4 943. Weinesiay. November 106, 1941. THE TEESDALE MERCURY, 6 ers got the full returns—vi., flour, bran and offals. hi those days oatmeal formed a great THE WAYSIDE PULPIT DALE5MAN'S SCRAPBOOK portion of the people's food. It is recalled that an old woman used to say : " I went BY IIEG. PARKIN. at Rokeby, 28th December, 1624, so would be to Leyburn and bout a bowl o' co-on on mi The historical side of it all : A LOCAL VICAR OF THE a minor at the time of his succession to the urn a-courd an' paid fee it a-foo-and " (" Many hundreds of years ago (how time Manor. went to Leyburn and bought a howl of corn flies) there lived a village craftsman who was respected for charitableness and the 171" CENTURY . The notes which Mr Parish gives in the on my own accord, and paid far it before- heginiiing of the brief book enables us to hand"). setting of honour before personal interests. Reverting. to " Old Nod," after 87 years' He had a precocious, young, first-born son THE REV. WILLIAM PARISH. form a fairly accurate picture of the place service. war-limp regulations put it "out of who was always asking questions, and .1 VIOAR OF ROKEBY, at that time. The Gothic-looking Manor House on the south and the village green fashion " 0 few years ago. ,t.", was once WilOPAI he was quietly proud. The place stree.hing away to. the Church and Vicarage offered for it •or museum purposes, and might have been any Teesdale village. The following- notices ...olicernitig a Vicar on its north side, near the Tees, with its mores the pity it did not have that fitting This father was never impatient or un- 4 of Rokeby, to whose painstaking care We stocks. shows what the old town of village end ,After all that length of service its truthful to his son. He answered his owe several interesling, glimpses of the of Ilckeby would be like in his day. The engine was so good that it was put to questions to the best of his ability always. parish during the period after the restora- westiirn part of the parish at that period was another purpose. and its wheels are still Whenever the boy was in trouble or doubt, tion of the monarchy, as well as the com- open moor. in use upon another vehicle. Once manned or had a difficulty, he went to his father serried volume of mencement ,o1_, the , The Vicar. on entering upon his duties, by willing volunteer firemen at Leyburn, it for sympathy and guidance. Needless to Registers, and the Brief Book. have been put seems to have endeavoured to recover . What will go down 'in local history as something say, he loved his father aind delighted to forward in the hope that some light ItlaY be had been lost during the upheaval in to he proud of Only once Ind it really let do his bidding. The boy sought in all ways thrown on his early life. his pzirenfage. Church and State. He immediately ascer- the locals down : the fault was not the to help him, and soon-learned to anticipate birth and education. we know - nothing, not tained what rightfully belonged to the bene- engine's, the horses simply could not pull pvilat v, as required of him. One might say, • even his place of He first ,oules to fice, and forthwith drew up a terrier of the at up the steep gradient at tittle Bank on its I hope, that the boy grew up our notice as Citrate of St. Catlibert's glebe laud and tithes, which he sets out in •a-y to a lire at Agglethorpe its Coverdale. with a " Father complex " founded on trust Church, Darlington, its the days of the the commencement of the Brief Book. the To this day th..se of Leyburn's firemen who and love. Commonwealth. Longs•affe, in his History followihg is the text 'of this interesting remain to recollect the happening (Mimes Whini this boy was 12 years of age his of Darlington, p. 269, briefly refers to him , r_ictiment, whirl' is the earliest of its kind have Ownr legs pulled about the beery they father suddenly died. He left a wife. four as follows :—" Kennet's Register mentions in his part, of Yorkshire:--.- saloctitl at Gale Bank) while they were soils and at least two daughters to provide one Parish as an intruder here in Crom- Root-by 1662/A Terrier-of the Vicaridge oblied to let the lire burn itself out. Eventu- for. The lad was bewildered. Not even his well's time. He confortneil after the restora- house and Glebe land of Rookeby. ally Alr Alfred Robinson. a well-known Ley- mother could take his father's place in his tion. and had a Yorkshire. but was There is one Dwelling house having but burn engineer, obtained the fire engine, and life. His grief was 'so crushing that for a reat eje•ted." The last statement is certainly one chimney, one little Barne and a Stable made good use of its parts. long time lie could not think coherently. incorrect. as his connection with Rokeby And at last lie cried out in anguish to the both adjoining to the said house. The wh —0— • his will silow. The following references from sayd tionse adjoins to the Towne-green or departed father, asking what he should do. the Library at Lainiirth Palace show that he. Common-broad street on the south syde. A NOTE UPON THE SCRAP BOOK. Immediately he heard a voice. It seemed was at Darlington at least ten years before to be within hint. It told him to work and )!1 the north side of the set house one Ifs F. E. coAms. his appointinelat to Rokeby. little garden and Croft or pcell of ground support his inottier and his younger I .c1 Lambeth MSS. years 1631-1634. Admissions being about one Acre, having on the east Mr Reg. Parkin, writes about the name brothers and sisters. He was startled. to Benehees MS. 10116, page 42h. Darlington. syde of it one close (Idled kirkeroft : The Bayless, and brings to memory many ee":-,-0, he obeyed. Mr William Parish. Teese water at the tower cod, and on the questions put to one side awaiting the After this mystical experience it appears Lambeth MSS. 972 (553). July 8. -1656. Dar- west side, one Croft or pceli of ground be- chance of verification. - that tie (ieu sought to contact the spirit of lington. The Com'S for propagation of the longing to Thomas Rokeby Esqr. In Saxon days, a "Hall mote " was called his father from the centre of that great eat. Gospell in the north having by theire ordr Communicants married pay-3d. unmaryed to settle legal and other civil matters and to loneliness we have all felt many times. Nor of the .2d of December tattered for Nov. —I, at' Easter. inquire into the state of the guilds or did he cry in vain, because he later said : 1652, Constituted Mr Wm. Parish Mini of Tithed in Rookeby of hay and corn tythings, and no man was permitted to re- it shall be put into your mouths what ye trY Darlington is the County of Durham and Tithes of wooll and lambe at main at large who could not find bail for shall answer—fo• it is not ye that speak but t. ordered him the Rectory of Conscliffe in ye Midsum er his peaceful manner. the Spirit of your Father shall speak in sd County for maintenance ••cli is alledged Tithe of Calfe at Martinmasse On such occasions the alderman surveyed you." to bee worth but six and forty pounds a one at 6 the neighbouring hundreds—the court of the What a tremendous discovery he had year the trustees doe appoint to consider Tithe of Geese at Mi•halmas, half at 5 and lathe, as it was called, and there are many made. He had found the greatest force in how the said \Nn-. Parish his pit mainte- one due at 6. cases on record of men standing bail for his the universe. By seeking to commune with CS nance may bee augmented to a competency Tith hens one at every house slaves and other members of his retinue. the spirit of his father he had communed out of ye next tithe within the said County At Easter There is the origin, I think, of the Bails, with the Divine Spirit, which is surely the that shall come unto the possession of these A heifer that gives milk—id and such, a system was carried on in the Spirit of us all. And it had replied to him, 'Trustees upon the expiration of the lease A Cow i 06 Feudal period. and cleared away his inability to reach a thereof [signed] Jo. Thttrongood, Ric. Syden- A Male i—but if xfo]es The word Bellasis has nothing to do with decision as-to what he should do. ham. Jo. Humfrey. Jo. Pocock, Rich'd Yong. one is the word Bails. Bellasis, was a corruption The more frequently he went to this Lambeth MSS. 903 , M6-21), Feb. 10, 1658. Every Swarme of Bees 6 swarmes of bellows and very often signifies a mere source of all life the greater did his faith titre Augmentaiirm of their maintenance to every house for smoke—i trumpet blower •in the reality of it become. After a while, ces Ministers.