• ¦ . . . , ' . • 1 11- ¦ ¦ • ¦ '¦.'*.- > I*; , . -••¦.¦ .' ••'¦¦,•, »\-* . ' 'I A,* f ¦'¦•it I • u ,'*'•'*. * ' " i - ' ?*J'i. 1 . 1 • • 1 '¦ , i , ' ¦ ^. ,••¦!»¦» . * rf ,*,'"' • ' <. 1 ¦ I / ( F I • • 1 » H YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 1937 BlOGRilPHIA HaLIFAXIENSIS : OR, l^altfaae ^famili^a antr Mortljies. A BIOGEAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF HALIFAX PAEISH. COMPILED BY J. HORSFALL TURNER. Vol I. Printed for the Compiler. — *-— BINGLEY : ¦r. HABRISON, PKINTEE, BOOKBIKDEK, PtJBLISHEB, ETC., QUEEN STEEBT. YALE J — ' ^ i ^^^S^ \ / r *. .* ..ft. /• J»J ^ /I '/< .' 7>'tf /^/i-^ru ^r {rt\^r^f?i J^yiaiar/ri^ , \ JtilijiW'aiorlmws /y\Kish^--AJLitHc{A;^f^Q Ay.i uy^ \ " '— - - -i y n9r ^3.90 ^ar %J7e€pe/A t^^JSt'dy tpl'' %p.-^» ,, V. — Slater's Token G Le.\royd'b ,, 5 Dolliffe's ,, 5 Seal of 8yon Halifax Seal, 1662 Uen found at Halifax IHC — Jesus, a "charm" carved on old HOJJSES - British Celt found at Skircoat Gibbet Axe Gibbet Scahfold *:!=* The Pages engrawd on the Plates refer to " Watson's Halifax." J NTRODUCTION. |N this volume, the reader has presented before him one half of Mr. Watson's "Halifax," (that is the BiogTaphical Portion), a book that is seldom found in the market, and fetches over four guineas when one is offered for sale. More than a hundred years have passed since the book was printed, and, as might be expected, many of the -pedigrees require amplifying and correcting, and a large number of others, representing the leading families of the parish to-day, — the yeomanry of the past six centuries, demand admittan<3e. Even some of Mr. Watson's "Worthies '' require re-writing, as, for example, the Memoir of General Guest ; and equally worthy " Worthies " have honoured the parish since his days, not to mention such as Capt. Hodgson, Bishop Horsfall, and others, that escaped the notice of our indefatigable historian. It was deemed just to leave Mr. Watson's collection as far as possible as he printed it, and thus build on his foundation. The Editor has promises of new pedigrees, revised ones, and original biographical sketches for the next volume, and respectfully solicits further assistance. J. H. T. Idel, Bradford, Dec. 2nd, 1882. CONTENTS Tradesmen's Tokens ... LoEDs Halifax : Montagu and Savile Charitable Donations : Barkisland Elland Halifax Biographical History of Parish Coats of Arms Halifax : Vicars Lecturers ... Epitaphs ... Testamentary Burials Elland: Epitaphs ... Curates Testamentary Burials Heptonstall : Curates Testamentary Burials Easteick : Curates KiPPONDEN : Epitaphs... Curates ... Luddenden : Curates,.. Coley: Epitaphs Curates Illingwoeth : Curates Sowerby Bridge : Curates ... Lightcliffe : Epitaphs, Curates St. Ann's, Southoweam: Curates ... Sowerby: Curates Ceostone : Curates ... PAGES. 5 — G 7 — 8 8 — 19 20 — 39 39 — 73 73 — 139 139 — 141 141 — 152 152 — 153 153 — 176 177 — 178 178 ¦ — 183 183 184 184 185 185 ¦ - 186 186- -187 187- — 188 188 188- — 189 189- — 190 190 190 191 191- - 192 192- - 193 193 CONTENTS. Manorial Suevey, 1314 Eael Leicester's Lands Census, 1763, &c.. Pedigrees, Alphabetically arranged Halifax: Chantries .,. Lands belonging to Fountain's St. John's, Jerusalem Lewis Priory Kirklees Elland : Chantry Heptonstall : Chantries Longevity GiBBETTED PeESONS Benefactors': Halifax Heptonstall Hipperholme MidgleyNorthouram Norland Ovenden Eastrick Eishworth Stansfield Skircoat Sowerby Soyland Southowram Warley Wadsworth Bishop Copley PAGES. 193 — 198 198 — 199 200 — 201 202 — 276 276 — 283 284 — 290 290 — 292292 298 294 — 297 298 298 299 — 300 300 — 307 .307 — 315 315 — 328 828 — ^332 332 — 335 335 — 336 336 — 338 338 — 342 342 — 346 346 — 349 849 — 351 352 — 862 862 — 366366 367 867 368 lingraplijia ^alifa^imsis, •i— [From Watson's "Halifax," 4to, 1775, and Jacob's Eeprint (with abridgements) of the same, 8vo.] We* shaU now"' give some account of such tradesmens tokens as have been coined within this parish, and come to our knowledge. First.— EICHAED DOLLIFFE. In the center a swan. Eev. round the edge, IN HALLIFAX. 1666. In the center, HIS HALFE PENNY. The DoUiffes were owners of the Swan inn, in Halifax, and if they had any arms this might belong to them. Second,— EDWARD. NOVBLE. AT. YE. In the center, a Cock. Eev. IN. HALLIFAX. 1668. In the center, HIS HALFE PENY. Thu-d,— GABEIELL. LEAEOYD. In the center, THEIE HALF PENY. Eev. HOLLIFAX. GL. 68. In the center, a full blown rose. These three were in the possession of the Eev. Mr. Watson, late rector of Stockport. 'I- Fourth,— On one side, JOHN. DEANE. 1667. In the center, IN. HALLIFAX. On the other side, GABEIELL. LEAEOYD. In the center, THEIE HALF PENY. This belongs to Mr. Benjamin Bartlet, of London, late of Brad ford, in Yorkshire, F. S. A. * Jacob's Edition, page 42. Mr. 'Watson -writes, at page 70, — " I shall conclude this chapter ¦with an account of such tradesmen's tokens as have been coined ¦within this parish, and come to my knoivledge." Jacob un graciously ignores Mr. Watson's labours, omits the Author's name from the title-page, hides himself invariably in the editorial "We," and yet gives almost a literatim copy. He re-arranges some of the chapters, and omits the pedigrees and Latin sentences. He substitutes ' says ' for ' sais,' ' uncle ' for ' unkle,' ' Eland ' for ' Ealand.' t These are in my possession, Watson. 6 BIOGRAPHIA Fifth, — JOHN. EXLEY. In the center, a crown over a cross patee. Eev. IN HALLIFAX. 1667. In the center, HIS HALFE PENNY. Sixth,— JOHN. PAEKEE: 1667. In the center, on a shield, the Drapers arms. These two also belong to Mr. Bartlet. Seventh,- TIMOTHY OLEAEOID. In the center, A PENNY. Eev. OF. HALLIFAX. 1670. ' In the center, a Dolphin. Eighth,— HVGH. EAMSDEN IN. In the center, a full blown rose, seeded. Eev. STAINLAND. 1670. In the center, HIS PENNY. — These two last from copies in the hands of John Wilson, Esq ; of Broomhead, in Yorkshire. Ninth, — JOHN EHODES. In the center, a lion rampant. Eev. IN. HALLIFAX. In the center, 'R* This, by its size, must have gone for a farthing. The lion rampart was probably part of a coat of arms, for Guillim, in his Heraldry, page 364. edit. 1724. says, "that Eodes of New Halifax, as he calls it, bore Argent on a cross engrailed between four lions rampant, gules five besants." Tenth,— lOHN. CLAYTON. In the center, a swan. Rev. OF EIBONDIN. 1668. In the center, HIS HALF PENY. N.B. This John Clayton, was buried at Eipponden April 15, 1688, as appears by the register. Eleventh,— ABEAHAM SLATER. In the center, a fleur de lis. Rev. OF EALAND. ... In the center, HIS ' HALF PENY. These three* last were in the possession of the late Eev. Mr. Watson aforesaid. Snelling, in his View of the copper coin and coinage of England, page 27, in the list of places where he has found these tradesmens tokens to have been made, mentions Light- cliff, near Halifax, and at page 28, Stainland, in Yorkshire, both in this parish. At page 30, is the following coin en graved, ROBERT. WATMOVGH. 1667. In the center, A loaded horse. Rev. CARRIER FOE HALLYFAX. In center, HIS HALFE PENNY. On the subject of these [" nummoiiim famuli" I] we shall only observe, that private persons, especially those in trade, found themselves under a necessity of assuming this power of coinage, owing to the want of copper money coined by authority; they first made their appearances about 1648, * These three are in my own possession, Watson. HALIFAXIENSIS. 7 and kept gradually increasing till 1672, when they were cried down by proclamation. [A few of the above (1, 3, 11,) are engraved by way of specimen in the Miscellaneous Plate. Watson.] The town of Halifax has the honour to give title to the noble family of MONTAGU, of Horton, in the county of Northampton. — The first person on whom the ,dignity was conferred, was Charles Montagu, who, on the 4th of December, 1700, was made baron Halifax, in the county of York, with limitation of that honour to George Montagu, esq ; eldest son and heir of Edward Montagu, esq; his eldest l)rother, and the heirs male of his body ; the reasons for this royal act of favour are copied from the preamble to the patent in CoUins's Peerage, Vol. III. page 694. and are such as reflect the highest lustre on his character. His merit employed the pens of the best writers of the time, amongst the rest, the author of a poem in the Spectator, Vol. VIII. No. 620. to this purport. Whom shall the muse from out the shining throng Select, to heighten, and adorn her song ? Thee, Hallifax. To thy capacious mind, 0 man approv'd, is Britain's wealth consign'd. Her coin (while Nassau fought) debas'd and rude, By thee in beauty, and in truth renew'd. An arduous work ! Again thy charge we see. And thy. own care once more returns to thee. 0 ! form'd in ev'ry scene to awe and please, Mix ¦wit with pomp, and dignity with ease : Tho' call'd to shine aloft, thou wilt not scorn To smile on arts thyself did once adorn : For this thy name succeeding time shall praise, And envy less thy garter,* than thy bays. * He loas knight of the garter. October 26, 1714, he was advanced to the dignity of earl of Halifax and viscount Sunbury, with limitation of those honours to his nephew above-mentioned, who succeeded to them on the death of his uncle, May 19, 1715. Previous to this, the town had given title to George Savile, ¦who, in the 10th year of the reign of Charles II. was created baron Savile of Eland, and Viscount Halifax ; and in 1682, farther 8 BIOGRAPHIA advanced to the title of marquis of Halifax, which continued tUl August 31, 1700, when, at the death of William, son of the above George, without issue male, the title became extinct. [The Savile pedigree here follows in Watson's 4to History.] AN ACCOUNT OF THE CHARITABLE D Ol^ ATI 0]Nt S = WITHIN THE VICAEAGE OF HALIFAX. BENEFACTIONS IN THE TOWNSHIP OF BARKISLAND. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF THOMAS G-LE.DHILL, Of BARKISLAND, Dated March 28, 1036. " T GIVE and bequeath the sum of one hundred and — I twenty pounds, of lawful money of England, to be -^ bestowed upon lands, to the uses following, that is to say, to and for the only use of a lawful preaching minister- of the word of God at Eipponden Chapel, that shall be settled there from time to time ; my will and mind is, that the profits of the same lands, from year to year, to succeed ing ages, shall come and be paid to the hand of such Minister, or Ministers, for ever; which said sum of one- hundred and twenty pounds I have given in my life time iuto the hands of my uncle, Joshua Horton, of Sowerby, in the said county. Esq; intreating him to bestow, or cause to be bestowed, the said moneys upon lands, in some convenient ~ Jacob, p. 98 ; Watson, p. 549. HALIFAXIENSIS. 9 place, to the best profit he can, and to put it into feoffees .estate, himself being one, the profits whereof to be collected to the use of the abovesaid Minister of Eipponden. And in commemoration whereof, or for which gratuity of augment ation, the said minister or mmister s, shall preach one Sermon yearly, upon the first day of May, if it be not of the Lord's day, and if so, then in the week following, at the Minister's choice of the day. And if there fall out any time of vacancy that there be no preaching Minister of the Gospel at the place aforesaid, my will and mind is, that at the time or times of such vacancy, the profits of the same lands shall go and be paid to the most needful poor people of the township of Barkisland, especially to such as are laborious, and endeavour to keep themselves from being chargeable to the said town. And also I have given into the hands of my uncle, Joshua Horton, the sum of fifty pounds, by him to be bestowed on lands as aforesaid, at his best discretion; the'profits of which lands shall be vested by feoffees as aforesaid, and yearly paid to the most needful poor of the township of Barkisland, from time to time to succeeding ages for ever, especially to such as labour to keep themselves from being chargeable to the said town." In consequence of the above donation, the said Joshua Horton, of Sowerby, Esq ; Thomas Horton, of Barkisland ; Eichard Firth, of the Height, in Barkisland; aud John Eamsden, of Bowers, in Barkisland, as trustees, purchased an estate in Gleadcliff, in Northouram, of one Nathan Hoile, of Halifax, for the sum of 170/. the original purchase Deed of which is at the seat of Sir Watts Horton, at Chaderton, in Lancashire, with other papers, &c. respecting the title. The present rent is 8/. 10s. per annum, of which 6/.. yearly is paid to the Minister of Eipponden, and the rest to the poor of Barkisland. There has not, that we* know of, been any conveyance of this trust since the above purchase. Where, the original Will is to be met with we* cannot tell, for there are no wills in the office at York from 1652 to 1660. * I. [Watson.] 10 BIOGRAPHIA , EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF SARAH GLEDHILL, Ow LONDON, LATE OF BARKISLAND, Dated October 13, 1057. I do give and bequeath the sum of two hundred pounds current English money, unto the use of a School master, for teaching such poor children of the township of Barkisland, whose parents are, or shall not be able, to bring them up in learning ; and I do will that my Executors, here after named, bestow the said sum of two hundred pounds in some convenient place, in the purchase of lands, and put the same in feoffees estate, the profits whereof to be yearly gathered by such feoffees, and their heirs, to succeeding ages for ever, and paid by them, from time to time, to such Schoolmaster, or Schoolmasters, as shall be by them in their discretions placed or appouited in the town or township aforesaid; for which said yearly profit the said Schoolmaster shall teach such a competent number of poor children of the said town and township of Barkisland, to read English, and to write, or oast account, or farther learning, as the said feoffees shall think meet and convenient, and as the said money so raised will extend." In pursuance of the above, an indenture was executed, July 10, 1658, between John "Walker, of the Closes, in Great Gomersal, in the parish of Burstal, yeoman, of the one party,, and Joshua Horton, of Sowerby, Esq ; Elizabeth Horton, of Barkisland, (Executors of the last will and testa ment of the above Sarah Gledhill,) and Thomas Horton, of Barkisland, Gent, of the other party, wherein, for the con sideration of the sum of 200/. paid by the said Joshua and Elizabeth Horton, the said John Walker sold to Joshua and Thomas Horton, aforesaid, and their heirs, a messuage or tenement in Great Gomersal aforesaid, with several closes of land thereto belonging, three of which were kno'wn by the name of Brookhouses, near adjoining to the said messuage HALIFAXIENSIS. 11 or tenement, one whereof lay on the east part of the said messuage, and the other two on the west and south parts of a bam belonging to the said messuage ; also three other closes of land, called by the said name of Brookhouses, described in the said indenture, by the lands on which they abutted. In 1768, the heirs of the above named Executors agreed to have a new trust deed executed, and the Trustees therein appointed were William Horton, of Chaderton, Esq; (after wards Sir William Horton, Bart.) Joshua Horton, of Howroyd, John Lloyd, (then) of Holme, Eichard Beaumont, of Whitley, and Thomas Patten, of Bank, near Warrington, Esqrs. The School has lately been repaired, the estate surveyed, and the yearly rent fixed at sixteen pounds per annum. EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF ELIZABETH HORTON, Of BARKISLAND, Dated Jul'y 13, 1670. -I give and devise unto the poor people of Barkisland, the sum of five pounds per annum for ever, to be paid forth of the rents, issues, and profits of one messuage, and the lands and tenements therewith used in Barkisland, called Pearce-hey, to be distributed amongst them at the discretion of the owners for the time being, for ever, of Barkisland-hall. Item, I give and devise to the Minister of the Gospel of Eipponden Chapel, five pounds per annum for ever, he preaching a Sermon there on every Good Friday yearly for ever, to be paid forth of the rents, issues, and profits of the said messuage and lands called Pearce-hey, in Barkisland aforesaid, provided such Minister for the time being be an orthodox person, and such as the owner of Barkisland-hall 12 BIOGRAPHIA for time being for ever shall approve of, and in case of non- approbation, and so long as suoh dislike shall continue, then the said five pounds per annum shall be paid and distributed to the poor people of Barkisland aforesaid." The above sums are paid agreeable to the intention of the donor by the present owner of Barkisland-hall. This extract was made from an attested copy out of the Office at York. [in my own possession, Watson.] Thomas .Horton, Esq. who died about 1698, left by Deed the one half part of a farm or tenement called the HiU-top, near Steel-lane, in Barkisland, to the Minister of Ripponden Chapel, who, iu consideration aud commeration thereof, is to preach yearly for ever, a Sermon upon St. Thomas's Day. This account is taken from the copy of an old terrier without date, in the Register Book belonging to Eipponden Chapel. The whole is regularly fulfilled ; and the rent paid yearly to the Minister of Ripponden is four pounds five shiUings. EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF WILLIAM HORTON, Op HOWEOYD, Esq. Dated October 8, 1713. - T _L give unto my Executors and Trustees aforesaid, the sum of sixty pounds of lawful money, which I order them to put out at interest, until that they, or the survivors of them, or the heirs of the survivors of them, can purchase a small estate or annuity therewith ; and I do further wUl and order, that my said Executors and Trustees, and the owners of Howroyd aforesaid, shall, for ever, pay, imploy, and dis pose of the growing interest thereof, until such purchase be made, and of the rents, issues, and profits of such estate or annuity, so to be purchased as aforesaid, from the time of such purchase, to such use and uses as are herein after HALIFAXIENSIS. 18 mentioned, that is to say, one moiety, or half part of such yearly interest as aforesaid, and of the said yearly rents, issues, and profits of the said annuity, or purchase, unto the Curate of Ripponden for the time being, to be paid on every twenty-fourth day of June, for ever, to him, to preach a Sermon in Ripponden Chapel, on every the said twenty- fourth day of June for ever. And the other moiety, or half part of the said interests, and of the said rents, issues, and profits, to be yearly, on every Easter Monday for ever, paid and distributed unto and amongst the poor people of Barkis land, at the discretion of my said Executors, and the owners of Howroyd aforesaid, or the major part of them. — And in default or want of preaching such Sermon as aforesaid, that then, and so often as such default shall happen to be made, I order that such interest, or rents and profits, as should have been paid unto the said Curate of Eipponden, to preach such Sermon or Sermons, shall be paid and distributed unto and amongst the poor people of Barkisland aforesaid, as aforesaid. A quit-rent of three pounds per annum was purchased with the above money, out of a farm in Blackwood, within Sowerby, called Jackson Ings, and it is regularly paid as directed, the land tax being first deducted by the owner of the farm. Mrs. Mary Horton, of Ho-wroyd, widow of the above William, did, by an indenture, executed Sept. 27, 1749, make an addition of thirty shillings yearly, for preaching the above Sermon, but not living twelve calendar months after the date thereof, as the last Mortmain Act requires, the money is not paid. 14 BIOGRAPHIA EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF JAMES RILEY, Clerk, Dated May 0, 1723. A.1 _FTEE giving to Joseph EUey, of Kirkcliffe, in Soyland, his brother, and to his heirs, a tenement situate on the common, or waste, called High-Moor, in the township of , in trust, to pay out of the rents thereof, yearly, the sum of five pounds, to the several persons and uses therein mentioned ; the last benefaction in the Will runs thus: — "Item, I will that one pound, jpart of the residue of the said five pounds, payable out of the said yearly rents and profits, be paid by the said Joseph Eiley, and his heirs, upon the second day of February yearly, and every year, for ever, to the Overseer or Overseers of the poor for the township of Barkisland, in the said county of York, for the time being, and to their successors, Overseers of the poor of the same township, for the use of, and to be distri buted to seven poor widowers, or widows, and for want of such, to the most necessitous persons of the said town of Barkisland, at the discretion of the aforesaid master or o-wner of Kirkcliffe, and of the said Overseers, and one or more of the chief inhabitants of Barkisland aforesaid, which said several yearly payments of one pound, (alluding to other payments named in the Will, besides this to Barkis land,) to be made by the said Joseph Eiley and his heirs, as abovesaid, I will that the same be respectively made and paid at the times above-mentioned, the time and space of full three months intervening betwixt the times that the said yearly rents and profits of the abovesaid tenement or dwelling house shall become due and payable to the said Joseph Eiley, and his heirs, and the respective times of payment of the several and respective sums of one pound above-mentioned. ' ' The above James Eiley was Curate of Hartshead, and Domestic Chaplain to Sir John Armitage, of Kirklees. The charity is regularly distributed. T. HALIFAXIENSIS. 15 BOUNTY MONEY TO RIPPONDEN CHAPEL. . HIS Chapel (which is situated in the township of Barkisland) has received Queen Anne's bounty once, as appears by the foUo'wing account : On the 9th of June, 1726, an agreement was made and executed between Eichard Nayler, of Hepton-bridge, in the parish of HaUfax, and William Sunderland, Clerk, Curate of Eipponden, wherein the former sold to the latter, and his successors in the said Curacy, for the sum of three hundred pounds, one messuage iu Soyland, called Crosswells, and another messuage also in Soyland, called Blackshaw-clough, with lands, &c. to each of them belonging. These farms lie together, and have upwards of thirty days work of land belonging to them. The rest of the money was laid out in the purchase of a croft adjoining to the Curate's house at Eipponden, and two cottages by the said croft, in value about six pounds a year. The clear yearly value of this Cha})el, as given by the Governors of Queen Ann's Bounty, in their Eeturn, printed in 1736, pursuant to an order of the House of Lords, of the 16th of AprU in that year, at page 218, was twenty-two pounds, thirteen shillings and four-pence ; and we beg leave to observe, once for all, that at the same page of this book, which is in folio, is contained the clear yearly value, as it stood in the second and third years of Queen Anne, when the Act was passed for making more effectual her Majesty's gracious intentions for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor Clergy, by enabling her Majesty to grant in perpetuity the revenues of the first fruits and tenths, and also for enabling any other persons to make grants for the same purpose. It is said in Ecton's Thesaurus, that the above Bounty was obtained by means of Mrs. Mary Horton, and others, ia the year 1724. Since writing the above, we* have met with a Deed bearing date the 23rd day of September, 1730, between Nathan Fielden, of Soyland, of the first part, and the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, Mary Horton, of Howroyd, ¦widow, Charles Eadcliffe, Elkana Hoyle, and Samuel Hill, * I have met ¦with a Deed indented. Watson. 16 BIOGRAPHIA of the second pai-t ; wherein, for the sum of 400/. the said Nathan Fielden did seU, for the use of the Curates of Ripponden, Blackshaw-clough, and the customary or copy hold messuage or tenement called Crosswells, both in Soy land; also the houses and little croft which he had at Ripponden. [A Memorial of this Deed was registered at Wakefield, October 16, 1730, in Lib. 200, p. 126, and No. 173, Watson.] RIPPONDEN CHAPEL-YARD. Ann Horton, of Barkisland-hall, spinster, WiUiam Horton, of Coley-hall, Esq ; Richard Horton, of Howroyd, brother to the said WiUiam, Thomas Horton, of Chaderton, Esq; Susanna Beaumont, of Whitley, widow, and Peter Bold, of Bold, Esq ; sold by indenture, dated July 10, 1729, one hundred and seventy square yards of a close called the Holme, and ninety square yards of a garden, for enlarging the Chapel-yard at Ripponden, and removing the old chapel there, in order to rebuUd it on higher ground, at a greater distance from Ripponden-brook, to prevent such damages as it had some time before sustained, by the flooding of the said brook. The Archbishop's Licence for rebuilding Ripponden Chapel was dated April the sixth, 1729. The sum got by Brief was 541/. Os. 4d. besides the sub scriptions of the neighbouring Gentlemen. COPY OF A CLAUSE IN THE CODICIL ANNEXED TO THE WILL OF THOMAS HOLROIDE, OF HALIFAX, The WiU is dated May 29, 1729, a7id the Codicil. March 8, 1729-30. " _L give a rent-charge of five pounds per annum out of my two farms in Bottomley, in the township of Barkisland, now or late in the occupation of Susan Whiteley, to the Curate of Eipponden Chapel, for the time being, for ever, HALIFAXIENSIS. 17 for reading the Prayers according to the Liturgy of the Church of England, every Wednesday and Friday, in the morning, throughout the year." These Farms are called by the name of Wormald, and the money is regularly paid as directed. PART OF A DEED CONTAINING Mrs. MARY HORTON's CHARITY TO THE POOR Of BARKISLAND. :.Ti . HIS Indenture, made February 16, 1743, between Mrs. Mary Horton of Howroyd, in Barkisland, in the county of York, -widow of the one part, and Tho. Horton, of Chader ton, inthe county of Lancaster, Esq; of the other part, ¦witnesseth, that the said Mary Horton, in consideration of five shillings to her now in hand paid by the said Tho. Horton, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and for the charitable uses, intents and purposes herein after mentioned, and for divers other good causes and consider ations her thereunto moving, she, the said Mary Horton, hath given, granted, bargained, sold, and confirmed, and by these presents doth give, grant, bargain, sell, and confirm unto the said Thomas Horton, his heirs and assigns, one annuity, or clear yearly rent of thirty shillings, of lawful money of Great Britain, to be yearly issuing and payable, without any manner of deduction whatsoever, at the Feasts of Pentecost, and St. Martin the Bishop in winter, by equal proportions, for ever, out and forth of all that one messuage or tenement on Stainland Green, in Stainland, in the county of York aforesaid, called or known by the name of the New Laith, and three closes of land, arable, meadow, or pasture, thereto belonging, or therewith used or enjoyed, caUed the Lath Croft, the Kiln Croft, and the Town Ing, or by what other name or names soever the same, or any of them are, or have been called or known, containing together, by esti mation, three days work and a half, be the same more or less. To have and to hold the annuity or yearly rent of 18 BIOGRAPHIA thirty shillings aforesaid, unto the said Thomas Horton, his heirs and assigns, to the use and behoof of him the said Thomas Horton, his heirs and assigns, for ever ; In trust, nevertheless, that he, the said Tho. Horton, his heirs and assigns, and the owners of the capital messuage of her the said Mary Horton, at Howroyd aforesaid, shall yearly, for ever, pay, distribute, and dispose of the said annuity, or clear yearly rent of thirty shillings, on every Easter Monday, for ever, unto and amongst such of the poor people of Barkis land aforesaid, as the said Thomas Horton, and his heirs, and the o^wners of Howroyd aforesaid, for the time being, shaU judge do best deserve the same, in such proportions as they shall think fit." [The rest of the Deed gives power to Thomas Horton, and his heirs, to enter upon the premises in case of non-payment ; and concludes with a covenant relating to Mary Horton's title to the estate. It was regis tered at Wakefield, March 9th, 1743, in Book S. S. p. 106, Number 154, and inroUed in Chancery, April 6th, 1744. Watson.] The money is yearly distributed by the present owner of Howroyd. The original Deed is at the seat of Sir Watts Horton, at Chaderton, in Lancashire, from whence the above was copied. EXTEACT FROM THE WILL OF Mrs. ANN HORTON. Dated August 2, 1746. -I give and devise unto Peter Bold, Esq ; and his heirs for ever, all my messuages, lands, tenements, and heredita ments whatsoever. — But my earnest desire is, and I do hereby signify it to the said Peter Bold, Esq ; that he or his heirs do, so soon as he or they can, after my decease, grant, or settle in trust, or otherwise, a rent charge of four pounds a year, to be for ever issuing out of aU that my messuage HALIFAXIENSIS. 19 situate in Barkisland, and now in the tenure of Timothy Turner, and the lands thereto belonging, by two equal portions, at Michaelmas and Lady-day in every year, and to be by the Overseer or Overseers for the time being, of the poor of Barkisland afore'said, with the advice and assistance of six of the chief inhabitants thereof, distributed, from time to time, within the space of ten days next after ¦ Michaelmas -day and Lady-day, yearly for ever, amongst such of the poor inhabitants, for the time being, of Barkis land, as shall belong to, aud not have public relief of or from that town. And it is also my earnest desire, that the same rent charge may be settled firmly according to law, so as not to be defeated by any of the Mortmain Laws, or otherwise, however, save by the death of the Granter or Grantees within twelve calendar months next after suoh grant or settlement made, and so as the same may be well recovered by the said Overseers for the afore mentioned use and pur pose, from time to time, as the same shall become due, for ever, by distress and sale of goods in like manner as afore said. The messuage, from whence the above rent charge arises is called Steel-lane. The premises have not yet been settled in trust, or otherwise, but the money is regularly distributed every year, by order of the o-wner of Barkisland-hall. The original Will is at Bold, in Lancashire, from whence the above was copied. RICHARD FIRTH, of Ripponden, gave (but whether by Will or Deed is uncertain) two messuages, or cottages, with appurtenances, at Eipponden, for which the Minister of the Chapel there was to preach five Sermons upon the first Wednesday in the several months of April, May, June, July, and August, in the said Chapel at Eipponden successively, and annually for ever. [This account is taken from the copy of an old terrier, without date, in the Eegister Book belonging to Ripponden Chapel. Watson.] The intention of the Donor, as expressed above, is regul arly fulfilled. This account is taken from the Eegister Book at Ripponden Chapel. 20 BIOGRAPHIA EALAND. EXTEACT FEOM THE WILL OF ROBERT INMAN, OF EALAND, Dated .4pril 12, 1638. I give, devise, and bequeath unto my brother George Eamsden, of Greetland, and Joseph Eamsden, of the same, my nephew, their heirs and assigns, one annuity or yearly rent of twenty shillings, of lawful money of England, to be issuing forth of those messuages or tenements, called the Lee, with the appurtenances, in Old Linley, within the township of Stainland, in the county of York, and forth of all the lands, tenements, closes, and hereditaments, to the same belonging, or with the same now or commonly demised, used, or occupied, and forth of all other my lands and teiie- ments in Old Linley aforesaid, which I late bought and purchased of WiUiam Holdsworth, payable yearly on the Feasts of Pentecost, and St. Martin the Bishop in winter, by equal portions, to have, hold, levy, and take the said annuity, or yearly rent of twenty shillings, in form aforesaid, to be paid unto them the said George Eamsden and Joseph Eamsden, their heirs and assigns, for ever. Nevertheless, in trust and confidence, and to the intent and purpose that they, the said George Eamsden and Joseph Eamsden, and their heirs, and the survivor of them and his heirs, shall dispose of the same yearly rent of twenty shiUings, and all the profits thereof, from time to time, to and for the use and better maintenance of a Preacher, who shall preach the word of God at the parochial Chapel of Eland aforesaid, from time to time, to succeeding ages for ever, the first payment thereof to be made at the Feast of Pentecost, or St. Martin the Bishop, in winter, which shall next ensue the day of my decease." Then follows a clause, impowering the said George Eamsden and Joseph Eamsden, their heirs and assigns, to make distress on the premises in case of non payment of the said sum of twenty shilUngs, or any part thereof, for the space of twenty days next ensuing either of the said Feasts HALIFAXIENSIS. 21 whereon it became payable, being lawfully demanded. The above was copied from the Eegister-book at Eland. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF HENRY WILSON, OF ELAND, Dated June 28, 1652, " _L gi^ givo, devise, and bequeath unto Gilbert Savile, of Greetland, Gentleman, and to Abraham Dyson, Jeremy Bentley, and to John Whittel, of Whittel Place, in Eland, Yeoman, and to their heirs for ever, five closes of new land in the Broad Car, whioh my father purchased of Sir William Savile, Bart, as also one house, or cottarge, with the ap purtenances in Eland aforesaid, and one backside thereunto belonging, now in the tenure or occupation of Joseph Whiteley, or his assigns ; and also one ruinated house, or house-stead, and one backside thereunto adjoining, with the appurtenances, in Eland aforesaid, between the smithy now in the tenure of John Gillot, and the house now in the occu pations of Jonas Clay and Brian Eawnsley there ; and also all my parts and purports of the said smithy, and the two houses now in the tenures of the said John Gillot, Jonas Clay, and Brian Eawnsley, or their assigns ; and also one whole chamber now or late in the tenure of Sarah Hinch- liffe, or .her assigns, and one whole shop, with the appurten ances, in Eland aforesaid, now in the tenure or occupation of John Hanson, or his assigns, with all other ways, pass ages, waters, watercourses, easements, and hereditaments whatsoever, to the above granted premises, or any part thereof belonging or appertaining, or to, or with the same now or commonly demised, used, or occupied, with all their rights, members, and appurtenances, in Eland aforesaid, as they are severaUy mentioned in one deed of sale past to me from Elias Wilson, lying near the Cross, in Eland, which he, the said Elias Wilson, lately purchased of Mr. John Farrar, of Breaiiy, to have and to hold the said five closes, 22 BIOGEAPHIA with one house and appurtenances, and one house or house- stead and backside with appurtenances, and part of the smithy, and two houses, and one chamber, and one shop, with appurtenances, unto the said Gilbert Savile, Abraham Dyson, Jeremy Bentley, and John Whittel, and to their heirs and assigns for ever, yielding therefore unto me, and my heirs, the rent of one red rose, in the time of roses, if it be asked, of intent, and confidence and trust, that they the aforesaid Gilbert Savile, Abraham Dyson, Jeremy Bentley, and John Whittel, shall first pay out of the same all such rents as now are accustomed to be paid by me the above- said Henry Wilson, and the profits of the said five closes, homes, backsides, and part of the smithy, and two houses, and over chamber, and one shop, with the appurtenances above-mentioned, my wUl and mind is, shall be used and employed by my said Trustees, Demisees, and their heirs for ever, to and for him and his use, benefit, and commodity, who from time to time, to succeeding generations for ever, shall be stipendiary Preacher or Minister of God's word, at and in the parochial Chapel of Eland aforesaid, the said Minister or Preacher having the consent of the said Trustees beforenamed, or their heirs or assigns, or any three of them. Item, I give to the aforesaid Gilbert Savile, Abraham Dyson, Jeremy Bentley, and John Whittle, fifty pounds, to be paid by my Executors to them, or any two of them, towards buUding of an house upon the ground I lately bought of Elias Wilson, near the Cross, in Eland, to be paid when the foundation of the house shall be laid, which house, my mind and wUl is, shall be used and employed by my said Trustees, and their heirs for ever, to and for the use of the Minister of God's word, at the parochial Chapel of Eland aforesaid, and chiefly for the said Minister to live in if he be married, or otherwise, if he shall' desire it, he having the consent of my said Trustees, or their heirs or assigns, as abovesaid." "Memorandum. It is Henry Wilson's wUl and mind, that during that time that there is not such a Minister at Eland, as his aforesaid Trustees, their heirs or assigns, shall approve of, that then the said profits, formerly given to a Minister, shall be disposed of by them to such a Minister as the aforesaid Trustees, their heirs, or any three of them. HALIFAXIENSIS. 28 shall think fit, the said Minister officiating and doing service for the same in the parochial Chapel of Eland aforesaid." This Memorandum was added to the Will before it was sealed and signed. The whole was tralnscribed from the Register Book at Eland. Jeremy Bentley, one of the Trustees, took upon him the care of buUding the house, and laid ou,t, besides the fifty pounds left by the above Will (including the purchase of an old smithy, &c. on which part of the house was built,) of his own money, forty-five pounds, for which he had a quit rent of three pounds per annum out of the house and land left by Henry Wilson, granted him by the rest of the trustees, till he should be satisfied some other way. At this time the interest of money was eight per cent. This yearly quit rent of three pounds was paid till about 1676, after which there were only forty shillings per annum received till 1689, when Jeremy Bentley, of 'Woodhouse, grandson and heir of Jeremy Bentley, one of the Trustees above mentioned, coming to his age, did eject the tenants on the Minister's house, in order to recover the arrears due to him ; but by the mediation of friends, he agreed to abate the 14/. in arrear, also 3/. spent in law, together with 2/. of the principal money, which was 45/. and in consideration of 43/. paid by John Savile, of Methley, Esq ; Brian Thornhill, of Fixby, Esq; Thomas Horton, of Barkisland, Esq; Thomas Ramsden, of Crowstone, and Eobert Whittel, of Eland, Gent, he did resign over, and confirm the said premises wholly to them and their heirs, and to the survivor or sur-vivors of them, and his heirs for ever, to the intent that they may be fully possessed of them, in trust for the Minister of Eland. The five closes above named contain about four acres of land. 24 BIOGRAPHIA EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF Mrs. FRANCES GRANTHAM, Who died March 12, 1692. I give and bequeath to the poor of Eland and Fikesby, to be paid on Christmas day yearly for ever, as foUoweth, to twenty poor men one shilling a piece ; and to twenty poor women one shilling a-piece, and to twelve boys one shilling a piece ; and to secure the payment of this money, my -wUl and mind is, that fifty-two pounds be put into such hands as my sister Thornhill shall think meet, that the interest there of may yearly pay the same." It is . also said that Mrs. Grantham gave ten shillings yearly to the poor of .Eland, and the same sum to the poor of Eastrick and Fixby. JOSEPH BEOOKSBANK, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, did by indenture, exeguted Oct. 4, 1712, convey to Trustees, a messuage or tenement, with a barn, an orchard, a yard, and a croft, con taining one acre, in or near a street in Eland, called the Westgate, and also four seUons of land in a field at Eland, called Longmanslands, or Lowmost-town-field, one land being in number the thirteenth, another the thirty-fifth, another the thirty -fourth, and another the forty-fifth ; and also four lands in the middle or Stainland-steel-field, one land lying in the lower shutt there from the footway, in number the thirty-third land, and two lands lying in the upper shutt from the marshes, in number the sixteenth and seventeenth lands, and from the footway to Stainland the sixty-second land ; and also four lands lying in the High- town-field ; one land lying irom the Lidgate, in number the eleventh land, ranging clear through the field, and commonly accounted for two lands ; and two other lands, lying from Oyl Mabb-top, in number the fifteenth and sixteenth land. Also six messuages or tenements at the west end of the town of Eland, in a street or place there called the Town- end. Also a messuage or tenement called the Little Upper Harper Eoyd, in the township of Norland, containing by estimation ten days work : HALIFAXIENSIS. 25 In trust, that the said Trustees, and such other person or persons on whom the said trust from time to time should devolve, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs and assigns of such survivor, should permit a certain messuage or tenement in Ealand, (mentioned in the above indenture to have been late in the occupation of one Law rence Manknowles, School-master, and intended by the said Joseph Brooksbank to be settled as for a free school, for the educating and teaching forty poor children, boys and girls, belonging to the town of Ealand,) to be from time to time, for ever hereafter, used and enjoyed as and for the school- house of the said free-school. And should yearly out of the clear rents and profits of the above granted messuages, lands, and premises (after the necessary charges in repairing and supporting the same should be from time to time deducted) pay, or cause to be paid, by equal quarterly payments, unto a School-master, for teaching the said forty poor chUdren to read the English tongue, tiU such time as they can readily read the Bible, and repeat without book the Catechism, (commonly called the Assemblies Catechism) the clear sum of ten pounds, without deduction of or for any manner of taxes. And upon farther trust yearly to expend the sum of thirty shillings in buying of ten Bibles and twenty Catechisms, (commonly caUed the Assemblies Catechisms) ¦to be yearly distributed and divided amongst the said forty poor children, in such manner as the major part of the Trustees, for the time being, shall think fit. — And if, after the above mentioned trusts should be fuUy satisfied and discharged, there should, out of the clear yearly rents, issues, and profits of the above granted j)remises, remain in the hands of the said Trustees, more monies than were sufficient to discharge the said trusts, and such necessary charges of repairs as aforesaid, and after incident charges in execution of the said trusts, then upon farther trust to pay yearly the overplus, if any, unto such School-master, for the time being, as an addition to his allowance, or salary, for teaching the forty poor children above-mentioned, and for no other use, intent or purpose whatsoever. And to the end the trusts mentioned in the said uidenture might be the better performed, it was there in declared, that the School-master of the said free-school should be, from time to time, chosen by the said Trustees, 26 BIOGRAPHIA or the major part of them ; and that upon every vacancy of the School-master's place, or office, by death or other^wise, another School-master should by them be elected, -within three calendar months next after such vacancy. Also, that the said Trustees, or the major part of them, for the time being, should have the sole power, of nominating and elect ing the said forty poor children, to be taught to read as aforesaid, and of removing or displacing the same, or any of them, from time to time, and of putting^ others in the room of those who die, or are dismissed, or go away from the said School. And also, that in case the said School master should be negligent or careless in the discharge of his duty, or otherwise misbehave himself in his said of&ce, it should be lawful for the said Trustees, or the major part of them, for the time being, from time to time to remove and displace such School-master, and to elect and place another in his room. The said School-master also, for the time being, was not at any time to receive or take any fee or reward from the parents, relations, or friends of all, or any of the said poor children, for or in respect of their being taught to read as aforesaid, (the wages, or salary thereby aUowed him only excepted,) under the pain of forfeiting and losing his place or office of School-master. When the Trustees were reduced to two, or under, the survivor or survivors, were to convey to others ; and if at any time the Trustees for the time being, or any of them, should not be suffered to perform the trusts in them reposed, or the said School-master should in any wise be obstructed in the performance of his office, then, and in either of the said cases, the said Trustees for the time being might, and they were directed and enjoined, to reconvey and assure the above messuages, lands, and premises to the use of the said Joseph Brooksbank, his heirs and assigns for ever." HALIFAXIENSIS. 27 EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF Mrs. FRANCES THORNHILL, Dated the last Day of July, 1718. -I give and bequeath the sum of nine hundred pounds to be laid out to pious and charitable uses in manner foUow- iiig, viz. I devise and give the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, and the interest thereof, into the hands of the heir and chief of our family of Fickisby, my nephew, Thomas Thornhill, Esq. to be the first Trustee. And my will and mind is, that his heks, being the principals of our name and family of Fickisby aforesaid, shall successively for ever be Trustees to see the said one hundred and fifty pounds laid out in a purchase, for building or making a proper habit ation for teaching and improving ten poor girls in spinning wool, knitting; sewing, reading, and writing, and to be taught the Catechism of the Church of England, and private prayers for them every morning and night. And for the continuance of this my good intention for ever, I devise four hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain, being further part of the said nine hundred pounds, to rest in the heir of Fickisby's hands for the time being, whom I desire to consult with the Minister of Eland afore said for the time being, to chuse a proper Master and Dame to teach and instruct the said ten poor girls as is above mentioned, and pursuant to the intent and meaning of this my last will, the interest of which said sum of four hundred pounds, my mind is, shall be annually laid out and paid for the salaries of the said Master and Dame, and maintenance of the said poor girls, in such manner and pro portion as the said heir of Fickisby, or Trustee for this my charity for the time being, shall see proper and convenient. And my desire is, that the said poor girls may, from time to time, be chosen out of the greatest objects of charity which shall then be living in Fickisby, and the town and parish of Eland, so as the said school may be preserved and kept up for ever for the purposes aforesaid. And my will and mind is, that the heir and owner of Fickisby for the time being, take great care in his choice of 28 BIOGRAPHIA a Master and Dame as aforesaid, for the good teaching and looking after these ten poor girls, so that they may have aU necessaries provided for them, and that the said Master may read unto them the prayers of the Church of England, every night after the girls give over work. And also I devise two hundred pounds more, part of the said nine hundred pounds, to rest in the heir or owner of Fickisby land for the time being, for ever, to the end that the Minister of Eland, for the time being, may receive the interest thereof, as an augmentation for his better subsist ence. And my will and mind is, in consideration of the said interest to be paid to the said Minister, that he do and shall read every morning, in the Church of Eland, the common prayers of the Church of England, at six of the clock in the morning in summer, and at eleven o'clock in the morning in winter, and the charity girls, with their Master and Dame, may attend and be present at the said times and hours of prayer and devotion. And my will and mind is, that if in case the Minister of Eland refuse to attend and read prayers, according to this request and intent, that then the said interest of the said two hundred pounds, designed for the Minister aforesaid, I desire, and my mind is, that the same may go to the said poor gu'ls, for their better maintenance and subsistence. Item, my wUl'and mind is, that that part of my will only that relates to the charity-school of Eland, and the Minister of the same, be read every Christmas-day in the morning, between prayers and sermon, in the Parish-church of Eland." The above was copied from the Eegister-book at Eland. THOMAS CHAMBEELAIN, Of Skipton in Craven, who died October 29, 1721, gave by wUl twenty shillings per annum, for ever, to be distributed amongst four poor widows in Eland, by the Minister and Churchwardens, on the 6th day of June yearly ; the pay ment whereof is charged on a house at the south end of Eland, belonging, in 1727, to William Chamberlain, Salter, in Halifax. The above account was taken from the Eegister-book at Eland. HALIFAXIENSIS. 29 EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF GRACE RAMSDEN, OF HAWKSWOETH, IN YORKSHIRE, Dated Dec. 13, 1734. A. JTEE leaving to the Trustees named in her WiU, one clear annuity or yearly rent of three pounds ten shillings, and after the decease of several persons mentioned in the said WUl, and failure of issue, as there at large is expressed, one other annuity or yearly rent of thirteen pounds, issuing out of several tenements in the parish of Bingley, the Will proceeds thus : —"And whereas my sister (Mrs, Susannah Ramsden) had it in intention to found a school in Eland, in this county, for the instruction of poor boys in the English tongue, but died without founding the same, now I do hereby give and devise to Sir John Lister Kay, Richard Richardson, the son of WiUiam Richardson, Gregory Ehodes, John Wilkinson, the Eeverend Thomas Hudson, Samuel Hill, Elkanah Hoyle, GUbert Brooksbank, John Dyson, and William Wilkinson, (her Trustees), and their heirs, to the use of them, their heirs and assigns, all those my several farms, lands, tene ments, and hereditaments, situate, lying, and being in the parish of Bingley, and now or late in the several occupations of WilUam Jennings, and Thomas Laycock, or their assigns, with the appurtenances, and of the yearly value of thirty- two pounds, upon special trust and confidence, that they, my said devisees, and their heirs and assigns, at all times, after my decease, shall and may receive and take the rents, issues, and profits of -(he same to them demised premises, and order and dispose thereof in manner foUo'wing : First, I will, that in case I shaU not in my life-time pur chase a convenient house or building in Eland aforesaid, and settle the same in trust, to be made use of as a school for the instruction of such poor children as are hereinafter described, then, that my said devisees of the said tenements and premises, raise money, not exceeding forty pounds in the whole, and shall apply the same, or so much thereof as 30 BIOGEAPHIA to my said Trustees shall seem requisite, to the purchase of one house or building, or of a plot or parcel of ground, situate in Eland aforesaid, and near to the church there, such tenements so to be purchased to be of the nature of freehold, and the estate therein to be purchased to be an absolute fee-simple in possession. And if an house or bnUding, which I would rather have to be purchased if it conveniently may be, cannot be purchased in convenient time, then that my said Trustees, having pur chased such plot of ground as aforesaid, shaU apply the residue of the said money, remaining after payments of the consideration of such purchase, to the erecting an house or buUdings thereon, convenient for the purpose herein after mentioned. And I will, that such building, so purchased or erected as aforesaid, all which I would have done within the space of one year next after my decease, shall at all times thence forth be made use of as a school-house for the teaching of poor boys of the township of Eland with Greetland, the children of such parents lawfuUy settled there, who in the judgment of my said Trustees shaU not be of abUity to pay for teaching of their children. And to that intent I wUl that my said Trustees, de'visees of my said tenements in the occupation of William Jennings and Thomas Laycock, shall, immediately after the purchase or erecting of the said school-house, elect a grave man of good life and conversation, a true member of the Church of England as by law established, a good Grammar Scholar, and an expert Writer, and Arithmetician, and shall appoint the person so elected to be master of the said school ; and at all times thenceforth, so long as he shall continue Master of the said school, shaU pay to him, out of the rents and profits of the said devised tenements, yearly and every year, the sum of twenty pounds, of lawful British money, without any deduction thereout, on any account whatsoever, at two usual Feasts in the year, that is to say, the Feasts of the Annun ciation of the Blessed Virgin, and St. Michael the Archangel, by equal portions, the first payment to be at such of the said Feasts as shall first happen next after his being insti tuted Master as aforesaid. And I wiU, that, upon the death or removal of the said Master, or his ceasing to be Master of the said school, the HALIFAXIENS'lS. 81 Trustees of the said school-house and devised tenements last mentioned, for the time being, assemble at the said school- house, or the greater number of them who shaU there assemble, ,on public notice of the vacancy of such school, or place of Master, to be given in the church or church-yard, on a Sunday, immediately after the Morning Service is ended, and within fourteen days after such vacancy, of the time of meeting at such school-house, for a choice of a new Master, which time of meeting shall not be within less than fourteen days after such notice, shall and may elect and appoint another fit person, so qualified as aforesaid, to be Master of the said school, and so from time to time, and as often as the place of Master of the said school shall be vacant, a new Master so qualified as aforesaid, shall and may be elected and appointed, in the manner, and by the Trustees of the said tenements, for the time being, as is herein before directed touching the election and appointing of a Master, upon the first vacancy of the school or ]place of Master. And that my said Trustees and Devisees, and their heirs and assigns, shall, out of the rents and profits of the said to them devised tenements, as aforesaid, pay to the Master of the school, for the time being, such annuity or salary of twenty, pounds, as is herein before directed to be paid to the first Master of the said School, and at the same days herein before provided for payment thereof. And if any Master of the said school shall die, remove, or be displaced by my said Trustees, as is herein after provided, then I wUl, that my said Devisees and Trustees, their heirs and assigns, shall and may apportion the salary to become payable at such of the said Feasts as shall happen next after such vacancy of the said school or place of Master, between or amongst the said Master so removing, or being displaced, or the Executors or Administrators of such Master by whose death the school shall become vacant, and the person or persons by whom the office or place of Master of the said school shall be supplied, till the appointment of a new Master by my said Trustees as aforesaid, and such succeed ing Master as they, my said Trustees for the time being, or the major number of them, in their discretions shall think meet. And forasmuch as I would have the said school duly attended, I wUl and recommend to the Minister of the 32 BIOGEAPHIA church of Eland, for the time being, that immediately upon the vacancy of the said school, or place of Master, so often as such vacancy shaU happen, the said Minister shaU provide a fit person to teach and instruct the poor chUdren therein, until a Master shall be appointed by my said Trustees and Devisees to supply the vacancy of the said school, or place of Master. And I wiU, that the person so provided by the said Minister shall have a share, or part of the said twenty pounds yearly salary, proportioned to the time he shaU so serve the said school. And my wiU and mind also is, that my said Devisees, their heirs and assigns, of the said tenements in the possession of the said Thomas Laycock and WiUiam Jennings as aforesaid, or the major number of them, at aU times after erecting of the said school-house, and electing and appointing a Master thereof, shaU and may,_ at their will and pleasure, to be expressed in writing, signed by them, or the major number of them, and to be notified to the Master of the said school for the time being, remove or displace not only such first appointed Master, but any other person or persons who thereafter shall be appointed Master or Masters, or to serve as Master or Masters, either by my said Trustees for the time being, or by the Minister of the said church of Eland, and in manner herein before directed for the appointment of a new Master upon a vacancy, elect and appoint another fit person to supply the place of Master of the said school, in the place and stead of the Master so by my Trustees amoved or displaced. And my will and mind is, that the Master of the said school, for the time being, shall, on every day of the week throughout the whole year, (not being the Lord's Day, or other day appointed by the Church or State to be observed as a Holy Day, except the last ten days of the Month of December, and except three days before and three days after either of the great Festivals of Easter Sunday and Pentecost, and except also the afternoons of every Saturday in the year,) both the forenoons and afternoons of such days, (ex cept as before excepted,) diligently apply himself at ¦the said school to the teaching of poor boys, the children of such poor persons lawfully settled in Eland with Greetland, as aforesaid, which boys I would have to be twenty-four in number, to read the English language, and write a plain, HALIFAXIENSIS. 33 legible hand or character, and to understand common arith metic, so as the said children may be thereby better qualified to gain a livelihood than the children of such poor parents usually are. And I will, that the poor boys to be first admitted after erecting the said school-house, and so taught there, shall be nominated by my said Trustees of the said school, or the greater number of them, and that all other the said boys to be therefore admitted to be taught there, shall be nominated thereunto by the Trustees for the time being, or the greater number of them, or in case of default of such nomination by the space of one month next after the said boys there taught shall not be in number twenty-four, then by any two or more of such Trustees. And I wUl that the Master of the said school, for the time being, shall also faithfully instruct the said poor children in the Principles, Doctrines, and Precepts of the Christian Eeligion, and shall particularly oblige them to learn the Catechism of the Church of England, and to repeat the same to him without book, at least once in every week, after they have so learned that they shall be able to repeat the same to him, and that on such occasions he shall explain the same, or some parts thereof, to the said children, in a manner suited to their capacities ; and that at all times whilst the said children aere under his care, he shall watch their be haviour, and in a proper manner, by gentle means if it may be, and if not, by modern punishment, restrain them from aU immoralities and indecencies. And my will and mind also is, that the Master of the said school, for the time being, on every day of the week in which the Morning Ser-vice, according to the Liturgy of the Church of England, shall be read in the said church of Eland, shall devoutly attend the same Service there, and 'oblige his said scholars to attend there with him, and take care that they behave themselves there decently, and with due reverence, as their respective ages will admit. And I will that my said Trustees shall apply the residue of the rents and profits of the said tenements, in the possession of the said William Jennings and Thomas Lay cock, after satisfying thereout' the Master's said salary, to the buying of books as shall be requisite for the learning of the said boys, till they can read well the English Bible, and 84 BIOGEAPHIA for the buying of paper, quills, and ink, for such of them as shall be taught -writing and arithmetic, which writing and arithmetic I would have taught to every of the said boys, after he can read well in the Bible, for the space of six months next after. And I will also, that there be given to every one of the said boys that shall be taught and instructed at the said school till he can read well in the Bible, besides his Bible, a new Common Prayer Book, and a Whole Duty of Man, at his quitting the said school, which books my Trustees, for the time being, shall also provide out of such residue of the said rents and profits of the said farms so to them devised, after payment of the said salary to the said Master, as afore said. And as for and concerning the said annuity of three pounds ten shillings, herein before devised to my said Trustees, the same is to them devised upon trust, that so much of the sum of fifty shillings, part thereof, as shaU be requisite, shall be yearly, and every year, expended in pro viding and laying in coals for a fire to be kept in the said school-house, during the winter season, for the benefit of the said Master and scholars there ; and that the residue of the said fifty shillings, or so much of such residue as shall be needful, be laid out, as occasion shall require, in the support ing and keeping in repair the said school-houjse. And as to the sum of twenty shillings, residue of the said annuity of three pounds ten shUlings, I will that the same shall and may be expended by my said Trustees, for the time being, at any meeting or meetings to be had by them, or the greater number of them, in Eland aforesaid, touching the said school, or the trust thereof, which I desire may be at the least once in every year, and as often as my said . Trustees in theii: discretion shall see meet.' And I recommend to them, and every of them, that at such their meetings, or on any other occasion, they, or any one or more of them, do visit the said school, and enquire into the conduct of the Master of the said school, and the proficiency of the poor boys there, in their learning and knowledge. And for the encouragement of the said poor boys, I wiU that so much of the said annuity of three pounds ten HALIFAXIENSIS. 35 shiUings as shall not be expended in any year, shall be dis tributed to and amongst such of the said boys, as in the judgment of my said Trustees, or the major number of them, shall appear to have best behaved themselves. And as for and concerning the said annuity of thirteen pounds, herein before devised to my said Trustees, in case the same shall become payable, I -will that the same be ex pended and disbursed for the benefit of the poor children thereafter to be taught and instructed at the said school, ¦ in such manner as to my Trustees for the time being shall seem meet, only I wUl that from and after such annuity of thirteen pounds shall take place, the number of poor boys to be taught in the said school-house shall be increased, and that such additional boys shall be children of like poor parents, and be in like manner nominated, taught, in structed, governed, and provided for, as is herein before Umited, of and concerning the poor boys to be admitted to the said school, before the falling of the said last mentioned annuity. And for the better continuance of the said trust, my will is, that my said Devisees and Trustees of the said farm and school-house, -within three months next after the decease of any two of them, shall elect two, other honest men, of good real or personal estate, and, if to my said Trustees shall seem meet, residing in or near Eland aforesaid, to be with such survivors co-trustees of the said school-house, farms, and annuities, and shall convey the same school-house, farms, and annuities, to the use of themselves, and such like new elected Trustees, and their heirs and assigns on the trusts herein thereof before limited ; and that in the like manner, from time to time, and at all times, so often as any two of the Trustees of the said school-house, farms, and an nuities, for the time being, shall die, the survivors of them shall, within three months next after, elect two such other honest men of good estate, (and if to such survivors it shall seem meet), residing in or near Eland aforesaid, to be with them co-trustees of the said trust premises, and convey the same to the use of such survivors and new elected Trustees, and their heirs and assigns, on the said trusts herein before thereof limited. And I also wUl that the Trustees for the time being, of the said school-house and premises, or any two or more of 36 BIOGRAPHIA them, shaU have power and authority, at their will and pleasure, to turn out, and remove from the said school, and from all benefit and advantage thereof, any poor boy there admitted to be taught and instructed, on complaint to them made of the misbehaviour of such poor boy. And my -will and mind further is, that the Master and scholars of the said school shall at all times conform them selves to such rules and orders as the Trustees of the said school-house and premises shall institute and appoint, so as the same rules and orders be not repugnant to what I have here directed. Provided further, and my will is, that it shall be lawful to and for all and every the Trustees of the said tenements herein before devised to be sold, and Trustees of the said school-house, farms, and annuities, for the time being, to deduct and retain to themselves by and out of the rents and profits of the said tenements devised to be sold, and farms, or either of them, and by and out of the said annuities, or either of them, so to my said Trustees respectively devised, all such sum or sums of money, damages, costs and charges, as they shall or may respectively reasonably expend, sustain, bear, or be put unto in or about the executing of the trusts hereby in them reposed, or any of such trusts or in defence thereof, or of the titles of the said to them respectively de vised premises, or any part thereof, and that such Trustees shall not be answerable one for another, or one for the acts, receipts, deeds, or defaults of the other, but every of them severaUy for his proper acts, receipts, deeds, or defaults only, and none of them for more money than they shall respectively actually receive. JOSEPH BEOOKSBANK, Of Hackney, in the county of Middlesex, Esq ; did, by Indenture, executed June 5, 1756, convey to the Eev. Joseph Brooksbank, of London, Joseph Hulme, of Halifax, M.D. the Eev. John Smith, of Bradford, John Gream, of Heath,' near Halifax, Gent. Eichard Taylor, of Norland, Clothier, and the Eev. Joshua Dodson, of Cockey Moor, near Bolton, in Lancashire, all that messuage, or tenement, and one cottage, called by the name of Cinder-hills, in the township of Southouram, and also eight closes of land to the same HALIFAXIENSIS. 37 belonging, known by the names of the Upper Ing, the Lower Ing, the Long Field, two Coal-pit Brows, the Little Steass Mires, the Sough Mires, and the Small Long Close, in trust that they, and such other person and persons on whom the trust therein mentioned should, from time to time, devolve, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs and assigns of such survivor, shall yearly out of the clear rents and profits of the above granted messuage and cottage, and lands, (after the necessary charges of re pairing and supporting the said messuage and cottage, and of the execution of the trusts thereby created were, from time to time, deducted), in the first place pay, or cause to be paid, by two equal half yearly payments, as the said rents shall come in and be received, the clear yearly sum of ten pounds of lawful money of Great Britain, without deduction of or for any manner of taxes, to the Minister, for the time being, of the Congregation of Protestant Dissenters meeting or assembling for the worship of God, in the present Meeting-house made use of for that purpose at Eland, in the •county of York, so long as there shall be such a Minister, and the exercise of divine worship by Protestants dissenting from the Church of England shall be permitted therein by the laws of this realm, and no longer. And on this further trust, that the said Trustees, for the time being, shall yearly out of said rents expend the sum of forty shiUings, in the purchase of such books of piety and devotion as they shall think fit, to be by them given and distributed amongst the forty poor children taught at the free-school in Eland, which was formerly founded and en dowed by Joseph Brooksbank, deceased, grandfather of the above named Joseph Brooksbank, owner of Cinder-hills aforesaid. And upon trust, to pay, or cause to be paid, all the re mainder of the said clear rents and profits of the said premises yearly unto the School-master, for the time being, of the said school, as an addition to his aUowance, or salary, for teaching and instructing the said children in manner directed by the said Joseph Brooksbank, founder of the said school, and to and for no other use, intent, or purpose what soever. 88 BIOGRAPHIA When the Trustees are, by death, reduced to two, or under, the survivor or survivors are to convey to as many as are necessary to make the number seven. Provided always, and the whole agreement was on thia express condition, that if the Trustees for the time being, or any of them, should not be permitted to perform all or any of the trusts in them reposed, or if the exercise of divine worship by Protestants dissenting from the Church of Eng land, shall not be permitted in the said Meeting-house by the laws of this realm, or if the said School-master, for the time being, shall be in any wise obstructed in the perform ance of his office, pursuant to the resolution and intention of the said Joseph Brooksbank, founder of the said school, it should be lawful to and for the said Trustees, for the time being, and they were directed and enjoined to reconvey, and assure the above granted premises ¦to the use of the said Joseph Brooksbank, his heirs and assigns for ever. Ealand Chapel, (which has parochial rights), was, in 1786, returned by the Governors of Queen Ann's Bounty, to have had, 8d of Ann, a clear yearly value of twenty-six pounds ten shillings. BOUNTY AT EALAND CHAPEL. The money for this purpose was subscribed about the year 1724, by means of Mr. John Lancaster, and others, but no purchase was made with it till after the year 1733, when a farm was bought by the then Curate, Mr. Thomas Alderson, called Blean Farm, in the parish of Askarth, near Askrig, containing about thirty days work of land, with liberty of thirteen cattle gates, in four different pastures, and a common right for an hundred sheep. This farm was let, in 1764, for twenty-one years, at the clear yearly rent of seventeen pounds. A ME. WHITTLE, Of Marshall-hall, is said to have left twenty shillings yearly out of that estate, to the Curate of Ealand ; but this only appears from old Terriers in the Office at 'York, not from either Will, or Deed, therefore the Curate's title to it is uncertain, for nothing of this sort is recoverable at la-wv unless the lands out of which it is issuable, can be ascer tained. HALIFAXIENSIS. 89 As for the Terriers, they seem to have been made on the supposition that the money was fixed upon those lands, because paid by the owners of them ; but there ought to be a better assurance than this. For this reason there was an intermission of payment for some years in Mr. Petty's time, till he acknowledged it a bounty, and not a right. THE EEV. ME. STOCKS, Eector of Kirkheaton, is likewise said to have given to the Curates of Ealand, a close in Stainland, worth ten or twenty shillings a year ; but we can give no particular account of this, any more than we can of six pounds a year, said to be bequeathed to the poor of Ealand, by a Mrs. Preston, of Methley. 'HALIFAX. BEIAN OTES, Of Halifax, surrendered, by copy of court-roll, into the hands of the Lord of the Manor, bearing date 2 Henry VIII. (1511), one cottage, and two closes of land, containing by estimation three acres, with appurtenances, in Halifax, to the use of certain feoffees, and their heirs, in trust, as appears by his Will, dated April 28, 1529, to the use of the said Brian for life, and after his decease, to the Church wardens of Halifax, and their successors for ever, they paying six shUlings and eight-pence yearly, for ever, to the amending of an highway between Halifax and Shipden Brook, six shillings and eight-pence for a dirge or mass, in the Parish Church of Halifax, to be sung or said, and the rest of the profits to the Morning priest there. Mr. John Brearcliffe says in a manuscript, writ in 1651, that these closes were called Lister Lands, and belonged to one John Exley, of Halifax.* The above land lay below Goldsmith's grave, in the way from thence towards the BuU Close ; the cottage is taken away, and the charity was detained by the said John Exley, who had the land at that time. None of the above charity is now paid, except that for repairing the Highway. [Mr. Wright, page 105, says, none of the charity was paid in 1738, except that for repairing the highway.] * From a manuscript, wrote by Mr. John Brearclifiie, an Apothecary in Halifax, caUed by him, " Halifax Inquiries for the finding out of several gifts, given to pious uses, by divers persons, deceased Deo. 22, 1651. 40 BIOGRAPHIA By an inquisition taken at Guisley, April 10, 1667, it was found, that at the court of John Waterhouse, late of Shibden, Gentleman, deceased, and Eobert Waterhouse, son and heir of the said John Waterhouse, holden of the Manor of Hali fax, October 12, in the 4th and 5th year of the reign of Philip and Mary, that Brian Bates, of Wakefield, and Eliz abeth his wife, surrendered into the hands of the Lord, the reversion, after the decease of the said Elizabeth, of one messuage, four closes of land, and a yearly rent of twelve shillings, issuing out of certain lands in Halifax, to the use of Thomas Lister, William Lister, and James Lister, and their heirs for ever ; and that after the decease of the said Brian and Elizabeth, the said Thomas Lister, William Lister, and James Lister, did surrender into the hands of the Lord of the said Manor, one annuity, or yearly rent of twenty shillings, issuing out of the said messuage and four closes of land, unto certain other Trustees, to the use of the poor people within the town of Halifax, yearly, to be dis tributed for ever upon Good Friday, by the discretion of the Lord of the said Town of Halifax, and his heirs, and of the Churchwardens of the church there, with liberty to the said Lord and Churchwardens to make distress upon the pre misses, in case of non-payment of the said yearly rent. And it was farther found, by the said inquisition, that the said messuage and closes of land, after the deatli of the said Elizabeth Bates, came to the possession of Elizabeth Blyth- man, of the city of York, widow, who had received the whole rents and profits thereof for several years, and converted the same to her own use, without paying the said sum of twenty shUlings yearly to the poor of Halifax, as directed ; where upon the Commissioners, after a due hearing, did decree, that the said Elizabeth Blythman should, within twenty days after notioe of the said decree, pay to the Church wardens and Overseers of the Town of Halifax, for the time being, and others named in the said decree, the sum of thii'ty-three pounds, being the arrears then due ; and that the said Elizabeth Blythman, and the heirs, owners, and occupiers of the said messuage and closes, chargeable with the said charitable use, should for ever after yearly pay the said twenty shiUings, according to the direction of the Don or. And to the end the said charity might the better be secured and kept up, Samuel Mitchel, John Brearcliffe, HALIFAXIENSIS. 41 Joshua Dunn, Samuel Greenwood, Thomas Eigg, Joseph Fourness, and Thomas Hinde, were by the said Commission ers appointed Trustees thereof, with power, in case of death, to the survivors, to make new election. To which decree the said Elizabeth Blythman and Jasper Blythman, Esq. did exhibit their exceptions in the Court of Chancery, Nov. 28, 1667, to which an Answer was filed, on behalf of the poor of Halifax, Nov. 28, 1668 ; and Nov. 27, 1669, the cause being heard before the Eight Honourable Sir Orlando Bridgman, Lord keeper of the Great Seal of England, the exceptions were over-ruled, and the Decree of the Commissioners confirmed by a Decree of that Court, the Exceptants to pay the Respondent costs of suit. The above messuage and lands are said in Brearclifl'e's Manuscript, to go by the name of Yeathouse, and to lie at Blackledge Steel ; they are also called by the same name in the Register-book at Halifax. This charity both Mr. Brearcliffe and Mr. Wright have attributed to one widow Pymond, who was no other than Elizabeth Bates above-named. — -She married to her first husband Richard Pymond, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, who lived in Wakefield, and left by his WiU, dated May 20, 1547, many legacies, but none to Halifax.* In the above manuscript of Mr. Brearcliffe, are the in formations of two evidences, to prove that the sum payable out of Yeathouse, to the poor of HaUfax, was forty shillings yearly ; and one of them, the wife of one Robert Dean, of Priestley, said she had gone with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Blythman, who was buried at Eland, March 7, 1633, to help her to distribute the same. This is a difficulty not easily to be solved; it is, however, we think, safer to follow the words of the above Inquisition, and particularly the surrender therein quoted, which makes it only twenty shillings. The premises belong, at present, to Sir Watts Horton, of Chaderton, Baronet, who pays the money as directed. The original Decree relating to the above, was in the hands of the late Mr. Valentine Stead, of Nottingham, who permitted us to take a copy of it, and whose sudden death deprived us of the benefit of many valuable papers, relating to the charities in this parish. * Nov 7, 1547, she married Brian Bates, and was buried Jan. 20, 1552. 42 BIOGRAPHIA RICHARD CLARKE, Of Halifax, gave to the poor of that town, six shUlings and eight-pence, yearly for ever, to be paid out of his house near Loveledge-lane, in Halifax, as appears from the copy of a court-roll, in the time of Robert Waterhouse, Esq. dated AprU 15, 1597. In Mr. BrearcHffe's Manuscript, from whence this account is taken ; it is said, that Eichard Clarke gave this house to one Robert Cunliffe, who either sold or mortgaged it to Humphry Drake, and that in 1651 it was in the hands of John Drake, Minister, son of Humphry, who paid the six shillings and eight-pence yearly, since which we have seen no account of it. This John Drake was Sub-dean of Rippon, Prebendary of York, and Rector of Dunnington. SIE EICHARD SALTONSTALL, Knight, Alderman of London, (who was Sheriff there in 1588, and Lord Mayor in 1597,) left by will, about the year 1600, one hundred pounds to buy rents with ; which rents were yearlj to be distributed in the Parish Church of Halifax, to the poor of the said town and parish, in money or bread, at the discretion of the Church- wardens for the time being. All this (as Mr. Brearcliffe observes) was confirmed by an Award, made July 8, 43 Eliz. also by the consent of Dame Susan Saltonstall, Samuel Saltonstall, and others, her children ; and the said Dame Saltonstall and Samuel being Executors to the said Sir Richard, were to bestow the said hundred pounds to the most profit, before the 25th day of March next after the said Award. It could not, however, be found, by the Inquisition taken at Halifax, in 1651, in whose hands the money arising from this charity remained, nor whether the same had been dis posed of or not ; and Mr. Wright thought it was long since lost, or converted to private uses. HUGH ATWELL, Parson of St. Tewe, in Cornwall, gave, March 10, 1605, one pound thirteen shillings and four-pence, to the use of the poor of Halifax town, to be lent to some poor mau for a HALIFAXIENSIS. 43 year, to be disposed of by the Magistrates and Officers of Halifax, which money was for a time lent accordingly. In 1608, it was lent by Symon Binns and Thomas Taylor, ¦Constables, to one Allan Pennington ; and Jane Crowther, -the Benefactress, gave her word for it. This is Mr. Brear- cliffe's account ; but in Halifax Register, under the year 1606, it is said to have been given to keep the poor in work, the stock to remain for ever, the gain to be the poor's ; to be at the disposition of the Magistrates and Officers of the town of Halifax, or else such as they shall think fit, for the true ^sposition thereof. I have seen no farther account of this. EXTEACT FROM THE WILL OF BRIAN CROWTPIER, OF HALIFAX. I Dated Septernber Qlh, 1006. do will, give, devise and bequeath to John Favour, Doctor of Laws, and Vicar of Halifax, Eobert Law, of the same, &c. and their heirs for ever, to the use of the poor of the town of Halifax, one annuity, or yearly rent of ten pounds of lawful English money, yearly issuing, and to be received in the Feasts of St. Martin and Pentecost, by even portions, of, in, and forth of all and singular the said messu- :ages, lands, tenements, reversions, possessions and heredita ments in Armin aforesaid, and the first payment thereof to begin in whether of the said Feasts shall first and immedi- rately happen next after the decease of me, the said Brian -Crowther. And I will and grant, that for want of payment of the said yearly rent of ten pounds in the Feasts aforesaid, and by the space of twenty days then next following, tbat it shall be lawful for the persons aforenamed, and their heirs, to dis- irain in and upon the said tenements and premises in Armyn aforesaid, till they be of the said yearly rent of ten pounds fully satisfied and paid. And I will, and my mind is, that the said yearly rent of ±en pounds shaU be distributed to and amongst the said 44 BIOGRAPHIA poor of the said town of Halifax, by and at the discretion of six honest and sufficient persons of the said town of Halifax, whereof I will that the said Vicar there, and the Church wardens of the said town for the time being, shaU be three." This Benefaction, Mr. Brearcliffe observes, was dealt all the days of Dr. Favour, who died March 10, 1623, after this it remained unpaid till his successor. Dr. Clay, gave it to the poor at Christmas in 1627 ; it was then converted to the Workhouse. — So far the manuscript. On the 16th of August, in the 9th year of the reign of Charles the first, an indenture was executed (a copy of which is in our possession) between Sir Arthur Ingram, the elder, of the city of York, knight, and Sir Arthur Ingram, the younger, Henry Eamsden, Vicar of Halifax, Samuel Crow ther, Nathaniel Waterhouse, and others, reciting, that whereas the said Samuel Crowther pretended to have a title to a rent-charge of ten pounds a year, issuing out of certain lands, &o. in Armine, in the county of York, supposed to- have been granted to him, John Fa,vour, Doctor of Laws, Vicar of Halifax, and others, by the last will and testament of Brian Crowther, deceased, in trust for the poor of Halifax aforesaid; the said Samuel Crowther, with the consent of divers of the best inhabitants in Halifax, and for the con siderations afterwards in the said indenture mentioned, released, and for ever quit claimed the same to the said Sir Arthur Ingram, the elder, and Sir Arthur Ingram, the younger, their heirs and assigns for ever. And in lieu thereof, the said Sir Arthur Ingram, the elder, and Sir Arthur Ingram, the younger, did for them, and their heirs, grant and assign to the said Henry Eamsden, &c., their Executors and Administrators, the yearly sum of twenty pounds, to arise and be payable out of an annual rent of three hundred and forty-six pounds ten shillings, which was made payable to the said Sir Arthur Ingram, the elder, and Sir Arthur Ingram, the younger, from one John Smithson, who held under them certain lands and tene ments in Halifax, Skircoat, Northouram, and Southourain, by lease to him, his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, for the term of one hundred years : To have and to hold- the said yearly rent of twenty pounds to the said Henry Eamsden, &c., their Executors, Administrators and Assigns,. for and during the term of eleven years, from thence next HALIFAXIENSIS. 45 following the date of this indenture ; and after the expiration of the said term of eleven years, the yearly sum of ten pounds during the residue of the said term of one hundred years in the indenture to the said John Smithson mentioned, which indenture was dated August 31, 2 @ha. I. This latter sum of ten pounds yearly was made payable out of two messuages and two water- cornmills in Siddal, South ouram, and Skircoat, or some of them, and out of all houses, buildings, lands and tenements to the same belonging, to be paid to the said Henry Eamsden, &c. their heirs and assigns, in the south porch of the Church of Halifax, at the Feasts of St. Michael, and th.e Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, by equal portions, the first payment thereof to begin at the Feast of St. Michael, which shall be next after the determin ation of the said term of one hundred years, with power of distress in case of non-payment after twenty days, and a forfeit of ten shillings for every such default. At an inquisition taken at Halifax, February 16, 1651, it was found, that the above yearly rent of twenty pounds was paid for eight years and a half next after the date of the above indenture ; after which it was received and with-held by one Anthony Foxcroft, so that there remained in arrear, at the time of taking the said inquisition, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five pounds ; the Commissioners, there fore, decreed, that the said Anthony Foxcroft should pay the said sum of one hundred and twenty-five pounds to Thomas Binns, the surviving Trustee ; twenty-five pounds whereof was to be distributed to the poor of Halifax, and the remain ing hundred pounds bestowed upon lands, rents, or heredita ments of inheritance, in fee simple, and the profits thereof distributed to the poor of Halifax, in such manner as the said yearly rent, or sum of ten pounds, was by the above Indenture directed to be disposed of. Also Anthony Foxcroft, the younger, of Halifax, Joseph Fourness, of Booth's Town, Eichard Blackett, of Halifax, John Brearcliffe, Eobert AUenson, and Daniel Greenwood, of the same, were appointed co-trustees with Thomas Binns; and to these, Anthony Foxcroft, in obedience to the above Decree, did by Indenture, bearing date Jan. 4, 1652, grant an annuity of six pounds fifteen shillings, out of four closes of land, at Goldsmith's Grave, near Halifax, payable to the said Trustees, their heirs and assigns, for ever, at Lady-day 46 BIOGRAPHIA and Michaelmas, to be distributed according to the will of Brian Crowther, with a clause of distress in case of non payment for twenty days. This annuity is the same which Mr. Wright, page 181, says he could procure no particular account of. September 17, 1698, seven Trustees were added to the above, but how, or by what authority, is uncertain.* Under an account of the above charity were formerly the following lines, on a tablet hanging at the quire door, in Halifax Church : " Some labour hard to leave their children store. Some stir and strive t' advance their stock in blood ! Some work for Commonwealth, which are bless'd more. And happy they that care for Church's good, And leave for poor, for widows, orphans, food. Thus he that had no children of his own. Hath left for mauy children to be taught ; "Who father is to caitifes of this town, And hence to Heav'n is gone, with works full fraught, Whose gracious deeds shall never come to naught. His body now here lies at quiet rest, His soul with God shall evermore be blest. In hope poor Saints do crave, In faith so do, so have. B.C. ELLEN HOPKINSON, and JANE, Formerly wife of Brian Crowther, built in their life-times the alms-houses in Halifax, containing eighteen rooms for as many poor widows, and two rooms for a School-master; the former was buried January 15, 1610, [and is said in Halifax Eegister to have been, " Fcemina pia, quts medietatem Xenodochii cedificavit ut viduarum clomicilium esset in perpetuum,"] and the latter died about three' years after. Mr. Wright says, " Over the Alms-houses door, on a stone in the wall is the following inscription " : " In favour of Church and Commonwealth, to the glory of tho Blessed Trinity, these Alms-houses were built by the Chvi.stiau Charity of Ellen Hopkinson, and Jane Crowther, of the famUy of Hemingway, of the Overbrea, sisters, widows, for eighteen widows of the town of Halifax, and one Master, to teach poor Children the Catechism, whose * Mr. Crowther's burial is thus entered iu Halifax Register: — Sepultus est Januarii 12, 1607, Brian Crowther, de Halifax, qui legavit Scholce Grammat. Vicar, de Halifax viginti libras, et pauperibus ejusdem villa decern libras annul redditus ex dominis sive ¦manerio de Armyn, in comitatu Eboru. in perpetuum. HALIFAXIENSIS. 47 memory be blessed for ever.— Blessed is he that judgeth wisely of the poor ; the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble. Psalm 41. 1610." These Alms-houses being rebuilt, were made to contain ¦twenty-four rooms, twenty for twenty widows, three for the Master, and one at the time of this information not used. EXTEACT FROM THE WILL OF RICHARD SOMERSCALES, OP HALIFAX. Dated March IT, 1612. A. _FTER leaving certain estates in Ovenden and Halifax ¦(no otherwise described than by the names of the tenants and occupants) to his sister, then wife of John Holdsworth, for life, and vesting the same in Trustees, it follows : " My will, mind, and meaning is, that the said Robert Law, Richard Nichol, Humphry Drake, John Hayley, Thomas Pighles, and John Crowther, (his Trustees), and their heirs, and the survivors of them, and their heirs, shall, -from and after the decease of the said Alice, my sister, yearly, and from year to year, for ever, dispose, distribute, and take all the whole rents, issues, and profits of all the said messuages or tenements, closes, hereditaments, and premises, with the aj)purten ances, in Ovenden and Halifax, to and amongst the poor and needy of the said towns of Ovenden and Halifax, at the discretion of my said feoffees and their heirs, with the assistance and help of the Churchwardens of the said two towns, for the time being, save that I will twenty shillings shall be given out of the first year's profits of the premises, after my said sister's decease, towards the repairing of lUingworth Chapel, situate in Ovenden aforesaid ; and I do appoint the Vicar of the Parish Church of Halifax, and his successors, for the time being, to take an account yearly of my said feoffees and their heirs, of the distributing and dis posing of the rents, issues, and profits aforesaid, to the use of the poor aforesaid ; and I do hereby charge my said feoffees, and every of them, and their heirs, to deal faithfully and uprightly in the disposing of the said rents, issues, and 48 BIOGEAPHIA profits of my said lands and tenements, according to the true meaning of this my last WiU and Testament, as they will answer me at the dreadful Day of Judgment. And, nevertheless, my will and meaning is, that the said feoffees, and their heirs, shall, from time to time, have to them allowed out of the said rents, issues, and profits, all costs and charges by them to be paid or disbursed, in or about the repairing of the houses and buildings of the prem ises, or in the defence of the title of the aforesaid lands, tenements, and premises, and also all other their reasonable costs and charges in or about the performance of this my present Will and Testament." The abovesaid Richard Somerscales, got his estate by labour, being first a poor Shepherd, and towards his latter end a Waller. [Lord Oxford's collection of MSS., British Museum, No. 797.] He died AprU 8, 1618. In 1651, one Daniel Greenwood, who was then a feoffeei in trust, made oath, that the proportion for Halifax town, being four pounds thirteen shillings and four-pence yearly, had been truly paid to that time, and that the lands, from whence the said monies came, lay at the Espes, near Mount Pellan, in Halifax. The other estate, according to Mr. Wright, is at Bradshaw-Lane-Ends, in Ovenden. Dec. 26, 1664, the feoffees then in trust, being for Halifax, Daniel Greenwood, John Bretcliffe, and Thomas Eigg ; and for Ovenden, John lUingworth, James Bates, and Abraham Brigg, executed to each other reciprocally, articles of agree-; ment, that it might be certainly known, how much of Richard Somerscales' charity ought to be distributed to the poor of Halifax, and how much to the poor of Ovenden ; in which it was agreed, that so much of the premises as lay ¦within the township of Ovenden, should belong to the poor of Ovenden, and so much as lay within the township of Halifax, should belong to the poor of Halifax. This agreement, it ought to be observed, divides the body, which, according to the donor's Will, should consist of six feoffees, seized jointly of all the premises, both in Ovenden and Halifax, into two distinct bodies, each acting separately from the other ; it remains, therefore, to be considered, how far these agreements are valid, and whether they do not affect later conveyances, &c., relating to this charity. In 1710, Abraham Brigg conveyed to Messrs. Skelton and HALIFAXIENSIS. 49 Stott, as Trustees for Ovenden ; and by deed, dated January 19, John Batley, Thomas Rigg, John Holroyd, Samuel Steed, William Chamberlain, Jonathan Steed, Thomas Holden, and Robert Butterfield, were put in trust ; but why so many were appointed, or whether it was for Halifax only, we can not say. The estate in Ovenden, belonging to this charity, was, in 1738, and had been for eighty years before, let for three pounds a year ; that in Halifax for six pounds. The following is on a stone on the west wall of Halifax Church. "Mr. Richard Somerscales, of Halyfax, who died April the 8th, A.D. 1613, and who, by his last will, gave all his lands in Halyfax and Ovenden (after the decease of his sister) to the poor of the said towns for over, amongst whom he gave forty shillings to his sister's husband for the term of his life." .EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF JANE CROWTHER, OF HALIFAX. Dated Jan. 18, 1613. I give, devise, and bequeath unto John Favour, Doctor of Laws, and Vicar of Halifax, Samuel Lister, of Southouram, William Slater, George Bentley, WUliam Whitaker, and Humphry Drake all of Halifax aforesaid. Yeomen, and their heirs, for ever, one annuity or yearly ren^t of eight pounds, of lawful money of England, yearly, issuing and to be levied of, in, and forth of aU that the manor, lord ship, or grange of Arnforth, or by what other name or names soever the same is called, with the appurtenances, in the town, to^wnship, and parish of Long Preston, and all the lands, houses, tenements and hereditaments thereunto belonging, which rent I late had and purchased,, to me, my heirs and assigns for ever, of John Pudsey, of Arnforth, Gent, with my whole power and authority to distrain of and for the same, and all sums of money and penalties to be forfeited nomine poense for non-payment of the same, or any 50 BIOGRAPHIA part thereof, of intent and purpose that they and their heirs shall for ever dispose, bestow, and employ the aforesaid annuity, or yearly rent of eight pounds, and every part thereof for and towards the maintenance of one School and School-master, who shall teach the children of the poorest people of Halifax to read and learn their Catechisms, thereby to know their duties towards God, and enable them the better unto several services in the Church or Common-wealth. Item, I do give and devise the sum of ten pounds, to be lent from time to time, for ever, to the godliest aftid poor people of Halifax, the securing whereof so to remain for ever to the disposition and discretion of my Executors and Over seers." Jane Crowther was buried Jan. 24, 1613. In 1651, fifty- two pounds of these rents were behind, and a great deal of money spent in suing for the same. The Trustees were constrained to release the said annuity, and to take an 100 pounds in lieu thereof, which sum of one hundred pounds was, by Samuel Lister and Humphrey Drake, put to _ interest to John Greenwood, of Elfabrough-hall, in Sowerby, who repaid it, and it was, by the consent of Thomas Lister, of Shibden-hall, Executor to the said Samuel Lister his father, put out for eight pounds yearly to Joseph Lister, his late brother, and one Jonas Peverson, the said 'Thomas taking bond for the same in his own name. Joseph, during the life, paid the said eight pounds yearly to the School-master, and Thomas paid it also for one year after the death of the said Joseph, which happened Dec. 27, 1644 ; but at the Inquisition taken at Halifax, Feb. 16, 1651, it was found that the said Thomas Lister had not paid the yearly interest of eight pounds to the then School-master for five years last past, but that he had paid the said School master, Thomas Marshal, five pounds yearly, which he said was of his own free will, and not any part of the interest of the said hundred pounds ; this caused a bUl to be filed in Chancery against the said Thomas Lister, complaining, thafi the Devisee of the Will of Jane Crowther had sold or conveyed away, the yearly rent of eight pounds, by her left to the use already mentioned, or had otherwise granted and released the same to the tenant of the land charged with the payment thereof, and had accepted of the sum of one hundred pounds for the same, which sum had been let out to interest for some HALIFAXIENSIS. 51 time, and the profits thereof imployed as directed ; but after wards the said Devisees severally dying, and Samuel Lister, the survivor of them, before his death, receiving in the said hundred pounds, Tho. Lister, his heir and executor, had put out the same to interest, and taken security in his own name, refusing to re-pay the said hundred pounds, or any interest for it, or to secure the same for the charitable use for which it was left, and praying for relief. To these complaints we have seen no other reply than what is contained in an Indenture, dated May 16, 1657, between the said Thomas Lister of the one part, and Henry Power of Halifax, Doctor in Physic, Samuel Lister, of Shib den-hall, son and heir apparent of the said Thomas Lister, Eobert HaU, of Booth-town, and Samnel Mitchel, of Halifax, of the other part, wherein it is said that the Trustees of the Will of Sarah Crowther, or some of them, did grant away their estate, interest, and right in and to an annuity of eight pounds a year, by her left for the sum of one hundred pounds ; and that Samuel Lister, father of the said Thomas, did put out the said sum of one hundred pounds at interest, in the name of the said Thomas Lister, as heir to the surviving Trustee, and that the said Thomas, endeavoring to have put to interest the said sum, for the advantage of the school to which it was left, the creditors in whose hands it was, died, and their heirs and executors became insolvent, whereby the legacy was lost ; in regard, however, that the said sum was so let out as aforesaid, and in full satisfaction for the same, the said Thomas Lister did, by this Indenture, for and from him, his heirs and assigns, grant and confirm to the said Henry Power, &c. one annuity, or yearly rent charge of five pounds, out of a messuage, or tenement, in Southouram, with lands, &c. thereto belonging, called the Haines, to hold to them, their heirs and assigns, in trust for the purposes mentioned in the Will of the said Sarah Crowther, and to be for ever payable, at, or in, the south porch of Halifax, at the Feasts of Pentecost, and St. Martin the Bishop, in winter, by equal portions, with power of distress in case of non-pay ment for twenty days ; and in case no distress could be found and the said annuity was unpaid for forty days, to enter and take the profits of the said tenements, till the arrear was paid. At an Inquisition executed at Halifax, May 14, 1719, it was found that the above rent had been duly paid and applied 52 BIOGEAPHIA to the charitable use ; that all the Grantees of the said rent were dead, and that Samuel Lister survived his said Grantees his cousin and heir being James Lister, of Shibden-hall, Gentleman, whereupon the Commissioners decreed, that the said James Lister, should convey the said yearly sum of five pounds to Samuel Stead, John Eamsden, Thomas Butterfield, Daniel Whitaker, Thomas Drake, Joseph Ellis, John HiU- house the elder, Abraham Milner, and James Edwards aU of Halifax, and to their heirs and assigns, for the use of the said school, according to the WUl of Jane Crowther. In obedience to which l3ecree, the said James Lister did, by Indenture, dated October 21, 1721, convey the same to the Trustees last named, except John HiUhouse and James Edwards, who were then dead, with a clause, that when any five of them should die, the survivor or survivors should, within three months after, at the request of Jonathan Stead and John Caygill, of Halifax, (made parties in the Deed,) their Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, and the major part of the Governors of the late Nathaniel Waterhouse's workhouse in Halifax aforesaid, for the time being, for ever, grant and assign over the said yearly rent to such other nine persons of Halifax, their heirs and assigns, as the said Jonathan Stead and John Caygill, their Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, and the major part of the said Governors should nominate and appoint, in trust, for the purposes mentioned in the WUl of Jane Crowther. In the year 1761, we were particularly informed, that after no application for near thirty years, Jane Crowther's charity was then well managed by the acting Trustees ; that the School was kept in part of the Alms-houses given by Jane Crowther and EUen Hopkinson, and the Master duly paid ten pounds a year, for teaching twenty poor chUdren to read, write, and say their Catechism. ISABEL MAUD, Of Halifax, Widow, gave by Will, dated June 12, 1614, to the School in the Alms-houses in Halifax, ten pounds, for the buying of some annuity towards the maintenance thereof, to be disposed by the Overseers of her last WUl, who were Dr. Favour, Samuel Lister, Samuel Mitchel, and John Clough. Also to the poor of the town of HaUfax eight pounds to be lent, from year to year, to four Tradesmen for ever ; and HALIFAXIENSIS. 53 that her Overseers, or the most part of them, should take such order thii.t the continuance thereof might remain. The above is entered in Halifax Register. She also gave twenty pounds to Coley Chapel, but for what purpose we have not seen-. Halifax Inquiries, wrote Iiy Mr. Brea,rcliff'e. Query : if she was not widow of John Maud, of Halifax, who gave in 1608, one hundred and twenty one pounds four shiUings to pious uses, but in what particular manner is now unknown. RICHARD NICALL, Of Halifax, gave by WUl, dated March 20, 1617, to Robert Law and Thomas Houlden, and their heirs, as feoffees in trust, a yearly rent of thirteen shillings and four-pence for ever, out of an house and certain lands in Halifax, to be, by and with the consent of the Church-wardens for the time being, paid to the most needful poor of Halifax town. Mr. Wright, p. 114, says this house and lands lie at Mount-Pellon, quoting Mr. Brearcliffe for his assertion, but I can find nothing of this in his manuscript, which only says farther that the money was detained by Richard Nicall, the son, who was Executor to his father. JOHN BOYES, Clerk, Minister of Halifax Church, gave by Will, dated July 14, 1619, the sum of eight pounds, to he lent to the poor of Halifax, at the discretion of his Overseers, or the greater part of them, mz. Dr. Favour, WiUiam Boyes, his brother, John Boyes, of Halifax, Humphry Drake, Samuel Lister, John Whiteley, and William Whitaker. Halifax Eegister, An. 1620. ALICE HAWARTH, Widow, (as appears from an inquisition taken at Halifax, February 16, 1651,) gave by her last Will, dated February 6, 1622, the sum of twenty pounds to be paid by her Execu tors to Anthony Foxcroft, and others, to purchase lands or rents, and with the assistance of the Church- wardens of Halifax, to distribute the profits thereof, amongst the poor, impotent, and aged people of the said town. 54 BIOGRAPHIA And by the said Inquisition it was found, that Abraham Parkinson, and Ellen his wife, were Executors of the said WiU, which Abraham acknowledged the said twenty pounds to be in his hands, also that neither principal nor considera tion had been paid, though the said Alice had been dead twenty-eight years ; alledging for himself, that he was never required by the said Anthony Foxcroft, or others in the WiU named, to pay in the same ; in respect, however, that the same had continued so long in his hands, he was willing to pay, in lieu thereof, the sum of twenty-five pounds, or else, by good and sufficient assurance, to convey to the said Anthony Foxcroft, and such other persons as the Commis sioners should think meet, and their heirs, one annuity or rent charge of twenty-five shillings to be issuing out of his- lands and tenements in Halifax for ever. The Commissioners therefore did decree, that the said Abraham Parkinson should paj' to the said Anthony Foxcroft, Richard Blacket, John Brearcliffe, and Robert AUenson, of Halifax, or some of them, the sum of twenty-five pounds,. before the twenty-fourth day of June next following, and that they, as Trustees, should purchase with the same, to- them and heirs, for the use of the poor of HaUfax, and according to the intent of the last WiU and Testament of the- said Alice Hawarth, one annuity or rent charge of twenty- five shillings, or else some lands or tenements of the same annual value ; or else the said Abraham Parkinson was to- make to them the like conveyance and assurance. In obedience to which Decree, Abraham Parkinson did, by his Indenture, executed August 25th, in the year 1652, give- and confirm to the said Anthony Foxcroft, Richard Blacket, John Brearclifl'e, and Eobert AUenson, then- heirs and assigns,. for ever, as Trustees of Alice Hawarth's charity, one annuity or yearly rent of twenty-five shillings, issuing forth of aU that one messuage, or tenement, and of aU houses, barns, buildings, and gardens thereto belonging, lying on the south side of a lane leading from Goldsmith's grave to Brainth- waites on the moor ; and also four closes of land, all adjoin ing to the south side of the said lane, some of them adjoining on the said house, payable yearly at the Feasts of St. Martin and Pentecost. This farm is called Parkinson Houses, and was the property of Mr. Samuel Stead, of Rochdale. I have heard of no new HALIFAXIENSIS. 55 deed since that of Parkinson's. The minutes of the above Inquisition, wrote by Mr. Brearcliffe, were in the hands of the late Mr. Valentine Stead, of Nottingham. GODFREY WALKER Gave forty shillings a-year, for ever, to the Vicar of Hali fax, for a sermon to be preached in Commemoration of him, in the parish church of Halifax, in the month of April, for ever. He was buried April 4, 1633. This account is taken from Mr. Wright, p. 114. A paper which I met with in the box belonging to the Trustees of Crowther and Hopkinson's charity says, that Henry Riley, of London, Esq ; by Will, (confirmed by Gill's bargain and sale), gave forty shillings per annum, for ever, to the Vicar of Halifax, for a sermon to be preached in com memoration of Godfrey Walker, and Catharine his wife, in the parish church of Halifax, in the month of April, for ever, to be paid on the third Wednesday in April, yearly, out of a tenement called Netherhouse, in Hipperholme-cum- Brighouse. ANN SNYDALL, Of HaUfax, gave by WUl, dated June 23, 1638, twenty shillings yearly, for ever, to have a sermon preached in Halifax church, every St. Peter's Day, by the 'Vicar or his substitute. A manuscript, however, in our possession, on what au thority we know not, says, this sermon was to be preached on that day, wherein, in the revolution of the year, it should fall out that she should be buried, if it be not on the Lord's Day, and if it be, then the day after. She was buried June 29, 1638. The word Substitute, in this Will, seems to mean the Vicar's Curate, or any Clergyman whom the Vicar may think proper to substitute in his place, to preach the said sermon ; but Mr. BrearcUffe says, this substitute, we (the Enquirers into Halifax Charities in 1651,) conceive to be none other than whatsoever Minister is substituted in the room of the Vicar for the Ministry of Halifax, which John Ryall, the Executor of the said Testatrix, well knowing, did, in the years 1643 and 1644, pay unto Mr. Roote, then Minister of 56 BIOGRAPHIA the same place, the said sum of twenty shillings, according to the true meaning of the said Will and Testament. Afterwards, the said John Ryall refused to pay the same,. because there was no Vicar or Substitute at Halifax resident there, but a Stipendiary Minister. This explains the passage in Mr. Brearcliffe's manuscript, where he says, that the money in 1651, rested in John EyaU's hands. Mr. Wright, p. 87, says that with Mrs. Ann Snydall's legacy of twenty pounds, and some addition of Vicar Hooke's (which was eleven pounds), the close behind the Vicarage-house was purchased. The inhabitants of Sowerby gave towards this seven pounds ten shillings, for Dr. Hooke's consent to their having a licence from the Archbishop of York to bury and baptize at Sowerby Chapel. The close was purchased in 1668, of one Nicholas Elberke, of Halifax, as appears by a Deed made by him to Feoffees in trust for the Vicars of Halifax. NATHANIEL WATERHOUSE, Of Halifax, is the next benefactor in order of time, but to give a proper account of his charities, we must go back to what is called the Corporation Charter of Halifax, or the Letters Patent which he obtained of King Charles the First, in these words : " Charles, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whom these presents shall come greeting. Whereas by the humble petition of our well-beloved and faithful Subjects, the inhabitants of the town and parish of Halifax, in the county of York, we are given to understand that the said town of Halifax being anciently and yet a place of great clothing, most of the inhabitants within the same town and parish being Clothiers, is now of late much im poverished, and like to be ruined, by reason of the great multitude of poor people there daily increasing, which hath occasioned many able men within the said town and parish to remove from thence to other places, being oppressed with the heavy burden of the assessments towards the mainten ance of the poor within the said parish, there being above forty pounds paid monthly to the poor there, and most HALIFAXIENSIS. 57 years eighteen or nineteen months assessments collected for one year. And for that Nathaniel Waterhouse, Gentleman, one of the Petitioners, hath given a large house within the said to^wn, to the end the same might be employed for a work house, to set the poor within the said town and parish on work, yet in regard there are no Justices of the Peace -within or near the said town, to govern and well order the said house, (the poor people in the said town and parish being most of them idle and disorderly people, imbezzling or spoU- ing the work brought to them,) the said house is become of no use, but is like to return to the donor, it being not employed according to his intent ; wherefore the inhabitants of the said town and parish have humbly besought us, that we would be graciously pleased to take the premises into our royal and gracious consideration, and to grant unto the Petitioners, that the said house may by our Letters Patent under the Great Seal of England, be made and established a workhouse for ever, for the setting of the poor within the said town and parish on work, by the name of a workhouse for the said poor within the said town and parish of Halifax; and likewise to grant unto the Petitioners, that thirteen of the most able and discreet persons within the said town and parish may be nominated and elected Governors of the said house, by the name of the Master and Governors of the workhouse for the poor within the said town and parish of Halifax, and that the said Master and Governors may be a Body Politic for ever, and may have a perpetual succession ; and that any of our Subjects may have power to give to the said Master and Governors, and their successors, any lands or tenements whatsoever, to the yearly value of one hundred pounds, towards the maintenance of the said workhouse, and that the said Master and Governors, and their successors, may have power to take, receive, and purchase any such lands, tenements, or possessions, so to be given by any of our said subjects, without licence of Mortmain, and that they, or the greater number of them, may have power to make bye-laws and constitutions for the well ordering and govern ing of the said workhouse, and may have power to search any suspected houses within the said town and parish, for idle vagabonds, ruffians, and sturdy beggars, and to take such idle vagrant persons, and sturdy beggars and ruffians, 58 , BIOGRAPHIA as shall be found within any such suspected houses, and to place them in the said workhouse, there to be set on work, and to be corrected and punished according to the good and wholesome laws of this our realm of England. And that we would be further graciously pleased to give unto the Petitioners such further powers, for the well order ing and governing the said workhouse, and the poor people therein to be placed and employed, according to a like Grant made by our late predecessor King Edward the Sixth, for the goveirnment of Bridewell, in the city of London. Know ye therefore, that we, for the considerations afore said, graciously inclining and condescending to the humble suit of the said Petitioners, and being of our own princely inclination willing and desirous to cherish and promote all pious and charitable works of that nature, and to establish the said house according to the good intent and meaning of the said donor, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have made, constituted, ordained, and es tablished, and by these presents, for us, our heirs, and successors, do make, constitute, ordain, and establish, that the said workhouse heretofore given by the said Nathaniel Waterhouse as aforesaid, situate within the said town of Halifax, shall forever hereafter be, and be called by the name of a workhouse for the poor within the town and parish of Halifax, in the county of York, and to that use shall be for ever hereafter employed. And for the better government, ordering, and guiding of the said poor in their employment, and punishing of those that shall be found obstinate and refractory, we further will, constitute, ordain, and appoint, that thirteen of the ablest and most discreet persons in the said town and parish shall be for ever hereafter a body corporate and politic, by the name of Master and Governors of the workhouse for the poor within the town and parish of Halifax, in the county of York. And to the end that this charitable and pious work may take the better effect, we will, and by these presents, for us, our heirs, and successors, of our like especial grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, do grant, ordain, and consti tute, that the said Master and Governors of the said work house, and their successors, for ever hereafter shall be one body corporate and politic of themselves, in matter, deed, HALIFAXIENSIS. 59 and name, by the name of Master and Governors of the workhouse for the poor within the town and parish of Hali fax, in the county of York. We do for us, our heirs, and successors, incorporate them into one body corporate and politic, by the same name for ever to continue really and fully, we do, for us, our heirs .and successors, erect, make, ordain, create, constitute, and establish, by these presents, and that by the same name they may have perpetual succession ; and that they and their successors, by the name of Master and Governors of the workhouse for the poor within the town and parish of Halifax, in the counfy of York, shall and may, for ever hereafter, be able and capable in law to have, purchase, receive, and possess, lands, tenements, rectories, tythes, liberties, priveleges, franchises, jurisdictions, and heredita ments whatsoever, to them and their successors, in fee and perpetuity, or for term of life or lives, or years, or otherwise iowsoever, and also goods and chattels, and all other things whatsoever, of what kind or quality soever they be ; and also to give, grant, lease, assign, and otherwise to dispose the same lands, tenements, and hereditaments, goods, and chattels, as they please, and to do, perform, fulfil, and execute all and other things and matters whatsoever to them belonging and appertaining ; and that by the name of Master and Governors of the workhouse for the poor within the town and parish of HaUfax, in the county of York, they shall and may, for ever hereafter, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in whatsoever Courts and places, and before whatsoever Judges and Justices, or other Officers or Ministers of us, our heu's cr successors, or other persons whatsoever, in all and singular actions, pleas, suits, complaints, causes, matters, and demands whatsoever, of what kind, nature, or form soever they be, in as ample manner and form as any our liege people within this our realm of England, or as any other body corporate or politic within the same. And that the said Master and Governors of the said work house for the poor, within the town and parish of Halifax in the county of York, and their successors, for ever hereafter, shaU have a common Seal, to serve for the causes and business of them and their successors, to be done and executed ; and that it shaU and may be lawful, to and for 60 BIOGRAPHIA the said Master and Governors of the said workhouse, and their successors, for the time being, the same Seal, from time to time, to break, change, alter, and make anew, as to them shall be thought expedient. And further, of our own especial grace, and of our royal authority, certain knowledge, and mere rnotion, we do, for us, our heirs and successors, as much as in us lieth, gi-ye and grant unto the said Master and Governors of the said workhouse for the poor, within the said town and parish of Halifax, and their successors, for ever, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Master aud Governors, for the time being, or the major part of them, at all times, and from time to time hereafter, when and so often as they please to assemble themselves and meet together at the said workhouse in the said town, or in any other convenient place within the said town, and in those assemblies and meetings (when and so ofteii as to them shall be thought expedient, and as necessity shall so require) to ordain, con stitute, and make such fit, wholesome, and honest laws, ordinances, statutes, rules, and constitutions, as shall be expedient for the right government and well ordering of the workhouse, and the poor therein to be maintained and em ployed ; and also full power and authority to examine all and singular persons idly wandering within the town and parish of Halifax aforesaid, and to compel them to labour and work in the said workhouse for their living. And we do also, by these presents, give and grant, for us, our heirs and successors, unto the said Master and Govern ors of the said workhouse for the poor, within the said town and parish of Halifax, and their successors for ever, full power and authority for them, or the major part of them, from time to time, to nominate, appoint, make, and ordain such and so many Officers, Ministers, and Governors under them in the said workhouse, as they, or the greater part of them, shall think fit and meet, who shall, from time to time, oversee and provide, that the poor therein may be well and honestly ordered and provided for, and also to order and govern them in such manner, as to them shaU seem meet and convenient, without the impeachment of us, our heirs or successors. Justices, Escheators, Sheriffs, Ministers, Servants, or other the subjects of us, our heirs or successors whatsoever, any statute, law, or ordinance heretofore made HALIFAXIENSIS. 61 or done, or hereafter to be made or done, to the contrary notwithstanding, so as the said ordinances, laws, rules, and statutes be not contrary or repugnant to the laws and statutes of our realm of England or prerogative royal. And moreover, we will and grant, for us, our heirs and successors, to the said Master and Governors of the said workhouse, for the poor within the said town and parish of Halifax, and to their successors, for ever, that it shall and may be lawful, as well to and for the said Master and Gov ernors of the said workhouse for the time being, aud every or any of them, as to and for such Officers, Ministers, and Governors, as the aforesaid Master and Governors, or the major part of them, shall appoint under their common seal, from time to time, to be Officers, Governors, or Ministers under them, as aforesaid, or any two or more of them, so to be appointed as aforesaid, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, diligently to find out and search (by all the lawful ways and means they can use, whereby they may best come to the light thereof, according to their wisdoms and discretion) all and all manner of taverns, inns, victuall ing-houses, alehouses, diceing and gaming-houses, within the said town and parish of Halifax, as well ¦within liberties as without, and also all and singular suspicious houses or places whatsoever, within the said town and parish, for the discovering and finding out of all and all manner of ruffians, vagabonds, sturdy beggars, idle, vagrant, and suspicious persons, and to apprehend not only such ruffians, vaga bonds, sturdy beggars, idle, vagrant, and suspicious per sons, but also the tenants, masters, keepers or occupiers of such houses or places where such persons shall be found, and upon examination, to be taken by the said Master and Governors for the time being, or any one or more of them, and every of them, into the said workhouse to commit, and there to detain and comi3el them to labour and work as aforesaid, or by any other lawful ways or means to punish, as to them shaU seem meet and expedient, unless the said tenants, keepers, or occupiers of such houses and places can honestly and justly excuse and discharge themselves before the Master and Governors of the said workhouse for the time, being, wherefore such ruffians, vagabonds, sturdy beggars, idle, vagrant, and suspicious persons, be so upheld and cherished by them, or permitted to lie, be conversant, 62 biographia or to frequent their houses, or unless such men and women so suspected, and being vagabond persons as aforesaid, shall sufficiently make it appear, that he, she, or they be of honest and good conversation, and by what means they do maintain themselves, and for what cause they do so wander and daUy frequent such suspicious houses, and such secret and pro hibited places, and also shaU find such sufficient security, that they, and every of them, shall afterwards honestly demean themselves. And furthermore, we do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant to the said Master and Governors of the said workhouse, and their successors, for ever, that it shall and may be lawful, to and for the said Master and Governors for the time being, or the major part of them, from time to time to appoint such correction and order in the premises, as unto them, or the major part of them as aforesaid, shall be thought convenient and most commodious ; and that it shall and may be lawful, to and for every and any of the said Officers, Governors, and Ministers under them, from time to time, to execute and perform the same accordingly, without the impeachment of us, our heirs, and successors. Justices, Escheators, Sheriffs, Ministers, Servants, or other the subjects of us, our heirs and successors whatsoever, any statute, law or ordinance heretofore made or done, or hereafter to be made or done to the contrary notwithstanding. And for the better execution of our will and pleasure in this behalf, we have assigned, nominated, constituted, and made, and by these presents do, for us, our heirs and successors, assign, name, constitute, and make the said Nathaniel Waterhouse to be the first and modern Master of the said workhouse, willing that the said Nathaniel Water- house, in the said office or place of Master of the said work house, shall remain and continue from the time of the taking of his oath of Master, as hereafter in these presents is expressed, until the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, which shaU be in the year of our Lord God, one thousand six hundred thirty and six, and from thence untU a new election shall be made of another Master, in form hereafter mentioned, and he be sworn in form hereafter mentioned in these presents ; and that after the said Feast of St. Michael, HALIFAXIENSIS. 63 which shall be in the same year of our Lord God one flious- and six hundred thirty and six, a new election of another Master shall be made, and oath by him taken, as is expressed ; the said Nathaniel Waterhouse shall be prime Governor of the said worlshouse, next in order to the Master thereof for the time being, during his natural life, unless for ill aberr- ing, or other just cause, he shall be removed from that place or office of Prime Governor of the said workhouse as afore said ; and if the said Nathaniel Waterhouse shall happen to die before the said Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, which shall be anno Dom. 1686, then our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby ordain, that the said twelve Governors for the time being, or the major part of them, shall elect and swear one other of the said Governors to be Master of the said workhouse until the said Feast of St. Michael, which shall be in the year of our Lord God 1636, and from thence until another Master shall be chosen and sworn, as in these presents is hereafter mentioned. And we do further, by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant unto the said Master and ¦Governors of the said workhouse, and their successors for ever, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Master and twelve Governors, or the major part of them for the time being, once in every year for ever, that is to say, on the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel yearly, (if it be not on Sunday, and if Sunday then the next day after,) to elect and choose one of the ablest and discreetest persons of the said twelve Governors of the said workhouse, to be Master of the same for one year then next following, and until another shall be elected and sworn, as hereafter is mentioned ; and a^fter every such election made, and before the person so elected be admitted to the execution of his office, the person so elected, within seven days after, shall take his corporal oath before the Master, and the rest of the Governors for the time being, (or so many of them as will be present), for the due execution of his office of Master of the said Workhouse. And as often as any Master of the said workhouse shall hapx^en to die within and before the expiration of his year wherein he shall be Master, we do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant unto the twelve Governors, or the Major part of them, for the time being. 64 * BIOGRAPHIA full power and lawful authority, from time to time, to elect and choose out of themselves another Master, who being so duly elected and sworn, as hereafter is expressed, shall con tinue Master of the said workhouse until the next ensuing Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next after his election, and from thenceforth until another of the said Governors shall be duly elected and sworn Master of the said work house as aforesaid ; and as often also as it shall happen any Master of the said workhouse, in form aforesaid elected, after his election made, and before his oath taken, to die, or refuse to take the said place upon him, that then, and so often we will, for us, our heirs and successors, that there be the like election forthwith made, and that the person so to be newly elected, taking his oath as is hereafter mentioned, shall execute the place of Master of the said workhouse, in form aforesaid. And we have also assigned, named, constituted, and appointed, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do assign, name, constitute, and make, our well beloved Anthony Foxcroft, Gentleman, Robert Exley, Thomas Binns, John Power, Thomas Radcliffe, Richard Barraclough, Thomas Lister, Simeon Binns, Hugh Ciirrer, Samuel Clough, Samuel Mitchel, and John "Wade, to be the first twelve present and modern Governors of the said work house, to continue in the said place of Governor during their several and respective lives, saving when and for such time only as they shall be Masters, unless they shall be removed as hereafter is mentioned. And we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant unto the said Master and Governors, and their successors for ever, full power aud lawiiul authority, that they, or the major part of them, immediately from and after the decease or removal, as hereafter is mentioned, of any of the said twelve Governors by these presents constituted, or of any other Governor or Governors hereafter to be elected and made, may from time to time elect and choose one or more Governor or Governors in his or their place or stead, which shall so happen to die or be removed, out of the ablest and discreetest inhabitants within the said town and parish; who, within convenient time after his or their election, and before his or their admission into the place of Governor or Governors of the said workhouse, shall take his and their HALIFAXIENSIS. 65 corporal oath before the said Master and surviving Govern ors for the time being, or the major part of them, for the due execution and performance of the said place, and after such oath taken, shall continue Governor, or Governors, of the said workhouse during his and their natural lives respect ively, saving for such time only as he and they shall supply the place of Master of the said workhouse, unless for misbe haviour in his or their place, or places, or other just or reasonable cause he or they should be removed from the same ; and every of them, after the time of his being Master ended, shall return again unto his place of G(jvernor, in the same rank, order and antiquity as he was before ; and if it shall happen that any of the said twelve Governors, by these presents constituted, or hereafter to be elected and sworn, as aforesaid, shall misbehave, or misdemean him or them selves, in his or their said place, or places, of Governor, or Governors, or if there shall be any other just or reasonable cause to remove him, or them, then it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Master, and the rest of the said Governors, or the major of them, for the time being, upon or for such misdemeanors, or other reasonable and just cause, to remove, displace, and put out, any such Governor or Governors, and thereupon in the place and stead of him or them so removed, to elect and swear one or more of the ablest and discreetest of the inhabitants within the said town and i}arish, as the case shall require, to be Governor or Governors of the said workhouse, to continue during his or their natural life or lives respectively, unless for misbe haviour, or other just cause as aforesaid, he or they shall be removed from the same. And so the like course to be held from time to time, when as often as occasion shall be, and also when and as often as it shall happen any Governor or Governors of the said workhouse, after his or their election, and before his or their oath taken, shall die, or refuse to take the said place upon him or them, that then and so often there be a like election forthwith made ; and that the person or persons so to be newly elected taking his or their oath as aforesaid, shall execute the place of Governor or Governors of the said workhouse in form aforesaid. And to the end that justice may be the better done and executed within the said town, and the extents, limits and 66 BIOGRAPHIA precincts thereof, and that the said workhouse and persons therein to be placed and employed may be the better ordered and governed, our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby, for us, our heirs and successors, constitute and appoint, that the said Nathaniel Waterhouse, named for the present -Master, and the said Anthony Foxcroft, being the first named of those appointed to be present Governors, shall be justices of peace, within the said town of Halifax, that is to say, the said Nathaniel Waterhouse for the time that he shall be and continue Master of the said workhouse, and the said Anthony Foxcroft, as Prime Governor, for so long as the said Nathaniel Waterhouse shall continue Master, and after a new Master chosen and sworn as aforesaid, then the said Master for the time being, during his time of being Master, and the said Nathaniel Waterhouse, as Prime Gov ernor, during his life, unless he shall be removed as afore said, shall be Justices of the Peace within the said town and liberties thereof; and so from time to time for ever, after the Master for the time being, during the time of his being Master, and the Governor for the time being next in order to the Master, accordiug as they are in and by these presents named and ranked, and as hereafter they shall be in antiquity by election, during the time of being Prime or next Governor, to be from henceforth for ever Justices of the Peace within the said town of Halifax, and the extents, Umits, and precincts of the same, to do and faithfully to execute all things whatsoever to the place and office of Justice of the Peace belonging, in as ample a manner as any Justice of the Peace within the West-Riding of our said county of York, may or ought to do within the said Riding, according to the laws and statutes of this our realm of England made and provided, and according to the true intent and meaning of these presents, and to send or com mit, when there shall be cause, to the common Gaol or Gaols appointed, or to be appointed for the said Eiding, as other Justices of the Peace there. And our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby, for us, our heirs and successors, will and command the Sheriffs of the said county of York, and their Under Sheriffs, Gaolers, and others, whom in that behalf it shall or may concern, to receive and take all prisoners to be committed by them the said Master and Governor, or either of them, for the time HALIFAXIENSIS. 67 being, into their charge and custody, and them to detain and keep in prison until they shall be discharged by due course of law, which said Justices of Peace for the said Town of Halifax, and every of them, for the time being, before he or they be admitted to execute the office of Justice of Peace, shall also for ever hereafter respectively, according to the laws and statutes in such cases made and provided, each, and every of them take his corporal oath upon the Holy Evange list, (that is to say) the Master for the time being before the last Master, and the rest of the Governors for the time being- or so many of them as will be present, and the Prime Gover nors next in order to the said Master for the time as aforesaid, before the then Master, and the rest of the Governors for the time being, or so many of them as will be personally present, for the due execution of the said office of Justices of the Peace within the said town, during the several and respective times of their being Master and Prime or next Governor respective ly, as aforesaid. And we do hereby give and grant full power and authority unto our well-beloved Sir William Savile, Baronet, John Farrer, Esq; and Henry Eamsden, Clerk, or to any two of them, ¦to administer an oath upon the Holy Evangelist unto the said Nathaniel Waterhouse, for the due execution of the place and office of the Master of the said workhouse, accord ing to the true intent and meaning of these presents, during the time he shall continue Master of the same, and also for the executing the office or place of Justice of the Peace within the said town of Halifax, during the time of his being Master there, according to the laws and statutes in that behalf made and provided. And we do also, by these presents, give like power and authority unto the said Nathaniel Waterhouse, to administer- an oath . upon the Holy Evangelist unto every of the said twelve modern Governors before particularly named, for the due execution of their places respectively, during the time they shaU continue in the same, according to the true intent and meaning of these presents ; and also to administer an oath upon the Holy Evangelist unto the said Anthony Fox croft, for the due execution of the office of Justice of the Peace within the said town of Halifax, during the time he shall continue prime or next Governor, as aforesaid, according to the laws and statutes in that behalf made and provided. 68 BIOGRAPHIA And these our Letters Patents, or the enrollment thereof, shall be unto the said Sir WilUam SavUe, John Farrer, and Henry Eamsden, and unto every of them, and unto the said Nathaniel Waterhouse, and unto the succeeding Masters and Governors of the said workhouse, for the time being, and unto every of them, a sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalf. And further we will, and by these presents, for us, our heu-s and successors, do grant unto the Master and Governors of the said workhouse, or to their successors, for ever, that if any person or persons inhabiting within the same town or ]3arish of Halifax, and being unto the offices or places of Master or Governor of the said workhouse, in due and la-wful manner elected and chosen, according to the true intent of these presents, and ha-ving thereof notice to him or them respectively given, shall deny or refuse to have, hold, or take upon him, or them, the execution of the said offices or places of Master, Governor, or Governors of the said workhouse respectively, that then, and so often, and in every such case, it shall and may be lawful to and for the Master and Gover nors of the said workhouse for the time being, or the major part of them, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, to tax, assess, and impose upon all and every such person and persons so as aforesaid refusing to have, hold, and take upon him or them the execution of such office or place as aforesaid respectively, such reasonable fines, for the contempt and offence in that iDehalf, as to them the Master and Gov ernors of the said workhouse, for the time being, or the major part of them, shall be thought meet and convenient. And further, that it shaU and may be lawful to and for the Master and Governors of the said workhouse, for the time being, the same fines so taken and imposed, to levy, have, and receive, from time to time, by distraining of the goods and chattels, and cattle of such persons so refusing, to the use. of the Master and Governors of the said workhouse, for the time being, or otherwise to sue for the same by action of debt, information, bill, or plaint, in any of our Courts of Eecord, or other Courts, in the name and to the only use and behoof of the said Master and Governors of the said workhouse for the time being, and their successors for ever. And further we -will, and for us, our heirs and successors, do give and grant, by these presents, unto the said Master HALIFAXIENSIS. 69 and Governors of the said workhouse for the poor within the town and parish of Halifax, in the county of York, and to their successors for ever, special license and free and lawful power and authority to have, purchase, and possess to them and their successors for ever, in fee and perpetuity, or for time of life, lives, or years, or otherwise howsoever, messuages, lands, tenements, rectories, tythes, rents, reversions, liberties, privileges, franchises, jurisdictions, and other hereditaments, as well of us, our heirs and successors, as of any other person or persons whatsoever, which are not holden of us, our heirs or successors, in capite, or by Knight's service, or of any other person or persons by Knight's service whatsoever, so that the said manors, lands, tenements, rectories, tythes, rents, reversions, or other hereditaments, do not exceed in the whole the clear yearly value of one hundred marks, over and above all charges and reprizes, and over and above the said workhouse, with the appurtenances. And also we will, and for us, our heirs and successors, do give and grant by these presents, unto all and every person and persons ¦whatsoever, like licence, and free and lawful power and authority to give, alien, sell, dispose, and convey unto the said Master and Governors of the said workhouse, and to their successors for ever, in fee, or perpetuity, or for term of life, lives, or years, or otherwise howsoever, messuages, lands, tenements, rectories, tythes, rents, reversions, liberties, privileges, franchises, jurisdictions, and other hereditaments, and also all goods and chattels, of what kind or quality so ever they be, according to the true intent and meaning of these presents, the statute of lands and tenements not to be put in Mortmain, or any other statute, act, ordinance, or pro-vision heretofore had, done, obtained, or provided, or any other matter, cause, or thing to the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding. And we will and grant, by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, to the said Master and Governors, and their successors for ever, that these our Letters Patents, or the Enrollment thereof, shall be unto all and every the said Master and Governors of the said workhouse, for the time being, and their successors for ever, a sufficient warrant and discharge for the doing, executing and performing of aU and singular the premises, according to the true intent and meaning of these presents, although express mention of the p 70 BIOGRAPHIA true yearly value or certainty of the premises, or any of them, or of any other gifts or grants by us, or by any of our pro genitors or predecessors, to the said Master and Governors of the workhouse for the poor within the town and parish, of Halifax, in the county of York, heretofore made in these presents, is not made, or any statute, act, ordinance, provi sion, proclamation, or restraint to the contrary thereof here tofore had, made, ordained, or provided, or any other thing, cause, or matter whatsoever in any wise notwithstanding. In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents. Witness ourself at Canterbury, the fourteenth day of Sep tember, in the eleventh year of our reign. WOLSELEY." N.B. — As the original of the above is supposed to be lost, this is printed from a careful comparison of several copies. It may be worth remarking that the origiual was produced at Halifax to the Commissioners of Pious Uses in the year 1719, as appears from an Inquisition by them signed relating to the workhouse there. The Letters Patents thus obtained, the IMaster, Prime Governor, and modern Governors therein named, did qualify themselves for their respective offices, October 9, 1635. The form of the Master's oath, used on this occasion, was, "You shall duly execute the office and place of the Master of the workhouse for the poor, within the town and parish of Halifax, in the county of York, according to the true intent and meaning of his Majesty's Letters Patents, during the time you shaU continue Master of the said workhouse." And changing the term Master for Governor, the Govern or's oath the same. October 12, 1635, a warrant was granted by Sir William Savile, Baronet, and Henry Eamsden, Clerk, requiring the Churchwardens and Overseers within the town and parish of Halifax, to assess and gather of the inhabitants within the said town and parish, six months assessments for the poor, according to the monthly assessment then assessed upon the said inhabitants, over and above the assessments already then assessed, and to pay the same to the Master and Governors of the workhouse, because there wanted a convenient stock for the setting on work and maintaining of the poor within the said to^wn and parish. HALIFAXIENSIS. 71 At the meeting held Oct. 14, 1685, Treasurers were appointed; and at the Court held October 21, 1635, a Clerk, Overseer, and Beadle were chosen, the workhouse ordered to be -repaired, and a room to be enlarged and made ready therein, for the meeting of the Master and Governors ; the wheels, &c. to be viewed, and the seal of the Castle declared to be the Common Seal for all their business about the said workhouse, till farther order should be taken for changing or altering thereof. At other Courts, orders were made for such as were likely to become chargeable to the town and parish, to be re moved ; such as kept them in their families contrary to order, were fined ; security was taken from all who received any stranger to dwell in their houses, that such stranger should not be chargeable to the town and parish; such as were convicted of swearing, keeping or using gaming-houses, and tippling at unseasonable hours, were fined; such as em bezzled, spouted, or spoiled their work, or were idle, or unruly, or made a practice of begging, were whipped, set to work, or sent to the place of their settlement, and sometimes aUowed only bread and water for several days : And, in short, such strict regulations were made, and put in exe cution for keeping the poor in order, that near seventy different persons from December 9, 1635, when this punish ment was first inflicted, to the 10th of October, 1638, when it seems, for a time, to have ceased, were whipped at the whipping-stock within this workhouse, and some of them repeatedly. December 21, 1635, Sir WilUam Savile, of ThornhiU, Baronet, composed a difference between the Master and Governors of the workhouse, and the inhabitants of HaUfax, by awarding, first, that every man within the parish, for giving of four-pence, should have bond given him by the Master and Governors, that neither they, nor any of their issue, should be chosen Governors without their o^wn con sent, provided they came in before Candlemas following. Secondly, That whereas there was an intention to have six months assessment -within the parish, they should be contented with three months assessment within the whole Vicarage ; and, thirdly, that if any thing there promised could not lawfuUy be done, the Patent should be mended at the charge of the town. 72 BIOGEAPHIA This caused a petition at the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, that the three months assessment appointed by warrant from Sir William Savile, Baronet, John Farrer, Esq., and Henry Eamsden, Clerk, three of his Majesty's Justices, to be paid throughout the whole Vicarage of Halifax, to the Master and Governors, for a stock for the poor, might be released to Heptonstall and Ealand ; but the Court, January 13, 1635, confirmed the warrant, and ordered that such as refused to pay, should be apprehended and carried before a Justice of the Peace, to be bound to appear at the next Sessions. At the Court within the workhouse, January 19, 1635, an acquittance was given to Mr. Eamsden, for seventy-two pounds nine shUlings and eight-pence, by him paid towards procuring the above Letters Patent. This money Mr. Eamsden had received on account of the workhouse, after it was agreed by the Overseers, Church wardens, and several inhabitants of the town and parish, to procure a government to be estabUshed for the setting the poor on work -within the said town and parish, by Letters Patent, and consisting of different benefactions, not left for this particular purpose, but to be employed to good uses in general. Several parishioners excepted against such appUcation thereof, but the matter being referred, by joint consent, to Sir WUliam Savile, on hearing the allegations on both sides, he approved of what had been done. At the Court held January 27, 1685, the Master and Gov ernors agreed to divide the to-wn into five precincts, in which particular members were to make view every month, and give in at the next meeting a particular account thereof, and also to keep privy watch therein once every fortnight at least. The poor in the workhouse, as ordered at the Court held March 23, 1685, were to work every year, between Michael mas and Lady-day, from six in the morning tiU nine at night, having fire and candles at the house charge ; and from Lady-day to Michaelmas, from five tiU eight o'clock, save only in September, when they were to work from moming to night, being aUowed half an hour at breakfast time, and an hour at dinner. Thus was this workhouse regulated and managed, under the inspection of him who gave it, as appears from the HALIFAXIENSIS. 73 original Book of Eules, &c. kept therein, a copy of which was in the possession of the late Mr. Watson, taken from the original, lent by the late Mr. Stead of Nottingham. In this manuscript is a remarkable chasm, from December, 1638, to October 1682, excepting which, it is a continued register of what was done in and about the workhouse, from its first institution, to September 29, 1704, at which time the last entry was made in it. Besides this, there was also a book of accounts, both which were produced at the dispute in 1721, this latter marked A, and the former B. A copy of the will of Mr. Waterhouse next follows. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF HALIFAX PARISH. THE design of the following chapter is to give some account, in alphabetical order, of such authors, and persons of note, as have been born, or have lived, in the parish of Halifax. AINSWOETH, WILLIAM, Curate of Lightcliffe, in this parish, published "Triplex memoriale, or the substance of three commemoration sermons, whereof the titles are these, viz. 1. The memory of the Just. 2. A pattern for pious uses. 3. The fifth beati tude, or the merciful man's blessing. Preached at Halifax in remembrance of Mr. Nathaniel Waterhouse, deceased. Whereunto is added, an extract out of the last Will and Testament of the said Mr. Nathaniel Waterhouse, containing his several gifts and donations for pious and charitable uses. By William Ainsworth,* late Lecturer at St. Peter's, Chester. York, Printed by Thomas Broad, 1650." This book, which contains ninety-six pages in octavo, begins with an epistle dedicatory to the Eight worshipful Sir John Savile, Knight, High Sheriff of the county of York. * His " Marrow of the Bible " is not mentioned here. I have searched for a copy of the " Triplex " for many years, but have never seen one. 74 BIOGRAPHIA Next foUows the Author's Apology to the reverend Dodecasty of Ministers within the vicarage of Halifax, especially to Mr. Eobert Booth, then Minister there. In this he mentions his being related to Mr. Waterhouse. The first of these sermons was preached December 1, 1647, from Psalm cxU. 6. The second, December 6, 1648, from Nehemiah, xin. 14; and the third, December 5, 1649. The two last dedicated to the Eight worshipful Langdale Sunderland, and William Eookes, junior, Esqrs. to whom the Author says "he was bound in those days of his under-hand fortune, wherein (as every bird will have a peck at an owl) he had suffered very foul things from all sorts of hands." This work contains several strong complaints of the poverty of the Clergy in those days; particularly at page 78, where he says, "The Ministry in this Church of England is, for the most part, the poorest trade that any man drives, the inferior sort of Ministers having neither a competency while they live, nor provision made for their families after their death, contrary to the practice of other reformed churches. Every man thinks he is at liberty to pay to the Minister or forbeare, though he be content to be bound in every thing else. Men would have Ministers to burn like lamps, but wUl afford them no oyle to keep in the light ; like Pharaoh's hard task-masters, they think we should make brick without straw." And a little farther, "The poorest Ballad-singer and Piper in the country live better of their trades than Ministers do." We shaU only observe, that if this was the case in the succeeding reign, it is not to be wondered at that so many Curates suffered themselves to be ejected from the Chapels in this neighbourhood. — It is said, that Mr. Ainsworth taught school, notwithstanding which he declares, that by reason of the late civil storms he was as poorly provided of accommodations for study, as Cleanthes was for writing his philosophical notes, when having wrought all day long in the vineyards, he wrote at night on bare stones instead of paper. BEEAECLIFFE, JOHN, An Apothecary in Halifax, where he was born, and where he died of a fever, December 4, 1682, aged 63. He wrote HALIFAXIENSIS. 75 collections relating to the antiquities of Halifax in Yorkshire, a manuscript which the late Mr. Wilson, of Leeds, (Author of the manuscript collections of the lives and writings of English, Scotch, and Irish Historians, their several editions, and where their manuscripts are deposited, now lodged at the Free-school in Leeds) says Mr. Thoresby, the Antiquary, saw in the library at Halifax Church, but to our own knowledge, there has been no such thing there for more than twenty years. The title of one of these papers was, " A particular survey of all the houseinge and lands within the townshippe of Halifax, accordinge to the best information that could be had, taken the 22nd day of November, 1648." This Mr. Brearclifl'e seems to have been fond of collecting together every thing which fell in his way, relating to the affau's of his native town and parish. Amongst the rest, we have twenty pages in folio, in his own hand writing, intitled " Halifax inquieryes for the findeinge out of severall gifts given to pious uses by divers persons deceased. Written December 22, 1651." BENTLEY, WILLIAM, Born in Halifax, and the reputed Author of a book, called " Halifax and its Gibbet Law placed in a true light. To gether with a description of the town, the nature of the soil, the temper and disposition of the people ; the antiquity of its customary law, and the reasonableness thereof; with an account of the Gentry, and other eminent persons, born and inhabiting within the said town, and the liberties thereof." " To which are added, the unparalled tragedies committed by Sir John Eland, of Eland, and his grand antagonists. London, printed by J. How, for William Bentley, at Halifax, 1708." It contains 174 pages in 8vo. The son of the above William Bentley caused another to be printed at Halifax, by P. Darby, in 1761. The first edition is that which Wright, in his History of Halifax, quotes by the name of the Old Gibbet-law Book. It leads off with a short dedication to the Duke of Leeds, signed by WiUiam Bentley, from whence many have con cluded, that he was the author of it ; but there is reason to believe that it was -wrote by one Dr. Samuel Midgley, of Halifax. Next foUows a preface. 76 BIOGEAPHIA Chapter I. contains a short description of Halifax, and the origin of its name ; encomiums on its air, and the church, and how, and when the rectory became impropriate, with the number of chapels under the said church, and an account of the Free Grammar-school near the town, and some observations on the trade of Halifax. Chapter II. treats of the Gibbet-law. Chapter IIL contains a narrative of the manner of trying felons at Halifax, and executing of them at the Gibbet. Chapter IV. gives an account of eminent persons within the precincts of Halifax, concluding with a catalogue of the Vicars of Halifax church. To all which is added a piece, called, "Revenge upon Revenge, or an historical narrative of the tragical practices of Sir John Eland of Eland, High Sheriff of the county of York, committed upon the persons of Sir Eobert Beamont, and his alliances, in the reign of King Edward III, together with an account of the revenge which Adam the son of Sir Eobert Beamont, and his ac complices, took upon the persons of Sir John Bland, and his posterity." This William Bentley was Clerk of the i^arish church of Halifax. BENTLEY, ELI, Was born in the township of Sowerby, in this parish, at an house called Bentley Hollins. Calamy, vol. ii. page 804, says, that he was Fellow of Trinity College, in Cambridge ; that in August, 1652, he became assistant to Mr. Booth, at Halifax, and after his death continued alone till August, 1662. He fled before the Five Mile Act, but in 1672 re turned to Halifax, and preached in his own house. He died July 31, 1675,'aged 49. The character which this Author gives of Mr. Bentley, is, that he was a man of good parts, a solid, serious Preacher, of a very humble behaviour, and very useful in his place ; that he- lived desired, and died lamented. On his death bed he thus expressed himself to a particular friend: "God will take a course, with these unreasonable men, that require such terms of communion, as a man can not with a safe conscience subscribe to." HALIFAXIENSIS. 77 He was Author of an explanation of one of St. Paul's Epistles, which was printed, but is now very scarce. It is so scarce, that we have some suspicion he has mistaken this name for that of J. Booth, [? Boyse,] mentioned below. For the inscription over Mr. Bentley's remains, see the epitaphs belonging to Halifax Church. BENTLEY, BRIAN, Was buried at Halifax, June 9, 1679, where he had lived with the character of being a good Poet ; but for our own part, we can say little to this, having never seen any com position of his, either in print or manuscript. BEEEETON, EOBEET, Published a Sermon from Ecclesiastes xii. 13. entitled, " The great duty of fearing God, and keeping his command ments, with their advantage (if duly observed) to mankind, while on earth, preached in the Chapel of Luddenden, May 24, 1741. — Leeds, printed by James Lister." Mr. Brereton (who was, in 1778, one of the joint Eectors in Liverpool) was at that time Curate of Luddenden, and Chaplain to Colonel Houghton's Eegiment. Before the Sermon, is a short Address to the inhabitants of Midgley, Luddenden and Warley, in which he tells them that his sincere desire to promote virtue and holiness, was the reason of its being sent amongst them. BEIGG, HENEY, Was born at an house called Daisy Bank, adjoining to War- ley Wood, (not as a Wood has expressed it, in an obscure hamlet, called Warley Wood.) His life has been wrote iu Latin by the Eeverend Dr. Thomas Smith. Also by the late Dr. Ward, in his lives of the Gresham Professors, page 120, who sets off with saying, that the time of his birth is uncertain. In Halifax Eegister is the following entry, which we think wiU determine the dispute : " Henricus, filius Thome Bridge de Warley, bapt. 28, Feb. 1560." The different spelling of the name will make no alteration, if it be considered how little care was used to be taken in this respect, and also that 78 BIOGEAPHIA Bridge is generally here pronounced Brigg, or Briggs. As for other particulars relating to this very learned, and useful man, we refer the Eeader to the Author above-mentioned, and to the Biographia Britannica, where he will receive ample satisfaction. BEOWN, SIE THOMAS, Is said, in Bentley's History, page 89, to have fixed himself in this parish, in his juvenile years, as a Physician, and to have wrote here, his fieligio Medici. Wright, page 152, asserts the same, adding, that he com posed this Piece at Shipden-hall, near Halifax, where he lived about the year 1630. Whence these Anecdotes were obtained we cannot say, for little or no tradition of this sort remains there now. Mr. Watson, late Eector of Stockport, had an edition of his Works in folio, printed at London, in- 1686, and Wright quotes another at London, in 1736. The first of these has an engraved head prefixed to it, done by Eobert White, and underneath these arms: — Argent, two bendlets sable, between as many ogresses. Por crest, on a Knight's helmet, with open beaver, a wreath, above all, a lion sedant. BOSCO, JOHANNES DE SACEO. Bentley, page 49, and Wright, page 137, have both mentioned this great Mathematician, &c. as a native of this parish. The first of these, we believe, depended upon report, and the second on what he read in Leland's Commentary de Scriptoribus Britannicis, page 353. But the conjecture there is certainly built on a wrong foundation, that Sacrobo- scus is the same as Halifax ; for this may signify holy face, or holy hair, but cannot mean holy wood, nor did we ever see this name in any deed relating to Halifax parish. We should be glad to shew, that Halifax was really the birthplace of this valuable man, for, as ten cities are said to have laid claim to Homer, the writers even of three kmgdoms have contended for this extraordinary genius. Leland, as above, that he was an Englishman, and Thoresby, in his Topography, page 194, affirming that he lay on his back on the hill at Halifax, to observe the motion of the stars, when HALIFAXIENSIS. 79 he wrote his celebrated book, De Sphrera. Dempster assert ing that he was a Scotchman ; and Stanihurst, and others, that he was born at Dublin. If Halifax parish has any right to him, the most likely place for him to be born at, is, we think, in Southouram, where is now the Chapel in the Groves, for we take that to have been used as a place for the exercise of Eeligion in very early times, perhaps as far back as that of the Druids. — If Ireland gave him birth, he came from Holy-wood, in the county of Dublin ; and if he had his name from any part of Scotland, it was from the Monastery called Sacer Boscus, or Halywood, mentioned in the Monasticon, vol. ii. page, 1057. The Corporation Seal at Halifax, had a virgin hung in a tree by her hair, and a man holding up a globe in his hand, the first aUuding to the common story of the young woman being put to death by the Monk ; and the second, to the above John's treatise on the Sphere ; it was a little unfortu nate that the first of these is a disputed fact, and that the latter lays claim to a man who probably was never in Halifax parish in his life. BOYSE, JOHN, Was Preacher at Halifax Church in the time of Dr. Favour, the Vicar there. He was born in or near Halifax, and left a legacy to the jJoor there. It does not appear that any thing he wrote was printed, but in Thoresby's Museum (see Topo graphy, page 539.) was a Manuscript Catechism of his, wherein he catechized the congregation at Halifax ; and his principles for the poor people there. BOIS, WILLIAM, Born in Halifax, and, according to the custom of the time and place, instructed in music and singing, wherein he after ward attained to great proficiency. His education was at Cambridge, and having a dislike to Popery, he was obliged to retire to some place of safety in the reign of Queen Mary, and he seems to have pitched upon Nettlestead, near Hadley, in Sufi'olk, where, though he was in Orders, he took a farm, and lived as a Layman, marrying there Mirable Poolye, a Gentlewoman of good family, who survived him about ten years. 80 BIOGEAPHIA In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Mrs. Bois urged her husband to aot in the Ministry ; on which account he took upon him to serve the Cure of Elmesett, near Hadley ; and, after the death of the Incumbent, was presented by the Lord Keeper, to the Eectory ; and not long after to the Eectory of West Stow, at the presentation of his brother-in-law, Mr. Poolye. He died in the 68th year of his age. He had several children by his wife, but none lived any considerable time but one, who proved an ornament to his country, viz. Dr. John Bois, born Jan. 3, 1560, who had a considerable hand in the present translation of the Bible, and the sketch of whose life may be seen in Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, lib. viii. page 88. In this sketch we are further told, page 40, that the Doctor's father was a great scholar, being exceUently well learned in the Hebrew and Greek, which, considering the time he lived in, was almost a miracle. BOOTH, EOBEET, First Curate of Sowerby Bridge, afterwards Minister of Halifax, where he was buried July 28, 1657. In Bentley's History of Halifax, page 81, we are told, " that this Mr. Booth, was a man of that worth and excel lency in learning and divinity, that he deserted the title of another ApoUos, and seemed, like Jeremiah, and the Baptist, to be separated from the womb to the ministerial office ; so temperate and healthful, so industrious and indefatigable in the labours of his study, and so divinely contemplative in the exercise of his mind, that he appeared to be made up of virtue, being a stranger to all things but the service of heaven, for when he spoke to his congregation from the pulpit, it was with that power of truth, and elegance of style, that he' ¦charmed his hearers into love and admiration." BEOOKBANK, JOSEPH, Son of George Brookbank, of Halifax, was entered a Batler in Brazen Nose College, in Michaelmas Term, 1632, aged 20, took a Degree in Arts, went into Orders, and had a Curacy. At lengtli retiring to London he taught a school in Fleet street, and exercised the Ministry there. HALIFAXIENSIS. 81 He published, 1. Breviate of King's whole Latin Grammar, vulgarly called Lilly's ; or a brief grammatical table thereof, &c. London, 1660, Svo. 2, The weU tuned Organ ; or an exercitation, wherein this question is fully and largely dis cussed. Whether or no instrumental and organical music be lawfuUy in holy public assemblies. Affirmatur, London, 1660, 4to. in nine sheets and a half. 3. Eebels tried and cast, in three sermons, on Eomans xiii. 2, &c. London, 1661, 12°- BURTON, THOMAS, Was M.A. and Vicar of Halifax. He published a Sermon preached in the parish church of Halifax, from Psalm xlvi. 10. on Tuesday July 7th, 1713, being the day appointed by her Majesty for a public thanksgiving for the peace. London, 1713, containing 16 pages in 8vo. The principles advanced in this discourse are something extraordinary. At page 7, he says, " Kings receive no authority and power from their subjects, and therefore it is neither reasonable nor just that they should be accountable to them. — Some men are for storming Heaven, and snatch ing God's authority out of His hands, who has declared that by Him Princes reign, and yet they will tell you it is by them they reign, and the plainest Scriptures in the world cannot drive them out of this wicked and blasphemous opinion." Speaking of the peace, he says, "It is such as our allies could reasonably desire ; 'tis a just, and therefore an honour able peace; a peace that answers all the ends j)roposed when we engaged in a most bloody, and expensive war." "We ought thankfully to o^wn, that God overthrew our enemies, and reduced a powerful Prince to sue for peace ; and it would have been hard measure not to have granted it to him on such terms as we, among our little selves, should think it hard to be denied it. To take from him what was his own, would be nothing less than robbery, and to reduce him to such circumstances that he shall not be capable of doing us, and his neighbours mischief, is as much as any honest and good man ought to desire ; and that he is reduced to such circumstances — no man can doubt, but such to whom it is natural to find fault with every thing, and who are of such a querulous temper 82 BIOGEAPHIA as to complain when they are not hurt, and who, rather than to quarrel, "wUl quarrel, even with peace itself, and who endeavour to disturb the nation -with noise and clamour, without either sense or reason." CEABTEEE, HENEY, Sometimes wrote Krabtree, was born, as some have thought, in Norland, as others, in the -rillage of Sowerby, where he was initiated in school learning with Archbishop TiUotson. He has left behind him the character of being a good Mathematician and Astronomer. He published "Merlinus Eusticus, or a Country Almanack, yet treating of courtly matters, and the most subUme affairs now in agitation throughout the whole world. 1. She-wing the beginning, encrease, and continuance of the Turkish or Ottoman Empire. 2. Predicting the fate, and state of the Eoman and Tm-k- ish Empu-es. 3. ForeteUing what success the Grand Seignior shaU have in this his war, in which he is now engaged against the German Emperor. AU these are endeavoured to be proved from the most probable, and indubitable arguments of history, theology, astrology, together -with the ordinary furniture of other Almanacks, by Hem-y Krabtree, Curate of Todmurden, in Lancashire. — London, printed for the Company of Station ers, 1685," COCKCEOFT, WILLIAM, Born, as we take it, at Souterhouse, in Wadsworth, where his father, and elder brother Thomas lived. He was of the famUy of the Cockcrofts, of Mayroyd, in Wadsworth. He was an apprentice in HaUfax, and afterwards a Cadet in Mark Ker's dragoons ; went to America, and married an Indian Lady, and was made Colonel of one of the provincial regiments in the province of New York, which regiment he commanded under Sir WiUiam Johnson, against the French, under M. Deskau, when, in the year 1755, the English arms were cro-wned -with victory. HALIFAXIENSIS. 83 CROWTHER, [JOSHUA,] Was born at Ealand, and was first a Dissenting Minister, afterwards he conformed, and being recommended by Lord Irwin to Archbishop Herrin, he was, by his interest with the Crown, made Vicar of Otley, in Yorkshire. He published a Sermon, but we can give the Reader no account of it. DRAKE, FRANCIS, Lived part of his time in Halifax, and died there. He took the degree of M.A. and published, " The nature of lying and of moral truth, set forth in two sermons, from Ephes. iv. 25, preached in the church of Halifax. Halifax, printed by P. Darby, 1760," forty pages in 4to. preceded by a short address to the Reader. The Author has also wrote a practical expo sition on the church catechism, which is still in manuscript. DEANE, EICHARD. This Richard was son of Gilbert Deane, of Saltonstall, in this parish, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Edmund Jennings, of Silsden, in Craven ; that he was born at Salt- onstaU, and having been educated in Grammatical in his own country, became, at seventeen years old, a Student in Merton College, in 1587, where continuing about five years as a Portionist he retired to Alban-hall, where he took the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, in October, 1592, and that of Master three years after, which was the highest Degree he took in this University. A note, which came from Caermarthen, in Wales, asserted that he had taught School there, but we doubt the truth of it. He was made Dean of Kilkenny, in Ireland, and, in the year 1609, succeeded Dr. Horsfall in the Bishopric of Ossory. He died on the 20th of February, 1612, and lies buried in the Cathedral at Kilkenny, under a marble monument near the Bishop's throne. DEANE, EDMUND, . Brother to the above Eichard, entered a Student in Merton CoUege, in Lent Term, 1591, aged nineteen, where he took 84 BIOGRAPHIA one Degree in Arts, and then retired to Alban-hall, where he became Bachelor and Doctor of Physic. He settled in the city of York, and practised there till about the beginning of the Civil Wars. We have before us a smaU quarto pamphlet of his, in- titled, " Spadacrene Anglica, or the English Spaw-Fountaine; being a brief Treatise of the acide or tart Fountaine, in the Forest of Knaresborow, in the West-Riding of Yorkshire. As also a relation of other medicinall waters in the said forest. By Edmund Deane, Doctor in Physicke, Oxon, dweUing in the city of York." London, 1626. The medicinal water at Haregate (commonly caUed Harrowgate) is here described, and recommended, and it appears that the first person who discovered it to have any quality of this sort, was one Mr. William Slingsby, a Gentle man of a family in this neighbourhood, who, about 1571, having drank of this water, found it to have the same virtues as those at Spaw, in Germany. FAVOUR, JOHN, Born at Southampton, where he was educated in grammatical learning, but finished for the University at Archbishop Wykeham's school at Winchester. He was elected Proba tioner FeUow of New College, in 1576, and two years after was made complete Fellow. June 5, 1592, he proceeded Doctor of the Civil Law, and, according to Wood's Athense, page 487, was made Vicar of Halifax, January 4, 1593. August 1, 1608, he was made Warden or Master of St. Mary Magdalen's Hospital at Eipon. March 28, 1616, he was collated to the Prebendship of Driffield, and to the Cantor- ship of the Church of York. He was also Chaplain to the Archbishop, and Eesidentiary. In the late Mr. Thoresby's Museum (Topography, page 539) were the heads of some Manuscript Sermons, preached at the exercise at Halifax by this Vicar. In the same place were also Manuscript marginal notes upon a very scarce book, called. Fasciculus Temporum, pubUshed about 1485, in the infancy of the art of printing. But his most con siderable composition was a book printed in London in 1619, containing 602 pages in quarto, and intitled, "Antiquitie triumphing over Noveltie ; whereby it is proved, that Anti quitie is a true and certaine note of the christian cathoUcke HALIFAXIENSIS. 85 •church and verity, against all new and late upstart heresies, advancing themselves against the religious honour of old Eome, whose ancient faith was so much commended by St. Paul's pen, and after sealed with the bloud of many martyrs and worthy Bishops of that See. With other necessarie and important questions, incident and proper to the same sub ject." It begins with a dedication to Tobie Matthews, Archbishop of York, wherein it appears, that the work was begun when the author was sixtj' years old, at the desire, and carried on under the encouragement of the said Archbishop. Next foUows an epistle to the readers, wherein, amongst the im pediments to this work, he reckons up preaching every Sabbath-day, lecturing every day in the week, exercising justice in the commonwealth, practising of physic and chirurgery. This serves to confirm what is said of him in Halifax to this day, that he was a good Divine, a good Physician, and a good Lawyer. The Doctor, as an instance of the ignorance of the common people, when the Bible was kept from them, tells us, at page 834, a story of a woman, who, when she heard the passion of Christ read in her own tongue, wept bitterly, and tenderly compassloned so great outrage done to the Son of God ; but after some pause, and recollection of her spirits, she asked, where this was done ? and when it was answered, many thousand miles hence, at Jerusalem, and about fifteen hundred years ago ; " then (says she) if it was so far off, and so long ago, by the grace of God it might prove a lie," and therein she comforted herself. This learned, useful man died March 10, 1023, and was buried in Halifax church. Thoresby, p. 260, says that he married at Leedes, Nov. 12, 1595, Ann, daughter of WiUiam Power, Eector of Berwick, [in Elmete.] See the epitaphs belonging to this church. FARRER, EOBEET, Born in Halifax parish, perhaps at Ewood, for Thoresby, page 196, seems to think that he belonged to the family settled at Ewood, and Wright, page 140, says positively that he was born there. Dr. Johnson, in his Manuscript Collections for Yorkshire, says he left lands to his friends, ,86 BIOGRAPHIA called Threaphead, withm four miles of Halifax, but I know not the situation of it. He became, when a young man, a Canon regular of the Order of St. Austin, but in what priory or abbey is uncertain. Having partly received his academical education in Cam bridge, he retired to a nursery for the Canons of St. Austin, in Oxford, caUed St. Marie's College, situated in the Bayley, where he was in 1526, as also October 14, 1583, when, as a Member of the said College, he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, having a little before opposed in Divinity. About the same time be became Cha.plain to Archbishop Cranmer, after whose example he married, a practice at that time disallowed amongst the Popish Clergy. Willis, in his Survey of the Cathedrals, vol. I, p. 125, says he was the last Prior of Nostel in Yorkshire, to which was annexed the Prebend of Bramham, in York Cathedral, and that he sur rendered his Convent in 1540, and had a pension of £100 per annum allowed him, which he received till his promotion in 1547, or 1548, to the Bishopric of St. David's, where, as WiUis, p. 121, tells us, he became a most miserable dilapi- dator, yielding up everything to craving Courtiers. But this writer, I think, treats his character too severely ; as likewise does A. Wood. In the reign of Edward VI. fifty-six articles and inform ations were laid against him, by George Constantine, Da^vid Walter, his servant, Thomas "Young, (after Archbishop of York,) Eowland Merick, LL.D. (afterwards Bishop of Bang or,) Tho. Lee, Hugh Eawlins, and others. He was, partly on the importunate suit of his adversaries, partly on the fall of the Duke of Somerset, by whom he had been promoted and maintained, detained in prison till the- death of King Edward, and the coming in of Queen Mary, when he was involved in fresh trouble ; for he was now accused, and examined for his faith and doctrine, as he had before been for abuse of the authority committed to him, for ¦wUful negligence, superstition, covetousness, and foUy. February 4, 1555, he was examined before the Bishop of Winchester (who was Lord Chancellor) and others, and being kept in prison uncondemned tUl the fourteenth day of the same month, he was sent down into Wales, there to receive- sentence of condemnation ; and being several times brought before Doctor Henry Morgan, the Popish Bishop of St.- HALIFAXIENSIS. 87 David's, and refusing to renounce his heresies, schisms, and errors, as the said Morgan called them, he was degraded, condemned, and burned at Caermarthen, on the south side of the Market-cross there, March 80, 1555. It was remarkable that one Jones coming to the Bishop a little before his execution, lamented the painfulness of the deatli he had to suffer ; but was answered, that if he once saw him stir in the pains of his burning, he should then give no credit to his doctrine. And what he said he fully performed, for he stood patient ly, and never moved, till he was beat down with a staff. The character of this man, is very differently related, Bishop Godwin asserting, that his ruin was owing to his own rigid, rough behaviour : A. Wood, that his doings were unworthy, and that he was not able to answer the first set of articles exhibited against him. On the other hand. Fox, in his Book of Martyrs, seems clearly of opinion, that the first prosecution against him was unnecessary, and malicious ; and that the second was com menced because he was a Protestant. It is certain that some of the articles which he was put to answer in the reign of Edward VI. were to the last degree frivolous, and shewed themselves to be the offspring of a revengeful mind, such as riding a Scottish pad, with a bridle with white studs and snaffle, white Scottish stirrups, and white spurs — wearing a hat instead of a cap — whistling to his child — laying the blame of the scarcity of herrings to the covetousness of fishers, who, in time of plenty, took so many that they destroyed the breeders ; and lastly wishing, that at the alteration of the coin, whatever metal it was made of, the penny should be in weight worth a penny of the same metal. It is no great wonder, indeed, that malice should shew itself on this occasion, for it seems that two of the chief managers of this persecution. Dr. Young and Dr. Merick, had been removed from their offices by this Bishop, as he writes to the Lord Chancellor, "for their covetous respect to their own glory, and lucre, not regarding the reformation of sin, and especially of shameless whoredom." The fall of the Duke of Somerset, then Lord Protector, to whom he was Chaplain, seems, in fact, to have been his greatest guilt ; it certainly exposed him to the resentment 88 BIOGEAPHIA of those who wished him Ul ; and who, we think, got very little credit to themselves as Eeformers of religion, by their conduct towards him. Amongst the Harleian MSS., (see No. 420, of the Catalogue,) are several papers relating to the trial of Bishop Farrer, not printed in Fox. The book is called the 5th vol. of Mr. John Fox's Papers, bought of Mr. Strype. FLETCHER, NATHANIEL, A Schoolmaster, in Ovenden, in this parish, wrote 1. A Methodist dissected, or a description of their errors. 2. The tradesman's Arithmetic, in which is shewn the rules of common Arithmetic so plain and easy, that a boy of any tolerable capacity may learn them in a week's time, without the help of a Master. Halifax, j).rinted by P. Darby. No date, but it was published in 1761. FOE, DANIEL DE, Being forced to abscond on account of his political ¦writ ings, resided at Halifax, in the Back-lane, at the sign of the Eose and Crown, being known to Dr. Nettleton, the Physic ian, and the Eevd. Mr. Priestley, Minister of the Dissenting Congregation there. Here he employed himself in writing his piece, " De Jure divino," amongst other things ; but in particular he is here said to have composed " The Adventures of Eobinson Crusoe," the subject of which was taken from the papers of Alexander Selkirk, who had been left some time on the uninhabited island of Juan de Fernandas, and had given his memoirs to this Daniel, to methodise, who, instead of doing as his friend desired, struck out this entertaining Novel, and by the pub lication of it prevented Alexander's design of making some advantage from a recital of his adventures. To this, the Author seems to aUude in the Preface to the 3d. vol. called, " Serious Eeflections," when he says, " That there is a man alive, and well known too, the actions of whose life are the just subject of these volumes, and to whom aU or most part of the story most directly alludes, which may be depended upon for truth." HALIFAXIENSIS. 89 GEAHAM, WILLIAM, A Dissenting Mmister, living in Halifax, and late Preacher at Warley chapel, in that neighbourhood, took in Scotland a Degree in Arts. He published a Sermon from Matthew x. 34, which he preached in Kingston upon HuU, June 21, 1758, at the Ordination of the Eev. Mr. John Beverley. London, 1759. The design of it is to vindicate Christianity from the charge of promoting disorders in society, whether civil or sacred; and to enquire whence such arose, and to what causes we must ascribe them. GE^ME, WILLIAM, A Gentleman of fortune, who lived at Heath, in Skircoat, near Halifax, was the Author of "A short Speech addressed to the antient and honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons in a Lodge held at the Eose and Crown, in Halifax, upon Friday, the 24th of June, 1763." Halifax, printed by Brother P. Darby, 1763. — And in the year of Masonry, 5763. GEEENWOOD, DANIEL, D.D. Born in the township of Sowerby ; was first Fellow, and afterwards made Principal of Brasen Nose CoUege, in Oxford, by the Parliament Visitors in 1648, and was Vice Chancellor of that University in 1650 and 1651 ; in this latter year he was at the head of an association for the Parliament, rais ing, at the charge of the Heads of Houses, &c. 120 horse, and allowing the Governor of Oxford to acquaint the Council, that they had engaged to raise a regiment of foot out of the University and city. This place he held no longer than the Restoration, when he was ejected from it. We find him afterwards called Eector of Studley, in Ox fordshire, though Wood, in his " Fasti," says only, that on this event, he and his wife retired to Studley, and continued there in a private condition tUl her death. This Author, under the year 1649, tells us, that this Daniel then took his Degree of D.D. and that he was a severe and good Governor, as well in his Vice ChanceUorship as Principality. 90 BIOGRAPHIA After his wife's death, he lived in the house of his nephew, Mr. Daniel Greenwood, Eector of Steeple-Aston, near Ded- ington, in Oxfordshire, where dying Jan. 29, 1673, he was buried in the chancel of the church there, and soon after had a monument put over his grave with the following in scription, printed in Le Neve's Monumenta Anglicana, vol. I, p. 157, "Memorial Eeverendi, pii, doctiq; Viri DanieUs Greenwood, S.T. ProfesSoris, Sowerbi® in Com. Ebor. nati. Coll. M-a. Na. apud Oxoniense, primo Socii, dein Principalis, et eiusdem Academi® per duos annos Vice Cancellarii ; qui obiit 29 Jan., Anno Dni, 1673, £et. suae 71." GEEENWOOD, DANIEL, Son of John, was born in Sowerby abovesaid, became Scholar of Christ's College, Camb. and in 1648 was made Fellow of Brazen Nose College, in Oxford, by the endeavours of his uncle. Dr. Daniel Greenwood, the Principal of the said College, several Fellows being that year ejected on account of their attachment to the King. In 1653, he was presented by the College to the Eectory of Steeple Aston, in Oxfordshire. He died of an apoplexy at Woodstock, in 1679, and was buried near the grave of his uncle above-named. Over his remains was a table of marble, fixed to the North wall of the chancel above named, with this inscription: "Heic etiam deponuntur reliquife rev. viri Danielis Greenwood, hujus ecclesise per annos xxv Eeotoris, qui singulari erga Deum pietate, pauperes munifi- cente,et omnibus quibus innotuit humanitate feliciter decurso huius vitfe stadio in easiest, patriam festinans, triste sui desiderium moriens reliquit, Oct. xiv. An. Dom. 1679, £et. suffi 51." He published, 1. A Sermon at Steeple Aston, at the funeral of Mr. Franc. Croke, of that place, Aug. 2, 1672, on Isaiah Ivii. 1-2. Oxford, 1680, 4to. 2. A Sermon at the funeral of Alexander Croke, of Studley, in Oxford shire, Esq., buried at Chilton in Bucks, Oot. 24, 1672, on 2 Cor. vi, 7-8, Oxford, 1680, 4to. GUEST, [JOSHUA.] .It is said that General Guest, (who bravely defended Edenburgh Castle against the Eebels in 1745,) was once a HALIFAXIENSIS. 91 servant at the Angel Inn at Halifax, which greatly redounds to his honour, as probably he was promoted for his merit. His parents lived at Lidgate, in Lightcliffe. — See the epitaphs there. [A fuller account will be given in vol. 2.] HARTLEY, DAVID, M.A. Was born at lUingworth, in this parish. His father was Curate there, and married. May 25, 1707, a daughter of the Reverend Mr. Edward Wilkinson, his predecessor. This Curacy Mr. Hartley afterwards resigned for the Cha.pel of Armley, in the parish of Leeds, where he died, and left be hind him eight children. This son David was brought up by one Mrs. Brooksbank, near Halifax, and received his academical education at Jesus College, Cambridge, of whieh he was a Fellow. He first began to practice physic at Newark, in Nottinghamshire, from whence he removed to St. Edmund's Bury, in Su.ffolk. After this, he settled for some time in London, and lastly went to live at Bath, where he died September 30, 1757, aged 53. He left two sons and a daughter. His elder son got a travelling Fellowship, and his younger was entered at Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1757. He pub lished, "A View of the present evidence for and against Mrs. Stephen's Medicines as a Solvent for the Stone, con taining 155 Cases, with some Experiments and Observations." London, 1789. This book, which contains 204 pages in octavo, is dedicated to the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Phy sicians, London, wherein the Author informs that body, that about a year' before, he published some cases and experi ments, which seemed to him sufficient evidences of a dis solving power in the urine of such persons as take Mrs. Stephen's medicines, tho' he did not then enter into the discussion of that point, but left the facts to speak for them selves ; finding, however, that a quite contrary conclusion had been drawn from those instances, and others of a like nature, as if the medicines did not dissolve, but generate stones ; he therefore republishes the same cases and experi ments, with all cases favourable or unfavourable, perfect or imperfect, which he had been able to procure, hoping that he had obviated all objections, and even proved a dissolving power in the medicated urine. 92 BIOGRAPHIA At page 175, of this book, are proposals for making Mrs. Stephen's medicines public, and a list is annexed of the contributions for this purpose, from April 11, 1738, to Feb ruary 24 following, the amount of which was £1387 18s. He was the chief instrument in procuring for Mrs. Stephens the £5000 granted by Parliament. His own case is the 123rd in the above book. He is said to have died of the stone, after having taken above two hundred pounds weight of soap. Mrs. Stephen's medicine was made public in the Gazette, from Saturday June 16th, to Tuesday, June 19th, 1739. James Parsons, M.D., Fellow of the Royal Society, published an octavo, printed in London, 1742, containing " Animadversions on Lithontriptic medicines, particularly those of Mrs. Stephens, and an account of the dissections of some bodies of persons who died after the use of them." In this book are several cases laid down in Dr. Hartley's own words, and afterwards critically examined, in order to shew (particularly from those in whose bladders stones were found after death) that that celebrated medicine had no power of dissolving stones in the kidneys or bladder. And it must be owned, though with regret, that this Writer has succeeded in his proofs. Dr. Hartley is said to have wrote against Dr. Warren, of St. Edmund's Bury, in defence of Inoculation ; and some letters of his are to be met with in the " Pliilosophical Transactions." He was certainly a man of learning, and a reputed good Physician, but too fond of nostrums. The Doctor's most considerable literary production, is a work intitled " Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations, in two parts." London, 1749, 2 vols. octavo. The first part contains " Observations on the frame of the human body and mind, and on their mutual connections, and influences." The work, it seems, took its rise from the Eevd. Mr. Gay's asserting the possibility of deducing all our intellectual pleasures and pains from association, in a dissertation on the fundamental principle of virtue, prefixed to Law's translation of King's origin of evU. The sentiments in this piece, led our Author to enquire into the power of association, and to examine its consequences HALIFAXIENSIS. , 93 in respect of morality and religion, and also its physicial cause, when by degrees many disquisitions foreign to the doctrine of association, or at least not immediately connected with it, intermixed themselves; for this reason, he has added thereto vibrations, and endeavoured to establish a connection between these ; and has taken a great deal of pains to shew the general use of these two in explaining the nature of our sensations. The second part contains " Observations on the duty and expectations of mankind," before which is an introduction, in which he says, that the contemplation of our frame and constitution appeared to him to have a peculiar tendency to lessen the difficulties attending natural and revealed religion, and to improve their evidences, as well as to concur with them in their determination of man's duty and expectations ; with which view he drew up the foregoing " Observations on the frame and connection of the body and mind"; and in prosecution of the same design, he goes on in this part, from this foundation, and upon the other pheenomena of nature, to deduce the evidences for the being and attributes of God, and the general truths of natural religion. Secondly, Laying do^wn all these as a new foundation whereon to buUd the evidences for revealed religion. Thirdly, To enquire into the rule of life, and the particular applications of it, which result from the frame of our natures, the dictates of natural religion, and the precepts of the Scripture taken together, compared with, and casting light upon each other. Fourthly, To enquire into the genuine doctrines of natural and revealed religion, thus illustrated, concerning the ex pectations of mankind here and hereafter, in consequence of their observance, or violation of the rule of life. HEYWOOD, OLIVEE, Son of Richard, was born at Little Lever, in Bolton parish, in Lancashire, March 1629, and baptized in Bolton church the 15th of the same month. He was designed by his parents for the Ministry from his birth, and he was also himself inclined that way. In 1647, he was admitted Pensioner in Trinity College, Cambridge, under the tuition of Mr. Akhurst. Here he took 94 BIOGRAPHIA the degree of B.A. but was afterwards called home from thence, his father not being able to support him there.. Here for some time he lived retiredly, but at length became a Preacher, by the advice and solicitation of the neighbouring Ministers; and having preached some time about the country occasionally, he was invited to Coley Chapel, in this parish ; soon after which, viz. Aug. 4, 1652, he was ordained in Bury Church, in Lancashire, by the Ministers of the second -classes there. He married to his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Angier, of Denton, in Lancashire, in 1655, by whom he had several children. He had several disputes with part of his congregation ; some were displeased with him because he would not admit all comers promiscuously to the Lord's Table without dis tinction ; others, because he would not thank God for killing the Scots. Once he was carried before Cornet Denham, by some of Colonel Lilburne's soldiers, and the Cornet told him that he was one of the Cheshire rebels ; but by the mediation of friends he was dismist. His annual income from Coley did not exceed £36 per annum ; but he held a Lecture every Thursday, for several years, at the house of one Samuel Hopkinson, at the Stubbing, in Sowerby, for which he had a consideration : He had also a small paternal estate in Lancashire, exclusive of what he might receive from Mr. Angler's effects. He had a presentation to the vicarage of Preston, in Lancashire, worth at that time an hundred pounds per annum, sent him by Sir Richard Hoghton, of Hoghton Tower, but on some account or other he declined it. After the Restoration of King Charles II. he was prosecu ted in the Consistory Court at York for not reading the Common Prayer a year before the Act of Uniformity com menced, and suspended ab officio ; the suspension was pubUshed at Halifax, June 29, 1662. On this he forbore preaching at Coley, but did not attempt tp get off his suspension, because of the Act of Uniformity, which was to take place in Aug. following, and to which he eould not conform. Before it took place, ho'wever, he ventured to take leave of his flock, by two or three days preaching among them. HALIFAXIENSIS. 95 November 2, the same year, an excommunication was published against him in Halifax Church ; on which he went to York, but found that nothing could be done for him, unless he would take the oath " de parendo juri, et stando mandatis ecclesise," which his conscience would not permit him to do. In 1664 came out the "Writ de excommunicato capiendo," but he was not taken, though he ventured to preach to a few in his own house, and now and then even officiating in public churches, where there was a vacancy, with the leave of the Churchwardens. On the coming out of the Five-mile Act, he left his family, and went into Lancashire and Cheshire, returning home but seldom. After the edge of that Act was a little worn off, he took more liberty, and preached often publickly in the chapels of Idle, Bramhup, Bramley, Farnley, Morley, Pudsey, and Hunslet. In 1669, preaching occasionally in a private house near Leeds, he was carried before the Mayor, who sent him to prison, but released him the next day at the intercession of some friends. July, the aame year, he preached in Coley Chapel, in the absence of Mr. Hoole, the Minister, at the desire of several of the people, for which a warrant was issued out to distrain upon ten pound's worth of his goods, but Calamy tells us that nobody would buy them. At last he was restored, by the King's declaration, March 15, 1672, to ministerial employment in his own house, by Licence, as appears from a private register kept by himself. He ventured, however, to preach at Alverthorp, Lassel-Hall, Sowerby, Warley, &c. on the week-days. On the calling in of those Licences he met with fresh troubles ; for August 15, 1680, he was again cited into the Consistory Court at York, with his wife and others, for not going to the Sacrament at the Parish-church at Halifax ; and for contempt in not appearing, they were all excom municated, the sentences being read in Halifax Church, Oct. following, but keeping private, the storm soon blew over. After this, he was indicted at Wakefleld Sessions for a riotous assembly in his own house, and fined fifty pounds, for non-payment of which, and not finding sureties for his 96 BIOGRAPHIA good behaviour in forbearing to preach, he was committed to York Castle, where he had both an expensive and trouble some confinement, and from which he was not freed without much difficulty. After a fatiguing, troublesome Ufe, he died March 4, 1702, in the 73rd year of his age. In a manuscript of his, sent to one Mrs. Hannah Stans- feld, in Sowerby, he says, "I have now been above fifty years labouring in the Lord's vineyard, studying, praying, and preaching, at home and abroad, travelling where Provi dence hath called, and have arrived well towards two years beyond the age of a man ; now at last I am incapacitated for travel, not only with age, but a very sore shortness of breathing, called the asthma, so that I am confined much to mine own house, only can study, preach in my chapel, and exercise myself in writing books, and sermons, for those that desire them." Thoresby, page 542, says he had a Diary of this Oliver Heywood's, whereby it appeared, that in one year he preached one hundred and five times, besides the Lord's days, kept fifty days of fasting and prayer, nine of thanksgiving, and travelled fourteen hundred miles in his Master's service. In another part of his Diary are the following entries ; " This year, 1677, I preached, besides Lord's days, sixty times, kept fasts, eight days of thanksgi-ving, and travelled eleven hundred and ninety-eight miles. " This year, 1678, I preached sixty-four times on week days, have kept fifty fast-days, four days of thanksgiving, and travelled one thousand and thirty-four miles. "This year, 1679, I preached seventy-seven times on week-days, kept fifty-two fast days, seven days of thanks giving, and traveUed thirteen hundred and eighty-six miles." Under June 2, 1678, is the foUo-ndng remarkable passage : "Lord's day. Preached too long, being under a mistake a whole hour. I was employed six hours., Not weary." His printed works are these: 1, "Heart Treasure," 1667. 2, " Closet Prayer," 1671. 3, " Sure Mercies of David," 1672. 4, "Life in God's Favour, 1679. 5, "Israel's Lamentations," 1681. 6, " Mr. Angler's Life." 7, "Bap tismal Bonds," 1687. 8, "Meetness for Heaven," 1690. 9, "FamUy Altar," 1698. 10, "Best EntaU," 1693. 11, " A New Creature," 1698. 12, " Job's Appeal," 1695. 13, " Heavenly Converse," 1697. 14, " The Two Worlds," 1701. HALIFAXIENSIS. 97 15, "A Treatise of Christ's Intercession," 1701. Besides which he printed and prefaced several books of others. In the above Diary, which I saw in the hands of Mr. Dickenson, of Northouram, are these entries : [Jan. 18, 1677— Aug. 1679. See Vol. 2, Heywood's Diaries, just printed.— J.H.T.] Thoresby had a MS. copy of this [Angler's] Life, with notes and additions by Mr. Newcome, of Manchester. The following is in Halifax Register: "Mr. Oliver Hey wood, of Northouram, Clerke, aged twenty-five years, and Mrs. Elizabeth Angier, of Denton, Gentlewoman, aged twenty-one years, were published at the public meeting place, called Halifax Church, at the close of the morning exercise upon three Lord's Days, viz. April the 1st, the 8th, the 15th, 1655." Their marriage is not inserted in that Eegister. I have seen, in the possession of the late Mr. David Stansfield, of Halifax, an original three quarters painting of this Oliver Heywood. HEYWOOD, NATHANIEL, Brother to Oliver, was born at Little Lever aforesaid, in September, 1633, educated in Trinity CoUege, in Cambridge, and afterwards with Mr. Edward Gee, of Eccleston. His first preferment was lUingworth Chapel, in this parish ; from thence he removed in 1657, to Ormskirk, in Lancashire, where he continued till he was silenced in 1662. This account is from Calamy, page 394 ; but if Mr. Hey wood did not remove from lUingrs'orth tUl 1657, he had ceased to be Curate there in 1656, for a Mr. Bradshaw signed a receipt in that year, as Curate of lUingworth, in the Book of Accounts belonging to Mr. Waterhouse's Trustees, at Halifax. On the liberty, in 1672, he licenced Bickerstaff and Scaresbrick, both in Ormskirk parish, preaching there each week alternately. He died December 16, 1G77. After his death some Sermons of his were printed, entitled, "Christ displayed, as the choicest Gift, and the best Master," Svo. 1679. They were pubUshed by his brother Oliver, who wrote the Epistle Dedicatory thereto. Calamy tells us that one of his hearers, when he was going to quit his Living, expressing a desire for him still to preach in the Chureh, Mr. Heywood said he would as gladly 98 BIOGEAPHIA preach, as they could desire it, if he could conform with a safe conscience ; to which the man replied, " Oh, Sir ! many a man, now-a-days, makes a great gash in his conscience, cannot you make a little nick in yours ? " HOOKE, BICHARD, Probably the same who is mentioned in Wood's "Fasti," page 261, as having taken his degree of B.A. from New Inn HaU, in Oxford, in 1635, and supposed to be a Northampton shire man ; if so, he took the rest of his Degrees at Cambridge, being D.D. When he was M.A. he was Minister of Lowdham, in Nottinghamshire, and wrote, " The Laver of Regeneration, and the Cup of salvation, in two treatises concerning Baptism, and the Lord's Supper." London, 1653. This is Wood's account, and if true, shews that this per formance had a second impression, for we have seen a work under his name, entitled, " The Laver of Regeneration, and the Cup of Salvation ; two plain and profitable discourses upon the two Sacraments, the first laying open the nature of Baptism, and earnestly pressing the serious consideration, and religious observation of the sacred vow made by all Christians in their baptism. The other, pressing as earnestly the frequent renewing of our baptismal vow at the Lord's holy table ; demonstrating the indispensable necessity of receiving, and the great sin and danger of neglecting the Lord's Supper, with answers to the chief pretences, whereby the absenters would excuse themselves." Svo. London, Printed, 1684, with a dedication to the inhabitants of the town and parish of Halifax. The first discourse is from John i. 26, the second from 1 Cor. xi. 28. Wood says, that he also published one or more Sermons. He was likewise Author of "The Nonconformist Champion his chaUenge accepted, or an answer to Mr. Baxter's "Petition for Peace," written long since, but now first published, upon his repeated provocations, and importunate clamors, that it was never answered. " Whereunto is prefixed, an Epistle to Mr. Baxter, ¦with some remarks upon his Holy Common-wealth ; upon his HALIFAXIENSIS. 9& Sermon to the then House of Commons ; upon his Non conformist's plea for peace, and upon his answer to Dr. Stillingfleet." London, 1682, 157 pages in Svo. Thoresby, in his Museum, (Topog. p. 542) had an Svo. MS. in answer to this, entitled "The Duelling Doctor defeated," by T. J.M.A. (The just man's advocate, alias Mr. Thomas Sharp, whose mark this was,) being given by his widow [to Thoresby.] Dr. Hooke died January 1, 1688-9, having languished for some time under great pain of a fistula. See the epitaphs at Halifax Church. HOYLE, JOSHUA, Born at Sowerby, received his first academical education in Magdalene-hall, in Oxford, and being afterwards invited to Ireland, was made Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin ; there he took the Degree of D.D. and was elected Divmity Pro fessor in that "University. In this office he expounded the whole Bible through in daily lectures, and in the chiefest books ordinarily a verse each day, which work held him almost fifteen years. Some time before he ended that work, he began the second exposition of the whole Bible in the Church of Trinity College, and within ten years ended all the New Testament (excepting one book and a piece) all the Proifliets, all Solo mon, and Job. He preached also and expounded thrice every Sabbath for the far greater part of the year, once every holy-day, and sometimes twice. To these may be added, his weekly lectures (as Professor) in the controversies, and his answers to all Bellarmine's ¦writings. On the breaking out of the Irish Eebellion, in 1641, he came into England, and was made Vicar of Step ney, near London, but being too soholastical, he did not please the parishioners. He was constituted about this time, one of the Assembly of Divines, and furnished evidence against Archbishop Laud, on his trial, as to matter relating to the University of Dublin, whilst he was Chancellor thereof. At length, by the favour of the Committee of Parliament for the reformation of the University of Oxford, he became Master of University College, and the King's Professor of Divinity. He was respected by Dr. Usher, the learned Primate of Ireland, in whose -vindication he wrote, "A Rejoinder to 100 BIOGRAPHIA WiUiam Malone, Jesuit, his reply concerning the real pre sence." Dublin, 1641, in a thick quarto. Dr. Hoyle died December 6, 1654, and was buried in that little old Chapel of University CoUege, which was puUed down in 1668, and which stood in that place which is now the middle part of the present quadrangle, iu that CoUege. HULME, NATHANIEL, M.D. Lived for some time in Halifax with his uncle, . . . Hulme, M.D. He wrote, " Lihellus de natura, causa, curationeque Scorbuti. To this is annexed a proposal for preventing the Scurvy in the British Navy, octavo." London, 1768. KNIGHT, TITUS, A Collier in this parish, who turned Preacher, published a Discourse, printed at Leeds, entitled, " The Faith of the Saints, being the substance of a Sermon preached at the opening of the New Meeting House, belonging to the Inde pendents, in Blanket-row, Hull, on Sunday, AprU 9, 1769." By Titus Knight, Minister of the Gospel at Halifax, in Yorkshire. [A clever Collier too, Mr. Watson, and father of a Vicar of Halifax.] . LAKE, JOHN, Was born, as I have been several times credibly informed, in that part of Halifax called Petticoat-lane ; his father's name was Thomas, and he was baptised at Halifax, Decem ber 5, 1624, as appears from the Eegister there. — His first education was at the Grammar-school near HaUfax, from whence he was sent to St. John's CoUege, Cambridge, before he was complete thirteen years of .age, and put under the care of the famous Mr. Cleveland, whose Poems, Orations, Epistles, &c., he and his friend Dr. Drake, Vicar of Ponte fract, coUected into one volume, to which they prefixed his Life and ParentaUa, and dedicated them to Bishop Turner, then Master of the College, octavo. London, 1687. When he was B.A. he was made prisoner in CoUege with the royal party, but escaping from thence, he fled to Oxford, and continued four years in the King's army. He was at Basing-house when it was taken, as also at WalUngford.— HALIFAXIENSIS. 101 When the royal cause was at the lowest, he refused the Engagement, as he had done the Covenant before, and entered into Episcopal Orders. — July 26, 1647, he preached his flrst Sermon, as Lecturer, at Halifax, but continued not long in that employment on account of his principles. In 1652, he went, as I take it, to Oldham, in Lancashire. May 21, 1660, he was made Vicar of Leeds, but met with so much opposition from those who were for introducing Mr. Bowles, of York, that the Church doors were barred against him, and they were under a necessity of sending for a party of soldiers to secure his induction. Being appointed to preach the first Synod Sermon at York, he performed it with so much applause, that Dr. Hitch, then Eector of Guiseley, and his great friend, desired a copy of it, which, without his knowledge, he shewed to Dr. Sheldon, Bishop of London, who soon after gave Mr. Lake the Eectory of St. Botolph's without Bishopsgate, London. Here began (what he esteemed the principal honour and felicity of his life) his friendship with Dr. Sancroft, then Dean of St. Paul's, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, who had a particular esteem for him. He returned, for some reason or other, to his native soil, and having, October 17, 1668, been instituted to the Rectory of Prestwich, in Lancashire, he was collated, July 16, 1670, to the Prebend of Fridaythorp at York, and on the same day to the Prebend of Halloughton, in Southwell, and to the Eectory of Carlton, in Lindrick, both in Nottinghamshire. He was now Eesidentiary at York, and endeavouring to break the bad custom of walkmg in the body of the Cathedral during the time of divme service, he was insulted by the rabble, who, after breaking open the soutli door of the Minster, followed him home, assaulted him in his own house, and even took off a great part of the tiling, so that he was obliged to be rescued from them by Capt. Honeywood, the Deputy Governor. May 7, 1671, he was collated to the Mastership and custody of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalene, near Bautry ; and October 9, 1680, installed Archdeacon of Cleveland. Being nominated by William Earl of Derby to the Bishop ric of Sodor in Man, he was consecrated December, 1682. And thence, by King Charles II, he was translated to Bristol 102 BIOGEAPHIA August 12, 1684, with liberty to hold his Prebend in com- mendam. In the time of Monmouth's Eebellion, he went down to reside at Bristol, by order of King James II. though he was at that time much affiicted with the gout, and narrowly escaped being taken by the Duke's forces. His conduct on that occasion was so pleasing to the King, that, before his return, he nominated him to the Bishopric of Chichester, in which he was confirmed October 19, 1685. April 27, 1688, King James II. having renewed the Dec laration he had set out the year before, for liberty of conscience, to favour the cause of Popery, was resolved to oblige the Clergy to read it in all their Churches ; but Dr. Lake having first prevented the sending down the Declar ations into his Diocese, went up to London, and after con sultation with Archbishop Sancroft, and five other Bishops, at Lambeth, they agreed to petition the King, and therein to lay before him their reasons which inclined them to dis obey the Order of Council which had been sent to them. This Petition was delivered accordingly on the 18th day of May ; and for this, such as had signed it were cited to appear before the Council ; where refusing, on account of their Peerage, to give bonds to appear in the Court of King's Bench, the Archbishop, and six other Bishops, (amongst whom was Lake) were committed to the Tower by a warrant signed June Sth, and on the 15th were brought to the King's Bench Bar, arraigned, tried, and acquitted on the 29th, to the great joy of the generality of the people. At the Revolution he refused to take the Oaths of Allegi ance and Supremacy to King WUliam and Queen Mary, for which he was suspended ab officio, and would have been deprived had he lived a little longer. August 27, 1689, he made the following Declaration (which, no doubt, was meant as a vindication of this last act of his conduct) before Dr. Green, the Parish Minister, Dr. Hicks, Dean of Worcester, Mr. Jenkins, his Chaplain, Mr. Powell, his Secretary, and Mr. Wilson, his Amanuensis. " Being called by a sick, and I think a dying bed, and the good hand of God upon me in it, to take the last, and best -viaticum, the Sacrament of my dear Lord's body and blood, I take myself obliged to make this short recognition and profession. HALIFAXIENSIS. 103 "That whereas I was baptised into the Eeligion of the Church of England, and sucked it in with my milk, I have constantly adhered to it through the whole course of my life, and now if it so be the will of God, shall die in it, and I had resolved, through God's graoe assisting me, to have died so, though at a stake. "And whereas that Religion of the Church of England taught me the dootrine of non-resistance and passive obedi ence, which I have accordingly inculcated into others, and which I took to be the distinguishing character of the Church of England, I adhere no less firmly, and steadfastly to that, and in consequence of it, have incurred a suspension from the exercise of my office, and expected a deprivation. I find in so doing much inward satisfaction, and if the oath had been tendered at the peril of my life, I could only have obeyed by suffering. "I desire you, my worthy friends and brethren, to bear witness of this upon occasion, and to believe it as the last words of a dying man ; and who is now engaged in the most sacred and solemn act of conversing with God in this world, and may, for ought he knows to the contrary, aj)pear with these very words in his mouth at the dreadful tribunal. Signed, Johan. Cicestrensis." This declaration caused many pamphlets to be published pro and con ; and may be considered as the beginning of the disputes on this subject, whioh, though but imperfectly at that time understood, is now too clear to need a comment. Sir John Dalrymple, in his Memoirs, page 396, says, "the above was a weak declaration from a weak man, yet as the last words of a martyr, it was spread through the nation, and at that period of civil and religious ferment, added the impulses of religion to those of party in enthusiastic minds." On the 21st of August, before the making of the above declaration, he had been seized with a trembling fit, which was the forerunner of a malignant fever, and convulsions, which carried him off. On the application of painful remedies, he said, "And is life worth all this, at threescore years and five ? " He died August 80th, 1689, and was buried in St. Botolph's Church, September 3rd. 104 BIOGRAPHIA We cannot find that he published anything except two Sermons, viz. 1, "A Sermon preached at WhitehaU, May 29th, 1670, pubUshed by his Majesty's command," London, 1671. 2, " The true Christian's Character and Crown, preached in St. Botolph's Church, July 15, 1669, at the Funeral of Mr. William Cade, Deputy of that Ward." Lon don, 1671, 4to. MARSH, RICHARD, Was born at Finhamsted, in Hertfordshire, in 1585, and educated at Cambridge, (though some have said that he was Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.) He took the Degree of D.D. at Oxford, in 1636. In 1614, he was made Vicar of Birstall, in the West-riding of Yorkshire ; in 1625, Prebend ary of Southwell; and in 1634, he succeeded Archbishop BramhaU in the Prebend of Husthwaite, in the Church of York. April 17, 1638, he was inducted into the Vicarage of Hali fax, as appears by an entry wrote with his own hand. In 1641, the King presented him to the Archdeaconry of York, or of the West-riding of Yorkshire ; and in November, 1644, nominated him to the Deanry, on the death of Dr. Scott, the King being then at Oxford ; but the confusions of those times would not permit him to be elected, much less installed, till the Restoration, when the former of these was performed August 17, and the other the 20th, 1660. Dr. Peter Heylin made great interest, by his friends, to obtain this dignity, but was denied, to make way for Dr. Marsh, whom King Charles had so great a value for, that he desired him to be one of the Chaplains to attend him, when the Parliament had got him into their hands in 1648. He was also Prebendary of Rippon, and as Walker, in his Sufferings of the Clergy, page 82, says. Vicar of Bourson, in Yorkshire, but we know not any such place. And as the Doctor had these good preferments, so he was a great and very early sufferer for his attachment to the King his patron ; for in 1642, he had his living of Halifax sequestered, for delinquency, to the use of the forces under Lord Fairfax, himself narrowly escaping from the to-wn, but taken prisoner at Blackstone-edge, and carried to Man chester, where he was confined for some time, till he made his escape from thence, and got to the King at Oxford. HALIFAXIENSIS. 105 Thus he lost the benefit of his living for eighteen years together, and saw Halifax no more till the Restoration, when he returned, Sept. 16, 1660, and took possession of his Church again. An old man, who was present, told Mr. Beckwith, of York, "that the Doctor went into the Church, with his Prayer-book under his arm, and finding Eli Bentley officiat ing there, he turned him out of the Desk, and read Prayers himself." The loss which the Doctor sustained at HaUfax (besides other places) amounted to more than four thousand pounds. He did not live long to enjoy his Deanry, for he died Oc tober 13, aged 78, and was buried the 15th, 1G63, in York Minster, near the Grave of Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York, in the south aisle of the choir, and over him was an atchievement with his arms, impailing Grice, of Wakefield, but that atchievement is destroyed, and there only remained, in 1766, an escutcheon hung up near his grave, with his arms, viz. Gules, an horse's head couped argent. (That in Halifax Church is erased.) He had resigned the Vicarage of Halifax some time before his death. He had been Chaplain to King Charles I., to Archbishop Laud, and to Dr. Matthews, Archbishop ofYork. He was three times married. His first wife was the daughter of Mr. Stephens, by whom he had, 1, Tobias, born in 1633, (so called, we presume, after his patron the Arch bishop) ; 2, Henry, baptized at Birstal, November 16, 1637 ; 3, Frances, married to Lewis West, father of Captain Richard West, of Underbank, whose only daughter married Mr. Fenton, of Underbank; 4, A daughter, married to Mr. Driffield, of Rippon ; 5, Another daughter, married to Mr. Wymberley, of Post- Witham. The Doctor's second wife was Elisabeth, daughter of Robert Batt, of Okewell-hall, near Birstal, and Fellow and Vice Master of the University CoUege, Oxford, by whom one daughter, Catharine, born in trouble ; for when her mother was big with child of her, the soldiers coming into the house in search of Dr. Marsh, and not finding him, supposed he might be hid in bed, and therefore stabbed their swords into the bed where his wife was laid, and so frightened and wounded her, that it immediately threw her into labour, and she expired almost as soon as she was delivered. 106 BIOGRAPHIA The Doctor fled to save himself, and a trusty servant-maid made her escape with the child in the night, with nothing but her shift on, carrying it in that condition in the dark, for fourteen miles, to a relation of the Doctor's, where it remained till the Restoration, when her father was at liberty to return. This daughter, Catharine, married Mr. John Kay, of Gomersal, near Birstal, and died at Howley-haU, about 1730, leaving, by said Mr. Kay, 1, Robert Kay, of Howley-haU, whose daughter married Mr. Thomas Beck-with, of York ; 2, Martha, wife to Dr. Robert Tomlinson, Eector of Wickham ; which Martha was, in 1766 in her 104th or 105th year, and gave part of this account. The Doctor's third wife was Frances, daughter of Mr. Grice, of Wakefield. She was buried in York Minster, July 25, 1665. Mr. Beckwith, above-named, had, in 1766, an original painting of Dr. Marsh in his robes, which seemed to have been done when he was about sixty years of age. The wives and children of delinquents being, by public ordinances, allowed the fifth part of the estate and goods which had been seized upon, the foUowing Petition was sent in against Dr. Marsh, which we took from a paper, dated in 1650, containing a set of reasons against their receiving the said fifth part ; but what was the effect of it we cannot tell. "1, Dr. Marsh was long since cast out of the Vicarage of Halifax for misdemeanors. " 2, As wee conceive the said Dr. Marsh was never actually sequestered, or if hee was, never yet made his composition. " 3, There was never any yett settled by authoritty in the room of the said Viccor to receive the profitts, except Mr. Wayte, who was appointed Viccor by the late Lord Fairfax. " 4, The whoUe profitts of the Vicarage doe iu a manere wholy consist in Easter dewes, and Comunicant two penses, which wee conceive in equitty cannot be demanded, seeing thatt Easter comunicants have soe longe seased. " 5, The people in that Viccarage have beene att greate charge in mayntayneing the Ministers, there beeing 12 chappelreyes in the said Viccarage att which they have had for the most part preaching Ministers, and very little or noe mayntayneance to most of them. HALIFAXIENSIS. 107 " 6, The said Dr. Marsh had, when hee was expelled the Viccarage, several other Liveinges, as att Birstall, Yorke, Eippon, Sussex, hee was the latte Kinges Chaplayen, and one of the hie Comishon att Yorke, besides he hath a good estate of his owne in land, to the valeu of £30. per ami.- and upwards. " And whereas itt is declared, thatt this now demanded is for his children, being a fifth part, wee make bold humly to certiefie, thatt if itt should bee expected, and the people forst to pay itt, the greattest part of itt must come from those that are in far greater nesesitie then any of his children is likely yett to come too, and from those who have hazerded their lives, and laid out their estates in the Parliament's servise, and whose sufferings and loses have been very greate. " The Peticioners unanimously, as well the inhabi ttants within the mother-church whom the said small tithes did -chiefely concerne, and all the rest of the Vica,rage, make it theire humble request, that the said Dr. Marshe's order for his fifth part may bee called in, and that the same, and all the rest of the said tithes or Easter oblacions may either wholy bee taken of, or otherwayes that the said tithes may be devided amongst the several Chapells and Mother-church, as the same was certified by the Com', for the West Eideing of the county of Yorke upon an Act or Order of Parliment." It must be observed, that the estate of one John Marsh, D.D. who was said to have been late of Halifax, in the county of York, was declared forfeited for treason, by an Act of November 18, 1652, but this we have reason to think was a misnomer. Walker, in his Sufferings, &c., page 83, says, that the Doctor had one or more Sermons extant, but I have not seen any account of them. MAESDEN, GAMALIEL, A Student in Trinity College, Dublin, where he continued ten years, and part of the time was Fellow there. He was turned out with Dr. Winter, on King Charles' Eestoration, and came to England. He had but five pounds when he landed at Liverpool, and knew no relations or friends he could repair to ; but resolved 108 BIOGRAPHIA to go to Coley, in this parish, where his father had been minister. There he found friends, and was fixed in St. Ann's Chapel, in Southouram, from whence he was ejected by the Act of Uniformity. He afterwards went into Holland, and, at his return, taught Philosophy, &c., to some young Students at Hague- hall. He was also Pastor of the Congregational Church at Woodkirk. He died May 25, 1681, aged forty seven. MIDGLEY, SAMUEL, The real Author of the History of Halifax, which goes under the name of William Bentley. — This man was a prisoner for debt in York Castle, in 1685, where he was acquainted with Oliver Heywood. He was also three times in Halifax jayl, for debt. Here it was he wrote the above History; and here he died, July 18, 1695. His poverty prevented him from XDrinting the Book, which he wrote for his own support ; and he not only lost the benefit of his labours in his life-time, but had another man's name put to his Work when he was dead. " Sic vos non vobis, &c." He practised Physic, and was the son of William Midgley, who was buried at Luddenden, August 21, 1695, aged eighty- one. MILNEE, JOHN, The second son of John Milner, of Skircoat, near Halifax, by Mary, daughter of Mr. Gilbert Eamsden, was baptized February 10, 1627-8. The foundation of his gi-eat learning was laid in the Grammar school there, from whence he was sent, at fourteen years of age, to Christ's CoUege, Cambridge, where he took the Degrees of B.A., M.A. and B.D. He was first Curate of Middleton, in Lancashire, but was forced thence, on Sir George Booth's unsuccessful attempt to re store King Charles II. a little before the fight at Worcester. After this he retired to the place of his nativity, where he lived till 1661, when Dr. Lake, then Vicar of Leeds, and his brother-in-law, gave him the Curacy of Beeston, in his parish. In 1662, he took the Degree of B.D. and the same year was made Minister of St. John's, in Leeds. He was elected Vicar of Leeds, and was inducted thereto August 4, HALIFAXIENSIS. 109' 1673, and March 29, 1681, was chosen Prebendary of Eipon. In 1688, not being satisfied about the Eevolution, he retired from his Vicarage, and was deprived of all his Preferments ; on which he retired to St. John's, in Cambridge, where he spent the remainder of his days, continuing a Nonjuror till his death, which happened in the said College, February 16, 1702. He was buried in the Chapel there, on the 19th, aged seventy-five, leaving an only son, Thomas MUner, M.A. Vicar of Bexhill, in Sussex. It is remarkable, that both Bishop Lake and he were born in Halifax parish, both educated in Cambridge, were both Vicars of Leeds, and both lost their preferments for Non- jurancy, in 1688. His Works are these : 1. — Conjectanea in Isaiam ix. 1, 2. London, 4to., 1673." This he published whilst he was Minister of St. John's, in Leedes. It was dedicated to his learned friend. Dr. Duport, Master of Mag dalene CoUege, Cambridge. Dr. Castel, Professor of Arabic at Cambridge, called this " a most excellent Essay, wherein the Author shewed incredible reading and diligence, in per using so many copies, versions, and various lections, with the best interpreters of Sacred Writ. " See Vicaria Leodien- sis, p. 114. 2. — A collection of the Church History of Palestine, from the Birth of Christ, to the beginning of the Empire of Diocletian, London, 1688, 4to. 3. — A short Dissertation concerning the four last Kings of Judah. London, 1689, 4to. 4. — De Nethenim sive Nethinseis, &c. Cantab. 1690, 4to. 5. — An Answer to the Vindication of a Letter from a Person of Quality in the North, concerning the Profession of John, late Bishop of Chichester, London, 4to. 1690. 6. — A Defence of the Profession of John, Lord Bishop of Chichester, made upon his death bed, concerning Passive Obedience, and the New Oaths ; with some passages of his Lordship's Life. London, 4to, 1690. These two last are omitted by Thoresby, in his Vicaria Leodiensis, p. 116. 7. — A Defence of Archbishop Usher against Dr. Cary and Dr. Is. Vossius, &c., Camb. 1694, Svo. 8. — A Discourse of Conscience, &c., with Eeflections upon the Author of Christianity not Mysterious, &c., London, 1697, Svo. 110 BIOGEAPHIA 9. — A View of the Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, &c., lately pubUshed by the Eev. Dr. Bentley, also, of the Examination of that Dissertation, by the Hon. Mr. Boyle. London, 1698, Svo. 10.— A brief Examination of some Passages in the Chron ological Part of a Letter written to Dr. Sherlock. 11. — A further Examination of ditto. 12.— An Account of Mr. Locke's Eeligion, London, 1700, Svo. 13. — Animadversions upon Mons. Le Clerc's Eeflections upon our Saviour, &c., Camb. 1702, Svo. He also left the following manuscripts behind him, which came to the hands of his son : 1. — A Translation of the Targum. 2. — A Chronological History from the Flood to our Saviour's Birth. 8. — Ditto of the five first Centuries, A.D. 4. — Animadversions on the Historical Account of the Jewish High Priests. 5. — An Answer unto, or Animadversions upon E.H. on Controversies. 6. — Ditto upon T.C's. Labyrinthus Cantuariensis. This he lived not to finish. 7. — Animadversions upon Irenicum. 8. — A Vindication of the Church of England in reference to Antiphones, Eesponds, &c. 9. — A Latin Comment on part of Genesis. 10. — Ditto upon Psalms 1, 42. 11. — Diatriba de igne Purgatorio. 12. — Fax nova Linguffi Sanctae. I ¦will only add the character which Dr. Gower, Lady Margaret's Professor at Cambridge, gave of this Mr. Milner, to Mr. Thoresby. " Great learning and piety made him really a great man ; he was eminent in both, and nothing but his humility and modesty kept him from being more noted for being so. He was a blessing to the whole Society, by the example he gave in every good thing. He died beloved, and much lamented here, and his memory is hon ourable and precious amongst us, and wUl long continue so." HALIFAXIENSIS. Ill MITTON, JOHN, Son of Thomas, was born at Geslingroid, in the township of Barkisland, in this parish, and died at London about the latter end of the year 1736. He turned his thoughts, it seems, to natural philosophy, for in Thoresby's Museum {Topog. page 543) was a manuscript diary, giving an account of the rising and faUing of the Barometer, the point of the compass the wind was upon, and some account of the temper ature of the air, as rain, snow, frost, mist, &c., from Octo. 1710, tiU December, 1713, by Mr. John Mitton, of Barkis land, near Halifax. NABB, .... Wrote a Poem in 4to, called, "Calista, or. The injured Beauty, a Poem founded on fact." London, 1759. It is anonymous, and only said to be written by a Clergyman ; but the Author, who resided some time at Halifax, being dead, I have ventured to give the public as much as I knew of his name. NALSON, EOBEET, The Collector of a folio manuscript, intitled, "Miscellanea sive Observationes coUectaniffi," and signed Eobert Nalson, 1665. This volume (which is in my own collection,) consists of a vast variety of subjects, chiefly transcripts, but inter spersed with original papers, and others so scarce that they are nearly as valuable as if they were known originals. Wright, at page 80 of his history says, this manuscript unfortunately fell into ill hands, and had several pages, all of them relating to the Gibbet Executions, torn out, before the book was returned to the proper owner. Where he re ceived that information I cannot tell, but it appears not from the book itself. The late Mr. Wilson, of Leeds, in his manuscript account of the English Historians, in two volumes folio, now at the Free Grammar School at Leeds, says, that Mr. Nalson left manuscripts to Halifax Library, but nothing of that sort appears now, and I judge it to be a mistake. — The Author tells us, that he received confirmation from Archbishop Freuin in 1664, in his own chapel at Bishopthorpe, and that he was then about thirty -nine years of age. 112 BIOGRAPHIA NETTLETON, THOMAS, Son of John, born at Dewsbury, settled at Halifax, and practised Physic there for several years with great success, having taken degree of M.D. at Leyden. He and Mr. West, of Under-bank, near Penniston, in Yorkshire, were the first who instructed Professor Sanderson in the principles of mathematics, and the Doctor used to say, that the Scholar soon becaine more knowing than his Masters. In the Philo sophical Transactions appear several pieces of the Doctor's, which were communicated by Dr. Jurin, who was his friend and acquaintance, viz. " An account of the height of the Barometer at different elevations above the surface of the earth." We have here the altitude of tialifax Bank determined at five hundred and seven feet ; and after some observations on the air, follows a table, shewing the number of feet ascend ing, required to make the mercury fall to any given height in the tube from thirty to twenty-six inches ; as also the number of feet descending, required to make the mercury rise from thirty to thirty-one inches ; and also a table shew ing the number of feet required to make the mercury fall one tenth of an inch from any given height in the tube from thirty-one to twenty-six inches, In Vol. vi. page 121 of the " Transactions " abridged by Eeid and Gray, is an account of inoculation of the small-pox, by the Doctor ; and at page 129, another treatise by him on the same subject. In a paper of Dr. .Turin's, page 131, it appears, that Dr. Nettleton had inoculated sixty-one persons, when all others in England (as far as could be gathered) had only inoculated one hundred and twenty-one. At page 161, is a discourse by the Doctor, shewing that the refractions of the air are different at difl'erent times. From his observations it like wise appears that Halifax is in the latitude of 53. 47. that the height of Blackstone-edge, at Eobin-hood's-bed, is two hundred and thirty-nine yards and a quarter ; that Halifax Bank bears from this 60° from north to east ; Manchester 40. 30. from south to west ; Rochdale 70. 20. from soutli to west. The Doctor was Author of a pamphlet, intitled, " Some Thoughts concerning Virtue and Happiness, in a Letter to a Clergyman." London, 1729, 8vo., which he afterwards much HALIFAXIENSIS. 113 enlarged. It was reprinted in 1786, and 1751, at London, both in Svo. but the former of these is the more valuable, because it had the Author's finishing hand. The design of this valuable work is to shew that happiness is the end of all our actions ; how we deviate from our true happiness ; and how these deviations may be prevented. He has also given us some excellent rules for the management of our several passions, and has undeniably proved, that virtue is the best and chiefest good ; that it is not only the support and ornament of society, and beneficial to mankind in general, but the truest, and most substantial happiness to every particular person, as it yields the greatest pleasure, both in its immediate exercise, and in its consequences and effects ; that it gives a relish to all other pleasures, and where it is wanting, there can be no true nor lasting pleasure, but all will be bitterness, horror, and remorse, without the least mixture of any thing gentle and agreeable. The foUowmg story is told of the Doctor : That being in company with several Gentlemen, one of them was laying great stress on Dean Bohard's account of Cromwell's selling himself to the Devil before the Battle of Worcester ; affirm ing, that the bargain was intended to be for twenty-one years, but that the Devil had put a trick upon Oliver, by changing the twenty-one into twelve, and then turning hastily to the Doctor, asked him, "What could be the Devil's motive for so doing ? " The Doctor, without hesitation, answered, "That he could not tell what was his motive, unless he was in a hurry about the Eestoration." The Doctor married, March 30, 1708, Elizabeth Cotton, of Haigh-hall, by whom he had several children. He died January 9, 1741-2, at Halifax, and was buried on the 12th, at Dewsbury, with the foUo-wing epitaph on the south wall of the Church. H.S.E. THOMAS NETTLETON, M.D. Artis suffi Facultate Prope singulari insignis ; Aliarumque Artium Qu£e ad Humanitatem excolendam Et Virtutem promo vendam pertinent, Laude cumulatus. 114 BIOGRAPHIA Modesta Ingenii Sagacitas vere amabilem, Pietas autem non simulata. Comitate condita Gra vitas, Ac simplex Morum Candor Amabiliorem praestiterunt. Nee Famas celebritati. Nee Divitiarum incremento studuit ; Eum ratus uberrimum solertiiB qutestum, Quamplurimus prodesse. Indolem hanc adprime liberalem Natura ingenuit, Vitas institutum aluit. Studium denique humanioris Philosophiffi, Ac diuturna cum Viris maximis Sandersono, Halleio, Newtono, Consuetudo abunde confirmavit. Scriptis Auctor limatissimus, Atque hoc Monumento perennioribus, Elegantem Virtutis, et Felicifcatis imaginem Mirus Artifex adumbravit : lUustrissimum antem Exemplar Nativo colore Vitae expressit. Tot, tantisque Dotibus ornatus Vixit annos LVIII. IV. Id. Jan. MDCCXLI. OGDEN, SAMUEL, Born, as I take it, in or near Manchester, was Curate of Coley, in this parish, afterward Master of the Free Grammar-school near Halifax, and Curate of Eland. He was FeUow of St. John's College, in Cambridge, where he took the Degree of D.D. and was made Vicar of Damerham, in Wiltshire. He published two Sermons, preached before the University of Cambridge, in 1758, one from 1 Thess. v. 13. upon May 29, being the Anniversary of the Eestoration of King Charles II. the other from Deut. iv. 6. on June 22, being the Anniversary of the Accession of his Majesty King George II. Both dedicated to his Patron the Duke of New castle, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He has also published some Sermons on the Efficacy of Prayer and Intercession, printed at Cambridge. The Doctor was chosen Woodwardian Professor of the University of Cambridge. HALIFAXIENSIS. 115 PATCHIT, BENJAMIN, An inhabitant of Upper Saltonstall, in the higher part of Warley, in this parish, published a pamphlet, intitled, "A short Inquiry into the proper Qualifications of Gospel Minis ters, considered as the Servants, not of Men, but of Jesus Christ ; with some Directions, how we, who are Hearers, may know whether the Doctrines our Ministers deliver from the Pulpit, are according to God's Will and Mind, or not. And also how we are to attend on the Word preached in a j)rofitable manner." Halifax, 1759, Svo. POWEE, HENEY, Took the Degree of M.D. and practised Physic in Halifax, from whence Wright, in his History, page 171, says, he re moved to New Hall, near Eland, and died there; but WUson, in his manuscript account of the English Historians, already mentioned, tells us, that he removed from Halifax to Wake field, where he died December 23, 1668. He wrote a Treatise, intitled, "Experimental Philosophy, in three books, contain ing new Experiments, microscopical, mercurial, and mag- netical," 4to. London, 1664. The Doctor was buried at Wakefield, for on a brass plate on the chancel floor in the Church there is the following inscription : "M.S. Desideratissimi Capitis HENEICI POWEEI, MedicinaB Professoris, Ingenio, judicio, Moribus excultissimi, Qui si vixisset diutius Non in Arte solum, verum etiam iu Humanitate Bene multa Coum ipsum, Pergameumq ; docuisset. Si quid dubites, Hospes, si repugnes, Ecce ! Non in re microscopica, et hydrargyrica, Sed in reliqua philosophica, medicaque PowERi singularis eruditio, Perennitatis in Larario, (Justa cum Doctorum admiratione) Tum ex peremptis hie illic morborum seminibus Cum ex editis in lucem Doctrine pignoribus Jamdudum inclaruit. Annos natus XXXV. non major obiit. Vir cognitione quam setate grandior. Obiit XXIII Decembris, MDCLXVIII." 116 BIOGEAPHIA EAMSDEN, HENEY, Was son of Geoffry Ramsden, of Greetland, in this parish, and was admitted a Commoner of Magdalene Hall, in Oxford, in 1610. He took the Degrees in Arts, and was elected Fellow of Lincoln College, in 1621, and five years afterwards, leaving that place, became a Preacher in London, and was much resorted to for his edifying and puritanical sermons. At length, on the death of Hugh Eamsden, his elder brother, he was made Vicar of Halifax, where he continued till his death, in 1637, and was buried in the Chancel of Halifax Church, with an inscription to his memory, which see amongst the Halifax Epitaphs. After his death were published, under his name, by John Goodwin, with his Epistle before them, four Sermons, viz. 1. — The Gate to Happiness, on Eomans vi. 8. 2. — The wounded Saviour, on Isaiah Uii. 5. 3. — Epicure's Caution, on Luke xxi. 84. 4. — Generation of Seekers, on Coloss. iii. 1. The book was intitled, " A Gleaning of God's Harvest." London, 1639, 4to. The Eegister at Halifax has this entry : "Henricus Eams den, filius Galfridi Ramsden, de Greetland, infra Vicariam de Hallifax, frater natu minor, M.A., Socius CoUegii Lincoln iensis, Oxon. inductus est Vicarius de Hallffax decimo calend. Septembris, Anno 1629.'' His widow died at Eland, May 11, 1682. RICHIE, JAMES, Is said to have been M.D. He was a Dissenting Minister at Mixenden Chapel, in this parish, and practised Physic in that neighbourhood. His publications were : A Criticism upon modern Notions of Sacrifices, being an Examination of Dr. Taylor's Scripture Doctrine of Atone ment examined, in relation, 1. — To Jewish Sacrifices. 2. — To the Sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. To which is added an Appendix, containing an Examination of another Notion of Jewish Sacrifices, which is exhibited in an anony mous piece pubUshed at London in 1746, and intitled, "An Essay on the Nature, Design, and Origin of Sacrifices." London, 1761. HALIFAXIENSIS. 117 This was intended as a prelude to a larger work afterwards printed, and intitled, "The peculiar Doctrines of Revelation, relating to piacular Sacrifices, Redemption by Christ, Faith in him, the Treatment of difl'erent moral Characters by the Deity, under the several Dispensations of Eevealed Religion, &c., exhibited as they are taught in Holy Scripture, and the Eationale of them illustrated, in two Essays, viz. 1. — On the Eectitude of divine moral Government, in the Treatment of Rational Creatures. 2. — On the Eectitude of divine moral Government, in the Treatment of different moral Characters, under the several Dispensations of Revealed Religion, viz. the Adamical, Patri archal, Hebrew, and Christian. To which are subjoined two Dissertations, viz. 1. — On the Office of Jesus Christ as Mediator, and Surety of the New Covenant. 2.— On the Person of Jesus Christ." With a Preface to the whole. Warrington, 1766, 2 vols. 4to. This Work was posthumous, thougli the Author had put the finishing hand to it, and had even sent the manuscript to the press. It was published by subscription, and sub scribers' names were printed. ROOKEBY, WILLIAM, Born, as Wilson asserts, in his manuscript account of Eng Ush Historians, at Kirk Sandal, in Yorkshire, though Tanner says that he was born in Halifax. He was educated, says Wood, in his Athenfe, vol. i. page 659, partly in an ancient Hostle for the reception of Canon ists in St. Aldate's parish in Oxford ; he himself being after wards Doctor of the Canon Law. He was made Rector of Sandal, where he was born, and Vicar of Halifax. In 1498, according to Sir James 'Ware, vol. i. page 153, he was made Lord ChanceUor of Ireland by King Henry VIL, but Wood fixes this to the year 1515, not knowing that this was his second election into that high office, which he is supposed after this to have held for life. In 1507 he was advanced to the Bishopric of Meath, by Pope Julius II. and the same year called into the Privy Council by King Henry VII. And was afterwards, by the same Pope, translated to the See of Dublin, January 28, I 118 BIOGRAPHIA 1511-12, and on the 22nd of June following had restitution of the Temporalties. In 1518, he convened a Provincial Synod, the Canons of which are yet extant in the Eed Book of the Church of Ossory; and were from thence pubUshed by Sir Henry Spelnian, tom. n. page 726. See also WUkins, vol. U. page 660. He died November 29, 1521, and his body was buried (says Sir James Ware) in his own Cathedral of St. Patrick's, Du'blin, only his heart was conveyed into England, and de posited in the monument of his ancestors. This may be true, but it is directly contrary to the words of his Will, which ordered that he should be embowelled, and his bowels and heart buried in the Church of Halifax, within the choir, and his body to be buried in the new Chapel at Sandal, and thereon a tomb of stone to be made, and about the same to be written : "Ego Willielmus, Dublin, Archiepiscopus, quondam Rector istius Ecclesife, credo quod Eedemptor meus vivit — Qui obiit — cujus animae propitietur Deus, Amen." There is no proof, it must bo owned, that his body was conveyed to Sandal. That his heart and bowels were "buried at Halifax seems certain, for Wright, page 43, says, they were buried in the Chancel of Halifax Church, and over them was laid a stone, with the figure of an heart engraved thereon ; and that when the Chapel, which he had ordered to be built on the north side of Halifax Church, was finished, they were removed into it, with the stone which lay over them, which yet remains, thougli his heart and bowels may not be there, for the earth has been suffered to be opened, and once, if not oftener, the little lead box which contained them has been dug up. The Archbishop beautified and repaired the Vicarage- house at Halifax. EOOTE, HENEY. This was the person whom Mr. Tillotson (afterwards Arch bishop) consulted, in 1649, about taking the Engagement at Clare-haU, Cambridge. He published a pamphlet, intitled, "A just Apologie for the Church of Duckenfield," 4to. This was a defence of one Eaton, who was at the head of a HALIFAXIENSIS. 119 congregational Assembly there, against the I'eflections of one Edwards, and is dated from Sowerby, March 2, 1646. SAVILE, Sir JOHN, Eldest son of Henry Savile, Esq ; of Bradley, in the town ship of Stainland, in this parish, by Ellen, daughter of Mr. Eobert Eamsden, was born at Bradlfey, in 1545, and entered a Commoner of Brasen-Nose College about the year 1561 ; from whence, before he took any Degree, he v/as removed to the Middle Temple, where, being called to the Bar, he became Aut^amu Reader of that House in 1586, Steward of the Seigniory or Lordship of Wakefield, and was called to the De,n:ree and Honor of the Coif iu 1594, made one of the Barons of the Exchequer 1598; and about the same time, one of the Justices of Assize. When King James came to the Crown, he not only continued him in his Baron's place, but conferred on him, July 23, 1603, a little before his Coronation, the honour of Knighthood, being one of the Judges who were to attend that solemnity. He died at London, Feb. 2, 1606, aged sixty-one, and was buried in St. Dunstan's Clmrch in the West, in Fleet-street ; his heart being carried to Methley Church, in Yorkshire, and buried in the south aisle there, and a monument erected over it, with the figure of the deceased, cut in stoue, in his Judge's robes, and the following inscription : " M.S. Viri clarissimi et Judicis integerriini Johannis Savile, Equitis Aurati, Scaccarii Eegii Baronum unius, ac ex speciali gratia Eegis in proprio Comitatu suo Justiciarii Assiz. Filii et Heredis Henrici Savile, de Overbradley, in Stainland, juxta Eland, in isto agro Eboracen. Armig. ex antiqua Savillorum prosapia oriundi. Que sedo die Februarii, Anno Dom. 1600, retatis 61. Londini (ubi corpus ejus in Ecclesia Sancti Dunstaui iu Occidente iiihuniatur. Cor vero secundo hie inter Antecessores) placidissime in Domino obdormivit. "Vir fuit pietatis zelo, ingenii perspicatia, morum suavit- ate, rerum Principis et Patriae agendarum dexteritate, variis et exquisitis animi dotibus undique conspicuus. "Ex uxore prima, Jana. filia Eichardi Garth, de Morden, in Com. Surr. Armigeri, habuit Henricum Savile, postea MUitem et Baronettum, ia hoc tumulis repositum; Elizabeth- am, uxorem Henrici Gooderick, Militis, modo viventem. 120 BIOGRAPHIA Ex uxore secunda, Elisabetha, filia Thomas Wentworth, de Elmshall, in Co. Ebor. Armig. habuit Johannem Savile, superstitem, prefati Fratris sui successorem et hasredem pro- pinquum, et Helenam, quse in minovie £etate obiit. "Patri pientissimo filius obsequntissimus superstes sup radictus hoc amoris memoraculo par.entavit." Camden, vol. ii., page 857, sais, that his work was much indebted to the learning of this Sir John Savile, and. himself to his civility. He left behind him at his death several pieces fit for the press, of which only the following is made public, " Eeports of divers special Cases, as well in the Court of Common Pleas as of the Exchequer, in the time of Queen Elizabeth." London, 1675, in a thin folio, printed in old French, in a black character, and published by John Eichardson, of the Inner Temple. SAVILE, Sir HENEY, Brother to Sir John, last named, was born at Bradley afore said, November 30, 1549. In the beginning of the year 1561, he was admitted into Merton College, Oxford, and January 14, 1565, 'took the degree of B.A., soon after which he was elected Fellow of Merton. April 30, 1570, he pro ceeded M.A. reading for that degree on the Almagest of Ptolemy, which procured him the reputation of a man wonderfully skilled in the Greek language, and the Mathe matics. In this last he voluntarUy read a public Lecture in the Umversity for some time. Having now great interest, he was elected Proctor for two years together, viz. 1575 and 1576, an honour not very common, for as the Proctors were then chosen out of the whole body of the University, by the Doctors and Masters, and the election was not, as now, con fined to particular Colleges, none but men of learning, and such as had considerable interest, durst aspire to that honor. In 1578, he travelled ,into France, and other countries, where improving himself in several branches of useful learn ing, and the knowledge of the world, he returned a very accomplished gentleman ; and was made Tutor for the Greek tongue to Queen Elizabeth, who very much approved of him. In 1585, he was chosen Warden of Merton College, through the Queen's favor ; and in 1596, she made him Provost of Eaton College. King James I. expressed a particular regard HALIFAXIENSIS. 121 for him, and would have advanced him either in State or Church, but he declined it, and only accepted of the honor of Knighthood from him at Windsor, September 21, 1604. About that time, losing his only son, he thenceforth devoted his time and fortune to the interests of learning. In 1619, he founded two Lectures, or Professorships, in the University of Oxford, one for Geometry, and the other for Astronomy, which he endowed with a salary of £160 a year each, besides a legacy of £600 for purchasing more lands for the same use. He also furnished a library with mathematical books, near the Mathematical School, for the use of his Professors. He gave £100 to the mathematical chest of his own appointing ; adding afterwards a legacy of £40 a year to the same chest, and to the University and his Professors jointly. He gave likewise £120 towards the new building of the Schools ; several rare manuscripts, and printed books to the Bodleian Library, and a good quantity of matrices, and Greek types, to the Printing-press at Oxford. Part of the endowment of the above Professorships was the manor of Little Hays, in Essex, as appears from Morant, vol. i, page 41. Sir Henry died February 19, 1621-2, at Eaton College, and was buried in the Chapel there, on the south side of the communion table, near the body of his son Henry, with this inscription over him, on a black marble stone : "Hie jacent ossa et cineres Henrici Savill, sub spe certa resurrectionis ; natus apud Bradley, juxta Hallifax, in Com- itatio Ebor. Anno Dom. 1549, ultimo die mensis Novembris ; obiit in CoUegio Etonensi, Anno Dom. 1621, 19 die mensis, Februarii. A sumptuous monument was also erected to his memory on the south wall, at the upper end of the choir of the Church, adjoining to Merton College, with the following inscription : M.S. HENEICUS SAVILE, MILES, pi ,, -. ( Mertonensis Custos, ° "'' I Etonensis Prtepositus. Svi Exvvias corporis frustra sit qui hie qusera. Servat prsenobile depositum Etona, Perennem virtvtvm ac behefactorvm memoriam 122 BIOGRAPHIA Quibus collegium utrumq ; Q. Academiam imprimis Oxoniensem complexus est, Ipsumq ; adeo Mviidvm habet sibi debendi revm, Affectvs insvper pientissimte Uxoris, Possidet iste lapis. B.M.P. Margareta, Conjvx obseqventissima. In hoc vno qvod pos-vit pie immorigera. Obiit Ao Dni M.DCXXI, Febrvar. xix. The works of this learned man, are, 1. An English translation of part of Tacitus. London, 1581, fol. He added some notes, which Isaac Gruter trans lated into Latin, and published at Amsterdam, in 1649, 12mo. 2. A view of certain military Matters, or' Commentaries concerning Eoman warfare. Folio, London, 1598. Trans lated into Latin by Freherus, Heidelberg, 1601, but having become exceeding scarce, was re-printed by Gruter, who- subjoined it to the notes above-mentioned. 3. Eerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam praecipui. Fol. London, 1596, 1699, and at Frankfort 1601. This collection contains Malmesbury's History, Hoveden's Annals, Ethelwerd's Chronicles, &c. Wharton (Pref. Anglia Sacra,) sais that Sir Henry printed Malmesbury's History from an incorrect manuscript. It seems as if the above Historians were expected by Sir Henry to have come from a more noble hand than his own, as may be collected from the following Letter of his amongst the Harleian MSS. Brit. Museum, No. 374, folio 24, directed to his most speciall good frend Ma^'. John Stowe, ui Cornewall, in London. " After my most hartie commendacions, being verie glad and desirous to heare from you, trustinge in our Lord that you be in good health, or els I might be hertelye sorie, for that I have founde at all tymes good favoure of youe since our first acquaintance, and other acquaintance in London I have none but that I have by your means, as good Master Hare, unto whom I pray youe commende me, and desire him to let me understande in what towordsnes his good workes for the priveleges of Oxforth is ; and forther I besech you to certifye me, if Wigornensis is printed, and wheare I may sende to buye it, and the price ; and gladlye of all other I woulde understande that your last booke weare forthe, that I might sende unto you for one or twoe for my money. HALIFAXIENSIS. 123 Forther I woulde understande if my Lord's Grace be aboute to print Eoger Howden, Maulbesburie, and Huntingtone, and in what forwardnes they be. Good owlde Frend lett me have your letter in the premisses, and, God willinge, it shall be recompensed or it be longe ; and I must forther desire you to have answere by this bearer at this time. From HaUfaxe, this first of May, By your lovinge Frende, Heney Savill. The following Letter, taken from the said manuscript, No. 530, folio 1, will shew, I think, in what year the above was written., "Mr. Stowe. " After my hartie commendacions, your letter, dated the tenthe of May, I rec'eaved at Halyfax with thanks, and synce I am come to Oxford, wheare I made enquirie to knowe weare the booke showlde bee that Master Hare showlde sende hyther, as your letter dyd ymporte, and as yet I can not heere of the same, thearfore I desyer you to goo unto the good Gentleman, Master Hare, m my name, and re- qweste hym to let me understande by whome, and abowte what tyme, hee sente the booke, and to what place hee made his direction, and whoo showlde have the custodie theairof, for greate pitie yt weare that so worthie worke showlde be embeazeled ; and I pray you with speede to certefy me in ¦writynge and delyver your letter at the signe of the Owle, that yt maye be delivered unto the Carryer, Eichard Barker, who commethe homeward on Wensdaye nexte. "Further I praye you let me knowe whoo is the Prenter of Wygornensis, and wheare he dwellethe, and who is the Prenter of your booke. I have heere sente you a mild six pence to dryncke a qwarte of wyne in your traveil. Thus wisshinge you healthe, I byd you farewell. Oxon, this Sonedaye Trinite, 21 Mali, 1592, your lovinge Friend, Henry Savill. "Directe your letters, I praye, to Master Henrie Shir- bourne, over agaynste Merton CoUedge, to be delyvered to me." 124 BIOGRAPHIA 4. Sir Henry next published a fine edition of St. Chrysos- tom's Works, -with this title in the middle of a weU-engraved copper-plate " S. Johannis Chrysostomi Opera, Graece, octo voluminibus, Etonte, in CoUegio Regaii, 1613." In the pre face he tells the Reader, " that he had visited himself, about twelve years before, all the public and private libraries in Britain, and copied out from thence whatever he thought useful for his design ; and had then sent learned men into France, Germany, Italy, and the East, to transcribe such parts as he had not akeady, and to collate others with the best manuscripts, acknowledging that he had received con siderable assistance from several learned foreigners there mentioned." In the Sth volume are inserted Sir Henry's own Notes, with those of the learned John Bois, Thomas Allen, Andrew Downes, &o. The whole charge of this impression cost Sir Henry eight thousand pounds. As soon as it was finished, the Bishops and Clergy of France employed Fronto Ducseus, a learned Jesuit, to reprint it at Paris, with a Latin translation, which lessened the price of Sir Henry's edition ; yet we are told, that the thousand copies which he printed were all sold. This work requked such long and close application, that Sir Henry's Lady thought herself neglected, and coming to him one day into his study, she said " Sir Henry, I would I were a Book too, and then you would a little more respect me ! " To wbich one standing by, replied, " You must then be an Almanack, Madam, that he might change every year." Which answer displeased her. The same Lady, a little before Chrysostome was finished, when Sir Henry lay sick, said, "If Sir Harry died, she would burn Chrysostome for killing her husband." Which Mr. Bois hearing, told her, " that would be a great pity, for he was one of the sweetest Preachers since the Apostles' times ; -with whioh she was so well satisfied, that she said, " She would not do it for all the world." 5. Thomfe Bradwardini, Archiepiscopi olim Cantuariensis, de Causa Dei contra Pelagium. Londini, 1618, fol. This book was printed from six MS. copies, carefully coUated with each other. He has prefixed thereto Bradwardine's Life, compiled by himself. It is dedicated to K. James, and con cludes with what Sir Henry calls, "Ad suos Mertonenses Epistola posterior." HALIFAXIENSIS. 125 6. Nazianzen's Steliteutics, 1610. Towards this, he was favoured with the MS. Epistles ,of Nazianzen out of the Bodleian Library, which was a singular courtesy, and done because of his affection to the storing, and preserving of the Library. Oldys' Brit. Libr. 247. 7. Xenophon's Institution of Cyrus, Gr. 1613, 4to. 8. Prtelectiones tresdecim in principium Elementorum Euclidis, Oxoniae habitfe. Oxon, 1621, 4to. These were his own Lectures ; some of them when he was Junior Master. 9. Oratio coram Regina Elizabetha, Oxonife habita An. 1592, published by Mr. (afterwards Bishop) Barlow, in 1658, from the original in the Bodleian Library, and also by Dr. John Lamphire, in the second edition of Monarchia Britan nica, Oxford, 1681, Svo. 10. Latin Translations of K. James the First's Apology for the Oath of Allegiance. 11. Six Letters of his, wrote to Hugo Blotius, and Sebastian Tengnagelius. Lambecius, vol. 3. 12. Four Letters of his to Mr. Camden. Camdeni Epistolfe, &c. 13. One Letter of his, 4th vol. of Strype's Annals. Be sides these, it should be remembered, that he was concerned in the new Translation of the Bible, now in use, done by the command of King James I. being one of the eight persons at Oxford who undertook to translate the four Gospels, Acts, and Revelations. He also left behind him several manuscripts, some of whioh are now in the Bodleian Library, such as, 1. Orations, 2. Tract of the Original of Monasteries. 3. Tract concerning the Union of England and Scotland, written at the command of King James I. He also made several notes with his pen in many of his books, particularly in Eusebius's Ecclesias tical History, made use of by Henry Valesius in his edition of that History, in 1659. Likewise in those books which he gave to the Mathematical Library in the School Tower, in Oxford, and in many others. Sir Henry is mentioned as a Member of the Society of Antiquaries, in the Introduction to the Miscellaneous Tracts, reMting to Antiquity, pubUshed by the Society of Antiquaries of London, in 1770, page 21. So well did he deserve the character given of him, that he was Musarum Patronus et Literarum Maecenas, being an encourager of all sorts of 126 BIOGRAPHIA useful learning, and universally well spoken of by all disin terested Scholars. There is a painting of him in the Picture Gallery at Oxford.SAVILE, THOMAS, Younger brother to Sir John and Sir Henry just mentioned, born likewise at Over Bradley, in Stainland, was admitted Probationer Fellow of Merton College, in 1580, and after wards proceeding in Arts, he went abroad, and travelling through various countries, improved himself in several parts of learning. After his return, he became, through the in terest of his brother, one of the FeUows of Eaton CoUege, where he did credit to his brother's choice, being reckoned amongst the first rate Scholars. He was made Proctor of Oxford, AprU 5, 1592, and died the 12th of January follow ing, at London ; from whence his body was removed to Oxford, and interred with great solemnity in the choir of Merton College Church, the following eulogium to his mem ory, being entered in the Register of that House: "Fuit Sidus lucidissimum, qui apud suos, et exteros, literarum et virtutis fama ac morum urbanitate percelebris, &c." He wrote, " Epistolse varite ad illustres viros." Fifteen of these were wrote to Camden, and are published by Dr. Thomas Smith, of Magdalen College, Oxford, in a book intitled, "V. Cl. Gulielmi Cambdeni, et illustrium Virorum ad G. Cambdenum Epistolfe, etc." London, 1691, 4to. This was the reason why Camden, in his Preliminary Dis course to the Brigantes, calls this Thomas his learned friend in 1582 ; and it is something strange that Wood, in his Fasti, page 127, should have any doubt of this being the same person, when, in his Athense, he had mentioned the above fifteen Letters. SAVILE, HENRY, Of Shaw-hUl, in Skircoat, in this parish, commonly called Long Harry Savile, waa of the Saviles of Bank, near HaUfax, entered a student of Merton College in 1587, (his kinsman, Mr. Henry Savile, being then Warden,) and was soon after made one of the Portionists, commonly called Postmasters. After he had taken the Degree of B.A. he left Merton CoUege, and retired to St. Alban-hall, where, in 1595, he HALIFAXIENSIS. 127 took the Degree of M.A. Being all this time under the inspection of his kinsman, he became an eminent Scholar, especiaUy in the Mathematics, Physic, (in which faculty he was admitted by the University to practise, )' Chemistry, Painting, Heraldry, and Antiquities. Afterwards for the completing of his knowledge, he travelled into Italy, France, and Germany, where he greatly improved himself. He wrote several things, but, I think, committed nothing to the press. He gave Camden the "Antient exemplar of Asser Meneven- sis," which he published in 1602, and which contains the story of the discord between the new Scholars which Grim- bald brought with him to Oxford, at the restoration of the University by King Alfred with the old Clerks which Grim- bald found there. This Henry Savile lived for some years after his return from foreign countries, in the parish of St. Martin in the Fields, near London, and died there April 29th, 1617, aged forty-nine years, and was buried in the Chancel belonging to the parish Church there, a monument being set over his grave on the north wall, with his bust to the middle, carved in stone, and painted, the right hand resting on a book, and the left on a death's head. The in scription worn out. One Henry Savile, Esq ; was Captain of the Adventure under Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins, against the Spaniards in the West Indies, and wrote a book called, "A Libel of Spanish Lies found at the Sack of Cales, discoursing the Fight in the West Lidies between the English and the Spaniards, and of the death of Sir Francis Drake ; with an Answer, confuting the said Spanish Lies, &c." London, 1596. This was an answer to a letter wrote by the Spanish General, asserting that Sir Francis Drake died of Grief, because he had lost so many barks and men, and that the English Fleet fled from the Spaniards in 1695. This Captain Savile is supposed to have been a relation of the above. In Queen Elizabeth's time, three Henry Saviles of York shire, were matriculated as Members of Merton College, Oxford, viz. one, son of Plebeian, in 1588, another, son of an Esquire, in 1593, and a third, son of an Esquire, in 1595. 128 BIOGRAPHIA STANSFIELD, ELY, Of Sowerby, published a book called " Psalmody epitomised ; being a brief collection of plain and useful Psalm tunes, both old and new, in four parts, with a plain and familiar intro duction, by way of question and answer." A second edition of this was printed in London in 1731. These tunes are most of them the old Church tenors, in use above an hundred years ago. The contra, medius, and bassus, the Author has added. He has likewise intermixed several tunes wholly of his own composition. The introduction seems to be a good one. Amongst several local tunes, he has given us "Warley" new tune to Psalm c ; and " Sowerby" tune to Psalm xcvui. SLADDIN, JOHN, Of Ovenden, in this parish, printed a pamphlet intitled, "A ' brief Description of the Methodists, and a Confutation of their dangerous Principles." York, 1749. Svo. It has a short Address to the Archbishop of York, and a Preface to the Reader. SMITH, MATTHEW, Was born in the city of York, in 1650, and was sent, after he had made a sufficient progress in classical learning, to the University of Edinburgh, where he took the degree of M.A. Soon after his return from thence he began his Min istry amongst the Dissenters, preaching alternately at Warley and Mixenden, in this parish. At the last of these places, he had only, at the beginning, one person (whose name was John Hanson) to encourage his preaching, the Dissenters from the establishment in that neighbourhood being then chiefly Antimonians. The Civil Magistrates being at that time severe with such Nonconformists as held any pubUc assemblies, he was obliged to preach privately, often in the night, and to hide himself from their resentment ; and though parties of soldiers were frequently detached to secure him, he was always fortunate enough to elude their ¦vigilance, and at last when times were more settled, he had a flourishing congregation. One part of his life he was settled at York, but was forced to fly from thence into the parish of Halifax, to avoid the opposition which he met with. He was offered a living in HALIFAXIENSIS. 129 the Church of £200 per annum, but having some scruples about conformity, he declined it. Towards the latter part of his life he was afflicted with the palsy, and died April 29. 1736, aged 85, and was buried at Mixenden. He wrote a book with this title, " The true notion of imputed Righteousness, and our Justification there by, &c., by the Rev. M. S., a Country Minister, London, 1700, 8vo., to which is added, "A .Defence of the foregoing Doctrine, against some glowing Opposition among Neighbors, Ministers, and others." Printed in the same year. He also wrote a Treatise concerning the Decrees of God, the manu script of which was in the late Mr. Thoresby's Museum. See Topog. p. 543. There are likewise printed of his, five Sermons : to which the Editor, the Rev. Mr. John Smith, first a Dissenting Minister at Mixenden, afterwards at Bradford, in Yorkshire, and son of the above Matthew, has prefixed his father's life, and added three discourses of his own. London, 1737. The above John Smith died at Bradford, April 7, 176S, after a severe stroke of the palsy, or, as some thought, a disorder of the convulsive kind, which carried him off in about four days. TAYLOR, JOHN, Concerning whose birth Dr. Plot, in his History of Stafford shire, page 277, says, "that it seldom falls out that three children are born together, either perfect or living, and yet this happened at Barton, in Staffordshire ; one Taylor, who lived in a Uttle cottage there, having three sons at a birth, which being presented as a rarity to King Henry VII. as he came that way (perhaps to hunt in Needwood), he orderad them to be put to school ; and they all lived to be men, and to be Doctors, coming to good preferment." At page 296, the same Author tells us, "that this John Taylor, who was then Dr. of Laws, Archdeacon of Derby and Buckingham, and was Master of the Rolls in the time of King Hen. VIII. and the oldest of the three above- mentioned, built, in 1517, the Chapel of Barton, on or near the place where the cottage stood wherein he was born, as appeared from the inscriptions in Saxon characters, in re lieve work, over every other pUlar of the north and south sides of the Nave of the said Chapel : 180 BIOGRAPHIA Over the first piUar, "J. T. horum trium* GemeUorum natu maximus," Over the third, " Decretorum Doctor, et Sacrorum Can- onum Professor ; " Over the fifth, "Archidiaconus Derbiae et Bukkynham, nee non et " Over the seventh, "Magister Rotulorum, illustrissimi Eegis H.VIII. An. Reg. sui 20." On the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth pillars were X^laced interchangeably his coat of arms. Wood, in his Fasti, vol. i. page 34, informs us, that this John Taylor, Dr. of Decrees, and of the Sacred Canons beyond the Seas, having been lately incorporated at Cam bridge, desired the same favour at Oxford, which was granted; adding, that he had been Rector of Sutton Cole- field, in Warwickshire, Clerk of the Parliaments which sat in 1515, (in the seventh year of the reign of Henry VIII.) and Prolocutor of the Convocation of the Clergy, which was dissolved December 21, the same year; that he was made Master of the Rolls in 1528, having before been employed in several embassies beyond the seas, and discharged in 1534; that he succeeded Eokesby, Archbishop of Dublin, in the Vicarage of Halifax, and died in 1534. Willis, in his Survey of Cathedrals, vol. i , p. 440, sais, that this Dr. Taylor was made Prebendary of Litchfield, being admitted to the Prebend of Eccleshall there, Jan. 8, 1508, which he quitted in 1532. His Archdeaconry of Derby he resigned in 1528, but his other Archdeaconry he seems to have held till his death. TILLOTSON, JOHN, Born at Haugh-end, in the township of Sowerby, in this XJarish. There is the less reason to be particular about the actions of his life, on account of the following publications, viz. "1. The Life of the most revd. Father in God John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury, compiled from the minutes of the revd. Mr. Young, late Dean of Salisbury. By F. H. M. A. with many curious memoirs, communicated by the late right revd. Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum." London, 1717, Svo. * This should have been TrimeUomm. HALIFAXIENSIS. 131 " 2 The Life of the most revd. Dr. John Tillotson, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, compiled chiefly from his original Papers, and Letters.— By Thomas Birch, D.D." London, Svo. 1753, second edition. 3. His Life inserted in the Biographia Britannica, page 3944. We shall, therefore, only take notice of what these, and others have omitted. It is very remarkable, that Wright, in his Hist' of Halifax, page 154, speaking of the dispute relating to the Archbishop's being baptized in the Church, says, " I myself have twenty times looked at his name in the register, and to the best of my remembrance, there were four others christened the same day with him, whose names were all wrote down in the same hand, and same ink, without the least interlineation." Such an information as this, one would think, might be depended upon as exact ; and yet when we searched the same Eegister, we found his name to be the last of seven, who were baptised together, and entered in these words, "Bapt. Octr. 3, 1630, John Eobert Tilletson, Sourb." The-foUowing original Letter, which is in my possession, seems not to have been known to any of the Compilers of the Archbishop's Life. "For his much respecd. frend Mr. Eoote, att Sorbey, are these. in Yorkeshke. " Sir, " To excuse the slownes and infrequency of writeing, is growne a thing soe complementall and common in the front- ispeece of every letter, that I have made choice rather to put myselfe upon your candor to frame an excuse for mee, then goe about my selfe to doe it. " I cannot but thankefuUy acknowledge my engagements to you for your kindnes showne to mee, both when I was in the country, and at other times ; I shall not here let my pen run out into complementall lines, gratitude (and that as much as may bee) being all that I desire to expresse. " As for our University affayres, things are as they was [so in original] before I came into the country, only wee have lesse hopes of procuring Mr. Thomas Goodwin for our Master then we then had. Wee are in expectation of the 132 BIOGRAPHIA Visitors every day, but what ¦wUl be done at their comming wee cannot guesse. " The Engagement is either comming downe hither, or (as I heare) already come, to which how soone wee shaU bee caUed upon to subscribe, wee knowe not ; as for my selfe I do not (for present) at all scruple the taking of it, yet be cause I dare not confinde too much to my owne judgement, or apprehension of things, and because matters of such serious consequence require no little caution and consider ation, therefore I shaU desire you (as soone as with con venience you can) to returne mee your opinion of it in too or three lines. " Mr. Eich. Holbrooke desired me to present his respects to you and your wife, to whome alsoe I desire you to present my best respects, as alsoe to your son. Job. Hopkinson, and his wife. Noe more, but your prayers for him who remains. Yours whilst JOH. TILLOTSON." Clare-HaU, Dec. 6, 1649. What sort of answer was given to the above, does not appear, but as Mr. Eoote, who at that time was Preacher at Sowerby Chapel, was one of the Puritans, it is probable that he would not dissuade Mr. TUlotson from complying -with that Engagement here mentioned, which was an Act sub stituted in the room of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supre macy, and was ordered to be taken by every one who held either Office, or Benefice, " that they would be true aud faithful to the Government estabUshed, without King or House of Peers. Add to this, that Mr. TUlotson, who at that time was an Under-graduate of Clare-haU, and very young, was imder the care of Mr. Clarkson, a Tutor there, who also was a Puritan, and attached to the Government then in being. It does not appear however, that Mr. TiUotson long adhered to the principles, especiaUy the religious ones, which he may have been supposed to have received either from his Father, or College Tutor, for his -writings breathe a quite different spirit from the stiff rigid sentiments of those times; in particular, when Dean of Canterbury, he preached before his father at Sowerby Chapel, against the doctrine of Calvin, HALIFAXIENSIS. 183 probably with an intent to rectify his father's notions ; and one Dr. Maud, who had frequent disputes with the Arch bishop's father about predestination, asking him, how he liked his son's discourse ? the old man replied, in his usual way when he" asserted anything with earnestness, "I pro fess he has done more harm than good." The following anecdote was told by the late Eev'd. Mr. Tillotson, Sur-master of St. Paul's School, who had it from Dr. Seeker, when Bishop of Oxford. — When the famous Duke of Buckingham presented Dr. Tillotson to King Charles II. after saying that he introduced to his Majesty the gravest Divine of the Church of England, he stepped forward, and in a lower tone said to the King, "And of so much wit, that if he chose it, he could make a better comedy than ever your Majesty laughed at." ¦ But on what grounds the Duke said this we cannot con ceive, for the Doctor has left no specimen of this kind of wit behind him. Perhaps he had an inclination to serve the Doctor, and knew that this was one effectual way to recom mend him to the King. It is commonly said about Sowerby, that Eobert Tillotson went to London to see his son, then Dean of Canterbury, and being in the dress of a plain countryman, was insulted by one of the Dean's servants, for enquiring if John Tillotson was at home ; his person, however, being described to the Dean, he immediately went to the door, and in the sight of his servants fell down upon his knees to ask a blessing of the stranger. TILSON, HENEY, Born, as it is said, in the parish of Halifax, but in what particular part is uncertain. The name has been common in several townships there, especially in Sowerby and Oven den. He was entered a Student at Baliol College, Oxford, in 1593, was made B.A. in 1596, soon after which he got a Fellowship in University College, and there took his degree of M.A. In October 1615, he succeeded E. Kenion in the Vicarage of Eochdale, in Lancashire, where, after he had resided some years, he went Chaplain to Thomas Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who made him Dean of Christ 184 BIOGEAPHIA Church, in Dublin, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dublin, and Bishop of Elphin, to which he was consecrated September 23, 1639 ; but this he did not long enjoy, on account of the rebellion which soon after broke out. Sir James Ware, in his History of the Irish Bishops, page 635, says, that on the 16th of August, 1645, he delivered the castle of Elphin into the hands of the Lord President of Connaught ; his son. Captain Henry Tilson, who was Gov ernor of Elphin, having just before joined with Sir Charles Coot in opposition to the King's interest. And about the same time, his library and goods were pillaged by Boetius Egan, the titular Bishop of Elphin, his damages amounting to the sum of four hundred pounds. He himself fled for safety into England, and settled at Soot- hill-hall, in the parish of Dewsbury, where some of his relations lived, and where he resided three years, intending to have returned, but never did. Having thirteen persons, however, in his family, and being stript of his income, he was obliged to have recourse to such means fot subsistence as his station in the Church put in his power ; for this purpose he consecrated a room in the said Hall, called to this day the Bishop's Parlour, where he privately ordained, and did weekly the offices of a Clergy man, some of his neighbours being both hearers and bene factors to him ; till Sir WiUiam Wentworth, of Breton, out of compassion to his distressed circumstances, employed him to preach at Comberworth, allowing him a salary to support him. Thus was this Prelate obliged to stoop to become a country Curate ! The following extract from the Register belonging to Dewsbury Church, shews when and where he was interred. " Henry Lord Bishop of Elphin, buried the 2d day of April, 1655." In the south-east corner of the said Church, in a Chapel which belonged to the SoothUls, of Soothill, is a monument on the wall, with this inscription : "P.M. Reverendi in Christo Patris HENRICI TILSON, Hen. F. Episcopi Elphinensis In Hibernia, HALIFAXIENSIS. 135 Nati Ao 1576, juxta Halifax, In Agro Eboracenci, Denati 31 Die MartU, A" 1655, in eodem Agro. Viri ob Eruditionem et Pietatem Insignis. Parentis charissimi P. Nathan Tilson. Hen. F. Hen. N." The Arms on this monument are, Or, a bend cotised be tween two garbs azure, charged with a mitre of the field, which are so like the Arms of Tillotson, that one would almost imagine that their names, if not their families, were originally the same. I have credibly been informed, that the late James Tilson, Esq., who died at Cadiz, said this Bishop's family came originally from Tilston, in Cheshire ; if so, they were absolutely the same. For a nephew of the Bishop's, see Walpole's Anecdotes of Paintings, vol. iu., p. 103, edit. 1763. The Tilsons long farmed Soothill-hall ; they were there in 1748. TOPHAM, EDWARD, Was Schoolmaster at the Free Grammar-school, near Hali fax, and published a Sermon, preached at Selby, in Yorkshire. Wright, page 25, calls him Matthew. WATKINSON, EDWARD, Was M.D. Eector of Little Chart, in Kent, and some time Curate of Luddenden Chapel, in this parish. Having had his house at Little Chart broke open and plundered, he was so terrified with what was done, that he durst not live any longer in that neighbourhood, but removed to Ackworth, near Pontefract, in Yorkshire,- where he died, Oct. 19, 1767. He published, "An Essay on OUconomy," (of which he printed four editions, chiefly to give away.) "An Essay upon Gratitude." " An Admonition to the younger Clergy;" a recommendation of whieh may be seen in the Christian's Magazine for January, 1765, page 29. 136 BIOGEAPHIA WATSON, JOHN, The Author of this* book, was the eldest son of Legh Watson, by Hesther, daughter, and at last heiress, of Mr. John Yates, of Swinton, in Lancashire. He was born in the township of Lyme-cum-Hanley, in the parish of Prestbury, in Cheshire, March 26, 1724, O.S. and having been brought up at the Grammar-schools of Eccles, Wigan, and Manchester, all in Lancashire, he was admitted a Commoner in Brazen-nose College, Oxford, April 7, 1742. In Michaelmas Term, 1745, he took the Degree of B.A. June 27, 1746, he was elected a FeUow of Brazen-nose College, being chosen into a Cheshire Fellowship, as being a Prestbury parish man. On the title of his Fellowship, he was ordained a Deacon at Chester, by Dr. Samuel Peploe, Bishop of Chester, December 21, 1746. After his year of Probation, as Fellow, was ended and his residence at Oxford no longer required, he left the College ;¦ and his first employment in the Church, was the Curacy of Euncorn, in Cheshire; here he staid only three months, and removed from thence to Ardwick, near Manchester, where he was an Assistant Curate at the Chapel there, and private Tutor to the three sons of Samuel Birch, of Ardwick, Esq. During his residence here, he was privately ordained a Priest at Chester, by the above Dr. Peploe, May 1, 1748, and took the Degree of M.A. at Oxford, in Act Term, the same year. From Ardwick he removed to Halifax, and was Ucensed to the Curacy there Oct. 17, 1750, by Dr. Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York. June 1, 1752, he married Susanna, daughter and heiress of the late Revd. Mr. AUon, Vicar of Sandbach, in Cheshire, vacating thereby his Fellowship at Oxford. September 3, 1754, he was licensed by the above Dr. Hutton, on the presentation of George Legh, LL.D. Vicar of Halifax, to the Perpetual Curacy of Eipponden, in the parish of Halifax. Here he rebuilt the Curate's house, at his own expence, laying out above four hundred pounds upon the same, which was more than a fourth part of the whole sum he there received, notwithstanding which, his worthy suc cessor threatened him with a prosecution in the Spiritual Court, if he did not aUow him ten pounds for dilapidations, which, for the sake of peace, he complied with. • "Watson's "HaHfax," 4to., London, 1775. HALIFAXIENSIS. 137 February 17, 1759, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in London, being invited to accept of that honour by the Eight Hon. the Lord Willoughby, of Parham, President of that Society. July 11, 1761, he was married at Ealand, in Halifax parish, to Ann, daughter of Mr. James Jaques, of Leeds, Merchant. August 17, 1766, he was inducted to the Rectory of Men- ingsby, in Lincolnshire, being presented thereto by the Right Hon. Lord Strange, then Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster, which he resigned in the year 1769, on being promoted to the valuable Rectory of Stockport in Cheshire. His presentation to this, by Sir George Warren, bore date July 30, 1769, and he was inducted thereto August the 2d following. April 11, 1770, he was appointed one of the Domestic Chaplains to the Right Hon. the Earl of Dysart. April 24, 1770, having received his Dedimus for acting as a Justice of the Peace in the county of Chester, he was sworn into that office on that day. He has published, 1. a Discourse from Philipp. iv. 5. preached in Halifax Church, July 28, 1751, intitled. Moder ation ; or, a candid Disposition towards those that differ from us, recommended and enforced : with a Preface, con taining the reason of its publication. The first impression of this being quickly sold, it passed through a second edition. 2. An Apolygy for his Conduct yearly, on the 30th of January, printed at Manchester, in Svo. and annexed to this, is a Sermon preached in Ripponden-chapel, on the SOth of January, 1755, from Romans xni. 4. intitled, "Kings should obey the Laws." .8. A Letter to the Clergy of the Church, known by the name of Unitas Fratrum, or Moravians, concerning a re markable Book of Hymns used in their Congregations, pointing out several Inconsistencies and Absurdities in the said Book. — This also was printed at Manchester, in 1756, Svo. 4. Some account of a Roman Station lately discovered on the borders of Yorkshire, read before the Society of Anti quaries, Feb. 20, 1786, and printed in the Archaeologia, vol. i., p. 215. 138 BIOGEAPHIA 5. A mistaken passage in Bede's Eccles. Hist, explained; read Feb. 27, 1766, Arch, i., p. 221. 6. Druidical Remains in or near the parish of Halifax, discovered and explained; read Nov. 21, 1771. Arch, ii., p. 353. This last is reprinted in the History of HaUfax, ¦with alterations. Also several other fugitive pieces of his have been pub lished in different periodical Papers without his name ; and he has in manuscript, ready for the press,* An History of the Antient Earls of Warren and Surry, proving the Warrens qf Poynton, in Cheshire, to be lineally and legally descended from them. He is also preparing to publish the Antiquities of a part of the County of Chester ; likewise those of a part of the County of Lancaster. WILKINSON, HENRY, Born (sais Wood, Athena, ii., p. 112,) in the Vicarage of Halifax, October 9, 1566 ; entered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1581 ; eleoted Probationer Fellow of Merton College, by favour of his kinsman, Mr. Henry Savile, the Warden, in 1586; proceeded in Arts; took the Degree of B.D. and in 1601 had the Living of "Waddesdon, in Bucks. In 1643 he was elected one of the Assembly of Divines ; and dying March 19, 1647, was buried at Waddesdon. He wrote, 1. A Catechism for the Use of the Congregation of Waddesdon, which has been several times printed in octavo ; and the fourth impression came out at London in 1637. 2. The Debt Book, or a Treatise on Romans xiii. 8., wherein is handled the civil debt of money or goods. London, 1625. octavo ; and some other things. He had a son Henry, for whom see Wood's Athena ii., p. 543. WILKINSON, JOHN. In Bentley's History of Halifax, page 81, it is said, that "Doctor Wilkinson was born in Halifax parish, and brought up in Oxford, where he attained to that eminency in learn ing, as to become Divinity Professor in that University." This we take to have been the same who is said in Wood's Fasti, vol. i. page 173. to have had the honour, when he was B.D. and FeUow of Magdalen CoUege, to be appointed * Afterwards printed. HALIFAXIENSIS. 139 Tutor to Henry Prince of Wales, eldest son of King James I. He was afterwards President of Magdalen Hap, and finally, President of Magdalen CoUege. It seems that the Doctor fled from- Oxford to the Parliament, and was deprived of his Presidentship. WRIGHT, THOMAS, Born at Blackburn, in Lancashke, August 12, 1707, was educated in the Grammar School there founded by Q. Eliz. about 1567 ; took the Degree of B.A. at St. John's College, Cambridge ; was several years Curate of Halifax, which he left in the year 1750, being then presented to the Curacy of Eipponden. i He died in June 1754, having wrote " The Antiquities of the Town of Halifax, in Yorkshire ; wherein is given an account of the Town, Church, and twelve Chapels, the Free Grammar School, a List of the Vicars and School-masters ; the ancient and customary Law, called Halifax Gibbet Law, with the names of the Persons that sufi'ered thereby, and the Times when ; the public Charities to Church and Poor ; the Men of Learning, whether Natives or Inhabitants ; together -with the most remarkable Epitaphs and Inscriptions in the Church and Church Yard. The whole faithfuUy collected from printed Authors, RoUs of Courts, Registers, Old Wills, and other authentic Writings." Leeds, 1738. With a Pre face. It is remarkable that Mr. Wright was my immediate pre decessor in both the Curacies of Halifax and Ripponden, and that we have both wrote the Antiquites of Halifax. COATS OF ARMS. There is in this [HaUfax] church an antient and very curious wooden cover to the font, which font the register teUs us was re-erected in 1660. Also the royal arms, placed between the body, of the church and the chancel, and facing both. On account of these, there is the foUowing entry in an old church book : " 1704, paid to John Aked, for Queen's arms, in part, ten pounds fifteen shillings." 140 BIOGEAPHIA This John Aked was an inhabitant of Halifax, and has put his name thereon ; it is said, however, that they were finished in London ; be this as it will, both the arms and supporters are done in a very masterly manner. On the roof of this church are painted, in different compart ments, the following arms, (1.) Wilkinson; (2.) Archbishop TUlotson; (8.) Savile, impaled with four others, viz. 1st, Gules, three lions passant guardant ; 2dly, Howard ; 3dly, Warren ; 4thly, Gules, a lion rampant argent. ( 4.) Arch bishop Sharp ; (5.) Lister; (6.) Farrer, a martlet for differ ence ; ( 7.) Farrer, no distinction. ( 8.) Sable, a chevron between three escallops argent. — ( 9.) Cockcroft, of Mayroid, but the colours, as I apprehend, mistaken ; a. martlet for difference; (10.) Same arms, crescent for difference; (11.) Greenwood, impaled with another coat, forgot. — (12.) Pres- cot ; (13.) Argent, a chevron gules between three elephants passant sable. (14.) Argent, a fess between three crescents gules. (15.) Savile. (16.) Argent, a lion rampant gules. (17.) Argent, on a pale gules between two three towers of the first, and in chief, gules, a crescent betwen two escallops (18.) Naylor; (19.) Argent, on a fess sable, between three crescents, as many mullets, gules, or some thing like it; for this, and two others quartered with it, I could not distinctly make out, owing to their great distance from the eye, (20.) Midgley, of Midgley. (21.) Argent, a plain cross azure. (22.) Argent, two bars gemeUs gules, and in chief three torteauxes. (23.) Argent, three pales sable. (24.) Same as the last. (25.) Lister, but wants the, canton. (26.) Waterhouse. (27 and 28.) The Cloth- workers' arms. (29.) Lindley. (30.) Drake, impaled with (31.) Or, a chevron gules between three towers argent. (32.) Argent, in chief gules, three escallops (33.) Azure, on a chevron argent, between three griffins passant or, three escallops gules. (34.) Naylor. (35.) Murgatroyd, as I take it. (36.) Sable, a fess lozengy, and in base an escallop argent, on a chief indented of the second, three escallops of the first. (37.) Same as No. 35. (38.) Sable, a chevron between three roses argent. (39.) Midgley of Midgley. (40.) Livesey. (41.) Argent, two bars nebule, over all a bend gules, quartered with. Argent, a chief indented sable. — (42.) Ramsden, of Crawstone. (43.) Argent, three crosses forme, five times pierced of the field. (44.) Gules, a griffin HALIFAXIENSIS. 141 passant or. [Some of these are now left out, and the arrangement is totally different. — J.H.T.] After these foUow the arms of the Vicars, which I shall insert in the list of the Vicars, each under his respective name. LIST OF THE VICARS OP HALIFAX CHURCH. l.TNGOLARD TURBARD, or TURBERD, or, as I have I seen it wrote, TURBAT, was jDrobably one of the Monks of St. Pancraoe, at Lewis. He was the first Vicar of this church, being presented thereto by the Prior and Con vent of Lewis, who, by themselves, or assigns, presented every Vicar to this Church till the time of Dr. William Rokeby, inclusive. This Vicar's presentation bears date January 25, 1273, and he was inducted into the living May 3, 1274, and died May 28, 1315. — Arms, Azure, a fess ermine between three turbats naiant, proper. 2. John, called Aaeon de Grydinton, instituted 11 calend. July (June 21,) 1315. His institution dated at Burton, near Beverley, as by Will, de Greenhill's register at York, vol. II. folio. 8'7. — Arms, Gules, a fess or between two frets, argent. 3. Thomas de Gaytington, or Getingdon, instituted On the nones (or 5th) of June, 1321, who died September 10, 1849. — Arms, Argent, on a bend sable three goats passant of the first. 4. John de Standfobd, or Stamford, wrote also Stainforth, and Stamforth, was instituted, according to Mr. Wright, February 7, but as by other authorities, February 4, 1349, and died either on' the 20th or 29th of October, 1362. Arms, Barry of six argent and azure, a canton, or. It must here be observed, that a Richard de Ovenden is put down in one of the manuscripts which I saw at York, marked Af 39, as Vicar of Halifax, and said to be instituted October S, 1349, but no notice is taken of him either by Mr. Wright, or on the roof of Halifax church, which might be owing to his having enjoyed this benefice so very short a 142 BIOGRAPHIA time. If he was Vicar, I take him to have been the first parish man who was presented thereto. 5. Richard (son of Henry) de Heton, instituted, according to Mr. Wright, November 3, but by a manuscript at York, November 10, 1362.— Died March 9, 1389. He was of the Hetons of Over Shibden, in Northouram, as is evident from the copy of a deed in my possession ; whereby he, by the express name of Ric. de Heton, Vicar of the church of Halifax, conveys in trust all his lands, tene ments, &c., in Northouram, in a certain hamlet in the said vill, called Overshypden, in the 4th year of the reign of Richard II. 1380. And in 1389, a grant was made, by con sent of sir Ric. de Heton, Vicar of Halifax, to Will. Heton, Esq., of Schipden, son of said Richard, by certain trustees, of all the lands, tenements, &c., in Over Schipden, in the vill of Northouram, called Schipden-hall, and Hyngandrode, which they had of the feoffment of the said Richard. Arms of this Vicar, Argent, on a bend sable, three buUs heads cabossed of the first, half faced looking to the left. — This coat is borne by a family in Devonshire, of this name. 6. John Kynge, inducted March 13, 1389, who died March 13th, or 14th, 1437. — Arms, sable, three escallops on a chevron argent. N. B. Here in my manuscript list, occurs Dominus Thomas Eland,, as Vicar of Halifax, said to be instituted May 20, 1438, but he is not noticed either in Wright, or on the roof of the church. If he really was Vicar, it is probable that he was of the Eland family in this parish, as I take his predecessor John Kynge to have been of the family of that name in Skircoat, for he gave lands, &c., in Skircoat, to Henry Savile, and Elen his wife, in the 4th year of the reign of Henry IVth or Vth. 7. Thomas Wilkynson, born, as tradition informs us, at Brackenbed, in Ovenden, within this parish, and instituted, says Mr. Wright, page 40, May 16, 1439. His will bore date in 1477, as we are told by Dr. Favour, in his book intitled " Antiquity triumphing over Novelty," page 880 ; and he died, says Mr. Wright, January 25, 1480. I cannot but take notice here that I have the copy of a deed dated August 5, in the 16th year of the reign of Henry VI. which was in the year 1437, wherein express mention is made of Thomas WUkinson, Vicar of the church HALIFAXIENSIS. 143 of Halifax ; what Mr. Wright says therefore of the time of his institution must be false, as must also the account of the time of the institution of Thomas Eland. It is also remarkable, that amongst the testamentary burials at Halifax, inserted in Torr's manuscript, at York, it is said that Thomas WUkinson, Vicar of Halifax, made his wiU June 1, 1481, and left his soul to God Almighty, Saint Mary, and all Saints, and ordered his body to be buried in the parish church of St. John Baptist, Halifax. Arms of this Vicar, Gules, a fess varie, in chief an unicorn currant, argent, armed . . . between two roses or, in a bordure He made, at his own expence, the great ¦window in the chancel. 8. Richard Simmys, or Simms, distinguished in my manuscript list, by the title of Magister, as aU the Vicars before him had been by that of Dominus. He was instituted, says Wright, February 11, 1480, (i. e. 1480-1,) and died November 10, 1496. He seems to have been an Halifax parish man, from the institution deed of Willeby's Chauntry. Arms, Ermine, three increscents gules, which coat was also granted (as we are told by Guillim, p. 91,) to Edward Syms, (or Symmes,) of Daventry, in Northamptonshire, in 1592, by Eobert Cook. 9. Magister Thomas Brent, L.D. instituted November 27, 1496. He resigned this Vicarage, and it was tho first instance of its having become vacant any other way than by death. Arms, Azure, a Fer de Moline argent, pierced of the field. 10. Magister William Rokeby, instituted 14th of June, 1502. — Died November 29, 1521. Arms, impaled with the Archiepiscopal arms of DubUn, argent, on a chevron sable, between three rooks closed proper, three mullets of the field. An account of him was given in the list of the Halifax parish Worthies, as also of Dr. Taylor. 11. John Taylor, LL.D., instituted some time in the year 1521. — Mr. Wright thinks he resigned the vicarage before his death, which happened in 1534, but of this there is no proof. — Arms, Gules, on a chevron between three dolphins naiant argent, a fleur de lis, and on each side of it, a grey hound counter current, sable. 144 BIOGEAPHIA These arms do certainly belong to the name of Taylor ; but Plot, in his History of Staffordshire, page 296, has given us the foUo-wing, from the chapel of Barton, in the said county, buUt by the Doctor himself, viz. Sable, on a chevron argent, three violets slipt, the flowers of the second (Q.?) the stalks and leaves or, between three children's heads couped at the shoulders, also of the second haired, and vested of the third, in a chief of the same a ® azure, be tween two roses gules, seeded of the chief. Now if these were really the Doctor's arms, by what authority are the others put up here ? This gives one a suspicion about some of the rest. The reader, however, has them as I found them. 12. Dominus Robert Holdesworth, L.D., the time of whose institution is uncertain. He was of the family of the Holdsworths, of Astey, (or Ashdale) in Southouram, and was possessed of an estate in that township. He was murdered in the night time by thieves, in the Vicarage-house, which stood on different ground from the present one. — An old manuscript says, this event ' happened in the great ohamber of the north, and the lower part of the house, in a part thereof turning towards the east. He was buried at Halifax, May 10, 1556, without any inscription, under the great tombstone in the south chapel, which he built in his life time at his own expence. — Arms, Argent, on the stump of a tree raguled in bend, a crow perched near the top, proper. It is to be noted, that the inscription relating to Dr. Holdesworth, already mentioned in the description of this south chapel, makes him to be the twelfth Vicar, thereby excluding from the list, both Ric. de Ovenden, and Tho. de Eland. 13. Dominus John Harrison, instituted July 13, 1556, fnot May 3, as in Wright, for that was before the death of his predecessor,) being presented thereto by the Lady Ann Cleve, as my manuscript list informs me, but other accounts say that the benefice, of Halifax was not granted to the Lady Ann when the manor there was settled upon her for life, but that the same was kept in the King's hands ; be sides, we are told that the Lady Ann Cleve died in 1565, which was before the date of this presentation. HALIFAXIENSIS. 145 He was buried at Halifax, 17th February, 1558, as by the Eegister there ; but Mr. Wright says, 15th February, 1559. Arms, Argent, three lions (or bears) paws erased and erected, gules. 14. — Chkistophee Ashburn, instituted in the beginning of Lent, 1559. — He was the first Protestant Vicar here. — In his time the Vicarage of Halifax is said to have offered to Queen Elizabeth by address, to raise three or four thousand men against the northern insurgents, but she found she had no need of them. This has been quoted as evidence of the good effects of the dUigent preaching of the Gospel ; particularly by Arch bishop Gryndall, in his letter to the Queen, to dissuade her from abridging the number of Preachers ; the words are these : "What bred the rebellion in the North? Was it not " Papistry, and the ignorance of God's holy word, through "want of preaching? — And in the time of that rebellion, "were not all men of all estates that made profession of the " Gospel, most ready to offer their lives for your defence ?— " Insomuch that one poor parish in Yorkshire, whioh, by " continual preaching, had beeu better instructed than the "rest, Halifax I mean, was ready to bring three or four "thousand able meu into the field, to serve you against the " said rebels." As this Gentleman was so remarkable for doing good by his preaching, it is a pity that he should have been guilty of letting the Vicarage -house run strangely out of repair, as Mr. Wright has expressed it, page 49, or, as I have seen it in a manuscript " of defacing and selling off much of the " housing of the Vicarage." In Halifax Eegister is the following note. " Memorandum, That the yere of our Lorde, 1565, John " Eamsden, of Langley, Gentleman, dyd recover of Xpofer "Ashburn, Clerk, 'Vicar of Halyfax, by the lawe, certayn " sumes of money for the dett of Sir John Herrison, prede- " cesser to the sayd Xpofer, by means of certayn offring days, " spent and endyd befor the death of the sayd Herrison, " which the sayd Xpofer, at his entrye, recevyd for them for "longe tyme after; the four offring daies were only at ." Ester payable, and neverthelesse provyd by the lawe to be 146 BIOGRAPHIA " dewe every several day, and therfore so many of the offryng " days as were expjTd before the deathe of the sayd Herrison, " were provyd to be hys goods." " Wytnes herof, the whole multitude of people then " lyvynge within the sayd vicarage of Halifax, per me, XPo. " Ashburn, tunc ibm Vicar." Mr. Wright, page 49, says, he talces this to be the same person mentioned in Willis's Survey of Cathedrals, page 170, as Eector of one of the medieties of Bishop's-hill, York, and admitted Prebendary of Tockerington, in the Cathedral there, August 27, 1570, which prebend he resigned, as it seems he did also the Vicarage of Halifax, in 1573. Afterwards, as Willis again informs us, page 155, he was made Prebendary of Nortli Newbald, in the said Cathedral, which place he held till his death. He was buried at Hali fax, December 7, 1584, as by the register there. 15. — Francis Ashburn, son of the above Christopher, was M.A., and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge ; he wEis instituted June 3d. according to Mr. Wright, but my manu script says the last day of June, 1578, having been presented by Queen Elizabeth, his father, no doubt, having resigned in his favour, -whilst he had a friend at Court. But this resignation was not of so much benefit to the family as was hoped for, because he died soon after his father, July IS, 1585. Arms of Ashburne, Gules, a fess between six martlets argent, born by a family of the name in Worcestershire. These arms are repeated on Halifax church roof, on account of the father and son. 16. — Heney Ledsam, or Ledsham, D.D., FeUow of Merton College, in Oxford, presented by Queen Elizabeth, and in stituted September 12, 1585. — He resigned the vicarage November 29, 1593, and was murdered in London, in 1598, by one who afterwards was hanged at Tyburn, and confessed the fact just before his execution. Arms, Quarterly, sable and argent, four leopards heads counter-changed. 17. — John Favour, L.D., who, according to my manu script, was instituted December 3, 1593, having been pre sented by Queen Elizabeth. Mr. Wright sais he was inducted January 4, 1593, which should be, as we reckon now, 1594. He died March 10, 1628. HALIFAXIENSIS. 147 Arms, Parted per pale, argent, three eagles with two heads displayed sable and vert, three dolphins naiant proper, two and one, each coat dimidiated. — For an account of this Vicar, see my list of the most considerable p.ersons belong ing to this parish. 16. — Egbert Clay, D.D. of the family of Clay, of Clay- house, in Greetland, in this parish, where he was born, was educated in Merton College, Oxford, where he took his Doctor's degree, July 19, 1609. He was instituted, according to my manuscript, to the vicarage of Halifax, March 18, but as Mr. Wright sais, March 20, 1623, having been presented thereto by Sir Henry Savile, Knight and Baronet. He died April 9, 1628, leaving by will to Merton College one hundred pounds, for two sermons yearly to be preached to the University, by a Yorkshireman, if any such was Fellow or Chaplain of that College ; who, in his prayer, was to mention Dr. Clay, sometime Vicar of Halifax, as the founder of those sermons. See Wood's Fasti, vol. i., p. 184. He was buried in the library (which he is said to have built) in Halifax church, April 14, 1628, with the following inscription on his grave-stone : "Eobertus Clay, S.T.P. Vicarius de Halifax, obiit Aprilis nono die. Anno Domini 1628." The Eegister contains the following entry : . " Robertus Clay, D.D. Oxoniensis Merton, post quadrinum- apud Halifax multa cum diligentia et pastorali cura in aodiaco animarum cursum attigisset, duleiter et quiete placida [this should be placidam] vitam transmisit in celestia. Obiit Aprilis nono, et sepultus decimo quarto ejusdem mensis. Anno Dom. 1628." This character agrees not with the articles exhibited against him by one Smith, and to be found in Godolphin's Repertorium Canonicum, page 189. " 1. — That he read the holy Bible in an irreverent and undecent manner, to the scandal of the whole congregation. 2. — That he did not do his duty in preaching; but, against his oath and the ecclesiastical canon, had neglected for sundry mornings to preach. 3. — That he took the cups, and sundry vessels of the church, consecrated to holy use, and employed them in his own house, and put barm in the cups, that they were so 148 BIOGEAPHIA polluted, that the communicants of the parish were loth to drink out of them. 4. — That he did not observe the last fast (proclaimed upon the Wednesday) but on the Thursday, because it was an holiday. 5. — That he retained one Stepheson in one of the chapels of ease, who was a man of ill-life and conversation, viz. an adulterer and a drunkard. i 6. — That he did not catechize according to the parish canon, but only bought many of Dr. Wilkinson's catechisms, for every of which he paid two-pence, and sold them to the parishioners for three-pence, without any examination or instruction for their benefit. And that he, when any commissions were directed to him to compel any person in his parish to do penance, exacted money of them , and so they were dismissed, without inflict ing any penalty upon them, as their censure was. And that he and his servants used divers menaces to his parishioners, and that he abused himself, and disgraced his function, by divers base labours, viz. "he made mortar, "having a leathern apron before him, and he himself took a "tythe pig out of the pigsty, and afterwards he himself gelded it." And when he had divers presents sent him, as by some flesh, by some fish, and by others ale, he did not spend it in the invitation of his friends and neighbours, or give it to the poor ; but sold the flesh to butchers, and the ale to ale-wives. And that he commanded his curate to marry a couple in a private house without any licence ; and that he suffered divers to preach, which peradventure had not any licence, and which were suspected persons and of evil life. But how far these charges were true does not appear, a prohibition having been granted in the case. Arms, Gules, on a chevron ingrailed between three trefoils slipt argent, a mullet sable. 19. — Hugh Ramsden, B.D. educated likewise at Merton College, of which he was FeUow. He was baptized at Ealand, March 17, 1594; was inducted into the Vicarage of Halifax, Oct. 7, 1628, on the present ation of King Charles I. having been before made Rector of Methley, in Yorkshire. He died of fever at York, July 16, and was buried in HaUfax chancel, July 19, 1629. See the HALIFAXIENSIS. 149 inscription to his memory in the epitaphs belonging to Halifax church. The Register there has this: "Hugo Ramsden, filius Galfridi Ramsden, de Greetland, infra Vicariam de Hallifax, B.D., inductus est Vicarius de Halli fax, 7° Oct., 1628, primoque anno Vicariatus nondum expleto, febri perperaouta correptus mortuus est 17° calend- Augusti, 1629. tristi sui apud omnes bonos, pacisq; Ecclesias cultores, relicto desiderio." Arms, Argent, between three -fleurs de lis on a chevron sable, as many rams' heads of the first. 20. — Henry Eamsden, brother to Hugh, was instituted to this Vicarage at the presentation of King Charles I. accord ing to my manuscript August 15, but after Mr. Wright, August 19, and inducted the 23d. He died March 23, and was buried March 2S, 1638. Arms, same as last. 21. — Richard Marsh, D.D., instituted at the presentation of King Charles I. April 12, 1638, and inducted April 17, following. He was obliged to fly from his living in 1642, to which he did not return till after the King's restoration. — Arms, Gules, a nag's head erased, argent. After the Doctor's departure, I find that one Wayte was appointed Vicar by the Lord Fairfax, but how long he offici ated there I cannot tell. Mr. Wright, page 61, sais, that Mr. .Root was Minister here in 1643 and 1644 ; John Lake, in 1647 and 1649, (which is true, see a mem. of his at the end of vol. iii. of the Register.) Then Robert Booth, in 1650, who was buried at Halifax, July 28, 1657. Lastly, Eli Bentley, born in Sowerby, who was Assistant to Booth, and after his death continued in the place till he was turned out for refusing to comply with the Act of Uniformity, as we are told by Mr. Wright, who has taken his description from Calamy's Account of ejected Ministers, vol. ii., page 804, 2d. edit. This writer says, that Bentley was bred at Cambridge, and was Fellow of Trinity College there ; that he became assistant to Booth in August, 1652 — that he fled before the five-mile act, but in 1672 returned to HaUfax, and preached in his own house : and that he died July 31, 1675, aged 49. 150 BIOGRAPHIA The character he gives of him is, that he was a man of good parts, a solid serious Preacher, of a very humble be haviour, and very useful in his place ; that he lived desired, and died lamented. I have somewhere seen that after the removal of Mr. Epot, Halifax was served, till the return of Dr. Marsh, by stipendiary Priests, which from several circumstances, I believe to be true. 22. — Eichard Hooke, D.D., instituted June 10, 1662, at the presentation of King Charles II. and inducted the 29th or SOth following. He died January 1, 1688-9. Being an Author, the farther account of him is inserted in the list of Authors. Arms, Gules, a fess between six fieurs de lis, argent. 23. — Edmund Hough, M.A., inducted June 26, 1689, on the presentation of King James II. From the first edition of Calamy's Account of ejected Ministers it appears, that this Mr. Hough was turned out of his Fellowship in Jesus College, Cambridge, by the Act of Uniformity ; after this, however, he thought fit to conform, and was made Rector of Thornton, in Craven, and Vicar of Halifax. He died April 1, 1691, and was buried in the chancel at Halifax, with an inscription over him, which see amongst the Epitaphs. Anns, Argent, a bend sable. Mr. Thoresby had some manuscript sermons of this Vicar in his museum. In Halifax register is this entry: "Edmundus Hough, A.M. inductus erat in Vicar, de Halifax per Jacobum Roberts, Vicar, de Bingley, 26° die Junii, 1689. Sepultus 3° Aprilis, 1691. — Vir de tota ecclesia tam pietatis quam doctrinre ergo optime meritus, industrius Pastor, et efficax Bvangelii Concionator quondam dignus, CoU. Jesu Cant. Socius, et. Ecclesiae Thorntonensis doctus et diligens Eector, tandem hujus Ecclesiae sedulus per biennium Vicarius." 24. — Joseph Wilkinson, M.A. instituted Sept. 7th, or 17th and inducted October 26, 1691, having been presented by King William III. He was first Vicar of Chapel-izod, near Dublin, and Pre bendary of Casterknock, in the Cathedral of St. Patrick's, Dublin, afterwards rector of Wigginton, in Yorkshire. HALIFAXIENSIS. 151 He died December 28, 1711, and was buried in the chancel at Halifax, the 31st following. For the inscription over him see the Epitaphs. — Arms, Gules, a fess vaire, in chief an unicorn passant or, in a bordure. ... 25. — Thomas Burton, M.A., Rector of Lofthouse, and curate of Yarum, in Yorkshire, was instituted Maroh 28, and inducted April 3d. or 4th, 1712, on the presentation of Queen Anne. March 1, 1715, he was made Prebendary of the Prebend of Gevendale, in the Cathedral of York. He died July 22, 1731, and was buried in the Chancel at Halifax, without any memorial of him, July 25, 1731. Arms, Quarterly, first, a fess between three talbots' heads, couped or. — 2dly, Azure, a spread eagle and a chief or, first as fourth, second as third. 26. — George Legh, LL.D. inducted, as Mr. Wright sais, October 2, 1731, but another account sais, August 2. Pre sented by King George II. He has since been made Prebendary of York, in the Bottevant-hall there. He was a Cheshire man, and the arms of his family are, argent, a lion rampant, gules, langued and armed azure, a crescent for difference. He died the 6th of December, 1775, in the 82d year of his age, and was buried in the Vestry at Halifax, where an elegant monument is erected, with the following inscription : "Near this place, in the same vault, are deposited the remains of the Rev. George Legh, LL.D. and his two beloved Wives, Frances and Elisabeth; to whose joint memory this Monument is erected. He was Vicar of this Church and Vicarage of Halifax above forty four years ; during which time he interested himself, -with laudable zeal, in the cause of reUgious liberty and sincerity ; being the last survivor of those worthy men, who distinguished themselves by then- opposition to ecclesi astical tyranny. He defended the rights of mankind in that memorable Hoadlian controversy. The Bible he considered as the only standard of faith and practice. — To the poor and distressed, and public charities, he was a generous benefactor. By his "Will he ordered Bibles to be given for the benefit of the Poor. 152 BIOGEAPHIA He did honour to his profession as a Clergyman and Christian. — He was esteemed when living, and in death lamented. — He died composed on the 6tli of December, 1775, in the 82d. Year of his age. His Wife Frances died Dec. 9th,' 1749.— EUsabeth, Feb. Sth, 1765. 27. — The Revd. Heney "Wood, D.D. the present Vicar of Halifax, was inducted February 14, 1776. LIST OF LECTURERS AT HALIPAX CHURCH. J. Booth. — Eli Bentley. — ... Mitchel. — . . . Lambert, came in 1676. — ... Hanson. — Franois Parrot, above fifty years. — John Holdsworth, in 1740. — Samuel Sandford, made Vicar of Huddersfield, and afterwards Rector of Thornhill. — .... Charlesworth. — .... Meyrick. Mr. Wright, p. 165, sais, that John Lake, (afterwards Bishop of Chichester) was Lecturer in 1647 ; but at p. 61, he had told us, that he was at that time in possession of the living. It may not be amiss to insert here the form of a decla ration enjomed in the Aot of Uniformity of public prayer, 14 Cha. II. made by one of these Lecturers, and transcribed from the original. "I Thomas Hanson, Clerk, and M"-- of Arts, now to be " admitted Lecturer of the Parish Church of Halifax, in the " county and diocese of York, do declare that it is not law- "fuU, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take armes against "the King: And that I do abhorr that trayterous position " of taking arms, by bis authority, against his person, or " against those that are commissionated by him. And that " I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England, " as it is now by law established. Tho. Hanson." Then "follows the certificate. " This declaration and acknowledgement was subscribed " by the above named Thomas Hanson, Lecturer of Halifax, " in the diocese of York, before me. Witness my hand and " seal, this second day of October, in the year of our Lord, " 1683." In the margin, the small Archiepiscopal seal, and " under it, " Joh. Ebor." HALIFAXIENSIS. 153 A Mr. Mitchel was hired in 1669, by the consent of the town and parish, either as Lecturer, or Curate, but probably the former ; however the Vicar at present chuses both, by custom. EPITAPHS IN THE CHURCLI AND CHURCH-'YARI) AT HALIFAX. THE method I shall observe herein will be to give those belonging to each respective family apart, in an alpha betical manner, that they may be sooner found by inspection. ALLENSON. On a stone of blue marble* in the South Chapel : " Under this marble is interred the body of the reverend and learned James Allenson, A.M. Rector of Thornton, in Craven, who died the 26th and was buried the 29th day of November, 1730. ALDEESON. On a tomb-stone over Ann Alderson, of Bull-close, in the Church-yard : " She was of an admirable, sweet, obliging temper, free from censure, passion, and pride, generous, charitable, and respectful, a person worthy of imitation.'' BROADLEY. In the wall of the south-side, over a door, on a brass plate : "Mr. Jo. Beoadley, late Minister at Sowerby Chapp. died Feb. 14, 1625, and Mary, his wife, also died Maroh the 2d, 1625, and here lie buried. Here lies interr'd a zealous grave Divine, Meek, loving, lov'd, only with sin at strife ; Who heard him, saw life in his doctrine shine. Who saw him, heard sound doctruie in his life ; And in the same cold bed here rests his Wife. Nor are they dead, but sleep ; for he ne'er dies That waits for his sweet Saviour's word, Arise." ' I ¦was more than displeased to find that dui'ing the 1880 renovations this blue stone ¦was deliberately out in two, and a stone covering Vicar Knight had part of the inscription cut off, when half-a-yard at the bottom might have been taken instead, without detriment. This was even worse than boiling the oak pews ! 154 BIOGRAPHIA BATLEY. Near the font, on a marble monument in the north wall : " Near this place is interred, the body of John Batley, late of this town, Salter. A man just in his dealings, exemplary in his life and conversation, a kind and affectionate husband, a tender and indulgent parent, a pious and sincere Christian ; he finished this life, hoping for a happy immortality. To his memory, Susannah, his widow, caused this monument to be erected. He departed the 28th day of July, 1717, aged 66 years, and one day. — In the same place lieth the body of Thomas, eldest son of the said John Batley, who departed this life the 28th day of March, 1702, aged 19 years, 7 weeks and 2 days." BREARCLIFFE. On a pillar on the soutli side of the font : An epitaph on Ester, late wife of Edmond Brearcliffe, of Halifax, who died June 16tli, 1629, and on Favour, their son, who died March 5th, 1628. " Here rest three Saints ; the one a little Brother, The Favour of his scarce surviving Mother : Then she expired, and bore unto her tomb. An unborn infant coffin'd in her womb." This Mr. Brearcliffe, as we are told by Mr. Wright, was, October 1, 1623, made Parish Clerk by Dr. Favour, then Vicar, and having a son christened the 14th of March follow ing, out of gratitude, called him Favour. BENTLEY. On a gravestone in the South Chapel : " Eli Bentley, son of Richard Bentley, of Sowerby Dene, M.A. some time Fellow of Trinity College, iu Cambridge, and late Minister of the Gospel at Halifax, departed this life July 30th 1675, in the 45th year of his age." On a stone in the Church-yard : " Here were buried three children of the Rev. Mr. Daniel Bentley, Curate of lUing worth, and of Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of John Wads worth, late "of Holdsworth. Also the Rev. Mr. Daniel Bentley, who was Curate of lUingworth above 80 years, died the 15th of November, 1748." HALIFAXIENSIS. 155 CAYGILL. In the north-east corner of the Quire, is erected a neat monument, with the following inscription : Sacred to the Memory of John Caygill, Esq., Who departed this life the 22d of May, 1787, Aged 79 Years. CROWTHER. On a tomb in the Church-yard : " Here lieth the body of Henry Crowther, who was born in Norland, died at Ball- Oresn, in Sowerby, December 21, Anno Dom. 1635." Round the border these lines : " Eighty-four years I liv'd ; wouldst thou so do. Be thou, as I, quiet, chaste, and temp'rate too. Norland me gave, and Sowerby took my breath ; Man knows the place of birth, but not of death." DEAN. Round the border of a stone near the font : " Here lieth the body of Robert Dean, eldest son of Robert Dean, of Exley, who died January 7, 1619." Within the border : " Here resteth the body of Ann, the wife of Mr. Robt. Dean of Exley, who departed this life the 19th day of September, 1661. There is a God with whom I trust My soul shall triumph, wheh my body is dust." DOLLIFE. On a brass plate behind the Governor's pew ; " Here resteth the body of Mary, the wife of Richard Dollife, of Halifax, who was buried the 12th of August, Anno Dom. 1659. Reader, here lies intomb'd a virtuous wife. Whose sweet deportment whilst she had a life Procur'd her husband's love, her friends' deUght, But th' grief of both since she hath bid good night. Also Richard Dollife, her husband, who departed this life the 14th of September, 1681, in the 64th year of his age." 156 biographia Tradition says, that the above four lines were composed by Archbishop Sharp, when a scholar at Bradford school, which is probable enough, as they seem to be the composition of a school-boy. DUN. On a marble monument upon the wall of the south side of the Chancel. M. S. Hie juxta conditur Quod reliquum est Joshu.e Dun, Filii Joshufe et Maris Dun, de Halifax, CoUegii Christi dum apud Cantabrigienses floruit Alumni Quin et CoUegii et Academitt- decoris et ornamenti. Nunc proh dolor ! tristis iisdem desiderii ; Juvenis erat, si tetatem ; si spectas dotes, vir eximius ; Si quem eximium reddere valeant Probitas, summum ingenii acumen, acre judicium, Artium scientia, morum suavitas, urbanitas. Sese quantumvis ad omne literarum genus aptum natum. In Medicina persertim exoolenda, seu potius ornanda, Exercuit ; In qua tam mirifioos fecit progressus, Ut brevi istius Facultatis peritus admodum prodierit : Summatim, Nisi quodtantum mortalibus fata invidissent virum. Ad morbos propulsandos, Et ad redintegrandas labefactatas hominum vires Plane natus videbatur : Ast heu ! buam aliis potuit sibi-metipsi non concessum est Opem afferre ; Variolis enim correptus, post duodecem dies. Cum spes jam eum revaliturum effulserat. Inter seros nepotes vix aequiparandus, Haud certe unquam superandus, occubuit. Die 13 Sept. mdccix, annos natus xxv. Nee procul ab illo recumbit Pater ejus Joshua Dun, Qui obiit 7° Aug. A. D. 1715. ./Etatis suae SO. Et mater ejus Maria Dun, Qu£e obiit Apr. 5o A. D. 1729. iEtatis 87. HALIFAXIENSIS. 157 The above, Mr. Wright, page ISO, says, he was told was drawn up by the ingenious Mr. Nicholas Sanderson, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge. In English.* Near this' plaoe lie the remains of Joshua Dun, sou of Joshua and Mary Dun, of Halifax, student of Christ CoUege, shedding a lustre on it and the University while he lived at Cambridge, and at his death deservedly lamented : — In the flower of his age, he was endowed with those qualities which render a character truly respectable. Though born with a propensity for universal literature, he excelled chiefly in the healing art ; in which he made so amazing a progress as to become very skilful in that faculty. To sum up all, he seemed born to relieve the distresses of his fellow creatures, had not divine wisdom thought fit to release so great a man from the ties of mortality at so early a period. Being taken with the small-pox, after an illness of 12 days, he finished life on the 13th of September, 1709, aged 25, with a character hardly to be equalled by posterity. Near his grave rests his Father, Joshua Dun, who died August 17, 1715, aged 80 ; as also his Mother, Mary Dun, who died AprU 5, 1729, aged 87. FAVOUR. On a gravestone in the chancel: "Hio Dormit Johannes Favour, Doctor sanctissmus hujus Ecclesife Occubuit seris, heu ! quod non serius, annis ; Nee longffiva magis quam bona vita fuit. Quam saere velavit speciosum pectore corpus, Dignum equidem tumulo nobiUore tegi. Qui quidem extremam fidus permansit ad horam, Non illi tumulus, sed diadema decus. Theologus, Medicusq ; obiit, Jurisq ; peritus : I, sequere in coelos, qui modo salvus eris." In English. * Here sleeps John Favour, a pious Doctor of this Church. Loaded with honours, as with years. He mounts above the starry spheres ; Releas'd from earth by pitying fate, Tho' worthy of a longer date : '* These translations do not appear in Watson. They were probably supplied to Jacob by the Kev. E. Nelson. 158 BIOGEAPHIA How weak the monument we raise. To equal his deserved praise ! Whose soul was undismayed by death, And faithful to his latest breath. Reader, pursue him to the skies, Who shalt, like him, in glory rise. On a pillar on the south side of the quire is a monument, erected to the memory of the above Dr. Favour, who is placed as in a pulpit, drest in his robes, and in an attitude of preaching, with one hand on his breast, and the other on a skull, which rests on the cushion before him. Jo. Favour, LL. Doct. Medici peritiss. et hujus Ecclesiffi Pastoris vigilantissimi. " Corpora et asgrotant animae ; fremit undiq ; rixa, Scilicet orba suo turba Favoee jacet. En Pastor, Medicusq ; obiit, Jurisq ; peritus : I sequere in coelos, qui modo salvus eris." In English.* Jo. Favour, LL.D., practitioner in physio, and a most vigilant Pastor of this Church. " With sick'ning heart and fainting breath. We hear the sound of Favour's death ; The pastor, friend, physician is no more, Pursue him, Eeader, and with him adore." FAU CIT. On a brass plate near the font : " Here lieth the body of Hugh Faucit, of Halifax, buried the Sth day of April, A.D. 1641 ; and also Hugh Paucit, his son, was buried the 19th day of August, 1668. Ut enim per Adamum omnes mori untur, sic per Christum omnes reviviscent." FOUENIS. On a monument, upon the nortli wall of the chancel : "Near this place is interred the body of Captain John FouRNis, who died the 10th, and was buried the 12th of November, 1717, aged 85 years." Several more of this family are mentioned here, and on a tablet on one of the pillars on the north side of the chancel, for which see Mr. ¦* This translation does not appear in -Watson. It was probably supplied to Jacob by the Rev. E. Nelson. HALIFAXIENSIS. 159 Wright, p. 180, 181. [After "35 years," read "and at a small distance are interred the bodies of two of his children ; Jane, his daughter, died the 25th, and was buried the 2Stli of July, 1720, aged 5 years 11 months; Susannah, his daughter, died the 20th, and was buried the 22d of July, 1722, aged 5 years and 2 months." On a tablet on the north side of the chancel, on one of the pillars : "Mr. Joseph FouENEs departed this life the 8d day of March, 1676, aged 73 years. Hannah Fouenes, his daughter, born Aug. 7, 1666, departed this life Apr. 27, 1680. John Fouenes, his son, was born Jan. S, 1664, departed this life Oct. 29, 1683. Samuel Fournes, his son, born Dec. 7, 1662, departed this life Feb. 20, 1687. Phoebe, daughter of Mr. S. Fournes, was born Oct. 14th, 1687, and died the 21st of March, 1699.] Capt. Fournis lived in Halifax. GAUKEOGER. On a stone in the church-yard: "Here lieth the body of John Gaukeoger, who faithfully discharged the office of Parish Clerk of Halifax for tbe space of 22 years. He de parted this life the 6th day of May, 1707, in 'the 62d year of his age. He lived beloved, and died lamented of all that knew him." GEE AME. On a grave-stone in the chancel : " Here lieth the body of Hannah, the wife of Henry Gee ame, of Shaw-Hill, in Skir- coate, who departed this life the 13th day of Sept., 1727, in the 67th year of her age. She, that does take her rest within this tomb. Had Eachael's face, and Leah's fruitful womb, Abigail's wisdom, Lydia's faithful heart, Martha's care, and Mary's better part." On a neat monument in the Quire, is the following in scription : William Greame, of Heath, near this Town, died in AprU, 1739, aged 44. He married Mrs. Frances Kirke, of Alverthorpe, who died in October 1752, aged 57. 160 BIOGRAPHIA Their Children were John, William, James, Elizabeth, and Ann, who, with their Parents, are all buried in this Quire : where also is interred Mrs. Elizabeth Kirke, twin-sister of Mrs. Frances Kirke : She died in January, 1756. This monument was erected ¦ with every sentiment of gratitude and respect, by the executors of William Greame last mentioned, who was a Captain in Sir George Savile's Batalion of Militia. An amiable and benevolent temper, joined to an uncommon penetration, and a clear knowledge of men and things, rendered this gentleman a truly valuable member of the community, and of course universally be loved and honoured. In December 1764, he married Elizabeth Dorothea Zouch, youngest daughter of Charles Zouch, late Vicar of Sandal- magna, and died on May the 27th, 1776, aged 36. ' Frances, his only child, who was born about three months after ber Father's death, is now (1769) living. GIBSON. On a monument in the north west corner of the church : " Near this plaoe is interred Elizabeth Gibson, of Slead- HaU, who died A. M. S. 23. A.D. 1690. And Robert Gibson, of Slead-HaU, who died A. M. S. 63. A. D. 1691. And Michael Gibson, the son of Michael Gibson, of Slead- HaU, who died A. M. S. 1°- A. D. 1711. And Rhenetta, the wife of Robert Gibson, who died A. M. S. 84. A.D. 1715. And Elizabeth, the wife of Michael Gibson, who died A. M. S. 52. A. D. 1722. And Michael Gibson, of Slead-HaU, son of Eobert, who died A. M. S. 72. A. D. 1738. And Eobeet Gibson, of Slead-HaU, son of Michael, who died A. M. S. 43. A. D. 1746. Also William Gibson, M. D. Anat. Prof Can- tabrigiaj, who died Feb. 16, 1753, aged 89." HEALD. On a grave-stone in the chancel : "Hio tecti jacent cineres JeeemijE, filii M" Gulielmi Heald, nuper Vicarii de Donag hadee, in Hibernia, qui 22A° etatis anno animam Deo HALIFAXIENSIS. 161 inspiranti retribuit, 5° die Augusti, 1685. Quem tuetur ac diligit Deus, Juvenis supremum mortis intra-t limitem." On another stone in the chancel : " Quteris advena, quid hac abdita incarceratur urna, reliquias mortales immortalis animfe terrigenas morta'litatis sum exuvias ad Dei judicis usq ; adventum hie deponentis, ccelo jam triumphantis, si modo virtus pietatis patientise virtus coelum animis aeternitati maturis aperit. Nomen humati Lector ambis, Gratia est, Filia M"^ Gulielmi Heald, Uxor Fhancisoi Priestley, qufe geminam prolem fffiounditatis suae partem hie prasmittens, ipsa post plusculum dierum expiravit 16 die Novembris, Anno Dom. 1685. JStatis 30. In English. Here lie the ashes of Jeremy, son of Mr. William Heald, late Vicar of Donaghadee, in Ireland, who yielded his soul up to God who gave it, August 5, 1685, aged 22. The youth whom God protects and loves. From earth, with pleasing hope removes. You ask, 0 stranger, what this hidden Urn contains. Answer. — The frail remains of an immortal soul, putting off its earthly tabernacle till its Judge appear, — and now triumphing in glory, if piety and patience can open heaven to minds matured for eternity. Ask you the name of the interred ? It is Grace, the daughter of Mr. WiUiam Heald, wife of Francis Priestley, who died a few days after the birth of her two children, viz. November 16, 1685, aged .30. HILL. On a tomb in the church-yard is an inscription to the memory of Mr. Edward Hill, late Rector of Crofton, aged 79 years, and of Ann, his wife, who having been married 53 years, died both on the same day, and were buried in that tomb, Jan. 29, 1668. The account which Calamy, in his list of the ejected Ministers, p. 793, gives of this Clergyman, is this: "That he was M.A. of Christ's CoUege, Cambridge; that he had been formerly a Nonconformist, but could not fall in with the new settlement in 1662 ; that he was a pious, grave, ancient Divine, of an exceUent temper ; that on the coming 162 biographia forth of the Five-mile Act he removed to Shibden, near Halifax ; and that he and his wife had lived together forty years, and died within two hours of one another in Jan. 1668-9." Mr. Wright adds, that he had likewise been Vicar of Huddersfield, and died at Shipden-Hall. HOOKE. On a marble monument in the chancel : " P. M. Richardi Hooke, S. T. P. Regimini tam ecclesiastico quam sseculari Anglicano fidelissimi, qui per viginti sex annos huic EcelesiaB- prsefuit Vicarius, tribus Archiepiscopis Ebor^"^ a sacris, Hospitiorum sancti Johannis beataeq. Mariae Magdelenensis sub agro Ripponensi Magister, Ecclesife Ebor^'^ Southwell^"* RippoNENsisQ. Canonicus. Obiit 1™° Jan. ^Etatis suae 66. Anno Domini 1688-9. On a gravestone in the chancel : " Matilda, filia Eichardi Hooke, D. D. Vicar, de HaUfax, obiit 9 Sept. A. D. 1667. JStatis su£e 18." And below: "Samuel Hooke, filius Eichardi Hooke, M.A. Socius Coll. Jesu Cantabr. vir egregie doctus, et insigniter plus, a societate Jesu in terris exaltatus est ad societatem Jesu in ccelis, Aug. 12, 1687. ^tat. suae 24." On a stone near the above : " Anna Hooke, Matildas soror, obiit Deo. 15. An. 20. A. D. 1667. In coelum tendentibus non est aetatis ratio, non gradus : Majorem natu praacessit minor, quam (sancte invidens) sequuta est, ah cito nimis !' Innuptje in ¦terra Virgines in ccelo nuptse : At semper Virgines sternum cum Sponso gaudent. Eliz. Hooke, filia Ei. Hooke, Virgo pia et casta terrestre tabernaculum pro domo caslesti commutavit, Aug. 30. A. D. 1687. .^tat. suae 26." In English. Erected to the memory of Richard Hooke, S.T.P., equally faithful in his ecclesiastical and civil departments, who was Vicar of this church 26 years ; Master of the Seminaries of St. John and Mary Magdalen's, in the county of Rippon, Canon of Southwell, &c. He died January 1, 1688-9. On a gravestone: "Matilda, the daughter of Richard Hooke, D.D., Vicar of Halifax, died Sept. 9, 1667, aged IS. And below, " Samuel Hooke, son of Richard Hooke, M.A., Fellow of Jesus' College, Cambridge, a man remarkable for his learning and piety, being raised from the society of Jesus' HALIFAXIENSIS. 163 College on earth to that of Jesus in Heaven, Aug. 12, 1687, aged 24." Near the above. — "Ann Hooke, sister to Matilda, died Dec. 15, 1667, An. 20. The younger died before the older, who (impelled by a sacred emulation) too quickly followed. Unmarried on earth they are united above. In a state of lasting virginity they rejoice for ever with their God. Elizabeth Hookb, daughter of Ri. Hooke, a chaste and pious virgin, changed an earthly habitation for a heavenly mansion, Aug. 30, 1687, aged 26. HOUGH. The following inscription was put over Vicar Hough, who was buried in the Chancel: "Sacrum memorise Edmundi Hough, A M, e Coll. Jesu Cant, quondam Socii, Parochiaj de Thornton postea Rectoris, tandemq; hujus Ecclesiaj PrsEsidis ; qui conoionandi perspicuus, disserendo facundus, pietate catholicus, post exiguum autem Olicante temporis impensum morienti hanc desideratam requiem sibi dedit Deus. Obiit 1™° die Aprilis, 1691. Anno £etatis 59." There is an English one to the memory of the same, on a stone in the Chancel, taken from part of the above. It was a great mistake in the writer of the above epitaph to call Halifax by the name of Olicana, for that was un doubtedly the Roman station at Ilkley. In English. Sacred to the memory of Edmund Hough, M. A., Fellow of Jesus' College, Cambridge, afterwards Eector of the parish of Thornton, and lastly Vicar of this Church, a perspicuous preacher, an able rhetorician, and of catholic piety. After a Short residence at Halifax, he obtained his desired rest; AprU 1, 1691, aged 59. HOLDSWOETH. On the waU in the South Chapel : " Near this place lieth the body of Tho. Holdsworth, of Ashday, in Southouram, Gentleman, who departed this life the 23d of June, 1709 ; and also the body of Mrs. Phebe Holdsworth, his wife, the daughter of James Oats, of Landshead, in Northouram, who departed this life the 12th of October, 1709 : And also the body of Mary Holdsworth, the daughter of WUliam Midgley, of Halifax, Gentleman, and wife of Tho. Holdsworth, son of 164 BIOGEAPHIA the above mentioned Tho. Holdsworth, who departed this life the 25th of October, 1710." HOLDEN. - On a stone in the Church-yard, near the sun door, round the border: "Hie jacent Anna, Arthur, Johannes, Lionel, Tobias Holden, universa Gowaini et Anns Holden de Hali fax, Anno Domini 1642." Within the border : "Ne doleas Genetrix, toties ad funera pregnans Horrida ne timeas mater ad arma ferax. Ante togam minor impietas, cita sanctior urna ; Plurimus ille parens solus ad astra parens." In EngUsh. " Here rest Ann, &c., the entire issue of Gowen and Ann Holden. Lament not, mother, oft the fruitful womb. Is but an ante-chamber to the tomb ; In tender love th' inspirer of our breath. Prevents our sorrows by a speedy death." HOLLINGS. On the south wall in the Chancel : " Near this place lye the remains of Jeremiah Hollings, late of Shipley, in this county. Esq; and also of Mary, his mother, -widow and relict of Mr. Isaac Hollings, late of Shipley aforesaid. She was one of the daughters and coheirs of Mr. Jeremiah Eoss- endale, formerly of Shaw-hill, in Skircoat. He ) -,. (August 23d, 1738, aged 26. Shepy^'^JMay 9th, 1744, aged 53." The above is cut on a very neat monument, at the foot of which are the heads of three cherubims, above the writing a Sarcophagus, the marble rises in the form of a pyramid, on which are the arms of Hollings impaled with those of Eossendale. KITCHINGHAM. In the Wall in the North Chapel : William, son of Wm. KiTCHiNGHAM, of Skircoat, buried the 26th of July, 1670. Martha, his daughter, was buried the 19th of June, 1695, and Sarah, his wife, was buried the 30th day of July, 1704. Wright, p. 187, omitted by Watson. HALIFAXIENSIS. 165 LACY. Dr. Johnson in his MS. Collections for Yorkshire, sais, that in Halifax Church was the following, in antient characters : " Here lieth enclosed the body of John Lacye, of Brerely, Esq; who was buried the 19th day of August, in the year of our Lord God . . . ." (This date should be 1585.) Part of this stone I saw in 1764 ; it had cut upon it the figure of a man in armor laid on his back, a cushion under his head, and a lion at his feet ; on one side hung a large sword, and a small one on the other ; his hands were joined on his breast in a praying posture ; on his left arm a shield, with the foUo-wing coats of arms: 1. Argent, six ogresses, three, two, one, for Lacy. 2. Gules, three crescents argent, on a chief of the second three garbs or. 3. Gules an eagle displayed argent, for Soothill, of Soothill. 4. Argent, three bendlets sable ; all these quarterly impaled with Argent, a chevron between three crosses formee, fitchee gules, for Woodrove, of WooUey. The above Dr. Johnson sais farther, that under the arms of Lacy were in old characters, " Orate IDro anima Magistri Joannis Lacye." It is not improper to mention here, that on a grave-stone in the Chancel is a large cross, on one side of which is a sword of lead laid in the stone, and on the other, in a shield, the ogresses as above. LISTEE. In the south west corner of the Church, on a neat monu ment : " H. S. E. Jacobus Lister, de Shibden-hall, Gen^- qui Nov. 14, A.D. 1729, Mt. 56, triste sui desiderium viduas liberisq ; decem reliquit. Prosiliunt lacrimae — sed adest spes certa salutis, Christus, qui mortis vincula rupta dedit. Hie jubet ut memores recolamus gaudia vitae Ven^turae, et cseli quae bona civis habet. In English. James Lister, Gent., who left a disconsolate widow and ten chUdren. Nature wiU weep — but 0 repress the tear. Since Christ and his salvation are so near. 166 biographia The gospel loud invites us to rejoice. Who wou'd not hearken to a Saviour's voice ? His dear requests with pleasure we obey. And wait the mornuig of a happier day. In the same grave is interred the body of Mary, widow of the said James Lister. She died Jan. 5, 1756, aged 79. Bless'd are the dead proclaims the voice above Who die in Christ, abiding in his love. They rest from labor in the peacefuU tomb. Shall rise to glory in the life to come. j. L. F. N. M. P. C. These last letters stand for Johannes Lister filius natu maximus poni curavit. He was a Clergyman, lived at Shibden-hall, and composed the above. MADDOCKS. Ne,ar the Font, in a neat gilted frame, is the following inscription : Near this place, lie the remains of Joseph Maddocks, of Cold-Blow, near Dublin, in Ireland, Who died the 22d and was buried the 24th of March, 1769, aged 74 Years. "Those -who sleep in Christ, wUl he bring with him." MAUD. On a grave-stone in the Chancel : " Hie situm est corpus Thoms:, fihi Jonath. Maud, de Halyfax, M. A. qui obiit Decemb. 22, A. D. 1682. Si mea cum matris valuissent vota, dedisses Funus idem nobis, quod tibi, nate, damns. Sed quoniam votis nostris Deus obstitit asquus. Ante mea et matris funera, funus habe. In English. Here is deposited the remains of Thomas, son of Jonathan Maud. HALIFAXIENSIS. 167 Had Heav'n vouohsaf d to hear thy parents' pray'r. Their sad sepulchral rites had been thy oare ; Impartial wisdom did the wish deny. And took thee earlier to a world on high. MIDGLEY. On the wall in the north chapel : " Near this place resteth the body of Mary, daughter of Williasc Midgley, Master of Arts, la^te of Headley, now of Sowerby, who was born March 3, 1696, and departed this life November 7, 1704. Mortal by birth, short my stay, here sleeps my dust, My better part joins consort with the just." Above this : " ExuviiB Gulielmi Midgley, A. M. Curat, de Sowerby, juxta depositas Mali 10°, 1706. Anno ^Etatis 34." MITCHELL. On a brass plate near the font. " Here resteth the body of James Mitchell, late of Crow-nest, in Hipperholm. He was buried the 1st day of October, A. D. 1679; and also three of his children. Ann was buried the 3d of April, 1068. Elisabeth was buried the 29th of May, 1676. Samuel, he was buried January the 30th, 1676. Non abiit, sed obut, modo rediturus." NETTLETON. On a stone in the chancel: " Hio requiescit Anna filia Thomas Nettleton, M. D. nata 23 Octob. 1709. Obiit 23 Jan. 1710-11. — In eodem tumulo conditur frater ejus Johannes Nettleton, nat. 25 Dec. 1715. Obiit 6 Apr. 1717. — Et eorum Amita Susanna Nettleton, qure obiit 12° Apr. A. D. 1718. iEtatis 23." In English. Here rests Ann . . . Nettleton, born Oct. 28, 1709. Died Jan. 23, 1710. In the same grave is interred her brother, and their aunt. PAEEAT. On a stone in the chancel : " Here is interned the body of the Eev. Mr. Francis Parrat, who was Lecturer of Halifax above fifty years, aud died the 22d of December, in the S2d year of his age, 1741. 108 BIOGEAPHIA PEE SCOT. On a grave-stone in the north chapel : " Hie jacet Phebe, Uxor Gulielmi Presoot, Chirurgo-Medici. Obiit 10° die MartU, 1704-5, .etatis sure 86. Et cum iUa dormiunt una Nepotes duo, Nathanael, et Gulielmus Farree. [In the same grave are interred two grand- children, Nathaniel and William Farrer.] In the south chapel, on a monument on the wall: "Mary, the daughter of Mr. John Presoot, of Halifax, was buried near this place the 18th day of May, 170S. And in the same grave is interred the body of the above-named Mr. John Prbscot, Practitioner in Physic and Chirurgery, who died the llth day of November, 1728, in the 53d year of his age. Also Sarah, his wife, who died June 10, 1739, in the 56th year of her age. EAMSDEN. On a pillar in the chancel: "Hie jacet Hugo Eamsden, filius Galfridi Eamsden, de Greetland, infra Vicariam de Halifax, Baoc. in S.S. Theol. olim Socius CoUegii de Merton in Ac. Ox. postea Eector de Methley, in Comit. Ebor. demum Vicarius de Halifax. Vir dubium sanctior, an doctior, ingenii acris, judicii subacti, eruditionis multiplicis, qui omne tempus deperire existimabat quod non aut musffio impertiabatur ; qui dum vixit toti circumjacenti Eegioni doctrina sua praglucebat, et magis exemplo ; atq ; moriens triste sui apud omnes bonos, pacisq ; Ecclesiae cultores reliquit Desiderium. Inductus est Vicarius de Halifax Non. Octob. An. Salutis 1628, et decimo septimo Calend. Augusti sequentis vitam cum immortalitate commutavit. Hoc mcerens monumentum posuit Frater ejus natu minor, ejusq ; in Vicaria de Halifax impar successor, Henricus Eamsden." To the word " commutavit," there is the same on a tablet in Methley church, put there in 1680 by one Eobert Nalson. On a pillar opposite to the above : " Hie jacet Heneicus Eamsden, filius natu secundus Galfridi Eamsden, de Greet land, infra Vicariam de Halifax, Artium Magister, necnon CoUegii Lincoln, in inclyt. Oxon Academ. quondam Socius, tandemq ; Vicarius de Halifax, ibidemq ; fratris sui Hugonis p>ermagni. Licet multiq; nominis decessoris haud impar successor, vir equidem multijugis eruditionis, et quod famili- am ducit, spectatae admodum probitatis, quo sane egregie HALIFAXIENSIS. 169 viguit, quicquid est, quod in aliis aut suspicimus eruditi, aut quod veneramur sancti, literarum perinde decus pietatisq ; exemplum per duo prseter propter annorum lustra memor stationis munerisq; sui huic summopere invigilabat Ecclesise, ardens vita, verboq ; lucens, quo temporis deoursu fidelis erat populi pastor, causae pauperum propugnator acerrimus, pacis Ecclesias strenuus assertor, Justicise publicaj, uti pro officio tenebatur, promptus licet cautus tamen et sequus dispensator, hujusce loci ordinis regiminisq ; politici cum primis author, tandem lethali correptus victusq ; febri triste sui apud omnes relinquens desiderium, gratamque memoriam non sine justitio luctuque publico spiritum in manus Domini reddidit, placideq ; spe resurrectionis fultus obdormivit anno Salutis 1637. septim. calend. Martii. Hoc moerens monu mentum posuit frater ejus Gulielmus Eamsden natur minor, Rectorqu.e Ecclesise de Edgmund, in agro Salop. In English. Here lie the remains of Hugh Ramsden, son of G. R., of Greetland, B.A. ; formerly FeUow of Merton College, Oxford, afterwards Rector of Methley, and lastly Vicar of Halifax ; a pious learned man, of a penetrating judgment, who thought that time was lost which was not employed in the church or study. His example cast a lustre on this place and its environs, and at his deatli he was deservedly re gretted by his parishioners. He was collated to this Vicar age, October, 1628, and put on immortality the 17th of August foUowing. His younger brother and successor, Heney Ramsden, erected this testimony of affection to his memory. In memory of Heney Ramsden, second son of G. R., M.A., and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, afterwards Vicar of Halifax, which office his brother Hugh Ramsden had enjoyed before him ; a person well known for his learning and pro bity, (the ornament of letters) and an exemplar of piety, faithful in the discharge of his function, and particularly attentive to the Church's interest for near eight years, ex emplary in his life and conversation, a zealous defender of the poor, a strenuous asserter of peace, a ready yet impartial dispenser of public justice, and a principal promoter of the political order and good government of this place ; being arrested by a violent fever, to the unspeakable regret of all. 170 BIOGEAPHIA he rendered his soul into the hand of God, and calmly slept in Jesus, March 7, 1637. His brother William Ramsden, Rector of Edgmund, Shropshire, erected this monument to his memory. RICHARDSON. On a gi-avestone near the font: "P. M.* Joh.annis Rich ardson, obiit anno Salutis 1702'''', yEtatis suae 89°°. Saeah, daughter of the above John Richardson, and wife of the Eev. Mr. Stephen Carr, of Honley, died Easter Eve, 1755, aged 90." EOSSENDALE. "Here lieth the body of Jeremiah Eossendale, of ShaAv- liill, in Skircoat, who departed this life the ISth day of January, in the second year of his age. Anno Dom. 1694. And also the body of Mr. Jeremiah Eossendale, his father, who departed this life May 17tli, and was interred May 27th, 1696." ROBERTS. On a stone in the Church-yard, opposite the great door ; " Plere lieth the body of John Robeets, of Hipperholme, who departed this life the 10th of November, in the year of our Lord 1721, and in the hundred and fourteenth year of his age." [Also the body of Ann, wife to the abovesaid John Roberts, who departed this life the 16th day of June, 1728. Wright, p. 196.] Tradition sais, that he wanted a month. He was a carrier by trade, and used to say, that he had never drank above half a pint of liquor of any kind, at one draught. ROKEBY. On a monument formerly in the Chapel on the north side of the Church, but now removed: " Orate pro anima Will- lELMi Rokeby, Jur. Can. Profess, ac etiam Episcopi Medensis et deinde Archiepisc. Dublin. Capellse fundatoris istius, qui obiit 29 Novembris, An. Dom. 1521." In English. Pray for the soul of William Rokeby, Professor of Law at Cambridge, also Archbishop of Dublin and Founder of that CoUege, who died Nov. 29, 1521. * To the memoiy of John. HALIFAXIENSIS. 171 SAYEE. Facing the North-Isle in Halifax Church, on a very elegant monument, is the following inscription : Near this Place are deposited the remains of Maey, the Wife of Thomas Sayee, of Halifax, Gentleman, and Coheiress of William Cockcroft, of Mayroyd, Esquire. She died the 12th of May, 1779, aged 86 years. This monument is erected to her memory, by an affectionate and afflicted husband, as a respectful token of his esteem for those virtues which adorned her heart, and endeared her to him, and to all who had the happiness of an acquaint ance with her. Ask not, pensive Eeader, a recital of those virtues, which her humility wished her to conceal ; This silent marble refers thee for information, to the tears and cries of the sick and needy, who lost in her a sympathetic attendant on their distress, and a generous reliever of their wants : And to the regret of that concourse of every age and rank, who paid an honourable and voluntary tribute to her merit, by accompanying her remains to their interment. If her amiable example excite thy imitation, forget not to adopt her noblest praise, by fulfilling every duty of nature and society, from a principle of affection and gratitude to God, the Friend, the Parent, the Eedeemer of Mankind. SHAEP. On a tablet in the Chancel, an angel in clouds, blowing a trumpet, and on a cloth hanging from it, these words : " Jo annes, Dominus Archiepiscopus Eboeum, 1704." Arms of Sharp painted near the inscription, impaled with those of the See of York. 172 BIOGEAPHIA This was put up in honour to his memory, as he was born in the neighboring parish of Bradford. SAVILE. In the Chancel, round the border of a stone, in antient characters : " (Pray) for the (Sa)wl of Thomas Savile, of Coplay, Esquyer, the .... of July, (and) in the yeire of ower Lord God mcccccxxxi." Dr. Johnson sais, the following was round a gravestone in the Chancel, in old characters: "(Pray) for the Sawl of Thomas Savile, of Copley, Esquyre . . . (d)ay of July, the year of our Lord God mcccccxxxi," which must, I think, be an imperfect copy of the above. He has given a drawing of this Thomas Savile, in armour, in a praying posture, with the Savile's arms on one side of his head, and those of Beaumont on the other. See Plate 1. SCAEBEOUGH. On a stone near the font : " Here lieth the body of Susan late wife of Eiohaed Scarbrough, of Halifax, who was buried November 17, A. D. 1678. Spes prolis, Sponsi fulcrum, Matrisq ; Susanna Solamen, tumulo hoc, hei ! moribunda jacet. Non tolUtur relatio, cui est Mariti melioratio. Tempus celerrime aufugit. In English. Approach and drop the tribute of a tear, A faithful wife sleeps unmolested here. Prop of her sinking spouse while life remain'd. Who all a mother's tender cares sustained; Such virtue dies not with the mould'ring tomb ; Heir to the glories of a life to come. STEAD. " Near tbis place is interred the body of Mr. Valentine Stead, Merchant, who died May the 16th, 1758, aged 70. Also Naomi, his wife, who died October the 9th, 1740, aged 47. And seven of their children. Also two children of Valentine Stead the younger, who erected this monument." Near the font, on a grave-stone : " Here lieth the body of Mary, the wife of Samuel Stead, of Halifax, who was buried HALIFAXIENSIS. 178 the 29th of May, 1784, aged 82 years and 6 months. She was wife of the abovesaid Samuel Stead, Salter, 58 years and 6 months." Also Samuel Stead, husband to the abovesaid Mary, who departed this life the 4th day of December, 1736, aged 80 years, 10 months, and seven days. Mr. Wright, p. 195, remarks, that this Gentleman lived to see of his chUdren, grand children, and great grand children sixty-one in number. SMITH. On a stone in the Church-yard : " Here lieth the body of Daniel Smith, the son of Matthew Smith, of Halifax, who departed this life the 28th day of February, Anno Domini 1729, in the ISth year of his age. Under this stone here lies, as you may see, A lovely child, who once was dear to me. Dearer to God, who took him hence away. With whom I leave, until the final day. Methinks I hear my lovely child say here. Weep not for me, but for your children dear ; Make haste to follow me, and then you'll see. What is provided in eternity." SOMEESCALES. On a stone on the west wall of the Church: "Mr. Richard Somerscales, of Halyfax, who died April the Sth, A.D. 1613, and who, by his last will, gave all his lands in Halyfax and Ovenden, (after the decease of his sister,) to the poor of the said towns for ever, amongst whom he gave 40s. to his sister's husband, for the term of his life." SUNDERLAND. Dr. Johnson sais, that the following was in the soutli isle of the Chancel : " Here lieth the bodies of Robert, son of Richard Sunderland, of Coley, Esq : and Judith, his daughter, who died January 19th, 1623. February Sth, 1628." This was round a stone, on which were cut, in bad proportion, the figures of a man and woman kneeling down together ; over their heads. On a shield, three lions passant ; and for crest. On an helmet a goat's head. See Plate 2. 174 BIOGEAPHIA TILLOTSON. In the Chancel, in letters of gold, on a tablet, with the arms of the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury impaled with his own : JoHANEs Tillotson, Archiepus Cantuar. natus Sowerbise, renatus Halyfaxie, 3"'^ S'^'-'S 1630. Denatus Lambefhse, 22° Novebris, A. D. 1694. JUtatis suse 65." In English. Archbishop of Canterbury, born at Sowerby, baptized at Halifax, Oct. 3, 1630, died at Lambeth, Nov. 22d, 1694. Aged 65. THURSTON. On a stone in the Chancel: "John, the son of John Thurston, Gentleman, died the 6tli of December, 1663. Orimur, morimur, oriemur.''' Blest babe, who art so soon become A man in Christ, -\vith him at home." WATER-HOUSE. In the North Chapel, on a stone with a man in armor upon it, in old characters : " Here lyeth the body of Egbert Waterhouse, of Halyfax, Esquyer, which departed this life the .... of June .... (liav)ying lyved, as one that should dye." Mr. Wright has called the above John, instead of Eobert, and has put Gregory instead of Bryan, in the next epitaph. The wife of the above Eobert was buried in St. Michael Bel- fray's Church in York. See Drake's Ebor. p. 339. She died may 1st, 1592. See Plate 2. Near the above, but now destroyed (as supposed) was another figure of a man in armor, with this inscription round, in old characters : "Here lyeth the body of Bryan Waterhouse, of Halyfax, Gentleman, whicli departed this life the iv day of October, in the year of our Lord God, 1589. Humanius est deridere vitam quam deplorare." In Dr. Johnson's MS. Collections is the drawing of a tomb said to be removed ou,t of the North Chapel when the stairs were made which lead to the north gallery there, at the head of which was a shield of arms, viz. Waterhouse, * We rise, we fall, we shall arise. HALIFAXIENSIS. 175 Or, a pile ingrailed sable, quartered with Savile, parted per pale quarterly, 1. Bosseville, of Gunthwaite. 2. Bendy of thirteen pieces, or and sirgent. 3 .... A lion rampant . . . over all a bend gules ; fourth as first. Under these a scroll and motto, "Virtus vincint omnia." On the top of the tomb lay the figure of a man in sirmor, holding on his breast a shield with the same arms as above. On one side of his head were, on a shield, the arms of Waterhouse, on the other the coats of Waterhouse and Savile, quartered; on one side of his feet, Waterhouse impaled with Bosseville, and on the other, Waterhouse impaled with the same quarteriiigs as are impaled in the shield on his breast. The above stairs were made in 1700. See Plate 3. In the middle isle of the Church, on brass plates, fixed to a seat near the pulpit, which are all torn off except the heads, a man kneeling, with a book in his hand, and opposite to him a woman kneeling, aud a string of beads hanging down from her waist. On a label over the man, in old characters: " Miserere mei Deus, et salva me." On another label near the woman, in like characters : " Miserere mei Deus, secun dum magnam misericordiam." On a brass plate over their heads : "I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord. He that believeth in me, though he were dead yet shall he live, and he that liveth and believeth in me shall never die." Underneath, in the above characters : " John Waterhows, of Halyfax, and Agnes, hys wyff', which John dep'ted from thys worlde the xxvu day of January, anno Dm. mcccccxxx. — - Something wanting both at beginning and end. See Plate 1. On the nortli side of the Church, where the deceased particularly desired to be buried, is a tomb, on which is wrote : " Here lieth the body of Mr. John Waterhouse, of Lower Eanns, in Northowram, who died April 4tli, 1759, aged 60." On the west end of the tomb : " Oh Christian Eeader ! often think Christ will appear. How shall I then in judgment stand ! " WATKINSON. On a pillar on the south side of the Chancel: "H. M. Memoriae sacrum Marlis, filise unicae Eev'^' Dn' Ei'Wahdi Watkinson, Capellse de Luddenden in hac Vicaria Curat. 176 biographia Quse nata vesperi praecedente Pascha, Anno 1723, febre per- quam maligna correpta occidit (heu nimium fugax et multum flebiUs) Augusti 24'°, 1726." In English. This monument was erected to the memory of Mary, only daughter of the Eev. Edward Watkinson, Curate of Ludden den, in this Vicarage. She was born on Easter-Eve, 1723, and being taken ill of a violent fever, quitted this life August 24, 1726. WAINHOUSE. On a brass plate near tbe font : " Here lieth the body of Michael Wainhouse, late of Binroyd, in Norland, buried the 21^' day of October, A. D. 1684. Ut moriens viveret, vixit ut moriturus." [That in dying he might live, he lived as one ready to die.] WILKINSON. On a grave-stone in the Chancel: "Joseph Wilkinson, A. M. quondam Vicarius de Chapel-Izod, juxta Dublin, in Hibernia, et Prebendarius de Castroknock, Ecclesise Cathe- dralis Sancti Patricii Dublin, postea Eector de Wigginton comitatu Ebor. et tandem huic Ecclesise par viginti annos prffifuit Vicarius. Obiit 28 die Decembris, Anno Dom. 1711. jEtatis suae 60." Joseph Wilkinson, M.A., formerly Vicar of Chapel-Izod, near Dublin, Prebend of Castroknock, the Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, Dublin ; afterwards Eector of Wigginton, in the County of York, and lastly. Vicar of this Church for near 20 years. WILSON. At the bottom of the middle isle : "Ann, the daughter of Mr. John Wilson, Curate of Honly, was buried the 4th day of November, 1725." At the south end of the West Walk, in the Church, on a stone fixed, to the wall: "Here lyeth the body of John Wilson, formerly Clark of the Parish Church of Halyfax, who was buried the 7"* day of November, 1701." This man, who was Claris: of Eland, was made Clark of Halifax by Dr. Hooke ; and Wilson, in the course of a dis pute which happened between them, having arrested the HALIFAXIENSIS. 177 Doctor, the latter persuaded the other to shew him his licence, and when he had got it in possession would never suffer him to officiate any more. TESTAMENTARY BURIALS at HALIFAX. FEOM MR. TOUR'S MS. July 12, 1402, John del Burgh, of Halifax, made his will, and left his soul to God Almighty, St. Mary, and All Saints, and ordered his body to be buried in the parish church of Halifax. Nov. 21, 1437, Henry Savyle, of Halifax, Esq; Soul and body as above. March 3, 1439, Eichard Pek, of Southouram. Soul as above, body in the quire of the j)arish church of Halifax. April 20, 1459, John Sayvell, of Copley, Esq ; Soul as above, body in the church, or church-yard of Halifax. June 1, 1481, Tho. Wilkinson, Vicar of Halifax, already mentioned. AprU 4, 1482, WiUiam MarshaU, Eector of Kirk-SandaL Soul as above, body in Halifax church. Feb. 3, 1484, Eichard Waterhouse, of Warley. Soul as above, body in the church or church-yard of St. John Baptist, Halifax. April 29, 1510, Henry Savile, of Copley. Soul as above, body in the New Warke of Halifax. Feb. 15, 1530, Tho. Savile, of Bladeroyd, in Southouram. — Jan. 5, 1583, Thomas SavUe, of Copley, Esq; — 1538, John Waterhouse, of Skircoat. — 1585, Edward Waterhouse, buried in the church-yard at Halifax. — 1538, Eichard Waterhouse, of Shipden, body to be buried in the church of the holy prophet St. John Baptist, of Halifax. — 1541, John lUing worth, of lUingworth. — 1548, Edward Waterhouse, of Skircoat. — 1543, WilUam lUingworth. — 1545, Humphry Waterhouse, of Shelf. Soul to God Almighty, hoping through Jesus Christ to be saved. "Here Protestantism "began to shew itself, and mankind began to act more from " principles of reason, and common sense, than to bequeath " their souls to the Virgin Mary, and all the Saints, who are 17S BIOGEAPHIA " only in the same condition that all living Saints will "shortly be placed in, and who cannot help if they are " applied to." 1545, John Waterhouse, of Skircoat. — 1554, Henry Savile, of Copley. — 1556, John Waterhouse, of ThoUinges, in War- ley.— 1556, Richard Midgley, of Midgley.— 1569, Thomas Savile, of Copley. — 1570, Hugh Lacey, of Brearley, in Midg- , ley, Esq; — 1570, Thomas Savile, of Southouram, Gent.— 1578, Anthony Waterhouse, of Warley, Gent. — 1586, Abra ham Sunderland, of High Sunderland, Gent. — 1620, John Holdsworth, of Astey, Gent. THE PRINCIPAL EPITAPHS AT EALAND, AEE THESE : A S H E T 0 N . On a grave-stone in the Chancel : " Hie in spe Christiana requiescit Petrus Asheton, A.M. Ecclesise Anglicanas Presby ter, et Paroehise de Ealand in sacris Administer : Orthodoxas Fidei et Doctrinse sanaj Theologus : Pietatis Exemplar : Pacis Cultor ! Qui x^er decursum annorum triginta et unius fideliter pastorali functus munere, et reciproco omnium amore remuneratus, placide gregem simul cum anima Deo vocanti resignavit 8 0™° Octobris, A. D. 1691. iEtatis 55*". FU. Die Thomas, ] ( 22io Johannaes, I obiit -; 9'"' Petrus, J ( 9°° " Hie etiam (cum Infante) jacet Samuel filius Rich. Petty, Curati de Ealand, qui unicam P. Asheton filiam uxorem sibi adjunxit. Obiit Aug. 22, A.D. 1709. ^Etatis suae 2«o. " Hie etiam jacet Susanna ejusdem R°i. Petty filia. Sepulta fuit 11™°' ApriUs, A. D. 1711.— Jiltatis suse 8™." On a grave-stone in the Chancel : " Reliquiaj hie repositse Petri Asheton, Curati de ililnraw, in com. Lancastri, (filii Petri Asheton propiq ; tumulati) qui animam Deo resignavit 5'" die Aug. 1718. etatis 42." " Atque Rich^ Petty, Curati de Ealand, qui animam efflavit vivacem 7"° die Martii, 1723. — .etatis suaj 49." Mensis A.D. PecbriB 1684 ) 18t"> 1675 [¦ 1^0 MaU - Junii 1674 j 1™" HALIFAXIENSIS. 179 111 English. "Here rests in christian hope, Petee Ashton, A.M. pres byter of the English church, and curate of Ealand ; a divine of (an) orthodox faith, and sound doctrine ; an example of primeval piety, and a lover of peace : After having faithfully discharged the x^astoral office 31 j^ears ; being universally beloved, he csilmly resigned his flock, together with his soul, at the call of God, October 30, 1691, aged 55. In this j)lace (with an infant) sleeps Samuel, son of Richard Petty curate of Elland, who married the only daughter of P. Ashton. He died August 22d, A. D. 1709, aged 2 years. Also, Susanna, the daughter of Eichsird Petty, was interred here, April 11, A.D. 1711, aged 8 years. In this plaoe are deposited the remains of Peter Ashton, curate of MUnraw, in the county of Lancaster, son of P. Ashton, deceased, who resigned his soul to God, August 5, 1718, aged 42. Eichard Petty died March 7, 1723, aged 49." BOSWELL. In the North Quire, the figure of the greatest psi.rt of a woman, in a praying posture, and four children below, also praying, over the children's heads the names Elizabeth, Mary, Jane, Dorithy. On the right side of the woman's head the arms of Savile ; on the left, those of Boswell im paled with .... a saltire ingrailed .... in a chief three roses . . . .- — Inscription round the stone: "Here sleepeth the body of Francis, daughter of Godfrey Boswell, Esq; wife of John Savile, of Newhall, Esquire, whose soul returned to God that gave it, February 26, 1609, aged 60 years." BAIESTOW. In the Chapel yard: " Eeliquise hie reponuntur .jEREMiiB Bairstow, Viri, si quid venerationis sibi vendicant, Liter arum scientia, rerum sacrarum peritia, morum probitas, yita3 sanctitas, revera reverendi. Qui postquam per annos triginta et amplius, gregi quodam christiano Pastor fidelis invigilasset, officii rationem, animamq ; Deo reddidit 27 JuUi, 1731." This was composed by the Eev. Mr. Elston. See below. In English. "Here is deposited the remains of Jeremy Bairstow, a a truly venerable man, if the science of letters, probity of 180 BIOGRAPHIA manners, and sanctity of life have any claim to that character, during a term of more than 30 years. He was a faithful and vigUant Pastor over a christian congregation, and commended his soul to God July 27, 1731." CLAY. From Dr. Johnson's manuscript: "Hie jacet sepultus Johannes Clay, de Clayhouse, qui obiit decimo octavo die Junii, 1616." On the same stone: "Here lieth Captain John Clay, deceased, September 13, 1643." In English. " Near this place lies interred John Clay, of Clayhouse, who died June 18, 1616." ELSTON. In the Chapel-yard : " M. S. Hanani^: Elston, A. M. qui ingenio acri, limato, subacto, morum probitate, et aperto illo animi recte sibi conscii candore, veram pietatem, fidem, humanitatem, cselitusq ; demissam Christianis libertatem, excolebat, tuebatur, promovebat : Qui magnas opes, famamve mortaleis inter neque quseritans, neque assecutus, suorum tamen amorem bonorum omnium, quotquot ilium norant, benevolentiam conciliaret, sib summi certe Judicis savorem adeptus est. Quis enim Viator meliore jure beatam speret immortalitem ? Obiit 22 Jumi, 1738." This was composed by the Eev. Mr. Crowther, late Vicar of Otley. In English. " Sacred to the memory of Ananias Elston, M. A. who, with a penetrating, correct, yet well-go-verned judgment, by (a) probity of manners, and an open undisguised candour of mind, conscious of its integrity, cherished, defended, and promoted true piety, faith, humanity, and christian liberty ; who, without either seeking or acquiring opulence and fame, concUiated the affections of his friends, and the kind regards of all good men who knew him. We trust he has obtained the favour of his Judge for what mortal traveUer had better grounds to hope for a happy immortality ? He died 22d June, 1738. HALIFAXIENSIS. 181 ELLISTONES. In the Chapel-yard, over Henry Ellistones, who died at Howroyde, 1697 : " UUamne in rebus humanis. Lector, certitudinem esse reris, cum ipsum hominen una dissolva^t hora ? " In English. " Can you suppose, reader, there is any stability in human things, when a single hour can dissolve the man himself ? " GRANTHAM. On a marble monument : " Heare lyes the body of Thomas Grantham, of Muxe, in the county of Yorke, Esq ; sonne of Thomas Grantham, late of Goltlio, iu the county of Lincohie, Esquire. He married Frances, the second daughter of Sir George Wentworth, of Wooley, and departed this life the first day of April, at Fixby, in the 35th year of hi-s age, Anno Dom. 1668." " John Grantham, the youngest sonne of the saide Thomas Grantham, of Goltho, departed this life the seventh day of March, at Fixby, in the 17th year of his age. Anno Dom. 1667, and lyes in this Queare." " Heer lyes the body of Frances Grantham, wife to Thomas Grantham, Esquire, who died March 12, 1692, and lyes interred in her husband's grave. Beside them lyes Vincent Grantham, their only son, who died when he was 12 years of age, whose bodyes now rest in ]peace, waiting the resurrection of the just." HORTON. On a marble monument near the communion table : " Near this place below lies interred the body of William Horton, of Howroyde, Esq. who died in the 64th year of his age, 1715-16. He married Mary, the youngest daughter of Sir Richard Musgrave, of Heaton-Castle, in the county of Cumberland, Baronet, by whom he left two sons, William and Richard ; the eldest, WiUiam Horton, of Coley, Esq. died in the 38th year of his age, in 1739, and Richard Horton, the younger son, of Ho^wroyde, Esq. who died a bachelor, in the 85th year of his age, in the year 1742. In memory of whom this monument was erected by the reUct and mother of the 182 BIOGEAPHIA deceased, and present possessor of Howroyde, Mrs. Mary Horton, who designedly omitted many deserved praises, lest some honour should thereby redound to herself," Arms, Horton impaling Musgrave. On a white marble monument near the Communion Table : " In memory of Thomas Horton, of Barkisland-hall, and Everilde, his wife, daughter of John Thornhill, Esq. of Fekisby, by whom he had six sons and five daughters, of which the only survivors were, Elizabeth, married to Eichard Bold, Esq. of Bold, in Lancashire. Susanna, married to Eichard Beaumont, Esq. of Whitley-hall, and Anne Horton, here interred, April the 22d, 1750. By whose order this monument was erected." Arms, Horton quartered with Gledhill, Barkisland, and ThornhiU. There is a mistake made on the above monument, by misplacing the names of Elisabeth, and Susanna, but it is here corrected. ^ HOILE. In the Chapel-yard over one John Hoile : Deo, ac conjugi plus, Justus ac propositi tenax, amicis certus, omnibus affabUis, ao si quid ultra est, sit tota vita pro epitaphio. Vade, et tu fae similiter." In English. Devout towards God, affectionate to his Wife, just and steady to his purpose, sincere to his friends, affable to all, and if aught remains, let his whole life be his Epitaph. — Go and do thou likewise. HANSON. From Dr. Johnson's Manuscripts: "Here sleepeth the body of Nicholas Hanson, one of the Attornies of the Common Pleas, Servant to Sir John Savile, Baron of the Ch"^. a favourer of religion, whose soul returned to his Saviour November 7, 1613." The oldest date upon the grave-stones at Ealand is this " John Hanson de Woodhouse, 1599. Mt. 82." There are also above twenty pieces of poetry in this Chapel-yard, but the composition is not worth recording; we shall, therefore, only take notice of a singularity on one of HALIFAXIENSIS. 183 the grave-stones, which is an anagram upon one Maria Tailour, which it seems will make A mari alto rui, aud then follows this observation, by way of allusion : " From seas of woes, which were due to my crimes Death snatcht me hence, to go to rest betimes." There is also a couplet over one Elizabeth Brooke, which has been a little admired : " She was — but room forbids to tell you what ; Think what a wife should be, for she was that. CURATES OF EALAND. It is impossible to give a perfect list of these ; the following is the best which I can make out : Thomas Stbengee, Chaplain of the Parochial Chapel of Elande, 1459. James Butterfield, 1544 married to Elizabeth Gill. See HaUfax Register. Michael Savile, July, 1561. Eobeet Milner, Curat, de Eland, sepult. December 22, 1565. Richard Woreal, entered to the Curacy, 1588. CoNSTANus Maud, was buried November 17, 1600. Edwaed Sunderland, A.M. of Clare-haU, Camb. entered to the Curacy in 1601, was buried February 1, 1632. John Thompson, entered in 1683. ROEEET HOULDSWOETH, 1651. .... Abbot, in 1650, and 1652. Robert Towne, 1652, for whom see Calamy's account of ejected Ministers, page 809. R. Walker, 1656, and to March, 1661. Josiah Beodeheade, March 2, 1663 and 1664. Petee Asheton, A.M. March 4, 1667. Buried at Ealand, November 3, 1698. Richard Petty, March 5, 1699, and 1703. Jeremiah Baiestow, 1721, died July 28, 1731. George Smith, died December 4, 1733. Thomas Alderson, March 1734. Samuel Ogden, D. D. March, 1747. George Burnet. There was also one Hugh Gledhill, Curate here, but at what time uncertain. 184 biographia TESTAMENTARY BURIALS AT ELx\ND. FROM TORR'S MS. 1399, John Sayvill, of Eland Chevalier. 1529, John Thornhill, of Fixby, to be buried within the chapel of our blessed Lady St. Mary, of Eland, in St. Nicholas Quire, or in the Chancel thereto adjoining. 1545, John Say-vill, of Newhall, Gen. 1566, Henry Sayvil, of Bradley. 1567, John Thornhill, of Fixby. 1580, Thomas Savile, of Eland. 1583, Elizabeth, widow of John ThornhiU, of Fixby, esq. 1598, Bryan Thornhill, of Fixby. 1607, John Thornhill, of Fixby, esq. 1669, John Thoenhill, of Fixby, esq. LIST OF CURATES AT HEPTONSTALL, FEOM DIFFEEENT AUTHOEITIES. -r-TENRY VI, Thomas Marshall, of HeptonstaU, Cap- ^^ XX eUanus.— 1572, WiUiam MitcheU.— 1579, William Ireland. — 1586, John Hanley. — 1647, Richard Coore. — 1652, James Crouohley. — 1655, Daniel Towne. — 1656, Eagland.— 1660, Diglin.— July, 1662, Ferret.— July, 1668, and to 1665, Jeremy Hay.— 1668, and to 1708, Daniel Towne. — 1713, Thomas Greenwood. The list from Heptonstall Register is this; 1609, Booth.— 1615, Scholfeilde.— 1630 and 1631, William Smith.— 1632 and 1633, Leonard Burton.— 1636 and 1641, Robt. Gilbodie.— 1644, Ma. Boothe.— 1645 and 1649, Richard Coore.— 1654, James Chrichley.— 1661, WUl. Aiglin.— 1662, Joseph Ferret. He was buried at Halifax. — 1663 and 1667, Jeremy Hey. — 1669 and 1712, Daniel Towne, who died May 3, 1712.-1712 and 1744, Thomas Greenwood, who had in this last year for his successor, Toby Sutcliffe, the present Curate. All the above I have found to be Curates in the years specified. HALIFAXIENSIS. 185 TESTAIMENTARY BURIALS AT HEPTONSTALL. EOBERT SHAGH, buried in the church-yard of the chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr, of HeptonstaU, 1467, in the 7tli year of the reign of Edward IV. This from a manuscript in the British Museum, Harleian Collection. No 797 ; and from hence may be seen, among numberless other instances which might be produced, what little distinction was formerly made in this parish, between the words church and chapel ; they sometimes were certainly meant to convey the same idea, as where Richard Waterhouse, of Shelf, ordered by will, in 1617, some legacies to be paid in the chapel church of Coley. Laurence Stansfeld, of Stansfeld's, Will, proved March 10, 1534, his body to be buried in the church or chapel of Heptonstall. George Wheatley, of Heptonstall's, Will, proved August 25, 1586, his body to be buried in the chancel at Heptonstall, amongst the bodies of other faithful people. Registers at York. In the chancel, near the communion table, is the following epitaph in capitals : "1712. The Revd. Mr. Daniel Towne, who supplied the cure of souls in this church of Heptonstall 44 years, died May 3, and was here buried the Sth, aged 81. His last Text was, Bicye the truth and sell it not. Prov. xxiii. 23." In one of the isles is an antient grave-stone, the in scription round whioh is worn out, but a Calvary Cross is still visible thereon. On one of the windows are the arms of Stansfield, of Stansfield ; date in old numerals, 1508. CURATES OF RASTEICK. 1411, Dom. Johannes Pip', as by deed. — 1630, or there abouts, Roger Attey. — 1650, Waterhouse. — Feb. 26, 1652, and to 1655, John Kaye, Pastor of Rastrick. — 1655 ... ... Mitchel.- 1656 to 1658, Jones.— Feb. 1661, Eobinson.— Feb. 1664, Matthew Shirt.— Feb. 1666, John Baskervile.— Feb. 1674, Peter BeU.— Feb. 1676, Dennis 186 BIOGEAPHIA Hayford.— June, 1688, Hanson.— March 5, 1689, Walker.— 1694 and 1703, Robert Laycock.— Feb. 1713, Edward Waring.— Feb. 1719, John Metcalf— Feb. 1748, George Braithwaite. N. B. Mr. Robinson abovementioned was one of the ejected Ministers. See Calamy, vol. U. page 818, where also a Mr. Ashley is said to have been a Preacher at Rastrick, though not a fixed one. — Por him see Calamy, vol. ii. page 183, 184, 818. EPITAPHS AT RIPPONDEN. AINSWOETH. The oldest stone in this Chapel-yard is over one Heney AiNSwoETH, and is dated March 29tb, 1657. HILL. On a handsome well cut tomb-stone erected over a vault : " Here lies interred the body of Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Elisabeth Hill, of Soyland, who departed this life the 28d of July, 1729, aged 15 years. "Also the body of Ann, their daughter, who died the 3d of AprU, 1780, aged 5. " Also of Joseph, their son, who died the 14tli of January, aged 8. "Also of Samuel, their son, who died the llth of June, 1732, aged 12. "Also the body of Deborah, the wife of James Hill, of Soyland, who died the 9th of Ootober, 1741, aged 84. "Also of James, son of the aforesaid Samuel and Eliz. Hill, who died the 16th of January, 1753, aged 30. "Also of Betty, wife of Eichard Hill, (daughter of Eoger Kay, neai; Bury, in Lancashire), who lived unblameable thro' life, and died lamented, the 25tli of October, 1747, aged 19. " Also the body of Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Hill, of Soyland. She died the 1st of July, 1756, aged 65 years. "Also of Samuel, son of Eichard (and grandson of Sam uel Hill,) who died 22d of Ootober, 1756, aged 10 years and S months. HALIFAXIENSIS. 187 LIVE SAY. "Here was interred the body of John Livesay, A. B. of Brazen Nose College, Oxford, who died the 5^^ day of April, Anno Dom. 1730, in the 31''' year of his age. Also the body of Hannah, his wife, relict of Mr. John Hoyle, late of Royde, in Soyland, who died the 13''' day of March, 1729, aged 40 years." SUNDERLAND. "Here was interred the body of John Sundeeland, setf Curate of Ripponden, who departed this life the 21=' day of April, Anno Dom. 1720." N. B. The stone on which this is cut, was laid down since the old Chapel was destroyed. There was a stone fixed in the wall of the old Chapel, with this inscription : " Juxta, Johannis Sunderland, hujus Sacelli nuper Pastoris, depositaa sunt exuviaa, die Junii 23, Anno Dom. 1720." On another stone : " Here was interred the body of John Sunderland, jun. Curate of Sowerby Bridge, Sep. 15th, 1715." And on the same : " Here was interred the body of the Rev. Mr. William Sundeeland, A. B. Curate of Rippon den above 29 years, who died the 1st day of March, 1749, aged 73 years." WRIGHT. " Here lieth interred the body of the Rev. Mr. Tho. Weight, A. B. who was Curate of Halifax near 18 years, and of Ripponden 4. He died the 8"^ day of -June, 1754, in the 47th year of his age." CURATES OF EIPPONDEN. 1588 and 1593, Henry Sharrock— AprU 6, 1650 and 1655, Isaac Allen. — 1656, and to August 1663, Roger Kenion — April 6, 1664, Ralph Wood, who was buried at Ripponden, Feb. 16, 1696-7.-1699, John Sunderland.— August 1720, William Sunderland, who died March 1, 1749-50.— May 17, 1750, Thomas Wright took possession. — At Martinmass, 1754, John Watson tookpossession, and after fifteen years resident there, removed to the Rectory of Stockport. 188 biographia The above Roger Kenion was turned out, (as Calamy, page 837, informs us), by the Bartholomew Act, but after wards conformed. We have copies of his two last sermons preached at Ripponden, August 17, 1663, wherein he advises his hearers " not to neglect the first opportunity of closing with another, for he was persuaded that true spiritual bread would be more scarce and precious than it had been." In all probability they would not easily find one so curious at a simile as he; for in the latter sermon he says, "We are Uke unto a man that is in a pinakle of a church, and seeth out at a hoale, where he can see nothing but what is before the hoale, but God is like unto a man on the top of the pinakle, that seeth round about." CURATES AT LUDDENDEN. 1526, John Robinson. — 1606, Marmaduke Farrar, buried in that year; see Halifax Register. — 1634, Nathaniel Welch. —1652 and 1662, Jonathan Fairbank.— June 1664 and 1665, Edward Doughty. — June 1666, Robert Dewhirst. — June 7, 1671, Gregson.— June 1672, HaU.— March 8, 1674, Eobert Sutcliffe.— January 1676, Edward Dean. — June 1678, James Roberts. — June 1682, Sunderland.— June 1698 and 1702, David Hartley.— June 1706, Thomas Greenwood. — 1710 and 1713, Robert Laycock. — June 1720, John Earnshaw. — June 1722, George Smith. — June 6, 1724, came to be Curate Edward Watkinson, M. D. who staid there three years and seven months. — June 1728 Joshua Brooksbank, buried May 9, 1740.— June 1740, Robert Bre reton. — June 1743, John Grimshaw. — June 1749, John Welsh.— 1750, Benjamin Travis.— 1761, Thomas West. EPITAPHS AT OOLET. BRAMFIT. IN the Chapel-yard: "Here lieth interred the body of Joseph Bramfit, who departed this life July 10, 1733, in the 33d year of his age ; and also Susanna, his daughter. HALIFAXIENSIS. 189 who died the same day, in the 7th year of her age ; also Phebe, his daughter, who died the same day, in the 5th year of her age : Behold a loving husband, and his two daughters lay ; They smother'd were by smoke all on ono day." HUDSON. Between the body of the Chapel and the Chancel, on a plain stone monument : " Near the door of this seat lie the remains of John Hudson, son of the Revd. Mr. Thomas Hudson, and of Martha his wife, late of Hipperholm, who died July 21, 1739, aged 4 years. SHARP. Within the Chapel, at the west end, on a stoue monu ment : " Near this place lie interred the body of Ann, late wife of Nathan Sharp, of Hipperholm, Clerk, who departed .this life the 20"', and was buried here the 22'^ of March, 1727, aged 52 years and 7 months. " As also the body of her husband, Nathan Sharp, who departed this life the 9'^, and was buried the 12"! of May, 1733, aged 58 years and 10 months." Arms below, Sharpe, which, to the best of my remem brance, were, Azure a pheon argent, within a bordure of the second, charged with eight torteauxes ; impaling, Priestley, viz. Gules on a chevron argent, three grappling irons sable, between three towers of the second, issuant out of each a demi lion rampant, or. This Mr. Sharpe was School-master at Hipperholme near thirty -years. There are some other epitaphs, and a few of them in the poetic strain, but the composition is too low for the press. CURATES OP COLEY. 1580, Eichard Northend, Capellanus in capella de Coolay. — 1618, Gibson.— - 1631, Richard Denton. — ^ August, 1649, Nicholas Cudworth. — 1652, Oliver Heywood, ejected from thence in 1662, (See Calamy, vol. ii. page 804, &c.) 190 biographia He was succeeded by John Hool, who was also Curate here in 1670.— Nov. 1671, Moore.— Nov. 1672, Ichabod Fournes. — Nov. 4, 1674, Andrew Louthian. — Dec. 1676, George Hovie.— 1682, and 1689, Timothy Ellison.— 1708, Nathan Sharpe. — November 1783, John Holdsworth.— Nov. 1741, Samuel Ogden.— Nov. 1747, Henry Whitworth, who died July 15, 1768. A Mr. Marsden was Curate here before Oliver Pleywood. See Calamy, vol. ii. page 810. CURATES OF ILUNGWORTH. ' 1578, John Best, buried at Hsilifax, February 22, 1578.- 1650, Eichard Clarkson. — 1652 to 1655, Nathaniel Heywood. (See Calamy, vol. ii. page 394). — 1656, Bradshaw. — 1658 and 1664, Psiul Greenwood.— Oot. 1668, Edward WUkinson, who died Jan 4, 1704.— Oct. 1706, David Hart ley.— Oct. 1717, Daniel Bentley.— Jan. 1748-9, J. Grimshaw. CURATES OF SOWERBY BRIDGE CHAPEL. 1635 and 1646, Robert Booth.— 1651 and 1652, Ainsworth. — 1652 and 1653 Thompson. — 1655 and 1658, Daniel Bentley.— Sept. 4, 1661, and Sept. 3, 1662, Timothy Root. He was turned out by the Bartholomew Act, (says Calamy, vol. ii. page 837), aud afterwards con formed. — September 1663, and 1664, EInathan Baiins. — 1665, John Brotherton.— September 1670 and 1701, Berron. — 1703, John Sunderland, who died September 15, 1717. — 1717, Thomas Dunn. — September 1718, John Lup- toii, buried March 25, 1730. — September, 1730, Abraham Sharpe, who died AprU 17, 1732.— September, 1732, WUliam Stackhouse. — Richard Fisher, who entered, July 1746. HALIFAXIENSIS. 191 EPITAPHS AT LIGHTCLIFFE CHAPEL. In the Chapel-yard : " Here is interred the body of Mary, the mother of Colonel Guest, of Lidgate, in Lightcliffe, who departed this life Sept. 10, 1729, aged 88." At the east-end within the Chapel: "Here lies interred the Eevd. Mr. Joshua Hill, Curate of this chapel near thirty-two years, who was buried June the llth, in the 79th year of his age, A. D. 1739, of whom it has often been said, that he was neither poor, proud, nor covetous." With some others, not worth publishing. CURATES OF LIGHTCLIFFE. 1630, John Peebles, Preacher at Lightclive, ( Halifax Register.)- 1634, John Burtomood.— 1647, 1649, and 1650, WUliam Ainsworth.— 1650 Heald.— December 1, 1652, John Bell.— 1655, Hopkins.— 1656, and 1661 Seddon. — .December 1668, and 1673, Alexander Bate. — 1673, Paul Bairstow. — December, 1677 Walker, late Minister of Lightcliffe.— 1678, and 1700, WiUiam Clifford.— 1703, Thomas Greenwood. — December, 1706, Joshua Hill. (He was blind for some time.) — Jonathan Wright,''' Light cliffe, died June 25, 1727.— October, 1739, Eichard Fisher took possession. — December, 1746, Geo. Braithwaite. — Dec ember, 1746, Benjamin Travis. — March, 1752, Eichard Sutcliffe. In Mr. Dickenson's manuscript register at Northouram, it is said that the above William Clifl'ord died in Northouram, April eighteen, 1732-3, and was buried at Halifax ; that he was many years Curate at Lightcliffe, afterwards at Haworth, and was very old, having not preached of many years. CUEATES OF ST. ANN'S. 1650, Eichd. Core.— February, 1652, Christopher Taylor, Quaker. — 1653, Waterhouse. — 1656, Smethurst. — * A Dissenting Minister; never Curate. 192 BIOGRAPHIA January, 1661, Gamaliel Marsden, ejected by the Act of Uniformity. See Calamy, vol. U. page 810.— 1663, Eichard Boy.— January, 1665, Christopher Fisher.— 1666, Eichard Boyes again. — January, 1668, Brooke. — January, 1670, Clegg.— January, 1675 and 1689, Thomas Walker.— But 1676, in January, Nehemiah Feme occurs as Curate. N.B. There is no certainty who was the licensed Minister about this time, for the above Mr. Clegg received part of Mr. Waterhouse's annual legacy to the Curate of St. Ann's, in 1679 and 1680, and afterwards when Thomas Walker is mentioned as Curate there. January, 1698 and 1708, Joshua HiU.— 1708, Stephen Carr. — January, 1714, John Sheffield. — January, 1716, John Godley, who signed " no graduate." — 1718, Thomas Lister. — January, 1731, Thomas Haldsworth. — September, 1746, entered Eichard Sutcliffe. — Martinmas, 1750, entered Thomas Meyrick. CUEATES OF SOWEEBY. 1572 and 1583, Adam Morris, who went Chaplain to a regiment in Ireland, and was buried at Halifax, September 24, 1591. John Broadley, who, during the building of the last chapel, preached thirteen Sundays on the dial-stone in the chapel-yard, without so much as a shower of rain to disturb him. He was buried at Halifax, February 14, 1625, and called in the Eegister there. Pastor dignissimus. 1635, Nathaniel Eathband, M. A. also Maroh 16, 1645. 1646, Henry Eoote, also. May 8, 1662. Mr. Calamy, vol. ii. page 809, says that in 1645 (which must be soon after the death of Mr. Eathband,) he gathered a congregational church, and was Pastor to them till 1662 ; that he preached in his chapel for half a year after Bartholomew-day, but was, at length, dragged out of his chapel, and sent to York Castle, where he continued three months. He died October 20, 1669, aged about SO, and was buried at Sowerby. He was educated at Magdalen Coll. Camb. and was a consider able traveller in his younger days. May 1664, Edward Wilkinson.— May 1665, Christopher Jackson.— May 6, 1668 to 1670, Bovile.— May 1672, HALIFAXIENSIS. 193 James Bowker, who was banished for criminal conversation with a daughter of Mr. Farrer, of Gatelands. — May 1676, Christopher Etherington, who died suddenly, January, 4, 1678-9, and was buried at Sowerby.— May 1679 and 1682, John Witter, who was buried at Sowerby, December 27, 1697, aged 66. — Benjamin Baron, or Berron, and son, held Sowerby and Sowerby Bridge. — The elder was afterwards Vicar of Bradford.— May 7, 1701, WiUiam Midgley, who died of a palsy. May 7, 1706, and was buried in Halifax church, aged about 30.— 1708, Archibald Young, who was thrown out at York by the Inhabitants of Sowerby, and was afterwards Curate of Haslingden, in Lancashire. — 1710, Richard Marsden, who left Sowerby that year. — 1711, Nicholas Jackson, who was buried at Sowerby, February 11, 1729.— May, 1730, John Sheffield, who died N(jvember 23, 1735, and was buried at Sowerby. — May 1786, Christopher Gunby, who was buried at Sowerby. — 1750, John Welsh, M.A. CURATES OF CROSTONE. 1650, Smethurst.— 1652 and 1662, George Stott.— August 1663 and 1665, Robert Dewhurst. — August, 1670, Gregson. — August, 1671, John Sunderland. — -August, 16S2 and 1689, Richard Eobinson, who died AprU 28, 1690. — 1703, Thomas Ferrand. — September, 1706, Archibald Young. — 1708, and 1711, and 1714, and 1716, Edward Metham.— August 1728, Michael Godley. — August 1732, Joshua Brooke. — December, 1734, entered John Grimshaw. —August, 1744, Tobit Sutcliffe.— August, 1745, John Welsh. — 1750, John Law, who died September 6, 1768. EXTRACT FROM THE SURVEY of the IVCANOR of WAKEFIELD, Made in 1314. AT the head of my copy of this record, is wrote, "E " libro vocato, Domisday-booke ; " and then follows, "Extenta redditus et servicii liberorum sokae de Wakefeild, 194 BIOGRAPHIA "facta ad natal. Dni. anno Dni, 1314." What relates to Halifax parish is as follows : " Fekisby e. Will, son of Tho. de Totehill, 4s. Peter, son of William, 3s. Joworthe, relict of Robert, 3d. Hen. son of Constan. 14d. Barnard, ISd. Tho. son of Adam, 2s. Rob. son of Eichard, 21d. Alan, son of Alan, 20d. John, son of Eobert, 8s. Eastricke, Will, son of Annabel, 5s. 3d. Will, son of Walter, Id. ob. Alexander de Rastricke, 2d. Staynelande, 'Iho. de Thorne ton, 10s. Hen. de Frankyshe, 6d. foreign service from both, 2s. 9d. Brighowse, Hugh de TotehiU, 3s. 3d. Tho. del Roods, 18d. Hipperholm, the tenants there, and in Priest ley, 8s. Presteley, Hen. de Northend, 4s. 3d. Eic. del Books, 4s. Id. ob. Tho. del Brooke, 15d. Alice de Colde- ley, 15d. Tho. de Books, 3s. 6d. Elias del Brooke, 7d. ob. Hugh de Prestley, 6d. Hen. de Copley, 2s. Elias de Shelfe, 4d. ob. Northourome, John de Birstall, Id. Shipden, Adam de Stancliffe, 8s. 6d. Rob. son of Christian, 13d. ob. Rob. de Rigge, 3d. John de Shipden, 8s. Margaret de Bentley, 12d. Slielffe ; the men of sir John de ThornhiU, for foreign servioe, 4s. 6d. Midgley, Dns. Adam de Ever ingham, for the vill of Midgley, 2s. Rastricke, John del Okes, for one tenement, and one bovate of land, 4d. Alex. del Okes, one ten. 8 acres. Id. Richard, son of Maud, for five acres, 2s. ob. Skirooit and Norlande ; the men of Tho. de Langfeld, Matthew de Bosco and John de Lepton, for foreign service, 2s. The men of Tho. de Thorneton, for the same, 10s. The men of Tho. de Langfeld, for the same, 6s. And the men of Tho. de Thornehill, 12d. — And then follow the words, " Finis terrse liberae." Graveship of Fekisbye and Rastricke.- — Peter, son of WiU. one ten. 5 acres, called bordelands, for homage, fealty, and 3s. yearly. John, son of Rob. one ten. two bovates, and three aores for homage, fealty, and 3s. Rob. son of Eic. one ten. and one bovate, for hom. fealty, and 21d. Tho. son of Adam, for hom. fealty, and 2s. Alan, son of Alan, one ten. two bovates for hom. fealty, and 20d. Bernard, one ten. one bovate for hom. fealtj^ and ISd. Henry, son of Constance, half a bovate for hom. fealty, and 18d. ob. Jowet, half a ten. and half a bovate, for hom. fealty, and 3d. All these were due at Michaehnas, Purification, and Pentecost; and every one who held the aforesaid eight HALIFAXIENSIS . 195 bovates, was to give for a bovate, and take fourpence half penny at the feast of St. Andrew. The said tenants paid yearly, for two ploughs to plough the said eight bovates, eight-pence in the time of spring, and if they had more, they paid four-pence for every plough, except Peter, son of Will, who paid nothing. And the above, and all other householders who kept fires in the moiety of the vill of Fekisby, gave each for reaping 8d. at the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, except the said Peter ; and there were then five houses which had fires ; if they increased, they wore to j)ay more, at the will of the lord. Lands granted from the waste of the said vill. Eichard, son of Thomas, 4 aores, for 16d. Hen. son of Tho. 4 acres, for 12d. Hen. son of Will. 3 acres, for 12d. Eic. de Anne- ley, 4 acres and half for I'Sd. Tho. son of John, 5 aores for 20d. Hen. de TotehiU, 2 acres, for 8d. WiU. son of Stephen, 2 acres, for 8d. Tho. at the wood, 2 acres, for Sd. Eve, wife of Hugh, 3 acres, for 12d. Beatrix, daughter of Tho. 3 acres, for 12d. Tho. de Y'elitherigg, half an acre, for 3d. all due at the times above-mentioned. The nativi in Eastrick. Adam, son of Ynon, one tene ment, half a bovate, and ten acres, for 6s. 4d. and repair of Wakefield mill dam. Roger, son of Matthew, one ten. half a bovate, and six acres, for 8s. for tak. 14d. and repair of said dam. WiU. de Wodehowses, one ten. half a bovate, for 2s. for tak. 2d. and repair of said dam. The same person 12 acres, for 4s. Roger de Wodhous, one ten. 5 acres, for 19d. and for tak. 5d. Beatrix, wife of Alan, one ten. half bov. 12 acr. for 7s. and repair of said dam. Matthew, son of Richard, one ten. half bov. 10 acres, one rod, for 6s. 5d. for tak. 12d. and said repair. Matthew de TotehUl, one ten. half bov. and 4th part of a bov. &c. for 9s. lid. and said repair. Will, de Totehill, one ten. 4th part of a bov. 3 acres for 2s. Tho. del Okes, one ten. half bov. 12 acres and half, 16s. 2d. and said repair. John Seele, one ten. half bov. 7 acres, for 4s. 4d. Hen. son of Modest, one ten. 6 acres, 2s. John de Botherod, one ten. half bov. and 4th part of a bov. and S acres, for 6s. Sd. He was also to reap one day, and plow as he plowed his own land, or give 4d. for a whole plough, 2d. for half, and repair said dam. John Coward (one MS sais Crowder,) one ten. half bov. 6 acr. for 6s. shall reap to the value of a penny, and repair said dam. John, 196 BIOGRAPHIA son of Alexander, one ten. half bov. 6 acr. for 5s. 5d. and said repair. Hen. son of John, one ten. half bov. and 4th part of a bov. 17 acr. for 8s. 9d. ob. qa. and said repair. Adam . . . one ten. 9 acr. 1 rod and half, for 3s. 4d. Will. son of Hen. one ten. 8 acr. for 2s. 6d. qa. and one penny reaping. Tho. de Rodes, one ten. 4th part of a bov. 6 acr. for 3s. 4d. ob. one penny reaping, and said repair. Will. son of Hugh, 4 acr. for 15d. John, son of Rie. one ten. half bov. 10 acr. and half, for 5s. 6d. one penny reaping, and said repair. Peter, son of Hen. one ten. 5 acr. and half, for 18d. and one penny reaping. Margery, d. of Ynon, one ten. half acr. 1 rod, for 4d. Hen. s. of Peter, one ten. half bov. 8 acr. for 4s. Id. and said repair. John, s. of Ric. one ten. 4th part of bov. and acre, for 3s. 6d. and said repau\ Will. s. of Adam, 3 acr. for 9d. Roger, s. of Matthew, half of 9 acr. for Id. ob. Alex. Cissor, 2 acr. 4th part of a rod, for 9d. John, s. of Roger, 4 acr. for 13d. Hen. s. of Will. 4 acr. for 12d. ob. Alex, de Brighouse, 1 acr. and half rod, for 7d. ob. John de Shepele, 10 acr. for 3s. 4d. Rog. de Brighowse, sen. 1 acr. and half, for 16d. Peter de Sowtcliff, 4 acr. half rod, for 16d. ob. Symon de Shipden, 1 acr. for 4d. Free tenants. John del Okes holds freely one toft, one bov. for 4d. and for plowing 4d. if he have ale or plough, if not, he shall pay nothing, and for reaping 3d. Alex, de Okes holds freely one ten. S acr. for Id. and for reaping 3d. Ric. s. of Maud, holds freely 5 acr. for 2d. ob. "All the " nativi in this graveship shall make the mill dam of Wake, " and pay marchet money for the said bovates, whioh they "hold, and grind all their corn at the mill of Rastrick, and " pay for take 6s. Sd." This may serve as a specimen of the whole survey. What is farther worth remarking therein so far as it relates to the parish of Halifax, I shall here set down. Graveship of Hipperholm. One Tho. son of Tho. was to pay 8d. for the take of Hogs for one bovate ; and for grinding of malt 2s. and for other lands to plow with 4 oxen or pay 2d. and reap or pay Id. Also to assist the grave in driving cattle taken in making distress throughout the whole grave ship, to Wakefield, as often as he should be called upon by the said grave. Several others were bound in like manner, and, in case of refusal, were to be fined. Some of the free tenants of Hipperholm were tied to give to the lord for a HALIFAXIENSIS. 197 whole plough 4d. and for as many beasts as they should plough with, two oxen in one yoke, one penny, and for reaping one penny. Under the free farm of Northouram. The men of John de Eland for foreign service 3s. The men of sir John Thornhill, for the same, 4s. 6d. The forinseca of Stainland, 2s. 9d. The pannage of Hipperholm, oomuni- bus annis four pounds, and 4s. 6d. for take, and 3s. Sd. for plow work, 2s. for grinding, 8d. for Bakstones from one Tho. del Northend, 2s. 9d. for reaping, and an hundred shillings for perquisites of court. The rents which sir John de Eland received yearly in the graveship of Hipperholme were of Will, de Sunderlande 19s. Id. of John de Sunder- lande, 12s. lOd. of Symon de Supeden, 3s. and of Tho. Bland, 6d. Graveship of Sowerby. Here the lord has a manor in his chase. Will, de Townend for his lands bound to grind at the mill of Soland at the twentieth vessel, to assist in mak ing the eldest son of the lord a knight, in marrying his eldest daughter, and shall go a hawking with the lord as often as he shaU come thither, for the first day at his own charges, and if not, shall pay Id. Several others were bound to the same servioe. Each of the tenants in the manor of Sowerby having hogs, to give for every hog 2d. and for an hoggete Id. for take, worth yearly on an average in Sowerbye, Warluley, and Soland, in an hundred hogs, and as many hoggets, if the sows bred as usual, 30s. The hogs to be reckoned at Michaelmass, and the money to be paid at Martinmass. There is in the forest an iron forge, which may continue for ever, worth 91. 12s. yearly, viz. 4s. in each week, except fifteen days at Christmas, and fifteen days at Easter and Whitsontide. The lord may have in the forest five score cows and bulls in three vaccaries, and eight score fat beasts may be in Baytinge, where may be agisted, besides the aforesaid beasts, an hundred great beasts between the feasts of St. Helen and St. Giles, worth yearly 40s. The pannage of the whole graveship worth yearly about 100s. The herbage in Hadreschelfe 24s. Herbage in Man- kanhuUs 16s. Escape of the cattle of Midgley and Ludding- den 10s. Escape at Ryburne 5s. The mill at Soland 46s. 8d. The mill of WarluUey 26s. Sd. Perquisites of court 101. Escape of beasts out of Northland 2s. 6d. Agistments N 198 BIOGEAPHIA in the common pasture 36s. Sd. In Soland. John de Hole was bound in all things as Will, de Townend above- mentioned, as were several others in this district. All the rents arising from seventeen tenants here amounted to 69s. lid. ob. These paid to the lord for foreign servioe 2s. Eishworth 'paid foreign service to the same 12d. Out of which were paid to sir John Eland for his life 2d. yearly. Warley. Here the men of Tho. de Langfeild, Matthew de Bosco, and John de Lepton ; as also the men of Tho. de Thorneton, and Tho. de Thornhill, are said to pay the same foreign service money as already mentioned in this survey after Skircoit and Norlande ; and the tenants are said to hold their respective lands in this township, "per servicium de Sowerbye." In the margin is wrote " Sldrcotes & Northe- land." At the foot of this survey was wrote, " The sum total of "the whole extent 3751. 16s. lid. ob. qa." The whole of earl Warren's rents in the north parts is also there made to amount to 6681. 8s. 6d. ob. qa. out of which there was paid yearly about 1001. to constables, watchmen, and gate keep ers at castles. ACCOUNT OP THE EARL, OF LEICESTER'S LAND IN HALIFAX PARISH. QUEEN Eliz. did, by letters patents under the seal of the dutchy of Lancaster, bearing date at Westminster, 9 Oot. in the Sth year of her reign, grant to the right hon. the earl of Leicester, 522 acres one rood and half of land, and a parcel of land containing by estimation eighty yards in length, and forty in breadth, four watercourses, and two parcels of land and waste within the graveship of Sowerby. Also 221 acres, two roods and half of land, and certain pieces of land containing by estimation fifty yards in length, and twenty in breadth, with one watercourse, in the grave ship of Hipperholme. Also twelve acres and half a rood of land in the graveship of Eastrick, together with certain HALIFAXIENSIS. 199 parcels of land (the whole being new improvement) in the graveships of Holmefrith, Wakefield, Stanley, Thornes, and Alverthorp, all which were parcel of the demesne lands of the lordship of Wakefield. He had also in the same letters patents, a grant of lands in the graveship of Bradford ; to hold of the said queen, &c. all the above premises in free and common soccage, and not in capite. These lands, &c. the said earl did, by indenture made Dec. 6, 9 Eliz. grant to sir Thomas Gargrave, of Kinsley, knt. and Henry Savile, of Lupset, esq ; and their heirs for ever, to hold the same, together with the said letters patents, on the conditions in the said letters patents mentioned. The rent for the above lands to the crown was four pence for every acre ; aud at the -death of a principal tenant four pence, in the name of a fine or heriot ; also the like fine on every alienation, and suit of •court. 200 BIOGRAPHIA NUMBER of INHABITANTS in the PARISH of HALIFAX, in 1763 ancl 1764, &c. In HaUfax division, 1764. Halifax Sku-coat WarleyMidgley Sowerby Ovenden Northoiu-am| 660 Shelf ... 186 Hipperholm Southouram 466 I houses 1812 263 503 224618 616 Empty Fami lies. 4012 16 7 311980 6 1518 5215 194 5021 1272 251487 217 587 597 680 180 852 448 HeptonstaU division, 1764. Stansfield up per tliu'd . Stansfield mid dle third ... Stansfield low er third ... Langfield EriugdenHeptonstaU Wadsworth hoases Empty Fami- i I lies. 129; I 207'140 139^183, 367396 5 26 15 126 203 185 137177352 388 1561! 43 1518 In Eland division, 1763. Brighouse . EastrickFixbyEland Greetland . Old Linley. Stainland . Barkisland. Soyland Eishworth . Norland houses Empty 77 3 I 186 11 I 56 2 j 262 28 i 122 6 42 2 201 6 267 17 264 9 131 2 195 17 Fami lies 74 175 54 239116 40 195 250255129178 1803 98 1705 TOTALS. Houses Empty FamUies Population (?) 8579 835 8244 41220 HALIFAXIENSIS. 201 The whole number of families in the above table, taken from the vicar's Easter books, is 8244, and if we allow but five to a family, the amount will be 41,220 ; an amazing in crease, if Camden's information was any thing near the truth, v/hioh he received as he travelled through these parts, that the number of inhabitants in this parish was about twelve thousand men ; in which yet I am apt to think he was not very much mistaken ; for in the certificate of the archbishop of York, and others, 2 Ed. VI. concerning chantries, &c. it is said, that " in the parrysh of " Hallifaxe the nomber of houslyng people is eight thousand five hund red, and is a great wide parrysh." And during the rebellion in the north, when every protestant, who could carry arms, was zealous to shew his attachment to his religion and the queen, archbishop Gryndall sais, in a letter to queen Eliza beth, that the parish of Plalifax was readj' to bring three or four thousand able men into the field. But the most striking instance of the increase of inhabitants in this neighbourhood is from an old paper in my possession, which I shall here faithfully transcribe. " By this underwritten yow may "gather the great encrease of howsinge and people within " the towne of Halifax in not many yeares by paste, written " by John Waterhowse, of Shipden, and some time lorde of " the manner of Halifax. " Note, there is in Halifax this yeare 1566, of housholders " that keepes fires and answers Mr. vicar in his fermours of " dutyes as householders 20 and six score and noe more (as " I am crediblye enf ormed ;) and in the time of John Water- " house, late of Halifax, deceased, who dyed at Candlemas, " 26 yeares agoe, att his deathe beinge very neare 100 yeares " of age (I trow three yeares under,) and when he was but a " childe there were but in Halifax in all 13 bowses. God " be praysed for his encrease." There were but then in Halifax, about the year 1443, when Mr. Waterhouse was born, thirteen families ; these in about 128 years were increased to 520, and in less than 200 years more to 1272 families, and they are at present, I think, increasing more than ever, owing to the flourishing state of their trade, which is not confined to this town, and the precincts thereof, but extends its influence to the remotest corners of the parish, planting colonies in parts which, in former times, eould scarce be said to be inhabited ; thus in 202 BIOGRAPHIA Fixby are 54 famUies, where, in 1814, were only five houses which had fires, as appears from the extent above recited. As an addition to the above, it appears from the register book at HeptonstaU, that there were baptised in the parochial chapel there for twenty years, beginning at 1741, 3714 chUdren, and for twenty years before that period only 2375, so that there was an increase of 1389. Buried there in twenty years, beginning at 1741, 2220, and for twenty years before that period, only 1792, so that there was an increase of 428 ; the country must therefore, of course, have many more inhabitants in it than formerly ; a truth which is often attested by living witnesses. And ¦these improvements have been made in some of the most wUd and mountainous parts of that parish, which Camden has described to be " solum " sterile, in quo non modo commode vivi, sed vix "vivi ]possit." BAEKESEY, OE BARSEY, IN BAEKISLAND. The family which it gave name to, had considerable possessions, and perhaps were the first improvers of the land hereabouts, which Ues in a pleasant and tolerably fruitful valley. Some of their names I have met with in dated deeds, which shew they were in being during a great part of the fourteenth century. At Oaks, in Eishworth, is a deed, wherein John, son of Alan de Barkesay, grants to John, son of Riohard de Barkesay, certain lands, lying near the brook caUed Blakeborne, within the divisions of Stainland, Barkeslancl, and Greteland. Dated at Barkesay, in 1326. At the same plaoe is a deed of land, quit-claimed here, which for its conciseness is worth preserving, "^cittnt "presentes & futuri, quod ego Matild. de Eues, dedi, con- " cessi, relaxa-vd, & omnino de me & heredibus meis quietum " clamavi, Johanni filio Roberti de Clay, & heredibus suis, "vel suis assignatis, totam terram quam emi de Ada patre " meo in Barkesay, pro quadam summa pecuniae mihi pro- " priis manibus data. In cujus rei testimonium sigUlum "meum apposui. Hiis testibus Rio. de Schaye, Tho. Cler. "Rog. del Haye, Johe de Ponte, & alUs." A John de Barksey entered into possession of Clogh-houses in Barkisland, (which John de Clay had held,) at the court HALIFAXIENSIS. 203 of the prior of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, in England, held at Batley, 41 Edw. Ill, 1367. BEISKO. Height [in Barkisland,] probably takes its name from its situation, standing high on the side of a steep hill. Dr. Johnson, in his MS collections for an History of Yorkshire, sais, this is a place of great antiquity. It was, some years ago, the residence of the family of the Firths, who bore for their arms. Or, a fess between three mallets, sable ; and afterwards of Musgrave Brisco, esq ; whose pedegree is as follows. The first lords of Byrksoaye, in the county of Cumberland, took their surname from the place of their habitation, which has been written Byrksoaye, Birkskeugh, Briskugh, Briskoo, Brisko, Brisco, and (as the families in Northamptonshire and Herefordshire write it,) Briscoe. Their arms are, Arg. three greyhounds current in pale, sab. Eobert de Brisko had Allan de Brisko, who had Jordan de Brisko, who had Robert de Brisko, who was witness to a deed in 1292. He married Matilda, daughter of sir John Crofton, knt. lord of Crofton, &c. She released her dower and feoffment to her eldest son John, in 1318. She had by the said Robert, another son Isold, who, as John died s. p. inherited the estate, and married Margaret, d. and h. of su- John Crofton, of Crofton, knt. by whom the manors of Crofton, Whinnow, and Dundraw. This Isold had Christopher Brisko, of Crofton, who kept fourteen soldiers in pay at Brisco Thorn upon Hesket. He had Robert (one MS. sais Richard) who married Isabel, d. of Will. Dikes, of Warthol, in Cumberland, by whom Robert, who married Katharine, d. and h. of Clement Skelton, of Pettrelwray, by whom John, who married Jennet, d. of Tho. Salkeld, of Corkby, by whom Richard, Roger, Simon, Christopher, and three daughters. Richard married Elizabeth, d. of John Leigh, of Frisington, by whom Robert, who married, 1st, Barbara, d. of Jobn Coldale, of Haryngton. 2dly, Mabel, d. of Robert Carlisle, esq ; By his first wife he had John, who purchased the Leigh's part of Orton, from Wilfrid Lawson, and Maud, his wife, widow of Tho. Leigh, of Isai, to whom he had given his estate, and another third part thereof from Tho. 204 biographia Blenerhasset, of Carlisle. He took for his crest, a gi-eyhound sab. bearing an hare proper. This John married Ann, d. of WUl. Musgrave, of Hayton-castle, who died before his father sir Edward. By her he had William, who married Jane, d. of WiUiam Orfeui-, of High-close. He purchased the advow son of the rectory of Orton, and some remaining parts of the manor. He had John, who married Mary, d. of Tho. Braithwaite, of Burnside, in Westmoreland, esq : about 1582, by whom WilUam, who died in 16S7-8. He was member of parliament for the city of Carlisle, as several of this family had been successively before. He married, 1. Susanna, d. of sii- Randolph Cranfield. 2dly. Susanna, d. of Francis Brown, merchant and citizen of London. By his first -wife he had John, who died in 1690, having married Mercy, d. of WiU. Johnson, of Eibblesworth, com. Durham, by'whom, 1. WUUam, who died s. p. John, a justice of peace for the county of Cumberland, who married Catharine, d. of sir Riohard Musgrave, of Hayton, in Cumb. bart. by whom, 1. Richard, who married Margaret, d. and h. of Tho. Lampleugh, of Lampleugh, esq. 2. John, of Crofton, D. D. who married Catharine, d. of John Hilton, of Hilton-castle, com. Durham, esq: by whom, 1. John; 2. Richard, killed in Germany; 3. HUton, dead s. p. 4. Horton, 5. WiUiam Mus grave, 6. James, 7. Catharina Maria, dead s. p. 8. Dorothy, who married Jacob Morland, esq : 9. Margaret. WiUiam, 3d son of -John, was a clergyman, and M.A., he married Margaret Langstaff, by whom, 1. Richard, and 2. William Musgrave, also, 3. Catharine, 4. Mary Horton, and, 5. Ann. Musgrave, 4th son of John, married Mary Fletcher Dyne, d. and h. of Edw. Dyne, of Lankhurst, in Sussex, esq ; by whom, 1. Richard Horton, 2. John, 8. Edward Dyne, 4. Wastel ; also a daughter, named Mary Horton, who died very young. James, 5th son of John, married, and had issue. Wastel, 6th son of John, married, 1st, . . . Beckford, in Jamaica ; 2dly, . . . CampbeU, no issue. Ralph, 7th son of John, married Dorothy Rowland, by whom Dorothy, and Anna ilaria. Thomas, Sth son of John, died an infant. The said John had also four daughters, viz. 1. Dorothy, who married, 1st, Richard Lampleugh ; 2dly, . . . Ward. 2. Ka tharine, who died young ; 3. Another Katharine, who mar ried John Holmes, of Holme-hUl, in Cumberland; and 4. Ann, who died young. The last named Katharine had John, Edward, and Katharine, who married .... Somner, esq ; who, in 1766, was next in command to lord Clive. HALIFAXIENSIS. 205 COPLEY— See Savile. CROMWELLBOTHOM— See Lacy. PEDEGREE OF DEAN, OF EXLEY. William Dean, of Exley, married Isabel, daughter of John Bairstow, by whom Robert, to whom his father gave Exley ; and William, who had the Spout-house and Yeat-house in Halifax, and who married Judith Hanson, who surviving him, married, secondly, Jasper Blythman. She was buried at Eland, Maroh 7, 1633. Robert lived part of his time at Exley, but removed to JPriestley, in Hipperholme, where he was living Jan. 12, 1651. He married Ann by whom Gilbert, William, and five daughters. Gilbert was a Lawyer, and belonged to the Six Clerks' Offioe ; he had William, and a daughter married to Bishop Lake, whioh daughter was buried at Halifax, Feb. 22, 1699-700, aged 71 ; he also had other daughters, one of which married Kirk, of OUer- thorp. The above William, as well as his father Gilbert, was a man of a melancholic temper. During their indispo sition, the estate was much impaired, yet so intailed, that, for default of male issue, after the death of William, it came to Robert Dean, mentioned below, who enjoyed it several years, and at last sold it to Mr. Henry Greame, being at that time an hundred pounds per ami. WiUiam, son of Robert, above named, was apprentice to a Turkey Merchant, and being taken prisoner by the Turks, and losing all his effects, he returned to London, and having sold all his estate in Yorkshire, went a second voyage, and was taken by the Tartars, and confined several months in great misery. Being redeemed by exchange of prisoners, he returned to London, and died soon after ; he had Robert, and a daughter. Robert was sent down from London, a child of four years old, to one Mr. Savile, of Greetland, who was his father's agent, and with whom effects were left for the child's education, in case the father met with bad fortune. This Robert married, and had a numerous family. The daughter was left in London, but married, and had children. 206 biographia I know not whether this famUy ever laid claim to any coat of arms, but the Deans, of Dean-house, in this parish, bore. Argent a fess dancy, in chief three crescents gules. DRAKE AND SHIBDEN. Shibden formerly gave name to a family, who on some account or other, changed their name to Drake. The foUo^wing account of whom was drawn up from deeds and family papers by the late Mr. Drake, of York, author of the " Eboracum, &c." assisted by the late Dr. Bm-ton, of Y'ork, author of the " Monasticon Eboracense." WUliam de Scliepden, of Nether Schepden, lived temp. Edward I, as by charter dated at Schippedene in 1806, had John de Schipeden, alias Drake, and WiUiam. John had John, as by deed 36 Edw. III. He had also John Drake, of Schipeden, as by deed 2 Hen. IV. This -John had likewise a son John, as by deed 9 Hen. VI. This last John had Richard, who lived, as by deed, temp. Edw. IV. He had John, as by charters dated 1443, 1476, aud 1483, as also by his marriage settlement deed : he married Cecilia, daughter of John Roper, of Thornton, in Bradford-dale, by whom WiUiam, Laurence, Robert, John, Elizabeth, Alice, and Ellen. William lived temp. Hen. VII, as by deed, and married Christobella, daughter of by whom John, who lived temp. Hen. YIII, as bj' deed. He had Thomas, of Horley-green, in the same to^wnship, as by deed temp. Phil. & ilar. ( Mr. Drake sais nothing when the family sold Shibden, but it is plain that it had taken place at this time, by this Thomas being removed to Horley-green ; I find also, in the Testamentary Burials at Halifax, extracted from Mr. Torr's MS. that Eichard Waterhouse, of Shipden, was buried in 153S, 27 Hen. VIII; so that either this Thomas, or his father, disposed of the old family estate.) Thomas had, 1. WUliam, commonly called WiUiam of the Lee, in Halifax parish ; 2. Gilbert ; 3. Humphry, of Pikeley ; 4. Sibilla, or Isabella, who married Mr. Eobert Bentley, (and quaere if not a son called John.) William had, 1. Joseph, who married a daughter of Quously, of Lightcliffe, whose father and mother lived to be each an hundred years old. 2. Nathan of Godley; 3. Jeremy; 4. Timothy, of London, merchant; 5. Susan, who married Lister, of* Shibden-hall; 6. *Qu : Did not the Estate pass by this marriage into the Lister's family ? Richd. Waterhouse might be merely a Tenant. HALIFAXIENSIS. 207 Phffibe, who married Hemingway, of Shibden-mUls ; 7. Esther, who married Humphry, son of Humphry Drake ; 8. Grace. Nathan above named, second son of WiUiam, was a soldier in the civil wars, and served as one of the garrison of Pontefract-castle, for which he lost Godley, &o. He had Samuel, D.D. Eector of Hansworth, and Vicar of Ponte fract, who was expelled from his Fellowship at St. John's, Cambridge, and afterwards served the King at the siege of Newark; he married daughter of Abbot; his sisters were, Elizabeth, married to Stables, of Ponte fract; and Mary, to Knowles, of Pontefract. Jeremy above named had Timothy ; Abraham, a merchant at New castle ; Jonathan ; Grace, and Esther. Timothy, the eldest, was brought up by his uncle Timothy, who left him a good estate. He married, and had Eichard, D.D. Precentor of Sarum, aud the Publisher of Bishop Andrews's "Greek Devotions." Both he and his father were Benefactors to Pembroke-hall, in Cambridge, and their Arms are in the Catalogue in the Library. Joseph, who married daughter of Quousley, had Joseph, Thomas, Susan, and Esther. Thomas had William, Elizabeth, and Esther. Joseph, last named, had, 1. Mar maduke, 2. John, (who had Wilham,) 3. WiUiam, 4. Thomas (who had Jeremy, Joseph, John, William and Elizabeth,) 5. Nathan, 6. EUzabeth, 7. Mary, 8. Maud, and 9. Esther. Nathan, last named, was Eector of Kirby Overblows, and had Eobert, Nat, Joseph, Mary, and Betty. Gilbert, second son of Thomas Drake, of Horley-greeu, above mentioned, married Alice, daughter of Christopher Booth, of Booth's-town, near Halifax, 1 Edw. VI, by whom John, Sibilla, and Isabella. N.B. — This is agreeable to the account drawn wp by Drake and Burton ; but these Gentle men seem to have made a mistake ; for in one of Mr. Drake's deeds, dated in 1494, there is mention made of John Drake, son, and heir apparent of this William. The question is, whether William, or Gilbert, married Alice Booth ; for I have copies of two other pedegrees of this family, which agree that John, who married Grace Bairstow, as below, was son of the said Alice. I rather think, that Alice Booth was the wife of William, not Gilbert, and that this William was father of John, who married Grace, daughter of John 208 biographia Bairstow, of Northbridge, near HaUfax, by whom, 1. John, 2. Thomas, 3. Francis, M.A. of Christ's CoUege, Cambridge, s. p. 4. Samuel, 5. Daniel, who married the daughter of Holdsworth, by whom John. John, the eldest, married ^lary, daughter of John Ho3'le, of Hoyle-house, in Hipper holme, by whom Thomas, s. p. Thomas, second son of John, was Eector of Thornton in Craven, aud married, about 1625, Mary, daughter of Christopher Foster, of Leighbourn, in the Bishopric of Durham, by whom WUliam, of Barn oldswick Cotes, living in 1667, Justice of Peace for the West-riding, who married Mary, daughter of John Stilling ton, of Kelfield, near York, by whom WUUam, Thomas, Francis, John, Eobert, Mary, Ursula, who married Henry Gill, and Margaret. WUliam married Abigail, daughter of Yates, a Merchant, at Blackburn, in Lancashu-e, by whom WUliam, Francis, Mary, Ann, and Abigail. WUliam died in 1758, and left his estate about Halifax to his kins man, Mr. Francis Drake, of York. Humphry Drake above mentioned, son of Thomas, and brother to William, and Gilbert, lived at Pykeley, and had Humphry, who married Esther Drake, his uncle WUliam's daughter, by wbom 1. Nathaniel, s. p. who was a Fellow of a College in Oxford, and 2. John, Sub-dean of Eipon, Pre bendary of York, and Eector of Dunnington, who married Grace Hey, relict of Foxley. This John had, 1. Hum phry, 2. Gilbert, s. p. 3. Esther, 4. Susanna, who died unmarried, and 5. Frances, who married Eidsdal, of Eipon, by whom Edward. Humphry the eldest, married Catharine Eigby, of Cosgrave, in NorthamptonshUe, by whom, 1. John, 2. Christopher, 3. Montague. 4. Humphry, died young ; 5. Humphry, 6. Catharine, 7. Susan, 8. Sarall, 9. Elizabeth, and 10. Mary. Samuel Drake, D.D. born at Pontefract, made Vicar there at the Eestoration, and wrote the life of his tutor and friend Mr. Cleveland, married daughter of Abbot, as above, had by her, 1. Francis, 2. Samuel, of Leeds, Clerk, who married daughter of Benson, but died s. p. 3. Nat, who had Thomas, Nat, Samuel, and Eichard. 4. John, 5. Edmund, 6. Ann, and 7. EUzabeth, who married Stapleton, D.D. Francis the eldest was M.A. and succeeded his father in the vicarage of Pontefract. He married, first, Hannah, daughter of Paylin, ofYork, merchant; 2dly, HALIFAXIENSIS. 209' Elizabeth, daughter of John Dixon, of Pontefract, by whom Francis and Margaret. This last Francis was Fellow of the Eoyal Society, Author of the " History ofYork," the "Parlia mentary History of England down to the Eestoration," and of several tracts in the " Philosophical Transactions." He married Mary, daughter of John Wodyear, of Crookhill, near Doncaster, by whom 1. Francis, Vicar of Womersley, Lecturer at Pontefract, and Fellow of Magdalene College, Oxford ; 2. William, first sent to be third master in West minster school, and afterwards presented to the school of Felsted in Essex, by tbe right honourable the Earl of Win chelsea and Nottingham. This William married Mary, daughter of Nat Drake, of Lincoln. He had two younger brothers, John and Henry, who both died young. The above Francis, by his first wife, Hannah Paylin, had 1. John, 2. Samuel, 3. William, 4. Frances who died young;, 5. Frances, who married Thomas Barnard, of Leeds, Clerk, and 6. Hannah, who married Francis Lascelis, of Pontefract, Clerk. -John the eldest, B.D. Prebendary of York, succeeded his father in the Vicarage of Pontefract ; he had Elizabeth, who married Fenton; Samuel, the second son, was D. D. Eector of Frecton and Holme, in Spaldingmore, Author of the life of Archbishop Parker, or, as another account sais, the publisher of a beautiful edition of Arch bishop Parker's " Antiq. Britan. 1729." He married Eliza beth, daughter of Darcy Dalton, Clerk, by whom Samuel, Elizabeth, and Frances. His younger brother William was captain of a man of war, and married Judith, daughter of Edward Langley, of Hipperholme, near Halifax, by whom Samuel, s. p. and Edward, a Surgeon and Apothecary in York, who married Elizabeth, daughter of George Coates, of York, by whom Judith, born 1752. The above pedegree is such as, for antiquity and authen ticity, will not often, in private families, be exceeded; it begins before surnames were in use, and it is extracted from antient deeds, and other evidences, which are still preserved, and collected together. Concerning the family taking the name of Drake, there was an account of it in the writings belonging to the late Abraham Sunderland, esq ; but whether those writings are now iu being I cannot say, so that proba bly this anecdote is lost. Tradition sais, that this family came originally from Devonshire, where was lately an- ¦210 BIOGR-APHIA opulent famUy of the name of Sir WilUam Drake, which had been long settled there, and of which the famous sir Francis Drake was a branch. The arms which some of this family have used are. Argent, a "wivern, his ¦wings displayed and queue nowed gules, the same, except the addition of legged or, which an old manuscript coUection of arms in my possession gives to a Devonshire family of this name, and which, viz. argent, a cockatrice gules, the said MS. sais was born by Francis Drake, of Buckland, esq ; in Devon. (Bart. 20 James I.) whose crest was, a rheine deer's head erased or, attired, and collared with a cro^wn sable. ELLAND. The best account I can give of this once famous famUy is this : Leisingus de Eland, as by deed sans date, and who gave name to Lasing-croft, in Yorkshire, married, and had Henry de Eland, who married the daughter and coheir of Whit worth, who bore, argent, a bend sable, in chief a garb gules. By her he had sir Hugh de Eland, as by deed sans date. He married and had sir John de Eland, who was li-ping 30 Hen. III. and also 3 Edw. I. for in this latter year a riot was presented at Brighouse Turne, upon John Eland and John Quermby, about a distress which Eland had taken from Quermby, for aid to make his son a knight, for lands in Stainland. This sir John married, and had sir Hugh de Eland, who married Joan, daughter and coheir of sir Richard Tankersley, knt. This sir Hugh is said to have died 3 Edw. II. He was witness to a deed of John earl Warren, dated at Koningsburgh, 5 Oct. 1 Edw. II. 1307, wherein the earl confirmed to the free burgesses of Wakefield and their heirs then- privUeges, viz. to each a toft of an acre in free burgage, for six-pence rent per ann. with liberty of free trade in all his lands in Yorkshire, and wood to burn; for whieh charter they gave to earl Hamelin, his countess, and son, seven pounds; and amongst the witnesses was Hugh de Elond, the grandfather of this sir Hugh. Besides this confirmation, the said earl John, by the deed above-named, granted to the said burgesses to be toll free in aU his lands for all wares and merchandize of their own manufacture, and that they shoiUd not be obhged to answer at any court but his, caUed HALIFAXIENSIS. 211 Burman-court, in Wakefield, unles's for trespasses against himself; and that whatsoever goods should be bought of any burgess for him or his use, at certain rates, should be paid for within forty days, and pawnage for every hog 2d. and pig Id. and to have commonage for all cattle but goats, in all woods, moors, &c. except New and Old Park, and the great meadow, (only not in fawning time,) and that they might inclose and hedge their corn ground, and fright away his deer from thence without horn. This Hugh also had re leased, on the Monday next before the Feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul, (June 30,) 1306, by the name of Hugh, son of John de Eland, to Thomas de Langfeld, and Elen his wife, and others, ten marks of yearly payment, which see under the account of the manor of Barkisland. Sir Hugh had, by Joan his wife, 1. sir Thomas de Eland, 2. Richard, 8. Margaret, and, 4. Wymark. Of these, Margaret married to her first husband, John Lacy, to whom, and to his heirs by the said Margaret, her father gave, by deed, in 1293, all his land in Southouram, and all his tenants there, and their services, except his manor of Eland, and the service of his tenants m Eckisley, and the pasture in the Stony-bancke, for a rent of 26s. yearly, and suit to his mill. They had issue. The said Margaret married, to her second husband, William, the constable of Nottingham castle, when earl Mortimer was there ' taken prisoner. In a book, intitled " The Cronicles of Englonde, with the fruyte of tymes, im- " prynted at London by Wynkyn de Worde, in 1528," folio 114 and 115, is the following account how this William de Eland betrayed earl Mortimer: "In haste came unto kyng "Edward syr Willyam of Mountagu, that than was in the " castell, and pryvely tolde him, that he nor none of his " company sholde not take Mortimer without counseyle and " helpe of Wyllyam of Eland, constable of the same castell. "Now truly sayd the king, I counseyle you that ye go to the "constable, and comaunde hym in my name, that he be " your frende, and your helpe for to take Mortimer. — Than " went forth the foresayd Mountagu, and came to the con- " stable of the castell, and told him the kynge's will. And " he answered and sayd, the kynge's wyll shold be done in " as moche as he myght — and so he swore and made his " othe. Than sayd syr Willyam of Mountagu to the con- " stable — Us behoveth to werke, and do by your advyse for 212 BIOGRAPHIA " to take Mortymer, syth that ye be keper of the castell, and "have the keys in your warde. Syr, sayd the constable — "the gates of the castell ben locked with the lockes that " dame Isabell sente hyther, and by nyght she hath the keys "therof, and layeth them under the levesell of the bedde " tyll on the morowe, and so ye may not come into the " castell by the gates in no maner of wyse ; but I knowe an " aley that stretcheth out of the warde under the erth into " the foresayd castel, that goth into the west, whiche aley " dame IsabeU, the quene, ne none of her men, nor Morty- " mer, ne none of his company, knoweth it not. And so I " shaU lede you through that aley, and so ye shall come into " the castel without espyenge of ony men that be your " enemyes. — And Willyam Eland —prively lad syr WUliam " of Mountagu and his company by the foresayd way, under "the erth, tyl they came into the castel, and went up into "the toure where as Mortymer was in. — Than toke they " Mortymer as he armed hym at the toure's dore." The existence of the other daughter is proved from a deed in the chartulary of WhaUey Abbey, folio 234, wherein Robert de Mitton grants to Gilbert de Notton, for his homage and service, and 20s. of silver, two bovats of land in Wordelword, and two bovats in Heleye, which Hugh de Elond, father of Richard de Elond, gave with Wymark his daughter, in free marriage to Jordan de Mitton, grandfather to the said Eobert, paying yearly 4s. of silver at the feast of St. Oswald, of which 2s. was to be yearly paid at Martinmass to Hugh de Elond. From hence also I think it appears, that Eichard de Eland, by the manner of his being mentioned here, was the eldest son of sir Hugh, but dying perhaps in his minor ity, without issue, in the hfe time of his father, the said su* Hugh was succeeded in title and estate by his son, sir Thomas de Eland, who married and had sir John de Eland, knight of the shu-e for YorkshUe, with sir William Gram- mary, 14 Edw. HI. and sheriff of Yorkshire, 15 Edw. III. in which year it is said, that he marched privately in the night, at the head of a body of his tenants, and put to death three neighboring gentlemen in their own houses, an account of which ¦will be given below. This sir John married three ¦wives, 1. AUce, daughter of sir Eobert Lathom, who bore, or, on a chief dancette, az. three plates. 2dly. Ann, daughter of Eygate, s. p. 3dly. OUve By Ahce, his first HALIFAXIENSIS. 213 wife, he had 1. Sir John de Eland, who had a son, name unknown, and Isabel. 2. Thomas de Eland, esq; 8. Henry, 4. Margery, 5. Isabel, and, 6. Dionysia. In the account of the feodary of the honour of Pomfret, of the lands and tene ments in Eland in the hands of the lord, by the minority of the heir of Thomas de Eland, is £6 ISs. 2d. for the term of Whitsontide, 1350. After the death of sir John de Eland, and his son and heir, sir John SavUe, of Tankersley, pur chased, in 1350, the wardship of Isabel Eland, daughter of the said sir John, from the lord of the honour of Pontefract, for £200. See "Comput. seneschall. honoris de Pontfrete," p. 17. After this purchase he married her, and in her right became possessed of the estates belonging to that family. By the above-named Olive, sir John Eland had Eobert, and James, which last died s. p. Eobert married Alice, daughter of Fitz-Eustace, by whom, Thomas Eland, of Carlinghow, in Batley, who is mentioned as son and heir of Eobert Eland, of Carlinghow, in a fine, 1 Hen. VI. This Thomas married Alice, daughter and coheiress of Serfe, of Neway, by whom Eobert, who married Jane, daughter of Eobert Holme, of Beverley, by whom Eobert Eland, of Car linghow, who married Rosamond, daughter of Humphry Littlebury, of Kelton, in Lincolnshire, by whom, Marma duke Eland, of Carlinghow, who married Cecily Butler, of Hertfordshire, by whom William, Giles, Marmaduke, Francis, Isabel, Ann, and Margaret. The arms which Eland, of Eland, is said to have borne, are, Barry of six pieces, argent and gules, on the latter six martlets, or, three, two, and one ; but I find several vari ations, particularly the charter of the manor of Brighouse (already mentioned) was sealed, 19 Edw. III. by sir John Eland, to John his son, and Alice his wife, with an escallop shell, and Eland, of Essex, bears argent, on a bend gules, three escaUops, or ; but the coat of Robert Eland, esq ; in a MS. in the British Museum, No. 2118, is, gules, two bars argent, between eight martlets of the second, three, two, and three. EXLEY, OE ECCLESLEY. I have several copies of undated deeds, wherein the Eceles- leys of Ecclesley, within Southouram, are mentioned, but they were never lords of a manor here. o 214 BIOGRAPHIA In the 31st of Edward I. a royal pardon was granted, at Dunfermelyn, to Eichard, son of WUl. de Ekclesleye, for the death of William, son of WUliam de eye (here was a^ flaw in the parchment,) the motive for which pardon was, the good service which the said Eichard had done the king in Scotland. Another royal pardon, in general terms, was. granted, 38 Hen. VI. to Eobert Eklesley, late of Southouram, Yoman. One Henry de Grene de Ecclesley granted by deed, without date, land in the vill of Ecclesley, to Eichard, son of Eoger de Ecclesley. Test. John de Lascy, Hugh de Coppeley, Eichard de Hipperum, WiUiam de Ecclesley. — - Elen, daughter of Henry, son of Hugh de Ecclisley, grants to Eichard, son of Eoger de Ecclisley, lands in Ecclisley, by deed without date. Test. John de Eland, William de Astay, son of William the Steward, Adam the Brewer, of Schircotes, Henry de Astay. — Robert, brother of said Elen, grants the same. Test. John de Lascy, Hugh de Coppeley, William de Astay — William de Ecclisley grants, by deed without date, to said Richard, son of Roger, a place called Grenebawale, on the north side of a way leading from Schircotes-bridge to Southouram, and a messuage, for exchange of the Pighill, in Ecclisley. Test. John de Eland, John de Lascy, Hugh de Rastrick, Hugh de Coppeley, Richard de Hipperum, William, son of Henry de Haye, Henry, son of William the Steward, William, his brother. — Robert, son of Henry, son of Hugh de Ecclisley, grants to said Richard, son of Roger, land iu Ecclisley, for a rent of one arrow yearly. Test. John de Lascy, Hugh de Rastrick, Hugh de Coppeley, John de Greteland. — He also grants to him five acres and a half in Ecclisley. Test. Hugh de Rastrick, William, son of Simon de Northland, William, son of Henry de Haye, Helias, son of Walter de Schircotes. — Henry, son of Hugh de Ecclisley, grants to said Eichard, half quarter of an acre there. Test. John de Lascy, Hugh de -Eastrick, William de Ecclisley, William de Astay, Adam the Brewer, of Schir cotes. ^ — William, son of William de Dewisbyri, grants to said Eichard, a certain PighUl, within Ecclisley. Test. John de Eland, John de Lascy, Hugh de Eastrick, William de Astay, Alan de Fekisby, Eoger de Bradeley. All these deeds without date. Hugh de Eland, by deed, without date, grants to Hugh, son of Swain de Eclesley, aU his demain lands there, except HALIFAXIENSIS . 215 his park, mill, and assarts, in consideration of twelve-pence yearly rent, the homage and land of Eic. his brother, and Basia, his sister, and receiving reasonable aid when he made his eldest son knight, or married his eldest daughter. Test. Hen. de Greetland, Henry de Crumwell, Eichard, son of Hugh, Eoger de Eastrick, and Hugh, his son. Thotoas Pek, Chaplain, and Henry del Scolefeld, confirm to John de Eckylslay, and heirs, lands, &c., which they had of the gift and feoffment of John de Eckylslay, in the viU and territory of Southouram ; for want of issue to said John, then to Eichard de Eckylslay and heirs, remainder to Thomas, son of John de Waterhouse, aud heirs, remainder to right heirs of said -John de Eckylslay, 2 Hen. IV. — Eoger, son of Eichard de Eklisley, grants by deed, without date, to Richard, son of William, his brother, lands called Le Croftys, and another parcel lying near the Grene. Test. Thomas de Thornhyll, and Matthew de Bosco. — Isabel, relict of Richard Eckilslay, of Burton, quit claims to John Beamonte, of Murefeld, Gentilman, her right of dower in a messuage called Eckilslay, in the vill and territory of Eck- ilsley and Southourome. Test. Richard Beamonte, Esq; Alexander Paslew, esq ; John Wilkinsone, Thomas Eckil slay. — John Beamonte regrants the same, 17 Hen. VII. to Alexander Paslew, of Redilsden, John Boswell, of Gunthwait, esqrs. and John Hall, Chaplain. Test. Thomas Sotill, Eichard Beamonte, esqrs., John Eokes de Eokes, Eichard Bairstow, of Brownhurst.— Henry, son and heir of Thomas de Ecclisley, grants to Eichard, his brother, all his land in Ecclesley. Test. Eobert de Hulton, John de Bau'stow, Michael de Gretlond, WiUiam de Bradelee, Thomas de Hemingway, John de Nortclcve, sans date. Hugh, son of Eobert, the clerk of Priestley, and Eose, his wife, daughter of William de Ecclisley, grant to John, son of WiUiam de Ecclisley, a sixth part of all the land in Ecclisley, which William de Ecclisley, father of said John, formerly held. Test. Ingolard Turbard, Vicar of Halifax, Hugh de Eland, John, his brother, Henry de Eissworth, Thomas de Coppeley, Eichard de Ecclisley. FAEEEE. The following is the pedegree of the Farrers, who are the oldest famUy which appear to have been settled at Ewood. 216 BIOGRAPHIA An Henry Farrer had Henry, and John ; the former of these who wrote himself Henre Faror, was of Eawood and Brearley, and was a Justice of Peace, as Thoresby, p. 196. in a pedegree of the family, tells us, 32 Eliz. or 1590 ; but I meet with Henry Ferrer, of Ewwod, and John his brother, in a deed 28 H. VIII, or 1536. This Henry purchased Clubcliffe, iu Methley, of sir Edward Dymock, knt. built a great part of that house, and also Eawood. He married Mary, daughter of John Lacy, of Brearley ; but having no issue, his estate came to his brother, John Farrer, of London, esq; according to Thoresby; but I find John Farrer, of Elfabrugh-hall, brother to Henry Farrer, of Eawood, 28 Hen. VIII, as above. This John, by Isabel had Henry, John, Charles, and (Thoresby sais) Humphry, a Divine. Henry, the eldest of these, married Ann, daughter of William Barcroft, of Barcroft, 1 & 2 Phil, and Mar. He sold Ea wood to his brother John, and having bought lands in Lincolnshire, he settled there, as did his posterity. John Farrer, of Eawood, esq; was Justice of Peace 14 Cha. I. and Treasurer for lame soldiers in the West-riding of Yorkshire, and is named in the corporation charter of Halifax. He married, first, Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Mr. Nicholas Hanson, of Eland, by whom John, Henry, s. p. aud Mary, who married Mr. John Green, of Liversedge. John married, first, Ellen Banister, by whom, 1. Jonathan; 2. Dorothy, who married Mr. WiUiam Foxcroft ; and 3. Abigail. He married, 2dly, Dorothy West, s. p. and, 3dly, Judith, daughter of Mr. Edward Oldfield, by whom seven children. John Farrer, who married Dorothy Hanson, married to his second wife, Susan, daughter of Mr. Anthony Waterhouse, by whom, 1. William; 2. Edward, first Fellow, and after wards Master of University College, Oxford; 3. Susan, who married Mynheer Isaac Van Ogarden, a Dutch man. William Farrer, of Ewood, the eldest, was a Justice of Peace thirty years, and died of a paralytic stroke at his son's in law, Mr. Greenwood, of Stapleton, Oct. 8, 1684 ; he married Frances, (see below) daughter of Eichard James, of Portsmouth, by whom, 1. John, 2. WUUam, 3. James, a soldier; 4. Henry, Eector of Hemsworth, who mamed Mary Brearley, widow ; 5. Eichard, a Physician ; 6. Mary, who died unmarried ; and, 7. Frances, who married James Greenwood. John, the eldest, died March 22, 1722-3, HALIFAXIENSIS. 217 having married EUzabeth, daughter and heiress of James Creswiek, of Beghall (or Beal,) near Ferrybridge, B. D. by whom James, and Lydia, who died, and was buried at Hali fax, Oct. 1719, having married Mr. Samuel Shaw, of Bristol, merchant. James, who died suddenly, Dec. 18, 1718, married, August 1696, Mary, daughter of Mr. John Brearley, of Eochdale, by whom James, lord of the manor of Wortley, in 1764, and William, who died s. p. Farrer, of Eawood, bore. On a bend ingrailed sable, three horse shoes argent. The Epitaph of the above Henry Farrer, who removed into Lincolnshire, seems, by the time, to be that which Le Neve, in his Monumenta Anglicana, vol. i. p. 152. has given us out of Wisbich church, in the Isle of Ely, thus : " M. S. " Hie jacet Henricus Farrour, arm. una cum charissima " uxore Margareta, ex qua 56 annos Tori socia xvii liberos "genuit. Hffio obiit Sept. 26. A° Dom. 1670, Mt. sure 72. " Ille vero Aug. 22, A° Dom. 1672, iEtat. suae 82." I have followed Thoresby in mentioning Frances, daughter of Richard James, of Portsmouth; but in Drake's Eboracum, p. 341. is her epitaph, thus: "Here lyeth the body of Tho- "masin, wife to William Farrer, of Ewode, within the " vicarage of Hallifax, and county of York, esquire, daughter " of Richard James, of Portsmouth, esquire, who departed "this life Jan. 10, 1660." FIXBY— See Thornhill. GLEDHILL AND HORTON. At Howroyd is a beautiful pedegree on vellum of this family, &c., entitled "The pedegree of John Gledhill, of "Barkisland, collected out of antient deeds and evidences, " finished, perused, and confirmed by William Seager, knt. " alias Garter, principal king of arms, in 1632." The "following is an exact copy of it. Eichard de Barkisland " had Thomas and Robert. Thomas had Peter and John. •' Peter had two daughters, one of which married Henry 218 biographia " GledhiU, who had WilUam, who had Adam, as by deed, " 1327, who had John, as by deed, 30 Edw. III. who had " Thomas, as by deed, 27 Hen. VI. who had John, as by " deed, 16 Edw. IV. who had Thomas, as by deed, 18 Hen. " VII. who had John, as by deed, 35 Hen. VIII. This John "was twice married, as proved by deed, 37 Eliz. By his "first wife he had Thomas and Michael. Thomas had "John, Thomas, Eichard, Elizabeth and Judith." Wrote "under, " This pedegree, with the armes thus marshaled, I " doo ratifie, alowe, and conferme. Witnes my hand, this " 25th day of June, 1632. William Segar, Garter." Near the arms, (viz. for Barkisland, parted per jiale, sab. and gules, on a bend, or, three martlets of the first ; and for Gledhill, azure, three lozenges in fess, argent,) are these words : " This peternall and ancient coate of Gledhill was " granted and alowed by pattine, with the hand and scale of "sir Eichard St. George, knt. Norroy kinge at arms, unto " Thomas Gledhill, of Barkisland, in the county of Yorke, "Dec. 24, 1612." The arms of Gledhill, in a window at Barkisland Hall, and in other plaoes, are, argent, three lozenges in fess, azure ; the reason of which difference I do not understand. John Gledhill, who, in the above pedegree, is said to have been twice married, had by his second wife a son John, who, I think, removed from Barkisland to Leedes ; by his first wife Cecily, daughter of John ThornhiU, of Fixby, esq ; he had Thomas and Michael. Thomas bought the manor house caUed Cromwelbottom, of John Lacy, for £700. 9 James I. He married Edith, daughter of John Harrison, of Leedes, whose will is dated in 1636. By her he had John GledhUl, of Barkisland, Thomas, s. p. sir Eichard, s. p. Elizabeth, and Judith. Of these, John married Sarah, daughter of William Horton, by whom Sarah, s. p. and another who died young. Sir Eichard was knighted by the marquess of Newcastle, and slain at Hesssaymoor, near York, in 1644. He was captain of a troop of horse in the regiment of sir Marmaduke Langdale. Elizabeth married in 1686, William Horton, esq ; who became in her right pos sessed of this estate at Barkisland. The account of this family of Horton is as follows : Their original settlement seems to have been at Horton, in Bradford-dale, in Yorkshire. It appeareth that one HALIFAXIENSIS. 219 Eobert de Horton manumitted a bondman or villain to his manor of Horton, long before the days of Henry Lacy, last of that name, earl of Lincoln, who died in 1310, for the deed is very antient, and of a Saxon character ; it is also certain that the Hortons had a manor house in Great Horton, and a mill, and certain demesne lands thereto be longing, the scite of which house is known to this day, and some of the grounds bear the name of the Hall-lauds. Hugh de Horton was lord of Horton in 1292, and one of the same name, probably the same person, had lands in Northouram in 1814. I have mentioned the earl of Lincoln here, because about the same time that he gave the honour of Pontefract to king Edward I. abont 1293, and took the same honour in tail, this earl had inclosed three aores of the wastes or common of Horton, very near unto Bradford, for the attachment of his mill-dam, and for ease and liberty about his mill of Bradford ; but concerning this inclosure, a dispute arose between him and Hugh de Horton, lord of the waste there, which was ended about 22 Edw. I. and it was agreed by writing indented, that the earl should have the three acres to him and his heirs, and should pay therefore to the said Hugh Horton and his heirs three shillings of rent, and that the said Hugh de Horton should warrant it against all his tenants of Horton. This parcel of land is known at present by the name of Tyrrels, and the 8s. are paid for the same to the lord of Horton. But when queen Philippa held the honour of Pontefract in dower, about 9 Edw. III. this rent was detained ; whereupon Hugh Leven thorpe, then lord of Horton, petitioned the queen for receipt of it, who referred the cause to Skergell and Neigham, her stewards of the honor, who charged a jury at Bradford to enquire of the right. These found that Henry Lacy did improve three acres of land in Little Horton, of the sale of Hugh Horton, then lord of Horton, which Hugh was grand father to Hugh Leventhorpe, the petitioner. On this verdict, a warrant was made to the graves of Bradford to pay the rent to the lords of Horton, according to the first composition. In a MS. in my possession is the following entry relating to this subject: "Etiam annualem firmam " solutam Galfrido Leventhorpe pro placea in Horton ad- " quisita de flugone de Horton, antecessore ejusdem 220 BIOGRAPHIA " Galfridi, & cui per successionem ipse est haeres per Henri- " cum Lacy nuper comitem de Lincoln. Eeddendo annuatim "predicto Hugoni & heredibus tres soUdos ut in quadam " litera Eegis de warranto pras solutione ejusdem summae "receptori directa. Dat. apud Westm. 20 Jimii, 5 Hen. V." This lordship of Horton, which thus clearly belonged to a famUy who took their name from it, is divided into two hamlets, viz. Horton Magna and Horton Parva; the first containing twenty-seven oxgangs and an half, the latter about eighteen oxgangs. It continued in the name of Horton, till the lands belonging to that famUy came to the Leventhorpes by marriage ; from the Leventhorpes it also went by marriage with Alice, sister and heir of one Oswald Leventhorpe, to John Lacy, esq ; a descendant of whom, called also John Lacy, sold it to Joshua Horton, of Sowerby, esq; a younger branch of the above famUy of Horton, of Horton, whose great great grandson, su- Watts Horton, of Chaderton, in Lancashire, bart. now enjoys it. I have not been able to prooure, or make out an uninter rupted pedegree from the antient lords of Horton to the present owner of that manor, but I doubt not the truth of that descent, on account of its having been so satisfactorUy proved to the Herald's office, as appears by the following authentic paper. Mrs. Ann Horton, of London, having her arms challenged by some of the officers belonging to the college of arms, she produced her proofs in support of her right to the same, which caused the foUowing grant to be made, which was entered in tlie college of arms, in a book marked Grants, vol. vii, p. 533, 534. " To all and singular to whom these "presents shall come, John Anstis, esq; garter principal " king of arms, and Peter le Neve, esq ; norroy king of arms, " send greeting. Whereas Mrs. Ann Horton, youngest " daughter, and one of the three coheirs of Thomas Horton, " of Barkisland, in the west riding of the county of York, "esq; deceased, by Everilda his wife, daughter of John " Thornhill, of Fixby, esq ; and great grandchild of William " Horton, of Barkisland aforesaid, gentleman, by Elizabeth, " daughter of Thomas Hanson, of ToothUl, gentleman, aU " in the aforesaid county of York, hath represented unto the "right honourable Talbot Yelverton, earl of Sussex, and "knight of the most noble order of the bath, and deputy HALIFAXIENSIS. 221 " (with the royal approbation) to the most noble Thomas, " duke of Norfolk, earl marshal, and hereditary marshal of "England, that her ancestors having, for many generations, "lived in the credit and reputation of gentlemen, whose " father left her above eleven hundred pounds per annum, " did bear for their arms, gules, a Uon rampant within a "border ingrailed, argent, charged on the shoulder with a " boar's head, couped, azure ; and for the crest, on a wreath " of the colors, a rose gules, seeded, barbed, and surrounded " with two laurel branches proper, as descending from the "family of Horton, of Horton, within the parish of Brad- "ford, in the said west riding, who flourished there in the "reign of Edw. I. as ajjpears by an antient folio MS. now " remaining in the hands of Mr. Midgley, of Soolemore, in "the said parish of Bradford. And the said Mrs. Ann " Horton having farther represented unto his lordship, that " the coat arms above mentioned now remain, and are to be " seen in the several houses of Barkisland-hall, Howroyd- " house, and Sowerby, all within the parish of Halifax,, " either in ^sainted glass, stone, or plaister, as the same " doth appear by an affidavit made for that purpose, which " said houses were and are now possessed by several of the " Hortons, all of her family, for above four-score years ; as " also the same coat arms in several funeral and other " escutcheons, some whereof are much above an hundred "years old, and agreeable to the draught in the margin " of her memorial : But iu regard that the descent of the " family of Horton, of Barkisland, was certified in the Visit- " ation Book of Yorkshire, made by William Dugdale, esq; " Norroy king of arms, ann. 1666, by Edward Hanson, on "the behalf of Thomas Horton, (father of the said Ann " Horton,) then a minor, aged fifteen years, through whose "neglect no arms were then exhibited; the said Mrs. Ann "Horton hath therefore prayed his lordship's warrant for " our exemplifying and confirming the same coat of arms to "her, which, together with the crest, may be likewise law- " fully borne by all the descendants of her great grandfather "respectively, with their due differences, according to the "usage and custom of arms. And forasmuch as his lord- " ship, being well satisfied of the truth of the premises, by a -" certificate annexed to the said memorial, did, by warrant "under his hand and seal, bearing date the 2d day of this 222 BIOGRAPHIA ¦" instant August, order and direct us to exemplify and con- ¦" firm the same coat arms and crest accordingly : Now know " ye, that we the said Garter and Norroy, in pursuajice of " the consent of the said earl of Sussex, and by virtue of the ¦"letters patent of our offices to each of us respectively "granted under the great seal, have confirmed, and do each •"of us confirm, exemplify, and confirm unto the said Mrs. "Ann Horton the same coat arms above expressed, to be ¦"borne and used by her, the said Ann Horton, which, " together with the crest above described, shaU and may be "likewise la-wfuUy borne by all the descendants of her great •"grandfather respectively, ¦with theu- proper differences, ae- " cording to the -law and practice of axms, ¦without let or " interruption of any person or persons whatsoever. In "¦witness whereof, we, the said Garter and Norroy king of " arms, have to these presents subscribed our names, and " af&xed the seals of our several offices, the tenth day of " August, in the 12th year of the reign of our sovereign lord, " George, by the grace of God king of Great Britain, Prance, "and Ireland, defender of the faith, annoq. Dom. 1725. " Signed and sealed bv Anstis." At p. 535 of the said vol. of Grants, is a warrant from the earl of Sussex, reciting, "That whereas he had, by warrant "under his hand and seal, dated 2 August, 1725, directed ¦"John Anstis, esq; Garter pi-incipal king of arms, and " Peter le Neve, esq ; Norroy king of arms, to exemplify and "confirm to Mrs. Ann Horton the above arms and crest; ¦" and the said Norroy did twice absolutely refuse to comply ¦"with the same; in order to do justice to the famUy of " Horton, he did thereby order and direct, that the said ' ' exemplification and confirmation should be as effectual " according to the law of arms, as if the said Norroy had " also sealed and signed the same." This warrant was dated 10th Feb. 1726-7, and a memorandum is annexed thereto, dated 24 AprU, 1727, signed by James Green, blue mantle, importing, " that the reason why Norroy refused to " execute the above was, because the same proofs had not "been produced to him, as had been to Garter," which could not be done, as he was then, and for several months after, at his seat at Great Wickingham, in Norfolk, ninety mUes from London. Also it appeared to the said Blue Mantle, on a due examination of the several books in the HALIFAXIENSIS. 223 herald's office, that the above arms belonged to the name of Horton, in Grafton's alphabet, and he did not find the said arms to be claimed or borne by any other family of that name, amongst the different arms and families of the said name of Horton. To this account of the arms of the Hortons of Barkisland, Sowerby, Chaderton, aud Howroyd, it may be added, that all others of the name have diff'erent coats, of which there are about seven ; that I have seen the same on a seal which belonged to Joshua Horton, of Sowerby, esq; who died in 1679 ; that Dr. Buckley, of Pontefract, in Yorkshire, is said to have knowu the collateral derivation of the families from Horton, of Horton, and also knew that the above coat belonged to Horton, of Horton, and was acquainted with the Teason of the addition of the boar's head. The motto used by the present heir of this family under the above arms, is "Pro Eege et Lege." In 1603 lived William Horton, as appears by deed. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hanson, of Toothill, in the parish of Halifax, which Elizabeth made her will July 16, 1660, and was then in her old age. By her the said William had, 1. WUliam, 2. Joshua, (whose pedegree will be given under the article of Sowerby,) 8. Thomas, 4. Sarah, and 5. Elizabeth. These are all mentioned in the will of Thomas Hanson, dated 27tli July, 1673. Of these, Sarah married John Gledhill, as already mentioned. Eliza beth had no issue. Thomas was brought up a merchant at Liverpool, and the following inscription is on a board, and fixed to a pillar under the east gallery of the parochial chapel of our Lady and St. Nicholas, at Liverpool: "Here "lieth interred the body of Thomas Horton, of Liverpoole, " merchant, sonne of William Horton, of Barkisland, in the " county of Yorke, gentleman, who married Frances, eldest "daughter of Thomas Throppe, of the citty of Chester, " alderman and justice of the peace. He dyed the 30th day " of March, 1660." Over the inscription are the arms of Horton, (as above,) with a crescent for difference, impaled with cheeky arg. and sab. on a fess or, tbree martlets of the second, which also I have seen painted on a tablet at How royd, with a martlet's wings displayed, or, for crest. This Thomas had no known descendants. 224 BIOGRAPHIA William, eldest son of WiUiam above named, bought Howroyd, in Barkisland, where he lived, his residence be fore this purchase having been at Firth-house, in that neighborhood. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thonias GledhUl, of Barkisland-hall, by whom, 1. Thomas, 2. WilUam, 3. Elizabeth, 4. Sarah, and 5. Judith ; of these, WiUiam man-ied at Eipponden, Deo. 12, 1700, Mary, fourth daughter of sir Richard Musgrave, of Heyton-castle, in Cumberland, bart. and died Feb. 19, 1715-6, having had, by the said Mary, two sons, viz. WilUam Horton, of Coley, esq ; justice of peace, who was baptized at Eipponden-chapel, Feb. 11, 1702, and died in 1739-40. Eichard, baptized at Eipponden, Nov. 11, 1706, aud died at Howroyd, s. p. WiUiam, last named, married Mary Chester, by whom Mary, who died unmarried, and was buried at Eland, in June, 1769 ; and a son, who died young, of the smaU-pox, and was bm-ied at Eland, in August, 1730. I have been well informed, that this cliUd was a second time attacked by this disorder in the natural way, -about a week after his recovery from the former, and died of it. Elizabeth, last named, married William Batt, of Oakwell, in Burstall parish, esq ; by whom WUliam, GledhUl, and Judith. Sarah, second daughter of WUliam, married Alexander Butterworth, of Belfield, near Eochdale, esq ; by whom WUliam, Alexander, and Elizabeth. Judith, youngest daughter of William, married Joseph Finch, of Weston Hanger, in Kent, merchant. She died in child bed, in Kent, (after her husband's decease,) Oct. 12, 1678, and the chUd and her were carried to London to be buried. She left six chUdren. Thomas, eldest son of WiUiam, by Elizabeth Gledhill, was born April 2, 1651, and died Jan. 2, 1698-9, buried at Eland. His wUl is dated Deo. 20, 1698. He married, in 1672, EverUd, daughter of John ThornhUl, of Fixby, esq ; bj' whom, 1. Elizabeth, who married Richard Bold, of Bold, in Lancashire, esq ; who lived some time at Crawstone, in Greetland, and whose descendants are now in possession of Barkisland-haU, and whose coat armor is, argent, a griffin passant, sab. but see Guillim, p. 189. 2. Susanna, who maiTied Eichard Beaumont, of Whitley, in Yorkshire, esq ; a descendant of whom was married to the rev. John Watson, author of this book. 3. GledhiU, baptized at Eipponden. HALIFAXIENSIS. 225 Dec. 31, 1685, and died young. 4. Ann, baj)tized at Eippon- -den, Nov. 3, 1687. 5. Thomas, baptized at Ripponden, May 9, 1689, who also died young; as also did, 6. EverUd and William, two other of their children. Ann was interred at Eland, AprU 22, 1750. Her father gave £5000. a-piece to her two sisters, and settled his estate, of £1100. per annum, on her, and her issue male, obliging her, if she married, to take an Horton, or one who should assume the name. Barkisland-haU, above-mentioned, was probably built by John Gledhill, who married Sarah, daughter of William Horton, for he lived there in the reign of K. Cha. I. and in the window of the hall part are the painted figures of a man and two children : under the first, aetat. 36, 1641 ; under one of the children, ajtat. 4, 1641; under the other, astat. 2^, 1641. Over the back door is cut in stone, " Nunc mea, mox " hujus, sed postea nescio oujus ; " which may be seen in Camden's Remains, p. 125, edit. 1636. If this was put there by the above John Gledhill, the observation was soon remarkably verified, when the estate passed into the name of Horton, and, after a very short possession, to that of Bold. HORTON. Sowerby Hall, onoe the seat of the eldest branch of the family of Horton, whose pedegree is as follows : Joshua Horton, esq ; second son of William Horton, of Barkisland, born in 1619, was Justice of the Peace in the West-riding, and purchased the manor of Horton , in Brad ford-dale, Stansfield-Hall, &c. He died of the stone at Sowerby, 7 April, 1679, and was buried there, aged 60. He married Martha, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Binns, esq ; of Rushworth, in the parish of Bingley, who died July 23, 1694, and was buried at Sowerby. By her he had, 1. Joshua, who only lived three months. 2. Sarah, born June 22, 1654, and who died Sept. 4, 1670, 3. Martha, born AprU 30, 1656, who married John Gill, esq; of Car-house, near Rotherham, by whom two sons and one daughter; 4. Joshua; 5. Elkana, a Counsellor, born at Sowerby, Aug. 31, 1659, and buried s. p. at Sowerby, Jan. 28, 1728-9. He lived at Thornton, and left his estate to his nephew Thomas. 6. Thomas, M.D. born Nov. 26, 1660, and died in London, s. p. March 4, 1694, buried in St. Thomas's church, Southwark. 226 BIOGRAPHIA He married daughter of Watmough, of London, M. D. and left his estate in Halifax to his eldest brother. (N. B. Joshua, Elkana, and Thomas Horton, thi-ee brothers, were all Gentlemen Commoners of Brazen Nose CoUege, Oxford.) 7. Elizabeth, who died young. Joshua, the eldest survi'ving son of Joshua, was born at Sowerby, Jan. 22, 1657, and died Dec. 15, 1708, being buried in his chapel at Oldham church. He purchased Chaderton, and lived there. Feb. 27, 1678, he man-ied Mary, daughter of Robert Gregg, of Bradlej-, or Hapsford, in CheshUe, who died Dec. 27, 1708, as it is said, of grief, for the loss of her husband, and was bm-ied in the same place with him. By her he had thirteen chUdren, of which I can only put do^wn the follow ing : 1. Thomas, who died young ; 2. Thomas, who succeeded to the estate ; 3. WUliam, baptized Oct. 12, 1686 ; 4. Sarah, baptized Jan. 6, 1687, who married Thomas WiUiamson, of Liverpool, Merchant. 5. Elizabeth, baptized May 28, 1689, who married WUliam WiUiamson, of Liverpool, Merchant. 6. Mary, baptized Feb. 4, 1690. 7. WiUiam, baptized Sept. 27, 1692. 8. Joseph, s. p. baptized March 8, 1693. 9. James, baptized AprU 18, 1695, died unmarried. 10. Mary, s. p. baptized August 13, 1696. 11, Martha, who married Riohard Clayton, of Adlington, in Lancashire, esq; on the 30th of Nov. 1697. 12. Jane, who manied John Parr, of Liverpool, Merchant. Thomas Horton, son of Joshua, was born at Chester, May 4, 1685, and died March 18, 1757, at Manchester, buried at Oldham. He was Justice of Peace for Lancashire, and Governor of the Isle of Man for the earl of Derby. He married Ann, daughter and coheiress of Richard Mostyn, of London, Merchant, a younger branch of su- Roger Mostyn's famUy, of ilostyn, in Wales. She died at Chaderton, June 17, 1725, and was buried at Oldham, in the 39th year of her age. By her the said Thomas had, 1. Mary, li-ving and unmarried in 1774. 2. Su- WUliam Horton, High Sheriff for Lancashire, in 1764, and before that an acting Justice of Peace for the county of Lancaster, created Baronet by patent, dated Jan. 19, 1764, died in Feb. 1774. 3. Ann, U-ring and unmanied in 1778. 4. Jane, who died Oct. 24, and was buried at Oldham, Oct. 29, 1768. 5. Susannah, who married, March 24, 1742, George Lloyd, of Holme, near Manchester, esq ; by whom several children. 6. HALIFAXIENSIS. 227 Joshua, of Howroyd, in Yorkshire, who married, to his first wife, Ann, daughterof George Clarke, esq; sometime Gov ernor of New York, who died, s. p. May 25, 1764. Arms of Clarke, Azure, three escallops in pale or, two flancbes ermine. To his second wife, Mary Bethia, daughter of the Rev. John Woolin, Rector of Emley, in Yorkshire, and Vicar of Blackburn, in Lancashire, by whom, 1. Thomas, 2. Joshua Sidney, and others. 7. Thomas, seventh child of Thomas, died young, at Castletown, in the Isle of Man. S. Sarah, the youngest, is living and unmarried in 1773. Sir William above-named married Susanna, daughter and heir ess of Francis Watts, of Barnes-haU, in Yorkshire, esq; by whom, 1. Sir Watts, 2. Thomas, and 3. William. N.B. The pedegrees of Horton, of Sowerby, and Horton, of Barkisland, which were drawn up by myself, I entered in the Herald's office in London, March 1766, in a book intitled 5th I^ 14, p. 237. For an account of this family, see under Barkisland, as also for their arms. Sir William Horton's motto was. Pro rege et lege. There are at Chaderton two fine .heads of Martha, wife of the above Joshua Horton, esq ; of Sowerby, and a portrait of her son Thomas, the Physician ; also another of William, grandson of the said Martha. One of Joshua Horton, esq; of Chaderton, in 1700, and Mary his wife, same date. Like- ¦wise Thomas Horton, of Chaderton, esq; drawn in the character of Governor of the Isle of Man, sir William Horton, and his Lady, all three half lengths, by Hamlet Winstanley. Watts, son of sir William, by Henry Pickering, who also drew, at Howroyd, the portraits of Joshua Horton, of Howroyd, and both his wives. HANSON AND RASTRICK. At Rastrick lived a considerable family, who took their name from this vill, and whose pedegree I have added, taken from a MS. pedegree at Fixby, another in my own possession, and a third mentioned in Wright's History, p. 135, intitled, " Observationes quaedam coUectae tam ex antiquis chartis, & " rotulis curiarum, & aliis scriptis, & genealogiis, quam de " progenia & familia in Rastricke, olim vocata Rastricke, ac "modo Hanson." Eoger de Rastrick lived about 1251. His name is found in many Deeds in the time of Henry III, amongst the chief 228 BIOGRAPHIA men of the weapontake of Morley. He held lands in Rastrick, Skircoat, and Clayton, in Bradford-dale. I have ihe copy of a Deed -without date, wherein Henry de Eland, father of sir John de Eland, grants to this Roger, by the name of Roger, son of William de Bingley, and his heirs, for his homage and service, two bovats of land in Rastrick, one of which, Alexander, son of Alexander, held with the said Alexander, and all his sequel : the other held by Lei singus, son of Herbert, with the said Leisingus, and all his sequel. This was confirmed by Emma, daughter of Hugh, son of Orme de Batelin, and Assulf her son and heir. He also grants to him Linlands, with other lands. It is probable that the above Roger, after this grant, removed to Eastrick, and settled there, having other estates, and the services of several vUlains, as appears by Deeds. He used a proper seal, with this inscription, sigill. rogeri de rastricke. He had, 1. Hugh, 2. John, the Chaplain, to whom his father gave a toft with a garden, in the riU. of Rastrick, which one Alexander formerly held, and three acres of land in the fields of Rastrick, and fifteen pence of a yearly rent, and aU the ser-vice thereto belonging, out of a farm which Simon, his son, and Adam the Smith, of Huddersfield, son of the said Simon held. His third son was, 3. Simon, who occurs by the name of Simon le Faber (or Smith) de Eastrick. This Simon had Adam, and Hugh. Adam lived at the Castle in Eastrick, and had Simon. Hugh, son of Simon, had William. Hugh de Eastrick, son of Eoger, lived in the time of Hen. III. and Edw. I, and resided at Linlands. He is witness to a Deed, by the name of Hugh de Eastrick, mentioned in Burton's Monasticon, p. 318, along with Matthew de Shep- ley, and others, which Matthew was -witness to a Deed in 1257. He gave to Leisingus, son of Orme de Eastrick, the moiety of an assart in Eastrick, called Hee Hawkeswode ; confirmed to John the Chaplain, his brother, the yearly rent of fifteen pence above mentioned ; gave to his brother Simon an assart in Eastrick, containing four acres (super toftum Raveri) for six-pence yearly rent ; also to Adam, son of his brother Simon, the land which his father held of him, viz. the moiety of three bovats, which Leisingus, son of Herbert, held of Eoger, father of the said Hugh, in Eastrick, for two shiUings yearly rent. Also to Hugh, son of his brother HALIFAXIENSIS. 229 Simon, all the land in Eastrick, which Leisingus, son of Eve, held, with the building thereon, and a messuage and other lands in Eastrick. This Hugh married Agnes by whom John de Eastrick and William de Eastriclf. John gave by Deed without date, to Simon, son of Adam, at the Castle of Eastric, for his homage and service, &c. two acres in the lower field of Eastric. Round the seal append ant to the Deed, in capitals, s. johannis de rastrio. He also granted to John de Toothill, for his homage and service, two acres in Rastrick, by Deed without date. A MS. pedegree at Fixby sais, this John had an only daughter Helen, married to one Alan de Rastrick, who died i Edw. HI, by whom .John, who, it seems, when his mother became a widow, was called the son of Elen, or Elenson. This John married Margaret, daughter of Roger le Teyler, by whom Isabel, who married John, surnamed Scot, by whom Helen and Alice. Here the above pedegree ends, and so far I find it confirmed by evidence, that one John, son of Elen de Eastrick, was witness to a Deed 32 Edw. III. And in one of the Harleian MSS. N° 797, under the article of Eastrick, are these words: "I Alice, daughter of John Scot, of " Eastrick, and Isabel my mother, have given to Elen, " daughter of John Scot, for a certain sum of money, all "that land and meadow called Linlands, in Eastrick." They were contemporaries with one Hugh de Eastrick, for they granted by Deed without date to John de Barne de Tothill, and heirs, three roods of land, abutting on one side on the garden of the said Hugh, and on the other, on Le OUerode : three of the witnesses to which Deed were living in the year 1287, viz. Eobert de Bosco, Matthew de Fekisby, and Alexander de Fekisby. However, notwithstanding these proofs, in a beautiful pedegree of this family, belonging to Mr. Eoger Hanson, of Halifax, but not authenticated by any of the Heralds at Arms, the above John de Eastrick is said to have had a son John, who had Henry de Eastrick, who had John de Eastrick, alias Hanson (a contraction of Henry's son,) and from hence the addition of de Eastrick was dropt by this branch of the family, and that of Hanson used in its room. Here the disagreements in the two pedegrees begin to disappear, for I find John, son of Henry de Eastrick, a party in a Deed dated in 1837, and one of the witnesses was John, sort of Elen aforesaid. This John p , 230 biographia married Alice, daughter and heiress of Henry de Woodhouse, which Henry was son of Alexander de Woodhouse, who married Beatrice, daughter and heiress of Thomas de TotehiU. By the said AUce the said .John had a son, John Hanson, of Woodhouse, who married CecUy de Windebank, by whom John Hanson, of Woodhouse, who married CecUy, daughter of John Eavensljaw, by whom John Hanson, of Woodhouse, who married Catharine, daughter of John Brooke, by whom John Hanson, of Woodhouse, who married Agnes, eldest daughter of John Sa-rile, of Newhall, esq ; by whom John Hanson, of Woodhouse ; 2. Edward Hanson, of Nether- Woodhouse ; 3, Thomas Hanson, of Eastrick; and 4. Arthur Hanson. .John, th.e eldest son, Uved at Woodhouse, in Eastrick, and was buried at Eland in 1599, aged eighty-two, as appears from a grave-stone there, and which is said to be the oldest date they can shew. He married, first, ^largaret, second daughter, and one of the three coheiresses of Thomas Woodhead, sometime of Howroyd, in Barkisland ; secondly, Margaret, daughter of Eobert Wade. By his fUst -wife, he had, 1. John Hanson, of Woodhouse; 2. Thomas, 3. Nicholas, who had Eobert and Dorothy ; and, 4. .Judith, married to .Jasper Blythman. John, the eldest, died in the seventy- third year of his age; his -wiU was dated Aua-ust 14, 1621. He married Joan, daughter and heiress of WilUam E-ayner, of Liversege, by whom, 1. .John, who died an infant ; 2. Ag nes, who married Eichard Lawe, of HaUfax ; 3. Mary, who maiTied Walter Stanhope, of Horsforth ; 4. Grace, who died s. p. 5. Margaret, who married Thomas Brooke, of New- house ; and, 6. Katharine, who died s. p. Thomas, second son of John Hanson, by Margaret Woodhead, married Margaret, daughter and coheiress of John Eoyde, of Shaw, in Soyland, by whom, 1. John, who died an infant ; 2. Thomas, of Brighouse, who died s. p. 3. Arthur, who manied Sarah, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Bothom- ley, by whom John, Thomas, Josej)h, Eichard, Joshua, and Judith; 4. Eichard, who married EUzabeth Jenkinson; 5. Eobert, 6. Joseph, 7. Margaret, and, 8. .Judith. Richard, last named, had Thomas Hanson, of BaekhaU, buried at Eland, Jan. 6, 1695, aged sixty -four; and -John, who manied EUzabeth, daughter of Thomas Brooke, of Huddersfield, by whom John, Eichard, Elizabeth and Mary. Thomas, last HALIFAXIENSIS. 231 named, married Hester, daughter and heiress of John Parnel, by whom John, and Thomas, who married a daughter of Anthony Foxcroft, by whom Anthony. John, the elder brother, of BackhaU, married a daughter of George Booth, -of Snowden, by whom, 1, Thomas, 2. John, s. p. 8. Dorothy, who married Abraham Dyson, of Sunnybank; 4. George, of BackhaU, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Stott, by whom John, Eoger, Nathan, Esther, Eobert, Eebecca, and Elizabeth ; 5. Mary, who married John Dawson ; 6. Esther; 7. Eebecca, who married Thomas, son of George Booth, of Snowden ; 8. Sarah, and 9. Eleanor. Thomas, -eldest son of John, married Martha, daughter of Nathan Gledhill, by whom John, who died an infant, Thomas, Nathan, Arthur, George, Edward, Joshua, Eichard, Joseph, Mary, Esther, and Agnes. Edward Hanson, of Nether Woodhouse, second son of John, by Agnes Savile, was buried at Eland, Dec. 16, 1601, in the eighty-second year of his age ; his will dated Nov. 30, 1601. He married, first, Joan, daughter of Edward Kaye ; second and third wives unknown ; he married, fourthly, Nov. 2, 1590, to Margaret Malinson, widow, daughter of Edward HoUe, of Hoile-house, in Lightcliffe. She died Feb. 23, 1614, and was buried the day following, ann. aetat. 87. By his first wife he had Thomas Hanson, of TothiU, buried at Eland, Aug. 8, 1628, ann. aet. 71 ; his will dated July 27, 1623. He married Katharine, daughter of Thomas Brooke, of Newhouse, who was buried at Eland, Feb. 4, 1621, in the 74th year of her age. By her he had 1. Edward; 2. Elizabeth, who married William Horton, of Barkisland ; 3. Katharine, who married Thomas Sharp ; also Abraham Beaumont ; 4. Mary, who married William Mallinson ; and, 5. Agnes. Edward, the eldest, married Dorothy, daughter of John Gledhill, of Barkisland, and Cecily his wife, daughter of John Thornhill, esq. By the said Dorothy he had Edward, Dorothy, and Margaret. Edward Hanson, of Woodhouse, married Jane, daughter of Thomas Beaumont, by whom John, Edward, Dorothy, Margaret, Catharine, Mary, Jane, Elizabeth, Frances, and Cecily. Thomas Hanson, of Eastrick, third son of John, by Agnes Savile, married Jennet, daughter of John Gledhill, of Little- Even, in Barkisland, by whom, 1. Eoger, 2. Thomas, of 232 biographia Eastrick, who married Martha, daughter of Edward Naylor, by whom John, and Eoger. 3. John, of London, who married Frances, daughter of John Pritchard, by whom John, Thomas, and Edward. 4. Eobert, of Eastrick, who man-ied Sarah, daughter of WiUiam Thorpe ; 5. EUzabeth, and 6. Judith. Arthur, fourth and youngest son of John, by Agnes Sa-vUe, had 1. John, of Norwood Green, who had Edward, and John. 2. Edward, who had John, aud Margaret, who manied Richard WUton. The foUowing grant was iu the hands of Mr. Roger Hanson, of HalU'as : " To all and singular unto whom these " presents shall come. WiUiam Ryley, esq; Norroy King " of Armes, sendeth greeting. Whereas Edward Hanson, of " Woodhouse, in the county of Yorke, gent, hath requested "me to confirme and declare those Aimes which have " formerly been born by his Ancestors. I do therefore, by "these presents, confirme and aUow tbe said Edward Han- " son to bear the said Ai-mes and Creast hereafter mentioned, "viz. Or, a cheveron counter componed, argent and azure, " between three martlets sable. And for his Creast, On a "hehne a chaj)eau azure, lined argent, a martlet volant " sable, mantled giUes, doubled argent. Which coate and " creast I the said Norroy do by these presents aUowe and " confirme unto the said Edward Hanson, and the heu-es of " his body la-wfuUy begotten, to bee born and used by them "in banners, pennans, shieldes, and scales, in wan- and "peace, -with theu-e several respected differences for ever. " In -witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of my " office, and subscribed my name, the 17th day of July, " 1652. WiUiam Ryley, Norroy King of Armes." The Arms of Rastrick, of Rastrick, were. Argent, a chev ron between three roses gules, and, as one account adds, barbed and seeded proper. Woodhouse, of Woodhouse, in Rastrick, according to Mr. Hanson's pedegree, bore. Azure, a chevron between three mullets or ; but in Hopkinson's CoUections the muEets are pierced of the field. Windebank, (as in the above pedegree,) bore, Vert, a chevron between three hawks standing, -wings displayed, or. Eavens[l]aw (as above) bore. Sable, two fesses argent, wa-vy, on a chief of the second three ravens proper. HALIFAXIENSIS. 233 Brooke, (as above,) bore. Argent, on a bend sable, a lure, with a line and ring or. This was borne by Joshua Brooke, -of Newhouse, in the township of Huddersfield, as appears by a seal appendant to a Deed dated in 1647. Kay, (as above,) bore. Argent, two bendlets sable. Prichard, (as above,) bore. Gules, a fess or, between three escallops argent. The following Certificate was granted to one Elias Ras trick, said to be a descendant from the above ancient family. "Frater Andreas ab Arco, Ordinis Minorum, &c. in ." partibus Orientalibus Apostolicus Commissarius totius "terrae sanctfe Custos, ac Sanctte Montis Sion Servus & Gardianus. " Universis & singulis Christi fidelibus prfesentes nostras " inspecturis, lecturis, pariter & audituris, salutem in Dom- " ino sempiternam. Notum saeimus & attestamus, Domiii-- "um Eliam Rastricke, Anglum, ad banc sanctam, Jeruso- " limorum urbem provenisse, necnon terram sanctam, nempe ¦" gloriosissima3 resurrectionis Domini Christi sepulchrum ; " sacratissimos mon tes, Calvari® scilicet, ubi Salvator noster "propria morte nos redemit in cruce; Oliveti, ubi in cffilum "mirabiliter consoendit ad Patrem; Sion, augustissimas Eu- " charistiEB sacramenti institutione, Spiritus Sanctfe missione, " compluriumque nostraa salutis mysteriorum celebratione "insignis; Thabor, natura, & gloriosa transfiguratione, " Patrum testimonio vetustorum, & beatitudinibus admirabili ¦" ejusdem Domini sermone decorati. Praaterea, sanctissimum " nativitatis Domini Praesepe in Bethlehem Judeae civitate "David sacra. Item Nazareth Domum, Angeli annunti- " atione Deiisaras, & etiam Verbi incarnatione celebevrimum; " Vallemque Josaphat, pluribus Dominicae passionis misteriis, " ao venerabilis Assumtionis Dei genetriois Maris monu- " mentis exornatum ; Bethaniam quoque hospitio Domini, " & Lazari suscitatione honestatum ; sed & montana JudeaB " sanotissimaB Genetriois Dei visitatione, ac Prascursoris " Nativitatis ejus Deserta, nobilitata ; Theberiadis mare " quorundem Apostolorum vocatione, Petrique in Ecclesia " Capitis electione clarum ; necnon Emmaus Dominica " Apparatione illustratum. Ac demum caetera omnia sancta, " piaque loca qiue tam in Judsea, quam in Galilaea, ac Sam- " aria, a Fratribus, fidelibusque Peregrinis visitari soient, "visitasse. In quorum fidem, prassentes has manu nostra 234 BIOGRAPHIA " subscriptas, ac majori nostri officio sigUlo munitas, ex- " pedui mandavimus. Datum Jerusolymis, in Conventu " nostro Sancti Salvatoris, die vicesimo nono mensis Octo- "bris, anno Dom. 1639." HAMERTON. Langfield was the estate of sir Stephen Hamerton, of Hamerton, knt. who being attainted of high treason in the reign of Hem-y VIU, and executed at Tyburn, it came into the hands of the cro-wn. Hollinshead, in his Chronicle, p. 1569. sais, " About the latter end of this 28th year, the lord " Darcy, Aske, sir Eobert Conestable, sir John Bulmer, and "his -wife, sir Tho. Percye, brother to the earl of North- " nmberlande, sir Stephen HamUton, (it should be Hamer- " ton,) Nicholas Tempest, esq ; WiUiamLomley, son to the lord " Lomley, began eftsoons to conspire, altho' every of them " before had received theu- pardons ; and now were they aU " taken, and brought to the tower of London as prisoners." Sir Stephen, therefore, had been in Aske's first rising, caUed the Pilgrimage of Grace, and had been pardoned with the other ringleaders of that conspu-acy. Of this famUy I find that Adam Hamerton, of Hamerton, in Boland, man-ied about the time of Heni-y V, Katharine, daughter and coheUess of EUas de KnoU, who bore, Argent, a bend between two bendlets, sable ; in her right he was seized of the lordships of Wigglesworth and HeUifield Peel, in the parish of Long Preston, in Craven. By her he had Eichard Hamerton, of Hamerton, who married daughter of UnderhiU, who bore. Argent, on a chevron sable, be tween three trefoUs g^es, a leopard's head of the fii-st. By her he had Laurence, who married Isabel, daughter of sir John Tempest, of Bracewell, in Craven, by whom sir Eichard, James, from whom the Hamertons, of Munk Eode, near Pontefract, and others. Sir Eichard Hamerton, of Hamerton, knt. married the heiress of Langfeld, of Langfeld, and found ed a chantry of our Lady and St. Ann, in the parish-church of Long Preston, valued, 37 H. Vm, at £5. 17s. 8d. SU- Eichard had sir Stephen Hamerton, of Hamerton, knt. who had John Hamerton, of Hamerton and the Peel, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Middleton, of iliddleton, in Westmorland, who bore. Argent, a cross ingrailed, sable. By her he had sir Stephen, executed as above ; Thomas and HALIFAXIENSIS. 235 Laurence, both slain in Ireland on one day ; also Eichard, who had John Hamerton, of the Peel, who had Laurence Hamerton, of the Peel, who had Stephen, who had John, of the same place. It was either the above Laurence, or his father John, who being a servant iu the court of king Hen. VIII, got a grant from the Crown to himself and heirs of HeUifield Peel. Sir Stephen last named had a son Henry, who had two daughters. The arms of Hajnerton, of Hamerton, in a folio collection of Pedegrees in my possession, are, Argent, three hammers sable, two and one. But another authority sais. Argent, a chevron between three hammers, sable. This last I take •to have been born by Hamerton, of Muuk-Eode. LACY AND CEOMWELLBOTHOM.. Cromwelbothom was long the seat of the Lacys, as appears by the following pedegree : John Lacy, Steward of Chester, had Eobert Lord Vice Chancellor of Chester, and John, of Powton, or Palton, com. Ebor. Eobert married Eleanor, daughter of sir Eobert Baskerville, who bore a chevron ingraUed, gules, between three hurts, (one MS. sais Clemence Baskervile,) by whom Brian Lacy, of Chester, who married Amicia, daughter of Eichard Archdeacon, who lived at Warmicham, in Cheshire. By her he had John Lacy, to whom the Office of Arms has allowed the Lacys of Cromwellbothom, and Brearley, to ascend, but no farther. This John married Ellen (some say Eleanor) daughter and heiress of Eobert de Cromwelbothom, by whom John Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, who married Ann (one MS. sais Alice) daughter of John de Eland, by whom John Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, and Gilbert Lacy, of Brear ley, near Halifax. John married Florence, daughter of Eobert Molineux, of Lancashire, who bore. Azure, a cross sarcele, or. By her he bad William Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, who married Joan, daughter of sir William Skargill, of Thorpe Stapleton, near Leeds, who bore. Ermine, a saltire, gules. By her he had Thomas Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, who married Eleanor, daughter of Eobert Nevile, of Liver sedge, by whom John Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, who married first, Matilda, (some say Mary,) daughter of sir Nicholas Wortley, of Woi'tley, by whom no issue. Secondly, Joan, (one MS. sais Alice,) daughter and heiress of Leventhorp, of 236 BIOGRAPHIA Leventhorp, near Bradford, in Yorkshire, esq; in whose right he was seized of Leventhorp. By her he had John, Leonard, and Ann, married to Edward Oldfield, of Halifax. John married, first, Ann, (oue MS. sais Jane,) daughter of su- Eichard Tempest, of BraoeweU, knt. Secondly, Mary, daughter of Alveray Gascoign, of Garforth, near Leeds, s. p. By his first -wife he had, 1. Richard, 2. John, who married Hole, by whom John and Ann ; 3. WUUam, 4. Nicholas, who married Alice, daughter of Brian (Hopkinson sais Peter) Hardy, by whom Lucy, Alice, and Bridget ; 5. Peter, the youngest, had no issue. The said John had also three daughters, viz. 1. Dorothy, married to John Waterhouse, of Sowerby-bridge ; 2. Rosamond, to Thomas Wood; 3. Ellen, to Walter Paslew, of Ridlesden ; secondly, to Thomas Lee. Richard, the eldest son of John was buried at Halifax, July, 16, 1591. He married EUen (some say Alice) daughter of Laurence Townley, of Barnside, according to Hopkinson, but as others say, of To-wnley, by whom 1. John, 2. EUen, who married PhUip Waterhouse, and 3. Ann. Concerning the elder of these two sisters and her husband, tbere is the following inscription, in brass, on a , pillar in Thornhill church, in Yorkshire : " Here lyeth the body of PhUip " Waterhouse, 8 sonne of John Waterhouse, of Halifax, " esq; Maister of Artes, and sometimes Felow of University " Coll. Oxon. He dyed the 16th of Januari, 1614, the 57th "yere of his age. Hellen, daughter of Richard Lacye, of " Cromewelbotome, esq ; his beloved -wife, dedicated this " monument to his memori." Arms of Lacy and Cromwel bothom. John, eldest son of Richard, sold the manor house of Cromwelbothom to Thomas Gledhill, 9 James I. Also Old Syddall-haU to John Scolfield, of Coley, Nov. 20, 32 EUz. He man-ied, first, Alice, daughter of Martin Birkhead, Attorney to Queen EUzabeth's Council in the North, at York, by whom Sarah, who was aged five years in 1585, and Elizabeth; secondly, daughter of Michael Lister, of Frerehead in Craven, by whom Jobu, s. p. Hopkinson's CoUection of Lancashire Pedegrees makes the last mentioned John Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, to have, 1. Thomas Lacy, of Longworth, esq ; com. Lane. 2. Bridget, married to Thomas Summerscales of Gisborn in Craven ; 3. another daughter, married to Eichard Monke, also of HALIFAXIENSIS. 237 Oisborn : 4. John, s. p. and 5. Margaret, married to Eobert Bladen, of Himsworth, near Pontefract. Thomas is said to have married Ann, daughter of Eoger Winckley, of Winckley, in Lancashire, by whom Thomas, who married, first, Ann, -daughter of Adam Hilton, of Hilton, in Lancashire ; secondly, Winifred, daughter of sir Francis Armitage, of Kirklees, bart. By the first of these wives he had Eoger, born in 1654, Thomas, Adam, John, Ann, and Ellen. What I know of the family of Cromwelbothom is this, that ¦Oliver de Cromwelbothom married Julian, daughter of sir John Eadcliff, of Ordfall, by whom John de Cromwelbothom, who had Eobert de Cromwelbothom, who married •daughter of Henry Leyburne, by whom Ellen, daughter and heiress, married to John Lacy, as above. I find likewise a Richard de Cromwelbothom a Avitness to deeds with John de Lacy, in 1298 and 1807. There was also an Ann, daughter of .John Cromwelbothom, knt. married to Hugh Copley ; possibly the John above- Tiientioned. Arms of Cromwelbothom, Argent, six ogresses, three, two, one. Of Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, Or, a lion rampant purpure, langued and armed, azure. But in the "Visitation of York- •shire, in 1584," the Lacy's arms are, Sable, a chevron between three bucks heads cabossed, argent, which 1 take to have been born by the Lacys of Dickering. They have been also allowed by the Heralds, to the Lacys, of Fowton, in the East-riding. It seems plain to me that the Lacys, of Crom welbothom, descended from the earls of Lincoln of that name, and one proof arises from bearing the same arms ; for though the said earls bore sometimes Quarterly, or and gules; ¦a bendlet sable, a labal of five points of the second, yet their proper coat was. Or, a lion rampant purpure, as above. In the Harleian Collection of MSS. N° 797, it is said that John Lacy, of Cromwelbotham, and Margaret his wife, passed a fine of the manor of Cromwelbothom to the heirs of said .John, 30 Edw. I. but I find not who this Margaret was. The said MS. sais, from Will. Booth's Register, fol. 4, that John Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, was buried in the parish church of Halifax, in 1474. The name of Cromwelbothom continued here after the match of John Lacy with the heiress of that name ; for in the Pleas, 32 Edw. III. I find a claim of Riohard Lacy, son 238 BIOGRAPHIA and heu- of John, against John, son and heir of John Crom welbothom, and Agnes his -wife, for eighteen acres of land in Southouram, removed by certiorari. PEDEGREE of LACY, of Bre.aklet. GUbert, second son of John Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, married Isabel, daughter and heiress of Gerard Soothill, of Brearley, in the township of Midgley, near Halifax, wha bore. Gules, an eagle displayed argent. By her he had Gerard Lacy, of Brearley, who married Joan, eldest daughter of Richard Symms, who bore, Gules, a fess dancette between three crosses bottone fitche argent. By her he had, I.Hugh; 2. Dunstan, a Priest ; 3. William, who man-ied, and had two daughters ; 4. Edward, a Priest; 5. Richard, who married Green. Hugh, the eldest, was buried at Halifax, April 13, 1573, having married Agnes, daughter of Nicholas SavUe, of New hall, by whom, 1. John, 2. Thomas, 3. Leonard (one MS. calls him Edward, though there was a Leonard Lacy, of Southouram, gent. 29 Hen. VIII.) 4. GUbert ; 5. AUce, who married John Holdsworth ; 6. Agnes, who married Chris topher Deighton, cf Lincoln shu-e ; 7. Ellen, who manied John Dean, of Deanhouse, in Warley; and, 8. Isabel, who married Jasper Blythman. John, the eldest, was buried at HaUfax, August 19, 1585, having married Ann, daughter of Thomas Woodrove, of WooUey, esq ; who bore. Argent, a chevron between three crosses formee fitche gules. By her he had, 1. John, witness to a deed in 1599; 2. Elizabeth, married to Frauds Osborne ; 3. EUen, married to John Oldfield ; 4. Isabel, to WUUam Savile, of Copley, esq ; 5. Mary, 6. Susan, and, 7. Muriel, who married Rich. Wheat- ley, of Brearley, uear Barnsley. John, the eldest, who sold Brearley, married Dorothy, daughter of Godfrey (one MS. sais Raj)h) Bosseville, of Gunthwaite, esq; who bore Argent, five fusills in fess gules, in chief three bears heads erased, sable ; GuiUim, p. 372, adds, muzzled or, for one of this fainily. By her he had, 1. John, 2. Hugh, both s. p. 3. Heury, of London ; 4. Ann, s. p. 5. Dorothy, who married. John Payne, Rector of Sherland, in Derbyshue ; 6. Jane, who married Edward Eevell, of Ogson, in Derbyshire ; and, 7. EUzabeth, who married Arthur Daldn, of Stubbin Edge, in Derbyshire. Henry, thu-d son, had WilUam, a merchant HALIFAXIENSIS. 289 in London ; and Jane, who married Eichard Halliwell, of Mansfield, in 1641. A black's head, full faced and bearded, with a cap azure turned up or, on a wreath of his colors argent and sable, was granted for crest to Seth Lacy, of London, son and heir to Leonard Lacy, second son of Eichard Lacy, of Bryerley, gent, by Eobert Cooke, esq ; Clarencieux. LISTEE. The next owners of Shibden-hall [after the Waterhouses and Hemingways] were the Listers, whose pedegree is as follows : Samuel Lister, of Shibden-hall, died in 1682, leaving, 1. Thomas, 2. John, 8. Joseph, who died Dec. 27, 1644, leaving two sons, who died s. p. and Mary, who married Moses Jenkins. Thomas married, first, Sibyl, daughter of Eobert Hemm ingway, of Upper Brea, by whom Samuel, John, Thomas, and Mary. Samuel married Hester Oats, who died in bed by her hvisband, Jan. 26, 1692-8, aged sixty, leaving 1. Thomas, who died s. p. and was buried April 5, 1690, aged thirty-four ; 2. John, who died s. p. and was buried Aug. 9, 1691 ; 3. Samuel, who died about 1702, having married. May 16, 1695, Dorothy Priestley, who married at Coley, Nov. 16, 1703, to her second husband, Eichard Sterne, esq; of Woodhouse ; 4. Mary, and 5. Elizabeth. Thomas Lister above named married a second wife, by whom Joseph, who had, 1. Joseph, who married a daughter of sir John Jordan; 2. Catharine, 8. Elizabeth, and 4. Martha, who married William Walsham, esq ; of London. None of these four had any issue. Thomas above named died in 1677, as appears from the following entry in Oliver Heywood's Diary : " Jan. "30, 1677, went to the funeral of Mr. Tho. Lister, of "Shipden-hall, at Halifax. Heard Dr. Hooke's commend- " ation of him, and censures of us." John, second son of Samuel first named in the above pedegree, married Phaebe, daughter of Eobert Hemmingway, of Upperbrea, by whom Samuel, John, s. p. and Jeremy. Samuel married Mary Holdsworth, by whom, 1. John, who married Dorothy Hanson, by whom one child, which died young; 2. James, 3. Jeremy, 4. Thomas, 5. Susan, 6. Phaebe, 7. Mary, 8. Martha, 9. Elizabeth, and 10. Hester. James 240 BIOGBAPHLA the second son was Uving in 1719, having manied the daughter of WiUiam Issot, of Horbury, by whom, 1. Samuel, s. p. 2. John, 3. James, 4. Samuel, 5. Thomas, married in Vu-ginia ; 6. WUUam, married in Virginia ; 7. Jeremy, who manied Ann HaU, of Butterworth-end, in Norland, by whom •John, James, Joseph, Jeremy, Mary, and Phsbe. S. Joseph, s. p. 9. Japhet, who manied Ehzabeth Wainhouse, of Broadgates, by whom, Edward, Samuel, John, and Eliza beth. 10. Martha, who manied William Fawcet, of Halifax, by whom James, WUliam, and Barbai-a. 11. Mary, married George Rose, of Hamstead, s. p. and Phfebe, who married WiUiam Wilkinson, of HuU, s. p. Arms of Lister, of Shibden-haU, Ermine, on a fess sable, three muUets or, a canton gnles. MARION— See St.^nsfeld. PRIESTLEY. Adjoining to White- Windows, is a large modern house, built l>y Mr. .John Priestley, whose pedesree, coUected as well as I could from famUy papers, is as foUows : Henry Priestley, in 1608, married Helen who was a widow in 1623. He had by her Robert and Henry, which last was living in 1649. Robert had, 1. .Jonathan, of Sowerby, whose -wUl was dated in 1662 ; 2. Henry, 3. Fran cis, 4. Grace, and, ,5. Robert. Of these, Henry had, 1. Jonathan, of Priestley-green, Uving in 1689, 2. Thomas, 3. Francis, and, 4. Mary, who man-ied Matthew Nicholson. Henry, second son of the first Henry, had, 1. John, a Merchant in London, who had Joseph, living in 1649 ; 2. Joseph, of Goodgreave, a Clothier, who died in 1689 ; 3. Thomas, of Quickstavers, who died about 1689, having had Thomas, s. p. and Joseph, slain at the battle of the Boyne ; 4. .Jonathan, of Winteredge, in Northouram, who manied Mary by whom, Jonathan, s. p. Nathaniel, of Ovenden, and John, of Westercroft, in Northouram. Of these, Nathaniel had Jonathan, of AVinteredge, who had Jonathan, of Leeds, and -John. HALIFAXIENSIS. 241 Joseph, of Goodgreave, above-named, married Hester by whom, 1. John, of York, born Oot. 14, 1645, and who died May 9, 1697, having four children, viz. Jaques, Israel, Grace, s. p. and Sarah, s. p. 2. Hannah, boru Nov. 21, 1647, and who died Oct. 25, 1655. 3.' Joseph, of White- Windows, born June 23, 1650. 4. Sarah, born June 29, 1655, and who died May 19, 1656. 5. Israel, born June S, 1657. 6. Timothy, born January, 1660. Joseph, of White- Windows, above-named, had lived at Wat-ing, in Norland ; he married Mary Morvel, Feb. 1, 1674-5. She was born at Beckfoot, near Bingley, July 3, 1653. By her he had, 1. Hannah, born Sept. 23, 1676. 2. John, born Aug. 18, 167S. 3. WilUam, born Deo. 6, 1681. 4. Sarah, born Jan. 22, 1688-4. 5. Joseph, born June 18, 1686, and who died of the smaU-pox, June 6, 1695. 6. Timothy, born May 80, 1688. 7. Mary, born Nov. 25, 1690. 8. Grace, born July 2, 1693, and who died Feb. 6, 1694-5. John, last-named, married Mary, daughter of Israel Wilde, of Ball-green, in Sowerby, by whom John, of White-windows, who built the new house there in 1767 and 1768. He married Susanna, daughter of Benjamin Holroyd, of Wood- lane, in Sowerby, Oct. 24, 1749, by whom, Joseph, John, and Mary, which last died young. Arms of Holroyd, Azure, five roses in saltire argent. Arms used by Priestley, of White-windows, Gules, on a chevron argent, three grapling irons sable, between as many towers argent, issuing out of each a demi lion rampant or. EASTEICK— See Hanson. EOOKES, OF EOOKES. Here lived a considerable family of the name of Eookes, some of which resided at Rodes-hall, in Bradford parish ; their coat armor was. Argent, a fess between three rooks, sable, and their pedegree is as foUows, copied from Mr. Hopkinson. William married Dorothy, daughter of John Pecke, of Wakefield and West Ardsley, esq ; by whom Richard, esq ; who lived in the time of Henry VII. and 242 biographla married Mary, daughter of John Eamsden, of Eawden, by whom Eichard, esq; who lived in the time of Hen. VIII. and married Elizabeth, daughter of Eobert Waterhouse, of Halifax, esq; by whom John, esq; who married Jennet, daughter and coheiress of Eichard Watson, of Lofthouse, by whom William, esq; who married Elizabeth, daughter of Eichard Wilkinson, of Bradford, by whom, twelve children, viz. William, esq ; Jonas, Fellow of University College, Ox ford; Eichard, Eobert, Tempest, MaximiUan, John; Bridget, married to Mark Hoppey, of Esholt ; Barbara, to Eichard Pearson; Graoe, to Eichard Eawlinson ; Susan, to Michael Holdsworth ; and Prudence, to John Eamsden. William, the eldest son, lived 20 Charles I, married, first, Jane, daughter of John Thornhill, of Fixby, esq ; by whom William and Jane, who both died young ; to his second wife, Susan, daughter of Mr. Eosethorn, widow of Radcliffe, com. Lane, by whom WilUam, esq ; who married Mary, daughter of George Hopkinson, of Lofthouse, by whom, 1. William, who died a student in University College, in Oxford, in 1667 ; 2. George, who married Jane, daughter of Captain Henry Crossland, of Helmsley, in the North-riding, by whom Catharine, who died young ; 3. John, esq ; third son of William, inherited the estate as heir male to his brothers. The daughters were, Jane, who married Eobert, second son of Edward Parker, of Browsholme, esq ; and Mary, who died young. John, the third son of William, as above, died suddenly. May 31, 1713; he married, first. May 27, 1684, his own cousin, Ann, daughter and heiress of George Hopkinson, of Lofthouse, by whom William and George. William, esq ; married, Jan. 27, 1712, Mary, daughter of William Eodes, of Great Houghton, esq; by whom, 1. Edward, esq; born March 28, 1*714, who married, in 1740, the daughter and heiress of Leedes, of Milforth, esq; and took the name of Leedes ; 2. William, who died in 1782, and his widow in 1734; 3. John, who died young; 4. Mary; 5. Jane ; 6. Ann, died young, and Elizabeth. John above named, third son of William, married to his second wife, Dec. 8, 1687, Elizabeth, daughter of Marmaduke Cook, D.D. Vicar of Leeds and Prebendary of York, by whom Elizabeth, Mary, John, who died young ; and another John. HALIFAXIENSIS. 243 This estate called Eookes did once give name to a family, of which we meet with Eichard de Eokes in 1313, and John del Rokis in 1362. Also John Rokes, de Rokes, iu 1502. PEDEGREE op the Family of SALTONSTALL. Gilbert Saltonstall, of Halifax, 8 Eliz. as by deed at Coley, purchased Rookes, and other lands, in Hipperholme, and accordingly is mentioned as of Rookes, by deed 37 Eliz. He had Samuel and Sir Richard. Samuel, of Rookes and Huntwick, married Ann, daughter of John Ramsden, of Longley, esq ; by whom Sir Richard and Gilbert, which last died young. Sir Richard, knt. Justice of Peace, 1 Ch. I. married, first, Graoe, daughter of Robert Kay, of Woodsom, esq; by whom Eichard, esq; born at Woodsom, 1610, and other children. After his wife's death this Sir Eichard sold his lands, and went, with his children, into New England; from whenoe he returned, and resided in London, marrying 2dly, a daughter of Lord Delaware ; and, Sdly, one Wilford. Sir Eichard, son of Gilbert, was Sheriff" of London with Hugh Offley, in 15SS, and Lord Mayor in 1597, when, as usual, he was knighted. He died in 1601, having married Susanna, daughter of Thomas Poyntz, of North Okyngdon, esq; by whom sixteen children. From him are descended the Saltonstalls of Hertfdrdshire. This family was originally, in all probability, of Saltonstall, in Halifax parish ; for the wife of Ric. Saltonstall, of Hye Saltonstall, was buried at Halyfax, 20 Febr. 1582. Samuel Saltonstall above named, married, 2dly, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Ogden, by whom Samuel, John, Thomas, Ann, Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, and Barbara. To his thu-d wife, Elizabeth Armine, of Hull, by whom no issue. It is a question whether he was not knighted, because I find that sir Samuel Saltonstall, of London, held lands in Hipperholm in 1607. Also at a court held at Wakefield, 11 Jan. 8 James I. Samuel Saltonstall, of London, knt. and Elizabeth his wife, surrendered lands in Hipperholm. Who was the father of Gilbert, first above named, is uncertain ; but a John Saltonstall, of Halifax, was buried there. Mar. 30, 1557, and a Eobert Saltonstall, of Halifax, also buried there, IS Oct. 1561, as had, the February pre ceding, sir WUliam Saltonstall, curate of Halifax. 244 BIOGRAPHIA In a large MS. Collection of Arms, in my possession, sir Eichard SaltonstaU, sldnner. Lord Mayor of London iu 1597, is said to have born. Or, a bend between two eaglets displayed, sable ; but in Thoresby, p. 236, they are. Argent, a bend gules, between two eaglets displayed, sable. It appears from various accounts, that several of the name of Saltonstall were officers of earl Warren for Salton staU, and to them were divers parts thereof granted. In 1343, 17 Edw. IH, John de Brownhirste sunendered in coui-t two parts of a sixth part of SaltonstaU, with the reversion of a thu-d part of the said sixth part, which Isabel, mother of said John, held as dower; the moiety of which was granted to John, son of Thomas de SaltonstaU, another moiety to Richard, son of Thomas de SaltonstaU, and WilUam de SaltonstaU, and heirs. At HaUfax, in 1376, John Cape surrendered a sixth part of SaltonstaU to the use of Richard Saltonstall, and heu-s. As the last earl of Wanen and Sm-ry died June 30, 1347, 21 Edw. III. it is plain, from the first of the two instances above, that the vaceary of SaltonstaU was demised by copy before the lordship of Wakefield came to the crown. 6 Hen. TV. Eic. Saltonstall surrendered two sixth parts of SaltonstaU, and half a sixth part, lying between Blakebrook, Depeclough, the water of Luddingden, and Hoore Stones, in Sowerby, to the use of Eichard Saltonstall and heirs. 15 Edw. rv. this Eichard sunendered the same to Gilbert SaltonstaU his son, which GUbert, 28 Hen. VII. sunendered the same to Eichard SaltonstaU, his son ; after the death of which Eichard, son of Gilbert, Eichard SaltonstaU, son and heir of the same Eichard, 30 Hen. VIII. made fine of heriot for the said lands. This last Eichard had issue GUbert, who died before his father, leaving a son Samuel, who, after the death of Eichard his grandfather, made fine of heriot, 40 EUz. for the same lands. SAVILE AND COPLEY. Copley-HaU is famous for giving name to an antient re spectable famUy, the first of which was Adam de Copley, slain when WiUiam the Conqueror laid siege to York, in the year 1070. He manied Ann, daughter of Thomas Eish worth, of Eishworth, near HaUfax, according to a pedegree in Thoresby, p. 9, taken from Hopkinson's MSS. but of HALIFAXIENSIS. 245 Eichard, as in an old MS. pedegree in my own possession. By the said Ann he had Hugh de Copley, who married Margaret, daughter of Eichard Liversedge, by whom, 1. Rafe, 2. Richard, (as by the MS. notes to a copy of Thoresby, in the hands of Mr. Charles Barnard, of Leedes,) 3. Adam, called by Thoresby, Vicar of Halifax, but he should have said Rector, for that living was a rectory till the year 1273, and two hundred years could hardly have passed between the above first mentioned Adam, and his grandson. Lastly, Mar'garet, married to William Lockwood. Rafe, the eldest, married Jane, daughter of John Stansfeld, of Stansfeld, esq ; by whom Thomas, who married Margaret, daughter of Hugh Eland, of Eland, esq; by whom Adam, Robert, and Ann, who married John Exley. Adam married Ann, daughter of John Leventhorpe, of Leventhorpe, esq ; by whom Thomas Copley, of Copley, (uot Batley, as in Thoresby,) who married Winifred, daughter of Thomas Mirfield, esq ; (as in Thoresby, but my MS. sais Robert,) by whom, 1. Hugh, 2. Ralph, who had a place at court, and by his wife Mary, daughter and heiress of sir Eichard Walsingham, of Suffolk, knt. had John, s. p. and Eobert, commonly called Grosthead, or Greathead, the famous bishop of Lincoln. Lastly, Cicely, who married William Quarmby, of Quarmby. Hugh, the eldest, witness to a deed in 1324, married Ann, daughter of sir Eobert Cromwelbothome, knt. (my MS. sais John,) by whom Thomas and Eaphe, which last married, first, Ellen, daughter of John Eookes, of Eookes, esq ; by whom Raphe and John, both s. p. 2dly, daughter of Adam de Batley, from whom the Copleys, of Batley. Thomas, the eldest, married, and had a daughter, Helen, who married Henry, second son of John Savile, by Margery, youngest daughter, and coheiress of Henry Eishworth, of Rishworth ; and from this time this branch of the SavUes settled at Copley, which I take to have been about the year 1485, as in a will of that date at Howroyd, are mentioned Henry Savile, of Copley, and John, son of Henry Savile. The issues from this match are as follow : Henry Savile, above named, by the said Helen (or EUen,) had John Savile, of Copley. Thomas, from whom the Saviles of HoUinedge, and Nicholas, from whom the Saviles of Bank, alias Blaidroid, in Southouram. John, the eldest, married Maud, daughter of Thomas Trafford, com. Lane, by Q 246 BIOGRAPHIA whom Thomas, who married Margaret, daughter of Henry Eushwoi-th, of Coley-hall, by whom, 1. Henry, 2. Thomas, 3. Edward, parson of Adley, in Suffolk, 4. Humphry, chap lain to lord De la Ware, 5. Leonard, s. p. 6. John, s. p. 7. Jane, unmarried, and 8. Margaret, married to WiUiam MUner. Henry, the eldest, married SibUl, daughter of Lionel Copley, of Batley, by whom Thomas, who married AJice, daughter of Eichard Beaumont, of Whitley, buried at Halifax, Dec. 8, 1552. By her he had, 1. Henry, 2. Thomas, s. p. 3. Robert, 4. Gilbert, and 5. Humphry, which three last died young. Also five daughters, viz. Elizabeth, Ann, and Alice, who all died unmarried; Ellen, who manied Thomas Savile, of Bank ; and Grace, who married Hugh Savile. There was an Henry Savile, of Skircoat, buried at Halifax, March 4, 1554, probably the last named. This Henry married Alice, daughter of Thomas Midhope, of Morehall, by whom Thomas, buried at Halifax, Feb. 8, 1569. 2. Nicholas, who married Alice, daughter of Bu-khead, by whom Brian, Martin, Henry, Agnes, and Isabel. Also, 3. John, who had three sons. 4. WiUiam, parson of Cranhurst, in Sussex ; 5. Edward, who died young,. and, 6. Henry, who married Ann, daughter of Parkin son, of Richmondshire. The above Thomas married Ann, daughter of Thomas Danby, second son of sir James Danby, knt. This Ann, as I take it, was buried at HaUfax, Dec. 2, 1588. By her the said Thomas had, 1. Robert, 2. Anthony, who manied Sibil, daughter of Robert Oates, of Halifax : 3. Joseph, 4. Thomas, who married Ursula, daughter of Brett, of Wales, in Yorkshire ; 5. John, 6. George ; and ten daughters, viz. 1. Esther, 2. Ruth, 3. Dorothy, who manied Henry Briggs, 4. EUzabeth, who married John Platts, 5. Ann, 6. Sarah, buried at Halifax, AprU 19, 1579, 7. Esther, S. Agatha, 9. Jane, and 10. Grace. Robert, the eldest, was buried at Halifax, June 11, 1588, having married, 1. Jane, daughter of Roger ElUs, of Riddal, by whom no issue ; 2dly, Alice, daughter of WUUam Moor, of Austhorpe, near Leedes, -widow of WilUam Hopey, by whom WilUam ; Mary, who married John Bentley, of Shipden ; and Bridget, who manied Eobert Crowder, of Sowerby. WUliam, the eldest, was Uving in 1592, having an infant bmied that year at Halifax. He manied Isabel, daughter of John Lacy, of Brearley, near HaUfax, by whom, 1. Henry; 2. Francis, s. p. buried at HALIFAXIENSIS. 247 Halifax, Feb. 11, 1585; 3. Thomas, of York; 4. John, an attorney, who married Isabel Law, by whom Eobert. The above WUliam had also three daughters, viz. 1, Jane, who died young, and was buried at Halifax, Augnst 9, 1585 ; 2. Joan, and 3. Elizabeth. Henry, the eldest, was seven years old in 1585. He married Ann, daughter of Michael Darcy, and sister and heiress to John, lord Darcy, by wbom, 1. Thomas ; 2. Henry, s. p. buried at Halifax, Jan. 16, 1642 ; 3. Michael, s. p. 4. John, 5. Anthony, and 6. Henry. Thomas, the eldest, married, 1. Frances Preyn, of London, s. p. 2. Frances, daughter of George Dawson, of Azetly, near Rippon, by whom William and Mary, both s. p. John, the fourth son, married Elizabeth, daughter of sir George Palmes, of Naburne, near York, by whom sir John Savile, of Copley, created a baronet by K. Cha. II. July 24, 1662, and WiUiam, who married two -wives, and had several children. Sir John married Mary, daughter of Clement Paston, of Barningham, in Norfolk, esq ; She died in August 1710. By her he had a daughter, Elizabeth-Maria, who married lord Thomas Howard, brother to Henry, duke of Norfolk, who being sent ambassador to Rome, died at sea, either on the Sth or 9th of December, 1689. They had Thomas, duke of Norfolk. (See the Peerage.) The above pedegree was compared with a number of painted pannels in an old wainscotted room in Copley-hall, down to William, who married Isabel Lacy, and they agree, except that after Thomas, who married Alice Beaumont, there is one Robert Savile, with the date 1575. With regard to the arms of the above two families, I have seen in Methley church, in Yorkshire, on a monument, the arms of Savile, viz. Argent, on a bend sable, three owls of the field, with a mullet for difference, and seven other bear ings ; amongst which, for Copley, of Copley, Argent, a cross moline, sable. In the center, the bloody hand. For crest. On a wreath of his colors, an helmet, above all, an owl proper. Motto, " Paciencia y. Basta." Another motto under the like eight coats, but without the bloody hand, " Je veille." Three figures on the tomb, and two children on the side. The crest of Adam Copley first above named, is said to have been a cup covered, sable. 248 BIOGRAPHIA SAVILE :— LORD HALIFAX. The following is a Genealogical Account of this part of the FamUy of Savile. Some think that the famUy of Savile came into England -with the Conqueror, and that they are inserted in the roll of Battle Abbey, by the name of Shevile; but others suppose them to have come -with Geoffry Plant- aginet, because there are two towns of this name on the frontiers of Anjou, both whioh were annexed to the crown of England, when the said Geoffry married ^laud, daughter and heiress of Henry I. It is looked upon to be a family of very great antiquity, being even supposed to be descended from the SabeUi, or Savelli, of Rome, which Richardson, in his Account of some of the Statues, &c. in Italy, printed in 1722, sais, was the most antient family in Rome. It was, it seems, extinct there a few years ago. The prince SaveUi was, in 1747, guardian of the conclave of cardinals at Eome. Some of his ancestors were consuls at Eome before our Sa-vior's time. The famUy is even said to have existed three thousand years. The iu-st I met with of this family in England, is su- John Sa-vile, of Sa-vUe-haU, in Dodworth, near Barnsley, in Yorkshire, who manied a daughter of sir Symon de Eockley, who bore lozengy, argent and gules, a fess, sable, Thoresby, p. 25. I have also mot -with argent, seven fusUs, gules, three, three, and one, oppressed -with a fess, sable. By her he had sir Walter de Savile, and John de Savile. Sir Walter married a daughter of Adam Ever ingham, of Stainbrough, by whom, an only daughter, EUzabeth, married to sir John Everingham, knt. John Sa-vUe, brother of sir Walter, manied about 1240, Agnes, daughter and heu-ess of sir Eoger Aldwark, knt. who bore gules, a fess between six fusUs, or. By her he had Henry Sa-vUe, who manied Agnes, daughter and heu- of John. Golcar, esq; by whom, Thomas, who manied daughter and coheiress of su- Eichard Tankersley, of Tankersley, knt. by whom, su- John SavUe, of Tankersley, knt. (Some pede grees make this Henry marry to EUen de Copley.) Henry, s. p. and AUce, -wife to Lockwood. Sir John manied Agnes, daughter and coheiress of Eochdale, esq; who bore sable, an escutcheon, -within eight martlets in orle, argent ; this I take to be the true coat of the father of this Agnes, because it was formerly put up in Eland chapel, as HALIFAXIENSIS. 249 such : but I have seen another belonging to the family, viz. argent, a fleur de lis between eight martlets, sable. By Agnes, his wife, sir John had John Savile, of Tankersley, esq ; Elizabeth, married to Thomas Kay, and Margery, married to John Thornton. John Savile, esq ; married Isabel, daughter and coheiress of sir Eobert Latham, knt. who bore or, on a chief, azure, indented, three j)lates ; by her he had sir John Savile, and Jane, married to Ashton, in Lancashire. Sir John married Jane, daughter of Matthew de Bosco (or Wood) by whom, John, and Margaret, Prioress of Kirkless, 32 Edw. III. John married Margery, daughter and coheiress of Henry Eushworth, of Rushworth, in Halifax parish, esq ; who bore argent, a bend sable, an eagle displayed, vert, and a cross orosslet of the second, according to one MS. but I find to the name of Alexander Rushworth, in sir William Fairfax's " Book of Arms for Yorkshire," in the British Museum, argent, a cross crosslet, sable ; also argent, a cross botone fitche, sable ; by her he had sir John Savile, of Tankersley, knt. and Henry, who married Ellen, daughter and heiress of Thomas Copley, of Copley, in the parish of Halifax, esq ; Sir John was high sheriff' of Yorkshire 3d and llth of Rich. II. and knight of the shire for the said county, 7th and Sth of the said king ; he married Isabel, daughter and heiress of sir John de Eland, knt. (some pedegrees have it sir Thomas,) by whom, sir John Eland, knt. and Henry, who married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Simon Thornhill, of ThornhiU, esq ; who bore gules, two bars gemells, and a chief, argent. Also a daughter Jane, married to John Wortley, esq ; Sir John last named married Isabel, daughter of Robert de Radcliffe, of the Tower, by whom, sir John Savile, knt. who married Isabel, daughter of sir William Fitzwilliams, knt. and a daughter Isabel, who married Thomas Darcy, second son to the lord Darcy ; both these died s. p. Henry Savile above named had sir Thomas Savile, knt. in the time of Hen. VI. and a daughter Jennet, who married WiUiam Leeds, of Leeds, esq ; s. p. Sir Thomas married Margaret, daughter of sir Thomas Pilkington, by ¦s\'hom, sir John Savile, of Thornhill, Eland, and Tankersley, who married Alice, daughter of sir William Gascoigne, of Gaw- thorp, knt. com. Ebor. and three daughters, viz. Margaret, 250 BIOGR-APHIA married to John Hopton, of SwiUington, esq; AUce, to sir John Harrington, of Brearley, knt. and EUzabeth, to Edmund Aske, of Aston, esq ; Sir John had three sons, viz. su- John, who married Jane, daughter of su- Thomas Harrington, of Brearley, knt. William, who died s. p. and Thomas Sa-sdle, of Lupset, esq; Sir John, the eldest, had su- John, who married first, Alice, daughter of Henry Vernon, esq ; by whom no issue. Secondly, Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress (one account sais sister) of sir WUUam Paston, of Woodnoth. by whom sir Henry, and three daughters, viz. 1. Ann, who married, first, sir Henry Thwaites ; secondly, William Thwaites. 2. Elizabeth, who married, first, sir Thomas Conyers, of Sackborn, knt. secondly, to Thomas SoothiU. 3. Margaret, who married, first, Richard Corbet ; secondly, Thomas Wortley, of Wortley, esq ; Sir Henry, created knight of the Bath, 25 Hen. VIII. married EUzabeth, daughter and heir of Thomas SoothiU, of SoothiU, esq; by whom, 1. Edward, who married Mary, daughter of su- Richard Lee, of St. Alban's, com. Hertf. from whom he was divorced " frigiditatis causa." 2. John, the second son, died young ; and 3, Dorothy, vras married to John Kay, of Woodsam, esq ; Thomas SavUe, of Lupset, above named, married Margaret, daughter of Thomas BaUorth, esq ; (or as one pedegree sais, Basford,) by whom, 1. John Savile, of Lupset. 2. Thomas SavUe, of Wakefield, who married Catharine, daughter and heiress of John Chaloner, of Stanley, alias Midgley-haU, near Wakefield, from whom the SavUes of Stanley and Wakefield, now extinct. 3. George, of Cotham, in Notting hamshire, and of Grantham, in Lincolnshire, who married according to one pedegree, a daughter and coheiress of Eooke, of Hipperholme, near Halifax ; but according to another, the daughter and heiress of Henry, son of Henry Shyrley, of Lumley, from whom the Saviles of Grantham and Homeby, in Lincolnshire. .John Savile, of Lupset, esq ; above named, married, 12 Hen. VIII. Ann, daughter of WiUiam Wiatt, and widow of •John SpUmaJn, esq ; by whom Henry SavUe, of Lupset and Banowby, com. Line, who manied Joan, daughter and heiress of WUUam Vernon, of Barrowby aforesaid, by whom 1. sir George Savile, the first baronet. 2. Francis, who married Catharine, daughter and coheiress of WiUiam, lord HALIF.AXIENSIS. 251 Conyers. 8. Cordell Savile, who married Maiy, daughter and heiress of William Welbeck, of Sutton, com. Nott. esq ; 4. Bridget, married to Henry Nevile, of Grove. 5. Friswolde. Sir George abovenamed, created a baronet, 9 James I. man-ied, first, Mary, daughter of George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury ; secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of sir Edward Ascough, of South Kelsey, in Lincolnshire ; by his fir,st lady he had sir George Savile, of Eufford, who, Dugdale, in his Baronage, Vol. II. p. 468. has omitted, but who married, first, Sarah, daughter and coheir of John Eede, of Cotes- brook, in Northamptonshire, s. p. Secondly, Ann, daughter of sir William Wentworth, of Woodhouse, sister to the earl of Strafford ; by her he had sir George, who died unmarried ; and sir William, who married Ann, daughter of Thomas, lord Coventry, by whom, amongst others, George, earl of Halifax, as abovementioned, whose marriages and descend ants the printed accounts will shew. HuUenedge, near Elland, perhaps from HoUin-hedge, was the seat of a branch of the Saviles, ths first of whom was Thomas Savile, of HuUenedge, second son of Honry Savile, of Copley ; he married Ann, daughter of John Stansfeld, of Stansfeld, by whom John, Thomas, who married lady Elizabeth Waterton, s. p. .Henry, a yeoman of the guards, and Nicholas, from whom the Saviles of Newhall. John, the eldest, married Alice, daughter of Ealph Lister, of Halifax, by whom John, Eobert, William, Gilbert, and Leonard. Of these, John, the eldest, married Ann, daughter of John Hopton, of Armley, esq; by whom Leonard, who died an infant. Eobert and John. Eobert married Elen, daughter of Eobert Fulverley, of Fulverley, com. Lino, esq ; by whom Thomas, who married, 1st, Elen, daughter of Arthur Pilkington, esq; 2dly, Sarah, daughter of Thornton, s. p. By said Elen he had Thomas, who married a daughter of Charles Radcliffe, of Todmorden, by whom Isabel, and Jane. Robert, 2d son of John Savile, by Alice Lister, married Jane Chaworth, of Warton, by whom Thomas, Leonard, D.D. and parson of Lewis, in Sussex, aud three daughters, 1. Sibyl, married to Robert Waterhouse. 2. Isabel, to Jobn Deighton ; and 3. Grace, to Riohard Briggs, of Warley. Thomas, the eldest, was seized of the rectory of Mirfield, and some lands there, as appears by a livery sued out by Cuthbert, his son, after his death, dated 252 BIOGRAPHIA July 1, 1 Edw. \1. He married Elizabeth, daughter of James Shaw, by whom Cuthbert and Elizabeth; Cuthbert married Margaret, daughter of John Hardy, of Halifax, by whom Thomas, who married Mercy, daughter of George Eay, of Whitley, and two daughters, Sibyl and Dorothy. William Sa-vUe, of Wakefield, thu-d son of John, by AUce Lister, manied Phsbe Eishworth, by whom WUUam, John, GUbert, and Agnes. WiUiam married Agnes, daughter of James Simpson, by whom WUUam, Michael, Gabril, Grace, and Ann. WUliam, the eldest, was an attorney at law at Wakefield, and lived at the parsonage house there ; he married Jennet, daughter of John Fawcet, by whom WiUiam, Martin, Henry, a traveUer, who died at Grand Caiio, Samuel, and others. WiUiam, the eldest, married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Harris, of Huntington, by whom WiUiam, s. p. and Gabriel, a captain of foot under king Charles I. who married the daughter and coheir of captain Ealph Eokeby, of Skiers, near Eotherham, by whom no issue. NewhaU was the seat of a branch of the Saviles of Hul- lenedge, whose pedegree is this : Nicholas Savile, fourth son of Thomas Savile, of HuUenedge, married Margery, daughter of William WUkinson, by whom John, Thomas of Welborne, Henry, Edward, Nicholas, Alice, man-ied to Ai-thur Pilking ton, of Bradley, Agnes to Hugh Lacy, Isabel to Eichard Waterhouse, of Hollings, and Jennet to John ThornhiU, of Fixby, esq. John, the eldest son, married Margery, daughter of John GledhUl, by whom Nicholas, John, Henry SavUe, of Bradley, Thomas, from whom the SavUes of Watergate. Agnes, married to John Hanson, of Woodhouse, Alice to Eichard Holt, of Stubley, Jane to Thomas Gledhill, of Barkisland, and EUzabeth to John Blythe, of Quarmby. Nicholas, the eldest, married Jennet, daughter of Thomas Foxcroft, by whom Thomas, who married a daughter of Trygot, of South-Kirkby, esq; by whom Nicholas, who man-ied Jane, daughter of Thomas Burdet, by whom John, s. p. John, second son of Thomas, died at NewhaU, ha-ving married Frances, daughter of Godfrey BossevUle, of Gunth waite, esq; by whom four daughters. The third son of Thomas was Thomas, who married a daughter of Thomas Burdet, by whom Thomas and Francis. The above Thomas had also two daughters, Frances and Elizabeth. HALIFAXIENSIS. 253 Bradley-Hall, the present owner of which is Savile, earl of Mexborough. It once was the seat of the Saviles, v/liose pedegree I have subjoined, and in all probability was a very considerable building ; but only a small part of it now re mains, sufficient for a farmer, but the ground about it shews, by its inequality, and by a number of stones lodged near the surface, that it has been more extensive. Over the gate are the figures 1577, and the letters I. S. John Savile. On the kitchen wall is 1598. The chapel, being re-edified, serves the tenant for a barn ; most of the tower also remains, and the whole has the appearance of a church to such as are travelling between Eland and Eipponden. The bells are said to have been removed from hence to Methley church, near which this branch of the Savile family have a seat. The chapel here, as Dr. Johnson sais, in his MS. Collections, was pulled down in the time of the civil wars, but the hall was burned down in 1629. There is a tradition in this neighbourhood about this fire, and it is likewise said, that it caused the family to remove to Methley. Henry Savile married Ellen, daughter and heiress of Thomas Copley, of Copley, by whom, 1. John, who man-ied Maud, daughter of Thomas Trafford, of Trafford, com. Lane. esq ; from whom the Saviles of Copley ; 2. Thomas ; 3. Nicholas, who married Jennet Lacy. Thomas, second son, married Ann, daughter of John Stansfield, by whom, 1. John, from whom the Saviles of HuUenedge ; 2. Thomas, who married Elizabeth Lady Waterton ; 3. Henry, Yeoman of the Guards; and 4. Nicholas, of NewhaU, who married Margaret, daughter of William Wilkinson, by whom, amongst others, John, of Newhall, his eldest son, who married Margery, daughter of John Gledhill, of Barkisland, by whom amongst others, Henry of Bradley, his third son, Uving 8 Eliz. who married Ellen, daughter of Eobert Eamsden, by whom, 1. sir John Savile, of Medley, Baron of the Ex chequer; 2. sir Henry Savile, Warden of Merton College, Oxford ; 3. Thomas, and five daughters. Sir Henry married Margery, (Biogr. Brit. p. 3600. sais Elizabeth.) daughter of George Dacres, of Cheshunt, in Hertfordshire, esq; by whom Henry, who died s. p. and Elizabeth, who married sir John Sedley, bart. of Alisford, in Kent, or, as the author of Anglorum Speculum, p. 902, sais, sir William. 254 BIOGEAPHIA Inquisition 19 Edw. IV. of Wasts committed in the lord ship of Wakefield, Tho. SayveU, knt. held lands and tene ments in Stainland, Berksland, and Northland, by soccage, paying yearly 13s. 2d. Henry SavUe, knt. and hart, died seized of a messuage called Over Bradley HaU, in Stainland, as by inquisition post mort. at Shu-burn com. Ebor. 6 Sept. S Charles, 1682. Sir John SavUe, of ilethley. Baron of the Exchequer, son of Henry by EUen Eamsden, aud who died in 1606, man-ied, first, Jane, daughter of Richard Garth, of Morden, in Suriy, by whom, 1. su- Henry Sa-vile, of Methley, created a baronet in 1611 ; Ehzabeth, who married su- John Jack son; and Jane, who married sir Henry Goodrick, of Ribston, knt. Sir Henry Savile above named died in 1632, having married Mary, daughter and coheiress of John Dent, of London, esq ; by whom, according to one epitaph in Methley church, he had no issue ; but according to another in the same church he had John, (who died on his travels in France, in 1631, aged twenty-one, as by epitaph in Methley church;) Henry, and others, who aU died s. p. Sir John Sa"vile, above named, manied, secondly, EUzabeth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, of North Empsall, esq; relict of Richard Tempest, esq ; 3dly, Dorothy, daughter of Lord Wentworth, and reUct of sir W. Widmerpool and sir Martin Forbisher, knights, by whom no issue. By his second ¦wife, EUzabeth, he had John SavUe, of !Methley, esq ; sheriff of York 24 Cha. I. who married, first, Mary, daughter of John Robinson, of Rither, esq ; by whom several chUdren, who died s. p. 2dly, Margaret, daughter of sir Hen. Gareway, of London, knt. by whom John Savile, of Methley, ancl six daughters. John married Sarah, daughter of Tiwon, esq ; by whom John, Charles, -James, s. p. Samuel, and four daughters. John Sa'vile, esq; died in 1'711, having married Mary, daughter of sir -John Banks, knt. by whom John, Henry, and EUzabeth. Charles, above named, married Aletheia, daughter and coheiress of GUbert MiUington, of Felley Abbey, in the county of Nottingham, esq ; by whom John, created, first. Lord PoUington, afterwards Earl of Mexborough. There is in Methley church a marble monument to the memory of this Charles, the inscription on which sais, thro' mistake, that he was the fifth in a lineal descent from sir HALIFAXIENSIS. 255 John, who was Baron of the Exchequer. This Charles died June 5, 1741, aged sixty -five. On the monument is his figure iu a reclining posture, and his wife weeping over him. She died about Midsummer 1759. In Methley church, on the south side of a monument, is a long Latin inscription to Baron Savile above named, inti mating, amongst other things, that he died Feb. 2, 1606, aged sixty-one, that his body was buried in the church of St. Dunstan in the west, London, and his heart at Methley, amongst his ancestors. On the north side of the said monument is another Latin inscription to sir Henry Savile, son of the Baron ; but not relating immediately to Halifax parish men, I omit them aU. Arms of Savile, Argent, on a bend sable, three owls proper. These Thoresby, p. 110, has put down as the general arms of the family ; but in my MS. Alphabet are the following entries : " Ebor. Savile, of Howley, Baron Savile in England, " and Viscount Castle Barre in Ireland, per K. Ch. Argent, " on a bend sable, three owls proper. His Crest, an owl " argent." Savile, of Newhall, Argent, on a bend ingrailed between two cotises sable, three owls argent. Savile, sir George, of ThornhiU, bart. 9 K. James, Argent, on a bend ingrailed sable, three owls proper. His Crest, a -demi maid, full faced, proper, crowned or, adorned with pea cock feathers stuck in the crown, proper, garments gules, hair disheveled, or. Savile, sir Heury, of Methley, bart. 9 K. James, Argent, on a bend sable, three owls proper, a crescent sable for differ ence. His Crest, On an owl argent, a crescent sable. To a Deed in 1601, the seal of Edward Savile, esq; son and heir of sir Henry Savile, knt. deceased, was an owl on a fess. Blaithroyd was the seat of a branch of the family of Savile, whose pedegree here foUo^^vs, taken chiefly from a MS. in the Harleian Collection, N" 1034, called Visitation of Yorkshire, by Glover, in 1585. Henry Savile, who married Ellen, ¦daughter and heiress of Thomas Copley, of Copley, had John, of Copley ; Thomas, of HuUenedge, and Nicholas, of Bank, who married Joan, daughterof John Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, by whom, 1. John, who died young ; 2. 'Thomas, who married Euphemia, daughter of Soothill, of Soothill, (one copy 256 BIOGRAPHIA sais Jennet, daughter of Thomas SoothiU, of Brearley, near Halifax ; ) 8. Joan, who married Thomas Whitley, of Whitley ; 4. Elizabeth, who manied Nettleton, of Thornton Lees ; 5. Helena, who married Robert Gibson, a La^wyer ; 6. AUce, who manied Thomas Fu-th, of Dewsbui-y ; and 7. Agnes, who married Eichard Sandal, of Sandal. Thomas, last named, had 1. Thomas, of the Bank; 2. John, of EothweU, who manied Ann, daughter of George Cawthorn, of Carleton, near Skipton in Craven, by whom fifteen chUdren : 3. MUes, a Priest ; 4. Henry, 5. Brian, 6. Isabel, who married Edward SaltonstaU ; 7. -Johanna, who manied WiUiam Holme ; 8. Jane, who married John Smith ; and 9. Alice, who married WUliam CUffe. Thomas, of the Bank, was buried at HaUfax, Sept. 22, 1570 ; he married AUce, daughter of Thomas Sa-vUe, of Copley, by whom Henry, of Blaidroyd, li-ving in 1585, and Thomas, who died young. Henry mamed Frances, danghter of Adam Moyser, of FarUngton, -widow of Edmund Greenbury, of Y'ork, by whom Henry, aged seventeen in 1585 ; and quere if not a daughter Bridget "? SHIBDEN.— See Drake. SIMPSON. The following pedegree of Simpson, of Hipperholme, I drew- up from famUy deeds and papers. Thomas Sympson as by deed 1409. John Sympson, as by deed 1465. John Sympson as by deed from Eobert KUlyngbek, Abbat of Kirk staU, to him, dated Oct. 27, 16 Heii. VII. (1500.) Henry Sympson, as by his wiU, dated in 1601, had WiUiam Symp son, de Eawden, who manied AUce His will dated Aug. 8, 12 James I. He had John Sympson, of Eawden, Mary, and Mercy. John's wUl was dated Febr. 26, 1667. He married Mary by whom .Joseph, Joshua, Mary, and Martha. Joseph was of Woodhouse, in Leedes parish. His will is dated May 29, 1706. He married, first, Hannah Ingram ; 2dly, Ann Marshal ; by the latter he had Hannah, Susanna, and Ann ; by the former, John, Joseph, and Mary. HALIFAXIENSIS. 257 -John was of Hipperholme, his will dated July 12, 1721. He married Mary who died in childbed of her first child, John. This John was of Hipperholme, and married, first, {March 4, 1726-7,) Dorothy, daughter of the Eev. Mr. Nathan Sharp ; 2dly, Grace, daughter of John Brogden, of North- Bierley, by whom William and Eichard, who both died young ; also Sarah, Susan, aud Grace. By his first wife, Dorothy, he had John, Ann, who died unmarried, Mary, Joseph, Elizabeth, and Dorothy, which three last died young. John Sympson, of Hipperholme, married Mary, daughter of Scholfield, of Rochdale, by whom John, who died young, and others. STANSFELD. Stansfield-Hall. Here lived a family of considerable repute, who took their name from their situation. The original of them was one Wyan Marions, probably of Nor man extraction, and in all likelihood a follower of earl Warren, on whom this Lordship was bestowed; he had Jordan de Stansfield, who married a daughter of John Townley, of Townley, knt. by whom, 1. John de Stansfield, 2. Thomas, 3. Robert, and 4. Oliver, Constable of Ponte fract-castle. John married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Entwisle, by whom Richard Stansfield, of Stansfield ; and Jane, married to Raphe Copley. Richard married Alice, daughter of sir Thomas Tunstall, knt. of Thurland-castle, in Lancashire, by whom, 1. Edmund Stansfield, of Stansfield, 2. Robert, 3. Hugh, and 4. Roger. Edmund married a daughter of Tho. de Midgley, by whom Ealph, Bryan, and Gilbert. Ealph married Jane, daughter of Tho. Copley, of Copley, by whom, 1. Henry, (Thoresby, pag. 115, calls him, through mistake, William,) 2. Eaphe, 3. John, and 4. WUliam. Henry married Dionis, daughter of Brian Thorn hill, of Thornhill, esq ; by whom William, Eichard, Mary, Jane, and Elizabeth. William married Joan, daughter of sir John Burton, of Kinsley, in Yorkshire, knt. by whom Thomas, (about the beginning of Henry VII,) Mabil, Jane, and Meryon. Thomas married Barbara, daughter of John de Lascels, of Lascel-hall, near Almondbury, com. Ebor. esq ; by whom John, Eobert, Anthony, and WUham. John married Mary, daughter of John Fleming, of Wath, com. 258 biographia Ebor. hy whom Thomas, Henry, Ann, who married Thomas SavUe, Isabel, Jane, EUzabeth, and Mary. Thomas married Alice, daughter of John Savile, esq ; by whom William, Eobert. Eichard, Henry, Julian, and Mary. WUUam mairied Elizabeth, daughter of John Duckenfield, of Duckenfield, esq ; by whom James Stansfield, who removed to Hartshead, com. Ebor. in 1536, and married a daughter of Holdeu, in Lancashire, by whom Ashton Stansfield, Barrister at Law, who lived at Wakefield, and married a daughter of PhUemou Speight, of Earls Heaton, near Dewsbury, by whom several chUdren, who aU died young. The Arms of Stansfeld, of Stansfeld, were. Sable, three goats trippant, argent, and were so painted in the chapel window at Heptonstall; but in Eland chapel they were coUared and beUed or. STEENE. Woodhouse was purchased for £1800. hj Simon Sterne, third son of Dr. Eichard Sterne, Archbishop of Y'ork. This Simon, who was Justice of Peace, was buried at Halifax, April 17, 1703, and was resident here, as was his son Eichard, l)oth whom are mentioned in a short pedegree of the famUy, in Thoresby, p. 215. Arms of Sterne are, in Thoresby, p. 214, and Guillim, p. 77. Or, a chevron between three crosses flory, sable. Their crest is. On a ¦wreath of his colors, a starling proper. It may here be pardonable to remind the reader, that the Eev. Mr. Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy, &c. was of this family ; and that the above crest furnished him with the hint for that fine story of the StarUng, in the second volume of Yorick's Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. The arms which I have noted to have been born by any inhabitants of this township, are, 1. Greame of Heath, ¦viz. Or, on a chief sable, three escaUops of the first. This name, no doubt, has been altered from Graham ; for GuiUim, p. 243, has attributed this very coat to sir Eichard Graham, of Netherby, in Cumberland. 2. Laycock, of Shaw-hiU, Sable, a gauntlet, argent. 3. Lees, of WiUow-hall, Argent, a che-VTon between three leopards heads, sable. 4. Eossendale, Gyrony of six, argent and gules, six roses counterchanged. HALIFAXIENSIS. 259' SUNDEELAND. High Sunderland, gave name to a family of which the foUowing is the pedegree. Eichard Sunderland, of High Sunderland, had Eichard, who married Agnes, daughter of Eushworth, of Coley, by whom 1. Eichard Sunderland, esq ; Justice of Peace, and Treasurer for lame soldiers in the West Eiding, buried at Halifax, June 25, 1634. 2. Abraham, of the Middle Temple,, unmarried. 3. Jennet, married to Eobert Hemingway, and Agnes, to Eobert Dean. Eichard last named married Susan, daughter of sir Eichard Saltonstall, Lord Mayor of London in 1597, by whom 1. Abraham Sunderland, esq; of High Sunderland, Barrister at Law, and Justice of Peace in the West-riding. 2. Samuel, born in 1600, who died s. p. in 1676, having married Ann, daughter of Edward Waterhouse, 8. Eichard, 4. Eobert, both died young. 5. Peter, who died s. p. December 24, 1677, 6. Susan, who married William Beilby, and Mary, who married Edward Parker, of Brows- holme. Abraham the eldest married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Langdale, of Santon, in Yorkshire, by whom Langdale, and Ann, who died unmarried. .Langdale Sunderland, esq ; sold High Sunderland, and purchased Aketon, near Ponte fract, to which he removed. He was captain of a troop of horse for king Charles I. and was at Marston-moor fight. He gave, in Oliver's time, £878 composition money for his estate. He died in 1698, and lies buried in Fetherstone church ; his wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Thorn hiU, of Fixby, esq ; by whom 1. Eichard, and 2. Marmaduke, who both died young ; 3. Brian, of Aketon, and 4. Abraham. Brian married Ann, daughter of Appleyard, by whom 1. Peter, 2. John, 3. Mary, 4. Elizabeth, and 5. Susanna. Peter sold Aketon to Edmund Winn, esq; in 1714, having married Ann, daughter of George Thornhill, of Fixby, by whom Eichard, Peter, who died young, Ann, who married ....Wordsworth, and Elizabeth, who married John Wormald, of Batley. There is a pedegree in Dr. Johnson's MS. Collections, which sais, that Abraham Sunderland, of High Sunderland, married Judith, daughter of Thomas Oldfield, of High Oldfield, in Luddenden Dean, by whom Eichard, Edward, 260 BIOGRAPHIA and Bryan. Eichard married, first, Mary, daughter of Eobert Moor, of Midgley, by whom Abraham, and three daughters. Abraham married Susan, daughter of Ralph Waterhouse, by whom a son, who died young, therefore the estate descended to Richard Sunderland, of Coley. The above Richa,-i-d, son of Abraham, married, secondly, Ann, daughter of John Rishworth, of Ridlesden, by whom Riohard, of Coley, who married Mary, daughter of Alderman Salton staU, of London, by whom Abraham, who had Langdale, who had Abraham and Bryan. Utrum horum mavis, accipe. At the end of the third volume of Halifax Register is this Mem. "That I Henry Ramsden, Vicar of Halifax, did this " 15th day of March, A.D. 1632, give unto Richard Sunder- "land, of Coley, esq; in regard of his present weakness, "and indisposition of body, a licence to eat flesh during the " time of his sickness, as the laws of the land have in that " case provided." Signed Hen. Ramsden. The same licence was given to Abraham Sunderland, of High Sunderland, esq; March 18, 1632, and five other licences, to others. Arms belonging to the above pedegree, for Sunderland, Parted per pale, or and azure, three lioncells passant counterchanged : Thus it is in a window at High Sunder land ; but the coat is generally depicted with the lioncells guardant. For Langdale, Sable, a chevron between three estoils argent. For Saltonstall, Or, a bend between two eaglets displayed, sable. Thus it is at High Sunderland, and thus I saw it born in 1766, by Samuel Saltonstall, esq; Alderman of Pontefract ; but Thoresby, p. 286, has given us a coat of this family in which the bend is gules. THORNHILL AND FIXBY, It has been said, that the chief habitation in Fixby gave name to a family which had a good esfate here, tiU William de Toothill married the daughter and heiress of Thomas Fixby, of Fixby. How considerable this family was I cannot say, as I have met with no pedegree of them, nor coat of arms, nor title of knight belonging to any of them. I have copies of many deeds wherein the name occurs, be tween the years 1255, and 1312, as also deeds without date, but in the extent of all the lands within the soke of Wake field, already said to have been made in 1314, there is no HALIFAXIENSIS. 261 mention of this farnily at all, notwithstanding, two years before, John, son of Henry de Fekisby, had conveyed some lands here to Thomas, son of Eobert de Fekisby, and amongst the witnesses was William, son of Roger de Fekisby. The deed was dated at Fekisby, in 1312. It is far from clear that all who are said in the above deeds to be de Fekisby were of the same family ; it seems more probable that in some of them nothing more was meant than to dis tinguish the parties from others of the same name, by putting down the township where they lived; for this might be necessary to- prevent their being confounded with those of neighboring towns, who might attend when deeds were read over at public meetings, in order to be sealed before a coin- petent number of witnesses. This is certain, that there are so many of the same date, that the persons said therein to be de Fekisby, could not live together at one particular house, or family seat, and therefore the whole township must sometimes be meant, and consequently such as had no relationship to one another. At all events it is wrong, with Mr. Thoresby, and others, to call them by the name of Fixby of Fixby, for this never ocours in any deed, the reason of which may be, because the family became extinct before surnames were fully settled. THOENHILL. Pedegree of Thornhill, of ThornhUl and Fixby. 1. Askolf de ThornhUl had, according to Thoresby, p. 115, John, who lived about 1165, and left no issue. 2. Jordan, who succeeded to the estate. 3. Thomas. He had also 4. Helie, to whom as at p. 87 of this book, this Jordan, son of Askolf, granted the fourth part of his inheritance in Sowerbyshire, and other lands in that neighbourhood, which fourth part the said Helie, and his heirs, were to hold of the said Jordan, and his heirs, as of the first begotten ; it may therefore be questioned whether Thoresby (and Hopkinson, from whose collections Thoresby copied this account,) did not mistake in making John the elder brother of Jordan. It seems most likely that this estate in Sowerbyshire was divided equally amongst the four brothers, and that the three younger were to hold under the eldest, or first begotten. 262 BIOGRAPHIA (2.) Jordan de ThornhUl, son of Askolf, is said, in CoUins's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 157, to have had great possessions in Ovenden, Skircoat, Eishworth, Norland, Barkisland, &c. as by evidence, sans date, and that Hameline Plantaginet, earl Warren, o^wner of the manor of Wakefield, confirmed to him his inheritance in Sowerbyshire about 1169. This Jordan had (3.) Jordan de ThornhUl, who lived about 1189, and was father of (4.) Sir John ThornhUl, of ThornhUl, knt. who (as I take it) was witness to a deed of Jordan de ScorchyS, printed in the appendix to Stevens's Monasticon, p. 258, and dated 1248. He is also mentioned in a deed at Kirklees in 1240. He married Olive de la Male, by whom, su- Eichard Thorn hiU, of Thornhill, knt. and John Thornhill, who married Marion, daughter of Mr. Richard Heton, of Mu-field. This sir John (as abeady mentioned, p. 87) seems to be the person who granted to WiUiam earl Warren, that the said earl and his heirs should keep their wUd beasts, deer and fowls, in the ground of the said John, in Sowerbyshu-e, for the consideration (inter alia) of five stags of grease, and five hinds in winter. A John de ThornhiU occurs in 1275, and 1287, as by deeds of those dates. The above sir John had, by the said OUve, (5.) Su- Riohard, who Uved in 1279, and is mentioned in Burton's JMonasticon, p. 308. He manied Maud, daughter of by whom, su- John and Thomas, who had Richard. (6.) Sir John was witness to a deed, along -with his brother Thomas, in 1313 ; and the year foUo-wing (8 Edw. II.) he granted to the prior and convent of Lewes, in Sussex, and their successors, Ucence to attach their mUl-dam of HeptonstaU on his soU in Wadsworth, over the water caUed Hebden, where it should please the said prior and his successors. He married Beatrice, daughter of by whom sir Bryan, John, and Thomas, which last married Agnes, daughter of Henry Smith, by whom, Margery. Between this sir John and Simon de Thornhill are three sir Bryans in a pedegree at Fixby, the last of which Uved 84 Edw. IIL but I think it is of Uttle authority. (7.) Sir Bryan was one of the knights of the shire for Yorkshire, 29 and 31 Edw. HI. He manied, according to HALIFAXIENSIS. 263 Thoresby, Joan, but Collins, in the supplement to his Peer age, page 238, calls her Isabel, daughter of sir John Fitz Williams, knt. by whom, Simon, Thomas, Elizabeth, who marriedHenry Masters, of Kirklington, and another daughter, who married sir Henry Staunton, of Staunton, in Notting hamshire. This sir Bryan, who stiled himself de Thornhill, knt. gave leave, by deed dated at Batley, in 1334, to Adam de Oxenhoppe, to assign over to William de Carlinghou, the chaplain, one messuage, two bovates of land, and thirty shillings rent, which the said Adam held of the said Bryan as parcel of the manor of Batley ; and in consequence of this licence, and with the leave of the king, and William Melton, archbishop of York, the said Adam de Oxenhoppe founded a chantry in Batley church, for his soul, and the soul of Margery his wife, and for the souls of Robert his father, and Maud his mother, William de Copley, John, William, and Thomas, his brothers, and the souls of sir John de ThornhiU, and Bryan his son, Thomas de Thornton, and Elen his wife, and John de Maningham, for all whose goods he had ill-gotten, and for all the faithful departed. He also founded a chantry in Bedal church, in Yorkshire, as appears from the following, taken out of a MS. in the herald's office. "Bedale p. canter: in ecclesia S. Gregorii " ibid. 6 mess. 36 acr. ter. & dim. 4 acr. prati & 3s. red. in " Gilling iuxta Richmond concedend. p. Brian de Thornhill " 2 pars pat. 16 Edw. III. m. 34." This sir Bryan was knighted on or before the 15th of Edw. III. 1341, for in that year he granted by deed to Henry, son of William SoothUl, and his heirs, two acres of waste ground in the township of Wadsworth, to be holden of him and his heirs, by the title of sir Bryan Thornhill. (8.) Simon, eldest son of sir Bryan, married, according to Thoresby, p. 115, and also Burton, in his Monasticon, p. 436, Mary, daughter (and coheiress) of Edward Babthorp, of Bapthorp, esq ; but in the British Museum is a MS. N"- 797, wherein is the following entry under the title of Oven den : " 43 Edw. III. Simon de ThornhiU, who held of the "lord in Stansfeld, Skircoat, Ovenden and Wadsworth, " certain tenements, and lands in soccage, died, and Eliza- "beth, daughter and heir, of the age of two years, and in " the custody of Elizabeth her mother, comes, and gives for " relief ten shillings." Which words are repeated under the 264 BIOGBAPHLA title of Wadsworth, in the said MS. but without any date prefixed. Also under Skircoat with the above date, but -without any name of the mother. She is called, however, by the name of Elizabeth, in some manuscript additions to Magna Britannia, by the late Mr. Lucas, of Leeds. By this EUzabeth, or Mary, Simon de ThornhiU, esq ; (caUed sir Simon in a MS. pedegree at Fixby, but query,) had Eliza beth, as above, though in the pedegree at Babthorpe, in Burton's Monasticon, it is said, through mistake, that Mary, -wife of Simon ThornhUl, esq; died without issue. (9.) Elizabeth, married Henry SavUe, esq; and in right of this match, the SavUes lived at ThornhUl tUl the time of king Charles I. when, during the civU wars, Sir William SavUe having fortified his house there, and made it a ganison for the king, it was taken and burnt, on whieh account the famUy thought proper to remove to Rufford, in Nottinghamshire. Here was an end of the eldest branch of the ThornhUls, but the famUy was continued by (1.) Thomas Thornhill, son of sir Bryan above-named. He was living in 1374, and married Margaret, daughter of Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, by whom, (2.) Richard, who manied Margaret, daughter and heiress of WiUiam ToothUl, of ToothiU, by SibU, (or, as some say, Maud,) daughter and heiress of Thomas de Fekisby, in whose right he was seized of Fekisby and ToothiU. She survived her husband, for by inquisition at a court held at Wakefield, on Friday next after the Feast of All Saints, 4 Hen. IV. it appeared, that Margaret, late wife of Richard ThornhiU, held in demesne, the day she died, lands, &c. in Fekisby, Rastrike, Hipperholm, Linley, and Northowrom, ¦with moor, turbary, and wood of Old Linley, ¦with wards, maniages, reliefs, and escheats ; after whose death, WiUiam ThornhiU, son and heir of said Margaret, entered &c. This Margaret, according to Thoresby, manied to her second husband, Richard de LUey, but a MS. pedegree at Fixby caUs him EUey, by whom, Catharine, who married John Leventhorp, of Leventhorp, esq ; by whom WiUiam, as by deed m 1439. The above Eichard ThornhUl had, by Margaret his wife, WUliam, John, and Eobert. John is caUed rector of ThornhiU, in a deed, dated 1398, and rector of Thorsbye in another, dated 1411. HALIFAXIENSIS. 265 (3.) William ThornhUl, of Fixby and ToothiU, esq; seems to have been at age in 1393, for Margaret, formerly wife of Eichard de Thornhill, in her pure widowhood, and William de ThornhiU, her son, joined in a deed for exchange of lands, dated at Fekisby, on Monday next after the Feast of St. Martin in winter, 17 Eic. II. I find him also in a deed, dated 1438, called William ThornhUl de Fixby, esq; about which time it is probable that he removed to Toothill ; for in the year following, William Leventhorp, son of John, and Katharine his wife, of Sabrige, in Hertfordshire, quit claimed to him their right in the manor of ToothUl, by the name, &c. of William Thornhill, late of Fixby, esq ; He married Barbara, daughter of WUliam Hopton, of Swilling ton, by whom, Brian ThornhiU, of Fixby and Toothill, esq ; Robert, Richard, John, Laurence, Isabel, and Joan. (4.) Brian, married daughter of alderman of York, with whom he had lands at Akeham, near York. By her he had John, and a daughter named Dionis, who married William, or (according to a pedegree of the Stansfeld's in the British Museum, N" 2118, fol. 144,) Henry Stansfeld, of Stansfeld, esq ; (5.) John de Thornhill married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Mirfield, esq ; by whom, William. In an heraldical MS. in the British Museum, N°- 1052, fol. SO, this John is said to have descended of a ¦third brother of the hoifse of Thornhill ; but this is overthrown by the inquisition men tioned below. Mr. Thoresby has made a greater mistake in copying Mr. Hopkinson too closely, for he has entirely left him out of the pedegree, making William to be the son of Brian, and to mari-y Elizabeth Mirfield; but against this I have met with the following authorities : 1st, In the British, Museum is a MS. N°- 803, containing (inter alia) the sub stance of an inquisition taken at York, 2 Rich. III. (it is there said through mistake, 2 Rich. II.) in these words : " The jurors say that Brian de Thornhill died this year, and "William de Thornhill his cousin and next heir, viz. son of " John, son of the foresaid Brian, sixteen years of age, had " lands in Fekisby, gave the manor of Fekisby to certain "feoffees, 18 Edw. IV." 2dly, In a MS. pedegree of the family at Fixby is the following entry : " Yt appeareth by " covenants of marriage, that the eldest sonne of Brian was " called John, for John maryed Elizabeth, daughter of Eo. 266 BIOGRAPHIA " Mirfeyld." 3dly, To pat the matter out of aU dispute, I have the copy of a deed, dated in 1459, wherein Brian ThornhiU, of Fixby, esq: and others, feoffees to the use of the said Brian, give and confirm certain estates in Rastrick to this John, in these words: "Johanni Thoi-nhiU, fiUo et " heredi ipsius Briani, et EUzabethe uxori sue, fiUe Eoberti " MirfeUde." That John died in the life-time of his father, appears from a deed dated in 1477, wherein EUzabeth ThornhiU, -wife of John ThornhiU, late of Fixby, deceased, makes a grant of land -with the consent of Brian ThornhUl. (6.) WiUiam Thoi-nhiU was sixteen years of age when his grandfather Brian died. He married according to a MS. pedegree at Fixby, Jen. daughter of John Ditton, esq ; but this mnst either be a mistake, or he had two wives, for in the south quire of the parochial chapel of Eland was form erly a Latin inscription to this purpose, " Pray ye for the " prosperity of WiUiam ThornhiU, and Elizabeth his -wife, " and of John ThornhUl, their son and heir, t^c." which suits no other part of the pedegree but this. By the said Jen. or Elizabeth, the said WiUiam had (7.) John ThornhUl, of Fixby and ToothUl. esq; who manied Jennet, daughter of Mr. Nicholas Sa-rile, of New haU, near Eland, by whom, John ThornhUl, of Fixby and ToothiU, esq; Thomas, Eichard, Brian, Alice, and Elen. AUce married WiUiam Priestley, of Stainland. Elen married Jo. Holdworth, of Selby, by whom, Isabel, who married George HelUweU, of Stainland, and Agnes, who manied Thomas Clayton, of Clayton. In the register office for -wiUs at York, in the time of T. Woolsey, it appears, that the wiU of one John ThornhiU, of Fixby, was proved May 2, 1529, which, by the date, must be this. He ordered his body to be buried -within the chapel of our Blessed Lady St. Mary of Eland, in St. Nicholas quire, or in the chancel thereto adjoining. (8.) John, son of John, was coUector of the tenths and fifteenths, 37 Hen. VIII. in the wapentake of StaincUffe and Ewcross, as appears by his quietus out of the Exchequer. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Grice, of Sandal, near Wakefield, esq; by whom, 1. Brian ThornhUl, of Fixby, esq ; 2. John, 3. Nicholas, 4. Richard, 5. WiUiam, a clergy man, M. A. instaUed a prebendary of Worcester, in the eighth staU, May 4, 1584, and died in 1626. For WUham HALIFAXIENSIS. 267 ThornhUl, prebendary of Worcester, see Casley's Catalogue of Mss. in the King's Library, p. 38, where, after the mention of " Prophetee xii minores & liber Job, cum Glossis," it is said, " In fine manu recenti scribitur ; Liber Ecclesiffi beats " Marife Wigorne, teste scriptore Gull. ThornhiU, Eboracensi " ejusdem Ecclesife prebendario octavo. Idem reperias scriptum in fine codicis 2 P I, & 3 A VIII, & in aliis." 6. Katharine; 7. Elizabeth, who married Eoger Eeyne, of Smerley; 8. Cecily, who married John Gledhill, of Barkis land ; and 9. Ann. See a MS. in the British Museum, N°- 1052, fol. 80. Mr. Thoresby sais also, that one of the daughters of John married Eichard Watkin; another Jo. Priestley, and another Longdale. (9.) Brian, the eldest, married Jane, daughter of John Kay, of Woodsome, esq; but died in 1598, without issue, and was succeeded in the estate by his next brother, John. (10.) John ThornhiU, of Fixby and Toothill, esq ; (not ThornhiU, as in Thoresby,) married Jennet, daughter of Mr. Edmund Marsh, by whom, John ThornhiU, esq ; Thomas, and Jane, who married Mr. William Eookes, (not Eodes, as in Thoresby,) of Ehodes-hall, near Bradford. (11.) John, eldest son of John, was a justice of peace in the time of James I. and dying without issue, was succeeded in the estate by (12.) Thomas, his brother, who was also justice of peace 2 Charles I. and treasurer for lame soldiers, with sir Thomas Wentworth, of North Emsal. He married Ann, daughter and heiress of Thomas Triggot, esq ; of South Kirby, by whom, John Thornhill, of Fixby, esq; Brian, who died un married; Elizabeth, who married Langdale Sunderland, of High Sunderland, esq ; and Margaret, who married sir John Armitage, of Kirklees, bart. (13.) John, son of Thomas, was justice of peace in the West Eiding, and major of the foot regiment for Agbrig and Morley. He married to his first wife Dorothy, daughter and heiress of George CoUenbell, of Derbyshire, esq ; by whom, a daughter Ann, who died in her second year. To his second wife, EverUd, eldest daughter and cohekess of sir George Wentworth, of Wooley, knt. to whom he was married Sept. 7, 1650 ; by her he had EverUd, who married Thomas Horton, of Barkisland, esq ; Elizabeth, John, who both died young. George, who succeeded to the estate. Frances, 268 BIOGRAPHIA who printed a Catechism ; Thomas, and another married to one Grantham. It appears from the register at Hartshead, that the above EverUd, daughter of John, was baptized Sept. 11, 1651. Elizabeth, John, and George, are also registered there. This John was buried in 1669. (14.) George ThornhUl, of Fixby, esq ; who was baptized August 16, 1655, and died suddenly August 19, 1687, married Mary, daughter and heiress of Thomas Wyvill, of Constable Burton, in the North Eiding of Yorkshu-e, esq ; by whom Brian ThornhiU, of Fixby, esq ; Thomas, John, George, WUliam, Michael, Marmaduke, Askolf, (these four last died young; ) EverUd, who married su- Arthur Caley, bart. Mary and Ann, who both died unmarried. Of these, George, the father, was a justice of peace, and died in the 32d year of his age, being buried at Eland. Brian died July 26, 1701, aged twenty-four. Thomas died May 18, 1751, aged seventy- one. John died Feb. 25, 1756, aged seventy-seven. George died Dec. 30, 1754, aged seventy-three. (15.) Brian, eldest son of George, married 29 August, 1699, Prances, daughter and heu-ess of Joshua WUson, esq ; by whom one daughter, who died young. She survived, aud married to her second husband, su- Francis Leicester, bart. (16.) Thomas ThornhUl, of Fixby, esq ; second son of George, and brother of Brian, was high sheriff of Yorkshu-e in 1745, and died unmanied. At his death the estate came to his brother. (17.) John ThornhiU, esq; of Gray's-inn, barrister at law, who also died unmarried, leaving the estate to his brother, (18.) George ThornhUl, who lived at Diddington, in Huntingtonshu-e, and manied Sarah, daughter of John Barne, esq; of Kirkby, in Lincolnshu-e, by whom, Mary, who married Miles Barne, esq ; of Sotterley, in Suffolk. Thomas, the present o-wner of Fixby, who is unmarried. John, who died young. George, of Diddington aforesaid, now living, and unmarried. Sarah, who married sir John Blois, of Cockfield-hall, in Suffolk, bart. and MUes, who died young. Arms of Thornhill, of Fixby, gules, two bars gemeUs, and a chief, argent ; but in sir WiUiam Fairfax's Book of Arms of Yorkshire, p. 347, in the British Museum, Brian ThornhiU is said to have borne gules, two bars, ermine. HALIFAXIENSIS. 269 TOOTHILL. Near this hill lived a flourishing family who took the surname of Toothill, the first of whom was Eichard de ToothiU, who had Thomas, Matthew, and Eichard. Matthew had lands in the graveship of Hipperholm, in 1314, and was witness to a deed in 1337. He had Jobn, who lived at Silkeley, and who bad Hugh, (a witness to deeds in 1438) and John de Toothill, which Hugh had Thomas. Thomas, eldest son of the first Eichard, married Modesta and is said in a manuscript pedegree belonging to Thomas Thornhill, esq., of Fixby, to have had the lands of Isabel, relict of John Scot, and her daughters. Now it appears from several deeds -without date, but which, as the witnesses shew were wrote about 1287, that this Isabel and her daughters granted to one John de Toothill, certain lands in Eastrick, called .Linlands ; this John, therefore is omitted in the above pedegree ; and it is no farther certain who he was, than that Thomas was his heir, aud that he occurs in deeds before, and after the year 1300. Thomas, above named, had by Modesta, William, Hugh, John, and three daughters, the eldest of whom married Sanesmer, (or Sansmer,) the next de Hyle, and the youngest de Fleming, of Bradley. Most of these descents from Thomas, are proved from deeds belonging to the above Mr. Thornhill, in which WUliam, son of Anabil de Eastrick, and Elen, his wife, daughter of John Scot, with Alice her sister, grant lands to Thomas de Toothill, for his life, and after his decease, to William, son of the said Thomas ; and if William died without issue, to John, son of the said Thomas ; and for default of issue in the said John, to all his sisters. As Hugh is not mentioned here, he probably was dead, but his existence is proved from the copy of a deed in 1331, wherein Thomas de TothiU, grants to William de Tothill, and his heirs, remainder to John, brother of said William, remainder to Hugh, brother of said John, remainder to the sisters of said Hugh. William de Toothill, son of Thomas, married Sibil, daughter and heiress of Thomas de Fekisby. Thoresby, p. 115, calls her Maud, but in a MS. in the British Museum, N"- 803, John de Schepley is said to have released to Sibil, late wife of William de Totehill, and her heirs, the claim he 270 BIOGEAPHIA had in the lands which lately were Thomas de TotehUl's, in Fekisby, dated 1340. By this SibU, he had Margaret, his daughter and heu-ess, who being in her minority at the time of her father's death, was in the custody, or wardship, of earl Warren. This Margaret married Eichard de ThornhUl, in the time of Edward HI. and cai-ried aU her father's estates into that famUy, where they stUl continue. Arms of ToothUl, "of ToothUl, ' were. Or, on a chevron sable, three crescents argent ; though, as I remember, the field is argent, on a monument in Eland church. TILLOTSON. Haugh-End is for ever rendered famous, on account of that exceUent Prelate Ai-chbishop TiUotson, who drew his first breath here, and whose pedegree is as foUows : Nicholas de TUston, Lord of TUston, in Cheshu-e, had John de TUston, who had Nicholas de TUston, 9 Edward III. who had John Tilston, of Tilston, who married Johanna, third daughter of Thomas Danyers, of Bradley, in Cheshire, by whom Eobert TUston, of TUston, who had Eoger TUston, of TUston, esq; in the time of Henry V. who married Catharine, second daughter of sir John Leigh, of Baguly, in Cheshu-e, knt. by whom Thomas Tilston, of TUston, esq ; who married Elizabeth, daughter and heu-ess of Hugh Heath, of Huxley, in Cheshire, by whom, 1. Hugh Tilston, of Huxley, esq ; (or, as one authority caUs him, John.) and 2. Eichard TUston. This Eichard manied Maud, daughter of Eichard Bostock, by whom, 1. Thomas, who had issue ; 2. Eichard, and others. This Richard Tilston was of Ne-wport, in Shropshire, and, by an unaccountable mistake. Dr. Birch, in his Life of the Archbishop, caUs bim first Roger, and then Ealph. He manied Eliz-abeth, second danghter of WUham Leighton, second son of sir Thomas Leighton, of Watlesborough, in Shropshu-e, knt. by whom, 1. Ealph TUston, of Goldeston, 2. Tristram TUston, 3. Thomas Tilston, of Wookliff, in the parish of Carlton, in Craven, 4. WilUam. This Thomas changed his name from TUston to TUlotson, as I was informed by the late Rev. Mr. TiUotson, of St. Paul's school, who heard his father say that the name was altered as above. The said Mr. TUlotson's father was told so by his grandfather, who was father to the Archbishop, and who might remember his grandfather Thomas, who HALIFAXIENSIS. 271 altered it. This Thomas Tilston, alias Tillotson, had George TUlotson, who married Eleanor, daughter of Ellis Nutter, of Pendle-forest, in Lancashire, by whom Robert Tillotson, of Sowerby, who was buried at Sowerby, Feb. 22, 1682-3, aged ninety-one, having married Mary, daughter of Thomas Dob son, of the Stones, in Sowerby, by whom, 1. Robert, 2. John, the Archbishop, 3. Joshua, of London, and 4. Israel. John, the Archbishop, married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter French, D.D. Canon of Christ- church, Oxford, by whom Mary, who married James Chadwick, esq ; Joshua, the younger brother of the Archbishop, had John, who died in the East-Indies, Elizabeth, who died in the East-Indies, and Robert, who was M.A. Fellow of Clare-hall, afterwards Eector of Elme cum Emneath, and who died s. p. at Cam bridge, Nov. 12, 1788, aged sixty-two. Israel, the youngest, married Mary, daughter of Samuel Mawd, by whom Joshua and John. Joshua was of Sowerby, and died -in 1747, having married Martha, daughter of James Stansfeld, of Sowerby, by whom, 1. John, 2. Joshua, M.A. Sur-master of St. Paul's school, who died in August, 1763. 8. Mary, 4. Elizabeth, 5. Hannah, and 6. Martha. John, second son of Israel, had Mary aud Elizabeth ; Mary married Eichard Windsor, of London, by whom one son, and two daughters. The arms of Tilston, or Tillotson, are now, or lately were, on the walls of Wookliff-chapel, viz. Azure, a bend cotised, between two garbs, or. Crest, a bear's head issuing out of a mural crown. Motto, Jactor, non merger. These are the arms of Tilston, of Tilston, iu Cheshire, and were also con firmed by WilUam Flower, Norroy, Aug. 28, 1580, 22 Eliz. to Ealph Tilson, (or Tilston,) of Huxley, in Cheshire. See Guillim, p. 125. — Haugh-end belongs at present to a Mr. Lea, who has built a new house near it. He bears. Argent, a chevron ingrailed between two leopards heads sable. Por crest, a bull's head cabossed, couped at the neck, or. WADE. , But what makes this King Cross the most remarkable, is, that a little below it is an house where for some time resided the family of Wade, of which take the following account : Camden sais, p. 907, that the Wades derive their pedegree from Wada, a Saxon duke, -who gave battle to king Ardnlph, at WhaUey, in Lancashire, and died in 798, but of this I 272 BIOGEAPHIA have seen no proof, any more than I have that Armigel Wade, esq ; who was clerk of the council to Hen. VIII. and Edw. VI. (as his son, sir WilUam, was to queen Elizabeth,) and one of the first discoverers of America, was, as Thoresby, p. 155, has hinted, one of their ancestors. This Armigel Wade died in 1568, and was buried at Hampstead, in Middlesex, in the chancel belonging to which church, his son, sir William, erected a stately monument for him ; his arms thereon are. Azure, a saltire between four escallops, or, whioh are entirely difl'erent from those of Wade, of King Cross, as will appear below. John Wade, of the city of Coventry, married, and had Henry Wade, of King Cross, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Eamsden, by whom, 1. Anthony Wade, of King Cross. 2. William, of Ball-green, in Sowerby, near Halifax. 3. Judith, who married Robert Dene, of Exley. 4. Mary, who married Longbothom, of Longbothom. Anthony, the eldest, died about 1620, having married Judith daughter of Thomas Foxcroft, of New Grange ; married at Leedes, Nov. 3, 1590 : By her he had 1. Benjamin, 2. John, 8. Elizabeth, who married Cotton Horne, of Wakefield ; 4. Sarah, who married John Hargreave, of Leedes ; 5. Judith, who married, first, Henry Power, Clerk ; secondly, Joseph Stock; 6. Priscilla, who married William Favour, citizen of Loudon ; 7. Susan, who married Dr. Jennison, of Newcastle upon Tyne. Benjamin, esq ; the eldest, was of New Grange, married Edith, daughter of John Shanne, of Leedes, but died s. p. in 1671, in the eighty-first year of liis age. John, second son, lived at King Cross, and died about 1645, having married Mary, daughter of Anthony Waterhouse, of Wood- house, by whom, 1. Benjamin, s. p. 2. Anthony; 3. John, who married Hannah, daughter of John Milner, by whom, Benjamin, of Leedes and Burley, 1712, who married Dorothy, sister of William Jackson, by whom, Mary and Ann. 4. Judith, daughter of .John, by Mary Waterhouse, died un married. Anthony Wade, esq ; was Mayor of Leedes 1676, and died 14 Deo. 1683, in the forty-ninth year of his age, having married Mary, daughter of John More, of Greenhead, gent, by whom Benjamin Wade, of New Grange, in 1712, Justice of Peace for the West-riding, who was buried May 19, 1716. He married Ann, eldest daughter of Walter Calverley, of Calverley, esq ; and sister to sir Walter Calverley, HALIFAXIENSIS. 273 of said place, bart. by whom, 1. Calverley, born Feb. 8, 1684, who died before his father, in 1710. 2. Benjamin, s. p. 3. Thompson, a captain, died s. p. at Brussels, Nov. 21, 1709. 4. Henry, s. p. 5. Walter; 6. Mary, who married Morehouse ; 7. Ann, who married Thomas Grosvenor ; and 8. Frances, who married Croft Preston, of Leedes, merchant. Walter, fifth son of Benjamin, was Mayor of Leedes in 1757, he married Beatrix, daughter of Benjamin Killingbeck, of Moor Grange, alias Allerton Grange, by whom Benjamin, who died young, and Walter, of New Grange, who married Ann, daughter of Robert Allenson, of Royd, in Halifax parish, by whom Walter, who died young, Robert, who died young, Ann, Benjamin, William, and Thompson. The above pedegree was taken chiefiy from one drawn up by Mr. Segar, who stiles him, " Si. Segar fil. filii. a filio Gul. " Segar Mil. Garterii Regis Armor." and by him extracted out of the last Visitation of Yorkshire, p. 174, and by him continued to the year 1715. The rest I have added by infor mation from the family. The original is lodged at New Grange. For the arms of Wade, viz. Azure, within a bordure, argent on a bend or, two gillyflowers gules, slipt vert, we are refered in the above transcript to Guifts of arms among Vincent's (Rouge Croix) books in the College of Arms, No 76. p. 137. Also to Hawley's Grants, H. 5. fol. 37 B, in the said Office ; the crest being granted then, -viz. Jan. 16, 34 Hen. VIII. unto John Wayd, (so the name was spelt,) of Coventry, by Thomas Hawley, Clarenceux King of Arms. The arms belonging to the above pedegree are thus marshalled : Quarterly of six, first and last. Wade, (as above.) 2. Argent, a chevron sable frette of the first, in chief a scythe blade azure, by the name of Thickness, of the county of Stafford. 3. Gules, a chevron between three foxes heads erased, or, by the name of Foxcroft. 4. Or, a pile ingrailed sable, by the name of Waterhouse, both of the county of York. 5. Sable, a swan rising, argent, bequed and membered, within a bordure ingrailed, or, by the name of More, com. Lane. Tbe whole atchievement mantled, gules, doubled argent. And for Crest, Over an helmet proper, on a wreath, or and azure, a griffin's head erased, quarterly of the same, charged with four goutes counterchanged, holding in his beque a gillyflower of the field. Motto, " Rien sans travail." 274 BIOGEAPHIA In Thoresby's Topography, p. 151, are the epitaphs of Benjamin Wade, and his son Anthony, both of New Grange, who were interred in Hedingley chapel, -where, on a monu ment, as that -writer informs us, are the arms of Moore, (or Mowre.) viz. Argent, a chevron sable, fretted of the first, in chief a scythe azure, which I apprehend to have been a mistake in the person who ordered it to be thus put up ; for the arms of this famUy of Moore (as I take it) were, sable, a swan, &c. as above. WATERHOUSE. The most considerable family which hath been resident in the town of Halifax, I take to be that of Waterhouse, whose pedegree is thus put down in a MS. in the Harleian Col lection in the British Museum, called the Visitation of Yorkshire, by Robert Glover, Somerset herald, in 1584. N"- 1394. Richard had John, who manied Agnes, daughter of John Rishworth, of Coley-hall, by whom, Robert, who married Sibyl, daughter and coheiress of Richard Wilkinson, of Bradford, by whom, 1. John, of Halifax and Shipden. 2. George, of HearthUl, who married, and had issue. 3. Greg ory, of Syddal, who married, and had issue. John, the eldest, married Jane, daughter and heiress of Thomas BosseviUe, of Conysburge, by whom, 1. Eobert, of Halifax, Uving in 1585, who married Jane, daughter of Thomas Waterton, of Walton-hall, by whom, Edmund. The second son of John was, 2. Thomas, of Braithwell, who married Dorothy, daughter and heir of Thomas Vincent, of Braith well, by whom several chUdren. The other children of John were, 3. Philip, M.A. and fellow of University college, Oxford. 4. Stephen, M.A. 5. John. 6. David. 7. Samuel. 8. Sarah. 9. Grace. 10. Susan. And 11. Mary. More of this famUy may be seen in the account of the Waterhouses, of Shipden, in Southouram. After the Drakes, Shibden-hall became, by purchase, as I conceive, the property of the Waterhouses, of which famUy there is the foUowing pedegree in a MS. late lord Oxford's, caUed "The Visitation of Yorkshire," by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, as Marshal to Norroy king of arms in 1584 and 15S5, No. 1394, p. 247. HALIFAXIENSIS. 275 Eichard Waterhouse, had John, who married Agnes, daughter of John Eishworth, of Coley-hall, by whom Eobert, who married Sibil, daughter and coheiress of Richard Wilk inson, of Bradford, by whom John, of Halifax and Shibden, George Harthill, and Gregory of Siddal. John the eldest married Jane, daughter and heiress of Thomas Bosseville, of Conysburgh, by whom, 1. Eobert, of Halifax, living in 1585, who married Jane, daughter of Thomas Waterton, of Walton- hall, by whom Edmund. 2. Thomas, of Braithwell, who married Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Thomas Vincent, of Braithwell, by whom Vincent, Thomas, Mary, Penelope, and Edward. (Vincent, of Braithwell, bore. Argent, two bars and a canton gules, charged with a trefoil slipt, or.) 3. Philip, M.A. and Fellow of University College, Oxford ; 4. Stephen, M.A., 5. John, 6. David, 7. Samuel, 8. Sarah, 9. Grace, 10. Susan, and 11. Mary. George, of Harthill, married Euphemia, daughter of Eichard Wilkinson, of Bradford, by whom Robert, John, Francis, Ann, Prudence, Isabel, and Elizabeth. Gregory, of Syddal, married Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Tempest, of Bracewell, by whom Nicholas, Eobert, Jonas, Lewis, Eichard, Jeremy, Toby, Susan, SibUl, and Ann. No arms are annexed to the above, but the coat which the family bore was. Or, a pile ingrailed, sable. "This (sais Guillim, p. 47.) "was the paternal coat armor of Dr. Edward " Waterhouse, a great lover of Antiquities and Heraldry. " This was the Gentleman that wrote the octavo, entitled, " The defence of Arms and Armory, and he that was " supposed to have a chief hand in Morgan's Sphere of " Gentry." At p. 430, he also tells us, that the same was born by Edward Waterhouse, of Greenford, in Middlesex, esq. Their crest, according to my old Folio MS. Collection of Arms, was, An eagle's leg standing, couped close by the body, and upon the top a dexter wing adjoining displayed sable. These are over the Workhouse door at Hahfax, built by Nathaniel Waterhouse. I cannot but observe, that I have the copy of a pedegree of this family of Waterhouse, which makes a Eobert Water- house, of Shipden, to marry Sybil, daughter of Eobert Savile, of HuUenedge, agreeable to what is said in the pedegree of Savile, of HuUenedge, already mentioned. Another calls him Robert, son of John, and makes him marry SibU, daughter 276 BIOGEAPHIA and heiress of Eobert SavUe, of Shipden, which, if true, would account for the manner in which the Waterhouses came by this estate. And so far is certain, that the arms of Waterhouse and Sa-vUe were repeatedly quartered on the old tomb belonging to the Waterhouses in Eokesby's chapel, in Halifax church, which shews a match between them, though the above pedegree takes no notice of it. The Epitaph of Jane, -wife of John Waterhouse above named, is in "Drake's Eboracum" thus: "Here lyeth Jane, "wife to John Waterhouse, of Shibden, in the county of "Yorke, esquier, who dyed the first day of May, 1592." She was buried at St. Michael's Belfrays, York. Another Epitaph belonging to this famUy is cut in brass on a piUar in the chancel at ThornhiU." "Here lyeth the "body of PhUlip Waterhous, 3d sonne of John Waterhouse, " of Halifax, esq ; Maister of Artes, and sometimes Felow of "University Coll. Oxon. He dyed the 16th of Januari, "1614, the 57th yere of his age. HeUen, daughter of "Richard Lacye, of Cromewelbotome, esq; his beloved -wife, " dedicated this monument to his memori." Arms of Water- house on this plate, Or, a pUe engrailed, sable ; motto, Veritas Uberabit ; aUuding, perhaps, to John viii. 32. There are also the arms of Lacy and Cromwelbothom. OHAUNTRIES. In the Certificate of Robert, Archbishop of York, and others, authorized by commission to survey all chauntries, hospitals, coUeges, free chapels, fraternities, brotherhoods, gUds, and salaries of stipendiary priests ha-ving perpetual salaries, &c. -with the goods and ornaments to the same belonging, -within the county of York, city of York, and Kingston upon Hull, with the yearly deductions going out of the same, it appears (from an old copy in my possession) that in Halifax Church were, 1. The Chauntry of the Trinity, founded by John WUloughby, yearly value four pounds. 2. Hunter's Chauntry, yearly value four pounds thirteen shillings. 3. The perpetual stipend or service at the rood altar there, yearly value three pounds eighteen shUUngs. 4. Brigg's Chauntry, yearly value four pounds, thirteen HALIFAXIENSIS. 277 shillings, and four-pence. 5. Firth's Chauntry, yearly value three pounds, six shillings, and eight-pence. To which Stevens, in his Supplement, vol. i. p. 68, adds, " The service of the Morrow Mass in the said Church, yearly value fifty-one shillings and ten-pence ; " differing in nothing else from the above, except making the yearly value of Brigge's Chauntry four-pence less, and that of Firth's eight-pence. As to the first of these, I find that Thomas WUleby founded a Chauntry on the south side of Halifax Church, and to endow it, feoffed Sir John Nevil, Knt. Thomas Nevil, Esq ; his son and heir, Thomas WUleby, his kinsman, and others, in lands in Priestley, in Hipperholm, to the yearly value of six marks, in June, 9 Henry VII. In Halifax Register is the following entry: "Dom. Thomas Gleydehyll Cantarist. "in Cantar. voc. Wylbe Chantre, ac quondam Vicarius de " Cunnesburghe, sepult. 12 Mali, 1541." The lands belong ing to this Chauntry were granted by Edward VI. in the third year of his reign, to Thomas Gargrave, Knt. and William Adam, jun. In WiUis's History of Mitred Abbies, vol. ii. p. 292. in a list of pensions paid in 1553, to in cumbents of Chauntries, under Wylby's, one Richard North- end was then in possession thereof, but his annuity, on some account or other, is only put down at three pounds twelve shillings, which gives room to suspect that the rest are undervalued. The foUowing is the original institution of this Chauntry, taken- from an old Manuscript in my possession, transcribed verbatim, though it appears to be a little incorrect : " In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti, Amen. Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis presentibus et futuris ad quorum notitiam hoc presens scriptum indentatum et tripertitum pervenerit, Johannes Willebye, parochie de Halifax, Salutem in Domino sempiternam, et rei geste mem oriam perpetuam. Cum inter cetera reperationis humane remedia, Missarum solemnia precipua tutissimaq ; ab omni bus Christi cultoribus, condecet reputari, in quibus a malis retrahimur et confortamur in bono, ac ad virtutum et gratiarum proficimus incrementum ; ut igitur per frequentem missarum celebrationem presentium in ecclesia parochiali S. Johannis Baptiste de Halifax, in com. Ebor. divinus cultus augmentetur, et eo celebrior habeatur, quodq; in eadem ecclesia, sive cemeterio ejusdem, corpus meum Deo 278 BIOGEAPHIA disponente recipiet sepulturam. Hinc est quod ego prefatus Johannes WiUebye, per cartam meam indentatam et triper- titam, concessi, tradidi, feoffa-vi, et Uberavi Johanni NevU, MiUti, Tho. NevU, filio et heredi apparenti ipsius Johannis, Magistro Ricardo Symmes, Vicario Ecclesie parochiaUs de Halifax, WiU°. Symmes, fiho et heredi Will'. Symmes, Johanni Lacy, filio et heredi apparenti Tho. Lacye, Armigeri, Magistro Tho. SavUe, Vicario de BrayveU, WilK Eookes, Johanni StancUf, Law. Bairstowe, Tho. Smith, Tho. WiUeby, Eob°. Otes, et Tho. Oldfeld, omnia messuagia, tenas, tenementa, redditus, servicia, et reversiones mea, cum pert, in Hipperhome, in parochia de Halifax predict. ima cum omnibus aliis terris et tenementis meis in eadem parochia. Et simihter sursum reddidi in manus tenentium ManerU de Hipperhom, omnia terras et tenementa mea, cum pert, in Hipperhom et alibi, in parochia de Halifax predict, tent, per rotulam Cm-ie, secundum consuetudinem ejusdem manerU, ad opus predictorum Johannis Nevil, etc. et heredum suorum, prout per predictam cartam indentatam, et simUiter in predicta sursum redditione plenius liquet. Cujus quidem carte et simUiter copie sursum redditionis pre dict, cum una parte hujus scripti indentati, una pars remanet cum predictis feoffatis meis, aUa vero pars ejusdem Carte, cum copia predicta, et aUapartehujus scripti indentati,remanet cum Tho. GledhiU, primo CapeUano per me prefatum Johannem WiUeby ordinate administrandum in celebratione Missarum ad altare S. Trenitatis, in Ecclesia paroehiaU de Halifax, ex parte austraU ejusdem Ecclesie, et successoribus suis, im perpetuum. Tertia vero pars ejusdem carte, simul cum copia predicta, et tertia parte hujus scripti indentati, re manet penes presatum Tho. WiUeby, et heredes suos, imper petuum. Que quidem omnia et singula predicta messuagia, tene, tenementa, redditus, servicia, et reversiones, cum suis pert, sunt annul valoris sex marcarum ultra reprisas. Hab. et ten. omnia et singula predicta tene, tenemento, redditus, servicia, et reversiones, cum suis pert, prefatis Johanni Nevil, &c. her. et assig. suis imperpetuum, modo et forma conditionibus subsequentibus, viz. quod iidem Johes, &c. et assignati sui, et eorum quUibet, permittent Tho. WUlobye, consanguineum meum, et heredes suos, tenere et occupare omnia et singula predicta messuagia, terras, et tenementa, cum suis pert, imperpetuum, in forma sequente, viz. Udem HALIFAXIENSIS. 279 ; Tho. et heredes sui annuatim reddendo et solvendo de eisdem tenementis Tho. Gleedhill, primo Capellano, per me prefatum Johem Willebye ordinandum ad ministrandum et celebrandum cotidie Missas, et alia divina servitia, in dicta ecclesia parochiali S. Johis, Baptiste de Halifax, ad altare S. Trinitatis, in parte australi ejusdem Ecclesie, sex marcas, exeuntes de omnibus messuagiis, terris, et tenementis sup radictis, ad duos anni terminos, viz. ad festum Pentecostes, et S. Martini in hyeme, per equales porciones annuatim solvendas. Et si contingat predictum redditum sex mar carum aretro fore in parte, vel in toto, per aliquod festum quo solvi debeat, per spacium dimidii unius anni, prefato Tho. Gleedhill, primo Capellano, vel successoribus suis, non solutum, ex tunc volo et ordino, quod predicti Johannes Nevile, etc. feoffati mei, intrabunt in omnia et singula predicta messuagia, terras, et tenementa, cum pert, imper petuum, et predictum Thomam, et heredes suos, expellent et amovent, et dimittent eadem tenementa alicui alie persone, sive aliquibus personis, ad placitum et voluntatem suam, ad usum et magis proficuum predicti CapeUani, et successorum suorum : Ita semper, quod permittent Cap ellanum Gantarie predicte, et successores suos, annuatim percipere exitus et proficua omnium et singulorum messuagi- orum, terrarum, et tenementorum predictorum, ad susten tationem suam, cu'ca Missas et alia divina obsequia et servitia supradicta ministrand. et celebrand. Proviso semper, quod si contingat Johannam, uxorem mei prefati Jofiis Willebye, me eundem Joliem supervisere, quod tunc predicti feoffati mei permittant eandem Johannam habere et tenere tertiam partem omnium terrarum et tenementorum predictorum, durante vita sua,pro et nomme dotis sue,vel quod permitterent ipsam percipere et recipere exitus et proficua de tertia parte omnium et singulorum eorundem messuagi- ornm, terrarum, et tenementorum predict, cum pert, durante vita sua, et post mortem suam, tunc predictus Capellanus, et successores sui, precipiant et habeant predictas sex mar cas de exitibus et proficuis terrarum et tenementorum in forma predicta. Item volo et ordino, quod cum predicta Cantaria vacaverit, post mortem mei predicti Johis Willebye, quod predicti feoffati mei permittent unum idoneum Capell anum, per predictum Tho. Willebye, seu per heredes ipsius 280 BIOGEAPHIA Tho. juxta formam subscriptam ad dictum officium observan- dum, post quamlibet vacationem per imperpetuum nominan- dum, recipere sibi et successoribus suis imperpetuum, sex marcas, exeuntes de omnibus messuagiis, terris, et tene mentis supradictis, ad duos anni terminos superius limitatos. Et ulterius ego prefatus Johes Willebye volo et ordino, quod predictus CapeUanus modernus, et omnes aUi Capellani per prefatum Tho. WiUebye, et heredes suos, ac omnes alu Capellani, quacunq ; forma ad dictum officium temporibus futuris ordinand. et nominand. sint personahter residentes infra dictam ecclesiam singuUs diebus dicendo matutinas, horas oanonicas, vesperas, et completorias, ac missam, quotidie ad altare prenominatum in honorem et laudem S. Trinitatis, et gloriosissime Virginis Marie, Matris Domini nostri Jesu Christi, et beati Petri Apostoli, et omnium Sanctorum, et quod oret pro anima mei prefati Johannis Willebye, cum ab hac luce migravero, ac pro animabus uxorum et omnium liberorum meorum, necnon parentum et omnium benefactorum meorum, et omnium fidelium defunctorum. Et quod idem Capellanus, et omnes alii poste se, qualibet die lune celebrent Missam de requie pro anima mei predicti Johannis, et animabus supradictis. Item volo et ordino, quod idem Capellanus modernus, et omnes aUi Capellani post ipsum, ad missam suam quotidie ad primum lavatorium suum oret pro me in forma sequente : "Ye shaU praye for the soule of John Willebye, founder of "this Chauntry e and Servioe, and for the soules of his two " -wives, his chUdren, his fader, his moder soules, and aU his elders soules;" et instanter ibidem dicat De profundis usq ; ad finem. Et quod dictus CapeUanus modernus, nee aliquis Capellanus post ipsum, non se absentent a dicto servicio et ecclesia ultra spatium unius mensis ad unum tempus, aut vicibus interpolatis numerandis singulis annis ad majus, quin sit cum Uoentia predicti Tho. vel heredum suorum, sub poena amotionis ab officio suo, revocationis, et adnuUationis concessionis sue ejusdem officii per presens factum. Item volo et ordino, quod predictus Tho. GledhiU, CapeUanus modernus, et omnes alu Capellani, post mortem, sessionem, seu amotionem ejusdem Tho. GledhUl, temporibus futuris nominandi, singuhs diebus dominicis et festivis per- sonaliter sint presentes iu chore ejusdem Ecclesie temporibus matutinarum missarum et vesperarum, suis suppelicUs HALIFAXIENSIS. 281 induti, ut legant et psallent, prout Vicario ejusdem Ecclesie pro tempore existenti decenter et congrue videbitur expedire, ut in constitutionibus Ecclesie Metropolitane proinde con stitutis plenius liquet. Et predictus Capellanus modernus, et omnes alii Capellani, post mortem, sessionem, seu remo- tionem dicti Capellani ab officio suo, temporibus futuris nominandi, singulis annis facient anniversaria predicti Johis Willebye, Ula die qua contingat eundem Johannem obire. Itera volo et ordino, quod predictus Capellanus modernus, et omnes alii Capellani post ipsum, ad predictum officium aliquo modo ordinandi etnominandi, omnia res, libros, jocalia, et ornamenta dicto officio pertinentia, non alienabunt, impig- norabunt, nee elongabunt. Preterea volo et ordino, quod pre dictus Tho. GledhiU, Capellanus modernus, aut aliquis alius Capellanus post ipsum, ad dictum officium temporibus futuris quoquomodo nominandus, aliqua bona, res, jocalia ad officium predictum pertinentes, consumpserit, delapida- verit, non sufficienter reparaverit, et conservaverit, seu si de incontinentia, furto, rapina, perjurio, seu aliquo alio nota- bili et famoso ciimine convictus fuerit, vel si suspensionem, vel irregularitatem, seu alicujus membri mutelationem, quibus ab executione ordinis Saoerdotalis, et missarum celebrationem per imperpetuum impediatur, ex reatu suo proprio incurrat aut quod officio predicto deservire, seu ibidem moram trahere non poterit, extunc a dicto officio tanquam inhabilis per ipsum prefatum Tho. Willebye, aut per heredes suos, seu alios ad hoc deputatos, amotus sit penitus et privatus. Et ulterius volo et ordino, quod quoties contingat predictum Tho. Willebye, et heredes suos, seu aliorum aliquem in hujusmodi nominationis et ordinat- ionis negotio, cum officium ministrationis in celebratione missarum ad altare predictum, in forma predicta, sessaverit, nee legentes, seu remissos existere. ita quod infra quadra ginta dies tempore sessionis officii predicti continue numer- andos nullum idoneum Capellanum ad officium predictum exercendum, ut permittitur per literas suas patentes sigill- atos, orduiet seu nominent, si notitiam inde habuerunt, totiens incontinenter vigore presentis ordinationis et volun tatis mee, absq; aliquo hujusmodi aut ministerio jure nominand. et ordinand. ea vice sicut al. consimiles casus defectus, vel negligentia predicti Tho. Willebye, et heredum suorum a se obtulerit, et non aliter ad Vicariam 282 BIOGRAPHIA 'Ecclesie parochiaUs de Halifax, qui pro tempore suerit, hoc pacto et hac lege devolvatur, ut ipse Vicarius infra quadra ginta dies post habitam ei notitiam de defectu, sive necli- gentia hujusmodi predicti Tho. WUleby, aut heredum suorum, aut alicujus eorundem consimUiter numerandos, habilem et idoneum Capellanum ad dictum officium ordinet et nominet, in forma predicta. Quod si contingat negli- gentem vel remissum in hac parte fore, et nequaquam infra quadraginta dies unum habUem et idoneum Capellanum ad officium predictum nominare et ordinare, extunc transact© quadraginta dierum spatio jus plene providendi, ordinandi, et nominandi habilem et idoneum CapeUanum ad officium predictum, ad predictos feoffatos, seu ad majorem partem eorundem, si inde inter eos plane concordare nequiverint, devolvet et pertineat ut ipsi secundum Deum et sanam con scientiam suam de idoneo Capellano ad predictum officium frequentandum in forma superius ordinata provideaut. Et insuper ego prefatus Johannes Willebye volo et ordino, quod quotiens contingat predict. Johem Nevile, ete. feoffatos meos, in messuagus, terris, et tenementis supradictis, ab hac luce migrare et obire, ita quod sint nisi quatuor persone viventes ad minus, totiens UU qui socios suos superavixerint, facient statum duobus senioribus et discretis Presbyteris in parochia de Halifax, vel prope eandem parochiam residenti bus, in omnibus messuagiis, &c. cum pert, ita quod iidem Presbyteri instanter et incontinenter j)ost dictum statum eis factum refeoffabunt predictis quatuor feoffatis superviventi- bus, una cum novem aliis personis de nobilioribus, valenci- oribus, dignioribus, et discretioribus residentibus infra totam parochiam de Halifax predict, ita quod sint in toto ad numerum tredecem personarum, ad intentionem et effectum ut hec mea voluntas robur perpetue firmitatis obtineat et perquireat. Ita volo et ordino, quod predictus Capellanus modernus, et omnes alii Capellani, ad dictum officium im posterum nominandi et ordinandi, in primo introitu suo ad dictum officium, antequam aliqua proficua dictarum sex marcarum recipient, Sacramentum prestabunt eorporale coram Vicario Ecclesie de Halifax antedict. qui pro tempore fuerit, quod ipsi omnia et singula prenussa eisdem CapeUanis et successoribus suis qualitercunq ; incumbentia beue et inviolabiliter observabunt, custodiant, et perimplebunt. Ei vero qui premissa inviolata Ulabefactaq ; servaverit, pax sit HALIFAXIENSIS. 283 perpetua, salus eterna, scelerum venia, et in bonis actibus perseverantia diuturna. Et qui eadem infringere presump serit, sit anathema Christi, excommunicatio omnium Sancto rum, et dies ejus sint pauci, nisi citius duxeret i^enitentiam. In quorum omnium et singulorum testimonium omnibus et singulis partibus predictis, ego prefatus Johannes WUleby, SigiUum apposui. Datum, &c. per me Johannem WiUeby, decimo die Junii, anno Henrici septimi nono." As for Hunter's Chauntry, I know nothing more about it, than that in a list of the compositions for tythes paid in Halifax parish is the following entry : " John Paslew, " Chaunter of the Chauntry called Hunter's, for five closes " in Halifax and Skircoat, near Shasike, to the said Chauntry "belonging, ISd." The burial of this John Paslew is thus entered in the parish register at Halifax: "Doms. Johes Paslew, Cant, apud Halifax sepult. March 9th, 1538." The perpetual stipend, or service, at the rood altar, is thus described in the Certificate of the Archbishop of York and others, dated 14 Feb. in the secounde yeare of his Grace's reygne, (Edw. VI.) Hallifaxe Parrysh. " The Eode Obite, or perpetual stypend of a Preyst in the parish church there— John Waterhouse, incombent, 47 yeares of age, hath nothing else to live upon but the profitts of the said Chauntry. Goods, ornaments, and plate belonging to the said ser-vice, as appyth by the inventorye. Goods, £2. Plate, £2. The yerely value of the freehold land belonging to the said service, as particularUe appyth by the rentall, 5s. Coppiehold by yeare, 77s. whereof resolutes, viz. of the freehold by yeare, 4s. resolutes of the coppiehold by yeare, 4s. So remains clere of the coppiehold yearly, 73s. and to the King's Majestie clere of freehold yerely, 12d." This, I apprehend, was founded to celebrate the death of Christ, as rode, or rood, signifies a Cross, and obit the time when any one died. In the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, N°. 797, under Halifax, it is said, that in 1532, (24 Hen. VIIL) William Brigg founded a Chantry in the north part of Halifax church, adjoining to Eokeby 's chapel, which is aU I know relating to this foundation. I have seen mention made of the Chaplain who celebrated or said divine service at the altar of St. George, in the parish 284 BIOGRAPHIA church of St. John Baptist, of Halifax, but which of the above Chantries it belonged to I cannot say. ACCOUNT OF LANDS, &c., IN HALIFAX PARISH, BELONGING TO RELIGIOUS HOUSES. THEEE never was either abbey, monastery, or nunnery in the whole parish of Halifax, but lands in different parts thereof belonged to religious houses in other places, as appears from the following. FOUNTAINS ABBEY. Burton, in his Monasticon Eboracence, p. 148, sais, "That " Abulay-grange, in the chapelry of Eland, in Halifax parish, " belonged to the Abbey of Fountains ; and that on July 12, "1478, IS Edward IV. Thomas de Swinton, the abbot " thereof, granted it to John Nesfield, prior of Nostel, for "life." This Abulay I take to be what is now called Aneley, contracted from Avenley ; and in the Ledger Book of Fountains, under the title of Yeland, it was said, " That "by an indenture, 14 Edward IV. the Grange of Ainley, in "the chapelry of Eland, was divided equally between John " Savile, of HuUenedge, esq ; and William, son of Eobert " Wilkinson, by Sir John Savile, knt. and Thomas Savile, " esq ; his son." This, I apprehend, is mentioned again by Burton, at p. 152, under the name of Awndelay, when he sais, "Roger de Thornhill gave all his land and wood in this " to-wn, he also gave eight acres, called, Eleis juxta aquam, " -with lands in Kildeker and Pihel, and common pasture in "Eland, with necessary wood for their own burning and "building; which were confirmed to them by Gilbert de " Whetelay, and Alicia his wife, relict of Roger de Thornton. " — WiUiam de Horbury gave what he had here, except the " chapel. — Thomas, son of WUliam de Horbury, confirmed " what Eoger de Thornton gave, granting also a free passage " through his fee every where." At p. 163, the same author HALIFAXIENSIS. 285 informs us, "That Hugh de Eland gave pasture (to Fountains- " abbey) for two hundred sheep in Eccleslay and in Uncrum, " and also gave Godwin PighU." And under Eland, " That " Henry de Heland confirmed ail that Gamel, son of Ulchel, "gave — that Thomas, son of William de Horbury, gave his " land there, lying in Sumerode, with another acre of land " — that Hugh de Eland gave ten acres here in Blacklau, " lying between Haghebrock and Horsecroft, in Amendelay- " flat — that Henry de Horbiri ga,ve one oxgang here in " Brainthik — that Lete, prioress of Kirkless, gave firmagium " of their pool, upon her ground, for the mill upon Kelder — " that John de Fekesby gave fourteen acres of land here." And at p. 164, " That Hugh de Eland gave all his land, viz. " five acres and one half here, which Yvo Talvaz held of him, "lying between the essart of Henry de Prikestrike, and " Marfaldecloh, and between Gilder and Sidgate ; also that " John de Fekesby, son of Ivo Talvaz de Fekesby, gave one " oxgang, ten acres, and two essarts of land in Fixby, for " the use of those who came to the Gates, which was confirmed " by Ivo Talvaz ; and Roger, son of Jordan de Stanley, con- " firmed what they held of his fee in Fixby." This, I apprehend, is all which has yet been made public concerning the possessions of the monks of Fountaiiis-abLey, ¦within tho parish of Halifax. I have farther observed, with regard to the gift of Roger de Thornton, that in one of the Harleian MSS. N° 797, under the title of Eland, it is said, " That in HUary term, 82 Edward I. it was commanded by the Sheriff that he should cause the abbot of Fountains to acknowledge by what services he held his tenements of Thomas de Thornton, in Eland, which services the said Thomas had granted to Hugh de Eland, by fine, &o. And the said abbot said, that he held one carucate of land, and twenty acres of wood, with the appurtenances, in the afore said village of Eland, by fealty, and the service of twelve- pence by the year for all service, by a certain charter of one Eoger de Thornton, ancestor of the foresaid Thomas." This charter I have not seen, but the following is in Hopkinson, vol. i. fol. SO, and in a very old M.S. in my own possession, fol. 830. " Omnibus sancte matris Ecclesie filiis, presentibus et futuris, Alicia, quondam uxor Eogeri de Thornton, salutem. Sciatis me in viduitate et ligittima potestate mea concessisse, 286 BIOGEAPHIA relaxasse, et presenti carta mea quietum clamasse, de me et heredibus meis imperpetuum, Deo et Monachis Ecclesie sancte Marie de Fontibus, totum jus et clameum quod unquam habui, aut habere potui, nomine dotis, jure hereditario, aut aliquo modo alio, in omnibus terris, possessionibus, redditibus, et rebus aliis, que fuerunt quondam Eogeri de Thorneton, viri mei, in villa et territorio de Eland. Tenend. et habend. dictis Monachis in perpetuam eleemosinam, soluta, libera, et quieta, sicut carta predicti Eogeri, viri mei, quam dicti Monachi habent, inde confecta testatur. — Ita quod ego, vel heredes mei, vel aliquis alius per nos clameum vel calump niam versus predictos Monachos de predictis omnibus movere non poterimus imperpetuum. In huius rei testimonium presenti scripto Sigillum meum apposui. Dat. apud Ebor. die Mercurii proximo post festum Sancte Trenitatis, Itiner- antibus Justiciariis Domini Eegis, Domino A'obate de Burgo Sancti Petri, Eogero de Thurkelby, Petro de Percye, Nicholao de Handelon, Johanne de Wywill, A" R. R. Henr. quadrag- essimo primo. Hiis testibus Johanne de Eland, Matheo de Shepley, Ada de Whitewodd, Johanne de Lascy, Johanne Clerico, Fratre ejus, Michaele Talvas Willielmo de Alnaldlay, Roberto de Povel, et aliis." In Hopkinson's MSS. vol. I. fol. 15, is the following entry : " Donatio et confirmatio Monasterio de Fontibus, a WiU- ielmo de Horbury, per cartam suam factam Abbati et Monachis, de omnibus edificiis et curt, et gardin. que fuerunt Henrici de Eland ad Awnleiam, in puram et perpet. Eleemos. Etiam donatio, et concessio, et confirmatio Tho. de Horbury, per cartam suam factam eisdem Abbati et Monachis, de omni quod habuit in Swinrode, in terra de Eland, in pur. et perpet. Eleemos. Donatio etiam et confirm. Thome fil. Will, de Horbury, per cart, suam fact, predict. Abb. et Mon. de tota terra et de bosco que ad ipsum, vel heredes suos pertinebant, in Aunley, in pur. et perpet. Eleemos. Donatio etiam que idem Tho. per cart, suam fecit eisdem Abb. et Mon. de omni quod ad ipsum pertinebat in Kildercar, et in Pighill, cum toto prato quod iidem Abbas et Monachi prius habuerunt de Patre suo in Eland, et de comuni pastura totius Ville de Eland, nee non de libero transitu per feodum suum ubiq ; extra bladum et pratum ad ipsos, et ad omnes res suas, et de omnibus necessarUs in boscis ejusd. Ville ardend. et edificand. in HALIFAXIENSIS. 28'7 predict, ter. de Annundeley, in pur. et perpet. Eleemos. Donatio insuper que idem Tho. per cartam suam fecit pre dict. Abbat. et Men. de octo acris terre in territoria de Eland, in loco vocato Eleys, cum om. pert, suis in puram et perpet. Eleemos." In Hopkinson's MSS. vol. I. fol. 79, and in the old MS. in my own possession, fol. 330, are the following : " Omnibus sancte Ecclesie filiis, presentibus et futuris, Thomas, filius Willielmi de Horbery, salutem. Sciatis me dedisse, concessisse, et presenti carta mea confirmasse, Deo et Monachis Ecclesie Sancte Marie de Fontibus, homagium et totum servicium Helye, filii Eichardi de WUrunwell, et heredum suorum, que idem Helias, et heredes sui, mihi et heredibus meis facere debebant, pro tota terra de Wlfrunwell, [now called Wormald] quam Johannes, filius Ivonis de Fekisbye, eisdem Monachis contulit in Eleemosinam. Ten- end, et habend. in perpetuam eleemosinam, solutam, liberam et quietam ab omni servitio, cum omnibus libertatibus et easiamentis ad predictam terram, infra villam de Eishword et extra pertinentibus. Et idem Monachi solvent mihi et her. meis xviii denarios ad festum Sancti Oswaldi annuatim, pro omni servitio et omni re ad eandem terram pertinente. Dedi etiam eisdem Monachis et confirmavi totum essartum de Prikescirckerode, cum pert, suis, quod est in divisis de Eland, quod jacet inter Biscopegate et Gildeker : Eeddendo inde mihi et her. meis annuatim duodecim denarios, ad idem festum Sancti Oswaldi, pro omni servicio. Et ego et heredes mei omnia prenominata, cum omnibus pert, suis, eisdem Monachis contra omnes warrantizabimus, acquietabimus, et defendemus imperpetuum. Hiis testibus, Johanne de Playz, tunc Seneschallo Comitis Warren, Hugone de Eland, Johanne de Heton, Johanne de Thoi-nhiU, Hen. de Dicton, Hugone de Eastrych, Johanne de Wittelay, Eico de Dicton, et aliis. " Omnibus Sancte Ecclesie filiis, presentibus et futuris, Thomas de Horbyre salutem. Sciatis me dedisse, et quietum clamasse, de me et herediljus meis, Deo et Monachis Ecclesie Sancte Marie de Fontibus, redditum trium solidorum, scilicet decem et octo denarios quos solebam annuatim recipere de Elia de Eissewarde, pro tenemento quod idem EUas de me tenuit, scilicet Wulrumwell ; et decem et octo denarios quos predicti Mgnaehi mihi annuatim reddere solebant, scilicet sex denarios pro terra Ade Purcell, et duodecim denarios pro 288 BIOGEAPHLl Prickstrickroode. Preterea dedi eisdem Monachis redditum duodecim denariorum in parte mea Molendini de Eland, re cipiendum annuatim a Preposito meo, et heredum nostrorum, vel ab ahis quibuscunq ; modo assignavimus partem predicti Molendini. Tenend. et habend. in puram et perpetuam Eleemosinam, solutam, liberam, et quietam ab omni seculari servicio et exactione, sine aliquo retinemento mei, vel here dum meorum. Et ego et heredes mei predictum redditum quatuor solidorum prefatis Monachis wanantizabimus et defendemus contra omnes imperpetuum. Hiis testibus Johanne Plandrensi, Johanne Thornill, Johanne de Heton, Johanne Sotyl, Jo. de Eland, Hen. de Dickton, Hugone de Eastrick, Eadulpho Tagium, et alUs." In my old MS. above-mentioned, p. 831, is also the following : " Sciant omnes, tam presentes quam futuri, quod ego Henricus de Helanda dedi et concessi, et hac presenti carta confirmavi, Deo et Sancte Marie et Monachis de Fontibus, pro salute anime mee et uxoris mee, heredum, et omnium, antecessorum meorum, imperpetuum, totam terram et past uram, cum omnibus aisiamentis, q. tenui de Gamielo filio Ulchel, et her. suis, per divisas et metas que continentur in carta quam habui de predicto Gamello. Tenend. de me et her. meis in puram et perpetuam eleemosinam, liberam et quietam ab omni terreno servicio et seculari exactione. Et ego et her. mei warrantizabimus et acquietabimus et defend emus predictam terram prenominatis Monachis. Hiis testi bus, Gilberto, Capellano de Almonburye, Eob. Parsona de Sandala, Eado de WinnviUa, Hen. filio Eoberti de Liversege." At p. 330 of my old MS. is the foUowing deed, and also in Hopkinson : " Omnibus sancte Ecclesie filiis, presentibus et futuris, Johannes de Peiiisbye salutem. Sciatis me dedisse, con cessisse, et presenti carta mea confirmasse, Deo et Monachis Ecclesie sancte Marie de Fontibus, in liberam eleemosinam, tresdecem acras tene in tenitorio de Eland, que jacent inter essartum Henrici Prykscirc et Maresaldecloh, et inter GUde- kier et Siddegate, Tenend. et habend. cum omnibus pert. libertatibus, et aisiamentis suis, infra prefatam vUlam de Eland et extra, libere, quiete, et pacifice. Eeddendo inde annuatim Hugoni de Eland, et her. suis, tres soUdos argenti HALIFAXIENSIS. 289 ad festum S. Oswaldi, pro omni servicio et exactione. Et ego et her. mei totam prefatam terram, cum pert, et aisia mentis suis, prefatis Monachis contra omnes warrantizabimus imperpet. Hiis testibus Tho. de Horberye, JoEe de Heton, Hen. de Hyperum, Hen. de Vuerum, Hen. de Digton, et ahis." At folio 331 is this, and also in Hopkinson : " Sciant omnes presentes et futuri, quod ego Hugo de Eland dedi, concessi, et presenti carta mea confirmavi, Deo et Monachis Ecclesie sancte Marie de Fontibus, in puram et perpetuam Eleemosinam, pasturam ad ducentas oves in territorio de Vuerum et de Eccleslay ubiq; extra pratum et bladum. Dedi etiam eis totam terram quam habui in God- ¦winpighill, sicut sepe includitur, sine retenemento, ad Berchariam inde faciendam, et sufficientem materiam ad eandem Berchariam edificandam, et quociens necesse fuerit reparandam de Bosco de Vuerum et de Eccleslay. Et pre terea totum pratum quod ipsi quondam habuerunt de me ad terminum, aut aliqualiter habere poterunt, apud Eland, de Asseranto meo, in Gildekar (Bosco quem Monachi inde essartari fecerint mihi et her. meis remanente.) Pro hac autem libera mea donatione, dicti Monachi concesserunt mihi, et her. meis, fimum provenientem ex ovibus, sive cum jacuerint in Bercharia, sive extra ; et nos [so in original] inveniens eis singulis annis decem careotas littorie. Ita, viz. quod Monachi eandam littoriam facient falcari et attorizari, et nos illam ad prenominatam Berchariam Monachorum per carectas nostras, vel hominum nostrorum [so in original] faciens carriari. Inveniens etiam eisdem Monachis suf ficientem materiam ad faldas faciend. dictis ducentis ovibus. — Sciendum etiam, quod si prenominati Monachi numerum. dictarum ducentarum ovium aliquando excesserint, nihil a me, vel her. meis, inde [so in original] causabuntur, si eas que superfuerunt ad summonitionem nostram amoverint. SimUiter etiam non causabunter si aliquo tempore predictum numerum in dicta pastura non habuerint. Et ego et her. mei omnia praenominata prefatis Monachis sustinebimus, warrantizabimus, et defendemus contra omnes imperpetuum. Hiis testibus Johanne Plandrensi, Jo. Tilly, Eogero de Thorneton, Jo. de Heton, Eoberto de Playnesburgh, Henrico de Sayvill, et alUs." 290 BIOGEAPHIA In a deed at Fixby, dated in 1255, being an Agreement between John, son of Hen. de Fekisby, and Hugh, son of Thomas, of the same place, concerning Hannerode, in Rastrick, this is said to lie, " inter fossam Abbatis de Fonti bus ex parte aquilonis, et terram Elene et Ysabele ex parte australi." And in another Deed, at the same place, without date, is mention made of the " Boscus Fratrum de Fontibus in Eastrick." This Wood is also mentioned in another Deed at Fixby, dated 5 Edw. III. by the name of " Boscus Monachorum." St. JOHN of JEEUSALEM in ENGLAND. In the MS. collections which I purchased of the executors of the late Mr. Bayliffe, of Leeds, I found the foUowing : " Curia Prioris Hospitalis S. Joh. de Jerusalem in Anglia, tent, apud Batley, die Jovis prox. ante fest. Ascens. A" Eegis Edw. tertii 41°. Joh. de Barksey venit hie in Curiam, et ingressus est in omnibus terris et tenementis que vocantur Cloghhouses, cum pert, in Barkisland, que Joh. de Clay quondam tenuit. Tenend. sibi et her. suis secundum con suetudinem Manerii, reddend, annuatim duodecim denarios, et duos adventus [attendance twice a year] ad Curiam de Batley. Finis Domino pro ingressu 6s. 8d." Called Clough- house to this day. ' In the old MS. in my own possession, fol. 832, is this : " Hec Indentura testatur, quod cum Henricus MUner, de parochia de Halifax, teneat de reUgiosis viris, Fratre Johanne Eadington, Priore, et fratribus Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Jerusalem, unum messuagium et decem acras terre, prati et bosci, cum pert, suis, jacent. in Shepiden, in villa de North ouram, per certum redditum sex denariorum, reddendo annuatim Preceptori de Newland, qui pro tempore fuerit, incessu suo vel decessu, et cujuslibet heredum suorum, nom ine obitus, sex soUdos et octo denarios tantum. Ad cujds summe solutionem incessu et decessu, dictus Henricus, et cujuslibet heredum suorum, fideliter, ut predicitur, facien dum ; idem Henricus obligat se, heredes et executores suos, ac tenementa predicta, omnia bona sua et catalla districtioni dictorum Prioris et Fratrum, et successorum suorum, per presentes. In cujus rei testimonium, SigUlum dictorum Prioris et Fratrum commune, et SigUlum dicti Henrici, hiis Indentatis alternatim sunt aj^pensa. Dat. apud Clerkonwell, HALIFAXIENSIS. 291 in celebracione Capituli dictorum Prioris et Fratrum, die Martis prox. ante festum Sancti Barnabe Apostoli, A° E. E. Ricardi secundi post conquestum undecimo." In the same MS. fol. 337, is the following : " Sciant omnes presentes et futuri, quod ego Johannes, filius Henrici de Barkesland, dedi et concessi, et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi. Domino et Beate Marie et Fratribus MUit. Templi Salomonis de Jerusalem, in liberam, puram, et perpetuam elimosinam, totam donationem Johannis filU Gilberti de eadem, viz. de tota terra sua quam tenuit de me, et de feodo meo, infra divisas de Barkeslande et de Bothem- laye, cum omnibus pert, et libertatibus predicte terre pertin entibus, sine retenemento, adeo liberam et solutam et quiet am, melius, liberius, et quietius, prout aliqua Eleemosina aliquibus viris religiosis potest confirmari. Predictus vero Johannes, et heredes sui, totam donationem dicti Johannis fihi GUberti predictis Fratribus contra Thomam de Horburye, et Eogerum de Thornton, et heredes suos, per tres solidos argenti, sibi et heredibus suis annuatim persolvendos, pro omni servicio et exactione seculari, warrantizabunt, et con tra omnes homines et feminas defendent et acquietabunt imperpetuum, viz. pro omnibus ser'viciis que tenuit in eodem feodo, scilicet pro servicio Walteri filii GUberti lOd. et Ade ejus fratris lOd. et Sd. pro servicio Ric. fil. Ric. et 9d. de servitio Rogeri filii Assolfi, et 4d. de servitio Eoberti filii Gilberti de Bothumlay, et 8d. de servitio Willielmi de Helis- taunes, et 2d. de servitio Eicardi filii Eoberti ad fontem de Hippham. Et ut hec mea confirmatio et warrantizacio rata et inconcussa permaneat, presens scriptum Sigilli mei im pressione corroboravi. Hiis testibus Domino Johanne de Thornhill, Dom. Johe" de Heland, Eob. de Flamburge, Michaele Talface, Jolie Clerico de Crumbholbothem, Petro Clerico de Birstall, et multis alus." In the same MS. fol. 844, is Ukewise this : " Sciant, etc. quod ego Johannes, filius Henrice de Bark island, dedi, concessi, et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi, Deo et Beate Marie, et Sancte domui Hospital. Jerusalem, et Fratribus ejusdem Domus Deo servientibus, duo asserta in territorio de Barkisland, illud scUicet assertum quod Arn- oldus quondam tenuit, et dicitur Arnoldrode, et illud assert- iim quod vocatur Williamrode, quorum capita extendunt 292 BIOGRAPHIA versus orientem super aquam que vocatur Blacborne, et versus occidentem super quoddam rivulum sicut continetur in latitudine inter Northclough et Baroolclef, cum bosco, sine aliquo retenemento, infra predictas divisas, pro salute anime mee, et omnium antecessorum meorum, in liberam, et puram, et perpetuam eleemosinam, cum libera com- munione, et cum omnibus liberis aysiamentis ad predictam viUam de Barkisland predict, in bosco, piano, pasturis, molendinis, aquis, et in omnibus aliis aysiamentis. Hanc autem donationem et confirmationem ego Johannes filius Henrici, et heredes mei, warrantizabimus predict. Domui et predict. Fratribus contra omnes homines imperpetuum." At Howroyd, in Barkisland, is the following rental of all the sums paid to St. John of Jerusalem in England, within the parish of Halifax, in 1533. " Johannes Eushworth de Coley, pro certis terris et tene mentis in Coley, 5s. Eichardus Sunderland, pro certis terris et tenementis in Shibden, 7id. Henricus Batt, pro certis terris et tenementis vocat. Hayley Hill, 6d. Eichardus Saltonstall, pro certis terns et tenementis in Shibden vocat. Godley, 2d. Johannes Northend, pro terris et ten. in Shib den, Id. ob. Edwardus Kent, pro certis terris et ten. in Whetley, infra Villat. de Ovenden, Id. Eobertus Northend, pro certis ter. et ten. in Shibden vocat. Horner's, 2^d. Edw. Kent supradict. pro Shelve-park, 4d. Eob. Deane, pro Ekersley Hall, juxta Eland, 6d. Summa totalis 7s. 6id." PEIOEY of LEWIS, in SUSSEX. The principal church in this parish belonged to this Priory, but I shall defer the account of this till I come to speak of the plaoes of worship within the parish, and there fore shall only here take notice, that at Oaks (commonly called Slithero) in Eishworth, is a deed without date, of Adam de Eland, to John, son of William de Gretland, of an acre of land in Eland West Field, to hold of the Prior and Convent of Lewis, paying yearly to the said Prior and Convent two pence at Pentecost, and St. Martin in winter, for all services and demands. This land was conveyed by another deed without date (lodged with the above) by John, son of John, son of WUliam de Gretland, to John del Clay, to hold of the Prior of Le-wis, by services due aud accustomed. HALIFAXIENSIS, 293 And again, (as by another deed at the same place,) John del Clay made a grant thereof to John his son, 18 Edw. III. to hold as above. KIEKLEES. In the Monasticon, vol. I. p. 488, is an imperfect copy (like most of the rest in that Collection) of a confirmation charter of King Hen. III. of several gifts to the Nuns of Kirklees. The original deed is now at Kirklees, where, by the favor of sir George Armitage, I took a copy of it, and that part of it which relates to Halifax parish runs thus : — " Ex dono Johannis filio Aumundi quasdam partes terre in Shelf, soil, unam terram que vocatur Wetecroft, et aliam que vocatur Hallecroft, et culturam que vocatu;- Northcroft, et communam pasture que ad prefatam villam pertinet ad quadringentas oves per magnum centum, cum tot agnis, et ad decem vaccas cum tot vitulis, et ad octo boves, et ad unum equum." Part of the royal Seal remains at this deed. Besides the lands, &c. in Halifax parish which belonged to religious houses, the clergy of a few churohes in other parts had some small claims within the limits thereof. Thus I find in a list of the tythes paid in the vicarage of Halifax, in the reign of King Henry VIII. that one John Lum, of Sowerby, paid 4d. yearly for lands there belonging to a chauntry in the church of Prestwich, in Lancashire. Also at Fixby is a deed of one John de Wridlesford to Michael Brertwisel, concerning the manor of Fekisby, in which is the following clause : " Reddend. inde annuatim Capelle S. Helene de Parnel unam libram cere ad unam ceream faciendam coram crucifixo ardendam, et ad sustin endam unam lampidem coram altar, beate Virginis Marie in eadem Capella singulis annis ardend. ad missas et ad matitinas i3ro omnibus serviciis, etc." ^^^M CHANTRY PRIESTS AT EALAND. Names. Time of Institution. Patrons. Vacant by Dom. Johannes de Brough- ' ton, Preb. J Dom. Radulphus PiUay Dom. Tho. Bogher, or ) Bower, Preb. J Dom Johannes Littestre,) (Lister), Capel. j Dom. Eich. Stoke Capell. Dom. Eob. GledhiU Dom. Johannes Halywell'l Capell ,j AprU 18, 1402 Feb. 5, 1418 July 18, 1450 May 4, 1488 Sept. 20, 14S9 Nov. 10, 1520 (Isabel, relict of Sir John 1 SayveU, Kt. (Tho. SayveU, Lord ofl 1 Thornhill | f Assign of John SayweU,! 1 Esq; 1 Sir John SayveU, Kt. The same Assigns of Henry SayveU,] 1 Esq ; 1 Eesignation Death Death Eesignation Death The above is from Mr. Torr's MS. at York, to which should be added, Jobn Syssons or Soysson, as wiU appear below. ' HALIFAXIENSIS. 295 I do not find that there was more than one Chantry at Ealand, the history of which is this. By an inquisition taken at Pontefract, 19 Eic. II. the Jurors say, that it is not to the damage of the Lord the King, if the King grant to John Neele, Parson of Tankersley, John Wath, Vicar of the church of Huddresfeld, John de Dishford, Chaplain, and WiU. de Heton, that they may of new make, establish, and found, a certain Chantry of one Chaplain in the chapel of Elande, annexed to the parish church of HaUfax ; and may give and assign to a Chaplain of the Chantry aforesaid, one messuage with appurtenances in Elande, aud a certain yearly rent of eight marks, to be perceived out of the manor of Wyke, near Okenshaw, and of one messuage, 200 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, and six acres of wood, with the appurtenances, in Himsworth. In consequence of this, the above-named persons founded the said Chantry for one Chaplain, presentable by Sir John SaviU, Knt. and Isabel his wife, and their heirs, -within fifteen days from the time of any vacation, for the said Chaplain to celebrate therein, at the altar of St. John Baptist, for the good estate of John Duke of Acquitain and Lancaster, of John SayvUl, Knt. and Isabel his wife, and the children of the said John and Isabel, and for the souls of the said Duke, and said John and Isabel, and the souls of their chUdren after death ; and for the souls of Henry late Earl of Lancaster, John Sayvill, and Margery his wife, p9,rents of said John Sayvill, Knt. also of Thomas de Eland, and Joan his wife, parents of the said Isabel, of John Eylay, Thomas Cross, Chaplain, and Eichard Schepard, of Eland, and the friends and benefactors of said John Sayvill, Knt. and Isabel, and for the souls of all the faithful deceased. It does not appear who was first appointed to this office, as the first person in the above table is one Broughton, nominated by Isabel, relict of Sir John Sayvill, between five and six years aft"! the foundation of the Chantry. This Broughton is r..«id to have resigned to one Ealph Pillay, but at what time is uncertain. I have copies of two deeds, dated Feb. 16, 1411, in both which he is called " Eadulphus de Pillay, Capellanus Cantorie de Elande;" and the same stile is given in another deed, dated 87 Hen. VI. 1459, to John Lister. 296 BIOGRAPHIA The manner of the institution to tliis Chantry may be seen in Woolsey's Eegister at York, fol. 51. from which I took the following : "Decimo die mensis Novembris, Anno Dom. 1520, Jo hannes Halywell, Capellanus ad Cantariam perpetuam S. Johannis Baptiste, in Capella de Eland, Ebor. Dioces. per mortem Dom'. Eob. Gledehill, ultimi Capellani eiusdem vacantem, ad presentationem Tho. SayviU, Gen. dicte Cantarie hac vice patroni ratione cuiusdam donationis, sive concessionis, advocationis, sive iuris patronatus dicte Can tarie, sibi et Eob". Waterhous, cum clausula ilia coniunctim et divisim per Hen. Sayvill, Arm. verum ipsius Cantarie patronum fact, admissus fuit, et canonice institutus in eadem, etc. et prestito obedientie iuramento mandatum erat directum Archidiacono Ebor. aut eius Offioiali, ad indueen- dum eundem Dominum Johannem HalyweU, aut eius Pro- curatorem, quemouncq ; nomine suo in corporalem posses sionem dicte Cantarie, etc." In the Certificate of the Archbishop of York, and others, concerning CoUeges, Chantries, &c. in the order and survey of the King's court of the augmentations, and revenue of the cro^wn, dated Feb. 14, in the 2d year (as I take it) of Edw. the Vlth, this Chantry is thus described : " The Chun trie in the Chapell of Heland, in the Poch of " Hallifaxe. John Sysson, incumbent of the foundacMi of " John Savyle, Knt. to the entent to pray for the.sowle of "the Founder, and all Xpen sowles, and to do dyvyne " service in the said chapell, and to mynystre Sacrements " in the same, havynge thereunto belonginge 1800 people." (N.B. This 1800 is wrote in a later hand, and something put out where it stands, in the attested copy on stampt paper, from whence tbis is taken.) " The same is in the Poch abovesaid, distunte from the " Poch Church two myles. The neoitie is to have divyne " service and sacrements and sacrementalls done and myn- "ystredther. Ther is no land alienate or sold sithence the " 4th day of Februarye, Anno E. R. Hen. S^'. 28°. " "Goods, ornaments and plate perteynynge to the same, " as apperyth by the inventorye, viz. Goodes valued at 13s! " Sd. Plate at 52s. First, the Mancon-house of the said " Incumbent, rented at 2s. 6d. and one annuall rente, goynge HALIFAXIENSIS. 297 "furth of the lands of Sir Henrie Savell, Knt. lienge in " Wyke, of 106s. Sd. Sum of the said Chuntrie 109s. 2d. " wherof payable to the King's Ma"^ for the tenths lOs.lld.- " And so remanyth £4 18s. 3d." In the list of pensions and annuities paid in 1553, to Incumbents of Chantries, published in Willis's History of Abbies, v. ii. p. 291. the pension to John Scisson, at Eland, is only called £5, but, from other authorities, I judge this to be a mistake. It is worth remarking, that from what has been said it evidently appears, that Eland chapel was not erected purely as a chantry chapel, since it was more than a century after its being first built that we hear of a chantry Priest there. The argument, therefore, made use of, to exclude the Vicar of Halifax from presenting to this, because it has been a chantry chapel, and privately endowed, is ill founded, both because it was set up merely as a chapel of ease to Halifax ; and supposing it had been otherwise, yet we find, that the Priory of Lewis first granted it to the Vicar of Halifax, and afterwards the King himself did the same, when, after the dissolution, he was impowered by statute to present to this hving. There was a Light kept up here in former times, as I find by deed, but when founded I cannot say. The original deed I saw at Okes, in Rishworth, importing that Walter de Frith granted to John his son a moyety of his land in Arnaldelyes, and a moyety of the land which he bought of Tho. de Thornton, lying within Boynley (Bottomley) and Barkeslond, and a moyety of the land which he bought of Hugh, son of Julian, and others, paying yearly to Hugh de Eland a farthing and half farthing (quadrant, et dim. quad rant.) to Tho. Thornton two pence of silver and one half penny, to John de Barkislond one arrow feathered with a goose feather ; and also paying yearly to the said Walter three-pence and one halfpenny of silver at Martinmass, and after the death of the said Walter the same to go to the Light of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the church of Eland (debent reverti ad Lumen beate Marie Virginis ecclesie de Eland.) There is no date to this deed, but amongst the ¦witnesses are Hugh de Eland, Hen. de Risseworth, and Tho. de Coppeley, all whom I find about the year 1287. 298 BIOGEAPHIA HEPTONSTALL. The chantries which were founded therein were these, as inserted in the Archbishop's certificate mentioned under Ealand : 1. A chantry there (no Pounder's name mentioned) worth yearly five pounds. 2. The service of our Lady there, worth four pounds yearly. From this there is a variation in Willis's History of Abbies, v. ii. p. 292 ; for under the title of Heptonstall is this : " Virgin Mary's Chantry. To Richard MicheU, Incumbent, £3 12s." But I have an old MS. wherein the sums to both agree with the Archbishop's certi ficate, as does Steven's Supplement to the Monasticon, vol. i. p. 68. Id the list of the tythes paid in the vicarage of Halifax, in the reign of Hen. VIII. is the following entry : " For the lands in Stansfeld belonging to the Chauntry of " the blessed Virgin Mary in the church of Heptonstall, 12d." LONGEYITY. In Halifax Register is this entry, Roger Brook, of Halifax, sepult. llth day of October, 1568, of the age of 6 score and 13 years. One John Roberts, of Hipperholm, also died Nov. 10, 1721, in the 114th year of his age. There was one Littleton, in Rishworth, in 1700, aged 100. Nathan Wood, near Baitings, in Soyland, was buried Dec. 25, 1704, aged 108. Deo. 8, 1708, died Peter Ambler, of Shelf, aged about 108. In the year 1757, there were seven sons and daughters of one John Firth, of Sowerby, then living and well, the eldest of which was 87 years old, and the youngest 69. HALIFAXIENSIS. 299 GIBBET LAW. The foUowing is a list, carefully collected from the Regis ter Books at Halifax, of such persons as have been beheaded there, since entries were made of such tran sactions. "Eicus Beverley [Bentley*] de Sowerby decoUat. 20 die Martii, 1541. — Quidam Extraneus capitalem subiit sententiam 1° die Jan. 1542. — JoEes Brygg, Capellanie de Heptonstal, capitalem subiit sententiam 16° Septembris, 1544. — Johes Ecoppe, de Eland, capitalem subiit sententiam ultimo die Martii, 1545. — Thomas Waite, de Halifax, capitalem subiit sententiam, & suit sepultus 5° die Decemb. 1545. — Eichard Sharpe, de North™, John Learoyd, de North™, beheaded the 5th day of March, 1568, for a robbery done in Lancashire. —William Cokekere was headed the 9th day of Oct. 1572. — John Atkinson, Nicholas Frear, Eichard Garnet were headed at Halifax, the 9th day of January, 1572. - — Richard Stopforthe was headed the 19th of May, 1574. — James Smyth, de Sowerby, was headed at Halyfax, the 12th of Febr. i574. — Henry Hunt was headed at Halyfax the 3d of Novemb. 1576. — Robert Bayrstall, alias Fernesyde, was headed the 6th of February, 1576. — John Dicconsone, de Bradford, was headed the 6th of January, 1578. — John Waters was headed at Halifax, March 16, 1578. — Bryan Cassone was headed at Halyfax, the 15th of October, 1580. — John Appleyard, de Halyfax, was headed the 19tli of Febr. 1581. — John Sladen was headed at Halyfax, the 7th of Febr. 1582. — Arthur Firthe was headed the 17tli of Jan. 1585. — John Duckworthe was headed at Halifax, the 4th of Oct. 15S6.— Nicholas Hewett, de North™, Thomas Masone, vagans, were headed the 27th of May, 1587. — Ux. Thom. Robarts, de Halifax, was beheaded the 13th of July, 1588. — Eobert Wilson, de Halifax, was headed the Sth of AprU, 1589. — DecoUatus Petrus Crabtrye, Sorby, 21 Decemb. 1591. — DecoUatus Barnard Sutcliffe, North™, 6th of January, 1591. — Abraham Stancliffe, Hal. capite truncatus, Sept. 23, • This has al-ways been recorded as Bentley, but there is not the slightest doubt that it is Beu-leii, i. e. Beoerley. There is an earlier entry in Halifax Register which -was discovered by the late Mr. E. J. Walker : " Cai-olus Hawworth capitalem subiit sentenciam Xmo die [January, 1539.] We should no doubt haye had many other instances if the Registers had been commenced earlier. 300 BIOGEAPHIA 1602.— Ux. Peter Harison, Brad. decoU. Feb. 22, 1602.— Christopher Cosin decoUatus Dec. 29, 1610.— Thomas Briggs decoUatus, Ain-il 10, 1611. — George Fairbanke, preditissimus nebulo, vulgo vocatus Skoggin, ob nequitiam. Anna, ejusdem Georgii Filia spuria, ambo meritissime ob furtum manifestum decoUati, Dec. 23, 1628. — John Lacy, perditi- ssimus nebulo & latro, decoUatus Jan. 29, 1623. — Edmund Ogden decoUatus April 8, 1624.— Eichard Midgley, of Midg ley, decoUatus AprU 13, 1624.— Ux. Johan. WUson decoUata July 5, 1627.— Sara Lume, Hal. deeoUata Dec. S, 1627.— John SutcUffe, Sk. [Skircoat,] decoUatus 14 May, 1629.— Eichard Hoile, Hept. decoUatus Oct. 20, 1629.— Henry Hudson. Ux. Samuel. Ettal ob plurima furta decoUati, Aug. 28, 1630. — Jeremy Bowcock, de Warley, decoUatus April 14, 1682. — John Crabtree, de Sourby, decoUatus Sept. 22, 1632. — Abraham Clegg, Norland, decoUatus May 21, 1686. — Isaac lUingworth, Ovenden, decoUatus Oct. 7, 1641. — John Wilkinson, Anthony MitcheU, Sowerby, decollati April 80, 1650. In all forty-nine; of which five were executed in the six last years of king Henry VIII, twenty- five in the reign of queen Elizabeth, seven in that of king James I, ten in that of k. Charles I, and two during the inter-regnum. BENEFACTIONS : CONCLUDED. 1 EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF ISAAC BOWOOCK, OF TONGUE, [tong.] Dated Feb. llth, 1669. I GIVE so much money as will buy so much land for the preferring or putting forth of five poor men's sons to trades yearly, as are not to be put forth town jprentices, or for the relief of such as are in necessity, and not through wastfuU expences, nor such as have relief from the parish, or for setting in trade or stocking such young persons as are hopefuU to make good use of it, at the discretion of my Feoffees hereafter named. — Item, I give to the townshijis of HALIFAXIENSIS. 801 Halifax and Ovenden my lands in Ossett, that the rents may be yearly bestowed after the same manner (alluding to the clause above) by my Feoffees chosen for that end, and that six- pounds thereof be given to Ovenden. — For Halifax and Ovenden I chuse and ordain Mr. Fournes, John lUingworth, WUliam lUingworth, John Hodgson, James Hodgson, his brother, Daniel Greenwood, and John Brearcliff'e, Feoff'ees for both towns jointly; and my mind is, that if any of these die, the rest shall meet together aud choose another before anything be acted ; and I give power to my said Feoffees to buy lands, to make out what I leave not in lands already purchased, to make leases, receive rents, give acquit- ances, and every such matter as may be necessary for the performance of my Will herein." In the Manuscript, from whence the above was taken, was wrote under : "A true copy, taken Sth of March, 1670, by me John Brearcliffe." This is one of the charities which Mr. Wright, p. 131, sais, he could procure no particular account of ; he has told us, however, that the farm lies at Osset-yate. The last choice for this charity, which I know of, was by Deed, dated Dec. 22, 1710, and the Trustees then chosen neglected to convey, as the Will requires, for the late Mr. John Caygil was the only surviving Trustee, and whether he took care to fill up the trust before his death is uncertain. The farm, as I am informed, lets for eighteen pounds per annum, and is capable of being raised. It is also said that there are coals in it. Samuel Sundeeland, Esq; of Harden, in the parish of Bingley, but of the family of the Sunderlands, of High Sunderland, near Halifax, gave, but whether by Will or Deed I have not seen, the sum of two hundred pounds, to purchase therewith ten pounds a year, for the use of the Vicars of Halifax Church for ever. With this money a purchase was made of a field adjoining to Southgate, in Halifax, and another in Southouram, called Bau-kimiroid. See more of this Gentleman's benefactions, in the township of Hipperholme. He was buried Feb. 4, 1676. I 302 BIOGEAPHIA EXTEACT FROM THE WILL OF ALICE CROWTHER, Widow, Dated Oct. 12, 1722. HEREBY give and devise aU that cottage, and an outhouse to the same belonging, scituate in the Dean Clough, now in my own occupation, and also all those four other cottages, or tenements, scituate and being in the Dean Clough aforesaid, (then follow the names of the oc cupants,) -with all and singular the appurtenances whatso ever unto the said cottages, or any of them belonging, or in any wise appertaining, unto Joshua Marcer, of Halifax, Hardwareman, and Timothy Scholfield, of Halifax aforesaid, Hemphecklcr, and their heirs and assigns, and the survivor of them, and his heirs and assigns for ever, as my Feoffees or Trustees, in trust to the several uses hereafter mentioned (that is to say) that they the said Feoffees or Trustees, and ¦the survivor of them, and his heirs and assigns shall for ever hereafter, after my decease, after paj'ing of all my just debts, funeral expences, and probate of this my Will, legacies, and other incident charges, distribute and pay out of the rents, issues, and profits of all my said cottages, unto and amongst such poor, indigent and poor housekeepers, and other poor people, within the town and township of Halifax, as have not any allowance from the town and township of Halifax, the same to be given and distributed by my said Trustees, by such sums of money, and to such person and persons, as they in their judgment shall think necessary and fit, and to be paid to the said poor people at Christmass yearly for ever." From an attested copy. N.B. A memorial of the above was registered at Wake field, July 5, 1723, in Book S. p. 466, No. 684. The Trustees of this Charity, about thirty years ago, assigned over their power to the Churchwardens and Over seers of the Poor of Halifax, who still execute the same. HALIFAXIENSIS. 303 EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN. Dated Sept. 22, 1728. " T GIVE, devise, and bequeath the sum of twenty I shillings per annum of lawfuU money of Great Britain, yearly, from and after my decease, to be paid to the person that reads prayers twice every day in Halifax, and for want of such usage or reading prayers twice every day, then I hereby give, devise, and bequeath the said sum of twenty shUlings yearly unto the Lecturer, or Afternoon Preacher in Hahfax Church for ever. And I do hereby charge the same shall be paid forth out of the housing in Mr. James Ingham's occupation." This is all I was allowed to take out of the above Will, and it is sufficient to prove, that Mr. Wright, p. 129, was mistaken in supposing, that the Testator had limited the times of reading prayers, as above, to eleven o'clock and two. Probably that Author (any more than myself) had never a copj' of this Will in his own possession ; for I am credibly informed, (though he is silent about it,) that Mr. Chamberlain left also six shiUings yearly, for which the twelve widows in the alms-houses are to have each a dinner and a pint of ale every Christmas-day ; likewise twenty shillings yearly for ever, payable out of the whole estate given to his daughter Mary, for teaching the Blue-coat children in Mr. Waterhouse's Hospital to write,, at the dis cretion of the said Mr. Waterhouse's Feoffees. This Benefactor died May 15, 1729. EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF ELIZABETH BINGLEY, Dated May V2, 1729. " "TT GIVE and devise all those my two cottages in or JL near the lane leading to Mount Pellon, at tbe upper end of Halifax town, with their and every of their appurtenances, now in the several tenures or occupations of me the said Elizabeth Bingley, and John Morris, the rents. 804 BIOGEAPHIA issues and profits thereof to go and be to and for the Eeader of Prayers twice every day in Halifax Church for ever ; and if prayers reading twice every day shall cease from being read, then to the Lecturer or Afternoon man in Halifax Church for the time being, for ever." Her Executor was John Holt, of Halifax. This Bene factress was born in 16S4, died May 14, 1729, and was buried on the 16th foUowing. These premises being copy hold, were conveyed by Lord Irwin, by Deed, to Trustees, for the uses mentioned in the Will. MAK-y Deake, of Halifax, widow, who was buried, as Mr. Wright sais, in June, 1729, left twenty shillings yearly for ever, to the Lecturer at Halifax, and his successors, for preaching a Sermon every second Wednesday in June for ever. John Tenant, of Halifax, Grocer, left the interest of ten pounds yearly for ever, for reading prayers twice every day in the parish Church of Halifax. He died, as Mr. Wright sais, about the year 1729. A messuage or dwelling-house in Bury-lane is the security for this. EXTEACT FEOM THE WILL OF JOHN SMYTH, of Heatli, Esq.; WHEEEAS I built a school at Halifax, I do devise and give the same unto tbose persons called Governors of Mr. Waterhouse's charity there, and to their successors for ever, for them from time to time to elect such a School-master as shall be approved of by my son, John Smyth, and his heirs, or such persons as shall hereafter for the time being for ever be owner or owners of my estate at Halifax, to be upon every vacancy nominated and put into the said school by him or them, to teach six poor boys or gUls, whose parents pay no assessments therein, to read, and not elsewhere. And I give and bequeath to the said Governors, and to their successors for ever, all that my* house in Halifax aforesaid, let to John or Thomas Bairstow for eleven years, under the yearly rent of four pounds, and * This house is in Northgate. HALIFAXIENSIS. 305 the window money, in trust only for them and their succes sors, to let, set, and dispose thereof as will be most advan tageous ior that purpose, to any person or persons, other than the School-master there, and his successors for the time being, and to receive the rents, issues and profits thereof for ever, and to pay the same over, by half yearly payments, to such Master and Masters for ever, teaching six poor boys or girls as aforesaid, there to be placed by the said Governors, or the major part of them, for ever, with the advice and assistance of the Churchwardens and Over seers of the Poor there, if desired. And I do revoke and abrogate this my last request to the Governors of Mr. Water- . house's charity, in case they or any of them, or any of their successors, shall ever suffer the said School-nia(Ster or any of his successors, to live in the said Bairstow's house or School-house, for so long time as they shall permit him or them to inhabit in either of the said houses. Item, I give, devise and bequeath to my said son John Smj'th, his Executors and Administrators, the farm in Eeavey, in the parish of Bradford, and county of York, I hold by lease under William Eookes, Esq ; wherein there is yet above eighty years to come, and will so long subsist, and is of the clear yearly value of fifteen pounds per annum, and in the present tenures or occupations of George Kellet and Thomas Dewhirst, he and they yearly paying out of the issues, rents, and profits thereof, four pounds of lawful money, by four quarterly payments in every year, to Abigail Marshall, now of Halifax, an old widow, during her natural life only, and also in trust for the several charitable uses, intents and purposes herein after mentioned and appointed, that is to say, upon trust and confidence that my son John Smyth, his heirs and assigns, shall and do pay, or cause to be paid, given and disbursed, out of the rents and profits of my said farm at Reavey, during the continuance of the said lease, the several gifts and disbursements, and to and for suoh uses, intents and purposes, and upon such terms, provisoes and conditions, subject to such limitations, devises, order and appointments as are herein after directed, devised, be queathed, ordered and appointed, viz. the sum of forty shillings per annum to the Vicar of Halifax, and his success or or successors, upon every twenty-ninth day of September and twenty-fifth day of March, by equal portions, in every 806 BIOGEAPHIA year during the said term, for preaching, or procuring to be preached, two charity sermons, in Halifax Church, in the afternoons of one Sunday in every month of June, and of one Sunday in every month of December year ly, during the said term, the first sermon to be preached in June next after my decease ; and catechize or cause to be catechized all the poor boys or girls that shall from time to time be taught in the said school in the summer seasons every year ; and in default of any and every suoh catechiz ing or preaching, it is my will and mind that nothing be paid or liable to be paid by my said son John, or his heirs or assigns, to the said Vicar or his successors tbat year, and every year any such default or neglect shall happen in ; and I give that year, and every such years, payment of forty shillings a year as aforesaid, wherein every or any such default shall happen, to my said son John, his Heirs, Ex ecutors, and Administrators. And I desire the Church wardens of the said town of Halifax for the time being, to go about the Church when every suoh sermon is preached, there to collect the charity of well-disposed persons, for the benefit of such poor children as shall from time to time be taught in the said school, in the manner now used at Wake field and Leeds. Also that my said son shall yearly pay unto the said Governors and their successors, on every twenty-fifth day of March, five shillings and six-pence, to be laid out as follows, (viz.) three shiUings and six-pence for a good and well bound Bible, with the Common Prayers and Singing Psalms in it, and eighteen-pence for the Whole Duty of Man, and six-pence for putting these letters fol lowing, 1. S. of Heath, Ksq; with the year of our Lord when so given on the back, and give the same so marked to one of the said six poor boys or girls, that shall yearly be put apprentice out of the said school (if any such there be,) if not, then to any other of the poor boys or girls aforesaid, to be yearly put out as herein mentioned. And I desire the Governors and their successors to take the trouble of exe cuting this last request, and the Churchwardens and Over seers to see it done, or else no money to be paid. And also it is my desire, that the said Governors or Feoffees, and the Churchwardens and Overseers for the poor of Halifax afore said, wUl meet every first Monday in June in every year, at some convenient place in Halifax aforesaid, to enquire into HALIFAXIENSIS. 307 the said trust, and regulate and settle the same as they shall see occasion ; and that my said son John Smyth, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, shall, out of the rents and profits of my said estate at Reavey, spend ten shillings at every such meeting or meetings." Mr. Smyth was living in the year 1730, but how long after I cannot teU. On the south end of this school is the fol lowing inscription. "Hoc eedificium de fundo extruxit pro- " priis suis sumptibus Johannes Smyth, de Heath, in hoc " comitatu, armiger, quo pauperiorum pueribonis moribus " honestentur, idem ut exemplo fuo alios ad hujusmodi opera " exoitarat, annuam quandam stipem Ludi-Magistro in per- " petuum de suo solvendum addixit anno Salutis 1726." Importing, that Mr. Smyth erected that edifice at his own charge, for the education of poor men's children ; and that he might excite others by his example to the like good works, he had settled an annual stipend for ever on the School-master, in the year 1726. Jonathan Tuknee, of Halifax, Butcher, left by Will (but at what particular time I have not learned) forty shillings yearly to the ]poor prisoners in Halifax Jail, to be given them in bread. This annuity is charged on some housing in Cheapside, in Halifax, or the street leading from the north end of Southgate to Bull Green. These are all the perpetual Charities in the township of Halifax which I know of ; except three pounds a year to be lent to three poor Tradesmen of Halifax, from year to year, by the Churchwardens, given by William Whitaker ; but of this I can give no farther account, than that it is thus entered in the second volume of the Register-books belong ing to Halifax Church. HEPTONSTALL. John Greenwood, of Cottingley, gave (as appeared by the copy of a Deed, dated Feb. 20, 1598, produced to the In quirers after Charities at Halifax, Dec. 22, 1651) the sum of forty pounds, to be lent from year to year, for ever, to the Poor of Heptonstall parish, by the discretion of the Church wardens for the time being of the said parish. The above is mentioned both in Mr. Brearcliffe's manu script, and in HaUfax Register, vol. u. 308 BIOGEAPHIA For Paul Greenwood's legacy to the Preacher at Hepton stall, see under Wadsworth. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF RICHARD NAYLOR, OF buent acees, in eeingden. Dated May 20. 1609. " "TXTHEREAS I by one Indenture or Deed, bearing V V date the tenth day of February, which was in the year of our Lord 1604, have given, granted, and con firmed unto George Halstead, Anthony Naylor, of High Hurst, in Wadsworth, Richard Naylor, of Heptonbrigg, Henry Naylor, of Eringden, and Robert Halstead, one my annuity or yearly rent of three pounds five shUlings yearly issuing forth of certain lands and tenements, with their appurtenances, in Ovenden, to have, hold, receive and take the same unto them the said George Halstead, Anthony Naylor, Richard Naylor, Henry Naylor, and Eobert Halstead, their heirs and assigns, for ever, upon confidence and trust, and to the intent only that they should, within the space of six months next after my decease, lawfully convey and as sure the said annuity or yearly rent of three jpounds five shillings unto such person and persons as I shall, by my last Will, name and appoint, as in and by the same Deed more plainly may appear. My wiU and mind is, that they the said George Halstead, Anthony Naylor, Richard Naylor, Henry Naylor, and Robert Halstead, and their heirs, and the survivors or survivor of them, and his or their heirs, shall yearly and every year, from and after my decease, for ever, faithfully disburse the said annuity or yearly rent of three pounds five shillings to the uses hereafter following, and in such sort as is hereafter declared, viz. thirty-two shillings and six-pence, the one half hereof, for and towards the keeping and maintaining of a Preacher at Heptonstall for the time, so as he be a Master of Arts, yearly, from and after my decease for ever, to be paid at the Feast of St. John Baptist, for all the year. Item, I give and bequeath the other thirty-two shillings and six-pence, together also with HALIFAXIENSIS. 309 the other thirty -two shillings and six-pence, if it shall at any time forttine that there be no Preacher at HeptonstaU for the time so being, shall yearly and every year after my decease for ever, be bestowed and employed at the discretion of them the said George Halstead, Anthony Naylor, Richard Naylor, Henry Naylor, and Robert Halstead, upon and to wards the maintaining of the poor children of and within the parish of Heptonstall." Taken from HeptonstaU Register. By Deed, dated .June 2, 1747, George Halstead, of Hougham, in Eringden, eldest son and heir of George Hal stead, formerly of Hougham aforesaid, which last George was brother and heir of Robert Halstead, late of Burnt Acres, in Eringden aforesaid, which Eobert was eldest son and heir of Eobert Halstead, of Height, in Eringden afore said, and which last named Eobert was the surviving Trustee of the Annuity left by the above Eichard Naylor, conveyed the same to Henry Cockcroft the younger, of Burlees, in Wadsworth, Jonathan Greenwood, of Hanging Eoyd, in Heptonstall, Luke Crosley, of Great House, in Stansfield, and John Sutcliffe, of Hoo-Hoyle, in Eringden aforesaid, in trust for the purposes contained in the grant of the said Riohard Naylor; in which Deed of Conveyance it is declared, that the above annuity is issuing or payable out of three closes of land, meadow, and pasture, called the Gould Pit, the Great Hay, and the south end of the Crag in Mixenden, ¦within the township of Ovenden, containing, by estimation, seven acres. Also that, upon the death of two of the said Trustees, the survivors should elect two good, able, honest, and sufficient men, inhabitants of the parish of Heptonstall aforesaid, in their room ; and this rule and order to be for ever hereafter observed, to perpetuate, as much as possible, the charitable donation of Eichard Naylor, the Testator, as aforesaid. 810 BIOGEAPHIA EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF ABRAHAM WALL. Dated Sept. 12, 1638. " nr GIVE and bequeath unto the Churchwardens, for _L the time being, of the Church or Chapel of Hepton staU, in the parish of Halifax, in the county of York, where I was born, twenty shilUngs a year for ever, for to buy three Bibles, for the use of poor men's chUdren, where most need shall be, they being capable to read in them. And I give unto the said Church or Chapel of Heptonstall, for ever, four pounds, upon condition that they, the said Church wardens, and other Antients of the same place, provide some one honest man to instruct or bring up poor honest men's children in learning. And I give unto the same Church or Chapel of HeptonstaU, for ever, three pounds yearly, for the sending and placing of one of the same scholars up to London, to be apprentice, whom the Churchwardens of the time being shaU think fittest, with the consent of a Vestry ; and if this my yearly gift to the said poor children of Hep tonstall be not duly performed, then I wholly give it to the to-wn of Halifax, to the same use, for so many poor children as the Churchwardens, and other of the Antients there, can get to be taught and brought up in learning, and the twenty shillings yearly for Bibles, and the three pounds yearly for the preferment of poor men's chUdren to prentice." From the Eegister at Heptonstall. N.B. One copy of the above Will is dated Sfept. 20, 1638, but is probably a mis take, as he only died on that day. EXTEACT FEOM THE WILL OF CHARLES GREENWOOD, Clerk, EEOTOE OF THOENHILL. Dated July 14, 1042. " ~VrO^^ foi' ^^^ touching the messuage aud tenement, JJ\ with appurtenances, in Heptonstall, situate near the Church-yard there — which I have now made into a HALIFAXIENSIS. 311 School-house, and the two messuages, tenements, and farms, and all the lands, closes, and grounds therewith, now or commonly demised, used, or occupied, with appurtenances in Colden aforesaid, forasmuch as it hath pleased God to put me in mind to build a Pree Grammar school within the township of Heptonstall aforesaid, and to make provision for some small maintenance of the annual rent or value of twenty pounds ten shillings for a School-master, who shall teach school of the children and inhabitants of the town and parish of Heptonstall aforesaid ; therefore, in the first place, my will and mind is, and I hereby devise, that the said John Greenwood, son of Eobert Greenwood, John Greenwood, of Elfaburgh-hall, William Mitchell, Thomas Greenwood, of Learings, and Eichard Robertshaw, and their heirs, and the survivors and survivor of them, and his and their heirs, shall, by force and virtue of these presents, and of the Deed of Feoffment, stand and be Feoffees, and seised of the said messuage or tenement, with appurtenances, in Heptonstall aforesaid, now made into a School-house ; and my will and mind is, that the same shall remain and con tinue for a School-house to succeeding ages for ever, unto which said John Greenwood, son of Robert, and other his co-feoffees, and their heirs, and the survivors and survivor of them, and his heirs, I hereby give, devise, and bequeath the same accordingly to the only use aforesaid : And also my will and mind is, and I do hereby devise, that the said John Greenwood, son of Robert, and other his co-feoffees, and their heirs, and survivors and survivor of them, and his and their heirs, shall, by force and virtue of these presents, and of the said Deed of Feoffment, stand and be Feoffees, and seised of the said two messuages, tenements, and farms, and all the lands therewith occupied, with appurten ances in Colden aforesaid, to the use and for the main tenance of a sufficient School-master, whioh hath weU profited in learning, for teachuig of chUdren and inhabit ants of the town and parish of HeptonstaU aforesaid, within the said School-house to succeeding ages for ever, unto which said John Green-w'ood, son of Robert, and other his co-feoffees, and their heirs, and the survivors and sur vivor of them, and his heirs, I hereby give, devise, and bequeath the same lands and tenements in Colden above- said, to the Feoffees abovesaid, and their heirs, for the only 312 BIOGEAPHIA use and maintenance of such a School-master as aforesaid, to hold of the chief Lords of the fee thereof by the services therefore due and of right accustomed." The Testator also left rents for the founding two Fellow ships and two Scholarships in University College, in Oxford, of which he had been Fellow, appointing Anthony Foxcroft, of Halifax, and Thomas Radcliffe, his Executors, the latter of whom obtained a Decree in Chancery against the former, who, for nonperformance of the said Charles Greenwood's Will was imprisoned in the Fleet, and during the time of his imprisonment, the said Radcliffe got a Sequestration of the said Poxcroft's estate in that Court, yet nothing was obtained so as to put the Testator's intentions in execution, so that the College was wronged of this benefaction, as also, (according to Groome, in his Dignity and Honor of the Clergy, p. 258,) it was of fifteen hundred pounds more, given by the said Mr. Greenwood tov/ards building a new quadrangle there. EXTEACT FEOM THB WILL OF CALEB COCKCEOFT, OF LONDON. Dated Nov. 2, 1643. " nr GIVE twenty pounds to the parish of Heptonstall, _J_ whereof ten pounds of it for Wadsworth, and ten pounds for Heptonstall and Eringden, which money shall be lent to twenty poor men, to buy them bread corn, from two years to two years, and with one sufficient surety, and to be lent by the advice of the Minister, Churchwardens, and Overseers of the Poor, and to be lent where they see most need to lend, and to be lent to such men who have no relief from the parish at all, and this in the least not to be any hindrance to the charity of those to-wnships, but a help to poor men to buy corn at best hand, and cheapest." The original of this WUl is in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury ; the above was copied from Heptonstall Regis ter. By an Inquisition at HaUfax, Feb. 16, 1651, it appeared, that, in 1647, the Minister and Churchwardens distributed the money according to the donor's Will, but it was not found that they made any account thereof to their successors or others. HALIFAXIENSIS. 318 EXTEACT FEOM THE WILL OF JOHIvT GEEENWOOD, OF LEAEINGS, IN HEPTONSTALL. Dated Feb. 10, 1687. " T GIVE, grant, and bequeath unto the owner or JL inheritor of Learings, in Heptonstall, and to the Churchwardens and Overseer of tlie same for the time being, and to their heirs and successors for ever, one annuity, or yearly rent, of forty shiUings a year, issuing out or forth of one messuage and tenement, with appurtenances, in Stans field, commonly called Dovescout, v/ith my full power to distrain for non-payment thereof, in trust and confidence, and of intent and purpose that the said owner of Learings, Churchwardens and Overseer of Heptonstall, and their heirs and successors, shall yearly pay the one moiety or half part thereof unto Daniel Town, Curate at Heptonstall, for preaching every year a Sermon upon the first Wednesday in June yearly, at Heptonstall, during his natural Ufe, if he be able in body, and can be admitted ; and after bis decease, it is my will and mind that the owner of Learings, Church wardens and Overseer, and their heirs and successors, shall pay the same to the Curate of Heptonstall for tbe time being, he performing as aforesaid for ever. And of intent and purpose also, that the said o-wner of Learings, Church wardens and Overseer of the Poor, for the time being, and their beirs and successors, shall every two or three years, at their discretion, for ever, pay and distribute the other moiety, or half part of the said annuity, with a poor man's chUd, male or female, of the township of Heptonstall, where most need is, to j)lace them apprentices to some trade or occupation to get their living without begging." Prom Heptonstall Register. 314 BIOGEAPHIA EXTEACT FROM THE WILL OF JOHN GEEENWOOD, or HIPPINGS, IN STANSFIELD, Dated Dec. 13, 1705. "T WILL that he who shall be lawfully admitted asParson I or Minister of Heptonstall, to officiate there, shall preach a Sermon upon the first Wednesday in August yearly, for ever, in lieu of which Sermon, and his yearly wages for Hip- pingsland, I give him and his successors twenty shillings yearly, for ever. Also I give unto the poor of Stansfield twenty shillings yearly for ever, to be bestowed on canvas cloth, by the Churchwardens of the same town, and their successors yearly, for ever, and to be by them distributed unto such poor persons as they, for the time being, shall think fit objects of charity, or have no relief; both which said two legacies I do hereby authorize both the same Minister and Churchwardens to have, perceive, and receive, and take out and forth of one messuage and tenement in Wadsworth, called Crimsworth, now in the possession of Joshua Dawson, or his Assigns. — And if it shall happen that the said sum of forty shillings shall be behind, and unpaid, on the said first Wednesday of August, as is said yearly for ever, that then it shall and may be lawful for the same Minister, and his assigns, and also the same Churchwardens, and their assigns, successively, for ever, to enter into the same mes suages, and tenements, and premisses, and make distress according to law." From the Register at Heptonstall. EXTEACT FROM THE WILL OF THOMAS SUNDEELAND, OF HATHEESHELP, IN SOWEEBY. Dated Nov. 13, 1721. I GIVE and devise unto Henry Cockcroft and Abraham Farrer, and their heirs, one annuity or yearly rent of twenty shillings, to be issuing and payable out and forth HALIFAXIENSIS. 815 of one messuage and lands thereunto belonging, called New House, in Turvin, and all my estate, right, interest, title, claim, and demand, into or out of the same messuage or lands, or any part thereof, provided he or they, pay yearly to such orthodox Curate, or Parson, of Heptonstall Church or Chapel, in this county, for the time being, as shall be conformable to the present Established Church of England, both in doctrine and discipline, and shall, on the second Wednesday in the month of March, for ever, preach one Commemoration Sermon, for, or on account of, my only son and child, Thomas Sunderland, whom it pleased Almighty God, in that month, to take to himself." From the Register at HeptonstaU. HEPTONSTAL CHAPEL. The parochial Chapel of Heptonstall was, in 1747, aug mented by lot, with two hundred pounds, part of Queen Ann's Bounty; in consequence of whioh, a purchasei was made of a messuage and lands thereto belonging, called West-croft-head, in the parish of Bradford, Chapelry of Ha worth, and Township of Oxnop, yielding the clear yearly rent of eight pounds ten shillings. In 1736 its clear yearly value was returned to have been ten pounds ten shillings, 3d of Queen Anne. ' HIPPERHOLME cum BRIGHOUSE. Original Endowment of Lightcliffe Chapel. RicHAED Rookes gave by Indenture, dated 1 March, 20 Henry VIII. one parcel of ground in tbe end of a close wherein the Chapel of Lightcliffe standeth, and also 18s. 4d. a-year for ever, out of the rest of the said close, towards the maintenance of a Priest there. The following yearly rents were also given to the said Chapel : ^ j By John Smith, out of his chief messuage called) ^ Royd House, - i — Eichard Waterhouse, out of his lands within thei hamlet of Priestley, - - - J 8 4 3 4 3 4 3 4 3 4 1 4 1 0 1 0 316 BIOGEAPHIA — Edmund Fau-bank, out of his two messuages, and) aU his lands at Lidyate, in Lightcliffe, - ) — James Waterhouse, out of his lands and tene-] ments in Northwood, ) — John and Thomas Thorpe, out of three chief) messuages and lands in Lightcliffe, I — Eichard Cliffe, out of Cliffe house, and lands) thereto belonging, in Lightcliffe, ) — Edward Hoyle, out of Hoyle House, and all the) lands, &c., thereto belonging in Lightcliffe, J — John Scolfield, out of his messuage and lands in ) Lightcliffe, ) — Gilbert Saltonstall, out of his messuage and) lands in Lightcliffe, J — Eichard Scolefield, out of Gibhouse, and lands) thereto belonging, ) — WiUiam Whiteley, out of his New House, and) two acres of land called Eastfield Knowle, in I Lightcliffe. - J Oeiginal Endowment of Coley-Chapel. John Eysshwoeth, of Coley, Esq; and his son John Eysshwoeth, of CoUyn, conveyed a parcel of land in Coley, within the vUl of Hipperholm, held of the capital house or hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, in England, as it lay between Edwardrode on the east, the King's common, or waste ground, on the west, Coolay Slakke on the north, and a certain inclosure called Wynters, on the south, and a yearly rent of twenty shillings, payable out of a messuage, with lands, iu Shelf. At the same time also, Matthew Oglethorp, of Thornton, conveyed a yearly rent of three shillings and four-pence out of all his lands and tenements in Hipperholm ; Eichard Eookes, of EodeshaU, a yearly rent of three shiUings and four-pence, out of a messuage, with lands, in Shelf; Thomas Fournes, of Bothes, a yearly rent of three shiUings and four-pence, out of a capital messuage, with lands, in Shelf; Eichard Haldeworth, of Hipperholm, a yearly rent of three shiUings and four-pence, out of his capital messuage and lands lying on the north side of Hip perholm ; Henry Batte, of Haylay, a yearly rent of three ' HALIFAXIENSIS. 317 shUlings and four-pence, out of a messuage and lands in Northouram ; William Cowper, of Kighley, a yearly rent of three shilUngs and four-pence, out of a messuage, with lands, called Deynehouse, in Shelf; John Boy, of Northou ram, a yearly rent of three shillings and four-pence, out of lands and tenements in Shelf ; Thomas Northend, of Hip perholm, a yearly rent of twenty-pence, out of all his free lands and tenements in Flipperholm ; and William Salton stall, of Shelf, a yearly rent of twenty-pence, out of a messuage and lands in Shelf, to certain Trustees named in a Deed, dated the 15th of November, 21 Hen. VIII. in trust, as appears by another Deed, dated the 14th of February, 21 Hen. VIII. for the use of a chapel and cemitery, to be made, founded, and buUt on the parcel of land above named ; the aforesaid yearly rents or annuities to be received yearly at Pentecost and St. Martin in winter, by equal portions, amongst other things to the use and sustentation of Eichard Northend, Capellano in the said chapel, and his successors, saying, singing, and celebrating Divine Offices therein for ever. This account is taken from two original Deeds belonging to the late Mrs. Horton, of Coley. William Thoepe gave, as appears by a Deed of Feoffment, dated the 9th of February, 28 Hen. VIII. the yearly sum of six shUlings and eight pence, payable out of his messuages, lands, tenements, &c. in the town and fields of Shelf, to be for ever bestowed at the discretion of certain Feoffees there in named, to and for the amending and repairing of highways, or helping of poor maidens towards marriage, or other things necessary; and after the death of Isabel his wife, the whole rent of the above messuages, &c. to the use of a Priest, to sing within the township of Hipperholm, and there to pray for the soul of the said William Thorpe, and others. The above Deed of Feoffment in Latin, with an English one of the same date, to declare the uses thereof, were in possession of the above Mrs. Horton, of Coley.. EoBBKT Hemingway, of Upperbrea, gave by Will, dated March 3, 1613, forty pounds, towards the maintenance of a Preacher at Coley Chapel, to be bestowed at the discretion of his Executors ; they were also given for the same purpose, by Isabel Maud, of Halifax, widow, twenty pounds; by 318 BIOGEAPHIA Agnes Royde, of Northouram, five pounds ; by Matthew Whiteley five pounds, by tbeir several Wills ; eight pounds were likewise given to the same use, by Henry Northend and Joseph Wood ; with which sums, Richard Sunderland, of Coley-hall, Esq ; and seven others, as Trustees, did purchase of one William Kershaw, of Wike, a messuage or tenement in Wike, in the parish of Burstal, with a close of land and meadow called Mappleynge, divided into two parts, in one of which the said messuage standeth ; and also a house or cottage in Wike aforesaid, and a close of land called Far- hinging Royds, divided into three closes. This purchase was made with the approbation of aU the inhabitants within the Chapelry of Coley ; and for the better explaining the true intent and meaning of the conveyance and assurance made of the premises to the said Riohard Sunderland, and others, by the said William Kershaw, and to the end the rents, &o. might for ever afterwards be employed for the use aforesaid, it was covenanted and granted in an Indenture, bearing date Oot. 11, 17 James I. made between the said Richard Sunderland and others, of the one part ; and Abraham Sunderland, of the Middle Temple, Esq ; Joseph Midgley, of Overbrea, M.A. and others, of the other part, that the said Richard Sunderland, &c. should pay yearly the said rent, by equal portions, at Martinmass and Pentecost, to the preaching Minister at Coley aforesaid, for the time being, towards his maintenance, and in no other manner, nor to or for any other use. When only three Trustees sur vive, they were to convey to others in three months. I have seen no Trust Deed relating to the above, of a later date than Jan. 3, 165S, which, with another made in the year 1637, were in the hands of Mr. Simpson, of Hipperholm. RioHAED Sundeeland, Esq., of Coley-hall, gave by Will thirty shillings a-year, for ever, out of a tenement in Shelf, to the preaching Minister at Coley Chapel. His Executors were his three sons, Abraham, Samuel and Peter Sunderland. He was buried June 25, 1684. This estate was afterwards sold by his grandson, Langdale Sunderland, Esq., to John Lum, of Westercroft, in Northouram. He also gave tythe- rents within Hipperholme cum Brighouse, amounting to twenty two shilUngs and sixpence yearly, to the Chapel at Coley, which rents, as I take it, had been parcel of the Rectory of Dewsbury. HALIFAXIENSIS. 819 William Biekhead, of Brookfoot, in Southouram, gave by Will, dated Dec. 29, 1638, the sum of five pounds, to Samuel Hoyle, of Hoyle-house, in Lightcliff, and Robert Hargreaves, of Hipiserholme, in trust, and to the intent, that they should bestow the same on some parcel of land, or yearly rent of inheritance, the one half of the yearly profit whereof should be paid yearly to the Curate or Preacher of God's Word at Lightcliffe, and the other half to the poor people of Light cliffe and Hipperholme, from time to time, to succeeding ages for ever. His Executor was his brother, John Birkhead, of Gomersal. In 1651, as appears from some minutes of an Inquisition taken in tbat year at Halifax, the above five pounds remained in the hands of Samuel, son of the above Samuel Hoyle, who paid the benefit thereof as directed. For William Birkhead's benefaction to the poor of Brig house, see under Eastrick. EXTEACT FEOM THE WILL OF MATTHEW BEOADLEY, OF LONDON, Dated Oct, IS, 1647. " ~r GIVE to my brother Isaac Broadley, of Halifax, my _|_ tenements, with all the appurtenances, situate in the township of Hipperholme, to him and his heirs for ever, provided he pay out of the same yearly, the sum of five pounds per annum towards the maintenance of a Free School, to be erected near Hipperholme aforesaid, where my Executor shall appoint. Item, I give towards the erecting of the said Pree Kchool the sum of forty pounds. Also I do give unto Matthew Broadley, (he was sole Executor, and son of Samuel Broadley,) the sum of one thousand pounds, for which Sir William Waters, and Sir Thomas Chamberlain, Knt. and Eichard Spencer, Esq ; stand bound, provided that upon receipt thereof he bestow five hundred pounds thereof, partly upon settling a convenient yearly means for the afore said Free School, and partly in providing fifty-two shUlings in bread yearly to be given by twelve-pence each Sunday, at Coley Chapel, to the poor of Hipperholme town and the Lane-Ends." 320 BIOGEAPHIA Mr. Brearcliffe's manuscript, called Halifax Inquiries, sais, that the estate left to Isaac Broadley, was called Lane-Ends, in Hipperholme ; also that Matthew Broadley's Will was dated Sep. 6, 1648; in the first Settlement Deed of Hipper holme school, described below, this Will is likewise said to have been dated August 31, 1648. These -variations I men tion, to make the discovery of the original more certain, though the first has the most authorities. May 22, 1661, an Lidenture tripartite was made between Samuel Sunderland, of Harden, Esq ; of the first part ; Matthew Broadley, of London, Gent. Executor of Matthew Broadley, late of London, Esq; deceased, of the second part ; and William Farrer, of Midgley, Esq; John Lake, of South ouram, Clerk, Abraham Mitohel, of Halifax, Stephen Ellis, Eichard Langley, Nathan Whiteley, Joshua Whitley, Joseph Hargreaves, Henry Brighouse, Joshua Scolfield, and Joseph Lister, all of Hipperholme, of the third part, reciting, that whereas Matthew Broadley, party to these presents, had received one thousand pounds, and being willing to perform the wUl and good intention of Matthew Broadley, deceased, he had, with the advice and consent of some of the principal inhabitants of Hipperholme and Halifax, agreed with the above Samuel Sunderland for the purchase of certain lands and tenements, with the sum of five' hundred pounds, agreeable to the Will of the above Testator : This Indenture therefore witnesseth, that the said Samuel Sunderland, for the said consideration, hath sold, &c. to the said Matthew Broadley, Williara Farrer, &c. their heirs and assigns, for ever, two messuages or tene ments, two barns, two stables, two gardens, two folds, aud all outhouses, orchards, lands, and all other appurtenances thereto belonging, in Hipperholme aforesaid ; and one close of laud in Lightcliffe, within the said township of Hipper holme, called Brookroyd, lately divided into ¦three closes ; one other close of land, called Highroyd Ing, and one other close of land, in Lightcliffe aforesaid, called the Heyroyd Ing ; and also one annuity or yearly rent charge of eleven pounds, issuing out of a messuage or tenement, with lands, at Brookfoot, in Southouram, and also out of a water corn miU, called Brookfoot mill, at Brookfoot aforesaid ; and also one other annuity, or yearly rent charge of thirty shillings, issuing out of certain messuages and lands in Shelf, to have HALIFAXIENSIS. 321 and to hold the said messuages, lands, rent charges, &c. to the said Matthew Broadley, William Farrer, &c. their heirs and assigns, for ever, in trust, to receive and apply the issues and profits thereof yearly, for ever, as well for the yearly payment of the said annual sum of fifty-two shillings at the Chapel of Coley aforesaid, by twelve pence to be laid out in bread every Sabbath-day, for the better maintenance and relief of the most poor, aged, maimed, needy, and im potent people of Hipperholme, and the Lane Ends of Hipper holme aforesaid, or to such, or so many of the said poor people of Hipperholme, and the Lane Ends of Hipperholme, and in such manner as the said Matthew Broadley, &c. and the survivor and survivors of them, their heirs and assigns, shall from time to time, find most necessitous and indigent, and in their discretion shall t.hink most meet to be relieved therewith, so as at no one time there be under the number of four poor persons to share and have the said charitable allowance. And also for the support, and keeping in repair of the School-house for the said Free School, to be erected in or near the town of Hipperholme aforesaid, from time to time, for ever hereafter, as often as need shall require ; and to take and employ all the residue of the said yearly rents, profits, improvements, and advantages made, or to be made, of the said premises, (which they might let to the best yearly value and advantage, so as no lease or leases thereof exceeded the term of twenty-one years, and to be made in possession, or at least not above two years before the expira tion of the old lease, or leases thereof, the old accustomed rents of the premises, or more, being reserved,) together -with the said annual rent of five pounds, for the mainte nance, stipend, &c. of one learned, able, and sufficient person, being a Graduate of the Degree of Bachelor of Arts at the least, of and within one of the Universities of Cam bridge or Oxford, to be School-master of the said Free School, to educate and instruct in Grammar, and other literature and learning, the scholars and children of the township and constablery of Hipperholme cum Brighouse only, gratis, and without any other reward, and allowance ; and the rents and profits of the said premises (suoh deduc tions as aforesaid being made) to be paid to the said School master half yearly by equal portions. If the rents became 822 BIOGEAPHIA raised to a greater yearly value, such increase and augment ation was to be employed and disposed of, for the better maintenance of the said School-master for the time being, and to no other use, intent, or purpose ; except that any suits in law or equity, or other trouble or incumbrance concerning the said premises, or any part thereof, should happen ; in which case, the Trustees were impowered to deduct the expences attending the same, out of the yearly profits of the said premises, and pay the overplus to the said School-master. When the place or room of the said School master shall happen to become void by death, resignation, deprivation, or otherwise, that then, and so often the Trus tees for the time being, or the greater number of them, were impowered, within one month next after such avoidance, by writing under their hands and seals, to nominate and appoint one other learned and fit person, qualified as aforesaid, to be School-master of the said Free School : And if no School-master is by them within two months chosen as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for the Vicar of the Vicarage of Halifax aforesaid, for the time being, by writing under his hand and seal, to nominate and appoint a meet and fit person, qualified, and at the least of the Degree aforesaid, to be School-master of the said Free-school ; the said School-master to be allowed, ordered, directed, and placed, or displaced, by the Trustees, or the greater number of them, for the time being, according to such rules, orders, and allowances as shall be made by them, or the greater number of them, in writing under their hands and seals, for the rule, government, and well ordering of the said Free-school, School-master and poor people, and as to them, and the greater part of them shall seem meet and convenient ; which rules and orders were agreed to be con clusive, and binding to the said School-master, poor people, and all others concerned therein, to all intents and purposes the same not being repugnant to the Laws and Statutes of this kingdom, nor contrary to any Ecclesiastical Canons or Constitutions of the Church of England which shall be then in force. And for the better ordering and government of the said Free-school, the Trustees for the time being were to have full power and authority for ever, to visit, order, plaoe, or displace the said School-master for the time being, and HALIFAXIENSIS. 328 to reform and redress aU and every the disorders, misde meanors, offences, and abuses in tbe said Free-school, School-master, or in any of the said poor people, or in, and touching their aUowances, government, order, and disposing thereof, and for any lewdness, drunkenness, common swear ing, profaneness, breaking the orders made for the regulating and government of the said Free-school, or for any other just cause whatsoever, as shall be, by the said Trustees for the time being, or the greater number of tbem, declared in writing, under their hands and seals, to be a sufficient cause of suspension, deprivation, and displacing, and by the same ¦¦writing to deprive, suspend, turn out, and displace the said School-master, and to elect and place another qualified as above, in his room, to be intitled to the same benefits and advantages as the School-master so deprived, &c. When only three Trustees shall be living or resident -within the township of Hipperholme, or vicarage of Halifax, they shall, together with the non-residentiaries, convey and assure the above premises, with the profits thereof, to nine other sufficient persons inhabiting in Hipperholme, or the vicarage of Halifax, so always that there be at least six of the said Trustees inhabitants in Hipperholme aforesaid. It ought to be observed, that there are several defects in Matthew Broadley's Will, suoh as, no person appointed to build the School, nor, being built, by whom or how it should be kept in repair, nor who should put in or displace the School-master, nor what children (boys or girls) or of what towns or places they were to be, nor in what art or science they should be instructed, nor whether the yearly means to be settled for the School should be by the revenue of land to be purchased with the money, or with the interest of the money, or by some employment of the stock of money, or otherwise ; nor was any one appointed to distribute the bread to the poor, nor any number of poor mentioned to whom it was to be distributed : To remedy which defects, the above-mentioned Indenture tripartite was made ; yet, not-withstanding the agreements therein contained seem to be good and necessary, yet, in the eye of the law, they are no other than arbitrary proceedings amongst other parties than the Testator himself appointed, and because not warrantable by the Will, perhaps not altogether safe to those who put the same in execution. If also any breach of trust 324 BIOGEAPHIA was to happen, or of the above agreements supposing them valid, no provision of remedy was directed for it, nor who should complain thereof if the Executor should die, or be absent out of the kingdom. Besides, the Testator's gift to his brother and his heirs, of his land in Hipperholme, pro vided his said brother paid five pounds per annum to the School, was, in construction of law, void ; for as Isaac Broadley was brother and next heir to Matthew the Devisor, the law would say, that the said Isaao took the land by descent, and not by the Will. The same was also void in law, because there was no person extant who could, by taking advantage of the condition, compel the payment of. the money ; for Isaac Broadley, who was to pay it, being also heir at law, none but himself could enter to the land for non-payment thereof, according to the provisoe. For these reasons, the said Isaac refused to pay the said annuity till the arrears amounted to sixty pounds, and the Trustees had no remedy till about the year 1661, when laying their grievances before Council, they were told, that notwithstanding the above gift of five pounds per annum could not be recovered by law, yet, as it was made to a charitable use, such as a Free-school, which is a gift within the Statute 43 Eliz. c. 4, of Charitable Uses, it might be made good by that Statute, on a Commission to be pursued out of the Chancery by virtue of that Statute, and an Inquisition thereupon to be found and taken, and a Decree to be made by the Commissioners, with a Decree of Confirmation in Court for payment, (viz.) as well of the arrearages since the Testator's death, as of the growing rent ; and though part of the land was copyhold, which cannot by law be devised or charged by a Will, yet that it might be so charged to a charitable use ; however, that the Free-school might be so charged, and so the annuity decreed to be paid out of the whole. On this "account, and for the greater security of the Trustees named in the above Indenture tripartite, application was made to a Commission for Pious Uses at Halifax, August 29, 1662, on which the Commissioners, after reciting the WUl of Matthew Broadley, and that it was by Inquisition found that the said Will had been fulfilled according to the intentions of the Testator, except that Isaac Broadley had not paid the sum of five pounds per annum as directed, or HALIFAXIENSIS. 325 any part thereof, in respect the Free-school was not erected and finished till Michaelmas last past before the date of the said Inquisition, did order, adjudge, and decree, that the several sums of forty pounds and five hundred pounds, received and disposed of according to the Will of the donor, should for ever stand firm and stable, for and towards the maintenance of a School-master to teach the said Free- school within and for the township of Hipperholme, whereof fifty-two shillings to be first taken out of the same, to be laid out and bestowed in bread, to be given by twelve-pence each Sunday, at Coley Chapel, to the poor people of Hipper holme and the Lane Ends : And that the five pounds per annum, given by the said Matthew Broadley, should stand and be kept up for ever ; and the said Isaac Broadley, his heirs and assigns, were adjudged to pay to William Farrer, Esq; John Lake, D.D. Abraham Mitchel, Stephen Ellis, Eichard Langley, Nathan Whiteley, Joshua Whiteley, John Scolfield, Henry Brighouse, Joseph Hargreaves, and Joseph Lister, Feoffees for the use of the said Free-school, nomin ated and approved of by the said Commissioners, the said sum of five pounds yearly for ever, towards the maintenance of the said Free-school erected in Hipperholme, to be paid out of the rents, issues, and profits of the lands and tene ments in Hipperholme aforesaid, at one entire payment at or upon the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel. One Trust Deed relating to the above was Dated April 30, 1697, another July 30, 1714. Samuel Sundeeland, Esq ; of Harden, in Bingley parish, (already mentioned under Halifax) gave, by indenture, made June 30, 1671, to Eichard Hooke, D.D. and Vicar of Halifax, Stephen Ellis, of Hipperholme ; Eichard Langley, of Priestley-green ; Nathan Whitley, of Rookes ; Joshua Whit ley, his brother ; William Brooke, of Ethercliffe ; and Joseph Lister, of Thornhill-briggs, and theu- heirs, all that messuage or tenement (part whereof had been converted into a School- house) and the lands, buildings, &c. thereto belonging in Hipperholme. And also aU that other messuage or tene ment, with lands, buildings, &c. thereto belonging, at Norwood-green, within the township of Hipperholme cum Brighouse, in trust, after the decease of the said Samuel Sunderland, to the use of the School-master for the time being of the Free Grammar School, for and in respect of the V 826 BIOGEAPHIA to-wnship of Hipperholme cum Brighouse aforesaid, the same School-master being thereunto lawfully licensed, and being of a degree of Bachelor of Arts at least, upon condition that the same School-master, and his successors for the time being, shall well and truly satisfy and pay, or cause to be paid, forth of the rents and profits of the lands and tenements first mentioned, the yearly rent or sum of six pounds to an Usher Master of the same school, at the Feasts of Pentecost, and St. Martin the Bishop in winter, or St. Martin and Pentecost, as the same shall happen to fall next after the decease of the said Samuel Sunderland, by equal portions, for ever, the same Usher Master to be from time to time nominated and elected by the above Feoffees and their successors, or the major part of them, and to be lawfully licensed and admitted thereunto, ¦with power of distress on the said premises to the said Usher Master, in case of non payment of the said yearly rent, or any part thereof, for twenty days after the same becomes due. And upon farther trust, that the yearly rents and profits of the other messuage or tenement, with its appurtenances, at Norwood-green, be paid to the most indigent and necessitous poor people of and within the to^wnship of Hipperholme cum Brighouse aforesaid, for ever, on the Feast-days of St. Thomas the Apostle, and the Nativity of St. John Baptist, or St. John Baptist, and St. Thomas Days, or Feasts, as the same shall happen to fall next after the decease of the said Samuel Sunderland, by equal portions, in or at the aforesaid School- house, by the Ministers, Churchwardens, and Overseers for the poor within the Chapelries of Coley and Lightcliffe, from time to time'. When the seven Feoffees above-named be came decreased by death to the number of two of them and no more, the survivors were, within three months, to elect and appoint the Vicar of Halifax for the time being, (in case he was not one of the survi^ving Feoffees,) and six of the most able and discreet Inhabitants of the township of Hip perholme cum Brighouse, or seven, if the said Vicar be one of the two surviving Feoffees, the conveyance of the premises to be made at the reasonable request and costs of the said Master and Churchwardens, and this order, way, and course to be observed, and kept for ever. The Feoffees were also to take effectual care that the said buUdings upon the Lands, HALIFAXIENSIS. 827 granted by this Deed, and the fences thereof, be from time to time kept in sufficient repair, that the charity might not be impaired. The Testator (as already observed) was buried Feb. 4, 1676. Mr. Wright, p. 127, sais, that this Mr. Sunderiand gave, amongst other benefactions, seventeen pounds a year for ever to the Free-school of Hipperholme ; to the use of the poor of Hipperholme eight pounds a year for ever ; and to the successive Curates of the Chapel of Coley five pounds a year for ever ; all which Mr. Robert Parker, of Bingley, his Executor, saw rightly and truly performed; but Mr. Thoresby's account, in his Topography of Leedes, p. 583, differs from this, for according to this Author he left yearly to the poor of Norwood-green eight pounds, to Hipperholme school eighteen pounds, and to Coley Chapel twenty shUlings. On the Sohool porch at Hipperholme is this inscription : "Libera Schola Grammaticalis Hipperholmise a Mattheo "Beoadley, armigero, primitus fundata, post a Samuele " Sundeeland aucta, qui ambo patria3 chari, et pauperibus "benefici, hoc legatum famas suas monumentum posteris "reUquere, 1661." Over the gateway leading to the School master's house, " S^- Sundeeland, Arm"^- dedit, 1671." On the inside pf the same, " Sumptu N. Shaepe, 1729." Thomas Whitley, of Sinder-hUls, gave by Will (but of what date I know not) forty pounds, to be kept up as a stock, .and the interest thereof to be distributed yearly amongst the poor people of Hipperholme, by his executors, with the assistance of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the said to^wn, according to their several necessities. The Executors were James Oates, John Whitley, of Wheatley, Michael Whitley, of Shelf, and John Whitley, of Rookes, who seem not to have put this part of the WiU in execution ; for at a ¦commission of pious uses it was decreed, August 29, 1662, that Joseph Furness, and Phebe his wife. Executors of the above James Oates ; Judith Whitley, Richard Law, and Hester his wife. Executors or Administrators of the above Michael Whitley ; Grace Whitley, and Joshua Whitley her son, Executors or Administtators of the above John Whitley, of Eookes ; and Thomas Lister, Executor of Sibil Whitley, who was Executrix of the above John Whitley, of Wheatley, should pay to the poor of Hipperholme the said sum of forty pounds, with three years interest, and twenty shillings 328 BIOGEAPHIA for the charges of prosecuting the Inquisition and Decree ; which monies not being paid as decreed, a subpoena in the nature of a Scire-Pacias was awarded out of the Court of Chancery, against the parties concerned. Joshua Oates entered into a bond of one hundred pounds, in his life-time, to secure forty shiUings a-year to the Preacher at Coley Chapel for ever, out of a parcel of land in Shelf, to be paid at Martinmass and Pentecost, by equal portions, which bond was found, in 1651, (as appears from Mr. Brearcliffe's Manuscript,) to be in the hands of one Eobert Birkhead, of Shelf. Susanna Danson was a benefactress to Coley Chapel, as appears from the following inscription on a stone erected on the right hand side of the way leading from Huddersfield to Bradford, at a place called Cockhill -clough : " Mrs. Susanna " Danson gave the two adjoining Closes to Coley Chapel for " ever, and they came into possession Oct. 1730." One account sais, she left fifty shillings yearly in lands within Shelf, for a Sermon on Good-Friday. Bounties to Lightcliffe Chapel. This Chapel had Queen Anne's Bounty by lot, in 1749 ; the purchase was at Sheard-green, in Lightcliffe ; also by benefaction in 1759, when a farm called Barley Croft was bought, at Blackshaw head, in Stansfield ; lastly, in 1763, by benefaction, in consequence of which, a contract was made in 1764, for a farm in Northouram, called Oatsroyd. In 1736, the clear yearly value of this Chapel was returned to ha-ve been, 8d of Queen Anne, ten pounds eleven shillings and six -pence ; and that of Coley, thirteen pounds twelve shillings and two-pence. MIDGLEY. Eichabd Dbyne, of Deynehouse, son and heir of John Deyne, of Myggelay, gave to John Myggelay, son of Eobert Myggelay, Eichard Sladen, of Myggelay, the younger, Eichard Patchett, of the same, William Ferroure, son and heir apparent of Henry Ferroure, Eobert Shawe, son of James Shawe, and Eobert Thomas, of Myggelay aforesaid, one yearly rent of thu-teen shiUings and four-pence, issuing out of a messuage with lands and tenements, caUed Herre- bothlegh, in Luddyngden, -within Myggelay aforesaid, to the HALIFAXIENSIS, 829 use of John Eobynson, Capel-lane, in the Chapel of St. Mary, of Luddyngden aforesaid, and his successors in the same Chapel, for the time being, for ever, and payable at the Feasts of Pentecost and St. Martin in winter, by equal portions, or within forty days after each of the said Feasts, with power of distress to the above Trustees, and their heirs, if the said yearly rent is unpaid for forty days after it be comes due as aforesaid. This extract I took from the original Deed, in Latin, lent by the late Curate of Luddenden. It was dated at Mygge lay, March 6, 17 Hen. VIII. and is in the form of a charter. It is said that Eichard Deyne left the above, because he had kiUed in a duel one Brooksbank, of Bankhouse, in Warley. John Ceossley, of Kershawhouse, in Midgley, gave (as appears from a table in Luddenden Chapel) two pounds two shillings yearly, to the Curate of Luddenden, for preaching a Sermon every first Wednesday after the sixth day of March. One account makes this only forty shillings. EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF JOHN MIDGLEY, OF MIDGLEY. " T GIVE to the Curate of the Chapel of Luddenden, I for the time being, and his survivors. Curates there, for ever, one fulling mill, or paper-mill, with one holme or croft thereto belonging, to preach a Sermon yearly, and every year, for ever, upon every sixteenth day of Feb ruary from and after my decease ; and also one loft in the said Chapel whioh was erected therein, (and is now standing,) by my deceased brother William Midgley, to and for the use and benefit of the said Curate for ever." In Luddenden Chapel is kept a Faculty obtained by the above WUliam Midgley, for erecting the loft here mentioned, dated in 1703. The money arising from this benefaction, is said, in a table in Luddenden Chapel, to be two pounds ten shUlings yearly ; but it now makes three pounds yearly, besides the loft, which raises about ten shillings more. 380 BIOGEAPHIA Edwaed Watkinson, Clerk, (Eector of Little Chart, in Kent, and D.D. but formerly Curate of Luddenden,) con veyed by Deed, dated June 2, 1782, to John Dearden, of Warley, Esq ; and Stephen Atkinson, of Midgley, Yeoman, a messuage, dwelling house, or tenement, with the ap purtenances, in Leeds, in a place there called the Vicar- lane, of the clear yearly rent of four pounds, with two cottages or tenements, with the appurtenances belonging to the said messuage, and standing in the fold or back-side adjoining, of the clear yearly rent of one pound six shillings ; and also two cottages or tenements, with the appurtenances, at Hunslet, in the parish of Leeds aforesaid, of the clear yearly rent of one pound ten shillings ; to hold to the said John Dearden and Stephen Atkinson, their heirs and assigns, for ever, in trust that they shall, with the rents and profits of the said premisses, purchase two shUlings' worth of bread, viz. twelve two-penny loaves weekly, and every week, for the benefit of twelve poor widows, viz. six within the township of Midgley aforesaid, and six within the township of Warley aforesaid ; and in default of such number of widows there, then for the benefit of the most necessitous persons in the said townships, to be distributed to them by the Chapel Wardens of the Chapel of Luddenden, for the time being, upon every Sunday in the year, soon after Morning Service ; four of the said widows to be chose out of the said township of Midgley, by the Chapel Warden of that township for the time being, and other four of the said widows to be chose out of the said township of Warley, by the Chapel Warden of that township for the time being ; and the remaining four widows by the said John Dearden and Stephen Atkinson, viz. two out of each township; and for want of such widows, and to supply their places, other necessitous persons to be chose by them in like manner, out of the said townships, so as always to make up the number of twelve ; and after the death of the said John Dearden and Stephen Atkinson, the said twelve poor widows, or necessitous persons, in their stead, shall be chose by the said Chapel Wardens for the time being, for ever, viz. by the Chapel Warden of Midgley, six out of the said township of Midgley, and by the Chapel Warden of Warley, six out of the said township of Warley ; the said twelve poor widows, or necessitous persons, to be HALIFAXIENSIS. 831 personally present at the distribution of the said bread, un less prevented by sickness, or some bodily infirmity ; the said Chapel Wardens, immediately after such distribution, to enter into the books, which were given them by the said Edward Watkinson for that purpose, the names of the said twelve poor widows, or necessitous persons, and the day of the month and year when the said bread was so distributed ; and in the absence of the said Chapel Wardens, that the said John Dearden and Stephen Atkinson shall distribute, or cause to be distributed, for so long as they shall live, the said loaves, and make choice of the said twelve poor widows, or necessitous persons, viz. six out of each township. Pro vided nevertheless, that whenever it shall happen that the rents and profits of the said premises shaU fall short to purchase so much bread, the Chapel Wardens for the time being shall only buy so much as the clear rents or profits thereof will admit of, and make distribution thereof proportion ably amongst such poor persons as aforesaid : But as at the time of this donation the rents of the said premises would pur chase more, therefore so long as the same should so continue it was the desire of the said Edward Watkinson, that each such poor person should have, upon every Trinity Sunday, sixpence in money, and upon every Sunday next before Christmas Day, twelvC-pence in money, and upon every Easter Sunday sixpence in money, over and besides the said bread, the remaining clear yearly rent to go and be de tained by the person who shall take the trouble to coUect the rents, and look after the said premises ; and if the rents shall fall short, the distribution thereof, both in bread and money, shall be proportioned thereto, so as the person who shaU take the trouble of looking after the premises, and collecting the rents, and paying the same over to the said Chapel Wardens, shall have yearly five shiUings for his or their trouble therein. N.B. The Deed signed by Edward Watkinson is to remain in the hands of the Vicar of Halifax, for the time being ; and that signed by the Trustees with the said Edward Watkinson, his heirs and assigns ; and a Memorial of the former was registered at Wakefield, August 18, 1732, in Book EE. p. 183, and number 269. The bread was first given on Trinity Sunday, 1732 ; and the Doctor gave two register books, one signed Midgley, and 882 BIOGEAPHIA the other Warley, to enter the names of the widows in, and the time when they had bread given. Luddenden Chapel obtained Queen Anne's Bounty by lot, in 1782, with which, and -with other contributions made in the Chapelry, a farm was bought in Midgley, called New- earthhead, of the yearly rent of eight pounds, as appears from a table in the said Chapel. Its clear yearly value in 1736, was returned to have been, 8d of Queen Anne, three pounds thirteen shiUings and four-pence. NOETHOUEAM. EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF EOBEET HEMINGWAY, OF OVEEBHEA, IN NOETHOUEAM, Dated March 3, 1613. " ~r GIVE the sum of ten pounds, to be lent, from time I to time, to certain of the most religious and honest poor, or decayed tradesmen, of the township of Northouram, at the discretions of my Executors and Over seer, and after their decease at the discretion of the Vicar of the parish church of Halifax, and the Churchwarden of the town of Northouram for the time being, with the assis tance of one honest and sufficient man of the said town, whom I request to take, from time to time, sufficient security for the continuance thereof." In this Will he also gave ten pounds to the Pree Grammar School near Halifax. EXTEACT FROM THE WILL OF JEEEMIAH HALL, OF DUBLIN, DOCTOE OF PHYSIC, Dated March 1, 1687. " ~r GIVE and bequeath the sum of fifty pounds sterling, I to purchase as much ground in Booth-town as will be sufficient to buUd thereon an house for two old men and HALIFAXIENSIS. 333 two old women, natives of Booth-town aforesaid, to live in, as also a little school-house ; and for the building of the said houses I also give fifty pounds more ; and in case a con venient house can be found already built, then the said sums to go for the purchase of such an house ; this said hundred pounds to be paid out of the money in my cousin Jonathan HaU's hands. Item, I give and bequeath also out of the money in my cousin Jonathan Hall's hands, the sum of one hundred pounds sterling, together with the interest of a mortgage I have for two hundred and thirty pounds sterling, upon Mr. Thomas Hodkinson's estate, in and near the town of Wentworth, of whioh I am in possession — both which sums are towards the maintenance of the poor people, and the sum of five pounds per annum to those that shall teach in the school gratis ten poor boys and girls, those that are natives of Booth-town, or near it." Of this part of the abovementioned Will, Jonathan, Abraham, and Joseph Hall were Trustees and Overseers ; of these, Jonathan died in the life time of the Testator, and Abraham and Joseph, pursuant to the Will, purchased with the said sum of one hundred pounds, by surrender, three copyhold cottages, or dwelling houses, in Booth's-town aforesaid, with the appurtenances, to the use of themselves, their heirs and assigns, for ever, in trust, to be disposed of by them, and their heirs, according to the trust reposed in them, by the said Will; they also repaired, altered, and converted the said cottage houses into four dweUings and a school-house. After this the said Abraham died, and Joseph Hall, the surviving Trustee, by lease, release, and surrender dated May 1, 1695, conveyed all his interest in the estate at Wentworth, to the use of himself, and Joseph Wilkinson, James Oates, Nathaniel Priestley, John Longbottom, Tho mas Hall, and WiUiam Bradley, and their heirs, in_ trust, that they and their heirs, and the survivors and survivor of them, and their and his heirs, should be Feoffees, and be seized of the said estate at Wentworth, and also of the said school-house and four cottages, and an annuity of twelve pounds ten shiUings, to the uses mentioned in the above Will, with this additional clause, amongst others, that the Trustees, or the major part of them, might place or displace the said School-master, and four poor people, when they 334 BIOGE.U'HIA thought proper ; and that when only three of the said Trus tees were living, they should convey to four others sufficient, and so in like manner conveyances to be ever made on the like trust and confidence. The above mortgage money being paid in, the Trustees last named purchased therewith, and with the annuity above- mentioned, an estate in Ovenden, called Brock-holes ; the purchase deed of whieh is dated the 9th day of September, 1707; and also one other estate at a place called Moorfalls, in Northouram, with five closes of land adjoining upon one another, and some or one of them adjoining to the messuage and buildings there, (excepting one coal-pit and pit-hiU in the south-east corner of one of the said closes,) and one other close of land to the said messuage belonging, lying on the east side of the highway, leading from Halifax to Brad ford (except the coals which can be gotten from under the same without digging or breaking any of the soil or ground thereof) the purchase deed of whioh is dated the 18th day of February, 1709. Of the above Trustees, all (except .John Longbottom) died without transferring thetr trust to others, and the said John, about the year 1730, conveyed to Thomas Burton, Edmund Briggs, Jonathan Longbottom, John Bargh, Benjamin WUk inson, Joseph Hall, and Eobert Wood, on the same trust as in the former Deed, and under the same covenants. Of these also the said Joseph Hall became the surviving Trustee, who, in the year 1759, conveyed to George Legh, LL.D. Vicar of Halifax, John Lister, of Shibden-haU, Clerk, CyrU Jackson, of Halifax, Doctor of Physic, Jonathan NichoU, and John Crabtree, both of Booth-town, Jeremy' Lister, of Northouram, Samuel Waterhouse, of the same plaoe, Jonathan Hall, of Eland, Benjamin Wilkinson, of Northouram aforesaid, John Watkinson, the younger, of Ovenden, John Mitchell, of Holdworth, and James Carr, of Halifax, with a partioular clause in the Deed, that when these shall,, by death, or otherwise, be reduced to three in number, the survivors shall, in like manner, convey to - - others on the Uke trusts in those presents declared. HALIFAXIENSIS. 385 EXTEACT FEOM THE WILL OF JOSEPH CEOWTHEE, OF WHITHILL, IN NOETHOUEAM, Dated Oct. 30, 1711. I Y virtue of one surrender of the same date with -B^ this my Will thereby impowering me, I do hereby give, devise, and bequeath all that copyhold messuage, or tenement, with the appurtenances, situate and being in Northouram, and all barns, buildings, closes, lands, com mons, easements, and hereditaments whatsoever to the same belonging, now in the tenure or occupation of Widow Bothomley, or her assigns, unto Joseph Wood, of Northou ram aforesaid, Yeoman, his heirs and assigns, in trust only, that the said messuage and premises, and the rents and profits thereof, may at all times, for ever hereafter, be enjoyed and received by a School-master,' duly chosen and lawfully licenced, who shall, from time to time, yearly for ever, teach' twelve of the poorest chUdren, natives of Northouram, in the new erected school on Northouram-green, whose parents are least able to pay for them there.'' From an attested copy. NOELAND. EXTEACT FEOM THE WILL OF EDWAED WAINHOUSE, Dated September 18, 1686. " "T" GIVE and bequeath to the old people and poor -JL persons.of this town of Norland, two parts of the yearly rents and profits (the whole being divided into three) which shall arise and issue out of that messuage or tene ment called Butterise, in Norland aforesaid, during the natural life of my said wife, and the third part also after her death, reserved to her before out of the same, to have and to hold the said messuage or tenement to the said poor people, and their successors, for ever, as aforesaid, and the rents of BIOGBAPHLA the aforesaid messuage or tenement to be paid at Mid summer and Christmas, by equal portions, to tbe Overseers of the poor of this town, for the time being, yearly, and the Overseers to take one or two of the Heads of the town to the distribution of the said rents, and but a little thereof to those persons which have allowances, or nothing at all of it. And I do hereby authorize the Overseers of the poor, with one or two of the Heads of the said town, to sett and lett, or to farm lett, the said messuage or tenement, as often as need shall require." In a Terrier belonging to Sowerby-bridge Chapel, wrote in 1727, it is said that Edward Wainhouse left yearly to the poor three pounds five shiUings. OVENDEN. Original Endowment of Illingwoeth Chapel. Heney Savile, Lord of Ovenden, gave one acre of land out of the waste thereof, by a Deed bearing date January 26, 17 Hen. VIII. to James Bawmeforth, and others, as Feoffees, in trust, that they should stand seized thereof to the use of a Chapel there, to be built to the honor of the Virgin Mary, paying therefore to the said Lord one red rose yearly. For this see the Eegister at Halifax, vol. ii. also the Old Church Book at Halifax. In Brearcliffe's manuscript, called Halifax Inquiries, &c. dated Dec. 22, 1651, are also these words : " Item, we find by divers other Deeds, bearing date in the time of King Henry VIII. made from the said Henry Savile, Lord of Ovenden, that he gave divers parcels of lands in Ovenden to certain Feoffees and their heirs, and in the said Deeds mentioned no use ; but after we find by a Deed, made by the said several Feoffees, in the 3d year of Queen Elizabeth, with a schedule thereunto annexed, that he gave out of the said lands certain small rents to the Chapel of lUingworth ; but the townsmen do think that the whole lands were given to the said use, and not the rents only." An Inquisition taken at Halifax, Feb. 16, 1651, runs thus : " We find that one acre of land, long ago taken in from the wastes of Ovenden, in part whereof the Chapel of lUingworth HALIFAXIENSIS. 337 is built, and one house, called Chapel-house, and a barn there unto belonging, are builded. And also one other acre of land, late taken from the wastes of Ovenden, and heretofore bought by one John Best, of George, late Earl of Shrewsbury, and others; — And also one annuity of seven shillings yearly, issu ing out of three acres and a half of land in Bradshaw, in Oven den ; — And one other annuity of five shillings yearly, issuing out of three acres of land, with the appurtenance, in Brad shaw; — ¦One other yearly rent of six shillings, yearly issuing (as we conceive) out of certain lands and tenements, with their appurtenances, in Ovenden ; — One other yearly rent of four shillings, yearly issuing out of one rood of land in Ovenden ; — One other yearly rent of two shillings, yearly issuing out of one acre of land in Bradshaw, in Ovenden ; — And one other annuity of fifteen shillings, yearly issuing out of one house or tenement, and the buildings thereupon built, and three roods of land, meadow, and pasture, by esti mation, called Sa-wre Parke, in Ovenden, were by deed indented, bearing date Dec. 25, 1640, granted and conveyed > by Joseph Wood, of Old Laughton, in Ovenden, and Luke Crowther, the elder, of Holdsworth, in Ovenden, unto John Doughty, of the University of Oxford, and others, and their heirs for ever, as Feoffees in trust, to the use and behoof of, and for the maintenance of, the Preacher of God's Word for the time being, at the Chapel called lUingworth Chapel, and of such other person or persons after him as shall preach the Word of God at the said Chapel, and officiate the cure there successively from time to time to succeeding gener ations for ever ; and for want of such Preacher at the said Chapel, then for and during such time of vacancy of a Preacher only, to the use and behoof of the poor people inhabiting within Ovenden aforesaid ; or of the Supervisors of the highways in Ovenden, for repairing and amending the highways there, at the discretion of the said John Doughty, and the rest of the said Co-feoffees, and their heirs. And we find, that the same hath been duly performed hitherto. "Also we find, that one house body in Ovenden, called Scausby, was leased by Mr. John Bairstow, and other Feoffees, for the Chapel of lUingworth, Oct. 11, 1647, to Isaac Walton, for 21 years, for one shiUing and six-pence yearly, to be paid towards the maintenance of the Minister of the same Chapel." 338 BIOGEAPHIA For the Benefactions of Eichard Somerscales, and Isaac Bowcock, in Ovenden, see under Halifax. Illingwoeth Chapel had only twelve pounds sixteen shUlings yearly of a certain endowment, 3d of Queen Anne ; it was augmented Dec. 29, 1718, with the Queen's bounty by benefaction, through the contribution of Mr. John Wilk inson, and others. The purchase deeds are dated Jan. 1, 1721. The estates bought with the four hundred pounds are all in Ovenden. One is called Lower Scawsby, to which belong thirty-five days work of land ; another Upper Scaws by, to which belong thirteen acres of land ; and a third Ainsworth-house, with some cottages, and closes of land, but no particular quantity mentioned in the deed. EASTEICK. EXTEACT FEOM THE WILL OF JOHN HANSON, OF WOODHOUSE, Dated August 14, 1621. " "T PEEELY give, devise, and bequeath unto Walter JL Stanhope, of Horsfirth, Thomas Brooke, of New- house, my sons in law, and to Eichard Law, son and heir of Eichard Law, late of Halifax, deceased, John Stanhope, and Thomas Brooke, and to Thomas Hanson, son and heir. apparent of my brother Thomas Hanson, to Edward Hanson, of Netherwoodhouse, Thomas Hanson and Eobert Hanson, of Eastrick, my cousins, one close of land and meadow in Eastrick, called the Little Southedge, which I late bought of John Goodheir, and so much of one other close, caUed the WeUclose, as is freehold land; and I intend to surrender the residue of the same close to the said persons, to the uses hereafter declared ; To have and to hold, to them the said Walter Stanhope, &c. and to their heirs for ever, in trust and confidence, nevertheless, that they shall stand and be seized of the said two closes, to pay yearly forth of the same a rent-charge of twenty shUlings towards the maintenance of Divine Service in the chapel of Eastrick, and for teaching HALIFAXIENSIS. 339 of a school there. And whereas the trade of making of cloth is a great liel]3 to many poor persons, and would be much more if men would be advised in the fear of God to make true cloth, my meaning is, that sixteen pounds of my goods shall remain as a stock in the township of Eastrick, to set poor and honest workmen in labour, but the property of the said goods shall remain and be unto Alexander Stock, Clerk, Parson of Heaton, and Ed-vi'ard Sunderland, Clerk, Preacher of the Word of God at Eland, and with their successors. Parsons of Heaton, and Preachers of the Word of God at Eland, from time to time, to succeeding generations for ever. 'Also I devise to them, the said Alexander Stock and Edward Sunderland, and their said successors, four pounds more, by them to be employed, with the said sixteen pounds, to the use of the poor afore said, according to such note of direction as I have left under mine own hand for the same, so there be no employment thereof made to any Clothier that useth either to flock or strain their cloth deceitfully." Transcribed from an old manuscript in my own possession, formerly belonging to Edward Hanson, of Woodhouse. William Biekhead, of Brookfoot, in Southouram, as appears from an Inquisition taken at Halifax, Feb. 16, 1651, and which belonged to the late Mr. Stead, of Nottingham, gave by Will, dated Dec. 29, 1638, out of his last third part of his personal estate, commonly called the ^Death's part, unto Edward Hanson, of Netherwoodhouse, in Eastrick, and Richard Law, of Shelf, the sum of five pounds, in trust, that they should bestow the same on some parcel of land, or yearly rent of inheritance, to be yearly paid to the poor people of Rastrick and Brighouse, from time to time, to succeeding generations for ever. This money was not come to the hands of the said Trustees at the time of taking the above Inquisition. ¦* For the meaning of this expression, see Burn's Ecclesiastical La-w, vol. ii, p. 782. I 840 BIOGEAPHIA EXTEACT FEOM THE WILL OF MAEY LAW, of Ealand, Dated Feb. 4, 1701. GIVE and bequeath aU those lands, tenements, and premises, with theu- appurtenances, ( at Lower Woodhouse, and in Rastrick,) which are in the tenure and occupation of John Bottomley, Jonas Preston, and John Malinson, unto Thomas Hanson, of Bothroyd, in Rastrick, and to his heirs and assigns, and to the Minister of Rastrick, and his successors for the time being, to the uses, purposes, and intents hereafter limited and expressed, and to none other use, intent and purpose whatsoever ; that is to say, all that messuage and tenement at Lower Woodhouse afore said, in the tenure of the said John Bottomley, (being of the yearly value of six pounds or upwards) to the use and towards the maintenance of four poor widows, to be chosen within the town and township of Rastrick, at the discretion of the said Thomas Hanson, and his heirs, and the said Minister of Rastrick, and his successors for the time being, for ever. And all those messuages, lands, tenements, and premises in Eastrick aforesaid, in possession of Jonas Preston and John Mallinson aforesaid, to the use and be hoof of endowing a School in Eastrick aforesaid, for the teaching and instructing twenty poor children to read and ¦write, to be chosen within the town of Eastrick and Brig house, at the discretion as abovementioned." The widows have each thirty shillings clear, and the School-master eleven pounds yearly. Easteick Chapel received Queen Anne's bounty in 1720, by means of Sir John Armitage, and John Bedford, Esq ; before which the retumed certaintj' was five pounds per annum. I have the copy of a Deed, dated June 11, 1605, reciting, that whereas John Thornhill, and others, had Xietitioned Sir John Fortescue, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, she'wing, that there had time immemorial been an antient Chapel within the township of Eastrick, called St. Matthew's Chapel, -within which divine service had been celebrated, and also a school for tbe education of youth above fifty years ago, which Chapel, for want of due main tenance for keeping a Curate there, had for the greatest part HALIFAXIENSIS. 341 of fifty years last past been profaned, and. converted to other uses, till it was reformed by the statute temp. Eliz. for re-nving of things given to charitable uses ; since which time the said John Thornhill, and others, had bestowed great sums of money in repairing and enlarging the same, and maintaining divine service therein for a year last past ; and that every Sunday and holiday a great number of people did resort thereto, and were likely so to do if divine service were continued, for that a great part of the inhabitants of the said township were two mUes distant from their Parish Church of Eland, the ways foul in winter, and the cause ways decayed for want of repairing ; by reason whereof many who were willing to be present at divine service at Eland twice a day, were inforced in the afternoons to be absent ; and many of the younger sort had taken occasion thereby to occupy themselves on Sundays and holidays in the after noons at unlawful games ; which abuses had been greatly reformed the last year, and were likely to continue so, if divine servioe might be provided for. And for that the said township of Eastrick was very small, consisting of not above twenty-four families, and the greatest part thereof poor cottagers, and the whole township not containing above twelve oxgangs of land, and therefore unable to bear the charges of celebrating di'vine service, or instructing youth in the said Chapel, and therefore humbly intreated his Honour to grant licence to the said Petitioners, &c. to inclose and improve from the waste and commons within the said town ship, some few acres of ground, as might be least hurtful to the inhabitants there, and to convert the same to the use and benefit of those who should celebrate divine service, and keep a School in the said Chapel ; for which grounds they were wiUing to pay yearly to his Majesty four -pence of new rent for every acre. On perusal of which petition, and con ference had with Sir John Savile, one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, who lived -within two miles of the said Chapel, and affirmed the contents of the said Petition to be true, and that by means thereof the inhabitants of the manor of Brighouse, whioh are more remote from the Church than the inhabitants of Rastrick, may Hkewise resort to the said Chapel ; also that none had right of common in the said inclosures to be made, except the said Petitioners, and 342 BIOGEAPHIA others the inhabitants of Rastrick aforesaid : It is, there fore, this llth day of June, 3d James, ordered and decreed by the said Chancellor, that the Steward of the Manor of Wakefield should grant, by Copy of Court-roU, ten acres of said wastes and commons to said Petitioners and their heirs according to the custom of said manor, to be inclosed and improved, for the maintenance of some honest person, from time to time, who shaU say di-vine ser-vice in the said Chapel as aforesaid, the said Petitioners paying yearly four-pence for every acrC so inclosed, at the Feast of St. Michael, to the Grave of the said township of Rastrick. RISHWORTH. EXTEACT FEOM THE WILL OF JOHN WHEELWEIGHT, OF NOETH SHIELDS, Dated October 14, 1724. " 'T GIVE, devise and bequeath all and singular my J_ messuages, houses, lands, tenements, and here ditaments whatsoever, situate and being in the county of York and elsewhere, unto John Wheelwright, of Norland, in the county of York, Miller ; Ely Dyson, of Clay-house, in the county of York, Merchant ; and Abraham Thomas', of Dewsbury, in the said county of York, Clothier ; upon trust, for the buildiog a School at Dewsbury : And upon this farther trust also, that the said John "Wheelwright, Ely Dyson, and Abraham Thomas, do and shall, with aU conve nient speed after my decease, out of my personal estate herein after devised to them, pay and apply the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds for the building of a School at Rushworth, in the said county of York, and that my said Trustees for the time being do and shaU also out of my real estate pay the yearly sum of ten pounds to a School-master for ever, at four equal quarterly payments, to wit, at Candle- mass, May-day, Lammas, and Martinmass, in every year, for the teaching and instructing of twent;^ boys ^nd girls, to be chosen by my said Trustees, from time to time, out of HALIFAXIENSIS. 343 the poorest tenants children, living on any of my estates ; and so many of the boys and girls as shall not be elected out of my said tenants children, shall be chosen by my Trustees, for the time being, out of the poor of the parish where the said School stands, the said Master to teach them to read and to write, and to prepare as many boys for the Latin tongue as my said Trustees shall .judge to have capacity to learn the same : And I do hereby order that the said twenty children do always consist of more boys than girls. And my will further is, that my said Trustees do and shall, out of my said estate, pa.y, at four equal quarterly payments, to wit. Candlemas, May-day, Lammas, and Martin mass, in every year, the clear yearly sum of forty pounds to a School-master for ever, sufficiently in structed and skiUed in the Latin and Greek languages, and of sound principles, according to the doctrine of the Church of England by law established, who shall teach and instruct as many of the aforesaid poor boys as shall from to time to time become fit to learn the Latin and Greek tongues ; and that the said number of twenty boys and girls to be taught by the said two Masters as aforesaid, be from time to time kept up, and still to consist of a majority of boys. And I give full power to. my said Trustees for the time being, or any two of them, to choose such School-master and School masters, and from time to time to plaoe, and for any misde meanour, neglect, or other just cause, to displace them, or any of them, according to their discretion. And my wiU further is, aud I do hereby order, direct, and appoint, that my dweUing-house, commonly called by the name of Goat- house, in Rushworth aforesaid, be fitted up and made con venient, and so continued by my said Trustees, for the lodging of the said two Masters, and also for the lodging, boarding, and entertaining of the twenty boys and girls beforemen- tioned, for ever. And I also order, wiU, and direct, that my said Trustees, and such other person and persons as shall be duly elected in their or any of their steads and places, . after their, any, or every of their deaths and deceases, do, and shall yearly, for ever, pay and apply out of my said estate, the sum of five pounds for the maintenance of each of the said twenty boys and girls at the said Goat-house, the same to be paid at equal payments, to such person and persons as shall from time to time have the care and management of 344 BIOGEAPHIA the said boys and girls, at the end of every week : And also that my said Trustees do, and shall yearly for ever, pay to a sober, discreet, and careful woman, to be employed in the dressing of victuals, washing, bed-making, and other the necessary looking after the twenty boys and girls aforesaid, the sum of ten pounds, at four equal quarterly payments, (to wit,) at Candlemass, May-day, Lammas, and Martinmass, in every year, such woman to be chosen and displaced, from time to time, by my said Trustees, as they shall see cause. And my will also is, that the said Goat-house shaU be sufficiently furnished, and kept furnished, by my said Trustees, with beds, bedding, and aU other necessary furni ture, for the entertainment and intent aforesaid, out of my said estate. And I do also hereby will, order, and direct, that each and every of the said boys shall, at his age of six teen years, or thereabouts, have the sum of five pounds paid or applied by my said Trustees, out of my said estate, for and towards the fitting him for, or putting him an apprentice to some trade, occupation, or business, such trade or occu pation to be in the choice of the boy and his parents, or relations, except only one of the said boys, that shall be best capable of University education, which I do hereby order shall, at the age of eighteen years, or so soon as he shall have school learning sufficient, be sent to Cambridge or Oxford, and shall be there maintained by my said Trustees, out of my said estate, at the rate of forty pounds per annum for four years, and no longer ; after the expiration of which four years, another boy shall be sent upon the same footing as the former, and so to be continued one after another for ever ; all and every such boy and boys to be from time to time chosen and elected by the said Trustees, or the majority of them, -with advice of the Head School-master for the time being. Item, I give all my houshold goods whatsoever, with all my books that belong to me, either at North Shields, or any where in Yorkshire, towards the furnishing the aforesaid Goat-house, the said books to be catalogued, and carefully placed in some fit room, towards the foundation of a library, for the use of the twenty boys and girls aforesaid, and the said two School-masters. Item, my will is, and I do hereby direct, that in case the said John Wheelwright shaU die without heir male, that then it shall be in the power of my other two Trustees, or their successors, to elect and appoint HALIFAXIENSIS. 345 another person of the sir-name of Wheelwright, who shaU be invested with, and entitled unto, the same powers, profits, and privileges, as the said John Wheelwright is by this WUl, in all respects whatsoever. And I do also order, that upon the deaths of the other two Trustees, Ely Dyson and Abraham Thomas, the survivor of them, and the said John Wheelwright, or his heir male, or such other person of the name of 'Wheelwright as shall be appointed as aforesaid, do and shall elect and appoint other Trustees, whom I desire may be honest, able, and faithful persons, living in the ¦tenements wherein ¦the said Ely Dyson and Abraham Thomas now dwell, in case there be any such, and for default of such, the two surviving Trustees to choose such other person and persons as they shaU think fit to be Trustees from time to time, as often as occasion shall require. Item, I hereby order, will, and declare, that in case of any neglect or defaults happening by my said Trustees, or their succes sors, to be elected as aforesaid, in not making of such elections of Trustees as aforesaid, or in the not duly per forming the several trusts hereby in them reposed, or the non-payment of any of the bequests and charges hereby made by me upon my said estates, or any misapplication thereof, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this my Will, that then, and upon any such complaint made, and not otherwise, I do hereby authorise and impower the Arch bishop of York, for the time being, to enquire into, and rectify aU and every such abuse or default, and to put the same again upon the footing hereby intended, but without further power to intermeddle therein. Item, I do hereby will, order, and appoint, that the clear yearly sum of one hundred pounds per annum shall be, from time to time, paid out of my said estate, to such person and persons who shall more immediately be concerned in the managing and looking after the several trusts aforesaid, the said sum to be paid at four equal quarterly payments in every year. And I do hereby appoint the said John Wheelwright, during his natural life, to manage and look after the same ; and after the death of the said John Wheelwright, it is my mind that the said other Trustees shall choose the son of the said John Wheelwright to manage the several trusts aforesaid, and after his decease, shall choose of the issue male of the body of the said John Wheelwright, and for default of suoh issue, 846 BIOGEAPHIA shall choose and elect another person of the sirname of Wheelwright, to manage and look after the trust aforesaid. And my will is, that all my estate, both real and personal, shall be chargeable with, and subject to, the several uses, trusts, legacies, devices, and charges, herein before mention ed ; and whatsoever surplus may arise out of and from my said real and personal estate, over and above the discharge of the several trusts, legacies, orders, directions, and devices aforesaid, the same shall go and be applied by my said Trustees to the purchasing of lands. And it is my will, that the profits thereof shall always be applied to and for tbe better maintenance and support of "the , said twenty children, or to the enlarging of the number of scholars there, or for the sending of more of them to the University, as the said augmentation may allow of, in such manner as my said Trustees shall think fit. And I also hereby will and desire, that constant prayers may be read in the said Schools every morning and evening, liy the Masters thereof, and that the said children be religiously and virtuously brought up and educated, according to the Doctrine of the Church of England as by Law established. Item, I will, and hereby order, that my said Executor and Trustees, or any of them, shall not demise or grant auy part of my several estates, for any term or terms exceeding twenty-one years, nor shall they, or any of them, receive any greater or other rents upon any such lease or demise, than the same are now actually rented at, or let for." John Wheelwright, above-named, was appointed sole Executor of this 'Will. Tbe above extract was made from a copy of the Will, lent by one of the Trustees. STANSFIELD. For John Greenwood's Benefaction to the poor of Stans field, see under Heptonstall. HALIFAXIENSIS, 847 EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF MAEY HUTTON, of Pudsay, Dated July 20, 1720. I GIVE and devise to Eobert Milnes, of Wakefield, William Lupton, of the same plaoe, Eobert Holds- worth, of Fetherston parish, Jonathan Priestley, of Winter- edge, in Hipperholm, Eichard Northorp, of Ku-kheaton parish, Anthony Ehodes, of Barnsley, and Joseph Armitage, of Heckmondwike, and their heirs and assigns, all and singular my tenements situate at Horton, Bowling, or either of them, in the tenures or occupations of William Booth and John Thornton, or their respective assigns, but upon special trust and confidence nevertheless, that my said Trustees shall, at all times after my decease, receive and take the rents, issues, and profits of the same so to them devised premises, and having thereout first deducted such sums of money as they, or any of them, shall have respec tively disbursed in or about the reparation or improvement of the said to them devised premises, or otherwise touching the same, or in or about the execution or defence of the trusts thereby to them reposed, or any of suoh trusts, or the title of the said to them devised premises, or any part there of, shall yearly, and every year, pay over the clear re mainder of such rents and profits, after such deductions as aforesaid, to such Preaching Protestant Dissenting Ministers as are herein above described, (i. e.) of the Presbyterian or Congregational Persuasion,) who shall be respectively the settled Preachers or Teachers at the several and respective Chapels or Meeting-houses now used, and duly recorded, at the General or Quarter Sessions, as places of Eeligious Worship hereinafter mentioned, (then follows the names, &c. of seven Chapels, amongst which is Eastwood Chapel, -in the township of Stansfield, and parish of Halifax,) and their respective successors, who shall respectively reside every of them within the parish in which such Chapel or Meeting-house, at which he shall so officiate as Preacher or Teacher, is situate, to and for the benefit, better mainten ance and support of such Preachers or Teachers, and their respective successors as aforesaid, and equally to be divided amongst them, share and share alike. Provided always. 348 BIOGEAPHIA and my -wUl and mind is, that in case the said seven Chapels or Meeting-houses last mentioned, or any of them, shaU Oease to be made use of as places of Eeligious Worship by Protestant Dissenters from the Church of England, having such Teachers and Preachers as aforesaid, by the space of four years, either through the restraint and prohibition of the Civil Government, or otherwise, that then, from and im mediately after such discontinuance of Eeligious Worship there, my said Trustees, theu- heirs and assigns, upon request, and at the proper costs of s^ach person and persons as, at the time of such discontinuance of Eeligious Worship there, shaU be or shall have last been Teacher or Teachers, or Preacher or Preachers, at suoh of the said seven Chapels or Meeting-houses last mentioned as aforesaid, where such discontinuance of Religious Worship shall be, or of the re spective heirs of suoh Preacher or Preachers, Teacher or Teachers, in case such discontinuance of Religious Worship as aforesaid, shall be at the same seven Chapels or Meeting houses, shaU convey over all the same tenements, so to my said Trustees devised, to the use and behoof of such seven Preachers or Teachers last mentioned, and their heirs, equally to be divided amongst them as tenants in common and not as joint tenants ; and in case such discontinuance of Religious Servioe as aforesaid shaU have been only at some or one of suoh Chapels or Meeting-houses last men tioned, then that my said Trustees shall so convey over one undivided seventh part of the same tenements so to them devised as aforesaid, to every such Preachers or Teachers of such of the said Chapels or Meeting-houses last mentioned, where such discontinuance of Religious Worship shaU have so been, and his heirs, and to his and their use and uses, and to every of suoh Preachers or Teachers last mentioned, his Executors, or Administrators, my said Trustees shall pay over one full seventh part of the whole in seven equal parts to be divided, of the clear rents and profits of the said tenements last mentioned, which shaU be or have been by my said Trustees received and raised from and after such discontinuance of Religious Worship at the said Chapels or Meeting-houses last mentioned." — On the decease of four Trustees, the survivors are, within three calender months, to choose four honest able persons. HALIFAXIENSIS. 849 Protestant Dissenters from the Church of England as now by law established, and so on from time to time. CROSTONE CHAPEL. There is 10s. paid annually to the Curate of this Chapel, for preaching a Sermon yearly in the said Chapel, on Whit sunday, from a farm in Harley-wood, in Stansfield, caUed the Jumps. _ The inhabitants of Stansfield and Langfield, as it is said, did at the first buUding of this Chapel, charge their estates therein with the annual payment of twenty pounds to the Curate, which, as appears from an old Chapel rental, was paid in 1572, and is continued to this day. SKIRCOAT. The first School-master here was one Eichard Wilkinson, whose presentation, (as preserved in the Eegister Book at Halifax Church, vol. ii.) was in the following words : " Eeverendissimo in Christo Patri ao Domino, Domino Mattheo, Archiepiscopo Eborum, Anglie Primati et Metro- politano, vestri humiles filii, Gubernatores possessionum, revenconum, et bonorum, Libere Grammaticalis Schole Domine Eegine EUzabethe, in parochia et vicariatu de Hali fax, in Com. Ebor. vestreque Ebor. dieces. salutem in Domino sempiternam. Ad Soholam Grammaticalem predictam, jam vacantem, Eichardum Wilkinson, in Arti- bus Baccalaureum, per nos electum ad officium Magistri informatoris ejusdem Schole, Dominationi vestri presen- tamus, humiliter rogantes, ut predictum Eichardum in Magistrum informatorem Scheie predicte admittatis, ceteraque omnia et singula perficere et perimplere que vestro in hac parte incumbunt officio pastorali velitis cum favore. Datum apud Bradley, in vicariatu predicto, vicesimo nono die Augusti, anno predicte Domine nostre Ehzabethe, Dei gratia, Anglie, Francie, et Hibernie Eegine, Fidei Defensoris, quadragesime secundo. In cujus rei testimonium, SigUlum nostrum commune apposuimus, die et anno supradictis." 350 BIOGEAPHIA The second Master was Eobert Birron, who was buried AprU 28, 1629. The third, (though omitted by Mr. Wright,) Marsh. This Gentleman, as appears from the book be longing to Mr. Waterhouse's Trustees, was Master in 1649, &c. The fourth was Paul Greenwood, afterwards Vicar of Dewsbury, who was Master from 1652 to 1664, when he resigned. The fifth was John Doughty, who continued Master from 1664 tiU his death, which happened in October, 1688. The sixth was Thomas Lister, Batchelor in Physic, of Jesus College, Cambridge, who died about 1727. The seventh was Christopher Jackson, A.B. who resigned in 1731. The eighth was Edward Topham, A.B. afterwards A.M. and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ; he resigned in 1733. The nuith was John Holdsworth, A.M. The tenth, Samuel Ogden, D.D. who resigned, and was suc ceeded by Thomas West, who resigned to The following inscription (wrote probably by Dr. Favour) is cut in stone over the School-house door : In favorem ReipublicEe. Terra mala, et sterilis, dumetis obsita, saxis -Horrida, quas nullis inventa est frugibus apta : Sed bona gens, populus sanctus, pietatis et ardens, Religionis opus tantum produxit, ut inde Terra bona, et possit bona gens bene dicier : ecce Sic domini terram, dominos non terra beavit ! Elizabetha diu vivat quffi talia nobis Indulsit monumenta : Deus, sic, summe, secundes Hoc opus, ut vigeat, perque omnia secula duret : Sic nos, Christe, tuo sic nostra dicamus honori. Jacta sunt Pundam. 8 Junii, Anno Dom. 159S. Elizab, Begin 86, 40. Also on a pillar within tbe School, " In memory of the Eeverend Mr. Samuel Stancliff, " descended from the antient family of Stancliff, in the " parish of Halifax, in the west riding of this county of " York, sometime of St. John's College, in Cambridge, and " Minister of Stanmore Magna, in the county of Middlesex, " who departed this life the 12th day of December, Anno D'ni, 1705, aged 75 years." This benefactor gave an hundred pounds towards the adorning and improving of this School. HALIFAXIENSIS. 351 In the 2d vol. of Halifax Eegister is a Ust of the Contri butions towards the buUding of this School, much more compleat than that in Wright, p. 20. And in vol. Ui. is an account of money collected in 1684, towards purchasing lands for the same. EXTEACT FEOM THE WILL OF BEIAN CEOWTHEE, OF HALIFAX, Dated Sept. 9, 1600. " IV /TY will and mind is, and I do, by this my present JAlL Will and Testament, give, devise, and bequeath to the Governors of the Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth, within the vicarage of Halifax, and to their successors, for ever, to the use and behoof of the said Pree Grammar School, one annuity or yearly rent of twenty pounds of lawful English money, yearly issuing, and to be received of, in, and forth, of all and singular my messuages, lands, tenenements, rents, reversions, possessions, and hereditaments, with their appurtenances, lying and being within the manor, lordship, town, or territories of Armyn, in the county of York, in the Feast of St. Martin, the Bishop, in winter, and Pentecost, yearly, for ever, by even portions, or contrariwise, in the same Feasts, as it shall happen by and after the death of me, the said Brian Crowther. — With power of distress to the said Governors, if the above rent is .unpaid, in part, or in all, by the space of twenty days after it becomes due as aforesaid." See the Eegister at Halifax Church, vol. ii. Thomas Milnee, Clerk, formerly Fellow of St. Mary Magdalen College, in Cambridge, by Will and Codicil, bear ing date 1722, made over to the said CoUege, a reversionary grant, of one thousand pounds, for the maintenance of three Scholars, to be chosen from the Schools of Haversham, Halifax and Leedes. And in the year 1786, Mrs Mary Milner, sister to the said Mr. Milner, added two hundred pounds to the above-mentioned benefaction, to be applied by the College. to the same uses. 352 BIOGEAPHIA SOWEEBY. John Foueness, as appeared to the Inquirers after Chari ties at Halifax, in 1651, did, by EoU of Court, dated Oct. 9, 13 James I, assure to George Holgate, William Greenwood, George Fourness, and Eichard Brigg, and their heirs, two cottages in Sowerby, to the use of three poor men of the said town, for ever. Also the said John Fourness did surrender, as appeared by a Copy of the EoU, one messuage, one garden, and four closes of land, in Sowerby, to the use and behoof of John Broadley, Clerk, and Master of Arts, for term of his life, and after to the use and behoof of George Holgate, and others, and their heirs, for ever, as Feoffees, to the use of suoh persons as shall be Masters of Arts, and a Preacher at the Chapel of Sowerby, for and during their times, and for want of a Master of Arts being a Preacher there, then to the use and behoof of Richard Brigg and his heirs. The above from Mr. Brearcliffe's manuscript. Geoege Foxceoft (as appears from the above manuscript) gave by WiU, dated May 20, 17 James I. ten pounds to the poor of the Chapelry of Sowerby, to be lent from year to year, by the Minister, Churchwarden, and Swornmen of the said Chapel for the time being, to the poor of Sowerby Quarter, Westfield Quarter, and Blackwood Quarter, taking security for the same, and nothing to be paid for the same. EXTEACT FEOM THE WILL OF THOMAS MITCHELL, OF SOWEEBY, Dated April 1, 1621. __" J DO hereby give and bequeath the sum of twenty JL pounds to mine Executor hereafter named, to be disposed of and bestowed as foUoweth, viz. It is my wUl and mind, that the said sum of twenty pounds shall remain in the hands of my Executor hereafter named, for, during, and untU my said Executor, together with the advice, assent, and consent of Mr. Broadley, now Preacher at Sowerby aforesaid, and if George Holgate and Edward HALIFAXIENSIS. 353 Banister can conveniently, and as speedily as may be, at after my death, bestow the sum upon one annuity or yearly rent of as great a value as possibly can be therewith pur chased. And it is my will and mind, that the said annuity or yearly rent so therewith shall be purohased and yearly paid unto the said Mr. Broadley, immediately from and after the purchasing thereof, for during the term of his natural life ; and from and after the death and decease of the said Mr. Broadley, then it is my will and mind, that the said annuity or yearly rent shall remain to the Churchwardens, Over seers, and Swornmen of Sowerby, for the time being, and to my Executor hereafter named, to be by them yearly be stowed for ever upon a Preacher at Sowerby aforesaid for the time being hereafter, so that he be a Master of Arts ; for it is my wUl and mind, that if at any time or times here after there happen to be a Preacher at Sowerby aforesaid, which shall not be a Master of Arts, lawfully allowed and proved, that then or so often as it shall so happen such a Preacher or Preachers not being Master of Arts, shall have no benefit by this my present gift, but that the said annuity or yearly rent, for want of a Preacher being Master of Arts, shall remain to the said Churchwardens, and Overseers, and Swornmen of Sowerby aforesaid for the time being, and to my Executor hereafter named, to be by them bestowed (and at their discretions) upon and amongst the poor people in habiting within the township of Sowerby aforesaid, yearly, for and until a Preacher, being a Master of Arts, shall serve and preach at Sowerby aforesaid. Item, it is my will and mind, and I do hereby gi^ye and bequeath the sum of ten pounds, to be disposed and bestowed by the Minister, Churchwarden, Overseer, and Swornmen of Sowerby afore said, and by mine Executor hereafter named dm-ing his life, as foUoweth, that is to say, it is my will and mind, that they, the said Minister, Churchwarden, Overseer, and Swornmen for the time being, shall bestow and lend the same sum of ten pounds, gratis and freely, to such three poor handycraftsmen inhabiting within Blackwood Quarter, as they shall, in their discretions, think most convenient and meet, and do most stand in need of the same ; that is to say, every man to have the sum of three pounds six shiUings and eight-pence a-piece lent to him, upon good. surety by them, and by their costs and charges to be made, 354 BIOGEAPHIA that they will well and truly j)ay the same back again to the Minister, Churchwarden, Overseer, and Swornmen for the time being, and that they may lend the said sum of ten pounds to some other three poor handycraftsmen, inhabiting within Blackwood Quarter as aforesaid, as they shall think most meet. And it is my full will and mind, that no poor handy craftsmen shaU have any benefit by this my present gift, except they do inhabit and dwell within Blackwood Quarter; and that the said sum of ten pounds shall not be distributed or lent to no more persons but only to three in any one year, equally inhabiting within the circuit aforesaid." N.B. The inaccuracies in the above were in the copy from whence this was taken. One account makes the above Will to be dated in 1613. The twenty pounds left to the Minister were laid out on some copyhold land, lying beneath Sowerby, bought of one James Dobson. EXTEACT FEOM THE WILL OF HENEY HAIGH, of Sowerby, Dated July 13, 1634. " 'T'T'THEREAS I have, by surrender, dated with these V V presents, surrendered, according to the custom of the manor of Wakefield, one messuage or tenement, and five closes, clausures, or parcels of land, meadow and pas ture, to the said messuage or tenement belonging — called by the several names of the Great Ing, Narr Croft, Little Croft on the Backside, and two townfields, parcel of ten acres of land, meadow and pasture, by estimation to the said mes suage or tenement belonging — And two other closes of land lying together — of the yearly rent to the King's Majesty of five shiUings two-pence, and for which composition is made for certainty of the fine thereof : And also one other mes suage or tenement — and three closes, now made into two closes of land and pasture, with one house or cottage there upon, with appurtenances, (aU which above demised premises are in the Will said to be in the Graveship of Sowerby, but are not otherwise described than by the names of the then occupants) which said last mentioned premises and cottages. HALIFAXIENSIS. 855 ¦with appurtenances, are of the yearly rent to the King's Majesty of five shillings two-pence, and for which Composi tion is also made with the Lord, for certainty of the fiue thereof ; all which premises contain, by estimation, thirty acres and an half ; and aU rents and yearly profits reserved upon all, or any surrender, demise, or lease, heretofore made of the premises, or of any part thereof ; and all other my customary messuages, cottages, lands, tenements, and here ditaments, with appurtenances, in the Graveship of Sowerby abovesaid, in whose tenures soever the same be, to the use and behoof of my dear and right trusty friends, Robert Priestley and Richard Brigge,'of Sowerby abovesaid. Yeo men, their heirs and assigns, for ever, by service, according to the custom of the said manor, therein to stand seized, as Feoffees in trust, to suoh uses, intents, purposes, limitations, and provisoes, as I by my last WiU and Testament should mention, limit, and declare, with a proviso for revocation, and making void the said surrender , by payment or tender of twelve pence, to such persons, and in such sort, as in the said surrender is specified, as further by the tenure thereof (reference being thereunto made) more plainly may appear : Now therefore I, the said Henry Haigh, do hereby mention, limit, and de clare, that it is my full wUl and mind, that they the said Robert Priestley and Eichard Brigge, and their heirs, and the survivor of them, and his heirs, shall be, and stand Feoffees, and courted and admitted tenants of all the said premises surrendered as aforesaid, to all the uses, intents, hmitations, purposes, and provisoes herein hereafter ex pressed, limited and declared thereupon, (that is to say,) of intent and purpose that the Preacher of God's Word, for the time being, at the Chapel of Sowerby aforesaid, being a Master of Arts, and preaching one Sermon upon every second Wednesday in these four months of the year, for ever, (viz. May, June, July, and August) shall have and receive, and take for his pains, twenty-six shillings eight-pence yearly, (viz.) six shUlings eight-pence for eaoh Sermon, to be paid monthly upon the same day wherein such Sermon shall be so made as aforesaid, forth of the rents, issues, and profits of the said two closes— in the occupation of John Bates, &o. Provided always, and it is my wUl and mind, that during so long time as the Minister or Preacher of God's Word at Sowerby Chapel abovesaid, shaU either not be a Master of Arts, or 356 BIOGEAPHIA not preach as aforesaid, the said monthly payrnent of six shiUings eight-pence shall be paid to my loving sister SibUl, ¦wife of John Hide, and her heirs and assigns. If unpaid for ten days, the persons to whom the rents belong may make distress." At Chaderton is an attested copy of this WUl, from whence the above was taken ; also a copy of the above-named sur render, and others of later dates ; the estate which has gone by the name of Haigh's Farm, is the property of Sir Watts Horton, of Chaderton, Bart. This money was once withheld for three years, on which Mr. Nathaniel Eathband, Curate of Sowerby, and M.A. pe titioned Lord Keeper Littleton. Mr. Brearcliffe's MS. sais, that it was detained in 1651, by Samuel Foxcroft. EXTEACT FEOM THE WILL OF JOHN BENTLEY, OF SOWEEBY. I GIVE and bequeath unto the township of Sowerby twenty pounds, to be employed for ever in manner and form following, (viz.) to be lent unto four poor inhabit ants of the said town, for four years, by equal portions or parts, that is to say, to each of the said four inhabitants five pounds (gratis, or without paying of any loan or other consideration for -the same) the said inhabitants putting in sufficient sureties to the Supervisors hereafter named for the repaying of the same at the end of the said four years ; and after those four years, to four other poor inhabitants of the said town for four years more, in the same manner ; and so from four years to four years, to several men, for ever ; pro vided always that the said money, nor any part thereof, be not lent to any Clothier, Indico-seller, or any that belongs to Clothing. And I do desire, nominate, and appoint, Thomas Dobson, of the Stones, and Henry Priestley, of Baytings, and their heirs, and the Ministers or Priests of Sowerby and Eipponden, for the time being, my Supervisors in trust, to see that the same twenty pounds be imployed in manner and form aforesaid. And if the same shall not be imployed as is aforesaid, then mine Executor and Overseers HALIFAXIENSIS. 857 of this my last WUl and Testament shaU recover and receive the same of the said Supervisors, and shall divide the same amongst those unto whom I have given legacies, and their children." This Trust is at present managed by Mr. John Priestley, of White-windows, in Sowerby, and the Ministers of Sowerby and Eipponden, no heir to the above Thomas Dobson being to be found. The date of this Will I have not seen, but it is older than 1651, as it is mentioned in Mr. Brearcliffe's MS. of that date. EXTEACT FEOM THE WILL OF DANIEL GEEENWOOD," D.D. Dated March 11, 1675. I GIVE to my dear brother, John Greenwood, and to his heirs and assigns, all my lands in Crowellshaws, in the county of York, upon trust, that he do yearly pay to the Minister of Sowerby Chapel, who hath officiated there by the space of one ¦whole year, the sum of forty shillings, and to the poor of Sower'by chapelry forty shillings, and these payments to continue for ever, and to be paid on the first day of June, and first day of December, or within twenty days after each day, by equal portions ; but if my said brother, or his heirs and assigns, shall neglect or refuse to pay the said payments, or either of them, then I give and bequeath my said lands in Crowellshaws aforesaid, to Edmond Tatter sail and Timothy Bentley, and to their heirs, for ever, upon trust, to pay the said several yearly payments for ever ; and my will is, that the first pay ments be made on such of the said days as shall first happen within twelve months after my decease." Taken from an attested copy at Whitewindows, in Sowerby. Edwaed Wainhouse, of Butterisse, in Norland, gave, by Will, dated Sept. 18, 1686, to the old people and poor persons of the town of Sowerby, such as did not receive aUowance from the town, two parts of the yearly rents and profits of an house in Sowerby-dean, during the life of his wife, and after her decease, the whole for ever to tbe said poor people, for the time being, and ordered that the rent 358 BIOGEAPHIA should be paid at Christmas, by one entu-e payment, to the Overseers of the poor of Sowerby, for the time being ; and that the Overseers should take one or two of the Heads of Sowerby, to see the distribution of the rents ; and also im powered the Overseers, and one or two of the Heads of the town, to let the said house to farm, for the use of the said poor persons, so oft as there should be occasion ; but the Executor, Josiah Stansfield, never made the inhabitants of the town of Sowerby acquainted with the said charitable bequest, letting the house to whom, aud for what he pleased, and reoeiving the rents thereof to his own use, for about twenty years ; on which the Overseers 'of the poor for the town of Sowerby petitioned the Justices of Peace at the Quarter Sessions, in 1708, but what relief was obtained I have not seen. EXTEACT .FROM THE WILL OF PAUL BAIESTOW, Clerk, OF EOCHESTEE, Dated March 31, 1711. " \ FTEE leaving a messuage, or tenement, with lands, _£\_ in the parish of Meoisham, in Kent, to his sister- in-law, Mary Goodwin, of Trottescliffe, for life, and after her decease, to John Tillotson, of London, James Stansfeld, of Bowood, and Henry Barrell, of Eochester, their heirs and assigns for ever, in trust, after the death of his said sister-in- law, to sell the same, and with the money arising from the sale thereof, to purchase a freehold or copyhold, estate of inheritance, in or near the parish of Halifax, the Will pro ceeds thus ; " In trust, that they, my said Trustees, shaU and do, by and out of the rents and profits of the said premises, so to be purchased in or near Halifax aforesaid, pay unto the School-master, for the time being, of the School of Sowerby, in the parish of Halifax, &c. the yearly sum of sixteen pounds, for and in consideration of his teaching twelve poor children, living within the chapelry of Sowerby, whose parents, at the time of such childrens being elected to the said School, are not worth in real or personal estate above fifty pounds, and to be nominated and chosen HALIFAXIENSIS. 359 by the Minister and Churchwardens, or Chapelwardens, of the said parish or chapelry, for the time being ; and also in trust that they, my said Trustees, shaU and do, out of the residue of the said rents and profits, from time to time, repair the tomb of my father, Michael Bairstow, and Ann, his wife, in Sowerby Church or Chapel yard, aud pay the , yearly sum of twenty shiUings to the Minister of Sowerby, for the time being, for preaching a Sermon upon every Feast day of St. Michael the Archangel ; and shall distribute the remainder of the said rents and profits, if any be, to and amongst such poor persons of the said parish or chapelry of Sowerby, who do not receive alms of the said parish or chapelry, in suoh manner as the said Minister and Church wardens or Chapelwardens .shall direct ; and that my said Trustees shall take care to transmit the estate and premises, so to be purchased in or near Halifax aforesaid, to posterity, subject to the trusts aforesaid, iu such legal and proper manner as they shall be advised by Connsel ; and that my said Trustees shall be paid all such reasonable and necessary charges out of the said estates as they shall be at in the due execution of this their trust : And in case a purchase cannot be had and made by my said Trustees of an estate in or near Halifax, for the purposes aforesaid, in a short time nfter the sale of my farm and lands in Meopham aforcBaid, then my mind and will is, that all interest that shall or can be made by my said Trustees of the principal moneys arising by the sale of my said farm and lands in Meopham aforesaid, shall be added to the said principal moneys, and be all laid out and invested in the purchase of an estate in or near Halifax aforesaid, for the uses, intents, aud purposes aforesaid, as soon as a purchase can be had." After the death of the above Mary Goodwin, Henry Barrell, the only surviving Trustee, sold the estate in Meop ham for six hundred and thirty pounds, which he soon after laid out, together with fifteen pounds fifteen shillings more, in the purchase of six hundred pounds South Sea Annuity Stock, till a purchase of an estate in or near Halifax could be met -with ; after which, he bought, for the use of the above Charity, an estate in Thornton, in Bradford parish, called Nether Headley, or Heathley, for which he paid six hundred and sixty pounds. The purchase deeds were regis tered at Wakefield, May 5, 1735, m Book G.G. page 554. 860 BIOGEAPHIA No. 779. The present overplus, after paying the School master sixteen pounds, is thirteen pounds per annum. Bounty to Soweeby Chapel. It appears by an Indenture at Chaderton, in Lancashire, dated March 9, 1722, that Eliiana Horton, of Gray's Inn, Esq ; in consideration of two hundred pounds from the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, and one hundred pounds left by Edward Colston, of Mortlack, in Surry, Esq; sold to Nicholas Jackson, Clerk, Curate of Sowerby, and his success ors, for ever. Lower Langley, alias Nether Langley, in Nor land, containmg eighteen acres, or thereabouts, of the yearly rent of seven pounds ten shiUings ; also a farm, called Birch Farm, in Sowerby, of the yearly rent of seven pounds ; like wise the Lane Ends. The bounty was obtained in 1719. N.B. Edward Colston left a large sum for the augment ation of smaU livings, and his Executors, at the request of the said Elkana Horton, aUowed an hundred pounds to Sow erby Chapel, and Mr. Horton himself allowed another hundred pounds in the purchase. The certainty at this Chapel, 3d of Queen Anne, was seven pounds yearly, accord ing to the return already mentioned ; but in Ecton's Thes aurus, twelve pounds two shiUings and eight-pence. EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF ELKANA HOETON, OF THOENTON, in EEADFOED PAEISH, Dated Sept. 19, 1728. " ~i PAVING observed that the worst case of the poor I I is a sordid habitation, I have erected six apart ments at Sowerby, in the parish of Halifax, and county of York, for the habitation of three men, and three women, aU born in the chapelry of Sowerby aforesaid, and inclosed some ground before the same, to be divided into six gardens, for their several uses ; also a middle room, or Oratory, for their daily assembling in for prayers, aU which I give to the HALIFAXIENSIS. 361 six men and women I have already put into the said apart ment, and successors, for ever, as shall be chosen by my said Trustees, and such others as their learned Counsel shall advise. I will that all the said three men and tbree women be of the age of sixty, and unmarried, and remain so during their continuing in their apartments, or be removed, or changed that condition, for this reason only, because the said apartments are not sufficient for more than one. I give unto each of the said six, two shillings and six pence a month, to be paid them at the end of each calendar month ; I will that one of the six (1) men be capable of reading dis tinctly, and that twice every day, at nine o'clock in the fore noon, and three in the afternoon, (excepting Sundays in the afternoon, on whicli day at the hour of five in the afternoon,) he assemble the other five persons, by ringing a bell, and at those hours he read a chapter out of the New Testament, and a proper Prayer out of Bishop Parker's Book of Devo tions, or some other, to which Eeader I give five shillings quarterly for doing it ; and I require that all decently and punctually be present thereat, and that such Eeader take an account of absenters, and mark them down as often as they are so, and shew the same to such Trustees as shall be ap pointed to pay them their allowances, to the end they shall deduct a halfpenny a time for every omission, and give the same to the Eeader, excepting a reasonable cause of absence be given ; I will that regard be had to the virtue and good nature of the persons chosen in, and they be such as have kept off the parish by their own industry, which I expect they continue to make out my allowance a competency, which will be better for their health and virtue, than a pro vision that would have kept them in entire idleness, my design being to reward past, and encourage future industry, that others observing the regard I pay thereto, may qualify them to be successors in the said apartments upon vacancies therein ; and I hope I may well expect that if any of the six persons shall, in a more advanced age, become incapable to work, and thereby my allowance become insufficient for their maintenance, that such addition be made by the parish as will do it, but in case of refusal, they cannot but expect such refused be turned out to their entire care, and accord ingly it siiaU be done, and others chose to succeed. I will, (1) So in the original. 362 BIOGEAPHIA that so much of my real estate, or as much other estate be purchased, as will raise yearly sufficiently for paying the said allowances clear, and also keep the buildings in good repair for ever, and if more be set out than will do it, the overplus to be divided equally amongst the said six, and be settled in trust as Councel shall advise." Prom an attested copy at Chaderton, in Lancashire. Eobeet Brooke left an house, at Hunslet, near Leedes, to the poor of Sowerby, the rents to be paid yearly. This house was sold about thirty years ago, for ten pounds, and the money put out to interest. SOYLAND. At Chaderton, in Lancashire, is an original indenture tripartite, made Nov. 7, 85 Eliz. witnessing that one Thomas Priestlej^ had surrendered at the same time into the hands of the Lord of the Manor, one parcel of ground, the east side thereof containing in length twenty-one yards and half, the west nineteen yards and half, the north nineteen yards, and the south thirteen yards and half, as the same abutted on the lands of the said Thomas Priestley on the west and uorth parts, and on the highway leading from Eipponden to Soy land on the east part, and the highway leading from Eippon den to the Baitings on the south part, as the same lay inclosed, with the buildings, &c. thereon, in the occupation of Henry Sharrock, Clerk, Minister of Eipponden, to the use and behoof of certain Feoffees therein named, their heirs and assigns, for ever ; paying therefore yearly to the said Thomas Priestley, his heirs and assigns, for ever, the rent of six shillings and eight-pence on every first day of May, with penalty of twenty shillings if the said rent be unpaid for a year, and lawfully demanded, as by the said surrender more at large will appear. This indenture also farther witnesseth, that the said surrender was to the use and behoof of the Preacher or Minister of the said Chapel of Eipponden, for the time being, and his successors, or suoh as shall do and celebrate Divine Service iu the said Chapel; the Feoffees and their heirs to receive the profits arising from the premises, and to apply the same only for the publio use and behoof of the whole Chapelry of Eipponden, for the maintenance of HALIFAXIENSIS. 863 Divine Service there for ever, as is aforesaid. When only four of the said Feoffees remained, the surviving four Feoffees were to assure, surrender, and convey the said premises to the use and behoof of them the said four survivors, and their heirs, and to the use and behoof of the heirs of the said Feoffees that then shall be deceased, and theu- heirs, for ever, to the uses, intents, and purposes above- said, and no other ; and this course, in re-assuring and sur rendering, to be observed for ever, as often as the interest and estate of the premises shall be in the hands of four Feoff'ees only. And lastly, all (he parties to this indenture, and all the inhabitants of the Chapelry of Eipponden, prayed the Lord President of the Council then established in the North, and, in his absence or default, the Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster, the Lord Chancellor of England, Lord Keeper for the time being, that in case of any suit or controversy concerning the premises, they would vouchsafe to see the true intent and meaning of "those presents exe cuted, and performed. The copy of the Surrender, said to be of the same date ¦with the above presents, is by mistake dated Nov. 7, 30 EUzabeth ; the dimensions also of the ground are mistaken in the said surrender, which is at Chaderton, and which ought to be corrected by the deed above quoted. The Feoffees named in the above indenture were, Su- George Savile, Knt. John Savile, of Bradley, Esq; Thomas Gledhill, son of John GledhUl, of Barkisland, George Firth, of Firth-house, John Eamsden, of Bowers, Ellis Wormall, of Hill-house, Thomas Bothomley, of Bothomley, Michael Foxcroft, of Kebroide, Henry Priestley, of Baitings, Thomas Foxcroft, of Soyland, Nathan Hole, of Lighthasels, Michael Hole, of Blackshayclough, Eichard Eoyde, of Beestonhirste, John Crosley, of Smalees, John Firth, of Royde, John Crosley, of Moor, younger, Eichard Hole, of Burntmoor, Michael Godley, of. Godley, John Firth, of Gootehouse, John Holroyd, of Scolecar, William Holroyd, of Cowcrofte, and Gilbert Hoh-oyd, of the same. Yeomen ; but who were the four survivors of these, or whether they conveyed as du-ected, is uncertain. The Curates of Eipponden have generaUy, since this time, lived in the above house; but in the year 1754, when I took possession of' this Curacy, the buUding was so ruinous and 864 BIOGEAPHIA inconvenient, that it was found necessary to rebuild it, which I did at my own expence, to the amount of more than four hundred pounds, the inhabitants not giving the least assistance ; aud the present Curate, Mr. Thomas West, obliged me farther to allow him the sum of ten pounds, to repair the barn there, which was not to his liking. Such, it seems, is the law relating to Dilapidations ! John Eiley, of Brigroyd, in Soyland, (as appears by the copy of a court-roll in my possession, dated at 'Wakefield, at the Court Baron of William Craven, Knt. and Edwin Wiatt, Esq; Lords of the Manor of Wakefield, iu trust, for the use of Elizabeth Clapham, widow, held there Feb. 24, 34 Car. II.) surrendered, on the 25tli of January, 34 Car. II. into the hands of the Lords of the Manor, the reversion, (after the death of the said John,) of a messuage or tenement called Field-end, in Soyland, with appurtenan- anoes, and also of a mansion-house at Farrow-height, with two inclosures lately taken from Soyland-moor, containing, by estimation, six aores and half, to the use of John Gawk- roger, of Flathead, in Soyland, and Jeremy Eiley, of War- ley, and their heirs, in trust, for the use of Martha Eiley, of Brigroyd, and her lawful heirs ; and for want of such, in trust, ¦to pay the rents and profits thereof to the Overseer of the poor of Soyland, for the use of the poor of the said town, for ever : to be paid and distributed to the said poor, at the discretion of the said John Gawkroger and Jeremy Eyley; and their heirs, and the Overseer of the said poor, for the time being, for ever. This Charity is withheld, and has been so for some time, I cannot even find that ever it was paid. A complaint was lodged at the last Commission for Pious Uses in the West Eiding, but was offered too late to have proper notice taken of it. EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF ELKANA HOYLE, of Soyland, Dated- March 28, 1718. GIVE and devise unto the Curate of Eipponden for the time being, for ever, one annuity or yearly sum of three pounds, of lawful money of Great Britain, to be I HALIFAXIENSIS. 365 for ever issuing, going forth, and yearly paid out of my messuage, farm, or tenement, lands, tenements, heredita ments, and premises, with appurtenances, at or near Light- hazels, called Lower Hoyle Heads, in the possession of Abraham Platts or his assigns, to be yearly paid to such Curate as aforesaid for ever, on the Ascension-day of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, commonly called Holy Thursday, provided suoh Curate preach a Sermon on that day in Eipponden Chapel aforesaid, and provided such Curate be a sound orthodox Preacher and Divine, according to the usage of the present Church of England as by law established, and shall have had University education, and come to be Curate there with the consent and good liking of the Owners of Upper Swift Plaoe ; or else, in default of such Sermon to be jDreached, or for want of such Curate so qualified, or good liking and consent as aforesaid, I do give the said three pounds per annum to the poor people ,of Soy land aforesaid, for the time of suoh neglect, disqualification, or dissent." The above was taken from an attested copy of the Will. The money has generally, if not always, been paid to the Curate of Eipponden for the time being, except from the year 1755 to the year 1761 inclusive, when it was given to the poor people of Soyland , my principles not corresponding with those of the Owner of Upper Swift Place. EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF JAMES EILEY, of Kirklees, Clerk, Dated May 6, 1723. " A FTEE giving to his brother, Joseph Eiley, an estate /A in trust, to pay out of the same five pounds yearly to several persons and purposes, amongst other be quests is the following: — "Item, I will that one pound, further part of the said five pounds, be paid by the said Joseph Eiley, and his heirs, yearly, and every year for ever, upon the second day of February, to the Overseer or Over seers of the poor of the township of Soyland for the time being, and to their successors. Overseers of the poor of the same 366 BIOGEAPHIA township, for the use of, and to be distributed to seven poor widowers or widows, and for want of such, to the most necessitous persons of the said town of Soyland, at the discretion of the Master or O-^-ner of Kirkcliffe, and of the Overseers, and one or more of the chief inhabitants of Soy land aforesaid. This charity is regularly distributed. See another part of this Will under Barkisland. SOUTHOUEAM. Original Endowment of St. Anne's Chapel. In Mr. Brearcliffe's MS. and also in the 2d volume of the Eegister belonging to Halifax Church, is the foUowing entry. "We find, that by a Deed, bearing date the 21st day of February, 21 Hen. VIII. John Lacy, of Cromwellbothom, Esq ; doth give to Thomas Savile, of Exley, with others, as Feoffees in trust, four closes of land in Southouram, (in one of the which a Chapel of St. Anne, by him the said John Lacy, with his neighbours, is built,) of intent that they the said Feoffees shall be seized thereof to the use of the said John Lacy and his heirs for ever, paying out of the same thirteen shillings and four-pence yearly for ever, to him that shall celebrate Divine Service in the said Chapel; and if it happen there be no Chaplain there by the space of forty days, then for all that time of the vacation the said rents shall be paid to the Chaplain that celebrateth or saith Divine Service at the Altar of St. George, in the Parish Church of St. John Baptist, of Halifax." St. Anne's Chapel had but a certain endowment of three ¦ pounds ]5er annum, before the Eev. Mr. Thomas Burton, Vicar of Halifax, Thomas Holdsworth, and John Smith, Gent, raised, in 1720, two hundred pounds, in order to ob tain the Queen's Bounty. It had also a lot in 1756, and the whole six hundred pounds were laid out, in 1762, in the ]Durchase of an estate in Sutcliffe Wood, of the clear yearly value of twenty-four pounds. HALIFAXIENSIS. 867 WARLEY. Benefactions to Soweeby Beidge Chapel. In a terrier, belonging to Sowerby Bridge Chapel, wrote in 1727, are the following particulars. One Chapel-house worth one pound eight shillings per annum. One cottage- house, given to the Chapel by Mr. Samuel King, eighteen shUlings per annum. The title-deeds belonging to the Queen's Bounty are dated Nov. 2, 1724. The estates bought with this money are, the Lower Brig Bottom Farm, contain ing nineteen days work of land, then let for twelve pounds ten shillings a year ; a farm called Earoyd, containing thir teen days work, rent seven pounds eight shillings a year ; and a Farm called Gate Head, containing nine days work, rent four pounds a year ; but these rents are considerably raised since that time. The Certainty, 2d and 3d of Queen Anne, was six pounds a year. A MS. in my possession sais, the Bounty was ob tained for this Chapel Dec. 1, 1719, by Mr. Joseph Taylor, and others. WADSWORTH. EXTRACT FEOM THE WILL OF PAUL GEEENWOOD, OF OLD TOWN, IN WADSWOETH, Dated April 4, 1009. I GIVE unto my brother, John Greenwood, and his heirs for ever, all that my tenement called Raw- holme, which my will is, that my said brother and his heirs shall demise for the rent of forty shillings only, and shall for ever pay twenty shillings thereof yearly unto the poor people of 'Wadsworth, and the other twenty shillings yearly for ever towards the maintenance of a Preacher, being a Master of Arts at Heptonstall." 368 BIOGEAPHIA COPLEY. [I cannot find that this Parish has given to the Church of England any more than four Bishops, yet all men of real worth and primitive piety. The first of these to be mentioned in the order of time is Robert Copley, vulgo Geosthead, sprung from the old family of Copley's, of Copley, whose pedigree Mr. Thoresby runs as high as the Norman Advent. He was first Arch-Deacon of Leicestee, and was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln in 1235, at Reading : A very severe man in his Visitations of the Clergy, and had several quarrels with the Pope, which occasioned his suspension in 1252, as Isaackson tells us in his Chronological Tables. He was, (says Mr. Cambden in bis Britan, p. 352, Lond. Edit. 1587), considering the age he liv'd in, incredibly learned both in Letters and Languages ; a terrible Reprover of the Pope ; an Adviser of his King, and a Lover of Truth. He died in 1253. Wright's Halifax, p. 139.] 369 PEIIsrOIPAL FAMILIES AND PEESONS, YOL. I. -$— AlNSWOETH, 73, 186 Aked, 139, 140 Aldeeson, 153 Allenson, 153 AsHBijEN, 145, 146 Asheton, 178 Atwell, 42 AuMUND, 293 Baiestow, 179, 358 b aeke sland, 291 Baeksey, 202, 290 Batley, 154 Bentley, 75, 76, 77, 149, 152, 154, 856 Bingley, 303 Biekhead, 319, 339 Bois, 79, see Boyse Booth, 80, 149, 152 Bosco, 78 Bos-well, 179 Bowcock, 300 Boyes, 53, 79 Beamfit, 183 Beeaeclifpe, 74, 154 Beeaeton, 77 Bebnt, 148 Beigg, 77, 288 Beisko, 203-4 Beoadley, 153, 319—25 Beookb, 862 Beooksbank, 24, 36, SO Beown, 78 Bueton, 81, 151 Caygill, 155 Chambeelain, 28, 308 Chaeleswoeth, 152 Claeke, 42 Clay, 147, 180, 290 Clayton, 6 CoCKCEOFT, 82, 812 Colston, 360 Copley, 244, 36S Ceabteee, 82 Ceomwellbothom, 285 Ceossley, 329 Ceowthee, 43, 49, 83, 302, 335, 351 155, CuEATES : — Abbot, 183 W. Aiglin, 184 bis (W.) Ainsworth, 190, 191 T. Alderson, 183 I. AUen, 187 P. Asheton, 183 — Ashley, 186 R. Attey, 185 E. Bains, 190 J. Bairstow, 183 P. Bairstow, 191 J. Baskervile, 185 A. Bate, 191 J. BeU, 191 P. BeU, 185 D. Bentley, 190 bis E. Bentley, 152 370 Peincipal Families .and Peesons. CuEATES : B. Berron, or Barron, 190 193 J. Best, 190 R. Birron, 350 — Booth, 184 J. Booth, 152 R. Booth, 190 M. Boobhe, 184 — Bovile, 192 T. Bower, 294 J. Bowker, 198 R. Boyes, 192 bis — Bradshaw, 190 G. Braithwaite, 186, 191 R. Bi-ereton, 188 I. Broadhead, 183 J. Broadley, 192 — Brooke, 192 J. Brooke, 193 J. Brooksbank, 188 J. Brotherton, 190 J. Broughton, 294 G. Burnet, 183 J. Burtomood, 191 L. Burton, 184 J. Butterfield, 183 S. Carr, 192 — Charlesworth, 152 R. Clarkson, 190 — Clegg, 192 bis W. Clifford, 191 bis R. Coore, 184 bis, 191 J. Crouohley, Critchley, 184 bis N. Cudworth, 189 E. Dean, 188 R. Denton, 189 E. Dewhirst, 188, 198 — Diglin, 184, see Aiglin E. Doughty, 188 J. Doughty, 350 T. Dun, 190 — Eagland, 184 J. Earnshaw, 188 T. Ellison, 190 C. Etherington, 193 J. Fail-bank, 188 M. Farrar, 188 N. Fern, 192 T. Ferrand, 193 J. Ferret, 184 bis C. Fisher, 192 E. Fisher, 190, 191 I. Fourness, 190 — Gibson, 189 E. Gilbodie, 184 H. GledhUl, 183 E. GledhUl, 294 J. Godley, 192 M. Godley, 193 P. Greenwood, 190, 850 T. Greenwood, 184 bis, 188, 191 — Gregson, ISS, 193 J. Grimshaw, 188, 190, 193 C. Gunby, 198 — Hall, 188 J. HalyweU, 294 J. Hanley, 184 — Hanson, 186 T. Hanson, 152 D. Hartley, 188, 190 J. Hay, 184 bis D. Hayford, 186 — Heald, 191 N. Heywood, 190 0. Heywood, 189 J. HiU, 191, 192 J. Holdsworth, 152, 190, 350 E. Holdsworth, 183 T. Holdsworth, 192 Peincipal Families and Peesons. 371 CuEATES : J. Hoole, 190 — Hopkins, 191 G. Hovie, 190 W. Ireland, 184 C. Jackson, 192, 350 N. Jackson, 193 — Jones, 185 J. Kaye, 185 E. Kenyon, 187, 188 J. Lake, 152 — Lambert, 152 J. Law, 193 R. Laycock, 186, 188 T. Lister, 192, 350 J. Lister, 294 A. Louthian, 190 J. Lupton, 190 G. Marsden, 192 R. Marsden, 190, 193 — Marsh, 350 T. MarshaU, 184 C. Maud, 183 J. Metcalf, 186 E. Metham, 193 — Meyrick, 152 T. Meyrick, 192 W. Midgley, 193 R. Milner, 183 — MitcheU, 152, 153, 185 W. MitcheU, 184 — Moore, 190 A. Morris, 192 R. Northend, 189 S. Ogden, 183, 190, 350 P. Parrot, 152 J. Peebles, 191 R. Petty, 183 R. PiUay, 294 J. Piper, 185 N. Rathband, 192 J. Roberts, ISS — Robinson, 185, 186 I. Robinson, 188 Ric. Robinson, 193 H. Roote, 192 T. Roote, 190 S. Sandford, 152 M. SavUe, 183 — Scholfield, 184 — Seddon, 191 A. Sharpe, 190 N. Sharpe, 190 H. Sharrock, 187 J. Sheffield, 192, 193 M. Shirt, 185 — Smethurst, 191, 193 G. Smith, 183, 188 W. Smith, 184 W. Stackhouse, 190 R. Stoke, 294 G. Stott, 198 T. Stronger, 183 ¦ — Sunderland, 188 E. Snnderland, 183 J. Sunderland, 187, 190, 193 W. Sunderland, 187 Ric. Sutcliffe, 191, 192 Robt. Sutcliffe, 188 T. Sutcliffe, 184, 193 J. Sysson, 294 C. Taylor, 191 ¦ — Thompson, 190 J. Thompson, 183 E. Topham, 350 D. Towne, 184 pass R. Towne, 183 B. Travis, 188, 191 — Walker, 186, 191 R. Walker, 183 T. Walker, 192 bis E. Waring, 186 — Waterhouse, 185, 191 372 Peincipal Families and Peesons. ' CuEATES : E. Watkinson, 188 J. Watson, 1S7 N. Welch, 188 I. Welsh, 188, 193 bis T. West, 188, 350 H. Whitworth, 190 E. Wilkinson, 190, 192 R. Wilkinson, 349 J. Witter, 193 E. Wood, 187 E. Worral, 183 J. Wright, 191 T. Wright, 187 A. Young, 198 bis Danson, 328 Dean, 5, 83 bis, 155, 205-6, 328 De Foe, see Foe dolliffe, 5, 155 Deake, 83, 206—210, 804 Dun, 156 Ealand, Elland, 142, 210 — 213, 288-9 Ellistone, 181 Elston, 180 Exley, 6, 218—215 Paeeee, 85, 215—217 Paucit, 158 Favoue, 84, 146, 157 FiETH, 19, 277 Fixby, 260 Pletchee, 88 Foe, 88 FouENis, 158, 852 Foxceoft, 852 Gamel, 288 Gawkeogee, 159 Gaytington, 141 Gibson, 160 Gledhill, 8, 9, 10, 217—225 Geaeme, 89, 159 Geaham, 89 Geantham, 24, 181 Geeenwood, 89, 90, 307, 810-2, 318, 814, 357, 367 Geeetland, 292 Gkydington, 141 Guest, 90, 191 Haigh, 354 Hall, 332-4 Halstead, 309 Hameeton, 234-5 Hanson, 152, 182, 227—233, 338 Haeeison, 144 Haetley, 91 Hawaeth, 53 Heald, 160 Heaton, 142 Hemingway, 317, 382 Heywood, 93, 97 Hill, 161, 186, 191 Holden, 164 HoLDswoKTH, 144, 152, 163 Hollings, 164 HOLEOYD, 16 Hooke, 98, 150, 162 Hopkinson, 46 HOEBUEY, 284-8 HoETON, 11, 12, 17, 18, 181, 217—225, 225—227, 360-1 Hough, 150, 163 Hoyle, 99, 182, 864 Hudson, 189 Hulme, 100 HUNTEE, 288 Hutton, 347-8 Inman, 20 KiTCHINGMAN, 164 Knight, 100 Keabteee, see C. Kyng, 142, 367 Peincipal Families and Peesons. 373 Lacy, 165, 235—237, 238-9, 366 Lake, 100, 149, 152 L.AMBEET, 152 Law, 840 Leaeoyd, 5 Ledsham, 146 Legh, 151 Leicestee, Earl, 198 LisTEE, 165, 289—240 Ll-VESEY, 187 Maddocks, 166 Maesden, 107 Maesh, 104, 149 Maud, 52, 166 Meyeick, 152 ' Midgley, 108, 167, 329 Milnee, 108, 290, 351 Mitchell, 152-3, 167, 352-4 Mitton, 111 Montagu, 7 Nabb, 111 Nalson, 111 Nayloe, 808 Nettleton, 112, 167 Nicall, 53 Noble, 5 Oates, 328 Ogden, 114 Oleaeoyd, 6 Otes, 39 0-VENDEN, 141 P.AEKEE, 6 Paeeat, Paeeot, 152, 167 Patchit, 115 PoWEE, 115 Peescot, 168 Peiestley, 240-1, 362 Eamsden, 6, 29, 116, 148, 149, 168, 169 Easteick, 227 Rhodes, 6 Richaedson, 170 Richie, 116 Riley, 14, 864, 365 Rishwoeth, 816 Robeets, 170 Eokeby, 117, 148, 170 Eookes, 241-3, 315 Eoote, 118, 149 Saltonstall, 42, 243-4 Sandfoed, 152 Savile, 7-8, 119, 120, 126 bis, 127, 172, 244-7, 248—251, 251—256, 294, 336 Sayee, 171 SCAEBEO', 172 Shabp, 171, 189 Shujdbn, 206 Simpson, 256-7 Sims, 143 Sladdin, 128 Slatee. 6 SauTH, 178, 173 Smyth, 304 Snydall, 55 sombescales, 47, 173 Stamfoed, 141 Stancliffe, 350 Stansfield, 12S, 257-S Stead, 172 Steenb, 258 Stocks, 139 Sundeeland, 178, 187, 259— 260, 301, 314, 318, 325 Tayloe, 129, 143 Tenant, 304 Testamentaey BUEIALS : — Burgh, 177 Holdsworth, 178 lUingworth, 177 bis Lacy, 178 MarshaU, 177 374 Peincipal Families and Persons. 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