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TO THE INHABITANTS Of the. PARISH of HALIFAX.
GENTLEMEN,
OU have, in the following Pages, the moft material Ob- fervations relating to your Neighborhood, which I made during feveral Years Refidence amongft you; and it will give me Pleafure to find that they contribute either to your Ad- vantage or Amufement. I have, throughout the whole, ufed the utmoft Impartiality, having no Kind of Attachment to bias my Judgment, or make me fpeak different from what I thought; nor have I had any mercenary View in the Undertaking. The chief Motive which urged me to fo arduous a Tafk, was the Fondnefs I
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All which the Author will fay of his own Performance, is, that he has
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rection of fouth-eaft and north-weft, will be nearly twenty {tatute miles; from Bailey Brigg to Stiperden Bank Bottom, in the direction of eaft and weft, about feventeen miles; from the bounds of the parifh, a little beyond the fign of the Queen’s- head, in the Bradford-road, to the top of Blackftone Edge, in the direction of north eaft and fouth weft, about fourteen miles. The breadth of it, from the top of Ogden to Cawcliff-yate, near
_ Fixby, or from north to fouth, about ten or eleven miles ; from
Fly-laith to Coldacres, in the fame diretion, nearly the fame diftance; from Stairs-foot to the upper end of Dean-head chapelry, ftill in the fame diretion, about eleven or twelve miles. It is bounded on the fouth eaft of Halifax town by the chapelry of Hartfhead, by Birftall parifh on the eaft, by Bradford on the north, Whalley on the north weft, Rochdale on the weft and fouth, weft, and by Huddersfield on the fouth. The
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OF HALIFAX. 3 The air of this parifh is very good. The winds which 4 and chiefly blow here come from the weft and fouth weft, and are often attended with rain; for {weeping in thofe directions over a large tract of the fea, and bringing with them much vapor, they meet with little to
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6 THE HISTORY Valangin, in his Treatife on Diet) it {pread itfelf to the Nether-
lands and Germany. Sennertus alfo takes notice that it reached to Denmark, Norway, and France. In the Biographia Bri- tannica, vol. iv. p. 2798. is a curious account of the fweating ficknefs, from a book of Dr. John Kaye’s, intitled, De Ephemera Britannica, wherein it is faid, that it began at firft in 1483, in Henry the VIIth’s army, on his landing at Milford-haven. It raged again in 1548; and the laft return of it in London was in
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g THE HISTORY the expedition of tranfacting bufinefs, for they fometimes went
the very fteepeft part of hills, when the road would have
-been fhorter, if it had miffed them. ‘This frequently was done :to ferve private purpofes ; but fince trade has increafed fo pro- digioufly, and fo great a number of carriages are ufed, motives of this kind are lefs regarded, and as great improvements are now making in different parts of this parifh, as almoft any other ‘country can fhew. They are very different now from what they were in 1649, when William Ainfworth, at that time Curate of Lightcliffe, complained in a Sermon preached at Halifax, and fince printed, that ‘* the highwayes did lament *¢ and mourn, as he came that day, becaufe they were deprived “¢ of Mr. Waterhoufe’s legacies; and whereas their feafonable
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OF HALIFAX, 9 fubject to fhake off in high winds, which are here very frequent. Of late, however, other forts have been ufed, according to the nature, fituation, and condition of the ground. ‘The forward oats have one advantage here, that they are fooner ripe, for in unfavorable. feafons, the corn in fome parts is obliged to be cut green. Of late years, wheat has been grown here in tolerable perfection.
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in thefe parts was with wood and mortar, as appears from feveral inftances, but the timber trees being moftly cut down, and little or no care taken to plant, recourfe was had to ftone, which is very durable, and, if properly worked, makes an handfome appearance; but where much pains are taken with it, it is attended with great expence; a circumftance which,
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unable to give any anfwer to his own queftion, he drops the juft leaving it where he found it. Dr. Jolinfon, in his Manufcript Collections, in the hands of Mr. Franke, of Campfall, in Yorkfhire, fais that
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both the fpring, or fountain, as well as the origin
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that to call a river by this name coriveys little meaning, as the water of all rivers is cold, it may be replied, that the objection
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the townfhips of Skircoat and Southouram, where the {mall river which runs by Halifax, falls into the Caldar, and from thence up the faid river to Salter Hebble-bridge, near the town of Halifax, and for carrying on the faid navigation from Brook{- mouth aforefaid, up the faid river Caldar to Sowerby-bridge, in this
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that every reafon exifted for doing this, as for bringing it te Brookfmouth, or Salter Hebble-bridge only ; and that many more might be added; for the merchants and tradefmen con- cerned in the woollen manufactures of this county, at that time fent all their goods by land carriage, and on horfeback too, to Leedes, where they were all unpacked, and made up into bales, and then put on board boats and lighters down to Hull; but if the navigation was continued to Sowerby-bridge,
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faving of at leaft fifteen fhillings the ton, in the article of I carriage from Hull to Manchefter, if the intended navigation was carried on to Sowerby-bridge. The fame month in which the above Reafons were publifhed, the river Caldar was furveyed between Brookfmouth and Sowerby-bridge, by Mr. John Eyes, of Liverpool, from whence it appeared, that the diftance from Sowerby-bridge along the river, to Brookfmouth, was two miles, four furlongs, and thirty-four that the rife of the water from
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‘rent directions, and letting the water run out of thefe drains by little openings here and there, as
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tended miraculous reftoration of health. Whatever it was, it is now deftroyed, and our conjectures are only from the name.
NORLAN D.
At the edge of Norland-moor, amongft a large ridge of rocks, is a very ponderous ftone, which projects over the fide of the hill, and has a very uncommon appearance. It is called the Lad-ftone, but for what reafon, no inhabitant of the place can tell. I fhall propofe a conjecture or two. If the name is Britifh, it may come from Lladd, to kill, or flay, denoting either that fome murder was committed here, or perfons were put to death by a regular courfe of juftice. If it is Anglo-Saxon, it may come from lade, a purgation by trial, and therefore points out this place, as one where juftice was adminiftred. The Druids had undoubtedly this power, and they exercifed it amongft rocks. It ferves to ftrengthen fome of the above opinions, that the fouthern point of this common (from whence is a very extended profpect) is at this day called Gally Pole-hill, and in a deed of 1568, Le Gallows-hill, becaufe probably fuch as were found guilty were executed there. The name alfo of the diftrict lying below thefe. rocks, is Butterworth, which might be fo called from the bods, or bodes, the common appellatives of the abodes of people in the Druidical times. It is indeed very poffible, that fome bloody murder might have been committed in this neighborhood in later times than the above, for which the offender was after- wards hung up, or gibbeted, on what got afterwards the name of Gallows-hill, which lies within view of a great public road; but there is no tradition of this, and I think that circumftances give it in favor of the other opinions. A Ladftone in Sowerby is mentioned in a copy of a court-roll at Field-houfe in Sowerby, dated 6 Henry VIII. near the borders of Ayringden, but I imagine it is deftroyed.
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as may be inferred from injunctions and canons made to forbid them; references alfo are there added to conftitutions, &c. to fhew that fome
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number of trees growing together; hence Thorefby, p. 213, makes Cat-Beefton to be Woody-Beefton; and Wright, in his Rutlandfhire, p. 94, after Camden, explains Catmofs, by a field full of woods. But to put the matter quite out of difpute, I have taken notice myfelf that fuch moffes hereabouts, as are cut into for the fake of fuel, are full of the fragments of trees.
STANSFIELD.
This part of the parifh affords more rocks than any other, which from their fhape, fize, fituation, and other
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24 THE HISTORY variety of rocks and ftones fo fcattered about the common, that at firft. view the whole looked fomething like a temple of the ferpentine kind, defcribed by the late Dr. Stukeley ; but I dare not pronounce.anry thing pofitive about a
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OF 27 viii. verfe 19. and which from the Hebrew is rendered, feeking
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would ever rock or not, (meeting with but one perfon to con- verfe with,) but if it did, probably it was poifed on this pebble, and might fome time or other have been thrown off its center. (See N°. 6. of the plate.) There are other prefumptive proofs that the Druids inhabited this parifh, fuch as a confiderable part of the townfhip of Wad{worth being ftill called Crimlifhworth, from Cromlech, a fepulchral monument of that people, now deftroyed. This alfo was a woody part of the country, as appears from the name of Wad{worth, or
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more than human. I will not fay that the name of Golcar does really fhew that any thing of this fort was formerly car- ried on there, for I know not how the word is wrote in ancient evidences; but if it is a contraction of Galdecar, there is no abfurdity in fuppofing fo much, for
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RomMAN AFFaIRS in the
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found amongft words fo manifeftly corrupted as thefe, affords no conclufive argument, efpecially when there are probable reafons to be given in fupport of a contrary opinion; and ‘Doncafter might ftill have been deftroyed in 633, notwith-
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from Britain, as the coins of the lower empire were made ufe of here after the coming of the Saxons. Thirdly, no military ‘way comes within feveral miles of this ftation, which
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looked like a Saxon work, has ventured to fix Cambodunum near Greetland and Stainland, on that rivulet which runs near Stainland, by Greetland-bridge, into the Calder. This he has done, chiefly on the account of its being faid in Camden, that a votive altar was dug up in Greetland; and fuch altars Mr. Horfley thinks were never found but where a Roman fettle- ment has been. Whiere this altar was found, for my own part, I could never learn, though I lived in the neighborhood of ~ Greetland near twenty years; there is not there the leaft tra- dition about it, nor indeed of any thing old and curious having ever been difcovered in the whole townfhip. I have frequently fearched it all over with the greateft care, and had it once con- tained fuch a military fettlement as Cambodunum, am clearly of opinion, that I fhould have met with fome traces of it, as the greateft part of the land is ftill a wild uncultivated common, or confifts of woods and rocks. It is a natural fuppofition to think, that where fuch an altar as this was erected, there would be fome kind of a fettlement; but as there is no reafon to be- lieve that any. thing I of this fort was in Greetland, I rather
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really is; which is the more to be wondered at, as he certainly faw it, and perhaps more than once. Mr. Whitaker, who never {aw it, is more excufable, when, in his Hiftory of Man- chefter, Vol. I. p. 87, he tells us of ‘‘a large ftation at Kirk- lees, about a mile to the fouth of the road’ s
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a place of any ftrength, from the nature of its fituation ; the coins were found in an open field at fome diftance'from it, and might have been concealed there in fome time of danger, by an inhabitant of this village, or tun, as it feems to have been an= tiently called. I In a word, the Roman way from Manchefter to York feems to have kept the
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FOR TV,
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engraving of this, and another ftone found here, which I alfo gave him, with the word OP US upon it. The reading on the
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is amply confirmed by many appearances in thefe fields; and from carefully confidering where the plough is faid to meet with obftructions, and where not, I thought that the range of of a ftreet or two might be made out. I do not think that this was a place of any great ftrength, for there is no advantage of fituation; there are not even any appearances of acamp. Mr. Whitaker, p. 89, fais, the ftation muft have been placed
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fedition, as it is called, might not happen on the borders of the country of the Brigantes, in fome part of Lancafhire, and this part of
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confulares, or 119, according to Occo, he was fecond time con- ful, with Titus Claud. Fufcus Salinator. Another coin in my
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over Stainland moor, pointing upon Stainland Dean, where in the new inclofures (formerly the rabbet warren) ‘it was dif- covered by the plough, and confifted of broad fet ftones. It
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the fouth fide of the Grey ftones,. where, for a confiderable way, it is the boundary between the parifhes of Halifax and Huddersfield. When it comes to Featherteam-end, it goes down the hill to Long-clough, and over Hunger-hill, and
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former is the right reading, the etymology is juft; but what fhall we fay to the
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broke through that neceffity, for the Saxons, to whom he be- longed, had greatly altered the Roman orthography in about two hundred years; for inftance, Racuulf for Regulbium, Ythancaefter for Othona, and Riptacaefter for Ritupez. But the fact may be fettled, I think, by better arguments than thefe. According to Bede, there was a royal vill in Campodono, which was the refidence of king Edwin; this king was flain at Heth- field, (now Hatfield, feven miles from Doncafter,) and the faid vill deftroyed by fire; now if this happened at Slack, the fuppofed Cambodunum of the Romans, how comes it to pafs that there is not the leaft remain of any thing Saxon there? The works made by that people appear to me to have been much more laborious than even thofe of the Romans them- felves, efpecially where any of their great men refided, and of confequence worfe to deftroy. Had any thing of this fort been done at Slack, I think it would have remained to this very day, for it would have coft more to have levelled it, than the land would have been worth. I conclude, therefore, that after it was deferted by the Romans, their fucceffors finding it to be
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fome other about that time, but for what purpofe I cannot well fay. (13.) Head to the right, radiated crown, IMP. C.CLAVDIVS AVG. Rev. AEQVITAS AVG. a female figure, holding in her right hand a balance, and in her left a cornucopia. Towards the place where the above coins were found, the antient road, called the Green-way, which comes from the fta- tion at Slack, feems to point, but I could not trace it thither, nor do I know of any thing which looks like Roman in the neigh- borhood of Ealand. We often hear of coins being found at confiderable diftances from ftations. Near the foot of a large rock, at a place called Beeftones, in the townfhip of Stainland, about two miles from Slack, about fixty years ago, a confiderable number of Roman coins were difcovered; but the
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but I have no particular defcription of them. The late Mr. Richard Cooke, of Halifax, fhewed
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Jupiter almoft naked, in his right hand a
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On the point of Lee-hill, near Slack, abovementioned, is a circular remain of an antient encampment, about eighty yards each way, meafuring to the outfide of the ageer. It commands a fair view of Caftle-hill, near Almondbury, as well as of the adjoining country. A bank, or trench, beginning a little way from this, runs up Linley-moor, to a place called the Watch- hill, which is a fmall round hill, feemingly thrown up for obfervation. There is a tradition of a battle having been fought here, which is the more probable, as there is fome- thing like the appearance of tumuli fcattered here and there upon the common. If this was fo, the greateft part of the flaughter might happen about Slack, which our Saxon anceftors would therefore diftinguifh by the name of Slaze, eafily cor- rupted into Slack. At what time this event may be fuppofed to have happened, I
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At Raftrick, in this parifh, was lately a mount called Caftle- hill, which Dr. Johnfon, who furveyed this
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of an hill, fuch as this mount ftood upon, we have Rath’s-Ryg, which would eafily be foftened into Raftrick. There is a more confiderable mount of this kind at Mirfield, a few miles from hence, which had a very large ditch cut round the foot of it, and was
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cumftance which confirms the opinion that this
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«them capable of a fudden fortification, by the confent of the deputy lieutenants, I quickly helped nature with art, ftrength-
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was annually fent abroad, that the cuftoms amounted annually to the amazing fum of two hundred and fifty thoufand pounds. By degrees, however, the defired improvement took place, and this moft ufcful art came into general practice
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Edward VI. but he depended entirely on information, and there is proof enough that his intelligence was not exact. Amongft the reft, one Richard King, who lived in this parifh, in the time of king Henry VIII. in a covenant of marriage, wrote himfelf occupier, meaning a buyer and feller of cloth. See this word, Luke xix. 13. In the reign of Philip and Mary, attempts were made, by fuch as had large capitals, to engrofs the ftock of wool, which canfed an act to pafs, reciting, * that the parith of Flalifax, &c. being planted in the great wafte and moores,
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‘‘ carry, or caufe to be carried, the faid wools fo bought by them, to the towne of Halifax, and there to fell the fame to poore folkes of that and other parifhes adjoining, as
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ought to be obferved, that this depends entirely on prefcrip- tion, as there never was any charter for it. _ The thalloon trade was introduced here about the beginning of the prefent century, and what are called figured ftuffs, or draw-boys, within the compafs of a few years. There was for- merly a great quantity of bone-lace made here, but it was lately in fo low a ftate, that few were put apprentices to the bufinefs ; it has, however, begun all of a fudden to revive again, and is at prefent no inconfiderable branch’ of bufinefs. A’ good of work has alfo of late been done here, in what is commonly called ftocking weaving, but, more properly, frame-work knit- ting, which was firft brought into Halifax by Mr. Thomas Bowcock, of Skipton, in 1724, at which time a fine was paid for every apprentice in this bufinefs, to the company at Not- tingham, who were a body corporate. Mr. Bowcock’s firft apprentice was one Miles Tillotfon, of Kighley, (of the Arch- bifhop’s family,) who was bound at the court held at Notting- ham, and paid his fine. The following is a lift of the mills in Halifax parifh, taken in the year 1758. Caldar: Stanfield corn-mill, two water wheels ; Lob fulling-mill ; Wood corn-mill, one water wheel ; Lumbutt’s corn-mill, I think not ufed, being fo out of repair ; Mayroyd corn-mill, one water wheel; Brearley corn-mill ; Bycar oil, or leather mill; Foot, two fulling-mills, one water wheel each; Longbottom fulling-mill, two water wheels ; Hollin’s fulling-mill, two water Sowerby-bridge rafp and fulling-mills, two water wheels; Mere’s-clough corn and fulling-mills, two water wheels ; Sterne corn and fulling-mill, two water wheels ; Copley fulling-mill; Eland
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-corn-mill; Foot fulling-mill, one water wheels On a
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themfelves under a neceffity of affuming this power of coinage, owing to the want of copper money coined by authority ; they firft made their appearance about 1648, and kept gradually ine creafing till 1672, when they were cried down by proclamation. A few of the above are engraved by way of fpecimen, in the Mifcellaneous Plate.
Of the Forests, CHaces, and Parks, within the Parilh of
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ftall, Raftrick, Langfeld, Midgley, Skircote, Saltonftall, North- land, Rifhworth, Hipperholm, Ovenden, Haldefworth,
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faid to be Halifax, Skircoat, Warley, Midgley, Sowerby, Oven- den, Stainland, Barkifland, Norland, Soyland, and Rifhworth. Thofe out of Hardwic, Northouram, Shelf, Hipperholm, South- ouram, Eland, Brighoufe, Raftrick, Fixby, Greetland, Old Lin- Jey, Stansfield, Langfield, Eringdon, Heptonftall, and Wadf- worth, This cuftom is faid to be a badge of the foreft and which the inhabitants were contented to pay to the church in fuch towns where they could ufe no tillage, by reafon of the deer, and favage beafts; but this account does not feem right,
for there would then have been no exception of towns which-
lay out of the foreft. In fact, houfes are not titheable by fta- tute, but by cuftom, and we know not at prefent what more than cuftom has made this difference. That Barkifland and Norland were not within the limits of the foreft, is plain, MS. in my poffeffion, called Domifday Booke, betg an extent of the rents and fervices of the free men of the Soke of Wakefield, made in 1314, wherein the efcape of beafts at Ryburne, into the foreft, is valued at five fhillings yearly ; the fame at
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is an antient attefted copy at the late Mr. Cockcroft’s, of Mayroid. At what time this park was firft inclofed, does not appear, but I think it muft have taken place before the
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fhall not be received in the faid court; and if there be
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When it paffed from the name of Whalley I do not find, but 4 James I. George Halftead, John Sunderland, William Sutcliffe, and Henry Naylor, clothiers, obtained an infran- chifement deed from that king, which recites, that in con- fideration of the fum of threefcore and twelve pounds, twenty- four pounds of which were paid for the grant of Eringden park, and forty-eight pounds for a releafe and difcharge of the fer- vice and tenure mentioned, and referved in certain letters patent of king Edward VI. bearing date the 17th day of Auguft, in the fecond year of his reign; as alfo in other letters patent bearing date the 6th day of February, 44 Eliz. the faid king did grant to the faid George Halftead, &c. all the park of Eringden, of the yearly rent or value of twenty-four pounds, fome time parcel of the lands and
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As for the name of Foreft-hill, in Stainland, nothing more can be faid about it, than that it may have got its name from the lords of the manor having had game there in former times, but I have not feen it called fo in any old deed or record. There was alfo a park in Southouram, called Ealand park, belonging to Ealand hall, of which, the firft mention I have
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and Margery, -was bound to pay him; this deed wag dated ‘at Ealand,
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feld, and Shelf, as being within the liberties of
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within his fez in Sowerbythire, five ftags of greafe, and five hinds in wintcr.—Alfo fhewed another deed dated in 1341, whereby it appeared that Brian Thornhill, knt. anceftor to the fuid defendant, did grant to Henry, fon of William Southill, and his heirs, two acres of wafte in the townfhip of Waddef- worth, to be held of the faid Brian, and-his heirs, by rent, and another deed, 8 Edward II. whereby it appeared that John Thornhill, knt. anceftor to the faid defendant, granted to the prior and convent of the monaftery of Lewes, and their fucceffors, licence to attach their mill-dam -of Heptonftall, {now called Hanging-roid mill,) on the ground of the faid John Thornhill, in Waddefworth, -over
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Edward Savile, his heirs and affigns, fhould quietly and peaceably enjoy the faid townfhips and manors of Ovenden, Skircoat, Rifhworth, Northland, Barfland, Shelf,
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this noble family arofe from fir George Savile, knt. and bare. fon of Henry Savile, of Lupfet, efq; above named, marrying Mary, daughter of the faid George Talbot, earl of Shrewfbury. In 1605, 3 James, George Savile, knt. the elder, is in a deed:
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*¢ de Eland, knt. to John de Eland, his fon, and to Alice, his wife, with a feal.of the arms of Eland, being an efcallop fhell.” In another part.of the faid MS. it is faid, that this grant was to the heirs males of their bodies, reverfton to Philip de Eland, efq; In the faid MS. under the title of Hipperholm, we read, that
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whofe family it continued till William Beaumont, knt. granted to Thomas de Totehill, and William, his fon, the moiety of the town of F ekifby, with wards, marriages, &c. From the family of Totehill it went to that of Thornhill, when Richard. de Thornhill married Margaret, daughter and hcirefs of William de Totehill. This maiety of the town is called, in fome old deeds, South-Fekifby. By an inguifition, taken at Wakefield,
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Gundred, to William, earl Warren. Or, as others, with more
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tient cuftom, the tenants of the old demefne lands of the crown had been, and ought to be free from paying toll; and the year fol- lowing he confirmed the fame at London, March 24, to the towns of Wakfield, Sandal, Warley, Hipperholme, Midgley, Wadifworthe, Crigilftone, Birton, Horbury, Ofiett, Stanley, Shelf, Northowram, Emley, Shepley, Comberworthe, Crofland, Holme, Halifax, Sourbye, Stanley, and Thownge, to be free, as it is there
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coeval with the original. He tells us likewife, p.11. that there was another charter to this purpofe, by king Charles I. dated December 1, 1627, fo that it feems, notwithftanding it had been fo antient a cuftom for the inhabitants of the king’s demefne lands and royal manors to be exempt from the above impofitions, they durft not depend altogether on the cuftom, nor were the letters patents of the different kings binding
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king, and the rents of affize then due to him, being the 24th year of his reign, the prior of Lewes was found to hold Halifax; this muft have been then by grant from fome of the earls of Warren. To this priory it continued to belong till the diffolution thereof by king Henry VIII. The laft court which the prior and convent held here, Wright, p. 3. fais, was April 24, 1537,: after which the king became lord of this manor, and held his. court the January following, by fir Henry Savile, knt. and John Grene, ftewards. After this, it was granted to Thomas, ‘lord Cromwell, who was lord thereof in 1539, but being at- tainted, it was made part of the dower of the lady Ann Cleve, ‘32 Henry VIII. and fhe held it till her death, in 1555. Some accounts fay, that feveral exceptions were made in the granting I this manor to lady Ann, for it had been leafed to Robert Water- houfe, of Halifax, 27 Henry VIII. under the convent feal of the monaftery of Lewes, and the faid Robert had his
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fee of the faid queen Elizabeth, and afterwards of king James,
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court be effoined, amerced, or pained, for their default of fuit, or other defaults or offences. Alfo that they would grind all their corn end grain which they fhould buy, or bring into the
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thers here faid to have been the former
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as patcel of the manor of Wakeficld. The duke’ of Leedes is the prefent chief lord, becaufe he keeps the common pound, {wears the pindar and conftables, and has all the waifs and {trays. He keeps the court leet at
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one years. Sir Richard Hamerton, grandfather to the above John, obtained a manor in this townfhip, by marrying the heirefs of Langfield, of Langfield. After the above attainder, the manor of Langfield never returned to the Hamertons. It is now the property of fir George Savile, of Rufford, but Py what grant it came to the family, I have not feen.
LINLEY. I have the copy of a chirograph, by which, in 4309, Thomas, fon of Richard de Wakefeld, granted to William, fon of Adam del Lee, an.annual rent of 5s. 11d. of filver, with homages, wards, reliefs, efcheats, &c. to be taken from certain of his tenants therein mentioned, within the vill of Linnley ; which feems to imply the right of manor in the granter. And in a deed, fans date, John le Harpur de Wakefeld, and Eleanor his wife, (of the fame family, no doubt,) grant to Thomas de Touthill an annual rent of 8s. which he had recovered, 14 Edw. II. (1230) from William, fon of Adam del Lee, in Hold Linley, with wards, reliefs, and efcheats,
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108 FHE HISTORY manor is defcribed to have been. It was granted from the crown ‘to the earls of Warren, for John de Warren, earl of Surry, had free warren here by charter, 37 Hen. III. and the fame earl was found to be chief lord here by Kirkby’s Inqueft, 24 Edw. I. John Mews, alias Melfa, had free warren granted him in all his demefne lands in
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fold at that time, it appeared, that Thomas de Totehill enfeoffed William his fon, and gave him full feifin of all his lands and rents in Northouram, to hold to faid William and heirs of his body ; after whofe death, Margaret, daughter and heirefs of the faid William, was in the wardfhip of earl Warren, by reafon of her minority. This manor came to the crown in the perfon of king Edward ITI. in confequence of the grant from the laft earl, mentioned under the article of Halifax. By inquifition at Hali- fax, this manor was found to belong to queen Elizabeth, as parcel of the manor of Wakefield, late parcel of the dutchy of York, and at that time annexed to the dutchy of Lancafter. By another inquifition at Pontefract, 5 and 6 Philip and Mary, it appeared, that fic Henry Savile, knt. died feifed in his demefne as of fee of this manor. At prefent it is the property of the duke of Leedes. #or earl
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112 TTHE HISTORY ‘William Thornhill,- whofe pofterity have enjoyed it ever fince. The following deed will thew the nature of feoffments in truft in ‘thefe early times.
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antient tenure, fo. that it feems to have been granted from the crown with the manor of Wakefield. Earl Warren was found to be lord thereof by Kirkby’s inqueft, 24 Edw. I. I do
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liam de Quermby’s, late hufband of faid Joan, for term of life of {aid Joan, rendering to faid Hugh and Joan, and to the affigns of the faid Joan, for term of her life, feventeen pounds fifteen fhillings.
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the faid
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inheritancé of Margaret, then wife of John Graa, knt. the third part of the manor of Shelf, the reverfion thereof, after the death of the {aid Joan, belonging to the faid Margaret, and her heirs, as to the daughter and heir of the faid Roger de Swillington. After this I meet with nothing relating to it, till 20
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manor or
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charging the faid Ruftin to accept the faid Roger to make fine in the court of Sowerby, for the faid parcels, and to caufe the fame to be enrolled there, witnefling the grant in the faid court.
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inqueft, to be lord of Ouram. John, fon of Thomas de Lafcy, was lord of this manor, 28. Edward III. as by deed, and in this family it continued till 16 James I. when Thomas Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, fold the moiety thereof to one Thomas Whitley. Thomas Whitley, his majefty’s ward, fon and heir of Thomas Whitley, deceafed, was lord 11 Charles I. Thomas Whitley, of Bradford, grandchild and heir of Thomas Whitley, late of Sinderhills, gent. was lord of the moiety of this lordfhip, and let the fame to farm to one Timothy Thorpe, for ninety- nine years, in 1654. Thomas Whitley, by will, dated Nov. s, 1657, gave this moiety to his fon Thomas, who died an infant, on which it came, for want of iffue of the teftator, to John Thorpe and Timothy Thorpe. John furvived Timothy, and left a fon Timothy, grandfon and heir to Mary Thorpe. Ti- mothy died without iffue. John, and Timothy Thorpe, his brother, were brethren by the half blood to Thomas Whitley, ef Sinderhills. Timothy Thorpe, of St. Dunftan’s in the eaft, London, gent. fon and heir of John Thorpe, late of Sinderhills, in Hipperholme, gent. fold to William Horton, of Barkifland, efq; this moiety, June 7, 1711. His fon, William Horton, of Coley, efq; ordered it, by will, to be fold, and Robert Allenfon, of Royd, in Soyland, merchant, bought it of his widow, in 1741, and fold it again to the late William Greame, of Heath, in Skircoat, efq. It alfo appears, that Robert Lawe was joint lord of the manor of Southouram, 18 James I. with Thomas Whitley ; and Toby Lawe died poffeffed of a moiety of this manor, as appears by his will, dated
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‘¢ yexed or trobled with the
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were reckoned, in the greavefhip of Sandal fixty-five bovats;
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in his and their demefne, as of fee of the faid manor, in right of the crown of England, within the precin&t of which manor the greavefhips of Wakefield, Stanley, Alverthorp, Thorns, Sandal, Horbury, Offett, Sowerby, Hipperholm, Holmfirth, Scamonden, and Raftrick, being members and parcels of the faid manor, did lie; and the greateft part of the lands, &c. within the faid lord- fhip had, time immemorial, been demifed and demifable, by copy of court-roll of the faid manor, to any willing to take the fame, in fee fimple, or fee tail, or for term of life or lives, at the will of the lord of the faid manor for the time being, according to the cuftom of the faid manor, for fines uncertain, and arbitra- ble at the will of the lord for the time being. Alfo that the copyholders of the faid manor had, time out of mind, ufed, in the court of the faid manor, by way of furrender, to grant rents out of their copyhold tenements; for which grants the lord of the {aid manor, for the time being, had a fum of money, in the name of a fine, for his affent to the fame grant, to be
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being, ought to admit every perfon, to whom any of the faid copyhold premifes fhould come by defcent, furrender, or other- wife, or who fhould give or commit caufe of feizure for better- ing of affurances, or to whom any fuch grant of rent fhould be made as aforefaid, for fuch certain fine and rate as laft above- mentioned: And fhewing farther, that there were divers parts of the wafte of the faid manor, which were demefnes thereof, and had not been demifed or demifeable by copy of court-roll, till of late that fome part thereof by commiffion, or by the {tewards of the faid manor had been granted and improved, as if the fame had been antient copyhold or cuftomary lands, and the tenants thereof made like claim for the certainty of the fines thence arifing. @o
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had been duly anfwered of fuch like fines, &c. as in the cafe of the antient copyhold eftates; and that the defendants and their anceftors had difburfed great fums of money in taking and pur- chafing, as well as building on, and fencing the fame.
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aforefaid, and to pay the following fines, viz. on admittance of every copyholder by defcent, and alfo on furrenders of eftates of inheritance in poffeffion, and upon feifures there ufed for bettering of affurances, for all meffuages with lands, all cottages with lands, all mills, whether fulling-mills, or corn-mills, and all lands whatfoever, and courfes of water, three years rent, according to the copyhold rents then paid for the fame; and for a mefluage without lands, eight-pence, and a cottage without lands, four pence; for every rent-charge which fhould be granted by furs render by any copyholder, twenty-pence in the pound, and after that rate for more or lefs; and on admittance for life, lives, or years in
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‘relating to fuch copyhold meffuages, cottages, mills, lands, tenements, &c. as were then compounded for within the faid manor, the following fines or fums of money, viz. on admit- tance of every copyholder to ¢ftates of inheritance in poffeffion by defcent, and alfo on furrender of eftates of inheritance in poffeffion, and on feizures for bettering of affurances, for all meffuages with jands, all cottages with lands, all mills, whe- ther fulling-mills or corn-mills, and.all lands, tenements, courfes of water, three years rent, according to the. copyhold rents then paid; and for a meffuage without lands eight pence ; and for a cottage without lands four pence; and for rent charge whereof any grant
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behalf of the king, his heirs or fucceffors, or any claiming
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Of the GRAVESHIPs within the Parifh of HALIFAX.
NE of the officers or fervants belonging to the lord of this manor, is called a Grave, from the Anglo-Saxon Lenere, or the German Graf. His duty is to collect the lord’s rents, and his ftile, in Latin deeds, is Prepofitus. There are two I gravefhips in this parifh, Hipperholme and Sowerby, the former of whom contains the townfhips and vills of Hipperholme cum Brighoufe, Lightcliffe, and Northouram ; the latter, Sow- erby with Soyland, and Warley. The reafons, as I take it, why the reft of this parifh is exempt from the
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would be curious indeed, could it be proved that this was a curfeu tax, as I know not of any other inftance of the like fort; but for this reafan only it becomes difputable ; for my own part, I take thefe payments to be quit-rents, referved by fome of the earls of Warren when they made grants of thefe. eftates; and the rather, becaufe I think I can trace fome, or all of them, in that extent of the manor of Wakefield called Domefday-book, made in 1314. Ina verdict of feveral copy- holders within the gravefhip of Hipperholm, the jurors faid, that the bailiff of the fee of Wakefield
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Ancient TAXES in Parih.
HERE is a tax of the wapontake of Agbrig and Morley recorded in Lord Kirkby’s hook, 13
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Langfield, 11d. ob. Southouram, 8d. Warley, 12d. ob. Wadf- worth, rid. ob. The wapontake- of Morley was charged (as I take it in 1 the time of Charles I.)
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Lands granted from the wafte of the faid vill. Richard, fon of Thomas, 4 acres, for 16d. Hen. fon of Tho. 4 acres, for 12d. Hen. fon of Will. 3 acres, for r2d. Ric. de Anneley, 4 acres and half for 18d. Tho. fon of John, ¢ acres, for 20d. Hen. de Totehill, 2 acres, for 8d. Will. fon of Stephen, 2 acres, for 8d. Tho. at the wood, 2 acres, for 8d. Eve, wife of Hugh, 3 acres, for
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and faid repair. Will. fon of Hugh, 4 acr. for rsd. John, fon of Ric. one ten. half bov. 10 acr. and half, for ss. 6d. one penny reaping, and faid repair. Peter, fon 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. f. of Peter, one ten. half bov. 8 acr. for 4s. 1d. and faid repair. John, f. of Ric. one ten. 4th part of bov. and acre, for 3s. 6d. and faid repair. Will.
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farm of Northouram. The men of John de Eland for foreign fervice 3s. The men of fir John Thornhill, for the fame, qs. 6d. The forinieca of Stainland, 2s. 9d. The pannage of Hipper- holm, comunibus annis four pounds, and 4s. 6d. for take, and 3s. 8d. for plow work, 2s. for grinding, 3d. for Bakftones from one Tho. del Northend, 2s. gd. for reaping, and an hundred fhillings for perquifites of court. The rents which fir John de Eland received yearly in the gravefhip of Hipperholme were of Will. de Sunderlande, 19s. 1d. of John de Sunderlande, 12s. 10d. of Symon de Supeden, 3s. and of Tho. Bland, 6d. Gravefhip of Sowerby. Here the lord has a manor in chafe.. Will. de Townend for his lands bound to grind at the mill of Soland at the twentieth veffel, to affift in making the fon of the lord a knight, in marrying his eldeft daughter, and fhall goa hawking with the lord as often as he fhall come thither, for the firft day at his own charges, and if not, fhall
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provement) in the gravefhips of Holmefrith, Wakefield, Stanley,
Thornes, and Alverthorp, all which were parcel of the de-
amefne lands of the lordfhip of Wakefield. He had alfo in the fame letters patents, a grant of lands in the gravefhip of
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family, the amount will be 41,220; an amazing increafe, if Camden’s information was any thing near the truth, which he received as he travelled through thefe parts, that the number of inhabitants in this parifh was about twelve thoufand men; ia which yet I am apt to think he was not very much miftaken; for in the certificate of the archbifhop of York, and others, a Ed. VI. concerning chantries, &c. it is faid, that
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theréof, but extends its influence to the
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den and Huddresfield. This village arofe on account of the moft confiderable perfon in the diftrict making his habitation here, and probably building a few houfes near his own for his de- pendants. At Howroyd is a beautiful pedegree on vellum of this family, &c. entitled “The pedegree of John Gledhill, of Barkifland, ‘* collected out of antient deeds and evidences, finifhed, perufed, and confirmed by William Seager, knt. alias Garter, principal
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of-Tyrrels, and the 3s. are paid for the fame to the lord of Horton. But when queen Philippa held the honor of Ponte-
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owner of that manor, but I doubt not the truth of that de- {cent, on account of its having been fo fatisfactorily proved to the Herald’s office, as appears by the following authentic paper. Mrs. Ann Horton, of London, having her arms challenged by fome of the officers belonging to the college of arms, fhe pro- duced her proofs in fupport of her right to the fame, which caufed the following grant to be made, which was entered in the college of arms, in a book marked Grants, vol. vil, p. 533, 534- all and fingular to whom thefe prefents fhall come, John
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«¢ houfes of Barkifland-hall, Howroyd-houfe, and Sowerby, all
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and alfo knew that the above coat belonged to Horton, of Hor- ton, and was acquainted with the reafon of the addition of the boar’s head. The motto ufed by the prefent heir of this family under the above arms, is ‘* Pro Rege et Lege.” In 1603 lived William Horton, as appears by deed. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hanfon, of Toothill, in the parifh of Halifax, which Elizabeth made her will July 16, 1660, and was then in her old age. By her the faid Wil- liam had, 1. Wikiam, 2. Jofhua, (whofe pedegree will be given under the article of Sowerby,) 3. Thomas, 4. Sarah, and §. Elizabeth. Thefe are all mentioned in the will of Thomas Hanfon, dated 27th July, 1673. Of thefe, Sarah married John Gledhill, as already mentioned. Elizabeth had no iffue, Thomas was brought up a merchant at Liverpool, and the fol- lowing infcription is on a board, and fixed to a pillar under the
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annum, on her, and her iffue male, obliging her, if fhe married, to take an Horton, or one who fhould affume the name. Barkifland-hall, above-mentioned, was probably built by John Gledhill, who married Sarah, daughter of William Hor-+ ton, 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 firft,
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bearing an hare
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Anna Maria. Thomas, 8th fon of John, died an infant. The faid John had alfo four daughters, viz. 1. Dorothy, who married, 1ft, Richard Lampleugh;
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2. Vifus, (or Sight,) at her toilet, and thefe words : How do you like me, gallants, in this drefs? _ "Tis neat, altho’ not coftly,
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BRIGHOUSE
Is an hamlet belonging to the vill of Hipperholme, and has its name from fome antient building, or buildings, which ftood near the bridge which lies over the Caldar, between this hamlet and Raftrick. It gave name to a family, one of which, Roger de Brighoufe, held eighteen acres of land here in 1314. They fometimes occur as witnefles to deeds at different times; in
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market by charter. This charter (which is now loft) was dated 10 Edw. II. when that king, at the requeft of John de Warren, earl of Warren and Surry, granted to John de Eland (afterwards fir John) a free market on Tuefday at his manor of Eland, and two fairs there by fix days, viz. one next day afore the eve, on the day of the eve, and on the day of St. Peter in bonds. There is {till a fmall market-place and crofs remaining, and toll is taken by the lord’s fteward when any thing is offered to fale in the ftreets; the fairs are alfo kept up, but no markets of any confe- quence have been held here for many years, owing to the great increafe of trade at Halifax, where is held a very confiderable market by prefcription. Places of note in this townfhip are, ANELEY
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foundation of the edifice, which no doubt had its ufe in trouble- fome times. ‘The beft account I can give of this once famous
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History of fir Joun of
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19. The hall was water’d well about, No wight might enter in ; Til] that che bridge was well laid out, They durft not venture in.
20. Before the houfe they could invade, In
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17 39. Brereton and Townley, friends they were’ To her, and of her blood; And prefently it did appear They fought to do her good. 40. They kept the boys till they increas’d In perfon and in age, Their father’s death to have redreft Still kindled their courage.
41. Lacy and Lockwood were with them Brought up at Brereton green, And Quarmby, kinfman unto them, At home durft not be feen.
42. The feats of fence they practiced To weild their weapons well, Till fifteen years were finifhed, And then it fo befel,
43.
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99. By
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Stephen, p. 281. we are told that this manner of executing private revenge was brought from Normandy to England,
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protection; on which fir John got together a confiderable number of armed men, and in one night, in the month of May, put to death the faid fir Robert, and two old gentlemen, his near relations, fir Hugh de Quarmby and old Lockwood. This is fo far confirmed, that in Mr. Hopkinfon’s MS. col-
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in a poem of this fort, where we have one word for rhime, and another for reafon, there is proof, in the 38th verfe, that fir Robert Beaumont might have a third fon; for after fhewing that lady Beaumont fled into Lancafhire, it follows,
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Verfe 93. cannot well be explained, for no authority which I have feen fhews the name of fir John’s fon and heir; the half brother there mentioned was a fon of fir John’s lady, who was daughter of Gilbert Umfravile, and widow of Robert Coniers, of Sockborn, in the county of
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The other champion, Adam Beaumont, as in the poem we are told, retired after the engagement at Eland, to his paternal feat at Crofsland-hall. Here for fome time he lived in lecurity, diverting himfelf with hunting, and other exercifes, not doubt- ing but the ftorm had been blown over; but. hearing of the death of Lockwood, he began to fear for his own fafety, and the more fo, as he had not a friend left to apply to for council and affiftance, for his coufin Lacy had retired into the north country, and many unexpected enemies appeared againft him, as precepts were fent from London to the fheriff to arreft him ;
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daughter of Ralph Lifter, of Halifax, by whom John, Robert, William, Gilbert, and Leonard. Of thefe, John, the eldeft, married Ann, daughter of John Hopton, of Armley, efq; by whom Leonard, who died aninfant. Robert and John. Robert
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greater corruption of the true name than Eringden, as it is now generally wrote, it might be the Earing-dene, from the Anglo- Saxon Enian, to plow, to till, or eare. In this fenfe the word is ‘ufed in Genefis xlv. 6, and Exodus xxxiv. 21. And that it is a word of fome antiquity in the Englifh language, appears from Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale, where we read, ‘<I have, God
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diate poffeffors of this place before the Conqueft. In all proba- bility it was not looked upon as a place of any great confe- quence then, for the name does not occur in Domefday-book, fo that it muft be furveyed as part of Eland, or fome other - neighboring diftri@, and have got the name of a townfhip fince that event, as feems to be the cafe of feveral others in the vica- rage, or parifh of Halifax. In a tax recorded in Kirkby’s book, in 1284, it is called Villa de Fekifbye, but even at that time it feems to have been little improved, for the whole fum received from it was but five fhillings, which (Skircoat ex- cepted) was lefs than was received from any townthip or vill in _ the whole
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the lands within the foke of Wakefield, already faid to have been made in 1314, there is no mention of this family
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heirs, as of the firft begotten ; it may therefore be queftioned whether Thorefby (and Hopkinfon, from whofe collections Thorefby copied this account,) did not miftake in making John the elder brother of Jordan. It feems moft likely, that this eftate in Sowerbyfhire was divided equally amongft the four brothers, and that the three younger were to hold under the eldeft, or firft begotten. (2.) Jordan de Thornhill, fon of Afkolf, is faid, in Collins’s Baronetage, vol. i. p. 157, to have had great
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was feized of Fekifby and Toothill. She {urvived her hufband, for by inquifition at a court held at Wakefield, on Friday next after the Feaft of All Saints, 4 Hen. IV. it appeared, that Mar- garet, late wife of Richard Thornhill, held in demefne, the day fhe died, lands, &c. in Fekifby, Raftrike, Hipperholm, Linley, and Northowrom, with moor, turbary, and wood of Old Linley, with wards, marriages, reliefs, and efcheats; after whofe death, William Thornhill, fon and heir of faid Margaret, entered, &c. This Margaret, according to Thorefby, married to her fecond huf- ‘band, Richard deLiley, but a MS. pedegree at Fixby calls him Ri- ley, by whom, Catharine, who married John Leventhorp, of Le- venthorp, efq; by whom William, as by deed in 1439.
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(7.) John Thornhill, of Fixby and Toothill, efq; who married Jennet, daughter of Mr. Nicholas Savile, of New-hall, near Eland, by whom, John Thornhill, of Fixby and Toothill, efq; Thomas, Richard, Brian, Alice, and Elen. Alice married William Prieftly, of Stainland. Elen married Jo. Holdworth, of Selby, by whom, Ifabel, who married George Helliwell, of Stainland, and Agnes, who married Thomas Clayton, of Clayton. In the regifter office for wills at York, in the time of T. Woolfey, it appears, that the will of one John Thornhill, of Fixby, was proved May 2, 1529, which, by the date, muft be this. He ordered his body to be buried within the chapel of our Bleffed Lady St. Mary of Eland, in St. Nicholas quire, or in the chancel thereto adjoining.
(8.) John, fon of John, was collector of the tenths and fif-
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Everild, who married fir Arthur Caley, bart. Mary, and Ann, who both died unmarried. Of thefe, George, the father, was a juftice.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 feventy-one. John died Feb. 25,1756, aged feventy-feven. George died Dec. 30, 17 545 aged feventy-three. (15.) Brian, eldeft fon of George, married 29
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GILLERODE. Camden, in his Remains, p. 117. fais, Gill is a {mall water. Rode, or Royde, has already been explained under Howroyde, in Barkifland.
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minated a Pingot. It is frequently pronotinced Pickle. An hog-fty is alfo to this day, in fome parts of Yorkfhire, called
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Whiteley and Blackley, fo common in this parith, tend to verify the above obfervation.
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per anh. He died at Efholt, July 25, 1689, aged twenty-two, and was buried at Guifeley. Another of the family, Thomas Ramfden, of Crawfton, efq; married Frances, one of the daugh- ters and coheireffes of fir Walter Hawkfworth, of Hawk{worth, bart. and his fon changed his name to Hawkfworth, which the family ftill bear. The arms of
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it appears, that from the middle of Clark-bridge, to the laft I houfe at the bottom of King Crofs-lane, meafures 1156 yards ; from the beginning of Southgate, to the end of Northgate, 673 yards; from the Crofs, to the laft houfe in King Crofs- lane, 581 yards; from the Crofs, to the end of Southgate, 432 yards ; from the Crofs, to the end of Northgate, 205 yards ; from the Crofs, to the middle of Clark-bridge, 575 yards; from the Crofs, to the laft houfe on the other fide of Clark- bridge, 650 yards. The figures in the engraved ground plan of this town point out the names of the ftreets, and other parti- cular parts thereof, as follows: 1. Bottom of King Crofs-lane. 2. Hopwood-lane. 3. Bull-green. 4. Little-green. 5. Bull- clofe-lane. 6. Berom-top. 7. Harrifon’s-lane. 8. Back-ftreet. g. Lifter-lane. 10. Cow-green. 11. King’s-ftreet. 12. Copper- ftreet. 13. Swine-market. 14. Bottom of Gibbet-lane. 15.
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Suftulit immenfo ter jubar orbe fuum ; Mille venit variis Florum Dea nexa coronis : Scena joci morem liberioris habet. Exit et in Maias facrum Florale Kalendas, &c. Afterwards thefe feafts were kept with coftly banquets and ob- lations, and called Maiuma, which being but indifferently con- ducted, Conftantine the Great forbad. them. They were again revived under Honorius and Arcadius, in the firft year of their
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been before, 13 Edw. I. by the ftatute of Winchefter. As the church at Halifax is dedicated to St. John Baptift, we may fup- pofe the feafts of dedication were kept originally on that day, and more particularly fo, as the great yearly fair at Halifax is ftill held on that faint’s day, unlefs it happens on a Sunday.
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How long Halifax has been called by its prefent name, or how it originally got the name, is a little uncertain. Camden, and (on his authority) feveral others have told us, that it is of no great antiquity, for that not many ages fince it was called Horton; and that the natives there accounted for the change of its name by a ftory of a young woman there, who, refufing to yield to the unlawfal embraces of one of the monks, he cut off her head, which was afterwards hung up in a yew tree, and by the credulous vulgar looked upon as holy ; of which the clergy taking advan- tage, they improved the fallacy into a miracle, and perfuaded the people, that the little veins, which, like hairs, were {pread be- tween the bark and the tree, were the very hairs of the virgin ; this caufed fuch a great refort of pilgrims to it, that, from ‘the little village of Horton, it became a large town, and affumed the new name of Halig-fax, or Holy-hair, for fax, he obferves, is ufed by the Englith, on the north fide of Trent, to fignify hair; hence the noble family of Fairfax, in
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efq; his
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Abbey, ty the name of
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of Tankerfley, efq; Elizabeth, married to Thomas Kay, and. ‘Margery, married to John Thornton. John Savilé, €fq;-married Ifabel, daughter and coheirefs of fir Robert Latham, knt. who bore or,
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Account of the GIBBET LAW at
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The proceedings at the trials of the laft malefactors who fuffered at this gibbet, are fortunately preferved in Bentley’s Book, and are as follow.
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fefior, which William the Baftard afterwards confirméd, the
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The expreffion in the determinate fentence, * that the two
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have afferted, be led diretly to the block. This was the cafe of the two laft malefactors, who were condemned, and exe- cuted the fame day. sthly. When brought to the gibbet, he was to have his head cut off from his body. This gibbet ftood a little way out of town, towards the weft end, in a place ftill diftinguifhed by the name of the Gibbet-lane. Here, to this day, is to be feen a {quare platform of earth, confiderably raifed from the level of the ground, walled about, and afcended by a flight of ftone fteps; on this were placed two upright pieces of timber, five yards in height, joined at the top by a tranfverfe beam; within thefe was a fquare block of wood, which Harrifon, in his De- {cription of England, vol. i. p. 185. Lond. 1587, fais, was of the length of four feet and an half, which rofe up and down, between the faid uprights, by means of grooves cut for that purpofe; to the lower end of this fliding block an iron ax was faftened, which is yet to be feen at the jayl in Halifax; its weight is feven pounds twelve ounces; its length full ten inches and an half; it is feven inches over at the top, and very near nine at the bottom; its middle is about feven inches and an half; and towards the top are two holes made to faften it to the block above mentioned. The ax thus fixed was drawn up to the top by means of
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other, is cutting the rope. Alfo in Fox’s book of Martyrs, vol. 1. p- 37- Lond. 1684, isa plate of this fort, except that a man is pulling up the ax toa proper height, by means of a cord which runs through an hole in the tranfverfe piece of wood at the top, and when he lets go the cord, the ax defcends. From whence the cuftom of beheading criminals with an en- gine originally came, is
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The following is a lift, carefully collected from the Regifter Books at Halifax, of fuch perfons as have been beheaded there, fince entries were made of fuch
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fpuria, ambo meritiffimé ob furtum manifeftum decollati, Dec. 23, John Lacy, perditiffimus nebulo & latro, decollatus Jan. 29, 1623.
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be one of the moft fruitful parts of this
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{nake biting its tail, motto,
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was of Hipperholme, his will dated July 12,1721. He mar- ried who died in childbed of her firft child, John. This John was of Hipperholme, and married,
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238 ‘THE HISTORY Ann, Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, and Barbara. To his third wife, Elizabeth Armine, of Hull, by whom no iffue. It is a gueftion whether he was not knighted, becaufe I find that fir Samuel Saltonftall, of London, held lands in Hipperholm in 1607. Alfo at acourt held at Wakefield, 11 Jan. 8 James I. Samuel Saltonftall, of London, knt. and Elizabeth his wife, fur- rendered lands in Hipperholm. Who was the father of Gilbert firft above named, 1s uncer- tan; but a John Saltonftall, of Halifax, was buried there Mar. 30, 1557, and a Robert Saltonftall, of Halifax, alfo buried there, 18 Oct. 1561, as had, the February preceding, fir William Sal- tonitall, curate of Halifax. Ina large MS. Collection of Arms, in my poffeffion, fir Ri- chard Saltonftall, ikinner, Lord Mayor of London in 1597, is faid to have born, Or, a bend between two eaglets difplayed, fa- ble ; but in
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fable, two and one. But another authority fais, Argent, a chev- ron between three hammers, fable. This laft I take to have been born by Hamerton, of With regard to the poffeffors of lands in Langfeld before the match of Hamerton with the heirefs of this place, I find in one of the Harleian MSS. N° 797, a Challenge of the Lord againtt William de Radcliffe, and Elen his wife, concerning the homage and fealty, and other fervices being in arrear, of the tenements which he held in Langfeld, Skircotes, and elfewhere, in right of the fame Elen, was retpited till the turne of Halifax, 22 Ed. III. And at the court of Wakefield, 18 Novemb. 22 Ed. III. it was commanded to diftrain the faid Will. de Radcliffe for the above. The faid Elen was coufin, and heirefs of the wife of Henry de Langfield, her uncle. MANCANHOLES, within this townfhip, has its name, as I conjecture, from the Britifh Mawn, a turf, or peat, being pro- bably the place from whence the antient Britifh inhabitants of this neighborhood fetched their fewel. After the Conqueft it was fo far improved, that it was converted, along with Cromp- tonftall, Fernfide, Overfaltonftall, Netherfaltonftall, Haderthelf, and Baitings, all in Sowerbyfhire, into a Vaccary, where cattle were nourifhed, and bred, as appears by furveys taken in the time of the earls of Warren, and by the accounts of the officers of the faid earls ; which likewife thew that they were held in demeine. Thefe officers were called Inftauratories, and gave the yearly accounts of the revenues of their cattle, as the Graves gave of their rents at every audit, to the Earls other officers, Thefe vaccaries were, in length of time, let forth to tenants by copy of Court-roll. The herbage of Mancanholes, in 1314, was valued at 16s. perann. I have the copy of a deed in 1519, wherein the Crofs of Mankynholes is mentioned. 3 Edw. I. Tho. de Langfeld held in capite of earl Warren, in the town of Mancanholes, thirteen oxgangs of land, paying yearly 3s. 4d. g Edw. III. Will. de Langefeld conveyed to John de Methe- leye and Henry de Langfeld, all his lands which he had of the gift
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is 1464 acres, two roods, and ten perches; the common confifts of 1393 acres, two roods, and
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worth; 6. who married Chriftopher Deighton, of Lin- colnfhire ; 7. Ellen, who married John Dean, of Deanhoufe, in Warley ; and, 8. Ifabel, who married Jafper Blythman.. John, the eldeft, was buried at Halifax, Auguft 19, 1585, having mar- ried Ann, daughter of Thomas Wocdrove, of Woolley,
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An Henry Farrer had Henry, and John; the former of thefe who wrote himfelf Henre Faror, was of Eawood and Brearley, and was a Juftice of Peace, as Thorefby, 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 purchafed Clubcliffe, in Methley, of fir Edward Dymock, knt. built a great part of that houfe, and alfo He married Mary, daughter of John Lacy, of Brear- ley; but having no iffue, his eftate came to his brother, John Farrer, of London, efq; according to Thorefby ; but I find John Farrer, of Elfabrugh-hall, brother to Henry Farrer, of Eawood,
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worth, who married Mary Brearley, widow; 5. Richard, a Phy- fician; 6. Mary, who died unmarried; and, 7. Frances, who married James Greenwood. John, the eldeft, died March 22, 1722-3, having married Elizabeth, daughter and heirefs of James Crefwick, of Beghall (or Beal,) near Ferrybridge, B. D. by whom James, and Lydia, who died, and was buried at Hali- fax,
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gical Icarning. Lordan was not the particular: name of any Lane, but a general one, refpeCting the leading people amongft thofe viGorious invaders, who were called Lord-Danes, or Da-
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placed their tents gn this ground whilft they took their diverfion in the neighborhood, is uncertain. It gave name, however, to a family, of whom I find frequent mention about the time of Henry VIII. It is very poffible that this village may have an high original, and have been a fettlement even in the Britifh for Bod, which our Saxon anceftors pronounced Both, and we Booth, in the times preceding Chriftianity fignified an habitation.
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Shibden, but it is plain that it had taken place at this time, by this Thomas being removed to Horley-green ; I find alfo, in the Teftamentary Burials at Halifax, extracted from Mr. Torr’s MS. that Richard Waterhoufe, of Shipden, was buried in 15 38, 27 Hen. VII; fo that either this Thomas, or his father, difpofed of the old family eftate.) Thomas had, 1. William, commonly called William of the Lee, in Halifax parifh; 2. Gilbert ; 3. Humphry, of Pikeley; 4. Sibilla, or Ifabella, who married Mr. Robert Bentley, (and quere if not a fon called John:) Wil- liam had, 1. Jofeph, who married a daughter of Quoufly, of Lightcliffe, whofe father and mother lived to be each an hun- dred years old. 2. Nathan of Godley; 3. Jeremy; 4. Timothy, of London, merchant; 5. Sufan, who married Lifter, of Shibden-hall; 6. Phebe, who married Hemingway, of Shibden-mills ; 7. Efther, who married Humphry, fon of Hum- phry Drake; 8. Grace. Nathan above named, fecond fon of William, was a foldier in the civil wars, and ferved as one of the garrifon of
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Jofeph, John, William, and Elizabeth,) 5. Nathan, 6..Eliza- beth, 7. Mary,
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After the Drake’s, Shibden-hall became, by purchafe, as [ conceive, the property of the Waterhoufes, of which family there is the following pedegree in a MS. late lord Oxford’s, called the vifitation of Yorkthire, by Robert Glover, Somerfet Herald, as Marfhal to Norroy king of arms
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alfo tells us, that the fame was born by Edward Waterhoufe, of Greenford, in Middlefex, efq. Their creft, according to my old Folio MS. Collection of Arms, was, An eagle’s leg ftanding, couped clofe by the body, and upon. the top a dexter wing ad- joining difplayed fable. Thefe are over the Workhoufe door at Halifax, built by Nathaniel Waterhoufe. I I cannot but obferve, that I have the copy of a pedegree of this family of Waterhoufe, which makes a Robert Waterhoufe;
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254 THE HISTORY The next owners of Shibden-hall were the Lifters, whofe pedegree is as follows: Samuel Lifter, of Shibden-hall, died in 1632, leaving, 1.Tho- mas, 2. John, 3. Jofeph, who died Dec. 27, 1644, leaving two fons, who died f. p. and Mary, who married Mofes Jenkins. Thomas married, firft, Sibyl, daughter of Robert. Hemming- way, of Upper Brea, by whom Samuel, John, Thomas, and Mary. Samuel married Hefter Oats, who died in bed by her hufband, Jan. 26, 1692-3, aged fixty, leaving 1. Thomas, who died f. p. and was buricd
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he removed. Hc was captain of a troop of horfe for king Charles I. and was at Marfton-moor fight. He gave, in Oliver’s time, 8781. compolition money for his eftate. He 1698, and lies buried in Fetherftone church; his wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Thornhill, of Fixby, efq; by whom 1. Richard, 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. Sufanna. Peter fold Aketon to Edmund Winn, efq; in 1714, having married Ann, daughter of George Thornhill, of Fixby, by whom Richard, Peter, who died young, Ann, who married
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OP HALIFAX. 257 When the prefent fabrick at High Sunderland was does not appear by any infcription upon the building; but was either the work of Richard Sunderland, who married Sufan Saltonftall, about 1597, or of his fon Abraham, who married Elizabeth Langdale; but more probably the latter, becaufe we meet with the arms of Saltonftall and Langdale, impaled with thofe of Sunderland, in the windows. This houfe feems once to have been well ornamented; there are ftill fome ftatues and bufts remaining, of tolerable. workmanfhip. In a chamber. window under the arms of Saltonftall, Langdale, and Thorn- hill, of Fixby, Felix quem virtus generofa exornat avorum, Et qui virtute fuis adjicit ipfe decus. L. S. Thefe letters
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Lite vacans, donec fluctus formica marinos Ebibat & totum Teftudo perambulet orbem !
How vain are our wifhes, and how uncertain the continuance of earthly things, may hence be feen, when either the writer of thefe, or his fon, alienated this very eftate, which the then owner fo earneftly wifhed might continue in the family for ever ! Over the principal gate, Nunquam hanc pulfet portam qui violat
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William de Ovinden, quit claimed to Roger de Raftrick land in Haldewrohe (Holdeworth.) This, by the witnefles, was about 1287. Round the feal, in capitals,
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three acres of land in the fields of Raftrick, and fifteen pence of a yearly rent, and all the fervice thereto belonging, out of.a farm -which Simon,’ his fon, and Adam the Smith, of Huddersfield, fon of the faid Simon held. His third fon was, 3. Simon, who occurs by the name of Simon le Faber (or Smith) de Raftrick. This Simon had Adam, and Hugh. Adam lived at the Caftle in ° Raftrick, and had Simon. Hugh, fon of Simon, had William. Hugh de Raftrick,- fon of Roger, lived in the time of Hen. III. and
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whom Helen and Alice. Here the above pedegree ends, and fo far I find it confirmed by evidence, that one John, fon of Elen de Raftrick, was witnefs to a Deed 32 Edw. III. And in one of the Harleian MSS. N, 797, under the article of Raftrick, are thefe words: * I Alice, daughter of John Scot, of Raftrick, and
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Thomas, fon of George Booth, of Snowden; 8. Sarah, and g. Eleanor. Thomas, eldeft fon of John, married Martha, of Nathan Gledhill, by whom John, who died an in- fant, Thomas, Nathan, Arthur, George, Edward, Jofhua,
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Brooke, (as above,) bore, Argent, on a bend fable, a lure, with a line and ring or. This was born by Jofhua Brooke, of Newhoufe, in the townfhip of Huddersfield, as appears by a feal appendant to a Deed dated in 1647. Kay, (as above,) bore, Argent, two bendlets fable. Prichard, (as above,) bore, Gules, a fefs or, between three efcallops argent. The following Certificate was granted to one Elias Raftrick, faid to be a defcendant from the above ancient family.
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hill, to hold freely and hereditarily, paying yearly three half pen- nies for all fervices and demands. They alfo conveyed to him, by: another deed, half an acre in the fame place 5 from whence it is plain, that the above name did not here fignify a fixed quantity of land, but an open piece of ground, from the Saxon word
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our forefathers, at that time, ufed it, both becaufe we meet with it in deeds of fuch antiquity, and becaufe the Germans to this day ufe the word Rode, for a piece of ground made arable by, clearing it of wood, from Rotten, which fignifies, in their lan- guage, to break ground either with fpade, or plough, or even as hogs do when they tura up the ground for food. This laft is called in England, to root, and in Dutch, wroeten, as the fervice of the plough i is termed Roture by the French. And though the fubftantive is loft in the remains we have of the Saxon language, yet the verb wrotan, to tarn over ground with the plough, is
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John Scot, and her daughters. Now it appears from feveral deeds without date, but which, as the
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Arms of Toothill, of Toothill, were, Or, on a chevron fable, three crefcents argent; though, as I remember, the
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bridge: In this townfhip, at no great diftance from the remain called Meg-dike, Savile-gate branches out from the Dane’s- road, and points dire@ly upon Rifhworth-Hall, going by Rifh-
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by Antiquarians, particularly one on Wike-moor, mentioned ia Hearne’s edition of Leland’s Itinerary, Oxford, 1744,
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name of the places in queftion. For proof of this fee Monafti-. con,
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Sir John Savile, of Methley, Baron of the Exchequer, fon of Henry by Ellen Ramfden, and who died in 1606, married,
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crated {pring there; but above all, the very noted fpring at
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of the above Holy-well is no new conceit, but a real piece of antiquity, perhaps much older than the time of this deed. In this townfhip, as I find from Warburton’s Map of
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4. Oliver, Conftable of Pontefract-caftle. John married Elizabeth,
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arms over the mantle-piece in the hall, in plaifter work. It appeared to me, from certain writings fhewn to me by John Sutcliffe, the prefent owner of it, that
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Seems to have taken its name from fome cots, or buildings, (perhaps the only ones then in this divifion,) fituated near thofe beautiful f{cars, or rocks, which range themfelves along the
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Feb. 3, 1569. 2. Nicholas, who married Alice, daughter of Birkhead, by whom Brian, Martin, Henry, Agnes, and Ifabel.
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bloody hand,
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Ramfden, by whom, 1. Anthony Wade, of King Crofs. 2. Wil- liam, of Ball-green, in Sowerby, near Halifax. 3. Judith, who married Robert Dene, of Exley. 4. Mary, who Longbothom, of Longbothom. Anthony, the eldeft, died about 1620, having married Judith, daughter of Thomas Foxcroft, of New Grange; married at Leedes, Nov. By her he had, 2. John, 3. Elizabeth, who married Cotton Horne, of Wakefield; 4.Sarah, who married John Hargreave, I of Leedes; 5. Judith, who married, firft, Henry Power, Clerk ; fecondly, Jofeph Stock; 6.Prifcilla, who married William Favour, citizen of London; 7. Sufan, who married Dr. Jennifon, of Newcaftle upon Tyne. Benjamin, efq; the eldeft, was of New Grange, married. Edith, daughter of John Shanne, of Leedes, but died f. p. in 1671, in the eighty-firft year of his age. John, fecond fon, lived at King Crofs, and died about 1645, having married Mary, daughter of Anthony Waterhoufe, of Woodhoufe, by whom, 1. Benjamin, f{. p. 2. Anthony; 3. John, who married Hannah, daughter of John Milner, by
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ter, of New Grange, who married Ann, daughter of Robert Allenton, of Royd, in Halifax parith, by whom Walter, who died young, Robert, who died young, Ann, Benjamin, William, and Thompton.
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as that writer informs us, are the arms of Moore, (or Mowre,) viz. Argent, a chevron fable, fretted of the firft, in chief a {cythe azure, which I apprehend to have been a miftake in the perfon who ordered it to be thus put up; for the arms of this family of Moore (as I take it) were, fable, a fwan, &c. as above. Woopuouse. A very antient fituation, as appears from its: name. The prefent building has the date 1580, erected, as fuppofed, by a Watmough. It was purchafed, for 1800l. by Simon Sterne, third fon of Dr. Richard Sterne, Archbifhop of York. This Simon, who was Juftice of Peace, was buried at Halifax, April 17, 1703, and was refident here, as was his fon Richard, both whom are mentioned in a fhort pedegree of the family, in Thorefby, p.215. Arms of Sterne are, in Thorefby, p. 214, and Guillim, p. 77. Or, a chevron between three croffes flory, fable. Their creft is, On.a wreath of his colors,
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or caftle, the foundation of which may yet be feen in a field near the top of the town, adjoining to which is a piece of ground called the Hell-croft, where, no doubt, the dead were buried. I In Domefday-book there is mention of Sorebi, as a berewic belonging to Wachefeld, but nothing faid of the caftle ; this, however, is no proof that a caftle was not there, for there are many inftances of the like fort to be met with in that Its name, and that of the Hell-croft, feem to prove that it was .in being in the Saxon times, for that people called the grave by the name of Hell; thus, when Jacob, Gen. xxxvii. 3 5.
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Archbithop Tillotfon, who drew his firft breath here, and whofe
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Canon of Chrift-church, Oxford, by whom Mary, who married James Chadwick, efq; Jofhua, the younger brother of the Archbifhop, had John, who died in the Eaft-Indies, Elizabeth, who died in the Eaft-Indies, and Robert, who was M. A. Fel- low of Clare-hall, afterwards Rector of Elme cum Emneth, and who died f. p. at Cambridge, Nov. 12, 1738, aged fixty-two. Ifrael, the youngeft, married Mary,. daughter of Samuel Mawd,. by whom Jofhua and John. Jofhua was of Sowerby, and died. in 1747, having married Martha, daughter of James Stansfeld,. of Sowerby, by whom
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it is of high antiquity indeed, for we cannot well fuppofe that any thing of that fort would be permitted, after the ground was
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Thomas Williamfon, of Liverpool, Merchant. 5. Elizabeth, baptized May 28, 1689, who married William Williamfon, of Liverpool, Merchant. 6. Mary, baptized Feb. 4, 16go. 7. William, baptized Sept. 27, 1692. 8. Jofeph, f. p. baptized March 8, 1693. 9. James, baptized April 18, 1695, died un- married. 10. Mary, f. p. baptized
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hall, in Yorkfhire, efq; by whom, 1. Sir Watts, 2. Thomas, and, 3. William. N.B. The pedegrees of Horton, of Sowerby, and Horton, of Barkifland, which were drawn up by myfelf, I entered in the Herald’s office in March 1766, in a book intitled sth
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and Jofeph, flain at the battle of the Boyne; 4. Jonathan, of Winteredge, in Northouram, who married Mary by whom, Jonathan, {. p. Nathaniel, of Ovenden, and John, of Weftercroft, in Northouram. Of thefe, Nathaniel had Jonathan, of Winter- edge, who had Jonathan, of Leeds, and John. Jofeph, of. Goodgreave, above-named, married Hefter by whom, 1. John, of York, born O&. 14, 1645, and who died May 9, 1697, having four children, viz. Jaques, Ifrael, Grace, {. p. and Sarah, f. p. 2. Hannah, born Nov. 21, 1647, and who died Oct. 25, 1655. 3. Jofeph, of White-Windows, born June 23, 1650. 4. Sarah, born June 29, 1655, and who died May 19, 1656. 5. Ifrael, born June 8, 1657. 6. Timothy, born January, 1660. Jofeph, of White- Windows, above-named, had lived at Wat-ing, in Nor- land; he married Mary Morvel, Feb. 1, 1674-5. She was born at Beckfoot, near Bingley, July 3, 1653. By her he had,
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who had iffue four daughters, one married to Townley, of Royal, near Burnley aforefaid, another to Bradfhaw, a third to Davis, of Chefhire, and the fourth uncertain to whom; Dearden, of. Wood-lane; Farrer, of Ball-green; Dobfon, of Stones, owner of Green-lane, Ratton-row, &c. Robinfon, of Bowood and. Helm; Brigg, of Upper and Lower Quickftavers ;- Tatterfall, of Sties, near Finkle-itreet; Bentley, of Rowley and Sowerby Dean; Stansfield, of the Pond, one of whom had feven fons, who all lived to be near eighty years of age; Earnfhaw, of Sowerby-town; Gaukroger, alias Plats, of Gaukrogers; Sut- cliffe, of Turvin; Thomas, of Wood-top, adjoining to Turvin ; Heileigh, of Heileigh, in Blackwood; Greenwood, of Hollin- I hey; Riley, of the Stocks,.in Sowerby-town ; Hoile,.of
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Yorkfhire, before the roads over this craggy mountain were im- proved to that amazing degree of perfection in which they are now to be feen. And as this houfe has fo long been put to
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and to hold to the faid Roger, his heirs and affigns, in
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304 THE HISTORY long to the name of Crofsley. This place might take its name from Lyte, a few, and Heyl, an hazle, as being a place where a {mall wood of hazles grew. Royp, an houfe furrounded with good land, though doubtlets it took its name from its having been terra debilis & inculta. Here lately lived a Mr. Allenfon, who bore for his arms, Azure, three pallets wavy, or, on a chief of the fecond, a.lion paffant guardant fable. ST ANINGDEN, or theStony-ing-den, is a within Soyland. once the property of a family of the name of Swift, one of whom erected a crofs above the houfe by the road fide, ftill called Swift-crofs. This eftate is at prefent in the name of Hoile, who bear for arms, Ermine, a mullet or. For creft, on a wreath an helmet, above all, a griffin’s head erafed. Befides thefe, there have been in Soyland, Crofsley, and Gaukroger, both of Flat-head, Crofsley, of Small-lees ; Crofsley, of the Moor, and of Clayhonfe, in Lighthazles ; Firth of Royd, &c. Foxcroft, of Brigroyd and Kebroyd; Hoyle, of Light- hazles; Prieftley, of Goodgreave, and Prieftley Ing, alias
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quantity of large ftones. A little diftant from the houfe is alfo fome ground in the Delf-brow, called the Burying-place. The name of this place feems to be derived from the Anglo- Saxon Bled, the blade of herbs, and,.by fynecdoche, the herb
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I take the above to have been a very antient fituation, for I have the copy of adeed, dated ro Hen. IV, by which
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daughter of Robert Molineux, of Lancafhire, who bore, Azure, a crofs farcele, or. By her he had William Lacy, of Cromwel-
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John, eldeft fon of Richard, fold the manor houfe of Crom- welbothom to Thomas
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plain to me, that the Lacys, of Cromwelbothom, defcended from earls of Lincoln of that name, and one proof arifes from bearing the fame arms; for though the faid earls bore fometimes Quarterly, or and gules, a bendlet fable, a labal of five points of the fecond, yet their proper coat was, Or,
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de Eland, by deed, without date, grants to
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Brother, Henry de Riffworth, Thomas de Coppeiey, Richard de Ecclifley.
PepEGREE of
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I know not whether this family ever laid claim to any coat of arms, but the Deans, of Dean-houfe, in this parifh, bore, Argent a fefs dancy, in chief three crefcents gules.
W ARLE Y,
One of the nine berewics belonging to Wakefield, mentioned in Domefday-book by the name of Werla. ‘The etymology of it is to me uncertain. There are in it,
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them in the winter. The place
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Earl Warren claimed free warren in Saitonftall, by royal ter, 37 Henry III. fo that this place was, in fact, no part of the
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troyd, of Murgatroyd, or Hollins, in Warley, bore, was, s Argent, three croffes florée fable.
This name I take to mean
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end heirs, to inclofe likewife «* quantum fibi acciderit fecundum
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Town, &c. but whether that was the cafe here, I have not an opportunity to examine, only if I recollect right, there is a place near it, called the Green-gate, and another, which goes by the name of the Tower, which I deliver as an hint to fuch lovers of antiquity as have leifure, and inclination, to correct and enlarge thefe my imperfe& remarks.
Account of Lanps, &c. in HALIFAX
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vel heredcs fuos pertinebant, in Aunley, in pur. et
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Hugone de Eland, Johanne de Heton, Johanne de Thornhill, Hen. de Dicton, Hugone de Raftrych, Johanne de Wittelay, Rico de Dicton, et aliis.
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Gilberto, Capellano de Almonburye, Rob. Parfona de Sandala, Rado de Winnvilla, Hen. filio Roberti de Liverfege. At p. 330 of my old MS. is the following deed, and alfo in : Omnibus fancte Ecclefie filiis, prefentibus et futuris, Jo- hannes de Fekifbye falutem. Sciatis me dediffe, concefiiffe, et prefenti carta mea
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[fo in original] inveniens eis fingulis annis decem littorie. Ita, viz. quod Monachi eandam littoriam facient falcari et attorizari, et nos illam ad prenominatam Berchariam Mona-
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tus [attendance twice a year] ad Curiam de Batley. Finis Domino pro ingreffu 6s. 8d.” Called Clough-houfe to this day. In the old MS. in my own poifeffion, fol. 332, 1s this:
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confirmavi, Domino et Beate Marie et Fratribus Milit. Templi Salomonis de Jerufalem, in liberam, puram, et perpetuam elimo- finam, totam donationem Johannis filu Gilberti de eadem, viz.
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divifas, pro falute anime mee, et omnium antecefforum meorum, in liberam, et puram, et perpetuam eleemofinam, cum libera communione, et cum omnibus liberis ayfiamentis ad predictam villam de Barkifland predict. in bofco, plano,
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An Account of the CHURCHE S and CH
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his any foundation, that they were taught to think, that a nuracle had happened to the Hair of the holy Virgin, who had
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OF HALIFAX. 333 very large extent of the parifh, and becaufe we find perfons of no mean account poffeffed of it, fuch as Adam de Copley above- named, whofe family was the moft flourifhing at that time in all thofe parts; and William de Chameur, the laft Rector, who was promoted to the Bifhopric of Lofon, in France. But what, I think, proves this, in the ftrongeft manner, is, that the Prior and Convent of Lewis contrived, at the departure of this Wil- liam, to appropriate this Rectory to themfelves; the pretext for which was, that the Court Clergy, and fometimes foreigners, who knew not the Englifh language, had by oppreffion, and the powerful intreaties, and violent threatenings of great men, been thruft into the fame, on account of the great profits thereto be- longing, but being more intent upon the fleece than the flock, had miferably neglected their paftoral care; which the Arch- bifhop of York taking into his ferious confideration, gave orders to Gilbert de
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to the Vicarage of Halifax, on the day of the Invention of the Holy Crofs, in the year 1274. The
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cetera omnia ad Alteragium
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nibus in ordinatione et taxatione Vicarie factis et habitis in fuo robore remanentibus. In cujus rei teftimonium has literas noftras patentes in perpetuum duraturas et valituras, Sigillo noftro fecimus communiri. Dat. apud Schireburne,
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t decens, ut ipfam donis extollamus
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otum Prioris et Conventus ipfius Ecclefie fupplicationibus in- clinati eis per noftras literas duximus concedendum, ut cedente aut decedente Williclmo,
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Reverende difcretionis R.
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OF HALIFAX. 343 made before Edward Archbifhop of York. This compofition,
which is very long, and drawn up in Latin, may be feen in Lee’s Regifter at York, fol. 113, and recites, that difputes had arifen between Robert Croham, Prior of St. Pancrace, at Lewes, and the Convent there, proprietors of the parifh church of, Halifax, and the chapels or churches of Heptenftall and Eland, and other chapels dependant on the faid church, on the one part, and Henry Savile, Knt. and many others therein named, landholders and inhabitants within the faid parifh, or vicarage, on the other part, concerning the tythes of wheat, rye, barley, oats, beans, peafe, and hay, (tritici, filiginis, ordei, avenarum, fabarum et pifarum, et foeni,) within the limits of the faid parith or vicarage, and payable to the faid Prior and Convent, which difputes having continued for near three years, as well in the Court of Chancery. as in the Confiftory Court of the Archbifhop of York, it was at laft agreed between Thomas Standeven and John “Todd, for the faid Prior and Convent, and Brian Lewty and Jolin Wright,. Proctors. for the faid Sir Henry Savile, &c. ‘being all of them duly authorifed thereto, that for the future all
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344 TIE HISTORY that in cafe of non-payment, as above, the faid Prior and Con- vent fhould have liberty to take the tenth part of the faid tythes in kind, only the non-payment of one not to be any prejudice to
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and other tythes whatfoever, without interruption of ‘Robert Waterhoufe, and Gregory Waterhoufe, (both of Syddal, father and fon, defendants in this
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ment, and commit them to prifon till payment wes made. Ninthly, Whereas the tythes of the townthip cf Eland were in the tenure of Mrs. Savile, of Bradley, by virtue of a leaic granted by Robert Waterhoufe, for the yearly rent of 31. 3s. 4d. the validity of which leafe depended much on the trial of the matters in controverfy, touching the corrupting and altering of the faid compofition, the faid Sir Thomas and Laurence were to endeavor to
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JoyIsay oy} Ur
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ExPLANATION Of the preceding TABLE. In the column where the names of the towns are, mention is meade of fuch as are within the foreft of Hardwic, and fuch as
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at the rood altar there, yearly value three pounds eighteen fhillings, 4. Brige’s Chauntry, yearly value four pounds, thir- teen fhillings, and four-pence. 5. Firth’s Chauntry, yearly value three pounds, fix fhillings, and eight-pence. To which Stevens, in his Supplement, vol. 1. p. 68, adds, The fervice of the Morrow Mafs in the faid Church, yearly value fifty-one fhillings and ten-pence; differing in nothing elfe from the above, except making the yearly value of Brigge’s Chauntry four-pence lefs, and that of Firth’s eight-pence. As to the firft of thefe, I
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petuum. Que quidem omnia et fingula
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tant eandem Johannam habere et tenere tertiam partem omnium terrarum et tenementorum predictorum, durante vita fua, pro et nomine dotis fue, vel quod permitterent ipfam percipcre et re- cipere exitus et proficua de tertia parte omnium et fingulorum eorundem meffuagiorum, terrarum, et tenementorum predict. cum pert. durante vita fua, et poft mortem fuam, tunc predictus Capellanus, et fucceffores fui, percipiant et habeant predictas fex marcas de exitibus et proficuis terrarum et tenementorum in forma predicta. Item volo et ordino, quod cum predicta Can- taria vacaverit, poft mortem mei
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officio predicto defervire, feu ibidem moram trahere non poterit, extunc a dicto officio tanquam inhabilis per ipfum prefatum Tho. Willebye, aut per heredes fuos, feu alios ad hoc deputatos, amotus fit penitus et privatus. Et ulterius volo et ordino, quod quoties contingat predictum Tho. Willebye, et heredes fuos, feu aliorum aliquem in hujufmodi nominationis et ordinationis ne- gotio, cum officlum miniftrationis in celebratione miffarum
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is above twenty yards from north to fouth and feventeen yards from eaft to weft. Under the chancel are large rooms, upon a level with the lower part of the church-yard, in one of which
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« Churchwardens. Item, I will that a Doctor of Divinity have
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“fifteen fhillings.” This John Aked was an inhabitant of
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all a bend gules, quartered with, Argent, a chief indented fable. (4.2.) Ramfden, of Crawftone. (43.) Argent, three croffes formé, five times pierced of the field. (44.) Gules, a griffin paffant or. After thefe follow the arms of the Vicars, which I
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Arms, Argent, three lions (or bears) paws erafed and
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OF HALIFAX. I 367 as were expyrd before the death of the fayd Herrifon, were ** provyd to be hys goods.” Wytnes herof, the whole multitude of people then lyvynge
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Arms, Parted per pale, argent, three eagles with two heads difplayed fable and vert, three dolphins naiant. proper, two and one, each coat dimidiated. For an account of this Vicar, fee my hit of the moft confiderable perfons belonging to this parifh. 18. Roserr
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July 19,1629. See the infcription to his memory in the epi- taphs belonging to Halifax church. The Regifter there has this.
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and preached in his own houfe; and that he died July 31, 1675, aged 49. The character he gives of him is, that he was a man of good parts, a folid, ferious Preacher, of a very humble beha- vior, and very ufeful in his place; that he lived defired, and died lamented. I I [I have fomewhere -feen that after the removal of Mr. Root,
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372 THE HISTORY Patrick’s, Dublin, afterwards Rector of Wigginton, in York- fhire. He died Dec. 28, 1711, and was buried in the chancel at Halifax, the 31ft following.
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This Mr. Brearcliffe, as we are told by Mr. Wright, was,
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OF HALIFAX. 977
Ad morbos propulfandos, Et ad redintegrandas
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between three croffes
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In the fouth chapel, on a monument on the wall:
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fancti, literarum perinde decus
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Near the above, but now deftroyed (as fuppofed) was another figure of a man in armor, with this infcription round, in old characters: ‘* Here lyeth the body of BRYAN WATERHOUSE, of Halyfax, Gentleman, which departed this life the 1v day of Odtober, in the year of our Lord God, 1589. Humanius eft dcridere vitam quam deplorare.” In Dr. Johnfon’s MS.
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On the north fide of the Church, where the deceafed parti- defired to be buried, is a tomb, on which is wrote: ** Here lieth the body of Mr. Joun
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formerly Clark of the Parifh Church of Halyfax, who was buried the day of November, 1701.” This man, who was Clark of Eland, was made Clark of Halifax by Dr. Hooke; and Wilfon, in the courfe of a difpute which happened between them, having arrefted the Doétor; the latter perfuaded the other to fhew him his licence, and when he had got it in poffeffion would never fuffer him to officiate any more.
TESTAMENTARY BURIALS at HALIFAX. From Mr. Torr’s MS.
July 12, 1402, John del Burgh, of Halifax, made his will, and left his foul to God Almighty, St. Mary, and AH Saints, and ordered his body to be buried in the parifh church of Halifax. Nov. 21, 1437, Henry Savyle, of Halifax, Efq; Soul and body as above. March 3,
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liam Illingworth. — 1545, Humphry Waterhoufe, of Shelf. Soul to God Almighty, hoping through Jefus Chrift to be faved. ‘* Here Proteftantifm began to
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Skircoat, 128. Ovenden, 11. 8s. Southouram, 16s. Sower- by, 11. 8s. ad. Northouram,
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OF HALIFAX, 395
E ALAND CHAPEL,
is reputed to be the oldeft place of worfhip in the whole parifh, next to Halifax church. Some of the in- habitants here would have it believed, that it is nearly as old as the time of the Conqueft. This Mr. Wright, p. 35, denies, becaufe in Earl Warren’s grant of his churches in Yorkfhire to the Priory of Lewes, no mention is made of any chapel then belonging to Halifax church, though in other inftances, as Wakefield, Dewfbury, &c. where chapels belonged to thofe mother churches, they are exprefsly conveyed by name. Whether this argument be quite conclufive with regard to
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OF HALIFAX. 397
therefore fet up between thofe two dates, and, in my own opi- nion, not long after this parifh came into the hands of the I Monks cf Lewes, who might have good reafons for this regu-
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by year, or thereabouts, fo as there might be a convenient maintenance for an able and ingenuous Minifter. Signed J. Thompfon. Hen.
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OF HALIFAX. 403
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bat, tucbatur, promo: rebat: Qua magna:
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The oldeft date upon the
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OF HALIFAX. 407 CHANTRY PRIESTS atEALAND.
Names Time of Faftitution Patrons Vacant by Dom. Johannes de April 12. 1402 I Habel, relict of
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and for the
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tiffimi in Xpo Principis et Domini noftri, Domini Richardi, Dei gracia, Regis Anglie et Francie illuftris, ac de confenfu et auctho- ritate Reverendi in Xpo Patris et Domini noftri, Domini Richardi, permiffione divina, Ebor. Archiepifc. Anglie Primatis et Apof- tolice fedis Legati, omniumq; aliorum quorum intereft in hac arte, fundaffe et ordinafle quamdam Cantariam unius Capellant in Capella de Eland, Ecclefie parochiali de Halifax annexa, pro falubri {tatu Johannis Ducis Acquitanie et Lancaftrie, Johannis Sayvill, et Ifabelle uxoris eius, et liberorum predictorum Johannis Sayvill et Ifabelle, et pro animabus predictorum Johannis Ducis, Johannis Sayvill, et Ifabelle, et liberorum predictorum, cum ab luce migraverint, ac animabus Henrici nuper Comitis Lancattrie, Johannis Sayvill, et Margerie uxoris eius, parentum preditti Johannis Sayvill, Militis, Thome de Eland, et Johanne uxoris cius, parentum predicte Ifabelle, Johannis Rylay, Thome Crofie, Capellani, et Richardi Schepard de Eland, ac amicorum et bene-
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gredi, et diftringere, et
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OF HALIFAX. aur
ad fanéta Dei evangelia preftabunt iuramentum corporale, quod: in dicta Cantaria perfonaliter et corporaliter refidebunt, et quilibet
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412 THE HISTORY Vicario Ecclefie de Hoderesfeld, Johanni de Diftheford, Carel-
lano, et Williclmo de Heton, unum metfluagium, cum perti- nentiis, in Eland, et quemdam annualem redditum marca- rum percipicndarum de manerio de Wyke, juxta Okynfchaghe, uno mefiuagio, ducentis acris terre, viginti acris prati, et fex acris
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OF HALIFAX. 413
fui, aut prefatus Capellanus, feu fucceffores fui, racione ftatuti predicti, per nos vel heredes noftros, Jufticiarios, Efcaetores, Vicecomites, aut alios Ballivos feu Miniftros noftros, vel heredum
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ATA THE HISTORY I penuitims menfis
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the fame, when, after the difiolution, he was impowcred by fta- tute to prefent to this living. There was a Light kept up here in former times, as I find by deed, but when founded I cannot fay. ‘The original deed I faw at Okes, in Rifhworth, importing that Walter de Frith granted to John his
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TESTAMENTARY BURIALS at HEPTONSTALL.
Robert Shagh, buried in the church-yard of the chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr, of Heptonftall, 1467, 7 Edw. IV. This from a MS in the Britifh Mufeum, Harleian Collection, N° 7973 and from hence may be feen, among numberlefs other inftances which might be produced, what little
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The chapel of Heptonftall was made uniform in 1634, and ‘every man’s particular form or feat appropriated to him.
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RASTRICK CHAPEL
Have an old MS. relating to this Chapel, the moft material parts of which I fhall here copy verbatim.
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Hermit, who was a principal founder of that Chappell. But
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Paving in the Chapel coft
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only account I can give of the antiquity of this Chapel, except that in two Decds, dated in
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de Elande, ejufdem parochie, in decimis, oblationibus, et aliis
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OF HALIFAX. I 427 AINSWORT H.
The oldeft ftone in this Chapel-yard is over one HENRY
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N. B. The ftone cn which this is cut, was laid down fince the old was deftroyed. There was a ftone fixed ia the wall of the old
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treme unctionis fibi miniftrari facere valeant. Nos vero, pre- miffa pie confiderationis intuitu debite confiderantes, ex caufis premiflis, et aliis juftis et rationalibus nos ad id moventibus, et evidentem prefate ecclefie parochialis de Hallifax utilitatem, Vi- Cariiq;
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preftiterit, €xtunc incurrat penam limitatam in conftitutione provinciali Ecclefie noftre Ebor. contra tales editam que fic imcipit,
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antient Church-yard, font, and books, and other neceffaries, with ornaments fit for a parochial Church, and that they will maintain both fervice and preaching upon their cwn cofts) that your Majetty would be pleafed, of your moft pious zeal and
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SHARP. Within the Chapel, at the weft end, ona ftone monument:
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CURATES of LIGHTCLIFFE.
1630, John Peebles, Preacher at Lightclive, (Halifax Re- ifter.) --- 1634, John Burtomood. --- 1647, 1649, and
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year 1530. There is a tradition, that this is a place of great anti- quity 5 probably, therefore, the chapel was only at that time rebuilt. There is, however, no evidence of this.
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SOWERBY CHAPEL.
RIGHT, p. 74, fais, this Chapel is of no older date than the latter end of Queen Elifabeth’s reign, but I fufpedct this to be a miftake. It is certain that i¢ was in being before Dec. 30, 35 Eliz. for one Robert Wade, of Sowerby, whofe will bears that date, had furrendered four pounds yearly, eut of his lands, to feoffees, in truft, that the fame fhould be diftributed to the poor of Sowerby, by the Minifter for the time being ; and it is more than probable that it was not a new erec- tion then, for at Whitewindows, in Sowerby, is an original agreement, dated May 25, 1622, to tax Blackwood, Sowerby, and Weftheld Quarters, forty pounds each, towards enlarging,
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predeceffors, have been due and payable to the Vicars of Halifax, for the time being; all which divers of the faid in- habitants were in great hope to obtain either in
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1572 and 1583, Adam Morris, who went Chaplain to a ree
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ufual fee for fuch burials at Croftone and Todmorden as afore-
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BIOGRAPHICAL
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complaints of the poverty of the Clergy in thofe days;
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BENTLEY, BRIAN,
Was buried at Halifax June g, 1679, where he had lived with the character of being a good Poet ; but for my own part, I can fay little to this, having never feen any compofition of his, either in print, or manufcript.
BRERETON, ROBERT,
Publifhed aSermon from Ecclefiaftes xii. 13. entitled,
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age. In memory of whom Dame Dorothy Browne, who
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hil at
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bridge, and having a diflike to Popery, he was obliged to retire to fome place of fafety in the reign of Queen Mary, and he {eems to have pitched upon Nettleftead, near Hadley, in Suffolk, 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 furvived him about ten years. In the reign of ‘Q. Elizabeth, Mrs. Bois urged her hufband to.act in the Mini- {try ; on which account he took upon him to ferve the Cure of Elmefett, near Hadley ;. and, after the death of the Incumbent,
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Son of George Brookbank, of Halifax,. was entered a Batler in Brazen Nofe College, in Michaelmafs Term, 1632, aged 20; took a Degree in Arts, went into Orders, and had a Curacy. At length retiring to London he taught
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** overthrew our enemies, and reduced a powerful Prince to fue
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DEANE, RICHARD.
In Wood’s Athenz
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neighborhood, who, about 1571, having drank of this water, found it to have the fame virtues as thofe at Spaw, in Germany. This Author publifhed, likewife,
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Archbifhop of York, wherein it appears, that the work was begun when the author was fixty years old, at the defire, and earried on under the encouragement of the faid Archbifhop. Next follows an epiftle to the readers, wherein, amongft the impediments to this work, he reckons up preaching every Sab- bath-day, lecturing every day in the. week, exercifing juftice ift the
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468 THE HISTORY Canons of St. Auftin, in Oxford, called St. Marie’s College, fituated in the parifh of St. Michael and St. Peter, in the Bayley, where he was in 1526, as alfo O&. 14, 1533, when, as a Member of the faid College, he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, having a little before oppofed in Divinity. About the fame time he became Chaplain to Archbifhop Cranmer, after whofe example he married, a practice at that time dif- allowed amongft the Popith Clergy. Willis, in his Survey of the Cathedrals,
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the Popith Bifhop of St. David’s, and refufing to renounce his herefies, {chifms, and errors, as the faid Morgan called them, he was degraded, condemned, and burned at Caermarthen, on the fouth fide of the Market-crofs there, March 30, 1555. It was remarkable, that one Jones coming to the Bithop a little before
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Author, under the year 1649, tells us, that this Daniel thert took his Degree of D. D. and that he was a fevere and good Governor, as well in his Vice Chancellorfhip as Principality. After his wife’s death, he lived in the houfe of his nephew, Mr. Daniel Greenwood,
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‘Studley, in Oxfordthire,
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finding, however, that a quite contrary conclufion. had been
drawn from thofe inftances, and others of alike nature, as
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I have feen, in the poffeffion of the late Mr. David Stansfield,
of Halifax, an original three quarters painting ‘of this Oliver
HEYWOOD, NATHANIEL, Brother to Oliver, was born at Little Lever aforefaid, in Sept. 1633, educated in Trinity College, in Cambridge, and afterwards with Mr. Edward Gee, of Ecclefton. His firft preferment was
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of falvation, in two treatifes concerning Baptifth, and the Lord’s Supper.” London, 1653. This is Wood’s account, and if true, fhews that this performance had a fecond impreifion, for I have feen a work under his name, entitled,
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432
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OF HALIFA X. 483 1668, and which ftood in that place which is now the middle part of the prefent quadrangle in that College. From
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Orders. July 26, 1647, he preached his firft Sermon, as Lec- turer, 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 Lancafhire. May 21, 1660, he was made Vicar of Lecdes, but met with fo much oppofition from thofe who were for introducing Mr. Bowles, of York, that the Church doors were barred againft him, and they were under a neceflity of fending for a party of Soldiers to fecure his induction. Bein appointed to preach the firft Synod Sermon at York, he per- formed it with fo much applaufe, that Dr. Hitch, then
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And as the
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fettled by authoritty in the room of the faid Viccor to receive
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York, was declared forfeited for treafon, by an A&t of November 18, 1652, but this I have reafon to think was a mifnomer. I Walker, in his Sufferings, &c. p. 83, fais, that the Doctor has one or more Sermons extant, but I have not feen any ac- count of them.
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492 THE HISTORY 1627-8. The foundation of his great learning was laid in the Grammar-fchool there, from whence he was fent, at fourteen years of age, to Chrift’s College, Cambridge, where he took the De- of B.A. M.A. and B.D. He was firft Curate of Midle- ton, in Lancathire, but was forced thence, on Sir George Booth’'s unfuccefsful attempt to reftore King Charles II. a little before the ‘fight at Worcefter. After this he retired to the place of his na- tivity, where he lived till 1661, when Dr. Lake, then Vicar of Leeds, and his brother-in-law, gave him the Curacy of Beefton, in his
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13. Animadverfions upon Monf. Le Clerc’s Reflections upon our Saviour and his Apoftles, &c. Primitive Fathers, Dr. Ham- mond. Camb.1702, 8vo. He alfo left the following manufcripts behind him, which came to the hands of his fon: 1. A Tranflation of the Targum on the Firft and Second Book of Chronicles into Latin, with Annotations. 2. A Chronological Hiftory from the firft Century after the Flood, to our Saviour’s Birth. 3-A Chronological Hiftory of the five firft Centuries after our Saviour’s Nativity. 4. Animadverfions on the Hiftorical Account of the Jewith High Priefts, which we have in the cafe of Sees, in Dr. Hody, chap. 2, and 3. As alfo upon the Refutation of Mr. Selden, chap. 3. 5. An Anfwer unto, or Animadverfions upon R. H. the Author of the five Difcourfes concerning the Guide in Controverfies. 6. An Anfwer unto, or Animadverfions upon T. C.’s Labyrinthus Cantuarienfis. This he lived notto
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his MS. account of the Englith Hiftorians, in two vols. folio, now at the Free Grammar School at Leedes, fais, that Mr. Nalfon
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fractions of the air are different at different times. From his obfervations it likewife appears, that Halifax is in the latitude of 53-47. that the height of Blackftone-edge, at Robin-hood’s- bed, is two hundred and thirty-nine yards and a quarter; that Halifax Bank bears from this 60°. from north to eaft; Man- chefter 40. 30. from fouth to weft; Rochdale 70, 2a. from fouth to
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The Doétor married, March 30, 1708, Elifabeth Cotton, of Haigh-hall, by whom he had feveral children.. He died Jan. 9, 1741-2, at Halifax, and was buried on the 12th, at with the following epitaph on the fouth wall of the Church.
H. S. E. Tuomas M.D. Artis fue Facultate Prope fingulari infignis ; Aliarumque Artium Quz ad Humanitatem excolendam Et Virtutem promovendam pertinent, Laude cumulatus. Modefta Ingenii Sagacitas vere amabilem, Pietas autem non fimulata,
Comitate condita Gravitas, Ac fimplex Morum Candor
Amabiliorem preftiterunt. Nec Fame celebritati,
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microfcopical, mercurial, and magnetical,” 4°. London, 1664. It is certain that the Do¢tor was buried at Wakefield, for on 2 brafs plate on the chancel floor in the Church there is the fol- Jowing infcription :
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ordered, that he fhould 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
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Middle Temple, where, being called to the Bar, he becane Autumn Reader of that Houfe in 1586, Steward of the Scigniory or Lordfhip of Wakefield, and was
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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 Windfor, Sept. 21, 1604. About that time, lofing his only fon, he thenceforth devoted his time and fortune to the interefts of learning. In 1619, he founded two Lectures, or Profefforfhips, in the Univerfity of Oxford, one for Geometry, and the other for Aftronomy, which he endowed with a falary of 160]. a year each, befides a legacy of 6ool. for purchafing more lands for the fame ufe. He alfo furnifhed a library with mathematical books, near the Ma- thematical School, for the ufe of his Profeffors. He gave 1001. to the mathematical cheft of his own appointing; adding afterwards a legacy of gol. a year to the fame cheft, and to the Univerfity and his Profeffors jointly. He gave Jikewife 120]. towards the new building of the Schools; feveral - rare MSS. and printed books to the Bodleian Library; anda good quantity of matrices, and Greek types, to the Printing-prefs at Oxford. Part of the endowment of the above Profefforfhips ‘was the manor of Little Hays, in Effex, as appears from
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Svi Exvvias corporis fruftra fit qui hic qverat, Servat prenobile depofitvm Etona, Perennem virtvtvm ac benefactorvm memoriam Quibus collegium utrumq; Q. Academiam imprimis Oxonienfem complexus eft, Ipfvmq; adeo
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THE HISTORY Preface to his Anglia Sacra, fais, that Sir Henry printed
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T cannot heere of the fame, thearfore I defyer you to goo unto
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became an eminent Scholar, efpecially in the Mathematics, Phyfic, (in which faculty he was admitted by the Univerfity to practife,) Chemiftry, Painting, Heraldry, and Antiquities. Af- terwards, for the compleating of his knowledge, he travelled into Italy, France, and Germany, whcre he greatly improved himfelf. He wrote feveral things, but, I think, committed nothing to the prefs. He gave Camden the antient exemplar of Affer Menevenfis, which he publifhed in 1602, and which contains the ftory of the difcord between the new Scholars which Grimbald brought with him to Oxford, at the reftoration of the Univerfity by King Alfred, with the old Clerks which
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STANSFIELD, ELY,
Of Sowerby, publifhed a book called,
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fettled at York, but was forced to fly from thence into the
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TAYLOR, JOHN,
Concerning whofe birth Dr.
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«fame ink, without the leaft interlineation.” Such an infor- ‘mation as this, one would think, might be depended upon as exact; and yet when I fearched the fame Regifter, I found his name to be the laft of feven, who were baptifed together, and entered in thefe words,
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faying, that he introduced to his Majefty the graveft Divine of the Church of England, he {tepped forward, and in a lower tone faid to the King,
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pofition to the King’s intereft. And about the fame time, his library and goods were pillaged by Boetius Egan, the titular Bifhop of Elphin, his damagés amounting to the fum of four hundred pounds. He himfelf fled for fafety into England, and fettled at Soothill-hall, in the
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Viri ob Eruditionem et Pietatem Infignis. Parentis chariffimi P.
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OF HALIFAX. 523 may be feen in the Chriftian’s Magazine for January, 1765, p- 29-
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own expence, laying out above four hundred pounds upon the fame, which was more than a fourth part of the whole fum he there received, notwithftanding which, his worthy fucceffor threatned him with a profecution in the Spiritual Court, if he did not allow him ten pounds for dilapidations, which, for the fake of peace, he complied with.
Feb. 17, 1759, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of An- tiquaries in London, being invited to accept of that honor by the Right Hon. the Lord Willoughby, of Parham, Prefident of that Society. July 11, 1761, he was married at Ealand, in Halifax parifh, to Ann, daughter of Mr.
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on the
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buried at Waddefdon. He wrote,
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Times when; the public Charities to Church and Poor; the
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this rule are, catch, hatch, match, patch, watch, &c. They alfo fay kift for cheft. Words ending in fh are the fame, as bufk for buth.
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Laftly, from Gawin Douglas’s tranflation of Virgil, ed. 1553,
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A private way for horfes, but not for carriages. From A. S.
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poach’d, as eggs are done. ‘Fhis word may be Bri- tifh; for Bwlch, by which the Welfh exprefs a trench, or ditch, is ufed adjectively, and fignifies broken. To afk there- fore whether you would have your eggs bolch’d, is to enquire whether you would have them broke before they are boiled. Brust, for Breaft. This word is thus pronounced in German, or High Dutch. Cc. I Caitirr. One who has been long fick, and helplefs. It has been derived from the word Captive, denoting a perfon in mi- ferable
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OF HALIFAX. 537
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Foc, the Grafs which grows in meadows after mowing. This word is found in Leg. Foreft. Scot. chap. 15. It is other- wife called Feg, or Fogage. In Law Latin Fogagium. Frosx,a Frog. A. S. Fpox. Belgic Vorfch. German Frofch, which is the fame as in Halifax parifh, with the ch, as ufual, converted into k. Foor, a Ford over a river. Either a corruption of Ford; or derived from the A. S. Fon, which, in Manning’s edition of
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Heck, a Rack to hold hay for cattle. The Dutch ufe this word for a Bar, or a Rail, or a place inclofed with thefe; and from thence the word may have its origin. a Flax-drefler. Hechel is the German word for the Comb ufed on this occafion. In the Teutonic, Hecheln is to comb flax. I Herter, crofs, ill-natured. This has been thought to come from the A. S. poifon; or from the Iflandic Eitur, which fignifies the fame.
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an Invitation. From the A.S, Laban, and Gothie AAWRN. Taker, to play. From the Gothic AAIRAN, the German Laichen, or the Iflandic Leik, which fignify the fame thing. to leap. From the Dutch Loopen, or Iflandic Hlaup, long. From A.S. Lanz, or the fame word in the
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MADDLED, puzzled.
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SWEB, a Swoon. This feems to have fome connection with the A. S. Speren, Sleep. SHENK, a Dith to take the cream off milk with. SEELY, weak in body. I STEEIGH, or Stee, aLadder. From A. S.
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An Account of the CHARITABLE DONATIONS within the VICARAGE of
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ful poor people of the townfhip of Barkifland, from time to time to fucceeding ages for ever, efpecially to fuch as labour to Keep themfelves from being chargeable to the faid town.” In confequence of the above donation, the faid Jofhua Horton, of Sowerby, Efq; Thomas Horton,- of Barkifland; Richard Firth, of the Height, in Barkifland; and John Ramfden, of Bowers, in Barkifland, as Truftees, purchafed an eftate in
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OF HALIFA X. of Sowerby, Efq; Elizabeth Horton, of Barkifland, (Executors
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fhall continue, then the faid five pounds per annum fhall be paid and diftributed to the poor people of Barkifland aforefaid.” The above fums are paid agreeable to the intention of the donor by the prefent owner of Barkifland-hall. This extract was made from an attefted copy out of the
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heirs, as abovefaid, I will that the fame be refpectively made and paid at the times above-mentioned, the time and {pace of full three months intervening betwixt the times that the faid yearly rents and profits of the abovefaid tenement or dwelling houfe fhall become due and payable to the faid Jofeph Riley, and his heirs, and the refpective times of payment of the feveral and re- {peétive fums of one pound above-mentioned.” The above James Riley was Curate of Hartfhead, and Do- meftic Chaplain to Sir John Armitage, of Kirklees. The cha~ rity is regularly diftributed.
Bounty Money to
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the Chapel of Ripponden, for the time being, for ever, for reading the Prayers according to the Liturgy of the Church of England, every Wednefday and Friday, in the morning,
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OF HALIFAX. I I 557
ever, pay, diftribute, and difpofe of the faid annuity, or clear yearly rent of thirty fhillings, on every Eafter Monday, for ever, unto and amongft fuch of the poor people of Barkifland afore- faid, as the faid Thomas Horton, and his heirs, and the owners of Howroyd aforefaid, for the time being, fhall judge do beft de- ferve the fame, in fuch proportions as they fhall think fit.” I The reft of the Deed gives power to Thomas Horton, and his heirs, to enter upon the premiffes in cafe of non-payment; and concludes with a covenant relating to Mary Horton’s title to the eftate. It was regiftered at Wakefield, March 9, 1743, in Book S.S. p.106, Number 154, and inrolled in Chancery, April 6, 1744. "The money is yearly diftributed by the prefent owner of Howroyd. The original Deed is at the feat of Sir Watts Hor- ton, at Chaderton, in Lancafhire, from whence the above was copied.
Extract from the
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may be well recovered by the faid Overfeers for the afore men- tioned ufe and purpofe, from time to time, as the fame
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OF HALIFAX. 559
and Jofeph Ramfden, their heirs and affigns, for ever. Never- thelefs, in truft and confidence, and to the intent and purpofe that they, the faid George
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in the tenure or occupation of John Hanfon, or his affigns, with all other ways, paflages, waters, watercourfes, eafements, - and hereditaments. whatfoever, to the above granted
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OF HALIFAX. 561
faid, and chiefly for the faid Minifter to live in if he be married, or otherwife, if he fhall defire it, he having the confent of my faid Truftees, or their heirs or affigns, as abovefaid.”
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OF HALIFAX. 563
(mentioned in the above indenture to have been late in the occu- pation of one Lawrence Manknowles, School-matter, and intended by the faid Jofeph Brookfbank to be fettled as for a free
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power of nominating and electing the faid forty poor children, to be taught to read as aforefaid, and of removing or difplacing the fame, or any of them, from time to time, and of putting others in the room of thofe who die, or are difmiffed, or go away from the faid School. And alfo, that m cafe the faid School-
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and read prayers, according to this requeft and intent, that ther the faid intereft of the faid two hundred pounds, defigned for the Minifter aforefaid, I defire, and my mind is, that the famie may go to the faid poor girls, for their better maintenance and fub-
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OF HALIFAX. 569.
my faid Truftees, as is herein after provided, then I will, that my faid Devifees and Truftees, their heirs and affigns, fhall and may apportion the falary to become payable at fuch of the faid Feafts as fhall firft happen next after fuch vacancy of the faid
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And my will and mind is, that the Mafter of the faid
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OF HALIFAX. “E71
which the Morning Service, according to the Liturgy of the Church .of England, fhall be read in the faid church of Ealand, fhall devoutly attend the fame Service there, and oblige his faid {cholars to attend there with him, and take care that they behave themfelves there decently, and with due reverence, as their re- {pective ages will admit. And I will that my faid Truftees fhall apply the refidue of the rents and profits of the faid tenements, in
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mend to them, and every of them, that at fuch their meetings, or on any other occafion, they, or any one or more of them, do the faid
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OF HALIFA X. $73 convey the fame to the ufe of fuch furvivors and new eleéted ‘Truftees, and their heirs and affigns, on the faid trufts herein before thereof limited. And I alfo will that the Truftees for the time being, of the faid {chool-houfe and premifes, or any two or more of them, fhall have power and authority, at their will and pleafure, to turn out, and remove from the faid {chool, and from all benefit and advantage thereof, any poor boy there admitted to be taught and inftructed, on complaint to them made of the mifbehavior of
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OF HALIFAX. I 578 fary to make the number feven. Provided always, and the whole agreement was on this exprefs condition, that if the Truftees for the time being, or any of them, fhould not be permitted to perform all or any of the trufts in them repofed, or if the exer- cife of divine worthip by Proteftants diffenting from the Church of England, fhall not be permitted in the faid Meeting-houfe by the laws of this ‘realm, or if the faid School-mafter, for the time being, fhall be in any wife obftructed in the performance of his office, purfuant to the refolution and intention of the faid Jofeph Brookfbank, founder of the faid f{chool, it fhould be lawful to I and for the faid Truftees, for the time being, and they were directed and enjoyned to reconvey, and affure the above granted premifes to the ufe of the faid Jofeph Brookfbank, his heirs and affigns for ever. I
EALAND
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the Court of Chancery, Nov. 28, 1667, to which an Anfwer wag filed, on behalf of the poor of Halifax, Nav. 28, 1668; and Nov. 27,1669, the caufe being heard befare the Right Hon. Sir Or-. ‘Yando. Bridgman, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, the exceptions were over-ruled, and the Decrce of the Commif. fioners confirmed by a Decree of that Court, the Exceptants to pay the Refpondent cofts of fuit. I The above mefiuage and lands are faid in
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Extract from the
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croft, fo that there remained in arrear, at the time of
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Extract from the Witt of Jane
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OF HALIFAX. 587
Lifter his father, put out for eight pounds yearly to Jofeph Lifter, his late brother, and one Jonas Peverfon, the faid Thomas taking bond for the fame in his own name. Jofeph, during his life, paid the faid eight pounds yearly to the School-mafter, and Thomas paid it alfo for one year after the death of the faid
Page 605
583 THE HISTORY
mas, endeavoring to have put to intereft the faid fum, for the advantage of the {chool to which it was left, the creditors in whofe hands it was, died, and their Heirs and Executors became infolvent, whereby the legacy was loft; in regard, how- ‘ever, that the faid fum was~fo let out as aforefaid, and in full
Page 606
OF
Page 607
590 THE HISTORY
can find nothing of this in his manufeript, which only fais far= ther that the money was detained by Richard Nicall, the fon, who was Executor to his father.
Joun Clerk, Minifter of Halifax Church, gave by Will, dated July 14, 1619, the fum of eight pounds, to be lent to the poor of Halifax, at the difcretion of his Overfeers, or the greater part of them, viz. Dr. Favour, William Boyes, his brather, John Boyes, of Halifax, Humphry Drake, Samuel Lifter, John Whiteley, and William Whitaker. See Halifax Regifter, An. 1620.
Page 608
OF HALIFAX.
annuity or rent charge of twenty-five fhillings, or elfe fome lands or tenements of the fame annual value; or elfe the
Page 609
592 THE HISTORY
thority I know not, fais, this fermon was to be preached on that day,
Page 610
QF HALIFAX. 593
ently and yet a place of great cloathing, moft of the inhabitants within the fame town and parifh being Clothiers, is now of late much impoverifhed, and like to be ruined, by reafon of the great multitude of poor people there daily increafing, which hath oc- cafioned many able men within the faid town and parifh to re- move from thence to other places, being oppreffed with the heavy burden of the affeffments towards the maintenance of the poor within the faid parifh, there being above forty pounds paid monthly to the poor there, and moft years eighteen or nineteen’ months affefiments collected for one year. And for that Natha- nie] Waterhoufe, Gent. one of the Petitioners, hath given a large houfe within the faid town, to the end the fame might be em- ployed for a workhoufe, to fet the poor within the faid town and
Page 611
594 THE HISTORY
{uch lands, tenements, or poffeffions, fo to be given by any of our faid fubjects, without licence of mortmain, and that they, or the greater number of them, may have power to make by-laws and conftitutions for the well ordering and governing of the
Page 614
OF HALIFAX.
them, fhall think fit and meet, who fhall, from time to time,
Page 615
598 THE HISTORY
labor and work as aforefaid, or by any other lawful ways or means to punifh, as to them fhall feem meet and expedient, unlefs the faid tenants, keepers, or occupiers of fuch houfes and places can honeftly and juftly excufe and difcharge themfelves before the Mafter and Governors of the faid workhoufe for the time being, wherefore fuch
Page 616
OF HALIF-AX..
Page 617
boo THE HISTORY of Mafter of the faid workhoufe. And as often as any of the faid workhoufe fhall happen to die within and before the expiration of his year wherein he fhall be Mafter, we do by thefe prefents, for us, our heirs and fucceffors,
Page 618
OF
Page 619
602 THE HISTORY
cute the place of Governor or Governors of the faid workhoufe in form aforefaid. And to the end that juftice may be the better done and executed within the faid town, and the extents, limits and precincts thereof, and that the faid workhoufe and perfons therein to be placed and imployed may be the better ordered and governed, our will and pleafure is, and we do hereby, for us, our heirs and fucceffors, conftitute and appoint, that the {aid Nathaniel Waterhoufe, named for the prefent Mafter, and the faid Anthony Foxcroft, being the firft named of thole ap- pointed to be prefent Governors, fhall be Juftices of Peace within the faid town of Halifax, that is to fay, the faid Natha- niel Waterhoufe for the time that he fhall be and continue Matter of the faid workhoufe, and the faid Anthony Foxcroft, as Prime Governor, for fo long as the faid Nathaniel Waterhoufe {hall continue
Page 620
OF HALIFAX.
Page 621
604 THE HISTORY
the faid town of Halifax, during the time he fhall continue prime or next Governor, as aforefaid, according to the laws and {tatutes in that behalf made and provided. And thefe our Let- ters Patents, or the enrollment thereof, fhall be unto the faid Sir William Savile, John Farrer, and Henry Ramfden, and unto every of them, and unto the faid Nathaniel Waterhoufe, and unto the fucceeding Mafters and Governors of the faid work- houfe, for the time being, and unto every of them, a fufficient warrant and difcharge in that behalf. And further we will, and by thefe prefents, for us, our heirs and fucceffors, do grant unto the Mafter and Governors of the faid workhoufe, or to their fucceflors, for ever, that if any perfon or perfons inhabit- ing within the fame town or parifh of Halifax, and being unto the offices or places of Mafter or Governor of the faid work- houfe, in due and lawful manner elected and chofen, according to the true intent of thefe prefents, and having thereof notice to him or them refpectively given,. fhall deny or refufe to have, hold, or take upon him, or them, the execution of the faid offices or places of Mafter, Governor, or Governors of the faid
Page 622
OF HALIFAX, 6os
workhoufe for the time being, and their fucceffors, for ever. And further we will, and for us, our heirs and fucceffors, do give and grant, by thefe prefents, unto the faid Mafter and Governors of the faid workhoufe for the poor within the town and parifh of Halifax, in the county of York, and to their fuc- ceflors, for ever,
Page 623
THE HisTORY
Page 624
OF HALIFAX
Page 625
608 THE HISTORY
This caufed a petition at the next General Quarter Seffions of the Peace, that the three months affeffment appointed by warrant from Sir William Savile, Bart. John Farrer, Efq; and Henry Ramfden, Clerk, three of his Majefty’s Juftices, to be paid throughout the whole Vicarage of Halifax, to the Mafter and Governors, for a ftock for the poor, might be releafed to Hep- tonftall and Ealand; but the Court, Jan. 13, 1635, confirmed the warrant, and ordered that fuch as refufed to pay, fhould be apprehended, and carried before a Juftice of the Peace, to be bound to appear at the next.Seffions.
Page 626
OF HALIFAX. 609;
Thas was this workhoufe regulated and managed, under the Infpection of him who gave it, as appears from the original Book ef Rules, &c. kept therein, a copy of which is in my poffeffion, taken from the original, lent by the late Mr. Stead, of Notting- ham. In this manufcript is a remarkable chafm, from Dec. 1638, to O&. 1682, excepting which, it is a continued regifter of what was done in and about the workhoufe, from its firft
Page 627
610 THE HISTORY
the fame, James Robinfon, of Bowewood, in Sowerby, Thomas _ Wilkinfon, of Brackenbed, in Ovenden, in the faid county of Yorke, Yeomen; and unto my Coufens, John Wade, of Skir- cote, and Chriftopher Savile, nowe or late of the fame, in the faid county, Chapmen ; and Thomas Lifter, of Shibden-hall, in Southowrom, in the faid county,
Page 628
OF HALIFAX.
Page 629
612 THE HISTORY
to the faid twelve aged or impotent poore perfons, the yearely
fome of eighteene pounds,
Page 630
OF HALIFAX.: 613
“Truftees or Devifees, or the greater pte of them, fhall
Page 632
OF HALIFAX.
Page 633
616 THE HISTORY this my Will: And it is my minde, that the faid Lecturer thally
from tyme to tyme, reforte to the poore perfons aforefaid in the {aid twelve dwellings, and the faid poore ymployed in the faid workehoufe, and to the faid twenty children trayned upp in the faid new houfe, and
Page 634
OF HALIFAX. 617
Sowerby-bridge Chappell,
Page 635
618 THE HISTORY
tyme bee proporcionably and ratably due or payable to the faid Preachers, or any of them, by the tennor and true intent of this my Will, unto the faid Overfeer or Mafter of the faid twenty _
Page 636
OF HALIFAX. 619
leading from Hallifax towards Bradford, another from Hallifax towards Wakefield, and another from Hallifax to Southowram aforefaid,) from tyme to tyme, for ever, and twenty fhillings p
Page 637
620 THE HISTORY
the fame
Page 638
OF 621
Page 639
622 THE HISTORY
Farrer, bis neece. Item, I give unto my two god children, children of Samuell Cloughe and Samuell Mitchell, either of them two, twentie fhillings a peece. Item, I give to Hoyle Clarke, who marryed one of the daughters of my brother Calcb, fix poundes. Item, I forgive, remife, releafe, and ac- quitt unto my couzen John Waterhous, all fuch eftate, in-
tereft, right, title, clayme and demaund whatfoever
‘Thefe beinge
Page 640
OF HALIFAX. 623
engraven on each of them, to witt, Tse Legafie of
Page 641
624.
Page 642
OF HALIFAX.
Page 643
THE HISTORY
whatfoever differences, doubts, ambiguities, and queftions fhall or may growe, arife, or be made at any time after my death, touching this my will and meaning, or any thinge therein con- teyned; and if any courle can bee better devifed for fettlinge mine eftate accordinge to my true intent herein expreffed, that their Honours would pfcribe, and my faid Truftees, and their heires,
Page 644
OF HALIFAX. 629
bee hereunto fubfcribed, beinge fpecially called and requefted to bee witnefles hereof, by y* faid Nathaniell Waterhowfe. And M* that the foure laft fheets hereof are written by a feverall hand, by my direcc’on, and fubfcribed by feverall or other witnefles ; but hereby declared to bee my laft Will, all of them together, viz. thefe xi fheetes
Page 645
623 THE HISTORY
either for cafe, or choice ;—in fheet 5, the fum of 46]. left to the Preachers, when yet their ftipends, as fixed immediately after- wards, amount only to 40].—In fheet 6, 1s mentioned the fum of 481. which, a little below, is three times called
Page 646
OF HALIFAX.
Page 648
OF HALIFAX. 631
and inftead thereof erected another ftately building, which build- ing was raifed with the confent of all the Mafters and Governors, except James Farrer, Abraham Hall, John Hanfon, and Samuel Lifter, and had never been ufed as a workhoufe, but as a Court for the holding of the Quarter Seffions for the Juftices of the Peace of the Weft Riding of Yorkthire ; ; and having viewed the new erection, the faid Jurors were of opinion, that not lefs than fifty pounds would fit up the fame for a proper workhoufe, ac- cording to the purport of the Letters Patent, and anfwerable to the workhoufe pulled down as aforefaid. It was in the next place found, that from the year 1700 exclufive, to the year 1706 inclufive, the tenants of the premifes in Northouram and Hatter’s Clofe paid their rents, amounting in the whole to the fum of fifty-five pounds, to the Mafter and Governors for the time being, and that the fame had not been applied to the faid cha- ritable ufe; and that all the faid Mafter and Governors were dead at the time of taking the faid Inquifition, except Thomas Dunn, Richard Walker, Henry Greame, and Richard Scarbrough. That from
Page 650
OF HALIFAX. 633
given, but the Commiffioners delaying to execute the faid Com- miffion, an order was obtained for a new one, directed as above, which began to fit April 3, 1721, and was finifhed on the rath of the faid month; and upon debate of the matter before the Lord Chancellor, his Lordfhip allowed part of the Exceptions, and over-ruled the reft; in particular it was ordered, that the {urviving Exceptants fhould, out of the thirteen perfons named by the
Page 652
OF HALIFAX. I
Page 653
636 THE HISTORY
matter of the faid petition, fo far as related to them, was ground~ lefs, they the faid Commiffioners, by and with the confent of the Council and Sollicitors for the faid Complainants, did order that the faid petition, and the matters thereof, fo far as related to the Truftees therein named, fhould be difmiffed, and the fame was
Page 654
OF HALIFAX. 637
Hipperholm, Shelf, Skircoat, Warley, Midgley, and Sowerby, as well as of the faid town of Halifax, and that the’ rents and profits of the faid Hatter’s Clofe, and of the faid tenements in North- ouram, fhall be employed for the maintenance of the poor of the faid feveral townfhips, kept in the
Page 655
638 THE HISTORY
The Truft Deed, in confequence of the above Decree, was figned Auguft 8, 1751. It is faid there was a writing between the Truftees for Hali- fax, and thofe for the other towns in the parifh, of the fame date with the above Decree, in which they bound themfelves to apply for a renewal of the Letters Patent within half a year after the faid Decree, but I have not heard that fuch application has been actually made. The above benefactor, Mr. Nathaniel Waterhoufe, was fon of Michael Waterhoufe, of Skircoat; his bufinefs was that of a Salter or
Page 656
OF HALIFAX. 639
yearly, as are not to be put forth town prentices, or for the relief of fuch as are in neceffity, and not through waftfull ex- pences, nor fuch as have relief from the parifh, or for fetting in trade or ftocking fuch young perfons as are hopefull to make good ufe of it, at the difcretion of my Feoffees hereafter named. — Item, I give to the townfhips of Halifax and Oven- den my lands in Offett, that the rents may be yearly beftowed after the fame manner (alluding to the claufe above) by my Feoffees chofen for that end, and that fix pounds thereof be given to Ovenden. — For Halifax and Ovenden I chufe and ordain Mr. Fournes, John Illingworth, William Illingworth, John Hodgfon, James Hodgfon, his brother, Daniel Green- wood, and John Brearcliffe, Feoffees for both towns jointly ; and my mind is, that if any of thefe die, the reft fhall meet together and choofe another before any thing be acted; and I give power to my faid Feoftees to buy lands, to make out what I
Page 657
640 THE HISTORY
called Hawkingrotd. Sce more of this Gentleman’s benefactions, in the townfhip of Hipperhoime. He was buried Feb. 4, 1676.
Extract from the
Page 658
OF HALIFAX. © 641
after my deceafe, to be paid to the perfon that reads prayers twice every day in Halifax, and for want of {uch ufage or reading prayers twice every day, then I hereby give, devife, and bequeath the faid fum of twenty fhillings yearly unto the Lecturer, or After- noon Preacher in Halifax Church for ever. And I do hereby
charge the fame thall be paid forth out of the houfing in Mr. James Ingham’s
Page 659
642 THE HISTORY
Mary Drake, of
Page 660
OF
Page 661
644 THE HISTORY
faid fon John, his Heirs, Executors, and Adminiftrators. And I defire the Churchwardens of the faid town of Halifax for the time being, to go about the Church when every fuch fermon is preached, there to
Page 662
\ OF HALIFAX. 645
like good works, he had fettled an annual ftipend for ever on the School-mafter, in the year 1726.
JonATHAN TuRNER, of Halifax, Butcher, left by Will (but at what particular time I have not learned) forty fhillings yearly to the poor prifoners in Halifax Jail, to be piven them in read. This annuity is charged on fome houfing in Cheapfide,
in Halifax, or the ftreet leading from the north end of Southgate to Bull Green.
Thefe are all the perpetual Charities in the townfhip of Ha- lifax which I know of; except three pounds a year to be lent to three poor Tradefmen of Halifax, from year to year, by the Churchwardens, given by
Page 663
646 THE HISTORY Naylor, Richard Naylor, Henry Naylor, and Robert Halftead, their heirs and affigns, for
Page 664
OF HALIFAX. 647
aforefaid, in for the purpofes contained in the grant of the faid Richard Naylor; in which Deed of Conveyance it is de- clared, that the above annuity is iffuing or payable out of three clofes of land, meadow, and pafture, called the Gould Pit, the Great Hay, and the fouth end of the Crag in Mixenden, within the townfhip of Ovenden, containing, by eftimation, feven acres. Alfo that, upon the death of two of the faid Truftees, the fur- vivors fhould elect two good, able, honeft, and fufficient men, inhabitants of the parifh of-Heptonttall aforefaid, in their room; and this rule and order to be for ever hereafter obferved, to per- petuate, as much as poffible, the charitable donation of Richard Naylor, the Teftator, as aforefaid.
Page 665
643 THE HISTORY
Page 666
OF HALIFAX. 649
within the faid School-houfe to fucceeding ages for ever, unto which faid John Greenwood,
Page 667
650 FHE HISTORY
peared, that, in 1647, the Minifter and Churchwardens diftri- buted the money according to the donor’s Will, but it was not found that they made any account thereof to their fucceffors or others.
Page 668
OF
Page 669
652 THE HISTORY
HEPTONSTAL CHAPEL.
The parochial Chapel of Heptonftall was, in 1747, augmented : by lot, with two hundred pounds, part of Queen Ann’s Bounty ; in confequence of which, a purchafe was made of a mefluage and lands thereto belonging, called
Page 670
OF
Page 671
654 THE HISTORY
‘WILLIAM THoRPE gave, as appears by a Deed of Feoffment, dated the oth of February, 28 Hen. VIIE. the yearly fum of ‘fix fhillings-and.
Page 672
OF HALIFAX. 655
Jofeph Midgley, of Overbrea, M.A. and others, of the other part, that the faid Richard Sunderland, &c. fhould pay yearly the faid rent, by equal portions, at Martinmafs and Pentecoft, to the preaching
Page 673
656 THE HISTORY
Extract from the
Page 674
OF HALIFAX.
Page 675
THE HISTORY
Hipperholme aforefaid, from. time to time, for ever hereafter, as often as
Page 676
OF
Page 677
660
Page 678
OF HALIFAYX. 661
per annum could not be recovered by law, yet, as it was made to a charitable ufe, fuch as a Free-fchool, which is a gift within the Statute 43 Eliz. c. 4, of Charitable Ufes, it might be made good by that Statute, on a Commiffion to be purfued out of the Chancery by virtue of that Statute, and an Inquifition thereupon to be found and taken, and a Decree to be made by the Com- miffioners, with a Decree of Confirmation in Court for pay- ment, (viz.) as well of the arrearages fince the Teftator’s death, as of the growing rent; and though part of the land was copy- hold, which cannot by law be devifed or charged by a Will, yet that it might be fo charged to a charitable ufe; however, that the Free-{chool might be fo charged, and fo the annuity decreed to be paid out of the whole. On this account, and for the greater fecurity of the Truftees
Page 680
OF HALIFAX. 663
gteen, be paid to the moft indigent and neceflitous poor people of and within the townthip of Hipperholme cum Brighoufe afore- faid, for ever, on the Feaft-days of St. Thomas the Apoftle, and the Nativity of St. John Baptift, or St. John Baptift, and St. Thomas Days, or Feafts, as the
Page 681
664 THE HISTORY
houfe,
Page 682
OF HALIFAX. 665.
BouNTIES to LIGHTCLIFFE CHAPEL.
This Chapel had Queen Anne’s Bounty by lot, in 1749; the purchafe was at Sheard-green, in Lightcliffe; alfo by benefaction in 1759, when a farm called Barley Croft was bought, at Black- fhaw-head, in Stansfield ; laftly, in 1763, by benefaction, in confequence of which, a
Page 683
666 THE HISTORY
Extra& from the
Page 684
OF HALIFAX. 669
forr of the faid widows to be chofe out of the faid townthip of Midgley, by the Chapel Warden of that townfhip for the time being, and other four of the faid widows to be chofe out of the faid townthip of Warley, by the Chapel Warden of that town-
Page 685
668 THE HISTORY
the faid bread, the remaining clear yearly rent to go and be de- tained by the perfon who fhall take the trouble to
Page 686
OF
Page 687
- with five clofes of land a
670 THE HISTORY
they
Page 688
OF HALIFAX. 671
with a particular claufe in the Deed, that when thefe fhall, by death, or otherwife, be reduced to three in number, the furvivors fhall, in like manner, convey to others on the like trufts in thofe prefents declared.
Extract from the WILL of JosEPH R, of Whithill, in Northouram, dated Oct. 30, 1711.
— ** By virtue of one furrender of the fame date with this my Will thereby impowering me, I do hereby give, devife, and bequeath all that copyhold mefluage, or tenement, with the ap- purtenances, fituate and being in Northouram, and all barns, ‘buildings, clofes, lands, commons, eafements, and heredi- taments whatfoever to the fame belonging, now in the tenure
Page 690
OF HALIFAX. 673
out of three acres and a half of land in Bradfhaw, in Ovenden
Page 691
674 THE HISTORY it was augmented Dec. 29, 1718, with the Queen's bounty by
Page 692
OF HALIFAX: I 675
Preachers of the Word of God at Eland, from time to time, to fucceeding generations for ever. Alfo I devife to them, the faid Alexander Stock and Edward Sunderland, and their faid fucceflors, four pounds more, by them to be employed, with the faid fixteen pounds, to the ufe of the poor aforefaid, accord- ing to fuch note of direction as I have left under mine own hand for the fame, fo there be no employment thereof made to any Clothier ‘that ufeth
Page 693
676 THE
Page 694
OF HALIFAX. 677
twice a day, were inforced in the afternoons to be
Page 695
678 THE HISTORY
Page 696
OF HALIFAX. 679
and that the faid number of twenty boys and girls to be taught
Page 697
680 THE HISTORY
be in the choice of the boy and his parents, or relations, except
Page 698
OF HALIFAX. 68r
forming the feveral trufts hereby in them repofed, or the non- payment of any of the bequefts and charges hereby made by me upon my faid eftates, or any mifapplication thereof, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this my Will, that then, and upon any fuch complaint made, and not otherwife, I do hereby authorize and impower the Archbifhop of York, for the time being, to enquire into, and rectify all and every fuch abufe or default, and to put the fame again upon the footing hereby in- tended, but without further power to intermeddle therein. Item, F do hereby will, order, and appoint, that the clear yearly fum of one hundred pounds per annum
Page 699
682 THE HISTORY
Doctrine of the Church of England as by Law eftablithed. Item, I will, and hereby order, that my faid Executor and Truf- tees, or any of them, fhall not demife or grant any part of my
Page 700
OF HALIFAX. 633
or Congregational Perfuafion,) who fhall be
Page 701
684 THE HISTORY
or Meeting-houfes laft mentioned, where fuch difcontinuance of Religious Worfhip fhall have fo been, and his heirs, and te his and their ufe and ufes, and to every of fuch Preachers or Teachers laft mentioned, his Executors, or Adminiftrators, my faid Truftees fhall pay over one full feventh part of the whole in feven equal parts to be divided, of the clear rents and profits of the faid tenements laft mentioned, which fhall be or have been by my faid Truftees received and raifed from and after fuch difcontinuance of Religious Worfhip at the faid Chapels or Meeting-houfes laft mentioned.”— On the deceafe of four Truftees, the furvivors are, within three
Page 702
OF HALIFAX. 685
‘other villages and hamlets near adjoining unto the fame, and of other our faithful and liege people whofoever they be, to be ‘taught, inftructed, and learned there, of our {pecial grace, and certain knowledge, and mere motion, we will, grant, and or-
Page 703
636 THE HISTORY
from the date of thefe prefents, during their lives, fo that the ufe themfelves well and faithfully towards the faid School. And that the faid Governors in deed,
Page 704
OF HALIFAX. 687
Go fo often as it fhall chance any room to be void. Furthermore we will, that this election fhall be made within one month next following the vacation of any the forefaid Governors, and to be ended the fame day on which it is begun ; and if the forefaid election be not made in form aforefaid, then fhall he be chofen, and taken to be chofen, whom the Archbifhop of York, for the time being, Sede Archiepifcopali plena, or, Sede eadem vacante, the Dean of the Cathedral Church of York, with confent- of two of the Governors aforefaid, fhall name, fhall be taken and reckoned for a Governar, fo that he whom the faid Archbifhop or Dean {hall appoint, dwell within the forefaid parifh and vicarage of Halifax. And furthermore we will, and for us, our heirs and fucceffors, grant, by thefe prefents, to the forefaid “Governors and their
Page 705
688 THE HISTORY
to choofe, elect, nominate, and appoint, and under their Commor Seal to prefent a meet man, learned and cunning, which hath been Student in one of the Univerfities of this realm of England! the fpace of five years at the leaft, and hath well profited in Icarning, unto the Archbifhop of York, Sede Archiepifcopali plena, or, eadem Sede vacante, to the Dean of the Cathedral Church of York, and he fo prefented, and whom the forefaid Archbifhop, or Dean, Sede vacante, fo fhall judge to be fit, fhall be the Mafter of the faid School, fo long as he behaveth himfe!f ‘well in that office. And we will and command, that the faid election
Page 706
OF HALIFAX. 689 Free-{chool, and the ordering, governing, faving, and difpofing of
the rents, revenues, goods, and chattels now appointed, or here- after to be appointed, for or towards the maintenance of the faid School, fo that the faid ftatutes, decrees, and ordinances what- foever, be not contrary to the tenor of thefe prefents, and fhall be allowed by the faid Archbifhop of York for the time being, under his authentical feal, all which ftatutes, decrees, and ordi- nances fo made, or to be made, we will and grant, and by thefe prefents, by our fupreme royal authority, command to be kept without breaking or violating of them, or any of them, from time to time for ever. And for the faithful keeping of thefe ftatutes, decrees and ordinances, we will, that every perfon that fhall be hereafter nominated, chofen and prefented to the office of a Go- vernor of the faid School, or to the office of the School-mafter or Uther of the fame School, or to one of them, before he be admitted to his office, fhall take a corporal oath todo and execute his office well and faithfully, before the other Governors of the forefaid {chool. And furthermore, of our great {pecial favour, and for the better maintenance of the faid School, we have given and granted, and for us, our heirs and fucceffors, by thefe prefents do give and grant to the aforefaid now Governors of the poffeffions, re- venues, goods and chattels of the faid Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth, in the parifh and vicarage of Halifax, in the county of York, and to their fucceffors, by thefe prefents, {pecial licence, and free and lawful liberty, power, and authority to have and receive, and get to them and their fucceflors for ever, as well of us, our heirs and fucceflors, as of any other perfon or perfons whatfoever they be, or of any other perfon or perfons whofoever, manors, mefiuages, lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, whatfoever they be within this our realm of England, fo that they exceed not the clear yearly value of forty pounds, and be not holden of us, our heirs or fucceffors, in capite, or otherwife, i in foccage, in chief, or by Knights fervice, notwithftanding in any point the fta- tute for lands and tenements not to be put in mortmain, or any other act, ftatute, ordinance, or provifion, or any other thing, caufe or matter whatfoever, to the contrary hereof heretofore had, made, fet forth, ordained, or provided. We will alfo, and by thefe pre- fents do grant unto the forefaid now Governors of. the School aforefaid, that they may have and
Page 708
OF HALIFAX.
Page 709
692 THE HISTORY Saltonftall, of Rookes, in Hipperholm, gave twenty fhillings
yearly out of Rookes, in fee, to be confirmed by his fon Sa- muel, of Hunftwick. Edward Maud, Vicar of Wakefield, gave ten fhillings yearly out of a tenement.—So far from Halifax Regifter. In a paper in the box belonging to the Truftees for Crow- ther and Hopkinfon’s Charity, is mention made of eight pounds yearly to this School, out of a farm in Northouram, called Northfield-gate; two pounds two fhillings from a houfe and lands at Swellwell-end, in Ovenden ; forty fhillings from Mr. Allenfon’s heirs, and Mr. Green’s, in Lightcliffe; alfo a farm called Balfham. An old church book at Halifax contains the following :—‘* We find, by the information of Thomas Wil- kinfon, that one houfe, and one lathe or barn, at a place in Ha- lifax called Back-lane-end, is given to the Free-fchool of Ha- lifax ; and we find that the fame is affured to the Governors to the ufe of the faid Free-fchool for ever. Item, we hear by William Whitacre, that Robert Cunliffe reporteth, that the Governors of the
Page 710
-OF HALIFAX, 693
the faid Letters Patent limited, and that the School had flou- rifhed for a great many years next after its foundation, to the great benefit of the inhabitants of the faid parifh and vicarage, till through the neglect of the
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694
Page 712
OF
Page 713
696 THE HISTORY
lar the manors, meffuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, powers, liberties, privileges, franchizes, immunities, profits, commodities, emoluments, goods, and chattels, which the Go- vernors of the poffeffions, revenues, goods, and chattels of the {aid Free Grammar School, created by the faid recited Letters Patents, now do, or at any time heretofore have lawfully had, ufed, or enjoyed, by or under the faid recited Letters Patents, or any other Grant from any of our royal predeceffors, or any other perfon whatfoever, notwithftanding any mifufes, nonufes, or abuics thereof, or any of them, fubject neverthelefs to fuch conditions, reftrictions, limitations, and provifos as in the faid recited Letters Patents are contained. And further we do hereby, for us, our heirs and fuccefiors, ratify and confirm the faid recited Letters Patents, and every claufe, article, matter, and thing therein contained, as fully and effectually, to all in- tents and purpofes as if the fame and every part thereof were herein particularly repeated. And laftly, our will and pleafure is, and we do, by thefe prefents, for us, our heirs and
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OF HALIFAX. 697
STATUTES of the Fret GRAMMAR ScuHoor of Queen
Page 715
698 THE
hands, and ratified by putting to our Common Seal) when al- lowed by his Grace the Archbifhop of York, under his authentic Seal, to be obferved and kept as the Statutes of the Free Gram- roar School of Queen Elizabeth, in the parifh and vicarage of Halifax, without breaking or violating them, or any of them, from time to time, for ever, referving to ourfelves and fucceffors, as occafion fhall require, a power of adding to, or taking from the faid Statutes, or of interpreting any ambiguous words or fentences in them, by the confent of the greater part of the Governors, provided that fuch addition, detraction, or interpo- lation, fhall be of no force until it is approved of and confirmed by the Archbifhop of York, for the time being, under his Archiepifcopal Seal, and be duly regiftered in a book appointed for that purpofe. I
Of the SPoKESMAN, or PRESIDENT GOVERNOR.
Firft, then, by the authority aforefaid, we ordain, that Chriftmafs week, or the weck after, all the Governors fhall yearly, from time to time, meet together, betwixt eight and twelve
Page 716
OF HALIFAX. 699 the next in order prefent, in this form: ‘I, A.B. chofen
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700 THE HISTORY
neglect of his Oath, or Office, be depofed by the Governors as
Page 718
OF HALIFAX.
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702 THE HISTORY
into the place or places vacant, whofe election we wiil fhall be within fourteen days after the prefent meeting, and to be ended- the fame day on which it begun. At which time the Governors
Page 720
OF HALIFAX. 903
appointed for their mecting for that purpofe, we will, and: by this Statute ordain, that his former or nomination be reputed as void, and a new Governor be chofen in his place.
The office of a Governor thus chofen and fworn, we declare to be principally, to have a ftrict regard to the conduc of the Matter and Uther, (whofe appointment, duty, and office is here- after particularly defcribed in thefe Statutes,) that they lead a fober, virtuous life, and are diligent in inftructing the Scholars committed to their charge, which thing if the faid Mafter and
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OF
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706 “THE AISTORY
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OF
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78
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OF HALIFAX. 709
continue till five at night, faving betwixt eleven o'clock and one, from the tenth of March to tenth of OGober, and from thence to the tenth of March again, from eight
Page 727
“710 THE HISTORY
School Stock, and what elfe the Governors
Page 728
OF HALIFAX.
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OF HALIFAX. 713
Extra& from the Witt of
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OF
Page 733
716 THE HISTORY laid out on fome copyhold land, lying beneath Sowerby, bough
of one James Dobfon.
Page 734
OF HALIFAX.
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718 THE HISTORY
following, (viz.) to be lent unto four poor inhabitants of the faid ‘town, for four years, by equal portions or parts, that is to fay, to each of the faid four inhabitants five pounds, (gratis, or without ‘paying of any loan or other confideration for the fame) the faid in- habitants putting in fufficient fureties to the Supervifors hereafter named for the repaying of the fame at the end of the faid four years; and after thofe four years, to four other poor inhabitants of the faid town for four years more, in the fame manner ; and fo from four years to four years, to feveral men, for ever; pro- vided always that the faid money, nor any part thereof, be not lent to any Clothier, Indico-feller, or any that belongs to Cloth- ing. AndI do defire, nominate, and appoint, Thomas Dobfon, of the Stones, and Henry Prieftley, of Baytings, and their heirs, and the Minifters or Priefts of Sowerby and Ripponden, for the time being, my Supervifors in truft, to fee that the fame twen pounds be imployed in manner and form aforefaid. And if the fame fhall not be imployed as is aforefaid, then mine Executor Overfeers of this my laft Will and Teftament
Page 736
OF HALIFAX. 719
then I give and bequeath my faid lands in Crowellshaws
Page 737
720 THE HISTORY
faid
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OF HALIFAX. 72%
After the death of the above Mary Goodwin, Henry Barrell, the only furviving Truftee, fold the eftate in Meopham for fix hundred and thirty pounds, which he foon after laid out, to- gether with fifteen pounds fifteen
Page 739
722 THE HISTORY
of three men, and three women, all born in the chapelry of Sowerby aforefaid, and inclofed fome ground before the fame, to be divided into fix gardens, for their feveral ufes; alfoa middle room, or Oratory, for their daily aflembling in for prayers, all which I give to the fix men and women I have already put into the faid apartment, and fucceflors, for ever, as fhall be chofen by my faid Truftees, and fuch others as their learned
Page 740
OF HALIFAX. 723
work, and thereby my allowance become infufficient for their maintenance, that fuch addition be made by the parifh as will
Page 741
724 THE HISTORY
and his fucceffors, or fuch as fhall do and celebrate Divine Ser- vice in the faid Chapel ; the Feoftees and their heirs to receive the profits arifing from the premifes, and to apply the fame only for the public ufe and behoof of the whole Chapelry of Rippon- den, for the maintenance of Divine Service there for ever, as is aforefaid. When only four of the faid Feoftees remained, the furviving four Feoffees were to affure, furrender, and convey the faid premifes to the ufe and behoof of them the faid four fur- vivors, and their heirs, and to the ufe and behoof of the heirs of the faid Feoffees that then fhall be deceafed, and their heirs, for ever, to the ufes, intents, and purpofes abovefaid, and no other ; and this courfe, in re-affuring and furrendering, to be obferved for ever, as often as the intereft and eftate of the premifes fhall be in the hands of four Feoffees only. And laftly, all the parties to this indenture, and all the inhabitants of the Chapelry of Ripponden, prayed the Lord Prefident of the Council then eftablifhed in the North, and, in his abfence or default, the Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancafter, the Lord Chancellor of England, Lord Keeper for the time being, that in cafe of any fuit or controverfy concerning the premites, they would vouch- fafe to fee the true intent and meaning of thofe prefents executed,
and performed.
The copy of the Surrender,
Page 742
OF
Page 743
726. THE HISTORY
Page 744
OF
Page 745
728 HISTORY OF HALIFAX.
to the Chapel by Mr. Samuel King, eighteen fhillings per annum. The title-deeds belonging to the Queen’s Bounty are dated Nov. 2, 1724. The eftates bought with this money are, the Lower Brig Bottom Farm, containing nineteen days work of land, then let for twelve pounds ten fhillings a year; a farm called Earoyd, containing thirteen days work, rent feven pounds eight fhillings a year; and a farm called Gate Head, containing nine days work, rent four pounds a year; but thefe rents are confiderably raifed fince that time.
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[ 729 ]
I A CATALOGUE of PLANTS Growing in the
Page 747
730 CATALOGUE of PLANTS
Butterwort, or
Page 748
in the PARISH of HALIFAX.
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732 CATALOGUE of PLANTS
Polemonium ceruleum. Hudfon. Polemonium foliis pinnatis floribus terminalibus erectis calicibus tubo corolle
Page 750
in the PARISH of HALIFAX: 733
Sanicle ; In woods, Janes, and hedges. In Hollings-wood, in Warley; in a rough place called Dixon’s Scar, in Sowerby, and in the hedges about
Page 751
734 CATALOGUE of PLANTS
TRIGYNIA. N° 34. Alfine media. Hudfon, Alfine petalis bipertitis foliis ovato cordatis. Linnzus.
Page 752
in the PARISH of HALIFAX,
Page 753
736 CATALOGUE of PLANTS
N° 46. Epilobium ramofum. Hudfon, Epilobium foliis lanceolatis fer- -gatis fub-decurrentibus inferioribus oppofitis, caule
Page 754
in the PARISH of HALIFAX. 737
Spurge Laurel ; In hedges, amongh bufhes, and in woods, In Daifybank-wood and Hol- lings- wood in Warley, at the top of Blackwall-bank, between the footpath and the hedge in Warley, and in feveral fields near Waterhill, in the faid
Page 755
738 CATALOGUE of PLANTS
Greenland, Olympus, Ararat, Brafil, and the Pyreneans, though placed at fuch vaft diftances from each other. I
DIGYNIA.
N° 57. Chryfofplenium alternifolium. Hudfon. Cbhryfofplenium foliis alternis, Linnzus. Greater Go.den Saxifrage ; In moift places about Halifax, along with the common Golden Saxifrage. In a wet place in Steps-wood in Warley, and towards the bottom of Bin- royd-clough in Norland. It is ufed as a fallad early in the fpring with
Page 756
in the PARISH of HALIFAX. 739 Wood Sorrell; In woods and fhady places. In Willowhall-wood and Woodhoufe-Scar, in Skircoat, and many other places thereabouts. This plant flowers in April. In a lane near Northouram is a {pecies of this, bearing a red flower, which is in great efteem amongft the lovers of Plants. _
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740 CATALOGUE of PLANTS
N° 68. Euphorbia exigua. Hudfon. Euphorbia umbella trifida dicho-
Homa involucellis lanceolatis
Page 758
in the PARISH of HALIFAX.
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742 CATALOGUE of PLANTS
N’ 8r. Potentilla argentina. Hudfon. Potentilla foliis pinnatis ferratis caule repente.
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4
in the PARISH of HALIFAX. 74.3
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744. CATALOGUE of PLANTS
Page 762
in the PARISH of HALIFAX. 740
Wood Betony ; In woods and
Page 763
745 CATALOGUE of PLANTS
Page 764
in the PARISH of HALIFAX. 747
than a variety of the foregoing. Mr. Ray has another variety, with a {mall flower. The flowers are of a faint purple, and come forth in May.
N° 113. Euphrafia officinalis. Hudfon. Euphrafia foliis ovatis argute
Page 765
743 CATALOGUE, of PLANTS
barren
Page 766
in the PARISI] of HALIFAX. 749
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75° CATALOGUE of PLANTS
OCTANDRIA. Ne 129. Polygala vulgaris. Hudfon. Polygala floribus criftatis race~ mofis, caulibus herbaceis “fimplicibus procumbentibus, foliis lineari lanceo- latis, Linnzeus. Milkwort ; On heaths and moors; on Skircoat moor in many places, in Snakehill near Halifax ; alfoon Warley moor. It is remarkable that the flowers of this
Page 768
m the PARISH of HALIFAX.
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792 CATALOGUE of PLANTS
Long-leaved Purple Trefoil;
In mountainous paftures ; in a field by Illingworth Chapel, in feveral fields about Raftrick, alfo
Page 770
in the PARISH of HALIFAX. 753
N° 146. Leontodon Taraxacum. Hudfon. Leontodon calyce inferne Linnzus. Dandelion ; In plenty in the fpring, almoft in every field about
Page 771
754 CATALOGUE of PLANTS
Page 772
in the PARISH of HALIFAX. 765
N° 161. Inula dyfenterica. Hudfon. Inula foliis oblongis caule hirfuto paniculato fquamis calycinis fetaceis. Linnzus. Middle Fleabane ;
Page 773
756 CATALOGUE
Page 774
in the PARISH of HALIFAX, = 959 I Small Carix; _ On the edge of Warley moor juft above Highroad-well.
N° 175. Carex capitata. Hudfon. Carex
Page 775
758 CATALOGUE of PLANTS.
Blackberried Heath, Crow Berries, or Crake Berries ; Upon Norland, Warley, Sowerby,
Page 777
CATALOGUE of PLANTS
Green ; Towards the top of
Page 778
in the PARISH of HALIFAX. 761
Page 779
762 CATALOGUE of PLANTS
nefit of Travelling in one’s ov'n Country, faith,
Page 780
in the PARISH of HALIFAX. 764
Befides the foregoing, there will be left with the Publifher, for the infpec- the Curious, three Prints of non-defcript Lichens, containing about forty
Page 781
764 CATALOGUE of PLANTS, &c.
1080. 465, Lentifera: 466, Punctata : 467, Cornucopioides: 468, Acetabulum: 469, Cyathoides: 470,
Page 782
INDEX
PRINCIPAL MATTERS In the foregoing BOO K.
A. Baitings, 300
Page 784
IN
Copley, of Copley, Pedegree of, 284 » Arms, Creft, and Motto, 287, 288
Page 786
IN DE X.
Halifax a Parliamentary Garrifon, 62,
Page 787
IN D E X.
Deeds in Halifax Manor,103 Infranchifed Eftates how bound, 103, 104 Jayl in Halifax, 203 Rotert, his Charity, 558 Jerufalem, John of, his Lands in Halifax Pa- rith, 325. 328
Page 788
IN D E X.
Midgley of Midgley. Arms of, 242 Midgley William, his Epitaph, 384 Midgley Samucl, Midzley John, his Charity, 666 Milner, Arms of, 213 Milner John,-491 Milner
Page 789
IN DE X.
Richie lames, cot
Page 790
IN DE X.
Sowerby fhire, Bounds of, 75, 76
Page 791
IN D E X. Wade, Pedepree of, 288. Arms, 288. 290. Wilkinfon Henry,