, Country, King and State ; 
 Religion, Honour, Fortune, Wealth and Peace, 
 Call for Protection and for Health's Increase ; 
 Whatever's dear, demands a saving Hand, 
 When fierce Invaders circumscribe a Land ; 
 When dearest Relatives implore their Lives, 
 Our social Friends, our Daughters, Sons and Wives. 
 
 Such is your Cause, your Bosoms swell with Rage, 
 When Galls usurp, and bloody Wars engage ; 
 Your hearts untainted Loyalty display, 
 You rise to conquer and you'll win the Day. 
 
 Ye Sons of Mars ! ye most heroic Sons ! 
 Bestride your Steeds, erect your Swords and Guns ; 
 Be clad in martial Armour, cap-a-pie, 
 And all the Terror of a Cavalry ! 
 
 Behold the Horse ! with what tremendious Rush, 
 He plunges headstrong common Foes to crush ; 
 With desp'rate Bounds he makes the Valleys smoke, 
 While Hills adjacent shudder at the Stroke ; 
 He snorts at Danger and he mocks at Fear, 
 He meets hot Balls, the Cannon, Sword, and Spear ; 
 Death, Fire, Destruction, cannot daunt his rage, 
 Nor all the Might that thund'ring Guns can wage ; 
 While Rocks re-echo with the Din of War, 
 While Victor's Herald mounts his fi'ry Car ;
 
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 Proclaims aloud with strong stentorian Voice, 
 These are the Gents who serve their King by Choice. 
 
 With all this Horror, this majestic Dread, 
 Ye mighty Chiefs ! by Honour still be led ; 
 Go meet the French (by well-disciplin'd Law,) 
 Let them once feel a British Lion's Paw : 
 Go Volunteers ! make but one bold Advance, 
 Down fall Convention, and the Hosts of France : 
 Shall a Banditti (void of King or Law,) 
 Bring royal Subjects into slavish Awe ? 
 Forbid it Heav'ns, forbid it British Tars, 
 Ye Howes and Hoods and Volunteers of Wars ; 
 Ye martial Davids now your Armour Try, 
 Let proud Monsieurs in vanquish'd Numbers lie ; 
 Let them confess, Old England's Pow'r and Might, 
 With all the Honours of a trophi'd Fight ; 
 Let them confess, Britannia rules the Main, 
 And George the third, sole Monarch of the Plain ; 
 Now let each Subject, give a cordial Cheer, 
 GOD save the King GOD save the Volunteer.
 
 A POEM 
 
 GLORIOUS VICTORY 
 
 Obtained on the first and second of August, 1798. 
 BY REAR ADMIRAL 
 
 SIR HORATIO NELSON, K. B. 
 
 BY R. KIDD. 
 
 Late Writing Master, and Teacher of the Mathematics, at the Free Grammar 
 School, of Giggleswick, near Settle, now Land Surveyor. 
 
 SETTLE : 
 
 PRINTED AND SOLD [FOR THE AUTHOR] BY T. TROUGHTON, MAY BE 
 HAD OF W. BAYNES, 55, PATER NOSTER ROW, 
 
 LONDON.
 
 ' I "'HE generality of Mankind have a constant propnesity 
 to hearken to variety ; for which reason I have ven- 
 tured to make an Innovation from the common Mode of 
 prefatory Introduction. 
 
 If the following Dedication should be so fortunate as 
 to give any Satisfaction to the Public, and particularly to 
 those Ladies and Gentlemen who have favoured me with 
 their Subscriptions, there will be a mutual Gratification be- 
 tween the Perusers, and him who subscribes himself, with all 
 due Deference and Respect, the Public's most devoted humble 
 
 Servant. 
 
 R. KIDD.
 
 DEDICATION. 
 
 WITH profoundest Veneration, 
 For the British Legislation ; 
 The present Administration, 
 And each sound Denomination ; 
 From the Head of Coranation, 
 To the lowest Situation ; 
 I submit this Publication, 
 To their candid Approbation. 
 
 May the brave English Nation, 
 In mature Delibration ; 
 And Sapient Consultation, 
 With the noblest Animation ; 
 And intrepid Co-operation, 
 In one firm Consolidation : 
 Put a total Extirpation, 
 To seditious Combination ; 
 And rebellious Inflammation, 
 Through terraqueous Creation. 
 
 That no desperate Invasion, 
 That no foreign Conspiration ; 
 By illegal Violation, 
 Tyrannical Usurpation ; 
 Imperious Depredation, 
 Perfidious Machination ; 
 Most dreadful Depopulation, 
 Base horrid Strangulation ; 
 Non-descript Assassination, 
 Satanic Annihilation ; 
 May e'er find Perambulation, 
 Through Britannia's Habitation ; 
 Is the humble Supplication, 
 Most constant Solicitation ; 
 And the fervent Deprecation, 
 Of my daily Meditation.
 
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 Let men of ev'ry Persuasion, 
 In abject Subordination ; 
 With sincere Humiliation, 
 And devoutest Preparation ; 
 Christian-like Resignation, 
 And divinest Adoration ; 
 With a bodily Prostration, 
 But the Spirit's Exaltation ; 
 In the public Congregation, 
 And in private Ejaculation ; 
 With incessant Application, 
 And a pious Aspiration ; 
 A most ardent Cogitation, 
 Beatific Inspiration ; 
 The Heart's Examination, 
 With Seraphic Consolation ; 
 To our Lord's glorification ; 
 And the Truth's Manifestation ; 
 Pray for the War's Termination, 
 The bold Warriors Salvation ; 
 The poor Widow's Sustentation, 
 The Orphan's Accommodation ; 
 The Infidel's Illumination, 
 For the Gospel's Propagation ; 
 The whole world's Preservation, 
 And a lasting Pacification.
 
 NELSON'S VICTORY 
 
 A POEM. 
 
 WAR seems a Curse to sympathizing Breasts, 
 And cut-throat Villains seem infernal Pests ; 
 It strikes with Horror every Heart humane, 
 That human Blood should human Species stain ; 
 That savage Man should Mankind make his Prey, 
 Destroy whole Nations, and vast Armies slay ; 
 In one hot Battle most remorseless sweep, 
 A Group of Vessels to the briny Deep ; 
 Ten thousand Spirits at one dire Behest, 
 Send to the regions of eternal Rest ; 
 This seems ferocious, dreadful, cruel, base, 
 To make such Havock 'mongst the living Race ; 
 But far from blaming the Decrees of Fate, 
 All's for the best in this uncertain State ; 
 The Ways of Heaven (tho' now conceal'd in Night,) 
 Are strictly just, and consequently right ; 
 But Man's short sighted, has a narrow View, 
 He seeks for Truth, not finding what is true ; 
 And Hist'ries read, both sacred and prophane, 
 Evince War was and is and may remain ; 
 It therefore follows, let us rest content, 
 With what is fix'd and what we can't prevent ; 
 But what's the Cause ? (the Querist here may ask) 
 I answer, Sir, too hard for me's the Task ; 
 Whate'er's the Cause, th' Effect we plainly see, 
 Is Devastation and Calamity ; 
 Hush ! Causes and Effects are not my Theme, 
 My Muse displays a most victorious Scene ; 
 I sing brave Nelson in this humble Page, 
 The greatest Warrior of the present Age ; 
 The bravest Seaman Neptune e'er could boast, 
 In trackless Ocean, or extended Coast ;
 
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 Behold the Hero of great Egypt's Nile ! 
 
 The Scourge of France, the Glory of this Isle ; 
 
 Let every Briton celebrate his Fame, 
 
 Extol his Merit and revere his Name ; 
 
 Proud Europe's Quarter of the spacious World, 
 
 Without his Aid had been in Ruin hurl'd ; 
 
 Intrepid Valour doth his Soul inspire, 
 
 His naval Conquests ev'ry Seaman fire ; 
 
 By vast Exertions, see, th' advent'rous Man, 
 
 Begin, continue, and complete his Plan ; 
 
 Superior Stations, Numbers, Guns and Might, 
 
 Confess his Prowess, turn to shameful Flight 
 
 To naval Tactics, (that admired Art,) 
 
 Pie dedicates his Head, his Hand, his Heart ; 
 
 No human Efforts can his Courage stain, 
 
 He fights through Bloodshed, and through Wrecks of slain ; 
 
 Thro' roaring Oceans midst tremendous Balls ; 
 
 Where Groans re-echo, and a Squadron falls ; 
 
 Where bolts of Thunder are incessant hurl'd. 
 
 Where dire Destruction sinks the Gallic World 
 
 The Sea enrag'd, with open Jaws of Death, 
 
 Unglutted gapes, and stops the En'mies' breath ; 
 
 They're swept unpitied to the briny Urn, 
 
 (France feels the Shock, and all her Tyrants mourn ;) 
 
 Where Foes, sworn Foes, and baneful Rancour cease, 
 
 Where e'en Banditti sleep in lasting Peace ; 
 
 Where Heroes perish, and where Cowards lie, 
 
 Where Wars shall cease where jarring Contests die. 
 
 Who could subdue these Plagues and Pests of Mars, 
 But gallant Nelson and his British Tars ? 
 No earthly Pow'r can such brave Vet'rans stand, 
 They rule the World by their all-conquering Hand ; 
 And future Ages shall with Pleasure tell, 
 How Nelson fought ! how Frenchmen fled and fell. 
 
 Now Baron Nelson, wears the Victor's bays, 
 And every Tongue shouts joyful Cheers of Praise ; 
 To save his Country to preserve his Land, 
 He swam in blood, and lost his martial Hand. 
 He's full of Bruises, Sutures, Wounds and Scars, 
 The honour'd Emblems of Britannia's Wars ; 
 No prox'y'd Coward, he fronts the Battles' Fire, 
 He'll sink, or swim, he'll conquer, or expire :
 
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 A Man so great, so brave, so bold, so true, 
 Demands our Praise and public Thanks are due ; 
 Here Language fails in panegyric Verse, 
 His matchless Deeds in Numbers to rehearse ; 
 Here Genius fails and Words I cannot raise, 
 In ample Terms to equalize his Praise ; 
 Live Nelson live, an Honour to thy Cause, 
 A firm Protector of our Lives and Laws ; 
 Thy grand Achievements fill the World with Fame, 
 Resound thy Worth immortalize thy Name ! 
 In just Return for Battles fought and won, 
 Our gracious King rewards this gallant Son ; 
 Rewards his Offspring with Escutcheons grand 
 The royal Favor of his sovereign Hand : 
 Brave Nelson's Ensign, Coat of Arms shall be, 
 An A rgent Chief, thereon the Waves of Sea ; 
 From which a Palm Tree shall appear in Sight, 
 Between a Ship disabled on the right ; 
 And on the left a ruin'd Batfry be, 
 All proper plac'd by Laws of Heraldry ; 
 Then for his Crest, on Naval Crown shall stand, 
 The Plume of Triumph, from the SIGNIOR'S Hand ; 
 While this grand MOTTO shall his Name preserve, 
 " Let him wear PALMS who doth the PALM deserve," 
 Supporters true, a Sailor on the right, 
 And on the left a Lion fill'd with Might ; 
 A palm Branch fix'd in the Sailor's Hand, 
 PL palm Branch in the Lion's Paw shall stand ; 
 A Flag tri-colour'd and a Staff shall be, 
 Plac'd in the Lion's Mouth with Dignity : 
 Thus Baron Nelson and his Sons shall shine, 
 In Herald's Office to the End of Time ; 
 And in Addition to the Stile of PEER, 
 A Pension neat Three Thousand Pounds a Year : 
 That Merit, still, should meet a Recompence, 
 Is moral Justice and is common Sense : 
 Long may he live the Seaman's noble Toast, 
 Old ENGLAND'S Chief the British gallant Boast ; 
 Long may his Name the World's Expanse pervade, 
 Our great Deliv'rer Safeguard of our Trade : 
 Long may he see his Country, Friends, and Wealth, 
 Enjoy his Sons, his honour, Peace and Health ;
 
 22 
 
 Long may he soar as high as Fame can rise, 
 Beneath the Verge of pure celestial Skies ; 
 So far as mortal Worth can shine and blaze, 
 So far may Nelson have the public Praise ; 
 Nay, what is more, may he contented live, 
 Enjoy each Blessing that this World can give ; 
 And when he quits this Scene of War and Strife, 
 Enjoy a Crown enjoy eternal Life : 
 Remov'd from Egypt's coast, to Canaan's Shore, 
 And reign in peaceful Bliss for evermore.
 
 SETTLE. 
 
 Mrs. Williams 
 
 Mr. Peart 
 
 ,, Harger 
 
 ,, Horner, 2 Copies 
 ,, Fate 
 
 Miss Addison 
 Slinger 
 
 ,, W. Birkbeck, Jr. 
 
 ,, Harrison 
 
 ,, J. Birkbeck, jr. 
 ,, N. Birkbeck 
 
 GIGLESWICK. 
 
 ,, E. Birkbeck 
 
 Revd. N. Wood 
 
 Mrs. W. Birkbeck 
 
 Revd. O. Clayton 
 
 ,, Parker, Marsh Field 
 
 Revd. T. Paley 
 
 Miss A. Birkbeck 
 
 A. Lister, Esq. 2 Copies 
 
 , , Lawson 
 
 Mr. J. Holden 
 
 Mr. Aggs 
 
 A. Taylor 
 
 Moffat 
 
 Shires 
 
 ,, Sutcliff, 2 Copies 
 
 Hardacre 
 
 ,, Hartley 
 
 T. Wilkinson 
 
 , , Salmon 
 
 P. Hargraves 
 
 ,, Carr 
 
 S. Wilkinson 
 
 ,, Hall, Y. W. R. Y. C 
 
 Slinger 
 
 Oldfield 
 
 Mrs. Hargraves 
 
 ,, Redmayne 
 
 Mr. J. Smith 
 
 , , Robinson 
 
 Revd, J. Melissent, M.A. 
 
 ,, Tristram 
 
 Mr. F. Thornton 
 
 ,, Calvert 
 
 J. Kidd 
 
 , , Thorn ber 
 
 Miss E. Paley, Jr. 
 
 , , Overend 
 
 Settle 
 
 ,, Hampston 
 
 Mr. J. Kendal 
 
 ,, Wilman 
 
 J. Steel 
 
 , , Holgate 
 
 Brayshaw 
 
 ,, Windsor 
 
 Waller, W. R. Y. C. 
 
 Ellison 
 
 F. Bolland 
 
 ,, Hunter 
 
 Howson 
 
 Dale 
 
 Kirkley, W. R. Y. C. 
 
 ,, Waddington 
 
 Brennand 
 
 Dodds 
 
 Hutton 
 
 ,, Duckit 
 
 Miss E. Barrow 
 
 ,, Preston 
 
 Mr. I. Gifford 
 
 ,, Wilson 
 
 J. Foster, Esq. 3 Copies 
 
 ,, Halpike 
 ,, Whittam 
 
 STACKHOUSE. 
 
 , , Greenwood 
 
 Mr. Carr. 2 Copies 
 
 ,, Hardacre 
 
 ,, J. Carr 
 
 Mrs. Foster 
 
 ,, Lund
 
 LANGCLIFFE. 
 
 Mr. Mitton 
 
 Mr. Clayton, 2 Copies 
 ,, I. Wolfenden 
 ,, J. Wolfenden 
 
 Morphet 
 Miss Foster 
 Mr. Redmayne 
 Burton 
 
 T. Paley, Esq. 
 
 Baxter 
 
 Capt. G. Paley 
 Mrs. Starkie 
 
 ,, Jackson 
 ,, T. Carr 
 
 Mr. J. Slater 
 W. Slater 
 
 Miss Mallison, Hornby 
 J. Marsden, Esq. 
 
 STAINFORTH. 
 
 G. Wright, Esq. 
 
 Mr. J. Bradley 
 
 Mrs. Wright 
 Mr. Proctor 
 
 ,, Jackman 
 
 Cook 
 
 Winder 
 
 ,, Wilson 
 
 Walker 
 
 ,, Thompson 
 
 ,, Foster 
 
 ,, Kilshaw 
 
 Miss Foster 
 
 Townson 
 
 ,, E. Preston 
 
 ,, Wildman 
 
 Mr. Brown 
 
 Williamson 
 
 Pearson 
 
 ,, Wright 
 
 ,, Minto 
 
 ,, Marshal 
 
 Miss Stackhouse 
 Mr. Stackhouse 
 
 Lay field 
 Miss Coulston 
 
 ,, Iveson 
 
 , , Lambert 
 
 Hey 
 ,, Bickerstaff 
 
 ,, Clapham 
 Mr. Robinson 
 
 Scott 
 
 , , Abbotson 
 
 ,, Bateson 
 
 Rutherford 
 
 HORTON. 
 
 Kirkham 
 
 
 ,, Warbrick 
 
 Revd. G. Holden, L.L.D. 
 
 Coultherd 
 
 Mr. Hesleden 
 
 ,, Kitson 
 
 Howson 
 
 Miss Bracken 
 
 ,, Jackson 
 Metcalfe 
 
 Mr. Sawrey 
 Revd. J. Worswick 
 
 Wilson 
 
 Revd. M. R. Hall 
 
 Miss Moor 
 
 Miss Croft 
 
 E. Moor 
 
 Mr. Foster 
 
 Mr. Carr 
 
 
 Bolland 
 
 LANCASTER. 
 
 ,, Germain 
 
 
 Miss Wilson 
 
 Mr. Charnley 
 
 Mr. Proctor 
 
 Revd. I. Widdilt 
 
 Mrs. Metcalfe 
 
 Mr. J. Atkinson 
 
 Mr. Shepherd 
 T. Shepherd 
 Green 
 Miss Lister 
 
 R. Bagott 
 Revd. R. Bowstead 
 J. Moore, Esq. Mayor 
 Revd. J. Rowley 
 
 Mr. Lister 
 
 Mr. Rolinson 
 
 ,, Germain 
 
 ,, W. Swainson 
 
 Germain 
 
 ,, A. Shepherd
 
 fe 
 
 k 
 
 Mr. T. Addison 
 
 f. Addison, Sr. 
 ?. Burrow 
 H. Walmsley 
 P. Bell 
 B. Dawson 
 W. Dalrimple 
 J. Fearenside 
 Capt. T. Kidd 
 Mr. W. Kitson 
 G. Little 
 
 Mashiter, 2 Copies 
 
 Overend 
 I. Swainson 
 H. Walker 
 W. White 
 Miss Williams 
 Mr. T. Welsh, Jr. 
 T. Woods 
 Dowbiggin 
 ,, Baldwin 
 J. Bradshaw, Esq. 
 
 ULVERSTON. 
 
 Mr. Burton, 2 Copies 
 
 Thompson 
 
 W. Jackson 
 
 Witterage 
 
 Butcher 
 
 Sands 
 
 Ingleby 
 
 Yarker, Esq. 3 Copies 
 Mr. Dickinson 
 J. Harrison, Esq. 
 Revd. J. Burns 
 Mr. R. Parker 
 
 GARTMEL. 
 
 Mr. W. Field 
 R. Buttle 
 
 ,, E. Barrow, Alithwaite 
 ,, Toulmin, Flookburgh 
 ,, Bryers, Ditto 
 
 ,, J. Butler, Ditto 
 ,, Carter, Carter House 
 Revd. R. Fell, Flookburgh 
 Mr. Gibson, Ditto 
 ,, Galfert, Cark 
 ,, R. Harrison, Ditto 
 
 " J 
 Revd. 
 
 Mr. Jackson, Flookburgh 
 ,, B. Jopson, Ditto 
 ,, T. Kellet, Ditto 
 ,, Raby, Ditto 
 
 J. Troughton, Ditto 
 7 . Bailiff, Ditto 
 Taylor, Ditto 
 
 Revd. Mr. Taylor, Bolton 
 
 Mr. J. Statter, Ditto 
 ,, R. Whitehead, Slyne 
 ,, I. Mosan, Kellet 
 ,, Jenkinson, Bolton 
 
 W. Buyshop, Esq. Ditto 
 
 Mr. Over en 
 
 ,, J. Asquith, W. R. Y C. 
 ,, J. Asquith, Sr. Steeton 
 ,, J. Asquith, Jr. Ditto 
 ,, J. Hartley 
 ,, J. Meeber 
 ,, Mount 
 
 ,, Wilkinson, Winterburn 
 ,, Preston, Hanleth 
 ,, Tattersall, Blackburn 
 ,, Dixon, Sutton 
 ,, Preston, Hanleth 
 ,, Wrathall, W. R. Y. C. 
 ,, J. Hartley, Settle 
 ,, Preston, Paley Green 
 ,, Wilkinson, Otley 
 
 Redmayne, Blackburn 
 Ellershaw, Tunstall 
 H. Wood, Gildersleets 
 W. F. Paley, Leeds 
 J. Holdsworth 
 
 Miss Waddilove, Rilston 
 ,, Howson, Studneld 
 ,, French, Ditto 
 ,, Morphet, Ditto 
 
 Mrs. Brown 
 ,, Rimington, Scosthorp 
 
 Miss Preston, Ditto 
 
 Mr. R. Brown, Thornton 
 ,, W. Cookson, Holy Plat 
 ,, J. Wilson, Ditto 
 ,, J. Faraday, Ditto 
 ,, C. Wilson, Ditto 
 ,, A. Thompson, Ditto 
 ,, C. Johnson, Ditto 
 ,, J. Redmayne, Ditto 
 
 The above Subscribers are inserted, simply as they came to hand, upwards of 
 1000 more we acknowledge, which our Limits prevent Inserting.
 
 taliammteg (KItrtors 
 
 A.D. 1708 - 1849. 
 
 COMPILED BY THOS. BRAYSHAW.
 
 STACKHOUSE, 
 
 NEAR SETTLE, 
 
 July, 1886. 
 
 Just now political matters occupy a large share of 
 our time and attention, and for this reason I thought 
 that lists of the voters in the various Townships com- 
 prising the ancient Parish of Giggleswick, shewing which 
 candidates they supported, might be of some little 
 interest. I therefore give lists of the electors in this 
 parish at those contests which have taken place in the 
 last and present centuries, up to the time of the Ballot 
 Act coming into force, for which I can find the Poll- 
 Books. 
 
 It is, of course, impossible to say for what candi- 
 dates the " free and independent " electors have cast 
 their suffrages since the method of voting was changed. 
 
 I am indebted to the Rev. CANON RAINE, of York, 
 for courteously supplying me with the list for 1708, the 
 M.S.S. Poll-Book for that election being in his possession. 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW.
 
 Twelve large and one hundred small paper copies printed 
 for private circulation.
 
 VOTERS IN THE PARISH OF GIGGLESWICK. 
 
 At the commencement of the eighteenth century the 
 County of York was an undivided constituency, being repre- 
 sented in the Imperial Parliament by two Knights of the 
 Shire. 
 
 The first contested election for the County during that 
 Century was in 1705, Sir John Kaye, the Marquis of Har- 
 tington, and Thomas Wentworth being the candidates. Mr. 
 Wentworth, however, finding his candidature hopeless ,with- 
 drew from the contest. 
 
 In 1708 another contested election took place, the can- 
 didates being Lord Viscount Downe, Sir William Strickland, 
 Bart., Colonel D'Arcy, Sir Arthur Kaye, Bart., and Mr. 
 Wentworth. 
 
 After a contest lasting four days, the result of the poll 
 was that Viscount Downe and Sir W. Strickland were elected. 
 The numbers polled were 
 
 DOWNE ... ... .. ... 4737 
 
 STRICKLAND ... ... ... 345 2 
 
 D'ARCY ... ... ... ... 3257 
 
 KAYE 3139 
 
 W r ENTWORTH ... ... ... 958 
 
 The following list shews who were the electors from 
 this Parish who journeyed to York on this occasion, and 
 how they voted.
 
 SETTLE. 
 
 Bolland, Leonard 
 Baley, Thos. ... 
 Carr, Thos. 
 Richardson, Miles 
 Rawson, Peter... 
 Wainwright. Joseph 
 
 GIGGLESWICK. 
 
 Ellershaw, Richard 
 Gill, Henry 
 Lawson, Thos.... 
 Wetherell, Mathias 
 Whitehead William 
 
 RATHMELL. 
 Naylor, Anthony 
 LANGCLIFFE. 
 
 Clarke, Joseph ... 
 Lawson, Richard 
 Richardson, John 
 
 STAINFORTH. 
 
 Benson, John ... 
 Ellis, John 
 Elwick, John, Gent. 
 
 Kelham, Thos 
 
 Mallison, John... 
 Newsom, Robert 
 Pashley, Geo. ... 
 Rogers, John ... 
 Reeder, Robert 
 
 The next contested election for the County was in 1727, 
 on the occasion of the death of Sir Arthur Kaye. The result 
 was that Mr. Cholmondeley Turner defeated Sir John Kaye. 
 
 In 1734 Sir Miles Stapylton and Mr. Cholmondeley 
 Turner were the successful, and Sir Rowland Winn and the 
 Hon. Ed. Wortley Montague the unsuccessful candidates, 
 the poll at this election lasting six days.
 
 Of these two last elections I am sorry to say I cannot 
 succeed in finding any copies of the Poll-Book. 
 
 In the year 1740 Sir Miles Stapylton and Lord Morpeth 
 were returned without opposition. In consequence of the 
 death of Lord Morpeth a contested election took place in 
 December, 1741, the candidates being Cholmondeley Turner, 
 Esq., and George Fox, Esq. The poll was open eight days, 
 and the result was as follows 
 
 CHOLMONDELEY TURNER ... ... 8003 
 
 GEORGE Fox ... ... ... 6949 
 
 The polling took place at York, and the Freeholders 
 of this Parish who exercised their electoral privileges on 
 that occasion were the following 
 
 Supporters of Mr. Fox, with their places of Freehold 
 
 GlGGLESWICK. 
 
 Holland, Robert, Bolton 
 Carr, Richard, Rathmell 
 Clapham, Thomas, Horton-in-Rib- 
 
 blesdale 
 
 Morley, (osias, Rathmell 
 Taylor, William 
 Rawson* Tho. 
 Warkinson, Mathew, Langcliff and 
 
 Rathmell 
 
 Banks, William, Rathmell 
 Knowles, Mathew, Malham Moor 
 
 KNIGHT STAINFORTH. 
 
 Armistead, John 
 Hargrave, John 
 
 LODGE, BY SETTLE. 
 
 Greenbank, John, Dent 
 Armistead, Roger 
 
 RATHMELL. 
 
 Atkinson, Robert 
 Brown, John 
 Clarke, Thomas 
 Dobson, Robert 
 Dugdale, John 
 Houghton, John 
 Jackson, Thomas 
 Knowles, Richard 
 
 Settle, John 
 Settle, Thomas 
 
 SETTLE. 
 
 Armistead, James 
 
 Armistead, Robert 
 
 Carr, Allen 
 
 Carr, Robert 
 
 Clapham, Christo., Horton-in-Rib- 
 
 blesdale 
 Dale, William 
 Hall, Hugh 
 
 Hall, John, Little Settle 
 Hall, William 
 Hammond, Edmond, Helwick 
 
 Bridge 
 
 Higgins, Christopher, Barnoldswick 
 Maud, Edward 
 Peart, William, Horton 
 Peart, William, sen. 
 Preston, Howard, Dipdale 
 Procter, John, Rathmell 
 Richardson, John 
 Roberts, Robert, Langcliffe 
 Sigsworth, James 
 Town, Henry 
 Twisleton, Thomas 
 Windsor, John 
 
 WINSKILL. 
 Stackhouse, Christo.
 
 Supporters of Mr. Turner with their places of Freehold. 
 GIGGLESWICK. SETTLE. 
 
 Weatherhead, Mathias 
 LANGCLIFFE. 
 
 Andrews, Nathaniel, Barnsley 
 
 Andrews, William 
 
 Vellans, Samuel 
 
 Whittel, Benj., Drax & Longcliffe 
 
 RATHMELL. 
 
 Marley, John 
 Moore, Paul 
 Moor, Samuel 
 North, John 
 Sedgwick, Leonard 
 Todd, Francis, Wakefield 
 Wriggles worth, Tho. 
 
 Binns, John 
 
 Tatham, Robert, Kt. Stainford 
 
 Ward, Roger, North Coates 
 
 STAINFORTH. 
 
 Aaron, Robert 
 Marsden, John, Wath 
 Painthorpe, Richard 
 
 STOCKDALE. 
 Thompson,' ..William 
 
 WlGGLESWORTH. 
 
 Broadley, Richard 
 Leach, John, Tosset 
 Midleborough, Christ., Paythorn 
 Smith, Edward 
 Smith, Stephen 
 Smith William 
 
 This shews that whilst 46 Freeholders of the Parish 
 supported Mr. Fox, only 25 recorded their votes in favor of 
 Mr. Turner. 
 
 From 1741 to 1807 the constituency was not contested, 
 but in the latter year there was fought one of the most cele- 
 brated contests in the history of electioneering, the candidates 
 being William Wilberforce, Esq., Lord Milton, and the Hon. 
 Henry Lascelles, afterwards Earl of Harewood. The real 
 struggle was between Milton, the Whig candidate, and Las- 
 celles, the Tory one, for Wilberforce was an old servant in 
 whose election both parties concurred. The poll was open 
 for fifteen days, the County being in a state of violent 
 agitation the whole time, party spirit was wound up to the 
 highest pitch by the friends of the two noble families, and 
 everything was done that money or personal exertion could 
 accomplish. The result of the poll was as follows 
 
 WILBERFORCE (Tory) 
 MILTON (Whig) 
 
 LASCELLES (Tory) 
 
 11806 
 11177 
 10989
 
 This election is said to have cost the three candidates not 
 less than half a million of money ! A lovely contrast to these 
 days of " Corrupt Practices Acts." The voters from this 
 Parish who polled at York on this occasion were as follows 
 
 SETTLE. 
 Name and Description. Freehold. 
 
 Adamthwaite, William, Clerk, Sedbergh 
 
 Birkbeck, John, Esq. 
 
 Birkbeck, William, Esq. 
 
 Bolland, William, Esq., Kettlewell 
 
 Bowskill, John, Butcher, Langcliffe ... 
 
 Bowskill, William, Yeoman, Langcliffe 
 
 Bowskill, Wm., Whitesmith ... 
 
 Brennand, Robt., Cottonspinner, Gisburn 
 
 Buck, William, Yeoman 
 
 Ellison, James, Farmer 
 
 Houlden, Thomas, Farmer, Gisburn Forest 
 
 Herd James, Husbandman ... 
 
 Harger, Richard, Glazier, Horton 
 
 Holdgate, William, Tallow Chandler ... 
 
 Marsden, Wm., Saddler 
 
 Preston, Richard, Glazier 
 
 Procter, Thomas, Farmer 
 
 Procter, Christopher, Farmer, Merebeck 
 
 Peart, John, Gent. ... 
 
 Parkinson, Edw., Cordwainer 
 
 Ralph, John, Cooper, Langcliffe 
 
 Salmon, Henry, Papermaker, Langcliffe 
 
 Swale, David, Esq., Hebden... 
 
 Town, William, Yeoman, Langcliffe ... 
 
 Tristram, Henry, Gent. 
 
 Thornber, James, Cottonmanufacturer 
 
 Wilson, Thos., Ironmonger ... 
 
 Wilman, John, Yeoman 
 
 GIGGLESWICK. 
 
 Clapham, Wm., Esq. 
 
 Clapham, John, Clerk 
 
 Dawson, Stephen, Farmer, Rathmell ... 
 
 Hardaker, Alexander, Farmer 
 
 Ingram, Rowland, Clerk, North Cave... 
 
 Kidd, John, Cordwainer, Lawkland ... 
 
 Lund, John, Gent., Malham ... 
 
 Lister, Anthony, Esq. 
 
 Maudsley, Thomas, Farmer ...
 
 IO 
 
 GIGGLESWICK (Continued.) 
 
 Name and Description. Freehold. 
 
 Procter, William, Farmer 
 Wood, Henry, Farmer 
 Wildman, Wm., Farmer 
 
 RATHMELL. 
 
 Brown, Anthony, Farmer 
 
 Buck, Thomas, Farmer, Wigglesworth 
 
 Butler, Henry, Farmer 
 
 Clark, Henry, Farmer 
 
 Geldart, John, Gent. 
 
 Geldart, Robert, Farmer 
 
 Knowles, Thomas, Farmer 
 
 Kendall, William, Yeoman 
 
 Tomlinson, John, Weaver 
 
 STAINFORTH. 
 
 Armistead, John, Farmer, Halton Gill... 
 
 Brown, Christopher, Farmer, Langcliffe 
 
 Foster, William, Farmer, Horton 
 
 Hey, Thomas, Farmer 
 
 Stackhouse, Thomas, Farmer, Langcliffe 
 
 Stackhouse, John. Farmer 
 
 Shepherd, Robert, Farmer, Dent 
 
 LANGCLIFFE. 
 
 Hill, Robert, Farmer 
 
 Howson, Francis, Farmer, Horton 
 
 Jackman, Mathew, Slater 
 
 At the elections in 1812, 1818, and 1820, there were no 
 contests, the seats being held by a nominee of each of the 
 two great political parties. 
 
 In 1826, for the first time, four Knights of the Shire were 
 elected at York. Five candidates were nominated, but one 
 of them withdrew previous to the election. As there was no 
 contest the expenses of the four successful candidates (two 
 Whig and two Tory) only amounted to the trifling sum of 
 ^150,000 !
 
 II 
 
 In 1830 the accession of King William IV. caused a 
 general election. The Whig candidates were Lord Morpeth 
 and Henry Brougham (who afterwards became the celebrated 
 Lord Chancellor). The Tory candidates were the Hon. W. 
 Duncombe and Richard Bethell, and a Mr. Stapylton was an 
 independent candidate, proposed by himself. Mr. Broug- 
 ham's seconder on this occasion was Mr. William Birkbeck 
 of Settle. 
 
 The poll was only open two days when it became evi- 
 dent that the contest was a farce, the numbers polled being 
 
 MORPETH ... ... ... ... 1464 
 
 BROUGHAM ... ... ... ... 1295 
 
 DUNCOMBE ... ... ... ... 1123 
 
 BETHELL ... ... ... ... 1064 
 
 STAPYLTON ... ... ... ... 94 
 
 So the High Sheriff peremptorily closed the poll without 
 any objection being raised. 
 
 As no poll-list was issued, I am unable to say how the 
 freeholders of this parish voted on this occasion. 
 
 In November, 1830, Mr. Brougham's elevation to the 
 woolsack caused a vacancy, and a contest commenced be- 
 tween Sir John Johnstone and George Strickland, Esq. At 
 two o'clock, however, Mr. Strickland retired, the state of the 
 poll being 
 
 JOHNSTONE ... ... ... ... 361 
 
 STRICKLAND ... ... ... ... 104 
 
 By the Reform Act of 1832, the representation of the 
 County was divided, two members being allotted to the West 
 Riding. The two Liberal candidates, Lord Morpeth and 
 George Strickland being returned unopposed. 
 
 In May, 1835, Lord Morpeth was appointed Chief Sec- 
 retary for Ireland, which necessitated his seeking re-election.
 
 12 
 
 His seat was contested by the Hon. J. S. Wortley, on behalf 
 of the Conservatives, the result of the poll being 
 
 MORPETH ... ... ... ... 9066 
 
 WORTLEY ... ... ... .. 6259 
 
 The qualified electors of this Parish on this occasion 
 were the following, but it will be seen that some of them did 
 not vote. 
 
 SETTLE. 
 
 Names of Electors. Residence. 
 
 Armistead, Richard, Settle 
 
 Atkinson, Robert, Settle 
 
 Birkbeck, William, Settle 
 
 Birkbeck, Henry, Kiswick Hall, Norfolk 
 
 Birkbeck, John, Anley House ... 
 
 Bilton, William, Settle... 
 
 Bolland, William, Settle 
 
 Bamford, Walker Robert, Sherburn House 
 
 Calvert, William, Settle 
 
 Charnley, Thomas Armistead, Lancaster 
 
 Dawson, Pudsey, Marshfield ... 
 
 Duckett, Charles, Settle 
 
 Ellison, James, jun., Settle 
 
 Hallpike, Vincent, Settle 
 
 Harger, Eli, Settle 
 
 Harger, Joseph, Settle... 
 
 Harger, Robert, Settle... 
 
 Harger, William, Settle 
 Hargreaves, Stephen, Stockdale... 
 Hartley, John, Settle .. 
 Hutchinson, John, Settle 
 Holroyd, John, Giggleswick 
 Ibbotson, Robert, Settle 
 Marsden, William, Settle 
 Moffat, John, Settle ... 
 Nixon, Thomas, Settle... 
 Oldfield, Samuel, Cleatop 
 Parkinson, Edward, Settle 
 Parker, Stephen, Lodge 
 Preston, John, Mearbeck 
 Procter, Richard, Clerk, Laxton 
 Procter, Robert, Mearbeck 
 Procter, Thomas, Settle 
 Read, John, Settle, 
 Redmayne, Mathew, Langclffe ... 
 Stackhouse, Anthony, Settle
 
 SETTLE (Continued.) 
 Names of Electors. Residence. 
 
 Shepherd, Richard, Settle 
 Snell, Henry, Settle ... 
 Silverwood, James, Settle 
 Tatham, John, Settle ... 
 Thornber, John, Runley Bridge 
 Turner, William, Settle 
 Waddington, John, Settle 
 Whittam, Mathew, Settle 
 Wildman, Mathias, Settle 
 Wilkinson, John, Settle 
 Wilman, John, Settle ... 
 Wilman, Stephen, Settle 
 
 GIGGLESWICK. 
 
 Clapham, Rev. John, Giggleswick 
 Clapham, Thomas, Giggleswick 
 Clapham, John, Settle... 
 Carr, Richard, Stackhouse 
 Clark, Thomas, Giggleswick 
 Dale, David Hall, Paley Green... 
 Garstang, Robert, Giggleswick... 
 Howson, Rev. John, Giggleswick 
 Hartley, John, Catteral Hall ... 
 Ingram, Rev. Rowland, Giggleswick 
 Leech, William, Swabeck 
 Maudsley, Thomas, Grain House 
 Maudsley, John, Grain House ... 
 Maudsley, Henry, Rome 
 Procter, William, Close House ... 
 Parker, Cuthbert, Giggleswick ... 
 Robinson, William, Giggleswick 
 Smith, Elias, Giggleswick 
 Tatham, John, jun. Settle 
 Tatham, Thomas, Settle 
 Wildman, William, Close House 
 Wildman, Christopher, Roustroth 
 Wildman, William, Giggleswick 
 
 RATHMELL. 
 
 Burrow, Thomas Dixon, Settle... 
 Clark, Henry, Rathmell 
 Clark, John, Sheepwash 
 Dawson, Stephen, Gildersleets ... 
 Dawson, John, Bank ... 
 Geldard, John, Cappleside
 
 RATHMELL (Continued.) 
 Names of Electors. Residence. 
 
 Geldard, Robert, Rathmell 
 
 Hays, Thomas, Cappleside 
 
 Knowles, Richard, Hesley Lane 
 
 Kendall, William, Low Folds ... 
 
 Kendall, William, New Hall ... 
 
 Newhouse, Edward, Halton, late of Sheepwash 
 
 Towler, George, Holling Hall ... 
 
 Towler, Joseph, Holling Hall ... 
 
 Tomlinson, John, Hensley Hill... 
 
 Wolfenden, George, Rathmell ... 
 
 Wolfenden, Robert, Crosskeys ... 
 
 Armistead, John, Stainforth Hall 
 
 Armistead, Richard, Sannat Hall 
 
 Batty, John, Stainforth 
 
 Brotherton, John, Stainforth ... ... ... ... ... i 
 
 Brown, Christopher, Stainforth ... ... ... ...I i 
 
 Brown, Thomas, Stainforth 
 Holgate, Thomas, Neals Ing 
 Hudson, Miles, Stainforth 
 Iveson, James, Hidon... 
 Metcalfe, John, Stainforth 
 Parker, Thomas, Sherwood House 
 Redmayne, Marmaduke, Stainforth 
 Redmayne, Thomas, Stainforth 
 Sedgwick, Charles, Sherwood House 
 Stackhouse, Anthony, Stainforth 
 
 LANGCLIFFE. 
 
 Clayton, William, Langcliffe Place 
 
 Constantine, John, Cowside 
 
 Hill, Robert, Langcliffe 
 
 Holden, Richard, Winskill ... ... ... ... ... 
 
 Jackman, Jonathan, Langcliffe ... ... ... ... ...! 
 
 King, William, Langcliffe ... ... ... ... ...i 
 
 Kitchin, William, Westside House ... ... ... ... 
 
 Lofthouse, Mathew, Langcliffe ... ... ... ... ... 
 
 Maudsley, Joshua, Winskill ... ... .. ... ... 
 
 Robinson, John, Langcliffe ... ... ... ... ... 
 
 Wright, Christopher, Langcliffe ... ... ... ...j I 
 
 Yeadon, Thomas, Langcliffe ... ... ... ... ..J I 
 
 Yeadon, James, Langcliffe ... ... ... ... ..J i
 
 In 1837 a general election took place, Mr. Wortley again 
 endeavoured, without success, to wrest one of the seats from 
 the Liberals. 
 
 The declaration of the poll shewed the result to be 
 
 MORPETH ... ... ... ... 12576 
 
 STRICKLAND ... ... ... 11892 
 
 WORTLEY ... ... ... 11489 
 
 The local electors were as follows 
 
 SETTLE. 
 
 Name and Residence. 
 
 Armistead, Rd., Settle 
 
 Atkinson, Robert, Settle 
 
 Birkbeck, Wm., Settle 
 
 Birkbeck, H., Kiswick Hall, Norfolk 
 
 Birkbeck, John, Anley House... 
 
 Birkbeck, Thos., Settle 
 
 Bilton, Wm., Settle ... 
 
 Bolland, Wm., Settle 
 
 Bamford, W. R., Sherburn House 
 
 Bowskill, John, Settle 
 
 Bowskill, Wm., Settle 
 
 Bullock, John, Settle... 
 
 Calvert, Wm., Settle... 
 
 Charnley, Thos., A., Lancaster 
 
 Dawson, Pudsey, Marshfield ... 
 
 Dawson, Fred, London 
 
 Dawson, Henry, Hopton, Norfolk 
 
 Duckett, Charles, Settle 
 
 Duckett, Charles, Mearbeck ... 
 
 Edmondson, Chris., Settle 
 
 Ellison, James, jun., Settle 
 
 Ellis, Francis, Settle... 
 
 Ellison, James, Settle 
 
 Ellison, Thomas, Settle 
 
 Foster, Tohn, Walthamstow ... 
 
 Foster, Thomas, E., Gargrave 
 
 Hallpike, Vincent, Settle 
 
 Harger, Eli, Settle ... 
 
 Harger, Joseph, Settle 
 
 Harger, Robert, Settle 
 
 Harger, Wm., Settle 
 
 Hargreaves, Stephen, Stockdale 
 
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 i6 
 
 SETTLE. 
 Name and Residence. 
 
 Hartley, John, Settle... 
 Hardacre, William, Settle 
 Harrison, John, Settle 
 Heseltine, Francis, Kilnsay ... 
 Holroyd, John, Settle 
 Hutchinson, John, Settle 
 Hurtley, Thos., Settle 
 Lawson, Robert, Thorns, Sedbergh 
 Marsden, Wm., Settle 
 Moffat, John, Settle ... 
 Moore, John, Bolton-le-moors 
 Nixon, Thomas, Settle 
 Oldfield, Samuel, Cleatop 
 Parker, Stephen, Lodge 
 Parkinson, Edward, Settle 
 Prest, Wm., Blackburn 
 Preston, John, Mearbeck 
 Procter, John, Settle... 
 Procter, Richard, Laxton 
 Procter, Robert, near Gargrave 
 Procter, Thomas, Settle 
 Ralph, Luke, Settle ... 
 Ratcliffe, Charles, Settle 
 Read, John, Settle ... 
 Redmayne, Mathew, Langcliffe 
 Sagar, Edward, Alston Hall ... 
 Stackhouse, Anthony, Settle ... 
 Snell, Henry, Settle ... 
 Silverwood, James, Settle 
 Spencer, Henry, Settle 
 Tatham, John, Settle 
 Thornber, John, Runley Bridge 
 Turner, Wm., Settle... 
 Waddington, John, Settle 
 Whittam, Mathew, Settle 
 Wildman, Mathias, Settle 
 Wilkinson, John, Settle 
 Wilman, John, Settle 
 Wilman, Stephen, Settle 
 Windsor, John, Manchester ... 
 
 GIGGLESWICK. 
 
 Beckwith, John Batty, Wham 
 Brayshaw, Thos., Giggleswick 
 Clapham, Rev. John. Giggleswick
 
 GIGGLESWICK (Continued.) 
 Name and Residence. 
 
 Clapham, Thos., Stackhouse ... 
 Clapham, John, Settle 
 Carr, Wm., Giggleswick 
 Carr, Richard, Stackhouse 
 Clark, Thos., Giggleswick 
 Dale, David Hall, Paley Green 
 Dixon, John, Giggleswick 
 Fell, John, Crawridge 
 Garstang, Robert, Giggleswick 
 Green, Thos., Lum ... 
 Howson, Rev. John, Giggleswick 
 Hartley, John, Catteral Hall ... 
 Ingham, Rev. Rowland, Giggleswick ... 
 Leech, Wm., Swabeck 
 Lawson, Thos., Stackhouse ... 
 Maudsley, Thos., Grain House 
 Maudsley, John, Grain House 
 Maudsley, Joshua, Little Bank 
 Maudsley, Thos., jun., Rome... 
 Newsholme, Geo., Wham 
 Procter, Wm., Close House ... 
 Parker, Cuthbert, Giggleswiek 
 Preston, Samuel, Stackhouse ... 
 Parker, John, Rome ... 
 Robinson, Wm., Giggleswick... 
 Smith, Elias, Giggleswiick 
 Tatham, John, jun., Settle 
 Tatham, Thos., Settle 
 Taylor, John, near Clitheroe, Lancashire 
 Twisleton, James, Settle 
 Towler, George, Sandford Brow 
 Wildman, Wm., Close House... %.. 
 
 Wildman, Wm., Giggleswick ... 
 Wildman, Chris., Routsworth 
 Waller, John, jun., Giggleswick 
 
 RATHMELL. 
 
 Armistead, John, Ragged Hall 
 Armistead, Wm., Tatham 
 Ayrton, Wm., near Malham ... 
 Burrow, Thos. Dixon, Settle ... 
 Brown, Ralph Homer, Rathmell 
 Butler, Henry, Winterskill Bank 
 Clark, Henry, Rathmell
 
 i8 
 
 RATHMELL (Continued.) 
 Name and Residence. 
 
 Dawson, Stephen, Gildersleets 
 Dawson, John, Gildersleets ... 
 Geldard, John, Cappleside 
 Geldard, Robt,, Rathmell 
 Holden, Thomas, Rathmell ... 
 Hayes, Thos., Cappleside 
 Kendall. William, Lowfoulds... 
 Kendall, Wm., New Hall 
 Knowles, R., Horton-in-Ribblesdale ... 
 Newhouse, Edward, Halton ... 
 Newhouse, John, Hesley Lane 
 Parker, Thos., Lower Winterskill Bank 
 Parker, Joseph, Lawkland 
 Redmayne, Wm., Rathmell ... 
 Robinson, John, Green 
 Standing, Wm., Hesley Lane .. 
 Standing, Wm., jun., Laddy Green 
 Tomlinson, John, Hensley Hill 
 Towler, George, Hollin Hall ... 
 Towler, Joseph, Hollin Hall ... 
 Taylor, James, Hesley Lane ... 
 Taylor, Jon, Huggon House ... 
 Tatham, Thos., Settle 
 Wolfenden, Geo., Hollin Hall... 
 Wolfenden, Robert, Cross Keys 
 
 STAINFORTH. 
 
 Armistead, John, Stainforth Hall 
 Armistead, Rd., Sannat Hall .. 
 Batty, John, Stainforth 
 Brotherton, John, Stainforth ... 
 Brown, Chris., Stainforth 
 Brown, Thos., Stainforth 
 Foster, Thos., Stainforth 
 Hudson, Miles, Stainforth 
 Iveson, James, Hidon 
 Metcalfe, John, Stainforth 
 Metcalfe, Wm., Stainforth 
 Parker, Thos., Sherwood House 
 Redmayne, Marm., Stainforth 
 Redmayne, Thos., Taitlands ... 
 Redmayne, Thos., Taitlands ... 
 Sedgwick, Charles, Sherwood House ... 
 Stackhouse, Anthony, Stainforth 
 Wildman, Stephen, Stainforth 
 Winder, Thos., Stainforth 
 Witts, Fras. Edward, Gloucestershire...
 
 LANGCLIFFE. 
 Name and Residence. 
 
 Clayton, William, Langcliffe Place 
 Hill, Robert. Langcliffe 
 Holden, Richard, Winskill 
 Hunter, Thos., Cowside 
 Jackman, Jon., Langcliffe 
 Jackman, Mathew, Langcliffe... 
 King, William, Langcliffe 
 Kitchin, Wm., West Side House 
 Lofthouse, Mathew, Langcliffe 
 Madgsley, Joshua, Winskill ... 
 Robinson, John, Langcliffe 
 Salmon, Henry, Melburn, Kent 
 Wright, Chris., Langcliffe 
 Yeadon, Thos., Langcliffe 
 Yeadon, James, Langcliffe 
 
 At the General Election in 1841, the efforts of the Con- 
 servatives were at length rewarded with success, their two 
 candidates, the Hon. J. S. Wortley and Mr. Denison, being 
 returned at the head of the poll. The numbers were 
 
 HON. J. S. WORTLEY (Con.) 
 EDM. B. DENISON (Con.) 
 Lord MILTON (Lib.) 
 
 LORD MORPETH (Lib.) 
 
 13165 
 
 12780 
 12080 
 12031 
 
 The following list shews how the local voters distributed 
 their favors 
 
 SETTLE. 
 
 Names of Electors. Residence. 
 
 Armistead, Richard, Settle 
 
 Atkinson, Robert, Settle ... 
 
 Ayrton, Henry, Settle 
 
 Birkbeck, Henry, Kiswick Hall, Norfolk 
 
 Birkbeck, John, Anley House 
 
 Birkbeck, Wm. Lloyd, Southampton Buildings, London 
 
 Birkbeck, Thomas 
 
 Birkbeck, John, jun., Anley House... 
 
 Bilton, William, Settle 
 
 Bowskill, William, Settle ..
 
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 SETTLE (Continued.) 
 Names of Electors . Residence . 
 
 Bullock, John, Settle 
 
 Bullock, John, Duke Street 
 
 Bentley, Authony, Anley House 
 
 Bentley, Robert, Settle Green 
 
 Calvert, William, Settle 
 
 Charnley, Thomas A., Lancaster ... 
 
 Charnley, William, Birkby, Lancaster 
 
 Dawson, Pudsey, Marshfield 
 
 Dawson, Frederick, Pump Court, Temple, London 
 
 Dawson, Henry, Hopton, Norfolkshire 
 
 Duckett, Charles, Settle 
 
 Ellison, James, Upper Settle 
 
 Ellis, Francis, Settle 
 
 Ellis, John, Settle... 
 
 Foster, John, Walthamstow 
 
 Foster, Thomas Edward, Settle 
 
 Foster, Thomas Edward, Settle 
 
 Gifford, John, Settle 
 
 Hallpike, Vincent, Settle ... 
 
 Harger, Eli, Settle 
 
 Harger, Joseph, Settle 
 
 Harger, Robert, Settle 
 
 Harger, William, Settle 
 
 Hargreaves, Stephen, Stockdale 
 
 Hartley, John, Settle 
 
 Hardacre, William, Settle... 
 
 Harling, Thomas, Settle ... 
 
 Heseltine, Francis, Elysee, Island of Jersey... 
 
 Higginson, William, Settle... 
 
 Holroyd, John, Settle 
 
 Howson, John Saul, Inverary Castle, Argylshire 
 
 Hutchinson, John, Settle ... 
 
 Hurtley, Thomas, Settle ... 
 
 Ingram, Rowland, jun., Giggleswick 
 
 King, John, Settle 
 
 Lawson, Robert, Chadburn 
 
 Moffat, John, Settle 
 
 Moore, John, Bolton, Lancashire ... 
 
 Nixon, Thomas, Settle 
 
 Oldfield, Samuel, Cleatop ... 
 
 Ormrod, Oliver, Yorkshire St., Rochdale 
 
 Parker, Stephen, Lodge 
 
 Parkinson, Edward, Settle... 
 
 Preston, John, Mearbeck ... 
 
 Preston, Thomas Ellison, Upper Settle 
 
 Procter, Richard, Laxton, Nottinghamshire... 
 
 Procter, Thomas, Settle
 
 21 
 
 SETTLE (Continued.) 
 Names of Electors . Residence . 
 
 Procter, James, Bedford St., Liverpool 
 
 Procter, Robert, Mearbeck 
 
 Procter, John, China Lane, Lancaster 
 
 Ralph, Luke, Settle 
 
 Ratcliffe, Charles, Settle ... 
 
 Read, John, Settle 
 
 Redmayne, Mathew, Langcliffe and Stainforth 
 
 Stackhouse, Anthony, Settle 
 
 Snell, Henry, Settle 
 
 Silver-wood, James, Settle ... 
 
 Spencer, Anthony, Settle ... 
 
 Spencer, William, Settle Green 
 
 Sutcliffe, Henry, Belle Hill', Giggleswick 
 
 Tatham, John, Settle 
 
 Thornber, John, Runley Bridge 
 
 Thomson, James, Settle 
 
 Turner, William, Settle 
 
 Town, Augustus Francis, Fenton St., London 
 
 Waddington, John, Settle ... 
 
 Whittam, Mathew, Upper Settle 
 
 Wildman, Mathias, Settle ... 
 
 Wilman, Stephen, Settle ... 
 
 Windsor, John, Piccadilly, Manchester 
 
 Wildman, John, Settle 
 
 Wildman, James, Settle 
 
 GIGGLESWICK. 
 
 Brayshaw, Thomas, Giggleswick ... 
 Clapham, Thomas, Stackhouse 
 Clapham, John, Giggleswick... 
 Carr, Wm., Giggleswick 
 Carr, Richard, Stackhouse... 
 Clark, Thomas, Giggleswick 
 Dale, David Hall, Paley Green 
 Dixon, John, Giggleswick ... 
 Fell, John, Crawridge 
 Fletcher, John, Wham 
 Garstang, Robert, Giggleswick 
 Green, Thomas, Lum 
 Green, Thomas, Giggleswick 
 Howson, John, Giggleswick 
 Hartley, John, Catteral Hall 
 Ingram, Rowland, Giggle wick 
 Jackson; John, Settle 
 Leech, William, Swawbeck 
 Maudsley, Joshua, Little Bank 
 Maudsley, Henry, Rome ...
 
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 GIGGLESWICK (Continued.) 
 Names of Electors. Residence. 
 
 Maudsley, Thomas, Stainforth Hall 
 Moorby, John, Giggleswick... 
 Metcalfe, John, Austwick ... 
 Maudsley, John, Grain House 
 Newsholme, George, Wham 
 Parker, Cuthbert, Giggleswick 
 Preston, Samuel, Stackhouse 
 Parker, Joseph, Rome 
 Procter, John, jun., Long Preston ... 
 Procter, John, Close House 
 Robinson, William, Giggleswick 
 Smith, Elias, Giggleswick ... 
 Tatham, John, jun., Settle... 
 Tatham, Thomas, Settle ... 
 Taylor, John, Twiston, near Clitheroe 
 Taylor, Thomas, Twiston, near Clitheroe 
 Taylor, Robert, Twiston, near Clitheroe 
 Twisleton, James, Settle ... 
 Towler, George, Sandford Row 
 Wildman, Christopher, Routsworth 
 Waller, John, jun., Giggleswick 
 Wildman, William, Close House 
 
 RATHMELL. 
 
 Armistead, William, Robert Hall, Tatham ... 
 
 Armistead, William, Low Bentham... 
 
 Ayrton, Stephen, Higher Sheepwash 
 
 Armistead, John, Crakemoor 
 
 Brown, Ralph Horner, Rathmell 
 
 Butler, Henry, Winterskill Bank 
 
 Barrow, Thomas Dixon, Settle 
 
 Clark, Henry, Rathmell ... 
 
 Charnley, Robert, Far Cappleside ... 
 
 Dawson, Stephen, Gildersleets, Giggleswick... 
 
 Dawson, John, Gildersleets, Giggleswick 
 
 Geldard, fohn, Cappleside... 
 
 Geldard, Robert, Rathmell 
 
 Geldard, Chris. J., Cappleside 
 
 Holden, Thomas, Rathmell 
 
 Higson, John, Waddington Lane, Clitheroe ... 
 
 Hardacre, Henry, Rathmell 
 
 Knowles, Richard, Crag Hill, Ribblesdale ... 
 
 Kendall, William, Lowfoulds 
 
 Kendall, William, Lowfoulds 
 
 Newhouse, Edward, Aughton, Lancashire ... 
 
 Parker, Joseph, Black Bank, Lawkland 
 
 Robinson, John, Green 
 
 Standing, William, Hesley Lane 
 
 Standing, William, Laddy Green, Wigglesworth
 
 RATHMELL (Continued.) 
 Names of Electors. Residence. 
 
 Towler, George, Hollin Hall 
 Towler, Joseph, Hollin Hall 
 Taylor, James, Hesley Lane 
 Tomlinson, John, Rathmell 
 Taylor, Jonathan, Huggon House ... 
 Tatham, Thomas, Settle ... 
 Towler, John, Blackleach ... 
 Wolfenden, Robert, Cross Keys 
 
 STAINFORTH. 
 
 Armistead, Richard, Sannat Hall ... 
 
 Batty, John, Knight 
 
 Brotherton, John, Stainforth-under-Bargh ... 
 
 Brown, Thomas, Stainforth-under-Bargh 
 
 Brown, Christopher, Ludgate Street, London 
 
 Brown, James Batty, Settle 
 
 Foster, Thomas, Stainforth-under-Bargh 
 
 Foster, James, Stainforth-under-Bargh 
 
 Hudson, Miles, Stainforth-under-Bargh 
 
 Iveson, James, Hedon, East Riding... 
 
 Johnson, John, Stainforth-under-Bargh 
 
 Metcalfe, William, Stainforth-under-Bargh ... 
 
 Metcalfe. Christopher, Neals Ing ... 
 
 Parker, Thomas, Sherwood House ... 
 
 Redmayne, Marmaduke, Stainforth-under-Bargh 
 
 Redmayne, Thomas, Taitlands 
 
 Sedgwick, Charles, Sherwood House 
 
 Stackhouse, Anthony, Stainforth-under-Bargh 
 
 Wildman, Stephen, Stainforth-under-Bargh... 
 
 Winder, Thomas, Stainforth-under-Bargh ... 
 
 Witts, Francis Edward, Morton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire 
 
 LANGCLIFFE. 
 
 Clayton, William, Langcliffe Place... 
 
 Foster, William, Settle 
 
 Hill, Robert, Langcliffe ... 
 
 Holden, Richard, Winskill 
 
 Hunter, Thomas, Cowside 
 
 Hartley, John, Catteral Hall, Giggleswick ... 
 
 Jackman, Jonathan, Langcliffe .. 
 
 Jackman, Mathew, Langcliffe 
 King, William, Langcliffe ... 
 Lofthouse, Mathew, Langcliffe 
 Maudsley, Joshua, Winskill 
 Pratt, James, sen., Westside House 
 Pratt, James, jun., Westside House...
 
 LANGCLIFFE (Continued.) 
 Names of Electors. Residence. 
 
 Pratt, William, Westside House 
 
 Preston, Thomas, Langcliffe 
 
 Robinson, John, Langcliffe 
 
 Rugg, Henry, Giggles wick... 
 
 Salmon, Henry, Melburn, near Maidstone, Kent 
 
 Swale, Hogarth John, Langcliffe Hall 
 
 Wright, Christopher, Langcliffe 
 
 Yeadon, Thomas, Langcliffe 
 
 In 1848, in consequence of the elevation of Lord Mor- 
 peth to the House of Lords, on the demise of his father, a 
 vacancy occurred in the representation of the West Riding. 
 The candidates who sought to fill Lord Morpeth's place were 
 Mr. Edmund Denison, on behalf of the Conservatives, and 
 Sir Culling Eardley, on behalf of the Liberals. 
 
 The poll resulted in the return of Mr. Denison, the 
 numbers being 
 
 DENISON ... 
 EARDLEY ... 
 
 The local voters were 
 
 SETTLE. 
 Name and Residence. 
 
 Armistead, Richard, Settle 
 
 Atkinson, John, Settle ... 
 
 Atkinson, Joseph, Wigglesworth 
 
 Atkinson, Robert, Settle 
 
 Ayrton, Henry, Settle ... 
 
 Bateson, Thomas, Settle ... , 
 
 Bentley, Anthony, Anley House Lodge . 
 
 Bentley, Robert, Green 
 
 Bilton, William, Settle... 
 
 Birkbeck, Henry, Kiswick Hall, Norfolk 
 
 Birkbeck, John, Giggleswick 
 
 Birkbeck, Thomas, Settle 
 
 Birkbeck, William, Lloyd, London 
 
 Bullock, John, Settle ... 
 
 Calvert, William, Settle 
 
 H743 
 
 "795
 
 SETTLE (Continued.) 
 Name and Residence. 
 
 Charnley, T., Armistead, Lancaster 
 
 Cork, William, Settle ... 
 
 Dale, David Hall, Cleatop 
 
 Dawson, Frederick, London 
 
 Dawson, Henry, Hopton, Norfolk 
 
 Duckett, Charles, Settle 
 
 Dunn, Thos. Rowlandson, Lancaster 
 
 Ellis, John, Settle 
 
 Ellison, James, Settle ... 
 
 Foster, John, Walthamstow ... 
 
 Foster, Thos. Ed., Constitution Hill 
 
 Gardner, Ed., Halton, near Lancaster ... 
 
 Hallpike, Vincent, Settle 
 
 Hardacre, Thomas, Settle 
 
 Hardacre, William, Settle 
 
 Harger, Joseph, Settle... 
 
 Harger, Robert, Settle... 
 
 Harger, William, Settle 
 
 Hargreaves, Stephen, Stockdale 
 
 Harling, Thomas, Settle 
 
 Hesletine, Francis, Kilnsey 
 
 Horner, James, Settle ... 
 
 Howson, Jno. S., Trentham Hall, Staffordshire 
 
 Ingram, Rowland, jun., Giggleswick 
 
 King, John, White Horse Inn .. 
 
 Lancaster, Daniel, Settle Green 
 
 Marsden, John W., Clitheroe ... 
 
 Nixon, Thomas, Settle... 
 
 Parker, Stephen, Lodge 
 
 Parkinson, Edward, Settle 
 
 Preston, John, Mearbeck 
 
 Procter, Christopher, Mearbeck 
 
 Procter, John, Lancaster 
 
 Procter, Robert, Malham 
 
 Ralph, Luke, Settle ... 
 
 Ratcliffe, Charles, Settle 
 
 Read, John, Settle 
 
 Robinson, John, Duke Street ... 
 
 Robinson, Robert, Chapel Street 
 
 Robinson, William, Settle 
 
 Rogers, William, Kendal 
 
 Roper, James, Liverpool 
 
 Roper, Richard, Kirkby Lonsdale 
 
 Snell, Henry, Square, New Road 
 
 Spencer, Anthony, Settle 
 
 Spencer, William, Settle Green...
 
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 SETTLE (Continued.) 
 
 Name and Residence. 
 
 Stackhouse, Anthony, Settle Green 
 Turner, William, Settle Green ... 
 Twisleton, James, Upper Settle... 
 Waddington, John, Settle 
 Walker, John, Lancaster 
 Walker, William, Haslingden ... 
 Whittam, Mathew, Upper Settle 
 Wildman, John, Settle... 
 Wilman, James, Settle... 
 Wilman, Stephen, Settle 
 
 GIGGLESWICK. 
 
 Armistead, Richard, Field Gate 
 Armistead, Thomas, Field Gate 
 Brayshaw, Thomas, Giggleswick 
 Burton, Edward, Kendal 
 Butterton, George Ash, Craven Bank 
 Carr, Richard, Stackhouse 
 Carr, William, Giggleswick 
 Clapham, Thomas, Stackhouse... 
 Clark, Adam, Lower Wham 
 Ellis, Francis, Settle ... 
 Fell, John, Crawridge ... 
 Green, Thomas, Giggleswick 
 Hartley, John, Catteral Hall ... 
 Howson, Rev. John, Giggleswick 
 Ingram, Rev. Rowland, Giggleswick 
 Jenkinson, Charles, Giggleswick 
 Johnson, John, Paley Green 
 King, Henry, Giggleswick 
 Leech, William, Swawbeck 
 Maudsley, Henry, Rome 
 Maudsley, John, Grain House ... 
 Maudsley, Joshua, Little Bank... 
 Maudsley, Thomas, Stainforth ... 
 Metcalfe, John, Giggleswick 
 Moorby, John, Giggleswick 
 Parker, Cuthbert, Giggleswick ... 
 Parker, Joseph, Rome... 
 Pollard, John, Rome ... 
 Preston, Samuel, Stackhouse ... 
 Procter, John, Settle ... 
 Rhodes, Samuel, Kendal 
 Robinson, William, jun., Settle... 
 Smith, Elias Smith, Giggleswick 
 Tatham, John, Settle ...
 
 GIGGLESWICK (Continued.) 
 Name and Residence. 
 
 Taylor, John, Croft Closes 
 
 Taylor, Thos., Twiston, near Clitheroe ... 
 
 Thompson, William, Kendal 
 
 Waller, John, Giggleswick 
 
 Wildman, Christopher, Routsworth 
 
 Wildman, William, Thames Cottage 
 
 Woods, Thomas, Lancaster , ... 
 
 RATHMELL. 
 
 Armistead, John, Airton 
 Armistead, William, Low Bentham 
 Battersby, Barnabas, Rathmell... 
 Burrow, Thomas Dixon, Settle... 
 Butler, Phineas, Winterskill Bank 
 Charnley, Robert, Far Cappleside 
 Clark, Thomas, Giggleswick 
 Dawson, John, Gildersleets 
 Dawson, Stephen, Gildersleets... 
 Geldard, Chris., John, Cappleside 
 Geldard, John, Cappleside 
 Geldard, Robert, Rathmell 
 Helm, Robert, Swainstead 
 Holden, Thomas, Rathmell 
 Kendall, William, New Hall ... 
 Kendall, William, Lowfoulds ... 
 Knowles, Rd., Horton-in-Ribblesdale ... 
 Knowles, Richard, Rathmell 
 Newhouse, Edward, Aughton, Lancashire 
 Robinson, John, Green 
 Schofield, Abraham, Todmordon 
 Standing, William, Hesley Lane 
 Taylor, James, Gisburn Forest ... 
 Taylor, William, Rathmell 
 Tomlinson, James, Hensley Hill 
 Towler, George, Hollin Hall ... 
 Towler, George, jun., Cross Keys 
 Towler, John, Lawkland 
 Towler, Joseph Hollin Hall 
 Wilson, William, Long Preston... 
 Wolfenden, James, Ragged Hall 
 
 STAINFORTH. 
 
 Armitstead, Richard, Airton House 
 Atkinson, Thomas, Sandwith ... 
 Dawson, Pudsey, Hornby Castle 
 Foster, Thomas, Stainforth
 
 28 
 
 STAINFORTH (Continued.) 
 Name and Residence. 
 
 Hesletine, Benjamin, Knight Stainforth... 
 
 Hodgson, John, Stainforth 
 
 Hodgson, John Parker, Stainforth 
 
 Hodgson, Joseph, Stainforth 
 
 Hudson, Miles, Stainforth 
 
 Metcalfe, Christopher, Neals Ing 
 
 Parker, Thomas, Sherwood House 
 
 Redmayne, Marmaduke, Stainforth 
 
 Redmayne, Thomas, Taitlands 
 
 Richardson, William, Knight Stainforth 
 
 Stackhouse, Anthony, Stainforth 
 
 Wildman, Stephen, Stainforth ... 
 
 Winder, Thomas, Stainforth 
 
 Witts, F. E., Morton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire ... 
 
 LANGCLIFFE. 
 
 Armistead, Christopher, Langcliffe 
 Brown, Christopher, London ... 
 Buller, Joseph, Langcliffe 
 Clayton, William, Langcliffe Place 
 Forrester, Joseph, Settle 
 Foster, William, Settle 
 Hill, John, Langcliffe ... 
 Jackman, Jonathan, Langcliffe ... 
 Jackman, Mathew, Langcliffe ... 
 Longbottom. John, Holme Head 
 Maudsley, Joshua, Winskill 
 Pratt, James, jun., Westside House 
 Pratt, James, sen., Westside House 
 Preston, Thomas, Langcliffe 
 Robinson, John, Langcliffe 
 Sedgwick, William, Giggleswick 
 Swale, Hogarth John, Settle 
 Twisleton, Francis, High Winskill 
 Wilson, Charles, Langcliffe 
 Wilson, Richard, Langcliffe 
 Wilson, William, Langcliffe 
 Wright, Christopher, Langcliffe 
 Wright, Thomas-, Langcliffe 
 Yeadon, Thomas, Langcliffe 
 
 The Conservatives held both seats until 1852, when one 
 representative of each party was chosen, and this arrange- 
 ment continued until 1859, when the Liberal candidates were 
 Sir John Ramsden, and Mr. Frank Crossley ; and the Con-
 
 servative candidate was Mr. J. S. Wortley. 
 The result of the polling was 
 
 RAMSDEN ... ... ... ... 15978 
 
 CROSSLEY ... ... ... ... 15401 
 
 WORTLEY ... 13636 
 
 The local votes were as follows 
 
 SETTLE. 
 Name and Residence. 
 
 Armistead, John, Settle 
 
 Atkinson, John, Settle 
 
 Bentley, Anthony, Runley Bridge 
 
 Bilton, William, Settle 
 
 Birkbeck, John, Giggleswick... 
 
 Bradley, John, Mearbeck 
 
 Charnley, Richard, All Saints' Street, Bolton-le-Moors 
 'Dale, David Hall, Cleatop ... 
 
 Davenport, Michael, Hardmans-in-the-Fields, Bury 
 
 Ellison, James, Settle 
 
 Foster, Edward Thomas, Settle 
 
 Gardner, Edward, Halton, Lancaster... 
 
 Hardacre, William, Settle 
 
 Harger, John, Settle 
 
 Harger, Joseph, Oxton, Birkenhead, Cheshire... 
 
 Harger, Joseph, Settle 
 
 Hargraves, Robert, Stockdale 
 
 Hartley, John Johnson, Market Place 
 
 Jackson, Joseph, Back Lane ... 
 
 King, John, Naked Man Inn... 
 
 King, Joseph, Augerholme, Mallerstang, Kirkby Stephen, West- 
 morland 
 
 King, Lawrence, 63, Whitehead Bridge, Bury, Lancashire 
 
 King, Thomas, 3, Kaye Street, Little Bolton, Lancashire 
 
 Lancaster, Daniel, Settle Green 
 
 Laytham, Joseph, Upper Settle 
 
 Ormerod, Thomas, 16, St. George's Terrace, Little Bolton Street, 
 Bolton-le-Moors 
 
 Pierson, William Frederic, Parsonage 
 
 Preston, John, senior, Merebeck 
 
 Preston, William, Duke Street 
 
 Procter, Christopher, Mearbeck 
 
 Robinson, Henry, The Terrace, Settle 
 
 Robinson, John, Duke Street 
 
 Robinson, Robert, Chapel Street 
 
 Robinson, William, Settle 
 
 Rogers, William, Calne, Wilts. 
 
 Roper, Richard, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland 
 
 J 
 
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 SETTLE (Continued.) 
 Name and Residence. 
 
 Slater, John, Upper Settle 
 
 Snell, Henry, Square, New Road 
 
 Spencer, William, Settle Green 
 
 Stackhouse, Anthony, Settle ... 
 
 Twisleton, James, Upper Settle 
 
 Walker, John, 136, St. Leonard Gate, Lancaster 
 
 Walker, William, High Street, Haslingden, Lancashire... 
 
 Waugh, James, Market Place 
 
 Wilkinson Newsholme, George, Settle 
 
 Wise, John, Swan Inn, Clitheroe 
 
 Wood, Samuel, Bolton Street, Bury ... 
 
 GIGGLESWICK. 
 
 Birkbeck, Joseph, Stackhouse 
 Bolland, John, Close House ... 
 Bolland, Thomas, New Hall, Rathmell 
 
 Carr, William, Giggleswick ... ... 
 
 Carr, William, Stackhouse ... 
 
 Clapham, William, Giggleswick 
 
 Clark, Adam, Lower Wham ... 
 
 Fell, John, Craven Ridge 
 
 Harrison, Joseph, 14, Chapel Street, Lancaster 
 
 Hartley, John, Catteral, Hall 
 
 Jenkinson, Charles, Giggleswick 
 
 Johnson, John, Paley Green .. 
 
 Johnson, John jun., Gildersleets 
 
 Langhorne, John, Giggleswick 
 
 Leach, William, Swabeck 
 
 Littlefair, Thomas, Field Gate 
 
 Lowcock, George, Close House 
 
 Maudsley, John, Grain House 
 
 Maudsley, Joshua, Little Bank 
 
 Maudsley, Thomas, Grain House 
 
 Moorby, John, Giggleswick ... 
 
 Parker, Cuthbert, Giggleswick 
 
 Parker, Joseph, Rome 
 
 Preston, Samuel, Stackhouse 
 
 Proctor, John, .Settle 
 
 Rhodes, Samuel, Bank Top, Kendal, Westmorland 
 
 Robinson, Wm. jun., Duke Street 
 
 Tatham, John, Settle 
 
 Thompson, William, Highgate, Kendal 
 
 Waller, John, Giggleswick ... 
 
 Wildman, Christopher, Routsworth ... 
 
 Winder, Thomas, Claughton, Lancaster 
 
 Wray, Michael, Giggleswick ...
 
 RATHMELL. 
 
 Name and Residence. 
 
 Armistead, John, Crakemoor, Airton ... 
 
 Armistead, Thomas, Ragged Hall 
 
 Battersby, Barnabas, Rathmell 
 
 Butler, Phineas, Winterskill Bank 
 
 Dawson, John, Bank 
 
 Geldard, Chris. John, Bank-well, Giggleswick ... 
 
 Geldard, Robert, Kathmell ... 
 
 Helm, Robert, Swainstead ... 
 
 Higson, John, Hesley Lane ... 
 
 Kendall, William, Lowfoulds... 
 
 Knowles, Richard, Hanlith ... 
 
 Mercer, Richard, Rathmell ... 
 
 Morley, Thomas Wilson, Birkby Rectory, Northallerton 
 
 Schofield Abraham, Know Top, Todmordon ... 
 
 Standing William Huggon House 
 
 Taylor, William, Far Cappleside 
 
 Towler, George, Hollin Hall ... 
 
 Towler, George, jun., Cross Keys 
 
 Towler, Joseph, Hollin Hall ... 
 
 Wigglesworth, Thomas, Rathmell 
 
 STAINFORTH. 
 
 Armitstead, Robert, Airton House 
 
 Charnley, Robert, Stainforth... 
 
 Foster, James Halliday, Stainforth 
 
 Hesleton, Benjamin, Knight Stainforth 
 
 Hodgson, John, Stainforth ... 
 
 Hodgson, Joseph, Stainforth ... 
 
 Maudsley, Thomas, Stainforth 
 
 Metcalfe, Christopher, Neals Ing 
 
 Parker, James, Sherwood House 
 
 Redmayne, Thomas, Taitlands 
 
 Richardson, William, The Parsonage ... 
 
 Sedgwick, Christopher, Sherwood House 
 
 Stackhouse, Thomas, Stainforth 
 
 Witts, Edward Francis, The Vicarage House, Stanway, Winchomb 
 
 LANGCLIFFE. 
 
 Bashall, Richard, Langcliffe Place, Lostock House, Preston 
 
 Brown, Christopher, Stainforth 
 
 Graham, Mathew, Kirkgate, Settle 
 
 Jackman, Jonathan, Langcliffe 
 
 Pratt, James, jun., Westside House ... 
 
 Preston, John jun., Mearbeck 
 
 Twisleton, Francis, High Winskill 
 
 Wright, Christopher, Langcliffe 
 
 Yeadon, Thomas, Langcliffe ..,
 
 32 
 
 In 1861 an Act was passed dividing the West Riding 
 into two divisions the Northern and Southern each to 
 return two members, and at the election in 1865, Sir F. Cross- 
 ley, Bart., and Lord F. Cavendish (Liberals) were returned 
 unopposed. They represented the division until the death of 
 Sir F. Crossley in 1872, when his place was taken by Mr. F. 
 Powell (Conservative) who defeated Mr. I. Holden. 
 
 The Liberals recovered the seat in 1874, when Lord F. 
 C. Cavendish and Mr. (now Sir) M. Wilson defeated Messrs. 
 Powell and Fison. 
 
 Lord Frederic and Sir M. Wilson, held their seats until 
 the murder of the former in 1882, when Mr. Holden was 
 elected in his place. 
 
 By the " Redistribution of Seats Act" the old Northern 
 Division of the West Riding was split up into five divisions, 
 Settle being in the Skipton Division. 
 
 Sir M. Wilson was the first member, but in the present 
 year lost the seat to Mr. Walter Morrison, a " Unionist " 
 Liberal, who now holds it. 
 
 The following tabulated list shews how the voters from 
 this Parish distributed their favors at the elections from 
 1807 to 1859 
 
 1807. Voted. Gigg'wk. Lang. Rath. Set. Stain. TOTAL 
 
 12 4 9 28 7 50 
 
 WILBERFORCE (Tory) 
 LASCELLES (Tory) 
 
 12 
 12 
 
 i 
 3 
 
 i 
 9 
 
 15 
 
 18 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 35 
 49 
 
 LORD MILTON (Whig) ... 
 
 i 
 
 
 9 
 
 i 
 
 ii 
 
 1835. On List 
 
 of Voters. 
 
 G. 24 
 
 L. 13 
 
 R. 17 
 
 S. 50 St. 
 
 15 
 
 119 
 
 MORPETH, L. 
 WORTLEY. C. 
 
 Voted 
 
 1 10 
 
 1 12 
 
 9 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 26 
 
 12 
 
 5 
 7 
 
 56 
 42 
 
 1837- 
 
 Voters. 
 
 G. 38 
 
 L. 15 
 
 R. 32 
 
 S. 72 St. 
 
 20 
 
 177 
 
 MORPETH, L. 
 
 ( 
 
 - 16 
 
 9 
 
 ii 
 
 39 
 
 6 
 
 81 
 
 STRICKLAND, L. 
 
 Voted - 
 
 16 
 
 8 
 
 IO 
 
 37 
 
 6 
 
 77 
 
 WORTLEY. C. 
 
 ( 
 
 .. 18 
 
 4 
 
 17 
 
 18 
 
 10 
 
 67
 
 33 
 
 1841. 
 
 G. 24 
 
 L. 21 
 
 R- 33 
 
 S. 82 St. 
 
 21 
 
 199 
 
 WORTLEY, C. 
 
 f IQ 
 
 IO 
 
 i? 
 
 21 
 
 12 
 
 79 
 
 DENISON, C. 
 MILTON, L. 
 
 Voted. I || 
 
 18 
 
 II 
 6 
 
 H 
 ii 
 
 21 
 41 
 
 12 
 6 
 
 77 
 82 
 
 MORPETH, L. 
 
 I 1.7 
 
 7 
 
 ii 
 
 4 1 
 
 6 
 
 82 
 
 1848. 
 
 Voters. G. 41 
 
 L. 24 
 
 R. 31 
 
 S. 71 St. 
 
 18 
 
 185 
 
 DENISON, C. 
 EARDLEY, L. 
 
 Voted. H 
 
 13 
 8 
 
 22 
 7 
 
 35 
 15 
 
 13 
 
 r 
 
 104 
 
 43 
 
 1859- 
 
 Voted. G. 33 
 
 L. 9 
 
 R. 20 
 
 S. 47 St. 
 
 H 
 
 123 
 
 WORTLEY, C. 
 
 22 
 
 6 
 
 16 
 
 26 
 
 ii 
 
 81 
 
 RAMSDEN, L. 
 
 ii 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 2 3 
 
 3 
 
 42 
 
 CROSSLEY, L. 
 
 n 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 19 
 
 3 
 
 40 
 
 The votes given by adherents of the two political parties 
 at the contests this century are 
 
 1807 1835 1837 1841 1848 1859 
 
 CONSERVATIVES ... 49 42 81 79 104 81 
 LIBERALS ... ... ii 56 67 82 43 42 
 
 At present there are about 700 voters in the five town- 
 ships, the Liberals being in a considerable majority, having a 
 preponderance of supporters in Settle, Giggleswick, and 
 Langcliffe, whilst the Conservatives are in a majority in 
 Stainforth and Rathmell.
 
 1 COLLECTANEA 
 GIGGLESWICKIANA." 
 
 PART II. 
 
 WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 COMPILED BY THOS. BRAYSHAW. 
 
 *********
 
 STACKHOUSE, 
 
 NEAR SETTLE, 
 
 July, 1887. 
 
 In the hope and belief that a few more miscellaneous 
 items relating to this parish, collected together into one 
 pamphlet from various sources, may be acceptable to my 
 friends, I issue a second part of " Collectanea Giggles- 
 
 wickiana." 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW.
 
 Twelve large and one hundred small paper copies printed 
 for private circulation.
 
 " COLLECTANEA GIGGLESWICKIANA." 
 
 DOMESDAY BOOK. 
 
 The earliest written records of our parish remain in the 
 pages of Domesday Book, and I give a facsimile of some of 
 the entries relating to this neighbourhood. 
 
 j[) pi^jwnr ^6 v(f . iu &sraA.c(b. 
 
 " ( * ' f ' i' e '~St 
 
 * T f Ti. tt" 
 
 ^ln Anele. fcfe Pa.iti. 
 
 etczmc. 
 
 Set out at full length the above would be roughly trans- 
 lated as follows :
 
 LAND OF ROGER OF POICTOU. 
 
 f 
 
 Manor. In Ghigelesvvic (Giggleswick) Fech had four 
 carucates to be taxed. In Stranforde (Stainforth) three 
 carucates. In Rodemele (Rathmell) two carucates. In 
 Chirchebi (Kirkby Malham) two carucates. In Litone (Litton 
 or qy. Linton) six carucates. These berewicks belong to the 
 above-mentioned manor. Roger of Poictou now has them. 
 
 In Cuningestone (Coniston) William de Percy held two 
 carucates to be taxed, but Roger de Poictou has it. 
 
 Manor. In Bernulfesuuic (Barnoldswick) Gamel had 
 twelve carucates to be taxed. Berenger de Todeni held it, 
 but now it is in the Castellate of Roger de Poictou. 
 
 Manor. In Prestune (Long Preston) Ulf had three 
 carucates to be taxed, and one church. In Stainforde 
 (Stainforth) three carucates. In Wiclesforde (Wigglesworth) 
 one carucate. In Helgefelt (Hellifield) one carucate and a 
 half. In Neuhuse (Newsome) half a carucate. In Padehale 
 (Painley) one carucate. In Ghiseburne (Gisburn) two caru- 
 cates. In Hortone (Horton-in-Ribblesdale) one carucate and 
 a half. In Cheuebroc (Kelbrook) six oxgangs. In Croches 
 (Crooks) two oxgangs to be taxed. 
 
 Manor. In Chetelwelle (Kettlewell) Ulf had one caru- 
 cate to be taxed. In Hubergheham Hubboram) half a 
 carucate. In Stamphotone (Starbottom) half a carucate. 
 
 Manor. In Anele (Anley) Burun had three carucates of 
 land to be taxed. Setel (Settle) three carucates to be taxed. 
 
 Manor. In Witrebvrne (Winterburn) Torfin had three 
 carucates of land to be taxed. In Leuetat (Leslat) three 
 carucates. In Flatebi (Flasby) four carucates. In Gere- 
 graue (Gargrave) two carucates. In Neutone (Newton) two 
 carucates. In Hortune (Horton) two carucates. In Selesat 
 (Selside) one carucate. 
 
 Manor. In the same Torfin had two carucates of land 
 to be taxed.
 
 Other entries in Domesday Book are as follows : 
 
 Manor. In Rodemare (Rathmell) Carl had two carucates 
 to be taxed. In Winchelesuurde (Wigglesworth) ten oxgangs. 
 In Helgiflet (Hellifield) two carucates and a half. 
 
 Manor. In Lanclif (Langcliffe) Fech had three caru- 
 cates to be taxed. 
 
 Manor. In Stacuse (Stackhouse) Archil had three 
 carucates to be taxed. 
 
 In Geregrave (Gargrave) three carucates. In Otreburn 
 (Otterburn) three carucates. In Scotorp (Scosthrop) three 
 carucates. In Malgon (Malham) three carucates. In Anlei 
 (Anley) two carucates. In Coningeston (Coniston) three 
 carucates. In Hoelgefeld (Hellifield) three carucates. In 
 Hanelif (Hanlith) three carucates. These all belong to 
 Bodeltone (Bolton). 
 
 LAND OF THE KING. 
 
 Soke. Anleie (Anley) two carucates. Hangelif (Han- 
 lith) three carucates. They are waste. 
 
 As to the dimensions of a carucate, I feel I cannot do 
 better than quote Canon Isaac Taylor, who says : 
 
 " In the Domesday survey of the northern shires two 
 phrases occur in the account of almost every manor. These 
 are the carucata ad geldum, the " geldable carucate," which 
 was the fiscal unit for purposes of taxation ; and the terra ad 
 unam carucam, the " arable carucate,'' which was the unit for 
 agricultural purposes. This arable carucate is that which is 
 so often mentioned in contemporary documents, the geldable 
 carucate being used chiefly in Domesday, which was a record 
 for fiscal purposes. Naturally, these two measures of land 
 have been confused. Fleta, a writer on English Agriculture, 
 who lived in the reign of Edward I., only two hundred years 
 after Domesday, gives an account of the carucate which is 
 the key to the Domesday mensuration. He says that if the 
 land lay in three arable fields that is, if a three-year shift 
 were adopted, the whole carucate consisted of one hundred 
 and eighty acres, sixty acres in one field for Winter tillage,
 
 8 
 
 sixty acres in another for Lent tillage, and sixty acres in a 
 third for fallow ; whereas in a two-year shift, when the land 
 lay in two fields, the carucate consisted of one hundred and 
 sixty acres, eighty for tillage and eighty for fallow. 
 
 From the actual measurements of manors which have 
 remained unchanged to modern times it is possible to 
 recognise the two-field and the three-field manors, and to 
 show that in three-field manors the Domesday carucata ad 
 geldum was normally sixty acres, the land tilled in one field 
 in one year by one plough, while the terra ad unum carucam was 
 one hundred and twenty acres, the land tilled in both fields 
 in one year by one plough, and the whole carucate, including 
 fallow, was one hundred and eighty acres. In two-field 
 manors, both the carucata ad geldum and the terra ad unam caru- 
 cam were eighty acres, and the whole carucate including 
 fallow, one hundred and sixty acres, by the reckoning locally 
 used, either the Norman hundred of five score, or the Eng- 
 lish hundred of six score." 
 
 It seems strange to us that eight hundred years ago, 
 Anley, now consisting of a single house, should have been a 
 hamlet or township.
 
 A LIST OF THE SOLDIERS UNDER 
 
 CAPTAINE PARKER, 1661. 
 
 RATHMELL. 
 
 Charles Nowell 
 John Armistead 
 Robt. Settle 
 John Armistead, jun. 
 Tho. Knowles 
 Will. Bankes 
 Richard Preston 
 Gyelse Hoghton 
 Richard Husband 
 
 UNPAID POLL TAX. 
 
 A pticular Note of what Money is behinde and unpaid 
 of the Pole money w th in the severall pishes of Gigleswicke, 
 Gysborne & longe Preston, the pties upon whome the same 
 were assessed some of them have billeted souldiers & were 
 not assessed above xij d a piece some have paid in other places 
 and some were gone out of their services & some dead betwixt 
 the tyme of the assessinge & collectinge of the said pole 
 money as by seuall certificates under the pettie Constables 
 & assessors hands doth appeare. 
 
 s. d. 
 ALLOWED to billiters of souldiers not 
 
 assessed above 1 2 d a man 23 o 
 
 Mort 2 2 o 
 
 paid in other places 9 o 
 
 gone out of their services so many .psns 
 
 as were asse d , 9 6 
 
 43 6
 
 10 
 
 LETTER OF PROTECTION 
 
 GRANTED BY GENERAL LAMBERT WHILST ENCAMPED WITH 
 THE PARLIAMENTARY ARMY AT GIGGLESWICK. 
 
 To all Captaines Lieutenants and all other Officers and 
 Souldiers w th in the liberties of Craven. 
 
 Theise are to Charge and require yo n and everie of 
 yo u that you forbear to enter the house of Edward Parker of 
 Brousholme Esq r - by night, or to take anie horses or other 
 goods from him, eyther w th in the house or w th out the house, 
 Eyther by day or by night, w tb out speciall Command from 
 mee : as yo u and everie of yo u will Answer the Contrarie at 
 yo r pills. Giuen at Gigleswicke vnder my hand the Nyne- 
 teenth daie of December, 1643. 
 
 JOHN LAMBERT. 
 
 LADY BURLINGTON'S RENTS. 
 
 From the Clifford Papers at Bolton Hall we find that in 
 the year 1651, the first lady Burlington's rent-roll included 
 property in Giggleswick of the annual value of ^48 i6s. 3d., 
 in Settle ^56 is. gd., and in Long Preston 51 igs. od. 
 
 BRITISH CANOE. 
 
 In June 1863, as some workmen were draining the fields 
 which were formerly covered by the waters of Giggleswick 
 Tarn, they came upon an ancient canoe, buried some five 
 feet below the surface, and evidently of Celtic or British 
 workmanship. It had been hollowed out of the trunk of a 
 large oak tree, and when found was in an excellent state of 
 preservation. The dimensions of the boat are as follows : 
 
 Length over all ... ... 8ft. lin. 
 
 Breadth, inside ift. gin. 
 
 ,, including two " wash- 
 boards ... ... 3ft. oin. 
 
 Depth, inside ... ... ... ift. 2in. 
 
 ,, outside ... ift. fin. 
 
 "Perils."
 
 II 
 \ 
 
 The Canoe was presented by Mr. Hartley, the owner of 
 the property, to the Museum of the Leeds Philosophical 
 Society, where it may now be seen. 
 
 It has unfortunately, in process of drying, shrunk and 
 cracked very much, and one of the " washboards " is missing, 
 which reduces its present breadth to 2ft. 6in. ; and these 
 " wash boards " are not the least curious parts of the canoe, 
 they were fastened to the sides by round plugs of wood, and 
 were evidently intended to steady the boat. 
 
 Through the stern end of the canoe is a round hole, pos- 
 sibly intended to thrust a pole through, for the purpose of 
 steering or paddling ; tho' this was found plugged up with a 
 conical piece of wood. 
 
 Two iron crooks, each about eighteen inches long, and 
 fastened together by a ring of iron, were found near it and 
 looked as if intended for a rude anchor. 
 
 The sight of this old boat calls up many reflections as 
 one thinks of the old savage who owned it, paddling about 
 where are now fertile pastures, at times enticing the wily 
 trout to his hook, and at other times, it may be, taking the 
 "trippers" of that day for "an hour's row on the lake." 
 And one wonders whether the dream indulged in by many at 
 the present time of seeing the sign 
 
 GIGGLESWICK TARN. 
 
 PLEASURE BOATS ON HIRE 
 
 will ever be realized. 
 
 I may add that our illustration is from a photograph I 
 had specially taken by the kind permission of the Leeds 
 Philosphical Society.
 
 12 
 
 AN OLD ACCOUNT OF SETTLE. 
 
 In Cox's History of Yorkshire the following notices are 
 given of Settle and Giggleswick. I think them worth re- 
 printing on account of the scarcity of the book. 
 
 " Giggleswick, a village situate on the River Ribble. At 
 this Town is a noted School, founded by one Mr. Bridges, 
 and well endowed." 
 
 " Settle hath its Market weekly on Tuesday, and Fair 
 
 yearly on . It is a good town and the Lordship very 
 
 early belonged to the Piercy's, at length earls of Northumber- 
 land. Richard the son of Josceline of Levaine, who by his 
 Contract of Marriage with the Heriess of William de^Percy, 
 named Agnes, was to assume the name of Piercy, was in 
 Possession of her Estates, of which this was a part ; and left 
 it at his death to his youngest Son Henry ; but not enjoying 
 it quietly by Reason of some Claim, his other Brother, William, 
 had to it, he gave him the Manor of Hesset in Sussex to release 
 his Title to it. Henry seems either to have left no issue, or that 
 they were extinct in the Reign of Edw. II Reg. 4 for then 
 we find Henry, the Descendant from William his elder 
 Brother, in Possession of this Manor of Settle, and procuring 
 the King's Charter of Free Warren for all his Demesne Lands 
 here, and elsewhere, in this and other Counties ; and after 
 him Idomea, the Widow of another Henry, who lived in 
 King Edward Ill's Reign, Anno 20, was assigned this and 
 some other Estates for her Dowry." 
 
 HUTTON'S TOUR. 
 
 A little more than a hundred years ago the Rev. John 
 Hutton made an Excursion to Settle, and he published a 
 little book detailing his experiences. Our author broaches 
 the astounding theory that the marine shells which are to be 
 found at the tops of the hills, are there, owing to the impact of a 
 comet with the earth. 
 
 The following is extracted from his book 
 
 " At Stainforth, which is about three miles from Horton, 
 and two from Settle, we were entertained with two cascades, 
 one in the Ribble near the road, about 6 or 8 yards high, and 
 another, a little above the village, perhaps 20 or 30 yards 
 perpendicular.
 
 13 
 
 About a quarter of a mile before we arrived at Settle, we 
 turned to the right, along the road towards Kirkby Lonsdale, 
 about a mile, under the high and romantic rocks called Gig- 
 leswick-scar ; in order to see the well by the way side which 
 ebbs and flows. We were in luck, seeing it reciprocate 
 several times while we were there, and not staying above an 
 hour. We could not however learn with any degree of cer- 
 tainty, by what intervals of time, and to what depths and 
 heights, the reciprocation was carried on. We were informed 
 that if the weather was either very droughty or very wet, the 
 phaenomenon ceased. I have seen some philosophical at- 
 tempts to solve this extraordinary curiosity on the principle 
 of the syphon, but in vain ; as on that hypothesis, if the 
 syphon is filled by the spring it will flow on uniformly for 
 ever. We are told by ' drunken Barnaby ' that it puzzled the 
 wits of his age. 
 
 Two country gentlemen, about 30 or 40 years ago, prom- 
 ised something more successful in the issue of a paper war 
 that was carried on between them, to the great amusement 
 of the neighbourhood. Nothing however was determined or 
 contended for about this well, so famous in History, whether 
 it was a natural curiosity or not. 
 
 Settle is irregularly built, has a large and spacious market 
 place but not many good houses in it. Though by no means 
 an inconsiderable town either for trade, riches, or number of 
 inhabitants, it has no church or chapel. The church is at 
 Giggleswick, about a mile off, which appeared to be the court 
 end of the parish. 
 
 From Settle we proceeded eastward over the moors and 
 mountains about half a dozen miles, to Malham or Maum, in 
 order to see some other natural curiosities of the precipice 
 and cataract kind. We had indeed seen so many, that our 
 wonder could not easily be excited, except they were more 
 great and terrible. As such we had them represented at 
 Settle, or else we should scarce have left the turnpike road ; 
 and when we saw them we were not disappointed, for great 
 and terrible they were."
 
 DR. BURTON'S ARREST. 
 
 The following account of his adventures at Settle is 
 from the narrative of Dr. Burton, in his pamphlet entitled 
 " British Liberty Endangered." 
 
 This Dr. Burton was the celebrated author of the " Mon- 
 asticon Ebor.," and his account gives us a good idea of the 
 unsettled times in which he lived. 
 
 " On Friday November 22, 1745, about Noon, an Express 
 arrived at the Guild-Hall in the City of York, to acquaint the 
 Lord Mayor, that the Van Guard of the Highland Army was 
 arriv'd at Kendal ; but that it was uncertain, whether they 
 would take the Yorkshire or the Lancashire Rout. If the 
 first then they must have march'd. thro' the Lordship of 
 Nuby, in which Manor, my two estates of Birkwith and 
 South-House lie, where I had Rent to the amount of \2.o 
 Sterling, due to me from the Michaelmas Day preceding. 
 
 As at this Time the City Gates were lock'd up at Ten 
 o'Clock at Night, and not open'd again 'till a little before 
 Sun-rise in the Morning, ; and as the Place I was to go to 
 was distant 48 computed miles from York, the Roads bad and 
 Days short ; I could not pretend to go it in one Day, unless I 
 set out before the usual time of opening the City Gates, and 
 as that could not be done without an Order from the Lord 
 Mayor, I publicly desir'd that favour of him (who as well as 
 others had heard the Reasons of my going) and my Request 
 was granted ; and the Lord Mayor then sent one of the 
 domestic Officers to the Officer who was to be upon Guard 
 that night, with Orders to permit me to go out of the Gates, 
 at what hour I pleas'd next Morning. 
 
 As I knew several sersons in York had Dealings in Settle 
 and Skipton I offered if they had any letters, or small Parcels, 
 that my Man should carry 'em ; but by good Luck (as Things 
 turn'd out afterwards) they had none to send.
 
 15 
 
 I accordingly set out next Morning, being Saturday the 
 23rd ; but not so soon as propos'd on account of the heavy 
 Rain, which continu'd 'till near Seven o'Clock, and did not 
 quite cease till after Sun-rise. 
 
 It would be needless to relate all the Particulars of my 
 Journey 'till I got to Settle, which was between nine and ten 
 o'Clock in the same Evening, when and where an Express 
 just went thro' the town, for the West of Yorkshire, and 
 brought the account of the Highlanders having taken the 
 Rout towards Lancaster. Upon this I wrote to the Recorder 
 and my Wife, by next Morning's Post, to acquaint 'em there- 
 with ; and that I propos'd to be at Home on Tuesday or 
 Wednesday following if I could get my Tenants and Work- 
 men together. 
 
 This very Pay I went to Hornby, which is the nearest 
 Market Town to my Estate ; where I could- have any toller- 
 able Accommodation. But as ill Luck wou'd have it, here 
 was I taken Prisoner as my Barber was shaving me at my 
 Inn, by a Party of the Highland Army, who had conducted 
 Lord Elcho and other Gentlemen to Hornby Castle, to dine 
 and see the Place. It cou'd not be Curiosity that led me 
 hither, because the Express of the Night before did assure 
 me, that the Highlander's Rout was at least 12 miles from 
 that Place And I cou'd prove, if requir'd by the Oaths of 
 several honest Men, that I had not the least Intelligence of 
 this Party. 
 
 I then returned to Settle that Night, where my Tenants 
 and Workmen were waiting for me according to Order, at my 
 Inn. The Workmen who had been building and repairing 
 the Houses and Out-Houses were all paid, and Mr. William 
 Hall, my Tenants, and I, then settled Accounts, and I had the 
 whole of the Ballance, to the Amount of about 60 Pounds, in 
 either Bills or Money from Mr. Hall. These Bills I had 
 Money for, from several Inhabitants of York, after my Return 
 from Settle, which I left next Morning, and got to York that 
 Night about nine o'clock. 
 
 I have been a little more particular about my Tenants 
 and Workmen, because some here, according to their usual
 
 i6 
 
 Candour, gave it out, that I had no legal Business in that 
 Country. But if this had been the Case, or my enemies had 
 suspected any ill Design ; as my Return was publickly known, 
 Why was I not seized on the Road, or as soon as I arriv'd. 
 
 Upon my being seen (altho' a Prisoner) with the High- 
 landers, a Quaker, one B-rb-k of Settle (who abounded more 
 with the evil Spirit and Malice, than with Meekness and 
 Truth) sent the News Express to York, which not a little 
 surpris'd every one ; my Friends with Concern lest the High- 
 landers should hurt me ; and my Enemies with Joy, in Hopes 
 that now they should have a Pretence of doing me an Injury 
 with Impunity. 
 
 This Piece of News made my Wife apprehensive, that 
 an Order might be given to the Guards at Micklegate Bar to 
 seize me as I should enter the City ; and as she had often 
 heard me declare that, were those people to use me in the 
 same illegal Manner they had used other People, that I would 
 shoot the first man who should attack me ; and as she also 
 saw me change my Pistols before I went (according to my 
 Custom when I go a journey) a-nd knew my resolute Disposi- 
 tion ; she was afraid if these Men should attempt to stop and 
 seize me, that I should be as good as my Word ; and there- 
 fore sent a person out of the Bar to desire in Case of such 
 an Attempt, that I would not offer to make any Resistance. 
 
 At my return Home, my Wife and some Company she 
 had with her, told me the Report and Hurry that was occa- 
 sion'd by this Quaker ; upon which I sent to acquaint the 
 Recorder with my Arrival ; who said he desir ? d to see me 
 that Night, if convenient ; and notwithstanding I was so 
 wearied, I went, and over a Bottle of Wine, told him every 
 Thing which had befell me, and further agreed to go with him 
 the next Morning to our then Archbishop, Dr. Thomas 
 Herring."
 
 SETTLE BEAUTIES. 
 
 Montagu, in his " Gleanings in Craven " proves that he 
 had an eye for the beautiful, not only of the inanimate, but of 
 the animate ; and I reproduce some of his remarks which are 
 as applicable today as when written : 
 
 ! ' I was much struck with the appearance of Settle and 
 the neighbourhood of Giggleswick, which is, as it were 
 sprinkled with beautifully detached villas, and seems as if 
 respectability and wealth had selected this part of Craven for 
 its head-quarters ; and I was likewise forcibly reminded when 
 here, of a truth which has perplexed all my "philosophy," 
 that, towards the most mountainous countries, small feet and 
 delicately turned ankles invariably abound ; and as an anato- 
 mical sequiter the best figures ; the former being inseparable 
 from the latter. Yorkshire women and pretty feet, are so 
 prettily associated in my mind that I shall never think of them 
 apart, and I shall think of them continually. A beautiful 
 face certainly bequeaths a sweet legacy to the memory, (if not 
 to the heart,) but the codicil affixed by observation greatly 
 affects the will, if the face be unsupported by small and 
 beautiful feet and ankles. A pretty face and bad feet and 
 ankles is like a Dutch-built vessel with an elegant figure 
 head."
 
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 CELTIC WALL. 
 
 There are few places in the Parish of Giggleswick more 
 interesting to the Archaeologist than Smearside and its 
 immediate locality. Here may be found traces of old earth- 
 works, circular dwellings, tumuli, &c., and several parts of a 
 Celtic Wall yet remain in fair condition. It is probable that 
 this wild spot has been the scene of many a contest in olden 
 times, and doubtless when the neighbouring tumuli come to 
 be examined, some interesting discoveries will be the result. 
 
 I give an engraving of one of the best preserved portions 
 of the wall above mentioned. It runs along the top of the 
 hill opposite Smearside, parallel to its steepest side ; the 
 measurements of this particular piece being 26 yards in 
 length, about 5ft. 6in. in height, and 5ft. 3in. in breadth at the 
 base. The weather-beaten old stones, which have stood here 
 undisturbed for centuries, bid fair to stand for ages more, as 
 they are well and skilfully laid, altho' no mortar or lime 
 binds them together ; and very possibly they may see the 
 time when the inhabitants of our valley will consider us of 
 the present generation to have been as uncivilized as we 
 regard the builders of the old wall ; and it is devoutly to be 
 hoped that no farmer, finding these stones ready to his hand, 
 may use them for walling and such like purposes. 
 
 A little to the south of the part of which I give a view, 
 another portion of the wall, about 17 yards in length, may be 
 seen. This however is not in so good a state of preservation 
 as the former, indeed for about half its length there is nothing 
 more to be seen than the foundations peeping just above the 
 surface.
 
 SETTLE IN "1773. .;> 
 
 In the year 1773 the well known Antiquarian and Bot- 
 anist, Thomas Pennant, visited Settle whilst on a Tour from 
 Downing to Alston Moor. After leaving Malham, he says : 
 
 " Cloud Berries are found plentifully on the Moors be- 
 tween Malham and Settle. They take their name from their 
 lofty situation. I have seen the berries in the Highlands of 
 Scotland served as a dessert. The Swedes and Norwegians 
 preserve great quantities in autumn to make tarts and other 
 confections, and esteem them as excellent antiscorbutics. 
 The Laplanders bruise and eat them in the milk of reindeer, 
 and preserve them quite fresh till spring by burying them in 
 the snow. 
 
 I descended an exceedingly tedious and steep road, having 
 on the right a range of rocky hills with broken precipituous 
 fronts. At the foot of a monstrous lime-stone rock, called 
 Castleberg, that threatens destruction, lies Settle, a small 
 'town in a little vale, exactly resembling a shabby French 
 town with a 'place' in the middle. Numbers of coiners and 
 filers lived about the place, at this time entirely out of work, 
 by reason of the recent salutary law respecting the weight of 
 gold. 
 
 I dined here at the neatest and most comfortable little 
 inn I ever was at, rendered more agreeable by the civility and 
 attention of the landlady. This is a market town, and has a 
 small trade in knit-worsted stockings, which are made here 
 from two to five shillings a pair. The great hill of Penygent 
 is seen from hence, and is about six miles distant. 
 
 Settle is destitute of a Church ; its parish is that of Gig- 
 gleswick, higher up the vale, which I passed after crossing 
 the Ribble, which hurries from its source a few miles higher, 
 on the back of Wharnside-hill between Blea-moor and Snays- 
 fell.
 
 2O 
 
 This parish was one of the most ancient manors of the 
 Percies. I believe it to have been included among the eighty- 
 six in this county granted by the Conqueror to William de 
 Perci, one of his Norman followers : but the first time I find 
 mention of the Manor of Settle, as their property, is in 1230, 
 the fifteenth of Henry III. 
 
 A little beyond the village, the road is continued on the 
 right side of the vale, beneath a long and lofty scar of the 
 same name. It runs for a mile in length ; the height 
 decreases with the ascent of the road, but preserves a level 
 on its top the whole way. This scar is of white limestone, 
 finely overgrown with ivy, has a mineral appearance, and 
 bits of lead ore, found in forming the turnpike-road, give 
 earnest of important discovery. 
 
 The famous flowing spring lies on the road side beneath 
 this scar. It is a well of small size, which ebbs and flows 
 once in a quarter of an hour, and sometimes with that force 
 as to rise a foot high. I watched it for some time, but it 
 happened to be quiescent ; my patience was exhausted, and 
 I pursued my journey. 
 
 The " Potentilla verna" or " Vernal Cinquefoil," Fl. Sc. 
 1,270, is found near this well ; and those who delight in mosses, 
 may discover, on the adjacent rocks, the " Lichen crinitus" 
 and " polyrhizos," Fl. Sc. 11,860 and 864. 
 
 From this spot I had a fine view of Pendle hill which 
 appeared quite insulated. 
 
 On gaining the summit of the road, the Apennines of 
 England appeared full in view ; the tops often rise into little 
 mounts, and the sides very rocky. On the left is a flat 
 bounded by heathy hills, and intermixed with dreary moors."
 
 SETTLE MARKET IN 1813. 
 
 The following ' poem ' on Settle Market seventy- four 
 years ago is said to have been written by an officer of a 
 detachment of troops who were passing through the town. 
 Altho' written in a sarcastic vein it contains a good deal of 
 truth, and is not wholly inapplicable to the present time. 
 
 The shades of night returned the morning fair, 
 
 When to the market wonderous crowds repair, 
 
 Anxious to gain the busy bustling place 
 
 They now and then increase their eager pace ; 
 
 What mercy 'tis to pass the crowded road, 
 
 And have no accidents their feelings goad. 
 
 Then having reached the wide and spacious square, 
 
 Surprised you meet the great assemblage there. 
 
 There's twice ten men and twice ten women too, 
 
 At one wide look you have them all in view. 
 
 Behold three carts with fine potatoes filled, 
 
 Produced from fields that industry has tilled ; _ . 
 
 You men of Settle this a favour view, 
 
 For you have long 13id by the useful plough ; 
 
 No teams in spring to cultivate your fields, 
 
 You reap alone the verdour nature yields. 
 
 Think not potatoes here alone are sold, 
 
 There's what makes Yorkshire men so strong and bold, 
 
 Oatmeal, the grand supporter of his frame, 
 
 Which gives him strength to gain a mighty name, 
 
 Oh ! great supporter, we, deprived of thee 
 
 Of smaller stature every one would be. 
 
 Yorkshire for oatmeal, Yorkshire is the place, 
 
 Her sons rise up like Hog's gigantic race : 
 
 Their Riddle-bread gives them baath strength and mettle, 
 
 For proof look round and view the men of Settle. 
 
 Ten slaughtered sheep, and pigs in number three 
 
 You in the great and mighty market see, 
 
 So great a market scarce from pole to pole, 
 
 Six pecks of apples makes the wonderous whole.
 
 22, 
 
 SETTLE OLD STOCKS. 
 
 With the progress of civilization we have discarded many 
 of the punishments which our ancestors inflicted or suffered 
 as the case may be, amongst these being confinement 
 in " the stocks.' 1 Without doubt many of these punishments 
 were barbarous, and their disuse is a matter of congratulation, 
 but as to the stocks I venture to think there is much to be 
 said in their favor, and altho' some tender-hearted humani- 
 tarians will doubtless howl at me, I must say that I should 
 not be sorry were their use to be revived in certain cases. 
 For instance " Five shillings and costs " is all very well in a 
 case of simple drunkenness, but it is possible that three hours' 
 quiet meditation in the stocks would be a more effective 
 deterrent, whilst the six hours reflection that a man caught 
 in the act of gambling on a Sunday, was constrained to indulge 
 in, would surely induce him to forswear that bad habit. 
 
 At Giggleswick there may yet be seen, at the foot of the 
 old market cross, the remains of the parish stocks. One post 
 has been broken off and the moveable upper wooden beam is 
 missing, but the other post still remains, whilst the lower 
 stone, into which the ancles fitted and on which the upper 
 wooden part rested, still acts as a silent monitor. 
 
 At Settle the stocks consisted entirely of wood, and have 
 been moved bodily away. I give an engraving of them, as 
 they are rapidly going to decay, and will probably soon be 
 numbered amongst the " have-beens." The honour of having 
 been the last person to occupy them involuntarily lies between 
 Messrs. " Tal Bradley " and " Jimmy Carr " ; but one thing 
 is certain, that " Tal," who was a fruit hawker, used to sell 
 more oranges whilst in durance than at any other time. 
 
 SETTLE IN 1796. 
 
 In the year 1796 the Hon. Mrs. Murray Aust passed 
 through Settle in the course of a tour, and penned the follow- 
 ing as her impressions of the place : 
 
 " From Chapel-in-the-Dale, by Horton, to Settle is 10 
 miles ; but I think not a carriage road. At Korton are many 
 curiosities. On the road to the right is a curious stone quarry.
 
 23 
 
 At Stainforth two waterfalls on the river Kibble. The vale 
 of Horton is so shaded from the sun, and so cold, nothing 
 ripens in it, not even potatoes. It consists of sheep farms, and 
 I was told at Settle, that notwithstanding the climate of 
 Hortondale, there are many farmers living in it possessing 
 from two to three hundred pounds a year. 
 
 From Ingleton to Settle, by the turnpike road is 10 miles ; 
 that drive is delightful, from the great variety of mountains, 
 wood, crags, and water. The town of Clapham is delight- 
 fully situated, and the Clapham Scars are fine ; but-Crowness 
 Scars, on the left in ascending the mountain, , before the 
 descent to Settle, are very singular, and particularly grand ; 
 being, as it were, a long range of fine castles in ruins, with 
 Gothic Gateways, pillars, &c. Just after Crowness Scars, 
 and a short way distance from Settle, are the magnificent 
 Giggleswick Scars, under which, close on the road's ^side, is 
 the well which ebbs and flows. 
 
 The situation of Settle is under vast mountains] and 
 crags. A whiteish rock, like towers, called Castleberg rises 
 almost perpendicularly from the houses at the back of the 
 town ; it has zig-zag walks made up it, and from the top is 
 an extensive view over Ribblesdale : this rock is walled round 
 to prevent cattle or man from injuring it ; it now belongs to 
 the town of Settle. The river which runs by Settle is the 
 Ribble. The bed-rooms at the inn are middling ; the parlour 
 is very good, and the Fausets, who kept it in 1796, were very 
 civil, accommodating, intelligent people. 
 
 The distance, over the moors and mountains, from 
 Settle to Gordale, is 6 miles." 
 
 Mrs. Aust went from Settle to Malham, and altho' her 
 opinion of the natives of the latter place is very uncompli- 
 mentary, it is amusing on account of her prejudice. 
 
 " The alehouse at the village of Maum affords no enter- 
 tainment for man, and but little for horses: the people too 
 are the most stupid I ever met with : I could procure no 
 information ; and it was with difficulty I got a guide, who at 
 last was only a lout of a boy, who could just lead the way to 
 the left, a mile to Gordale Scar ; and to the right afterwards, 
 half a mile, to Maum Tor."
 
 LOCAL GLEANINGS 
 
 ("j^eprinied from the ^sttls i^jousehold ^Imaqack Jar 1898.) 
 
 (Compiled by (G)hos. 
 
 SETTLE : 
 
 THE CRAVEN FEINTING AND STATIONERY COMPANY, LIMITED.
 
 LOCAL GLEANINGS. 
 
 CHANTRIES IN GIGGLESWICK CHURCH. 
 
 Towards the close of King Henry VIII's reign a Com- 
 mission was appointed to make an enquiry into all the 
 Chantries attached to the various Churches through- 
 out the country. The first set of the following notes is 
 from the Report of these Commissioners. The King's 
 death however interrupted the work, and in the first year 
 of King Edward VI. the Archbishop of York, Robert 
 Chaloner, Thomas Gargrave, and Henry Savyll, by virtue 
 of the King's Commission to them of the i4th Feb. 1548, 
 granted the second set of certificates, relating to the same 
 Chantries as the previous ones. 
 
 THE CHAUNTERIE OF OUR LADY IN THE PAROCH CHURCH OF 
 GYGLESWYKE, CALLED STANFORD CHAUNTERIE. 
 
 Richard Somerskayle, incumbent. Of the foundacion of 
 Robert Stanford, esquier, to pray for the sowle of the 
 founder and all Christen sowles, who did gyve certen landes 
 to the late monastery of Salley, for the intent that the 
 first incumbent herof and his successors for ever shulde 
 have one aiinuytie of iiij/i yerlie, goynge furth of the 
 possessions of the said monasterye. 
 
 The same is in the saide paroch Church, and used 
 accordinge to the foundacion. Ther is no landes alienate 
 sithens the statute.
 
 Goodes, ornamentes, and plate belonginge to the same, 
 as apperyth by inventory, viz. : goodes valued at xjs. 
 v'njd., and plate, nil. 
 
 The sayde incumbent haith and receyvyth yerlie one 
 annuytie of iiij/*., goynge furth of the possessions of the 
 late monastery of Salley, payd by thandes of Sir Arthure 
 Daryce. 
 
 Wherof 
 
 Paiable to the Kynges Majestic yerelie for the tenthe, viijs. 
 And so remanyth, Ixxijs. 
 
 THE CHAUNTERIE OF THE ROODE 
 IN THE SAME PAROCH CHURCH OF GYGLESWYKE. 
 
 Thomas Husteler, incumbent. Of the foundacion of James 
 Skarr', prist. To th' intent to pray for the sowle of the 
 founder and all Cristen sowles, and to synge masse, every 
 Friday, of the Name of Jhesu, and, of the Saterday, of 
 Our Lady. And further that the said incumbent shulde 
 be sufficientlie sene in playnsonge and gramer and to helpe 
 dyvyne service in the same churche. 
 
 The same is in the saide churche and used accordinge 
 to the foundacion. Ther is no landes aliened sithens the 
 statute. 
 
 Goodes, ornamentes, and plate perteynynge to the same, 
 as apperyth by the inventorye, viz. : goodes valued at 
 xixs. ijd., and plate, xlijs. 
 
 First, one mesuage with th' appurtenances in Oter- 
 bourne, in the tenure of Cuthberte Carre, xxiiijs. ; Christopher 
 Tompson, ijs. ; John Smyth, one cotage, ijs. ; Henry Atkinson, 
 one mesuage with th' appurtenances ther, xviijs. ; the wyff 
 of Thomas Atkinson, one mesuage and one oxgang of land, 
 xs. ; Thomas Atkinson, one mesuage with th' appurtenan- 
 ces, xvs.; Christopher Thompson, one cotage, vs. ; Richard 
 Thompson, one cotage, vs. ; Henry Swier, j mesuage with 
 th' appurtenaunces, xvs. ; Richard Patenson, one mesuage 
 with th' appurtenaunces, xvs.; and William Haroo', one 
 mesuage with th' appurtenaunces in . . . ., xs. In all, 
 vjli. xijd.
 
 Whereof 
 
 Paiable to the Kinges Majestie yerlie for the tenthes, viijs. 
 \iijd. ; and to John Smyth yerlie for his annuytie durynge 
 his lyffe, vjs. In all, xiiijs. viijd. 
 
 And so remanyth, cvjs., iiijd. 
 
 THE CHAUNTERIE IN THE NORTH SIDE OF THE SAID CHURCH 
 CALLED TEMPEST CHAUNTERIE. 
 
 Ther is none incumbent therof. The same was founded 
 by Sir Richarde Tempest, knight, as it is allegied. To th' 
 entent to pray for the soule of the founder and all Cristen 
 sowles. And ther is yerlie goinge furth of the parsonage 
 of Kirkby Mallondale one annuall rent of iiijli. xiijs. iiijd. 
 for the mantennce of the same, payd by thandes of Sir 
 John Tempest, knight, fermor of the same to the Kinges 
 Majestie. Which parsonage is part of the possessions of 
 the late dissolved monasterie of Derham in the county of 
 Norffolk. 
 
 The same is in the saide paroch church, yet this day 
 vacant. Ther is no landes solde or aliened sithens the 
 statute. 
 
 Goodes, ornamentes, and plate perteynyng to the same 
 as apperyth by inventory, viz. : goodes valued at xxxixs. 
 iiijd., and plate xlviijs. 
 
 Ther is belonging unto this same chauntrie one 
 annuytie or annuall rent of iiijli. xiijs. iiij^. goinge furthe 
 of the parsonage of Kirkby Mallendale payd by thandes 
 of Sir John Tempest, knight, fermor of the same, iiijli. 
 xiijs. iiijd. 
 
 Wherof 
 Payable to the Kinges Majestie yerlie for the tenthes viijs. 
 
 And so remanyth, iiijli. xiijs.
 
 The following are the returns of King Edward's Com- 
 missioners : 
 
 GYGGLESWIKE PARRYSHE. 
 THE CHAUNTRY OF OUR LADY IN THE PARYSHE CHURCHE THERE. 
 
 In the parysh of Gyggleswike is one preist found to serve 
 the cure, besyde the vicar, the nomber of houslyng people 
 is xijc* and the seyd parysh is wyde. 
 
 Rychard Somerskayle, incombent, Ix yeres of age, 
 somewhat learned, hath none other lyving then the said 
 chauntrie. 
 
 Goods, xs. \]d. Plate, x onces di., parcell gylte. 
 
 The yerely value of the seyd chauntrie paide in 
 annuall rent, injli. Coppiehold, nil. 
 
 Wherof 
 Resolutes and deductions by yere, nil. 
 
 THE CHAUNTRY OF THE RODE IN THE SEYD PARYSHE CHURCHE. 
 
 Rychard Carr,f incombent, xxxij yeres of age, well learned, 
 and teacheth a grammer schole there, lycensed to preache, 
 hath none other lyving then the proffitts of the seyd 
 chauntrie. 
 
 Goods, vjs. viij^. Plate, nil. 
 
 The yerely value of the freehold land, vjli. xijd., 
 Coppiehold, nil. 
 
 Wherof 
 
 Resolutes and deductions by yere, vjs. 
 And so remayneth clere to the Kinges Majestic by yere 
 
 CXVS. 
 
 Every person over 14 years of age would be accounted a " houseling " person, or 
 one who received the sacrament; it is therefore estimated that the 1200 
 "houseling people" would represent one half the total population of the 
 parish, which would therefore probably be about 2400. 
 
 t This Richard Carr was the nephew of James Carr, priest, who founded Giggles- 
 wick School in 1507.
 
 THE CHAUNTRY CALLED TEMPEST CHAUNTRIE IN THE NORTH 
 SYDE OF THE SEID PARYSHE CHURCHE. 
 
 Thomas Thomson, incombent, LXX yeres of age, unlerned, 
 hath receyved and had one annuitie of iiijli. xiijs. iiijd. 
 by yere, unto hym payd by Sir John Tempest, knight, out 
 of the parsonage of Kyrkby in Malehome Dale, which he 
 hath not receyved by the space of three yeres last past. 
 
 Goods, xiiijs. iiijd., Plate, xij onces, parcell gylte. 
 
 The yerely value of the seyd chauntrie payd in 
 annuall rent, iiijli. xiijs. nijd. 
 
 Wherof 
 Resolutes and deduccions by yere, nil. 
 
 A SOME OF MONEY GYVEN FOR THE MEYNTENANCE OF A 
 PREIST FOR YERES IN THE SEID CHURCH. 
 
 John Malhome, preist, disseassed, dyd gyve and bequeth 
 by his last will and testament, as apperith by the certificat 
 of Gyggleswike aforeseyd, the some of xxxiijli. vjs. viij^., 
 wherof one Thomas Edon, prist, hath ben founde by the 
 space of vij yeres and di. last past, and hath receyved 
 every yere for his stypend after the rate of iiij7*. iijs. iiijd. 
 amounting to the some of xxxjli. vs. And so remayneth 
 xls. xx<. 
 
 Of the Chantries above referred to the Stainford Chapel 
 was situate in the North Aisle, where the organ now stands, 
 the Tempest Chapel was to the east of this, on the site 
 of the present vestry, whilst the Carr Chapel was in the 
 South Aisle of the Chancel. 
 
 The following certificate as to the continuance of Giggles- 
 wick School is from the Return, dated nth Aug. 1548, by 
 Sir Walter Mildmay and Robert Kelway, to the Commission 
 directing them to enquire what Schools, &c. should be 
 maintained, and the Supplementary Report to the Com- 
 missioners by Henry Saville, the Crown Surveyor.
 
 8 
 
 Carr's School being thus favourably reported on was 
 endowed a few years afterwards out of the property of the 
 
 IPCC frrtnnafp> Prinrw nf A i~ocf <^r 
 
 t^i.L\^v*r vv ^v_i a xt, vv y ^di 3 CUlwA WCIAUC 
 
 less fortunate Priory of Acester 
 
 GIGGLESWIKE. 
 SCOOLE MAYNTEYNED WITH A SOMME OF MONEY. 
 
 Memorandum : that in the seide Parishe one John Malhome, 
 prest, and Thomas Husteler, diseased, did give and 
 bequethe by their last will and testament, as apperith by 
 the certificat of Giggleswike, the some of ^"24 : 13 : 4 
 towardes the maytenaunce of a scoole master there for 
 certyn yeres, whereupon one Thomas Iveson, priest, was 
 procurid to be Scolemaster, which hathe kept a Scole 
 there these three yeres paste, and hathe receyved every 
 yere for his stipende after the rate of ^4 the yere, the hole 
 ;i2, and so remayneth 12, : 13 : 4. 
 
 Continuatur Scole pev quantitatem pecunioe. 
 Examinatur per Henncum Savill, Supeyvisorem. 
 
 "SEXTON DICKY'S" POEMS. 
 
 Between 60 and 70 years ago, Richard Hardacre of Long 
 Preston, better known as " Sexton Dicky," but who des- 
 cribed himself as "The celebrated Ribblesdale Poet," 
 issued an annual sheet of Rhymes, printed at Settle, which 
 contain many local illusions. As specimens I print a 
 few verses culled from various issues of these " Poems." 
 
 The Cotton-Weavers do complain, 
 Their wages are so low again ; 
 And bread is now so very dear, 
 Is the complaints of the last year. 
 
 (1828). 
 
 Unions they are a help to poor, 
 We never had one here before ; 
 A few poor men they do subscribe, 
 A penny a week for to provide. 
 
 (1829).
 
 Times do not mend that I can see, 
 They are as bad as need to be ; 
 Provisions now are quite as dear 
 As when I wrote for you last year. 
 
 (1830). 
 
 For Trade is bad now every where, 
 And some things are exceeding dear ; 
 The Cotton Weavers do complain, 
 Their Wages now are bad again. 
 
 (1832). 
 
 There is one thing I have to tell, 
 Settle Town's Hall, looks very well ; 
 It sets the town out I declare, 
 Useful for market or for fair. 
 
 It's ornamental to the town, 
 It's usefulness is yet unknown ; 
 The architect must be clever, 
 In planning it altogether. 
 
 It's topping, gallant, noble, fine, 
 
 And has been building two years' time ; 
 
 About it now I'll say no more, 
 
 I ne'er saw such a place before. 
 
 A Poor-house built at Giggleswick, 
 And everything likewise made fit ; 
 It is intended for the poor, 
 I thought there was plenty before. 
 
 It is designed for good ends, 
 As poor people have but few friends ; 
 So then I hope that none will rue, 
 If all accounts I hear be true. 
 
 (1834). 
 
 At Rathmell a New Church you'll find, 
 That old and young who hath a mind ; 
 May find a place of worship there, 
 For all who choose to go next year;
 
 10 
 
 At Settle, they also expect, 
 
 Quite a New Church there to erect ; 
 
 It's been talk'd of many a year, 
 
 So now I think the time draws near. 
 
 (1835). 
 
 Settle Town's Hall looks very well, 
 For now they've got both clock and bell ; 
 And the New Church will look quite grand, 
 The plan I do not understand. 
 
 (1836). 
 
 At Skipton a new Church you'll see, 
 A handsome large one it will be ; 
 At Stainforth one they do expect, 
 But have not begun to erect. 
 
 (1837). 
 
 Settle New Church is now complete, 
 And it does look exceeding neat ; 
 They have built a handsome spire, 
 The steeple should have been higher. 
 
 (1838). 
 
 The seventh of January last, 
 There was an exceeding great blast ; 
 It blew up many trees by root, 
 And many buildings did un-roof. 
 
 (1839). 
 
 There ! I think that's quite enough of Dicky's " poetry.' 
 
 DR. COOKSON. 
 
 Died May 8th, 1836, aged 79. Ambrose Cookson, M.D., 
 for many years the principal practitioner in York, and 
 senior physician in the County Hospital, Lunatic Asylum, 
 and other public Institutions. He was a native of York- 
 shire and was educated at Giggleswick by the father of the 
 late Dr. Paley. 
 
 (Gentleman's Magazine).
 
 II 
 MR. WILLIAM BIRKBECK. 
 
 Died Jan. 6th, 1838, at Linton, aged 66. William Birkbeck, 
 Esq., banker, of Settle. He was the first member of the 
 Society of Friends who qualified a 3 a justice of the peace. 
 He was courteous and gentle in his transactions with all, 
 faithful in the discharge of his duties, and persevering 
 almost to a proverb. His interest in the success of 
 Mechanics' Institutes was scarcely less than that of his 
 brother, Dr. Birkbeck, of London. 
 
 (Gentleman's Magazine). 
 
 OLD PLAYBILL. 
 
 The people of Settle have for many years shown a keen 
 appreciation of Dramatic Art, and in the early part of 
 this century many travelling Theatrical Companies visited 
 the place, usually performing in some barn either at Settle 
 or Giggleswick. I possess a number of their early Play- 
 bills, and the following one (A.D. 1821), will give a good 
 idea of the fare our ancestors were treated to. 
 
 NEVER ACTED HERE, 
 
 THEATRE SETTLE. 
 
 On Friday Evening 21st February 1821, 
 
 will be performed the celebrated Play (never acted here), 
 
 called 
 
 2Tf) dFounUltng of tije 
 
 FOREST, 
 
 Or, the Unknown Female. 
 
 Written by William Dimond, Esq., author of ' The 
 Hero of the North,' ' Adrian and Orilla,' ' Hunter of the 
 Alps,' &c. and performed to brilliant and overflowing 
 houses at the Theatre Hay market, with unbounded applause.
 
 12 
 
 The incidents and natural situations pourtrayed through- 
 out this admirable Play, are calculated to fix the attention 
 and call forth the sympathy of every feeling heart, when 
 accompanying the Foundling in his hair-breadth escapes 
 from the murderous bravoes employed by the enemy to 
 deprive him of life ; particularly when the unknown female 
 is represented as a lunatic, to answer the cruel ends of 
 ambition. The subsequent denouement in the third act, 
 between Florian and the unknown female, is allowed to 
 be one of the finest incidents ever introduced on the 
 English stage. 
 
 Florian the Foundling - Mr. Taaffe 
 
 Count de Valmont Mr. Smythson 
 
 Baron Longueville Mr. Hall 
 
 Gaspard - Mr. Lardner 
 
 Bertrand - Mr. Cooper 
 
 Sanguine - Mr. Rowlatt 
 
 Lenoir - Mr. Leyland 
 
 Henrie Master Stanley 
 
 Phillip L'Eclair (with the Song of ' The Bandy Leg'd 
 Captain ') Mr. Lardner, Jun. 
 
 Eugenia (the unknown Female) Mrs. Aldis. 
 
 Geraldine Mrs. Cooper. 
 
 Monica Mrs. James. Rosabella Mrs. Smythson. 
 
 Incidental to the Play, 
 A Pas de deux, by Master Stanley & Miss Cooper. 
 
 End of the Play, 
 
 A Comic Song by Mr. Taaffe. and A Hornpipe by Mr. 
 Lardner, Jun. 
 
 To conclude with the laughable Farce of 
 
 9 
 
 IS* W ffi< t! W IS * ( ft'-, Sik 
 
 9 
 
 OR THE 
 
 turn'tr 
 
 Old Snacks Mr. Lardner. Frank Mr. Hall. 
 
 Rattle Mr. Taaffe. Country Boy Master Stanley. 
 
 Hob Mr. Rowlatt. Robin Rough Head Mr. Cooper. 
 
 Nancy Mrs. Cooper. Dolly Mrs. Smythson. 
 
 Margery Mrs. James.
 
 13 
 
 Tickets to be had of Messrs. Smythson & Cooper, & of 
 W. Walker, Printer. 
 
 Doors to be opened at 6 and to begin precisely at 7 o' Clock. 
 
 Pit 2s. Gallery Is, 
 
 No children in arms admitted. 
 No admittance behind the Scenes. 
 
 THOMAS DENNY. 
 
 The first Church in the ancient parish of Giggleswick, of 
 which we have certain proof, was a Saxon one, built on 
 or close to the site of the present Church of St. Alkelda. 
 
 For centuries the adjacent Churchyard was the only 
 one in a wide district, and until 60 years ago the whole 
 of the burials from the townships of Giggleswick, Settle, 
 Rathmell, Stainforth, and Langcliffe (with few exceptions), 
 took place there. I should estimate therefore that the earthly 
 remains of at least fifteen thousand persons have been laid to 
 rest there, probably far more. 
 
 Amongst this multitude many are worthy of commem- 
 oration, not the least of them being the well-known character, 
 Thomas Denny, the classical scholar, who was buried on 
 the 7th September, 1748. 
 
 An account of this eccentric, yet talented man, is to 
 be found in Whitaker's " Craven," where there is also printed 
 a Latin epitaph on Denny, composed by Major Dawson, 
 but this epitaph was never inscribed on a gravestone, 
 indeed none was erected to mark his last resting place. 
 In the "Gentleman's Magazine" for 1779 is to be found 
 an article on Denny, in which his burial place is wrongly 
 stated to be Melling, as well as a translation of the above- 
 mentioned epitaph. 
 
 The parish registers prove however that Denny was 
 buried in our village Churchyard, and the following extract 
 from an interesting memorandum, made in the year 1826, 
 points out the exact place of burial :
 
 14 
 
 " There is not, nor ever was, any monumental inscrip- 
 ' tion put up to record the place of his interment. That 
 1 place was pointed out to me by old Gilbert Johnson 
 ' (who well remembered this most extraordinary man and 
 ' was present at his funeral), as being close to the wall 
 ' of the Churchyard, about two paces to the left of the 
 ' principal gates." 
 
 It may be noted that Denny died on the 4th Sept., 
 1748. As his birthplace is not known (it is supposed to 
 have been at Halton, near Lancaster), his age cannot be 
 ascertained. The entry in the parish register, of his burial, 
 is written in larger characters than usual, as tho' to point 
 out that the person it referred to was not of an ordinary 
 type. 
 
 It must be noted, in determining the site of Denny's 
 grave, that the "principal gates" stood a little to the north- 
 east of their present site. 
 
 A SETTLE SYSTEM OF SHORTHAND. 
 
 A few years ago some anonymous friend sent me by post 
 a most curious little pamphlet, the Title of which runs 
 
 OR 
 
 INSTRUCTIONS 
 
 for the meanest capacity 
 
 IN SHORT HAND WRITING, 
 
 and attainable in a few hours so as it 
 may be used 
 
 By Tradesmen in all common concerns, 
 proving a saving of Time and Paper, and 
 many other advantages, &c. 
 
 BY C. WALKER, P.D. 
 
 Settle: Printed for the Author by Wm. Walker. 
 (Price 3 shillings.)
 
 15 
 
 I have never found out who sent me the book, but I 
 would here express my sincere thanks to him or her, as it 
 is one of the most treasured of my collection of local works. 
 
 The Author was a genius in his way, but the person 
 who could use the system of shorthand here taught, would 
 in my humble opinion be even more clever, as this is 
 a sample of the " instructions " : 
 
 " I shall begin by saying that you must first write 
 the characters of No. i, upon a slate, or what you please, 
 'till you get them of by art, and be careful about the form 
 and size of them at the beginning and in a little time you 
 will be expeditious, after this gained you then proceed getting 
 your paper or slate ruled as you see in the specimen, then 
 you proceed to get the places of the LETTERS by art 
 so when this is done you proceed to work," &c., &c. 
 
 " The next is sh all words that begin with sh you 
 call that sh and so write short, as for instance you would 
 write shall you set L in that place and then it will stand 
 thus shl which Stenographers read shall, but supposing it 
 to be shortness you set the character T in the place and the 
 character S in the place of N then with the places they 
 stand thus shtns .which is read shortness, and so by two 
 characters marked in their proper places you have five 
 letters for the word," &c., &c. 
 
 As the whole of the above extracts are merely part of 
 one involved paragraph, I gave up in despair an attempt to 
 solve our Author's meaning, and who " C. Walker, P.D." 
 was, and who succeeded in learning his system "of by 
 art " is a mystery I have not yet fathomed. 
 
 A SETTLE SYSTEM OF "AIDS TO MEMORY." 
 
 I have above givsn a short note on a local system of 
 shorthand, but it must not be supposed that an improve- 
 ment in that art was the only science on which the 
 geniuses of this place exercised their ingenuity, as in the 
 year 1827 a Mr. Joseph Broader (who was the first Master 
 at the Settle National School), brought out a book entitled 
 " A New Method of gVrtifwirtl ffiemcvQ, applied to 
 General History, Chronology, &c., Ancient and Modern : 
 containing twenty-seven large-octavo Copperplates."
 
 17 
 
 It would be difficult to clearly describe Mr. Broader's 
 system in a short article, so I re-produce one of the illus- 
 trations that accompanied his work in order to make the 
 matter clearer. 
 
 The events here depicted represent those occurring in 
 the 2nd century, A.D., and the first thing the learner must 
 do is to study the plate until he carries in his memory all 
 the symbols figured thereon. When that is done he can 
 recall to his mind that the first thing pictorially represented 
 at the era in question is the word MAR in a spoon. Mr. 
 Broader intends by this to remind you that Martial the 
 poet, of Spain, flourished at this period. But the connection 
 between sfoon and Spain is striking compared with other of 
 our Author's allusions, for instance the casual observer 
 might not remark the close resemblance of plough and hog 
 to Plutarch, whilst his symbols of a tall M.E. to represent 
 Ptolemy, and a head with double e'en (eyes) to denote Dublin 
 are sufficient to account for the limited success that the 
 ingenious Mr. Broader's efforts to smooth the path of youth, 
 met with. Amongst other objects depicted the reader may 
 note the praying man (the emperor Pius), the ant on the 
 wall (Antoninus 's wall), a boy making a top reel (Marcus 
 Aurelius], &c., &c. 
 
 There can be no doubt but that Broader was a 
 singularly clever man, as can easily be judged from his 
 other works, but his system of Artificial Memory seems to 
 be a monumental example of misplaced ingenuity. 
 
 JAMES DOWN HAM, POET. 
 
 Although the late lamented "Jimmy" Downham was a 
 very well-known man, comparatively few persons are aware 
 that one of his ambitions was to shine as a poet and hymn- 
 writer. 
 
 A collection of his published "hymns" now lies before 
 me and forms pathetic reading, as one cannot refrain from 
 smiling at the oddity of the rhymes and sentiments, whilst 
 the obvious sincerity of the writer and his struggles to put 
 his feelings into verse compel one to take a friendly interest 
 in his efforts.
 
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 It would be out of place to make fun of such well- 
 intentioned effusions, but as I believe few people know 
 Downham's literary compositions I content myself with 
 quoting, without comment, the two concluding verses of 
 one of his hymns : 
 
 If that your sins be red, 
 
 And doth a crimson dye ; 
 Come to the fountain hope amid, 
 
 And wash them white as snow. 
 
 Manasseh, he did so, 
 
 And Paul and Peter too ; 
 And to this fountain they did run, 
 
 And came out pure and clean. 
 
 GALLOWS IN SETTLE. 
 
 In A.D. 1278, King Edward I. directed writs of " Quo 
 Waranto " to be issued enquiring as to the right of particular 
 individuals to exercise certain rights and privileges. 
 
 Previous to this, returns had been made as to who 
 were holding Manors formerly belonging to the Crown, who 
 had turned waste land into game preserves, who exacted 
 illegal tolls, who oppressed their neighbours, &c. These 
 returns are printed in the "Rotuli Hundredorum," and in 
 them we find the following significant entry : 
 
 Wapentake of " Stayncliffe." 
 
 " Setel." Two (or more) gallows lately erected by 
 persons unknown. 
 
 It must of course have been perfectly well known to 
 the local juries, to whom the enquiries had been submitted, 
 who had erected these gallows, but they doubtless stood in fear 
 and trembling of their oppressive Lords and dare not speak 
 freely. Indeed, altho' the gallows at "Setel" were the only 
 ones returned under the "Rotuli Hundredorum" in the 
 Wapentake of Staincliffe, others were discovered at Lether- 
 ston, Carleton, Appletreewick, and Burton-in-Lonsdale, under 
 the more searching enquiries of "quo waranto." 
 
 The mere fact of there having been two gallows at Settle 
 throws a grim light on the state of affairs here in the "good 
 old times" 600 years ago. 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW.
 
 LOCAL EXTRACTS. 
 
 LIEUT. ARTHUR CATERALL. 
 
 The following is a copy of a document which is in the 
 Public Record Office, and is very interesting- as throwing- a 
 vivid light on the troublous times in this locality 250 years 
 ago. It is a claim by Arthur Caterall of Giggleswick, a 
 lieutenant in the Royalist Army, for losses sustained by him 
 during the great Civil War. The total amount of the claim 
 is ^454 IDS. od., a very large sum in those days. 
 
 "A p'ticuler of the losses and sufferinges of Arthure 
 Caterall of Gigelsweecke in Craven and in the County of Yorke, 
 gent., and Leefetennant of Horse under the Earle of New- 
 castle is in Ma" 8 servics. 
 
 s. d. 
 Inprimis I had takne from me per Captayne John 
 
 Lambert's troope of horse and Maios Eaden's 
 five dayes plowing of Oats out of my barne to 
 the value of tenn pownds in the year 1644 ... 10 o o 
 
 My wife payed to Thomas Carr and Thomas 
 Knowles, Sepuesf' or Agents for the Parlament 
 one pownd and six shillinges in the year 1646 i 6 o 
 
 She payed to the aforesayed sequestrators in the 
 
 year 1647 the some of four pownds ... ... 4 o o 
 
 She pd. to John Hodgson of Broughton Agent 1648 
 
 six pownds ... ... ... ... ... 6' o o 
 
 Pd. to Agent in Gigelsweecke at Hugh Stackhouse 
 house in 1648, but the acquittance is lost, four 
 pow' ... ... ... ... ... ... 400
 
 Anthony Foster of Rathmell farmed my estate thre 
 yeares of the Committy at Yorke and plowed 
 my grownd when Beanes was sould for four 
 nobles a bushill and receaved my rents to the 
 value for forty pownds ... ... ... ... 40 o o 
 
 Goods taken by Captayne Ripon's souldgers in the 
 
 yeare 1648 to the value of twenty-nine pownds 29 o o 
 
 I had a bullocke and a heffer taken per John Paley 
 Agent when Maior Rippon's souldgers kept 
 Ingleton Hall to the value of sevven pownds... 700 
 
 Captayne John Lamber's souldgers did take from 
 me four kine and thre horses to Thorneton Hall 
 in the year 1645 to the value of twenty, eight 
 pownds ... ... ... ... ... ... 28 o o 
 
 William Bradley a souldger of Colonel Bridge's did 
 
 ' take from my man in Austweeck one bay nag 
 
 of the value of four pow' ten shill' ... ... 4 10 o 
 
 Collonell Bellingiam's souldgers did take from me 
 
 goods to the value often pownds in 1645 ... 2 o o 
 
 I had had taken in pewther bras and lining by Capt- 
 ayne Rippon's men to the value of aleaven 
 pownds ... ... ... ... ... ...ii o o 
 
 I was taken prisoner by Maior Yeaden's troope of 
 horse and scare wounded that I lay in the perill 
 of death seaven weeckes the losse of my horse 
 armes and cloths and chargis in my sicknes I 
 was damnified twenty pownds and lame of one 
 of my hands ... ... ... ... ... 20 o o 
 
 I was forced to fly into the Scots Armie when his 
 Ma tie was with them at Newcastle and they 
 stole two horses from me worth forty pownds 40 o o 
 
 Upon his Ma 1 '" goeing from the Scots to the English 
 I marched into Scotland and w"'in six weeckes 
 into France and theire I was two yeares my 
 chargis cost me forty-five pownds ... 45 o o
 
 And coming home agayne I was taken prisoner at 
 sea and I lost in money and cloths tenn pownds 
 and I was set a shore at Yarmouth in Norfolke 
 a begging home ... ... ... ... ... 10 o o 
 
 And upon S r Marmaduke Langdall's and the Scots 
 coming to Preston in Lanckisheere I was taken 
 prisoner to Shefeeld Castle and lost my horse 
 armes cloths and to the value of twenty pownds 20 o o 
 
 And after Preston Battell upon Olliver's returne out 
 of Scotland he beate up our quarters in Cum- 
 berland and I was taken prisoner by Reybe 
 [Raby?| Castle men and there I lost horse 
 armes money and apparill to the value of six- 
 teen pownds ... ... ... ... ...'1600 
 
 All that time my wife and six smale children could 
 naither keep horse nor cow nor close fit to 
 weare upon Sunday but by conveying them to 
 nightbour houses. 
 
 And when Olliver set forth his Ac of grace as there 
 was unt (?) much in it I came home and one 
 Mr. Johnsons Justice of the peace sent for me 
 and tould me I was a dangerus person ag l the 
 Common weale and w th out good bondsmen he 
 would commit me and soe I stud bound from 
 one Sessions to another that it cost me six 
 pownds ... ... ... ... ... ... 6 o o 
 
 And 4 yeares since when Olliver committed the Offi- 
 cers to Yorke I was one of the number and 
 their it cost me tenn pownds ... ... ... 10 o o
 
 "SUFFERINGS" OF THE QUAKERS. 
 In another article in these "Extracts," I have dis- 
 cussed the Rectorial Tithes of Giggleswick. But it must not 
 be imagined that the impropriators or owners of these tithes 
 got in their dues without considerable trouble. The old 
 Quakers especially used to decline to pay, and regularly had 
 their goods seized. A M.S. volume is still carefully preser- 
 ved enumerating the goods taken from these sturdy old non- 
 conformists, which shows that the members of the Society of 
 Friends suffered from many other causes as well. The follow- 
 ing extracts from this old volume are of interest in these 
 days of religious equality, many of them being entries in 
 the handwriting of Samuel Watson himself. 
 1658. "Samuell Watson of Staineforth upon ye i8th day 
 of ye loth month 1659 went into ye parish publick place 
 of worshipp in Gigleswick and walked into his own Quire 
 which of right belonged to him and after a while spake 
 amongst ye people as he was moved of God. But after 
 a litle some of ye rudest sort pulled him down and brok 
 his head upon ye seates and haveing haled him out threw 
 him downe upon ye ice. Is not this the state of a syna- 
 gogue and not of ye true Church of X 1 " 
 
 Samuel got into trouble the following year because he 
 went one Sunday "into a Steeplehouse in Leedes, and beginn- 
 ing to speak a few words to ye people, was violently haled 
 out and sent to prison." He was imprisoned eight days, 
 but the day after his release he preached in the market-place 
 at Leeds. 
 
 1670. "Samuell Watson of Knight Stainforth in the 
 Parish of Gigleswick for praying in a Meeting 12 of 4 mo. 
 1670 was informed against by John Read and John 
 Thompson before Jno. Ashton and William Drake, Jus- 
 tices of the peace, was convicted and fined the sum of 
 20 : o : o.
 
 The said Samuell Watson for haveing a meeting 1 at 
 his house the first day of next week after and declaring 
 of matters of faith and salvation in the assembly then mett 
 together, being- ye 19 day of ye said month was informed 
 against by ye afforesaid Jno. Read, before Tho. Parker, 
 John Ashton and William Drake, Justices, and was con- 
 victed and fined 60 : o : o. 
 
 The said Samuell Watson for being- at a Meeting- in 
 Settle ye next first day after, being- ye 26 of ye said month 
 was before Tho. Parker, John Ashton and William Drake, 
 Justices of the peace, informed ag-ainst by Robert Banks 
 and Thomas Kidd for speaking- of the thing's of God in 
 ye said meeting- and was convicted and fined for ye same 
 40 : o : o. 
 
 For which said Fines the afforesaid Justices of the 
 peace issued out their warrants to ye Constables and ov- 
 verseers for ye poor of ye afforesaid parish of Gig-leswick, 
 who came to ye house of ye said Samuell Watson dis- 
 trained and drove 28 head of cattle, 9 horses, and an 130 
 sheeps, which apprised and sould for ye afforesaid fines 
 
 1670. Jno. Hall of Setle for being- at two meeting's was 
 convicted and fined as afforesaid 153. od., and had 4 pair 
 of shows (shoes) taken from him. 
 
 Jno. Robinson of Setle for being at 3 meetings was 
 fined i : 5 : o for which ye officers distreaned a cow and 
 sould her which was worth ^3 : o : o. 
 
 John Kidd of Setle for being at two meetings was 
 fined 1 53. od for which the officers took 2 coats and cover- 
 cloth, part of an hide of leather, and one paire of shooes 
 worth i : o : o.
 
 Christopher Armestead of Setle for being- at two 
 meetings was fined 155. od. for which he had taken from 
 him by ye officers goods of the vallue of i 13:0. 
 
 Richard Armesteade for being at two meetings was 
 fined 15 shillings for which ye officers took 7 pair of 
 shoos worth i : o : o. 
 
 Mathew Wildman of Selside in Horton parish for 
 being at same meetings was fined for himself and his 
 wife 405. and alsoe haveing the fines of others laid upon 
 him of the vallue of 20 shillings, for which fines distress 
 was made by ye officers of his househould goods and hay 
 to the value of ^4 : 15 : o. 
 
 Note that all ye afforementioned suffering persons, 
 and upon ye statute made against conventicles, belonged 
 to ye particular meeting of Settle and places adjacent, all 
 convicted by all or some of ye afforementioned Justices, 
 and upon ye information of all or some of ye afforesaid 
 persons, informers, upon some whereof the hand of the 
 Lord eminently appeared in judgment against them at or 
 before their dying day, as may be hereafter more particu- 
 larly made mention of. 
 
 Here followeth an account of severall more sufferings 
 of Friends belonging to ye particular meeting of Setle, 
 through the information of ye afforesaid informers and 
 upon warrants given out by some or all of ye afforemen- 
 tioned Justices upon ye afforesaid Statute made agst 
 conventicles and through distress made upon the goods 
 of ye afforesaid persons for their peaceable meeting 
 together." 
 
 Then follows a list which shows that Peter Atkinson, 
 "for being at a meeting in Setle, was fined for himself and 
 severall other friends ^3 13:4 for which they made distress 
 of Corne and Hay to ye vallue of 10."
 
 Robert Heaton, fined 2 : 7 : o. Had seized two 
 cows and a heifer worth ^7. 
 
 John Kidd fined i : 5 : o., which was "payed by 
 some neighbours without his consent." 
 
 Christopher Armistead fined i : 15 : o., "had 
 shooes taken from him worth 155., and the rest of the fines 
 were laid upon other friends." 
 
 John Hall, fined i : 5 : o. Had seized "shooes and 
 an hammer worth i : 10 : o." 
 
 John Robinson, of Settle, fined ^5 15:0., "goods 
 distrained to the vallue of 11." 
 
 Lawrence Peacocke "fined 3, for which they dis- 
 treaned Corne of the vallue of ^5, the loth day of ye 8 mo., 
 1670." 
 
 Tho. Chapman, fined ^3., Corn and Hay to the 
 value of ^5., seized. 
 
 John Preston, fined i : 13 : o. Had horse, &c., 
 worth "4., taken. 
 
 Robert Cookson, fined _i : 15 : o. Corn worth 
 2 : 10 : o. , seized. 
 
 John Armestead, fined i : o : o., "payed by a 
 neighbour without his conscent." 
 
 And so on for several more items. 
 
 Under the heading of "The Sufferings of Friends 
 within Settle Monthly Meetings for denying to sweare and 
 to marry with the priests, and for some other particular testi- 
 monys borne for ye Truth by the people of God commonly 
 called Quakers," the following entry may be quoted:
 
 8 
 
 1671. Richard Wilson and Ann his wife of Lang-cliffe in 
 the parish of Gigleswick committed to prison 1671 be- 
 cause they could not conforme to ye Nationall forme of 
 mariag, though maried in a publick assembly of said 
 people and continued prisoners about ayeare and released 
 amongst severall others by the Kings proclamation in the 
 yeare 1672. 
 
 GIGGLESWICK RECTORIAL TITHES. 
 
 A.D. 1600 I75O. 
 
 King James the First, by Letters Patent bearing date 
 the :8th day of May, in the 7th year of his reign (A.D. 1610), 
 granted unto Francis Phillips and Richard Moore, their heirs 
 and assigns for ever, all that Rectory and Parsonage of Gigg- 
 leswick in the County of York, with all rights, members and 
 appurtenances to the same belonging, reserving to himself, 
 his heirs and assigns for ever, the yearly rent of ^44. 
 
 By indenture bearing date the 24th day of June, in the 
 year aforesaid, the said Francis Phillips and Richard Moore 
 granted and conveyed the said rectory and premises unto Sir 
 Gervase Helwysse and Sir Richard Williamson, their heirs 
 and assigns for ever, to be holden of the King on the same 
 tenour as his manor of East Greenwich. 
 
 The said Sir Gervase Helwysse and Sir Richard 
 Williamson by Indenture bearing date the i4th day of Dec- 
 ember, in the 8th year of the reign of the said King James, 
 did grant bargain and sell unto Thomas Hall, Robert Moor- 
 house, Thomas Armistead, Adam Brown, and Hugh Iveson, 
 their heirs and assigns for ever, three-fourths of all the Tenths, 
 Tithe and Tithes of Corn, Grain, Sheaves, and Straw, with 
 the appurtenances, in the Township of Settle in the said Par-
 
 ish of Giggleswick, in as ample manner as the same was 
 granted to Sir Gervase Helwysse and Sir Richard Williamson 
 by the said indenture of the 24th of June aforesaid, paying 
 unto the King, his heirs and assigns for ever, towards the 
 fee-farm rent of ^44, the yearly sum of four pounds ten 
 shillings. 
 
 By indenture of the i4th of December, in the same year, 
 the. said Sir Gervase Helwysse and Sir Richard Williamson 
 conveyed unto John Robinson, his heirs and assigns for ever, 
 the moiety of the Tithe Corn in the Township of Rathmell 
 in the Parish of Giggleswick aforesaid, and also several par- 
 cels of Glebe Lands in the said indenture particularly men- 
 tioned, paying therefor to the King, his heirs and assigns, 
 towards the said feefarm rent of ^44, the yearly sum of two 
 pounds five shillings. 
 
 The before-named Sir Gervase Helwysse and Sir Rich- 
 ard Williamson sold the Rectory and Parsonage of Giggles- 
 wick to Robert Banks for eleven hundred pounds, but 
 reserved thereout the advowson of the Vicarage and certain 
 other rights contracted to be sold to Mr. Nowell. From 
 Robert Banks the rectorial tithes descended to Ann, his only 
 daughter and heiress, who married Roger Pepys. These sold 
 to John and Richard Pepys in 1640, and then various transac- 
 tions follow up to 1682, when the Pepys family sold to James 
 Benson, who died in 1685, leaving the tithes to his sister, Ann 
 Whitmore. 
 
 In 1690 Ann Whitmore granted all the Rectory and 
 Parsonage of Giggleswick, and all the glebe-lands, tithes of 
 corn, grain, hay, lambs, wool, calves, &c., to Stephen Bate- 
 man for a term of a thousand years at a peppercorn rent. 
 
 Matters were further complicated by sales of portions 
 of the Rectory. The Armisteads bought a moiety, they sold
 
 IO 
 
 to the Dawsons, and William Dawson sold to the Graysons, 
 but reserved to himself certain space, then vacant, in the 
 Parish Church. 
 
 As to another part, the Batemans sold to the Wilsons, 
 through whose hands it passed to the Graysons. 
 
 In 1722 Charles Harris purchased from the Graysons, 
 from Richard and Jane Brayshaw, and from William Dawson, 
 "all the Rectory and Parsonage of Giggleswick aforesaid, in 
 the County of York, and all and singular the rights, members, 
 and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise apper- 
 taining, sometime parcel of the possession of the Cathedral 
 Church of Durham, and all and singular the glebe-lands, 
 tithes of corn, grain, and hay, lambs, wool, and calves, and 
 all others the tithes whatsoever, as well as great as small, and 
 of what nature and kind whatsoever, and all oblations, offer- 
 ings, fruits, rents, issues, profits, emoluments, privileges, 
 commodities, advantages, hereditaments, and appurtenances 
 whatsoever, lying and being, coming, increasing, renewing, 
 and growing, or which should thereafter come, increase, re- 
 new, and grow within, upon, or out of the said Rectory and 
 Parsonage of Giggleswick." 
 
 We have thus traced the tithes so far as they relate to 
 the Township of Giggleswick. Space prevents our dealing 
 in extenso with the rectorial tithes of the other townships, 
 suffice it to say that about the year 1750 various portions 
 had become vested in the following persons : 
 
 The tithe corn within the Township of Giggleswick, 
 with the tithes of calf, wool, and lambs, and mortuaries 
 throughout the whole Parish, in Mr. Levitt Harris, son of the 
 above-named Mr. Charles Harris.
 
 II 
 
 The tithes of the Township of Settle were divided into 
 quarters: -Mr. William Dawson, Mr. Josias Dawson, Mr. 
 Thomas Watkinson, and Mr. Henry Airton, each holding- one 
 such quarter. 
 
 The tithes of Rathmell were also divided, one-half be- 
 ing- the property of Mr. Charles Nowell (whose predecessors 
 purchased it in the year 1610), a quarter belonged to William 
 Banks, of Settle, and the remaining quarter to William Banks, 
 of Rathmell. 
 
 The tithe of Feizor belonged to William Armistead. 
 
 I am unable to say by whom the tithes of Langcliffe 
 and Stainforth were owned at this period, but the owner paid 
 no part of the said Rectory-rent of ^ per annum. 
 
 The tithes having, as I have above set out, become 
 split up into portions, it naturally followed that trouble and 
 confusion ensued. The tithe-owners not only claimed certain 
 privileges, which were resisted by various parties, but also 
 repudiated certain responsibilities, and matters reached an 
 acute stage when a member of the Dawson family was refused 
 burial in the chancel, although such right had been admitted 
 and exercised before the sale to the Graysons. Mr. Harris 
 claimed to have the sole right to permit such burials and to 
 allow any monument or tombstone in the chancel, and he 
 reaped all the profit derived from the sale of seats and spaces 
 for monuments erected therein. But whilst claiming these 
 rights he repudiated the liability to repair the chancel, and 
 that part of the fabric eventually fell into such a ruinous con- 
 dition that is was stated in the course of the legal proceedings 
 which ensued that "of late the Parishioners are now deprived 
 of the benefit of receiving the Holy Sacrament therein." Mr. 
 Harris tried to throw a portion of the liability on to the other
 
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 owners of the rectorial tithes, notwithstanding the fact that 
 his predecessors, the owners of the tithe corn in Giggleswick 
 and of the "Tithe of Calf, Wool and Lamb" and of the Mor- 
 tuaries throughout the whole parish had reaped the whole 
 benefit of the chancel and repaired the same at their own 
 expense. Whereupon the parishioners cited Mr. Harris and 
 the other owners of the tithe-corn within the parish (but not 
 the owners of the glebe lands), to appear in the Ecclesiastical 
 Court of York and show cause why monition should not issue 
 against them to repair the said chancel, or in default thereof 
 why the "fruits, rents and profits" of the Great Tithes of the 
 parish of Giggleswick should not be sequestered for the repairs 
 of the chancel. 
 
 The parishioners who caused the citation to be issued 
 were Josias Morley, William Bradley, Thomas Brayshaw, 
 Thomas Clapham, John Richardson, Thomas Lister, William 
 Hall, Henry Town, Lawrence Wharfe, Robert Banks, Richard 
 Redmayne, and James Pearson, whilst the suit was brought 
 against William Dawson, Levitt Harris, Charles Nowell, the 
 Rev. Anthony Lister (Vicar), William Banks of Settle, 
 William Armistead of Giggleswick, Henry Airton of Malham, 
 Thomas Watkinson of Skipton, William Dawson (a minor, 
 son of the late Josias Dawson), and Susannah Dawson, his 
 mother. 
 
 In the cause of the proceedings the Dawsons and Mr. 
 Harris asked to be dismissed from the suit as they were will- 
 ing to pay their share, but this was not allowed. 
 
 In May, 1751, the Judge of the Ecclesiastical Court 
 decreed that Dawson and the other respondents should "be 
 admonished to repair the chancel according to their respective 
 proportions of the tithe they possess," and condemned them 
 in costs.
 
 13 
 FTE AT STACKHOUSE. 
 
 A dainty little invitation, printed in gold on embossed 
 paper, recalls one of the most memorable entertainments ever 
 held in this locality. 
 
 <$! 
 
 Settle, July 2nd, 1839. ^ 
 
 
 
 CTQ 
 
 The Circumscribed request the pleasure of 
 
 Company at a RUSTIC FETE and DANCE 
 in a Field above STACKHOUSE, on Tuesday, 
 
 -| the 9th. Instant, at 3 O'clock in the 
 
 '-2 Afternoon. . 
 
 N. B. If the day is Wet, the Party will be 
 postponed to the folloiving day. 
 
 . 
 
 -z> \
 
 MR. JOHN HARE. 
 
 The people of Settle often mention with pleasure the 
 close associations of Miss Ellen Terry with the locality in 
 times past, and other ties which bind well-known theatrical 
 "stars" to the place ; but the fact that the first appearance in 
 public, as an amateur, of Mr. John Hare, the eminent actor, 
 took place in the Mechanics' Hall, is one in which they take 
 especial pride. For further particulars of this appearance I 
 would refer my readers to Mr. Pemberton's biography of Mr. 
 Hare, but I think the programme of the performance, which 
 was given in aid of the Fund for the relief of the distressed 
 Cotton-spinners (who were suffering' great privations in con- 
 sequence of the American Civil War), is well worthy of pre- 
 servation. I may say that Mr. Hare's pseudonym at this 
 entertainment was "Mr. Rattleton," whilst the names assumed 
 by the other performers were as follows : Mr. Winbolt (Mr. 
 Brewin), Mr. Bellingham (Mr. Berrington), Mr. Smith (Mr. J. 
 H. Burrow), Mr. Linton (Mr. J. L. Swale), Mr. Rogers (Mr. 
 J. Clark), Mrs. Horton (Mrs. Sanderson), Miss Crofts (Mr. 
 H. E. Stansfeld), and Miss Meadows (Mr. B. R. Statisfeld). 
 
 Mr. Hare's histrionic abilities were even then con- 
 spicuous, as the Settle Chronicle, in reviewing the performance, 
 stated that he and Mr. Brewin "distinguished themselves by 
 a display of dramatic talent of an order which is seldom' seen 
 even among professional actors." 
 
 RELIEF FUND. 
 
 AMATEUR DRAMATIC PERFORMANCES 
 
 In aid of the above Fund. 
 MECHANICS' HALL, SETTLE. 
 
 THURSDAY, and FRIDAY, the 29th and 30th of JANUARY, 1863.
 
 BLANCHARD JERROLD'S COMEDIETTA OP 
 
 'COOL AS A CUCUMBER' 
 
 OLD BARKINS Mr. Winbolt. 
 
 FRED. BARKINS (his son) Mr. Bellmgham. 
 
 PLUMPER Mr. Ratlleton. 
 
 MISS JESSY HONITON Mrs. Norton. 
 
 MARY WIGGINS (her servant) Miss Meadows. 
 
 SCENE. -DRAWING ROOM IN MR. BARKINS' LONDON RESIDENCE. 
 TIME. -THE PRESENT DAY. 
 
 THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF 
 
 The new and elegant Scenery by H Palmer, Esq The Overture and the whole of 
 the Music composed and arranged by Mr. W. H. Montgomery. 
 
 BEAUSEANT (a decidedly "bad lot," who being of con- 
 siderable weight in Lyons, may, with justice, be termed 
 a heavy villam) Mr. Rattleton 
 
 COLONEL DAM AS (a veteran of the old school, an advocate 
 
 for military moustachios, and a strict dicipline-hairy 'un) Mr. Bellingham 
 
 DESCHAPELLES (Wholesale Grocer, Tea Dealer, and 
 
 Italian Warehouseman. N.B. "The Trade supplied," &-c)....Mr. Smith 
 
 CLAUDE MELNOTTE (a youth of imaginative tempera- 
 ment,, who, from the fact of never doing anything for his 
 living, is looked upon by his comrades as a genius, and 
 who, although he commits a fraud which in modern times 
 would result in unlimited horse- whippings, &c., is never- 
 theless considered by a British audience an object of 
 sympathy and regard) Mr. Linton 
 
 GASPAR (a virtuous peasant, who offers himself as a go- 
 between, and gets, as usual, more pedal applications than 
 small coin of the realm) Mr. Rogers
 
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 LANDLORD OF THE " GOLDEN LION " (a re-publican)... Mr. Rogers 
 
 THE FAMILY PORTER (who, unlike the" Family Porter " 
 
 of the advertisements, is always upj .............................. Mr. Winbolt 
 
 MADAME DESCHAPELLES (M. Deschapelles' "good 
 
 lady ") .............................................. .- ...................... Miss Crofts 
 
 PAULINE (her only child, so highly polished that she may 
 be said to take the shine out of every rival, proud, but 
 eventually penitent) ................................................. Mrs. Horton 
 
 JANET (barmaid at the "Golden Lion") ........................... Miss Meadows 
 
 THE WIDOW MELNOTTE (" a lorne lorn creature ") ......... Mr. Winbolt 
 
 TO CONCLUDE WITH THE 
 
 L^TJO-EC-A-BLim ZF-A-ZR/OIEJ 
 
 By J. M. Morton, Esq., of 
 
 'BOX AND COX' 
 
 BOX ........................ (a journeyman printer) .................. Mr. Rattle ton 
 
 COX .......................... (ajourneyman hatter) ..................... My. Winbolt 
 
 MRS. BOUNCER ...... (a lodging-house keeper) .................. Mrs. Horton 
 
 ADMISSION. 
 
 Reserved Seats (numbered), 43. ; Second Seats, 2s. ; Gallery, is. ; may 
 
 be secured at Mr. Wildman's, Bookseller, cr at the door. 
 
 It is requested that Tickets be taken in advance to avoid delay oil entering. 
 
 Doors open each evening at half-past SIX, to commence at 
 
 SEVEN o'clock. 
 Carriages may be ordered for half-past ten. 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW.
 
 LOCAL FRAGMENTS 
 
 (Reprinted from the ^ellle ^ouse^old Ji\lmanack for 1899.) 
 
 (Compiled by "^hos. 
 
 SETTLE : 
 
 THE CRAVEN PRINTING AND STATIONERY COMPANY, LIMITED.
 
 LOCAL FRAGMENTS. 
 
 SETTLE FAIRS. 
 
 In the year 1708 the right of the Earl of Burlington to 
 hold at Settle "an antient weekly market on Tuesday" 
 and a fair at Lawrencemass, as well as several new fairs, 
 was confirmed. 
 
 As I have already printed a copy of this grant of con- 
 firmation in No. 8 of my "Stackhouse Series of Local 
 Tracts" I do not propose to recapitulate it here, but 
 the following supplementary proclamations, &c. , are of 
 interest : 
 
 The first is a table of 
 
 TOLLS TO BE TAKEN AT SETTLE FAIRS. 
 
 Agreed upon by Sir Chas. Ingleby ) 
 Aug. sth 1708. j 
 
 NEW FFAIRS. 
 
 Beasts. For every Beast. Two pence 2 
 
 Horse, &c. For every Horse, Mare, Gelding, and 
 
 ffoal. Ffour pence 4 
 
 Old Sheep, &c. For every Score of Old Sheep. 
 
 Eight pence 8 
 
 Lambs Suck"?. For every Score of Lambs. 
 
 Ffour pence 4 
 
 Wool. For every Pack of Wool sold. 
 
 Two pence 2 
 
 For every Pack of Leather sold. 
 
 Leather 
 and Stalls. 
 
 Two pence 
 
 Stallage for every Man's Parcel of 
 Leather. Two pence
 
 Booth, &c. 
 
 Goods, &c. 
 
 except 
 Butter, &c. 
 Penny Toll. 
 
 Raw Hides. 
 Single Hide. 
 
 For every Stall or Booth the usual 
 Toll of Two pence. 
 
 For every Stall, Booth, or other Goods 
 laid down in the ffair Except 
 Butter and Cheese. Two pence 
 
 That all Sorts of Goods bought in 
 any of the Great ffairs and Carried 
 out of Town except Meal, Corn, 
 Grain, and Victuals shall be tollable 
 at One penny if sold at or above 
 the value of Thirteenpence half- 
 penny 
 
 For every Tenn Raw Hides. 
 Six pence 
 
 For every Single Hide. One penny 
 
 Ax LAWRENCEMASS. 
 
 The Tolls as usual. 
 
 Persons ffree. The Inhabitants of the Town and Town- 
 ship of Settle to be ffree from the 
 Tolls above other than such as 
 Buy Cattle to sell again. 
 
 Matters however did not run very smoothly, and in 
 May, 1715, it became necessary, in order to protect the 
 Earl's interests, to issue the following proclamation against 
 illegal trading in Cattle at Settle Market : 
 
 A PROCLAMATION PUBLISHED AT SETTLE. 
 
 A pattent was lately granted to the Rt. Honble 
 Rich d . Earle of Burlington and Corke for the holding of 
 severall ffaires in the towne of Settle, at severall days and 
 times mentioned therein, As also ffortnight ffairs, to be 
 held on the ffridays beginning on the ffriday before Easter 
 and soe to continue every ffortnight for some time as the said 
 pattent directs, wherein Beasts and Cattle may be sold, 
 And also a Markett to be held in the said towne on every 
 Tuesday ffor such wares and comodities as are allowed to 
 be sold there,
 
 Complaint hath been made that many 
 of the Inhabitants and Country people not regarding- the 
 Direction of the said pattent tho' the same hath been openly 
 and publickly read at the Markett Crosse, in the hearing 
 and presence of very many persons, 10t in opposition to 
 the said pattent and of the Authority by which the same 
 was granted and contrary to the Directions therein given 
 severall Goods & Chattels have been brought into Settle 
 aforesaid to bee sold there on the Markett days, which are 
 not to be sold there on those days But on ffair days as 
 appointed by the said pattent, to the damage of the sd 
 Earle And great disappointment of Chapmen that have 
 come many miles to the said ffairs to buy Cattle, And are 
 yet willing to come to buy goods at the said ffairs in case 
 the Country people will take care for the future to observe 
 the same and to bring in such Cattle as they have to 
 sell on the ffair days appointed for the same and not 
 on Markett Days. 
 
 are therefore to give Notice unto All persons 
 whatsoever for the time to come, to forbear to bring in 
 or Expose to Sale any Beastes or Cattle whatsoever in 
 the said towne of Settle on the Markett day unlesse that 
 some ffair shall happen to ffall on a Markett day there 
 that the same are allowed to be sold there att that time 
 by vertue of the said pattent, On payne of ffbrfeiting of 
 the Beasts and Cattle so sold or Exposed to Sale within 
 the Limitts of the ffair on any Markett day other than as 
 aforesaid, and on payne of being ffin'd, prosecuted and 
 proceeded against as the Law Directs. 
 
 Not the least interesting however is the 
 
 PROCLAMATION 
 
 made from the Settle Market Cross at the time of com- 
 mencement of each fair. 
 
 The Most Noble William, Duke of Devonshire, Chief Lord 
 of this ffair, In his Majesty's Name doth strictly charge 
 and command
 
 FIRST That All and every Person and Persons that 
 
 shall repair resort and come into this Fair and 
 Markett do well and dutifully observe and keep 
 his Majesty's Peace, upon pain of Imprisonment, 
 and to be ffined for their contempt According 
 to the Laws and Statutes made for Breach of 
 the Peace in ffairs and Marketts. 
 
 SECONDLY That No Person or Persons attempt or presume 
 to Ride or go armed, or to carry wear or Bear 
 any Armour or Weapons within the precint 
 and during- the time of the ffair and Markett 
 here holden, contrary to the said Laws (except 
 such as be attending- on the Steward of the 
 said ffair) upon pain of fforfeiting- such Armour 
 or Weapons and further to be Imprisoned and 
 punished according to the Laws and Statutes 
 in that case made and provided. 
 
 THIRDLY That all and every Person and Persons Do 
 Bargain and sell Sound and Lawful Goods and 
 Chattels, Wares and Merchandizes, And use 
 Lawful and Allowed Weights and Measures, 
 without ffraud or Deceit, upon pain of fforfeit- 
 ing- the same Goods and Chattels, Wares and 
 Merchandizes or the value thereof. 
 
 FFOURTHLY That No Person or Persons Bargain for or 
 Buy any Horses, Mares, or Geldings, within 
 or during the time of the ffair aforesaid, before 
 true Testament be given of the Lawful Owners ; 
 and thereupon be entered in the Toll Book 
 kept for the ffair according- to the Statute in 
 that case provided, Nor take or withdraw any 
 such Horses Mares or Geldings or any other 
 Goods, Chattels, Wares and Merchandizes Sold 
 and Bought during the time of this ffair and 
 Markett before due Toll be paid for the same 
 to the Officer or Officers appointed for the 
 Receipt thereof, upon the like pain of fforfeit-
 
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 ing the same Horses, Mares, Geldings, Goods, 
 Chattels, Wares and Merchandizes or the 
 value thereof. 
 
 FIFTHLY And Lastly If any Person or Persons have any 
 Wrong or Injustice done to them by reason 
 of any Contract or Bargain made within and 
 during the time of this ffair and Markett let 
 them repair to the Steward thereof at the Court 
 Chamber or Toll Booth and inforce their Cause 
 in course of Law, And the same shall be heard 
 and tryed according to Law, Justice, and Equity. 
 
 God Save the King and the Most Noble William Spencer 
 Duke of Devonshire, The Steward, and Gentlemen 
 attending him. 
 
 Miss TURNER'S ABDUCTION. 
 
 One of the sensations of the year 1826 was the abduction 
 of Miss Ellen Turner, an heiress, by Edward and William 
 Wakefield and others, which is also noteworthy as being 
 one of the last of the " Gretna-Green Marriages." The 
 case was tried at Lancaster in March, 1827, and the 
 Wakefields were each sentenced to three years imprison- 
 ment. As the parties passed through Settle in their flight 
 the following local evidence is interesting. 
 
 Ann Bradley, sworn. Examined by Mr. Parke. 
 
 I keep the "Devonshire Arms" at Skipton, and recollect 
 two gentlemen and a lady coming to my house in a carriage 
 and four. They arrived about ten o'clock on the evening 
 of the 7th March, 1826. I was at the door and saw them 
 by the light of a lantern. Four horses were then ordered 
 for Settle. I ordered my maid servant to take out some 
 gingerbread and two glasses of water to them the ginger- 
 bread was placed on the lady's lap. I saw they were 
 two gentlemen and a lady in the carriage, but I could not 
 swear to them again.
 
 6 
 
 As they were going away did you make any request 
 to them ? I said I should be glad to see them on their 
 return. 
 
 What induced you to make that observation? 1 thought 
 it was a runaway match. 
 
 What did they say? I don't know. I cannot speak 
 to what they said ; they were very cheerful. The lady 
 was in good spirits and I heard her laughing with the 
 gentlemen. I was then in the bar and the chaise was 
 at the outside of the house. 
 
 Where did they go to from Skipton ? To Settle. 
 Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Cross. 
 
 My friend has asked you every question but whether 
 the gingerbread was good, was it good ? Very good. 
 
 Re-examined by Mr. Scarlett. 
 
 It seemed to please the lady, did it not? Yes. 
 
 Mr. Hartley, sworn. Examined by Mr. Pattison. 
 
 You are the landlord, I believe, of the "Golden Lion," 
 at Settle? Yes. 
 
 Do you remember a party coming there on the morning 
 of the 8th March ? Yes. 
 
 About what time? Half-past one. 
 
 Who were the party ? Two gentlemen and a lady. 
 
 Did they change horses there ? Yes. 
 
 Four horses ? Yes. 
 
 And went on where ? To Kirkby Lonsdale. 
 
 Sarah Colman, sworn. Examined by Mr. Scarlett. 
 
 Do you live at the "Rose and Crown," at Kirkby Lons- 
 dale ? I do. 
 
 Do you remember early in the morning of the 8th of 
 March, two gentlemen and a lady coming with a carriage- 
 and-four ? Yes. 
 
 What time in the morning did they arrive ? Between 
 three and four.
 
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 COUNTY RATE IN A.D. 1602. 
 
 In the 44th year of Queen Elizabeth's reign it was ordered 
 that of every 100 which had to be raised by the West 
 Riding of Yorkshire, the following- proportions had to be 
 given by the townships in this locality : 
 
 s. d. 
 
 Settle ... ... ... 10 o 
 
 Giggleswick ... ... ... 10 o 
 
 Long Preston ... ... ... 10 o 
 
 Rathmell ... ... ... 55 
 
 Wigglesworth ... ... ... 68 
 
 Stainforth ... ... ... 8 4 
 
 Langcliffe ... ... ... 34 
 
 When we compare these figures with the amount paid 
 by other places in the Riding, the result is startling, as 
 we find that Leeds only had to pay i6s. 8d., Bradford 
 8s. 4d., whilst Sheffield got off for 35. gd. Thus it 
 appears that Settle, Giggleswick, and Long Preston actually 
 had to contribute more between them than had Leeds, 
 Bradford, and Sheffield together. 
 
 DR. JOHN WINDSOR. 
 
 JOHN WINDSOR, F.R.C.S.E., was born at Settle in the 
 year 1787 and died at Manchester on the ist of September 
 1868. At an early period of his life he manifested an 
 ardent taste for botany and showed such zeal in the study 
 of the science that Sir James Smith, in 1810, mentioned 
 his name in that author's "English Botany" as that of 
 an "assiduous young botanist," and although for many 
 years his favorite studies were interrupted by the impera- 
 tive demands of a very extensive medical practice he 
 resumed the pursuits of them in later years with great 
 ardour and added largely to his herbarium of British plants.
 
 He contributed several papers to the "Phytologist," and 
 one or two to the "Journal" of the Linnean Society, of 
 which he was a Fellow for 55 years. He is best known 
 by his work "Flora Cravonensis, or a Flora of the vicinity 
 of Settle," the publication of which he did not live to see, 
 but which, as it was ready for the press, was issued for 
 private circulation by his representatives. 
 
 This work was dedicated "To the Memory of his old 
 friends and fellow-botanists, William Kenyon of Settle, 
 Thomas Williams Simmonds of Settle, John Carr of Stack- 
 house, and John Howson of Giggles wick." 
 
 In addition to these Botanical works DR. WINDSOR was 
 the author of several papers in various medical periodicals, 
 and was at one time the editor of the "Ophthalmic Review." 
 
 JOHN OVEREND. 
 
 This worthy Quaker, founder of a well-known house, is 
 deserving of mention amongst our local notabilities. The 
 following account of him is extracted from a book relating 
 to the Society of Friends. 
 
 JOHN OVEREND, son of John and Isabel Overend, was 
 born at Settle, Yorkshire, on 2nd of 6th month, 1769. 
 This Friend, who became alike one of the shrewdest and 
 wealthiest of London money-lenders, came originally from 
 the North, and, it is said, with so little means of his own, 
 as to have worked his way up to London by driving the 
 horses of the waggons while their waggoners slept inside. 
 He soon entered the services of Smith & Holt, Woollen 
 Factors and Bankers. Here his knowledge of the road 
 and his trustworthiness led to his being sent to and fro to 
 Norwich with valuable banker's parcels, which brought him 
 into acquaintance with John Gurney of that city. To this 
 friend he communicated a plan that had occurred to him
 
 of greatly simplifying the then existing system of discount, 
 which was to charge two commissions on all transactions ; 
 one to the lender and one to the borrower. JOHN OVEREND 
 thought that a sufficient profit could be made if but one 
 commission were charged, and that on the party borrow- 
 ing the money. It gained the approval of John Gurney, 
 and in consequence through his support, JOHN OVEREND, 
 leaving the Banking house, commenced business as a dis- 
 count and bill-broker on this one commission system, in a 
 small office upstairs in a house in Finch Lane, Cornhill. 
 He induced Thomas Richardson, who was then a clerk at 
 Smith, Wright & Gray's to become associated with them 
 in this enterprise, and the rapid success that attended it 
 induced John Gurney to allow his son Samuel, then very 
 young, to enter the concern, which moved to larger 
 premises, and became famous in commercial circles as the 
 firm of Overend, Gurney & Co. JOHN OVEREND married 
 Mary Kitching, but left no family. He lived during his 
 latter years in a beautiful park-like estate, situate at Clutts 
 Hill near Southgate, where he died on the i7th of ist 
 month, 1832, and where his widow, who survived him more 
 than 30 years, died at the age of 79 on the 2oth of 8th 
 month, 1862. Her delicate health had prevented her mix- 
 ing much in society, but the suffering and afflicted often 
 had substantial proof of the good use she made of the 
 abundant means at her disposal. 
 
 JOHN OVEREND'S portrait is in the London "Friend's 
 Institute." 
 
 SONNET ON "STACKHOUSE." 
 
 The Rev. H. J. Bulkeley was formerly a Master at Giggles- 
 wick School and Assistant Curate of Settle. He has 
 published several volumes of charming verse, and many of 
 his poetical effusions relate to this locality.
 
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 I content myself by simply quoting- his beautiful sonnet 
 on 
 
 "STACKHOUSE." 
 
 Stackhouse, low nestling in thy wooded niche 
 Five hundred feet below me, as I stand 
 Out-gazing- on the glories of this land 
 
 Of crag and meadow, thou art very rich 
 
 In what should make life beautiful, these grand 
 
 Grey scars that curve and break the misty sky 
 
 Purpled in sunset, sheep and cows that lie 
 
 Deep in the pasture, hand that graspeth hand. 
 
 Brave natural beauty, wealth of life, and home 
 All these thou hast. Has even God a blessing, 
 
 God of the mountains, richer than these three ? 
 
 Yon scarlet spray of cherry blends the dome 
 Of heaven with rock and grass in its caressing. 
 
 So may sweet piety bless all in thee ! 
 
 Oct. ist, 1889. 
 
 "CAMMOCK" AND "THE DRUID'S CIRCLE." 
 
 The following extract is from a letter, dated November 
 nth, 1847, addressed to Capt. Yolland of the Ordnance 
 Survey. 
 
 "I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 
 the 5th inst. , relating to the "Cammock." It is a 
 difficult matter to say what is its real origin. In the 
 year 1842 Dr. Buckland and Mr. T. Sopwith (author of 
 "Economic Geology") visited Settle and gave it as their 
 opinion that to glacier formation is due the Cam ock (or 
 "little hill," from "Cam," Danish, and "ock" the Saxon 
 diminutive, as we have it in "hillock"), which I think is 
 most likely both as to origin and name. The Cammock 
 is situated in the centre of a natural basin, or rather the 
 bottom of a lake, about a mile in diameter, open to the 
 south, through which runs the River Ribble which washes
 
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 the west side of the hill. With regard to the earth-works 
 they seem to me natural formations, as the same appear- 
 ance occurs on the east and west side of the valley, about 
 half a mile distant, and about the same level, indeed the 
 same form of lines, steps, terraces, or by what other name 
 they are called, are quite common in this neighbourhood, 
 some having only a slight covering of soil, being rock 
 nearly to the surface. 
 
 I suppose the circle of stones in Cleatop High Park to 
 be aboriginal British or Druidical remains from the follow- 
 ing appearances : The circle is complete and the large 
 stones are set on end, some of them several tons weight. 
 The stones are twelve in number now standing, besides 
 several others that seem to be rolled a short distance, as 
 it is placed on the ascent of a steep hill and commands a 
 beautiful and extensive prospect (more so than any given 
 point of the same altitude in the vicinity). The circle is 
 36 feet in diameter." 
 
 I was particularly pleased to come across the latter 
 part of the above letter, as I well remember how, when I 
 delivered the first of my lectures on "Local Jottings" in 
 Feb. 1883, many of my audience seemed very sceptical 
 when I described the few stones remaining at Cleatop as 
 part of a Druidical Circle. At that date the study of the 
 antiquities of this locality was entirely neglected, and the 
 numerous historical guides to this district, which now help 
 the student, were as yet unwritten. 
 
 My remarks on that occasion were as follows : 
 
 "About a mile to the south of Settle, close to Cleatop 
 Wood, there is marked on the Ordnance Map an "Ancient 
 Stone Circle." Within the memory of man this circle was 
 very perfect ; indeed it was so regular and well defined 
 that one or two gaps caused by the removal of stones 
 could easily be noted. The circle is supposed to have been 
 a Druid's Temple, and strongly resembled similar erections 
 in various parts of the country, and it is a curious circum-
 
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 stance that the hill at the back of it is known as "Druid's 
 Hill" to this day. The site was a well chosen one, as in 
 ancient times the hills behind were covered with forests, 
 whilst in front spread a beautiful landscape. In the fore- 
 ground there would be Giggleswick Tarn, on the right 
 hand the valley of the Ribble, with Penyghent keeping 
 guard at the top, and at the left the valley running to- 
 wards Clapham, with the mighty mass of Ingleborough in 
 the background. As in the case of the old graves, known 
 as "The Giants' Graves," on Penyghent, considerations of 
 utility caused the removal of the old stones, which were 
 broken up by the aid of fires built on them, and they were 
 used to build walls. Few traces of the circle now remain." 
 
 SETTLE CHURCH. 
 
 In order that due credit may be given to those persons 
 by whose efforts Settle Church was built, I venture to 
 print a copy of a circular issued in 1835. 
 
 PROPOSED CHURCH AT SETTLE. 
 
 In consequence of the very liberal offer made by MR. 
 WILKINSON of Hellifield and MR. TENNANT of Riddings, and 
 their Sisters, to contribute five hundred pounds towards 
 building and endowing a Church at Settle, and of the 
 further kind offer of MR. WILKINSON to give a Site for the 
 same in Upper-Settle (if approved of) : a public Meeting 
 was holden, pursuant to notice, at the Golden Lion Inn, 
 on TUESDAY the iyth of FEBRUARY 1835, to consult upon 
 the measures proper to be adopted for enabling the Inhab- 
 itants to avail themselves of those munificent offers with- 
 out delay. 
 
 The REV. ROWLAND INGRAM B.D. having been called 
 to the Chair the cordial thanks of the Meeting were 
 unanimously voted to MR. WILKINSON, MR. TENNANT, and 
 their Sisters, for the very generous offers above-mentioned.
 
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 A Subscription was then commenced, for carrying the 
 objects of the Meeting into effect : and a Committee was 
 appointed, to solicit and collect further subscriptions, and to 
 take the subject of a Site into consideration : and it was 
 resolved that MR. WILKINSON and MR. TENNANT should be 
 Honorary Members of the Committee, whenever they might 
 think proper to act. 
 
 At the close of the Meeting, the List of Subscriptions 
 was as follows : 
 
 
 
 Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. Tennant, and their 
 
 respective families... ... ... 500 o o 
 
 The Miss Dawsons, Marshfield... ... 200 o o 
 
 The Rev. John Clapham... ... ... 100 o o 
 
 Thomas Clapham ... ... ... ... 100 o o 
 
 John Peart ... ... ... ... 100 o o 
 
 The Craven Bank... ... ... ... 100 o o 
 
 Wm. Holland ... ... ... ... 50 o o 
 
 John Moffatt ... ... ... ... 50 o o 
 
 John Preston ... ... ... ... 50 o o 
 
 H. J. Swale ... ... ... ... 20 o o 
 
 A. Stackhouse, Settle ... ... ... 10 o o 
 
 E. Hardacre & Son ... ... ... 5 50 
 
 Wm. Robinson ... ... ... ... 50 o o 
 
 Rowland Ingram ... ... ... ... 10 o o 
 
 John Howson ... ... ... ... 5 50 
 
 A. Stackhouse, Stainforth ... ... 30 o o 
 
 BY ORDER OF THE COMMITTEE. 
 
 ROWLAND INGRAM, Jun. ) _ 
 
 WM. ROBINSON, [Secretaries. 
 
 Further Subscriptions will be received by the Secretaries, 
 and at the Craven Bank.
 
 SALE OF CASTLEBERG. 
 
 The question as to when the Lease of Castleberg expired 
 
 is one that has often been asked. The following' is a 
 
 copy of an old poster, which will serve to answer the 
 query. 
 
 SETTLE IN CRAVEN. 
 To be 
 
 SOLD BY AUCTION, 
 
 by Mr. Merryweather, 
 
 at the house of 
 Mr. R. Hartley, the Golden Lion Inn, at Settle, 
 
 in the County of York, 
 Between the hours of Six and Eig-ht o'clock in the evening-, 
 
 of Wednesday, the i3th day of January, Instant, 
 subject to such conditions as will be then and there produced : 
 
 The Reversionary Interest 
 
 In all that Romantic and Picturesque Plot, 
 
 Piece, or Parcel, of 
 
 LAND & ROCK, 
 
 Situate in the Town of Settle aforesaid, called 
 
 CASTLEBAR OR CASTLEBERG ROCK, 
 
 Now set out and used as a Pleasure Ground, subject to a 
 Lease thereof for 99 years, at the Yearly reserved Rent of 
 6d., about 52 years whereof are yet to come and unexpired 
 therein. 
 
 Mr. Hartley, of the Golden Lion, will show the premises, 
 and further particulars may be had on application to Messrs. 
 Smith, Weir and Smith, Solicitors, Cooper's Hall, London ; 
 or at the Office of 
 
 Mr. Alcock, Solicitor, Skipton, 
 January, 6, 1830. 
 
 See another Hand Bill of certain other premises adjoining 
 the above, which will be Sold at the same time and place. 
 
 Garnett, Printer, Stationer, and Bookbinder, Market Place, Skipton.
 
 VOLUNTEERS, 1794. 
 
 A hundred years ago the nation was in great fear of a 
 French Invasion, and steps were taken to raise a local 
 regiment of Volunteer Cavalry, which formed the nucleus 
 of the "Craven Legion." In No. 6 of my "Stackhouse 
 Tracts" I re-printed a poem by Mr. R. Kidd on a Meeting 
 of these Volunteers at Settle in August 1794, and the 
 following copy of an old circular will show us the part 
 taken by Settle in the widespread movement to safeguard 
 the national honour. 
 
 Settle, 1 4th June, 1794. 
 
 Enrolment and Subscription for raising Volunteer Corps of 
 Cavalry within the West Riding of this County, for inter- 
 nal defence. 
 
 At an adjourned Meeting for the Wapentake of Stain- 
 cliff and Ewecross, held at this town, for the purposes 
 above-mentioned, a liberal Subscription was entered into, 
 and several gentlemen enroled themselves for Personal 
 Service. 
 
 To afford persons who are desirous of coming forward 
 a further opportunity of entering their names, this Meeting 
 is adjourned to Kighley, at the Golden Fleece, on Wed- 
 nesday the 25th day of June Instant, at 12 o'clock at noon. 
 
 That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Chair- 
 man for his conduct on this occasion. 
 
 Thomas Garforth, Chairman. 
 The Subscription at Settle is as follows : 
 
 s. 
 
 Michael Mitchell Stainton ... 55 
 
 Abraham Chamberlain Skipton ... 10 10 
 
 Thomas Salmon Settle ... 55 
 
 Anthony Lister Giggleswick ... 10 10 
 
 Edward Clayton Settle ... 10 10 
 
 Thomas York Halton Place ... 21 o 
 
 Thomas Ingilby Austwick ... 10 o
 
 i6 
 
 
 
 s. 
 
 C. Ing-ilby 
 
 Austwick 
 
 21 O 
 
 Thomas Backhouse 
 
 Giggleswick 
 
 IO IO 
 
 Thomas Barlow 
 
 Ingleton 
 
 3 3 
 
 Thomas Clapham 
 
 Giggleswick 
 
 10 IO 
 
 John Clapham, Clerk 
 
 Giggleswick 
 
 IO IO 
 
 William Clapham 
 
 Stackhouse 
 
 IO IO 
 
 Bryan Waller 
 
 Mason Gill 
 
 5 5 
 
 Thomas Toulman 
 
 Ingleton 
 
 5 5 
 
 Hartley and Swale 
 
 Settle 
 
 IO 10 
 
 Thomas Starkie and Son Gisburn 
 
 IO IO 
 
 Rev. Richard Dawson 
 
 Bolton 
 
 21 O 
 
 Thomas Ingilby 
 
 Clapham 
 
 IO IO 
 
 William Carr 
 
 Stackhouse 
 
 5 5 
 
 John Baynes 
 
 Skipton 
 
 40 o 
 
 Thomas Foster 
 
 Clapham 
 
 5 5 
 
 William Lawson 
 
 Giggleswick 
 
 5 5 
 
 Revd. William Paley 
 
 Giggleswick 
 
 IO IO 
 
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 Some three years since I compiled an Index 
 to the Items relating to Yorkshire contained in the 
 " Gentleman's Magazine," and the first part of this Index, 
 consisting of about 1600 entries, was published in the 
 "Leeds Mercury Weekly Supplements" from December lyth, 
 1881, to September gth, 1882, 
 
 In compiling this Index I found several articles 
 relating to this neighbourhood, and as sets of the Mag- 
 azine are scarce, and not easily accessible, (perhaps the 
 reason of such scarcity is not difficult to find when I 
 state that my own set takes up about twenty-eight feet 
 of shelving,) I thought a reprint of such local items 
 would be of interest to persons residing in this locality. 
 I therefore decided they should form the second of my 
 series of " Local Tracts." 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW.
 
 Twelve large and one hundred small paper copies printed for 
 private circulation.
 
 EXTRACTS 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 "GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE" RELATING TO 
 SETTLE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. 
 
 To the Author, &c., 
 
 Settle, in Yorkshire, April, i3th, 1749. 
 Sir, 
 
 Till the yth instant we were, for anything we know, at 
 least 20 miles distant on all sides from the contagious 
 distemper among the cattle ; neither is it suspected that 
 any herd or beast have been drove from any infected place 
 to us, which makes us strongly suspect, what does not seem 
 to have been much attended to, that the infection may, and 
 often is, carried many miles in clouds by strong winds, such 
 as we have had for many days past from the east, and at last 
 falls in form of a dew or mist agreeable to the doctrine of the 
 great Frederick Hoffman, who, in his chapter de temporibus 
 anni insalubritus, says " For it appears from experience that 
 many corrosive salts are generated in the air itself which 
 chiefly shew themselves in a very corrosive dew, which falling 
 upon vegetables, not only corrupts, but even eats them up, 
 and stains with variety of colours the leaves of trees and 
 plants, whence it is observed that the fruits and grass on 
 which this dew falls have been highly pernicious both to man 
 and beast. For which reason many skilful physicians not 
 injudiciously attribute the death or even plague that rages 
 among the cattle, swine, sheep, &c., not only to a moist 
 rotting season, but to a very corrosive dew. Thus, in the 
 years 1693 an d 1694, m the principality of Hesse, the vege- 
 tables were infected with a kind of corrosive dew from whence 
 oxen and cows fell down dead by heaps of a consumption of 
 the lungs."
 
 Altho' the above distemper does not appear to be 
 the same which now rages with us, yet there is the same rea- 
 son for the propogation of the one as the other, viz., the 
 currency of the air ; and we are the more confirmed in that 
 opinion from the concurrent testimony of many people who 
 were near the infected place on the yth instant, the day the 
 cattle were first seized, who say that there was that day a 
 most intolerable stench in the air, which made them sick and 
 otherwise disordered them. The place where it now rages is 
 a farm called Cleatop, about a mile from this town, where 
 the farmer has already 18 dead, and all others about the 
 house are now ill in the same distemper, three or four of 
 which, however 'tis thought will recover. Gentlemen who 
 have seen cattle ill in different parts say this distemper ap- 
 pears to be the most violent of any. 
 
 Yesterday we saw one of the carcasses opened. 
 
 Here follows a long account of the symptoms, which, I think, are better 
 omitted. 
 
 P.S. Other accounts say that the distemper was 
 brought to Settle by a tanner's buying some hides of infected 
 cattle, which he laid in water, that afterwards running through 
 the above farmer's grounds, occasioned "the intolerable 
 stench " and infected the beasts. 
 
 In connection with this outbreak I thought an extract from a communi- 
 cation immediately following the above letter would not be out of place, as 
 it gives a curious bit of Yorkshire folk-lore. T. B. 
 
 An angel (so says the legend) descended lately into 
 Yorkshire and there set a large tree on fire, the strange ap- 
 pearance of which, or else the savour of the smoke, incited 
 the cattle around (some of which were infected with the dis- 
 temper,) to draw near, where they all either received an imme- 
 mediate cure or an absolute prevention of the disorder. It is 
 not affirmed that the angel staid to speak to any body, but 
 only that he left a written direction for the neighbouring 
 people to catch this supernatural fire, and to communicate it 
 from one to another with all possible speed throughout the 
 country : and in case that, by any unhappy means it should 
 be extinguished and utterly lost, that then new fire of equal 
 virtue may be obtained, not by any common method, but rub- 
 bing two pieces of wood together till they burn. Upon what 
 foundation this story stands we shall not be at the pains to 
 enquire, but so much is certain, that it has gained sufficient
 
 credit to have put the farmers actually into a hurry of com- 
 municating flame and smoke from one house to another over 
 the whole country. 
 
 Wakefield, 1760. 
 MR. URBAN, 
 
 Travelling lately thro' Craven, in Yorkshire, I was 
 informed of a very remarkable well near Settle which ebbs 
 and flows four or fives times in an hour to the height of 
 near six inches. It arises at the bottom of a prodigious ledge 
 of rocks, runs with a plentiful stream, is enclosed in a quad- 
 rangle of stone flags oi about two foot square, and had 
 formerly proper outlets for the current, to enable the spectator 
 to distinguish the degrees of its rise and fall with more exact- 
 ness. But it is now much neglected and out of order, which 
 is a little surprizing, as it is the capital curiosity of the 
 country, and is close by the high road side. 
 
 Springs of this sort are said to be in many parts of 
 England. That at Tideswell I have seen, and its rise is 
 barely perceptible, and, by description, the others are very- 
 far short of this, which is the only one unnoticed by natural- 
 ists. And I cannot omit mentioning that the Fells (as they 
 are called) in that neighbourhood, will amply repay the fatigue 
 of a speculative man in viewing some openings in the ground 
 of terrible appearance and unknown depth. Indeed, the chief 
 reason of giving you this trouble, is to induce some of your 
 correspondents in that part of the world to give a particular 
 account of those uncommon curiosities which are in the 
 environs of Ingleborough, which, in my opinion, far surpass 
 those of the Peak, in Derbyshire, and want nothing but a 
 Buxton to solicit the traveller to a thorough examination of 
 them. And methinks, gentlemen, who frequent those parts 
 in quest of moor game, might spare one hour in their rambles 
 to survey these almost unknown wonders. 
 
 Those who have taken a very cursory view of them 
 are apt to conclude that some of Squire Buncle's most extra- 
 ordinary adventures are not so romantic and ill-founded as 
 many have supposed, and 'tis a pity they did not fall within 
 his knowledge, for his pen would have done them justice. 
 
 In the list of deaths for July, 1762, is the following : 
 
 William Dawson, of Llancliff Hall, near Settle, York- 
 shire, Esquire, aged 87.
 
 In the list of deaths for the year 1766, we find : 
 
 January i6th, the Countess of Gyllenborg, at Settle, 
 Yorkshire. She was so created by the late Queen of Sweden, 
 her mother being married to his Excellency Count Gyllen- 
 borg, sometime ambassador at this court, and afterwards 
 Prime Minister of Sweden. By his Excellency Baron Sparre 
 (who served under Charles XII, in all his campaigns, and was 
 taken prisoner with him at the battle of Pultowa), her lady- 
 ship has left issue one daughter, the Hon. Amelia Melifina 
 Sparre. 
 
 In an article (in 1781,) on Count Gyllenborg, Prime Minister of Sweden, 
 is the following : 
 
 After the Count's death the younger Countess Gyllen- 
 borg, a very accomplished lady, returned to England, having 
 a pension both from Sweden and Hesse Cassel, and resided 
 several years in London. In the latter part of her life she 
 retired into Yorkshire where she died at Settle, January i6th, 
 1766. Her only daughter, the Hon. Amelia Wilhelmina Me- 
 lifina Sparre, born in 1733, to whom Frederick, Prince of 
 Wales, was godfather, died unmarried at Thirske, in York- 
 shire, October 5th, 1778. 
 
 Settle, Yorkshire, March i4th, 1784. 
 MR. URBAN, 
 
 If the following account of some antiquities, &c., found 
 in this neighbourhood, merits a place amongst the curious 
 accounts, &c., in the Gentleman's Magazine, you will oblige me 
 by inserting it. W. F. 
 
 Some workmen digging for stones, about a year ago, 
 in a quarry by the road side at Craven Bank, (the boundary 
 of that extensive country called Craven), above Giggleswick, 
 found in a crevice between two rocks, about the depth of two 
 yards, a large quantity of Roman coins, chiefly of the two 
 Constantines, as appeared very plain by the reverse and the 
 legend GLORIA EXERCTVS still very legible. Some appeared 
 also to be Denarii of Gratianus. There are likewise three or 
 four which, upon examination, I found to have on one side 
 the figure of Romulus, and round the head the letters ROMVL. 
 very plain. On the reverse the figure of the wolf with 
 Romulus and Remus sucking, with the words VRBS FVN., 
 which I suppose means the founder of the city, but the other
 
 parts are rendered by that enemy to antiquaries, Time, illegi- 
 ble. I should be glad of an explanation of the above coin, as I 
 apprehend it must have been struck long after Romulus' time 
 and probably in honour of him.* 
 
 Not long since the old cross at Settle, being found 
 ruinous, was taken down, in the inside of which was the ap- 
 pearance of another cross or pillar, rudely designed, upon 
 which were found two or three silver coins, which are now 
 unhappily lost, but I have in my possession a curious antique 
 which was also found in the inside, which I conjecture to be 
 Saxon ; a representation of it I have sent, if it is fit to be seen 
 in the corner of a plate. 
 
 As to its antiquity it is undoubted, as it was carried to be 
 shewn to an honourable court, when a great cause was 
 depending to prove the antiquity of Settle as a market town, 
 &c. For an explanation of this I shall also be obliged to any 
 learned correspondent. 
 
 At High-hill, above Settle, are still visible the remains 
 of two Roman fortifications. The first takes up an immense 
 tract of ground, in the middle of which is a noble spring, arti- 
 ficially surrounded with an earthen bank. The second is 
 small, of an oblong form, exactly like that described at Mam 
 Tor, by Mr. Bray, in his tour through Derbyshire. At Craven 
 Bank, where the above coins were found, is an artificial 
 tumulus, or mount of earth, raised in the form of a cylindrical 
 cone, with a neat cut path-way and flat top, with a raised 
 bank above the summit. On this has probably been a watch 
 tower. 
 
 * These are very common in Roman stations, particularly Reculver 
 which makes it probable that they are of the lower Empire.
 
 10 
 
 It may just suffice to observe that a branch of the 
 Roman military way passes over the moors by Sunderland,* 
 and in view of Craven Bank. At Bracewell, near Thornton, 
 is a curious old ruinous castle or monastry, of which, if 
 required, I will give a more particular description at a future 
 period, but would just request an account, from any corre- 
 spondent, by whom it was founded or built, and who dwelt 
 there, as a report goes that one of the King Henry's or 
 Edward's resided there for a few days on an excursion to the 
 North, and there is still shown his chamber ; also a curious 
 castellated mansion known by the name of Hellefield 
 Cocheni. An explanation of the word " Cocheni " is 
 requested. As no author has yet gratified the publick with 
 an account of the above antiquities, they lying remote from 
 the road, it will be agreeable if some antiquary will explain 
 the above particulars. W. F. 
 
 MR. URBAN, June, 1784. 
 
 The coins enquired after in p. 259, by the author of 
 the very curious communication from Settle, are some of those 
 common ones struck during the reign of Constantine the 
 Great, and if attentively examined will be found to read on 
 the side VRBS. ROMA with the head of the city of Rome, 
 the letters upon the exergue of the other side, with the figures 
 of Romulus and Remus sucking the wolf, I should suspect not 
 to be as described in the letter, but others denoting the place 
 where the coins were minted ; and these were exceedingly 
 numerous almost to a degree of incredibility to those not 
 versed in these matters. Their varieties may be seen in Ban- 
 duri's Numism. Imperatorum, &c. It is most natural to sup- 
 pose that the quarry wherein these coins were found bore the 
 marks of having been heretofore worked, although this gentle- 
 man has not expressly said so. Yours, S. E. 
 
 MR. URBAN, Settle, July 28th, 1784. 
 
 Emboldened by the general and ready admission you 
 give to all the branches of useful correspondence, I once more 
 send an account of some trivial antiquities in this neighbour- 
 hood, and which I apprehend have never yet been noticed by 
 any author, they lying too remote from the road, and I hope 
 they will meet with the approbation of the literati. The first 
 ( see plate,) is a curious antique cross, now standing near the 
 
 * In a later letter the writer says this is a misprint for " Saukland," but 
 this latter word again is probably a misprint for " Laukland " (or Lawk- 
 land as it is now spelt.) T. B.
 
 OLD MARKET CROSS AT GIGGLESWICK.
 
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 church in the town of Giggleswick, but of what aera is left 
 to the learned to determine, however, its antiquity is un- 
 doubted, being used many years before its erection as a 
 threshold in an old house, and its beautiful Gothic head 
 walled in. The house itself was ancient and is now pulled 
 down. It might probably belong to some monastry (though 
 neither author nor tradition informs us of any being here), 
 or might perhaps be set up in days of monastic splendour, 
 amongst the numerous ones at those times in being. 
 
 Tradition, through the channel of the inhabitants of 
 Settle, informs us that some of the Giggleswick residents 
 stole it from the base of the old cross at Settle, in order to 
 prejudice the trial (see previous extract on page 10) concern- 
 ing the antiquity of the market, but this is partial, and as it 
 is an interested tale the inhabitants of Giggleswick deny the 
 assertion. This pillar is about five yards high, two yards are 
 stuck in the ground and walled up as a pedestal. I dare not 
 assert whether it is Saxon or not. The other figure is a coin, 
 I suppose also inedited, the legends and characters are very 
 much defaced, however, it appears to be of the Edwards.* 
 An explanation as to the age, antiquity, &c., of the above 
 articles, will oblige yours. W. F. 
 
 Settle, Yorkshire, November 23, 1784. 
 MR. URBAN, 
 
 It is much to be regretted that the great protoparent 
 of antiquaries did not visit in his extensive excursions this 
 part of Craven, in which are many curious antiquities that 
 are yet buried in oblivion, especially some of them, which it 
 must be acknowledged are so recluse as to admit of no specu- 
 lation from our modern tourists. I therefore once more give 
 your readers what may excite the attention of an abler pen. 
 The Sepulchral Barrow has upon all occasions awakened the 
 curiosity of the antiquary and public in general, which may 
 be witnessed from the many spectators present upon opening 
 those venerable reliques. A kind of respectable veneration 
 naturally inspires even the most ignorant rustic during the 
 operation. The Rev. Mr. Hutchins, in his history of Dorset- 
 shire, pleasingly remarks, Thus we see, all nations, however 
 
 * The coin is of Edward IV. Legend on the obverse, EDWARD DI G R. 
 
 ANG. & FRANC. Reverse, POSUI DEUM ADJUTOREM MEUM. CIVITAS EBORACI. 
 
 See the coins published by the Society of Antiquaries, Tab V. (some 
 varieties in the inscriptions excepted.) EDIT. 
 
 I
 
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 differing in language, customs, or manners, showed a religious 
 regard for their dead. The venerable Druid, the civilised 
 Roman, the barbarous Dane alike observed the rites of sepul- 
 ture, whether deposited under the lofty pyramid, mixed with 
 their mother earth, or reduced to a handful of ashes covered 
 with a heap of turf, the deceased alike employed the pious care 
 of their surviving friends, who wept over and buried them. 
 And these rites, founded in nature, were supported for the 
 encouragement of the living, not with a view of benefiting 
 the dead." But the Sepulchral Tumuli frequently when 
 searched and examined with the nicest accuracy, rather con- 
 fuse and embarrass the searchers, unless the appearance of 
 coins, instruments, trinkets, or other national appurtenances 
 clear the difficulty. This evidently proceeds from the exact 
 similitude between those of the four early nations. Indeed, 
 it has, with some degree of propriety been urged, that the 
 two latter, the Danes and Saxons, left off the custom of burn- 
 ing their dead immediately after leaving their own countries ; 
 and, were it not asserted by such reputable and judicious 
 authors, it appears rather improbable, on considering that 
 domestic or national customs are so riveted and unalterable, 
 that, though they may appear evidently ridiculous, it is im- 
 possible for many ages to root them out. It hath also been 
 observed, that the Romans and Britons always burnt their 
 dead ; but it is certain that they did not always (though they 
 might in general,) since it is beyond dispute that entire skele- 
 tons, and perfect bones, of Roman generals have been found. 
 Though these reasons may go far to resolve the many con- 
 fused opinions and doubts formed, yet they will not altogether 
 suffice. An ingenious author, speaking upon this subject 
 remarks, " That this way of burying under tumuli was so 
 universal, that it is not easy to decide by what particular 
 nation any barrow was erected, unless some criterion within 
 it determine the uncertainty. Thus, we may form some 
 conjecture from the materials and workmanship of the urn, 
 the cell that contains it, or from coins, or instruments of war, 
 or domestic life, which may accompany the bones ; but where 
 these, or such like matters, are wanting, conjectures are vain." 
 He then argues with the similar reasons that have been given 
 concerning the Danes and Saxons, and are also originally 
 hinted by Camden on his learned annotator, and if I mistake 
 not, by a correspondent of some of the early publications in 
 the Gentleman's Magazine, that universal Antiquarian Reper- 
 tory.
 
 H 
 
 Though the descriptive part of this letter may appear 
 long in introducing, and the above subject be considered as 
 tedious, yet I thought it proper to give some brief reasons 
 respecting its real attention, which is no other than to request 
 the opinion of some of the literati upon this head, before I 
 proceed to describe the tumulus, which, I must acknowledge, 
 puzzles this neighbourhood with respect to its original erec- 
 tion, and to what peculiar people it owed its existence. This 
 barrow or tumulus, (see plate,) stands in an elevated situation 
 upon a mountain, above the hamlet of Stackhouse,* and may 
 be discerned at a great distance. It is known in the country 
 by the name of The Apron full of Stones, from a ridiculous 
 tradition that the devil flying over the hill to build a bridge 
 near Kirkby Lonsdale, in Westmoreland, his apron string 
 broke, and he dropped this vast heap. Some other curious 
 legendary tales are told on this occasion. 
 
 The form of this vast mass is circular, or rather orbi- 
 cular ; the height, by computation on the spot, about nine or 
 ten feet. It is composed of an incredible quantity of stones, 
 piled in such a manner as to rest upon each other's basis, and 
 strengthened by its conic form ; it rises upwards in this 
 curious shape. Those stones that form the outside of the 
 work are so small that a soldier could carry them ; and since 
 it has been argued that such a monstrous work as this would 
 not be attempted by any nation, but was natural, the large- 
 ness of the tumulus may easily be accounted for, since they 
 were annually increased out of reverence, as Mason evinces 
 in his " Caractacus," where he introduces him soliloquizing on 
 his son Arviragus's body. 
 
 Posterity 
 
 Shall to thy tomb with annual reverence bring 
 Sepulchral stones, and pile them to the clouds. 
 
 This barrow hath been opened many years ago, and it is 
 represented in the plate in the state in which it hath appeared 
 till lately. Some old people in the neighbourhood remember 
 it being entirely complete, and having a very flat top. It was 
 usual, in finishing these works, to lay a flat stone on the top. 
 The people that opened it left their intention unfinished, only 
 throwing down the lid of the stone coffer, and one or two of 
 the sides, and, meeting with nothing worth digging for they 
 left it. Upon examining it in this state, before its being 
 entirely disfigured in the last attempt, I found several human 
 bones scattered up and down therein, amongst which I 
 * Stackhouse was originally an appendage to Furness Abbey, Co. Lane.
 
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 collected the patellae of the knee, the vertebrae of the spine, 
 part of the jaw, and several teeth. Round the area is a wall 
 or rampart, of the same material as the outside, its height 
 from the interior part about two feet, irregularly ranged with 
 fissured remnants. In the centre of the cavity or area is the 
 above chest, consisting of several huge stones of vast magni- 
 tude and density, fixed firmly into the ground, which supported 
 a lid of equal size, though it is now thrown off the top. In 
 this chest are partitions, for what purpose is not known, unless 
 each space was allotted to its particular relique or body. In 
 the partitions and sides of the coffin is a kind of hole in 
 the edge, with a rude mold. Not many weeks ago the 
 curiosity of some of the neigbourhood was excited to 
 investigate this stupendous work of art, and accordingly 
 labourers were hired, when, upon searching a day, (yet not 
 half the work done), a human skeleton was found, in due pro- 
 portion, and in a fine state of preservation, excepting the 
 skull and one of the limbs, which were moved out of their 
 place by the workmen's tools. A small circular piece of ivory, 
 and the tusk of an nnknown beast, supposed to be of the hog 
 genus, was also found ; but no ashes, urns, coins, or instru- 
 ments were discovered. There is a tradition, (if mere tradi- 
 tion may be relied upon,) that this was raised over the body 
 of some of the Danes slain in the general massacre of that 
 nation. However, from collecting all circumstances, as there 
 is no appearance of ashes, it is supposed to belong to them or 
 the Saxons. This is, however, what I wish to be acquainted 
 with. Such a conspicuous work must certainly be erected to 
 the manes of some chiefs ; though there is no ground to sup- 
 port its origin but a mere tradition. The tumuli of the 
 Romans and Britons have frequently a black friable earth 
 round their foundations, but this has not, neither is there any 
 appearance of the operation of fire in its cavity. In the 
 Archffiologia, vol. III. art. xxviii., an extract of a letter from 
 the Rev. George Low, mentions the opening of one of the 
 numerous tumuli in the Links of Shail, in the Orkney Isles, 
 in which was found a well preserved skeleton, within a coffin 
 or chest composed of four stones covered by a fifth. He 
 observes, "Little can be said as the antiquity of this tumulus, 
 only that it was made before the introduction of Christianity." 
 The insertion of this extract is only meant to compare it with 
 this, and to assert the original reasons. And as the present 
 century can honestly boast of a greater fund of antiquarian
 
 knowledge than any of the preceding ones, and this noble 
 science, which, in the days of ignorance and superstition, 
 used to be considered as despicable and ridiculous, is now 
 esteemed, not only honourable, but altogether useful and 
 necessary, being ornamented by the labours of genius, 
 thence, in this enlightened age, may the adepts in antiquity 
 have their doubts resolved, and the ignorant meet not only 
 satisfaction, but pleasure and instruction. 
 
 P.S. In a former letter of mine Saukland has been 
 misprinted Sunderland. :;: Upon an excursion to Old Ford, 
 near London, not long ago, I saw the remains of an old palace 
 said to have been built by King John. An account of this, 
 or a drawing would be gratefully received, since no authors 
 mentions it. W. F. 
 
 MR. URBAN, 1785. 
 
 Had I happened to have seen your supplement sooner, 
 I should have been glad to have given an answer to W. F. 
 time enough for insertion in this month ; as I think the facility 
 of an early reply is one considerable advantage in publications 
 like yours. Being myself only of the humble order of fire- 
 side naturalists and antiquaries, I am always thankful when 
 the business, pleasure, or locality of gentlemen of another 
 turn, concurs with their disposition to oblige, in giving us 
 good descriptions of things rare or uncommon in nature or 
 art. And they should the rather be encouraged to do so, 
 from the consideration that many have the talent of describ- 
 ing in an higher degree of perfection than many others, 
 who can better account for and explain. Of this I lately saw 
 a curious instance in a foreign journal, a gentleman described 
 minutely a very large, but damaged piece of tapestry, but 
 without pretending to know the history represented, the dis- 
 covery of which he requested from others. An answer was 
 immediately given by one who declared that he had seen the 
 tapestry over and over again, but without ever attempting to 
 make out its meaning, so confused and perplexed it always 
 appeared to him, but that from the description it certainly 
 was, &c., &c. Here we have an instance of a person's not 
 being able to make out a story from the reality, tho' he 
 could readily do it from the representation of another, who 
 was himself perfectly unacquainted with the subject. How 
 many gentlemen saw, and bestowed vast profusion of learn- 
 ing upon the few letters that compose the Greek inscription 
 
 * (See page 10.) This is evidently a misprint for Laukland. T. B.
 
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 to Astarte, which Mr. Tyrwhitt made out so clearly in his 
 study, that there was no occasion to say a single word more 
 about it ! Let therefore gentlemen be so kind as to give 
 accurate descriptions and representations, and it is probable 
 that some one will be found able and willing to explain them, 
 not that anything perfect is pretended to be said on the pre- 
 sent occasion, as the want of historical information must for 
 ever leave us often in the dark, as to many surprising monu- 
 ments of a rude and illiterate race of predecessors, which 
 provoke, without satisfying, our curiosity. One could wish, 
 however, to have a few more particulars given of this extra- 
 ordinary barrow, as nothing like it seems to be mentioned by 
 Mr. Collinson in his " Beauties of British Antiquities," 1779, 
 8vo., p. 9 and 13. The dimensions most wished for are the 
 diameter of the flat part at top, the circumference of the 
 base, and whether the present height being said to be 8 or 9 
 feet, be not a false print, as not suiting very well with " vast 
 mass," and taken " by computation on the spot," as one 
 should think so small an height might easily be measured ; 
 nor is the meaning very clear of " stones piled in such a 
 manner as to rest upon each other's basis." Were I to judge 
 from the engraving, I should conclude that it was made like 
 other barrows, by accumulating a large quantity of earth, and 
 then casing, coating, or facing the whole with stones. I should 
 imagine too, that, when perfect, its summit rose in an oval 
 form considerably above the top of the tumulus as represented, 
 so as to cover with a considerable quantity of earth, and 
 stone-casing, the part where the bodies were deposited ; as 
 they usually lie on the ground, and all the earth is heaped on 
 them. As to what is called the wall surrounding the present 
 flat top, that appears to me plainly to be the outer stone 
 casing, which stands up a little higher than the internal soft 
 materials, which have been stirred and thrown away, partly 
 in the attempt to bare the stone coffin work, and partly by 
 the weather since, so that the whole, to use a familiar image, 
 looks like a poached egg held in one's hand and broken a- 
 top, with some of the soft contents run out, so that the shell 
 rises a little above them all ronnd. Perhaps so much would 
 not have been said on the present subject but from a fancied 
 resemblance between it and that of King Gyges, mentioned by 
 Herodotus, and which Dr. Chandler informs us still subsists ; 
 as indeed what works of mens' hands seem so likely to endure, 
 the end certainly aimed at by all builders ? I forgot to
 
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 mention that the idea of increasing the heap by stones thrown 
 on by passengers, though often practised in other places, 
 seems out of the question, on a spot, where few visitors could 
 reasonably be expected, nor could so large a mass be thus 
 increased any more than the Tower of London, by throwing 
 stones at it. ' A. BARROWIST. 
 
 Settle, May 25th, 1785. 
 MR. URBAN, 
 
 Permit me to return thanks to the Barrowist for his 
 seasonable advice, with respect to accuracy in descriptions 
 of antiques, which would be of much greater utility to the 
 world were they more generally attended to. I cannot but 
 acknowledge that the computation of the dimensions of the 
 barrow was in some degree inaccurate, as it mentioned 9 or 
 10 feet instead of 9 or 10 yards, which was certainly erroneous, 
 though a mistake easily committed. The circumference of 
 the base is 210 feet ; and the diameter of the top of the pre- 
 sent wall or coating, or what he pleases to call it, 45 feet. 
 But as the summit of the coating is much broken and very 
 irregular, and great part dislodged by the workmen, the pre- 
 sent actual altitude is only 7 yards. The stones which com- 
 pose the coffer are 6 feet 9 inches long, and 3 feet broad, some 
 more and some less, according to their situation in composing 
 the cell. The meaning of " stones piled in such a manner as 
 to rest upon each other's basis " is very evident that they are 
 to each other a solid prop, foundation, or support, as the 
 barrow is formed in an inclined position, or conic shape. The 
 barrow is delineated as accurately as possible with respect to 
 the appearance before its late investigation, except with 
 regard to the oval form, which was certainly too circular for its 
 extent ; but this was my fault, not the engraver's, who has, 
 much to his credit, made an excellent and true copy of the 
 original sketch. After allowing myself to blame in those two 
 oversights, which are rather the effect of chance than inaccu- 
 racy, let me put a few reasonable queries to the Barrowist, 
 and answer some of his objections, which are equally faulty 
 in their turn. Mr. Collinson, it is true, in his " Beauties of 
 British Antiquities," gives the world a pleasing account of 
 several monumental reliques in the barrow line ; but there is 
 an innumerable quantity of barrows in Britain, and in those 
 quantities different species, which -have, in a general sense, 
 their various peculiarities, of which this may be one. The
 
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 judicious and accurate Captain Grose, in the second addition 
 of his " Antiquities " in his treatise upon the subject, coin- 
 cides in this point, as well as Camden, Weever, and many 
 other authors who have written upon this head. Mr. Collin- 
 son, no doubt, described with accuracy many different 
 species ; but let me ask the Barrowist if he could reasonably 
 expect to find every barrow minutely described, with its 
 peculiar appendages, either opened or unopened ? In different 
 situations considerable variations may be discovered in 
 investigating tumuli, where stones were most convenient to 
 form the whole, they were used ; and many barrows are 
 almost entirely composed of earth, where earth was rich and 
 stones few. I would recommend to the Barrowist to satisfy 
 himself with personal observation, and then he will find this 
 argument indisputably true, as description and expression 
 will not convince his delicate sensibility. I have a shrewd 
 suspicion that this gentleman disputes the validity of my 
 correspondence, or at least has an idea of a glaring extension, 
 magnified beyond the bounds of truth or reason, by compar- 
 ing it injudiciously with Dr. Chandler's curious description of 
 Herodotus's mausoleum of King Gyges. I have a hope, at 
 least, that the present account of the dimensions will satisfy 
 his incredulity. I should deem it the highest ingratitude to 
 transmit to so valuable a publication accounts of things un- 
 existing, or at least supposed to be stretched beyond the line 
 of probability. The Barrowist must be a person of extraordi- 
 nary discernment if he can judge, from the engraving, of what 
 sort of internal materials the barrow is formed. The internal 
 materials are composed of stones, some much larger than the 
 external coating, and, as the barrow is situated near a con- 
 siderable quantity of stones, rocks, &c., they have undoubtedly 
 been more convenient to collect than the earth from a barren 
 rocky moor. The summit of the barrow was certainly originally 
 above the coffer ; is it said in the description it was not ? 
 Though this barrow is much exposed, yet the weather could not 
 discompose the internal parts, as it required the force of 
 several men, with iron handspikes, to remove them ; and it 
 would be a work of many days to explore this " vast mass." 
 I am of opinion that it has been a general burial place for the 
 Danes or Pagan-Saxons, so large a quantity of bones having 
 been found, that were they collected together they would form 
 several bodies. Had the. Barrowist a proper knowledge of 
 ancient customs, he would have found that it was our ancient
 
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 forefathers, (not the moderns,) who, out of a superstitious 
 veneration, increased the sepulchral tumuli. I am sorry he 
 disputes the opinion of the great Mason, one of the first histo- 
 rians of the age, who supports this just idea. But how comes 
 he to compare the barrow with the Tower of London ? He 
 must have seen neither of those places, or his ideas must be 
 very capacious indeed ; and I should be afraid of drawing 
 upon myself the ridicule of all the cooks in England were I 
 to introduce the scheme of poaching an egg with the shell on. 
 I should have been glad of hearing the Barrowist's opinion 
 respecting the origin of this tumulus. His sentences are so 
 copious in strictures that I expected something extraordinary 
 to be the result of his letter ; but I was greatly disappointed 
 in not finding one single opinion in favour of my request, 
 except the old repetition, want of historical information, 
 which cannot withhold opinion. I am afraid he runs into the 
 same error himself, as the gentleman who described the tapestry. 
 The tapestry was minutely described, but without pretend- 
 ing to know the history represented. Was this the case with 
 me ? I cannot take the hint, as my description was only 
 faulty in two trifling mistakes. An opinion was formed, 
 every circumstance was described, and only a civil request 
 for the opinion of others, in conjunction with my own. I 
 should have contemplated his remarks with a contemptuous 
 silence, but I was roused and uncommonly struck with his 
 erroneous ideas, which could have originated from nothing 
 short of a fire-side observation, and not from an experienced 
 personal investigation of barrows. Hasty opinions are not 
 always just. And, as an apology for my egregious inaccura- 
 ries, permit me to plead a juvenile antiquary ; in short, I 
 should not have replied, but with regard to the words of the 
 poet, let me tell the Barrowist he forces 
 
 " As it were in spite, 
 
 Of nature and my stars to write." 
 
 W. F 
 
 From the list of deaths for 1785. 
 
 August 1 7th, Mr. William Hoole, an eminent tanner, 
 near Sheffield. Going to Settle fair his horse unfortunately 
 ran away with him near Bradford, and threw him, by which 
 he was bruised in so terrible a manner that he expired soon 
 after.
 
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 MR. URBAN, August 8th, 1786. 
 
 As I have been informed that the school, (see plate,) at 
 Giggleswick, near Settle-in-Craven, is shortly to be pulled 
 down, to be rebuilt in a more elegant and commodious 
 manner ; I thought it a pity that the memory of the old one 
 should drop with the stones. As it is a structure which can 
 boast of some antiquity, no doubt my intentions will meet the 
 approbation of those who are zealous for the preservation of 
 venerable reliques. 
 
 The building is low, small, and irregular, consisting of 
 two stages, the lower for reading, the higher for writing, &c. 
 On the north side is a small projecting building in which 
 was once a tolerable collection of books, now dispersed. 
 
 Upon the front wall, almost over the door, is an orna- 
 mental vacant niche, under which is the following inscription 
 in old characters (see the plate,) " Alma Dei Mater defende 
 " malis Jacobum Carr, presbyteris quoque clericulis. Hoc 
 " domus fit in anno millen' quingen' duoden' nostri miserere 
 " Deus. Senes cum juvenibus laudate nomen Dei." * By 
 the above inscription it appears that this building was origi- 
 ginally a chantry, and on searching Browne Willis f I find 
 " Egleswick, Virgin Mary's Chauntry, an annuity of 3 I2s. 
 to Richard Summerskale, incumbent." This must certainly 
 mean Giggleswick, which was anciently spelt Gegleswick. 
 There are some old cups preserved, upon which it is spelt 
 Ygleswick. The initial G or Y is probably left out by an 
 erratum in Willis, there being no such place as Egleswick in 
 those parts. This then fixes, in conjunction with the stone, 
 the date, &c., of the foundation of this chauntry, and, we may 
 conjecture, the nich was filled up by the effigies of the Virgin 
 Mary. This building stands on the north side of the Church 
 yard ; and I find authors remark that Chauntries were as 
 frequently placed without as within the Church. The school 
 was founded May 26th, 7th Edward VI., and in the grant is 
 styled " The Free Grammar School of King Edward VI. of 
 
 * The correct inscription, according to VVhittaker's History of Craven, 
 should be 
 
 2Uma Jpti Ulaitr bffntbf malis fatobum Carr 
 ^resbgteris quoq. d-tritulis Ijot bomns fit. Jn anno 
 fKU. qirint. Cent, b'no ]j\'t |. p. $L ^ttr mismre 
 knjrs turn jufanibas iaubate nomen |9ri. 
 
 t History of Abbeys, Vol. II., p. 290.
 
 24 
 
 Giggleswick,,' and was endowed by several rents and services 
 (amongst which was twelve pence and two chickens annually), 
 with the appropriations of the tithes of the collegiate church 
 of St. Andrew the apostle, of Nether Acaster, in Yorkshire, 
 which lands so appropriated were situated in North Cave, 
 Brampton, and North and South Kelthorpe. Also the appro- 
 priation of the lands belonging to the Chauntry of the Blessed 
 Virgin Mar)', founded in the Parish Church of Rise and Aid- 
 borough, in Yorkshire ; those possessions to be held of the 
 Crown as of its Manor of East Greenwich, in Kent, by fealty 
 only, in free socage, and not ' in capite,' yielding to it ^"63 
 annually. 
 
 In the grant no mention is made of the building in 
 which it should be held, but I conjecture that the late-dis- 
 solved chauntry was thought a proper place for it, in which 
 it hath since been. 
 
 It is superintended by eight governors, one of whom 
 is to be the vicar of the parish for the time being. John 
 Nowell, vicar ; William Caterall, of Newhall ; Henry 
 Tennant, gent., Thomas Proctor, of Cletchop ; Hugh New- 
 house, of Giggleswick ; William Brown, of Settle ; Roger 
 Armistead, of Knight Stayneford ; and William Bank, of 
 Fesar, were the first governors. 
 
 There are two masters, and one occasionally for 
 writing, &c., it is under Christ's College, Cambridge. 
 
 I have also heard that it is dependent upon the see of 
 Durham, but this may only arise from its belonging originally 
 to the Church of Giggleswick, which, I apprehend, once be- 
 longed to Durham Abbey, and is dedicated to St. Cuthbert.* 
 The Archbishop of York is also to be consulted on the election 
 of a Master or Governor, &c. Since its original foundation 
 its revenues have increased very much, and it is at present 
 well endowed. A person left a certain sum of money to be 
 laid out, upon the i2th day of March annually, in figs, which 
 curious legacy is yet kept up, being styled the Potation-day ; 
 and upon the same day a jubilee or fair is kept up at the 
 village, and the governors meet to inspect and regulate their 
 affairs. 
 
 Yours, &c., 
 
 INVESTIGATOR C. 
 
 * Giggleswick Church, which is dedicated to St. Alkelda, formerly 
 belonged to the Priory of Finchale, which was subservient to Durham. 
 
 T. B.
 
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 Settle, August I3ch, 1793. 
 MR. URBAN, 
 
 I have seen lately several dissertations upon Swallows 
 in your Magazine. I was much pleased this spring in observ- 
 ing a young white swallow bred in this neighbourhood. 
 I saw it every day I walked out for about a month, and when 
 I missed seeing it I was, to my mortification, told that it had 
 taken flight into a shoe-maker's shop in Settle, where it was 
 caught and killed. W. C. 
 
 Sept. 3oth, 1794. 
 MR. URBAN, 
 
 I request the favour of a place in your entertaining 
 and useful Miscellany for the following account of a very 
 curious and remarkable phenomenon, the unexpected appear- 
 ance of a piece of water at the distance of two miles from Settle- 
 in-Craven, as it may not be familiar to, or unworthy the 
 observation of, a few among your numerous and ingenious 
 readers. 
 
 The method I shall pursue, in order to describe it in 
 the most intelligible and satisfactory manner, is first by relat- 
 ing the circumstances attending its rise, continuance, and 
 situation ; secondly, by subjoining a delineation of it with the 
 admeasurement. First, this water was first discovered about 
 three years ago, and, as far as I can recollect, did not in- 
 crease gradually, but was of its perfect magnitude soon after, 
 if not immediately upon, its first appearance. There was not, 
 according to the information I have received, any remarkable 
 fall of rain at the time, nor any visible cause which could 
 account for such a phenomonen ; but even if rain could be 
 supposed to be the first cause of its appearance, since it has 
 continued with little alteration for the space of three years, 
 and during the severe drought of the present summer, we may 
 fairly conclude that the supply of water will be regular and 
 permanent. The quantity produced in the course of twenty- 
 four hours must be very considerable, as it furnishes water 
 for sixty large cattle, exclusive of what must necessarily be 
 carried off by evaporation. It is situated on the summit of a 
 high mountain, surrounded on all sides with limestone rock. 
 The ground near it is remarkably dry, nor was there ever 
 before that time known to be any water in the place. The 
 above circumstances are in direct opposition to those which 
 usually attend similar phenomena, as low and swampy ground,
 
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 with others, generally are sufficient to afford a plain and easy 
 solution. There are no springs in the lands adjoining, except 
 one at the distance of half a mile, and that much below the 
 level of this now under consideration.* Secondly, the axis 
 major A B f o the figure, (see plate,) which is nearly an ellipse, 
 is 30 yards i-8th; the axis minor C D is 23 yards i-8th. Conse- 
 quently the area is nearly 18 perches, 2 yds., 5 feet, 3 inches. 
 
 yds. ft. in. 
 The depth at point W is ... ... 2 2 2 
 
 Ditto do. X 305 
 
 Ditto do. Y 217 
 
 Ditto do. Z ... ... 3 o 3 
 
 The periphery of the figure ... 83 i i 
 
 This admeasurement was made after a drought of two months, 
 when the water must be supposed less than at any other sea- 
 son of the year. If any of your ingenious correspondents can 
 give an account of a similar phenomenon, they will much 
 oblige a constant reader. 
 
 From the list for deaths of 1796. 
 
 July 22nd, in his 85th year, Mr. Thomas Carr, Stack- 
 house, near Settle-in-Craven, county York, whose family 
 have lived at that place for many generations. 
 
 In an account of Edward Parker, Esq., of Browsholm, Yorkshire, who 
 died Dec. 22nd, 1794, there is the following mention of his son : 
 
 " He had only one child, the present representative of 
 the family, John Parker, Esq., of Marshfield, f Yorkshire, 
 late M.P. for the borough of Clithero. This gentleman was 
 educated at Eton, was a gentleman commoner of Christ's 
 College, Cambridge ; a member of Bootle's (Club,) and married 
 Breatrix J (whose prophetic baptismal name proved truly 
 indicative of the manner in which she fulfils all the relative 
 duties, and exhibits all the endearing accomplishments), the 
 only daughter of the late, and sister of the present Thomas 
 Lister, Esq., of Gisburn Park and Malham Water House, 
 Yorkshire, proprietary and late representative of the borough 
 above mentioned. By this lady he had issue eight sons, || 
 
 * There are several springs at the foot of the mountain, among which is 
 that remarkable one the ebbing and flowing well, none of which is in the 
 least affected by the appearance of the present water. 
 
 t This is Marshfield, Settle, now divided into two houses. T. B. 
 
 { Marshfield was rebuilt by Mr. Lister, and was probably part of 
 Beatrix Lister's dowry on her marriage to Mr. Parker. T. B. 
 
 || All of whom were baptised at Giggleswick church. Septimus and 
 Octavius were also buried there. T. B.
 
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 of these, Septimus and Octavius, the two youngest, are dead. 
 Thomas Lister, the oldest, is a pupil of Dr. James, at Rugby ; 
 whose amiable character and sweet deportment bid fair for 
 an illustrious ornament of that church, for which he has made 
 his election. Edward, the second, and Charles, the fourth 
 son, have been dignified by the appointment of pages of 
 honor to his Majesty. The latter is at St. James's, the former 
 gone in the suite of the vice roy of Ireland. John and William 
 are yet at school in the country. It is but justice here to say 
 that this antient and respectable family has consorted, and 
 continues to live in habits of friendship and intimacy, with 
 some of the most distinguished nobility and eminent char- 
 acters in the kingdom. And thus, in their descendants, are 
 they remunerated, for their long, warm, and inviolate attach- 
 ment to their King and Constitution, by the grateful notice 
 of the present sovereign : by a duplicate of honour, which 
 rarely attaches singly to any but those whose family has been 
 ennobled not merely by the virtue, but by the coronet of their 
 ancestors. 
 
 From the list of deaths for 1797. 
 
 May 25th, in London, aged 42, John Parker, Esq., of 
 Browsholm and Marshfield, county York, late M.P. for the 
 borough of Clithero, in Lancashire, of whom a particular ac- 
 count shall appear next month. 
 
 In accordance with the above promise the following memoir of Mr. 
 Parker was given the following month : 
 
 Mr. Parker was the only son of Edward Parker, Esq., 
 who died at Browsholm, county York, December 22nd, 1794, 
 by his wife Barbara, who survives him, daughter and co- 
 heiress of the late Sir Wm. Fleming, Bart., who died in 1736, 
 and was great uncle to the present Sir Michael le Fleming, 
 Bart., of Rydall Hall, county Westmoreland. He married 
 Beatrice, only daughter of the late and sister of the present 
 Thomas Lister, Esq., of Gisburn Park, representative and 
 proprietary of the borough of Clithero, by whom he has six 
 surviving sons, the oldest of which, Thomas Lister, is entered 
 a gentleman-commoner at Cambridge, and will, on his coming 
 of age, succeed to the inheritance of a very large property. 
 The body was carried down into the country, in a manner 
 suitable to the rank of the deceased, and interred in the family 
 vault at Waddington, on the loth of June last, of which
 
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 church, together with Bentham, Ingleton, and Ingleton Fells, 
 the family have the patronage. Several further particulars 
 respecting this ancient and illustrious family are recorded in 
 our volume Ixv., page 82. (See page 26.) The more immediate 
 subject of this memoir possessed a most retentive memory, 
 and from his education, rank, and habits of life was well 
 known and much respected in the circles of the polite and 
 noble on account of his great hilarity, benevolence, and gene- 
 rosity, not to mention the hereditary characteristic of Brows- 
 holm a boundless hospitality. 
 
 From the list of deaths for 1799. 
 
 September 2gth, in his 8gth year, the Rev. Wm. Paley, 
 M.A., head master of the Free Grammar School, at Giggles- 
 wick-in-Craven, county York, and father of Dr. Paley, Arch- 
 deacon of Carlisle. He was of Christ's College, Cambridge, 
 M.A., 1733. 
 
 There are several notes relating to this neighbourhood in the later 
 volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine, but I have thought it best to embody 
 them in various articles that I hope to issue in this series of local tracts. 
 
 T. B. 
 
 J. W. LAMBERT, PRINTER, CHAPEL-ST., SETTLE.
 
 
 LOCAL SCRAPS 
 
 (Reprinted froq \\e ^eltle fjeusehold _J\lmanacH far 1897.) 
 
 by ^l^os. ^rayshaw. 
 
 SETTLE : 
 THE CRAVEN PRINTING AND STATIONERY COMPANY, LIMITED.
 
 LOCAL SCRAPS. 
 
 SETTLE A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. 
 
 The following description of Settle is from the account of 
 a tour by a Mr. Housman towards the end of last century. 
 
 " Settle is an inconsiderable market town, containing 
 about 900 inhabitants. 
 
 It is ancient, and was once famous for its manufacture 
 of, and trade in, leather and hides, which are now in the 
 decline : a fair, however, is still kept here once a fortnight, 
 for the sale of these articles, and also of fat cattle. Its 
 situation with respect to the neighbouring country is low, 
 and the vale before it extensive and pleasant. It stands 
 near the base of a white limestone rock, called Castlebar, 
 which some travellers say resembles that of Gibraltar, and 
 is 300 feet above the level of the town. The inhabitants 
 have lately been at the expence of cutting an easy winding 
 path to the top of it, from whence there is a fine prospect 
 of the vale below, and the long range of craggy hills on 
 each hand, which shew a mixture of grey rock and luxuriant 
 verdure. In cutting stones from this rock fragments of great 
 magnitude have sometimes rolled down, breaking through 
 the garden walls, which stand on a sloping ground at the 
 foot of the hill, forcing their way into the street, and 
 sometimes even damaging houses. 
 
 This district enjoys a fine air, and plenty of excellent 
 water. Land is generally applied to the purposes of grazing, 
 to which the soil seems peculiarly adapted, being a fine 
 hazel mould upon a stratum of limestone. On climbing to 
 the top of a high mountain near Settle, we found fat bul- 
 locks feeding on remarkably long, rich and thick grass, 
 which we thought the most singular instance of the luxur- 
 iance of mountain pasturage. We were told that most of 
 the neighbouring hills have an equal propensity to the 
 production of grass. From a want of trees (stone walls 
 being universally the fences) the country has a naked 
 appearance.
 
 The pleasant village of Giggleswick stands about a 
 mile from Settle, on the road towards Ingleton ; it was 
 formerly a market town, while Settle was only a hamlet, 
 and it still contains the parish Church to that place. 
 Giggleswick now principally consists of a few genteel 
 houses." 
 
 DR. POCOCKE'S TOUR. 
 
 The following extracts from the account of a tour under- 
 taken in the year 1750, by Bishop Pococke, are interesting 
 as making mention of the Old Sundial on Castleberg. 
 
 " Wentworth House in Yorkshire, 
 
 August 8th, 1750. 
 
 My last was of the 3Oth of July from Halifax, in which 
 letter I gave you an account of Hornby Castle. In the 
 afternoon of the 26th I travelled eastward along the 
 Wenning, and crossing over it at Bentham, from Lanca- 
 shire, I came into Yorkshire. We crossed over the heath 
 and came to Clapham and coming to the brow of the hill 
 over the vale in which the Ribble rises, a very romantic 
 and agreeable scene opened of high craggy rocks to the 
 left, almost perpendicular, and a fine uneven, improved 
 country to the south. Out of the foot of these rocks, there 
 come three or four considerable streams, large enough to 
 turn a mill : one of them has been remarkable for ebbing 
 and flowing very suddenly and frequently, but I find can- 
 not be reduced to any certainty, and people have been 
 puzzled to find out the cause of it, which may be that at 
 certain times the water may bring up a great deal of sand, 
 and fill some cavity and stop the rise of the spring, and 
 when that sand subsides it may then again flow plentifully. 
 A little further we came to a most pleasant village, called 
 Giggleswick, under these rocks, and very beautifully situated 
 over the Ribble, it is adorned with trees, and there are 
 many good houses in it, and on the other sides are well 
 improved rising grounds. 
 
 Crossing the Ribble a little beyond this place, we came 
 in a quarter of a mile to Settle, a little town situated under 
 a high rocky hill, on the lower part of which four stones 
 being placed they serve as a sun-dial to the country for 
 three or four miles southward, as they know what hour of
 
 the morn it is when the shadow comes to them, from nine 
 to twelve. Settle is a pretty great thoroughfare and has 
 a small manufacture of knit stockings. We passed this 
 day near a high hill called Inglebarrow, at the foot of 
 which, near Ingleton, I was informed there was a very 
 curious large cave. On the mountain grow two uncommon 
 plants, the Rosa Radix, and the Ladies' Slipper, on some 
 of the mountains near Settle grows a sort of dwarf 
 bramble, the berry of which they call cloud-berry, and the 
 common people cnute-berry, because they say King. Canute, 
 when he was in exile in these parts, lived on them. 
 
 From Settle I went on the 27th up the Ribble about 
 three miles, where below a bridge there is a fine cascade, 
 which in two or three breaks falls down about twenty 
 feet ; we then crossed the hills to the south-east, and 
 coming in sight of Malham Ptarne we went up the hills 
 to the south ; and came to what they call the Clatering 
 Syke or Rivlet which comes out of the side of the hill 
 towards the pot of it, in which water, that hardly covers 
 the ground, there are abundance of Trochi entrochi, and 
 of the anomiae shells, as well as masses of them in a thin 
 stone and the water washes them out. These productions 
 do much puzzle naturalists. The Trochi are many of them 
 like shuttles, some are round and plain with little knobs 
 on them like a vegetable shoot, and they are joynted and 
 separate, and some of them when separated appear square, 
 others round, which are called St. Cuthbert's beads ; some 
 are an oblong oval, which they call shuttles ; the country 
 people call them fairy stones." 
 
 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE QUAKERS 
 IN SETTLE. 
 
 The following Extracts from the Report of the Monthly 
 Meeting of the Society of Friends, held at Settle in Oct. 
 1704, give some idea of the troubles which beset the 
 pioneers of the Society in Settle. 
 
 " In process of time, in or about the year 1652 or 1653, 
 it was so ordered that one of the servants and messengers of 
 Jesus Christ, namely, William Dewsbury, came to a town 
 called Settle, in the West part of Yorkshire, on a 
 market day, and stood upon the cross, and proclaimed the 
 terrible day of the Lord, which was hastening and coming
 
 upon the ungodly and workers of iniquity : but he was 
 soon pulled down, and a great tumult was made, and he 
 was much beaten and abused. But after some time, being 
 taken notice of by a young man whose name was John 
 Armistead (who is yet living), was invited to go with him 
 to his mother's house, whose name was Alice Armistead, 
 being a widow ; whither he went and lodged there. And 
 in the evening divers people were gathered to the house, 
 it being in the said town, unto whom he declared fervently 
 againt the fruitless profession of religion which was amongst 
 people at that time, and directed people to the measure 
 of grace and gift of God's Holy Spirit in their own hearts 
 whereby they might be taught how to worship God accept- 
 ably in his own Spirit. 
 
 And not long ago after this, it was so ordered that 
 another servant and minister of the Lord, called John 
 Camm, came into the said town on a market day, and in 
 the market-place began to preach the doctrine of repentance, 
 and the way of life and salvation unto the people. But 
 thev soon fell upon him with violence and did beat and 
 buffet him very much, so that he received many strokes ; 
 yet there were some who endeavoured to bear off some 
 blows, and to rid him out of their hands; and after some 
 time he was conducted to the house of John Kidd, in 
 Upper Settle, where there was a meeting in the evening, 
 and then things relating to the kingdom of God were 
 plainly laid do\^sw by him. 
 
 Also about the war 1652-3, came several of the servants 
 and ministers of Jesus Christ, viz. : William Dewsbury, 
 Richard Farnworth, Thomas Stubbs, Miles Halhead, and 
 James Nayler, and preached the everlasting Gospel, by 
 which many were turned from darkness to light, and from 
 the power of Satan to the power of God." 
 
 GRANT OF STOCKDALE TO SAWLEY ABBEY. 
 
 In No. 3 of the " Stackhouse Tracts" is set out a grant 
 by Henry de Pudsey of the Church at Giggleswick to the 
 Monks of Durham. 
 
 The following is a translation, made in 1620 by Roger 
 Dodsworth the Antiquary, of a grant by the same Henry 
 de Pudsey, nearly seven hundred years ago.
 
 " To all the Sons of the Holy Mother the Church, 
 present and to come, Henry de Pudsey greeting, Know 
 ye that I have granted, and by this my present Charter 
 confirmed, to God and St. Mary of Salley, and the monkes 
 there serveing God, all Stockdale, in free pure and perpetuall 
 Almes, for the health of my Soule and of Adelida de Percy 
 my mother, and Dionisia my wife and all our ancestors 
 and heires as in the Charters of Richard de Morevill and 
 William de Percy more fully appeareth. And it is to be 
 Knowne that so next Alewardest to the great two rockes 
 of Middlehow the monkes shall have whatsoever is betwixt 
 the foresaid Boundaries, yet so that the men of Setel may 
 have passiage to their pasture on the hill towards the 
 North, as it is set out by lawful bounders &c. Wittnesse 
 Marmaduke Darrell, Elias, son of Swenus, then Steward &c. 
 
 REV. ROGER ALTHAM, D.D. 
 
 The Rev. Roger Altham, D.D., Prebendary of York and 
 Ripon, was the son of Roger Altham of Settle. He was 
 born about 1648, admitted at Westminster School in 1664 
 and then elected a student of Christ Church, Oxford, in 
 1668. He graduated B.A. June 22nd, 1672 : M.A. April 
 2gth, 1675 : B.D. June 22nd, 1683 : and D.D. June 26th, 
 1694. He was chosen senior Procter in 1682 and Regius 
 Professor of Hebrew in 1691. He was deprived of his 
 chair in 1697, but restored March I2th, 1702-3. Hearne 
 says that he had the professorship conferred on him first 
 of all by the influence that Dr. Radcliffe had with the 
 Earl of Portland, but that either not taking some oath, or 
 not making some subscription in due time, he lost the 
 place, and was succeeded by Hyde. He was collated to 
 the prebend of Trenton in York, October igth, 1683, and 
 to another at Douthwell, August ist, 1685. On June 7th, 
 1688 he was inducted to the Vicarage of Finedon, in 
 Northamptonshire. He was instituted November 6th, 1691 
 to the Sixth Stall in Christ Church, Oxford : was succeeded 
 by Thomas Hyde, April 3oth, 1697, on whose death, Feb- 
 ruary 1 2th, 1702-3, Roger Altham was restored by the 
 interest of Archbishop Dolben, according to Hearne, who 
 describes him as " a good Scholar and a most excellent 
 preacher." He was also the Archbishop's Chaplain. He 
 died in 1714 and was buried in Christ Church, where are 
 the following inscriptions :
 
 " Here lieth the body of Roger Altham, Docter of Divinity, 
 Canon of Christ Church, and Hebrew Professor, aged about 
 66, who departed this life August the i8th, 1714." And 
 " Here lyeth the body of Frances Altham, relict of Roger 
 Altham, D.D., who departed this life Dec. 3rd, 1734, aged 
 80 years." 
 
 QUAKER WEDDING CERTIFICATE, 1774. 
 
 The following document, engrossed on parchment and 
 bearing a 5/- stamp, is of interest as showing the wedding- 
 ceremony in the Society of Friends a hundred and twenty 
 years ago. 
 
 " Jonathan Hodgson of Settle in the County of York. 
 Cordwainer, and Phebe Beetham of the same place, Widow, 
 Having declared their Intentions of taking each other in 
 Marriage, before several Meetings of the People called 
 Quakers, in the County of York aforesaid, and the proceed- 
 ings of the said Jonathan Hodgson and Phebe Beetham 
 after due enquiry and deliberate consideration thereof were 
 allowed by the said Meetings, they appearing clear of all 
 others. 
 
 Now these are to certify all whom it may concern, 
 that for the accomplishing of their said Marriage, this 
 Sixth day of the First Month, called January, in the year 
 One thousand seven hundred and Seventy four, They the 
 said Jonathan Hodgson and Phebe Beetham appeared in 
 a public Assembly of the aforesaid People and others in 
 their Meeting-House in Settle aforesaid, And he the said 
 Jonathan Hodgson taking the said Phebe Beetham by the 
 Hand did openly and solemnly declare as followeth ; 
 Friends; In the fear of the Lord, and before this assembly, 
 I take this my Friend Phebe Beetham to be my Wife, 
 promising through divine Assistance to be unto her a loving 
 and faithful Husband until it shall please the Lord by 
 Death to separate us ; or words to this effect. And the 
 said Phebe Beetham did then and there in the said 
 Assembly, in like manner declare as followeth ; Friends ; 
 In the fear of the Lord and before this Assembly, I take 
 this my Friend Jonathan Hodgson to be my Husband, 
 promising through divine Assistance to be unto him a 
 loving and faithful Wife until it shall please the Lord by
 
 Death to separate us ; or words to this effect. And the 
 said Jonathan Hodgson and Phebe Beetham, as a further 
 confirmation thereof and in Testimony thereunto did then 
 and there to these presents set their Hands. 
 
 Jonathan Hodgson. 
 Phebe Beetham. 
 Relations : 
 
 James Kendal. 
 Daniel Hodgson. 
 Thos. Robinson. 
 Sarah Robinson. 
 
 We whose names are hereunto subscribed, being present 
 among others at the solemnizing of the abovesaid Marriage 
 and subscription in manner aforesaid, as Witnesses have 
 also to these presents subscribed our Names the Day and 
 Year above written. 
 
 William Birkbeck, Sam. Sutcliffe, Elihu Varley, James 
 Mill, Joseph Wise, Wm. Hargraves Junr., Eliza. Barlow, 
 Margaret Wilson, Deborah Birkbeck Junr., Wm. Hargreaves 
 Junr., Isabel Atkinson, Deborah Hargraves, Thos. Black- 
 burn, Robt. Wise, John Foster, Mary Thirnbeck, Jno. 
 Birkbeck, Ab. Sutcliffe, Sarah Sutcliffe, Deborah Birkbeck, 
 Barbary Sharpless, Jno. Birkbeck Junr., Robt. Hargraves, 
 Geo. Atkinson, Rachel Wilson Junr." 
 
 REV. GEORGE WOODS. 
 
 The Rev. George Woods was born at Settle, and received 
 his early education at the Grammar School, Giggleswick ; 
 he was first of Queen's College, Oxford, and afterwards of 
 University College, where he honourably distinguished 
 himself. 
 
 Having taken holy orders in 1832, he was appointed 
 assistant curate of St. Mary's, Barnsley. Afterwards he 
 obtained the curacy of Tankersley, and was employed as 
 private tutor in the family of the Hon. J. S. Wortley, 
 through whose influence he was appointed chaplain to the 
 English Embassy at Vienna. In 1828 he published at 
 Barnsley a small volume consisting principally of sacred 
 poetry, which he dedicated to the Rev. Rowland Ingram, 
 B.D., his former Schoolmaster.
 
 10 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL. 
 
 The Rev. W. Thornber, who was a pupil at Giggleswick 
 School in the early part of this century, published a 
 History of Blackpool in 1837, an d in that work he writes 
 (after describing a wreck) : 
 
 " The bodies of the Captain and his brother were 
 found some weeks after between the points of Ayr, Isle of 
 Man, and the Isles of Whithorn and Coll in the Solway 
 Firth ; that of my class-mate and friend, Harry Trelfall, 
 was taken from the retreating tide by the family of a 
 clergyman who respectably interred him at Glasserton, in 
 a distant land, far away from the scenes of his childhood 
 and the home of his youth. Farewell, friend of my youth- 
 ful days, and companion of my rambles ; I can tell of thy 
 worth, and can still find pleasure in retracing our wander- 
 ings among the romantic hills of Craven, our bold adventures 
 o'er the mountain steeps and fastnesses of the Scars of 
 Giggleswick, the rugged falls of Gordale, and the wild 
 heights of Malham ; one while climbing to the highest peak 
 in search of the haunts of the hawk ; at another time resting 
 and cooling our wearied limbs in the caves of Attermire, 
 or quenching our thirst in the ebbing and flowing spring 
 of Bucker Brow ; and even now the dear remembrance of 
 these by-gone days has not been effaced by the rough hand 
 of the world, but oft bedews my cheek with the tear of 
 tender regret. Nor do I lament, in thy fatal end, the only 
 bereavements that ultimately death has wrought among 
 my class-mates. One fell in India's wars, his forehead 
 pierced with a leaden messenger of death ; another died a 
 victim to that scourge of heaven, the cholera, when, after 
 ten years of service in a foreign clime, the ship, that was 
 to convey the soldier to his friends, was awaiting a pros- 
 perous wind ; a third administered to himself the cup of 
 suicide ; a fourth and fifth were hurried to an early grave 
 by the bane of youth, consumption. May the dust be 
 light upon you, till the peal of the last trump shall summon 
 us all to that abode of happiness, where ties of friendship 
 shall no more be severed by the hand of death or rudely 
 torn asunder." 
 
 " May I but meet you on that peaceful shore 
 The parting words shall pass my lips no more."
 
 II 
 "TERRIER" 1684. 
 
 The following is a "terrier" or particulars of the property 
 belonging to the Vicarage of Giggleswick, A.D. 1684, 
 and is from the Answers given by the Churchwardens for 
 that year to a series of questions by the Archbishop of York. 
 
 "An Answer to the Seventh Paragraph of the first 
 Title in the Archbishops Articles of Enquiry at his 
 Metropolitical Visitation 1684 by the then Church- 
 wardens of the Parish of Giggleswick. 
 
 We have no such perfect "Terrier" as is inquired after 
 in the said paragraph but upon our utmost Inquiry we find 
 these particulars hereafter mentioned belonging to the 
 Vicarage of Giggleswick and does not know or can inform 
 ourselves of any thing more belonging the same. 
 
 First we find one House standing and adjoining to 
 the Churchyard of Giggleswick aforesaid belonging the 
 said Vicarage. 
 
 We also find another House in the said Giggleswick 
 called the Vicarage. Kitchen three Gardens and one Croft 
 thereto adjoining belonging to the said Vicarage. 
 
 We also find that all the Tythes of Corn and Grain of 
 the several Towns of Langcliffe and Stainforth being of the 
 yearly value of ^38 belongeth to the said Vicarage. 
 
 As also one Dale or parcel of Ground lying in the Hall 
 Ing within the Grounds of William Tatham Gent, belong- 
 ing to Cleatop containing by Estimation about one acre the 
 same being yearly worth 2os. 
 
 As also one other Dale or Parcel of Ground lying with- 
 in the Carr within the Grounds of the said William Tatham 
 being by Estimation one acre the same being yearly worth 
 
 IOS. 
 
 We also find that all the Easter Reckonings in the said 
 parish belong to the Vicarage the same being yearly worth 
 
 We also find that all small Tythes and Surplice Fees 
 within the said Parish belong the said Vicarage."
 
 12 
 
 Anth. Lister, Vic. 
 
 C. Dawson ] 
 
 R. Preston I Churchwardens. 
 
 Jo. Lister ) 
 
 Jonas Dawson 
 William Paley 
 John Cookson 
 Tho. Carr 
 Richard Armistead 
 
 ^-Parishioners. 
 
 GRAY, THE POET, AT SETTLE. 
 
 In the year 1769 Mr. Gray made a tour of this district, 
 and thus recorded his impressions of Settle : 
 
 Oct. i2th " The nipping air, though the afternoon was 
 growing very bright, now taught us we were in Craven ; the 
 road was all up arid down, though no-where very steep : to 
 the left were mountain tops, to the right a wide valley, all 
 inclosed ground, and beyond it the high hills again. In 
 approaching Settle, the crags on the left drew nearer to our 
 way, till we decended Brunton-Brow into a cheerful valley 
 (though thin of trees) to Giggleswick, a village with a small 
 piece of water by its side, covered with cots : near it a 
 Church which belongs also to Settle ; and, half a mile 
 further, having passed the Ribble over a bridge, I arrived 
 there; it is a small market town standing directly under a 
 rocky fell ; there are not in it above a dozen good looking 
 houses, the rest are old and low, with little wooden porticos 
 in front. My inn pleased me much (though small) for the 
 neatness and civility of the good woman that kept it ; so I 
 lay there two nights and went (Oct. i3th) to visit the Gordale- 
 Scar, which lay six miles from Settle ; but that way was 
 directly over a fell, and as the weather was not to be depend- 
 ed on, I went round in a chaise, the only way one could 
 get near it in a carriage, which made it full thirteen miles, 
 half of it such a road ! but I got safe over it, so there is an 
 end, and came to Malham (pronounced Maum), a village in 
 the bosom of the mountains, seated in a wild and dreary 
 valley."
 
 13 
 MALE SERVANTS, 1780. 
 
 In the year 1780 the tax or licence for having a male 
 servant was ais. At that time only one Gentleman in Settle, 
 and three in the Township of Giggleswick, indulged in the 
 luxury, the former being Mr. Parker of Marshfield (who kept 
 four men), the Giggleswick ones being the Rev. Anty. 
 Lister, Mr. Jos. Morney, and Mr. Roger Pickering, who had 
 one servant each. 
 
 STREET LIGHTING IN 1896, 
 
 Owing to a dispute between the Settle Gas Co. and the first 
 Parish Council of Settle the latter body caused the supply of 
 Gas to all the lamps for street-lighting to be cut off, and 
 substituted oil lamps ! These were first lit on Dec. 5th, 1895 
 but proved a miserable failure. The Gas Company having 
 obtained the Royal Assent to the Provisional Order sought 
 for by them, and a new Parish Council having come into 
 office, amicable arrangements were come to between the 
 Company and the Council, and the streets were re-lit with 
 Gas in Sept. 1896. 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCRAPS. 
 
 A portrait of the late John Birkbeck, senr. appears in the 
 frontispiece to Hudson & Kennedy's "Mont Blanc and 
 Mont Rosa." The view of Settle from "the Mains" has 
 appeared in " Travel," the " Midland Railway Guide," 
 and the "British Printer" during 1896. James Carr 
 published a poem in praise of Settle. The late John 
 Tatham issued a pamphlet on " Popish Idolatry." Bulmer's 
 "Architectural Studies in Yorkshire" contains a full-page 
 etching of Giggleswick Church Pulpit. Geo. Dudgeon of 
 Settle wrote a work on " The Duties of Overseers," 1838. 
 The late John Cowburn issued a " County Court Guide " 
 in 1847. Miss Thackeray's " Old Kensington " has several 
 local allusions. The late J. D. Watson prepared for the 
 publication of a book called " The Picturesque Beauties 
 of Craven," only two plates were issued. One number of 
 " The Settle Chronicle " had to be re-printed on account of 
 its giving a long unauthorised report of Mr. Carr's lecture.
 
 12 
 
 Anth. Lister, Vic. 
 
 C. Dawson \ 
 
 R. Preston I Churchwardens. 
 
 Jo. Lister ) 
 
 Jonas Dawson 
 
 William Paley 
 
 John Cookson ^Parishioners. 
 
 Tho. Carr 
 
 Richard Armistead/ 
 
 GRAY, THE POET, AT SETTLE. 
 
 In the year 1769 Mr. Gray made a tour of this district, 
 and thus recorded his impressions of Settle : 
 
 Oct. 1 2th " The nipping air, though the afternoon was 
 growing very bright, now taught us we were in Craven ; the 
 road was all up and down, though no-where very steep : to 
 the left were mountain tops, to the right a wide valley, all 
 inclosed ground, and beyond it the high hills again. In 
 approaching Settle, the crags on the left drew nearer to our 
 way, till we decended Brunton-Brow into a cheerful valley 
 (though thin of trees) to Giggleswick, a village with a small 
 piece of water by its side, covered with cots : near it a 
 Church which belongs also to Settle ; and, half a mile 
 further, having passed the Ribble over a bridge, I arrived 
 there; it is a small market town standing directly under a 
 rocky fell ; there are not in it above a dozen good looking 
 houses, the rest are old and low, with little wooden porticos 
 in front. My inn pleased me much (though small) for the 
 neatness and civility of the good woman that kept it ; so I 
 lay there two nights and went (Oct. i3th) to visit the Gordale- 
 Scar, which lay six miles from Settle ; but that way was 
 directly over a fell, and as the weather was not to be depend- 
 ed on, I went round in a chaise, the only way one could 
 get near it in a carriage, which made it full thirteen miles, 
 half of it such a road ! but I got safe over it, so there is an 
 end, and came to Malham (pronounced Maum), a village in 
 the bosom of the mountains, seated in a wild and dreary 
 valley."
 
 13 
 MALE SERVANTS, 1780. 
 
 In the year 1780 the tax or licence for having a male 
 servant was 2 is. At that time only one Gentleman in Settle, 
 and three in the Township of Giggleswick, indulged in the 
 luxury, the former being Mr. Parker of Marshfield (who kept 
 four men), the Giggleswick ones being the Rev. Anty. 
 Lister, Mr. Jos. Morney, and Mr. Roger Pickering, who had 
 one servant each. 
 
 STREET LIGHTING IN 1896, 
 
 Owing to a dispute between the Settle Gas Co. and the first 
 Parish Council of Settle the latter body caused the supply of 
 Gas to all the lamps for street-lighting to be cut off, and 
 substituted oil lamps ! These were first lit on Dec. 5th, 1895 
 but proved a miserable failure. The Gas Company having 
 obtained the Royal Assent to the Provisional Order sought 
 for by them, and a new Parish Council having come into 
 office, amicable arrangements were come to between the 
 Company and the Council, and the streets were re-lit with 
 Gas in Sept. 1896. 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCRAPS. 
 
 A portrait of the late John Birkbeck, senr. appears in the 
 frontispiece to Hudson & Kennedy's "Mont Blanc and 
 Mont Rosa." The view of Settle from "the Mains" has 
 appeared in " Travel," the " Midland Railway Guide," 
 and the "British Printer" during 1896. James Carr 
 published a poem in praise of Settle. The late John 
 Tatham issued a pamphlet on " Popish Idolatry." Bulmer's 
 "Architectural Studies in Yorkshire" contains a full-page 
 etching of Giggleswick Church Pulpit. Geo. Dudgeon of 
 Settle wrote a work on " The Duties of Overseers," 1838. 
 The late John Cowburn issued a " County Court Guide " 
 in 1847. Miss Thackeray's " Old Kensington " has several 
 local allusions. The late J. D. Watson prepared for the 
 publication of a book called " The Picturesque Beauties 
 of Craven," only two plates were issued. One number of 
 " The Settle Chronicle " had to be re-printed on account of 
 its giving a long unauthorised report of Mr. Carr's lecture.
 
 14 
 
 A full-page view of the market-place appeared in CasselFs 
 " Pictorial England and Wales" Oct. 1896. Mr. J. Jackson 
 published a series of twelve lectures delivered by him at 
 Settle in 1824. In Ogilby's "Britannia Depicta" (A.D. 
 1720) it is stated " Giggleswick- was noted formerly for 
 several small springs, ebbing and flowing almost every 
 quarter of an hour." 
 
 LOCAL ODDS AND ENDS. 
 
 Spurious Coins, probably of Settle manufacture, have been 
 found at Whitefriars, Batty Croft Gardens, and other 
 places in the locality. The " Ribblesdale " Lodge of Good 
 Templars was established at Settle in Dec. 1871, and the 
 "Scaleber" Lodge in Dec. 1872. Settle Agricultural Show 
 was not held from 1866 to 1877 inclusive, the cause of its 
 suspension in the first place being the Cattle-plague. 
 Two ancient Urns have been found at Anley. The old 
 Masonic Lodge at Settle was held at the " Black Bull " 
 Inn. In olden times a beacon stood on " Beacon Hill " 
 near Attermire. " Queen's Rock " on the river, was form- 
 erly known as " King's Rock." It is rapidly breaking 
 up. Bulls used to be baited in Settle market-place. A 
 " Mayor " of Giggleswick used to be elected annually. 
 Usually soms notorious character was chosen. The word 
 " Settle " means the seat or station of a tribe. Two of 
 the houses a.: Stackhouse enjoy the reputation of having 
 a " ghost " each. Giggleswick and Settle used to be con- 
 sidered a great recruiting-ground for musicians for travelling 
 shows. An antique Coin or Ornament was found inside 
 Settle Old Cross. There was a great storm at Settle on 
 Xmas Day, 1852. The Reversion of Castleberg, subject to 
 a Lease expiring in 1882, was sold in 1830. 
 
 THOS. BRAYSHAW.
 
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