Class, Book_Nl\ HISTORY, GAZETTEER, AND DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, AND THE VdMj? TOWN AND COUNTY OF THE TOWN OF * Nottingham, COMPRISING, UNDER A LUCID ARRANGEMENT OF SUBJECTS, A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY, AND SEPARATE HISTORICAL, STATISTICAL, & TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF SHERWOOD FOREST, AND EVERY TOWN, PARISH, TOWNSHIP, VILLAGE, HAMLET, AND MANOR. IN THE SIX HUNDREDS OF THE SHIRE : WITH A VARIETY OF Commercial, Agricultural^ and Biographical Information ; The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry ; the Lords of the Manors ; the Owners of the Soil ; the Names and Addresses of the principal Inhabitants ; the Public Charities and Institutions ; the Rise and Progress of Trade and Manufactures; the Mediums of Public Conveyance by Land and Water j the Civil and Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions, &c. &c. IN ONE VOL., WITH- A lA^GE M>P O^ THF COUNTY. BY WILLIAM WHITE, Author of similar JVorksfjr the Ncrthcrn Ctiwiiej cf EegCcntZ.^ SHEFFIELD : PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY ROBERT LEADER, INDEPENDENT OFFICE, ANGEL-STREET. AND SOLD BY WILLIAM WHITE, At the WICKER LIBRARY, Sheffield; by hi* Agents, and by the Booksellers. Price of the Volume and Map, to Subscribers, 10s. 6d. in Boards, or 12s. in Calf Binding.— To Non-Subscribers, 35. extra. 1832. ^ ^V PREFACE In this first attempt to present to the public a popular History and Topography of Nottinghamshire, with a Directory of its Inhabitants, the Author has to acknowledge his unbounded gratitude to the literary and official gentlemen of the county, for the valuable and interesting communications with which they have furnished him, in answer to his multifarious enquiries ;— and also to the numerous Subscriber who have favoured him with their support to such a liberal extent that their orders amount to upwards of 300 copies more than the number printed. This prompt and munificent patronage shews clearly (what has been universally acknowledged in other counties) that works of this description are highly interesting and useful, both in the office and the library,— not only to the man of business, but also to the nobility, gentry, clergy, professional men, and public officers. As authenticity is the grand requisite of topography, all possible care has been taken to avoid errors; every parish, and almost every house in the county has been visited, and the information either collected or verified on the spot ; it is therefore hoped that this elaborate work will be found as com- plete and satisfactory to its numerous patrons as the vast body of information, and the great variety of subjects compressed within its pages, would allow. The Plan of the Work embraces a General History and Description of Not- tinghamshire, and of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham ; con- taining the spirit of all that has previously been written on the subject, extracted from the works of ancient and modern Authors, and from the voluminous Parliamentary Reports of Public Charities, Population, &c. &c. ; together with a variety of Statististical, Geological, Agricultural, Commercial, and Biogra- phical Information, elicited by personal enquiry, and comprehending a Suivey of Antiquities, Roads, Rivers, Canals, Minerals, Rocks, Caves, Forest and other Liberties ; Public Buildings, Institutions, and Charities ; Civil and Eccle- siastical Courts, &c. &c. ; together with a Chronology of all remarkable Events, from the earliest period to the present time, and a full and comprehensive view * PREFACE. ©f the rise and progress of those varied and beautiful Manufacture* of whidi Nottingham is the great emporium, and to which both it and the county at large owe much of their present wealth and importance. Lists of Magistrates and Public Officers, and of the Seats of Nobility and Gentry, are appended to the general Survey of the County. (See p. 67 to 71.? The History of Nottingham, (p. 73 to 215,) like that of all the other places, it followed by a copious Directory of its Inhabitants, classed according to Trade or Profession, and accompanied by an alphabetical Index of Persons, so that the address and occupation of any individual or firm may be instantly referred to. The Topography of Nottinghamshire commences at page 299, under an alphabetical arrangement of Parishes under their respective Hundreds, and of Towns, Townships, Villages, $c. under their respective Parishes ; but as in many cases, the Hundred or Parish in which any Town or Village is situated may not be known, a copious Index of Places is inserted, which points out the page at which each place in the county is to be found ; thus giving to the volume all the advantages of an alphabetical Gazetteer, in conjunction with those afforded by connected Histories of the various Civil and Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions. The Parochial Histories shew the Situation, Extent, and Population of each village and township, the ancient and present Owners of the Soil and Lords of the Manors ; the nature of the Church Livings, with their Patrons and Incumbents ; the Places of Worship, Public Charities, and Institutions ; Local Occurrences ; Trade and Commerce ; Objects of Interest and Curiosity ; Eminent Men, &c. &c. ; and are each followed by a digest of the names and addresses of the Gentry, Tradesmen, Farmers, and other principal Residents; with Lists of Coaches and Carriers, and a variety of other useful and interesting Information;— the whole illustrated by a large coloured Map of the County. W. WHITE. SHHFFmLD, AugUSt 1st, 1832. INDEX OF PLACES, CONTAINING IN ONE ALPHABETICAL SERIES, THE NAMES OF ALL THE HI NDRED9, PARISHES, TOWNS, TOWNSHIPS, HAMLETS AND MANORS, IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Adbolton Alverton 6 Anneslev 544 Annesley Woodhs545 Arnold .546 Arnot Hill 546 Askam 361 Aslacton 514 Aspley 585 A tten borough 549 Auckley 426 Austerfield 401 Averham 662 A ws worth 582 Babbington 565 Babworth 395 Bagalee 565 Bagthorpe 592 & 552 Balderton 625 Barnby-in-the Willows 626 Barnby Moor 401 Barnston 503 Barton-in Fabis 642 Basford 551 & 552 BassetlawHundrJ 299 Basingfield 499 Bathley 68 1 Bawtry 401 Beckingham 329 Beesthorpe 666 Besthorpe 634 Beeston 556 Bell-moor 443 Beskwood Park 573 Bevercotes 362 Biggins House 437 Bilborough 559 Bilbv 401 Btlsthorpe 363 Bingham 480 Bingham Hundred 479 Birkland & Bilhagh 416 Bishopfield 443 Blackmires 597 Blaco bill 433 Blaxton 426 Bleakhills 530 Bleasby 662 Blenheim 561 HIidworth 663 Bloomsorrove 585 Blvth 397 Blyth Nornav 401 BIyth Spittal"40l Bobbers Mill 585 Bole 331 Bolham 334 Bonbusk412 Bothamsall 408 Boughton 409 Brackenhurst 696 Bradmore 644 Bramcote 559 Brancroft401 Brewhouse vard 123 Bridgeford East 485 Bridgeford West 642 Brinkley 689 Brinsley 565 Broadholm 639 Brockilow 376 Brookhill 570 Broomhill Grange 422 Brotherhood 362 Brough 629 i Broughton Sulney 487 i Broxtow 559 i Broxtow Hundred 517 Budby417 ! Bulcote 664 j Bulwood Hall 56S Bui well 560 2 B Bunney 643 Burton Joyce 664 Burton (West) 331 Bury Hill 530 Calverton 665 Carburton417 Carcolston Carlton 671 Carlton-in-Lindrk 410 Carlton Little ft Carlton-on-Trent 684 Carrington 553 Cars (The) 352 Caunton 666 Caythorpe 677 Chequer house 469 Chihvell 549 Cinder-hill 582 Clavlands 469 Clareborough 331, %IL Clav (North) 302 Clav (South) 361 Clavworth 336 Cleveland Hill 3S1 Clifton 645 ! Clifton N. & S. 627 Clipstone4l7&4S9 \ Clumber 465 | Coates 344 Cockcliffe 546 Cock glode 416 Cock-park 3SS Cockin Hill 402 Cockin Moor 376 Cocks Moor 38 Coddington 638 'Collingham N & S 629 Collingthwaite 419 ! Colston Basset 489 I Col wick 667 iCopthorne 376 Corn ley 350 6 INDEX OF PLACES. Coppices 135 Cossal 562 Costock 646 Cotgrave 490 Cotham 631 Cottam 347 Creswell Crags 413 Cropwell Bishop 491 Cropwell Butler512 Cromwell 668 Crow Park 699 Cuckney 411 Dalestorth 531 Dalington 636 Darfould 457 Danes-hill 443 Darlton 364 Daybrook 546 Deanhall 666 Debdale House 578 Dinsey Nook 639 Dernethorpe 630 Doverbeck Mill 704 Drakeholes 337 Drayton (East) 364 Drayton (West) 365 Duncan Wood 38 Dunham 366 Dunsell 600 Eakring 367 Earlshaw 666 Eastfield 597 Easthorpe 696 Eastwood 562 Eaton 369 Edingley 668 Edwalton 646 Edvvinstow 414 Egmanton 369 Element Hill 687 Elksley 424 Elms (The) 324 Elston 631 Elton 492 Epperstone 668 Everton 339 Fackley Lane 600 Farley s 568 Farndon 632 Farnsfield 669 Felley 545 Fenton 356 Finninglcy 425 Finningley Park 401 Fiskerton 687 Flander Ground 570 Flawborough 636 Flawforth 654 & 626 Fledborough 670 Fleecetrep 402 Flintham 493 Forge Mill 568 Forest Hill 457 Foundry Row 530 Fountaindale663 Fountain Hill 350 Fulwood 597 Gaddick Hill 370 Gamestone Wood362 Gamston 499 & 643 Gateford 468 Gedling 671 Gerhodthorpe 642 Gibsmere 663 Girton 633 Glapton 645 Gledthorpe 447 Goldthorp 402 Gonalston 672 Gotham 647 Gourton 663 Granby 495 Grassthorp 679 Greaves Lane 668 Greasby 564 Grimesmoor 704 Grimston 393 Gringley-on- the- H ill 341 Gringley (Little) 334 Grives 570 Grove 372 Gunthorpe 678 Hablesthorpe 343 Hagginfield 469 Halam 673 Halloughton 673 Handstubbing 592 Harby 628 Hardwick 465 & 570 Harlow Wood 677 Harness Grove 457 Hartshorn 376 Harwell 340 Harworth 427 Hatfield Chase 353 Hatfield Division 394 Hatfield Grange 413 Hawksworth 496 Hawton 633 Haxey Gate 350 Hayton 345 Haywood-Oaks 674 Headon-cum-Upton 373 Hemshill 566 Hesley 428 Hexgrave Park 696 Hickling 496 Highfield 646 Hill Top 565 Hockerton 674 Hockerwood Park 696 Hodsock 402 Holbeck 412, 698 Holme 681 Holme Lane 499 Holme Pierrepont498 Honey Well 364 Houghton 432, 408 Hoveringham 674 Howe Grove 38 HucknallTorkard567 Hucknall-underHuth- waite 597 Hunger Hills 135 Hutt (The) 579 Hyson Green 585, 573 Inkersall 441 Jacket Mill 362 Jockey House 371 Jordan Castle 394 Jack's Dale 592 Kensington 585 Kelham 675 Kersall 676 Keyworth 649 Kilton 457 Kilvington 637 Kimberley 565 Kingshaugh364&384 King's-stand 417 Kingston-in-Carlton 410 Kingston-on-Soar 649 Kinoulton 500 Kirkby in Ashfield 596 Kirkby Hardwick and Wood house 570 INDEX Oi PL ACES. Kirkhill 656 Kirklington 675 Kirton 374 Knapthorpe 666 Kneesall 676 Kneeton 501 Lady Lee 469 LaithsN. &S. 441 Lamcote 499 Lamblcy 676 Lane End 570 Laneham 375 Langford 633 Langar 501 & 2 Langley-bridge 563 Langwith 413 Laxton or Lexington 376 Leake E. & W. 650 Lenton 571. New 573 Leverton (N.) 346 Leverton (S.) 347 Leytields 439 Limpool 428 Linby 576 Lindhurst 677 Littleborough 348 Littleworth 531 Lodge on-the- Wolds 503 Longacre 481 Lound Hall 371 Lound 444 Lovett Mills 585 Lowdham 677 Mansfield 518 Mansfield- Woodhouse 576 Mantles House 403 Manton 457 Mapperley Place 552 Mapperley Hills 135 Maplebeck 678 Markham (East) 380 Mark ham Moor 381 Markham (W.) 383 Marnham 679 Martin 428 Mattersey 433 Maythorn Mill 697 Merino 634 Merrinelds 388 Middleton Place 573 Middlethorpe 683 Mill House 402, 447 Milnthorpe 413 Milton 383 Mirfield Hall 381 Misk 568 Misson 435 Misterten 349 Moorfield 704 Moorgreen 564 Moorgate 335 Moorhaigh 531 Moorhouse 378 Morland 634 Morton 395, 680 Mount Pleasant 412 Muskham (N.) 680 Muskham (S.) 682 Nether Green 563 Nettie worth 448 Newark 603 Newark Castle Liberty 608, 637 Newark Hundred 603 Newbold 500 Newbound Mill 600 New England 409 Newington 435 New Manley Mills 563 Newstead Abbey 579 Newthorpe 565 Newton 510 Normanton in Elkslev 425 Normanton -on-Soar 651 Norman ton-nr-South- well 696 Norman ton-on-Trent 682 Normanton-on- Wolds 652 Norton Cuckney 413 Norwell 683 Nor well Woodhouse 6S3 Norwood 600 Norwood Park 696 Notown 663 Nottingham Castlel 15 Nottingham History 73; Directory 216; Coaches & Carriers 291; Index of names 272 Nuncargate 570 Nuthall 582 Oakham 531 Oldcoates 430 Ollerton 418 Ollerton Corner 410 Ompton 384 Orston 503 Ordsall 437 Osberton 469 Osmondthorpe 66S Ossington 685 Outgang 364 Owthorpe 506 Oxton 6^5 Palethorpe 419 Papplewick 583 Park Hall 448 Park House 412 PennementHouses513 Park-leys 686 Pinxton 570 Pleasley Hill 531 Plumtree 429 Plumptre 651 Portland Colliery 570 Priestgate 381 Potter-hili629 Prospect Place 5S5 Radcliffe-on-Tnt. 506 Radford (Old & New) nearNottm.583&4 Radford, near Work- sop 457 Radley 69S Radmanthwaite 531 Ragnall 384 Rainworth 663 Fiampton 385 Ranby 396 Ranskill 403 Rate li tie & Grange 457 Ratcliffe-on-Soar 652 Ravmoth 468 Red Hill 546, 652 Rempston 653 Retford (East) 302 Retford (West) 319 Rockley362 Rolleston 686 Ruddington 60S INDEX OP PLACES. Rufford438,Abbey349 Rushcliffe Hund. 641 Rushley 597 Rushy Inn 396 Ryton 457 Sansom Wood 665 Saundby 355 Savile Row 441 Saxendale 510 Scaftworth 340 Scarle South 634 Scarrington 504 Scarthing-moor 702 Scofton 469 Screveton 508 Scrooby 441 Selston 591 Serlby Hall 429 Shelford 509 Shelton 635 Sherwood 553 Sherwood Forest 35 Sherwood Hall 521 Sherwood Hill 585 Shireoaks 469 Shireoaks Hill 412 Sibcock Hill 381 Sibthorp 635 Skegby 593 & 679 Sloswick 457 Sneinton 687 Sneint. Hermitage 120 Sookhohn 448 South Clay Div. 361 Southwell "691 Spalford 628 Spring close 573 Standard Hill 124 Stanford-on-Soar 655 Stanley 600 Stapleford 593 Stanton-on-Wolds 655 Staythorpe 662 Staunton-by-Dale 635 Stockwith (West) 351 Stoke-Bardolph 671 Stoke (East) 637 Stokeham 386 Stouphill 704 Straglethorp 491 Strelley 595 Sturton-in-the-Clay 356 Styrrup 430 St. Anne's 136 Sunnydale 698 Sutton-in.Ashfield595 Sutton Bonnington655 Sutton nr. Granby495 Sutton-upon-Trent699 Sutton-cum-Lound443 Syerston 638 Swinnows 546 Teversall 600 Thieves Wood 37 Thoresby Hall 419 Thorney 639 Thorney Wood Chase 38, Abbey 698 Thoroton 504 Thorpe 374 Thorpe-in-Glebis 657 Thorpe by Newark 640 Thorpe 374,(West)660 Tinker House 552 Toadhole 592 Tollerton 513 Thrumpton 438 & 657 Thurgarton 700 Thurgarton Hund. 661 Tilne 345 Tithbyfill Todds Row 570 Torworth 403 Toton 550 Trent Port 355 Treswell 387 Trowell 600 Tuxford 387 Two-mile House 553 Underwood 592 Upton 701 & 374 Villa-real 417 Walesby 445 Walkeringham 358 Wallingwells 446 Walkrith Ferry 358 Wansley 592 Warsop 447 Watnall 565 Wei beck Abbey 450 Weldon 698 Welham 335 Wellow 393 Westhorpe 660 & 696 Weston 702 Westwood 388 & 592 Whatton 513 Wheatley (North) 359 Wheatley( South) 361 Whiteborough 600 Whitehouses 438 Whitemoor Place 553 Whitemoor519 Whyburn 568 Widmerpool 657 Wigsley 639 Wigthorpe411 Wilford 658 Willoughby 446 & 684 Willou^hby-on-the- Wolds 659 Winkbourne 703 Winthorpe 640 Wise ton 337 Wiverton 516 Woodbo rough 703 Woodcotes 6/0 Woodhouse & Wood- end 412 Woodnook 592 Wocdhouse Hall 454 Wollaton 601 Worksop 454 Worksop Manor 456 Worney Wood 666 Wysall 660 Zouch Bridge 656 INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Acklom fam. 338 Albani Nigellus 370 Alabaster 48 Althorp Viscount 337 AncientBritons J 5, 78 Antiquities 18 Antoninus 79 Archdeacon 6*2 Architecture 59 Asylum (lunatic) 173 Ayscough Saml. J 79 Babyngtons 385, 649 Bathurst Earl 413 Battle of Stoke 637 Beetles 400 Bel voir Vale of 43 Bentinck fam. 451 Bigland John 426 Bishop Blaize 95 Biter bit 95 Blanket Thomas 194 Blow John 630 Bobbin net trade 197 Borough English 47 Boroughs rotten 307 Bribery 307 Brightmore Rev. Wm. 177 Brown Robert 611 Brunt Samuel 527 BuggeHall 192 Busli Roger de 22 Byron Lord 581 Canals 53, 93,303, 351 Cantelupe Nichs. 564 Cartwright Major 310, 679 Caunt George 100 Caves 78, 120 Cavendish family 467, 570 Cavendish Hon. Hy. 172 Chappell Bishop 377, 530 Chaworth fam. 5 16,544 Chanties 59 Churches gone, 343, 362, 500, 510, 514, 559, 630, 644, 653, 654, 657, 678 Christianity introdu- ced 19 Civil wars 88, 606 Clay district 43, 329, 361 Clergy charity 145 Clifton fam. 645 Climate 13, 42 Clinton fam. 468 Cloth manfr. 85, 194 Cludd's oak 697 Clumber 465 Coal and lime 43, 47 Cockle Sir J. 36 Collieries563,565,566, 570,571, 592, 593, 595, 597, 601 Commerce 49 Coronation service460 Cotton mills 204,412, 413,521, 5S3 f 596, 687 Cotton manufr. 204 County rate 14 County Hall 139 Courts (civil) 62 Courts (spiritual,) 62 Cranmer Abp. 514 Cricket 97, 183 Cromwell fam. 66S Cuckoo bush 647 Cuckstool 94 Cultivation & produce 43 Danes 20, 83, 642 Deaneries 14, 514 Dean river 52 Deering Chas. M. D. 177 8 J Delamere Lord 92 Denison Wm. 685 Denman fam. 319 Devon river 605 Distances 704 Dodsley 530 Domesday Book 21 Dover beck 52 Drainage 352 Drought 87 Druids 16 Duels 101,517 Earls of Nottingm. 24 Earthquakes 97, 106, 531 Election and Police Bill 101 Eminent men 30 Enclosures 39, 58 Erwash 52 Executions 141 Extra-Paro. placesl23 Eyre fam. 372, 385 Fairs 184, 311, 352, 366,341, 388, 397, 415, 418, 447, 456, 480, 520, 572, 596, 604,679, 691, Falconry 45 Farms 46 Fenton fam. 30, 357 Flogan Lady 524 Flood dike 415 Flood roads 189, 605 Floods 94, 98, 419, 628 Foot ball 368 Forbisher Adml.426 !Foss (Roman) 18,486, 503 Fossils 497 Forest boundary 40 Forest officers 41, 64 Fox covers 343, 409, 416, 432, 677 French lace 197 Gal way Viscount 430 General hospital 171 Goody Riley (old) 77 Greendale Oak 452 Greet river 52 Grvmston ghost 393 10 INDEX OF SUBJECTS, Gunpowder explosion 106 Gypsum 48, 485 Hacker Col. 486 Hemlock stone 594 High Sheriff 23 Hills, altitude of 74 HolderWm.D.D. 177 Holies Sir Wm. 432 Holyrood feast 41 Honor of Peverel 82 Hop growers 324, 391, 375, 423, 446, 698 Hospital (county) 171 Hotham Capt. 89 Hotham Bishop 450 House of Correction 695 Howard family 463 Howe Admiral 502 Hudson Kitty 172 Hundreds 299, 479, 517, 603, 641, 661 Hutchinson Col. 89, 506 Idle river 53, 353 Ireton Hy. 549 Ironstone 591 King John's palace 417 King & Miller, 36, 522 Kippis Rev. And. 178 Kingston Duke of 421 Knights of the Roval Oak, 29 Lace trade 48, 193 Lee Rev. Wra. 196 Lee the shoemkr. 694 Leen River 52 Lenton Priory 572 Lexington Barons of 377 Lichfield Col. 530 Lightning, 310, 532, 693 Lightfoot John D.D 637 Lilley John 612 Little John 32 Lovel Lord 637 Lovetot family, 457 Luddism, 102 to 106 Magistrates, 65 Magnus Thos, 610 Maiden's rent, 22 Malt 206, 455, 604 Mansfield 518 ; manor customs 522; church 523 ; chapels 525 ; charities 526; fairs 520; freestone 519 gas 525 ; railway 54; races 521 ; rock houses 520 ; riots, &c. 531 ; manufctrs. 519 ; schools 526 ; Viscounts 522 Mansfield Wm de 529 Manufactures 48 Manvers Earl 421 Dowager Cntss. 498 Market Towns 14, 704 Markham Sir J. 381 Maun river 52 Meadows fam. 421 Meden river 52 Mellish fam. 399 Members of Parlia- ment 14 Merry Andrew 648 Merry Walter 1 78 Middleton Lord 601 Minster 692 Millington Giib. 177 Militia 95 Mineralogy 47 Molyneux fam. 501 Monasteries 23 Monktonfam.430 Montagu fam. 576 Moor Dr. 438 Mortimer's Hole, 117 Murders 596, 141 Musters fam, 667 Nan Scott 681 Nell Gwynne 573 New beer act 109 Newcastle Duke of 468, 452 ; family vaults 383 ; Dowager Duchess 396 Newstead Abbey 579 New villages, see Rad- ford, Lenton, and Sneinton Nonconformists 91 Norfolk Dukes of 464 Norman Conquest 21 Nottingham see p 11 Nottingham Earls of 24 Nottingham Wm. 177 Nuthall temple 582 Oaks (large) 36, 452, 453 Orchards 45 Palaces 417, 442,694 Papist Holes 120 Pakynton Lady 385 Parkyns Sir Ts. 643 Parliament Oak 418 Patefield Thos. 482 Pedestrian 95 PeetThos. 178 Peers, &c. 66 Pelham fam. 468 Peverel court & prison 139,572 Peverel fam. 22,24 PhillipotWm. 611 Picts& Scots 17, 19 Pierrepont fam. 420 Plague 92, 481, 490, 681 Plantations 38 Poll tax 75 Poor laws 88 Poor rates 13 Poor state of 56 Population 61 Portland Duke of 451 Prebends 63 Provident institution! 60 Public officers 63 Queen Adelaide's lac< dress 204 Rabbit warrens 45 Races 183, 521 Rail road 54 Rainworth water 52 Rancliflfe Lord 644 Rastall Wm.D.680 Rebellions 93, 94 Reform meetings 108 Reform bill 12, 109; riots 109 to 115 : 532, 550 Rents 47 INDKX OF SUBJECTS. II Retford [East] 302; cliarters 304 ; bri- bery 307 ; franchise extended 301 ; cor- poration 308 ; cha< rities 315 ; churches & chapels 31 2; mar- ket, &c. 311 Revolution 92 Ridley H. 529 Riots 95, 97, 100, 109, 110,531,532,557 Rivers & canals 49 Roads 54 Robin Hood 31 Robin Hood's hills 19 cave 409 Rock houses 122, 520 Roger de Busli 22 Romans 17 Roman Stations, 80, 337, 348, 428, 486, 496, 521, 577, 629, 642, 658, 659, 691 Roman Villa, 577, 18 Rooke Major 577 Rufford Abbey 439 Ryton River 52 Sandby T. & Paul 178 Sandys Abp. 442, 693 Savile Family 439 Savings' Banks 60 Saw, Circular 521 Saxons 19, 312, 372 St. John (Baron) 648 Scarborough Earl of 66 & 439 Seats of Gentry, 67 Serlby Family 429 7 Shilling Tickets 99 Shepherd's Race 136 Sherwood Forest 35 Shrewsbury Erl. of 457 Silver Pennies 493 Southwell Minster 692. Abp's palace 694, Prebendaries 63 Smite river 52 & 497 Soil & surface 42 Springs (mineral) 335, 388, 486, 497, 500, 596, 504 Stafford Mr. 482 Staunton fam. 636 St. Anne's Well 136 Sterne family 30 Stocking frames 196 Stone quarries 48 Stone Hy. 611 Storms 87, 94, 531,532, 545 Subterranean trees 35 Sutton fam. 377 & 675 Swainmote court 41 Sylvan scenerv 421 Talbot fam. 457 Tempest 87 Tenures 46 Test Act, &c. 91 Thatched houses 87 Thoresby hall 419 Thoroton RL M.D. 488, 509 Thompson Chas. 528 Tournament 521 Trent river 49, 332 Trent bridge 190 Trent navigation 51 Troglodytes 79, 520 Turnpike Acts 9 Twist machines 194 Twentyman John 606 Vaccine innocn. 77 Views 74, 341, 688 Volunteers 99, 532 WaddingtonSaml.389 Wakefield Gilbert 178 Wallingwells 447 Wapentakes 14 Warren Admiral 594 Wars of the Roses 86 Wasteneys Sir H. 373 Waterspout 96 Welbeck abbey 450 White (Bishop) 612 White Hy. Kirke 179 and 645 White Robert 482 White Sir Thos. 167 White John 377 Whitehead J ph 597 Wm. I. 21, 82, Wm. IV. 108 Willoughby fam. 601 Wise men of Gotham 647 Witchcraft 181 Woad or Weld 45 Wolds 43 Wolf-house 577 Wollen river 52 Woollen mfr 194 Wollaton hall 601 Woods (ancient) 37 Workhouses (associ- ated) 654, 671, 701 Worksop abbey church 458 Worksop manor 460 Wrestling 368 & 643 Wylde Gervas 448 Yeomanry cavalry 98, 108 YorkMinsterburntlOS Zoology 45 NOTTINGHAM INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Almshouses 162 Ancient history 78 Annals 78 to 115 Assembly room 182 Asylum 173 Barracks 120 Baths 174 Benefactions 167 Bobbins & carige. 195 Bobbin net trade 193 Brewhouse yd 123 Bridges 188 Bugge hall 192 Burgess land 132 Canals 98 Castle 115, destroyed by fire 111 Caves 120 Chapel bar 119 Chapels 153 Chantries 147 Charities 162 Churches 147 Civil wars 88 Coaches 291 Cotton mills, &c. 204 County hall 139 12 NOTTINGHAM INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Corporation, charters &c. 129, seal 132, list of aldermen; &c. 143 County of the town 129 Courts of law 137 Cricket ground 183 Directory 216 Dispensaries 172 Eccentricity 182 Eminent men 177 Exchange 140 Extra- parochial places 123 Fairs 184 Fishery 190 Flood road 189 Florist society 176 Forest (The) 135 Fort 119 Friaries 146 Friendly societies 174 Gardens 125, 183 Gas works 186 General Hospital 171 Grammar school 158 Gunpowder explosion 106 Hackney coaches 183, 293 Hills (altitude of; 74 Hollowstone 119 Hospitals 162 House of correct. 141 Improvements 191 Infirmary 171 Lace trade 197 Lamps & watch 186 Libraries 175 Local coins 91 Longevity 77 Luddism 102 Markets, Fairs, &c. 184 Mayor's feast 132 Meadows 133 M.P's. 143 Militia 95, 102 Monasteries 145 Mortimer's Hole, 117 Museum 176 News rooms 175 Newspapers 176 Numbering the houses 206 Papist holes 120 Parishes 126 Park 125 Parliamentary rights 136 Peverel court 138 Pillory 102 Police office, 102, 141 officers 144 Plumptre house 192 Poor rates, 127 Population 75 Post office 184, 215 Public accommoda- tion 183 Public officers, 127 144 Queen's dress 197 Races 183 Radford grove 183 Reform riots 109 Reform bill 12 Rivers 188 Rock houses 120 Sand and clay fields 134 Savings' bank 174 Sneinton hermitage 122 Springs & pumps 188 Standard hill 124 Stockingframes 196 Streets list of 208 Theatre 182 Thurland Hall 192 Tolls 185 Town Hall & Gaol 141 Trade & manufactures 193 Trent bridge, &c. 190 Turnpikes 94 Twist machines 197 Volunteers 99 Walls and gates 1 18 Waterworks 187 White's (Sir Thos.) loan money 167 Witchcraft 181 REFORM BILL.— Under this Act, which passed in June, 1832, Nottinghamshire will send four Representatives to Parliament, — viz. two for the North Division, which comprises the hundreds of Bassetlaw and Broxtow, and two for the South Division^ which in- cludes the Hundreds of Bingham, Newark, Rushcliffe, and Thur- garton. The places of election will be at Mansfield and Newark ; but the poll will also be taken at Nottingham, East Retford, Newark, Bingham, and Southwell. Under the provisions of this Act, the resi- dent freemen of Nottingham, Newark, and Retford, still retain their elective franchise, in conjunction with all the occupiers of houses, &c. of the annual value of £\b and upwards. The borough of Ret- ford, is still to comprehend Bassetlaw. For further particulars, see the Act, which has already been honoured with great rejoicings at Nottingham and other places, and which will be brought into opera- tion during the autumn or winter of the present year, 1832. GENERAL HISTORY DESCRIPTION NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE has long- been famed for the num- ber and splendour of the seats of its^ nobility and gentry, for the diversity of its soil, and the variety and exellence of its agricultural productions ; for its immense forest trees, and curious rock-houses and caves ; for its profusion of wood, water, and game, and for the extent and importance of its lace and hosiery manufactures. It is an inland county, of an oval figure, 50 miles in length from north to south, and 25 miles in breadth from east to west, and lies betwixt 52 cleg. 50 min. and 53 deg. 33 min. North latitude, and 43 min. and one deg. 33 min. JVest longitude from the meridian of Greenwich. It is bounded by Yorkshire on the north, by Lincolnshire on the east, by Leicestershire on the south, and by Derbyshire on the west. Its circumference is estimated at upwards of 140 miles, and its solid contents at $37 square miles, equal to 535,680 statute acres. Its population has enereased since the year 1801, from 140,350 to upwards of 200,000 souls, as will be seen in a subse- quent page. Its climate is dry and salubrious, the average scale of mortality being only about one in 58, which is nearly the average ratio of the mortality of the whole kingdom. The amount of its poor-rates collected in 1815 was £121,461, and in 1823, £81,321 ; of which latter, £57,613 was levied on lands; £20,215 on dwelling-houses; £2,863 on mills and factories, and £630 on manorial profits, &c. The sum paid out of the u HISTORY OF parochial rates in the same year to the Ccunty Rate, was .£9042. (See p. 128.) The annual rental of the land in this county was assessed for the Property Tax, in 1811, at .£534,992 ; and the amount of real property in 1815, was assessed for the same tax at .£737,922. The county sends eight members to Parliament , viz. two for the county at large, — two for Nottingham, — two for Newark, and two for Retford, and the rest of the Hundred of Bassetlaw — which, from its containing the seats of three Dukes, (Newcastle, Norfolk, and Portland) and several other noble mansions and parks, has been called " The DukeryP Under the anoient Britons, Nottinghamshire formed part of the province inhabited by the Coritani, who stood next in rank and strength to their neighbours, the Brigantes, who occupied all the counties in the Northern Circuit of England, and were the most numerous and powerful of all the British tribes that possessed the Island before the invasion of the Romans, by whom this county was comprised in the consular province of Maxima Ccesariensis, and in the prsesidial district called Flavia Cms aliens? s. During the Saxon Heptarchy, it formed part of the kingdom of Mercia ; but since the union of the seven Anglo-Saxon States under one monarch, it has been included in the Province of York, and in the Midland Circuit of England, and now forms, in ecclesiastical matters, an Archdeaconry in the Diocese of York, (see p. 144,) subdivided into the four Deaneries of Nottingham, Bingham, Newark, and Retford, and the peculiar jurisdiction attached to Southwell Collegiate Church; which contain collectively about 180 parishes, 50 chapelries, and 500 villages and hamlets, with nine market towns, (viz. Bingham, Blyth, Mansfield, Newark, Ollerton, Retford, Southwell, Tuxford, and Worksop,) exclusive of Bawtry, which is mostly in Yorkshire; and Nottingham, which, though it is considered the capital of the shire, forms a distinct town and county of itself, (see p. 73,) except the site occupied by the County-hall and gaol. In civil government Nottinghamshire is divided into six hundreds, viz. Bassetlaw, Bingham, Broxtow, Newark, Rushcliffe, and Thurgarton, each of which has two chief Constables, except Bassetlaw, which has three, and is divided into three large divisions, distinguished by the names of North Clay, South Clay, and Hatfield, and con- taining more than two-fifths of the county, but only about one fifth of its population, the greater portion of which is in the southern divisions of the shire, in and near Nottingham. (See p. 76.) There were anciently two hundreds or wapentakes* * Wapentakes as the Hundreds of Yorkshire and some other counties are called, derived their name from an ancient ceremony, in which the governor of every Hundred, on being appointed to the office, met all the elder men of his district, and holding up his spear they all touched it with theirs, and from this touch of weapons they were confirmed in one common interest, and their district was called a WeapontquQh c NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 15 in the county, called Lyda and Osivardebec, but the former is now merged in the Hundred of Thurgarton, and the latter forms the North Clay Division of Bassetlaw. According to Judge Blackstone, England was first divided into counties, hundreds, and tithings, by Alfred the Great, to prevent the ra- pines and disordeis which formerly prevailed in the realm, by making the inhabitants of each district responsible for the damage which might be committed by lawless mobs. Tithings were so called because ten freeholders with their families com- posed one. A number (perhaps 100) of these tithings, towns, or vills, originally composed a superior division called a Hun- dred, in each of which a court was annually held for the trial of causes. An indefinite number of these hundreds, which now vary both in size and population, form a county or shire, the civil government of which is confined to the shire-reeve or sherirf, who is elected annually. Soon after the introduction of Christianity, the kingdom was divided into parishes, and after- wards into bishoprics. Ancient Britons. — For nearly four thousand years of the world's existence the history of Britain is almost a blank, except so far as it may be read in its geological phenomena ; and previous to the invasion of Julius Caesar, .55 years before the birth of Christ, scarcely any thing is known of its inhabi- tants, though two zealous antiquarians have assigned dates much earlier than that period to the two Universities- of Oxford and Cambridge, the birth of the former of which they have car- ried as far back as the fall of Troy, and that of the latter to the days of Cantabar, 394 years before the Christian era ! We may no doubt find the prototype of these modern antiquaries in the old monkish historians, who inform us that the British King, Ebranc, founded York in the year of the world 2983, and Nottingham about forty years afterwards. (See p. T&.) Historians all agree that the Aborigines of Britain were a tribe of Gallic Celts, who emigrated from the Continent and settled here, probably about a thousand years prior to the Christian era.f Previous to the Roman conquest, the ancient Britons in the southern parts of the island, had made some progress towards civilization ; but those in the north were as wild and uncultivated as their native hills, and subsisted chiefly by hunt- ing, and the spontaneous fruits of the earth ; wearing for their clothing, (when the inclemency of the season compelled them to such incumbrances,) the skins of animals, and dwelling in habitations formed by the " pillars of the forest rooted in the earth, and enclosed by intorwoven branches." Their religion, which formed one part of their free monarchial government, was Druidical ; but its origin is not certainly known, though some affirm that the Druids accompanied the Celts in early ages t Richard de Cir. B. I. c. II. S. 4, and Carte Vol. I. p. 21 16 HISTORY OF " from the east; and others, that Druid ism nvas introduced into England by the Phoenicians of Cadiz, who were the first mer- chants who discovered and traded to this island, and, for a con- siderable time, monopolized its commerce, by carefully con- cealing- their traffic from other nations ; bat the lucrative trade in tin, and other useful metals with which Britain abounds, was ultimately traced to its source, and soon brought the Roman and other, merchants to our shores. The civil jurisdiction and religion of the Druids prevailed in every part of the island. They dispensed justice ; not under any written code of laws, but on what they professed to be equitable principles — all their verdicts being determined by such sense as the assembled delegates entertained of impartial justice, and on discordance of opinion in the congress, appeal was made to the Arch-Druid, whose sentence was decisive. Their religious ceremonies were few, and nearly in unison with those of the ancient Hebrews ; they worshipped on high places and in deep groves ; and were not addicted to idolatry, as some authors have asserted, but adored the God of Nature, and ren- dered him praise on the yearly succession of seasons, which they kept as solemn festivals. Though they dealt largely in allegory, and symbolical representations, they practised but little priestcraft, and held not the ignorance of their votaries in the bonds of superstition, for they clearly explained the mys- teries and symbols used in their ceremonies to the initiated, but to none else. To remove from the people all possibility of sophistry and innovation, their maxims of justice were taught orally; the sons of chief pesonages were disciples in their ethic schools, where the rules of moral life were inculcated as the foundation of human wisdom. They studied medicine, and the virtues of plants, of which the Mi&letoe was their chief specific, and they held nothing so sacred as the misletoe of the oak, which, being very scarce, they gathered with great pomp and ceremony on a certain day appointed for their greatest festival. In their civil government, capital offenders were sentenced to death, and publicly sacrificed on the altars of their temples, in the most awful and solemn manner, whilst those convicted for minor crimes were excluded from public worship, and excom- municated from all civil and religious benefits, till they had washed away, with the tears of repentance, the stains with which their guilt had branded them. Julius Csesar, in his " Com- mentaru de Bello Gallico," says the Druids, (as the Gauls call call their magicians or wisemen) inculcated the immortality and transmigration of the soul, and discoursed " with youth much about the heavenly bodies and their motion, the size of the heaven and the earth, the nature of things, and the influence and power of the immortal gods," The British Druids exercised their utmost authority in opposing the usurpation of the Roman invaders, who, fired with equal resentment, determined to secure NOTTINCUAMSHIHE. 17 themselves by exterminating the Druidic order, consequently its pi i* sacrificed to this inhuman policy; those who fled to the [ale of Anglesea perished in thenamea, by the orders of Suetonius, and subsequently, great nombeni of them were mas- i-ed in the unsuccessful revolt of the Britons under Queen Boadicea. From this period, the power and splendour of the Druids rapidly disappeared. Komws.— Julius (asar baring overrun Gaol, invaded Bri- tain before the birth of Christ, and, after a sanguinary struggle renewed in the following year, succeeded in establish- ing a Roman government, unsettled in its nature, and transient in its duration, for, being distracted by domestic war, the con- (juerors were obliged to return home, in order to preserve the seat of their empire; consequently, the Britons remained un- molested till the year a. n. 43, s/hen the Etoperor Claudius sent over an armv ander the command of Plautwis, who was suc- ded by Ostiums Scapula, and he hy Suetonius Paulinas, w ho completed the conquest of I great part of Britain, and, after exterminating many thousands of the Druids, abolished their rites and ceremonies. But the dominion of the Romans in Britain, was not finally established until they were placed under the command of Agricolo^ who did not venture to penetrate into the north of England till a.i>. 90; when be marched his legions from Haneuniutn (Manchester,) along the western coast to Scot- land, where he endeavoured to secure his conquests by erecting- a chain efforts across the isthmus between the Friths of Forth and Clyde. He then marched his troops hack, through the con- quered tribes, and in the year 84, he extended from Solway Frith to Tvncmouth, a chain <>f stations, which, in 124, were connect- ed by an earthen rampart rained hy the Emperor Adrian, as an obstruction to the Caledonians, who, proudly refusing- to crouch to the imperial eagle, frequently descended in rage from their mountains, and penetrating into the Roman territories, com- mitted in them dreadful ravages. This earthen barrier was afterwards strengthened by the great wall of stone which the Emperor Severus built across the island, from Solway Frith to the mouth of the ri.ver Tyne, in a.d. 208. After this, York (were Severus died,) was made the capital of Maxima Ccesari- ensis, the great Roman province in which Nottinghamshire was comprised. The presence of numerous Roman legions, restrained the warlike spirit of the Britons during the third century, and towards its close, they enjoyed some semblance of independence under Caurausius ; hut his assassination enabled Constantine again to subject them to the Roman arms, and he soon afterwards took with him to his wars in Gaul, the flower of the British youth ; leaving the country a^ain open to the devastating incursions of the Pits and the Scots. Dissensions within, and assaults from without, were now fast hastening the destruction of the overgrown empire of Rome, and in a.d. 446, c 2 18 HISTORY OF the Romans finally relinquished all possession, power, and authority in Britain. Roman Antiquities. — During their residence in Britain the Romans accomplished many great public works. In Lincoln- shire they cut several large drains, and raised a stupendous embankment to guard the marshes and fens agains the en- croachments of the sea. Several of their roads and camps may still be traced in Nottinghamshire. The great Camp on Holly- hilly near Arnold, is supposed to have been the central depdt of the Roman forces in this district, as, from its greatjelevation,. all the exploratory camps are easily distinguished, and its vici- nity to Nottingham gives great weight to the opinion of Dr. Gale, that the Roman Station Causennis, occupied the site of that town (See p. 80.) Near Mansfield, the late Major Rooke discovered extensive remains of a curious Roman Villa, which will be described in its proper place. Spears, fibula, and keys of brass, evidently of Roman workmanship, have been found in various parts of the county, especially about Newstead, and between Mansfield and Harlow Wood; many brass celts have been found betwixt Hexgrave and Rain worth water, but these are generally considered to be of British origin. Many Roman roads have intersected the county in various directions ; near Willoughby-on-the- Wolds, the ancient Fosseway enters from Leieesterthire, and, passing on to Newark, crosses the Ermin- street from London to York ; in its course to Lincoln and the coast. This road may be easily traced for many miles along the Wolds, and is literally a fosse, dug so deep that an army might march along it even now, without being seen except by those on the very brink of the bank. Several of the roads through the Wolds cross it in different places, particularly about Ow- thorpe; and in many parts the remains of the old pitching with stones set on edge may be found by clearing away the grass and weeds. The remains of exploratory camps, and of military ways, leading invariably in a north-west direction, may be traced through the Forest tracts. One of them passes from Newark, between Norwood Park and Kirklington, to Southwell and Mansfield ; but part of it on the Forest, near Rainworth water has been destroyed, though it was for many centuries after the Norman Conquest, the common high road from Newark to Mansfield, and was called the Street. Of British Antiquities, Nottinghamshire boast but few, except we agree with Dr. Stukely and some other antiquaries, who place many of the rocky cavities about Nottingham in this class, (see pages 79 and 120 ) Brenfs-hill, near Barton, four miles S.W. of Nottingham, is generally believed to be the site of a British camp, and though the fortifications which once crowned its summit have long been levelled, there are still ves- tiges enough on its sides to show that it has been a place capable of. ah obstinate defence, for there have, been originally RBAMMURg* 19 J. r * earthen banks, each about half a mile in extent, which must have been successively forced before an enemy could attack the citadel. That it has been a place of importance, if -till farther evinced by the number of coins which have been found in it- ruins. At O&ton there are three large tumuli, the largest of which is 53 t'vvl in diameter, and so opened l>v the late Major Jiooke, who found in it an urn t made of iron, and rilled with ashes and burnt bones; Lying near it he also found a large sword in a wooden scabbard, broken into several pieces, two daggars, and 15 glass beads, blue, yellow, and green, which he Considers to have been worn by some ancient British warrior. On the western limits of Worksop Park y there are era] ancient tumuli, and they have now growing upon them some very old oaks, which add much to their air of antiquity. Robin HoocFs-hiM, on the western verge of the forest, behind New- stead Abbey, form a curious kind of amphitheatre at the end of a little valley, and have, at a distance, the appearance of tumuli, but on a near inspection, they are found too large to have been the work of art, which may, however, have had some hand in producing the regularity of their appearance <>n the summit of the highest, there was formerly a seat cut out of the solid rock, with a canopy over it, called Robin Hood's chair, though it was probably of much higher antiquity than that legendary freebooter of Sherwood forest. The Saxons, who, after the departure of the Romans, were invited over to assist the Britons against the Piets and Scots, had no sooner subdued these enemies, than in their greedy con- cupiscence to possess the fertile eountrv for which they had been Bghtittg, they turned their weapons upon the Britons, who made an obstinate resistance, which ended in their final over- throw. During this fatal contest, the Britons fought twelve battles under their renowned King Arthur, and several others under Vortigern. In 618, Arthur expelled the Saxons from this and the adjacent counties, and almost from the inland ; but after the death of that monarch, thev again prevailed, and soon gained an entire conquest over the whole country, which they ultimately divided into seven kingdoms, and included Notting- hamshire in that of Mrrcia, of which Lincoln was the capital. The religion of the Druids now gave way to the more barbarous superstitions of the Saxons, who worshipped the sun and the moon, adored the god of thunder, had images in their temples, practised sacrifices, and believed firmlv in spells and incanta- tions. Happily this idolatry did not long exist in Britain, for Pope Gregory I. in 590, despatched Augustine, a Roman monk, with forty associates to preach Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons and the conquered Britons, most of whom became converts to the Christian faith, and Augustine was consequently created Archbishop of Canterbury. In 628, Pmdinus, another Roman isionary, was created Archbishop of York, and was the t 20 HISTORY OF who preached Christianity in Mercia, where he followed the vic- torious arms of Edwin, King of Northumbria, when that newly converted monarch made Penda, the wicked and hoary-headed King- of Mercia, his vassal. Paulinus baptized many thousands in the Trent, near Torksey Ferry. The kingdom of Mercia continued upwards of two centuries, during- which, there reigned in it eighteen kings, and Nottingham is supposed to have been sometimes the seat of government. The present name of this county is softened from the Saxon appellation, Snottingham-scyre. (See p. 80.) The Saxon invaders were confederated tribes, consisting of the Angles, (hence the term Anglo-Saxons,) the Jutes, and the genuine Saxons, who had long been settled on the shores of the German Ocean, and ex- tended from the Eyder to the Rkyne. The Danes, who had long envied the Saxons whilst they possessed the largest and richest island in Europe, fitted out a mighty fleet, and entered the H umber in 867, from which time till 940, they frequently penetrated into the interior of the country, and several times took possession of Nottingham. (See p. 82.) In their plundering inroads here and in other parts of the island, these pagans burnt and destroyed villages, monas- teries, &c. and spared neither sex nor age. Their repeated in- cursions compelled the Anglo-Saxon monarehs to lay aside their own differences, and confederate for mutual defence ; and by the skill of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, the invaders w T ere at length subdued. The sovereignty of Mercia fell into the hands of Alfred, who stripped it of its regal honours, though some places w T ere still retained by the Panes, amongst which were Lincoln, Stamford, and Nottingham. The Saxons, who had on a certain night massacred all the Panes that lived pro- miscuously amongst them, brought upon their own heads a just retribution ; for Sweyn, King of Denmark, to revenge this cruelty, soon afterwards invaded the kingdom, and in 1013, brought his fleet up the Trent to Gainsborough, and landing his forces, created such terror, that the whole country soon submitted to his yoke. Sweyn, however, did not long enjoy his success, for he died at Gainsborough in the following year,, and was succeeded by his son Canute, the most powerful mo- narch of his time,, betwixt whom and Edmund Ironside, (the Saxon heir to the throne,) after several sanguinary struggles, the kingdom was for a short time divided. Canute was suc- ceeded in 1036 by his son Harold r who died in 1039, when Hardicanute ascended the throne, but this licentious tyrant died two years afterwards, when Edward the Confessor (a Saxon) was raised to the throne by the voice of the people, to the ex- elusion of Sweyn, the Danish claimant. Edward died in 1066, and with him ended both the Saxon and the Danish rule in Britain. v his brother Tosti, at whose instance, Harfrager, King- or Norway, entered the Hutnber with a mighty armament, embarked on board a kind of Norwegian armada, and landed his forces in Yorkshire, where they were completely overthrown by Harold, who left his brother and his royal confederate dead on the field. Harold's triumph was, however, of short duration, for, whilst rejoicing over his victory at York, he received information that frilliam Duke of Normandy, (whom it was said, Edward with his dying breath nominated as his BUCCessor,) had landed at L'avensev, in Sussex, with a numerous and well-disciplined army. To meet this foe, Harold marched bis forces to Hastings, where, in ■ sanguinary battle, he lost both his life and bis kingdom. No sooner was William the Conqueror Mated on the English throne, than he showed that his policy was to root out the ancient no- bility, and to degrade the native inhabitants of the humbler classes to the rank of miserable slaves, though in this work he was obstinately but unsuccessfully opposed in the north of England, where he burnt York and many other places to the ground, and swore u by the splendour of God," (his favourite oath,) that he would not leave a soul of his enemies alive. — Conscious of the detestation in which he was held, lie enter- tained a perpetual jealousy of the English. He butit aud gar» risoned strong castles to keep them in awe, and in the wanton- ness of his power he obliged them to extinguish their fires and candles every evening at the ring- of a bell called M the Curfew/' He also caused a survey to be made of all the lands in the king- dom, the register of which is called the Domksday Book, and Mas finished in 1081, after a labour of six years, on the model of the Book of Winchester, compiled bv the order of Alfred the Great. Through all time, this " Book of Judicial Verdict" will be held in estimation, not merely for its antiquity, but also for its intrinsic value. It afforded the Conqueror an exact knowledge of his own land and revenue, while the rights of his subjects, in disputed cases, were settled by it; and to this day- it serves to show what manor is, and what is not, ancient de- mesne. It specifies the extent of the land in each district; the state it was in. whether meadow, pasture, wood, or arable; the name of the proprietor ; the tenure by which it was held, and the value at which it was estimated. That nothing might be wanting to render this document complete, and its authority perpetual, commissioners were appointed to superintend the sur- vey, and the returns were made under the sanction of juries of all orders of freemen in each district, empanelled for the purpose. This best monument to the memory of the Conqueror, written in Roman, with a mixture of Saxon, is still preserved in the 22 HISTORY OF chapterhouse, at Westminster, amongst the national archives. This valuable manuscript, which had for so* many centuries re- mained unpublished, was printed in the 40th of George III. for the use of the Members of both Houses of Parliament, and the public libraries of the kingdom. As we shall give in the parish histories in this volume, a translated copy from this ancient document of all that is important relative to the manors and estates of Nottinghamshire, it may be necessary to explain the land measures, and several obsolete feudal terms, used at the time to which it refers. Measurement, &c. in Domesday Book. — A Perch, 20 feet. An Acre, 40 perches in length and four in breadth. An Ooogang or Bovate, as much as a pair of oxen can keep in hus- bandry, usually 15 acres. A Virgate or Yard Land.AO acres. A Carucate, Carve or Plough Land, generally 1 00 acres, or eight oxgangs. A Hide, an uncertain quantity, generally about 120 acres. A Knight's Fee, five hides. Bereivicks are manors within manors. Merchet, or Maiden's rent, was a payment to the lord of the manor, in commutation of his right with the virgin bride on the marriage of a vassal's daughter. Heriot, a tribute to the lord for his better maintenance in war. Tol, Theam, Infangentheof, and Thelonia, are described at page 130. Socmen, tenants holding land under a socage tenure. Bordars, cottagers. Villanes, husbandmen in a state of villanage or vassalage. The Conqueror, in parceling out the lands of the kingdom amongst his followers, gave in fee to Roger de Busli no fewer than 174 manors in Nottinghamshire, being, as Thoroton says, " the best part of ninety townships, besides very many other towns, which were partly or wholly in soc to some of them." This Roger, was one of the greatest barons of his time, and had large estates in other counties, especially in York- shire, where he erected a castle at Tickhill, but resided occasionally at Blyth, in this county. To his natural son, William de Peveril, (whose mother was a tanner's daugh- ter of Normandy, and married to Ralph de Peveril,) he gave in this county 55 manors, and 48 tradesmen's houses in Nottingham, besides many other estates in Derbyshire, Leices- tershire, and Yorkshire, which together formed the Honour of Peveril, of which Nottingham castle, built by the said William, under the directions of his reputed father, was the baronial re- sidence, (see p. 115,) its first occupant, William de Peveril, being distinguished by the title of Earl of Nottingham, and having an Honour Court, (which still exists,) for the recovery of debts and damages within his extensive jurisdiction. (See p. 138.) Of the other manors in Nottinghamshire, the Norman Conqueror gave to Walter de Eincourt, 34; to Ralph Fitz Hubert, 10; to Hugh de Abrincis, Earl of Chester, 4; to Alan, Earl of Richmond, 7; to Robert, Earl of Morteign and Cornwall, 6 ; to William Mallet, Baron of Eye, 2 ; to Henry 23 Bar] of Derby, 3; to Ralph de Limasi, -; fto Hugh (I.- Grentsinesni, 1; to Gfotafi f(l dr Haneelin, 18; to Hugh de . of Rieard'a Castle, 6; to Ralph de Baron, lati, I of Northumberland, I ; to (Sodiva, Coenteas of Marcia, 1 ; ami to Algar, Kail of Mercia, J. The bat five were Saxons, and had, before the Conqueror disp osse ssed then, very exten- tes in this county, where, according to Domesday k, the following persona were also landholders, viz. "the Archbishop of York, Hi-hop of Lincoln, Bishop of Bayenx, Abbot of Burgh, ictayensia, (iilhert de Qand, Gilbert de Tison, flbert de I renger de Todeni, Hugh Fitz Baldric, Osborne Fitz Richard, i\ol><*rt Fitz William, and Willam rloatiarus, or the Usher.' 1 After the conquest, much of the land in Nottinghamshire pas s e d to the church and the religious fraternities, hut at the if formation most of it re- verted to the crown, aim v us subsequently granted to such per- is were then in royal favour. (Bee p. 1 l-o The k Inmih none in t!ii- ooontj irereno fewer than fort) in nam! several of them irere richly endowed. At / bere were a Ciuniac priory, a cell of White Fn, and an hospital of St. Anthony; at A an abbey of Austin canons; at Bauvatle, a Carthusian priory; at /ii/itf/inm, a college ; at Bh/th, a Benedictine priory and an hospital of John the Evangelist.; at D rade b usk^ near donaUton, an hospital; at Btoadhohk, a PrsemonstrateBSiafl nunnery; at Clifton, a college; at Felley, an A US tin priory; at FUkettau^ an Austin cell; at Mar sh*) a Benedictine cell; at Jfo ta gf aey , a Gilhertine priory; at Newark^ an Austin and an Oh-ervant friary, and two hospitals, one for templars and the other for poor; at Rujford, a( istercran abbey ; at Radford t in Work- sop,) an Austin abbey; at >'//'•//"rd, each a college ; and at Nottingham there were eight e-tabli>hments, consisting of Friars, Lepers, Knights of St. John, fcc. (see p. 145.) The various grants of the lands, &c. belonging- to these foundations, which took place at the dissolution of the monasteries, Mill be recorded in the histories of the parishes where each institu- tion was situated. Until the 10th of Elizabeth, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire had but one High Sheriff, and they appear to have been subdi- vided in eighteen Hundreds, for it is written in Domesday Book that " in SnoUtngham$oyr* and Derliscyre, the King's peace, given with his hand, or with his seal, if it be broken shall be amended by the eighteen Hundreds, every Hundred eight Pounds ; of this Amends the King hath two parts, the Earl the third; — that is, twelve Hundreds the King, and six the Earl." In the same record it is also written, " If anyfium, according to 24 HISTORY OF law, shail be banished for any guilt, none but the King can re- store Peace to him. A Thane having more than six manors, doth not give Relief of his Land, except to the King only eight Pounds. If he have only six, or less, to the Sheriif he giveth Relief three Marks of Silver, wheresoever he remaineth, in a Borough or out. If a Thane, having Soc and Sac, forfeit his Land between the King and the Earl, they have the Moiety of his Land and Money; and his lawful wife, with his legitimate Heirs, if there be any, have the other Moiety." The Earl here alluded to was the Conqueror's illegitimate son, Wm. Peveril, Earl of Nottingham^ who was governor of Nottingham castle, and Lord of the extensive Honour of Peveril, as has already been seen. An ancient manuscript in the British Museum, (Har. MSS. 2041) gives the following " Catalogue of the Earls of Notting- ham, with a brief historical collection of their loyalty, arms, wives, and deaths," down to the year 1624 : — EARLS OF NOTTINGHAM. " Will am Peverell a natural Sonne of William the Con- queror, begotten in Normandy; which William came with his father to this his conquest ; who having been brought up in military profession, and one that the Conqueror could confide in, he advanced him to honour, and gave him his new built castle of Nottingham, with severall lordships within this coun- ty.* This William with his Nottinghamsh : forces was one of the chief Commanders in the third of King Stephen against those perfidious Scots, who had invaded England, so farr as North Allerton, in the county of Yorke ; where theye received their reward, being totally overthrown : and with king Stephen in the battle of Lincolne, where he was taken prisoner, so that Maude the Empress, had seized on his castle of Notingham, and given it to one William Painell : but it was recovered again by a stratagem. He married Aveline. " William Peverell his sonne and heire, with others, con- trived which way to take away the life of Ranulphe Earl of Chester, which by poison was done.f After hearing of Henry * These amounted to forty-eight tradesmen's houses in the town, and fifty-five manors in the Shire. f The circumstances connected with this event, strongly mark the ignorant superstition of those times, when the simplest and plainest processes were referred to magic ; for the monkish writer who relates the story tells us, that a quarrel hav- ing arisen between this Peverel and Ranulph de Mcecenis Earl of Chester, the former contrived with many others, by sorcery and witchcraft, to kill him ; which he accordingly effected by poisoning him ; a mode so certain, as surely not to have required the aid either of sorcery or witchcraft ! The perpetrator of this horrible deed, fled first into a monastery of his own foundation at Lenton, had his head shorn like a Monk, and appeared to have taken the vows ; but he soon found that the power of the Church was not sufficient to protect him against a justly incensed Monarch. NOKTINGfJ AM*H\RK. -•* the 2d* fewrv, he fled (he Real me, leaving; all his castles and lordshippa to the King's dispossal. He left a daughter and heire, Margaret, who married about 1141. 44 William (Earl of Nottingham in her right) and Earle of Ferrers and Derby, of whose antiquity and family you may- see more in the earldome of Derby, for Robert his father siilcd himscijc Earle junior dc Nottingham.* This title came next to John, who was sirnamed Sanz-terre, sixt sonne of Henry the Second; which John he made Earl of Moreton (or JNIar- tayne) and gave him this castle and honour of Notingham, whom had before a castle seated upon an bill near to Marl, in the county of Wiltsh : (now called Marleburgh) and lastly was King- of this realm. t After this it was granted to the ancient family of the Mowbray a ; first to "John Moubray,J 27th of Edward the 3d, who was slaine in the Holy Land by the Turks, anno. XL1I of Edward 111. He married Elizabeth daughter and heire of John Lord Segrave who assumed the surname of Segrave, from a lordship in Lei- cestersh : their son "John Mowbray, created Earle at the coronation of king Richard the Second, and II. of his reign.§ He was one that entered Scotland, with his joint forces, and died the sixst of Richard the 2d at London, without issue and was bu- ried there. "Thomas Mowbray his brother, succeeded, being next heire, and was created Earle of Notingham by Richard the second, the VII of the said King's reigne. Hee with other Barons entered Scotland with an army of Spearmen and Archers; and in the IX of his reign, he constituted the said Thomas Earle Marshal of England, for term of life; whose loyalty and great service for his King and countrey, the French and Spaniards both knew; also he attended king Richard into Ireland, the XVIII of his reigne. He was the first that was ever honoured by charter with the office of Earle Marshall. — His first wife was Elizabeth daughter and heire to John Lo : Strange of Blackmeie; she died XXIII of August VII of Richard II. without issue. His second wife, viz. Elizabeth * We are told that he was a very pious and devout man, *' according to the manners of these times," which may have been one of the reasons that induced King Richard Cceur de Lion to take his castle and honours ficm him, and bestovr them on his brother John. f On the return of Richard from the Holy Land, John refused to lesign it, and kept it in his own hands until he came to the Crown, in which it was merged for some time. % This Earl is not mentioned in the general lists, ills creation, if it really took place, must have been in 1352. § With this special clause, that he should hold, sub honore CbmitaH, or as parcel of this Earldcm, all his other lauds and possessions. He must have entered early cvo the theatre of public life, as he died under age, and his brother wrj only se- venteen years of age when created Earl in his room. D 26 HISTORY OF one of the daughters of Richard Fitzalan, Earle of Arundelle. And the XXIX of Septem : Anno M. CCCXCVII. he was created Duke of Norfolke; but suddenly after the scales turned by subtile and pernicious counsell, for ambition and striving for worldly honours and promotion is a very miserable thing", short of continuance and hastneth a dangrous end ; for in the XXI of Richard II. he had an irrecoverable fall, being banished out of this realm never to return into England. He died at Ve- nice in Septem. the I. of Hen. IV".* "Thomas Mowbray Earle Marshall of England (his Son)f who meeting- with discontented persons, soon laid hold of that opportunity ; for rebellion doth allwaies begin upon revenge, or ambition, and sinister respect. Such wasjhis desperate con- spiracy against his lawfull king, for the whiche he had the stroke of the axe at Yorke, anno MCCCC V. He married Constance daughter of John Holland, Earle of Huntingdon and Duke of Exeter. " John Mowbray Earle Marshall and Earle of Not- ingham (his SonJ) hee was a most active and faithful subject to king Henry V. in his warrs in France with horse and foot ; allso an eminent commander in his service in Normandy; and I Henry VI. retained by him in those warrs, with one Baneret, IV Knights, one CXIV military men armed a cap : a-pee, and ■CCC and LX archers. For thishis faithfull loyalty he was re- stored. and dignified with that princely title of Duke" of Nor- folke. He, on the XX of May, VII of Hen. VI bequeathed his body to be buryed within the Isle of Axholme; but died not till Oct XI Henry V. He married Catherine daughter to Ralph Nevile Earl of Westmoreland. " John Lord Mowbray succeeded and enjoyed his father's titles of Honour, and in the XVII of King Henry the VI reign, hee was sent Ambassadour to treat of peace betwixt our King and the French King, and died MCCCCLXI and buried at Thetford in Norfolke.§ He married Eleanor daughter to Wil- liam Lord Bourchier. "John Lord Mowbray (his Son) was by Henry the VI. ^the XXIV March created Earle Warrenne and Surrey; a per- son of good prudence, and put on the belt of military honour, engaging to serve his King in the warres of France, for one * ^Various historians give him but an indifferent character, and accuse him of a series of political infamy, which seems to have been punished even by the man for whom he committed some of his worst deeds. f He was Earl of Nottingam, but is said not to have been Duke of Norfolk.— He was very young, on coming to the title, and was prevailed on to join in the conspiracy of Scrope, Archbishop of York* % He is by some generally called brother to the preceding Earl. § He was also Justice Itinerant of the King's forests south of Trent ; and accord- ing to the piety of those days, made several pilgrimages to Rome, the Holy Land, &c. and had even vowed to take several more ; but in this he was frustrated by ihe arrest of death. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 27 whole \ear. He died at Fraiiihvjtmi ( laatle ( query Framlingham) in Nbrfolke, and was enter red at rhetfordanno Mi '(('(' LXXV. lie married Elizabeth daughter of John Talbot, first KSarle of Shrewsbury of that name, by whom he had Anne sole daughter and heire, but Bhe died without issue.* u Isabel one of the daughters of Thomas Mowbray Duke of Norfolk e by his II wife, married James Lo : Berkley who died at Berkley Castle In Gloucestersb: anno MCCCCLXII1 and lyeth buried in Berkley Church ; to whom she bad issue, i4 W'n.uA.M Hi:uKi.KY,t who received the order of Knight- hood at Calais; lie was by King Edw: IV advanced a viscount, and by King Richard created Kaiuk of Notinoham. But after, adhering to Hear) Duke of Buckingham, against King Richard, he fled unto Henry Barle of Richmond, who was after King, and constituted Ivule Marshall of England, and after advanced to that princely honour of a Marquesse. lie died without issue XIV of Feb: VII Hen. VII. He married three wives; Eliaebeth daughter of Reginald West Lord La Warre; Jane daughter of Sir Thomas Strangwaya, Knight: she died T Richard 3; Anne daughter of John Fiennes, Lord Dacres of the South, but dyed without issue X Septr: XIII lien. VII. J u Hknry Fitzroy, a natural son to King Henry the Eight, begotten on the Lady Talbovs, widdow, but daughter of Sir John Blound, Knight ; who was by his father the X VIII of June in the XVII vere of his Raign, made Knight of that noble order of the Garter, and the same day advanced unto that honourable title of Earle ofNotingham &c; who with the rest of his ho- nours and dignitvs dyed without is£ 3$ HISTORY Of EMINENT MEN. The Nottinghamshire temple of fame records a numerous list of worthies, eminent in literature, the arts and sciences, in arms, and in charity, as will be seen in the histories of the parishes where they were born, or resided. Its most distin- guished literary luminary of modern times is the late Lord Byron (see Newstead Abbey) ; and next to him in poetic genius stands the late Henry Kirk White. (Vide page 17.9.) Amongst its departed warriors, Earl Howe,* (who in 1792 suc- seeded the brave Lord Rodney, as Vice Admiral of England,) and Admiral Sir J. B. Warren^ stand pre-eminent. The county claims several worthies, whose specific birth places are unknown, these will,, therefore be noticed here, and the others will be found under their proper heads :— Sir John Fenton Knt. was born in this county, and was for twenty-seven years a privy counsellor in Ireland to Queen Elizabeth and King James. He translated the history of Guic- eiardini out of the original Italian into English, and dedicated it to Queen Elizabeth. He died at Dublin in 1603. Edward Fenton, his brother, was also born in this county. He in very early life displayed an inclination for nautical af- fairs, and was very active in the various attempts at discovery about Hudson's Bay, Greenland, and the other northern parts of the American continent, so fashionable at that period. Much respecting him may be found both in Hackluyt, and in Purchas. Thomas Horne another Nottinghamshire man, became a student at Magdalen Hail, Oxford, in 1624, and was soon ad- mitted to the degree of M.A. He seems to have distinguished himself much by his abilities as a pedagogue; for soon after taking his degree he was appointed master of a private school in London, was shortly after chosen master of the free-school at Leicester, where he remained only two years, and was thence translated to that of Tunbridge in Kent. His merits did not long remain unnoticed; for after a residence of about, ten years at the latter place, he was preferred to the head master- ship at Eton, where he remained during the residue of his life. If we may judge of his practical abilities by several works which he has left behind him introductory to, and illus- trative of, classical education, it must be confessed that he was highly deserving of the promotions and encouragement he met with. Richard Sterne, D.D.. Archbishop of York, was the son of Simon Sterne of Mansfield, but the place of his nativity is unknown. His early years were spent at the Nottingham Grammar School; and he afterwards went to Christ Church * See Larger Hall f And Stapelfold Hall. KOTTlXGHAMtHIBK. 'M college, Oxford, where he graduated with much credit to himself, and was soon after admitted to holv Orders. lie soon attracted the notice of Archbishop Laud, who appointed him one of his chaplains; and his character was now so well eatahlished that he was immediately afterwards elected master of Jesus College, by the unanimous vote of the fellows. It does not appear that he took any active part in the affairs which brought his patron to. the scaffold; however, when the charges were brought for- ward against the Archbishop, and lie was in consequence com- mitted a prisoner to the Tower, his enemies had sufficient influence to cause Dr. Sterne to be sent thither also. They were unable, indeed, to prove any thing against him, and were obliged, though unwillingly, to permit him to be set at libertv, after the public execution of the Archbishop. During the civil wars, and protectorate, he retired into a safe obscurity ; but was called from it on the Restoration, and immediately afterwards appointed bishop of Carlisle. In 1664, he was promoted to the archbishopric of York, which he enjoyed for twenty years, and died in 1684. The Archbishop's third son, Simon, was grandfather of the well known Lawrknck Stkrxi;, who was born in Ireland, and held several church livings in Yorkshire, where he became one of the finest writers in the English language ; though much indebted to Rabelais, yet no author of the present age can lay claim to so many unborrowed excellencies ; and in none, have wit, humour, fancy, pathos, an unbounded knowledge of mankind, and a correct and elegant style, been so happily blended. His " Tristram Shandy'" and " Sentimental Journey,*' have raised him to the rank of a classic, and will long continue to amuse and instruct succeeding generations. ROBIN HOOD. Amongst the distinguished characters of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries who flourished in Nottinghamshire, was Rohin Hood, alias Robert Head., or Rob< rt Fitz Outh, the famous archer and freebooter, of Sherwood Forest, of whose popular and interesting story, but little is authentically known, though his exploits have been celebrated in ballad, in every suc- ceeding age. Throsby says, the songs in the " Garland'' which bears his name, are simply and historically poetized, and have been the favourites of the lower classes, perhaps ever since his time. They have evidently been written by various- persons, and at different periods. As early as 1594, his story seems to have become a favourite subject for the drama; for in that year was printed, "A pastoral comedy of Robin Hood and Little John.'' Again in 1624 we meet with " Robin Hood's pastoral May Games;** and in 1730 Robin Hood was performed as an opera at Bartholomew Fair. Shortly after came out %i Robin Hood. 32 HISTORY OF and his Crew of Soldiers,", and in 1751 a musical entertain- ment under the name of " Robin Hood" came out at Drury- lane ; besides which we have had " Robin Hood, of Sherwood Forest" of a recent date ; all founded on the original Garland, This collection of ballads, in the events which it relates, differs considerably from what is considered as the real historical biography of this extraordinary character. Indeed, his legen- dary biography seems made up of a tissue of exaggerations. It tells us that his father was a forester, and could send an arrow to a distance of two north country miles ; and by a strange anachronism, it describes his mother as niece to the famous Guy, the Saxon Earl of Warwick. She is stated to have had a brother " a notable Squire," who lived at Gamewell-hill in this county, and who was anxious that Robin, when a j^outh, should live with him. But Robin's fondness for field sports and a rambling life,, led him to Tutbury, not far from his u birth place of Loxley,* in Staffordshire, where he married a shep- herdess under the poetical name of Clorinda, having been charmed by her dexterous manner of killing a buck in the forest. Soon after this, he is said to have killed fifteen fores- ters, who were buried in a row in one of the church yards at Nottingham. " His fame was now so great that he had raised a force of nearly one hundred followers ; and in a short time his robberies and frolics, his kindness and charity to the poor, became the general theme of conversation, and produced a kind of friendly feeling towards him, although an outlaw." He appears by the Garland to have made his business his amusement, and to have been a merry thief, for he sports most jocularly with the characters and persons of a bishop, and the sheriff of the county, after robbing them of their purses. Yet he was not always victorious ; but seems to have been roughly handled at different times, by a tinker, a shepherd, and a friar, and several others. He is next described as going to London, and being received at court, where he appeared in a scarlet dress, whilst his men were clad in Lincoln green ; all of them wearing black hats and white feathers : a species of costume, by the bye, unknown in the reign of Richard the first,, or of John, at which time he lived. Soon after this, he is stated to have fought a desperate battle with Little John, or John Little, who was seven feet high, in which however he was worsted ; but Little Johnf notwithstanding joined the troop, and * Sir Walter Scott in his popular romance of " Ivanhoe ;" makes Robin Hood, under the assumed name of Loxley, perform some wonderful exploits ; in one of which he has a grand rencounter with Richard I., which secures him the favour of that romantic and chivalrous monarch. f There is a loose paper in Ashmole's hand writing in the Oxford museum, which says " the famous Little John (Robin Hood's companion) lies buried in Hethersedge church-yard, in the peak of Derbyshire ; one stone at his head ; another at his. feet; and part of his bow hangs up in the church. A.D. 1612. NOTTIXOHAilflilKH. 33 became his faithful friend. After this the Garland states that a monk whom he sent for to let him blood, was the cause of his death, when all his bowmen tied to different countries to escape that justice which they could not otherwise avoid, now that their chief was gone. Thus far the Garland; but the author of the " Anecdotes of Archery,"' who seems to have paid con- siderable attention in his research after the real events of this outlaw's life, gives us some other particulars which have a great semblance of authenticitv. lie describes him as at the head of two hundred strong, resolute men, and expert archers, ranging the forest of Sherwood, but not remaining there always. Fuller says that his principal residence was in Sherwood forest,* though he had another haunt nearer the sea, in the north riding of Yorkshire, where Robin Hood's bay still bears his name: and Charlton, in his "History of Whitby," ob- serves that Robin, when closely pursued by the civil or mili- tary power, found it necessary to leave his usual haunts, re- treated across the moors to Whitby in Yorkshire, where he always had in readiness some small fishing vessels, and in those putting off to sea, he looked upon himself as quite secure, and held the whole power of the English nation at defiance. The " Anecdotes of Archery'' add, that the principal place of his resort at these times, and where his boats were generallv laid up, was about six miles from Whily, still known as Robin Hood's bay. In one of these peregrinations, tradition says, he went to dine with the Abbot of Whitby, accompanied by his friend Little John ; when the abbot, who had often heard with wonder of their great skill in shooting with the long bow, request- ed after dinner that he might have a specimen of their dexterity. The two friends, in order to oblige their courteous entertainer, accompanied the abbot to the top of the abbey tower ; from this elevation each of them shot an arrow which fell close by Whitby Laiths. To preserve the memory of this transaction, and to mark the distance, the abbot set up a pillar on the spot where each arrow fell ; the distance being more than a measured mile. That there were two pillars standing at Whitby a few years ago. is beyond a doubt, and that they were called after these two friends is equally certain ; but that there is any real foundation for the story, we will not pretend to say. The " Anecdotes" then proceed to state that he was out- lawed, and a price set upon his head ; and detail several stra- tagems which were ineffectually put in practice to entrap him ; for, force he repelled by force, and stratagem by more skilful wiles than those of his enemies. But at length the force sent againt him was so powerful, that many of his followers fell, and the rest deserted him. Being now worn out with age and care, * Ritson, who certainly has shewn indefatigable, research in his " Robin Hood" in two volumes, says that Barnsdale forest in Yorkshire, and Plompton park in Cumberland, where also two of his favourite haunts, 34 HISTORY OP he sought shelter in Kirklees priory in Yorkshire, the prioress of which was his kinswoman. Here he was seized with a disease which required venesection, and the nun who was called to per- form the operation, either intentionally or accidentally, cut an artery, and he bled to death. His mortal remains were inter- red near the precincts of the nunnery, in Kirklees park, where an ancient cross still marks his grave, and his said to have formerly born the following inscription :- — " Hear, undernead dislatil stean; Laiz Robert Earl of Huntingdon; Nea arcir vir as him sa geud, An pipl kauld him Robin Heud ; Sick outauz az hi an iz men, Vil Inglande nivr si agen ; Obit 24, Kal. Dekembris, 1247." That such a character as Robin Hood existed the testimony of several ancient documents appears to decide, but whether he was, as this epitaph imports, of noble parentage, or an outlaw of humbler birth, is not equally clear, though Stukely in his Palseographia Britannia, vol. 2. p. 115, conjectures that his true name was Fitz Ooth, or Fitz Oeth; — that he was de- scended from a Norman Chief of that name, who was lord of Kyme in Lincolnshire; that his mother was daughter of Payne Beauchanap and Roisia de Vere, and that, by his grandmother, he could prove his descent from Waltheof the first earl of Northumberland, Northampton, and Huntingdon, who Mas be- headed in 1073. Under these circumstances the title of Earl of Huntingdon might have been claimed by Robert Fitz Ooth, who perhaps was driven to his predatory course of life, in conse- quence of the troubled state of Henry 2nd's reign, and of a re- fusal of his claims. That he was something more than a mere robber is evident from the considerable force which he was able to raise, and to keep together, and which must have been much greater than is mentioned in the legendary ballads, as he was able to resist during so many years, all the attempts of the royal army, and of the sheriff, to arrest or even to dislodge him. He was no doubt one of those youths who in the reign of Richard I., resented the enclosing of the forests, and being pro- secuted by the officers of the crown, he raised a band of archers, who infested all the towns within the forest and in its vicinity, robbing all the rich travellers, but never proceeding to blood- shed, except in self-defence. It has been said too, that he was a great favourite in many parts of the country, in consequence of his hoarding up the different articles which he obtained in his course of robbery, until they amounted to a considerable stock, when he exposed them for sale at a particular place on the borders of the forest, where his sales were as regularly at. tended as a fair ; and there is no doubt that his customers got NOTTINGHAM* II IKK. .'55 their purchases pretty cheap, from whence arose the proverb of selling- " Robin Hood's penny worths." Camden calls him the gentlest thief that ever was, and Major says of h'rn, — " From wealthy abbots' chests, and churles abundant store. What often times he tooke, he shared amongst the poor t No lordly Bishop came in Robin's way, To him, befoie he went, but for his pass must pay : The widow in distress, he graciously relieved, And remedied the wrongs of many a virgin grieved** SHERWOOD FOREST. * This once thickly wooded tract, of which upwards of two"; 'thirds is now enclosed and cultivated, comprises nearly one- fifth of the county, being- nearly 20 miles in length and from 5 to 7 in breadth, extending southward from Worksop Manor to Nottingham, and occupying part of the three Hun- dreds of Bassetlaw, Broxtow, and Thurgarton. This favourite :haunt of Robin Hood and his daring band of freebooters, was well suited to the wandering and dangerous life of a biigand, as it afforded many secret and almost impenetrable recesses, hav- ing numerous rocky caves, and being, as Camden says " anci- ently thick set with trees, whose entangled branches were so twisted together, that they hardly left room for a single person to pass." In the reign of Elizabeth, when Camden wrote it was much thinner of wood, but it still bred " an infinite num- ber of deer and stags, with lofty antlers." That our woods were often cut down merely for the sake of tillage and pas- turage, without any respect to the uses of timber, seems to be evident from the great quantities of subterranean trees dug up in various parts of England. These are chiefly found in marshy grounds, which abounded every where before the arts of drain- ing were in use ; and nothing was necessary in such places to produce the future phenomenon of subterranean timber, but to •carry the trees, when cut down, upon the surface of some bog, which might easily be done in dry summers. Dr. Plot and some other local historians are of this opinion, and adduce several reasons for supposing that trees might have been buried in this way, to make room for the plough; and they also imagine that the English might begin to clear their lands for tillage as early as the reign of Alfred the Great. Leiand does not seem to have paid much attention to " the wooddy Forest of Sherwood ;" but Thoroton, nearly a century afterwards, tells us that " the pleasant and glorious condition of this noble forest, is now wonderfully declined ; and he adds, there is at present (A. D. 1675,) and long hath been a justice 3eat held under my Lord's Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Justice in Eyre of all his Majesty's forests north of Trent* 36* fcHfanwooD forest. wherein it seems 'his deputies or lieutenants have allowed such and so many claims, that there will not shortly he wood enough left to cover the bilberries, which every summer were wont to be an extraordinary great profit and pleasure to the poor people who gathered them, and carried them all about the country to sell." Notwithstanding this early devastation, there is still sufficient woodland scenery in some parts of the forest, to convey a tolerably accurate idea of what was once a forest life. Gilpin in his si Forest Scenery," says that Sherwood was the frequent scene of royal amusement; and as early as the reign of Henry II., Mansfield was the general residence of the court upon these occasions, and it was near that town where Henry became acquainted with the miller of famous memory, Sir John Cockle ; as is recorded in an uncouth rhyming tale pre- served in "Percie's Reliques," and in Dodsley's dramatic en- tertainment entitled the " King and Miller of Mansfield" both of which are generally considered as fabulous legends. This forest possesses every variety of sylvan scenery; con- sisting of pasture and woody tracts, intermixed with cultivated enclosures and wild heaths, which are some times bounded by a naked line of horizon, and at others skirted with towering woods, scattered oaks, and young plantations. The open heath with its accompaniments maybe traced through the broad tracts which lie been Beskwood and Mansfield, skirting JNewstead Abbey, and extending eastward to Oxton and Farnsfield, The wild expanse overgrown with gorse and fern, and skirted with woodland scenery, may be traversed between Mansfield and Oiler- ton, round Edwinstow and Rufford, and including the pas- tural scenery of Ciipstone park. But the most varied scenery of this extensive forest, consisting of thickening foliage inter- mixed with open lawns and breaks of cultivation, is to be found round Warsop and Carburton, skirting the four noble and ex- tensive parks of Welbeck, Worksop, Clumber, and Thoresby, and extending to the northern limits of the forest, betwixt Worksop and Retford. The wild scenes in this part of the forest, are finely contrasted on their eastern limits by the richly cultivated country, extending from Haughton park to Southwell, where the ground is sufficiently broken to add the picturesque to the beautiful. Large Oaks. — Among the many large and venerable trees, which are objects of curiosity to the botanical tourist, the most remarkable are, the Greendale Oak, (which is 700 years old and lias a coach road cut through it,) the Duke \i i Walking Stick, (111 feet high, and 11 tons in weight,) the Two Porters, (38 and 34 feet in circumference) and the Seven Siste?'s, all of which are situated in Welbeck park, and will be described with that beautiful seat of the Duke of Portland. Parliament Oak on the west side of Ciipstone park, is so called from a tradition of a Parliament having been held under it by Edward I., but this i* N(*TTi NUil AM SHIRK. 37 an error which arose from Edward holding- a Parliament in Clipston palace, the ruins of which are distant l£ mile from this aged oak, of which nothing- but the hollow trunk now re- mains. Near the north end of Clipston park is Broad Oak, which measures 27 i feet in circumference; and near Blidworth is an ancient Elm called Langton Arbour, and which, some centuries ago, was sufficiently remarkable to give name to one of the forest walks. In cutting- down some of the timber in B irk land and Bilhagh, at the close of the last century, letters were found cut or stamped in the body of the trees, denoting the King's reign in which they were thus marked. This is supposed to have been done by the bark being cut off, and the letters cut in, after which the next year's wood grew over the inscription without adhering where the bark had been removed. The cyphers thus found were of James I., of William and Mary, and one of King John. The latter was eighteen inches within the tree, and more than a foot from the centre, so that the tree must have heen planted above a hundred years before John's reign, and when it was cut down in 1791, must have been about 70G years- old!!! Ancient Woods. — The present state of the woodlands of this forest, and of its modern plantations, is a subject of national importance, especially when we consider that no timber is so suitable for naval purposes as English Oak. That Britain, by proper core and attention, might in fifty years be able to supply her own wants in this article, is a truth which we believe will not be denied, and that without interfering with land fit for agri- cultural purposes.; at least whoever traverses this district must confess that much of it which is unfit for tillage, might be very beneficially planted with forest trees; and indeed much of this has already been done, as will be seen by the following survey of the old woods and modern plantations. The late Major Rooke tells us, that until the beginning of the last century, Sherwood was full of trees, and was then one continued wood from Mansfield to Nottingham ; but this tract is now cleared, and the only remains of ancient woodland are principally in the hays of Birkland and Bilhagh, which form an open wood of larg^e and venerable oaks, free from underwood, (except in one part where some natural birch is growing,) and most of them in a state of decay. Part of these hays are in Thoresby park, whence they extend westward to Warsop and Clipston, being about 3| miles in length by I J in breadth, or about 15,000 acres. In 17^0, they contained only 10,117 trees, valued at about £17,000; and since then, the axe of the woodman and the scythe of time have stripped them of many of their sylvan ornaments. Clumber park contains the remains of two ancient woods, which were called Clumber and Hardiviok Woods ; and -there are some other old woodland districts of small extent, con- futing of Harlow Wood y Thieves Wood^ and same scattered E 3§ SHERWOOD FOREST. portions of the Mansfield woods, which, however, can boast of very little valuable timber* The enclosed Parks of Worksop Manor, Welbeck, Clum- ber, Tboresby, Rufford, Clipston, and Newstead, still retain many august specimens of the ancient forest oaks, which in many places are beautifully diversified by the slender and pend- ant branches of the silver-coated birch. Thorney \Wood Chase, which occupies the southern division of the forest, is now nearly all enclosed. It was well stocked with fallow dcer y as the other parts of the forest were with red deer, but these are now only to be found in the enclosed parks of the nobility and gentry, who, during the late war, made many extensive plantations, some of which thev honoured with the names of our naval heroes. PLANTATIONS.— The Duke o£Portiand's extensive plan- tations in the neighbourhood of Welbeck, are in a flourishing state, and may be seen at a great distance ; whilst the scraggy oaks in Thieves Wood, betwixt Mansfield and Newstead, have been filled up with young plants, which are now springing up to form an union with several other of the Portland plantations . On the highest part of the forest, called Cock's Moor, a planta- tion of 40 acres was made about twenty years ago ; and 45 acres in Norton forest, were, about the same time, sown with acorns and chesnuts, which are now in a thriving state, as also are two large lumps of evergreens, (one circular and the other square) planted by the second Duke of Kingston, at the west end of Birkland. Earl Manvers and his family have made many plantations about Thoresby since it came into their possession. One of these, partly forest trees, and party firs, is called Howe throve, in honour of " The glorious First of June ;" another at the eastern extremity of the assarts, adjoining Thoresby park, is named after Earl St. Vincent ; and there is another on the boundary of Budby forest, called Duncan Wood, which, with some steeps on the forest side of the park, called Portland Grove and Bentinck Border, form the whole of the Thoresby planta- tions on that side. The extensive plantations at Rufford, bor- dering on the forest, were begun by the late patriotic Sir George Saville, and have been greatly encreased and improved by the present possessor. The Right Hon. Frederic Montague also made several plantations on his part of the forest near Newstead, chiefly of oak ; the first of these, on the west side of the road leading to Nottingham, is called the Hoive plantation, and five others are distinguished by the honourable names of Spencer, Nelson, St. Vincent, Warren, and Duncan plantations. South of these, Henry Cope, Esq. about 25 years ago erected a good house, and formed several extensive plantations, which are now highly ornamental. On the eastern limits of Sherwood, near Farnsfield, Sir Richard Sutton, Bart, made several large plan- tations about the same time, and in one of them which encir- cles a hill, he erected an elegant building in the Turkish stylo. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. m which commands a most extensive prospect. Some large clumps of firs and larches near Kirkby, were planted by the late Sir Richard Kay, Bart. Near the northern extremity of Sherwood are several large plantations formed by Earl Bathurst. al Lord 'High Chancellor of England, who no doubt intended it to have been conducted in a more effective and less costly manner, similar to those which were instituted for the same purpose in several previous reigns. Provident Institutions. — Another great relief to the poor-rates, is that laudable desire which prevails amongst the industrious labourers and mechanics to render themselves, as far as possible, independent of the workhouse, by providing funds for their mutual relief in case of sickness and old age ; for which object there are now in the county upwards of 300 Friendly Societies, consisting collectively of about 15,000 members who pay small monthly contributions to their respec- tive funds. Several Annuitant Societies are supported by those of the middle class, and there are in the county many Money and Building Clubs. Savings' Banks have also a beneficial effect on the indus- trious and provident habits of the working classes, by affording them a safe and profitable investment for what they are enabled by economy to lay by in their health and prosperity, against a a time of need. Though many of the lower orders of society are so reckless of to-morrow, as to make no provision against need and poverty, it is pleasing to observe, that there are now NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 61 upwards of 7,500 individuals, whose deposits in the six Savings' Banks of Nottinghamshire, amount to above .=£240,000, exclu- sive of about ^£20,000 deposited by 251 Friendly Societies, and 15 Charitable Institutions, The state of these Savings' Banks, on the 20th of Nov. 1829, was as follows : — SAVINGS* BANKS' INDIVIDUAL DEPOSITORS. FRIENDLY AND CHR. SOCIETIES. amounnt of deposits on nov. 20th, 1829. Nottingham Southwell Worksop Mansfield Newark Retford-— 3772 369 529 814 1228 743 169 3 22 47 9 16 £101,040 16 1 10,595 14 7k 29,498 16 9 32,039 5 10 45,306 4 5£ 27,167 7 9 Total 7455 266 £245,648 5 fy The Banks at Newark and Worksop were established in 1817* and the other in 1818. The population of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire has encreased since the year 1801, from 142,829 to 226,440 souls, as will be seen in the following table, which shows the number of persons in each division, according to the returns made to Parliament in the years 1801, 1821, and 1831. POPULATION SUMMARY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE & THE TOWN AND COUNTY OF TUB TOWN OF NOTTINGHAM. HUNDREDS, &c. 1801. 1 1821. j in 1831. PERSONS PERSONS MALES. FEMALES PERSONS Nottingham Town & Castle \ Liberties J Bassetlaw Hundred* Bingham Hundred .... 28,861 31,433 9,055 34,847 12,505 8,1G3 17,965 40,505 37,448 11,876 43,079 15,556 10,207 23,092 23,636 20,402 6,246 32,534 8,394 6,019 13,714 27,091 20,652 6,196 32,765 9,034 5,990 13,767 50,727 41,054 12,442 65,299 17,428 12,000 27,481 Rushcliffe Hundred Thuigarton Hundred • • ' Total 142,829 186,763 110,945 115,495 226,440 * The Bassetlaw and Thurgarton returns include the Libert?/ of Southwell and Scrooby. f The population of each parish in the county, will be shewn in separate tables, with the topographical and statistical description of the SIX HUNDREDS or WAPENTAKES. The total POPULATION OF ENGLAND & WALES in 1831, was 13,894,574; of Scotland, 2,365,807; and of the Army and Navy, 277,017, swelling- the aggregate number of souls in Great Britain, to 16,537,398; consisting of 8,161,618 o 62 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, males, and 8,375,780 fem,ales, and being an encrease since 1801, of no fewer than 5,594,752 souls! COURTS OF LAW. The Assizes are held twice a year, generally in the last weeks of February and July, at the County-Hall and Town-Hall, in Nottingham, where commissions of" Oyer and Terminer, and general Gaol Deliverv," are opened, both for the " Town and County of the Town," and for Nottinghamshire* The Quarter Sessions are held at Nottingham, Newark, Southwell, and Retford. Petty Sessions are held weekly, before the county magistrates, in all the market towns, and in a few of the vil- lages. The Corporate Magistrates of Nottingham, Retford, and Newark, hold separate Sessions for their respective boroughs. The County Court is held monthly at Nottingham, and the Court of the Honour of Peverel, weekly, at Lenton. — (See page 138.) The increase of population, and the influence of feudal lords, gave rise to Manorial Courts, which were granted to obviate the necessity of the tenants of a particular class being obliged to attend the Sheriff's Torn, or general Court Leet of the Hun- dred. Courts Leet and Baron are now held twice a year, for many of the manors in the county, before the stewards of their respective lords ; and by custom the leets of several manors may be held at once, in some certain place within one of the manors, The number of committals for crime, in the county, in 1810, amounted to 67, and in 1819, to 196; but it does not appear that vice is more prevalent here than in other districts of a similar description. The County Gaol is at Nottingham,, (see page 158,) and the House of Correction at Southwell. (See list o/ Executions at page 141 ; Luddism, page 102, and Reform Riots p. 109 to 115.) The Ecclesiastical Courts, which exercise jurisdiction here, are the Prerogative Court of York, within the Diocese and Province of which the whole county is included; and the Spiritual Court of the Archdeaconry of Nottingham, Probates of wills and letters of administration of persons dying within this archdeaconry, which is coextensive with the county, are granted at the Archdeaconry Office, in Nottingham, except for the rectorial manor of Mansfield, in which the Dean of Lin- coln holds a Peculiar Court, and has a registrar; but the original wills of the whole county are deposited in the Register, Office, in York. The Venerable Geo. Walking, D.D.* is the Archdeacon of Nottingham, and the Rev. John Staunton, L.L.D. is his official. C. G. Balguy, Esq. of Nottingham, is ihe regis- try; and Mr. Wm. Pearson, of East Redford, the apparitor, The Archdeacon holds his visitations yearly in the parish *Dr. W ilkira, vicar of Nottirghem, was elected Archdeacon in 1832, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 63 churches of Nottingham, Newark, Retford, and Bingham, where the clergy, churchwardens, &c. of the four Deaneries, bearing the names of those towns, are required to attend. (See page 145.) The Chapter of Southwell Collegiate Church have a peculiar jurisdiction over 23 parishes in the hundreds of Bas- setlaw and Thurgartoo, forming the Liberty of Southwell and Scrooby. (Vide p. 301 and 661.) The venerable Minster of Southwell is the mother church of Nottinghamshire, and in it are held two annual Synods, as has been seen at page 692. It has sixteen prebenda- ries, of whom the following is a list, shewing the years in which they were inducted, and the names and annual value of their respective prebends in the King's books. Chapter of Southwell. PREBENDARIES. PREBENDS. VAL. INDUC. William Dealtry, D.D Norwell Tertia .... 5 2 1785 Henry Smith, M. A North Lsverton .... 5 1807 Wm. Barrow, D.C.L Eaton 2 11 3 1815 ^GenFra^ 4 7 18i * Jas.Jarvis Cleaver, M. A Oxton 1st. med 22 19 7 1820 E. G. Marsh. M.A fVoodborough 9 17 11 1821 Rt. Chaplin, B.C. L. Norwell Pallis/iall ..27 19 7 1823 Ven. Geo. Wilkins, D.D.^ Qrmanton 26 6 1823 Archdeacon — S Chas. Nixon, M.A Segeston ] 2 6 1825 Frederick Anson, M.A Oxton Secunda ....24 10 1827 JohnRudd,M.A . ..Halloughton 8 17 6 1827 C. Bootbhv, M.A North Musk ham 32 5 3 1829 T. Percival, M.A . ....Dunham 23 11 4 1829 Fitzjerald Wintour, M.A. ..Rampton 15 17 11 1829 Thos. H. Shepherd, MA. ...Beekingham 16 15 10 1830 C. Vernon Harcourt, M.A... Norwell Overall 48 1 3 1830 Vicars Choral. Rd. Barrow B.D. | T. S. Basnet, M.A. C. Fowler, M.A. I R. H. Fowler, M.A. Jas. Foottit, B.A. | Jas. Foottit, jun. *** Of the 16 prebends, ten were established before and the following six, after the conquest, viz— Beckingham, Leverton, Dunham, Hallougton, Rampton, and Eaton. tit Except those of Woodbo rough and Segeston, the Prebendaries have the patronage of the parish churches which give name to their respective prebends.— The Chapter at large have the patronage of Aslacton, Barnby-in-the-Wil!ows, Bleasby, Edingley, Farnsfield, Halam, Kirklingt:n, Kneesall, Rolleston, S. Wheatley, and Upton, in Notts. ; Barnoldby-le-Beck, Beelsby, Brigsby, Hat- cliffe, Howerby, Beesby-in-the-Marsh, and Waltham, in Lincolnshire, and Barlborough, in Yorkshire, 64 N NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. PUBLIC OFFICERS OF THE COUNTY. {£3= The figures denote the time of election or appointment. Lord Lieutenant of the County, and Steward of the Forest of Sherwood* and Park of Folewood—Bis Grace the Duke of Newcastle. Members of Parliament, (for the County) John Savile Lumley, Esq. (1826) and John Evelyn Denison, Esq. (1831). High Sheriff, (for 1832) Henry Machon, Esq. Gateford Hill Under Sheriff, George Freeth, Esq. Nottingham Clerk of the Peace, E. S. Godfrey, Esq. Newark Clerk of the General Meetings of Lieutenancy, W, E. Tallents, Esq. Newark ; also Clerk of Sewers for the whole county County Treasurers, Mr. W. Sculthorpe, Nottingham, (1815) for the South Division, and Mr. John Mee, Retford, (1826) for the North Division Coroners, P. R. Falkner, Newark, (1825) and Cphr. Swann, Notting- ham, (1828) for the county. W. E. Tallents, for the borough of Newark ; John Mee, for East Retford ; G. H. & W . H. Bar- row, for the Liberty of Southwell and Scrooby ; and H. Enfield and J. Dunn, Esqrs. for the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham Stamp Distributor, George Smith, Esq. Nottingham. The Sub- Distributors are Thomas Beckett, Newark ; Robert Collinson, Mansfield ; Fras. Sissons, Worksop ; John Bradwell, South- well ; and George Thornton, Retford Surveyors of Taxes, Mr. John Jackson Nottingham, and Mr. S. Sketchley, Newark County Gaol, at Nottingham, Mr. R. B. Brierley, gaoler (1830) ; Mrs. Mary Cross, matron (1823) ; Rev. Robert Wood, D. D. chaplain; Mr. H. Oldknow, surgeon (1831) House of Correction, at Southwell, Mr. Matthew Mole, governor (1822); Mrs. Louisa Lee, matron (1822) ; Rev. Thomas Still Basnett, chaplain Peverel Court and Prison at Lenton.— (See p. 138) Archdeaconry Office, &c. —(See page 62) CHIEF CONSTABLES AND SURVEYORS 01? COUNTY BRIDGES, Bassetlaw Hundred, for the North Clay, Job Conworth, of Work- sop ; South Clay, Joseph Whitake, of Morton ; Hatfield Di- vision, George Cress well, of Retford, Bingham Hundred, North Divisio?i, John Pilgrim, of Shelford ; South Divisio?i, Samuel White, of Bingham * Verderers, &c. of Sherwood Forest.— (See page 41.)— There are now only two surviving verderers, viz. John Musters and William Wylde, Esqs., and it is expected that after their death the office will cease, in consequence of the crown having granted in 1818, the hays of Bitkland atid Bilhagh to the Duke of Portland, in exchange for the patronage of the chuich of Mary-le- Bonne, in Lon- don. In lieu of the Tree which each verderer used to receive annually out of these ancient woods, they have now £10 per annum each.— (Vide p. 416.) NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 65 Broxtow Hundred, North Division, William Cook, of Mansfield; South Division, John Wright, of Beeston. Newark Hundred, North Division, Edward Neale, South Division, Joseph Adams, both of Newark Rushcliffe Hundred, North Division, John Woodroffe, of East Stoke ; South Division, John Berridge, of Sutton Bonnington Thurgarton Hundred, North Division, Richard Esam, of Carlton-on- Trent ; South Division, Thomas Hind, of Bleasby SHERIFF'S OFFICERS. William Archer and Daniel Ward, Nottingham ; Richard Bell and Edward Daniels, Newark; Joseph Platts, Mansfield ; William Pearson, Retford.— (See also page 254.) MAGISTRATES. Launcelot Rolleston, Esq. of Watnall, Chairman. Beaumont Rev. T. East Bridge- ford Becher Rev. J. T. chairman of Newark and Southwell Sessions Bristowe S. E. Esq. Beesthorpe Bromley Sir Rt. Howe, Bart. Stoke Hall Claye Rev. Wm. Westhorpe Clay W. W. P. Esq. Southwell Clifton Sir Rt. Bt. Clifton (1821) Coape Henry, Esq. Sherwood Lodge (1818) Coke John, Esq. Debdale House Denison J. E. Esq. M. P. Ossing- ton Dickonson Peter, Esq W. Retford Edge T. W.Esq. Strelley (1821) Fullerton John, Esq. Forest Hill Gardiner J. G.C.Esq. Thurgarton Godfrey T. S. Esq. Beaconfield Hall Francis, Esq. Park Hall HandleyW. F. Esq. M.P. Newark Heron Sir Robert, Bart, Stubton, Lincolnshire Ho lcombe Rev. George, D.D. West Leake HoldenRt. Esq. Nuthall Temple Kelham R. K. Esq. Bleasby KirkeWm. Esq. Retford, (1827) Knight Henry Galley Esq. M.P. Lango!ds,near Worksop Yorks Lee James, Esq. West Retford Lowe Rev. Robert, Bingham Martin H. Esq. Colston Basset Mason Rev. Geo. Cuckney, 1820 Middleton Lord, Wollaton Miles William, Esq. M. P. (1830) Musters John, Esq. Colwick Musters J. G. C. Wiverton Need John Esq. Mansfield Woodh Neville Christphr, Esq. Thorney Nixon Thomas Esq. Papplewick Norton W. F. N. Esq. Elton Padley Rt. Esq. Burton Joyce Pocklington Joseph, Esq. Carl- ton on-Trent Portland Duke of, Welbeck Rudd Rev. John, Blyth, Chair- man of Retford Sessions Sherwin J. S. Esq. Bramcote,1830 Simpson H. B. Esq. Babworth Simpson John, Esq. Babworth Sotheron Vice-Admiral, F., Kirk- lington Staunton Rev. Dr. Staunton Steade E. V. Winkbourne Storer Rev. John, Hawkesworth Surrey Earl of, Worksop Manor TaylorWm. Esq. R ate liffe, (1826) Tiffin Rev. Wm. Mattersev Vernon G. H. Esq. M. P. Grove (1826) Walker Henry, Esq. Blyth Wescomb J. E. Esq. Thrumpton, (1828) Wildman T. Esq.Newstead, (1828 Wright J. S. Esq. Upton Wright Thomas, Esq, Rempston Wylde William, Esq. Southwell Youle Rev. Abrm. East Retford o 2 66 PEERS OF PARLIAMENT, WHO HAVE SEATS IN THE COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAM, WITH THE DATE OF THETR CREATION.— (SEE P. 29.) 1483. Duke of Norfolk, &c. the Most Noble Bernard Edward Howard, Worksop Manor 171 6. Duke of Portland, the Most Noble William Henry Caven- dish Scott-Bentinck, Welbeck Abbey 1756. Duke of Newcastle, &c. the Most Noble Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, Clumber House 1690. Earl of Scarborough ; the Right Hon. and Rev. John Lum- ley Savile (Saunderson) succeeded to this title in June, 1832, since nearly all the following sheets were printed. — He and his son have cut off the entail of the Rufford Estate, and annexed it to that of the late Earl of Scarborough. — (See p. 439.) His seats are at Sandbeck, Yorkshire, and Edwinstow and Rufford, Nottinghamshire 1806. Earl Manvers, the Right Hon. Charles Herbert Pierrepont, Thoresby Hall 1712. Lord Middleton, the Right Hon. Henry Willoughby, Wol- laton Hall PEERS NOT OF PARLIAMENT. 1727* Viscount Galway, (of Scotland,) Right Hon. Wm. George Monkton Arundel, Serlby Hall 1795. Lord Rancliffe, (of Ireland,) Right Hon. Augustus Henry Anne Parkyns, Bunny Park ELDEST SONS OF PEERS. Marquis of Titchfield, (son of the Duke of Portland,) Welbeck Earl of Sivrrey, (son of the Duke of Norfolk,) Worksop Manor Earl of Lincoln, (son of the Duke of Newcastle,) Clumber Viscount Nevjark, (son of Earl Manvers,) Thoresby Viscount Althorp, (son of Earl Spencer,) Wiseton Hall HONOURABLES. Hon. Geo. Cavendish Scott-Bentinck, Welbeck Abbey Hon. John Bridgeman Simpson, (brother of the Earl of Bradford,) Babworth Hall Hon. Granville Harcourt Vernon, M. P. Grove Hall ; and the Hon. and Rev. J. Venables Vernon, Kirkby Rectory ; are sons of the Archbishop of York Hon. Bridget Monkton, Dowager Countess Galway, Bawtry Hall Hon. Capt. Arthur Duncombe, (son of Lord Feversham,) Bishopfield Hon. Anna Maria, Dowager Duchess of Newcastle, Ranby Hall Hon. Ann Pierrepont, Dowager Countess Manvers, Holm Pierrepont Lady Jane Paikyns, Ruddington I Lady C. Warren, Stapleford Hall Lady Elizabeth White, Tuxford | Lady C. Sherbrooke, Calverton BARONETS. Sir Robert Clifton, Bart. Clifton, near Nottingham Sir Robert Howe Bromley, Bart. Stoke Hall Sir Robert Heron, Bart. Stubton, near Newark, Lincolnshire Sir Thomas Woolaston White, Bart. Wallingwells Sir Richard Sutton, Baft. Norwood Park 67 SEATS OF THE NOBILITY, GENTRY, AND CLERGY IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 03 s To avoid swelling this List, Gentlemen's Villas in the suburbs of Market Towns are not inserted here, but will be found sub- joined to the Names of their Occupiers, in the Directories of the respective Towns and Parishes. Annesley Hall, 6 m. S.S.W. of Mansfield, J. Musters, Esq Averham,3 m. N.W, of Newark, Rev. Robert Chaplin, B.C.L. Arnot Hill, 3 m. N. of Nottingham, Thomas Panton, Esq Arnot Vale, near ditto, Mrs. Elizabeth Bigsby Aspley Hal!, 2 m. N.W. of Nottingham, W. S. Burnside, Esq Balderton, 2 m. S.E. of Newark, G. Marriott, Esq Babworth Hall, 2 m. W. of Retford, Hon. J. B. Simpson Barnby Moor, 3 m. N.W. of Retford, Samuel Barker, Esq. and Michael Wynne Thorold and John Darcy Clark, Gents Bawtry Hall, 9 m. N. bv W. of Retford, Dowager Countess Galway Beaconfield, 2 m. E. of 'Newark, T. S. Godfrey, Esq Beckingham, 3 m. W. of Gainsbro', Robert Cross, and Thomas Massingberd, Esqrs Beesthorpe, 6 J m. N.W. of Newark, Wm. Miles, Esq. M.P. Besthorpe, 8 m. N.N.E. of Newark, Mrs. Naylor Berry Hill, 1| m. S.S.E. of Mansfield, Mrs. Walker, gent Beskwood Hall, 5 m. N. of Nottingham, Thomas Redgate, Esq Biggins House, 1 m. N. of Retford, George Kippax, Esq Bilsthorpe, 5 m. S. of Ollerton, Rev. Henry Gordon, M.A. Bishopfield, 2 m. S. of Bawtry, Hon. Arthur Duncombe Bleasby, 4 m. S. of Southwell, Rt. K. Kelham, Esq Blyth Hall, 3 m. S. S. W. Bawtry, Major Gen. Sir H. Bouverie Biyth Spittal, 3% m. S. S. W. of Bawtry, John Bradley, Esq Brackenhurst, 1| m. S. S. W. of Southwell, Rev. Thos. C. Cane. Bramcote, 5 m. W. by S. of Nottingham, H.Mundy, and C.Wright, Esqrs. and Mrs.C. Longden Bramcote Hills, near ditto, John S. Sherwin, Esq Bridgeford, (East,; 3 m, N. of Bingham, P. Brooke and P. Palmer. Esqrs. Rev. Thomas Beaumont, and Rev. Rd. W. Hutchins Biidgeford (West,) Hall, 2. m. S. of Nottingham, Mrs. Smith Brook Hill, 7 m. S. W. of Mansfield, Rev. D'Ewes Coke Broughton Cottage, 10 m. S. S. W. of Bingham, Colonel Wright Bulcote Lodge, 7 m. N. E. of Nottingham, Robert W. Padley, Gent BulwellHall, 4|m. N.N.W. of Nottingham, Rev. A. Padley Bunney Park, 7 3 m. S. of Nottingham, Lord Rancliffe Burton Joyce, 6^ m. N. E. of Nottingham, Rt. Padley, Esq. and Misses Jamson 63 8EAT8 IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Carcolston, 2 m. N. N. E. of Bingham, Rev. Rt. Ffarmeric Calverton, 7 m. N. N. E. of Nottingham, Lady Sherbrooke, and Capt. E. A. Cotton Carlton Hall, 3J m. N. of Worksop, Robert Ramsden, Esq Carlton, 3£ m. N. of Worksop, Rev. C. W. Eyre, M. A. CarHon-on-Trent, 7 m. N. of Newark, Roger Pocklington, Esq. and George W. Hutton, Esq Caunton Manor, 6 m. N.W. of Newark, Samuel Hole, Esq Chilwell Hall,. 5 m. W.S.W. Nottingham, Owen Davies, M.D. Clayworth, 6 m. S.E. Of Bawtry, Frederick Davenport, Esq. Thomar Colton, Esq. and Rev. Thomas Henry Shepherd, M. A. Clifton Hall, 4 m. S.W. of Nottingham, Sir Robert Clifton, Bart Clumber House, 3 J m. S.E. of Worksop, Duke of Newcastle, and his son the Earl of Lincoln, M.P. Cock Glode, 1 m. W. of Ollerton, Col. Henry Lumley Saville Colston Hall, 5 m. S. of Bingham, Henry Martin, Esq Colwick Hall, ljm. E. of Nottingham, John Musters, Esq Costock, 9£ m.S. of Nottm., S. B. Wild, Esq. & Rev. W. Beetham Cotgrave Place, 6 m. S. E. of Nottingham, Rt. Burgess, gent Cromwell, 5 ra. N.of Newark, Rev. C. J.F. Clinton Cuckney, 5 m. S. S. W. of Worksop, Revs. G. Mason & E. Palling Daybrook House, 3 m. N. of Nottm. Mark Dennison, Esq Debdale House, If m. S. E. of Mansfield, J. Coke, Esq Eakring, 4 m. S. E. of Ollerton, Rev. Theops. Sampson Easthorpe, £m. E. of Southwell, Capt. Trebeck & W.C. May, Esq Eaton Hall, 2 m. S. of Retford, H. B. Simpson, Esq Edwinstow, 2 m. W. of Ollerton, Earl of Scarborough, and Rev. John Cleaver, L. L. B. Elksley, 4 m. S. by W. of Retford, Robert Sharpe, Esq Elms, (The) f m. S. of Retford, John Kippax, Esq Elston Hall, 5 m. S. S. W. of Newark, W. B. Darwin, Esq Elton Manor, 4 m. E. by S. of Bingham, W. F. N. Norton, Esq Everton, 3 m. E. by S. of Bawtry, Rt. D. Otter, Esq. and Rev. R. Evans Farndon Hall, 2 m. S. W. of Newark, Edw. Buck,& W. Brockton, Farnsfield, 4 m. N. W. of Southwell, E. Howit, and W. Houlds- worth, Esqrs. Finningley, 3 m. N. by E. of Bawtry, Rev. J. Harvey, L. L. B. Finningley Park, 3 m. N.of Bawtry, Edward B. Beaumont, Esq Forest Hill, 2 m. N. of Worksop, J. Fullerton, and H. W. Pickard, Flintham Hall, 7 m. S. W. of Newark, Mrs. Hildyard Fountaindale, 3J m. S. E. of Mansfield, General Samuel Need Gamston, 3 m. S. of Retford, Rev. Joshua Brooke, B. D. Fiskerton, 3 m. S. E. of Southwell, Thomas Bolger, Esq. Gateford Hill, 2 m. N. W. of Worksop, Henry Machon, Esq. Gedling House, 4 m. N. E. of Nottingham, W. E. Elliott, Esq. Gedling, 3£ m. N. E. of Nottingham, George Walker, Esq. and the Rev. Charles Williams. Hawkesworth, 4 m. N. E. of Bingham, Rev. J. Storer Gourton, A\ m. S. of Southwell, Thomas Hind, gent Grove Hall, 3 m. S. E. of Retford, Anthony Hardolph Eyre, Esq. and the Hon. Granville Harcourt Vernon. Hemshill, 4 ra. N. W. by N. of Nottm. Samuel Bolton, Esq. SEATS IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 69 Hesley Hall, 2 m. N. W. of Bawtry, H. Marwood Greaves, Esq. Hexgrave Park, 5 m. N. N. VV. of Southwell, Edward Werg, and Richard Milward, Esqrs. Hodsock Priory, 2 m. S. by W. of Blyth, Mrs. Ann Chambers Hodsock Park, 2 m. W. of Blyth, John Shuttleworth, Esq Holme, 3{ m. N. of Newark, Thos. Ad wick, gent Holme-Pierrepont, 5 m. E. by S. of Nottingham, Dowager Countess Manvers, and the Rev. J. C. Cleaver Hoveringham Hall, 5 m. S. bv W. of Southwell, Col. Huthwaite Kelham Hall, 2 m. N. W. of 'Newark, Mrs. & J. M. Sutton, Esq Kirkby Hardwick,o m. S. W. of Mansfield, T. Clarke, Esq Kirkby Rectory, near ditto, Hon. &Rev. J. V. Vernon Kirklington Hall,2f m. N. W. of Southwell, Vice Adml. Sotheron Kirton, 3 m. S. W, of Tuxford,Rev. Joseph Blandford Lamb-close House, 8 m. N. W. of Nottm., T. F. P. H. Barber, Esq Lambley Hall, 7 m. N. E. of Nottingham, Rev. A. D. Flamstead Lamcote, 5| m. E. by S. of Nottingham, J. Wright, Esq Langar Hall, 4 m. S. of Bingham, (unoccupied) Langford House, 4 m, N. N. E. of Newark, S. Duncnmbe, Esq Langold, near Worksop, H. G. Knight, Esq. M. P. Langwith Hall, 8 m. N. of Mansfield, R. N, Sutton, Esq Leake. (East) 10 m. S. by W, of Nottingham, J. WoodrorTe, gent Leake, (West) 10 m. S. S. W. of Nottm., Rev. G. Holcombe, D>D. Lenton Hall, 2 m. W. S. W. of Nottingham, J. Wright. Esq. ; Len- ton Grove, Mrs. Dorothy Evans ; Lenton Fields, M. Needham, Esq.; Lenton Firs, Dr. Storer ; Lenton Priory, Thos. Jerram Linby, 8 m. N. by W. of Nottingham, Richard Hopper, Esq Lound, 3 m. N. N. W. of Retford, Henry Bagshaw, Esq Mansfield Woodhouse, Edmund Sykes Esq. and Col. Need Mantles, 1 m. E. of Blythe, Thomas Crofts, Esq Mapperley, 1| m. N. of Nottingham, Ichabod Wright, Esq Markham. (East) 1 m. N. of Tuxford, John Rose, Esq Markham, (West) 2 m. N. W. of Tuxford, Rev. E. H. Dawkens Mattersey, 4 m. S. E. of Bawtry, Rev. Wm. Tiffin, and Benjamin Fearnly, Esq. ; Mrs. Honor Graham and Mrs. Eliz. Clarke Mirfield Hall, 1 m. N. of Tuxford. Mrs. Frances Cartwright Misterton, 5 m. N. W. of Gainsborough, Robert Corringham, Esq Muskham House, (unoccupied) Muskham, 4 m. N. of Newark, Capt. Worsley, and J. Handley, Esq Nethergreen, 8 m. N.W. of Nottingham, G. Walker. Esq Nettleworth Hall, 3J m. N. by E. of Mansfield. Major Bielbie Newark, E. S. Godfrey, and W. F. Handley, Esqrs Newstead Abbey, 5 m. S. of Mansfield, Colonel Wildman Niagara Cottage, 6 m. W. by S. of Nottingham, Capt. Sleigh Normanton Hills, 12 m. S. by W. of Nottm. J. Buckley, Esq Norwood Park, 1 m. N.W. of Southwell, Sir Rd. Sutton, Bart Normanton-on-Trent. 4 m. S.E. of Tuxford, Rev. W. Doncaster Notthigham.—See Miscellaneous List, (p. 261 to 272,) Ven. Arch- deacon Wilkins, D.D. Nuthall Temple, 4£ m. N.N.W. of Nottingham, Rt. Holden, Esq Orston Hall, 6 m. E. bv N. of Newark, Mrs. Middlemore Osberton Hall, 3 m. N.E. of Worksop, G. S. Foljambe, Esq Ossington Hall, 4 m. S. by E. of Tuxford, J. E. Denison, Esq.M.P 70 SEATS IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Oxton Hall, 5 m. S.W. of Southwell, Mrs. Sherbrooke Papplewick Hall, 6 m. S. of Mansfield, Thomas Nixon, Esq Park Hall, 3 m. N. of Mansfield, Francis Hall. Esq Pleasley Hill, 3 m. N.N.W. of Mansfield, S. Siddon, Esq PJumptre, 6 m. S. of Nottingham, Rev. J. Burnside Ranby Hall, 4 m. N.W. of Retford, Dwgr. Duchess of Newcastle Ranby House, 3 m. W. by N. of Retford, John Rogers, Esq Ratcliffe-on -Trent, 6 m. E, by S. of Nottingham, Rev. Henry Bolton, and Wm. Taylor, Esq Redhill, 9 m. S.W. of Nottingham, Tsrael Chamberlin, Esq Rempston Hall, 11 m. S. of Nottingham, J. Smith Wright, Esq. ; and Rempston Cottage, J. Hunter, Esq Retford (East,) W. Kirke, John Parker, John Holmes, F. A. S. ; Rd. Hutchinson, Frans. T. Foljambe, and Geo. Creswell, Esqrs Retford (West,) 7| m. E. by N. of Worksop, Peter Dickonson, Esq. James Lee, Esq. and the Rev. Abraham Youle Ruddington, 5 m. S. of Nottingham, Lieut.-Genl. John Grey, Lady Jane Parkyns ; Thomas Moore, and Chas. Paget, Esqrs Rufford Abbey, 2 m. S. of Ollerton, Earl of Scarborough Scarrington, 2J m. E.N.E. of Bingham, H. Flower, Esq Serlby Hall, 3 m. S. by W. of Bawtry, Viscount Galway Sheltbn Hall, 7 m. S. of Newark, Major Hall Sherwood Hall, (Racing) near Mansfield, T. Kouldsworth, Esq. M.P. Sherwood Lodge, 7 m. N. of Nottingham, Co!. S. Coape Skegby Hall, 3 m. W. of Mansfield, J. Dodsley, Esq Southwell, William Wylde, Esq. W. W. P. Clay, Esq. and the Rev. J.T. Becher Standard Hill, near Notm. Danl. Freeth, Esq. & Rev. John Kirkby Stanford Hall, 11 J m. S. of Nottingham, Rev. Samuel Dashwood Stapleford Hall, 6 m. W. by S. of Nottingham, Lady Warren Staunton Hall, 7 ni. S. of Newark, Rev. J. Staunton, LL.D. Stockwith, 4 m. N.W. of Gainsborough, Wm. Walton, Esq Stoke Hall, 4 m. S.W. of Newark, Sir Rt. H. Bromley, Bart Strelley Hall, 5 m. W. by N. of Nottingham, T. W. Edge, Esq Strelley Rectory, near do. Rev. John Webb Edge Sutton Hall, 3 m. S.W. of Mansfield, S. Woolley, Esq. Sutton Manor, 11 m. S.S.W. of Nottingham, Geo. Paget, Esq Syerston Hall, 7 m« S.W. of Newark, G. Fillingham, Esq Thoresby Hall. 3 m. N. by W. of Ollerton, Earl Manvers, and Vis. Newark, M.P. Thorney Hall. 8 miles E. of Tuxford, Capt. Nevill Thrumpton Hall, 8 miles, S.W. of Nottm. J. E. Westcomb, Esq Thurgarton Priory, 3 m. S. by W. of Newark, Wm. Martin, Esq Tollerton Hall, 4£ m. S.S.E. of Nottingham, P. Barry, Esq Tuxford, Lady Eliz. White; and Rev. Edw. B. Elliott, A.M. Upton Hall, 2 J m. E. by S. of Southwell, Thomas Wright, Esq Walkeringham, 4 m. N.W. of Gainsbro', Rev. J. K. Miller Wallingwells, 4 m. N. by W. of Worksop, Sir T. W. White, Bart Watnall 6 m. N.W. of Nottingham, C. and L. Rolleston, Esqrs Warsop 5 m. N. by E. of Mansfield, Rev. S. Marten Welbeck Abbey, 3£ m. S. of Worksop, Duke of Portland, and bit son, the Marquis of Titchfield. Welham Hall, 1 J m. E. by N. of Retford, H. C. Hutchinson, Esq V 8EATS IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 71 Welham House, 1£ m. E. of Retford, Geo. Mower, Esq Wellow Bar, 1 m. S.E. of Ollerton, Richard Parkinson, Esq Westhorpe, 1 m . W. of Southwell, Rev. Wm. Claye White Moor, 2 m. N. of Ollerton, Wm. John Pickin, Esq Widmerpool, 9 miles S.S.E. of Nottingham, Rev. J. Robinson Wigthorpe, 3 m. N. of Worksop, John Man waring, Esq Wilford, 2 m. S. of Nottingham, Henry Smith, Esq. ; Rt. Leeson, Esq. and Rev. Thomas Thorpe Winkbourne, 3 rn. N. by E. of Southwell, P. P. Burnell, and E. V, Steade, Esqrs Winthorpe Hall, 3 m. N. of Newark, (unoccupied) Wiseton Hall, 5 m. S.S.E. of B aw try, Hon. Viscount Althorp Wiverton Hall, 2£ m. S. of Bingham, J. G. C. Musters, Esq Wollaton Hall, 3 m. W. of Nottingham, Lord Middleroa Wollaton House, 3 m. W. of Nottingham, Col. Hancock Woodhouse Place, J m. E. of Mansfield, W. A. Smith, Esq Worksop, 8 m. W. by S. of Retford, Francis Roe, Esq •• Wpodborough Hall, 8 m. S.W. of Southwell, Wm. Worth, Esq Worksop Manor, 1 m. S. of Worksop, Duke of Norfolk and Eari Surrey APPENDIX TO THE NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY, Consist ingoj 'changes which have taken place since the names were first collected. Asylum, Carlton rd. Mr. Thos. Powell, director, Andw. Blake, physician Barber Richard Gresham, coal merchant, Jrongate wharf Barker Geo. vict. Carrington st BarrettW.plasterer,Glasshouse st I Barwick Samuel, chair maker, j Middle Sneinton Beardsall John, Huntsman's Ta- vern, Broad st Beighton William & Co. tatting i manufacturers, Castlegate Bell Jas. grocer. Hollow stone Bonsor Alex, carver, Park st Booth Jas. & W. Raworih, jun. ! coal mercht. Bridge st Bosworth G. & C. hosiery mfr. j Clinton st Boulougne & Co. lace merchants, Church st Brewster Geo. draper, Long row Bullock Horatio Nelson, book- seller, &c. Parliament st Burrows Thos. straw hat maker, hosier & glover, Carlton st Burton J. shoemaker, Pelham sfc Carver & Son, hosiers. Market st Carver Wm. bksmith, Vassal 6t Chandler W r m. confee. Pilchergt Chimley Ed. miller, Canal St. & baker, Derby road Clarke John, vict Artichoke, Highcross st Clarke Thos. solr. Broadmarsh Cockayne John, butcher, & beer- house. Parliament st Cole Geo. schoolmr. Parhut st Col ton Jph. small ware dealer, Parliament st Coope Jas. solicitor, Castlegate Coupland G. lace mfr. Mount st Cox J. watch mkr. New Lenton Cox Gorge, Horse & Trumpet, Trumpet st Crisp Danl. shoemkr. Carlton st Crofts W. bobbin net mkr. b. Geo. st. New Radford Dale Rd. ale and porter mercht, Swann's j-ard, Long row Daniel Thos. auctioneer, china and glass dlr. Bridlesmitbgate 2 NOTTINGHAM APPENDIX. Darby Augustus, surgeon, Tollst Dawson Hy. grocer, Carrington st Deakin Jonathan, hosiery manfr. Swann's yard, Long row Dean Thos. turner, Talbot yard Etches John, watch maker, Car- rington st Felkin & Vickers, general agents, Clinton st Fisher & Co. bobbin net makers, George st. New Radford Fletcher Jph. grocer, Beck st Fowler Geo. packing case maker, Point ct. Park st Frearson and Vickers, lace mfrs. Clinton st Freeman and Co. lace mfrs. Pil- chergate Gadsby Jas. vict. Hyson green Gillham & Co. hatters, High st Gimson Thos. F. lace mfr. Bri- dlesmithgate Golling T. baker, Carrington st Hamerton Wm. vict. East st Heathcoat& Co. lace mfrs. Clin- ton st Hind T. and Co. lace mfrs. Stoney street Hodgkinson'Jno. vict. Count st Home Wm. vict. Broadmarsh Hunt Thos. glover, Carlton st Husband Rd. confr. Warsergate Hutchinson T. dentist, Goosegt Huthersall J. schoolr. Houndsgt James Rt. painter, Broad st Jerram Saml. draper, South prd Jones &Dent, lace mfrs. W arse rgt Kendall & Shenk, lace manufac- turers, Churchgate Kirk John, lace mfr. Castlegate Kitelee T. surgeon, Haughton st Lambert Rd. net mfr. Hollow stone Langham Geo. beer hs. Derby rd Levers John machine mkr. New Lenton Levick G. & R. lace mfrs. High Pavement Lewis Rd. S. lace mfr. Castlegt Lowe C. & J. lace mfrs. Mount si Massey Isaac, surgeon, dispen- sary, Goosegate Morley John, lace mfr. Castlegt Nottingham News Room, Pelham street, estab. June 18, 1832 Onn John, painter, Castlegate Page Jph. Jas. & Jas. lace mfrs. Standard hill Palmer Geo. hair cutter & cutler, Pelham st Payne & Daft, solrs. Poultry Preston , lace mfr. Stoney st Reinbeck Fk. lace mfr. Kendal st Renshaw Rupert, vict. Albion Hotel, New Lenton Rigley and Johnson, solrs. Long row Roberts T. jun. & Co. lace mfrs. Plumptre place Sanderson Thos. lace thread agt. Stoney st Sheldon John, silver plate manfr. and hardware dlr. Carlton st Shelton Jas. grocer and chandler, Middle Sneinton Shipham Jno. grocer, Parliament street, E Simpson Ed. wheelt. Derby road Skinder Jas. vict. Market st Slater SI. lace mfr. Stretton's yd Smith Stephen, rope mfr, Parlt st Smith J. & W. cabinet makers, South parade Southam Jno. agent, Spaniel row Stagey & Ward livery stable and coach proprietors," Castlegate Staveley Ed. gl, agt. Stoney st Steegman Hy. lace mfr. Halifax place Sutton Jas. & Co. carriers, (late Rt. Marshall,) and salt merts. London rd. & Commerce st Thorp Hy. lace mfr. Market st Wagg Thos. beerhs. Goosegate Waine Avery, brushmkr. Goosegt Ward John, vict. Warsergate Warner Saml. register office, and library, Houndagate Waton Wm. baker, Wheelergate Webster Ralph, saddler, Biidle- smithgate Wells John, draper, Cheapside Wheatley Jas. agent, Granbyst Whitworth, J. joiner, Canal st Windley Thos. dyer, Mortimer st Woodhouse John, vict. York st HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND COUNTY OF THE TOWN OF NOTTINGHAM. Nottingham, the principal seat and emporium of the lace and hosiery manufactures, is an ancient, populous, and well- built market and borough town, forming- with its precincts a county of itself, as well as being the capital of the shire and archdeaconry to which it gives name, in the diocese of York, and in the midland circuit of England. It occupies a picturesque situation, on the rocky eminence which rises in broken decli- vities, and in some places in cragged precipices, above the north bank of the small river called the Leen, which, at a short distance to the south-east, falls into the more magnificent stream of the Trent, near the opposite locks of the Grantham and Nottingham canals, and a little below that venerable and noble structure the Trent bridge, which is connected with Nottingham by a flood road, raised at an immense expense above the inter- vening meadows, which in rainy seasons are subject to inunda- tion. It holds a central situation between Newcastle-upon- Tyne and Portsmouth to the north and south, and betwixt Newcastle-under-Lyme and Boston to the east and west ; being in the south-western division of Nottinghamshire, at the junction of the hundreds of Broxtow, Thurgarton, and Rush- cliffe; distant 125 miles N. by W, of London, 80 miles S. of York, 20 miles S. W. by W. bf Newark, 14 miles S. of Mans- field, 15 miles E. by N. of Derby, 27 miles N. of Leicester, and 38 miles S. by E. of Sheffield; and is in 53 degrees north latitude, and in 1 deg. 13 min. west longitude from the meridian of Greenwich. 74 HISTORY OF The approach to the town, on any side, is particularly striking to the traveller, and it may be justly said that there is perhaps no town in the kingdom which appears under such a variety of aspects, as this does, from its different points of view. The tourist, who arrives by the London road, is delighted, on de- scending Ruddington hill, with a view of the fertile vale of the Trent, bounded on the north by the august rock on which the town stands, with the castle on a lofty precipitous hill to the left, the long range of buildings gradually sinking into the plain to the right, and the whole, crowned by the graceful tower of St. Mary's, and terminated, on the west, by the lofty receding hills of Sneinton and Mapperley,* and on the east by the re- cently formed semicircular terrace-road of the castle park, now lined with elegant mansions, gardens, and pleasure-grounds, which add greatly to the beauty of the scene, — the foreground of which consists of luxuriant pastures, skirted by the Trent and the canal, and by numerous wharfs, warehouses, and ma- nufactories. If the traveller comes by the eastern side, from the Newark road, the whole mass of building is then foreshort- ened, the tower of St. Mary's and the castle appearing nearly as one edifice, whilst in the vale below he has a full view of the long extended line of the Trent and flood bridges, and on his right is seen the perpendicular rocks and caves of Sneinton, in which are many grotesque dwellings, occupied by industrious families, and enlivened in front by shady arbours and hanging gardens. If he enters from the north, by the Mansfield road, after rising the hill above the race-ground, the whole view bursts upon his astonished sight as if by enchantment ; — he finds himself in a long and spacious road, lined with handsome and newly-built houses, descending to the town, beyond -which he sees the vale of the Trent as if on a map, and still further in the distance, the extensive vale of Belvoir, skirted by the Lei- cestershire hills. The western approach, by the Derby road, is completely different from the others. On passing Wollaton park, (the delightful seat of Lord Middleton,) the castle, with its commanding cliffs boldly starting from the verdant swells of the park, is a near and prominent object; and extending from it are seen the handsome villas and gardens which line the ter- race walk of the Park, and appear to have recently arisen on the site of the ancient ramparts that once circumambulated the town. On the opposite side of the park are seen the barracks, which appear to form a town of themselves, and to the north- west lies the Forest, having its higher verge studded with a long line of windmills, and in its centre the race-course and * Altitude of the Principal Hills, Arc. (in and near Nottingham,) above the level of the river Lcen -.—Castle yard, 110 feet ; Castle parapets, 171 ; St. Mary's church steeple parapets, 182; Park hill and Bowling-alley hill, 188; Gallows hill, top of Mansfield road, 166; top of Derby road, 168; Sneinton hill, on foot road to Gedling. 266 ; Mapperley hills, Beskwood park, and Red hill, 340 feet : NOTTINGHAM. 75 cricket-ground ; and near its southern and western limits, the populous new villages which have arisen during the last ten years in the parishes of Radford and Basford, as others have done in the parishes of Sneinton and Lenton, adjoining the op- posite limits of the pasture and meadow lands which nearly surround Nottingham, and cannot be built upon, owing to their being subject, by ancient grant, to the depasturage of the burgesses. In most of the houses, both in the adjacent villages and in the town, are heard the busy sounds of industry — the noise of the stocking frames and lace machines ; except in the principal streets, which contain many good houses, hand- some public buildings, and well-stocked shops, with a commo- dious Market-place, that in extent, beauty, and convenience, lias not its equal in the kingdom. Nottingham, according to Deering, can claim as a town of note, the age of 920 years ; as a considerable borough, 780; as a Mayor's town, 537, (being only a century posterior to the metropolis;) as a Parliamentary borough, during which it has constantly sent two representatives, 540 ; and as a county of itself, a period of 382 years, up to the year 1832. Its POPULATION/ which is the best criterion of its growing prosperity as a manufacturing and commercial town, has, during the last thirty years, nearly doubled itself, and the increase would have been much greater, if the 12,000 acres of burgess pasture lands, which nearly encompass the town, could have been sold or leased for building purposes. Within the last ten years, almost every vacant piece of ground in the town, that was suitable and available for the erection of houses and manufactories, has been built upon ; — no fewer than 3617 houses having been erected during that period, and the number of inhabitants swelled from 40,505, to 50.727. The free pas- tures, which prevent the further extension of the town itself, have driven the insatiable spirit of commercial speculation into the neighbouring parishes, in several of which population and buildings have increased more than fourfold since the year 1801, so that now, within a circuit of four miles round the Market-place, we can number upwards of 80,000 souls, of whom upwards of 64,000 live in Nottingham, Radford, and Sneinton parishes, the buildings in which are so closely connected by modern erections on the Derby and Southwell roads, as to form but one town, though in separate jurisdictions. About the year 1041, in the reign of Edward the Confessor, Nottingham had only 192 men, who, in the ravages of William the Conqueror, were reduced to 136, though there were then in the town 217 houses. In 1377? when the poll tax was levied, '.here were in the town 1447 lay persons, of fourteen years of ige and upwards ; of whom fourpence per head was collected in upport of that odious impost, which caused the rebellion of Wat Tyler. As one third of the people were supposed to con- 76 HISTORY OF sist of clergy, mendicants, and children under fourteen years of age, the total population at that period was about 2170. — The registering- of burials at the three parish churches of Not- tingham, commenced at St. Mary's in 1567, at St. Peter's in 1572, and at St. Nicholas's in 1562; and the total number of funerals annually at these churches was then only about 70 ; but we find no certain data whereby to estimate the number of inhabitants, till 1739, when they were found to amount to 9990. In 1779> according to Lowe's Agricultural Survey, there were 17,711 persons, 3556 families, and 3191 houses in the town; and the number of burials at that time averaged upwards of 650 annually. In 1793, Sir Richard Sutton surveyed the town, and found it to contain 25,000 souls. The great increase which has taken place during the last thirty years, in the three pa- rishes of St. Mary, St. Nicholas, and St. Peter, and in the extra- parochial districts called Brewhouse Yard, Standard Hill, the Park, and the Castle, will be clearly seen in the following table, together with the population of Radford and Sneinton, the two parishes which, though in the hundreds of Broxtow and Thur- garton, may be considered as suburbs of Nottingham. POPULATION OF NOTTINGHAM AND ITS SUBURBS, According to the Parliamentary Returns, made in the years 1801, 1811, 1821, and 1831. The three parishes form the town and county of the town, and tile- ex ira parochial places the liberties of the Castle. NOTTINGHAM. 1801. 1811. 1821. In July, 1831. Pers. 22654 3415 2732 60 Pers. 27371 3823 2839 107 223 Pers. 32712 4117 3361 90 225 Hous. 8637 1152 1097 21 86 Fams. 8543 1142 1132 20 80 Pers. 39539 5447 5220 80 441 St. Nicholas's parish « St. Peter's parish Brewhouse Yard, (extra par.) • • ^ Standard Hill, the Park, and > the Castle, (extra par.)- ..... J Total of Town & Castle Lib. • • Radford par. (Broxtow hund.) • • Sneinton par. (Thurgartonhund.) 28861 2269 558 34363 3446 967 40505 4806 1212 10992 2073 812 10917 2034 800 50727 9806 3567 Grand total of Town & Subs.- • 3C688 38777 46523 13878 13751 64100* The males above 20 years of age, in the parishes of St. Mary, St. Nicholas, and St. Peter, amount to 12,524, of whom 4740 are employed in manufactures, and in making machinery ; 4545 in retail trade and handicraft; 720 in mercantile or professional pursuits ; 1606 as porters, boatmen, and labourers ; 61 occu- piers of land; 172 agricultural labourers; 407 superannuated, * Of the 64,100 persons, 30,088 are males, and 34,112 females. NOTTINGHAM. 77 retired, or infirm ; and 98 household servants. The number of female servants amounted to 1361. In Radford parish, which includes the populous villages of New Radford, Bloomsgrove, Hyson Green, Kensington, Bob- ber's Mill, Aspley, and Old Radford, the number of families is 2034, of whom 1486 are employed in trade and manufactures, 37 in agriculture, and 528 otherwise engaged or unemployed. The household servants amount to 15 males and 210 females. Sneinton parish includes Old Sneinton, New Sneinton, Mid- dle Sneinton, and the Hermitage, and has 900 males upwards of 20 years of age. Within four miles of the town are the following populous parishes, viz. Basford, containing 6341 inhabitants; Lenton, 3077; Gedling, 2500; Beeston, 2468; and Arnold, 4054; swelling the total population within that circuit to upwards of 80,000 souls. Much of this increase has arisen from the introduction, im- provement and great extension of the lace manufacture, which has lately outsripped in importance the ancient staple trade of the town. Some portion of it, however, must be attributed to the healthy situation, and to the general salubrity of the air, which is less contaminated with smoke and other offensive- vapours, than that of any large manufacturing town in the kingdom, owing to there being in the neighbourhood but few- mills and factories where machinery is propelled by the agency of steam, — most of the cotton and silk used here being spun in dis- tant parts of the countv, and in Lancashire ; — and all the stock- ing frames and twist-net machines, being worked by manual la- bour, and generally in the dwellings of the operatives, which are provided with large upper rooms for that purpose. The aggre- gate power of all the steam engines used within two miles of the tow r n, only amounts to the strength of about 700 horses, nearly one-half of which is employed in the town water- works and in the few collieries of the neighbouring parishes. A large portion of the increase which has taken place in the population of this and other parts of the kingdom, during the present centu- ry has resulted from the introduction of vaccine innoculation y for the discovery of which, Dr. Jenner, in 1802, received a Parliamentary grant of .£10,000. Amongst the numerous instances of Longevity which have occurred in Nottingham, we may enumerate the following, viz. : Henry Ward, who died in 1736, at the advanced age of 109 years, and Mary Ryley, Mrs. Free] and, Mr. Crampton, George- Tacy, and Goody Gedling, who died during the succeeding five years, each aged one hundred. During says " Goody Ryley, was, during the last years of her life, a pauper in St. Mary's workhouse, and when she w r as not pleased with her usage there, she would every now and then, ramble on foot to London, where she bad some children ; and if thev irave her h2 78 HISTORY OF the least offence, she would as readily trot back again to Not- tingham. ANCIENT HISTORY. Nottingham, is certainly one of the most ancient towns in England, but its origin, which has given rise to a great variety of conjectures, is hid in the impenetrable gloom, which is cast over the early ages of the aborigines of Britain. Its name is evidently softened from the Saxon appellation Snottengham, which was given to it on account of its early inhabitants, dwells ing in caves and subterraneous passages, cut in the yielding rock on which the present toivn is built. Stukely, in his Itine- rary, says, " one may easily guess Nottingham to have been an ancient town of the Britons. As soon as they had proper tools, they fell to work upon the rocks, which every where offer them- selves so commodious to make houses in," and he doubts not that there were a considerable number of these excavated dwell- ings. John Rouse, a monk of Warwick, and canon of Osney, in his history addressed to King Henry VII., relates a long and doubtful story of the antiquity of Nottingham, 980 years before the Christian era ; at which time he says, King Ebranc* built a town upon " Dolorus hill," so called from the ex- treme grief of the Britons, in consequence of a great slaughter of them by King Humber, in the reign of King Albanact. Leland, in his Collectanea, vol, 3, p. 43, quotes a monkish Chronicle, which, after telling the same tale about King Ebranc,, states in another page, that Lucius, son of Helena, caused four cities to be founded, one of which was Notting- ham. This contradictory evidence caused Mr. Laird, the editor of the Nottinghamshire portion of the Beauties of England and Wales, to remark that " the Monkish writers were ignorant of, or inattentive to the wholesome adage, that people of a certain habit ought to have good memories." Dr. Deering, who published his " Nottinhamia vestus et nova" in 1751, indulges himself in several plausible conjec- tures respecting the origin of the town, of which the follow- ing is the substance. He conceives that the most which can be supposed with a due regard to probability is, considering the convenient situation of that part of Sherwood Forest, in the immediate vicinity of the site of the present town, that several colonies of Britons " planted themselves hereabouts, where they were sheltered from the inclemency of the most prevalent * Ebravc or Ebraxtcus, the son of Mempricuis, a British king, the third from Brute, reigned about the time when David held the sceptre of Judea, and Gad, Nathan and Asnph, prop^ecied in Israel. He is said to have built Eboracum, now the city of York, in the year of the world, 2983, which is only about 40 years earlier than the period at which the monk above-named states Nottingham to have been founded by the sauie king. NOTTINGHAM. 79 winds of the winter season, and accommodated with the conve- nience of a southern aspect, and with plenty of water." Like Dr. Stukely, he imagines, that a considerable population dwelt here in the rock apartments, long before the Romans visited the neighbourhood. He seems to lay the greater stress upon this conjecture, in consequence of the discovery made by some workmen employed by Lord Middleton, in 1740, to level a deep and narrow way between the two hills called the Sand-hills on the Derby road approaching to Chapel Bar ; for when these workmen had removed a good deal of the sandy part ot the hills, they met here and there with excavations which (upon clearing away the sand from them,) appeared to form the partition walls of several rooms, of different altitudes, cut out of the solid rock. These, the Doctor thought, had no marks of being of Roman workmanship, and he therefore considers them as British. These remains he even considers as of higher anti- quity 7 than the excavations in the rocks on which Nottingham stands; and having roundly asserted, (which may indeed be true,) that the whole rock on which the town is built, is so un- dermined and hollowed out, that it is almost a question, whe- ther the solid contents of what is erected on the top would fill up the cavities under ground, he comes to the conclusion, that the sand of the place in question was brought from the Not- tingham excavations, and that it would not have been lodged upon the site of these chambers, if they had not been in a ruin- ous state, and therefore of considerable antiquity. He adds, that there are other sand-hills about the town, where the same dis- coveries have been made, which have given rise to a tradition that the ancient town of Nottingham stood further to the northward ; and is of opinion that these straggling habitations formed no part of the town in the Saxon times, being considerably with- out'that wall which Edward the elder constructed for the de- fence of Nottingham. The Doctor then adverts to a story of Coitus, a British king, having been buried here in the year of the world, 3832, a pe- riod which in ancient chronology falls in between the destruc- tion of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the destruction of Troy : but though possessed of all the prejudices natural to a local histo- rian, he acknowledges that even this is no more a proof, if true, of the antiquity of Nottingham, than that the certainty of some Indian huts having stood a thousand years ago on the pre- sent sites of New York and Philadelphia, would carry their an- tiquity back beyond the days William Penn. After all these conjectures, we can only say, that the only thing certain is, that the caverns of our ancient Troglodytes, were formed ante- rior to all authentic history, and of course, before the time of the Romans, but how long they existed before that epoch, will for ever remain a mystery. The Roman emperor, Antoninus, in drawing up his Itine- 80 HISTORY OF rary, through the island of Britain, seems to have been anxious to settle both the names of places, and their distances, with great precision; but not being gifted with prophetic pow- ers, he has not told us, what these places would be called in succeeding ages by the Saxons and the Normans ; con- sequently many disputes have arisen respecting both the stations and the roads of the Romans, and it has not been set- tled, whether Nottingham was, or was not occupied by the " Lords of the Universe" as the Roman soldiers vainly desig- nated themselves. Two learned antiquaries, Dr. Gale and Mr. Baxter, differ materially on the subject, — the former placing Causennis at Nottingham, and the latter asserting that Gran- tham is the site of that station. Mr. Baxter and his supporters say, that there have never been any Roman coins, or urns, dis- covered at Nottingham, as is invariably the case at all their ac- knowledged stations ; yet as there is sufficient proof, that there were Roman stations within sight of the rock on which Not- tingham stands, it is not likely that a place whose situation was so commanding, and so capable of defence, would have escaped their notice. But Dr. Gale brings further proof in support of his opinion, that Causennis was our modern Nottingham ; for he shews clearly, that Causennis,. or Caufennis, where the Ro- man changes of the word Ceven y from whence, in various places, were the names of " Gofennis," " Gobannium," &c. — Ceven being the ancient British for a cluster of rocks, and Raff, or Kaoity in the same language, signifying a cavern. Dr. Gale, indeed, perhaps goes too far, in supposing that the excavations are Roman ; if they had been so, it is not pro- bable that they would have had a name latinized from the Bri- tish ; for there is no instance whatever, on record, in which the Romans had adopted British words for the names of places of their own erection. That the caverns existed, therefore, before the Roman settlement seems beyond a doubt; it is still proba- ble, however, that the Romans may have availed themselves of the then existing caves, and may even have added others. A period of greater certainty begins in the seventh cen- tury, at which time it is allowed by all historians, that Nottingham was a considerable place, and had a strong tower, for its defence, and it is certain, that, during the Saxon heptarchy, it had the name of Snottingham, from Snottinga, signifying caves, and Ham, a home or dwelling place, or perhaps used with a plural signification. It is Dr. Deering's opinion, that this Saxon name was doubtless given to it, by that people, from the condition they found the neigh- bourhood in, before they themselves made improvements by building. It then belonged to the kingdom of Mercia, and a part of that kingdom took afterwards, in king Alfred's reign, its name from this town — Snottingham Scyre. Laird says it is rather curious, that all the learned investiga- NOTTINGHAM. 81 tors of the origin of Nottingham should have overlooked a par- ticular circumstance, which seems to throw a new light upon it9 state, in the Saxon times, and perhaps, for some ages previous to them. If the Saxon origin, of the name of Nottingham, is correct, may we not suppose also, that Snottenga, or Snottenga- ton, may have been corrupted into Sneuton, or Sneinton. If, then, there were two places existing in the Saxon times, by the names of Snottinga^ctm, and Snottengafott, it is a very proba- ble conjecture, that the spot designated by the appellative of ton, was more considerable than that which had only the ad- junct of ham, inasmuch as a town is larger than a village, or hamlet. That such was the origin of the name of Sneinton, now a village adjoining to Nottingham, seems almost beyond a doubt, when we consider it possesses extensive caverns of an antiquity equal to those of the latter place. From the period of the Saxon heptarchy, Nottingham seems to have increased in consequence. In Edward the Confessor's reign, immediately preceding the Norman conquest, there were 173 burgesses, and nineteen villeins, in this borough ; and Earl Tosti had lands and houses here. But, perhaps, the proper era from whence we should com- mence our view of the rise and progress of this place, is that period when the kingdom was settled, after the Norman acces- sioo^ and the survey of Domesday -book, was made. From this- register it appears that Hugh, the sheriff, found here 120 dwel- ling houses, of which the Sheriff himself possessed thirteen ; Roger de Builly had eleven ; William Peverel the Earl, son of Ralph Peverel, who came in with the Norman, had forty-eight tradesmen's houses, which brought thirty-six shillings per annum rent,* seven knights', and thirteen gentlemen's houses, besides eight bordars, forming, in the whole, his honour of Peverell, in the town ; Ralph de Burun had twelve gentlemen's houses, and one merchant's house ; one Guilbert, had four houses ; Ralph Fitzherbert, eleven houses ; Goisfrid de Alselyn, twenty-one houses ; Acadus the priest, two houses ; in the croft of the priest there were sixty houses; Richard Fresle had four houses ; and in the borough ditch were twenty-three houses. At this time " the church, with all things belonging to it, was of 100 shillings annual value." The burgesses had twenty carucates of land,f and twenty bordars, and they " were * It is curious to contrast this sum with the value of land in Nottingham, at the present century. In 1811, the ground foi some new buildings, in a street, at the end of Smithy Row, was sold at the rate of £9 per square yard ; so that three square yards, without buildings, in the year 1811, would yield as much in interest of money, as forty-eight houses, in rent, in the year 1086 ! ! f These twenty carucates would be equal to about 1,200 acres, and may perhaps be comprised in the present burgess lands, which are of a similar extent. A hide contained about 120 acres, but the bovate and the oxgang were as much as an ox and a plough could cultivate, and varied from 10 to 20 acres, according to the nature of the soil. 82 HISTORY OF wont to fish in the Trent, bat complained that they were then prohibited." The annual rental of " Nottingham was £18 in the reign of Edward the Confessor, and <£30 with £10 de moneta at the time of Domesday survey, which was commenced in 1080 and finished in 1086,* by order of William the Conqueror. In the reign of the former king the town had 173 burgesses, nineteen villeins, (husbandmen) but in that of the latter, the two classes were reduced to 120. The state of the country under the ancient Britons and un- der the successive dynasties of the Romans, the Saxons, the Danes, and the Normans, has already been shewn in the general survey of Nottinghamshire, therefore it is only necessar}', in this portion of the work to present a faithful chronological view of the local history of the town, shewing the momentous events of which it has been the scene, and its rise and progress in the national scale of civilization and commercial importance. The first great historical event, we find connected with it, was in the year A. D. 868, when the Danes, in the course of their frequent ravages, came to the town, in which they were immediately afterwards besieged by Buthred, the Mercian king ; but, with so little prospect of success, (as the Danes had pos- sessed themselves of a strong tower on the scite of the present castle) that he was obliged to send for assistance to Ethelred, king of the West Saxons, and Alured his brother, who, having collected a large army, proceeded towards Nottingham, and offered the invaders battle. This, however, they thought pro- per to decline, when the Saxon chiefs attempted to batter down the walls, but even this, they were unable to perform ; and at length the Danes, starved out perhaps, agreed to^conciude a peace, and return home under their leaders Hinguar andHubba. From this time, until 940, the Danes were very troublesome to Nottingham, and the surrounding parts of Mercia ; for having landed with a large army, and got military possession of all the northern parts of Britain, they left a large force there, and pro- ceeded to Nottingham, which they took with facility, and fixed their winter quarters there. From this they were again driven by the Saxons ; but again returned ; and remained until the middle of the tenth century, when king Edmund made a final reconquest of the town, which in 910 had been encircled with a strong wall by Edward the elder. William, the Norman Conqueror, (whom Edward the Con- fessor, had with his dying breath, nominated as his successor to the crown J drove Harold from the throne and subjugated the kingdom in 1066, two years after which he visited Nottingham, and built a castle on the site of an aged and ruinous tower. In parcelling out the estates of the realm amongst his followers, the Conqueror gave to his natural son, William Peverel, his castle of Nottingham, and 103 lordships in this and the adjacent counties, forming the Honor of Peverel. He also conferred NOTTINGHAM. 83 upon him the title of Earl of Nottingham, — the Saxon name of the town, being- now rendered more agreeable to the Norman ear, by the removal of its initial (S.). In the troublesome times of Stephen's reign, Ralph Paynell, who was governor of the castle, and in the interest of Prince Henry, afterwards Henry the II., invited the Earl of Gloucester in 1140, to take possession of the town. It is recorded that the town being thus easily taken, was plundered, and the inha- bitants killed, or burnt in the churches, to which they had fled for safety. It is also stated by Stow that one of the richest of the inhabitants was forced by a party of the robbers to shew them where his treasure lay ; he, acccordingly, took them into a low celler, from whence he escaped, whilst they were intent on plunder; and, having" shut the doors, set fire to his house, in eonsequence of which, not only they were burnt, but the whole town was set in flames. Nottingham met with the same mis- fortunes only thirteen years afterwards ; for being- taken by Henry, in 1153, we are told by Leland, that the garrison retir- ing from the city to the castle set fire to the town on their evacuating it. It has, however, been otherwise asserted, that this conflagration was caused by the Earl of Ferrers, in the contests between Henry the II. and his son Henry, who came suddenly, with a good number of horsemen to Nottingham, -which Reginald de Lucy had then in keeping- for the king ; and, having taken it, burnt the town, slew the inhabitants, and divided their goods amongst his soldiers. After this, from whatever cause it may have proceeded, the town of Nottingham appears to have lain in ruins, until the kingdom became quiet by the death of Prince Henry, whom his father had been so imprudent as to cause to be crowned during his own life time : the inhabitants then, having some prospect of protection for their lives and property, began to make great exertions to restore it to its former consequence, and the king, in order to make them amends for what they had suffered from their loyalty, not only gave them every encouragement, and as- sistance, in the rebuilding of it, but also granted them a new charter, in which he confirmed all those free customs which they had enjoyed in the reign of Henry the 1. This is a con- vincing proof, that Nottingham had been a corporation, for a considerable time, before the grant of this uew charter; and it is, with great probability, supposed, that they enjoyed a market, and paid a farm rent to the crown, some time previous. John Earl of Morteyn, Henry's younger son, afterwards king, pro- cured them some further privileges on being made Earl of Nottingham ; and by a new charter, which he confirmed on coming to throne, granted all the advantages, which his father and great-grandfather had bestowed upon them, together with i merchant's guild. 84 HISTORY OF During" the contest between Richard I. and his brother •John, Nottingham changed hands several times ; ^nd, on the king's return from his captivity, this castle held out a siege of several days, though the king himself besieged it in person. Soon after, Richard called a parliament here, in which he demanded judgment against John and his accomplices; and the parliament immediately issued summonses for John, and the Barons, his friends, to appear in forty days, to answer all complaints, under pain of forfeiture on the part of John, and for the others, to stand such censure, as might be awarded against them, by the parliament. In consequence of non-compliance, Earl John incurred the forfeiture, but was soon restored by his brother ; however, after coming" to the crown, we find that, in his contest with the Barons, an attempt was made to deprive him of this place, by the " army of God, and the holy church," as it was then called, but without success. In 1199 he granted a charter to Nottingham. On a subsequent occasion in 1212, John was so pressed, that, having- received repeated intelligence of a plot against him, he distrusted even the officers about his person, and relying solely on the loyalty of this town, and of some foreign archers, dis- banded his army, and retired here to shut himself up in the castle, where (according to Rapin) he cruelly ordered twenty- eight Welch hostages to be hanged. In 1330 a parliament was held here, and the young king Edward passed in the night by the guidance of Sir William Eland, the governor, through a secret passage into the castle, and there apprehended in the apartment of his Queen mother, her favourite nobleman, Mortimer Earl of March, whom he brought out through the same intricate passage cut in the rock, which still bears the name of Mortimer's Hole. Notwith- standing the Queen's cries to spare the gallant Mortimer, or as she is said to have exclaimed u Bel Fitz, Bel Fitz, ayes pitie du gentill Mortimer" — the king sent him direct to London, where he was soon afterwards drawn and hanged on the com- mon gallows at Tyburn as a traitor, without being heard in his defence ; an unjust irregularity which brought much censure on the king, but which afterwards proved of considerable ad- vantage to the unfortunate Earl's grandson, Roger, who ob- tained an act which declared this sentence to be erroneous ; and his descendants, in the female line, subsequently ascended the throne of England; — Edward the fourth being the son of Anne Mortimer, Duchess of York, and Heiress of Edmund her brother, the last Earl of March. Seven years afterwards a parliament was called together for very important purposes, and Nottingham has the honour of being the spot, from whence emanated laws that were the first foundation of England's greatness, as a manufacturing country ; for here it was enacted, that whatsoever cloth-workers of Flan- NOTTINGHAM. 85 ders, or of other countries, would dwell, and inhabit in England, should come quietly, and peaceably, and the most convenient places should be assigned to them, with great liberties and privileges, and the king would become surety for them, until they should be able to support themselves by their several occu- pations. The same Parliament also passed that patriotic law, that no person should wear any foreign made cloths, with the exception of the royal family : they also prohibited the expor- tation of English wool. 1357. " There is a curious record of pardon in the Tower of London, granted to Cecily Ridgeway, who, refusing to plead guilty of murdering her husband, at Nottingham assize, A. D. 1357, was remanded back to prison, and remained/ortfy days without sustenance, for which miraculous preservation she obtained this pardon under the great seal of England." Whilst the impostor, Anne Moore, so long deceived the superstitious of the enlightened age in which we write, we need not wonder that the credulity of those who legislated for our forefathers nearly five centuries ago, should have been occasionally abused by the artful and the designing. In 1376, Sir Peter de la Mare, speaker of the House of Commons, was committed prisoner to Nottingham castle, by Edward III., for having made Alice Pierce, the king's mistress, the object of his reproach, for her overbearing and abandoned conduct. He remained here till after Edward's death in the following year. A curious attempt to infringe on the liberty of election took place here, in the reign of Richard II., which is well worthy of notice. In 1386, the Marquis of Dublin, the royal favourite, having been dismissed in consequence of the remonstrances of Parliament, he, and some of his adherents, soon after procured access to the king, and was, in a few weeks, accompanied by the misguided monarch into Wales ; where it was privately settled, that a plan for the assumption of arbitrary power should be put in force, and that the patriotic Barons, the Duke of Gloucester, the Earls of Arundel, Derby, Warwick, and Not- tingham, should be the first victims, not only for the purpose of revenge, but of security. In order to insure'the success of their plan, it was determined that the king should raise an army to keep those Barons in check, and that he should then call a Parliament, the elections for which should be so managed as to have none but the friends of the favourites summoned or elect- ed, so that there would be no difficulty in passing any law which might be proposed. No sooner was every thing pre- pared, than Richard, with his favourites and their friends, proceeded to Nottingham, where all the sheriffs and all the judges were sent for, together with many of the principal citizens of London ; to these, when assembled, the monarch communicated his design of proceeding with an army to i 36 HISTORY OF chastise the noblemen already mentioned, and demanded of the sheriffs, what number of troops they could raise immediately. He then told them to permit no representatives to be chosen for the new Parliament, that were not in the list which he should deliver to them himself; but the sheriffs immediately answered, that it was not possible to execute his orders ; for the people were in general so partial to those noblemen, that it would be difficult to levy an army against them ; and they con- cluded by stating, that it would be still more difficult to deprive the people of their right of freely electing their representatives in Parliament. The judges, however, were neither so scrupulous nor so patriotic as the sheriffs ; for they answered to the queries put to them, " that the king was above the law;" yet, when required to sign this opinion, they endeavoured to. evade it, until forced by the menaces of the court party. Notwithstanding this forced submission of the judges, Richard found it impossible to do any thing at Nottingham, and therefore returned to London. 'Tis almost unnecessary to state to those acquainted with Eng- lish history, that the judges were Sir Robert Tresilian, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, who was afterwards hanged at Tyburn ; Sir Robert Belknap, Chief Justice of the Com- mon Pleas ; Sir John Holt ; Sir Roger Fulthorp ; Sir William de Burgh; and John Lockton, Sergeant at Law. In 1392, the same thrifty monarch (Richard II.) "sent SirW. Standon, Mayor of London, and William Mansfield, and Thos. Newington, Sheriffs of London, prisoners to Nottingham, be- cause the city had refused to lend him <£1000. He also re- moved the Court of Chancery to Nottingham, and the Court of King's Bench to York, where they remained until the Lon- doners regained their charter by satisfying the cupidity of the royal spendthrift, who, in 1397, summoned the Peers of the realm to meet at Nottingham, and two years afterwards was murdered at Pontefract Castle, and his throne ascended by Henry IV. ; thus ended the reign of the Plantagenets, which was speedily followed by the wars of the houses of York and Lancaster, which so long deluged the kingdom in blood. In 1403, Henry IV. was at Nottingham to witness a combat. In 1429, Henry VI. constituted the town a county of itself a privilege which it had virtually enjoyed from the year 1422, when Henry V. ordered the Nottinghamshire magistrates, u who had heretofore acted in the town, to discontinue that usage." Nottingham was afterwards, in 1461, the rendezvous of Ed- ward IV., where he collected his troops, aud caused himself to be proclaimed king, immediately after landing at Ravenspur in Yorkshire. Hence he marched to Newark, to attack the Duk« of Exeter, who retired on his approach. His majesty then marched his army to Towton, in Yort^ire, where in a fatal NOTTINGHAM. C> battle he overthrew the hopes of the house of Lancaster. In 14J0, Edward issued a proclamation from his court at Notting- ham, denouncing' the Duke of Clarence, his brother, and the Earl of Warwick, as traitors and rebels; though he had been raised to the throne by the influence of the latter nobleman, who was commonly called the " King- maker," and who in his revenge forced Edward to fly from Nottingham, and for a time from the kingdom. In 1485, Richard III. marched from Nottingham towards Bosworth-field, in order to decide the fate of England in his fatal contest with Henry VII. ; and Henry VII. two years afterwards, (in 1487) held his council of war at Nottingham previous to the battle of Stoke. Before the year 1503, there was not a house in Nottingham but what was thatched with straw or reeds, and built of wood and plaster, but in that year the Unicorn Inn, at the end of the Long-row, was tiled, "which circumstance is expressed in the writings of that house." In 1513, Agnes Mellor founded the Grammar School, but we shall reserve the description of this and the numerous other charities of the town for a subsequent chapter. That lascivious monarch, Henry VIII., was in the town about the year 1430, on an affair of gallantry, and obtain- ed .£147. 13s. 4cl. from the corporation in aid of the war against France and Scotland. A violent tempest, which happened here in 1558, is described bv Thoroton as follows : — " All the houses of the little hamlet ofSneinton, and those of Gedling, with both their churches, were blown down ; and the water and mud from the Trent was carried a quarter of a mile and cast against some trees with such amazing force that they were torn, up by the roots. A child and five or six men were killed, and the hailstones which fell measured fifteen inches round." This year Richard Barnes, the last suffragan bishop of Nottingham, was installed ; the bishopric having then existed twenty-four years. Many suffragan bishops were consecrated after the dissolution of the larger monasteries by Henry VIII., about A. D. 1534, but they were nearly all discontinued in the reign of Mary, who again established the Roman Catholic religion, which, on the acces- sion of her sister Elizabeth, again gave place to the Protestant faith, not however till many sacrifices had been made, and much blood spilled on both sides. In 1589, the Stocking frame, to which Nottingham owes the greater part of its wealth and consequence, was invented by the Rev. William Lee, M.A, a native of Woodborough in Notting- hamshire. It afterwards received many improvements, as will be shewn in the history of the hosiery and lace trades in this volume. 1591 was remarkable for an uncommon drought, which con- tinued till the summer of the following year, when the Trent 88 HISTORY OF and other rivers were almost without water. An act passed in 1595 for erecting ivorkhouses for the poor, and another, passed in 1691, provided for the relief of the poor, and the appointment of overeeers. In 1607, a dispute arose about the disposal of the town f s money. The aldermen contending that they had a right to sit in council and vote at the disposal of the bridge money, school lands, &c. The council opposed them, and referred the matter to the judges, who determined that the aldermen had no right to vote on such occasions ; but they have since continued to do so. At this time the council was reduced to 24, of whom six were to be elected by the burgesses at large, and called junior councilmen. King James was several times in Nottingham about the year 1615. The County Hall was built in 1648. Civil Wars. — In the fatal contentions between the preroga- tives of the crown and the privileges of Parliament, in the reign of Charles I., Nottingham was the place were the royal stand- ard was first unfurled, though the town was soon afterwards garrisoned by the Parliamentarians, who retained possession of it during the whole of this intestine war, which so long deluged the kingdom in the blood of its inhabitants. The principal causes which led to this distraction of the country, were the levying of ship money and the duty of tonnage and poundage, without the sanction of Parliament; and the cruel proceedings of that secret and inquisitorial court, called the Star Chamber. There also prevailed in the nation a disposition and a strong leaning to republican, in preference to kingly government ; and religion was too often made the stalking-horse to avarice and ambition. From these combined causes the elements of govern- ment were thrown into disorder, and they never perfectly re- assumed their proper station till the glorious revolution of 1688, although many patriotic addresses were sent by the people of this and other counties to the Parliament and to the king, praying for an amicable adjustment of their dif- ferences. In 1642, Clarendon says, the King " published a proclama- tion, by which he required all men who could bear arms to repair to him at Nottingham, by the 25th of August, on which day he would set up his royal standard there, which all good subjects were obliged to attend." Previous to this, his Majesty left London while the Parliament was sitting, and went to York, where he issued his famous commission of array to the respective counties, appointing Lord-Lieutenants and persons of distinction in each, to array, train, and muster the people. Some of his advisers proposed York or Warrington, in prefer- ence to Nottingham, for the erection of the royal standard; but the King chose the latter place, where he thought he would be nearer to some friends, who were stirring in his favour in the south and west. He accordingly came to Nottingham, a few NOTTINGHAM. 89 days previous to the 25th, and having gone towards Coventry with a few troops, the gates were shut against him, and he found it necessary, in consequence of the appearance of some of the Parliamentarian forces, to return to Nottingham on the 24th. " According to proclamation, on the 25th August, the standard was erected about six o'clock in the evening of a very tempestu- ous day. The King himself, with a small train, rode to the top of the Castle-hill ; Varney, the Knight-Marshal, who was standard-bearer, carrying the standard, which was then erected on that place, with little other ceremony than the sound of drums and trumpets, — melancholy men observed many ill pre- sages at the time. The standard was blown down the same night it had been set up, by a very strong and unruly wind, and could not be fixed again for a day or two." The flag used on this occasion was inscribed " Give Caesar his due," and a herald proclaimed that his Majesty sought only to suppress the rebel- lion raised against him ; " that his military arms were blest ; that he would govern according to the known laws of the land ; and if he failed in these things, he would expect no relief from man, nor protection from heaven." Charles, however, soon found that the standard, when formally erected on the ground now called Standard-hill, possessed no more charms than it had done on the three preceding days, during which it had waved over the old tower of the castle ; for at a general muster, about the middle of the following month, his force only amounted to near 1200 men, the greater part of whom had accompanied him from the north ; he consequently left Nottingham, which was speedily garrisoned by the Parliament, who entrusted its go- vernment to Colonel John Hutchinson, whose memoirs, written by his widow, were published about thirty years ago, by one of his descendants. The Colonel, in spite' of all the royal offers of wealth and distinction, remained a firm and pa- triotic friend of the people; and though he was so unfortunate as to be chosen one of the judges who tried and signed the death- warrant of Charles I., he deserved not the odium of those who maintain in practice, as the English constitution asserts in theory, that "Kings can do no wrong," though the persecution which he experienced after the restoration, was no greater than might be expected at the hands of a son standing in power over those whom he considered as the instigators of his fathers mar- tyrdom. It is not the business of this history to take a political view of these calamitous times, we shall, therefore, confine ourselves to a brief narration of those events which are con • nected with Nottingham and its neighbourhood, as recorded by Rushworth, Whitlock, and Deering. In 1643, Captain Hotham, son of the celebrated Sir John Hotham, governor of Hull, was brought prisoner to Notting- ham, charged with carrying on a correspondence with the roy- alists, for which offence both he and his father were tried bv a i2 9$ HISTORY OF court-martial, and executed at Hull, in 1645. "The same year, (1643,) about Christmas, Colonel Hutchinson, governor of Nottingham, acquainted the Parliament with an offer of the , Earl of Newcastle, to pay him «£l0,000 r and to make him a Lord and governor of the castle, to him and his heirs, if he would deliver it to him for the King* which Hutchinson re- fused." During the following year, a paltry kind of warfare was carried on against this incorruptible governor, by the royal garrison of Newark, at the commencement of which he took 70 prisoners, and slew Captain Thimbleby, the leader of the New- arkers. Shortly after, a detachment of the Newark garrison, having come rather too near Nottingham, to levy contributions, they were pursued by a party of the Nottingham troops, who took several prisoners, but in their turn were routed by a rein- forcement of the enemy, and escaped with the loss of twenty- eight horsemen and two officers. In 1645, such serious disputes took place between the garrison and the town committee, that Parliament was obliged to refer thena to a committee of both houses, a measure evidently neces- sary, as during these intestine broils in the town, a party of horse had stormed a fort upon Trent bridge, and put forty men to the sword. From this fort, however, they were soon after- wards driven by two detachments from Nottingham and Lei- cester. Tn the same year, the Scotch army was at Nottingham, whence it was ordered to the siege of Newark, where the un- fortunate King placed himself under its protection, and was afterwards conveyed to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he was delivered to his merciless enemies, in consideration of the sum of <£200,000, paid to the crafty Scotchmen by the English Par- liament, and a promise of .£200,000 more, to be paid in two moieties. On June 30th, Colonel Hutchinson took sixty horse and forty-eight prisoners ; and on October 4th, ,£1000 was paid to the Nottingham cavahy, for fighting so gallantly at the battle of Chester. In 1647, February 13th, Charles I. was brought through Nottingham, on his way to London. General Sir Thomas Fairfax stopped the King's horse near the town, and having alighted he kissed his Majesty's hand, " and afterwards mounted and discoursed with the King as they passed to Nottingham ; — for, though the General was one of the most active enemies of the royalists, he had more honour and sympathy than to wound the feelings of fallen Majesty with taunts and rebukes." In July, the Nottingham troops and the forces in the north, published a declaration of their adherence to the army of General Fairfax. In January, 1618, the garrison of Nottingham consisted only of 100 men, commanded by Captain Poulton, who surprised and took prisoners in the town several disguised royalists, NOTTINGHAM. 91 amongst whom was Sir Marmaduke Langdale, and ten other gentlemen. In 1649, after Cromwell had secretly solicited and contrived the King's death, the garrison of Nottingham was disbanded, and Lawrence Collin, who had long been a gunner at the castle, commenced the business of a woolcomber in the town, but not being a freeman, he was greatly annoyed by the corporation, till Cromwell wrote a letter in his favour, and ordered that, as be had faithfully served the Commonwealth, he should be al- lowed to follow his calling in the town, for the maintenance of himself and family. After this, Collin lived in quiet, and laid the foundation of a thriving family, which intermarried with the family of George Langford, an eminent surgeon, who held a commission in the Parliament army, and was Mayor of Not- tingham in J6S8. Betwixt the years 1648 and 1672, money was so scarce that many of the tradesmen in the town issued copper halfpennies, and other local coins. In 1650, General Fairfax's regiment and train of artillery marched through the town to the north. In 1655, the framework knitters petitioned Cromwell to in- corporate them by charter, but the Protector did not answer their prayer. In 1656, Colonel Hacker apprehended several conspirators, in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, who declared themselves to be "in arms against the tyrant Cromwell.'''' The death of Cromwell, and the abdication of his son Richard, were followed in 1661 by the restoration of Charles II., who soon raised mo- narchy and episcopacy to the greatest splendour. The bishops were allowed to resume their seats in the House of Peers, and an Act of Uniformity was passed, requiring of all clergymen, episcopal ordination, canonical obedience, and a general assent to every thing contained in the Book of Common Prayer. For not conforming to this act, more than 2000 clergymen were de- prived of their preferments in the church; thus originated non- conformity, or protestant dissent ; for prior to this time, the Puritans had remained members of the establishment, though labouring to promote a further reformation. The ejected mi- nisters suffered much under the operation of several severe laws, amongst which were the Conventicle, the Oxford, the Corpo- ration, and the Test Acts, all of which are happily now abo- lished, — the two former being annulled by the Toleration Act, passed in 1689, but the two latter were not repealed till 1828, a few months before the passing of the Catholic Emancipation Bill. , In 1662, the three nonconformist ministers of Nottingham, viz. Whitlock, Reynolds, and Barret, were ejected for not reading the Common Prayer in the church. In 1665, they were seized in a meeting-house at Colwick, and suffered a long imprisonment. They settled at Nottingham in 1651, in conse- 92 HISTORY OF quence of an invitation from the churchwardens and principal inhabitants. Dr. Calamy says, while living "they studied to- gether, lived together, and preached together!" During the year 1667, Nottingham was visited by the plague, which made much greater ravages in the higher than in the lower part of the town, owing it is said to the effluvia arising from the tan-yards, of which there were then no fewer than 47 on the banks of the Leen. In 1681, the Corporation charter was surrendered to the Ministers of Charles IT., by the Mayor " and his party," which caused great dissatisfaction amongst the rest of the burgesses ; though a new charter w r as received in its place. At the next election for a Mayor, a riotous contest arose, in which " the new chartermen elected William Toplady, and the old, Wm. Greaves," — the former, however, prevailed, after much tumult. In 1687, James II. attempted to new model the corporation, and to reserve to himself the power of electing and removing the members of that body; six of whom he displaced by a writ of quo ivarranto. In the succeeding reign, which commenced in the following year, the town received a full confirmation of all its rights, privileges, and immunities. James II. was strongly attached to the Catholic faith, and soon discovered his intention to complete the fabric of despo- tism begun by his predecessor. The nation taking the alarm, called in the Prince of Orange, and brought about the glorious revolution of 1688, in which Nottingham took an active part ; for, Deering, who wrote in 1751, says " There are men now living who well remember that the Duke of Devonshire,* the Earl of Stamford, Lord Howe, and other noblemen, and abund- ance of gentry of the county of Nottingham, coming to the town and going to meet one another at their respective inns, daily increasing in numbers, till the arrival of Lord Delamere with about 500 horse at the Feather's Inn, whither all the rest of the noblemen and gentlemen w r ent to meet him : the people of the town were unacquainted with the result of all these con- sultations, till Lord Delamere having a mind to try the disposi- tion of the populace, on a sudden ordered the trumpets to sound to arms, giving out that the King's forces were within four miles of Nottingham, whereupon the whole town was in alarm, multitudes who had horses mounted and accoutred themselves with such arms as they had, whilst others in vast numbers on foot appeared ; some with firelocks, some with swords, some with other weapons, even pitchforks not excepted ; — and being told of the necessity of securing the passage over the Trent, they immediately drew all the boats that were then at hand, to the north side of the river, and with them, and some timber and barrels on the wharf, and all the frames of the market-stalls, * He was then only Ecu I of Devonshhe, but was created a Duke in 1694. NOTTINGHAM. 93 raised a strong" barricado. Lord Delarnere, well pleased with the readiness of the people, sent his men and some officers to the Prince of Orange, but himself with a few officers staid till next day, being 1 Saturday, (the principal market) when he, the Puke of Devonshire, Lord Howe, &c. appeared at the Malt Cross, and in face of a full market, declared to the people, the danger their religion and liberty were in, under the arbi- trary proceedings of the King, and that providence had sent his highness the Prince of Orange, under God, to deliver them from popery and slavery, and give them a free Parliament ! Their speeches were followed by the shouts of the multi- tude who cried out a free Parliament! a free Parliament ! This done, Lord Delamere departed to follow his troops, whilst the Duke and Lord Howe made it known that they were for raising horse in defence of their liberty, and would enlist such as were willing to serve in the glorious cause ; where- upon upwards of one hundred entered the same day." The Princess Anne, the King's favourite daughter, having resolved to leave her father and take part with the prevailing side, de- parted privately from court, and went direct to Nottingham, accompanied by several ladies of distinction, and the Bishop of London, the Earl of Dorset, and a guard of -aO horsemen, which, on their arrival was strengthened with 200 of the Duke of Devonshire's troops. Hence she went to Oxford where she was met by Prince George of Denmark, at the head of a de- tachment of the Prince of Orange's forces. James soon af- terwards left the kingdom, and William III. was placed on the throne, to which, Anne succeeded in 1/02, to the general sa- tisfaction of all parties. In 1707? Queen Anne granted the stewardship of the Peverel Court to Sir Thomas Willoughby, Bart., and his heirs. In I7I0, when that fruitless rebellion broke out, which had for its object the reinstatement of the Stuart family, there were but few partisans of that dynasty left in Nottingham, though Thomas Hawksley, the mayor, was committed to the house of correction, by one of the aldermen, " for having drank success to the Pretender, on his bare knees in his own house." This Jacobite mayor kept the house then called the Eagle and Child Inn, at the north-west corner of Chapel Bar. He afterwards instituted three suits against the alderman who signed his com- mitment, with the hope of recovering damages for false impri- sonment ; "but the only recompence he got was that of having to pocket the disgrace, and to pav costs, which amounted to more than .£2000." In 1720, whilst the Duke of Newcastle "kept openhouse at the castle," John Chambers, a gingerbread baker, in a fit of inebriation, rambled from the paved yard upon the verge of the rocky precipice, down which he fell, above 110 feet, into a garden near the river Leen, without receiving much injury! 94 HISTORY OF In 1724, the town-clerk' 's office took fire, and many of the Cor- poration records were destroyed. In 1736, during a great^oo^, the houses near the Leen were two feet deep in water ; in the month of May, 104 persons who had died of the small pox were buried in St. Mary's church-yard, and so fatal was that malady during the year, that the burials exceeded the births by 380. 1731, the mayor, Thomas Trigge, placed a woman in the Cuckstool for prostitution, and left her to the mercy of a foolish mob, who ducked her so severely that she died soon af- ter, in consequence of which, the mayor was prosecuted and the ancient instrument of punishment destroyed. During the rebellion of 1745, when a second unsuccessful attempt was made by the House of Stuart to regain the throne lost by the bigotry and tyranny of its ancestors, Thoroton says " but little occurred at Nottingham more than at other places, near which the forces of Prince Charles approached. Some, however, were panic struck at their so extraordinarily advancing into the heart of the country, and others friendly to the cause, shewed signs of friendly intentions, but very few of them indi- cations of courage • very few joined the daring little host of Scotchmen." However, the town supplied many recruits for the Duke of Kingston's Light Horse, which did so much exe- cution at the battle of Culloden, where it is said three butchers of Nottingham killed fourteen rebels. This regiment was raised by a subscription amounting to £8526. 10s. 6d., of which sum the Dukes of Kingston and Newcastle contributed «£J000 each, and the Duke of Norfolk, and Lords Byron, Middleton, Sutton, Cavendish, and Howe, with other persons of distinc- tion in the country, about .£200 each. JVade^s regiment consist- ing of 500 Dutch, and 200 English infantry, with sixteen pieces of cannon, two mortars, and 200 artillerymen, arrived at Not- tingham on the 13th of October, and proceeded next day to meet the rebels, who were completely overthrown in the early part of the following year. During a remarkable storm in May, 1749, hailstones fell, measuring four inches in circumference. In 1755, the north- ern lights, or Aurora Borealis, were frequently seen in this neighbourhood, as they were afterwards at the commencement of the American war, when the superstitious believed them to be the forerunners of disastrous events. In 1758, acts were ob- tained for making turnpike roads from Nottingham to Derby, Grantham and Alfreton. The Nottingham and Loughborough road was repaired under an act passed in 1738, On September 22d, 1761, in honour of the Coronation of George HI. and Queen Charlotte, Nottingham joined in the na- tional festivity. The morning was ushered in by the ringing of bells, and after divine service, a large and splendid proces- sion paraded the streets, headed by the Corporation in their NOTTINGHAM. 95 robes of office, and followed by the company of tvoolcombers, dressed in Holland shirts, black breeches, white stockings, and wool wigs, with sashes and cockades also of wool, and having one of their order mounted on horseback, and attired so as to represent the famous Bishop Blaize, the patron saint Arme- nia, who is said to have first discovered the art of woolcomb- ing. There were public dinners at all the inns, and the indi- gent were plentifully regaled in large booths erected in the streets. At night the town was brilliantly illuminated, and there was a grand display of fireworks in the market place. The Biter Bit. — In 1762, a framework-knitter, residing near Nottingham, fell into the fatal snare which he had laid for his unoffending wife. Having taken home a piece of veal, he ordered his wife to roast it for dinner by twelve o'clock ; but he not coming home at the time, she set it by untouched. At four o'clock he came home, and brought a beef ^teak, which he ordered to be dressed for his dinner, saying he should prefer it to the veal. It was accordingly cooked by the wife, and when he had eaten 'part of it, feeling himself unwell, he anxiously enquired what she had fried it in ? to which she answered " the veal dripping" " Then,*' said he, " I am a dead man ; for having a mind to poison you, I rubbed the veal over with arse- nic.'' He expired shortly after ; and the surgeon who examined the veal declared that it retained as much p©ison as would de- stroy a hundred persons. At the Goose Fair, in 1764, there was a tumultuous riot, on account of the high price of cheese, which was selling at from 28s. to 30s. per cwt. The violence of the people burst forth lik-e a torrent, in the open fair; — cheeses were rolled down Wheeler-gate and Peck-lane in abundance, and the Mayor, in his attempt to restore the peace, was knocked down with one in the Market-place. The riot act was read ; a detachment of the 15th Dragoons was called in, many of the rioters were taken prisoners, and one innocent man was shot by the military. In 1770, there was great rejoicing here, on account of the liberation of John Wilkes, Esq. the champion of the people's liberties. In June this year, Dominick Lazarus walked twenty- five times round the race-course (upwards of fifty miles) in 1-0 J hours. The grand stand was built in 17-77 ' aad during the same year, some workmen, whilst digging on Standard- hill, found a number of human bones, along with a dagger, and a copper token dated 1669. The Nottinghamshire militia were embodied in 1775, and first marched out of the county in 1778, when they went to Hull. On February 12th, 1780, was laid the first stone of that house of rnercy, the Nottingham General Hospital. On July 30th, 1734, the Wilford ferry-boat was upset, and six persons were drowned. In August, 1785, the large mace was stolen out of the Mayor's house by two thieves, 96 HISTORY OP who were detected in consequence of their not knowing" how to separate the gold from the silver, after they had melted it down. Water Spout. — A most extraordinary natural phenomenon took place here in 1785, which has been considered as perhaps one of the largest water spouts ever seen in this country. It happened on the first of November, at four o'clock in the after- noon, when it was first seen proceeding from a dense cloud, apparently about a quarter of a mile to the southward of the Trent, and moving slowly towards it; and it was remarked, that the branches of the trees, over which it passed, were bent downwards to the ground. As the cloud came nearer to the river, it appeared to be strongly attracted by it, and when it crossed did not seem more than thirty or forty feet from the surface of the water, which was violently agitated, and flew upwards to a great height in every direction. Some persons who saw it from the Trent bridge, then only about 300 yards distant, mistook it at first for a column of thick smoke rising from a warehouse by the Trent side, which they supposed to be on fire ; but they were soon undeceived, and now beheld with astonishment a large black inverted cone, terminating nearly in a point, and in which they perceived very plainly, as they afterwards said, a whirling spiral motion, whilst a rum- bling noise like thunder was heard at a distance. By the de- scription which those people gave of it, (and indeed they may be supposed to have examined it coolly, whilst they supposed it to be only a column of smoke,) the middle of the cone appeared nearly twenty feet in diameter. After passing the river, it as- cended slowly and majestically in a north-east direction; and nothing coming within the limits of its electric powers, until it came over Sneinton, it there first began its devastation, taking the thatch from several barns and cottages, and tearing up some apple trees by the roots, one of which was four feet in circum- ference, yet was broken short off near the ground, and the trunk and branches carried several yards. A barn, nearly thirty yards long, was levelled with the ground; the adjoining house was unroofed, and otherwise much shattered; a sycamore in the yard, which measured nearly two yards in circumference, was torn up ; in short, nothing could resist the impetuosity of its action ; and the rain falling heavily at the time, joined to the roaring noise of the spout, and aided by the novelty of the phe- nomenon, produced among the spectators a scene of terror and confusion which, they acknowledged, was not easy to be de- scribed. It was stated, also, that in a tavern in the outskirts of the village, it tore off part of the roof, whilst the people within were almost all of them seized with a painful sensation in the head, which lasted some hours; and the spout, in passing over the adjoining close, where a number of people were col- lected, it being the usual statute for hiring servants, afforded rather a ludicrous scene, wherein hucksters, stalls, baskets, NOTTINGHAM. 9J &c. were all thrown into confusion, and some of the people hurled with great violence against the hedge, but happily with- out any serious accident. One boy, indeed, about fourteen years of age, is said to have been actually carried over the hedge into an adjoining field, but without being injured. Some flashes of light were observed in its passing the fields ; and as the cloud passed over the hill, opposite to the tavern, the spout Avas ob- served to contract and expand alternately, as if it had been at- tracted and repelled by some extraneous force. It continued about twenty minutes, and was accurately described in the Gen- tleman's Magazine of 1785, from which we quote. On May 12, 1788, a serious riot took place, in consequence of the hig'h price of meat; the doors and shutters in the sham- bles were taken into the Market-place and burnt, along with many of the butchers' books, and much meat was carried away ; but the conciliatory interference of the magistrates happily quelled the tumult without any lives being lost. On June 7th, Lieutenant Bright, of the Nottinghamshire Militia, was burnt to death in his bed-room. It is said that he first introduced into the town " the fashion of wearing braces to the breeches." In 17^9, Richard Butler was chosen mayor, agreeable to a writ of mandamus issued from the Court of King's Bench. — The burgesses insisted upon their right to vote, but were over- ruled by reading the charter of Henry VIII. A great cricket match was played on Nottingham forest in 1791, betwixt eleven of the Nottingham club, backed by Colonel Churchill, and eleven noblemen and gentlemen of the Mary-le- bonne club, headed by the Earl of Winchilsea. Though the playing of the former excited the admiration of their opponents, they had no chance of success. The late Earl of Winchilsea, the late Duke of Dorset, and the late Sir Horace Man, were members of the famous Hambledon club, and about this time assembled at the Star and Garter, London, for the express pur- pose of settling a new code of laws, by which the game of cricket has since been regulated. The Town-Hall was rebuilt this year, during which a riot was created by the "two-needle stocking makers," in opposition to some new regulations adopted by their employers ; but it was quelled without much mischief, by the Oxford Blues, who, in return for their services, gained the hatred and contempt of the workmen, and on leaving the town soon afterwards, were rewarded, whilst passing the deep- cut road at Hollowstone, with showers of odoriferous perfumes brought from the neighbouring privies, and poured upon their heads by the insulting people, planted upon the rock above them. On March 2d, 1792, an alarming shock of an earthquake was felt in the midland counties, but was most severe at Not- tingham, where many of the inhabitants fled from their houses, which they expected would fall upon them. The shock, which K OB HISTORY OF happened about nine o'clock in the evening, was preceded by a " rumbling noise like the rolling of a cannon ball on a boarded floor." Happily no mischief was done. In May, an act was obtained for cutting a canal from Nottingham to Cromford; and four years afterwards, another act was passed for improving the Trent navigation. In 1793, whilst the workmen were digging the foundation of a cotton-mill, near Poplar-place, a great quantity of hazel nuts were found, in a perfect state, two feet below the surface. During the American and the French revolutionary wars, Nottingham, like many other manufacturing towns, was much agitated by political animosities ; but to record the ebullitions and outrages of party spirit is an unpleasant task ; we shall, therefore, confine ourselves to historical fact, without animad- version. Throsby, the most moderate of all the local historians that have noticed these unhappy disturbances, says " the year 1794 was marked by the loyalty of the inhabitants of the town and county, in support of that constitution which Englishmen so much admire. Four troops of Yeomanry Cavalry were raised out of the most respectable inhabitants, similar to what was done at other places ; their clothing scarlet and buff; their commander Anthony Hardolph Eyre, Esq., of Grove, near Retford. None showed more loyalty on this occasion, by way of subscription, than a club in Nottingham, called the Loyal society." A liberal subscription was raised here during the same year, for the purpose of providing extra warm clothing for the British troops on the continent. A few of the democrats, in opposition to the loyalists, who had joined the Volunteer corps for the defence of their country, repaired early every morning for some time to Sneinton plain, where they received instruc- tions in the military exercise from a discarded drill-sergeant, using, for want of muskets, sticks, which were sarcastically called " wooden guns" On July 2d, 1794, a serious disturb- ance was occasioned in the town, by a party of democrats show- ing signs of pleasure on the arrival of some disagreeable news from the continent, which so enraged the loyalists, that they ducked several of them in the river Leen, and committed other violent outrages on the persons and property of those whom, in their mistaken zeal, they considered as Jacobinical enemies of their country. During the night, they set fire to some out- works of Mr. Dennison's cotton-mill, in which some of the opposite party had taken shelter, and in their defence, it is said, bad fired upon the mob. The vigilance of the magistrates and their friends, however, assisted by the light horse from the barracks, prevented further mischief— except the burning of some premises not of any great value; but a scene of ducking and disorder appeared again on the following day, and was con- tinued until the popular ebullition subsided. In February, 1795, a frost of seven weeks was succeeded by NOTTINGHAM. 99 a rapid thaw, which occasioned the greatest flood in the Trent ever remembered by the oldest persons then living. The da- mage done on the banks of the Trent and its tributary streams was estimated at <£ 1,000,000. All the inhabitants of the low grounds near the river suffered greatly in this overwhelming inundation, which swept away cattle, sheep, carts, waggons, furniture, &c. and did much damage to the bridges at Notting- ham and other places, owing partly to the immense bodies of ice which were carried down the raging torrent. So high was the water at Nottingham, that it was three feet deep in many of the houses in Narrow-marsh and the Meadow-platts, where some of the inhabitants were kept prisoners in their upper rooms during two days and nights. The losses of many ot the sufferers were afterwards alleviated by the subscriptions of their more fortunate neighbours. In February, 1809, there Avas another great flood, during which the water again entered the houses in Narrow-marsh, but the damage was trifling compared with that of 1795. On April 18th, 1795, there was a riot at Nottingham, in consequence of the high price of provisions ; but the Yeomanry and a troop of heavy Dragoons soon restored order, by seizing thirteen of the most active disturbers of the peace. In January, 1796, wheat sold for 12s. or 13s. per bushel, and. during the succeeding fifteen years, it was several times as high as 20s. and 21s. per bushel. The first house in New Radford was built in 1796, by Benjamin Darker, a needle maker of Nottingham. In February, 1797, the suspension of cash payments at the Bank of England, produced serious consequences in all the manufacturing districts ; a great many of the workmen of this town and neighbourhood were thrown out of employment, and the ordinary business of the town could not be carried on until the banks issued a quantity of seven-shillings tickets. In the following month, numerously signed petitions were sent from the town, praying his Majesty to discharge his Ministers, whom the people considered as the authors of the national distress, by plunging the country in an unnecessary and expensive war. — The canal from the Trent to Grantham was opened this year, during which there died in St. Mary's workhouse, a woman who had many years lived as one of the masculine gender, had been groom to Sir Harry Harper, and had figured on the turf under the name of Jockey John ; the deception was only disco- vered by a post-mortem examination. The Nottingham Vo- lunteer Infantry was raised this year, consisting of three com- panies, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Elliott, Major Hooley, and Captain Statham. The Burton and Clifton Volun- teer companies acted in concert with those of Nottingham, under Lieut.-Col. Smith. Their uniform was a dark blue jacket, turned up with scarlet, and trimmed with gold lace ; LofC. 100 HISTORY OF white pantaloons, short gaiters, and a light horseman's helmet with white feathers. They were disembodied in 1802, in con- sequence of the peace of Amiens. In 1799, during the race week, the Earl of Strafford died at the White Lion Tnn, where he had arrived on the evening he- fore, for the purpose of attending the races ; he was found dead in bed at eight o'clock in the morning. 1800. — In April, there Avas another riot about the high price of provisions, but it was suppressed before much damage was done. In August, George Caunt, a reputable hair-dresser who had been charged with stealing a set of window curtains from the house of a dancing-master, shot George Ball, the con- stable, whilst attempting to apprehend him. The unfortunate officer died on the spot, and the murderer was taken next day at Alfreton, but being determined not to survive his fame, he poisoned himself two days afterwards, in the town gaol ; and, pursuant to the coroner's inquest, was buried on the Sand-hills near the Derby road, but his body was removed in the night by his friends, to the Baptist burial-ground. A handsome sub- scription was raised for the family of the murdered constable. The enormous high price of bread created a serious riot, which commenced on Sunday night, August 31st, and was continued during the two succeeding days ; the houses of many of the bakers were attacked, and several granaries were broken open , " and it was really distressing to see with what famine-impelled eagerness many a mother bore off the corn in her apron to feed her famished children." On the Tuesday, a most awful storm of thunder and lightning finally dispersed the riotous mobs, who previously had no sooner been driven from one place by the military, than they assembled in another. In October, owing to the avarice of the great land owners and the monopolising corn factors, bread rose to a higher price than it had ever been known during the worst times of England's sufferings, and many persons died from absolute want. To alleviate the dis- tress of the poor, subscriptions were raised by the benevolent, and a soup-house was opened in Goose-gate. Amongst the most generous friends of the indigent, at this alarming crisis, were Messrs. Davison and Hawksley, of Arnold, who pur- chased an immense quantity of corn, and not only sold it to the poor at less than prime cost, but ground it gratis at their own worsted-mill, in which they erected stones, &c. for the purpose — there being at the time a lack both of wind and water at the corn-mills in the neighbourhood. They also ground the corn purchased by the charitable subscribers of Nottingham, and carried it in their own waggons to the Market-place, free of expense. For these benevolent acts, they received the blessings of thousands ; and Mr. Hawksley was presented with the free- dom of the town, as also was Mr. Towie, of Bioxtow, who re- NOTTINGHAM. 101 gularly brought corn to market, and sold it at a moderate price, daring this distressful period. In 1801, the parishioners of St. Mary's revived their Ion g- dormant right of causing: a churchwarden alternately with the vicar. On November 29th, Mr. Dennison's cotton-mill, at Pen- ny-foot-stile was burnt down. On May 7th, 1803, the hill which authorises the magistrates of Nottinghamshire to interfere with the police of the M Town and county of the town of Nottingham/' received the royal as- sent. It originated in a petition sent to the House of Com- mons in the preceding year, by D. C. Coke, Esq., against the return of Joseph Birch, Esq., — the former complaining that he had been disappointed of his election at the late contest, by the corporate magistrates not doing their duty, in suppressing the riotous behaviour of the people. In consequence of this act, which is entitled the "Nottingham Election and Police Bill," Mr. Birch was expelled the House, and in the follow- ing year, he lost his election in a contest with Mr. Coke, which cost the town ,£1406. ljs. This was the first time that the me- rits of any election petition from Nottingham had been tried in the House of Commons since the year 17^1> when the House determined that George Gregorv, Esq. had been returned by corrupt and illegal means, and that Robert Saeheverill, Esq. was duly elected. The House at the same time declared that the right of election was vested in the burgesses, and the free- holders of 40s. per annum. In 1803, the first house at New Sneinton was erected ; and a new regiment of Volunteer Infan- try was raised in Nottingham. In 1806, the mayor and town-clerk were deputed to attend the tuneral of the Right Hon. diaries Jarues Fo:i\ who was in- terred on the 11th of October. This year Lieut. Brown, of the 83d regiment, a youth of seventeen, in the recruiting ser- vice, was killed in a duel with Ensign Butler, of the 36th, then quartered in the town. The coroners jury returned a verdict of " wilful murder/' in consequence of which, Butler and the two seconds absconded and were never brought to justice. In 1807, a party of the parishioners of St. Alary and St. Nicho- las parishes, applied to Parliament for a Bill to erect an Incor- porated House of Industry for the reception of all the paupers in the district, extending 12 miles round Nottingham. The pub- lic at large were not acquainted with the existence of this " hole and corner job'* till the Bill was on the eve of being read a second time ; — previous to which, however, Parliament was dissolved, and such detestation was expressed againt the Bill bv the great body of the parishioners, that its authors never again brought it forward. In November, the corporation presented Lord Holland (the son of the late Right Hon. C. J. Fox,) with the freedom of the town, and in 1809, he was elected to the oulce of Recorder. v 9 102 HISTORY OF In 1808. — On February 11th, the roads about the town were from six to twelve feet deep in snow. On the 6th of April, Robert Calvin, a Scotchman, was exposed one hour in the pillory for assaulting- two female children. An exhibition of this kind had not taken place for seventy years before, and its novelty consequently attracted many spectators. The pillory was made for the purpose and erected in the Market-place. In November, the Nottingham Volunteers were disbanded, but upwards of 500 of them, including all the officers, transferred their services to the Local Militia. In 1810, a Reform Petition was sent to the House of Com- mons, and also a congratulatory Address to Sir Francis Bur- dett, Bart., who had just been sent to the Tower. In May, the fellmongers 7 vats on the Leen side were destroyed as a nuisance. During the year, the Police Office was built on the site of an old public-house; and the south-east corner of Bri- dlesmithgatewas taken down, and "the road widened the breadth of a carriage." In October, the new church at Sneinton was opened, and in November, the Lancasterian School was render- ed a permanent charity, at a public meeting-, which was address- ed by Mr. Lancaster, who pointed out in an animated speech, the benefits that would be derived from his system of education. Luddism. — In February, 1811, such was the depressed state of the hosiery trade, that large numbers of half-famished work- men were reduced to pauperism, and obliged to sweep the streets for a paltry support. On the 11th of March, some hun- dreds of the country framework knitters assembled in the Mar- ket-place, and expressed a determination to take vengeance upon some of the hosiery manufacturers, who had reduced the prices paid for making stockings. The appearance of the mili- tary prevented any violence being committed in the town, but at night the men retired to the village of Arnold, and broke 63 frames, chiefly belonging to Mr. Broksop. Owing to the general depressed state of the trade, and the consequent abate- ment of wages, the mischief caught fire, and spread itself many miles round the neighbourhood, with such rapidity and success, that during the succeeding three weeks, upwards of 200 stock- ing frames were broken to pieces, by midnight bands of dis- tressed and deluded workmen, who were so closely bound to- gether by illegal oaths, and so disguised, and organized for their work of destruction, that but very few of them could be brought to justice, though they frequently renewed their nefarious practices during the succeeding rive yours, under the assumed name of Luddites, — an appellation which well suited their character, as it is said to have been derived from one Lud~ /am, an ignorant youth of I Leicestershire, who, when ordered by his father, (a framework knitter) to " square his needles," took his hammer and beat them into a heap. During the reign of this system of" Luddism" upwards of one thousand stocking NOTTINGHAM. 103 frames and a number of lace machines were completely destroy- ed in the county of Nottingham, and the alarming evil extended itself into the counties of Leicester, Derby, Lancaster, and York, in the two latter of which counties, the object of the workmen was to destroy those machines which had been intro- duced for the purpose of superseding- manual labour, but the frame breakers in the hosiery and lace trades had not this griev- ance to complain of; no, their sole object was an advance of wages, and this, they blindly imagined, would be effected by destroying the very tools which enabled them to follow their occupations. The plan adopted by these midnight prowlers, was to assemble in parties of from six to sixty, according as circumstances required, under a supposed leader styled General Lucid, and sometimes Ned Ludd. Whoever took upon him- this title, had the absolute command of his party, some of whom, armed with swords, pistols, firelocks, &c, were placed as guards, whilst those armed with hammers, axes, &c, entered the houses and demolished the frames, after which they re-assembled at a short distance from the scene of destruction, where their leader called over his men, who answered to certain numbers, and if all were there, and their work finished for the night, he signified the same by firing a pistol ; after which they immediately departed to their respective homes, removing on the way, the black handkerchiefs which had covered their features. In consequence of these daring outrages being continued, a large military force was brought into the neighbourhood, and two of the London police magistrates, with several other officers, came down to Nottingham to assist the civil power in attempting to discover the ringleaders ; — a secret committee was also formed and supplied with a large sum of money for the purpose of obtaining private information, but in spite of all this vigilance, and in contempt of a Royal Procla- mation, the offenders continued their course of devastation, with redoubled violence, as will be seen by the following brief notice of the leading features of these unhappy disturbances, abridged from the newspapers of 181 1-12-1 4-and-l 6. On Sunday night, November 10th, a party of Luddites pro- ceeded to the village of Buhvell, to destroy the frames of Mr. Hollingworth, who, in anticipation of their visit, had procured the assistance of three or four friends, who with fire arms re- solved to protect the threatened property. Many shots were fired on both sides, and one of the assailants, John Westb}', of Arnold, was mortally wounded, which so enraged the mob, that they soon forced an entrance, and the little garrison was obliged to make a precipitate retreat, when the rioters not only de- stroyed the frames, but also every article of furniture in the house. On the succeeding day, they seized and broke a wag- gon load of frames near Arnold, and on the Wednesday follow- ing, proceeded to Sutton- in- Ash field > where they destroyed 104 HISTORY OF 37 frames ; after which, they were dispersed by the military, who, took a number of prisoners, of whom four were fully com- mitted for trial, viz. : John Bradbury, Gervas Marshall, George Green, and John Clarke. During the following week, only one frame was broken, but several stacks were burnt at Snein- ton, Mansfield, and Hucknai Torkard, as was supposed by the frame breakers, in revenge against the owners, who, as mem- bers of the Yeomanry Cavalry, had been active in suppressing the riots. On Sunday night, November 24th, 34 frames were demolished in Basford, and 11 more were added to the same wreck on the following day. On December 6th, the magis- trates published an edict, which ordered all persons in the dis- turbed districts to remain in their houses after ten o'clock at night, and all victuallers to close at the same hour. Notwith- standing this proclamation, and a great civil and military force, 36 frames were broken in the villages around Nottingham during the six following days. This bold defiance called forth the following Magistrates' Letter : — " There has now ex- isted in the neighbourhood of Nottingham for a considerable time, a most outrageous spirit of riot and tumult: Houses have been feloniously broken into, and a great number of stocking frames have been broken and destroyed by an armed multi- tude, accompanied with menaces to the lives of those who should endeavour to interfere in preventing the mischief; vari- ous threatening letters have been sent ; arms have been feloniously demanded and seized ; stacks have been fired, and private pro- perty destroyed ; and contributions have been levied under the pretence of applications for charitable relief, but under the real influence of terror. These are acts of so flagrant a nature, and leading to insurrection and such fatal consequences, that the magistrates, as legal guardians of the public peace, have the duty incumbent upon them of suppressing the evil, by the civil and military force, and by putting the laws in execution on the offenders, many of whom have committed crimes for which the law demands the forfeiture of their lives." The hosiery and lace manufacturers, finding the above letter had no effect, tried conciliatory measures, and at a general meeting, offered, as soon as peace could be restored, to consider proposals from their workmen, and to remove any grievances that might be found to exist ; but even this failed, and the stupid, misguided men, as if bent on their own ruin as well as that of their em- ployers, destroyed during the same week nearly 20 frames in the town and neighbourhood. After this a Royal Proclama- tion was issued, offering <£50 reward for the apprehension of any of the offenders, but this only tended to inflame the frenzy of the men, who now began to plunder the farm houses both of money and provisions, declaring " they would not starve whilst there was plenty in the land." The number of unemployed families who were relieved out of the Poor Rates in the three XOTflXGHAtt. lOfi parishes of Nottingham, on the 30th of Janurry, 1812, amount- ed 4243 ; consisting- of no fewer than 15,350 individuals, or nearly one-half of the population. 1812. — No fewer than 41 frames were broken in the first week of this year, viz. : 15 at Radford, nine at Basford, nine at Hucknal-Torkard, five at Nottingham, and three at Bulwell and Arnold. On the Sunday night following-, eight more were destroyed in Nottingham. For the purpose of affording more liberal rewards for informations against the perpetrators of these alarming outrages, a large subscription was raised, towards which the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Middleton, the Duke of Portland, and Earl Manvers, each contributed 500 pounds; and William Sherbrook, Esq., J. Manners Sutton, Esq., and many other gentlemen, one hundred pounds each. At the March Assize, Judge Bailey sentenced seven frame breakers to transportation, viz. — four for fourteen, and there for seven years. And on leaving the town his lordship left open the commission of Assize, so that in case of anv further disturbances he might return immediately, and administer summary justice on the delinquents. At the July Assize two others were convicted, and one transported for fourteen years, and the other imprisoned for three years. In March, an act of Parliament was passed, making it death to break a stocking or lace frame. In April, Mr. Trentham, a considerable manufac- turer, was shot by two ruffians while standing at his own door, but happilv the wound did not prove mortal ; the offenders were not discovered, though a reward of ,£600 was offered for their apprehension. In the gloomy month of November, the evil spirit of luddism again broke loose, and as before, generally se- lected the Sabbath evenings as the most favourable periods for performing its wicked deeds. After paying several destructive visits in Sneinton, on Sunday night, December 6th, an armed band of Luddites, with their faces covered with black handker- chiefs, entered the house of Mr. Black, who, on hearing them ascending, suddenly eppeared at the head of the stairs with a poker, and boldly exclaimed, "you have my life to take first." Upon which they became panic struck, and made a precipitate retreat. 1813, November 1st, Mr. Sadler, senior, ascended in his bal- loon, from the Canal Company's Wharf, and after an aerial voyage of fifty-nine minutes descended near Stamford. This was the first time that any aeronaut had ascended from Notting- ham. — In July 1785, a Mr. Cracknall advertised that he would ascend from the forest, but to the great disappointment of the people he sent off his balloon to the aerial regions, and remained himself on terra firma. On November 30th, 1813, there were great rejoicings at Nottingham, on account of several victories gained by the allied forces over the French army ; two bullocks and twenty sheep were roasted, and in the evening there was a partial illumination and a display of fireworks, 106 HISTORY Of 1814, June 6th, there was a general illumination and' muck rejoicing" in the town, in consequence of the French armies be- ing again defeated, but trade still being in a depressed state, these scenes of public joy were soon interrupted by the outrages of the Luddites, who, in this county, had slumbered during the preceeding year, but they now awoke, and blackened their former crimes with that of murder. On October 14, a party of them proceeded to Basford, and attacked the house of Mr. Thomas Garton, who had been the means of apprehending one of their sworn brethren. Mr. Garton being apprized of this visit, had obtained the assistance of several constables, who, after the assailants had broken into the house, and discharged several shots, returned their fire; when one of the Luddites fell, and the rest retreated, and in their flight, shot dead at his own door, Mr. William Kilby, who lived in a neighbouring house, and had been drawn to his threshold on hearing the report of fire arms. 1815, March 22d, peace with America was proclaimed ; Aug. 6th, the Baptist Chapel, in George-street, was opened; and during the year the Lancasterian School was completed, and several petitions were singned against the corn laws. 1816, on the 17th of March, a slight shock of an earthquake was felt in the town and neighbourhood, and on the night of the 8th of June, the Luddites broke nineteen lace frames in the houses of William Wright and Thomas Mullen, for which offence two men were tried at the July Assize, but acquitted for want of evidence. This is the last act of " Luddism" which we have to record ; for its mistaken votaries, consisting chiefly of youths from 22 to 18 years of age, had now discovered that their destructive practices were in the end more injurious to themselves than their employers, whose losses had of course to be borne by the county rate. Napoleon Bonaparte, after his final defeat, was sent by the allied powers to the Island of St. Helena, were he arrived October 15, 1816, and died on May 5, 1821. In 1817, the general peace not having brought with it its ex- pected concomitant plenty, numerous political meetings were held, and loud and imperative cries were raised for Parliamen- tary Reform. In this state of public distress and excitement several Government spies were sent out to gain information from the disturbed districts, and one of these emissaries, a Mr. Oliver, visited the reformers of Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, but the principal scene of his pestiferous mission was in the latter county, where, after excit- ing numbers of distressed workmen to assemble for illegal purposes, he caused them to be seized by the military and ar- raigned for high treason, but none of them were convicted. Gunpowder Explosion. — A calamity of the most dreadful description occurred at the warehouse of the Nottingham Canal NOTTINGHAM. 107 Company, on Monday, Sept. 28, 1818, about three o'clock in the afternoon, by the accidental explosion of a large quantity of gunpowder, contained in twenty-one barrels, each weighing about lOOlbs. The powder had been received in the morning by a boat from Gainsborough, and had just been deposited in the warehouse, previous to its being forwarded by another boat to Cromford, when the heedless conduct of one of the boatmen in applying a hot cinder to a train of loose powder, which had fal- len from one of the casks during the removal, caused the whole to blow up. The report was so tremendous as to be heard at Bingham, a distance of ten miles, Castle Donington, Risely, and at other places even more distant. Every house in the town was shaken as if by an earthquake, and the inhabitants were thrown into the utmost consternation and dismay. The com- pany's warehouse, a very spacious building, which at the time contained about 4,000 quarters of corn, besides cheese, gro- ceries, paper, &c. was completely lifted into the air and scat- tered in heaps of ruins ; not one stone being left standing upon another. The explosion was followed by a cloud of smoke which completely darkened the atmosphere, and on its clearing away, such a scene of devastation presented itself, as it is scarcely possible to describe. The roofs of most of the build- ings in the immediate neighbourhood appeared to be torn off or rent assunder, and windows innumerable shattered and broken, or wholly forced out of the frames, while the yard and wharf were strewed with the wrecks of the building and merchandize. But the most lamentable part of the story remains to be told, no less than ten human beings lost their lives by the dreadful effects of the explosion, viz. eight men and two boys, most of whose bodies were bruised and mangled in a shocking manner ; one had his head blown entirely off — others were found with their limbs severed from their bodies — others with the tops of their skulls carried away, and otherwise torn and disfigured ; and the unfortunate author of the mischief was thrown a great distance into the meadows, where his remains were found rent asunder and scattered in several parts. The names of the suf- ferer were Joseph Musson, William Norman, John Seals, Benjamin Wheatley, George Hayes, William Parker, Thomas Baker, John Howell, William Stevenson, and Job Barnes. — At the Coroner's inquest, Joseph Champion deposed that Joseph Musson came on board his boat, then lying 1 about thirty yards from the canal warehouse, and asked for a light, saying, " Lads I'm going to have a flush," and that he went to the fire and took away a live coke between two pieces of stick, and that almost immediately afterwards the warehouse was blown up, and the deponent and his companions were knocked down in their boat. A subscription, which did honour to the benevolent feelings of the inhabitants of Nottingham, was opened for the relief of the families of the poor sufferers. The disaster proved 108 HISTORY OF extremely detrimental to many traders who had goods in the warehouse, and the loss sustained by the Canal Company was immense. 1819 was a year of great national distress and disaffection. Reform, Meetings were held in all the principal towns ; and in Lancashire "Female Reform Societies" were formed. Con- trary to law, Birmingham elected a person to represent it in Parliament, and Manchester and Leeds intended to have fol- lowed the example, but the capture of Mr. Hunt and some other travelling agitators of the public mind at the " Manchester Massacre," on the 16th of August, gave another bias to the ag- gravated feelings of the people. 1820, George III. died January 29th, in the 82d year of his age, and the 60th year of his reign. His eldest son, George IV. was proclaimed during the following month, amidst some marks of disapprobation, and was crowned July 19th, 1821, when the exclusion of the Queen from the regal ceremony gave great dis- satisfaction. 1 825. — This year weights and measures were equallised by an act of Parliament. In December the failure of many country banking houses caused a great stagnation in trade. 1827.— His Royal Highness Duke of York died January 5th, and the Right Honourable George Canning on the 8th of August. 1828. — No fewer than 154 corps of Yeomanry Cavalry were disbanded this year, by which the country saved .£200,000 per annum. 1829. — This year was the centenary of Methodism, which was founded by the 'Rev. John Wesley, M.A., at Oxford, in 1729. As Nottingham is in the diocese of York we may notice that on the 2d of February, Jonathan Martin, a wandering fanatic, set fire to York Minster, by which the interior of the choir and chancel, with the roof of that extensive and beautiful edifice was reduced to a heap of ruins. For the restoration of this " chief of houses as the rose of flowers," large sums of money were subscribed ; and the organ was replaced by the Hon. and Rev. John Lumley Saville, M.A. at the cost, of about £8000. This year there were 6680 English mechanics Franee. The year 1830 was big with the fate of kings and nations. George IV. died July 26th, in the 68th year of his age, and the 11th of his reign. The second French Revolution was effected during the " glorious three days" of July 28th, 29th, and 30th, and Charles X. was driven from the throne which both he and his ancestors had so often abused. During the succeeding month, the spirit of liberty broke loose in Belgium and Bruns wick, and soon afterwards in Saxony and Poland, but England was fortunately saved from the continental infection by the ascension of his present patriotic majesty William IV., whoso throne is enshrined in the hearts of his people. Five thousand N0TT1 NGNAM. 109 francs were subscribed at Nottingham, in aid of the families of those who suffered at Paris in the cause of liberty. This sum, and a congratulatory address, were conveyed to Paris, by Messrs. Richard Booker and William Taylor, who, for the faithful discharge of their mission, were each rewarded with a silver snuff box, bearing an appropriate inscription. That great and useful statesman, Mr. Huskisson, was unfortunately killed this year, on September loth, at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The Aeiv Beer Act came into operation on the 11th of October, and under it, up- wards e\i sixty houses for the sale of beer, were opened during the year in Nottingham and its suburbs. 1831, the year in which we write, stands conspicuous in the political annals of the kingdom, for in it the long-cherished hopes of the people, after being raised to the highest pinnacle of popular excitement by the patriotic and equitable conduct of the King and his Ministers, and by a consequent triumphant ma- jority in the House of Commons, in favour of Lord John Rus- sell's Reform Bill, were dashed to the earth in the House of Lords, by an overwhelming majority of Bishops and junior Peers, the latter of whom, being mostly hatched in the Pitt and Castlereagh administrations, have always been in the ranks of the boroughmongers, and opposed to popular representation. This oligarchical majority, which had the temerity to beard both the King and the people, and to give "the lie direct" to that branch of the Legislature which had declared its own cor- ruption, brought the nation to the verge of a baneful revolution, which was only averted by the prompt exertions of the influen- tial members of the community, who, in animated speeches at the great public meetings simultaneously assembled in almost every town in the kingdom, on this mournful occasion, suc- ceeded in restoring the confidence of the people in favour of the King and his present Ministers, who pledged themselves to bring- forward in the course of the year another bill for the Reform of the Commons House of Parliament, " as full and efficient" as that which, was lost by a majority of forty-one in the House of Lords, at a quarter past six o'clock on the morning of Saturday, October 8th, when 158 voted for, and 199 against Lord John Russell's bill. The news of this lamentable defeat reached Nottingham at seven o'clock the same evening. The unwelcome intelligence was no sooner read in the news-room at Bromley- house, than a respectably signed requisition ^as sent to the mayor, calling upon him to convene, without delay, a publit meeting, to be held on the Monday morning following, to ad- dress the King, praying that tie would continue his Ministers, and that such measures might be adopted " as would ensure the carrying of Earl Grey's measure of Reform, and preserve the peace and happiness of this kingdom." In the course of the evening, nine other requisitions were presented to the mayor, L 310 HISTORY OF after he had acted upon the first. The spirit of excitement throughout the town was so great, that from an early hour on Sunday morning the inhabitants began to assemble in the prin- cipal streets, to talk over the doleful news, and wait the arrival of the mails and coaches, which brought certain intelligence that very considerable disturbances had taken place at Derby, and also false rumours that similar commotions had taken place at London, Birmingham, and other places. This so encou- raged the ignorant part of the mob, that the windows of many persons, said to have signed an anti-reform petition, were broken during the evening, and the town thrown into such an alarming state of confusion, that the mayor found it necessary to read the riot act, and call in the only remaining troop of the 15th Hussars then at the barracks. The shop of Mr. Wright, bookseller., on the Long-row, was broken into by a gang of mischievous youths, who seized parts of the market stalls and used them as battering-rams in breaking in the shutters and window frames. A provision shop at the corner of Charlotte- street and York-street, was also broken open, and its contents strewed about the street. The troops and constables continued patrolling the streets till a late hour, without coming in contact with the mobs of idle youths, by whom the greatest part of the mischief was committed* On the following morning, Monday, October 10th, the peo- ple began to assemble at an early hour in the Market-place, where the various stall keepers and proprietors of exhibitions intending to stay through the last days of the fair, soon per- ceived that it was not safe for them to remain longer, and they consequently commenced packing up, with such dispatch, that before twelve o'clock there was not one vestige of the fair to be seen. The public meeting took place as appointed, and was attended by upwards of 20,000 people, who, after hearing the conciliatory speeches of Thomas Wakefield, Esq., Lord Ran- cliffe, W. F. N. Norton, Esq., Alderman Oldknow, Colonel Wildman, Mr. Thomas Bailey, and Mr. Charles Wilkins, voted a loyal address to his Majesty, praying him to retain his Ministers and stand firm in the cause of Keform. They sepa- rated quietly about two o'clock, but such sullen looks of dis- content were noticed amongst the multitude, that many close observers feared something serious would occur before next day. In the course of the afternoon, crowds of people began to col- lect in different parts of the town, and most of the respectable housekeepers were summoned to the Police-office, and after being sworn in as special constables, they were ordered to as- semble whenever the great bell of the Exchange should ring. — Meanwhile, the magistrates, the police, and the military were on the alert. The first breach of the peace was in Hockley, where a mob consisting principally of disorderly youths from the country, broke the windows of Mr. Smith and Mr. Prickard, NOTTINGHAM. Ill though both of them were zealous friends of Reform. They were, however, soon dispersed by the military, who captured a crape flag, inscribed " the Bill and no Lords'' The mob next attacked Mr. Sharp's wind-mill,, on the forest, and before the Hussars could gallop thither, had cut the sails, injured the wheel work, and thrown about the corn and flour. The win- dows of many persons in various parts of the town were after- wards demolished. A little before dusk, a body of sturdy youths passed up the Sneinton road, and at Nottintone-place, tore down a long range of iron pallisades, with which they armed themselves. They then })roceeded to Colwick Hall, reinforced by continual arrivals of people from the lower parts of the town. Having arrived at this beautiful seat, they broke all the windows, and after splitting the furniture in pieces, piled it in heaps and set fire to it. All the family, except Mr. Musters, were at home, and the ladies had only just time to hide themselves in a secret room, where they remained concealed from the search of the mob, who carried off every thing that was valuable. The servants succeeded in extinguishing the fires, after the depar- ture of the rioters, who on their return tore up a number of rails, with which many hundreds, marching eight or ten abreast, entered the town, where they separated into divisions, moving in different directions, so that the magistrates could not discover where the next attack would be made. Soon after seven o'clock, information was received at the Police-office, that the Castle was the object of attack, and one of the Aldermen, with a party of military, set out to defend it, but they were met on the road with intelligence that a vast mul- titude were breaking open the House of Correction ; upon which the magistrates deemed it more advisable to march their forces for the defence of their own prison, where they arrived in time to prevent the entrance of the misguided mob, but were obliged to remain, and leave the empty Castle to its fate. The Castle destroyed by Fire. — That splendid but unoccupied mansion, Nottingham Castle, being the property of the Duke of Newcastle, was, on account of his Grace's un- qualified opposition to the Reform Bill, marked out for destruc- tion by the infuriated mob, part of whom, in order to divert the attention of the magistrates and the civil and military forces, marched from the Market-place to the House of Correction, whilst the main body, consisting principally of the rioters who had returned from Colwick Hall, proceeded by different routes to the Castle lodge, where they arrived soon after seven o'clock in the evening, and commenced a battering attack upon the lodge gates, whilst others scaled the walls of the Castle yard, opposite to the flight of steps leading to Standard-hill, where a breach was soon made, so that by the stones pulled down into the road, entrance into the yard was easily effected. The 112 HISTORY OK assailants then rushed up to the Castle, mounted the great flight of stairs, broke in the windows, and collecting the materials best suited for burning, they piled them in different heaps and set fire to them, so that in a short time thi9 proud ornament of the town was on fire in so many parts, that all hope of ex- tinction was vain;— the great height and distance to which water would have to be carried, aided by the dryness of the timber, would have made it impossible for the whole population of Nottingham to have subdued the conflagration, which by half-past nine o'clock had reached its height. At this time the atmosphere was filled with a lurid glare, vast volumes of flame issued from every window, and rolled forth masses of smoke, which gradually spread and mounted aloft, till it formed a gigantic bulk, to which even the stupendous building, and the great rock on which it stands, were diminutive. A man with a large crow-bar commenced the destruction of the beautiful equestrian statue, placed in a niche in the centre of the east front, and very speedily left the horse and the rider headless and limbless trunks , — the parts broken off were carried away as trophies ! The circumstance of the Castle being without the limits of the town magistracy* and the disturbances in the po- pulous parts of the town keeping the few military busily en- gaged, gave the assailants of the Castle almost unbounded license, and as the flames burst forth in each new direction, they were hailed with loud and exulting shouts ! At the com- mencement, many persons were seen carrying fire from room to room, and stripping the antique and beautiful tapestry from the walls. About eleven o'clock, the conflagration began to subside, and heavy showers of rain acted as a check in prevent- ing further outrage, by causing a great part of the mob to retire to their respective homes. But on the following morning, the mob again assembled at an early hour, about the Castle-yard, and soon made their entrance into it. For some time they wandered amongst the still burning ruins, in search of relics. Two boys were crushed and scorched to death, in their attempt to secure some of the large masses of lead, glass, and calcined stone and marble, which were found completely fused together. Three men, who ventured upon the stone steps of the geometrical staircase at the north end, were precipitated a depth of seven or eight feet, amongst the smoking ruins, and with great difficulty extricated themselves. During the forenoon of Tuesday, a large body of men and boys, chiefly from the neighbouring villages, collected in the Market-place, whence they marched out of the town, after re- fusing to believe any thing thai was told them about the peace- able state of the metropolis. It was soon ascertained that they had set fire to the large Silh Mill at Bees ton, belonging to Mr. William Lowe, of Nottingham, and the flames and smoke were in a little time distinctly seen from the skirts of the town* NOTTINGHAM. 113 By three o'clock the mill was reduced to a heap of ruins, and its 200 workmen thrown out of employment. The loss of pro- perty was estimated at near <£ 12,000. On leaving the town in the morning, the rioters called at the Greyhound and the Durham Ox, where they ate and drank all that the houses contained, without paying the landlords for their entertainment. On their return from the burning mill, they called at the house of Mat- thew Needham, Esq., where all the wine and eatables speedily disappeared, together with silver plate of the value of about £40. They also asked for food at the house of John Wright, Esq., but went away on that gentleman giving them two sovereigns. They next commenced an attack on the gate of Woollaton Park, the seat of Lord Middleton, and soon obtained an en- trance, but being immediately charged by a troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, they made a precipitate retreat, in which sixteen of them were taken prisoners, and escorted by a party of the loth Hussars to the county gaol. To prevent an attempt at rescue, the soldiers, in passing through the town with their prisoners, were obliged to have their swords drawn and pistols presented, — so closely were they followed up by the mob, who on arriving in the Poultry, threw several stones, which so exasperated the officer who brought up the rear of the soldiers, that he fired his pistol down High-street, and severely wounded two indivi- duals, one of whom was an old pensioner, acting as a special constable. This was about five o'clock, and as evening ap- proached, the soldiers began to charge upon the crowds in and near the Market-place, and soon dispersed them, by galloping along the pavements and striking with the flat of the sword those who did not move onward. To prevent them returning again to the Market-place, all the narrow passages leading to the Long-row were barricaded, and orders were issued for all houses of public resort to be closed, and for all housekeepers to retain their families within doors. On Wednesday, the alarm appeared to have subsided, the market was supplied as usual, and all the shops were re-opened. At night, the smaller tho- roughfares into the Market-place were again closed, and by vigilant patrols the streets were kept clear of crowds during the night, in which, however, two stacks, were destroyed by fire in the village of Plumptre, as is supposed by two incendiaries, who just before had obtained relief at the house of Mr. Cole, with which they expressed themselves highly dissatisfied, and went away grumbling. Owing to the indefatigable exertions of the magistrates, the police, the special constables, and the military, the tranquillity of the town was not again disturbed. Though the whole country was in mourning on account e the rejection of the Reform 'Bill, peace was happily preserve, in almost all the populous districts, except at' Nottingham Derby, Mansfield, Loughborough, and a few smaller places where the hosiery and lace trades are carried on. in which occti l2 114 HISTORY OF pations, the real manufacturers have lost their due influence over the workmen, by the introduction of a sort of " middle- men" through whose medium nearly all the work now passes betwixt the employer and the operative. At no place was the destruction of property so great as at Nottingham and its vici- nity;* it is however due to the great body of the inhabitants to remark, that the wanton mischief was mostly committed by disorderly youths, incited and assisted by ignorant and depraved adults, of whom numbers are to be found in all large towns, ready to take advantage of popular clamour, for the purpose of plunder, and to whom no "Reform" would be acceptable, but that which would give them idleness and plenty. We cannot better close this brief detail of the last scene of popular outrage in Nottingham, than by quoting the following passage from a lengthy and truly patriotic address, published during the week by Mr. Thomas Bailey, who, after condemning his townsmen for madly attempting to "ruin the best cause in the world, by the adoption of the worst possible means for its alleged support ;' ? says, " My dear fellow countrymen, I entreat you to avoid every one who would lead you into acts of violence and outrage, as you would avoid a wild beast, or a pest-house; for be assured, they seek generally, by such a course, but to make you instru- ments for the gratification of their private malice, or tools for the establishment of a system of lawless domination, in the fur- therance of which they would in turn trample contemptuously upon your blood, should it serve their purpose, or remorselessly wring the solitary crust of bread from the hands of your help- less children, should the gain be necessary, to feed their own greedy concupiscence. Abstain then, I again entreat you, as you love yourselves — as you love your wives and children — as you love your parents and kindred — as you venerate our be- loved country — as you respect the talented, virtuous, patriotic band of men who are pledged to accomplish the great measure of Parliamentary Reform', from any acts of violence against the person or property of any individual, however opposed to this grand scheme of our social amelioration. What is done, I am * Bristol Riots.— Since writing the above, the devastation in Nottingham has been greatly surpassed by the most brutal scene of wanton outrage and plunder that ever disgraced the kingdom. This blot in our national history was caused by the obstinacy of Sir Charles Wetherell, who, after rendering himself highly un- popular by his inveterate opposition to the Reform Bill, peisisted in his determina- tion to enter the city of Bristol (of which he is Recorder,) and open the Court of Quarter Session, though strenuously advised to the contrary. He accordingly en- tered on Saturday, October 30th, and created such a storm of popular fury, that, during the two following days, the city was given up to the plunder and devastation of dissolute bands of rioters; who burnt to the ground the Mansion-house, the Bishop's palace, the three Prisons, the four Toll-houses, the Custom-house, the Excise-office, and forty-two dwelling-houses and warehouses. Many lives were lost in the flames and by the sword, and the loss of property amounted to upwards NOTTINGHAM. ]]£ aware cannot now be undone ; but it can be repented of — the repetition of it can be avoided. The stain cast by the hand of violence upon the page of our local history, I know cannot be effaced, but unfortunately will endure when the present genera- tion has ceased to exist ; do not, then, I entreat you, deepen these frightful characters, nor add to the shame and embarrass- ment of your friends, by lengthening the catalogue of burnings •and spoliation of property which have marked the transactions of the passing week." The damage -dt Nottingham Castle, Bees- ton Silk Mill, and Cohvick Hall, amounted to upwards of .£50,000, exclusive of the loss in broken windows, &c. which was very considerable. The damage at Mansfield amounted to <£137. Having given a rapid, but we hope faithful and comprehen- sive sketch of all that is interesting in the general history of this important town, our next task is to present separate histori- cal and descriptive views of its ancient and modern buildings and institutions; its civil and ecclesiastical jurisdictions, — ma- nufactures, trade and commerce, — its rivers, canals, and public works, — its objects of interest and curiosity, &c. &c. ; together with biographical sketches of its eminent men, list of streets, squares, courts, &c. and a variety of other interesting matter detailed under a lucid arrangement of subjects, to which we hasten to introduce the reader. NOTTINGHAM CASTLE. This once majestic ornament of the town, as has just been seen, now stands in smoky ruin, a sable monument of the evil effects of populai frenzy ; and whether it will ever be again re- stored to its pristine state is doubtful, as it long since ceased to be the occasional residence of its owner, the Duke of Newcastle. The historical events connected with it have already been in- serted in the preceding annals of the town, therefore, the fol- lowing recapitulation will suffice :— - In 868, before the union of the heptarchy under one sovereign, the Danes having come up the Trent, established themselves in a fortress built on the rock, and were there besieged by Buthred, King of Mercia, and Prince, afterwards King Alfred ; a treaty of peace was after- wards made between the Saxons and Danes, without taking the fortress. Immediately after the conquest, William de Peverel, natural son of the conqueror, in the year 1068, built a castle at the summit of the rock ; this was always possessed as a royal castle. In the reign of Henry II. it was besieged and held out against his rebellious son, Henry; in the time of Richard Cceur de Lion, and during that monarch's captivity on the con- tinent, it was seized by Earl, afterwards King John, as one of the strongest holds in the kingdom, in his project to make himself king; Richard, after a long siege, got possession of the place, and afterwards held a Parliament in the castle, for the 116 HISTORY OF trial of his brother and his accomplices, but they did not appear. Here Mortimer, paramour of Queen Isabella, and governor of the kingdom, during the minority of Edward III., held his court, and it was here that he was surprised by the young king in 1330. King Edward IV. very much enlarged the castle, by various towers extending to the brow of the hill on the north, and covering what is now the Castle-green. Richard III. held his court, and mustered his forces here before he marched to Bosworth Field. During the reigns of the Tudors, the place fell into a dilapidated state, but still it was sufficiently strong to be an important place in the wars between Charles I. and his Parliament ; for that Prince erected his standard in the castle, on the 22d of August, 1642, and on the hill north of it, three days after. It was for some time in the possession of the Par- liamentary forces, and had the celebrated Colonel Hutchinson for its governor ; after standing nearly 600 years, it was des- troyed during the protectorate of Cromwell. Previous to this, however, it had been granted by James I. to the Earl of Rut- land, and descended to his heir, Villiers, Duke of Bucking- ham. After the restoration, it was claimed by his heirs, and sold by them to William Cavendish, Marquis, and afterwards Duke of Newcastle, who in 1674, commenced the building of the present edifice ; it was completed in the year 1683, by his son, Henry. The equestrian statue in front, is that of the founder, and was cut by Wilson, out of one single block of stone, brought from Donington, in Leicestershire. The entire cost of the building is stated by Deering to have been .£14,002. 17s. lid., and the name of the architect March. The second Duke of Newcastle dying without male issue, his property descended to the Earl of Clare, who had married his third daughter, and was created Duke of Newcastle by William III. This nobleman also died without issue, and the property went to his nephew, Lord Pelham, who in 171 8, was created Duke of Newcastle by George I. The castle has not in the memory of man been the residence of the family to whom it belongs, but has generally been inhabited by private families. It was many years occupied as two separate mansions by Mrs. Plumbe and Miss Kirkby ; after their death, it was occupied by the late W. B. Rawson, Esq., by Miss Greaves, and the Rev. Joseph Gilbert. It has now been untenanted for about two years. The great dining-room was hung with a splen- did piece of tapestry, which tradition says was the work of Queen Anne, who was here in 1688, before her accession to the throne. A vast quantity of cedar was used in its erection, and the perfume which was occasioned by its burning, was distinctly perceptible during the night at a considerable distance. The Castle,' though now reduced to a mere rootless shell, still appears to the distant observer as it did before the late con- NOTTINGHAM. J 17 rlagration, the exterior walls being- all left standing ; it rest? on a rustic basement, and its principal front is highly orna- mented in the Corinthian order ; with a handsome double flight of steps, above which (over the door which led to the en- trance hall) is the now mutilated equestrian statue of the found- er. The whole is surrounded by a beautiful terrace, with an arcade on the south side. It is 72 yards long, and 30 yards broad, and was terminated by a flat monotonous roof, without any towers, turrets, or embattlements, in remembrance of the formidable fortress which once occupied its site, or in unison with the bold features of the lofty frowning rock on which it stands. The Castle Lodge, which escaped the late fire, consists of a venerable gothic gateway, flanked by two bastions, which formed part of the outworks, by which the ancient castle was surrounded. One of the bastions has been long occupied by a porter, who, for a trifling fee, admits visitors into the castle- yard, which commands a delightful and extensive prospect, being on the summit of the bold rock, which on the south and west rises nearly perpendicularly, 133 feet above the river Leen. The deep ditch which passed in front of the lodge and along the north side of the castle wall, was filled up in 1807, when the new road from Houndsgate to the park was made. Mortimer's Hole is a subterraneous passage, 107 yards in length, seven feet high, and six feet wide, leading from the court of the old castle to the brewhouse yard, at the foot of the rock, and formerly having six gates, distant about 17 yards from each other. All the way down, till within 15 yards of the bottom, are openings in the side of the rock, intended to. light the passage, and for the soldiers to shoot their arrows- through upon the enemy ; in the upper part are cut out several large port holes, which show, that during the civil wars cannon were planted there, so as to command the road from Trent bridge; for near them are several excavations, evidently in- tended for the reception of balls and powder. This " wonder- ful passage was cut during the Danish invasion, by some of the Saxon kings, for the better security in case of siege ;" and indeed in times of peace it was useful, for it afforded a direct communication with the corn-mill, malt-kiln, and brewhouse of the garrison, in the Rock-yard, now called Brewhouse-yard. About 17 yards above the lower entrance to this spacious vault, which is ascended by nearly worn out steps of living rock, is the entrance to a dark and narrow passage, which branches off to the right, and formerly led by sercet doors into the keep of the old castle, in which were the state apartments. This was that secret passage through which Sir William Eland, in 1330, conducted king Edward, when he seized Lord Mortimer in the apartment of his royal mother and brought him out of the castle through the same passage, which in memory of the fate of that 118 history or unfortunate nobleman, was ever after called Mortimer's hole, (see p. 84), a name which has been erroneously given to the principal vault. All the entrances to these passages are now walled up, to prevent boys passing that way into the castle gardens. The Ancient Walls and Gates, which formerly encom- passed the town, are now scarcely to be traced, though Leland says " The town hath been meetly welle wallid with stone, and hath had dyvers gates ; much of the walle is now downe, and the gates savinge2or3." This wall, of which a considerable portion- seems to have been standing in Leland's time, was built by Edward the Elder, about 910, when the country was trou- bled with the incursions of the Danes. After building the Cas- tle, William Peverel, the natural son of the Conqueror, made considerable additions to the wall and gates, and in 1259, Henry III., commanded the burgesses " without delay to make a postern ki the : wallj near the Castle towards Lenton, of such a breadth and height that two armed horsemen carrying two lances on their shoulders, might go in and out, where William, Archbishop of York had appointed it." This postern is sup- posed to have stood where the reservoir now is, behind the In- firmary, and Deering says a bridge in front of it, crossed the town-ditch at the place still called Boston-bridge, a corruption of Postern-bridge, In Deering's time,, the ditch extending to Chapel-bar, was converted into kitchen gardens and called " Butt-dyke, from some neighbouring butts, where the towns- men used to exercise themselves in shooting at a mark with bows and arrows." About the year 1800, Butt-dyke, now the site of Park-row, was let as building land by the Corporation, on perpetual leases, and in digging the foundation of the houses, several fragments of the old Avail were discovered. The Town- wall passed from the north-west corner of the Castle-wall, along the site of Park-row to Chapel-bar, and thence across Parliament-street, and through Roper's-close and Pannier's- close, to St. John's-street, Coalpit-lane, Cartergate, Fishergate, Hollow stone, Short-hill, and the High, Middle, and Low Pave- ments, to the end of Listergate ; whence it passed up the south side of Castlegate, and below St. Nicholas' Church-yard to the Brewhouse-yard, where it joined the Castle-rock. In conse- quence of part of this wall being destroyed in the wars between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda, Henry II. repaired it by erecting a wall, which extended from Chapel-bar, down Parliament-street, to Coalpit-lane. In 1740, one of the old posterns was standing at the top of Drury-hill, facing Bridle - smithgate. A little above this is Postern-place, in which Blackner says, there is standing u a part of the old town wall, the dimensions of which are as follows : — in height 102 inches; thickness 38 inches; and six yards in length," with the arch of a Sally-port, 92 inches in height and 62 in width. Tradition NOTTINGHAM. ] 19 says, there were two posterns at the top of Listergate and Clum- ber-street, but the principal entrance gates were those at Cha- pel-bar and Hollow-stone. Hollow-stone, though much altered of late years, may s til J be considered as the remains of one of the ancient entrances to the town. About 90 years ago, it was a very narrow passage, having been secured by a strong portcullis, of which at that time there were some evident traces to be seen. Each side of the gateway was formed of living stone, and above it on the western side, was a large cavity cut in the rock, capable of holding twenty men, with a fire place and benches, evidently- designed for a guardhouse, and having a staircase cut from the top of the rock to communicate with the centinels. This ca- vity gave the name of Hollow-stone to the street which was widened by the Corporation in 1740, and by the Commis- sioners of the Food-road in 1800, when the road from thence to the Leen bridge was raised so much that the chambers of some of the old houses in Bridge-street were converted into the first floors. Much of the perpendicular rock on each side of the deep cut road called Hollow-stone, is now hid behind many good houses which have lately been erected against it. Chapel-bar, was a strong gateway tower, having on each side an arched room of a pentagonal figure, one of which was used as the guardhouse, and the other as a chapel. The top of the arch was well earthed and cultivated as a pleasure garden, in which grew a large sycamore tree. The whole was taken down in 1743, and, during the present year, (1831) most of the houses in the south side* of the street called Chapel-bar, were taken down, for the purpose of widening that previously con- tracted entrance into the Market-place. Long before the gate was taken down, the old chapel was converted into a brew- house, as an appendage to the Inn which stood at the corner ; the mash tubs being placed on the altars, without regard to their former sanctity, caused a facetious layman to write the follow- ing epigram : — "' Here priests of old, turned wafers into God, And gave poor laymen bread for flesh and blood, Bat now a liquid myst'ry's here set up, Where priest and layman both, partook the cup." The Fort which stood near the north end of Trent bridge, was a bone of great contention betwixt the Royalists and the Parliamentarians in the civil wars, (see p. 90.) but every vestige of it has long since disappeared ; though the lines of the trenches raised by Colonel Hutchinson, when he forced the " Newark- ^ers" to make a precipitate retreat from the fort, might be traced a few years ago, on the Rye-hills, in the higher part of the meadows. * The other houses on the south side of Chapel-bar were]taken down in 1811* 120 HISTORY OF On Nottingham-hill^ about a mile from the town, are " some lines of fortification, and several Barrows, in one of which, Deering says, great quantities of human bones have been found, supposed to be the remains of some Saxon soldiers, for it was their custom to cover the graves of their slain with mounds of earth, now called Barrows. The Barracks, pleasantly situated at the western corner of the Park, form the only military dep6t now possessed by the town, and they are of modern erection ; being built in 1792, on ground given by the Duke of Newcastle. They contain con- venient apartments for the officers; a Sutling-house ; barrack rooms and stabling for three troops of horse ; an hospital, &c. &c, — with an extensive yard, enclosed by a strong wall of brick. The garrison is supplied with water by a well, from which the water is raised by a horse into a large cistern. — William Han- mer, Esq., is the Barrack -Master. Caves. — Of the numerous caves, caverns, and rock-houses, we have already given a brief historical view at pages 78 to 81, showing that many of them were excavated and inhabited by the ancient Britons, and afterwards enlarged and converted into store-houses by the Saxons; since whose time, many modern excavations have been made, and many of the old ones, either wasted by the corroding tooth of time, or hid from public view, for the improvement and extension of the town, under which some of them now form deep and capacious cellars. In dig- ging the foundations of the houses on the north and south sides of the Market-place, many very extensive vaults with arches supported by pillars, with carved capitals were discovered; and Deering says, a bricklayer informed him, that whilst digging in the Week-day cross, he got into a spacious subterraneous passage, supported by ornamented pillars, and extending to the upper end of Pilchergate, under which he found " a wooden cup and a wooden can, which seemed to be sound and whole, but on being taken hold of, mouldered into dust." The most interesting caverns, now accessible are the Papist or Druids' Holes, in the Park ; and the Rock-houses at Sneinton Her- mitage. The Papist Holes, as they are vulgarly called, are a curi- ous range of excavations in the perpendicular rock, which rises above the river Leen, at the south-east corner of the Park, a little to the west of the Castle. In the early part of the last century, when Stukely visited them, they were more perfect than at present : he says, " what is visible at present is not of so old a date as the time of the Britons, yet I see no doubt that it is founded upon theirs. This is a ledge of perpendicular rock hewn out into a church, houses, chambers, dove house, &c. The church is like those in the rocks at Bethlehem, and other places in the Holy Land. The altar Is natural rock, and there baa been painting upon the wall : a steeple, T suppose where a NOTTINGHAM. 121 bell hung, and regular pillars. The river here winding about makes a fortification to it, for it comes to both ends of the cliff, leaving a plain before the middle. The way to it was by gates cut out of the rock, and with oblique entrance for more safety. Without is a plain with three niches, which I fancy their place of judicature, or the like : between this and the Castle, is a hermitage of like workmanship." To this description, it is scarcelv possible to add any thing that will give a better idea of the place. We can only say, that it has suffered considerably from the effects of time and weather since Stukely wrote ; but enough still remains to gratify, and. at the same time, to excite curiositv. The outer part has fallen down in several places, evidently from the effects of damp and frost; but the church and altar, and even some vestiges of the ancient paintings may be easily traced ;* many of the pillars are ornamented with ca- pitals, &e. and the spandrilled Gothic arch is very well imitated in several places ; a fact indeed which militates against their very early antiquity. It is much to be regretted that no care whatever is taken to preserve this venerable specimen ; the floor of it is broken into boles, where the water lodges, and much of it is disfigured with the grossest filthiness. In the summer, these excavations have become haunts of the very lowest of society, who there take up their nocturnal abode ; and if not a den of thieves, it may be considered as something worse. On a careful examination, it is evident that the whole line of excavation has been the work of different periods. The Dove-cote, for instance, is but of modern date ; and close by it, where there are chimnies cut through the reck, the marks of the smoke still remain. Deering says that, in his time, some old people remembered them much more extensive ; and he adds from tradition, " that in the time of the civil war, the Roundheads had demolished a part of them under the pretence of their abhorrence to Popery," which may perhaps be the sole origin of their receiving the name of Papist holes. We will not follow the various authors through their wide range of con- jectures ; but must confess that there seems most probability in that which supposes them to have been the residence of some order of anchorets or hermits, not endowed, though perhaps de- pendent upon some religious house, and, therefore, not record- ed in any list of religious foundations. To which we must add, that it is extremely probable that, when more entire, their entrance was more easily concealed ; and, therefore, that in the early days of the reformation, they may have been occupied at times for religious purposes, by those who were averse from the new order of things, and wished to enjoy the exercise of * Some ingenious artist has added a number of paintings, such as elephants,* soldiers in full accoutrements, &c. not inelegantly done, but which must be classed amongst " modern antiques."— Laird, 1811. M 122 ROCK HOUSES. their ritual in secret. The place designated by Stukely, as an hermitage, has nothing- remarkable ; and we were not fortu- nate to find out the spot mentioned by Deering as affording the most clear and perfect echo he had ever met with. Sneinton Hermitage on the east side of the town, in the parish of Sneinton, consists of a long range of perpendicular rock, overlooking the vale of the Trent, and having within its craggy front many grotesque habitations and curious caves ; some of which are of great antiquity. — (See p. 81.) Many of the houses have staircases leading up to the gardens on the top, and on the shelves of the rock, in the rugged front of which the stranger is struck with the romantic appearance of doors and windows ranged in irregular tiers, and shaded in many places with ivy and other umbrageous foliage. A few brick buildings have been erected in front of some of the old rock houses which still serve as kitchens and lumber rooms to the modern erections. Two of these are public -houses much resorted to in summer, and one of them is not only extremely pleasant from its garden plats and arbours in front, but also very curious from its great extent into the body of the rock, where visitors may almost choose their degree of temperature on the hotest day in sum- mer. About three o'clock in the morning of May 10, 1829, a lofty overhanging part of the rock above the White Swan public-house fell with a dreadful crash, and knocked down part of that building and an adjoining rock house ; giving the inhabi- tants only just sufficient warning to hurry from their beds and escape to a place of safety. Several large portions of rock fell in other parts of the neighbourhood during the same year ; and on a Sunday night, about eleven o'clock, in March, 1830, a high perpendicular rock, which stood behind the Lancasterian school, in Derby road, fell and knocked down the roof and side wall of that building. Many Rock Houses are still inhabited within the limits of the town of Nottingham, though a considerable number have of late years been destroyed by the corporation, and the sites let on building leases. A long range of these singular dwellings are now in ruins on the east side of Mansfield-road ', where they were broken up a few years ago by the corporate body, who aie prevented from building a projected row of handsome brick houses upon them, to correspond with those on the opposite side of the road, by the cupidity of the sturdy troglodyte* who inhabits the uppermost house in the rock, opposite to which he has erected a blacksmith's shop; — and having many years oc- cupied the place without paying any acknowledgment, he now claims it as his own freehold property, and consequently re- fused to budge when the corporate officers ejected his neigh- bours. The rock on the opposite side of the road and on the * Samuel Caulton. a superannuated smith. NOTTINGHAM. - 123 south side of the Derby road, though now built upon, has been perforated in many places by persons who obtained a living- by getting the sand-stone for the purpose of selling it to the good housewives to sprinkle their floors with. One of these excava- tions under the Dog kennel hill formed the largest cave in the town, being the work of the late industrious sand-man James Ross, who worked in it thirty years ; but it is now broken up and a large manufactory built on its site. Many of the caves and scattered fragments of rock near Gallows hill, were levelled in 1811, by the distressed workmen who were in that year re- duced to pauperism. EXTRA-PAROCHIAL PLACES Are found generally to have been the sites of ancient castles or religious houses, the owners of which were privileged with an independent jurisdiction, and did not permit any interfe- rence with their authority within their own limits. Hence they enjoy a virtual exemption from maintaining the poor, because they have no overseer on whom a magistrates' order may be served ; from the militia laws, because they have no constable to make returns ; and from repairing the highways, because thev have no surveyor. In the language of the ancient Law of England, such places were not " Gtidable nor Shireyround" and as the sheriff was the receiver-general in his county till about the time of the Revolution of 16&8, extra-parochial dis- tricts were neither taxable nor within the ordinary pale of civil jurisdiction ; they are still virtually exempt from many civil du- ties, and the inhabitants are not called upon to serve many public offices to which others are liable. These exclusive pri- vileges are enjoyed by all the castle- y round at Nottingham, viz. the Castle- enclosure ; the Parky Standard-hill, and Brewhouse- yard ; which, though they contain upwards of 100 houses, (see p. 76)) at the west end of Nottingham, are not within the ju- risdiction of the " Town and County of the Town," but included in the county at large. If these four extra-parochial districts could be united by an act of Parliament, and made responsible for the maintenance of their own poor, it would be of consider- able advantage to the three parishes of Xottingham ; for here it is that many of the principal merchants, manufacturers, &c, build their handsome mansions, and whilst Nottingham is their prin- cipal source of wealth, they thus avoid paying their just share of the parochial burthens of that town. Brewhouse-yard is a small district under the south-east side of the Castle-rock, and on the north bank of the Leen, where the Old Water- works' Company have lately built a new engine-house. As has already been seen, it was formerly within the jurisdiction of the castle, and contained a malt-kiln and brewhouse for the use of the garrison, but in 1621, James I., 124 EXTRA-PAROCHIAL PLACES. constituted it a separate Constablery, and granted it to Francis Philips, gent., and Edward Ferres, mercer, both of London. It has now 80 inhabitants, several dye-houses, and two public- houses, one of which has a room cut in the rock, with " a hole at the top for the admission of light, on which account it has obtained the name of the Star Parlour." The other tavern has two large chambers and other conveniences cut in the rock, near the entrance to Mortimers Hole, which is now built up. (See p. 84.) Thoroton says this place was once an asylum for a fraternity of fanatics called Philidelphians or the Family of Love* " from the love they professed to bear to all men, though never so wicked, and their obedience to all magistrates, though never so tyrannical, be they Jews, Gentiles, or Turks." Their founder was one David George, an Anabaptist of Holland, who propagated his new doctrine in Switzerland, where he died in 1556, after which his tenets were declared to be impious, and his body and books sentenced to be burnt by the common hangman. Since King James' reign, Brewhouse yard has had a con- stable and overseer, and the united office is now held by Mr. Joseph Yates. Standard Hill comprises about five acres, nearly one-half of which is occupied by St. James' Church and the gardens, &c, of the General Infirmary : — the north end of which chari- table institution is within the limits of the county of the town, in the parish of St. Nicholas, which bounds Standard hill on the east, as the Park does on the north and west, and the out- ward wall of the Castle on the south. This portion of the ancient Castle Land, perhaps originally part of the Park, derives its name from the Royal Standard which Charles I. erected here in August 1642.— (Vide p. 89.) In 1807, the Duke of New- castle divided nearly all that part of it, which is not occupied by the Infirmary, into 32 building lots, containing together about 9000 square yards, which he sold for nearly <£7010, and which now form four handsome streets, viz. Hill street, Charles street, Standard street, and King street. Each purchaser at the time of the sale covenanted, " to pave and keep in repair one half of thestreets,so far as they respectively extend in front, or by the side of his lot ; to make foot pavements four feet broad ; and not to build any house upon the premises of less value than j€25 per annum, nor erect any manufactory, nor suffer any obnoxious trade whatever to be carried on upon the premises. Since this sale, St. James' Church, and upwards of 60 large and hand- some houses have been erected, so that every building site is now occupied. In 1814, the parishioners of Nottingham com- plained that the wealthy inhabitants who had built houses on Standard hill, were not only exempt from the heavy poor rates of the town, but refused to relieve those paupers who by servi- tude were considered to have gained a settlement in that extra- NOTTINGHAM. 125 parochial district. In consequence of these grievances, the magistrates appointed two of the inhabitants to act as overseers, and afterwards gave orders for the removal of a pregnant ser- vant girl from St. Mary's parish to the house of one of the said overseers, where she was refused admittance. After an expensive legal contest, in which the three parishes of Notting- ham made common cause against the inhabitants of this extra- parochial district, it was finally determined by the Court of King's Bench, " that Standard bill, not having been proved to be an ancient ville or a ville by reputation, is not subject to the jurisdiction of magistrates in the appointment of overseers," consequently, according to this decision, no settlement can be made within its boundaries, either by servitude, by the occupa- tion of property, or by any other means. The Castle Enclosure is bounded on the north by Stan- dard-hill, on the east by Gilliflower-hill, on the south by Brew- house-yard, and on the west by the Park. It contains about nine acres, including the abrupt declivities of the rock on the south and west sides, where many trees have been planted, and where one or two modern Gothic dwellings mav be seen peep- ing- through the sylvan recess. The Riding School stands within its limits, a little below the castle lodge, where some part of the old castle wall was removed in 1798, to make room for that building, which was erected by the Nottingham troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, and is occasionally fitted up for eques- trian exhibitions, for which it is well adapted. The Park, which contains 129 acres, 3 roods, and 9 perches, is bounded on the south by the Leen, on the east by the Castle- rock and Standard-hill, and on the north and west by the pa- rishes of Radford and Lenton. It is now an open pasture, except a bowling-green and garden plot at its south-east corner, the site of the barracks at its north-west corner, and its eastern and northern boundaries, which have lately been lined with large and beautiful houses, with hanging gardens in front, de- scending by an abrupt but picturesque semicircular sweep to the green pasture of the park, which extends by irregular un- dulations to the verge of the parish of Lenton, and to the north bank of the Leen, where are situated those curious caves called the Papist Holes, (see p. 120.) The park forms a pleasant summer promenade, and is much frequented, from different roads leading through it to Wilford, Lenton, Wollaton, &c. Until 1J20, it was well stocked with deer, and had many large trees, but both have now disappeared, except a cluster of syca- mores, which form a pleasant alcove a little below the barracks. There was formerly a fish pond in the lower angle of the park, facing the Castle-rock, but about the year 1/00, it was con- verted into a reservoir by the Waterworks Compeny, who so neglected it, that it became a filthy bog, and in 1795, was di- vided bv the Duke of Newcastle's steward into garden plots, h2 126 PARISHES OF and let to the inhabitants of the town; — as also was, in 1809, the picturesque acclivity of the park hill, which rises to a con- siderable altitude above it, and the river Leen, and had been unproductive for ages. The numerous occupants of this once steril spot, have by great labour and horticultural skill, eon- verted it into a fertile and delightful paradise, producing almost every variety of flowers, fruits, and shrubs, and tastefully de- corated with pleasure houses, arbours, &c. One portion of it has been converted into an excellent bowling green, and on the north side of the park is the appearance of an embankment en- closing an oblong area, to which tradition: has given the name of the Queen's garden, being, it is supposed, cultivated betwixt the years 1327 and 1330, when the castle was the amorous re- treat of Queen Isabella and Mortimer, Earl of March. Thoro- ton is of opinion that about fifty acres of the Park was an enclosed orchard during several ages after the conquest ; as William Peveril had a license from the Conqueror for that purpose. Deering says the gardeners of Nottingham were not very skilful until after the arrival of Marshal Tallard and the other French officers taken at Blenheim, who " resided at Mrs. Newdigate's house in Castlegate, and made very fine gardens there.'' PARISHES IN THE TOWN AND COUNTY OF THE TOWN. (See population, &c. at page 76. ) St. Mary's Parish is the largest of the three parochial divisions of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, as it contains four-fifths of the buildings and population, and the whole of the forest and burgess lands. It includes all the buildings and land on the south side of the Leen, betwixt the Trent and the parishes of Sneinton and Lenton, and all that part of the town on the north side of the Leen lying east of Sussex-street, Middle-hill, Market-street, and Fletcher-gate, whence its boundary turns westward, and includes all the buildings north of Bottle-lane, Poultry, Timber-hill, Beast- market-hill, Chapel-bar, and the Park, until it joins the parish of Radford. Its principal streets are the High Pavement, St. Mary's-gate, Stoney-street, Carlton-street, George- street, Pel- ham-street, Clumber-street, Smithy-row, Long-row, Parliament- street, Derby-road, and Mansfield -road. Its most important public buildings consist of the Exchange, the Town-Hall, the churches of St. Mary and St. Paul, the Catholic chapel, many large dissenting meeting-houses, the Grammar, National, and Lancasterian Schools, the Theatre, the Town Gaol and House of Correction, &c. &e. Though the County-Hall and Prison NOTTINGHASf. 127 are within- its boundaries, the ground on which they stand is excepted from the jurisdiction of the town bv a charter of Henry VI. The Workhouse consists of several large buildings, enclosed by a high wall, which extends from Mansfield-road to York- street, and gives this gigantic establishment more the appear- ance of a prison than that of a house of industry, for the recep- tion of the friendless poor. It was built in 17-9, on ground granted by the Corporation, on a lease of 999 years, at the annual rent of one shilling. But since the year 1808, owing to the rapid increase of population, it has been greatly enlarged at the cost of upwards of £5000. A dispensary and a surgeon are attached to the workhouse, for the purpose of giving advice and medicine to the lame and sick poor. The poor rates of this parish have augmented faster than the population ; in the vear 1764, thev amounted to .£380 ; in 1768, to £513 ; in 1792, to £3657; in 1797, to £5457; in 1802, to £11,050; in 1804, to £15,382; in 1808, to £1^,499; in 1812, to £24,763; and in 1831, to £21,493; but of the latter sum only £15,206 was collected during the year ending March 25th. Until 1808, only U<:o overseers were appointed annually, but since that year four have been chosen, as well as two churchwardens. The Parish Office is in Pilchergate, and the following is a list of the PARISH OFFICERS, (ST. MARY'S.) O" The suras attached to their names show the amount of their yearly salaries. Absalom Barnett, asst. overseer," • • Peter Black, bastardy dep Benj. Barnes, governor, ••* • Rt. Cartwright, collector, - • • • ■ James Sugden, office clerk, Wm. Lineker and Thomas Moody, assistants, • • • • • • ► 85 Wra. Valentine, surgeon, John Spurr, dispenser, Rev. S. M'Lund, chaplain,- • Jph. Parnham, vestry clerk, GRATUITOUS. G. Howitt, physician, Henry Oldknow, surgeon, • £ 52 10 The Vagrant Office, in Chandler's-lane, is supported by the three parishes, — three-fourths of the expense being paid by SU Mary's, and the remainder, in equal portions, by St. Nicholas's and St. Peter's. The yearly expenditure is about <£200. Mr, Charles George is the superintendent* St. Nicholas's Parish averages about 500 yards in length, and 250 in breadth. It is bounded on the west by Brevt house- yard, the Castle-wall, Standard-hill, the General Infirmary, and Park-row; and on the north by Chapel-bar, Angel-row, and Beast-market-hill, whence its boundarv (including the greater part of Friar-lane) passes in an irregular line, behind the Friends' Meeting-house and the Sandemanian and Independent Chapels, across Castlegate, to Greyfriargate ; down which it passes to the L.een, which forms the southern limit of the pa- 123 PARISHES OF rish. Its principal streets are Castlegate, Houndsgate, Park- street, Rutland-street, St. James's-street, Mount-street, and Park-row. It has its parish church, several chapels, and other public building's, one of which is Bromley-house, which con- tains the large Subscription Library and News-room. The workhouse stands at the northern corner of the parish, at the foot of Park-row, and was purchased by the parish in 1813; the old one, which had stood at the bottom of Gilliflower-hill since 1729, being then too small for the accommodation of the paupers. The poor rates for the year ending March, 1831, amounted to £2365, 6s. 3d. Mr John Cheetham is the go- vernor. St. Peter's Parish, the smallest of the three, is encom- passed by St. Mary's and St. Nicholas's parishes, and averages about 450 yards in length, and 200 in breadth. It extends from Timber-hill, the Poultry, and Bottle-lane, to the north bank of the Leen; and is bounded on the east by Sussex-street, Mid- dle- hill, Middle Pavement, and the buildings behind Market- street and Fletchergate ; and on the west by Greyfriargate, the Independent, Sandemanian, and Quakers' Chapels, and the north end of Friar-lane. Its principal streets are Bridlesmith- gate, Low Pavement, Listergate, St. Peter's-square, Wheeler- gate, Timber-hill, and the Poultry. Its public edifices are the Parish Church, the Police-office, and the Assembly-rooms. — Its ivorkhouse, in Broad-marsh, was built in 1788, in lieu of the old Gregory almshouse, which stood at the east end of Houndsgate, and was used as the workhouse till the present fabric was erected. The poor rates here are not so high as in St. Mary's, but in the year ending March, 1831, five rates of two shillings in the pound were collected on the assessed rental, which latter, however, amounts only to about half the rack rental. Mr. John Hudson is the governor of the workhouse. The County Rates of the " Town and County of the Toivn of Nottingham" are, as in other places, paid out of the poor rates. Two-thirds of their amount are paid by St. Mary's paiish, and the remainder in equal moieties by the parishes of St. Nicholas and St. Peter. These rates usually consume about one-fourth of the poor rates, so that the privilege of Nottingham being a county of itself 'is a very expensive burthen to the inha- bitants; for if they had remained in the county at large, their quota of the general expenses of the shire would not have amounted to more than one-third of its present amount, as may be seen by a comparison of the expenses in the year 1823, when the county rate for Nottingham amounted to .£6150, whilst that for the whole of Nottinghamshire was only £9042. Of the former sum, £193 was paid for repairing bridges; £234: to the clerk of the peace; <£112 to the coroners; .£941 for expenses of the Town Gaol ; £1847 for House of Correction; .£360 for the Town Hall (or Police Office); £71 for Militia expenses ; NOTTINGHAM, 129 .£688 for the conveyance of offenders; £1153 for the prosecu- tion of felons ; £7 for conveyance of vagrants ; £'444 for incidental expenses ; and £26 for treasurer's salary. These items include the following" yearly salaries, viz. — Town Prison, gaoler, .£185; turnkey, £50 ; chaplain, £60; apothecary, £42; and matron, ,£10: — House of Correction, governor, (including fees,) £175; turnkey and overlooker of tread mill, ,£114; chaplain, £60 ; apothecary, ,£42 ; and matron, £30. A very large portion of those items entered in the treasurer's account as incidental and other expenses, consists of salaries and fees paid to the constables and police officers, several of whom find "good picking" in their occupation, though they have no stated salary, except the high constable, who has eight guineas per annum. Whether any expense has latterly been thrown upon the town, which ought to be borne by the corporation funds, we have not been able to ascertain, but it certainly appears from the following statement of the sums collected in the years specified, that since 1799, the " town rates" have increased to an extent which has far out stripped the growth of the town : — In 1799, the sum collected was £269 ; in 1800, £902 ; in 1801, £1368; in 1802, £1338; in 1803, £2982; in 1804, 1661/.; in 1805, 1322/. ; in 1806, 3013/. ; in 1807, 2901/. ; in 1812, 2808/. ; and in 1830, 6020/. ! Mr. H. Enfield is the treasurer, as well as town clerk, and clerk of the peace. The County of the Town includes the Forest, Mapperley Hills, Hunger-hill gardens, St. Anne's, the Sand and Clay Fields, and the Meadows, which are subject to the depasturage of the burgesses. Measuring the indentations of its boundary line, it is about ten miles in circuity and is bounded on the south by the Trent, on the west by the Castle Liberties and the parishes of Lenton and Radford, on the north by Basford parish, and on the east by the parishes of Gedling and Sneinton. Its boundaries are perambulated twice a year by the " middle- tonjury" with the coroner at their head. This jury consists of a number of the respectable burgesses appointed for the same purpose as leet juries, its duty being not only to walk the boundaries, but to remove all nuisances, and prevent any encroachments on the high roads, &c. &c. It is supposed to have been called the middle town jury, because it commences its survey in the centre of the town, whence it proceeds through all the streets, and afterwards over every part of the extreme boundaries. CORPORATION, CHARTERS, PRIVILEGES, &c. It has been seen in the preceding annals of the town that Nottingham is an ancient borough by prescription, for at the time of the Domesday survey it had 123 burgesses, and nineteen villeins, (see p. 82,) and had evidently enjoyed the privileges of 130 CIlAtlTERS, &e. a borough long before tbat period, and prior to tbe date of any of its charters or records now extant. The Normans, soon after the conquest, divided it into two districts, one called the English borough and the other the French borough. The division line extended southward, across the Forest, down Mansfield-road, Milton-street, Clumber-street, Bridlesmith-gate, jDrury-hill, Middle Marsh, Sussex-street, and over the Meadows to the Trent-road, separating- what now forms the " Town and county of the Town" into two nearly equal portions, — the eastern one being- the French and the other the English borough. If blood was shed by violence in the latter, the offender was only fined 6s. 4d. ; but if in the former 18s. Till 1714, separate juries were empannelled ; and there were two Town-halls ; that belonging to the French borough stood at the north- vest corner of Wheelergate. The charter granted by Henry II. in 1155 con- firmed to the burgesses all those "free customs" which they had in the time of Henry I., namely, Tol, Theam, Infangen- theof and Thelonia, from Thrumpton to Newark, and from Rempston to Retford, &c. Tol and Theolonia imply a power to take, and a right to be free from toll, and the burgesses are stiil exempt from the market and fair tolls of Nottingham, and all cities and boroughs in the kingdom, except Beverley and Gains- borough. Theam gave them a manorial jurisdiction, and Infangentheof or Infangthefe, conferred on them the power *of passing judgment on any theft committed within their liberties. The charter of King John, dated Clipston, 1199, exempted the burgesses from toll at all the fairs and marts in the kingdom, gave them a guild of merchants, and expressly declared that " If any person in time of peace, whencesoever he comes, shall abide in this borough a year and a dav, without being claimed by his lord, no one shall afterwards have legal claim of him, except the king himself." Henry III., by his charter in 1229, confirmed their former privileges and gave them power to choose coroners from amongst themselves. Edward I., in 1283, granted them power to elect a mayor and two bailiffs, previous to which they had been governed by a borough-reeve. In this charter the ancient yearly fenne paid to the crown is stated to be £b2. Henry V. by his charter in 141-1, gave them a recor- der, and power to nominate a mayor and four others to act as justices of the peace in the town, without the interference of the county magistrates. The charter of Henry VI., in 1449, not only confirmed all the former immunities and privileges of the borough, but made it a county of itself, (except the castle and the shire hall) and gave the burgesses power to elect seven aldermen out of their own body, to be justices of the peace, and wear scarlet gowns of (ho same fashion as those worn by the mayor and aldermen of London ; and one of them to be yearly chosen mayor, and be the king's escheator. It also empowered them to elect two sheriffs in stead of the two bailiffs, to hold a NOTTINGHAM. J31 county court every fourth Wednesday, a petty session every day, and a court of all manner of pleas, &c. "The burg-esses to have the chattels of all convicted of felony, murder, &c. all amerciaments, post fines, issues of pledges, and bails." James I., in 1623, and William and Mary, in 1692, renewed the town's charters, and Queen Anne granted the burgesses two new fairs, each to continue nine days, beginning on the Thursday before Easter, and on the Friday before the first Tuesday after Epi- phany. Charles II. and James II. also granted new charters to the corporation, who, in the 17th century, had several riotous contests with the burgesses. (See pages 88 & 92.) The Corporation now consists of seven aldermen, (one of whom is annually chosen mayor) 18 senior and six junior coun- cilmen, a recorder, two sheriffs^ two chamberlains, two coroners, and a town clerk, w r ith the following- officers, viz. : — two bridge masters, two school wardens, a sheriffs' clerk, a surveyor, two bailiffs, a mayor's sergeant, a common sergeant, who is also called the mayoress's sergeant; a gaoler, a keeper of the house of correction, a town eryer, a field pounder, a meadow pounder, and a keeper of the fields and woods. There are also about 38 livery men, who, having- served the office of chamberlain, form the body from w T hich the senior council is filled up. For- merly there was a scavenger and a purveyor ; but the duty of the former is now performed by the chamberlains, and the latter has ceased to be necessary since hot entertainments went out of fashion. There was also a bill-bearer, but the office has long- been obsolete. The Mayor is nominated out of the body of aldermen, on the 14th of Aug-ust, and succeeds to office on the 29th of Sep- tember. The last elected alderman is generally chosen mayor during- the succeeding- year, otherwise the office goes by rota- tion, except some particular cause connected with the alderman ', next in succession be assigned for deviating- from the usual practice, as was the case during- the year 1831. The alder men are chosen by the common hall out of the senior council, . but there have been a few deviations from this rule, for in 1733, Mr. Thomas Langford "went into the church sheriff and came out mayor;" and in 1810, Mr. John Bates was elected alderman, though he had never been a member of the council. The Common Council consists of eighteen senior and six junior councilmen, the latter of whom are chosen from the burg-esses at large, and the former from the livery. To constitute a hall for the transaction of business, the mavor, three aldermen, and nine senior councilmen must be present. The junior council- men are summoned as well as the other members of the hall, and they have now the privilege of voting on all questions. The council does not appear to be a chartered branch of the corpo- ration, for it is not mentioned in any of the royal grants with which the town has been favoured ; but from time immemorial 132 BURGESS LANDS, &C. an indefinite number of councilmen were elected by the bur- g-esses to watch over and defend their interest and privileges in the borough, till the year 1607, when their number and distinc- tion were fixed as they now remain. (See p. 88.) The cham- berlains have a right to vote on all questions which relate to the chamber estates. Both them and the sheriffs are elected annually, being nominated by the new mayor immediately after the inauguration ceremony at St. Mary's church, and voted in by the clothing. The Seven Wards into which the borough is divided for municipal purposes, have each their own alderman, and are named as follows : — Chapel-ward, Castle- ward, Market- ward, North-ward, Bridge-ward, Middle-ward, and Mont-hall-ward. The aldermen are not obliged to live in their respective wards, nor is their authority as magistrates confined to these petty divisions, but extends alike to the whole town. The Mayor's Feast, which used to be held at his own house on the 29th of September, is now laid aside, with the exception of his friends being invited to breakfast with him before he goes to church for inauguration. It is customary, how- ever, for the mayor to give four session dinners, to two of which it is usual for him to invite all the resident " clothing" of the body corporate. The salaiy usually allowed to the mayor to meet these and other expenses, was formerly only <£150 ; but in 1804 it was advanced to .£200, and is now more than twice that sum, besides which he and the aldermen derive considerable yearly dividends from the surplus corporation funds. There is likewise an annual meeting in the Exchange hall on the King's birthday, to drink his majesty's health, the expenses of which are defrayed out of the chamber purse. To this meeting the mayor has the exclusive privilege of issuing invitations, which generally extend to all the gentlemen and respectable tradesmen in the town. The Corporation Seal is generally allowed to be coeval with the charter of King John, and presents a very handsome pictorial representation of an ancient Norman castle, enclosed within a circular wall, and having four circular towers, above which are portrayed a crescent and star. The Town Arms are a Gules shield bearing three crowns Or, with a cross raguled, and resting on a trunked vert, — evidently alluding to Nottingham being once a forest town, and to its former con- nection with rovalty. Buroess Land, &e. — Thoroton, who wrote in 1677, says the town (with the land in the county of the town) is " within the Metes and Bounds of Shi re wood forest, but not within View and Regard. The town hath long made that claim of discharge, and it hath been allowed them in Eyre. There are very fair possessions belonging to the corporation, some in general and *ome for particular uses; as for the maintenance of their Frc 1 NOTTINGHAM. 133 school, and their costly Trent bridges, called Heathbet bridges." There is no document or tradition to show how the burgesses became possessed of the pasture, meadow, and forest lands, which contain nearly 12,000 acres, and are comprised within the liberties of the town. It is very probable that in Saxon times they held part of the lands which surround the town, in consi- deration of their rendering military service at the castle, which was always a fee of the crown ; and that after the accession of the Normans they were allowed by the feudal lord of Shirewood, to cat wood, get stone, and depasture their cattle on that por- tion of the extensive forest which was afterwards separated from the Swainmote-court and annexed to the borough as a separate jurisdiction. About one half of this land, now called the Sand and Clay Fields, has long been enjoyed by a number of private owners as freehold property, except during three months in the year, when it is subject to the depasturage of the bur- gesses at large. It is not unlikely that this land, being reduced to a steril condition for want of proper culture, was at an early period sold under the above conditions, the purchasers stipulat- ing to fertilize the soil and keep it in a good state of cultivation, so that the burgesses would in three months derive more benefit from it than they had previously done in twelve. Blackner, the last historian of the town, whose quarto is fraught with wild opinions and rhapsodical digressions, ventures some very strange conjectures, to fill up the vacuum in the archives of the corporation. He supposes that King John, when he insti- tuted the merchants' guild, gave the land in question to that company, and that they held it to themselves till Henry VI. empowered the burgesses to elect seven aldermen out of their own body ; but which election Blackner surmises was given up to the said fraternity of merchants, on condition of their allow- ing the burgesses at large to participate with them in the en- joyment of the said land. If such an important compact as this had taken place less than four centuries ago, it would cer- tainly have been mentioned by Deering, and some record of it preserved by the corporation, whose archives are, however, carefully hid from public inspection, and whose yearly accounts of receipts and disbursements are not published to the burgesses at large, as is the practice at some other places where much property is vested in corporate bodies for the general benefit of their fellow burgesses, and for particular charitable uses. Leav- ing the origin of the " burgess grounds" still a mvstery, we will proceed to a description of their several divisions, which consist of the Meadows, the Sand and Clay Fields, the Forest, Mapperley-hills, Hunger-hill, and the Coppices. The Meadows, which lie on the south side of the town, be- twixt the Leen and the Trent, consist of the East and West Crofts divided by the Flood-road and the Canal, and containing 334 acres of fertile grass land. The West-croft, comprising N 134 BURGESS LANDS. 283 acres, is divided into 16 burgess parts ; but from the 6th of July to Old Candlemas-day it is commonable to the burgesses at large, who during that period have each a right to the pas- turage of three head of cattle, or 45 sheep ; except from the 13th of August to the 3d of October, when the stock is turned out for the purpose of letting the herbage grow. The East- croft contains 51 acres, 2 roods, 31 perches, divided into 35 burgess parts, except 3 acres and 1 rood, which form the Pinder'sfee, From the 19th of September to Old Martinmas- day, each burgess has a right of pasturage for three head of cattle, by paying 2s. 6d. for each cow, and 3s. for each horse ; out of which yearly payments the pounder of the meadows has one penny for every head of cattle. The herbage of the 51 burgess parts in the East and West Crofts, during that part of the year when it is not commonable to the burgesses at large, belongs to as many poor and aged burgesses or their widows. On the south side of the Trent, and adjoining the bridge, is Over-Trent-Close, which is divided amongst the aldermen> each having his own part allotted to him at the time of his election. If an alderman become reduced in circumstances and resign his gown, it is usual for him to have a pension granted by the corporation, who continue the stipend to his consort if she be the latter liver. A piece of land bounded by the Whey-house farm, the Boat-close, and the Meadows, is also the sole property of the corporation. The Sand and Clay Fields, which lie on the north and north-west sides of the town, contain 654 acres, and are, as has just been seen, the private property of a number of individuals, subject only to the general depasturage of the burgesses from the 12th of August to the 12th of November. About 150 years ago these fields were entirely open, and were cultivated two years by their respective owners, and on every third year they were enjoyed exclusively by the burgesses. But as this plan was found inconvenient to both parties, it was agreed that each proprietor should fence his own lot, that the land should be laid down for mowing and pasturage, and that two gaps should be made in each fence on the 12th of August, so as to admit the free range of the burgesses' cattle till the 12th of November. A number of non-burgess housekeepers, who occupy those ancient freeholds called Toftsteads have the same privilege of common right on these fields as the burgesses, though the latter unsuccessfully disputed their claim so lately as 1808. The owners having erected several houses and barns upon these fields, the burgesses, in 1791, instituted an action against them, and obtained a verdict " that the buildings then standing should remain ; but none other should henceforth be erected under any pretence whatsoever." Notwithstanding this legal decision, several other encroachments were subsequently made, and at the Midsummer assize, in 1805, the burgesses obtained another NOTTINGHAM. 135 verdict, and an order from the judge " that all buildings which had been erected since 1791 should be taken down, and that the burgesses should have the power at every Lammas of destroy ing or removing every new encroachment upon the fields." About 200 burgesses avail themselves of their common right in these fields and in the meadows, and they may at any time of the year send their cattle upon the forest and waste lands, which are however too poor and at too great a distance from the town to be of much benefit to many of them. The Forest lies in the north side of the Sand and Clay Fields, betwixt them and the parishes of Radford aud Basford. It contains about 124 acres, and falls from the higher verge of the fields, by a steep and rugged declivity, on the summit of which is a long line of wind-mills and several pleasant dwellings, and in the vale below is the Race-course and Cricket-ground, to the east of which, on the opposite side of the Mans field -road, is the long tract of high waste land called Mapperley Hills, where there are inexhaustible beds of excellent clay, from which most of the bricks of which the town is built have been made; hence originated the old saying, " Nottingham once stood on Mapper ley -hills." These hills comprise about 57 acres, and properly form part of the forest, as also did Hunger- hills, which adjoin them on the east, and now form about 400 highly cultivated gardens, each let for about £1 per annum. These gardens are divided into about 40 burgess parts, which are given to as many aged burgesses or their widows, who let them to the inhabitants of the town, and each derive from them about «£10 yearly. The rents of the land which has lately been built upon on both sides of the Mansfield-road, and on the southern verge of the forest are, or ought to be divided into burgess shares tor the relief of indigent freemen or their widows, as well as some other rents arising from building sites which belong to the burgesses, but which have been let on leases by the corporation. The Coppices which covered the hill extending from Hun- ger-hills to St. Anne's Well, were cut down many years ago, and the land noAv forms a fertile farm of 190 acres; out of the rents of which the corporation pay "30 burgesses 30s. a year each." In 1809 the corporation advertised a part of the coppice lands for sale towards discharging a debt of .£5000, which had been contracted partly for repairing the town prisons previously to the collection of the Town and County Rate, and partly in defending themselves " in certain law suits commenced against them by individual burgesses from captious and political motives." This intended sale was however prevented by the burgesses, though the town-clerk* asserted at a public meeting held on the occasion, that there were no burgess-parts upon the > The late Mr. Coldham. 136 PARLIAMENTARY RIGHTS, &C. Coppice-lands, and that they were formerly part of the Royal chase, and were given to the corporation by King James, as a mark of respect for the handsome manner in which, he was treated when enjoying his carousal at St. Anne's in 1615, when the sportive monarch, with a number of his toping cour- tiers, and the corporation " drank the Wood-ward and his barrels dry" The house called St. Anne's stands at the foot of the Coppice-lands, on the site of an ancient cBapel, and was formerly the residence of the mayor's wood- ward. Till lately it had a victualler's license, and is still a place of considerable resort in the summer season, having in front a neat pleasure garden, in which is a Well of cold spring water, with a bath and dressing room formed in the solid rock. On the green in the garden, a maze or labyrinth has been cut, as a miniature resemblance of the Shepherd's Race, which occupied an elevated spot on the opposite side of the valley, and was suppos- ed to be of Roman origin, but was ploughed up in 1797, on the enclosure of Sneinton Lordship. Ancient Customs. — Formerly the mayor and corporation, dressed in their robes, and followed by all their officers and most of the burgesses, used to go in procession to Southwell on Whit-Monday, and to St. Anne's Well on Easter Monday, with the town waits playing before them. A general watch used to be held every Midsummer-eve at night, to which every respectable inhabitant sent forth a man or went himself, each wearing garlands on their heads, fashioned like a crown impe- rial, and bearing in their hands such arms as the town afforded, viz. pikes, swords, halberts, calivers, &c, whilst some few were cased in complete suits of armour. This gay corps of noctur- nal guardians assembled on the Long-row, and, after receiving an oath from the mayor's sergeant, patrolled the town during one of the shortest nights in the year, after which their duty was ended till that day twelve month, except on the occurrence of any sudden alarm, when they were liable to be called out at a moment's notice, for the purpose of defending the town against any danger which might approach. Parliamentary Rights, &c. — Nottingham has continued to send two representatives to Parliament since the reign of Edward I. ; and three Parliaments were held in the town in the years 1330, 1335, and 1337.— (See p. 84.), In 1701, it was decided by the House of Commons, that the right of election at Nottingham was in the mayor, freemen, and freeholders of 40s. per annum, and that the eldest sons of freemen by birth, and the younger sons of freemen who have served seven years' apprenticeship (any where,) and persons who have served seven years'to a freeman, are entitled to the freedom of the town on pay- ing the admission fees, which amount to .i'l. (>s. Gd. to those ad- mitted by birthright, and £\. 13s. 2d. to those admitted by ser- vitude. The elective franchise was anciently in those paying NOTTINGHAM. 137 scot and lot ; but Oldfield, in his history of boroughs, complains that the decision of the House of Commons in 1701 has ren- dered the right of voting" so complicated and open to fraud, that every freeman may qualify as many as he pleases by surreptiti- ous indentures of apprenticeship. He adds, however, that Nottingham is under no immediate influence, owing to the great number of electors, (now about 3000,) yet complains that the leading men of each party have formed a coalition to return one member each. This, he asserts, neutralizes the two votes, and he recommends that three should be allowed to prevent it ; but, however plausible this may look in theory, it is extremely pro- bable, that those who have been witnesses to popular contests in large towns are very glad to secure peace and quiet, by any arrangement which will put a stopt to scenes where every thing is considered but liberty and property, both of these being very apt to suffer during the concussions of Whigs and Tories. The necessity of something of this kind at Nottingham, or some other powerful palliative, seems acknowledged by the act of Parliament which was passed in 1803, in consequence of the tumultuous riots at the prceeding contested election. This act gives a concurrent jurisdiction in this borough, to the ma- gistrates of the county at large — (See p. 101,) and was much complained of as an infringement on the town's charters. About 20 years ago, the asperities of party feeling in Notting- ham assumed such a forbidding character, that a news-room was established, which admitted none but the journals which advocated the side espoused by the subscribers ; but since then, the " high and low parties" have become more friendlv, and established another news-room on a true liberal plan, without reference to party politics or local prejudices. The general spirit of the town is liberal and patriotic, but bribery and cor- ruption sometimes rear their sordid heads both at the Parlia- mentary and civic elections, as was the case in 1831, when one of the two candidates for a vacant seat in the senior council of the corporation publicly offered, through the medium of his friends, half~a-croivn to every poor burgess who would give him his vote; — though at a similar election in 1797, the corporation and candidates had agreed, " that a final stop should be put to the old abuse of giving money, &c, as practiced on former occasions." COURTS OF LAW. The County Court of the Town is held at the Guildhall on every fourth Wednesday, before the Sheriffs of the Town and County of the Town, for the recovery of debts and damages under 40s. ; but by virtue of a special writ called ajusticies, this court " may hold plea of many real actions, and of all personal- actions to any amount ;" though it is not a court of record ; and proceedings may be removed from it to the King's superior n2 133 COURTS OF LATT. courts, by writ of pone or recordare. In 1785, the inhabitants applied to Parliament for a Bill to establish a Court of Con- science, whereby they might recover small debts at a less ex- pense than in this court, but their prayer was refused. The Mayor and Sheriffs' Court, sometimes called the King's Court of Record, is held at the Guildhall, on every alter- nate Wednesday, before the mayor and sheriffs, who are its judges. It holds pleas of all actions, whether real,, personal, or rnixt, to any amount, arising* within the county of the town of Nottingham. It is of infinite service in the easy recovery of small debts, and in the recovery of possessions when with- held from the owners, who otherwise could have no redress, ex- cept at the expense of nearly one-fifth of the value of the pro- perty withheld. The judges depute a steward for the purpose of issuing writs of capias ad respondendum, and ad satisfacien- dum ; the first of which makes the defendant answerable to the plaintiff, and the second is a writ of execution after judgment, empowering the officer to take and detain the body of the de- fendant until satisfaction be made to the plaintiff. The steward is the under-sheriff of the town, and the officers are the two sergeants at mace. The Quarter Sessions for Nottingham are held in. the Guildhall on the first Wednesday in January and Fe- bruary, on the last Wednesday in June, and on the se- cond Wednesday in October. Those for Nottinghamshire are held in the county hall on the preceding Mondays. The recorder presides at the former, and one of the county magi- strates at the latter. The Assizes are held twice a year, gene- rally in the last weeks of February and July. By virtue of the act passed in 1803, the county magistrates sit in the town courts on the left, and the mayor and aldermen on the right hand of the judges. Petty Sessions are held every Tueday and Fri- day at the Police office for the town ; and every Wednesday and Saturday at the county-hall for Nottinghamshire.— Mr. H. Enfield is clerk to the town, and Mr. William Sculthorpe to the county magistrates. Mr. George Freeth is the under-sheriff. The Pevekil Court, which was anciently held in Not- tingham, is now held at Lenton every Tuesday, for the recovery of small debts and for damages in case of trespass. Twice a year, viz. October 25th and May 14th, it sits to try causes as high as £50. It is a court of pleas, and extends its jurisdic- tion over the whole of the Honour of P< ccri/, which com- prises lyO towns and villages in Nottinghamshire, 1:20 in Der- byshire, and several in Leicestershire and Yorkshire. The hundreds of Thuigarton and Broxtow, and the towns of Shef- field and Rotherhara, were added to its jurisdiction by Charles II., but persons living in those places, which are at a consider- able distance from Lenton, seldom sue in this feudal court, they having generally better and cheaper justice at home. Till NOTTINGHAM. 130 1316, this court was held in St. James's Chapel, in Notting- ham, but in that year it was removed to the County-hall, aud the town was exonerated from its jurisdiction. In 1368, it was removed to Basford, the Honour of Peveril being - in that year granted by Edward III. to William de Eland, who, as high- steward, had a right to hold it at any place within its jurisdic- tion. Queen Anne, in 1707, granted the Honour of Peveril to Sir Thomas Willoughby, from whom it descended to the pre- sent Lord Middleton. In 1791, Mr. John Sands, the gaoler, set all the prisoners at liberty, " because there was no food allowed for their support, and because he had been legally in- formed, that if any of them died of want, he would be liable to take his trial as a murderer." The court was then removed to Lenton, and the prisoners placed under the care of Mr. Womb well, who in 1804 built the White Hart Inn, and the apartments behind it, which have since been used as the prison, and which are enclosed by the walls of the pleasure gardens and bowling-green ; so that the poor debtor may see through his grated window, the merry throngs who resort thither in the summer season. The gaoler, who is also the innkeeper, some- times permits his prisoners to wait upon the company on the green ; and those whom he can trust have occasionally been allowed to pay a nocturnal visit to Nottingham, under a pro- mise to return early next morning, and perhaps in considera- tion of a fee. Lord Middleton is high-steward of the court,, which is held before John Balguy, Esq., the deputy-steivard, and Mr. Samuel Sanders, the prothonotary. Mr. Thomas Wright is the gaoler, and Mr. John Wheatley the bailiff, — ■ The office is in Wheelergate, The " Market Place Association" for the Prosecution of Felons, was instituted in 1787, and Mr. George Hopkinson, jun., is now its solicitor. COURT HOUSES AND PRISONS. The County Hall and Gaol of Nottinghamshire, which; stand on the south side of the High Pavement, were built in 1770, partly on the site of the old ones, which had stood since 1618. The Hall which fronts the street, is a heavy looking stone building, defended by a range of iron railing, and ap- proached by a flight of steps leading to the grand entrance, over which is a pediment supported by four massive pillars, and or- namented w r ith the Fasces and Pileus — emblematic of its being a place for the administration of justice. The entrance hall is lighted by a circular window in the roof; on the right is the nisi-prius court, and on the. left the crown court, both of which are small, but very conveniently fitted up, having lately under- gone considerable alteration in their internal arrangements. — The petty sessions are held in the grand jury room, in which, 140 PRISONS, &c. are fall-length portraits of George III. and Queen Charlotte. There are in the building all the necessary apartments for the accommodation of the judges, juries, &c. ; and at the entrance to the council chamber are some old standards and a kettle drum, which belonged to the Duke of Kingston's light horse, in the rebellion of 1745. The prison is behind the hall, on a slope of the rock which rises to the height of seventy feet above Narrow Marsh, and commands an extensive view of the country south of the Trent. It has a good house for the gaoler, Mr. R. B. Brierley; and a convenient chapel, in which the Rev. Robert Wood, D. D. officiates. The cells and courts are clean and airy, and very secure, though a female prisoner in 1831 escaped by throwing herself over the prison wall into the Narrow Marsh, where she was taken up by some of the inhabitants, who concealed her till she regained the use of her limbs, and then so disguised her that she left the town, and escaped the vigilance of her pursuers. The elections of knights of the shire, of the county coroners, and of the verderers of Sherwood forest, and also the county court, are held in the hall, which, as well as the prison, is not within the jurisdiction of the town. The Town-Hall and Gaol form a good brick building, faced with stucco, and fronting the Weekday- cross, at the foot of the High Pavement. In 1741, the Town or Guild-Hall was an ancient tiled building of wood and plaster, presenting four irregular gables to the principal front, and supposed to have then stood nearly 700 years. It was rebuilt soon after 1741 ; as also was the prison in 1791? since which many alterations have been made. The front is projected over ten wooden pillars, forming a piazza, under which is the entrance to the prison and the gaoler's house. The hall where the town assizes, sessions, courts, and corporation elections are held, is ap- proached by a flight of steps at the west end. It is 39 feet long and 32 broad, and on the east side of it is a handsome council chamber, which serves also as the grand jury room, and is adorned with portraits of Sir Thomas White, George Coldham, Esq. (late town clerk,) and other distinguished characters. The length of the building is only 104 feet, so that it is much too small for the numerously attended festive meetings of the corporation, which are now held in the EXCHANGE, a large and elegant edifice, stuccoed in imitation of stone, and presenting a noble front at the east end of the Market-place, having its pediment richly ornamented, and surmounted in the centre by a large statue of Justice, below which is an excellent clock. The whole of the Exchange buildings form a square pile, about 130 feet in length and breadth, but the ground floor is formed into a convenient shambles, except round the exterior parts of the wings, which are divided into good shops and dwellings, with several apartments on the north side used as KOTTIHGB 14 i the Police-office, and one occupied by the Artisans 7 Library.- — There is also a good inn, which communicates with the hall or long room, which is 123 feet in length, 30 feet in breadth, and 30 feet in height, and is Lighted at that end next the Market place with a large and elegant Venetian window, ornamented with two Ionic columns. Here public meetings, and the elec- tion of the Members of Parliament for the town are held, and sometimes balls and assemblies, as well as the corporation feasts. This room, on ordinary occasions, is divided into three apartments, by large folding doors. The west front was begun to be built in I "J 24:, and cost the corporation £2400, but it subsequently underwent considerable alteration. The shambles and all the other parts of the building were commenced in 1814, and finished in the course of two years, at considerable expense. The House of Correction for the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, stands in St. John-street, at the corner of Glasshouse street, on the site which was formerly occupied bv a convent of hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem ; hence it is sometimes called St. John '& prison. These hospi- tallers possessed considerable estates in the town, of which they were deprived by Henry Villi, who gave them to the corporation, by whom the convent was converted into a bride- well, to which from time to time great additions have been made. A new wing was added in 1806, and in 1826 a tread mill was erected, the labour of which raises water from a spring, not onlv for the use of the prison, but also for the supply of a public tap, placed on the outside of the high wall which sur- rounds the prison. Executions. — In the south east angle of the prison wall, which commands a view of a great part of Parliament-street, Broad-street, and St. John-street, a New Drop was erected in August 1831, and the first victims who suffered on this appaling engine of justice, were two young men (Reynolds and .Marshall; who were executed on the 24th of the same month, for a rape on the body of Alary Ann Lord. Criminals previously suffered the extreme penalty of the law upon Gallows-hilly on the forest, near the Mansfield-road, where the following persons were hanged for the crimes and in the years specified, viz. T. Pern berton, for housebreaking, in 17-7; John Briggs, for murder- ing his wife, 1728; John Revell, gent, for shooting a man, (he went to the gallows in his own carnage,) in 1729 ; W. Pvecroft, coiner, 1732; Henry Parnell, for murdering his wife, 1735; James Gibbins, highwayman, 1737; Thomas Hallam, cow stealing, 1738; Smith " and Miller, robbers, 1748; James Woyden, murderer, (he was the first culprit dissected in Not- tingham,) 1752; Roberts and Sandham, for cutting and maim- ing, 1753; Richard Sturges, for robbing dye-houses, 1757; Robert Wilson, for robbing a pedlar, 1758;* Samuel Ward; house-breaking, 1759; Wra, Andrew Home, Esq. of Butterley, 142 EXECUTIONS. for murdering his illegitimate child, (35 years before,)* 1759 ; Elizabeth Morton, (only 16 years of age,) for murder, 1763; Wm. Wainer and J. Bromage,f highwaymen, 1766; R. Downe and T. Reynolds, burglary and murder, (the body of the latter was hung in chains near Mansfield,) 1767; Wm. Hebb, murder, 1770 ; R» Wheatley, for returning from transportation, and J. Shaw, for burglary, 1774; Wm. Voce, for murdering a wash- erwoman, at Sneinton wakes, 1774; John Spencer, for mur- dering the keepers of Scrooby toll bar, near which his body was hung in chains, 177^5 & Brown and A. Bagshaw, for burglary, 1781 ; Cooper Hall, for robbing the Newark post boy, 17^2 ; R. Rushton and Ann Castledine,t for murder, 1784; T. Henfrey and W. Rider, highwaymen, 1784; Wm. Cook, horse stealer, and J. Anderson, J. Pendrill, and J. Townsend, highwaymen, 1785; Thomas Cobb, for burglary, 1785 ; W. Hands and J. Lister, horse and sheep stealers, 1786; S. Martin and A. Farnsworth, burglary, 1790; W. Healey, horsestealing, 1793; D. Proctor, for a rape, 1795 ; J. Milner, cow stealing, 1797 ; J« Brodie, a blind man, for murdering a boy on the forest, 1799 ; J. Atkinson, forgery, 1800 ; M. Den- man, W. Sykes, and T. Bakewell, burglary, 1801 ; Mary Voce, for murdering her infant, 1802; Ferdinando Davis, highwayman, 1802; J. Thompson, for robbery, and Wm. Hill, for a rape, 1803; R. Powell, burglary, 1805; Wm. Davis, forgery, 1806; T. Lampin, forgery, 1809; B. Renshaw, for arson, &c. 1812; W. Simpson, burglary, 1813; J. Hemstock, murderer, 1815; J. Simpson, highwayman, 1816; D. Diggle, for attempting murder, (executed in front of the county hall,) 1817; C. Rotherham, for murder, 1817; Needham and Man- derville, burglary, 1818; T. Wilcox, highwayman, 1820; Bamford, Adie, and Sanderson, murderers, 1822; T. Rowe and B. Miller, highwaymen, 1823; T. Dewey, murderer, 1825; S. Wood, for murdering his wife, and J. Shepherd and G, Milnes, for burglary, 1826; W. Wells, for highway rob- bery, 1827; — since which no execution took place, neither in the town nor county, till the one already mentioned in 1831, though many persons were convicted of robbery and other offences, which are now generally punished with transportation ; and we hope soon to see such a revision of our criminal code as shall render the punishment of offenders more certain, but more equitably proportioned to the nature of their crimes than has hitherto been the case. * He was driven to the gallows by his own coachman. T They went to hear their condemned sermon, and after laying down in their graves, they walked in their shrouds to the place of execution. X She was hanged for destroying her infant as soon as it was born. Her body was dissected at Derby, where " a strange gentleman took up the heart, kissed it, shed tears upon it, squeezed a drop of blood out upon a handkerchief, and then rode away." NOTTINGHAM. 143 The following is a list of the Members of Parliament, the Corporate Body, and the Municipal Officers of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham : — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. Thomas Denman, Esq. Attorney-General, Lincoln's Inn, London. General Sir Ronald Crawford Furguson, G. C. B. 5, Bolton-row, Piccadilly, London. CORPORATION- 1831-32. 03* The figures show the year in which each was appointed. Mayor, John Houseman Barber, Esq. 1831. Recorder, Rt. Hon. Henry Rd. Vassal Fox, Lord Holland, 1S09. Deputy Recorder, Win. Reader, Esq. barrister, 1830. ALDERMEN. John Allen, Esq. 1804. I William Soars, Esq. 1817* William Wilson, Esq. 1810. | Octavius Thos. Oldknow, 1821.. Chas. Lomas Morlev, Esq. 1814. Samuel Deverill, Esq. 1822. John H. Barber, Esq. 1816. Coroners, Mr. Henry Enfield, 1808; and Mr. Jon. Dunn, 1816. Sheriffs, Mr. John Harrison and Mr. F. Leaver, 1831. L'nder Sheriff, Mr. Wm. Hurst; office, High Pavement. Chamberlains, Messrs. John Rogers and George Harvey, 1831. Town Clerk, (Clerk of the Peace and Town Treasurer,) Mr. H. Enfield, 1815 ; office, Low Pavement. Land and Building Surveyor, Mr. E. Staveley ; office, Pelham-st., senior councilmen. Thomas Wvld, 1800. Henry Enfield, 180S. Jonathan Dunn, 1809. William Morley, 1814. Richard Hopper. 1817. Thomas Wakefield, 1817. Thomas Richards, 1819. William Hurst, 1819. John S. Howitt, 1821. Nathl. Barnsdall, 1821. James Roger Allen. 1823. Alfred T. Fellows, 1823. Kirke Swann, 1823. Henrv Leaver, 1825. William Roworth, 1830. Thomas Guilford. 1S30. Edward Staveley, 1821. \ Henry Homer, 1831. junior councilmen. John James. 1793. Richard Hooton, 1798. James Lee, 1799. Lewis Alsopp Lowdham, 1807. Martin Roe, 1810. James Dale, 1815. 144 CORPORATE OFFICERS, &C. LIVERY, (DATED John Hancock, 1780. John Need, 1782. John Heath, 1784. Thomas Nelson, 1783. Timothy Fellows, 1787- Joseph Heath, 1788. Elihu Samuel Fellows, 1789. Thomas Pepper, 1791. Thos. Carpenter Smith, 1792. John Ashwell, 1794. Nathaniel Need, 1795, William Howitt, 1801. Nathaniel Denison, 1802. Charles Melior, 1804. John Carr, 1807. Francis Wakefield, 1807. Charles Wakefield. 1809. Isaac Woolley, 1810. Samuel Hall, 1810. Alfred Lowe, 1811. AS CHAMBERLAINS.) John Michael Fellows, 1812. George Gill, 1815. CalverW Huish, 1816. John Theaker, 1817. Rohert Seals, 1819. John Heard, 1820. John Wells, 1821. Francis Hart, 1823. James Fellows. 1823. William Walker, 1824. Samuel H. Swann, 1824. Wm. Enfield, 1825. Thomas Shipman, 1825. Christopher Swann, 1826. SamuelHollins, 1826. Nathaniel Barnsdall, jun. 1827. Robert Davison, 1828. Wm. Cartledge, 1828. Thomas Allen, 1829. Rd. Gresham Barber, 1829. Mayor's Serjeant and Chief Constable.— Mr. Richard Birch, Police-office, Smithy-row.— (With 23 Police officers.) Comiuon Serjeant and Woodward, and Keeper of the Fields, Woods, and Meadows. -Mr. Saml. Kilbourn, Warser-gate. Bailiffs and Serjeants-at-Mace. -W. Gibson, Houndsgate, 1828, and Henry Cox, Castlegate, 1829. Town Crier. — T. Barwick, Greyhound-street, 1814. Pindars. — T. Whittle and J. Cox. Receiver of Assize Returns. — J. Ashwell, farmer, Bobber's-mill. Town Gaol: — Mr. George Vason, Gaoler, 1820; Rev. Samuel M'Lund, Chaplain, 1820; Mr. Robt. Davison, Surgeon, 1S20. House of Correction: — John Rainbow, Governor, 1814; Mrs. Jarman, Matron, 1821. The Surgeon and Chaplain are the same as at the Gaol. Parish Offices and Workhouses :— See p. 127. ft^ The Nottinghamshire Magistrates and Public Officers are inserted in the general survey of the county, at a preceding page. ECCLESIASTICAL GOVERNMENT. Nottingham, as has already been seen, is in the Diocese of York, and is the head of the Archdeaconry, which compiises the whole of Nottinghamshire, and of the Deanery, which in- cludes most of the parishes in the hundreds of Broxtow and ThurgartOD. The See of York was first divided into Arch- deaconries by Archbishop Thomas, in 1090. Henry VIII*, after dissolving" many of the monasteries, instituted twenty-six Suffragan Bishoprics, and the See of one of them was at Not- tingham ; but they were all discontinued in the reign of Eliza - NOTTINGHAM. 145 beth. Richard Barnes, the last Suffragan Bishop of Notting- ham, was consecrated in 1558; and afterwards became Bishop of Durham. Robert Purseglove, who was Archdeacon of Nottingham in 1552, was the last Suffragan Bishop of Hull, and was deprived of both these dignities by Queen Elizabeth, in 1560, for refusing to take the oath of supremacy. In 1662, two thousand clergymen, in different parts of England, were ejected from their livings, for not conforming to the Act of Uniformity, which came into operation on St. Bartholomew's day; many of these were from Nottingham and Nottingham- shire. — (See p. 91.) The present Archdeacon of Nottingham is the Venerable John Eyre, M.A. rector of Babworth, and one of the resident tiaries of York Cathedral, who was inducted to the office in 1810. The archdeaconry is not endowed, so that the dignity is supported solely by the perquisites of the office, which in 1534 were valued at £61. 0s. lOd. Formerly, the archdeacon paid a triennial visit to the town, for the purpose of confirming the children of the neighbourhood, but his visits have of late been uncertain. The archdeacon holds an annual visitation in St. Mary's church, at which the churchwardens of the several parishes are sworn into office. The Spiritual Court of the archdeaconry has been held for ages in St. Peter's church, but the judicial power is now removed to York. The Rev. Dr. Wilkins is the official of the archdeaconry, and surrogate for proving of wills, &c. ; and Mr. Charles George Balguy is the registrar, at the archdea- conry office, on Timber-hill. The court meets, as usual, in St. Peter's church, four, five, or six times a-year, but about 1795 it ceased to try causes, and now merely issues citations for the court at York. The Clergy Charity, which has for its object the relief of the widows, orphans, and necessitous families of the clergy, within the archdeaconry of Nottingham, holds an annual meet- ing in Juty, at the Clinton Arms, Newark; the Rev. Charles Nixon, ofNuthall, is the treasurer. MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS.— The ancient religious foundations of Nottingham, which arose in Catholic times, were neither numerous nor splendid, though there were some very rich ones in the county. The rocky cavities commonly called the Papist holes, are supposed to have been anciently places of druidical worship, and afterwards occupied by some of the earliest followers of the Christian faith.— (See p. 120.)— In the first centuries of Christianity, many of its persecuted votaries, in order to avoid a cruel death, " and the better to give themselves up to fasting, prayer, and contemplation, re- tired by themselves into desert places," in allusion to which they vyere called hermits. "After the persecutions of the Christians were over, and the church enjoyed peace, these o 146 MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS. hermits by degrees returned to towns and cities, and associating* together, they lived in houses called monasteries, and confined themselves to certain rules agreed upon amongst themselves. " But it was not till the beginning of the seventh century that Christianity obtained a firm footing in England. Monachism first commenced in Asia, and afterwards spread itself all over Europe, and its reign in England was as brilliant as in any other part of the world, till Henry VIII., who was perhaps a necessary scourge for the sins and bigotry of the times in which he lived, swept away nearly all its institutions, and threw their immense wealth into a more corrupt channel than even that which it had previously occupied; for instead of preserving it for the spiritual and bodily support of the poor, as was the in- tention of the original donors, he sold or granted most of it to private individuals, for the gratification of his own concupi- scence, and for the satisfaction of those who connived at his lascivious errors. That the monks had become insolent and corrupt, and that a religious reformation was ncessary, all must admit, but this perversion of property intended for charitable uses, all must condemn. But to discuss this subject is the province of our national historians, we shall therefore confine ourselves to a description of the monastic houses which existed in Nottingham, where the white and grey friars, and the knights of St. John of Jerusalem, had each a separate establish- ment, besides which there were in the town an bospitaLof lepers, a college of secular priests, and two religious cells, The Grey Friary, which stood at the south-west corner of Broad-marsh, had an enclosed garden which extended to the river Leen. Tt was founded in 1250, for mendicant friars of the order of St. Francis, of whom there remained only seven in the house at the time when it surrendered to the commissioners of Henry VIII., in ]539. Edward VI., in 15J8, granted it to Thomas Henage. The White Friary, which stood in St. Nicholas parish, betwixt St. Jarnes's-street and Friar-lane, was founded by Re- ginald Lord Grey, of Wilton, and Sir John Shirley, Knight, in I276, for Carmelite friars, who obtained permission from Pope Honorius IV. to exchange their party-coloured mantle, (which they wore in imitation of the prophet Elias,) for a white cloak, from which they obtained the name of white friars ; their original cognomen being derived from a set of hermits who dwelt on Mount Carmel, in Palestine. This house surrendered at the same time as the grey friary, and had then a prior and six friars. The site was granted to James Shirley, in the 33d of Henry VTIT. St, James's chapel, which stood near this mo- nastery, in St. James's-street, was granted to the white friars by Edward II., previous to which it was the place where the Peveril court was held. This chapel is supposed to have been of Saxon origin, but all traces of it have long since disappeared- NOTTINGHAM. 147 St. John's Hospital, which stood without the ancient wall of the town, on the site of the house of correction, belonged to the knights of St. John of Jerusalem, who, after loading them- selves with honour in the unsuccessful crusades against the Turks and Saracens, dispersed themselves into different parts of Europe, and a party of them settled at Nottingham, about the year 1215, and obtained there considerable possessions, which at their dissolution in 1539, were valued at £5. 6s. 8d<, and were given to the corporation, for the purpose of enabling them to keep the Trent bridge in repair. The establishment consisted of a master, two chaplains, and several brethren, who observed a perfect equality of property, took the vow of chas- titv, and wore a habit of russet and black cloth. St. Leonard's Hospital stood ai the south-west corner of the Narrow-marsh, and was founded for the reception of lepers, who in 1226 " had reasonable estrover of dead wood to be ga- thered in the forest of Nottingham," and was endowed with half an acre of land in the King's domains, at the hermitage then called Ow swell. That dreadful disease, leprosy, was in- troduced into Europe by the Moors and Arabs, about the be- ginning of the eleventh century, and so prevalent was it in England, that several hundred hospitals were founded for the reception of the afflicted, who, being considered as unclean, were compelled to live apart from those who were so fortunate as to escape the ravages of the scrofulous malady. Thoroton says, in the reign of Henry III. there was a fra- ternity of St Sepulchre, and a college of secular priests in the castle, and likewise a cell for four monks in the chapel of St. Mary, in the rock under the castle. There were several Chantries in the parish churches, which were endowed for the support of priests to sing mass for the souls of the founders ; but these, as well as the monasteries, were swept away by the broom of reformation. In St. Marv's church was the guild of Holy Trinity, consisting of six priests, (who had a house in the High Pavement,) also two chantries dedicated to St. Mary and St. James, and another called Amyas chantry, from a family of that name who lived in the Long-row, In St. Peter's church there were three chantries, two of which were dedicated to St. George and St. Mary. In St. Nicholas's church, there was a guild or chantry dedicated to the Virgin Mary. In monastic times, much of 'the land and many of the houses in the town belonged to the rich abbeys and priories in Nottinghamshire and the adjacent counties, 'and the rectory of St. Mary's was appropriated to Lenton priory. CHURCHES. There are in the town five episcopal places of worship, three of which are parochial churches, and two, chapels of ease ; be- 148 CHURCHES. sides which it is supposed that one dedicated to St. Michael an ciently stood betwixt Fox-lane and St. Anne's-street, where many human bones have been found on the ground still called St. Michael's church yard. There was also St. James's chapel, of which no traces now remain. — See p. 146. St. Mary's, the largest of the three parish churches of Not- tingham, is a venerable edifice in the collegiate style, in the form of a cross with a very august tower, and standing on the north side of the High Pavement, upon a bold eminence, which rises nearly 100 feet above the river Leen, so that it presents a commanding appearance to the spectator in almost every direc- tion. It has evidently been rebuilt in the gothic style, which prevailed in the reign of Henry VII.; and Leland, who visited it about 1540, describes it as being " nezve, and uniforme yn worke" Its interior dimensions are, from east to west, 216 feet; from south to north, at the transcepts, 97 feet; in the nave, 67 feet; and in the chancel, 29 feet. The height of the roof is 60 feet, and that of the tower 126 feet. In 1726, the west end was rebuilt in the doric order, and the south wall of the nave was new faced in 1761, since which many other parts of the walls have been renewed, and the interior has just been cleansed and beautified. Much of the stone used in its frequent repairs is a very soft and perishable freestone, so that many of the modern parts now present an air of antiquity. The organ, which stands in front of the glass screen which separates the chancel from the nav r e, was built in 1777? by the celebrated Snetzler. It has two fronts, and, both in tone and elegance, is a convincing proof of the skill of its maker. In the steeple is an excellent peal often musical bells, all cast betwixt the years 1605 and 1761. Many of the monuments and all the brass plates in the church were destroyed or defaced by the liberal roundheads in the civil commotions of the seventeenth century. In the south aisle is "Our Lady's chapel," which contains the tombs of the first and second Earls of Clare, over which is a mutilated alabaster figure. On the opposite side is the chapel of All-saints, where many of the ancient family of Plumptre are interred, and on one of their tombs lies the recumbent figure of a man dressed in a gown with wide sleeves. The Earl of Meath and several other distinguished characters lie interred in the church, as is recorded on many mural monuments, several of which belong to the family of Wright. In the north window is a beautiful figure of St. Andrew. The enclosing of the church-yard with iron railing was commenced in 1792, but was not completed till 1807. Three other burial grounds have been purchased and consecrated for the use of St. Mary's parish ; they are at a considerable distance from the church, one being on the north and another on the south side of Barkergate, and the other on the west side of Cartergate, which latter was pur- chased in 1814, at the cost of 8s. per square yard. NOTTINGHAM. 149 The Vicarage of St. Mary's is in the patronage of Earl Man- vers, and is now enjoyed by the Rev. George Wilkins, D.D., who is also vicar of Lowdham, and prebendary of Norman toa in Southwell Collegiate Church. The Rev. I." C. Colls is the curate. The vicarage house stands opposite the south-east corner of the church-yard, and was built on the site of the old one in 1653. The living is valued in the King's Books* at .£10. 5s. per annum. From a Terrier published in 17^8, and containing an account of the glebe lands, tithes, SfC, it appears that there are belonging to the vicarage 27 acres of land, viz. : six in the Sand-field, 13 in the Clay-field, and eight in or near the Meadows, the Ryehills and Hooper's Sconce; besides a garden and close in Cartergate, and the tithe of all tofts and crofts, of bread, potatoes, gardens, pigs, sheep, flax, &c. &c. The tithe of the Leen Mill is stated at zOs. payable at Easter; the tithe of the bread of every baker in the parish, an halfpenny loaf every Saturday ; the tithe of all gardens, occu- pied by gardeners, two shillings in the pound rent; the tithe of all sheep that go in the fields from Michaelmas to Martin- mas, fourpence per score ; and the Easter-offerings, sixpence- halfpenny for each house in the parish. The vicar has also 20s. yearly left by Alderman Staples for preaching two sermons upon Charity, on the Sundays before Whitsuntide and Christ- mas ; and 10s. yearly left by the Rev. William Thorpe for a sermon to be preached on the day of the restoration of Charles II., besides surplice fees, which in this populous parish, are very considerable. The temporal affairs of the church are managed by two churchwardens, each assisted bv a sidesman of their own choosing, and remaining two years in office ; — only one being changed annually by the alternate election of the vicar and housekeepers of the parish. Mr. William Aspull is the organist ; Thomas Hardwick Almond is the clerk; Mr. Joseph Parnham, the deputy clerk; and William Johnson, the sexton. For the other officers and a description of the parish, see page 126. Black ner says, since the death of the Rev. Dr. Haines in 1806, the vicarial tithes of St. Mary's parish have been collected with considerable severity, and that two customs which are still continued, originated with King John, who in one of his visits to the town, called at the houses of the mayor and the vicar, and finding neither ale in the cellar of the one, nor bread in the cupboard of the other, his Majestv ordered that every publican in the town should contribute sixpenny worth of ale to the mayor yearly ; and that every baker in St/ Marv's parish should give a halfpenny loaf weekly to the vicar. St. Peter's Church stands upon the 'declivity which falls * King's Books.— In 1535, a valuation was taken of all the church livings in the kingdom, by order of Henry VIII., from whom the records obtained the name, af the King's Books. o2 150 CHURCHES. westward from Bridlesmithgate to the foot of Wheelergate, Houndsgate, and the Low Pavement. It is a Gothic structure with a tower at the west end, supporting the only spire in the town, and containing a peal of eight bells, cast in 177l> and said to be the best attuned and the most melodious of any with- in many miles. The fabric is supposed to have been built in the early part of the 15ih century. It was greatly damaged in the civil wars, when the garrison threw several bombs into it to dislodge a party of royalists who had taken possesion of it. Since then it has been frequently repaired; and in 1789, a mason of the name of Wooton,* took down and rebuilt four yards of the spire, without the aid of scaffolding. In 1800, the south side of the church was rebuilt, and in 1807 the north side was stuccoed and the portico taken down. In 1814, the chan- cel was repaired. The interior is peculiarly neat and has a good organ, which was purchased by subscription in 1812. A large square window at the east end, which contained a variety of coats of arms in stained glass, was built up in 1720, when an altar piece was placed against it, representing the Last Sup- per, but which has since been removed to make room for a beautiful painting by Mr. Barber, of Christ's agony in the gar- den. The chancel is graced with several mural monuments, and in the church-yard, which was enclosed in 1804, there was a serio-comic epitaph to the memory of " Vin Eyrej* a needle maker, who had much influence with his brother burgesses, and was a " great stickler for the high, or blue party in this town, at elections ;" but every letter is now worn out of the stone, which covers the remains of this poor but incorruptible bur- gess, who died in the street in 1727> after the fatigues of a con- tested election, in which he had over exerted himself for the successful candidate. Upward of 700 free seats for the use of the poor were erected in the church a few years ago. In J 83 1, a new burial ground containing 16,000 square yards, near the Workhouse in the Broad Marsh, was opened for the use of St. Peter's parish. The benefice is a Rkctory valued in the King's books at £8. 7s. Gd. ; in the patronage of the King, and now in the incumbency of the Rev. Robert White Almond, M.A. The Rev. S M'Lund is the curate; Mr. Wool ley is the organist; Mr. W. M. Kidd, the clerk; and Mr. Martin, the sepcton ; The Rector receives 20s. a year for preaching two sermons on Easter and Whit-Monday, from the bequest of John Burroios, loft in 1659. He also pos>e^ses an acre of land in the Meadows, left in 1730, by John Paramour, for sermons on Ash Wednesday and Ascension Day. * Stbbple Cmmkkks.— Mr. Philip Wooton, a descendant of the abovenamed " steeple cUmber" performed a similar feat at \fanche8ter t where, in ir.23, he took down and re-fixed the hall and cross, which surmount the lofty spire of St. Anne's. He ascended solely hy the means of ladders, which he contrived to fasten to the spire., one above another from the bottom to the top. NOTTINGHAM, T5l St. Nicholas* Church is a neat brick edifice ornamented with stone, and like St. Peter's, shaded by a number of trees. It occupies a pleasant situation on the south side of Castlegate, whence its large burial ground extends to Chesterfield-street and Rosemary-lane. The building was commenced in 1671, and finisheriVin 1678, on the site of an ancient fabric which was destroyed in 1647, when a party of rovalists took psssession of it, and from the steeple so annoyed the parliamentarians in the castle, that they could not " play the ordnance without woolsacks before them,'* and the bullets from the church " played so thick into the outward castle-yard, that they could not pass from one gate to another, nor relieve the guards, with- out very great bazzard."* The church, however, was soon set on fire, and the royalists obliged to flv from its falling ruins. The present edifice has a light and airy appearance, and has a tower with one bell at the west end. It has a spacious nave and two side aisles, the southermost of which was much en- larged by subscription in 17-56; and a similar extension of the north aisle took place in 1733, Avhen £500 was raised for the purpose. It has since been new paved and ornamented with a handsome pulpit and a reading desk, and also with a new gal- lery on the north side. The organ was erected in 1811; on each side of the communion table are elegant paintings repre- senting the good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son ; and the Malls are decorated with many neat monumental tablets, and four hatchments belonging to the families of Newdigate, Smith, Bromley, and Cooper. Amongst the numerous epitaphs in the church-yard is a facetious one to the memory of " Old Torn Booth" a noted deer stealer, who died in 17-52; and another of a very pathetic character, in remembrance of William John Gill, an exemplary youth who was drowned in the Trent in 1802. The living is a Rectory valued in the King's Books at £2. Is. 8d. It is, like St. Peter's, nominally in the patronage of the King, but virtually in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The Rev. William Joseph. Butler, M.A., is the incumbent; Mrs. Cooper is the organist; Mr. William Archer the clerk ; and Mr. Robert Allen the sexton. Tithes, — There is no farm land in the parishes of St. Ni- cholas and St. Peter, both of which are circumscribed within the skirts of the town, consequently the rectors have no great tithes. And as to the small tithes, Blackner could not disco- ver that any attempt had been made to collect them, except in 17^3, when the rector of St. Nicholas, said to one of his offi- cers, " if you will inform me of any person who keeps breeding sows in the parish, I will make it worth your while." The officer replied, that he knew of but one, whom he named, and in a day or two he told him that his sty Avould shortly be ho- * Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson. ] 52 CHURCHES. noured with a titlie-pig visit, which the owner determined to prevent, by carrying to the parson's door a young" pig, and con- triving to make it move the knocker, by which it soon gained a welcome reception ; but the rector was afterwards so severely assailed with the jeers of the parishioners, that he lost all relish for tithe-pig, and never made any further inquiries on the subject. St. Paul's Church is a Chapel of Ease to St. Mary's pa- rish. It is a handsome stone fronted building, erected in 1822> and is situated in George-street, opposite the Catholic Chapel. It has a portico with four large fluted columns supporting an elegant cupola, in which there is but one bell. The interior is light and neatly pewed, and has spacious free-galleries for the use of strangers and the poor; the seats on the ground floor being the only ones which are let for the benefit of the minister; the Rev. A. Sadler, is the incumbent, and Mr. Joseph Ald- ridge the clerk. St. James's Church or Extra- Parochial Chapel is plea- santly situated on Standard-hill, opposite the top of Rutland- street, without the boundaries of the " county of the town." It was built by subscription in ]808, at the cost of nearly .£13,000, including the expense of an act of Parliament, which the sub- scribers were obliged to obtain for its erection in consequence of their being strenuously opposed by the vicar and two rectors of Nottingham, who have no control over this place of worship, which stands on the extra-parochial ground that once belonged to the castle. — (See p. 124.) It is a neat brick structure cased with stone, and the doors and windows are in the gothic style. The tower, which is low, contains but one bell ; the interior is neatly fitted up, and has commodious galleries over the side aisles. The present minister, the Rev. John Burnett Stuart, M.A., "is one of the evangelical clergy, and the congregation is very wealthy and respectable." The first three presentations are in the three largest subscribers to the building, vix. the present incumbent, Edmund Wright, Esq.., and Thomas Wal- ker, Esq. ; after which, the benefice will be in the patronage of the Crown. The Rev, Samuel Rogers is the assistant curate; Mr. Henry Bond the organist ; Mr. William Glover, the clerk ; and Mr. George Fogg the sexton. The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL, in George-street, was erected in 1827, and will seat about 600 persons, being 84 feet in length, 41 feet in breadth, and 31 feet in height. It is a substantial and well finished edifice, with a handsome stone front in the Doric order; and is dedicated to St. John the Evan- gelist. The organ which was built by Parsons of London, is considered a very fine instrument. The Rev. Robert William Willson is the Ph.if.st ; and Mr. Woolley the organist. The congregation had previously a small chapel in an obscure situa- tion in King's-place, but it is now converted into a school- room. NOTTINGHAM. 153 DISSENTING CHAPELS. In most large towns Dissenters are numerous and influen- tial ; and so great is their preponderance in Nottingham, that out of the 30 places of worship in the town, no fewer than 25 belong to congregations not connected with the Protestant established church. Of these chapels, many of which are large and numerously attended, five belong to the Baptists, seven to the Independent Calvinists, five to the Methodists, and one each to the Unitarians, Sandemanians, Huntingtonians, Quake? 's, Sivedenborgians, Southcotarians, and Jews, The Unitarian Chapel, which stands in a court behind the High-pavement, was erected about the close of the 17th century, soon after the passing of the Toleration Act; previous to which its congregation suffered much persecution, and was obliged to assemble secretly in a vault under a house at the top of Drury-hill. They were anciently called Socinians from their founder, Faustus Sociuus, who died in Poland in 1604. The chapel was new roofed, the floor fiued, the walls stuccoed, and otherwise repaired in 1805. It will seat about 800 hearers, and has a Free-school attached to it. The late George Walker, a celebrated philosopher and politician, was some years minis- ter of this chapel, which is now under the pastoral care of the Rev. Benjamin Carpenter. Independent Chapels. — The Castle Meeting-house stands next in seniority to that in the High-pavement, being built in 1689, when its founders adhering to the doctrine of John Calvin, separated from the Socinians, and formed themselves into an independent church of " Congregaiionalists" The chapel which stands near the bottom of Castlegate has been several times altered and enlarged, so that it will now seat 1200 people, and is generally well filled, having about 320 com- municants. In 1826 it was thoroughly repaired and enriched with a good organ. The building stands in the parish of St. Nicholas, but the large Burial Ground \n front is in the parish of St. Peter. The congregation, which is wealthy and respec- table, supports a large Sabbath school, and subscribes to a benevolent fund for the relief of the poor : and since the year 1795, it has been under the ministry of the Rev. Richard Alliott, who is now assisted by his son, of the same name. The Inde- pendent Chapel, in Friar-lane, was erected in 1828, for the congregation under the pastoral care of the Rev. Joseph Gilbert, It is a large brick edifice, stuccoed in the gothic style, and ornamented with two towers. Exclusive of the upper galleries for the use of its three Sunday-schools, it will seat 750 hearers. Salem Chapfl, in Barkergate, built in 1817, at the cost of .£2000, is a square brick structure, adjoining one of St. Mary's Burial-grounds. It was erected by the Rev. W. Butcher and a number of his followers, who originally separated from St. 154 CHAPELS. James's Church, but are now under the ministry of the Rev. James Orange. Near the chapel the congregation have just built a large Free-school, which will be described with the other charities of the town. Sion Chapel, in Fletchergate, was built in 1819, for a sect of Independents attached to the high Calvinistic sentiments, under the ministry of the late Rev. James Jack, but it is at present without, a regular pastor. St. Marygate Chapel was erected in 1801, by an Independent congregation, known by the name of Inghamites, who profess sentiments nearly allied to the Sabellians, and are under the pastoral care of two elders, Mr. J. Bailey and Mr. J. Churchill St. James'-street Chapel was built in 1823, for the Rev. Richard Cicil's congregation, which is now without a regular minister, as also is Ebenezer Chapel, a small Independent place of worship in Robin-Hood-yard, Coalpit-lane. Ston Chapel, in Halifax-place, was built in 1761, and was sue cessively occupied by the Unitarians, the Independents, and the followers of the doctrine of George Whitfield, but is- now used only as a day and Sunday-school, being rented for that purpose by the Methodists. Hephzibah Chapel, now the National- school, was built in 1804 by a party of Independents, attached to the Rev. Mr. Crockford, who sold it to the Universalists — now extinct. Baptist Chapels. — The Scotch Baptist Chapel, in Park- street, is supposed to have been the third dissenting place of worship erected in the town, being built about 1724, for the use of a Baptist congregation, which existed as early as the 17th cen ; tury, but which afterwards separated into two sects, viz. Parti- cular and Scotch Baptists, both of which embrace the Calvinistic tenets, and differ in nothing but their church government. It measure 65 feet by 27, and has lately been repaired. Mr. Samuel Ward and two other elders officiate as pastors. The Particular Baptist Chapel, in George-street, is a neat brick edfice, erected in 1815, by the congregation which previously occupied the Park-street Chapel. It cost about £6000, includ- ing the purchase of the site, and the erection of the large Sab- bath school which adjoins it. The interior is neatly pewed, and will seat 1000 people. The burial ground is at a consider- able distance, being at the west side of Mount-street. The late Rev. John Jarman was pastor of this congregation from 1803 till 1830, when he was succeeded by the Rev. James Edwards. The General Baptist Chapel, in Plumtre-place, is a large, square brick fabric, adjoiningone of St. Mary's Burial-grounds It was built in 1799, and has near it a large Sunday-school, erected in 1811. The Rev. William Pickering is the minister, and fa assisted by the Rev. Henry Hunter. The General or /irntinian Baptists have also a huge chapel in Broad-strkkt, erected in 1 818, by a number of members, who, with their paster, the late Rev, Robert Smith at their head, separated NOTTINGHAM. 155 from the congregation in Plumptre-place, in consequence of some disagreement in their church government. Its present minister is the Rev. Adam Smith. There is likewise a Baptist chapel, in Paradise-place, Barkergate, hut it is a very small building- without any regular minister. Methodist Chapels. — The Wesleyan or Armenian Metho- dists in Nottigham, are, as in most other places, numerous and popular, and date their orgin from the days of their founders, John and Charles Wesley, who commenced their pious la- bours at Oxford ahout the year 1730, and during the remainder of their lives travelled into all parts of the kingdom, preaching to the poor and the ignorant, inculcating the general part of the doctrine taught by Arminus, a native of Holland, who defend- ed the religious principles of Beza in opposition to those of John Calvin. After meeting some time in a house in Pelham- street, thev erected the " Tabernacle'' in 1 762, but in 1782 thev sold it to the General Baptists, soon after which it was taken down, and the site is now occupied by domestic building"?, betwixt Mount-East street and Milton-street, They went from the Tabernacle to Hockley Chapel, a large and handsome brick building, which they erected in 1782, at the foot of Goosegate. Their numbers being greatly increased in 1798, thev erected Halifax Chapel, which stands in Halifax place, and is the largest dissenting place of worship in the town, being 84 \ feet long, and 53 feet broad, exclusive of the vestry and other conveniences. This chapel will seat about 1600 persons, and that at Hockley 1300. St. Ann's Chapel, in St. Ann's- street, was built in 1824, and is occupied six days in the week as an Infant-school, and every Sabbath morning as a Sunday- school. The New Connexion or Kilhamite Methodists separat- ed from the Wesleyans in 1797? and were in possession of Hocklev chapel till 1816, when they built their present large and handsome Chapel in Parliament-street, in which is an inscription to the memory of their founder, the Rev. Alexander Kilham, who died in 1793, after fighting hard against the " priestly domination" of the YVesleyan conference. The Primitive Methodists have a large chapel in Canaan-street, erected in 1823, with a Sunday-school attached. The Wesleyan ministers in the Nottingham station are, the "Revs. Robert Pilter, Thomas Harris, W. H. Clarkson, and Edward Battv. The ministers of the New Connexion are, the Revs. John Wilson, J. Hillock, and S. Hulme. The Primi- tive Methodist ministers are, the Revs. J. Garner, W. Martin, and A. F. Beckerleg. The Friends' Meeting House is a plain unobtrusive edi- fice, standing in a small paved yard in Spaniel-row. It was built in 1737, at the cost of only .£337, but it has since been considerably improved by its congregation, which, though not very numerous, is highly respectable. The Quakers formerly 156 CHAPELS, had a burial-ground in Walnut-tree-lane, but it being* full, another piece of ground, on the north side of Park-street, opposite the end of Spaniel-row, has been devoted to that pur- pose. George Fox, the founder of this " Society of Friends," was born at Fenny-Drayton, in Leicestershire, about 1624, and was imprisoned at Nottingham in 1649, "for setting the inward influence of the spirit, and the plain testimony of the Scriptures, in opposition to the outivard forms and explanatory ceremonies of the other preachers. He had not, however, been fourteen days in confinement, before he had made a confirmed proselyte of one of the sheriffs, John Reckless, who preaehed Quakerism in the Market-place." George Fox who it is said was either a shoemaker or a breeches-maker, afterwards wan- dered all over England, and suffered persecution in every town till at last he ingratiated himself under the wings of Judge Fell, of Swart- moor-hall, near Ulverstone, whose widow he after- wards married. The Sandemanian Chapel, in Houndsgate, was built in 1778, by the Glassites or Sandemanians, who profess tbe doc- trine of John Glass and Robert Sandeman, the former of whom was expelled in 1728 from the church of Scotland, for main- taining " that the kingdom of Christ is not of this world ;" and the latter in 1775, contended in a series of letters, " that faith was a mere simple assent to the testimony of Christ." The pe- culiarities of this sect are, that they administer the Lord's supper weekly, dine together every Sabbath-day, use the kiss of charity, wash each others' feet, abstain from blood and things strangled, and hold the community of goods, so far that every one is to consider all that he posseses liable to the calls of the poor of the church. Mr. Lewis Rigby is their present elder. The Huntingtonians occupy Providence chapel, a small building in Plumptre-street, which was first converted into a place of worship in 1806, by the Universalists, now extinct. — The present congregation are adherents to the tenets of the late William Huntington. They have no regular minister, but are occasionally visited by one from Leiceister, and read pravers, &c. every Sunday. The New Jerusalem Chapel is a small building in Sheep- lane, occupied by a few of the followers of Emanuel Sweden- borg, a Swedish nobleman, who died in London in 1/72. — J. W. Hancock is the leader. The Israelites,or Southcotarians, worship in a small room in King's Arms Buildings, behind Wool pack -lane and Barkergate. The Jews' Synagogue is at the house of one of their bre- thren, in Glasshouse-street, and they have a burving-ground near the forest, at the top of Sherwood-street, which, according to an inscription, was enclosed in the year " A. M. 5583," when the ground was given to them by the corporation. NOTTINGHAM. 157 RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS. The institutions which have for their object the promotion of Christian knowledge, are as numerous and as liberally supported in Nottingham as in any other place of the same importance; — the members of the church, and the various sectarian commu- nities, each subscribe to their respective Bible, Missionary', and Tract Societies. The depository of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bible Society is in Park-street, at the house of Mr. T. W. Winterton, and is open every Wednesday, from ten till two o'clock. The Independent congregations of the town and county, have an Auxiliary London Missionary Society, of which R. Morley, Esq. is treasurer, and the Revs. J. Gilbert and R. Alliott, jun. are secretaries. In this class stand the Sunday Schools, of which useful institutions, Nottingham availed itself as early as the year 1804, when the New Connec- tion of Methodists erected the large school-room at the corner of East-street, about thirteen years after the first Sabbath school had been established in London. There are now in the town and suburbs upwards of thirty-five Sabbath schools, which, under the superintendence of several hundred gratuitous teachers, afford instruction in the humbler branches of learn- ing, to thousands of poor children, many of whom, from the abject poverty of their parents, are obliged to labour at an early age during six days in the week, and have consequently no opportunity but on the Sabbath to attend to civil or religious tuition. The Nottingham Sunday - School Unicn was established in 1810, and has now connected with it no fewer than one hun- dred and eight Sunday-schools, belonging to the Methodists, the Independents, and the Baptists, and attended by upwards of 14,000 children, who receive instruction from nearly 1000 gratuitous teachers. Of these schools, twenty are in the town, and the remainder in the parishes within a circuit of ten miles round Nottingham. The affairs of the Union are managed by a committee of forty subscribers, four secretaries, a treasurer, and a depositary, which latter office is now filled by Mr. R. Preston, of the' Long- row, Nottingham. The late Mr. Raikes, a respectable printer of Gloucester, is generally considered as the founder of Sabbath schools, which Blackner says were first introduced about the year 1778, by John Moore, a framework knitter of Leicester, and Wm. Hal- lam, a native of Kirton, in Nottinghamshire, but then a school- master, at Moneyash, in the Peak of Derbyshire ;— both of whom taught gratis on the Sabbath, at leasUwo years before Mr. Raikes commenced his labours for the promotion of these useful institutions, of which, though not the original inventor, he was the earliest and most active patron. p 152 CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. CHARITY SCHOOLS. Besides the numerous Sunday schools, ample provision is made by the henevolent inhabitants of Nottingham, for the education of those poor children who can attend during" six days in the week, for out of the 72J6 children now receiving in- struction in the town, either gratuitously or for very trivial payments, nearly 2000 are day scholars, as will be seen by the following- LIST OF DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS IN NOTTINGHAM. Date. Bay Schools. No. schlrs. IffU National (boys) 560 1810 Lancastrian (boys) 220 1820 Lancasterian (girls) 100 1831 Barkergate Free, (170 b. 80 g.) 250 1808 School of Industry (girls) • • .150 1706 Bine Coat (60 boys, 20 girls)- • 80 1513 Free Grammar (boys) • 90 1789 Unitarian (40 boys, 24 girls). . 64 1827 Infant Schools, St. Anne's, • • 120 1827 Ditto, Rutland-street 120 1829 Ditto, Canaan-street, 100 1829 Ditto, Independent-hill, ••-. 140 Total im Sunday Schools, 1810 Three parish churches 1824 St. James's, Rutland-street 1831 St. Paul's, George-street ••■ Catholic chapel, ditto ■ Total • ■ 500 - 200 - 100 ■ 170 970 Sunday Schools in Union. No. schlrs. St. Ann's-street, Wes. Meth. 195 Halifax-place, ditto 444 Hockley, ditto 243 Parliament-street, New Meth. 312 Mansfield-road, ditto 150 Woodland-place, ditto 150 Canaan-street, Prim. Meth. 180 Kingston-place, ditto 47 €ross-lane, ditto 188 Castlegate, Independent ■ • • . 380 Friar-lane, ditto 305 St. James's-street, ditto • • 231 Fletehergate, ditto 180 Barkergate, ditto -• 165 Broad-street, Geneial Baptist •••• 146 Fishergate, ditto • . • 57 Stoney-street, ditto 437 George-street, Particular Baptist • 260 Independent-hill, ditto 162 Park-street, Scotch Baptist 80 Total 4312 GrandTotal of day and Sunday scholars, 7276. Perhaps a few hundreds of these may be reckoned twice, owing to their attending both day and Sunday schools. The Free Grammar School, in Stoney-street, is now a handsome building-, having lately been enlarged, and orna- mented with a beautiful stone front, in the gothic order, though it had been repaired in the years 1689, 1708, and 17^2 It was founded in 1513, by Agnes Mellers, widow of Richard Mellers, bell founder, and was by her endowed with lands and tenements in the town and neighbourhood, left in trust to the corporation, for the maintenance of a master and usher. Robert Mellers, the son of the foundress, bequeathed to it, in 1515, a close in Basford, and a house in Bridlesmith-gate, betwixt Petergate and Pepper-street. His brother, Thomas Mellers, who died in 1535, endowed it with "all his lands, tenements, . and hereditaments in the town and fields of Basford ;" but all ihe property in Basford parish left by these brothers, was sold KOTTINGHAM. 159 by the corporation sometime betwixt the years 1702 and 1720, (together with three tenements in London, left by John Wast,) to defray the expenses of a law suit which they had instituted against Richard Johnson, who was then master of this school. John- Hesky, alderman, in 1558, left to this school the tithes of the Nottingham fields and meadows, and also a house in Carlton-street, except 10s. to be paid yearly out of the rent to the poor. John Parker, alderman, in 1^93, left .£160, with which a rent charge of £13. 10s. per annum was purchased at Harbv, in Leicestershire, for the purpose of founding and sup- porting a library in the school, and for furnishing £3 appren- tice fees for poor hoys, and £3 gifts to assist them after they have served their apprenticeships in setting up in their respec- tive trades. In 1828, £12 was received as arrears of this rent charge. Four small closes, betwixt Trough-close and Free- school-lane, belong to the Grammar school, as also do all the houses in Broad-street, from Agnes-yard to Goosegate, and several others in St. Petergate and St. Peter's-square, most of which were left by the foundress. The gross yearly income of this excellent charity, arising from rents and tithes, amounted in 1728, to £93; in 1750, to £132; in 1770, to £200; in 1790, to £264; in 1800, to £336; in 1810, to £592 ; in 1820, to £619; and in 1828, to nearly £700, out of which are paid yearly salaries and gratuities amounting to £150 to the master, £110 to the usher, £50 to the writing master, and £20 to the surveyor of the school estates. This institution, like many other Grammar schools, was during a long period of no service to the poor, for extravagant charges were made by the teachers for every branch of learning except the dead languages, until 1807, when the corporation, being the trustees, established new ordinances for its future regulation, by which the school was declared to be free both for the English grammar and the classics, and that no school fees should be charged, except 10s. a-year to be paid by each boy to the writing master, whilst learning writing and accounts. It is open to all the boys of the town, but the number admitted at one time is limited to about 90. The Rev. Robert Wood, D. D. is the present master, and has a good house adjoining the school, but is not allowed to take boarders. The Rev. Samuel M'Lund is tbe usher; and Mr. Richard Dudley, the writing master. The Blue Coat School was founded in 1706, but the pre- sent building, which stands at the foot of the High Pavement, was erected in 1723, on ground given by Mr. Wm. Thorpe, a benevolent attorney. It contains a large school room, and a suit of apartments for the residence of the master. Two sta- tues, in niches at the front of the building, represent a boy and a girl in their school costume. This charity educates and clothes sixty boys and twenty girls, till they arrive at fourteen years of a^e, when the former are put out apprentice, with * 160 CHARITY SCHOOLf. premium of five guineas each, and the latter have each two guineas, for the purpose of clothing them for servitude. Mr. and Mrs. Cokstyne are the teachers, and attend as well to the religious as the moral instruction of the scholars. The charity, which is supported partly by annual subscriptions and collections at the parish churches, is endowed with property which produces upwards of .£380 per annum, of which .£139 arises from rents, £2. 5s. from annuities, £S. 17s. 9d. from turnpike securities, £210 from the dividends on .£'7000 reduced three per cent, annuities, and .£16 from .£400 exchequer bills. The annual subscriptions and church collections amount to about .£150. The expenditure for the year 1827, was £112. 10s. 10d., of which £176 was for clothing the children, and «£131 for five quarters' salary to the master. The benefactions left to this excellent institution are as follow : — £2 yearly out of two houses in Pilchergate, bequeathed by Thomas Sander- son, in 1711 ; two houses in Houndsgate, by Charles Harvey, in 1711 ; a house and garden near St. Peters church, by Jona- than Labray, in 1718; a yearly rent charge of 5s by Thomas Roberts, in 1729 ; a close of la. 3r. in the Clay-field, by Gilbert Beresford, in 1747; ^177« 15s. vested in the Nottingham and Grantham turnpike, by John Kay, in 1774; and the following pecuniary donations, amounting to £2507, hut now laid out in land and buildings, viz. in 1715, Wm. Trigge, =£100; and Wm. Rippin .£100 ; 1760,. Mary Holden, .£600 ; 1764, Wm. Caunt, .£50; 1765, Richard Pureeil, £65; 1770, Sir George Smith, Bart. .£100; 1770, Mary Kev, .£115; 1777, Rev. Thomas Lovatt, .£100 ; 1782, Mrs. Kev,* ^100 ; 1785, Susannah Lovatt, .£100; 1796, Wm. Lovatt, .£100; 1796, Wm. Elliott, J650; 1798, John Morris, .£200; 1818, Samuel Unwin, ,£50 ; and in 1825, John Elliott, .£50; besides which several smaller donations have been paid to the school trustees, who are about twenty in number, and have for their treasurer Henry Smith, Esq. banker. The Unitarian Free School, behind the chapel in the High Pavement, was founded in consequence of a division which took place in I7B8, amongst the subscribers to the Blue Coat school. It is supported by annual contributions, for the education of forty boys and twenty girls of any religious deno- mination. Ten of the girls are also clothed. Mr. John Taylor and Miss Charlotte Sansom are the teachers. The School of Industry, which was founded by subscrip- tion in 1808, for the instruction of 150 poor girls in reading, writing, and plain needlework, now occupies part of St. James's church Sunday school, which was erected in Rutland-street, in 1824, and has another room occupied as an infant school, with 120 pupils. The Boys' Lancasterian School is a spacious building of one storw on the Derby road, erected in 1815, previous to I KOTTINGHAM. 16i which the charity had existed in a rented room since its foun- dation in 1810. It is supported principally by the contribu- tions of Dissenters, but the ground on which the school stands was given by the corporation. The roof and back wall were de- stroyed by the falling of a rock in J 830. —(See p. 122.) Mr. Samuel Langworth is the master, and has now under tuition on the Lancasterian System of mutual instruction, 220 boys. The Girls' Lancasterian School in Houndsgate, was built in 1820, and is supported by annual subscriptions, for the education of 100 poor girls, who are now taught by Miss Emma Longden. The building also serves as a Sabbath school to the Castlegate Independent chapel. The National School in High Cross-street, is a gigantic seminary where no fewer than 560 boys are educated on. Dr. Bell's plan, at the cost of little more than £100 per annum, the master's salary being only £80. The yearly subscriptions amount to about .£90, and the annual collection at St. Mary's church in aid of this charity averages about £25. The build- ing which was formerly a chapel, Mas purchased in 1811, when the school was commenced. The principal donations received by the charity are £200 from the National Society in 1815, and 2 bl 7 ; and £200 given by J. S. Wright, Esq., in 1815, besides a piece of land for the enlargement of the school room. The Duke of Newcastle subscribes ten guineas, and the Dowager Duchess of Newcastle five guineas annually. Mr. Joseph Ald- ridge is the master, the Vicar is the secretary, and Mr. T. Tollington the treasurer. The Nkw Charity School, in Barkergate was established in 1831, in the large Sunday school room attached to the Salem Independent Chapel, This valuable institution which is sup- ported by the contributions of the benevolent, arose principally from the pious exertions of the Rev. J. Orange, and William Wilson, Esq., the late mayor, who (observing that there were in the town several hundred children of the poorest parents, who refused to attend the Sabbath schools from the want of decent clothing, and who were running about the streets through the week, imbibing the germs of idleness and sin,) made a success- ful appeal to the respectable inhabitants, for their support in the establishment of this school, for the moral and religious in- struction of the children of the destitute poor, of whom no. fewer than 170 boys and 80 girls are now under the tuition of two masters and a governess, who teacli them reading, writing, arithmetic and the English grammar. 1 he four Infant Schools enumerated at page 158, are con- ducted on the ingenious system introduced by Messrs. Wilder- spin and Wilson, by which, infants betwixt the ages of two and six years, under a pleasing interchange of exercise, amuse- ment, and instruction, experience a gradual development of their bodily and mental powers; and are also kept during the, p 2 )62f ALM»-liOU8ES, &C day from that danger and neglect, to which so many of th« young children of the poor are exposed whilst their parents are engaged in their respective avocations. The schools are sup- ported partly by subscription, but small weekly payments are properly required from those parents whose circumstances are sufficient to bear the demand. AMOUNT OF CHARITABLE FUNDS.— The stream which tlows from the Nottingham fountain of charity for the education of poor children, is not more copious than that which issues for the solace of age^ poverty, and sickness. Fifteen Hospitals in the town, endowed with property which pro- duces upwards of ^2100 per annum,, afford comfortable asy- lums for 155 poor aged alms-people, besides relieving 32 out- pen^ioners. Many indigent families receive pecuniary and other relief from the periodical distribution of the funds arising from the Benefactions of deceased friends of the poor, and now producing collectively about ^£550 per annum, which with the .£1080 per annum belonging to the Grammar and Blue Coat schools, swells the total yearly amount of posthumous charity to <£3730, exclusive of numerous bequests to the General Hos- pital and the General Lunatic Asglum, whose yearly incomes arising from donations, legacies, and subscriptions amount col- lectively to about ^£3000. Upwards of £500 is subscribed an- nually for the support of the recently established Dispensary, and .£1000 is dispensed annually by the various Benevolent Societies in the town, which seek out the abodes of the wretch- ed; — provide warm clothing for the indigent in winter; — sup- ply the friendless poor, whether natives or strangers, with tem- porary relief; — furnish poor married lying-in-women with ne- cessary comforts, and distribute Bibles, Prayer Books, and Re- ligious Tracts amongst the ignorant and the depraved. To this mass of benevolence, we may add about c£800, subscribed an- nually in aid of the Public Schools, which swells the total amount of charity, dispensed in and near Nottingham to upwards of ^£.'8000 per annum. Notwithstanding the ampli- tude of these charitable funds, and the great benefits derived by the freemen of the town from the burgess lands and " burgess parts," — (See p. 133,) no less than .£24,000 per annum has of late years been levied as poor rates in the three parishes of Nottingham. — (See pages i 27 and 128 ) ALMS-HOUSES. ThePLUMTTRE Hospital in Plumptre-squan\is themostan- cient charitable institution in the town, being founded in 1392, by John de Plumptre, for the maintenance of two chaplains and thirteen poor widows " broken with old age and depressed with poverty." The founder directed that one of the chaplains should be master or warden of the hospital, which, after the VOTTlNCHAlf* 163 dissolution of the religious houses, was ontenanted till 1582, when Nicholas Plumptre, of Nottingham, became the master under a patent granted by Queen Elizabeth, and repaired the building with the fines which he received from the tenants of the land and tenements with which it is endowed. In 1650, and 1751, it received considerable repairs from two descend- ants of the founder, whose present representee, John Plumpt?*e, Esq., of Fredville, in the county of Kent, erected in 1824, a new hospital on the site of the old one; — having in the pre- ceding year obtained an act of Parliament to sell a piece of the hospital land, to defray the expense. He is now the sole mas- ter of the hospital which is endowed with land and buildings let for about £6S0 per annum, out of which he allows £\. 2s. 6d. every calendar month, to each of the thirteen almswomen, with a ton of coals, and a gown yearly, besides a yearly stipend to the man who reads prayers in the chapel. Thirty out-pen- sioners receive each i'10 per annum, but these are, we consi- der, improperly selected near the master's own residence in the county of Kent, for if it pleased him to remove from the seat of his ancestor, we see no right that can justify him in trans- planting to a distant soil, one-half of that ancestor's ancient cha- rity which was bequeathed to the poor of Nottingham. The present hospital, is substantially built of brick in the ancient style, and covered with stucco in imitation of stone. The wi- dows are admitted at the age of 70, and have each comfortable apartments. Henry Percy, Esq. is the steward. Collin's Hospital at the corner of Park-street and Spa- niel-row, is a large quadrangular building, with a paved yard in the centre, and two detached buildings at the entrance from Houndsgate, called the Lower Hospital. The whole contains 24 dwellings for the same number of poor widows and widowers, who each receive 4s. per week and 2\ tons of coals yearly. Abel Collin, by his will dated 1704, left a large property to his nephew, Mr. Thomas Smith, for building and endowing this hospital, which was erected in 1709. In 1804, the Rev. Abel Collin Launder bequeathed 20-27th parts of an original share in the Nottingham Waterworks, to Samuel and Thomas Smith, Esqrs. in trust, to pay the yearly dividends (which in 1827, amounted to £25. 18s. Td.) in equal portions to the 24 poor alms- people in Collin's Hospital. The original endowment produced in 1829, no less than £T59 per annum, of which, .€450 arises from an estate at Burroughin Leicestershire; ^6*105 from land and buildings in Nottingham ; and £204 from ^6800 consolidated 3 per cent, stock, a part of which has late'y been sold by Henry Smith, Esq. and the other trustees, for the pur- pose of extending the founder's charity, by the erection of a New Hospital in Carrington- street , which was completed in 1831, and is now occupied by 12 alms-people who have the •amc allowance as the 24, in the old hospital. This new eret- 164 ALMS-HOUSE*. tion forms the handsomest alms-house in Nottingham, and stands in a modern part of the town, upon a large grass-plot, enclosed with neat iron palisades. The new street in front (which with all the land in its vicinity, belongs to this exten- sive charity) has its name from Lord Carrington, who is a col- lateral descendant of the founder, and the head of the family of Smith. Lambley Hospital pleasantly situated on the Derby road, forms three sides of a square, with a grass-plot enclosed with iron palisades in front. It has 22 dwellings for as many poor burgesses or their widows, who have each a ton of coals year- ly; and it is expected that in a few years they will have small weekly stipends, for the debt incurred by the erection of the building must be now nearly, if not wholly liquidated. It was built in 1812., at the cost of ^2700, by the corporation as trus- tees of an Estate at Lambley, which consists of 104a. 3r. 26p. let for £160 per annum, and was purchased by them in 1654, with money left for charitable uses, of which £200 was be- queathed by Lady Grantham, who directed the yearly proceeds thereof to be expended in giving apprentice fees with poor children. Willouohby's Hospital stands in Fishergate, near Penny- foot-stile, where it was erected in 1780, in lieu of the old hos- pital which stood on Malin-Hill, and was founded in 1524, by Thomas Willoughby, whoin that year, endowed it with landand buildings in Friar-lane, Cartergate, and Malin-hill, which now let for .£180 per annum. Tn 1810, two additional dwellings were built, making in the whole 14, for as many poor aged men or women, who each receive £\ a year and an allowance of coals from the churchwardens of St. Mary's, who are trustees of this, as well as of \¥oolley's and Warsergate alms-houses, to which it was determined at a vestry meeting in 1828, that none should be admitted under the age of 60 years, and none but such as are legally settled in the parish of St. Mary's, and have not received parochial relief for ten years previous to their ap- plication. Labray's Hospital, on the Derby road, consists of a row of six dwellings for six poor frame-tvork knitters of the age of 70 and upwards, who have each 4s. per week and 2\ tons of coal yearly. It was founded by Jonathan Labray, a manufacturer of hosiery in Nottingham, but a native of Calverton, where in his youth he had worked as a frame-work knitter. He died a batchelor in 1718, and left his property for the foundation of this charity, in trust to Thomas Smith, Esq., and the other trustees of Collin's hospital, whose successors, Henrv Smith, Esq. and others, are still governors and treasurers of both in- stitutions. The endowment consists of a farm of L29a.2r. 22p. in Calverton parish, now let for ^6*110 per annum; and j£1100 consolidated 3 per cents, making the total yearly income about. K0TT1NGHAM. 165 £\5Q, out of which six pounds is paid annually to Calverton School agreeable to the will of the founder. This income is nearly twice as much as the present expenditure, it is proper therefore that the benefits of the charity should be extended, either by the erection of a new hospital, or the admission of a number of out-pensioners. Woolley's Bead Houses, in Beck-lane, were founded in 1647, by Thomas Woolley, gentleman, for three poor persons with a rent charge of 40s. per annum ; but in 18U9 they were repaired and enlarged for the accommodation of si\v poor widows, by the Churchwardens of St. Mary's, who, with the vicar and overseers, are the trustees. In 18l8, Samuel Univin, shoemaker, bequeathed -£1000, and directed the interest to be divided equally amongst the 12 almspeople, in Woolley's Bead- houses and Warsergate hospital. This sum was vested in £986. 16s. four per cent stock, yielding .£39. 9s. 4d. per annum, from which each of the said almspeople receive £2. 5s. and a ton of coal yearly, besides which Woolley's " bead folk" receive 2s. per week, arising: from the above named rent charge, from a part of the hospital garden let on a lease, and from the sacrament-money collected in St. Mary's church. Warsergate Hospital is of unknown origin, but was re- built in 1775, with rooms for six poor women, who have each 2s. per week from the rent of three small pieces of land ; and £2. os. and a ton of coal yearly from the above named bequest of Samuel Unwin. Immediately behind this hospital four new dwellings were erected in 1823, in lieu of Pilch ergate Hospital, which, together with the site was sold for £180, of which £143 was expended in the new building, which has no endowment but the small balance of £37, kept for future re- pairs ; consequently the inmates have no allowance except from the poor rates. The churchwardens of St. Mary's are trustees of both hospitals, the founders of which are unknown. Handlky's Almshouses, in Stoney-street, consist of a row of 12 small ancient habitations only one story high, with gar- dens behind them, for the 12 aged almspeople, who each receive 16s. 8d. per quarter, arising from a rent charge of £40, left in 1650 by the founder, Henry Handley, Esq, to be paid yearly out of his estate at Bramcote, too ether \\ ith £60 for other charitable uses, viz. £20 for a weekly lecture in St. Mary's church ; £20 for the officiating minister at Bramcote; £5 ibr the poor of Bramcote; £4 to the poor prisoners in the gaols of the county of Nottingham ; £0 to the poor of Wilford ; and £1 each to Beeston, Chilwell, Attenborough, Trowell, Stapleford and Wollaton, for the poor of those parishes. The estate on which this £100 per annum is charged now belongs to John Sherwin Sherwin, Esq. of Bramcote, who has the presentation of the four eentre alms-houses, but the four at the north end 166 ALMSHOUSES. are in the gi ft of the mayor, and the other four in the gift of Earl Manvers. Wahtnaby's Almhousks, at the corner of Fletchergate and Pilchergate, form an aged brick building consisting of three lower and three upper rooms ; the former of which are occu- pied by three women, and the latter by three men. They were built in 1665, by Barnaby Wartnaby, an industrious black- smith, who by his will, dated 1672, endowed them with two houses in Fletchergate, adjoining the almshouses, and a house in Woolpack-lane ; the rents of which now amount to £39 per annum. Each of the six almspeople receivers, per month; 6s. at the goose fair; 10s. 6d. yearly in lieu of clothing ; and a ton of coals every six months. The trustees are Messrs. F. Hardwick, Thomas Hall, John Stirland, William Jamson, Thomas Evison, and Thomas Dufty. Btlby's Hospital, in St. John's-street, was founded in 1709 by the excentrie but philanthropic William Billy, who, though once a shoemaker, long practiced the following learned sciences in the town, viz. surgerv, chemistry, physic, astronomy, and astrology, as was recorded by himself in a rhyming inscription in front of the hospital, now obliterated. The building which contains eight apartments for eight poor burgesses or their wi- dows was repaired and stuccoed a few years ago. Each inmate has a sixpenny loaf weekly ; 3s. on St. Thomas'-day,and one and a half ton of coals yearlv,with the use of a small garden. The endowment consists of the Black Swan pablic house, in Goosegate, and the ten adjoining dwellings, all of which were imprudently let by the corporation (who are the trustees) in 1794, on a lease for 70 years, at the small annual rent of £16, on condition that the lessee should lay out .£400 in rebuilding some of the premises. The property now lets for about ^'80 per annum, consequently the lessee is reapinga lucrativeharvest at the expense of the charity. Gregory's " \Y r HiTE Rents" derived their name perhaps from their being the last tenements that paid a quite or ivhite rent to the Peveril family. They consisted originally of eleven tenements in Houndsgate, bequeathed in 1613, by William Gre- gory, town clerk of Nottingham, for the use of the poor, with a rent charge of 40s. a year out of Baycroft-close, to keep them in repair. But in 1788 these ancient buildings were sold with the ground on which they stood, and the money divided amongst the three parishes, and expended in the erection of twelve rooms in York-street for as manv poor of St. Mary's ; eight rooms on the north bank of the Leen, betwixt Finkle-street and Grey- friargate, for eight poor of St. Nicholas's ; and a building in Broad-Marsh, used as the workhouse of St. Peter's parish. Patten's Almshouses, in Maiden-lane, consist of only two humble dwellings for two poorwomen, one of whom is admitted by the owner of two houses in the »ame lane, and the other by the owner of the adjoining public-house in Barkergate. They were founded in J 651 by John Patten, a brickraaker, who en- dowed them with the rents of two houses then occupied by two of his workmen, whose successors afterwards sold the property which has been rebuilt, and now consists of the above mention- ed houses, the owners of which have long- since ceased to con- tribute anything towards the support of the two aged women whom they place in the almshouses. Gellestrope's Hospital, which stood in Barkergate, con- sisted of five miserable huts with a large garden, but the site and ground belonging to it is now occupied by St. Mary'» Burial-ground, (No. 2) and by Salem chapel and the Barker- gate Free school. The almshouses were taken down in 1812, bv the corporation, who are the trustees ; though the presenta- tion was confined to two of their body serving the office of Bridgemasters, from whom, the now obsolete almshouses were called " Bridgemasters Hospital" owing perhaps to the foun- dress having left part of her property for the repairs of the Trent-bridge. Margery Mellor's Hospital, founded in 1539, consisted of four cottages and a garden, in the Low-pave- ment, left in trust to the corporation for the residence of six poor women for ever; but they disappeared many generations ago, and the site is now occupied by the Assembly-rooms, with- out any other building being provided for the almswomen. The foundress also left some property for keeping the Trent- bridge in repair, and we trust that the corporation will, e'er long, atone for the errors of themselves and their predecessors, bv erecting 10 or 12 almshouses on some part of their grounds, to supply the place of Gellestrope's and Mellor's hospitals, which they first suffered to decay, and then sold the sites and the materials for their own emolument. BENEFACTIONS LEFT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN NOTTINGHAM. Sir Thomas White ^s Loan Money, which has raised many of the industrious inhabitants of Nottingham, from the rank of journeymen to that of masters, now amounts to upwards of £12,000 which is lent free of interest for nine years, in ,£50 shares, to the burgesses " of good name and thrift," who chooe to claim the use of it, and can find sureties for its re-payment. This lending fund arose and still continues to be augmented from the proceeds of the bequest of Sir Thomas White, who, in 1552, placed in the hands of the corporation of Coventry £1300 to be laid out in land and buidings ; and directed the rents thereof to he employed solely for the benefit of that city till 31 years after his death, (which happened in 1566,) and afterwards to be • given yearly to the five following places in rotation, viz. Coven- 163' BHNBFA LITERARY INSTITUTIONS, &C« R> W. Almond, president; J. Wright, Esq. treasurer; Thomas Wakefield, Eaq. sub-treasurer ; Saml. Newham, Esq. secretary ; and Mr. James Archer, librarian. The Artisans' Library, in Smithy-row, was established in 1824, and now consists of nearly 2400 volumes, belonging to forty-two shareholders, and 380 subscribers ; the former of whom gave £5 each towards the foundation, but most of them have relinquished all interest in the library, except that of pro- moting its welfare^, for the general benefit of the subscribers, who each pay Is. 6d. per quarter. It is open every evening ex- cept Sunday, from seven till nine o'clock. Thomas Wakefield, Esq. is the president ; Francis Hart, Esq. the treasurer; and Mr. V. Kirk, the librarian. The Young Women's Library, at Mrs. Carbet's, in Houndsgate, was established in 182.5, .and is open every Wed- nesday, from twelve till two o'clock. It was founded by a number of benevolent ladies, but is partly supported by the readers, who each pay one shilling per quarter. At the shops of the booksellers are several extensive Cir- culating Libraries, as will be seen in the subjoined Di- rectory. The Nottingham Florist and Horticultural Society has several exhibitions yearly at Bromley House. Lord Mid- dleton is the patron ; Rt. Pauley, Esq. the president ; J. J. W. Rigley, the treasurer ; and R. Johnson, the secretary. The Museum, in Petergate, .belongs to Mr. Richard Knight, and consists of fine specimens of the crocodile and gauana, stuffed birds, marine and. other shells, the skins of boa con- strictors, Indian arrows, clubs and canoes, old paintings, and a great variety of other curiosities, all of which may be seen for an admission-fee of sixpence. NEWSPAPERS.— The periodical press of Nottingham is confined to three weekly newspapers, viz. the Journal, com- menced in 17^9, and now published every Fridav morning, by Mr. George Stretton, at No. 64, Long-row; the Revieiv, esta- blished in 1808, by Mr. Charles Sutton, and now issued by his son, Mr. Robert Sutton, at No. 1, Bridlesmith-gate, every Friday morning; and the Mercury, commenced a few years ago, by Mr. Jonathan Dunn, and now published at his shop oh the South Parade, ever} 7 Saturday morning. Mr; Wm. Ays- cough, who died in 1719, established the first printing-office in the town ; and about six years afterwards, Mr. John Collyer commenced printing a weekly newspaper called the " Notting- ham Post,''' but it was discontinued in 1732, when Mr. George Ayscough began the " Nottingham Cour 'ant y' which in 17o9 was sold to Mr. Samuel Cresswell, who converted it into the " Nottingham Journal" he having previously been a joint pro- prietor of a paper published from 1757 till 1769, at Leicester, under the name of the Leicester and Nottingham Journal. la. NOTTINGHAM. 177 177- j Mr. George Burbage began the Nottingham Chronicle, but in 1775, be discontinued it, and joined the proprietor of the Journal. In 1780, Mr. George Cox commenced the Not- tingham Gazette, which died before it was a year old ; another paper was established under the same title by Mr, William Topham, in 1813, but it had little better success than its de- ceased namesake, for after lingering two years, it ceased to live for want of necessary support. EMINENT MEN. Though Nottingham is not very conspicuous in our National Biography, for the number and brilliance of its literary cha- racters, it is inferior to no town in the empire, in manufac- turing and commercial genius, and in mechanical inventions ; and it yields the palm but to few, in its progress in the fine arts. Amongst the most distinguished worthies who were born, or have flourished in the town, we find the following : — William de Nottingham, an Augustine friar, who wrote a Concordance of the Evangelists, and died in 1336. John Plough, rector of St. Peter's, who wrote against cleri- cal celibacy, for which, after the accession of Queen Mary, he was obliged to fly to Bazil in Switzerland, where he wrote an " Apo- logy for the Protestants," a " Treatise against the Mitred Man in the Popish Kingdom," and " The Sound of the doleful Trumpet." He died in 1550.. Colonel Hutchinson, the patriotic and gallant governor of the castle in the civil wars of Charles I., is already noticed at ^ages 89 and 90. Gilbert Millington, of Felly Priory, was M. P. for Notting- ham, when he sat as one of the judges who tried and cigned the death warrant of Charles I. The Rev. JVilliam Brightmore, who died in 1710, was a native of the town, and long held the benefice at Hawnes in Bed- fordshire, where he " made m^nj prophecies ,^ which he publish- ed under the title of Illustrations of the Book of Revelations. JVilliam Holder, D.D., a native of the county, received the rudiments of his education at Nottingham Grammar school, in the reign James I., and was afterwards ejected from a small living in Oxfordshire for nonconformity. He is said to have been the inventor of the art of teaching the deaf and dumb to speak* He also wrote " A Treatise on Music," both theoretical and practical, and was esteemed a great virtuoso and natural philo- sopher. He died about 1675. Charles Deering, M. D., was a native of Germany, and took up his degrees as a Doctor of Medicine at Leyden in Holland ; after which he went to London, and was appointed secretary to the British embassy to the conrt of Russia. Shortly after his return, he married in London, and came to Nottingham, where 17& WORTHIES OF he settled during the rest of his life, which it is said was ended in poverty and severe affliction, in 1749, before he had finished his elaborate History of Nottingham, which was published in 1751 by Mr. George Ayscough, a printer, and Mr. Thomas Willington, a druggist, then resident in the town. In 1738, he published a " Botanical Catalogue of Plants growing about Nottingham." Thomas Feet, an eminent mathematician, astronomer, and schoolmaster, was the son of a poor farmer at Ashley-Hay in Derbyshire, but came to Nottingham at the age of 14, and died there in 1780, aged 72 years. He was the oldest almanac wri- ter in England " having wrote the Gentleman's Diary, and Poor Robin, upwards of forty years ;" — the latter of which was after- wards written by John Pearson, who died 1791, and the former by Charles Wildbore, who died in 1802, both of whom were na- tives of this town, and distinguished mathematicians. The Rev, Andrew Kippis, D. D., was born at Nottingham in 1725; under the tuition of the celebrated Dr. Doddridge, he became an eminent dissenting minister, and afterwards pub- lished many excellent works on divinity, and edited the greater portion of a new edition of the Biographia Britannica. He died in 1795 in London, where he was 42 years minister of Prince's-street chapel in Westminster. Walter Merrey was a native of York, but was apprenticed and ended his days in Nottingham, where in 1794 he published a treatise on the Coinage of England, and died in 1799. Thomas Sandby 'was born at Nottingham in 1721, and died in 1798, after being many years professor of architecture in the Royal Academy. His brother, Paul Sandby, was considered the best draughtsman, and water-coloured landscape painter in the kingdom. He was chosen royal academician of the Royal Society of Arts, on the foundation of that institution in 1768, and was afterwards appointed drawing master of the Royal Academy at Woolwich, which offices he held till his death in 3809. Amongst the eminent oil painters who have flourished in- the town were the late Mr. Bonnington and Mr. Tomson ; and to these we may add Mr. Barber, and some others now living. Gilbert Wakefield, B. A. was born in 1756, at the rectory- house of St. Nicholas, and received the rudiments of his edu- cation at the Nottingham Grammar school, but in 1767, he re- moved with his father to the vicarage of Kingston-upon-Thames. He was afterwards a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he published a collection of Latin Poems. He subsequently be- came classical teacher of an academy at Warrington, in Lanca- shire, where he published new translations of the first epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, and of St. Matthew's Gospel ; besides many other controversial works on theological subjects. NOTTINGHAM, 4?3 In 1790, he was chosen classical tutor of the new college at Hackney, but he soon afterwards left that institution and devoted the rest of his life to literary pursuits. He published many excellent works both theological and political; one of which was written in such a bold republican spirit, against a pamphlet published by Dr. Watson, bishop of Llandaff, in defence of the French war, that he was prosecuted for a libel on the Ministers, and suffered two years' imprisonment in Dorchester gaol. Such was the opinion which the public held of his distinguished merit, and of the severity of his sentence, that, during his confinement £5000 was subscribed and settled on him as an annuity; and Michael Dodson, nephew to the great Judge Foster, bequeathed him £500. He was released from prison in June, 1801, but only survived his liberty about three months. It has been justly said of him, that " his talents were rare, his morals pure, his virtues exalted, his courage invincible, and his integrity spotless." His brother, the late .Francis Wakefield, Esq. who died a few years ago, was a libe- ral benefactor of Nottingham, and an extensive manufacturer, and is now ably succeeded by his sons. Samuel Ayscough y s The Country Carriers take letters to their respective villages. (See list of mails, coaches, and carriers.) 216 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. CLASSIFICATION OF THE PROFESSIONS, MANUFACTURES, % TRADES, IN THE Cofon anfc Countg ot tijt Cafou OF NOTTINGHAM, %• This portion of the Nottingham Directory, contains a classifi- cation of the names and addresses of all the professional gentlemen, merchants, manufacturers, traders, and other inhabitants carrying on business on their own account; and is followed by an Alphabe- tical List of the names and residences of the clergy, gentry, part- ners in firms, persons out of business, travellers, bookkeepers, and others, who are not arranged under any of the following trades and professions, to which an Tndex of the names of persons is subjoined, so that if the occupation of any person sought for is not known, it may be instantly referred to, and thus the whole will be found to possess all the advantages of an Alphabetical as well as a Commercial Directory. {£$> Though Radford and Sneinton join the town of Notting- ham, it lias been deemed advisable to give separate directories of these populous parishes, as well as of Basforo and Llnton, which are also in contiguity with the liberties of the town. (1) ACADEMIES. See also Professors. Baker W. II. High Pavement Barker James, 15, Sheep lane, h. Mansfield road Biddulph Sampson, Halifax pi, h Fountain pi Barker gate Charity School* W. K. Her nek and William Taylor, masters ; Mrs. Taylor, gover- ness Bluecoat Charity School, Thos. Cokayne. High Pavement Blackwell, Eliz. Poplar Cottage, Hyson Green ?*rice Wm. St. .James' st Carpenter Rev. B. Castlegate Carver John, Maling hill Chambers Mary, Mount pit. Clayton Ann, Boot ct Clayton Eliz. Castlegate Cole Geo, (writing) Mansfield rd Cowley Ann, Castlegate Die wry Mrs, 17. Plumptre st Far ns worth Eliza, Pel ham st Feathprstone Jane E, Middle hill Fell Ann, Canal street Fisher Mary, Parliament st Free Grammar School, 16, Stoney st, Rev. Rt, Wood, master. Rev. Sam. M'Lund, usher, and Rd, Dudley, writing master NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. 217 Gilbert and Nelson, Parliament st Gregory Frans. Hill, Malt mill In Grisenthwaite Wm. St. James' st Harmston Mary, Rick st Hemment Eliza, Derby rd Holt Sarah, St Ann's st Hoone Samuel, St. John's st Horner Mary, Mount st Hutchason Wm. St. Ann's st Infant School, Canaan st. Miss Mary Prior, h. Woolpack In Infant School, Rutland st. Mrs. Ann Dean, h. Mansfield road Infant School, (P. Baptist,) Inde- pendent hill, Samuel Rushton Infant School, St. Ann's st. Wm. and Harriet Teesdale Jacks Jemima, Crown yard Jarman Eliz. and Eliza, 30, St. Mary gate Joynes Lucy, Castlegate . Kelk Sarah & Eliz. 2, Plumptre st Lancasterian School, Derby rd. Samuel Langworth, master Lancasterian (Girls) Houndgate, Emma Longden, h. Middle pt Lee Sarah, 12, Haughton st Lowe Samuel, 1, Pilshergate Lee John, (writing) Mount East st Martin Martha, Mansfield road Maudley Jthn. Newcastle st Milligan Alex. Kingston ct National School, Jph. Aldridge, h. 5, East street Newbold Mary Ann, Sherwood st Newton Isaac, Bottle In. h. Short hill. North John, King's place Oliver Anthony, St. James' st Page Ann, Albion st Palfreman Ann & Har. Sussex st Pearson Ann, Stoney st Pettinger, Barb & Mart. Hounds- gate Plane Richard, Glasshouse st Pugh Eliz. 32, Warsergate Roe William, Woodland pi Rogers Jer. D. Nottingham ter. Roper John Anthony, Toll st Sailbury William, Finkhill st School of Industry, Rutland st. Ellen Green and Rose Ann Bishop Selby Isaac. Mole ct. b. Lenton Shepherd James, Herbert st Sleath Thomas, Short hill Smith Ann, Houndsgate Smith Misses, E. B. & M. B. 6, Haughton st Sparey Isaac, Wheelergate, h. 10, Haughton st Sollory Mrs Ann, Market st Stenson Sarah, Parliament st Tatham William, Peter's Church side Taylor Mary and Ann, Derby rd Truman Ann, 16, Parliament st Turner Catharine, Park row Turner Sarah, Parliament row Unitarian Charity, High Pave- ment, John Taylor & Charlotte Sansom Ward Francis Milner, Clare st Ward Samuel, Park st Warner Sarah, 19, Stoney st Warsop Sarah Richards, Pepper street Wells Charles, Lenton st Wheatley Robert, Mortimer st. h. Castle road White Sarah & Ann, 7, St. Mary- gate Whitehead George, 10, St. Mary- gate Wilson Hannah and Eliz. Park st Wortley Jph. St. Peter's Church side (2.) AGENTS- (LACE, &c.) Those marked* are general agents* the rest sell Bobbin net on com- mission. Adderton Thomas, Woodland pi *Allen Jas. Roger, St. James's st Ashwell J. Heard, St. James's st *Attenborough, Rt. 7> Clumber si Beecroft Jacob, 7, Pilshergate Bestow William, Clayton's yard Bingham James, Orchard street Booker Alfred, Mount East st •Booker Richard, Buttery's yard Booker Rd. Peter's Church side Broadhead William, Postern pi Brown George, 8, Lenton st Cartwright Ed. Parliament t>t Cartwright Wm. Grosvenor pi *Crowther Thos. St. Marygate u 216 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. Dickisson James, Houndsgate Dobson John, Sherwood st •Etherington & Duplex, Byard In Ferguson John, 9, Wool pack In *Garton Thomas, 36, Broad st Gee William, 4, Cannon yd Gibson Thomas, 29, H. Cross st ^Gill Geo. and Son, Houndsgate, h. Park •Gill Robert Mount st Goddard Edward. Portland pi •Grundy Sam. Low Pavement Hall Samuel March st Hallam Wm. Apple row Harper Joseph, Derby rd Haskard Thos. Low Cross st Haythorn Fdk. 16, Rigley's yd •Haythorn Jonth. Wright, ct. 33, Long row Hearson Thomas, 28, George st Herrap James, 13, Broad st Hickling, William Toll st Holmes Jonth. Spaniel row, h. Radford Hooley Thomas, 34, Barkergate •Hutchinson John, 24, Carlton st Letherland John, Mansfield rd Maples Rd. (Lace Broker,) Rose yard, h. St. Petersgate Marriott Jph. Wild's yd. Hounds- gate Morris John, Clayton's yd Nixon John, Friar ln.h. Hounds- gate •Parker and Kirk, Maypole yd Reckless, Joseph, Castle terrace •Rogerson Wrn. ct. 9, Poultry Rushton James, 4, King's place Samuels Lewis, Castle terrace *Sanderson Edgar, 26, Carlton st Sanderson George, Houndsgate Sanderson Thomas, 19. Stoney st Shipman Wm. Clayton's yd Shipman Wm. 3, Lincoln st Smith Peter Stanley, Carrington street *Stenson John, 29, Parliament st Stenson Wm. Mortimer st Sturt James, Cropland's yard Sulley Richard, 9, Stoney st •Taylor Isaac, (Law, Money, and House,) Parliament st Taylor John, 3, Haugbtoo st Taylor Wm. (Law, Money and House,) Derby road Walker George, 2, Rigley's yd •Walsh Geo. Nelson, Park st Webster David, 33, St. Marygate *WelIs Wm.O, Clumber st Wentworth Henry, Castle road Westmoreland John, Galloway's yard, Milton street •Wetzlar & Sarazin, Woodlandpl Wheatley Arthur, Canal st Wheatley James, 3, Rigley's yd Whitby John, Air yd. Mount st Whitchurch Richard 8, East st Whitfield William, Leen row (3.) ARCHITECTS. Staveley Edward, Pelham street, h. Park Surplice William, 2, Clumber st Wood Henrv Moses, Park st (4)— ARTISTS & DRAWING MASTERS. Barber Thos, (portrait) Park hill Clubley Samuel, (portrait) Mans- field road Huskinson Henry, (portrait) Cas- tlegate Johnson William, (portrait) Hy- son green Lees Henry, (portrait) Mansfield road Parker Alexander, Castlegate Shaw William Drury, (portrait and animal painter) Market st (5.) ATTORNIES. Andrew Joseph 16, Grehound yd Bowley John, Wheelergate Bradshaw Job, Wheelergate Brewster John, Castlegate Buttery John, 29, Long row Clarke and Wells. George st Clarke Thomas, 12, Lenton st Coope James, 4, Haughton st Coope Jesse, Rutland street and Radford Chursham Wm. St. Petersgate, h. Derby terrace Enfield Henry and Wm. (Town- clerks,) Low Pavement Fearnhcad & Campbell, Fletcher- gate Fox John, ct. 39, Long row, h. Neville Cottage, Park NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. 219 Foxcroi't Alexander and Son, Low Pavement Foxcroft John, (Clerk to Sub-Di- vison -Meetings- and to Comss. of Land and Assessed Taxes, lor S. Div. of Notts.) Low Pave- ment Greasley Thomas Taft, Beast Market hill Hague John, St. James's st Hardwick Alfred, Churchgate Hopkinson George, 30, Long row Hopkinson George, jun. 19, Bri- dlesmithgate Hurst Nicholas Charles, Week- day cross, lu Beck lane Hurst William, (Under Sheriffand Steward of the Mayor and She- riff's Court,) Weekday cross Inkersley Thos. ct. 33, Long row Jackson Thomas, Wheelergate Leeson and Gell, Pelham st Lowdham and Freeth, Low Pave- ment and London Nuttall John, Beastmarket hill Parsons Saml. & Son, St. James's. street Payne and Daft, Low Pavement Percy and Smith, Wheelergate Redgate Thomas Blatherwick, ct. 66, Long row, h. Calvertou Renshaw Hd. St. Petersgate Rigley Joseph James Ward, ct. 39, Long row Sanders Samuel, (Prothonotary of the Peveril Court,) Wheeler- gate, h. B as ford Sculthorpe William and Robert, St. Petersgate, (Win. is Ma- gistrates' Clerk and Treasurer of the S. Divison of Notts.) Shilton Caractacus l)'Abigney,74 Long row and Sneinton Swann and Browne, Churchgate, Swann Chpr. (Coioner for the County) Churchgate Turner Wm. Hy. 6^ Warsergate Wadsworth Jno.25, Fletchergate Ward Joseph Septimus, ct. 66, Long row, h. Aspley terrace Williams William, Maypole yard, h. Basford Wise & Eddowes, 8, Clumber st Wood John, ct. 39, Long row (6.) AUCTIONEERS AND APPRAISERS. Barton Chas. Bond st. N. S. Blackwell W. sen. 75, Long row Black well W. jun. 34, Long row Clark Thomas, Milton street Duckworth George, Pelham st Eyre Wm. St. James's street Hayes John, 24, H. Pavement Hickling Geo. 3, Clumber street Maples Rt. S. Bridlesmithgate MorJey Edward, St. Petersgate Parker Wm. 4, Carlton street Peet John, 36, Long row Robinson E. B. 61, Long row Wild Wm. (comssr. for taking special bail) Weekday cross Wright C.N. 50, Long row Wright Wm. Milton street (70 BAKERS & FLOUR DLRS. Adamson George, East street Annibal Rd. Derby road Attenborough Thos. Hockley Baker Wm. Mid. Pavement Barnes John, Cavendish street Barnes Thomas, King street' Beadles John, Narrow marsh Beardmore John, St. Peter's so^ Bennett Edward, Edward street Bennett John, Houndsgate Bissil Thomas, 10, Chapel bar Carnall Isaac, Goosegate Chamberlin Wm. 17, East st Chester John, Parliament st Clarke John, 29, Clumber st Clayton Benj. Glasshouse st Clayton Edwin, (patentee of the machine for making dough,) ct. 35, Bridlesmithgate Cooper Edward, Milton st Copley John, 13, Parliament st Crafts Rd. Charlotte st Dickenson Wm. Goosegate Dore Thomas, Milk st Doxey Thos. Parliament st Emmerson P. Mansfield road Fletcher George, Beck st Flewitt Saml. Bridlesmithgate Flewitt Wm. 37, Barkerga'e Foulkes: Thos. 12, Charlotte st France Henry & Co. Hockley and Narrow marsh 220 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. Gadsby Saml. Walnut tree In Gainsley John, 11, Lenton st Greenfield Sarah, Richmond st Greenfield Wm. 16, Broad st Guy Wright, York st Hall John, Listergate Hammond Thos. Brook st Harpham David, Mansfield rd Harrison Clifford, Pierrepont st Haywood Robert, Nile st Hedderley J. 31, Bridlesmithgt Hickling Wm. Old Glasshouse In Hogg John, Goosegate Holmes Jas. Pierrepont st Hutchinson John, Mount st Innocent Ann, Meynel row Ireland Rt. (and horse corn dlr.) Bridge street James Henry, Star court James John, Canal st. Kidd Wm. Mansfield road Marshall Geo. Narrow marsh Marshall Wm. Spread Eagle yd Marvin Chas. 7* Bridlesmithgate Minta Thos. Virginia st Moore Jas. New Bridge st Moore Edward, Cherry street Morley Mark, Mill street Morley William, Mount st Needham John, 23, Barkergate Oliver Wm. Parliament row Orchard John, Pierrepont st Orchard Saml. Butcher st Palethorpe Wm. 25, Wool pack In Parkin George, Hockley Patchet John, Listergate Pyatt John, Orchard st Reddish Saml. 15, Parliament st Reddish Wm. Sussex st Reed J ph. Patriot street Ridsdale Wm. Houndsgate Robinson John, Caunt st Sanders John, Millstone In Smith Edw. Sneinton st Smith Robt. 6, Parliament st Spencer Bcnj. Fishergate StrettOB Ann, 22, Warsergatc Sylvester Wm. St. Ann's st Taylor Jph, Narrow marsh Thorpe John, Pelham st Tinker Rd. Mansfield rd Tipler James B. Narrow mareh Town roe Rd. St. Peter's scj Travis Barnabas, Mt. East st Turner Thos. 24, Long row Voce Wm. Clare st Warsop Wm. Cartergate Watson Eliz. (dlr.) Bottle In Watton Wm. 5, Bridlesmithgate Whitlock Natl. Cartergate Woffit Rd. Narrow marsh Wright Francis, Narrow marsh Wood James, Bellargate (8.) BANKERS. Hart, Fellows, & Co. 38, Bridle- smithgate (draw on Hanburys and Co.) Moore & Robinson, Beastmarket hill (draw on Sir Rd. C. Glyn and Co.) Smith Saml. Esq. & Co. Timber hill (draw on Smith y Payne, & Smiths ) Wright I. & I. C. & Co. 1, Carl- ton st (draw on Robarts, Cur- tis, & Co.) Savings' Bank, Smithy row, open every Monday, and on last Sa- turday in every month, from eleven till two o'clock ; Wm. Jarman, secretary, and John Paterson, clerk. (9.) BASKET MAKERS. Barker John, 29, Greyhound yd Clayton James, 6, Sheep lane* Clayton John, Derby road Clayton Jph. 22, Greyhound yd Merrin Eliz. 2, Hollow stone Smith Henry, Fishergate Watts Hy, & Sons, Bromley house (10.) BILLIARD TABLES. Pride Jph. Maypole yard, h. 8, Haughton st Subsciiption Table, Bromley hse (11.) BLACKING MFRS. Those marked * make compost' tion for cleaning stove grates^ fyo. Allsop Geo. Parliament st •Radnell Chas. 2, Greyhound yd Selby Wm. Trent bridge Skelton Wm. Pierrepont st 'Soar Rd. St. James's st •Wright Wm. & Gcrvase, (& ink) (anal street NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. 221 (12.) BLACKSMITHS. Caborn George, Minnett's yd Carver Wm. Hockley Chamberlain Win. Cartergate Clay John, Butcher street Copeland Jerh. Tollhouse hill Cooper Emanl. Cartergate Dal by Win. Paddock st Drabble Francis, Derby rd Fisher George, Canal st Gadd Wm. (& farrier) Fishergt Graham Geo. Vassal st Green bary Jph. St. Mary's pi Grocoft John, North st Kent Wm. Shaw lane Lord Thos. Derby Arms yd Lovait Gervase, Bottle lane Richardson Thos. Mansfield rd Stapleton James. Toll st Starr Sam I. Canal st Strangeway James, Canal st Walker Jph. London road (13.) BLEACHERS. Allcock Charles, Bulwell Bostock Edw. sen. Lovett mills Bostock Edward, jun. Bobber's mill Brown Geo. Whitemoor spring Brown John, Basford Diggie James, Whitemoor Diggle John, Whitemoor Garton & Woodward, Stump cross, Basford Hall Saml. & Co. (& patent gas- ers) Two-mile house, Basford Bill Thomas, Arnold Jennison & Robinson. Bulwell Milnes John, Hall mill Milnes Thos. B. Lenton works Mitchell W^m. Bobber's mill Pearson Joseph, Basford, h. 27, Hi^h Pavement Stanford John Fry, Bulwell BLEACHING POWDER, &e. MANUFACTURERS. Tennant Chas. & Co. Glasgow; T. Garton, agent> 36 r Broad street (14.) BOAT BUILDERS. Marshall Wm. Poplar place Roberts Benj. Lenton, h. Canal street Simpson John, Park wharf (1.5.) BOBBIN & CARRIAGE MAKERS- See also Circular Comb and Bull makers \ and JVatchmakers. Aukon Wm. Plump tie square Beha Thaddeus, 1, Woodland pi Boves Rt. Minnitt's yard Bullock Elijah, 12, Charlotte st Hall Wm. Smithy row and Grey- hound yard Hett & Bostock, Granby st Kirk Wm. Agnes yd, Broad st Lees Charles, Kingston court Mather Wm. Parliament row Marshall John, Houndsgate Milner James, Goosegate Milner Wm. ct. 31, Fietchergate Mortimer Thos. Mount East st Mosley John, Lowe's yard Ordoyno George, Castle terrace Pindar George, Holland st Rudd James, Canal street Rutland Thos. Mansfield rd Smith Edward, Burton st Stokes Geo. (and all interior work for bobbin-net machines) Duke's place Thornton Chas. Castle terrace Turner Saml. 12, Beck lane Walker Geo. Kingston st Whitaker Thos. Holland st (16.) BOBBIN NET MKRS. These are Lace-net makers, who employ machines and sell their net in the brown state to the merchants and manufacturers, who finish it for the home and foreign markets, AUdred Jph. Mansfield rd Al lister Wm. Mansfield rd Anderson Wm. East st Anderson Robert, Sherwood st Anderson John, Sherwood st Arnold Jph. Mount East st Arnold Wm. Hind, Broad marsh Ashton John, 13, Bridlesmithgt Ashworth Robt. Mount East st Ash more Jph. Glasshouse st A ul ton, Ashmore, and Mosley, Sherwood place Barker Thomas, Sherwood st Barnes Wm. Sherwood st Barnett Hy. Rose, Bedford row v2 222 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. Baxter Charles, Back lane Beadles Eliz. King street Beardsall Rt. Wellington st Bell John, Glasshouse street Bell Joseph, York street Belshaw Wm. Wellington st Billiard Thos. 22, Rice place Bilbie Walter, Mansfield rd Birkin Geo. Glasshouse st Birkin Thos. Babbington pi Bonsor Stephen, Alt. East st Booker Allred, Mt. East st Booth James, Newcastle st Bovvmer John, Back lane Bradley Wm. Tollhouse hill Brazier Wm. Sherwood st Brookes Thos. Plumptre sq Brookes Thomas, Toll street Brotherton Benj. Postern pi Brown Thomas, Mansfield road Brown John, Hollow stone Brown William, Nile street Burgoin James, Cartergate Burley Thos. 12, St. Mary's pi Burton Samuel, Grove street Burton Thos. 35, York street Bushby John, Hollow stone Caunt John, Newcastle street Chand William. Kingston court Cheshire Wm. Ten Bells yard Clark Samuel, Butcher street Clarkstone Joseph, Mansfield rd Clayton John, Wool alley Collishaw John, (tatting) East st Colson James, Mount court Cooper Thos. S. Trent bdg Cooke Robert, Goosegate Creswell Cph. jun. Bahbington st Creswell Cphr. Mansfield rd Coxon Peter, Navigation row Corah Samuel, Sherwood st Cowley George, Rose yd Crofts Jas. Freeman st Cropper Jas. Bridge st Cummins John, 5, Mansfield ter Curtis William, Canal st Daft Wm. Mount pleasant Dann Wm. Navigation row Davis Wm. Babbington st Davis Wm. Mortimer st Daykin John, Glasshouse s Day .John, Mountst Dent .Jas. Castle terrace Derrick John, &, Plumptre st Derry Samuel, 13, Mansfield ter Dufty Rd. Castle road Dyer John, Greyfriargate Earp Thos. Derby rd Ellis Wm. 4, Rice place Evans Wm. Broad marsh Flather Jas. Poplar square Flather John, Poplar sq Fletcher Wm. Mortimer st Fletcher Samuel, Mansfield rd Fox Charles, North st Freeman & Co. Houndsgate Freeman Wm. Sherwood st Gadd John, Penneyfoot lane Galloway Robt. Milton st Gamble J ph. Newcastle st Garner Jas. Cross street Gilderthorp Jph. Watt's yd Gisborn John, Pleasant row Godber Samuel, King st Goodhead Elijah, 27, Woolpack In Goodhead Luke, Beck st Goodall Rd. Back lane Goode Thomas, Parliament st Gothard Wm. Sherwood st Green Alfred, Castlegate Green Jthn. Verginia st Greensmith Rd. 17, Milton st Greenwood John, Parliament st Hall S. & T. E. {by power) Mount street Hampson Wm. 20, New st Hardwick Jph. Forest side Harper Jph. Derby road Harrison John, Cross st Hebb Fras. Wright's yd. Wood st Hebb Wm. 22. Parliament st Henson Gravener, Sherwood In Henson John, 30, Broad st Heron Thos. Wellington st Hibbert Robt. Cro;s st Hicklifig Wm. Toll st Hill John, Brook alley Hill John, Chapel st Hill Wm. Charlotte street Hill Thos. Sherwood street Holland John, Mansfield rd Holland John, Glasshouse st Holland Thos. 12, Mansfield ter Holland Rd. Knotted place Mollis Win. Bellargatc Holmes Geo. 10, Mansfield ter NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. 223 Holmes Samuel, Pleasant row Hood Robert, Milton street Hoyles John, Mansfield road Humphreys John, Sherwood st Jackson James, Kingston ct Jarman Henry, 25, H. Cross st James Edw. Mount East st Jarvis Samuel, Malt court Jeffries Rt. 26, Broad st Kendall John, {by power) Canal st Killingley Edward, York st Kirk Thomas, (Caps) Nile st Lamb Jph. Mansfield rd Lamb John, Martin's alley Lambert Thos. Walnuttree la Langham Jph. Mansfield rd Langham Thos. 42, Barkergate Leavers Elias, Mill st Leavers Jph. Derby road Lee Jph. Raven ct. Old st Letherland John, Mansfield rd Lewis Jph. Midle pavement Longmire Edwin, 49, Barkergate Marriott John, Independent hill Machin Wm. Finkhill st Macklerith Adam, Glasshouse st Maloney Cor. Freeman st Marshall Thos. Mansfield road Maddack Rt. Castle Terrace Mason Samuel Bonnell, Hollow stone Marson Thos. Castle terrace Massey Wm. Chesterfield st Massey John, East street Meats Isaac, Nob yard Middleton John, Walker st Miller George, Fishergate Middleton Thos. 48, Barkergate Milner Wm. Glasshouse In Morley Samuel, Mount st Morris Jph. 2, Beck In Newton Geo. Mansfield rd Newton Jph. Mansfield rd North Samuel, Pleasant row Oldham Thos. Castle road Packer Isaac, Beck st Parker Isaac, Mansfield rd Parker Thos. Sherwood st Pass Wm. Hornbuckle's yd Pass Wm. Commerce row Pearson Wm. Parliament st Pegg Carter, Mansfield road Pole Wm. Bedford row Poole George, Bilbie's yard Porter James, 4, Broad st Price Thomas, Canal st Raynor Samuel, Mount East st Rawson Samuel, Canal st Read William, Poynton st Reckless Richard, Castle terrace Renshaw Henry, Sneinton st Revill Erasmus, Sherwood st Richardson Wm. Mount court Robinson Thomas, Kingston ct Rudd Jamps, Canal st Rutland John, Mansfield rd Sands Thomas, Castle terrace Saunders Thomas, York st Sansom Samuel, 8, Kings pi Scott Richard, Mansfield rd Selby Thomas, Cross st Selby Wm. Trent bridge Sewell Thos. R. 3, Canal st Seymour Richard, Olive row Shaw John, Babbington st Shaw Robert, Derby rd Shepherd Wm. Knotted pi Shipham John, Coalpit In Shipman Charles, Freeman st Shorrock Edward, Mansfield rd Simmons Thos. Houndsgate Simpson Wm. Glasshouse st Skelton Wm. Toll street Smith John, Nile street Smith Joseph, Bedford Row Smith William, Paddock st Smith Wm. Pleasant row Smith John, St. Michael row Spencer Thos. Castle terrace Squires John, Mansn'eld rd Stanfield Samuel, 1, York st Stanton Eliz. 39, York st Street Wm. Houndsgate Stubbins John, Poynton st Sturtivant Chpr. Castle terrace- Sumner George, Cartergate Sutton John, Sherwood st Swanwick Geo. Beck square Sylvester John, Clare st few William, Mill st Thornton Chas. Castle terrace Thorpe Geo. Trumpet st Throne Thos. Pleasant row Timm George, Milk st Timm Charles, Sherwood st Tome Wm. St. Peter's Churchside 224 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. Topham John, Sherwood st Townsend James, Castle, terrace Trussweil John, Listergate Turner Wra. Beck square Unwin Samuel, Derby st Ward Peter, Independent hill Ward Samuel, St. Petersgate Walker Fras. Mansfield rd Warsop Emanuel, Cross st Warsop Samuel, Tomiin's yard, Parliament street Watts George, Finkhill street Whiles James. Mansfield rd Whiles John, York st Webster David, 33, St. Marygate Whitchurch Win. Penny foot In White Robert, Greyfriargate White Thomas, Mansfield rd Whitehead Jph. Mount East st Whittaker John, Castle terrace Whittle James, York st Widdowson Wm. Navigation row Wills Benj. Houndsgate Wood Wm. Coal court Wood Henry, Serwood st Witham Wm. Castle terrace Wood h ouse Jacob, 32, Woolpk . In Woolley John, Beck In Woodward John, Penny foot In Wright Edward, Newcastle st Wright Nathl. 6, East st Wright Wm. Gedling st Yates Jph. Brewhouse yd Yates Thos. 11, York street (17.) BONE MERCHANTS. Fothergil) Jas. & John, Canal st Shelton & Harvey, Canal st (18.) BOOK BINDERS. Bayne Charles, Bottle In. H. Park- square Bull John, Newcastle st Bull Robert, 19, Fetchergate Jones Thos. Backlane Leighton John, (wholesale sta- tioner) Lincoln street Rothera John, Clare st Whittingham John, Parliament row (19.) BOOKSELLERS, PRIN- TERS, BINDERS, & STA- TIONERS. See also Periodical Publishers Barber Alfred, Angel row Bennett Samuel, 57, Long row Deardon Wm. 3, Carlton st Duckworth Geo. Pelham st Dunn Jonathan, South parade Kirk Thomas, St Peter'sgate { Maples Rt. Sewel, 16, Bridle- smithgate Mercer Richard, 3, Chapel bar Robinson Edw. Briggs, 61, Long row Simons George, 13, Long row Staveley John, 1, High street Stretton George, 64, Long row Sutton Richard, 1, Bridlesmith- gate, h. 14, Bottle lane Wells Wm. 9, Clumber st Wright Chpr. Norton, 50, Long row (20.) BOOT & SHOE MAKERS Abbott David, 6, Pennell's yard Astle Edward, Peiham street Baker Wm. Mount East st. Baker John, 15, Long row, h., Derby road Bannister Chas. Hockley Barlow Wm. Cartergate Beck George, Cross st Bestow Luke, Charles st Bishop Wm. Goosegate Bishop Wm. Spaniel row Booth Chas. 6, Lenton st Boyington Rd. Garner's hill Bown Thos. Glasshouse st Brad field Thos. York st Braley Wm. Cheapside Briggs Wm. Cross st Brown Hy. Milton st Brunt John, HoUowstone Burton Thos. Mill st. Camm Richd. Hockley Clark Joseph, Bottle In Clayton Hphy. Mansfield rd Clover Thos. Sherwin st Collyer John & Son, 26, St. Mary- gate Crisp Danl. Goosegate Cumberland Jas. Fteeman st Daft Win. Nelson st Davis John, Goosegate Dobson Thos. Brewhouse yd Doriard Fras. Sherwood st Edwards George, Mount st Edwards James, Angel row NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. 225 Fearn Michl. Coalpit In Fearn Wm, 4, Stoney st Flinn Cphr. Drury hill Foster Noah, Gedling st Foulkes Geo. Glasshouse st Fox Hy. 2, Angel yard Getley Geo. Patriot st Gray Arthur, Plat st Green Joseph, Mount st Gregg Jas. Carter gate Hanley Robert, 14, Sheep lane Hawksley Mary, Charlotte st Heaton Saml. Beck st Heazell Arthur, 40, Woolpack In Heazell Robt. 2, Smithy row Hickling Wm. 19, Low Cross st Hobb John, Fletchergt Hockney Thos. Sussex st Hogg Jas. Middle Marsh Holmes Wm. Listergate Hopkins John, Newcastle st Howett Wm. Simpson's pi Howett John, Pierrepont st Hurst Danl. Mount East st Jaquiss lssachar, 27? Broad st Jaquiss lssachar, jun. St. Ann's st Jeffs Edw. (shoe whs.) St. Peter's square Jeffery Samuel (ointment mfr.) Goosegate Kenton Rd. Virginia st Kerry Thos. Plat st Kirkhy Wm. Peck lane Knight John & Sarah, 10, Clum- ber st Kynnersley Edw. Pipe st Lacey Henry, Houndsgate Lee John, Narrow Marsh Lawson Edw. Perliament row Lindley Leonard, Fishergate Lownds Robert, Exchange alley Maltby John, Albion st Marriott Geo. St. James's st Mann John, Beck st Martin Jas. Back In Maxfield Mtw. Newcastle st Massey Peter, Pump st Meeson & Sons, 46, Bridlesmith gate and Stafford Meldram Jas. Glasshouse st Merrin Frdk. Derby road Merrin Saml. Hockley Metheringham John, Mt East st Mitchell Geo. Middle hill Mitchell Hy. Sussex st Moody Jasper, Clare st Needham Geo. Broad Marsh North Henry, Tree yard Oxley Walter, Houndsgate Parkinson Jas. New Bridge «t Parnham Thos. & Co. 76, Long row Pickard Geo. Parliament st Pickard Jph. High pavmt. Pollard Thos. ct. 8, Bridlesmith gate Poole Wm. Parliament st Popple John, Rancliffe st Porter Thos. Charlotte st Raynor Jph. High Cross st Raynor Wm. Cur lane Richards Wm. Wellington st Read Edw. Drake st Roberts Thos. Finkhill st Rockley Geo. York st Rose John, 37, Broad st Salsbury Josiah, Charlotte st Saunders Hy. Newcastle st S carles Jas. Broad Marsh Sharp John, Fishergate Shaw Chas. Listergate Shipley Joseph, Wheelergate Slater Chas. Mount East st Snelson Frederick, Nicholas st Sotheran John, Barkergate Steel Aaron, Cavendish st Steel Reuben, 9, Broad st Stenson Robert, Mount st Starling Wm. 1, Barkergate Storer Geo. Sherwood st - Sweet Thos. 2, Queen st Swindal^Thos. Pierrepont st Taylor John, 10, York st Taylor John, 5, Clumber st Taylor Thomas, Hockley Thatcher Benj. 2, York st Thompson Thos. Old Glasshouse lane Tyas Moses, Houndsgate Turner John, West st Vansor Wm. 3, Mansfield terrace Waite Robert, Derby rd Walker Wm. 14, Carlton st Ward Rt. 28, Bridlesmith gt Webster Wm. York st Webster Wm. Mid. Pavement 226 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. White Hiram, St. Petersgate Woolle? Wm. Yorkst Wood Geo. Bellargate Whiteley John, Newcastle st Widdowson Matthew, Kingston st Wildig Ann, Bottle lane Williamson Fras. York- st Win field Rt. 7, Milton st Wilks Elias, St. James's st Wright John, Sydney st Wright Wm. 14, Lenton st (21.) BRACE MAKERS. See Smallware Dealers. Ash SamL sen. (and fancy articles) 4, Castle terrace Ash Saml. jun.(and fancy articles) Poplar place (22.) BRASS FOUNDERS AND GAS FITTERS. See also Iron Founders. Cooper Jas. Harrington st Coulby Wm. 12, Greyhound yd Pegg Samuel, Park row Tatham Robert, S. 49 r Bridle- smithgate (23) BRAZIERS & TIN-PLATE WORKERS. Beard Henry, St. Peter's square Cooke Thos. Martin, Bridge st Farnsworth Daniel, Sussex st Fidler John, Milton st Gillett Jph. Plat st Goodbid John, Narrow marsh Harrison Nettleship, Hocklev Higginbottom John, Broad marsh Holmes Jph. Old Glasshouse la Jones Danl. York st Knight Thos. Sneintcn st Lewis Wm. 53, Bridlesmitbgate and Peck lane Milford Wm. Derby rd Morley James, Cheapside Nash Wm. Broad st Pearce Anthony, Derby rd Riddell Thos. Tradesmen's mart Robinson Cpr. St. John st Wapplinton Wm. Platst Whyatt John, Pel ham st Woodward Wm. Angel row BREWERS. See Porter Dealers. (24.) BRICK MAKERS. Marked tb,us • have Brickyards at Mapperley hills, and f at Sneinton. *Bean Saml. Lincoln st fBradshaw John &, Sons, Canal street Clay James, Coalpit In •Clay Wm. York st *f Daykin John, West Bridgford fHooton Rd. Fishergate *James Thos. Mansfield rd James Saml. Carlton hill *Neep Thos. Wm. Apple row *North Thos. London rd. *Pritchard Jas. St. Ann's st ""Robinson Danl. Cartergate •Robinson Jas. Wharf st *Smith John, 21, Mansfield ter Smith Martha & Sons, Carlton Surplice Wm. 2, Clumber st. and Forest Taylor John, Carlton rd. and Radford fWood Moses, Sneinton (25.) BRICKLAYERS. See also . Stone Masons. Anderson Michl. Parliament row Astick John, Mount st Bradbury Wm. 6, Broad st Butler Rd. Castlegate Dale Thos. 39, Woolpack In Elliott Fdk. 20, Warsergate Hard wick Saml. 43, Baikergate Hare J. Wild's yard, Houndsgt Hawley John, Fishergate Jackson Saml. Washington st James Wm. Coalpit In Lane Samuel, 56, Bark-ergt Lucas Thos. 1, Fountain pi May Jas. Beck street Ostick Thos. 1, Beck lane Overend Geo. Mount East st Parker Wm. New Charles st Perceival Geo. Carter row Smith Wm. 9, West st Spurr Rd.36, Warsergate Spurr Thos. Water street Stephenson Wm. Rose yard Taft John, Carrington st Ward Joshua, Derby rd Wootton Pp. (steeple bldr.) Pier- repont st Wootton Wm. Castlegate NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. 227 (26.) BUILDERS. Drewry W. &B. 17, Plumptre st Inger Wm. Glasshouse st Kenton Rt. Glasshouse st Parrott John & Sons,22,George st Patterson Wm, St. James's st. h. Park terrace Soar Jph. 27* George st Surplice Wm. 2, Clumber st Tomllnson Jas. Listergate Walker John & Saml. Derby rd j Weston, Field and Son, 23, St. Mary's gate [ Winter Thos. Nottingham ter (27.) BRUSH MAKERS. Savage Geo. Coalpit lane Waine Avery, P^lhamst Wallace & Keiling. Parliament st (28.) BUTCHERS. Those marked 1 have Shops in the Cheap side Passage. 2 Dark Shambles. 3 New Shambles. 4 Old Shambles. 5 Police Pas- sage. 6 Smithy Row Passage, and 7 mi Cross Shambles. 3 Abbott John, Smalley 1 Allen Silas, 55, Barkergate Appleby Thos. Sneinton st 1 Archer Thos. Keyworth 5 Armitage John, Koundsgt 6 Armitage Saml. Newcastle st Armitage Saml. Chatham st 2 Armitage Wrn. Trent bridge 5 Attenborough Geo. Ruddington Attenburrow Wm. Change alley and Parliament st 7 AyreRd. Broad marsh 4 Ayre Thos. Basford 1 Bailey Anthy. Castlegate 4 Bagaley John, Cotgrave 4 Barber Geo. Chandler's In •2 ; Baudon Rt. Parliament row- Bee Thos. Old Glasshouse In 2 Borrows Thos. Coalpit In Bramley Fras. Narrow marsh Brazier Jas. Albion place 4 Brewin Wm. Lenton 4 Briddon Rt. Parliament row Briddon Thos. Derby rd Briddon Wm. Milton st 7 Brown Jph. Goosegate 3 Buttery Rd. Ratcliffe Cartledge Benj. Goosegate Clay John, Plat st Clayworth Wm. New Clare st Cliff Thos. Albion place 5 Cockayne John, Parliament st 1 Cockayne John, Sherwood 4 Cockayne Thos. Grey Friargt 1 Cockayne Wm. 2, Mansfield ter 3 Collins Jph. Bunney 3 Cooke John, Bingham Curtis Rt. Narrow marsh Dakeyne John, 15, Bellargate 3 Day Wm. Beeston Deeker John, Wheat Sheaf yd 3 Dixon John, Cotgrave 2 Dixon John, Mount st 4 Drake Thos. Newcastle st 4 Draper Geo. Gotham 6 Dutton Silas. Newcastle st Eite Henry, Millstone lane Eite James, Mortimer st Eite John, Sussex street Farrands John, Cartergate Farrands Thos. Plumptre sq Fisher Micha, Penny foot stile 6 Fletcher Wm. Tollhouse hill 4 Foster Richard, Ratcliffe 3 Foster William, Ratcliffe Gadd Thomas, Malt court 3 G'over Jph. Wymeswould 4 Glover Thomas, Plumptre 6 Goodall Chas. 13, Bottle lane Goodall John, Chapel bar 4 Goodall T. Old Glasshouse In Goodburn John, 53, Barkergate SlGoode John, Mount East st 5 Greensmith Joseph, Bootiane 4 Hall Chas. Houndsgate 2 Hall John, Houndsgate Hall Samuel, Houndsgate Handley Wm. Glasshouse st 3 Hardy Rd. Hickling Hardy Thomas, Narrow marsh 3 Harpham George, Wilford 3 Hart John, Rancliffe street 1 Harvey Jas. Weekday cross, h. Middle hill 3 Helmesley Rd. Bunney 4 Hickling James, Angel row 1 Hickman John, Change alley & Mansfield road Hind Benj. 15, Mansfield terrace Hobson John, Washington st 3 Hodgkin John, Ruddington 22$ NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. Holland Thos. Mount court 4 Hooper Wm. Whatton 4 Houghton Henry, Nuttal Inocent Francis, Cur lane Jerrom Frederick, Friar lane Kelsall Edmund, Carfergate 3 Lacy James, Caunt street 4 Lawrence Hastings, Rempston 4 LinekerSiddons, Greyhound yd 6 Lloyd Robert, 3, St Marygate 3 Machin Richard, Papplewick Maidens George, Talbot yd Mai thy Jph. (pork) 6, Chapel bar Martin Gervasp, Charlotte st 4 Mee John, Broad marsh Millar Samuel, Narrow marsh 1 Moody Charles, Glasshouse st 2 Morley Ann, "Broad st 4 Morley John, Beck st. 3 Neep Thomas, Houndsgate Keep Wm. Finkhill st 3, Newton John, Cropwell Bishop Nix Thomas, St. Ann's st Norton John, Exchange & Mans- field road 4 Ogle George, Ratcliffe Osborn Samuel, Pierrepont st 3 Page Wm. Ruddington 3 Palethorpe Thomas, Shelford 2 Palmer David, Coalpit lane Parker Wm. Gedling st Parlby Thos. Canal street 5 Pearson John, Charlotte st Pearson Wm. (& bacon factor) 8, Smithy row 4 Pearson Wm. Glasshouse In -3 Pearson Wm. jun. Newcatle st 3 Peet Edward, Edwalton Perkins Mary, Tradesmen's mart Pettinger Thos. Pelham st 4 Plackett John, Breaston 4 Plackett Rd. Breaston 2 Plowright Henry, Mount st 2 Plowright Wm. Parliament st Pollard John, '38, Watergate & St. James' st U Prew John, Paliament st 3 Prew Wm. 8, Bell founders yd Prew John, Mansfield rd 3 Price Wm. Clifton .'! Richmond John, Carlton 3 Richmond Samuel, Rate) i fie Rowhotham Rd. Narrow marsh 3 Russell Thos. Ockbrook 3 Salt Richard, Sandyacre Sanders Charles, Houndsgate 2 Seals Robt. 17, Stoney st 3 Shuter John, Bridgford 4 Simkin John, Carrington st 2 Simkins Chas. Houndsgate 2 Simkins Daniel, Narrow marsh Simkins Eliz. Listergate 4 Simkins James Sneinton 2 Simkins John, Mansfield rd 3 Simpson Mrs. Car Corston 2 Smith John Abm. Mount East street Smith John, Narrow marsh 3 Southgate Wm. Newcastle st 3 Spearing Benj. Woolpack In 3 Stevens John, Braycott 7 Street Geo. Chandler's In 2 Strelley Richard, Pepper st 4 Tebbutt John, Hockley 4 Thornton Hy. Parliament st Thraves Wm. 26, Barkergate 4 Tipping Wm. Chilwell Tomiinson Thos. Canal st- Topley Wm, Cross st Torr George, Drury hill Torr James, Derby rd 4 Turner George, Clayton's yd 7 Turner James, ct. 35, Bridle- smithgate 4 Turton George, IS, Stoney st Tutin George, Hockley 3 Vessey Joseph, Scarrington Walker John, Plat st Watson Samuel, St. Peter's sq 1 Watts Richard, 13, Warsergatc 4 Wells Andrew, Hazard's yd 4 Wheatley John, Whatton Wheeldon John, Back In 3 Whittaker Ed. Parliament st Whitby Edward, Geo. & Drag, yd White Robert, Narrow marsh 2 Whitfield John, Newcastle st Whitworth John, York st Widdowson Reuben, Exchange alley Wigley Henry, St. Peter's sq 4 Wilford Thomas, Newcastle st 3 Williamson Luke, Bridgford 4 Wilson Cam, Cartergate \ Wood George, Virginia st \ Wood John, Castle rd NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. 229 5 Wood Thomas, Pilchergate Woodward James, 20, Long row 1 Wright Hy. New Sneinton Wright John, Exchange and N. Radford 2 Wright John, 11, Broad st (29.) CABINET MAKERS. Those marked * are Upholsterers. See also Joiners and Furniture Brokers . Allen Silas, Rosemary lane Breckels Thos. Listergate •Brothers Benj. ct. 65, Long row Cope James, Milton st Goodrich Win. Milton st •Green Joseph, Angel row Harrison Wm. Tradesmen's mart •Jones Edw. Beastmarket hill •Lakin Thos. Angel row Lock Wm. Cook, Angel row •Stoney & Clarke, High pave- ment •Thurman Thos. Finkhill st Wilson Joseph. 8. Pennell'svd (30.) CALICO GLAZERS. Bignall Robt. 15. Stoney st Peach Cath. 3, Queen st (31.) CARPET WAREHSES. Blackwell Wm. sen. 75, Long row Brothers Benj. 65, Long row Leake Thos. Milton st (32.) CARVERS & GILDERS. Th?(s * are also Thermometer, Barometer, and Looking Glass Ma mi fact urers . •Bregazzi Peter. High pavement Cooper John, 19, Broad st Everitt John, Bridlesmithgate Fitzwalter Fras. Toll st Fitzwalter Thos. 29, Bridlesmith- gate •Guggiari Domenico, Pelham st Leader Geo. (carver, and mould and block cutter.) Bridge st Tiddiman Geo. Union place Wright Rt. Newcastle st (33.) CATTLE DEALERS. Barrow Joseph, Darker's yd Brown Wm. 7. George st Hakes Thos. Darker's yd Milncr David, Carrington st Marshall Jph. (pigs) Narrow marsh (34.) CHAIR MAKERS. Adderton John, 24, Greyhound yard Allen Wm. West st. h. Pine st Bar wick Jas. Goosegate Halfpenny Jph. Canal st Lawson Eliz. Listergate Meadows Samuel, Mount st Smart Thos. Fishergate Wilkinson Rd. Broad marsh (35.) CHEESE AND BACON FACTORS. See also Shopkeepers. Child Frances, Pelham st Fisher Chas. {and flour) Bridge st Flint Thos. Sneinton st Goodliife Arnold, 33, Bridlesmith gate Greanev Walter, Tradesmen's mt Hall Thos. 6, Carlton st Kennedy Bridget, Drury hill Midlam Jph. 1, Charlotte st North Wm. Charlotte st Parr Samuel, Pelham st Smith and Newton, 65, Long row Taylor Robert, St. Peter's square White Jas. York st (36.) CHIMNEY SWPRS., &c. Baxter J. Twigg alley Hickling Mary, Queen st Henis Wm. 5, Charlotte st Lowe Wm. St. Peter's church Turner John. York st (37.) CHINA, GLASS AND EARTHENWARE DEALERS. Marked 1 are Earthenware Dea- lers, and 2 Glass Dealers only. Bradbury John, Goosegate Dutton Jph. (glass cutter) 4, Bri- dlesmithgate Gray Rt. (crown glass) Canal st 2 Haywood Wm. & Son, (bottle, phial, and vitriol merts.) Mid- dle hill Tnger George, 46, Long row Inger Wm. Chapel bar 2 Jackson Henry, (cut glass mfr.) 4, Bridlesmithgate and Tut- bury. J. Dutton, agent 1 Leeming Thos. 14, Riley's yd 1 Loach Fras. Coalpit lane 1 PinderWm. Mansfield road 1 Smith Thos. Green's yard 230 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. Stenson Wm. Listergate 1 Towie John, 26, York st 1 Vaugban Rt. 3, Charlotte st Wass Geo. Parliament st (38.) CHEMTSTS AND DRUG- GISTS. Marked thus f are only Drug- gists and Grocers. Bassctt Jph. Oldknow, 1, Clam- ber street Beardsley Jas. Sneinton st fBell Wm. 1, Mansfield terrace Brothers and Williams, 60, Long row- Buttery Chas. & Fredk. 14, Long row Cheetham Henry, 63, Long row and Drury hill Clarke John, 17, Beck lane Cooke Hy. 9. Mansfield terrace Cox Edvv. jun. Fishergate Cullen Samuel, Cheapside Dale Jas. & Sons, Weekday cross, Exchange row, & Hi^h st f Felkin Thos. 20, Charlotte st Harrison John, 46, Bridlesmith- gate Harrison Thos. St. Peter's sqr Hart Edmund, 11, Narrow marsh HcddeHey John, 14, Clumber st Howitt Rd. Parliament st Howitt Wm. South parade Humphreys John. Sussex st Marlow John* Hi^h street Need and Colt man, 39. Long row Nunn John, 36, Brid'esmithgate Potts Rd. Smith, Hockley Sanderson A. R. 10. Carlton st Southam Geo. Glasshouse st Spencer Jph. Gedling st f Taylor Wm. 42, Warsergate Towne Leonard, 43, Bridlesmgte Underwood Rd. Beastmarket hill Ward Hy. Piikington,41, Bridle- smithgate Warren Jolin, Cartergate Waterall Geo. 5, Chapel bar f Whitchurch Saml. Cross st Wilcockson Chas. Vigani, Lister- irate Wilcockson John, 7* Carlton st fWood Thos. Carlisle place. Yates & Guilford, 53, Long row fYeomans Wm. Charles st (39.) CIRCULAR COMB AND BOLT MAKERS. Beck Chas. St. James's st Greensmith Saml. (bolt) Mount East street Mortimer Geo. Mount East st Marriott Hy. Rutland st Stokes Geo. Dukes place Wardle Wm. 2, Barkenrate (40.) CLOTHES DEALERS. See also Pawnbrokers. Bush Lydia, Glasshouse st Forgie John, King st Forgie Andw. Goosegate Gee Josiah, 6. Greyhound yard Habhijam Jas. Coalpit lane Hallam Chas. 10. Queen st Hardy Thos. 26, Greyhound yrd Hardy Thos. Old Glasshouse fane Hartley Jonas, 9, Charlotte st Kelland John, Pelham st Leet Wm. Glasshouse st Martin John, Drury hill Newbolt Gervase, Charlotte st Robinson Martha, Milton st Simmons Chas. Narrow marsh Smith Wm. Plat street Theobald Wm. Pierrepont st Wallace Saml. Bridlesmithgate Watson George, Cross st Willimott John, Sussex st (41.) COACH BUILDERS & HARNESS MAKERS. Butler Sarah & Son, Bottle lane Hunt Wm. 29. George st Ragg Saml. Glasshouse st Rutland Thos. High Pavement Stones John & Co. Lincoln st. & Parliament st. h. Park COACHES (HACKNEY.) See Livery Stables. (42.) COAL DEALERS. Bradshaw John & Sons, Canal st Brough Joh.n, Canal st Cooper T. S. Trent bridge Deny Saml. London road, h. Canal str u et^ Dobb Samuel, Canal st Fothergiil Ja*. & John, Canal st Hilton Eras. & Son, Castle Wharf Lewis Jph. & Rd. Balh row wharf Marriott John, Castle whari' NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY* 231 Marshall Rt. London road Mitchell John & Win. Canal st No i tli Phos. Babbington Colliery h. London road Pyatt John, Walnut tree lane Pyatt Wm. Canal st Richards Saml. Mill st Robinson Jas. Whan st Robinson John, Brewery st, h. Sneinton Ramsey Thos. London road, h. 20, St. Marygate Shelton and Harvey, Canal st Swanwick Geo. Trent row Swanwick John, Canal st Swanwick Jph. Canai st Thorpe Saml. Canal Co.'s Wharf, Canal street. Wood £dw. Canal st (43.) COLLECTORS OF RENTS. Fann John, 57* Coat pit lane. Holland Jph. 29, Barkergate Machin Joseph, Derby road Ti pier Jas. Parliament row Wheatley John, (bai.iti of the Peverii Court) 2, Lincoln st Wheatcrott i hos. 43, Stoney st (44.) CONFECTIONERS. Beard all Fred. 35, Long row B« j ardmore John, St. Peter's sqr Benton Jas. (dlr.) Bridge st Brampton Jas. Old Glasshouse lane Carnall Isaac, Goosegate Clarkson Aiired, Derby road Ciarkson Matw. Aiount East st Coulton Owen, Goosegate Croshaw John, 55, Long row, and Peiham st Cumbeiiand George, 39, Bridle- smith^ute Derrick Geo. Sneinton st Fox Thomas, - gel row and Pleasley. Wm. Woodward, jun. agent Hughes John & Co. St. James's st fLivingston and Cheetham, Par- liament st. and Manchester fManlove S. and Co. 16, St. Mary 's gate •Melville William and David, Park row •Mills and Elliott, 45, Long row and Commercial street f Mi lis George and John (and Merino yarn) Long row •Milnes Thomas Brown, Lenton works fMurray A. and;G. 36, Broad St. and Manchester. Thos. Garton, agent •Moore Benjamin, Hockley mill Moore Samuel and Son, Friar In. and Manchester. Jph. White, agent Parker and Kirk, Maypole yd Rideout Henry George, Rutland st. h. Mansfield road Rushton James, 4, King's place Russell William, Pawlet's yard, Long row fRutt and Williams, 26, Carlton st. and Manchester. —Edgar Sanderson, agent Sanderson George, Houndsgate •Sanderson Thos. 19, Stoney st •Sneath William and Co. 44, Bridlesmithgate & Mansfield Stenson John. 29, Parliament st i NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. 233 Sulley Richard, 9, Stoney st •Thackeray, John, St. James's st •Towle Thomas, John, and Benj. Angel row. John Cooper. a.>t Trueman David and Co. 74, Long row fWakefield Francis and Thomas C urchgate and Mansfield Walsh George Nelson, Park st Wells William. 9. Clumber st fWilson Win, & Samuel (and Me- rino Yarn) Radford (50.; CURRIERS AND LEA- THER CUTTERS. Hood Wm. 11, Biidlesmithgate, h. Park hill Hopkinson Willi am, -Mount st Hopkinson Charl. Chandler's In Lowe Wm. Fletchergate Pa^e Samuel, Wheelergate Pearson George, 26, Clumber st Phiib iek Thomas, Fletchergate Shipley Francis Edward, 21, Bii- dlesmithgate Smart Wm. 46, Bridlesmithgate Smith Wm. 2. St. Mary's gate Thorpe Joseph, St. Peter's sq. Wilhy David, Beck lane Wilson Wm. .34, Bridlesmuhgate ffih) CUTLERS AND HARD- WARE DEALERS. Bartlett Thomas, (rile cutter) Narrow marsh Greaves, Fras. Narrow march Hardy George, Derby road Hattersley Joseph Plat st Hattersley John, Derby rd Micklewait John, Listergate Simpson Jph. 10, Bridlesmitbgt Townsend Robt. St. Peter's gate Townsend Septimus , 12, Bridle- smitbjjate (52.J DENTISTS. Clare Isaiah William 32, Bridle- srnithu-ate Forbes John Luke (bleeder) 10, Olive vard Hutchinson Thos (cupper, &c.) 11, Broad street Thompson Wm. Low Pavement {53.) DRAPERS AND TEA DEALERS.- (Travelling.) Brown James, Mount st Carson Wm. Tree yard Davidson Thos Sherwood st Graham George. 7« Lincoln st Grierson Win. Mansfield road Henry Samuel, 31, Parliament st M-Call John, 11, George st M'Q'uhae Thomas, Canington si M fc Monies James. Derby road Murdock Nath. Plumptrt sqr Saulsburv And. ?»Ianstield rd DRYSALTER, &c. Fry William, Lincoln st. h. Par- liament st. Druggists* see Chemists, fyc. (54.) DYERS. Arm field Joseph, Mount st Atherstone Hugh, Brewhouse yd Bagnall James Fred. Finkhill st Bartley Sam. (jo>>) Knotted alley B rough ton Mary. Canal st Bullivant John. Canal st Chamberlain Wm. Pom fret st Chawner Thomas Ealand st Damant Edward, Brewhouse }'d Doncaster Wm. Rutland st Fellows and Crosby (silk) High Pavement Garrick Thomas 13, Sheep In Haslam Samuel, Salmon yd Keeley John and Son, W'alnut tree In Manners John, Goosegate Marshall George, Queen st Marshall Thomas, Wheelergate Mus'am William, Hockley Shakespear Han. St. Peter's sq She! ton Wm. Cast legate Smith Samuel, Robin Hood yd Spooner George, Tillev's yd (55) EATING HOUSES. Ashton Jolm, 13, Bridlesmithgt Brightmore Hannah, 18, Parlia- ment st Hardy Joseph, Mansfield rd Marvin Chas. 7< Bridlesmithgate - Reddish James, Goosegate Shipley James, 18, Clumner st Weatherall George, Drury hill Wainwright Ann, Goosegate (56.) ENGRAVERS & COP- PERPLATE PRINTERS.. Carr Joseph, Houndsgate Lees John, Bottle lane. x 2 234 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. Palethorpe Job, St. James's st Wilkins John, Greyhound yd Wild Ebenezer,(Wood and Litho- graphic) Harley pi. Carrington (57.) FELLMONGERS AND LEATHER DRESSERS. Arm it age Jph. jun. Trent bridge Bayley Isaac, Lenton Mitchell John & Win, Finkhill st Parr Thomas, Narrow marsh Roberts Sam. PI umpire sq (58) FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE AGENTS. (Six Fire Engines are supported by the Corporation ; J. C. Griffin, of Broad street, is the Engineer.) Alliance,. British, fy Foreign, J. W. Haythorn, ct. 33, Long row Birmingham, Leavers & Smith, Canal st Clerical and Medical, Thomas Crowther, 25, St. Mary's gt Crown Life and Protector Fire, John Stenson, 29, Parliament st County Fire and Provident Life, Thos* Crowther, 25, St. Mary's gate Globe, James Coope, 4, Haugh- ton st Guardian, John Watson, 1, Carl- ton st Norwich Union, William Mor- land. Wheat Sheaf yard Palladium, William Wild, Week- day cross Phoenix, John Parker, 16, Carl- ton st Protector, Christopher Norton Wright, 50, Long row Promoter Life Ass. and Annuity, S. Payne, Low Pavement Royal Exchange, Edward Stave- ley, Pelham st Suffolk, S. Turner, 20, Warsergt Sun, Jph. Jas. Ward, Rigley's ct. 39, Long row JFcst of England, Thomas Alex. Campbell, ct. 39, Long row (59.) FISHING TACKLE MAKERS. E.iglesfield Char lei, Coalpit In Etches Jeffrey, Hockley Lees Edward, Sussex st Wells John, Sussex st Wetherbed Charles, Cartergate Young John, Bridge st (60.) FISHMONGERS. Baggarley Thomas, Crown yard Broadburrey Wm. Crown yd Ford Moses, 10, Pennells yd Gear Saml, Timber hill Gilbert Richard, Vernon st Hickling Thomas, Plat st Hodgson Hy. 19, Greyhound yd Stevenson Edward, Park st Trueman David, Change alley Weightman Wm. *}, Pennell's yd (61.) FRAME SMITHS. See also Machine Makers and Whitesmiths. Bates Wm. Caunt st Bishop John, Washington st Burton Thomas, 46, Barkergate Corah Thomas, Mansfield rd Davis George, Robin Hood yd Fox Thomas, Holland st Harvey Henry, Dove yd Hind Wm. 22, Beck lane Hopcraft Wm. & John, Sneinton Kerry, James, Hockley Mortimer James, (frame broker) Pleasant row Oldham Robert, Castle road Pineger Edward, Derby road Robinson George, Wool alley Rogers Joseph, Mansfield rd Stone John, Granby st. h. Brew- house yd Straw Edward, Parliament st Turner Thomas, Toll st Ward Joseph, 21, Rice pi Wilcocks George, Sneinton st Woodhouse David, 42, Barker gt Yeomans John, Duke's pi Young Wm. Manver's st, (62.) FRAME WORK-KNIT- TERS. ( Owners and Employers of Stock- ing Frames.) See also Hosiery Manufacturers. Billiard Thos. sen. 22, Rice pi Blower Thos. 11, Olive yard BraiLstord Wm. 14, Bcllargate Brown Saml. Beck lune NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. 235 Burnham John, Independent hill Chambers John, Wellington st Cheetham Geo. Newark lane Dobbs John, Sinker alley Elliott Thos. 21, York st Guest Wm. 38, York st Guest Thos. Glasshouse st Hayes Jph. Old Pottery Hogg Rt. Portland place Hollis John, King st Hulland John, Back lane Hutchinson Wm. Bran court Kent Jph. 25, Rice place Kirkman Jas. Nile st Laev Jas. Maiden lane Lamb Chas. 23, Broad st McCalaum Wm. King's square Miller John, Cur lane Pepper Saml. Nile st. Phipps Saml. Newcastle st Pole John, St. Ann's st. Poyzer Geo. Back lane Sands John, Mansfield road Scattergood John, Sinker alley Spray John, 23, Rice place Swain Jph. Woolpack lane Thompson Edw. Nile street Towers Thos. Mansfield road Turton Wm. Trumpet st Varney John, Newark lane Wainman John, Nile street Wainwright John. Mansfield rd Webster Gervase, 12, Woolpk In White Eliz. Richmond st Winterton Wm. Kim? sq Wood John, 13. York st (63.) FURNITUREBROKERS. Marked * are Cabinet Makers also. •Bai'ey Gilbert, Goosegate Barwiek Jas. Goosegate * Binkley Geo. 28 & 30, Clum- ber st Blank well Wm. sen. 75, Long row Brittan Fras. Narrow marsh Chapman John, 31, Greyhound yard Clark Thos. Milton st Goodwin Thos. Goosegate h. New Sneinton Hather Wm. Milton st. Knight John, St. Peter's gate Newel! Jas. MilUtone In Parsons Thos. Hulse's yd Porter John, Sheridan st Richards Eliz. Drury hill Wells Wm. Gedlingst Wain Jph. Parliament st Wild Wm. Weekday cross Wright Wm. Milton st (64.) FURRIERS. . Cooke & Farmer, 56, Long row Else Fras. Parliament st Harrison &Brockmer, High st Wa\re Chas. 16, Exchange row GLASS CUTTERS & DLRS. See China fy Class Dealers. (65.) GLOVERS & BREECHES MAKERS. Hunt Thos. Parliament st Lakin John, St. Peter's gate Mario w Wm. ct 7« Bridlesmithgt Watson Susan, 9, East street (66.) GREEN GROCERS. Marked thus * are Gardeners. Booth Wm. 9, Sheep lane *Bussey Wm. 47, Bridlesmithgt *Barton Saml. 5, Beck lane *Bramley Chas. Beck st Cheshire John, Broad marsh Curzon John, Caunt st Elliott Wm. I, Wnrsergate *Gresham Rd.(seedsmn.) Hockley *Hawksley John, Coalpit In *Hillery John, Parliament st Hind Abm. Bellargate Johnson John, 8, Charlotte st *Kirk Saml. Chesterfield st *Lo water Jph. Water street *Lowater Saml. Fishergate Mason Sylvester, Pomlret st Roberts — , Coppice house Slater John (& egg mert.j2, Can- non yard •Straw John, Parliament st Trueman Chas. Tradesmen's mt Wilson Wm. (herbalist^ Goosegt (67.) GROCERS AND TEA DEALERS. (See also Shopkeepers) Marked thus % are Tea fy Coffee dealers only. Ash Robert, Howard street Attenborough Hy. South parade Baines Thomas, Listergate Baldock William, Hockley 236 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. Barber John Houseman, Hollow- stone Beardsall Edw. 3, Woo) pack In Bell Jph. Hoi lows tone Bell Wait 1, Mansfield terrace Bennett Wm. Wheelergate Bowman Thos. Narrow marsh Bradley Thos. Lowe, 3, Smithy row J Bradley Thos. and Joshua, 7, Smithy row Bunting Geo. &Co. 6*7 * Long r Chalenor Wm. 21, Parliament st Cheetham Isaac, Water street Clark Jph. & Co. 3, Bridlesmith- gate Cole Eliz. 8. Poultry Cooke & Barnsdall, 4, Chapel br Copley Wm. 1, Parliament row Cox Edward, Cartergate Dean Cnas. Parliament row Elliott Elias, 20, Bridlesmithgate Elliott John Jefferv, Bridge st Felkin Thos. 20, Charlotte st Ford William, HoundsgateJ J Fowler Smith, 23, Long row Fox Samuel, High street Fry Wm. (& drysalter) Lincoln st h. Parliament st Gill William, Derby road Goodacre Rd. & John, Pelham street & Carlton street Hall Thos. 14. Carlton st Harrison Wm. Derby road Hemsley Thos. 77? Long row & Clumber st Henson Thomas, 3, Poultry J Hopkins Thos* & Co. 66, Long row Hucknall Jph. Hockley Hudson William, Castlegate Keep John & Co. Smithy row Leake Thos. Goosc James's st Rowland Thos. 4, Clumber st Taylor Chas. 21, Clumber st (157.) WATCH AND CLOCK MAKERS. Those marked * are Jeweller tf, §♦ t Bobbin and Carriage Makers. Barber John, Newcastle st Behreni Jacob, GoosegaU Brownsword John, (and dealer in German Clocks-) 8, Chapel bar *Cox & Adams, Goosegate Drury Wm. Sneinton at Etches John, Listergate Goodwin Wm. Narrow marsh •Hallam Thos. 48, Bridlesmithgt Harper Jas. Parliament st Harper Richard, North st Hopkin Wm. Mansfield road *Kelvey Ebenezer, Pelham st Lees Chas. Kingston court fMather Wm. 11, Milton st Pratt John, 54, Bridlesmithgate *Shepperley & Pearce, 27, Long. row Stevenson Wm. 2, Poultry Sulley Rd. Hollow stone Webster George, Derby road Whitehall Thos. Caunt st •Yeomans Henry, 19, Clumber st (158.) WHARFINGERS. Barnsdall Nathaniel, Canal st Bradshaw John and Sons, Leen, row wharf, Canal st Cutts Hannah, Bath row Marshall Rt. London road Pickford & Co., L<*en bridge Richards Saml. Mill st Robinson Jas. Wharf st Ro worth Wm. London road Simpson John, Park wharf, h* Castle road Thorpe Saml. Canal Company's wharf, Canal street Wheatcroft G. & Son, Commer- cial street (159.) WHEELWRIGHTS. Cross Henry, Shaw lane Fairholme Geo. Water street Haddon Wm. Butcher st Quinton John, Sherwin st (160.) WHIP MAKERS, &c. Clarke Roderick (thong) Gedling street Edwards Jph. Sneinton st Lowe Jas. (hand whip) Wheat Sheaf yard Place John, jun. Beastmarket hill Wapplinton Thos. (thong) Red st. White Jervas, (cord) Mount st Whittle John, (thong) North st 260 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. (161.) WHITE LEAD MRFS. Cox, Poyser & Co. Butcher st (162.) WHITESMITHS AND BELLHANGERS. Abbott John, Bell founder's yard Barker Thos. Wheetergate Booth John, 7? Ridley's yard Brentnall George, 6,Belifounder's yard Cowen Rt. & Co. Beck Works, Beck street Drabble Fras. Derby road Hackett Wm. Broad st Hawksworth Wm. (and elastic spring mkr.) 9, Greyhound yd Holland Saml. Chandler's lane Hood Edw. Narrow marsh Hood Rd. Garner's hill Leak Robert, Pennell's yard Miller John, Canal st Millington David, Broad marsh Need ham Geo. Old field, (mecha- nist) Sussex street Nelson A. B. Holland st Orme John, 13, Pennell's yard Philips Geo. Narrow marsh Sanders John, Newcastle st Selby Jph. Goosegate Sims Geo. 22, Barkergate Smedley Richard, Houndsgate Stanley John, Pelham st Stephenson Wm. Houndsgate Taylor John, Nottingham house yard Taylor Wm. Beck street, h. Inde- pendent hill Topping Joseph, Stretton's yd Walker Wm. 29, Carlton st Yates Thos. (lock) Middle hill (163.) WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Marked thus * are only Retailers. Bailey Thos. Wheelergate Bason Henry, Sion hill,h. Ashby terrace •Cooper Wm. 1, Chapel bar Cox Edw. & Fredk. Parliament st •Cross Hv. 21, Long row "Dabell Wm. 19, Long row Deverill Wm. Pelham st Homer, Watson, and Crossland, Pennell's yard *Hopkin Win. 35, Long row Jalland Eliz. Goosegate *Killingley Melicent, 9, Smithy row Maltby Saml. Beastmarket hill Parker Wm. 4, Carlton st Perry John, Wheelergate Severn J as. Middle Pavement *Skip-vith Mary, 54, Long row *Slater Thos. Beck lane Small Ann, 1, Poultry Smith William, Bromley house Angel row •Talhott Fras. 25, Long row *Wilson Lewis, 7* Poultry Wright Chpr. Norton, (wine) 50, Long row (164.) WIRE WORKERS. Marked * are fVire Drawers. Ashforth Henry, (springs) Broad marsh, and Sheineld, Rebecca Crisp, agent Cottrell James, (and pin maker) Broad marsh Cowen Rt. & Co. Beck st Massey John, 17. Broad st Raynor Rd. ("spring) Bellargate •Redgate Hy. (& lender makers) Houndsgate •Taylor John, Broad marsh Wood Saml. Canal street (165.) WOOLLEN CLOTH MANUFACTURER. Hobson Wm. Parliament st (166.) WOOLSTAPLERS. Bakewell John, Friar lane Hodgson Saml. & Jph. Houndsgt Phipps Geo. Poplar sq. & Arnold (167.) WORSTED YARN SPINNERS. Mills Geo. & John, (merino) 45, Long row Raynor Win. Beck st.and Wake- field ; Geo. Wilson, agent Wilson Wm. & Saml. (merino) Radford NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. 261 MISCELLANEOUS LIST OF GENTRY, CLERGY, PARTNERS IN FIRMS, AND OTHERS, NOT Arranged in the Lists of Trades and Professions. Aekroyd Thos. carter Toll st Acott Mrs. Efiz. Park row Acton Jas. joiner, 9, Lincoln st Acton Mrs. Mary, Canal st Adams Saml. mfr. 20, High Pave- ment Adams Thos. mfr. 9, Stoney st Aldred Mrs. Ann, Toll st Allcock VVm. hosier, Portland pi Allen Jno. sexton of St. Nicholas', Brewhouse yard Allen John Roger, hosier, h. Der- by road Allen Rd. lace mfr. h. Granby st Allin VVm. Hardstaff, traveller, Tree vard Alliott Rev. Rd. (IndJ Castlegt Alliott Rev. Rd. jun. (Ind.) Mid- dle hill Almond Rev. Rt. White, M.A. Rector of St. Peter's, Russell st Alvey Sarah, cowkeeper. Fishergt Archer Fanny & Eliz. Low Pavmt Archer Jas. librarian, Bromley h Archer Wm. St. Nicholas's Parish Clerk, Castle terrace Armitage Jph. gent. Trent bridge Andrew Thos. list shoe maker, Mount East st Ash Jas. whsman. Poplar place Astill Mrs. Ann, 4, Lenton st Astle John, shopman, Derby rd Attenborough Thos. bookkeeper, Spread Eagle yard Aulton Chas. net mkr. Sherwood place Bacon Geo. mfr. Park row Bagshaw Wm. shopman, Mill st BaguleyMrs. F. Low Pavement Baker Wm. 10, St. Mary's place Baker Wm. cowkpr, 18, Wool- pack lane Baker Wm. cowkpr. Independent hill Balguy Charles Geo. Esq. Regis- trar of the Archdeaconry of Nottingham, Timber hill and Colwick Barber Mrs. Isbl. 3, Hollowstone Barber Mr. John, 1, Lenton st Barker Misses Ann & Mary, Cas- tlegate Barker Mattw. Hy. editor of the Mercury ', h. Clayton's yd Barker Sarah, lodgings, Bottle In Barnes Benj. governor St. Mary's workhouse Barnes Wm. clerk, 12, York st Barney Mrs. Ann, Houndsgate Barnett Absalom, assistant over- seer of St. Mary's, Pilchergate Barney Rd. bookpr. Castle st Barratt Wm. plasterer, Mans- field road Barrows Rd. carrier, 26, Stoney street Barrows Rd. gent. 24, H. Pave- ment Bartle Mrs. midwife, ct. 15, Bri- dlesmithgate Barton Fras. 47, St. Mary's gate Bartram Mrs. Hockley Barwick Thos. town-crier, Grey- hound street Basnett Misses, 24, Fletchergate Bates Mr. Thos. Rancliffe st Batty Rev. Edw. fWes.) Foun- tain place Beale Mrs. Ann, Mortimer st Bean Saml. inert, Lincoln «t 262 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. Beard more Mrs. Hannah, Mans- field road Beardsley Mrs. Sarah, Castlegate Beeby Mrs. Mary, Derby road Beighton John, hav* &c. dealer, Tollhouse hill Bell Mr. Chas. Forest side Berridge Jas. hosier, Park st Best Win. whsman. Back lane Bestall Saml. gent. Mid. Pavemt Betts Edvv. coachman, Chester- field street Bidtlle Rd. net mfr. Park row Bilbie Mrs. Ann, Mansfield road Bingham Mrs. Lydia, Canal st Birch Rd. Mayor's Serjeant, Po- lice-office Birkhead John, lace mfr. Hol- lows Bishop John Fillingham, bookpr. Mount East st Bishop Mrs. 11, Parliament st Bishop Thos. jun. inert. Standard hill Black John, joiner, Spaniel row Black Peter, assistant overseer, Mansfield road Bakey Mgt. feather dresser, 27, Parliament street Blatherwick Hermon, gent. 6, Short hill Blatherwick John, warehouse- man, Mount East street Boden \V~m. mfr. Houndsgate Bonsor Hy. Assembly rooms Bonsor Hy. upholsterer, Castlegt Booker Win. surveyor, Carring- ton street Boot Miss Frances, Castlegate Booth Mr. Rt. 20, Plumptre st Boothby Benj. sen. and jun. iron founders, Park terrace Bosworth Geo. agt. Aspley ter Bottom .John Fras. lace dresser, h. Pierrepont st Bower Benj. coach proprietor, Parliament st Bower Jas. Lincoln Postman, 15, Charlotte st Bowler Mr Saml. Mount-hooton Bowlev John, warper, Portland St Bradbury \U\. gent. Derby rd Bradfield Jas. warper, Portland pi Bradford John, porter, Boot ct Bradley Jas* coll. of Grantham canal tonage, Canal lock Braithwaite Fras. hosier, 13, Poultry Braithwaite Jph. hosier, Park ter Braley Mr. Peter, Mansfield rd Bramley Geo. warper, Manfield road Bretland Thos. painter, Nctting- ton pi. S. Bridger Geo. Mansfield rd Biierley Thos. warper, Mansfield roed B fieri y Rd. Butler, Governor of County gaol Briggs Win. 6, St. Mary's gt Broadhurst Miss Eliz. Wheelergt Brockmer John, hatter, Cheapside Broksopp Mrs Sarah, ^Standard hill Brothers Rt. Allen, druggist, Mount Vernon Brown John, sexton, Duke's pi Browne Mich, solicitor, 34, Pel- ham street Brown W. letter carier, 56, Coal- pit lane Brown Wm. lace dresser, Mans- field road Brownell John, bookr. Derby rd Broxholme Nathl. clothier, 19, Plumptre st Bryon, Mrs. Sarah, 13, H. Pave- ment Bullock Mrs. Sarah, Bellargate Bullivant Mr. Wm. Canal st Burkitt Rd. Scott, draper, Chea- side Burley Chas. tripe dresser, Mai- den In Burrows Mrs. Mary. St. John's st Burton Mrs. Ann, Spaniel row Burton Mrs. Eliz. 17, Charlotte street Burton Jas. hawker, Kingston ct Burton Jonth. lace mfr. Park row Butler Saml. cowkpr. Kingston street Butler Rev. Wm* Jph. M. A. rec- tor of St. Nicholas, Castlegate Butler Thomas, 19, Woolpk. In Buxton Andw. pilot, Canal st NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. 263 Campbell Hugh Bruce, solr. Park Campbell Mrs. Sophia, Notting- ham terrace Campbell Thos. Alex, surveyor, h. Park Campbell , coach proprietor, 9, Haughton st Carpenter Rev. Benj. Unitarian, High Pavement Carter Alfred, warper, St. Ann's street Carter Mr. John, Clinton st Cart'iidge Saml. mfr. 16, High Pavement Cartwright George, book-keeper, Pierrepont st Cartwright Robert, collector of St. Mary's poor rates. Canal st Carver Thomas, hosier, 11, Carl- ton st Caunt Mary, Eliz. and Ann, gen- tlewomen, Mid. Pavement Chadburn Mrs. Har. 5. Lenton st Chamberlin W. gent. Houndsgt Chambers John, 6, Broad st Chapman Geo. cowkpr. Convent street Chapman Mrs. Elouisa Ann, Shore's lane Chapman John, cowkpr, North street Chapman Rev. Leonard, vicar of Wysall, Angel row Chapman W. excise officer, Wa- ter street Chatteries Mrs. Eliz. H. Pavemt Cheetham Thos. gent. Lincoln st Cheetham S. hosier, Clumber st Cheetham John, Governor of St. Nicholas's Poorhouse, Park row Cheetham Wm. hosier, 26, Pil- chergate Cheetham Wra. mfr. h. Mansfield road Church Hy. gent. Park hill Churchill Han. draper, St. James' row Churchill Jph. gent. H. Pavemt Clark Mrs. Ann, 25. Carlton st Clark Charles, 2. Woo! pack In Clark Jph. gent. Park row Clark Saml. gent. Park terrace Clark Wm. cart owner, Vassal st Clarke Charles Harrison, solici- tor, George st Clarke Harriet, midwife, Narrow marsh Clarke Rt. builder, H. Pavement Clarkson Rev. W. II. Wesieyan Min. Sneinton Clifford Richard, coachman, 4, Haughton pi Clifton Capt. Joseph, N. L. M. Mansfield rd Cloak Hugh, wool sorter, Park st Close Thos. Esq. St. James's st Cokayne Thomas, stenographer, Blue Coac School Coltman Mrs. Susanna, Park st Colton Sarah, Chandler's In Cooke Marshall, Forest side Cooley David, lodgings, 44, St. Mary's gate Cooper Jane and Mary, Glass- house st Cooper John, clerk, Parliament st Copeland Geo. lare mfr. 1, Not- tingham terrace Copestake Mary, lace dlr. 5, Haughton st Copeleston Wm. Postern place Cotton Saml. modeller, 35, Sto- ney st Cotton Wm. gent. 2, King's pi Cowley Geo. Molona, attorney's clerk, Castle st Cox Alfred, mason, Trent Bridge Cox Humphrey, gent. Parliament street Crabtree Eliz. bone button mfr. Woolpack In Crisp Wm. Fletchergate Crosby John, silk mert. High Pavement Crossland Edw. wine merchant, Park hill Cross Mrs. Mary, 23, High Pave- ment Curtis Jas. gent. Parliament st Curtis Joseph, Sheep In Dabell Thos. warper, 30, York st Daft John, sol. Low Pavement Daft Sarah, midwife, Mid. marsh Dakeyne Ralph, saddler, Lincoln street 264 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. Dale Ricd. Meadows, druggist High st Danks Isaiah, ironmonger, Forest hill Darker Mr. Geo. Derby st Darker John Lomas, gent. Broad marsh Davis Mr. Tho. 18, Mansfield ter Dawson Mrs. Bridge st Day Edw. herbalist, St. Michael's row Daykin. Mrs Milicent, 27, Stoney street Deacon, Harrison and Co. car- riers, Milton st Dean John, bookpr. Mansfield rd Dear Preston, herb distiller,Lamb lane Dearman Nat, agent, St. James's street Dethick John, mattress maker, Sussex st Deverill Thos. bookpr, 17, Mans- field terrace Dickenson Rt. draper, 41, Long row Dobeler Rev. Clement, 8, King's place Dobson John, gardener, Carter r Dodd Mrs. Mary, Postern st Dodd Mrs. Jane, Bab bin g ton st Donaldson Mrs. Sophia, Derby rd Drewry Benj. joiner, h. Commer- cial st Dados Gabriel, mfr.h. St. Mary's place Dudgeon Steph. clerk, Rutland st Dudley Rd. writing master, Cas- tlegate DumelowMrs. Hanb. Vernon st. Dutton Geo. farmer, Newcastle st Dutton Mr. Samuel, Hockley Earp Saml. gent. Park hill ^Eastwood Thos. 30, Woolpk. In Eato Jph. White Lion Stables Eddowes Geo. solr. 7i VVarsergt Eden Wm. joiner. Back lane Edinborough Hugh, gent. Not- tingham terrace Edwards Rev. Jas. fbapt.) Mans- field road Elcy Isaac, tripe dresser, Pink bill street Elliott Geo. 11, St. Mary's gate Elliott W. lace thread mfr. Com- mercial st Elliott T. bookpr. Hollowstone Elliott Joshua, silk knitter, King's Arms yard Elliott John, dresser, Shaw In Elsorn Jno. boot closer, 8, George street Ely Thos. farmer, Paradise pi Etherington John, mfr. h. Not- tingham terrace Evers Wm. coachman, Lincoln st Everson Miss Mary, Castle st Favance Miss Harriet, Castle pi Fearnhead Peter, solr. Fletchergt Featherstone John, Middle hill Felkin Wm. agent, Clinton st Fellows Alfred Tho. Esq. banker, High Pavement Fido Wm. paver, Holland st Fitzwalter John, stamper, Coal court Flintoff Jas. bookpr, Warsergate Fox Saml. grocer, h. Houndsgate Franks JaS. Dean street Frearson Hy. mfr. Mansfield rd Frearson Jph. mfr. Mansfield rd Freeman Geo. mfr. St. James's terrace Freeman Thomas, laceman, St. James's terrace Freeth Danl. Esq. Standard hill Freeth Geo. solr. Low Pavement Frost John, farmer, 10, Sherwood street Frost Thos. bookpr. W T heelergt Frost Thos. lace mfr. South parade Frost Mr. Wm. 3, Cannon yard Frost Wm. gent. Mansfield road Fiyett Wm. riding-master, Castle gate Gamble Geo. cowkpr. Sherwood lane Gedling Micah. sen. mfr. Park row Gedling Micah. jun. mfr. h. Mount Veni' n Gel! John, Sherbrooke, sol. Stan- dard hill Gelsthorp Jph. (Idgs.) Park st George Chas. vagrant office kpr. Chandler's lane NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. 265 German Mr. Anty. 25, Geo. st Gibson John, hosier. Park row Gibson Mrs. Mary, Parliament st Gibson Wm. hosier, Park row Gilbert Wm. ostler, Haughton st Gilbert Rev. Jph. (Ind.) Castle- gate Gill John, gent. Postern st Gill John, banker's clerk, Goose gate Gil liver Eliz. cowkpr. Poynton st Gilson Thos. trvlr. Monnt st Glover Wm. bookbinder, Clare st Godber Mary, ldgs. Rutland st Gordan Rt. cowkeeper, Mill st Goodacre Rt. jun. editor of the Nottingham Review^ Castlegt Goodall Mrs. Eliz. 16. Fletchergt Goody Mrs. Eliz. Sneinton st Gordon Mrs. Susanna, Standard hill Gough John, clerk, Park st Greasley Chas. bookpr. ct. 19, Stoney street Greaves Mrs. Wheelergate Greaves Miss Frances, Castlegt Green Mrs. Ann, St. James's st Green John, gent. Castlegate Green Sainl. confectioner, Bas- ford lane Green Mr. Thos. Pleasant place Griffin John Cooper, fire engineer, Broad st Guilford Thomas, Druggist, 53, Long row Gunn James, Packet Master, Severn's yard, Mid. Pavt Haddin Mrs. Violet, Castle place Hall Mrs. Eliz. Standard hill Hall John Edm. mfr. Park ter. Hall Samuel, net mfr. Mount Pleasant Hall Thos. Esq. Angel row Hall Thos. bookkpr. Postern pi Hallam John, engineer. Old Waterworks, Brewhouse yard Hallam John, joiner. Pepper st Hallam Jph. joiner, Grosvenorpl Hallam Wm. turnkey. Albion st Hampson Jas. hawker, Kingston court Hancock John, Esq., 14, St. Mary's gate Handley Eliz. Mansfield rd Hardwick Fras. hosier, Low Pave- ment Hardy Rd. cowkpr, Chandler's In Harriman John, draper, Poultry Harris John, gent. 17? Parlia- ment street Harris Rev. Thomas Hockley Chapel Harrison Geo. brewer, Rice pi Harrison Edw. lace dresser, h. Carrington street Harrison John, carter, Jason pi Harrison Noah, hatter, St. James's terrace Harrison John, bookpr. Hollow- stone Harrison Thos. brazier, Mans- field road Haseldine Jas. gent. Holland st Hart Miss Eliz. midwife, 1 1, Nar- row marsh Hart Fras. Esq. banker, Pepper street Hart Jph. warper, Rancliffe st Harvey Geo. coal mert. Canal st Harvey Mrs. Sarah. Derby rd Harvey Wm. coach maker, 6, Beck lane Hawkins Jacob, sawyer, East st Hawkins Mich, sawyer, King st Hawley Wm. mason, Butcher st Haywood Wm. and Son, glass and vitriol mercts. Middle hill Haywood Jph. porter, 25, Broad street Heap Geo. silk throwster, Fletch- ergate Heard John, hosier, Castlegate Heath, Mr. Jph. Park st Heath John, bookpr. Pleasant pi Hemsley Stph. draper, Poultry Henshaw Mrs. Ann, J 7? Carlton street Herbert Thos. mfr. Mansfield rd Herbert Wm. mfr. Parliament st Hett Chas. bobbin, &c. mfr. Back lane Hewitt F. P. hosier, Park Hewitt Jas. col. of Old Water- works rates, Park row Hick ling Mrs. Susanna, Mansfield road 2 a 266 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY. Higgs Mrs. Ann, H. Pavement Higgins Thos. machine maker, Greyfriargate Hill Thos. carter, St. Ann's st Hilton, Rt. Auld. coal dlr. Nep- tune place Hind Benj. Watt's yard Hind Jas. hay dlr. Goosegate Hine Jthn. lace mfr. Mount st Hinton Wm. 34, Warsergate Hitchcock Simeon, excise officer, Harley place Hodges Wm. paver, Cross st Holbrook W. bailiff, Rutland ct Holbrook Rt. Gregory, warper, St. Ann's st Holbrook Geo. weighing machine, Derby road Holland John, mfr. Mansfield rd Hollinshead Edw. clerk, Walnut- tree lane Hollingworth W. 7, Charlotte st Homer Hy. wine inert. Park hill Hook John, gunsmith, 2, Lenton street Hosley John, carter, Warren st Hope Wm. clerk, Grosvenor pi Hopin Wm. bookpr. Ealand st Horsfall John, gent. Standard hill Horsfall Mrs. Mary, Standard hill Hovey Thos. mfr. 32, St, Mary's gate Howe Dixon, permit writer, Peck- lane, h. Old Sneinton Howell Hy. agent to the Canal Com. Canal street Howett John, gent. 42, Stoney st Hubbert Mrs. 4, George st Hudson, Maria, lace dresser, h, Herbert street Hudson John, governor of St. Peter's Workhouse, Brd. mar Huff Mrs. Jemima, Castle ter Hughes Jas, Lyster, clerk, Cum- berland place Hull Wm. hawker, Exchange ct Ilumprcys John, East st Hunt Mr. John, 14, Wool pack In Hurst Nathan, hosier, Houndsgt Hutchinson Mrs. Eli?. Parlia- ment street Hutchinson, W. coach man, Pos- tern place Huthwaite Hy. sol. Park ter Huthvvaite, Miss Mary, Park ter Ibberson Rd. gent. Postern st Jnglesant Thos. 6, George st In man John, warper, Stanhope st Jackson John, surveyor of taxes, Park row James Mrs. Hanh. 31, Warsergt James John, gent. Houndsgate James Rt. hosier, Park st Jarman Mr. Wm. Castlegate Jeffery Tho. wool sorter, Hounds- gate Jeffries John, constable, Plump- tre square Jenks John, mfr. 27, Warser st Jerram Jas. lace mfr. Derby rd Johnson Saml. gent. Park st Johnson W. sexton of St. Mary's, 25, Pilcheigate Jones Alex, traveller, York st Jones Thos. com. trvlr. Friar In Jordan, Mrs. Eliz. Castle rd Jubb Mrs. Sarah, Parliament st Kain Ambrose, barrack sergeant, Kain Geo. Cowkpr. Mark In Kean Frans. 15, York st Kelham Mr. Hy. Mount street Kelsall Edm. drug dlr. Cyprus st Kewney Chas. Ginnever, nosier, St. Peter's square Kidd Wm. Moses, clerk of St. Peter's, Byard lane Kidger Wm. Forest side Kilbourn Saml. common sergeant, woodward, &c. 25, Warsergate King Mrs. Cath. Glasshouse st King Mrs. Sarah, Mount st Kirk Edw. Bellargate Kirk John, agent, Red hill Kirk Samuel cotton preparer, Mount Pleasant Kirk Valentine, stamp office clerk, Carrington st Kirkby Rev. John,M. A. Rector of Gotham, Standard hill Kitchen Thomas, toll collector, Forest m. 75 Ball J. & G. 145 Balm & Rothwell. S3 Bamt'ord John, 153; Wm. 129 Band Robt. 80 Banks Jas. 69; Wm. 83 Bannister Chas. 20 Barber Alfred, 19 ; Geo. 28 ; Jno. 157 ; Jno, H. 67. 145 ; M. A. 97 ; Thos. 4. Barker & Adams, 73 Barker Jas. 1,95 ; Jno. 9 ; Jph. 75 ; Thos. 16, 75, 162 Barlow Wm. 20 Barnes Jno. 7 ; Thos. 7 ; Wm, ]6 Barnett Edw. 7 ; Henry, R. 16 ; John. 7 ; L. C. 83 ; Wm. 145 Bamsdall J. S. 105; Jph. 81, S6; M. 143; Natl. 130, 148 Barradell John. 48 Barratt Jno. 105 Barrow Jph. 33 Barrowcliff S. 8c Son, 73 Barroughclough T. 131 Bartle Thos. 69 Bartlett Thos. 51, 76 Bartley S. 54 Barton Chas. 6 ; Saml. 66, 75 Bartram Saml. 81 ; Thos. 133 Barwick Jas. 34, 63, 107; Wm, Bason Hy. 163 [75 Bassett Jph. 38 Bates Wm. 61 Battersby Saml. 101 Baudon Rt. 28 Baxter Chas. 16; J. 36. Bayne Chas. 18 Beadles Eliz. 16 : Jas. 75; John, 7, 93 274 KOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY INDEX. Bean Saml. 24 Bean & Johnson, 134 Beard Henry, 23 Beardall Fdk.44 Beardmore Jno. 7, 44 ; Jos. 146 Beardsall Edw. 67 ; Rt. 16 Beardshall John, 75 Beardsley Jas. 38 Beastall & Fryer, 97 Beastall Thos. 69, 89 Beck Chas. 39; 133 ; Geo. 20 Beckwith Win. 73 Bee Robt. 81 ; Thos. 28 Beecroft Jacob, 2 Bees & Ber.net, 83 Beha Thadeus, 15 Behrens Jacob, 157 Belfit Han. 89 Belk Eliz. 143 Bell Jno. 16, 133; George, 145; Jph. 16, 67; Thos. 81; Wm. 38, 67, 79 Belshavv Wm. 16 Bennett Jno. 48, 75, 100, 145; Han. 75: Saml. 19; Wm. 67 Benson John, 133 Bentley Rt. 82 Benton Jas. 44 Berkins Matt. 145 Berresford Rd. 145 Berrey Geo. & Co. 83 Berridge Frs. 145 ; John, 73 Berridge & Jas. & Son, 73 Berwick J. 101 Bestow Saml. 75 ; Wm. 2 ; Luke, 20 BettsThos. 126 Beveridge Thos. 144 Biddulph Saml. 1 Bigg Edw. 143 Bignall Rt. 30 Bilbie John, 118 Billiard T. 62 Billings John, 75 Bingham Als. 83; Jas. 2; John, 133 Binkley Geo. 63 ; Em. 97 Birkhead John, 82 BirkinGeo. 16; J. 136 Bishop Jas. & Thos. 49, 96 ; Jno. CI, 76; R. A. 1 ; Wm. 20 Bissil Thos. 7, 48, 96 Black Eliz. 97; J. 81 Black & Lees, 81 Blackwell Ebr. 69 ; Eliz. 1 ; Jno. 71; Wm. 6, 31, 63; Wm. jun. 155 Blake Adw. 112 Blatherwick Ann, 97 ; Geo. 81 ; John, 83 Bloom Thos. 69 Blower Thos. 62 Blundell Hy. 75 Blythe Samuel, 133 Bodil Richard, 71 Boden & Morley, 83 Boden Jas. 83 Boggis Geo. 75 Boldock Wm. 133 BombroffThos. 110 Bond Abj. 73; Henry, 123 Bonsor Stephen, 16 Booker Alfd. 2, 16 Booker Rd. 2, 49 BootC. G. 83; Fras. 83; Ger. 82 ; John, 69 Booth C. 20 ; J. 16 ; Jno. 92, 142, 162; Wm.66 Boothby B. & Co. 77 Bordicot Mary, 97 Borrows Eliz. 97 ; Thos. 28 Bostock Edw. 13, 48 Bott Saml. 81 Bottom Jabez, 69 Bower John, 75 Bowler Frs. 69 ; Jas. 69 ; Jph. 69 Bowley Jno. 5 Bowley Wm. & Son, 83 Bowman John, 16 Bowman Thos. 67 Bowne Thos. 20 Boyes Robert, 15 Boyington Richard, 20 Bradbury John, 37, 133, 136 ; Thos. 145 ; Wm. 25 Bradfield Thos. 20 ; John, 101 Bradley Geo. & Son, S3 Bradley & Harvey, 49 Bradley Thos. L. 67, 148 ; Wm. 16 ; Han. 97 Bradshaw Job, 5 Bradshaw J. & Sons, 24, 42, 158 Bradwell Thos. 126 Brady Thos. 67 Brailsford Wm. 62 Braithwaite F. & J. 73 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY INDEX. r t o Braley Win. 20 Bramley Chas. 66 ; Thos. 83 Brammar J. 133 Brampton Jas. 44 Brassington Jno. 142 Brazier Wm. 16; Jas. 28 Breckels Thos. 29 Bregazzi P. 32 Brentnall Geo. 162 Bretland P. & T. 105 Bre wester Jno. 5 ; G. & W. 90 B re win Wm. 28 Brice Wm. 1 Briddon R. 1 ; T. & Wm. 28 Briggs J. B. 118; Wm. 20 Brightmore H. 55 Brittain Fras. 63 Britton Thos. 79 ; Eli*. 89 Broadburrey Wm. 60 Broadhead Wm. 2 Broadhurst John, 83 Brocksopp Thos. 73 Brookes John, 133 ; Thos. 16 ; Wm. 101 Brookhouse Jph. 125a Brothers & Williams, 3S Brothers Benj. 29 Brotherton Benj. 16 Broth well W. H. 83 Brough Jno. 42 ; Ed-.v. S3 ; Mrs. 97 Broughton M. 54 Brown A. & J. 97 ; Geo. % 13, 111 ; James, 53 ; H. & E. 97 ; Hv. 20; John, 13, 16, 82 ; Jph. 28; Saml. 62. 133; Thos. 16, 153; Wm. 16, 33,69, 82; T. & W. 76 Brownsword J. 157 Brunt John, 20 Bull Geo. 81 ; John, 18; Rt. 18 Builer Har. 75 Buliivant John, 54 Bullock Eliza, 15 Bunting Adam, 110 Bunting Geo. & Co. 67 Burbage Wm. 76 Burge James. 83 Burgess Geo.' 81 ; Robt. 75, 76 Burgoin James, 16 Burley Thomas, 16 Burnham J. 62, 133 Burrow Francis, 133 Burrows Jos. 75, 101 Burton John, 83 Burton Jph. 145; Mary. 97; Saml. 83; Saml. & Thos. 16; Thos. 20, 61 Bush Lydia, 40 Bushby John, 16 Bussev Wm. 46 Butler Rd. 25 ; Rt. 81.; Sarah & Son, 41 Butlin James, 144 Butt Thomas. 83 Butterworth S. 133 Buttery Chas. & Fdk. 38 ; John, 5 ; Richard, 28 Byrne M. 97 By water John & James, 145 Caborn George, 12 Caddick John, 126 Callow Charles, 83 Camm Richard, 20 Campbell James, 83 ; Murray, 83; T. A.S6 Campion J. & R. 133 Cantreli Thomas, J 45 Carey George & Son, 71, 83 Carnall Isaac, 7? 44 Carr Jph. 56 ; John. 79 Carrier Henry, 73. 83 Carson William, 53 Carter H. 97; W.B. 83 Carter & Cheetham, 83 Cartledge Benjamin, 28 Cartledge Saml. & Son, 49 Cartwright Edw. 2 ; Eliz. 97 ; Rt. 76; Wm. 2 Carver Edsv. 71 ; Fdk. 133 ; Jno. 1 ; Thos. & Son, 93 ; Wm. 12 Castle Cath. 83 Caunt John, 16. 144 Cave Thomas, 90 Chadwick J. L. 101 Chalenor Wm. 67 Chamberlain, Mallet, and Co. S3 Chamberlin William. 7 Chamberlain Wm. 12, 51 Chambers Mary. 1; Benj. 83; John, 49. 62, 83 Chand William, 16 Chapman John, 63 ; Mary 75 ; Robert. 75 Charge Thomas. 97 Chatterton J. H. 90 ; Ruth, 97 276 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY INDEX. Chawner T.-54 Cheetham George, 62, 145 ; Isaac, 67 ; Henry, 38 ; W. and S. 73 Cheshire Wm. 16, John, 66 Chester John, 7, 91 Chester Wm. 75, 91, 125, 133 Child Frances, 35 Chimlev Edward, 48 Chiswell John, 81, 148 Cholerton A. 133 Christian Thomas, 151 Christie Hector, 83 Church Benjamin, 101 Churchill Charles. 90 Churchill, Daft, Smith, & Co. 73 Clark Ann, 140 Clark John, 69, 83; Jph. 20; Jph. and Co. 67; Rd. 101; Rod. 133 ; Saml. 16 ; Thomas, 6, 63, 83, 133; Wm. 75 Clarke Hy. 133; Ish. W. 52; -Jane, 75; John, 7* 38, 145; Mary, 138; Rd. 110; Thos. 5; Rdk. 160 Clarke and Wells, 5 Clarkson Alfd. 44; Geo. Ill; Jph. 16; Matt. 44; Wm. 75 Clay Jno. 12, Jas. 24, 75, 93; John, 28, Wm. 24,93 Clayson John, 142 Clayton Ann and Eliz. 1 ; Benj. 7 ; Humph. 20 ; Edwin, 7 ; James, John, and Joseph, 9 ; John, 16 ; Thomas, 69 Cleaver John, 76 Clay worth William, 28 Clitfe Thomas. 28 Cliss Thos. 133 Clover Thos. 20 Clubley Samuel. 4 Cohorn James, 69 Cockayne John, 28 Cockayne T. and W. 28 'Cokayne Thomas, 1 Cochran William, 140 Codling William, 145 •Cole Eliz. 67 Co'e George, 1 Collins Joseph. 28 Collishaw J. 16; Ann. 75 Collyer J. and Son, 20 Collier Samuel, *\ t Olson James, lti Colton Joseph, 138 Conduit Wm. 85 Constable Wm. 98 Cook Jno. 84; S. US Cooke &Barnsdall, 67 Cooke & Farmer, 64, 90 Cooke Eliz. 143 ; Hannah, 109 ; Hy. 38 ; John, 28 ; Robert 16 ; Thos. M. 23 Coope Jesse, 5 ; James, 5, 22 ; Samuel, 69 Cooper Em. 12; Edw. 7, 48; Jno. 32, 81 ; Thos. S. 16,42, 75/83; Wm. 75,163 Cope Benj. 133; J. 29 Copeland Jermh. 12, 100 Copestake Marcus, 83 Copley Wm. 67; J. 7 Coppock Rd. 75 Corah John, 73; Thos. 61, 92? Samuel, 16 Corder Thos. 69 Corbett& Warner, 110 Corner Rt. 90, 133 Cottrell Jas. 164 Coulby Wm. 22 Coulton Owen, 44 Cowen Isaac, 76 ; Robt. & Co. 77; Robert, 162 Cowley Ann. 1 ; Geo. 16 Cox & Adams, 157 Cox Povser and Co. 88, 147, 161 Cox Charles, 83; Edwr-38, 67; E.& F. 163; Hy. 132 ; Jno. 75,93: Rd. 81; Wm. 70,81 Coxon Peter, 16 Crackle Wm. 118 Crafts Richard. 7 Cragg John, 75 Creeke Wm. W. 126 Cressey J. 75 Cresswell Cphr. 16,92 Creswick John, 92 Crisp Daniel, 20; Reb. 164 Crofts James, 16 Crofts Jno. 110, 150 Croley John, 140 Cropper Jas. 16 Croshaw John, 44 Cross Hy. 75, 93, 15.9, 163 Crowder Joseph, 82 Crowther Thomas 2 Cubley Samuol, LQj NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY INDEX* m Cubley Samuel, 105 CullenHy. 90 ; T. & J. 83; Rd. 118; Thos. 81; Saml. 38,90 Culley Wm. 133 Cumberland George, 44 Cumberland James, 20 Cummins John, 16 Cursbam William, 5 Curtis Wm. 16,47; Robert, 28; Thomas, 83 Curzon Jno. 66 Cutts Hannah. 119, 158 Dabell Wm. 75, 163 Daft Em. 133 ; Joseph, 69 ; Rt. 101 ; Wm. 16,20 Dakeyne John, 28 ; Joseph, 83 Dalby Wm. 12 Dale James & Sons, 38 Dale Thomas, 25 Damant Edward, 54 Dams John, 81 Daniels Edw. 75 ; Wm. 76 Danks J. &T. 79, 135 DannOeo. 75 ; William^ 16 Darby Aug. 144 Darkins John, 71, 143 Davell Wm. 72 Davidson Jno. M. 112 ; Thos.^3 Davies Luke, 75 Davis Ann, 151 ; Geo. 61 ; Hy. 151 ; John, 20; Wm. 16, 151 Davison Robert, 144 Dawson Hy. 133 ; Edw. 145 Day Wm. 28 ; John, 16, 75 Daykin John, 16,24 Deekin Jonathan, 73 Dean Ann, 1 ; Chas. 67 ; W. 155 Dearden Wm. 19 Deeker John, '28 De Lasalle H. B. 123 Denner John, 109 Dennis Jas. & Wm. 81 Dent James, 16 Derbyshire James, 113 Derrick Geo. 44 Derry Samuel, 16, 42 Desmedt J. & Co. 83 Detheick J. 95 Deverill & Co. 1 19 ; Mary, 143 ; Wm. 163 Dexter Ann, 133 Dick Mary, 143 Dickenson Wm. 7 ; Mary, 90 ; Thomas, 118 Dickisson Jas. 2,45; Geo. 101 Diggle James & John, 13 Dikes Geo. 105 Dixon Jno. 28; M. 155 Dobb J. 62 ; S. 42 Dobson John, 2 ; Thos. 20 Dodd Dd. 124, 133; Geo. 73 Dodsley Wm. 105 Dodson Nathaniel, 83 Doer Joseph, 75 Doleman John, 80 Doncaster W. 54 Dooley Geo. 145 Dore Thos. 7 Dorrard Fras. 20 Doubleday John, 129 ; Josbua, 20 ; Thos. 83 Dowker Richard, 131 Dowson Rph. 106 ; Rd. 122 Doxey Thos. 7 Drabble Fras. 12, 162 Drage Mary, 97 Drake Thos. 28 Draper George, 28 Drayton B. 133 DreWry Wm. & Benj. 26, 81 ; William, 157 Driver Josh. 110, 135 Duckworth Geo. 19 Duclos & Caron, 83 Dudley Richard, 1 ; Wm. 86 Dufty Richard, 16 Dunbar Sar. 151 Dunn Jonathan, 19 Dunnicliffe A. 118, 143 Dunnington Henry, 83 Dutch John, 75 Dutton John, 75 ; Jph. 37 ; Silas, 28 ; Thos. 75, 85, 133 Dyer John, 16 Eaglesfield Chas. 59^ 69 Eames Fras. 109 Earnshaw Thos. 142 Earp Edwin, 49 ; Thos. 16 Eddison B. 144 Eden Wm. 81 Edensor Wm. 83 Edson Henry, 145 Edwards Geo. 20 ; Jas. 20 ; Jph. 160; Thos. 90, 113 Eite H. J.&S. 28 278 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY INDEX. Elliott Elias, 67; Fred. 25, 116 ; John J. 67, 105; Leod. 131; Thos. 62, 81, 133; Wm. 66 Ellis Mary, 97; Wm. 16, 81, 148 Elnor John, 136 ElseFras. 64; Eliz. 143 Elvidge Agnes, 83 Ely Thos. 75, 93 EmblowChas. 110 Emmerson P. 7 Enfield Henry & Wm. 5 England Geo. 81 Etches Jeffery, 59, 69 ; Geo. 69 ; John, 157 Etherington & Duplex, 2, 49, 83 Evans Sarah, 97 ; Thomas, 45 ; William, 16 Eve Thomas, 133 Everall J. 75 Everitt John, 32 Eyre Wm. 6 Fairholm George, 159 Fann J. 43; Wm. 81 Farnsworth Eliz. 1 ; Danl. 23 ; Robert, 133 Farrand John, 28, 75 Farrands Thos. 28 Farthing James. 73 Fearn John, 145; Miehl. 20; ; William. 20 Fearnhead & Campbell, 5 Featherstone J. E. 1 Felkin Thos. 38, 67. 146 Fell Ann, 1 ; Thos. 133 Fellows & Crosby, 54, 134 Ferguson John, 2 Fidler John, 23 Fido, Tetley, 8c Taylor, 108 Finn D. B. & Co. 145; Thomas, 145 Fish Thos. 81, Fish & Stead, 81 Fisher Ann, 143; Chas. 35, 47*. Han. 81 ; Geo. 12; Mary, 1. 89; Michael, 28 Fishers & Robinson, 83, 96 Fitzhugh John, 145 Fitzwalter Fras. 32 ; Jph. 85 ; Thomas. 32 Flamson Thos. & Hy. 81 Flather Jas. & John, 16 Fleming Geo. 145 Fletcher Dl. 69 ; George, 7, 48 ; John B. 133 ; Sar. 143 ; Saml. 16,92, 131; Wm. 16,28, 125 Flewitt Saml. 7, 118; Wm. ,%> S3, 140 Flinders Wm. 75, 93 Flinn Christopher, 20 Flint Thos. 35 Flower Thos. 75 Foot Robert & Co. 83 Forbes J. L. 52; John, 133 Ford Moses, 60 ; Wm. 67, 146 Forgie J.& A. 40 Foster Noah. 20 ; Eliz. 97 ; Jph. 75.; Rd.28; Thos. 81 ; Fras. 153; Wm. 28 Fothergill Jas. & John, 115, 137 ; James & Son. 42 Foulkes Thos. 7; Geo. 20; Jno. 101, 145, 153 Fowler Geo. & Co. 90 Fowler Smith, 67 Fox Chas. 16 ; Jas. 69. 105 ; Hv. 20; John, 5; Saml. 6/, 72; Thos. 44, 47, 61 ; Wm. 44 Foxcroft Alex. & Son, 5 France H. & Co. 7 Franks John, 75 Frearson & Hovey, 83 Freeman & Co. \6 Frost R., T. & Co. 83 Fry Wm. 67, 96 Fryett Mrs. W. 123 Gadd J. 16; Wm. 12; Thos. 28 Gadsby Saml. 7; Wm. 69 Gainsley John, 7i 44 Gallowav Tait & Son, 73 Gall )\vay Rt. 16 ; Thos. 93 ; Wm. and Co. S3 Gamble Jph. 16: Rt. & Wm. 46 Garland Wm. 99, 123 Garner Jas. 16; Robt. 144 Garrick Th.s. 54 Garratt & Woodward, 13 Garrat S. 9J Garton Thos. 2 Gaseoijjne Thos. 73 Gear Samuel, 60 Gedling M. & Son, S3 (ice Jos'tab, 40 ; Edw. 81 ; W. 2 Gell Samuel, 188, 133; Wm. 75, 105, 133 Gelsthorpe Geo. & Jph. 75, 81 Getley Geo. 20 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY INDEX. 279' Gibbons Benj. 145 ; Wm. 101 Gibson Fdk. 101 ; Geo. & Sons, 73 ; Jas. 75 ; John, 73 ; Thos. 2; Wm. 132 Gilbert James, S3 Gilbert Richard, 60 Gilbert and Nelson, 1 Gilderthorp Jph. 16; Jas. 76 Gildin Henry, 131 Gill George and Son, 2, 49 Gill Robert, 49; William, 67 Gillett Joseph. 23 Gimson T. F. 83 Gisborn John, 16 Glew John, 91 Glover Jph. 28 ; Pp. 44 ; Thos. 28; Wm. 81 Glover and Farley, 73 Godber John, 73*3 Esther, 125a ; Samuel, 36 Goddard Edward, % Godhead E. and L. 6 Godkin Samuel, 75 Goldsmith Jacob, 111 ; Edw. 145 Good acre R. and J. 67 Goodall Chas. 28; Isaac, 87; Jno. 28; Rd. 16; Thos. 28 Goodburn J. 28 ; Thos. 131 Goode J. 28; T. 16 Goodhead Geo. 101; John, 133 Goodliffe Aaron, 35 Goodlud John, 23 Goodrich Wm. 29; Eliz. 75 Goodson Jas. 118; John, 81 Goodwin Francis, 101 ; Thos. 63, 107 ; Wm. 145, 157 Gore Arthur, 145 Gorse William, 145 Gothard William, 16 Gould Thomas. 81 Graham Geo. 12, 53 Granger Jno. 142 Grant J. 75 Gray Arthur, 20 ;. Rt. 37, 88 ^B. 49 ; Rd. 83 Greaney Thos. and Wm. 35 Greasley Thomas T. 5 Greaves Francis 51; Jas. 133; Robt. 76 Green Alld. 16 ; Ann, 133 ; Ellen, 1 ; Hy. 69 ; Jph. 20, 29 ; Jthn. 16 ; J. cSc R. 75 ; WHiiam 83 ; M. A. 97 Green and West, 81 Greenberrv Jph. 12 ; John, 145 Greenfield's, and W. 7 Greenshield D. 81 Greensmith Rd. 16; Jph. 28; Mary, 143 ; Samuel, 39, 133 ; Thomas, 73 Greenwood John, 16; Thos. 81 Greeves Aug. 144 Gregg James, 20 Gregory F. H. 1 ; Mary, 143 ; Thos". 83 Gresham Rd. 66 ; Wm. 109, 135 Grierson Wm. 53 Grisenthwaite William, 1 Grocott John, 12 Grundy John, 145; Mary, 81; Samuel, 2 Guest T. & W. 62 ; B. 133 Guggiari D. 32 Gun Saml. 1J8; M. 133 Guyler John, 75 Guy Wright, 7 Habbijam James, 40 Hackett William, 162 Hadden Alex. Jno. and Co. 73 Haddon Thomas, 133; Wm. 159 Hague Jas. 105 ; John, 5, Wm. 75, 105 Haimes Thomas and Co. 83 Haines Geo. 125a ;. Wm. 117 Hakes Thomas, 33 Halford John, 45 ; W T m. 45,75 Halfpenny J. 34 Hall Chas. 28 ; Clay. 101 ; E. R. 145; Hy. 83; Jas. S3; Jas. E. 142; Jno. 7. 28, 48;S.&J.E. 16; Lawrence, 139; Rd. 75 ; Sarah, 97; Saml. 2, 28; Saml. and Co. 13; Thomas, 35, 67; Wm. 15, 92, 153 Hall and Bostock, 15 Hall and Harrison, 93 HallRm Chas. 40; Fras. 76; J. J. and T. 81; Jph. 84 ; Saml. 73 ; Thos. 157 ; Wm. 2 Hamerton Wm. 105 Hames Joseph, 116 Hammond Thos. 7 ; Jph. 101 Hampson J. 75 ; W r ^ 16 Hamptson Benjamin, 75 Handley George, 75 ; Rt. 20 ; William, 28 280 Nottingham director? index. Hardwick Alfd. 5; Fras. 83; Jph. 16 ; Samuel, 25 ; F. and Co. 73 Hardy Geo. 51, 69 ; J. 75, 145 ; Mary 69; Jph. 55; Rd. 28 Thos. 28, 40, 75 Hardy and Mellet, 126 Hare John, 25 Harmston John, 81 ; Mary 1 Harper Rd. 157 ; Jph. 2,*16 Harpham David, 7 ; George, 28 ; Wm. 145 Harris Joseph, 133 Harrison & Brock mer, 64, 71 Harrison Clifford. 7 ; Geo. 75 John, 16, 38, 75, 93, 148 Nettp. 23;Rd.71 ; Saml. 145 Thos. 38 ; Wm. 29, 67 Hart, Fellows, and Co. 8 Hart Edmund, 38; M. A. 133; Newcomb, 83 ; John, 28 ; T. 75; Wm. 75 Hartly Jonas, 40 Hartwell Robert, 109 Harvey Ann, 97 ; Geo. 93 ; Hy. 6! ; Ed. 145; Jas. 28; M. A. 75 ; Thos. 145 Harwood Isb. 143 Haskard Thomas, 2 Haslam Samuel, 54 Has tie George, 142 Hather William, 63 Hattersley Jno. & Jph. 53 Hatton William, 145 Hawkins, M. 143; Wm. 148 Hawksley Mary, 20 ; Jno. 66, 69 Hawksworth William, 162 Hawley Francis, 133 ; Hy. 81 ; John, 25 Hawley and Cox, 142 Hawthorn William, 133 Hayes Joseph, 62 ; John, 6 ; Maria, 97 Haythorn Fdk. 2, 49 ; Jthn. W. 2 49 Haywood Thos. 75 ; Rt. 7 ; W. and Son, 37 Hazard Georce. 90 Headley L. 143 Heard and Hurst, 73 Hearson Thomas, 2 Heathfield and Cartledge, 83 Heathcoatand Co. 83 Heaton Samuel, 20 Heazell Rt. and Arth. 20 Hebb Francis, 16 Hebb Wm. 16,69, 150 Hedderlev Jas, 7 ; Jno. 38, 75' Hefford William, 101 Helmsley Richard, 28 Hemment Eliz. 1 Hemsley and Pick, 90 Hemsley Thomas, 67 Henis YVilliam, 36> Henry Samuel, 53 Hen son Ed. 75 ; C. 97 ; Grav. 16; Jno. 16\ 83; Lucy, 113; Thos. 146; T.and J. 73 Hepwor-th Frederick, 90 Herbert William, 83 Herberts and Sneath, 83 Heron Thomas, 16- Herrap James, 2 Herrick William K. 1 Hetherington John, 68 Hewitt F. P. and Co. 73 Hewitt James, 93 HextallSar, 133 Heywood and Jones, 45 Hibbert Robert, 16 Hibdis Thomas, 69 Hickling Geo. 6, 81, 86; Eliz. 97 ; James, 28, 75 ; Jno. 84 ; Marv36; Thos. 60; Wm. 2. 7, 16, 20, 48 Hickman John, 28, 75 Hickton William, 101 Hields William, 114 Higginbottom John, 23. 144 Higtjins and Wharton, 92 Hilditch William, 75 Higton Eliz. 133 Hill John, 16 ; Jane 82 ; Rt. 82 ; Thos. 13, 16. 133; W. 16,75 Hillerv John. 66 Hilton Francis & Son, 42 Hind Abraham, 66; Benj. 28;- Jas. E. 69 ; Jno. 83 ; Thos. & Co. 83; Wm. 61. Hindlev John, 69 Ilinks'Wm. 133 Hirst John, 118 HobbJno. 20 Hobson John, 2S Hobson Wm. 165 Hocknry Thoc. 20 ; John, 106 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY INDEX. 281 Hodges Mary, 97 ; Eliz. 143 Hodgkin Jno. 28 Hodgkinson Thos. 47 ', Jas. 48 ; John, 133 Hodgson Henry, 60 ; Samuel & Joseph, 166 Hodson Wm, & Co. 49 Hoe Thomas, 90 Hogg Jno. 7 ; Jas. 20 ; Robert, 62, 126 Holbrook J.N. 83: Wm. 81 Holland Jas. 145; Jno. 16, 133; Jph. 43,69 ; Mary 97 ; Saml. 92,105, 162; Thos. 16,28 Hollard Richard. 16 Hollins & Marshall, 73 Hollins Hv. & Chas. & Co. 49 Hollins &Siddons& Co. 49 Hollins Samuel, 83 Hollis J. 62; W. 16 Holmes Jas. 7 ; Edw. 69 ; Jthn. 2; Jph. 23; Saml. 16 ; Sarah, 75, 17; Thos. 85; Wm. 20, 107; Wm.H. 69,126 Holrovd John, 133 Holt Sarah, 1 Homer, Watson, & Crosland, 163 Hood Edw. 162 ; Richard, 162 ; Robt. 16; Wm. 50 Hooley Thos. 2 Hoone Mary, 1 Hooper Samuel, 75 ; Wm. 28 Hooton Richard, 24, 93 Hopcraft Wm. & J. 61 Hopewell Thos. 101 Hopkins Jno. 20,83 Hopkins Thos. & Co. 67 Hopkin Wm. 75, 157, 163 Hopkinson Cht. 50; George, 5 ; Jno. 133; Rd. 93 ; Rt. 122; Wm. 50; Thos. 133; W. ^0 Home Wm. 76 Horner Mary, 1;.R. 73 Horrocks James, 75 Houghton Henry, 28 HoveyH.97 Howard Jno. 145 ; Samuel, 98 ; Mary, 97 Howell John, 20 ; Rd. 145 Howett Gdy. 1 12 ; George, 136 ; William, 20 Howitt Eliz. 75 ; John, 83 ; Rd. 38; Wm. 38 Hoyles John, 16, 75, 93 Hubbart Henry, 83 Hubbert Thomas, 90 Hucknall Jph. 67 Hudson & Bottom, 82 Hudson Wm. 67, 90 Hughes J. & Co. 49, 83 HulburdM. 143 Hulland J. 62 Humphries Jno. 16, 38 Humphrey Thomas, 133 Hunt & Parsons, 97 Hunt Thos. 65\ Wm. 41 Hunter & Wyles, 81 Hurst Daniel, 20 ; N. C. 5; Saml. 83; Wm. 5 Husband Rd. 44, 125 Hustwayte D. 75, 93 Hutchason Wm. 1 Hutchinson Jno. 2, 7, 145, 153; My. 4; Rd. S. 112; Thos. 52, 76, 153; Wm. 62 Inger George, 37 ; W r m. 26, 37 Ingham Jph. 75 Inglesant Mar)', 75 Ingram Valentine, 116 Inkersley Thos. 5 Innocent Ann, % 48; Fras. 2S- Ireland Cht. 75; Rt. 7 JacklinThos. 82 Jacks J. 1: : Jackson Hy. 37 ; Jas. 16 ; Jno. 68, 100, 118; Saml. 25, 76;-. Thos. 5,73; W r m. 75 Jacquiss Issachar, 20 Jalland Eliz. 163 James Edw. 16 ; Hy. 7 ; Jno. 7» 101 ; Rt. 124, 136,138; Saml. 24, 76, 93; Thos, 24; Wm. 25,76 Jardine Andw. 90 ; Han. 97 Jarman E. & E. 1 ; Hy. 16 ; Jas, 144; Wm,8 JarrattThos. 73 Jarvis Samuel, 16 Jefford John, 131 Jefferies Rt. 16; Saml. 20 Jefts Edward, 20 Jenkins C. W. & Co. 7 Jennings G. 90; Thos. 105 Jennison & Robinson, 13 Jephson Hy. 85 Jerram Jas 83 ; J. T. 83. 2 b ..£ 282 NOTTINGHAM DJ-RECTOAY INDEX. Jerrom Fdk. 28 Johnson Chas. 75 ; Geo. 83 ; Hv. 76; Jno. 48,66,136; Robt. 8 ; Thos. 75 ; Win. 4 James & Dent, 83 Jones Edw. 29 ; Danl. 23 ; Thos. 18, 120 Jowett Thos. 144 Joynes Lucy, 1 Kave Thomas, 83 Keeley Jno. & Son, 54; Thos. 73 Keep J. & Co. 67, 146 Kelk Jas. 83; S. & E. 1 Kelland Jno. 40 Kelsall Edm. 28 Kelvey Ebenezer, 157 Kemp Eliz. 143 Kendall Geo. 83 ; John 16, 83 ; Jph. 75; Rd. 75; Richard & Go. 93 Kennedy Bgt. 35 ; Cath. 143 Kent Jph. 62; W. 12 Kenton: Rd. 20; Robert, 26 Kerry Jas. & Thos. 61 Kershaw Thos. 153 Kewney Jonas, 156 Kewnev, Richardson, & Kewney, 73 Kidd Wm. 7 Kidger& Topham, 92 Kilfingley Edw. 16; Milt. 163 Kimber J. & Co. 83 King John, 91 ; Wm. 133, 145 Kirk Saml. 66, 153; Thos. 16, 19. 89, 151 ; Val. 89 ; Wm. 15 KirkbyThos. 105. 133; Wm. 20 Kirk man James, 62 Kitchen John, 133; Reb. 133; Thomas, 1-35 Kitchinman Eliza, 133 Knight John & S. 20 ; John, 63 ; Rd. 133, 148; Thos. 23, 90 Knowles John, 75 Kulp H. N. &Son, 83, 96 Kynnersley Edward, 20 Lacekenby William, 155 Lacey Alexander, 145 Lacy Hy. 20; Jas. 28,62, 105; Robert, 71 Lakin Thos. 29, 81 ; Wm. 65 Lamb Chas. 62 ; John, 16, J 45 ; Jph. 16, 83; Rd. & Co. 71 J Rirh3irf, 138 Lambert John, 82 ; Thos. 16 ; Thomas H. 44 Lane Saml. 25 ; S. & M. 97 Langford J. W. 113; Thos. 93 Langham John,. 153 ; Jph. 16 ; Thomas, 16 Langstaff Thomas, 145 Langton John, 118 Langworth Samuel, 1' Lart John, 73 Latham Thomas, 133 Laughton William, 75 Lawrence Hastings. 28 Lawson Edw. 20; Eliz. 34 Lazarus I. 135 Leader George, 32 Leake Thos. 31. 67; Wm. 128; Robert, 162 Leavers Chas. 78; Edw. 133; Elias, 16 ; Evd. 136 ; Hy. 83 ; Jph. 16 ; Wm. 83 Leavers & Smith, 48, 93, 115 Ledlie John, 90 Lee John, 20, 75 ; John & Sarah ? 1 ; Jph. 16; Wm. 103 Leeming Thomas, 37 Lees Chas. 15, 157 ; Edw. 59 ; Hv. 4, 105; Jas. 86; Jno. 56, 81", 145; P. & T. 81 Leeson & Gell, 5 Leeson Saml. 73 ; Wm. 75, 133 Leet. William, 40 Lehy William, 75, 76 Leighton John, 18, 106, 124, 138 Lenton Henry, 136 Letherland John. 2, 16 Levick Robert, 90 Lewis Jph. & Rd. IkS. 137 Lewis Jph. 16; Jph. & Rd. 42, 119; Thos. 133, 145; Walter, 46; William, 23 Ley William, 45 Lightfoot John, 85 ; Thos. 67 ; Robert, 83 Lindley L. 20; M. 97 Lindsey Emanuel, 76 Lineker Siddons, 28 ; Sarah 97 Lingford John, 77, 92 Little wood William 81 Liverseege 1. 145 Livingston & Chcetham, 49 Lloyd Ann. 97; Rt. 28; Tho*, m i NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY IN15EX. 283 Loach Francis, 37 Lock W. C. 29 Lock & Gresham, 109 Lomas Jane, 97 ; J. & Son, 67 Longman Samuel, 153 Longdea Emma, 1 Longmire Edwin, 16% Lord Thomas, 1*2 Longland William. 76 Larriman George, 101 Loseby William, 133 Lovatt Gervase, 12, 75 Loversuch William, 153 Lovitt Peter, 133 Lo water J no. 73 ; J ph. 66 ; Sam]. 66; William, 133 Lowdham & Freeth, 5 Lowe Chas. 45 ; C. & J. 83 ; Jas. 160; Jno. 93; Saral. 1 ;. Wm. 36, 50, 71 Lowe & Smith, 73. 134 Lownds Robert, 20 Lucas Thomas, 25 Lupton William. 73 M-Arthur T. 110 M-Calium Wm. 62 ; John, 141 M'Call John, 53 M'Creerv James, 69 M-Coul David, 83 McDonald John, S3 M'Monies James, 53 M'Quhal Thomas, 53 M-Namara M. 123 Machin Jph, 43; Eliz. 140; Rd. 28 ; William 16 Macklerith A. 16. Mackley & Malt by, 93 Maddock Robert, 16 Maidens Geo. 28 ; W. 118 Malonev Cor. 16 Maltby John, 20; Jph. 28, 117 ; Samuel, 72, 163 Manderfield James, 145 Manfulll. 145 Manlove Edward, 90; Thos. & Son, 83 ; S. & Co. 49 Mann Geo* 75 ; Edw. 133 ; John. 20 ; S. J. 144 Manners John, 54 Manson Alexander, 112 Maples Richard, 2 ; Rt. S. 6, 19 Marchi nton John, 111 Marlow J. 38; Wm. 65 Marple J. 145; S. 97 Marr William, 81 Marriott Eliz. 143 ; Geo, 20 ; John, 16,42; Jph. 2,75 Marriott & Munk, 90 Marsden William, 112 Marshall Geo. 7. 54, 105; John, 15, 133; Jph. 33, 133; Rt. 42, 158 ; Wm. 7, 14, 105, 133 ; Thos. 16, 54 Marson Thomas, 16 Mart Joseph, 75 Martin Geo. R. 116 ; John, 40 ; Gervase, 28 ; Martha, 1 ; Sa- muel, 148 Marvin Charles, 7i 55 Mason Jas. 133 ; Jph. 69 ; Saml. B. 16 ; Svr. 66 Massey John, 16, 164; Peter, 20 ; Wm. 16 Mather John, 85 ; Wm. 15, la£ Maudsley Jonathan, 1 Mawby J. 75 MaxSeld Jph. 101 ; Mtw. 20 May James, 25 Mavo Benjamin, 75 Meadows Eliz. 133 ; Saml. 34 Meats Isaac, 16 Mee John, 28 Meeson & Sons, 20 Meldram James, 20 Mellow James, 69, 120 Melville Wm. & David, 49 Mercer Richard, 19. Ill Meredith Thomas, 143 Merrin Eliz. 9 ; Fdk. & Saml. 26 ; Maria, 143 Methringham Cath. 151; J. 20; Dennis, 44 Micklewait John, 51 Middleton John, 16 ; Thos. 16 ; Samuel, 83 Midlam Joseph, 35. 67 Milford William, 23 Miller Geo. 16; John, 62, 162; Saml. 28; Wm. 75 Milligan Alex. 1 ; Mtw. 81 Millington Thos. & Co. 127 ; Hy. 75; David, 162 Mills & Elliott, 49 Mills Geo. & John, 49, 73 Milner Dd. 33 ; A. 97 : Jas. 15, 101 ; Wm. 15, 16; Fdk. 10 >: NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY INDEX. Milnes J. 13, 136; T.B. 13,49 Milward Lucy, 67 Minnitt John, 146 Minta Thomas, 7 Mitchell Hy. & Geo. 20; Hy. 67 ; John & Wm. 42, 57 ; Wil- liam, 13 Moody C. 28 . J. 20 Moore & Robinson, 8 Moore Benj. 49, 76 ; Edward, 7 ; Jas. 7 ; Mary, 76 ; S. & Son, 49; Rt. 75; Wm. 69, 136 Mordan Samuel, 70 Moreton Edward, 69 MorlevAnn,28; Abm. 48 ; Edw. 6 ; Jas. 23 ; John. 28: John & Rd. 73 ; Mark, 7 ; M. & H. 97 ; Rt. 133; Saml. 16; Wm. 7,48 Morris Ann, 82 ; A. & E. 97 ; Geo. 133 ; John, 2 ; Thos. 45 ; Joseph, 16 Morrison & Pickering:, 74, 154 Morrison & Jenks, 83 Morrison G. & Co. 83 ; Eliz. 97 ; J. F. 83 ; M. A. 89 Mortimer Geo. 39; Jas. 61,76, 73; Jph. 101; Thos. 1$S ' Mosley Hy. 81 ; I. 15 Mottrom Thomas, 69 Murdock N. 53 Mullen J. & Co. 83 Mullen Jonathan, 73 Murray A. & G. 49 Musham William, 54 Musson Thomas, 90 Mycroft William, 145 Myers M. A. 97; Pp. 104 Nash Mary, 143 ; Wm. 23 Neaves George, 105 Need & Colt man, 38 Need N. P. 90 Needham Geo. 20; G. O. 162; John, 7; Mtw. 83 Need h am & Green, 44 Neep Thos. W. 24 ; T. & W. 28 Nelson Abm. 92; A. B. 162 ; Rd. 148; Thos. 73, 106, 126 Newball & Copeland, 83 Newberry Thomas, 74 Newbold Chas. 145 ; Gervase, 40, 133; M.A. 1 Newell Jas. 63; Wm. 84 Newton Eliz. 143 : Isaac, 1, 101 j Geo. &Jph. 16; John, 28, 76; Mark, 145 ; M. A. 97 ; Wm. 81 Nichols Edwin, 83 Nicholson James, 81 Nightingale Rd. 145; Wm. 81 Nix Edw. 75; T. 28, 118 Nixon John, 2, 73 Norman John, 133 ; Jph. 75 ; William, 145 North John, 1 ; Hy. 20 ; Saml. 16; Thos. 24, 42; Wm. 35, 7S Norton John, 28, 81 Notman J. & W. 131 Nunn John, 38 Nunnalee William, 133 Nutt James, 92 Nuttall John, 5 Odam Hannah, 95 Oakland Joseph, 75, 93 Oastler Matthew, 82 Ojjle George, 28 ; Wm. 75 Oldershaw John, 90 Oldham John, 148 ; Robert, 61 - y Thomas, 16, 73 Oldknowand White, 144 Oldknow and Wilson, 90 Oliver Anty. 1 ; Wm. 7, 48 Oram J. and W. S3 Orchard John, 7 ; Saml. 7 Ordoyno Eliz. 97; George, \5' ? \ William, 122 Orme John, 75, 162 Osborn Samuel, 28 Ossingbrook J. N. 48 Ostick Thomas, 25 Ouseley T. J. 91 Oveiend George, 25 Owen Samuel, 145 Owencroft John, 123; Jph. 99^ 123 Oxley S. M. & Co. 105; W. 20 Pacey Thomas, 140; Wm. Ill Pagani Anthony, 104 Pa^e Ann. 1 ; Jph. & Sons, 83, 138; Saml. 50; Wm. 28; Thomas, 73 Pailthorpe William, 75 Palethorpe Geo. 142; Job, 56 ; Mtw. 133; Thomas, 28, 75; William. 7 Palfreyman A. & H. 1 Palmer David, 28 ; Wm. 146 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY INDEX. 2S5 Parker Alex. 4 ; Fras. 75 ; Isaac, 16, 75; John, 73, 145, 153; Saml. 82 ; Thos. 16. 44 j Wm. 6,25,28, 67, 76,163 Parker & Kirk, 2, 49, 96 Parkin George, 7 Parkinson James, 20 Parlbv Thomas, 28 Parley Daniel, 118 Parnham T. and Co. 20 Parr Samuel, 35, 121 Parr Thomas, 57, 147 Parrott John and Sons, 26 Parsons Mary, 97 ; Saml. & Son, 5 ; Thos. 63 ; Wm. 143 Pass Wm. 16, 75 Patchett John. 7 Pattenden E. 97 Patterson John. 8 ; Wm. 26 Paulson Chas. 133 Pawlett Daniel, 67, 72, 146 Payne & Daft. 5 Payne Henry, 112 Peach Davd", 69 ; Cath. 30 ; Hy. 145 Peacock Thos. 142. Pearce Anth. 23 Pearson Ann, 1 ; Geo. 50 ; Jas. 83; Jno. 28, 103; Jph. 13; Wm. 16, 28 Peet&Co. 83 Peet Ann, 133 ; Edw. 28, 83, 133; Jno. 6; M. A. 97 ; Thos. 148 Pegg Carter, 16 ; James, 105 ;. Samuel, 22 Pepper Samuel, 62 Perciville Geo. 25 Percy & Smith, 5 Perkins Jph. 76 ; Edward, 105 ; Mary, 28 Perry J. B. 83; John, 119,163; Jph. 75 Pettinger B. &M. 1 ; Thos. 28 Petty Samuel, 45 Philbrick Thomas, 50 Philips Geo. 162 Philps George, 145 PhippsG. 166; Saml. 62 Pick Wm.75; S. G. 133 Pickard Geo. 20; Jph. 20, 133 Pickering Wm. 76 Pidcock John, 75 Pierce & Sansom. 143 Pigot John, 112, 145 Pilkington Thos. 75 ; Thos. H. 93; Wm.75 Pinder Eliz. 133; Geo. 15 ; W. 37,81 Pineger Edward, 61 Pitchfork Thos. 75 Place Jno. 126, 160 ; Mary, 97 ; Richard 1 Plackett J. &R.28 Plowright H. &W.28 Pocklington Wm. 105 Pagson Geo. O. 83 Polak D.M.& Co. 83 Pole John. 62 ; W. 16 Pollard John 28 ; Pollard T. 20 Poole Geo. 16, William, 20 Pope & Co. 73 Popple John, 20; Benj. 133 Porter Hy. 81 ; Jas. 16 ; Reb. 97 ;Thos. 20; John, 63; Wm. 75, 133 ; Saml. 136 Potter Thomas, 67 Potts Benj. 133 ; Chas. 75 ; Dty. 75 j Patrick, 75 ; Richard, 38 ; Thos. 75 Ponlter Richard. 133 Powell Charles, 135 Poyzer George, 62 Pratt Bros. 142; Jno. 75, 93, 157 ; Mary, 97 Press Thomas, 145 Preston Richard, 67,90 Prew J. &W.28 Price Jas. 133 ; Thomas, 16, 92 ; Wm. 28 Pridle Joseph, 10 Prior Mary, 1 ; John, 133 Pritchard Jas. 24 ; Jas. W. 67 ; Thos. 92 Pugh Elizabeth, 1 PvattAbm. 90; John, 7,42; Wm. "42 Pye Thomas, 67 Quick Edmund, 123 Quinton H. & J. 67 ; John, 159 Radnell Charles, 11, 126 Ragg Samuel, 41 Ragg Thomas. S3 Ragsdale Richard, 145 Randall John, 69 ; Thos. 101 Rawlinson G. & Co. 83 286 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY INDEX. Raworth J. 133 Rawson Saml. 16; Thos. 118; Wm. 73 Rawson & Barraclough, 92 Ray George 8c Co. 73 Ravnor Geo. 101 ; Jph. 20 ; Rd. 164; Saml. 16; Wm. 20, 167 Read Edw. 20 ; John, 76 ; Sarah, 133; Wm. 16, 105 Reavill S. & F. 133 Reckless Jph. 2 ; Jtn. 133; Rd. 16 Riddell Ml I. 133 Reddish Saml. 7* 98 ; Jas. 55 ; Wm.7,48 Red fern John, 75 Redgate Hy. 77, 164; Ann, 97 ; Thos. B. 5 Reed Joseph, 7 Reinheck Frederick. 83 Renshaw Cphr. 73; Hy. 16; Em. 97; Rd. 5; Saml. 7*3 Renishaw, Shelton, and Co. 88, 73, 96 Revill Eras. 16 Reynold and Woodhouse, 90, 109 Richards Abm. 145; Ann, 143; Benj. 15; Eliz. 63; Sam. 42, 153; Wm. 20 Richardson, Thos. 12; Wm. 16 Richmond John, 28; Saml. 2S;. Thomas,. 69 Ridell Thomas, 23 Rideout H. G. 49, 83' Ridstlale William 7 RigbyM. and S. 97 Rigley Joseph James W. 5 Roberts Benjamin, 14 ; Geo. 75 ; Mary, 75 ;M. A. 97; Rd. 118; Thos. 20, 120; Thomas and Co. 83. Robertson Jas. 7 ; M. 97 Robinson Cphr. 23; Danl. 24, Eliz. 97; Edw. B. 6, 19; Geo. 61 ; Jas. 24,42, 111, 133; 158; Jno. 7, 42; Jph. 75: Maria, 140; Martha, 40; Saml. 83; Thos. 16 Rock ley George, 20 Roe James, 71, 73; Thos. 87; Thos. and Co. 83; Wm. 1 Rodgers and Carver 73 Rogers A. I. 90 ; Jtn. 134 ; Jph. 61 ; J. D. 1; S. S. 83 ; S. 133 Rogerson William, 2 Rol'lett John, 93; W. 76 Rooke Mary, 151 Roome William, 45 Roper John, 1, 145 ; Wm. 101 Rose John, 20 Rothera John, 18 Rouse John. 145 Rowbotharn John, 133; Rd. 28 Rowell Thomas, 75 Rowland Wm. 48; Thos. 156 Roworth Wm. 47, 93, 158 Rudd James, 15, 16 Rumsey Thomas, 42 Rushton Jas. 2, 49 ; John, 75 ; Saml. 1 Russell Thos. 28 ; Wm, 49 Rutland John, 16; Thos. 15,41 Rutt arvd Williams, 49 Saalfeld A. J. 83 Salisbury Wm. 1 ; Josiah 20 ; Andw. 53 Salt Richard, 28 Sampson Isaac, 76 Samuels Lewis, 2 Sanders Jno. 7? 162 ; Samuel, 5 ; Thos. 16 Sanderson Aymor, 144 ; Thomas, 2, 49; A. R. 38; Geo. 49 Sands John, 62; M. 143; Rt. 83; Thos. 16 Sansom Cht. 1 ; Jas. 69 ; Saml. 16, 83 Sargent Thomas, 67 Saunders Cath. 97 ; Charles, 28 ; Hy. 20 Savage George, 27, 45 Savidge Eliz. 97 , Carver, 75 Saxby Jas. 101 Saxton Jas. and Thos. 81 Scattergood J. 62 Scorer and Acomb 73 Scorer Jph. 154 Scotney Thomas, 75 Scott E. and M. 97 ; Matt. 145 ; Rd. 16 Scrimshaw Jph. 105 ; Saml. 145 Scroop Samuel, 76 Sculthorpe Wm. & Rt. 5 Seals John, 83 ; Rt. 28, 83, 93 Searles James. 20 Seaton J. 133 NOTTINGHAM DIREOTOHT INDEX. 287 Selby Isaac. 1 ; Jph. 162; Thos. 16; Wm. 11, 16,83 Severn Jas. 163 SewellT. R. 16; S. 101 Seymour Richard, 16 Shakes pear H. 54 Sharp Geo. 145 ; John, 20, 145 ; Thos. 81 ; Wm.48 Sharpin Eliz. 97 Sharroek Edward, 16 Shaw Chas. 20; Eliz. 9/5 Jph. 122; Rd. 73; Rt. 16; Thos. 83; Wm.81; Wm. D. 4 'Sheldon John. 135 ; J. & R. 67 ; Wm.81. 101, 133 Shelton Rt. 75, 93; Wm. 11,54 Shelton & Harvey, 17, 42 'Shepherd Eliz. 152 ; James, I; Wm. 16, 105 Shepperlev & Pearce, 157 Sheraton Ralph, 81, 153 Sherwood John, 79 Shilton Caractacns, D. 5 Shipham Benj. 105 ; J. & C. 16 ; John, 101, 133; Thos. S3 Shipley F. E. 50; Joseph, 20; James, 55 Shipman Charles, 152; Wm. 2 Shore Catharine, 97 Shutor John, 28 Shuttleworth J. & Co. 67 Sihley Wm. 109 Simmons Charles, 40 ; Eliz. 133 ; Geo. 19; Thos. 16 j Simpkins Charles, Daniel, Eliza- beth, and John, 28 Simpson John, 14, 158 ; Jph. 48, 51, 75 ; Mrs. 28 ; Sarah. 143 ; Thos. 152; Wm. 16, 125 Sims Geo. 162; John, 47, 133 Sissling Joseph. 105 Skelton Wm. 16. 153 Skerritt James, 81 Skidmore George. 76 ; J. & H. 97 Skipwith & Atherstone, 83 Skipwith Mary, 163 Slack Marv, 133 Slater Jas." 140, 145 ; John, 66 ; Chas. 20; Thos. 83, 163 Sleaih Thomas. 1 Small Ann, 72, 163 Smalley John & Son, 124 Smart Cath. 97; Thos, 34; W. 50 Smedley C. 143 ; Rd. 162 ; T. & J. 83 Smeeton Richard. 57 Smith Abm. 133; Ann, I; F. 97 ; E. B. & M. B. 1 ; Edw. 7, 15 ; Hv. 9, 101 ; Geo. 93 ; Jas. 81,94"; Job, 83, 155; Jno. 16,24,28, 75; J. A. 28; Jph. 16; Jph. &Co. 47; M. & Son, 24; Mar tha, 97 ; Peter S. 2 ; Rt. 7; Saml.54; Thos. 37 ; Wm. 16,25,40,50,75,90,94, 118, 136, 163 Smith &HasIam, 89 Smith & Newton, 35 Sneath Wm. & Co. 49 Snelson Frederick, 20 Snowden Hv. & Thos. 133 Soar John, 153 ; Jph. 26 ; Rd. 11 Soars Wm. 148 Sollory Ann, I; H. & J. 118; James, 135 Sotharan John, 20 Sontham George. 3S Southgate Wm. 28 Sparey Isaac, 1 Sparrow Jas. 81 ; Jas. & Son, 105 Spearing Ann, 133 ; B. 28 Spears John, 83 Spencer, Harrison, & Co. 82 Spencer Benj. 7; Charles, 83; Jno. 47; Jph. 38, 67; Saml. 67; Thos. 16 Spink Matk, 91 Spittlehouse William, 82 Sprig* Benjamin, 133; Hy. 76 Spooner George, 54 Spray John, 62 Spurr Richard. 25, 116 Spurr Thomas, 25 Spyvey George, 71 Squire Ann. 133 Squires John, 16, 108 Stafford Sarah, 140 Stagg William, 145 Stainrod & Byrield, 81 Stanrield Samuel, 16.75 Standford J. F. 13 Stanley Jas. 133; Jno. 73, 79: Wm. 101 Stanton Elizabeth, 16 Stapleton James, 12, 4£ Stayner Thomas, 75 288 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY INDEX. Staveley Edwad, 3 ; J. 19 Steel A.& R. 20, Win, 105 Stenson Jno. 2, 49 ; Robert, 20 ; Sarah. 1; Wm. 2, 37 Stephenson Wm. 25, 162; Geo. 118 Sterling William, 20 Stevens John, 28 ; Isaac, 8 Stevenson Edw. 60; Jas. 133; John, 83, 101 ; Moses, 83 ; Wm. 157 Stevenson & Rhodes, 118 Stokes Geo. 15,39,81,101 ; Wm. 76 Stone John, 61 ; Thos. 155 •Stones John & Co. 41 ; Thos. 95 Stoney & Clarke, 29, 81 Storer George, 20 Storr Geo. 73; Saml. 12. 100; Abm. 69 Strangeway James, 12 Straw Edward, 61; J. 66 Street George, 28 ; Wm. 16 Strelley Richard, 28 Stretch James, 153 Stretton Ann, 7; Geo. 19; Sml. 97, 105 Stubbins C. and Co. 145 Stubbins John, 16 Stubbs Thomas, 75,93 Sturt James, 2 Sturtivant Cphr. 16 Sulley Richard, 2, 49, 133, 157 Summertield Richard, 75 Sumner Geo. 16 ; John, 69 Surplice Saml. 86 ; Wm. 3, 24, 26,86. 116 Sutton John, 16; M. A. 133; Richard, 19 Swain Joseph, 62 Swann and Son, 90 Swann and Browne, 5 Swann Chpr. 5; Geo. 81 ; S. H. 67, 72 Swanwick Geo. 16,42; John, 42, 83; J ph. 42; Wm.75 Sweet J. 69 ; T. 20 Swindall Thomas, 20 Swindell William, 75 Swinney Samuel, 152 Sylvester Wm. 7 ; Jno. 16 Tart John, 25 Talbot Fra*. 7M63 j John 28 Tallant Jane, 93 Tatham Rt. S. 22, 79 ; Thos. 67 ; Wm. 1 Tavlor Bbs. J 25a ; Benj. 82; Chas. 156; Dd. 153; Geo. 71 ; 145 ; Is. 2 ; Jas. 47, 145 ; Jno. 1, 2,20, 24, 75, 81, 82, 100, 125a; 133, 162, 164; Jph.7; Mary, 83; M. and A. 1 ; Rt. 35 ; Rd. 44; Thos. 20, 75; Wm. 1, 2, 38, 67, 82, 83, 162 Teale M. 97 Tebbutt J. 28; Rt. 133 Teesdale William, 1 Tennant Charles and Co. 13 Tew William, 16 Thackeray John, 49 Thatcher Benjamin, 20 Theaker and Birkhead, 83 Theaker John, 154 Thompson & Wilkinson §7 Thompson Wm. 52; Jno. 1 53 - Thos. 20; Edw. 62 Theabald William. 40 Thirlwall John, 123 Thornhill William, 81 Thornton Chas. 15, 16 ; Eliz. 97^ Hy. 28; Jph. 107 Thorpe Gervase, 75 ; Geo. 16, 133; John, 7, 93; J. & T. 48; Jph. 50, 107; Saml. 42, 158; Thos. 16 ; Wm. 90 Thraves William, 28 Throne Thomas, 16 Thurrnan Edward, 75 ; John, 81 ; Saml. 71 ; Thos. 29 Tiddiman George, 32 Timm Chas. & Geo. 16 TimmsThos. 74, 145 Tinker Rd. 7,48; Ann, 97 Tipler Jas. B. 7 ; James, 43 Tipping Wm. 28 Titterton Thos. 133 Tollington Thos. 67 Tome Wm. 16 Tomkin Wm. 73 Tomlin Edmund, 93 Tomlinson Alex. 75 ; James, 26 ; John, 85, 101 ; Thos. 28, 127; Wm. 101 Tootey George, 75 Topham John, 16 Topley Wm.2K, 76 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY INDEX. 293 Toplis Thos. 90 ; Wm. 90 Topping Joseph, 162 Torr Geo. 28 ; Jas. 28 ; Lot, 67 Tow and Wootton. 97 Towers Rd. 44 ; Ts. 62 ; Wm. 67 Towle John, 37 ; M. 118; T.J. and B. 49 Towne Leonard, 38 Townroe Richard, 7 Townsend and Daft, 90 Townsend Jas. 16 ; Robert, 51 ; Septimus, 51 Toyne J. 81 ; Saml. 48 ; Wm. 48 Train and Wesson. 83 Travell George, 109 Travis Barnabas, 7 Truman Ann, 1 ; Becket, 144 ; Dd. & Co. 49, 83; Dd. 60; William, 66 Truswell and Heap, 134 Trusswell J. 16, 81 Turner Cath. 1 ; Edw. 81 ; Geo. 28, 75, 93 ; G. J. 83 ; Jas. 28, 76, 83 ; John, 20, 36 ; Saml. 15,83; Sarah, 1; Thos. 7.61, 73; Wm. H. 5; Wm. 16, 136 Turton Geo. 28 ; W. 62 Tutil George, 28 Tj*as Moses. 20 Tyers John, 93 Underwood Richard, 38 Unwin Samuel, 16 Urry George, 67, 146 Urry and Fry, 97 Valentine William, 144 Varney John, 62 ; Saml. 75 Vaughan George, 37 Vausor William, 20 Vernham Ann, 140 Vessey Joseph, 28 Vincent Samuel, 75 Voce William, 7 Waddington and Wilson, 143 Wadsworth John, 5 ; Wm. 145 Wagstatf William, 48 Wain and Blackner, 82 Wain Av. 27 ; Jph. 63 ; Har. 97 Wainman J. 62 Wainwright Ann, 55 ; John, 62 Waite Robt. 20; Jane, 97 ; Eli- zabeth, 143 Wakefield F. & T. 49 Wakefield & Smith. 83 Waldram J. 75 Walker D. 71; Fras. 16; Fdk. 144; Geo. 2, 15; Geo. Fdk. 86 ; Isaac, 105 ; John & Saml. 26, 116, 137, 142; John, 28, 48; Jph. 12, 83, 145; Marv, 97; Matt. 67, 124; Thos. 153; Wm. 20, 83, 118, 143 Wallace Samuel, 40 Wallace and Keiling, 27 Wallis James, 140, 145 Walls George, 105 Walsh George N. 2, 49 Walstow James, 133 Walton John, 81 Wapplinton Wm. 23; Thos. 160 Warburton and As tie, 145 Ward and Allen, 81 Ward Ann, 75; Eliz. 75, 126, 143; F. M. 1; Hy. P. 38; Isaac, 145 ; John & Rd. 145 ; Jph. 61 ; Jsh. 25; Jph. S. 5 ; Peter, 16; Rt. 20; Saml. 1, 16, 101; S. &M. 97 Wardle and Brown, S3 Wardle Isaac & Co. 83 ; Jos. 76 ; William, 39 Warner Sarah, 1 ; Thos. 73 Warren John, 38 ; Natl. 75 Warsop Eman. 16 ; S. R. 1 ; Saml. 16 ; Thos. 86 ; Wm. 7 Waterson John, 122 Wass George, 37 ; Wm. 67 Waterall George, 38 Watson Eliz. 7 ; George. 40, 76 ; Sush. 65\ Saml. 28; Mrs. R. 97; Wm. 7,83 Watts David, 75 ; Edw. 83 ; Geo. 16, 92 ; Hy. 138 ; Hy. & Sons, 9; Rd. 28: Wm. 144 Waynman & Nunn, 83 Wayre Chas. 64, 71 Weatherall Geo. 55 Webb & Palmer, 97 Webster E. A. 67; David, 16 Geo. 157; Hamd.83; Dd. 2 Ov. 62 ; Jas. 67 ; Jno. 81, 82 William, 20 Weightman Wm. 60 Wells Andrew, 28; Benj. 16; Chas. 1 ; John, 59; Jph. 81, 136: Rd.73; Thos. 133; Wm, 2, 19, 49, 63, 106 290 NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY INDEX. Wells & Burkitt, 90 Wentworth Henry, 2 Wesson John, 83 ; Thos. 83 Westmoreland J. 2 Weston, Field, & Son, 26 Westwick Robert, 122 Wetherbed E. 59 Wetzlar & Sarrazin, 2 Whait John, 145 WheatcroftG. &Son, 158; Fras, 143; Thos. 43 Wheatley Arthur, 2 ; James, 2 ; Robt. 1 ; Wm. 101 ; John, 28, 43, 132 Wheatley & Riste, 83 Wheeldon Eliz. 97 ; John, 28 Wheelhouse Thos. 122 Whiles John & Jas. 16 Whitaker Thos. 15 ; Edw. 28 Whitby John, 2 ; Ed. 28 Whitchurch J. & Co. 83 ; Rd. 2 ; Saml. 38, 67 ; Wm. 16, 76 White Eliz. 62 ; Hiram, 20 ; Jer. 160; Jas. 35, 133; Jph. 83, 144; Mary, 97; Robt. 16,28; S. & A. 1.; Saml. 75; Thos. 16; Wm. 145 Whitfield John, 28 ; George, 83 ; Wm. 2 Whitehall Thos. 92, 157 Whitehead Geo. 1 ; Jph. 16, 7^ Whiteley John, 20 Whitlock M. & Co. 83 Whitlock Nathl. 7 Whitmore Thomas, 105 Whitt John, 83 Whittaker John, 16 Whittingham John, 18 Whittington Robert, 101 Whittington William, 45 Whittle Jas. 16 ; Eliz. 143 ; John 160 Whittle & Butler, 97 Whitworth John, 28 ; Benj. 101 ; R. &T. US WhyattJohn, 23 Wirkham Jph. & Wm. 109 Widdowson Wm. 16; Matthew, 20; Reuben, 28 Widdowson & Robinson. 83 Wigginton Joseph, 91 Wigley Hen it, 28 Wilby David, 50. 133 Wilcocks George, 61 Wilcockson C. V. 38 ; John, 38 Wild Eb. 56 ; Hy. 122 ; John 83 ; Wm. 6, 63, 101 Wildgust William, 75 Wildig Ann, 20 Wildsmith Jph. 83 ; Sami. 133 Wilford Thomas, 28 Wilkins John, 56 Wilkinson Eliz. 97, 133; M.A. 123; Rd.34; Wm. 76 Wilks Elias, 20 Willatt Isaac, 75 Williams John C. 112 Williams William, 5 Williamson Fras. 20 ; Luke, 28 ; Wm. 133 Wills Benjamin, 16, 133 Willimot John, 40 Wilmott John, 83 Wilson Carn, 28 Wilson & Cutts, 90 Wilson H. & E. 1 ; Jas. & Son, 73; J.J. &L73; Jno. 133; Jph. 29 ; Lewis, 75. 163 ; Wm. &S.49,96; Wm. 50 Window Robert, 145 Wingfield Robert, 20 Winter Thomas, 26 Winterton William, 62 Wise and Eddowes. 5 Witham William, 16 Withers Francis, 133 WoldenJohn, 133, 145 Wolff William, and Co. S3 Wood Benjamin, 133 Wood Edw. 42, 78, 100; Geo. 20, 28; Hy. 16; Hy. M. 3, 86 ; Jas. 7 ; Jno. 5. 28, 44, 62, 75; Mary, 133 ; Matt. 105 ; Moses, 24; Rev. Rt. 1 ; Saml. 100, 164; Thos. 28, 38, 67; Wm. 16,83, 101 Woodall John, SI Wood borough Thomas, 80 Wocdford David. SI. 153 Woodhead John, 133 Woodhouse Dd. 61, 92; Jacob, 16 ; .Inn. and Jph. 75 ; Saml. 73 ; Thos. and Co. 83 Woodward Jas. 28; John, 16: Saml. 136; Wm. 23 Woofit Richard, 7, NOTTINGHAM DIRECTORY INDEX. 291 Woolley Isaac, 83; James, SI ; John 16, 75, 83; Lewis, 7; Marv. 97 ; Thomas 99, 123 ; Wm. 20 Wootton P. and W. 25 Worth James, 75 Worthington J. 69 Wortley Eliz. 67; Jph. 1 Wragg Charles, 110 Wratt George. 81 Wright Chas. 69 ; C. N. 6, 19, 163; Ed. 16; Eliz. 97; Fras. 7,48; Hy. 28; Jas. 79, 150; Jno. 20, 28, 69, 144 ; I. & I. C. &Co. 8; Jno. 148: Nath. 16} Rt. 32, 69; Wm. 6, 16. 20, 81, 144; W.&G.ll; W 63, 76 Wright and Harriman, 90 Wright. Trivett, and Co. 83. Wrigley Samuel, 152 Wyer Isaac, 92 Yates Geo. 83, 120; Hy. 45 Jph. 16, 73 ; Thos. 16, 162 Yates and Guilford, 38 Yeomans Hy. 157 ; Jno. 61, 92 Saml. 101 ; Wm. 38, 67 Youle John and Hy. 148 Young Jno. 59, 69 ; Saml. 92 Wm. 61 MAILS, POST COACHES, &c. (The Post- Office Regulations are inserted at page 199 .) FROM THE LION HOTEL. (THOMAS AND JOHN SIMPSON AND CO.) London Times day Coach (alternately from the Milton's Head) daily, at six in the morning ; returns at ten in the evening. London Mail, through Melton, Bedford, &c. every morning at half- past five. Leeds, Carlisle, and Glasgow Mail, every morning at ten. London Express, every evening, at seven Leeds Express, every morning, at eight. Manchester and Liverpool Lord Nelson, through Matlock Bath, every morning, at a quarter before six ; returns every evening, at four. Birmingham Dart, through Castle Donington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and Tamworth, every morning, (except Sunday) at eight o'clock ; returns at four in the afternoon, Lincoln, Barton, and Hull Imperial, through Bingham and Newark, with branches to Horncastles, Louth, and Boston, daiiy, (except Sunday,) at a quarter before nine ; returns at eight in the evening. Doncaster Royal Forester, through Mansfield and Worksop, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, at half-past ten ; re- turns the following days, at half-past two. Derby Royal Sovereign, every morning at a quarter to seven ; returns at five in the evening. Derby Times, daily at eleven in the morning ; returns at nine the next morning. Newark Wonder, daily at four in the afternoon ; returns at eleven in the morning 292 NOTTINGHAM COACHES. Leicester Pilot, every morning, at a quarter before seven, through Loughborough ; returns at seven in the evening. FROM THE MILTON'S HEAD INN. (benjamin BOWER AND CO.) London Times day Coach, every morning (alternately from the Lion Hotel,) at six o'clock ; returns in the evening at a quarter before ten. London Royal Hope Coach, every afternoon, at half-past two o'clock. Sheffield Royal Hope, every morning, at half-past ten o'clock. Manchester and Liverpool Champion, every morning at half-past seven, by way of Mansfield, Chesterfield, Stony Middleton, Cha- pel-en-le-Frith, &c. ; returns every evening at six o'clock. Leicester, Coventry, Warwick, and Birmingham Royal Pilot, every morning at a quarter before seven o'clock ; returns at half-past six in the evening. Newark and Southwell Accommodation, every day at half-past three ; returns every morning at eleven. Mansfield Robin Hood, daily (except Sunday) at five in the evening; returns at ten in the morning. To Boston, Hull, and Lincoln, the Royal Pilot, every morning at half-past five, and returns the same evening at seven. To Doncaster and York, the Union, every morning at half-past six (Sunday excepted) ; returns at eight o'clock in the evening. FROM THE BLACK BOY INN. London Courier, every evening at seven ; through Leicester, Har- borough, Northampton, Newport Pagnell, Woburn, Dunstable, and St. Albans. Leeds Courier, every morning at a quarter before six ; through Mans- field, Chesterfield, Sheffield, Barnsley, and Wakefield. Manchester Champion, every morning at half-past six ; through Derby, Ashbourne, Leek, and Macclesfield. Derby Tally-ho, every afternoon, at three. Derby, Burton on-Trent, Litchfield, fyc. the Champion, every morn- ing at half-past six. Birmingham, Warwick, Coventry, <§rc the Hark forward, every morn- ing at a quarter before seven, Leicester Hark forward, every morning at a quarter before seven. Leicester Lark, every afternoon at two. Newark, Lincoln, fyc. Perseverance, every morning at half-pa6t five. Grantham and Stamford, through Bingham, the Tally-ho, daily at twelve noon. FROM THE MAYPOLE INN. Derby Royal Defiance, every afternoon at half-past thret. Derby Times, every morning at eleven. NOTTINGHAM COACHES, &C. 293 Grantham* Dunnington* Holbeach* Lynn* fyc. every morning, (Sun- day excepted) at half-past five. Leicester Accommodation, every afternoon at a quarter before three. Stamford Queen Adelaide, every morning at half- past five. MARKET COACHES AND CARS. Helper, Wm. Winson & Co.'s Omnibus* from the Blue Bell Inn, every Saturday, arrives 9- mg. departs 3 afternoon. Castle Donnington* Wm. Oliver's Van* every Wed. & Sat. from the Derby Arms, Chapel Bar, arr. 10 mg. dep. \ past 4 aft. Hea-nor and 'Eastwood* George Wysall's Car* from the George and Dragon, Long Row, Wed. and Sat. arr. 10 mg. dep. 5 evening. Ilkeston* Hives Jackson & Co.'s Car* from the Derby Arms, Chapel Bar, Mon. Wed. and Sat. arr. 10 mg. dep. 5 evening. Ilkeston and JVest Hallam* Hune, Rollinson, & Co.'s Coach* from the Black Bull Inn, Chapel Bar, every Saturday, arrives 10 mg. departs 4 afternoon. Loughborough* the Tradesman, from the Windmill, Market-street, every Tue. Wed. Fri. and Sat. at 5 evening. Stapleford and Sandzacre* Matthew Bramley's Reform Coach, every Wed. and Sat. from the Malt Cross ; Edward Brown's Omnibus* every Sat. from the Blue Bell Inn ; and Thos. Greasley's Car* every Sat. from the Derby Arms ; — arrive 9 mg. dep. 3 aft. Kegworth* Robert Mee's Car* from the Horse and Groom, St. Peter 's- square, Wed. and Sat. at 3 afternoon. Melton* John Helmsley's Car, from the Black Boy, Mon, Wed. and Sat. at 3 afternoon. MAIL GIGS. £&* They take parcels, but no passengers. To Derby* from the Crown and Anchor, Bridge-street, every morn- ing, at half-past 6. To Lough boroitgh* from the Durham Ox, Pelham- street, every af- ternoon, at half-past 3. To Newark and Lincoln* from the Durham Ox, every morning, at half-past 4. Q^ Parcels for the north arrive one day sooner in the north by this conveyance than by any other which leaves Nottingham. HACKNEY COACHES. Stand at the Lion Hotel, at George IV. Inn, at Castle Place, in Castlegate, and in the Market place.— (See Livery Stables* fyc. page 248.) CARRIERS BY LAND. DEACON-, HARRISON, & Co. xMilton -street, (Fly Waggons*) to London, every night at 10 ; to Sheffield, Leeds, York, Manchester, Liverpool, &c. every evening at 6 ; to Birmingham, every Mondav, 2c2 294 NOTTINGHAM CARRIERS. Wednesday, and Friday afternoon, at 4 ; and to Melton, Stamford, Peterborough, Cambridge, and Norwich, every Monday, Wed- nesday, and Friday night, at 7« PICKFORD & Co. from their Van Office, Maypole-yard, and their Waggon Warehouses, at Leen bridge and Clumber-street, to London, Sheffield, Manchester, and all parts of the kingdom, daily. GERMAN WHEATCROFT & SONS, Three Cranes Wharf, Commercial-street, Fly Waggons, to and from Bristol and Leeds, in three days, through Birmingham and Sheffield, daily ; also to Leicester, London, Newark, Gainsbro', Hull, Cromford, &c. WM. & JPH. PETTIFOR, Houndsgate, Waggons to London, Bath, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Newark, Lin- coln, Hull, and all parts of the south, every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday evening. WATER CONVEYANCE. To London, Liverpool, Manchester, Derby, Bath, Bristol, Hull, Birmingham, and nearly all parts of England, by Fly Boats daily from Thos. Pickford fy Co.'s, Leen Bridge Wharf, and from Robert Marshall's, London-road. To Derby, Liverpool, Grantham, and all intermediate places, Samuel Thorpe's Fly Boats, from the Canal Co.'s Wharf, Leen side. To Liverpool, Manchester, Newark, Gainsbro', and all parts of the West of England, and Cheshire, Richard Barrows' Boats, from Canal-street, every Tuesday and Friday night, and German Wheat* croft and Sons' Boats, from London-road, several times a-vveek. To Gainsbro', Hull, Cromford, Mansfield, High Peak Railway, Retford, Liverpool, and all parts of Scotland and the West of Eng- land, John Simpson's Boats, from the Park Wharf. To London, Deacon, Harrison, fy Co.'s Fly Boats, every Monday and Friday, from Mrs. Cutts's Wharf, Leen side. CARRIERS FROM THE TNNS. ty The letters W. F. S. &c. signify the days, and the figures after them, th« hours, when each carrier departs. Most of them arrive on Wednesday and Satur- day mornings about nine o'clock, and leave at three or four, afternoon. Alfreton, J. Nicholson, Derby Arms, S. ; Thos. Topham, Blue Bell. S. ; Wm. Wheatley, George and Dragon, Long row. W. and S. ; John Hardstaff, Bull, S. ; Martin Durham, Spread Eagle, W. and S. 3. Annesley, John Lee, Wheat Sheaf, W. and S. 2. Arnold, Edw, Seagrave, George and Dragon, North street, S. 4. Arnold, Robt. Denison, Admiral Duncan, M. W. F. and S. 5. Arnold Post, John Hutchinson, Admiral Duncan, daily at 5. Aslackton, Mr. Greaves, White Swan, S. ; Rd. Sanderson, Blue Bell, S. ; H. Potter, Rein Deer, W. and S. Bagthorp, John Farnsworth, King William IV., W. and S. Barkstone, John Cant, Crown Inn, S. 4. Barton, John Woodland, Star, S. 4. Beeston, Thomas Stone, Derby Arms, s. 1 ; W. Martin. Blue Bel J, NOTTINGHAM CARRIERS. 295 S. 5 ; Joseph Oldham, Colonel Wardle, every day at 3 ; Rd. White, White Swan, W. and S. Belper, Horsley Woodhouse, and West Hallam, Samuel Saxton. Belper and Derby, William Winson, Blue Bell, S. Bingham, Robert Green, Rein Deer ; J. Jones, Wheat Sheaf; John Sills, Horse and Groom, Peter's square ; and Ann Moult, Wheat Sheaf, W. and S. 3. Bleasby, Wm. Wilson, Durham Ox; Rt. Pacey, Spread Eagle; and Wm. Mountney, News house, St. James's street, S. 4. Blidworth, John Barrowcliff, Kingston's Arms ; Thos. Frost, News house, James's street ; and Geo. Wheeldon, Milton's Head, S. 3. Bottesford, George Wilson, Kins William IV., W. and S. ; John Wilson, George and Dragon, S. ; Wm. Jackson, Bell, S. Bradmore, Wm. Marriott, Rein Deer, S. 3. Bramcote, George HardstafF, King William IV., W. and S. Breason, Robeit Plackett, White Swan, Beastmarket hill, S. Breason, Thomas Eden, Derby Arms, S. 3. Bridgeford, (East,) John Brown, Durham Ox, S. 5. Bridgeford, (East,) Wm. Upton, Horse and Groom, W. and S. 4... Brinsley, George Moss, Bull, W. and S. 3. Brinsley, Matthew Cooper, Talbot Inn, S. 3. Brinsley, Thomas Trueman, Swan, W. and S. 3. Broughton Sulney, John Hemsley, Black Boy, M. W. and S. 3. Broughton, (Nether) and Melton, Rt. Taylor, Geo. and Drag. S. Broughton, (Over) Joseph Brown, Rein Deer, W. and S. 3. Broughton, John Holmes, Talbot, S. 3. Broughton, (Over) John Hopkins, Talbot, S. 3. Buhvell, John Gent, Old Admiral Duncan, daily. Bulwell, Joseph Walker, White Hart, Sheep lane, W. and S. 3. Bunney, Wm. Hart, News house, James's street, W. and S. 3. Bunney, Wm. Henson, Horse and Groom, Peter's square, S. 3. Burton Joyce, John Swinscoe, Lord Nelson, S. 4. Calverton, Rt. Watson, Robin Hood, Milton street, S. 3. ; Robert Watson, jun., Black Boy, S. 4. ; Simeon Cundy, Bell, Parliament street, W. and S. 4. Car Colston. T. Asher, Black Boy, Tu. and S. 3. ; John Baker,, Horse and Groom, S. 3. ; Thomas Cragg, Swan, S. 3. ; and John Simpson, Wheat Sheaf, S. 3. Castle Donington, Chas. Greaves, Wheat Sheaf; Isaac Hodson, Black Boy ; and Wm. Oliver, Derby Arms, W and S. 4. Claythorpe, John Bailey, Nag's Head. Stoney street, W. and S. 5. Chesterfield, John Townsend, Black Boy, S. 12. Chilwell, John Lee, Swan, Angel row, S. 5. Clawson Long, J. Wilkinson, Milton's Head, S. 3. Clawson Long, Joseph Scarborough, George and Dragon, S. 4. Clawson Long, John Marriott, Maypole, S. 4. Clifton, Henry Allen, Star. S. 3. Colston Bassett, Thos. Hicks, Swan, S. 3. ; Wm. Herrick, Black Boy, S. 4. ; and Thos. Newton, Rein Deer, W. and S. 4. Cotgrave. Wm. Archer, Star, Wheelergate, W. and S. 4. ; and Saml. Upton and James Sharp, Horse and Groom, Peter's sq.S. 3 Cotmanbay, Saml. Booth, Golden Ball, Long row, W and S. 3. Cropwell Bishop. John Abbott, Black Boy ; Wm. Clark. Horse and Groom ; and Saml. Swinscoe, Star, S. 4, ♦ 2 l JG NOTTINGHAM CARRIERS. Cropwell Butler, Thos. Beecroft, Black Boy, S. 4. Cropwell Butler, Richard Marriott, Horse and Groom, S. 4. Derby, Birmingham, and the Potteries, Wm. Barnes^ Black Boy, Tu. Th. and S. o Derby, Nottingham, and Loughborough, A. Smith, Ball,- S. 4 Draycot, Edward Smith, News House, James's-street, S. 4 Draycot, Edward Astle, Blue Bell, S. 3 Eastwood, William Bentley, Blue Bell, W. and S. 3 Eastwood, George Meakin, Ball, Long Row, S. 3 Epperstone, James Taylor, Crown, W. ; J. Smith, Black Boy, and George Harrison, New George, S. 4 Farnsfield, Edward Hodgson, Milton's Head, W. and S. 3 Fiskerton, J. Walker, Queen's Head, S. 3 Flintham, Thomas Cupit, Abbott's, Belfounder's-yard, S. 2 Gainsborough, Grantham, and parts of Lincolnshire, Messrs. Wheat- croft and Sons, Bridge foot Gotham, Thos. Maltby, Red Lion; Mr. Hemsley, Rein Deer ; Rd. Hallam, Bell Inn; and Wm. Dutton, New George street, S. Goverton, Robert Pacy, Spread Eagle, S. 3. Granby, Mr. Pritchard, Milton's Head, S, Grantham, Mr. Gibson, Milton's Head, S. Gunthorpe, Jarvis Mayfield, Durham Ox, S. 4. ; Wm. Allwood, Lord Nelson ; John Brittle, Old Angel, S. 3. Hallam Little, Wm, Srrelley, Horse and Groom, Peter's sq., S. Hallam West, John Lee, King William 3V., W. S. 5. Harby (Notts.) Thomas Kemp, White Swan, S. 3. Harby (Leicestershire) Richard Knapp, White Swan, S. 3. Hathern, Thomas Storer, Talbot, W. and S. Hathern, Samuel Braley, Horse and Groom, Peter square, F. 4. Heanor, James Nelson and George Wysall, George and Dragon, W. and S. ; and Samuel Searson, Black Bull, S. Hickling, Richard Coplev, Rein Deer, S. 3. Hickiing, Samuel Mann,' Wheat Sheaf, S. 3, Hockbrook, Mr. Bradley, Black Bull, S. 2. Holme Pierrepont, Samuel Wheatley, Eight Bells, Peck lane, S. 3. Horseley Woodhouse, Samuel Saxton, Spread Eagle, S. 3. Hose, Thomas Corner, Milton's Head ; and H. Morrison, Black Boy, S. 4. Hoveringham, Cphr. Armstrong, Lord Nelson ; John Pride, Nag's Head, Stoney street ; and Wm. Morris, Black Boy. S. 4. Hucknall Torkard, Wm. Thums, White Hart, W. and S. 3. Hucknall, Thomas Hanson, Robin Hood, S. 3. Hucknall Torkard, Thos. Wilmott, News house, S. 3. Ukestone, Robert Burrows; Hives Jackson & Co. ; and Thomas Curtis, Derby Arms; Charles Chadwick, George and Dragon : and Joseph Holmes, Blue Bell, W. & S. 4 Kegworth, Robert Mee, Horse and Groom, W. and S. 3 Kegworth, Robert Smith, White Swat), S. 3 Keyworth, T. ICggleston & Walker, Horse and Groom, S. 4 Kimbcrlew C. Leavers, George and Dragon, M. W. and S Kimberley, Michael Leavers, William 4th. W. and S. 3 Kinoulton, Samuel Pollard, Elephant and Castle, S. 3 Kinoulton, John Pcet, Horse and Groom, Peter's -square, S. 3 NOTTINGHAM CARRIERS. 29J Kirkby. Samuel Wilmott, News House, James 's-street, S. 3 Kirk by Woodhouse, John Morris, Elephant & Castle, W. & S. 3 Lambley, Wm. Watson. New George, W. and S, 4 Lambley, John Selby, Nag's Head, and W. Watson, New George, S Langley, Samuel Searson, Black Bull, S. 2 Leake Thomas Gum, Rein Deer, Wheeler-gate, S. 3 Long Eaton, James Huss, Derby Arms, W. and S, 3 Loughborough, William Potter," Black Boy, Tue. W. and S. 4 Loughborough Mail Gig. Durham Ox, daily, half-past 3 Loughborough, John Fisher, White Swan, W. and S. 5 Loscoe and Codnor, T. Fetcher, Black Bull, S. 2 Lowdham. John Archer, & J. Garrat, New George, Warsergate ; and J. Reddish, Nag's Head, S. 3 Mansfield, William Jackson, Black Boy ; John Oldfield, Unicorn ; and Henry Blackwell, Horse and Groom, W. & S. 3 Melbourne, Thos. Pass, and Fras. Dallman, Derby Arms, W. & S. 4 Melton, John Hemsley, Black Boy, M. W. & S. 3 Morton, Thomas Hainsworth, News house, S. 3 Newark, G. Skidmore, Newcastle street, W. & S. Newark, J. Wilcock, Houndsgate. S. 4 morning Newark, Palmer, Maypole yard, M. W. and F. 6 morning New Brinsley, Thos. Truman, White Swan, W. & S. Newthorp and Moorgreen, George Meakin, Ball, Long row, S. 3 Normanton, Derbyshire, George Slater. Derby Arms, S. 2 Normanton, Nottinghamshire, Wass, Old* Bear, S. 3 Nuttall. Moses Plant. William the Fourth, S. 4 Ollerton. Thos. Rush'by, Milton's Head, W. and S. 2 Orston, John Fryer, Horse and Groom, and J. Henson, Swan, S. 3 Overingham Cphr. Armstrong, Lord Nelson, S Oxton, Elizabeth Thorpe, Maypole; John Palethorpe, Milton'* Head ; and Thomas Dalton, Maypole, S. 3 Pentridge D. Moore, Old Kind's Head, S. Plumptre. Wm. Astill, Wheat Sheaf, S. 3 Plungar, Thos. Worthington, Bird-in-Hand, S. 4 Ratcliffe, Wm. Morlev. Eight Bells; Thos. Walker, Swan Inn, W. and S. 3 ; George Duke, Black Boy, S. 3 Ratcliffe-Upon-Soar, Morris, Horse and Groom, S. 2 Redmile, Robert Patchet, Crown, S. 3 Redmile, John Rick, Wheat Sheaf, S. 3 Retford, John Rushby, Milton's Head, W. and S. 1 Ripley, George Savidge, Swan, W. and S. 2 Ripley, Edward White, Derby Arms, S. 3 Ripley and Codnor, Thomas Duncan, Swan, S. 3. Risley, Edward Mears, Bell Inn, S. 3 Ruddington, John Dennis, Star, S. 4 Ruddington, Edward Smith, Peacock, S. 5 Sawley.William Wright, Bell, W. and S. 4 Sawley, Joseph Meads, Swan, and C. Wiight, Bell, W. & S. 3 Scarrington, William Hitchcock, Queen's Head, S. 3 Screveton, John Padgett, Horse and Groom, S. 4 Screveton, Joseph Hallam, Crown, S. 3 Selston, John Lee, Wheat Sheaf, W. and S. 2 Sheepshead, Robert Martin. Talbot, W. and S. 3 298 NOTTINGHAM CARRIERS. Sheepshead, Joseph Allsopp, Star, Peter's square, S. 3 She! ford,. John Holland, New George, Warsergate, W. and S. 3 Shelford, William Watson, Lord Nelson, Carlton street, S. 3 Sibthorpe, Thomas Richman, Black Boy, S. 3 Skegby and Sutton-in-Ashfield Accommodation, Thomas Ward Milton's Head, S. 4 Southwell, Wm.Revill, Crown, Long row, Tu. and S. Southwell and Newark, Joseph Pilgrim, Maypole, S. 3 Southwell, John Fryer, Black Bo) r , Tu. and S. 4 Sproxton, Richard Brown, Maypole, S. 3 Stanton-by-Dale, Matthew Hancock, George and Dragon, S. 3 Stanton-by-Dale, Matthew Stevens, Derby Arms, S. 3 Stapleford, Matthew Bramley, Malt Cross, W. and S. 4 ; Thomas Greasley, Derby Arms, S. ; John Doar, Bell, Angel row, W. and S. 3 ; Jacob Barroclough, Three Horse Shoes, S. 4; George Brown, Bell, S. 4 ; Geo. Attenborough, Swan, W. and S. 3 Stathern, William Gratton, Rein Deer, S. 3 Stathern, John Hebb, Maypole, S. 2 Slrelley, John Martin, King's Head, W. and S. 3 Summercotes, Samuel Thornley, George and Dragon, W. and S. 3 Summercotes, Benjamin Bailey,. Black Bull, S. 3 Sutton-in-Ashfield, Thos. Wilson, Milton's Head, W. and S. 4 Sutton-in-Ashfield and Mansfield Accommodation, Thomas Wilson, Black Boy, W. and S. 4 Sutton-in-Ashfield, Wm. Wilson, Milton's Head, S. 3 Sutton-in-Ashfield, Thomas Bullock, Black Boy, W. and S. 4 Sutton Bonington, Wm. Marshall, Star, S. 3; G. & T. Dutton, Swan, W. and S. 3 ; Edward Whitby, Rein Deer, S. 4 Waltham, John Osborn, George and Dragon, S. 3 Whatton, Henry Parnham, Black Boy, W. and S. 3 Whatton, W. Tutbery, White Swan, S. 3 Whatton-in-the-Vale, George Moss, Golden Ball, W. and S. 4 Whitwich, Jph. Ball, Milton's Head, W. Willoughby, Jthn. Goodacre, Peacock, S. 5 ; Thos. Charles, Red Lion ; and Wm. Wheatley, Rein Deer, S. 4 W T imeswould, Robert Mee, Horse and Groom, S. 4 Woodborough, John Lee, Bell, S. 4 ; William Pool, Swan, S. 3 ; John Bish, Swan, W. and S. 3 ; Wm. Pool, Bell, Parliament street, S. 3 Wysall, John Blcod, Peacock, Petergate, S. 3 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 29 ( J BASSETLAW HUNDRED. This great northern division of Nottinghamshire is, like the countv, of an irregular oval shape, and is bounded on the north- east bv Lincolnshire, on the north-west by Yorkshire, on the south -east by the Hundred of Thurgarton, and on the south-west by Broxtow Hundred and a small part of Derbyshire. It comprises more than two-fifths of the county, being about 25 miles in length, 17 in breadth, and 80 in circumference. It contains about 180,000 acres of land, 56 parishes, four extra parochial places, and nine chapelries ; divided into 88 Townships, in which are nearly 200 villages and hamlets, and four Market towns, viz. Retford, Worksop, Tuxford, and GUerton, with part of Bawtry. From Fledborough to the Heck dyke, below Stockwith, a dis- tance of about 14 miles, it is bounded on the east by the noble stream of the Trent, except in two instances, at Laneham and Littleborough, where it takes a few short strides across the river.* The greater portion of it is watered by the river Idle, and its numerous tributary streams; and the Chesterfield canal winds through it by a circuitous route from Stockvvith-on-the- Trent, to Retford, Worksop, and Shireoaks, which latter place is at the junction of the three counties of York, Derby, and Nottingham. This large hundred is subdivided into three divisions, viz. North Clay, South Clay, and Hatfield, the last of which is the largest, and includes all that portion of Sherwood forest (see p. 35) lying on the west side of the Idle, where are situated the beautiful parks of Clumber, Thoresby, Worksop, Wel- beck, and Rufford. The North and South Clay, include the district between the Idle and the Trent, which, from the nature of the soil, is highly fertile, both as arable and pasture land. (Vide p. 42 to 45.) Bassetlaw, from its containing the seats of the Dukes of Norfolk, Newcastle, and Portland, has been called the Dukery, an appellation with which it was frequently honoured during the contentious discussions in Parliament, (A.D. 1827 to 1830,) which terminated in declaring the corruption of East Retford, and in extending the elective franchise of that borough to all the freeholders of this hundred, who now vote both for the county and the borough representatives ; but, should the Reform Bill which now (Feb. 1832) lies before Parliament, pass into a law, the elective franchise of the whole kingdom will be changed, and those alterations which refer to Nottinghamshire, will be noticed in the appendix to this volume. * Owing to the Trent having changed its ancient course from two circuitous reaches at West Burton and Bole, there are now two slips of land, containing about 210 acres, on the west side of the river, belonging to Lincolnshire. , 300 BASSETLAW HUNDRED. Tn Domesday Book, this hundred or " wapentak" is vari- ously called Bassetlaw, Bernedeslawe, Bernedsetlawe, and Bersetlaw ; and in the Nomina Villarum, which was compiled in 1315, when the King was lord of it, we find it written Ber- setelowe ; indeed none of our ancient writers seem to have paid much attention to orthography.* Soon after the Norman conquest, there was in the county a distinguished family of the name of Basset, for in the year 1121, we find " Ralph Basset, Justice of England," and in 1390, died " Ralph, the last Lord Basset of Draiton" whose large estates in this and the adjacent counties passed to his heirs, Thomas Earl of Stafford, and Alice wife of. Sir Wm. Chaworth. Whether this family gave its name to some Zoive or barrow\ from which this hundred has its present appellation, has not been clearly ascertained, but it certainly had much property here and in other parts of the county, and from it Colston-Basset, in Bingham Hundred, and Drayton-Basset in Staffordshire, derived the distinctive portion of their names. Oswardebec or Osivaldbec Soc, was anciently a separate wapentake or hundred, but it now forms the North Clay Division of Bassetlaw. Part of the three divisions of this hundred are comprised in the Archiepiscopal Liberty of South- ivell and Scrooby, the greater part of which is in the hundred of Thurgarton as will be seen in a subsequent page. Though Bassetlaw comprises more than two-fifths of the surface of the county, it has only about one-fifth of its popula- tion, being entirely an agricultural district, free from the noise and bustle created by the lace and hosiery manufactures in and about Nottingham and Mansfield, except at Cuckney and Lang- with, where there are two cotton mills. There is, however, a paper mill at Retford, and another at Ordsall, also several large Hop-yards in the North and South Clay Divisions, and many malt kilns at Worksop and other places. POPULATION OF BASSETLAW HUNDRED. The following table shows the number of Inhabitants in each Parish and Township in the years 1821 and 1831, and also the number of Bouses at the latter period, as they appear in the Parliamentary Census : — * As if intent on still further confusing the orthography of Bassetlaw, Thoroton calls it in one place Bet t ex clow r, aud Throsby Bcusingioto. f J.ntrr. t from the Snxon hlcaw, signifies a hill or barrow. POPULATION OF BASSETLAW. 301 HATFIELD DIVISION. 1821. 1831. Names of Places. Ints. Hses. Ints. Aukley 297 74 Babworth 416 76 Barnby Moor with Bilby 182 Blythe 801 Bothamsall 310 Boughton 289 Budby 140 Carburton 154 Carlton-in-Linderick «* 888 Clipstone 142 Cuckney 427 Edwinstow 648 Elksley 347 Finningley 368 Harworth 395 Hodsack 224 Holbeck 230 Houghton •• ■• •• 40 Langwith 378 Mattersey 426 Misson 720 Norton •• - 391 Ollerton • • - 576 Ordsall •• - 632 Palethorpe »• •• •• 93 Retford (West) - • • • 571 Rufford (ex. par.) • • -323 Sookholme 69 Styrrup 447 Thorworth 219 Walesby - • • • • 308 Warsop 1072 Wallingwells (ex. par.) 7 Welbeck (ex. par.) •••• 64 Woodhouse Hall (ex. par.) •• •• 5 362 449 205 811 326 295 139 143 974 223 633 740 377 80 424 90 526 39 168 59 75 19 28 189 49 93 166 73 46 8 66 97 184 62 130 205 14 152 64 11 105 42 68 254 1 Worksop • •4567 1170 244 55 437 455 841 334 658 593 322 68 510 205 340 1213 21 63 11 5566 Total • • • • 17, 175 4003 19,626 LIBERTY OF SOUTHWELL AND SCROOBY, WITHIN THE Askham • Eeckingham Everton Hayton-cum-Tilne Laneham Lound Ranskill Scaftworth Scrooby Sutton HUNDRED. ... 270 79 329 •• 515 102 481 • •611 157 708 ....244 52 256 ■ • 347 77 347 • .-370 91 382 - 317 66 347 .. 100 19 84 • 269 65 281 • •• 347 91 419 NORTH CLAY Names of Places. Bole Burton (West) - . Clareborough Clayworth • • Cottam.. Gringley-on-the-Hill. Habblesthorpe • • Leverton (North) • • 1 South) Littleborough Misterton Retford (East) . . Saundby Stockwith (West) Sturton Walkeringham • • Wheatley (North) (South) Wiseton DIVISION. 1821. 1831. Ints. Hses. Ints. ..193 35 144 • •37 6 40 ••1929 507 2106 •• 431 105 459 ••74 17 77 . • 647 168 737 .. 103 22 95 .. 300 74 303 -300 71 323 .-64 15 •• 811 205 ••2465 546 2491 .. 101 15 1C4 . • 618 165 635 . • 605 118 638 •• 513 116 • . 441 87 .-47 6 .. 126 23 82 944 529 435 35 118 Total- • • • 9810 2301 10,295 SOUTH CLAY DIVISION. Total" 3420 709 3624 Bevercotes Bilsthorpe Darlton • • Drayton (East) (West) Dunham Eakring Eaton Egmanton Gamston Grove *- Headon-cum- Upton Kirton Laxton Markham (East) (West) 48 8 252 43 153 28 ■ 266 55 ■ 117 23 269 77 - 564 128 • 225 48 320 385 106 ■ 241 • 200 67 64 20 56 45 • 615 120 • 756 188 • 209 44 Ompton Ragnall • ■ Rampton Stokeham Treswell Tuxford Wellow • • 20 36 67 106 146 391 45 8 ■ 216 49 • 979 232 • 444 110 51 217 162 256 107 389 595 238 341 306 121 248 247 659 805 197 120 168 411 48 224 1113 473 Total 7043 1542 7499 Houses- Inhabits. Grand Total in 1831- 8,645 41,054 in J 821 • 7,615 37,443 2 D Increase- ,030 302 KAST RETFORD. Of the Liberty of Southwell and Scrooby, Askham and Laneham are in the South Clay, Beekingham, Everton, Hay- ton-cum-Tilne, and Scaftworth in the North Clay, and Lound, Ranskill, Scrooby, and Sutton in the Hatfield Division. THE NORTH CLAY DIVISION. In which we shall commence our topographical description of Bassetlaw, extends southward from West Stockwith and Mis- son Car, to East Retford, South Leverton, and Cottam, and is bounded on the east by the Trent, and on the west by the river Idle. HISTORY OF RETFORD. East Retford, the capital of the hundred of Bassetlaw, is an ancient borough by prescription, and a well-built, populous, and busy market town, pleasantly situated on the Great North Road, upon the river Idle and the Chesterfield canal, which skirt it on three sides. It is in 53 deg. 19 min. 46 sec. north latitude, and 51 min. 49 sec. west longitude; being distant 144 miles N.N.W. of London, 32 miles N.N.E. of Nottingham, 23 miles W. by N. of Lincoln, 18 miles S.E. by S. of Doncaster, 9 miles E. of Worksop, and 27 miles E. of Sheffield. The bo- rough is co-extensive with the parish to which it gives name, and is all comprised in the town and the "cars and commons," which .altogether only occupy a surface of about 120 acres; but the suburbs of the town include West Retford, on the opposite side of the Idle, the hamlets of Moorgate and Spittal hill, in Clareborough parish, and the lordship of Thrumpton, in Ordsall parish, so that what may properly be called the Town of Ret- ford, extends into two of the three great divisions of Bassetlaw ; the spacious Market-place, and the rest of the borough of East Retford, with its extensive suburbs in the parish of Clareborough, being in the North Clay, and the parishes of West Retford and Ordsall in the Hatfield division. At the last Parliamentary cen- sus, in 1831, the borough contained 2491 inhabitants,* West Ret- ford 593, Clareborough 2106, and Ordsall parish 809, making the total populatio?i of the town and suburbs nearly G000 souls. The approach to the town from every side is by a beautiful and gradual descent, and its open airy Market-place, surrounded by good regular buildings, and having several commodious *..0f the 2491 inhabitants of East Retford, 1137 are males and 1354 females, con- sisting of 525 families, of whom 250 are employed in trade, manufactures, or han- dicraft, and the remainder are either unemployed or engaged in professional pursuit* EAST RETFORD. 303 streets of neat houses branching from it, gives the whole such an air of importance, comfort, and wealth, as is possessed but by few country towns of the same size ; whilst the surrounding district, being in a high state of cultivation, fills its weekly market and annual fairs with an abundance of agricultural pro- duce ; and the Chesterfield canal* which crosses the river Idle, and winds round the south and east sides of the borough, give3 it a tolerable share of inland traffic, supplies it with coal and lime from the mines and quarries of Derbyshire, and opens a water communication with the Trent, the Humber, and other navigable rivers and canals. The Great North Road, (see p. 54,) and the roads which diverge from the town to Gainsbro' and Lincoln, and to Worksop and Sheffield, also impart to it a considerable degree of gaiety and bustle, by bringing to it daily great numbers of coaehes and travellers of every grade. Ancient History. — Though the borough certainly existed and was of some importance before the Norman conquest, the name of Redeford does not occur in any known document of an earlier date than Domesday Book, (see p. 21.) and even that record does not make the distinction of East and West Retford, but merely implies that in Redforde there was one mill belonging to Sudton (Sutton) of the fee of the Archbishop of York r and that in Odesthorpe (now unknown) and Redforde, there was one bovate and three quarters of land to be taxed, be- sides waste landy four acres of meadow, and one villain ; but it has not been definitely ascertained whether the latter of these, and some other entries in Domesday Book, refer to East or West Retford, or to either of the two Radfords near Worksop and Nottingham. In the writings of the early part of the 13th century, the borough is distinguished by the name of Este Reddfurthe, which in the subsequent century was written Est Redeforde, afterwards East Redforde, and up to the middle of the last century, East Redford, which latter is more correct in orthography than the present appellation, as it is evident that the two Retfords were named after the ancient ford that crossed the Idle a little below the bridge which now unites them, and was called the red ford, from its stratum of red clay being so frequently disturbed by the passage of cattle, &c. as to tinge the water with its colour. East Retford being allowed to be a borough by prescription, it is scarcely necessary to observe, that the name of its founder is unknown, though Piercyf conjectures that its incorporation must have taken place between the years 1185 and 1200, and * The Chesterfield canal, which was commenced under an act of Parliament in 1771* and opened throughout the whole line on September 12th, 1777* is already described, together with the river Idle,, at pages 53 and 54. From Retford to the Trent the canal locks are double the width of those betwixt Retford and Ches- terfield. t History of Retford, by John S. Piercy, published in 1828. 3lM EAST RETFORD. from the frequent mention of Richard I. in many ancient do- cuments which he perused, he is of opinion that the warlike monarch, Richard Coeur de Lion, was the original benefactor of this ancient borough, which afterwards received many royal charters, confirming former privileges and granting new ones, but several of them are now lost, and some of the others have become illegible. Charters. — In 1246, Henry III. granted the burgesses an annual fair, to continue eight days from the eve of Holy Tri- nity, and released them from the payment of toll, pannage, and •murrage, in all parts of the kingdom. He likewise granted to them and their successors in fee farm for the yearly rent of 20 marks of silver, " the tolls of the bridge of Kelim (Kelham) and all along to Dourbeck, (Doverbeck,) where it falls into the Trent, and of Eperstone, and the bridge of Mirald and of Retford, and of all other places where the burgesses of Not- tingham were wont to take toll." On November 27th, 1279, Edward I. granted the town in fee farm to the burgesses, for the annual rent of .£10, and gave them a market to be held every Saturday, with tollage and other immunities. He also gave them a court " to plead the writ of a certain patent of the common law/' and to have the amendment of the assize of bread and beer, the use of the pillory and ducking-stool, and power to claim wrecks and waifes,. and to elect a bailiff for the government of the town. Edward III. confirmed all their former privileges, and exempted them from all tolls and foreign services, from serving as jurymen at the assizes, and from the cognizance of any matters with foreigners, on occasion of lands and tenements, either without or within the borough. Soon after this, the burgesses of Nottingham brought an action against those of Retford, for having taken toll at Mattersey, which the bailiffs did not deny, but pleaded their right, to the same by the power of a former charter. The King, however, in order to satisfy both parties, and to enable the burgesses of Retford to pay to those of Nottingham the yearly fee farm of .£10, and the 20 marks of silver before-mentioned, granted them " the return of all manner of writs, precepts, attachments, bills, mandates, &c. ; also all manner of goods and chattels be- longing to felons, fugitives, and suicides, and all fines, ran- soms, and amerciaments whatsover;'' together with a fair, to be held on the eve, dav, and morrow of St. Gregory the Bishop, and the five following days, in lieu of the fair granted by Henry III. Another annual fair was also granted to the borough by the same monarch, (Edward III.) in 1373, to commence four days before, and continue till the day after the feast of St. Margaret. Corpokation. — Henry VI, in 1424, confirmed most of the before-named grants, and gave to the hail iff 8 and burgesses a Court of Record, to hold pleas of actions for dehts and damages EAST RETFORD. 305 to any amount. He also gave them power to appoint an escheator, a clerk of the market, and a clerk of assay, and granted them -a fair to be held yearly on the eve and feast of SU Matthew the Apostle, and the two following days. All thes€ charters and grants were allowed by succeeding Kings, till the reign of James I., who in 1607, not only confirmed their former immunities, but incorporated the burgesses anew by the name of the bailiffs and burgesses of East Retford, with a common council consisting of two bailiffs and tivelve aldermen, who have a common seal, and power to alter the same at pleasure ; also a " learned steward" or recorder, a town clerk, and two ser- geants- at-mace. The two bailiffs and the recorder are "justices of the peace and quorom within the borough." The senior bai- liff is chosen yearly, on the first Monday in August, from amongst the aldermen ; and the junior bailiff is elected on the same day, out of the body of freemen — the aldermen having previously named two individuals for the choice of the burgesses at large. The aldermen hold their office during life, unless removed for some serious offence. When a vacancy occurs, the bailiffs and surviving aldermen submit the names of two of the burgesses to the freemen at large, whose choice is determined by a majo- rity of votes. The steward or recorder is appointed by the bailiffs and aldermen, and he has, with their consent or the major part of them, the appointment of the town clerk or de- puty steward. Robes and Regalia. — The bailiffs and aldermen have each a gown of purple cloth, edged with fur, in which they usually appear at church v four times a year. Two very elegant maces of silver, gilt, are borne before the bailiffs,, on these and other public occasions ; one of them was presented to the corporation in 1679, by Sir Edward Nevile, Bart, of Grove, and the other, which is the oldest and smallest, was given by Sir Gervase Clifton, Bart, together with four silver bowls, two silver salts, and twelve silver spoons, all of which are still possessed by the corporate body, who have also a stately silver cup, presented by the Earl of Lincoln. The Duke of Newcastle is the Lord High Steward of the borough ; and the present body corporate, and their officers, are as follows : — Mr. George Thornton, Senior Bailiff. Mr. John Hoult, Junior Bailiff, aldermen. John Parker, John Thornton, Darker Parker, William Clarke, Joshua Cottam, George Hudson. Recorder, James Clinton George Thornton William Meekley Thomas Appleby, Francis Dewick, John Dawber, William Kirke. Fvnnes Clinton, Esq. M. 2d2 300 EAST RETFORD. Town Clerk, Mr. John Me&. $ergeants-at-Mace, Win. Pearson and Win. TootelL Town Crier, Samuel Tomlinson. Parliamentary Privileges, &c. — East Retford first sent representatives to the national senate in 1315, but in 1330 the burgesses petitioned the King" to release them from- this pri- vilege, as, " on account of their poverty, they were unable to pay the wages and other expenses of their representatives." Their prayer was granted, and what was afterwards considered as one of the borough's most valuable rights, lay dormant nearly two centuries and a half; for it Was not resumed till 1571, since which the town has regularly sent two members to Parliament, except during the Commonwealth. This small borough has like many others of a similar description been the frequent scene of boistrous dissensions, arising from Parlia- mentary and municipal differences. The interference of the House of Commons, to determine the extent of the rights of the burg-esses, and the manner in which their representatives should be chosen, has been often called for; and the Court of King's Bench has been many times occupied, on mandamus motions, and quo warranto informations, by which the corpo* ration have been compelled to admit several to their freedom, whom they had arbitrarily kept out of their right, and to oust others whom they had illegally admitted for the purpose of serving their own political party. From 1571 to 1700 three petitions complaining of undue returns from East Retford were laid before the House of Commons, but on two of them no re- port was made, and the other was reported to be in favour of the sitting Members. Other petitions having the same com- plaint were presented in 1702, 1705, 1710, 1796, 1802, and 1826. As at all other places wealth and interest will have their influence, and the Newcastle family have long been the princi- pal favourites of the corporation, but in 17^7, this influence was successfully opposed by Sir Wharton Amcotts and Wm. Petrie, Esq., and in order to arm themselves against a similar defeat, the corporation, swore in thirty-eight honorary free- men ; consisting of the most respectable inhabitants of the town. This measure led to a long expensive law suit in which the burgesses were supported by Mr. Bowles, who brought the question respecting the power of the bailiffs and aldermen to make the honorary freemen, by quo warranto, into the Court of King's Bench,* where they were all declared to be illegal, and judgment of ouster was issued not only against the new created denizens, but also against five of the aldermen. At the next election in 1802, Mr. Bowles who had achieved such a decisive victory for the burgesses, in favour of " birth -right and servitude," came forward, " quite confident of success," and offered himself as a candidate ; but both he and his friend Mr. Bonham, where shamefully left at the foot of the poll, for EAST RETFORD. 307 no fewer than 45 of the " lovers of independence'* who had promised them their suffrages, actually voted for the other candidates, who were both of them proposed by the individual who had been the chief cause of the initiation of the aforesaid honorary freemen. Soon after the unexpected issue of thi3 contest, the defeated candidates laid a petitition before Parlia- ment, complaining- that J. Thornton and G. Baker, had usurped the office of bailiffs, and had illegally admitted several to their freedom who had no right, and had rejected several others who had a right, and who had claimed to be admitted; but the chairman of the committee reported in favour of the sitting members. After 1802, the bribery and corruption which bad so long ruled the major part of the burgesses of East Retford, re- mained free from Parliamentary enquiry till 1827, when Sir Henry \V . Wilson, Kt., (the unsuccessful candidate in the election of the preceding year) presented a petition to the House of Commons, against the return of W. B. Wrightson, Esq., and Sir Robert L. Dundas, Kt. The committee ap- pointed to enquire into the merits of this petition ; after ex- amining witnesses during eight days, from the 4th to the 12th of April, 1827, declared that the preceding election was illegal, and that they itr considered it their duty to direct the serious attention of the House to the corritpt state of East Ret- ford, and that it appeared from the evidence of several witnesses, that, at elections of burgesses- to serve in Parliament for that borough, it had been a notorious, long-continued, and general practice for the electors who voted for the successful candidates, to receive the sum of twenty guineas from each of them, so that those burgesses who have voted for both mem- bers have customarily received forty guineas for such exercise of their elective franchise ! !"* In consequence of this report, the Commons, on June 11th, 1827, resolved, that the corrupt state of this borough required their serious consideration, and Mr. Tennyson, brought in a bill to- transfer its- elective fran- chise to Birmingham, which bill was read a second time on the 25th of February, 1828, but in the following month, Mr.. Nicholson Calvert, obtained a majority in favour of his motion, . that the committee sitting on the bill should have power to make provision against the bribery and corruption complained of by extending the right of voting for the borough members, * Rotten BorougJis.— Retford has not stood alone in bribery and corruption, for several other boroughs have been convicted and punished for these sordid crimes. In 1771, the elective franchise of Shoreham was extended to the Hundred of Fishergate; that of Chrichlade in 1784, to the Hundreds of Chiichlade, High- worth, Staple, Kingsbridge, and Malmesbury ; and that of Aylesbury in 1804 to the three Hundreds of Aylesbury. Grampound was disfranchised in 1821, and its two members given to Yorkshire ; and Penryn narrowly escaped a similar fate, at the time when Retford was undergoing the Parliamentary ordeal. 308 EAST RETFORD. to all the freeholders of Bassetlaw, and after much desultory discussion, and many protracting- adjournments, the bill was finally altered to that effect; but, owing* to the intervention of the great question of Catholic Emancipation, and the removal of the Civil and Religious disabilities of all classes of his Ma- jesty's subjects, by the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, the Bill for extending the franchise of Retford to the freeholders of the Hundred of Bassetlaw, did not pass the House of Commons till the 15th of March 1830. It was read a third time in the House of Lords, on the 21st of July, and received the Royal assent on the 23rd of July in the same year. On the second reading of the bill, (July 19th,) the Lord Chan- cellor entered into a review of the whole of the evidence which had proved the existence of bribery at the elections of 1818 and 1820 ; and he contended that at both these periods a great majority of the voters had received twenty guineas from Mr. Evans, and a similar sum from Mr. Crompton, and that out of 120 voters, which with the 24 out voters, made the ivhole number of the burgesses of East Retford, 96 were fully proved at the bar of the House of Lords to have sold their votes! ! ! It was also clear that money had been promised at the election of 1826, and there was little doubt that it would have been paid to the burgesses, had not the two members been petitioned against, and ejected. The first Parliamentary re- presentatives of " East Retford cum Bassetlaw" were Lord Newark, eldest son of Earl Manvers, and the Hon. Arthur Duncombe, second son of Lord Feversham ; who were elected on the 4th of August, 1830, after a feeble opposition from Gk V. Vernon, Esq., the seventh son of the Archbishop of York. The present members, are the Hon. Charles Evelyn Pierre- pont Lord Viscount Newark, of Thoresby Hall, and Granville Harcourt Vernon, Esq., of Grove Hall, who were elected in 1831. The whole number of burgesses is only about 150, so that their influence at elections is now completely overbalanced by the freeholders of the Hundred of Bassetlaw, who are very numerous, for though there are in that large district many very extensive landowners, yet there are several hundred small freehold tenements, which are not much above the yearly value (40s.) required to bring their respective owners within the pale of the elective franchise, which was formerly confined to " such freemen only, as have a right to their freedom of East Retford by birth, as the eldest sons of freemen, or by serving seven years apprenticeship to a freeman, or have it by redemption, whether inhabiting or not inhabiting, in the said borough, at the time of their bring made free."* The Corporation holds in trust for various charitable use9 much landed and other property, a large portion of the yearly * Committee of the House of Common?, A. D. 17*5. EAST RETFORD, 309 proceeds of which they have long* been in the habit of misap- plying', as appears by several parliamentary enquiries, but we hope the commissioners of the last of these national inquisi- tions have so clearly defined the channels in which the various streams of posthumous charities should run, that the abuses so long- practiced by trustees are now annihilated. Throsby says, that the municipal body in Retford had formerly power either to hang or transport criminals but we do not find any docu- ment to prove that they ever possessed more power than that which is vested with magistrates. The Historical Events of Retford are neither numerous nor momentous. In 1377, John Attie Vykers granted to the bailiffs and burgesses towards the support of the chaplains of the chantries of the Holy Trinity and the blessed Virgin Mary in St. Swithin's church, eight tenements in the borough, toge- ther with a garden and a croft called Bolton Yherd, on condi- dition that they should pay him <£10 a-year for the term of his life. In 1385, Richard II. empowered the priests of East and West Retford, Clarborough, and Tresswell, and some others, to grant to the corporation, nine messuages, five tofts and 8s. rentintheborough, which they had held of the King in free bur- gage by the service of Id. per annum, to find two chaplains for the altars of St. Trinity and St. Mary in St. Swithin's church. The Town Hall was built in 1388. William de Burgh and John de Tyreswell, granted a house in Kyrkgate to Cicilia Mayson, for the term of her life, and at her decease to become the property of the corporation. In 1426, and 1474, the vicar and chaplains obtained the gift of two tenements in M Briggate and the Market-stede." The town seems to have been greatly encreased in wealth, population, and buildings, during the 16th century. In 1518, Thomas Gunthorpe, parson of Babworth, agreed with the corporation and burgesses, that he should at his own cost erect a school-house in the town. In 1537, Henry VIII. granted the Manor and Lordship of East Retford to George Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford, but the Duke of Newcastle is now the Lord* of the Manor or rather the " Lord High Stetvard," though the land and buildings belong to nu- merous proprietors. After the suppression of the monasteries by Henry VIII. the people began to thirst after knowledge, and amongst the numerous schools which were then established, was the Free Grammar School of East Retford, founded by the letters patent of Edward VI., in 1551. That dreadful malady the plague visited the town in 1558, and from July to October, swept away no fewer than 82 persons in West Retford, where 66 others fell victims to the same disease in 1664, from May 20th to October 10th. During the civil wars of the 17th cen- tury, Retford was often occupied by the Royal troops, and on the 20th of August, 1645> King Charles passed through the 3L0 EAST HETPaRC> town on his route from Doncaster to Newmarket.— (See p. 86.) From this time the town seems to have reposed in quiet till the rebellion of ]JA5, when an army of 6000 English and Hessian- troops encamped on Wheatley Hills, and when halting in their march through Retford, they converted the church into a stable. On August 23rd, 1750, the inhabitants were alarmed by the shock of an earthquake. In 1752, the church was new roofed, and the bridge over the Idle was laid with new planks. A Sheep Market was established in 1753. The Town Hall was rebuilt in 1755, at the cost of .£1773. 19s. Id. The whole of the streets were repaired in 1777? and in 1782, they were first publicly lighted with lamps. In 1798, the the corporation voted an address of thanks to the Right Hon. "William Pitt for his Parliamentary services. In February, I795, a sudden thaw after a long frost, caused great floods in all the lower parts of Nottinghamshire, and so swollen was the Idle at Retford, that the water was three feet deep in the Market-place, and the torrent was so strong, that it tore up the pavement in several parts of the town, and washed down a house and grocer's shop in West Retford. In 1796, the Stock- house or Gaol which stood in the Market-place, was pulled down by order of the corporation, who, in 1798, voted .£100 per annum, to be paid to Government towards supporting the war. In 1788, the late patriotic Major Cartivright established a ivorsted-mill here, which for some time employed several hundred people, but the speculation failed and ruined the for- tune of its founder, who, however, continued many years after- wards one of the ablest and most active defenders of popular rights, and Parliamentary Reform. A mill for the manufac- ture of candlewick flourished here for a short period, but after the death of its original proprietor (Mr. Brumby,) it fell into complete decay, as also did the cotton mill established by Mr. Plant ; indeed Retford does not seem to be a soil favourable for the growth of manufactures, though there are in the town and neighbourhood two paper mills, and a number of persons em- ployed in making sail-cloth, hats, shoes, &c, as will be seen in the subjoined directory. In August 1831, Retford like many other places in the county, was visited by dreadful storms of thunder and lightning, followed by torrents of rain, accom- panied with hailstones which measured half an inch in diameter. Amongst several persons killed in the county was a poor old man, Eli Markham, who on his return from shearing at Gan> ston, had imprudently taken shelter under an oak, where both himself and his ass fell victims to the electric fluid. On the same day, (August 17th,) much damage was done to cattle and property at various places, and the streets in the town were completely inundated, so that the water flowed into the houses. The town was first lighted with gas on December 22nd, 1831. EAST RETFORD. 311 The Cars and Commons which comprise only about 50 acres, form the common pasture of those freeholders in the borough, who hold either by heirship or purchase, those tene- to which the 276 " cattle gates" are attached. Formerly they were of little value, but now instead of a swampy bog, they present the cheerful aspect of a luxuriant pasture, in the southern environs of the town. Anciently they were the pro- perty of William de Anne, Lord of Noraisfee, who in 1319, granted them "to all the men of Rettforde," together with the " Dallcroft" where their fair was held. For these grants, however, the men of Retford, gave him a certain sum of money. The Chesterfield Canal now occupies six acres of the Cars and Commons, for which the Canal Company paid .£47 7s. 6d. which was expended in draining the rest of the land. The Bridoe which crosses the Idle and connects the parishes of East and West Retford, was partly rebuilt and con- siderably widened in 1794, so that is now a substantial fabric, of five good arches. The Market Place and Square form a spacious area, which on the market and fair days, is crowded with buyers and sellers of corn, sheep, cattle, provisions, merchandise, &c. The whole is lined with good shops and houses, and on the north side, under the Town Hall, are clean and commodious Shambles. In the centre of the Square, stands the remains of an ancient cross called the Broad Stone, round which the corn market is held. Tradition says, that this stone formerly stood on an eminence to the south-east of the town, now called Domine Cross, but anciently " Est-croc-sic" Another stone of the same form and dimensions may now be seen in the church-yard wall of West Retford, but its original situation was in West Retford field. The Bank is on the south side of the Square, and the Post-Office, in Grove-street. The Market is held every Saturday, and two Fairs annually, viz, on March :23rd, for cattle, &c. and on October 2nd for hops, cheese, &c. In the surrounding country are many hop-yards, and the -growers, in the town and neighbourhood have lately established a great hop market, which is held on the first Saturday in November, and continued for some weeks afterwards. The Corporation bave much improved the market, by giving up the tolls, which they formerly levied on all corn, fruit, &c, exposed in the market place, and upon all the carriages, horses, &c. which passed over the bridge. A large portion of the fruit, butter, eggs, fowls, &c. which are brought to this market are bought up by the hucksters who attend from Sheffield and and other parts of Yorkshire, which a late historian says, the inhabitants consider as a regrating evil that ought to be de- stroyed by municipal authority, but we consider it rather as a benefit than an injury ; for immense quantities of butter, eggs. 312 EAST RETFORD* &c. are brought here which the town could not consume, and which consequently would not be brought to the market at all if the farmers were not met there by wholesale purchasers who supply those districts where there is a greater population and a less fruitful soil ; indeed, many of the villages of Notting- hamshire have their own resident hucksters, who weekly carry the surplus produce of their respective neighbourhoods to the markets of the adjacent counties. The Town Hall is a plain, yet handsome and commodious structure, built in 1755, on the site of the Old Moot Hall. The Quarter Sessions* for the Borough, and also for the northern division of the county are held here in the large court room, which is 70 feet long and 26 broad, and is occasionally used for the public Assemblies of the gentry of the neighbourhood, which Piercy says, are like angels' visits- — "few and far be- tween." Adjoining to the Sessions' Room is the Council room (26 feet by 20) which is used by the Grand Jury, and also by the corporate body who hold in it a Petty Session every alternate Saturday. The only building in the town which has amusement for its especial object is the Theatre, in Carolgate, which was built in 1789, by the late Mr. Pero, then manager of this circuit, which has long been visited yearly by Mr. Manley and his company of comedians. The exterior has not a very imposing effect, but the interior is handsomely decorated, and the boxes, pit, and gallery are neatly fitted up, and will hold at the usual prices from £40 to <£50. The News Room in the Market- place was built several years ago by the corporation, and is supported by about forty gentlemen, who each pay an annual subscription of £1 lis. 6d. It is well supplied with London and country papers, and contains full length portraits of George II. and his consort Queen Caroline, which were presented to the institution by Lord Viscount Galway. A Book Club *vas established about 12 years ago, and now consists of 21 members, who subscribe £1 lis. 6d. yearly. The Gas-Works were erected in 1831, by Mr. James Malam, and the town was first illuminated with their lucid vapour on December 22nd in the same year. A handsome cast iron pillar^ 22 feet high, bearing five lamps has been erected in the square, and the whole town now presents a cheerful appearance even in the .gloomy nights of winter. The CHURCH of East Retford, dedicated to St. Swithin, and commonly called the Corporation Church, to distinguish it from that in West Retford, is a neat gothic edifice, which has just been thoroughly cleansed and beautified. It has a very * Petti/ Sessions foi the Hundred • >> the Town Hall every Saturday. EAST RETFORD. 313 "handsome square tower, containing six bells, and its nave, two side aisles, and transept, are on a commodious plan, and well lighted. Its length is nearly 117 feet, and its breadth in the nave and side aisles is 51 feet, and in the transept 85 feet. The height of the tower to the top of the pinnacles is 97 feet. None of the windows at present exhibit any specimens of stained glass, except a few small fragments ; though in Thoro- ton's time (1677) the western window (which is now nearly- new) displayed many heraldic and other ornaments. There are now four galleries, three of which were built in the years 1740, 1778, and 1820, but the other in the north aisle, is* sup- posed to be as old as the fifteenth century. The first organ which the church possessed came from the Theatre at Newark, and was presented by Robert Sutton, Esq. in 177$, °ut the one now in use was built by Donaldson, in 1797. The font is very ancient, as also are several of the sepulchral monuments, but some of the more modern ones are highly ornamental. In 1392, the church contained two altars dedicated to St. Trinity and St. Mary, and endowed with £Vo. 8s., issuing out of nine mes- suages and five tofts (see page 111) for the support of two cantarists, who were appointed by the bailiffs. These altars stood behind the chancel in a large chapel, which being in a decayed state, was pulled down in 1528, and the materials used in repairing the church, which in 1651, was nearly destroyed by the falling of the tower, which having been some time ruin- ous, was blown down in that year. The parish appears to have been too poor to repair this demolition by a rate on the inha- bitants, for it is said, in an old corporation document, dated 1652, that the parishioners having previously been at much cost in repairing that part which was standing, were unable to re- build what had fallen down, and that they were consequently obliged to defray the expense, which amounted to .£1500, by selling part of the corporation land, and the chantry lands at Kirton, Willoughby, and Walesby, which belonged to the Grammar School, reserving only the ancient yearly fee farm rents for the use of the said school. The living is a Vicarage, the Rectory being in the Cathedral at York, whose Archbishop, in 1258, allotted for the Vicar's maintenance 100s. of alterage, and the small tithes, with the Easter offerings, the surplice fees, and two gates on the common, also, "all the bread, wine, ale, and beer, which should happen to be brought to the altar," but the tithe of the mills was to be given to the poor. Ac- cording to a terrier dated in 1687, the glebe and vicarage house consisted of "one dwelling-house, containing three bays of building, one layfh containing two bays of building, ancl one garden, with a yard butting upon y e * church-yard. The vi- carage is valued in the King's books at £5. 5s*, and is in the patronage of Sir Robert Sutton, Bart, and incumbency of the Rev. Thomas F. Beck with, M. A. Property which produces 314 EAST RKTFORO. about £1$ a-year, has been bequeathed for afternoon prayers, and a Sunday evening lecture in this church. See George Wharton and Jonathan Minnitfs benefactions, at page 318. The Deanery of Retford, as has been seen at pages 62 and 145, now exists merely in name, the power of the rural Deans having-, since the days of Otho, the Pope's legate, been concentrated in the Archdeacon, who holds a visitation yearly in East Retford church, where the clergy, churchwardens, &c. of the following places are required to attend, viz. Austerfield, Bawtry, Babworth, Blyth, Boughton, Bothamsall, Bilsthorpe, Carburton, Carlton-in-Linderic, Clareborougb, Clayworth, Cottam, Edwinstow, Egmanton, East and West Markham, East and West Retford, Elkesley, Everton, Finningley, Gam- ston, Gringley-on-the-Hill, Grove, Hayton, Harworth, Headon, Kirton, Littleborough, Mattersea, Misson, Norton Cuckney, North Wheatley, Ollerton, Ordsall, Palethorpe, Rossington, Saundby, Scrooby, South Leverton, Sturton, Sutton-cum- Lound, Tresswell, Tuxford, Wellow, Walesby, Warsop, West Burton, West Drayton, Walkeringham, and Worksop. St. Saviour's Chapel of Ease, on Moorgate Hill, though in Clareborough parish, was erected for the use of a populous suburb of East Retford. It is a handsome edifice of white brick, in the gothic style, with a nave, chancel, and two side aisles ; a beautiful window of stained glass at the east end, and two oc- tagonal towers at the west end. The first stone was laid on June 2d, 1828, by H. C. Hutchinson, Esq. of Welham, who gave the site and burial ground. It contains 1040 sittings, of which 600 are free, and was opened September 27th, 1830. — The whole cost of the building, &c. was .£4145. 3s. 8d., of which <£800 was given by the incorporated society for promoting the building of new churches, and the remainder was raised by voluntary subscription. The Dissenting Places of Worship in East Retford are, an Independent Chapel in Chapelgate, erected upwards of 30 years ago, by a Mrs. Bond, of Morton, near Gainsbro', for the use of the followers of Lady Huntingdon's tenets, but afterwards purchased by Wm. Brownlow, Esq. of London, and presented to its present congregation, which is now under the pastoral care of the Rev. Benjamin Ash ; — and a large Methodist -jChapel in Grove-street, erected in 1823, at the cost of .£2000, in lieu of the old Wesleyan chapel in Meetinghouse-lane, which had become too small for its increasing congregation, and i9 now disused. The Workhouse, in Grove-street, was erected by the cor- poration in 1818, at the cost of £1000, for which they receive 5 per cent, interest from the parish, which was previously without a house for the residence of its destitute poor. Twenty- six other parishes and townships pay j83 each per annum, towards supporting the institution, and three shillings per week EAST RETFORD. 311 for the maintenance of every pauper they send into the house. The poor rates of East Retford, for the year ending March, 1831, amounted to «£J133. Os. lid. collected by an assessment of 2s. 3d. in the pound on the rack rental ; but out of this sum, £6*]. 7s. 6d. was paid to the county rate. Mr. Joseph Cheater is the governor. As Retford possesses CHARITABLE FUNDS amounting to upwards of .£1800* per annum, and has several Friendly Societies, a Savings' Bank, and some other provident institu- tions, we expected to have found its poor rates much lower than they are, but they are no doubt considerably augmented by the great number of vagrants who pass through the town from tha four points of the compass. The Savings' Bank, at the house of the secretary, Alderman George Thornton, bookseller, in the Square, was established in 1818. On the 20th of November, 1829, its deposits amounted to £27,167. 7s. 9d. ; and at the same date in 1830, to £26,129. 19s. lid. ; besides a balance of profit in favour of the institution amounting to .£350. The number of individual depositors at the latter date was 7^8, whose collective deposits amounted to £25,381. 7s. 7d,; and of the remainder, .£332. 14s. 3d. be- longed to six charitable societies, and £415. 8s. Id. to seven friendly societies. The* GRAMMAR SCHOOL, with a house adjoining it for the master, and another on the opposite side of the street for the usher, is in Chapelgate, near the church, and is as it ought to be, plain and spacious. It was founded by the letters patent of Edward VI. in the fifth year of his reign, by the name of " The Free Grammar School of King Edward VI" for the instruction of boys and youths in grammar. For its support, his Majesty granted in trust to the bailiffs and burgesses, all the lands, tenements, &c. of the dissolved chantries of Sutton- in-Lound, Tuxford, and Annesley, with power for the trustees to receive and purchase other property for the use of the said school. As has already been seen, that portion of the school property which had belonged to the chantry at Tuxford, was sold in: 1652, to defray the expense of rebuilding the parish church. Sir John Hercy, in 1554, granted to the corporation, for the use of the grammar school, a messuage in Briggate, and two tofts in Chapelgate, together with certain lands at Little Gringley. In 1763, the Rev. Wm. Haughton bequeathed to it an estate at Ordsall, now let for about £28 per annum, of which, according to the testators will, £4 should be paid yearly to the master, and the remainder to the usher. For more than two centuries the school funds have been shamefully misapplied by the trustees, who have at various times, in consideration of large fines, let several of the school estates on long leases, at * This mm includes the Hospital and other charitie§ at West Retford.- 316 KAST RETFORD. trifling yearly rents; and have so exchanged and mixed up some of the others with land, which they claim as their own property, that much litigation has existed betwixt them and the master, and the Parliamentary Commissioners and the Court of Equity have several times been obliged to interfere between them. Since the last parliamentary enquiry, in 1819, the corporation have given up to the Court of Equity property granted by Edward VI., which produces upwards of <£300 per annum, arising from 120 acres of land at Bleasby, 15 acres at Moreton, and 84 acres at Sutton and Lound. By an issue directed by the Court of Chancery, and tried at the Nottingham assizes on July 23, 1831, they were obliged to restore other property left to the school by the before named Sir John Hercy, and which they had, ever since it came into their possession, applied to other uses ; so that it is expected that when the Court of Equity has decided between them and the master, the yearly revenue of the school will be upwards of <£600 ; though never more than <£80 a-year has been paid to the master, and <£40 to the usher; and from 1763 to 1801, the salary of the former was only £53, and that of the latter «£21. But nothing has been paid to the present master (the Rev. William Mold) since 1821, for from that year till 1831 he left the school almost entirely to the care of the ushers, and employed himself in fighting the battles of the charity against the trustees,-— con- sidering that his salary was too small, and that the rents of the estates had been unjustly applied. We hope, however, their differences are now at an end, and that the school, instead of being confined to 17 or 20 free scholars, will be thrown open for the gratuitous instruction of all the poor boys of the parish, as was undoubtedly the intention of if* donors* Amongst the items of expenditure in the school account, we find in 1779, £290 for rebuilding the school-bouse ; in 1797 £360 for erect- ing a new house for the master, and in 1810, £556, 16s. 8d. for erecting a new house for the usher, upon the site of the old houses formerly occupied by him and the master. A large National School for the reception of 160 scholars was erected in 1813, and was for some years well supported under the patronage of the Duke of Newcastle and many other yearly contributors ; bur from deaths and other causes, it has been suf- fered to decay, and it is now without a master, and almost without vi. whole pane of glass in its windows. The Do bo as Society, established in 1823 for the purpose of furnishing the poor with cheap clothing, and the Lying- in-Charity, for the relief of poor married lying-in women, are supported by the yearly contributions of the benevolent, as also are the Bible, Missionary, and several other religious societies. Besides the St. George's Independent Lodge of Odd Fellows, there are in the town iive Friendly Societies or Sick Clubs held at different public houses. EAST RETFORD. 3l"J Sloswick's Hospital in Churchgate, or as an inscription in front of the building calls it, the " Mease de Dieu" was founded hy Richard Sloswicke, in 1657, and endowed with land and buildings in East and West Retford, (now worth upwards of c£80 per annum) "for the maintenance of six poor old men of good carriage and behaviour," It was vested with five trustees, but in J 681 they were all dead but Francis Stringer, and the neglected state of the charity became the subject of a chancery suit, which ended in the trust being transfered to the corporation, who in 1806, pulled down the old hospital and built a new one, consisting of four small houses, to which they added two more dwellings in 1819. The cost of these erections was «£7lW. The six imates each receive £2. 12s. 6d. quarterly, and two tons of coal yearly ; besides which one guinea is paid annually to the person who takes care of the grass plot and garden attached to the hospital. The Corporation Almshouses formerly stood in Carolgate, but in 1823, being very old and dilapidated, they were taken down, and the site of them and of the ancient premises an- nexed to them was sold for .£1,370. 18s. 0d., being at the rate of one guinea per square yard. Out of this money the cor- poration erected the present almhouses, which contain apart- ments for eighteen poor women, and form part of the west side of an intended new street. The buildings cost .£750, and the land (l,158i square yards) £289. 12s. 6d. In 1824, after the completion of the new hospital, there was a balance of £266, 10s. lid. in favour of the charity, for which the corpora- tion pay £12. 10s. Od. yearly interest,* which with £6, the rent of a close in Clareborough, is distributed in coals amongst the 18 almswomen, who have no other allowance. The documents relating to this ancient charity are all lost ; its date, and the name of its founder are both unknown ; and if it ever was en- dowed with any estates, they have either been sold, or are so mixed up with the other possessions of the corporation, as to be undistinguishable. The Benefactions which belong to the poor of East Ret- ford are as follows: In 1621 ,. William Clark left £3 a-year to be paid out of an estate at Walkrith, in Lincolnshire, . (now belonging to Richard Atkinson, Esq.) to three aged poor.. fVilliam fVharton, air some date unknown, gave to the corpora- tion £40 in trust, to distribute 4t)s. yearly. Barbara Moody, in 1726, gave £24, and Mr. Sharpe, £20, for which the corpora- tion distribute interest at the rate of 5 per cent. George JVhar- ton, in 1727, charged his estate at Little Gringley, (now be- longing to Wilson, Esq.) with the following yearly pay- ments, viz. £5 for teaching poor boys not sons of freemen ; 15s. for bread for the poor, and 5s. to the vicar, for giving notice every Easter Sunday of William Wharton's legacy. He also gave a close at Domine Cross, now worth £10 per anniuri, to 2e2 318 EAST RETFORD. the head master of the grammar school, on condition that he reads the Common Prayer every Sunday afternoon in the pa- rish church. Hannah Saltmarsh left <£100 to repair the church; j6'50 for teaching' poor children, and £20 to the poor. The corporation pay 20s. yearly for the latter sum, but of the others we find no account. In 177°\ Robert Sutton, Esq., of Kelham, gave to the vicar and churchwardens, a share in the Chesterfield Canal, worth about £8 per annum, in trust, that they distribute the yearly proceeds amongst the needy parish- ioners. During his life, he was a great benefactor to the town and neighbourhood, for it is recorded on his monument in the church, that he gave .^100 towards rebuilding the Town-Hall, <£100 towards Barn by Common Road, — built Pelham Bridge, paid the assessement of the poor on new roofing the church, — gave aii organ and a bell to the church, and ^200 towards pro- curing Queen Anne's Bounty. In -1784, Aid, George Popple- well gave the corporation £50 to distribute interest amongst the poor. In 1795, Mrs, Sarah Brown, of Sheffield, left £21, for which the corporation, pursuant to her will, pay 21s. yearly to a schoolmistress for teaching two poor girls reading and knit- ting. Ann JVoolby, in 1812, left to the corporation a yearly rent charge of .£10, out of Longholme Closes, in Clareborough parish, in trust, that they distribute two-thirds of it amongst 20 of the oldest and poorest women in East Retford, at Christ- inas, and pay the remainder to the Rector of West Retford for distribution amongst 10 of the poorest and oldest women of that parish. In 1815, Jonathan Minnitt, by his will, directed his sole executor, Mr. Francis White, to pay to the vicar and churchwardens. ^£150, to be invested for the use of a lecturer to preach a sermon every Sunday evening in the parish church. This legacy was not paid till 1827, when it was received with £60, the amount of eight years' interest. Of the arrears £22. 10. was paid to the vicar for having preached the lecture during the preceding three years, and the residue was given to the poor. The capital (£150) is vested in Government secu- rity. In 1818, Thomas IFelsh left .£100, for which the cor- poration distribute £5 yearly amongst 10 poor widows. JJ'il- liam Coleby gave 5s. yearly for the poor, and 5s, yearly for the use of the church, outof a house on the south side of the church, now belonging to William Clark. John Smith gave to the corporation £\, in consideration that they should pay 8s. yearly to the impotent poor. In 1820, Beaumont Marshall left £l(H) to the corporation in trust, that, they distribute the interest yearly amongst ten poor families in equal shares. An annuity ofct'10 is yearly distributed amongst ten of the most poor and aged parishioners of East Retford, from Lady Frances Pierre- pontes Charity, of which the chapter of Southwell are trustee^, as will be seen in the history of that town. WKSf RETFORD, 319 WEST RETFORD PARISH. West Retford, in the Hatfield Divison of Bassetlaw, is a pleasant village and parish on the western bank of the Idle, op- posite to East Retford, with which it is connectedby a good stone bridge. It has no dependent townships, and contains only 593 inhabitants, 152 houses, and 950 acres of land, of which 450 acres belong to the hospital in the village, and 173 acres and 1 rood to the rector, who received the greatest part of it in an allotment made as a commutation of all the tithes of the parish, in 1774, when the common was enclosed. A large portion of the remaining 327 acres, belongs to Peter Dickonson, Esq., of West Retford Hall) a picturesque mansion standing on the brow of an eminence, the declivity of which is covered with shrubs and evergreens,. u whilst the dark Idle sullenly flows at its base. " But Henry Hardolph Eyre, Esq., is Lord of the Manor, which comprises the whole parish, and is intersected by the great North Road, and skirted by the river Idle, the Chesterfield Canal, and a brook which flows by Babworth under the canal and the turnpike to the Idle, within \\ mile S. E. of Barnby Moor. Near the bridge is an extensive paper mill, and on the opposite side of the river is a large corn mill. " A dash of rural beauty" pexwades a large portion of the village, and many of the houses bear the stamp of antiquity. Near its north-west end is West Retford House, the delightful seat of James Lee, Esq., once the property of the Emerson family. Laird says, it is a matter of great boast here, that his late Majesty George IV-, when Prince of Wales, spoke highly of its situation in one of his journies irom the north. In Doomsday Book, this manor as well as East Retford, is joined to Odesthorpe, (now unknown,) and appears to have been (like a number of the surrounding parishes) of the fee of Roger de Busli, and part of it was soc to Clumber and Weston. It afterwards belonged to the Hercy family, proprietors of Grove and Weston, with whom it remained till 1570, when John Hercy, Kt., died without issue, and settled this manor on one of his eight sisters, who was married to Nicholas Den man, Esq.,* and with whose descendants it continued, until Barbara, daugh- ter and co-heiress of Francis Denman, Esq., carried it in mar- riage to Edward Darrel, Esq., the last of whose descendants, John Darrel, M. D., died in 1665, and bequeathed the manor house to be converted into a hospital, and the family estate for the endowment thereof ; but as before stated, Anthony Har- * The mother of Queen Anne was a collaterial descendant of the Denmans, of "West Retford. One branch of this family is now settled at Bevercotes, and ano- ther resides in Derbyshire, of which latter is Thomas Denman, Esq., the eminent barrister. 32@ WEST RETFORD* dolphEyre, Esq.,. of Grove, is now Lord of the Manor, though most of the soil belongs- to the hospital, the church,and the poor. The parish Church (dedicated to St. Michael,) is a small ancient fabric, standing- upon an eminence, and having a hand- some octagonal spire, resting upon a lofty square tower, in which are three bells. The body of the church is low, and though the exterior is in excellent repair, the pewing and most of the interior work is in a very decayed and neglected state. The living is a Rectory^ valued in the King's Books at JZ9. 13s. 4d.,but now worth nearly ,£300, having, as has just been seen, received a large allotment of land in lieu of tithes. The ad vowson was from the 13th to the 16th century, possessed by the Herey family, from whom it passed to the Denmans, and from them to the Darrels, whose trustees sold it in 1668, to the corporation of East Retford, in whose possession it still re- mains. The Rev. Abraham Youle,. M. A., the present rec- tor, has held the living since 1787, and one of his predecessors, the Rev. Thomas Gylby, held it upwards of 82 vears, viz. from 1678 to 1760: . The General Baptist Chapel was built in 1815, near the old meeting house, which is now used as a Sunday school, and was bequeathed for the use of a Baptist Congregation in 1691, by Richard Brownlow, of London, who endowed it with " one acre of land, two beast-gates, and five lands ends," situated in West Retford parish. Trinity Hospital was founded in 1665, by John Darrel, Esq., whose " capital messuage" it was, and who endowed it with all his heriditary estate in West Retford and Ordsall, for the maintenance of 16 poor impotent men, with the sub-dean of Lincoln as their master and governor. He also directed by his will, that the said sub-dean and his successors, upon the death of any of the brethren, should admit others in their place, preferring, if any should apply, those of the blood and kindred of the testator, and after them, those of the neighbourhood ; and that he should have for his pains as governor of the hospi- tal, j£2Q per annum, and each of the brethren £\0 per annum. After the testator's death, it was discovered that his brother Thomas had some years before made some secret or other con- veyance of that portion of the hospital lands, situated at the Biggins, in Ordsall parish, to Lady Diana Cranborne, whose heir, Richard Cooke, Esq., recovered for himself and his heirs, an annuity of ^£40 to be paid for ever out of the rents of the said lands. For many years after the endowment, only 10 brethren were admitted, but in 1796, when land had encreased in value, and when that eminent divine Dr. William Paley be- came master of the hospital, he appointed six additional bre- thren, and erected for them six new dwellings at the cost of w£609. 18s. 7d., of which expense £230 was paid by the exe- cutors of the preceding master, Dr. Dowbiggin, who, in 1777: WEST RETFORD. 321 had received .£300 for part of the hospital land which had been sold to the Chesterfield Canal Company. The hospital pro- perty was augmented with several allotments in 1774, at the enclosure of West JRetford Common, and it now produces up- wards of .£1040 per annum, so that, the master receives yearly .£100, and each of the brethren, £50, and the surplus revenue is appropriated for necessary repairs, for paying the annuity of «£40 before named, and also £2 yearly to Gainsbro' School. The hospital contains a small chapel, and besides 16 dwellings for the brethren, it has apartments for a resident nurse, whose duty it is to take care of the sick brethren. A great part of the houses are old and decayed, and those which were erected in Dr. Paley's mastership are not very substantial; it has therefore been determined to take them all down, and erect a neiv hospital near the same site, upon a more elegant and commodious plan, for which purpose a " fabric fund" has been some years accumulating out of the surplus revenue, and it now amounts to upwards of £> 1000, so that we expect the design will be carried into execution during the present year, 1832. Darrel's Scholarship.— John Darrel, Esq. the founder of Trinity Hospital, bequeathed "those lands and tenements which he* himself had purchased in West Redford," for the maintenance of some ingenious scholar, whose father has not above .£30 per annum in lands or estate, to be chosen out of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire alternately, by the arch- deacon of Nottingham and the sub-dean of Lincoln, and to be educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where the testator directs that the scholar so elected shall receive the rents and profits of the said lands and buildings until five years after he has taken the degree of master of arts, or until he has obtained a benefice ; after which another is to be chosen and maintained in the same manner. The property now produces £52 per annum. Free School. — Stephen Johnson, by will, dated 17-3, and codicil dated 1725, bequeathed a cottage with its appurtenances, (22 perches of land) near Northfieldgate, for the use of a school, and .£10 a year out of his estate at Tilne, in the parish of Hay- ton, to be paid to the schoolmaster for teaching all the poor children of West Retford, betwixt the ages of five and thirteen, to read and write. His will states that this bequest was made in consideration of the non-fulfilment of the benevolent inten- tion of his kinsman, Richard Brownlow, of London, who in 1691 bequeathed .£500 for the foundation of a school on certain conditions, which the churchwardens and overseers of West Retford did not comply with. The incumbents of West Ret- ford, Grove, Ordsall, and Babwortb, are the trustees. The Church and Poor Land, &c. consists of 27a. 1r. 39p. of land in West Retford field, and four tenements, a barn, and a stable in the village, which are vested in twelve trustees, and are now let for .£80 per annum, half of which is appropriated 322 WEST' RKTrORDi for repairing the church, and the remainder for the 'relief of the poor, according to an agreement made at the enclosure of common land. The church also possesses other land in the parish, viz. a garden containing one rood, and let in 1803, on a 99 years' lease, to Martin Bower, at the yearly rent of 2s. 6d., in consideration of a fine of .£105; and a garden and orchard, containing 1a. 3r. 22p., let at the same time and for the same term, to Thomas Beardsall, for the yearly rent of 2s. 6d., and a fine of £155, Part of the sums received as fines was expended in ceiling the church, and the rest was lost lyy the failure of the bank of Messrs* Pocklington & Co. The Bull Meadow, left by some person unknown, consists of 3a. Or. 30p., and is occupied by a person, in consideration of his keeping a bull for the use of the parish, which possesses several other small parcels of land, the rents of which are car- ried to the overseers' accounts. The other Benefactions belonging to West Retford are — 3s. 4d. yearly out of a house now occupied by Miss Bonsor, left in 1558, by John Backhouse,, to be divided equally between the surveyors of the highways, and the overseers of the poor; 3s. 4d. yearly out of a house in Chapelgate, East Retford, (now belonging to the corporation) left in 1613, by John Coleby, to be divided in the same manner ; 40s. yearly out of a house in West Retford, now belonging to P. Dickonson, Esq. left in 1725, by Stephen Johnson, to be distributed yearly, on the 8th of November, amongst the most needy poor ; and <£3. 6s-. 8d. from the bequest of Mrs. Ann Woolby, already noticed at page 318. LIST OF STREETS, &c. IN RETFORD AND ITS SUBURBS. &*?* Those marked' * are in Clareborough parish, and f in Thrump- ton lordship-, in the parish of OrdsalL t Appleby's Bldgs. South road Beardsall's court, Grove street Beard6all'6 row, Grove street *Beck close or Factory row, Spit- tal hill Bettison's yard. Bridgegate Bridgegate, Market 6treet Canal row, near south end of Carolgate Carolgate, south 6ide Mkt. place Carr lane, the Square Chapelgate, Market place Churchgate, Market place Clark '6 yard, Chapelgate Cooke's yard, Bridgegate Colton's yard, West Retford CotterilPs yard^ Churchgate Grove street, Market place *Little lane, Moorgate Littlewood's yard, Churchgate Market place, from Churchgate to Carolgate Market street, the Square Mermaid yard, West Retford •Moorgate, Churchgate Newgate, now Grove street New row, Carolgate New street, Carolgate Old Sun yard, Chapelgate •Old Tan yard, Moorgate RETFORD DIRECTORY. 333 Ridgway's buildings, Carolgate t Russell place, South road South road, Carolgate Spa lane, Carolgate •Spittal hill, Chapelgate fStorcroft terrace, South road The Square, Market street Theatre or Fox's yard. Carolgate +Thrumpton, Russell place Travis's buildings, Carolgate Turk's Head yard, Grove street Turn lane. Chapelgate West Retford, Bridgegt. t White houses, one mile south •Wellington place, Spittalhili t Wright Wilson place, South rd f Wright Wilson street, South rd DIRECTORY OF RETFORD AND ITS SUBURBS, COMPRISING East and IVest Retford* the lordship of Thrumpton in Ordsall parish, and the hamleis of Moor gate and Spittal hill* in Clare- borough parish. The streets, &c. in these parochial divisions are distinguished in the foregoing list. POST OFFICE, Grove-street, Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, Post Mis- tress. Letters from London and the South arrive daily at 12 morning, and are despatched at one afternoon ; to York, Glas- gow, &c. they are despatched at twelve, and arrive at one aft. A Mail Gig arrives from Worksop every morning at a quarter past eleven, and departs at two afternoon, Allcock Mr. Wm. West Retford Allen Mary, clothes dlr. Moorgt Allison Wm. M. R. C. S. Bridge gate Ash Rev. Benj. (Indt.)Moorgate Bannister Jas. net mfr. Wright Wilson street Barker Wm. gent. Moorgate bill Baxter W. excise officer, Moorgt Beardsall Mrs. Charlotte, Carol- gate Beckwith Rev. T. F. (M. A.) vicar of East Retfo-d, Chapelgate Benson Miss Letitia & Sisters, Carolgate Bigsby Thos. solr. Churchgate Billyard Wm. cabt. mkr. Beard- sail's row Bonsor Miss Jane & Sisters, W r est Retford Bower Mrs. Eliz. West Retford Bower William, gent. Moorgate house Brooks Rev. Joshua, Wm. Vicar of Ciareborough, Moorgate Brown Edw. Cromwell, soi. Stor croft terrace Brown Miss Mary & Eliza, Wright Wilson street Brown Wm. sweep, Grove st Bullivant Mrs. Martha, Moorgate Burden Mr. Jas. Churchgate Burton Eliz. mattress maker. Moorgate Burrows Thos. parish clerk, West Retford Carter Mrs. Eliz. Spittal hill Chapman Mrs. Mary, Tilne road Chappell Mrs. Esther, West Ret- ford Cheatter Jph. gov. Workhouse Cheavin Jas. boat owner, New row Clark Chas. dyer, Little lane Clark John, boat owner, Canal row 324 RETFORD DIRECTORY. Clark Mary, grocer, Moorgate Clarke Miss Mary, Market place Clarke Wm- gent. Chapelgate Clayton Mrs. Mary, Beardsall's row Clayton Wm. cowkeeper, Moor- gate Colton Wm. gent. Moorgate Cook John, tea dealer, Wright Wilson street Cook Richard, hawker, Moorgate Cooke Dawber, gent. Russell pi Cowlishaw Mrs. Eliz. Churchgt Cresey Wm. gent. Spittle hill Creswell Geo. Esq. Square Cusa Chas. hawker, Wellington place Dickonson Peter, Esq. Retford hall Donson John, carter, New st Eyre Wm. gent. Appletori's bdgs Fisher Wm. grocer, Grove street Flower Jph. draper, Grove street Foljambe Fras. Thornhough, Esq, banker, The square Fox Jtn. bank cashier, Carrolgt Fullard John, farmer, Moorgate Ginever Mrs. Eliz. Terrace house Gould George, gent. Appleton's Bdgs Goodger Jph. hawker, New row Gray Mr. Chas. Wright Wilson place Gylby John, gent. Moorgate Hackett Wm. boat owner. Canal row Hall Quibel, gent. Spittal hill Hartshorne Mrs. Caih. Grove st Hill John, laceman Sec. Factory row Heane Mrs. Ann, Grove street Hickson Mrs. Mary, Grove street Hindley Pearce, boatowner, Canal , row Hinds Wm. carter. West Retford Hodgkinson Edw. grocer Grove street Holmes Jervas King, solr. Square Hodgkinson Mrs. Ruth. Moorgt Holmes John, Esq. F. A. S Carol gate Hutchinson Rd. gent. New street house Jackson Miss Mary & Sisters, Star croft, terrace Jackson Wm. gent. Appleton's Bdgs Johnson Hy. gent. Wellington pi Johnson Mr. Saml. Spa lane Johnson Thomas, carter, Wright Wilson place Kippax John, Esq. The Elms Kippax Mrs. Sarah, Churchgate Kirke Mrs. Maria, Carolgate Kirke Wm. Esq. Carolgate Lambert Cornls. cab. mkr, Carol gate Lee James, Esq. West Retford House Makepeace Rt. gent. Moorgate Markham Jude, beesom maker, Canal row Mason Mrs. Eliza, Carolgate Mee Wm. surgeon, h. Bridgegt Meekley Wm. net maker, Tra- vis's Bdgs Merriil Mrs. Eliz. Grove street Mold Rev. Wm. Chapelgate Moor Munton, bleacher, Thrump- ton Moss James, farmer. West Ret. Moss Thomas, gent. Appleton's Bdgs Mudford John, fishing net mfr. Spa lane Nettleship Mrs. Susanna, Church- gate Oldham Mrs. Frances, Grove st Oldham John, governor of Clare- borough Workhouse, Moors: t Olpherts Robert, gent. Wright Wilson place Parker Darker, gent. Churchgt Parker John, Esq. The Square Pearson W. sheriff's officer and apparitor, Market place Peck Richard, clerk, Spital hill Piercy John Shad rack, parish clerk, Beardsall's row Richardson Mrs. Ann, Moorgate Richardson Mrs. Mary, White- houses Ridley Miss Mary, Grove st Riley Mrs. Eliz. Grove st Rimington Mr. Mark, Turk's head yard RETFORD DIRECTORY. 321 Roberts John, gent. The Grove Rogers Jerh. farmer, Whitens Rushton Mr. Jph. Spittal hill Scales Mrs. Mary, West Retford Scott John, sweep, Moorgate hill Slaney Broxholm, Sexton, Cha~ pelgate Smith John, gent. The Square Snow Mrs. Ann, Theatre yard Stenson Mrs. Sarah, W. Retford Stocks Mary, boat owner, Canal TOW Stocks Thomas, carter, Moorgate Sugden Mr. Wm. New st Taylor Mrs. Jane, stay maker, h. Carolgate Taylor Mrs. Sarah, Market pi Thorold Mrs. C. Moorgate Tomlinson Samuel, town crier, Turn lane Tootell Wm. sergeant at mace, Beardsall court Undy Rd. farmer, West Retford Walker Faith, farmer, West Ret- ford Walker Fras. cowkpr. Whitehs Wharburton Jph. Lock house Ward Edw. 6 weep, Moorgate hill Wigfall Mr. Jph. Grove street Whitaker Miss Ann, Carolgate White Chas. gent. The Square Williams Jph. gent. Thrumpton Wilkinson John, grocer, Carolgt Wilkinson John, excise officer, Moorgate Wilson Rev. Geo. (Meth) Grove street Wilson Rev. John, (Meth) Grove street Wilson Wm. supervisor, Moorgt Woolfitt Mrs. Mary, JBeardsalPs row Worsley Geo. chairman, Theatre yard Wright Thos. farmer, West Ret- ford Youle Rev. Abraham, M. A. rec- tor of West Retford ACADEMIES. Those marked * are Boarding Schools. Allen Jane, Beardsall's row * Allen Wm. Carolgate *Ash, Rev. Benj. Moorgate Bower George, Wellington pi Beardman John, Moorgate *Cass Susanna, Grove street Free Grammar School, Chapel- gate ; Rev. W. Mold, master ; James Holderness, usher Free School, West Retford; George Harpham, master Harpham Hannah, Wright Wil- son place Piercy John Shadrach, Grove st. h. BeardsalFs row *Rawlinson Ann, (Ladies,) The Square Waddington Eliz. Carr lane •Whallev Henry, Churchgate ARCHITECT & SURVEYOR, Weightman John Gray, Market place ATTORNIES. Hannam Richard and Son, clerks to magistrates, Carolgate Holmes and Brown, The Square Marshall George, Chapel gate Mee and Bigsby, Churchgate Mee John, (town clerk, clerk to the Deputy Lieutenancy, and County treasurer,) Castlegate AUCTIONEERS. Becket Samuel, Carolgate Hodson Francis, Carolgate Hopkinson Fran, (and Bdg. sur- veyor) Grove street White Francis, (and land valuer) New street BAKERS & FLOUR DLRS. Barton John, Churchgate Bingham Thomas, Bridgegate Burton Thomas, Carolgate Denham John, Wellington place Hindley John West Retford Holberry Jph. West Retford Levick John, Wellington place Nicholson Chpr. Carolgate Small George, Carolgate Taylor Thephilus, Moorgate BANKERS. Cook (Sir Wm. Bryan) Foljambe Parker, and Walker, The Square ; drawn on Coutts& Co. 322 RBTFORD DIRECTORY. Savings Bank, The Square ; open Monday morning, from 10 to 12 o'clock ; George Thornton, secretary. BASKET MAKERS. Bettison William, Bridgegate Hollidav John, Spa lane BLACKSMITHS. Banks John, Carolgate Banks Jonathan Bridgegate Burrows Thomas, West Retford Clayton William, Moorgate Hudson T. Twelve, Travis's Bdgs Hudson W. Jas. Beardsall'srow Littlewood Jas. Churchgate, h. West Retford Scott Benjamin, Carolgate Siddans William, Carolgate BOAT BUILDER. Woodruff William, New street BOOKSLRS. STATIONERS, & PRINTERS, & BINDERS. Clayton John (and paper hanging whs.) Carolgate Pewhirst Benj. (and carpet whs.) Market place Hodson Fras. (and carpet, and paper hang, whs.) Carolgate Holderness Margt. Bridgegate Thornton Geo. (stationer) The Square Turvey Thos. (and paper hang. whs.) The Square Whiteside Jph. (hinder,) Grove st BOOT & SHOE MAKERS. Atkinson James, Spittal hill Baker John, Spa lane Baker Valentine, Turn lane Baker William, Carolgate Bowmer George, Moorgate Brown John, Spittal hill Burton Richard, Little lane Dernie James, Churchgate Dernie Thomas, Moorgate Elvidge William. Market street Footitt James, Theatre yard Frost William, Spittal hill Gace John, Moorgate Harrison John, Canal row Hindley Samuel, Grove street Hodson Thomas, Beardsall'srow Hodson William. Carr lane Hoult John, Grove street Hoyland Thomas, Turn lane Hunt John, Moorgate Jubb Uriah, Chapelgate Lawrence Ellen, Bridgegate Lawrence Stephen, Turn lane Nance Thomas, Moorgate Payne John, Travis's Bdgs Richardson John, sen. New st Richardson John, jun. New st. Slaney Thomas, Carolgate Slaney William, Carolgate Snowden James, Moorgate Tomlinson Wm. Cotterill's yard Walker Thomas, Moorgate Wash Robert, Carr lane Whittam George. Moorgate Wood William, New street BRAZIERS & TINNERS. Atkinson Robert, Factory row Clark William, Bridgegate Ledger George, Churchgate Reddish John, Carolgate Watson Gervas, Market place BREWERS. Burton John, Spittal hill Littlewood George, Moorgate BRICK & TILE MAKERS. Hudson Robert, The Square Justice John, Spittal hill Littlewood Jph. Clarborough Martin William, Raskill Ogle George, Moorgate Waite Robert, Havton BRICKLAYERS AND PLAS- TERERS. Beardsall Wm. Beardsall's ct Freeman Jas. Wellington place Hind Wm. Moorgate Ledger John, Spittal hill Lowe Wm. Grove street Small George, Carolgate Watson Joseph. Factory row Wilson John, Turk's Head yard Woolstenholmc Jph. Car lane BRUSH HEAD MAKERS. Burton John, New row Hawksley Richard. Turn lane Hawksley Wm. Turn lane Shaw John, Canal row BUTCHERS. %• Those who live in the country have stalls in the Shambles. Ashmore John, Thrumpton RETFORD DIRECTORY. 323 Bailey George, Carolgate Bailey Joseph, Moorgate Clark Sainl. East Mark ham C lough Henry, Moorgate Cottam Joshua, Carolgate Dean George, Mattersey Dean Isaac, Turk's Head yard Flower John, Spittal hill Fowe Thomas, Bolham Golland Wm. West Retford Gyles Nathan, Spittal hill Gyles William, Chapelgate Hawksley Henry, Chapelgate Hudson Charles, Blyth Jackson Swinscho, Whitehouses Littlewood George, Moorgate Littlewood Jph. Churchgate Loughton William, Everton Marsh Denis, South Leverton Needham James, Spittal hill Needham James, New row Nicholson Robert, Sturton Pearce George, Carolgate Rushby Richard, Grove street Saldin Thomas, New street Spray John, Grove street Taylor William, Carolgate Theaker Thomas, Scrooby Turner Samuel, North Leverton Wallhead Richard, Carolgate Wright John, Moorgate Wright Thomas, West Retford Wright William, Moorgate CABINET MAKERS, &c. Marked * are Joiners also. Lambert Henry, Moorgate Leadbeater Wm. Chapelgate •Liller John, Churchgate Richardson John, Spa lane Saunders John, (case mkr.) Spa lane •Scorah Wm. West Retford Shaw Thomas, Carolgate Stocks Thomas, Moorgate Tomlinson Thomas, Market pi Wbitlam Benjamin, Churchgate CARVER & GILDER. Kippax George, Carolgate CHAIR MKRS. & TURNERS. Saunderson James, Turn lane Stocks Wm. Old Tan yard Standage Peter, Old Sun yard Stubbings Thomas, Moorgate CHINA, GLASS, &c. DLRS. Burley Mary, Old Sun yard Buxton Thomas, New row Moor George, Turk's Head yd CHEMISTS & DRUGGISTS. Clater John, Market street Fleck Wm. Henry, Bridgegate Hudson George, Market place Rawson Wm. Carolgate Towler James, Bridgegate COAL DEALERS. Burton Wm. Spittal hill Dixon Bilby, West Retford Jackson Robert, Carolgate Jackson William, New street Hoyland Thomas, Turn lane Ogle George, Moorgate Parker Edw. (& lime and stone) Carolgate Pashley Geo. Wright Wilson pi Rushby Joseph, Carolgate COACH BUILDER. Hodgson Edward, Russell place CONFECTIONERS, &c. Clarke Fdk. (& British wine dlr.) Market street Levick John, Wellington place Littlewood Ed. (fruiterer) Moor- gate Ridgway Thos. (fruiterer) Bridge- gate Tattersall Thos. Chapelgate Watson Gervas, Market place COOPERS. Bettison Wm. Bridgegate Brown Geo, Beardsall's row Sprentall Wm. West Retford Warburton Wm. Spittal hill CORN MERCHANTS. Foster Thomas, Bridgegate Hodgkinson Thos. Chapelgate Holmes John, Moorgate Ridgway Thomas, Bridgegate Smith John,. Moorgate CORN MILLERS, &c. Marked * are Flour Dlrs. only. Appleby Thomas, Grove st *Bailey Charles, Moorgate Clixby Benjamin, Churchgate Foster Thos. Bridgegate •Oldham John, Carolgate Subscription Mill, Geo. Brown, Thrumpton 324 RETFORD DIRECTORY. Swinburne Thomas, Thrumpton Tudshury Fras. Tipping's mil], CURRIERS & LEATHER CUTTERS. Kippax William, Spittal hill Spencer Wm. Moorgate Travis Thos. Travis's bdgs Whitiam Rt. & Son, Churchgate CUTLER. Barraclough J ph. Carolgate DYERS. Clark Hezekiah, Moorgate Cooper Charles, Moorgate FELLMONGER. Wright Charles, Old Tan yard FIRE & LIFE OFFICES. County, Geo. Thornton, Square Hope, Rt. Hudson, Square Norwich Union, J. Fox, Carolgt Sun, Wm. Fisher, Grove street FISHMONGERS. Graves Robert, Market place Graves Thomas, Carolgate Swales Wm. Spittal hill GLOVER. Leadbeater Westby, Spa lane GROCERS & TEA DLRS. Beeley Edw. (& cheese) Grove st Bingham Thomas, Bridgegate Clarke & Wilkinson, Carolgate Clarke Wm. Bridgegate Cook Wm. Market place Cottam John, Market place Dean Catherine, Carolgate Denman Philip, Square Dewick Francis, Square Fisher & Hodgkinson, Grove st Padley Geo. Market place Padley Joseph, Moorgate Parnham Thos. Carolgate Woolstenholme Thos. Carolgate GUN MAKERS. Butler James, Carr lane Slingsby Thos. Carolgate HAIR DRESSERS, &c. Bomforth Rd. Carolgate Hall Edward, Moorgate Hall Wm. Market place Hodson Wm. Spital hill Hudson Rt. & Son, (toy dealers) *■ Square and Carolgate Penington Wm. West Retford Wilson Thomas, Bridgegate HAT MFRS. & DLRS. Marked * are Dealers only. •Golland Charles, Bridgegate *Holderness Mgt. Bridgegate Mawer Wm. Beardsall's row *Merryweather John, Bridgegate Plant Thos. Chapelgate & fVork- sop Thornton Geo. (stamp dis.) Sq Turner Saml. Carolgate HOP GROWERS In the surrounding Villages. — See also Oiler ton and Tuxford Directories. Camra John, Bothamsall Cocking James, Lower Headon Dewick Ann, Bothamsall Fisher William, Grove street Fox Richard, Elksley Hill Matthew, Elksley Hill George, Upton Hill William, Upton Hudson Rt. & Son, Square Hutchinson Rd. New St. House Ibberson John, Upton Ibberson Wm. Upton Jackson Swinscho, Whitehousee Johnson Thomas, Elksley. Ridgway Thos. Bridgegate Moss John. Bothamsall Taylor Eliz. Elksley Taylor Thomas, Elksley Ward William, Lower Headon Weightman John, Elksley Wheelwright Thomas, Welham HOSIERS. Cutts Wm. (mfr.) Wellington pi Fearnside David, Churchgate Golland Chas. Cottam h. Bridge- gate Nelson Danl. Moorgate HOTELS, INNS, & TAVERNS. Anchor, Jasper Manwell, Carolgt Angel, Wm. Walker, Bridgegate Black Bull, Geo. Ibberson, Moor- gate Black Head, Ann Green, Cha- pelgate Black's Head, Wm. Hawkins, Moorixate Boat,Bilby Dixon, West Retford Brick & Tile, Rd. Cobb, Moorgt RETFORD DIRECTORY. 325 Butchers' Arms, Win. Bonsor, Carolgate Crown, John Howe, Chapelgate George Inn, Ann Sheppard, Moorgate Gran by, Mary Barlow, Carolgate Half Moon, Saml. Cuckson. Sq. Horse & Jockey, Jas. Webster, Carolgate Mermaid, Francis Coup Lamb, West Retford Newcastle Arms, Robert Hardy, West Retford Odd Fellows Arms, Wm. Taylor, Russell place Old Sun, Wm. Eyre, Chapelgate Pheasant, Geo. Heane, Carolgt Red Lion, Edward Hopkinson, Carolgate Sun, Sarah Walker, Spittal hill Turk's Head, Ann Clarke, Grove street Vine, Geo. Clark, Churchgate Waggon & Horses, ->as, Rayner, West Retford White Hart Inn, (4' Excise Office) Wm. Dennett, Bridgegate White House Inn, Geo. Laugh- ton, Whitehouses White Lion, Ralph Moody, Churchgate White Swan, Timothy Ogle, Ca- rolgate BEER HOUSES. Board, Geo. Hurst, Chapelgate Board, John Shaw, Canal row Board, Geo. Milnes, Moorgate Board, Jnath. Holmes, Moorgt Board, Wm. ShatlirT, Whitehs. Butchers' Arms, John Ashmore, Thrumpton lane Boat House, Edward. White, Thrumpton lane King's Arms, John Richardson, New street King William IV., John Burton, Spittal hill Packet Inn, Wm. Pinder, Grove street Robin Hood & Little John. Geo. Pearce, Carolgate IRON & BRASS FOUNDERS. Ledger and Holliday. Churchgt IRONMONGERS. Clark Wm. Bridgegate Hewitt Robert Lightfoot, (& iron mert.) Market place Oats Richard, Square JOINERS & BUILDERS. See also Cabinet Makers. Antcliff Robert, Russell place Beardsall Henry, Grove street Beardsall Seth, Carolgate, h. BeardsalPs row Hill Benjamin, West Retford Hooson Thos. Churchgate Kirkby Eliz. Carolgate Morton James, Churchgate Shaw Thomas, Carolgate Tomlinson Wm. (and dealer in paviers for tessellated pave- ments) Grove street LINEN MANUFACTURER. Allesbrook John. Grove street LINEN & WOOLLEN DRPRS. Beardsall John, Churchgate Bullivant Job, Carolgate Cockill Jph. (woollen) Carolgate Cottam Thos. Market place Flower & Newboult, Carolgate Golland Wm. Bridgegate Roberts John, jun. Market street Whiitington Jane, (and carpet warehouse) Bridgegate MALTSTERS, Foster Thos. Bridgegate Holmes John, Moorgate Littlewood George, Moorgate Ogle Jacob, Moorgate Oldham Fras. W T est Retford Ridgway Thos, Bridgegate Smith John, Moorgate MILLINERS & DRESS MKRS. Ashton Ellenor, Bridgegate Denman Jane, Wellington place Flower Rebecca, Churchgate Hawksley Caroline, Chapelgate Kirkby Mary, West Retford Lee Ann, Travis's buildings Ogle Abigail, Beardsalls' court Roper Mary, Wright Wilson st Sherratt Harriet, West Retford Theaker Elizabeth, Moorgate Wager & Sprentall, Carolgate W T atson Maria. Beardsall's row Wilkinson Cath. Market place 2 v 2 326 RETFORD DIRECTORY. MILLWRIGHTS & MACHINE MAKERS. Hooson Thos. Churchgate Martin James* Moorgate Pinder John, Moorgate NAIL MAKERS, Smedley Joseph, Canal row Sutton Edward, Moorgate Sutton Eras, (and pipe) Carolgt Sutton Charles, Factory row NURSERY, SEEDSMEN, &c. Anderson John, Carolgate Bowman Richard, Market place Bowmer Isaac, Moorgate Clark Thos. Bridgegate Edeson Jph. Wright Wilson st Garratt Jph. Factory row Ghest Jph. Moorgate Hampston Wm. Moorgate hill Hudson Charles, Carr lane Penington Frdk. Carolgate Penington Thos. Cooke's yard Penington Wm. West Retford Read Jas. Wellington place PAINTERS. Best William, Grove street Bingham Chas. Beardsall's row Crawshaw Jas. Chapelgate Foster Jonas, Moorgate Uttley John, Churchgate Winks John, Carr lane PAPER MAKERS. Nelson Horatio, West Retford Nelson Thos. Ordsall & Notm PHYSICIAN. Bigsbv John, Grove street PLUMBERS & GLAZIERS. Batty Thos. New street Dawber John, Carolgate Hawksley John, Spa lane Hudson Robert, Grove street Pashley Richard, Churchgate Twelves Wm. Factory row PROFESSORS OF MUSIC. Bugg Henry Thos. (org.) Beard- sail's row Saxby Edw. Spa lane Turvey Thos. (and dlr.) Square Wakeley Chas. (and dlr.) New st ROPE & TWINE MAKERS. Burton Geo. West Retford Colton Reb. (& flax dsr.) West Retford Davison Rt. West Retford Dent Wm. Spittal hill SADDLERS, &c. Hadwiek Wm. Market place Bailey Thos. Bridgegate Cutts* Joseph, West Retford Swinburn Wm. Carolgate SAILCLOTH AND SACKING MANUFACTURERS. Bailey Joseph, Moorgate Beardsall Adam, West Retford Haxby. Edw. Cookes' yd. Bridge gate Parker Jas. Bridgegate Skidmore Samuel, West Retford SHOPKEEPERS. Banks John, Bridgegate Bannister Geo. Russell place Burton Ann, Factory row Chester Mary, West Retford Dernie John, Moorgate Gace John, Moorgate Greenan John, Spittal hill Hurst George, Carolgate Merry weather Rd. Carolgate Peck Richard, Spittal hill Read Geo. Carolgate Small Geo. Carolgate Smith Wm. Spittal hill Walker Jane, West Retford Walker Wm. Moorgate SILVERSMITHS, &c. Hewitt Robert L. Market place Parker Jas. Bridgegate STAY MAKERS. Holliday Frances, Churchgate Kopkinson&Bonington, CarolgJL Slaney Susanna, Carolgate Taylor & Son, Grove street Wilkinson Eliz. Chapelgate STONE MASONS. Bailey John, Moorgate Campsell Wm. New street Sharpe Gervas, Wright Wilson st STRAW HAT MAKERS. Appleby Ann, Market place Ashmore M. & S. Carolgate Colbeck Ann, Moorgate Craves Sarah. Carolgate Penington Mary. Carolgate Penington Sus. West Retford SURGEONS. Flower Saml. Fras. Carolgate RETFORD DIRECTORY. 327 Gylby Worthington Thos., M.R. C.S. Churchgate Mee & AJlison, Bridgegate Smallev Jdo. Frdk. Wellingtonpl TAILORS. Beardsall Nathan, West Retford Dunk Benj. Moorgate Ellis Edw. Chapelgate Gantly John, Moorgate Handley John, Little lane Hopkinson Edw. sen. Carolgate Hopkinson Edw. jun. Carolgate Hopkinson Thos. Moorgate Keetley Jas. Grove street Kirk John, Turn lane Lawrence Thos. Spittal hill Mallender Geo. Churchgate Merryweather Saml. Carolgate Smedlev Thos. West Retford Smith Wm. Spittal hill Tissington Henry, Thrumpton Ward — — , Carolgate Woolfitt Wm. Grove street TALLOW CHANDLERS Cook Wm. Market place Cottam John Market place Dewick Fras. Square Fisher Wm. Grove street Littlewood Geo. Moorgate Padley Geo. Market place TANNERS. Rose & Wardell, Moorgate Spencer Wm. Moorgate Suter Geo. Peter, Bridgegate TIMBER MERCHANTS. Scorah Wm. West Retford Sharp Wm. & Geo. Corporation Wharf & Gainsbro' TOBACCO PIPE MAKER. Sutton Fras, Carolgate UPHOLSTERER. See Cabinet Makers. Hodgkinson Rd. Grove street VETERINARY SURGEONS. Hudson John,. Moorgate Hudson Thos. Twelves, Travis's buildings Hudson Wrn. James., Beardsall's row Tavlor John & Geo. Carolgate WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS. Chumbley Wm. Bridgegate Fletcher Charles, Bridgegate Levick Wm. Carolgate Parker James, Bridgegate Sharp Wm. Carolgate WHARFINGERS. Elliott Thos. (and agent to the Canal Co.) Corporation wharf White Fras. New wharf, New st WHEELWRIGHTS. Cobb Wm. West Retford Holliday George, Churchgate Holliday John, West Retford Holliday Thos. West Retford' Swinden Jph, West Retford Ward Thomas, New row WHITESMITHS, &c. Bailey James, Churchgate Palfreman Robert, Grove street. Palfreman Wm. jun. Cooke's yd Taylor George, Bridgegate VVolton John, Carolgate WINE & SPIRIT MERCHTS. Marked % are Spirit Merchants only. J Allen Peter, Churchgate JBecket Samuel, Carolgate J Cook William, Market place JDenman Philip, Square Dewick Fras. Square Hudson Rt.&Son, Square Hutchinson Jph. Marketplace Williams Wm. Rowland, New st WOOL MERCHANTS. Cockill Jph. Carolgate Fearnside David, Churchgate COACHES. FROM THE WHITE HART INN. The Royal Mail, to London, fyc. every afternoon at 1 ; and to Edinburgh, fyc. at 12 noon. The u Rockingham," to London daily, at half-past 2 afternoon ;. and to Leeds at half-past 8 morning. 328 RETFORD COACHES, &C. The *' Express," to London , at 4 afternoon ; and to York at 1 morning. The 4% Union" to London^ at half-past 7 evening ; and to Leeds at half-past 2 morning. The " Highflyer," to London, at half-past 11 night ; and to Edin- burgh at half-past 2 morning. The '« Wellington,'' to London, at half-past 2 morning ; and to Newcastle-upon-Tyne at 11 morning. The " Amity," to Doncaster, every afternoon at half-past 4 ; and to Stamford at 10 morning. FROM THE VINE INN. The " Industry," to Nottingham, every morning at 6, except Sunday ; and to Sheffield every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning at 6. A Car to Gainsborough every morning at 6, to meet the Hull Steam Packets and the Lincolnshire Coaches. CARRIERS. To London, Deacon, Harrison, and Co. from the Newcastle Arms every night, at 10; and James Jackson, from the Half Moon, daily, at 5 afternoon. To Bawtry, Thomas Stansfield & Thomas Tattersall, from Chapel- gate, every Thursday, at 9 morning. To Gainsborouh, Thomas Stansfield & Thomas Tattersall, from Chapelgate, every Tuesday at a quarter before 6 morning. To Leeds, Deacon, Harrison and Co. from the Newcastle Arms, every morning at 4 \ and James Jackson, from the Half Moon, daily, at 9 morning. To Lincoln, William Morton, from the Half Moon, every Wed. To Nottingham, Edward Hudson, from the White Swan ; and John Rishby, from Moorgate, ever Tuesday and Friday ; depart 6 morniner. To Ollerton, Thomas Stansfield, fiom Chapelgate, every Friday ; departs 7 morning. To Sheffield, George & Wm. Smith, through Blyth & Maltby, from Wright Wilson place, every Monday; depart 3 afternoon ; and from the Half Moon, George Malkin, Thursday & Saturday, and Wm. Morton, Fridav. To Tuxford, Thos. Stansfield & Thos. Tattersall, from Chapelgate, every Monday ; depart 9 morning. To Worksop, Thos. Stansfield & Thos. Tattersall, from Chapel- gate every Wednesday ; depart 9 morning. MARKET CARRIERS. If not otherwise expressed they arrive on Sat. mg, about 10, and depart 4 afternoon. Marked \ put up at the Half Moon Blyth, White Lion, M. Kirky X Chesterfield, Wm. Warner X Dunham, Richard Tomlinson %Gainsbro\ Thomas Cuckson ; John Taylor, (Crown) Tucs. & Saturday Gringley, $x\ Vine, M. Kirkby Laneham, Pheasant, G. Bolton Levcrton, Black's Head, Robert Wilkinson Normanton-on- Trent, Butcher's Arms, Thomas Waller Tuxford fy Newark* Vine, Benj. Godfrey; Granby, JohnBriggs X Worksop, Wm. Godfrey and Mr. Wilmot NORTH CLAY DIVISION. 329 CONVEYANCE BY WATER. FROM THE CORPORATION WHARF. Two Packets for goods and passengers arrive from Stock with and Gainsbro' every Wednesday and Saturday, at 11 morning, and dep. at 3 afternoon. Boats to Chesterfield, Worksop, and adjacent places, and to Lincoln, Sleaford, Horncastle and Boston, daily.— Thomas Elliott, Wharfinger. FROM THE NEW WHARF NEW STREET. Boats regularly to Stockwith and Gainsbro', from whence goods are forwarded to all parts. — Fras. White, Wharfinger* BECKINGHAM PARISH. Beckingham, in the liberty of Southwell and Scrooby, is a well built village, occupying a circular area, and pleasantly si- tuated on the turnpike road, 9 miles E. by S. of Bawtry, and 3 miles W. of Gainsborough. The parish, which extends eastward to the Trent, contains 2400 acres of land, the annual rental of which was valued at £264:6* 8s. 5|d. at the enclosure of the commons in 1779. It contains 102 houses and 481 in- habitants, and its poor rates in 1831 amounted to ^396. 19s. 3fch. of which ^71 was paid to the county rate. At the time of the Domesday survey, " Bechingham was a Beru of Laneham, the Archbishop of York's Soc ;" and in the 9th of Edward II. the King and the chapter of Southwell were its joint lords ; but the Duke of Newcastle is now lord of the manor ; and the chapter of Southwell received for their manorial rights an allotment of 198a. 1r. 21-p. at the enclosure in 1779, when 194a. 3r. 7p. of land was allotted to the prebendary of Beckingham, in Souths well collegiate church, and 58a. 3r. 38p. to the vicar, in lieu of the tithes of the parish. The other principal land owners are Robert Cross, Thomas Massingberd, and Robert Duckle, Esqrs. A large inn at Trent Port wharf, (see Saundby,) and two large farms, called the Pear Tree Hill and the Woods, distant about one mile from the village, are within the parish. The Church is a large ancient fabric, dedicated to All Saints, and has a nave, side aisles, and tower. The prebendary of Beckingham is patron of the vicarage, which is valued in the King's books at £6 15s. 3d., and is discharged from the pay- ment of first fruits. The Rev. Henry Watkins, M.A. is the incumbent, but the Rev. J. K. Miller officiates. In the village is a Methodist Chapel, which was built in 1807, and enlarged in 1821. The parish School is endowed with one eighth part of the 330 BECK INGHAM PARISH. rents of 33 acres of land in Beckingham, and 28£ acres in Saundby, which were bequeathed in 1731, by James Wharton, Esq. who directed that the remaining seven-eighths of the rents should be paid to Gainsbro' grammar school. This land is now let for ^120 per annum, so that the yearly sum received by this school is £lh> for which the master teaches ten free scholars; and four others are educated for the interest of ^£100 left in 1825 by Miss Sarah Richardson, whose father was nearly 50 years vicar of this parish. Two others are also taught for «£1. 12s. paid out of two acres of meadow land, which was given at the enclosure in exchange for the Poor's Land> and is now let for £4. 15s. per annum, of which, the remaining^. 3s. is given at Easter to the poor of the parish, to whom the following charities belong, viz. 40s» yearly, left in 1621, by William Clark, out of Land at Walkrith, to two indigent parishioners ; the interest of £20 left in 1753, by John Burton, to be distri- buted on the day of of St. John the Evangelist; £\ yearly out of lands in Beckingham, now belonging to T. Massingberd, Esq., left in 1729, to be given in bread; and the interest of £34, left by William Jackson in 1 772, and now in the hands of Mr. Robert Cross. For Trent Port f¥harf y see Saundby. Andrew Hy. shoemaker Beaumont Jph.shoemkr.Toll bar Burkinsheare Jph. shoemaker Buttery John, tailor Byron Thos. weaver Casson Geo. butcher Cobb John, joiner Cobb Wra. joiner Cottingham John, bricklayer Cross Robert, esq. Curtis Sus. vict. Hare & Hounds Eyre Thos. cheese dealer Farr Thos. corn & seed mercht Gray John, shoe maker Hankin Fras. corn miller Hemingway Geo. blacksmith Jenour Capt. Matthew Jubb Mary, blacksmith Maltby John, butcher Martin Mrs. Elizabeth Martin Miss Mary Massingberd Thos. Esq. Moody Mrs. Elizabeth Parkin Geo. weaver Parkin Barzilla, parish clerk Robinson Wm. wheelwright Robinson Samuel, wheelwright Smith James, bricklayer Smith Thos. nail maker Stovin Edw. schoolr., shopkpr., and post-office WagstaffGeo. tailor VVagstaff Matthewy swine jobber FARMERS. Thus * are Yeomen. •Best John, The Harwood Geo. f Foods Hurt Seth BroomheadSeth Nicholson John Cliff Charles Otter Wm. Cooke John Trimingham W. •Cottam Rt. Walker John •Cross William, * Watson Henry Peartree hill Webster John •Gamson Jervs. Wiswould SmI. COACHES. The Mail to Sheffield, at 1 1 mg. and to Louth, at3 aft. —Mr. E. Stovin keeps the Post-office for Beckingham, Walkering- ham and Saundby The Hope to Gainsbro' at S mg. and to Sheffield in the aft. A Coach to Doncaster at 9 mg. and to Lincoln at 6 evening. NORTH CLAY DIVISION. 331 BOLE PARISH. Bole is a small village and parish on the west bank of the Trent, 2 miles S. S. W. of Gainsborough, containing- 35 houses and 144 inhabitants. The soil is a strong clay, except on the Trent bank, where there is a rich loamy marsh. Owing to the river having here changed its ancient course, by avoiding a winding reach, about 1 10 acres of land which adjoin this pa- rish, are in Lincolnshire. The poor rates in 1831 amounted to .£121. 10s , of which £22. 19s. 3d., was paid to the county rate. The Manor and Rectory of Bole, form a Prebend for the maintenance of a Prebendary in York Cathedral, but Lord Wenlock is the lessee of the prebendal lands and rectoral tithes. The Church is a small ancient structure, dedicated to St. Martin, and has a handsome pinnacled tower, with three bells. The living is a vicarage, valued in the King's Books at £4. 13s. 4d. It is a peculiar of the dean and chapter of York ; the prebendary of Bole is the patron, and the Rev. John Singleton is the incumbent, but the officiating curate is the Rev. James Hawton. In 1394, Richard IT. granted leave to William Roth well, to assign for the support of the vicar and his successors, " eight acres of land, and six of pasture," which lands " were held of John Danby, clerk, as of the prebend of Bole, by two appearances at the Court of Bole, and paying 2d. " Charities. — In 1671, a person unknown, left 5s. yearly to the poor, out of a farm at Welham, which now belongs to S. Thorold, Esq. In 1745, George Mower, Esq., paid 68 years' arrears of this annuity, amounting to <£17, which with other gifts, was expended in the purchase of a house and rood of land, now let for £4. 4s. per annum, which is distributed yearly by the churchwardens. The following legacies have been be- queathed for the education of the poor, and their yearly amount of £4. 6s., is paid to a schoolmaster for teaching nine poor children ; viz. 40s. yearly, left in 1781, by William Net- tleship, out of an estate now belonging to Elizabeth Nettle- ship; £30 left in 1807, by John Nettleship ; and .£30 be- queathed in 1820 by Robert Wilkinson. Bingley George, vict. Dog Boswell John, Beerhouse Crosshy William, shoemaker and parish clerk Fenton John, shoemaker Taylor VVm. shopkeeper Winks John, schoolmaster FARMERS. Atkinson Jas. Marriott John Casson Jane Scott Wm Fenningley Geo. Wilkinson John Jackson Geo. Winks Wm. BURTON (WEST) PARISH. West Burton is a small parish containing only six houses, 332 BURTON (west) parish. 40 inhabitants, and 900 acres of rich land, on the west bank of the Trent, lying south of Bole, seven miles N E by E of Ret- ford, and four miles S by W of Gainsbro'. The church, or as it is generally called, the chapel is a small edifice with a turret in which hangs a bell. The living, which is now enjoyed by the Rev. Wm. Moulds, is a perpetual curacy of the certified value of £12. 13s. 4d. and is in the gift of David Walters, Esq. of Gloucester House, who is also the lay impropriator and owner of all the land in the parish, except the Mill Estate which belongs to Lord Wenlock. Until 1797 the Trent here took such a circular sweep that a boatman might have thrown Tiis hat on shore, and after sailing two miles have taken it up again, but in that year the stream forced itself through the nar- row neck of land in a straight line, in consequence of which the old winding channel was filled up, and divided betwixt the counties of Nottingham and Lincoln, besides which, the latter has now about 100 acres on the west side of the present course of the river. Before the conquest there was a manor here possessed by " Speranoc," and after tbat epoch, part of the parish was " aBerue of the Archbishop of York's Soc of Lane- ham." After the dissolution, the rectory which had belonged to Worksop priory was given by Henry 8th. to one Wm.Nevill, gent, and his heirs. The present occupiers are W. Ashton, of East House, Francis Bingham, of Middle House, and John Cook, of West House, farmers ; and Benjamin Crosby, corn- miller. Charities. — Twenty shillings are given yearly to one poor person of West Burton, from the bequest of Wm. Clark, (in 1621) out of an estate at Walkrith, in Lincolnshire, now be- longing to Richard Atkinson, Esq. In 1710, George Green left 3 acres of land on the Upper Ing of Sturton, and directed the rent of it to be paid to a schoolmaster for teaching 3 poor children of W^est Burton. At the Sturton Enclosure, in 1824, the school land was augmented with an allotment of 1a. Or. 27p. and is now worth £4 per annum. clareborough parish. This large parish, which extends from Retford to Hayton, and Leverton, is intersected by the Chesterfield Canal, and is skirted on the west by the river Idle. It contains 3,410a. 1r. 18p. of good clay land, which in l 807, was valued for the poor rates, at the annual rent of £4,165 9s.. It is divided into five Hamlets, viz. : — Clareborough, containing 1223a. 2r. 17p. valued at .£994 19s.; Welham 804a. 2r. valued at «£G88 4s.; Little Gringley 811a. 1 r. 10p. valued at .£871. 14s. ; Moor- gate 337a. 1r;20p. valued at .£1287. 2s. f>d. ; and Bolham CLABEBOROUGH PARISH. when 281a. 1r. 19p. was alloted to the rector in lieu of tithe, and is now called Clay- worth-High-Field, or the Tithe Farm, Peter Dickonson, Esq. is lord of the manor, and the principal proprietors of land are the Rev. John Otter, and Thomas Colton, F. Davenport and G. S* Foljambe, Esqrs. In the village is a Methodist chapel, which was built about 30 years ago, and a Free School, which was founded in 1702, by the Rev. Wm. Sampson, rector of the parish, who endowed it with 26a. 1r. 6p. of land, now let for .£58 per annum. In 1707, Gphr. Johnson left an orchard worth £2 a-year, to be occupied by the schoolmaster, who has also a house and grass plot left in 1813, by Francis Otter, subject to a rent charge of <£4, to be paid yearly to two of the best plough- ers, and two of the best female shearers of the parish ; but the contest for these prizes gave rise to such great dissensions, that the £4. has for some yesrs been carried to the school account. The master now receives .£48 yearly, for teaching eleven poor boys of Clayworth, and two of Wiseton ; and the remainder of the school income is given by the rector in prizes, to those free-scholars who arc most proficient in learning, pursuant to the will of the founder. CLAYWORTH PARISH./ ,337 The other Charities of Cla^ oljwuf i h are six small rent charg-es, amounting to £5 13sr 4d. yearly, left to the poor by donors unknown, and distributed at Easter and Christmas, The benefactions belong to Wiseton township, are two yearly sums of 18s. and 6s. 8d. paid by Lord Althorp, as the rent of the Poor's close, and an annuity left out of his land by an un- known donor ; .£1 yearly, left to poor out of William Gray's land; and £o yearly, left in 1751, by Richard Acklom, out of land which now belongs to Lord Althorp. Drakeholes, or JDrakeloiv, is a hamlet four miles E.S.E. of Bawtry, on the Gainsbro' road, partly in Wiseton township and partly in the parish of Everton. This is one of the depots for the Chesterfield and Trent canal, which passes by here. through a tunnel 250 yards in length, and 15 feet in height and width, in cutting which many coins of Constantine, and human bones, were found. There is no doubt that this has been a Roman station, for a Roman road, of which some faint traces may still be seen, has passed through it, and connected it with the station of Agelocum, or Littleborough. Here is also a good inn, and a handsome entrance lodge to Wiseton Hall, built by the late Mr. Acklom, whose long life seems to have been prin- cipally occupied in improving the country around him, and his place is well supplied by his successor, Lord Althorp, who in 1829 erected a steam-engine of eight horses' power, for the purpose of pumping off the drainage water from the low lands on both sides of the Idle, in Wiseton and Mattersea. New Wisetox is a small hamlet of cottages in Wiseton township, half a mile N.W. of Clayworth, built by the late Mr. Acklom, and now belonging to Lord Althorp, through whose estate the canal pursues a winding course of two miles. Wiseton is a small village in the township to which it gives name, five miles S.E. by E. of Bawtry. The Lordship con- tains 930 acres, all of which, except 48 acres, belongs to the Hon. John Charles Spencer Viscount Althorp, eldest son of Earl Spencer, to whom it passed in marriage with the grand' daughter and heiress of the late Jonathan Aclom, Esq. of Wiseton Hall, a handsome mansion which was rebuilt by him and his predecessor, but is seldom visited by its present owner. Its situation is highly pleasing, standing on a gentle swell, with a lawn of upwards of thirty acres in front, finely belted by trees and ornamental shrubs, and judiciously broken at intervals by picturesque clumps. The grounds command extensive prospects over the four adjacent shires of York, Lin- coln, Nottingham, and Derby. The hail consists of a centre three stories high, with two wings of one lofty story each ; the whole light and airy, and accompanied with a commodious range of offices. The interior is elegantly finished, and con- tains some good paintings by Holbein, Barlow, Caravaggis, and other artists. The manor is so well wooded as to appear one 2g2 338 NORTH CLAY DIVISION. great ornamental plantation, and a well conducted walk round the home grounds is led. for upwards of a mile in a circuitous route, so as to connect the exterior woods with the domestic scenery, whilst on the surrounding. eminences may be seen the new farm houses erected by the late Mr. Aclom. The old hall was originally the residence of the Nelthorpe family, but was purchased about two centuries ago by one of. the Ackloms or Adorns, an ancient Yorkshire family, often honoured with knighthood in earlier times, when that title was conferred for important services to the state, and on those whose birth en- titled them to it. The branch of this family which was settled at Wiseton is now extinct, as its last heiress, the late Lady Althorp, died a few years ago without issue. CLAY/FORTH PARISH DIRECTORY. CLAY WORTH TOWNSRTJ'. Barlow Mrs. Mary Bennett Saml. vict. White Swan Bingham Mrs. Ann Cheetham William, tailor Clayton Geo. viet. Swan inn. Colton Thomas, Esq. Davenport Frederick, Esq. Dixon Wm. butcher & beer house Gamble Wm. beer house Gray Mr. Samuel Gray Miss Sarah Groves -Mrs. Elizabeth Hindley Thomas, coal dealer Hunt William, shopkeeper Jackson Wm. bricklayer Lamb George, corn miller Latham George, boat owner Ledger Mrs. Sarah Levick James, wheelwright Maples Mrs. Mary Nicholson Wm. shopkeeper Otter Henry, gent. Palmer John, boat owner Parkinson Thos. parish clerk Pashley Wm. tailor Pearson John, blacksmith Scott Saml. shopkeeper Shepherd Rev. Thomas Henry, M-A. rector Standfield Mr. John Stevenson John, boat owner Stovin George, gent. Swinden James, wheelwright Taylor Kt. coal merct. Common Taylor Wm. bo\t owner Teal John, bdg. & day school Theaker Wm. shoe maker Tissington John, tailor FARMERS. Marked * are Yeomen. Borley John Standfield Seth Fox John Waterhousc Dd, Gamson W. H. Highfield Woodhouse *Waterhouse So~ Ledger Thos. lomon Field White George, *Moss John Grange •Nicholson Ed. Wilkinson Wm. Pearson Thos. WISETON TOWNSHIP. Bletcher John, farmer Chowler Wm. gamekeeper Colton Jas. shpkr. New Wiseton Duncan George, gardener Greasby Wm. shoe maker* New Wiseton Hall John, land agent to Lord Althorp Kirkby Edward, joiner Parkinson Thos. vict. wharfinger, and coal dlr. Swan inn, Drake- holes Rollinson John, farmer White Mary, cowk.eeper Coaches, which call at the Swan inn, Drakeholes : — The Royal Mail from Louth to Sheffield, at 20 nun. p. ret. 2 aft. II ni£ n' EVERTON TARiSri. 339 The Express from Lincoln to Doncaster, at i p. 9 mg. ret. 5 evening. The Hope from Sheffield to Gainsbro', at ^ bef. 7 nig. ret. ac- cording to tide. EVERTON PARISH Comprises the two townships of Everton and Scaftworth, the former of which contains about 3500 acres, and the latter 1049a. 3r. 34p. It is skirted on three sides by the river Idle, and extends Avestward from Misson Car to Bawtry, and south- ward to the parishes of Clayworth and Mattersea. The eastern part of it has a bed of clay, noted for making excellent bricks and tiles, and the western side, near the river, has a fine tract of rich sandy land. The population of the whole parish, whicli is included in the liberty of Southwell and Scrooby, amounted in 1831, to 792 souls, living in 176 houses. The common land in Everton was enclosed in 1760, and in Scaftworth in 1773. The rectorial tithes of the new enclosures in Everton township were commuted for an allotment of 225a. 2r. 8p. given to Lord Charles Cavendish, who was then the impropriator. At the same time the vicarial tithes, of the whole parish were redeemed by two allotments of 90 acres in Everton and 15 acres in Scaft- worth^ besides ten acres of old glebe. The great tithes are stillpaid on all the old enclosures in the parish, and also on the new enclosures in Scaftworth. Wm. Walton, Esq. of Stockwith, is now the impropriator. The Charities belonging to this parish, are .£1. 6s, .8d. to the poor of Everton, and 13s. 4d. to those of Scaftworth, to be paid yearly out. of Stonehills farm, donor unknown ; an annuity of 10s. out of an estate belonging to J.. Walker, Esq.; and 5s. yearly left by Robert Ducklin,. in 1721, out of a house belong- ing to the vi0ar, for the poor of Everton; and .£100 left in 1800, by Elizabeth Ella, who directed half of the interest to be given to poor married lying-in women, and the remainder to be paid for the education of poor girls of Everton, where a school, has been built by subscription. Everton is a good village three miles E.S.E. of Bawtry, on the Gainsbro' road. The church is dedicated to the Holy Tri- nity, in consequence of which the village feast is held on Tri- nity Sunday. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the King's books at £J. 2s. 2d. The Rev. Robert Evans, M.A> is the incumbent, and John Hall, Esq. of Hull, is the patron, having purchased the advowson of the Duke of Devonshire, who has sold all his property in this parish to various proprietors. — The Archbishop of York is lord of the manor, but of the soil no less than 1095a. 3r. 38p. belongs to Magnus's charity, be- ^r.e^thed'tbr the weal of Newark, sr.c 23Sa-. 3r. Ok. to Clerk- 340 NORTH CLAY DIVISION. son's charity, for schools, &c. at Mansfield and Mansfield Wood- house. The other principal land-owners are Viscount Al thorp, Robert Dawson Otter, Esq., and Thomas Jackson, Esq. Car- hill, a small hamlet, and two farms called Pusty-hill, are in this township, as is also part of Drakeholes. (See Clay worth.) Harwell, or Harewell, though in Everton township, and within half a mile of the village, is a separate hamlet and manor, of which the corporation of Newark, as trustees of Magnus's charity, are lords, and also principal owners of the land, part of which belongs to Viscount Althorp, and to Clerkson's free- schools in Mansfield and Woodhouse. According to Throsby, this manor is within the jurisdiction of the royal Duchy of Lancaster. Sc a ft worth is but a small village, one mile E. of Bawtry, near the river Idle. The manor, which comprises the whole township, has for its lord, Viscount Althorp, who is also owner of all the land except about 40 acres. His Lordship, however, pays for the manor a quit rent to the See of York, and holds with it free warren in the paramount manor of the archbishop's soke of Southwell and Scrooby. During the enclosure of the common, several specimens of Roman antiquities were found here, particularly part of a spear, and some fragments of urns. This discovery seems to have confirmed the opinion that the vestiges of some fortifications near the village are the remains of a Roman fort or station, through which passed the Roman road from the stations at Doncaster and Littleborough. EFERTON PARISH DIRECTORY. Barker Mrs. Frances Blythman Miss Mary Boswell William, tailor Brown Edward, cart owner Buchanan Mrs, Burkinsheare Wm. tailor Dickinson John, gardener Ellis Mrs. Emson John, blksmth. & beer hs Evans Miss Mary Evans Rev. Rt. M. A. vicar Faveil Michael, gardener Cordon Captain Augustus Gordon Captain Cyrus Graham Jph. shopkpr. & vict Guest Richard, tailor Kent Jas. tailor & parish clerk Kitching Valentine, tailor Houghton Wm. butcher Lowther Mrs. Naylor George, nail maker & Nettleship Wm. brick maker coal merct. Drakeholes Nicholson Geo. joiner & whgt. Oldlield John, wheelwright Otter Miss Catherine Otter Rt. Dawson, Esq. brick & tile maker Parkin Wm. bricklayer, maltster, and overseer Pasmore Thomas, gent Raynes Fras. land surveyor and valuer Raynes Henry, surgeon Raynes George, gent Rhodes Edw. My. grocer & dpr Rhodes Wm. butcher Ridley Jph. land bailiff Ridley Wm. vict. & maltster, Sun Stephenson Geo. bricklayer Stephenson Geo. shopkeeper Taylor James, corn miller ,'i'f' Mr. Benj. Drakeholes [ Valentine James, tailor GRINGLEY PARISH. 341 Walker John, blacksmith Walton Geo. schoolmaster Webster Godfrey, shopkeeper Whitesmith Miss Wilburn Hannah, shopkeeper Williamson Fras. nail maker Williamson Mrs. Mary BOOT & SHOE MKRS. Burton John Nicholson Thos Graham Wm Spencer Geo Hague Thos Spencer Rt Hirst Wm FARMERS. Marked * are Yeomen, and f re- side at Harwell. Bingley Peter, *MaIlender Rd. Stone hill Carr hill •fBrewertonG. Parkin Francis, Ellis Philip Carr fEllis Thos f Roberts Thos Fletcher Thos Stephenson Jph 'Griffin John Stephenson Thos Harrison Saml *fTaylor Wm t Hirst Rt Whaley Wm Hobson Ezra Whitaker David *t Justice Thos Williamson Thos *Knowles John SCAFT WORTH. Graves Thomas, farmer Hutchinson James, farmer Sampson Thomas, farmer Smith Joshua, vict. King William Thorn Lieut. -Col. assistant quar- ter-master general for the northern district Coaches and Carriers. — SeeBaw- try and Gainsbro'. GRINGLEY-ON-THE-HILL Is a delightful village, forming four streets of detached houses on the highest part of the road from Bawtry to Gainsborough, six miles E.S.E. of the former, and the same distance W. by N. of the latter town. From its situation, on the loftiest of the loftiest of the bold promontaries which overlook the wide extent of Misson and Misterton Cars (see page 43,) it commands such extensive prospects, that it is said, the Minsters of York, Lincoln, and Beverley, may be seen from it on a clear day, across the vales of the Trent and the Idle ; whilst the Chester- field Canal appears in the nearer distance, emerging from the tunnel at Darkholes, and winding under the long ridge of hills which extends eastward to the Trent* Near the village are several swelling mounds, which, were it not for their size, might be supposed artifich'cial from their very bases : on them, however, have been thrown up three others in ancient times; a a small one to the west of the church, and two large ones on its eastern side, one of which is called Beacon Hill. These are evidently the remains of Saxon or Danish works, and the land. which is still called *' The Parks," is traditionally said to have belonged to a Saxon Lord. As the sites of several Roman stations in, the adjacent counties maybe distinctly seen from this place, it has no doubt been used as an exploratory camp. A great annual Fair is held here on December 13th, for sheep, cattle, boots, shoes, cloth, blankets, &c. ; a hiring for servants on November 1st, and a feast on the nearest Sunday to St. Peter's daw 312 NORTH CLAY DIVISION, The Church is a neat Gothic structure, with a nave, side aisles and tower, and is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, Near it stands an ancient cross, which was repaired about ten years ago, when it narrowly escaped the desecrating* intentions of some of the parishioners, who wanted to use its materials for the reparation of the roads. Tradition says, it was built in commemoration of one of the Edwards having passed this way into Lincolnshire. The benefice is a discharged vicarage valued in the King's books at £%. 18s. 4d. The Duke of Rut- land is the patron, and the Rev. John Holt is the incumbent, but the officiating minister is the Rev. T. Owston. The Rectory formed part of the possessions of the priory of Worksop, but after the dissolution, Edward VI. granted it to Sir James Foljambe, Knight, and his heirs for the yearly rent of £22. 13s. 4d. The Parish contains 168 houses, 7^7 inhabitants, and 4139a. 1r. 10p. of land, nearly 2,000 acres of which are com- prised in the Car, the drainage of which has cost much labour and expense. (See Misterton.) At the inclosure in 1800, when the annual rental of the parish was estimated at .£3,192 15s. 10d., about 500 acres were alloted to the Duke of Rutland in lieu of the impropriated tithes, and 179a. 1r. 19p. to the vicar, as a commutation of the vicarial tithes. The Duke of Rutland has since sold his allotment to several purchasers. Two poor parishioners receive yearly 40s. from the bequest of William Clark , who, in 1621, charged his estates at Gainsbro', Walkrith, and Morton, with this and some other annuities. An unknown benefactor left to eight poor widows of this parish £l yearly out of an orchard which now belongs to George Cross. The Manor of Gringley, or as it was anciently called Greene- lege, was in the soke of Mansfield, and of the fee of Roger de Busli. It was long held by the Lovetots and the Furnivals, but in the 3rd of Edward III. Simon de Beresford claimed in it " emendation of bread, ale, free warren, park, wreck, and weyf." William de la Pole granted it to Edward III. It was afterwards granted to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, as part of the honour of Tickhill, in which it continued till it was sold out by King James. It has long been held by the family of the Duke of Portland, who, as well as being lord of the manor, is owner of a great part of the soil, a large portion of which is copyhold. For the Manor of Gringley-on-the~Hill y ivith its members, viz., Misterton, Walkeringham, and West Stockwith, his Grace holds, at the White Hart Inn, a Court Baron every third Monday for the recovery of debts under 40s., and for proving the wills of the copyholders. He also holds a Manorial Court twice a-year, on the day following the Retford May-day and Michaelmas Sessions, for the swearing-in of juries, &c, and for the transfer of copyhold land, which is GRINGLEY PARISH. 343 here subject to a yearly chief rent of about 6d. per acre, and to a fine amounting* generally to about four per cent, on the estimated value, on every change of tenant, whether by death or purchase. Mr. F. H. Cartwright, of Bawtry, is the manor Steward, and Mr. Reuben Worley is the Bailiff, The distri< which is paid yearly to the trustee, A. H. Eyre, Esq* who transmits it to the vicar, together with £2, as the interest of £50, left by Diana Egre m 1763. This £\0 is distributed amongst the poor on St. Thomas's day. The School is endowed with 3J acres of Rampton . Marsh, and three cow gates on the common, worth together about £4 per annum, for which the master teaches 13 poor children. The founder is- unknown. The profit of the first grass of an acre of the Marsh belongs to the poor. The Marsh, after being mown, is thrown open as a common.. Bingham Rt. grocer & draper Brown Rt. parish clerk Brown Thos. joiner Butler Geo. vict. Swan Chambers Thos. corn miller Flower Isaac, vict. Nag's Head Gunthorpe Geo. shoemaker Hill Thos. tailor Hurst John,, vict. Wheat-Sheaf MilnerGeo. butcher Otter Chas. tailor Otter Thos. tailor Richmond Chpr. whgt. & smith Scott John & Wm. shoemakers Spencer Geo. shoemaker Twedell Jph. schoolmaster Wallas Rev. Edmund, curate Wheat Wm. tailor Wright Geo. blacksmith FARMERS. Bacon John Binge John Bingham Rd. Bingham Wm. Binney John Butler Geo. Butler Wm. Freeman Nichls* Key Henry Ledger Thos. Levick Saml. Marshall Geo. Pigott Geo. Priest Jonth. Chambers Thos. Scott Jph. Cocking Rt. Simpson Thos. Coulson Wm. Douglas Wm. Draper Jonth, Elsom John Fisher Saml. Turner Wm. and maltster Ward John Wells Thos. STOKEHAM PARISH. Stokeham is but a small hamlet and parish, five miles N.E. of Tuxford, containing only 8 houses, 48 inhabitants, and about 600 acres of land, nearly all of which is the freehold pro- perty of five of the inhabitants ; but Earl Manvers is lord of the manor, which in Domesday Book is called Estoches, and was soc to Fledborough, of the fee of the Bishop of Lincoln. Tt was successively held by the families of Lysure, Bassett, Swift, and Amstrudders. The Church is a small fabric, annexed to the vicarage of East Drayton, which has all the tithes of the parish. (See page 364.) The Rev. Charles J. Sympson is the incumbent, and the Rev. A. Galland, the curate. Of the following inha- bitants all are yeomen except the two last : — Xeeton Thomas &jjnn William OtterJohn&Wili Quibell Joseph Ward George Williamson Mrs. I). TRESW.BI,f. AND TUXF0RD -PARISHES. 38? TRESWELL PARISH. Treswell, or Tireswelle, four and a half miles E. bv S. of Retford, is a tolerable village and parish, having 4*9 houses, 224 inhabitants, and about 1,700 acres of land, all of which is a fertile clay, except the east end, which is sandy, and adjoins the Trent marsh. A. H. Eyre, Esq. is lord of the manor, but the land belongs to several proprietors, amongst whom are, William Wells, Henry Parnell, John Holmes, and William Hutchinson, Esqrs. Jt was anciently in two manors, called the East and West Hold, the latter of which was long the property and residence of the Musters family, who held it of the Richmond fee ; and the other, which was held of the Tick- hill fee, passed from. Roger, the tenant of Roger de Busli, to William de Lovetot, who gave his portion of the church here to Worksop priory. These manors were afterwards united in the Hercy family, and from them passed to the Roos's and the Broughton's. Tffe Church is an ancient structure, with a lofty embattled tower, and is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The Rectory was, like the manor, in two medieties valued in the King's books, one at £9. 15s. 8d. and the other at <£8. Is. 4d., but it was consolidated in 1764, and is now in the alternate patronage of the Dean and Chapter of York, and the heirs of the Stephenson family. The Rev. Robert Affleck, of Silkstone, Yorkshire, is the rector, and the Rev. John Mickle, the curate, A small Methodist Chapel was built here in 1S25. The Feast. is held on Old Midsummer Day, Briggs John, bricklayer Gyles Mrs. Catherine Norman John, vict. Red Lion . Radford Wm. grocer Temporal John, shoemaker Whitehead John, shoemaker Young Jas. shoemaker FARMERS. Marked § are Yeomen. ^Cocking: John ^Hewitt John Levick Samuel,Taylor J ph. Foreward §Temporal Ann ' Levick John §Turner Jonth. Linley Richard,^ Wells John, Woodhouse Quibeli §Lumby Wm. § White Thos. Popple John § Whitehead Jno. Skelton Jph. § Whitehead W. §Smith William, Floss house TUXFORD PARISH Is about two miles and three furlongs in length, and is inter- sected by the Great North road, and nearly eight miles of bye roads. It contains 232 houses, 1,113 inhabitants, and 2913a, Ir. 21p. of good clay land, which was enclosed in 1799, when the tithes were commuted for two allotments, viz. 326a. 2r. 39f. to the appropriators, and 103a. 3r. 2Jp. to the vicar, in 388 SOUTH CLAY DIVISION. addition to 8a. 2r. Up. of old glebe. In Saxon times, Tux- ford or Tuocfarn formed two manors, but after the Conquest it was part of the fee of Roger de Busli, and had soc in Schi- drinton and Walesby. It was afterwards held by the Lexing- tons, the Longvillers, the Suttons, and the Markhams, from the latter of whom it passed to three co-heiresses, and has since undergone a further sub-division, so that it now belongs to several proprietors ; — the farms at Merrifields, Scarthing Moor Bridge, and Tuaford Lodge, are the property of the Duke of Newcas- tle, and those at Westwood and Cock Park belong to the Hon. and Rev. J. L. Saville, and to Trinity and St. John's Colleges, in Cambridge, Mill Hill, where there are two wind-mills, and Holyivell a spring of cold water, noted for curing rheu- matism and scurvy, are both in this parish. TUXFORD, which stands on the North road, in the centre of the parish, and contains most of its population, is a small. market town, seven miles S. by E. of Retford, 28 miles N.N.E. of Nottingham, and 137 miles N. by W. of London. It has a good weekly market on Monday, and two annual fairs, viz. on May 12th for cattle, sheep, millinery, &c, and September 25th for hops, of which considerable quantities are raised in the vicinity. A great part of the town was burnt down on Sep- tember 8th, 1702, and afterwards rebuilt, so that it has now a modern appearance. It has no manufactures, but being a great thoroughfare, and the centre of a very productive agricultural district, its market and fairs are well supported, and its inns and taverns derive much of their prosperity from the numerous travellers constantly passing to the north and south. It is a well-known posting stage, and is often called Tnxford-inthe- Clay. The Church, which stands opposite to the principal inn, is dedicated to St. Nicholas, consists of a nave and side aisle, and has a spire with five good bells. All the ancient monuments mentioned by Thoroton, as well as the armorial glass, are in a state of decay; there is, however, still in exist- ence a representation of St. Lawrence roasting on a grid- iron ; one man is employed in blowing the fire, another turn- ing him with a pair of tongs, and a third looking on ; also some specimens in the north porch of a priest in the attitude of prayer. This latter is on a stone of a coffin shape ; the figure is only a bust, with his head shaven, and a cushion under it, accompanied by a quatrefoil, rondeau, chalice, and paten, the emblems of the sacerdotal office. In the north wall also is a verv ancient figure of a lady in a square head dress, strait sur- coat, and long sleeves, and a hound at her feet ; opposite to her is an altar tomb with the mutilated trunk of an armed knight ; but the armorial bearings are too obscure to be ascertained. Of its former history, we find recorded in Tanner, that here was a college founded by John de Longvillers, who obtained leave to pfeee In the parsonage house here a college of five chaplains , TUXFORO PARISH. 389 one of whom to be warden ; but that not taking* effect, he got leave from Edward III. to give this advowson to Newstead pri- ory, that they might find five ehaunting priests, viz. three at Tuxford, and two at their own conventual church, whose duty should be to pray for his soul, &c. In 1545, Henry VIII. gave the patronage and appropriation to Trinity college, Cambridge, to which institution they still belong. The vicarage is valued in the King's books at £4. 14s. 74. and the Rev. Edward Bishop Elliott is the incum- bent. The church was repaired and its pews renewed in 1811, at the cost of £1400, and in 1812, a small organ was purchased by subscription, for .£100. The vicarage house is a handsome mansion surrounded by tasteful shrubberies, &c. About 35 years ago, Mr. Samuel Waddington, brother of the late vicar of Tuxford^ was prosecuted and heavily fined, for monopolising hops. On his trial, he said " the hop grounds were the gold mines of England." Since then the hop yards in this neigh* bourhood have been greatly reduced. The Methodist chapel, in Eldon-street, was built in 1809. The workhouse was erected in 1828, in lieu of the old one, which stood in Newcastle-street. The prison or lock-up^ with the pinfold behind it, was con- structed in 1823. The parish enjoys three public schools, and several benefactions. The Grammar School, which is held in a well-built house, and has long .been in considerable repute, was founded in 1669, by Mr. Charles Read, who gave .£200 towards building the school-house, and endowed it with lands at Ffdkingham, ia Lincolshire, which. appear to have been exchanged for a yearly rent charge of .£48. 15s-. 5d.. paid by Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bart. Of the rents he directed .£20 to be paid to the master., and £5 each yearly to four of the scholars, who must be sons of poor widows of ministers, or of decayed gentry, and be ad- mitted at the age of seven or upwards, and remain till they ar*- rive at sixteen, when their places are to be supplied by others. The master has the free use of a house and garden, and is al- lowed to take boarders. The founder made a similar bequest to Corby, in Lincolnshire, and appointed six trustees at each place, and the mayor and aldermen of Grantham to be visitors. The Girls 1 National and the Infant Schools form one build-* ing, with two dwellings in the centre for the teachers, and were built in 1830, on the vicarage land, at the cost of about £400) by the present vicar, aided by individual subscriptions, a grant of £40 from the National Society, and .£30 from Trinity Col- lege. There are now upwards of 50 girls and 50 infants in these seminaries, which are supported by the vicar and voluntary contributions. Benefactions. — Lady White left to the poor a close of 12 acres adjoining Westwood common. At the enclosure it re- ceived an allotment, and is now let for £21 per annum. In 390 TUXFORD DIRECTORY. 1750, the sum of £50, left by Wm. Railton, and fifteen smaller donations, amounting- collectively to ^171. 10s. ? were laid out in the purchase of the poors' land, consisting- of 9f acres, in three closes, at Tuxford and Normanton, now let for £Yl. 6s. 7d. yearly, which is distributed at Whitsuntide and on St. Thomas' day, except 10s. to the vicar for a sermon on Good Friday. — These closes are exonerated from tithe. The church land, consisting of Scarthingmoor close, 5a. 2r., and an allotment made at the enclosure, called Long-lands, and containing* 2a. 3r., was let on a lease for 21 years in 1813, at the tri- fling- yearly rent of one shilling, in consideration of a fine of .£416, which was expended in repairing- the church, for which purpose the land was bequeathed, but by whom is now un- known. The POST OFFICE is in the Market-place, at Mrs. Mary Scott's. Letters are despatched to London and the South at half-past two afternoon, and to Edinbro' and the North at half- past eleven morning-. TUXFORD DIRECTORY. Marked 1 are Farmers. Appleby Mrs. Mary, Manvers st Barker Mr. Thos. Newcastle st I Beedham Saml. Lincoln st Bennett Mrs. Sarah, Manvers st 1 Blagg Ann, Lodge 1 Bowman Thos. Merrifields 1 Bowman John, Eldon st 1 Briggs George, Lincoln st Briggs Mr. Joseph, Chandos st Briggs Robt. sen. gent. Eldon st 1 Briggs Robt. jun. Newcastle st Brooke Mrs. Mgt. Newcastle st Brown Wm. letter carrier, El- don street 1 Brumby Geo. Newcastle st Cocking Mrs. Ann, Lincoln st Clark Mr. Jas. Church yard Creed Dorothy, baker, Eldon st Curtis Sarah, matron, poorhouse Cotton Geo. turner & spinning- wheel mfr. Eldon st Cotton Saml. cooper, Mill hill 1 Daft Saml. Newcastle st Day Mrs. Maria, Eldon st 1 Denby Rd. Scanning moor bdg Elliott Rev. Ed. Bishop, vicar Ellis Geo. toy dlr. Newcastle 6t Ellis Mark, toy dlr. Newcastle st I Glossop Saml. Westwood Hall Thos. coachman, Newcas- tle street 1 Jackson Jph. Eldon st Jameson Jno. veterinary surgeon, Newcastle street Key worth Mrs. Jane, Manvers st Ludlam Isaac, solicitor, & agent to the Yorkshire Fire and Life office, Newcastle street Ludlam Wm. gent. Newcastle st Marshall Wm. hair dresser & pat- ten mkr. Market place Mason Rev. John, curate of Bo- thamsall, Market place 1 Metheringham John, Westwood 1 Newcombe John, Eldon st Pratt Geo. hosier, Newcastle st I Read John, Newcastle st Shacklock John, hat mfr. New- castle street Shelton Mrs. Sarah, Manvers st Storey Benj. watch mkr. Eldon st Taylor Thos. town crier, Lin- coln street Turner Win. gent. Eldon st I Tustin Ann, Lincoln st 1 Unwin Mark, Lincoln st Warriner Jph. fellmonger, New- castle street TL'XFORD DIRECTORY. 391 1 YVatmough Edw. Newcastle st 1 Weightman John, Newcastle st Vv T hite Ladv Eliz. Lincoln st ACADEMIES. ■ Grammar School, Lincoln street, Martin Bower Girls' National fy Infant, South road, Susanna Hopper & Fanny Easterfield Holmes Margt. (ladies' bdg. & day) Eldon street Thornton Ann, Eldon st BAKERS & FLOUR DLRS. Scott Mary, Market place Wilson Matthias & Co. Eldon st BLACKSMITHS. Taylor Wm. Newcastle st White Wm. Eldon street BOOT & SHOE MKRS. Browne William, Eldon st Daft John. Chapel yard Gascoyne Edw. Newcastle st Johnson William, Eldon st Savage Jonathan, Manvers st Scarliff John, Eldon st Scarliff Wm. Newcastle st Smith Robert, Eldon st Tunnard John, Eldon st Whitworth Thos. Newcastle st BRAZIERS & TINMEN. Clark Mary, Eldon st Rates Thos. Newcastle st BRICKLAYERS. Richardson John, Eldon st Stoakes John, Newcastle st Thompson John, Newcastle st BRICK MAKERS. Moss John, Mill hill Salmon Wm. Clark's lane BUTCHERS. Crome Wm. Chandos court Flower Wm. Chapel yd Spurr Fras. Market place Watmough John, Mill hill CORN MILLERS. Birkett Thos. Newcastle st Leonard Wm. Mill hill CURRIERS, &c. Buxton Robt. Eldon st Story John, Market place DRUGGISTS. Appleby Wm. Eldon st Cowlishaw Rd. Hy. Eldon st Hemsworth Wm. Newcastle st Navlor Thos. Market place EARTHENWARE DLRS. Bacon Saml. (dlr.) Newcastle st Moss John, (mfr.) Mill hill GROCERS & TEA DLRS. Clark Mary, Eldon st Keyworth John, (& tallow chand- ler & wine & spirit inert.) El- don street Na3 T lor Wm. Market place Wilson Matthias & Co. Eidon st HOP GROWERS IN THE PARISH AND NEIGHBOUR- HOOD. See also Oiler ton fy Retford, Bellamy Geo. Bevercotes Blag* Thos. Market place Briggs John, Eldon st ' Briggs Rt. jun. Newcastle st Bullivant Wm. Askham Buxton Robeit. Eldon st Byron Wm.& Geo. East Drayton Camm Jonth. Kirton Camm Jph* Willoughby Clark Brvan. Eldon st Clark Eras. Walesby Clark John, East Markham Clark Saml. East Markham Daft Win. Eldon street Dean Hannah, Walesby Denman John, Bevercotes Field John, Bevercotes Frogson Wm. Kirton Gilbert John, Kirton Gilbert Wm. Walesby Haywood Alex. Walesby Hempsall Thos. Egmanton Jackson Jeremiah, East Markham Justice Wm. Walesby Ketton Wm. Askham Lees Rd. East Markham Manuell Edw. Milton Manuell Jasper, Kirton Norfolk Thos. East Dravton Parnham Edw. Geo. & Wm. East Drayton Quibell Benj. East Markham RatcliffRd. Walesby Rawson Rd. Walesby Rawson Rt. East Drayton Read Saml. Newcastle st Richards Wm. East Markham 392 TTJXFORD Dl RECTORY. Robinson Wm. Market place Rollitt John, Kirton Rose John, East Markham Scrimshaw Thos. Askham Short Stephen C. Kingshaugh Sudbury Saml. Egmanton SwinglehurstJno. East Markham Walters Wm. East Markham Wardell Geo. Egmanton Wass Fras. Kirton Wass Matthew, Kirton Weightman John, Newcastle st Weightman Rd. Kirton White John, Bevercotes Willmer Jas. Market place Woolhouse Chpr. Kirton Wombill John, Walesby Wyre John, Askham HOTELS, INNS, & TAVERNS. Black • Horse, Wm. : Robinson, Market place Blue Bell, John Wool fit, Eldon st Coach & Horses, Wm. Wand, Eldon street Fox, Ann Girton, Eldon st King William IV. John Moss, Mill hill Newcastle Arms, {inn & -posting house) Jas. Willmer, Market place ^Rein Deer, Chas. Laughton, El- don street Sun, Thos. Blagg, (& wooKdlr.) Market place Beerhouse, James, Blenkhorne, Eldon street IRONMONGERS. Clark Mary. Eldon st Key worth John, Eldon st JOINERS & CAB. MKRS. Blenkhorne Jas. Eldon st Hannah John, Eldon st Marples Wm. Chapel yard Shaw Wm. (& looking glass dlr.) Man vers street LINEN DRAPERS. Dexter Geo. Eldon st Ellis James, Newcastle st Hewitt Thos. Newcastle st MALTSTERS. Beedham John, Newcastle st Bennett & Bowman. Chapel yd Daft Wm. Eldon street MILLINERS AND DRESS MAKERS. Atherton Mary, Chapel yard Boyd Mary, Scotland bank Briggs Ann, Eldon street Crome Eliz. Chandos court Maples Eliz. Eldon st Storey Mary, Chandos court Tustin Sarah, Lincoln st NAIL MAKERS. Butler Jph. Chandos st Naylor Ann, Eldon st NURSERY & SEEDSMEN. Clark Geo. Eldon street Taylor Jph. Lincoln st PAINTERS, PLUMBERS, & GLAZIERS. Langstaff Robert, Manvers st Pearson Henry, Eldon st Sharman Abel, (& gilder) Ntle. st ROPE & TWINE MAKERS. Beedham Thos. Scotland bank Briggs John, Eldon st Johnson John, Eldon st SADDLERS. Beedham Gabriel, Eldon 6t Hodgson Thos. Chapel yd. SHOPKEEPERS. Atkinson John, Newcastle st Brisrgs Mary, Chandos court Buttery Sarah, Eldon st God fry Benj. Newcastle st Leak Richard, Eldon st ScarlifT Wm. Newcastle st White Thomas, Lincoln st STAY MAKERS. Atkinson Mary, Newcastle st Taylor Francis, Manvers st SURGEONS. Cooper Wm. J. Eldon st Hornby Thos. Chantry house Sorby Wm. Newcastle st TAILORS. SlingsbyGeo- Eldon st Whitworth Geo. Newcastle st Wright Jph. Manvers st WHEELWRIGHTS. Bowman John, Newcastle st Cocking Robert, Eldon st COACHES. The Royal Afr/?7, to London at half- past 2 aft. and toEdinbto' WELLOW PARISH. 393 at half-past 11 mg. Also mails to London & Glasgow at halt- past 2 afternoon The Express to London, at 6 evg. and to York at 12 night The. Rockingham to London at 4 evg. and to Leeds at 8 mg The Highflyer to London at 1 mg. & to York half-past 1 mg The Union to London at half-past 8 evg. and to Leeds at 2 mg The Wellington to London 3 mg. and to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, at 10 morning The Amity to Stamford at 1 1 mg. and to Lancaster at 4 evg. CARRIERS. i To London & Leeds, Deacon, Harrison & Co.'s vans from the Blue Bell, and Jackson & Co. from the Fox daily ! To Newark, Benj. Godfrey, from Newcastle st. every Wednes- day, dep. 6 mg. ar. 9 evg. | To Nottingham, John Bish and J. Taylor, from the Sun, every Mon. arrives 8 mg. dep. 2 aft. i To Retford, Thos. Stanfield and Wm. Cook, from the Blue Bell every Monday, arrives at 9 mg. departs 4 afternoon. And Benj. Godfrey, from Newcastle 6t. every Sat. dep. 8 mg. ar. 8 evening WELLOW PARISH. Wellow, on the Worksop and Newark road, one mile E.S.E. of Ollerton, is a large village and a small parish, con- taining 110 houses, 473 inhabitants, and 956a. Or. op. of land, of which more than 254 acres are in Wellow park, a thickly wooded eminence, which rises to a considerable altitude on the north side of the village, to Cochin lull, near Bough ton. — Within a mile west of the village is the park and lake of Ruf- ford. Some of the villagers are employed in turning wood and making chairs, and others are engaged in cultivating hops in the adjacent parish of Boughton. The church, dedicated to St. Swithen, was partly rebuilt and thoroughly repaired about 20 years ago, principally of brick, roofed with blue slate. It was anciently appropriated to Rufford abbey, and is now in the patronage of the Hon. and Rev. J. L. Saville, and appropria- tion of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, who have let the tithes on lease to the Duke of Newcastle, who owns part of the land, most of which belongs to the patron, who is also lord of the manor. The living is a perpetual curacy, worth only about £70 a-year, and now enjoyed by the Rev. Joseph Blandford, of Kir ton. Wellow is not mentioned in Domesday Book, but is supposed to be included under the names of Cratela and Grymsion, places which were partly in the soke of Mansfield, but are now unknown, though the superstitious wives here often frighten their children with a traditional tale of " G'rymston Ghost^'' said to haunt the site of a village of that name, which was swallowed up by an earthquake. Jordan Folioi, in the 36th of Henry III. had free warren here, and obtained leave to 394 HATFIELD DIVISION. embattle his manor house of Grimston, which occupied the elevated site of a farm house now called Jordan castle. The estates here held by the Foliots, passed in marriage to the Hast- ings, and from them through various families to their present possessors. JVellow hall, now a farm house, was occupied about 35 years ago by the late Sir Fras. Molyneux, Bart. Those marked % are Hop Growers, and * Yeomen, Allvvood Paul,shopkeeper Caram Jph. shopkeeper Clark Jonth. shoemaker Cutts Jph. shopkeeper Duckmanton Thos. shoemaker Goodwin John, chair manfr. Hart John, saddler JHill Eliz. shopkeeper Hind Rd. shoemaker and parish clerk Housley John, butcher % Kitchen Wm. vict. Black Horse Newton Abm. joiner Outram Jph. shoemaker Pottinger Jph. blacksmith Ralphs John, vict. &chairmaker, Red Lion Walker Wm. wheelwright Woolridge Edw. bricklayer Woombell Geo. tailor Woombell Henry, tailor Woombell Rt. vict. Durham Ox FARMERS. Ashmore Wm. *Moor Jph. Brett Chas. Moor Rd. Caitledge John Parkinson Rt. *CougillJohn Peatfield John J Walker John Cougill Wm. Day Wm. Gadsby John Hind Edw. & John Marshall Rt Walker John, Jordan castle Weston Geo. *Woolhouse Ts. HATFIELD DIVISION. This large division comprises all the Western side of Bas- setlaw, (see p. 299,) and is more extensive than both the other two divisions of that hundred, — having 4316 houses, 21055 in- habitants, 4 extra-parochial places, 21 parishes, and 11 cha- pelries, divided into 36 townships, in which are a considerable number of villages and hamlets. It contains the four noble parks and mansions of Clumber, Thoresby, Welbeck, Worksop manor, and Rufford, and the market towns of Ollerton and Worksop, with part of Bawtry ; and also the towns of Blyth and Warsop, which had formerly markets. It is bounded *on the west by Yorkshire, and is watered by many small rivers, the principal of which are the Ryton, the Wollen, the Me din, the Maun, the Raiworth- water, and the Idle, the two latter of which bound it on the east, and separate it from the North and South Clay divisions. It has generally a deep sandy soil, and was formerly all included in the great forest of Sherwood, (see p. 35;) most of it is now enclosed and cultivated, but it has several extensive tracts of open forest land, and many large plantations. It had formerly nearly as many monasteries as all the rest of the county, i^v the abbeys of Rufford and Welbeck, BAB WOK Til PARISH. 3fO and the priories of Worksop, Blyth, Mattersey, and Walling- welh, were all within its limits. Its name is no doubt derived from its being anciently considered as part of Hatfield Chace. — See p. 353, BAB WORTH PARISH Contains the hamlets of Babworth, Morton, and Ranby, and several scattered dwellings. It lies betwixt the Ryton rivulet and the great north road, and is crossed by the Chesterfield Canal. It extends northward from Ordsall to Barnby-moor, and contains 76 houses, 449 inhabitants, and 6020a. 3r. 20p. of excellent forest land, all enclosed and tithable, and belonging to several freeholders, who have each the manorial rights of their own property. Babworth lordship contains 1184a. Ik. and is all in the occupancy of the owner, the Hon. J. B. Simp- son; Morton has 3614a. 9r. 22p., mostly belonging to the Duke of Newcastle, the Hon. and Rev. J. L. Saville, one on Holy Thursday, for horses and cattle, and the other on the 20th of October, for sheep and swine. After the Norman Conquest, Roger de Busli had a Castle here, and procured for it the title of an Honour ; but his chief residence being at Tickhill, in Yorkshire, the honour of Blyth was dependent on that manor. We are told that afterwards, this Roger " being of a pious and grateful disposition, with the consent of his wife Muriel, did for the stability of William then King of England, (who had given him a full fourth part of this countv. if riot more, besides what he h$d given him in 9 u • ■ BBS HATFIELD DIVISION ,- others) and of his successors, as also for the health of the soul of Queen Maud, and their own, by the advice of their friends, erect a Priory in this town, and by way of endowment, gave and granted to God, St. Mary, and the monks there serving God, the church of Blyth, and the whole town entirely, with all the privileges and customs thereunto belonging." This grant is said to have been confirmed by the first two Henries ; and yet Maddox asserts, that an ancient feoffment had. been made of the honour of Blyth ; and also that in the reign of Henry the First, that honour was in the King's hand either by escheat or wardship, for the profits of it were accounted for to him; which position he proves by reference to the rolls of the honour. Tanner, however, makes no mention of this in the Monasticon, but merely says that here was a priory of Bene- dictine monks, built by Roger de Busli and Muriel his wife, about 1068, to the honour of the blessed Virgin. It was in some respects subordinate to the abbey of the Holy Trinity of Mount St. Catherine at Rouen, in Normandy, and was at the dissolution worth .£126 per annum. In the 35th of Henry VIII, " the site of the priory, and the demesnes" were granted to William Ramsden and Richard Andrews, who had license to alineate them to Richard Stansfield and his heirs, from whom they passed to the Saunderson, Cook, Clifton, and other fami- lies. As to the origin of the name of Blyth' or Blythe, Fuller says, " John Norden will have it from jocundidate, from the mirth and good fellowship of the inhabitants therein. If so, (says our quaint author,) I desire that both the name and the thing may be extended all over the shire ; being confident that an ounce of mirth with the same degree of grace, will serve Gcd more, and more acceptably than a pound of sorrow " The Church, dedicated to St. Martin, is a spacious and elegant Gothic structure, with a very ancient tower; and at its east end, an elegant arch is inserted in the Avail, which must have led to a former chancel, or else to some other religious building which has been attached to the church. The interior presents a noble nave with arches supported by lofty pillars, and interspersed with some splendid monuments of the Hellish family. It has evidently been the priory church, as the few remains of that ancient edifice are adjoining to it. The rectory was granted by Henry VIII., to Trinity College, Cambridge, to which it still belongs, together with the advowson of the vicarage, which is valued in the King's books, at .£4. 9s. 4|d. The So- ciety of Friends have had a Meeting House in the village more than a century and a half. Blyth Hall, a handsome mansion of considerable magni- tude, stands near the church, upon an eminence surrounded by beautiful pleasure grounds, and commanding an extensive prospect of the surrounding country, which seems one con- BLYTH PARISH. 399 tin ued garden, interspersed with lawns and shady grores, and traversed by winding* walks; indeed,, the whole district as far as eve can reach, presents such a scene of ornamented cultiva- tion, as is rarely beheld The hall is an elegant brick build- ing, decorated with stone, and having turrets at the corners. It was long the seat of the Mellish family, to whom it is in- debted for all its modern improvements. The additions and alterations have been so considerable, that we may say it has been re-built on the site of the old one. It is now the property of Henry Walker, Esq,, but is occupied by Major General Sir Henry Bouverie. About 35 years ago, the town of Blyth and the country around it for several mile3, belonged to JFilliam Mellish, Esq., who cut " a river four miles long and ten yards wide, as a drainage to a large extent of low land in the centre of his estate, capable of being made as fine meadow as any in England.'' He also made at his own expense, ten miles of road, and built several farm houses and above 30 cottages, all in the most substantial manner, of brick and tile. Besides beautify- ing and enlarging the hall, he erected an extensive pile of stabling, and ornamented his estate with upwards of 200 acres of plantations, which are now in a thriving state. He also built on the high road, in front of the hall, a superb bridge of Roch Abbey sto-ne, for the convenience of crossing the extensive piece of water which is formed on a most magnificent scale, by damming up the river Ryton and a small brook which falls into it a little below the town. Little did this spirited gentleman imagine, whilst making these costly improvements, that his ex~- tensive estate was so soon to pass from his family bv the improvidence of his son, the late Charles Mellish, 'Esq., F.R.S., who 5 though " of a literary turn," became at length so enamoured of the company of royalty, and so addicted to the vices of the turf and the fashionable gamingtable, that in 1805, he was obliged to sell the Blyth Hall estate, which was pur- chased by the late Joshua Walker, Esq., the founder of the Masbro' Iron Works, where by great skill and industry, he amassed an immense fortune. In the church is an elegant re- cumbent figure of Edward Mellish, Esq., who, after being twenty years a merchant in Portugal, retired to this place, where he died in 1703. His son, Joseph, married the sister of Mr. Gore, governor of the Hamburgh Company, and died in 1733, when his estate' passed to his son, the before-named William Mellish, Esq., who was a commissioner of excise in 1751, and married the widow of Villa Real, Esq. From him the estate passed to its last possessor of the Mellish family; who, in the early part of his life, was long occupied in col- lecting genealogical additions to Thoroton's History of Not- tinghamshire, but his manuscripts were never published ; for before their completion, be devoted hte time to fi 400 HATFIELD DIVISION. follies, and became the intimate friend of his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV. Bkktlks. — Those most destructive insects, May-bugs, or Dorr-beetles, here called Cockchafers, and in some places Brown- clocks, were formerly so numerous in Blyth and Hodsock, that the inhabitants employed people to kill them at the rate of 3d. per peck. In 1788, no fewer than 3743 pecks were destroyed at the cost of £47. Is. 2d., of which one-third was paid by William Hellish, Esq. Nearly the same quantity were killed in 1792; yet still the vegetation here is often greatly injured by these insects, which live four years as worms in the bowels of the earth, before they join the winged tribes. Charities. — The ancient School in Blyth, is supposed to have been formerly a chapel, and is endowed with 6a. 2r. 26p. of land, called Drawbridge-moor Fields, worth ^18 per ann., and received in exchange at the enclosure in 1814, in lieu of land in Blyth Harsh, left by an unknown donor. The master also receives a yearly gift of £5 from the churchwardens' fund. The lt Spital Houses," are six dwellings for as many poor people of Blyth township, with an endowment of £3 per annum, paid by the owner of Blyth Hall estate. The present dwellings were built a few years ago by Mr. Charles Cham- pion, within 109 yards of the site of the old ones, which were supposed to have been the remains of an ancient hospital founded by William de Cressy, lord of Hodsock, in the reign John, for a warden, three chaplains, and several leprous per- sons; — dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, and valued in the 26th of Henry' 5 VIII., at <£8. 14s. per annum. Two Alms- houses adjoining the Quakers' Chapel, were built in 1700, by John Seaton, and endowed with ^£10 a-vear, for two inmates, one of whom is to be of the poor of Blyth, and the other of the Society of Friends, of which, the trustees, Joshua Armitage, John Bakewell, and Francis Hart, of Nottingham, are all members. The annuity is charged on the estate of Henry Walker, Esq. Two houses in the village, occupied bv pau- pers, were built with £65, left in 1703, 1720, and 1759, by the Rev. William Smith, James Ryals, and Thomas Greaves, but the overseers distributed £2. 18s. yearly, as the interest thereof. Edward Farfoot, left to the poor of Blyth, a house and land at Scaftworth, which the trustees sold in 1807, for .£320, now vested in «£347« 5s. 5d., new 4 per cent. Stock, standing in the names of Henry Walker and Charles Cham- pion, Esqrs. Dorothy Barlow, sister of Edward Farfoot, left .£20 to the poor, with which the overseers built a cottage, but distribute the interest on St. Thomas' Day. The interest of £40 left by John Crofts, is distributed on St. John's Day, There are also some other small houses, a croft of J | acre's, and part of a field of 1;} acre, which belong to the poor, but the BLYTH PARISH. 401 rents are now carried to the overseers' accounts- The Church land consists of Drawbridge-moor Closes, 5a. or. 47p. let for .£11 ; and an allotment made at the Styrrup enclosure in 1802, and now let for £9. The first was received at the Blyth en- closure in 1814, in exchange for land on Cunscar and Rails Commons, and on the Long Brecks. Blyth Norxay is a small hamlet, only a quarter of a mile N. of Blyth, though in Styrrup township. Blyth Spittal is a hamlet at the southern extremity of Blyth, and is partly in Hodsock township. Austerfielo, though in this parish, is a village, township, and chapelry, in the Wapentake of Strafford and Tickhill, and West- Riding of Yorkshire, 1 mile N- of Bawtry. It is said to have its name from the Roman general Ostoriu-s, being de- feated here by the [Britons. The Dowager Countess Galway is lady of the manor, and owner of most of the land. The chapel is a small edifice with two bells, and is a curacy in the gift of the vicar of Blyth. The Rev. William Snowden,B. D. is the incumbent. The township extends two miles N. of the village, and includes Fixxixgley Park, the handsome seat of John Hervey, Esq., occupied by E. B. Beaumont. Esq. ; the hamlet of Br ax croft, and the scattered farmsteads called Hirst House, Partridge Hill, and fFoodhouse, all in York- shire, but on the borders of Nottinghamshire. Barxby-Moor, a neat hamlet with a good inn and posting- house on the North road, 3 miles X.W. of Retford, forms a joint township with Bilby, — a distiict of scattered houses on the banks of the Ryton, 2 miles west of the inn. Henry Walker, Esq. is lord of the manor of Barnby, and G. S. Fol- jambe, Esq. is lord of Bilby, and owner of the hall there, which is now unoccupied. Both were of the fee of Roger de Busli ; the latter was long held bv the Chaworth family, and part of the former was given bv Adam de Barnely to the monks of Blyth. In 1790, Anthony Barker left <£20 to the poor of this township, and the interest is now paid yearly by Mr. Samuel Barker. BAWTRY Is a small, handsome, well-built market town, and being situated on the Great North Road, at the junction of the turnpikes from Sheffield, Gainsbro', and Thorne, it is a busy thoroughfare, and has a large and commodious Inn and Posting-house, besides several other public-houses, which afford comfortable accom- modation for travellers. It is distant 9 miles from Doncaster and Retford, 4 miles E. of Tickhill, 12 miles W. by X. of Gainsbro', and 4 miles N. by E. of Blyth. Though nearly surrounded by Nottinghamshire, it is all in the Wapentake of Strafford and Tickhill, and the West-Riding of Yorkshire, 402 HATFIELD DIVISION, except a small suburb which forms the south side of Top- street, and is in the parish of Harvvorth. It is situated on the site of the Roman road which passed from Littleborough to Doncaster. A fair of four days in the year was procured from King John, by Robert de Vipount, lord of the manor, for a present of four palfreys. The market, which was formerly on Wednesday, is now on Thursday, and is principally for corn sold by sample. It has now two fairs for cattle and horses, on Whit-Thursday and November 22nd. The town has no trade except the traffic on the river Idle, which is navigable from hence to the Trent for small craft, principally employed in im- porting coal, groceries, &c. The object most worthy of atten- tion here, is Bawtry Hall, the elegant seat of the Dowager Viscountess Galway, which is situated at the southern extre- mity of the town, in the midst of extensive pleasure grounds, all in excellent condition, agreeably interspersed with shrub- beries and plantations, and containing a beautiful aviary, well stocked with Chinese pheasants and other rare birds. The township forms a chapelry, and has a small Chapel of Ease annexed to the vicarage of Blyth. The Rev. Wm. Snowden, B.D. is the curate. In the town are also a Methodist Chapel, built in 1827, and an Independent Chapel built in 1826, on land given by Mr. James Dobson. The Rev. Robert Kirkus is minister of the latter, which has attached to it a large school with eight free scholars. In 1691, Barbara Lister left .£200, and directed the interest to be paid yearly to the curate of Bawtry, " if placed there by the consent of her executor or his heirs, if not, to the poor of Bawtry." The Earl of Rosslyn now pays this annuity. In 1780, Elizabeth Foster bequeathed the Bell Houses with a garden, for the residence of two poor women, and endowed them with a yearly rent charge of £1 out of a close at Misson, called the Paddock. Hodsock with Goldthorp form a large township of scat- tered houses, extending westward from Blyth more than two miles to the borders of Yorkshire, across the Worksop and Tickhill road, betwixt Oldcoates and Carlton in Lindrick. They were anciently called Ordesache and Cossardthorpe, and belonged to the families of Cossard, Hoddisac, and Cressy, who gave part of the land to the priory at Blyth. They after- ' wards passed to the Markhams and Cliftons, with whom they remained till the middle of the last century, when they be- came the property of the Mellish family, but are now divided amongst several owners. Hodsock Hall, which was defended by a moat and tower gateway, has been partly rebuilt, and new fronted in the monastic style, from which it is now called Hod- sock Priory. It is the seat of Mrs. Ann Chambers, and stands in a beautiful valley 1| miles S.W. of Blyth. Hodsock Park, 2 miles W. of Blyth, belongs to Mr. John Shuttleworth, and the two farms called Flcecctrcp (Flvrthorp) and Millhotise, BLYTH PARISH. 403 are the property of G. S. Foljambe, Esq. Goldthorpe forms the N. W. part of the township, and Henry Gaily Knight, Esq. is its principal owner. Ranskill is a pleasant village and township in the liberty of Southwell and Scrooby, on the great North road, 2 miles E. of Blyth, and 6 miles N.W. by N. of Retford, where there is a good inn, a boarding academy, and a neat Independent Chapel. Samuel Barker, Esq. and Mr. John Crofts are the principal owners, but the Archbishop of York is lord of the manor, and has here some copyhold tenants. Quarter sessions are held here at Easter and Michaelmas, and petty sessions once a fort- night, for the North Soke of the liberty of Southwell and Scrooby. The feast is on the Sunday after Old Michaelmas- day. The common was enclosed in 1805. Styrrup and Oldcoats. — See Harworih parish, Torworth is another pleasant village on the North road, lying a little south of Ranskill, 5J N. YV. by N. of Retford. Viscount Galway is lord of the manor, and owner of most of the soil, and Mrs. Chambers is lessee of the great tithes both here and at Ranskill. A Methodist Chapel was built in the village. in 1826. On the highest part of the township stands Mantles House, the seat of Thomas Crofts, Esq. In ex- cavating the foundation of this mansion in 1820, a Roman urn ten inches in diameter, was found covered with a globular ves- sel, supposed to have contained a human heart. The common land was enclosed in 1800 and 180.7, by a mutual agreement of the proprietors. An annuity of 10s. is paid to the poor of this township out of Viscount Galway's estate. BLYTH DIRECTORY. Letters are despatched by a foot Post every morning at 10 to Bawtry, and arrive at half-past three in the afternoon. Ambler Robert, painter Bouverie Major Gen. Sir Henry, Blyth Hall Booth Mrs. Dorothy Booth Joseph, woodman Bradley John, Esq., Spittal Butler Wm. constable Dickinson George, farmer Downs Geo. plumber & glazier Foster Joseph, maltster Fowler Richard, gent. Giles Wm. earthenware dealer Green Barth. saddler Hodgson Geo. earthenware dlr. Jones William, land surveyor and English timber dealer Manwaring John, sjjent. Mills C has. nurseryman Morrison Thos. cooper Nettlesbip Edw. farmer, Blyth Nornay Parkin Thos. corn miller Pigott Mrs. Ann Pritchard Mrs. Ann Quibell John, veterinary surgeon Radley Wm. grocer & druggist Rogers Thos. farmer Rogers John, maltster, Blyth Nornay Rudd Rev. John, M.A. vicar Russell Samuel, surgeon Stacey Mrs. Lydia Taylor William, maltster, Blyth Nornay I 404 BI,YTH PARISH DIRECTORY. Taylor Robert, weaver & parish clerk Thornton Hy. grocer& druggist Thorpe Mrs. Hannah Torr Edw. postman and sexton Widdowson Thos. grocer Wilson Benj. brush mfr., grocer, and draper Winter Mrs. Hannah Woolley Jph. fellmonger, Blyth Nornay Wright Hugh, sawyer INNS AND TAVERNS. The last three are Beerhouses, Angel, George Creassey Red Hart, Joseph Foster Rose & Crown, John Swindin White Horse, John Marsh Blacksmith's Arms, John Hog- gard Red Lion, George Moore White Swan, Richard Turner Academies Free school, Jno Woodcock Pattison Ellen Winter Hannah Bakers \ fyc, Garthsides Jas. Taylor Geo. Blacksmiths. Hoggard John HilfJohn Keik John, (and gun smith) Boot Sf Shoemkr Apley Emanuel Bel! Jonathan Crumpton John Hancock Win. Swinburn John Turner Rd. Bricklayers* Blackburn Saml Marrison Edw Marrison Wm. .Rowland Geo. Butchers. Gabbitas John Hudson Charles Newstead Geo. Joiners. Hardy Wm. Rich Joseph Milliners, fyc. Ambler Sarah Beighton Jane Blake Matilda s Tailors, Apley Wm. Colgreavcs J?hn. Hopkin John Moore George Walker Wm. Wheelwrights* Swindeii John .Watson Wm. Wilkinson John Carrier, Martin Kirk by to Bawtry. Thuis. ; Retford, Sat. ; Sheffield, Monday, & Worksop, Wednesday. AUSTERFIELD, (Yorkshire.) Batty Rd. vict. White Hart Beaumont Edw. Blackett, Esq. Finningley Park Cappiter Wm. wheelwright Dyon Mr. John Green John, blacksmith Milner John, shoemkr. & chapel clerk Parker Wm. shopkeeper Radley Wm. Esq. Brancroft Woodhouse Wm. shoemaker FARMERS. Birks Richard, Woodhouse Brogden James Dickinson John, Brancroft Dickinson John, Partridge Hill Fox William Jackson George Jennings Thomas Long Samuel Maw Ramsey William, Hird House Spencer George Tomlinson John, Finningley Cot- tage Wood Wm. Finning-ey Park B ARNBY MOOR with BILBY Marked* are in Bilby. •Allinson Joseph, farmer Barker Saml, E*q. Barn by Hall Clark George, vict. Bell Inn and posting house Clark John Darcy, gent. Habbijam Benjamin, farmer Kitchin George, shoemaker Kitchin John, b'acksmith Pagdin George, shoemaker Pagdin Thos. shopkeeper Scott Joseph, vict. White Horse Scott Wm. farmer Thorold Michael Wynne, gent. * Wags taff James, farmer •Whale William, farmer HODSOCK WITH GOLD- THORPE. Marked f are Farmers. + Ash ion Wm., Lodge Bradley John, Esq. Blyth Spittal fCartledge Samuel, Goldtliorpe Chambers Mrs. Ann, Hcdsock Priory BLYTH PARISH DIRECTORY. m fCcupe John, Fleecetrep fCross George, Priory Farm fGibbs Thos. Hodsock Cottage Mower C. C. surgeon, Woodhouse f Musgrove , Forest Farm Peniston Wm. corn miller, Gold- thorpe fRadley Wm, Hodsock Shuttleworth John, gent. Hod- sock Park fTaylor John, Goldthorpe fWo'od John, Hodsock Mill Hs. RANSKILL. Dawson John, gent Dean John C.,vict. Blue Belllnn Denmar Mr. William Foulds Samuel, blacksmith Jackson Thomas, blacksmith Kirk Robert, tailor Martin Wm. boarding academy Millns John, shoemaker Morley George, shoemaker Norton Wm. shoemaker Parkinson Wm. grocer & draper Reddish Robert, tailor Shillito George, wheelwright Teale Thos. grocer & draper Weightman Rt. jun. maltster and seed merchant FARMERS. Those marked * are Yeomen. *Chester Fras. 'Matthews Wm. Chester Richard Pinning Thos. •Crofts John 'Welsh Thos. *Cunis Sarah STYRRUP. See Harivorth Parish. TORWORTH. Close John, excise officer Crofts Thos. 8c Wm. gents. Man- tles House Crookes John, blacksmith Hopkin Thos. wheelwright Newcomhe Wm. shoemaker Selby Joseph, vict. Northampton House Weightman Rt. land agent farmers: Bingham Wm. Maples Thos. Chambers John, Maples Wm. Grange Scott John Hodgkinson W. Skidmore Geo. BAWTRY DIRECTORY. Post-Office. Crown Inn Yard, David Adams, Post-Master. Let- ters from all parts are received at 12 noon, and are despatched at a quarter-past one afternoon. Baines John, clerk to Magis- trates, High street Baines Matt, hair drssr. High st Barrowclitf John, timber mer- chant, Church street Bellamy Robert, boat owner Benson John, boat owner and coal merchant, Wharf street Binney Benj. farmer, Church st Brooke Jnth. clothier, Church st Coldwell Joshua, coal dlr. Church street Cutts Thos. nail mkr. North End Dobson Jas. currier. Church st Dyon Mrs. Betty, High street Fisher Mrs. Mary. Ci-urch st Galway Lady Bridget, Dowager Viscountess. Bawtry Hall | Garner Jno. nurseryman, Church street Oooddy Mrs. Eliz. High street Hargrave Mr. Jas. Top street Hett Jas. farmer, High street Hopkinson Mrs. Eliz. Church st Hume Mrs. Eliz. High street Kirkus Rev. Rt. (Ind.) Scott In Marrison Mrs. Ann, High st Mitchell John, wine mer. High st Nettleship Thos. gent. High st Pratt Jas. Daubney, veterinary surgeon, Church street Roberts Bnj. excise-ofi'.Churchst Sandys Mrs. Sallv, Top street ShirtclifTEJiz. dressmkr. Scott In Smith Timothy, blacking mfr. &c Hierh street 2 n 40G BAWTRV DIRECTOKY. Soer John, sawer. Church street Speller Mrs. Caroline, High st Spilshury Mrs. Eliz.Char. High st Stephenson Win. saddler, High st Swallow Wm. staymaker, Swan In Taylor Thos. hat mfr. & furrier, High street Taylor & Williams, dressmakers, Swan lane "Unwin Jno. stone mason, Church street Wade Mrs. Ann, Wharf street WakefieldThos. glass, china, &c. dlr. High street Walker Mrs, Mary, High street Wehster Thos. horse breaker, Cht Whaley Mr.: John, High street Winter Mr. Thos. Top street Winterburn Jas. matron, Work- house Wood Michael, Esq. Brigade- Major, High street Wood James, farmer, Top st ACADEMIES. Everard Miss Ann, Wharf st Holland James, Church street Snowden Rev. >Wm. B.D., {pre- paratory for Holy Orders,) Church street Wood James, North End ATTORNTES. Brought on Wm. High street Cartwright f\ Hawksley, High st McKenzie George, High street Raynes Fras. High street AUCTIONEERS. Grasby Joseph, High street Watts Jonathan, High street BAKERS & FLOUR DLRS. Thickitt Joseph, Church street Womack Mary. Scott lane BLACKSMITHS& FARRIERS Towler Samuel, North End Windle Thomas, (& bell hanger) High street BOOKSELLERS, STATION- ERS, &c. Grasby Jph. (stamp office) Highst Tailor Joseph, High street Wilson Jph. (printer & cir. li- brary) High street BOOT & SHOEMAKERS. Fillingham Wm. High street Freeman Wm. Scott lane Hackford Joseph, Church street Hawson George, High street Jenkinson Thos. Swan lane Wilson John, Church street Winter Benjamin, High street BRICKLAYERS. Marrison Jonathan, High street Marrison Wm. Scott lane BUTCHERS. Dowson John, Church street Tow Edward, Swan lane Sissons John, High street Thickitt John, Swan lane CABINET MAKERS, &c. Swift Joseph, Swan lane Wilson & Bedford, High street Winter Riehard, Top street COOPERS. Eaton Benjamin, Church street Oldfield John, Church street DRUGGISTS. Barber Thomas, High street Nettleship Thos. jun. High st FIRE & LIFE OFFICES. County Fire and Provident Life, ' Joseph Grassby, High stieet Sheffield^ Joseph Tailor, High st GROCERS & FLOUR DLRS. Birley Jno. (& seedsman) High st Herring Wm. High street Rhodes Thos. High street Soer John, Swan lane Williams Elizabeth, Swan lane INNS & TAVERNS. Angel, Jph. Taylor, High st Black Bull, John Stockdale Black's Head, (excise off.) Jonth. Watts Blue Bell, Eliz. Wilson, Church street Crown Inn (&postg.)Dd. Adams, High street Marquis of Granby, Saml.Briggs, North End Ship, Wm. Beck, Church st White Hart, Geo. Hibbert, Swan lane BEERHOUSES. Red Lion, William Hy. Lambert, North End Travellers, Mary Malthouse, North End BAWTRY DIRECTORY. 407 IRONMONGERS. Heath John, (& brazier) Swan In Whittington Hy. Swan lane JOINERS. Carr Richard, North End Drabwell Paul, (& wheelwright) High- street Hack ford John, Church street Howard Charles, Scott lane Lambert Wm. Hy. North End LINEN & VVOLN. DRAPERS. Herring Wm. High street Hill Thomas, Swan lane Kidson Wm. High street MALTSTERS. Couch John, Church street Jackson John, North End Johnson Thos. Church street Nicholson Mary, Wharf street PAINTERS. Bailey Geo. (& gilder) High st Fisher Thos. (hs. & coach) High st PLUMBERS & GLAZIERS. Credland Jomtthan^ High street Marrison Wm. Church street Wakefield George, High street ROPE & TWINE MANUFRS. Blythman Joseph, (& sheep net) High street Hall Wm. Church street Haxby Robert, Gainsborough rd SADDLERS. Stephenson Wm. High street Woodcock Isaac, North end STRAW HAT MAKERS. Bennett Mary, North end Hunt Mary,. High street Jenkinson Sarah, Swan lane Moore Elizabeth, High street SURGEONS. Cocking John, High street Nicholson John, M.D. Ivyhouse Wright Wm. Top street TAILORS. Bennett James, North end Goodlad John, High street Moorhouse James, Church st Wakefield Thomas, High street TALLOW CHANDLERS. Herring Wm. High street Rhodes Thomas, (& soap boiler) High street WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS. Bell James, High street Jenkinson Edward, High street Lowe Joseph, High street Whittington Henry, Swan lane WINE & SPIRIT MERTS. Nicholson Mary, Wharf street Weightman & Mitchell,High st- MAILS &.- COACHES. From the Crown Inn, Royal Mails, to London at 12 noon ; to Edinbro' and Glasgow, at 1 aft. ; & to Louth & Shef- field, at a \ past 1 aft. The Rockingham to London at \ past 2 aft., and to Leeds at | pa*t 9 morning. The Wellington to London at 10 evg., and to York at 12 noon. The Amity to Doncaster at 6 mg. & to Stamford, 9 morning. From the Marquis of Granby, The Highflyer to London at 1 mg., and to York J past 3 mg. The Express to Lincoln at 4 aft. &,to Wakefield at 10 morning. The Union to Leeds J p. 3 mg. From the Angel Inn, The Express to London at £ p. 2 aft., & to York, \ bef. 3 mg. The Hope to Doncaster & Gains- bro' daily, (except Sunday) to meet the Hull Packets, CARRIERS. To London, Deacon, Harrison, & Co.'s Van, from the Angel every morning at 1 ; and their Wag- gon every morning at 8. Also, Jackson & Co.'s every day at 12 noon, from the Marquis of Granby. Barnsley & Leeds, Chpr. Embley from Wharf-st. every Friday night. Doncaster, Geo. Moore, High-6t. Sat. ; Rd. Shillito, Church-st., Mon. Thar, and Sat. ; Chpr. Embley, Wharf-street, Mon.; and Peacock & Ashmore, every Saturday morning. Gainsborough, John Gee. every 408 JiATFIELD DIVISION. Mon.; and Hibberson & Co., (from Sheffield) Wed. & Thurs. from the Black Bull ; and Rd. Sbillito, from Church-st. Tues. dep. 4 morning. Gringley-on -the - Hill, Michael Kirkby, Black Bull, Thur. 4af. Leeds, Jackson & Co. Marquis of Granby, daily, at 10 mg. Retford, Thos. Stanfield, Black Bull, Thursday, 4 afternoon Sheffield, John Gee, Wed., and Hibberson & Co. Wed. & Fri. from the Black Bull Tickhill, Robert Booth, Angel, Thursday, 4 afternoon Wakefield, Deacon, Harrison, & Co. from the Marquis of Granby daily, at 7 evening Worksop, John Wilmott, from the Marquis of Granby, Thurs. 4 afternoon CONVEYANCE BY WATER. To Gainsborough, Christopher Embley's Packet Boat every Monday morning; returns on Wednesday BOTHAMSALL PARISH Lies east of Clumber park, betwixt and near the confluence of the rivers Wollen and Idle. It contains 59 houses, 326 inha- bitants, and about 1 700 acres of land, which was enclosed about 60 years ago, and belongs solely to the Duke of New- castle, who is lord of the manor and impropriator of the tithes. About seven acres are in hop yards. Bothamsall is a pleasant village near the Retford and Ol- lerton road, 4J miles N. by E. of the latter town. The church is an ancient edifice, which, with the predial tithes and the glebe of the rectory, was granted by Queen Elizabeth in 1578, to the Earl of Lincoln, an ancestor of the Duke of Newcastle, whose domestic chaplain, the Rev. John Mason, now enjoys the perpetual curacy, which was certified at £21, 6s. 8d. The manor before the Conquest was held by Earl Tosti, and after- wards by the Furnivals, the St. George's, the Boselingthorps, &c. The feast is on the nearest Sunday to St. Peter's day. Houghton Park, mostly in this parish, and partly on the south side of the river in Houghton parish, was enclosed about 30 years ago. Here are situated the Duke's kennels, with a house occupied by his gamekeeper. The poor of the parish enjoy the interest of £48, left in 17^9, by Joseph Holliday, and now in the Retford savings' bank. Baines Mary, wheelwright Ball Wm. shoemaker Cowley Samuel, wheelwright Hind John, blacksmith Mansell John, gamekpr. Hough- ton Park Marshall Geo. vict. Fox Nutt John, shoemaker Olivant Thos. butcher & shopkpr Padley Mark, cooper Pickering Geo. shoemaker Spencer G<>o. shopkeeper Stubbings John, shoemaker Turner Wm, English timber dlr Walker Christopher, stone mason, Houghton Park BOTHAMSALL AND BOUGHTOK CHAPELRY. 409 FARMERS. Thus X are Hop Growers. JCiinm John Hempseed Wm. JDewickAnn Juhnson John J Moss John Padley Win, Padley Thos. Peck Wm. Padley Jenny, Stacy Robeit Haughton Park BOUGHTON PAROCHIAL CHAPELRY. Though in the Hatfield division, is annexed to the parish of Kneesall, in the hundred of Thurgarton. It includes the steep acclivity of Cochin Hill, (under which are several hop yards,) and extends westward over a wild tract of forest land, which is noted as a /bo? cover, adjoins Thoresbv park, and is intersected by the river Maun, over which a bridge was erected by sub- scription in 1812, the ford being often very dangerous. On the bank of the river is a deep cavity in the rock of red sandstone, called Robin Hood's cave. The forest has a deep light sandy soil, well riddled with the burrows of rabbitts and foxes ; about 50 acres of it were enclosed a few years ago, by the lord of the manor, and is now called New England. The parish contains 7.5 houses and 295 inhabitants. Boughton, 1 \ mile N.E. of Ollerton, is a small village near the hop yards, at the east end of the parish, which is enclosed and sheltered from the westerly winds by the abrupt acclivity that extends northward from Wellow to Kirton and Walesby. It was anciently called Bucheton, and was of the fee of Roger de Busli, of whom it was held by a family of its own name, one of whom, Aeliz de Bucton, gave part of the land and the ad- vowson of the church to the priory at Blyth. It afterwards passed to the Markhams, but most of it now belongs to the Hon. and Rev. J. L. Savilie, who is lord of the manor, and lessee of the great tithes, which are appropriated to the Dean and Chapter of Southwell. The church is a humble building, with a turret belfry, and is a curacy annexed to Kneesall vicar- age. The General Baptists have a neat chapel here, which they built in 1826. The only benefaction belonging to the parish, is <£12. 10s. left in 179 L, by Squire Markham, and now vested in the Retford savings' bank. Arnold Geo. joiner Bennett John, tailor Gray Samuel, briekiayer Markham Leond. butcher & vict Moss Joshua, wheelwright, shopr. and parish clerk Otter John, shoemaker l maltster ham Geo RatclitF Wm. tailor §Flower Wm. Newbart Wm. Robshaw Wm. vict. Plough | §fFrogson Hy. §Squires John Taylor John, blacksmith 1 §Gibson Wm. Wilson Richard Wells Wm. vict. Harrow flage John Gockin hi! 1 Woodhead Geo. shoemaker FARMERS. Thus f arc Yeoman and § Hop Growers. § t Alvy Chpr. § Lawrence Chas. §Alvev John, &* f Methering- 410 HATFIELD DIVISION. CARLTON-in-LINDRICK PARISH Comprises the two contiguous hamlets and constablewicks of Carlton-in- Lindrick and King stem- in- Carlton, pleasantly situ- ated near Walling- wells, on the road betwixt Tickhill and Worksop, 3| miles N. of the latter. It was of sufficient con- sequence in Saxon times to have six resident Thanes, each having a hall or manor, but these were all swallowed up by that leviathan, Roger de Busli, at the Norman Conquest. The family of Chevercourt held it under him, but their heirs failing, it was divided between the Latimers and Fitzhughs, from whom it passed to the Dacres, Molyneuxs, Taylors, and Cliftons, the latter of whom built a fine seat here. It contains 189 houses, 974 inhabitants, and 4073a. Or. 15p. of land, of which about 1518 acres now belong to the lord of the manor, Robert Rams- den, Esq. of Carlton Hall; 600 acres, to H. Gaily Knight, Esq. ; 463 acres to Sir Thomas White, Bart. ; and 558 acres to the rector, the latter of whom received his portion at the enclosure in 1/67? as a commutation of all the tithes of the parish. The church, dedicated to St. John, is now a handsome gothic edi- fice, having lately received considerable repairs, and a new south aisle, erected in 1831, in unison with the rest of the building, which is in the style that prevailed in the reign of Henry VI. Under the new aisle, Sir Thomas White has formed a spacious vault for the interment of himself and family. The living is a rectory, valued in the King's books at «£15. 13s. 4d. The Archbishop of York is the patron, and the Rev. Charles Wastneys Eyre, M. A. is the incumbent. Kingston-in- Carlton, which is commonly called North Carlton, was an- ciently so called from its being the King's manor ; and Carlton- in- Lindrick, often called South Carlton, may be supposed to have had the distinctive part of its name from the Saxon Lind or Linden — here being probably in monastic times several 6hady avenues of lime trees^under which the monks of Wal- lingwells used to promenade. The South Common Field, 2a. 3r. 36p., let for <£6, belongs to the church. A house and two small fields in the valley betwixt North and South Carlton, formerly belonged to the parish schoolmaster, until they were sold to the Ramsden family, more than 20 years ago ; but in 1831, Robert Ramsden, Esq. repaired the loss of the poor by erecting a new school, near the same site, and he now allows a salary to a master and mistress, who have under their care nearly 200 children and infants. He has also furnished a li- brarv of 200 volumes for the use of the parishioners. The western side of the parish adjoins Yorkshire, and has a rich limestone soil, but the eastern side is sandy, and rises to Si con- siderable altitude. CARLTON PARISH. 411 Wigthorpe is a pleasant little hamlet, 3 miles N. of Work- sop, in the constablewick. of South Carlton, which repairs its roads separately, but maintains its poor conjointly with North Carlton. CARLTOX NORTH. Anderson Thos. vict. Blue Bell Anderson W. sen. vict. New Bell Brammer Geo. shoemaker Brown Mary, schoolmistress Cattam A* vict. Butchers' Arms Cowley Wm.. butcher Dean George, butcher Drabble Jas. cabinet maker and joiner Fletcher Mrs. Hannah Glossop Robert, butcher Haigh Wm. grocer and draper Harrison Mrs. Sarah Henson John, schoolmaster Hepper Rev. Geo. curate Lindley Wm. shopkeeper Marsden Joseph, tailor Rich Geo. joiner & wheelwright. Ryalls John, shoemaker Scorah John, blacksmith Scott Wm. shopkeeper Swan wick Thos. shoemaker Tinker John, shoemaker Tinsley Wm. excise officer Travis Wm, shoemaker Turner John vict. Blacksmiths' Arms Ward Wm. gardener Worsley Mrs. Lydia Yates- Mrs. Ann FARMERS. Bowmer Win. Eyre Robert Cowleshaw Wm. Field Joseph, & Duckmanton J. maltster Duckmanton SI. Hides Geo. In gall An thy. Mello-rs John Pigott Thos. Traves John Turner John CARLTON SOUTH. Ramsden Rt. Esq. Carlton hall Cowlishaw Jph, genx Dawson Sarah, schoolmistress Foster Richard, joiner Jarvis Wm. parish clerk Liversidge Rich, shoemaker Manwaring John, Esq. Wigthorpe Pearson Ceo. blacksmith Ranson Wm. grocer & draper Rawson Fras. gamekeeper Shillitoe Robert, tailor Spencer Wm. vict. Red Lion Staneland Jph. vict. Grey Horses Townrow Fras. corn miller Whitehead Mrs. Eliz. FARMER?. Brooks Geo. Holme House Johnson William Levick Saml. Broom House Otter George Palmer Geo. Pen cottage Spencer Wm. yeoman Spurr Wm. & maltster, Wigthorpe Ward -Thos. Wigthorpe Coaches ; — The Forrester and Royal Union, from Notting- ham to Doncaster- call at ths Grey Horses CUCKNEY PARISH Extends eastward from the vicinity of Cresioell Crags, in Der- byshire, to near Thoresby park, and is bounded on the north by Welbeek, and on the south by Church Warsop. It is wa- tered by the river Poulter, on which are two large cotton mills, and contains 267 houses, 1648 inhabitants, and 5284a. 3r. 21p. ef good forest land, all enclosed, bat partly in plantation* and 412 HATFIELD DIVISION. extensive pastures. It is divided into four townships, of which the following is an enumeration, with the population and ex- tent of each : — Townships Houses. Persons. Acres. Cuckney, 93 •• 633 •• 1095 Holbeck, 46 •• 244 .. 1718 Townships. Houses. Persons. Acres. Langwith, 66 •• 437 •• 1295 Norton, 62 •• 334 .- 1297 Cuckney is a considerable village on the small river called the Poulter, 5 miles S. by W. of Worksop. Here are two large mills for spinning cotton and grinding corn, and also the ruins of a cotton mill which was burnt down in 1792. Throsby, who wrote in 1796, says, " here are children from the foundling hospital, London, who are employed at the cotton and worsted mills, and live in cottages built for the purpose, under the care of superintendents ; boys under one roof and girls under ano- ther;" but this is not the case now, the poor parishioners having a sufficient number of children to watch the mill ma- chinery. The churchy which is a large ancient structure with a handsome tower, was re-pewed, new-roofed, and thoroughly repaired in 1831, when a number of free seats were provided. Towards this necessary reparation, the Duke of Portland and Earl Bathurst, each gave ,^100, and the Society for building Churches, £50. The vicarage is vaiued in the King's books at £9. 8s. 6id. The Rev. Edward Palling, B.A. is the in- cumbent, and Earl Man vers the patron, but Earl Bathurst is owner of the soil, and lord of the manor of Cuckney, which was held by Sweyn the Saxon, and after the Conquest, given in fee to Hugh Fitz-Baldric and Joceus de Flemangh, except two carucates, which Gamelbere, an old Saxon Knight, was allowed to retain for the service of shoeing the King's palfrey, " as oft as he should lie at his manor of Mansfield." A great part of this parish was given by Sir Henry de Fawkenburg and others, to the monks of Welbeck. In Cuckney township are the extensive farms called Mount Pleasant, Park House, and Shireoak Hill. The great tithes of the whole parish belong to theowners of the different manors, and are included in the rents of the farms, but the vicarial tithes are paid by the tenants in money. Hoi. beck, or Howbeck township, is the largest and mo*t thinly populated division of the parish. It contains five small hamlets, called Holbeck, Bonbusk, Woodhouse, Wood- end, and a few scattered farmsteads lying at the west end of the parish, from 4 to 5 miles S.S.W. of Worksop, one of which is Collingtliivaitc, where there is a corn mill. It is all the pro- perty of the Duke of Portland, who in 1810, obtained it from Earl Manvers in exchange for that part of the forest land called Bilhagh. At Woodhouse, i^ a small Catholic chapel, estab- lished by the Rev. John Tristram, and now visited monthlv by a priest tVom Spink-hill, near Eckington. CUCKNEY PARISH. 413 Lang with is a romantic village and township, on the \ergc of the county, near the source of the Poulter, where there is a large cotton mill, and several fine woody acclivities, 2 miles W. of Cuckney, and 7 miles S.S.W. of Worksop. The vil- lage is called Nether Lang with, and near it, in a delightful situation, is Langwith Hall, now occupied by R. N. Sutton, Esq., but once the occasional seat of Earl Bathurst, to whom it still belongs, together with the rest of the township and manor, of which he is lord and impropriator. His Lord ship's seats are now at Oakley Grove, near Cirencester, Glou cestershire, and at Fairy Hill, in Kent. Norton, sometimes called Norton Cuckney, is a pleasant village and township lying in a delightful vale near the con- fluence of the Poulter, with the extensive lake of Welbeck park, 1 mile N.E. of Cuckney, and 4^ miles S. of Worksop. It all belongs to his Grace the Duke of Portland, the lord of the manor, whose benevolent Duchess supports a school here for the education of 35 poor girls, whom she also provides with frocks, cloaks, and bonnets. AIilnthorpe is a hamlet in Norton township, distant a quar- ter of a mile from the village ; and near it is Hatfield Grange, the only place in the county which bears the name of this great division of Bassetlaw. Creswell Crags, about half a mile north of Holbeck, and 3 miles S.W. of Worksop, are in Derbyshire, but so adjacent to Nottinghamshire as to be often considered a part of that county. Lying out of the usual track of good roads, and being almost inaccessible for carriages, they are not often visited by tourists, though they are remarkably curious ; — consisting of lofty precipitous rocks, torn by some convulsion of nature into a thousand romantic shapes, and presenting a miniature re- semblance of the more majectic scenery on the Derwent, near Matlock. Cuckney parish participates in Dame Frances Pierrepont's Charity, of which the Chapter of Southwell are trustees. The Parish Feast is on the nearest Sunday to Old Michaelmas Day. CUCKNEY. Allen Thos. shopkeeper Bird John, tailor and draper Bowles Benj. bookkeeper Chad wick John, wheelwright Cocking Win. butcher Day Henry, butcher Frost John, shoemaker Goucher Rd. stone mason Harland Wm. shoemaker Haskins John, Esq. land agent Hollins Henry & Charles, & Co. cotton spinners. Holt Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson John, schoolmaster and parish clerk Keeton John, joiner & cabt. mkr Mason Rev. Geo. M. A. vicar of Whitwell Needham Geo. shoemaker and shopkeeper Palling Rev. Edw. B. A. vicar Parker John, baker Parker Robert, shopkeeper Pearce Jas. vict. &rnaltster,Green Dale Oak 414 CUCKNEV PARISH DIRECTORY. Shaw Wm. blacksmith Teather Rd. shoemaker Thirkhill Benj. vict. &shoemakr. Red Lion Webster Jph. tailor Wallas Miss Sarah Worsley Geo. shoemaker FARMERS. Armstrong Samuel, Park House Davy Sam!. Shire Oak Hill Miller Thomas Pressley Wm. Mount Pleasant Turner Wm. Wright Willows HOI>BECK. Marked 1 reside at Bonbusk, 2 at Holbeck) 3 at Holbeck- JVoodhouse^ $-5 at fVoodend. 5 Beeley Josiah, vict. Blue Bell Bouler Geo. corn miller, Colling- thwaite 2 Booth Wm. blacksmith Castledine Jas. shopkeeper Castledine Jas. jun, shoemaker 3 Drabble Rt. shoemaker 3 Eyre Geo. shopkeeper 2 Eyre John, Nurseryman 3 Frost Sarah, vict. Fox 2 Highfield John, tailor 3 Taylor Jas. vict. Gate Windle Jas. shopkeeper FARMERS. 5 Beeley John Presley Ralph, Hilltop Hursecroft 3 Bell John Presley William, 1 Coupe John Norwood 1 Hurst Geo. 3 Revill Edw. 5 Johnson John 2Skinner John ] Skinner Wm. LANG WITH. Booth John, blacksmith Chapman Geo. tailor Coupe Wm. wheelwright & tim- ber dealer Cox George, maltster Fox Thos. shoemaker HoUins Hy. & Chas. & Co. cot- ton spinners Johnson Wm. Gooddy, grocer & bookkeeper Naylor Jph. vict. & maltster, Jug and Glass Pickard Geo. shoemaker Slack Isaac, shopkeeper Stanley John, stone sawyer Sutton Peter Nassau, E6q. Lang- with Hall FARMERS. Bagshaw Fras, Jackson Joseph, Flint John Boon Hill Flint Sami. Pigott Eliz. Pas- Fox Thos. jun. ture Hill Goucher Mary NORTON. Marked f reside at Milnthorpe fAshbery George, wheelwright Beeley Jonth. butcher Boaler Mr. Joseph Downs Geo. corn miller & baker Evans Richard, tailor Flower Williamson, butcher fGibbens Charles, baker Green John, vict. Packhorse fHelt John bricklayer Hodgkinson Rt. shopkeeper Marlow Chpr. valet Marlow John, blacksmith Marshall Wm. butcher Miller Edw. excise officer t Oldham John, farmer Parkin John, vict. & maltster, White Hart Roper Timothy, brewer & cooper Russell Ann, schoolmistress Smith Benj. vict. & horse dealer Storey Geo. farmer, Hatfield Swift Thos. woodman Taylor Thos. farmer, South Car Waller John, blacksmith Webster Hanh. vict. Plough Wild Geo. shoemaker Woodhead Wm. joiner EDWINSTOW PARISH. This very extensive parish is situated in the heart of Sher- wood Forest, (see p. 35.) and contains some fine old woodland scenery, many modern plantations, and several open tracts of -HDWINSTOW PARISH, 415 forest land, which afford good pasturage for sheep. A large portion of it was not enclosed till 1818, and about 2000 acres of it form the beautiful park and pleasure grounds of Thoresby HalU from which it stretches northward to Carburton, near Clumber and Welbeck, — southward to the market toivn of Ol- lerton, — and westward to Glipstone Park, which now forms a highly cultivated farm, within 3 miles of Mansfield. The rivers Medin and Maun traverse it from west to east, as^lso does the Duke of Portland's Flood Dike, which commences near Sutton in Ashfield, and passes nearly parallel with the Maun, to the village of Edwinstow, and is provided with numerous flood gates and sluices, by means of which the sloping and once barren meadows on each side of it are so regularly irrigated in the dry seasons, and so preserved from inundation when there is a redundancy of rain, that they now produce several plentiful crops of grass, clover, &c, every year. Besides the church at Edwinstow, the parish has three Chapels of Ease, and contains upwards of 16,060 acres divided into six townships, of which the following is an -enumeration, with the population and super- ficial contents of each. Townships. Houses. Persons. Acres. Edwinstow, • • 166 740 5815 Budby, 19 139 1300 Carburton, • •• 28 143 1500 Townships. Houses. Persons. Acres. Clipstone,.--. 49 223 1648 Ollerton, .... 130 658 2400 Palethorpe 14 89 4000 Edwinstow, or Edenstowe, is a large village, pleasantly situ- ated on a gentle declivity, 2 miles \V. of Ollerton. It is ex- tremelv rural, and its venerable church has a lofty spire, highly ornamented with " turret looking Gothic niches." It was ori- ginally a " berue" of the King's great manor of Mansfield, and the inhabitants had the right of pasturage in the King's hays of Bilhagh and Birkland. Henry IV. granted them a fair for two days, but it is now held only one day, viz. on October 21th for cattle, sheep, and swine ; and the parish feast is on the Sunday following. In the 3d of Edward III., the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln pleaded that they were rectors of " Edenestoiv and Orston^ and that they had possessed from time immemorial in the former place, view of frank-pledge, assize of bread and ale, and .had several tenants there. Thoroton says, "the royalties and wastes of Edwinstow and Carburton, are the in- heritance of the Duke of Newcastle by agreement," but these manors both belonged to the Duke of Porland, till about twenty years ago, when his Grace gave that of Edwinstow to Earl Man vers, in exchange for the manor of Holbeck, except the hay of Birkland, which he still retains. The- Church is dedicated to St. Mary, and its lofty spire which was repaired in 1816, may be seen at a considerable distance. It has annexed to it the chapels of Ollerton, Palethorpe, and "Carburton, and is in the appropriation of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, under 410 HATFIELD DIVISION. whom the Duke of Portland and Earl Man vers are lessees of the great tithes. The vicarage, valued in the King's books at .£14, is in the gift of the Dean of Lincoln, and is now enjoyed by the Rev. John Cleaver, LL. D. The Hon. and Rev. J. L. Savile has a seat in the village, and Col. H. L. Savile, resides at Cockglode,* a beautiful mansion embowered in wood, and distant 1 mile W. by N. of Ollerton. This seat belongs to Sir R. S. Milnes, Bart., but after his death it will become the property of Earl Manvers. Poor's Land, 8fc. — In 162/, Ann and Wm. Monday granted their homestead and 16a. 3r. 22p. of land in Edwinstow to the churchwardens, for the use of the poor of Edwinstow, Clip- stone, and Budby. At the enclosure in 1818, this charity re- ceived an allotment of 132 acres, of which the trustees sold 40 acres for .£375, which they expended in enclosing and fencing the remainder, except £9J. 14s. 6d., which is now in the Ret- ford Savings' Bank. The whole property produces £60 per annum, half of which is given to the poor of Edwinstow, two- thirds of the remainder to those of Clipstone, and the rest to those of Budby. Edwinstow Free School, which is open to all the poor boys of the parish, on the National system, was founded in 1719, by John Bellamy, who endowed it with 5a. 2r. 39p. of land, which in 1828, was exchanged by Earl Manvers for Parkinson Close, (5a. 2r. 18p.) and the Manor-house garden (21 perches). The school-house was rebuilt in 1824 by Earl Manvers, who sub- scribes with the vicar and inhabitants towards the masters salary, which is about £40 per annum. The founder also left two houses adjoining the school for poor ividows, but they were pulled down about 30 years ago, and four cottages built on the site for the reception of as many pauper widows. The whole parish participates in the charity called the Lincoln Dole, of which the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln are trustees. Birkland and Bilhagh are two ancient woods of Sherwood Forest, and though they have long been cleared of underwood, they still contain many large and venerable oaks, in every stage of perfection and decay. They form a wild and open forest tract, 3:J miles in length, extending westward from Thoresby Park to the liberties of Warsop and Clipstone. Birkland, which contains 947a. 2b. is the property of the Duke of Port- land; and Bilhacrh, which extends eastward from Birkland, now belongs to Earl Manvers, and comprises 540a. 2r, 37p. At the east end of Bilhagh is an extensive Fox Cover, called Ollerton Corner. (See page 37, where the contents of these wastes should be stated 1500 acres, and not 15,000.) Thev are in Edwinstow township, as also is the newly enclosed district * CocJcglode was built in 177H, by the late George Aldridge, M. D., who had the estate on a leaso trom the Duke of Porihnd. EDWINSTOW PARISH. 417 called the South Forest, which lies betwixt Rufford and the river Maun, and has a small new hamlet bearing the name of King's Stand, and distant 2 miles W.S.W. of Ollerton. Villa-real, a large farm, half a mile W. of Edwinstow, is so named from the family who, about 50 years ago, held a great portion of the copyhold lands in this manor. Budby township, on the Worksop road, 3 miles N-W* of Ollerton, has a handsome rural village of Gothic cottages, at the south-west corner of Thoresby park, under a thickly wooded acclevity, and on the south side of the river Medin, which is here crossed by a neat bridge. In Domesday survey, it is called Buteby, and was soc of the King's great manor of Mans- field, of which it is now held in fee by Earl Manvers, whose Countess pays for the education and clothing of 18 poor girls, in the school which was built by his late mother in 1807- Budby North and South Forest, are unenclosed, but form ex- cellent sheep walks. Carburton, or Carberton, is a small village on the west side of Clumber, upon the small river called the Wollen, near the Ollerton road, 4 miles S. by E. of Worksop. Its township and chapelry includes Carburton Forge, a small hamlet one mile W. of the village, where there was formerly an iron forge. The Duke of Portland is owner,* and lord of the manor, which is all enclosed; and in the reign of Edward II*, was partly claimed by the abbot of Welbeck, who enclosed " Carberton Storth, lying near the gate of his abbey," though the inha- bitants pleaded that it was part of their ancient demesne. The chapel has a small burial ground, and is annexed to Edwinstow vicarage. The turnpike from hence to Worksop and Newark, was formed under acts passed in the 10th and 31st of Geo. III. Clipstone, once the seat of Royalty, is now one of the poorest and most decayed villages in Bassetlaw, though seated I in the most picturesque part of the vale of the Maun, 5 miles E.N.E. of Mansfield, and nearly 2 miles S.W. of Edwinstow- Of the 1648 acres in this township, nearly 900 form one of the wildest wastes of the forest, and a large portion of the re- I mainder has been enclosed, and brought irito a rich state of cultivation by the present owner and lord of the manor, the Duke of Portland, who formed, at an immense expense, the flood dike and sluices already noted at page 415. Amongst the numerous farms which his Grace retains in his owns hands, that of ClipsUm Park is now perhaps the most productive, though it was lately only a wild tract of cleared woodland, once famous for its large oaks, most of which were cut down during the civil wars, and the commonwealth. This park was nearly 8 miles in circumference, and at its south-east corner, upon a commanding eminence, stood Clipstone Palace, of which * Except about 40 acres belonging to the Duke of Newcastle, and enclosed in Clumber park. 418 HATFIELD DIVISION. some venerable ruins still remain, consisting of several frag- ments of massive walls, formed of small rough stones embedded in mortar, which is as hard as the stones themselves. It is said to have been built and occupied by one of the King's of Northumberland. Throsby, says it was a palace for the King's of England, so early as the reign of Henry II. It was such a favourite residence of King John, both before and after his accession to the throne, that it obtained the name of " King John's Palace," and several of his grants to Nottingham and other places are dated from it. A Parliament was held here by Edward I. in 1290, but it is " uncertain whether they met in the palace, or under an oak on the edge of the park, to which tradition has given the name of Parliament Oak, — (See page 37.) One story, however, says, that this aged oak (of which the hollow trunk still remains,) obtained its name as early as 1212, when King John, whilsthunting with his Barons in the park, received intelligence of a second revolt of the Welch, and hastily assembled his followers under the branches of this oak, where, after a brief consultation, it was de- termined that the 28 Welch hostages then at Nottingham Castle should be hanged.— (See p. 84.) The only part of the palace now remaining, stands in a large field close to the village, and seems to have .been the hall. The foundations have formerly been very extensive, with several large vaults, but in 1810, a great part of these were dug up to be employed in a system of drainage, which the Duke of Portland then com- menced upon his estate here ; but we understand that his Grace gave strict orders, that the venerable walls of this once royal pile should not be touched, yet in opposition to this edict, much demolition has taken place ; and on our visit we observed under the ruins large heaps of stones which some churlish surveyor appeared to have broken for the purpose of repairing the roads, and which would have been so appropriated, had not his Grace on hearing of the dilapidation, forbidden their removal. The manor of Clipstone, was given by Henry VIII. to the Duke of Norfolk. It afterwards passed to the Earl of Warwick and Henry Sidney, who forfeited it to the crown, with which it re- mained till James I. granted it to the Earl of Shrewsburv's feoffees, from whom it was passed to the Newcastle family, and from them to that of Portland. Clipston Feast is on the first Sunday in November. OLLEPtTON, is a small market town, pleasantly situated near the confluence of the Maun and the Rainworth-water, upon the high road betwixt Worksop and Newark, 9 miles S.S.E.of the former, 13 miles N.W. of the latter, and 6 miles W.S.W. of Tuxford. It has a weekly market on Friday, and two fairs annuallv, viz. May 1st, for cattle, sheep, and pedlery, and the nearest Friday to October 18th, for hops> — of which consider- able quantities are grown in Boughton and other adjacent EDWINSTOW PARISH. parishes, but nearly all the hop-yards in this town-hip have been subjected to the plough. At the Conquest, Ollerton, or Allerton, formed two manors, one of the fee of Roger de Busli, and the other of the fee of Gilbert de Gand. In the 4th of Edward III., the Earl of Kent " held the manor of Ollerton of the honour of Donnington, which belonged to the King as Earl of Chester." It afterwards passed to the Suttons and Markhams, and the lands now belong principally to Earl Manvers and the Hon. and Rev. J. L. Saville, the latter of whom is lord of the manor, and holds a Court yearly on the 24th of October. The township contains 130 houses and 65? inhabitants, and has a neat Chapel of Ease, which is annexed to the vicarge of Edwinstow, and was rebuilt about 55 years ago, when money was raised for that purpose by mortgaging the " Town Lands" which comprise 58a. 2r. 33p., le,t for £50 per annum, and have belonged to the chapelry from time immemorial. The rents are received by the constable, and out of them he pays the county rate. In 1739, Francis Thompson,, left £24, and in 1743, Thomas Markham, left £5 to the poor ; the interest of these sums is paid out of the poor rates and dis- -tributed in bread. The Methodists have a small chapel here, and near the town is a large paper mill, which has long been unoccupied. The bridge here, like many others, was thrown down in the flood of 1795. — (See p. 99.) Colonel Thomas Mark- ham, of Ollerton, was a distinguished soldier in the royal cause during the civil wars, and was drowned in the Trent in 1643, after engaging the Parliament forces near Gainsborough. Palethorpe, or Peverelihorpe, is a small village on the east side of Thoresby Park, within which most of its town- ship and chapelry is enclosed. It is 3 miles N. of Ollerton, and is the property of Earl Manvers, but has passed through many families since William I. granted it to Roger de Busli, All the land is in the occupancy of the noble owner, and con- sequently the inhabitants are all in his employ. The Chapel, which has an entrance from the park, is an elegant stone fabric, with some beautiful stained glass in the windows. In niches at the west end are figures of Hope and Meekness, and at the east end is a neat monument in memory of Charles Alphonso Pierrepont, who lost his life after evincing much bravery at the .storming of an outwork, near Bruges, on Sept. 19th, 1812. The curacy is annexed to the vicarage of Edwinstow. IVhite- moor is a large farm near the confluence of the Maun and the Medin, occupied by the EarVs land agent. Thoresby Hall, the seat of Earl Manvers, is a large and elegant mansion, in an open but rather a low situation, at the east end of a spacious lake formed by the river Medin, and is enclosed within a beautiful park, which is well stocked with deer, and no less than ten miles in circuit, extending north- ward to that of Clumber, and westward to the picturesque 420 HATFIELD DIVISION, hamlet of Budby. The hall is distant 3 miles N. by W. of Ollerton, and was built on the site of the old house which was burnt down on the 4th of March, 1745, when nothing- was saved but the family writings, the plate, and a small portion of the best furniture. It consists of a rustic stone basement, with two stories of brick-work, and the principal front is ornamented with a tetrastyle portico, of the Ionic order, of a beautiful stone. The window frames are richly gilt, and the principal entrance is in the basement, opening into the hall, in which are some good paintings and engravings, and a Chiaro Scuro of the Trojan horse, &c. There are also many fine paintings, &c. in the EarPs dressing room, and the drawing and dining rooms. The ascent to the principal story is by a double stair- case, which opens into the dome, a circular apartment of facti- tious marble, supported by 14 pillars, alternately round and square, on which rests a gallery ballustraded, and opening into the upper chambers. The light is admitted by a handsome cir- cular skylight, and the walls have a correct resemblance of yellow variegated marble, beautifully contrasting with the white pillars and pillasters, and others resembling the verd antique ; the floor is laid with the same substance tessellated. All the prin- cipal rooms are superbly furnished, and the dining room has a recess at one end formed of curious twisted pillars. A well moulded bust in the octagonal drawing* room, represents Pascal Paoli, who, after fighting gallantly, first against the Genoese and then against the French, was obliged to fly from a long* and unequal contest, and leave Louis the 15th in the posses- sion of his once free and independent country, from which he retired, and at length found an hospitable asylum at Thoresby. The present mansion was built by the last Duke of Kingston, and the gardens, which are very fine, were part of them con- structed by his Duchess, in the German style with arbours, and treillagated. In the Shrubbery a fine cascade falls into the river Medin, which, a little below the house, is crossed by a light and elegant bridge, and for more than a mile above forms a broad and spacious lake, on which are several handsome vessels, one of which is a full rigged ship, built near Gainsbro', and brought here upon a carriage made for the purpose, and supposed by the ignorant believers of Mother Shipton, to be the identical vessel which she prophecied would " sail over Nottingham Forest." The PTERREPONT FAMILY, of whom Earl Manvers is now the head, descended from Robert de Perpoint, who was of French extraction, and came first to England with the Norman Conqueror. His progeny soon acquired both fame and property, and in the reign of Edward IV. Henry Perpoint was distin- guished for his services against the Lancasterians. His son George purchased large estates after the dissolution of the reli- gious houses, and was knighted in the 1st of Edward VI. THORESBY HALL, &C, 421 Henry, his son and heir, married the daughter of Sir William Cavendish, and left issue Robert, who, in 1627, was created Baron Pierrepont of Holm-Pierrepont, and Viscount Newark; and in the following- year was raised to the dignity of Earl of Kingston, In the civil wars of Charles I. he was a Lieutenant General, and raised 1200 men for the king's service. He was succeeded by his son Henry, who also distinguished himself in the cause of royalty, and was created Marquis of Dorchester, in 1644. He died in 1680, without issue, when the Marquisate became extinct, but the Earldom devolved on his grand-nephew, Robert Pierrepont, who in 1682 was succeded by his brother William, who died in 1690, leaving his honours and estates to his brother Evelyn, who was created Marquis of Dorchester in 1 706, and Duke of King ston-upon- Hull, in 17 15. He was succeeded by his grandson, Evelyn, the last Duke of Kingston, who died without issue, in 1773? when his titles became extinct. Three years after his death, his Duchess was tried for bigamy, she having married him during the life of her first husband, Augustus John Hervey, Esq. All the Peers found her guilty except the Duke of Newcastle, who said, "erroneously but not intentionally guilty upon my honour" — upon which she was discharged " on paying her fees of office."' The Duke's estates devolved upon his sister's son, Charles Meadoivs, who assumed the name of Pierrepont, and was created Baron, Pierrepont, and Viscount Newark, in 1796, and Earl Manvers, in 1806. He died in 1816, and was succeeded by his son, the Right Honourable Charles Herbert Pierrepont, the present Earl Man vers, Viscount Newark, and Baron Pierrepont, who has large estates around Thoresby Hall, and in other parts of the county. The family name in old writings is variously spelt, Pyrpount, Peerpont, Poripont, Perpoynt, Perpont, Pourpont, Perinpont, and Pierrepont — the present orthographv. The walk from Thoresby to Clumber, across the parks, pre- sents such a beautiful succession of sylvan scenery, that the tourist may almost conceive himself rambling- amidst transat- lantic forests. '* Majestic woods, of every vigorous green, Stage above stage, high waving o'er the hills ; Or to the far horizon wide diffused, A boundless deep immensity of shade. " EDWINSTOW PARISH DIRECTORY. budbv. i Hill John, joiner & cab. maker Alien John, corn miller. Pale- | Oldham Thos. fanner thorpe mill I Schneider Mr. Peter Alex Bawdwen Wm. asst. elk. of wks. j Sidda Edw. farmer Burks Eliz. schoolmistress | Taylor Wm. shopkeeper Carter Wm. bricklayer I Wagstaff John, blacksmith Cottam Wm. stone mason ! \V alter Jas. clerk of ^vorks 422 EDW1NST0W PARISH DIRECTORY. CARBURTON. Bradley Hanb. vict. Old Sun Brett David, shoemaker Burchby Thos. cab. mkr. Clum- ber park Candlin Rt. lodge keeper Cutts Henry, hind Eardley J ph. wood turner Greenwood Rd. farmer Tidswell Jas. shopkeeper Vickers Edw. farmer Widdowson John, shopkeeper CLIPSTONE. Amos Cornl. vict. & joiner, Fox and Hounds Hatton Rd. gamekeeper Jepson John, shopkeeper Paulson George, keeper Staniland Abm. vict. Dog& Duck Whitworth Saml. shopkeeper FARMERS. Amos Thos. Sabine Wm. Amos Wm. Broom-hill Dunstan Thos. Grange Gilbert Thos. Wood John, Lindley John bailiff, Park Millns Wm. Farm EDWINSTOW. Savile, the Hon. & Rev. John Xumley, (& Ruffbrd) Savile, Col. Hv. Lumley, Esq. Cock Glode* Bowring John, tailor Brett Wm. tailor, King's stand Bullivant Thos. butcher Bullivant Wm. vict. Black Swan Butler Wm. shoemaker Cleaver Rev. John, LL.B. vicar Day John, shoemaker Dickinson John, M.D. and M.R.C.S. &L.S.A. Doncaster Geo. gent Fanniwell John, butcher Fieldsend Mat fleet, miller & bkr. Fletcher Geo. wheelwright Foster Wm. shoemaker Freeman James, shoemaker Freeman John, shoemaker Godson Decimus, land surveyor, King's stand, and Ollerton Hanson Waddington, butcher Hawk si ey Mrs. Ann Hinds Wm. shoemaker Hoggard Saml. blacksmith Hufton Wm. woodman Hurst Fras. vict. Royal Oak Hurst Geo. grocer & draper Johnson Jph. joiner Mitchell Wm. weaver Morley John, shoemaker Morley Thos. blacksmith Parnhill Abm. shoemaker Peatrield John y maltster, h. Wei- low Pocklington Rev. Roger, curate Robinson Hy. sawyer Russell Hy. sehoolr. & clerk Slingsby Wm= tailor Smith Mary, shopkeeper Stocks Hy. bricklayer Trueman Rueben, shoemaker Tudsbury Chas. vict. Robin Hood, King's stand Tudsbury Rd. joiner Tudsbury Wm. joiner Wadsworth Jph. wheelwright Ward Wm. nursery man, South Forest Webster Miles, grocer, dpr. &c, Webster Saml. vict. jug & glass Widdowson Rt. stone mason Woodhead Edw., John, & Rd., wheelwrights FARMERS. 1 live at South Forest, and 2 at Mount Pleasant. 1 Argyle John 2 Jackson John Ashline John Lee Saml. Brett Wm. Peatfield Jph. Bullivant John, 1 Smith Wm. Villa Real 1 Stubbins Chs. Fowe Edward, Stubbins Jthn. Black hills Webster Php. ' Hewgill Jas. Weightman Hu. Hodgkinson J. IMLETHORPE & THORESBV. Earl Manvers, the Rt. Hon. Chas. Herbert Pierrepont, Thoresby Hall Viscount Newark, the Hon. Chas. Evelyn Pierrepont, M. P. Thoresby Hall Barrer Mr. house steward Bennett Sclby, gardener Brown Titus, sailor EDWINSTOW PARISH* 423 Badd Mrs. Mary, Buckgates lodge Hartley Rt. joiner, &c. Hufton Stpn. woodman, Budby lodge Hutchinson Hy. clerk, Ivy cot- tage Kemp Rt. poulterer Manall Thos. whitesmith Ma-nsell Hy. gamekeeper, Ken- nels Paschoud Chas. park keeper, Proteus lodge Pickin Wm. John, Esq. land agent, Whitemoor Shaw John, groom Upton John, land bailiff Snowden Samuel, tailor Witham Samuel, shepherd OLLERTON. Post Office, Hop Pole Inn, Jph. Lister, post master. Letters are despatched by a mail gig to Newark at \ past 7 nig. and arrive at 1 noon. Becket Thos. cht. & druggist Bennitt Charles, gent Bolton Wm. farmer Botham Mrs. Elizabeth Butt John, draper Dawson Jane, confectioner Doncaster John, gent Eyre Charles, farmer Godson Decimus, land surveyor Gravenor Rt. tanner and bone crusher Graves Rd. cart owner Gregory Wm. Johnson, wine, spi- rit, & seed merchant Hawkins Wm. Hy. excise officer Justice John, road surveyor Lesiter John, farmer Osborne Samuel, cooper Patterson Thos. gent. Ashen- Oak cottage Pepper Thos. baker & flour dlr Pinder Geo. corn miller Scatchard Mrs. Ann Scatchard Wm. gardener Turner Miss Elizabeth Turner Samuel, farmer White Mr. Sampson WoodSaml. parish clerk, town crier, & sexton Woodruff Wm. braizier, &e. HOP GROWERS hi the Neighbourhood.- See also Tuxford fy Retford. Alvey Chpr. Boughton Barker John, Eakring Boot Sarah, Ollerton Bolton Wm. Ollerton Brownlow Thos. (hop and corn merchant) Ollerton Bunby Thomas, Eakring Cox Edward, Ollerton Doncaster John, Ollerton Eaton John, Rufford mill Flower Wm. Boughton Frogson Henry, Boughton Gibson Win. Boughton Gravenor Rt. Ollerton Gregory Win. Johnson, Ollerton Harvey John, Ompton Hill Elizabeth, Wellow Hurt William, Eakring Kitchen Wm. W r ellow Lawrence Charles, Boughton Lesiter John, Ollerton Lister Joseph. Ollerton Machon Hy. Gateford hill Metheringham Geo. Boughton Parkinson John, Ley fields Peatfield John, Wellow Ryals John, Eakring Squires John, Boughton Turner Rd. Ollerton Walker John, Wellow Walker Wm. Wellow Williamson Luke, Rufford Woombill John, Wellow Vv r oombill John, Ompton INNS & TAVERNS. The last three are Beerhouses* Blue Bell, Thos. Brownlow Hop Pole Inn, Jph. Lister White Hart, Sarah Boot Board Jph. Thompson King William IV., Rd. Gill Maltsters' Arms, W r m. WooIIcy Academ ics . Blacksmith s . Brockner Geo. Horsman Win. (bdg.) Teather Geo. Hibbs Wm. 421 OLLEftToN DIRECTORY. Boot 4' Shomkrs, Bull Geo, Cook John Harrison Jas. Johnson Geo. Mills Geo. Morley Wm. Teather Geo. Bricklayers. Brown Geo. Thompson Geo. Butchers. Bennett Jph. Turner Rd. Widdowson W. Drapers. Lillev Sarah Willey &Co. (& Sheffield) Grocers, 8yc. Doncaster Ann OgleAtkin,(hop & seedmert.) Osborne Dd. Smith Mary Sterland Wm. (chandler & ironmonger) , Joiners, fyc. Marshal! Wm. Hoades Rd. (& broker) Ward Wm. Maltsters. Lister Jph. Oale Atkin, (malt, hop, & corn factor) Wright John, Ashen Oak Nurserymen, fyc. Smith Peter Ward John Painters. Halladay Rt. Holliday Benj. Plumbers* fyc. Walker John, (& hosier) Wilson Wm. Saddler. Ward Jas. Surgeons. Lilly John W. Ward Rd. Chas. & Cox Edw. Tdilorsfy Dprs. Collinson John Ward John Whitelaw Cpr. Wood Saml. Wright John Wright Wm. Vetny. Srgns. Horseman Wm. Osborne David Watch $ Clock Makers. Cobb Geo. Powell Thos. Wheelwrights. Bailey Rt. Reynolds Geo. CARRIERS. To London, Rt. Hunt's waggons, from the White Hart, every Sun. Tu. Wed. and Fri. at 2 aft., and to Sheffield every Mon. Wed. Fri. & Sat. aft. at 4, and Rt. Fletcher every Thurs. To Mansfield, John Scathard and Geo. Taylor, Thu. 7 mg. To Newark, Jno. Scatchard, Wei\. 7 mg. To Nottingham, from the White Hart, John Rushby, Tu. & Fri. 12 noon. To Retford, from the Blue Bell. Thos. Johnson, every week, & John Rushby, Tu. & Fri. dep. 11 night, ar. 12 noon. ELKSLEY PARISH Lies on the east side of Clumber Park, and on both sides of the Wollen, but the village of Elksley, is on the north bank of that river, near its confluence with the Idle, 4 miles N. N. W. of Tuxford. It contains 73 houses, 377 inhabitants, and about 2000 acres of land, a large portion of which formed a wild tract of the forest till 1780, when it was enclosed and exonerated from tithes, and an allotment of 66 acres awarded to the king as Duke of Lancaster, under which Duchy the Duke of New- castle holds this manor of Elksley, or " Elchesleig ;" but Robert Sharpe, Esq. and St. John's College, Cambridge, have estates here. It was partly soc to Bothamsall, and of the fee of Roger de Busli. A great portion of the land was given to the monasteries of Worksop, Blyth, Rufford, Newark, Matter sea, and Welbeck, the latter of which had the rectory and church, which in the 4th of Edward VI. were granted to Richard VVinlove and Richard Field, and afterwards passed to the Barl of Clare, whose descendant, the Duke of Newcastle, is patron of the vicarage, which is valued in the king's books atJ£6. 16s. and is now enjoyed by the Rev. William Hett, who ret i ELKSLKY PARISH, 425 from the owners, as a commutation of the small tithes of the old enclosures, about <£80 a year ; and possesses an allotment of 83 acres of the new enclosures. The church is an ancient edifice, with a nave, chancel, and tower. The feast is on the 2nd Sunday after Old Michaelmas. The parish has about 14 acres of hop ground, and a benefaction of <£14, left in 1694, by Mary Pitts, for which the overseers pay 14s. yearly to poor widows. Norma nton is a district in this parish, where there is a good inn on the old Blyth and Ollerton road, 2 miles W. by S. of Elksley village. Bell John, bricklayer Bown John, shoemaker Colton Thos. vict. & shopkeeper, Bricklayer's Arms Hett Rev. Wra. vicar Kempshall John, gardener Needham John, wheelwright Ostick Wm. shoemaker, Dover lodge Richards John, parish clerk Richards John, jun. joiner and cabinet maker Salvin Dd. vict. Robin Hood Salvin David, jun. painter Salvin James, butcher Sharpe Robert, Esq. Shirtl iff James, blacksmith Stockdale Jph. maltster, h. West Drayton Towler George, blacksmith Twible Rebecca, vict. Newcastle Arms, Normanton Wells Thos. wheelwright and shopkeeper Western Robert, saddler Woodhead Jph. shoemaker FARMERS. Thus f are Nop Growers. Belk Reginald Johnson Stpn, Eyre Thos. f Johnson Thos, fFox Rd. Forest Giles John, fTaylor Eliz. Normanton fTaylor Thos. Hancock Rbca. fVVeightman J» fHill Mtw. White Jph. Hudson Ann Forest Carrier, Edw. Warrington to Lincoln, Thu. 9 mg. and to Sheffield, Fri. 9 evg. FINNINGLEY PARISH Occupies that northern apex of the county which stretches northward from the Idle, betwixt Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, within which latter county a large portion of this parish is com- prised. It is divided into the three townships of Finningley, Auckley, and Blaooton, which contain 184 houses, 962 inhabi- tants, and about 7000 acres of land ; most of which has a good sandy soil. The waste lands were enclosed by an act passed in 1774 ; and in 1778, an allotment of 1156 acres was awarded to the rector, in lieu of all the tithes, except those paid for 300 acres which had no common right, and which still remain tithable. Finningley is a large village and township, 4 miles N. by E. of Bawtry, and has 80 houses, 424 inhabitants, and 2391a. Ir. of land, all in Nottinghamshire. The church is dedicated to St. Oswald, and has lately been repaired, and 426 HATFIELD DIVISION. ornamented with a handsome stained glass window. The rectory is valued in the king's books at c£13. 14s. 9d. The Rev. John Harvey, LL. B. is the incumbent, and John Harvey, Esq. of Finningley Park, is the patron, and also owner of most of the township, and lord of the manor, which was formerly the property of the Forbisher family; — of which was Admiral Martin Forbisher, an enterprising navigator, who was sent out by Queen Elizabeth, with three ships in 1567, in hopes of dis- covering a north-west passage to India, Having proceeded as far as Labrador, he was stopped by the approaching winter, but returned with a quantity of gold marcasite, or pyrites aureus which tempted the members of the " Society for Promoting Discovery," to send him out again with three ships, in 1577> when he discovered the Strait, now known by his name, but was again stopped by the ice; and having taken on board more of this glittering substance then supposed to be gold, he returned to England. Soon after this, Queen Elizabeth determined to form a settlement in these countries, and Admiral Forbisher was sent out for that purpose with 15 small vessels ; but he could not get so far as he had done in his preceding voyages ; so that he soon after returned, and gave up all further attempts to discover what has since been often sought for in vain. Mr, John Bigland, a venerable worthy, is now living in the village, where he was many years schoolmaster. He is a native of Skirlaugh, in Holderness, and author of the Yorkshire portion of the Beauties of England and Wales, and also of "A View of the World," and some other works. Auckley, or Aivkley, 4 miles N. of Bawtry, is a village and township, containing 362 souls, 74 houses, and239JA. 1r. of land, more than half of which is in Yorkshire within the soke of Doncaster, and belongs to Wm. Childers and John Smilter, Esqrs. Of the Nottinghamshire portion of the manor, John Childers, Esq. of Cantley, is lord and principal owner. Of the inhabitants, 127 are in Notts, and 235 in Yorks. Blaxton, or Blakestone, though in this parish, is a small village and township, wholly in Yorkshire, in the Wapentake of Strafford and Tickhill, and partly in the soke of Doncaster. It is 5 miles N. of Bawtry, and forms a manor, of which John Harvey, Esq. is lord and principal owner. Charities. — William Hall, in 1668, left 10s. yearly out of two acres in Blaxton-fields to the poor of Finningley parish, and it is now paid by Mr. George Wood. In 1672, Richard Metcalf gave to the poor of Finningley township, 2 acres, which, at the enclosure in 1774, were exchanged for 1a. 3r. 18p. in the Mill-field, let for .4*2. In the 28th Charles II. John Take gave to the poor of Auckley two acres, which, at the en- closure, were exchanged for 1a. 2r. 4p., now let for .4*1. 10s. Auckley has also 6s. 8d. yearly out of land belonging to Wm. Bameey ; the Poor's 'dose, let for £1 ; and the Town-close, O-KKINGI.Er PARISH 427 containing 7a. 3r. 34p. which was awarded at the enclosure, and is placed to the poor rate account. Sarah Wood left 2s. 6d. yearly to Finningly; and the parish receives 10s. yearly from the overseers of Auckley, as interest of ,£10, left by an un- known donor. There is also about half an acre of land ir Blaxton belonging to the poor. AUCKLEY. Marked f are in Yorkshire, and X are Yeomen. Binge Jph. shoemaker Burkinshaw Geo. bricklayer Garnett Saml. blacksmith Gillatt Rd. vict. butcher, and shopr. Eagle & Child fGleadhill George, shoemaker Halifax Wm. shopkeeper Johnson Wm. bricklayer tKitching Thomas, tailor Laycock Geo. shoemaker Loftis William, butcher f Rawson Abm. wheelwright Shaw Geo. vict. Plough Tyas William, shoemaker Ward Chpr. shopkeeper Woodward Thos. shopkeeper FARMERS. Allen Saml. JHirstJohn 't J Baxter Rd. Johnson John t Brooke John Lee Wm. Gillott Hv. I Weld Wm. JGleadhill Jph. Whitaker Geo. Hickson Thos. fYounge Thos. Highfield BLAXTON (YORKS.) Coggan Jph. vict. saddler, and shopkeeper Hoyle Rd. blacksmith Richardson Rd. wheelwright Robinson John, wheelwright FARMERS. Allin Tsaac ^Richardson S. Bradbury Wm. Senthouse Wm. Hague Rd. Wood Matthias JMachon Jas. FINXIXGLEY. I Bigland Mr. John i Chester Geo, butcher : Chester Geo. parish clerk ; Coulthread Wm. blacksmith \ Crookes John, wght. & smith I Cudworth Thos. vict. Harvey ,j s Arms Fox John, corn miller Gillatt John, tailor Godley Thomas, shoemaker Gregory Hannah, shopkeeper Gregory Thos. shoemaker Harvey Rev. John, LL.B. rector Laister Geo. vict. Horse & Stag Lister Matthew, shoemaker Rawlin George, butcher Robinson Rev. Disney, M.A. curate Robinson Chas. grocer, druggist, and schoolmaster Saint Paul Geo. joiner, &c. Skelton Geo. shopkeeper Wilson Jph. shoemaker Wilson Wm. shopkeeper Woombill W. vict. Horse & Stag FARMERS. Cragg Wm« Fowler Wrn. Gibson Chas. Jackson Geo. Lin d ley John Machin John Moulson Jas. Newsome Rd, X Robinson W. Seaman Wm. ^Turner Wm, I Wood Benj. J Wood Geo. Wood Jph Wood Rt. HARWORTH PARISH Contains upwards 7000 a eountv 1 . jcres, Iving in the western verge of the betwixt Blyth and Tir ,J Iving in the western verge or the ickhill, and has abont 900 inha- 428 HATFIELD DIVISION. bitants, but those who live in " Styrrup and Oldcoates" are all returned with Blyth parish, in which part of that township is comprehended. The hamlets of Hesley and Limpool, Martin, and Serlby, are all in this parish, and maintain their poor conjointly with Harworth, which is the only part of the parish that was exonerated from tithe at the enclosure in 1804, when 108a. 1r. 36p. was awarded to the vicar, and 115a. 3r. 21p. in lieu of the great tithes appropriated to Shrewsbury Hospital, in in Sheffield Park, of which the Duke of Norfolk is trustee. Harworth village is in rather a low situation, with a small stream running through it, 2 miles E.S.E. of Tickhill, and 2| miles W.S.W. of Blyth. The church is dedicated to All Saints, and was built about the 12th century, except the chan- cel, which was erected in 1672. In repairing the building in 1828, an arched recess was discovered in the wall, with a cup- board containing & garland, a cribbage board, and several other articles of a more sacred character. At the same time a hand- some cross was found in the churchyard, and is now placed above the east window. The Duke of Norfolk is patron of the vicarage, which is valued in the King's books at £5. 9s. 7d., and is now enjoyed by the Rev. William Downes- " The Church of Harewode, with the chapels of Serleby and Morton, were by King John granted the church of Roan, with many- others, as part of the chapelry of Blyth, but in the 6th of Ed- ward VI., they were granted to the Earl of Shrewsbury." The feast at Harworth, is on the 1st, and that at Styrrup on the 12th of November. The manor of Harworth, of which the Duke of Norfolk is lord, contains 1428a. 3r. 2p. The School, where 60 boys and girls are educated, is open to all the children of the parish, and was built in 1700, by Robert Brailsford, who endowed it with land, &c, now worth upwards of £88 a-year. Hesley and Limpool, containing 617a. Ir. 35p., form the north-western hamlet of the parish, adjoining Yorkshire, 2 miles N.W. of Bawtry. Hesley Hall, a neat mansion upon a commanding eminence, is the property of George Bustard Greaves, Esq., but is occupied by H. Marwood Greaves, Esq. Martin, ox Morton, forms the north-eastern hamlet of the parish, adjoining Bawtry, and comprising 1461a. 2r. 14p. di- vided into three farms, belonging to the Duke of Newcastle. Here is the site of a Roman Station, where in 1828, three silver coins of Antonius, Adrianus, and Faustina, were found, together with part of a Roman vase, and many pieces of Roman pottery. The form of the fort or station may still be distinctly traced, and even when the field is covered with full grown wheat, an octagon figure is perceptible, from the stems being shorter and poorer on the site of the buildings, than in other places. Near the town of Bawtry, is the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen, founded about the year 1390, by Robert Morton, (whose family jong held this estate,) " for a priest, there to be resident, and iiARWORTH PARISH. 429 to keep hospitality for poor people, and to pray for the foun- ders^ soul and all christian souls." It is valued in the king's books at <£8, of which £5. 6s. 8d. is still paid out of the posses- sions of the dissolved priory of St. Oswald, atNostell, in York- shire. The hospital consists of two small dwellings for two poor widows, and an ancient chapkl, in which n^> duty has been done during- the last seventy years, though the present master, the Rev. John Rudd, vicar of Blyth, receives the above-named rent charge, and also the rents of the following lands belonging to the hospital, viz. — 15 acres in Scrooby, two closes in Scaft- worth, and 14 acres in this parish, out of which he only pays 40s. yearly to the two alms women, whom he places in the hospital. Plumbtree is a farm of 339a. 2r. 24p. belonging to the Archbishop of York, but held on lease by the Dowager Vis- countess Galway, of Bawtry Hall. Serlbv Hall, now the property and delightful residence of Lord Vicount Galway, is pleasantly situated in a sylvan park above the river Ryton, 3 miles S. by YV. of Bawtry, and about 1 mile N. by E. of Blyth. In early times Serleby was the manor of Alured the Saxon ; but at the Norman Conquest was given to Roger de Busli, of whom Gislebert his man held it. From the Busli family it came to that of Mowbray, and in the reign of king John, Roger de Mowbray, for what reason is not assigned, gave it to Maud de Moles, who married Hugh, a man very likely without a sirname, as he immediately adopted that of de Seriby. For many generations it remained in this family, until the last male, Anthony, in the beginning of the seventeenth century, being childless, left it to his wife, Gertrude, daughter of Ralph Leek, of Hasland, Esq. for her own life and twenty-one years after. During this long interval of expectation, the male heir of the Seriby family was obliged to sell the reversion to Mr. Saunderson of Blyth; but the widow marrying Sir George Chawortb, that family also purchased a part of it; and from them it has come to the present possessor, to whose family it belonged as far back as the beginning of the last century, at which time there was a very old mansion standing on it. The present building is of brick and stone, consisting of a centre of very handsome elevation, with two appropriate wings, having $ie offices in the underground story, and the stables and out offices on the eastern side. The situation is extremely agree able ; on the south front is a sapcious lawn, beautifully inter- spersed with clumps of trees ; whilst the north front has a charming prospect over some very luxuriant meadows, watered by the little river Ryton. The principal plantations are on the south west side, with many avenues and shady walks cut through them, opening to the most striking prospects in the vicinity. The terrace is a part of the grounds always very much admired, not only for its own beauty, but for the exquisite 2 p 430 HATFIELD DIVISION. view which is seen from it. There are many fine paintings in the various apartments ; amongst which are two undoubted originals by Hans Holbein ; one of these is in the dining room, and is a portrait of Henry the Eighth on wood ; the other is in the drawing room, and is a finely executed portrait of Nicholas Kreatzer, astronomer to that monarch. The drawing room also contains a very large picture, being twelve feet two inches in height, and fifteen feet four in breadth, from the pencil of Daniel Myton. Its subject is Charles the First and his queen, with two horses, on one of which is a side saddle, and some dogs, all as large as life. It also contains another figure as large as life, but who, of himself, would not have required such a breadth of canvas; this is JefFery Hudson, the famous dwarf, who is in the act of striving to keep back two small dogs, with collars on. This picture having come into the possession of Queen Anne, was by her presented to Addison, from whom it came to the Arundels, of which family is its present noble pos- sessor, the Right Hon. George Monkton, Visount Galway and Baonr of Kildare, in Ireland, whose ancestor, John Monkton, was honoured with these titles by George II., and whose grand- father took the sirname of Arundel, agreeable to the will of Lady Frances Arundel. His Lordship however is not a peer of Parliament. His family was of great repute in Yorkshire, in the reign of Edward I., when some of them resided at Nun- Monkton, and " afterwards formed respectable and honourable matrimonial alliances." The manor or hamlet of Serlby con- tains 502a. 1r* 22p. and is annexed to the Constablewick of Torworth, though it maintains its poor jointly with Harworth. Styrrup and Oldcoates, or " Styrup and Ulcotes,'^ form a township of 2959a. 2r. 36p., of which 940a. 1r. 22p. are in the parish of Blyth, (see p. 397,) and the remainder in Har- worth parish. Oldcoates is a consideraale village on the western verge of the county, 2J miles S. of Tickhill, and 7 miles N. of Worksop, and had near it a small lake, called the White Water, but it is now drained and cultivated. Stvrrup lies east of Oldcoates, and includes a village of its own name, and the hamlet of Norn ay, which forms the northern suburb of Blyth. There is a small Methodist chapel both at Styrrup and Oldcoates. Viscount Galway is lord of the manor, but the land belongs to a number of small freeholders. The common land was enclosed in 1802. In Mr. Winter's orchard, at Old- coates, is a remarkable black heart cherry tree, the bole of which is 7 feet 10 inches in circumference, with branches ex- tending over a circle of 52 yards. This tree is ^aid to be 300 years old, and about 50 years ago it bore a ton weight of fruit ! which was sold for £5 to a Mr. Gleadhill, of Tickhil, who only cleared 15s. by his bargain, owing to the cherries being cracked by the rain before they were pulled. Charities belonging to Harworth Parish: — The hospital HARWORTH PARISH, 431 at Martin, and the school at Harworth are already noticed. The school was endowed in 1700, by Robert Brailsford, who was cook to the Saundersons, of Serlby Hall, with a farmhouse and 58a. 1r. 12p. of land, in the manor of Hatfield, and parish of Fishlake, in Yorkshire, for clothing and educating the poor boys of Harworth, Serlby, and Styrrup. In 1811, it re- ceived an allotment of 2 acres of common land, and the whole is now let for £59 per annum. There is also belonging to the school £253. 13s. stock, in the 3£ per cents., standing in the names of the trustees, — Viscount Galway, Henry Walker, George Greaves, and Wm. Downes, Esqrs. In 1724, Mary Saunderson bequeathed out of the Serlby estate a yearly rent charge of £20, to be applied in educating and apprenticing the poor boys and girls of Harworth school. She also gave £20 to the poor, which, with £20 left in 1723, by Bridget Neville, is vested in«£39 stock, 3| per cents., the dividends of which are re- ceived by the vicar, and distributed at Easter. Out of the school revenue the master has a salary of £35. 15s. and the mistress £26. 6s. ; and the remainder is given in clothing to the scholars. harworth. Viscount Galway, Serlby Hall Greaves Henry, Marwood, Esq. Hesley Hall Bradford Wm. tailor & p. clerk Brown Wm. vict. Crown Butler Thos. gamekeeper, Serlby Clark David, shoemaker Dickin John, blacksmith Downes Rev. Wm. vicar Fulwood Jph. jun. shoemaker Haslehurst John, shopkeeper Hickson Mrs. William Huddleston, Mr. Jno. Hawknest Jackson Robert, shoemaker Jackson William, surgeon Malkin Charles, butcher Marr John, shoemaker Marrison John shoemaker Meek Thomas, schoolmaster Milner John, shoemaker Morris James, tailor Needham Mary, shopkeeper Parkin Charles, gardener, Serlby Saxton Joseph, wheelwiight Savidge Sophia, shopkeeper Sidwell Thomas, butcher Whitaker Robert, beerhouse FARMERS. Cartwright Ann, Fisher John Martin Full wood Jph. Haslehurst Geo. Smith Ed. Lim* Job Rt. Martin pool Lane Joseph Smith W. Hesley Pinning Joshua Weatherhog E. Short T. Martin Wickfield Wm. OLDCOATES. Marked f are in Blyth Parish* and % are Yeomen. Anston Wm. shoemaker Barlow Thomas, shoemaker Bell Jane, vict. Spotted Bull Booth Mary, blacksmith Bower Henry, wheelwright f Clark Wm. corn miller Hiles Jph. tailor Hopkinson Jph. wheelwright Hurwood Geo. brick & tile maker Mitchell Thos. shopkeeper Newsom Saml. vict. Fox Richardson Geo. shopkeeper Smith Wm. vict. William IV. Stockdale Geo. blacksmith Taylor Rd. maltster, (and Blyth ) Thorpe J. vict. Coach & Horses Wilson Wm. lime burner Wragg Mrs. Elizabeth FARMERS. JBell George Waterhouse T. {Bell John f + Winter John JBellard Sarah Wright Thos. Nornai. — See Blyth— p. 403. 432 HATFIELD DIVISION. STYRRUP. Marked thus f are in Blyth Pa- rish, a?id I are Yeomen, + Lambert Geo hedge carpenter Lambert Thomas, shoemaker fLambert Wm. vict. & joiner Liversidge John, shopkeeper t Thorpe Betty, vict. Writ. Swan Wasden Wm. blacksmith fWorstenholm Mr. George FARMERS. fJBingham W. fBletcher Fras. tJCarr VVm. ft Parker- John fCottam Wm. ttSidwell John Hurwood Sarah fSidwell Robt. fLayland Eliz. fSissons Wm. fLees Henry j Woodcock Hy. The Coaches from Nottingham to Doncaster call at the Coach and Horses in Oldcoates, as also does the Tickhill and Worksop Carrier every Wednesday. HOUGHTON PAROCHIAL CHAPELRY. This decayed parish was once the splended and hospitable seat of the Earls of Clare, and the first Duke of Newcastle, but has now only the ruins of a chapel, a deserted paper mill, a corn mill, and eight scattered houses on the rivers Medin and Idle, 5 miles N. W. of Tuxford, and? miles S. S.W.'of Retford. It comprises about 900 acres of rich land, with several vigorous plantations, and an excellent decoy for wild fowl, consisting* of 20 acres of water, and about the same extent of " cover." The venerable ruins of the church or chapel are now embowered in a plantation of firs, and appear to be the remains of the nave and north cemetery, in which are several mutilated tombs, and ar- morial bearings of the Stanhope and Holies families. The in- habitants having no church of their own, now use that at Walesby, and they participate in the benefits of the free 3ehool at West Drayton. (See p. 365.) The Duke of Newcastle is owner, impropriator, and lord of the manor, which at the Nor- man Conquest was given to Roger Pictavensis, but it afterwards passed with his other possessions in this county to the Earl of Lancaster. In the 35th of Edward III., John de Longvillers held here of Nicholas Monboucher, by the service of a rose, two messages, half a carucate of land, ten acres of meadow, and two water-mills. The manor afterwards passed in marriage with the heiress of the Longvillers to Mallovell, lord of Rampton, and from his descendants it went to the Stanhope family, with which it continued till Saunchia Stanhope was married to John Babington, who sold it to Sir Wm. Holies, a great merchant and lord mayor of London, and great-grand- father to John Holies, who in 1624 was created Baron Hough- ton and Earl of Clare, titles which are now merged in the dukedom of Newcastle, as will be seen with Clumber, which has been the chief seat of the family since about the year 1770. A tourist, wbo wrote in 1789, says, Sir Wm. Holies, son of the before-named Sir Wm., possessed an estate of £10,000 a year in HOUGHTON PAROCHIAL CHAPELRY. 433 the reign of Henry VIII., and lived at Houghton in great splen- dour and hospitality. " He began his Christmas at All-hallow- tide, and continued it till Candlemas, during which any man was permitted to stay three days, without being asked whence he came or what he was. The fourth and last Earl of Clare married the co-heiress of H. Cavendish Duke of Newcastle, and was himself, after the death of his father-in-law, in 1691, created duke by that title, — his own estate and the Cavendish together amounting to <£40,000 per annum. Houghton, upon the acquisition of these estates, was neglected, and the Duke resided at Welbeck abbey. Afterwards, when the Holies and the Cavendish estates came to separate again, and the latter went through the Harleys to the Bentincks, a mansion was probably wanted for the^ former, and Clumber park, which might be the lodge before, was by degrees extended to its pre- sent size and importance." Thus the once princely seat of Houghton was left to ruin and decay; all that is now left of the mansion is occupied as a farm-house, and the extensive park, which was mostly on. the north side of the Medin, in Botham- sall parish, is now divided into meadows and arable fields. Brooke John, farmer Chappell John, corn miller Mansell Geo. -farmer, Old Hall Padley J. farmer, Warren House Ward" J. farmer, Decoy House MATTERSEY PARISH. Matte use y, or Mattersea, is a genteel and very retired village, on the western bank of the Idle, 4 miles S.S.E. of Bawtry, and 6 miles N. by W. of Retford. It stands on a gentle rise, and has several handsome mansions. Its parish, which comprises Blaco-hill, Mattersey abbey, and the hamlet of Mattel 'sey Thorpe, is about 1| miles in length, and contains 97 houses, 455 inhabitants, and about 2500 acres of land, which was enclosed by an Act passed in 1770. Lord Althorp is now the principal owner and lord of the manor, which was purchased of Captain Frankland, by his late father-in-law, Jonathan Acklom, Esq. of Wiseton Hall, for .£40,000, to pay which he re-sold some of the farms to Samuel Barker, Jonathan Nettle- ship, and John Dickenson, the latter of whom left his portion to the tenants, and Mr. Nettleship's has been partly sold by his daughter, who married first H. Wormald, Esq. of Leeds, and afterwards B- Hughes, Esq., and still holds the abbey farm, 150 acres. Before the Conquest, it was the manor of Earl Tosti, and afterwards belonged to the family who took the name of De Matter sey, or Maresey, but ended in an heiress Isabel mar- ried to Sir Philip Chauncv, who trave the village to the i?!onks 2v2 434 MATTERSEY PARISH* of the neighbouring Gilbertine Abbey, founded by her an- cestors, and dedicated to St. Helen. The prior had then free warren here, and the village had a market and fair. The ab- bey was founded before 1192, by Roger Fitz Ranulph de Maresey, for six canons, and was valued at .£60 after its disso- lution, when this manor was granted to the Neville family, whose heiress married Sir Wm. Hickman, whose descendants resided here till the early part of the last century, in a house which still remains. The abbey stood nearly a mile east of the village, and its site is now occupied by a farm-house, and the remains of part of its cloisters and cells are occupied as cart- houses, and filled with poultry roosts. The churchy dedicated to All Saints, is a handsome gothic edifice, in excellent pre- servation, and is a most pleasing object in the village. It has some curious carvings, which were discovered about 50 years ago under the old pavement of the chancel, one of which repre- sents the benevolent action of St. Martin dividing his cloak. It had a chantry dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and in the reign of Edward I. was appropriated to Mattersey abbey, to make amends for some losses the monks had sustained by fire. The vicarage, valued in the King's books at £6. 8s. 9d., is in the patronage of the appropriator, the Archbishop of York, and is now enjo} r ed by the Rev. Wm. Tiffin. The parish school was endowed by Edward Nettleship, in 1742, with £140, now increased to c£248. 10s. 7d., 3J per cent, stock, the yearly di- vidends of which, £8. 13s. 10d., are paid to the master for teaching seven poor boys, who are admitted by the vicar and churchwardens. The Methodist chapel was built about forty years ago. Bailey James, blacksmith Brett Jonathan, shoemaker Burkinsheare Wm. shopkeeper Camm Wm. vict. and maltster Clarke Mrs. Elizabeth Fearnley Benjamin, Esq. Gabbitas John, wheelwright Graham Mrs. Honor, gent. Greenwood Mdk. shoemaker Graham Geo. wheelwright Hodgkinson Miss Ann Johnson Thomas, blacksmith Laycock William, shopkeeper Marrison Edward, spring truss and cork leg maker Millner Betty, shoemaker Milner Thomas, schoolmaster and parish clerk Rich Amor, joiner Sampson Mr. Thomas Tiffin Rev. William, vicar Wain wright Elizabeth, victualler, Blacksmiths' Arms Wright John, tailor Wright William, shoemaker Wright William, butcher FARMERS. Thus X are Yeoman, and f live at Thorp, Andrews John Jackson George Abbey Johnson George, JBrownlow Rd. Blaco-hill tDean Ed. IfTalents Wm. JDean Wm. Jessop t Gabbitas Thos.JTone Chpr. fHeane Geo. JTricket Joseph Hewson Jas. Mattersey-hill f Hick Joseph HATFIELD DIVISION. 435 MISSON PARISH Lies south of Finningley, on the north side of the Idle, bounded on the west by Yorkshire, and on the east by Lincolnshire, and is partly in the latter county, which is here so intermixed with Nottinghamshire that the boundaries of the two counties are almost indefinable, from which circumstance the parish is sup- posed to have been anciently called Misne or Myssen. It con- tains 184 houses, 841 inhabitants, and about oJOO acres of good sandy land, which was mostly enclosed in 1760, when 286a. 2p. was allotted to the vicar, in lieu of the small tithes, but the great tithes are still paid in kind, except on the old enclosures, which pay a composition of 2s. 9d. per acre. Lord Althorp is the impropriator, and Mr. Henry Cooke is his lessee. His lordship is also principal owner and lord of the manor of the Nottinghamshire part of the parish ; and the Rev. John Otter is lord of the Lincolnshire part, which pays a modus of £5. 9s. 8d. to the seigniory of Kir ton,* and is in the deanery and hundred of Corringham ; but the land belongs to a number of freeholders, the principal of whom are Joseph Taylor and John Smilter, Esqrs. and the Hon. J. B. Simpson. Missox is a well-built village, on the north side of the Idle, over which there is a ferry, 3 miles E. by N. of Bawtry, and 7 miles W. of Stockwith-on-the-Trent, from which the Idle is navigable for small craft up to Bawtry. The church is a hand- some building, with a nave, chancel, side aisles, and tower. — The vicarage is valued in the King's books at £6, 4s. 4fd., but is now worth upwards of £250 per annum. The King is the patron, and the Rev. Robert Evans, M. A. is the in- cumbent. Xewixgtox is a small village at the west end of the parish, where there is an extensive brewery and malting establishment, 1 mile E. by N. of Bawtry. Like the rest of the parish, it is partly in the two counties of Nottingham and Lincoln. Missox School stands in the churchyard, and at the en- closure in 1762, was endowed with an allotment of 32 acres of land in Runarn Car, awarded in lieu of ^£8 per annum which had been previously paid out of other lands, pursuant to the villa of Thomas Mowbray and John Pinder, who built the school in 1693. This land now lets for .=£64 a year, besides which the master has a rent charge of 20s. out of Deep-hole close, left in 1700 by Wm. Wood, and an annuity of 10s. left by an unknown donor out of land at Ruffam. For these sums the master only teaches 9 free scholars, but they certainly ought to be increased to thirty, as is remarked by the late Par- * The seigniory of Kirton i* attached to the King's duchy of Cornwall. 436 MISSON PARISH. Hamentary commissioners. The vicar pays a schoolmistress for teaching 1 six poor girls. Roads, &c. — At the enclosure, the Hagg hill, 10a. 3r. 39p. was awarded for the purpose of getting gravel, sand, and other materials for the reparation of the public and private roads of the parish, reserving only the herbage and crops of the said land to he let by the trustees, and the rents to be applied in re- pairing the school, public bridges, drains,, sewers, and other works on the common fields. The open green at the west end of the village of Misson was allotted for the same purpose. Benefactions to the Poor. — About 1700, Hill Lee, Thos. Richardson, Robt. Drury> and Wm. Hopperwhit, left several small sums amounting to .£18. 13s. 4d., the interest of which is paid out of the poor rates. The poor have also the following yearly rent charges, viz. 10s. left by Wm. Richardson, out of a farm at Everton, now belonging to John Walker, Esq. ; 10s. left by Wm. Hindley, out of a meadow at Misson, now possessed by Wm. Grasby ; and 5s. out of a house and land be- longing to Mrs. Jephson. Marked thus f are in Lincolnshire , and J are Yeoman. Perkins William, shoemaker Pinder John, shoemaker Robinson Martha, vict. Red Lion fStyring Geo. vict. Globe fTurner James shoemaker Wootton Rev. John, curate fYoudan John, bricklayer Youdan John, blacksmith You dan Miles, bricklayer FARMERS. Batty John f J Keightley J. Springs fLaw R. Springs Batty William fMaehin M. Nevilles JMarsdenT. JBeale John Peaker Stph. JBealeNwm. JPeaker W. I Brown Win. Pigot William Cartwright W. Vicarage t Atkinson John, blacksmith Burr Wm. grocer and draper tCapel William, shoemaker Cooke Henry, gent. Dale Mr. John fDavison Robert, victualler, Old George and Dragon Dickinson James, butcher tFrancis Edmund, corn miller Gambles Thomas, tailor Graham Wm. vict. Ferry Boat Grant William, blacksmith Gurnell John, bricklayer Hatfield Wm. jun. wheelwright Hatfield William, shopkeeper Hindley Richard, tailor Holland William, gent, t Johnson Mrs. Jane -J- Kitchen Valentine, tailor fLaister Thomas, shopkeeper fMachin Mrs. Martha Marrison William, bricklayer fMarsden Thomas gent. •j-Marsden Miss Ann Mason William, shopkeeper Moyson Richard, schoolmaster Moxon Josh. bdg. and day school Oldfield Robert, wheelwright Parkin John, victualler & cattle dealer. White Hor^e Childs Thomas, J Richardson W Nevilles +St. Paul Wm. Ernson James J Fisher Wm. t Garner Jas. Gibson Wm. tJHobson Fs. jtlorton J ph. tHunt John Styring Thos. JStyring Wm. WasrstafTW.jun. Middlewood t Wells Thos. JVVbittaker Fs, 1 1 Wilson Rt. f Jack son John ] Worrell Johr HATFIELD DIVISION* 43/ NEW1NGT0N. fBurton William, vict. Ship fEllis William, shopkeeper Peacock Thomas, bricklayer f Pooley William Thos. managing brewer f Soulby William, book-keeper Taylor Joseph and Co. ale and porter brewers, maltsters, and merchants. ORDSALL PARISH Lies south of Retford, and comprises the Lordship of Ordsall, on the west side of the Idle, and the Lordship of Thrumpton, on the east side of that river. These lordships form one township, and contain 205 houses, 809 inhabitants, and about 200 acres of rich sandy land, part of which was not enclosed till 1804. Ordsall is an old and irregularly built village, on the west bank of the Idle, where there is a large paper mill, one mile S. by W. of Retford. In Edward the Confessors time, " Ordes- hale" contained four manors held by Osward, Turstaun, Oderic> and Thurstan, but after the conquest it was all of the fee of Roger de Busli, and had one bovate which was soc to the King's manor of Dunham, and If bovate which was soc to Grove. Early in the 13th century the greatest portion of it became the property of the Hercys, of Grove, from whom it passed to the Mackworths, the Bevercotes, and the Cornwallis's ; the latter of whom sold their portion to the Countess of Devonshire, who settled it upon her eldest son, Sir Edward Wortley. Ord- sall is now in the soke of Elksley, and the Duke of Newcastle is lord of the manor ; but the land belongs mostly to the Hon. J. B. Simpson, ot Babworth, who has erected a neat School in the village, and pays for the education of 12 poor children. Thrumpton Lordship is mostly the property of John Parker, and John and George Kippax, Esqrs. ; but A. H. Eyre, Esq. of Grove, is lord of the manor, in which are 4£ acres of hop ground. The Church is an ancient Gothic edifice, with a lofty tower, which was greatly injured by lightning in 1823. The interior has several old monuments, and was in a very decayed state till 1831, when it was re-pewed and thoroughly repaired. The living is a rectory in the patronage of Lord Wharncliffe, and is valued in the King's books at <£19. 10s. 7id. The Rev. Francis Foxlow is the incumbent, for whom the Rev. William Bury officiates. The tithes are now paid by a modus which amounts to ,£450 per annum. The Rectory House is a neat modern mansion, as also is Biggins House, the seat of John Kippax, Esq. The Rev. William Denman, in the popish reign of Queen Mary was ejected from this rectory, but was restored again after Elizabeth ascended the throne. An in- stance of the practice and principles of puritanic times, also 438 ORDSALL PARISH. occurred here in 1652, when the Rump Parliament, not only ejected Dr. Marmaduke Moor from this rectory, but also sequestrated his paternal estate " for treason, and for the hei- nous and damnable offence of playing at cards, three several times, ivith his own wife I ! /" Thrumpton Lordship includes the neat hamlet called Whitehouses, on the great North road; Whinney Moor- Row; Storcropt-Terrace, and several handsome modern dwellings which form the southern suburbs of East Retford. See pages 302 and 322. Hops. — Mr. Young says, some years ago, two spirited agri- culturalists of this parish (Mr. Mason and George Brown, Esq.,) drained at a small expense, by open cuts, a deep black Bog which had been let for 3s. per acre, and planted it with hops in squares of six feet, and succeeded so well as actually to clear £62 per acre in one year. Charities. — Elizabeth Johnson, in 1717> bequeathed to this parish, the Poor's Close, 1a. 8p. now let for £3. 1 0s. per annum, which is distributed on Good Friday and St. Thomas' day. In 1727, Jeremiah Half hide left 40s. yearly out of an estate, now belonging to J. and G. Kippax, who distribute the money amongst such poor as do not receive parochial relief. The sum of £60 left in 1727, 1764, and 1798 by Ann Turnell, Robert Palmer, and JVm. Ellis, was lost in 1816, by the bank- ruptcy of John Stoakes, a large farmer, whose creditors only receive Ifd. in the pound, though shortly before, his father had died and left him £2,000. But in consideration of this loss, the overseers distribute £3 yearly out of the poor rates, viz. 40s. on Candlemas-day, 10s. on St. Thomas' day, and JOs. on Good Friday. 0^/= The names of the Inhabitants of Trwrnpton are included in the Directory of Retford. Batty John, shoemaker Blagg John, shoemaker Blagg William, tailor Bury Rev. William, curate, Rec- tory House Cook John, maltster Dawson Samuel, wheelwright Fowe Edward, farmer Gibbs William, foreman Himsworth Stephen, vict. Gate, and plumber and glazier Jackson Richard, blacksmith Kippax John, Esq. Biggins House Lambert John, corn and flour dealer Morley William, shopkeeper Nelson Thomas, paper manufac- turer, and Nottingham Olivant John, farmer Roberts William, farmer Rogers Mrs. Mary White Edward, shopkeeper RUFFORD (EXTRA PAROCHIAL.) This Extra-Parochial manor extends southward from the vicinity of Ollerton, along the banks of the Rain worth- Water, RUFFORD ABBEY. 439 more than six miles, to the junction of Bassetlaw with the Hundreds of Broxtow and Thurgarton. It contains 64 scat- tered dwellings, 322 inhabitants, and upwards of 10,000 acres of good forest land, of which 1090 acres were planted with oak and ash by the late Sir George Savile, who also enclosed and brought into cultivation 1960 acres of the open forest, after the year 177^. This fine rural liberty was anciently called Rugforde or Rumford, and before the conquest was held bv Ulf the Saxon, but was afterwards of the fee of Gilbert de Gaunt, who was nephew to the conqueror, and was succeeded by his son Walter, whose eldest son, Gilbert de Gaunt, married the Countess of Lincoln, and was himself created Earl of Lin- coln, after which, in 1148, he founded here a Gistercian Abbey for a colony of Monks, whom he brought from Rivaulx abbey, in Yorkshire, in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary. He endowed it with the manor of RufFord and several estates. At the dissolution it was found to contain 15 of this holy brotherhood, whose revenues amounted to £254: per annum. Tts site and possessions, with many other manors in Notting- hamshire, and the adjacent counties, were granted to George Earl of Shrewsbury and TVaterford, in exchange for many large estates in Ireland, which he had given up to Henry VIII.* The RufFord estate passed in marriage with the heiress and grand- daughter of the said Earl of Shrewsbury to Sir George Savile, of Barrowby, in Lincolnshire, whose descendant of the same name was created Marquis of Halifax, in 1682, but that title became extinct on the death of his son William, in 1700. The last Sir George Savile, who was highly esteemed both as "an upright senator and an honest man,*' died in 1784, and left his estate to Richard the second so-n of his sister, (the wife of the Right Honourable Richard Lumley Saunderson, Earl of Scarborough,) who consequently assumed the sirname of Savile, but on the death of his eldest brother, in 1807, he succeeded to the Scarborough title and estate, and the more valuable estate of RufFord passed to his younger brother, the Honourable and Rev. John Lumley Savile, its present pos- sessor, to a younger branch of whose family it must always belong, agreeable to the will of the late Sir George Savile, dur- ing whose life RufFord abbey was in all its splendour, but its present owner resides mostlv at Edwinstow. RUFFORD ABBEY stands in a beautiful and well wooded Park of about 1400 acres, within 2 miles S. of Ollerton. It vs an immense edifice erected upon and engrafted into, the re- * The manors in Nottinghamshire, which were included in the above grant to :he Earl of Shrewsbury, were RufFord, Eakring, Bilsthorp, Warsop, Walesby, )llerton, Wellow, Nottingham, Ompton, Kneesall, Mapplebeck, Beesthorp, Houghton, Kelham, Codington, Parkelathes, Kirton, Starthorpe, East Retford, rlolme, Foxholes, Littleborough, Rohagh, Southwell, and Marton. 449 HATFIELD DIVISION. mains of the ancient monastic building. Its situation is ex- tremely sequestered, and the entrance front is so completely embowered in a grove of elm and beech, as to preserve much of the original character of the fabric, though it has been so much altered by several of the Savile family. Thoroton speak- ing of it in his time, says that it had often been the residence of King James T. and his son Charles, who found it very com- modious for hunting in Sherwood Forest, and were hospitablv entertained there. The entrance front is approached by a flight of steps over an area which surrounds the house, and gives light to the offices in the underground story. The spacious entrance hall was altered to its present state in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and with its lofty ceiling, high raised screen, and brick floor, marks the taste of that period. Here are some ancient portraits ; but the most valuable collection of paintings is in the Long Gallery, which is 114 feet long, and 36 broad, and contains a rich feast for the connoisseur. An apartment called "the Prince of Wales's bed room," is hung with very handsome tapestry, and has its name from his late majesty, George IV., who slept in it on one of his visits to the North, when Prince of Wales. The attic story has an immense number of rooms, in which there are also many good paintings. There are no less than three-and-twenty stair cases in the house, one of which leads to the great drawing-room, in which is a fine portrait of the late Sir George Savile, and three views of Roch Abbey, but the greatest curiosities amongst the paint- ings in this mansion, are two exquisite little pieces which Laird says, (1811) the housekeeper has been directed to lock up in one of her presses below. is One of them is a Dutch painting of a fiddler and groupe, and the other an old woman with floivers, the painter we believe is unknown, but the execution done in the most exquisite style of high finishing. Tn short, as pictures they may almost be considered as invaluable, and we could not help expressing our astonishment, that two cabinet bijoux of such exquisite taste should be thus suffered to lie un- seen amidst table cloths and napkins." Though the noble owner lives chiefly at the neighbouring village of Kdwinstow, he has a small establishment of servants here for the culture of his extensive farm, and the preservation of his game, park, woods, gardens, and pleasure grounds, which, with a religious affection for the memory of his ancestors, he keeps in excellent condition ; indeed, every thing is so elegant both in and about the mansion, that even a stranger cannot help feeling regret that such a spot should be in a great measure unenjoved! — but perhaps its present possessor, being a prebendarv of York Cathedral, is obliged to live within the pale of Episcopacy, which has no control over this churchless extra-parochial dis- trict. Besides the beautiful i.akk in Rufford Park, the Ixainworth RUFFORD (EXTRA PAROCHIAL.) 441 water fills a large Dam of 100 acres at Inkers all, near the south end of the parish, 3 miles S. by W. of the Abbey. At Savile Row cottages, near the north-west corner of the park, the Hon. Mrs. Savile supports a free school, and gives a gown yearly, and a dinner every Sunday to 24 poor girls. About 400 aeres of the forest land is -still in open sheep walks ; but the farms are all in high cultivation, and their scattered dwellings are distinguished by different names, as will be seen in the following list of the inhabitants. Savile Hon. and Rev. John Luinley, Rufford Abbey, (and Edwinstow) Brown Mary, farmer, Hills Butler George, park and game- keeper, Rufford Lodge Cartledge James, farmer Inker- sail Cox Rev. James, domestic chap- lain, at Rufford, Crow-lane Crawford William, farmer, In- kersall Davies James, huntsman, Savile row Eaton John, corn miller, Rufford Lake Frost Mrs. Eliz. housekeeper, Rufford Abbey Godfrey William, blacksmith, Rufford Inn Howson John, bailiif, Rufford Farm Knuttall William, farmer, La- bour in Vain Machon Hy. Esq. North -Lai the and Gateford Hill Parkinson John, land agent, land surveyor, and valuer, Leyfields Parkinson Richard, land agent, Wei low Bar Potter Samuel, farmer, Elmsley Lodge Shooter Crisp, gardener, Rufford Inn Feather George, woodman, Crow- lane Vessey Miss Mary, North Laiths Wadeson John, keeper, Rufford Inn Whelpdale William, gamekeeper, Savile row Williamson Luke, gent. Robin Hood's Farm Wilson Richard, farmer, Prim- rose Hill SCROOBY PAROCHIAL CHAPELRY Is within the North Soke of the archiepiscopal Liberty of Southwell and Scrooby, betwixt and near the confluence of the rivers Idle and Ryton. It contains 65 houses, 281 inhabitants, and 1523a. 3r, 36p. of fine sandy land. The common was enclosed in 1775, when 160a. 3p. were allotted to the impro- priator, and 34a. 2r. 22p. to the vicar in lieu of all the tithes of the chapel ry, except those which are still paid on 310 acres of the old enclosures. Scrooby village, on the south bank of the river Ryton, and on the east side of the great North road, about 1 mile S, of Bawtry, now merely contains a few farm-houses and cottages, with a church dedicated to St. Wilfred, which has once been handsome, but now possesses nothing of its ancient grandeur 2 Q 442 HATFIELD DIVISION. except its lofty spire, which was greatly injured by lightning on Sunday, August 7th, 1831, but has since been substantially repaired. The former glory of Scrooby was its Palace, which was long one of the principal seats of the successive Arch- bishops of York, but of this ancient abode of splendour and hospitality nothing now remains except some small fragments incorporated into a farm-house. Leland describes it as " a great manor place standings within a mote, and builded yn to courtes, whereof the first is very ample, and ail builded of tymbre, saving the front of the haule, that is of bricke, to the wych ascenditur per gradus lapidis. The ynner courte build- ing, as far as I marked, was of tymber building, and was not in compace past the 4 parte of the utter courte." In Domesday book, Scrooby is only described as a berue or hamlet of the Archbishop's soke of Sutton, now commonly called the North Soke of Southwell and Scrooby. The prelates of York had free warren here as early as the 17th of Edward IT. In the reign of Henry VII, Scrooby was the favourite hunting seat of Archbishop Savage. In the next reign it was occasionally the residence of Cardinal Wolsey; and in Elizabeth's reign, this palace was not only considered as excellent in itself, and more capacious than that at Southwell, but " a better seat for provi- sion," — having a greater jurisdiction and a fairer park attached to it. Archbishop Sandys appears to have then resided here, at least occasionally, as one of his daughters is interred in the church. During his episcopacy he caused this seat to be demised to his son, Sir Samuel Sandys, and the palace was after- wards so mush neglected that it had almost fallen to the ground in the early part of last century, soon after which, the large gateway and the porter's lodge were taken down, and the ex- tensive park converted into a farm, in the garden of which is a large mulberry tree, that tradition says was planted by the haughty Wolsey. The Archbishop of York is still lord of the manor, and owner of 426 acres, but the Dowager Viscountess Galway is his lessee, and has the impropriation, which was purchased of the late Lord George Cavendish. But the living is annexed to the vicarage of Sutton-cum-Lound, and is in the patronage of the Duke of Portland. Lord Althorp has 45b* acres, and the rest of the manor belongs to Vicount Galway, and to several copyholders, who pay small and certain fines. — The Methodists have a chapel in the village, which was built in 1829; The charities belonging to this parochial chapelry are two annuities left by unknown donors, viz. £\ paid by Viscount Althorp, and 13s. 4d. by Viscount Galway. Scrooby Inn, on the high road, about half a mile south of the village, was formerly a noted posting house, but is now occu- pied by a farmer, and belongs to Viscount Althorp. Early in i he morning of the 3d of July, 1779, a horrid murder was com- mitted at Scrooby toll-bar, by John Spencer, who, after pla\ SCROOBY PAROCHIAL CHAPELRY. 443 ing at cards with the keeper, Wm. Head on, and his mother, then on a visit, returned to the house, and after gaining admit- tance under the pretence that a drove of cattle wanted to pass, killed both his victims with a hedge stake After having got what money he could find, he was detected in the act of drag- ging the bar-keeper's body across the road towards a pond, by Mr. Wm. White, of Copthorne, who happened to be passing on horseback at the time, and pursued the murderer, who was- soon secured, and afterwards hung in chains on a gibbet which still remains. Bishop-field is a large new house one mile S. of the village, erected by its present occupant, the Hon. Captain Duncombe, son of Lord Feversham, . Camm William, vict. Saracen's Head Cobb Richard, blacksmith Duncombe Hon. Arthur, Bishop- field Goacher Geo. vict. George and Dragon Hurt Rev. Thomas, vicar Richardson John, shoemaker Ross John, wheelwright Shepherd Benjamin, parish clerk and tailor Shillito George, vict. and wheel- wright, Galway Arms Shillito John, shoemaker Skelton Benj. corn miller Theaker Thomas, butcher Walkinson Sarah, shopkeeper Wilson Joseph, shoemaker FARMERS. Those marked \ are Yeomen, Birks Jonathan Neale Jane Birks William Scott J. Scrooby JBooth Thos. JCamm Henry Eyre John JHaynes John House Smith H. Manor House SUTTON-CUM-LOUND PARISH Is also in the north soke of the liberty of Southwell and Scrooby \ and is divided into the two townships of Sutton and Lound, which are bounded on the east by the Idle river, and on the west by Barnby-moor and Torworth. It contains 182 houses , 801 inhabitants, and about 3000 acres of rich black sandy land, which produces fine crops of wheat and turnips, and is noted for its early peas and potatoes, of which large quantities are sent to Sheffield and other markets. The common land was enclosed in 1777» when 718a. 3r. 26p., now called Banes-hill farm, were allotted to the impropriator, the Duke of Portland, and 1 06a. 22p. to the vicar, in lieu of all the tithes of the parish. The Archbishop of York is lord of the manor of both Sutton and Lound, the former of which is copyhold, subject to small certain fines, and the latter is mostly in small freeholds, occu- pied by the owners. The principal proprietors are the Duke of Portland, the Hon. J. B. Simpson, Benjamin Fearnley, Esq. and Wm. Markham, Esq. of Beeca Lodge, Yorkshire, the latter of whom is owner of Bell-moor, a farm of 700 acres, mostly in Lound. About 200 acres, called Lound field, belong 444 HATFIELD DIVISION. to the Crown. At the Domesday survey, the archbishop had the manor of Suction, but Lound was partly soc to the King's manor of Bothamsall^ and partly of the fee of Roger de Busli. Sutton village stands nearly a mile east of the north road, 3 miles N. N. W. of Retford. The church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, is a small gothic edifice, with a tower and three bells. The vicarage is valued in the King's books at «£10, and has annexed to it that of Scrooby. The Duke of Portland is patron and impropriator, and the Rev. Thomas Hurt is the incumbent, for whom the Rev. Wm. Mould, of Retford, officiates. The Independent chapel/m the village, was built in 1816. Lou no is a good village, pleasantly situated about one mile N.E. of Sutton. Here are the neat mansions of Henry Bag- shaw, Esq. and Captain James Barrow. The parish School and master's house stand half way betwixt the two villages, and were built in 1783, at the cost of £100, which partly arose from the interest of .£70, left in 17-42, : by Rd. Taylor, and now vested in <£112. 10s. 3£ per cent, stock, yield- ing £3. 18s. 8d. yearly. At the enclosure in 1777> two allot- ments, containing &a. 22p. now let for .£24 per annum, were awarded to the overseers of the two townships, for the use of the schoolmaster, for which, and the dividends of the aforesaid stock, he teaches all the children of the parish, but is allowed to charge 3d. per week each for those who can afford to pay. Benefactions. — The following annuities are received in equal moieties by the overseers of Sutton and Lound, and dis- tributed amongst the poor at Easter, viz. £2 out of Danes-hill farm ; 10s. out of Chapel-house ; 10s. out of the Old Sun inn, Retford; £2 out of George Johnson's estate, in Lound; and 10s. out of an estate that belongs jointly to the Hon. J. B. Simp- son and Benj. Fearniy, Esq. SUTTON. Broomhead George grocer and draper Brownlow Miss Ann Fenton James, vicU Gate Foster Willianvshoopkeeper Gandy John, shoemaker Graves William, flour dealer Greaves Mrs. Ann Greaves William, beerhouse Hollin William, shoemaker and parish clerk Hopkin John, shoemaker House Thomas, shoemaker Kay Samuel, butcher Kemshall Thomas, vict. & wheel- wright Kitchin Jonathan, blacksmith Matthews Thomas, shoemaker Renshaw John* wheelwright Steel John, shopkeeper Stubbins Mark, tailor Whitlam Wm. stone mason Wragg Wm. schoolmaster FARMERS. Those marked * are Yeomen. Brownlow Jph. *Kelk Geo. (and Cook Jph. comsr. of Gravener Wm. Sewers) Bell Moor *Lee George Graves Wm. Otter John •Walker Thos, Danes hill L0UN0'. Atkinson George, shoemaker HATFIELD DIVISION. 445 Bagshaw Henry, Esq. Barker Thos. shoemaker Barrow Capt. James, Highfield Fenton John, shoemaker & shopr Gilbert John, blacksmith Harrison, Eliz. shopkeeper Hewitt Mr. Paul Hudson John, vict. Blue Bell Levick Geo. wheelwright Robinson Rd. joiner & beerhs. Rollinson Geo. joiner & machine maker Shaw Mrs. Smales Wm, corn miller Walker Geo. vict. & butcher Warburton Jph. blacksmith Yates Wm. blacksmith FARMERS. Those marked * are Yeomen. •Barker Samuel 'Justice Geo. Booth Wm. *Parkin Samuel Clark George, *Raynes George, Loundfield Lound Lodge *Cuckson John "Taylor Wm. •Green Joseph *Walker John Hill Thomas * Watts John •Johnson Geo. Whelton John (& Blaco-hill) Whitehead John WALESBY PARISH Includes the hamlets of JValesly and Willougliby, and forms a fine champaign district, extending northward from Kirton to Bevercotes, under an abrupt acclivity, and westward to the river Idle. It contains 68 houses, 340 inhabitants, and 1429a. 1r. 24p. of land, all of which is a fertile sand, except the east- ern side about Willoughby, which is a strong clay, mostly irr hop-yards. The open fields were enclosed in 1821, when 152a. 3r. 27p. were awarded to the rector, in lieu of the tithes of the whole parish. Walesby is a large village, half way betwixt Tuxford and Ollerton, being 3J miles W. of the former, and the same dis- tance N.E. of the latter* After the Conquest, the parish was of several fees, and Reginald Ursell gave to the monks of Ruf- ford " in pure alms, the service which Robert de Lexington was wont to do him, for one bovate that he held of him in Walesby, viz. a pair of spurs of iron, or 2d. yearly, with al! reliefs, wards, escheats, &c." Several other parcels of land were subsequently given to the same monastery, and after the dissolution passed to the Earl of Shrewsbury. The Duke of Newcastle and the Hon. and Rev. J. L. Savile are now the principal land owners, and the latter is lord of the manor and patron of the rectory,, which is valued in the King's books at £6. Is. 2d. and is now enjoyed by the Rev. Theophilus Samp- son, M. A., who resides at Eakring. The church, as Throsby says, " is set off with a tower," and is dedicated to St. Edmund. The school was endowed in 1760 with a rent charge of 40s. bv the Rev. Richard Jackson, rector of this parish. This devise was void by the mortmain act, but the donor's niece, Elizabeth Hall, gave in lieu thereof two acres of land in Normanton, which, at the enclosure in 1800, was exchanged for 1a. 19p. now let for £5 a vear. The poofs laiid consists .of two roods 2q2 446 WALESBY AND WALLINGWELLS. let for I os., and was received at the enclosure of Walesby, in exchange for other land, in Yard-ends field and Outgang-side. The sheep clipping or feast is on the nearest Wednesday to June 24th. Willoughby is a small village distant only a quarter of a mile N.E. of Walesby, and has in its vicinity several fruitful hop yards. Those marked thus % are Hop Growers^ thus § Yeomen^.and thus f live at Willoughhy. Ashmore Mr. William f Dale Cornls. wheelwright Ellis Wra, vict. & wheelwright Gabbitas Hanh. vict. New Inn Hoggard John, blacksmith Hollis Wm. shoemaker J§Justice Wm. butcher Ratcliff John, schoolmaster J Ratcliff Rd. vict. Red Lion Robbins Rd. shoemaker & shopr Smith Charity, shopkeeper Snowden Thos„ blacksmith Tissington John, tailor Wesley Wm. schootmr. & clerk Woodward James, shoemaker FARMERS. JfCamm Jph. Ryals Wm. JClark Fras. ttClark Saml. J§Dean Hanh. ^Gilbert Wm. Sarginson Thos, JSmith Jph. Smith Thomas Ulyeat Thomas JHaywood Alex.j:§Wooinbill Jn. Rawson Fras. §Woombill Wm. JRawson Rd. WALLINGWELLS (EXTRA PAROCL.) Wallingwells, 4 miles N. by W. of Worksop, is the beau- tiful mansion and park of Sir T, W. White, Bart., and is an extra parochial district, partly in Yorkshire. It appears to have been anciently a parcel of the manor and parish of Carlton- in-Lindrick, until Ralph de Gheurolcourt, in the reign of Ste- phen, granted " to Almighty God and the Virgin St. Mary, a place in his park of Carletun* by the wells and stream of the wells, whose name should be called St. Mary of the Park, to make and build there an habitation for holy religion, so free that this place shall not depend on or belong to any other place." The priory which he built here was a Benedictine Nunnery, de- dicated to the blessed Virgin St. Mary, and afterwards called St. Mary's of " Wallondewelles" from its situation amongst wells, fountains, and streams. At its dissolution it was valued at =£59, and was granted by Queen Elizabeth to Richard Pype and Francis Bowyer, but is now the property and seat of Sir Thomas Wollaston White, who was created a baronet in 1802. The house, which was originally built out of the ruins of the priory, is now a handsome structure, having been improved by many modern additions. It stands on the Nottinghamshire side of the well wooded park, in which is a long line of trees marking the boundary between the two counties. In excavating HATFIELD DIVISION. 447 near the house in 1829, several stone coffins were found, and one of them contained the remains of Dame Margery Dourant, the second prioress, who died in the reign of Richard I. On opening: the coffin the body appeared entire, but it was soon re- duced by the air to a shapeless mass of dust. The shoes and a silver chalice were quite perfect, bat were re -interred with the ashes of the holy abbess, who nearly seven centuries ago pre- sided over the sisterhood of this convent. Mr. John Fisher, land agent, resides at Mills house, so called from the abbey corn mills, which formerly stood near it. WARSOP PARISH Lies in the south-west corner of Bassetlaw, and is bounded or: the west by Derbyshire, on the north by Cuckney, on the east by Budby, and on the south by the parishes of Edwinstow and Mansfield. It is divided into the two townships of Warsop and Sookholme, which contain together 265 houses, 1286 inhabit- ants, and 6953a. 3r. 10p. of land, of which 200 acres are in woods and plantations,. The forest land was partly enclosed in 1775, and the remainder by an act passed in 1818, but the award was not signed till 1824, when 713a. 3r. 13p. were allotted to the rector, in lieu of all the tithes of the parish. Warsop township contains more than six-sevenths of the parish, having 5971a. 1r. 8p. of land, and 1213 inhabitants, mostly living in the two villages of Church Warsop and Market Warsop, which are distant nearly half a mile from each other, and are situated on the opposite banks of the river Medin, 5 miles N.N.E. of Mansfield, and 7 miles S. by W. of Worksop. The market here has- long been obsolete, but three fairs are still held annually, viz. on the Monday after W T hit- Monday, for cattle, sheep, &c; September 29th, for sheep: and November 17th, for cattle. After the Conquest, the ma- nor of Warresoppe was mostly of the fee of Roger de Busli, but a small part of it was of the King's soke of Mansfield. It was successively held by the Arches, the Suttons, and the Wil- loughbys, but Henry Gaily Knight, Esq. is now the principal owner, lord of the manor, and patron of the rectory, which is valued in the king's books at ^22. 15s. 2d., and is now in the incumbency of the Rev. Samuel Martin, B. A. The Church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is a neat gothic edifice, standing near the antique rectory-house at Church Warsop, on the north side of the Medin, and was thorouglv repaired in 1831, at the' cost of .£600. Gledthorpk, an estate of 714a. 3r. 29p., is in the town- ship of Warsop, and was part of that manor, until it was granted by Gilbert de Arches to the monks of Welbeck since which it has been tithe-free, and now belongs to the Duke of Portland. 48 warsop parish; Nettleworth is a manor, in the township of Warsop and Sookholme, and partly in the hundred of Broxtow, and parish of Mansfield Woodhonse. It has lately been pur- chased by Henry Gaily Knight, Esq., of William Wylde, Esq. of Southwell, except Park Hall, which is the seat of Francis Hall, Esq. and is distant 2\ miles N. N. E. of Mansfield. Net- tleworth Hall is occupied by Major Beilby, and is a hand- some mansion, erected in 1785, on the site of the old one, at the headof a delightful valley, embosomed in woods, and having seve- ral fine pieces of water in front, formed by the union of 2 streams. This hall was built by the Wylde family, who long held the manor, and of whom was Gervas Wylde, who, after being some years a factor in Andalusia, returned, and was made captain of a ship in 1558, against the Spanish Armada, in defeating which, " he made use of arrows with long steel heads, shot out of muskets, some of which he left at Nettlewortb," where he died at the advanced age of 93 years. Sookholme or Sulkholme is a small village, township, and ehapelry* at the western extremity of the parish, 3£ miles N. of Mansfield. It has only 11 houses, 68 inhabitants, and 983a. 3r. 2p. of land, abounding in excellent limestone, Henry Gaily Knight, Esq. is owner and lord of the manor, which anciently belonged to Nostel Priory, in Yorkshire. The chapel is a small ancient building, in which the rector of Warsop oc- casionally performs divine service. A small stream runs through the village* and joins the Medin from Pleasley. The Parish School is situated betwixt the two Warsops, and is endowed with 15 guineas a-year, for which the master teaches 20 poor children. This endowment arises from £393. 15s. new four per cent, stock, purchased with £400, left by Thomas Whiteman, in 1818. Mr. Parsons, of Mansfield, is the trustee. Benefactions. — John Hall, in 1697, left £61. 10s. to be bestowed in lands, for the use of the poor of the Church Town and Market Town of Warsop, together with, all his lands at Warsop, and at Newton, in Lincolnshire. The property now belonging to this charity produces £109 per annum, and consists of a farm at Newton, let for £90, land at Willoughby and Walesby, let for £\5. 10s., and land in Warsop and the forest, let for £3. 1.0s. Mr. Nathan Jackson, one of the trustees, receives the rents, and sends forty shilling-loaves to the church every Sunday, for distribution to as many poor parishioners. In 17^3, Francis Peacock left a cottage and garden at Shire- brook, in Pleasley parish, and directed the rents (now £3) to be given half yearly, on February 2nd and August 8th, to the poor of Warsop. Sarah IVhiteman, widow of the founder of the school, bequeathed in 1818, a copyhold house and garden, in Warsop, and directed the rent to be divided twice a year amongst eight poor widows and widowers. They are let for £7, and at the enclosure received an allotment, which is let fbv HATFIELD DIVISION* 449 £3 per annum. The same benefactress also left .£50, and ordered the interest to be given in bread, on St. Thomas Day, and August 18th. This legacy is now in the hands of Henry Reynolds. Nathan Jackson, and others are the trustees. Ann Wylde gave the interest of .£20, now in the Mansfield Savings 7 Bank, to six single women. Mrs. Richardson gave the interest of «£9, also in the Savings' Bank, to be distributed in bread on Good Friday. warsop directory.— Marked thus \ live at Charch f Far sop, and the rest at Market fVarsop, or where specified. Allcroft Jas. vict. & tailor Amcoats Thos. tailor & draper Armitage Thos. stone mason Bartram John, shoemaker Beeston John, grocer Beilby Major, Nettle worth Hall Blythman John, plumber, &c. Bowler Rt. schoolmaster Brothwell Thos. baker Brummett Wm. gun smith {Burrows & Shippam, corn mlrs. {Burrows Emanuel, miller Burton Wm. blacksmith Butterworth Benj. shopkeeper Clayton Wm. shoemaker Cowlishaw Wm. saddler Crooks John, butcher Crooks Fras. tailor & draper {Davy Mr. Henry {Downs Wm. stone mason Duckmanton John, vict. Swan Hall Fras. Esq. Park Hall Hallam Edw. joiner & cabt. mkr Hallifax Geo. shopkeeper Hallifax Wm. basket maker Hamilton Miss Hinchcliffe John, wood steward Hind James, fell monger Hind Thos. shopkeeper Ilett Chas. bricklayer Jackson Nathan, gent. Kerchevall Robert, gent. Lee Charles, vict. Gate J Martin Rev. Saml. B.A. rector Moody Thos. shoemaker Needham James, tailor & draper Newton Miss Ann Norman Matthew, shoemaker Parkin Joseph, bricklayer Pearce John, butcher Radford Wm, miller & baker Reavell Matthew, stone mason Reynolds Hy. vict. & butcher, { Reynolds Mrs. Ann Robinson John, surgeon Robinson Wm. butcher Sansom Wm. chairmaker Shippam Samuel, miller Short Saml. vict. Hare & Hound* {Singleton Geo.shoemkr.&6hopr Smith Jacob, wheelwright Smith Thos. vict. Old White Lion Turner Samuel,, weaver JUnwin Samuel, blacksmith Webster Wm. joiner Wilkinson Valentine, vict. Dog & Rabit, & rope manufacturer Woodhead Wm. wheelwright Woodhouse Sarah, matron at the workhouse Woodward John, gent.. FARxMERS. Beard Jno. AVtf- {Hodgson VaL tleworth Jackson Charles, Beeston Fras. Eastland Beeston Wm. {Jackson Rt. Williams* Lee Charles Wood Robinson John, Bowitt John Burns {Davy Hy. jun. Short — , War- Davy Sm. fVest- sop Lodge field House Turner James Duckmanton J. Turner John, Duckmanton R. Gledthorpe Featherstone SI. Turner John Hallifax Thos. SOOKHOLME- (FARMERS.) Boaler Wm. Herinshaw filea- Chapman Wm. nor, corn mlr. Eyre George Wilson John Wood William 450 HATFIELD DIVISION. WELBECK (EXTRA PAROCHIAL.) Welbeok Abbey, the beautiful sylvan seat of his Grace the Duke of Portland, stands in a sequestered situation on the mar- gin of a spacious lake, 3J miles S. by W. of Worksop, em- bosomed in an extensive woody park, which, with the demesne and adjacent plantations, forms an Extra Parochial district, con- taining 2283a. 3b. 5p. of land, which anciently formed part of the manor and parish of Cuckney, (see p. 412) till Thomas, Lord of €uckney, grandson of Joceus de Flemangh, built a castle at Cuckney, and founded here an Abbey for Prsemon- stratensian canons from Newsome^ in Leicestershire ; begining the monastic edifice in the reign of Stephen, and completing it m that of Henry II. He dedicated it to St. James, and gave it and the adjacent lands to the monks, in free and perpetual alms, for his own, father's, mother's, and ancestors' souls, "and theirs from whom he had unjustly taken any goods." After this, many troubled consciences bestowed numerous gifts on this abbey, and it at length became one of the richest monas- teries in the county. In 1329, John Hotham, Bishop of Ely bought the manor of Cuckney and settled it upon the monks' on condition of their finding eight canons who should enjoy the* " good things," and pray for Edward III. and his queen, their children and ancestors, &c. ; also for the bishop's father and mother, brother, &c, "bat especially for the health of the said Lord Bishop whilst he lived, and after his death for his soul and for all theirs that had faithfully served him, or done him any gpod," to which was added this extraordinay injunction, that they should observe his anniversary, and on their days of commemorating the dead, " should absolvehis soul byname I /" At its dissolution, in the 13th of Henry VIII., its yearly revenues were valued at .£249. 6s. 3d., and it was granted (by purchase) to Richard Whalley, from whom it passed to Sir Charles Cavendish, youngest son of the celebrated Countess of Shrewsbury, by her marriage with Sir William. He marrying the heiress of Lord Ogle, his son succeeded to that barony, and became afterwards Duke of Newcastle; this was the* noble duke the author of the famous Treatise on Horsemanship, and the builder of the large riding-house here. Though the duke was very active during the civil wars on the side of Charles yet this seat and park escaped the fury of the Parliamentarians ' in other respects, however, he suffered to the amount of nearly one million sterling. His grandaughter and heiress, Mar- garet, married John Holies, 4th Earl of Clare, afterwards created Duke of Newcastle; but she left only a daughter, who inherited the estates, and marrying the Earl of Oxford, another heiress, the only issue of this union, carried it to the ancestor of the present noble proprietor, the most noble William Henry DUKES OF PORTLAND, &C. 451 Cavendish, Scott-Bentinck, Duke of Portland* Marquis of Titchfield, Viscount Woodstock, Baron Cirincester, Lord Lieu- tenant of Middlesex, and D. C. L., who resides chiefly at Wei- beck Abbey, and occasionally at his other seats, viz. — Bolsover Castle, in Derbyshire, and Fullarton House and Dean Castle, in Ayrshire. His town residence is in Cavendish-square. The Bentinck family is descended from the noble family of that name, who were of the province of OverysseU in the republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, where they flour- ished for many generations. The Westons were Earls of Portland, from 1633, till 1665, when the title became extinct, by the death of Thomas Weston, without issue, but was revived again in 1689, in the person of William Bentinck, who was page to William, Prince of Orange, and was in the suit of that monarch when he came over to take possession of the English throne. His lordship had previously visited England in 1677? when he successfully solicited for his royal master the hand of the Princess Mary, daughter of James Duke of York, afterward* James II. He served under William and Mary with great re- putation; both in Ireland and the Netherlands, and was sent ambassador extraordinary to the court of France. " His in- tegrity was proved relative to certain transactions about passing an act for insupporting the East India Company, when he dis- dainfully refused a bribe of ,£50,000.." The House of Com- mons, however, was not always partial to him, for in 1696 they opposed a grant which King William wished to bestow on him. of some lordships in Wales, and in 1701 they impeached him with the Earl of Oxford, Lord Halifax, and Lord Somers, for advising and negoeiating "a treaty of partitions." He had two wives of the families of Villiers and Temple, and died in 1709, when he was succeeded by his son Henry, who in 17 16. was created Marquis of Titchjield and Duke of Portland, and was governor of the island of Jamacia, where he died in 1726. His son William, the second Duke of Portland, married Ladv Margaret Cavendish Harley, daughter of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford, the founder of the celebrated Harleian Library, with whom he obtained Welbeck and the rest of the Cavendish estates, as has already been seen. (Vide also p. 433.) He died in 1762, when his estates and titles devolved on his son William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, the late duke, who was High Stewards the City of Bristol, Recorder of Nottingham, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, from April 8th to Sept. 15th, in 1782, and First Lord of the Treasury from April to December, in 1783. He died in 1809, and was succeeded by his son, the present duke, who assumed the name of Scott-Bentinck, and is I now considered the greatest farmer in England, as he retains in * his own hands and superintends the cultivation of a large por- * Portland is a small Island on the Dorsetshire coast. 452 WKLBECK ABBEY. Hon of his estate himself. His father held the same rank amongst the English planters, and to them Welbeck and many of the neighbouring manors are indebted for most of their sylvan honours and agricultural improvements. (Vide p. 38 and 415.) Besides making about 700 acres of plantations, the late duke cultivated nearly 2000 acres of waste land, which has since been greatly enriched by his present representative. Welbeck Abbey is a large irregularly built mansion, which has been enlarged at various periods, and appears to retain none of the ancient monastic walls, except in the interior, where, in some of the apartments, even the sepulchral monuments fixed in some of the ancient walls are not destroyed, " but only hid by the wainscot pannels and other hangings." What is seen, however, is of comparative modern erection, being begun in 1604, yet it has towers, turrets, some small battlements, and some ballustrades, which altogether give it an impressive air of antiquity, though by no means assimulating with our ideas of an ancient abbey. Those which are called the new apartments are very spacious, but, with the exception of additions, no great alteration, has been made in the house since the early part of the 17th century, though the late duke fitted up all the principal rooms in their present state. The principal apartments are ail elegantly furnished, and contain an immense collection of family portraits and other paintings by eminent masters. There is nothing extraordinarily superb, except the library, (44 feet by 30) which is in the florid gothic style ; yet neatness and ele- gance pervade the whole mansion, without either gaudiness or profusion, The equestrian Duke of Newcastle built a most magnificent riding-house here in 1623, and finished the stables in 1625. -under the direction of John Smithson, an ingenious architect ; it seems, however, that his immediate successor did not keep up his favourite hobby, as it was for some time permitted to go to decay, but is again restored to its original use ; and the great stable is now one of the finest in the kingdom, (with the excep- tion of the royal establishment at Brighton,) being 130 feet long by 40 broad, and containing 40 stalls, the outside being finished in what may be called, not the modern, but the moderate stvle of gothic. The Park is about eight miles in circumference, and power- fully excites the attention of the visitor on his approach to the house, as it contains several noble woods of very ancient oaks, many of which are of an extraordinary size, The largest of these is the Grkkndalk Oak, which is supposed to be upwards of 700 years old, and measures in circumference 33 feet at the bottom. Its brunches once covered a space equal to 700 square vards, but it is now in a state of decay, having but one small branch to crown its venerable trunk, which is now supported by props, clasped with iron bars, and in some parts capped with WELBECK PARISH. 453 lead to preserve it from the wet. A coach road upwards of 10 feet in height, and six feet three inches in width, was cut through this aged oak in 1724, yet it never contained so much timber as some other trees in this park, which have been esti- mated at from 7 to 800 solid feet. The Duke's walking stick is 111 feet 6 inches in height, and 11 tons in weight, having upwards of 440 solid feet of timber. The Two Porters have received their name from there having been a gate between them ; their respective heights are 98 and 88 feet, and their circumference 34 and 38. These are in the Rein Deer Park, on the west side of the lake, near Norton Cuckney, where there are many other trees which are supposed to have braved the tempests for upwards of six centuries. On the opposite side of the park, near the gate which goes in from Worksop, is a re- markable tree called the Seven Sisters, from its consisting of seven stems springing from one root in a perpendicular direc- tion, but one of them was unfortunately broken off upwards of twenty years ago. The circumference of the common trunk, close to the ground, is 30 feet, and the height of the stems 88 feet. That part of the park which is seen in the vicinity of the house, and in which the plantations are upon a very large scale, has been rendered ornamental, and contains a very fine piece of water, occuping a winding valley, meandering through the dark foliage of the surrounding wood, and whose bottom being boggy was dug out by order of the late duke, and being made the re- ceptacle for all the drainage, is now completely Boated. This charming lake is a great embellishment to the grounds, being of a considerable breadth, and more than a mile in length ; winding with the most natural effect in an easy but bold line at the foot of several small promontories shaded with planting, and present- ing the most picturesque prospects at every turn, till it arrives at the hamlets of Milnthorpe and Carburton-Forge, where it receives thePoulter, and forms the river Wollen, which flows eastward through Clumber Park. The late duke made many considerable alterations and improvements, independent of this piece of water ; but he was rather unlucky in one proposed em- bellishment, for having erected a most elegant, nay magnificent, bridge of three arches, the centre one of which was ninety feet in span, and the side ones seventy-five each, it fell down just as it was finished. The sons of his Grace the Duke of Portland, who reside with him at Welbeck Abbey, are the Hon. John Seott-Bentinck, Marquis of Titchfield, and the Hon. George Scott-Bentinck, M. P. ; the following are their upper-servants : — Atkin David, house steward Bonier Jph. gamekeeper. Kennels Boater W in. parkkeeper, Kennels Bolton Mrs. Eliz. housekeeper Dunn Edward, butler Field Samuel, land bailiff, Grange Farm Thompson Jph. gardener 2 R 454 HA-SFIBLD DIVISION, WOODHOUSE HALL, With an estate of 300 acre9, forms another Extra-Parochial district, lying near the west side of Welbeck Park, adjoining to Holbeck Woodhouse, 4| miles S. S. W. of Worksop. It is the property of the Duke of Portland, who occupies 50 acres himself, and has let the other to John Ludlow, farmer, who resides in the hall — a large ancient mansion which is still sur- rounded by a moat. Thornton says, Robert, the first Earl of Kingston, who died in 1643, "resided in his ancient house of Woodhouse, the most part of forty years," but his son and heir dwelt at Holm-Pierrepont. This was anciently part of the parish of Cuckney, and is no doubt the site of the " Castle of Cuckney," which was built by the founder of Welbeck Abbey, and which was afterwards occupied by the descendants of his brother Ralph, who took the name of Silvan, from their resi- dence at this manor in the woods," which they subsequently gave to the monks of Welbeck. WORKSOP PARISH. This is the largest and one of the most interesting parishes in the county, as it has several objects worthy the attention of the antiquary, and includes -Worksop Manor and Clumber Park, the princely seats of the Dukes of Norfolk and Newcastle, and extends eastward from Shireoaks (at the junction of the three Counties of York, Derby^ and Nottingham,) to Osberton and Rushey Inn, near Babworth, a distance of seven miles. Its population, which is thinly scattered, except in the handsome market toivn of Worksop, amounts only to 5,566 souls, living in 1170 houses ; being an increase of 2303 persons, and 41 1 houses, since the year 1801. Its territorial extent amounts to no less than 17,445a. Ir. 7p- of land, a large portion of which is in woods and plantations, and in the two noble parks just mentioned, and the remainder is in a high state of cultivation, the commons and forest wastes being all enclosed by an Act passed in 1803, but the award was not executed till 181*7, when the tithes were commuted for a yearly corn rent, fixed by the commissioners according to the average price of good marketable wheat in the county during the preceding 21 years, but subject to be altered either by the vicar or the land owners, so as to be on an equitable scale with the average price of wheat in every succeeding 14 years. This modus is charged on about 9300 acres of arable iand, which has generally a fine deep sandy soil, and like the rest of the parish, was anciently part of the great Forest of Shenvood. (See p. 35.) The annual value of the parish, according to an worksop parish; 4&q assessment made for the poor rates in 1826, was £ 1-5, 146. Is. OcL exclusive of woodlands estimated at «£ 92 6. 4s. per annum, but not rateable to the poor. The parish is divided into six con- stablewicks,viz. — Worksop, Radford, Gateford, Haggin- field, Shireoaks, and Osberton-w^-Scofton, all of which maintain their poor conjointly ; and also their roads, except Osberton and Scofton, which make and repair their roads se- parately from the rest of the parish. These divisions comprise several manors and hamlets, belonging- mostly to the Dukes of Norfolk and Newcastle, and to G. S. Foljambe, Esq., as will be seen in the following description of each. The Chesterfield and Trent Canal, and the small river called the Ryton, cross the parish from west to east, close by the town of Worksop, in which, and the neighbourhood, there are about forty maltsters, whose malt duty amounted in 1821 to .£51,022; in 1825, to £36,639; and in 1831, to £36,596; indeed their yearly pay- ments to the excise are seldom less than .£30,000. Excellent barley (as well as other grain and roots,) is produced in the parish ; but liquorice, for which Worksop was once famed, is no longer cultivated here. The turnpike from Worksop to Mans- field and Retford was made under an act passed in 1822. Worksop, the capital of the parish, is a clean and plesant market town, with an eastern suburb, called Radford, plea- santly situated on the Sheffield and Newark road, 9 miles W. by S." of Retford, 12 miles N. by E. of Mansfield, 26 miles N. of Nottingham, and 146 miles N. by W. of London. On the approach from the east, the appearance of the town, lying in a valley, overtopped by the magnificent towers of the church, and backed by swelling hills finely clothed with wood, is extremely picturesque. Its situation is indeed delightful, and both nature and art have contributed to its beauty, for the houses are in general well built ; the two principal streets spacious and well paved, and the inns clean and comfortable ; and there are more noblemen's seats in its vicinity than any other spot in the kingdom, so distant from London, can boast of. " Much of the bustle of business enlivens it, from being on the post road to Sheffield, and having the advantage of the Chesterfield Canal, which runs close to the north side of the town, and near to the little river Ryton." Though there are no manufactures here, the condition of the poor is better than in most other places, for many of them find employment either in agricultural pursuits or in the numerous malt kilns in the town and neighbourhood, where there are also six extensive corn mills. The germes of abject poverty are promptly stifled by the bounty of the rich. The poor Catholics, who are rather numerous here, are much indebted to the benevolence of the Howards, for though the Duke of Norfolk does not often fix his residence at Worksop Manor, his son, the Earl of Surrey, is its frequent tenant. The market, which is held on Wednesday, is well supplied; as *"" HATFIEID D1VISWH. also are the two annual fairs, held on March 31st, for cattle, and on October 14tb, for horses, cattle, and pedlery. The fair which ™ held on St. Waldberg's day, June 2ist, has long been obsolete. The Workhouse for thl whole parish is but! small building, ,n Ward-lane. Petty Sessions for the Hatfield .Division of Bassetlaw are held at the George Inn, on the last Wednesday, m every month. Besides the Abbey Church there are three other places of worship in the town, viz.-a Methodist chapel m Bridge-street, built in 1813; an Indepen- dent chapel, in Westgate, erected in 1830, and now under the pastoral care of the Rev Wm. Joseph; and a Catholic chapel, at bandhill, near the Parkgate, on the Barlborough-road, which was built and endowed about fifty years asm by Charles the Tenth Duke of Norfolk, of the Howard fomilyfwhols said to have built it and settled it upon the Catholics, under the impres- sion that after h.s death, h,s son, the late Duke, who had then declared himself a Protestant, would expel the Romish rituals from the family chapel in the manor-house. A subscription Mews Room and Library was established in 1831, at Mr Sissons in Potter-street, and has now 100 members, who pay' 10s yearly, rhe Boys' and Girls' National Schools, where /50 children are educated, were opened in 1813, and are sup- ported by voluntary contributions. The Savings' Bank was commenced in 1817, and had on Dec. 28th, 1831 deposits amount^ to £26 804, 14s lOd belonging to 491 individuals, and to four Charitable and 12 Friendly Societies. G F Fol jambe, Esq. is the treasurer, Mr. P. Sissons, the clerk, and Mr Henry Owen, the secretary. The posthumous charities of 7«£ T Pj?? 8 \ are , but few - Tn 1?16 > the sum of £230 left in ib23 and 1628, by James Woodhouse, Wra. Medlev, and Mary Sterne was laid out in the purchase of 17a. 3r. 30r. of land in six fields m the parish of Ecclesfield, let for .£30 per annum • which, vyith the interest of £316. 2s. 6d., accumulated out of the former income, and now in the Savings' Bank, swells the total yearly value of this charity to upwards of £40, out of which 4s each is given to 20 poor widows ; 10s. to the parish clerk • £3 to the vicar for preaching sermons on Good Friday and St lhomas day ; £14 to the master of the National School, at the Abbey-gate ; £14 to 60 poor families, and the remainder is ex- pended in repairing the highways, &c. The trustees, are Messrs. J and G. Champion, M. Binney, J. Froggatt, William Grafton, Henry Owen and the Rev Thomas Stacye, the vicar. Jn lo«J, John Smith left a yearly rent charge of 10s. to be dis- tributed on Good Friday amongst 30 poor persons, out of a house and garden now belonging to Mrs. Dorothy Bates, but anciently the property of the Kllets, from whom this is called "Ellet's Charity." The £20 left in 1681, by Rosamond -iNJapon, was lost many years ago. The Manor of Worksop forms a separate Constabletuick* WORKSOP AND RADFORD. 457 and comprises the greater part of the town, the manor-house and park, Worksop Lodge, and the scattered dwellings of Ratcliffe. Ratcliffe- Grange, Harness- Grove, Darfould, and Slosivick, on the borders of Derbyshire, 2 miles W« of the town. The Dake of Norfolk is sole proprietor and lord of this manor; but Radford, the largest township or constableivicfc of the pa- rish, contains several manors and hamlets, belonging to different lords, viz. Clumber and HardwicJc Grange, the property of the Duke of Newcastle; Rayton or Ryton, on the north side of the rivulet of that name, 2 miles E. by N. of Worksop, belonging to G. S. Foljambe, Esq. ; and Kilton, a large manor extending northward from the canal near Worksop to Carlton and Hod- sock, of which the Duke of Norfolk is lord, and also owner of all the land, except the neat mansions and estates of Forest Hill and Forest Farm, which are the property and residence of John Fullerton and William Champion, Esqrs. and are distant about 2 miles N. of Worksop. His Grace of Norfolk is also lord and owner of the manor of Radford which includes the parish church, all the eastern part of the town, and the hamlet of Man- ion, distant 1 J miles to the east. Before the Norman Conquest, Worksop, or Wirchesop, was the property of Elsi a Saxon Nobleman; but he was obliged to yield it to the Conqueror's favourite Roger de Busli, whose man Roger became his feudal tenant, and was succeeded by William de Lovetot, lord of Sheffield and Hallamshire, who founded the Abbey in Radford, and built a Castle here on the west side of the town, upon a circular hill which is still called " Castle-hill,' ? and is enclosed with a trench, except on the north side, where its precipitous bank is defended by the river Ryton. Of the castle nothing now remains, but its site is marked by a small plantation. After many generations, the estates of the Lovetots, were conveyed in marriage with their heiress Matilda de Lovetot, to the family of Furnival, and from them they passed to the Nevills, and afterwards to the Talbots, who first became, on that account, barons of Furnival, afterwards earls and dukes of Shrewsbury, though now extinct as a dukedom ; but the earldom in a junior branch. John, the first Earl of Shrewsbury, was a man of great military prowess, and became such a terror to France, as to be extremely useful to Henry the Fifth in his wars with that country. He became so much attached to Worksop, as to build here an immense mansion house, with a magnificence in full accord with the splendour of his family : this, however, was unfortunately burnt down in 1761, as will be seen with the description of the present manor house; and it is much to be regretted, as there is reason to believe that it was a complete antique specimen of old-fashioned elegance. The Talbot, estates being divided amongst coheiresses, shis portion came to the Hdwordfe; Earls 2k 2 458 HATFIELD DITISI0N, of Arundel, now Dukes of Norfolk; and is still held by them as tenants in chief of the crown. The Priory, sometimes called the Abbey, was the greatest ornament of Worksop, and stood in that part of the town called Radford, adjacent to those fine specimens of gothic ar- chitecture, the Church and the Abbey-gate, near which some few fragments of the cloisters, &c. still remain, and some parts of the monastic walls have been converted into small dwelling- houses. It was founded in the reign of Henry I., by William de Lovetot, for canons regular of St. Augustine, and dedicated to St. Mary and St Cuthbert. The first grant " consisted of the whole chapelry of his whole house, with the tithes and oblations ; of the church of Worksop in which these canons were, with the lands and tithes, and all things belonging to the church, and the fishpond and mill near to the church, and a meadow adjoining to them ; of the tithes of the pence of all his set rents, as well in Normandy as in England ; of a carucate of land in the field of Worksop, and of a meadow called Cratela ; of all the churches of his demesne in the honour of Blyth, with all the lands, tithes, and other things belonging to these churches ; of the tithes of paunage, honey, venison, fish, fowl, malt, and mills, and all other things of which tithes were wont to be given." This grant was confirmed by King Henry the First, and added to by Richard de Lovetot, who approved of his father's gifts, granting also his part of the church of Clar- borough and two novates of land. Cecilia de Lovetot gave the church of Dinesley, in Hertfordshire, also to this Monastery ; but that grant was not valid until confirmed by Pope Alexander the Third. Gerard de Furnival granted to it " pasture for 40 head of cattle in his park at Worksop, every year from the close of Easter to the feast of St. Michael." He also gave his body to be buried in the Monastery,* and with it he gave to the canons a third of his mills at Bradfield, with the suit of the men of that soke. His wife, the pious Matilda, also granted them a mark yearly out of her mills at Worksop, to "celebrate the anniversary of her husband." Bertha, the widow of Sir Thomas de Lovetot, afterwards gave them an additional four pounds of silver, out of the said mills at Bradfield, and they subsequently received many other benefactions, all of which were confirmed by the Roman pontiffs, until Henry VIII., whether for the good of his own soul or not we will not pretend to say, thought proper to take them all into his own hands. It appears from a bull of pope Alexander in 1161, that the canons had a power of appointing the priests for their parish churches, * This was always considered as a bequest of some value, as it brought large gums in shape of oblations, offerings, masses, requiems, &c. There have been many instances where the monks of one church have by force taken a rich man's body from the jnonks of another, in order to bring all the grist to their own will ! ! I WORKSOP ABBEY CHURCH. ioO V who were answerable to the bishop for the cure of the peo- ple's souls, and to the prior for the profits of their livings!'' At its dissolution, the yearly revenue of the priory was valued at £239. 15s. 5d. The Church, which belonged to, and has the same tutelary saints as the priory, has yet an august appearance, and its two lofty towers strike the eye of the beholder with an impression equal to those of Westminster Abbey. The style of architec- ture was originally Saxon ; but on the outside, it is much mixed with the gothic ; and the whole is in the form and nearly the size of a cathedral. The west entrance is superb, consisting of a Saxon arch with zigzag ornaments; and the towers over it have "Saxon Anglo-Norman, and gothic win- dows in different gradations. v On the north side of the edi- fice are some fragments of the priory ; and in the meadows be- low, many traces of foundations have at various times been dis- covered. But the most splendid specimen of antique architec- ture is the ruinous Chapel of St. Mary, at the south-east corner, the windows of which are still in good preservation, and are perhaps the most perfect model of the lancet shape now re- maining in England. On entering the church, the visitor is struck with its spacious and venerable appearance, though it now consists only of a nave and two side aisles, 135 feet in length ; the chancel and the centre tower having long since disappeared. The roof of the nave is supported by eight pillars on each side, alternately cylindrical and octangular, joined by Saxon arches, ornamented with quatrefoils. Over these are two alternate rows of windows, one over the arches, the other over the intervals above the respective pillars. The pulpit is a curious proof of the ingenuity of ancient workmen, and of the profusion of labour which they bestowed on sacred things. The monuments are only remarkable for their antiquity, and are principally in memory of the Furni- vals and Lovetots, or, as the Cicerone who showed them to Laird designated them, "morals of Antikkity, merable of the Funnyfields and Lovecats.'' Most of these mutilated tombs have been removed from their original places, and some of them lie in a neglected state, with the effigies *• most luxuriantly or- namented with whitewash." Three of these figures, repre- senting two knights and a lady, are now placed upright in the wall at the end of the north aisle. The approach to this vene- rable pile is through the Abbey-gate, a fine specimen of the latest gothic mode of workmanship, with apartments over it covered with a pointed roof, and lighted by florid windows and niches of great beautv. The statues which stood on each side of the gateway are gone, but there are still three over it; the gateway itself has a flat ceiling of oak, with gothic groins and supporters, but this is nothing more than the floor of the room above, which is now used as the National School. The gate 46*0 HATFIELD DIVISION. was double, with a wicket; and the whole, even how, is a pleasing specimen of ancient architecture, especially when viewed in connection with the venerable Cross that stands in front, and consists of a lofty conical flight of steps-, surmounted by a slender pillar which has long since lost its transverse capital. Henry VIII* in 1542, granted to Francis Earl of Shrews- bury ', " the whole site and precinct of the priory of Worksop, and all messuages and houses, and several closes and fields, and four acres- of arable land in Manton, in the parish of Worksop, to hold to him and his heirs of the King, in capite, by the ser- vice of the tenth part of a knight's fee, and also by the royal service of finding the King a right-hand glove at his coronation, and of supporting his right arm that day, as long as he should hold the sceptre in his hand, paying yearly £23. 8s. Ob. rent." This grant is said to have been made in exchange for the manor of Farnham-Royal, in the county of Surrey, which the Furni- vals had held for many generations, by the aforesaid coronation service, which was last performed by the present Duke of Aor- folk, at the coronation of William IV., in 1831. Edward VI. granted to Henry Holbeach, Bishop of Lincoln, and his successors in pure and perpetual alms, the reversion of the rectory, and all the tithes of corn, hay, &c, of the parish of Worksop,, and " all that yearly rent of =£35, reserved upon the demise made to William Chastetyn, merchant of London." This grant was conferred on the said bishop, in consequence of his having given up to the King many of the ancient possessions of the See of Lincoln, in which the impropriation of Worksop still remains, but is leased to the Duke of Norfork, who ha3 also the advowson of the vicarage, which is valued in the King's books at £\2. 4s. 2d,, and is now in the incumbency of the Rev. Thomas Stacye. The yearly sums of £12 on Lady- Day, and £6. 13s. 4d. on Michael mas -Day, are paid out of the great tithes to the vicar, and he also receives ^£10 annually from the Duke of Norfolk, for not exercising his right to the patron- age of Shireoaks Chapel. WORKSOP MANOR HOUSE, The property and occasional seat of his Grace the Duke of Nor- folk, stands on the south-west side of the town, in the centre of an extensive park, which is eight miles in circumference, and contains 1100 acres of land, with much fine timber, some of it so ancient as to be falling into decav. The principal entrance, at the foot of Park-street, consists of a lodge and gateway, with a pair of iron gates of elegant open work, beyond which is a long avenue deeply shaded by umbrageous oaks and other spreading tree? ; and at the end of this sylvan walk may J'C seen in the distance the Castle Farm, an extensive range of agricultural building? with a gothic front, and embattled para- WORKSOP MANOR. 461 pet, surrounded by a large tract of cultivated ground ; much of the park being under the farmer's hands, and intersected by enclosure fences, consisting generally of a light railing. The deer are now confined in an enclosure of about 70 acres. The park has within its ample limits an extensive range of hills, sufficiently high to bound the view from the house on one side, and magnificently covered with a series of woods, which over- hang the landscape with a most charming effect. On the side next the farm, an abrupt swell rises in the boldest manner, tufted with wood, finely contrasting with the cultivated scene below, and presenting from its summit a most extensive prospect over the western part of the county. The trees in this park, which once formed part of the forest of Sherwood, are in general upon a very large scale ; there are some, mentioned nearly a cen- tury ago by Evelyn in his " Sylva," which will bear two feet square of timber, at a height of forty feet, so that each will contain more than six solid tons of timber : and one tree in par- ticular was 180 feet from the extreme ends of the opposite branches, covering more than half an acre of ground. The avenue towards its end affords some casual glimpses of the house itself, which, on turning round a wood, bursts at once upon the view. A handsome gate now leads into the yard of offices* separated from the front lawn by an immense screen of light architecture with iron folding gates. The HOUSE is not only justly celebrated for its beauty, but for[the surprising expedition which was used in its erection : and the visitor is struck with astonishment when told that what he sees is only the fifth part of the original design, so that, as Mr. Young in his tour very fairly observes, it would, if finished, be the largest house in England. It is, indeed, even now a masterpiece in architecture, and may be considered among the noblest mansions in England. Payne was the architect ; but we understand that some of the most beautiful parts of the edifice must be attributed to the architectural skill of a former Duchess of Norfolk, who is said to have superintended its erec- tion. The ancient structure, which contained about 500 rooms, was burnt doivn in 1761 by an accidental fire, and it was esti- mated that the loss sustained in paintings, furniture, antique statues, (many of which were of the old Arundelian collection, and discovered in digging the foundations of some houses in the Strand in London, on the scite of Arundel house) and in the library, must have amounted to upwards of .£1 00,000. The then Duke, on this unfortunate event, began a new house on a most magnificent plan ; and now the present building, w r hich is only one side of an intended quadrangle, is not unfit for the residence even of majesty itself. This quadrangle and two interior courts would have completed the plan ; but the execution of it was prevented by the sudden death of the heir ! The front which is finished, of a handsome white freestone, is 462 Worksop manor: 318 feet in length, presenting a facade of lightness, beauty, elegance, and grandeur : in the centre, a portico makes a light projection, consisting of six very striking Corinthian pillars resting on the rustics, and supporting the tympanum and pedi- ment with all the grace of the Antinous added to the apparent vigour of Hercules, Three handsome statues representing Divine Truth, Peace, and Plenty,* are placed upon the points of the pediment; and in its centre is an emblematical carving allusive to the high family alliances. A light and airy ballustrade crowns the edifice from the tympanum to the projecting part at the ends, which mark the terminations in the style of wings, and upon this are a number of elegant vases. The front entrance is into a vestibule, opposite the principal staircase, which is spacious and handsome ; occupying an area 37 feet by 25, and having its walls richly ornamented with paint- ings in Chiaro Scuro by Thomas de Bruyn, a Fleming, who has pourtrayed the figures in such high relief that they actually ap- pear protruding from the canvas, yet they have all the softness of smaller paintings, combined with the strong contrast of light and shade always adopted in fresco and in scene painting. The apartments are numerous, elegantly furnished, and many of them very spacious, but to particularize them and their exten- sive and valuable collection of paintings, several of which are by Vandyke, would require a volume. The furniture, portraits, and other decorations, are all in the ancient style of magnificence, with hangings and beds of crimson damask and sky blue velvet, with the history of Joseph in Brussels tapestry, Indian scenery, in Gobelin work, and " all the Howards, who frown along the deserted galleries, some in armour, some in whiskers, and those of a still later date in their large wigs and square shoes." In one of the rooms is the bed on which His Majesty George III. was born at Norfolk House, in London ; it is a silk damask, and still in good preservation. The chapel possesses a gloom suitable to such a holy place, the altar is highly gilt, and has a large crucifix of exquisite workmanship, and a splendid painting of the Resurrection. The gardens, as specimens of the antique style of horticulture, are not undeserving of notice, though they have lost many of their beauties since the family ceased to make this their principal residence, and removed many of its best paintings and other ornaments to their favourite seat of Arundel Castle. The menagerie which a late Duchess had rilled with a numerous collection of birds is gone, as also is much of the beauty of the home grounds, except in the vicinity of the lake, an expansive sheet of water, receding with all the boldness of a river betwixt broken rocks and hanging lawns, and under the * The statues are said to have been executed from drawings by a late Duchew of Norfolk. DUKffS OF NORFOLK. 463 arches of an elegant bridge of white freestone, into the bosom of a deep and dark wood, and having on one side of it a gentle swell crowned with a Tuscan temple, that forms a fine object from whatever direction it is seen. The HOWARD FAMILY, which ranks in the British peerage next the Blood Royal, has had its share of state suffer- ings ; the block has been several times stained with its blood, and its dignities and possessions have been often forfeited to the crown, but as often restored. Tt has already been seen that the illustrious Howards obtained Worksop Manor and many other of the ancient possessions of the Lovetots, Furnivals, and Tal- bots, by one of the three daughters and coheiresses of Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury, who died in 1616. They descended from theEarl of Passy, in Normandy. William- Howard, " a learned judge in the reigns of Edward I. and IT. was one of their early ancestors, and his son John Howard was sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, from the 1 1th to the 16th of the latter reign, and served in the wars against the French and Scots/' Sir John Hoivard, the son of the latter, was " a renowned Admiral in the reign of Edward III. and was succeeded by his son Sir Ro- bert, who was committed to the tower, in the 2nd of Richard II. for detaining Margery de Narford, from her grandmother Aliee Lady Nevil." His son Rob&i't married Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Thomas de Mowbray, first Duke of Norfolk, and had issue by that lady (whose ancestors were allied to Edward I.) John Howard, who was commonly called " Jocky of Nor- folk," and distinguished himself in the wars with France in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV., in the latter of which he was " Captain -general of the King's forces at sea, Deputy Governor of Calais, summoned to parliament among the barons, and constable of the Tower of London, and obtained a grant in special tail of divers lands and manors. He had a pen- sion from France, and in addition to it, he received from Louis XI. in less than two years, in money and plate, " 24,000 crowns by way of direct bribe." (Philip Commines.) He got all the honours of Earl Marshal, 8>c. from the Mowbray's, Dukes of Norfolk just then extinct, in return for his favouring the usur- pation of that blood-stained monarch, Richard Crookback, with whom he was killed in the battle of Bosworth-field, on the 22nd of August, 1485, and being attainted, all his honours were for- feited. His son Thomas subsequently obtained the favour of Henry VII. and was restored to the title of Earl of 'Surrey \ He afterwards routed the Scots at Flodden -field, and rendered such other essential service to Henry VIII. that in 1514, he was created Duke of Norfolk. William, his second son, was created Baron Howard of Effingham ; and Thomas, his eldest son, succeeded him as Duke of Norfolk ; but after rendering great services to Henry VIII. both as a soldier and a plenipo- tentiary, he was seized* and attainted with his son Henry, who 464 WORKSOP PARISH. lost his head on Tower Hill, in 1547. He himself, however, lived till the Catholic Mary ascended the throne, and restored him to all his honours and estates in 1553, but he died in the following year ; when he was succeeded by his grandson Thomas, who, in the Protestant reign of Elizabeth, was attainted and beheaded in 1572, for " taking part with Mary Queen of Scots." His son Philip, Earl of Arundel, (by Margaret, sole heiress of Henry Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel,) was found guilty of high treason in the 23d of Elizabeth, and died in the tower six years afterwards. His son, Thomas Earl of Arundel, in- troduced the " Arundel Marbles" into this kingdom as already noticed, and after obtaining the favour of James I. and Charles I. was created Earl of Norfolk in 1644, but taking no part in the subsequent troubles, he retired to Italy, where he died in 1646. He left issue by Alethia, daughter of Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury, Henry Frederick, sixth Earl of Norfolk, whose son and successor, Thomas, was created Duke of Norfolk by Charles II. in 1660 ; but dying without issue, his honours de- scended in 1677> to his brother Henry, who had been created Lord Howard of Castlerising, by the same monarch. The lat- ter died in 1684, and was succeeded by his son Henry, who was a " stanch Protestant." One day, says Burnet, " the King (James II.) gave this Duke of Norfolk the sword of state to carry before him to the popish chapel ; and he stood at the door. Upon which the King said unto him, c My lord, your father would have gone further ;' to which the Duke answered, * Your Majesty's father was the better man, and he would not have gone so far.' " It was owing to his nephew succeeding him that the title came again into the Roman Catholic line, in which it still remains. This nephew, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, died without issue in 1732, and was succeeded by his brother Ed- ward, who also died without issue in 1777> when the titles of Norfolk, Arundel, Surrey, &e. descended to Charles Howard, of Greystock, in Cumberland, who, in 1786, was succeeded by his son Charles, the late Duke, who likewise died without issue in 1815, when his honours passed to his cousin and heir, the pre- sent Most Noble Bernard Edward Howard, Duke of No?'~ folk, Earl Sitrrey and Arundel, Hereditary Earl Marshal, Premier Peer, Baron Fitz Alan, Chin and Osivaldestre, and Maltravers, F. U.S. and F.S. A. who married Lady Elizabeth Belasyse, by whom he has issue Henry Charles Hoivard, Earl of Surrey, who married in 1814, Lady Charlotte Leveson Gower, by whom he has issue Henry Lord Fitz Alan and other children. The late Duke renounced the ancient religion of his ancestors, but his present Grace professes the Roman Ca- tholic Faith, as also does his son and grandchildren, who re- side generally at Worksop Manor. His Grace's principal seat i« at Arundel Castle in Sussex, and his town residence in St. James's-square. He is the twelfth Duke of Norfolk of 'tha WORKSOP PARISH. 465 Howard family, before whom that title was borne by Richard Duke of York, the infant son of Edward IV., who was mur- dered in the tower by order of his uncle, Richard III., who subsequently conferred the dignity upon the Howards. Before Prince Richard, there had been four Mowbrays Dukes of York, the title being" first created in L397; but the Bigod family had been Earls of Norfolk from 1135 to 1270, and pre- vious to them there had been Ralph Waher, whom William the Conqueror created Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, titles which he soon afterwards forfeited for treason. CLUMBER PARK, The elegant and magnificent residence of his Grace of New- castle, is also within the ample limits of Worksop parish, ex- cept about 40 acres belonging to the township of Carb«rton. It extends from 2 to 5 miles S.E. of Worksop, and comprises 3412 acres of land ; all of which is in Radford Constablewick — (See p. 457,) except the 40 acres just named. It is about three miles in length and breadth, adjoins Thoresby park on the south, and is crossed by the river Wollen from Welbeck, which forms near the house a beautiful lake of 87 acres. About 80 years ago it was one of the wildest tracts of Sherwood forest, being then " little more than a black heath full of rabbits, hav- ing a narrow river running through it, with a small boggy close or two ;" but now, besides a princely mansion and a noble lake, it has 1393 acres of plantations, and 1892 acres of richly culti- vated-land in tillage and pasturage. Within its precincts are the remains of two woods of venerable oaks, viz. Clumber Wood, from which it has its name, and Hardwick Wood, which gives name to Hardwick Grange, his Grace's farming establishment, at the north-east corner of the park. Throsby says, " when I visited Clumber, (1796,) I entered the park two miles S. of Worksop, through an entrance more than two miles from the house, crescent formed, and topped with the arms of the family. Within the park the country opens upon you with splendour, rich in effect, and delightful to the eye. The fir and woody scenery around, in May, were warmed with patches of broom and gorse, then in golden hue, left, it maybe presumed, for ornament. The hills, or rather rising grounds, .are beautifully clothed with woody scenery ; the lawns smooth ; the walks every where adorned with rich plantations seated in .-the happiest succession; and the cross-roads all furnished with excellent direction posts," — pointing the way to the house, which being in rather alow situation, would not be easily found by a stranger without the aid of these friendly monitors, the want miles from (lun WOKKSOP PARISH. 4#J Clinton), Commander-in-Chief of the British army, during part of the American war; also a very remarkable small original of Henry VIII. ; and two good landscapes by Binge, the young artist of Tickhill, who was patronized by his Grace about 20 years ago The principal apartments are superbly furnished, and contain a great variety of exquisite paintings, amongst which are several by Rembrandt, Rubens, Vandyke, Snyders, Hoare, and Corregio ; one by the latter, or, as some say, by Fu- rino, is the famous piece of Sigismunda weeping over the heart of Tancred, But the greatest glory of Clumber is its State Dining Room, a most magnificent apartment, 60 feet in length, 34 in breadth, and 30 in height ; it is sufficiently large to ac- commodate 150 guests at table, independent of a superb recess or saloon for the sideboard, &c. The ceiling and pannels are extremely rich in stucco and gilding, yet chaste without glare ; the lustres are of the finest cut glass ; and the marble chimney- piece and steel grate may be seen, but cannot be described ; they are in fact an honour to English taste and execution. On the walls hang seven beautiful paintings, valued at no less than £25,000 ; four of them are market pieces, by the joint pencils of Snyder and Long John, and eonsistingof a display of flesh, fish, fowl, and fruit and vegetables; and the others are dead game, by Wenix, and two landscapes by Zuccarelli. If Clum- ber possessed no other paintings than these gems, the time and attention of the tourist or artist would be amply repaid by their examination. The Chapel is a very pleasing apartment, admirably fitted for its purpose, and having a very sombre effect from the four windows of stained glass, in which the family arms are very handsomely emblazoned, In the Dressing Room up stairs are seven fine paintings in water colours, of ancient Roman taste, brought from Herculaneum. The Bed Rooms are most superb \ the beds are fitted up in imitation of tents and pavillions, with their curtains even picturesquely arranged ; in short, every thing about the house breathes the essence of taste and " the very soul of magnificence." Dukes op Newcastle. — Sir William Cavendish, nephew of the first Earl of Devonshire, was created Baron Ogle, and Viscount Mansfield, in 1620; Baron Cavendish, of Bolsover, in 1628 ; Earl of Newcastle, in 1651 ; Marquis of Newcastle, in 1643, and Earl Ogle and Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1644. This was the famous Equestrian Duke of Newcastle, who resided at Weibeck, as noted at page 450. He died in 1676 ; and was succeeded in his honours and estates by his son, Henry Cavendish, who married the daughter of William Pierre- pont, Esq., of Thoresby Hall, and died in 1691, when his titles became extinct, in conseqnence of his leaving no male issue. Margaret, one of his daughters and co-heiresses, married John Holies, fourth Earl of Clare, who in 1694, was created Marquis of Clare, and Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Previous to big 468 DUKES OF NEWCASTLE. marriage he resided at Houghton, (vide p. 432,) but he after- wards removed to Welbeck, where he died in 1711, when, for want of issue, his titles became extinct ; but he bequeathed his estates to his sister's son, Thomas Pelham,. second Baron Pel- ham, of Laughton, in Sussex, who assumed the name of Holies r and in 1714, was created Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and in 1715, Duke of New castle-under -Lyme* At his death in 1768^ all his titles became extinct, except those of Duke of New- castle-under-Lyme, and Baron Pelham, of Stanemere, which descended in marriage with his niece Catharine, to Henry Fiennes Clinton, ninth Earl of Lincoln,, who assumed the name of Pelham, and died in 1794, His son, Thomas Pelham Clin- ton, the late Duke, died in the following year, and was suc- ceeded by his son, the present most Noble Henry Pelham Fiennes-Pelham Clinton, Duke of Newcastle, Earl of Lincoln, Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire, K. G., SfC 8$c* whose son, the Right Hon, Henry Pelham Clinton, bears his father's secondary title of Earl of Lincoln, and resides with him at Clumber House* The family of Clinton, who now inherit the Clumber portion of the Cavendish estates, (vide p. 433,) is of Norman origin, and settled in England at the Conquest. They took their name from the Lordship of Climpton, in Oxfordshire. Roger Climp- ton or Clinton was Bishop of Coventry, from 1228 till 1249. John de Clinton was summoned to parliament in the first of Edward I., by the title of Baron Clinton, of Maoctoch* His second son, William, was Lord High Admiral of England in 1333, and created Earl of Huntingdon in 1337. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Lords of Clinton distinguished themselves in the wars of Edward III. and Henry V. and VT. Edward the ninth Lord Clinton, Lord High Admiral of England, was created Earl of Lincoln in 1572. His successor, Henry, second Earl of Lincoln, was one of the commissioners on the trial of Mary Queen of Scots. Henry, the seventh Earl, was Constable of the Tower, and Paymaster of the forces in the reign of Queen Anne. Henry, the ninth Earl, became as has just been seen, Duke of Newcastle, and was succeeded by his son Thomas, the late Duke, who married Anna Maria, daughter of William, second Earl of Harrington. Before his father's death he was a major-general in the army, and served in the American war. After enjoying the (dukedom about one year, he died in 1795, and was succeeded by his son, the present noble Duke, who. was born January 31, 1785. Gateford constableivick is a hamlet of its own name, on the Seffield road, 2 miles N. N. W. of Worksop, and several scattered houses. It comprises about 1100 acres, belonging chiefly to Henry Machon, Esq. of Gateford Hill, a handsome stone mansion, half a mile N. of the village, occupying the site of the ancient residence of the Lascelles family. Raymoth, a WORKSOP PARISH* 4b9 large farm, belongs to Mr. B. Eddison. The Duke of Norfolk and Sir Thos. W. White have also estates here, and the owners have the manorial rights of their respective property. Mrs. Mary Dunston, who now lives with her daughter at Claylands, is 101 years of age, though so lately as 1830 she joined in a country dance. Hagginfield is but a small hamlet and constablewick, hav- ing only 800 acres of land, belonging to the Duke of Norfolk, 2 miles W. N. W. of Worksop. It is crossed by the river Ryton and the canal, and has on its eastern side a fine bed of clay, which makes excellent bricks, and on its western verge is plenty of good limestone, and also the noted freestone quarry and lime kilns, called Lady Lee. Osberton and Scofton are two lordships, forming a joint constablewick, and lying on opposite sides of the river Ryton and the canal, from 2 to 5 miles E. of Worksop. They are both the property of George Savile Foljambe, Esq. of Osberton Hall, an elegant modern mansion, with a portico of four ionic pillars, supporting a highly ornamented architrave and pediment. The country around is very romantic, and richly clothed with wood, a large portion of which has been planted by the present owner, who charitably supports a school at Scofton, on the north side of the Ryton, for the education of 20 poor children. In the hall is a valuable Museum, consisting of a complete collection of British birds, several cases of foreign and geological specimens, &c. &c, also a carving in alabaster representing the Assassination of Thomas-a- Becket, and sup- posed to have been the original altar-piece of Beauchief Abbey, near Sheffield. Another antique relic which the visitor will find here is a Roman Altar, that was found some years ago at Littleborough. The east front of the hall opens upon a spacious lawn, shut in on one side by a noble boundary of oak, and on the other by a screen of thriving plantations. The two lordships comprise 3841 acres, of which 1592 are in Osberton. Chequer House, at the eastern extremity of the latter, is partly in Babworth parish. Scofton was the property of the late Robert Sutton, Esq., of whom it was purchased about 30 years ago by the late F. F. Foljambe, Esq. who pulled down the' hall. Shireoaks, 2| miles W. N. W. of Worksop, is a manor and chapelry, which had its name from an ancient oak that stood many centuries on the spot where the three counties of Nottingham, York, and Derby converge. A fine thriving young oak occupies the site of the original tree, which is not remembered by any person now living. William de Lovetot gave this lordship to Worksop priory, but at the dissolution of the religious houses, Henry VIII. granted it to Robert and Hugh Thornhill, together with Gateford and Darfould, for the yearly rent of 13s. 4d. From the Thornhills it passed to the HeivittSi with whom it remained till Sir Thomas Hewitt' diSit 470 WORKSOP PARISH. herited his daughter for marrying against his will, and be- queathed this estate to his godson, John Thornhaugh, Esq. for the term of his life ; after which it passed to the Rev. John Hewitt, rector of Harthill, who built and endowed here a chapel of ease, in 1809, and in the following year sold the Shireoaks estate to the Duke of Norfolk, who, after the death of Mr. Hewitt, pulled down the ancient mansion house, except a small portion of the walls, which have been fitted up as a dwelling by Mr. Froggatt. Since the Duke purchased the estate, much of its fine timber has fallen a sacrifice to the wood- man's axe. The chapel is a neat stone edifice, consisting of a nave and chancel, with an octangular tower, surmounted by a cupola. The Rev. George Savile, B. A., the first and present incumbent, was presented to the curacy by the founder, but by the archbishop's license, dated 1810, the future patronage will be in the Duke of Norfolk, in consideration of his paying j£10 a-year to the vicar of Worksop. The endowment consists of £90 a-year for the curate, besides a neat parsonage house, ad- joining the chapel-yard, and .£10 a-year for the clerk. Shire- oaks contains about 800 acres, and is crossed by the Chester- field canal and the Ryton rivulet. GATEFORD. Beardshaw John, genti Baker's Plat Bingham Wm. blacksmith Carr Benj. farmer Carr W. maltster, Ashley cottage Eddison Mrs. Ann Eddison Henry, maltster . Fell Samuel, shoemaker Hodgkinson Jas. maltster, Gate- ford villa Machon Henry, Esq. Gateford hill Rhodes Eliz. farmer Silvestor George, farmer Vessey Miss Eiiz. Gateford hall Wright Mary, vict. Plough Wiight Mary, farmer, Claylands HAGGIx\FIELD. Cook George, farmer Hawson John, maltster Knight Wm. Rd. lime burner & stone merchant, Lady Lee and Worksop Lewis Edward, brick maker Mosley Wm. maltster, Lady Lee Pressen Thos. farmer Smith John, farmer Storey Wm. farmer Thornton John, brick maker and maltster OSBERTON AND SCOFTON. ' Marked % are in Scofion. Foljambe Geo. Savile, Esq.Osber- ton hall J A thro n Wm. woodman JBroughton Godfrey, land bailiff Foster John, corn miller, Dia- mond nook Hodgkinson Rd. Grange jHall Wm. gamekeeper JHorton John, blacksmith Marshall Fras. Mill Mason Mrs. housekeeper Thorn Leond. house steward Wagstaff Wm. land agent, Che- quer house J Wilkinson Ann, schoolmistress Wilkinson John, farmer Wilkinson Wm. farmer SHIREOAKS. Challoner Peter, farmer Durham John, corn miller Froggatt John, gent. Shireoaks hall Hatfield Wm. shopkeeper and clerk Hudson W T m. blacksmith HATFIELD" DIVISION. 471 Metcalf Mr. Joseph PJant John, miller IRadley Wm. farmer Savile Rev. Geo. curate WORKSOP DIRECTORY. List of Streets, Hamlets, &c. in Worksop and Radford Constable wicks, both of which are included in this Directory. Those marked f are in Radford. The figures and capital letters show the distance in miles, and the bearings of each hamlet, fyc, from the town. f Abbey St. Potter street Binney's yard, Bridge street Blackburn's yard, Bridge street fBrace Bridge, Potter street Bridge Place, Bridge street Bridge street, Market place Canal side, foot of Bride street Castle farm, Manor park fClumber house, 4 m. S. E. Coal moor, Bridge place Coney st. top of Market place CresweHholm, Bridge place t Cross bld^s. Potter street Darfould, 1J m. W. Eastgate, Bridge place Forest hill,2m.N. Forest road, foot of Newgate st fFriar Well road, Abbey gate Hardwick grange, 4 m. E. Harness grove, l£m. W. by S. Hetts bldgs. Eastgate Hodgkinson's yd. Bridge pi Justice's yard, Bridge street Kilton, lm. N.-E, Lead hill, Westgate f Low street, Potter street fManton, 1£ m. E. Market place. Bridge street Marson's yard, Bridge street fMayor's croft, Newgate street Newgate street, Coney street Nicholson's yard, Market place Norfolk st. Westgate Park street, Coney street Pearce's bldgs. Newgate street Playhouse yd. Potter street « Potter street, Market place < Radford place, Forest road Ratcliff, 2 m. S. W. Sandhill, Westgate Skinner's row, Bridge place Sloswick, 2J m. S. SparkenJiill, J m. S. by E. St. Mary's grove, Bridge st Ward lane, Bridge st Westgate, Market place Worksop lodge, 1 m. W. Worksop manor, \ m. S. E. N.B. Eastgate, Newgate st. and Potter st» are partly in Radford Post Office, Market Place,-^- Edward Parker, Post Master. A Mail gig is despatched to Retford at 10 in the Morning, & returns atthree in the Afternoon. D'ake of Norfolk, Worksop manor Duke of Newcastle, Clumber house Earl of Surry, Worksop manor Earl of Lincoln, Clumber house Allan Henry, supervisor, Potter street Armstrong John, excise officer, Norfolk street Bates Mrs. Dorothy, Bridge st Bates Capt. Robert, Bridge st Baxter Edward, corn merchant* Bridge street Baxter John, carter, Newgate st Beachey Mrs. Ann, Newgate st Beardsall William, toll collector, Moot Hall Bingley Mrs. Ann, Bridge st Blackburn Samuel, gent. Lead hill Booth Mrs. Mary Ann, Gateford road 472 WORKSOP DIRECTORY. Brace William, road surveyor, Abbey street Bradley Wm. woodman, Hard- wick Broome Mrs. Ann, Potter street Burchby Thos. cabinec maker, Clumber Burn William, town cryer, New- gate street Bullivant Thomas, farmer, Slos- wick Candlin Robert, keeper, Carbur- ton lodge. Clumber park Carter Mr. John, Potter st Champion William, gent. Bridge house Clarke, Samuel, farmer, Eastgate Clayton Richard, gent. Newgate street Conworth Job, chief constable for N. Clay Divison, Bridge street Cross Thomas, farmer, Castle farm Dawson George, coach proprie- tor and livery stable keeper. Lead hill Dibble Henry, park and game- keeper, Sparken hill Dixon William, shepherd, Clum- ber park Downs, Mrs. Eliz. Potter street Dowse John, clerk, Newgate st Eccles William, farmer, RatclifTe Eddison, Benjamin, sen. gent. Bridge street Ellis Mr. Joseph, Norfolk st Ellum Charles, groom, Clumber lodge Ewbank Rev. Wm. Potter st Eyre John, Mayor croft Falkner Mrs. Frances, Bridge st Fletcher Thomas, painter, New- gate street Fullerton John, jun. Esq. Forest hill house Girdler Richard, gent. Potter st Grafton William, timber mercht. Gateford road Gregory William, gent. Gateford road Habbijam Robert, horse breaker, Kilt on lane Hall John, carter, Eastgate Harrison Wm. farmer, Carlton road Harpham Thomas, fishmonger, Bridge street Haykin Mrs. Phoebe, Norfolk st Hicks Mr. James, Mayor croft Hodgkinson, Mrs. Ann, Potter street Hodgkinson Saml. farmer, Kilton Hopkin Thos. maltster, Mayor croft ' Horncastle Jno. farmer, Manton Horrobin Samuel, sweep, Nichol- son's yard Hovenden Thomas, house stew- ard, Clumber house Hunt Richard, agent, Clumber office Hutchinson George, bailiff, La- dies' farm, Clumber park Jackson John, excise officer, Potter street Johnson William, book-keeper, Bridge place Jones Rev. Jas. Catholic Priest, Sandhill place Joseph Rev. Wm. (Tnd.) Potter street Kelp John, farmer, Eastgate Kemp Samuel, writer. Low st Kirk Thomas and Wm. stone- masons, Clumber park Kirk by Mrs. Mary. Newgate st Knight Wm. Rd. lime and stone merchant, Bridge street Langley Miss Mary Ann, Mayor croft Leith Matthias, millwright, Pot- ter street Leith Thomas, millwright. Play- house yard , Littlewood Samuel, joiner, Clum- ber park Lowley Misses Ann and Sarah, Potter street Makins Jas. gamekeeper, Hard- wick Marr Mr. James. Bridge street Marsh John, farmer, Foreet farm Marston Wm. Esq. Bridge st Mawe Francis, clerk, Potter * T HATFIELD DIVISION. 473 Mosley Wm. maltster, Bridge st Mellors Jno. keeper, Apleyhead lodge, Clumber park Moffatt Thomas, gardener, Clum- ber park Newton, Mrs. Sarah, Park st Nock, Mrs. Ann, Shireoaks road OlFen Robert, sailor, Hardwick Outram Francis, farmer, Rayton Oxley Francis, farmer, Creswell holm Parkin Miss Sarah, Newgate st Parr William, land bailiff, Hard- wick Peacock William, parish clerk, Brace bridge Pearce Misses Betty and Letitia, Mayor croft Pearce Mr. Robert, Newgate st Pegge Mrs. Eliz. Newgate st Pickard Henry William, Esq. Forest hill Potter Richard, governor of the workhouse, W r ard lane Radley Miss Eliz. Bridge street Richardson John, gent. Gateford road Roe Curtis, sweep, Nicholson's yard Roe Francis, Esq. Potter street Sharman Thomas, job gardener, Norfolk street Shaw John, game dealer, Bridge street Shaw Rueben, whitesmith, Bridge street Shipman John, travelling sta- tioner, Newgate Sissons Miss Mary, Newgate Sissons Peter, gent. Westgate Slack William, carter, Eastgate Smith John, gent. Bridge st Stacye Rev. Thomas, vicar, Pot- ter street Stephenson Henry, (Meth.) St. Mary's grove Temple William, cook, Clumber house Thomas Theop. valet, Clumber Thompson Miss Hannah, Potter street Thompson Mr. Jonathan, Clum- ber cottage Thompson Joseph, hosier, Pot- ter street Truman Mr. George, Lead hill Truman Win. baker, &c. Mayor croft Turner George, cowkeeper, Kil- ton lane Turner Mrs. Samuel, Friar well lane Wake, Mrs. Jane, Potter street Walkins Samuel, land agent, Park street Waring Thomas, stone mason, Potter street Webb Mrs. Sarah, Newgate st Webster Thomas, bank agent r Potter street Whitaker Mr. William, Potter street White Joseph, machine maker. Newgate street Wood Thomas, cart owner, New- gate street Worthington, Mr. John, Newgt ACADEMIES. Bartlam Edw. Bridge street Bower Wm. Potter street Burdon Eliz. Market place Coates Wm. (bdg. & day) Carl- ton road Day Eliz. Bridge street Dent Lucy, Newgate st Huertley Frances, (ladies' bdg.) Park street Huertley Wm. (drawing) Potter street Lock wood Jph. Norfolk st National Wm. Haslewood, Ab- bey gate Rational (Ghls), Ann Fitzaker- ley, Newgate st Newbolt Henrietta, Clumber Tunstall Isaac, Lead hill Tyzack Jph. Park street W'ilson Sarah, (bd?.) Potter st ATTORNEYS. Beardshaw Thos. Bridge st Owen Henry, (& clerk to the ma- gistrates) Bridge st Wake Henrv Stephen, Potter st AUCTIONEERS. Broome Thos. Bridge st Sissons Francis, Potter st 474 WORKSOP DIRECTORY. BAKERS & FLOUR DLRS. Godfrey Edward, Bridge st Harris Martha, Newgate st Harrison Fras. Low street Hevvson Robt. Bridge street Hooson Fras. (& ■ Saxondale. • • • J ( Tithby with 1 < Cropwell > I Butler*.-..) POPULATION 1801-. 1821 1831 1082. 230- 62. 596 . 220- 307- 391-. 275. 761- 107- 176. 1574 1738 348 344 72 82 779 842 348 387 392 473 497 529 370 389 993 1125 138 144 153 149 486- 671 704 155- 146 144 362- 489 551 * Orston includes part of Flawborough, which is mostly in Staunton parish.— See Newark Hundied. f Scarrington and Thoroton are Chapelries to Orston parish. § Clipstone is in Plumptre parish.— Vide Rushciffe Hundred, S Kinoulton includes Lodge-on~the-Wold$.— (Extra Tar.) % Tithby includes Wivgrton-Hall (Extra Parochial J. 480 BINGHAM HUNDRED. The river Trent forms its northern boundary, and the Grantham Canal crosses it in a south-easterly direction from Nottingham to Hickling, passing under the Wolds on its south western borders, and having a branch extending to Bingham, The principal rivulets that intersect it are the Wipling, the Smite, and the Car-Dyke. It is generally a fertile district, especially near the banks of the Trent, and some of the smaller streams, which frequently flood and enrich the pastures for a considerable extent. Its principal mineral production is a blue slaty stone which is found upon the wolds, and makes excel- lent lime. BINGHAM PARISH. Bingham, the capital of the Deanery and Hundred to which it gives name, is pleasantly situated on the Nottingham and Grantham road, 10 miles E. by S. of the former, 11 miles S.W. of Newark, and 123 miles N.N. W. of London. Though once of considerable repute from its religious establishment and col- legiate church, of a date nearly as old as the conquest, it is now merely a straggling and inconsiderable market town, having a branch from the Nottingham and Grantham Canal, and a few stocking frames and bobbin-net machines employed in the Not- tingham trade, and also a printing press manufactory belonging to Mr. Stafford. Its market place is large and open, but is dis- graced by some mean looking shops, which are seldom occu- pied, but it has in the centre a very convenient butter cross. The market, which is only of trifling importance, is held on Thursday ; but the Fairs for cattle, horses, and swine, held on February 10th and Uth, Whit-Thursday, and November 8th and 9th, are tolerably well supplied. Hirings for servants are held on Candlemas Thursday, and on the. last Thursday in October, and the feast is at the November fair. The parish contains 370 houses, 1738 inhabitants, and about 3,000 acres of rich red loamy land, mostly belonging to the Earl of Chester- field, who is lord of the manor, which was enclosed up- wards pt 150 years ago. After the conquest it was of the fee of Roger de Busli, and had soc in Newton, which perhaps accounts for a small part of that township being considered as part of this parish. Since the Conqueror's time, Bingham has gone through a variety of possessors, and once belonged to a family of its own name. There are now no remains of its two Chapels of St. James and St. Helen, nor of its Guild or Col- lege of St. Mary, which Speed says, was valued at «£40. The buildings and possessions of these monastic institutions were BINGHAM PARISH, 4,-1 granted by Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth to various per- sons. The Parish Church, dedicated to All Saints, is a fine speci- men of the ancient gothic ; built in the form of a cross, with a handsome tower and spire, 40 yards in height, and containing a peal of six bells. A great part of the nave was rebuilt in 1584 ; the chancel, which is spacious and handsomely ceiled, was repaired and beautified in 1773, and the whole has just under- gone a complete reparation at the cost of .£150. Several of the windows are highly ornamented with stained glass, repre- senting Moses and Aaron, Faith and Hope, and the armorial bearings of two Bishops ; and also of the Earl of Chesterfield, who is patron of the rectory, which is valued in the King's books at £44. 7s. lid., but is now the richest benefice in the county, being worth about £1,100 per annum. The Rev. Robert Lowe, M.A. is the incumbent, and has a handsome Rectory-house with extensive gardens, and about 39 acres of glebe. The Wesleyan and the Primitive Methodists have each a chapel in the town. Petty Sessions are held here every alter- nate Thursday. In 1784 and 1735, several plays were per- formed here by amateurs, for the purpose of raising a fund for a School. They produced a profit of £80, to which Messrs* George Baxter and John Foster added £70, and the whole (£150,) was laid out in a share of the Grantham Canal, now- worth about £10 a-year, which is paid to the master of the school in Church-street. A few years ago, the Earl of Ches- terfield gave nearly one acre of land in the southern suburb of the town called Longacre, for the erection and endowment of a Day and Sunday School, which has been built by subscription. Charities. — Chapel Close was purchased with £28 poor's money in 1693, and now lets for £8 per annum, which is dis- tributed at Christmas. In 1721, Thomas and Ann Tealby left £110, with which Loiuraoore Closes, in Carcolston, were pur- chased, and now let for £15 a year, half of which is given to the poor, and the rest to the schoolmaster for teaching ten free- scholars. Part of the £10 left by Dr. Burnsell and Thomas Porter, was expended in purchasing the land on which the Workhouse was built in 1769. In 1 764 and 1779, George and Elizabeth Bradshaw each left a £50 share in the Bingham Turnpike. These shares now produce upwards of £5. 10s. yearly, which is distributed amongst the poor of the parish. Events. — The oldest register in Bingham church is dated 1593. The plague raged herein 1646, and many of its victims were buried in a large yard near the west end of the town, where human bones have been frequently found. In 1768, a stone coffin containing the bones of a mother and child, with several trinkets, was found in Chapel-close. In 1710, the town was set on fire in three different places, but it was provi- demiallv extinguished before much damage was done. The 2i 482 BINGHAM HUNDRED incendiary was Thomas Patefield, surgeon, who had for some time laboured under a slight mental derangement, and was, after being tried at Nottingham, directed by the judge to be confined during the rest of his life, at Bingham, where a strong building of two rooms was erected for him in the middle of the Market- place, in which he lived nearly 30 years. On September 21st, 1775, the church spire and clock were greatly injured by lightning. The sacrament linen, and the gold lace of the pul- pit cloth and cushion, were stolen December 1st, 177^* ^ ne Post- Office was established in 1790. Mr. Robert JVhite, a celebrated astronomer, who was many years a compiler of almanacks for the Stationers' Company, was a native of Bingham, where he kept a school, and died in 1773, aged 80. He was author of the " Celestial Atlas, or neiv Ephemeris" which is still published annually under the name of " White's Ephemeris." He was born of humble parents, but being a cripple, he was indulged with a liberal education. After his death, he was ably succeeded both in his school and as a compiler of almanacks, by his pupil, the late Mr. Stafford^ who died in 1783. Another worthy of this town was Thomas Grove, a poor lad, who ran away from his apprenticeship and entered as a private m the Marines, in which he rose to the rank of Colonel, and died in 1790, after 75 years service. The Post-Office is at Mr. John Strong's, in Church-street. The mail gig passes through the town, to Nottingham at 12 noon, and to Newark at half-past six in the morning. Baxter Geo. gardener Long acre Brown John, tinner, &c. Mkp Brown Wm. butter factor, Fair close Buck John, gent. Union street Buxton Mrs. Mary, Market place Pean Edward, governor of the workhouse Denman Hy. gamekeeper, Chan- cel row Essex Thos. hawker, Union st Fisher Joseph, Union street Gelsthorpe John, hoise breaker, Needham street Gilman Thomas, collector Goodacre Mrs* Sarah, Union st Grant Mrs. E!iz. Market place Harrison George and John, hair cutters, market place Hart John, saddler. Long acre Heatheote Mr. Ed. Long acre Hill Rd. hawker, Chancel row Horsepool Mrs. Long acre Huckerby Mr. Wm. Market pi Huckerby William, jun. auc- tioneer Market place Jackson Joseph, nail maker and ironmonger, Market place Lowe Rev. Robert, M.A. rector Mofiatt Wm. tea dealer, Long acre Oliver Joseph Dodsley, tanner and spirit merchant, Long acre Parr Richard and Samuel, gar- deners, Newgate street Richards Samuel, hawker, Chan- cel row Spoug Thomas, herbalist, &c. Chancel low StarFoid John, gent. East street Stafford John, jun. improved Stanhope printing press manu- facturer, East street S van wick SamJ. gardener, Long acre Talbot Fras. veterinary surgeon White Samuel, chief constable for Bingham S. D. Fisher lane BINGHAM PARISH* 483 Wilson Robert, corn miller, Fair close Widnall W. gardener, Long acre Wolstenholm Adam, excise offi- cer, Church street Wood Mr. Thomas, Market pi Wright Thos. gardener, Fisher In Academies. Hewitt Richard, Long acre Strong Jane, Church street Strong John, Church street Attorney. Tallents William Edward, (and magi trates clerk) Bakers and Flour Dealers, Brice Robert (and confectioner) Newgate street Challands Charles, Market place Hemstock Wm. & Son, Church street Pilgrim Samuel, Union street Walker Thomas, Church street Blacksmiths, Brown-Thomas, Long acre Skellington Richard, Long acre Stubbs John, Long acre Widnall Joseph, Long acre Bobbin Net Makers, Beckett John, Fisher lane Clifton and Esdaile, Market pi Hitchcock William, Cherry, st Hollingworth Thos. Long acre Oliver Jph. Dodsley, Long acie Rushton John, Needham street Wright John, jun. Union street Boot and Shoe Makers, Dring Wm. Fisher lane Newton Isaac, (and leather cut- ter,) Market place Slack James, Market place Ward Robert, Church street Bricklayers . Doncaster John, Union street Doncaster Jph. Union. street Doncaster Rd. Long acre Stokes Wm. Long acre Wilson John, Fisher lane Butchers. Crook John, Market place Gil man Wm. Long acre Horsepool Jas. Church st Horsepool John, Market pi Tomkinson Writ. Market st Coal Dealers, Beet John, Fair close Road ley Jph. Newgate st Wright Thos. Fisher lane China, Glass, 8fc> Dealers, Brown John, Market place Brown Rd. Market place Coopers. Bellamy Thos. Newgate st Skinner Geo. jun. Long acre Corn Millers, Hemstock Wm. & Son, Church street Walker Thomas, Church st Druggists, Buck Edw. Bowker, Market pi Jones John, (& hatter) Mkp- Farmers, Atkin John, Long acre Barratt John, Market pi Beet Thos. Newgate 6t Bingham Geo. Long acre Brewster Rt. Holmes Chettle Wm. Long acre Chettle Wm. jun. Long acre- Dikes Jane, Long acre Felton Wm. Long acre Fisher Thos. Long acre Foster Saml. Long acre Gamble Wm. Market place Goodwin Geo. South road Greenwood John, Church st Harris Rt. Brocco Harrison Geo. South road Hart Thos. Long acre Horsepool John, Long acre Horsepool Stephen, Long acre Horsepool Stpn. jun. Long acre Hutchinson Wm. Starn hill Lee Thos. Newgate street Pacey Wm, Market place Roadley Thos. Newgate st Scott Arthur, Long acre Skinner Geo. Long acre Wheatley Wm. East street White Rt. Long ai re Wickham Ann, Newgate st Wick ham Jph. East st Wright Wm. East street- Grocers 4* Tea Dealers, Baxter Geo. Church street Doncaster Eiiz. (& ironmonger- Market place 484 BINGHAM PARISH. Hardstaff Jas. (chandler & iron- monger) Marketplace Oliver John, Market place Ratley Thos. Union st Skinner Geo. (& draper) Long acre White Ghas. (& tobacconist) Long acre Inns and Taverns. Blue Bell, Hy. Crooke, Mkp Chesterfield's Arms, VVm. Pil- grim, Church st King's Arms, Wm. Whitworth, Market place Marquis of Granby, John Tink- ler, Long acre Wheat Sheaf, John Coulishaw, Long acre Beer Houses, John Geeson, Long acre W 7 m. Horsepool, Market pi William IV. Jonth. Crook, Long acre Stingo Tap, John Innocent, Long acre Windmill, Rt. Wilson, Fair close Joiners. Thus * are also Cabinet Makers. •Clifton Thos. Market place Spencer Wm. & John, Banks •Stone Rd. Banks •Whitworth Geo. Market pi *Widdowson Thos. Church st Wright John, Union st Wright Thos. Church st Linen and Woollen Drapers. Baxter Geo. (and stamp dis.) Church street Berry Geo. (woollen) Needham street Parley Eliz. Church street Maltsters. Pilgrim John, Newgate st Walker Wm, (& hop, seed, & spi- rit dealer) Market place Milliners fy Dressmakers. Crook Jane, Needham street Graves Eliz. Newgate st Parr Alice, (straw hat) Newgate street Stubbs Eliz. Needham st Painters. Pilgrim Rd. Chancel row Wood John, (& paper hanger) Market place Plumbers and Glaziers. Nowell Wm. Long acre Strong VVm. Market place Welch & Bass, Long acre Shopkeepers. PadgettBenj. (&pig jobber)Mkp Palmer Benj. Long acre Richmond John, Chancel row Scott Wm. Market street Smith Rd. Long acre Wright John, Union street Surgeo?is. Lee Henry, Market place Rose Jas. Newgate street Smith Wm. Hoiroyd, Church at Tomlinson Panks Wigginton, Union street Tailors. Dickman Rt. Union st Hallam Thos. Needham st Harvey Jas. Market place Mann James, Needham st Richmond John, Chancel row Richmond Thos. Needham st Watch and Clock Makers* Brown Saml. Market st Esdaile Andw. Market place Wheelwrigh ts . Nowell Adam, Banks Wilson Saml. Langar In Wilson Thos. & Wm. Langar In Coaches. To Nottingham at half past 6, & at 7 evening. To Lincoln, at 7, and to Stamford at % past 7, morning. Carriers. To Boston, W. & J. Pettifoiy from the Marquis of Granby, Long acre, every Tues. & Sat. To Newark, John Jackson, from Long acre, every Wednesday, at 5 morning. To Nottingham, Jph. Jones, from Market place ; and John Sills & Rt. Green, from Lone: acre, every Wed. & Sat. at 5 mg, BINGHAM HUNDRED BRIDGEFORD (EAST) PARISH. East Bridgeford, or Bridyeford-on-the-HiU, is a large and well built village on the summit of a lofty precipitous bank that rises on the south side of the Trent, opposite Gunthorpe Ferry, 10 miles E. by N. of Xottingham, and 3 miles N. by W. of Bingham. The parish contains 933 inhabitants and up- wards of 1800 acres of loamy land, which was enclosed in 1798, when 2j6 acres (now called New Bridgeford) were allotted in lieu of the rectorial tithes. Magdalen College'Oxford, belongs to the greater part of the parish. The remainder is the pro- perty of Philip Palmer, Esq., and several smaller freeholders, and he and the College have the manorial rights. After the Conquest, the manor was given to Roger de Busli, who gave the tithes of the Hall in Brugeford to the priory of Blyth. The manor was successively held by the Carpenters, Bisets, Caltofts, Brabazons, Basingbtirns, Deyncourts, and Botelars. the latter of whom, in the 8th of Edward Fourth, gave their moiety to William, Bishop of Winchester, who bestowed it on Magdalen College, which he had founded at Oxford. The other moiety afterwards passed from Lord Sheffield to the Hackers, Chaworths, Scroopes, &c. &c. In the parish is found both opaque and transparent Gypsum, the latter of which is very beautiful, and during the last seven years has been in great de- mand amongst the lapidaries of Derby and ether places, who turn it into beads and various other ornaments, in which it looks as brilliant and as richly variegated as the Derbyshire spar. There are in the village several neat mansions, occupied by Philip Palmer, Esq., Peter Brooke, Esq., the Rev. Thomas Beaumont, and the Rev. R. William Hutchins, M.A., the latter of whom now enjoys the rectory, which is valued in the King's books at <£19. 8s. 6§ d., and is in the alternate patronage of Magdalen College, and John Musters, Esq. The Church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient fabric, and has evidently been much larger than at present. It has much armorial glass of the former lords of the manor, but most of its monuments have been detroyed or defaced, and some of them turned out " into the churchyard to perish throngh the attacks of the weather." Three mutilated effigies of knights in armour, one of them a crusader, were lying under the eaves of the church roof in Thoresby's time! The church has a square tower and six bells. The Methodists have a small chapel in the vil- lage, where there are several Sick Clubs, and an annual feast is held on the last Sunday in June. Charities. — ^£290, Three per Cent. Consols were pur- chased in 1792, with several benefactions left by the Revs. H. Smith, C. Overend, and P. Priaux, John Wilson, Sarah Kirk, and two unknown donors. The vearlv dividends. £8, 14s. are 486 BRIDGEPORT) KAST PARISH. given to the poor in February. In 1827, Thomas Holland left S40,"for which Mr. John Wilkinson pays £2 yearly to be dis- tributed in bread. In 1828, the Rev. Peter Broughton, who was rector of this parish 44 years, left ,£50 to the poor, The National Schools, where 100 boys and 63 girls are educated by subscription, were built on the glebe land in 1829, at the cost of ^£300, towards which the present rector, Magdalen College, and the National Society, gave liberally, and the rest was raised by small contributions. In modern history, Bridgeford is remarkable as being the birth-place of " the regicidal parliamentarian, Colonel Hacker, who attended the unfortunate King Charles to his last scene, for which he afterwards suffered as a traitor, and his estates were confiscated; yet his two brothers were active partizans in the royal cause, in which one of them was slain." — But it is in ancient history that this place stands most conspi- cuous, for Stukely says, it lies within a mile of the Roman Station Ad pontem, and adds that there was here in Ro- man times, a bridge across the Trent, with u great buildings, cellars, and a quay for vessels to unload at." Near the place called Old-wark Spring, he found " the Roman foundations of walls, and floors of houses, composed of stones set edgeways into clay, and liquid mortar run upon them." Upon an emi- nence of the road beyond Bingham lane, he also found a tumulus, commanding " a fine prospect of Belvoir," &c. Horseley differs from Stukely, and considers Old-wark, near Bridgeford, to be the Margidunum of the sixth Iter of Anto- ninus. The great Fosse-way (See p. 18,) passes within a mile west of the village, through which an upper Fosse- way pro- ceeds from the ferry to East Stoke. Herod Saml. brickmaker and gypsum dealer Heathcote Rev. Ralph Hill Benj, baker and shopr Hole Samj. & Co. maltsters, Trent bank Holgate Geo. National schoolmr Huskinson Geo. shoemaker Ash well John, gent. Ayland Mrs. Elizabeth Beaumont Rev. Thos. Bridgeford hill Bonser Wm. tailor and draper Brooke Peter, Esq. Old Hall Brown Thos. shoemaker Challand Jehu, plumber & glazier Chapman Saml. blacksmith Huskinson Wm. parish clerk Clarke Geo. bricklayer | Huskinson Wm. wheelwright Clough Edw. bdg. & day school Huskinson Wm. boat owner Crofts Thos. bobbin net maker • Hutchins Rev. Rd. Wm. M. A. Freeman Thos. joiner rector Gilbert John, bricklayer Jalland Sabina and Eliza, victss. Gill Wm. shopkeeper Six Bells Green Rd. boat owner j Lockwood Wm. sen. gent. Green Miss I Mason Edmund, butcher Green Wm. baker & shopr Mason Geo. tailor Hall S. brickmaker, Trent side Mason John, shoemaker Hen8on John, butcher Mason Mary, vict. Rein Deer BINGHAM HUNDRED. m Millington John, tailor, draper, and shopkeeper Millington Jonas, joiner Millington Mw. maltster, coal meit. and wharfinger Millington Saml. joiner Newbound Chas. shoemaker Newton Thos. blacksmith Palmer Philip, Esq. Bridgeford hill Parnham Wm. shoemaker Randall Wm. vict. joiner, & gyp- sum dlr. Royal Oak Richardson Rd. blacksmith Reddish Paul, corn miller Stokes Hy. corn miller, rope mkr. flax dresser, & shopr Taylor Jas. bobbin net maker & vict. New Inn Taylor John, bobbin net maker Upton Eliz. National school Upton John, tailor Walker Mr. Benj. Walker Hy. blacksmith Wright Bentlv Wm. surgeon FARMERS. Blagg John Bradley John Bradley John Challand John Challand Jph Challand Thos Eateh Eras Foster Thos Freear Fras Freear John Green Rd Huskinson Frs Huskinson Jolm Huskinson Thos Huskinson Wm Levers John Levers Mary Lock wood W. jn. Speick Courtney Tavlor Wm Taylor Wm Towe John Whitaker Wm Wilkinson John The Hope coach to Nottingham, ev. mg. (Sunday excepted) at £ past 9, and to Newark, at f past 5 evg. Carriers to Nottingham, Wm. Upton, Wed. & Sat. and Jolm Brown, Sat. at 5 mg. BROUGHTON-SULNEY PARISH. Broughton-Sulney, or Over Broughton, 12 miles S.S.E* of Nottingham, is a pleasant village seated upon a declivity on the Melton Mowbray road, near the Leicestershire border,' and at the foot of the Nottinghamshire Wolds, where the Roman Fosse-ivay enters this county. — (Seep. 18.) The parish which was enclosed about 70 years ago, contains 57 house, 344 inha- bitants, and about 2000 acres of good clay land, of which the lord of the manor, Thomas Hall, Esq. is the principal owner, but part of it belongs to and is occupied by several small free- holders. At the enlosure, 280 acres were allotted to the rector in lieu of tithes. The manor was anciently called Brockton- Sidney, from its Norman owners, the family of de Sideni, from whom it passed to the Cresseys and the Cliftons. It is some- times called Over-Broughton, to distinguish it from Nether Broughton, in Leicestershire. The Church has a nave, side aisles, and a low tower with three bells. The rectory, valued in the King's books at £11. 9s. 4^., is in the patronage of Sir Joseph Radcliffe, of Campsall, in Yorkshire. The Rev. Joseph Burrell is the incumbent, and the Rev. John Wilson the curate. The General Baptists have had a chapel in the village since 1795. The parish feast is on the second Sundav after Old Mi- chaelmas Day. At the west end of the village stands an ancient Cross, and near the rectory-house is u Woundheal Spring" so called from its supposed medicinal virtues. 488 BROUGHTON-SULNEY PARISH. Charities. — In 17^7, Mr. Morris and Mrs. Bley left £15, for which 15s. is paid yearly out of a farm in the parish. The yearly sum of 17s. 8d. is paid by John Brett and John Cross, as the interest of £17. 13s. 4d. left by an unknown donor. The Poor's Close is let for 8 guineas per annum, out of which 6s. each is paid to the parishes of Ab-Kettleby and Hobb, and the residue is distributed with the above-named charities at Christmas, in coal, amongst the poor of BroughtonSulney. BarnettEdw. bobbin net maker Brett Rt. Wheat Sheaf, beer hs Brett Mr. Thos Brown Luke, gent. Brown Wm. joiner Clark John, shoemaker Grice Mr. John, jun. Grice John, wheelwright Grice Rd. shoemaker Harding Jph. grocer Hemsley Jonn, vict. and carrier, Golden Fleece Holmes John, parish clerk Hopkins Fras. brick maker Julian Edw. tailor Scott Wm. butcher Sheffield David, shopkeeper Skerrit John, castrator Turner Wm. Greyhound, beer hs Walker Wm. tailor Wartnaby Mr. Edward Wartnaby Edw. baker Wartnaby Jph. corn miller White Wm. blacksmith Wild Jph. butcher, Fox& Hounds, beer house Wilson Rev. John, curate and bdg. academy, Rectory hs Wright Col. Saml. Broughton cottage FARMERS. Brett John Brett Wm Brett Wm Brown Wm Clark Wm Lodge Crafts Wm Lodge Cross John Cross Thos Cross Thos Day kin John Daykin John Daykin Wm Grice Wm Mills Wm Nichols Peter Lodge Stephenson Saml The Mail every morning to Lon- don, at \ past 7? and to Leeds at 9. Carriers. — Jno. Helmsley, Jno. Holmes, and Jph. Brown, to Nottingham, on Wed. & Sat. at 7 mg. ; and to Melton Mow- bray on Tues. at 7 mg. CAR-COLSTON PARISH. Car-Colston is but a small village and parish, situated 2£ miles N.N.W. of Bingham, and containing- 249 inhabitants, and 1500 acres of strong clay land, of which the Rev. Robt. Lowe is principal owner, lord of the manor, and impropriator. At the Conquest, Coleston was partly ancient demesne, and partly of the fee of Roger de Busli, and passed successively to the Cheyneys, Lovetots, Vauxes, Colstons, Thorotons, Arnalls, Wilioughbys, &c. This village was the residence of Robert Thoroton, M.D., the celebrated author of the History and Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, published in 1677, in which he informs us that he had an estate here on which he built a house for himself. The Church, dedicated to St. Mary, has a handsome tower and four bells, and was appropriated to BINGHAM HUNDRED. 489 Worksop priorj 7 in 1349. In Thoroton's time, the tithes be longed to the Duke of Newcastle, but being charged with £20 yearly to the King, and £4 to the church of Lincoln, they were not then of much value to his Grace. The vicarage is valued in the King's books at £6, Is. 10|d., and the Rev. Ro- bert Ffarmerie is both patron and incumbent. The parish./iarf is on the Sunday after June 15th. In 1616, Gregory Henson bequeathed Sharpe close, (let for £2, 10s.) for the reparation of the church, and Brusmore close, (let for £\A,) for the use of the poor, who have also Alvey close, (let for £2,) purchased with the legacy of John Whalley, in 1735, and £10 in the Newark savings' bank, left in 1737, by Margaret Sherrard* Baker John, shopkeeper & beer- house Clarke John, blacksmith Clarke Thomas, parish clerk Cragg Rd. joiner & beerhouse Cragg Rt. shoemaker Ffarmerie Rev. Robert, vicar Goulson Mrs. Grace Hill Wm. gentleman Huthwaite Wm. gentleman Marriott John, bricklayer Marshall John, shoemaker Palmer John, Shopkeeper Sampey Mrs. Mary Sampey Mrs. Susanna Simpson Eliz. butcher FARMERS. Barker Richd. Hall Matthew Blagg Thomas Matthews Thos. Chittle Ann Wilkinson John Forrest Thos. Carrier to Nottingham. — John Baker, Saturday, and to Newark, Wednesday, 5 morning. CLIPSTONE TOWNSHIP Is in the parish of Plumptre, the rest of which is in tlie hun- dred of Rushcliff. It comprises 800 acres of fine clay land, 82 inhabitants, and 14 houses, forming a small village, seated on a declivity of the Wolds, six miles S.E. of Nottingham. Earl Man vers is owner and lord of the manor, and the following are his tenants, viz. Allcock John, Geo. sen. and Geo. ]uxi. farmers ; and Burgess John, gent, — See Plumptre Par, COLSTON-BASSET PARISH. This village and parish lies on the river Smite, bordering upon Leicestershire, 5 miles S. of Bingham, and contains 387 inhabitants, and about 2500 acres of land, of which 1800 acres belong to the lord of the manor and impropriator, Henry Mar- tin, Esq. Master in Chancery, who purchased it some years ago of Viscount Wentworth, whose ancestors bought it in 1714, of Sir Edward Godling. The other part belongs to Robert Pigou, Esq. of London, and several smaller freeholders. The manor anciently belonged to the family of Basset, and from them passed to the Staffords, Dukes of Buckingham, from whom it descended 2u 490 COLSTON-BASSET PARISH. to various families. The church stands half a mile from the village, and is dedicated to St. Mary. It is a vicarage, valued in the King's books at £8. 7s. 6d., but it has now 19a. 32p. of glebe, and its tithes yield about ^114 per annum. The King is the patron, and the Rev. Joshua Brooke, of Gamston, is the incumbent. The ancient cross in the village was rebuilt in 1831, in commemoration of the coronation of William IV. — The villagers have a tradition, that when the plague raged here in 1604, the inhabitants of Nottingham and Bingham not only refused to permit any articles to be brought from hence to their markets, but "cut off all communication with them whatever." From July to September, the pestilence swept away 83 of the parishioners. The feast is on Whit-Sunday. The hall is a handsome mansion, seated on a gentle eminence near the church, on the north side of the Smite rivulet, and is the seat of Mr. Martin, who pays for the education of 18 free scholars, and supports a Sunday-school. Allison Wm. schoolmaster j Martin Henry, Esq. Master in BonserJohn,baker& parish clerk j Chancery, Colston Hall, and Boyce John, shoemaker London Buxton Rt. vict. & blacksmith Collett Wm. butcher & beerhouse Faulks John, joiner Herrick Wm. shopkeeper Levett Joseph, tailor Marriott George, shoe maker Marriott John, surgeon Marriott Mr. Wm. Newton Thos. shopkeeper Richards John, tailor FARMERS. Brown Thos. Giles Thos. Buxton Wm. Hallam Geo. Crabtree Wm. Innocent Geo. & Thomas Thompson Jph. Crabtree W.jun. Thompson John Franks Thos. cotgrave parish. Cotgra ve, or as it was anciently called, Godegrave, is a large pleasant village and parish, under the north side of the Wolds, 6 miles S.E. of Nottingham. It contains 140 houses, 842 in- habitants, and about 4000 acres of land, of which Earl Manvers is sole proprietor and lord of the manor, except 555 acres, which were allotted to the rector in lieu of tithes, at the enclo- sure about 40 years ago. The high grounds on each side of the village contain an abundance of blue marl, intermixed with layers of red clay. After the Conquest, this manor was given in fee to Roger Pictavensis and Rad. de Burun, whose de- scendants gave it to the priories at Lenton and Swineshead, with which it remained till Henry VIII. granted it to Harold RoselandGeo. Pierrepont, Esqs. ; to the latter of whom he also gave the advowson of the rectory, which was then in two moieties, valued in the King's books at <£10. 7s. 3£d. and £9. 14s. 9Jd., but it is now consolidated in the patronage of Eari Manvers, and incumbency of the Rev. John Henry Browne. — BINGHAM HUNDRED 4$ I The church, dedicated to All Saints, has a nave, chancel, side aisles, and a tower containing" five bells, and crowned by a handsome octagonal spire. Agnes Cross, in 1722, left oOs. yearly to the poor of this parish, out of Brackenhurst farm, near Southwell. The parish school and master's house were built in 1752, by subscription, except £60, which was part of a legacy of .£120 left by a benevolent lady, and of which £60 still remains as the school fund. The annual feast is ruled by All Saints' Day, being held on that day if it falls on a Sunday, but if it falls on a Monday, the feast is kept on the preceding- day; and if on any other day, the Sunday following is the festival. Stragglethorp is a hamlet of four farms, near the Grantham canal, at the east end of the parish, \\ mile E. of the village. — Cotgrave Place, 1 mile N. of the village, is the handsome mansion of Robert Burgess, Esq. Archer Edw. baker & flour dlr. Archer John, vict. Black Lion Baguley John, butcher Baguley Saml. vict. Five Bells Barlow Rt. veterinary surgeon Browne Rev. John Henry, rector Brown Thos. schoolmaster Burgess Rt. Esq. agent to Earl Manvers, Cotgrave Place Cooper John, shopkeeper Cowlishaw John, blacksmith Davenport John, gardener Disney John, shopkeeper Dixon John, butcher Dixon Mrs. Mary Hickling Geo. corn miller Hill Wm. brickmaker Lewin Wm. joiner Marriott George, gentleman Mensing Wm. tailor Morley John, blacksmith Ogle Thomas, bricklayer Parker Wm. bricklayer Parr George, gamekeeper Peet Thomas, shoemaker Richards Samuel, coal merchant, (and Nottingham) Scottorn Wm. saddler & tawer Simpson Samuel, tailor Stafford Joseph, shoemaker Timm Samuel, wheelwright Timm Wm. shoemaker Upton Wm. butcher FARMERS. Bagulev Chas, Morris Catk. Barlow Robert Clater Henry Hoe Thomas Holmes Wm. Lewin John Mann Joshua Morlev John Morris Samue- Morris Wm. Parr Jonathan Rayner Richard Smith Thomas Tnornton Jane CARRrER TO NoTTr^tiUAM. — Upton Samuel, Sat. dep. 7 mg. OROPWELL-BISHOP PARISH. Cropwell-Bishop is an indifferently built village, upon a gentle declivity on the east side of the Grantham canal, 1 mile S. of Cropwell Butler, and 4 miles S. E. of Bingham. Its pa- rish contains 4J3 inhabitants, and about 1500 acres of strong clay land, nearly all of which belongs to the two prebendaries of Oxton, in Southwell collegiate church, who let it on renewable leases for the term of three lives, but the Duke of Newcastle is 492 CROP WELL-BISHOP PARISH, lord of the manor, though he does not own an inch of the soil. Sir Robert Clifton, John Hamer, Esq., Wm. Marshall, and John Smith, are the principal lessees. It was anciently called Crophill- Bishop , from the round hill on the north side of the village, and from its being- included in Domesday Book amongst the manors of the Archbishop of York, though it was afterwards given to Southwell church and Lenton priory. Part of the wastes were enclosed in 1788, together with Cropwell-Butler, (each having a right in the Fern field,) and the rest in 1803, when allotments were awarded in lieu of all the tithes. The church is dedicated to St. Giles, and has a tower with four bells. The living is a vicarage, valued in the King's books at £5. 3s. 4d., but it has now about 80 acres of glebe. The Rev. Robert Wood, D. D. of Nottingham, is the incumbent, and the two prebendaries of Oxton are the patrons and appropria- tors. A small Methodist chapel was built here in 1824. The parish feast is on the first Sunday in old September. Gypsum is found on the south side of the parish. The only charity here is £50, left in 1779, by Wm. Fillingham, for the interest to be distributed in bread on. New Year's day. Allcock Mrs. Sarah Brewin Lank, corn miller Brown John, wheelwright Clarke Wm. shopkeeper Cooper Mary, shopkeeper Hopewell George, blacksmith Hopewell Robt. maltster Leavis John, bricklayer Mackley Richard, shoemaker Marshall James, shoemaker Newton John, butcher Pi] king ton Mrs. Mary Richards Jas. wharfinger & vict Riddle Gervas, boat owner Rose Amos, vict. Chequers Simons Thos. shoemaker Simpson John, vict. Wheat Sheaf Smith John, corn miller Smith Richard, lime burner Starbuck Wm. boat owner Thraves Wm. shopkeeper Wheat VVm. vict. and joiner White Edw. plumber & glazier Widdowson John, shoemaker Wilson James, boat owner Wilson Wm. boat owner Woodward Benj. parish clerk Wragsdale Wm. tailor Wright Henry, joiner FARMERS. Brownhill Geo. Slater John Howard Thos. Smith John Shelton Wm. Smith George Carrier to Nottingham, Wm. Clark, Saturday 5 morning. ELTON PARISH Is but of small extent, consisting only of about 1000 acres, and a small village with 91 inhabitants, on the Grantham road, near the verge of the county, 4 miles E. by S. of Bingham. In Saxon times it was called Ayleton, and was afterwards of the fee of Roger de Busli, who gave it to the priory at Blvth, but at the dissolution it was granted to the family of York, from whom it passed to the Lions, Mores, Collins, and Launders, and is now possessed solely by Wm. Fletcher Norton Norton, BINGHAM HUNDRED. 493 Esq., who- resides in the Manor-house, (a large and handsome mansion,) and is patron of the rectory, which is valued in the King's books at £3. Os. od. and is now enjoyed by the Rev. J. Staunton, LL.B. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a small humble edifice, which Thoresby describes as being u dove- house topped." The parish was enclosed in 1803, when land was allotted in lieu of all the tithes. In 1780, the parish clerk found, whilst digging a grave in the church-yard, upwards of 200 silver pennies, of the reign of Henry II., and on taking them to Mrs. Collin, then lady of the manor, his honesty was rewarded with a present of £]0. In 1784, a blacksmith in Elton purchased a piece of rusty iron, about 2 feet long and 1J inches in diameter, apparently solid, and which had beed used as a pestle upwards of 60 years. Having some doubts about its solidity he put it into his fire, when it exploded with great force, and a musket ball from within it grazed his side, and lodged in some coals behind him. This surprising accident led to further examination and enquiry, when it was discovered to have been a gun barrel, dug up in the year 1723, but so completely filled with earth and rust, that no cavity had ever, till then, been noticed. The feast is on the Sunday after Old Michaelmas day. Norton W. F. X., Esq. Manor hs 1 FARMERS. Branston Rd.vict. Norton's Arms Burrows John Marshall Thos. Clay Rt. parish clerk Greatrix Abm. brick maker Gilding Thos. Ridge David HawkinJtn. Watts John FLINTHAM PARISH. Plinth AM is a pleasant and well-built village, 6j miles S.W. by S. of Newark, including within its- parish 545 inhabi- tants, and 2101 acres of rich loamy land, which was enclosed about the year 17^0, when 172 acres were allotted to the viear, and about 300 acres to Trinity College, in lieu of the tithes, exclusive of 165 acres which had previously belonged to the said College. The rest of the parish belongs mostly to Mrs. Hildyard, whose son and heir, Thomas Hildyard, Esq., is a minor ; but the Duke of Newcastle is lord of the manor, which he holds in fee of the King's Duchy of Lancaster, together with several others in this neighbourhood. His Grace has no land here except 6 acres allotted to him at the enclosure. Flint- ham Hall, which has been successively the seat of the Hus- seys, Hackers, Woodhouses, Disneys, Fvtches, and Thorotons, is now the residence of Mrs. Hildyard, relict of the late Col. Thomas Blackburn Hildyard, and heiress of the late Colonel Thoroton, who w T as a descendant of Dr. Thoroton, the to- pographer. It is a handsome modern edifice, erected on Fe of the ancient mansion. It owei of its on 2u2 494 F1NTHAM PARISH. beauties to the late Col. Hildyard, who rebuilt the whole of the church except the chancel, in 1827-8, at the cost of £1100,. exclusive of the carriage of the materials, for which the farmers made no charge. The chancel would also have been re-edified, had not death put a period to the Colonel's pious intentions on the 30th of July, 1830. It has a tower and four bells, and is dedicated to St. A ugustin. The patronage and appropriation belong to Trinity College, Cambridge- The vicarage, which is- . valued in the King's books at £6. 2s. 6d., has had several aug- mentations from Queen Anne's Bounty, and is now in the in- cumbency of the Rev. Charles John Myers, M.A. Laird says, (1811,) " A former incumbent of this parish was an odd cha- racter, and saved upwards of <£ 1500 by a most beggarly and pe- nurious mode of life ; he has been known to serve the thatchers to get a penny, and once went to Newark with a letter for the sum of twopence !*' The Methodist chapel was built about 30 years ago, and the parish school in 177$. The latter is en- dowed with 12 acres of land at Caythorpe,let for .£20 per annum, and left in 1727, by Robert Hacker, for the education of 14 free scholars. He also bequeathed 20 acres at Brandon, (let for £30) to the vicar and churchwardens, in trust, that they distribute the rents amongst the poor of the parish at Whit- suntide and Christmas. The poor have also 20s. yearly, left by John Smith, out of two house in Stodman-street, Newark, be- longing to the Duke of Newcastle. The feast is on Whit- Sunday. Rayworth John, blacksmith Richardson Samuel, joiner Rimmington Richard, butcher Smalley Peter, gamekeeper Talbot Joseph, bricklayer Waite James, schoolmaster Webster John, baker & beerhouse Whyman Richard, tanner Wood Joseph, shoemaker Wood Wm. vict. Boot and Shoe FARMERS. Cliffe Wm. Harston Thos. Curtis Fras. Cut- Lings hill Harston Wm. Foster William, Ragsdale Henry Holme Smith Thomas Green John Taylor Frans. Hildyard Mrs. Ann Cath. Flint- ham Hall Bettison Mrs. Ann Bettison Jph. miller & baker Boyle Richard, wood valuer Cliffe Thos. miller and flour dlr Cliffe Thos. & Wm. maltsters Cuckson Jph. tailor & draper Cutton Geo. vict. Black Horse Fletcher Wm. tailor Fryer Samuel, butcher Gardiner Edvv. shopkeeper Hand Thos. parish clerk Harston Richard, gentleman Harvey John, wheelwright Job6on Henry, blacksmith Myers Rev. Chas. John, vicar Parnham John, joiner Pikett John, bricklayer Radford Wm. shoemaker Rag6dale Thos. shopkeeper M.A. Carrier, Thomas Cupit to Newark, Wed. 6 mg. and to Not- tingham, Saturday 4 morning. BINGHAM HUNDRED', 495 GRANBY PARISH. Granby is a well-built village, overlooking the delight- ful vale of Belvoir, 4 miles S.E. of Bingham, and near the borders of Leicestershire ; remarkable for giving the title of Marquis to the Duke of Rutland^ whose ancestor, Sir John Manners, purchased the estate of Lord Viscount Savage, to whom it had been granted by Henry VII., after the attainder of Henry Lord Lovel, whose unhappy and mysterious fate will be noticed under the head of East Stoke. The parish includes the hamlet of Sutton, and contains 320 inhabitants, and 2100 acres of land, which has generally a fertile soil, and is noted for several excellent limestone quarries, and brick and tile yards. The commons were enclosed in 1794, when land was allotted as a commutation of all the tithes of the parish, most of which be- longs to the Duke of Rutland, who is lord of the manor, im- propriator, and patron of the vicarage, which is valued in the King's books at £6. 3s. 6d., and is now enjoyed by the Rev, John Hutton, A.B. The glebe consists of 75 acres. Messrs* Charles Blagden, Matthew Hall, and Thomas Keyworth, have also estates here, and there are in the parish, several small freeholders. The church, dedicated to All Saints, has a tower and five bells. In the village is a small Methodist chapel, and the parish school. The master teaches 24 free scholars for .£27 a-year, of which ^17. 5s. is given by the Duke of Rut- land, and the remainder is raised by subscription. Mr. Mat- thew Hall pays 20s. vearly, as the interest of £25 left in 1816, 1821, and 1824, by Matthew, William, and Henry Hall, to the poor of Granby and Sutton ; and those of the latter hamlet have 8s. yearly as the interest of .£10 left in 1767* by William New- berry. In 1776, Thomas Harrison left £100 to the poor of Granby, but it was lost by the insolvency of his namesake, After the Conquest, Graneby and Sudton were of the fee of the Lords U Ayncourt, and continued their principal seat till the reign of Henry VI., when, their sole heiress married Lord Lovel. Sutton hamlet is 1 mile E. of Granby, and those marked * in the following Directory reside in it. and the rest at Granby, The three public-houses are under the New Beer Act. •Arnold Mrs. Mary Bateman William, tailor Bates John, joiner Bates Wm. butcher Beeson Wm. tailor •Burbage John, shopkeeper Calverley VVm. shoemaker Copley Thos. blacksmith Boubleday Benja,min, shoemaker Hanbery Mrs. Ann Harby George, joiner Hart Samuel, vict. Plough Hickling Ann. vict. Boot & Shoe Hourd Wm. miller and baker Hoyter Mordecni, gamekeeper Hutton Rev. John, A.B, vicar Newbray Miss Mary Piitchit Wm. joiner 490 BINGHAM HUNDRED. Roe Wm. gentleman Slater Wm. shoemaker Smith Thomas, schoolmaster •Wakerley John, lime burner, brick and tile maker, and pre- parer of plaster Watson Jno.vict.Marq. of Granbv FARMERS. Bates Daniel Bonser John •Burrows John Keyworth Thos. Doubleday Rd. *Levers William Goodacre Wm. Marriott John Hall Matthew Pepper James *Hall Wm. • Richards Anty. Carrier, William Pritchet, to Nottingham, Saturday, 5 morng. HAWKSWORTH PARISH. Haw-ksworth, anciently called Hochesword, is a small vil- lage and parish 4 miles N.E. of Bingham, and 8 miles S.S.W. oi Newark. It was of the fee of -Walter D'Ayn court, and partly soc to Aslacton. It now contains 212 inhabitants, and about 800 acres of land, most of which belongs to John Storrer, M.D., who is lord of the manor, and patron of the rectory, which is valued in the King's books at c£8. 13s. 9d i? and is now in the incumbency of the Rev. John Storrer. At the enclosure (in 1761,) 150 acres were allotted in lieu of tithes. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a small building with a brick tower. Thomas Hall, Esq., has 160 acres in the parish. Of the glebe 3a. 20p. are in Scarrington lordship. Askew Wm. tailor Brown Thos. gardener & seedsn. Brown Thos. jun. gardener, &c. Green John, shoemaker Marshall Thos. joiner Mather Thos. blacksmith Storrer .Rev. John, M.A. rector Sumner Benj. tailor & shopkr Wade Wm. gardener & par. clerk. FARMERS. Baxter Thos. Marriott Fras. Clark Edward Oliver John Green Eliz, Walker Wm. HICKLING PARISH. Hickling is a large village on the Grantham canal, at the foot of the Wolds, near the Leicestershire border and the Vale of Belvoir, 12 miles S.E. of Nottingham, and 8 miles S. by W, of Bingham. In 17/1? a farmer, whilst ploughing near the village, found an urn containing about 200 Roman silver coins and medals, most of them " the age of Vespasian." This dis- covery seems to confirm the opinion of Camden, that there has been a Roman station here. The parish is called in Domes- day Book, Echeling and Hegeling, and was partly soc to Crop- well and Granby. It contains 529 inhabitants, and about 3000 acres of strong clay land, which was enclosed in 1777, when 413a. 8p. were allotted in lieu of tithes, in addition to 55 a. 12r. of ancient glebe. About one-fourth of the parish belongs to W. F. Norton Norton, Esq., and one-sixteenth to the two pre< HICKL1NG PARISH. 497 bendaries of Oxton, in Southwell Collegiate Church ; the rest is the property of Messrs. Paul and Robt. Hardy, and other free- holders, but Earl Manvers is the lord paramount. The parish church is dedicated to St. Luke, and has a fine lofty tower with four bells. A stone coffin bearing a Runic inscription, was found some years ago under the chancel. The living" is a rectory valued in the King's books at =£13. 8s. 4d.,and is in the patronage of Queen's College, Cambridge, to which it was given in 16J6, by the widow of Dr. Bardsey. The Rev. Edward Anderson, B.A., is the incumbent. The Methodists have a small chapel here. The school has an endowment of 15s. yearly, left by J, Westby and Robert Mann, to which the parishioners subscribe for the education of 15 poor children. Five small benefactions producing 25s. yearly, have been left to the poor of this parish by Robert and William Mann, Richard Smith, William Mar- riott, and John Faulkes. The River Smite rises on the lofty hills at the west end of the parish, and flows in a north- easterly direction through a rich and winding vale to the river Dean, near Shelton, and is joined here by a smaller stream, called the Dalby. Fossils, chiefly shell fish, are often found here in the limestone. At the rectory-house is a spring of mineral water, each gallon of which contains as follow, viz. Insoluble matter, 0. 30; Vegetable, 0. 25; Common Salt, 4. 83; Sulph, Soda, 12. 38; and Carbonic Soda, 7- 65. — Total, 25. 4h Anderson Rev. Edw. B.A. rector Bampton Mr. Joseph Basilico John, corn factor Chapman Geo. blacksmith Clay Wm. tailor Collishaw Dorothy, wharfinger & coal dealer Corner Septimus, tailor Daft Jph. vict. and wheelwright Daft Mr. Robert Dickman Wm. boat owner Faulks John, joiner Faulks Michael, joiner Hardy Robert, butcher Harvey Wm. tailor Hives Geo. vict. & corn miller Holmes John, boat owner and shopkeeper Holmes Thomas, tailor Hopkinson John, beerhouse Lovett Henry, tailor Mann Mrs. Elizabeth Mann Mrs. Mary Mann Thos, bobbin net maker & shopkeeper Shipman John, boat owner Starbuck John, tailor Sutton Hugh, parish cleik Wheatiey Samuel, boat owner Wright John, mason & beerhouses Wright Mr. William FARMERS. Those marked * reside at the Pastures. •Barnett Jph. *Flewitt Saml. Bell John *Flewitt Wm. Blount Wm. Hardy Paul Clay John Hardy Robert Collishaw Wm. Hives John & John Hopkinson John Collishaw Wm. Maltby Joseph Cross Samuel, March George, Lodge Folly Daft George Mann John *Davies John Mann Mary Davies Richard Parker John Carrier, Rd. Copley, to Not- tingham, Sat. 4 mg. ; and to Melton Mowbray, Tues. 7 mg. 498 BINGHAM HUNDRED HOLME PIERREPONT PARISH Comprises the hamlets of Adbolton, Basingfield, Holme Pierre- pont, and Lamcote, with part of Gamston township, which is mostly in West Bridgeford Parish. It contains 205 inhabi- tants, and 2600 acres of land, stretching" southward from the Trent to the Nottingham and Grantham canal. The low grounds near the river have a rich alluvial soil, and the higher parts have a good sandy clay. The whole has long been pos- sessed by the Pierrepont family, from which it has the latter part of its name, and is now the property of Earl Manvers, who inherits the estates of the late Duke of Kingston, whose ances- tor, Henry Pierrepont, obtained this parish in the reign of Edward I. by marrying the heiress of the Maunvers family ', (hence the title of Earl Manvers). — See page 420. Holme Pierrepont village, though small, is rich in rural beauty, occupying a picturesque situation on the south side of the river Trent, 5 miles E. by S. of Nottingham. The farm- houses here and in other parts of the parish are mostly new and handsomely built, and the cottager neat, with small gardens attached to them. Holme Pierrepont House, now occupied by the Dowager Countess Manvers, is still a large and ancient mansion, though much of it has at different periods been taken down. It stands close to the church, and was thoroughly re- paired about 20 years ago, and cased in imitation of stone, forming a very handsome specimen of the gothic of the latter ages. The church, dedicated to St. Edmund, is rich in mural monuments, in altar tombs, and in ancient armorial brasses. Its form is gothic, but in the style of the time of Henry VII., with large and numerous windows, and consisting of a nave, side aisles, and a square tower, surmounted by a handsome lofty spire. The family vault of the late Dukes of Kingston and of Earl Manvers, is on the north side of the choir, with a lofty monument over it, supported by corinthian pillars, and most gloomily ornamented with death's heads, in wreaths, intermixed with fruit and foliage. Its inscription is rather in a superior style of sepulchral bombast, for it informs us that " Here lyeth the Illustrious Princess Gertrude, Countess of Kingston, daughter of Henry Talbot, Esq., son to George, late Earl of Shrewsbury. She was married to the most noble and excellent Earl of Kingston," &c. A very fine altar tomb to the memory of Sir Henry Pierrepont, knt., in 1G15, is on the south side ; he is in armour, and in the usual attitude of prayer. On the sides of the tomb are a son, four daughters, and an infant in swad- dling clothes ; and over it an highly ornamented tablet. Near iit is another, who, by his habit of a pilgrim, seems to have been in the Holy Land ; he has angels playing round his head. Here too is buried, " young Oldha?n y " considered as a poet of con- HOLME PiERREPONT PARISH. 499 siderable merit, and patronized by William, Earl of Kingston, who also wrote the very elegant latin inscription on his monu- ment. The benefice is a rectory, valued in the King's books at £15. 7s. 6d. Earl Manvers is the patron, and the Rev. James Jarvis Cleaver is the incumbent. Adbolton, 2 miles W. of Holme Pierrepont, and 3 miles S. E. byE. of Nottingham, was once a separate parish, though it now consists only of two farms, with two dwellings near the site of its churchy which was taken down in 1746, when its ma- terials were sold for .£12. 7s. 6d., and its communion plate re- moved to Holme Pierrepont, to which its rectory, valued in the King's books at <£2. 13s. 9d., is now annexed. A fine pear tree marks the site of the church, and some of its grave stones form part of the pavement of the adjoining farmstead. The manor of Adbolton was long' held of the honour of Peverel, by the Strelley family ; but in 1598],it was granted by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Henry Pierrepont, and now belongs to his descendant, Earl Manvers. Basingfield is a small village, partly in Gamston township, 4 miles S. E. by E. of Nottingham. Gamston village lies on the canal, nearly one mile W. of Basingfield, and its township extends into the hundred of Rushcliffe, and is partly in the parish of West Bridgeford. It was anciently called Gamelston, and was long held by the family of Lutterell. but was granted by Henry IT. to Robert Pierrepont, to whose descendant, Earl Manvers, it now belongs , Holme-Lane is a hamlet consisting of a good inn and a few dwellings, on the Bingham-road, 4 miles E. S. E. of Nottingham. Lamgote or Lambecoie is another manor, belonging to Earl Manvers, and containing a small part of the village of Radcliffe on Trent, 1 mile E. of Holme Pierrepont. A close at Lambly, now let for £3 a-year, belongs to the poor of Holme Pierrepont parish, as also does <£30, left in 171S, by the Rev. Humphrey Perkins, and <£10, left in 1730, by John Clayton, to the poor of Basingfield and Gamston. Timber that grew upon it was sold some years ago for .£40, now in Smith's bank, at Nottingham. Those marked \, reside at Adbolton; 2, Basingfield ; 3, Gam- ston; 4, Holme-grange ; 5, Holme-lane ; 6, Holme Pietrepont ; 7? Lamcote. 6 Man vers Ann, Bo wager Countess Holme Pierrepont House Cleaver Rev. Jas. G. rector 5 Burrows J. vict. Fox & Crown 2 Foster Stephen, joiner 7 Gee Jonas, tailor 7 Hallam Rt. vict. Red Lion 5 Smallwood Wm. gardener 1 Spencer Jno. gardener & florist 5 Wheatley John, joiner 5 Wheatlev Marv, blacksmith FARMERS. 6 Burgess Jph. 2 Morris Hy. Stubbins 3 Knight Thos. 2 Franks John 3 Milner Cath. 1 Hilton John 2 Parr Ann 4 Lowe John 5 Sand ay Wm. 2 Lowe William 1 Spencer John 500 BINGHAM HUNDRED. KINOULTON PARISH. Kinoulton is a large village and parish, on the Grantham canal, under the eastern declivity of the Wolds, 10£ miles S. E. of Nottingham, and 7 miles S. W. by S. of Bingham, containing 389 inhabitants, and 2950 acres of land, mostly belonging to the lord of the manor, Christopher Henry Neville Noel, Esq. ; but about 260 acres belong to Thomas Black, William Day, and Henry Martin, Esq. ; and 120 acres have been allotted in lieu of the great tithes to the appropriator, the Archbishop of York, who is also patron of the vicarage, which has 14a. 2r. of glebe, and is valued in the King's books at £7. 18s. Lid. The Rev. Thomas Hoe is the incumbent, and collects the small tithes in kind. The village was anciently called Newbold, and was a chapelry to the mother church, which was dedicated to St. Wilford, and stood on a lofty eminence, more than half a mile west of the village, where it was long in ruins, and was taken down about the year 1793, when the Earl of Gainsborough, then lord of the manor, erected the present church nearly in the centre of the village, on or near the site of " the wretched chapel, mentioned and called by Thoroton Newbolt chapel" It is a neat brick structure, with a lofty tower. In the old church-yard only a very few grave-stones now remain, though about three years ago a Mr. Peet was buried there. A large granite stone, which had lain for many ages upon the hill, about half a mile north-east of the old church, was removed about ten years ago into the village. It is supposed to have been part of a Druidical Temple, though a traditional fable says the Devil threw it from Lincoln Minster with the intention of knocking down Kinoulton church! The Wesleyan chapel in the village was built in 1813. A Chalybeate Spring, upon the^hill on the west side of the village, is said to possess considerable medicinal virtues. The parish feast is on the Sunday after St. Luke's day ; and two sick clubs in the village hold their festivals on Whit-Wednesday and Thursday. The manors of Kinoulton and Newbold were of the fees of Walter D'Ayncount and William Peverel, and were successively held by the Villers, Foljambes, Plumptons, Cliftons, Bugges, and Noels, from the -latter of whom they passed to their present lord, C. H. Neville, Esq. who assumed the name of Noel, on succeeding to the estates of Henry Noel, the last Earl of Gainsbrough, who died without issue in 1798. Bailey Thos. schoolmaster Bailey Wm. vict. Volunteer Bonser Wm. sen.&jun. joiners Gardner John, blacksmith Gillman William, tailor hn, rope maker Musson John, joiner Neale John, Barley Mow, beer- house Voce Thomas, farmer Carrier, John Patchett, to Newark, Wed., and Nottingham, Salt, 5 mg. SHELFORD PARISH Consists of two townships, viz. Shelford- with -Newton, and Saxendale, which maintain their poor separately, and contain together 704 inhabitants, and upwards of 3000 acres of land, lying on the south side of the Trent, betwixt Radcliffe and East Bridgeford. Shelford, 6£ miles E. by N. of Nottingham, is a pleasant village, seated on a gentle eminence, which in very great floods is sometimes completely surrounded by the Trent water, as was the case in 1793, though it is distant half a mile from the regular channel of the river, and is backed by a lofty ridge of land to the south. After the Conquest, it was nearly all of the fee of Goisfred de Halselin, whose descendant, Ralph, founded an Austin Priory here in the reign of Stephen, which, at its dissolution in the 29th of Henry VIII., was valued at 510 SHELFORD PARISH. .£116. Is. Id. per annum, and was granted to Michael Stan- hope, Esq, ancestor of the Earl of Chesterfield, who is now sole owner (except half an acre) and lord of the manor of Shelford, which comprises about 2500 acres. The ancient manor house, which was long occupied by the Stanhope family, was burnt down in the civil wars, when the Parliamentarians took it by- storm, after it had long held out for the King, under the com- mand of Colonel Stanhope, (son of the first Earl of Chesterfield,) who was slain in the conflict. Some years after this, the family rebuilt it partly out of its ruins, and it is now occupied by John Hassall, Esq. captain of the Holme troop of Yeomanry. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is a respectable edifice, containing many monuments of the Stanhope family, one of which is to the memory of the accomplished Earl of Chesterfield, who died in 1752, and whose character and writings are too well known to require any encomium here. The tower is massive and lofty, and has a peal of five bells. The living is a perpetual curacy, certified at ^40, and is in the patronage of the Earl of Chesterfield. The Rev. John Rollestone, of Burton Joyce, is the incumbent. The almshouse, near the village, was founded in 1694, by Sir Wm. Stanhope, for six poor men of the parishes of Shelford, Bingham, Carlton-by-Nottingham, Gedling, Burton Joyce, or Whatton, each having a garden, 2s. per week, and a yearly allowance of coal and clothing. Only three almsmen are now admitted, and the rest of the building is occupied by a schoolmaster, who receives ^40 a year from the Earl of Chesterfield, for teaching 30 poor children. The -parish feast is on the first Sunday in July. Newton hamlet is pleasantly situated upon a declivity, \\ mile E. by S. of Shelford, and 2 miles W.N. W. of Bingam. — The manor contains 800 acres, and was all of the fee of Gois- fred de Halselin, except 50 acres, which were soc to Bingham, and still belong to that parish. The whole is now the property of the Earl of Chesterfield, except 25 acres belonging to the poor of Bunny, and 35 belonging to the Rev. John Popplewell and Mr. John A 11 wood, Saxendale hamlet and township has only 118 inhabitants, and 600 acres of land, and is distant 2£ miles S.E. of Shelford, and If mile W. of Bingham, being situated at the junction of the Nottingham and Grantham road with the Roman Fosse- way. The whole, except about five acres belonging to Mr. John Green, is the property of the Earl of Chesterfield. There was formerly a church here, appropriated to Shelford priory, but after the dissolution, Thoroton says, the family of Stanhope " swore it was but a Chapel of Ease" and pulled it down to save the expense of a chaplain. In our author's time, some of the inhabitants had taken up stone coffins, and converted them into troughs for swine. INuH.VM HUNURKD. 511 SKELFORB. Calah John, bricklayer Fisher John, parish clerk Foster Edward, shopkeeper Hassall Capt. John, Manor house Henton Thomas, schoolmaster, Hospital Hill Isaac, btickmaker Ilowett John, joiner and cabinet maker Jackson John, overlooker Trent navigation Julian Wiliam, tailor Loach William, shoemaker Miles Thomas, shoemaker Newcomb John, corn miller, Newton Palethorpe Thomas, butcher Pilgrim John, chief constable for N. Div. of Bingham Hundred Reason John, Robert, and Win. joiners Reason William, blacksmith Towers Thomas, butcher Walker George, shoemaker and shopkeeper Walker Thomas, irardener Watson William, butter dealer Widdowson William, gent. Wood John, overseer and con- stable Wood John, shoemaker Woollev Mr. Joseph FARMERS. Bailey Nath. Julian Eliz. Binks Fras. Marriott Benj Cook Wm. Marshall W. Duckinfield Jn. Palethorpe My Ellis Henry Fisher John Fox John Girton John Jallands John Parks Ann Raven Saml. Swan wick Wm. Tomlin Geo. Whitaker Marv Cahrifrs, John Holland, and Thomas Walker, to Nottingham, Sat. 6 mg. NEWToar. Allwood William, farmer Greaves John, bobbin net mkr Jon^s William, gardener Martin Thomas, farmer Palmer Rev. Philip, Newton Hall Popplewell, Rev. John Parr William, farmer Walker Robert, farmer Wilson Hannah, farmer SAXONDALE.-(FARMERS) Foster John Lamin Wm. Green John Pilgrim John Hemsall G. mole Radford Thos.. catcher and shopkpr Horsepooi Wm. Upton George TITHBY PARISH Consists of the two toivnships of Tiihhy and CropiveU Butler^ the former of which contains 144 inhabitants, and 567a. 1 R, 2Sp. of land, and the latter 555 inhabitants, and about 1800 acres. They maintain their poor separately, but were both en- closed under one act in 1788, when 232 acres were allotted to the impropriator, and 30a. or. 32p. to the incumbent curate in lieu of tithes, and 5a. 3r. 34p. to the Duke of Newcastle, as a -commutation of his manorial claims in Cropwell Butler. Tithby is a small but pleasant village, 2\ miles S. S. W. of Bingham, and after the Conquest was of the fees of XV. Peverel, and Walter D'Ayncourt. For many generations it was the property of the Chaworths, of Wiverton, whose late heiress carried it in marriage to John Musters, Esq. the present lord of the manor, impropriator, and patron of the perpetual curacy, which i^ certified at £\\. 1 Is. Id. and is now in the inoumbencv 512 TITHBY PAHISH. of the Rev. Edward Palling, for whom the Rev. P. H. Palmer officiates. The churchy dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was thoroughly repaired and new pewed in 1824, at the cost of .£900. The /east is on the Sunday after St. Peter's day. Cropwell Butler is a large village and township, 1 mile W. by N. of Tithby, and near the Bingham canal. It was anciently called Crophill BotilZer, from the circular hill, which rises betwixt it and Cropwell Bishop, and from its early posses- sors, the Botillers or Butlers, of Warrington, in Lancashire, from whom part of it passed to the Hutchinsons, who sold the farms to divers freeholders, and the demesne to the Earl of Kingston, to whose descendant, Earl Manvers, it still belongs; but the "Orange" and a large portion of the township is the property of John Musters, and the families of Parr and Mar- riott reside here on their own farms. After the Conquest, it was of the fee of Roger Pictavensis, who gave the chapel y of which no traces now remain, " to the monastery of St. Martin's, at Sais, in France," and from whom the manorial rights of Cropwell Butler, have descended to the Duke of Newcastle. A Metho- dist chapel was built here about 5 years ago. The feast is on the Sunday after Old St.Luke's-day. There are three benefactions belonging to the poor A of the township, viz. — £50 left in 1777 by Mary Fillingham ; ^50 left in 1779, by Win, Fillingham, and £ 100 left in 1813, by John Marriott. The latter is now vested in «£108, new 4 per cents., and the others are in Smith and Co. 's bank, at Nottingham. TITHBY— (FARMERS. &c.) Bates Wm. Paling John Beecroft Thos. Pollard John Beecroft Wm. parish clerk Braithwaite Chs. Rayner William, Crane Jas. shopkeeper Derry Thos. Roberts George Dowell Thos. gamekeeper Harwood Benj. Walker John Hallam John blacksmith CROPWELL BUTLER. Allroyd William, shopkeeper Baguley Mr. Samuel Barratt John, beer-house Barratt Matthew, baker and shopkeeper Carver Thomas, blacksmith Carver William, blacksmith Clark Charles, castrator Clark Jackson, gardener Clark William, gardener Crampton Thomas, tailor and shopkeeper Davis William, shoemaker Doncaster John, brickmaker Huskisson William, tailor Innocent Francis, victualler and maltster Innocent William, butcher Kemp George, shoemaker Kemp Randall, shoemaker Marriott John, victualler, Leather Bottle Newton George, joiner Parr Mrs. Catherine Ray nor Mrs. Martha Smith Rev. Henry Taylor Thomas, wheelwright Tinsley Joseph, brickmaker Widdowson John, shoemaker Widdowson William, blacksmith Wright Thomas, joiner FARMERS. Baldock Jph. Fisher Thomas, Barratt Henry and overseer Barratt John Hopewell John Clark Mary Innocent John Dixon Wm. Marriott Jph. 3LNGHAM HUNDRED. Marriott Win. Raynor Martha Newton Wm. Sax ton Wm, Parr Geo. & Jno.Smitli Thos. Parr John Smith -Wm. Willoughby J. Willoughby' W. Carriers, John Barratt and Richard Marriott, to Notting- ham, Sat. 6 mg. TOLLERTON PARISH. Tollerton is a small picturesque village and parish, upon a pleasant declivity, 4£ miles S. by E. of Nottingham, contain- ing 149 inhabitants, and 1200 acres of land, which was enclosed many years ago, and an allotment made in lieu of the tithes. — In Domesday Book this manor is called Roclaveston, and af- terwards Torlastoiiy and was of the fees of Roger de Busli and Roger Pietavensis. As early as the reign of Edward II. it was possessed by the Barry family, whose heiress, about 1560, car- ried it in marriage to Richard Pendock, from whom is de- scended its present lord an.d owner, Pendoc Neale Barry, Esq. who resides in Tollerton Hall, which was rebuilt about 20 years ago, in imitation of the gothic, with towers, turrets, &e. and with a cloister that communicates with the church. The grounds are very extensive, and have a fine piece of water with a small woody island. The new gateway, and the lodge near it, together with the bridge, assimilate well with the surround- ing scenery. The church is a small ancient structure, dedi- cated to St. Peter. The living is a rectory, valued in the King's books -at £\5, Ds. 4d. P. N. Barry, Esq. is the patron, and the Rev. Edward Smith the incumbent. The .poor have 50s. yearly from the bequest of Agnes Crosse, in 1722. Barry Pindoc -Neale, Esq., Tol- I Partners. lerton Hall Baldock Wm, Russell Smith Rev. Edward, rector | Brice Thos. Thurman — - .. Thurman John, blacksmith Holmes Rd. Wild John Thurman 'W. joiner & wheelwgt ] WHATTON PARISH Includes the two townships of Wharton and Askrcton, which keep their poor separately, and contain together 677 inhabit- ants, and about 3400 acres of land, in the vale of the Smite, where that river is augmented by the Wipling. Whatton village and township is on the south side of the Smite, and on the Grantham road, 3 miles E. by S. of Bingham. It was anciently called Watone, from its watery situation, the J8 BROXTOW HUNDRED. Domesday Book it is called Broculston Wapentac, and most o it is in the Honour of Peverel. (Vide p. 22 & 138.) From an early period it has been partitioned into two divisio?is, under two chief constables or Bailiffs, who gave for their offices or Bailiwicks in the reign of John, fealf a mark (6s. 8d ? ) and in that of Edward I. nine marks ! which was then considered a very extravagant sum, and was much complained of. The Population of Broxtow Hundred has nearly doubled itself during- the last thirty years, in which it has encreased from 35,274 to 66,187 souls/ living i n 28 parishes,, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing the number of per- sons in each in 1801, 1821, and 1831, and the annual value of the lands and buildings, as assessed for the property tax in 3815, Marked thus * are in the North Division. A NN. POPULATION ANN. POPULATIOV VAL. PARISHES. IN 1 VAL. PARISHES. IN £. 1801. 1821. 1831. ! £. 1801. 1821. 1831. *2104 Annesley ") 359 326 335 *1364 Lmby 515 439 352 withFel- V *13,326 Mansfield • • 5,988 7,861 9,426 356 ley ....) 33 71 67 Mansfield ) '•"6276 Arnold • • . 2768 3572 4054 *4527 Wood- > 1,112 1,598 1,859 Attenbo- *) house- • J roughP. / *1883 Nuthall .. 378 485 509 3523 Chilwell ^ 638 823 892 ' *1019 Papple- \ and V ' wick > 709 593 359 2328 Toton-- 3 175 208 202 1532 Newstead J 143 174 159 *5239 Basford 2,124 3,599 6,325 5208 Radford- ••• 2,269 4*806 9,806 4139 Beeston .... 948 1,534 2,530 i *1556 Skegby 416 584 656 3157 Bilborough 307 291 330 ♦2513 Selston 833 1,321 1,580 2444 Bramcote • • 354 441 562 2392 Stapleford. . 748 1,104 1,533 *2116 Bui well 1,585 2,105 2,611 1600 Strelley 250 350 426 1322 Cossal 353 317 341 Sutton-in- x 1707 Eastwood ♦ • 735 1,206 1,395 Ashfield, I 2801 3,943 4,805 8350 Greasley • • 2,968 3,673 4,583 *6976 Hucknall- >■ * 1 Fulwood 1 Extra P. J 12 under-Hu- k '" thwaite ' 510 712 m) *3119 Hucknall \ Toikard J 1,497 1,940 2,200 *2354 Teversall • • 1952 Trowell .... 333 235 416 464 400 402 *3708 Kirkby in \ Ashfield J 1,002 1,420 2,032 2939Wollaton . 838 571 537 8907 Lenton* • • 893 1,240 3,077 112,501 .-Total.... 35,274 43,823 66,187 * Exclusive of 10 debtors in the Peverel Prison at Lenton, in 1831. t The valuation of Fulwood (Extra Parochial) is included with the parish of Sutton-in-Ashfield. Brewhouse-yard, Standard-hill, and Nottingham Castle, are extra-parochial, and in the North Division of Broxtow. (See pages 76 and 123.) MANSFIELD PARISH, At the north end of this Hundred, is about five miles in length and three in breadth, and comprises 4287 a. 3r. 3Gr. qf MAXSFJELD PARISH, 519 enclosed land, and nearly 2,000 acres of the open forest. Its surface is generally a fertile sand, and is picturesquely broken into bill and dale, and watered by the Maun, the Meden, the Flood Dike, (see page 41 5, ) : and several smaller streams. It possesses inexhaustible beds of red and ich He freestone, of which there have long been many extensive quarries ; and amongst its botanical productions may be found that rare plant, the Deadly '- night-Shade. Its population, by the influence of the lace and hosiery manuf pictures, has been encreased since the year 1801, from 5,988 to 9,4215 souls, living in 1889 houses, and consisting of 1,998 families, of whom 1,400 are employed in trade, manu- facture, or handicraft, and 144 in agriculture, and the remain- ing 454 are either engaged in professional pursuits or unem- ployed. According to the census taken in J 831, the number of males is 4,462, and females 4,964, and there were then ii) houses building, and 109 uninhabited, swelling the total num- ber of dwellings to 2,01 7; most of which form the populous town of Mansfield, and the remainder are dispersed in ths Hamlets «£ Dalestorth, Pleasley-Hill, Radmanthivaitc, Moor- haiyh, Penniment Houses* Bleakhills, Oakham, Bury HilL and Littleworth. MANSFIELD, the capital of this parish and of the Hundred of Broxtow, is a very ancient, large, but straggling market town, distant 14 miles N. by W. of Nottingham, 12 miles W.N.YT. of Southwell, ~\2 miles S. bv W. of Worksop. 9 mile^ E.N.E. of Alfreton, 24 miles S.E, of Sheffield, and 139 miles jNT. by W, of London. It stands principally on the north-west bank of the river Maun, from which it has its name, and has diverging from its market-place four streets of considerable length,, which communicate with several shorter streets, and with many courts, lanes, and alleys. From the great age of many of its houses, and the gloomy colour of the stone of which most of them are built, the town has generally a sombre aspect; and until a few years ago, was proverbially " dirty and badly paved," and disgraced by several obstructions in its most public thoroughfares, — the word police being then unknown in the lexicography of its inhabitants ; but in 1823, two Acts of Parliament were obtained, under which it has been well paved and lighted with gas, its principal avenues widened, and such other improvements effected as have raised it to the rank of a clean and commodious town, though it is not very compact, but stretches its long arms on the four roads that converge in the market-place, which has also been considerably improved and enlarged by the removal of the Spittaller's gates, a pile of ancient building, that caused a dangerous contraction in the entrance from the Nottingham road. These improvements have, however, been such a heavy tax upon the inhabitants, that many of the best houses are now unoccupied, but we trust that • the Commissioners will in a short time make a considerable 520 BROXTOW HUNDRED. reduction in the rate, as the projected alterations have nearly all been made, and the work of cleansing and paving" extended to every part of the town. As at Nottingham, the lace and hosiery manufactures (see p. 193) have here been greatly ex- tended during the last thirty years, and the population has in consequence nearly doubled itself. About 400 new houses have been erected here during the last ten years, most of them of stone, from the prolific quarries in the vicinity, and many of them forming large and handsome villas, occupied generally by their owners. The exterior of the Moot- Hall (built in 1752, by Lady Oxford) was re-chiselled in 1831, and the whole so cleansed and beautified as to give it the appearance of a new edifice. The great room (48 feet by 17) is used for Assemblies, and also for County Meetings ; but balls and assemblies are occasionally held at the Bowling Green Lin, The neigh- bouring Magistrates hold a Petty Session on every alternate Thursday, at the Swan Inn, where there is a subscription Neivs Room, well supplied with London and country papers, &c. The other sources of amusement are the Theatre, a small building in Mr. McLellan's yard, in Church-street ; the Har- monic Society, which was established about 50 years ago, at the Nag's Head, where it meets every Thursday evening, has an annual concert, and is supported by about seventy subscribers ; and the four Circulating Libraries, one of which, at Mr. CoU linson's, is the property of a number of subscribers, and was established about four years ago. Those who wish for the salubrious exercise of immersion, may be accommodated at the Cold Bath, which occupies a picturesque situation, and is ap- proached by a short and pleasant walk from Leeming- street,, above the Rock Valley; indeed, the walks on every side of the town afford a pleasing variety of scenery, in which may be seen the wild forest heath, bordering upon the highly cultivated inclosures, the winding streams of the Maun and the Flood Dike ; the stupendous Railway Bridge, (vide p. 54) ; numerous stone quarries ; and several extensive cotton mills, with their capacious dams of crystal water, reflecting the buildings and the adjacent hills. At the top of Ratcliffegate the tourist will find many of those domestic excavations in the rocks, where the modern Troglodytes have their huts, and even their gardens formed in the bosom of the steril stone ; and in some parts the incautious visitor may run the risk of stepping down a chimney. The Market is held on Thursday, and is well supplied with corn and provisions, the former of which is sold by sample. Fairs are held on July 10th, and on the 2nd Thursday in Oc- tober, for horses, cattle, and sheep, and the latter is also a con- siderable mart for cheese. A cattle and sheep market is now held on the 2nd Thursday in every month, and a hiring for servants on the 1st or 2nd Thursday in November, as fixed by MANSFIELD* 521 the chief constable. The Races, held on the 11th and 12th of July, are rising into considerable repute, being now supported by the liberal contributions of the Duke of Portland, the neigh- bouring gentry, and the representatives of the county. The Course is on the forest, near Sherwood Hall, a large sequestered mansion, with extensive and tasteful pleasure grounds, now belonging to that veteran of the turf, Thomas Holdsworth, Esq. the great cotton spinner of Manchester, who occupies it as his racing establishment, under the superintend- ence of Mr. Wm. Beresford. Trade. — The seven large cotton mills in the vicinity of the town, give employment to upwards of 700 of the inhabitants, indeed, one of them alone employs about 160 individuals, and has no fewer than 2,400 spindles, with the necessary carding and roving machinery. Here are also upwards of 700 stocking frames employed in making silk and cotton hosiery, and several hundred bobbin net machines, each employing one or two bands* The town likewise derives much of its wealth from the malting and stone trades ; and William Brodhurst, Esq. of Gilc/xft House, within the boundaries of the town, is said to be the largest maltster in England. Here are also several corn mills, three iron foundries, two tan yards, a coarse pottery, a brush manufactory, a mustard mill, and several fellmongers, wood turners, machine makers, millwrights, nail makers, hat manu- facturers, dyers, bleachers, &c. &c. Two late ingenious mechanics of this town deserve a notice in its history, viz.— John Rogers, who made great improvements in the double point net machine, and James Murray who invented the circular saiu, for which his employer, Mr. Brown, obtained a patent. Ancient History. — There is no doubt that Mansfield is justified in boasting a very early antiquity; but tfre story that the Counts of Mansfield, in Germany, came here to attend at the tournament of King Arthur's Round Table, and gave their name to it, is considered as a mere fable. It was anciently called Maunsfield, and no doubt had that name from the river Maun, which rises near Annessley, and flows round tms south and east side of the town. That it was a British, and after- wards a Roman Station, is generally believed ; indeed its latter occupancy is proved by the discovery of many Roman coins of Vespasian, Constantine, Marcus Aurelius, and others of the lower empire; by the exploratory camps, which are numerous in its vicinity; and particularly by the discovery of a Roman villa, near Mansfield Woodhouse. (See p. 18.) During the Saxon Heptarchy, Mansfield appears to have been a favourite, though only temporary, residence of the Mercian Kings, in consequence of its central situation in Sherwood forest, then well supplied with beasts of chase. In the time of Edward the Confessor, it was royal demesne, and was continued as such by William the Conqueror, and by his son, William Rufus, whose 522 MANSFIEBD. fondness for forests hastened his death, being accidentally shot By an arrow, in the New Forest, near London. The latter monarch gave the church of Mansfield and all its possessions to Lincoln Cathedral. The manor was granted by King Stephen to Ranulph de Gernon, Earl of Chester; but that line ending in co-heiresses, it was regranted by Henry III. to the Hastings, and to John Comyn, Earl of Buchan, previous to which it had been a favourite resort of the Norman Sovereigns. The well- known story of Henry II. and the Miller of Mansfield^ (see p* 36) it is unnecessary to repeat, though we suspect the event (if it ever did happen) to have taken place at a much later period, at least the rhyming tale preserved by Percy in his Reliques is of much latter composition, and so replete with uncouth in- decency, that we are surprised even a fondness for antiquity could have induced the learned bishop to insert it in his in- teresting miscellany. The inhabitants, however, still consider the honour of the town connected with the antiquity of the story; and tradition says, that the King's mill and the house, which are situated nearly a mile and a half from the town, in the deep glen that is crossed by the Railway bridge or viaduct, were built on the site of the house and mill where the King was en- tertained. The miller's house stood partly in the parish of Sutton, but has just been rebuilt, and is now wholly in the parish of Mansfield. In the reign of John, the inhabitants paid 15 marks to the crown for the right of common in Clipston Park, as they were wont to do before its enclosure ; and by paying five marks to Henry VIII. they obtained a charter for a weekly market on Monday, and the privilege of having House- boat and Hayboaf, m the forest of Sherwood. In the time of Edward III. they had common pasturage in a place called Woodhouse Wood. Richard II., in 1377» granted them a fair on the feast of St. Peter. Henry VIII. granted this manor to the Earl of Surrey r for his gallant conduct at Floddenfield ; but the King afterwards gave him some other lands in exchange for it ; after which it went to the then Dukes of Newcastle, who from hence took the title of Viscount Mansfield* From them it passed by descent to the Portland family, and its present lord, the Duke of Portland, (see p. 451 ) generously allows the resident gentry to kill and preserve the game, for which purpose they employ two keepers. The Manor Castoms of Mansfield are curious in many instances ; and it is recorded in an old forest book that the • The title of Viscount Mansfield became extinct on the death of the last Duke of Newcastle, of the Cavendish family, in 1691. (Vide p. 467.) William Murray, 4th son of Viscount Stormont, in Scotland, was created Earl of Manb- field, in 1776, and that title is now borne by his descendant, Win. Murray, the present J£arl of Mansfield, Viscount Stormont, in Scotland, and Lord Lieutenant of Clacmannanshire, MANSFIKLD. 523 " Tenaunt9 be fre of blode and lefully may raarye them after ther willes as well men as women. That the eyres (heirs) as so n e as they bene borne byn of full age. That lands are de- partabil, betwex sonnes; or doughters if ther be no sonne ;" — this seems a remnant of the old Saxon custom of Gavelkind, A Court, Baron is held once in three weeks, and a Court Leet f or great court, twice a year, within a few days after Michaelmas and Lady-Day. At these courts all the copyholders owe suit and service, and they each pay 6d. yearly for their respective copyholds, be they small or large, The jury of the half yearly courts meet at the Moot- Hall, and dine at the Swan Inn. The Swainmote Court, for the forest of Sherwood, used to be held here, but all that now remains of the custom is an annual feast, on Holyrood Day, (See p. 41.) The jury for that part of the forest within the manor, is appointed at the Court Leet. The boundaries of the parish are perambulated yearly on Rogation Monday, by the vicar and other parishioners. According to © memorandum, dated L642, " they begin at Ransdale nook, take in the Straight-hill, pass along Packman's-gate, and by the side of Lyndhurst to Lincolndale ; cross the Nottingham road, going by the side of Sutton field, and encompassing the New field, whence they return through the Westfield lane." Thos. Walkden, Esq., of Ratcliffegate, is Steward of the Duke of Portland's manors of Mansfield, Bolsover, Clipstone, and Sut- ton- cum- Lound ; and also Surrogate for proving wills, and granting administrations within the dean of Lincoln's Rectorial Court, of Mansfield, which extends its jurisdiction over the whole manor and parish. At the Domesday Survey, the King's great manor of Mansfield included Woodhouse and the Berues, or hamlets of Sutton and Skegby, and had soc in many of the manors in the Hundred of Bassetlaw. The lascivious Queen Isabella, in the reign of her son, Edward III., (see p. 84) claimed in this royal manor, " view of frank pledge, and emen- dation of the assize of bread, and ale broken, pillory, tumbrell, gallows, wick, weyf, and a market every Thursday." Many large patches of the forest land have been taken into cultivation by persons who pay a trifling annual rent per acre to the lord of the manor ; but by arecent regulation, no person is now allowed to enclose more than one acre. Several poor families have built themselves houses upon their little plots, and now pro- duce an abundance of potatoes and vegetables, both for their own tables and for the market; the soil being a deep sand, >well suited for the growth of roots, &c. The parish church, dedicated to St. Peter, stands near the Maun, at the foot of the street to which it gives name. Though but a low edifice, it is large and commodious, having a middle and two side aisles, and being 93 feet in length, and 63 feet in breadth. It is in the later gothic style, and was partly burnt -521 MAKS FIELD. down in 1304,* along with many of the adjacent houses, but was soon afterwards re-edified, and is now in good preservation. Its body is supported by handsome pillars ; over each side aisle there is a spacious gallery; and at the west end a fine-toned organ of 14 stops, which was erected in 1795, at the expence of g()0 guineas. In the preceding year, the inhabitants, by pay- ing £15. 16s. 3d., obtained the archbishop's license not only to erect this organ, but also to build the new gallery over the south aisle, to remove the pulpit to its present situation, and to convert a private pew into a churching one, &c. Several other faculties have been obtained for the erection of other lofts, and copies of them, as well as a copious abstract of the numerous charities belonging to the parish, have recently been written upon the 27 pannels in the fronts of the galleries. The whole was thoroughly cleansed and beautified in 1831, when a new gal- lery for the Sunday scholars was raised on the site of the an- cient and decayed oak pews under the north aisle. The tower is surmounted by a small spire, 44 yards in height, and contains eight tuneable bells, cast betwixt the years 1610 and 1726. A set of musical chimes, purchased in 1762, play upon the bells at the hours of four, nine v and twelve. In the windows are some remains of painted glass, and in the aisles are many mural monuments of stone, and some brass plates, both inscribed and armorial. In a list of the church property, dated 1634, we find u a desk to which was chained the book of martyrs." The living is a vicarage, valued in the King's books at £T. 7s. 6d., and is now enjoyed by the Rev. Thomas Leeson Cursham, J). C. L. The Dean of Lincoln is the patron and appropriator, and receives in lieu of the rectorial tithes a composition of 8s. per acre from all the enclosed land in the parish. There were anciently in the church ten chantries. Hid behind a pew lies the effigy of Lady Cecily Flogan, who lived in an ancient house in Church-street, now the White Hart Inn, and bequeathed in 1521, that house and many other tenements, &c. to the church, for a priest to sing mass for her soul, and those of her family. Philip and Mary granted all the possessions of these chantries, and the property left by Lady Flogan, to the vicar and church- wardens, in trust that they should find a chaplain to celebrate divine service for ever. This property has long been intermixed with other lands and tenements left for the support of the grammar school, and the whole now produces upwards of .£300 a-year, of which frds are paid to the vicar; and the master has frds of the remainder, and the usher Jrd. Two small portions of land, left by Lady Flogan, were, pursuant to * FrRES.— Mansfield appears to have been visited by two other conflagrations, for Harrod says, in 1546, " Coll. Davy wilfully set the town on fire, whereby was burned 131 bays of buildings, and she was hanged at the next assizes, at Notting- ham foi it." And in 1581, " there was a casual fire in Stockwellgate, wherebywa* burned 150 bavs of houses and old Dunstan's wife." MA N€ Fl telfr. * 625 her will, held by tenants, who in stead of paying rent kept a bull and boar for the use of the parish. The Rev. Geo* Heaton is the cur ate ^ John Mark Sellors, the parish clerk ; Joseph Webster, the organist ; and George Revill, the sexton. Chapels.— There are in the town six dissenting places of worship, which are generally neat and commodious, and nu- merously attended. The Unitarian chapel is an ancient stone building, approached by a long narrow passage from Stock well- gate. It is now under the ministry of the Rev. John Williams, and has a library of 200 volume's. The Independent chapel, built in 1795, and enlarged in 1829, has a burial ground, and a Sunday school with 200 scholars. The Rev. Robert Weaver is the pastor. The Quaker's meeting house is a plain stone fabric, erected about forty years ago, in a retired situation, at the head of Chapel-alley. Its burial ground is partly cultivated as a flower garden, and its congregation is numerous and respect able. The Baptist chapel, in Stockwellgate, was purchased some years ago, of Mr. Brodhurst, and the Rev. Joseph Austin is now its minister. The Wesleyan Methodist chapel occupies an elevated site, at the foot of Ratcliffegate, and was originally a large family mansion, in which it is said the ac- complished Earl of Chesterfield was born, but which was pur- chased in 1812, by the Methodists, who pulled down the centre part of the building, and built upon its site the present spacious chapel, leaving the wings standing for the residence of the two ministers. The Primitive Methodists have a small chapel in Union-street, which they have occupied about 8 years. The Gas Works are situated at Limetree-place, close to the river Maun, and were built under the powers of an act of Parlia- ment, passed in 1823. The whole is judiciously planned. The condensing pipes are laid in the bed of the river, and the gas engendered here is as pure as that of any town in the kingdom. The total cost of the works was about £5000, raised in shares of £27. 10s. each. The gasometer will hold 18,000 cubic feet. Considering the price of coal at Mansfield, the charge to the consumers of gas is very moderate, being only at the rate of 10s. per 1000 cubic feet, subject to # discount of 5 percent, on all sums from £5 to <£10 ; of 20 per cent, on those from ,£10 to £20, and of 20 per cent, on those above £20. Mr. Stephen Simpson is the manager and engineer. The works were finished in 1824, and the town was first lit with their lucid vapour on the 10th of July, in that year. The town has no public water-works, but is well supplied with springs and pumps. Four fire engines for the use of the inhabitants, are stationed in a building in Toothill-lane, erected in 1815. The Railway from Pinxton to Portland wharf, at Mansfield, ig already noticed in the general history of the county, at pages 54 and 55. Charities. — Ample provision is made here for the education 2 z 526 MANSFIELD, and relief of the poor, there being in the town three endowed schools, several Sunday-schools conducted by gratuitous teach- ers, many benefactions left for the periodical relief of the in- digent, and several benevolent societies, to which the prin- cipal inhabitants subscribe liberally. The commissioners appointed by Parliament to enquire into the state of public charities in England, I R EC T© RY* Fiddler Jph. Stockwellgate Harvey Wm. Newgate lane Hudson Jas. Westgate Hutchinson Thos. Portland sqr Humphreys Fras. White Bear In Maltby John, Club row Marsh Rd. Nag's Head yard Mossmann Thos. Church st Parnham Wm. Back In. E. Poe Thos. Sutton road Sadler Jas. Rock court Scott Jph. Ratcliffgate •Simpson John, Union street Sneath Jas. & Son, Stock wellgt Spencer Hy. Ratcliffgate Watson Wm. Chapel court Wightman Wm. Littleworth Wilkey Saml. Union street Worthington Isaac, Market place BOOKSELLERS. PRINTERS, PAPERHANGERS, &c. See also Libraries. Collinson Rt. (and sub. dis. of stamps) Westgate Langley Geo. Market place BOOKSLRS. (PERIODICAL.) Hogarth Thos. Portland square Udall John, Leeming street BOOT & SHOE MAKERS. Backas Joseph, Church st Benton John, Market place Birks John, Westgate Botham Jas. Cockpit Bowering Nichs. Bancroft lane Brailsforth John, Leeming st Bramwell Saml. Westfield lane Brown Geo. Stockwellgate Butler Jas. Stockwellgate Clay Thos. Cockpit Clayton Wm. Pleasley hill Davis Wm. Tooth ill lane ■Frost Geo. Stockwellgate Furniss John, Westgate -GodleyJoph. Ratcliffgate Hancock Geo. Rosemary lane Hibbard Matthw. Baptist hill Hibbard Thos. Church side Hibbard Wm. Sutton road Hill Geo. Wass lane Hobson John, Bridge street Holmes Ezechias, Stanhope st Jones Robert, Westgate 'Liller Asher, Stockwellgate Lindley Thos. Club row Mason Thos. Belviderest Mellors Wm. Pleasley hill Pogmore Saml. Plumber's court Porter Thos. Ratcliffgate Robotham Matthew, Stockwellgt Sadler Thos. Cockpit Scott Isaac, Church street Slaney John, Pleasley hill Towlson Hy. Currier's alley Unwin Geo. Leeming street Ward Stephen, Leeming street Woolhouse Daniel, Market place Wightman Mttw. Leeming st Wood Samuel, Westp-ate BRAZIERS & TINNERS. Bousfield Chas. Westgate Midworth Samuel, Leeming st Nuttall John, Clerkson's alley BRICK & TILE MAKERS. Bromhead Richard, Westgate Lindley Charles, Westgate BRUSH MAKER. Ellis John, Leeming street BUILDERS. See Stonemasons fy Joi?ier$. BUTCHERS. Thus marked f have shops in the Shambles. Allwood Wm. Cockpit Ancliffe Fras. Stockwellgate Beardall Wm. Littleworrh Bucklow Wm. Church street fCook Thos. Westgate fCurtis Sarah, Leeming street fCurtis Samuel, Leeming st Dean Jonas, Church street f Downs Fras. Leeming street Fletcher Hy. Stockwellgate Fletcher John, Belvidere st Goodman John, Bridge street Greenweod Thos. Ratcliffgate f Harrison John, Black's head yd Herret Richard, Church st Jepson Daniel, Westgate Mettham Wm. Church street Moor James, sen. Church street fMoor Jas. jun. Belvidere st Moor John. Leeming street fParsons Hy. Leeming street tRatcliffe Jph. Back lane W Roper Hy. Stockwellgate Ray nor John, Woodhouse road MANSFIELD DIRECTORY. 53J fStorey John, Thompson's alley Walker Edward, Stock wellgate fWightman Wm. Littleworth CABINET MAKERS. See Joiners. CHAIR MAKERS. Lester John, Leeming street Sansom Rd. Stock wellgate Sansora Thos. Rose court CHIMNEY SWEEPERS, &e. Watson Robert, Rockhouses Wheat Geo. King's Head court CHYMISTS & DRUGGISTS. Bunting Edward, (and soda water rafr.) Market place Getbing Wm. Church street Harrop John, Market place Heald John, Stockwellgate Wilson Wm. Stockwellgate COACH MAKERS, &c. Stones & Hervey, Westgate and Nottingham, (Saml. Johnson, - agent) COAL & LIME MERCHNTS. (Pinxton Coal fy Chrich Lime.) Butterley Company, John Wig- ley, agent, Portland W r barf Coke John, Esq. ; Gamal. Moore, agent, Portland Wharf COLLECTORS. Elliott Thos. (rents) Westgate Hurst John, (debts) Listergate Paulson John, (poor rates) Alfred court Platts Jph. (Imp. rate) Leeming street Winter Wm. (land tax) Bk. In.E COLOUR MANUFACTURER. Ellis John (& vinegar) Rock val CONFECTIONERS. Edge Wm. Leeming street Hett John Leo, Leeming street COOPERS. Hickson Thos. Stockwellgate Jefferies John, Plumber's court Moss John, Stockwellgate CORN MERCHANTS. Buss Thos. Currier's alley Shippam Chas. Stockwellarate CORN MILLERS & FLOUR DEALERS. Sec also Bakers. Arlington Wm. King's mill Carding Wm. Pleasley, (Derbs.) Cupid Edw. Woodhouse lane Paulson John, Stockwellgate Pike Wm. Cleikson's alley Reason Thos. Moorhaigh Withers John, Ratcliffgate Speed David, Ratcliffgate COTTON SPINNERS & LACE THREAD MANUFACTRS. Chambers John, Little Matlock Hardwick Richard, Bath mill Hevgate James, Hermitage Ho'dson Wm. & Co. Westgate & Eddingley Hollins, Siddons & Co. (hosiery yarn) Pleasley Works Sneath Jas. & Son, Bleakhills Stanton Chas. (& angola; Bath In Unwin Saml. & Co. Sutton Works Wakefield Fras. & Thomas, Not- tingham road & Bridge st mills CURRIERS, &c. Field Wm. Church street Littlewood Robert, Church st Parker Robert, Stockwellgate Wooding Geo. Leeming street DYERS. Beard Jas. Rock valley Brown John & Co. (& bleachers) Lister lane & Basford Cooper Jph. White Hart yd EATING-HOUSES. Poe Catherine, Cockpit Fisher Chas. Church street Hurt Samuel, Stockwellgate Wright Mary, "Leeming st FARMERS. Atkin John, Derby road Bagshaw Geo. Dalestorth Boaler John, High Oakham Barratt Geo. Nottingham road Dickons Wm. Nottingham rd Duckmanton William, Radmanth- waite Eyre John, Dalestorth Featherstone Win. Bull farm Fletcher Wm. Radroanthwaite Hill Chas. Dalestorth Hardwick Thos. Hill top Hodgkinson Wm. Moorhaigh Hodgkinson Thos. Nottingham rd Hurst Joseph, Ratcliffgate •Jackson Wm. Pennimcnf ho 538 MANSFIELD DIRECTORY. Lindley Geo. Radmanthwaite Lindley Jas. Pleasley hill Marsh Mttw. Penniment houses Millns Wm. Nottingham road Neal Wm. Berry hill Neape John, Dalestorth Parsons John, Pleasley hill Pearce Sampson, Dalestorth Reason Wm. Pleasley hill FELLMONGERS. Bamford David, Bridge street EllisDickinson, (& mustard mfr.) Rock valley FIRE & LIFE OFFICES. Clerical fy Medical Life, George Walkden, Bridge street Guardian, William McLellan, Church street Norwich Union, Robt. Collinson, Westgate Royal Exchange , John Ellis, Stockwellgate FRAMESMITHS. See also Machine Makers and Whitesmiths. Hucknall Jas. Stockwellgate Maltby Wm. Church side Orton Thos. (& valuer) Bel v, st Parker Hy. RatclifFgate Salmon Thos. RatclifFgate Soar Joseph, Portland square FRAMEWORK KNITTERS. Binch James, Westgate Brodley Wm. Club row Bullivant Wm. Bridge street Butler Hephzihah, RatclifFgate Carr George, Bancroft lane Clay Isaac Lovatt, Stockwellgt Corbitt Wm Stockwellgt Crampton Benj. Littleworth Crenidge John, Leeming st Cullumbine Jas. RatclifFgate Dahley James. Baxter hill Goldsby Wm. Stanhope st Green John, Plumber's court Grosvenor Thomas, Rookery Haines Edw. Mount pleasant Haines Maria, Stockwellgate Harvey Wm. Newgate lane Heath John, Toothill lane Horwood John, Bancroft In Hucknall Jae. Stockwellgate Hurst Jas. Bancroft lane Jackson Thomas, Cockpit Kirkwood John, Belvidere st Limb Job, Belvidere st Limb Jph. Queen street Lowe Wm. Bancroft lane Marriott John, Cross Key's yard Marshall Jph. Bancroft lane Newsham John, Union street Orton Thos. Belvidere st Poole John, Pleasley hill Radford Wm. Leeming street Raines Fras. Club square Richards Thos. White Bear In Richardson Thos. RatclifFgate Sansom John, Cockpit Sansom John, Back lane E. Simpson Thos. Plumber's court Simpson John, Union street Simpson Wm. Baptist hill Slack Gilbert, Bancroft lane Slack Geo. Rookery Slaney Zach. Belvidere street Spencer Hy. RatclifFgate Ward Samuel, RatclifFgate Wells Thos. Belvidere st White Thos. Cockpit Wilson Wm. Bancroft lane Wragg John, Newgate lane FURNITURE BROKERS. Cursham Geo. Church street Drury John, Church street* Shipston Eliz. New road GARDENERS, &c. Backas Rd. Stockwellgate Booth Geo. Market place Brailsford John, Stockwellgate Gadsby Thos. Woodhouse rd Green Thos. Westgate Hunter Jeremiah, Stockwellgate Jones Robert, Westgate Neale Kelham, Market place Shippam Geo. Church street White Clay. Cockpit White Samuel, Lemming street GLOVE & BREECHES MKR. Blackmore Geo. Church street GROCERS & TEA DLRS. See also\s/i op keepers . Bagshaw Benj. Stockwellgate Butter worth Wm. Stockwellgt Ellis John, Leeming street Ellis William, (and tobacco mfr/)' Chuich street MANSFIELD DIRECTORY. 539 Nicholson Thos. Westgate Savage Thos. Westgate Shipman Thos. Market place White Thos. Ratcliffgate Wood Joseph, Church street Wragg John, Church st GUN MAKER. Marsh John, Church street HAIR DRESSERS. Bingham Jas. Cockpit Drury John, Church street Greenwood Jph. (and toy dealer) Church street Hinde Thos. Leeming street Hinde Wm. Stockwellgate Jeffries Abhm. Church street Lock wood John, Clerkson's alley Randall John, Westgate Randall Rd. (& toy & fancy whs.) Westgate HAT MANUFACTURERS. Dobb Wm. Market place Holt Wm. Market place Watson John, Church street HOP & SEED MERCHANTS. Bagshaw Benj. Stockwell court Ellis Wm. Church street Shipman Thos. Market place HOSIERY MANUFACTRS. See also Framework Knitters. Foster, Watson, & Co. Crow hill Richardson Thos. Ratcliffgate Siddon & Johnson, Dragon ct INNS & TAVERNS. Admiral Nelson, Wm. Hemsall, Stockwellgate Angel, John Stanley, Westgate Black Boy, George Needham, Stockwellgate Black Bull, Thomas Andrews, Westgate Black Horse, Thos. Eyre, Stock- wellgate Black's Head, Sarah Parker, Market place Black Swan, John Hill, Cockpit Blue Bell, John Gascoine,Church street Blue Boar, Daniel Heald, Stock- wellgate Bowl-in-Hand, Sarah Harvey, Leeming street Brown Cow, John Hurst, Rat- cliffgate Cock, Geo. Dobb, Cockpit Cross Keys, Jph. Smith, Westgt Crown and Anchor, Thos. War- ren, Market place Durham Ox, Jas. Butler, Stock- wellgate Eclipse, Sarah Cadman, Market place Elm Tree, John Francis, Ratclgt George and Dragon Inn, Sarah White, Leeming street Grey Hound, John Reed, Stock- wellgate King & Miller, Saml. Slack, Sut- ton road King's Arms, Thos. Woodhouse, Ratcliffgate King's Head, Edw. Smith Daw- son, Stockwellgate Masons Arms, Joseph Fenton, Leeming street Nags Head, Geo. Page, Westgate New Inn, Jph. Beresford, Westgt Old Dial, Geo. Bowman, Stock- wellgate Old Eclipse, Wm. Blagg, Westgt Old Horse & Jockey,Sarah Leach, Leeming street Peacock, Joseph Chapman, Bel- videre street Pheasant, John Pearson, Chester- field road Portland Arms, Mary Reed,Cock- pit Queen's Head, John Pratts, Queen street Ram Inn, Wm. Shooter, Church street Ram Taveru, John Mellors, Lit- tle worth Rein Deer, Rd. Parked, Hill top Royal Oak, Ntn. Newton, Stock- wellgate Swan Inn, Thos. Morton, Mktpl Three Horse Shoes, John Bali, Stockwellgate Wheat Sheaf, Rt. Bonsall, Stgt Waggon and Coals, Jas. Lindley, Bridge street White Hart, Rd. Fowler, Church street 540 MANSFIELD DIRECTORY. White Lion, Joseph Brailsford, Church street White Swan, Thos. Booth, Pleas- ley hill NEW BEER HOUSES. Bee Hive, Wm. Wragg, Lister In Cross Keys, Rd. Banes, Union st Eight Bells, Rd. Herret, Church street New Inn, J. Naylor, Pleasley hi Nursery House, Rt. Jones,Wood- house road Old Yew Tree, Wm. Worsley, Leeming street Queen Adelaide, Jph. Betts, Stock well gate Red Lion, Jas. Hucknall, Stgt Robin Hood, John Sansom, Rat- clirlgate Rock Houses, John Greenwood .Stag & Pheasant, Geo. Peacock, Toothill Tane Sherwood Inn, Thos. Watkinson, Newgate lane Wm. IV. Wm. Harrington, Sut- ton road IRON& BRASS FOUNDERS. Butterley Iron Works Co. John Wigley, agent, Portland Wharf Hind John, (mfr. of agricultural implements) Portland Foundry Mid worth Saml. (& brass cock mfr.) Leeming street Wakefield and Padley, Sher- wood Foundry IRONMONGERS. Bousfield Charles, (silversmith, &c.) Westgate Green John, Stockwellgate Simes John, Church st JOINERS & CABINETMKRS. Thus §• are also Upholsterers. ^Alsop Peter & Co. Westgate Ash by Rd. Newgate In Cash Wm. Portland sqr Day Wm. Church 6t §M*Lellan Wm. Church st. h. Toothill lane M k Lellan John, Dragon ct Peet John, Bancroft In Pegg Jas. New Rookery Taylor Wm. Westgate Woodhead Jph. Brunt st §White Saml. Stockwellgt Wright Jph. Leeming st LIBRARIES (CIRCULATG.) Drury John, Church st Collinson Robt. (subs.) Westgt Langley Geo. Market pi. Unwin Ann, Bridge st LACE MFRS. & MERTS. See Bobbin Net Mkrs. Foster, Watson, & Co. Crow-hil! LAND SURVEYORS, &c. Marsh John, Belvidere st Sanderson George (valuer, &c.)v Bridge street LIME BURNERS. See Mansfield Woodhouse. Tideswell Saml. Stockwellgt. LINEN & WLN. DRAPERS Andrew John, Market place Brothwell Thomas (& hosier) Moot-hall Ellis John, Stockwellgt Hudson Jas. Westgate lnce Thomas, Market pi Maltby Wm. Market place Worthington Isaac, Market-pr MACHINE MAKERS. Green John(patentroving) Stock- wellgate Marsh Rd. (twist) Nag's head yard Simpson Thos. (spinning) Westgt MALTSTERS. Adlington Wm. King's Mill Beresford Joseph, Westgt Brailsford Job, Bridge st Brodhurst Wm. Esq. Gilcrofths Buss Thos. Currier's Alley Davy Thos. Stockwellgate Dixon Wm. Stanhope street Featherstone Wm. Back lane W Flower Dd. Thompson's Alley Foster Wm. Stockwellgate Freeman John, Lime Tree place Howett John, Back lane^ W Snml. Jackson, Rose court Jepson Daniel, Westgate Jepson Wm. Westg. & Rowthorn Lindley Jas. & Wm. Stone-hill Newton Danl. Stockwellgate Booth Joseph, Westgate WaHiss Hphy. Church street Watson Jas. West-hill MANSFIELD DIRECTORY* 541 MILLINERS & DRESS MKRS. Allcroft Hanh. Bridge street Berridge Ann. Belvidere street Binch Ann, Westgate Clark Eliz. Bridge street Dickon Ann, Leeming street Hardstaff Ann, Belvidere street Jackson Caroline, Church street Lester Eliz. (& tea dlr.) Back- lane W Locke Eliz. Stockwellgate Mosley Eliz. Lister lane Pierrepoint Sarah, Church st Robinson Sar. Leeming street Taylor A. & M. Westgate Unwin M. & A. Leeming street Unwin Ann, Belvidere street MILLWRIGHTS. Jamison John, Stanhope street Kirkland Thos. (engineer, &c.) Westgate NAIL MAKERS. Bousfield Chas. Westgate Evans Moses, Ratcliffgate Green John, Stockwellgate Snape Chas. Wass lane Walker John, Cockpit NEEDLE, PUSHR.&c. MKRS. Bartram, Wm. Sutton road Booth John, Stockwellgate Jackson James, Stanhope st Neal Wm. Toothili lane Taylor Wm. Bridge street Vickers John, Union street Wass Geo. Bancroft lane Wass, Wm. Stockwellgate PAINTERS, STAINERS, AND GILDERS. Frost Reynolds, Leeming st Heane Wm. Leeming street Moss Jph. Rock court Sheppard Thos. Stockwellgate Wright John, Leeming street PATTEN MAKERS, Snape Chas. Wass lane Walker John, Cockpit PAWNBROKER. Gresham Robt. (silversmith and clothes broker,) Stockwellgate PLASTERERS & STAINERS. H oil is John, Thompson's alley Linfoot Robt. Cockpit Lockwood Wm. Portland bldgs Vallance Geo. Westgate PLUMBERS & GLAZIERS. Elsam Rd. Back lane W Mason Wm. Leeming street Midworth Saml. jun. Leeming st Place Rd. Stockwellgate PORTER DEALERS. Ellis Wm. Church street Shipman Thos. Market place Yates John, Stockwellgate RAG DEALERS. Shipman Robt. Stockwellgate Shipston Wm. Meeting hs* In ROPE & TWINE MAKERS: Wilkinson J as. Church street Wood John, Leeming street SADDLERS, &c. Fowler Rd. Church street Jackson John, Leeming street Merriman Thos. Stockwellgate Palmer John, Church street SHOPKEEPERS. (Dealers in Grocery, Flour, fyc.) Allen Timothy, Leeming street Ashby Rd. Newgate lane Backas Rd. Stockwellgate Beardall John, Stockwellgate Bishop John, Newgate lane Blvthe Richard, Westgate Chappel Thos. White Bear In Boyle Hannah, Baker's court Clifton Henry, Westgate Co-operative Stores, Wm. Tay- lor, Westgate, and Wm. Bust; Ratcliffgate Cooke Wm. Leeming street Cutts John, Leeming street Ellers Eliz. Ratcliffgate Goose Ann, Thompson's alley Green Thos. Westgate Herrett Jph. Back lane W Hodgkinson Saml. Sutton road Jeffries Job, Westgate Jepson Saml. Cockpit Pearson Thos. Pleasley hill Radford Wm. Leeming street Reed John, Union street Sansom Hy. Back lane E Sansom John, Cockpit Shipman Robt. Stockwellgate Simpson Thos. Westgate Thacker Wm. Church street Ward John, Westgate 3a2 $i2 MANSFIELD DIRECTORY. White Ann, Westgate Wilson Thos. Chesterfield road Winter Martha, Cockpit Witham Jph. Belvidere street Yates John, Stockwellgate SINKER MAKERS. Hickman fm, (& bobbin & car- riages) Stockwellgate Holland Saml. Bridge street Holmes Geo. Stanhope street Jackson Wm. Keh*s* bldgs STONE MASONS & QUARRY OWNERS. Marked thus • only Masons. Bingham Wm. jun. Cockpit Bromhead Rd. Westgate Buckles Anthony, Cockpit Hallam John, Pleasley hill Hopewell John, Quarry lane Lindley Chas. Westgate •Lindley Jas. & Jph. Bridge st •Millott Jas. Stockwellgate •Sharp Fras. Windmill lane Thrall Chas. Bridge street Thrall Benj. Ratcliffgate STRAW HAT MAKERS. Clark Sus. Leemington street Jackson Mary, Church street Jeffries Rebecca, Leeming st Carnell Clem. Westgate Locke Eliz. Stockwellgate Hardisty Mary, Lister lane Mossman Thos. Church street Raynor Frances, Ratcliffgate Taylor A. & M. Westgate Unwin Ann, Bridge street Webster Mary, Church street SURGEONS. Barker Robt. Leeming street Cooper Nathan, Westgate Furniss and Paulson, Westgate Furniss Martin, Westgate Hulme John, M. D. Westgate Hurt Saml. Westgate Paulson Wm. Hevwood, Westg TAILORS. Allen Thos. Windmill lane Aslin Wm. Stockwellgate Baggaley Wm. Stockwellgt Baker John, Westgate Banes Rd. Union street Farnsworth Wm. Black's Hd. yd Hobson Wm. Leeming street Hopewell James, Westgate Hopewell Jas. jun.. Churchside Leaver Saml. Mount pleasant Lee Wm. (& cleaner) Cockpit Marriott Geo. (furrier & rabbit mert. ) Rateli ffgate Merrill Saml. Pleasley hill Stanhope John, Bancroft lane Watson John, Queen street West Jph. Leeming street White Geo. Stockwellgate Witham Geo. Ratcliffgate Woolley John, Black's Head yd Woolley Thos. Back lane W TALLOW CHANDLERS. Ellis Wm. Church st Shipman Thos. Market place TANNERS. Girdler Rd. Littleworth Lowe Wm. Church st TURNERS IN WOOD. Birks Bingley, (brush head & han- dles, bobbins, &c.) Littlewortfe Lester John, Leeming st Simpson Thos. Westgate Wightman Jas. (bobbins, &c.) Rock valley VETERINARY SURGEONS. Reynolds Rd. Leeming st Stanley John, (and cow leech,) Westgate WATCH & CLOCK MKRS, Chew Walter, Westgate Platts John, Leeming st Simpkins Wm. Church st WHEELWRIGHTS. Fox John, Pleasley hill Gabbitass Jph. New road May Thos. Cockpit Robinson Jph. Cockpit Smith John, Back lane, E Woodhead Geo. Stockwellgt Woodhouse Thos. Ratcliffgt WHITESMITHS, &c. Baxter Geo. Westgate mill, h* Union st Bousfield Chas. Westgate Green John, Stockwellgate Marsh Rd. Nag's Head yd Simes John, Church st Vickers Saml. Wass lane WINE & SPIRIT MERTS. Bagshaw Benj. Stockwellgt MANSFIELD DIRECTORY e 543 Ellis Wm. Church st Nicholson Thos. Westgt Rolfe Jph. Queen street Savage Thos. Westgate WOOL STAPLER. Corbitt Wm. (& worsted dlr.) Stockwellgate COACHES, From Saml. Stirrup's Coach Office, Swan. Inn Yard. The Royal Mail to London, at 4 mg. and to Sheffield, Leeds, &c. at 12 noon, daily The Hope to London, &c. at 1 aft. and to Sheffield, Halifax, and Huddersfield, at 12 noon, daily. The Express to*London, at 5 aft. and to Leeds, &c. at half- past 10 mg. daily. The Champion to Manchester at 9 mg. daily; through Ches- terfield, &c. and to Newark and Lincoln, at 4 aft. The Volunteer to Liverpool, at half-past 8 mg. daily. The Royal Hope to Derby, at 1 afternoon, daily. The Royal Union to York* Worksop, and Doncaster, at 8 mg. daily, except Sunday. Coaches to Nottingham five times a day, viz. at 4 mg.; J past 12 noon ; and at 4, 5, & 6, aft. A Cpach to Gainsbro' every mg. except Sunday, at \ past 8 ; through Worksop, Tickhill, &c. From the Old Eclipse Inn. The Courier to London, at 9 night, and to Sheffield and Leeds, at 8 morning, daily. From the Eclipse Inn. The Robin Hood to Notting- ham, daily, except Sunday, at 8 mg, Wm., Whipp & Saml. Miller, owners. From Portland Wharf. To Pinxton, on the Railway, Wm. Epperstone's Van, every Thurs. at 3 aft. CARRIERS. From Deacon* Harrison* fy Co's Waggon Warehouse* Westgt, To London* Nottingham, &c, daily, 12 noon. To Chesterfield, Sheffield, Wakefield, Leeds, Cha- pel -en-le-Frith, -Manchester, 1 Li- verpool, &c. every evening, at 6. G. Higginbottom, agent. From Pick ford fy Co's Van <§r Waggon Office* Westgate. Van to London, every morn- ing, except Sunday, at £ past 2, . and to Sheffield, &c. 10 night. A Waggon to Nottingham, . London, &c. at 8 morning, and to Manchester, Sheffield, &c. at| past 10 night. Samuel Walsh* . agent. From Wheatcroft Sf Co's. Rail' way Waggon Warehouse* Portland Wharf. Two or three Waggons, every morning, at 6 or % o'clock, on the Railway to PTnxton, whence goods are forwarded to all parts of the kingdom by land & water, James Pickering, agent. Carriers from the - Inns, &c. To A If re ton, from the Royal Oak* John Bond and Francis" Wheatley, from the Black Horse, Thu. 3 aft. ; and John Scatchard? . from Blue Boar, Mon. Thu. & Sat. 3 aft. Bilsthorpe, Black's Head, John Bucklowy Thu. 3 aft. Blidworth, Old Dial* Wm. Wright,. Thu- 3 aft. Bolsover^Angel, John Mellors, Thu. 4 aft. Chesterfield, Thos. Bingham, from the Cockpit, Tu. Thu. and Sat. 5 mg. ; and Thos. Andrews, from Chesterfield road, Saturday, 5 morning. Clown, Black Bull, Mr. Mal- lindeiyThu. 3 aft. Eak ring, White Hart, .Saml, Wibberley and Geo* Tomlinson, M. &Thu. 3 aft. Epperston and Nottingham, Black's Head* John Taylor, Thu. 3 aft. Farnsfield, White Hart, Hy. Smith, daily, at 2 aft. BROXTOVV HliNDREiD. Kirkby-in-Ashheld, Blk. Horse, Reuben Hayes; & Angel, Hodg- kinson Lowe, Thu. 3 aft. Langworth, Black Bull, John Brown, Thu. 4. Laxton, Black Bull, John New bold, Thu. 3 aft. Newark and Southwell, Thos. Andrew, from Chesterfield road, W. & S. 4 mg. ; also, the Mail Gig, Jph. Robinson, from the Cockpit, every morn. £ past 4. Newark & Ketlington, Nag's Head, Thos. Wood, Tu. &Thu. 3 aft. Normanton (South; Blk, Horse, Geo. Slater, Mon. Wed. & Thu. 3 aft. Nottingham, Henry Blackwell, of Leeming-street ; Wm. Jack- son, of Toothill-lane ; and John Oldfield, of Brunt-street; every Wed. & Sat. at 4 mg. Ollerton. See Eakring. Pinxton, Black Horse, Wm. Epperstone, (on the Railroad,) Thu. 3 aft. Rufford, Angel, Jph. Morley, Thu. 4 aft. Southwell, White Hart, Hy. Feme, Mon . & Thurs. 2 aft. ; and Angel, W. Revill, Thurs. 4 aft. See also Newark. Sutton-in-Ashfield, Blue Boar, John Massey, and Black Horse^ Dennis Whatton, daily, 2 aft. Tibshelf, Black Horse, Jas. Newton, daily 12 noon. Worksop, John Preston, from the Cockpit, and Geo. Roberts, from Back-lane- West, every M. W. F. &Sat. at 6 morn. ANNESLEY. PARISH Contains the two townships of Annesley and Felley, and forms a romantic district of 3356 acres, of which 289 acres belong to the Duke of Portland, and the remainder to John Musters, Esq. except one farm at Felley, belonging- to Mr. Charles Antilh The soil rests on a substratum of red sandstone, and in many places rises into mountainous ridges. Annesley is a small irregularly built village, in a pictur- esque situation, 6J miles S. S. W. of Mansfield. At the Conquest it was of the fee of Ralph Fitz-Hubert, whose tenant took the name of Annesley ', and the manor was held by his de scendants till the reign of Henry VI., when their heiress carried it in marriage to the Chaivortfts of Wiverton, with whose late heiress it passed to its present lord, John Musters, Esq., who assumed the name of Chaworth, and resided here till the death of the late Mr. Musters, when he re-assumed that name and removed to his paternal seat of Colwick Hall. (See Wiverton, p. 5170 Annesley Hall is a large ancient mansion, sur- rounded by a fine park, with about 580 acres of woods, planta- tions, and water. It has been many years unoccupied and neglected, but is now undergoing a complete restoration, for the occasional residence of its owner. The churchy dedicated to All Saints, stands on an eminence near the hall, and has a tower with two bells. The living is a perpetual curacy, certified *t .£20. J. Musters, Esq. is the impropriator and patron, and A-XNESLEY PARISH, 545 the Rev. J. L. Cursham, D. C. L. is the incumbent. The feast is on the Sunday after Old Michaelmas day. Annesley Woodhouse is a hamlet and grange, of 289 acres, belonging to the Duke of Portland, and distant 1 mile N.. of Annesley. Coal lies under the surface, but it has never been worked. Felley is a hamlet and small township, of 300 acres, partly upon a lofty eminence, \\ mile W. by S. of Annesley, where are the ruins of a Priory, which was founded soon after the Conquest by Radulph Britto, aided by bis son Reginald de Annesley.- It was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and was subordinate to the priory of Worksop. At is dissolution it was valued at £41. 19s. Id. Nothing now remains of the monastic building except what is incorporated in the large house which is partly occupied by a farmer, whose garden occupies the site of the chapel. The priory farm was purchased by Mr. Musters of a Mr. Hodgkinson, who had bought it of the Holden3, ofNuthall. Charity. — Mr. William Booth, of Annesley Woodhouse, bequeathed in 1825, his house and garden, for the use of a chapel, and the interest of £928, (at 5 per cent.) to be distrbuted as follows, viz. — <£20 to his trustees ; £5 to the poor of Annes- ley Woodhouse ; £2. 10s. for a preaching room; £5 to the Particular Baptist Minister of Sutton-in-Ashfield, and ^£12. 17s. to the Independent Minister of Kirkby- Woodhouse. About 40 years ago, this donor was surprised by the return of two of his sheep, which had been buried on the forest upwards of a month, under 13 feet of snow ! Marked thus f live at Annesley Woodhouse, Musters John, Esq. Annesley hall t Amatt Wm. shoemkr. Woodhse Beck Mr. Wm fBurrows Ralph, vict Davies John, shoemaker Deakin Paul, com miller, Felley mill fGelsthorp Jas. smith & maltster Gibson J ph. beerhouse, Forest fHardstaif Geo. butcher & shopr Hardstaff Rd. joiner Harvey Timothy, blacksmith Hollingsworth Wm. weaver and parish clerk Horabin Richard, shopkeeper Horabin Wm. shopkeeper fRobinson Geo. corn miller Robinson Hy. cori} miller fShipley John* warp lace manfr Stanley Fras. veterinary surgeon, &c. Annesley lodge Turner John, gamekeeper Turner Richard, shoemaker Whitman Wm. shoemaker FARMERS. fAllin George Robinson Wm. Goodall Chpr. Smith Thomas Hardy Wm. Turner Samuel Flibbert Eliz. Turner Wm. Hickton Rt. Webster Jph. Hodgkinson C. Wilkinson John, Lindley Wm. Closes Lindley Thos. Winterbottom Line Geo. William FELLEY TOWN8HIP. Hollingsworth Ralph, beerhouse Hunt John, farmer Saunders Thos. farmer, Abbey 546 -, MOXTOW HUNDRED, ARNOLD PARISH Extends from 3 to 5 miles N of Nottingham, and formerly comprised 2280 acres of the open forest of Sherwood, but it was enclosed in 1789, when 700 acres were allotted to the im- propriator, and 23a. 3r. 37p. to the Crown. Mrs* Sher- brooke, of Oxton, is the principal owner, and lady of the manor, and her heir, Colonel Samuel Coape, resides here at. Sher- wood Lodge, a pleasant modern mansion, with handsome plan- tations on the verge of the forest. The Duke of Devonshire was the impropriator, but he has sold his allotment to Thomas Holdsworth, Esq., of Manchester ; besides whom here are seve- ral smaller proprietors, viz. Thomas Panton, Esq., of Arnot Hill ; Mark Denison, Esq., of Daybrook House ; and Mr. Ben- jamin Chambers, of the village. The population of the parish has encreased since 1801, from 2768 to 4054 souls. Arnold is a long and populous village, half a mile E. of the Mansfield road, and 4 miles N. of Nottingham. Its inhabi- tants are mostly employed in the lace and hosiery trades, and on two streams which form the Day brook rivulet, are two Bleach-works. There was formerly a large Worsted mill here, but after being several years unoccupied, it was taken down. The village stands upon a sand rock, is clean and comfortable, and has several neat mansions, one of which, called Arnold Grove, is occupied by William Turbutt, Esq., Barrister. The Church is dedicated to St. Mary, and has a tower and five bells. It is well pewed and all in good repair, except the chancel, the cost of repairing which belongs to T. Holds- worth, Esq., as owner of the rectorial land. The vicarage, valued in the King's books at £7. 17s. 8d., is in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. The Rev. George Francis Hol- come is the incumbent, and the Rev. William Howard the curate. Besides 90a. 2r. 3p. of glebe, the vicar has a yearly modus in lieu of the small tithes. The Wesleyan, Kilhamite, and Primitive Methodists, and the Particular and General Baptists, have each a chapel in the village. The annual feast is on the last Sunday in September. There are nine Sick Clubs in the parish, and the Nelson Lodge of Odd Fellows, (No. 26,) held at the Horse and Jockey. A fire engine is stationed in the village. Daybrook is a considerable hamlet on the Mansfield road, at the southern verge of the parish, 3 miles N. of Nottingham. Near it is Cock cliff farm, the property of Colonel Need; and a little to the S.E. is Swinnows, where there are two farms and a brick yard. Red-Hill is a large modern village with seven public-houses, on the Mansfield road, half a mile W. of Arnold. To the ARNOLD PARISH. 547 north are five Forest farms within the limits of the parish, whence a road diverges to Oxton and Southwell. Charities. — The Free School, at Arnold, was rebuilt, and the master's house repaired, in 1814, at the cost of £135, since which a room has been built over it for a Sunday school. It is endowed with about <£22 per annum, for the education of 32 poor children. Its founder was Daniel Chad wick, who en- dowed it with ^50 laid out in the purchase of Roecroft Houses, for which £12. 10s. is paid yearly, out of the poor rates to the master, and 30s. to the poor in respect of £30 left by Bartho- lomew Fillingham, and expended in the same purchase. Henry Sherbrooke, Esq., left a yearly rent charge of £3 to the school, and it is now paid by* Mrs. Sherbrooke, together with £2 yearly, left by Margaret Birch. In 1785, Rebecca Elley, be- queathed to it the interest of £6, and the master receives £5 yearly as one moiety of the rent of Denison Land, which was purchased with poor's money, of which there still remains <£34, and the interest thereof is distributed in bread. Henry . Sherbrooke, Esq., left £3 per annum to be distributed amongst the poor on the 5th of November. Of the latter, 22s. is paid by Mrs. Sherbrooke, and £l. 18s. by Jeremiah Rhodes, out of his house, near the Red-hill mill. Marked 1 reside at Daybrook, 2 at Red- Hill, and ike rest at Arnold, or where specified. Allen Wright, surgeon Atherley John, sinker maker Barrows Timothy, horse dealer Barton Luke, watchmaker Bartrum Mrs. Elizabeth Bigsby Mrs. Eliz. Arnot vale Butler Mr. Wm. Harvey bill Chamberlain Thos. schoolmaster Chambers Benjamin, gent Coape Col. Saml. SherwoodXdge Denby Stephen, butcher Denison Mark, Esq. Daybrookhs Denison Rt. cart owner Diggle Jas. bleacher & trimmer Empson Sarah, straw hat maker Fearfield Jph. brickmaker, Swin- nows J Frignall Mrs. Elizabeth Frost Thos. lace manufacturer Gelthorpe John, surgeon &drugt George Wm. butcher 1 Harding Mrs. Lydia Hickling Geo. gardener, Harvev hill Hill Thos. bleacher, King's well Howard Rev. Wm. curate and boarding academy Hutchinson Mr. Wm. Johnson John, blacksmith Kent John, bricklayer 2 Kirk John, thread agent, Lodge Kirk Wm. sinker maker Knight Mr. Samuel Knott John, whitesmith, &c. Lang Wm. brazier, &c. Lee Matthw. needlemkr. & drapr Leeson John, gentleman * ' Leverton Wm. butcher Maddock Mrs. Mary Marshall Gervase, sinkermaker Marsland Wm. confectioner 1 Mattack Thos. worsted mfr Mew Wm. gent. Deny Mount Moore Wm. plumber & glazier Nix Samuel, bricklayer Pan ton Thos. Esq. Arnot hill Parr Gervase, butcher ; 2 Pearce Geo. gardener Peck Wm. well sinker Phipps Geo. wooIsUpler 548 ARNOLD DIRECTORY. Rastall Mrs. Ann, Harvey hill Revington Wm. butcher 2 Rhodes Jerh. corn miller Rhodes Geo. butcher Richardson Mrs. Elizabeth Rimmer Mrs. Elizabeth Rimmer Robert, butcher Robinson Thos. maltster 2 Rose John, oetter-up Rushton Rt. schoolmaster Simpson John, gentleman Stamp John, plumber & glazier Stirtevant Mrs. Sarah Taylor John, painter & glazier 1 Thomas Wm. gent Tinsley John, blacksmith Tinsley Sarah, straw hat maker Tinsley Wm. blacksmith Tomlinson Mrs. Elizabeth Turbutt Wm. Esq. barrister, Ar- nold grove Turner Maria, dressmaker 2 Vickers Wm, gent 2 Walker Mr. YVilliam Ward Hannah, straw hat maker White John, gent Wolstenholm Thos. maltster Wood Uriah, maltster INNS & TAVERNS. 1 Black Swan, Thomas Bostock Cross Keys, W. Dickinson Druid's Tavern, W. Spreckley 2 Fox and "Hound, L. Richmond Horse and Jockey, G. Phipps 2 Old Spot Inn, Peter Bramley 2 Ram Inn, Philip Ariss Robin Hood, Mary Daft Seven Stars, John Robinson, and brickmaker 2 Three Crowns, John Wood 2 White Hart, Sarah Hickling BEER HOUSES. Board, Giles Hudson 1 Board, William Preston Friendly Tavern, Jesse Towle 1 Griffin's Head, Thos. Jackson 2 New Inn, Ann Broftitt 2 Ram, Thomas Bradley Roval Oak, Richard Housley Bakers fy Flour 1 Jeffrey John, dealers. (& miller) 2 FarnsworthL 1 Jeffrey W. («( miller) Lamin Rd Redgate Jph Shaw David Walters, John Bobbin Net ma- nufacturers. Barton Luke Darker John Dodson Wm. Flint Thos. Gadsby John Hudson Giles Hulse Jph Savile — Simpson John & Thos. Smith John Taylor Saml. Tomlinson S. 1 Walker Wm. Wells Geo. Whitaker Jph. Williamson L . Williamson W. Framesmiths. 1 Jacklin Thos. AtheHey John Jeffery, Saml. Kelk Wm. Jeffery Wm. Kelk Wm. Redgate Jph. Rhodes — Smith Chas. Smith Thos. Watts Wm. Willis Robt. 2 Piggen Stirt. Settle Robert Webster Wm. Grocers, fyc. Atkin Sanvuel Bottemore Jas. Bradley Geo. I Brewster Sar. Boot $ -S/ioewArsBullivant Robt. Baguley Mark Foulds Thos. Barradell Rd. Fisl) George Fish William Fisher Samuel Germen Jph Hemsley John Holmes Wm. Housley Rd. Mann Robert Turner Thos Farmers. Bates James Bramley Wm. 2 Brown Jph Broyan Wm. Cook Jph. Denison John Edwards John Edwards Thos. Fowler Richd. Hallam John Humphreys J. Humphreys — Jackson Jas. Jones Richard Mayfield Geo. Parr Ann Powley William Sh el burn Wm. ShowelUohn Smith Samuel Stones Samuel Wilkinson Ann 1 Wood Anthy. Hosiery Agents. 2Beresford John 1 Birtte Edward Bradlev George 2 Breflitt Ann Eddishaw John Garratt John Jackson Matw. Holmes Samuel Jew William Leivers Chas. Newham Jonth. Pilkerton — Rhodes Thos. Robinson John Robinson John Robinson Thos Oscroft William Sharland Wm. 1 Smith Samuel Willis Robert BR0XT0W HUNDRED. 549 Joiner Si fyc. Foster Wm Marked X are 2 Hardstaff Jph Cab. M/crs. & Hardstaff Wm. § Whlwrights Jacklin Wm. 2 § Bradley T § Lucas Math. 2 % Challand W Rhodes Thos. § Rogers Jas. Fish Wm. J Skellington Bufton Samuel William Mann Jph. Tailors. Shirtcliff Saml. Blasdall Geo. Taylor Geo. BlasdalUohn ATTENBOROUGH PARISH Consists of the two manors and toivnships of Chilwell and Totori) which contain 1094 inhabitants, and upwards of 2600 acres of land, at the south western corner of Broxtow Hun- dred, where the Erwash divides it from Derbyshire, and falls into the Trent, which forms its southern boundary. The whole is enclosed and tithable. Thomas Charlton", Esq. is principal owner, and lord of the manor of Chilwell ; and Ladv Warren owns most of ths land, and is lady of the manor of Toton. But the rectorial tithes of the parish belong to Chesterfield free school, being* granted to that institution by the Foljambe family, who obtained the impropriation and ad- vowson from Edward VI. after the dissolution of Felley priory, to which they had previously belonged. Attenborough is a very small and poor village, standing in the two townships of Chilwell and Toton, on the north side of the Trent, 5 miles S. W. by W. of Nottingham. The church is a large fabric dedicated to St. Mary, and has a tower with five bells, surmounted by a handsome spire. It has some armorial glass, as well as rude figures on the capitals of the pillars. The vicarage has the church of Bramcote annexed to it, and is valued in the King's books at £±. 15s. Francis Ferrand Foljambe, Esq. is the patron, and the Rev. Samuel Turner the incumbent, for whom the Rev. Thomas Wilkinson officiates. The village is remarkable as being the birth-place of Henry Ireton, the regicide, and son-in-law of Cromwell, who, after being very active both in the army and the councils of the commonwealth, died at Limeric in 1650, when a pension cf <£2000 per annum was settled upon his widow and children. His body was brought in state to London, and buried under a costly tomb in Henry the Seventh's chapel, where, however, be was not long permitted to remain, his tomb being destroyed at the Restoration, and his body, as well as Judge Bradshaw's and Cromwell's, disinterred, and buried it is supposed under the gallows at Tyburn. Chilwell is a considerable village, on the high road to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 5 miles W. S. W. of Nottingham. Its township comprises 1450 acres, and 892 inhabitants, many of whom are employed as framework knitters and bobbin net makers. The manor was of the fee of Roger Fitz Huberts. as« 3b &5.0 ATTENBOROUGH PARISH. was successively held by the Strelleys, Martells, Babyngtons, Sheffields, Pymmes, Hunlakes, and others ; but it is now pos- sesed by Thomas Charlton, Esq., except several small freeholds and some extensive nurseries belonging" to Mr. John Pearson. The hall, a handsome modern mansion, is occupied by Owen Davies, M. D. In 1831, after the reform rioters had destroyed the large silk mill in the neighbouring village of Beeston, they threatened to " fire Chilwell Hall," but the late Mr. Charlton being then dead in the house, they were dissuaded from their nefarious intention — (see p. 112) — the corpse, however, was re- moved to a barn at some distance, and was not brought back till next morning, when the incendiaries had dispersed. The feast is on the first Sunday in October. Toton, or Toueton, is a pleasant village of scattered houses, on the east bank of the Erwash, nearly 6 miles W.S.W. of Nottingham. Its township extends to the Trent, opposite Barton Ferry, and contains about 1200 nacres, mostly belong- ing to Lady Warren, who has provided a school-house and gar- den ; and pays 12s. per week to the master and mistress for teaching 20 boys and 20 girls ? whom she also furnishes with a yearly supply of clothing. Charities. — In consideration of several benefactions to the poor of Attenborough parish, left since 1689 by several of the Charlton family, a rent charge of £5. 6s. is paid out of Ash- field Close, in Bramcote. Out of this, the vicar has £l for preaching a sermon on the 5th of November. In 1697 Wm. Drury gave two alms-houses, in Chilwell, and endowed them with 16s. yearly for two poor inmates, out of the Town-end Close. Henry Handley, of Nottingham, left<£2, and Mr. Jeffe- ries 12s. 6d. per annum, to the poor of the parish. In 1716, Thomas Newton left to the poor of Chilwell, Hoegate close and two cottages, and directed the rents to be distributed on Plough Monday. In 1747, Samuel Garton left to the same poor, the Hall croft, at Beeston. Several other small legacies swell the yearly amount of the Chilwell benefactions to X5. 7s. 6d., exclusive of the two cottages occupied by paupers, and 13s. belonging to the poor of Toton. CHILWELL. Marked^ reside at Attenborough. Burdett Thos. bricklayer & mkr Cartwright John, wheelwright Cheetham John, maltster Clark John, yeoman Davies Owen, M.D. Chilwell hall f Day Hy. vict. Blue Bell Felton John, gentleman Flewitt Benj. vict. Chequers Garton John, brickmaker Godber Edw. shopkeeper Hallam Jarvis, shopkeeper Holmes Geo. butcher Hopwell John, vict. Cadland Inn Jackson John, farmer Keetley Thos. blacksmith Keetley Thos. jun. tailor King John, tailor Meades Jas. Jph. & Saml. cattle dealers t Merrill Jph. yeoman Morris Thos. cattle dealer Oldfield John, shopkeeper BTIOXTOW HUNDRED. 551 Pearson John, nursery & seeds- man Pearson John, warper Porter Rebecca, vict. Red Lion Plackett John, schoolmaster Posnett Rt. overseer Rowland Saml. tailor Rowland Wm. shopkeeper Salmon Math, shopkeeper Savage John, joiner Thompson John, ropemaker Tipping Mrs. Mary Tipping Wm. butcher Townsend Leaf, farmer f Widdowson Mr. John Wilson Jarvis, gardener Wright John, chief constable for South Division of Broxtow Bobhin Net Makers. Baxter Chas. King John Brown Saml. Morris Jphu Hickling Saml. Wilmott John Kirkland John Boot and Shoe Makers. Burton Jph. Shilcock Rt. Eaton Thos. Stephenson W. Flewitt Wm. Truswell Thos. King John Willerts Jph. Carrier.— S. Lee, to Nottingham, Wed. and Sat. 7 nig. TOTON (FARMERS, &c). Attenborough Lee Wm. W. cattle dlr. Earp John Eaton Benj. Glover John Holbrook John Moulds John Shaw Rt. school- master Smalley Francis, maltster Howard Thos. Toulson Wm. Hubbard John, Wragg Geo. corn miller Jowitt William, wheelwright BASFORD PARISH Lies principally in the vale of the Leen 9 where that river is augmented by two small streams called the Day-Brook and Wliite-moor Spring, but its eastern extremity rises to the lofty hills of Mapperley. It extends from 1| to 3 miles north of Nottingham, and comprises about 2650 acres, of which 1158 were enclosed in 1792, and several large tracts have since been covered with thriving plantations. It has generally a rich sandy soil, which lets for about 30s per acre, but some small allotments are let for more than double that amount. The Duke of Newcastle is lord of the manor, and owner of a large portion of the land, which was anciently divided into several manors, held of the fee of William Peverel, whose Honour Court was formerly held here. — (See p. 22 and 138.) At Scot- torn, near the Leen, are three covered springs and a large re- servoir, formed in 1827, for the purpose of supplying the Not- tingham Old Waterworks, as has already been seen at page 187. It is to the lace and hosiery manufactures, and to its contiguity with Nottingham, that Basford parish owes its present wealth and consequence, and from which causes its population has been tripled during the last thirty years, having encreased since the year 1801, from 2124 to 6305 souls. For the accommodation of this great augmentation in the number of its inhabitants, seve- ral new villages have been built in the parish, which now contains seven bleaching establishments, five corn mills, and several hundred stocking frames t and bobbin net machines. Here is 552 BASFORD PARrSH. also a large Workhouse, which has been built by u forty as- sociated parishes." Basford old village is very extensive, and lies in the vale of the Leen, 2J miles N.N.W. of Nottingham, The scenery around it is rich in the extreme, being well clothed with wood and thickly studded with modern mansions, and populous new villages in this and the adjacent parish of Radford, mostly built of brick and covered with blue slate. The stone bridge which here crosses the Leen, was built in 1831. The church? dedicated to St. Leodigarius, has a handsome tower, and a spacious nave and side aisles in good preservation ; but the an- cient armorial bearings that formerly decorated its windows are gone. The living is a vicarage, valued in the Ring's books at 3)8. 17s. 7d., and is in the patronage of the King. The Rev* Thomas Hoskins is now the incumbent, and the Rev. William Herbert the curate. The Wesleyan and Kilhamite Methodists have each a chapel here, and the former have another in New Basford, built in 1825. There are also in the parish two General Baptist Chapels, one in Old Basford, built in 1819, and ano- ther in New Basford, erected in 1827, at the cost of ^300, on land given by Mr. James Smith ; and at Carrington, there is a small Primitive Methodist Chapel, built in 1828. New Basford is a large village, which has been raised during the last ten years, near the southern extremity of Old Basford, within 2 miles N.W. of Nottingham, and consists of several good streets which cross each other at right angles, and are occupied principally by bobbin net makers. Algarthorpe, afterwards called Eland Hall, from its former owners, stands on a fine eminence half a mile E, of the old village, and is now commonly called Bagthorpe. It belongs, with the demesne, to the Duke of Newcastle, and is occupied by Lieut John Wright, Esq. The Tinker House estate, on the north side of Basford, has been bequeathed by its late proprietor to a number of legatees. Carrington, upon the Mansfield road, on the east side of the parish, If mile N. of Nottingham, is another new village, and consists partly of handsome villas, occupied by merchants and lace manufacturers, who have their warehouses in Not- tingham. It has its name from Lord Carrington, who some years ago sold the estate to Ichabod Wright, Esq., who has since re-sold it in building lots. Mapperley Place, 2 miles N. of Nottingham, is another range of modern villas, partly upon the same road, and extend- ing eastward from the vicinity of Carrington, to the summit of Mapperley Hills, below which, but upon a commanding emi- nence, is Mapperley House, the handsome seat of Ichabod Wright, Esq., banker, who has beautified the estate with many thriving plantations, and brought the land into a fine state of cultivation, though much of it is high and cold, rising to the BROXTOW HUNDRED. 353 bleak and clayey hills which form part of the Burgess Grounds of Nottingham. — (See p. 135.). Sherwood, at the north-east corner of the parish, is another populous district of newly built houses, on the Mansfield road, 2\ miles N. of Nottingham. Near it is Daybrook Lodge, the seat of Captain George Phillips, Esq., and Woodthorpe House, the property of Mr. Richard Hooton, but occupied by Martin Roe, Esq. Two-Mile-House is a scattered village, at the west end of the parish, on the Alfreton road, 2 miles N.W. of Not- tingham,, where Samuel Hall and Co. have a large establish- ment for singing lace by gas, for which process Mr. Hall is the patentee. Whitemoor Place is a hamlet of modern houses, on the same road, a quarter of a mile S. of the above. Here is an extensive warp lace manufactory, belonging to George Mor- rison and Co. The only Charity possessed by this parish is, ^40 be- queathed by John Smith and others, and now vested in Messrs, Wright's bank in Nottingham. The yearly interest (24s.) is distributed at Christmas among 12 poor widows. In the following Directory of Basford Parish, those marked 1 reside at Basford Old Village, 2 at Carrington, 3 Mapperley Place, 4 New Basford, 5 Sherwood, and 6 at Two- Mile- House. 1 Allccck John, farmer 1 Alton Elias, tanner Ashton Wm. governor of the As- sociated Workhouse 4 Bailey Philip, gentleman 1 Bailey Thos. wine merchant 2 Berresford Rd. draper 6 Biggs Mr. Joseph 1 Birch Mrs. Eliz 4 Birkin Rd. lace manufacturer 4 Birkin Wm. turner & winding machine maker, George st 1 Blakely Henry, cowkeeper 4 Booth James, Scotland place 1 Bramley John, farmer 4 Brandreth John, cow leech, Chapel st 1 Brewitt Bellamy, gent 2 Brown Bratt, cowkeeper 1 Brown John, jun. bleacher 4 Brown John, cowkeeper 1 Caddick Wm. jun. brazier and tin plate worker 1 Caddick Mr. Wm 1 Carnell Jas. lace-mfr 6 Carr Jas, bookkeeper 4 Carrington Lieut. Wm 5 Cato Mr. Thomas I Chamberlain John, farmer 1 Cliff John gent 5 Clower Wm. cowkeeper 1 1 Cockerham Mrs. Hannah 1 Cooke John, bookkeeper Cooper Mr. John, Sherwood hill 1 Dexter Geo. carter 4 Elliott Rd. cowkeeper 1 Farrand Mr. John 3 Fidier Mr. George 1 Firth Mr. George 1 Fowler John, saddler 1 Fox John, bleacher 6 Goodson Jph. gentleman 2 Grew Mr. Jph 3 Hall John, gentleman 1 Hall Rt. traveller 4 Harrison Geo. carter 1 Hemingway Wm. hairdresser 4 Hewes John, gentleman 2 Hopkins John, lace mfr 1 Jackson Thos. farmer 1 King Stephen, carter I Kirkland Wm. farmer 3b 2 654 &ASPORD Parish* 3 Linford Thos. gent 3 Maltby Thos. gent 1 Mellows Mr. John 4 Miller Mr. Marmaduke 6 Mitchell James, fkr 1 Monkman Thos. excise officer 3 Morley Wm. agent to the Nor- wich Union Fire Office 4 Newton Geo. gent Parker Wm. farmer, Little Farm 4 Pepper Mr. Thos. Pepper st Phillips Capt. George, Daybrook Lodge 3 Rawson Rd. gent 4 Raynor Mr. John 4 Rean John, warper Richards John, Basford cottage Roe Martin, Esq. Woodthorpe house 1 Robinson Samuel, lace mfr 1 Robinson Wm. maltster 2 Rogers John, hosier 1 Rogers Moses, cowkeeper 1 Rose Mr. Thos. 2 Russell Wm. lace thread dlr 4 Sanders Mr. John ] Sanders Saml. solicitor 3 Shelton Geo. hosier 4 Smith Mr. John 4 Southam Abm. carter 4 Spray Geo. warper 1 Strover Thos. R. N, - 4 Strover Mrs. Mary 2 Swinscow Geo. warper 1 Swinton Jph. parish clerk 2 Taylor Wm. bobbin & carriage maker 2 Telfer Wm. hawker Til ley Rd. gent 3 Tibbetts John, lace mfr 2 Tomlin Abm, maltster 2 Tomlin Wm. bookkeeper 1 Torr Mrs. Jane .5 Tull Wm. cowkeeper 6 Twiger John, carter 2 Wagstaff, Mrs. Eliz Watson Wm. wine inert. Day- brook 6 Wayte Wm. bookr 6 Webster John, carter 1 Williams Wm. solicitor 2 Wilson Mr. Jas 4 Winrow Mrs. Ruth 2 Woolley Mrs. Ann Wright Ichabod, Esq. banker? Mapperley Wright Lieut. John, Adjutant to the Nottingham Yeomanry Ca- valry, Bagthorpe BLEACHERS. Brown Geo. White Moor Spring 1 Brown John, (&lace dresser) Diggle John, (& finisher) White moor place Farrand Geo. Day brook works 1 Hall Saml. & Co. patent gasers Two-mile-house 1 Milnes John, Hall mill 1 Pearson Jph INNS & TAVERNS. 1 Barley Mow, Wm. Pidgeon 1 Fox and Crown, John Stanyor* 1 Fox & Hounds, Jph. Swinton 4 Horse & Groom, Jas. Taylor 1 Horse & Jockey, W. Bagdale 2 King Wm. IV. Thos. Pepper 1 Old Pear Tree, Rd. Charlton 4 Plough & Harrow, Fs. Ward 1 Queen's Head, Thos. Stoddart 6 Red Lion, John Hartshorn ] Rose, John Kirkby 1 Shoulder of Mutton, J. Abbott 1 White Swan, Thos. Brings BEER HOUSES. 2 Board, Matthew Walker 4 Board, Wm. Sander 4 Board, Jokn Hodgkinson 1 Bull & Butcher, John Cooper 2 Carrington, Wm. Corbett 5 Generous Briton, Jas. Shaw 4 Jolly Farmer, Wm. Biomley 1 King Wm. IV. Jas. Sturgess 5 Robin Hood, John Cockayne 2 Royal Oak, Chas. Fulforth 6 Sir John Barley Corn, Johrc Webster Academies. 2 Marshall Eliz 2 Morris Thos 4Thurman Sal. Meed I Perrin John 4 Strover Jane Maria 4 Tookey Sarah 1 Wroughton Thos Agents (Comss.). 4 Millnes Mark 4 Pearson Andrew 5 Simms Richard RROXTOW HUNDRED. 555 Bakers, fyc. 1 Bird Wm 2 Daykin John J Hancock Matthew 4 Reddish Mary 1 Thorpe Thos Blacksmiths. 6 Attenborrough John 1 Grocock John 1 Horsman John 1 Keyworth Thos 1 Lees Geo 1 Shepherd Samuel 1 ShipstoneGeo 4 Shipston Wm 2 Wall John Bobbin Net Makers. 4 Allen Jph. Northgt 2 Astill Wm. (mfr) 4 Atkin Isaac 4 Atkin Wm 4 Bailey William 1 Bancroft William 1 Bertie John 4 Barton John 4 Biddle & Birkin 4 Bingham Wm 4 Bingley Wm 4 Birch Noah 4 Birch Thomas 5 Bradbury Thomas 5 Briggs Amos 5 Brocklehurst Rd 1 Brown Charles 4 Butters Edward 1 Charlton Richard 2 Churchard Jph 5 Clarkson Paul 5 Cooper Henry 2 Corbett William 2 Cox John 5 Crawford Jph 5 Dealtry John 2 Dickinson John 1 Donald John 2 Drage William 4 Eakins Francis 4 Falkner William 2 Fido John 1 Flewitt George 1 Flewitt Samuel 5 Flower William I Ford William 5 Foster Samuel 1 Fox Edward 4 Gamble John 2 Glover Thomas 5 Green Walter 4 Green William 4 Grimley John 2 Grundy Joahua 4 Hallam John 4 Hammond Rd 4 Hankin Jonth 2 Hardy Edw 2 Hardy Thos* 4 Haslam John 2 Hayes Philip 2 Hazeldine Jas 4 Hewes Jas 1 Higgate John 2 Hill Robt 2 Hirst Wm. 4 Hind & Sneath 4 Hodgkinson Jph 5 Hollowell John 5 Holmes John 2 Hurt Wm 2 Key Wm 4 King John 2 Kirk Jas 2 Luke Thos 4 Leatherland Wm 2 Lee Stephen 2 Leeman — 2 Lord Thos 5 Lovegrove John 1 Lowe John 5 Maidens John 2 Maltby Chas 2 Mansfield John 4 Marriott Jph 4 Masse y Wm 5 May Thos 2 Mee Wm 4 Miller Asa 4 Miller Ire 4 Miller Mdk 4 Millnes Mark- Morrison Geo. & Co. Whitemoor 5 Myott Thos 4 Oliver Thos 4 Owen Harriet 4 Pearson Fdk 4 Palmer Edwin 5 Penn Wm 1 Rhodes Thos 4 Robinson Mary 4 Robinson Thomas 5 Rogers William 4 Ryle George 4 Sander Noah 4 Saxton William 2 Shaw John 5 Shipman John 5 Shepperson Wm 4 Simms Francis 5 Simms Richard 4 Skelston Samuel 4 Slack Thomas 3 Smith Chas. Lostcar cottage 2 Smith Mr. Wm 2 Spencer John 4 Spray William 1 Starr John 4 Summers William 4 Taw Charles 2 Taylor Thomas 4 Thompson Robert 2 Tollington Thomas 2 Tomlinson Wm 2 Fritchley John 2 Walker David 5 Walker John 2 Walker Saul 4 Walker William 4 Webb Francis 5 Willott Jonathan 1 Wingfield Thomas 4 Withers Charles 1 Wright Robert Boot fy Shoe Makers, 1 Henson John 2 Howett John 4 Maskery Wm 6 Pettener Wm 4 Robinson Giles 1 Rowland Thos 5 Saunders Jph 4 Sisling Wm 1 Stenson Thos 2 Walker Matthew 2 Wash Fras 1 Watson Wm Bricklayers, 1 Hooton John 4 Kirk Jas 56 BASFOEB PARISH* 1 OscroftJph 1 Stretton Thos 4 Walker Benj Brick Makers, 3 Bean Samuel 3 James Thomas 3 North Thomas Butchers, Ayre Thos, Shewood hill 1 Bellairs Wm 4 Bostock Geo 1 Cartledge George 5 Cockayne John 4 Dawes John 4 Mason John 4 Mellows Thos 1 Mellows Thos 1 Pilkinton Thos 4 Toon James 2 Toon Thos 2 Whelvand John 1 Woodward Mark Corn Millers. 1 Champion John 1 Hancock Joseph 5 Oliver William 5 Reddish William 1 Thorpe John and Thomas Druggists. 4 Atkin William 1 Bramley James Framesmiths fy Ma- chine Mkrs. 1 Bertie John 2 Fletcher Joseph 4 Hammond Rd 4 Riley Joseph Shipstone Wm 4 Soar John, South st 1 Soar William 2 Wall John Gardeners. 1 Brown Francis Mason Wm. Tinker hs Hosiery Mfrs. 1 Bamford Samuel 1 Bickerstaff Rd 1 Binks Joseph 1 Constable William 1 Ellis George 1 Flinders John 1 Jebbett William 1 Lowe John 1 Mellors J. Buckwd 1 Wroughton Jph Joiners. 4 Cargill Samuel 1 Cooke John 2 Gale George 1 Gwynn Wm 4 Oldham John 4 Radford Garvis 1 Robinson Samuel 1 Watson William Maltsters. 1 Holmes & Robinson Milliners. 5 Cooper Ann 5 Garton Sarah I Oakley Elizabeth 4 Palmer Elizabeth 4 Rose Elizabeth 1 Stretton Jane 2 Taylor Sophia 4 Webster Ann Needle, Sfc. Makers. 1 Marriott Samuel Stephenson John Painters fy Glaziers. I Abbott John 1 Lee Joseph Shopkeepers. 2 Baker George 2 Brad!ey Losto 5 Briggs Amos I Carlile Robert 1 Cartledge George 5 Crawford Joseph 4 Davenport Edw I Derby James 4 Fidler John 4 Fish Samuel 1 Fie witt George 1 Freeman John 2 Fulforth Charles 1 Grocock Rd 4 Holders Edw 4 Hollis John I Hufton Joseph 1 Jebbutt William 4 Kirk man Sarah 1 Lowe Ann 1 Mather Ann 1 Mee William 1 Mozeley William 1 Raven John 6 Shaw William 5 Shepperson Wm Sinker Maker. 1 Scott William Surgeons. 1 Fitzpatrick Rd. Jas 1 Morley William 1 Walker Frederick Tailors. 1 Bramley James 2 Brown Alexander 6 Byard Alexander 1 Cooper John 2 Hilton John. 1 Jefferson Isaac 2 Leeman — 1 Towle John Wheelwrigh ts . 1 Hanson John 6 Hill Thomas 1 Massey Samuel BEESTON PARISH. Beeston, 4 miles W.S.W. of Nottingham, is a populous village and parish upon the road to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and near the Trent canal. During the last ten years, its inhabitants have enereased from 1534 to 2530, and many new houses have been erected. Here are now upwards of 100 bobbin net ma- BEESTON PARISH, 557 chines, a number of stocking frames, and a wholesale brewery; but the large silk mill which employed 200 workmen, was burnt down in the Reform riots of 1831, — (See p. 112,) — and is not likely to be rebuilt, as the proprietor has removed to another mill near Derby. The parish comprises about 1500 acres of rich land, enclosed in 1809, when the tithes were commuted for an allotment of 75a. 2r. 23p. to the vicar; 97a. 2r. Ip. to Lord Cavendish, as impropriator of the corn tithe, and 54a. 2r. 17p. to P. B. Strey, Esq., in lieu of the hay tithe. The corn tithe land was afterwards sold to Lord Middleton, be- sides whom here are several other freeholders ; but P. B. Strey, Esq., is the principal owner and lord of the manor. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and was anciently appropriated to Lenton Priory. The vicarage is valued in the King's books at £4. 15s. The Duke of Devon- shire is the patron, and the Rev. John Woolley, M.A., the incumbent, and has 32a. 3r. 23p. of ancient glebe, besides the allotment just named. Here is both a Methodist and a General Baptist Chapel ; the former erected in 1830. A school is sup- ported by Miss Evans, of Lenton Grove, for the education of 60 poor girls. The "parish feast is on the Sunday before July the 12th. Hassock Close, and two allotments received at the enclosure, belong to the poor, being purchased, in 1727, with =€70 left by Mary Charlton and others. This land (7a. 1r. 34p.) is now let for ^£19. 18s. per annum, which, with \£\> the interest of timber money; £1 from Handley's Charity, and £2. 10s. out of the Horse-Dole Meadow, is distributed amongst the poor parishioners. Postman. — Joseph Oldham, to Nottingham, at 10 in the morning; returns 6 in the evening. Abbott Rev. Rt. (Bap.) schoolr Aislabie William, schoolmaster Aram John, bricklayer Attenborough Mrs. Mary Baguley Edward, staymaker Bailey Samuel small ware dlr Barker Edward, parish clerk Barker Thomas, earthenware dlr Barker William, Beeston Lock Barnard Thos. tea and coal dlr Barnes John, plumber & glazier Bond Edward, gent. Boot Fras. mfr. Beeston Cottage Bramley John, butcher Broadhurst Louisa, schoolmrs Burrows Robert, gent Burton John, auctioneer Cheetham Misses Sarah & Mary Chouler Thos. & Wm. maltsters Chouler Tmy. and W. maltsters Colson James, painter Cooling Wm. needlemaker Cross James, blacksmith Cross Thomas, gardener Dix William, blacksmith Fellows Elihu Samuel, gent Fellows Alfred, Esq. banker Flamstead Mrs. Dorothy Frettingham G. nurseryman, &c> George John, cart owner Gollin John, plumber & glazier Greasley John, gardener Hammond Mr. Wm. jun. Heath James Tatlock, solicitor Hollingworth Chas. hosier agent Hurst William, solicitor, & Not. Hutchinson Jas. hosier agent Latham Wm. bricklayer Lidgett John, nailmaker Lomas Joseph, gent 558 BEESTON PARISH. Morrill George, saddler Moult John, bricklayer Muxlovv John, stonemason Needham John Manning, brewer, and dealer in London porter Nixon James, gent. Nutt Robert, butcher Orton Henry, surgeon Orton Richard, gent Pearson Mr. John Reed Miss Eliz. Roberta Wm. sen. overseer Roebuck Hy. earthenware dlr Roebuck John, cart owner Salthouse Mrs. Ann Shardlow Geo. hair dresser Swann Saml. Hy. hop and seed merchant, and Nottingham Taylor, Robert, gardener Tipping Francis, butcher Toplis Charles, gentleman Treece John, overlooker Vose William, boat owner Wainman, Mr. — Wakefield Saml. mr. & Nottm Ward, Edw. carver, gilder, and bookseller Wilkinson John, rope mkr., Lock Wilson George, gentleman Woolley Rev. John, M.A. vicar Wootton William, painter Wright Mrs. Mary Bakers fy Flour Frettingham W Dealers. George John Arnell Simeon Gibson Daniel Bramley John Goodliffe Wm Burton John Hood James Cross Henry Hood Thomas Day William Horsley & Faw- Witham Wm kes BobbinNct Mkrs Hough James Antcliffe Geo. Humphrey J Attenboorugh RHutchinson — Attenborough SI Jackson John AttenboroughW Lee Joseph Ball William Maltby William Booth Jerh Mayfield Henry Booth Wm Pearson Wm Brightmore Jas Powdrill Thos. Cox John Roberts Wm Crichlow W& T Sibbert Thomas Cross Henry Smith Jas Foster Robert Smith Edw Soar Francis Harris Thomas Spencer Isaac Hurt Wm Thornell Rt Surplice Wm Towle Thomas Walker Jph Turner Jph Walker Wm Walker Thos Frame and Ma- Walker Wm chine Smiths. Wood William Mather James Wootton Jph Oldknow Rd Wright Wm Turner Jph Boot and Shoe Wilkins John Makers. Win row John Facer Thomas Grocers fy Shks, Grose Samuel Chambers Saml Harwood Wm. Fietcher Benj Hudson John Fawkes & Cow- Shaw John ling ShrewsberyThosGoodall F & S Towlson Thos Henson John Webster Thos Hough Jas Farmers. Penneston Wm Barker Robert Surplice Ann Cheetham Chas Walker Thos Hammond Wm Witham Wm Hardy Henry Wyld Wm INNS AND TAVERNS. Boat and Horses, Rd Harwood Durham Ox, Edw. Smith Greyhound, Wm. Martin BEER HOUSES. Board, William Asher Board, William Heard Board, John Bramley Commercial Inn 5 John Burton Cottage Inn, William Birkin Cricket Players, Robert Taylor Jolly Anglers, John Wilkinson Royal Oak, Edw. Bradshaw Three Horse Shoes, Wm. Flewitt White Lion, Cath. Wilson Joiners, <$-c. Bradshaw Edw Barker Thos Bradshaw Thos Burnham John Brown John Foster Robert Pollard John Henson Thos Roberts William Stead Wm and draper Walker John Shardlow Geo Tailors. Swann Saml Bland Wm Thornley Win JVm Martin's Van to Notting- ham every Sat. mg. at 10. Coach to Birmingham at £ past past 8 mg. ; Notm. at J past 3 aft. BROXTOW HUNDRED. 559 BILBOROUGH PARISH. Bilborough is a small but pleasant village and parish, Si- miles W.N.W. of Nottingham, where, in Thorosby's time, coal was got at the depth of 100 yards, but the mines have long been exhausted. The church is dedicated to St. Martin, and is a rectory valued in the King's books at .£3. 12s. 6d. Both it and the neighbouring rectory of Strelley, are in the patronage of Thomas Webb Edge, Esq. and incumbency of the Rev. J. W. Edge, who, at the enclosure of the two parishes, received an allotment of 220 acres in lieu of tithes. Mr. Edge is also principal owner and lord of the manor. Broxtow, at the east end of the parish, three miles N.W. of Nottingham, is an ancient house and manor of 300 acres, which gives name to this Hundred, and was of great consequence in Saxon times, when it had a chapel, of which no traces now remain. It belongs to Lord Middleton, and is occupied by Mr-. Shepperson. The house is prettily embowered in trees, but much of its picturesque effect is destroyed by some uncouth modern additions. Bilborough School was endowed by Richard S medley, in 1744, with o£5 per annum, now paid by the Earl of Stamford, for the education of four children of this parish and four of Strelley. Briggs John, schoolr. & clerk Chambers Samuel, shoemaker Oldershaw, Wm. land bailiff Sabin Thomas, wheelwright Shepperson Joseph and Thomas, Broxtow Smith Matthew, blacksmith Ward Richard, blacksmith Farmers. Blunston Jno. Towle Henry Calam W. Chil- Underwood W. well-dam Wagstaff Oliver bramcote parish. Bramcote, 5 miles W. by S. of Nottingham, is a highly picturesque village and parish, occupying several lofty hills, and having some large and handsome mansions occupied by their owners. It contains 562 inhabitants, and about 980 acres of rich land, which was enclosed in 1771? when 32a. 2r. 35p. were allotted to Chesterfield School for the corn tithe ; 23a. 3p. to Mr. H. Hudson for the hay tithe; 4a. 2r. 2p. to the vicar, and 5a. to the churchwardens. The church stands upon an abrupt eminence, and is annexed to to the vicarage of Atten- borough. (See p. 549.) Here is interred Henry Handle^, Esq, whose charities to this and other parishes are noticed at page 165. The poor here have also J 7s. yearly from Pilkington Close, left in 1675 by Thomas Hollingworth to the poor of Bramcote, Long-Eaton, and Sawley. Bramcote Moor close .was purchased for the poor with .£10 left in 1786 by Mary 560 BRAMCOTE AND BULWELL, Charlton, and now lets for 25s. yearly. Bramcote Hills is the beautiful seat of John Shervvin Sherwin, Esq., the principal owner and lord of the manor. He is the eldest son of Mrs. Longden, and assumed his present name pursuant to the will of the late owner of the estate. Bramcote Grove, is the seat of H. Mundy, Esq. who purchased it in 1829. The parish feast is on the Sunday after Old Michaelmas day. Sherwin John Sherwin, Esq. Aislabie Samuel, gent Allcock George, gent Allcock Wm. butcher Atkin William, joiner Bagshaw Samuel, victualler and maltster Cliff Daniel, beerhouse Ellis George, excise officer Felkin Mr. William Fox Mrs. Ann Gibbins Jph. nursery and seeds- man Gibbins Thomas, gardener Hall Lawrence, starch mfr Hall Thomas, manager Starch works Harker John, gent Jackson Thomas, gent ^Lindley Miss Mary, boarding academy Longden Mrs. Charlotte, gentle- woman Munday Henry, Esq. Bramcote grove Renshaw George, hosier Scatter wood Peter, gamekpr Snow William, butcher Spray William, sen. &jun. black- smiths Surplis Samuel, land surveyor Wallis Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkinson Rev. Thomas, curate Wright Charles, Esq. banker Bobbin net Makers. Booth J. tatting Horsley W. and Briggs Edw tatting Hewitt Jsha Horsley Wm Hewitt Rd Soar Saml Wheatley Jph Boot and Shoe Makers. Beighton John HobsonJohn Farnsworth G Inger Wrn Farnsworth Jas Spray John Freeman Jph Walker Wm Farmers. Briggs Wm Morley John Clawer John Radford Wm Henson Sarah Tebbutt Wm. Husband Fras Manor house BULWELL PARISH. Bulwkll, in the vale of the Leen, 4 miles N.N.W. of Not- tingham, is a populous village and parish, where there are three bleach works, a lace thread mill, three corn mills, several ex- tensive limestone quarries and kilns, and a number of stocking frames and bobbin net machines. It contains 2,611 inhabitants, and upwards of 1600 acres of land, all enclosed except 120 acres in the open forest. Lord Melbourne, Sir Charles Col- . ville, Mr. Faulkenbridge, and the Rev. Alfred Padley, are owners of nearly all the land, and the latter is lord of the manor and patron of the rectory, having purchased his estate here in in 1827 of the assignees of Godfrey Wentworth, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, stands upon a steep declivity. The rectory is valued in the King's books at £5. 5s. 10d., and is now enjoyed by by the Rev. J. W. Armytage, M.A. The Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists and the Baptists have each BULWELL PARISH. 561 a chapel here. The Free School was erected in 1668, by- George Strelley, Esq. who endowed it with land and buildings, now worth <£18 per annum, for which the master teaches eight free scholars. John Dams, in 1786, left 7 acres, now worth 10 guineas per annum, for the preaching of nine lectures yearly in the church, viz. on the last Tuesday in every month, except July, August, and November. The interest of £50, vested in the Nottingham Flood road, and left by George Robinson, in 1798, is distributed amongst the poor at Christmas. Bulwell House, a handsome mansion with thriving plantations, is the seat of the Rev. A. Padley. Those marked 1 reside at Blenheim, 2 New Bulwell, 3 HeinpshilL Adams John, joiner Allcock Chas. miller & bleacher Ash Henry, grocer & chandler Ashmore Wm. shoemaker Banks Rev. Saml. B A. curate Barber Richard, butcher Barlow John, shoemaker Best Peter, surgeon Broclehurst Edward, shoemaker Brown John, tailor Brummitt Dowager, Red Lion Calladine Joseph, schoolmaster Gartledge Samuel and Son, lace thread manufacturers Chambers J. plumber & glazier Cook Joseph, shopkeeper Dore Richard, joiner Faulconhridge Alfred, maltster and brickmaker Fisher James, vict. Star Foulkes Wm. baker, &c. Gent Jobn, shopkeeper Gent John, butcher & shopkpr 1 Granger John, maltster Hackitt Samuel, stonemason Heaton Robert, schoolmaster Hind SI. vict. Horse & Groom Holmes George, stonemason Horsley John, basket maker -Howley John, shoemaker Jennison & Robinson, bleachers Jennison Rd. jun. blacksmith Jerrom William, baker, &c, 2 Key John, shopkeeper Knight John, bricklayer Lei vers Geo. shoemaker & vict. Leivers Geo. Hetches, butcher Leivers Jno. shoemaker & vict. 2 Levers W. vict. and shopkpr 3 Lormer Jas. farrier & shopkpr Manley Wm. mason & shopkpr Marshall Mrs. Catherine Marshall Hy. Limekiln Inn Marshall Misses Eliz. and Mary Monks , tailor Moore Henry, shoemaker Ogle John, butcher & shopkpr Oldham Samuel, joiner Oldham William, joiner Padley Rev. Alf. Bulwell House Parker William, shoemaker 2 Pearson James, grocer Pickard Thomas, farrier Pickering Edwin Geo. boarding academy Porter William, tailor Raworth William, butcher Read Fras. butcher and vict Reed Thos. vict. Limekilns Robinson Ann, vict. White Lion Robinson John, grocer Sansom, Rd. gardener & seedsman Savage Thos. plumber & glazier Shelton John, bobbin & carriage maker and shopkeeper Shipstone George, joiner Sills Goodacre, blacksmith 2 Sims George, hosiery agent Smedley James, shopkeeper Smith Chas. vict. Scotch Grey Stafford Martha, vict. Ball Stanford and Co. bleachers Taylor John, vict. Masons' Arms Thompson Chas. blacksmith Tilley Joseph & Wm- tailors Walker Geo. blacksmith Walker Joseph, corn miller Walker T. vict. Three Crowns M% BROXTOW HUNDRED. Walton Juhn, corn miller Wesson John, vict. White Hart West Joseph, shoemaker White Latimer, bookkeeper Wilkinson John, wheelwright Wood John, shopkeeper Wright Jph. grocer and miller Bobbin Net Makers. Marriott John Walker Thos. Marshall, Josh Wood John Mitchell Josiah Wright Jph Tye William Wright Wm Farmers, AdinWm. IBotham John lFewster Thos Oldham Geo 3Houghton Hy Stout Samuel Houghton Jph Turner Jph 3Houghton Luke Wilkinson Rd Hutchinson W Limeburners . Ball Geo Marshall Bartram Sam Oldham Geo Chamberlain J Reed Thos Hollingsvvorth J Stout Saml Lane Thos Walker & Hind Marshall Hy Wilkinson J & R Marshall Jos COSSAL PAR. CHAP. Cossal is a small village and parochial chapelry, annexed to the rectory of Trowell, and situated on an eminence near the Derbyshire border, £ miles W.N.W. of Nottingham. It con- tains 341 inhabitants, and about 900 acres of land, all belonging to Lord Middleton, exeept 40 acres of glebe. The church or chapel is a small ancient edifice with a short spire, and under it is an old vault belonging to the Will ougttby family ; near it is an Hospital, endowed by George Willoughby, Esq. with pro- perty that now produces £132 yearly, for four men and four women, the former of whom have each 5s. and the latter 4s. weekly, besides a yearly allowance of coals, and each a suit of clothes every two years. The feast is on the nearest Sunday to Martinmas -day. Cossal Marsh is a hamlet half a mile N. of Cossal, where the Awsworth, Babbington, and Strelley collieries have each a wharf on the Nottingham and Cromford Canal. There was formerly a colliery at Cossal, but it was exhausted many years Haseldine Joseph, bricklayer Hooley Esau, shoemaker Johnson Henry, shopkeeper Lowe Rd. weaver & parish clerk Riley Ann, vict. Royal Oak Tarlton David, butcher Farmers. Hasledine Wm Shorley Fras Fritchley Rd White Jph Johnson Thos Wilson Isaac Sills Thos EASTWOOD PARISH. Eastwood is a well built village, pleasantly situated on 4 an eminence on the Derby road and the Cromford canal, 8J miles N.W. of Nottingham. The parish contains 1395 inha- bitants, and 900a. 2r. 4p. of land, under which there were excellent beds of coal at various depths, from 5 to 50 yards. EASTWOOD PA RISK. 563 but they have all been got. A wonderful story is told here of a farmer being swallowed up alive, in the parlour of the village alehouse, whilst he was swallowing a cup of ale, to the great surprise of the host, who by this means discovered that his mansion was built on an exhausted coal mine. George Walker. Esq. is the principal owner and lord of the manor, which was of the fee of Wm. Peverel. At the enclosure in 1791, the tithes were commuted for an allotment of 138a. Or. 21 p. in addition to 7a. Or. 6p. of old glebe. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was rebuilt in 1764, and greatly enlarged in 1826, so that it has now 234 free sittings. The rectory is valued in the King's books at .£4. 13s. Id. John Plumptre, Esq. is the patron, and the Rev. John Western Plumptre, the incumbent. The overseers^ distribute 20s. yearly, as the interest of 2() guineas left to the poor by Benjamin Drawater. Through the exertions of the curate an Infant School has been established, and it has now 80 scholars. Langley Bridge, half a raile W. of Eastwood, gives name to a large village which is partly in Derbyshire. The present bridge was built in 1830, and crosses the Erwash, which is navigable from hence to the Trent, and here forms a junction with the Cromford, Derby, and Nottingham canals. Here are several large coal wharfs, a steam corn mill, and extensive lime kilns. Nether-Green is a hamlet, half a mile N. of Eastwood, and one raile to the S. are two corn mills, and a few houses called New Manley Mills. Marked * riside at Nether Green, f at New Manley Mills. Walker George, Esq. colliery owner, Nether green Askew George, framesmith Askew John, shoemaker Bailey John, blacksmith Barber, Walker, & Co. colliery owners Barber Robert, joiner & builder Barton James, butcher Barton Adcock, baker and vict Bentley Wm. vict. Moon & Stars Birch James, tailor Bircumshire Aaron, sinkermkr Brown Wm. framework knitter Bullock Robert, blacksmith Carlin Mr. Benjamin Chambers Mrs. Sarah *Chambers John, shoemaker Chambers Wm. pawnbroker Coope John, hosiery agent + Cooke Mr. William Davenport Rev. Samuel, curate fDay Misses Ann &MiIlicent fDay Mrs. Sarah Eaton William, shoemaker Eley Luke, tailor Farnsworth Wm. shoemaker Fletcher William, joiner Godber John & Son, spirit mer. Godber Thos. & Robt. drapers Godber Wm. vict. Sun Inn Goodman Wm. beerhouse *Goodwell Thos. colliery agent *Goodwell T. Holland, bookpr Handford John, hosier agent Halford Robert, gent Harpham Ann, ladies school *Harrison John, colliery agent Harrison Rt. coal and land agent Harrison Thomas, gent Haslam Thos. schoolr. & drug. Hick ling Mary, schoolmistress 564 BBOXTOW HUNDRED. Hirst John, ropemaker Jackson John Halfora\ grocer,. chandler, and miller Jackson, Wm. corn miller Lees Jane, dress maker Lees Robert, baker Morris Mrs. Maria Pickering Geo. coal agent Pollard Rt. & Wm. neediernaker Pollard Wm. jun. shoemaker Shepherd Joseph, wheelwright Slater Caleb, Ropemaker Smith Benjamin, surgeon Smith Henry, shopkeeper Smith William, surgeon Spencer Eliz. & Sarah, shopkpr Twigher Thomas, shopkeeper f Walters James, corn miller Weston John, millwright White John, blacksmith White John Bullock, do. Widdowson David, framesinith Wild Vincent, net maker Wilkinson William, joiner Wood Goodman, maltster Farmers. BartJe Buxton John Barton Solomon *Farnsworth J Bf en tall Frearson Stepn Shepherd Sarah Stephens 'Turner John Carrier. — William Bentley, to Nottingham, Wed. & Sat. mg. LANGLEY-BRIDGE. Marked * are in Derbyshire . Alfred Joel, carrier & shopkpr Aldred Rt. vict. Jaw Bone Barber Walker, and Co. colliery owners •Bowes Mrs. Betty *Bowes Jptu miller & vict Briley James, coal agent •Brough Wm. joiner Butterley Comp. colliery owners Fletcher Wm. limebumer Flintoff Wm. canal agent Haslam Wm. canal agent Heafield George, chainmaker Ingram Eliz. draper, &c. Kimberlin Nathaniel, cooper Lovatt Joseph, blacksmith Ludlam Thomas, canal agent Lygo Thomas, vict. New Inn Paterson Samuel, canal agent Shaw Samuel, joiner, Shaw Samuel, jun. plumber, &c. Wharton Geo. limebumer GREASLEY PARISH Is very extensive, consisting of the six hamlets and constable- wicks of Brinsley, Kimberley, Moor-Green, Newthorpe, Wat- nall-Cantelupe, and Watnall-Chaworth, which maintain their poor conjointly, but their roads separately. They contain 4,683> inhabitants, and upwards of 6,000 acres of enclosed land, with about 260 acres of High-Park and Willey woods. Greasley, seven miles N.W. by N. of Nottingham, is a pleasant village, commonly called Moor-Green, from its being included in that constablewick. The church is a spacious edifice, with a handsome lofty tower, and four good bells. The Rev. John Hides now enjoys the vicarage, which is valued in the King's books at £S. 5s., and has had several augmentations from Queen Anne's bounty. Lord Melbourne is the patron, impropriator, and lord of the manor, which was of the fee of William Peverel. The Calvin is te have a large Chapel here. A little to the south are the ruins of Greasley- Castle, which was the mansion of Nicholas de Cantlelupe, who obtained a license to fortify it, from Edward III. About ©RBASLEY PARISH, 565 a mile N, of the church are the ruins of Beauvale Prior y, which was founded in the same reign by the Lord Cantelupe, for a prior and ]2 Carthusian monks, whose yearly revenue was valued at the dissolution at .£196. 6s. The parish school was built in 1751, by the widow of Lancelot Rolleston, who left £300 for its foundation, to which his said widow, in 1757, added .£100 more. The master now teaches 22 free scholars, and has besides a house and garden, 3a. Ir. of land in Little- field, and £6 yearly from land occupied by the Derby canal. In 1797, Mrs. Mary Mansell left ,£500, and John Manse] 1 .£20- to the poor of this parish. These sums are vested in £1,000 three per cent, consols. Out of the yearly dividends (^£30; £5 is paid for teaching 8 poor girls ; Is. per week to four poor widows, and the remainder is distributed at Candlemas and Christmas. The hamlet of Newthorpe is entitled to send one poor person to Ilkeston Almshouse, in Derbyshire, and to receive £5 yearly for teaching 18 poor children, from the be- quest of Mr. Smedley, the founder of that almshouse. Brinsley is a good village, 2\ miles N.N.W. of Greasley church ; and near it is New Brinsley, where there is a large coal wharf on the Nottingham and Cromford canal, belonging, to William Fenton, Esq., and Messrs. Barber, Walker, & Co., who have extensive collieries in this constablewick, which con- tains about 888 acres of land, mostly belonging to the Duke of Newcastle and the Earl of Mexborough. A Wesleyan chapel was built here in 1829. Kimberley is a considerable village, upon elevated and broken ground at the southern extremity of the parish, 5J miles N.W. of Nottingham, on the Derby road, near Babbington Colliery, which has its name from an estate of 90 acres be- longing to the executors of the late Gervase Bourne, Esq. This constablewick contains 635 acres, a great part of which belongs to Lord Melbourne, the lord of the manor of the whole parish. The Old and New Methodists have each a chapel here. The ancient chapel of ease, which was in ruins in Thoresby's time, has entirely disappeared. Newthorpe, hamlet and constablewick includes the small village of its own name, and the scattered dwellings of Bagga- lee and Hill Top, one mile W. of Greasley church, and 7 miles N.W. of Nottingham. It comprises 975 acres, mostly belonging to Lord Melbourne ; but Baggalee Colliery is worked i by Barber, Walker, & Co. The Kilhamite Methodist chapel here was enlarged in 1830. VVatnall Cantelupe and Watnall Ch a worth form one village upon an eminence 6 miles N.W. of Nottingham, and derived the distinctive parts of their names from the ancient owners of the two estates. Cantelupe contains 490 acres, and ' Chaworth 1681 acres. Lord Melborne is the principal owner ; but Lancelot Rolleston, Esq. has an estate here, and resides is i 3c2 566 BROXTOW HUNDRED, Watnall Hall. Beau vale Priory, and a colliery belonging Barber, Walker, & Co., are in Watnall Chaworth. The /east here is on the Sunday after the 2nd of October, but the feast at Kimberley is held on the Sunday fortnight afterwards. Hempshill, an estate of 50 acres, belongs to Greasley parish, though it is separated from it by Nuthall and Bulwell, and be- longs to the Rev. A. Padley, of the latter place. BRINSLEY. Marked f are at New Brinsley. f Amatt Jph. ground bailiff f Barber, Walker, & Co. colliery owner Booth Wrn. colliery agent Calvert John, tailor Cresswell Robert, butcher fFenton Wm. Esq. colliery owner Gething Jph. cooper, vict., and butcher Haley Eliz. schoolmistress fHolridge John & Jph. colliery owners fHolridge Joseph, draper fHopkinson John, butcher & vict Hopkinson John, shoemaker Macklacer John, shopkeeper Meakin Jesse, schoolmaster Moss Saml. vict. Robin Hood Millingtou Rev. John, (Ind.> Nix Samuel, butcher -f Park in Mr. Samuel Paulson Wm. baker Riley John, shoemaker & vict tSaxton Vincent, butcher fSedgwick Wm. shopkeeper Shelton James, butcher Shelton Stephen, hosiery manfr fShepley John, schoolmaster Smelton Jas. vict. Horse & Grm fSmith Wm. wharfinger Smithurst Robert, hosiery mfr Trueman Thos. shopr. & vict Vickers Wm. shopkeeper f Wardle Jacob, shopkeeper Wharton George, lime burner Wilcock Geo. shopkeeper FARMERS. Buxton Robert Moss Myra Elliott Mary Parker Eliz. Flint Thomas Sarson Samuel Maltby Wm Carriers, Thos. Truman and Geo. Moss, to Nottingham, Wed. and Saturday, 6 morning. KIMBERLEY. Barton Moses, engr. Babbington Bell John, tailor Birkin Thomas, shopkeeper Bradley Ellen, vict. Greyhound Farnsworth John, shoemaker Goulder Hy. bricklayer & vict Greensmith John, blacksmith Hanson Gilbert, shoemaker Hanson Wm. draper & schoolmr Leivers James, tailor Longden Jacob, vict* Ld Nelson Morley James, beerhouse Needham Jph. shopr. and vict North Thomas* colliery owner, Babbington cottage Sabin Martha, vict. Stag Shaw John, shopkeeper Shaw Wm. shopkeeper Shaw Thomas, butcher Sills Joseph, corn miller Slack Chas. vict. King William Slater Geo. vict. Horse & Groom Smith Jas. agent, Babbington Walker William, net maker Whittock James, brickmaker Farmers. Green Jph Attenborough J Robinson John Clay Joseph Slight Henry Dennis Rd CARRIERS. Chas. & Michael Leivers to Nottingham, Wed. & Sat. 8 mg. GREASLEY MOOR GREEN. Allcock George, joiner Barber Thos. Fras, Php. Hutch- inson, Esq., Lamb Close Hs. Brassington, Wm. gardener Clifton John, shoemaker Gelstharp Geo. shopkeeper Gelstharp Jph. parish clerk Gugler Jph. shopkeeper GREASLEY PARISH. 567 Hides Rev. John, Vicar, and boarding academy Jackson Rt. gent, land agent to Lord Melbourne Jackson Thomas, blacksmith Ogden John, blacksmith Preston John, butcher Roberts George, tailor Rolling Chas. warp lace mfr Sharley Mary, shopkeeper Shaw John, shopkeeper Smedley John, vict. Horse & Grm Turner Thomas, shoemaker Wilcockson Rt. vict. Royal Oak Yeomen Rd. ploughmaker Farmers, Lei vers Eliz Anthony Saml Leivers Benj Barlow Jph Reed J Felly Clifton Gervas Renshaw Mary Flint Mary Sharley George Grammer Thos NEWTHORPE. Those marked 1 reside at Bag' lee, 2 at Hill Top, 3 at New- thorpe, 3 Ball John, butcher 1 Barber, Halton, and Co. col- liery owners 3 Flint Mrs. Ann 3 Goodall Edw. vict. Old Bull 1 Hays John, vict. Ram 2 Hodgkinson Edmd. butcher 3 Hogdell John, blacksmith 3 Hooley John, baker, &c. Hopewell John, gardener, &c. 1 Hopkin Jph. hat manfr 1 Jackson John, butcher 3 Jackson Rd. framesmith, & vie 1 Jackson Wm. baker 3 Leivers Emanuel, joiner 3 Leivers, Wm. vict. Bk. Bull 1 Lindley Edw. shopkeeper 2 Meakin George, farrier 3 Morley Mary, corn miller 3 Newton John, net maker 3 Newton William, shopkpr 1 Paxton Rt. & Wm. grocers and drapers 3 Rilev Abm. shoemaker 3 Riley Thomas, shoemaker 2 Robinson Edwd. shoemaker 1 Rowbotham, Geo. shopkpr 2 Severn Sampson, victualler 3 Toplis John, tanner, Gilt brk 3 Twells Matt, colliery agent 3 Walker Flint, vict. New Bull 3 Wood Goodman, net maker and maltster 3 VVood John, corn miller 3 Wood Mrs. Mary 1 Wool ley John, draper 3 Woolley Wm. shopkeeper Farmers, 3 Hall Edward 2 Annable Jph 3 Leivers Jph 3 Ball John 2 Nix Samuel 3 Barton Thos 1 Paxton Saml 3 Bentley Geo 3 Robinson J 3 Cooke John 3 Shaw John 3 Cooper John 3 Shaw Adcock 3 Daws Geo 3 Toplis Wm 3 Grammer My 1 Wilcockson S 3 Grundy Geo 1 Woolley Edw WATNALL. Attenborough John ^schoolmaster Barber, Walker, 8s Co. coal owns Bolton Saml. gent. Hempshill Clark Thomas, wheelwright Jackson Jph. colliery agent Marlow Eliz. shopkeeper Raven Eliz. vict. Royal Oak Rolleston Chpr. Esq. Watnallcot Rolleston Lancelot Esq, Hall Shaw Wm. blacksmith Smith William tailor Smith Rt. tailor and shopkeeper Towers Thomas, Queen's Head Twells John, W r heat Sheaf Twells William, joiner Winfield Thomas, shoemaker Winfield Thos. jun. shoemaker Farmers, Sleight Henry Annable Rt Tatum Jph Birks Cha& Toule David Clark Wm Walton Jph Flint Rd Watkinson Rt Giniver John Watkinson Wm Paling Thos Watson Stpn Rippen Theods HUCKNALL TORKARD. Hucknai.1, Torkard is a large but indifferently built vil* .J)6$ KtlCKNALL T0RKARD PARISH. lage, consisting principally of one long'street, 7 miles N. by W. of Nottingham, and 8 miles S. of Mansfield. Its parish con- tains about 3,000 acres, and 2,200 inhabitants, many of whom are framework knitters, occupying. small farms. The open land was enclosed in 1769, when allotments were made in ex- change for the tithes. The Duke of Portland is the principal owner and lord of the manor, which formerly belonged to the Byron family, one of whom, Richard Lord Byron, lies buried In the church, under a mural monument, dated 1679. The church is a neat fabric, with a tower and three bells. The vicarage is valued in the King's books at £4. 18s. Id., and was anciently in the patronage of Newstead Priory; but the Duke of Devonshire is now the patron, and the Rev. Charles Nixon the incumbent. The Baptists and the Kilhamite and Primi- tive Methodists have each a chapel here, and in the parish is a Club Mill belonging to several Friendly Societies. The Rev Luke Jackson and Mr. John Godber have each estates here, and a part of the parish was held for more than five centuries by the family of Curtis, the last of whom died in 1777* -Forge Mill, upon the river Leen, now employed in grinding corn, is said to have been first an iron forge, and afterwards a cotton mill. Bulwood Hall, an ancient farm-house , was once an oc- casional seat of the Byrons, of Newstead. Charities.— John Byron, Esq., in 1571, left Broom-hill closes, consisting of 23a. 3r. 24p., let for £20, and directed the rents to be divided as follows, viz. : — One-third to the poor, one-third to the church, and one-third to be employed for the benefit of the parish in such way as his trustees should think €t. About 40 years ago, the timber cut down on this land was sold for £440. 10s. 6d., now vested in 50778. lis. lid. three per cent, consols. In 1813, more timber was cut down and sold for £*]\y which was laid out in £121. 8s, Id. of the same stock, making the total yearly income of the charity .£47. The Rev. Charles Nixon, and Thomas Hurt, and Luke Jack- son, Esqrs. are the trustees. In 1596, Edward Mearinge left 26s. yearly out of lands in Fenton and Sturton to one poor man of this parish. At the enclosure, 24a. 2r. 16p. were allotted to the poorhouse-keepers, and now let for £22. 10s. per annum. The ancient Poor's land was at the same time exchanged for 3 roods, now let for 15s. yearly, . which is given to poor widows. Those marked 1 reside at Bulwood Hall, 2 Farley S, 3 Forge Mill* 4 Groves, 5 Mis/c, 6 Nabbs, 7 Poor's Farm, 8 Rough Common, 9 Sfiort IVood, 10 JVhyburn, and 11 in Shepherd' s4ane. huckiXall torkard. } Beardall Jph. vict. Yew Tree Allcock & Hewes, framesmiths Allcock John, victualler Anson Thomas, lime burner Beeson John, needle maker Brown Thomas, tailor Buck Jph. needle maker Butler Eliz. vict. Coach & Six Chadburn Jph. framesmith BROXTOW HUNDRED. 569 Clark Wm.. wheelwright Co-opv. Store. Wm. Callandine Cumberworth Mark, joiner Daws Jph. corn miller Daykin John, blacksmith Daykin John, jun. blacksmith Flint Wm. grocer and draper 3 Gee Thos. corn miller 10 Godber John, spirit mercht Green Geo. parish clerk Hall Wm shoemaker 4 Hardy Mr. John Haslam Geo. shopkeeper Heath Saml. drug. & shopkpr Jackson Rev. Luke Jackson Rd. blacksmith Kirkby Saml. net maker Mellows John, beerhouse Mellows Paul, shopkeeper Mellows Samuel, shoemaker Mellows Wm. corn miller Mettham John, stone mason Oldham Thos. baker & vict Parkins Robert, joiner Piggin John, butcher Porter Thomas, saddler Price John, vict. Chequers Revill John, wheelwright Smith, Joseph, beerhouse Sneath Samuel, shoe maker Sneath Sylvester, framemith Taylor John, beerhouse Thompson Jas. sinker maker Thorpe Thomas, tailor Tomlinson George, tailor Tomlinson Mark, shoemaker Trueman John, beerhouse Truman & Taylor, framesmiths Wain John, shoemaker Walker Thomas, shoemaker Walker Wm. vict. Seven Stars Ward Fred, boaiding academy Widdowson Rt. vict. Half Moon, miller, baker, butcher, malt- ster, and lime burner Widdowson Thos. beerhouse Wilkinson Rt. wheelwright Willmott Thos. watchmaker Willmott Thos. jun. grocer Woollatt John, bobbin net maker FARMERS. Allcock John HardstarTThos. 4 Allcock Saml. Hatfield xMary Allcock Wm. 2 Hewes Wm. 5 Allcock Wm. Kirk Wm. Appleton Edw. Mellows Wm. Bail Wm. ^ 8 Xeedham Ann Beardall James Palmer John 5 Beastall John Severn Joseph Betts Charles Shaw Jonathan Bonnington J. Smith Henrv Buck Fras. 2 Stanford Rt. 7 Burton Jane 6 Starr Eliz. Coupe Thomas Taylor Wm. Daws Mary 1 Trueman Mar. Daws Henry, & 11 Turner Sml. maltster WagstarTJohn Daws Wm. Walker Benj. 9 Foster Sarah Watson Joseph Widdowson Rd. 4 Woodhead S. .& Hankin Jpl overseer 8 HardstaffCorl.Woollat John HOSIERY AGENTS. Allcock John Ball Anthony Cocker George Green Richard H^ath Samuel Mellows Wm. Smith Thomas Storr Thomas 2 Thorpe Chas. &l netmaker Kirkby William Widdowson Rt. Limb Matthew Wilkinson Geo. Carriers, Thomas Wilmott & Wm. Thumbs to Nottingham, Wed. & Sat. 8 mg. ; and Thomas Hanson, to Mansfield, Thur. and Nottingham, Sat. 8 morning. KIRKBY-IN-ASHFIELD PARISH. Kirkby-tn-Ashfield, 5 miles S.W. of Mansfield, is a con s siderable village, where there are many framework knitter and bobbin net makers,, and some of the former are also smal farmers. The parish, which includes several small hamlets and in which the rivers Maun and Erwash have their sources, contains 2,032 inhabitants, and 5,724 acres of land, of which 2,023 acres were not enclosed till 1795, when 3,050 acres were 670 KIRKBY-IN-ASHFIELD. allotted to the rector in lieu of tithes, and in addition to 200 acres of ancient glebe. The Duke of Portland is the principal owner and lord of the manor, which passed from the Stutevilies to the Cavendishes, but the Rev. D'Ewes Coke, and Thomas Clarke and George Hodgkinson, Esqrs. have estates in the parish. " Sir Charles Cavendish began to build a great house in this lordship, on a hill by the forest side, near Annesley Woodhouse, where, being assaulted by Sir John Stanhope and his man, as he was viewing the work, he resolved to leave off his building, because some blood had been spilt in the quarrel, which was then very hot between these two families." The church is spacious and handsome, with a fine spire, and a beau- tiful stained glass window; it is dedicated to St. Wilford. The rectory is in the gift of the Duke of Portland, and is valued in the King's books at .£18. Is. 8d. The Hon. and Rev. John Venables Vernon is the rector* The General Bap- tists have a small chapel in the village. The parish school, with a house for the master, was built in 1826, at the cost of £300, raised by subscription, except £60, which was the amount of several benefactions to the poor, and the interest of which is yearly distributed out of the annual contributions to the school. The master teaches 40 free scholars. Kirkby Hard- wick, one mile N.E. of the village, was given to Felley Priory, but is now the estate of the Duke of Portland. The hamlet of Kirkby Woodhouse, distant 1 mile S. is partly the property of Mr. Wm. Booth, and half a mile S.W. of it is Portland Colliery, which is worked by the Butterley Company. Brook-hill Hall, the picturesque seat of the Rev. D'Ewes Coke, stands near Pinxton, which village is in Derbyshire, but has a suburb in this parish, near the termination of the Mansfield Railway. Marked 1 reside at F lander- ground* 2 Grives, 3 Kirby Cliff, 4 Kirby Woodhouse, 5 Lane End, 6 Nuncargate, 7 Parks* 8 Port- land Colliery, 9 Pinxton, 10 Todd' s-row, and the others in Kirkby, Vernon, The Hon. & Rev. John Venables, M.A., rector Coke Rev. D'Ewes, Brook Hill Bateman Wm. grocer & draper 8 Bean Wm. colliery agent 4 Booth Wm. gentleman Bowmar Wm. butcher Bradley Fras. grcr. & hosiery agt. 10 Bradley Elias, beerhouse Brittain John, fvvk. knitter Hayes John, hosiery agent Brunt John, shoemaker * | Hodgkinson George, Esq. Brunt Wm. blacksmith j Hodgkinson Miss Catharine 8 Butterley Company, colliery Jarratt Wm. vict. & net manfr owners Kennington Jas. shoemkr. & vict Clarke Thos. Esq. Kirkby Hard- Kinder Fras. vict. & limeburner wick 5 Kirk Wm. shoemaker & vict. Cooke Wm. frame work knitter | Lees Wm. warp lace manufactr 8 Cope Stead, shopr. & beerhs Davenport Henry, grocer Davenport Thos. hosiery agent Ellis George, joiner 2 Fisher John, lime burner 5 Fletcher Leonard, beerhouse Frith Wm. blacksmith Hardstaff Jeremiah, wheelwright Hardstaff John, warp lace manfr BROXTOW HUNDRED. 571 4 Lamb John, warp lace mfr. 5 Lowe Win. beerhouse 4 Morris John, beerhouse Nixon Rev. Thos. M .A. curate Robinson Mrs. — Robinson Hy. corn miller Sansom Joseph, free school Shack lock John, tailor & shopkr Shacklock John, jun. tailor Shacklock Thos. parish clerk 9 Short Wm. blacksmith 8 Skevington Thos. victualler 4 Smith Joseph, hosiery agent Stanley Jph. vict. Green Man 4 Stanley Mrs. Mary Sterland Thomas, net maker Tallents Thos. grocer Turner Samuel, butcher Turner Samuel, baker 4 Walker Joseph, beerhouse White Saml. maltster & beerhs 10 Whiteman Jas. shoemkr. &shr Wilkinson Jas. shoemaker 1 Wright Wm. shoemaker FARMERS. 3 Beard more J. Hogg Samuel 9 Beard more J. 6 Holmes John 4 Bird John 1 Ingleby - 6 BowmarThos. Kinder Rd. Bradley John 3 Lee John Chadwick Thos. 6 Lee John 3 Clark Benj. Lee Rueben 7 Dodson John 10 Massey Peter 1 England Wm. Oscroft Dennis Farnsworth T. Salmon Fras. 2 Fisher John 7 Saunders Jas. Hardwick Rd. Stanley Wm. Hard wick Thos. Thompson Jph. 7 Heath Thos. 7 Whiteman G. 4 HodgkinsonC. , LENTON PARISH Has its name from the river Leen, and lies in the vale of that river, near its confluence with the Trent, on the west side of the park and meadows of Nottingham, betwixt them and the parishes of Beeston, Wollaton, and Radford, except its de- tached member called Beskwood Park, which is distant 5 miles N. from any other part of the parish. Lenton contains 2,300 acres of rich sandy land, of which Gregory Gregory, Esq. of Rempston, is the principal owner, and lord of the manor, which is held on a lease by Lord Middleton, who is working a 5 feet seam of coal here, and whose beautiful park contains 112a. Or. 15p. belonging to this parish, within which stands the handsome park gate, on the Derby road. Beskwood Park comprises 3409a. Ir.Ip. of mountainous forest land, and forms a manor of which the Duke of St. Albans is lord and owner, but it has only 19 scattered houses. Lenton has, however, felt them anufacturing impulse of its neighbour, Nottingham, having increased its population more than three fold during the last, thirty years ; for we find that in 1801 it amounted only to 893, and in*1821 to 1,240, but in 1831, it had swelled to 3,077 souls, living in 631 houses, of which 400 were built after the year 1821, and most of them form the new villages of Middleton Place, Spring Close, and Hyson Green, which latter is princi- pally in Radford parish, being situated upon the common land (261 acres,) which was enclosed in 1796, and divided betwixt the two parishes, though that portion allotted to Lenton is completely surrounded by the land and buildings of Radford. Lenton is a large and beautiful village, 1£ mile W. of Not- 572 LENTON PARISH. tingham, consisting 1 principally of handsome 'villas and neat cottages, with gardens and shrubberies, and some of them stuccoed in the gothic style. Here is situated the Peverel Prison, noticed at page 139, and a pleasant bowling- green and tea gardens, which are visited by numerous parties from Not- tingham, especially on Sunday evenings. Two annual fairs, granted by Henry I. and Charles IT. are held here on the Wed- nesday in. Whit-week, and on November 11th, for horses, horned cattle, and hogs. It was anciently noted for its richly endowed Priory of Cluniac monks, which was founded by William Peverel, the illegitimate son of William the Conqueror, and was subject to the great foreign abbey of Clugny, till it was enfran- chised by Richard II. At its dissolution in the reign of Henry VIII. its yearly revenue was valued at £329. 15s. lOd. and its last prior was convicted of high treason. Its possessions were subsequently granted to various persons. The manor was sold for £2,500 "in the 6th of Charles I. to William Gregory, of Nottingham, whose son afterwards gave .£1,460 for the fee farm rent (^94. 5s.) which had been granted by the crown to the Duke of Richmond. The site of the priory was granted to Sir Wm. Hicks, and now belongs to Colonel Sempronius Stret- ton, whose father erected the present handsome house, which bears the name of Lenten Priory, and is now occupied by Thomas Jerram, Esq. This mansion is in the ancient mo- nastic style, and there are in the garden several stone coffins, and a curious Saxon font, found when digging the foun- dation, together with several bases of the pillars of the con- ventual church, and a curious brass plate of the crucifixion, supposed to have been left there by Cardinal Wolsey, on his way to Leicester abbey, where he closed his ambitious and dis- quiet life. Thoroton, in 1677? says " there was only one square steeple left of the monastery, which not long since fell down, and the stones of it were employed to make a causeway through the town." In and near the village are several other handsome and spacious mansions, viz. Lenton Hall, Lenton Abbey, Len~ ton Firs, Lenton Fields, Lenton Grove, and High Field House, all picturesquely situated, commanding fine views of the vale of the Trent, and occupied by their owners as named in the sub- joined directory. Within the precincts of the priory there was a small establishment of White Carmelite Friars, and also an hospital for the reception of those afflicted with St. Anthony's fire. The parish church is a small fabric, supposed to have been built on the site of the ancient hospital, tffter the destruc- tion of the priory, before the foundation of which, Lenton be- longed to the parish of Arnold. The vicarage is valued in the King's books at <£9. 2s. 5d., and is in the patronage of the King. The Rev. Edward Creswell is the incumbent. Within the last five years, the Methodists and the Baptists have built two chapeh on Church-hill close, and in digging the founda- BROELTOW HUNDRED. 573 tions several stone cofSns were found, the place having been used as the priory burial ground. The Wesleyan Chapel, at Middleton-place, and the Kilhamite and Independent chapels, at Hyson Green are in this parish.— (See Radford.) In 1781, Rebecca Garland left <£10 to the poor of Lenton, for which James Nutt now distributes 10s yearly in bread. Middleton Place is a new village, containing upwards of 200 houses, all built during the last ten years, and mostly occupied by bobbin net makers. It is commonly called New Lenton, and is only a quarter of a mile N.E. of the old village ; at the same distance S. of which is Spring Close, another modern village, but of a much smaller population. Beskwood Park, forms a detached portion of this parish, and occupies several wild and broken ridges of the forest on the west side of the Mansfield road, 5 miles N. of Nottingham. It comprises upwards of 3400 acres, and was once a royal de- mesne with plenty of deer, but is now the property of the Duke of St. Albans. Henry I. granted to the priory of Lenton, the privilege of having two carts to fetch dead wood and heath out of his park at Beskwood. The hall which has been rebuilt, and is now unoccupied, was for some time the residence of the celebrated Nell Gwynne, the mistress of Charles II., from whose illegitimate issue the Duke of St. Albans is descended. The estate is divided into 13 farms, and was not all brought into cultivation till 55 years ago, when a Mr. Barton, from Nor- folk, brought over a whole colony of his county labourers, who broke it up according to their mode of husbandry Those marked I in the following Directory of Lenton parish reside at Beskwood Park, 2 at Hyson Green, 3 at Lenton y 4 at Middleton Place, and 5 at Spring Close.— The Contractions used are Lr. for Lenton-row ; Pst. Priory •- street ; Cts. Cloisters ; Ctp. Castle- place ; Bvp. Belvedere^place ; Ur. Union-row ; and Wst. JVil- loughby -street. 2 Anderson Mrs. Grace, Lr. 3 Bardsley Edwin, gentleman 4 Bleesdale Saml. & Wm. agents 3 Bayley Isaac, fellmonger & lea- ther dresser, h. Middleton pi Blount Geo. coal agt. Lenton lk 4 Boot Isaac, bookkeeper 2 Brandreth Mrs. Hanh. 9, Lr 3 Brothwell Wm. Hopkin, mfr 3 Brownlovv Thos. parish clerk 4Burr Geo. bookbinder 2 Burton Rev. Thomas Blount, (Ind.)22. Lr 3 Burton Wm. fwk. knitter 4 Cartwright Geo. clerk 3 Christip Lorenzo, lace mfr 4 Creswell Rev. Edvv. vicar of Lenton and Radford 3d 4 Dodsley Henry, overlooker Evans Mrs. Dorothy, Lenton gv. 4 Eyre Miles Fisher Isaac, Esq. Lenton Abbey 4 Galloway John, fwk. knitter 4 Gee John, toy dealer 4 Gray Mr. Peter 4 Golf Isaac, lace manufacturer 3 Goodacre Mrs. Mary 4 Goodman Eliz. midwife 4 Gregory Saml. shopkeeper 3 Hanmer Wm. Esq. barrack mtr 3 Harrop Saml. painter, Cloisters Haviland Mrs. Maria, Lenton ter 4 Hill Richard, bookkeeper 2 Holmes Benj. f. knitter, 18, Lr 4 James Mr. Robert Jeff's Miss Ann, Lenton tei -m LENTON PARISH, Jerram Thos. Esq. Lenton Pry 3 Johnson Saml. constable 3 Jowett John, gentleman Killingley Mrs. Eliz. Lenton ter Lowe Alfred, Esq. Highfield hs 4 Maples John, overseer, Wst Needham Mattvv. Esq. merchant, Lenton fields 4 Nelson Misses Eliz. and Jane, Willoughby street 4 Panton Thos. gentleman 2 Platts Robt. warper, 23, Lr 4 Pyke Mrs. Jane, Willoughby st 3 Read Matthew, f. knitter Renshaw Miss Eliz. Priory cott Renshaw Rupert, lace mfr. Mid- dleton cottage 3 Reynolds Geo. f. knitter Roberts Benj. boat bldr. Grove bridge Academies. 4 Bailey Ann 2BlackwellEiiz.(bdg) Poplar cottage 4 Creswell Edw. (bdg) 4 Downs Ann, Wst. 3 Nay lor Ann 3 Rough ton John 2 Smith John, Lr 4 Stones Lucy & Ann, (boarding) Bakers, fyc. 4 Knight John, Wst 2 Newball Alfred 3 Wells Thomas 3 Weston William Bleachers. 5 Daws John 3 MilnesThos.Brown, (&lace thread mfr.) Bobbin net makers. 2 Analt Dothy, 35, Lr 2 Arnold John, 13, Lr 2 Atkinson Rt. 5, Ur 2 Austin John,,8, Lr 4 Bailey W. (lace mfr.) 5 Ball Geo. (& hosy.) 4BartleGeo.ParkRd 2 Bass Saml. 26, Lr 4 Bates Mary, Wst 4 Bell Joseph 4 Bentley Thomas 4Bereslord Wm 2 Birks John, 25, Lr 2 Birks Wm. 15, Ur 4 Blasdale Matthew 2 Brown John, 9, Ur 2 Burton Isaac, 4, Ur 2 Burton Thos. B. 22, Lenton row 2 Butler Wm. 20, Lr 2 Coleman Wm,38, Lr 2 Comery Wm. Ctp 2 Cooper John, 38, Lr 4 Crofts Wm Day Chpr. 15, Lr 4 Downs Benj. Wst 4 Dring John, Park rd 4 Farmer John, Wst 2 Gadsby Jas. 25, Lr 4 Grayson Wm 4 Grayson Wm 2 Hall Geo. 16, Ur 4 Hall S. & T. E. (by power) 2 Harvey Wm. 19, Ur 2 Harvev Wm. 36, Lr 2 Hefford Geo. 32, Lr 4 Herbert John, Wst 4JacklinThos.(&lace dresser) Wst 2 Johnson Thos. 1, Lr 2 Johnson Wm. 2, Lr 4 Kendall John 4KendellWm. Wst 4 Kirk Win. 1 Wst 3 Roberts Elias, warper 4 Roe Thos. lace manufacturer 3 Roughton Mr. Thomas 4 Shephard Samuel, warper 2 Sheraton Ninian John, builder, Bedford square 2 Stones Mr. Geo. 14, Union row Smedley John, agent to coal pro- prietors, Lenton lock Storer John, M.D. Lenton firs Surplice Thos. gent. Lenton cott Thornell Wm. miller, Priory mill 3 Wade Thos. bricklayer 4 White Frederick, printer 4 Wilkinson Thos. hair dresser Willoughby Rd. canal agent 3 Wilmot John, coach propr Wright John, Tsq. Lenton hall 3 Wright Thos. capital bailiff & gaoler of the Honour of Peverel 2 Lake Jas. 20, Ur 2LambWm. 3, Ur 4 Langford Geo 2 Lees John, 12, Ur 4 Martin Benj 4 Mason Gervas 2 Matthews Gervas, 22, Union row 2 Merriman John, 6, Union row 2 Merriman Wm. 13, Union row 4 Peet Joseph 4 Peet William 4 Pegg Thomas 2 Perkins Thos. 18, Ur 2 Porter George, Ctp 2Reavill Wm. 31, Lr 2 Revell Jas. Bvp 4 Revell Matthew 2 Roberts John, 28 Lr 4 Roe John 4 Roe Samuel 4 Roe William 2 Rogers Wm. 21, Lr 4 Sands Richard, Wst 2 Saxton Wm. Ctp 4Selby John, Wst 3 Selby Wm. Priory st 2 Shaw Robert, Wst 5 Shephard Samuel 5 Shephard Thos LfeNTON 'PARISH. 5JP 2 Smith Jas. 11, Ur 4 Smith Jas. Wst 2 Sneath Win. Lr 5 Stanton George 5 Stanton Wm 5 Swain Joseph 2 Thornton Fras. 24, Lenton row 2 Thurman Sml.Meed, Castle place 2 Tomlinson Jas. 33* Lenton row 2 Toone Jph. 17, Ur 2Toone Wm. 34, Lr 3 Turner Wm. Pst 4 Vincent John, Wst 2 Wulwin John, 3, Lr 2 Weston Saml. 7, Ur 2 White Wm. 21, Ur 2 Wincles John, Let 2 Wood Thos. 37, Lr 2 Wood Wm. 17, Lr 4 Wright Thomas Shoemakers. 3 Barnes John, Pst 3 Beaumont John 2 Beeton John, 12, Lr 2 Haskard Thos. Ctp 3 Hudson Samuel 4 Jackson James 3 Pearson Thos 2 Rowell Robert 3 Sharp John 5 Towle Thomas 3-Turney Wm. Pst 3 Widdison John Butchers, 2 Beeson William 4 Brewell Wm. Wst 4 Eite Edw. Wst 2 Kirk Thos. Ctp 3Nutt James Corn Millers. 3GoodacreRd. Pst 3Goodacre Saml. Old Mill Gardeners, fyc. Cheshire John 3 Cope Thomas 4 Crinage Wm. (job) 1 Daft Rd. (nursery) 3 Lee Wm. (florist) 3 Moody William 3 Noble William 2 Robey John, Bvp 3 Wallis Martha Druggists. 4 Bestwick Robert 4 Boot John, Wst 2 Thornton Fras. 24 Lenton row 2 Thornton John, Bvp Inns fy Taverns. Grove Tavern & Tea Gardens, Jon. Ward 2 Lumley Castle, Tho- mas Haskard 4 New Inn, John Clay- ton, Willoughby st 3 Rose & Crown, Win. Hickling 3-Three Wht. Sheaves, Hphy. Hopkins 3 White Hart, Thos. Wright Beerhouses. 3 Boat, Rd. Widdison 2 Carpenters' Arms, Wm. Collingburn, 2, Union row 4 Dove and Rainbow, John Barton 4 Keen 's Head, Henry Cox, Park road 5 Peacock, Thomas Towle Farmers. Those marked f are Cow keepers. 1 Beerdall Thomas 1 Bennett Wm.& Thos 3 Boot Thomas 1 Challand George 1 Challand John 1 Challand Joseph 3 Chamberlain Rd tCheetham Fras I Cliff Wm 4fEtherington Thos fGibbens Wm. Lenton fields 1 Houghton William, Goosedale fHolmes Wm 3 Humphrev Wm fKirk Thomas fLangsdale Thomas 1 Lamin John 3 Lovett Edward 1 Needham John 3 Pearson Thomas 1 Potter Thomas 3Shephard Thomas 1 Stout Fras fSwain John 3 Townsend Samuel 1 Wilson Edward 3 Wilkinson John 1- Wilkinson Wm f Wood Alice fWood Thomas Joiners. 4 Clay Joseph 2 Collingburn Wm. 2, Union row 3ElvidgeThos.(wght) 4 Hopewell Wm. Wst 3 Naylor Richard 3 Wade Thomas, jun. 3 Wallis Humphrey 3 Windle Jas. Canal 3 Yeomans Wm Machine Makers and Framesmiths . 4 Bombroff Edward 2BarrSaml. 10, Ur 4 Crofts Wm. Wst 4 Hill John, Wst 3 Keelley Samuel 4 Martin Benjamin Maltsters, 3 Hall and Harrison 4 Pidcock Joseph Shopkeepers. 3 Brown Joseph 3 Brown Joseph 4 Coope Edward 2 Co-operative society Wm. Bronson, agt. 1, Union row 2 Dabell John, 16, Lr 3 Emery Ann 3 Johnson Samuel 2 Leonard Rt. 8, Ur 4 Martin Thomas 4 Nutter Elijah, Wst 4Peet Wm. Wst 3 Poyser Saml. Pst 2 Revell James, Bvp 576 BROXTOW HUNDRED. 2 Shaw Wm. Lst 4 Simpson Wm. 3 Wells Isabella, Pst 4 Wells Thos. Wst Tailors. 3 Burton Richard 2 Roberts Thos. Bvp 4 Smith Thomas Turners. 4Birks Samuel, Wst 4 Trueman Wm LINBY PARISH, Linby is a small ancient village and parish 71 miles S. of Mansfield, containing 352 inhabitants and 1479 acres of land. Andrew Montagu, Esq., (the son of Fountayne Wilson, Esq^, and now a minor,) is lord of the manor, and owner of all the land except 125 acres belonging to Colonel Wildman ; about 40 acres belonging to Mr. Balby, and 18 acres of Whighay Common, which are the property of the two latter and the rector. The Linby and Papplewick estates were of the fee of William Peverel, and were bequeathed by their late proprietor the Right Hon. Frederick Montagu, in 1800, to Fountayne Wilson, Esq. r and his heirs, on condition that they use the sirname of Montagu, which he himself has refused to comply with, but has conferred it upon his son, together with the said estates ; though he still retains the authority of landlord, and has discharged all the stocking frames from the parish, so that its population has been decreased from 515 to 352 souk. Two ancient crosses stand at the north and south ends of the village. The church is a small fabric, dedicated to St. Mi- chael. The rectory, valued in the King's books, at £4. 9s. 9£d. is in the gift of Andrew Montagu, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev Thomas Hurt. The feast is on the Sunday after Old Michaelmas Day, or on that day when it falls on a Sunday. Alicock John, limeburner Arlcock William, butcher Chadburn Jph. jun. butcher Clarke John, wheelwright Daykin Luke, shopkeeper Farnsworth William, joiner Glover John, gent Hopper Richard, Esq. Hurt Rev. Thomas, rector Newton Robert, stonemason Sneath John, vict. & shoemkr Stafford James, wheelwright Swinton James, stonemason Swinton Richard, blacksmith Voce John, beerhouse FARMERS. Chadburn Jph. Shipley €has. HardstafT, Jno. Swinton Geo. Potter W. Wig- Swinton Fras hay Watson Robert Shaw Thomas Wright Thos. MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE PARISH. Mansfield Woodhouse is a very large and ancient village nearly If mile N. of Mansfield, inhabited partly by framework knitters, but having several good houses which have long been the residence of respectable families. Its parish contains 1859 inhabitants, 3206 acres of enclosed land, and about 1500 acres of the open forest of Sherwood. The Duke of Portland is the MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE. 577 principal owner, lord of the manor, and impropriator. Near the village are several prolific quarries of excellent limestone. In the reign of Henry VI., Sir Robert Plumpton died pos- sessed of one bovate in this manor, called fVolfhuntland, held by the service of winding a horn and driving or frightening the wolves in Sherwood forest. The dwelling upon this land was called Wolf-house, and is now occupied by Mr. Housley. In a forest book written on parchment in 1520, it is recorded, that the " town of Mansfield Woodhouse was hurried in the year of our Lord MCCCIIII, and the Kirk stepull with the belles of the same ; for the stepull was afore of tymbre worke." Before this accident, the church had three aisles, but it has now only two. It is 98 feet long and 32 broad. The spire steeple is 108 feet high and contains four bells, and a small saintfs bell, which in Catholic times was rung when the priest came to that part of the Latin service which is translated " holy ! holy ! Lord God of Sabaoth !" in order that those who staid at home might join with the congregation in the most solemn part of the ceremony. The church is dedicated to St Edmund, and contains a few ancient monuments. The living is a perpetual curacy, and has annexed to it that of Skegby. The Duke of Portland is the patron, and the Rev. William Goodacre the incumbent. The Independents and Methodists have each a chapel here, and in the village are three Sick Societies, and a Lodge of Odd Fel- lows. The feast is on the Sunday after the 10th of July. A sheep fair was formerly held here on the Monday after Mans- field cheese fair, but it was discontinued some years ago, though the ancient cross round which it was held, has recently been repaired. At the east end of the village, is Winnyhill, on which there are some remains of a Roman exploratory camp. The late Major Rooke, F.R. and A.S.S., lived in a pleasant mansion about midway between Mansfield and Woodhouse, and died there in 1806, " after a long period of useful services to his country as a soldier, antiquary and meteorologist. His communications in the Archaeologia are very extensive in Vols. 8, 9, 10, and 11." The Major's researches in this parish were very productive. In the Northfield, he found the site of an extensive Roman Villa, which had consisted of seven ele- gant rooms with richly painted walls, and a beautiful mosaic pavement, composed of red, yellow, white, and grey tessera, about the size of a die. John Knight, Esq., on whose estate this discovery was made, erected a building over the tessellated pavement for its better preservation, but Laird on visiting it in 1811, " found the doors broken open, the pavement ruined, and the floor strewed with the cubic pieces, the walls written over with ribaldry, and its only tenants a mare and her foal, who had taken shelter from the noon tide heat.*' About 100 yards south-east of the villa, the Major discovered some remains of two sepulchres, in which were found many fragments of pa- 3d2 5?8 BROXTOW HUNDRED; terce, and pots of Roman ware, with several articles of house- hold convenience. Debdale House, a handsome mansion, half a mile W. of Mansfield Woodhouse, is the seat of John Coke, Esq. Wood- house Grove, l£ mile S. by W. of the village is the mansion of William Anson Smith, Esq. Grassfield Cottage, Northfield House, and North Lodge, are within the parish, and are occu- pied by their owners, but the Warren and Old Club Mill Farms, belong to the Duke of Portland, and the Park Farm to Francis Hall, Esq., of Park Hall.— (See Nettleworth p. 448.) Col. Need, E. Sykes, Esq., and some other gentlemen, have neat houses in the village. The Charities belonging to Mansfield Woodhouse are as follows : — The Blue Coat School where 50 boys are clothed and educated gratuitously, was founded and endowed by Mrs, Faith Clarkson, whose charity is already noticed at page 527- Another Charity School, were 32 poor boys and girls are edu- cated, was founded in 1827, by Richard Radford, grocer, who endowed it with .£800. The trustees are, Samuel Housely and Thomas Kirkland. Seven closes called the Clay Pits, and containing 26a. 2r. 23p., are let for <£?4 per annum, and be- long to the church for its repairs, &c. Rosamond Watson left .£100 for apprenticing poor children, but it was expended in building the present Workhouse, and £5 is now paid yearly as the interest of it, by the trustees of the church land. Mrs. Fisher left £ 100 to the poor, and it is now vested in the Ches- terfield Turnpike. The indigent parishioners are also relieved by the yearly distribution of the following small annuities, viz. 10s. left by Roland Band, (See p. 528 ;) 10s. by Mr. Price, out lands in Mansfield ; 10s. by John Bingham, out of his two Old Mill Closes ; 5s. by Richard Eyre, out of lands in Mansfield Woodhouse, now belonging to George Eyre, of Sookholme ; 2s. by William Whelpdale, out of the estate of John Coke, Esq."; 6s. by Paul Wilson, out of Little Rough Close; and £2. 10s. by Mrs. Cross, out of Brackenhurst Closes. Letters arrive from Mansfield at 1 noon. BJankley Rd. governer of workhs Brightmore Hy. turner & rakemk Clark Rd. brazier & tinman Clark Wm. gent. North lodge Clark Wm. glover Coke John, Esq. Debdale hou^e McDonald Wm. tax collector Lambert Edw. excise-officer Milner Edmund, R.N. Neale Chas. Esq. land valuer & agent to the Duke of Portland Need Colonel John Oakes John, plumber & glazier Fearfe John, gentleman Potter Wm. gentleman Robinson Rt. needlemaker Scott Thos. gardener, Debdale Smith Wm. Anson, Esq. Grove Stanley Abner Clarke, teacher Sykes Edmand, Esq. Tatley Wm. mason Toplis Mrs. Ellen Walker Mrs. Hannah Wilkinson John, architect Willey John, turner INNS AND TAVERNS. Angel, Joseph Marsh Bulls Head, William Heath MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE, 573 Greyhound, John Brooke Half-way-house, Ann Whelpdale Parliament Oak, Philip Oakes Ram, Daniel Slater Red Lion, Mary Shippam Star, John Pogmore White Swan, Thomas Mason BEERHOUSES. Fox and Crown, John Duckman- ton Jug and Glass, Samuel Short Masons' Arms, Barnet Lucas Board, Thomas Warner Acadeynies. Stanley Joseph Unwin Lybby Bakers* fyc. Shippam Thomas Yates William Blacksmiths . Butler John Timmons James Womersley John Shoemakers. Bennett William Denby John Swallow Richard Tebbutt John Butchers. Booth William Brightmore Isaac Harrison Henry Harvey George Harvey Thomas Housley Samuel Kinder Thomas Shippam Thomas Corn Millers. Cupid Edward Lucas Barnet Harker John Farmers. Beardall John Booth John Burgoine Samuel Bell Jthn. Warren hs Cowpe John Cox Jph. Grassfield cottage Eadison J. Park farm Fletcher William Hazard Robert Hollaway Jas. Sunny- dale Holland William Lucas Ts. Northfield Huntington Thomas M'Donald John Newton William Slater Daniel Tebbutt Robert Fwk. Knitters. Butler Thomas Dole John Elliott Isaac Hett John Taylor John Warner William Whittaker John Gardener, fy.c. Bowman George Grocers, fyc. Booth Mary Darby William Dole John Heath William Housley Richard Morriss Abel Simpson George Taylor George Wright James Joiners, Sf-c, Chambers John Pashley John Pashiey Samuel Lime Burners** Brooke John Houseley William Wilkinson John Maltsters. Fletcher Robert Fletcher William Frith Thomas Tailors. Betterney William Darby John Darby William Warner Thomas Wheelwrights, Hufton Joseph Marsh Joseph Pogmore John NEWSTEAD ABBEY Stands in a delightful situation, six miles S. of Mansfield, and with an estate of 3226a. 3r. 33p. forms a parochial chapelry which, till 1830, was considered to be extra parochial, but in that year the present owner, Colonel Wildman, was defeated in an assize trial, instituted for the purpose of compelling hirK and his tenants here, to support their own poor. The estate has about 290 acres of woods and plantations, and several spa- cious lakes, which cover upwards of 67 acres, and give rise to the river Leen. It has 159 inhabitants, and 25 scattered dwel- lings, one of which is the noted Inn called the Hutt, situated upon the Nottingham and Mansfield road, on ahe margin 5S0 NEWSTEAD ABBEY. open tract of Sherwood Forest, 1 mile E. of the abbey, which has been greatly improved by its present owner and occupant, who purchased the estate for £100,000, in 1818, of T. Clawton, Esq., to whom it had been sold by the late Lord Byron, in 1815, for £140,000. Newatead Abbey was founded as a priory of black canons, about 1170, by Henry II. At the dissolution, its revenues were estimated at £229 ; and it was granted to Sir John Byron, at that time Lieutenant of Sherwood Forest. Sir John immediately fitted up part of the edifice ; but the church was suffered to go to decay, though the south aisle was actually incorporated into the dwelling-house, at one end of which the front of the abbey church is still a majestic ruin, being in the form of the west end of a cathedral, adorned with rich carvings. The house is quite in the antique style, with towers and battlements, and has just undergone a thorough re- paration, having suffered much by the neglect of the two last Lords Bvron. It has numerous apartments, and two spacious galleries, one of which passes over the ancient cloisters, which resemble those of Westminster abbey. An extensive crypt under the ruined conventual church has been long used as cellars, and the singing room is fitted up as a bath. The an- cient chapel, of which the Rev. Luke Jackson is pastor, has been used as a cemetery, and its light clustered pillars and an- cient carved widows add much to the melancholy expression of the scene. An ancient gothic greenhouse opens into the gar- den, which was once the abbey burial ground ; and in which the late Lord Byron erected a handsome pedestal of white marble, with an inscription to the memory of a Newfoundland dog, to whom his lordship once owed his life. This garden also includes the dilapidated part of the church, and is altogether a very interesting spot. The extensive park is now divided into farms, except in the vicinity of the house, where the landscape is extremely beautiful, having two spacious lakes, and several fine plantations and ornamental buildings, all of which harmo- nize with the monastic ruins and the gothic mansion. The Byron family is more ancient than the Conquest, and had large possessions near Rochdale, in Lancashire, where they had their principal seat till after the reformation, when they obtained a grant of Newstead. Being active partisans in the cause of Charles I. several of their estates were sequestered by parliament, but were afterwards restored to them by Charles II., whose father had raised Sir John Byron to the peerage, in 1643. William, the fifth Lord Byron, killed Wm. Chaworth, Esq. in a duel, in 1765, under circumstances which led to his impeachment, on a charge of murder, before the house of peers, who found him guilty of manslaughter, upon which he claimed the benefit of the statute of Edward VI., and was dis- charged. He died without issue, in 1798, and was succeeded by his grand-nephew, George Gordon, the late Lord Byron, LORD BYRON. 581 the illustrious poet, who died of a fever, at Missolonghi, ont'he 19th of April, 1824, lamented by the whole Greek nation, to whose glorious cause he had devoted his fortune, his talents, and his life. His lordship having lettan only daughter (without male issue) by his lady, Anne Isabella, daughter of Sir Ralph Noel, (late Milbank) Bart., was succeeded in his title by his cousin, George Anson, the present " Baron Byron, of Roch- dale." The late Lord Byron succeeded to the title at the early age of ten years, and received the rudiments of his education at the grammar school, in Aberdeen, to which place his mother had retired soon after his birth, when the licentious conduct of his father had compelled him to become an exile from England. After completing his residence at Cambridge* his lordship took up his abode at Newstead abbey, where he wrote his " Hours of Idleness," a miscellaneous volume, on which the Edinburgh 'Review passed such a severe criticism as awakened the sleeping energies of the youthful poet's mind, and called forth his " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," in which he took vengeance, we may almost say on friends as well as foes. Previous to this he had become attached to Miss Chaworth, but his passion was unreturned. (See p. 517-) From this time he became prodigal of his time, thoughts and feelings, After a two years' tour on the continent he returned to Eng- land, in 1811, and published " Ghilde Harold" and several other works which gained him an unlimited popularity. He subsequently married Miss Milbank Noel, but the union was not productive of happiness, and he soon afterwards bad adieu to the shores of Britain, and continued to change his residence from one part of Italy to another, till he formed the noble determination of proceeding to Greece, in order to assist the suffering inhabitants in their efforts for freedom, and for that purpose he sold his large estate at Rochdale, but he died in the following year. As a poet, Lord Byron was as great as a poet can be, whose universe is in himself; and as a man there was more in him to be loved than to be despised, but more deserving of reprobation than of pity ; though the peculiar circumstances of his situation go far to excuse many of his errors, and con- tributed much to form his poetical character. Wildman Thos., Esq. colonel of the 9th Lancers and the Sher- wood Rangers, Newstead abbey Beardsall Mrs. Phoebe Beardsall Jas. lime burner Johnson Wm. gardener Hodgkinson Thos. corn miller Pickard Wm. brick maker Palin Wm. vict. Hutt, Nottigham road FARMERS. Beardsall Wm. Slaney Cocks Chas Smith Wm Heath John Taylor Saml Howes John Voce Susanna NUTHALL PARISH includes the township and chapelry 682 NUTHALL PARISH, of Awsworth, and contains 509 inhabitants, and about 1200 : acres of land. Nut hall is a small rural village on the Alfreton road, 4| miles N.W. by N. of Nottingham. Near it, in an extensive park with a beautiful lawn, lake, gardens, and plantations, is Nuthall Temple, the elegant seat of Robert Holden, Esq. who purchased it in 1820, of the Hon. George Vernon, whose father had obtained it in marriage with the daughter of the late Charles Sedley, Esq. The house is square, with two Very low wings, and a handsome portico in front, approached by a light ballustraded range of steps. The roof rises rapidly to a large and lofty dome in the centre, which hides all the chimneys, and is surrounded with an airy ballustrade, commanding an exten- sive view of the adjacent country. The dome within displays a profusion of ornamental plaster work, and has a light gallery supported by the pillars of the magnificent hall, which is lighted from the dome, and is of an octagon figure, 36 feet in diameter ; decorated with the richest exhibition of the plastic art in the county. The original rotunda of Palladio, of which this house is a copy, is the Villa Capra, near Vicenza, in Italy, of which there are two other copies, viz. Mereworth Castle and Foots- cray Place, in Kent, both of which, as well as this, are much inferior to the original, which stands pre-eminent for simplicity, commodiousness, and elegance, though its style of architecture is altogether incongruous in our climate. The church stands on the north side of the park, and is dedicated to St. Patrick. The living is a rectory, with about 50 acres of glebe, and valued in the King's books at £3. 14s» 9d. The Rev. Charles Nixon is the incumbent, and Robert Holden, Esq. the patron, besides whom here are several smaller land owners, viz. Peter Fearn- head, Thos, Nixon, Wm. Faulconbridge, and Chas. Antill. Cinder-Hill is a small hamlet in the township of and one mile S. E. of Nuthall. Awsworth township and chapelry borders upon Derbyshire, and has a small village on the Nottingham canal, 2| W. of Nut- hall. The manor, which has an extensive colliery, was anciently called Aldesworth, and was given to the priories of Burton and Lenton, but the Earl of Stamford is now its lord, and also owner of all the land, except 300 acres belonging to Lord Mid- dleton. The chapel was consecrated about 17<30, and is a curacy endowed with about £50 a-year. The Rev. Gervase Browne is the incumbent, and the rector of Nuthall the patron. The chapelry is entitled to send one poor person to Ilkeston almshouses, and to receive £5 yearly from the funds of Sined- ley's charity, for teaching 18 poor children ; the Earl of Stam- ford is trustee. NUTHALL. Holden Rt. Esq. Nuthall temple Daykin Saml. colliery owner Faulconbridge Wm. gent Hurd Geo. shoemaker Kirkland Edw. overseer BR0XT0VV HUNDRED. 583 Knighton Solomon, bricklayer and vict Lilley Win, vict. Goat's Head Nixon Rev. Chas. rector Plant Moses, gardener, &c. Richardson Win. engineer Robinson Edw. shoemaker Sharp Sam), saddler, Cinderhill Stapleton Edw. gardener, Cin- derhill "White Win. shopkeeper Farmers* Dennis Rd Houghton Hy Jarvis VV. Sark Wigley Hy Sands Wigley Thos <*WS WORTH. Chambers John, chapel clerk Chambers Wm. brick layer Jackson Rev. Luke, colliery owner, Hucknall Torkard Millward Thos. shopkeeper Reeve Edw. farmer Richards Mat. vict. Jolly Colliers Sharpe Rd. colliery agent Spray Martha, farmer Tavlor John, farm bailiff PAPPLEWICK PARISH. Papplewick, 6 miles S. of Mansfield, is a small village and parish on the east bank of the Leen, opposite to Linby, and belongs to the lord of that manor, (see p. 576,) who has here also interdicted stocking- frames, and Ave suppose cotton mills likewise, as the extensive mills here have been unoccupied ever since he came into possession. Papplewick Hall, built in 1/87, b} 7 the late Hon. Frederick Montagu, and now occupied by Thomas Nixon, Esq. is an elegant -stone edifice, in a small but beautiful park, commanding extensive prospects. Near it is the church, which was rebuilt in 1795, and is dedicated to St. James. It has a handsome stained glass window, and is completely embowered in trees. The living is a curacv, cer- tified at J617. 8s. 6d. Andrew Montagu, Esq. is the patron, and the Rev. Thomas Hurt the incumbent, as at Linby. — Po- pulation, 359. Bowman John, farmer --Bradley Wm. farmer Brown John, shopr. & p. clerk Burton Wm. butler Carter Rt. farmer Dawn John, schoolmaster Goodall Fras. shoemaker Gee Thos. miller & bone crusher Heath Thos. wheelwright Howett Wm. farmer Johnson John, -shoemaker Mellows Wm. farmer Machin Rd. butcher Nixon Ts. Esq. Papplewick hall Riley John, land agent Thorp James, tailor Widdison J. vict. Griffin's Head Wilkinson Mark, joiner Wood Edw. blacksmith RADFORD PARISH Is bounded on the south by Lenton and Nottingham, and has drank so deeply of the manufacturing spirit of the latter town, that it now ranks as the second most populous parish in the countv, though it does not comprise more than 600 acres of land, belonging to numerous freeholders, and forming a parcel of the manor of Lenton, being given by Wra. Pevtrel to the , 584 RADFORD PARISH* priory which he founded in that parish. As has been seen at pages 76 and 77> the population of Radford has increased more than four-fold during the last thirty years ; but the greater part of this augmentation has taken place during the last ten years, in which the number of houses has has been swelled from 973 to 2073, and the population from 4805 to 9806 souls! The 1100 new houses built betwixt 1821 and 1831, form several handsome villages, occupied chiefly -'"by bobbin net makers, and forming a number of parallel and cross streets, bearing different names, and regularly built of brick and roofed with blue ^late. There are also in the parish three bleach works, two corn mills, an extensive cotton and worsted mill, and two immense bobbin net manufactories, in one of which the machines are worked by the agency of steam, and in the other by hand, like those domestic machines which are to be found in the upper rooms of most of the houses in this and the adjacent parishesi — See page 193 to 204. Radford old village is situated on the river Leen, \\ N„ W by W. of Nottingham. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, was rebuilt in 1812, at the cost of <£2000. It is a neat gothic edifice, with a gallery and tower at the west end, and near it is that delightful place of public resort called Radford grove, (see p. 183.) The benefice is a vicarage, valued in the King's books at £3. 9s. 4|d. The King is the patron, and the Rev. Edward Creswell the incumbent. The Wesleyan chapel here was built in 1825, and enlarged in 1828, and there are twelve other Dissenting chapels in the other villages of the parish. — The school here was built by the late Wm. Elliott, Esq., and has been given up to the parishioners by his executors, in lieu of £60 which he had bequeathed to the poor, and the interest of which is now paid out of the poor rates. New Radford forms a large modern suburb, extend- ing to the western limits of Nottingham on the Derby and Alfreton roads. It contains 4032 inhabitants, several spa- cious streets extending nearly to Bloomsgrove, and having, on a plot of building ground, a large square set apart for the pur- pose of forming a central market place for the parish. Here are four chapels belonging to the Wesleyan, Kilhamite, Inde- pendent, and Primitive Methodists. The principal streets are De Ligne-street; Denman-street; Pelican-street ; Chapel-street; Montford -street ; Heath-street; Hayhurst-street; George-street; Earl-street; Elliott-street; Sion-hill ; and Gregory-street ; in the latter of which are the waterworks, established in 1824, by Mr. Joshua Beardmore. The water is raised by a steam en- gine from a well 60 yards deep, into a reservoir at the top of the engine house, and is thence sent in pipes to the houses in this part of the parish, and also to many of those in Notting- ham park ; this district being higher than the level of any of the town reservoirs. — (See p. 187.) There are also two small EROXTOW HUNDRED. 585 waterworks at Messrs. Walkers', on the Derby road, and at Messrs. Fishers and Levers, in George- street, so that this newly created neighbourhood is now well supplied by pipes and carts with excellent water for every culinary purpose. Aspley, nearly one mile N.W. of Radford, is a small hamlet which gives name to a large estate belonging to Lord Middleton, and extending into the parishes of Wollaton and Bilborougb. It was anciently one of the woods of Sherwood forest. The hall is a neat mansion, occupied by William Stamford Burn- side, Esq. Bloomsgrove, another new village, lies betwixt Old and New Radford, within J mile W. by N. of Nottingham, and contains 130J inhabitants, and two chapels, built in 1824-5, for the Independent Methodists, and the Unitarians. Bobbers Mill, an ancient corn mill upon the Leen, half a mile N. of Old Radford, gives name to a new village where there are two bleach works, and a Kilhamite and Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, upon the Alfreton road, nearly \\ mile N.W. of Nottingham. Hyson Green, i mile N.W. of Nottingham, is another well built village, which has been erected during the last ten years, and is said to have had its name from the tea gardens, to which parties frequently resorted after a summer's walk, to quench their thirst with hyson and other nectareous draughts, for which purpose one of these establishments is still in existence here. Part of the village is in the parish of Lenton, as has been seen at page 573. Its population amounts to upwards of 2000 souls, and its principal streets, &c, are Lenton-street ; Forest-street ; Hol- land-street; Sheridan's-row; Saville-row; Castle-row; Pleasant- row ; Forest-terrace, &c. &e. The Wesleyan and Kilhamite Methodists, and the Independent Calvinists, and the General Baptists, have each a chapel here. Kensington, about a quarter of a mile E. of Old Radford, has upwards of 500 inhabitants occupying newly built houses, and having a Primitive Methodist chapel. Lovett Mills is a hamlet with a corn mill and bleach works on the Leen, three quarters of a mile N. of Old Rad- ford, near to which latter, is the new village of Prospect Place. Sherwood Hill, ] mile N. of Nottingham, and near the race course, is a small modern village, pleasantly situated, and containing several very handsome mansions, occupied by wealthy families. RADFORD PARISH DIRECTORY. 0^= Those marked 1 reside at Bloomsgrove ; 2 Bothers Mill; 3 Flvson Green ; 4 Kensi?igtcn ; 5 Neiv Bad ford ; 6 Brospecf place ; ' 7 Old Badford. 3 E 586 RADFORD PARISH. The Contractions used for the names of streets, &c. — are Afd. for Alfreton road ; Adp. Adam's place ; Atr. Aspley terrace ; Brw. Birch row ; Crw. Castle row ; Cht. Chapel street ; Dgt. De Ligne street; Dnt. Denman street; Drd. Derby road; Elt. Elliot street; Fst. Forest street; Ftr. Forest terrace; Ggt. George street ; Gst. Gregory street ; Gkt. Greek street ; Hst. Holland street ; Hgt. High street; Hcl, Holland's close; Hth. Heath street ; Ird. Ilkeston road ; Kgt. King street ; Lst. Lenton street ; Lnt. Lion street ; Mst. Montford street ; Nst. Newton street ; Pst. Pelican street ; Ptr. Pleasant row ; Ppl. Prospect place ; Pkl. Park hill ; Pbs. Parker's buildings ; Svr. Saville row ; Shr. Sheridan's row ; Shi. Sion hill ; Sst. South street ; Sdl. Sherwood hill ; Wst. Wood street ; and Tyd. Terrace yard. 3 Adams Wm. gent. Adp 4 Akers Hy. medicine vender Gst 5 AllenMr. Corals. Brw 5 Allen Mr. Wm. Aspley, ter 5 Allen Wm. stenciller, Gst 5 Alton Mrs. Eliz. Sion hill 3 Anderson Mrs, Grace, Lst 8 Aston Saml. ironfounder 5 Atherstone Mr. T. Aspley ter 3 Abeson Stockdale, lace manu- facturer. Ftr 5 Basford Wm. manager, Atr 5 Bason Hy. spirit mert. Atr 4 Beck Mrs. Martha, Geoge st 5 Birch Mr. Rd, Alfreton rd 2 Blenston John, farmer, Aspley 5 Bloomer Miss, Sion hill 3 Booth Abm. Warper, 38, Ptr 5 Bramman John, hawker, Pkl 5 Branson Thos. warper, Ard 5 Branson Wm. piano fort tuner, Dnt 5 Breedon Mr. Saml. George st 5 Bromhead Mrs. Ann, Mont- ford st 3 Bryan Mr. Jonath. Adam's pi Burnside Wm. Stamford. Esq. Aspleyhall 1 Bywater Mr. James, sen 7 Caunt Thos. gov. of the poor- house, overseer, & constable 5 Claringburn Mr. Jph. Augts. Birch row 5 Constable Wm. millwrgt. Pbs 5 Coope Jesse, solr. Sion hill 3 Cox Jas. whsman, 4, Saville rw 1 Creswell Rev. SI. B.A. curate 3 Daft Rt. gent. Forest ter 5 Dale Rd. gent. Aspley ter 5 Daykin Wm. bookpr. Pkl 3 Deacock Mr. Wm. Adam's pi 5 Deakin John, hosier, Aspley tr 3 Dewrose Saml. overlkr. Adp 5 Duffin Mrs. Rachel, Derby rd 5 Dutton John, Cowkpr. Atr 7 Edson Eliz. farmer 5 Fairfield Wm. plasterer, Mst 5 Fairholm Jph. Heath st 3 Foote Rt. Esq. Scottom lodge 5 Forman Capt. Geo. Shi Frearson John, lace thread dlr. Denman st 7 Freer John, farmer 5 Gass Mrs. Mary, Derby road Gibson Mrs. Lucy, Sherwood hill 1 Gibson Thos, warper 5 Gibson Wm. bookkeeper,Drd 5 Glaskin Mrs. Sarah, Ird 3 Goodacre Lieut. Rd. Ftr 5 Hall John, mfr. Derby rd 5 Hall Liskum, whsman. Lnt 5 Hannay Wm. mfr. 11, Park hill 5 Harrison Wm. cowkpr. Pst .5 Hickling Wm. pawnbroker, Shi 5 Hill Mr. Chas. Shi 7 Hill Mrs. Jane 5 Hillock Revd. John, Atr 7 Hooke Jph. parish clerk 5 Hovey Mrs. Eliz. Sion hill 5 Hudson John, saddletree mkr- Sion hill 3 Hughes Mrs. Mary, Fst 5 Hydes Hphy. gent. Aspley ter 2 James Rd. cowkeeper 2 Jobson Henry, farmer Johns Mrs. Mary Ann, 13, Ppl 3 Johnson Wm. portrait painter, Hst 5 Kain Danl. contractor, Shi 3 Kidney Mrs. Mary, 35, Ptr RADFORD PARISH. 58J 5 Langworth Saml. schoolr. Shi Locke Wm. cabtmkr. Forest pi Mc Donald John, mfr. Shi 5 Malbon Mr. John, Derby rd 5 Marriott Mrs. Rebecca, Drd 5 Marsh Mrs. Mary, Sion hill 3 Martin Geo. tanner, 29, Ptr 7 Miller Samuel, manager 7 Mitchell Wm. cowkeeper 5 Mullen Mrs. Mary, Wood st 4 Murray Saml. tea dealer Newball Thos. mfr. Shi 3 Newman Benj. gent. Hcl 5 Owencroft John, Professor of Dancing, Derby road 5 Page Jas. mfr. Park hill 5 Parker Mr. John, Pbs Pawlett Daniel, grocer, Pkl 7 Peet Thos. mfr. Vicarage 5 Peverel Thos. canvasser. Tyd 3 Pepper Thos, farmer, Adp 5 Potts Rt. warehouseman, Atr 3 Prew Mrs. Ann, Fst Price Mrs. Mary, Radford farm 5 Riley Thos. cir. library, Gst 3 Royle Shord, 2, Svr Academies, 5 Barrett Eliz. Ggt Birks Mgt. 29, Ppl. 3 Blackwell Eliz. Bdg Bradley Ann, 17, Ppl 3 Cheetham Eliz. Fst. 5 Goodman John, Gst 7 Hampson Frances Harvey John, 31, Ppl 3 Haslam Rd. Shr 5 Higton Job, Dnt 2 Hill Joseph 5 Humber Sarah, Gst 5 Lockwood Ann, Gst 3 Smith Wm. Lst 4 Taylor Saml 5 Thorpe Sarah, Cht 7 Widdowson John 1 Woolley Saml Agents (Bobbin Net.) Ashwell John, H 5 Booth Thos. Wst 5 Carver John, Ggt 5 Gibson Thos. Dgt 3 Gough John, Adp 5 Gutridge Hy. Dgt 5 Hall Wm. Dnt Hulse Saml. Sdl 5 KettlebandWm. Ggt 5 Maples Rd. Atr. 5 Wheatley Wm. Pst Bakers, fyc. 1 Bywater Chas 3 Bywater Wm. Hst 5 Cope Geo. Afd 1 Hebb Daniel 5 Johnson Ann, Shi 5 Lees Wm. Ggt 7 Moore Elizabeth 5 Newball Hanh. Afd 5 PalethorpeThos.Pkl 5 Percy Wm. Grove 5 Toyne Thos. Hth Twigg Benj . Ppl 5 Wells Sydney, Est 7 Weston Saml. (Conf) 5 Woodroffe Wm. Dnt Bleachers. Bostock Edward, sen. Lovett Mills 2 Bostock Edwd. jun 2 Mitchell William Bobbin Sf Carriage Makers, 3 Rudd John, warper, Hst 5 Sanderson Wm. Surgeon, Elt 5 Saywell Thos. warper, Sst 3 Schofield Mr. John, Hcl 3 Shepherd Jph. cowkeeper Sheperson John, farmer, Aspley 5 Shelton Mrs. Jane, Derby rd 5 Smith Thos. gent. Ashley ter 5 Smith Wm.gent. Derby rd 5 Soar Mr. Saml. Ilkeston rd 5 Stanley Mr. Jph. George st 5 Starr Thos. cotton preparer, Gst 5 Stevens Edw. warper, Est 3 Sykes John, trimmer, Ptr Thackeray John. mfr. Forest hs Trueman Dd. mfr. Sherwood hs 3 Walker Wm. Fryer, bookr. Hcl 5 Ward Jph. Sep. solr. Aspley tr Wells John, draper, 11, Forest hs 5 Wigley Saml. trunk & paper box maker, Sion hill Whitlark John, bookr. Sdl 7 Wilson Wm. cotton spinner 1 Wood John, coal agent 4 Yates Mr. Thos. Geo. st Young Wm. traveller, Pkl 3 Bird Jas. 16, Svr 5 Bostock Jph. Gst 5 Boyes Rt. Pkl 5 Garrett Paul 15 Hobson Thomas. (Springer, &c.)Lion street Bobbin Net Makers. 3 Adams, Isc. 19, Svr 1 Allen John 5 Alton, Wm. Shi Amos Alex. 2, Ppl 7 Amos Joseph 5 Archer Saml. Mst 3 Ashton Wm. 7, Svr. 5 Atkin Matth. Afd 3 Atkin Wm. Shr 7 Atkinson Edmd 3 Attenborough Ths. Pleasant row 1 Bacon Elizabeth 1 Bacon Samuel 5 Bailey Thos. Mst Bamford Jas. Ppl 5 Barker John, Ird 4 Bateman John 5 Bates Wm, Dgt 5%8 BOBBIN NET MAKERS* 5 Bates Saml. Ird 3 Beardsley Geo. Ptr 1 Beardsley Samuel 4 Beck Adam Berrington Th. Ird 5 Bills Geo. Wst Bird John, Ppl 3 Birks Wm. Crw 5 Bloore John, Shi 7 Bodell John 5 Bosvvorth Geo. Atr 3 Boyer Edw. 36, Ptr 1 Brazier John 5 Briley Geo. Ird 3 Brookes Sam. 19, Pr 3 Brookes Thos. Ptr 3 Brown Wm. Hst Burdett Wm. 30, Ppl 5 Burgin John, Pkl 4 Burton John, Nst 7 Burton Php. &Jph 5 Butler Saml. Wst 5 Calvert Win. Ird 3 Cartledge Wm. Ptr 4 Chambers Wm 3 Cheetham Wm Ptr 5 Chettle Saml. Pst 3 Chettle Wm. 24, Ptr Clarkson Wm. Ppl Cleaver Jph. 3, Ppl 5 Clifford John, Ggt 3 Clifton Rd. 5, Ptr 3 Clifton Thos. 40 Ptr 5 Coggan Geo. Tyd 5 Cooley Wm. Ird 3 Cooper Saml. 1 2, Shr 5 Couldwell Saml. Aft 3 Crofts Enoch Fst I Cross Israel 5 Cullen Benj. Wst 3 Day Hy. Hst 3 Day Wm. 5, Svr 3 Dexter Thos. 14, Svr 7 Draper Samuel 5 Dufty John, Ggt 5 Dufty Thos. Gkt 5 Dunk John. Afd Eagles Wm. Fdk. 37, Prospect place ,"> Ellison Wrn. Ird. 5 Elson Wm. Ird 1 Farmer Joseph 3Fidler Geo, Svr 5 Fisher Jas. Afd 5 Fishers & Levers, George street 5 Foot Rt. Dnt 3 Foster Wm. 2, Ptr. 3 Fox Jha. Ptr 5 Gadsby Ann, Dnt 5 Garratt Paul, G^t 3 Garton Thos. Shr 5 Gibson Jph. Brw 5 Gibson John, Ird 1 Gibson Robert 5 Gill Danl. 27, Ptr 5 Gill Jas. Mnt 3 Godby Edwd. Crw 5 Goddard John, Ird 5 Goodall James 5 Goodall Chas. Pkl 5 Green Wm. Ggt 1 Gregory Robert 5 Gregory Rd. Ggt 5 G ripper Wm. Brw 3 Gunn John, Ptr 5 GuttridgeThos. Mst 3 Hack forth Hy. Ptr 7 Hall Thomas 1 Hallam George 5 Hancock, Heb. Ird 3 Hancock Saml. Fst 3 Harold Wm. Ptr 5 Harper John, Pkl 5 Harrington Reb.Atr 1 Harris John 3 Haslam John, Hst 1 Haughton 5 Haynes John, Brw 5 Hazeldine John, Shi 5 Hazeldine, Sar. Ggt Hemsley Jas. S. (warp net) 27, Prospect pi 1 Henshaw George 5 Hewitt John, Ird 3 Hickling Thos. Hst 1 Higton John 5 Hill Benj. Pst 5 Hill Jph. Chapel st 3 Hill Mattw. Ptr 5 Hill Wm. Ggt 7 Hind John 5 Holland Saml. Ird Holmes Jtn. Ppl 5 Holt Wm. Dgt Hooke Danl. 15, Ppl 7 Hooke Joseph 1 Hooton James 3 Hooton John, Svr 5 Hooton Saml. Pkl 3 Hopewell John. Ptr 5 Hopkin John Wst Hopkin Wm. 20, Shr 1 Hubbard John, Ird 1 Husbands Saml 5 Huskinson Hy. Ggt Jackson Wm. 36, Ppl 5 James Cornls. Ggt Jarvis Fras. Ppl Jeffs Crescent, Ppl 5 Johnson John, Afd 5 Johnson Wm. Wst 5 Keary John, Dgt 5 KettlebandWm. Ggt Kirk Joseph, Ppl 1 Knight Joseph 5 Knight Wm. Sst 5 Knight Wm. Hth 3 Lamb Rt. Hst 3 LeatherlandW. Crw 4 Ledger Thos. Ggt 5 Ledlie James Ggt 5 Lever John, Gst 3 Lees John, Svr 5 Levers Jph. Shi 5 Locke William 5 LongmireWm. Atr 3 Lymbery John, Ptr 3 Maltby Jph. Ptr Maltbv Thos. Sdh 3 Marriott H & Wm 3 Marriott Thos. Shr 3 Martin Geo. Ptr Martin John, Ppl 3 Mather Eml. Shr 5 Merchant Rt. Pst Middleton John, Sdh 5 Middleton Saml. Shi 5 Moore Stph. Ird 1 Morrell William 5 Morris John, Shi 5 Morris Wm. Brw 4 Murray Samuel 3 Need ham Jn. Svr 3 Needham Saml. Ptr 3 Nelson John, Svr 5 Newham Hy. Dgt 1 Newton Thomas 5 Oliver John, Cht RADFORD PARISH. .589 3 Owen Jph. Ptr Palmer John, Ppl 3 Parker John, Ptr 5 Parker Saml. Gst 3 Pedder Wm. Shr 3 Peet Geo. Shr 5 Piercy John, Sst 4 Pilkington, Joseph Plowright John, Ppl Poltney John, Shr 5 Poole Wm. Atr 3 Potter Thos. Ftr Proctor Benj. Ppl i Ragg Joseph 5 Ratcliffe Saml. Shi 5 Redfern Thos. Ird 3 Renew Michl. Ptr Rigby David, Ggt 3 Richardson, Jas.Pti 3 Robinson John, Ftr 1 Robinson Wm. & J Robinson William 5 Roe Eliz. Ird 3 Sampson Hy. Ptr 3 Savage Jph. Ptr 5 Say well Wm. Sst 3 Scott Abm.Shr 5 Scottorn Thos. Pkl 5 Seal Frs. Pkl 4 Seives Benjamin Seibv Thomas, Shr 5 Sewell Wm. Nst Shipman Thos. Ppl 5 Simpson Jas. Ird Skevington Samuel, 8. Prospect place 3 Slack Geo. 8, Shr 5 Slack Saml. Bnv 5 Smith James 5 Smith James 5 Smith John, Ird 5 Smith Saml. Afd 1 Smith Samuel 5 Smith Thomas, Dgt 5 Smith Thomas, Gs;t 3 Siieath Wm. Lst «j Soar Wm. Gst 4 Stanton Abm. Kst 4 Stanton John 3 Storer Benj. Ptr 3 Street John, Ptr 5 Street Saml. Atr Street Wm. Ppl 7 Streeton William .5 Summer Wm. Wst 1 Sutton George 5 Synyer Hy. Dgt 5 Taylor John, Gst 7 Taylor John 1 Taylor Thomas 5 Tetley Wm. lid 3 Thurman Samuel Meed, Castle place 3 Tinkler Rt. Crw 5 Tingley Thos. Gst 1 Tomlinson George 5 Tomlinson Thomas 5 Trueman Saml. Pkl 5 Upton Geo. Islingn 4 Vann Walter, K*t 5 Walker Geo. Fdk. (bdg. surveyor) Est 5 Walker Thos. Atr 5 Walker Wm. Pst 3 Ward Edwin Hst Warner Thos. Dgt Warwick John, Sdl 5 Watton Saml. Ggt West Eb. 21, Ppl West Fras. 24, Ppl 3 White Sam!. Shr 3 Whittle Wm. Ptr 7 Wild Wm. & Geo 5 WHlbond Wm. Ggt Willey Saml. Sdl 3 Wilson Wm. Shr 5 Woodroffe W. Dnt Woodward J as. Ppl 5 Wright Thos. Ird Wright Thos. Ppl 5 Wrighton John, Ird Boot fy Shoe Mkrs. 5 Baguley Jph. Dnt Benton Wm. Ppl 2 Birkinshaw Thos 3 B'atherwick Jn. Fst 3 Brown Chs. Sst 4 Burton John 5 Cartwright Tb. Afd 1 Chesterfield John 5 Cress well Thos 5 Dunk Beaj. Ard Dring James, Ppl | 5 Fisher Edm. Ard 3 Gibson Jas. Crw 3 Gibson Wm. Hst 3 a 9. 3 Hallam John, Hst 5 Hannah Benj. Ggt 5 Hedderley Geo. Shi 1 Herring Benjamin 1 Higginson Samuel 3 Idwell John, Shr 4 Pilkington Richard 5 Riley Jonth. Gst 5 Shaw Thos. Ard 5 Smith William 1 Swift James 5 Taylor William 7 Turpin John 2 Walker John 3 Warren Edwd 7 Walker William 4 Whitehurst Jacob 5 Wood Thomas Wil- son, Gst 5 Wright Jph. Brw Bricklayers* 3 Attenborough Gee. 8, Pleasant row 5 Butler Mich!. Mnt 2 Chambers Thomas 1 Harlow John 1 Knight Jn. (mason) 4 Knight Wm. (ma- son) Hague street 5 Parker Thos. Atr 5 Wright Thos. Ird Butchers, 3 Addicott Dd. Ftr 5 Aikin Rd. Afd 7 Dickens Edward 5 Gould James, Afd 5 Hayles Thos. Dnt 3 Kirk Thos. Svr 5 Mason Mat. Ird 5 Parker Levi, Shi 5 Richards Saml. Aid 3 Stokes Mat. Hst 4 Tandy Rt. Abbey: I White William .5 Wright John, Gst Cart Owners ■> 3 Abbot Rd. Hcl 7 Anthony Samuel 7 Biaithwaite Thos 5 Burton John, Sst ,5 Lowen John o Maples Thos o Southern Thos. A I'd 590 RADFORD PARISH. 7 Taylor John 5 Watson Wm. Sst Cotton Spinners, Wilson Wm. & Saml. (and Angola, and fancy yarns) Corn Millers. Bostock Edw. sen. Lovett mills** Burton John, Bur- ton's mill — John Bonner, manager 7 Harrison George 2 Simpson Joseph 7 Smith Edward Druggists. 5 Houldgate Rt. Pbs 5 Need & Coltman, Saville row 5 Saunders Sarah Ggt Framesmiths fy Ma- chine Makers. 4 Brookhouse Thos. Prince street 3 Chater & Kinder, 8, Saville row 1 Bunting & Ragg, Bloomsgrove st 5 Cheswell John, Atr 5 Evans David, Dgt 5 Gregory Rd. Ggt 3 Hancock Saml. Fst INNS & TAVERNS. .5 Cannon, Saml. Gunn, Derby rd 3 Cricket Players & Tea Gar- dens, John Pepper 1 Peacock Inn, Saml, Elliott, Ird 5 Pelican, Mary Cooper, Pel. st 7 Plough, James Wood Radford Grove and Tea Gardens, William Parr 7 Rose, Joseph Wild 5 Sir J. B. Warren, Ann Web- ster, Sion hill 7 Three Tons, Wm. Streeton 2 Wheat Sheaf, Samuel Scott 7 White Horse, Wm. Whitworth 5 White Lion, Wm. Fletcher, Gst 5 Wind Mill, John Godfrey, Afd BEERHOUSES. 1 Black Horse, Wm. Mason 5 Samuel Ingram, High street 3 Kenrick Wm. Fst 5 Kerry Rd. & Co. Denman street 5 Levers Thos. Shi 7 Littlewood Thomas 5 Motteishaw Ts. Ird I Ragg Reuben 5 Simpson Thos. Shi 3 Smith James, Gkt Smith Thomas Ppl 5 Tomlinson Ts. Gkt 5 Twigg James, Dgt 7 Wild Wm. & Geo Framework Knitters. 3 Collins John 3 Diggle Nathaniel 5 Fawcett Wm. Atr 5 Floyd William 3 Gunn Thomas, Ptr 5 Horner Hy. Gst 1 Kingsley William 5 Lockwood Wm. Gst 5 Preston John, Pst 5 Shipman Luke, Pkl 3 Storey Chas. Hst 3 Watson John, Svr 1 Wells James Wells Thomas, Ppl Gardeners. 4 Cresswell Patrick 1 Goodman Jph. (job) 5 Heath Thos. (job) 5 Hind Hy. Ird 5 Hind Wm. Ggt 2 Johnson Richard Kerry John, Aspley 2 Milton George 7 Richards Edward 5 Tomlins John, Hgt 5 Turner Wm. Hgt 7 Wilkins Thomas Hair Dressers. 5 Allen Thos. Shi 7 Kidman Henry 5 Need Jph. Brw 3 Shephard Jon. Crw 3 Taylor William Hosiery Manuftrs. 5 Collyer Saml. (silk) Islington road 3 Helson John, Fst 5 Jenkins Chas. Wat- son, & Co. Park hill, & Milk street, London Ratcliffe John, Sst 3 Richardson Jas. Ptr 7 Saxton John Thorne Wm. Byfpl 3 Ward John, Hst 3 Whittle Wm. Ptr 5 Culley John, Sst 5 Down Jas. (job) Gst 5 James Gould, Alfreton road 5 Thomas Marlow, Ilkeston rd 3 Joshua Overend, Forest st 4 William Smith, Abbey row 7 John Winfrey 7 Isaac Mosley 3 Coffee-house, Wm. Leatherland 1 Dog & Pheasant, John Higton 5 Generous Briton, Wm. Wilson, Heath street 4 Jolly Higler, Eliz. Copestick 5 Jolly Miller, Ann Johnson, Sh) 3 Jolly Sailor, Thos. Brown, Hst 5 King Wm, IV. Wm. Page, Cht 3 New Inn, Hy. Warren, Hst 3 Odd Fellows, Hy. Ward, Hst 5 Old Oak, Rd. Wheatcroft, Dnt Pheasant, William Street, Ppl 5 Polish Lancer, Geo. Barton, Atr 5 Wheat Sheaf, Jn. Harrison, Ird BROXTOW HUNDRED, 591 Joiners fy Cabinet Makers. 1 Brutnell Wm 3 Pinner Geo. Adp 5 Simons Wm. Elt 5 Smith John & Wm. De Ligne Street 5 Taylor John, Hst 7 Wild William 5 Wilson Saml. Cht Maltsters. 4 Burton & Pidcock, King street I UnderwoodWm. Bst 7 Winfred John Nail Makers. 1 Jackson John, Bst 5 Taylor John, Sst Needle Makers. 3 Cherry Saml. Hst 5 Litchfield Jn. Gst 5 Noble Saml. Gst 5 Redwood Hy. Brw 5 Shipman John, Pst 3 Wylde Rd. Ptr Painters. 3 Biddulph John, Ptr 5 Malbon Geo. Drd 3 Stainforth Jn.Crw Plumbers Sf Glaziers. 5 Gunn Saml. Drd 1 Shelton George 3 Stephenson George Sadler. 5 Bradwell John Gst Shopkeepers. 5 Atkin Matt. Afd 5 Bailey Thos. Mst 5 Bainbridge Jn. Gst 3 Ball Wm. Hst 4 Beck Adam, Ggt 5 Bostock Jph. Gst 5 Brown Eliza, Shi 5 Cartwright Jn. Sst 5 Cheadle John, Dnt 5 Chimley Thos. Est 1 Crooks John 4 Dickisson Henry 5 Ellis John, Shi 5 Fallowell Geo. Sst 4 Greaves John, Ird 5 Hall Wm. Dnt 3 Hextall Ann, Adp 5 Hollingworth F. Pst 1 Hubbard John, Ird 5 Humber Saml. Ggt 5 Husbands Jph Brw. 5 Lees Fras. Dnt 4 Johnson John 3 Manners My. Svr 5 Mario w Thos. Ird 5 Maycock Wm. Dgt 7 Morley George 5 Neison Adam, Ggt 2 Page William 5 Peach Samuel 3 Pilkington Jn. Ptr Redgate George 5 Redgate Wm. Gst 1 Scotton Jas. (8z dpr) Shipman Th. 11, Ppl 7 Smith Edward 5 Smith John, Brw 7 Taylor William 4 Tookey Sarah 7 Turpin John 5 Unwin Wm. Est 1 Walker John 5 Wells John, Dnt 4 White William 5 White John Ber- ridge (bacon dealer) Brw 5 Williamson Rd. (& broker) Afd 5 Wilson Wm. Hth 7 Wilson Ann Sinker Makers. 5 Millward Geo. Dgt 5 Millward Jn. Mst 5 Wells Saml. Gst Tallow Chandler* 5 Beardmore J. Shi Tailors. 1 Bywater James 5 Fox John, Ird 3 Gibbons John, Hst 7 Goulding John 3 Hasty Geo. Svr 5 Hill Jph. Cht 1 Hitchcock Saml 5 Kettleband Jn. Brw h Kingsley Zep. Gst 7 Newton Isaac 2 Parker William 3 Redwood, Wm. Hst 1 Rigg Jph. Ird 5 Tait James, Brw 4 Taylor Robert TetleyGeo. Ppl 5 Wall John, Gst Turners. 5 Bennet John Afd 5 Halfpenny John (& fancy chair) Earlst Wood Benjamin 5 Wood Wm, Brw Wheelwrights. 7 Buck Wm. & Son 4 Ledger William SELSTON PARISH lies near the source of the Erwash, which divides it from Derbyshire within three miles of Alfreton. It abounds in coal and ironstone, and comprises 2050 acres of enclosed land, and 900 acres of open common, of which Viscount Melbourne, Lord Mexborough, and Sir Willoughby Dixie ara the principal owners, and joint lords of the manor. The latter gentleman is also impropriator, and patron of the vicarage which is valued in the King's books at «£5, and is now enjoyed hy the Rev. Joseph Churchill Dixie. The population amounts to 1321 souls, living in 256 houses, which are scattered through 592: SELSTON PARISH* the hamlets of Selston, Bagthorp, and Underwood, the two latter of which are distant from one to two miles south of the former, and 10 miles N.N. W. of Nottingham. The church, dedicated to St. Helen, has a tower and two bells. In the pa- rish are three chapels, viz. one at Selston belonging- to the Cal- vinists, one at Hand-Stabbing occupied by the Wesleyans, and one at Bagthorpe tenanted by the Primitive Methodists. The feast is on the nearest Sunday to Old Michaelmas. Bagthorpe is the centre division of the parish, and in it is the ancient hall of Wansley, or JVandesley, near which, in 1830, a urn full of silver coins was found. Underwood, where a colliery has lately been opened, is at the south end of the parish, adjoining to Brinsley. The Selston colliery has been established several years, and a railway is laid from it to Pinxton. Charities. — Three cottages in Selston were built with £32. 10s. belonging to the poor, for which the overseers distri- bute 22s. 6d. yearly, together with 10s. as the interest of £\0 arising from several benefactions. Lady Dixie left 6s. per an- num to be distributed in bread in this parish, u on Nottingham goose fair eve." Those marked I reside at Bagthorpe, 2 at Hand Stubbing hill, 3 Jack's Dale, 4 Selston, 5 Toadhole* 6 Underwood* 7 fVest- wood, and 8 atJVoodnook. 2 Ball John, beerhouse 6 Barber Walker and Co. colliery owners 6 Bdardsall John, beerhouse 4 Bland John, victualler Bull & Butcher 4 Bland Robert, baker 4 Brabley John, wheelwright 8 Carlin Thomas and Son,, ho- siery manufacturers 2 Clark William, yeoman 3 Clark J. vict. Portland Arms 6 Coates Eli, maltster 2 Cook Chpr. cooper 1 Farnsworth John, beerhouse 6 Granger Samuel, maltster 4 HardstarF Rev. Geo. (Baptist) 1 Holmes John, smith, and beer- house 4 Howitt Rebecca, Horse and Jockey Jones-Thomas, draper and beer- house '> Jowitt Peter, mason 4 Lee Matthew, butcher 2. Lilley Henry, shopkeeper 4 Littlewood Samuel, joiner 4 Oakes James and Co. colliery owners 8 Robinson Mary, victunller 4 Salmon Matthew, blacksmith 4 Saunders Samuel, joiner 2 Smith Mr. Benjamin 4 Waterhali John, farrier 4 Waters Henry, shopkeeper 4 Webster James, blacksmith 6 Wharmby William, beerhouse 6 Wilcockson, Samuel, engineer 6 Williamson Edward, miller 4 Wilson James, tailor & p. clerk 1 Wilson John, vict. Dixie Arms 1 Wilson Thomas, gent 6 Wilson Thomas, butcher > brick- maker and horse dealer 4 Wilson Samuel, tai'or FARMERS. 4Allsebrook J 4Clark John JBett Geo 4Clark Joseph 4Birkinshaw J 4Clark Robert 4Bland Mary 4Clark Samuel 3 Booth Martha 4Day Richard iClaik John 4Dodson The?. BROXTOW HUNDRED. 593 6Fisher Wm 4Fletcher Jph Selston Hall 4Fiint James 4Gill Joseph 7Heald George 6 Hewitt Henry 7Hill George 4Hunt Samuel Uackson Rd lMaltbyE.Wan- slev Hall 3Maltby Geo 4Renshaw Ben 4Salmon Sarah 3Sterland John 4Sant John 4Waterhall Sam ISaunders Thos 6Wharmby Jno 4Saxton Sarah 4Whithers Thos Carrier. — John Lee. to Not- tingham, Wed. & Sat. 4 mg. SKEGBY village is built on the two declivities of a deep and narrow valley, near the source of the river Meden, 3 miles W. of Mansfield. The parish contains 656 inhabitants and 1424 acres of land, and has a coal mine, a coarse pottery, and several limestone quarries and kilns, the latter of which are in Stoney- ford-lane. John Dodsley, Esq. of Skegby Hall, is the principal owner and lord of the manor, which was a parcel of the King's manor of Mansfield, until James J. granted it to an ancestor of its present lord. The church is a small ancient structure, and was formerly a chapel to Mansfield. It is a curacy, certified at .£13. 16s. 8d. and is now enjoyed by the Rev. Wm. Goodacre* The dean of Lincoln is the patron and appropriator, but the Duke of Portland is his lessee, and holds a peculiar court for proving the wills, &c. of this parish and Teversal. The feast is on the Sunday after July 10th. In 1613, Matthew Clark left 10s. yearly to the poor, out of land now belonging to Mr. Wm. Ward. In 1741, Simon Smith bequeathed his real and personal estate to found an hospital here, but his devise was void by the mortmain act. Dodsley John, Esq. Skegby Hall Adlington Wm. miller & brick mr Allen Thomas, blacksmith Alvey Wm. hosiery agent Booth John, lime burner Bower Samuel, gardener J Chad wick Thomas, wheelwright Chambers Saml. red ware and brick manufacturer Coope George & Wm. coopers Duffin Thomas, weaver i Dobb William, beerhouse ( Hardstaff William, parish clerk Herriott Samuel, mason & vict Hibberd James, shoemaker Hibberd William, shopkeeper Tudson Benjamin, tailor Judson Wm. bobbin net maker Milner Joseph, beerhouse Ovendale William, lime-burner- Parsons Saml. vict. White Swan Radford Wm. blacksmith Rawson Saml. vict. Anchor Robinson Henry, shoemaker Rowe Saml. shopr. & hosiery agt Ward Thos. S. hosiery agent Ward William, gentleman FARMERS. Slack Thos. Anthony Jph Caladine Jph Caladine Wm. Dobb Matt Hall John Parsons Cath Parsons Rd Townroe Rt (& maltster) Townroe Roby Wass John Wilson Saml Wilson Saml STAPLEFORD is a large village, pleasantly situated on the Erwash, near the Derby road, 6 miles W. by S. of Nottingham. Here are upwards of 100 machines employed in making tatting 594 STAPLEFORD PARISH. and warp lace. The parish contains about 1100 acres, and its population has increased since the year 1801, from 748 to 1533 souls. The principal owners are Lady Warren, Mrs, Fisher, Mr. Charles Antill, Mr. John Dodsley, and John Jackson, Esq., the latter of whom is lord of the manor, and patron of the per- petual curacy; though the Lord Chancellor presented the two last incumbents. The church is a neat edifice with a tower and spire, and was repaired in 1785 and 1819. The living, which is now enjoyed by the Rev. Richard Hoggarth, has been twice augmented with Queen Anne's Bounty, and received at the enclosure in 1771, an allotment of 3a. 1r. 10p. In the village is an ancient cross, with a very curiously wrought shaft. The feast is on the Sunday before Old St. Luke's, or on that day when it falls on a Sunday. Here are two Methodist chapels, "one built 40 years ago, and the other in 1 831. Several sick societies, and a numerous lodge of Odd Fellows, meet in the village. Staplepord Hall is the seat of Lady Warren, relict of the late JRt. Hon. Admiral Sir John Borlase JVarren, Bart, and K. B. y who rebuilt the house in 1797, and sheltered the lawn with beautiful plantations. It would far exceed our limits to enter on the biography of this gallant admiral, who died in 1825, but it is a fact worthy of recording here, that at the com- mencement of the American war, he went to the Fleet and King's Bench prisons, and released with his own purse all the naval officers confined there for debt. Lady Warren pays for the education of 40 girls, and a National school room has just been built by subscription. The poor parishioners receive 20s. yearly from Handley's charity, (see p. 165,) and 20s. yearly from the funds of Willoughby's hospital at Cossal. New Stapleford is a hamlet one mile N.E. of Old Staple- ford, and near it is the " Hemlock stone " a ponderous fragment of a Druid's Temple. Warren Lady Car. Stapleford hi Antill Chas. tanner, Brockhill Armston Samuel, painter Atkin James, guide & needle mkr Barton John, vict. & joiner Barton Vincent, beerhouse Bosquet Yelverton, surgeon Bramley Thos. hosiery agent and manufacturer Brentall Elijah, vict. &bricklr Bramley Jn. vict. New Stapleford Bramley Matthew, beerhouse Cheetham James, machine mkr DaykinJohn, parish clerk Dodsley John, gentleman Eaton William, blacksmith Eyley Joseph, schoolmaster Garrett John, painter Godby John, guide & needle mkr Gollin John, plumber & glazier Greasley Eliz. victualler Greasley James, tailor Jackson John, Esq. brick maker Jones Edward, joiner Jones William, schoolmaster Kent Peter, corn miller Lambert William, blacksmith Newell Wm. lace singer & vict Palmer John, machine maker, and lace thread manufacturer Salthouse Thomas Hill, gent Scattergood Peter, machine mkr Shepherd William, joiner Sleigh Capt. Wm. Niagara Cot BROXTOW HUNDRED. 595 Smalley Mrs. Ann & Sarah Smith John, machine maker Smith Joseph, tailor Watkin William, baker, &c. Wood Rev. Hugh, curate Wood Robert, wheelwright Wright Thomas, corn miller Boot and Shoe Makers. Barton V. & W Howard Thos Butler Joseph Oldershaw Wm Foster Joseph Watson John Partners. Birch William Toft Wm. and Hallam William brick mkr Hickinbotham Townsend Alex Wm. & brick Wallis John maker Grocers and Shopkeepers. Bramley Thos Daykin Saml Chester Rd. (& Doar John draper) Smedley John Tatting and JVarp Lace Mfrs. Those marked * purchase and finish the Tatting ; and t are Bobbin Net makers. Atkin Eliz Atkin Isaac Dalley Wm Dann Saml fGreasley Dd Johnson Thos Kirk by John f Palmer Geo Smedley Thos + Smedley Gerv Smedley John •Streets John & Son •Taylor James Whitelev Thos f Wright Thos STRELLEY PARISH is a district of scattered dwellings, 5 miles W.N.W. of Nottingham, and contains 426 inhabitants and 1800 acres of land, all of which belongs to T. W. Edge, Esq. of Strelley Hall, a plain but neat modern mansion, sur- rounded by tasteful pleasure grounds, commanding fine views of the romantic scenery in the vicinity. It anciently gave name to "one of the oldest and most famous knightly families in the county." The church is dedicated to All Saints, and has been much improved by Mr. Edge, who has ornamented it with an elegant stained glass w r indow. The living is a rectory, in the same patronage and incumbency as that of Bilborough, {see p. 559.) The/east is on the same day as that at Stapleford. About one mile N.W. of the hall is Strelley Park colliery, whence coals are conveyed on a railway to the Nottingam canaL Edge T. Webb, Esq. Strelley hi Edge Rev. J. Webb, M.A. rector Barber, Walker, & Co. coal owns Blunston William, farmer CartwrightRd.com miller Day John, farmer Dodsley John, vict. Broad Oak Flewitt William, blacksmith •Hardstaff Thomas, gamekeeper Martin John, shoemaker Needham Jph. shopkr. & vict Nixon Mr. Charles Scavern Job, farmer Shepperson John, farmer Stevenson Emanuel, shopkpr Watkinson Charles, bricklayer White Mrs. Woodhouse Mrs. Marv SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD PARISH extends from 3 to 5 miles west of Mansfield, and contains 5734 inhabitants and 5861a. Or. 12p. of land, divided into the two townships of Sutton-in- Ashfield and Hucknall-under-Huthvjaite y and of which 3155a. 2r. 14p. belong to the Duke of Portland, in- cluding 1100 acres allotted to him, at the inclosure in 1798, in lieu of the rectorial tithes ; — his grace being the impropriator, 596 SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD. and lord of the manor, which is partly copyhold, and was a Berue of the Soke of Mansfield. Amongst the old tenures we find that Jordan de Sutton held land here of the crown by pay- ing 14s. yearly, besides rendering homage, suit and service at the Mansfield court, and attending the king's army in Wales, " with one man, and horse and habergeon, cap of iron, lance and sword/' Sutton-in-Ashfield, 3| miles W. S. W. of Mansfield, is a very large village and township, comprising more than four- fifths of the parish, and 4805 inhabitants, mostly employed in the cotton, hosiery, and lace manufactures, there being here no fewer than 1700 stocking frames, 20 bobbin net machines, and an extensive factory for spinning cotton, and making checks and nankeens. Here are likewise two potteries of coarse red ware. The ancient fairs which had long been obsolete were revived in 1832, with every prospect of success. They are held on the second Tuesday in April, and the last Tuesday in Sep- tember, for the sale of horses, neat cattle, sheep, swine, cheese, &c. A hiring for servants is held Nov. 25th, or on the follow- ing day, if that date should be Sunday. The feast is on the 2d Sunday after July 10th. Near the village is Mapple Wells, the water of which is of a petrifying quality, and has been suc- cessfully used in rheumatic cases. The church stands on an eminence, and has a handsome octagonal spire. It is dedicated to St. Mary, and the benefice is a curacy, endowed with land at Edderley, purchased with Queen Anne's Bounty, and now let for ^37 a-year. The Duke of Devonshire is the patron, and the Rev. W r m. Goodacre the incumbent. The organ % which was built in 1826, and cost £300, was the gift of the late John Shooter, an eccentric blacksmith, who died in 1829, aged 97. Here are five dissenting chapels belonging to the Indepen- dents, (built in 1743) the Calvinistic and General Baptists, and the Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists, and they have each a Sunday school. There are here several friendly societies, a book club, an harmonic society, and a Dorcas society. The National school was established by subscription, in 1819, and the master now receives £9 yearly from the ancient school land, viz. — Fenny-bark close left in 1669, by Anne Mason, and Poth- house close, left by Eliz. Boot, about 40 years ago. In 1681, John Newton charged Wheldon's farm with the giving of two cloth coats to two of the most needy parishioners yearly. A horrid murder was committed in the village about 2 o'clock in the morning of Sep. 7th, 1830, by Henry Shooter, on the body of his father, after killing whom, he stabbed his mother, but before he could inflict on her a fatal blow, the pratricide heard some of the neighbours entering the house, an'd as he could not escape he cut his own throat and expired soon afterwards. This misguided youth was apprenticed to a surgeon, at Bake- well, and his impatience to possess his father's property, and S U T TON - 1 X - A SH F I K I, D . that of an aunt at Nottingham, led him to invite the latter to visit his parents, with whom it was his intention to have sacri- ficed her to his diabolical concupiscence, but she happily did not obey his invitation. Joseph fVhitehead, a framework knitter, who died here in 1811, aged 27, distinguished himself in the study of astronomy, constructed an orrory, and was an excellent musician. Eastfield is a considerable village § miles E. of the church, consisting principally of new houses and two potteries. Fulwood is a hamlet, 1 mile W. by S. of Sutton, and 1 mile further, in the same direction, is an extra -parochial farm called Fulwood Crow Treks, belonging to the Duke of Portland, and occupied by John Clark. Huckxall-uxder-Huthwaite is a village and township, containing 929 inhabitants, and about 1000 acres of land, bor- dering upon Derbyshire, and \\ miles W.N. W. of Sutton-in- Ashfield. It is situated upon a lofty declivity, and has an ex- tensive colliery, many framework knitters, and two chapels belonging to the Methodists and Independents. The poor here have £3 yearly, from the bequest of Abraham Haslam, in 183J, and 8s. yearly, pursuant to the wills of William Day and another donor. The Contractions used in the following Directory of Stjttox- ix-Ashfield, are Bin. for Blind lane ; Bkn. Back lane ; Cht. Church street; Clr. Club row; Dkt. Duke street; Efd. Eastfield; Fst. Forest st. ; Fin. Forest lane ; Fid. Fulwood ; Hst. High st. ; Hpt. High Pavement; Hsl. Haslam's hill ; Kgt. King St.; Lst. Lowst. ; Mkp. Market place ; Mst. Middle st. ; Nrw. New row ; Nrd. New road ; Ohl. Oates' hill; Sbs. Smedley's buildings; Sgn. Swine's green ; Upt. Upper st. ; and Win. Water lane. Letters are conveyed daily to and from Mansfield, by Dennis JVhetton. BarnsT. gardener,Sgn Berry John, setter-up. & toy dlr. Church street Bilson William, cot- ton spinner, Sutton works Brandreth John, par. clerk, Church st Burrows Rev. Jph. New row Cheetham Saml. nail maker, Ohl Coope Wm. leather cutter, Kingst Crofts Hy. pawnbkr. Low street Cursham, Mrs. Ann England Wm. saddler. Smedley's bdgs Foxton Jas. watch maker, King st Goodacre Rev. Wm. Blackmires Hambleton Jph. hat maker, Low st Jepson Mr. Rd. Hst Knighton G. chairmk May field Mary, Lst Oscroft Geo. brick lr Oscroft Geo. painter Sills Ephraim, con- stable, Church st | Swift Geo. wood agent to the Duke of Port- land, Rushley 3 F Stanhope Wm. malt- ster. King street Waters Mr. G. Cht Watson John, book- keeper, Nrw Woolley Saml. Esq. Sutton Hall Academies, Jennings Jas. Sbs Litchfield John, Nrd Nott Rev. Clement, Upper street Rhodes Wm. Kgt Roome Rev. T. Hpt Bakers, fyc, Daubney John. Hst Godley Wm. Cht I Gregory Chas. Kgt 593 SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD, Lindley John, Bin Blacksmiths, Clark John, Cht Wright Wrn. Lst Bobbin Net Mkrs. Bestall Chas. Cht Bower Saml. Hsl Boot John, Sbs Burrows Jph. Nrw Kirk Wm. Fst Penisland Geo. Fin Sheppard Saml. Win Boot fy Shoe Mkrs. Allen Cath. Hsl Buckland Geo. Ohl Coope Wm. Cht Curtis John, Clr Else Wm. Mst Else Wm. Cht Holbrooke Danl. Kgt Jackson Thos. Clr Jackson Wm. Sgn Oscroft John, Kgt Oscroft Matt. Mkp Robinson Saml. Efd Sells Stph. Clr Sleigh ton John, Efd Braziers, fyc. Gibson Rd. Mkp Stanhope Jas. & iron monger, Kgt Wass Geo. Butcher's yard Brick Sr Tile Mkrs. Bains John, Efd Heath John, Efd Butchers. Burton Thos. Lst Clarke Saml. Hst Clarke Wm. Bin Elliott Peter, Cht Oldham John, Win Rhodes John, Kgt Wass John, Lst Wass Wm. Fin Witham Fras. Kgt Chy mists fy Drugts. Jackson Saml. Mkp Littlewood Rd. Mkp Confectioners. Daubney John, Hst Morrell Fred. Cht Wilson John, Cht Com Millers. Crofts Jas. Sbs Hawkins John, Efd Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers. Un win Samuel & Co. Sutton works Earthenware Mfrs. Heath John, Efd MeePr. Redhouse Farmers. Allwood Hy. Kgt Bacon Thos. Cht Bailey Saml. Bkn Beecroft Wm. Cht Barns Saml. Fid Burton John, Mkp Chambers Sarah, Cht Clark John, Cht Clark Geo. Cht Clay Rt. Fin Clay Saml. Fid Else Isaac, Ohl Fisher Clay, Sgn Fisher Saml. Satton grange Hall Hannah, Kgt Hall Timothy, Forest Handley Jph. Bkn Hayes Isaac, -Fin Heathcote Saml. Bkn Hill John, Fid Hughes Wm. Blkmires Jephson Jph. Sbs Houselev Saml Mplt Kitchen'Wm. Redhs Lee Benjamin, Cht Lindley Jas. Stonehill Nowell Wm. Fid Marriott Saml. Fid Morris Eliz. Fin Outram Thos. Lst Radford Wm. Fin Shore Thos. Fid Smith Jph. Fin Straw Abm. Cht Straw Rebecca, Sbs White John Wragg Wm. Wright Wm. Cht Frame Smiths. Cawton James, Nrd Daubney John, Clr Dove Hy. Dkt Jephson Wm. Hst Marshall John, Kgt PittBenj. jun. Clr Salmon Thos. F6t Sheppard Saml. Wall- stone street Taylor Wm. Dkt Turner James, Rus- sell square Ward Wm. Hsl Grocers. Butterworth Hy. Mkp Dodson Matt. Lst Gadsby Thos. Lst Glasby Eliz. Kgt Hickton Saml. Lst Jephson Wrn. Hst Sampson Wm. Kgt Tudsburv Rd. Efd Wright Chte. Mkp Hair Dressers. Barlow Geo. Clr Burton Wm. Lst Cooke Wm. Mst Hosiery J gents and Manufacturers . Alvey Jph. Clr Betts Saml. Lst Brooks Edw. Bkn Butterworth H. Mkp Hickton Ebenr. Kgt Hickton Saml. Lst Jackson Geo. Clr Nayior Rd. Kgt Oscroft Geo. Lst PittBenj. Clr Radford Benj. Clr Radford John, Nrd Shaw Thos. Kgt Smith Joshua, Bin Turner Thos. Hsl Whiteman Jas. Lst Inns and Taverns. Black Bull, Francis Witham, Kgt BlueBell, E.Evans, Ct Brick and Tile, Wm. Bennett, Lst Cart and Horse, Geo. Penistant. Fin I Crown and Wool pack, I Eliz. Kirk. Ohl BROXTOW HUNDRED. 599 Denman's Head, Jn. Cooper, Mkp Dog and Duck, Wm. Wass, Fin Duke ofSussex, Jph. Fletcher, Fid Durham Ox, Samuel Wiley, Mkp George and Dragon, Sam. Chappeil, Nrw Nag's Head, Fras. Shacklock, Lst New Inn, William All- cock, Swine's green Old Blue Bell, John Heath, Eld Old Trooper, Jph. Webster, Clr Robin Hood, Thos. Dixon, Scott's hole Unicorn, George Law- son, Low street White Lion, James Hage, Portland st White Swan, Eliz. Crofts, Church st Beerhouses. Beardsall John, Kgt Bower Saml. Hsi Chadburn Wm. Nrd Crofts J as. Sbs England Wm. Sbs Straw Wm. Efd Tompkin Val. Efd Turner Jas. Rsq Wyeld Jph. Bkn Joiners. Adlington John, Clr Adlington Saml. Bin Brocks J. Duke st Brooks Jph. Bkn Fisher John, Sgn Foxton Saml. Kgt Haslam Wm. Hsl Lee Jph. Cht Ward Jph. Cht Limebur tiers. Barratt John, Hst Lindley John, Bkn Millwood Wm. Cht Linen 8? Win Drps. Hawkins & Allin, Efd Judd Robt. Mkp Miller Benj. Mkp Needle Makers. Blasdale John, Clr Butterworth Jn. Bkn Plumbers 8f Glaziers. Wass Saml. & Son, Church street Wilson Thos. Clr S/wp keepers. Adin Wm. Cht Allen Benj. Lst Bower Saml. Hsl Burton Hanh. Sbs Clark Wm. Wst Croft Hy. Lst Elliot Peter, Cht Fisher John, Sgn Gadsby Matt. Ohl Hawkins John, Efd Hollingworth W. Hpt Marriott Geo. Cht Marshall Benj. Bin Oates Wm. Ohl Spencer Thos. Hsl Straw Rt. Hsl Turner Thos. Hsl Sinker Makers. Allen Saml. Kgt Burgain Saml. Efd Chasador John, Dkt Tomlinson John Clr Surgeons. Sales Jph. & medi- cated baths, Hpt Valentine Jas. Wm. Portland street Tailors. BullineThos. Ohl Henstock John, and preserver of birds and beasts, Efd Mitchell Moses, Hst Shacklock, Fras. Bkn West Jph. Cht Wright Geo. Sgn Wyeld Jph. Bkn Tallow Chandlers. Barratt Jph. Bkn Dodson Matt. Lst Wheelwrights. Brown Thos. Sbs Fox Jph. Cht Leeson John, Hpt Carriers. Thos. Wilson, from Low street, and Thos. Bullock, from Back lane to Mansfield, W. & Sat. 5 mg. HUCKNALL-UNDER-HUTHWAITE. Allsop George, joiner Bams John, shoemaker Beardsmore George, grocer Bower Saml. vict. Portland Arms Brooks John, joiner Burrows Jerh. vict. " Col. Wild- man" Burrows Jerh. jun. schoolmaster Burton John, shopkpr & beerhs Burton Benj. grocer and agent Butterworth John, hosiery agent Chambers Jane, vict. Swan Clark George, shopkeeper Columbine Mr. Jonth. Ellis Eliz. shopkeeper Heath William, corn miller Hufton John, beerhouse Machon Joseph, land agent Melloi s John, colliery owner Pearce John, shoemaker Smith Rd. grocer & hosiery agt Stendall John, baker & flour dlr Ward Richard, grocer and agent Woodhead Tim. vict. & butcher Farmers. Addlington Rt Allsop G. jun Allsop Geo Allsop Hy m BROXTOW HUNDRED. Allsop Jno. Ful- wood Bacon John Bacon Mary Barns Rd Bovver Wm Chambers Thos Haslam Abm Herod John Herod Samuel Hill John Hill Sarah Johnson Rd Lowe Benj Lowe Wm Marshall Thos Marshall Matt Smith Samuel Mycroft Geo Stendall Wm Shepherd Matt Turner George Short John Ward Marv Smedley G. Ful-Ward Wm" wood Wilson Wm Smith Benj Wright J as Smith Edward TEVERSAL is a small village seated on a lofty eminence near the source of the river Meden, 4 miles W. by N. of Mansfield. Its parish, which has a number of scattered dwel- lings, abounds in coal and lime, and contains 400 inhabitants, and 2450 acres of land, bounded on the north and west by- Derbyshire, and including a small part (60a.) of the park of Hardwick Hall, m that county. The whole, except 40 acres of glebe, belongs to Viscount Porchester, who ..obtained the manor by marrying the heiress of the late Sir F. Molyneux. The churchy dedicated to St. Catherine, was enlarged in 1617, by J. Molyneux, Esq. who made under the south aisle a large vault, in which all his family are now gathered. The rectorv valued in the King's books at £9. 19s. 2d. is in the gift of Viscount Porchester, and incumbency of the Rev. Charles J. Simpson, M.A. The benefactions are 470, left in 1753 and 1764, by Diana, and Sir Charles Molvneux ; and <£20 left in 1728 by Timothy Wylde. Dunsell, 1^ m. N. ; Fackley Lane J m. S. W. ; Stanley 1 m. W., and Whiteborouoh 2 m. S* W. are four hamlets, in this parish, which forms a junction with the parishes of Halt Hucknall, Pleasley, Skegby, and Mansfield, near Neivbound Mill. Marked!, reside at Dunsel ; Norwood ; 5, Stanley ; 6, Tever 3 Bagshaw Francis, miller, New- bound mill 6 Bramley William, wheel wiight 2 Leverton Henry, blacksmith 2 Roper Hannh. vict. Cross Keys 6 Sympson Rev. Charles I. M.A. rector Farmers. 2Ashmore Jno ICoope Wm 5Bakewell Mary 6Cord well Jph oBingham VV 5CordweIl John 7 Bowman J pa ICupit Jane Caladine Jno 4Havvksley Geo Fackley -lane ; 3, Moor-end ; sal; and'], IVhiteborough. 2Hickton Thos ISanders Wm 7Hill John ISmith Matt 6Hill Thos 6Taylor Wm 6Leverton Jas 6Webster Jno 2Marsden Rt 2 Webster Rt 6 Marshall Jph SWoodhead W ^Marshall Wm. 2Wragg Fras 2 Mokes Thos Shoemakers. 4Poole Mary /Burnham T 3Reynolds Geo 7Reeves Thos ^Reynolds Han 6Taylor Hy 5Roper Reb ^Webster Peter FRO WELL is a pleasant village, at the foot of a steep declivity, near the river Erwash, 5| miles West of Nottingham. TROWELL AND WOLLATON. 601 The parish has 402 inhabitants, and 1600 acres of land, all belonging to Lord Middleton, except 200 acres allotted to the rector, at the enclosure, in 1788. His lordship has an exten- sive colliery on TrowellMoor, where there is aivorkhonse, sup- ported by this parish and those of Cossal and Wollaton ; and his lordship pays the governor for educating 30 poor boys belonging to the three parishes. He is also patron of the rectory which was in two medieties, valued in the King's books at «£4. 14s. 4Jd. each, and is now enjoyed by the Rev. George Sanders. The church is dedicated to St Helen, and has a noble tower, with six bells, cast about 1790. The feast is on Whitsunday. The poor have 20s. yearly from Lord Middleton, pursuant to the will of Elizabeth "Hacker, in 1780 ; and also 20s. from Handley's Charity. (See p. 165.) Whitehead Hphy. jun. & Cha ? - Eaton John, limeburner Farnsvvorth Wm. shoemaker Goodacre Richard, corn miller Hall Jno. governor, Workhouse Hewitt Joshua, parish clerk Hopewell James, butcher Martin John, butcher Smedley Mr. John Walker Rrchard, colliery agent Whitehead Ann, shopkeeper Whitehead Mr. Humphrey jun. & vety. surgeons & blacksmiths Whitehead James, shoemaker Whitehead John, vict Wright John, wheelwright Farmers. Al'cock Jno Potter Thomas, Hopewell Geo Swansar Hopkinson J Palin John Shaw Mary Smedley Wm WOLLATON is a well built, but a straggling village, three miles W. of Nottingham, containing within its parish 537 in- habitants, and 2000 acres of land, nearly all belonging to Lord Middleton, who is lord of the manor, and patron of the rectory which has annexed to it the curacy of Cossal, and is valued in the King's books at £14. 2s. 6d. The Rev. George Saunders is the incumbent, and has 7 acres of glebe. The church, dedicated to St. Leonard, has a handsome spire and six bells, and under it is the family vault of the Willoughby family, who obtained this lordship in the reign of Edward III. by marrying the heiress of the Morteins, to whom it had descended from Warner, the tenant of William Peverel, whose fee it was. Sir Francis Willoughby built Wollaton hall, in the reign of Eliza- beth. In 1711, Sir Thomas Willoughby, Bart, (a descendant of the Barons Willoughby of Eresby) was created Baron Mid- dleton, of Middleton, in Warwickshire, of which title the present Right Hon. Henry Willoughby is the sixth possessor. The parish feast is on the Sunday after that at Stapleford. The poor have 20s. yearly from Handley's charity, (see p. 165) and 20s. from Willoughby's hospital, at Cossal. Wollaton Hall, the elegant seat of Lord Middleton, occupies a delightful situation in a beautiful park of 700 acres, 3 f 2 602 WOLLATON HALL, &C, 2 \ miles W. of Nottingham. It is built entirely of freestone, which came from Aneaster, in Lincolnshire, in exchange for coal, got on this estate. It is square, with four large towers, adorned with pinnacles ; and in the centre the body of the house rises higher, with projecting coped turrets at the corners. The front and sides are adorned with square projecting ionic pilasters ; the square stone windows are without tracery, and the too great uniformity of the whole is broken by oblong niches, circular ones filled with busts of philosophers, emperors, &c. and by some very rich mouldings. The interior is superbly furnished, has many stately apartments, and a very extensive and valuable collection of paintings, by the best masters. Near the house is a very handsome and extensive pile of stables and other exterior offices, erected in 1774. Close to the mansion is the ancient pleasure ground, in which the antique style is pre- served, though with some modern alterations and additions : here are a number of statues and the other usual ornaments of such places. The modern flower and kitchen gardens are at some distance from this, and completely hid in wood, so as only to be visible from the upper part of the house, which commands enchanting views of the park and its various ornamental build- ings and water, backed by fine groves, in which are seen shady walks, and all the beauties of garden scenery. The summer house is in the grotto style, pannelled and ceiled with looking glasses, and ornamented with paintings and shell work. Under it is a water house, formed completely in the grotesque, with shell and rock work. The park gate, on the south east side of the park, upon the Derby and Nottingham road, is a handsome modern erection of stone, with a neat lodge and light iron railing, and the approach to the hall is through a noble winding avenue of lime trees, nearly a mile in length. The park is well stocked with deer, hares, &c. and has a spacious sheet of water well supplied with a variety of fish, and enlivened by swans and other aquatic birds ; and is broken into gentle swells well wooded with oak and elm, and at intervals admitting some very pic- turesque and extensive views of the surrounding landscape. Middleton Lord, Wol- laton Hall Burton Jno. vict Burton Wm. vvheelgt .Chouler Ch. land agt Chouler Mr. Charles Chouler Wm. farmer Clay John, clerk Glew Saml. farmer Hancock Col. Skin- ner, Wollaton house ilewson J Bothamley, cabinetmaker Higget John, shoemkr. Slack Sam. shoemkr Smith Hy. p. clerk Smith Jph. butcher | Strike Peter, butler | Syson Lucy, shopkr I Taylor H. wharf agent Kirk land Jph. netmkr Warner John, joiner Middleton \V. bsmith Watkinson, J. bricklr Hook Joseph, tailor Hubbard VV. nursery man, &c. Jordan Thos. mason Kirk land Ed. farmer Rollinson Saml. Col- liery bailiff Sanders Rev. G,M.A, Skelslon J. whceliit Wibberley Isc. game- keeper Woodward Thos. vict NEW AH K -UPON- Tit ENt. (303 NEWARK HUNDRED Is that long", narrow, and irregularly formed district, which is bounded on the west by the Trent and Fleet rivers, on the north and east by Lincolnshire, and on the south by the hun- dred of Bingham. Its length in the vale of the Trent, from East Stoke northward to North Clifton, is about 17 miles, but its average breadth is not more than 4 miles. It is divided into two divisions, under two chief constables, and forms ecclesias- tically the deanery of Newark, Its population has been con- siderably increased during the last thirty years, though it is chiefly dependent on agriculture, and its extensive trade in malt, flour, and smock frocks. The following is an enumeration of its 23 parishes, showing the number of inhabitants in each in 1801, 1821, and 1831, and the annual value- of the lands and buildings, as assessed for the property tax in 1815 : ANN. VAL. PARISHES. POPULATION IN | 1801. 1821. 1831.! ANN. VAL. PARISHES. POPULATION IN 1801. 1821. 1831 26418 6228 1980 3900 2595 4015 3440 1154 1006 3929 1473 2564 1292 2069 Newark Balderton Barnby Clifton N.* •• Coddington • Collingham N. Collingham S. Cotham • Elston Farndon Girtonf Hawton Kilvington . • Langford 673a 8084 9557 636 773 830 195 247 237 740 990 949 326 374 435 503 805 881 539 686 727 77 74 74 394 446 552 387 499 570 125 182 183 107 216 258 40 43 45 124 147 125 923 1518 1331 874 1397 1370 3171 1423 2004 1173 1905 Scarle South \ & Besthorp J Shelton Sibthorpe Staunton & \ Flawbro' • J Stoke (East) ■ • Syerston Thorney:}: Thorpe "Winthorpe • - 119 151 157 216 217 322 73 105 113 85 142 141 128 142 93 71 85 80 293 424 320 109 129 138 243 264 308 44 96 . 105 196 235 228 79202 Total 12505 15556 17428 * Clifton (North) includes South Clifton, Harby, and Spalfotd twps. t Mering, which claims to be extra-parochial, is said to be in Girton parish... X Thorney includes Broadholme and Wiggersley hamlets. BOROUGH OF NEWARK. NEWARK-UPON-TRENT is an ancient but well-built market town, borough, and parish, pleasantly situated in the centre of a fertile district, at the junction of* the great north road with the turnpikes from Lincoln to Nottingham, Sheffield, &c, 124 miles N. by W. of London, 8 miles E. of Southwell, 21 miles N. E. by E* of Nottingham, 20 miles S.S.E. of Retr ford, and 16 miles S.\Y\ of Lincoln. It is the capital of the hundred and deanery to which it gives name. As has been seen in the foregoing table, its population has swelled since the 604 NEWARK-UPON-TRENT. year 1801, from 6730 to 9557 souls, consisting of 4499 males, and 5058 females. There has also been a corresponding* increase in the number of houses, and in the trade of the town, which consists principally in making malt, ale, flour, linen, and smock frocks, to a considerable extent, there being in the town and its neighbourhood a large brewery, 20 corn mills, a considerable number of malt kilns, and an extensive linen manufactory, (Hawton mills,) where fine linen is bleached after the Irish manner. Upwards of 480,000 bushels of malt were made here in 1830, for we find by the excise books, that in that year the duty paid (at the rate of 2s. 7d. per bushel) amounted to the sum of £66,990. 18s. Id. But Newark derives much of its cheer- fulness and wealth from its being a great public thoroughfare, from its well supplied markets, and from its participation in the traffic on the Trent navigation. The number of boats which passed the lock in 1818, was 6650, and the weight of the goods delivered and loaded here was 50,173 tons. The -market is held on Wednesday, and is well supplied with corn, meat, &c. ; and once a fortnight with cattle. Six fairs are held here an- nually, on the Friday before Careing Sunday;* May 14 ; Whit Tuesday; August 2nd; Nov. 1st; and Monday before Dec. 1], for horses, cattle, sheep, swine, &c. &c. A great cheese market was established in 1804, and continues to be held yearly on the Wednesday before Oct. 2nd. The Market Place is a spacious area lined with good buildings, which, on the south side, have a long piazza under the second floors. On the western side stands the elegant Town Hall, under which is an open space occupied on market days by those butchers who have no stalls in the adja- cent shambles. The principal entrances into the Marketplace are Stodman street, Bridge street, and Church street, the latter of which has three houses that project into the area, and ought to be removed. The other principal streets are Appletongate, Baldertongate, Barnbygate, Cartergate, Castlegate, Lombard street, Middlegate, Millgate, Northgate, and Wilson street, in which there still remain many ancient houses, except in the last, which was built on an uniform plan in 1766, by the Rev. Dr. Wilson. The streets of a more modern date are Pelham street, Portland street, Guildhall street, and some others. An Act of Parliament for paving the town was passed so early as 1585, but it seems almost to have been a dead letter, till 1798, when it was strengthened by another Act, under which the work of paving, lighting, cleansing, &c. has been extended to every street and thoroughfare. There was anciently a cross in the Marketplace, but the only one now in the town is Beau- mond cross \ at the junction of Cartergate and Lombard street, which, as an inscription says, was erected in the reign of Edward IV., repaired by Charles Mellish, Esq. recorder, in 1778, and * Careing Sunday is the Sunday before Palm Sunday. »ttW a rk-uput<-tren r. 605 again* repaired and beautified by the corporation in 180.1. In 1806, an Act was obtained for more effectually repairing the roads from Newark to Mansfield and Southwell, and to Lead- en ham Hill, in Lincolnshire. Newark is not upon the Trent, but upon the river Devon, which, after receiving- the Smite and the Car-dike, communi- cates with a short cut from the Trent, and passing- under the majestic ruins of the castle, pursues a north easterly course to that river at Crankleys. near Winthorpe, so that the two streams form on the north west side of the town a large elliptical island of low but fertile pasture land, which they so frequently inun- date, that about the year VfJO t it was found necessary to connect the two bridges by a flood road, which cost £12,000, and now bids defiance to the highest floods. The bridge at the Newark end of this elevated road, is a substantial brick fabric ot seven arches, faced with stone, and erected in 1775, by the Duke of Newcastle, who, as lord of the manor under the crown, is empowered to take tolls on horses, cattle, swine, and loaded carts and waggons, for which he has to keep the bridge in repair. The bridge which crosses the Trent is supported by the owner of the Kelham estate, and is about \\ mile from Newark. The haling path bridge, which crosses the Devon near the large water mill, consists of five segmental arches, each 14 feet span, and was built in 1819, by the Newark Navigation Company, who, in \~u2, obtained an Act of Par- liament for widening and improving the stream, which, by a circuitous course of four miles, now brings the Trent navigation past the avails of Newark. Anciently three narrow and incon- venient wooden bridges occupied the sites of these durable structures of brick and stone. Ancient History. Various antiquarian conjectures have been hazarded respecting the origin of Newark ; the most plausible of which is, that it occupies the site of the Roman station Eltavona, which was subsequently enlarged by the Saxons from the ruins of several Roman cities in the neighbour- hood, on or near the Roman Fossway, which passes through the town from Leicester to Lincoln, (Vide, p. 18.) After this re-edification, it is supposed to have been the Saxon Sidnaceas- ter, which in the early days of Christianity was a bishopric, having had a succession of nine bishops after the year A. D, 678; but some historians have placed that city at Stowe, in Lincolnshire. It is, however, certain, that Newark, during the Saxon heptarchy, was an important town, defended by a strong wall and fortress, and constructed partly of Roman ma- terials. After being destroyed by the Danes, (See p. 17 to 20,) it was rebuilt ; and hence New-work, (now corrupted to Newark,) was justly applied to it in the reign of Edward the Con- fessor. The domesday survey shews that the Coun+ess Godiva had paid the Dane-geld for her manor of Sewarke and its two 606 NEWARK-TJPON-TRENT. berues, Baldertune and Farendune, as 7 carucats and 2 bovats of land, which in the Confessors time had been returned as 26 carucates. In 1086, Remigius, bishop of Lincoln, had in demesne here 7 carucates, 56 burgesses, 42 villains, and 4 bordars, having 21 £ carucates* The manor had soc in nearly all the parishes which now form the hundred and deanery of Newark. It was given by Leofrie Earl of Mercia, and his Countess Godiva to the monastery of Stow, and was afterwards claimed by the Bishops of Lincoln, one of whom, Alexander de Blois, built the present castle, in the reign of Stephen. Military erections were, however, even at that time deemed rather im- proper for an ecclesiastic to engage in, and to satisfy his troubled conscience, the bishop, after finishing the castle, founded two monasteries, but Stephen was not to be thus appeased, for he seized both the bishop and his uncle, and kept them in durance until they surrendered to him all their fortresses. In the reign of John, and in the baronial wars, Newark several times ehanged hands, and it was the scene of that monarch's death, but whether by poison or otherwise has not been clearly ascertained. Henry III. restored the castle to the Bishop of Lincoln. Tn 1530, Cardinal Wolsey lodged in it with a great retinue, in his way to Southwell, where he was accustomed to spend part of the summer. James I. was at Newark in 1602, and was addressed by the senior alderman, (there being then no mayor) Mr. John Twentyman, in a long latin speech, with which his majesty was so well pleased that he ordered him to repeat it, then asked his name, and on being told, replied sharply, " then by my saul man tbou art a traytor, the Twentymans pulled down Redkirk, in Scotland. " This however, was merely in jest; as he conferred on him many favours, and was often accompanied by him in his hunting ex- cursions in the forest. During the civil wars of Charles I, (See page 88 to 91,) Newark was an important garrison in the cause of royalty, in which the courageous inhabitants sustained three violent sieges, at the first of which Sir John Henderson, the governor, caused all Northgate and the Spital to be burned, " yet the remains formed a receptacle for the enemy at the second siege until they were routed by Prince Rupert on Beacon Hill. Much gallantry was displayed during the third siege in 1645, and much blood was spilt on both sides, but the town was at length given up to the Scotch army, by the King's order. After the surrender, the country people were ordered to corae with pick axes, shovels, &c. to demolish all the works, and circum- vallation ; but one of the sconces has been left entire. The borough was first incorporated by Edward VI., under whose charter it was governed by an alderman and 12 assistants. It sent only one Member to Parliament until it received a new charter from Charles I. instituting a body corporate, by the name of the Mayor and Aldermen of Newark-upon- Trent, with NEWARK-UP, now let for .£238 per an- num, of which, £188 belongs to Stone's, and £55 to White's charity, though till 1829, the corporation considered the estate as their oivn property, and only paid about £24 yearly as the interest of the two benefactions ; but, in that year, the Commis- sioners made them " sensible that the whole of the rents belonged to these charities," and they consequently agreed, in' future, to appropriate them agreeable to the wills of the donors;; sothat the poor receive <£ 10, and the vicar j£40 yearly, andtheremainder (<£188) is employed " in providing wheels, wool, jersej*, and other materials and means for employing the poor in spinning, and in manufacturing stockings and other articles,, and in paying salaries to the master and mistress of the Jersey school, and such wages as may render such employment a profitable source of relief to the poor and their children/' John Lille y in 1623, bequeathed the Bathley Grange estate (63 acres) to the corporation* in trust that they distribute the rents among the poor children of the Jersey school, or in (fefault of such school, amongst the poor of Newark, except a rent charge of 7 guineas, which had been previously left out of the said estate by John Smith, to the poor of Bathley. Until 1828, the corporation only distributed «£34 per annum in Newark, but they then promised in future toapply the net rent 7 (after paying the before named rent cbargeX u in maintaining any poor children who shall work in the Jersey school, and in default thereof, to distribute the same in coals, corn, flour, or clothing, amongst the most needy poor of Newark, at Candle- mas in; every year." Anthony Gollingwooi>, in 1678, left his lands at Ailing- ton and Farndon for the vicar to read prayers twice every day in the church. The land at Allington was sold for a rent- charge of «£10, besides which the vicar has ,£20 yearly as the rent of the land at Farndon. The same donor also bequeathed a house in Cartergate for the repairs of the church, (since sold for <£25fr, three per cent, consols,) and the Packhorse public- house in Stodman-street, for the use of the poor. The latter is now let for 4T50 a year, out of which the corporation only distributed .£8. 9s. 9(3. up- to 1829, in which year the Parlia- mentary Commissioners declared in their report that the civic body here had improperly appropriated to their " own use" the following yearly sums, amounting to £422. 6s. 3d., viz. of Stone's charity, £167. 3s, ; of S2imme?*'s and Others, £85. 16s. ; of Bishop White's £4%. 4s.; of Lilly's £7$. 13s. ; and of Col- lingoeood^s £4\. 10s. 3d. They, however, promised to act more justly in future, but gave the Commissioners to under- NEWARK-UFON-TRENT. 613 stand " that they have no corporate funds wherewith to answer any call that might be made on them by a Court of Equity, to re-iraburse the monies they have misapplied." Almshouses. — John Johnson, in 1651, left a rent-charge of «s£5 out of a house in Wilson-street, for 50 poor aged widows and widowers, and four cottages in Guildhall-street for the re- sidence of four old widows, who are now placed there by the parish officers. In 1619, a Mr. Chapman left a house in Ap- pletongate for the residence and maintenance of four poor widows; but it has been sold, and the corporation have provid- ed rooms for the widows in Guildhall-street, and pay to each 6d. per week. In 1/04, Timothy Ellis left three chambers ove. the shambles for three poor widows, and directed they should have the rents of the shops under them, and of three houses in Northgate, Churchgate, and Castlegate. In 1775s the cham- bers and shops were pulled down, and the alms-women remov- ed to a building in Guildhall-street, where they now receive 8d. a- week each from the corporation. Various Benefactions. — In 1675, Rd. Lamb left to the poor 25s. yearly out of a house in Cartergate, now belonging to Dr. Staunton. In 1679, Nicholas Earl of Scarsdale, left <£10 per annum to the vicar for sermons on Good Friday and St. Thomas' day. In 1657, Wm. and, Emma Watson left 20s. yearly out of the Rutland Arms public-house to the vicar for a sermon on Dec< 25th. Sir John Londe, in the 6th of Edward VI, gave two tenements in Millgate, and £20 in gold, to tht corporation for the benefit of the town, but the tenements are now unknown. In 1729, Mr. Hobman, town-clerk, left £oi) to the poor, now sunk in. other charity funds. In 1739, Elea>. Douglas left <£100 to be employed with Summers' charity. The Duke of Newcastle pays £5 yearly to 20 poor widows, pur- suant to the will of John Smith. In 1768, Mary Sturtevant be- queathed ,£200, and directed the ~ interest to be given yearly to as many poor families as it would extend to at 10s. each. It has been vested in. ^£230. 4s. 3d three per cent, consols, by the churchwardens and overseers, who distribute the dividends. In 1737, Jane Heron left land, which, in 1771, was exchanged for other land and buildings- at Claypole, let for «£20 a-year, and directed the rent to be distributed to as many poor persons as it will extend to at 5s. each. Sir Robert Heron is the present trustee. In 1769, the Rev. Bernard Wilson, D. D. left £40 a-year out of his estates, to be distributed on August 21st and January 11th, amongst such poor as the vicar should direct. He also left ^£10 a-year to the vicar for two sermons on the days of distribution. Anthony Foster in 1558 devised all his lands in Meryn close, in Newark, to the corporation, upon trust, to apply the rents for the assistance of those afflicted with the plague, but this disease has long been unknown, therefore the rents ought to be given to the Dispensary. 3g2 614 NEWARK-UPON-TRENT. St. Leonard's Hospital, which was founded by Alexander Bishop of Lincoln, betwixt the years 1123 and 1147, still exists, though the original building has long since disappeared. Jn 1642, the hospital lands and buildings, were granted in ex- change for others of more value, to the Countess of Exeter, who erected the present hospital at the foot of Northgate. There are three poor men on the foundation, one of whom is nominally a.- chaplain.; but the mastery who is appointed by the Bishop of Lincoln, does not reside in the house, nor in the town, as was the intention of the founder, though he draws a large yearly revenue from the charity estate which comprises upwards of 360 acres of land at Bald erton, Newark, Girton, Claypole,Elston, and Stoke, and about 40 houses in the town. Out of the ample funds the master can only afford to each of the three alms people, the following yearly allowances: — viz. ,£13, 8s, a coat> waistcoat, and gown, and a supply of coals. The Dispensary at the Town-hall is open daily for the gratuitous administration of medical and surgical aid to the afflicted poor. It was established in 1813, by subscription, but it is now aided by the yearly grant of ^£150 from the funds of Magnus' charity. Several thousand lame and sick parishioners,, and poor married lying-in women have partaken of the healing benefits of this excellent charity. The Workhouse on the Hawton road was built in 1786, from the funds of Magnus, Brown, and Phillipot's charities. It is a good built brick building, well adapted for its purpose. The sum collected for poor rates, in 1830, was «£3,498. 8s. lid J, of which «£446, was paid to the county rates. Adjoining the workhouse is the Borough Goal, a small edifice with only two rooms for debtors and offenders. The Savings' Bank was established in 1817, and the build- ing which it now occupies in Lombard street, was built out of its profits, 1832. Its deposits in 1830, amounted to .£43,430, belonging to 1,160 individuals, 7 friendly societies, and 2 cha- ritable institutions. W. F. Handley, Esq. is the treasurer, John Wilson, the secretary, and W. H. Caparn, the actuary. The POST-OFFICE is in Castlegate, and Mr. Thos. Bur- gin, is the Post-master. Letters for London and all parts of the south are despatched daily, at 3 afternoon ; and for Edin- burgh and all parts of the north, at 10 morning. Mail gigs depart to Lincoln, Nottingham, Southwell, and Mansfield, at 11 morning. The Contractions used for the names of Streets, &c. in the fol- lowing Directory of Newark, are Ast. for Albion street; Agt. Ap- pletongate ; Big. Baldertongate ; Brg. Bargate ; Bng. Barnby- gate ; Bnd.Barnbyroad ; Bhn. Beadhouse lane ; Bdc Beaumond cross ; Bst. Beaumond street ; Bin. Boar lane ; Bgt. Bridge street ; Bdr. Brodhurst rpw ; Crg. Cartergate ; Csg. Castlegate ; Chn. Chain lane ; Cmt. Chatham street; Cht. Church street;. Clt. Clhv NEWARK DIRECTORY, 615 ton street; Clr. Collingbam row ; Csq. Colton square; Cyd. Cawkwell's yard; Est. Eldon-street ; Frd. Farndon road ; Frw. Farndon row; Gst. Guildhall street; Hrd. Hawton road; Hid. Hill end ; Jyd. Jalland's yard ; Kgt. Kirkgate ; Kst. King street ; Lrd. Lincoln road ; Lst. Lombard street ; Lvn. Lover's lane ; Mkp. Market place ; Mdg. Middlegate ; Mlg. Millgate ; Mln Mill- lane; Mir. Millington's row ; Mtn. Mount lane ; Ngt. Northgate ; Pit. Parliament st; Prt. Portland st; Pmt. Pelham St.; Ppl. Pepper hill; Qst. Queen st. ; Smr. Smithy row; Spr. Spittal row; Rst. Regent st. ; Stn. Saint Mark's lane; Sst. Stodman st. ; Ur. Union terrace ; Win. Water lane; Wsd. Waterside; Wst. Wilson st ; and Yst. York st. Adams Jph. chief constable of S. Div. of Newark Hund. and Surveyor of sewers, Ngt Armstrong J. town cr. Town Hall Atkinson Miss Margt. Pmt Bailey Neal, excise officer, Ast Bacon Rev. Hy. Bowman, Crg Banks Mrs. Sarah, Bng Barber Mrs. Eliz. Gastlegate Barker Mrs. Sarah, Appletongt Barry Rev. Wra. mert. Cartergt Barnsdall Saml. gent. Millgate Bardsley Capt. Jas. Balderton rd Bartlell Rev. Wm. vicar, Agt Baxter Jph. coachman, Mlg^ Beaumont Wm. bookpr. Mlg Beevor Rev. Thos. B.D. Wst Bell Rd. constable, &c. Cyd Bills John, waiter, Pit Birkett Mr. Wm. Farndon rd Bland Mrs. Ja2*e, Appletongate Bonner Matthias, bookpr. Lst Booth John, boat master, Mlg Bristow Saml. gent. Pelham st Brodhurst W. jun. maltster, Cgt Brooks Mrs. Ann, Millgate Brooks W T m. coachman, Prt Brown Saml. organ bldr, Lst Bucklow Saml. coachman, Mkp Bulson John Gates, colliery agt Burnaby Thos. Fowke Andrew, solicitor, h. Appletongate Caparn W. Horner, p. clerk Wst Cartledge Mrs. Jane, Albion st Cartledge Jas. malster, Lvn Cawkwell Rd. Doubleday, gent. Stodman st Chambers Geo. bookpr. Bst Childs Martin, maltster, Ngt Clark Jas. mert. Pelham st Clark John, mert. Millgate Clark Thos. pump mkr. Big Clark Wm. sailmaker, Mlg Clark Mr. Wm. St. Mark's In Clark Wm. cheese dlr. Agt Claypole J. banker's clerk, Mkp Cooper Mr. John, Cartergate Corby John, sexton, Clumber In Corden Wm. shopman, Bgt Crampern Mrs. Ann, Farndon rd Cox Mr. Geo. Northgate Crisp Saml. bookpr. Ast Cropper Mrs* Ann, Portland st Cropper Jph. gaoler, Hawton rd Cropper Wm. gent. Millgate Crosby Benj. gent. Pelham st Curtis Langley, shopman, Agt Dale Mr. Robert, Regent street Dale Mrs. Lombard street Deeping Wm. wine mert. Lst Denby Mrs. Mary, Hawton road Deny Mr. John, Wilson street Dickinson John, cowkpr. Lst Edmunds Mrs. Sarah, Albion st Elson Wm. collector of naviga- tion dues, Lockhouse Emerson Mr. John, Eldon street Esam W T m. bookpr. Union st Etches J. mayor's officer, Wst Falkner Philip Rd. coroner, Csg Farmer Mrs. Han. Guildhall st Fearn John, bookpr. Albion st Fearnihaugh Jno.'boat owner, Ngt Fermerie Miss Philippa, Agt Fisher Mr. John, Pit Flower Geo. fishing net mkr. Mlg Fotherby Wm. brewer, Wilson st • Fox Jas. Chas. gardener, Hrd Franke Rd. gent. Chatham st Gilby John, gent. Pelham st Gilby Philip, gent. Portland st Gladwin John, excise officer, Ngt 616 NEWARK DIRECTORY. Godfrey Ed. Smith, Esq. banker and clerk of the peace, Ngte Goodill Mrs. Eliz. Barnbygate Green Mrs. Ann, Barnbygate Guthrie, Mrs. Mary, Castlegate Hage Mrs. Lombard street Hall Mrs. Cathaiine, Wst Hall Mrs. Mary, Fardon road Handley Win, Farns worth,. Esq. M.P. Northgate Hardy John, gov. workhouse Haslam Mrs. Rebecca, Pelham st Harvey Mrs. Ann, Barnbygate Hebb Jph. model mkr. Lrd Hives John, gent. Northgate Holliday Mrs. Lombard street Holmes Miss, Portland street Huddlestone, T. Creswick, Esq Hunt Chas. gent. Bng Hurst Geo. boat ovvner v Ngt Hutchings Rev. Wm. (Bap.) Utr Hutchinson W. gent. Appletongt Ingham Mr. John, Portland st Jebb Mrs. Ann, Regent street Job Mrs. Mary, Cartergate Johnson Benj. stenceller, Lst Kelk Mrs. Sarah, Portland st Key Rev. Wm. Castlegate Kirk Geo. bobbin net mkr. Crg Kirk Thos. excise officer, Bng Lambe Mrs. Sarah, Castlegate Lammin Mrs. Ellen, Millgate Laughton Geo. clerk, Northgate Lawton Jph. maltster, Lvn. Laxton Mrs. Sarah, Gst. Linney Geo. gent. Appletongate Lloyd Rev. Jph. (Meth.) Gst Lyne Jas. clerk, Wst Mc Kitrick, Rev. W. (Meth) Gst Mallet Job, boat owner, Pmt Meginley J. baker, Rst Midvvorth J. iron founder, Ngt IVIilhouse R. mus. inst. mkr. Mdg Moore Miss, Appletongate Morton Misses Eliz. & Mary, Agt Moscroft John, coachman, Prt Moth Robert, supervisor, Ast. Naylor Mr. Samuel, Eldon st Neale Robert, gent. Barnbygate Nicholson Saml. rush part. Mlg. Nix Mr. Jph. Wintborpe Cottage Norledge Francis, bookr. Ngt Norton Rd. wine mer. Kirkgate Owen Wm. & Son, fishing tackle and net mkrs. Sst Pacey Wm. bookpr. Big Parker Rt. cheese dlr. Cartergate Parnell Miss Eliz. Church-yard Patrick Miss Hannah, Pst Patterson Mrs. Hanh. Wilson st Penell Mrs. Mary, Lombard st Pettefor Rt. upholsterer, Wst Pilsvvorth Mr. John, Northgate Pocklington T. coachman, Stn Poole Mrs. Jeffrey, Stn Proctor Jph. boat master, Kingst Readett Mrs. Ann, Lombard st Ridge Mrs. Mary, Middlegate Robinson Mrs. Castlegate Rogers Mrs. Eliz. Balderton rd Rose Wm. gent. Kirkgate Rouse Miss Sarah, Northgate Rous Wm. Sparrow, Esq. Rowbottom J. carrier's agent, Lst Scott Mrs. Eliz. Millgate Selby Peter, gent. Bowbridge Sewell Mrs. Eliz. Lombard st Sikes Rev. Jph. L.L.B. Chantry House Singleton Mrs, Eliz. Northgate SketchleyS. surv. of taxes, Cgt Smith Chas. gent. Lincoln road Smith, Mrs. Jane, Wilson street Smith Wm. grocer, Pelham st Stephenson, Rev. J. (Unit.) Chyd Stephenson Rev. H. J. M.A. Mgt Sudbury Mr. John, Hawton road Sutton Hy, shopman, Hawton rd Tallents Wm. Ed. solicitor. Crg Thompson Mrs. Dorothy, Agt Thoroton Miss Isabella, My. Mlg Tinsley Rt. gent. Barnbygate Toder Mrs. Mary, Cartergate Tomlinson Miss Susanna, Prt Trueman Isaac, bookpr. Pmt Turner Saml. boat master, Pit Turpin Rd. gent. Bargate Turpin Wm. gent. Appletongt te Urnndall Geo. gent. Prt Uffindall Wm. bookpr. Mlg Wagstaff Mrs Arabella, Agt Wakefield Lieut. Edw. (Notts Militia) Wilson st Warwick W. banker's clerk, Ngt Watson Wm. boat owner, Wgt Weldon Thos. writer. Castle NEWARK DIRECTORY. 617 Whillock Mrs Judeth Agt Wild Rev. Wm. Tavlor, Agt Williams Rev. Chas*. (Ind.) xMlg Wilmot Miss Ann, Bdc Wilson Mrs. Mary, Millgate Wilson John, bookpr. Bng I Wing Wm. clerk, Wilson st I Winrow James, gent. Lombard st | Withers Jph. gent. Stodman st I Wright George, gent. Millgate j Yver Rev. Jas. Gabriel, (Catho- lic) West hall, Millgate Academies, Marked * take hrds. Brown Ann, Lst Colton Thos. (and ap- praiser) Millgt *Carmans Mary and Reb. Prt •Collins James, Crg Fletcher Geo. Hrd Grammar School, Appletongate. — Rev. Jph. Cooke, M. A. master; Rev. Richd, Latham, M.A. usher ; Chs. Wm. Bewsher, mathematician Infant Schools, — J Jones, Lst. ; and Jn. Kingdom, Lvn Harris Francis, Est Lane John, Lvn National Schools. - John Sheppard, Stn.& Cht. Davison, Church yard Newton Paul, Rst Pawson Ann, Bng Ridley Betsy Mos ley, Bdr Shephard Jph. Pit Spilsbury & Newzam, (ladies') Lst Thompson Ami. Agt Turvey Hy. Lst Weaver Edw. Cost- all, Crg Wilkinson, W m . Mlg Attornies, Caparn Robt. Kgt Fox & Falkner, Lst Hodgkinson Geo. Ngt Lee John Would, Csg Rastall Henry, Lst Stephenson Jno. Mlg Tallents and Burnaby, Cartergate Auctioneers, Hage John, Sst Harrison Geo. Mdg Orson John, (& corn inspector) Cgt Ridge SI. & Chs. Mkp Rippendale Fras. Lvn Bakers Sf Flour Dlrs. Atkinson Wm. Brg Baker Wm. Geo st Beighton Wm, Pit Bettison Michael, Csg Burden Jph. Mlg Cartledge Thos. Crg Craven Geo. Kgt Darcy John, Big Dickenson, Jph. jun. Csg Else Jas. sen. Mkp Else Jas. jun. Prt Elson Geo. Stn Fletcher Rd. Mlg Hardy Anthy. Ast Hollinsworth Jn. Ngt Lawton John, Bst Lilly Dennis, Ngt Neale Thos. Mlg Parnham John, Pit Pearce John, Ngt Peet Geo. Lilly's rw Young Wm. Wst Bankers. Godfrey, Hutton. and Co.Market pi. (draw on Barclay & Co.) Handley, Peacock, & Handley, Castlegt. (draw on Barnetts, Hoars, and Co.) Savings' Bank, Lom- bard st. open every Monday from 1 to II. Basket Makers, Bates Ann, Wst Bates John, Wst Clarke Jas. Lst North John, Csg Blacking Mfr, Proctor John, Csg Blacksmiths, Barnsdall Jane, Csg Burton Joshua, Bnd Foster Rd. Csg Johnson, Geo, Bst Pacey Saml. Kst Spencer Thos. Hrd Woodward Jn. Mkp Boat Builders. Flint Wm. Ngt Hurton Wm. Mlg Bone Dust Mfr. Curtis J. Bigsby, Csg Booksellers \ Printers, Stationers, fyc. Thus * are not printers Bridges Jas. Cht Hage Henry, Sst •Lincham Anw. Csg Ridge Saml. & Chas. Market place ♦Sharp W. Elsey, Frd Boot 4* Shoe Mkrs. Andrew Wm. Big Atkinson Wm. Mln Burgh Jph. Brg Brailsford Job, Cow 1 Bycroft Jas. Mkp Cutts Jph. Lrd Flower Geo. Mkp Harding Thos. Big Hardy Hezikiah, Mlg Hawkins, Geo. Mkp Heaton John, Bin Henfrey Geo. Crg Henfrey Rd. Lst Higgat Thos. Csg Hoyland Wm. Ngt Lunn Geo. Prt Lumley Fras. Mtn Mayfield John, Ngt Miller Jas. Sst Moore Reuben, Bgt Reilly Patrick, Kgt 6H NEWARK DIRECTORY* Robinson Thos. Mkp Robinson Wm. Crg Saunders Jas-. Ngt Sharpe Jas. Bin Smith Sml. Mlg Soar Thos. Ast Stapleford, Saml.-Kgt Summers John, Agt Surgey Geo. Kgt Taylor Jas. Kgt Thornhill Wm. Csg Turnbull Walter, Kgt White John, Lst Withers John, Big Wood Hy. Rst Wright John, Pit Braziers $ Tinmen, Bousfield Wm. Kgt Cudworth Abm. Hrd Edmondson Jn. Mlg Lang Jas. Sst Odlin Wm. Prt Wilson Thos. Bng Brewers. Handley Wm. F. and John, Northgate Bricklayers, Chambers John, Gst Chambers J. jun. Lvn Cutts Chas. Mlg Duke Wm. Mlg Duke Thos. Lst Sheppard John S. Big Sutton Edw. Mlg Ward Wm. Bng Brick Makers, Norton J. Orme, Big Robinson & Wilson, Big Sheppard H. Ngjt Sheppard John, Big Brush Mkrs^ fy Dlrs . Hibbert John, Sst Sedwell Han. Mlg Shaw Fras. Fnv Butchers, Abraham James, Mlg Abraham John, Lst Bell Hy. Kgt Bell James, Ngt Bell Wm. Millgt Bennett John, Ngt Blow John, Mkp Branston John, Kgt Curman Wm. Agt Collins Rd. Mlg Cutts Wm. Pit Foottit Saml. Prt Goodbarne Ths* Mdg. Hall Rd. Cht Harvey Jph. Kgt Harvey Paul, Mlg Heaton, Jph. Csg Hutchinson Ed. Mdg Johnson RobU Beck- ingham Killingley Rt. Bng Lilly Wm. Big. Lamb John, Sst Lumley Hy. Ngt Lilly Robt. Ngt Mansford Jph. Sst Morris Robt. Bin Morris Thos. Stn- Pocklington Jph. Hrd Radford Wm. Csg Shephard Jph. Mdg Staveley Wm. Big Taylor Geo. Kgt Taylor Geo. Brg Taylor Rd. Mkp Taylor Wm. Big Wand Geo. Ngt Wand Reuben, Agt Wand Stephen, Cgt Williamson Barzillac Lst Wood Hy. Hrd Cabinet Makers, Those marked J are Upholsterers also JBarberJ. Foster*Brg J Barber Peter, Crg JHarston Wm. Agt I Jameson Danl. Bgt Thompson J, jun. Gst Wells Wm. Brg Carver fy, Gilders, Barber J. Foster, Brg Bellatti G. & Son, Sst Chair Makers, Miles Wm. Big Thompson John, Kgt China, Glass, fyc. Dls. ArmstoneThos. Ngt CjayDaltonP. (glass) Market place Locking Thos. Kgt.~ Lowe Ann, Wst Siddons Jph. Prt Winterbottom T. Big Chy mists fy Druggists Betts Jas. Mkp Caparn Thos. Mkp Heaton Jph. Sst Jackson Wm. Sst Snow Jas. (& British- wine dlr.) Sst Weightman W. Kgt Coach Builder* Hall Wm. Lst Coa Dealers, ~ Babbington Collery Wharf, J. G. Bulson agent, Mlg Clarke J. & Son, Mlg. Foster J. & W. & Ru Bishop, Ngt Holloway Rt. Kst Huddleston J. and S> Csg Jackson John Arm- strong, Ngt Massey Thos. Hacket, Ngt Morley John, Ngt Thorpe J. & Sons, Mlg Turner Thos. Mlg Walster Wm. Mdg Widdison Rt. Ngt Withers G.&T. Mlg Confectioners, Dunn Benj. Bst Eggleston Fred. Mkp Howlenn Sarah, Sst Kirby Nicholas, Big Thorpe Jas. (and Bri- tish wine dlr) Mkp Walker Wm. Sst Coopers- Austin Samuel, .Sst Houghton John, Bng- Kay Joseph, Brg May William, Bin Corn Merchants, Clark James and Son, (and lineseed and rape cake) Mlg Boler William, Mlg NEWARK DIRECTORY, <319 Craven George, Kgt Dixon George, Ngt Fisher George, Mlg Gabbitas William, Ast Hewes Wm. Bng HHton Rt. and Geo. (& hop & seed) Mdg Thornton John, Gst Thorpe Jas. & Sons, Mil! gate Withers Geo. & Thos Millgate Corn Millers* fyc. Marked * are Millers. and the rest are flour and corn dealers •Abbott Edw. Mdg •Bullen Tho. Kgt Curtis J. Bigsby, Csg Dickenson Jph. Bng Fiear Rd. Mdg •Flear Thos. Csg Gamble Richd. Big •Greaves Wm. Agt Grokes John, Big •Harvey James, Brg tHarvey Tim. Crg Lightfoot Wm. Sst Oldham Jas. Bst Pacey John, Crg Pearce John, Ngt Reddish Thos. Mlg Rowbotham Wm. Mlg •Thorpe Jas. & Sons, Watermill & Mlg Townrow Benj. Chn Waddington T. Mlg Curriers and Leather Cutters. Brown Rd. (attends Wd.O Big andGran- tham Doubleday Geo. Kgt Miller Wm. Crg Selby Peter, Sst Dyers. Brown Geo. Wst Jackson Jas. Brg Mangan John, Crg Eating Houses. Morris Same, Kgt Taylor Eiiz. Stn Engraver* Harston John, Kgt Farmers. Marked f are Cowkprs fAbraham Cuth. Est Allin John, Bng fCobb John, Rst Cooper Wm. Crg Crich Wm. Winthorp hill Fillingham Rd. Bst fGreen Wm. Bmkt Hall Rt. (carts) Agt Heffield Ann, Ngt fHind Wm. Stn fJackson John, Ngt Lacy Danl. Big Lilly John, Svn fPredgeon Wm. Big Proctor Wm. Bhrd Sheppard Thos. Bng tSoutheron Wm. Gpl fShereston Sarah, Prt fWilkinson Wm. Pit fWray Thos. Bhn Fire and Life Offices. Atlas Wm. Harston. Appleton^ate British S.&C. Ridge, Market place County Fire and Pro' indent Life* Jph. Smith, Mkp Globe W. Brown, Mgt Guardian* RuCaparn, Kirkgate Leeds and Yorkshire, Rd. Clark, Csg: Phoenix Isaac Pale- thorpe, Bng Royal Exchange Wm Fillingham, Sst Sun Jas. Betts, Mkp Yorkshire John Would Lee, Csg Fehnongers. Renshaw Thos. Spr Wells Anty. Mlg Fishmongers* Neaves Thos.: Kgt Uftindall John, Mdg Ward Jonas, Agt Wool fit Jph. Sst Flour Dealers Darbyshire Wm. Sst Reddish Thos. Mlg Rowbotham Thos. Mlg Wood Timothy, Bin Woodall Cath. Sst Furniture and Clothes Brokers. Those marked f are Clothes Dealers only. t Heath Saml. Big Hoben T1k>s. R. B\g t Hughes Even. Big t Haywood Marv, Sst Hind Thos. Prt" Roberts G. sen. Brg Roberts G. jun. Sst Shields Hy, Mlg Watson James, (and pawnbroker,) Cht Gardeners and Seeds- men. Cawkwell John, Mkp Cawkweil Richd. Crg Cuckson John, Sst Dalman Thos. Bgt Eggleston Wm. Agt Fletcher F. Hawton rd Franks Rt. Kgt Grimley Thos. Bng HagueJohn, Lrs Hudson Mattw. Ngt King Win. Mlg Palethorpe Jph. Chn Sharp Edw. Lst Williamson, Wm. Bkt Glovers and Breeches makers. ColbieJohn, Cht Portwood John, Mlg Grocers fy Tea Dlrs. Branston Jph. Cht 8ush John, Csg Chew Jas. Mlg Drury John, Mkp Gibson Robert, Sst Gillson Joseph, Sst Jackson Sarah, Csg Marshall Wm. Mdg MiHs Gpo. Mkp Morlev Daniel, Ngt Moss Sophia Ch. Csg Oldham Kenry, W*g mo Is 7 K W A RK D 1 R EC TOR Y. Popplewell John, Mkp Ridge James, Mdg Robinson J. & Son, Agt Robinson Robert, Agt Simpson Jph. Lst Gun Makers. Boaler Joseph, Mkp Boaler& Welch, Mkp Doubleday Thos. Bin Nixon David, Sst Hair Dressers. - Marked I are Perfrs Allin John Mkp Bradley Wm. Chn Cain Jesse, Csg Chambers James, Brg JChapman Jas. Mdg ^Curtis John, Mlg J Harrison Thos. Sst Key John, Crg Marshall George (and grinderj Cow In JPinder Thomas, Crg JSilverton Geo. Kgt Simnitt Jph. Mlg ^Smith Samuel, Bgt Wand Thomas. Kgt Hardware Dealers, Brown S. T. Sst Tipper Benjamin, Kgt Hat Manufacturers. Collin Thomas, Sst Hag* 1 John, Sst Hilton William, Sst "Seymour Hanh. Kgt Hosiers. Carter John, Bgt Hardy Jn (& worsted manufacturers) Mlg Sharp Eli, Hrcl Wand Stph. Crg Inns and Taverns. Ansel, Rd. Kemstock, Mdjr Bell,T. Savage, Mkp Black Bull, Jn. Wat- kin, Crg Black Swan, Samuel Tharratt. Stn Blue Lion, Thos Tap- It n, Midd'cgate Boars Head, Richard Gaud, Mi dd legate Castle & Falcon Inn, Wm. Moore, Bst Clinton Arms Inn, Ann Lawton, Mkp Cross Keys, William Hunt, Beaumond st Dolphin, Wm. Hague, Barnbygate Duke of Cumberland S. Spreekley, Mdg Duke of Wellington, Saml. Ulyet, Millgt Fox and Crown, Chas. Gadd, Appletongate Generous Briton, S Outram, Lst George and Dragon, Sarah Ringrose, Cgt Golden Fleece, Marth. Ringrose, Lst Horse and Gears, T Jackson, Prt Horse and Jockey, W. Cooper, Big Hotel, Jph. Gilstrap, Kirk gate King's Arms, John Lacy, Kirkgate King's Head, Francis Jackson, Chain In Lion and Adder, John Drake, Northgate Lord Nelson, John Pogson, Big Marquis of Gran by, John Hunt, Big Newark Arms, Henry Nail, Agt. Old Castle. J.White, Mitigate Old King's Arms, S. Horspool, Kgt Old King's Head, W. Gregory. Big Pack Horse, William Weaver, Hrd Queen's Head, John Allin, Mkp Ram Hotel. Mary Hancock, Csg Rein Deer, Jas. Cook, Northgate Robin Hood, John Al- len, Lst Royal Oak, John Wil- son, Castlegate Royal Oak, W. Tay- lor, S tod man street Rutland Arms, John Welby, Bng Saracen's Head, Sam Shaw, Mkp Ship, Jonas Smith, Water lane Spread Eagle, George Harrison, Mdg Swan and Salmon, W. Nail, Castlegate Spring House, Wm. Cambridge, Frd Talbot, (excise office) Jas. Carver, Crg Waggon and Horses, Wm. Briggs. Csg Water Mill, Rt. Iron- monger, Mlg Wheat Sheaf, John Groves, Kgt White Hart, R. Cram- pern, Mkp White Hind, A. Sharp, Cartergate White Horse, J. Har- vey, Millgate White Horse, Thomas Walton, Barnbygt White Lion, Thomas Gardner, Sst White Swan, Rd. Gee, Northgate Wing Tavern, Rich. Parlbv, Market pi Woolpack, Thos. Ne~ vett, Stodman st Beerhouses. Barely Mow. Abm. Cud worth, Hrd Black's Head, Wm. Reynolds. Crg Blue* Goat, William Porter, Ngt Blue Man,Rt. Widdi- son, Ngt Blue Sergeant, George Stevenson, Ast NEWARK DIRECTORY. 621 Board, J. Ward, Big Bricklayer's Arm, T. Duke, Lst Carpenter's Arm, Jas. North, Albion st Crown & Anchor, Rd. Starr, Parliament st Free Mason's Arms Wm.Duke, Mlg Gardener's Arms, Ed Marshall, Mdg King's Arms, George Rickett, King st King W. IV. Samuel Morris, Kirkgate Nag's Head, John Wright, Kgt Pack Horse, William Paliu, Middlegate Plough, W. Jackson Guildhall street Rose and Crown, Hy. Shaw, Pelham st Salmon, Jonas Ward, Appletongate Sun, John Hollings worth, Northgate Union Flag, Stanley Leedle, Barnby rd Wilde's Arms, Wm. Cutts, Pit K. William IV. Isaac Willock, Pit Wind Mill, William Beighton, Pit Iron fy Brass Founders Ingledew, Geo. Millgt Wilson and Mid worth Wellington Fndry, Northgate Iroiunongers. Chambers Rt. Mkp Gillson Thomas, (iron mercht. & printing press maker) Bng Nicholson Benj. Mkp Tonge Edw. Sst J oilier s. Ailiss Wm.Hrd Barrett Jas. Lst Bettison & Hart, Prt Branston SamL Brg Brown W. & Son,Kstj Livery Stables. Clark Thomas, (pumpi Shaw Saml. Mkp mkr) Baldertongt Copestake Chs. Shep pard's row Elson Wm. Pit Hutchinson T. Mlg Hutchinson Wm. Ngt Johnson William, Fnv Mackenzie G. (pump mkr.) Baldertongt Nail John, Gst North Jas. Ast Parr John, Bng Pinknay John, Gsg Skinner John, Mlg Sumners Wm. Wst Lac emeu. Carter John, Bgt Smith Hy. Bgt Spencer Rt. Stn Wilson James, Sst Maltsters* Adams Jph. Ngt Betts Jas. Big Boler W. & Co. Mlg Branston Jph. Win Brodhurst W. & Sons, Ngt. & Mansfield Caparn R. & Brothers, Lst. h. Cartergate Carver Jas. Crg Chappell Simon, Ngt Clark Jas. & Son, Mlg j Dixon George, Ngt ! Fisher Geo. Mlg | Foster J. & Co. Ngt Hancock Walter, Mlg Land fy Bldg. Sn:rs: Hand ley W. F. &J Adams Jph.(& valuer) Ngt Harrison Geo. Mdg Linen fy Win. Draps. Angrave Edw. Ngt Becket Thomas, (and stamp distr.) ?>]kp Bonifant Henrv, Mkp Butler Henry, Sst Chambers Wm. Mkp Clark Richard, Mkp Dodd Caleb, Mkp Fillingham Wm. Sst Fisher & Fillingham, Market place Hall Henry, Mkp Johnson Thos. Sst Mc Myn Thos. Ngt Oliver John & John, Market place Linen Ma n ufacturers . Hardy Jph. (Damask) Mlg Scales Geo. & Son, (& bleachers) Hawton Mills Simnit W. (& weaver) Csg Thompson J. (sacking &c.) Castle Undav J. (& weaver)- Bng 3h Northgate Harvey Geo. Crg Hilton Rt. & Geo. L. Middlegato Hole Samuel, Csg. Jackson Hy. Ngt Marfleet Hy. & Fdk. Millgt.&Winthorpe Massey Thos. Hacker, Castlegate Middleton Wm. Lock- yer, Lovers' In Readett Wm. Hy. Lst Smith Wm. Bst Thorpe J. & Sons, Mlg Wilson John, Gst Wright Saml. Lst Milliners fy Brest Makers. Berriif Sarah, Bng Brooks Ann, Big Carter Henrietta, Bgt Collin Ameris, Sst CrampernAnn, Crg Dalman Ann & Eliz. Bgt Dalman Matilda, Big Elson Eliz. Pit Farmer Mary, Agt Franks Rebecca, Wst Grubb Alice, Sst Hardy Ann, Rst 622 NEWARK DIRECTORY. Hardy Mary, Millgt Henfrey Eliz. Csg Hoggan Jane, Mdg Holmes Sarah, (•& tea dlr.) Mdg Johnson My. Ann, Lst Lineham Eliz. Kst Naylor Eliz. Pit Pilgrim Mary, Brg Rawding Frances, Ast Pybus My. & Ann, Agt Rose Mary, Ast Watkin Mary, Crg Watson Charlotte, Wst WhittinghamCath.Prt Williamson My. Ngt Wilson Frances, Big Millwrights, $c. Marked f are Machine Makers. f Chambers Rt. Mkp English Wm. Pmt Ingledew Geo. (& mill- stone mkr.) Mlg f Spencer Thos. Stn Nail Makers. Burgess Wm. Big Gillson Thos. Bng Gregory Rd. Lst Nurserymen, $c. See a Iso Gardeners Clark Geo. (& florist) Strawberry hall, Lrd Flower Mary, Lrd Girton John, Big Gkton Jph. Sst Withers Geo. & Thos. Mkp. & Millgt Painters. Harston John, (and gravestone cutter,) Kgt Harston Robt. (& en graver) Lst Kirkham Ann, Mlg Slater Jas. R. Wst Summers Jph. Ast Watkin John, Crg Winter Wm. Mdg Patten Sf Clog Mkrs. Bradley Rose, Stn Bradley Jph. Pmt Tipper Benj. Kgt Turnbull Walter, Kgt Physicians. Bigsby John Jerh. Friary, Agt Chawnor Darwin, Cgt Morton Hugh, Bgt Plaster Mrchts. fyc. Norton Jno.Orme,Blg Robinson & Wilson, Big Shaw, Hy. (plasterer) Pelham st Sheppard John Sad- ler, Balderton gt Ward Wm. Bng Plumbers # Glaziers. Brown Geo. Bng Brown John, Csg Lang Wm. Sst Pawson Sarah & Sons, Kirkgate Rayner John B. Sst Thompson Wm. Kgt Professors . Brydges Wm. (organ- ist) Church yd Crow Wm. (music)Lst Curtis Jph. Bigsby, (landscape and por- trait) Csg Dyer Thos. (dancing) Osbornethorpe hs Hardy Wm. (music) Stodman st Hurst Rt. (music) Sst Register Office. Robinson Ann, Crg Rope fy Twine Mkrs Lee Saml. Brg Marshall Edw. Mkp Peart Rt. Sst PollardWm.(sack)Ngt Saddlers, fyc. Clark John, Lst Cooper Wm. Csg Edlin Chas. Spr Hardy Jas. Sst Loversidge Jph.&Son, Castlegate Moss Wm. Bridge st Pinder John, Kgt Shopkeepers. Asher Benj. Ngt Adams Hy. Win Barker Ann, Agt Birkitt Eliz. Crg Bousfield Alice, Sst Brown John, Pit Cartledge Amelia, Csg Driver Thos. Kgt Goodacre Wm. Big Gregory Rd. ;Lst Heppenstall Fdk. Big Hibbert Sarah, Lock Hunt Thos. Stn Johnson Eliz. Kst Johnson John, Frd King Wm. Mlg Marriott Rd. York st Mason Wm. Tenter bds Mattlock Rebecca, Lst Miller & Joycey, Hrd MorleyJph. Win Osborne Jas. Prt Outram Geo. Csg Pacey John, Mlg Parkinson Eliz. Kgt Pocklington Saml. Ast Robinson Mary, Mlg Rushton Barton, Csg Simpson Eliz. Kgt Spring Geo. Lst Taylor Thos. Ngt Wakefield Rd. Sst Wand Thos. Kgt White Geo. Ngt Worrall Hy. Hrd Silversmiths Sf Jwlrs. ClayDalton Parr,Mkp Smith Hy. Bgt Smallware Dealers. Barrows Jas. Big Cole Wm. Pepper hill Lilley Rt. Ngt Newey Jas. Agt Saunders Jas. Ntrt Taylor John, Sst Smock Frock Mfrs. &? Slop Sellers. Clark Rd. Cse Gelsthorp Thos. Kgt Little H.C.&Co.Mgt Moore Reuben, Bgt Rippingale W. (frocks only) Castlegate STEWARK DIRECTORY. Star/ Makers. Brown Charlotte, Kgt Grantham Thos. Bgt Knight Charlotte, Wst Mather Thos. Kgt Matthews Eliz. Gst Parkinson Thos. Crg Stanhope Thos. Bng Taylor* John, Mkp Thompson Eliz. Kgt Stone Masons, fyc. Chamberlain Rt. Big Marshall Rd. Csg Nicholson John, Ngt SheppardChp.Haneer, Big Sheppard Geo. Lst Straw Hat Makers. Aram £. & J. Sst Bilson David, Sst Colbre Sarah, Cht Harston Maria, Kgt Lampin Mary, Cht Makenzie Reb. Stn Marshall Harriet, Csg Sheppard Maria, Big Snell Ann, Sst Worley Mary, Lst Surgeons. Anders James, Kgt Deeping William, Lst Dobbs William, Agt Lacy Jas. Prior, Csg Parker Wm. Mdg Pearson Samuel, Ngt Thompson W.jun Agt Waring Samuel, Bng Welby William, Csg Tailors, marked % are Drapers IBarker Rt. Chn Brooks Andrew & up- holsterer Brown William, Wst Buttery and Cawthan, Mdg Calcraft John, Bng JCarpendale Ths. Mg Chatterton Wm. Mkp Coleam Francis & up holsterer Emerson Wm. Ast Franks John W. Crg Gelsthorp Thos. Chn I Holmes Samuel. Big J Little H. C.&CoMg Lyne William, Chn Mather Thomas, Cyd Neaves William, Frd Moore Reuben, Bgt Morley John, Ngt Parlby William, Wst {Pettefar Rd. Kgt Rogers Nathan, Big Simmons Joseph, Jyd Spurrett Wm A. Hrd Turner John, Pit JWells Jsph. Sst Wood John, Mdg J Wright John, Sst Tallow Chandlers. Drury John, Mkp Gibson Rt. Sst Gillson Jph. Sst Jackson Sarah, Csg Morley Daniel, Ngt Moss F. Evelyn, Csg Oldham Henry, Mlg Poplewell John, Mkp Ridge James, Mdg Robinson J. & Son Agt Tanner. Killingley A. Mlg Timber Merchants. Clark J. & Son, Mlg Handley W. F. & J. Northgate Huddlestone J. & Son Castlegate Nail John, (English) Guildhall-street Tobacco Manfrs. HardstaffJohn, Bng Hodgkinson John, & J. Froggatt, Bng Tobacco Pipe Manfrs Edmunds Wm. Ast Simnit J. Lyne, Est Trunk and Box Makers. . Stapleford S. Kgt Hobin T. Barnes, Big Pate George, Bng Turners in Wood, fyc Ellis John, Bin Hibbert, John, Sst WilsonKirby, Csg Veterinary Surgeons. Cotchefer John, Kgt Foster Richard, Csg Goodacre Thos. Big Johnson George, Bst Watchfy Clock Maker? Goodwin Henry, Sst Hardy Richard, Mkp Holt Richard, Kgt Priest J. 8c J. Mdg Priest William, Bin Wharfingers. Clark J. & Son Mlg Fisher W. & G. Mlg Huddlestone J. & Sor, Castlegate Hurst & Carver, Ngt Jackson J. Armstrong Northgate Withers G. & T. Mlg Wheebvrights. Bedford Edw. Brg Selby Joseph, Big Weightman Wm. Mlg Wilson Wm. Big Whitesmiths. Buck Wm. Bng Ingledew Geo. Mlg Geary Joseph, Bin Palethorpe Arthur, (& Iron mrt.) Tonges Yard. Revill John, Sst Revill T. (machine,) Balderton-gate Spencer Rt. Stn Wallis Gude, Lst Walton Wm. Mlg Wine$ Spirit Mrt a. Dyson Js. Market-pl Gardner Thomas. Sst Gilstrap Joseph, Kgt Norton, Deeping. & Co. Kirkgate Taplen Thomas, Mdg Thompson Wm. Kgt^ Wire Workers. Norton Rd. Ngt Petchell Thomas, Crg Wool Merchants. i Hardy John, Mlg I Ynun2" Edward, Utr 624 KEWARK COACHES, &C, COACHES, &c. From Gils trap's Hotel, To London, Royal Mail, 3 aft. ; Express, 6 evg. ; Highflyer,^ before 2 mg. ; Wellington, | past 4 mg. ; Rockingham, 3 afternoon To York, Newcastle, fy Edinbro\ Royal Mail, 10 mg. ; Express, J past 10 night. ; Highflyer, 12 night i Wellington, 8 mg To Leeds, Rockingham, \ past 6 morning To Norwich, Union, 6 morning, through Sleaford, Boston, Lynn, &c. To Manchester, Champion, half- past 6 morning To Nottingham, Imperial, every aft. at 4 (except Sand.) and to Lincoln, fyc. J past 1 1 mg To Nottingham fy Derby, The Wonder, every mg. at 8 To Lincoln, Queen Adelaide, every evg. at 7, except Sund. ; and to Cambridge at 7 nig From the Castle fy Falcon. To Gainsbro', Regulator, \ before 5 morning To Southwell!!? Nottingham* Ac- commodation, 8 mg. ;. and tbe Pilot, J past 3 afternoon &Zj* The Rockingham,. Cham- pion, and Queen Adelaide, call at this Inn as well as the Hotel From the Swan fy Salmon. To Worksop fy Doncaster, the Amity, at 2 afternoon To Lincoln, the Perseverance, ^ before 8 mg. ; and to Notting- ham fy Southwell, at f past 3 aft. The Hope/to Nottingham at 8 morning To Southwell fy Mansfield, the Mail Gig, 11 morning From the Clinton Arms. The Royal Mail to Glasgow, at 10 mg. y and to London at \ before 4 afternoon The Union to London, at lOngt., and to Leeds, at 6 mg. The Norwich Union, at 6 nig CARRIERS. Deacon, Harrison, fy Co., Castle- gate ; Vans to London, Cam- bridge, &c. every Wed. FrL & Sat. mgs. at 6 ; and waggons every mg. at 6. To Doncaster, Wakefield, & Leeds, at 6 evg Rt. Huntfy Son, Lombard street, to London, every Tues. Wed. Fri. & Sat. evgs. at 7 ; and to Sheffield and all parts of the North, every Sun. Mon. Wed. & Friday morning at 7 Jackson Sf Co. Lombard street, to London, 1 morning To Grant ham* Joseph Wool fit, Stodman st. ^ & SI. Hewland, Clark's yard, daily, 5 mg To Lincoln, W. & J. Pettifor, from the Robin Hood, Sunday, Tues. & Thurs. mg. ; Joseph Wooliitt, Stodman st. Tues. 10 mg. & Fri. 4 mg. ; and John Uffindale, Middlegate, Tues. & Thurs. 12 noon To Nottingham, W.& J. Pettifor from the Robin Hood, Mon. Wed. & Friday CARRIERS BY WATER. &3f» See Warfingers, page 623 MARKET CARRIERS. They arrive on Wednesday about 10 morng. and depart 3 aft, from their respective Inns Those marked 1 put up at the Angel; 2, Duke of Cumber- land ; 3, King's Head ;. 4, Robin Hood; 5, Rein Deer; 6, Royal Oak; 7« Spread Eagle 8, White Hart; 9, White Horse ; and 10, Waggon and Horses* Aslockton, Hy. Sanders, 8 Barnby, Fox & Crown, Rt. Mills, and Hy. Taylor Bassingham, Jph. Newbutt, 5; and Thos. Knapp, 8 Bennington, Generous Britain, Rd. Lynn ; & Bell, Wm. Luty Besthorp, Wm. Spouton, 5 Bingham, Wm. Jackson, 1 ; and Ann Moult, Bell Inn Bottesford, John Wilson, &' r Wm. NEWARK CARRIERS,, 625 Jackson, 8 ; & Rd. Hucknall, Packhorse Broughton & Sleford, Rt. Whita- ker, 8; Rd. Hucknall, 9 Carcolston, John Baker, 4 ; and Thos. Cragg, 10 Carlton-on-Trent, Mr. Price, 6 Caunton, Wm, Barnes, 7 Caythorpe, Wm. Wetherill, 8 Claypole, Bell, (William Daws ; Lord Nelson. Mr. Hubbard Clifton, Geo. Dovener, 1 ; and Wm. Turner, 2 Collingham, John Bailev,3; and ^ Jph. Groves, 1, Wed."& Sat Crop well, S, Swinscoe, 7 Eagle, Jph. Moorby, 1 Eakring, Mr. Weatherby, 7 Elston, John Long, 8 Farndon, W. Alhvood, 10, Wed, & Saturday Fiskerton, Mr. Foster, 6 Flintham, Tho. Cupit, 4 Foston, W. Ellis & M. Bell, 8 Fulbeck, John King, 9 Grantham, Rd. Pyband, 2 Hawkes worth, J.Padget, 4 Hoveringham, Cphr. Armstrong, Bell Leadenham, &c. John Duty, 9 • Mansfield, thos. Wood, Wed. & Sat. Swan & Salmon Marnham, Rd. Smith, Blue Lion Muskham (South) Geo. Butter- worth, King's Arms Normanton, Thos. Waller. 6 ; & Jarvis Newbold, 1 Norwell, Thos. Radford, 2 ; Wm. Warsop, 1 ; and J. Hallam. Ram Hotel Nottingham, Jph. Wilcocks, 3; & Geo. Skidmore, 1 ; Wed, & Saturday Ollerton, J. Scatchard, 2 Orston, John Fryer, 4; and Wm Greaves. S Radcliffe.Saml. Wood, 8 Redmill, Wm. Patchell, 7 Rolleston, Thos. Brailsford, 6 Scarle, (N. & S.) Wm. Linney, 1 ; Wm, Saxby & Wm. Brown, 5 Screveton, Jph. Hallam, 1 Sedgbrook, Wm. Scoffins, W Sibthorpe, J. Fisher, 4 Southwell, J. Fearn, & W. Cool- ing, 1 : Jph. Pilgrim, 2 ; and J. Fryer, 7 Stapleford Moor, J. Priestly, 1 Sutton-on-Trent, S. Whitworth, and Wm. Atkinson, 1 ; Wm. Shephard, 7 Swinderby, R. Coilingham, 1 Syerston, Wm. Bramlev. 4 Tuxford, Mr. Todd, 1 ; Wm. Godfrey, 7 Wellow, Jph, Moorby, 1 \Yestborough, John Miles, Old King's Head Whattom Wm. Tutburv. White Hind ' BALDERTON is a pleasant village and parish, \\ mile S.E. of Newark, containing 830 inhabitants, and about 360 acres of land, belonging to several proprietors, of whom the Duke ot Newcastle is the principal, and also lord of the manor, which was soc to Newark. The church is a neat but ancient structure, dedicated to St. Giles. The benefice is annexed to the vicarage of Farndon. The prebendary of Farndon, in Lincoln cathedral, is the appropriator, but he and the incumbent received allot- ments at the inclosure in 1768, in lieu of all the tithes, except those which are still paid on about 125 acres of crown land. — A Methodist chapel was erected here in 1825. An annual feast is held on September 12th, and hirings for servants at Mayday and Martinmas. The vicar receives £2 yearly, and the school- master <£18 for teaching 18 free scholars, from an estate at Fishtoft, in Lincolnshire, bequeathed to this parish and that of 3h2 m BALDERTON PARISH. Sleaford, by Wm, Alvey, in. 1726. The following rent charges are received yearly for the poor of this parish, viz 40s. left in 1724, by Gabriel Alvey; 6s. 8d* by Alice Newcombe; 20&. out of land at Caythorpe; 10s. out of land in Balderton ; 8s. out of E. S. Godfrey's estate ; Is. 2d. out of Steadfold's close ; iOd. out of Hunt's close * and 3s. 4d. out of 2f acres belonging to Mr. Harvey. Three closes in Scarsdale parish, now let for £\2. 12s., were bequeathed to them by a Mr, JVigglesivorth ; also two cottages and gardens (let for £12) by Benjamin Gibson* in I727 ; and the poor's close, (3 acres, let for ^8,) left by Francis Leek. Bell William, Gentlemen Birkett Mr. John, Birkett Wm. miller and baker, Greasley Mr. Benjamin, DaybellJohn, butcher Dickenson John, bricklayer Esam Mrs. Ann Fisher James, tailor Hancer Christopher, gentlemen Hand John, butcher Harvey Mr. John Kerchevall Mrs Ann Lineker Robert, brickmaker Marriott Geo. Esq. Round House Newstead Francis, gentlemen Oldham John, Surveyor of the turnpike from Foston to Mush- am Bridge. Oldham Thomas, tailor Padgett William, beer-house Read Matthew, joiner Rose Edward, gentlemen SelbyJohn, wheelwright Selby Samuel, parish clerk, Smith B. victualler, Turk's Head Smith William, schoolmaster Smithaon John, victualler, Cock Stevenson Wm. joiner & cabinet maker Tyerman Wm. tailor & beerhouse Upsall Richard, gentlemen Welby Miss Elizabeth & sisters Balderton Hall Farmers, Wilson C & W a Bramley Wm. Maltsters. Calvert John Clark James Caunt Thomas Harvey Rt. Fillingham Rd. Oldham Geo. Hand John Shoemakers, Harrison Rd. Cawthan Jph. Oldham William, Crow Richard Padgett John Hunt Joseph Page Thomas Tinley Thos. Rawding Thos. Shopkeepers. Stevens George AntclifFEdm. Thompson Jno. Glover Wm. Withers Wm. Harvey Edw. Blacksmiths, Smith Thomas Bramley Ts. BARNBY-IN-THE-WILLOWS is a small village and pa- rish, on the river Witham, which divides it from Lincolnshire, 4 miles E.S.E. of Newark. It has 237 inhabitants, and about 1400 acres of land, belonging to Colonel Noel, Rd. Fisher, Esq* and several other freeholders. An ancient moated house, which had belonged to the Nevilles and Brownes, {Barons Montagu,) was taken down about 15 years ago. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The vicarage, valued in the King's books at £0. 9s. 9£d., is in the patronage of Southwell colle- giate church, and incumbency of the Rev. Jas. Footit; but Mr. John Brown and Col. Noel are the impropriators, the former having 11 and the latter 4 shares of the rectorial tithes. Flaivford a farm of 250 acres, anciently belonged to the NEWARK HUNDRED, 627 Knights Templar, but is now the property of W. F. and J. Handley, Esqrs. Newstead John, parish clerk Rose Benj. joiner Taylor Hy. shopkeeper Vessey Gevas, juiu beer hs Vessey John, beer house FARMERS. Bark Michl Birkett Rd Birkett John Brown Thos Birkett Mary Doughty John Featherstone Js Salmon Michl. Kinning Thos Flawford Mason Rt Squires T. &G. Peet John, Fo- Taylor Hy. & G. rest Vessey Gervas Wilson Rd Carriers to Newark.— Hy. Taylor & Rt. Mills, Wed. 8 mg. NORTH CLIFTON parish comprises the four villages and townships of North Clifton, South Clifton, Harby, and Spal- ford, which maintain their poor separately, and contain toge- ther 949 inhabitants, and 433/ acres of land, which was all ex- onerated from tithes at the enclosure, and anciently formed four manors of the Bishop of Lincoln's fee, and one of Roger de Busli's. North Clifton is a small village on the east bank of the Trent, 12J miles N. by E. of Newark, near a long red cliff, in which numerous fragments of urns, bones, and scalps have been found, near the spot which is supposed to have been anciently occupied by a castle. The inhabitants have each a free passage across the ferry at South Clifton, for which privi- lege they give the ferryman a " prime loaf " on Christmas-day, when he and his dog have by custom each a good dinner at the vicarage, " and the parson's dog is always turned out whilst the ferryman's eats his share of the entertainment.' 5 The church. dedicated to St. George, stands on an eminence between North and South Clifton. It had formerly a collegiate chantry for secular priests. The vicarage, valued in the King's books at c£7- 6s. is now enjoyed by the Rev. Fdk. Parry Hodges. The prebendary of North Clifton, in Lincoln cathedral, is the patron and appropriator. The Duke of Newcastle is lord of the manors of N. and S. Clifton, each of which contains about HOG acres, belonging to a number of freeholders and a few copy- holders. Colonel Sibthorpe is lessee of the prebendal lands. At the enclosure, 11 acres were allotted to the church, and two acres of the Sandhills for repairing the roads. In 1669, Simon Nicholson left to the poor £100, which was laid out in the purchase of 16a. 3r. 9p. of land, let for £\7 a year, of which ten guineas are given to the master of the school, which was built in 1799, for the use of the two townships. The poor have £3. 10s. yearly, as half the rent of a house in South Clifton, left in 1737, by Susannah Hall. The parish feast is on Sep- tember 12th. South Clifton, 1 mile S. of North Clifton, is the largest village in this parish, having 340 inhabitants. Here is the vicarage house, a Methodist chapel, and the ferry already 628 CLIFTON (N. & S.) noticed. Much damage was done here by the overflowing of the Trent in the floods of 1736, 1770, 1795, 1824, and 1828. Harby, at the east end of the parish, bordering upon Lin- colnshire, and 13 miles N.N.E. of Newark, is a village and chapelry with 304 inhabitants. It is remarkable as the place where Queen Eleanor lay ill and died, in the 19th of Edward I. who founded a chantry here, which he afterwards removed to Lincoln. The chapel of ease was repaired about twelve years ago. The Duke of Portland is principal owner and lord of the manor, which contains 1187 acres, and was enclosed in 1803, but Col. Sibthorpe and some others have estates here. Spalford, 10 miles N. by E. of Newark, has only 80 inha- bitants, and 900 acres of land, enclosed in 1814. Two of its farms are in Girton parish. Sir Wm. Welby, Bart, is the prin- cipal owner and lord of the manor. NORTH CLIFTON. Banes John, blacksmith Briggs Richard, tailor Glew Hannah, corn miller Hammond George, gent Harvey Matthew, corn miller Hills Wm. shoemaker and vict Squier Jacob, schoolmaster Starr William, shoemaker Turner Wm. shopkr. & carrier Tustin William, tailor Wheatcroft Edward, gent Wilson Timothy, joiner Fanners. Chapman Rd Minnett John Cooling John Shepherd Thos Lownd John Wells Henry Milns Wm Wells John SOUTH CLIFTON. Buff ham Ann, vict. Red Lion Clark John, butcher and draper Cooper Joseph, corn miller Cooper William, grocer & draper Curtis John, shoemaker Dinsdale William, parish clerk Freeborough, Robert, tailor Freeth Miss Gambles Thomas, blacksmith, & axe and bill manufacturer Gordon Rev. Geo. Cyrus, curate Kirk George, vict Maitby John, butcher Pennington Edward, gent Lamb John, wheelwright Smith William, joiner Truelove Robert, joiner Turner Henry, butcher Walker John, coal merchant Watson Hy. tanner, saddler, &c Wells William, shoemaker Farmers. Bonifant Thos Derry John Cooper Wm Higgat Geo Derry James Kirk Geo Derry Wm. and Tuxford Sarah maltster Woolfit John Carrier.— -George Daubner to Gainsborough, Tuesday, and to Newark^ Wednesday, 5 morn. HARBY. Ashlin Joseph, blacksmith Brown George, joiner Cobb John, wheelwright Conlon Pat. weaver & beer house Dixon Benjamin, tailor Gourley Jno. & W. brickmkrs Harrison James, joiner Higgat Anthony, shopkeeper Higgat Edward, shoemaker Hodson William, wheelwright Lobley Thomas, corn miller Lund William, bricklayer Lyon John, shopkeeper Ormond Joseph, shoemaker Parr George, joiner and vict Peck Samuel, blacksmith Simpson William, bricklayer SmaUey Joseph, shoemaker Smith William, tailor Wilkinson Robert, butcher Withers Wm. schoolr. & grocer NEWARK HUNDRED. 629 Farmers, Bolton John Howitt Thos Curtis Wm Simpson Cphr. Curtis Thomas Skinner Wm Dixon Beni Wilkinson Geo DoncasterWm Withers Thos Spalford — Farmers. Brown Robert Gibson Jha Cooling John Hill John Gibson Wm. & Parkin Wm miller Tongue Rd COLLINGHAM, seated on a gentle eminence above the Trent marsh, 6 miles N. by E. of Newark, is one of the largest and handsomest villages in the county, and is all comprised in the two parishes of North and South Collingham, which con- tain together 1608 inhabitants and upwards of 4000 acres of land. A feast is held on the last Sunday in October, and hirings for servants twice a year. North Collingham parish includes more than half of the village, and Potter Hill on the borders of Lincolnshire, where tradition says, there has been a Roman Pottery, but it is more likely to have been a military station. The church stands near the centre of the village, and is dedicated to All Saints. The vicarage is valued in the King's books at £8. 14s. 2d., and has been augmented with Queen's Anne's Bounty. The Rev. Charles Lesiter, A.B., is the incumbent, and the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough are the patrons and appropriators, but they received land at the enclosure, in lieu of tithes. The Baptist chapel here has been several times enlarged, and near it is a school endowed (for the education of the poor children of both parishes,) by William and Mary Hart, in 1699 and 1718, with land now let for .£39 per annum. The benefactions to the poor of North Collingham are £2 yearly, left by William Storr, and the interest of ^£30 left by Thomas Fisher and William Lonsdale. They have also £6. 6s. yearly from the Poor's close, the rest of which £2. 14s. is paid to the surveyors of the highways. The poor of South Collingham hare £2 yearly left by W T illiam Storr; £\2. 10s. yearly from land bequeathed by William Hart ; and the interest of ^70 left by Thomas Fisher, and Elizabeth Bradford, South Collingham parish includes the southern part of the village of Collingham, and the hamlets Brough and Derne- thorpe distant 2% miles to the S.E. It has 7^7 inhabitants, and nearly 3000 acres of land, of which the Earl of Stamford is principal owner and lord of the manor, which he holds on a lease under the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough, whose bishop has the advowson of the rectory, which is valued in the King's books at .£14. Is. 10|d, and is now enjoyed by the Rev. Joseph Mayor. In the parish are two Wesley an chapels, one at Collingham, and the other at Brough, which latter is supposed to be the Crocolana of Antoninus, from the number of- Roman coins, pots, urns, bricks, &c, that have been dug up there at 630 COLLINGHAM (N. & S.) various periods. Dernethorp, which occupies an eminence a little to the south of Brough, had anciently a chapel annexed to Thurgarton priory, and human bones are still frequently dis- covered in a garden which was the burial ground. At Col- lingham, was born the late John Blow, the celebrated organist of Westminster Abbey, who died in 1708. John Armstrong, now living in the village, is 27 years of age, and only 3 feet 5 inches in height. NORTH COLLINGHAM. Addinsell John, schoolmaster Bentley Mrs. Sarah Boot Mrs. Mary Broadberry John, sen. coal mert Broadberry John, jun. bookpr Burbank Baraak, gardener, &c Burrell Thomas, watchmaker Chambers Joseph, tailor Clark John, gent Cleaver John, gent Coles John, coal merchant Cooling Mrs. Sarah Cooper Robert, surgeon Crossland George, cooper Dominichitte Captain fm Fish Thomas, butcher Fletcher Geo. Harwood, surgeon Glasier Mrs. Mary Groose Arthur & Jas. saddlers Hage John, joiner Hewes George, hair dresser HickliUg Wm. glazier, &c. Lonsdale, Mrs. Elizabeth Lesiter Rev. Charles Millns William, bricklayer Mosley Henry, wheelwright Newton Thos. veterinary surgeon Nichols Rev. Wm. Baptist min. Pickering Thomas, joiner Pope Rev. Geo. (Bapt.) & school- master Shelburn Thomas, joiner Sherlock George, gov. workhouse Skerritt Samuel, mason Smith William, tailor South Joseph, miller Turner Jonathan, gent Turner Louisa, ladies' school Vickers William, painter White John, gunsmith & p. clerk White George, boat owner Widnall George, glazier, &c. Willis Edward, bricklayer Wilson, Mr. James Wright, Mrs. Mary Farmers, Bestall Wm Edlington J Fish Thos Grimes Henry Jackson Dd Pate John Skelton Wm Tasker Geo Taylor Abm Taylor Wm Shoemakers, Bagley Jph Brown Samuel Curtis Thomas Johnson David Kirkus Thomas Shopkeepers. Cad man Wm Good Wm Harston Rd Hewes Wm Temporal John Newton Thos West Wm Woodcock Jas Woolley H. and chandler Publicans. Arnold Mtw Battle Wm Bradberry W Fearnehough T Marriot Wm Blacksmiths Hail Wm. Ragg John Watson Wm Maltsters. Beedham Bk Cooling Thos Wright John SOUTH COLLINGHAM. Anderson John, gent Bailey William, grocer Brown Thomas, tailor Chappell Sandy, gent. Lodge Clayworth John, vict Gray John, tailor Greenberry Rt. miller & beerhs Guilford Miss Ann and Sisters Hall Samuel, blacksmith Hall Willoughby, schoolmaster Harrison William, gardener Lee Lewis, ropemaker Lewis John, shoemaker Long Rt. Furniss, grazier Mayor Rev. Joseph, rector Milnes Robert, grazier Norris William, tailor Pilgrim John, shoemaker NEWARK HUNDRED. 631 Priestley William, joiner Proctor Michael, grocer Ragg John, blacksmith Stepnall John, blacksmith Stocks John, blacksmith, Brough Tinley Daniel, miller and baker Wells Joseph, shoemaker Whittall John, excise officer Woolley Thos. Smith, land agent and valuer Farmers. Marked t live at Brough, and % at Dernethorpe. Chaster Chtte Hardy Hosea Coles Thos Hatfield John + Colton John Hewson Wm fEastgate Mary J Holmes Thos Hopkinson W. Oldham Wm and brickmkr J Paling Geo f Horner Edw J Paling Wm JHorner Edm Priestley Wm f Horner MarthafQuibell Jph Hunt Jph Skellett Thos Hutchinson J Taylor Jas Johnson Chpr J White Ben j Lilley Matth A coach to Gainsborough and Newark, daily. Letters are re- ceived by a horse post. Carriers. — Joseph Grosse to Gainsborough, Mon. and to New- ark, Wed. and Sat. John Bailey, to Newark, Wed. and Sat. and to Lincoln, Fri. COTHAM, is a small village and parish on the east bank of the Devon, 4 miles S. of Newark. It contains only 74 inhabit- ants and 1200 acres of land, all belonging to the Duke of Port- land, who is also patron of the churchy which is dedicated to St. Michael, and was partly rebuilt, and new pewed in 1831, The living is a curacy valued in the King's books at £~. 18s. and is now enjoyed by the Rev. E. Otter, for whom the Rev. J. E. S. Hutchinson officiates. This place was long the seat of the knightly families of Leek and Markham, but it is now divided into three farms, occupied by John Booth, Thos. Rose, and the executors of the late John Fisher. ELSTON, 5 miles S. S.W. of Newark, is a straggling village and parish, containing 552 inhabitants and 1500 acres of land, forming two manors, distinguished by the names of Church- paiish and Chapel-parish, from the latter having a small ancient chapel of ease annexed to the vicarage of East Stoke. Sir R. H. Bromley is lord and principal owner of the latter; and Wm Brown Darwin, Esq. of the former manor, in which he has just rebuilt, upon a handsome and commodious scale, his ancient family residence, called Elston Hall. The church is a neat edifice dedicated to All Saints. The rectory, valued in the King's books, at <£9. 8s. 9d, is in the gift of W. B. Darwin, Esq., and incumbency, of the Rev. J. Holt, M.A. The tithes were all commuted for allotments of land in 1798. An hospital here, in which 4 poor widows have each Is. per week, is about to be rebuilt, and was founded in 1722 by Ann Darwin. The school, which is endowed with land, &c. worth <£12. per annum, was rebuilt by the late ]\lr. Darwin, in 1812, It was founded bv Lawrence Pendleton, in 1650, and endowed with £100. by Eliz. Darwin, in 1784. The poor have 6s. yearly out of a pub- lic house from the bequest of Mary Piper, in 1788, and the 632 ELSTON PARISH, interest of .£200. left in 1798, and 1820f by Eliz. and John Summer. They have also the Poors Close, which in 1801, was given in Exchange for several small parcels of land, left in 1715, and 1764, by the Bristow and Darwin families. It con- tains 3x. 2r. 25p. and lets for £ 12 a-year. In the village is a Methodist 'Chapel, erected in 1815, and a Sick Club, which holds its feast on the Monday after June 21st. Those marked f in the following directory reside in the Chapel -parish* Darwin Wm. Brown, Esq. Elston Hall fBell Thos. vict Brown Jph. shoemkr Elston Jn. vict Fisher Jn. bsmith Fryer Mk. butcher f Greasiey Rd. vict Green Sar. shopr Hardstaff J shopr Harrison Rev. Henry M.A. curate Hickman S. shoemkr fKey Hy. shopr Long John, schoolr "fMills G. bricklr fMoss Wm. saddler Parkinson J. surgeon •{•Pickering Wm. blk- smith & p. clerk fRose Nat. baker i RowbothamT. miller Rowbotham W. vict •f Spowage W. shoemr Turner J. joiner f Walker Rd. tailor fWard J. wheelgt Watson J. chair mkr fWhitworth R. buchr Whitworth W. joiner Fawners. Fryer John fGretton Wm fHarrap Kd t Harvey Ed w Hickerby Jph Long J. Lodge Read Jas fRead Wm. Smith John fSpafford Wm Spafford John f Taylor John fWard Anthy Carrier. J. Hardstatf to New- ark. FARND0N parish has a well-built village on the Trent, 2 miles W. S. W- of Newark, and contains 570 inhabitants, and about 1800 acres of land. It was a Berue of Newark and of the Bishop of Lincoln's fee. The Duke of Newcastle is lord of the manor, but owns only a small portion of the land. The church is dedicated to St. Peter, and is in the appropriation and patronage of its own prebendary in Lincoln Cathedral. The vicarage has the church of Balderton annexed to it, and is valued in the King's books at <£6. 13s. 4d. The Bev. Fdk. Apthorpe is the incumbent. Both the great and small tithes were commuted for allotments of land at the enclosure in 1768. The feast is on the Sunday after St. Peters day. Ten poor children are educated from the rents of two cottages left by Mrs. Draper. The poor have three benefactions : viz. a house and close let for .£9. 3s. and left by Mrs. Moore. 1a. 3k. of land left by the Rev. M. Alt; and £100. left in 1771, by Mr. Hempsall, and now vested in the North Turnpike at 5 per cent. Birkett John, vict Birkett Wm. tailor Brockton Wm. gent Brooksby Fras. gent Buck Edw. gent Cartledge Geo. beer I hs. Markham bdg Apthorpe Rev. W.H A theis Geo. wharfinger & coal mert Barnes Wm. bricklr Barth Capt. Jacob Beckett G. shoemkr Beighton J. glazier Chettle J. butcher Chettle Mrs. Mary Chettle Wm. gent Coddington Geo. blk. smith & shopr Faulkes B. shoemkr FaulkesRd.p.clSrk FARKDON PARISH. 633 Fisher John, bailor Franke Chas. miller Hayes J. blacking mfr Hilton Jas. gent Johnson Eliz. shopr Kirk \Vm. miller Lamb Mrs. Cath Lee John, wheelgt Lee Ftd. smith Manchester G. shoemr Marriott J. boatnr Mettam Capt. Thos Newton Jobn, joiner Pearson J. shoemr Pearson W. boatnr Petti nor J. shoemr Radford J. shoemr Sampey Miss Mary Sharpe Mrs. Ann Sharpe W. sehoolr Spiek Thos. wheelgt Stansall T. joiner Stevens T. shoemr Swann Win. knitting worsted maufr Welburn Mis. Eliz Farmers, Butler Dinah Chettle William Horner Edmund Kirk William Parker Thomas Pattinson William Sharpe Thomas Walker Matthew Walstow Themas Ward Ann -o» GIRTON is a small village and parish on the east bank of the Trent, 9 miles N. by E. of Newark. It has 183 inhabit- ants, and 1000 acres of land, belonging to several proprietors. The church is a humble edifice, and is annexed to the vicar- age of South Seai-le, being in the same patronage and appro- priation. See also Spalford p. 628. Gee John, fisherman Gee Wm. fisherman Holland Edw. vict. & shopr Howard Isaac, gentleman Minnitt Wm. gentleman Selby Wm. gentleman Farmers. Thompson Jph Check ley Thos Turner Saml Harrison Wm Hunt John Minnitt Thos Proctor Geo Thompson Jas Carrier. Jph. Checkiey to Newark, Wed. 6 mg. HAWTON, on the river Devon, 2 miles S. 3. W-. of New- ark, is a small but pleasant village and parish, comprising 258 inhabitant?, and about 2000 acres of land, mostly belonging to Rt. Holden, Esq., of Nuthall Temple, but the Dukes of New- castle and Portland have small estates here, and the latter is lord of the manor, which was soc to Newark, to which this parish adjoins near the extensive linen manufactory called Hawton Mills. The church is an handsome structure dedicated to All Saints, and has some ancient monuments of the Moly- neaux family. Its stalls are rich in decorations of carving. The rectory, valued in the King's books at <£17- 13s. 4d, is in the gift of Roger Newdigate, Esq., and has a neat parsonage house, and£0 acres of glebe. Helps Rev. Wm. rector Porter Thos. farmer Riminorton lid. farmer Sampey John, farmer, Grange Sampey Wm. farmer Scales Geo. & Sons, linen mfrs LANGFORD, is a straggling but picturesque village, upon an eminence above the Trent marsh, 4 miles N. N. E. of New- ' ark, comprehending within its parish, 125 inhabitants, .and 3 i 634 NEWARK .HUNDRED,- nearly 2000 acres of land. Langford House a handsome modern mansion near the village, is the residence of Slingsby Dun- combe, Esq., who in 1832 sold the extensive estates of Lang- ford and Winthorpe, to Lord Middleton. The church is a perpetual curacy in the appropriation and patronage of Trinity College, Cambridge. The Rev. Thos. Blades is the incumbent, and has about 30 acres of glebe purchased with Queen Anne ? s Bounty. The following are the resident farmers : — John Arnold, Wm. Birkett, Thos. Bonifant, Ht. Bradbury, Jph. Branston, Saml. Brown, Wm. Else, John Kirkham^ Thomas Ringrose, Thomas Roberts, Sarah Turner, Thomas & Wm, Weightman. MERING, on the Trent bank, near Girton, 8 miles N. of Newark, is an extra-parochial farm of 460 acres of low marshy grazing land, occupied by Elizabeth Catliffe, and belonging to Chas. Chaplin, Esq., Capt. C. Neville, and some others. It anciently gave name to & resident family, who gave part of it to the priories of Lenton and Radford. SOUTH SCARLE, is a pleasant village, including within its parish the township of Beesthorp, and distant 7 miles N. N. E. of Newark. Each township contains about 1100 acres, and belongs to a number of freeholders and copyholders, but the Duke of Newcastle is lord of the Manor of Morland, which compromises this parish and Girton, and is held by his Grace, of the Crown, for the annual rent of £23. 4s. 5|d. The church, dedicated to St. Helen, is a vicarage, valued in the King^s books at £h. 2s. 6d,.and is in the patronage and appropriation of its own prebendary in Lincoln Cathedral. The Rev. Henry Gor- don is the present vicar, and has 22 acres of glebe purchased with Queen Anne's Bounty. A Methodist chapel was built here in 1829. The poor have an annuity of 26s. 8d. out of Griffin-bridge Close, and the interest of .£20. left in 1754, by Edward Ward. BES THORP is a good village near the Fleet river, 2 miles W. N. W. of South Scarle. It contains the vicarage house, and had -formerly a Quakers' Meeting-house and a Chapel of Ease. The latter, in 1734, was converted into a svhool, with a dwelling for the master, who teaches 8 free scholars, in consideration of £5. a-year, left bv Geo. Carver, in 1709, and the interest of £21. 7s. left in 1824, by Wm. Wilson. The Methodists built a chapel here in 1832/ The Corporation of Newark, John Milnes, W . E. Tallents, Esq., and some others have estates in the township. The feast is on the Sunday alter Old Michael- m arle (south). I Pennington Samuel, butcher Barnsdall Geo. wheelwright | Spooner Rev. Rt. Denny Rix n Fredk. corn miller | T-enney Mrs. Mary .Jn},r,. butcher I Woodroffe Jph. shoemaker '.]-- Sai I SOUTH SCARLE PARISH. 635 Farmers. Banks John Holmes George Brown Wm. Jackson Edw. Clayworth Edw, Pate John Cook John Pratt Thomas Dak in Robert,- Saunders Wm. Doncaster C. Walton Carter BESTHORP. Bell John, butcher Booth William, shopkeeper Cook John, joiner Crumpton Geo. cattle dealer Elliott George, cow leech Gorden Rev. Hy. vicar Hammond Wm. corn miller Hitchin John, joiner Hunt Philip, gent JSaylor Mrs. Stella Pawson Rd. vict. & grocer Shipley Jph. schoolmaster Smalley Aukland, blacksmith Spittlehouse Thos. bricklayer Talbot Rd. tailor Wells John, shoemaker Williamson Chas. tailor Withers Wm. beerhouse Woodrofife Wm. shomaker Farmers. Hanson Wm. Palian Martin. Hopkinson W. Vessey John Howitt Wm, Vessey Jph. Hunt John Walker Thos. Lee Richard Wilson John Carrier, Wm. Spawton, to New- ark, Wed. 6 mg. A Coach to Newark & Gainsbro' daily SHELTON village and parish on the west bank of the Smite, 7 miles S. by W. of Newark, has only 113 inhabitants, and 840 acres of land, mostly belonging to Major Robert Hall, the lord of the manor, who resides in the halL a neat modern man- sion. The church is a small edifice dedicated to St. Mary, and was partly rebuilt and newpewed in 1831, at the cost of £400. The rectory, valued in the King's books at £6. 14s, 4|d, is in the gift of the Rev. Robt. Ffarmerie, and incumbency, of the Rev. John Inee Maltby, who has forty acres of glebe. The principal residents are George Brett, hktcksmith r and Edward Warren, wheelwright. The poor have £D. per annum, from 4 acres of land at Aslacton, purchased with £90. left 1744, by Geo. Burghope. SIBTHORPE village and parish lies on theCardike, 7 miles S. S. W. of Newark, and was once a place of importance, having a College founded by Geffrey le Scroop in the reign of Edward II. The lordship contains of 900 acres, and 141 in- habitants, and is all the property of the Duke of Portland, who has also the patronage of the perpetual co-racy which is now en- joyed by the rector of Shelton. The church is dedicated to St. Peter, and has some ancient tombs of the Burnell family, who had a large mansion here, of which nothing now remains. The father of Seeker, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born here. The feast is on the Sunday after Old Michaelmas. The principal residents are Mrs. Lee, Eliz. Faulkes, Thos. Faulkes, Rd. Hall, Jn. Kenyon, and Rn. Lee, farmers; Wm. Bradley, shoe-mkr; Jn. Fisher and M. Richmond, shoprs; Wm. Hollingwith baker. STAUNTON is a small village picturesquely situated in the vale of Belvoir, near the point where the three counties of Not- tingham, Leicester, and Lincoln unite, 7 miles S. by E. of Newark, and near the source of the river Devon. Its parish. &36 STAUNTON PARISH. includes part of the hamlet of Alverton, and the chapelry of Flawborough, and has now united with it the parish of Kil- vington. The lordship of Staunton- has 93 inhabitants, and 1300 acres of land, which was enclosed in 1760. It has been the sole property of a family of its own name from the time of the Saxons, and one of them, Sir Maitger Staunton, success- fully defended Bel voir Castle against William the Conqueror, " and there made his composition and contract for his lands, and had the strongest fortress therein,, ever since called by his name * Staunton's Tower.' '*' Job; Staunton Charlton, Esq., the last male heir of this ancient family died in 1777? after which, this lordship was possessed by his two maiden daughters, the survivor of whom died in 1807, and left her estates here and in Yorkshire, to her second cousin, Elizabeth, wife of the Rev. John Apinshaw, L.L.D., on condition that they should take the name and bear the arms of Staunton only, so that this gen- tleman is now the Rev. Dr. Staunton, and is not only owner and lord of the manor r but also patron and incumbent of the rectory, which is valued in the King's books at £\$. 13s. ll|d. He resides in the hall, a large and commodious mansion- with beautiful gardens and pleasure grounds, situated near the church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, and has many antique monuments of the Stauntons. The poor have 2u*s. yearly, from the bequest of Elizabeth Shervvin, in 1725. The feast at Staunton, Alverton, and Kilvington, is on the Sunday after Sep. 19th, and at Flawborough, on the Sunday after St. Peter's dav. The residents of Staunton are Dr. Staunton, Miss Jane Mounsey, Hy. Barker, smith and victualler; Wm. Rose, joiner ; Win; Wool fit, tailor; and Rd. Bradley, Geo. Brew- ster, John Gurnell, Thos. Martin, Hy. Shepherd, Wm. Steven- son, and J ohm* White, farmers, Alvkrton township is mostly in Kilvington parish, and con- tains onlv ]fi inhabitants, and about 400 acres of land, 8 miles S. by E. of Newark. It was enclosed in 1806, when 60 acres were allotted in lieu of tithes. The rest belongs to the Duke of Portland, but Dr. Staunton is lord of the manor. Its two farmers are Robert Cross and Charles Neale. Flawborough, township and chapelry has 80 inhabitants, and 900 acres of land, 8 miles S. of Newark ; and is the property of the Duke of Newcastle. It is partly in the parish of Orston, and formerly paid a small modus in lieu of tithes to that parish, and -another to Shelton, but the rector of Staunton now claims and retains the whole of the tithes, though his portion by an an- cient agreement was limited to .£60 a year. He occasionally performs divine service in the ancient chapel. At the foot of the eminence on which the village stands, is the small hamlet of Dalinoton. The principal occupants of the chapelry are Robt. Fukes, shoemaker, Wm. Fi\kes,joine?\ and Cath. Bir- kett, Jno. Bland, Thos. Faulkes, Rd. Jackson, Livi Smith, *nd Samuel Wilson, farmers. NEWARK HUNDRED, 637 Kilvington, 7i miles S. of Newark, is a hamlet and parish, with only 45 inhabitants and 650 acres of land, of which 142 were allotted for the tithes at the enclosure in 1750. The Rev. Dr. Staunton is the principal owner, lord of the manor, and patron and incumbent of the rectory, which is valued in the King's books at £6. 12s. Id., and was consolidated with the rectory of Staunton, in 1826, when the church here was re- duced to a roofless ruin, and seat room provided For the inha- bitants in the neighbouring' church of Staunton. The princi- pal residents are, Thos. Allin, corn miller^ Wm. Marshall and Wm. Wilson, farmers, and Thomas Allin, carrier to Newark, EAST STOKE is a very pleasant village on the south bank of the Trent, and upon the Roman fosse way, 4 miles S.W. by W. of Newark. It contains 320 inhabitants and 1200 acres of land, exclusive of Newark Castle Liberty, which forms a part of its township. — (See p. 608.) Tts parochial jurisdiction in- cludes Elston chapel, — (See p. 631,) and the parochial chapel- ries of Coddington and Syerston. Sir Robt. Howe Bromley, Bart., is principal owner, and lord of the manor of East Stoke, and resides in the hall, a handsome mansion with picturesque pleasure grouuds which overlook the vale of the Trent. Upon a rising ground in front of the hall, stands the church, which is dedicated to St. Oswald, and has a prebendal stall in Lincoln •cathedral, occupied by the Chancellor of that church, who has the appropriation of the rectorial tithes, and also the patronage of the vicarage, which is valued in the King's books at £8. 13s., and is now enjoyed by the Rev. William Bartlett, The tithes here were commuted at the enclosure, for about 250 acres. There was anciently an hospital here dedicated to St. Leonard, for a master, chaplain, brethren, and sick persons. John Light/out, D.D., a celebrated Hebrician was born here :n 1602, and died in 1675. Stokefield, as it is called, was the scene of the battle between Henry VII., and the army under the Earl of Lincoln, who had espoused the cause of the impost tor Lambeth Simnel, the pretended Earl of Warwick, tftid claimant of the crown. This bloody conflict occurre- June, 1487, and after three hours hard fighting, the w rebel line was broken, and all the chieftains slain. total slaughter of both armies amounted to 7000 men. Sc historians say, that Lord Lovel, one of the insurgents. drowned in attempting to cross the Trent, but Bacon saVs " another report leaves him- not there, but that he lived long after in a cave or vault." Gough in his additions to Can says, that in pulling down the house of Minster Lovi fordshire, which belonged to Lord Lovel, there was vault, the body of a man, in rich clothes, seated in a chair. a table and mass book before him. The body was entire , h« . found, but upon admission of the air, it soon fell From this, Mr. Gough concludes, that after the I 3i2 638 EAST STOKE PARISH. field, Lord Lovel retired to this vault, where he perished, either through treachery or some accident which befel his servant, or at least those intrusted with the secret of his retreat. It is ex- tremely probable, from the coincidence of name and other cir- cumstances, that this event formed the ground work of Miss Glara Reeve's elegant romance of the "Old English Baron." Stoke feast is on the first Monday in June. The poor have £2. 10s. yearly, out of land belonging to the Hall family, left by an unknown donor. Coodington is a small village and parochial chapelrv, dis- tant 6| miles N.E. of East Stoke, and 2\ E. of Newark, on the Sleaford road. It contains 434 inhabitants, and 1500 acres of land, of which 213 acres were allotted at the enclosure in lieu of tithes to the vicar and prebendary of East Stoke, to which parish the church, dedicated to all Saints, is annexed. The Buke of Newcastle is lord of the manor, but the land belongs to a number of proprietors. A Methodist chapel was built here in 1827. Joseph Birch, in 1138, left to the poor a farm of 98a. 2r. 8p., now let for .£140 per annum, out of which the schoolmaster has 4s. per week for teaching 12 free scholars, and the rest is distributed amongst the poor inhabitants. They have also^£2 yearlv out of Beacon field, left by Mr. Bell, and the interest of .£20 left in 1809, by Jacob Ordoyno. Syerston, another parochial chapelry annexed to the vicarage of East Stoke, has a small village 6 miles S.W. of Newark, and contains 138 inhabitants and 800 acres of land, enclosed in 1794, when allotments were made for the tithes^ to the vicar and prebendary of Stoke. George Fillingham, Esq., of Syerston Hall> a neat modern brick mansion, is lord of the manor, and owner of a great part of the soil. The church is a small fabric, 1| mile S. of. Stoke. The feast is on the Sunday after Lammas* stoke (e^st). Bromley Sir R. Howe, Bart. Stoke hall Bonsor W. shoemaker Bramley Wm. smith Chester Win. ground bailiff Cowlishaw Wnu bas- ket maker Cuckson J. tailor Cupit Wm. tailor Gee F. basket maker Gilbert Rd. miller Hall Mrs. Eliz. Hutchinson Rev. J. Entwistle Scholes, M.A. curate Lee Fras. butcher 3L>ee Wm. miller Pacey John, wheelgt Pacey Sarah, vict Rawson J. basket mkr Shephard J. shoemkr Wakefield Geo. gent Farmers, Bennett Hannah Brockton John Padgett Thomas Sparford Dorothy Taylor Thos. Weightman Jameo COODINGTON, Asling Dd. tailor Atter John, shoemkr Barfoot Oliver, vict Beaumont Edward, wheelwright BirkettMr. John Blackburn Wm. vict Carby Wm. shopkr Ellis John,shoemker Godfrey T. Spraggon, Esq/Baconfiekl-hse, Grocock S. bricklayer & shopkeeper Hall John, joiner Hough W. blacksmith Hudson J. W. lime- burner Jalland Charles, gent. Johnson E. miller Lee William, miller Marshall Jas. vict. Pilgrim J. blacksmith Robinson Mr. George Taylor John, tailor Weightnoan W butcher NEWARK HUNDRED. 639 Farmers. Ash well Michael Booth W. & W\ Clavton John Daybell William Fearfield Thomas Hilton William Jalland John Kirk land John Ordoyno Garratt Seargill James Seagrave John Stokes William Young John SYERSTOX. Fillingham Geo. Esq. Syerstone Hall. Bramley,.W. blcksth Challand H. victualler Cawley Rev. Edward Fillingham Miss Ann Gilhy Edmund Gent. Jackson Rd. fanner Johnson S. gardener Savage T. shoemaker Silkston M. shopkr Wade Ths. joiner THORN EY is a small village 8 miles E. of Tuxford, and 14 miles N. by E. of Newark. Its parish forms part of that tongue of land which stretches into Lincolnshire. It comprises the three townships of Thorney, Broadholme, and Wigsley, in which are 308 inhabitants and nearly 4000 acres of land, of which 300 acres are in woods, and a great part of the rest wa3 formerly low and swampy moors, but it is now drained and in high cultivation. The manor of Thorney has long been pos- sessed by the Nevill family, and now belongs to Captain Chris- topher Nevill, who resides in the Hall, a neat modern mansion, near the church, which is dedicated to St. Helen, and contains some ancient monuments of his family. He is also the impro- priator, and patron of the vicarage, which is valued in the King's books at £4l. 7s. 6d., and is now enjoyed by the Rev. Christopher Nevill, jun. The benefice has 18 acres of land purchased with Queen Anne's Bounty. At Dinsky Nook, on the Lincoln and Dunham road, 1 mile N. of Thorney, is a public-house, occupied by John Clark, where a hiring of ser- vants is held yearly about May-Day. Near it is the post on which Thomas Otter was hung in chains, for murdering his wife in 1806. The farmers of Thorney are, Dd. Balflour, John Ray Beckitt,Edw. Cammack, Wm. Drakard, Rd. Hill, Thos. Howitt, Wm. Hudson, Wm. Radley, SamL Roberts, and Wm. Thompson. Broadho.mh, 3 miles E. of Thorney, is a scattered hamlet with 67 inhabitants, and had formerly aPreemonstratensian Nun- nery, which was founded in the reign of Stephen, by Agnes de Camville, wife of Peter Gousla, and possessed at its dissolu- tion, a yearly revenue of .£16. 5s. 2d. The township contains 410 acres, more than half of which belongs to Thomas Red- gate, Esq., the lord of the manor, which at the enclosure, had allotted to it 71 acres of Saxelby Common, the rest of which is in Lincolnshire. The residents are Charles Stacey, gent ; and Matthew Cartman, William Cartwright, John Culley, Nathan Giles, and John Rogers, farmers. Wigsi.ey, or JViggesley, is a hamlet and township, l£ mile S. of Thorney, containing 86 inhabitants and about 1000 acres of land, which was enclosed in 1814, and allotments made in lieu of the tithes. It was soc to Newark, and part of it was given to St. Katheri tie's priory at Lincoln, The poor have 20s, 640 KBWARK HUNDRED. yearly, out of land left by Thomas Unwin, in 1719. The principal residents are Mrs. Ann Howard ; William Harrison, beer seller ; George Peck, blacksmith ; and Thomas Bottomley, John Gibson, Joseph Heald, Edward Howard, Sampson Howard, and William Welch, farmers, THORPE-by-Newark is a village and parish with only 105 inhabitants and 697 acres of land, 3J miles S. W. of Newark. About 180 acres of common land was enclosed 40 years ago, and exonerated from tithes, but all the rest still remains titra- ble. Sir Robert Howe Bromley is the principal owner and lord of the manor. The church dedicated to St. Lawrence, is a small fabric upon an eminence, and has 40 acres of glebe. The rectory valued in the King's books at £8, is in the patron- age of the Lord Chancellor, and the Rev. John Guthrie is the incumbent, for whom the Rev. William Barry officiates. The occupants are John Dixon, parish clerk ; Edward Hart, shoemaker; and George Atheis, Thomas Fryer, John James s William Smith, and John Tomlin, farmers. WINTHORPE is a picturesque and well-built village, upon a richly wooded eminence above the Trent, 3 miles N. E. by N. of Newark. Its parish includes 228 inhabitants, and 635 acres of land, which was exonerated from tithe at the inclosure in 1757, by an allotment of 82 acres. Slingsby Duneombe, Esq., was the principal owner, but he has lately sold his exten- sive estates here and at Langford, to Lord Middleton. The Duke of Newcastle is lord of the manor, which was mostly soc- io Newark. Win thorp e Hall which was the seat of the late Roger Pocklington, Esq., and owes all its present beauties to that gentleman, is now unoccupied. Tt is an elegant mansion of two stories on a rustic basement. The plantations and grounds are very extensive, and on a gentle rise, which com- mands a charming prospect, particularly over the vale of Bel- voir, there is an octagonal temple with a table made out of part of the wrecks of the Spanish floating batteries destroyed in the memorable attack on Gibratar. The church stands in the highest part of the village, and is dedicated to All Saints.. It was rebuilt of brick in 177^ and 177^, except the south wall. The rectory is valued in the King's books at £"J. lis. OJd, and the Rev. Robert Rastall is both- incumbent and patron. In 1616, Thos. Brewer left to the poor of Winthorpe, £20, " and his new white house in the village, with two oxgangs of land." This house and land were exchanged at the enclosure in 177^'. for five tenements and gardens occupied by poor families, and 21 acres of land (including the great Poors Close), let for £48. per annum, of which ^10. is paid to the schoolmaster for 12* free scholars, and the residue is distributed in coals and money to the poor parishioners. In the school garden is a fine elm tree, the trunk of which is 10 yards in circumference. Th^r parish feast is on the last Sunday in June. WINTHORPE PARISH. (541 Astill John, victualler Beale Mr. Richard Beastall John, farmer Beaumont G. L. land a^ent & valuer Bellamy W. shoemkr Camarnile, J vvhlvvrght CawthanT. tailor Fox Mrs, Gamble Geo. miller Hampson Job, vict. Holt Mrs. Mary, Hyde Mrs. Sarah, Marfleet J. maltster, Grove House Milton John, Gent. North W schoolmaster Rastall Rev. Rt. Smith James, farmer Wright J. wheelwright RUSHCLTFFE HUNDRED Is divided into two divisions, (North and South,; and contains 26 parishes, belonging- ecclesiastically to the deanery of Bing- ham, and of which the following is an enumeration, showing the number of inhabitants in each in 1801, 1821, and 1831, and the annual value of the lands and buildings as assessed for the property tax in 1815. A SS w CO PS Q ^a K "*- > D a H-l » !> > i< ts n n "5 h to 'i* js n co »o . . CO (N Cl Oi O Ci »N O Ci rf m CO to to -* h(MCO(Nh iiO(MOCOC)if)»OCOir)iO .OnCO'fiNNCtOO C5 Ci CO N 'O CO N O -. CO -* O NNCtO O COCOCOCOT^rtNtfJiHOStNCOtO COO(MiOOHffl'-1^tO tT Ttf CO CO -* co — CO -« CO CO _CC"(NN CO ■* rt ^ CM to io (M1.0(MO)rt'fCOiOtO(MG3HiOCO CO(MCO'OM1'CNN(N>OCNCOfs CNCOCOCOCOOlrt^COrttOrttNcO ; g § E 2 ^ ? ch si 3 <~ ta -C £ * G 13 a ta a pq r w o w o sd a « t-» rj< CN "i< co o rt< ■<* oi O to ~~ oai< to - H «5 t>S Wright, shoemaker; and Thos. Redfern, sen. and jun., Rd. Stephenson, (& maltster,) Gervase Thorpe, Dorothy and Thos. W r ilson, John Woodward, and John Wright, farmers. BRIDGEFORD (WEST) is a pleasant and well built little village and parish, on the south side of the Trent, If mile S. by E. of Nottingham. The lordship contains 1078a. 1r. 15p. of land, all belonging to John Musters, Esq. except one estate, which is the property of Mr. Clifford Caunt. In Saxon times, the " famous Lady of Mercia built a fortification here, to repress the violence of the Danes who possessed Nottingham, and to obstruct their passage over the noble bridge which here crosses the Trent, (see p. 189 and 190.) The commodious Bridge inn stands partly in the parish of St. Mary's. The church, dedi- fcRIDGEFORD (WEST*) PARIS ft. S43 cated to St. Giles, is a fine ancient edifice, which. appears to great advantage peeping above the trees that surround it The benifice is a rectory, valued in the King's books at<£J6. 14s. 2d. J. Musters, Esq. is the patron, and the Rev. Edward Levitt Thoroton, the incumbent. The school here was built in 1802, by the Rev. Wrn. Thompson, who endowed it with <£912 stock, for the education often poor children of this parish and that of Colwick. West Bridgeford also partakes of Dame Frances Pierrepont's charity. Gamston is a small village and township, in the Bingham hundred, and partly in Holme Pierrepont parish, 1 mile E.S.E, of West Bridgeford; and it contains the rectory house of this parish. The rectors of the two parishes having had many dis- putes in the division of the tithes of Gamston, obtained an Act of Parliament in 1809 for apportioning to each his share, (see page 499, where a further notice of this place will be found.) — Its farmers are John Lowe, Thos. Morris, Ann Parr, John Shipman, and Samuel Young. The inhabitants of West Bridgeport* are as follow : — Billings Ralph, gent Chapman Mary Ann, Bridge inn Caunt Clifford, gent Clark Mrs. Ann Daykin John, brickmaker, fee. Franks Joseph, joiner Parker Alex, schoolmaster Peatfield Rev. John, curate Singlehurst Edw. blacksmith Smith Mrs. Mgt. Bridgeford hs Farmers. Barnett John Julian Thos Barwick John Morley Wm Birch Win SelhyJohn Chrk Jph Singlehurst Wm Ellis Geo Williamson Luke Hearsoii Wm Willis BUNNEY or Bunny, is a straggling- village under the wolds 7 miles S. of Nottingham, upon the Leicester road. Its parish has united with it the adjacent parish of Bradmore, and they together contain 2900 acres of land, of which Lord Rancliffe is lord, owner, and impropriator, but the rectorial tithes are in- cluded in the rent of the farms, and the vicarial tithes were ex- changed for allotments of land at the enclosure in 1798. Bun- nev church is dedicated to St. Mary, and contains several monu- ments of the Parkyns family, who purchased these lordships in the reign of Elizabeth. In the chancel is a tomb to the memory of Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart., the famous wrestler, who died in 1741, aged 78. By the inscription we are informed that he new roofed the chancel, built the vault below, and erected this monument wrought out of a fine piece of marble by his chap- lain ; that he studied physic for the benefit of his neighbours, and wrote the "Cornish Hug Wrestler.*' He is represented on one part of the monument in a posture ready for wrestling, and on another, he appears thrown by time, accompanied with a suitable stanza. The vicarage is valued in the King's books at £6. 14s, and has annexed to it the curacy of Bradmore, the 644 BUNNEY PARISH. ■■church at the latter place being long since destroyed by fire, except the tower and spire, which still remain. The Rev. John Tidy Beetham is the incumbent, and the Rt. Hon, George Augustus Henry Anne Parkyns, Lord Rancliffe* is the patron, and resides in his ancient family mansion of Bunney Park Hall, a strong and heavy looking building- close to the road side, with a very heavy gateway in front, built in the ancient style of two centuries ago. The park has a fine sheet of water and a long avenue of lofty trees, with a profusion of bramble and other cover for game. The school with four rooms for poor widows, and apartments for the master, was built in 1700, by the be- fore named Sir Thomas Parkyns. His mother, Lady Anne Parkyns, endowed the building in 1709, with 23a. 3r. 3p. of land at Thorpe-in-the-Clods, now let for ^£30. a-year, of which £26, is paid to the master, and £2. is spent in two gowns and petticoats for two poor women of Bunney and Bradmore alter- nately. The master has also 2a. 3r. 26p. of land which was allotted to the school at the enclosure. The four alms women have also from Lord Rancliffe a weekly allowance of 6s. among them, out of the Newton estate, which con- sists of 24a. Or. 20p. let for £3T. a-year, and purchased with ^200. left in 1711* by Miss Anne Parkyns, for appren- ticing poor boys of Bradmore, Bunney, and Costock, and . for other uses. Sir Thomas Parkyns also left two rent charges of £5, 4s. each, for weekly distributions of bread amongst the poor of Bunney and Bradmore, and those of the former parish have 2a. Ir. 3p. of land, in that part of the Nottingham meadows called the Rye Hills. BRADMORE village stands on an eminence, 1 mile north of Bunney, with which its parish is united, as has just been seen. It has a \V r esleyan chapel, erected in 1830. BUNNKY. Lord Rancliffe, Bun- ney Park Beetham. Rev. Jx>hn Wright T. land a^ent Ben net J. shoemaker Buxton J. tailor Cross Win. shoemaker Dexter Win. shopkpr Harrison J. tailor Hart Win. shopkeeper Henson Wm. joiner Holmes C. butler Parker J. gardener Pickard W. brick mkr Robinson J. school mtr Rowbotham R. joiner Smith G. blacksmith Staton J. shoemaker Stevens Wm. vict. Fanners, A tten borough George Cocks John, Marshall Joseph, Peet John, Savidge Jo'm, Wootton William, BRADMORE. Cheetham 11. butcher Dalby, H. shopkpr Dalby S. tailor Dalby Wm. miller 'Sharp J. wheelwright Dutton J. shopkeeper Hanvood T. shoemkr Henson Mary, vict. James Ed. smith Marriott W. shopkpr Price C. butcher Rowbotham T. joiner Walker G. shopkeeper Par mors. Attenhorpugh Wm, Glover John Goodacie James Hanvood John Lane John | Nixon John, Peet J. (& malster) Voce Isaac & Samuel Walker Richard * Lord Rancliffe is an Irish non-reprewntative title, which was conferred on delate Sir Thomas B Parkyny in 1795. ftU SH C L I FT F. HUNDRED/ 6 4 5 'CLIFTON village- lies on a flat upon the south bank of the J? rent, 4 miles S. W. of Nottingham, and contains a number of neat rural cottages finely shaded with trees, and also a few pretty villa looking residences. Near it is Clifton Hall, the beautiful seat of Sir Robert Clifton, Bart. , deeply embowered in groves of oak, fir, and elm, and commanding most extensive prospects over the Trent, the town of Nottingham, and the adjacent counties of Derbyshire and Leicestershire. At the end of a gravelled walk which leads along the rivers bank isahand- some park gate that opens to the grounds and leads to Clifton Grove, a long avenue forming the approach to the house, about a mile in length, and broad enough for a dozen carriages to drive a breast. It is entirely covered with the greensward, and thickly sheltered with trees. Near the upper end of this avenue, the cliff nearly overhangs the Trent, whose silver stream meanders most pleasingly round it. "Here," we are told by Throsby, " tradition says, the Clifton beauty, who was debauched and murdered by her sweetheart, was hurled down the precipice into her watery grave;" — the place has long been held in great veneration by lovers, and the story is the subject of one of the earliest and longest poems of the late Henry Kirk White, who often visited the spot. (See page 179.) The hall which has been the seat of the Clifton family for man v centuries, stands upon a rock of gypsum, curiously interspersed in many places with beautiful spar. It was formerly very antique but it is now much modernized, indeed in some parts almost rebuilt. The centre of the principal front is ornamented with ten handsome columns of the Doric order. The apartments are many of them superb, and contain some good family paint- ings. The gardens and pleasure grounds are extensive and tastefully laid out. The Church, dedicated to St. Mary, stands close to the mansion, and though ancient, is yet in good preser- vation. Under it is the family vault, in which are deposited several generations, its entrance bearing the date of 1632. — -Some of the table monuments with ancient knights, &c. are worth inspection, as well as the brasses, and the fragments of stained glass in the windows. The rectory is valued in the King's books at j£21. Gs. 10|d., but it has now about 150 acres of glebe. The Rev. Henry Spencer Markham is the incum- bent. Sir Robert Clifton is the patron, and likewise lord and owner of the whole parish, which contains 1500 acres of land, including the ancient hamlet of Gl.apton, that forms part of the village and is now almost lost in the general name of Clifton, its own name being seldom used except in the parish documents, in which the parish is sometimes called "Clifton- -cum-Glapton." The common was enclosed in 17o6. The. feast is on the Sunday before Oct. 2nd. The almshouse here for 6 poor women was founded in 1J12. by Geoige Wells, with an endowment of 2s. per week for each inmate, and an allow- 3 K 646 RUSH€L1FFE HUNDRED. ance of coals yearly, charged on the estate of Sir R, Clifton, who in 1828 was found to be indebted to the charity j£193. 16s. which he has since invested in £226 three per cent, consols, in the name of himself and Win. Lindley and Thomas Thorpe, in trust for the benefit of the almspeople. The interest of several small benefactions, amounting to £60, is distributed amongst the poor at Easter. Stevenson J blacksmih Deverill Benjamin Vose John, tailor Gray James Woodcock Rt. clerk Hopewell John Wootton A. schmrs Kirk Wootton J shoemkr Lambert Thomas Wootton J. joiner Morris John Fanner. Moss William Butler Thomas Thorpe Thomas Clifton Sir R. Bart. Bradley J. joiner Brookes J. shoemaker Hallam T. shoemaker Langford Rd. baker Mark ham Rev. Henry Morris Rd. shopkpr Smith Geo. shopkpr Spencer W. schoolmtr COSTOCK, or Cortling stock, is a village and parish on the Leicester road, 9J miles S. of Nottingham. It has 412 inha- bitants, and nearly 2000 acres of land, of which 202 acres were allotted at the inclosure in 1761, in lieu of all the tithes except those paid on the Highfield estate, which contains 500 acres, and belongs to Lady Jane Parkyns. Lord Rancliflfe owns nearly all the rest of the parish, and is lord of the manor, but S. B. Wild, Esq. has a neat mansion in the village. The church is a small edifice dedicated to St. Giles. The rectory, valued in the King's books at £*J. 18s. 4d., is in the patronage and in- cumbency of the Rev. Wm. Beetham. A Wesleyan chapel was built herein 1828. Attenborrow C.surgn Peetham Rev. Wm. Rector Crabtree John, Road Surveyor Hallam Wm. vict. & maltster Harrison J. beerhouse Hopkin G. parish clrk King Thomas, joiner Marshall J. hosiery ac;ent Milner T. butcher Tunnicliffe J. shopkpr Wild S. Bagnall, Esq. Woodroffe G. c. miller Woodroffe Wm. Gent. -Farmers. Asher William Cripwell Richard Egtjleston William Hallam William Millington — Norman Ann Oldershaw Thomas Oldershaw William Taylor Stephen Woodroffe John, lime- burner ■ Bobbin Net Makers. Bentley William Dring John Litchfield Matthew Blacksmiths . Blackett William Tunnicliffe Robert Shoeynakers. Fellows Thomas Hall Thomas Sorbv John Tailors. Daycock Joseph ; Helmslev William I EDW ALTON is a small secluded village and parish, near the Melton Mowbray road, 3£ miles S.S.E. of Nottingham, contain- ing 130 inhabitants, and about 800 acres of land, all belonging b John Musters, Esq. the lord of the manor and patron of the EDWALTOK AKD GOTHAM. &£f perpetual curacy, which has been augmented with Queen Anne's Bounty. The church, dedicated to the Holyrood, is a humble edifice of brick, and in its burial ground is a stone to the me- mory of Rebecca Freeland, which says, " she drank good ale, good punch, and wine, and lived to the age of. ninety-nine." — The Rev. Leonard Chapman is the incumbent. The feast is on the Sunday after Old St. Luke's. The inhabitants are George Smith, Esq., Wm. Hickling, shoemaker, Hy. Hancock, parish clerk, Mrs. Mary Holmes ; and Hannibal Day, John Holmes, Thos. Holmes, Benj. Howard, Matthew Martin, Edward Peet, and Wm. Sanders, farmers. GOTHAM, 7 miles S.S r W. of Nottingham, is a considerable village bounded on the west by the lofty hills of the Wolds, and on the east by an extensive tract of low marshy land, which is often flooded by the numerous streams that roll from the heights after heavy rains. Its parish contains 748 inhabitants, and 2200 acresof land, enclosed in 1804,. when 427a. 3r. Up. was allotted to the rector in lieu of tithe, in addition to 43a. of Key- worth Common, allotted to him in the 38th of Geo. III. Earl Howe is the principal owner and lord of the manor. All the water near the village is strongly tainted with decomposed ve- getable matter, and with the gypsum: that Ties under the surface, so that the villagers are obliged to fetch their water for drinking and other purposes, from the summit of a hill distant half a mile to the north; but is said that the Earl intends to form a reservoir in the village, and to supply it with pure water from the same hill, by means of pipes. In 1829, his lordship erected a large school here, and supports the master, who has under tuition 130 free scholars. The indigent parishioners have the interest of £5?, left by John Barrow and three other benefac- tors. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, was partly re- built about 50 years ago, but its tower and spire are now in a dangerous state of decay. The rectory, valued in the King's books at «s£l9. 8s. 6£d., is now enjoyed by the Rev. John Kirkby, and is in the alternate patronage of the Duke of Portland, Earl Howe, and Lord St. John, the latter having the next turn. — The YVesleyan and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel here. Upon a hill about a mile south of the village is tha Cuckoo Bush, said to have been planted to commemorate a trick which the inhabitants put upon King John, and which no doubt gave rise to the fabulous and ridiculous stories " that were so much valued and cried up in Henry 8th's time," under the name of" the merry tales of the mad men of Gotham." Fuller says a custom prevailed, even among the earliest nations, of stigmatising some particular spot as remarkable for stupidity. — Amongst the Asiatics, Phrygia was considered as the Gotham of that day ; Abdera, amongst the Thracians ; and Boeotia among the Greeks. The book containing the merry tales of the " wise" Gothamites, is said to have been written by one 6 48 GOTH A M V A R I S~H ; . Andrew Borde, a facetious travelling quack of the IGtfi ereir-* tury, whose professional fooleries are supposed to have given rise to the name and occupation of a "Merry Andrew." The tales of this whimsical charlatan we shall leave for the grave chroniclers of the neighbouring parishes, who are very careful to remember what the good people of Gotham seem rather anxious should be forgotten, believing that the folly of their ancestors was like Edgar's madness, put on for the occasion, and that the cuckoo bush story originated from the following circumstance : —The inhabitants- having prevented King John from crossing their meadows, he afterwards sent messengers to enquire into the cause of their rudeness ; and to prevent any punishment from falling upon their heads, they thought of an expedient to turn away the royal displeasure. When the mes- sengers arrived, they found some of the inhabitants endeavour- ing to drown an eel in a pond ; some employed in dragging carts upon a large barn, in order to shade a wood from the sun ; others were tumbling their cheeses down a hill, that they might find their way to Nottingham market; and some employed in hedging in a cuckoo* which had perched upon an old bush that stood on the site of the present one ; in short they were all oc- cupied in some ridiculous employment, which convinced the King's officers that they were a village of fools, and consequents unworthy of the King's notice. Fuller says, after alluding to these stories, " Gotham doth breed as wise people as anv which causelessly laugh at their simplicity. Sure I am Mr.- tVm. de Gotham, fifth master of Michael House, Cambridge, anno 1339, and twice chancellor of the University, was as grave- a governor as that age did afford ; and Gotham is a goodly lordship, where the ancient and right well respected family of St. Andrew have flourished some hundreds of years, till of late the name is extinct, and the lands divided betwixt female co- heirs, matched unto very worshipful persons." From one of these coheiresses is descended the present Rt. Hon. St. Andrew St. Joh*>, Baron St. John, of Bletshoe, in Bedfordshire. Archer Thomas, schoolmaster Bampton Joseph, corn miller Burton Mr. Philip Carver Thomas, blacksmith Helps Rev. Wm. curate Bobbin Net Cliff William Makers. Coleman Wm. Barts J. &W. Cox William Bush William Draper George Harrison Geo. Helmsley Henry Hemsley John, wheelwright I Holland T, J* & & malster Hickland William, joiner Maltby J. & Pepper T. tailors* Oliver John, baker Redfern Francis, maltster Redfern John, butcher Sharp William, joiner Smith Sarah, shopkeeper Smith Ths. parish clerk Staton William, butcher W. Julian Richard Maltby Samuel Parr William Redfern Wm. Redfern Jas. Wooiley Tiros. Spencer Wm. Farmers. Talbot John Bampton John Publicans* Burton Eliz. Hives George Butt Jeremiah Hives Hannai* Cliff John RUSHCLIFFE HUNDRED. 649 Sharp John Flavell George WoolleyThos. Hallam James Shoemakers, Truswell John Ellis Joseph Walker John Carriers, John Hemsley, to Nottingham, Saturday ; and Thos. Maltby, Wednesday. KEY WORTH village and parish, 7 miles S. by E. of Notting-- ham, contains 552 inhabitants, and 1373 acres of land, on the north-eastern side of the wolds. It was enclosed in 1798, when 214 acres were allotted in lieu of tithes, and 6a. 3r. 12p. to the church. Lord Rancliffe is the principal proprietor, lord of the manor, and patron of the rectory, which is valued in the King's books at £~J. 5s. and is now enjoyed by the Rev. Wm. Beetham. The churchy dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, has a curious tower surmounted by an octagan spire. The Independents have a chapel here, buiit in 1768,andthe Primitive Methodists another, erected in 1828. An annual feast is held on Whit- monday. The ancient poofs land was exchanged at the enclo- sure for 4a, 1r. 12p. in the Mill Field. The poor have also the interest of ,£10 left by an unknown donor. Farmers. Attenborough Mary Barnett Jph KEYWORTH PARISH. Alsop Richard, corn miller Archer Thomas, butcher Brex William, schoolmaster Eggleston Francis, sen. gent Fosbrook John Edw. surgeon Hallam Luke, tailor Harvey Samuel Greaves, gent Hemson Wm. framework knitter Hodgett Matths. blacksmith and beerhouse Hopkin Thos. vety. surgeon Price Hy. & Crofts J. bricklyrs Richmond & Prichett, shoemkrs Simpson Hanh. vict. Gate Smith Rev. John. (Indpt) Hornbuckle G Shepperson W Webster Mary Joiners. Belshaw Geo Gunn Wm. Burrows Thos White J. & vict Cook Wm. White Wm. Disney Thos Shopkeepers. Eggleston Eliz Attewell Wm Eggleston Fras. Eggleston Thos Eggleston Jno Hallam Sar Hebb Henry Millington W Hemsley Thos Towle Jno Carriers. — John Walker and Thomas Eggleston, to Notting- ham, Sat. • KINGSTON- UPON-SOAR is a small village and parish 10 miles S.W. by S. of Nottingham, betwixt the Wolds and the Leicestershire border. It has only 157 inhabitants and 1300 acres of land, all belonging to Edward Strutt, Esq., the lord of the manor and patron of the curacy, which is now enjoyed by the Rev. Thomas Barton. The church was rebuilt in* 1832, except the south transept which is very ancient, and contains some curious ornamental screen work, and a richly sculptured monument of the Babyngtons, who had a large mansion here till the reign of Elizabeth, when one of them was attainted and executed for favouring the cause of Mary Queen of Scots. The poor have the interest of .£10 left by Gervase Redfern. The /cast is on the first Sunday after St. 'Luke's Day. The 3k 2 %m Ltf'A-Kfl EAST AK& WtiStt principal inhabitants are John Berson, parish clerk ; Elizabeth Clerk, shopkeeper ; William Hardy, blacksmith; John Hud- son, gardener; William Shardlow, tailor; and John Bowley* Sarah Bramley, Charles Stokes, and William Tebbutt,/<2?*me?'.? s LEAKE (EAST,) 10 miles S. by W. of Nottingham, is a well built village on the south bank of a small rivulet that flows westward through the Wolds to the Soar, near Kingston. Its parish contains 2431 acres of land, and 975 inhabitants, many of whom are bobbin net makers and framework knitters. At the enclosure in 1798, 466 acres were allotted in lieu of tithes. The rest belongs to several proprietors, but Lord Rancliffe is the principal owner, and lord of the manor. The church has a fine lofty spire and is dedicated to St. Mary. The rector?/ is united with West Leake, arrd valued in the King's books at £25. 4s. 7d. The Marquis of Hastings- is the patron, and the George Holcombe, D.D., the incumbent. The Methodists and Baptists have each a chapel here, and a Petty Session is held . on e^ery alternate Monday, at the Three Horse Shoes ; and a hiring for servants four times a- year. The free school was- built in 1724, by John Bley, who endowed it with £450, which was laid out in the purchase of 25 acres of land r at Barton and Wimeswold, let for £48. 10s. per annum, for which the master teaches all the poor boys and girls of the parish. The town lands consist of 21 acres, let for £30 a-year, which is carried tothe poor rates. The interest of £11, 'left in 1681, and 1686,. by John Wright and Thomas Spencer, is distributed in bread. Here is both a male and a female sick club ; the former has its feast on Whit-Monday, and the latter on Whit-Wednesdav. LEAKE (WEST) is a small village aiid parish 1 mile W. of East Leake, to which its small church dedicated to St. Helen, is united. It has 203 inhabitants and 1500 acres of land, all belonging to Lord Middleton, except one farm, and the rectory house with 10 acres of glebe. The feast is on the Sunday after Martinmas.^ LEAKE EAST. Burrows Mrs. Dorothy Burrows W. butcher & maltster Burton Joseph, shoemaker and parish clerk Cooke Thomas, governor of the workhouse Cross John, gentleman Fosbrooke Wm. Blunt, solicitor GuttridgeWm. wheelwright Hardy Thomas, corn miller Hardy John, vict. three horse shoes Hawley Rd. schoolmaster Heath Thomas, joiner Jacques John, bricklayer Kirk William, corn miller Marcer John, gentlemen Marshall G. needle maker Mason Henry, butcher Mills John & Wm. basket makers Riste James, bricklayer Smedley James, joiner Tunnadine Rd. brickmaker and victualler Tunnicliff George, tailor Woodrotfe John, chief constable of North division of Rushclifle^ Woodroffe John, butcher RITSHCLIFFE HUNDRED, ttf Farmers. Follows Henry Angrave Thos. Hardy William AngraveWm. Bobbin Net Burrows Edw. Makers. Cook John Bently Thomas Follows Henry Flowers Rd. Kirk William Gadd Sampson Marshall John Marshall John Neale John Hal lam John Hallam Thomas James Isaac Nixon William Neale William Gldershaw Joh Smith Samuel Wilde, Mattw. Voce John Wootton, John Shoemakers. Blacksmiths. Hall Charles Carver Edward Tuckwood J. Shopkeepers. Taft J. & A. Bosworth Thos. Hosiery J gents. Cook William Reed William Marcer Wm. Savadge Edward Mahby Hugh LEAKE WEST. Holcombe Rev. Geo. D D rector Hardstaff William, parish clerk Platts T. joiner, & W. net maker Wilde Mrs.Cath. & Eshopkpr Farmers. Place John Hardy Thomas Platts John Henson Matt. Shepperson Wm Marshall Bryan Wilde Mathew Marshall Joseph NORMANTON-on-Soar, 13 miles S. by W. of Notting- ham, is a village and parish in the vale of the Soar, bounded on the south by Leicestershire, and on the north by the Wolds, It has 365 inhabitants and 1200 acres of land, of which 240 acres were allotted in J 770 in lieu of tithes. The church is- very ancient, and the living is a rectory, valued in the King's books at £7. lis. 0£d., and now enjoyed by the Rev. Joseph Powell. The manor and the advovvson belong to John Buck- ley, Esq., and others, who are the successors of the late- Thomas Buckley and James Richards, Esqrs., two eminent breeders and graziers, to the former of whom the late Duke of Bedford gave *J®0 guineas for the use of one of his rams, for one season. This parish receives on every fifth year, £8. 6s. 8d„ from William Willoughby' s charity . — See"p. 168. Barlow Jsph. & Cox J. butchers Buckley John, Esq, Normanton Hills. Dennis George, coal merchant Gaze Jas. shoemkr, & Jsph joiner Hayfield John, gardener Kirk Joseph, tailor Marshall Samuel, gentlemen Marston Andrew, bobbin net maker Marston Thomas, parish clerk Mason Samuel, maltster Powell Rev. Joseph, rector Stenson Wm. victualler & coal merchant Stubbs Joseph, brickmaker Farmers, Pepper Richard Bosworth Thos.WoodrofFe Wm. Hands J J & W & maltster Kiddey John PLUMPTRE is a small but pleasant village on the Melton* Mowbray road, 5J miles S.S.E. of Nottingham, and was once the capital of a wapentake of its own name. Its parish, which contains 605 inhabitants and about 3500 acres of land, is di- vided into the three townships of Plumptre, Normanton- on- the- Wolds, and Clipston. The manor of Plumptre has 1800- 652 PLUMPTRE PARISH. acres, and William Elliott Elliott, Esq., is its lord and princi- pal owner; and also patron of the rectory, which is valued in the King's books at .£19. 19s. 7d., and is now enjoyed by the Rev. John Burnside. At the enclosure in 1805, land was allotted for the tithes. The church dedicated to St. Mary, was re-pewed in 1818. The poor have the interest of ^34. left in 1755, by Richard Pritchett, and an unknown donor. The feast is on the second Sunday after Trinity. Clipston township is in Bingham Hundred. — See p. 489. Normanton-on-the- Wolds has 185 inhabitants and 1000 acres of land, and lies on the same road half a mile E. of Plumptre. Tt is owned chiefly by^Samuel Smith, Esq., and Messrs. Cole and Goodall. A Wesleyan chapel was built here in 1827. The poor have the interest of <£20 left by Messrs. Kirkby, Row, and Seawell. Burnside Rev. J. B A Chapman Win. smith Crafts Thomas, vict. Glover Thos. butcher PLUMPTRE. Allcock Wm. sadler Astill Wm. clerk Bexon T. shoemkr Btett Robert, vict. Farmers. Bradley Thos. Alsop John Brewster John Bestall Thomas Hickling Jno. miller Parr S. schoolmaster Turner Jno. shopkpe Wilson Tho. joiner Butler Thomas Holmes Wm. Gibson John Stephenson A. NORM ANTON. Bam ford F. wheelgt Cole Richard, gent. Dodson Thos. farmer Flewitt S. shoe maker Goodall C.E. gent. Gunn John, vict. Harby Thos. joiner Marshall Wm. farmer Smedley Edw. tailor RATCLIFFE-ON-SOAR is a village and parish near the junction of the Trent and Soar navigation, 9 miles S.W. of Nottingham. It has 177 inhabitants and 1200 acres of land r belonging to Earl Howe, who is lord of the manor, impropria- tor, and patron of the vicarage, which is valued in the King's books at £\(y. Us. 3d., and is now in the incumbency of the Rev. William Helps. It has been augmented with land at Misson, purchased with Queen Anne's Bounty. The church dedicated to St. Mary, contains nothing remarkable but an epi- taph to the memory of Robert Smith, who held the office of parish clerk upwards of fifty years. The Sacheverells had a large manor house here, but it was pulled down in 1719, ex- cept the dining room, which is now used as a barn by Mr. Hickingbotham. The residents are William Allen, naviga- tion agent; John Ankers, shoemaker; Israel Chamberlain, Esq., Red Hill; John Hickingbotham, maltster; Thomas Moor, parish clerk ; John Palmer, shopkeeper; William John Boot Withers, basket maker; William Woolley, joiner ; Charles Bosworth, Lydia Sadler, and John Withers, farmers ; and William Moot, carrier. R0SHCLIFFE HCN'DREi?. $53 REM PS TON is a pleasant village aul parish 4 miles N. of Loughborough, and jLOf miles S. of Nottingham, containing 398 inhabitants and 1365 acres of land, a large portion of which belongs to the lord of the manor, Gregory Gregory, Esq., who built the present Hall, which is now occupied by John Smith Wright, Esq., whose lady pays for the education of 30 poor girls. The present church is dedicated to All Saint's, and was built in 1771, out of the ruins of the ancient church of St. Peter's-in-the-Rushes, and an old chapel which had been long in disuse; the latter stood in the village and the former was distant half a mile to the N.E., where its burial ground is now an open field, though a corpse was interred in it so lately as two years ago. The rectory is valued in the King's books at *£13. 2s. 6d. and received at the enclosure in 1768, an allot- ment of 259 acres in lieu of tithes. The master of Sidney College, Cambridge, is the patron, and the Rev. Thomas Hos- king, the incumbent. In 1748, Robert Marsden, archdeacon of Nottingham, who lies buried in the old church- yard, left to- the successive rectors, Little Grange close, on condition that they distribute 50s. amongst the poor, every Christmas. The poor- have also the interest of <£10 left in 1716 by Thomas Woodroffe, The Particular Baptists have a burial ground here but no chapel. Alsop John, butcher Austin L. butcher Bonser Thos. vict. Bradwell J. saddler Bramley J. shoe mkr Bramley W. shoemkr Cressvvell Stn. school- master Gross Edw.net maker (Dodson Edw. yeoman Hallam J. shoemaker Hopkin G. brickmkr HoskingRev. T.BD Hunter John, Esq. James Charles, joiner Newton Nat. yeoman Orson Thos. smith Pagett Lydia, school Stubbs Thos. frame - smith & net make^ Wadkin John, miller Walkington W. joiner & beerhouse Werner Geo. tailor Wilson Wm. baker Wright John Smith, Esq. Rempston Halt Farmers. Blount W. I Chapman John Morris John Blount G. & J, Burrows John Morris Geo. Woodroffe J & T. RUDDINGTON 5 miles south of Nottingham, is a large and well built village, which has encreased its population since 1801, from 868 to 1428 souls, many of whom are employed in the lace and hosiery manufactures. Its- parish comprises 2781 acres of land, of which Lady Jane Parkyns is the principal owner and lady of the manor, and has a handsome cottage in the village, where there are several other neat and pleasant mansions. At the enclosure in 1768, the vicar received 52 acres, and Sir Charles Cavendish (the impropriator) 466 acres ki lieu of tithes. Of the latter 340 acres have been sold to Charles Paget, Esq. The church was repaired in 17 18, and was rebuilt upon a larger scale in 1824, at the cost of .£1100, except the chancel and steeple, which are the only remaining 654 RUDDrNGTON PARISH parts of the ancient fabric. It was, however, a chapel of ease till 1773, when its burial ground was consecrated, and enclosed with part of the materials of the original mother church, that stood in an open field one mile east of Ruddington, where there had formerly been a village called Flawford. This church of Flawford was a Saxon edifice dedicated to St. Peter, and had a lofty spire steeple, and many curious monuments with cross legged figures, but having been deserted by the parishioners it became ruinous, and a license was obtained from the archbishop in 1773* to take it down. Its ancient tombs and other orna- ments were all destroyed or mutilated by the " colliers" em- ployed in the work of demolition, and Throsby says, many of them were taken to build bridges and pigsties, and to mend the roads. The vicarage is valued in the King's books at «£6. 13s. 4d., and is in the gift of the Rev. C. Simeon, and the Society for purchasing small livings. The Rev. Edward Sel- wyn is the incumbent. The General Baptists and Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel in the village, where there is a large workhouse built in 1805, and now be- longing to 13 associated parishes and townships. Ruddington school was founded in 1641, by James Peacock, who endowed it with 40a. 2h. 14p. of land, now let for £7§\ for which (and a house and garden) the master teaches all the poor children of the parish. The school house was rebuilt in 1827, at the cost of ^400, to be liquidated by a yearly payment of <£10 from the rent of the land. Ten acres of land at Bulwell was purchased with several benefactions, and are now let for £20 a-year, which, with a yearly rent charge of £3. 18s., left by the founder of the school, is distributed in weekly doles of bread every Sunday, at the church. Berkins Misses Mary and Ann Betton John, bricklayer Breedon Henry, gentleman Briggs John, framesmith Cave Win. surgeon Cocker Mrs. C. & Cole Mrs Ann Cripwell Rd. maltster Gilbert Mrs Ann Grey Lieut. General John Handley Jas. brickmaker Hardmett Mary, maltster& miller Harrison John, needlemaker Hodgkin John, gentleman Hodgkin John, jun. butcher Jakeman Caroline, schoolrs Moor* Thos. Esq. banker Newman George Oliver John & Wm. bricklayers Page Wm. butcher Paget Chas. Esq. Parkyns Lady Jane Radford Misses Richards Saml. butcher Rogers Clement, schoolmaster Selwyn Rev. Edw. vicar Shaw Mr. William Simpson Isaac, wheelwright Smellie John, surgeon Sutton Rt. maltster Tyers John, vict. Three Crowns Widdinson Wm. vict. Red Hart Wilkinson Israel, butcher Winfield Geo. gov. workhouse Farmers. Harwood John Barker Edw Holmes John Barker Rd Kempson Thos Burrows John Peet John Burrows Rd Cripwell John Cripwell Thos Gunn Thos Hardmett — Shaw Jn.& Wm Slater Rd Bobbin Net Mkrs Beeston Thos Breedon Frs HUSHCLIFFK HUNDRED. 6*55 Cripwell Rd Sergent Geo. } Lee Saml Pigott Geo Fletcher Saml Smith Geo | Stephenson Wm Joiners. Harrison Jno Smith John Wright Wm Hardy Rd Henson Eliz Hosiery Agts, Shopkecprs. Parker John Henson J. G. Baxter Hy i Chapman Wm. Sandy Wm and J Hickling Thos and druggist Whitworth G Marshall W & PJames Mtw : Cripwell Hy Widdison SI ^axby J. & W Savage Chas j Henson Jas Carriers to Wilson S. & G Underwood Dl Blacksmith s . Shoe ma kers . Gunn Thos Buttery Js Smith Rd. & Rt Dutton John Beerhouses. Ellis John Hdiidley John Hardy John- James Geo Nottingham, \V, Stubhs Wm Marshall, daily. Tailors. and J. Dennis Cross John and Ed. Smith. Henson & Pike Saturday. STANFORD-on-Soar is a small picturesque village and parish, 1 J mile N. of Loughborough, at the point were the river Soar enters Leicestershire. It has 129 inhabitants, and 1500 acres of land, all belonging to the Rev. Samuel Dashwood, who is both patron and incumbent of the rectory, and resides in the hall, a modern mansion with pleasing grounds and plantations. The church is a handsome fabric embowered in thick foliage. The rectory is valued in the King's books at =£9. Js. 8d. A rent charge of £5 was left to the poor in 1765, by Sophia Phillips, out of the Stanford estate. The parishioners are Airs. Lydia Dashwood ; Edw. Birch, shoemaker, and John Birch, John Coates, John Rowland, and Samuel Walker, fanners. STANTON-ON-THE-WOLDS is a small parish of scat- tered dwellings, near the Melton Mowbray road, 8 miles S. S. E. of Nottingham. It has 125 inhabitants, and 1300 acres of land. The Rev. — Bingham, of Kettleby, is lord of the manor, but the land belongs to Ichabod Wright, Esq. the Rev. Thomas Randolph, and George, John, Joseph, and Elizabeth Page, who each occupy their own farms. The other occupants are Wm. Shaw and John Ward, farmers, and the Rev. Thomas Smith, the curate. The church is a small mean looking edifice which Throsby says " is the most despicable he ever beheld," It is a rectory valued in the King's books at £2. 13s. 4d. The Rev. Thos. Randolph is the patron, and the Rev. George Randolph the incumbent. The poor have a house and 3 acres of land bequeathed in 1718, by the Re\ r . Thomas Ouseley, and now let for £6 a- year. SUTTON-BONNINGTON is an extensive village under the Wolds, on the eastern bank of the Soar, 11 miles S. S. W. of Nottingham. It is in the two parishes of Sutton St. Ann, and Sutton St. Michael, which support their poor conjointly, and contain 1136 inhabitants, and upwards of 2000 acres. Lord Tamworth is principal owner, and lord of the manor of St. Ann's, and George Paget, Esq. of St. Michael's. At the en- closure, in 1775 and 7, the tithes of both parishes were com- t5\j "S U T TON BON N J N GTOTfc muted for allotments of land. There were anciently two distinct villages, the more southerly one being- Sutton juxtu Bonnington, and the other Bonnington, but they have 'long been connected by modern buildings, and borne the common name of Sutton-Bonnington. St. Anns Church is the smallest of the two, and stands in the southern part of the village. It is a rectory valued in the King's books at £4. 17s. 6d. The Lord .Chancellor is the patron, and the Rev. John Lafont the rector. St. Michael's is a large handsome fabric, with a lofty tower and spire. It is also a rectory, and is valued in the King's books at £15. 2s. Id. The dean and chapter of Bristol are the patrons, and the Rev. Richard Foster is the rector. The Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists, and the General Bap- tists have each a chapel in the village, where a feast is held on the Sunday after St. Michael's day, or on that day if it falls on a Sunday or Monday. The Free School was built by subscrip- in 1718, and is endowed with upwards of 26 acres of land at Barrow-upon-Soar, purchased with £100, left by Charles Liversey, and ^111 raised by subscription. This land is let for £50 a-year. Several benefactions, amounting to .£110, were laid out in 1734, in the purchase of 6 acres of land at Hose, now let for £ld. 10s. The poor have also several small rent charges, amounting to £1. 10s. This parish and those of Rempston and Normanton, each receive a bible yearly from -Hi ckling's charity, at Loughbro'. ZouchBridge which crosses the Soar, 1 mile S. of Sutton- -Bonnington, gives name to a small village which is partly in the parishes of Sutton, Normanton, and Hathorn. Near it is Kirk Hill, on which a number of Roman urns and coins were found in 1825. Bacon Edwd. gentleman Barton Thos. curate •Bei ridge John, chief constable of RushclirTe, South Division Cross Mrs. Ann Darker Eliz. hdg. academy Domleo John, overseer Doughty John, joiner Dutton Thos. gardener Frankland Bartw. schoolr "Hay field Wro. gardener Marshall Saml. and Son, coal merchts. Zouch Wharf Orme Jas. gentleman Paget Geo. Esq. Sutton Manor Paget and White, worsted spin- ners and corn millers, Zouch Mills and Loughbro Pepper Wm. brick maker, Keg- •vorth Bridge Ri -H . I «D CO !>. 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It has its name from a village- within its limits, but its most important place and only market town is Southwell, though Nottingham, Mansfield, Tuxford, Newark, and Bingham, are all within a short distance of its boundary lines. Its soil is mostly a stiff but fertile clay, except in the vale of the Trent, which has a rich vegetable mould, and is here nearly 30 miles in length. (See- p. 42.) A VERHAM is a small rural village near the Trent, 3 miles W. by N. of Newark. Its parish includes the township of Stay- thorpe, and contains 2063 acres, and 243 inhabitants. The large island formed by the two branches of the Trent naviga- tion, opposite Newark, is in the manor of Averham or Aram, which has long been possessed by the Suttons of Kelham, who Lad anciently a park and seat here. Many of their sepul- chial memorials may be seen in the church, which is dedicated to St. Michael. The rectory is valued in the King's books at ,£20. and has the rectory of Kelham annexed to it. John Man- ners Sutton, Esq. is the patron, and the Rev. Robert Chaplin, the incumbents The other residents are Rt. Lee, wheelwright ; Thos, Marsh, blacksmith ; Thos. Parker, shopr; and Rt. Clark, Wm. Esam, Jas. Gordon, Geo. Maltby, Saml. Stevens, and Wil- liam Weightm&n, farme?^. Sta y thorpe, or Starthorpe, 1 mile W. of Averham, is a hamlet and township, with only 61 inhabitants and 568 acres of land, all belonging to Trinity College, Cambridge, to which it was granted after the dissolution of Newstaad Abbey. — Bar- low, Esq. is the lessee. The farmers are John Adwick, John Arnold, (beerseller), Edw. Driver, John Hall, and Thos. Upton. BLEASBY is a straggling village, on the north bank of the Trent, 4 miles S. of Southwell. Its parish, which is all in the Liberty of Southwell and Scrooby, comprises the neigbouring hamlets of Gourton, Gibsmere, and Notown, and contains 324 inhabitants, and 1461 acres of land, which was enclosed in 1777* when the tithes were exonerated by an allotment of 122 acres. The principal land owners are Sir Robt. Sutton, Bart, (lord of Gourton manor), and Robt. Kelham Kelham, Esq. of Bleasby Hall, which was built by the Grundys. The small church is dedicated to St. Mary, and its vicarage is valued in the King's books at <£4. The chapter of Southwell are the patrons, and the Rev. J. D. Becher the incumbent. The poor have 20s. out of the Town-end close, left in 1720, by Eliz. Crosland. Near the fer?*y here, the Trent takes two channels, and encompasses an island of about 20 acres of land called the Knobs. BLEASBY PARISH. 663 Those marked 1 reside at Bleasby ; 2 Gibsmere ; 3 Gour- ton ; and 4 at Notown. 1 Cording John, bsmith & p. elk 1 Dixon Rd. jun. wheelwright and beerhouse 1 Dixon Rd. overseer & constable 1 Foster John, shopkeeper 3 Hind Thos. gent, chief con- stable for South Division of the Thurgarton Hundred 1 Horspool Mary, vict. Haselford Ferry 1 Kelham Rt. Kelham, Esquire, Bleasby Hall 3 Lee Jph. corn miller 4 Mountaney Wm. tailor &shopr 3 Parker Thos. butcher 2 Richards Wm. butter dealer 1 Sharp Wm. vict. Waggon and Horses 2 Wilson Wm. shopkeeper Farmers. 2 Marriott John 3 Aldridge Wm 1 Parker John 1 Booth Saml 4 Reynolds John 1 Dring Jas 2 Fish Saml. 2 Foster Hy 4 Harvey Hanh 1 Sharp Eliz 2 Simon Wm 1 Wilson Wm Shoemakers* 3 Harvey Matw3 Catliff John 3 Harvey Wm 4 Challand Stpn 3 Heather John 2 Dixon Jph 1 Holmes John 1 Saxton John 1 Lambley Wm BLIDWORTH, 5 miles S.S.E. of Mansfield, is a large vil- lage pleasantly situated upon an eminence surrounded by some of the finest sylvan scenery of Sherwood Forest. It's parish is in the Liberty of Southwell and Scrooby, and contains 901 in- habitants and 5302a.~ 3r. 20p. of land, including Blidwortb, Dale, and Rainworth, which latter gives name to the forest ri- vulet that rises near Robin Hood's Hills, — (See p. 19,) — and a conical rock supposed to have been used as a Druid's altar. All the tithes were commuted for allotments at the enclosure in 1809. The Archbishop of York is lord of the manor, and the two prebendaries of Oxton are the appropriators. The princi- pal copyholders are General and Colonel Need, and Henry Walker, Esq. The vicarage, valued in the King's books at .£3. 17s, 6d, is annexed to the vicarage of Oxton. The church was partly rebuilt in the early part of last century, but the an- cient tower and chancel still remain. Amongst the monu- ments is one to Thomas Leake, a noted outlaw who was slain in 1608. Fountain Dale, the handsome mansion of General Need, is distant l£ mile N. of Blidworth, near the romantic scenery of Thieves Wood and Harlow Wood. Allen Jas. nail mkr. & beerhs Bailey Jas. land surveyor, Py- thorn Hill Berridge Jas. wheelwright Blatherwick John, shopr Brelsford Jas. butcher & beerhs Calladine Thos. vict. White Lion Clark Thomas vict. & butcher, Black Bull Crampton Thos. joiner Dixon Paul, shopkeeper Downall Rev. John, curate Hardstaff Wm. schoolmaster Hawkins John, corn miller Hearson Wm. blacksmith Heath Thos. gardener, &c. Hill John, hedge carpenter Jerrom Chas. blacksmith Jerrom Mr. John Lowe Wm. tailor Marlowe John, wheelwright Need Genl. Saml. Fountain Dale Ramsden Fras. vict. & wheeJgt Robin Hood €64 BLIDWORTH PARISH. Robinson Rt. hosiery agent Ward Rowland, cotton manfr Warren Wm. tailor Winfield Jph. p. clerk & beerhs Farmers, Heath John Blagden Thos Heaton John Blatherwick T Hodgkinson Jas Bowler Wm Hodgkinson Job Johnson Ann Johnson Wm Lucas John Mellows Chas. Mellows Wm Renshaw Wm Temporal Wm Wheeldon Jas Wilson Jas Shoemakers. Ashley John Flint Rd Frost SI Kirk Wrn Pogson Thos BURTON JOYCE, or Burton Jorz, is a good village on the Southwell road, 6 miles N.E. by E. of Nottingham, shel- tered on the north by a range of lofty hills, which bound the vale of the Trent. Its parish includes the small chapelry of Bulcote, and contains 675 inhabitants, and 2200 acres of land, enclosed in 1770, when allotments were made in lieu of the tithes. Burton Joyce (1500a.) is mostly the property of the Earl of Chesterfield, Robert Padley, Esq. and Misses Jamson. The Earl is also lord of the manor, impropriator, and patron of the vicarage, which is valued in the King's books at £4. 19s. 2d. and has now 70 acres of glebe, exclusive of land at Lowdham, purchased with Queen Anne's Bounty. The Rev. John Rolleston is the incumbent. The church, dedicated to St. Helen, contains several tombs of the ancient families of Fresche- ville, Jorz, Roose, Stapleton, &c. A Methodist chapel was built here in 1824. A legacy of ^24, left to the poor by Wm. Martin, in 1786, was expended in ihe erection of a poor-house for the united parishes of Gedling, Burton Joyce, and Shelford. Bulcote is a small village and chapelry, I mile W. of Bur- ton Joyce, to which its humble church or chapel is annexed. It has only 142 inhabitants, and 700 acres of land. Smith Wright, Esq. is the principal owner and lord of the manor. It keeps its poor separately, and they have 7s. yearly left by an unknown donor. The feast is on Trinity Sunday. The principal residents are Robert Wilkinson Padley, gent. Bulcote Lodge; Wm. Alcock, yeoman; Wm. Blatherwick, joiner; John Culham, shopkeeper; John Slater, victualler and brick- layer ; and Godfry Fothergill, Samuel Taylor, and Gill Wilson, farmers. Those of Burton Joyce are as follows. Alvey Jph. bsmith Ashwell John, vict Bage Miss Mary Blackwell Wm. auc- tioneer (&Nottgm) Bllatherwick Joseph, parish clerk Blatherwick William, joiner Butler John, shopkr Clark Rd. vict Dixon Mich, shoemkr Hardy John, shopkr Heaford J. shoemkr Jamson Misses M & E Padley Robert, Esq. Peck Geo. tailor Porter John, tailor Rolleston Rev. John, vicar Saxton Hy. shoemker Scothearn J. shoemkr Siston T. & W. wheel- wrights Smith Wm.net mkr Stokes SI. butcher Stones Wm. butcher Swinscoe J. cattle dlr Taylor J. butcher Farmers. Brett John Brett Wm Cooper John Dams John Marshall John Me r tin Jas Martin Wm Tomlinson John Wood John John Swinscoe car- rier to Nottingham, Wed. & Sat. 7 mg. THURGARTON HUNDRED. 665 CALVERTON is a considerable village in a narrow and picturesque valley, 7 miles N.N. E. of Nottingham. Its parish contains 1196 inhabitants and 3500 acres of land, enclosed in 1780, when upwards of 400 acres were allotted to the appro- priators, and 203 acres to the vicar in lieu of tithes. The i)uke of Newcastle, as lord of the manor, also received an allotment. Lady Catherine Sherbrooke, and Thomas Redgate, Esq., have large estates here, and the former has a handsome mansion in the village. SansomWood and Watch Wood, on the western side of the parish, now constitute a farm of 700 acres, belonging to the Duke of Portland, all the timber having been felled, except about 20 acres. Near it are three other forest farms of considerable extent. The Rev. William Lee, the inventor of the Stocking frame, — (See p. 196,)-— was born here, and there are now in the village nearly 300 of these complicated pieces of machinery. The church, dedicated to St. Wilfrid, is a vicarage, valued in the King's books at £4l. The prebenda- ries of Oxton are the patrons, and the Rev. Samuel Oliver the incumbent. The Methodists and Baptists have each a chapel here. For some years after 1790, a meeting house in the village was occupied by John Roe, a dissenting preacher, who bid defiance to the discipline of the Established church, respecting matrimony, and for some time persisted in marrying his flock in " his own way," in opposition to the threats of the clergy, the magistracy, and the parish officers. The consequence was, that several of his female followers suffered a long imprison- ment in Nottingham gaol, for refusing to swear to the fathers of their children, and for declaring that they were as firmly united in wedlock as it was possible for the mother church to make them. The school, at Calverton, was endowed with £12 per annum, by Jonathan Labray, in 1718. — (See p. 164.) The poor have the rents of three closes, which let for ^£11. 16s. per annum, and were bequeathed by Jane Pepper, and two unknown donors. Abbott Rt. tanner Baines VVm. wheelwright Chamberlain Wm. gent Colyer Wm. joiner Colton Capt. Edw. Antonius Fletcher Saml. vict. & maltster Hind Cornelius, tailor Moore Hy. butcher & maltster Moss Fras, currier, &c. Munks Wm. tailor Oliver Rev. Saml. vicar Palin Wm. brickmaker Patching Hy. Chart, bricklayer Roworth Wm. blacksmith Shepherd Matt, schoolmaster Sherbrooke Lady Catherine Shipley Jas. framesmith Smith Lot, beer house Taylor Saml. joiner & beer hs Turton Geo. butcher - Ward Wm. saddler Ward Wm. vict. Admiral Rodney Watson Thos. & Wm. bricklayers Watts Ann, beer house Wesson John, framesmith Wibberley Jas. butcher Wood John, blacksmith Wright Wm. hawker Farmers. Beckett John, Beckett Chpr. Sansom Wood Forest Blatherwick Charlotte 66*6 CALVERTON PARISH. Brooks Wm Chappell Wm. Lodge Farnsworth Rd Fox John Hardy John Hardy Thos Harwood Thos. Broom house Hodgkinson Geo HodgkinsonJph. Forest Moore John Moss Rt Potts Jph Theadle Wm Wibberley Wm Hosiery Mfrs. Filer Saml Flower Thos Smith Thos Sulley Rd Shoemakers. Bell Wm Culley Fras Greaves SI Hind Jas Pearson John Shopkeepers. Baguley Jph Brunt Jph Clark Wm Cundy Simon C AUNTON is a large but indifferently built village upon a small rivulet, 6 miles N. W. of Newark. Its parish has 542 inhabitants, and 2900 acres of land, of which 1600a. are in Caunton, 800a. in Beesthorpe, and 500a. in Knapthorpe, which form three separate manors, and contain 176 acres of woods. The tithes were commuted at the enclosure in 1793, for an allotment of 171a. to the appropriator, and 124a. to the vicar. Lord Middleton and Samuel Hole, Esq. are the princi- pal owners of Caunton, and the latter is lord of the manor, and resides in the hall, a handsome modern mansion. The ancient farm house, called Dean Hall, belongs to Lord Scarborough, as also does JVorney Wood. The church dedicated to St. Andrew is a vicarage, valued in the King's books at £4. 2s. Id., and is annexed to the vicarage of North Muskham. The prebendary of North Muskham is the patron and appropriator, and the Rev. J. A. Wright the curate. A sick club holds its annual festival in the village on Whit-Monday. Beesthorpe hamlet and manor, 1 mile W. of Caunton, is the sole property of Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq. The Hall, a, spacious mansion in the old style, of the reign of James I. is occupied by Wm. Miles, Esq. Near it is Earlshaw, an ancient mansion now occupied by a farmer. Knapthorpe hamlet, 1 mile S. W, of Caunton, belongs to Richard Parkinson, Esq. Tt was anciently called Chenape- thorpe and was partly soc to Laxton. Bark Jph. grocer Chappell Chas, joiner Chappell Wm. shoemaker Cocking Wm. timber dealer Cutts Wm. miller, Mount Sorrell Elvidge Geo. shoemaker Elvidge Geo. wheelwright Fox Rd. vict. &maltstr. Common Hodson Geo. tailor Hole Jas. maltster & farmer Hole Saml. Esq. Caunton moor Manners John, brklyr. Mt. Plsnt Mellers Thos. school master Miles Wm. Esq. Beesthorpe hall Morris Wm. joiner Parkinson Rd. Esq. Knapthorpe and Wellow Shaw Jph. beerhouse Talbot Geo. vict. Harrow Taylor John, butcher Trafford John, vict. & farrier Ward Win. corn miller West Rd. gardener Willis Mr. John Pearse Woodhead John, blacksmith Farmers. Marked % are in Beesthorpe. Atkin Jph Elvidge Hy JBettinson Ts Elvidge Wm JChappeilThos JFarrands Wm THtfR«ARTON HUNDRED. 667 JHerrington Ts Martin Wm Martin George, Palmer Wm. Dean Hali Holme hall JPowell Abm. Theaker Tho* Taylor Jph Wood Wm COLWICK is a small but pleasant village, under a long range of hills, on the north bank of the Trent, nearly 3 miles E. of Nottingham, containing 145 inhabitants, and 1235a. 3r. 15p. of land, belonging to John Musters, Esq. of Colwick Hall, whose ancestor obtained the manor from the Byron family, in the early part of the 17th century, either by purchase or at the card table. The Hall stands about half a mile west of the village, and forms the termination of a most agreeable evening's walk from Nottingham. The steep rock at its rear, rising in abrupt precipices, and finely tufted with overhanging woods, has a very picturesque appearance, and throws a sombre shade over the rest of the park, which is stocked with the antlered natives of the forest. The pleasure grounds and ornamental plantations exhibit a good specimen of modern im» provement engrafted on the ancient model. The house consists of an elegant centre, crowned with a pediment, resting on four well proportioned ionic pillars, and joined by two wings of one lofty story, with an entablature supported by square pilasters with plain capitals, and lightened much in its effect by a hand- some ballustraded parapet. It was built in 1776, by Mr. Stret- ton, of Nottingham, from an architectural design by Mr. Carr, of York. Mr. Thorosby complains of the dog kennels as being more elegant than many of the parsonage houses which he had seen in the county. As has been seen at page 111, Colwick Hall suffered considerably from a daring attack of the Notting- ham reform rioters, in 1831 , and the fear and dismay which this assault brought upon the family is supposed to have hastened the death of the late Mrs. Musters, who was the sole heiress of the ancient and wealthy family of Chaworth. (Vide p. 517 and 544.) The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, stands close to the hall, embosomed in foliage, and contains some ancient monuments of the Byrons and the Musters. The chancel was rebuilt by Sir John Musters Knt, in 1684. The rectory, valued in the King ? s books at £6. Is. 0£d., is in the gift of Mr. Musters, and incumbency of the Rev. L. E. Thoro- ton. This parish participates in the benefits of the. free school^ at West Bridgeford. The village has given its name to a thin soft kind of cheese, which is often seen amongst the refreshments set before parties at the tea gardens, and other places of public resort around Nottingham. The principal residents are John Musters, Esq. ; Charles George Balguy, Esq. ; Wm. Lacy, gent. ; Rev. Levett Edward Thoroton, rector ; and John Blackner, Rd. Clarkson, Thomas Housley, George Neale, Thomas New ham, Daniel Parker, Samuel Parr, and Samuel W aldram , farmers. 6f>8 THURGARTON HUNDRED. CROMWELL village and parish, on the great north road, 5 miles N. of Newark, contains 184 inhabitants, and 1400 acres of land, which was exonerated from tithes at the enclosure, in 1772, when 240 acres were allotted to the rector. It was anciently the seat of the Cromwell family, of whom was the Lord Treasurer Cromwell, who lived in great splendour at Tattershall castle, in Lincolnshire, in the reign of Henry VI. The Duke of Newcastle is the principal owner, lord of the manor, and patron of the rectory, which is valued in the King's books at £\3. 2s. 3|d s , and is now enjoyed by the Rev. Charles John Fiennes Clinton. The other principal residents are Wra, Bellamy, shoemaker ; Joseph Blonk, vict. ; John Mitchell, shopkeeper ; John Richmond, basket maker ; Thomas Sum- mers, joiner ; Wra, Swallow, blacksmith; and Samuel Banks, William Bradley, Thomas Footitt, John and Thomas Good- man, Edward Howson, Benjamin Smith, and Thomas Taylor, EDINGLEY,3 miles W.N.W. of Southwell, is a village and parish with 398 inhabitants, and about 2000 acres of land, which was enclosed in 1767> when allotments were made in lieu of the tithes. It is in the liberty of Southwell and Scrooby ; the Archbishop of York is lord of manor, and the Chapter of Southwell are the appropriators and patrons of the vicarage, which is valued in the King's books at £4. A great part of the soil is copyhold or leasehold under them, and the rest be- longs to a number of freeholders ; the principal of whom are Thomas Houldsworth, Henry Machon, and P. P. Burnell, Esqrs. The church is an ancient edifice, and the Rev. R. H. Fowler is the vicar. The feast is on the Sunday after Old St. Giles's Day. The school was endowed by John Lamb and Samuel Wright, in 1731, with a house and 5£ acres of land, to which 3a. 1r. 22p. was added at the enclosure. The poor have e£14. lis. yearly, arising from several benefactions. Osmondthorpe, 1 mile N.E., and Greaves Lane, 1 mile S.W. of the village, are two hamlets within the parish. Those marked * live at the latter. Alvey Win. schoolmaster *Blagg Thos. joiner Brown Wm. & Crich Wm. makers Hurst Chas. butcher Hutchinson Thos. tailor Robinson Geo. corn miller Robinson John, blacksmith Taylor Thos. vict. & joiner shoe- Whitelee Jas. & Linney Thos. shopkeepers Farmers. Allcock Saml *Pursey Geo Barrett Hv *Beckett Wm Bilbie Mary *Blyton Geo *Carver John *Elvidge Chas Robinson Geo Smith Wm Tagg Fras WagstaffThos *Walsto\vThos EPPERSTONE, 7 miles S. W. of Southwell, is a village and parish in the deep vale of the Dover Beck, containing 518 EPPERSTONE PARISH. 689 inhabitants, and 2000 acres of land, of which nearly 350 acres are in woods. The common was enclosed in 1768, when 254 acres were allotted in lieu of tithes. Thos. Houldsworth, Esq. is principal owner and lord of the manor, which he purchased of the late Earl Howe. The church is dedicated to the Holy Cross, and has a tiled roof, a spire, and some curious old monu- mental stones. It is a rectory, valued in the King's books at ^13. Is. 8d., and the patronage has lately been purchased by the College at Manchester. The Rev. Thos. White, M.A. is the incumbent. The Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel in the village. The feast is on the first Sunday after All Saints' Day. The poor have ,£10. 10s. a-year, from four tenements purchased in 1765, with .£50, left by Mary Leake. They have also the interest of .£30, left by the Walker family. Allwood Ts. butcher Barnard John, tanner Barnard W. & T. gent Blagg Chpr. butcher Clarke Lieut. Wm Dufty Lieut. W.R.N. Eperson Wm. vict Foster Rd. paper mfr Foster Wm. beer hs Hall Edw. 6urgeon Hodson Thos. saddler Hopkinson Rt. vict Knowles Jph. shoemkr Lealand Miss Ann Millward John, miller Osborne J. surgeon Pacey Wm. shopr Parker Ts. wheelgt Rose Thos. shoemkr Sampson A. joiner San&om Wm. shoemkr Sumner Peter, shopkr WhiteRev.Ths.M.A. Willis Saml. blksmith Worthington & Pear- son, shopkrs Farmers. Barrett Mr. Greaves Richard Heath cote John Hurt Mr. Park May John Mil ward Thomas Neep William Parr Richard Pacey Wm. Norwood Wallis Samuel Ward Edward Geo. Addison, Jas. Taylor, & Jph. Smith, carriers to Notting- ham, Sat. FARNSFIELD is a large village, seated upon an eminence, 4 miles W. N. W. of Southwell. Its parish is within the liberty of Southwell and Scrooby, and contains 1010 inhabitants, and 3689a. Ir. 32p. of land, which was enclosed in 1780, when 350 acres were allotted to the three prebendaries of Normanron, Norwell Overhall, and Pallishall ; 157a. 3r. 15p. to the vicar, and 5a. 1r. 21p. to the Chapter of Southwell, in lieu of tithes. The Archbishop of York is lord of the manor, in which E. Howitt, Esq., Wm. Houldsworth, Esq., and some others have estates, and also neat houses in the village. The church has one aisle and a square tower ; is valued in the King's books at ,£4., and has 19a. 3r. 5p. of glebe, besides the allotment made at the enclosure. The Chapter of Southwell are the patrons, and Archdeacon Wilkins, D.D. is the incumbent. The Wes- leyan and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel here. The school, with a house and 2 acres of land, was purchased in 1790 with £400 arising from the benefactions of Messrs. Watson and Hornby, and the sale of the Bull land. The master teaches 11 free scholars, The poor have the interest of £73. 15. from 3 m 670 PARNSPIELD PARISH. the poor rates, left by several donors, and £i5 bequeathed in 1820, by Samuel Higgs, and now in the Southwell Savings' Bank. They have also £6 yearly from Temple Oroft Close, left by an unknown donor, and the interest of £20 left in 1827, by Mary Awdes. Bonnigton Mrs. Mary Biockelsby Thos. surgeon Buckels John, painter Bull John, vict. Plough Butler Hy. blacksmith Camm John, vict. White Post Challand Hy. brick maker Cobb Geo. horsebreaker Cottingham John, butcher Dal by John, joiner Denman John, gent Denman W. miller, &W. butcher Dixon John & Win. bricklayers Hage John, & Hall Rd. gent Higgs Mrs. Eliz. Hodgson Geo. saddler Holliday Rt. maltster Holliday Thos. vict. Wheat Sheaf Holliday Wm. corn miller Houldsworth William, Esq Hovvitt Emanuel, Esq Hurt John & Wm. gent KembleGeo. schoolmaster Kemp Wm. Stay maker Moises Miss Mary Moody Cornelius, mole catcher Moore Wm. rope maker Pesson Mr. Charles Rumford Rd. butcher Shaddock Jph. hat manufacturer Smedley Wm. beerhouse Smith Hy. cart owner Swift Thos. & Wm. wheelwrights Tipping Fras. vict. & butcher Todd Stephen, vict. Red Lion Towne Leonard, druggist Unwin Wm. joiner Wright Grace, vict. Stag Inn' Wright Thos. blacksmith Farmers. Blyton Mary Butler Wm Cording John Challand Geo. Denman Eliz. Franks Rd. Habbijam Hy. Hall Rd. Holliday Rt. Hovvitt Ralph Jackson Hy. Jenkins Chas. Mosley Geo. Munks John Palfreman Mr. Paulson John Doughty John Glazebrook W. Hind Richard Knutton Geo. Pettinger John Pettinger James Sumner Rd. Tongue Thos. Shopkeepers. Burton Ann Burton Eliz. Cooley Job Cooper Dl. Smith Wm. Stephenson Jno, Tomlinson Wm, Tailors. Shaddock Abm. Bartles Wm. Stendell Edw. Gilbert Thos. Tipping Fras. Todd Wm. Truswell John Truswell Rd. ^Shoemakers. Dixon Hy. Hind John Mycroft Geo. Carrier. Edm. Hodgson, to Nottm. Sat. FLEDBOROUGH is a scattered village on the Trent bank, 6 miles h. by N. of Tuxford, at the northern extremity of Thurgarton Hundred. Its parish includes the hamlet of PF'ood- cotes y and comprises 1500 acres, and 314 inhabitants. Earl Man- vers is the owner, lord of the manor, and patron of the rec- tory, which is valued in the King's books at<£9. 7s. 6d., and is now enjoyed by the Rev. Thomas Trevenon Penrose. The church is an ancient fabric, dedicated to St. Gregory. In the early part of the last century, this place obtained the name of the Gretna Green of Nottinghamshire, from the then rector (a Mr. Sweetapple,) who, like the blacksmith of the Scottish border, immediately fettered with the chains of wedlock, all who applied to him for that happy purpose. The residents are THURGARTON HUNDRED. 671 the Rev. John Galland, curate ; and Edward Belly&rd, John Cooling*, John Hague, John Charles Picking, William Bill- yard, Wm. Jackson, and George Finder, farmers. The three last live at Woodcotes, 1 \ mile W. of Fledborough. GEDLING village, 4 miles E.N.E. of Nottingham, stands pleasantly in a small but picturesque valley which opens into the vale of the Trent. Its parish comprises the three townships of Gedling, Carlton, and Stoke Bardolpb. Gedling contains 458 inhabitants and about 1000 acres of land. The Earl of Chester- field is the principal owner, lord of the manor, and patron of the rectory, which is valued in the King's books (in two medie- ties) at c£21. 2s. 8|d., and received at the enclosure three large allotments in lieu of tithes. The Rev. Charles Williams is the present incumbent. The church, dedicated to All Saints, has a handsome lofty spire and four bells. The large workhouse was built in 1787, and now belongs to thirty associated parishes. The poor's land consists of 7a. Or. lfp. in Arnold, let for .£14. 15s. per annum, and was purchased in 1735, with £122. 10s., which had been bequeathed to the poor of the whole parish, who have also the dividends of ^550. 9s. 2d. consoli dated 3 per cents., left in 1779 by Bishop Chenevix. Those of Carlton have 20s. yearly, out of the estate of the late John Aslin, who died in 1803. The feast is on the Sunday after All Saints', or on that day when it falls on a Sunday. Gedling House, on a steep declivity overlooking the Trent, is the hand- some modern mansion of William Elliott Elliott, Esq. CARLTON, 3 miles E. by N. of Nottingham, is the largest village and township in the parish, having 1370 acres, and 1704 inhabitants, many of whom are employed in the hosiery and lace manufactures. The hills above the village command ex- tensive views of Nottingham and the vale of the Trent, and on one of them a new village has been built. A Methodist chapel was built in 1801, and another for the Baptists in 1823. Earl Manvers is lord of the Manor, but the Earl of Chesterfield i§ the greatest landowner. STOKE BARDOLPH is a secluded village and township upon the Trent bank, two miles E. by S. of Gedling, and five miles E. of Nottingham. It has 181 inhabitants, and 1050 acres of land, which w r as enclosed in 1793. It had anciently a small chapel, and holds a feast on the Sunday after St. Luke's, and has a ferry across the Trent to Shelford. Earl Manvers and the Earl of Chesterfield are proprietors and joint lords of the manor. GEDLING. Bridger John, vict. Chesterfield Arms Deabill John, shoemaker Devill James, tailor Elliott Wm. Elliott, Esq. Gedling House Hemsley Rd. overseer Neale Thos. yeoman Palethorpe T. Oldknow, beerhs Parr Thos. bobbin net maker Pogson Alfred, bobbin net mkr Shelton Wm. bsmith. &bnet. mkr Shepherd John, gov. workhouse 672 GEDLING PARISH. Skellington Thos. blacksmith Walker Geo. Esq. Gedling Lodge and Eastwood Williams Rev. Chas. rector Farmers, Aslin John Greenfield T. Barnes Thos Hardey Wm. Bird Jas. Higgat James Bird John Mitchelson T. Brierley Wro. Pogson Fras. Butler Samuel Savage John Greenfield Jph. Tomlinson J. CARLTON. Those ma/ced f reside at New Carlton. Alvey John, blacksmith Baker Wm. butcher Barker John, vict. Volunteer Blatherwick John, joiner Brentnall Samuel, painter Burton Thos. basket maker Cave Ellz. vict. & maltster, Royal Oak Cave-Thos. vict. Windsor Castle f Crampton Jas. Corn Miller Davies John, gardener & beerhs Davison Sandford Tatham, sur- geon Deavill Jas. & John, tailors Fearfield John & SI. tailors Holmes Wm. gent Horsley Jas. beerhouse Horsley Edw. basket maker fHoulton John, corn miller J agger John, butcher J agger Pamela, vict Black's Head Kirk Hy. gardener Mann Geo. butcher Morris Thos. beerhouse Pickels Mrs. Hannah Porter Wm. gent Richards Rd. wheelwright Richmond W. butcher & beerhs Savldge Geo. schoolmaster Savidge John, corn miller f Screeton John, Gen. Washing- ton beerhouse Shelton Rt. maltster Shelton Mrs. Sarah Shipley Geo. frame smith Smith Rt. King Wm. IV. beerhs Smith John, blacksmith Thornton Wm. butcher Turner Saml. joiner Twells Mrs. Hannah Wilson Thos. gent Bobbin Net Mkr s. Birch Wm fBoyer Wm Bradshaw Wm Bush Caleb Brammer Saml fChambers Wm Butler Rt •f-Dawson Saml Holmes John Green Wm Lee John f Hummel Edw Lee Saml Lomas Saml MaGkley Rt fScreeton John Mackley Rt Tomlinson Rd Martin Jas fWheatcroftWmMartin Gvs Shoemakers. Newham Saml fBlackner Ls Newham Wm Glew Wm Richards John Kaye Thos Roulson Thos Kaye Ts. jun. Hosiers, Marshall John Brotherwood W Rose Alfred Dring Hy. (agt) White Wm Seagrave Thos Whitworth Ts Ward Rd Brickmakers. Shopkeepers. f James Saml Barker John North Thos Bell Rd Smith John Brittle Thos Taylor John Lock Martha Wyler Chpr fLynam Jas Farmers. Shard John Alvin Saml fStubbs Saml Aslin Rt Turner Saml Aslin Wm f Waters & Clark Baggaley John STOKE BARDOLPH. Cupit Wm. vict. Ferry Boat Kirkham Fras. bobbin net mkr Musson Geo. joiner Salvin John, bobbin net mkr Farmers. Kitchen John Bage Susanna Marshall John Dring Eliz Salvin Rd Gill Wm Shelton G& J Jerram Rt GONALSTON is a small rural village and parish, near the Dover Beck, 5 miles S. S.W. of Southwell, containing 107 in- habitants, and 1200 acres of land, enclosed in 1768, when 155 GONALSTON PARISH. 673 acres were allotted for the tithes. R. D. Franklin, Esq. owns the whole lordship, and is patron of the rectory, which is valued in the King's books at «£7» 19. 2d., and is now enjoyed by the Rev. Samuel Oldacre, M. A. The church is dedicated to St. Law- rence, and in Thoroton's time had some ancient effigies of cru- saders, but they are now destroyed, as also are the remains of Gonalston Spital> which gives name to a small hamlet, and was founded by " Wm. Heriz, temp, of Henry III., to the honour of St. Mary Magdalen." The successive rectors being masters of this hospital, formerly preached their induction sermon upon its ruins. Its site was anciently called Bradebusk, from a re- markably broad thorn tree which grew near it. The poor have the interest of <£17, left by an unknown donor. The principal residents are the Rev. S. Oldacre, John Barnes, shopkeeper ; John Grocock, blacksmith; Wm. Walker, shoemaker; and Wm. Darby, Wm. Palethorpe, and Jas. Thos. and Wm. Hind, farmers. The feast is on the second Sunday after Sept. 19th. HALAM is a pleasant village at the foot of a lofty range of hills, \\ miles W. by N. of Southwell. Its parish, which is in the Liberty of Southwell and Scrooby, contains 370 inhabitants and 1600 acres of land, enclosed about 50 years ago, when allotments were made for the tithes. The Archbishop of York is lord of the manor, and the soil is held by a number of copy- holders and leaseholders, except a few small freeholds, which are generally occupied by their owners. In the church win- dows are some rude paintings, one of which represents Adam digging, and Eve spinning. The living is a curacy in the'patron* age of the Chapter of Southwell, and incumbency of the Rev. T. Still Basnett, M.A. The feast is on the Sunday after Old Michaelmas Day. Mary Sturtevant bequeathed to this parish in 1771> 4)230. 4s. 3d. three percent, consols, and directed half t the yearly dividends to be applied in repairing the church, and the remainder to be given to the poor, in 10s. shares. Soivers close was purchased with .=£14 poor's money, in 1686, and now lets for 25s. per annum. j Bailey Wm. land valuer Blighton Saml. joiner Bull Wm. blacksmith Chantry J. & Paulson J. shoprs Glazebrook John, shoemaker Green SI. & Smith SI. joiners Hallam Hy.vict.Waggon&Horses ! Parks Wm. coin miller Story Matthew, vict. & butcher Taylor Wm. & Watts J. tailors Wilson Mr. James Wright John, wheelwright Farmers, Bennett Saml Moore Jas Bennett Wm Morley Thos Craven Rt Rich John Flint Wm Rogers Geo Fountain Mr Smith Jas Hallam Geo Thorpe Wm Hurt Saml Weightman Jno. Leeson J. & W & Wm Milwaid John HALLOUGHTON is a small village upon an eminence \\ #ile S. W. of Southwell, and its parish, which has 103 inhabi- 3m2 674 HALLOUGHTON PARISH. tants, and 900 acres of land, is within the liberty of Southwell and Scrooby. Sir Robert Sutton, Bart, is the principal owner and lord of the manor. An ancient house here is supposed to have been the dwelling of some religious fraternity. In taking up its kitchen floor some years ago, the entrance to a subterraneous passage was discovered, and at the same time many human skele- tons, principally of children, were found in a recess in the middle of a large stack of chimneys. The church is a small structure dedicated to St. James, and is in the appropriation and patronage of its own Prebendary in Southwell collegiate church. The perpetual curacy has been augmented with Queen Anne's Bounty, and is now enjoyed by the Rev. Richard Barrow. The farmers are Pp. Green, Thos. Kemp, John Marriott, Geo. Moore, Wm. Pogson, and John Tongue. HAYWOOD OAKES, near Biidworth, 6 miles S.E. of Mansfield, is an extra-parochial liberty of 700 acres, belonging to Wm. Brodhurst, Esq., of Mansfield, and occupied by Mr. Samuel W r hite. HOCKERTON parish has a small village 2 miles N. by E. of Southwell, and contains 108 inhabitants and about 1600 acres of land. It anciently belonged to the families of Botiler and Cryche, but Admiral Southeron is now the sole lord and owner, and also patron of the rectory, which is valued in the King's books at £9. 9s. 4|d., and is now enjoyed by the Rev. Benjamin Clay, who has 50 acres of glebe. The small church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. — Rev. Hy. Good, curate; James May, shoemaker ; James May, jun., beerseller; Geo. Wheat- croft, parish clerk ; and John Holloway, John Rumford, and John and Richard Millwood, farmers. HOVERINGHAM is a pleasant village near the Trent, 5 miles S. by W. of Southwell, comprising within its parish 347 inhabitants and 850 acres of land, a great part of which was given by the Goushill family to Thurgarton priory, from which it passed to Trinity College, Cambridge, which has since re- ceived other lands in lieu of the tithes. Sir Robert Sutton is lessee of the manorial rights, and of about 500 acres of the col- lege land. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is in the patronage of the same college, and is a curacy annexed to that of Thurgarton. The two livings only yield about <£45 per annum. Near the village is a ferry across the Trent to Knigh- ton, and a few scattered houses called Neiv Hover ingham. The feast is on the Sunday after Old Michaelmas Day. Allen J ph. fwk. knitter Allwood W. vict. Dk. Wellington Alvey Jph. bricklayer Baines Jas. vict. & lime & coal mert. Ferry house Beeston Mrs. Hannah Cngson Jph. tailor Flinders Mrs. Eliz Hall Thos. joiner Horsley Thos. blacksmith Huthvvaite Col. Hy. Hovgm. hall Kirk John, beerhouse Lown John, corn miller Ma! toy Gilbert, gent. KELHAM AND KIRKLINGTON. 675 Maltby Rd. gent. Lodge field Oxley Wm. parish clerk Saxton H. & Taylor W. shoemkrs Smith John, fwk. knitter Farmers. Isaacs Benj Bradley John Keyworth Thos Dalby Thos & maltster) Hall John Morris Abm Savage John Hall Thos Wilson Thos Shopkeepers. Wright Thos Davison Saml Butchers. Lee Ann Bainbridge LeviThorntonThos Foster John KELHAM is a small but pleasant village upon the Worksop road, and on the west bank of the Trent, 2 miles N.W. of Newark. Its parish contains 189 inhabitants and 1251 acres of land, of which 484 acres are on the island formed by the two rivers betwixt it and Newark. — (See p. 605.) It has long" been the seat and property of the Suttons, who once held the title of Lord Lexington. — (See p. 377.) It is now the property of John Manners Sutton, a minor, who resides with his mother, Mrs. Harriet Henriette Manners Sutton, at Kelham Hall, a plain but elegant building of brick, with stone corners and window frames, standing in a handsome lawn near the Trent, and con- sisting of a centre and two wings. A curious wooden bridge crosses the river close to the lawn and pleasure grounds, which, though not very extensive, are extremely pleasing and kept in good order. The church, dedicated to St. Winifred, has a handsome tower, and a richly wrought monument of the last Lord Lexington and his lady, of fine statuary marble, but the figures are strangely placed back to back. The living is a rec- tory valued in the King's books at £\9. 8s. 4d., and is annexed to that of Averham, being in the same patronage and incum- bency* The poor have the interest of £25 left by an unknown donor. The villagers are John Beetham, shoemaker; John Clark and Richard Hall, farmers; Rd. Fox, vict. ; Jph. Hill, cattle dealer; Geo. Oldham, blacksmith, Jno. Robinson, wheel- wright; John Shepherd, gardener; Mr. Pp. Spencer, Grove Cottage; James Tavlor, tailor; and Mrs. Sarah Thompson. KIRKLINGTON, in the Liberty of Southwell and Scrooby, 2£ miles N.W. by W. of Southwell, is a village and parish with 243 inhabitants and about 3000 acres of land, all belonging to Vice- Admiral Frank Southeron, except 400 ares owned by Earl Manvers. The admiral resides in the hall, and is lord of the manor, and lessee of the great tithes under the Chapter of Southwell Collegiate Church, the youngest vicar of which (now the Rev. R. H. Fowler,) alway enjoys the vicarage of this parish, which is valued in the King's books at £6. 13s. 4d. The church is dedicated to St. Swithen, and has a large chancel with some relics of old monumental stones and crosses. The poor have <£30 left by Winifrid Arthur, in 1780. otheron Vice-Admiral, Frank j Ellis Thos. wheelwright Butler Edw. blacksmith | Freeman Wm. shopkr 676 THURGARTON HUNDRED. Knight John, shoemaker Smith Jas. gardener Weightman Agar, tailor Weightman H. joiner & p. clerk White Jas. vict. White Hart Winfield Jas. shoemaker Farmers. Bilbie John Little Wm Brocksop Rt Foulds Rd Harvey Edw Keyworth Geo Oldham John Robinson John Winter John KNEESALL parish contains the three townships of Knee- sally Kersally and Ompton, the latter of which is in the Basset- law Hundred, and is already described at page 384. Kneesall is a considerable village on the Newark turnpike, 4 miles E.S.E. of Ollerton, comprising within its township 399 inhabitants and 2000 acres of land, most of which belongs to Earl Manvers, who is lord of the manor, and built a lofty cross in the village in 1798. The/east is on the Sunday nearest to St. Bartholo- mew's Day, to which saint the church is dedicated. The vicarage, valued in the King's books at .£10, is in the patron- age and appropriation of the Chapter of Southwell. It has the curacy of Boughton annexed to it, and is now in the incum- bency of the Rev. John Ison. Kersall, 1| mile S.E. of Kneesall, is a hamlet and town- ship with only 94 inhabitants and 640 acres of land, belonging to S. E. Bristowe, Esq. and others ; but Earl Manvers is lord of the manor under the Crown. At the enclosure in 1778, the tithes were commuted for an allotment of 92 acres, of which the Earl is lessee. KNEESALL. Blank Wm. blksmith Bradley J. blksmith Broomhead Ts. shpr Cook John, wheelgt Cougill Rd. butcher Duckmanton J. whlgt Hurt Edmd. shoemkr Ison Rev. John, vicar Gee Jph. tailor Grasby Thos. vict Lee Wm. wheelgt Marriott John, bsmith Ray nor Wm. tailor Rose Benj. shoemkr Rose John, joiner Tongue Thos. vict Trueman Wm. brick- layer & beer hs Turton John shoemkr Turtle Wm. miller Farmers. Bills Rt. BirkettSaml Furness G. Mainwood Lee Geo Moseley Jph. Park Pearce W. Bucksher Pinder Mrs. Lodge Rose Jno. (&hop gwr. ) Lound Sampson John Townrow Wm Whittington Wm Whitworth Arthur KERSALL. Hawksley J. yeoman Haywood Wm. beerhs Lightfoot Rd. miller Moseley John, gent Kersall Lodge Moseley Wm. gent White Geo. sawyer Wright Abm. joiner L AMBLE Y, 8 miles N.E. of Nottingham, is a large village at the head of a deep valley, sheltered by an amphitheatre of hills rising range above range. The parish has 824 inhabitant* and 2092 acres of land, enclosed in 1793. Upon an eminence, 1 mile N.W. of the village, is Lambley House, the handsome seat of the rector, but the property of Lewin Cholmley, Esq., the lord and principal owner of the manor, in which there are, LA.MBLEY PARISH. 677 however, a number of other freeholders, and also an estate be- longing to an hospital at Nottingham. — (See p. 164.) The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is a small structure with a low tower. The rectorv is valued in the King's books at ^10. 16s. 3d., and has 90a. Sr. Up. of glebe. The Rev. Al- very Dodsley Flamstead, is both patron and incumbent. The Methodists have a chapel here built in 1807. The feast is on Whit-Sunday. The poor receive 6s. yearly from the Notting- ham Corporation, pursuant to the bequest of Samuel Martin. Asling Edw. hosier Asling Jno. schoolr Cooper Wm. beer h Cowlishaw Wm. baker Dearnley T. bricklr Dickman Rt. tailor Fiamstead Rev. A. D Kirk Saml. vict Marriott Jph. shoemr Parr Wm. bsmith Plumb Dd. vict Renshaw SI. miller Seston Jph. wheelgt Smith SI. miller Tomlinson Mr. Thos. &Ths. jun. butcher Walker Thos. butcher Farmers, Bennett Jph Bridges John Brownlow Mordecai Dearnley Henry Dore John Fisher Edw Godby Rt. & Thos Hoffen Edw Lane Wm Martin Rt Robinson Wm Jno.Selby&Wm.Wat- son, carriers to Not- tgm. Wed.& Sat LINDHURST, on the forest, 2\ miles S. E. of Mansfield, is an extra-parochial liberty of 700 acres, bounded on the north and south by two small streams, which unite at its eastern extremity, and form the Rainforth-water, near two extensive fox covers. It was ancientiy part of Harlow wood, but has been cleared and cultivated by its owner, the Duke of Port- land. Mr. Rd. Godson Millns is the farmer. LOWDHAM parish includes the three townships of Lowd- ham, Caythorpe, and Gunthorpe, which contain 1463 inhabit- ants and 2040 acres of land, which was enclosed in 1765, when 268 acres were allotted to the Duke of Kingston, and 93 to the vicar, in lieu of the tithes. Lowdham is a large village near the Dover Beck, 6 miles S. S. W. of Southwell. Its township contains 791 inhabitants, and 1800 acres. Peter Broughton Strey, Esq., is the principal owner and lord of the manor. S. and F. Wright, Esqrs., and Earl Man vers have estates here, and the latter is the impropriator, and patron of the vicarage, which is valued in the King's books at £i. 18s. 4d. and is now enjoyed by Archdeacon Wilkins. The church stands at the foot of a declivity, and has some antique monuments of the Lowdhams and Broughtons. The poor have 50s. yearly, from Agnes Cross's charitv, and the interest of several benefactions amount- ing to £21. 10s. CAYTHORPE is a small village and township, f mile S, E. of Lowdham, containing 289 inhabitants, and 420 acres, be- longing mostly to P. B. Strey, Esq., and Mr. Rd. Faulkes, the former of whom is lord of the manor. The poor have an annuity of 12s. left by John Smith, and another of 6s. left by Richard Whitehead. 678 LOWDHAM PARISH. GUNTHORPE village and township has 383 inhabitants, 820 acres of land, and a ferry across the Trent, opposite East Bridgeford, 9 miles E. N. E. of Nottingham. P. B. Strey, Esq., is lord of the manor, but most of the land belongs to Samuel and J. S. Wright, Esqrs. It had an ancient chapel, which in Thorosby ? s time was converted into a blacksmith's shop. The feast is on the second Sunday in October. LOWDHAM. Billings Wm Lockton, surgeon Bradley & Hervey lace thread manu- facturers, Lowdham Mills. Burton Jph. beerhs Cooper Jph. shopkpr DennisonB. schoolr Foster Sml. paper mkr Farmers. Abbott Samuel, Abbott Thos. Brett Henry Foster Wm. Freeivian John, vict. & joiner Green Matt, joiner Grocock Thos. vict. & blacksmith Harvey Jph, manuftr Laming W. shoemkr Martin Wm. blacksth Oldham John, miller Paling Joseph, vict Paling Jph. shopkpr Paling Thos. shoemkr Parr Geo. shoemaker Porter Robert, tanner Raisin Samuel, joiner Reynolds J. wheelwbt Savidge Jas. tailor Savidge J. wheelwright Stokes Wm. tailor White Geo. net maker Wignall Wm. shoemkr Foster Wm. jun. & brickmaker Franks Ambr. Harding Fras. Hill Henry Jarratt John Lown John Palin William Savadge James Stanley Thos. Talbot Gilbert Webster John CAYTHORPE. Thus * are yeomen. Bailey Wm. shopkpr Bosworth Mrs. Eliz. • Faulkes Rt. miller Fitchett Jph. baker Giles Mr. Henry HucknallMrs. Eliz. • Hucknall Mr. Thos Jerram Wm. beerhs • Keyworth s Rt Maltby Geo. miller Paling Henry, vict Farmers. Jamson Samuel Beecroft ThoS Johnston Edw. Brittle Thomas Lealand John Hall Jas * Pearce James • Ragstali William Stapleton M. shoemkr Tomlinson J. beerhs GUNTHORPE. Attwood Rd. vict. Bullan J. gardener Burrows Stn. tailor Dansey Danl.R. Esq. Gunthorpe Lodge. Fisher Edw. shoemkr Heald John, wheelgt Huskisson William Joseph Reddish, carrier to Newark, Wed. & Nottingham, Sat. Knight R. & W. net Leek John, wheelgt Marriott Jno. shopkr Marriott Thomas vict. miller & maltster, Ferry House Pilkington W. butcher Scracon Wm. grocer Stokes Robert vict Towers Thos. net mkr Walker John, smith Ward John, agent Williams T. net mkr Palethorpe Jno. Peck W. & Edw. John Bullan, & Gervas May- field, carriers to Nottingham, Wednesday and Saturday. MAPLEBECK is a village and parish, 5 miles S. E. by S. of Ollerton. It contains 181 inhabitants, and about 1200 acres of land, of which the Duke of Newcastle is lord and principal owner. His grace is also patron of the curacy, which was cer- tified at £19. 10s. and is now in the incumbency of the Rev. Joseph Blandford. The church is a small edifice with a tower and short spire. The Markhams had a large hall here, which eost more than the lordship sold for in 1666, when it was pulled THUROARTON HUNDRED. 679 down. The poor have -£3a-year from Sudbury 't charitg. (See Egmanton.) Blyton Geo. shoemkr & parish clerk Hall Ann, schoolrars Haywood Rd. wheelgt Farmers. Key James Doncaster Matt. Key John Doncaster Wm. Law Henry Johnson Wm. Moore George Henfry John, wheelgt [ Knight J. shoe maker Henfry John, vict. &| WhittonFras. tailor & shopkeeper shopkpr Key Mrs. Catherine | Turner Thomas Wood Samuel Wainwright Jno. Wright Charles Wood James Wright Job MARNHAM parish, on the west bank of the Trent, com- prises the two townships of Marnham and Grassthorpe. The former contains 1767 acres of land, (besides the Holme, which is divided into cow-gates,) and 258 inhabitants, resident in the neighbouring hamlets of Fe?ry Marnham and Church Marn- ham, distant 5 miles E. by S. of Tuxford. Earl Brownlowe is the principal owner and lord of the manor of Marnham, which was of the fee of Roger de Busli. The hall, which stood betwixt the two villages, was the property of the Cartwrights, but was sold and taken down about 40 years ago, before the death of the late patriotic Major Cartwright, who was born in it, and had several extensive estates in the neighbourhood. (See page 310.) A large fair is held here on Sept. 12th, for horses, horned cattle, and merchandise. The church is a small fabric dedicated to St. Wilfrid, and is ^vicarage, valued in the King's books at £%. 19s. Earl Brownlowe is the impropriator and patron, and the Rev. John Alexander Lawrence the incum- bent. One of the De Chaurces or Chaworth family gave this church to the Knights Templar ; and another, in the reign of John, granted to the monks of Radford, u free passage for themselves, their servants, and their carriages, in his ferry boat here." The Ferry is at the northern village, and crosses the Trent to South Clifton. In 1677? Henry Nicholson left to the poor of Marnham township, land at Normanton, Grassthorpe, and East Markham, which now lets for ,£40. 10s. per annum, out of which ^£10 is paid to the master of the school, which was built by Earl Brownlowe in 1827. The poor of Grass- thorpe have £4. 5s. yearly out of a field, left in 1677, by the said Henry Nicholson. Grassthorpe or Greisthorpe, 1 mile S. W. of Marnham, is a village and township with 118 inhabitants, and 820 acres of land, enclosed in 1799, when allotments were made in lieu of all the tithes. About one-third of it is in the parishes of Nor- manton and Sutton. It is a member of the manor of Nor- manton, for which J. E. Denison, Esq., holds a copyhold court and a court baron, for the transfer of property, &c. Skegby, 3| miles E. of Tuxford, is a hamlet and three farms in the township of Marnham. 680 MARNHAM PARISH. marnham. i Broom Rd. joiner Those marked * are ml Lawrence Rev. J. A North Marnham, f in\ Machin Hy. pig jobber Skegby, and the rest\ * Marshall Cphr. vict. in South Marnham, I Ferry House Farmers, Eyre Robert Burton Nathan • Fletcher Saml t Clarke Bryan Forest Mary Clarke Mary * Fox William Curtis Samuel Marshall Chpr Davison Wm f Marshall John GRASSTHORPE. Jackson Geo. beerhs Merchant Hy. shopkr • Taylor W. shoemkr • Walsham W. shoemr • Walters Jph. beerhs Kirkland Wm. farmer Rhodes Rd. yeoman Seels Wm. & Ward Ann, millers Marshall Thos. f Wilkinson W. * Porter John Whitworth Fras.Richard Smith, Wilkinson Jph. Carrier to New- Wilkinson J. ark, Wednesday, jun. Ward Wm. farmer Wilkinson Thos. vict. Plough MORTON, in the Liberty of Southwell and Scrooby, and 3 miles S. E. of Southwell, is a village and parish, with only J 56 inhabitants, and about 500 acres of land, exclusive of the open fields, (1600 acres) in which the lands of this parish and Fis- kerton, are so intermixed as to be almost undistinguishable. The church is a small brick building, and is a curacy with 30 acres of glebe. The prebendary of Dunham is the patron, and the Rev. Chas. Fowler the incumbent. John Peraberton Plumptre is lord of the manor, impropriator, and principal owner of the soil. In 1695, Richard Daybell left 50s. yearly for the education of four poor children of Morton and Fisker- ton, and it is now paid by Thos. Bolger, Esq. Ainsworth T. shoolr shopkpr & carrier Blyton Jas. shoemkr Farmers, Hutchinson T Allcock Wm Jenkinson John Daybell Thos Jowett Chpr Jowett Mrs. Elizabeth Scrimshaw Ben. joiner Wilson Jas. cow leach Wilson R. blacksmith Marriott Wm. Moore James Neale Edward Rawson George Wilson Joseph MUSKHAM (NORTH) parish contains the three town- ships of North Muskham, Bathley, and Holme, in which are 802 inhabitants, and 2900 acres of land, enclosed in 1771? when 91 acres were allotted to the vicar, and 300 to Earl Faucon- berg, in lieu of the tithes. The Earl has since sold the impro- priate lands to various persons. North Muskham is a pleasant village on the great north road, 3 miles N. of Newark. Its township comprises 484 in- habitants, and 1200 acres of rich land, on the west bank of the Trent. Joseph Pocklington, Esq., is lord of the manor, and the soil belongs to him and several other freeholders. Muskham House, a superb mansion, built by the Pocklingtons in 1793, is now unoccupied. The Grange, an ancient mansion, now occupied by John Handley, Esq., was the seat of the late Wm. Dickenson Rastall, Esq., who distinguished himself as a topo- THURGARTON HUNDRED. 681 grapher of some of the most interesting parts of his native county. A Mr. TVass, who died here in 1805, had not been out of his own house for nearly 30 years, in consequence of a vow which he had taken, and which he religiously kept, not- withstanding the entreaties of his friends. The church is a neat Gothic fabric of the 14th century, dedicated to St. Wilfrid. — The vicarage is valued in the King's books at £5. 6s. 8d. and has 22 acres at Skegby, purchased with Queen Anne's bounty besides the 91 acres mentioned above. It is in the patronage of the Prebendary of North Muskham, and incumbency of the Rev. J. M. Parry, M.A. The school was endowed in 1727 and 1745, by Mary Woolhouse and Mary Disney, with a house and 3 acres of land, which received at the enclosure an allot- ment of 11a. 34p. For this endowment the master and mis- tress teach 10 boys and 10 girls. Ten poor parishioners receive 20s. and a black gown each every year, from the BathJey Grange Estate, pursuant to the bequest of John Smith, in 1581. In 1663, John Kemp, left two cottages, a house, and 15 acres of land, to the poor of North Muskham township. They are now let for ^£25. a-year. The parish feast is on the Sunday after September 12th. Bathley is a straggling village and township, with 197 in- habitants, and 800 acres of land, 1 mile W. of North Muskham. Joseph Pocklington, Esq- is lord of the manor, but the soil belongs to several freeholders. Holme, 3J miles N. of Newark, is a village and parochial chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of North Muskham, its small church being in the same patronage and incumbency. About the year 1600, the Trent changed its course, so that this town- ship is now on the east side of its present channel. The church has many monuments of the Barton family, and over the south porch is a chamber called "Nan Scotfs" from a woman who is said to have lived in it for several weeks when the plague was so fatal in the village that only one person escaped its ravages. The lordship contains 121 inhabitants, and 900 acres, belong- ing to the Duke of Newcastle, Thos. Adwick, and others. NORTH MUSKHAM. Atkin George, joiner Atkin John, schoolmr Bennett John, cooper Brown Edw. shopkpr Brown Wra. miller Chatwen S. parish clrk Cragg Wm. shoe mkr Doubleday W. butcher & beerhouse Fogg Jph. shoemaker FosterJohn, maltster Foster John, smith Handley John, Esq Muskham Grange Harrison Rd. baker Harrod Wm. vict Hewes Edw. millet. Hewing Wm. excise officer Howson D. hoise dr Hutchinson Hy. tailor Lawson John, tailor Nicholson J. shoemkr Parry Rev. Joseph Robinson Mrs. Mary Taylor John, wheelgt 3n Thompson T. ferryman & overseer Tinker G. starch mfr Weigh tman S. butcher Weightman Thos vict. Welby Mrs. Mary WhitwoKthJ. wheelgt Worsley Capt. Thos Taylor Fawners. Bourne John Howsin Wm Key Edward Levers Wm 58i MUSKHAM N. & S. Robinson Jno Shepherd Win Smith Da. Foxholes Smith Chas . WeightmanSaml BATH LEY. Capps Rich, vict Holmes Saml shoemkr Hough Thomas smith Farmers , Capps John Cartwright Bryan Dixon Joseph Goodman Rd Goodman Thos Holmes Samuel Roberts John HOLME. Adwick Thos. gent Holt John, joiner Farmers, Blundy William Crapper Eliz. Dickenson Saml Dixon William Doncaster Thos Hindley Thomas Knight Geoige Pacey Frances Wells William MUSKHAM (SOUTH) is a village and pariah, on the north road, close to the clumsy and dangerous wooden bridge, which crosses the broad stream of the Trent, two miles N. by W. of Newark. It has 26 J inhabitants, and belongs to Lord Mid - dleton, who is also the impropriator. The church is dedicated to St. Wilfrid, and is in the patronage of its own Prebendary in Southwell Collegiate church. The vicarge is valued in the King's books at £4, and is now enjoyed by the Rev. Richard Barrow, The feast is on the second Sunday after Old Michael- mas day. The inhabitants are Jph. Bean, shopkeeper, John Fletcher, parish clerk ; Charles Foster, smith ; Gervis Foster, victualler; George Radford, shoemaker; George Whitwortb, joiner; Eliz. Mackley, Chas. Neale, Robert Parlby, Richard Tallington, John Toder, Jph. Brown, Henry Gilbert, Cath. Hole, Henry Hole, and Richard Simson, farmers; and Wm. Tidybridge, shoemaker. The last six live in Little Carlton, a hamlet 1 mile W. of the village, but within the parish. NORMANTON-on-TRENT, 4 miles S. E. by E. of Tux- ford, is a pleasant village upon a declivity, If mile W. of the river, to which its parish extends, including within its limits 349 inhabitants, and 1270 acres of land. The open fields were enclosed in 1804, when 124a. 3r. 30p. were alloted to the im- propriator, and 56a. 2r. 12p. to the vicar in lieu of the tithes. The church is a small edifice dedicated to St. Matthew, and is in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire, who has lately sold the impropriate land to the Rev. Wm, Doncaster, who now enjoys the vicarage y which is valued in the King's books at £4. 5s. J. E. Denison, Esq. is lord of the manor, which is held by a number of copyholders. The school was built in 1776, by Henry Jackson, and was endowed in 1781, by Mrs. Hall, with land that now lets for £9 a-year, for which, and a house and garden, the master teaches 10 free scholars. In 1781, Eliz. Gaches built two houses for poor women. In 1790, Eliz. Hall erected four almshouses for four poor women, and endowed them with land at Little Hale, in Lincolnshire, which now lets for £45 per annum. The indigent parishioners have £12. 15s. yearly, arising from the poor's land, left by Walter Mellor and several other benefactors. THURGARTON HUNDRED. BoncasterRev. Wm. Normanton Townrow Eliz. miller & sbopkpr Hall Townrow John, victualler Brown Wm. joiner & beerhouse Farmers. Johnson Wm. Cooper John, maltster Adcock John Johnson Jph Fowe R. shopkeeper & beerhouse Atkin Joseph Mills George Newton Henry, joiner Brownlow Wm. Newbert Francis Parkin & Newbert, smiths Buttery John Selby Benjamin Saxby Henry, tailor Deny Samuel Skelton George Shaw Mr. Joseph Eyre William Wallace Thos. Sims John, shoemaker Ingham Wiiliam Wright Hannah Stevens William, schoolmaster ; Johnson John Templeman John, wheelwright | NORWELL parish comprises the three townships of Nor- well, Norwell-Woodhouse, and Carlton-on-Trent, in which are 939 inhabitants, and about 4,000 acres of land, which was ex- onerated from tithes at the enclosure in 1826. Norwell is a large village upon a declivity, 7 miles N. N. W. of Newark. It has within its lordship 533 inhabitants, and 2700 acres, of which its three prebendaries in Southwell Collegiate church are lords and principal owners, but have let their lands to several lessees. Their prebends are distinguished by the names of Norwell Ouerhall, Norwell Pallishall, and Norwell Tertia ; and the first is said to be richer than any other possessed by the chapter of Southwell. The church is a large edifice, 'dedicated to St. Lawrence, and was formerly in two vicarages, each valued at <£4. 12s. lid., but they are now consolidated in the patronage of the two prebendaries of Norwell Overhall and Tertia. The Rev. Edward Chaplins is the present vicar. Preston chapel, on the site of an ancient mansion called Preston Hall, was built for the .Methodists in 1827. The school was endowed in 1727, by Thomas Sturtevant, with three acres of land at Holme, which has since been exchanged for 6 acres at Bathlev. Several benefactions left to the school and poor, amounting to ^164. 4s., were laid out in 1733, in the purchase of IVeUfen closes, (11 acres) which are now let for ^30 a-year. In 1782, Samuel Wood left a£80, and directed 40s. of "the yearlv interest to be given for the education of four poor boys, and the rest to the poor. The masters salary is now about £40, for which he teaches 2S poor boys and girls. He has also a small garden, which was given to the school in 1827, by J. E. Denison, Esq. one of the trustees. The poor parishioners have the interest of .£105, left by Mrs. Margaret Sturtevant and Leonard Esam, and the dividends of ^230. 4s. 3d. three per cent, consols, purchased with the bequest of Mary Sturtevant, in 1768, partly for clothing the free scholars. Middlethorpe, 2| miles S. W. of Norwell, and in that town- ship, is an estate of 160 acres completely encompassed bv the parish of Caunton. It is the property of Mr. G. Doncaster. Norw t ell Woodhouse is a scattered village, 1| mile 684 NORWELL PARISH. W. N. W. of Norwell. Its township contains 141 inhabitants, and 444 acres of land, most of which is leasehold, under the prebendaries of Norwell. The poor have the interest of ^£10. Willoughby is a hamlet, in the township of, and 1 mile N. E. of Norwell. It forms a separate manor, of which S. E. Bristowe, Esq. is lord, but R. Pocklington, Esq. and other free- holders have estates in it. The ancient manor house, which had long been in ruins, was taken down in 1785. Carlton-on-Trent is a pleasant village and chapelry, 7 miles N. of Newark, containing 265 inhabitants, and 1000 acres of land, mostly belonging to Roger Pocklington, Esq. the lord of the manor, who resides at Carlton House, a band- some mansion which was built in the last century, and was long the seat of Sir William Earle Welby, Bart. The ancient chapel has a brick tower, and is annexed to the vicarage of Norwell. Here is a commodious inn upon the great north road, and a ferry across the Trent to Besthorpe and South Scarle. Carlton Steam Mill was burnt down in 1831, and has just been rebuilt, but it stands within the adjacent parish of Sutton. Hutton Geo. Wm. Esq. solicitor NORWELL. Blonk Joseph, blacksmith Bradley James, gent. Willoughby Brownlow T. shopkpr & beerhs Cooper W. & Wright W. wheelgts Cox William, tailor Curtis John, victualler & butcher Herring Rev. Edmund, curate Houghton George, shopkeeper JacksonG. & ScatchardJ. bsmiths Knight Wm. grocer &chandler Templeman Jph. miller & beerhs Weightman Thos. vict. & shopkpr Wheatcroft Samuel, corn miller Wheatcroft John, farrier &c. Wilson William, schoolmaster Farmers. Templeman Jno. Bomford Thos. Templeman T. Bomford Thos. Whitley John Clarke George Wilson Thomas Clarke William, Shoemakers. Lodge Chappell Joseph Cobb William Davison James Curtis Samuel Hallam George Doncaster Chas.North Thomas Esam Leonard Stacy William Jackson George Carriers, Tho. NettleshipTho. Radford & Wm. Radford Thos. Wass to Newark, Scatchard Saml.Wednesday. CARLTON-ON-TRENT. Pocklington Roger Esq. Carlton Brown J. & Buttery W. joiners Bulley Fras„ coal mercht. wharf Buttery Joseph, vict. Bell Inn Hole Saml. Esq. maltster & miller Mayfield Edward, shoemaker Moore John, saddler Price Samuel, tailor Price Wm. &Starkey W. shoemks Revill W. blacksmith, farrier, &c. Smith Thos. attorney & maltster Taylor William & Co. millers &c. Farmers. Smith William Dewick John Taylor Richard Gibson Daniel Weightman Hgh Pinder William Wm. Morriss, postman, to Newark, departs 9 morning, ar- rives 12 noon. NORWELL WOODHOUSE. Broomhead George, bricklayer& beerhouse Broomhead Thomas, bricklayer Caudwell John, beerhouse Gilby T. & Pearce H. shoemakrs Taylor William, blacksmith Farmers. Marshall George Atkin John Pearce John Baines Ann White Hugh Chappell John Wilmot Thomas Clay John Wood John Drurv Thomas THURGARTON HUNDRED. 685 OSSINGTON is a pleasant village and parish, 4 miles S. S. E. of Tuxford, on the Carlton and Kneesall turnpike, which was formed in 1812. It has 257 inhabitants, and 2355a. 1r. 3p. of good clay land, of which John Evelyn Deni- son, Esq. M.P. is sole lord and owner, and resides in the hall, a handsome modern mansion, with an extensive park and plea- sure grounds, built on the site of the ancient house which was partly destroyed in the civil wars, and was for many generations the seat of a branch of the Cartwright family, that ended in four coheiresses, who sold the estate to the late Wrn. Denison, a rich woollen merchant of Leeds, who died in 1782, after realizing a fortune of £700,000, a large portion of which he gained, it is said, by one ship's cargoe which arrived at Lisbon immediately after that city had been nearly destroyed by an earthquake. On his monument in the church he is represented standing upon a pedestal with his ship unloading in the haven of Lisbon. The church, which is a neat structure, dedicated to the Holy Rood, has several other beautiful monuments, par- ticularly two belonging to the families of Cartwright and Peck- ham. The living is a perpetual curacy, and the Rev. John Galland is the incumbent. J. E. Denison, Esq. is the patron and impropriator. The Rev. — Snowden left to the poor of this parish a rent charge of 18s., which was exchanged in 1799, for an allotment of 1r. 26p. at Grassthorpe. The schools were built in 1828, by Mr. Denison, who pays for the education of all the poor boys and girls of the parish. Denison John Evelyn. Esq. M.P. Ossington Hall Cook John, parish clerk Garrad Wm. butler Hallam John, shoemaker Herod Joseph, gardener Holmes George, gamekeeper Pearson Thos. wheelgt. & smith Taylor Wm. blacksmith Tustin J. & Crooks E. shopkrs Tustin Wm. vict. Star Weightman Hugh, schoolmaster Farmers, Pawson Thos Lees Geo Smith Wm Palmer John Taylor John Pawson Hy Wilson Thos Pawson Rt OXTON,5 miles W. by S. of Southwell, is a large village in an open vale, under the hills, on the eastern side of the Dover Beck. It has within its parish 778 inhabitants, and 4000 acres of land, of which upwards of 1500 acres are in the open forest of Sherwood, where there is an extensive rabbit warren. The late Wm. Sherbrooke, Esq. who died in .1831, was principal owner and lord of the copj'hold manor of Oxton, and his widow, Mrs. Ann Sherbrook, now resides in the hall, a neat mansion with a projecting centre, and a handsome pedi- ment. Thos. Redgate, Esq., John Richardson, Jas. Harvey, Thos. Lamb, and several others have estates here. Near the village are three large tumuli. (See p. 19.) The church is an ancient fabric, with a low tower and four bells, and is in the 3n2 686 OXTON PARISH. patronage and appropriation of its two Prebendaries, who form part of the chapter of Southwell. The vicarage is valued in the King's books at £24. 10s. and has the vicarge of Blidworth annexed to it. The joint livings are now enjoyed by the Rev. Collingwood Fen wick, for whom the Rev. John Downall officiates. The Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel here. The school, which was rebuilt in 1831, was en- dowed by Margaret Sherbrooke, in 1783, with land at Auster- field, now let for £2Q per annum, for which, and £6 given by the present Mrs. Sherbrooke, the master teaches 30 free scholars. The poor have the following yearly sums, viz. £5 from afield left in 1690 by a Mr. Godfrey ; £3 left in 1714 by Henry Sherbrooke ; 4s. left by Rd. Chapman, in 1725, and 5s. be- queathed by John Little, in 1756. Alvey Thos. bricklayer Ashmore John, tailor Bean Rd. joiner Birch Rd. smith Brett Saml. Fox beerhouse Coape Miss Eliz Cooke John, maltster Cottingham William, butcher Handley Wm. baker & flour dlr Lamb Rt. hosiery mafr. & shopr Marshall John, nurseryman, &c. Miller John vict. Green Dragon Moore Hy. vict. Royal Oak Mountenay Thos. net maker Naylor Jph. hosier & shopr Oates John Coupe Sherbrooke, Esq. & Mrs. Sarah Palethorpe John, baker, &c. Paulson John, wheelwright Pettison Jas. joiner Richardson SI. and Rt. net mfrs Sherbrooke, Mrs. A. Oxton Hall Stansall Thos. joiner Thurman Burgess, tailor Thurman Jph. shopkpr Wood Saml. painter, &c. Corn Millers. Rowland Wm Harvey Paul Shooter John Howitt Ann Simpson Saml Palethorpe Rd Smedley John Farmers. Spurr Esther Adams John Summer Thos BellJonth Wain Saml Bird Thos Wood Rd Butler D. & SI Shoemakers. Chapman Edw Berridge Thos Dodson Jas Gibson Rt Gibson John Greaves Thos Harvey J. & W Parker Ntl Hopkinson JohnParnell Wm Lamb T. & G Revill Fras May Wm Strutt Jno Needham Jb Carriers. Palethorpe John Eliz. Thorpe Parker Wm and T. Dalton, Richardson Jn to Nottm. Sat PARK LEYS, 5 miles N.W. by W. of Newark, is an ex- tra-parochial farm of 300 acres, occupied by James Clark, and belonging to J. Manners Sutton, Esq., of Kelham. ROLLESTON is a pleasant village 3 miles E. by S. of Southwell, including within its parish the two townships of Rol- leston and Fiskerton, in which are 586 inhabitants and 2600 acres of land, intersected by the river Greet, and bounded on the south and east by the Trent. Rolleston has 272 inhabitants, and 1500 acres, nearly all belonging to John Manners Sutton, Esq., who is also lessee of the great tithes under the Chapter of Southwell, with whom the patronage of the vicarage, valued in the King's books at ^£10. Is. 3d,, is vested. The Rev. THURGARTON HUNDRED G87 Charles Fowler is the incumbent, and has about 27 acres of glebe. The church is an ancient structure dedicated to St. Wilfrid. The poor have the interest of .£130 bequeathed by Sir Thomas Lodge, Diana Gibson, Luke Williamson, and Nicholas Kirkby. Fiskerton, 3 miles S.E. of Southwell, is a village on the north bank of the Trent, opposite Stoke. It has a ferry, several coal wharfs and warehouses, a cotton mill employed in doubling lace thread, and a large blacking manufactory. Here was an- ciently an Austin cell, founded by Ralph de Ayncourts, and sup- plied with black canons from Thurgarton priory. It had a chapel dedicated to the Blessed virgin. The Methodists have a small chapel here. The township contains 314 inhabitants, and 1100 acres of rich loamy land. John P. Plumptre, Esq., is the principal owner, lord of manor, and impropriator, but here are several other freeholders. ROLLESTON. Aulsbrook Rd. miller Chamberlain & Whit- ton F. tailors Chappell J. shoemkr Cocking Win. butcher Crossland Mrs. Mary Fowler Rev. Chas Havwood J. shoemkr Olli've Rd. vict Pepper SI. shoemkr Revill SI. smith Smith Wm. willow gr Wise Rt. ferryman Woodward J. joiner Farmers, Aldridge John Cullen John Fryer John Galland Geo Knutton Thos Llovd John Pluckwell Wm Peck Thos Wise Sarah FISKERTON. Bolger Thos. Esq. Bennett J. shoemkr Daybell J. shoemkr Eaton Jn. lace thread manufacturer Foster Saml. shopr Gent John, shoemkr Hunt J. boat owner Mason Geo. joiner Pacev T. boat owner Preston Sus. 6hopr Taylor Benjamin, coal mercht, & wharfgr Taylor Benj. & Sons, boat owners Wright Wm. & Ger- vase, blacking, ink, and stove polish mfrs. and wharfgrs Farmers. Bailey S. & W Butt Wm Handley Geo Pattinson John Preston Geo Richards John Searcy Thos . Theobald Chas SNEINTON parish forms a populous eastern suburb of Not- tingham, and has partaken so largely of the prosperity of that town, that, since the year 1801, its population has encreased more than sixfold, so that it now amounts to 3567 souls, living in the hamlets of Old Sneinton, New Sneinton, Middle Snein- ton, Element Hill, and the Hermitage, as has been seen at pages 76 and 77. Most of this augmentation has taken place during the last ten years, in which upwards of 400 new houses have been erected, forming several handsome streets extending on the Southwell road to the eastern limits of Not- tingham, though the old village is more than a mile E. of the market-place. The parish contains about 800 acres of land, and Earl Manvers is the principal owner and lord of the manor, which was originally crown land; but King John granted it to Wm. de Briwere ; from whom it went in th« 688 SNEINTON PARISH. reign of Edward I., to Tibetot, and was held of him at the same time by Robert Pierrepont, by the service of a pair of gloves, or one penny. It has continued ever since in the Pierrepont family, who gave the common near St. Anne's Well to the parishioners, Its ancient name was Snottington or Nottington, (see page 81,) and its first inhabitants dwelt in the rocks and caves which are already described at page 122. The old vil- lage is very romantic, and has a number of pleasant villas and cottages. Its small and ancient church, dedicated to St. Stephen, is covered with rough plaster, and has nothing to recommend it particularly to notice, except the views from the burial ground, which occupies the summit of a bold excavated rock, and com- mands extensive prospects over the vales of Trent and Belvoir, as far as the " Leicestershire forest rock," at a distance of 20 miles. From this elevated spot, the spectator looks down upon the beautiful seat of Colwick Hall, and upon the wharfs and warehouses near the Trent-bridge, some of which are in this parish. The benefice is a perpetual curacy, certified at <£12., and was annexed to the vicarge of St. Mary's, in Nottingham, until 183J, when Dr. Wilkins, being, we suppose, overladen with more valuable church preferment, gave up this poor living to the Rev. Wm. Whyatt. Earl Man vers is the patron both here and at St. Mary's. The poor have <£3. 12. yearly, from .£120. 2s. 6d. three per cent, consols, purchased with c£100, bequeathed in 1771 > by Elizabeth Teage. Those marked 1 in the following Directory of Sneinton Parish, live in Bond st. ; 2 Byron st. ; 3 Carlton rd.; 4 Colwick st. ; 5 Dale st. ; 6 Elment hill ; 7 Eyre st. ; 9 Hermitage; 10 Harold st. ; 1 1 Haywood st. ; 12 Manvers st. ; 13 Middle st. ; 14 North st. ; 15 Nottington place ; 16 Pierrepont st. ; 17 Sneinton rd. ; 18 Snein- ton hill ; 19 South st. ; 20 West st. ; 21 Windmill hill ; and 22 at Trent Bridge. Those marked % are bookkeepers or warehouse- 18 Acton Capt. Geo 11 Arnold Mrs 3 Bails J. sinker mkr 11 Baker Geo. gent 11 Barber Mr. gent 17 Barlow Mr. John 15 Barlow Rt. gent 22 Barnsdall SI. boat builder & coal dlr 1 Barton Chas. auc- tioneer & land agent 17Beardsley C.&Co. druggists I Bond Abijah & Son hosiery manufrs 21 Bond Hy. organist I I Booth John, mason 15 Booth Saml. gent 17 Bowler Solm. gent 5 Bramley Mrs. Eliz. 17 Brewster James, glazier, &c 15 Britland T. painter 22 Brummit Saml. na- vigation agent 17 Caldicott Car. li- brary 17 Cave Tho. gent J 5 Chamberlain W. £t 11 Clarkson Rev. W. 20 Cocking Mrs. Eliz 15 Cole John, gent 17 Cowen Rt. ironfdr I 2 Dalby J. millwrgt ' 17 Dean Geo. whsmn 1 Dennis Mrs. Maria 19 Dodds J. coachman 15 Dawson Rphh. dpr 14 Elliott Wm. excise officer 12 Elliot W. setterup 19 Fletcher George, excise officer 2 Flewker W. Snein- ton Place 15 Fothergill Mrs. J 15 Fothergill J. slater 21 Goodhead Richard Hooton 15 Goodwin T. gent 5 Green Geo. gent SNEINTON PARISH. 689 1 1 Gregg Edw. Wm attorney's clerk 13 Hall Mrs 17 Hardy Luke, gent 17 Harpham Mr 5 Harrison Mrs. My 1 7 Hawkins W. timber merchant 11 J Hearnshaw, Thos 14J Hinton J. whsmn 17Hollingswortb Edw warper 11 Holmes, T. & Sam. machine makers 14 Homer Mr. James 22 Hopkin J. surveyor to the Trent naviga- tion company 1 Howe Dixon, per- mit writer 17 Hunter Rev. Hugh 13 Inger John, gent 15 Jennings, Mrs. J 6 Jones Edw. artist 4 Lane Mr. Richard 19 Leech Thomas ex- cise officer 12 Limb Mrs. Mary 19 Lomas Mrs. Eliz 12 Loverseed Jno. ex- cavator 15 Moore Saml. attor- ney's clerk Academies, 19 Anderson S 17 Blasdall M 17 Norris Eliz Potchett John, Eyre st 20 Thurman E 18 Morley Rd. hosier 4 Morris Thos. direc- tor, Lunatic Asylum I Nelson Wm. George post office clerk II Newman B. gent 15 Nichols Mrs. L 17 Norris T. solicitor 3 Orange Rev. James. (Ind.) 1 7 Palmer Miss Emma 1 1 Pickering Rev. W. (Bap.) 22 Pycock J. overlkr 5 Renshaw J. stamper 17 Robinson John coal merchant 16 Rogers Jonth. silk throwster loShilton C. D. solr 21 ShoultsMr. Wm 15 Skipwith Mrs. M 20 Smeeton Mrs. R 14 Smith Abm. gent 17 Smith Rev. Adam (Bpt.) 12 Smith John, thong mkr 15 Smith John, solr 13 Smith Mrs. Ruth, Middle st 1 Smith Mr. Wm 12 Smith Wm. matting & mat basket mkr 17 Hutchinson Wm 20 Pick Edw 20 Webster Rt Bobbin fy Car- 22 Stanton J. collector of Trent Navigation dues 15 Sterland Oct. gent 4 Tansley John 13 Taylor Mr. Wm 14 Thurman Wm.law__ stationer 17 Twible Mrs. Eliz 5 Walker Geo. bsmith Ward John, draper, West house, & Not- tingham 13 Ward Mrs. Eliz 13 Ward Mr. Wm 19 Warlow W. super- visor 15 Webster Miss Ann 14+ Wells Edw 16 White James, sen. comb maker 19 J White Thomas 21 Wilkinson Mr. SI 17 Wilson Rev. Jas (meth) 11 Wood Mrs. Eliz 16 Woodford Mr. W. 22 Woodward Wm. collector of the canal dues 15 Woolley Jon. coal merchant 2 Young J. cart owner riage Makers. 17 Hose Chas 16 White Mary 12 Potter Thos J gents. 15 Taylor Dd 19 Butler Alfrd Bobbin Net Mks. 12 Green James 17 Allen John 1 Kelk John 21 Banwell Thos 14 Riley James 21 Barlow Wm 17 Start Wm 5BarrsBenj 17 Steere Wm 1 Barton Jph Bakers 1 fyc. 14 Bellnay Jph 12 Allcock Sml 17 Black Hor 17 Barradell W3 Chambers Jas 17 Cooper Wm 1 Curtis John 12 Holloway Jn 1 9Davis Alph 1 Hooton Walter 14 Daws Jonth 17 Hose Chas 12 Dewey Saml 1 Houghton G Doubleday W 20 Hunnell Edw West street 5Jelley Henry 3DoucherWm 18 Johnson Thos 21 Dodson Wm 21 Johnson Wm 14 Dowse Wm 19 Large John 3 Dutton Wm 21 Litchfield Jph 2 Ferguson Samll4Ludlam Wm 21 Flinders Edw 11 Moore Olive 1 Frost John 4 Morgan Geo 14, Frost Saml 16 Morley John North street 21 Morris Geo 21 Giles Jph 19 North Wm 19 Gell John 17 Page Jas. (& 21 Hall Frdk small ware dlr) 19 Holbrook Ed 20 Parker Wm 690 SXRINTON PARISH. 21 Price Geo 20 Farrands T 2 1 Price Wm 1 6 Fisher Mich 3 Pole John 17 Scottorn Ty 10 Radford Johnl7 Severn Wm 16 Rhodes John 17 Wingrield J 17 Seacroft Jas Corn Millers. I Skeavington B15 Dickinson S 14 Stapleton Jas5 Innocent Fras 1 7 Start Wm Morley William 17 Steer Wm West Mill 6 Sterland Thos 5,WagstaffGeo 19 Summers Rt Earthenware 16 Thornton W Dealers. 19Tollinton J 17 Batty Zach 16 Turner Wm 17 Watson Wm 18 Ward Rd Farmers. 10 Warsop Hy 13 By water Ann 18 Watson Wm 13 Cooper John 3 Waudby Wm 5 Hornbuckle J 3 Webster Rd Lacy Wm Snein- 14 West Geo ton Cottage 5 Wilford John 5 Lockton John 19 Wilson Jph 13 Morley Jas II Wood Thos Riley John 16 Wright John 9 Robson Edw. Boot fy Shoemkrs & asst. oversr. 16 Brown Geo. Sheppard John 5 Clements Ts & mlstr. L st. 12 Cooke Hy Framesmiths. 19 Cooke Saml 5 Hopcroft Wm. 4 Corbridge C & John 17 Fellows Wm 12 Young Wm 16 Sawyer Saml Framework 16 Walker Geo. Knitters. 6 Windall T. 14 Earl William Brazier. 14 Hans ton Geo 17 Knight John 3 Kirkman Jph. Brickmakers. 3 Leavers John 6Bradshaw Johnl7Margison Jon 6Daykin John 4 Martin Saml. 6HootonRichard4 Peach Wm. 6 Wood & Bur- Gardeners. gess 17 Hockerby W. Bricklayers. 12 Nail Joseph 10 Baker Chas Straw W. L st 6 Huddlestone J Hair Dressers. 17 Kirk Mark 6 Barnes Rbt, 6 Scattergood J 12 Birkinshaw C Butchers. 16 White J. jun. 17Brailsford A Inns fy Taverns. 14 Coulthard J. 9 Manver'sArmsl9 Davidson W, Jno. Seymourl4 Henderson T 5 Fox. W Boxalll9 Hill Robert 13 Lord Nelson,ll Smith Mungo I.Hornbucklel4 Smith Thos 17 New Inn, Maltsters. Geo. Trickettl Allcock John 17 Wheat Sheaf 1 9 Carver Thos. Saml Welsh and Son 9 White Swan, 5 Harrison John Saml. Eyre 17 Harvey Geo. 7 William IV. 5 Hutchinson W. Jas. Cordley Milliners, fyc. 13 Wrestlers, T. 17 Booth Stella Morley & pa-19 Dickinson S rish clerk 16 Elston S. & J Beerhouses. 14 Fletcher Hen 6 Brickmakers' 3Hodgkinson M Arms, Jamesl9 Holbrook Sar Hodson 1 Lockton A 14 Carpenters, 3 Mason Sarah Arms,S. Cooper Shopkeepers. 2 Heartygood —17 Armstrong J Fellow, S. Brown 1 1 Beardshall F j 17 Paul Pry, J.3 Bristow Wm Wingfield 17 Gould Eliz Joiners. 2 Groves Wm 9Blundell Johnl7 Hallam Thos 12 Dabill Geo 7 Heaford Mary 19 Dickinson R.6 Huddleston J 14 Hodson Thosl Hutchinson J 17 Hopewell W. 4 Lane R. junior 12 Mitchell Jas. 6 Mimmack Ger 14, Nail RichardMorley T. grocer 17 ScattergoodTl4 Whitfield Jno 3 Stead Samuel 14 Whitworth T 2 Watson Geo. 13 Wood John Lace Manufrs. Straw Hat Mkrs 15 Atherstone S 17 Chatwin Ann 14 Clayton Chs. 17MabbottSoph 19 Frost Josph 3 Mason Eliza 15 Johnston Jh Tailors. 13 Kerry Wm.nl 7 Armstrong J 15 Morley Jo 4 Corbridge Rt 15 Morrison Jhnl2 May James LinenfylVoollenXG Skinner John Drapers. 10 Whittle Jas (Travelling) 11 Blake Wm. 691 SOUTHWELL. Southwell, which is the head both of an ecclesiastical and a civil jurisdiction, and was once the occasional seat of the arch- bishops of York, is an ancient market town, pleasantly situated upon a gentle eminence, embosomed in trees, and in the centre ot an amphitheatre of swelling hills, on the western bank of the little river Greet, 14 miles N.E. of Nottingham, 8 miles W. of Newark, 12 miles E.S.E. of Mansfield, and 129 miles N. by W. of London. Its market is on Saturday; its annual fair for horses, cattle, and sheep, on Whit-Monday ; and its hirings for servants at Old and Kew Candlemas and Martinmas. The town has been much larger than it is at present, and it is said that the foundations of a whole street have been at times dis- covered running in an east and west direction, in a part of the immediate vicinity where now there are no traces of inhabitants ; but with its adjacent hamlets of East Thorpe and West Thorpe, it has still the appearance of a pretty large though much scattered country town. It is properly divided into two parts or consta- blewicks ; viz. : the Burgage and the Prebendage, the former of which comprehends all that space between the market-place and the river Greet, whilst the other, which is commonly called the High Town, is the Collegiate church and its property. Its parish is very extensive, comprising about 4500 acres of land, di- vided into the five constablewicks, of High Town, Burgage, East Thorpe, West Thorpe, and Normanton, in which are the four parks of Hexgrave, Hockerwood, Norwood, and Southwell, and many scattered farm-houses bearing different names. The five districts maintain their poor conjointly, and their roads separately Its population has encreased since 1801, from 2305, to 3384 souls, living in 643 houses. The soil is generally a rich clay ; one-third is arable, about 200 acres in hop grounds, and the rest in pasturage. Normanton, on the east side of the river Greet, is enlosed, and has land allotted in lieu of the tithes, but the other hamlets have large open fields both in tillage and pasturage. Part of the soil is freehold, and the rest is either leasehold under the Chapter of Southwell, or copyhold, under the Archbishop of York, who is lord of the manor. That Southwell was a Roman station, there can be no doubt ; though antiquaries have quarrelled about its name. On the Burridge or Burgage hill, are the remains of a Roman fosse, evidently the Burgus, or camp ; and many old Roman bricks have been found in the ruins of the prebendal houses ; and the discovery of the foundation of the Roman bridge in the Trent, near to Winthorpe, from which to Southwell the road was traced by Mr. Dickinson Rastall, has tended very much to confirm the belief that Southwell was the true Ad Poxtem of the Romans* Horsley indeed, in his Britannia Romana, whilst 692 SOUTHWELL PARISH. commenting* on the sixth Iter, thinks that if the distance of Ad Pontem from Margidunum is set off from the station near East Bridgeford, it will bring us to Farndon over against Southwell; but he adds, that though Newark has by some been supposed to be the place which Bede calls " Tiovulfingaceaster," yet that termination seeming to imply a Roman station somewhere in its neighbourhood, (which he did not believe Newark to have been,) might apply to Southwell, " an ancient place, but on the wrong side of the river." He still, however, considers Ad Pontem to have been in this neighbourhood. The modern name of the town is supposed to have arisen from a spring or well on the south side of the church. Leland, in his Itinerary, says, " Southwell town is metely well builded, but there is no market public. The minster of our lady is large but of no pleasant building, but rather strong." The Minster or Collegiate Church has now, however, an appearance that even Leland might have admired, (though more a man of industry than of taste,) as much has of late years been done to give it a thorough repair. For this purpose, a sub- scription was opened as far back as 1804, the whole of the venerable pile having been long in a decayed and ruinous state. Towards accomplishing this praiseworthy design, Colonel Eyre set a munificent example by subscribing =£100; and many others contributed liberally in conjunction with the prebendaries, so that the fabric has been completely repaired and beautified. Its extreme length is 306 feet, and its breadth in the nave and chan- cel 59 feet, and in the transept 121 feet. All historians have agreed in attributing its first foundation to Paulinus, the first Archbishop of York, (see p. 19,) about the year 628. During a succession of ages, until the dissolution, this church had been encouraged and endowed by the liberality of both monarchs and nobles, and protected by the decrees of popes, and the regula- tions of various prelates ; and it is said by Mr. Rastall, that scarce a person was advanced to the see of York, that did not render it more independent on his promotion, whilst its own members always manifested their attention by some augmenta- tion of its revenues, whenever they had been long in the en- enjoyment of their benefices. In the early part of Hen. VIII. 's reign, its chantries were dissolved, and that order of its priests expelled; and soon after, it shared in the general wreck of col- legiate foundations. It was, notwithstanding, declared by act of Parliament in Henry's 34th year (1542,) to be the mother church of Nottinghamshire ; a favour which it owed, partly to Cranmer, and partly to the intercessions of the gentry of the county. Tn Edward's reign, the chapter was dissolved and granted to the Duke of Northumberland, but restored by Mary to the archbishop and chapter, in whose hands the property still remains ; and queen Elizabeth, in her 27th year, ordained a new code of laws, which, with some occasional decrees of dif- SOUTHWELL MINSTER. 693 ferent archbishops, form its present municipal law. It suffered much in the civil wars, being sequestrated, but afterwards re- stored ; but it has not even yet recovered the damages done by Cromwell's troops, who converted it into a stable for their horses, broke down the monuments, and ransacked the graves of the dead for lead and other valuables. Even as late as 1J93, some of the iron rings, driven into the walls to fasten the horses to, were still in existence. On Nov, 11, 171 1, it was struck by lightening, which set fire to the south spire, melted the lead and bells of the great middle tower, and destroyed the organ. The damage was £4000. This massive pile has however lost but little of its pristine appearance, except in some of the windows, whose Saxon arches have given way to the gothic pointed ones of the 14th century ; and in the western towers and chapter house, which were formerly surmounted by wooden spires covered with lead, but taken down about 30 years ago. It is supposed to be the oldest building in the kingdom, except St. Augustine's, at Canterbury, which was founded in 605. The approach to this venerable fabric from the north, is through a large gothic gateway with reducing parapets, commanding a view of the west front, with the chapter house on the left, and the ruins of the archbishop's palace on the right. The west front consists of two lofty square towers, divided into seven stories, and decorated with ornamented windows and arched re- cesses ; whilst between the towers are the western entrance, and the great window which are insertions of a latter date than the original edifice, having pointed heads and much tracery. The north side is most strictly Saxon ; having five stones, with breaks or pilasters between the windows, and a plain parapet above them. On entering the western door, the visitor soon leaves the plainness of Saxon architecture, for all the rich- ness and elegance of the meridian pride of the gothic of the 14th century, displayed in the screen at the entrance to the choir, which has large arched openings with recesses, and in the interior a kind of cloister full of the richest tracery. The choir is elegantly pewed and has a richly carved stall for each of the 16 prebendaries. The chapter 7iouse, at the north-east corner, is an octagonal building, approached by one of the richest archways in the kingdom, and having its stalls ranged in niches round the room, and separated by small cylindrical co- lumns. The variety in the devices which ornament these niches is extreme ; as no two of them are alike. The roof has rich light groins, and the windows pleasing tracery ; and below the latter are recesses with columns and arches enriched with a variety of heads in ancient costume. Within the rails near to the altar, is the large alabaster tomb of Archbishop Sandys, with his effigy reclining upon it, and having on the front his widow and nine children kneeling. This magnificent church is both parochial and collegiate. The vicarage is valued in the King's 3o S94 SOUTHWELL PAI.ACB, &C< books at £J. 13s. 4d., and is in the patronage of the Preben- dary of Normanton, and incumbency of the Rev. Morgan Wat- kins, B.A. Its collegiate establishment consist of 16 preben- daries (see p. 63,) 6 vicars choral, 6 choristers, 6 singing boys, an organist, a parish clerk, a registrar, a treasurer, an audi- tor, a verger, &c. Two synods, at which all the Notti nghamshire «Jergy attend, are held here yearly ; and a certain number of the prebendaries and other clergymen are nominated by the Arch- bishop of York, to preside over them. The Archbishop's Palace, on the south side of the Min- ster yard, has long been in ruins, but still there is enough standing to shew its ancient magnificence and extent. In the ruined walls are still many pointed gables, gothic windows, and circular chimneys, of the age of Henry VIII. ; and being deeply overshadowed with ivy, they add much to the beauty of Southwell. The north wing, which contained the chapel and great hall, has been fitted up as a Sessions House for the liberty, and has consequently been preserved from the ravages of time, though much modernized in its appearance. The quadrangle, once surrounded by the offices, is now a garden encompassed by the crumbling walls of this once proud archiepiscopal seat, which appears to have been first neglected in the reign of Eliza- beth, for that at Scrooby. (Vide p. 442.) There were attached to it the four parks described at page 696, but they have long been divided and enclosed. The palace is supposed to have been founded either by Cardinal Wolsey or Archbishop Bothes. During the civil wars, it was completely gutted of every thing that was valuable or useful. In those unhappy times, Charles I* was often here, and lodged sometimes at the palace and some- times at the inn now called the Saracen's Head, but formerly the King's Arms. Here it was that he surrendered himself to the Scotch commissioners, on May 6, 1646. (Vide p. 88 to 91.) A story is current in the town, that the King when walking about the town, and being unknown, entered the shop of one Lee, a fanatic shoemaker, whom he desired to take his measure for a pair of shoes ; but Lee, after some little hesitation, refused, saying that he was the customer whom he had seen in a dream the preceding night, and of whom he had been warned as a man devoted to destruction, being told at the same time that those who worked for him would never thrive ! Throsby gives a Mr. Savage as the narrator of the tale, but we imagine there is a9 little truth in it as in many others which are told of the same unfortunate monarch. The Residentiary, which is occupied by one of the pre- bendaries for three months in rotation, is a handsome modern building, near the east end of the Minster, and has on each side of it the houses of the vicars choral, built on the site of the ancient vicarage, which was taken down in 1780. The civil government of Southwell is divided between tha THURGARTOK HUNDRED, 69$ clergy and laity; the prebendage being under the jurisdiction of the one, and the burgage subject to the other. Twenty parishes are within its civil limits, called the M liberty of South- well and Scrooby," for which a sessions of the peace is held independent of the county. The ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the chapter extends over the whole of this liberty, and also to eight other parishes, as has been seen at pages 301 and 661. — The civil administration is held by magistrates nominated by the archbishop, but acting under a commission from the crown ; and the chapter, in the person of their vicar- general, exercise all episcopal functions within the peculiar, except ordination and confirmation. The only Dissenting places of worship in the town are a Baptist and a Wesleyan chapel, both in West- gate. The Grammar School is a handsome building, with a house for the master, adjoining the Minster yard, and is under the care of the chapter. The date of its foundation is unknown, for though Robert Batemanson, in J 512, left land at Egmanton for that purpose, his will does not appear to have been carried into effect, as the chapter were never put in possession of the said land. The master, who is one of the vicars choral, has now a yearly salary of .£24, arising as follows, viz. £10 from the exchequer, pursuant to a grant of Edward VI. ; .£12 from the chapter revenues, and £2 from the prebendary of Norman- ton. For this annuity the master teaches Latin and Greek gratuitously to all those boys born in Southwell, who are pre- pared and wish for such instruction. There are two fellowships and two scholarships in St. John's college, Cambridge, to be presented by the masters and fellows of that college to any of those persons who have been choristers of Southwell. These were founded by Dr. Keton, canon of Salisburv, in the reign of Henry VIII. The House of Correction, in the burgage part of the town, is used as a prison both for the liberty of Southwell and the county at large. The original bridewell was erected 165C, and enlarged in 1787? but the whole was rebuilt in 1808, and has since been considerably enlarged, so that it is now very spacious and commodious. The parish workhouse, in Moor- lane, was also erected in 1808. The Charities bequeathed for the benefit of Southwell pa- rish, are as follows : — In 1677> Henry Nicholson left to the poor of Southwell and Gainsbro' an estate at Elston, which now lets for £100 per annum, half of which is distributed here. An annuity of ten guineas is distributed out of the poor rates, as the interest of £210 left in 1696, 1717, and 1725, by Bartho- lomew Fillingham, Jeremiah Brailsford, and Bartholomew Burton. In 1744, Thomas Brailsford, Esq. left a house, two cowgates, and three feet of Easthorpe pasture, to the family of Conde, in trust that each successive possessor should teach ten 696 SOUTHWELL PARISH. poor children to read, knit, and sew. In 1771> Rd. Stenton bequeathed the interest of .£150 to the vicar and churchwardens, to be employed in teaching" ten poor boys and girls ; and it is now paid to a schoolmistress. The Rev. John Laverack, in 1775, left Stone Croft close, (2 acres, let for £6,) to educate and clothe poor children, but it is now applied solely in clothing". In 1826, Thos. Spofforth bequeathed .£360 (now on mortgage) for the same purpose, and six poor boys are now educated and clothed with the interest. Wm. Thornton, in 1714, left £3. 12s. yearly out of a house and. draper's shop in the Market-place, to provide six coats, for as many poor men of High Town, East- thorpe, and Normanton. The common lands of Easthorpe have been held in trust from time immemorial, for the support of the highways of that constablewick, but since the inclosure, and the improvement of the roads, part of the rents have been appropriated for the foundation of a school, at which the master teaches 30 free boys and girls, for which he has a house, garden, and £25 a- year. The trust land now consists of 32a. 1r. 23p., let for .£69. 13s. per annum. The poor of Westhorpe have £5 yearly from the bequest of Charles Northage, in 1807. There are in the town several friendly societies, and two lodges of Druids and Odd Fellows. The savings' 9 bank was established in J 81 8, and its deposits now amount to upwards of £11,000, belonging to 369 individuals, and three societies. Easthorpe and Westhorpe hamlets, form, as has already been seen, two handsome suburbs of Southwell, Normanton is a hamlet upon a declivity, one mile N. of the town, on the opposite side of the river Greet. Brackenhurst, \\ mile S. W. is the modern ^eat of the Rev. Thos. C. Cane. In the town and in other parts of the parish, are several other handsome villas, besides the following: — Hexgrave Park is distant 5 miles N. W. of Southwell, and separated from the rest of this parish, by Kirklington, Hoc- kerton, and Edingley. It contains 500 acres, and is held of the the Chapter, by Edwd. Werg and Rd. Milward, Esqrs., who have mansions here. Upon a hill are evident vestiges of a Roman encampment ; the ditch and vallum may in some places be traced, but the intermediate lines are completely destroyed by the plough. IIockerwood Park lies between Normanton and Hockerton, 1J mile N. E. of Southwell, and is now a farm of 180 acres, held on a leasehold tenure, by Mr. Thos. Holloway. Southwell Park adjoins the town and is partly in Easthorpe, but it has long been divided. Norwood Park, 1 mile N. W. of Southwell, contains 190 acres, and is now the beautiful seat of Sir Richard Sutton, Bart., to whose family it was granted in fee by the Archbishop, in ex- change for other land of equal value. When the lands of the see in this neighbourhood, were sold by Cromwell, for ,£5000, this SOUTHWELL PARISH. 697 park was purchased by Edward Cludd, Esq., who, as a civil magistrate, and according to the custom of the commonwealth often, performed the marriage ceremony here under the branches of a tree, which is still standing and known by the name of" Cludd' s Oak." Those marked 1 in the following Directory of Southwell Parish live in Church-street; 2, Easthorpe ; 3, King-street; 4, Moor- lane ; 5, Market-place ; 6, Westgate ; 7, Westhorpe ; 8, Burgage green; 9, Burgage hill ; 10, Bar lane; 11, Back lane; 12 Vicarage ; 13, Mansfield road, and 14 in Normanton. Post Office^ Market place, William Lawton, Post Master.— Letters for London, Newark, and Nottingham, are despatched at £ past 6 morning, and received at 12 noon. The Fost from Mansfield arrives at 6 morning and departs 12 noon. 6 Abbott Geo., livery stable keeper and farrier 6 Ames Wm. clerk Barrow John, Esq the Palace ] Barrow Rev.R. B.D. 6 Barrow Rd. B. solr 6 Barrow Rev. Wm D. C. L. 12 BasnettRev. Thos. Still, M. A. lOBausor Paul, land surveyor, oversepr. and secretary to the savings bank Bean and Johnson, silk throwsters, and lace thread mfrs, May- thorn mill 1 Becher Carnsfd. Esq 4 Becher Henry Esq 6 Clay Mrs. E.andJ 9 Clay Wm. Walde- grave Pelham Esq 7 CI aye Rev. Wm 6 Collinson Mr. John 3 Cooling Wm. fishmr 6 Cooper Mrs. Eliz 11 Dallaway B. basket 13 Ellis J. "timber dl 1 Falkner Miss Cath. 3 Fern Hv. fishmr l-2FcottitRev.'J.B.A 12 Foottit Rev. J. jun 8 Fowler Miss Carl 12 Fowler Rev. Chas 12 Fowler Rev. Rt. H 6 Fowler Mrs. Margt 3 Geeson Eliz. flax dsr 6 Hawk si ey Mrs Ann 1 Hawley Col. Hy. 6 Heathcote Rev. Gfy 8 HeathcoteE. organist 9 Becher Rev. John] 6 Hodgkinson Miss E Drake 9 Becher Rev. John] Thos. M. A., vicar-! general 7 Bennett Miss Mat | 7 Birkett Mrs. Mary | 1 Bradwell John, agent; 2 Hodson Miss Eliz 2 Holmes W. p clerk 2 Holies Miss Eliz 8 Howson Mrs. Ann 6 Huisli Mark Esq 6 Hurt Mrs. Mary I Hutchinson Mrs. J to the county fire 2 Ince Mrs. Eliz office, and sub-disb of stamps $ Bristowe Miss M.A. Cane Rev. T. Coats Brackenhurst 3 Clark Mrs. Ann 6 Clarke W.castrator 1 Ingleman R architect 8 Jenkinson Mrs. Sar Johnson John mfr May thorn mill 6 Johnson Mr. Thos 1 Keeton Miss Sus 6 Kirkland Mr. Jph 3o2 6 Leacroft W. S. gent 6 Lowe Mrs. Bridget 3 Machin My. currier 3 Maltby Chas. gent 2 Maltby Mrs. Mary 2 May Wm. Jas. Esq Mil ward Rd. Esq. Hex- grave Park Mole Matthews, gov house of correction 1 Nicholson Mrs. Jane 6 Pearsall B. nail mkr 8Pigot Capt. Rd. Hy 1 Pool Mrs. Frances 6 Porter John Esq 2 Rawson T. basket m 1 Richmond Mrs. Eliz 6 Shaw Wm. gent 2 Shepherd Tuffin, Esq 6 Sherlock Col. Fras 5 Shilton Rd. P. gent 6 Simpson Wm. gent 6 Smith Mrs. B. E. A 6 Spencer Mr. John 6 Stand ley Jph choris- ter, Westgate 6 Stenton Capt. Hy Sutton Sir Rd. Bart. Norwood Park 1 Taylor Jph. liverj stable keeper 1 TinleyMr.Fras. D 2 T rebeck Capt.Thob 6 Thompson Richard, chorister 3 Turner John, watch and clock maker 698 SOUTHWELL DIRECTORY. 4 Wass Win. governor of the workhouse 1 VVatkins Rev. Mor- gan, B. A 2 Watson Misses F. Academics. 10 Jones Thos 3Bucklaw Edw 1 Keetley Hny 5 Cargill James 6 Shumack Geo. 2Cockayne John3 Smedley Matt 1 Fletcher Rev C2 Snowden John 6Foottit Rev. J3 Swift William Gram-school 7 Taylor John 8 Heathcote Mrs5 Walker Wm 4 Hill Misses 6 Widder on Geo 1 Woodward A. 7 Withers John Altornies. Braziers. 6 Barrow G. H.3 Bousfield Edw & Son. 3DenmanGeo. Barrow Wm. 10 Medley Wm oShiltonC. D. Bricklayers. (& Nottm.) 7 Adamson John Bakers, fyc. 6 Ingleman John 6 Adamson Wm 6 Parker Geo 3 Bacon John, 6 Parker Wm and M Werg Edwards, Esq. Hexgrave Park 3 Wilkinson V. roper 6 Williamson Lodge Walker John, Water Mill 11 Windle George contractor 6 Wright Rev. Adps 1 W } lde Wm. Esq. 3Dunston Jas 7 Heather Thos 6 Mason Wm 3 Preston Wm 5 Tinley G & E 4 Ward John Brickmakers. 2 Nicholson J 6 Singleton Jane Butchers. 1 Tinley Saml 2Bramley John Bankers. 6 Foster George 1 Wylde &BoIger6 Foster John draw on Lub-3 Geeson Geo. bock & Co 1 Hatfield John Blacksmiths, 5 Hatfield J. jun 10 Butler Wm. 7 Hatfield Rt 7 Foster John 5 Hill Edward 7 Leighton Jas 3 Jallings Wm 2 Revill John 3ThompsonJ&W Bobbin Net MksS Tongue Thos 2 Duckmanton 3 China, fyc. Dlr. 3Duckmanton W 1 Birch Wm 7 Stuhbs Joseph Druggists. Booksellers. 3 Gibson George 5 Ridge S. & C. 3 Jones Wm 10 Whittingham Js Coopers. Boot and Shoe 6 Dixon John Makers. 10 Marriott Thos 4 Bolton Thos. 10 Ulyatt Rd 5 Bo w m e r W m Corn Millers . .TBuckland Wm 7 Heather Thos 2 Catliffe Rt. 3 Horsley & Son 8 Fletcher Jas (J Pinder Wm Grocers. $ 1 Aldridge Thos Farmers. 5 Bailey James 7 Adamson Rd 6 Bush Richard 7 Attenborough I Hatfield John John 8c Rd 5Hatfield J. jun 2BausorThomas5 Keeton Jph. & Easthorpe wine dealer Bennett Geo 10 Little Edward Hoibeck 3 Marriott T. & 4 Booth John cheese & bacon 7 Bradley Gvs 3 Preston Wm. Clark John 3 Tinley G.&E. Sunny Dale 3 Wiight James 14Couzin Jas Hair Dressers. 2Brindley John3 Mallison Matt 14 Elston Jph 10 Marriott Wm 2 Fryer Saml 3 Simpson James l4Furness Jph Hat Mann factrs. Holloway Ths 10 Ratcliffe Hy Hockerwood 1 Shacklock W. 14 Holmes John, sen & jun Ho wit Thomas Hop Growers. Brackenhurst 3 Elsam Thos Hutchinson R 5 Hawksley Rd Norwood Hilton Wm. Rt Kemp John New & Co. Upton Radley 3 Horsley Saml Maids Joseph, Jenkinson John, Weldon Morton 6 Maltby John,3 Maltby John, 7 Marsh Thos Mil ward John, Picker William, Goldhill Dardham 3 Nicholson Jas. Nail Edward, 2Nicholson Jer. Brinckley 10 Revill Clem 10 Revill Clem 1 Revill George Saxby Leonard,! Revill Saml Thorney Abbey 1 Shacklock Wm Saxby S. & W. S Walker Chas Radley O. InnsSy Taverns. 7 Vincent John 3 Adm. Rodney, Welsh F Weldon W. Bettinson 7 Yates Richard 3 Black Bull, R. Gardeners, fyc. Raws on 7 Hibbitt Saml Crown Hotel, 3Sandaver Johnl Wm. Smith Sandaver Saml SOUTHWELL DIRECTORY* 699 1 Geo. &Dragon3 Parr Jonth H. Woodward 1 Reville Geo 1 Harty-good- Drapers. Fellow, Saml,l Aldridge Thos Revill 6 Bailey Jas 6 Lord Nelson, 3 Gelsthorpe W T. Woodward 1 Hatfield John 3 Portland Arms3 Little H. C. & Saml. Horsley Co 5 Saracens Heado Wright Jas Inn,Rt. East Maltsters. 6 Shoulder of 3 Aldridge John Mutton, John6 Lamb Thos Smith 3 Maltby John 3 Wheat Sheaf,3 Rawson Rd Jno. Hardisty 1 Smith Wm 2 WhiteLion,M.8 Walker Chas Bramley 6 Woodward Ts 3 W T hite Swan, Painters . Thos. Elsam 2 Cobb Joshua Beerhouses. 3 Dodd John 6 Abbott Geo 8 Mason John 10 Cooke Adw 3 Richardson Ply 7 Fairholme W Plumbers, fyc. 7 Glazebrook J 3 Butler Wm 7 Plibbert Sml 6 Lee Edward 3 Jallings Wm 3 Lee Frances 11 Stanrield Jph 2 Leeson John Ironmongers. 3 Rayner Wm 5 Hawkslev Rd Saddlers. 5 Maltby Wm 1 Blancher Thos Joiner sfy Cabinet o Hawksley Rd makers. 3 Hodgkinson G 1 BreckelsThos Shopkeepers. 1 Brown Joshua 2 Holland Jane 3 Nicholson Jas 7Hopkinson Jno I Maltby Edw 6 Parker Geo II Smith Wm Stone Maso?is. 1 Ingleman Rd 2 Nicholson Jer 1 Parkin Ntl Surgeons. 5 Batchelor Jno 6 Cooke Fras 6 Foster Rt. Ts. 3 Warrick J. B, Tailors. 10 Aram John 3 Baker Wm 3 Chapman Wm 3 Gelsthorpe W 6 Mason Robert 3 Pigott John 6 Pyzer Gabl 6 Pyzer Thos 10 Revill Saml 2 Skellington J 3 Townrow Frs 6 Townrow Jno Tallow Chandlrs. 3 Adams Rt 1 Birch Wm 3 Maltby John Tanners. 7 Calvert E. W. 6 Neep John IVheelwriyhts. 2 Butler James, Easthorpe 6 Fairholme W .2 Newbound W White smiths. 10 Adams Jas 3 Carlile Jas COACHES. To Mansfield, &c. J p. 7 nig. ; Newark \ past 6 evg., and to Nottingham 9 mg & | p. 4 aft CARRIERS. To Mansfield, Hy. Fearn & Wm. Cooling, from King st. every Monday and Thursday To Newark, H. Fearn, J. Pilgrim , & J. Fryer, Mon. Wed. & Fri To Nottingham, J. Pilgrim, W, & B. Revill, & J. Fryer, Tues and Saturday SUTTON-UPON-TRENT is a large and well built village, pleasantly situated on the great north road, and on the west bank of the Trent, 8 miles N. of Newark. It has within its parish 890 inhabitants, and about 2500 acres of land, enclosed in 1803, when allotments were made in lieu of the tithes, to the vicar and Sir Edward Hulse. J. E. Denison, Esq. is now the principal owner and lord of the manor, which anciently belonged to the Suttons, one of whose co-heiresses married Bertram Monboucher, who, in the reign of Edward III., claimed a market here every Monday, and a fair for two days, on the eve and feast of St. James the apostle, but they have long been disused. The church is a handsome structure, dedicated to All Saints, and has a tower surmounted by a slender spire. It is a vicarage, valued in the King's books at £5. 6s. 8d. Sir 700 SUTTON-UPON-TRENr* Charles Hulse, Bart. is the patron, the Rev. Thomas Hulse the incumbent, and the Rev. Edmund Herring the curate. — The Methodists and Baptists have each a chapel here. The school is endowed with the interest of £\2Q, left in 1816, by Mary Sprigg. Hobb close, purchased with poor's money in 1745 r is now let for £5. 5s. yearly, which is given to poor widows. The indigent parishioners have 5 tons of coals yearly, from the owner of Ling-wong and Cold-moor closes, pursuant to the will of John Smith, dated 1581. Ashling Wm. vet. surgeon Baker Eliz.& Bassett G, gent Clay Jph. schoolmaster Crossley John, vict. Nags Head Downing Miss Jane & Sisters Garrett John, corn miller Godson Thomas, beerhouse Hooton Wm. vict. Lord Nelson Hutchinson John, beerhouse Hutchinson Wm. wine & spirit merchant Measey John, gent Milnes Jas. glazier & beerhouse Milnes Mrs. Mary Palmer Wm. & Son, maltsters Pettinger Geo. surgeon Richmond Saml. tailor & vict Robb Wm. gent Shaw John, saddler Smith Jph. attorney Smith Rd. machine maker Smith Mr. Thos Spry Mrs. Mary Stocks Thos. blacksmith Talbot Mrs. Esther Turner Hy. vict. Maltshovel Wall Eliz. boarding academy Walster Thos. blacksmith Warner Mrs. & Whildon Ann West Jabez, land agent Whitworth Launcelot, beerhi Wild Wm. maltster Winterbottom Wm. smlware dlr Farmers . Join ers <§* JVhgU Buttery Wm Ashling Edw Dodson Wm Ashling Jno EsamJohn Foster Wm Leverton J. & R.Hutchinson W Maples Rt Mosley Wm Palmer Wm Shoemakers. Pinnington Saml Ancliffe Jno PlummerWm Harrison Jph Spi ttlehouse J Taylor Jas Wilmot John Butchers, Empsall Jno Lee Henry Marsden Rt Newbold Jno Sykes Jph Vessey Gerv Boat Owners, Gandy John Greenwood Wm Corbett Wm Hooton Wm Foster Thos Skinner Wm Stanfield Wm Snell Jph Turtle John Hunt Wra Turtle John Shopkeepers. Atkinson Rd Atterbery G. J. Collingham W. Curtis Jno Harrison Wm Sykes Caleb Tailors. Ancliffe Thos Brown Wra THURGARTON, which gives name to this hundred, is a village and parish at the foot of a declivity overlooking the vale of the Trent, 3 miles S. of Southwell. It contains 329 inha- bitants, and 2500 acres of land, enclosed about 60 years ago, when land was allotted for the tithes to Trinity College, Cam- bridge, which has the patronage of the curacy, and about one- third of the lordship. The rest belongs to Rd. Mil ward, Esq. but Col. John Gilbert Cooper Gardiner is lord of the manor, >vhich was granted to the Cooper family after the dissolution of the priory, that was founded here in 1130, by Ralph de Ayncourt, for canons of the order of St. Austin. This ancient priory THURGARTON PARISH. 701 possessed a yearly revenue of <£259. 15s. 10d., and was pulled down about ~70 years ago, by J. G. Cooper, Esq., who built upon its site the present mansion, which is occupied by VV. B. Martin, Esq. Near this seat is the church, which is dedicated to St. Peter, and has been a large magnificent structure, though it now consists only of one dark aisle. The curacy has been augmented with two lots of Queen Anne's Bounty, and is now enjoyed by the Rev. J. T. Becher, M. A. The school has a rent charge of <£10, for the education of 20 boys of this parish and Hoveringham. The poor of Thurgarton have the interest of ,£110, left by the families of Baker and Matthews, and now in the hands of Col. Gardiner. Richardson William, joiner Thornton John, vict. Red Lion Wetton John, shopkeeper Woodward John, blacksmith Farmers* Cooper John Meilows Edward Farrands Thos Milward Thos Hart Elizabeth Newham John Leake William Paulson Thos Branston Page, shoemaker Branston William, shopkeeper Bret tie Mrs. Mary Hinde Rt. joiner, & Wm. schoolr Horspool Richard, vict Kemp Thomas, tailor Martin W. Bennet, Esq. Priory Palfrey man Richard., gent. Richardson Crispin, shoemaker UPTON is a handsome village, pleasantly situated on a de- clivity, 2£ miles E. ot Southwell. Its parish is in the liberty of Southwell and Scroobv, and contains 533 inhabitants, and 1384 acres of land, enclosed in 1795, and exonerated from tithes by allotments to the vicar and the appropriators. There are a few freeholders in the manor, but it is mostly copyhold under the Archbishop, or leasehold under the Chapter of Southwell. — The latter are the appropriators and patrons of the vicarage, which is valued in the King's books at £4. lis. 5d|, andis now enjoyed by the Rev. James Foottit, B. A. The church is a small Gothic fabric dedicated to St. Peter. Here is a small Methodist chapel ; and a large ivorkhouse built in 1824 at the cost of £6596, (including furniture, land, &c.) for the use of 49 asso- ciated parishes and townships. The Parish Land consists of 20a. 2r. 17p. bequeathed in 1578, by John Collie, for the repairs of the church, highways, &c. It is now let for £50 a-year, out of which £5 is paid for 8 free scholars, at the school which was built by subscription in 1827- The " charity land,' 1 5a, Or. 17p« was purchased • with the bequests of Mr. Cooper and others, in 1717, and now lets for .£15, which is distributed yearly among the poor, who have also £2. 9s. yearly from the bequests of John Trueman, Eliz. Kirk, and Jph. Tinlay. A cot- tage and garden at the east end of the village were left by Ralph Babthorpe, for the residence of the oldest poor widow or widower of the parish. Clark Geo. vict. Cross Keys I Foprg John, gov. workhouse Doubleday J. tailor & beerhs | Foottit John, butcher 702 UPTON PARISH. Farmers. ParlbyJph Broad bent Jas Taylor Mary Collin^ham Geo Shopkeepers. Foster Thoa Foster Wm Kitchen Thos Machin Saml Marshall Win Smith Jph Smith Wm Doubleday Es Foster Jno Launders Jno Ravvson Jno Joiners fy IVhts. Gill Jph Keyworth Jno Whitaker John Thompson Wm Shoemakers. Whit worth Abm Gratton Wm Foster Thos. vety. surgeon Fryer John & Wm. corn millers Kitchen Eliz. vict. French Horn Kitchen John, gent Longstalf David, gent Miles Fras. bri ck maker Peart Edward, gent Rycroft Henry, corn miller Shepherd Wm. blacksmith Shore Sml. schoolmaster Spick Mr. Robert Turner Dd. & White J. tailors Williamson John, blacksmith Wright Thos. Esq. Upton hall WESTON, near the north road, 3 miles S. E. of Tuxford, consists of the two hamlets of North and South Weston, situated on the opposite declivities of a narrow vale, where the waters from Laxton and Egmanton unite, and roll in one small stream to the ' I" rent. The parish has 395 inhabitants, and 1700 acres ot land, and was enclosed in 1814, when 315 acres were allotted, to the rector in lieu of tithes. Earl Manvers is the principal owner, patron of the rectory, and lord of the manor, but here are a number of small freeholders. The church is at South Weston, and is dedicated to All Saints. The rectory is valued in the King's books at ^£19. 2s. lid. and is now in the incum- bency of the Rev. John Cleaver, for whom the Rev. Wm. Don- caster officiates. In 1736, Richard Hawks worth, gave .£50 to build a school here, and endowed it with 5 acres of land at South Scarle, now let for £*] a-year, for which the master teaches ten free scholars. The parish feast is on Nov. 12th. Scarthing Moor, 2 miles S. E. of Tuxford, is in Weston parish, but is now enclosed, and noted for its commodious inn, on the great north road. In the following list those marked * live at North Weston ; f at Scarthing Moor ; and the rest at South Weston. Burton John & William, tailors * Volckers Mrs. Elizabeth •Chambers Mary, vict. Blue Bell *Volckers Peter, auctioneer & Chappell J & Hunt W. 6hoe mkrs Chappell William, blacksmith 1 Cougill George, tailor Heath William, grocer Hodson Joseph, beerhouse Johnson John, beerhouse Johnson Benj. miller & maltster f Martin Elizabeth, corn miller Moss James, wheelwright Ramshaw William, blacksmith f Sharp Wm. Scarthingmoor Inn Taylor Joseph, vict. boot & shoe Sheppard Sml. schoolmr & grocer *Volckers Peter, spiiit merchant Watmore George, butcher Farmers. * Atkin John Hunt J. & Mry * Bee John Hunt William Brandreth Hy Hutchinson Edm Cox Sarah Marshall George Doncaster Wm * Pinder William * Flear William Skelton John Harpham S&W # Skinner Fras Hodson Win Tomlimson W Howsen Edward * Webster Jph THURCARTON HUNDRED. 7^3 W1NKBOURNE, 3 miles N. of Southwell, is a village and parish with 134 inhabitants and 1800 acres of land, exclusive of 420 acres of woods. Peter Pegge Burnell, Esq., is the proprietor and lord of the manor, and resides in the hall, a handsome brick mansion with a park of 40 acres. Tt was anciently the property of the priory of St. John of Jerusalem. The church stands near the hall, and its tower is completely covered with ivy. In the chancel are several monuments of the ancestors of Mr. Bur- nett, who has the patronage of the curacy, of which the Rev. Thomas Coats Cane is incumbent. The other residents are Edw. Valentine Steade, Esq. ; Thos. Booth, schoolmaster ; Jno. Norton, parish clerk; Wm. Raworth, smith and beerseller; and Jph. and Saml. Addlington, Hy. Barker, Geo. Machin, Thos. Radford, John Rawson, Edward Sampson, and John Smith, farmers. The school was built in 1738 by the Burnell family, who endowed it with 20 acres of land at Upton, now let for £30 per annum, for which the master teaches 14 free scholars. WOODBQROUGH is a large straggling village, in a nar row dale near the Dover Beck, 8 miles N.E. by N. of Notting ham. Its parish contains 774 inhabitants and about 1800 acres of land. The common was enclosed in 1798, when 252 acres were allotted to the three prebendaries of Oxton and Woodbo rough, 66a. 1b. Ip. to John Taylor, Esq., and 53a. 3r. Up to the late John Bainbridge Story, Esq., in lieu of the great tithes and their manorial claims ; they being both impropriators and lords of the manor, which is now in three divisions called the Prebendal, the Copyhold, and the Freehold estates. The latter now belongs to Wm. Taylor, Esq. The hall, occupied by Wm. Worth, Esq., was the seat of the Strellevs and Bain bridges, and now belongs, with the Copyhold estate, to the three eoheireses of the late J. B. Story, Esq. The church is a large fabric dedicated to St. Swithen, and has some fragments of ancient armorial glass in its windows. It is a curacy, and has been augmented with Queen Anne's Bounty. The Pre- bendaries of Oxton are the patrons, and the Rev. Charles Fowler the incumbent. The Baptists and Methodists have each a chapel here. The feast is on the Sunday after the 2d of July. The Free School, founded by the Rev. Montague Wood, in 1736, now possesses a yearly income of £95, arising from a farm of 58a, 2r. Ip. at Blidworth, and a cottage and 7a. 4r. 31 p. at Stapleford. The poor have 20s. and the singers 20s. yearly, from the bequest ot Wm. Edge, in 1796, and the former have 50s. yearly, as the rent or Nether Close in Calver* ton parish, which was awarded to them at the enclosure. Alvey Samuel, bricklayer | Hewes Rev. Jas. curate, & mas- Blyton Stephen, blacksmith ter of the free 6chcol Gadsby John, vict. 8 Bells j Hogg Wm. vict. Ccek & Falcon Greaves Benjamin, butcher | Hucknali Mr. Joseph ro4 WOODBOROt'GH PARISH. Loe Thomas, butcher Moore W. game dlr. Grimes moor Orm John, blacksmith Rose Benj. & Jolin, wheelwrights SardinsonDd. miller, Dover beck Toplis John, brickmaker Toplis John, jun. beerhs Wood Thos. vict. Punch Bowl Worth Wm, Esq. Woodborough Hall Farmers. Duke William, Allen Wm Brockwell Branston J. T. Flinders Saml. Brett Mr. Miers Copy Butler Samuel, Glover Mordecai Moor field Howett Sarah Clay Richard Hucknall W. C. CumberlandAnnLee John Donnelly Wm Matthews Saml. Stoup hill Pocklington Jn Robinson Edw. Riddings Stephenson Jn B. Net mkrs. Middleton Jph Hogg Wm Stephenson SI Williamson Fs Shoemakers. Baguley Jph Foster Thos Glover John Shopkeepers. Brown Geo Crafts Rd Maids Moses Richardson PI Wild Wm Tailors. Clay Wm. Hind Js. & Jph Publicans. Gadsby John Hogg Wm Carriers. — John 'Bish. Jas. Gaunt, and Wm. Pool, Grimes moor, to Nottngm. Wed and Sat. and John Bish, to Tuxford, Mon. TABLE SHEWING THE DISTANCES F THE MARKET TOWNS IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, FROM EACH OTHER AND FROM THE METROPOLIS. BAWTRY Distance from London 152 Bingham, Blyth, -..* Mansfield, • • • • Newark, Nottingham,- • Ollerton, .-•.♦• Retford, Southwell, ■••• Tuxford, j Worksop, 4 | 35 Blyth ■ • 149 ! 28 | 11 | 25 | 20 Newark 124 21 | 19 | 16 | 9 | 14 I 20 Ollerton ...... 137 9 | 28 | C | 18 j 19 j 32 | 11 Retford- 144 30 | 9 j 20 | 12 | 8 | 13 J 10 J 21 Southwell 132 ] 16 | 21 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 26 J 6 | 7 | H Tuxford---. 137 11 | 27 | 6 | 12 | 22 | 26 | 9 | 9 I 19 | 13 Worksop 146 ! SHEFFIELD I PRINTED BY R. LEADER, A NGEL-STREE^ LB N ,