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_ Jfriba , Auguzt 9th, 1907 .

NOTES. [299 .1 THE HEYWOODS OF HEYWOOD . THE FAMILY IN THE ISLE OF MAN . SOME FURTHER NOTES . To supplement and correct the article from the "Manx Note Book," printed at No . 297, let me offer the following brief notes :- First as to the date of the Heywood char- ter, I would refer the reader to the note een- tribu,ted to this column by Dr. Hunt, a few months--ago . The assertion that "Peter Hey- wood, who died in 1657, was sixteenth in descent from Piers, living 1164," is not, I think, strictly correct, the pedigree from which that statement is taken being not quite ecmplete . Most of the sons and daughters of Gover- nor Heywood were buried, married, and bap- tised in Kirk Malew, and their names entered in the parish registers . During a recent stay at the Isle of Man, I viuited this old church . My visit was really a pilgrimage . Not an affectionate pilgrimage, not a religious pil- grimage, merely a pilgrimage of idle curiosity! I had seen this place mentioned so often in the Heywood pedigree that I thought I would like to see it. After looking up the locality on the map, I started off one fine morning in early June-fine, for the bad weather of that awful month had not yet commenced . Leav- ing Peel, changing trains at Douglas, and dis- mounting at - Ballasalla was the first part of my journey . Near Ballasalla stands Rushen Abbey, now only a few bare ruins, a tower, a Crypt, and a remnant of the -walls . After a peep round, off I set to walk to Malew, a few miles away . Soon I came upon a white- washed barn, or so it looked : this was Malew Church, the Kirk Malew of the "Worshipfull Governour Heywood" and his family. I strolled up through the churchyard and among the old gravestones, reading their quaint inscriptions-records of unknown men 128 and women, bodies washed up on the dan- gerous rocks of Langness and the Calf, records of captains of ill-fated vessels . Vanitas vanitatum. Well, to pass on, and after this little bit of cheap sentiment to describe the church. It is not much like what one gener- ally imagines a church to be . It is a plain building, whitened, if I remember rightly, with a small bell tower at one end . I came across a labourer, and together we entered the church . There I saw men digging up the floor. They were putting in a new organ, and to do that had to dig deep down for the foundations. I stood and watched them . I Every moment they unearthed bones, human bones, skulls, ribs, leg bones, and the like . Again Vanitas. I wondered whether any of these gruesome relics of they past were remains of Heywoodites. They were sermons in bones . V bile I was looking at these the Vicar of the parish entered . He told me that this part of the building where the men were excavating was before 1666 the chancel of the church and that in the burial registers there were many entries of people having been interred "in ye chancel." So the Heywoods could net have been buried ,here . He did not know of any monuments relating to the family, but there were entries in the regis- ters . Then he took me round the church, showed me the monuments to the {oldie Taubman family who succeeded Peter John Heywood as Speakers of the House of Keys and who originally came from near Malew ; a Runic cross, one of the very many of the Island, with large pieces chipped aff, my reverend informant told me, for mementoes by the vandals of old- and many other curiosities . I could write much more of this ancient and very interesting church, but time and space are against me . Rather a surprise and a disappointment overtook me now. I had planned from the map that my day's tour should end at Castle- town, taking the midday meal at Malew . When I arrived at the church I looked around for a village. There wasn't any, but to make up I made sundry remaf'ks about maps and, 129 the makers of guide books . The neatest town was Castletown, said a boy, and then I learnt what explained a good deal, that Malew was the parish church of a large district in- cluding the former capital of the isle, Castle- town . So my dinner had to wait till late in the afternoon hen, hungry and I confess a trifle tired, I walked the streets of Castle- town . I give below some extracts from the regis- ters of Kirk Malew relating to the Heywoods . A` the time to which most of the entries re- late the incumbent was a very curious man . He has left in the register many quaint notes with no reference at all to marriages or burials or births, but notes referring to harvesting, local events, bad weather, and the misdoings of his curates . These make the records very quaint reading . The following will not re- quire any remark, as they have been dealt with in Mr . Heywood's pedigree, and the Manx article : - 1678 . Robt : Heywood Esquire and Gover- nour of the Isle was married to Ellinor. .[word illegible] (as then reported) November 14th, 1678 . 1679. . . Heywood son to Robt. Esquire, governor of the Isle and Ellen his wife C baptized Aug . 26th . 1680 . Ellinr - Haywood, daughter to Robeart Esquire (and Ellin his wife) Governor of the Isle baptized September 13th Anne predicto [the aforesaid year] . 1680 .' Capt : Peter Haywood buried in the grave of Governour Gre•e nehalgh his grandfather in the ohancle of Kk . Mallew ffebruairie 5th . 1683 . Cathrin Haywood daughter to Gover- nor Haywood Enquire buried September the first. 1684 . James the 2th was proclaimed Kinge of Great Brittaine ffrance and Ireland Defender of the faith on the 12th day of March, 1684 . In Ctastletowne att• the Oross by the Right Worpll . Re : Hey- wood, Esqr . Governor of the Isle and all the officers; Spia .il . and tempall . Cl'ergie and 24 keyes Captaines and officers of VOL. 3.-Part- 33. P 1 30 Every pish. i n the Isle with great eon gratulacons and repeated aodamaoons . Crowned at London April 3th 1685. 1685. Margtt . Heywood daughter to the Right Worpll . Robt . Esquire Governor of the Isle buried by [beside] her Uncle Capt : Peter [see ante] in the Chancle of Kk. Mallew June 19th. 1085. Jaine Haywood, infantt daughter to i Governor Haywood Esquire buried No. 7emb : 8th. 1686. Bapt : Heywood son to Ro : Hey- wood Esquire Governor of the Isle bapt 7ber 21th . 1686. Mr. Rich . Stevenson of Bailey doole and Mm . Alice Haywood Daughter to Robt. Haywood Esqr. Governr . married Nov. ye 7th. 1690[-1]. Robert Heywood Esquire Governor of the Isle after a very sore sickness wth very great paine died about two of the Clock in the inorninge upon Wednesday r the seventh of Janu,arie and buried in the Chaple of Castletowne on f'riday after Jan . 9th [see below] . 1691. Robt . and David Heywood twins and posthuntes sons to Governor Heywood and Ellin his wife bapt : Aug. 28th. 1691. - It is deposed by Mr. Robt . Quaile Curatt . that Mr. David Genkins and Mrs . Mary Haywood were married by him August last 24th day 1691 . Major Rich Stevenson and wife present and not more . [Editor's note .-T'he above entry is made in January, 1691-2 . It would appear therefore that the master of the Grammar School had been clandet~,:nely married by the curate of the parish a__d that the vicar was kept in ignorance of the fact until some five months afterwards when the curate calmly "deposed" to it .] 1692. William Genkins son to Mr . David Schoolmaster of the free School and Mrs . Mary Heywood his wife baptized June 2th, 1692 .-,Baptist Haywood son to Robt. Heywood Esquire laic Governor buried in his uncles grave in the Charade of Kk . Mallew Aprill 12th . I 131 1692. David Heywood son to Governor Hey- wood deceased buried with the rest of the children in the Chancee of Kk . Mallew on 9ber 23 1692 . 1694. Richard Scaufield son to John Scau- field, Quaker, was baptised ffebr . 7th, 1694. Sr . Cleve Moore Major Peter Hey- wood were godfathers and Mrs . Leonora Heywood the godmother. 1696. Nicholas son of Major Peter Hey- wood was baptized June 16th . 1699. Major Peter Heywood was buried in ye Chancel, July 27th . His ffather the late Governor Heywoods coffin being re- moved from ye old Chappel in Town and interr'd in the same grave with him . QUINCUNX .

lribaV, August 23rD, 1907 .

NOTES. [300 .] THE HEY-WOODS OP HEYWOOD. THE FAMILY IN THE ISLE OF MAN . (SOME FURTHER NOTES .) The following item I find I omitted from the extracts from the registers in my last notes 1700. Capt . John Wood and Mrs . Leonora He ywood were married at the Nunnery, the 19th August, 1700, the Right Honble Wm. Earl of Derby being present . 41, The Nunnery, still one of the show places of the Isle of Man, was the mansion of the Heywood family, who sold it to the Taubman family. It is a modern building covered with ivy and situated in the midst of beautiful woods and gardens . A religious house, the Priory existed here in 1408, and was dissolved by the Act of Henry VIII ., 1536 . A traveller in tho Island in 1821 speaks of the "seat of Major Taubman called the "Nunnery" from the ancient structure formerly occupying the 1 3 2

same site, but of which not a vestige remains, except a gateway still supporting the old bell, but now forming ail entrance to the stables . The gardens and grounds have some beautiful features . For many years the whole has been without a rival ; and travellers find- ing nothing else to admire have lavished more praise than it deserves on the , spot, which certainly has many advantages in point of situation, but the scenery is disfigured by the erection of small houses, a mill, a ware- house, and even two bleaohfields, evermore spread with linens of different shades, all of which are directly in front of the mansion . The house is not more than a decent country seat, whose whitened walls are curiously finished by a cornice and bordering of deep red stone ." A tall obelisk in the grounds is thus inscribes : "Erected by public subscrip- tion in memory of Brigadier General Thomas Leigh Goldie of the Nunnery, Lieutenant Colonel of Her Majesty's 57th Regiment . The commander of a Brigade of the British Army in the Crimea, and fell in the battle of Inker- man, Novemlber 5th, 1854, in the 47th year of his age." The following is given in "A tour through' the Isle of Man, by David Robertson, Esq ." London, 1794 . It describes the Nunnery as it would be when the Heywoods lived there . Also there is an account of a visit to Kirk Braddan, where many Heywoods were buried "At a little distance from Douglas is situated in a most delightful solitude the Nunnery . . . The modern building has an air of elegance superior to any other in the Island . The gardens are spacious and luxuriant ; and the surrounding fields, being highly culti- vated, and finely interspersed with woods and waters, present an exquisite landscape . In this charming retirement, once' consecrated to piety, but now sacred to hospitality, Captain Taubman, the worthy proprietor, enjoys `Otium cum dignitate' : not more esteemed by strangers, for his ,politeness and generosity, than respected by the natives for his work and benevolence . About a mile from the Nunnery, bosomed in a group of aged trees,

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appears the venerable Kirk Braddan . The surrounding scenery is solemn and romantic. The last time I visited this sacred solitude was on a fine summer evening. The ruddy sun was sinking behind the western hills ; and his parting beams shone faintly on the church- yard. Beneath, the river, in many a maze, murmured along its root inwovenbanks ; while overhead a few solitary rooks had perched their nests on the summit of the trees . The gales of evening sighed among the groves : and at intervals the tones of the death bell issued from the church . A solemn calm breathed around : and every object insensibly disposed me to a pleasing, yet awful melan- choly ; reflecting as I trod above the vener- able dead, "Time was, like me, they life possest, And time will be when I shall rest .' "In this hallowed sport the inhabitants of Douglas, and the rude forefathers of the neighbouring hamlets, sleep in peace . Here, the green turf lies lightly on the breasts of some ; and there, the long grass waves luxuriant over others ; While all around, `some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deckt, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh ."' The Fort ab Douglas, of which Thomas Hey- wood was Captain, is thus described by Train, a writer in 1845 : "At the height of the Pollock Rock, the original entrance to the harbour of Douglas, there stood an old fort not many years ago taken down . This gothic act deprived the Isle of Man of a structure perhaps more ancient than any other in the British dominions . The Romans, Saxons, and Danes built circular towers or raths cf large masses of unhewn . stone cemented with lime obtained by burning shells from the sea- shore . The roof was formed of an arch, made of the same materials, and the battlement crowned the summit of the walls all round . The Pictish tower was still more ancient, and

01 was only distinguishable from the rath by a small turret that rose from the centre a little above the battlements . The old Fort at 134 Douglas had t'hirs distinguishing mark and was cersidered of very high antiquity . . This venerable relic of antiquity, as already men- tioned, was recklessly thrown down several years ago . The Bay of Douglas is now de- fended by a mall fort of -modern erection, mounting two 18 ,pounders ." Sir Thomas Paeley (1734-1808) was a famous admiral . He was of Scottish birth and en- tered the Navy in 1751 . He was a lieutenant under Hawke in the expedition against Roche- forte, and in 1762 was promoted to command the "Albany" sloop employed in the protec- tion -of the coasting trade . Then he was transferred to the "Guinea," and in 1771 posted to the "Seahorse" in the West Indies . He took part in several actions, and in 1788' was commander-in-chief in the Medway with a broad pennant on the "Vengeance," then in the "ASeipio," and afterwards in the Belle- rophon ." Being promoted to the rank of rear-admiral in 1794 he continued in the latter vessel, and in her bore a very distin- guished part in the battle of the First of June, 1794, when he lost a leg, in considera- tion of which 'he was granted a pension of £1,000 and created a baronet . He advanced - - by further steps to the+ rank of admiral, which he obtained in 1801, dying in 1808 . He had two daughters by his wife, Mary Heywood, of whom the older married Captain John Sabine of the Guards, and to their son the baronetcy descended by special provision . So many of the Heywoods were Deemsters that the famous oath may be given . It is as follows : "By this book and the holy contents thereof and by the wonderful works that God has miraculously wrought in heaven and on the earth beneath in 6 days and 7 nights, I do swear that I will, without respect, or favour, love or gain, consan- guinity or affinity, envy or malice, execute the laws of the isle justly, betwixt our sovereign lord the king and his subjects within this isle and !betwixt party and party as indifferently as the herring's backbone doth lie in the midst of the fish ." 135

The Water Bailiff is in the nature of the Admiral of the island, and sits judge in all maritime affairs. He, has the care of the customs, fishing. wrecks, etc . The Attorney General sits in all the courts to plead for the King's profit, as suing for felons, goods, forfeitures, deodands, etc ., and is to plead the causes of all widows and orphans, they giving him twopence for his fee . In conclusion I may quote a short descrip- tion by Malew by David Robertson in 1794 : "We visited the parochial church at Kirk- Malew ; a gloomy and venerable building, situate as the flanks churches generally are, in a romantic solitude : and the various monu- ments in the churdhyard gave us another opportunity of admiring the pious veneration of the natives for their deceased friends ." Qnnecus% .

,,fribup, & ptember 13th, 1907 .

NOTES. [301 .] TFTF rRFF SCHOOL, HEYWOOD . [The following account of the history and foundation of the Heywood Free School appeared in the "Bury Times" some time in 1893 . We may possibly have another note on the more recent history of the charity] The charity which is spoken of as the Hey- wood School, in the century and a half of its existence, must have done much to aid in educating the children of Heywood and the surrounding townships . A building which has been used as the school adjoins the Victoria Hotel, in (Church-street, and bears an inscrip- tion over the door which tells passers-by that i t is a free school . The building is now in a very dilapidated condition, and is probably only fit to be pulled down, but as the site is a freehold one in a central part of the town, this of itself is of considerable value . The school was what is known as a dame 136 school, and was taught, as the name implies, by a female . The charity had a somewhat peculiar beginning. It was founded by a man who did not resmae in Heywood, and the nature of whose connection with the village can only be surmised . His name was James Lancashire, who resided at Langley, in the parish of Middleton. Lancashire was evidently a man who had advanced views of his duties to his neighbours, for we find that at the time he founded the Heywood charity he also founded similar charities for the benefit of the schools at Unswarth Chapel and Wal- merstey. The date of the foundation of the charity is given as July 30th, 1737 . In his will, which is sad to bear the date we have just given, Lancashire bequeathed £50 which was to be paid over for the benefit of the school on condition that some of the prin- cipal inhabitants of the district, having estates in the neighbourhood, should within three years of his death raise the same amount ana Give it for the benefit of the school. Lan- cashire also gave minute instructions as to how the money was to be used . He had a two-fold object ; he not only desired that the children should receive "instruction in Eng- - fish," but he directed that the money was left "for their better education in the prin- ciples of the Church of England ." Practically speaking this bequest was a challenge to the wealthy men of the district, and it soon brought a reply . As already stated, Lanca- shire's will bears date July 30th, 1737, and we find it recorded that "by indentures of leag~ and release, bearing tho date 23rd and 24th January, 1737" (or 1738, new style) one John Starky accepted the conditions laid down, and agreed to find the second £50 . In his will Lancashire provided that this £50 was to pay for tuition of poor children not to exceed ten in number, who were to be nominated by the churchwardens and overseers of the poor . But 'this was too important to be left to laymen only, and it was set forth that the church- wardens and overseers were to receive the "advice and concurrence of the minister or curates" of Heywood chapel, and, if by any 137 means the time tc nominate the recipients of the charity should arrive, and Heywood chapel bA through any mischance without curate, then the advice was to be given and the con- currence expressed by the Rector of Bury, as rector of the parish . Nothing is said with regard to the consequences of the wardens and overseers disagreeing with the curates as to who should be selected, and possibly at that time such a circumstance was not thought possible . The John Starky who accepted the conditions laid down by Lancashire was pro- bably the first 4 the Starkys of Heywood Hall . He offered to deposit the money with trustees, but the Rev . Nathan Stock, then minister of Heywood chapel, and James Meadoweroft, the churchwarden and overseer for the township of Heap, who were to be trustees of the money in conjunction with William Bamford of Heap, James Starky, a son of John Starky, and John Lancashire of Langley (the latter a son ana one of the executors of James Lancashire, the testator), had other views on the matter . Instead of having a lump sum down they preferred to have an annuity, and requested Mr . Starkie to retain the hundred pounds, and settle on the school a rent charge of £3 per year . Starky agreed to this course, ana the proposal apparently commended itself to all concerned, for an agreement was drawn up, the rent charge guaranteed, and the gentlemen named above elected trustees. By this deed Starky retained to himself, and his successors in the ownership of Heywood Hall, the right to aip- point the master or dame to teach in the school . in payment for this right it is pretty clear that Starky gave the Fohool building to the trustees, for it is stated that at this time he was "seized" of the school which he had erected, together with two messuages con- tiguous to the school and known as "Barlows" and "Kays," and these be transferred to the trustees of the school. The rent for these messuages was to be £5 per annum, and the trustees had to take the rent and apportion it out in a certain manner fully set forth . 138

Three pounds of the money was to go for the benefit of the master or dame of the school so long as he or she should continue diligently to teach the children to read English and educate them in the principles of the Church of England, as required by the will of James Lancashire, and the remainder had to go to the teacher also as long as he or she, in con- sideration of this sum and for the use of the school, should teach a number of poor chil- dren (not to exceed ten in number), born within the township of Hela,p or the adjacent townships, to read English, knit or sew, to- gether with the principles of the Church of England . The ten children in the latter part were to be appointed by Starky . It was fur- ther provided that if at any time there should not be a sufficient number of poor children to be taught at the school the trustees could upend two pounds of the money in buying books to be given to the poor children of the town, or in doing repairs which the school fabric might require . If this clause were put in operation now it would require a good many years' moiety to put the school in good repair . The perpetuity of the charity and the mortality of trustees was recognised by Starky and the representatives of Lancashire, and they made provision for the proper manage- ment of the charity in the future by setting forth that when two trustees only should be left these two should have power to elect other persons to take the place of their dead colleagues . The power thus given was not utilised, and when the original trustees died the charity was left to carry on as best it could, with a far better result than in the case of many charities which in the past have been entirely diverted from their original object . After being founded in the mannerdeseribed above, the school continued without any material change for a dozen years. It was then further augmented by John Starky. By his will, dated 28th September, 1749, Starky left on trust to his eldest son, and trustees who were to be appointed, the sum of £50. By inference it may be taken that Mrs Starky 139 bad taken considerable interest in the school . It is no uncommon thing to find that at this time the wives of the lords of manors exer- cised a general supervision over the schools, which in most cases had been either estab- lished or were largely supported by their hus- bands . The connection which existed between the school and Mrs . Starry is clearly shown by the terms of Starky's will, for in making the bequest he plainly states that the money is for the benefit of his late wife's school . The money thus left was to be invested, and the interest, which, by the way, was not to be more than 4 per cent., was to be applied each year at the feast of Epiphany, to buying books or linen or woollen cloth for the benefit -of the poor children attending the school, who head been nominated by Starky's son or his heirs. That is practically all that can be learned of the foundation of the charity . Presumably everything went on all right, and the money was applied as directed . From a report printed by order of Parliament in 1828 we gather that at that time the school was taught by a schoolmistrc s who had been appointed by the Starky family. Probably she would take more scholara than were just provided for by the charity . The emoluments were not in themselves sufficiently large to maintain her, and it is likely she would have other children who would pay for tuition . However this might be, she bad to take without charge twenty children, either boys or girls, aged between four and eight years, and nominated by Mr . Starky's agent . Ten of these children were taken in respect of James Lancashire's bequest and ten in respect of Starky's dona- tion . The children in the latter case were the most fortunate, for they were not only edu- cated but received each year a quantity of linen cloth, forty shillings' worth in all, ay provided by the bequest of John Starky re- ferred to above . For teaching these children the mistress received from the steward of James Starky, who was then the owner of the Heywood Hall estate, the yearly sums df £5, together with the £2 which had to be ex- 140 pended on cloth or books . She had the free use of the school, which was also used as a K residence. The building as it stood in 1828 was not the one originally left by Starky as a school. The requirements of the township had made it necessary that the schoolbouse I should be changed on several occasions, and these changes have been made without any record being left as to where they school was originally placed . Judging from the appear- V anoe of the old school now standing in Church- street. and its surroundings we should imagine that it has been in use from the beginning of the present century, though this is simply con- jecture . Coming down to more recent times we find that the school was continued until 1891, when, through the illness of the mis- tress, it was elosed. The last mistress (Mrs . Maria Schofield) is yet alive, and resides with relatives in Castleton . She was appointed to take charge of the school in 1844, succeeding a Mrs . Greenhalgh. The appointment was made by a Miss Aspinall, who was acting on behalf of the then owner off the Heywood' Hall estate . Besides the free use of the school building she received £5 a year, first from Miss Aspinall, and afterwards from Mr. Stott, solicitor, of Rochdale, agent to Mr . Langton and Archdeacon Hornby, the successors of the, Starkys in possession of the estate . This sum is the amount of the original bequest, but the interest on the second gift made by John Starky had somewhat diminished, for Mrs . Schofield received £1 16s . 2d . per year only, and this money she expended on books and calico for the children . It is clear that r`. though the general bearing of the trust has been observed, the provision made for the election of trustees has not been acted upon at any time, and the whole management of the trust has consequently devolved upon the owners of the estate or their agent . In the report of 1828 it is stated that nothing could be found to show that any trust deed, after the original one, had ewer been executed . While Mrs . Schofield was at the school she did

141 not see any trust deed, nor does she remember that there were any trustees . Ali that she knows of the matter is that the money came regularly, and that she had to perform certain duties as a return for it. When the school fabric required repairing she had to find the money for it, and to this purpose she devoted part of the £1 16s . 2d . which she received yearly for the provision of slates, pencils, and other requisites . As we have already said, the, school was kept open until January, 1891 . At this time Mrs . Schofield found that she could no longer continue to perform the duties . She looked up the school, ana, naturally enough, seeing that she received payment from them, took the key of the building to -Messrs . Stott and Son, solicitors, of Rochdale, in whose pos- session we understand it now is . From this brief sketch it will be seen that a charity school established over 150 years ago was carried on in Heywood up to a little over two years ago . In times gone 'by Hey- wood was fairly well supplied with charities of various sorts, but there are very few left . Our readers will therefore be pleased to know that this charity will not be lost to the town . Correspondence has taken place between the Town-Clerk, representing the Corporation, and Archdeacon Hornby, and arrangements have practically been made by which the town will still benefit by the charity, though not in- the re-opening of the school . R .H .S .

[302 .] THE HEYWOODS OF HEYNVOOD. TABLET IN ONCfAN CHURCH . A correspondent has kindly copied the fal- lowing inscriptions on a tablet in Onchan A Church, Douglas, Isle of Man . They will use- fully supplement the previous notes on the Heywood family. Sacred to the memory of Robert Heywood, Esq., fifteen years his Majesty's water bayliff of this Island, who departed this life on the 31st of August, 1808, aged 69 years ; also 1 Elizabeth, wife, of the said Robert Hey- wood, and daughter of John J . Bacon, Esq.,

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of Douglas, who- departed this life an the 30th of January, 1795, aged 31 years ; also Elinor, wife: of John J . Heywood, Esq ., one of H .M. Deemsters of this Island, and daugh- ter of Robert Rowan, Esq ., of the County of Antrim, Ireland, who departed this life on the 18th of February, 1820, aged 28 years . This tablet is erected by Deemster Hey- wood, son of the two former, as a token of affectionate remembrance . E.F.

J ribs , September 20th, 1907.

NOTES. [303 .] "SABBATH SCHOOLS ARE ENGLAND'S GLORY ." I have several times drawn the attention of the readers of this column to John Heywood's authorship of the well-known hymn named above . It wass always understood by I3eywood people that John Heywood's claim to be the author was too deeply rooted to be shaken . In the early weeks, of 1906, however, a corre- spondence on the matter was opened in the "Primitive Methodist Leader." Copies of the paragraphs and letters were kindly forwarded to me by Mr. J . `V . Chadwick, Deputy Town- Clerk, Barrow-in-Furness . Mr . Chadwick is keenly interested in the question, as the fol- lowing letter shows . I sent the editor of the "Primitive Methodist Leader" a short letter with a quotation from a statement made by A- Mrs . Jane Brooks (a daughter of John Hey- wood) which I considered conclusive . The statement by Mrs . Brooks appeared in this column on June 16th, 1905, par . 70. Since receiving the correspondencee from Mr. Chad- wick I have bean in communication with the Rev. Dr. John Julian, editor of the great "Dictionary of Hymnology ." Dr . Julian has just brought out a second edition of his stan- dard work, and the notice of John Heywood 143 is extracted in conolusion of this series of notes on the authorship of "Sabbath Schools are England's glory."

COPIES OF OORRESPONDENCE, &c . "Primitive Methodist Leader," January 25th, 1906 . Speaking of Sunday school hymns, the new Connexional History credits the authorship of several old and well-known hymns to a comparatively obscure writer, the late Mr . Thomas Hales, superintendent of the Elles- mere Port Sunday school . It was Mr . Hales' custom for many years to write a hymn for the recurring anniversary, and in this unob- trusive way he penned such hymns as "Sab- bath schools are England's glory," "When mothers of Salem," "I'll away to the Sabbath school," "When the morning light," and "Till Jesus bids us come ." Hitherto the authorship of these hymns has been unknown or wrongly attributed . "The Primitive Methodist Leader," February 1st, 1906. Sir,-'I observe that in a paragraph in the column of your last issue, headed "In the day's work," the authorship of the hymn, "Sabbath schools are England's glory," is attributed to the late Mr . Thomas Hales of Ellesmere Port . Will you permit me to state, for the infor . mation of your readers, that the hymn in question was composed by my great uncle, the late Mr . John Heywood, who was for- merly the Postmaster of Heywood, Lanca- shire, and was a printer, and was also choir- master at the United Methodist Free Church in that town? The hymn was written fifty years ago, and was intended as a. set-off against a statement made by the late George Jacob Holyoake in disparagement of Sabbath schools . The above facts were vouched for by my late father, who was the first to put the hymn in type from the original manuscript of his uncle. The old tune to which the hymn was sung was picked up on one of the American lakes as it was being played 'by a band of snusi- cians, and was sent to ~Mr . Heywood by an old friend of his (Mr . Joseph Hilton .) 144 In corroboration of the above I may state that in the old Sunday School Hymn Book of the United Methodist Free Church the name of Mr . Heywood is given as the author . I have on a previous occasion had to cor- rect a statement as to the authorship of the hymn in question, which correction, however, had evidently not come to the knowledge of my friend, Mr. Spedding, who attributes the composition to the late Mr. Hales. Thanking you for your space, Yours, etc ., JOHN W . CHADWICK. E'lmfield, Barrow-in-Furness .

Sir,--In your column, headed "In the Day's Work," th, Rev . W . Spedding attri- butes the authorship of "Sabbath schools are England's glory" to Mr . Hales of Ellesmere Port. In so doing I think Mr . Spedding is in error. From my earliest recollections I have always been under the impression that John Heywood, a native of Heywood, Lan- cashire, had penned those words, and when I read the above paragraph I consulted the "Bibliography of the town of Heywood," byJ . A. Green. On page 50 there is a short sketch of his career . h was a printer and post- master and was born in 1808 . He took an active part in the religious and political life of the town, and for nearly forty years was choirmaster at Bethel-street United Metho- dist Free Church . Among his works appear the following-(Page 51) 4-"Sabbath schools are England's glory," words and music by John Heywood. (1850.) Broadside, 8vo . On . page 99 of the same book there is also the following : "Sunday School Hymns. Pre- pared by direction of the Annual Assembly of the United Methodist Free Churches . London, 1875, 32mo ., `Sabbath schools are England's glory,' by John Heywood . Hymn 128.11 Being a Heywoodite I have always felt proud of the connection that hymn has with Heywood, and it would be interesting to know how the authorship has been credited to any person but "our John Heywood ."-Yours, ALBERT BARKER, A.7vlus.T.C.L. ?.5, York-street, Heywood . 145

"The Primitive Methodist Leader," February 8th, 1906 . Sir,-With reference to the authorship of . the above hymn, I can only refer your corre- spondent to page 273 of the Connexional His- tory just published . I am not responsible for anything there stated, and did not know that the hymns named in your previous issue were attributed to the late Mr . Thomas Hales until I casually carne across the information on the page to which I have referred . It was upon this discovery that my "note" was statedly based, and responsibility for the error,, if such it be, belongs primarily to the "Connexional History ." I may say that there is not at present any member of the Hales' family resident in Ellesmere Port, hence I cannot either verify or disprove any statement made, and do not know from whence the information came. Personally, I accept with pleasure the cor- rection given by )Mr . Chadwick and Mr . Bar- ker, and should very much regret to deprive them, to any degree, of their honourable asso- ciation with the authority of such a well- known and popular hymn . Permit me to remain, very sincerely yours, WILLIAM -SPEDDING. The Hollies, Ellesmere Port .

"The Primitive Methodist Leader," February 15th, 1906. Sir,-I see that the attribution of the hymn "Sabbath schools are England's glory" to the late Mr . Thomas Hales has been challenged, and that in your last week's issue the Rev . W . Speddiug names the new connexional "History" as responsible for the statement now called in question . May I say, there- fore, that the statement was made : (1) On the authority of the official memoir of Mr . Hales, contained in the special memorial number of the magazine published in 1894 ; (2) On a statement of the Rev . Danzy Sheen, published in the "Teachers' Journal" during the time Mr . Sheen was G .S .S . secretary ; (3) On the communication made to myself in 1903 by Mr . J . P . Hales, secretary of the British Association of Y .M .C . Associations . Hence the attribution of the hymn to Mr . Thomas Hales was made on what seemed to VOL. 3,-Part 34. 14 the writer of the History reasonably suffi- cient evidence. Very truly yours, H. B. KENDALL . Wiesbaden, Casstlemain Road, Bournemouth .

Heywood, John, born in 1808, and died July 13th, 1887. He was printer and post- master at Heywood, Lancashire, and founder of the "Heywood Advertiser," which attained its Jubilee in 1905 . He wins the author of the hymn, "Sabbath schools are England's glory," which was written in Bethel-street Methodist Chapel during a sermon in which the preacher exclaimed, "Sabbath schools ! they are the glory of England ." This was c. 1849. The hymn was printed as a leaflet, and was widely used in Lancashire for many years . (See "Heywood Advertiser," June 16th, 1905- J.,j ./ J. A . GREEN.

lribsp, September 27th, 1907.

NOTES. [304 .] ASHWORTH MOOR : DISPUTE AS TO BOUNDARIES . Below we give the depositions of a Duchy Court case relating to Ashworth "Waste," dated 1549 . It is extracted from the Record Society's volume "Pleadings and Depositions in the Duchy Court of t ancaster, time of Edward VI . and Philip and Mary," edited by Lieut.-Colonel Fishwick, and being volume 40 of their series . The case furnishes much in- teresting information as to local topography, names of tenants, and so on. We would gladly welcome any notes on the persons in the case or the boundaries mentioned.

Robert Irolte versus Christopher Nuttowe and Arthur Kay, Tenants of the Earl of Derby, re Right of Common on Ashworth Waste and -Boundaries of the Wash . 147 Commission dated 8th July, 3 Edward VI . [1549], directed to Sir William Ratcliff, Sir Thomas Uoise, Sir Robert Langley, Knights, and Thurstan Tyldesley, esq . Whereas certain variance of long time has been depending between Robert Holte, plaintiff, of the one part, and Christopher Nuttowe and .Arthur Kay, tenants of our well-beloved cousin Edward, Earl of Derby, defendants, of the other part, for the use of a certain common called Assheworth, in the county of Lancaster. We willing a "quietnee" to be had between the said paiaes, desire you to "prepayre" yourselves to the said waste ground and earl before you the said parties, etc ., etc . Commission dated 8th December, 3 Edward Vim ., directed to Sir William Radclyf, Knight, and William Bromley, gent . The Certificate of Sir Thomas Holt and Sir Robert Langley . According to the above Commission we ap- pointed a certain day to meet upon the said ground, and commanded both the parties to be there with all their witnesses, evidences, etc . : upon which day we viewed the ground and the hounds thereof, but could do no good because the said Sir William and Thurstan would neither examine the witnesses of the plaintiff nor agree to one "platt." Afterwards, at the request of plaintiff, we sent to the said Sir William and T'hurstan, willing them to be on the said ground the 19th October, before which day the said Thurstan wrote to plaintiff, willing him to defer the said matter until Easter term or Candlemas term, or else they would not be at the said place on the said day . We again viewed the said ground and made a "plat" thereof and examined all the witnesses . As same could not "labure" to the said ground on account of great age and impotence, we rode to their house and examined them upon the said interrogatories . From Agecrose [Agecroft], 25th October, 3 Edward VI . [1549 . Thomas Holt, K. Robert Langley, K . Edmund Wolfynden, tenant to Thomas Bel- feld, aged 70, says that for 54 years he has known the said meres called Warmedenhed, Foulbrige, Foulbrigker, and the Cowlomme near Henryrowde, out of which moss and waste ground there springs a water or a "beke" that runs into Penkesden : at some seasons of the year the said "beke" is drv . 148 James Herdman, tenant to Philip Strangwis, aged 70, deposes as above . Thomas Grene, aged 52, knows all the said meres. Robert Naden, aged 51, knows that the said boundaries are within the several ground tf Assheworth . Alone Holt, aged 63, deposes as above . Depositions taken at Bury 21st January last . Roger Nuttawe if Rossyndale, smith, aged 76, tenant to the King, says that the water run- ning on all the west side of the said waste called Assheworth is called Cheseden Broke and not Penkesden : the said brook is not a mete or boundary between the lordship of Burye and Assheworth [Ashworth] . All the said waste in variance is parcel of the lordship of Buryc•, and lies within the parish of Bury, and that not part thereof lies in Assheworth, in the parish of Myddelton [Middleton] . The Earl of Derby is the rightful owner and possessor of the freehold of the said waste. Deponent knows that the tenants of the said Earl and of his ancestors, and before their time of Sir Thomas Pglkyngton, of the lord- ship of Bury, have always had the occupation of all the said waste with their cattle, without interruption of any until lately . The tenants of the said lordship of Bury have always paid their tithes for their cattle renew- ing upon the said waste to the parson of Bury and not to the parson of Myddelton [Middle ton] . The water comes direct from a place lying at the north end of the said waste called C'heseden Linne, and so de:ecendis and goes west and south from the said Linne past all the said waste, and by all that space the name of the said water is Cheseden Broke. Has never heard the same called Penkesden, until now of late that said Robert Holte "namethe hit so." The ditch going from Cheseden Linne siouth- east to Codshawe Bowre is called the White Ditch, and is a "meyre" and division between the parish of Bury and- the parish of Rachedale [Rochdale] . The ditch coming from the Codshawe Bowre westward to Horelowe Shawe, and from thence southward to the Hare Hyll, and also Stanley Syke, "be the verey meres, Bundaries and derision" between the parish of Burye and Assheworthe in the parish of Myddelton . The 1 4 9 tenants of the lordship of Bury have "used to entercomen" past all the said Meres on Wyndle within Assheworthe, and further until "hit come to the several Inclosures of the said Roiberte Holte." Jeffraye Brydge of Totyngton [Totting-ton], aged 75, tenant to John Grenehalgh, Esq., has never known the said water to be called any- thing but Choseden Broke . Has heard that the water of Penkesdeyne meets C'heseden Broke "ferre bynetho" all the said waste . Richard Heype of Rossyndale, aged 67, tenant to the King, deposes as above . Olyver Holte of Rossyndale, aged 75, tenant to the King, has ever since he was eight years old heard the said water called Cheseden Broke . Rychard Broke of Totyngton, aged 71, the King's copyholder, deposes as above. Robert Smethurst, aged 91, tenant to Arthur Smethurst, says that when Sir Thomas Pylkyng- ton was lord of Bury, deponent drove his father's cattle, then being charterer to the said Sir Thomas, to the said waste. All the other tenants of the lordship put their cattle there also, and occupied the waste without interrup- tion from anybody until just lately . Depo- nent's father also appointed him to look after the lambing of his sheep, saying that for these that did lamb on Stanlees or on any other part of the said waste, he must pay the tithe to the parson of Bury ; if on the north side of the White Ditch, he must pay for the same to Rachedale [Rochdale] ; and if beyond Stanley Syke on \Vyndle Hill, then lie must pay the tithe to the parson of Myddelton [Middleton] . More than 70 years ago deponent heard aged men say that the water of Penkesdeyn begins at Warmeden Well, thence running down to Cattes Oke, between High Assheworth -and Lowe Assheworth, and "so furthe deseendying down" between the lands of Assheworthe and Gristylhurst [Gristlehurst] . John Kaye of Basthowse, aged 72 ; Bertyne Kaye of T'uche Roode, aged 75 ; Peres Lomalx of Dwerributtes, aged 72 ; Thomas Woode of the Hal,he, aged 64 ; Henry Lorde of Bury, aged 58 ; Elles Fleccher of Wamersley [Walmer- eley], aged 75 ; Roger Kaye of Shepulbothoan, ages 53 ; and Bertyne Kaye the younger, aged 53, tenants to the Earl of Derby, says that the water of Penkes deyne "cometh out of a place in Assheworthe lieng southe from the wart in varyaunce called Warmed-en Well, and so 150 goythe a lytle waye Est ward and then turnethe and goythe Southwaru to a place where a grett oke ayd groove called Cattes Oke, And So des- cendeth styli Southward Betwene the landes of Grystyllhurst [Gristlehurst] on the west Syde a;na Assheworthe on the northe est Syde, And that the same water of Penkesdeyn metithe with Chesedeyn Broke more than halfe a myle benethe all the was:t in varyaunce ." James Howorthe of Ballydeyne, aged 90, tenant to the King ; Christopher Lumalx of Tottyngton, aged 82, tenant to Christopher Bothe ; and Jeffray Brydge of T'otyngton, aged 67, tenant to Thomas Ayne,sworthe, depose as above. Laurence Payleor of Eytynfeld [Edenfield], aged about 70, tenant to Francis Gartside, says he knows his father paid the tithe to the parson of Burye for "Cattail wiche dyd Renewe upon the said vast ." Eight or nine years ago depo- nent "herde say" that Oliver Holte, father of Robert Holt, plaintiff, paid to the officers of the Earl of Derby certain money as amends for getting turves upon the said waste without license of the said Earl or his officers . Christopher Holte of Hollyngreyve, gent ., aged 48, and John Brydge of Totyngton, gent., aged 58, copyholders to the King, depose as above . Richard Baturshe of Bury, aged 74, tenant of John Grenehalghe, Esq . ; Edmund Lache, aged 50, charterer to the Earl of Derby ; and Rauff Holte of Bury, tenant to John Grenhalgh, Esq ., aged 59, know for certain that Oliver Holte, plaintiff's father, paid into the hands of James Grenehalghe, deputy steward of Burye, 16d. as amends for trespassing upon the said waste .

lribap, Odder 18th, 1907 .

NOTES. [305.] ASHWORTH MOOR : DISPUTED BOUNDARIES .-II. Edmund Frythe of Redyvailee [Redvalesj, aged 25, says, that about eight years ago he was servant to John Hoovorthe of Assheworth, and that Stevyn Holte, father-in-law of the said John Howothe and tenant to Robert Holt 1 5 1 of Assheiworthe, plaintiff, aged about 80, told deponent that the water runing near the said Howorthe's house in Assheworth was the water of Penkesdeyne, and that it rose out of a place in Assheworth called Warmeden Well, and that he (Steven) had known the same by the name of Peaikesdeyne for 4-0 years, but dare not call it Pemkesdeyne for fear of displeasing the said Robert bite his landlord, because of the suit then depending the said waste . Pemkesdeyne water meets Cheseden Broke about three- quarters of a mile beneath the saiu waste. Olyver Lowe of Tottyngton, aged 56, tenant to Christopher bite of Hollyngreve, gent., deposes as aboi e. Adam Roustorne of the Linne, gent., aged about 60, deposes as above . Thomas Nuttawe of Tottynegton, gent ., aged 67 ; James Bamforde, aged 50, copyholders to the King, and Thurstan Roustorne of Bury, aged 64, charterer to John Gremehalghe, Esq ., depose as above. Robert Lyvesaye of Byrtylli, aged 63, and William IIolte of Wallm.ers'ley [Wahnersley], aged 68, tenats to Robert Holte of Stubley, Esq ., depose as above . Richard Marcrofte of Chesum [Chesham], within the parish of Bury, aged 76, deposes as above . Adam Bamforde, gent ., aged 46, and Richard Medowcrofte, gent ., aged 29, as above. Thomas Reyde of Totyngton, aged 66, tenant to Christopher Holte, never heard the water of Cheseden called Penkesden until within the last year-and-a-half . Thomasi Nabbes of Tottyngton, gent ., aged 63, copyholder to his Majesty, knows very well that the tenants of the lordship of Bury, and of other parishes and place's thereabouts, have paid tithes for their cattle renewing upon the said waste to the parson of Bury, and not to the parsons of Mydd'elton [Middleton] or Racher dale [Rochdale], because his (deponent's) uncle, Sir John Nabbes, late parson of Bury, appointed one Jeffarye of Cheseden [Cheesdem], whose dwelling adjoined the said waste, to oversee and look well after the cattle of strangers which should happen to come within the said waste and there renew, to the intent that the owners thereof should not conceal or withdraw from their duty as to the tithe thereof. Deponent knows that the said parson 1 52 gave to the said Jeffray part of the profits so arising for the pains he took in the matter. Edmund Lowe of Tottyngton, aged 64, copy- holder to his Majesty, as above . James Romesbothom of Tottyngton, aged 76, tenant to Richard Romesibothom, knows the water coming out of Cheseden Linne and run- ning past all the said land now in variance by the name of Cheseden Broke, "contynewelly Skthens Kyng Richaides ffeld," and during all that time never heard it called Penkesdeyne until within the last year-and-a half . James Hewood, gent., aged 50, as above. Depositions taken at Assheworth upon the ground in variance, 19th October, by Sir Thomas Holt and Sir Robert Langley . Edmund Wolffynden, tenant to Thomas Bei'feld of Cleggiswod, aged about 70, well knows the metes and bounded of the said ground, the first whereof is called Standlesike, another 1Viddilshay, another Risshelaiche, another Horelowshey, and so to Penkisden- broke, and so following and descending the said water of Penkisden to the, first mere called Stand'lisike . About 54 years ago deponent dwelt with Rauff Hamor in Chesesome [C'hosham], within the parish of Burro [Bury], and was sent to drive his master's cattle into Depemosse, and from Depemosse he wound have put them over the water of P'enkesden into Standless parcel of tha premises, Taut there Judd Holt said to him "ffaire cone thou shall drive non over the water, for that is my maisters ground." When des ponent told bow he had been stopped, his master said to hint "I de the drive never to that platt, ffor it is non of my Coiezn ." The said water has always been called P'en- kisden water during deponent's remembrance, and this' he can prove, for when he , was "bott of sma11 age he was in company with theyme yt did hunt in the woddes of Asisheworth, and when the game was fonnde, iff hit did goo and flee of the west partie, then all men wold say goo oppe the water of Penkisden veto Cheis'den lomme, and th:er ye shall haue a Course." The said water is a special boundary of the west part of the said ground . The said water called Cheisden lies north from the water of Penkisden, and falls into it at a place called C'heis'denlo'me, where it loses its name of C'heisden. The said waste ground extends northward only as far as Cheisdenlome . The said water of Penkisden takes its name at and from Cheisdenlome, and so runs south- wards to a water called Naden, and there Penkisden loses its name, and by deponent's estimation is in length two miles and more. Elles Chadweke, tenant to John Chadweke of Elwodrowde [Ellenrod] aged 84, as above iloger Nuttow e, tenant of Richard Assheton of Mrddelton, Esq ., aged about 74, says that he has fished in Penkisden water for 60 years and more, and that William. Medowcroft, gent ., said to him "goo into Penkisden and begyne at Byrchynnase oppon the more, and them no man will blame the except Mr. Holt, and he is thy ffrende." -.. .s Heiwade, tenant of Richard Assheton of Middilton, Esq ., aged about 70, as above . Edmund Holt, tenant of Laurens ilaustorne, aged 60 years and more, says that he, was born in Bamefurth [Bamford], within the parish of Burro [Bury], and lived with his father, who about 50 years ago "dyd lay and giest" [agistment is feeding cattle, on common land] his, sheep many times to Standlees parcel of the ground now in variance, and paid to the same to Oliver Holt in "Mawyng and sheringe" and other work. Thomas Grove, tenant to Robert Chadweke, aged 52 years and more, as above . Jamys Herdman, tenant of Philippe Strand wis, aged about 73, says that immediately after "King Ric ffeild," the tenants of the lordship of Burro hearing of the Lord of Derby and a multitude of " ev alshenren" that he brought with him, were afraid that the said "Walshe- men" would spoil and rob their goods and chattles, so they brought their "catalles" over the water of "Penkisden into the ground in variance, by the sufferance of the lord of Assheworth, to the intent they might go in "savegard" there, and divers of the said tenants brought "much goodes and catallesr' to d'eponent's house to be kept in safety there . Alan Holte, tenant to Adam Bameforth, aged 64, says that when he lived with his father in Bury 50 years ago, they had licence from Oliver Holt of Assheworth to keep their sheep in the said ground, and sometimes in stormy weather deponent drove them to a place called Dirpul- hill, and to Sandstanbanke and Stanelees parcel of the said ground, when William Kay, father of Arthur Kay defendant, and divers 154 other tenants of the lordship of Burro [Bury] were present, who never found fault with him for so doing, indeed, the said William Kay has many times said to deponent, "sonoe go home, thy shepe will take no harmie here, ffor they will go to the best Socure" Robert Chadweke, tenant to Robert Holt of Stubley, Esq ., aged 87, says that the, heirs of Asshe'worth have had peaceable possession of the said ground for 50 years and more till now of late. [Plans of the ground in question.]

,ifriha , O.cti btr 25th, 1907.

NOTES. [306 .] OLD FAMILY LINKS. Passing through the graveyard of Bury Parish Church a few days ago, I saw a memo- rial stone, surmounted with a weather-worn armorial device, and inscribed thus :- Here resteth the body of Henry Monday of Heywood, who departed this life the 17th day of May, in the year of our Lord Christ, 1714 . Also the body of Mary, his wife, who de- parted this life the 11th day of November, in the year of our said Lord . Christ, 1767, in the 96th year of her age . Also William Whitehead of Heywood, their son-in-law, who departed this life the 28th day of January, 1770, in the 66th year of his age . Also Alice, their daughter, and wife of the above-named William tiff hitehead, who de- parted this life the fourth day of June, 1787, in the 81st year of her age. Of the aforementioned Henry Monday I have no information beyond what is disclosed above . His surname, I think, is a very uncommon one in Lancashire . Possibly he was father of . "Henry Monday, of Heywood, yeoman," whose will was proved in 1770 . In the same year the will was proved of "William Whitehead, of Heap, yeoman," who is no doubt identical with the first-named Henry Monday's son-in- law. 165 Probably the Henry Monday whose will was proved in 1770 is the same Henry Monday who married Elizabeth Dawson, of Heywood, whose mother (Dorothy) was a daughter or George Melladew, of Heywood Hall, yeoman, by his wife Elizabeth, sister of the re-founder of Bury Grammar Sohool, the Rev . Roger Kay. This Henry Monday's mother- n-law (a widow before 1729) may have been the wife of James Dawson, of Heywood, husbandman, whose will was proved in 1723 . Mrs. Dorothy Dawson had a daughter, Anne, who married John Topping, of Topping Fold or Clerk's Croft, Broadoak Lane, near Fairfield, two de- scendants of whom found husbands among the well-to-do Openshaws of Bury . According to the account of "An Old Local Law-suit" which was given in the "Heywood Advertiser" some years ago, Henry Monday and his wife, Elizabeth Dawson, had issue Edward Monday, who married Mary Mella- dew of Gnat Bank, in Bamford, and had chil- dren as follows :-Henry, who married Chad, wick of Ridings, in Birch, and left a family ; Edward, living at Castleton Moor in 1808, with a numerous family ; Alice, first married to Clegg of Rochdale, secondly to Kay of Heap Brow, and had children by both husbands ; Betty, first married to Ashton, inkeeper at the George and Dragon, Blackwater, Rochdale, then to J. Hilton, shopkeeper, in Blackwater, Roch- dale, and had children by both husbands ; Fanny, married Horrox, butcher, in Heywood, and left a family . Betty, daughter of Henry Monday, married Mr. Buckley of Saddleworth, and had a family . Mary, another daughter, had a natural daughter, Esther, who married Mr. Turner, attorney, Rochdale, dead in 1808 ; his widow lived near Captain Fold, and had a eon then unmarried and a daughter who married Joseph Gee . In the graveyard of the New Road Con- gregational Church, Bury, there is a memorial stone with the following inscription :- Deposited under this stone the earthly re , mains of Ann, the wife of Henry Knight of Seedfield, dyer, who departed this life the 19th day of December, 1799, in the 66th year of her age. 156 Also of the aforesaid Henry Knight, who de- parted this life the 5th day of January, 1801, in the 66th year of his age . Follow the Lamb, His precious paths pursue, And you shall find His Word of Promise true . A daughter of Henry Knight married James Grundy, a son of John Grundy, of Bury Moor- side, whose wife, Ann, was a daughter of Roger Melladew (son of the aforementioned George Melladew, of Heywood Hall), by his wife, Ann, daughter of Abraham Wood, of Bury Lane, Bury . The aforenamed John Grundy, of Moorside, was a son of James Grundy, of iSeedfield, and an elder brother of the Dennis Grundy ("Golden Dennis") whose numerous descendants included the generous gentleman whose name is perpetuated in the Heywood Grundy Swimming Baths . The wife of the last-named James Grundy was Mary Mallalieu ; and, having regard to the free spelling of the surname, it is not improbable that she was of the same stock as the Mella- dews of Heywood . Henry Knight was one of the founders of the first Congregatr_onal Church (New Road) _ in Bury in the last decade of the eighteenth _ century; and for many years Heywood counted among the worthiest of its citizens a not less loyal Congregationalist in the per- son of his great-grandson, Mr. Thomas Knight, who died at his Hopwood residence on June 18th, 1894, aged 88. LECTOR. [307 .] EARLY LOCAL MANUFAGT'URERS . Several lusts of early Heywood manufac- turers have already appeared in this column, but the following list, besides being of an earlier date, includes some fresh names . The . names are taken from a long list of country manufacturers appended to "Dean's Manches- ter and Salford Directory, 1813" :- Blakeley (George), nankeen manufacturer, Heywood, Chadwick (J . and S .), fustian manufacturers, . Hevwood. Collins (Jonathan), fustian manufacturer, Heywood. 157 Collins (Robert and Samuel), fustian manu- facturers, Heywood . Fititon (George), fustian manufacturer, Hey- wood. Gee (Joseph) and Co ., fustian manufac- turers and spinners, Heywood . Hall (Thomas), fustian manufacturer, near Heywood. Hardman (Jonah), fustian manufacturer, Heywood. Kay (Robert), fustian manufacturer, Hey- wood. Kenvon (Richard), cotton spinner, Bamford . Kershaw (James) and Son, twist spinners, Heywood. Lancashire (J . and J.), bleachers, Castleton. Ogden (John), fustian, etc., manufacturer, Birch, near Middleton . Schofield (William), manufacturer, nearHey- wood. Scholfield (John), cotton spinner and manu- facturer, near Heywood . Soholfield (Thomas), cotton manufacturer, Heywood. Smith (Mark), fustian manufacturer, Hey- wood. Turner (John), fustian manufacturer, Hey- wood. Wolstenholme (James), manufacturer, Hey- wood. Wolstenholme (John), near Heywood . Wrigley (James and Francis), paper makers, Bridge Hall, near Bury .

As no addresses, are given it is difficult at this distance of time to ascertain the where- abouts of the mills owned by most of the above-named . pt would be useful to have in- formation on the extent of the mills, and the amount of trade done. Except the Wrigleys, no descendants of these millowners seem to have continued in the same business after nearly a hundred years . This is a matter which might well receive attention from some of our old Heywood;ites . HIND HILL . 158 QUERIES. [308 .] HOPWOOD HALL . As I take great interest in the numerous papers on local antiquities appearing in this column, I should feel greatly obliged if some of your correspondents would kindly give me a description of Hopwood Hall, including its curiosities, such as the Byron room, etc . BYNG . [309 .] A GUIDE WW'ANTE'D. Going over Hopwood Hall recently, I felt, along with others, the need for a guide or at the least a description of the building and its treasures . If any reader could give through this column such an article I for one would be extremely grateful . I have found that visits to many of our most famous buildings and show places are practically lost through the lack of a competent guide. I hope this may not be the case with Hopwo'od Hall . Also I might suggest a short account of the Hopwood family . RACEDHAM .

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NOTES. r310 ] HEYWOOD IN 1829 . The following notes on Heywood in 1829 are extracted from the reprint of a rare little work written by James Butterworth, the father of Edwin Butterworth . It was re- printed in 1902, with memorial introduction and bibliography, by Mr . Albert Sutton, Man- chester, from the copy in the Manchester Reference Library . The full title reads thus : An historical and topographical description of the town and parish of Bury in the county of Lancaster . By James Butterworth, author of The histories of Manchester, Roohdale, Stock- port, Oldham, Ashton-under-Line, etc. Printed by W . L . L arey, St. Ann's Square, Manchester . 1829 . NOTES ON HEYWOOD . Heywood is a very considerable and thriving village, forming a long street nearly a mile 159

and a half in length ; containing a variety of shops, a post office, and several pubiic-houses . The Roche flows to the north of this place, through a rich, romantic, and truly beautiful vale, adorned with several neat mansions, par- ticularly Heywood Hall, the seat of James Starkie, Esq ., and Bamford: Hall, the residence of Joseph Fenton, senr., Esq . Manufactures of calicoes, muslin,s, and some few woollen goods flourish in Heywood to a very great extent . The living of Heywood is a curacy, and existed as early as 1665, in the gift of the rector of Bury, and the present curate is the Rev . Joseph Bland Jameson . In this in- creasing place are one Methodist and two In- dependent chapels ; and here is Lo a well- built National school, founded in 1815, from subscriptions, for the education of the boys of the township of Heap, the number being limited to 500 . Heywood, a large, populous, and very con- siderable villagfery much increased of late years ; the cotton mills built in the village and neighbourhood have caused an influx of strangers, and congregated together a very dense population . Heywood contains an epis- dcopal chapel, and is situated in the township of Heap, not far from tho south bank of the river Roche, and on the aid road from Bury to Rochdale, three miles east southeast of Bury ; three and a half miles west south-west of Rochdale ; and three miles north-west of Middleton . Heap, a large, populous, and pleasant. town- ship, stretching along the south-west banks of the Roche, two miles S .E . of Bury. Heap Fold, a hamlet, two miles SE . . of Bury . The above notes are interesting as being pro- bably the earliest printed account of Heywooad and its vicinity . It may be compared with a previous article (Note No . 169) extracted from "A Gazetteer of England, Wales, etc .," published in 1833. J . A. GREEN . 160

[311 .] OLD FAMILY LINKS . (Additions to No . 306) . In "Lector's" note there is an error regard- ing the late Thomas Knight of Beech House, which may be after all only a slip of the pen . Thomas Knight was grandson, not great- grandson of Henry Knight of Seedfield . It may be of interest to record that soon after the death of his first wife, Henry Knight was married at Bury Parish Church on July 9th, 1800, to Ann, widow of Richard Millett of Cockyrnoor . He did not long survive his second marriage dying, as stated, on January 5th, 1801, but Mrs . Knight lived till 1824, when she was 75 years of age. She was a cousin of the Rev. Dr . Whitaker of Holme, the historian of Whalley, and a niece of Ralph Nowell of Gawthorpe Hall : through her mother she was a descendant of Elizabeth Nowell, sister of the great Dean of Westminster of Elizabeth's reign, and aunt to John Woolton, warden of Manchester and Bishop of Exeter (1579-94 .) By her first hus- band, Richard Millett, Mrs . Knight was grandmother to the late Mrs . James Porritt of Stubbins Vale, Rasnsbottom . THOMAS HUNT . York House, October 26th, 1907.

[312 .] EDMUND LORD, MUSICTAN . Edmund Lord, of Hooley Bridge, Heywood, died on April 19th, 1856, aged 70 years . He was a well-known musician of the old school, and a rather original character . He was a great ndsnirer of the works of Handel, especially "The Messiah ." He greatly de- lighted in harmony . This was often ehown during the works of the great masters, with whom ho always seemed at home. He was connected ass a performer with the musicians o~ the district for half-a-oentury . He was in- terred at Bamford Chapel on April 24th, the Rev . Mr . Bruce officiating . E. F . 161 QUERIES. [313 .] THE REV. MR. RO W LAND . An old newspaper gives the following under date February 7th, 1846 . "The new, commo- dious, and elegantly built school belonging to the Wesleyan Methodists in Hill-street [Hey- wood] opened . About 1,000 persons had tea together in the new building ; after which the Rev . Mr. Ro ;wland was called to the chair . Suitable pieces were recited by the Sunday school scholars . On Sunday and Monday evenings collections were made in the chapel in aid of the expenses of the building, amount- ing to £38 . The new school is the largest in the circuit ." The above is a very interesting note and, iacidentally, gives us valuable information about an excellent local institution . Will someone le, us have biographical particulars of the gentleman named above who had the honour of taking part in such a pleasant gathering? DAwsoN HILL . [314 .] "OWD JACK ASHPON ." Au old inhabitant known as "Owd Jack Ashtou" died sometime in the nineties, He was generally referred to as a famous pedes- trian, and information is wanted as to his exploits. PEDOMETER. [315 .] DATE OF OPENING OF THE HEYWOOD RAILWAY . It is known that the formation of the Hev- wood branch railway from the Blue P'it station, to near the Navigation Inn, Hey- wood, was commenced ii,_ November, 1810 . The contract for this short length was let to Mr . Thompson for £6,000 . When was this length completed, and also when was the line continued to Bury? TRAVELLER . [316 .] THE REV . EDMUND GRINDROD . According to Sutton's "List of Lancashire Authors," the Rev . Edmund Grindrod was born at Clay Lane, near Rochdale, 28th Feb- VOL . 3.-Part 35. 162 ruary, 1786, and died in London 1st May, 1842. He was a Wesleyan minister and was the author of various pamphlets . I shalt be pleased to have a more detailed account of th :s local author . 7 Jowxnxs. ANSWERS. [317 .] HENRY RUSSELL IN HEY`4 OOD. (Reply to Query No . 61 .) In reply to Dibdin, junr ., I am pleased so infcrm him that Henry Russell, composer of "Woodman, spare that tree," "The good time coming," "Cheer, boys, cheer!" and other famous songs, visited Heywood with his enter- tainment entitled "The Far West, ; or, life in America," on Friday, December 5th, 1856 . He was in Rochdale on November 21st, 1856. T. POOLE .

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NOTES. [318 .] HENRY PENDLEBURY . SOME CORRECTIONS, Etc.-I. My purpose in writing about the eminent seventeenth century divine, who, wau a native- (if Bamford and spent the greater part of his 1 life within a few mile of his birthplace, is not to give an account of his career, but to correct some errors in what has already been written concerning him, and to add particulars tiuhich, eo far as I an aware, have not hitherto appeared in print . Born On May 6th, 1626, at Jowkin (where there are still two or three houses, a few hun- dred yards beyond Bamford Congregational Church), the $ev . Henry Pendlebury (lied at his residenoo, Bast House, Walmersley, then in the parish of Bury, on June 18th, 1695, and was buried on June 20th in Bury Churchyard, "close by the chancel wall, on the south side ." 163 He made his will on May 24t'h, 1695, and it was proved in the Court of Probate, Chester ; but it appears to he lost, and all that remains is the inventory, with endorsement . How- ever, among the Raines MSS ., in the Chetham Library, Manchester, I have found an abstract of Henry Pendlebury's will, as hereunder : - To Robert Pendlebury my brother £30, to be paid by £3 a year by quarterly payments, and if his wife shall die, by £5 a year until the said sum of £30 has been paid up, if he so long live. The residue of the money not so paid to go towards obtaining a new lease of my pre- mises where we now live, if Sarah my wife be willing, if not the remainder of the said £30 unpaid to go to -the children of Elizabeth Holt, widow, daughter of the said Robert Pendlebury, and the children of Sarah Wild, wife of Richard Wild of Thornham . To the said Elizabeth and Sarah £10 apiece. To Sarah Clough, daughter of James Clough of Spotland, and to Jane Wild, daughter of the said Richard Wild, 50s . apiece, to be improved and put forth for their benefit. To Sarah, wife of James Kay, 20s. To my servant, Jeremy Ainsworth, if he continue with me to my death, 20s ., and to such mayd servant as may be with us, 5s. All the residue of my goods to my loving wife, Sarah Peudle- bury. I assign the said messuages, etc ., to my said wife for her life, and if she is willing to take a fresh lease my will and mind is that she shall assign and sect over the chapell or meet- ing place,, parcel of the premises and lately erected thereupon, with the court or yard, -during the continuance of such lease only for publick worship (if liberty be continu(d) and not otherwise, unto the same feoffees or the sur- vivors to whom I have already conveyed the same for the term of this present lease that I have in being. A.11 the rest of my messuages and lands, etc., after her death, I convey to such of -he four children of the said Elizabeth Holt, my niece, as she shall think to be most hopeful and likely to make the best use and improvement thereof . And if my said wife take no fresh lease, my mind is that such of the sons of my said niece as my said wife shall appoint shall, after taking possession, pay 40s . a year to such minister as shall officiate at the said chapel or meeting place during the term of such lease (if liberty be continued), and that the said chapell may only be used for the publick worship of God and for no other pur- 164 pose whatsoever . I give £5 to the poor of Rechdale, to be distributed by Sarah my wife, Mr. Whitworth, and Robert Milne, and £5 to be distributed to the poor of my congregation at Walmersley at the right and discretion of my wife, Edmund Bury, Thomas Browne, and Samuel Wareing . Sarah my wife executrix . Witnesses : Thomas Browne, Andrew Bury, junr ., Edmund Bury, Scriptr. 4 Henry Pendlebury's brother, Robert, died at Jowkin on February 5th, 1698-9, and was in- terred at Bury Church . Robert Pendlebury had three daughters^--Elizabeth, born March 28th, 1651 ; Sarah, born 24th August, 1654 ; and Mary, born January 16th, 1662-3 . The eldest daughter, Elizabeth, was married on June 20th, 1671, to Robert Holt, "of the panish of Middleton" (possibly identical with the Robert Holt of Bamford, whose will was proved in 1682), and they had four sons . Robert Holt's widow died at Jowkin about 1715. Robert Pendlcbury's second daughter, Sarah, was married to Richard Wild of Thornham, ; she was buried at Middleton Church, July 5th, 1697, and he was buried at the same place, March 20th, 1709-10 . They had several sons and daughtens . The James Clough mentioned in Henry Pendlebury's will A may be identical with the James Clough "of Lcwer Jowkin in Spotland," whose will was proved in 1731-probably of the same family as Anne Clough, "of Rochdale parish," who was married at Middleton on May 31st, 1698, to Thomas Holt of Bamford, the father, I assume, of young Henry Holt, who went to live at Bast House subsequent to the death of Henry Pendlebury, and mention of whom mill be found in the abstract -of old Mrs . Pendle- bury's will, given in another part of these notes . Mr. W. A. Shaw, M .A., the writer of the account of Henry Pendlebury which appears in the Dictionary of National Biography, says :- Before July, 1650, he had [it was alleged] contracted "a clandestine and irregular niar • riage" with Sarah Smith ; but after inquiry into the matter the Classis was satisfied (Sep- tem'ber, 1650), and ordered him to be ordained 165 at Turton on 23rd October, 1650, to Harwich Chapel, in Dean parish . . . His widow, his second wife, Jane Wolstenholme, died near Turton, in Lancashire, on 18Ln November, 1713 (Northowram Register) . . . His son . Wil- liam Pendlebury, M.A., was for many years i sinister of Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds . In his "History of the Ancient Chapel of Birch, in Manchester P'a.rish" (published by the I Chetham Society in 1859), the Rev . John Booker, M .A ., gives a pedigree of "Worsley of Platt," according to which Mary, daughter of Ralph Worsley -of Platt, gentleman (son of JajorGeneral Charles Worsley, of Common- wealth fame), married "William Pendlebury, minister of Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds, son of the Rev . Henry Pendlebury, ejected in 1662 from Holcombe, in the parish of Bury ." With all the respect due to such usually good authorities as those just quoted, I ven- ture to point out that Henry Pendlebury was not twice- married, that William Pendlebury was not his eon, that nobody called Jane Pendlebury, nee Wolstenholme, died "near Turton" in November, 1713, and that the Northowram Register does not record the i death of Henry Pendlehury's widow at all . What the Northowram Register says is this Widw Pendlebury near Turton in Laner . mother to Mr . P . of Leeds, died November 18 [1713 .] The "Widow Pendlebury" who died "near Turton," and Henry Pendlebury's widow were different persons ; the Christian name of one Ann, the other Sarah . Probably they were well known to each other, for their husbands were kinsmen . And by a curious coincidence, the first-named widow died on the same day the other widow made her will . In the church register the burial of the "Widow Pendlebury" mentioned in the Northowram volume is re- corded thus : - 1713 November 20th Ann Pendlebury of Turton widdow . This Ann was the widow of "James Pendle bury of Turton, yeoman," whose will (made in 1694) was proved at Chester in 1695, the year is which Henry Pendlebury died . In that 0 166 will the testator mentions his wife Anne and his son William, and there can be no doubt, I think, that this son of James and Ann (or Anne) Pendlebury is identical with the Rev . William Pendlebury, who was minister of Mill d Hill Chapel, Leeds, from. 1705 until his death, 23rd September, 1729 . He began his studies for tha ministry in January, 1697, was or- dained 16th June, 1702, and was at Kendal before going to Leeds . He was a contem- porary of the celebrated Yorkshire historian, Ralph Thoresby, who, in his "Ducatus Leo- diensis" (published in 1715) mentions 4 The Reverend and pious Mr . Will. Pendle- bury, of Leeds, V.D.M., whose Kinsman, Mr . Hen. Pendlebury, was Author of a learned Tract against Popery, etc. If William Pendlebury had been Henry P'endlebury's son, the fact would hove been known to Thoresby, who would not in that case have described William so- vaguely as Henry's "kinsman." Additional evidence that the "Widow 1 Pendlebury" (Turton) who died in November, 1713, was not . Henry Peadlebury's widow ; and also that the Sarah Smith be married in 1650 was his only wife, and survived him, is found - in the inscription on his gravestone in Bury Parish Churchyard, as copied many years ago Here Lyeth the Body of Mr . Henry Pendle- bury, an able and Faithful minister of the Gospel, who departed this Life the 18th of June, Anno Domini 1695, and in the 70th . yeare of his Age. Here resteth the Body of Sarah, wife of the abovesaid Henry Pendlebury, who departed this Life the 6th of February, and was interred the 9th, Anno Dom . 1713-14. Also the Body of Oliver Holt of Wittle [sic], Died 16th July, 1744 . And Mary his Wife, Died 27th August, 1782, aged 77 years. Some further items relating to Henry Pendlebury will be given in another issue. LECTOR . P.S.-I am much obliged to Dr . Hunt for his correction and addition in regard to the Knight family, Notes and Queries, 1 November 1st. OF 167 [319 .] HISTORICAL NOTES ON ASHWORTH . [A brief account of Ashhworth is added to h Edwin Butterworth's "Historical notices of the town and parish of Middleton, 1840," and occu- pies pages 54-5 . It will supplement some pre- vious notes .] This is a small township and ohapelry six- and-a-half miles N .N.W. of Middleton, and three miles W. of Rochdale, covering 730 acres . The situation is high and bleak, and t) the name manifestly implies the district of Ash, a tree once abundant in the brows and glens around. A family bearing the namee of the place were seated here as early as the thirteenth century, they appear to have been succeeded by the Holts, of whom was "Robert Holte," Esq ., living in 1553, whose daughter Mary married Sir Richard Assheton of Middleton, Knt. In 1574 a Charles Holte, Esq ., occurs . Richard Halt, gent ., being an active supporter of Royalty during the Civil Wars, his estate was sequestrated 1643 ; but he recovered it 1646 b•- paying £551 . About 1666 occurs Richard Holt, gentleman . At what period the Halts became extinct at Ashworth I am not aware, but the Wilbrahams have been possessed of the estate for some time, and Wilbraham Eger ton, Esq ., of Tatton Park, Cheshire, the highly 1>- respected patron of the Manchester Agricul- tural Society, is the present possessor of Ash- worth Hall, an old plain building with scarcely any traces of decoration . The episcopal chapel of Ashworth is situated on the summit of a hill to the north of the l d, hall ; it was existing in 1650, for the Eccle- siastical Commissioners of the protectorate reported in that year that it was fit to be made a parish church . The earliest register commences in 1741 . The living is a curacy, the annual value of which is returned at £119, i_t the patronage of Wilbraham Egerton, Esq . The edifice is a plain stone fabric with a cupola and burial ground, commanding an ex- tensive view of the adjacent hills and fertile valleys, here 1

168 "High sunny summits, deeply shaded dales, Thick mossy banks, and flowry winding vales, With various prospects gratify the sight, And scatter fix'd attention in delight ." -Parnell . In Ashworth School, which was commenced 1828, eight poor children are instructed, in consideration of £8 per an . subscribed by W. Egerton, Esq . A new school was built 1838 at, the cost of that gentleman . In 1801 the population was 295 ; 1811, 216 ; 1821, 289 ; 1831, 294 . In 1831 there were inhabited houses, 45 ; families engaged in trade, 24 ; in agriculture, 18 ; other families, 5 ; males, twenty years of age and upwards, 60 ; manu- facturing labourers, 21 ; agricultural labourers, 9 ; farmers, 17 . The estimated yearly value of property in 1815 was £825, in 1829 £1,342 . The eminences around yield tolerably good stone .

A CORRECTION.-In the note No . 311, "St. Paul's" should be read instead of Westminster. Alexander Nowell was at one time Prebendary of Westminster, but his deanery was St. Paul's. T.H.

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NOTES. [320 .] HENRY PENDLEBURY. SOME CORRECTIONS, Etc .-II. The will of Henry Pendlebury's widow, "Sarah Pendlebury of Walmersley, in the parish of Bury," is dated 18th November, 1713 -about eleven weeks before her death . Des- cribed in her will as "widdow," she was evi- dently without children, no mention being made of any issue of her marriage . She owed £20 to Mr . Thomas Booth of Haugh Hall, in th-~ parish of Bolton, and directed that the amount was, to be paid . She also, owed him £70, and left him her messuage, Bast House, to hold until that bad been repaid . The resi- 169 due of her personal estate and the reversion of her real estate she left to Henry Holt, son of the lace Thomas Ho-It of Bamford, in the parish of Middleton, "now living with me, if after my decease my executors look on him as having a promising carriage" ; if not, they were to give the estate to "whichsoever of the uncles of the said Henry Holt, namely, Henry Holt, Robert Halt, William Holt, they think best deserves it ." The two executors were Mr . Thomas Booth of Bolton and Mr . Joseph Whitworth, minister at Cocky [i .e ., Cockey Moor, or Ainsworth Presbyterian-now Uni- tarinn-Chapel .] In the signature the testa- trix spelt her name Pendelbury . The wit- nesses were James Kay, James Kay, junr ., and Ja : Burges [James Burgess .] The inven- tory is dated 10th February, 1713 and includes a few books, among them ` I"he Great Concern," 6d ., and "The Barren Figg Tree," 6d. The two executors were sworn 10th May, t 1714 . In 1729 there was a Chancery suit be- tween Henry Holt and Henry Holt and others . Apparently the younger Henry's "carriage" was not considered satisfactory . Under date 22nd November, 1729, Henry Halt of Whittle, in the parish of Bury, gentleman, and Oliver Holt of the same, joiner (nephews of Henry Pendlebury), were bound in £200 to Samuel, Bishop of Chester : "Whereas the will of Henry Pendlebury in the original is delivered out of the Registry to the said bounden Holts, nephews and legatees of the said Henry Pendlebury, upon occasion of producing the same at a Commission out of the High Court of Chancery soon to be held at Rochdale, Co . Lancaster . Now the above bounden covenant to restore the said will after "etc .," "or else," etc . How the matter ended I do not know . I am unable to give any account of the Holts of Whittle (Birch-iii.Hopwood), but may put these items on record : William Holt of Whittle married Anne Norris of the parish of Middleton, April 18th, 1655 ; John Holt of Whittle died in January, 1659-60 ; Robert Holt of Whittle died February 20th, 1665-6 1 (hee had been a churchwarden for Bury parish ; his wife died October 16th, 1652) ; Thomas 170 Holt of Whittle married Elizabeth Bradshaw, April 5th, 1675 ; Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Holt of Whittle, was christened Feb- ruary 14th, 1696-7 ; Charles Holt of Whittle died in March, 1713-14 ; Robert, son of Henry Holt of Lower Whittic, was christened May 31st, 1719. The will of "John Holt of Whittle within Heap, husbandman," was proved in 1693 . The earliest mention I have fcund of a Holt-Pendlebury connection is under date May 16th, 1633-the marriage, at Bury Parish Church, of James Holt and Susan PendlEbury . Mr. W. A . Shaw's statement (in the Dic- tionary of National Biography) that Henry Pendlebury was twice married, and that his second wife was Jane Wolstenholme, is pos- s_bly accounted for by an entry under date April 26th, 1648, in the Bury Parish Church register of weddings : in the Lancashire Parish Register Society's printed volume it is given "Henry Pendlebury and Sara Woolsenholm," but among some extracts in Canon Raines's MSS. the Christian name of the bride is given "Jane." This, however, was not the wedding of the Rev . Henry Pendlebury, but, I believe, the second marriage of his father, who was also named Henry, and whose first wife died in May, 1639. Under the heading "An Old Rochdale Divine," a writer in the "Rochdale Observer" Literary Supplement, June 1st, 1907, gives a brief account of the Rev . Henry Pendlebury. He says : - Robert Bathe founded the congregation which, in 1717, built a meeting-house in Blackwater, and on his death, in 1674, he was probably suc- ceeded in the pastorate by Henry Pendlebury . Besides Rochdale, Pendlebury also ministered to his old friends at Holcombe, where a meeting- house had been built for him . In his "History of the Parish of Rochdale," Colonel Henry Fishwick, referring to "The ministers of Blackwater-street Chapel," says of Henry Pendlebury The exact date of his becoming "minister of the Gospel at Rochdale" is unknown, but it was probably on the opening of the first meet- ing-house . 171 "Late Minister of the Gospel at Rochdale" is the description given of Henry Pendlebury on the title page of one of his printed discourses, and on some others he is described as "of Rochdale" ; but these were printed after his death, and most, if not all, of them in London . No doubt the Rochdale Nonconformists often enjoyed the ministrations of Henry Pendle- bury, but I have failed to find evidence that h,, was their "stated" pastor, or that he ever resided in Rochdale . Nor was "a meeting- Louse built for him" at Holcombe, though it is pretty certain he often preached in that chapelry after his ejection from the incum- bency. He had his own chapel at, or imme- diately adjoining, Bast House (Bass Lane), Walmemlev, and that chapel, to which rcfer- enoo is made in his will, was still in use six- teen or seventeen years after his death . Avail- ing himself of the Dec.aration of Indulgence, Henry Pendlebury, on July 25th, 1672, ob- tained a licence for the holding of "meetings" of Presbyterians," "place general," and among other licences granted in the same year was one on September 30th, "for a room or rooms in the Courthouse at Holcombe in Tottington, Lancashire, for Presbyterians ." It was not until forty years later that the first Noncon- formist place of worship in the chapelry of Holcombe was built-that was "Holcombe New Chapel," in later times better known as "Old Dundee," which was formally opened t :n August 5th, 1712 . This was the chapel in which the famous "Claeeryble Brothers," Wil- liam and Daniel Grant, first worshipped after acquiring the "Square" Works and removing to Ramebottom . A much more commodious and handsome church was built thirty-four years ago, but "Old Dundee" (situated two or three hundred yards below Holcombe Church, and in a newer ecclesiastical district) still stands, in the possession of the Ramsbottom Presbyterians . Among the bequests made by Henry Pendle- bury in his will (the substance of which has already been given) was one to "Sarah, wife of James Kay"-the same James Kay of Bass Lane, who, with his son James, witnessed the 1 172 will of Henry Pendlebury's widow, as shown above . James Kay the elder was a lineal an- cestor of Lord Shuttleworth, whose father, Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, in the early part of his life resided at Bamford, where (at the Con- 41 gregational Church) Sir James's father was buried . Another lineal descendant of the same James Kay of Bass Lane was Ann Kay, the wife of Joseph lienton of Bamford Hall, father of the first member of Parliament for Roch- dale . r Robert Milne, mentioned in Henry Pendie- bury's will in regard to the distribution of a sum of money among "the Poor of Rochdale," is probably identical with Robert Milne, mercer, of Rochdale, whose own will was proved in 1706 . Several Mimes of that period in the Rochdale and Milnrow districts were zealous Nonconformists, and two or three of them were Presbyterian ministers . "Mr. Whitworth," mentioned in connection with the same benefaction, would be the Roohdalian, Joseph Whitworth, for many years in the Nonconformist ministry . In his auto- biography, under date 1685, the Rev . Jams;. Clegg says that, when about six years old, he was "sent to school to Mr . Joseph Whitworth, a young Dissenting Minister at ffallinge," who afterwards "became assistant to Mr . Pendle- bury and preached at Roachdale," and later "removed to Cockey Chappell," At Ainsworth Unitarian Church ("Cockey Chappell") there is a gravestone recording the death of the Rev. Joseph Whit_worth, on February 13th, 1721 ( :,1722), in his 66th year, "having, been mini- ster of Cockey neare twenty-five years"-and yet, in the "Record of the Provincial Assembly i of Lancashire and Cheshire," compiled at the direction of the Assembly and published in 1896, the Rev . George Eyre Evans states that Joseph Whitworth was minister at W'hitworth 1680-1718, and at 0swestry 1718-19, and that there is "no proof he was ever minister here [at Ainsworth], save a tombstone error ." That Joseph Whitworth was buried at Ainsworth (or Cockey) Chapel is not disputed . In a list of Presbyterian parsons and their meeting places," 1 173 .1 prepared in 1689, I find "Joseph Whitworth- Mr. Mathew Hallowe's house in Hundersfield ." As a minister in the "Bolton uistrict," which s included Ainsworth, he attended meetings of Dissenting ministers, at Bolton in April, and at Manchester in August, 1696, at Bolton in April, 1697, and April, 1699, and at Manchester in August, 1700 (vide "Minutes of the Mar_- chester Prosbyterian Classis," Chetham Society, vol. 24, new series .) In the unpub- lished diary of a Walmensley yeoman, I find mention of "Mr . Whitworth" christening chil- dren in that district, one : in 1705 and another in 1707, and it is shown that he went about oa hors.eback . I also find, from original en- tries in the note book of one of his hearers, that he preached at Walmersley in June, 1713, and in February, 1714 ; and in Mrs . Pendle- bury's will, made in November, 1713, he is described as "minister at Cocky" (Ainsworth) at that time. "Ja : Burges," one of the witnesses to the will of Henry Pendlebury's widow, would pro- bably be the Rev . James Burgess, a frequent preacher it Walmersley, afterwards minister at Lower (Congregational) Chapel, Darwen, and later at GreLnacres, Oldham . He was facher of a rather remarkable son, the Rev . James Burgess, for mono years pastor of Hallfold (Whitworth) Chapel, one of whose printed ser- mons had some fame under the title "Beelze- bub Driving and Drowning his Hogs ." "Mr. Thomas Booth of Haugh Hall, in the parish of Bolton," who had to hold Bast House until the repayment of money which was owing to ;rim when old Mrs. Pendlebury made h .r will, was a yeoman, of Haulgh, and was dead in 1726 . Those of my readers who may desire to look 1 at the grave of the famous Bamfordian about whom I have written, may be surprised to learn that they cannot find it . When the Parish Church of Bury was rebuilt (except the tower), over thirty years ago, a considerable number of gravestones were removed, conse- quent on part of the new chancel and the south chapel being built beyond the boun- daries of the old church . From a number of 174 graves the remains were dug up, and-to use the words of the late Rev . W . R. T'horburn-. "cast into a common receptacle." Among them were the remains of the brave and pious Henry Pendlebury . Even his gravestone was smashed-the upper part of it, bearing the, words, "Here Lyeth the Body of Mr . Henry Pendlebury, an able and Faithful minister of the Gospel, who departed this life the 18th of June, Anno Domini 1095, and in," was des- troyed ; and on the portion of it that is pre- served, close to the south-east angle of the church, the inscription begins with "the 70th yeare of his Age ." As the result of Mr . Thor- burn's protest from his pulpit, that the grave had been desecrated, the then Rector (the late Canon Hornby) left in the floor of the south transept of the rebuilt church space for a small memorial brass, as near as possible over the site of the grave ; and for the space so prescribed-about l 6in . b y bin .-Mr . Thor- burn's son-in-law (the late Alderman James, Maxwell, architect) provided a brass, with in- scription as sanctioned by the Rector . The brass is so situated and such is the "dim religious light" thereabouts, that it may be. easily passed without being seen . One must almost kneel on the floor to decipher the- lines HENRY PENDLEBURY, A Faithful Minister of the Gospel, who died 18th June, 1695, Was Interred in this Place . Is he not worthy of a more conspicuous memo- rial? LECTOR . P .S .-To my friend, Mr . Ernest Axon of the Manchester Reference Library-the aceom- plisbed son of one of Lancashire's best litterar teurs-I am indebted for some of the infor- mation embodied in these notes .

QUERIES. [321 .] PATTENGE PILSWORT'H. Is anything known by anybody of the his- tory of Patience Pilsworth a foundling? Did she survive her childhood, by whom was she brought up, did she marry, and bad she any 175 descendants? These questions are suggested by an entry in the Middleton Pariah Register under date October 16th, 1715 : "Patience, a child found at John Upton's door in Pilsworth on Wednesday night, the 12th day of October, 1715. Designed, therefore, to be called Patience Pilsworth." Did the "busy," as I have no doubt the mother was, lay her bastard metaphorically, as well as actually, at the door of John Upton, worthy man and churchwarden? Or was the churchwarden supposed to be the proper and legal custodian of superfluous infants? I re- member when that immortal foundling, Tom - Jones, was foisted on the generous Mr . Alll- wc,rthy, how the virtuous and indignant Mrs . Deborah Wilkins exclaimed, "Faugh, how it stinks! It doth not smell like a Christian. If I might be so bold as to give my advice, I would have it put in a basket, and sent out and laid at the churchwarden's door ." So this may have been the custom of those days . But then I find that John Upton was not church- warden till 1721, and this was only 1715 . 1 am afraid there was some scandal after all, though honest John seems to have survived it. Let us hearken again to the virtuous Mr... Wilkins : "'I don't know what is worse,' cries Deborah, `than for such wicked strumpets to lay their sins at honest mien's doors : and though your worship knows your own inno- cence, yet the world is censorious : and it bath been finny an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children be never begot ."' At the date of the incident John Upton was a widower, his wife, Agnes, having died in June, 1713 : be was churchwarden of Middle- ton, as I have said, in 1721, and he died in August, 1727 . He had no children so far as I can ascertain, and his name survives only in connection with his farm "Uptons," now in the occupation of vir . Thomas Aspinall . Of Patience Pilsworth's story, I would ask again, does anybody know anything? TnOMAS HUNT . York House, November 15th, 1907 . 176 .,Jfrib , 1obember 29th, 1907.

NOTES. [322 .] HEYWOOD IN THE FORTIES. INTERESTING REMINISCENCES . In the "Advertiser" for May 29th, 1891, there appeared the following letter by Mr. J . Waddington, 12, Torrington-street, Heywood, on "Heywood Fifty Years Ago," containing some interecsting facts "In looking back what a change we see since -Margaret Gee owned the old New York Fac- tory and Mr . William Hartley was the tenant, when the old steam engine was hand gear, and gave a clicking sound in working ; when 1 Fen Taylor followed the occupation of dyeing at the Brook Side, long before he removed to Miller-street ; when the cart road from PS.ls- worth was along the brook near New York, which was very cooling for the horses' feet in summer. This was before the brook was .tt wered and tunnelled . "There were then no waterworks in Hey- wood, and the dc :nestic water was fetched from wells . A noted well on the roadside at New York went by the name of `Wbo-sho-well .' Here you might see many people wait- ing their turns for water with large cans, which they carried on their heads, and iW farmer, would e.ometimes fill their milk cans on returning home after delivering their milk . Three noted characters living near the brook at that time wer^ old Isaac Smith, Turn Li-vsey (blacksmith), and William Darny (butcher .) At the op ;ning of the Heywood canal there was some sort of demonstration, when old Isaao Smith accidentally fell into the, water and got a good sousing . 1 "Where the Primitive Methodist Chapel now stands was a row of low cottages, which were somewhat remarkable . Old Jimmy Ch4dwick's rag shop was at the top, a well-known figure being Ruth o'th' Rag Shop, who wore a man's overcoat and worked for Old Jimmy . Near the middle of the row lived an old soldier, who 177 r went by the name of Jim of Old England, and near the bottom of the row lived old Jimmy Grindrod, who kept his donkey in the cellar . "I can remember many of the old inhabitants of Bury-street, and have a clear recollection of cid Jone o' Sakory taking me, along with two or three other lads, to the counting-house of Kershaw's mill, to apologise to Mr. Robert Kershaw because we had been getting bonfire stocks from the fences of their fields . Bill Horror's smithy was a noted and busy place, his apprentice, Coggs, and his two lads, Bobby and Jim, helping him at the hooping of cart wheels and shoeing of horses . Sometimes we saw a tooth knocked out of a horse's head with a hammer and an iron bar in a very rough and ready way . William and Joseph Diggle of the stillborn factory (which was lately run by tho Messrs . Land), my father, Charles Walsh (picker maker), Samuel Gee (butcher), Squire Parker, Esther In-gham, Mally Whitworth, and Abraham Howarth, shopkeepers, were amongst the other residents . "At that time there were very few cheap trips, and I have heard it said that Mr . Wil- ham Diggle was once three weeks in going to the Isle of Man in a sailing ship, the delay being caused by a An= driving them towards the coast of France . In a letter I received from an old sehoolfellow, Jacob Taylor, now of Nebraska, he lives a very graphic descrip- tion of our old day school, which was situated in Peel Lane, and went by 'the name of Old James Hardman's School . "Tho school was an old loom house, with diamond-ehaoed window panes set in leaden frames, a dirt floor, stone stairs, and double desk. My friend pictured the old schoolmaster dressed in a swallow-tailed coat, knee breeches and low sboes, sitting on a low table in the corner with a square box in which he stored his paper and copy books behind him, and his brown dog, Nell, sitting on the table by his side . Many a time when we were having a good ferruling the dog would help at the job b,; biting our heels, and thus increasing our crying. The school was so small and the scho- lam so many that they had to sit on the stone VOL. 3.-Part 36. 178 stairs, almost up into the chamber . My friend used to bring long hazel sticks from Grisle- hurst Wood, with which old James could reach across the school and lay across our backs . James Hardman was a remarkable man . He taught measurement and land surveying, and he would sometimes take one of the elder scholams with him to hold the land surveying chains . A curious custom was that the school children came outside, and we would sit in line on the kerbstones fronting Mr . Kershaw's residence learning our lessons . I can well remember losing a leaf out of my spelling book, letting it fly through the rails into Ke-- shaw's garden, and being afraid to fetch it back. My friend, in his letter, speaks of playing truant for nearly a whole week, along with three or four other Hooley Bridge lads, and passing the time skating and "slurring" on Marland Mere, and of the terrible thrashing they got when their mothers took them back to school . "At that time the Kershaw's and Kay's mills were kept very busy, Mr . Robert Kersbaw and old Mr. Richard Kay being very prominent local figures . In passing I will mention an incident which occurred in Peel Lane, near the old original mill, about fifty years ago . A lorry or pack cart was standing, waiting to be leaded, near the yard wall with the chain- horses unhooked, during the dinner hour, when some mischievous doffers 'booked the chain horses to the rails of the Yard wall and ran off to their work . The consequence was that after dinner, when the horses were started, a large portion of the wall and railing was pulled down, and there was then a fine shine between Mr. Kershaw and the throstle doffers . "I may be mistaken, but I think that elderly pecple were then more primitive and homely in their manners than they are now . In Peel Lane and Bottom o'th' Brow lived old John Baron, old Tummy Openshaw, old Betty Daw- son, and Tummy Chambers . "I can remember the old row of tall cottages with garrets, and the old mill at Back o'th' Moss, with its water wheel, and have some faint recollection of seeing the old steam

179 engine with the engine beam of strong wood, strengthened by iron plates and bolts and, if I mistake not, Watts's sun and planet motion was applied to the crank and connecting rod ; but perhaps someone else will recollect the old engine better than I do . The mill was owned by the Peels ; and the managers were Anthony 0- and James Holmes. "As to Hooley Bridge, I cannot say very much. The Fentons were a wealthy firm, and the mills were kept in full work . Mr. Henry Schofield was manager ." We should greatly welcome any notes on these interesting reminiscences . There is much one would like further information about, and we should be glad of any contri- bution, however small . Q. QUERIES. [323 .] JEMMY WHITEHAT. In Mr. William Robertson's "Old and New Rc chdale" is the ,story of the Packer witch, which contains a reference to Heywood . Mr . Robertson says : "There were a few houses in Packer Meadow, and an old woman named Janet Lord resided in one of them up to the year 1790, and was regarded as a witch . She was a peculiar looking woman, of a sullen dis- position, and had formed the habit of con- tinually muttering to herself. Most. -.f her 1y neighbours attributed all their misfortunes to her machinations . One of them, who had suf- fered losses, fancying that she had been "witched," consulted Jemmy Whitehat, who resided at Heywood, and this person gave a charm stating that the individual who had be- f) witched him would be frizzled alive. A few mornings after Janet was mound in bed burnt 1, to death, yet the bedclothes were not singed . Some people alleged that Whitehat's charm bad caused her death, others declared that she had been foully murdered, but the likeliest of 6. all the suppositions was that she had caught fire while sleeping near the grate, and had crawled into bed, where she had died . The cottage after this mysterious event was con- r sidered to be haunted ."

ISO Can anyone give me any particulars of this Jemmy Whitehat, or, as perhaps it should be, Whitehead . There seems to be a strange lack of information about Heywood before the early part of last century, but there may be same local tradition about this "witch charmer" still alive . CURIOUS . [324 .] ASHWORTH HALL BOARDING SCH00L . .V In the "Rochdale Recorder," the first Roch- dale newspaper, for January 13th, 1827, occurs this advertisement The Young Gentlemen at Ashworth Hall Boarding School will resume their studies on Wednesday, the 17th of January . THERE ARE TWO VACANCIES. Ashworth Hall, Jan . 11th, 1827 . A similar advertisement was inserted at t'na same time the following year, 1828. Can anyone tell me anything about this school . Was J it kept by the incumbent of Ashworth, or by whom? W.

,J>rthtg, Derrmbrr 6th, 1907.

NOTES. xf [325 .] JOHN FENTON, M .P. FOR ROCHDALE. HIS MONUMENT IN BAMFORD CHAPEL . The following description of a monument to the late John Fenton, Esq ., of Crimble Hall, appeared in the "Heywood Advertiser" soon after his death in 1863 . The monument was placed on the cast side of the interior of Bam- ford Chapel .

"It is a beautiful work of art and exceedingly creditable to the designer and executants . It is supported by carved brackets and moulded corhals, with flowers out in small niches. Above rests the si'11 supporting the inscription panel, which is oblong, with leaves carved in 181 mouldings, and twisted at each angle . On each side is a pilaster, with bases, columns, and foliage cap,, supporting a gable and arched ceiling . Above the inscription is a medallion, ocntaining the bust of Mr . Fenton . The ceil- ing is panelled and quarter-foils cut at inter- vals . The gable is arched from caps of columns, inlaid, surmounted with moulded coping, and enriched with flowers terminating with a carved finial . The whole height is eight feet from the base to the apex . The materials used are Caen stone, white statuary, and Alexandra red marbles . The architect is s Mr. J . M. Taylor of St . Ann's Church Yard, Manchester ; the builder, Mr . James Lord, Heywood ; and the execution of the bust was entrusted to Mr . Papw,orth of London ." The above very interesting note will supple- ment, the long account of the late John Fenton given in a previous article. [No . 134 .] N. T. N. [326.) HEVOOD BIBLIOGRAPHY JOB PLANT . The following notice of a local periodical appeared in the "Manchester Guardian" for June 12th, 1839 . No title is given, and no one knows bow long the periodical continued . Further information about Job Plant is desired . TriE CtIARTISTS .-The first number of a perio- dical paper was issued in Heywood on Thurs- day, the 6th instant, containing two articles, the one entitled "An address to the friends of liberty," and signed Thomas Grimshaw ; the other, "The Convention," and signed Job Plant. Both these individuals had become conspicuous in that neighbourhood as Chartist agitators ; but it appears they had now found out their mistake . Grirnshaw complains that the "ur,oney-hunting Radicals at Bury wish to crush h him as one individual, because he will not acgviesoe in the corrupt and sinister motives of professing friends to liberty, or the procrastin- ating, tergiversating, and pusillanimous pro- ceedings of the national convention ." Job Plant is still more angry at his former Chartist associates, and calls them "knaves who are seek- ing their individual advantage and unworthy of the people's confidenoe." Us

182 lie divides his subject into three heads : "The 41 character of the delegates,-the trust reposed in them,-and, lastly, their conduct and measures ." He says: "When the delegates- first met in Low d,on they had a public dinner- they broke up at eleven o'clock at night; and after that they were drinking and dancing till a late hour of the morning, while those who sent them were literally starving. Such conduct developed the dissolute and reckless character of the men who could thus wanton in the life's blood of the people. It is manifest that the selfish part of the convention were numerous, hence their horse-leach cry, `Give, give!' to the national rent. Who but greedy men could waste the people's money by riding in cabs through Lon- ,don streets to public meetings, and call for liberal supplies, in addition to liberal pay, when agitating. The Cockney squad would have wasted the funds of the convention in one month, and the Birmingham men, and fra' b•eyont the Tweed, were no better ." Such is the language, word for word, of the Heywood Chartist, who lately was elected chair- man of an anti-corn law meeting at Rochdale, when he and James Taylor induced their dupes to vote that a dear loaf was better than a cheap one. Good "Job" concludes his observations on the convention in the following manner : "When we consider," says ue, "that they have been fifteen weeks in London, receiving from the public from 10s. to . per day, for doing no- thing at all but taking down the petition to the Birmingham moneycrat's lobby, I challenge anyone to say that they have not been acting a mean and base part. Some of they most noted among them have assumed a more despotic tone K than either IV, hig or Tory lord . They slay, if a man condemns the convention, turn him out of your society, and denounce him for a traitor ! Is not this despotism in its worst form? Is not this the spell of priestcraft? And, no doubt, of a vile priesthood have they learned it ; conven- 4, tion begun ill, it has carried on ill, and it will die of a putrid disease-its own consumption ." E. F. fl I [327.] HEYWOOD BIBLIOGRAPHY : SAMUEL CHADWICK. A notice of the late Samuel Chadwick ap- peared in this column at No . 190. He was born at Heywood on the 20th April, 1832. He learnt the business of a compositor under his t'

183 uncle, John Heywood, the author of "Sabbath schools are England's glory ." It is claimed for Mr. Chadwick that he was the first to put the hymn in type from the original manuscript of his uncle . An account of the composition of this hymn appeared here on September 20th, 1907 . Mr. Cbadwick had literary tastes, and has left an interesting MS . from which we have already taken an extract on Sam Bamford . [No . 196 .] In addition he has enriched our local bibliography with the following :- 1871 . Excursionist's Guide to Runoorn . Printed by William Marsh, Runcorn . Cr . 8vo. Illus . 1872 . Ditto . Second edition . Svc . pp. 24 . - 1871 . A Sermon on the resurrection and a future state . By a local preacher . 0 Printed by request . Runcorn : Printed and published by William Marsh, 27, 1 Church street, 1871 . 8vo . pp . 19 . Mr . Chadwick did a great deal of temperance advocacy and lectured on numerous subjects . He died at Barrow-in-Furness (where this son has been deputy town-clerk for twenty years) in 1898 . J . A. GREEN.

QUERIES. [328.] THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHTS VISIT TO HEY-WOOD. In a former note [No. 115] War Office is described as a small village on the Bury and Rechdale old highway, adjacent to Gnat Bank . "Here was established an office, called the V- War Office, for the enrolment of recruits and allotted men for the army during the time of the agitation in this country caused by the threatened invasion by the French under the first Napoleon . The inertial spirit of Lanca- shire was fired and, as the name indicates, it did not smoulder at the War Office," This extract gives a fairly good explanation of the origin of the name and, until a better one is found, will satisfy the local inquirer . The 184 "Manchester Guardian," in its issue for November 28th, 1907, contained the follow- ing :- Standing in the crowd at Bury on Saturday one !heard a story of the Duke of Connaught's march through the town over thirty years ago . It is propably untrue, but no one who likes stcoies about Royalty will think that a serious defect, and, besides, its telling will serve to call attention to a curiosity in place-nanies+- the name of "War Office," which, for some reason unexplained, has long been borne by a hamlet on the old road from Bury to Roch- dale . The Duke's squadron should have gone forward by the new road, but, according to the story, they took the wrong turning and got on the old road instead . The mistake was soon discovered, for the Duke was to have received a bouquet at 'Heywood and no loyal burgesses appeared in algae . Asking his whereabouts of an old woman who stood at her cottage door, the Duke received the startling information that he had arrived at "War Office." Ha ex- clamation is not recorded . As the above is a good specimen of the way a legend grows I will content myself with having quoted the story, but I would be glad of an answer from some old Heywoodito who might be, living about 1874, to the following As Prince Arthur undoubtedly passed through Heywood by way of a part of the old road referred to above, what preparations did the loyal burgesses make for his reception? The details would be interesting. ALTS VOLO .

[329 .] WILLIAM TWLME, BENEFACTOR. As it is generally said that Heywood derives acme benefit from the Hulme Trust Estates, I should be glad to know what portion is allotted to this district and how it is ex- pended? I understand that the Charity Gore- missioners have recently passed through P:ar liament a new scheme for the administration of the Estates, and it would be interesting to know how much this benefaction affects us locally . Will "J.L." or some other competent educationist oblige with the information? HIND HILL . 185 [330.] HE YWOOD BRANCH CANAL. In the letter by Mr. J . Waddington [quoted at No. 322] it its stated : "At the opening of the Heywood Canal there was some sort of demonstration, when old Isaac Smith acc dentally fell into the water and got a good sousing." It is known that the Hevwod branch canal was opened in 1834, but the exact date is wanted, and also information about the demonstration referred to above . ANNALIST .

friba 2, Peczmbet 13th, 1907 .

NOTES. [331 .] "WAR OFFICE" AND THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT'S VISIT. In telling the story, which he heard in the crowd at Bury the other Saturday, the writer in "Miscellany" ("Manchester Guardian," November 28th, 1907), prefaced his narrative with the reservation, "It is probably untrue ." Well, the details are perhaps not quite : correct, but the substantive truth of the story is un- deniable. I question if the route of they squad- ,ran by the old road was taken by accident, however, as my wife tells me that the Bam- ford people expected them . She was then a little girl, but remembers distinctly that news i77 came to Bamford that Prince Arthur was to pass through, so she was taken by her nurse to War Office as the best place to see the soldiers pass . There was a crowd of villagers and children gathered there, and when the squadron arrived a Mrs . Butterworth, who lived beside the "Hare and Hounds," ran out of her cottage and presented a bunch of flowers to the Prince . It was of Mrs . Butter- worth that he enquired the name of the place, and when she answered "War Office" he turned laughing to a brother officer and made some remark, at which the others also laughed. I may note that there were no "burgesses" in Heywood in 1874 . THOMAS HUNT. York House, Dec. 7th, 1907 . 186 [332 .] ASHWORIH HALL BOARDING SCHOOL . (Reply to Query No. 324 .) In answer to the query in last week's "Ad- vertiser" I am pleased to be aUc to give some information . The Rev . Mr. Selkirk, my grand- father's (Rev . D. Rathbone) predecessor as in- cumbent of Ashworth, had a school for boarders . When my grandfather succeeded Mr. Selkirk in 1832 he did not continue the boarding school, but established a day school, which he taught for many years entirely him- self. Subsequently he was helped in the work by his daughter until her marriage in 1859 to Mr. George Hartley . The school was attended by many children from the surrounding dis- trict, and a few of the old scholars are still living in the neighbourhood of Heywood . RATHBONE HARTLEY.

ANSWERS. [333 .] HEYWOOD BRANCH CANAL. (Reply to Query No. 330 .) The following reply to a similar query ap- peared in the "Rochdale Observer" Literary Supplement for December 7th, 1907, and is quoted here for its interesting details and references : - There is no published history of the Roch- dale Canal, but information about it will be found in "A treatise on canals, reservoirs, cotton spinning, corn mills, grinding, preserv- ing grain, and on public drains, with observa- tions on the Rochdale, Leeds, and Liverpool, and Huddersfield Canals," by John Sutcliffe, Rochdale : J . Hartley, 1815, and in a scarce pamphlet, entitled "Papers, published in favour of the intended Rochdale Canal, in the applications made to Parliament in the ses- sions of 1791, 1792, and 1793 .- Chester : Printed by J . Fletcher ." Both these works are in the Rochdale Free Library . There were also deposited here a few years ago some very interesting plans relating to the projected canal . There is a plan dated 187 1795, and another showing the "line of the pro- pcsed Rochdale Canal between the Calder Navi- gation, near Sow rby, in the county of York, and Manchester, in the County Palatine of Lancaster . With its different branches accu- rately surveyed under the direction of John Rennie, Engine .r, and F.R.S.E., by William Crossley . Engraved by R . Baker, High-street, Islington." This is very curious ; it appears that the canal was then proposed to go from Sladen (near Littleborough), wide of Little- borough, crossing the road at Stubley, again Smallbridge, then across Foxholes and A at Falinge on to Heywood. These plans can also be seen in the Reference Departm nt of the Library . Perhaps some other correspondent will. give us the particulars as to the Heywood section, the date of the opening of which (according to Mattley's "Annals of Rochdale") was September 10th, 1834 . I also notice that the same authority gives the date of the open- ing of the S'owesby Bride to Rochdale Canal as 1788 . Mr . Mattley also says : "The Roch- dale Canal, which cost nearly £500,000 to can- struct, was opened on December 21st, 1804 ." ALPHA. Some further details are supplied by Mr . J . H . Pogson of Hollingworth Road, Little- borough, from notes by his father, the late Mr. Benjamin Pogson, for many years an employee of the Canal Company . From these records it appears that the Canal was first proposeu by Richard Townley of Belfield, Rochdale, in 1765. Tha matter was taken up again in 1790, when Mr . Ronnie, a London engineer, pre- pared plans at Hebden Bridge . The Bill was submitted to Parliament three times before it passed in April, 1794 . It was opened from Sowerby Bridge to Tod- morden, August 24th, 1798 ; from Todmorden to Rochdale, December 21st, 1798 ; from Roch- dale to Laneside, September, 1802 ; from Lane- side to Manchester, December, 1804 . The -whole length is 33 miles, with 92 locks . There are twenty miles of drainage . The rise of elevation from Sowerby Bridge to West Sum- mit, with 36 loeke, i6 , 353 feet 84 inches ; and I 188 from Manchester to West Summit, with 56 locks, is 514 feet . The areas of the reservoirs area : - Acres. Hollingworth Lake Lodge 160 Blackstone Edge Lodge 50 I Whiteholme and Light Hazles. .. 100 Higher and Lower Chelburn ... 30 Warland or New Dam 75 Higher and Lower Gaddens 50 Total 465

QUERIES. [334 .] JAMES HARDMAN, Schoolmaster. Can anyone supply further particulars of this worthy, who, must have been rather a re- markable character, judging from the reminis- cences of him by Mr . J. Waddington . Perhaps one of his old scholars may be able to supply the date of his death, and say whether Mr. Hardman's rough and ready methods were suc- cessful or not . It would also be useful to I know who• paid his salary . SCHOLASTICUS. [335 .] HUGH HORNBY, 1789-1847 . The following account of the Rev. Hugh Hornby is taken from "The History of the Parish of St . Michael's-6n-Wyre, by Henry Fishwick, F.S.A., 1891." Hugh Hornby was a younger son of Hugh Hornby of Kirkham, .,Esq and Margaret his wife . He was born 22nd August, 1765 ; he graduated at Christ College, Cambridge, A.B. 1787, M .A. 1790. On the 19th Octo- ber, 1789, he was instituted to the vicarage of St . Michael's, on the nomination of his eldest brother, Joseph Hornby, who was patron for that turn . On the 31st January, 1804, he, was presented to the perpetual curacy of Whitworth, in the parish of Roch- dale, where (as he was non-resident) his duties were performed by a curate. He re- signed the appointment in 1829 in favour of the Rev . Richard Parkinson, B.D ., author of "The Old Church Ciock," who had for some years been curate of St. Michael's . 189 Mr. Hornby married (first) Ann, the daughter of Joseph Starkey, M .D., of Red- vales, who died 4th January, 1847 . He had issue William Hornby, who succeeded him as vicar . Further information is desired, showing this gentleman's connection, with the Starkies of Heywood Hall . Some notice of his son, the Archdeacon, would also be acceptable . PEDIGREE .

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NOTES. [336 .] 'WAR OFFICE," AND THE DUKE OF CONNAUGIIT'S VISIT . (See Notes, Nos. 328 and 331.) Your quotation regarding Prince Arthur's passage along Bury Old Road in the early seventies is correct ; the statement as to en- pectationis or preparations at Heywood is fiction, as is proved by the following :- I was strolling along the old road, which was practically deserted, and at Birtle (I think the name, of the village is on the Heywood side of Jericho) when I saw a troop, and the officers dismounting for a rest. The two officers accompanying the Prince were Colonel Legge and Colonel Byng, I believe, then young men, and I do not remember their status in the Army at that time, but the two officers were consulting what appeared to me to be a small ordnance map, and asked me the name of the place they had just passed, pointing to the workhouse . I replied "Jericho ." I remember their look at the time, evidently thinking I was getting at them . However, a Heywood man came driving along . I ani under the im- pression that it was Mr . Stafford of -Market- street, but cannot 'be sure at this lapse of time . However, I asked him the name of the place and, on his replying "Jericho," it put matters right. They then enquired the name of the

190 town on the right, when I replied Heywood ; and it was only then I found I was talking to a Prince on one of the officers addressing him as Your Royal Highness, which I remember he seemed to resent and evidently wanted to be unrecognised. However, I saw immediately who it was, being familiar with his photo . I remember distinctly the officer saying to the Prince that Hevwood was not marked on the route, and I than. explained that they did not touch Heywood but passed it on the right . Other questions were asked as to the distance to Rochdale, and if any town or village inter- vened, and I agaia upset their balance by say-" ing the only village of any size was War Office. We had much amusement as a few people began to gather, and one of the troopers evi- dently let it out to the crowd that a Prince was among them ; and the bugler, being by far the most showy uniform, he was at once sur- rcunded, and I remember an old woman saying to him "God bless both thee and t'hi' mother ." Prince Arthur and the officers were very merry, and I do not think the Prince was recognised until mounting to proceed . Some- one spread the news at War Office, and I was informed that the hands at the mill there (Gnat Bank, I think it was) carne out, and I believe as soon as the troop got there one of the officers asked an old lady if that was War Office, and she replied "Aye," and much merri- ment followed . Of course this part as regards War Office is what I was told, but the fact of (I think it was) Colonel Byng stating that Hey- v.cod was not on their route Proved that they were on the intended road and that, therefore, the statement as to 'bouquet, etc ., is fiction . I have often told my wife of this incident, and when ehe saw your notes she at once re- membered it . WILLIAM AMBLER. Warwick Lodge, London Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey. I name Prince Arthur as I am not sure whether at that time he had assumed the Dukedom of Connaught .

191 ANSWERS. [337 .] REV. EDMUND GR.I DROD. (Reply to Query No . 316 .) I am pleased to inform "Jowkins" that the Rev. Edmund Grindrod was born at a small farmhouse in Clay Lane, near Rochdale, on February 28th, 1786 . He received a plain English education, chiefly under the tuition of the Rev . Mr. Sutcliffe, curate of Ashworth Chapel . His father joined the Wesleyan Con- nexion, and when Edmund was about fourteen years of age the family removed to Liverpool . At Liverpool Edmund joined his brother Jona- than in the business of a stonemason . He em- ployed his scanty leisure in reading, and began to preach in his nineteenth year, being ad- mitted soon afterwards upon the Local Preachers' Plan . Mr. Grindrod was received a; a probationer by the Conference of 1806 . I He assisted the resident ministers at Lancas- ter, Stockport, Sheffield, and Bury . At the termination of his four probationary years he was admitted into full ministerial connexion with the Weslevan Conference . Shortly after- wards he was united in marriage to Mary, the eldest daughter of the Rev . John Crosby . As a Wesleyan minister he served successfully for many years in several towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire and, as a superintendent of a cir- cuit, he performed many arduous duties with great judgment . During the summer of 1834 he paid a visit to America as President of the Canadian Conference. He was back in Eng- lend, July 26th. At the conference which assembled at Leeds in 1837 Mr. Grindrod was elected president . It would occupy too much space to give full details of the great services rendered to Wes- leyanism by Mr . Grindrod, often during in- tense bodily sufferings. His published writ- ings named below will give the inquirer some idea of his activities . Many testimonies to his * character and ability have been published, but the two following will be sufficient for this note : -"I have seen Mr . Grindrod," writes the Rev. Charles Prest, "in a great variety of cir- cumstanoes-of pleasure and of pain, of per-

192 V senal and domestic affliction, in public con- flict . and I have always seen him the same able, faithful, affe'otionate, and vigilant pastor and teacher . Few better understood, rone more dearly loved, Wesleyan MethodiMethodism reviewed in retro- spect : a sermon preached in the City Road Chapel, London, on Friday, October 25th, 1839 . 10. Late attendance on public worship : an address . 11. Compendium of the laws and regulations of Wesleyan Methodism . SAMUEL MATHER . [338 .] HEYWOOD BRANCH CANAL . (Reply to Query No . 330.) The canal was opened on 10th September, 1834. Describing the event a Manchester paper says :-"On Wednesday, at twelve o'clock, the branch of the -Manchester and Rochdale Canal from Maden Fold in Heywood 0 the company's warehouse in Gooden Lane, Heywood, was opened in due form. On the afternoon preceding, the Perseverance fiat of Todmorden (James Veevers, master), with a cargo of cotton, was the first to enter the new cut, and was followed by the Ann, the Wel- lington, and the Fanny, Merchants Company's vessels, with cotton and pig iron, and by several coal and lime boats . At the appointed time the proprietors' pleasure boat, the Roch- dale, with the committee of proprietors on board, together with a number of gentlemen connected with the undertaking and a band of music, entered the branch, the band playing "Rule Britannia." The boats bad previously hoisted a number of colours, anu the Welling- ton had hoisted a handsome Union Jack at the stern and fore, and mainsails unfurled . The Wellington led up, followed by the committee's boat and the other boat in succession, to the company's warehouse at Heywood, where the 194 committee ana guests partook of an excellent cold collation, after which they separated and the committee returned to Rodhdale. R. D . MATTLEY. Rochdale. [339.] BAMIFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL . What is there known about this local insti- tution, which was founded by Madam Ann Bamford of Bamford Hall? And who was the first Master? JOWRINS. [340 .] RAGGED SCHOOL, HEYWOOD . When was this school founded and who were its principal promoters and supporters? BRIDGE STREET.

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