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"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 foranything there stated, and did not know thatthe hymns named in your previous issue wereattributed to the late Mr . Thomas Halesuntil I casually carne across the informationon the page to which I have referred . Itwas upon this discovery that my "note" wasstatedly based, and responsibility for theerror,, if such it be, belongs primarily tothe "Connexional History ." I may say thatthere is not at present any member of theHales' family resident in Ellesmere Port,hence I cannot either verify or disprove anystatement made, and do not know fromwhence 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 deprivethem, 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 thelate 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 statementnow called in question. May I say, there-fore, that the statement was made : (1) Onthe authority of the official memoir of Mr .Hales, contained in the special memorialnumber of the magazine published in 1894 ;(2) On a statement of the Rev. Danzy Sheen,published in the "Teachers' Journal" duringthe time Mr . Sheen was G .S .S. secretary ;(3) On the communication made to myself in1903 by Mr . J. P. Hales, secretary of theBritish Association of Y .M.C. Associations .Hence the attribution of the hymn to Mr .Thomas Hales was made on what seemed to

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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 diedJuly 13th, 1887 . He was printer and post-master at Heywood, Lancashire, and founderof the "Heywood Advertiser," which attainedits Jubilee in 1905 . He wins the author of thehymn, "Sabbath schools are England's glory,"which was written in Bethel-street MethodistChapel during a sermon in which the preacherexclaimed, "Sabbath schools ! they are theglory of England ." This was c. 1849 . Thehymn was printed as a leaflet, and was widelyused 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 RecordSociety's volume "Pleadings and Depositionsin the Duchy Court of t ancaster, time ofEdward VI. and Philip and Mary," edited byLieut.-Colonel Fishwick, and being volume 40of their series . The case furnishes much in-teresting information as to local topography,names of tenants, and so on. We would gladlywelcome any notes on the persons in the caseor the boundaries mentioned .

Robert Irolte versus Christopher Nuttowe and ArthurKay, Tenants of the Earl of Derby, re Rightof Common on Ashworth Waste and -Boundariesof the Wash .

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Commission dated 8th July, 3 Edward VI .[1549], directed to Sir William Ratcliff, SirThomas 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 cousinEdward, Earl of Derby, defendants, of the otherpart, for the use of a certain common calledAssheworth, in the county of Lancaster. Wewilling a "quietnee" to be had between the saidpaiaes, desire you to "prepayre" yourselves tothe said waste ground and earl before you thesaid 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 saidground, and commanded both the parties to bethere with all their witnesses, evidences, etc . :upon which day we viewed the ground and thehounds thereof, but could do no good becausethe said Sir William and Thurstan wouldneither examine the witnesses of the plaintiffnor agree to one "platt." Afterwards, at therequest of plaintiff, we sent to the said SirWilliam and T'hurstan, willing them to be onthe said ground the 19th October, before whichday the said Thurstan wrote to plaintiff, willinghim to defer the said matter until Easter termor Candlemas term, or else they would not beat the said place on the said day . We againviewed the said ground and made a "plat"thereof and examined all the witnesses . Assame could not "labure" to the said ground onaccount of great age and impotence, we rodeto their house and examined them upon thesaid 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 hasknown the said meres called Warmedenhed,Foulbrige, Foulbrigker, and the Cowlommenear Henryrowde, out of which moss and wasteground there springs a water or a "beke" thatruns into Penkesden : at some seasons of theyear the said "beke" is drv .

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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 tfAssheworth .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 wastecalled Assheworth is called Cheseden Broke andnot Penkesden : the said brook is not a meteor boundary between the lordship of Burye andAssheworth [Ashworth] .All the said waste in variance is parcel of

the lordship of Buryc•, and lies within theparish of Bury, and that not part thereof liesin Assheworth, in the parish of Myddelton[Middleton] . The Earl of Derby is the rightfulowner and possessor of the freehold of the saidwaste.Deponent knows that the tenants of the said

Earl and of his ancestors, and before theirtime of Sir Thomas Pglkyngton, of the lord-ship of Bury, have always had the occupationof all the said waste with their cattle, withoutinterruption 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 Buryand not to the parson of Myddelton [Middleton] .The water comes direct from a place lying

at the north end of the said waste calledC'heseden Linne, and so de:ecendis and goes westand south from the said Linne past all thesaid waste, and by all that space the name ofthe said water is Cheseden Broke. Has neverheard the same called Penkesden, until now oflate that said Robert Holte "namethe hit so."The ditch going from Cheseden Linne siouth-

east to Codshawe Bowre is called the WhiteDitch, and is a "meyre" and division betweenthe parish of Bury and- the parish of Rachedale[Rochdale] .The ditch coming from the Codshawe Bowre

westward to Horelowe Shawe, and from thencesouthward to the Hare Hyll, and also StanleySyke, "be the verey meres, Bundaries andderision" between the parish of Burye andAssheworthe in the parish of Myddelton . The

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tenants of the lordship of Bury have "used toentercomen" past all the said Meres on Wyndlewithin Assheworthe, and further until "hitcome to the several Inclosures of the saidRoiberte Holte."Jeffraye Brydge of Totyngton [Totting-ton],

aged 75, tenant to John Grenehalgh, Esq., hasnever known the said water to be called any-thing but Choseden Broke . Has heard that thewater 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 yearsold heard the said water called ChesedenBroke .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 hisfather's cattle, then being charterer to the saidSir Thomas, to the said waste. All the othertenants of the lordship put their cattle therealso, and occupied the waste without interrup-tion from anybody until just lately. Depo-nent's father also appointed him to look afterthe lambing of his sheep, saying that for thesethat did lamb on Stanlees or on any other partof the said waste, he must pay the tithe to theparson of Bury ; if on the north side of theWhite Ditch, he must pay for the same toRachedale [Rochdale] ; and if beyond StanleySyke on \Vyndle Hill, then lie must pay thetithe to the parson of Myddelton [Middleton] .More than 70 years ago deponent heard aged

men say that the water of Penkesdeyn beginsat Warmeden Well, thence running down toCattes Oke, between High Assheworth -and LoweAssheworth, and "so furthe deseendyingdown" between the lands of Assheworthe andGristylhurst [Gristlehurst] .John Kaye of Basthowse, aged 72 ; Bertyne

Kaye of T'uche Roode, aged 75 ; Peres Lomalxof Dwerributtes, aged 72 ; Thomas Woode ofthe 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, aged53, tenants to the Earl of Derby, says that thewater of Penkes deyne "cometh out of a placein Assheworthe lieng southe from the wart invaryaunce called Warmed-en Well, and so

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goythe a lytle waye Est ward and then turnetheand goythe Southwaru to a place where a grettoke ayd groove called Cattes Oke, And So des-cendeth styli Southward Betwene the landes ofGrystyllhurst [Gristlehurst] on the west Sydea;na Assheworthe on the northe est Syde, Andthat the same water of Penkesdeyn metithewith Chesedeyn Broke more than halfe a mylebenethe all the was:t in varyaunce ."James Howorthe of Ballydeyne, aged 90,

tenant to the King ; Christopher Lumalx ofTottyngton, aged 82, tenant to ChristopherBothe ; and Jeffray Brydge of T'otyngton, aged67, tenant to Thomas Ayne,sworthe, depose asabove.Laurence Payleor of Eytynfeld [Edenfield],

aged about 70, tenant to Francis Gartside, sayshe knows his father paid the tithe to the parsonof Burye for "Cattail wiche dyd Renewe uponthe said vast ." Eight or nine years ago depo-nent "herde say" that Oliver Holte, father ofRobert Holt, plaintiff, paid to the officers ofthe Earl of Derby certain money as amendsfor getting turves upon the said waste withoutlicense 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 asabove .Richard Baturshe of Bury, aged 74, tenant of

John Grenehalghe, Esq . ; Edmund Lache, aged50, charterer to the Earl of Derby ; and RauffHolte of Bury, tenant to John Grenhalgh, Esq .,aged 59, know for certain that Oliver Holte,plaintiff's father, paid into the hands of JamesGrenehalghe, deputy steward of Burye, 16d . a samends 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 hewas servant to John Hoovorthe of Assheworth,and that Stevyn Holte, father-in-law of thesaid John Howothe and tenant to Robert Holt

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of Assheiworthe, plaintiff, aged about 80, tolddeponent that the water runing near the saidHoworthe's house in Assheworth was the waterof Penkesdeyne, and that it rose out of a placein Assheworth called Warmeden Well, and thathe (Steven) had known the same by the nameof Peaikesdeyne for 4-0 years, but dare not callit Pemkesdeyne for fear of displeasing the saidRobert bite his landlord, because of the suitthen depending the said waste . Pemkesdeynewater 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 tothe 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 asabove .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 thewater of Cheseden called Penkesden untilwithin the last year-and-a-half .Thomasi Nabbes of Tottyngton, gent ., aged 63,

copyholder to his Majesty, knows very well thatthe tenants of the lordship of Bury, and ofother parishes and place's thereabouts, havepaid tithes for their cattle renewing upon thesaid waste to the parson of Bury, and not tothe parsons of Mydd'elton [Middleton] or Racherdale [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, tooversee and look well after the cattle ofstrangers which should happen to come withinthe said waste and there renew, to the intentthat the owners thereof should not conceal orwithdraw from their duty as to the tithethereof. Deponent knows that the said parson

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gave to the said Jeffray part of the profits soarising 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 thewater coming out of Cheseden Linne and run-ning past all the said land now in varianceby the name of Cheseden Broke, "contynewellySkthens Kyng Richaides ffeld," and during allthat time never heard it called Penkesdeyneuntil 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 SirThomas Holt and Sir Robert Langley .Edmund Wolffynden, tenant to Thomas

Bei'feld of Cleggiswod, aged about 70, wellknows the metes and bounded of the saidground, the first whereof is called Standlesike,another 1Viddilshay, another Risshelaiche,another Horelowshey, and so to Penkisden-broke, and so following and descending the saidwater of Penkisden to the, first mere calledStand'lisike .About 54 years ago deponent dwelt with Rauff

Hamor in Chesesome [C'hosham], within theparish of Burro [Bury], and was sent to drivehis master's cattle into Depemosse, and fromDepemosse he wound have put them over thewater of P'enkesden into Standless parcel oftha premises, Taut there Judd Holt said to him"ffaire cone thou shall drive non over the water,for that is my maisters ground." When desponent told bow he had been stopped, hismaster said to hint "Ide the drive neverto 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 "bottof sma11 age he was in company with theymeyt did hunt in the woddes of Asisheworth, andwhen the game was fonnde, iff hit did goo andflee of the west partie, then all men wold saygoo oppe the water of Penkisden veto Cheis'denlomme, 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 itat a place called C'heis'denlo'me, where it losesits name of C'heisden.

The said waste ground extends northwardonly 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 therePenkisden loses its name, and by deponent'sestimation is in length two miles and more .Elles Chadweke, tenant to John Chadweke of

Elwodrowde [Ellenrod] aged 84, as aboveiloger Nuttow e, tenant of Richard Assheton

of Mrddelton, Esq ., aged about 74, says that hehas fished in Penkisden water for 60 years andmore, and that William. Medowcroft, gent ., saidto him "goo into Penkisden and begyne atByrchynnase oppon the more, and them no manwill blame the except Mr. Holt, and he is thyffrende ."- . . .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 bornin Bamefurth [Bamford], within the parishof 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 ofthe ground now in variance, and paid to thesame 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 lordshipof Burro hearing of the Lord of Derby and amultitude of " ev alshenren" that he broughtwith him, were afraid that the said "Walshe-men" would spoil and rob their goods andchattles, so they brought their "catalles" overthe water of "Penkisden into the ground invariance, by the sufferance of the lord ofAssheworth, to the intent they might go in"savegard" there, and divers of the saidtenants brought "much goodes and catallesr' tod'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 inBury 50 years ago, they had licence from OliverHolt of Assheworth to keep their sheep in thesaid ground, and sometimes in stormy weatherdeponent drove them to a place called Dirpul-hill, and to Sandstanbanke and Staneleesparcel of the said ground, when William Kay,father of Arthur Kay defendant, and divers

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other tenants of the lordship of Burro [Bury]were present, who never found fault with himfor so doing, indeed, the said William Kay hasmany times said to deponent, "sonoe go home,thy shepe will take no harmie here, ffor theywill go to the best Socure"Robert Chadweke, tenant to Robert Holt of

Stubley, Esq ., aged 87, says that the , heirs ofAsshe'worth have had peaceable possession ofthe said ground for 50 years and more till nowof late.

[Plans of the ground in question .]

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

NOTES.[306.] OLD FAMILY LINKS.

Passing through the graveyard of BuryParish Church a few days ago, I saw a memo-rial stone, surmounted with a weather-wornarmorial device, and inscribed thus :-Here resteth the body of Henry Monday of

Heywood, who departed this life the 17th dayof 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, inthe year of our said Lord . Christ, 1767, in the96th year of her age .Also William Whitehead of Heywood, their

son-in-law, who departed this life the 28th dayof 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, inthe 81st year of her age.Of the aforementioned Henry Monday I haveno information beyond what is disclosed above .His surname, I think, is a very uncommonone in Lancashire . Possibly he was father of ."Henry Monday, of Heywood, yeoman," whosewill was proved in 1770 . In the same yearthe will was proved of "William Whitehead,of Heap, yeoman," who is no doubt identicalwith the first-named Henry Monday's son-in-law .

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Probably the Henry Monday whose will wasproved in 1770 is the same Henry Mondaywho married Elizabeth Dawson, of Heywood,whose mother (Dorothy) was a daughter orGeorge Melladew, of Heywood Hall, yeoman,by his wife Elizabeth, sister of the re-founderof Bury Grammar Sohool, the Rev . RogerKay. This Henry Monday's mother- n-law (awidow before 1729) may have been the wifeof James Dawson, of Heywood, husbandman,whose will was proved in 1723 . Mrs. DorothyDawson had a daughter, Anne, who marriedJohn Topping, of Topping Fold or Clerk'sCroft, Broadoak Lane, near Fairfield, two de-scendants of whom found husbands among thewell-to-do Openshaws of Bury .According to the account of "An Old Local

Law-suit" which was given in the "HeywoodAdvertiser" some years ago, Henry Mondayand his wife, Elizabeth Dawson, had issueEdward 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, witha numerous family ; Alice, first married toClegg of Rochdale, secondly to Kay of HeapBrow, and had children by both husbands ;Betty, first married to Ashton, inkeeper at theGeorge and Dragon, Blackwater, Rochdale, thento 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 HenryMonday, married Mr. Buckley of Saddleworth,and had a family . Mary, another daughter,had a natural daughter, Esther, who marriedMr. Turner, attorney, Rochdale, dead in 1808 ;his widow lived near Captain Fold, and had aeon then unmarried and a daughter whomarried Joseph Gee .In the graveyard of the New Road Con-

gregational Church, Bury, there is a memorialstone with the following inscription :-Deposited under this stone the earthly re ,

mains of Ann, the wife of Henry Knight ofSeedfield, dyer, who departed this life the 19thday of December, 1799, in the 66th year of herage.

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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 ofRoger Melladew (son of the aforementionedGeorge Melladew, of Heywood Hall), by hiswife, Ann, daughter of Abraham Wood, ofBury Lane, Bury . The aforenamed JohnGrundy, of Moorside, was a son of JamesGrundy, of iSeedfield, and an elder brother ofthe Dennis Grundy ("Golden Dennis") whosenumerous descendants included the generousgentleman whose name is perpetuated in theHeywood Grundy Swimming Baths . The wifeof the last-named James Grundy was MaryMallalieu ; and, having regard to the freespelling of the surname, it is not improbablethat 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 Heywoodcounted among the worthiest of its citizensa not less loyal Congregationalist in the per-son of his great-grandson, Mr. Thomas Knight,who died at his Hopwood residence on June18th, 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 anearlier date, includes some fresh names . The .names are taken from a long list of countrymanufacturers 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

Heywood.manufacturer,

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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, nearHeywood.

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 atthis distance of time to ascertain the where-abouts of the mills owned by most of theabove-named. pt would be useful to have in-formation on the extent of the mills, and theamount of trade done. Except the Wrigleys,no descendants of these millowners seem tohave continued in the same business afternearly a hundred years . This is a matterwhich might well receive attention from someof our old Heywood;ites .

HIND HILL .

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QUERIES.[308 .] HOPWOOD HALL.

As I take great interest in the numerouspapers on local antiquities appearing in thiscolumn, I should feel greatly obliged if someof your correspondents would kindly give mea description of Hopwood Hall, including itscuriosities, 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 atthe least a description of the building and itstreasures . If any reader could give throughthis column such an article I for one would beextremely grateful . I have found that visitsto many of our most famous buildings andshow places are practically lost through thelack of a competent guide. I hope this maynot be the case with Hopwo'od Hall. Also Imight suggest a short account of the Hopwoodfamily .

RACEDHAM .

Jfrthog, flobernber 1st, 1907.

NOTES.r310 ] HEYWOOD IN 1829 .

The following notes on Heywood in 1829are extracted from the reprint of a rare littlework written by James Butterworth, thefather of Edwin Butterworth . It was re-printed in 1902, with memorial introductionand bibliography, by Mr . Albert Sutton, Man-chester, from the copy in the ManchesterReference Library . The full title reads thus :An historical and topographical description of

the town and parish of Bury in the county ofLancaster . By James Butterworth, author ofThe histories of Manchester, Roohdale, Stock-port, Oldham, Ashton-under-Line, etc. Printedby 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

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and a half in length ; containing a variety ofshops, a post office, and several pubiic-houses .The Roche flows to the north of this place,through a rich, romantic, and truly beautifulvale, adorned with several neat mansions, par-ticularly Heywood Hall, the seat of JamesStarkie, Esq., and Bamford: Hall, the residenceof Joseph Fenton, senr., Esq . Manufacturesof calicoes, muslin,s, and some few woollengoods flourish in Heywood to a very greatextent . The living of Heywood is a curacy,and existed as early as 1665, in the gift ofthe rector of Bury, and the present curate isthe 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, fromsubscriptions, for the education of the boysof the township of Heap, the number beinglimited to 500 .

Heywood, a large, populous, and very con-siderable villagfery much increased of lateyears ; the cotton mills built in the villageand neighbourhood have caused an influx ofstrangers, and congregated together a verydense population . Heywood contains an epis-dcopal chapel, and is situated in the townshipof Heap, not far from tho south bank of theriver Roche, and on the aid road from Buryto Rochdale, three miles east southeast ofBury ; three and a half miles west south-westof Rochdale ; and three miles north-west ofMiddleton .

Heap, a large, populous, and pleasant. town-ship, stretching along the south-west banksof the Roche, two miles S .E. of Bury.

Heap Fold, a hamlet, two miles SE . . ofBury .

The above notes are interesting as being pro-bably the earliest printed account of Heywooadand its vicinity . It may be compared witha previous article (Note No. 169) extractedfrom "A Gazetteer of England, Wales, etc .,"published in 1833.

J. A. GREEN .

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[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 soonafter the death of his first wife, Henry Knightwas married at Bury Parish Church on July9th, 1800, to Ann, widow of Richard Millettof Cockyrnoor . He did not long survive hissecond marriage dying, as stated, on January5th, 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 aniece of Ralph Nowell of Gawthorpe Hall :through her mother she was a descendant ofElizabeth Nowell, sister of the great Dean ofWestminster of Elizabeth's reign, and aunt toJohn Woolton, warden of Manchester andBishop of Exeter (1579-94 .) By her first hus-band, Richard Millett, Mrs. Knight wasgrandmother to the late Mrs . James Porritt ofStubbins Vale, Rasnsbottom .

[312 .] EDMUND LORD, MUSICTAN .

Edmund Lord, of Hooley Bridge, Heywood,died on April 19th, 1856, aged 70 years . Hewas a well-known musician of the old school,and a rather original character . He was agreat ndsnirer of the works of Handel,especially "The Messiah ." He greatly de-lighted in harmony . This was often ehownduring the works of the great masters, withwhom ho always seemed at home. He wasconnected ass a performer with the musicianso~ the district for half-a-oentury . He was in-terred at Bamford Chapel on April 24th, theRev. Mr. Bruce officiating .

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THOMAS HUNT .

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QUERIES.[313 .] THE REV. MR. RO W LAND .

An old newspaper gives the following underdate February 7th, 1846 . "The new, commo-dious, and elegantly built school belonging tothe Wesleyan Methodists in Hill-street [Hey-wood] opened . About 1,000 persons had teatogether in the new building ; after whichthe Rev. Mr. Ro ;wland was called to the chair .Suitable pieces were recited by the Sundayschool scholars . On Sunday and Mondayevenings collections were made in the chapelin aid of the expenses of the building, amount-ing to £38. The new school is the largest inthe circuit ."The above is a very interesting note and,

iacidentally, gives us valuable informationabout an excellent local institution . Willsomeone le, us have biographical particularsof the gentleman named above who had thehonour of taking part in such a pleasantgathering?

DAwsoN HILL .

[314.] "OWD JACK ASHPON ."Au old inhabitant known as "Owd Jack

Ashtou" died sometime in the nineties, Hewas generally referred to as a famous pedes-trian, and information is wanted as to hisexploits.

PEDOMETER.

[315.] DATE OF OPENING OF THEHEYWOOD RAILWAY .

It is known that the formation of the Hev-wood branch railway from the Blue P'itstation, to near the Navigation Inn, Hey-wood, was commenced ii,_ November, 1810 .The contract for this short length was let toMr. Thompson for £6,000. When was thislength completed, and also when was the linecontinued to Bury?

TRAVELLER .

[316.] THE REV . EDMUND GRINDROD .According to Sutton's "List of Lancashire

Authors," the Rev . Edmund Grindrod wasborn at Clay Lane, near Rochdale, 28th Feb-VOL . 3.-Part 35.

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ruary, 1786, and died in London 1st May,1842. He was a Wesleyan minister and wasthe author of various pamphlets . I shalt bepleased to have a more detailed account of th :slocal author .

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 timecoming," "Cheer, boys, cheer!" and otherfamous songs, visited Heywood with his enter-tainment entitled "The Far West, ; or, life inAmerica," on Friday, December 5th, 1856 . Hewas 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 eminentseventeenth century divine, who, wau a native-(if Bamford and spent the greater part of hislife within a few mile of his birthplace, isnot to give an account of his career, but tocorrect some errors in what has already beenwritten concerning him, and to add particularstiuhich, eo far as I an aware, have not hithertoappeared in print .Born On May 6th, 1626, at Jowkin (where

there are still two or three houses, a few hun-dred yards beyond Bamford CongregationalChurch), the $ev . Henry Pendlebury (lied athis residenoo, Bast House, Walmersley, thenin the parish of Bury, on June 18th, 1695, andwas buried on June 20th in Bury Churchyard,"close by the chancel wall, on the south side ."

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He made his will on May 24t'h, 1695, and itwas proved in the Court of Probate, Chester ;but it appears to he lost, and all that remainsis the inventory, with endorsement . How-ever, among the Raines MSS ., in the ChethamLibrary, Manchester, I have found an abstractof Henry Pendlebury's will, as hereunder : -To Robert Pendlebury my brother £30, to be

paid by £3 a year by quarterly payments, andif his wife shall die, by £5 a year until thesaid sum of £30 has been paid up, if he so longlive. The residue of the money not so paid togo towards obtaining a new lease of my pre-mises where we now live, if Sarah my wife bewilling, if not the remainder of the said £30unpaid to go to -the children of Elizabeth Holt,widow, daughter of the said Robert Pendlebury,and the children of Sarah Wild, wife of RichardWild of Thornham . To the said Elizabeth andSarah £10 apiece. To Sarah Clough, daughterof James Clough of Spotland, and to JaneWild, daughter of the said Richard Wild, 50s .apiece, to be improved and put forth for theirbenefit. To Sarah, wife of James Kay, 20s. Tomy servant, Jeremy Ainsworth, if he continuewith me to my death, 20s ., and to such maydservant as may be with us, 5s. All the residueof my goods to my loving wife, Sarah Peudle-bury. I assign the said messuages, etc ., to mysaid wife for her life, and if she is willing totake a fresh lease my will and mind is that sheshall assign and sect over the chapell or meet-ing place,, parcel of the premises and latelyerected thereupon, with the court or yard,

- during the continuance of such lease only forpublick worship (if liberty be continu(d) and nototherwise, unto the same feoffees or the sur-vivors to whom I have already conveyed thesame for the term of this present lease that Ihave in being. A.11 the rest of my messuagesand lands, etc., after her death, I convey tosuch of -he four children of the said ElizabethHolt, my niece, as she shall think to be mosthopeful and likely to make the best use andimprovement thereof . And if my said wifetake no fresh lease, my mind is that such ofthe sons of my said niece as my said wife shallappoint shall, after taking possession, pay 40s .a year to such minister as shall officiate at thesaid chapel or meeting place during the term ofsuch lease (if liberty be continued), and thatthe said chapell may only be used for thepublick worship of God and for no other pur-

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pose whatsoever . I give £5 to the poor ofRechdale, to be distributed by Sarah my wife,Mr. Whitworth, and Robert Milne, and £5 tobe distributed to the poor of my congregationat Walmersley at the right and discretion ofmy wife, Edmund Bury, Thomas Browne, andSamuel Wareing . Sarah my wife executrix .

Witnesses :Thomas Browne, Andrew Bury, junr .,Edmund Bury, Scriptr .

Henry Pendlebury's brother, Robert, died atJowkin on February 5th, 1698-9, and was in-terred at Bury Church . Robert Pendleburyhad three daughters^--Elizabeth, born March28th, 1651 ; Sarah, born 24th August, 1654 ;and Mary, born January 16th, 1662-3 . Theeldest daughter, Elizabeth, was married onJune 20th, 1671, to Robert Holt, "of thepanish of Middleton" (possibly identical withthe Robert Holt of Bamford, whose will wasproved in 1682), and they had four sons .Robert Holt's widow died at Jowkin about1715 . Robert Pendlcbury's second daughter,Sarah, was married to Richard Wild ofThornham, ; she was buried at MiddletonChurch, July 5th, 1697, and he was buried atthe same place, March 20th, 1709-10. Theyhad several sons and daughtens . The JamesClough mentioned in Henry Pendlebury's willmay be identical with the James Clough "ofLcwer Jowkin in Spotland," whose will wasproved in 1731-probably of the same familyas Anne Clough, "of Rochdale parish," whowas married at Middleton on May 31st, 1698,to Thomas Holt of Bamford, the father, Iassume, of young Henry Holt, who went tolive at Bast House subsequent to the death ofHenry Pendlebury, and mention of whom millbe found in the abstract -of old Mrs . Pendle-bury's will, given in another part of thesenotes .

Mr. W. A. Shaw, M.A ., the writer of theaccount of Henry Pendlebury which appears inthe Dictionary of National Biography, says :-Before July, 1650, he had [it was alleged]

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at Turton on 23rd October, 1650, to HarwichChapel, in Dean parish . . . His widow, hissecond wife, Jane Wolstenholme, died nearTurton, in Lancashire, on 18Ln November,1713 (Northowram Register) . . . His son . Wil-liam Pendlebury, M.A., was for many yearsi sinister of Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds .

In his "History of the Ancient Chapel ofBirch, in Manchester P'a.rish" (published by theChetham Society in 1859), the Rev . JohnBooker, M.A ., gives a pedigree of "Worsley ofPlatt," according to which Mary, daughter ofRalph Worsley -of Platt, gentleman (son ofJajorGeneral Charles Worsley, of Common-wealth fame), married "William Pendlebury,minister of Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds, son of theRev. Henry Pendlebury, ejected in 1662 fromHolcombe, in the parish of Bury ."

With all the respect due to such usuallygood authorities as those just quoted, I ven-ture to point out that Henry Pendlebury wasnot twice- married, that William Pendleburywas not his eon, that nobody called JanePendlebury, nee Wolstenholme, died "nearTurton" in November, 1713, and that theNorthowram Register does not record the

i death of Henry Pendlehury's widow at all .What the Northowram Register says is thisWidw 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 weredifferent persons ; the Christian name of oneAnn, the other Sarah . Probably they were wellknown to each other, for their husbands werekinsmen. And by a curious coincidence, thefirst-named widow died on the same day theother widow made her will . In the churchregister the burial of the "Widow Pendlebury"mentioned in the Northowram volume is re-corded thus : -

1713 November 20th Ann Pendlebury ofTurton widdow .This Ann was the widow of "James Pendle

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will the testator mentions his wife Anne andhis son William, and there can be no doubt,I think, that this son of James and Ann (orAnne) Pendlebury is identical with the Rev .William Pendlebury, who was minister of MillHill Chapel, Leeds, from. 1705 until his death,23rd September, 1729 . He began his studiesfor tha ministry in January, 1697, was or-dained 16th June, 1702, and was at Kendalbefore going to Leeds . He was a contem-porary of the celebrated Yorkshire historian,Ralph Thoresby, who, in his "Ducatus Leo-diensis" (published in 1715) mentionsThe Reverend and pious Mr . Will. Pendle-

bury, of Leeds, V.D.M ., whose Kinsman, Mr .Hen. Pendlebury, was Author of a learnedTract against Popery, etc .If William Pendlebury had been Henry

P'endlebury's son, the fact would hove beenknown to Thoresby, who would not in thatcase have described William so- vaguely asHenry's "kinsman ."Additional evidence that the "Widow

Pendlebury" (Turton) who died in November,1713, was not . Henry Peadlebury's widow ; andalso that the Sarah Smith be married in 1650was his only wife, and survived him, is found -in the inscription on his gravestone in BuryParish Churchyard, as copied many years agoHere Lyeth the Body of Mr . Henry Pendle-

bury, an able and Faithful minister of theGospel, who departed this Life the 18th ofJune, Anno Domini 1695, and in the 70th . yeareof his Age.Here resteth the Body of Sarah, wife of the

abovesaid Henry Pendlebury, who departedthis Life the 6th of February, and was interredthe 9th, Anno Dom . 1713-14.

Also the Body of Oliver Holt of Wittle [sic],Died 16th July, 1744 . And Mary his Wife, Died27th August, 1782, aged 77 years .Some further items relating to Henry

Pendlebury will be given in another issue .LECTOR .

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[319 .] HISTORICAL NOTES ONASHWORTH .

[A brief account of Ashhworth is added toEdwin Butterworth's "Historical notices of thetown 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, andthree miles W. of Rochdale, covering 730acres . The situation is high and bleak, andthe name manifestly implies the district ofAsh, a tree once abundant in the brows andglens around .

A family bearing the namee of the place wereseated here as early as the thirteenth century,they appear to have been succeeded by theHolts, of whom was "Robert Holte," Esq .,living in 1553, whose daughter Mary marriedSir Richard Assheton of Middleton, Knt. In1574 a Charles Holte, Esq ., occurs . RichardHalt, gent., being an active supporter ofRoyalty during the Civil Wars, his estate wassequestrated 1643 ; but he recovered it 1646b •- paying £551 . About 1666 occurs RichardHolt, gentleman . At what period the Haltsbecame extinct at Ashworth I am not aware,but the Wilbrahams have been possessed ofthe estate for some time, and Wilbraham Egerton, Esq ., of Tatton Park, Cheshire, the highlyrespected patron of the Manchester Agricul-tural Society, is the present possessor of Ash-worth Hall, an old plain building with scarcelyany traces of decoration .

The episcopal chapel of Ashworth is situatedon the summit of a hill to the north of thehall ; it was existing in 1650, for the Eccle-siastical Commissioners of the protectoratereported in that year that it was fit to bemade a parish church . The earliest registercommences 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 acupola and burial ground, commanding an ex-tensive view of the adjacent hills and fertilevalleys, here

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"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, inconsideration of £8 per an . subscribed byW. Egerton, Esq . A new school was built1838 at, the cost of that gentleman . In 1801the population was 295 ; 1811, 216 ; 1821,289 ; 1831, 294 . In 1831 there were inhabitedhouses, 45 ; families engaged in trade, 24 ; inagriculture, 18 ; other families, 5 ; males,twenty years of age and upwards, 60 ; manu-facturing labourers, 21 ; agricultural labourers,9 ; farmers, 17 . The estimated yearly valueof property in 1815 was £825, in 1829 £1,342 .The eminences around yield tolerably goodstone .

A CORRECTION.-In the note No . 311, "St.Paul's" should be read instead of Westminster.Alexander Nowell was at one time Prebendaryof Westminster, but his deanery was St.Paul's.

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NOTES.[320 .] HENRY PENDLEBURY.SOME CORRECTIONS, Etc .-II .

The will of Henry Pendlebury's widow,"Sarah Pendlebury of Walmersley, in theparish 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 beingmade of any issue of her marriage . She owed£20 to Mr. Thomas Booth of Haugh Hall, inth-~ parish of Bolton, and directed that theamount 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-

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due of her personal estate and the reversionof her real estate she left to Henry Holt, sonof the lace Thomas Ho-It of Bamford, in theparish of Middleton, "now living with me, ifafter my decease my executors look on himas having a promising carriage" ; if not, theywere to give the estate to "whichsoever of theuncles of the said Henry Holt, namely, HenryHolt, Robert Halt, William Holt, they thinkbest deserves it ." The two executors wereMr. Thomas Booth of Bolton and Mr . JosephWhitworth, minister at Cocky [i .e ., CockeyMoor, 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 andincludes a few books, among them ` I"he GreatConcern," 6d ., and "The Barren Figg Tree,"6d. The two executors were sworn 10th May,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 date22nd November, 1729, Henry Halt of Whittle,in the parish of Bury, gentleman, and OliverHolt of the same, joiner (nephews of HenryPendlebury), were bound in £200 to Samuel,Bishop of Chester : "Whereas the will of HenryPendlebury in the original is delivered out ofthe Registry to the said bounden Holts,nephews and legatees of the said HenryPendlebury, upon occasion of producing thesame at a Commission out of the High Courtof Chancery soon to be held at Rochdale, Co .Lancaster . Now the above bounden covenantto 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 Holtsof Whittle (Birch-iii.Hopwood), but may putthese items on record : William Holt ofWhittle married Anne Norris of the parish ofMiddleton, April 18th, 1655 ; John Holt ofWhittle died in January, 1659-60 ; RobertHolt of Whittle died February 20th, 1665-6(hee had been a churchwarden for Bury parish ;his wife died October 16th, 1652) ; Thomas

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Holt of Whittle married Elizabeth Bradshaw,April 5th, 1675 ; Elizabeth, daughter ofRobert Holt of Whittle, was christened Feb-ruary 14th, 1696-7 ; Charles Holt of Whittledied in March, 1713-14 ; Robert, son of HenryHolt of Lower Whittic, was christened May31st, 1719 . The will of "John Holt ofWhittle within Heap, husbandman," wasproved in 1693 . The earliest mention I havefcund of a Holt-Pendlebury connection isunder date May 16th, 1633-the marriage, atBury Parish Church, of James Holt and SusanPendlEbury .Mr. W. A. Shaw's statement (in the Dic-

tionary of National Biography) that HenryPendlebury was twice married, and that hissecond wife was Jane Wolstenholme, is pos-s_bly accounted for by an entry under dateApril 26th, 1648, in the Bury Parish Churchregister of weddings : in the Lancashire ParishRegister Society's printed volume it is given"Henry Pendlebury and Sara Woolsenholm,"but among some extracts in Canon Raines'sMSS. the Christian name of the bride is given"Jane." This, however, was not the weddingof the Rev . Henry Pendlebury, but, I believe,the second marriage of his father, who wasalso named Henry, and whose first wife diedin May, 1639 .Under the heading "An Old Rochdale

Divine," a writer in the "Rochdale Observer"Literary Supplement, June 1st, 1907, gives abrief 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 ministeredto 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 "Theministers of Blackwater-street Chapel," says ofHenry Pendlebury

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"Late Minister of the Gospel at Rochdale" isthe description given of Henry Pendlebury onthe title page of one of his printed discourses,and on some others he is described as "ofRochdale" ; but these were printed after hisdeath, and most, if not all, of them in London .No doubt the Rochdale Nonconformists oftenenjoyed the ministrations of Henry Pendle-bury, but I have failed to find evidence thath,, was their "stated" pastor, or that he everresided in Rochdale . Nor was "a meeting-Louse built for him" at Holcombe, though itis pretty certain he often preached in thatchapelry 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 amongother licences granted in the same year wasone on September 30th, "for a room or roomsin the Courthouse at Holcombe in Tottington,Lancashire, for Presbyterians ." It was notuntil forty years later that the first Noncon-formist place of worship in the chapelry ofHolcombe was built-that was "Holcombe NewChapel," in later times better known as "OldDundee," which was formally opened t :nAugust 5th, 1712 . This was the chapel inwhich the famous "Claeeryble Brothers," Wil-liam and Daniel Grant, first worshipped afteracquiring the "Square" Works and removingto Ramebottom . A much more commodiousand handsome church was built thirty-fouryears ago, but "Old Dundee" (situated two orthree hundred yards below Holcombe Church,and in a newer ecclesiastical district) stillstands, in the possession of the RamsbottomPresbyterians .Among the bequests made by Henry Pendle-

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will of Henry Pendlebury's widow, as shownabove . James Kay the elder was a lineal an-cestor of Lord Shuttleworth, whose father, SirJames Kay-Shuttleworth, in the early part ofhis life resided at Bamford, where (at the Con-gregational Church) Sir James's father wasburied . Another lineal descendant of the sameJames Kay of Bass Lane was Ann Kay, thewife of Joseph lienton of Bamford Hall, fatherof the first member of Parliament for Roch-dale .Robert Milne, mentioned in Henry Pendie-

bury's will in regard to the distribution of asum of money among "the Poor of Rochdale,"is probably identical with Robert Milne,mercer, of Rochdale, whose own will wasproved in 1706 . Several Mimes of that periodin the Rochdale and Milnrow districts werezealous Nonconformists, and two or three ofthem were Presbyterian ministers ."Mr. Whitworth," mentioned in connection

with the same benefaction, would be theRoohdalian, Joseph Whitworth, for many yearsin the Nonconformist ministry . In his auto-biography, under date 1685, the Rev . Jams;.Clegg says that, when about six years old, hewas "sent to school to Mr . Joseph Whitworth,a young Dissenting Minister at ffallinge," whoafterwards "became assistant to Mr . Pendle-bury and preached at Roachdale," and later"removed to Cockey Chappell," At AinsworthUnitarian Church ("Cockey Chappell") there isa 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"-andyet, in the "Record of the Provincial Assemblyof Lancashire and Cheshire," compiled at thedirection of the Assembly and published in1896, the Rev . George Eyre Evans states thatJoseph Whitworth was minister at W'hitworth1680-1718, and at 0swestry 1718-19, and thatthere is "no proof he was ever minister here[at Ainsworth], save a tombstone error ." ThatJoseph Whitworth was buried at Ainsworth (orCockey) Chapel is not disputed . In a list ofPresbyterian parsons and their meeting places,"

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"Ja : Burges," one of the witnesses to thewill of Henry Pendlebury's widow, would pro-bably be the Rev . James Burgess, a frequentpreacher it Walmersley, afterwards minister atLower (Congregational) Chapel, Darwen, andlater at GreLnacres, Oldham . He was facherof a rather remarkable son, the Rev . JamesBurgess, 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 BastHouse until the repayment of money whichwas owing to ;rim when old Mrs. Pendleburymade h.r will, was a yeoman, of Haulgh, andwas dead in 1726 .Those of my readers who may desire to look

at the grave of the famous Bamfordian aboutwhom I have written, may be surprised tolearn that they cannot find it . When theParish Church of Bury was rebuilt (except thetower), over thirty years ago, a considerablenumber of gravestones were removed, conse-quent on part of the new chancel and thesouth chapel being built beyond the boun-daries of the old church . From a number of

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graves the remains were dug up, and-to usethe words of the late Rev. W. R. T'horburn-."cast into a common receptacle." Amongthem were the remains of the brave and piousHenry Pendlebury . Even his gravestone wassmashed-the upper part of it, bearing the,words, "Here Lyeth the Body of Mr . HenryPendlebury, an able and Faithful minister ofthe Gospel, who departed this life the 18th ofJune, 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 thechurch, the inscription begins with "the 70thyeare of his Age ." As the result of Mr . Thor-burn's protest from his pulpit, that the gravehad been desecrated, the then Rector (thelate Canon Hornby) left in the floor of thesouth transept of the rebuilt church space fora small memorial brass, as near as possibleover the site of the grave ; and for the spaceso prescribed-about l6in . by 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 . Thebrass is so situated and such is the "dimreligious light" thereabouts, that it may be.easily passed without being seen . One mustalmost 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 litterarteurs-I am indebted for some of the infor-mation embodied in these notes .

QUERIES.[321 .] PATTENGE PILSWORT'H.

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descendants? These questions are suggestedby an entry in the Middleton Pariah Registerunder date October 16th, 1715 : "Patience, achild found at John Upton's door in Pilsworthon Wednesday night, the 12th day of October,1715 . Designed, therefore, to be calledPatience Pilsworth."

Did the "busy," as I have no doubt themother was, lay her bastard metaphorically, aswell as actually, at the door of John Upton,worthy man and churchwarden? Or was thechurchwarden supposed to be the proper andlegal 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 itstinks! It doth not smell like a Christian .If I might be so bold as to give my advice, Iwould have it put in a basket, and sent outand laid at the churchwarden's door ." So thismay have been the custom of those days . Butthen I find that John Upton was not church-warden till 1721, and this was only 1715 . 1am afraid there was some scandal after all,though honest John seems to have survivedit . Let us hearken again to the virtuous Mr.. .Wilkins : "'I don't know what is worse,' criesDeborah, `than for such wicked strumpets tolay their sins at honest mien's doors : andthough your worship knows your own inno-cence, yet the world is censorious : and it bathbeen finny an honest man's hap to pass forthe father of children be never begot ."'At the date of the incident John Upton was

a widower, his wife, Agnes, having died inJune, 1713 : be was churchwarden of Middle-ton, as I have said, in 1721, and he died inAugust, 1727 . He had no children so far as Ican ascertain, and his name survives only inconnection with his farm "Uptons," now in theoccupation of vir . Thomas Aspinall . OfPatience Pilsworth's story, I would ask again,does anybody know anything?

TnOMAS HUNT .York House, November 15th, 1907 .