YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS TO THE .imals d '^attm^\ms^xxL BY THOMAS BAILEY, LONDON : SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.; NOTTINGHAM: W. F. GIBSON. NOTTINGHAM : J. HUNT, PRINTER, KNIGHt's TARD, LONG ROW. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS, AUiott Francis Simes, Esq., StreUey, Nottinghamshire. Abbot Mr., London-road, Derby. Aston Mr., Castleton, Derbyshire. Allen Mr. H., Buxton, Derbyshire. AUsop Mr., Belper, Derbyshire. Adcock Mr., London-road, Leicester. Anderson Mr., Leicester. Andrews Mr. H., Lincoln. Adcock Mr. J., Oakham, Rutland. Adams Mr. H., Nottingham. Arnold Mr. W., ditto, Adlard Mr., Northampton AUenby W., Esq., Louth, Lincolnshire AUington Mr. T., WalsaU, Staffordshire Archer Mr, E., Edgbaston, Birmingham Aspley Mr. W., merchant, Birmingham Artizans' Library, Nottingham Allen Mr. Richard, bookseller, the Park, Nottingham Ackroyd Mr. John, rent collector, Carrington-street, Nottingham Askew Mr. J., boot maker, Eastwood, Notts. Allen Mr., butcher. New Basford, Notts. Atkinson Mr., printer. Middle-pavement, Nottingham Aldridge Mr., Bloomsgrove Cottage, Old Radford, Notts. LIST OF Barrow W. H., Esq., M.P., SouthweU, Nottinghamshire Baynes Rev, J, A,, A,B., EUesmere Terrace, Nottingham Butler Rev. J. W., Stoney-street, Nottingham Bradshaw J., Esq., St. James 's-street, Nottingham Birkin R., Esq., Aspley Hall, near Nottingham Bacon G., Esq., Hempshall Hall, near NuttaU, Nottinghamshire Blake Mrs., 14, Cambridge-street, Hyde Park Square, London Boss W., Esq., Hathem, Leicestershire Bolton Rev. Thomas A., Incumbent of New Basford, Old Basford, Notts, Brooke Mrs., Old HaU, East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire Beardmore George A., Esq., Eland Cottage, New Basford, Notts. Burton Francis, Esq., soUcitor, Mansfield-road, Nottingham Browne M., Esq., coroner, Lenton, near Nottingham Bishop John, Esq., Nottingham Beck Mr. Charles, lace manufacturer, Derby-road, Nottingham Bradbury Mr. W., earthenware dealer, Carlton-street, Nottingham Biddulph Mr. S., Standard-hiU, Nottingham Brummitt Mr., Trent-bridge, Nottingham Beardsley Mr., Trinity-terrace, Nottingham Bussey Mr. R., artist. Lister-gate, Nottingham Butler Mr. S., Sherwood-street, Nottingham BulUvant Mr., Manvers-street, Sneinton Burrows Mr, G., St. Mary's-place, Nottingham Briggs Mr., MUk-street, Glasshouse-street, Nottingham BeardsaU Mr., Manvers-street, Sneinton, Notts. Bates Mr. T., Coalpit-lane, Nottingham Barton Mr., Cherry-street, Coalpit-lane, Nottingham Bradley Mr., Portland-place, Nottingham Boot Mr. J., Hucknall, near Alfreton, Derbyshire Blatherwick Mr. W., Carlton, Nottinghamshire Borebanks Mr., Princess-street, Kensington, near Nottingham Barnes Mr. W., Somerset House, London Banner Mr. W., Brinsley, Nottinghamshire Bonser Mr, Thomas, Plungar, Nottinghamshire Bean Mr., mineral agent, Portland CoUiery, Notts. Basford New Reading Society Blundy Mr. S., Greek-square, New Radford, Notts. Blunston Mr., Beeston, Nottinghamshire BeU Mr. W., innkeeper, Ilkeston, Derbyshire SUBSCRIBERS. BeU Mr. William, printer, London BlackweU Mr. W. H., soUcitor, Sheffield Beck Mr. James, painter, Bramcote, Notts. Barber Mr. Robert, architect and surveyor, Eastwood, Notts. Breadner Mr. John, agent, Tanner's-lane, Pendleton, near Manchester Barker Mr. WiUiam, agent, Beeston Meadow Lock, Notts. Butler Mr. William, jun., china dealer, Swan's-yard, Long-row, Nottingham Butler Mr. Haywood, hosier. Upper Talbot-street, Nottingham Butler Mr. George, clerk. Maypole-yard, Nottingham BuU Mr. Edwin, warehouseman. Walker-street, Sneinton, Notts. Blew Mr., Edgbaston, Birmingham Brown Mr. C, Coventry Bolton Mr, W„ Deptford, Kent Bosweil Mr., Fitzroy-square, London Bonser Mr. J., Islington, London Booth Mr., Old Kent-road, London Burrows Mr. R., maltster, Ruddington, Notts. Bromley House Library, Nottingham BeUby Mr. John Dolman, Castle-gate Academy, Nottingham Brown Mr. John, wine merchant. Wheeler-gate, Nottingham BaUey Mr. Thomas, hosier, Leicester-road, Loughborough Brooks Mr. John Gemsan, buUder, Church-street, Beeston, Notts. Barker Mr. James, book-keeper, Canaan-place, Broad-marsh, Nottingham Barnes Mr. WiUiam, saddler, Carlton-street, Nottingham Brooks Mr. John, broker, WUford-street, Nottingham BradweU Mr. John, clerk, SouthweU, Notts. Brown Mr. J., Midland Dining Rooms, Bridlesmith-gate, Nottingham BuU Mr. WiUiam, cricket bat manufacturer. Coalpit-lane, Nottingham CuUen Thomas, Esq., mayor of Nottingham Carver Thomas, Esq., Regent-street, Nottingham Coke D'Ewes, Esq., BrookhUl HaU, near Alfreton, Derbyshire Cursham W. G., Esq., solicitor, Nottingham Campbell H. B., Esq., solicitor. Park, Nottingham Carver GUbert, Esq., hosier. Park, Nottingham Carpenter Rev. B., Regent-street, Nottingham Cripps W., Esq., Bramcote, Notts, Cartledge W., Esq., Woodthorpe, Notts. Case Ashton, Esq., Papplewick HaU, Notts. Charlton T. B., Esq., ChilweU HaU, Nottinghamshire Carver R., Esq., Prime Thorpe, Broughton Astley, Leicestershire Close Thomas, Esq., St. James's-street, Nottingham Cheadle Rev. Thomas, Dunham-on-Trent, near Newark, Nottinghamshire Carver Rev. D., Incumbent of Ison Green, Alfreton-road, Notts. Cowen Mr., Beck Works, Nottingham Crofts Mr., St. Mary's-gate, Nottingham Cross Mr. G., ParUament-street, Nottingham Cunnington Mr. G., cooper. Beck-lane, Nottingham Carver Mr., Wilford, Nottinghamshire Cox Mr., Old Basford, Nottinghamshire Charles Mr., bleacher, Bulwell, Nottinghamshiie Cook Mr., joiner, Old Basford, Nottinghamshire Cottingham Mr., New Lenton, Nottinghamshire Coxon Mr , Moor Green, Notts. CUfton Mr., Ison Green, Notts. Carey Mr. Henry, lace manufacturer, St. Mary's-gate, Nottingham Cornwall Mr. D., Bethnal Green-road, London Cape Mr. E., Snow-hill, Birmingham Chester Mr. T., Lord-street, Liverpool Cox Mr. T., ironmonger, Manchester Chamberlin Mr. Thomas H., clerk, 5, Clarence-street, Sneinton, Notts. Cartledge Mr. Joseph, warehouseman, George-street, New Radford, Notts. Carver Mr. William, warehouseman, Radford, Nottingham CuUey Mr. Richard, framework-knitter. Old Basford, Notts. Charlton Mr. Joseph, StreUey, Nottinghamshire Dodsley John, Esq., Skegby Hall, Nottinghamshire Dakeyne H. C, Esq., 34, HamUton-terrace, St. John's Wood, London Deverill G., Esq., solicitor, Friar-lane, Nottingham Duchle Rev. Robert, Gainsborough Durham Mr. H., Piccadilly, London Dunsmore Mr. C, Peckham, London Daft Mr. WilUam, draper. Long-row, Nottingham Donnington Mr. Henry, patentee and manufacturer. New Lenton, Notts. Dobson Mr. John, sen., lace agent, Pilcher-gate, Nottingham Dobson Mr. John, jun., lace agent, Kent-street, Nottingham Dickinson Mr. Thomas, innkeeper, Portland-place, Nottingham Dyer Mr. Jonathan, carver and gilder, Milton-street, Nottingham DabeU Mrs. Anne, porter dealer. Long-row, Nottingham Doubleday Mr. John, Beeston, Nottinghamshire Davis Mr. J, F., professor of photography, Bromley House, Nottingham Dickinson Mr. E., draper, Derby-road, Nottingham Duffin Mr., " Admiral Duncan," Clumber-street, Nottingham Davis Mr,, 4, Haughton-street, Nottingham Doughty Mr., Lenton-stroet, New Lenton, Nottingham Dawson Mr. H., artist, Croydon, Surrey Dudgeon Mr., KendaU-street, Nottingham Enfield W., Esq,, town clerk, Low Pavement, Nottingham Edwards Rev. J., Park, Nottingham Eddison Booth, Esq., surgeon, High-pavement, Nottingham Eyre Mr. W., auctioneer, South Parade, Nottingham Ellis Mr. John, draper, Southampton Eardley Mr. E., Overseal, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire EUiott Mr. Thomas, lace manufacturer, Beeston, Notts. Everall Mr. John, victuaUer, Peck-lane, Nottingham Edson, S. A., WoUaton, Nottinghamshire Emmerson Mr. W., Bradford, Yorkshire Fellowes Sir Charles, 4, Montague-place, RusseU-square, London Felkin WUUam, Esq., F.L.S., merchant, Nottingham Park Fox John, Esq., Old Basford, Notts. Fox Samuel, Esq., Hound's-gate, Nottingham FothergiU J., Esq., Nottingham Froggatt Mr. John, cotton doubler, Lenton Poplars, Notts. Falconbridge Mr. John, brewer, Alfreton-road, Radford, Notts. Farrand Mr. MUnes, bleacher, Daybrook Works, Basford, Notts. Fry Mr. John, schoolmaster, Bramcote, Notts. Ford Mr. John, manufacturing chemist, Basford, Notts. Fox Mr. Samuel, Old Basford, Notts. Felkin Mr. F,, High-pavement, Nottingham Fish Mr, W,, Lenton-street, Broad-street, Nottingham Franks Mr., MUton-street, Nottingham Flowers Mr. Thomas, Swan Inn, Market-place, Nottingham Furley Mr., draper, Oakham, Rutlandshire Fox Mr. WiUiam, Old Basford, Notts. Fox Mr. John, jun.. Old Basford, Notts. LIST OF Frost Mr. Robeirt, 16, Gresham-street west, London GiU G., Esq., The Park, Nottingham Greenway R., Esq., Sutton-in-Elms, Broughton Astley, Leicestershire G*iU F. B., Esq., Beeston, Notts. Garrett A., Esq., London Gimson Thomas Foster, Esq., merchant. Park-valley, Nottingham Godber John, Esq., farmer, HucknaU Torkard, Notts. Gorse Mr. James D., commission agent, Forest-grove, Nottingham Gunn Mr. Samuel, boot maker. Mount-court, Mount-street, Nottmgham Gray Mr. Benjamin, cabinet maker, 11, Church-gate, Leicester Gelsthorpe Mr. Joseph, buUder, &c., 48, Canal-street, Nottingham Gee Mr. WilUam, Nottingham Greenfield Mr. F., baker. Broad-street, Nottingham Godber Mr. R,, hosier, Mansfield-road, Nottingham GeU Mr. G., Narrow-marsh, Nottingham Gadd Mr. John, Forest-side, Nottingham Grace Mr Joseph, lace dresser, Mansfield-road, Nottingham Gelsthoi-pe Mr., Sutton, near Bottesford, Leicestershire Goodwin Mr. J., Carlton, Notts. Grundy Mr., druggist. New Lenton, Notts. Goodson Mr., druggist, Beeston, Notts. Green Mr., maltster, RatcUffe, Notts. Godber Mr. W., Sun Inn, Eastwood, Notts. Greasley Mr., Evelyn-street, Sneinton, Notts. Godber Mr. J. W., hosier, 31, Nottingham House, Whitefriar gate, HuU Heymann L. Esq, East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire Hawkridge Ben, Esq., notaiy, registrar of Archdeacomy Court, Nottinghain Herbert Mr. Jabez, Nottingham Huskisson Mr. WUUam, Nottingham High Pavement Chapel Libraiy, Nottingham High Pavement Chapel Discussion Class, Nottingham hI mT^;- "^'"7 'T '"""' ^-^-^--- I^erby-road, Nottingham HaU Mr. Thomas starch manufacturer, Lenton Sands, Nottingham HeppenstaU Mr. Christopher, maltster and brewer, Newark, Notts Hopkmson Mr. John, tea dealer. Angel-row, Nottingham Harnson M. R. A artist and engraver, Casde-gate, Nottingham Hopkinson Mrs., WoUaton-street, Nottingham SUBSCRIBERS. HolUns Samuel, Esq., lace manufacturer. Castle-gate, Nottingham Herbert W. Esq, lace manufacturer, Pilcher-gate, Nottingham Hannay W., Esq., St. James's-street, Nottingham Herbert Thomas, Esq., lace manufacturer. The Park, Nottingham Hunt W., Esq., solicitor, Weekday-cross, Nottingham Heard John, Esq., The Park, Nottingham Hurst Mr. John, china dealer. Chapel-bar, Nottingham Bopkinson Miss S., WoUaton-street, Nottingham Hutchinson Mr. Henry B., hair dresser, Chapel-bar, Nottingham Herbert Mr. George, schoolmaster, University School, Nottingham HoUand Mr. Samuel, painter, Vernon-street, Nottingham Hedderley Mr. John, chemist. Clumber-street, Nottingham Hazzledine Mr. John, grocer. Market-place, Nottingham HucknaU Mr. WiUiam, cattle dealer, ParUament-street, Nottingham Hudstone Mr. Henry, insurance agent. Wheeler-gate, Nottingham Hives Mr. George, grocer, Market-place, Nottingham Holland Mr. Joseph, Castle-gate, Nottingham Humberstone Mr. Matthew, WoUaton, Notts. Hays Mr. Edward, taUor and draper, New Basford, Notts. Hodges Mr. G. B., commission agent, St. Mary's-gate, Nottingham Hart Mr. John, lithographer, St. James's-street, Nottingham Hogg Mr. W., warehouseman, Mount-street, Nottingham Hardy Mr.. Thomas, machine holder, John-street, Sneinton, Notts. Hardy Mr.' John, Maypole Hotel, Maypole yard, Nottingham Haynes Mr. Joseph, relieving offi'cer, Moor Green, Greasley, Notts. Holbrook Mr., Attenburrow, Notts. ' HeppenstaU Mr., WatnaU, Notts. Hopkins Mr. James, sen., Eastwood, Notts. Hopkins Mr. EUsha, Eastwood, Notts. Hancock Mr. Z., Ram Hotel, Newark, Notts. Hardy Mr. T., John-street, Sneinton, Notts. Hombuckle Mr. John, Sneinton, Notts. Hetherington Mr., Sneinton, Nottinghamshire Hoe Mr. Robert, Hockley, Nottingham Heywood Mr., NUe-street, Nottingham Harrison Mr. G., Radford MiU, Old Radford Hind Mr. Edward, Chesterfield-street, Nottingham Humphrey Mr, M,, druggist. Middle-marsh, Nottingham Hampton Mr. J., jun., Neptune Tavern, Beck-street, Nottingham 10 LIST OF Hawkes Mr. M., surveyor. Long-row, Nottingham HaU Dr. Spencer T., Derby HaU Mr. John, Shelford, Notts. Hutchinson Dr., Beastmarket-hiU, Nottingham Hart Mr., Town Arms, Trent Bridges, Nottingham Hibbert Mr. C, Stoney-street, Nottingham Headley Mr., cheesemonger. Chapel-bar, Nottingham Harrison Mr., druggist, Bridlesmith-gate, Nottingham Hampson Mr. John, victuaUer, Brook-street, Nottnigham Humphreys Mr, Jas. W., grocer, South-parade, Nottingham Henson Mr. W., Chapel-street, Beeston, Notts. Inger Mr., china dealer, Long-row, Nottingham Johnson J., Esq., solicitor. Long-row, Nottingham James Mr. R., artist. Mount-street, Nottingham Jones Mr. John, Goose-gate, Nottingham Jones Mr. J., tea dealer, Albert-street, Nottingham Jacobs Mr., Byard-lane, Nottingham Johnson Mr. William, Bedford-square, Ison Green, near Nottingham Jackson Mr. James, Bobber's MiU, near Nottingham Jones Mr. George, engineer, Derby James Mr. Cornelius, VUla-road, Mansfield-road, Nottingham Jones Mr. Thomas, Station-street, Nottingham Johnson Mr. Frederick, lace manufacturer. Park-street, Nottingham Johnson Mr. Frederick, brazier, Carlton-street, Nottingham Johnston Mr. Beeston, Notts Kirkland Mr. Wm., lace manufacturer, Beeston, Notts. Kidd Mr. W. M., Hounds'-gate, Nottingham Kirk Mr, WiUiam, Maypole-yard, Nottingham Kirk Mr. J., Rigley's-yard, ParUament-street, Nottingham KUk Mr., buUder, New Basford, Notts. King Mr. W., Bobber's MUl, near Nottingham Kirk Mr. "WUUam, New Lenton, near Nottingham Kirk Mr. John, lace manufacturer, Nottingham Khk Mr. John, agent. Red HUl, Nottingham Legard Captain, Kirkby Misperton, Pickering, Yorkshire SUBSCRIBERS. 11 'Lacey W., Esq., Adbolton, Notts. Litchfield Rev. Joseph, Kingstone, Northampton Lacey Mr. George Alexander, Carrington, Notts. Latham Mr. Thomas, estate agent. Burton-street, Nottingham Levick Mr. George, merchant, Nottingham Langsdale Mr. Joseph, gardener, Basford, Notts. Limb Mr. John, lace manufacturer, Beeston, Notts. Large Mr, Henry, druggist, Beastmarket-hiU, Nottingham Leedham Mr., bootmaker, Warser-gate, Nottingham Lacey Mr. G. F., tailor. Angel-row, Nottingham Lewis Mr. J., 8, Carlton-street, Nottingham Lees Mr., joiner. Mount-street, Nottingham Linneker Mr. Charles, Nottingham Langley Mr., bookseUer, Market-place, Mansfield MUward Richard, Esq., Thurgarton Priory, Notts. Massey Isaac, Esq., M.D., St. James's-street, Nottingham Moore Samuel, Esq., soUcitor, Church-gate, Nottingham Mills G., Esq., Regent-street, Nottingham Maltby C, Esq., Nottingham Maltby Thomas, Esq., Woodthorpe, Notts. Mower C, Esq.. surgeon. Burton Joyce, Notts. MUls Rev. John P., Hockerton, Notts, MuUigan Rev. J. J., Derby-road,fNottingham MUes Rev. Robert, Bingham, Notts. Milnes Mr. John, bleacher, Old Basford, Notts. Massey Mr., farmer, Thrumpton, Notts. Mee Mr. J., Assembly Rooms, Nottingham Milnes Mr. T. B., Basford, Nottinghamshire Morley Mr. Josias, Kimberley, Notts. Marriott Mr, B., Kimberley, Notts. Maxfield Mr. Henry Malbon, schoolmaster. North Somercotes, Lincolnshire MeUers Mr. Henry, clerk, 29, Newcastle-street, Nottingham Malpas Mr. WiUiam Heniy, Flying Horse Hotel, Poultry, Nottingham Moody Mr. Thomas, high baUUf, Radford, Notts. Mann Mr. Matthew, warehouseman, Gregory-street, New Radford, Notts, MarshaU Mr. Henry, dealer in paperhangings, Lincoln-street, Nottingham May Mr. WilUam, buUder, Manchester-street, Nottingham May Mr. WiUiam, buUder, Beck-street, Nottingham 12 Martin Mr. John, bmsh maker, 57, Swinton-street, Gray's Inn-road, London MeUers Mr. Thomas,, book keeper, Castle-terrace, Nottingham Meekley Mr. Henry, jun., accountant, &c., Woodland-place, Nottingham Moreton Jesse, baker, Alfreton-road, Radford, near Nottingham Maclean Mr. John, draper, Bromley-place, Nottingham Newcastie His Grace the Duke of. Clumber, Notts. Newham Samuel, Esq., Nottingham Park North Thomas, Esq., Cinder HUl, Notts. Nokes Mr. WUliam, furrier, &c., Pelham-street and High-street, Nottingham Nottingham Mechanics' Institution Norris Mr. George Goodwin, Mount Vernon, Nottingham Nelson Mr. A. B., hosier, Radford, Notts. Needham Mr. S,, Swing Gate, Kimberley, Notts., NuttaU Mr. farmer, Basford, Notts. Nix Mr. Henry, butcher, Brinsley, Notts. Naylor Mr. John, lace designer. High-pavement, Nottingham Oldknow Henry, Esq., Draycott, Derbyshire Oliver Mr. Andrew, Basford, Notts. Oldham, Mr. Thomas, hosier, ChilweU, Notts. Oldham Mr. J. N., hosier. Mount-street, Nottingham Ohver Mr., lace manufacturer, Basford, Notts. Orange Mr. James, ironfounder, Granby-strset, Nottingham Oldham Mr. J. N., hosier, 50, Derby-road, Nottingham Owencroft and Son Messrs., professors of dancing. Mount-street, Nottingham Oscroft Mr., artist, Sutton-in-Ashfleld, Notts. Owen Mr., tailor, Mount-street, Nottingham Patohitt E., Esq., solicitor, Nottingham Page W., Esq., sheriff. Bobber's MiU, Notts. Percy Edmund, Esq., soUcitor, Nottingham Park Parsons Arthur, Esq., solicitor, Nottingham Pyatt Henry, Esq., veterinary surgeon, St. James's-street, Nottingham Parsons WiUiam, Esq., soUcitor, WelUngton-circus, Nottingham Padley Rev. A., BulweU HaU, Notts. Pearson Mr. John, Union-street, Beeston, Notts, Parker Mr. Thomas S., farmer, Oxton, Notts. Perry Mr. J. M., hosier. New York, United States of America SUBSCRIBERS. 13 Pettinger Mr. George, colUery agent, Cinder HiU ColUeiy, near Nottingham- Perry Mr. John, brewer, Talbot-street, Nottingham Perrons Mr. John, house agent, &c., Lincoln-street, Basford, Notts, Pierce- Mr. John, cabinet maker. Forest-side, Nottingham Popham Benjamin F., Esq., Beeston, Notts. Porter Mr. WUliam, warehouseman. North-street, Nottingham Parker Miss Jane, Burton-street, Nottingham Parr Mr. R. S., watch maker, 19, Hollow-stone, Nottingham Pearson Mr,, Whitemoor, Basford,' Notts, PaUng Mr. Samuel, Ilkeston, near Nottingham Page Mr. Jonathan, smallware dealer, Long-row, Nottingham Porter Mr. Robert, bookseller. High-road, Beeston, Notts. Pinkney Mr., engineer. High-pavement, Nottingham Pickering Mr. E. G., Sneinton, Notts. Place Mr. John, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank Pratt Mr., Star Inn, Wheeler-gate, Nottingham Patterson Mr., Forest, Nottingham Peet Mr. .Robert, Burton Joyce, Notts. Robinson P., Esq., banker, Nottingham Rawson G., Esq., sohcitor, Bestwood Park, Notts. •Robinson Miss, Beeston, Nottinghamshhe RUey Mr. John, Newthorpe, Notts. Ringham Mr. J., printer, Carrington-street, Nottingham Raynor Mr. J., Spread Eagle Inn, Long-row, Nottingham • Robinson Mr. Thomas, brewer. Old Basford, Notts. Renals Mr. W., Convent-street, Nottingham Richardson Mr. W., organist of St. Nicholas', Nottingham Rawson Mr. T., printer, Peter-gate, Nottingham Rancliffe Arms Library, Sussex-street, Nottingham Ride Mr. Joseph, Basford Station, near Nottingham Rice Mr. E. J., commercial traveUer, Carrington, Notts. Robinson Mr. George Jonathan, accountant, Middle-pavement, Nottingham Rowntree Mr. Matthew, surgeon dentist. Friar-lane, Nottingham Rodgers Mr. George, manufacturing chemist, WUford-street, Nottingham Reddish Mr. John, chief superintendent of poUce, Fletcher-gate, Nottingham Rejmolds Mr. WiUiam, warehouseman, 14, Convent-street, Nottingham Redgate Mr. James, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire Renshaw Mr. William, Fletcher-gate, Nottingham J 4 LIST OF Roworth Mr. Thomas, tinman, ParUament-street, Nottmgham Robei-ts Mr. Josh., pei-fumer, Chapel-bai-, Nottingham Stratt The Right Honourable, E., M.P., Kingstone, Nottinghamsldre Smith H., Esq., WiUord, Nottinghamshu-e Smith Frederick, Esq., Nottingham SavUle W,, Esq., Pai-k, Nottingham Swann C, Esq., coroner, Nottingham ShUton Caractacus DAubigne, Esq., solicitor, Nottingham Sleight Hemy, Esq , Eastwood, Notts. Stretton Lieutenant-Colonel, Southampton Shipley F. E., Esq., GUtbrook, Notts. Statham Rev. F. F., M.A., St. Peter's, Walworth, London Sneath Mr., innkeeper, Linby, Notts. Stimpson Mr. Thos., GreenhUl-lane, near Alfreton Shipstone Mr. James, brewer. New Basford, Notts. Saxton Mr. P., Newthoi-pe, Notts. Shaw Mr. S., Eastwood, Notts. Spray Mr. W., Langley, Notts. Smith Mr. G., WoUaton, Notts. Simpson Mrs., Basford, Notts. Shelton Mr., farmer, Lenton Cottage, near Nottingham Soars Mr., St. John's-street, Nottingham Soars Mr., Carlton-road, Notts. Sti-eets Mr-, Clare-street, Nottingham SmaUey Mr. W., Cross-street, Nottingham Sanders Mr. J., Mansfield-road, Nottingham Sutton Mr. J., High-pavement, Nottingham Smith Mr., maltster, George-street, Nottingham Smith Mr. C, Ukeston-road, Radford, Notts. Sheppard Mr. J., brewer, Ivimberley, Notts. Stevenson Mr., joiner. Park HUl, Nottinghamshire Spybey Mr., tobacconist, Long-row, Nottingham Sharpe Mr. J., High-pavement, Nottingham Skelston Mr., wheelwright. Old Radford, Notts. Stevenson Mr., fishmonger. Smithy-row, Nottingham Shaw Mr. Joseph, Nottingham > Shipley Mr. C, GUtbrook, Notts. Spearing Mr., Portland-place, Nottingham SUBSCRIBERS. 15 Stones Mr., Clare-street, Nottingham Shipley Mr, H. W., CoUin-street. Nottingham Shelmerdine Mr. T\^, professor. of music, Victoria-sti-eet, Nottingham Stone Mr. Henry, buUder, Clai-e-street, Nottingham SuUey Mr. Edward, merchant, Foiest-vUle, Nottingham Semple Mr. John, commercial agent, Notiutone-place, Sneinton Smith Mr. Joseph, buUder, Castle-gate, Nottingham Shelton ]Mr. John, grazier, Beeston, Notts. Simpson Mr. Hemy, wai-ehouseman, Sherwood-place, Sheiwood, Notts. Smith Mr. R., City of London News Room, Cheapside, London Spencer I^Ir. John, lace dressei, Queen's-road, Nottingham Scales Mr. George, insm-ance agent, 39, Stoney-street, Nottingham Stocks Mr. Thomas, 29, Derby-road, Nottingham Sowter Mr. Joseph, agent, 26, Carrington-sti-eet, Nottingham Simmons Mr. Samuel, Elsmere-teiTace, Coventiy Smith Mr. John WUkinson, soUcitor, High-street, Nottingham Seymour Mr. James, Poiaton-street, Nottingham Sanday Mr. Jesse, poUce constable, Elksley, Notts. Spencer Mr. Richard BUch, clerk to the Union, Basford, Notts. Teggin Rev. J. G., Man.sfield, Nottinghamshire Thomley Mr. Joseph, printer. Walker-street, Sneinton, Notts. Trivett Mr. James, draper, South-pai'ade, Nottingham Taylor Mr. Richaid, confectioner. Lister-gate, Nottingham Townsend Mr. WiUiam, hosier, Eldon-street, Sneinton, Notts. TomUnson Mr. WiUiam, tatting and edging manufacturer. Hyson Green Taylor Mr. William, Clarendon-street. Nottingham Taylor Mr. J., jun,. writing-master, Sneinton-road, Notts. Thompson Mr. Joseph, Derby-road, Nottingham TowT-U-oe Mr. J. W., Forest-side, Alfi-eton-road, near Xottinsham Tudor Mr. W. T., Ison Green, Notts. Tebbutt Mr., Lenton, near Nottiagham TomUnson Mr., bookseUer, Newai-k Thompson Mr., maltster, Mansfield TweUs Mr., schoolmaster, Old Basford, Notts. Thorpe Mr. WUham, Park-side, near Nottingham Thompson Mr., lace manufacturer, Sneinton, Notts. Vickerstaff Mr., Ilkeston, near Nottingham jg LIST OF Vance Mr. James,' bootmaker. Peck-lane, Nottingham Wright I. C, Esq., banker, Stapleford HaU, Notts, Wylde John Charles, Esq., banker, SouthweU, Notts. WiUiams Dr„ Wheeler-gate, Nottingham White J., Esq., General Hospital, Nottingham Watson Thomas, Esq., London Woodhouse T. J., Esq., Overseal, near Ashby Whyatt John, Esq., Basford. Notts. Weightman Captain, Forest-side, Alfreton-road, near Nottingham Watson John, Esq., Beeston, Notts. Wood H. M., Esq., architect, Park-street, Nottingham WUd J., jun., Esq., The Park, Nottingham Wells A., Esq., soUcitor, Fletcher-gate, Nottingham WeUs John, Esq., Woodborough, Notts. Whyatt John, Esq., Waveriey-street, Mount Vernon, Nottingham Wilkins the Venerable Archdeacon, SouthweU, Nottinghamshire Whaley Rev. D., Carrington, Notts. Watson John, jun., Esq., Nottingham Whittaker Joseph, Esq., Ramsdale House, Notts. "Viliitehead Mr, WiUiam, brick merchant, Holborn ViUas, Nottingham WalUs Mr, Thomas, lace manufacturer. New Basford, Notts. Wright Mr. John, draper. Long-row, Nottingham White Mr. Frank, chemist. Long-row, Nottingham Wood Mr. John Frederick, nurseryman and florist. Coppice, near Nottingham Wood Mr. John, Beauval'e MiUs, Notts, Williams Mr. William RusseU, stationer, Chandler's-] ane, Nottingham Wood Mr. William, justices' officer, Grenville-street, Nottingham Whittaker Mr., Nottingham Whitby Mr. WiUiam, Carrington, Notts. WUd Mr. John, Stockeston, Leicestershire Woodhouse Mr. James T., purse manufacturer. Castle-terrace, Nottingham Willis Mr. William, lace dresser, Great Alfred-street, Nottingham • Wain Mr. William, pharmaceutical chemist, Lister.gate, Nottingham ¦ Wheeler Mr. B., glazier and gas fitter, Albert-street, Nottingham Wilde Mr. William, Grantham Canal agent, Trent bridge, Nottingham Wilcookson Mr. Charles Vigani, chemist and druggist, Long-row, Nottingham Whitby Miss Mary, housekeeper, Castle-gate, Nottingham Walker Miss, Seminary, Kimberley, Notts. SUBSCRIBERS. 17 Wheatley Mr. Elliott James, agent, &c., 2, Derby-place, Derby-road, Nottingham Wheatley Mr. Edwin Elliott, Derby-place, Derby-road, Nottingham Wilson Mr. Lewis Smith, Ram Hotel, Nottingham Wilson Mr. George, clerk, 26, York-street, Nottingham WUdey Mr. John, auctioneer. Lower Parliamen1>street, Nottingham Wood Mr. Thomas, Midland Railway-office, Maypole-yard, Nottingham Wragg Mr. WUliam, machinist, Beeston, Notts. Wilson Mr. Joseph, tailor and clothier. Goose-gate, Nottingham Woodward Mr., druggist, Chapel-bar, Nottingham WhaUey Rev. D., Carrington, Notts. Welch Mr. WUUam, plumber, &c.. East Bedford Yates Walter, Esq., surgeon, Derby-road, Nottingham Yates Mr. G. B., lace manufacturer. Forest Ville, Notts. Yeomans Mr. H., jeweller. Clumber-street, Nottingham Attenborough Mr. William, New Radford, Notts. Ash Mr. H., BulweU, Notts. Bacon George, Esq., Hemshill HaU, Notts. Baker Mr., Maypole Coach-office, Nottingham Birkhead Mr. Alderman, lace manufacturer, Middle-pavement, Nottingham Bottom Mr. P., jun., lace dresser, Regent-Street, Nottingham Bennett Mr. E., East Stoke, Notts. Ball Mr. WiUiam, machine builder, Sherwood, Notts. Booth Mr. William, machine smith, Sherwood-place, Sherwood, Notts. Bumaby, C. S., Esq., solicitor. East Bedford, Notts. BuUock Mr. R. Eastwood, Notts. Barber Mr. R., Eastwood, Notts. Booker Mr. R. H., BulweU, Notts. Burton Mr. Philip, Gotham, Notts. Bowley Mr. Henry, Keyworth Notts. BreedOii Mr. P., Leicestershire Brown Mr. B. W., Wymeswold, Leicestershire IQ LIST OF Baldock Mr. J., Wysall, Notts. Bromley Henry, Esq., Stoke HaU, Notts, Barrow Miss S, B , SouthweU, Notts. Bassett Mr. J,, Bingham, Notts. Brodhurst Wm., Esq , Newark, Notts. Blagden Mrs., Long Clawson, Leicestershire Burton Mr. Henry, lace manufacturer, Nottingham Forest Burton Mr. Thomas, book-keeper, Mansfield-road, Nottingham Bowley John, Esq., solicitor, ViUa-road, Mansfield-road, Nottingham Bramley Mr. James, tailor. Chesterfield-street, Nottingham Baker Mr. George, RaUway Office, Maypole yard, Nottingham Buttery J., Esq., solicitor. Park, Nottingham BaUey Mr., Normanton-place, Nottingham Blagg Mr. H., FUntham, Notts. Bates Mr. H., Granby, Notts. Bailey Mr. John, Bingham, Notts. Bradshaw Rev. T., Granby, Leicestershire Burgess Rev, R., Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts. Bosworth Mr. T., Shelford, Notts. BeastaU Mr. J. L., Notts. Barlow Mr. R., Cotgrave, Notts. Burrows Mr. R., Ruddington, Notts. Black Mr. John, joiner, &c., Hounds-gate, Nottingham Berridge Mr. Thomas, Plumtre-street, Nottingham Briggs Mr. John, schoolmaster, Bilborough, Notts. BeardsaU Mr. Edward, Sneinton, Notts. Butler Mr. J. S., lace manufacturer, Sherwood-street, Nottingham Carey Mr. W ; provision merchant. Postern-place, Middle-pavement, Nottm. Colton Mr. Joseph, smallware dealer. Parliament-row, Nottingham Coulby Mr., brass founder, Greyhound-yard, Nottingham Cresswell Rev. S., vicar of Radford, Aspley Terrace, Notts. Clay Mr., Beeston, Notts. Gaunt John, Esq., surgeon. Wheeler-gate, Nottingham Clayton Mr C , hosier, Liverpool Cursham Mr. Samuel, book-keeper, Mansfield, Notts. Chesterfield Earl of, Bretby Hall, Notts. CoUishaw Mr R., HickUng, Notts. Caunt Mrs, West Bridgford, Notts. Clough Mr E., East Bridgford, Notts. Chapman Samuel, Esq., surgeon, Costock, Notts, Clifton Mr. Richard, farmer, Ison Green, near Nottingham Darby A., Esq , surgeon. Regent-street, Nottingham Dunn Mr Jonathan, South Parade, Nottingham Dickens Mr, farmer, Mansfield, Notts. Dixon Mr. John, Southwell, Notts. Dickson Mr J., Cotgrave, Notts. Davies Mrs, Roclaveston Manor, Notts. Davy Miss, Westfield House, near Warsop, Notts. Dodson Rev, T, S., Wymeswold, Leicestershire Deny Mrs, West Bridgford, Notts, Doleman Mr John, jeweller and silversmith, 2, Smithy-row, Nottingham Day Mr Edward, parish clerk, Attenborough, Notts. Edson Miss, WoUaton, Notts, Ely Mr George, Bingham, Notts. EUis Mr H„ Shelford, Notts. Fox Mr John, jun, lace designer, Old Basford, Notts. Frisby Mr Samuel, publican, Mansfield, Notts. Fox John, Esq, Wiverton Hall, Notts. Foster Mr John, Bingham, Notts. Flinders Mr WiUiam, Keyworth, Notts. Fowler Rev. R. H., RoUeston, Notts. Falkner P. R., Esq, Newark, Notts, Fletcher Mr James, butcher and farmer. North Wheatiey, Notts. Fillingham George, Esq, Syerston HaU, Notts. Fitzpatrick Mr F., Newark, Notts. Felkin Mr Thomas, Weekday cross, Nottingham Flewitt Mr, glazier, Chandler 's-lane, Nottingham Fox Mr James, draper. South-parade, Market-place, Nottingham GiU John, Eaq, Park, Nottingham Goodacre Mr. R., Standard-hUl, Nottingham GeU Mr. James, plumber, &c. Narrow-marsh, Nottingham Gibbons Mr Benjamin, Carlton-road, Nottingham Greenhalgh James, Esq, Carr-bank, near Mansfield, Nottingham 20 LIST OF Gresley Mr, artist, Sneinton, Notts. Green Mr John, Colston Basset, Notts, Gelsthorpe Miss, Moorgreen, Notts. Green Mr Edwin, warehouseman, Ilkeston road, Radford, Notts. Gylby Mr. W. S. solicitor. East Retford, Notts, Herbert Mr J., laoe''manufacturer, Mansfield-road, Nottingham Hunt William, Esq, solicitor, Mansfield-road, Nottingham Higginbottom John, Esq., surgeon, High-pavement, Nottingham Higginbottom MarshaU HaU, Esq,, surgeon, Carlton-street, Nottingham Hardy Mr. Luke, coal merchant, Queen's-road, Nottingham Harrison Mr. John, grocer, 31, Pelham-street, Nottingham Harrison Mr. George, Governor of Nottingham Union, Nottingham Hoe Mr Mark Anthony, warehouseman, St. Mary's-gate, Nottingham Hinks Mr William, lace maker, Newcastie-street, Nottingham Henson Mr William Henry, perfumer. Chapel-bar, Nottingham HaU Mr, bookseUer, Carrington-street, Nottingham Hartshorne Mr John, warehouseman, Pleasant-place, Mount-street, Nottm. HUdyard T. B. T., Esq, FUntham HaU, Notts. HassaU J., Esq, Oxton, Notts. Hurst WiUiam, Esq., solicitor, Beeston, Notts. Holden Rev. J, Ruddington, Notts. Hunter Rev. Hugh, Notintone-place, Sneinton, Notts. Hardwick Mr, woodman, Stainsby, Notts, Horsepool Mr John, Bingham, Notts, HickUng Mr George, Cotgrave, Notts, Hardy Mr Robert, HickUng, Notts. Hallam Mr John, Keyworth, Notts. Hind Mr Thomas, Goverton Hallam Mr John, Plough Inn, Keyworth, Notts. HaU Mr John, agent, Shelford, Notts. Hibbard Mr, PhUadelphia, United States of America Hutchinson Mr Edwin, printer, Suffolk-street, Birmingham Hurt Rev. S., Linby, Notts. Hatfield Mr. Edward, SouthweU, Notts. Hopkinson Mr., Red BiU, Notts. Joynes Mr John, Barker-gate, Nottingham. Jackson Mr James, draper. South-parade, Nottingham SUBSCRIBERS. 21 Jones Mr John, Rose and Trumpet, Goose-gate, Nottingham Jackson Mr James, Bobber's-miU, Notts, James Mr William, Bradmore, Notts, Jones Mr. John, chemist, Worksop, Notts. Jardine Mr, Marston, near^Grantham Kerry Mr James, sen, machinist, Mortimer-street, Nottingham Kerry Mr James, jun, machinist, Mortimer-street, Nottingham Kerry Mr Thomas, druggist, Derby-road, NottiDgham Kerry Mr Edmund, hosier, Mansfield-road, Nottingham King Mr John, livery stable keeper. Lister-gate, Nottingham Kershaw Mr Thomas, bookkeeper, Bath-vale, Mansfield, Notts. King Mr William, blacksmith, Bobber "s-mill, Notts. Kitchen Mr Edmund, grocer. Market-place and North-gate, Newark, Notts. Kirkham Mr. William, farrier, &c., Tuxford, Notts. Kelham Mr Henry, Rugby, Warwickshire Lacey Mr, Radford, Notts. Leeson Mr WiUiam, bleacher, Mansfield, Notts. Lacey Mr, warehouseman, Sneinton, Notts. Leavers Mr Thomas, East Bridgford, Notts. Leverton Mr William, Arnold, Notts. Lambert Mr Hewitt Edward, carrier, Carlton, Notts. Lee Mr. Joseph, Bloomsgrove-street, New Radford, Notts. Leavers, Mr., SouthweU, Notts. Maltby Rev. B, Whatton, Notts. MUes Rev. R, Bingham, Notts. Marriott John, Esq, Cropwell-Butler, Notts. Mann Joshua, Esq, Stragglethorpe, Notts. Morley James, Esq, NuttaU, Notts. Moore Mr John, Calverton, Notts. MarshaU Mr T. B., Rempstone, Notts. MarshaU Mr John, Stoke Bardolph, Notts. Madin Mr William, printer. Lower Manvers-street, Sneinton, Notts. Morton Mr John, New Radford, Notts. Mason Mr Samuel, Mansfield, Notts. Matthews Mr Thomas, Car-Colston, Notts. Monk Mr William, sen, leather cutter and currier, Old Radford, Notts. Mosley Mr William, Royal Oak Inn, Sneinton Elements, Notts, Mannwell Mr. Thomas, innkeeper, Tuxford, Notts. Maltby W., Esq., surgeon, Basford, Notts. Marshall Mr., mechanic. Castle-gate, Nottingham Marriott Mr WiUiam, Royal Arch Druid, Lister-gate, Nottingham Newark Viscount, M.P., Holme-Pierrepont, Notts. Nutt Mr T. C, butcher, Old Lenton, Notts. Norton Mr R, Newark, Notts. Oliver Rev. S, Calverton, Notts. Oylett Mr Edmund, stonemason, Warsop, Notts. Osborne Mr J. H, Epperstone, Notts. Oliver Mr J. D, Bingham, Notts. Peach Rev. J, J, Holme Pierrepont, Notts. Pearlby Mr R, South Muskham, Notts, Pearson Mr J, gardener, Budby, Notts, Parr Mr Samuel, Granby, Notts, Pyatt Mr A, WUford, Notts, PUgrim Mr P, Shelford, Notts. Poole MrF, East Bridgford, Notts. Price Mr WiUiam, Gotham, Notts. Pogson Mr P. F, Stoke Bardolph, Notts. Plumptree Rev. H. W., Eastwood, Notts. Piggin Mr. John, HucknaU, Notts. Pigga Mr J. 0., Nottingham Parkin Mr George, Mount Vernon, Nottingham Potter Mr. Samuel, cabinet maker, 16, Clare-street, Nottingham Power Rev. Joseph, Normanton-on-Soar, Leicestershire Potter T. R, Esq, Wymeswould, Leicestershire Redgate T. B, Esq, solicitor, Scarthing-moor, Notts. Richardson Mr John, lace manufacturer. New Radford Ross Mr., Old Basford, Notts. Raven Mr. Joseph, WatnaU, Notts. RoUeston L., Esq , WatnaU, Notts. Richards Mr. John, Bobbers MiU, Notts. Richards Mr. Samuel, New Radford, Notts, SUBSCRIBERS. 23 Robinson Mr Charles L, draggist. West-gate, Mansfield, Notts, Rose Mr James, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts. Richardson Mr C, Thurgarton, Notts. Radford Mr, warehouseman, Crescent-place, Nottingham. Royston Mr Cuthbert, brush and basket manufacturer, Albert-street, Nottm. Redgate Mr., iron founder. Parliament-street, Nottingham. Sherwin, J. S., Esq., Bramcote, Notts. Sherbrooke H. P., Esq, Oxton, Notts. Sneath C, Esq, Amot Vale, Notts. Simpson J, Esq, Arnot Vale, Notts. Storer Charles, Esq, M.D., Lowdham Grange, Notts. Styring Mr James, Wheat Sheaf Inn, Old Lenton, Notts. Savage Mr George, bleacher. West-gate, Mansfield, Notts. Stone Mr James, cabinet maker. West-gate, Mansfield, Notts. Smith Mr W, CropweU-Bishop, Notts. Sleight Mr, Robert, joiner. North-street, New Sneinton, Notts. Smith T. H., Esq., Nottingham Swanwick Mr George, CropweU-Butler, Notts. Stone Mr R, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts. Scottorn Mr T, Cotgrave, Notts. Shaw Mr Robert, Keyworth, Notts. Smith Mr James, Ruddington, Notts. Smith Mr Hiram, Lambley, Notts. Sibrey Mr F, Long Clawson, Notts. Staples Mr James, boot maker. Canning-street, New Radford, Notts. Smith Dr, Eastwood, Notts. Sheppard Mr Thomas, painter, Mansfield, Notts. Smith Mr S, Old Sneinton, Notts. Swann John, Esq, merch&nt, Standard-hUl, Nottingham^ Small Mr, High Holborn, Nottingham Soar Mr Joseph, Swiss Cottage, St. Ann's Well-road, Nottingham Shaw Mr Thomas, lace manufacturer, Park-street, Nottingham Sharp Mr Richard, Fox and Owl, Upper Paiiiament-street, Nottingham Sanders Mr John, solicitor, ViUa Terrace, Nottingham Sherritt Mr. John, joiner, Trinity-teiTace, Nottingham Shelton Mr. John, machine agent, WaUnut-tree-lane, Nottingham Swann Mr John, jun., farmer, Odston HUl, Leicestershire Taylor W, Esq., Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts, Treese Mr J, Bradmore, Notts, Turner Mr Samuel, lace manufacturer, Pleasant-row, Ison Green, Notts. Turney Mr WiUiam, Deligne-street, Radford, Notts. Turner Mr., Radford, Notts. TweUs Mr. W., WatnaU, Notts. Twells Mr, mechanic. Mills 's-yard. Parliament-street, Nottingham Taylor Mr WUliam, confectioner, Bridlesmith-gate, Nottingham Taylor H., Esq., surgeon. Wheeler-gate, Nottingham Walker Sir Edwai'd, Berry HiU, Mansfield, Notts. Wild S. B., Esq,, Costock, Notts. WeUs John, Esq., Woodborough, Notts. Walker Mr George, boot maker, Bond-street, Sneinton, Notts. Wright Mr James, lace manufacturer, John-street, Sneinton, Notts. Wilson Mr J, BUdworth, Notts. WiUows Mr T, Over Broughton, Notts, Walker Mrs, Holme Pierrepont, Notts. WhUelaw Mr G, Bingham, Notts. Woodward Mr G, Barton, Notts. WUkinson Mr T, Barton, Notts. Wilkie Mr Thomas, warehouseman, Alfreton-road, Radford, Notts. WUd Mr John, Selston, Notts. ANNALS OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. A.D. 1766. As we are now, in the course of our " Annals," entering upon a period of time that will rapidly bring us within the recollec tions of many persons living — a period distinguished by the occurrence of more remarkable events, and characterized by greater changes in society (social, moral, intellectual, and politi cal) than was ever before witnessed in an equal space of time, at any age of the world — we cannot but feel that a greater responsibility is cast upon us, to be faithful, earnest, and impartial in the recital of all those events which may fall under our observation, as well as in the biographical notices of the lives and actions — genius and character, of the many distinguished individuals with which the era will be found to abound. Hitherto, we feel that our credit, as historians, stands unim- peached on the grounds of fairness and impartiality ; and what we have thus so far fairly earned, it shall be our pride and honest endeavour to maintain to the end ; though, amidst scenes and circumstances, to which reference will necessarily be made, it may possibly be that, through weakness, or the action of a subtle poison of prejudice which our selves may not be able to detect, an undue degree of im portance may be given to some matters and things, whilst from others we may unconsciously withhold what is their due. Living amongst men, and being mixed up for many years of an active political life with all the great movements in which the body politic was, at one period in particular, so ardently engaged, it was impossible but that partizanship, under some form or other, must have become the habit of our mind, as well as that of others. But though the dust of party may still cling to our feet, we promise our readers that, as historians, its foulness shall neither becloud our judgment, nor corrupt our heart. For all the rest, we fling ourselves upon their accustomed indulgence. Robie Swann, mayor ; John Doncaster and 1''66- Wilham Smith, jun., sheriffs of Nottingham. 6, George ni. Freemen enroUed, seventy-four: [among whom were no fewer than six military officers. Indeed, it appears to have been a practice about this time to confer the freedom of the town on almost all officers of the army quartered here.] Timothy Rastall, mayor of Newark. John Bingley and John Taylor, bailiffs of East Retford. George Brown, Esq., Ordsall, high-sheriff; — Brough, under-sheriff. The tower of Orston church rebuilt this year. The bridge over the Leen, near to WoUaton Park-gate, erected, at the expense of the commissioners of the Notting ham and Derby turnpike. The October fair of this year was for long borne in memory by the inhabitants of Nottingham, on account of the great cheese riot by which it was distinguished. Twenty -eight to thirty shilliiigsper cwt. being demanded by the dairymen for their commodity, the people became excessively exasperated at this exorbitant charge, (as it was then considered) and at once com menced a furious attack upon them. The lots of cheese were taken forcible possession of; much was carried away, and much more damaged by being flung about, and rolled down the adjacent streets and passages. The 15th Light Dragoons were sent for by the magistrates, who, with the force at their imme diate command, felt themselves utterly unable to restore peace, or protect the persons or property of the farmers from spoliation and violence. One man was killed by a shot from one of the soldiers. The mayor, whilst endeavouring to quell the dis turbance, was knocked down by a cheese, hurled at him by one of the mob, and severely stunned. Several other persons re ceived considerable injuries from the blows inflicted upon them, NOTTINGHAMSHIKE . through the violence of the populace, or by the swords or fire arms of the troops. A number of individuals were apprehended, under various charges connected with this disturbance, but, through the leniency of the magistrates, were eventually all discharged. James Hornbuckle, mayor ; Henry Hollins and • George Sands, sheriffs of Nottingham. Freemen 7, George m. enrolled, 134. Rev. Samuel Martin instituted rector of St. Peter's, Nottingham ; and the Rev. George Beau mont rector of St. Nicholas'. Joseph Sikes, mayor of Newark. John Hurst and William Gylby, bailiffs of East Retford. Sir Gervase Clifton, Burt., of Clifton, high-sheriff; — Davys, under-sheriff. Two persons, of the names of Ross and Dorvella, obtained a patent this year for the manufacturing of velvet upon the stocking frame. " The business," Blackner says, " was carried on chiefly at London and Edmonton, though some little of it was done at Nottingham ; but in consequence of the pile not being fast, the whole soon fell to the ground." The open lands of the township of Carlton-in-Lindrick enclosed. This year is memorable, alike in the annals of Nottingham, and the British empire in general, as the date of the intro duction of Hargreaves's "spinning-jenny;" and it may be justly said that few inventions have effected more striking and rapid changes among men, than this ingenious, though simple, contrivance of industrial art, to multiply the powers of human labour in the spinning of a thread. How far, at the time, would have been the most astute mind in existence from dis covering, or even speculating, on the announcement of this invention, of the mighty results which have sprung from it, as an original source of manufacturing and commercial power ! The first machine of Hargreaves enabled a spinner to draw eight threads with the same facility as that with which one had pre viously been produced. Tiiis was an amazing step in advance of the old principle of spinning ; but the machine was subse quently brought to so high a degree of perfection, as that eighty ANNALS OF to one hundred spindles might be kept in motion by one pair of hands. No sooner was the light let in upon the public mind, through this little chink, which the talents and industry of Hargreaves had opened to the world, than a host of ingeni ous men, (as on the discovery of America by Columbus) set to work to make discoveries of their own, and open to themselves new paths to fame and fortune. But to no individual, perhaps, is British society, and through it the world at large, so much indebted, as the founder of its manufacturing and commercial greatness, as to -James Hargreaves. Much, however, as the inventions of this extraordinary man have, eventually, con tributed to enrich others, and to aggrandize his country, they were, to himself, little more than a source of annoyance, disaster, and discomfort. No sooner was the circumstance made known to the pubhc that Hargreaves had invented a machine, by which one person might be enabled, at the spin ning wheel, to perform the labour of several, than an ignorant and infuriated mob, composed chiefly of that portion of the populace of Blackburn engaged in the spinning of cotton thread, broke into his house, demolished his machinery and models, and extirpated, as they fondly imagined, this manu facturing heresy (of which an humble carpenter was the introducer) for ever from the land. But not so ; genius was not thus to be baffled by ignorance, nor its attempts to benefit the world rendered nugatory by prejudice or short-sighted selfishness ; the fire might be for a while smothered, but it ^as not extinguished. Hargreaves set himself again to work : and a machine, more perfect than the last, was soon produced, which became rapidly adopted by others ; and its superiority, as an instrument for the production of thread, acknowledged by 'all who had an opportunity of testing its powers. Incensed still more at this new invasion of what they considered the prescriptive rights of their class, to toil on as they had ever been accustomed to do, the population of Blackburn rose in arms against the hapless inventor of the "spinning-jenny,'' and broke into his house, which they completely sacked ; as well as those of some other persons, who had ventured ' on the ' NOTTINGHAMSHIKE. employment of the proscribed machine. In consequence of this continued persecution, Hargreaves removed from Black burn to Nottingham. Here, with the assistance of Mr. Thomas James, a master joiner in the town, with whom he had become accidentally acquainted, and to whom he stated the nature of his invention, he was enabled to erect a small factory, or mill, for the carrying on of their joint speculations. This building, really the first cotton mill in the world, stands at the north east end of a passage leading from the outside of Chapel-bar to Back-lane, (now called Wollaton-street) and which from this circumstance was designated Mill-street. Having obtained a patent for his invention, Hargreaves now pushed forward its improvement, so that, as before noticed, he was enabled at this mill, in a short while, to spin eighty-four threads at once. He had scarcely, however, put his machinery in motion, ere his invention was pirated by some persons in Nottingham. The patent was also infringed by some Lancashire houses ; and Hargreaves served all the parties with notices of action. The Nottingham spinners, who, from the nature of the local manu facture, had begun to be considerable consumers of cotton yarn, entered into coalition with their customers, the hosiers, and proved a formidable obstacle to the strict maintenance of the patent. The Lancashire people, however, more to their credit, endeavoured, by a compromise, and the payment of a sum of money to the patentee, to obtain from him a legal recognition of their right to use his invention. For the accom plishment of this purpose they sent over a delegate to Notting ham, who, at an interview with Hargreaves, offered him £3,000 for permission to adopt his machinery ; but he first demanded jC7,000, and at last stood out for ^£4,000. The parties were obstinate, and so the negociation broke off. On the actions proceeding, it was discovered by the patentee's attorney him self, that before leaving Lancashire, and whilst in very embar rassed circumstances, he had sold some "jennies" to obtain clothing for his children : the consequence of this fatal discovery was, that Hargreaves was compelled to rehnquish the further prosecution of his actions, as no chance remained to him of ANNALS OF obtaining a verdict. He continued his partnership with Mr. James for some years after this event, and according to the statements of Mr. James's family, accumulated some property ; though by several writers he is stated to have fallen into extreme indigence, and to have ended his days in St. Mary's workhouse, Nottingham. Mr. John James, the son of Thomas James, the partner of Hargreaves, and who, after the death of his father, was himself engaged in the spinning of cotton, constantly asserted that James Hargreaves, his father's partner, had acquired property from the concern before his death, and that after that event took place, he himself, on his father's account, paid the widow £400, which sum she, with the other accumu lations made by her husband, bequeathed at her death to her children. This Mr, John James, who died in April, 1836, in the ninety-third year of his age, said he knew Hargreaves well: " he was a stout, broad-set man, about five feet ten inches high. He first worked in Nottingham with Mr. Shipley; and here it was my father first met with him. He was making jennies for Shipley, who then wished to go in the cotton- spinning line. My father prevailed on him to leave Shipley, and embark with him in a new concern ; and money was bor rowed by my father, principally on the mortgage of some freehold property. A mill and two dwelling-houses were erected, in one of which my father resided, and the other was occupied by Mr. Hargreaves and his family, where he dwelt up to the time of his death ;" which took place on the 22nd of April, 1778, when in his sixty-first year. It is somewhat remarkable, amidst all the changes to which property in Not tingham has been exposed during the last seventy years, that this ancient mill, the cradle of the giant manufacture whose prodigious power and infiuence has effected, and is still effect ing, changes in society, which are only comparable to those brought about by the invention of gunpowder, the discovery of the western hemisphere, the art of printing, and the mariner's compass, should, in its exterior, still remain mostly as Har greaves left it. The building, there is reason to believe, was originally about forty feet long and twenty wide, and consisted NOTTINGHAMSHIRE . of three stories. A portion of it has evidently been pulled down to make way for the erection of the two newer-built houses which adjoin it on the southern end ; but the original door-way and window-places, both back and front, of the existing portion, are still distinctly visible, though new door ways and new window-places have been cut out of the brick work to accommodate the edifice to the purpose of occupation by two or three families. The house in which Hargreaves him self dwelt is on the western side of Mill-street, and immediately opposite the factory. We do not know what others think or feel, as they pass up and down Wollaton-street, and give, it may be, a passing glance at this unpretending edifice, but for ourselves, we are free to confess to the weakness of never passing by either the humble dwelling of the ingenious, though unfortunate James Hargreaves, or his little factory, without experiencing a deep sensation of regard, which, involuntarily, fixes our feet to the spot, and causes a thrill of emotion in our heart, such as nothing but the most sublime or important of human objects can awaken in us. Thousands crowd to visit the homes, the graves, or the scenes of action of kings and warriors ; of poets, novelists, and artists ; not one of whose labours, after all, bear any com parison, judged by their result, in point of sublimity to those of the humble mechanician of Mill-street; yet who rests in a nameless grave, and has the scene of his labours, and the home where his genius brought to perfection the multiplying power of that machine, by which countless millions, in almost every region upon earth, are now being clothed and fed, passed by unnoticed and unregarded. For though other valuable improvements have been made in the engines by which cotton is now prepared for the use of the weaver, Hargreaves, by all testimony, is still as much entitled to the superlative honour of a first inventor, as any other of those precursors in discovery, who have received the homage and gratitude of nations. A fragment of a chair in which Frederick, Napoleon, Nelson, Wellington, or divers other men of similar renown, might have sat whilst they ANNALS OF planned one of their famous battles — a tree against which they rested, or a plank on which they stood during the combat, would be hailed by thousands as an almost inestimable treasure, and purchased at a sum which would almost startle the imagina tion ; but for ourselves, we would more highly esteem a stave of the in all probability old ricketty chair in which Hargreaves sat when he planned the spinning-jenny, or the humble table on which he drev/ first the rude design of his wonder-working machine, than possess a fragment of the throne of the proudest potentate, or most successful military or naval commander, who ever lived upon earth. .^nn Wilham Foulds, mayor; Thomas Oldknow, jun., and Michael Kayes, sheriffs of Nottingham. Free- 8, George IIL jjjg^ enrolled, eighty : [among these were the late Robert Davison, Esq., of Arnold, father of a numerous respect able family, well known among us, and three of the Gregory family — George de Ligne Gregory, Edward Gregory, clerk, and Daniel Gregory, Esq.] Richard Butler, coroner for Nottingham. Henry Fiennes Pelham Clinton, Duke of Newcastle, appointed recorder for the borough of Nottingham, and lord-heutenant for the county. The Earl of Lincoln chosen mayor for the , borough of Newark, with Mr. R. Spragging as his deputy, John Bell, Esq., of Colston Bassett, high-sheriff; — Davys, sen., under-sheriff. At the general election this year, the Hon. Colonel Wilham Howe and John Plump tre, Esq., were chosen to represent the borough of Nottingham; John Manners, Esq., and the Right Hon. John Shelly, were elected for Newark , and Cecil Wray, Bart., and John Offley, Esq., for East Retford. Knights of the shire, the Hon. Thos. Willoughby and John Thornhagh Hewitt, Esq. The total amount of the assessment for the relief of the poor of the parish of St. Mary, Nottingham, this year, was £513 19s. Yet it was customary at this time, and for a number of years afterwards, to appoint young tradesmen, just commencing business, overseers of the poor, in order that they might " get a lift," by serving the workhouse with such NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , necessaries as they dealt in. The population of the town was at this time about a fourth of its present amount. A patent was taken out this year for making brocade upon the stocking-frame. This article is stated to have been a very beautiful production, but the cost destroyed all chance of it ever becoming established as a regular branch of manufacture. They who are desirous to see an account of the way in which this fabric was wrought, may consult the chapter on the " trade of Nottingham," in Blackner's history. Mary Sturtevant, by her will dated 29th October, this year, devised £200 to the churchwardens and overseers of Newark, the interest of which should be disposed of, on Christmas-day, to so many poor widows, in sums of ten shillings each, so far as the same would extend. She also left £100 to the vicar and churchwardens of Halam for the same purpose ; and another £100, the interest of which should, so far as necessary, be appro priated to repairing the church at Halam ; the surplus to be bestowed in putting poor children to school. She further gave £100 to the vicar and churchwardens of Norwell, the interest of which should be distributed as before-said; and £100, the interest of which should be laid out by the trustees of Norwell school in clothing, for the benefit of the children. On the 3d of August, this year, died that excellent and learned man, one of the brightest ornaments of our county — Thomas Seeker, Lord-Primate of England. He was born in 1693, at the village of Sibthorpe. His father was a Protestant-Dissenter, a pious and sensible man ; who, having a small paternal estate, lived upon it in the charac ter of a country gentleman. His mother was the daughter of Mr. George Brough, a substantial farmer of Shelton, like wise in this county. Young Seeker received his education at several' private schools and academies in the country, being, through various mischances, frequently obhged to change his masters. Notwithstanding this disadvantage, such was his habit of perseverance, joined with his extraordinary quickness of perception, that at the age of nineteen years, he had not only made considerable progress in Greek and Latin, and read the B best writers in both languages, but had acquired a knowledge of French, Hebrew, Chaldee, and Syriac ; had learned geogra phy, logic, algebra, geometry, and gone through a course of lectures on Jewish antiquities, and other branches of know ledge, preparatory to a critical study of the bible. He had been destined by his father for the ministry among the Dis senters. With this object in view, his studies, during the latter years of his educational course, were chiefly turned towards divinity, in which he had made such rapid advances, that by the time he was twenty-three, he had carefully and critically read over a great part of the scriptures in the original, and the best comments upon them. But though the result of these inquiries was a well grounded belief of the christian revelation, yet not being' able, at that time, to decide for himself on some pecuhar doctrines, nor to determine absolutely what commu nion he should join himself with, he resolved, like a prudent and conscientious man, to pursue some profession which should leave him at liberty to weigh those matters more jnaturely in his mind, and not obhge him to declare, or teach publicly, opinions which were not, as yet, settled in his own mind. In 1716 he apphed himself to the study of physic; and after gaining all the medical knowledge he could, by reading and attending lectures at London, two years afterwards, removed to Paris, then the first medical school in the world. Whilst residing there, he lodged in the sames house with the celebrated anatomist, Winslow, whose lectures he attended, as he did those of the materia medica, chemistry, and botany, at the King's Gardens. Still further to improve himself, he attended the operations in manual surgery at the Hotel Dieu, and attended also for some tinte Mr. Gregoire, the accoucher. During the whole of Mr. Seeker's continuance at Paris, he kept up a constant correspondence with Mr. Joseph Butler, likewise the son of a Dissenter, with whom he became acquainted at the academy of Mr. Jones, of Tewkesbury, who received into his establishment a limited number of young men, designed for the ministry among Dissenters. Butler, shortly after leaving this academy, conformed to the Established Church, and was, on NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. II the recommendation of Dr. Clarke and Mr. Edward Talbot, (son to Bishop Talbot) appointed preacher at the Rolls. Butler now took occasion to mention, in high terms of recommenda tion, his friend Seeker to Mr. Talbot, who promised, in case he took orders in the Church of England, to engage the good offices of his father, the bishop, in his favour. This was com municated to Seeker in a letter from Mr. Butler, in about May, 1720. He had not, at that time, come to any resolution of quitting the study of physic ; but he began to foresee, from the circumstances of his previous education, and the natural bent of his mind towards the study of theology, many obstacles to his success which he did not on the onset contemplate. It appears also from two of his letters, still extant, written from Paris to a friend in England, (both of them prior to the date of the one from his friend Butler, before alluded to,) that his views with regard to conformity were a good deal changed ; as, likewise, that he was a great deal dissatisfied with the divisions and disturbances at that particular period so rife among the Dissenters. In this state of mind, Mr. Butler's unexpected proposal found him ; and which he was therefore very well disposed to take into consideration. About the beginning of August he quitted France. On his arrival in England he was introduced to Mr. Talbot, with whom he cultivated an intimate acquaintance ; but it was unfortunately of short duration ; for in the month of December, that same year, Mr. Talbot fell ill of the small-pox, of which he died. It is remarkable, however, that this excellent young man (for he was but twenty-nine when he died) had that nice discernment of character, and fine appreciation of moral and intellectnal worth about him, as to perceive the value that his two new friends, as well as Mr. Benson, would, by their talents and virtues, be to that church to whose interests he was so warmly and conscientiously de voted, could they receive the notice they deserved, as, on his death-bed, to recommend them all earnestly to the patronage of his father. For this kindness Mr. Seeker, in particular, manifested his gratitude, by devoting himself as much as pos sible, through a long course of years, to the comfort and 12 ANNALS OF protection of his deceased friend's young and interesting wife, and her orphan daughter, by every means which affectionate solicitude for their welfare, and a tender regard to the memory of the departed could suggest. In April, 1721, he entered himself a gentleman-commoner of Exeter College, Oxford; after which he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in con sequence of the chancellor's recommendatory letter to the convocation. He now spent a considerable part of his time in London, where he quickly gained the esteem of some of the most learned and talented men of those days, particularly of Dr. Clarke, rector of St. James's, and the celebrated Dean Berkeley, afterwards Bishop of Cloyne. Bishop Talbot being, in 1721, appointed to the see of Durham, Mr. Seeker, in 1722, was ordained by him deacon ; and priest not long afterwards. In the following year he was named one of the bishop's domestic chaplains; and in July, 1724, the same generous patron presented him with the rectory of Houghton-le-Spring. This preferment putting it in his power to fix himgelf in the world, in a manner agreeable to his inclination, he soon after made a proposal of marriage to Miss Catherine Benson, the intimate friend and constant companion of the widow Talbot. This proposal being accepted, the parties were married by Bishop Talbot, in 1725 ; Mrs. Talbot and her infant daughter going to reside with them. About this time, too, Bishop Talbot bestowed preferments on Mr. Butler and Mr. Benson, whose subsequent rise in the church was all but as great as that of their mutual friend Seeker. Butler afterwards became Bishop of Bristol, and Benson was elevated to the see of Glou cester. In the winter of, 1725-6, Butler first pubUshed his incomparable sermons, in which, as Dr. Beilby Porteous and Dr. Stinton inform us, Mr. Seeker took pains to render the style more famihar, and the author's meaning more obvious to ordi nary readers. Seeker gave his friend the same assistance on the pubUcation of that noble work, on which his fame as a theolo gian and metaphysician principally rests, T/te Analogy ofBeligion, natural and revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. He now gave up all the time he possibly could to the discharge of the duties incumbent upon him by his acceptance of the pastorate of Houghton ; applying himself with alacrity to all the requirements of a country clergyman, and supporting that useful and respectable character throughout, with the strictest propriety. He omitted nothing which he thought would be of advantage either to the souls or bodies of the people committed to his charge. He brought down, so far as was consistent with the dignity and importance of his station, and the mission he had to carry out among them, his conversation and his sermons to the level of their understandings ; he visited them in private; he catechized the young and ignorant; he received his country neighbours and tenants in a spirit of the utmost kindness and hospitality, and was of great service to the poorer sort of them, at a time when they were very ill provided, under any circumstance, with medical aid, by his skill in the art of healing. Though this place was in a very obscure part of the country, yet the solitariness of it perfectly well agreed with his studious disposition ; whilst the income arising from it, so far as pecuniary matters were concerned, fully bounded his ambition. Here he would have been content to live and die ; here, as he has often been heard to declare, he spent some of the happiest hours of his life ; and it was no thought or choice of his own that removed him to a higher and more public sphere. The health of Mrs. Seeker, which now began to be very bad, her malady being, as was supposed, increased by the humid atmosphere in which their present residence was placed, compelled him to think of exchanging it for a dryer one. Accordingly, an exchange was made, through the friendly interposition of Mr. Benson, with Dr. Finney, prebendary of Durham, and rector of Ryton ; and Mr. Seeker was instituted to Ryton and the prebend, July 3rd, 1727. In July, 1732, he was appointed chaplain to the king; for which favour he was indebted to Dr. Sherlock, who having heard him preach at Bath, had formed the highest opinion of his abilities, and considered them justly deserving of being brought more prominently before the public. His month of waiting at St. James's happened to be August, and on Sunday the 27th 14 ANNALS OF of that month, he preached before the queen, the king being then abroad. A few days after, her majesty sent for him into her closet, and held a long and gracious conversation with him. Mr. Seeker began now to have a public character, and stood high in the estimation of those who were allowed to be the best judges of merit; he had already given proofs of abilities that plainly indicated the eminence to which he must some day rise as a preacher and a theologian ; and it was not long before an opportunity arose of placing him in an advantageous point of view before the public. Dr. Tyrrwhit, the rector of St. James's, who was a man of delicate constitution, found that the preaching in so large a church caused continually such a strain on his lungs, as materially to endanger his health. It was therefore proposed by his friends to the crown, that he should be made residentiary of St. Paul's, and that Mr. Seeker should succeed him in the rectory. This arrangement was so acceptable to those in power, that it took place without any difficulty. Seeker was instituted rector on the 18th of May. 1733 ; and in the beginning of July went to Oxford to take his degree of Doctor of Laws, not being of sufficient standing for that of divinity. On this occasion it was that he preached his celebrated sermon, on the advantages and duties of academical education, which was universally allowed to be a masterpiece of sound reasoning and just composition. It was printed at the desire of heads of houses, and quickly passed through several editions. The reputation of this sermon it was, no doubt, that contributed much towards that promotion which very soon followed on its publication. In December, 1734, he received from Bishop Gibson a very unexpected notice that the king had fixed on him to fill the vacant see of Bristol. His consecration took place January 19th, 1735. The honours to which Dr. Seeker was thus raised in the prime of life did not in the least abate his dihgence and attention for business, for which, indeed, there was more occasion than ever. His learned biographers now relate the manner in which he set about the visitation of his diocese, and the performance of the rite of confirmation ; he also made it a practice to visit the NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 15 churches in all parts of his see, in some of which he preached to crowded congregations twice during the day. The affairs of the parish of St. James's being likewise in great disorder, he took extraordinary pains to regulate and adjust everything, particularly as regarded the management of the poor, to whose interests and comfort he paid unremitted attention. As far as the circumstances of the times, and the populousness of that portion of the metropolis allowed, he omitted not even those private admonitions and personal applications which, more than public ministrations, are often attended- with the happiest effects. He allowed, out of his own income, a salary for reading early and late prayers, which previous rectors had paid out of the alms collected at the offertory, for the benefit of the poor and aged. He held a confirmation once in every year, and examined the candidates several weeks before in the vestry. He likewise drew up for the use of his parishioners a course of Lectures on the Church Catechism, which has received much commendation, and been several times reprinted. The sermons which he set himself to compose, we are told by the authorities before quoted, " were truly excellent and original." His faculties were now in their full vigour, and he had an audience to speak before that rendered the utmost exertions of them necessary. He did not, however, seek to gratify the higher part by amusing them with refined speculations, or ingenious essays, unintelligible to the lower part, and unprofi table to both, but laid before them all, with equal freedom and plainness, the great Christian duties belonging to their re spective stations, and reproved the follies and vices of every rank among them, without distinction or palliation. He studied human nature thoroughly, in all its various forms, and knew what sort of arguments would have most weight with each class of men. He brought the subject home to their bosoms, and seemed tb be saying not merely useful things in their presence, but addressing himself personally to every one of them. Few men ever possessed, in a higher degree, that rare talent of being able to touch on the most dehcate subjects with the nicest propriety and decorum — of saying the most famihar things without being low, the plainest without being feeble, the boldest without giving offence. He could descend with such singular ease and fehcity into the most minute concerns of common life ; could lay open with so much address the various workings, artifices, and evasions of the human mind, that his audience often thought their own particular cases ahuded to, and heard with surprise their private sentiments and feelings; their way of reasoning, and principles of acting, exactly stated and described. His preaching, at the same time, was highly rational and truly evangelical. He explained with perspicuity, he asserted with dignity, the pecuhar charac teristic doctrines of the gospel. These important truths he taught with the authority, the tenderness, the familiarity of a parent instructing his children. Though he neither possessed, nor affected, the artificial eloquence of an orator who wants to amuse, yet he had that of an honest, earnest man, who studied to convince — of a christian preacher, who sought to reform and save those who heard him. Solid argument, manly sense, useful directions, short, nervous, striking sentences, awakening questions, frequent and pertinent applications of scripture — all these following each other in quick succession, and coming evidently from the speaker's heart, enforced by his elocution, his figure, his action, and above all by the corresponding sanctity of his example, stamped conviction on the minds of his hearers, and sent them home with impressions not easily to be effaced. It will be readily believed, with these powei-s. Dr. Seeker quickly became " one of the most admired and popular preachers of his time." In 1737 he succeeded to the see of Oxford. In 1750 he was installed Dean of St. Paul's, for which he gave in exchange the rectory of St. James's, which he had held for seventeen years, but the duties of which had then become too much for his strength. About the same time he had the misfortune to suffer the bereavement of his wife, to whom he was most tenderly attached. On the death of Archbishop Hutton, in 1758, he was promoted to the see of Canterbury. He had never once, through his whole life, asked for preferment for himself, nor shown any unbecoming NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 17 eagerness for it; and the use he made of his newly-acquired dignity very clearly showed that rank, wealth, and power had in no other light any charms for him, than as they enlarged the sphere of his active and industrious benevolence. He sought out and encouraged men of real genius or extensive knowledge, and expended large sums in forwarding learning in every way possible. All designs and institutions which tended to advance sound morality and religion he patronised with zeal and generosity. He contributed largely to the maintenance of schools for the children of the poor — to the rebuilding or repairing of parsonage houses and places of worship ; and gave at one time £600 towards erecting a chapel in the parish of Lambeth, and appropriated £300 per annum to the enrichment of the library of the archiepiscopal palace, which had been utterly neglected by several preceding primates. With the Dissenters his grace manifested at all times a desire to cultivate a good understanding, maintaining a constant intercourse of friendship or civility with some of the most eminent of them, as Watts, Doddridge, Leland, Chandler, and Lardner; and upon several occasions, to such as needed help, he showed no less kindness than to persons of his own religious connexion. " In pubhc affairs," says one of his biographers, " his grace acted the part of an honest citizen, and a worthy member of the British legislature. From the period of his first entry into the house of lords his conduct was uniformly upright and noble. He kept equally clear from the extremes of factious petulance and servile dependance ; never wantonly thwarting administration from motives of party zeal, or private pique, or personal attachment, or a passion for popularity ; nor yet going every length with every minister from motives of interest or ambition. He seldom spoke in parhament, except where the interests of rehgion or morality seemed to require it ; but whenever he did address the house he spoke with propriety and strength, and was uniformly heard with attention and deference. Though he never attached himself implicitly to any set of men, yet his chief political connections were with the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Chancellor Hardwicke." This truly pious and excellent man, who was alike an ornament to his country and the church, as well as the county which gave him birth, died, after suffering, through a considerable period, excruciating pains from careis in one of the thigh bones, August the 3rd, 1768, By his will the archbishop devised to trustees property to the amount of about £11,000 for charit able purposes. This sum was principally derived from pro perty situated in the parish of Holme, near Southwell ; but Mr. Thomas Frost, of Nottingham, one of the junior council of the corporation, contrived, as his heir-at-law, under the pro visions of the Mortmain Act, to set that part of the will aside, and obtain possession of the property, where he erected a house, which, with the property, descended to his daughter, the late Mrs. Gawthorne, of Low Pavement, Nottingham. Thomas Hohes, Duke of Newcastle, and eldest son of Thomas Lord Pelham, Prime Minister of England, died this year. He was distinguished in early hfe as a young nobleman of aspiring genius; and his large estates giving him extensive interest and influence, he was considered by the Whig party, even at this early stage of his hfe, (1712, when he succeeded to his father's honours, and the great property of his uncle, John Holies,) as a powerful acquisition to their ranks. During the last year of the reign of Anne, " The Duke" (as he was, by courtesy, pre-eminently called,) openly avowed his principles and attachment to George I., with whom he had the honour to hold a correspondence after the death of the Electress Sophia, in 1714, when it became necessary for the court of Hanover to be apprised of all the motions of the Enghsh cabinet, and to be well assured who were their real friends. Upon the demise of the queen, he exerted himself very actively in promoting among the gentry and nobiUty, and indeed among all classes m this county, in particular, a feehng of loyalty and zeal in favour of the new family. Being too young, however, to take any leading part in the government, in the face of so many great men among the Whigs, whose political knowledge and abihties had stood the test of experience, it appears to have been thought expedient, at this time, to reward his exertions NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 19 in favour of the house of Hanover by new dignities, and posts of honour, rather than by any office in the departments of public business, such as his station in society could allow him to accept. Accordingly, in the month of October, 1714, he was created Viscount Pelham, of Houghton, in Nottingham shire, and Earl of Clare, in the county of Suffolk : he was also appointed lord-lieutenant and custos-rotulorum of the county. In November he was made cuslos rotulorum of Middlesex, and lord-lieutenant of the same county, and of the city of West minster. He was also constituted Steward, Warden, and Keeper of the Forest of Sherwood, and of the Park of Fulwood. By this time the disaffected party in the country, known as Jacobites, found it their interest to unite with the Tories and high-church party, in opposing and thwarting, as much as pos sible, all the measures of the government. The prompt, and, perhaps, somewhat injudicious manner in which all persons, not acknowledged as of the Whig party, had been ejected from office of almost every description, on the accession of the house of Hanover to the throne, had no doubt contributed to awaken into deadly hostility the feelings of a party strongly opposed in principle to those now in power. This union created a formidable opposition, both in the country and parhament, to the measures of the government, which placed the permanent peace and pros perity of the nation in great jeopardy. The press teemed with seditious and inflammatory pamphlets, and the populace as sembled in a tumultuous manner, in many parts of the capital in particular ; and proceeded to acts of violence, by breaking the windows, and otherwise injuring the property of persons who were distinguishTed by their zeal in support of the gov ernment and the protestant succession. The intelhgence of the Pretender's designs being conveyed to government by the Earl of Stair, proper measures, so far as possible, were taken to frustrate his schemes ; but the disaffected in all parts of the kingdom, buoyed up by false hopes, rose in different places in formidable mobs, and committed great depredations, particularly on the property of Dissenters. As to the London outbreak, it increased in violence from day to day, and now went by the name 20 ANNALS OF of the "Ormond mob." Notwithstanding this turbulence on the part of the populace, such was the jealousy of the people as to the employment of military force to suppress riots and tumults, that the government dare not call in the aid of the soldiers, for fear of weakening the interest of the house of Hanover, and endangering their own power. Under such circumstances, they had recourse to an expedient, strange as it may sound to our ears at the present time, to raise counter mobs, to bring into subjection those encouraged and excited by their oppo nents. These assemblages of violent and disorderly persons were secretly organized by Whig agents ; the Duke of New castle himself being recognized as their leader. This, indeed, was so notorious, that the mobs now engaged to put down the partisans of the Duke of Ormond, openly assumed the name of the " Newcastle mob." The beneficial effects of this manouvre was soon apparent : the Duke of Ormond was driven from the kingdom, and his partisans brought under complete subjection — a result which neither the reading of the riot act, nor the employment of the civil power, had been able previously to effect. The king, as an additional mark of his favour to this active supporter of his cause, created him, in November, 1715, Marquis and Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne. In April, 1717, his grace was appointed lord-chamberlain of the household ; and, the following year, was elected knight-com panion of the garter. In 1719, his majesty went to Hanover, and the Duke of Newcastle was appointed one of the lords- justices for the administration of government, during his absence. The duke held the post of lord-chamberlain till the month of April, 1724, when he resigned it, upon being appointed one of the principal secretaries of state, on a change in the ministry. The accession of George II., in 1717, made no alteration in the cabinet; all the great officers of state were continued, and the system of politics, estabhshed by George I was strictly adhered to for some time. In the session of par hament of the year 1739, the Duke of Newcastle was entrusted vj'ith a business of great importance. This was to lay before the peers a subsidy-treaty with the King of Denmark, by NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, 21 which his majesty had agreed to pay to the Danish monarch £70,000 per annum, on condition that he should furnish Great Britain with a succour of six thousand men, at any time when they should be required. This treaty, after a spirited oppo sition,, was, through the address and influence of the duke, and his brother, Mr. Pelham, carried in both houses. In 1743, Henry Pelham, on the death of the Earl of Wilmington, was advanced to the situation of first lord of the treasury, with which office he likewise held that of chancellor of the .exchequer. The administration of the brothers now com menced, Mr. Pelham being considered as prime minister, and the Duke of Newcastle as the second person in power and office in the state. In 1750, Mr. Pelham, supported by the influence of the duke his brother, undertook the reduction of the interest of the national debt. For this purpose, he moved for leave to bring in a bill for reducing the interest of the four per cent, annuities to three and a half, for seven years, certain, and afterwards to three per cent. This measure, through the ability of Mr. Pelham, principally, was carried without opposition. In the month of May, 1751, another public event took place, which does honour to the administration of the brothers; this was the alteration of the style — a scheme projected by the Earl Macclesfield, but which, from the selfishness and prejudice of individuals, could not have been carried into execution, had not the Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Pelham exerted the whole weight of their influence and interest in its support. A more unpopular measure of their proposal was the marriage act. Though Lord Hardwicke framed the bill, yet the principal advocate of it was Mr. Pelham, who was led to support it from a domestic circumstance of a peculiar nature, and therefore well deserving of notice. At this period pubhc breakfastings, and balls in the morning, at sundry houses of entertainment in the neighbourhood of London, were much in vogue. The places most frequented by persons of distinction were Ruckholt House, in Essex, and Putney Bowhng-green House. The company would scarcely fail of being of a very promiscuous character, where payment at the door was the only requisite for 22 ANNALS OF admission. It so happened that a sharper danced with the Earl of Tilney's sister at Ruckholt House, engaged her affections, and was at the point of accomplishing a clandestine marriage with the lady, when fortunately his character was dis covered. Nearly a similar event happened to Miss Pelham, sister to the prime minister. This lady found an agreeable partner at Putney Bowling-green House, with whom she fre quently danced; and thence an intimacy commenced, which ter minated in a declaration of love on the part of the gentleman, which was so favourably received by Miss Pelham, that she in vited him to her brother's house, where he made her several visits, and had absolutely gained her consent to marry him, when a general officer, accidentally paying her a visit one afternoon, while the gallant was there, knew him to be Maclane, the famous highwayman, who had robbed him twice on the road ! An ex planation ensued, the adventurer made a precipituous retreat, and the general finding that his discovery did not make that strong impression upon the mind of Miss Pelham, which might have been expected, flew to Mr. Pelham, and laid the whole matter before him, which determined the minister to pro mote the marriage act, requiring banns to be publicly pub lished, or licenses granted, before a marriage could legally be celebrated. This was the last public act of any importance in which Henry Pelham was concerned. In the month of March, the year following, this able statesman paid the debt of nature, lamented by his sovereign, and regretted by the nation, who readily forgave his errors, in consideration of his integrity, disinterestedness, and candour. The Duke of Newcastle, a man greatly inferior, as a statesman, in all the true requisites of knowledge and ability, to his brother, succeeded him as first lord of the treasury. The war of 1756, which shortly followed on the accession of the Duke of Newcastle to the premiership, was commenced, on our part, by way of reprisals for hostilities committed by the French, long before, in direct violation of the treaty of peace. Con trary, however, to that general candour, and high spirit of national honour and good faith, by which the British nation is NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 23 distinguished, even in its dealings with its enemies, the formality of declaring war was, on this occasion, unjustifiably and unnecessarily delayed : and, in the autumn of 1755, when France had no reason whatever to expect such a blow, a reso lution was taken in council to seize all French ships within our power, whether merchant-men, or vessels of war, and bring them into British ports. Shortly after this event, and in consequence of the great dissatisfaction manifested by the people, in many addresses laid before the throne as to the mismanagement of public affairs, " his majesty desired the Duke of Newcastle to resign office for the present, assuring his grace that he should be reinstated, at the earliest opportunity." Agreeably to this plan, the Duke of Newcastle resigned, and the Duke of Devonshire was appointed first lord of the treasury. In 1757, a new ministry was appointed, when the duke was restored to his office of first lord of the treasury, having for his associates in the next two principal offices, Mr. Pitt, the idol of the people, and Mr. Fox. In 1762, after the accession of George III. to the throne, a total change in the ministry, through the influence of the Earl of Bute, took place; Mr. Pitt had retired in 1761 ; and the Duke of Newcastle, with all his friends, down even to the lowest clerks in the public offices,were unceremoniously dismissed. In 1 7 6 5 , when the Rock ingham administration was formed, by the influence of the Duke of Cumberland, his royal highness advised the strengthening of the cabinet, by the taking in of the Duke of Newcastle. His grace was accordingly appointed lord privy seal, which post, however, he held only one year, when he resigned it to his old colleague in office, Mr. Pitt, now Earl of Chatham. His grace now resolved to quit the court, and all pubhc business; upon which occasion his majesty offered him a pension, but he magnanimously refused to disgrace his birth and character, or lower himself a tittle from that high position which he felt he occupied in the mind of the country, on account of his uniform generosity and disinterestedness, by becoming a pensioner, either on the bounty of the king or the nation. " His grace passed the remainder of his days in a 24 ANNALS OF dignified retirement, enjoying the society of his numerous friends, and the satisfaction of being considered as the most disinterested patriot of the age. " He did not, however, survive his retirement many years: in the early part of 1768, his health began to decline at a very rapid rate, so that before its close, his mortal career was completed, he dying on the 1 7th of November. The Duke of Newcastle was one of those men of whose true character it is difficult to form a just estimate. That it was a mixture of strange contrarieties, there can be no doubt ; much of Uttleness, mixed with much of true greatness — much that i was repulsive, with a great deal which was highly attractive ; i well fitted, in many respects, for the elevated situations he n occupied; but, in other respects, lamentably deficient in the i quahfications necessary for the efficient discharge of duties, even ' of a much less important character than those he constantly jj undertook to perform ; — he was neither deserving of the praise, the censure, the ridicule, nor the veneration with which he was treated by different parties in his time. The following specimens of the manner in which his grace has been spoken of by the writers of his own day, may not be deemed altogether unamusing to the reader. " The Duke of Newcastle," says Glover, " was a man of whom no one ever spoke with cordial regard — of parts and conduct which generally drew animadversions, bordering upon contempt —of notorious insincerity, political cowardice, and servihty to the highest and lowest. Yet insincere without gall— ambitious without pride— luxurious, jovial, hospitable to all men— of an exorbitant estate— affable, forgetful of oftences, and profuse of his favours, indiscriminately, to all his adherents— he had established a faction, by far the most powerful in the country ; hence he derived that influence which encouraged his preten sions to ministerial power. Nor was he less indebted to the experience of a court— a long practice in all its craft, whence he had acquired a certain art of imposition, tliat, in every negociation with tlie most popular leaders, however superior to himself in understanding, from tlie instant they begun to NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 25 depart from ingenuous and public principles, he never missed his advantage, nor failed of making them his property at last, and himself their master." This is severe enough ; but the reader may be gratified by another portrait of this extraor dinary man, drawn by one who possessed much more ample opportunities of studying his character : The Duke of Newcastle (says Lord Waldegrave) is in the thirty -fifth year of his ministerial longevity ; he has been much abused, much flattered, and stiU more ridiculed. From the year 1724 to the year 17-A3 he was secretary-of-state, acting under Sir Robert Walpole ; he continued in the same situation during Lord Granville's short administration ; but Granville, who had the parts and knowledge, yet had not, at all times, the discretion of a great minister, treated him with too much indifference ; especially as he wanted his assistance in the House of Commons, where he had littie interest of his own. After GranviUe's defeat, the Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Pelham became joint ministers : here he seems to have reached the highest degree of power where he can reasonably hope to maintain himself Ambition, power, and jealousy are his prevaUing passions. In the midst of prosperity and apparent happiness, the slightest disappointment, or any imaginary evil, will, in a moment, make him misera ble ; his mind can never be composed ; his spirits are always agitated. Yet this constant ferment, which would speedily wear out and destroy any other man, is perfectly agreeable to his constitution ; he is at the very per fection of health when his fever is at its highest. His character is full of inconsistencies ; the man would be thought very singular who differed as much from the rest of the world, as the Duke of Newcastle differs from himself If we consider how many years he has contiaued in the highest employments ; that he has acted a very considerable part among the most considerable men of his own time ; that, when his friends have been routed, he has stiU maintained his ground ; that he has incurred his majesty's displeasure on several occa sions, but has always carried his point, and has soon been restored to confidence and favour ; it cannot be denied that he possesses some qualities of an -able minister. Yet view him in a different light, and our veneration wiU be some what abated. Talk with him concerning public or private business, of a nice or delicate nature, he will be found confused, irresolute, continually rambUng from the subject, contradicting himself almost every instant. Hear him speak in parliament, his manner his ungraceful, and his reasoning inconclusive. At the same time he labours through all the confusion of a debate without the least distrust of his own abUities ; fights boldly in the dark ; never gives up the cause ; nor is he ever at a loss either for words or arguments. His pro fessions and promises are not to be depended upon, though, at the time they are made, he often means to perform them ; but is unwUling to displease any man by a plain negative, and frequently does not recoUect that he is under the same engagements to at least ten competitors. If he cannot be esteemed a steady friend, he has never shown himself a bitter enemy ; and his forgiveness of injuries proceeds as much from good nature as from poUcy. Pride is not to be numbered among his faults : on the contrary, he deviates into the opposite extreme, and courts popularity with such extravagant eagerness, that he fre quently descends to an undistinguishing and Uliberal famiUarity. Neither can he be accused of avarice or rapaciousness ; for though he wUl give bribes, he is 26 ANNALS OF above accepting them ; and instead of enriching himself at the expense of his master, or of the public, he has greatly impaired a very considerable estate by electioneering, and keeping up a good parliamentary interest, which is com monly, though perhaps improperly, caUed the service of the crown. His extraordinary care of his health is a jest even amongst his flatterers. As to his jealousy, it could not be carried to a higher pitch, was every political friend a favourite mistress. He is in his sixty-fourth or sixty-fifth year, yet thirsts for power in a future reign, with the greatest solicitude ; and hereafter, should he live to see a Prince of Wales a year old, he will still look forward, not without expectation that, in due course of time, he may be his minister also. As this latter imputation on the temper and disposition of the duke was, as we have shown, utterly invalidated by facts, we may charitably and reasonably hope that many other of the weaknesses imputed to him have, by the noble lord just quoted, as well as by other writers, been grossly exaggerated, -|~nq Humphrey Hollins, mayor; Joseph tieath and Joseph Oldknow, sheriffs of Nottingham. Freemen 9, George in. enrolled, seventy-three. Samuel Twentyman, mayor of Newark. George Popplewell and Sampson Mosman, bailiffs of East Retford. Robert Foster, Esq., Newark, high-sheriff; — Story, under-sheriff. Dr. Wilson, vicar of Newark, by a codicil to his will, dated 31st of May, 1769, left the sum of £40, to be distributed in two equal sums every year, by the vicar of Newark for the time being, to such poor families of Newark as he shall approve ; and other ten pounds he bequeathed to the vicar, for preaching a sermon on each of those days, and for his care and trouble in distributing the aforesaid alms. He further bequeathed one hundred pounds per annum to be distributed by his nephew, Robert Cracroft, and his heirs, in manner following: — forty pounds on the 21st day of August, and sixty pounds on the 31st day of December, among fifty necessitous families, residing in the town of Newark. Also ten pounds per annum to be dis tributed by the same persons, and at the same seasons, in equal portions, among twenty poor widows, living at Newark. — Also, other ten pounds per annum, to the vicar of Newark, so long as he shall behave himself with decency and respect to the said Bobert Cracroft, his heirs and assigns. The Duke of Kingston appointed recorder of Nottingham, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 27 in place of the Duke of Newcastle, elected the year proceeding, but who had respectfully declined accepting the honour. The lordship of HucknaU Torkard enclosed : when 110 acres of the land were sold to defray the expenses incident to the same. Died, at his residence on the High-pavement, the Rev. Samuel Eaton, D.D. He was a man of great erudition, and held in high estimation by the Dissenters of Nottingham, among whom he had officiated for more than thirty years. A young woman, nineteen years of age, havingbeen convicted of obtaining goods under false pretences, was sentenced by the justices, in quarter sessions assembled, to be stripped to the waist, and publicly whipped through the Market-place on the Saturday; which brutal order was carried into execution. The practice of whipping females in public, by order of magistrates, wa's continued, at intervals, for nearly thirty years after this time. The writer of this can well remember, when a youth, seeing this outrage on decency and humanity inflicted on a female, somewhat beyond the middle period of life. She had been con victed of keeping a house of ill-fame, and was sentenced to be whipped from the bottom of Boot-lane, (Clumber street) to the Malt-cross, opposite the end of Sheep-lane. The punishment was inflicted on her bare back, in a cart, to which she was tied, with a formidable birch rod; and her shrieks and cries, whilst under its infliction, were most ap palling ; yet proved only a subject of jest and merriment to a set of low ruffianing-looking fellows, by whom the cart was surrounded. Richard Butler, mayor ; Samuel Eaton and John 1770. Oldknow, sheriffs of Nottingham ; Jonathan Dod- 10, George ra. son, coroner. Freemen enrolled, 109: [among these were George Burbage, bookseller, for many years the proprietor of the Nottingham Journal ; Abel Smith, jun,. Esq, ; John Gaily Knight, Esq., (father of the late Henry Gaily Knight, of Fir- beck) and John Eamer, grocer. This latter gentleman, who was a native of the town, afterwards, whilst a young man, removed to London ; and being of an active and enterprising disposition, 28 ANNALS OF devoted himself very ardently to business, first as a wholesale grocer, and afterwards as a sugar-baker ; by which means he acquired a large property, and became sheriff and lord mayor of London. But some very heavy losses in trade, joined to the extraordinary splendour with which he upheld his civic digni ties, caused him, at last, to fall into considerable pecuniary difficulties.] Thomas Spragging, mayor of Newark. John Bright and Michael Sampson, bailiffs of East Retford. Urban Hall, Esq., Warsop, high-sheriff; — Gladwin, under-sheriff. Charles Mellish, Esq., Blyth, appointed recorder of Newark. Rev. Nathan Haines instituted into the vicarage of St. Mary, Nottingham. The junior council of the corporation of Nottingham re elected, under a writ of mandamus from the Court of King's Bench, after an abeyance of twenty-one years. The county hall, on the High-pavement, rebuilt, at an ex pense of £2,600. On the 5th of August, this year, died John Willimot, gent., of Burnham, county of Norfolk. He was at the time the oldest burgess of Nottingham, having taken up his freedom in the year 1708. At the great contested election in 1754, he visited the town for the purpose of recording his vote in favour of Sir Willoughby Aston and John Plumptre, Esq. He was attired in a complete suit of light blue velvet, the buttons of which consisted of shillings and sixpences of the reign of Anne. At the time of his decease he was in his ninety-eighth year. The winter of this year was remarkable, at Nottingham, by the occurrence of one of the largest floods known for a great number of years; and the falling of two miniature avalanches from the precipitous rock at the back of the houses on the High-pavement, into the Narrow-marsh. Fortunately, no lives were lost by these land-slips, though one house was entirely destroyed, and another much injured. The public room in the old Exchange buildings, then known as the " Long Room," registered as a place for religious wor ship by Samuel Need, William Rawson, and Andrew Horn- buckle. Broughton-Sulne lordship enclosed about this time ; when 240 acres were allotted to the rector in heu of tithes. Burton Joyce lordship enclosed ; the Earl of Chesterfield is impropriator and patron of the vicarage. Clumber House, the seat of his grace the Duke of Newcastle, built about this time. — Foster, this year, left £17 to the poor of Eakring. Cornelius Huthwaite, mayor ; William Wells and Henry Green, sheriffs of Nottingham. Freemen 11, George III. enrolled, sixty-seven. William Handley, mayor of Newark. John Booth and Richard Hutchinson, bailiffs of East Retford. George Donston, Esq., Worksop, high-sheriff; — Whittaker, under-sheriff. The bells at St. Peter's church re- cast this year ; and rung for the first time on Christmas-day morning. The following are the inscriptions upon them ; First, or Treble. — " I was given by the Society of Northern Youths, in 1672, and recast by the Sherwood Youths, in 1771.^Pack; & Chapman, of London. Fecit." Second. — Same as above. Third. — " Our Voices ShaU With Joyful sound — make HiUs and VaUeys Eccho Bond," Fourth, — " We celebrate Th' Auspicious Morn, On which the Son of God was born," Fifth. — " Our Voices shall in Concert Ring, To Honour both of God and King." Sixth. — " The Bride and Groom we Greet in Holy Wedlock Join'd, Our Sounds are Emblems of Hearts in Love Combin'd." Seventh. — " I was given by Margery Doubleday, about the year 1544, and recast with the beUs in 1771." Eighth.—" I ToU the Funeral KneU, I Hail the Festal Day, The Fleeting Hours I TeU, I Summon all to Pray." " — Martin, Rector; Jno. AUeyne and Frans. Jones, Churchwardens." The great bell weighs 21cwt. 2qrs. 31bs.; the one at St. Mary's, 34cwt. 2qrs. 81bs. General complaints were made at this time, as well as before and afterwards, of the deprivations of comfort under which the framework-knitters generally were suffering. 30 ANNALS OF During the spring of this year, as a farmer was ploughing one of his fields at Hickling, he struck upon an urn, which was found to contain a number of Roman coins, some of them of the age of Vespasian. They were about two hundred in number, and were mostly denarii. Hickling appears, as we are informed by Camden, to have been a Roman station. North Muskham lordship enclosed ; when ninety-one acres were awarded to the vicar, and three hundred acres to the Earl of Falconberg, the lay impropriator, in lieu of tithes. Elizabeth Teague, by her will, bearing date 15th August, 1771 , directed her executors to pay to the ministers and church wardens of the parish of Snenton £100, to be by them placed out at interest, on real security, or in the public funds ; and that the interest should be yearly applied in the purchase of bread and coals, which should be by them distributed to the poor of the said parish on St. Thomas's-day for ever. This legacy was invested in the purchase of £120 2s. 6d. Consolidated Three per Cents., which stock is now, or was lately, standing in the names of Richard Morley, George Green, and the Rev. G. Wilkins. Richard Stenton, by his will, bearing date 9th August, 1771, gave to the minister and churchwardens of Southwell £150, to be placed out at interest on mortgage of lands and tenements ; the interest to be paid to a schoolmaster, for teaching ten poor boys or girls of that parish to read ; such master and children to be nominated and removed at the discretion of the said minister and churchwardens. Mr. Hempsall, of Farndon, by his will, dated 20th December, this year, left the sum of £100 to the vicar and churchwardens of the parish, to be by them placed out at interest ; and that the said interest should be by them given and disposed of for the use and benefit of six poor men and six poor women of the parish of Farndon, at Christmas, yearly, in such manner as they should think most serviceable to the said poor people. j,^,j,g Henry Butler, mayor. (Mr. Butler died soon after wards, in his eightieth year, and was succeeded by his 12, George HI. gon, Richard Butler.) John Wells and Richard Cox, f f f NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. ^ 1 sheriffs of Nottingham. Freemen enrolled, sixty-four. Samuel Brooksby, mayor of Newark. Rev. Hugh Wade instituted into the vicarage of Newark, on the death of Bernard Wilson, who had held it through the long period of seventy-three years. John Taylor and James Booth, bailiffs of East Retford: Rev. B. Morton, M.A., instituted into the vicarage of that borough. Geo. Neville, Esq., Thorney, high-sheriff;. — Hatton, under-sheriff. The frost, during the latter part of the month of January, this year, is stated to have been so severe, as to entirely congeal the oil in the public cistern, so that none could be obtained to trim the street lamps, consequently the town was obliged to remain in darkness. The night of the 11th of February was so intensely cold, accompanied with a driving sleet and snow, that several persons, who had to cross the open lands of the forest, perished on returning from 'Nottingham market. Of the fatalities of this night, long remembered in Nottingham and its vicinity, the following instances may be taken as pre-eminently distressing : Mrs. Ann Webster, of Calverton, in company with a neigh bour, left Nottingham, about five p.m., on horseback; she had the utmost difficulty, all the way, to compel the animal to face the storm ; but managed, by dint of perseverance, to arrive within about, a mile of her home. Her companion, who was less fatigued, or better mounted than herself, thinking she was pretty well out of danger, here left her, and rode forward to the vil lage, and then despatched two neighbours with lights, to assist her home, her husband being absent : unfortunately they took a wrong road, and after wandering about for some time, until they were almost overpowered with fatigue, were compelled to give up the search. At daylight, the poor woman was found with the horse, but both quite dead. Distressing as is this, the following one, all things considered, is perhaps still more so. Mr. Thomas Rhodes, butler to William Chaworth, Esq., of Annesley, in company with John Curtis, of the same place, were pro ceeding on the road to Mansfield, with a team of horses, when they met, near to the " Hut," a foot soldier proceeding in that direction. Mr. Rhodes, fearing that the man might be starved to death, if left to himself, generously took off the front horse 32 ANNALS OF in his team, and mounting the soldier thereon, sent him to Mans field, where, with almost incredible difficulty, he at length arrived in safety. His kind-hearted preserver, however, with his com panion, through this step fell victims to the inclemency of the weather. The team, as it would appear, accustomed to this horse as a leader, on his departure had absolutely continued irremoveably fixed to the spot; having made little, or no attempt to draw the vehicle forward. The consequence was, that the two poor men, exhausted with fatigue and long exposure to the severityof the storm, had lost all power to travel forward, and were frozen to death on the ground, being found next morning a short distance from each other : one of them left a widow and eight children. Several other instances, of a very afflictive nature, are recorded as having befallen travellers on that fearful night ; the horrors of which were much aided by the generally bad state of the roads at the time, and the want of enclosures, whereby the force of a storm is much weakened, and the snow and sleet prevented from being drifted along in such terrific volumes as were then frequently the case Cromwell lordship enclosed ; when 246 acres of land, out of 1350, were awarded to the rector in lieu of tithes. Thurgarton lordship enclosed about this time, when land in lieu of tithes was awarded to Trinity College, Cambridge, the master and fellows of which hold the patronage of the curacy, and about one-third of the lordship. The extraordinary event of a musical festival took place in the town of Nottingham, this year. The performance was conducted at the theatre, on that occasion desighated the "Music Hall, St. Mary's Gate." The pieces selected consisted principally of the oratorios, The Messiah, Judas Maccabceus, and Samson, which were performed in the day-time, under the direction of Mr. Wise, the talented organist of St. Mary's Church. In the evenings the musical entertainments were of a more varied and lively character. The whole concluded with a grand ball at the Assembly Rooms, Low Pavement. There was a numerous orchestra of performers, brought chiefly NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 33 from London and Lichfield. Most of the nobility and gentry of the county honoured the performance with their presence. The splendid hospitality of the gentry of Nottingham about this period, may be inferred from the circumstance that Abel Smith, Esq., banker, gave on the 5th of November an en tertainment, at his house, in the Market-place, at which were present the Duke and Duchess of Portland, the Earl of Lincoln, Sir William Boothby, Bart., Sir George Smith, Bart, with several other persons of rank and distinction in the county. During the evening the company attended a ball at the Assembly Rooms, and next day made up a party for a grand hunting excursion in the forest. The Newark Navigation Company obtained an act of parlia ment for widening and improving the stream of the Devon, which, by a circuitous course, now brings the Trent navigation past the walls of Newark. Ellen Cosen left by her will £50 to the poor of Markham, and directed that the interest should be distributed by the vicar at Christmas, among the poor of that parish. Died, on the 9th March, Samuel Jebb, M.D., of Mansfield; the editor of the works of Roger Bacon and Aristides. The Jebbs were settled, for several generations previous to the close of the seventeenth century, at Woodborough, in this county, but afterwards removed to Mansfield. Several very eminent pro fessional and learned men have been members of this distin guished family, some of whose biographies we shall, in due course, bring under the notice of our readers. Great literary reputation does not, however, attach only to the male branch of the family, as Mrs. Radcliffe, the distinguished novelist, authoress of the Mysteries of Udolpho, and many other similar works, at one time in great vogue amongst the lovers of romance, was also, on the maternal side, a descendant of the Jebbs, of Nottinghamshire. Thomas Oldknow, mayor; George Burbage and ^"'^- John Collishaw, sheriffs of Nottingham. Thomas 13, George IIL Spybie, coroner. Freemen enrolled, sixty-four : [among whom were his grace the Duke of Newcastle, and his g4 ANNALS OF son, the Hon. Henry Fiennes Pelham Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, and Robert Smith, Esq., afterwards Lord Carrington. The Rev. Charles Wylde, D.D,, instituted into the rectory of St. Nicholas', Nottingham. Thomas Haslam, mayor of Newark. Robert Sutton and David Wheelwright, bailiffs of East Retford. The remains of William Rice, a man of extraordinary stature, and well known throughout the country at fairs, races, &c., as the " Nottinghamshire Giant," were interred, on the 5th Feb ruary, in St. Anne's church, Sutton Bennington. The "coffin, made of strong oak, was eight feet four inches in length : the corpse was carried by eight men. A large concourse of people attended the funeral. Mr. Robert White, a native of Bingham, and who acquired great celebrity, through a very lengthened period, as the compiler of almanacs for the Stationers' Company, died this year, aged eighty years. He was author of the Celestial Atlas, or New Ephemeris, which is still published annually, under the name of Whites Ephemeris. He was born of parents in very humble circumstances in life, but being a cripploj he was favoured, by the assistance of friends, with an education much beyond youths of his class in life generally. Having a particular turii of mind for the study of the abstract sciences, he made considerable progress both in astronomy and mathematics. By what means he acquired the support of the Stationers' Company, so far as to be employed by them in the conducting of the works alluded to, we have not been able to learn ; but certain it is, he was engaged by them in this department for a considerable number of years, and up to the period of his decease ; when he was succeeded in the department of compiler of almanacs by his pupil and fellow-townsman, Mr. Stafford, who died in 1783. The manor of Owthorpe purchased of the descendants of Colonel John Hutchinson, by Sir Robert Howe Bromley, Bkrt. Died, at Bath, in his sixty-second year, Evelyn, last Duke of Kingston, and recorder of the town of Nottingham. The cere monial attendant upon the interment of his grace, who was the last who bore the title of Duke of Kingston, was very imposing. The body was first deposited, as a temporary arrangement, in the church of St. James's, at Bath. On the 13th of the follow ing month it was removed for consignment to the family mausoleum, at Holme Pierrepont. Three days afterwards the cavalcade arrived at Loughborough, where the body lay in state till the 19th, when it was conveyed from thence to the south end of the Trent-bridge, near to Nottingham, and there joined by a large train of the nobility and gentry. A grand procession, each member of which was on horseback, then set out in the following order : His grace's tenants, with white staves ; six mutes, in black cloaks ; plume of feathers ; his grace's gentleman, carrying the ducal coronet and cushion, on a led horse in mourning, supported by two pages ; the corpse, in a hearse, with the family escutcheons, drawn by six long-tailed black horses, covered with black velvet, and ornamented with escutcheons and streamers ; four mourning coaches, followed by a numerous train of carriages belonging to the nobility and gentry, succeeded by a large body of the family tenantry. At noon the cavalcade, all the way accompanied by immense crowds of people, from all parts of the adjacent towns and villages, arrived at Holme Pierrepont, when the nobility and gentry, ahghting from their carriages, were conducted into the family mansion. A funeral procession was formed at four o'clock as follows : Twenty constables, trophy men, mutes, the cornet and cushion, six clergymen in sckrfs and hat-bands ; the vicar of St. Mary's, Nottingham, his grace's chaplain, in a surpUce ; the body; the pall supported by the Duke of Portland, the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Lincoln, Lord J. CUnton, Lord George Sutton, Sir George Saville, Bart., Sir William Boothby, Bart., and Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart. ; next came the chief mourners. Dr. Sutton, Colonel" Lichfield, Mr. Melhsh, Captain Brown, and Samuel Shoring, Esq. (his grace's steward) ; a large number of gentlemen, in scarfs and hatbands ; eight principal tenants, in mourning ; fourteen servants, out of livery, in mourning ; and lastly, the servants in hvery, in mourning. The coffin was covered with rich crimson velvet. The Duke of Newcastle elected to the vacant office of recorder, and sworn in at the Guildhall accordingly. 36 ANNALS OF The slow increase of the population of Nottingham, at this period, may be inferred from the fact that the increase of births over deaths, during the year, so far as the same could be ascertained, were no more than 108 ; the former being 755, the latter 647. Two persons, of the name of Taylor, obtained a patent about this time, for the making of point-net lace. The credit of this invention, which gave the first great impetus to the trade of Nottingham, (that manufacture employing, at one time, as many as fifteen hundred machines) seems really to have been divided between three different parties : these were Thomas Taylor and Son, James Morris, and a person of the name of Flint. The Taylors laid a separate claim to the honour, and so did the other two individuals : but from what coxild afterwards be gathered on the subject, it would seem that with Flint the first idea of the machine really originated. Being in necessitous circumstances, he was induced to communicate the principle of his invention, so far as he had proceeded with it, to the Taylors, for the sum of twenty pounds. These men, who were frame- smiths, and good mechanics, were enabled to work under his direction, and advance the invention beyond the point to which it had been carried by the original projector. Still the machine was incomplete ; and Morris, who had the character of a first- rate mechanician in the trade, was called in to give counsel and assistance to the formation of the mesh. This he appears to have done in so effectual a manner, that the Taylors (father and son, as before stated) ventured upon taking out a patent for the invention, which they then claimed as their own. Having secured the patent, they sold it to Mr. Morris, on Short-hill, one of the principal manufacturers in the town, who again sold it to Messrs. John Hayne and Co., to whose perse verance it was that this beautiful textile fabric obtained that great favour with the fashionable world it once possessed. On the 24th March, this year, Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, departed this life. Few characters have given rise to more diversity of opinion than that of this nobleman. Descended from a long line of Nottinghamshire ancestry, and possessing extensive estates in the county, it is impossible but NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 37 that we should feel a deep interest in his fame, and be ready to give him a conspicuous place in the literary temple which we are endeavouring to erect to the perpetuation of the names of the famous men, of all classes, to which our county has given birth, or who have been connected with it by ancestry, property, or the exercise of official authority. This celebrated nobleman, of whom Dr. Johnson once sneeringly remarked, " that he was a wit among lords, but a lord among wits," was the eldest son of Philip, third Earl of Chesterfield, by Lady Elizabeth Saville, daughter of the well known Marquis of Halifax. He was born on the 22nd of September, 1694, and prosecuted his studies under private tutors until the eighteenth year of his age, when he was sent to Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1715, imme diately on his completing his majority, he took his seat in the House of Commons as member for St. Germains, in Cornwall. On patriotic principles he espoused the cause of George I., and stood foremost in the ranks of those who tendered their lives and fortunes in support of his person and government against the designs of the Pretender, and his adherents. In 1726 he succeeded to the title and peerage of the Earl of Chesterfield, on the demise of his father; and in the course of the year fol lowing, soon after the accession of George II., was sworn in one of his majesty's privy council. In the year 1728 his lordship was appointed ambassador-extraordinary to the states-general, which high station he supported with great dignity. In the session of 1733 he distinguished himself by the active part he took in all the important political business of that period ; as on the Excise Bill, the affairs of the South Sea Company, the Petition of the Six Scotch Noblemen, and other measures, generally taking the popular side of the question. In 1737 his lordship delivered a speech, remarkable alike for its eloquence, and the sound constitutional principles it main tained, against a bill for subjecting plays to the inspection and license of the lord-chamberlain. We much regret that our limits will not allow us to lay any considerable portion of this justly celebrated speech before our readers; but we cannot refrain from giving the following extract, which will afford 38 ANNALS. OF them an idea of the enlightened and patriotic spirit which pervades the whole : Let us consider, my lords, that arbitrary power has seldom or never been iatroduced into any country at once ; it must be introduced by glow degrees, and as it were step by step, lest the people should perceive its approach. The barriers and fences of the people's liberty must be plucked up one by one, and some plausible pretences must be found for removing or hoodwinking, one after another, those sentries, which are posted by the constitution of every free country, for warning the people of their danger. When these preparatory steps are once taken, the people may then indeed, with regret, see slavery and arbi trary power making long strides over the land ; but it wiU then be too late to think of preventing or avoiding the impending ruin. The stage, my lords, and the press, are two of our out-sentries ; if we remove them, if we hoodwink them, if we throw them into fetters, the enemy may surprise us. Therefore, I must look upon the bUl before us as a step, and a dangerous step, for intro ducing arbitrary power iuto this kingdom. It is a step so necessary, too, that if any future ambitious king or guilty minister should form to himself so wicked a design, he wiU have reason to thank us for having done so much of his work to his hand ; but such thanks, or thanks from such a man, I am convinced every one of your lordships would blush to receive and scorn to deserve. In public, as well as private hfe, the only way to prevent being ridiculed or censured is to avoid all ridiculous or wicked measures, and to pursue such only as are virtuous and worthy. The people never attempt to ridicule those they love or esteem, nor wUl they suffer them to be ridiculed ; if any one attempt it, the ridicule returns upon the author. The actions or behaviour of a private man may pass unobserved, and consequently unapplauded or uncensured ; but the actions of those in high stations can neither pass without censure or applause, and, therefore, an administration without esteem, without authority among the people, let their power be never so great, let their power be never so arbitrary, wUl be ridiculed. The severest edicts, the most terrible punishments, cannot entirely prevent it. The following sketch of the character of the Earl of Chester field, from the first volume of the Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford, contains, in our opinion, so just an estimate of the talents and moral and intellectual properties of his lordship, that it cannot be other than highly interesting to many of our readers : Few men have been born with a brighter share of parts; few men have bestowed more cultivation on their natural endowments ; and the world has been seldom more just in its admiration both of genius and improved talents. A model yet more rarely beheld was that of a prince of whs, who employed more application on forming a successor than to perpetuate his own renown ; yet, though his lordship not only laboured by daily precepts to educate his heir, but drew up for his use a code of instructions, in which no secret of his doctrine was withheld, he was- not Only so unfortunate as to behold a total miscarriage of his lectures, but the system UseK appeared so superficial, so trifling, and so NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 39 Ulaudable, that mankind began to wonder at what they had admired in the preceptor, and to question whether the dictator of such tinsel injunctions had really possessed those brilliant qualifications in himself, which had so long maintained him unrivalled on the throne of wit and fashion. Still wUl the impartial examiner do justice, and distinguish between the legislator of that Uttle fantastic aristocracy, which calls itself the great world, and the intrinsic genius of a nobleman who was an ornament to his order, an elegant orator, an useful statesman, a perfect but no servile courtier, and an author, whose writings, when separated from his impertinent institutes of education, deserve, for the dehcacy of their wit and Horatian irony, to be ranged with the purest classics of the courts of Augustus and Louis Quatorze. His papers on Common Sense and the World might have given jealousy to the sen sitive Addison ; and though they do not rival that original writer's fund of natural humour, they must be allowed to touch with a consummate knowledge the affected manners of high life. They are short scenes of genteel comedy, which, when perfect, is the most rare of all productions. His papers in recommendation of Johnson's Dictionary were models of that polished elegance which the pedagogue was pretending to ascertain, and which his own style was always heaving to overload with tautology and the most barbarous confusion of tongues. The friendly patronage was returned with ungrateful rudeness by the proud pedant ; and men smUed, without being sur prised, at seeing a bear worry his dancing-master. Even Lord Chesterfield's poetical trifles, of which a few specimens remain in some songs and epigrams, were marked by his idolized graces, and with his acknowledged vrit. Such native parts deserved higher appUcation. Lord Chesterfield took no less pains to be the phcenix of fine gentiemen, than TuUy did to quaUfy himself for shining as the flrst orator, magistrate, and philosopher of Rome. Both succeeded. TuUy immortalized his name ; Chesterfield's reign lasted little longer than that of a fashionable beauty. His son, like CromweU's, was content to return to the plough, without authority and without fame. His lordship had no issue by his lady, but had an illegitimate son by Madame du Bouchet, a French lady, with whom he became acquainted during his residence at the Hague. It was to this young man that his well-known letters were addressed. He could not leave his real estate to this youth, and therefore he adhered to a strict economy in the disposal of his income, in order to raise him a fortune. The great pains he took to cultivate and improve his mind, so pointedly alluded to by Walpole, had not the desired effect. All his labour and con cern for this young man, however, became fruitless by his premature death, in 1768. For the following copies of original, unpubhshed letters of his lordship, relating to persons and cir cumstances connected with Nottinghamshire, we are indebted to the favour of William Cursham, Esq., in whose possession 40 ANNALS OF the originals are, with several other interesting letters written by his lordship. They are each of them in their way passing excellent. The one to Mrs. Kirkby, mother of the late Rev. John Kirkby, of Gotham, on the subject of an application by some one, through her, for the purchase of a portion of his patrimonial estates in this county, is rich in noble and generous sentiment as to what he felt to be due to the memory of his predecessors, and the interests of his successors, which it would be well for the order to which his lordship belonged, was it more generally cherished among them than is now too often the case; while the others are instances of epistolary frankness, such as is seldom to be met with in the correspondence of noblemen with those who are solicitous of their patronage : London, April 19, 1759. Madam, — To deal frankly with you, I must tell you that, independentiy of Lady Chesterfield's jointure, I would not part with an acre of my Nottingham shire estate, at five hundred years' purchase. It is the old estate of the famUy, which I inherited merely from my relation to it, and by no merit of my own, and at my death it shall descend in the same way, unincreased and un diminished, to my heir at-law, whoever that may be at the time. As the rest of the letter refers to matters of a more immediate family character, it is unnecessary to extract more of its con tents. The following one, likewise addressed to Mrs. Kirkby, who appears to have been somewhat of a bore to his lordship, is written with a degree of frankness which is quite edifying in a person of his lordship's rank : London, 21 Jan., 1764. Madam,^ — I return you my hearty thanks for your anniversary provisions, which I dare say wUl prove like the former, that is, extremely good. You may very safely and very freely communicate to me your plan for the settlement of your family, for I shall with great plainness and truth tell you not only what I can and cannot do, but likevrise what I will or wiU not do. As for interest at court, I have not the least, or ever will have, I am, with great truth, your very humble servant, I send my compliments to Mr. Kirkby. Chesterfield. The kind feeling manifested, in the following letter, towards the widow of a former incumbent of Shelford, which living he had bestowed, along with Burton, upon the son of the ever importunate Mrs. Kirkby, who, a few years before, at the same time was begging of his lordship the future incumbency of NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 41 Gedling, and soliciting his interference with the Earl of Har rington to obtain for her son a promise of the reversion of Elvaston, reflects great credit alike upon his lordship's head and heart. London, Sept. 19th, 1771, Madam, — I am very glad that perhaps the last act of my life has been so agreeable to you, as the enclosed paper, (a " presentation") signed and sealed, will I hope prove. As your son's chief residence, I presume, will be at Burton, I could wish that he would let iMrs. Wainwright, the widow of the late parson at Shelford, who, I am told, is very old and poor, live out her time in that parsonage-house. Yours and Mr, KUkby's humble servant, Chesterfield. The acquisitive propensities of Mrs. Kirkby having, at length, worried Lord Chesterfield out of livings for her husband, and one son, and military preferments, through the instrumentality of friends, for another or two ; she at last appears to have become discontented with her own situation ; and really expe rienced, or affected, hypocondriasis, on account of her unfor tunate situation. Pestering the earl for some other living than that her husband was then in possession of, and for some better residence than that they occupied, she received from the earl the following seasonable reproof: London, Feb. 1 3th, 1770. Madam, — I received yesterday the packet which you announced in your last letter, but I cannot agree with you in thinking your situation so calamitous a one as you seem to think it yourself; on the contrary, I am persuaded that there ai-e hundreds of clei'gymen's families who would gladly change aU circum stances with yours. I am very sorry to observe that your mind has a desponding, and at the same time an active turn, in which case the best advice I can give you, either as a phUosopher or as a Christian, is to be a great deal more Maiy and a great deal less Martha. One can seldom or never bend circumstances to one's o^-n mind, and therefore prudence and Christian resignation teach us to bend our minds to our circumstances. I am, with great tmth, your faithful humble servant, Chesterfield. The corporation of Newark obtained an act of parliament for the sale of certain portions of their charity estates, for particular purposes therein described. The title of the act ran in the following words : " An act for sale of certain charity estates therein mentioned, and to apply the money arising therefrom in the building of a town-hall and shambles, in the town of Newark-upon-Trent, and in the purchase of lands and heredita ments for enlarging the church-yard of the said town, and for opening the avenues thereto, and for lapng out the residue of the money in purchasing other lands, to be settled to the charitable uses therein mentioned." John Carruthers, mayor: Ralph Newham and William Heath, sheriffs of Nottingham. Freemen 14, George m. enrolled, 104: [among whom were Sir George Smith, Bart., and the Rev. Charles Wylde, D.D.] Thomas Eastland, mayor of Newark. Alderman John Booth chosen senior baiUff of East Retford, in the place of Robert Sutton, Esq., resigned. Benjamin Cromwell and John Kirke, junior bailiffs. Joseph Pocklington, Esq., Carlton-upon-Trent, high- sheriff; — Hutton, under-sheriff. The frost was so intense during the early part of January, tliis year, as totally to impede the navigation of the Trent, through nearly its whole course from Nottingham to Newark. The borough of Nottingham, as a town and county of itself, having omitted to raise its quota of twenty-eight men for the general county militia, an order, pursuant to the act of parlia ment, was made by the court of quarter sessions to levy the sum of £140 on the inhabitants, being in the ratio of £5 for each man deficient. To the lovers of church bell-ringing it may not be unin teresting to state that on the 8th of February, this year, a peal was executed at St. Peter's church that created quite an excite ment at the time, and for several years afterwards ; this was ringing an Oxford treble-bob, (eight in) which passed through seven thousand and forty changes, and took five hours and one minute in the performance. The effective and intricate manner in which this peal requires to be rung, is considered worthy of as much consideration as the number of changes : treble-bob, for beauty of composition, harmony, and difficulty in execution, being allowed a superiority over all other even-bell peals what ever. No peal of the above length, nor in that method, had ever before been rung by any other company within a great distance NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 43 of Nottingham ; which was considered as adding much to the merit of the ringers. The theatre at Newark built this year. The open lands of Finningley parish, comprising the town ships of Finningley, Auckley, and Blaxton, which contain upwards of six thousand acres, enclosed. In 1778 an allotment of 1156 acres was made to the rector, in lieu of tithes, except those paid for 300 acres, which had no common-right, and which therefore still remain liable to the impost. The " common" of West Retford enclosed. The parish con tains only 953 acres of land, 450 of which belong to the hospital in the village, and 173 to the rector, who received the greatest portion of it at the enclosure, as a commutation of all the tithes of the parish. On the 30th of September, intelligence arrived of the dissolution of parliament, and it having for some time been known or apprehended that whenever that event should take place a spirited contest for the representation of the town might be expected, the electioneering coteries of both parties soon began to be in operation. On the 3rd of October Mr, Plumptre, the late Whig member, issued an address, declining, on account of his ill state of health, to enter upon another contest. This communication was closely followed by an an nouncement that, in consequence of the withdrawal of Mr. Plumptre, Lord Edward Bentinck, brother to the Duke of Port land, would step into his place, and, in conjunction with Colonel Howe, stand on the Whig interest, in opposition to Sir Charles Sedley. The election commenced on the following Tuesday, and the polling continued till ten o'clock on Friday, when an event occurred which for a time put an entire stop to the proceedings of the election, and threatened very serious consequences. A soldier coming near the polhng-booth, which was placed in front of the Exchange, was so imprudent as to bring his side arms with him, and, receiving some inter ruption from the crowd, he drew his sword and flourished it about in a very menacing manner, by which one person at least was wounded. He then struggled into the booth, but not 44 ANNALS OF making his appearance again after he had polled, the people became highly exasperated, and would not allow the polling to recommence till the mayor had committed the offender into custody, and caused his sword to be broken in pieces. At noon the same day the poll closed, when the numbers stood — for Sir Charles Sedley, Bart., 1,116; the Hon. William Howe, 972; Lord Edward Bentinck, 911; the total number of electors polled was 2,013. Members for Newark, George Sutton, Esq., the eldest son of Lord George Sutton, and Major-General Sir Henry Clinton. East Retford, Sir Cecil Wray, Bart., and the Hon. Wilham Hanger. Knights of the shire, Lord Lincoln and the Hon. Thomas Willoughby. Lord Middleton dying (aged 48) about two months after the election, and being a bachelor, he was succeeded in his honours and estates by his brother, the newly-elected member. The vacancy in the representation of the county was filled up by the election, during the January following, of Lord Edward Ben tinck. It had been anticipated that an opposition candidate, in the Tory interest, would be nominated, as Mr. Musters, of Colwick, had issued an address expressive of his readiness to come forward, should his friends deem such a course desirable. The influence of the great Whig landowners in the north of the county was felt to be too strong to be grappled with ; Mr. Musters accordingly withdrew his pretensions, and the election terminated as usual. The members were chaired; a profusion of election favours were exhibited ; public dinners were given at most of the inns in the town; and the day's festivities closed with a grand ball for the ladies, at the Assembly Rooms, Low Pavement, which was opened with a minuet by the Earl of Lincoln anjd the Countess of Sussex. , ^-,g John Fellowes, mayor ; Edward Chatteris and • Samuel Newham, sheriffs of Nottingham. Freemen 15, George in. enrolled, fifty; among whom were his grace the Duke of Portland, the Hon. Edward Cavendish Bentinck, Sir Gervase Clifton, WiUiams Gregory, Esq., George Sutton, Esq., and Samuel Smith, Esq. John Ridgill, mayor of Newark. Simpson Mosman and John Thornton, sen,, bailiffs of East NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 45 Retford. Cornelius Launder, Esq., Hickling and Nottingham, high-sheriff; — Lowe, under-sheriff. On this occasion, Mr. Launder entertained a large party of his friends in an elegant manner to an early dinner, at his house in St, James's-street, now occupied by Mr. Hannay. At five o'clock the company mounted, and set forward, preceded by trumpets, decorated with his armorial bearings, to meet Sir James Eyre, the judge of assize. The amateur society of bell-ringers, in Nottingham, on the 28th of February, rung with the ten bells of St. Mary's church, in seven hours and a half, 11,340 grandsire cators, a perform ance in the intricate art of bell-ringing which it is stated has never been surpassed, and rarely, if ever, equalled. Mr. Crofts, a solicitor in the town, who was passionately fond of this amusement, rung the ninth bell the whole of the time. The ivarp machine, as it is technically called, and for which several persons, as usual, have put in their claim for the credit of invention, was first brought into use about this time. Blackner's account of the matter is as follows : There have been three competitors for the honour of this invention, viz,, Mr. Marsh, Mr. Crane of Edmonton, and Mr. James Morris, of Nottingham. Crane was really the inventor, but, like most other geniuses, not being over burdened with money, he communicated to Marsh the nature of his invention, who gave him an hundred guineas for the secret, and for the privilege of using it as his own. Marsh, at the instigation of his partner, Horton, came to Not tingham for the advantage of superior workmen to put his scheme in practice, when Morris got some insight into the business, and being himself an expert mechanic, he immediately set about making a warp frame. The credit of Marsh being hereby brought to issue, and doubts being raised as to the pro bability of a patent being obtained, Mr. Horton caused the two to be brought before himself to display their several pretensions to the honour of the inven tion, when, in fact, neither of them had any just claim to its originality. This statement Blackner says he had himself from Morris, many years after the transaction. There was, however, another claimant for the credit of this invention, Mr, James Tarratt, formerly of Mount-street, Nottingham. It is unquestionable, that if Tarratt, who died a few years ago in the Charter-house, London, was not the original inventor, by his improvements he greatly added to the efficiency of this important machine, and developed its powers for applicability to various purposes beyond 46 ANNALS OF those originally contemplated. The warp machine, instead of being employed in making the coarse fabrics for stockings, pantaloons, sailors' jackets, &c., to which it was once devoted, is now generally employed in the making of lace, and several other fine qualities of textile fabrics, of a very beautiful description. Indeed, it may be questioned whether there ever was a machine invented which, in skilful hands, is capable of being employed to so great a variety of purposes as the warp machine. The pubhc mind of England was beginning to be much excited at this time in reference to the dispute which had grown up with the American colonies, in reference to the right of the mother country to impose taxes upon the colonists, for what may be termed imperial purposes. In this feeling Not tingham shared very deeply ; and a strong party of sympathisers with the colonists, in their resistance to the impositions of the government at home, existed among aU ranks of the people. Every intelhgence respecting the movements of the armies was received by both parties with the deepest interest. By the government party the pretensions of the colonists to grapple with the mihtary power of Britain was treated with the utmost contempt ; whilst by their friends their efforts to assume the position of a military people w^ere viewed with extreme anxiety, not unmixed with apprehensions as to the result. The battle of Bunker's Hill, which took place during the summer of this year, and in which the loss of the British in killed and wounded amounted to more than 1,000 men, with the eventual evacua tion of Boston by General Howe, created a strange revulsion of feehng among both parties, which was still farther increased by the Declaration of Independence, on the part of the united colonies during the ensuing year. Congress, to express the public approbation of the military achievements of their general in conducting the affairs of this campaign, resolved, " That the thanks of congress, in their own name, and the name of the thirteen united colonies, be presented to his excellency General Washington, and the officers and soldiers under his command, for their wise and spirited conduct in the siege and NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 47 acquisition of Boston ; and that a medal of gold be struck, in commemoration of this great event, and presented to his excel lency." In his letter, informing Congress that he had executed this order, and communicated to the army the vote of thanks, he says, " They were indeed at first a band of undisciplined hus bandmen, but it is, under God, to their bravery and attention to their duty, that I am indebted for that success which has procured me the only reward I wish to receive — the affection and esteem of my countrymen." At the conclusion of the war, this event — the battle of Bunker's Hill — was commemorated in the United States by the erection of a noble monument, on the ground where the engagement was fought, the height of which is 220 feet; diameter at base, 30 feet ; at apex, 15 feet. A publican in Nottingham, occupying the house forming the south-west corner of Mounteast-street, and near to the military riding-school, adopted, as his mode of commemorating the same, the having a representation of the battle painted, and suspended in front of his house as a sign. The writer well recollects, when a boy, stopping many times to gaze upon the unin- telhgible square masses of figures of which the composition consisted, and hearing the conduct of the person who caused the sign to be put up both condemned and praised in very strong terms. The circumstance of the erection of this sign gave the name of Bunker's-hill to the. street wherein it was placed, and which name it mostly still retains. On the 1st of August, this year, a meeting of the deputy- lieutenants of the county was held at the Swan Inn, Mansfield, relative to the militia. The long-pending dispute between the town of Nottingham and the gentlemen of the county, as to the number of men which the county of the town of Nottingham ought to furnish to the general county militia, was at this meeting amicably adjusted ; the proportions being as follow : Nottingham town, 80 men; Bassetlaw Hundred, 123; Brox- towe, 93; Thurgarton, 70; Rushcliffe, 34; Bingham, 37; Newark, 46. Total, 483. About nine o'clock in the morning of Thursday, the 21st of September, after half an hour of unusual darkness, a ball of fire descended from the south-west, accompanied by an awful peal of thunder, and struck the top of the spire of Bingham church, where it drove out two or three large stones. The electric fluid then descended the inside of the steeple, killing in its way a number of pigeons and daws, which were accustomed to seek shelter there. Singularly, the bells were not at all injured ; but this was probably owing to the attractive quality of the clock hammer, and its apparatus, as the fluid appeared to have descended by the wire of the clock, which it stopped; it then forced open the clock door, broke off part of the dial-board, and completely changed the colour of the figures thereon ; drove out some stones from the masonry about the clock, as well as from the porch, and struck down the whole of a company of boys, eleven in number, who had taken refuge there from the violence of the storm ; none of the children were seriously hurt, though three of them were a good deal scorched. A great smoke, with a strong sulphurous smell, afterwards prevailed throughout the whole of the building. The lordship of Ossingtoxi purchased this year, by William Denison, Esq., grandfather of the present John Evelyn Denison, Esq., M.P. Mr. Denison was a merchant of Leeds, who amassed, as it is stated, by his steady application to business, joined with some fortunate and well-timed speculations, a fortune of more than half-a-million of money. One of these successful enterprizes was a large cargo of necessaries, of various descriptions, which had been consigned to another port; but the captain there learning the calamity which had befallen Lisbon from the great earthquake, and the destitute condition of the inhabitants, alike rich and poor, from the sud denness and extent of the catastrophe, sailed direct to the Tagus, and was the first ship that arrived with a cargo suitable to the then pressing wants of the people; the consequence was, that the supercargo, taking advantage of the circumstance, realized for his owner, from that one shipment, a sum of money equivalent to a large fortune. Mr. Denison'smonumentinOssing- ton church consists of a full length marble figure, standing upon a pedestal, having a scroll in his hand, and underneath him NOTTINGHAMSHIRE . 49 the representation of a ship unloading in the port of Lisbon. Ossington was for several generations the property of a branch of the Cartwright family, the first of whom married Anne, sister of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, through whose influence, on the dissolution of the monasteries, it was, no doubt, that he became possessed of this manor and rectory, which was formerly held by the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. The Cartwright family ended in four co-heiresses, who sold the property, as before stated, to Mr. Denison. Rev. John Laverack, vicar of Southwell, by his will, bearing date 5th of June, 1775, gave to the parish vicar of Southwell, and his successors, a close in Southwell, called the Stone Cross Close, in trust, that the clear rents and profits thereof should be applied to the education and clothing of such a number of poor children of the said parish as his successor should appoint. This close comprises about two acres of land, and now lets for about £6 per annum. The whole of the money is distributed in clothing. One of the bridges at Newark erected by the Duke of Newcastle. Scrooby common enclosed, when 160a, 3p. of land were allotted to the impropriator, and 34a. 2r. 22p. to the vicar, in lieu of all the tithes of the parish, except 310 acres of old enclosure, in which tithes are still given. The forest land of Warsop parish partly enclosed this year ; the whole, however, was not enclosed till 1818, when a further act of parliament was obtained for that purpose; on which occasion 713a. 3r. 13p. were allotted to the rector, in lieu of all the tithes of the parish. The provincial banks at this time were accustomed to issue notes for sums as small as ten and five shillings each. The banks in Nottingham confined themselves to notes of not less denomination than those just quoted, but in some parts of the country paper-money for sums as low as one shilling, and even sixpence, was in circulation. An act of parhament passed this year to restrain bankers from issuing notes for a not less amount than one guinea each. 50 ANNALS OF Thomas Sands, mayor; Smith Churchill and 1776. Xertius Dale, sheriffs of Nottingham. .Freemen 16, George HI. enrolled, one hundred and thirty : [among whom were John Cartwright, Esq. (afterwards distinguished for the prominent part he took on the subject of reform in tlie state of the representation; Frederick Montague, Esq., of Papplewiqk Hall ; George Neville, Esq., the Right Hon. Lord George Sutton, John Sutton, Esq., Sir George Saville, Bart..,, and Samuel Wright, banker.] Henry Milnes, mayor of Newark. Thomas Bramley, sen., and John Thornton, sen., bailiffs of East Retford. Screveton lordship enclosed, when 120 acres of land (since ex changed for 100 acres near to the church) were allotted to the rector, in lieu of his tithes. January of this year was again marked by a great fall of snow, and intense cold. Drivers of vehicles found it impos sible to complete their journeys, and the stage coaches to London were stopped midway, and unable to proceed. A contemporary record states that the road beyond Northampton " was crowded with the passengers of the northern 'stages, who had been detained there all the week, owing to the great depth of snow ; that many of them, not provided for the contingency that had befallen them, were reduced to the greatest distress; while on the other hand some, who were well supplied with the needful, lived gaily at the nearest public or farm houses, and were in high spirits ; and that almost every house in the road exhibited a scene of noise, merriment, and dissipation, or else wore visible marks of vexation, disappointment, and chagrin." On the 13th, two men returning from Nottingham market to Papplewick, were overcome by the cold, about half way between Red-hill and their place of destination, so that they were unable to proceed any further. In the morning one of them was found extended on the snow, dead ; the other, in a state of insensibility, was discovered with his» stiffened arms clasping the trunk of a tree, and icicles at the ends of his fingers; but with careful attention, after much difficulty, his hfe was preserved. The same day another sufferer was rescued NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. i 51 from death by Mr. Turner, a sohcitor of Nottingham. A young woman, a servant in the town, who had been on a visit to her friends at Leeds, was returning to her place. She left Leeds as an outside passenger by the stage coach, but, about midway, the great fall of snow rendered it impossible for the vehicle to proceed further, and the young woman, not having the means to pay for her maintenance where she was, resolutely set out to complete the rest of her journey on foot. She managed to reach a little on this side the " Hut," on Mansfield forest, when her strength utterly failed, and she lay down on the snow to perish. At this critical period of her life, Mr, Turner chanced to be passing that way on horsebact, and like another good Samaritan, raised her up, took off his great coat and wrapped her in it, drew his gloves on her hands, and with great diffi culty succeeded in conveying her to an inn at Red-hill, where, at his expense, she was properly taken care of, until sufficiently recovered to be brought to her place of service at Nottingham. A patent taken out on the 16th of March, this year, by Horton, Marsh, and Co., for the making of a very beautiful fabric for stockings, called knotted work, which description of goods, so long as stockings were really considered an article of dress by either sex, had a great and constant demand. In 1797 it was estimated that there were a thousand frames en gaged in the making of silk-knotted hose; it is doubtful whether, at this time, there is a dozen machines in the trade so employed. The fabric was alike elegant and durable ; it is, therefore, matter of surprise, that stockings of this description should so entirely have gone out of fashion. Hickhng lordship enclosed, when 431a. Or. 2p. were allotted to the rector, in lieu of tithes, in addition to 62a. Or. 4p. of old enclosure. The school-house at Normanton, in the northern part of the county, built by Henry Jackson. In 1781 it was endowed by the will of Mrs. Hall, with land that now lets for about £9 a- year; for which, and a house and garden, the master teaches ten free scholars. Sir George Saville, about this time, planted the fine woods in Rufford lordship, extending over nearly eleven hundred acres of land. He hkewise enclosed and brought into cultivation about two thousand acres of the ancient forest lands, which are now divided into many excellent farms. Robert Sutton, Esq., of Kelham, gave to the vicar and churchwardens of East Retford, in trust, a share in the Ches terfield canal, worth about £8 per annum, to distribute yearly, on Old Martinmas-day, the proceeds thereof among the most needy and industrious poor people of Retford, as they in their discretion should see fit and proper. During his lifetime he was a great benefactor to the town and neighbourhood. He gave £100 towards rebuilding the Town-hall; £100 towards Barnby common road ; built Pelham bridge ; and gave £200 towards procuring Queen's Anne's bounty, &c. Died, this year, Edward Wortley Montague, son of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, and grandson of Evelyn, Earl of Kingston. The strange and varied forms of life this gentle man passed through, casts over his whole history a hue of romance, rather than the delineation of a real character ; es pecially such an one as might be considered as at all hkely to appertain to the descendant of high and noble families, then occupying positions of the first rank, in respect of dignity and respectability, in the kingdom. It is true that the mother of Mr. Montague was herself a somewhat eccentric person — a clever and highly-gifted woman — but somewhat addicted to extravagant habits of thought and action ; but how far these propensities might influence the future character of her son, we presume not to be sufficiently skilled in the mysteries of physiology to determine. After being for some time under the management of private tutors, during which time he gave frequent indications of that waywardness of mind by which he was afterwards so markedly distinguished, young Montague was removed, about the usual age, to Westminster School. From this establishment he ran away three different times. On one occasion, in order to avoid detection, he exchanged clothes with a youthful chimney-sweeper, and for some time followed that loathsome occupation. He next joined himself to a fisherman, and cried fish about the streets. He then sailed as a cabin-boy to Spain, where he had no sooner • arrived than he ran away from the vessel, and hired himself to a muleteer of the country. After thus vagabondizing among the Spaniards, under various characters, for some time, his situation and family connections, by some means, became known to the British consul, who took him into his house, and at the first favourable opportunity sent him back to his friends in England. He was, of course, re ceived by them with great joy ; and a private tutor, under whose attentions he appears to have made considerable improve ment, was employed to recover those rudiments of polite and useful learning, which several years spent amidst scenes of dis sipation and vulgarity had all but completely obliterated. Wortley after this was sent to the West Indies, where he re mained some time. On his return to England, for the purpose of occupying his time, and introducing him into society agreea ble to his birth and position, a seat was obtained for him in the House of Commons, which he continued to hold through two successive parliaments. His expensive mode of living, how ever, causing him to contract debts beyond the power of his income to liquidate, he became overwhelmed with pecuniary difficulties, and eventually quitted the country, and entered upon that wandering and irregular course of life, which he continued up to the period of his death. Having visited most of the eastern countries, he contracted a partiality for their manners. He drank little wine, a great deal of coffee, wore a long beard, smoked much, and, even while at Venice, was habited in the eastern style. Dr. Moore, who, in company with an English nobleman, visited him, whilst there, thus de scribes the interview : He led us through some apartments, furnished in the Venetian manner, into an inner room in quite a different style. There were no chairs, but he de sired us to seat ourselves on a sofa, whilst he placed himself on a cushion on the floor, with his legs crossed in the Turkish manner. A joung black slave sat by him, and a venerable old man with a long beard served us with coffee. After this collation some aromatic gums were brought and burnt in a littie silver vessel, Mr. Montague held his nose over the steam for some minutes, and snuffed up the perfume with peculiar satisfaction. He afterwards en deavoured to collect the incense with his hands, spreading and rubbing it 54 ANNALS OF carefully along his beard, which hung in heavy ringlets to his girdle. This manner of perfuming the beard seems more cleanly, and rather an improve ment upon that adopted by the Jews in ancient times, as described in the Psalms, translated by Sternhold and Hopkins, — 'Tis Kke the precious ointment, that Was pour'd on Aaron's head, Which from the beard down to the skirt Of his rich garment spread. Or as the Scotch translation has it, — Like precious ointment on the head. That down the beard did flow ; Even Aaron's beard, and to the skirts Did of his garment go. Which of these versions (continues the doctor) is preferable, I leave to the critics in Hebrew and English poesy to determine. We had a great deal of conversation with this venerable looking person, who is to the last degree acute, communicative, and entertaining, and in whose discourse and manners are blended the vivacity of a Frenchman with the gravity of a Turk, We found him, however, wonderfully prejudiced in favour of the Turkish character and manners, which he thinks much preferable to the European, or those of any other nation. He describes the Turks in general as a people of great sense and integrity ; the most hospitable, generous, and happy of mankind. He talks of returning, soon as possible, to Egypt, which he paints as a perfect paradise ; and thinks that, had it not been otherwise ordered for wise purposes, of which it does not become us to judge, the chUdren of Israel would certainly have chosen to reside where they were, and to have endeavoured to drive the Egyptians to the land of Canaan, In a conversation upon polygamy, Mr, Montague reniarked : " The Christian religion considers women as creatures, upon a level with men, equally entitled to every enjoyment and privUege of sentient beings both here and hereafter. When the Turks are told this, they are not surprised at being informed also that women, in general, are better Christians than men ; but they are perfectly astonished that an opinion, which they hold to be contrary to common sense, should subsist among the rational, that is to say, the male portion of Christians." With the Hebrew, the Arabic, the Chaldaic, and the Persian languages, he was as well acquainted as with his native tongue. He pubUshed several essays: one on the Bise and Fall of the Boman Empire ; another. An Examination into the Causes of Earthquakes ; &c. As this gentleman was remarkable for the uncommon inci dents which attended his life, the close of his days was marked by no less singularity. He had been in early life, in one of his eccentric folhes, married to a young woman of reputable cha racter, but who aspired to no higher station in life than that of an industrious laundry-woman. So soon as the whim of the moment was passed, Wortley deemed her to be unworthy of his constancy or affection as a husband, and therefore no longer cohabited with her. She was, however, allowed a maintenance, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 55 and living contented and respectable, never gave him any further trouble on account of her marital rights. Mr. Monta gue, on the other hand, was a perfect specimen of the patriarch of olden times, in respect of women. He had wives of every nation he had visited. When with Ali Bey in Egypt, he had his household of Egyptian females, each striving who should have the happiness to gain the greatest ascendancy over the Anglo-Saxon bashaw. At Constantinople, the Grecian women were his favourites : in the Turkish provinces, in Spain, Italy, and France, wherever he went he set up a harem of the women of the country. It may be asked what became of these groups of wives ? Mr. Montague was continually shifting the place of his residence, and did not therefore like to carry about with him his flock of women, as the ancient patriarchs, in their various migrations, did their flocks and herds of cattle and sheep ; but with the regular cold-heartedness of a selfish debauchee, made each of them a few presents, and left them behind to shift for themselves, as best they might be able. At length, however, the news reached him of the decease of the original and legal Mrs. Montague, the washerwoman. Wortley had no child by her, and without issue a very large estate would revert to the second son of Lord Bute. Owing the family no obligations, but on the contrary, entertaining a strong feeling of dislike against them, he determined, if possible, to defeat their expectations, by forthwith returning to England, and marrying. He acquainted a friend with his intentions, and commissioned him to advertise for a decent young woman, not less than seven months gone with child, who would consent to marry a gentleman of fortune, whose child would become heir to a large estate, and who would have a handsome annuity settled upon herself. Several respectable females, in the required situation, were promptly found to answer the advertisement ; one of whom was selected. Montague was at this time residing in the south of France, and on being informed of the circumstance, set forward with all haste to complete the contract. The excitement of his spirits, joined with the fatigue of the journey, produced the first day a slight fever ; this was 56 ANNALS OF increased by the next day's labours ; so that by the time he reached Paris he was extremely ill. Physicians of the greatest celebrity were called in, but he never rallied : Death had struck his blow ! and the bride-expectant had only to receive a mourn ing, instead of a wedding ring; and lament in silence the disappointment she had experienced. The Nottingham patriots, of both parties, who for a number of years indulged in a strong predilection for interfering in the electioneering matters of the neighbouring boroughs of Derby and Newark, this year, in the persons of the Tories, under took strongly to patronise the cause of Mr. D. P. Coke, of Derby. Mr. Coke had just maintained a strong contest against Mr. Gisborne, supported by the interest of the house of Devonshire and the corporation of Derby, for the representation of that borough. Mr. Gisborne had been returned by the mayor of Derby as duly elected, but Mr. Coke, with several of the electors, petitioned against the return ; when the House of Commons declared the return void, and that Mr. Coke was duly elected. On the occasion of the entry of the now suc cessful candidate into the town of Derby, upwards of a hundred gentlemen and tradesmen of Nottingham went over to pay their gratulations to the learned gentleman, in conjunction with his friends in the borough. Accompanying these was the then famous band of cleaver ringers, of the fraternity of butchers. They were dressed in light blue silk waistcoats, and formed a very conspicuous part of the procession. During the course of the day they entertained the people of Derby with several peals of changes, which were greatly admired for the spirit and regularity with which they were executed. The cleavers, which were of steel, nicely tempered, and of different sizes, were struck upon by the performer with an oscillating motion of the body, somewhat like the action of bell-ringing, by marrow-bones of different weights and sizes — producing an effect much more musical and harmonious than can well be imagined by those who never heard the performances. But cleaver and marrow-bone ringing by butchers, and mainspring ringing by young stocking-makers, on the expiration of the NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 57 term of apprenticeship of one of their fellows, once so common in Nottingham, and which was associated with many pleasing reminiscences and expectations in the bosom of young and old, have departed, never more to return. Forty-two of the Not tingham gentlemen having dined together at the Old Assembly Rooms, Derby, in honour of the day, Mr. Coke, in return for the compliment paid him, despatched a confidential friend to discharge the expense incurred ; but the company would not permit the member to disburse a shilling of their bill ; nor would even the butchers accept a proffered gratuity for their services, saying the object of their visit was to do honour to Mr. Coke, and not for gain. A woman was arraigned at the Easter sessions, and fined, for " baking and selling oat-cakes on the Lord's-day." About Midsummer a grand ball was given at the Castle by Lieutenant- Colonel the Earl of Lincoln, Lord George Sutton, and other officers of the Nottinghamshire Militia. The company included the principal families of the town and neigh bourhood. The regiment did duty at the castle during the entertainment. On the 2Ist of October, at a meeting of noblemen and gen tlemen, held at the White Lion Inn, a subscription was entered into for the erection of a stand on the race-course ; " no person being allowed to subscribe less than twenty guineas, which would entitle each subscriber to two silver tickets, to be trans ferable ; each ticket to admit a lady or gentleman, during the races." The principal subscribers were the Dukes of New castle, Norfolk, and Portland, with Lord Edward Bentinck, 200 guineas each; Lord Middleton, Sir George Saville, Sir Charles Sedley, and John Musters, Esq., 100 guineas each; Sir Gervase Clifton, 60 guineas ; the Earl of Stamford, Lord Melbourne, Anthony Eyre, Esq., Abel Smith, Esq., and John Hewitt, Esq., 50 guineas each; Messrs. John and Thomas Wright, 40 guineas : all the rest, thirty- two in number, sub scribed 20 guineas each. The total sum subscribed amounted to £2,460. The structure was erected in the following year. To secure the intention of the subscribers being carried out, H 58 ANNALS OF by the erection of the Grand Stand, the corporation of Not tingham granted a lease of the ground to Lord Edward Bentinck and others, in trust, for the noblemen and gentlemen of the county, containing a covenant, that, in the event of a general enclosure act taking place, such leasehold property should immediately revert to the corporation. Accordingly, under this covenant, on the Enclosure Act of 1845 being accomplished, the town council took legal possession of the property, which is now vested in their hands. Nottingham race-course, in its first formation, was four miles round : early in the eighteenth century it was reduced to two miles. The course, as then formed, continued without alteration till the year 1797, when, on the enclosure of that portion of the forest which appertained to Lenton and Radford, it was all but utterly destroyed. In 1798 another course was made, which, from the circumscribed extent of the ground, was laid out in the form of a figure of eight. In consequence, however, of the universal complaint of the bad view of the sport thus obtained, it was destroyed, and another, of an oval shape, a mile and a quarter in extent, formed in its stead. This, since its first formation, has undergone various improvements ; so that when the alterations, at present in progress, are com pleted, it will be one of the best and most commodious courses, both for horses and spectators, in the kingdom. Colwick Hall, the seat of the ancient family of the Musters, built about this time. Abel Smith, Esq., of Bulcote Lodge, high-sheriff; —Lowe, under-sheriff. ^yy^_ Richard Butler, mayor ; Sir George Smith, Bart., and Samuel Statham, sheriffs of Nottingham. Free- 17, George in. ^^^ enrolled, eighty: [among whom were John Fellows, hosier, father of Alfred Thomas Fellows, Esq., banker, and Sir Charles Fellows, the distinguished oriental traveller ; also, Edward Swann, grocer, father of Kirke Swann, gentleman, a member of the town council.] Robert Foster, mayor of Newark. John Bright and Edmund Kirke, Esqs., bailiffs of East Retford. J. Musters, Esq., Colwick, high-sheriff; — Evans, under-sheriff. . Umbrellas and parasols first introduced into Nottingham about this time. The editor of the Nottingham Journal, in his remarks on the dress of ladies, thus notices the subject : " To complete the dress for summer walking, the most elegant and delicate ladies carry a long japanned walking cane, with an ivory hook head, and on the middle of the cane is fastened a silk umbrella, or what the French call a parasol, which defends them from the sun and slight showers of rain." Umbrellas carried by men at this time was considered as the height of effeminacy, and subjected the individual to all kinds of insult in the streets, as well as to have mud and stones flung at him ' by rude men and boys. Mary FiUingham, who died 10th of November, 1777, directed that £50 should be paid by her father, as trustee, to certain persons named by her of the parish of Tythby-cum-Cropwell- Butler, to place the same at interest, or invest in the purchase of lands, and pay the produce thereof on St. Thomas's- day, yearly, either in money, or the value thereof in bread, to such of the poor inhabitants belonging to Cropwell-Butler only, as they and their heirs and executors, or the churchwardens and overseers should think fit. Bleasby lordship enclosed; when an allotment of 57a. 2r. 24p. was made to tbe vicar, and 20a, Ir. lOp. to the chapter of Southwell, in lieu of tithes. Farnsfi eld lordship enclosed; when 350 acres were allotted to the three prebendaries of Normanton, Norwell Overhall, and Pallishall ; 157a. 3r. 15p. to the vicar; and 5a. Ir. 21p. to the chapter of Southwell, as compensation for the loss of tithes. Died, Job Staunton Charlton, Esq., the last male heir of the ancient family of the Stauntons, of Staunton, in the vale of Belvoir. We learn from Thoroton that the lordship of Staun ton had been the sole property of the family of its own name ever since the time of the Saxons. " Sir Mauger Staunton," he says, " successfully defended Belvoir Castle against WiUiam the Conqueror, and there made his composition and contract for his lands, and had -the strongest fortress therein, ever since called by his name, 'Staunton's Tower.'" After the 60 ANNALS OF death of the gentleman before named, this lordship was pos sessed by his two maiden daughters, the survivor of whom died in 1807, and left her estates here and in Yorkshire to her second cousin, Elizabeth, wife of the Rev. John Aspinshaw, L.L.D., then rector of St. Peter's church, Nottingham, on con dition that they should take the name, and bear the arms, of Staunton only. The commonable lands of the parish of Sutton-cum-Lound enclosed, when 718a. 2r. 26p., now called "Dane's Hill Farm,'' were allotted to the Duke of Portland, as impropriator ; and 106a. Or. 22p. to the vicar, in lieu of all tithes of the parish. At the same time two allotments, containing together six acres and twenty-two perches, were awarded to the overseers of the two townships, for the use of the schoolmaster, for which, with the dividends arising from £112 10s. in stock, the produce of charities bestowed upon the parish, he teaches six free scholars, three from each village ; but is allowed, by arrangement with the parish, which erected both the school-house and dwelling, to charge threepence per week for reading, and sixpence per week for writing and arithmetic, to the rest of the children who attend the school. Thomas Oldknow, mayor ; Samuel Haywood and Robert Summers, sheriffs of Nottingham. Free- 18, George III. jj^gj^ enrolled, eighty-one. Samuel Sketchley, mayor of Newark. Rev. Charles Fynes, vicar of Newark (omitted 1776.) John Thornton, sen., and Thomas Bramby, jun., bailiffs of East Retford. WiUiam Bilbie, Esq., Bury HiU, high- sheriff; — Gladwin, under-sheriff. The grievance of frame-rent among the stocking-makers of the three counties was, at this period, as rife as now. They accordingly, at the commencement of the session, applied to parliament for a law to raise the rate of wages, to lower the charge for frame-rent, and correct other frauds and abuses, alleged to be connected with the trade. This petition was presented by Daniel Parker Coke, Esq., member for Derby. The burden of the petition was, that the persons subscribing it had served regular apprenticeships, and had always employed NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, 61 themselves in making stockings, mitts, and gloves on the stocking-frame ; and notwithstanding their utmost industry, were incapable of providing the common necessaries of life, not only on account of the small amount of their wages, but the paying of frame-rent, and other charges, in keeping the frames in working order. They therefore prayed the house that leave might be given to bring in a bill "to settle and regulate the wages of persons employed in the art of framework-knitting, in such manner as to the house should seem meet." The house directed the petition to be referred to a committee, who were to report thereon. The committee accordingly proceeded to hear the evidence of the petitioners, and numbers of workmen presented themselves for that purpose. The hosiers, who had formed an association in self-defence, appointed Mr. Turner, a solicitor of Nottingham, their secretary and agent; but such was the restraint under which they laboured, through fear of popular displeasure, that though very desirous of offering evidence against the bill, not one of them was found to risk the consequences likely to arise from such opposition. The com mittee of the house being made aware of the disadvantageous position of the hosiers, dispensed with the counter evidence, and made a report, upon which a bill was founded. On the 25th of February, upon the motion of Lord Edward Bentinck, that the bill be brought in, the house divided, when the numbers were — for its admission, 27; against it, 52. Some outrages took place in Nottingham, on this decision being made known, but nothing materially to disturb the peace of the town. The sum of one hundred pounds was subscribed in Notting ham for the relief of American prisoners in this country. A similar subscription was entered into in many other large towns. During the inonth of June the Nottinghamshire Militia marched from Nottingham, to do garrison duty at' the fort of Hull. The regiment left the town in two divisions : the first set out on the 10th, at five in the morning, their first halt being at Hazleford Ferry, where they partook of refreshments ; and after several cheers for their commander, Lord George Sutton, 62 ANNALS OF resutned their march. The second division set out on the following morning. On the 6th of July, died, at her house, in Bridlesmith-gate, Mrs. Margaret Middleton, aged one hundred years. The de ceased was stated to be a direct descendant of Sir Hugh Mid dleton, who expended a fortune of £400,000 in bringing the New River to London, for the purpose of supplying the citizens with a purer water than that obtained from the Thames. Died, on the 25th of August, at his residence, NuttaU Temple, Sir Charles Sedley, Bart., aged fifty-eight years. Dying without male issue, the title became extinct ; his only daughter, to whom he left the bulk of his fortune, was married to the Hon. Henry Vernon, second son of Lord Vernon, but who changed his name to Sedley, on account of his matrimo nial connexion. Sir Charles was member of parliament for Nottingham, and a justice of the peace for the county ; as also a Doctor of Civil Law of the University of Oxford : which honour was conferred upon him at the opening of Dr. Rad- cliffe's Library, at Oxford, April 13th, 1749. He succeded his father. Sir Charles, in title and estate, February 18th, 1728-9, who married to his second wife, the daughter of William Frith, Esq., and Mary, his wife, by whom came the estate of NuttaU into the Sedley family, as likewise the manors of Hayford and Harleigh. This lady died at NuttaU, AprU 20th, 1738, and her jointure, £1,200 a year, devolved to Sir Charles, then at West minster School. Sir William Sedley was created a baronet on the 22d of May, 1611, (9, James I.) He was the founder of the Sedleian lectures at Oxford. Another of Sir Charles's ancestors was in his day much distinguished for his poetical talents ; he was a boon companion of the second Charles, and distinguished by the flattering title of Apollo's Viceroy; but his verses being chiefly devoted to loose and amorons subjects, his fame perished with the voluptuous age in which he lived. The Sedleys were of great antiquity in the county of Kent. Sir Charles was a great patron of the turf ; and much of the celebrity of Not tingham races, which, during his lifetime, were among the best NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 63 supported in the kingdom, was no doubt mainly attributable to his influence. A number of gentlemen, during the summer of this year, entered into a subscription to restore the labyrinth, known as " Shepherd's Race," situate on Snenton plain, just above St. Ann's Well. The lapse of years had so far erased the paths, that the form of its course had become almost obliterated. It was finally ploughed up and destroyed on the enclosure of the lordship of Snenton, February 17th, 1797. A fac-simile of it, however, is still in existence in the gardens at St. Ann's Well. The Hon. Charles Meadows, nephew and heir of the Duke of Kingston, having declared himself a candidate for Notting ham, on the decease of Sir Charles Sedley, Sir Gervase Clifton, Bart., John Musters, Esq., and other gentlemen connected with the Tory interest in the borough, commenced an active canvass in his favour. In consequence of this movement, a meeting of electors, called together by gentlemen of the Whig party, was held in the Long Room at Thurland Hall, on the evening of the same day. The business was opened by Mr. Sands, who said that some gentlemen of the opposite party had brought forward a candidate whose views were not at all coincident with the general sense of the constituency; he therefore introduced to their notice the claims of their towns man, Abel Smith, jun., Esq., whom he strongly recommended to their support. Mr. Smith then came forward, and addressed the burgesses, assuring them that, if elected, he would assert and maintain their rights and privileges, local as well as national, honestly and faithfully, to the utmost of his power. Sir Gervase Clifton next presented himself, and urged, on various grounds, the pretensions of Mr. Meadows, who was not present, to the support of the electors. On a show of hands being taken, the choice fell on Mr. Smith, by an immense majority. The next seven or eight days were spent by both sides in making a very close canvass of the electors ; the result of which was, that on the 7th of October, the Whig candidate received a polite letter from his opponent, declining to proceed further with the contest. This communication, though not 64 ANNALS OF received till late in the evening, was soon announced to the public by the ringing of the church bells. Expresses were immediately despatched to London, and various other parts of the kingdom, to prevent the forwarding of voters who had been solicited to support Mr. Smith. On the 9th, at the place of election, Jonathan Truman, Esq., nominated Abel Smith, jun., Esq., as a proper person to represent the town in parliament. No other candidate being proposed, the honourable gentleman was declared duly elected. The same day, Mr. Smith was chaired, the whole body of framework-knitters joining in the procession, which was of a very imposing description. Mr. Smith took his departure from, and, after the chairing, alighted again at, the " Feathers Inn," corner of Friar-lane. Mr. Smith's popularity was attributable chiefly to his benevolence, and deep sympathy with the distresses of the framework-knitters; vvho, at the time, were in expectation of receiving some legislative aid, and looked up to Mr, Smith as their future champion in parliament. The Right Hon. Henry, Earl of Lincoln, one of the knights of the shire, and lieutenant- colonel of the militia, died during the month of October, this year, in the twenty-eighth year of his age. His lordship had been for some time in a dehcate state of health, and died in France, on his way to Italy. He was succeeded in the representation, of the county by Charles Meadows, Esq. John Cartwright, Esq., better known as Major Cartwright, on this occasion addressed the electors of the county, but withdrew from the field before the day of nomination. Kersall lordship enclosed, when ninety-two acres of land were awarded, in heu of tithes, to the chapter of Southwell. Edingley lordship enclosed, when land was awarded in heu of tithes. Winthorpe church re-buUt of brick: it is a neat, smaU structure, with a chancel and tower, in which are three beUs. ' Cockglode House erected, by the late George Aldridge, M.D. Dr. Lyndford Caryl, prebendary of Southwell Minster, gave to the library a- large and valuable coUection of books ; to which he made a great addition in the year foUowing. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 65 William Huthwaite, mayor; Samuel Worthington and Samuel Green, sheriffs of Nottingham. Free- 19, George m, ^^,3,^ enrolled, 195: [among whom were His Royal Highness Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, who was on a visit here, at the time of the races ; the Right Hon. Lord Charles Montague; Lieutenant-Colonel Tuffnall, and six other officers, in the regiment of Royal Horse Guards Blue, then quartered in the town ; and the Rev, George Walker, minister of High-pavement Chapel,] AVilliam Martin, mayor of Newark. Richard Hutchinson and Francis Haworth, bailiffs of East Retford. Charles Mellish, Esq., on his return from abroad, reinstated in his situation as recorder of Newark, which, for two years, had been occupied, during his absence, by Sir Richard Sutton, Bart,, of Norwood Park. WiUiam Denison, Esq., of Ossington, high-sheriff; — Hatton, under- sheriff. On the 26th of June, Abel Smith, jun., Esq., (only a few months before elected one of the representatives for Notting ham) died at his father's house, in the Market-place, in his thirty-first year. This lamented gentleman, thus early removed ¦from a useful and honourable life, served the office of high- sheriff in 1776, and was universaUy esteemed. His remains were interred in the family vault at St. Peter's church. So soon as the obsequies of the departed gentleman were paid, his brother, Robert Smith, Esq., (afterwards Lord Car rington) made known his intention of offering himself to the electors, to fill the vacancy in the representation. At a meeting called at the Great Room in the " New 'Change," to take the subject of the election into consideration, an unani mous resolution was passed to give Mr. Smith the full support of the electors. On the day of nomination Mr. Smith was received with great enthusiasm, and elected without even a single dissentient voice. The following is a copy of the speech made by the honourable gentleman on the occasion, which, if not to be admired for its explicitness, may still be taken as a specimen of hustings brevity, such as in these days is seldom to be met with : 66 ANNALS OF Gentlemen — The persevering zeal and unanimity in your choice of me for your representative in parliament, demand the warmest thanks a grateful heart can express. My sentiments on ¦ this occasion have been sufficiently explained both in public and private. ; Permit' me, therefore, to assure you, that I shall invariably pursue the same line of conduct adopted by my late brother ; and if Providence shall please to spare my life, I will endeavour to discharge the important trust to the satisfaction of you, my fellow-citizensl The public " chairing," which took place immediately after the election, was solemn rather than exultant. The chair itself was covered with black and white silk, and its occupant was clad in an entire suit of black. About the middle of February, great public rejoicings took place in the town, to celebrate the acquittal of Admiral Keppel, who had been tried by court-martial on a charge " for miscon duct and neglect of duty," in not having destroyed the French fleet, when it was alleged he had an opportunity of so doing. The admiral, for his skill and valour shown on many occasions, had, up to the period of this charge, been a universal favourite with the nation ; hence the delight manifested on account of his escape from what was viewed, generally, in the light of a persecution by his enemies. Sir Hugh Pallister, the principal witness against him, was burnt in effigy, at a large bonfire, made on Swine's-green (Carlton-street.) The framework-knitters, still clinging to the hope and expectation that something might yet be done for them by parliament to improve their condition, by raising the rate of wages, and lowering, or entirely abolishing, what they con sidered the unjust impost of frame-rent, again raised large subscriptions from among themselves and the public, who extensively sympathised with them in their distresses, and pre sented a petition to parliament similar to that of the preceding year. On the part of the manufacturers, Mr. Need, (the partner of Arkwright, in the cotton spinning business) stated in his evidence that the workmen were fairly remunerated, in com parison with those engaged in other branches of business ; as the children of a framework-knitter could, from a very early age, assist him, and thus aid the general income of the family, which was not the case with hardly any other class of workmen ; NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, 67 that the abolition or reduction of frame-rent would, in the then state of the trade, prove ruinous to the manufacturers, by preventing independent persons owning frames, a practice which had grown up with the growth of the tra,de, and could not be interfered with, without involving consequences which would serve to drive the hosiers from the trade, and fling it . all into the hands of French manufacturers. The evidence of an apprentice to a person narned Wilkinson,. had also considerable" influence over the minds of many mem bers of the house. This youth, who henceforth went by the cognomen of the " Miraculous Boy," swore that he could, by working customary hours, earn, at his ordinary work, twenty shillings a week. The committee, however, reported in favour of the measure. In May, Mr. Meadows moved for leave to bring in the bill, which was described by Mr. Smith, the newly-elected member, while urging its claims upon the house, as " moistened and saturated with the tears of the poor and distressed." Leave to introduce it. was given, with but one dissentient voice. This favourable prelude, as it was considered by the promoters of the measure — but which, after all, was but as the deceitful calm before a storm — so elated the framework-knitters at Not tingham, and their friends, that every means which could be devised were instantly put in motion to raise the necessary funds to carry it through its future stages. The second reading, a short while afterwards, was carried by the small majority of one, in a. very slender house, the bulk of the members evidently not at all troubling themselves about its fate, at that stage of the proceeding. On the third reading, however, the opponents of the bill mustered in greater strength, and it was lost by a majority of 57 to 18. Intelhgence of the defeat of the measure reached Nottingham on the 10th of June. In a very short time the whole town was in a state of ferment; and about ten at night their anger, which had been gathering strength all the day, broke forth in open violence. The first house attacked was that of Mr. James, an extensive hosier in Parliament-street ; from whence they proceeded to another Mr. James, in Bearward-lane, 68 ANNALS OF (Mount-street) demolishing almost every pane of ' glass in both houses, besides doing other mischief. Mr. Need's house^ on the Low-pavement, (now occupied by Mr. North, as offices) was the next object of attack. Here they demolished every window and shutter, besides doing considerable other damage to the premises. The house of Mr. Baker, a master stocking-maker, living on the opposite side of the street, was next visited with their vengeance. At Wilkinson's house, before alluded to, they not only destroyed all the windows and shutters, but entered the premises, and made a complete wreck of everything upon which they could lay their hands. So unexpected was this outbreak, that the magistrates and officers of the Oxford Blues (Royal Horse Guards) were attending a ball at the Race-stand, and upon the bugle sounding to arms, they mounted in the Market-place, at midnight, in their ball dresses, where they remained tiU day-break. About nine o'clock the next morning the tumult revived ; and the mob demolished the house and furniture of Mr. Francis Hall, in Parliament- street. About this time the magistrates caused the Riot Act to be read, when the assemblage ostensibly dispersed ; but which movement was evidently adopted only to deceive, as they shortly afterwards re-assembled at the cotton mill of Messrs. Need and Arkwright, in Hockley, the windows of which were immediately broken. The military was on the alert, but arrived too late to prevent the mischief being perpetrated; The house of Mr. Turner, the attorney for the hosiers, was next visited : and inside and outside utterly demolished, as far as possible. The more effectually, as it was considered, to coun teract the popular organization, the soldiers separated into files, and commenced a series of patroles ; but the men, as well as their horses, being at length wearied out, returned for a whUe to their quarters. They had, however, scarcely dis mounted, and begun to feed their horses, before the house of Mr. Churchill, in Wheeler-gate, (late in the occupation of Mr. Percy) became the scene of a violent attack ; and so great was the destruction, that the owner thought it better to leave the town, and settle at Sheepshed, where a large portion of his NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 69 work was made, than to repair it. The succeeding movement was a simultaneous attack, of like character, upon a number of manufacturers, by detachments of the mob, in various parts of the town. Another desperate assault was likewise made upon the cotton mill, which, in this instance, they attempted to set on fire : the soldiers having had an intimation of the design, happily frustrated this diabolical intention. Whilst the mili tary were thus occupied in guarding the millj the mob, who were evidently acting under a system of organization, leaving a portion of their body to engage the attention of the magistrates and military authorities, made a rapid advance upon Arnold ; where they attacked Mr. Need's country house, destroying the furniture, breaking up the staircase, and bringing down a large portion of the" roof. While this destruction was going on at Arnold, the rioters left in the town broke into his coach-house, destroyed his carriage and harness, and conveying the frag ments into the Meadows, threw them into the Chainy-pool (whereabout the Seven Arch Bridge is now situated.) The succeeding day was marked by renewed disturbances ; and in the afternoon the premises of Mr. Braithwaite were attacked, and a great deal injured ; as was likewise the house of Mr. Wright, in the Market-place, with a considerable number more in different parts of the town, continuing their outrages till midnight. The next day, being Sunday, was unattended by any disturbance ; but about noon on Monday, on the arrival in the town of a great number of stockingers from the adjacent villages, the disturbances were renewed with as great violence as ever. They broke into a house in Broad-marsh, brought out a stocking-frame belonging to one of the obnoxious hosiers, and carrying it in triumph to the Malt-cross, in the Market place, there broke it to pieces. Numbers of hosiers and middle-men, or master-stockingers, as they were called, suffered in their property in like manner : their shops were entered, their frames thrown out of the windows and demolished, and the more valuable portions of them thrown into deep wells, with which the town then abounded, or strewed about the strjeets and roads. , During the afternoon and evening of the 70 ANNATES OF day, the whole town was in a.stateof the most fearful disorgani zation ; all business was at a stand ; the shops of tradesmen were everywhere closed, and the utmost alarm prevailed among all classes, from the appearance in the streets of these bands of enraged and reckless pien. For more than twenty years afterwards, as is well remembered by the writer of these pages, narratives of a most distressing character were current at many firesides, of the fatal effects, on a number of females and valetudinarians, of the terror created by these outrages; After the Riot Act had been again read, the military were once more called into active service, and adopted the manouvre of patrol ling by videttes, instea.d oi files, supported by strong picquets ; and thus served to keep the rioters effectually in check. At length, about eight in the evening, the experiment was tried, by an individual, in the Market-place, of appealing to the reason of these misguided men ; they listened to the harangue of the speaker, and on being assured by him that a meeting of the hosiers of the three counties would be held on the morrow, for the redress of their grievances, broke up, and retired, with out further disturbance, to their homes. On Tuesday, June 21st. in consequence of the manufacturers having failed to comply with what was demanded of them by the workmen, further acts of violence were had recourse to ; and on Thurs day three hundred of Mr. Need's frames, at Arnold, were utterly destroyed. On the return of the rioters to Nottingham, they determined to inflict further vengeance on Wilkinson, who had been guilty of the double offence of procuring evidence against them, and erecting a house on the commonable land. The entire destruction of the house was accomplished before the military had time to arrive at the scene of action. The mea sures adopted by the authorities became of a much more stringent character after this outrage than heretofore. On the 12th the hosiers, by advertisement, declared themselves one united body, to punish offenders, and protect those who were peaceably disposed ; in addition to which an order was issued to a great number of constables, who had been sworn in spe cially, to assemble in the Market-place on the ringing of the NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 71 Exchange bell. This display of energy was followed up by a conciliatory address from the hosiers, in which they promised that " they would remove every oppression, providing a cessation of the riot took place.'" Order after this became re-established ; but the alleged motives for the outrages — legislative measures for the improvement of the condition of the workmen, and the abolition of frame-rent — were as far as ever from being accom plished. Several persons were arraigned at the summer assizes for taking part in these disturbances, but were all libe rated on the payment of small fines. One man, who was indicted for aiding in the demolition of Wilkinson's house, was saved by the forcible abduction of a principal witness against him, until the business of the assizes was at an end. The parish school of Flintham erected. Richard Chenevix, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, by his wiU dated August 13th, 1779, gave £300, English currency, to be paid to the archdeacon of 'Nottingham, and to the rector of Gedling, and their successors, in trust, to invest the same in the purchase of lands, the conveyance to be made to the said archdeacon and rector, and their successors ; and until a convenient purchase could be made, in trust, to place out the same at interest, on government or real security, without risk or expense to them ; and he directed that the rents of the lands to be purchased should be yearly applied as follows, viz., three-fourths to be distributed amongst the poor of the parishes of Gedling, Carlton, and Stoke, in the Christmas holidays, in such manner and proportions as should be thought proper by the rector, or by his curate, if he should not be resident in the gaid parish; and the remaining fourth part to be employed in buying bibles, catechisms, instructions or preparations for the sacrament, and other religious books, to be given likewise by the said rector, or his curate, to such of the poor of the said towns as he should think proper. This legacy was invested in the purchase of £550 9s. 2d., Consolidated Three Per Cents., the interest of which amounts to £16 10s. 2d. per annum. The nobility, gentry, and clergy of the county, held a 72 ANNALS OF meeting in Nottingham, during one of the race-days, early in August, for the purpose of raising a county subscription, " to be applied for the public service of this kingdom in the present critical situation of affairs." Sir R. Sutton, Bart., presided, and it was resolved, after much discussion, " that the chairman of this committee do write to the secretary-at-war, transmitting him copies of the resolutions of the general meeting, and of the present committee, and do request him to move his majesty to appoint some particular regiment to be recruited in this county, with the assistance of the subscription entered into ; and that his majesty be graciously pleased to order such regiment henceforward to be distinguished by the name of the county." To this communication the Right Hon. C. Jenkinson, secretary-at-war, returned the following answer : War Office, August 6th, 1779, Sir, — I have taken the first opportunity of laying before the king the reso lutions of the nobility, clergy, and gentry of the county of Nottingham, which I had the honour of receiving in your letter of the 3rd instant. His majesty has commanded me to acquaint you that he is pleased very graciously to accept of the noble and liberal offer contained therein, and very highly approves of the plan which they have adopted for augmentiug, in the most effectual manner, and with the least delay, the internal force of this country, in the present emergency of public affairs. The 45th Regiment of Foot wUl be immediately ordered to receive the recruits raised in Nottinghamshire. I have it further in command from the king to express his majesty-s earnest desire that the noblemen and gentlemen of the county of Nottingham, in addi tion to their very liberal subscription, wiU exert their personal influence in their respective neighbourhoods to promote the levy of men in the speediest and most effectual manner; and his majesty authorises me to add, that whenever three hundred men shaU be raised and incorporated into the 45th Regt,, by the assistance of their influence and bounty, he will order the said corps to be distinguished from thence forward by the titie of the Nottinghamshire ; Begiment, as a mark of his readiness to comply with their wishes, and as a memorial of the zeal and loyalty shown by the said county. I have the honour to be. Sir, your most obedient servant, C. Jenkinson, The skeleton of the 45th, which had recently returned from America, numbering less than a hundred men, were at once ordered to Nottingham on recruiting service. In addition to the usual sum, a bounty of six guineas was paid to each NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. .73 recruit out of the subscription, and " the 45th and Nottingham shire" have continued ever since closely connected. During the French revolutionary war this regiment received many hundreds of men, successively, from Nottinghamshire, as volun teers from the militia, or as recruits raised by beat of drum. Few regiments under the crown have, during the last sixty years, seen more arduous service than the 45th, and none have earned for themselves a higher renown. A subscription was entered into, at the latter end of Sep tember, by a number of gentlemen of Nottingham, to ascertain the exact amount of inhabitants in the town, with the number of families, and houses they occupied. The result was found to be as follows ; St. Mary's parish, 2,314 houses, 2,584 families, 12,837 inhabitants; St. Peter's, 446 houses, 497 families, 2,452 inhabitants; St. Nicholas', 431 houses, 475 families, 2,502 inhabitants. Total, 3,191 houses, 3,556 families, 17,791 inhabitants. Died, Bishop Warburton. This extra,ordinary man, whose vast and varied erudition, extended grasp of intellect, profound power of abstraction and analysis, originality of thought, and bold and vigorous spirit of investigation, may well cause him to be recognized as one, if not the noblest, of the intellectual luminaries by which, at any time, our local hemisphere has been irradiated, was born at Newark, in the year 1698. War- burton received his early education at the Free Grammar School, in his native town, founded by Dr. Magnus. Early in youth he quitted this seminary, where he much distinguished himself in the performance of all his school-boy exercises, and vvas transferred to a stool and desk in the office of an attorney, of Newark, who was a personal friend of his father. The elder Warburton was likewise a member of the profession ; but, pro bably, not being in so good practice as his friend, he preferred that his son should be articled to him, rather than remain at home. When about twenty-two years of age, having been admitted on the roll as an attorney, he was a candidate for the office of town-clerk of Newark, (a place which his father had before filled with credit to himself) but, as appears by an entry 74 ANNALS OF in the records of the corporation, was, fortunately for himself, and the world, rejected by a vote of Hall. How gloriously are the blunders of men sometimes overruled by the wisdom of Providence, for the accomplishment of the highest and most beneficial results to the world at large ! It is possible that had this paltry office been conceded to the then ambitious aspira tions of the young lawyer, or had his townsmen, when he afterwards entered upon regular practice, favoured him with a respectable share of their patronage, the author of that splendid work. The Divine Legation of Moses, might have been content to go on, from his youth to his tomb, drawing drafts of con veyances, and dancing attendance upon the mayor and aldermen of Newark, in the transacting of the small legal affairs of their humble borough. But it was not to be so. Warburton sat at his desk, but as few clients came to disturb the repose of his dingy apartment, he had time allowed him to expatiate in a field of inquiry, evidently more congenial with the cast of his mind than the dry study of the law, namely, that of polemical divinity. Under these feelings it was that, as is believed, by the advice of Sir Robert Sutton, he quitted the legal profession, and entered the church. The honourable baronet, whose family had been for long seated in the vicinity of Newark, was at this time a man of great power and influence, and in his own person possessed of some ecclesiastical patronage. Thus en couraged, the young ci-devant lawyer took orders about 1726, being then in his twenty-eighth year, but, as it would seem, without having spent any time at either of the universities. Immediately on being ordained, Warburton was presented, by his friend and patron, with the living of Brant-Broughton, in the county of Lincoln, a piece of preferment he could never be persuaded to rehnquish, always priding himself, in his after controversial writings, in being called the " Lincolnshire Parson." Here he lived in retirement for' several years, de voting himself ardently to the study of classical learning, logic, and other branches of knowledge, in which his previous im perfect education had caused him, to his own feelings, to be very sensibly deficient : and here, too, he appears to have NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, 75 planned, and, in part, executed some of those works which afterwards attracted, in so remarkable a degree, the notice both of the public and the learned. His 'first publication is said to have appeared so early as the year 1724, whilst he was yet in the profession of the law. This volume consisted of transla tions, in prose and verse, from Roman poets, orators, and historians; and was dedicated to Sir Robert Sutton. In 1726 Warburton contributed some notes to Theobald's edition of Shahspeare, and also enrolled himself in the literary confederacy against Pope, then lord of the ascendant in the literary world. His notes on the great dramatist are erudite and ingenious, but, in many instances, singularly perverse. His connexion with the inferior writers of the day, as might have been ex pected from the character of his mind, was of very short duration, and he soon became the intimate friend and associate of Pope, Chesterfield, Murray, and other leading men of that party. In 1727 he published An Enquiry into the Causes of Prodigies and Miracles, and in 1736 his famous treatise on the Alliance between Church and State. From this period he may be said to have entirely emerged from the obscurity of private life ; and, abandoning the petty warfare of controversial pam phlets, to have concentrated his great talents on the production of works of genius and erudition. In the following year (1737) appeared the first volume of his great work. The Divine Lega tion of Moses. Of this work the following account has been given, in an article on Hurd's Edition of Warburton s Worlcs, in the seventh volume of the Quarterly Review : To the composition of this prodigious performance Hooker and StUlingfleet could have contributed the erudition, ChUlingworth and Locke the acuteness, Taylor an ijnagination even more wUd and copious, Swift, and perhaps Eachard, the sarcastic vein of wit ; but what power of understanding, except that of Warburton, could flrst have amassed aU these materials, and then com pacted them into a bulky and elaborate work, so consistent and harmonious ? The principle of the work, as weU as its execution, were aUke bold and origmal. That the doctrine of a future state of reward and punishment was omitted in the books of Mcses had been insolently urged by infidels against the truth of his mission, whUe divines were feebly occupied in seeking what was_ certainly not to be found there, otherwise than by inference and imphfloation. But Warburton, with an intrepidity before unheard of, threw open the gates of his camp, admitted the host of the enemy within his works, and beat them on a ground which was now become both his and theirs. Inshort, he admitted the proposition to its fullest extent, and then proceeded to demonstrate from that very omission, which in all instances, of legislation, merely human, had been industriously avoided, that a system which ¦ could dispense with a doctrine the very bond and cement of human society, must have come from God ; and that the people to whom it was given must have been placed under his immediate superintendence. In the hands of such a champion, the warfare he conducted might be safe ; yet the experiment was perilous, and the combatant a stranger ; hence the timid were alarme^, the formal disconcerted ; even the veteran leaders of his own party were scandalized by the irregular act of heroism ; and long and loud was the outcry of treason and perfidy within the camp. Nor is it to be dissembled that in choosing this new and narrow ground of defence, how ever adapted to his own daring and adventurous spirit, Warburton gave some cause of alarm, and even of dissatisfaction, to the friends of revelation. War- burton's Divine Legation is one of the few theological, and still fewer contro versial works, which scholars, even perfectly indifferent to Such subjects, wUl ever read with delight. The novelty of the hypothesis, the masterly conduct of the argument, the hard blows which this champion of faith and orthodoxy is ever dealing about him, against the enemies of both ; the scorn with which he represses shallow petulance, and the inimitable acuteness vrith which he ex poses dishonest sophistry; the compass of literature which he displays, his widely extended views of ancient religion and polity, but, above all, the brUliant and sparkling eloquence which, like the rich suiishine of an Italian landscape, Uluminates the whole: all these excellencies will rivet the attention alike of taste, reason, and erudition, so long as English literature shall exist ; while many a standard work, perhaps equaUy learned, and more convincing, is per mitted to repose in unbroken quiet on the shelf. But it is in his episodes and digressions that Warburton's powers of reason and brilliancy of fancy are most conspicuous. Of these the most remarkable are his Hypothesis concerning the Origin and late Antiquity of the Book of Job, his elaborate disquisition on Hieroglyphics and Picture Writing, and his original and profound Investigation of the Mysteries. The Divine Legation was received with little favour in either university, and was bitterly assaUed by a host of antagonists. In 1741 our author pubUshed a second volume of the work, and defended himself with great spirit from the objections, cavils, and criticisms which, for several years, had issued in great numbers from the press against him. About this time, too, he was favoured with the patronage of the heir apparent to the throne, to whom he was made chaplain ; and shortly after wards, through the introduction of his friend Pope, obtained in marriage the hand of an accomplished and wealthy lady, Miss Turner, niece and heiress to Mr. Allen, of Prior Park, near Bath, a gentleman of large fortune. This lady, a complete woman of the world, and who appears to have been utterly NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 77 unable to appreciate her husband's talents, was never so happy as when she could promote the mirth of the moment by hold ing him up to derision among her friends ; and had certainly more influence than such a woman ought to have possessed, as the following anecdote, given by Mr. Dickinson, will prove : Mrs. Warburton had a near relation, a general in the army, whose uniform she obtained for the occasion, and after much entreaty and coaxing, persuaded the bishop . to dress himself in it, just in order, as she assured him, to gratify her by showing how much more the martial air, which she said was natural to him, would be set off by a military than a clerical habiliment. Teased with her importunities, the bishop put on the glittering paraphernalia ; but had scarcely finished the labours of his toilet, when a door opened, and a numerous party of guests, whom she had privately invited for the purpose, were at once admitted to the presence of the disconcerted ecclesiastic, to whom the facetious lady, by a misplaced piece of witticism, introduced them as Brigadier-General Moses, in allusion to his great theological work on which he founded, principally, his pretensions to a high Uterary reputation. Warburton (says his biographer) had a constitutional delight in paradox. He read, as it would appear, among other reasons, for the purpose of ascertaining what had been written on a subject ; not that he might adopt or reject, at his discretion, the opinions of others, but that he might be sure of producing what had never been said or thought before. Such a spirit, aided by a constitution however strong, and a mind however skilful, while it might occasionally reward the discoverer, and enrich the literature of his country with unexpected wealth, would sometimes drive him upon unknown rocks, and not unfrequently entangle him in inextricable quicksands, where his rashness would at once be regarded as his reproach and his calamity. Such v^as his Ul-starred Dissertation on the Book of Joh, which, besides having incidentally drawn upon him the vengeance of Lowth, missed that praise which there was sometimes reason to fear he courted more ardently than either utility or truth. His failure on this subject was, however, more than compensated by his wonderful dissertation on hieroglyphi- cal and pictorial writing ", one of those feUcities which seem to be occasionally and intrinsically bestowed upon great genius, and are beyond aU power of ordinary effort and meditation. In profundity of research, clearness of deduc tion, and happiness of Ulustration, we know of no analysis which wUl bear a comparison with it. Had Warburton written nothing but the fourth section of the fourth book of the Divine legation, it would have rendered his name immortal. In 1746 Warburton, through the interest of his friend Murray, was chosen preacher of Lincoln's Inn. In 1750 he published Julian, or a discourse concerning the earthquake and fiery eruption which defeated that emperor's attempt to rebuild the temple of Jerusalem. Warburton's next labour was the editing of a uniform edition of the works of his deceased friend and benefactor, Alexander Pope. He had completely gained 78 ANNALS OF the confidence of the " Bard of Twickenham," who introduced the " Lincolnshire Parson" to all his most influential friends ; and, at his death, bequeathed to him one-half of his library, and the whole of his unsold copyrights. His first government preferment was a prebend of Gloucester, which was conferred upon him in 1753, through the patronage of Lord Hardwicke. Warburton had espoused the measures of government with much warmth so early as 1746 ; its patronage, therefore, came late ; and he appears never to have forgotten the coldness with which he was so long treated. In a letter to his friend and future biographer, Hurd, written in 1766, he says : I brought, as usual, a bad cold with me to town ; and this being the first day Ii ventured out of doors, it was employed, as in duty bound, at court, it being a levee-day. A buffoon lord -in-waiting was very busy marshalling the circle ; and he said to me, without ceremony, " Move forward ; you clog up the doorway." I replied, with as little, " Did nobody clog up the king's doorstead more than I, there would be room for all honest men." This brought the man to himself. In 1754 Warburton was appointed one of the chaplains to the king; in 1755 he was presented to a prebend in the church of Durham; and in the same year had the degree of D.D. con ferred upon him by an archiepiscopal mandate. In 1757 he was made dean of Bristol; and in 1759 was advanced to the bishopric of Gloucester. His publications up to this latter date, besides those already mentioned, were a vindication of Pope from the charge of Spinoism, in his Essay on Man ; a Dissertation on the origin of the books of Chivalry ; an edition of Shakspeare, with notes ; animadversions on Bolingbroke's philosophical writings; and an improved edition of the first volume of the Divine Legation. In 1762, he published his Doctrine of Grace. This work was directed against the opinions of Middleton on the one hand, and Wesley on the other. Notwithstanding the important character of this work, it is disgraced by much scurrility of language. In 1766, he founded a course of lectures at Lincoln's Inn, " to prove the truth of revealed religion in general, and of the Christian in particular, from the completion of the prophecies of the Old and New Testaments." The bishop concluded his literary labours somewhat previous to the year 1770, when, from the loss of NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, 79 memory, and other circumstances, he became sensible that his faculties were beginning to decay. Their decline was indeed somewhat rapid; for by about 1775, he had sunk into a state little better than idiotic. From that time, his small remainder of life was an entire blank ; the flame of his genius was utterly burnt out ; the might of his intellect was entirely dissipated, and nothing left to identify his remains with what was once himself, but a cumbrous mass of unsightly humanity. He died in June, 1779, almost without a struggle. He had only one son, who died before him. His widow survived him, and took a second husband, A writer in the Quarterly Review supplies us with the following sketch of the character of Bishop Warburton : His whole constitution, bodily as weU as mental, seemed that he was bom to be an extraordinary man. With a large and athletic person he prevented the necessity of such bodily exercises as strong constitutions usually require, by rigid and undeviating abstinence. The time thus saved was uniformly devoted to study, of which no measure, or continuance, ever exhausted his understand ing, or checked the natural flow of his spirits. A change in the object of his pursuit was his only relaxation. In the mind of Warburton the foundation of classical literature had been well laid, yet not so as to enable him to pursue the science of ancient criticism with an exactness equal to the extent in which he grasped it. His master faculty was reason, and his master science was theology ; the very outline of which, for the direction of young students, surpasses the attainments of many who have the reputation of being considerable divines. One deficiency of his education he had carefuUy corrected by cultivating logic with great diligence. His sense of humour, like most men of very vigorous faculties, was strong, but coarse ; while the rudeness of his manners, as a con- trovertist, removed all restraints of decency or decorum in scattering his jests about him. His taste, in these respects, seems to have been neither just nor delicate. He had nothing of that intuitive perception of beauty which feels rather than judges, and yet is sure to be followed by the common suffrage of mankind ; on the contrary, his critical favours were commonly bestowed accord ing to rules and reasons, and for the most part but in agreement with certain perverse and capricious reasons of his own. In short, it may be advanced as one of those compensations with which Providence is ever observed to balance the excesses and superfluities of its own gifts, that there was not a faculty about this wonderful man which does not appear to have been disturbed by a certain inexplicable perverseness, in which pride and the love of paradox was blended with the spirit of subtle and sophistical reasoning. On the whole we think it a fair subject of speculation, whether it were desirable that Warburton's education and early habits should have been those of other great scholars. That the ordinary form of scholastic institution would have been for his own benefit, and in some respects for that of mankind, there can be no doubt. The gradations of a university would, in part, have mortified his vanity, and subdued his arro gance. The perpetual collisions of kindred and approximating minds, which constitute perhaps the great excellence of those iWustrious seminaries, would have rounded some portion of his native asperities ; he would have been broken by the academical curb to pace in the trammels of ordinaiy ratiocination ; he would have thought always above, yet not altogether unlike, the rest of man kind. Yet all these advantages would have been acquired at an expense ill to be spared, and greatly to be regretted. The man might have been polished, and the scholar improved, but the phenomenon would have been lost. Mankind might not have learned equaUy for centuries to come what an untutored mind can do for itself A self-taught theologian, untamed by rank, and unsubdued by intercourse with the great, was yet a novelty in the world ; and the manners of a gentleman, the formalities of argument, and the niceties of composition, would, at least with those who love the eccentricities of native genius, have been unwillingly accepted in exchange for that glorious extravagance which dazzles even while it is unable to convince, that range of erudition which would have been cramped by exactness of research, and that haughty defiance of form and decorum which was apt, in its too frequent transgressions against charity and manners, to combine the powers of a giant with the temper of a bigot or a bravo, William Fillingham, of CropweU-Bishop, who died this year, paid into the hands of John Parr, Joseph Marriott, and two other trustees, the sum of~ £50, to be by them placed out at interest, or invested in the purchase of land, and to pay the produce on the 1st of January yearly in money, or the value in bread, to such of the poor inhabitants belonging to CropweU- Bishop only, as they and their executors, or the churchwardens and overseers, should think fit. Died, this year, the Rev. Caleb Fleming, minister of Bar tholomew Close and Pinners Hall, London. Mr. Fleming was a native of Nottingham, born in the year 1698. His family had been long settled here, and appear early on the freemen's roll as sworn burgesses, most, or all of them, being of the humble occupation of framework-knitters, to which business it would seem the reverend gentleman himself was originally apprenticed, as when he took up his freedom, in 1721, he is likewise entered on the roll with the usual abbreviation, " F.W.K.," appended to his name. Before this time, however, being a youth of considerable promise, he had, as it would seem, been removed from the stocking-frame to Warrington Academy, in order to undergo a mental training for the service of the ministry among the Independents, with which society he continued in connexion up to the period of his death. NOTTIN'GHAMSHIRE. 81 1780. '^^^^ Smellie, mayor; John Buxton, jun., and John Ball Mason, sheriffs of Nottingham. Free- 20, George HI. j^^^ enroUed, seventy-two. Sir Richard Kaye, Bart., appointed archdeacon of Nottingham. Joseph Sikes, mayor of Newark. Edward Brown and John Brumby, baihffs of East Retford. Charles Vere Dashwood, Esq., of Stanford HaU, high-sheriff; — Davis, under-sheriff. Died, on the 21st February, at his residence in Greyfriars- gate, (Lister-gate) Nottingham, Mr. Thomas Peet, an eminent mathematician. He was the oldest almanac writer in England, having compiled the Gentleman's Diary, and Poor Robin, (the most popular productions, of their kind, of his day) upwards of forty years. His predictions were marked, generally, by much shrewdness, and were often very striking in then- fulfilment. Mr. Peet was not a native of the town, though he resided in it most part of his hfe. His father occupied a small fai-m at Ashley-Hay, near Wirksworth, Derbyshire. At the usual age he was sent to a school in the neighbourhood, where he was instructed in the rudiments of the English and Latin languages ; but unfortunately for him, before he had made much progress in learning, his mother, a thorough-going Nonconformist, as weU as a Whig in poUtical principles, discovered that his master was a Tory and a High Churchman ; and as she appears to have ruled the family, determined that her son should sooner remain in ignorance, than have his mind imbued with the notions, rehgious and political, of his tutor, the boy was taken from school, and sent to drudge with a servant-man at the plough and the dung-cart. Having now no books of a descrip tion to satisfy the cravings of his mind after knowledge, nor money to purchase any, he adopted the expedient of engaging himself at a blacksmith's shop in the village to strike the heavy hammer, for a penny an hour, at those intervals he was away from tlie labours of the farm ; and with the small sums thus | i earned, aided by the few pence he occasionaUy received from his parents, he contrived to purchase two or three works on arithmetic and mathematics, to the study of which his mind was principally directed. The books thus obtained he 82 ANNALS OF employed so well, that he soon came to be looked upon as a prodigy by all his neighbours and friends. The notoriety he thus acquired by his dihgence and attainments caused an appUcation to be made for him by a gentleman in the vicinity, who was desirous of turning his good quaUties to some useful account, both for himself and the boy. The prejudices of his parents, however, and more especially of his mother, would not allow that he should be removed from under their immediate care, lest his active mind should become tinctured with prin ciples contrary to their own. Foreseeing, as they thought, danger to his future welfare from the pursuits in which his mind was so much engaged, (for he had now added the study of one or more of the dead languages to that of mathematics) -they sought to impose a restraint upon his further progress by forbidding him the use of such books. This was more than the young rustic could bear ; he could endure toil, but he could not support the shackles thus attempted to be imposed upon his mind. He therefore, to the sad grief of his over-careful parents, fled the shelter of their roof, to which he never again returned, but as an occasional visitor, and came to Notting ham. Here he had an elder brother settled, who was carrying on the business of a master joiner and carpenter, and to this brother Thomas bound himself as an apprentice. Unfor tunately for him, however, the brother had as Uttle sympathy with him in his literary or intellectual pursuits as his parents, while he had a great deal more of stern bigotry about him than even they had ; for not only was he not allowed by him to earn anything for his own disposal, but he likewise restrained him from reading any other than religious books. This brother, whose creed was that of the Presbyterians, attended with his apprentice regularly at the High-pavement Chapel, which was frequented by Cornelius Wildbore, a person carrying. on the business of a dyer. An accidental conversation, as it would seem, revealed to the mind of this gentleman the genius and attainments of young Peet, and he straightway, by supplying him with books, and other necessary means of improvement, so fostered and fed the mind of his protege, that by the period he became freed from the trammels of his apprenticeship, he was qualified to enter on the profession of a teacher of mathe matics and the languages, to which he added land-surveying, mapping, &c., and which pursuits, in connection with the two almanacs, he continued up to the period of his death. For conducting the two almanacs he received the liberal remunera tion of twenty-three pounds a year ; to which was added the privilege, to him an almost invaluable one, of ordering, at. the expense of his employers, every new work which issued from the press on the subjects of his favourite studies. Peet, in conjunction with Mr. John Badder, of Cossal, drew out a plan and map of Nottingham, which was published November 30th, 1744, dedicated to Francis Lord Middleton. This is the map of the town, divested of its ornaments, which is attached to Deering's Antiquities of Nottingham. Whilst on the subject, we had better, perhaps, finish here the chapter of Nottingham almanac writers. On the death of Mr. Peet, he was succeeded in the management of the Gentle man's Diary by the Rev. Charles Wildbore, though no relation, as it would appear, or only a very remote one, of his early patron and friend of the same name. As the history of this gentleman is equally instructive, as an example of the advan tages to be derived from a steady perseverance in the pursuit of any laudable object, with that of the case just given, we hope to be excused in devoting a small space to it. Charles Wildbore was born in this town in the year 1736. He was left an orphan very young ; when he appears to have been sent to St! Nicholas' workhouse, or at least to have been . placed under the care of the parochial authorities. During this period there was something about the boy which attracted more than ordinary attention, as he was, at a proper age, recommended to, and placed for instruction in, the Blue-coat Charity School. Here he was remarkable only for his dulness and absence of thought, except when engaged in the solution of arithmetical or mathematical questions, when he was all alertness and animation, appearing then as an unusuaUy quick and intelligent boy. The extraordinary absence of mind under 84 ANNALS OF which he generally laboured, and which obtained for him among his rude schoolfellows the nickname of " Silly Charley," was entirely the result of his mind being so continually engaged in arithmetical abstractions.' At the age of fourteen he was placed as an apprentice with Mr. Warton Partridge, a well known apothecary of Nottingham, who occupied the house at the south-east corner of the Middle-pavement, next door to the Barley Mow public-house. In the family of Doctor Partridge Charles was still accused of labouring under the same charge as at school — continual absence of mind. After the expira tion of his apprenticeship with Mr. Partridge, nothing appears to be known of his habits of life until the age of twenty-four, when he married Miss Ann Lee, of Kirkby- Woodhouse, in this county. Shortly after this period he ascertained that he was the legal heir to a small estate at Kirton, near Boston, in Lincolnshire, of which, with the assistance of friends, he ob tained possession, and was succeeded in it by his son, the Rev. Charles Wildbore, vicar of Tilton-on-the-Hill, in the county of Leicester. Mr. Wildbore finding himself now in tolerably easy circumstances, had full leisure to devote all the powers of his mind to the pursuit of his favourite studies. At about the age of thirty he went into holy orders, and shortly afterwards obtained the curacy of Broughton-Sulney, in this county, which he held with high reputation to the period of his decease, in the year 1802. On the death of Peet, as has before been noticed, Mr. Wildbore obtained the manage ment of the Gentleman's Diary ; and at the same time procured for John Pearson, also an eminent mathematician, and school master of Nottingham, the conducting of Poor Robins Almanac, which production he had the management of up to the time of his death, which took place in 1791, he being then sixty-two years of age. With these gentlemen ended the race of Not tinghamshire almanac writers. Mr. Pearson was likewise a wit and a poet ; and much were his sayings and doings in this way, more especially his satirical couplets, the theme of con versation among the literary coteries and bon-vivant associa tions of the town, to the latter of which classes Mr. Pearson NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 85 was himself a distinguished devotee. Mr. Pearson left one son, who will be well remembered by many of the elder readers of these " Annals," alike for his obesity and musical talents. The presence of the " Musical Elephant," as this gentleman was .facetiously termed, was an absolute requisite of all corporation entertainments, and other fashionable con vivial meetings. This year is remarkable for the great excitement prevailing among almost all orders of men in the state, on the subject of a retrenchment of the public expenditure, and a reform in the state of the representation. A great meeting of deputies from many of the counties of England, and from several of the towns and cities, of which Nottingham was one, was held at the St. Alban's Tavern, and afterwards, by several adjournments from . the 11th to the 26th of March, at the Great Room in King- street, St. James's. The deputy from Nottingham was Lord Edward Bentinck, the second son of the Duke of Portland. The Rev. Christopher Wyvill, one of the deputies from the county of York, was called to the chair ; when a memorial, containing reasons for a plan of association of the deputies from the several counties, cities, and towns, who had petitioned par liament for a redress of grievances, was agreed upon. This memorial, eloquently and forcibly written, contained a recapitu lation of all the grievances under which it was supposed the nation was then labouring, and is a document which will always be read with interest, whilst ever Englishmen aspire to be free men, or have the courage to remonstrate against abuses of power, either by a corrupt minister or a despotic court. Our limits will not allow us to enter at length into the subject of this memorial, which was subscribed to by a long list of im portant names, but we cannot resist the temptation of presenting the reader with a passage or two, occurring at its commence ment : If ever there was a period in the annals of this country for popular jealousy to be awake, and popular virtue to exert itself, it is the present. Other eras have been marked by partial inroads on the constitution, grasping at particular prerogatives, and narrowing chiefly the subordinate branches of civil liberty. But whatever was their measure, disappointment and overthrow have gene- rally been their fate. That public virtue which has ever distinguished Englishmen, never forsook our ancestors in the important hour of trial, never left the arbitrary mind to finally triumph in success. Their representatives in the legislative body might be depended upon at the national call, and in that barrier they ever found themselves impregnable. But what is our situation at present? By the operation of a despotic system, which has continued with very Uttle intermission sear nineteen years, and is now almost completed by a dangerous administration, the very vitals of the constitution have received a dangerous wound ; not this or that par tiality of the reigning mind has been gratified, but the whole capacity of popular freedom has been struck at. Let any man look back to the laws which have passed only during the last few sessions of parliament, forming, as it were, step by step, a prerogative which has already brought within its vortex the primary parts of civil, religious, commercial, and military adminis tration, within the kingdom or its dependencies, not excepting from its vast control all the branches of the royal family, and but too probably the succes sion of the crown : let him look back to these, and then doubt, if he can, if the executive power has not found its way to the corruption of the legis lative. Let him behold a venal majority in the House of Commons, session after session, moving obsequious to the nod of the minister, and giving the legislative sanction to propositions not only big with the fate of their country, but often militating against the first principle of the constitution, and the declared voice of the constituents ; while every effort of reason and argument urged by an independent few, has only been answered by numbers, dumb to reply; and then let him judge how enormous that corruption must be. But let him bring his observation to the immense patronage of the crown, diffhsed over this legislative body, in the bestowal of offices, and where offices are too few, and not lucrative enough to satiate the corruption of individuals, in ruinous contracts, in profuse pensions, some known, and others studiously concealed ; let these be considered, and the terms above-mentioned, in which the crisis of British freedom is marked, are indisputably fulfilled, " the legis lative body is as corrupt as the executive, and dependant upon it." For us, then, is reserved to feel ourselves bowed down under that intolerable oppression, which to British minds in any past generation could appear but as a fearful speculation — the enormous, the compactly accumulated, the all-devouring infiuence of the crown. It is remarkable, too, as indicative of the stern, manly spirit of resistance to the encroachments of the crown and its ministers at the time referred to, that the protest of a number of the peers, on the rejection of Lord Shelburne's motion, for- " a commission, consisting of lords possessing neither employ ment nor pension, to examine, without delay, into the public expenditure, and the mode of accounting for the same," was couched in even still stronger terms than the memorial just quoted. Among the number of peers who signed this spirited protest, the following were from this locality : The Dukes of Portland, Rutland, and Devonshire ; as likewise the NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 87 Earl of Scarborough. During the month of March, great meetings of freeholders and inhabitants took place, as well of counties as of cities and boroughs, with their respective corpo rate bodies, in various parts of the kingdom. The county of Nottingham met on the last day of February, at Mansfield, at which meeting there were present a great number of the gentry, clergy, and freeholders. It was called, as the advertisement announced, " to consider what steps are necessary to be taken, in the present critical situation of affairs." George Donston, Esq., of Worksop, presided ; and J. G. Cooper, Esq., J. Acklom, Esq., Major Cartwright, L. D. Ffytche, Esq., and W. D. RastaU, Esq., were the principal speakers. The Duke of Portland, Lord E. Bentinck, Lord Cavendish, and Sir W. Boothby, were also on the platform. A petition was agreed upon, and a deputy (Lord Edward Bentinck) appointed to the association about to meet in London. The petition from the corporation of Nottingham was much admired at the time alike for its sound constitutional principles, and the forcible eloquence of style in which it was written, and is one of the few of which a verbatim report is to be found in the public records of the period. It ran as follows : To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled : The petition of the mayor and burgesses loi the town and county of the town of Nottingham, in council assembled : At the height of national calamity, we, the mayor and burgesses of the town and county of the town of Nottingham, in common hall assembled, approach a British House of Commons with that respect which is due to the appointed guardians of our rights, and with that hope which it becomes us to entertain from those who are honoured with so great a trust. The growing and insup portable distresses of this injured ^nd degraded country, summon us into your presence, that you may know our sense of these distresses, of their cause, and of their remedy ; and find in the wishes of the people the best encouragement to an immediate and effectual interposition for their rescue. Whether by crime, or by misfortune, or both, one great member of the British empire is gone ; yet with such a diminution of wealth and power, to be engaged in the most complicated and formidable war, surely asks for the most rigid economy in every department of the state. But with grief and shame we observe that a wasteful prodigality has dissi pated our remaining strength, and by enfeebUng our efforts, disgraced our arms, and multipUed our losses ; whUe the very prodigality becomes the source of increased demands, aggravates the burdens under which every rank and description of the people bow, and threatens in its progress a general ruin. 88 ANNALS OF We look up to your honourable house for a period to this dreadful progress, and that with the integrity and firmness of the Commons of Britain you will make a severe enquiry into the expenditure of that immense treasure, which a liberality unknown in the most flourishing period has drawn from an almost exhausted nation. The magnanimity of a free people can give the last shil ling in the cause of their country, but in no other cause ; and this confidence, which shall dispose them to the last exertions, can only be derived from your inquisition into those abuses which may render such exertions necessary ; they expect to know that successive grants shall not find them less prepared to meet an elated foe, and facilitate the most awful of all calamities — the ruin of their liberties. In this reduced and humble state of the nation, it is a further pain to observe the enormous sums which are devoted to no public good ; the exorbi tant emoluments annexed to real, and much more to nominal offices, with indiscriminate, unmerited pensions ; which devour the public treasure, defeat the national efforts, degrade the spirit of Englishmen into sordid avarice, subvert the independence of parliament, and act with a malignant influence on all that is dear to our country. Under the impression of these awful truths, we beg leave to represent that the redress of these ruinous abuses is the right of Britons, and the only source from which hope can again be brought back to their country ; and that till some wise and vigorous measures be adopted, no addition can with wisdom, honour, or safety, be made to the pecuniary burthens of these kingdoms. We would respectfully observe, that such conduct, in times of danger, distress, and apprehension, has been the distinguishing character of your honourable house, that by which the very being of your house, and the being of our constitution, has been preserved ; and that in no period have distress and apprehension more summoned the representatives of Britain to the exertion of their proper character, to the fulfilling every hope of their anxious constituents. With these abuses in all their magnitude, in all their operation before you, every grant beyond the produce of the present taxes will be to wanton with the rights and property of the people, aud betray the faith and dignity of parliament. It is our prayer, therefore, to this honourable house, that all extravagant emoluments be reduced, all superfluous and nominal offices be abolished, and all unmerited pensions be resumed, and that the produce be appropriated to the necessities of the state. And that till this wise and necessary reform be adopted, and till effectual means be applied to inquire into and correct the abuses in the expenditure of the public money, whereby the fears and the jealousies of the people may be appeased, and a weU-grounded confidence dif fused through the community, you will with that justice and patriotism which we promise ourselves from your honourable house withhold ail grants of the public money, beyond the produce of the present taxes. Trusting that this our just and interesting petition will meet with all favourable reception, We ever pray, &c,, &c. An unfortunate collision between the military stationed in Nottingham and the townspeople took place on the 4th of June, (the anniversary of the king's birthday) this year. The NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 89 day was ushered in with the usual festivities, as ringing of bells, &c. ; at noon three troops of the Horse Guards (Blue) fired volleys in the Market-place, amidst the huzzas and accla mations of the populace; a large bonfire, prepared at the expense of the corporation, blazed in the spacious area ; and similar demonstrations of popular excitement, with their ordinary accompaniments of squibs and crackers, prevailed in various other parts of the town. At seven in the evening, a numerous party of gentry, clergy, tradesmen, and officers of the troops quartered in Nottingham, met at the Exchange HaU, to do honour to the day by drinking to his majesty's health. At nine a grand exhibition of fireworks took place. Up to this time nothing but good humour and hilarity pre vailed among the assembled thousands. From some cause or other, however, about this time a dispute took place between some of the officers and a party of the inhabitants. Words soon rose very high, and from words they proceeded to blows ; when the military drawing their swords, and the people arming them selves, on the spur of the moment, as best they could, many on both sides received terrible wounds, some even to the hazard of their lives. The officers, on retiring to their quarters at the Blackmoor's Head Inn, were followed in a threatening and tumultuous manner by the populace, who, so soon as they had entered, in the usual way of showing their resentment against persons, commenced a furious attack upon the windows of the house. Nearly two hundred large panes of glass were broken on the occasion, besides much damage being done to the sash frames and the inside shutters. In consequence of this dis turbance, an order was issued to the general of the district, from the king in council, for " the military to act without waiting for directions from .the civil magistrates ; and to use force for dispersing any illegal or tumultuous assembly of the people." A few weeks after this event, (June 23rd) intelligence reached Nottingham of the capture of Charlestown, in South Carolina, by the forces under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton. , This news created among the mass of the M population the greatest degree of enthusiasm. The church bells were set ringing, bonfires were made, the public-houses, and other places of resort, were thronged with crowds of people, and at night the residences of many persons were brilliantly illuminated, and two pieces of ordnance discharged in the Market-place, by which a number of squares of glass were broken in several of the houses opposite. One of these guns at last burst in the explosion, but, fortunately, without occa sioning the death of any one, though several persons were seriously injured. This capture was a great blow to the American cause, at the time, and many persons anticipated from it an utter extinction of independence, more especially as a second defeat followed a few months afterwards, when the loss was again very considerable. At Charlestown there were taken seven general officers, a commodore, ten continental regiments, and three battalions of artillery, together with town and county militia, French and seamen, making in all about six thousand men in arms. The titular deputy-governor, council, and civil officers, were also taken prisoners. In addi tion to which four frigates, several armed vessels, with a great number of boats, and about four hundred pieces of cannon, fell into the hands of the victors ; besides these a frigate, pierced for sixty, but mounting forty-four guns; with three sloops of war, carrying twenty-eight, twenty-six, and twenty guns, were sunk during the siege. On Friday, the 2nd of June, commenced those disgraceful proceedings in London against the Roman Catholics, known by the title of " Lord George Gordon's Riots." On the 8th of July the king went to the House of Peers, and after a speech from the throne, prorogued the parliament; which, on the 1st of September following, was dissolved. On the 8 th of the same month a sheriff's court was opened at the Exchange Hall, Nottingham, to elect two burgesses to represent the town. Robert Smith, Esq., (Whig) Daniel Parker Coke, Esq., (Tory) and Major John Cartwright, of the Nottinghamshire Militia, (a full length supporter of the Duke of Richmond's plan of parliamentary reform, universal suffrage, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 91 and annual parliaments,) were put in nomination. The show of hands was in favour of the two former candidates, where upon a poll was demanded by the friends of the major, which was immediately entered upon, and continued throughout that day, untU eleven the next morning, when the major retired. The final state of the poll stood thus: Mr. Smith, 569; Mr. Coke, 341; Major Cartwright, 149. The "chairing" took place at the close of the poll. It is remarkable that at the above election, Mr. Coke did not intend himself to be placed in nomination, but attended the town for the purpose of supporting the claims of Sir Edward Every, who was the gen tleman originally intended, by the leaders of the Tory (or Blue) party, as a candidate to support their interest. The local record of the day states that at the nomination, which took place in the open Market-place, near to the Malt-cross, Sir Edward was proposed, but Mr. Coke was loudly called for by the electors. - " Expresses," it is said, " were continually going between here and Derby on this day. One horse was killed, in consequence of two post-chaises meeting in the lane near San dia- cre, in one of which was Mr. Coke, on his way to Nottingham, where he arrived about eleven o'clock in the evening, and was drawn to the White Lion Inn by a party of young men, who took the horses from his carriage on the Sand-hills, near this town. When he alighted he assured the burgesses that he was not come as a candidate, but to assist Sir Edward Every in his canvass. Mr. Coke was, however, at length prevailed upon to accept the offer, and was nominated a candidate, at the Malt- cross, on the following morning, about nine o'clock." This parliamentary connection between Mr.Coke and the town of Not tingham, and which had its rise in what may be almost termed an accident, subsisted without interruptionfrom this timetol812. At Newark, after another spirited but ineffectual attempt to break through the influence of the two noble houses, whose nominees had for so many years occupied the seats in parlia ment for that borough, the Right Hon. Lord George Sutton, and General Sir Henry Clinton, then serving in America, were returned by a considerable majority. At East Retford, Wharton Amcotts, Esq., and the Right Hon. Lord J. P. Clinton, were returned without opposition. Whilst digging a grave in the church-yard of Elton parish, during the summer of this year, the clerk discovered a smaU hoard of buried treasure, consisting of two hundred sUver pennies of the reign of Henry II. Aslockton common fields enclosed ; when sixty-one acres were allotted to the impropriator, and forty-four acres to the vicar of Whatton, in lieu of the vicarial tithes. Elizabeth Foster, of Bawtry, bequeathed a tenement called the " Bell-house," with a garden, for the residence of two poor women, and endowed them with a rent-charge of £1 out of a close at Misson, called " the Paddock." This devise was vahd by the statute of George II., but by a deed of bargain and sale, the trustees under the will were eventually enabled to accom plish the object of appropriating the property to the charitable uses designed by the testatrix. The church of OUerton built about this time. It is a chapel of ease to the vicarage of Edwinstowe. The money for this erection was raised by mortgaging the town lands, which com prise 81a. 3r. lOp., let for £60 per annum, and have belonged to the chapelry from time immemorial, vested in the vicar and churchwardens for the time being. The rents are received by the constable, and out of them he pays the county rate, the repairs of the church, (fee, and the remainder to the relief of the poor of OUerton. Elksley parish enclosed, and exonerated from tithes; at which time likewise sixty-six acres were awarded to the crown,' in satisfaction of the claims of the Duchy of Lancaster, under which duchy the Duke of Newcastle holds this manor of Elksley, or " Elchesleig ;" the inhabitants of which, like all other places held under the Duchy of Lancaster, are free from toll- age, stallage, frontage, &c., throughout the whole kingdom, except in the Duchy of Lancaster itself. A subscription set on foot for the purpose of rebuilding the vicarage, or coUege, of SouthweU. To this subscription the Right Hon. the Earl of Harborough, formerly one of the NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 93 prebendaries of the church, gave £200 ; Dr. Caryl, prebendary, £100 ; the Archbishop of York, £50 ; Dr. Rastall, prebendary and vicar-general, £50; and twelve other persons, sums varying in amount from £10 to £30; making altogether £636. On the 27th of November a motion was made in the House of Commons, by Daniel Parker Coke, Esq., the new member for Nottingham, that " the thanks of the house should be given to General Sir Henry Clinton, Knight of the Bath, for .the important services rendered by him, and the troops under his command, in the reduction of Charlestown ; and that the thanks of the house should also be given to Earl Cornwallis, for the signal and meritorious services he had done to his country, by the most signal victory obtained by him over the American rebels at Camden." Gentiemen on every side of the house (he said) bore testimony to|the excel lent conduct and to the gallantry of Earl Cornwallis; nor would it be denied, he presumed, that the same qualities were possessed in an eminent degree by Sir Henry CUnton, It would have a bad effect to vote the thanks of the house to one of these gentlemen and not to the other. The thanks of the house were deserved by both ; but, while gentlemen allowed the great qualities and virtues of those officers, there were some who disapproved of the cause in which they were engaged. For his own part, he had been one of those who lamented the commencement of the American War, and disapproved of many of the measures adopted in its prosecution. But the origin of the present war should be kept entirely out of view in the present question, America was now the ally of Prance, the confederate of the house of Bourbon, He did not say that the war against America was not big with many calamities to Great Britain : he apprehended that, if it would not be the ruin of the country, it would ex tremely impoverish it: but stUl he saw no medium between unconditional submission to the enemy and the most spirited exertions to resist them. After urging some other arguments on the house for their unanimous adoption of his motion, the learned gentleman re sumed his seat amidst the applause of the members. Mr. Wilkes, in a speech of great force, opposed the motion : He condemned the war, as alike unfounded in principle and fatal in its con sequences to this country. He had condemned it (he said) at the beginning, and had frequentiy opposed its progress in every stage, both in and out of Par liament, " The eminent and very important services to his majesty and this country," mentioned in the motion, he entirely disapproved, and consequently should withhold his thanks and gratitude, where he did not think them wanted, in a war of glaring injustice and wretched policy. * * * As a peer. Lord Cornwallis had supported American freedom, and voted against an ignominious badge of bondage on the colonists ; as a military officer, the 94 ANNALS OF same noble lord solicited a command in America, to enforce that injustice of which he complained, and was active to rivet the chains of slavery on the free- born inhabitants of the New World, and the descendants of Englishmen. In such a cause he would not give thanks to genius and courage united, but Ul- directed, productive of no good, but of infinite mischief. A good man would indignantly turn his eyes from laurels and palms of victory stained with the blood of deserving fellow-subjects, sacrificed to sordid views, to the lust of power, to the rage of a tyrannical admirdstration. Mr. Wilkes added, that he could not give thanks for victories which only tended to prolong a destructive war. Peace with America could only save this sinking State, and give us per manent prosperity. There was more matter of grief than triumph, of bewailing than thanksgiving, in this civil contest, and of the deluge of blood which had overflowed America. After a verbal alteration or two in the motion, as suggested by Mr. Townsend, and a speech from Lord North in defence of the conduct of Lord Cornwallis, it was carried without a division. John Carruthers, mayor ; John Fellows, jun., and • John Hancock, sheriffs of Nottingham ; George 21, George in, Dodson, coroner. Freemen enrolled, fifty-nine. David Stephenson, mayor of Newark. John Barker and Nathaniel Howard, bailiffs of East Retford. Lancelot Rol- leston, Esq., WatnaU, high-sheriff; — Evans, under-sheriff. Jan. 18. Thomas Willoughby, Baron Middleton, of WoUaton Hall, died at his seat at Middleton, near Tamworth, aged 53. His lordship dying without issue, was succeeded by Henry Willoughby, Esq., of Birdsall, in the county of York. A piece of ground near the south-western extremity of the town of Nottingham, two acres in extent, and just without the boundaries thereof, having been given by his grace the Duke of Newcastle, and the corporation of Nottingham con jointly, for the site of a General Hospital; on the 12th of February, this year, the foundation-stone was laid by John Smellie, Esq., amidst a vast concourse of spectators, on which occasion he delivered the following address : Gentlemen, I am come here at the request of the committee of the General Hospital, to lay the foundation-stone of that charitable institution, I am weU satisfied it will be of considerable advantage to many sick and lame poor, in the present and future ages. When I consider the noble benefactions and generous subscriptions which have been presented, it affords a pleasing pros pect of its utiUty being preserved to posterity. Therefore, in my official NOTTINGHAMSHIRE . 9 5 character, I think it my duty to give countenance and protection to so laudable an undertaking, I shall be happy if my conduct meets with your approbation ; and I can assure you that the most acceptable return you can make to me will be to preserve peace and good order on this solemn occasion. Under the stone, which was laid at the south-east corner of the building, were placed monies of the various coins of the reigning sovereign. A public dinner at Thurland Hall closed the proceedings of the day. For lists of benefactions, &c., the reader is referred to the published financial statements of the institution. William Frost, farrier, of Nottingham, by his will dated 20th of September, this year, left £500, the interest of which to be given, by the vicar and churchwardens of St. Mary's parish, to such poor housekeepers, within their jurisdiction, as do not receive parochial aid. Between the hours of four and five o'clock of the morning of the 8th of November, a fire was discovered in the cotton mill in Hockley, occupied by Messrs. Need, Arkwright, and Strutt. Such was the rapidity with which the conflagration spread throughout the whole building, that in about two hours it was reduced to a mere shell ; nothing being saved from the general wreck of property but the books of the concern. The intelligence of the surrender, at Yorktown, of the whole of the British army under Lord Cornwallis, to the American general, Washington, and the vessels in the harbour to the French admiral, De Grasse, created a sensation in Nottingham of a very deep, though mixed, character ; one party openly expressing their satisfaction at the result, while another viewed it, with a feeling of regret akin to dismay, as foreboding, in their opinion, the ultimate ruin of these kingdoms, and the utter prostration of its power before the domination of France. The consequence of this strong opposition of principle and feeling among the inhabitants was, that disturbances were continually occurring in all places of public resort, ending not unfrequently with hard blows, by which many persons were at times seriously injured. The ancient family mansion of the Molyneuxs, of Kneveton, 96 ANNALS OF taken down this year, their estates having passed, with their sole heiress, to the late Lord Howard, whose daughter, the Hon. Henrietta Howard Molyneux, was married in 1830 to Lord Porchester ; but Lord Carnarvon is lord of the manor and patron of the ecclesiastical benefice. Mrs. Elizabeth Gaches, of Normanton-on-Trent, built two houses for the use of poor widows, or unmarried women. No funds being left for the repair of these houses, they, in course of time, became much dilapidated ; when they were taken pos session of by the overseers of the poor, who have since made them the residences of paupers. Lindley Simpson, of Babworth, by his will, gave this year, to the rector of Babworth, and his successors in the living, on trust, one share in the Chesterfield Canal, that the rector for the time being should for ever apply the yearly interest, or dividends of the said share, in teaching poor children of Bab worth to read, and in. the purchase of bibles, or other good works. William Nettleship, by a codicil to his will, gave out of his copyhold estate, situate in Bole, forty shiUings yearly, for ever, to the overseers of the poor of the parish of Bole, for the instruction of four poor children of the said town to read the bible, and repeat the church catechism by heart ; such four chUdren to be nominated by the vicar, or his curate. This bequest, along with the produce of two other small charities, left for a similar purpose, amounting altogether to the annual sum of £4 6s., is devoted to the instruction of nine children, boys and girls, in reading, and the girls in knitting and sewing. John Fellowes, sen., mayor; Thomas Caunt and 178. wife and one chUd, a native of ChUweU. Nothing could exceed thie consternation of hundreds, yea, we might almost say thousands, of persons in Nottingham, upon first learning the fact that such men as Savidg'e, MitcheU, Crowther, and some others named, were leading perpetrators of the outrages by which Luddism had latterly become distin guished ; they had been all weU brought up— had each received a decent education, according to their class and rank in life, and were looked, upon, by society in. general, . as respectable well-conducted men, The Rev. George Wilkins, D.D., presented to the vicarage of St. Mary, Nottingham, vacant by the death of the Rev. G. Hutchinson. On the 7tli of November, the extraordinary spectacle was presented, in the provinces, of three men being executed for high treason : these were Jeremiah Brandreth, (" the Notting ham Captain," as he was called) William Turner, and Isaac Ludlam. The following account of the events which preceded the capture of these miserable men is taken entire, or with a few verbal alterations, from Mr. J. F. Sutton's Date Book. The long connexion of Mr.. Sutton and his family with the public press of the district, having afforded them peculiar facilities for gathering up all the particulars connected with this lamentable affair, we have thought it better to depend upon their report, more especially as it appears to be written with great fairness and correctness, than to depend upon our own notes and recollections. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 293 These men were the victims of an odious system of espionage, and the crime for which they suffered was occasioned and fomented in a great measure by an ihfarhous man named Oliver, who was employed by the Sidmouth- Castlereagh government, as an agent or spy in the north-midland districts. The contemptible insurrection which the three victims headed, originated among the labouring population of Pentridge, South Wingfield, and Wingfield Park, in the county of Derby, a district that could little be suspected as likely to become the focus of treason and rebellion, the population being generally well disposed ; and, therefore, it is rational to conclude that no ordinary deceptions were practised on them, to cause a departure from their peaceful habits and contented homes. How they became the willing instruments of viUainy, it is difficult to state ; it is true, there was to some extent disaffection to the existing state of things, owing to the recent enactment of a prohibitive corn law, and great distress, — but this is not sufficient to account for overt acts of rebellion. It was, however, fully ascertained that they were deluded by men who were in correspondence with Oliver, and who were consequently his dupes, Jeremiah Brandreth, better known by the name of "the Nottingham Captain," has been described as one of those original characters for whom nature had done much, and education nothing. Of his parents or early habits little is known. He had been in the army, and had resided subse quently, vrith his wife and three chUdren, at Sutton-in-Ashfield, His age was not more than six and twenty ; yet he evidently possessed an influence of command, and resolution, almost irresistible to men of less firmness. His eye was black and piercing, and his whole face indicated a character of daring intrepidity, and decision of no ordinary kind. The associates of this man were less remarkable. WiUiam Turner lived in the village of South Wingfield, and was in decent circumstances, and well respected ; his age was 46, Isaac Ludlam, whose age was 53, also possessed the esteem of his neighbours ; he had been the owner by inherUance of a small property, and had rented several small farms ; but, speculating imprudently, had lost everything, and in an evil hour was induced to join in Brandreth 's desperate attempt. These insurgents acted under a complete Ulusion. Formal statements of the numbers of the disaffected were given to them by the tools of Oliver, ars weU as of the quantities of arms and stores with the " provisional government," the members of which were to declare themselves the moment the people came out. Oliver himself, whose head-quarters, when in Nottingham, was the Blackmoor's Head Inn, had been heard to say, when assembled with Brand reth and a few others in a private room at tbe Three Salmons public-bouse, that " he had been round the circuit at Manchester, and in Yorkshire, and was then going to London, by way of Birmingham. Every person, he said, was completely ready to rise, and he could raise 70,000 in London. That the people, in London would not be satisfied unless Nottingham was perfectly secured, for it was the rallying point for Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire ; and that if it was not secured the passage over the Trent would be perfectly stopped to tbe northern forces. That they must proceed forward to London as soon as they could raise sufficient nien against the loyalists ; and that Nottingham was to be continually occupied by northern forces in succession." He said further, " London is now quite ripe. I am sent down to see that aU is ready. They can hardly be kept down in Yorkshire and Lancashire, they are so anxious to begin!" Such were the vyicked and 294 ANNALS OF extravagant falsehoods by which the poor men were lured into the very jaws of destniction. . . ; , i Monday, the 9th of June, was fixed upon for ." the general rising," in the counties of Lancaster, York, . Derby, and Nottingham, Immense bodies of men, armed with guns, pikes, and other offensive weapons, were to haye marched out of Lancashire and Yorkshire, over the north-eastwardly side of Derbyshire, and the westwardly side of . Nottinghamshire, into the town of Nottingham, They were to have^ forced into their service every person found on their march, ' and to have provided further supplies of arms, -particularly guns, which they were most' in want of, .by taking them from private houses, and depots of mUitary stores.. They v^ere to have stopped in Nottingham, and to have established a provisional government, until they' heard of the. success of similar operations in other parts of the kingdom, and a convention was then to be held for the formation of a national constitution. ^This was the design : we have now to see how miserably it failed in execution. '. . ¦ ^ ¦¦¦ Between eleven and twelve at night, Turner, Ludlam, and forty or fifty associates, from Pentridge, Alfreton, and South Wingfield, armed with pikes; and a few guns,, assembled inWingfield Park, under the command of Brand reth, who had been with them at the " White Horse," Pentridge, the da;y before, drilling thern into a knowledge of his plans. Having formed into order, they marched to a farm-house, where they expected to nieet with another body of insurgents, but not doing so, they, went from house to house, seizing guns wherever they could find them, and pressing the occupants to join their ranks : if the head of .the house objected to go with them;-; his' son, if he had one, was to go in his place, and if he had not a son, they took a servant-man, A gun and a man at every hoiise. was what they insisted upon haying, and when they had secured them, as they did in many instances, . they would not trust the gun in the man's hand, but gave him a pike, and transferred the gun to one of their own party. , After calling at the house of Mr. Thompson, they halted in one of his closes, expecting there to be joined by another division, but as it did not come, they despatched a part of their :" army," under the command of George Weightman, towards .Pentridge, to see if tbe expected reinforcements were in sight. The main body proceeding onwards, called at several farm-houses, aind a Mr, Walker having delivered up ia brace of pistols, Brandreth stuck them into his belt, which was simply a leather apron twisted round his waist, , At Mrs, Hep-worth's, on their arrival at the house, they knocked at the door, and made a great noise, but the widow discharged her son and the two nien-servants from opening it. The result was, that a forcible entrance was made, and that Brandreth shot Robert Walters, one of . the servant-men, dead on the spot. .At Mr. Fletcher's, .where. they next called; they were rejoined by the detachment headed by Weightman. 'The Butterley ironworks were the next point of attack, but Mr. C. Goodwin, a manager under Mr. Jessop,. remonstrating with them very firmly, they turned away. . At this point, their number, notwithstanding numerous desertions of pressed men, had increased to about one hundred, and they marched away as they came, in regular order, two and two, : each one carying either a gun or a pike. They then began to doubt whether everything was as right as they had been led to suppose, and concluded to send for inteUigence; they therefore seized the nearest horse they could find, and sent George Weightman with it to Notting ham for, that purpose, Codnor.was the . next place to which the insurgents proceeded, and here their numbers were augmented by recruits from Swanwick, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 295 Ripley, and neighbouring places. Again forming into rank, they went on to Langley MiU, . Here' the first streaks of day were seen in the east, and here many of the misguided men, struck with shame or fear, dropped to the rear, or slipped away on either side ; others, however, kept coming up tb supply their places, and the main body' was now about two hundred strong^ ' In this' force they entered Nottinghamshire,' at Eastwood. . i ¦. , At this juncture, Brandreth came up with Weightman, who had- returned from Nottingharn, and whether from a wish to deceive, or from having received false information, does not clearly appear, the courier certainly revived their infatuation by reporting that the troops would not stir -a foot to iheet them^-^ that Nottingham was in the hands of their friends ; but if they intended they should keep it,' they must hasten to their assistance ; and then the day was their own ! Hurrahs and every other wUd cry of exultation ran like a fire of joy from front to rear, and onwards they again marched; ' Leaving the " tlegenerators," as they styled theniselyes, for a few moments at this stage of their enterprise, it is necessary to show what was the actual state of affairs in the town towards which they were marching; and whether preparations had been made for their reception, ¦ Oliver had pUed his ques-; tionable vocation here, but not with equal success. His dupes lacked the confidence necessary for taking the field '; and though there was a considerable amount of disaffection amongst the starving population, yet,- beyond a little tampering with the soldiery, and an indulgence, in imagination, in several bold designs, such as blowing up the Barracks, and sacking the gunsmiths' shops, little was thought of, and stiU less attempted. As the night of the 9th drew on, a good deal of agitation was observable, and a very unusual number of people thronged the streets, but most of them were drawn together by curiosity, expecting some disturbance, though they scarcely knew what or why The only alleged actual breach of the peace, of any consequence, took place on the Forest. Mr, William Roper, who lived at the Stand, near the Race-course, stated that he had been that evening at the "Duke of York" public-house, in York-street, Nottingham, and left it about half-past eleven,' for the purpose of going home. He passed a great many men in crossing the Forest, and was cautioned against entering the Stand, In one place there were about a hun dred, standing in line, two deep, and part of them armed with either poles or pikes. With great difficulty he managed to pass them, and get into the Stand. He then observed about the same number of armed men form into a Une, under the piazzas and shed of the building. Knocking at the door, they demanded the arms of which they supposed the Stand was a depot, but Roper assuring them that there were only a rifle and a fuzee in his custody, the men, after some further parleying, withdrew, and nothing further occurred. And this was all the foundation there was for Weightman's report the town had been taken ! So far ind'eed from this being the case, the authorities were fuUy on the alert, and thoroughly acquainted with the insurgents' plans and movements. Throughout the whole of Sunday, the 8th, untU a late hour at night, and during Monday and the night following, the town magistrates sat at the Police Office, without intermission, to receive communications and act accordingly. Special constables were enroUed in great numbers, and the 15th Hussars, at the Barracks, were ordered to be ready to act at a moment's notice. 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Borebanks Mr., Kensington, Ditto Barnes Mr. W,, Somerset House, London Banner Mr. W., Brinsley, Notts. Bonser Mr. T., Plungar, Ditto Bean Mr., Portland CoUiery, Ditto Basford New Reading Society, Ditto Blundy Mr. S., New Radford, Ditto Blunston Mr., Beeston, Ditto ,BeU Mr. W., Ilkeston, Derbyshire BeU Mr. W., printer, London BlackweU Mr, W. H., Sheflield Beck Mr. James, Bramcote, Notts. Barber Mr. R., Eastwood, Ditto Breadner Mr. J., Pendleton, near Manchester Barker Mr. W., Beeston, Notts. Butier Mr. W-:, jun.. Long-row, Nottingham Butier Mr. H., Upper Talbot-st., Ditto Butier Mr. G., Maypole-yard, Ditto BuU Mr. E., Walker-st,, Sneinton, Notts. Blew Mr., Edgbaston, Bu-minghani Brown Mr. C, Coventry, Warwicksh. Bolton Mr. W., Deptford, Kent BosweU Mr., Fitzroy-square, London Bonser Mr. J., IsUngton, Ditto Booth Mr., Old Kent-road, Ditto Burrows Mr. R., Ruddington, Notts. Bromley House Library, Nottingham BeUby Mr. J. 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B., SouthweU, Ditto Bassett Mr. J., Bingham, Ditto Brodhurst Wm., Esq., Newark, Ditto Blagdon Mrs., Long Clawson, Leicestersh. Burton Mr. Henry, Forest, Nottingham Burton Mr. T., Mansfield-road, Ditto Bowley J., Esq., Mansfield-road, Ditto Bramley Mr. Jas., Chesterfield-st, Ditto Buttery J., Esq., Park, Ditto BaUey Mr., Normanton place. Ditto Blagg Mr. H., FUntham, Notts. Bates Mr. H., Granby, Ditto BaUey Mr. John, Bingham, Ditto Bradshaw Eev. T., Granby, Leicestersh, Burgess Eev. R., RadcUfi'e-on-Trt., Notts. Bosworth Mr. T., Shelford, Ditto BeastaU Mr. J. L., Ditto Barlow Mr. R. Cotgrave, Ditto Black Mr, John, Hounds-gate, Nottingham Berridge Mr, T,, Plumptre-street, Ditto Briggs Mr. John, BUborough, Notts, BeardsaU Mr. Edward, Sneinton, Ditto Butier Mr. J. S., Sherwood-street, Nottingham Bates Mr., Forest-side, Ditto Burton Mr., Forest-side, Ditto Banks Mr., Kensington, Notts. 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BUUald Mr., Hyson Green, Ditto Brown Mr. James, High-street, Nottingham Bean Mr, Samuel, Lincoln street, Ditto Bassett Mr,, Thurland-house, Ditto Bush Mr. J., Pelham-street, Ditto Bush Mr, Wm,, Pelham-street, Ditto Barnes Mr., Pelham-street, Ditto Brown Mrs., George-street, Ditto Brown Mr. B,, Stoney-street, Ditto Bentiey Mr,, Warser-gate, Ditto Bagshaw Mr,, Bottie-lane, Ditto Brooksbank Mr., St. Mary's place. Ditto Bamett Mr. L. C, Mary-gate, Ditto BaUion Mr. L., Park-side, Ditto Brewster Mr., Sneinton-road, Ditto Bass Mr., Lower Parliament-st,, Ditto Baker Mr., Sherwood-street, Ditto Burton Mr,, Mansfield-road, Ditto Bostock Mr. M., Eastwood, Notts. Barker Mr. Eobert, Eastwood, Ditto BuUock Mr. Robert, Eastwood, Ditto BaUey Mr., Tagg HUl, Ditto Bowman Mr. T,, Sutton-in-Ashfd,, Ditto Baker Mr. C, St. James's-street, Nottingham BecMtt Mr. J. G,, St James's-st, Ditto Buttery J., Esq,, Wheeler-gate, Ditto Bennett Mr., Goldsmith-street, Ditto Bradbury Mr., Stoney-street, Ditto Bottom Mr., Standard hUl, Ditto Bradbury Mr., Mortimer-street, Ditto Butler Mr., Queen's-road, Ditto Brooks Eev. S., High Pavement, Ditto Beckitt Mr, 0,, Bridlesmith-gate, Ditto Brown Mr,, Long-row, Ditto Brown Mr. Johu, Park-row, Ditto BrewUl Mr. W. N., Angel-row, Ditto Brown Mr, John, Long-row, Ditto Belton Mr. J., High-pavement Ditto BraUsford Mr. W., Bridlesmith-gt. Ditto Bamett Mr., Stoney-street, Ditto Bishop Mr. Henry, MUton-street, Ditto BaUey Mr. T., Derby-road, Ditto Bradbury Mr. Jno,, Queen's-road, Ditto Brown Mr. Daniel, Canal-street, Ditto Butler Mr, Samuel, Forest-side, Ditto Biyau Mr. John, Forest-side, Ditto Barker Mr., Mount East-street, Ditto Burton Mr. John, Long Eaton, Notts. Barwick Mr., Woolpack.lane, Nottingham Biggs Mr. W,, Lincoln-street, Ditto Baguley Mr. WUUami, Stapleford, Notts. Bosworth Mr., Shelford, Ditto Bates Mr., Granby, Ditto Bassett Mr, J,, Bingham, Ditto Burrows Mr., Euddingtoh, Ditto Belton Mr. W., East Leake, Ditto Bexton Mr. John, East Leaie, Ditto Burton Mr. P., Gotham, Ditto Barrow Mr. John, Barton, Ditto Burrows Mr,, Barton, Ditto Blackuall Mr., Derby-road, Nottingham Ball Mr,, Park-side, Ditto Bradley Mr., Park-side, Ditto Blackmer Miss, Park-side, Ditto BeU Mr., Park-side, Ditto Bowers & Sale Messrs,, Chapel-br, Ditto Brown Mr,, Parliament-street, Ditto Beecher Mr., Sherwood-rise Notts, ANNALS OF NOTTINQHAMSHIBE. Bloore Mr,, Farnsfield, Notts, Bennett Mr. E., East Stoke, Ditto Bromley Henry, Esq,, East Stoke, Ditto Blagg Mr. H,, FUntham, Ditto Burton Mr. J., Old Basford, Ditto Bennett Mr. W„ Old Basford, Ditto Blakely Mr, Eobert, Old Basford, Ditto Bowker Mr. E. S., BulweU, Ditto Beecroft Mr., Bulcote, Ditto Bridges Mr. C, Lambley, Ditto BeU Mr., Ilkeston, ' Derbyshire Banner Mr., Brinsley, Notts. Brodhurst W., Esq., the Priory, Newark, Ditto Brodhurst J. E., Esq., Mansfield, Ditto Brodhurst H,, Esq,, Mansfield, Ditto Brown Mr, T„ Old Basford, Ditto Bonser Mr., Plungar, Ditto Blagden Mrs,, Long Clawson, Leicestersh, BeastaU Mr., Plumptre, Notts. Breedon Mr. Francis, Keyworth, Ditto Baldock Mr. John, WysaU, Ditto Brown Mr., Wymeswold, Leicestersh. Bramley Mr. Hubert,(Alfr6ton-rd., Notts. BrentnaU Mr. John, Alfreton-rd., Ditto Bates Mr, Wm,, Granby, Ditto Butier Eev. W., Stoney-street, Nottingham BaUard Mr. W„ Walsall, Staffordshire Boor Henry, Stamford, Notts, Burton Mr, Thomas, WoUaton, Ditto Bee Mr,, Walker-street, Sneinton, Ditto CuUen Thomas, Esq,, Nottingham Carver T., Esq,, Regent-street, Ditto Coke D'Ewes,Esq.,Brookhill HaU, near Alfreton, Derbyshire Cm-sham W, G., Esq,, Nottingham CampbeUH,B., Esq,, Park, Ditto Carver GUbert, Esq., Park, Ditto Carpenter Rev, B,, Regent-street, Ditto Cripps W., Esq., Bramcote, Notts. Cartiedge W., Esq., Woodthorpe, Ditto Charlton T. B., Esq , ChUweU Ditto Carver E,, Esq.,BroughtonAstiey, Ditto Close T., Esq., St. James's-street, Nottingham Cheadle Eev, T., Dunham-on-Trt. Notts. Carver Eev. D., Alfreton-road, Ditto Cowen Mr., Beck Works, Nottingham Crofts Mr., St. Maiy's-gate, Ditto Cross Mr. G., ParUament-street, Ditto Cunnington Mr. G., Beck-lane, Ditto Carver Mr., WUford, Notts. Cox Mr., Old Basford, Ditto Charles Mr., BulweU. Ditto Cook Mr., Old Basford, Ditto Cottingham Mr., New Lenton, Ditto Coxon Mr., Moor Green, Ditto CUfton Mr., Ison Green, Ditto Carey Mr. H., St. Mary's-gate, Nottingham Cornwall Mr.. Bethnal Green-rd. London Cape Mr. E,, Snow-hUl, Birmingham Chester Mr. T., Lord-street, Liverpool Cox Mr, T., Manchester Chamberlain Mr., Sneinton, Notts. Cartiedge Mr. J., New Eadford, Ditto Carver Mr, WiUiam, Radford, Ditto CuUey Mr. Richard, Old Basford, Notts. Charlton Mr. Joseph, StreUey, Ditto Carey Mr. W., Middle-pavement, Nottingham Colton Mr. J., Parliament-row, Ditto Coulby Mr., Greyhound-street, Nottingham CressweURev. S,, Aspley Terrace, Notts. Clay Mr., Beeston, Ditto Caunt J., Esq., Wheeler-gate, Nottingham Clayton Mr. C,, Liverpool Cursham Mr, Samuel, Mansfield, Notts. Chesterfield Earl of, Bretby HaU, Ditto CoUishaw Mr. R., HickUng, Ditto Caunt Mrs., West Bridgford, Ditto Clough Mr. E., East Bridgford, Ditto Chapman Samuel, Esq., Costock, Ditto Clifton Mr. E., Ison Green, Ditto Clark Mr., Forest-side, Nottingham Cutts Mr. Alfred, New Eadford, Notts. Coxon Mrs., New Lenton, Ditto Cummery Mr., New Lenton, Ditto Cox Mr., Lenton, Ditto Crofts Mr., Derby-terrace, Ditto CaUoway Mr., Hyson Green, Ditto Cotton Mrs., Beeston, Ditto Chapman Mr,, Costock, Ditto Caulton Mr., Derby-road, Nottingham Clarke Mr. E., Shakspeare-street, Ditto Cartiedge S., Esq., Mapperley, Notts. Carter Mr., FUntham, Ditto Case J. H., Esq., Papplewick HaU, Ditto Clarkson Mr. T„ Carlton, Ditto Chadboume Mr. John, Pinxton, Derbyshire Columbine Mr., Hkeston, Notts. Carver Mr., Sherwood, Ditto Chambers Mr. J., Old Eadford, Ditto Cockayne Mr., East Thorpe, Ditto Caunt Mr. J., Plungar, Ditto CowUshaw Mr. R., HickUng, Ditto Comer Mr. John, HickUng, Ditto Caunt Mrs., West Bridgford, Ditto Clark Mr., Broomsgrove-street, Birmingham CampbeU Mr., St, James's-street, Nottingham Cox Mr., Peter's- square. Ditto Cope Mr., Castie-gate, Ditto Cuckson Mr., High-pavement, Ditto Clarke Mr., Bridlesmith-gate, Ditto Cropper Mr., Chandlers-lane, Ditto Creassey Mr., Poulti-y, Ditto Chapman Mr,, Long-row, Ditto Crocker Mr,, High-sti-eet, Ditto Carey Mr. F., Pelham-street, Ditto CuUen Mr., jun.. Park-side, Ditto Cropper Mr., Sneinton, Notts. Chamberlain Mr., Vassal-street, Nottingham Caddick Mr., MUton-street, Ditto Calah Mr., Mansfield-road, Ditto Cox Mr., Lamartine-street, Ditto Clark Mr . New Basford, Notts, Chamberlain Mr., New Basford, Ditto Charlesworth Mr., New Basford, Ditto Cole Mr. C, Wheeler-gate, Nottingham Chamberlain Mr., Hounds-gate, Ditto Cartiedge Wm., Esq., Park-row, Ditto Carver Mr, Edward, Pelham-st., Ditto Coxon Mr. T., Woolpack-lane, Ditto Copeland Mr., High-pavement, Ditto Carr Mr, J,, Clumber-street, Ditto Cumming Mr,, Coalpit-lane, Ditto Chouler C„ Esq., WoUaton, Notts, Camm Mr. W., Woodthorpe, Ditto Charlton Mr. G., New Lenton, Ditto Clay Mr,, Beeston, Ditto Cocka.yne Mr. W., Digbeth, Birmingham LIST OF SDBSOBIBEES TO Dodsley J., Esq., Skegby HaU, Notts. Dakeyne H. C, Esq.. St, John's Wood, London DeverUl G., Esq., Friar-lane, Nottingham Duchle Rev. Robert, Gainsboro' Durham Mr. H., PiccadUly, London Dunsmore Mr. C, Peckham, Ditto Daft Mr, WUUam, Long-row, Nottingham Donnington Mr. H.. New Lenton, Notts. Dobson Mr. J., sen., PUcher-gate, Nottingham Dobson Mr. J., jun., Kent-street, Ditto Dickinson Mr. T., Portiand-place, Ditto Dyer Mr. J., MUton-street, Ditto DabeU Mrs. Ann, Long-row, Ditto Doubleday Mr. John, Beeston, Notts. Davis Mr. J. F., Bromley House, Nottingham Dickinson JVIr. E., Derby-road, Ditto Duffin Mr., Peck-lane, Ditto Davis Mr., Haughton-street, Ditto Doughty Mr,, New Lenton, Notts. Dawson Mr. H., Croydon, Surrey Dudgeon Mr,, KendEiU-street, Nottingham Darby A., Esq., Regent-street, Ditto Dunn Mr. J., South Parade, Ditto Dickens Mr., Mansfield, Notts. Dixon Mr. Johu, SouthweU, Ditto Dickson Mr, J., Cotgrave, Ditto Davies Mrs., Roclaveston Manor, Ditto Davy Miss, Warsop, Ditto Dodson Rev. T. S., Wymeswold, Leicestersh. Derry Mrs., West Bridgford, Notts. Doleman Mr, John, Smithy-row, Nottingham Day Mr, Edward, Attenborough, Notts, Doncaster Mr,, Bingham, Ditto DavenportMr,, Ashby-de-la-ZouchLeicestersh. Dudgeon Mr., Parliament-street, Nottingham Daft Mr., Mount-street, Ditto Diggle Mr. W., Old Basford, Notts. Dexter Mr. T., Old Basford, Ditto Dexter Mr. J., Old Basford, Ditto Dixon Mr. John, Cotgrave, Ditto Davis Mrs., ToUerton HaU, Ditto Derry Mrs., West Bridgford, Ditto Danks Mr., Beastmarket-hiU, Nottingham Dennett Mr., Station-street, Ditto Di-ui-y Mr., Plumptre-street Ditto Dakin Mr., Goose-gate, Ditto DunnicUfi'e Mr., Hyson Green, Notts. Dakin Mr. James, New Lenton, Ditto Daft Mr. George, New Lenton, Ditto Day Mr., Attenborough, Ditto Denison Mr. J. N., Daybrook, Ditto Dunnington Mr. H.. Houuds-gt. Nottingham Dawson Mr. W., Friar-lane, Ditto Danby Mr., Low-pavement, Ditto Dale Mr. Richard, High-street, Ditto Dawson Mr. H., Carrington-street, Ditto Darby Mr. W., Gon'alston, Notts, Diggle Mr, Jno,, Old Basford, Ditto Enfield W,, Esq,, Low-pavement, Nottingham Edwards Rev. J,, Park, Ditto Eddison B,, Esq,, High-pavemt., Ditto Eyre Mr. W., South-parade, Ditto EUis Mr. John, Southampton Eardley Mr. E., Overseal, Leicestersh, EUiott Mr, Thomas, Beeston, Notts. EveraU Mr. John, Peck-lane, Nottingham Edson Mr. S. A., WoUaton, ¦ Notts. Emnierson Mr. W,, Bradford, Yorkshire Edson Miss, WoUaton, Notts. Ely Mr, George, Bingham, Ditto EUis Mr. H., Shelford, Ditto EUis Mr., Shelford, Ditto EUerton Lady H., Ed-ivinstowe Ditto Eaton Mr. W., Alfreton-road, Ditto ElUott and Cragg Messrs., St. James's-street, Nottingham Eddison H., Esq., Worksop, Notts. Eaton Mr., Carlton-street, Nottingham EUis Mr., Mabvers-st., Sneinton, Notts. Edwards Mr., Goose-gate, Nottingham Eddowes Mr., Trinity-terrace, Ditto Eames Mr. F., New Lenton, Notts. Ealey Mr. G., Heanor, Derbyshire FeUowes Sir Charles, EusseU-sq. London Felkin W., Esq., Park, Nottingham Fox John, Esq., Old Basford, Notts. Fox Samuel, Esq., Hounds-gate, Nottingham FothergUl J., Esq., Ditto Froggatt Mr. J., Lenton Poplars, Notts. Falconbridge Mr. John, Radford, Ditto Farrand Mr. M., Basford, Ditto Fry Mr. John, Bramcote, Ditto Ford Mr. John, Basford, Ditto Fox Mr. Samuel, Old Basford, Ditto Felkin Mr. F., High-pavement,-. Nottingham Fish Mr. W., Broad-street, Ditto Franks BIr., Clumber-street, Ditto Flowers Mr. T., Market-place, Ditto Furley Mr., Oakham, Rutiandshire Fox Mr. WilUam, Old Basford, Notts. Fox Mr. John, jun., Old Basford, Ditto Frost Mr. R., Gresham-st. west, London Frisby Mr. Samuel, Mansfield, Notts. Fox John, Esq., Wiverton HaU, Ditto Foster Mr. John, Bingham, Ditto Flinders Mr. WilUam, Keyworth, Ditto Fowler Rev, E. H , RoUeston, Ditto Falkner P. E , Esq., Newark, Ditto Fletcher Mr. J., North VTheatiey, Ditto FUlingham G. , E sq. , Syerston, Ditto Fitzpatrick Mr. F., Newark, Ditto Fellan Mr. T., Weekday-cross, Nottingham Flewitt Mr., Chandler's-lane, Ditto Fox Mr. James, Market-place, Ditto Finn Mr. D., Bingham, Notts. Foster Mr,, Bingham, Ditto Foster Mr, F„ Whatton, Ditto Francis Mr G , WUford, Ditto Fish Mr,, Derby-road, Nottingham Ford Mr., Mount-street, Ditto Frost Mr., Arnold, Notts. Flinders Mr. H., East Bridgford, Ditto Falconbridge Mr. A., BulweU, Ditto Fox Mr. T., Gonalstone, Ditto Foulgham Mrs., Burton Joyce, Ditto FarreU Mr., Newark, Ditto Fitzpatrick Mr. T., Newark, Ditto Frost Mr., West-gate, Mansfield, Ditto Fletcher Mr., Red Lion-street, Nottingham Fisher Mr. M., Bridlesmith-gate, Ditto Fowler Mr. George, Long-row, Ditto Fox Mr. Long-row, Ditto Fulforth Mr., Clumber-street, Ditto Fox Mr., Manvers-st., Sneinton, Notts. Fletcher Mr., Mansfield-road, Nottingham Famsworth Mrs., NewBasford, Notts. Farrand Mr., New Lenton, Ditto ANNAL? Q^ NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, Footitt Eev J., Summercotes, Derbyshire Freeston Miss. New Lenton, Notts. Fletcher Mr., Shipley Wood, Ditto Farmer Mr. J., Market-street, Nottingham Froggatt Mr. J,, Hounds-gate, Ditto Frisby Mr. E., Shakspeare-street, Ditto Fryer Mr.,West Thorpe, Southwell,Notts, GUI George, Esq., Park, Ditto Greenway T. P., Esq., Broughton Asfley, Leicestersh, GUI F. B„ Esq , Beeston, Notts. Garrett A., Esq., London Gimson T, F., Esq., Park-vaUey, Nottingham Godber J,, Esq., HucknaU Torkd., Notts. Gregory G., Esq., Harlaxton HaU, Lincolnshire GiU John, Esq., Park, Nottingham Greenhalgh J., Esq., Carr-bank, Notts. Greenhalgh H. J., Esq., Mansfield.Ditto Gibson W., Esq., Low-pavement, Nottingham Gray Mr. Benjamin, Church-gate, Leicester Gelsthorpe Mr. J,, Canal-street, Nottingham Gunn Mr, S. Mount-street, Ditto Gee Mr, WiUiam, VUla-road, Ditto Greenfield Mr. F., Broad-street, Ditto Godber Mr. E., Mansfield-road, Ditto GeU Mr. G., Narrow-marsh, Ditto GeU Mr. W„ Peter-gate, Ditto Gadd Mr, John, Forest-side, Ditto Grace Mr. J., Mansfield-road, Ditto Gelsthorpe Mr,, Sutton, Leicestersh. Goodwin Mr. J,, Carlton, Notts. Grundy Mr., N ew Lenton, Ditto Goodson Mr,, Beeston, Ditto Green Mr. RateUffe, Ditto Godber Mr. W., Eastwood, Ditto Greasley Mr., Sneinton, Ditto Godber Mr. J, W., Whitefriar-gt„ HuU Goodacre Mr. W,, Standard-hiU, Ditto GeU Mr. J., Narrow-marsh, Ditto Gibbons Mr. Benjamin, Ditto Greasley Mr., Sneinton, Ditto Green Mr, John, Colston Basset, Ditto Gelsthorpe Miss, Moor-green, Ditto Green Mr. Edwin, Eadford, Ditto Gylby Mr. W. S., East Eetford, Ditto GiU Mr, M., Sandiacre, Derbyshire GUbert Mr. J., East Leake, Notts. Goulder Mr., Thrumpton, Ditto German Mr., Low-pavement, Nottingham GiU Mr,, Beeston, Notts, Green Mrs., Chapel-bar, Ditto GethingMr., Mansfd. Woodhouse, Notts. Goulder Miss, Kimberley, Ditto Green Mr., Colston Bassett, Ditto Grice Mr., Whatton, Ditto Godber Mr. E., Eastwood, Ditto GoodaU Mr., VVheeler-gate, Nottingham Gimson Mr,, Hounds-gate, Ditto Gee Mr,, Castle-gate, Ditto Gadd Mr,, Broad-street, Ditto Green Mr,, Carrington-street, Ditto Goodman Mr,, Red Lion-street, Ditto GoodUffe Mr,, Bridlesmith-gate, Ditto Green Mr. John, Peck-lane, Ditto Goodacre Mr., Pelham-street, Ditto GoodaJl Mr. Fletcher-gate, Ditto Graves Mr,, Mary-gate, Ditto GoodaU Mr., Bath-street, Ditto Gillman Mr. Sneinton-road, Ditto Greasley Mr. J., George-street, Nottingham GeU Mr. R. D., Basford-laue, Notts. Gibson Mr., Eadford, Nottingham Gregory Mr., New Lenton, Notts. Green Mr. E., High Holbom, Ditto Gibson Mr. W., Standard-hUl, Nottingham Gorse Mr. J, L., High-pavement, Ditto Guggiari Mr. D., Pelham-street, Ditto Gamble Mr. T., High-pavement, Ditto Gelsthorpe Mr. J., Handel-street, Ditto GeU .Mr., ChUweU, Notts. Gore Mr, F,, Barker-gate, Nottingham GeU Mr, John, New Eadford, Notts. Heymann L., Esq., East Bridgfd., Notts. Hawkridge Ben, Esq., Nottingham HoUins S., Esq., Castie-gate, Ditto Herbert W., Esq., PUcher-gate, Ditto Hannay W., Esq., St. James's-st., Ditto Herbert T., Esq., Park, Ditto Hunt W., Esq., Weekday-cross, Ditto Heard John, Esq., Park, Ditto Hunt W., Esq., Mansfield-road, Ditto Higginbottom J., Esq.,High-pavt., Ditto Higginbottom MarshaU HaU, Esq., Carlton street. Ditto Herbert Mr, Jabez, Ditto Huskisson Mr. WilUam, Ditto High Pavement Chapel library. Ditto High Pavement Chapel Discus sion Class, Ditto Harrison Mr. E., Derby-road, Ditto HaU Mr. T., Lenton Sands, Notts. HeppenstaU Mr. C, Newark, Ditto Hopkinson Mr. J., Angel-row, Nottingham Harrison Mr. E. A., Castie-gate, Ditto Hopkinson Mrs., WoUaton-street, Ditto Hurst Mr. John, Chapel-bar, Ditto Hopkinson Miss S., WoUaton-st, Ditto Hutchinson BIr. Chapel-bar, Ditto Herbert Mr., University School, Ditto HoUand Mr. S., Vernon-street, Ditto Hedderley Mr. J., Clumber-street, Ditto Hazzledine Mr. J,, M arket-place, Ditto HucknaU Mr. W., ParUament st. Ditto Hudston Mr, H,, Wheeler-gate, Ditto Hives Mr. G., Market-place, Ditto HoUand Mr, J., Castie-gate, Ditto Humberstone Mr., WoUaton, Notts. Hays Mr. E., New Basford, Ditto Hodges Mr. St. Mary's-gate, Nottingham Hart Mr. J., St. James's-street, Ditto Hogg Mr. W., Mount-street, Ditto Hardy Mr, T., Sneinton, Notts. Hardy Mr, J,, Maypole Hotel, Nottingham Haynes Mr, Joseph, Greasley, Notts. Holbrook Mr,, Attenburrow, Ditto HeppenstaU Mr,, WatnaU, Ditto Hopkins Mr. J., sen., Eastwood, Ditto Hopkins Mr. E., Eastwood, Ditto Hancock Mr, Z,, Newark, Ditto Hardy Mr. T., Sneinton, Ditto Hornbuckle Mr. John, Sneinton, Ditto Hetherington Mr., Sneinton, Ditto Hoe Mr. Eobert, Hockley, Nottingham Heywood Mr., NUe-street, Nottingham Hind Mr. E., Chesterfield-street, Nottingham Humphrey Mr. Middle-marsh, Ditto Hampson Mr. J., jun., Eick-st, Ditto Hawkes Mr. M., Angel-row, Ditto LIST OF SUBSCEIBEBS TO Hassall J., Esq., Oxton, Notts. Hurst W,, Esq., Beeston, Ditto HUdyard T. B., Esq., Flintham, Ditto Holden Rev, J., Ruddington, Ditto HunterEev. Hugh, Sneinton, Ditto Hutchinson Dr., Beastmarket-hUl, Nottingham HaU Dr. Spencer T., Derby HaU Mr. John, Shelford, Notts. Hart Mr. J., Trent-bridge, Ditto Hibbert Mr. C, Stoney-street, Ditto Headley Mr., Chapel-bar, Ditto Harrison Mr., Bridlesmith-gate, Ditto Humphreys Mr. South-parade, Ditto Henson Mr. W., Beeston, Notts. Herbert Mr.. J., Mansfield-road, Nottingham Hardy Mr. Luke, Queen's-road, Ditto Harrison Mr. John, Pelham-st., Ditto Harrison Mr. G., York-street, Ditto Hoe Mr. St. Mary's-gate, Ditto Hinks Mr. W., Newcastie-street, Ditto HaU Mr., Carrington-street, Ditto Hartshorne Mr. Mount-street, Ditto Hardwick Mr., Stainsby, Lincolnshire Horsepool Mr. John, Bingham, Notts. Hickling Mr. George, Cotgrave, Ditto Hardy Mr. Eobert, HickUng, Ditto HaUam Mr. John, Keyworth, Ditto Hind Mr, Thomas. Goverton, Ditto Hallam Mr. John, Keyworth, Ditto HaU Mr, John, Shelford, Ditto Hibbard Mr., U.S. of America, Hutchinson Mr., Suffolk-street, Bu-mingham Hurt Eev. S , Linby, Notts. Hopkinson Mr., Red HUl, Ditto HaUam Mr., Sandiacre, Derbyshire Harrison Mr., Risley, Ditto Holmes Mr , Queen-street, Derby Huckerby Mr,, Bingham, Notts, Hardstaff' Mr,, Bingham, Ditto Horsepool Mr. James, Bingham, Ditto Hayes Wm., Ruddington, Ditto Henson Mr, W, H., Chapel-bar, Nottingham Hancock Mr. J., Wollaton-street, Ditto Hurst Mr., Park-side, Ditto Howard Eev., Park-side, Ditto Hurst Mr., Chapel-bar, Ditto Harrison Mr. E. A., Meadows, Ditto Harrod Mrs., North Muskham, Notts. Hicklin Mr., St. James's-street, Nottingham Harwood Mr. J., Throsby Park, Notts. Hind Mr. Thomas, Bleasby, Ditto Haynes Mr., Moor Green, Ditto Hopkins Mr, J., Eastwood, Ditto HeppenstaU Mr., Moor Green, Ditto Henry Mr. Eobert, Newark, Ditto Hodgkinson Mr., Newark, Ditto Harris Mr. G., Newark, Ditto Hancock Mr., Newark, Ditto Harv'ey Mr. Geo , Mansfield, Notts. Hemstooi Mr. J., Mansfield, Ditto Hunt Mr., Old Basford, Ditto Henson Mr., Lincoln-street, Ditto Harpham Mr. Wm., Dobb Park, Ditto Hatfield Mr. Edward, SoutiiweU, Ditto Hopcroft Mr., Old Sneinton, Ditto Henson Mr , Smithy-row, Nottingham HickUng Mr. Geo,, Cotgrave, Notts. Henson Mr, J., Redmile, Ditto Hardy Mr. R., HickUng, Ditto Homcastie J , Esq., TiokhUl, Derbyshire Hazel J., Esq., Shelford Manor, Notts. Hannay W.. Esq., James's-street, Nottingham Hopkins T., Esq., Friar-lane, Ditto j Hanson Mr., Owthorpe, Notts. HaUam, Mr. Jno., Keyworth, Ditto Holmes Mr. J., Kimberley, Ditto Higden Mr, J., Cinder HUl, Ditto Henett Mr. Joseph, Mansfield, Ditto Heald Mr. B., Castie-gate, Nottingham Horsepool Mr., Weekday-cross, Ditto Hurst Mr., Canal-street, Ditto Hardy Mr. E., Queen's-road, Ditto Hammersley Mr., Queen's-road, Ditto Harrison Mr., Queen's-road, Ditto Huyser Mr., Sawley, Derbyshire Hardy Mr. James. Plumptree-st., Nottingham Hardy Mr. J , Kaye's-walk, Ditto HaUam Mr., High-pavement, Ditto HUl Mr., Bridlesmith-gate, Ditto Harrison Mr.. Exchange-buUdgs, Ditto Hatfield Mr, E, Snenton, Notts, Hurst Mr.. Mansfield-road, Nottingham^ Hudson Mr., Basford-lane, Notts. Hooley Mr., New Basford, Ditto Hays Mr. New Basford, Ditto Hunt Mr., Hyson Green, Ditto Hickman Mr., Eadford, Ditto Holbrook Mr., Derby-road, Nottingham Haslam Mr., New Lenton, Notts. HiU Mr. John, New Lenton, Ditto HiU Mr. Edward, New Lenton, Ditto Hickman Mr., Sneinton, Ditto HartweU Mr,, near Arboretum, Nottingham Hayes Mr. Thos., Underwood, Notts. Huskinson Mr , Mai-y-gate, Nottingham Holmes Mr., Fisher-gate, Ditto Hart Mr., PUcher-gate, Ditto Hardy Mr. Richard, Queen's-rd., Ditto Halford Mr., Fisher-gate, Ditto Hedderley Mr., Sneinton, Notts. Heald Mr , Old Sneinton, Ditto Hopcroft iVIr , Sneinton, Ditto Hardy Mr., Sneinton, Ditto Hebb Mr., Sneinton, Ditto Hicken Miss, Goose-gate, Nottingham HaU Mr., Mansfield-road, Ditto Holmes Mr , North-street, Ditto Haines Mr., Mansfield-road, Ditto Harrison Mr., Mansfield-road, Ditto Huskinson Mr. T., Epperstone, Notts. HUl Mr., Sheep-lane, Nottingham Hall Mr., Long-row, Ditto Huff Mrs., Long-row, Ditto Harvey Mr , High street, Ditto Hutchinson Mr., Parliament-st., Nottingham Hucknall Mr , Carlton-street, Nottingham HUl Mr. Rowland, Warser-gate, Ditto Hartshom Mr., Mansfield-road, Ditto Hartshom Mr. J., Mansfleld-rd., Ditto Hartshom Mr. E., Eadford, Notts. Hogg Mr. J. T., Mount- street. Ditto Hine Mr. T., Eegent-street, Ditto Harrison Mr. J., Pelham-street, Ditto Hamel Mr. Leopold, Stoney-st,, Ditto HaUam Mr. T., Bridlesmith gt. Ditto Heron Mr. E., Hanley, Staffordshire Hoe Mr. Mai-k A., New Eadford, Notts. HiU Mr. Thos., Mary.gate, Nottingham ANN ALB OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, Hine B, H., Esq,. Bramcote, Notts. Hine J, G., Esq., Clarendon-st., Nottingham Hazard W., Esq., Harleston, Norfolk Holmes Mr., Snenton-street, Nottingham 'Harris Mr, T. B., CoUin. street, Ditto Harrison Mr. E., Queen's-road, Ditto Holmes Mr. Wm.. Shei-wood, Notts, Hull Mr. Josh., Old Lenton, Ditto Humphreys Mr., ChUweU, Ditto Hari-iman Mr., Long Eaton, Derbyshire Hawkins Mr., Long Eaton, Ditto Holbrook Mr Jno., Kimberley, Notts. Harrison Mr. Geo., Old Eadford, Ditio HaUam Mr.. Calverton, Ditto Hardwick Mr. B., Stainsby, Lincolnshire Harvey Mr. J., Mansfield, Notts. Hickman Mr., New Radford, Ditto Harwood Mr., Beeston Bylauds, Ditto Inger Mr., Long-row, Nottingham. Johnson J., Esq., SoUcitor, Nottingham, James Mr. R., artist. Ditto, Jones Mr. John, Goose-gate, Ditto. Jones Mr. J., Albert-street, Ditto, Jacobs Mr., Byard-lane, Ditto. Johnson Mr., Wm., Ison Green, Notts. Jackson Mr. James, Bobber's-mill, Ditto. Jones Mr. George, emiineer, Derby. James Mr. Cornelius, ViUa-road, Nottingham. Jones Mr.Thom., Station-street, Ditto. Johnson Mr. Fred., Park-street, Ditto, Johnson Mr. Fredrick, brazier. Ditto. Johnston Mr., Beeston, Notts. Joynes Mr. John, Barker-gate, Nottingham. Jackson, Mr. James, draper, Ditto. James Mr. WUUam, Bradmore, Ditto. Jones Mr. John, Worksop, Ditto. Jardine Mr., Marston, Grantham. Jones Mr., Grocer, South-parade, Nottingham. Jackson Mr. Wm., Castle-gate, Ditto. Johnson Mr. F., Park-street, Ditto. Johnson, Mr. P. A., Manchester-st, Ditto. Johnson Mr. H., CUnton-street, Ditto. Johnson Mr.Wm., Carriagton-str, Ditto. Jackson Mr. Samuel, ChUweU, Notts. Johnson Mr. Kimberley, Ditto James, Mr. T., Nottingham. James Mr. Wm., Bradmore, Notts. James Mr. W., ParUament-street, Nottingham. Jones Mr., Upholsterer, Ditto. Jackson Mr. James, Mansfield, Notts. Jackson Mr. J., Old Basford, Ditto James Mr., Park-street, Nottingham, Jones Mr., Wheeler-gate, Ditto. Jerrom Mr., Castie-gate, Ditto, Joynes Mr., Bridlesmith-gate, Ditto James Mr., Mansfield-road, Ditto James Mr., York-street, Ditto Johnson Mr. E., New Basford, Notts. James Mr., New Radford, Ditto Johnson Mr., Old Lenton, Ditto Keeley Thos. Esq., Woodthorpe, Notts. Kirkland Mr. Wm., Beeston, Notts. Kidd Mr. W. M., Hounds'-gate, Nottingham liirk Mr. William, Maypole-yard, Ditto Kirk Mr. J., Eigley's-yard, Ditto Kirk Mr., buUder, New Basford, Notts. Kirk Mr. WiUiam, New Lenton, Ditto Kirk Mr. John, Nottingham Kirk Mr. .John, agent, Red HUl, Notts, Keri7 Mr. James, senior, Nottingham Kerry Mr. James, junior, Ditto Ken-y Mr. Thomas, Derby-road, Ditto Kerry Mr. Edmund, hosier, Ditto King Mr. John, Lister-gate, Ditto Kershaw Mr. Thomas, Mansfield, Notts. King Mr. WilUam, Bobber's-mUl, Ditto Kitchen Mr. Edward. Newark, Ditto Kirkham Mr. WUUam, Tuxford, Ditto Kelham Mr. Henry, Rugby, Warwicksh. Kelsall JUr. E., Pelham-street, Nottingham Kul]) and Son Messrs., Mary's-pl., Ditto Kraft Mr. P. H., Hockley, Ditto Keeley Mr. J., jun. Walnut-tree-ln. Ditto Kaye Mr. Jas., Queen's-road, Ditto Knight Mr. Wm., Eadford, Notts, Kirk Mr. Joshua, Lower-parlt-st., Nottingham Kelk Mr., Arnold, Notts. Kei-17 Mr., Mortimer-street, Nottingham Kirk Mr. E., Maypole-yard, Ditto. King Mr., Walker-street, Snenton, Notts. Kerr Mr., Nottingham Kerry Mr., Sherwood-street, Ditto Kirk Mr. James, New Basford, Notts. Kershaw Mr. S., Hyson Green, Ditto Legard Captain, Pickering, Yorkshire Lacey W., Esq., Adbolton, Notts. Litchfield Eev. J., Kingstone, Northamptn. Lacey Mr. G. A., Carrington, Notts. Latham Mr. T., Burton-street, Nottingham Levick Mr. George, merchant. Ditto Langsdale Mr. Joseph, Basford, Notts. Limb Mr. John, Beeston, Ditto Large Mr. Henry, druggist, Nottingham Leedham Mr., Carlton-sti-eet, Ditto Lacey Mr. G. F., Angel-row, Ditto Le-sris Mr. J., 8, Carlton-street. Ditto Lees Mr., Mount-street, Ditto Linneker Mr. Charles, Ditto Langley Mr., Mansfield, Notts. Lacey Mr., Eadford, Ditto Leeson Mr. WiUiam, Mansfield, Ditto Lacey Mr,, Sneinton, Ditto Leavers Mr. T., East Bridgford, Ditto Leverton Mr, WUliam, Arnold, Ditto Lambert Mr, H. E., Cariton, Ditto Lee Mr. Joseph, New Eadford, Ditto Leavers Mr., SouthweU, Ditto Lambert Mr. Thomas, Talbot-rd, Nottingham Latham Mr. S., Maypole-yard, Ditto Liberty Mr. George, Stoney-st., Ditto Lacey Mr. G. F., Angel-row, Ditto Lee Mr. J., Washington-street, Ditto Lewis Mr. J., Snenton-street, Ditto Lichfield Mr. J., Radford, Notts. LassaUe Mr., High Holbom, Nottingham Leavers Mr. C, Bast Bridgford, Notts. Levers Mr. J., East Bridgford, Ditto Lee Mr. John, Bleasby, Ditto Linpoot Mr., Mansfield, Ditto Levers Mr., Spaniel-row, Nottmgham Lightfoot Mr., Hounds'-gate, Ditto Leeson Mr., Lister-gate, Ditto Lomas Mr., Gas-office, Ditto Leavers Mr. Robert, Chapel.bar, Ditto Leak Mr., Clumber-street, Ditto Lewin Mr., Bottie-lane, Ditto 8 UST OF SUBSCEIBERS TO Lewin Mr., baker, Snenton, , Notts. Lambert Mr. J., Goose-gate, Nottingham Lindley Mr., New Basford, ' Notts. Lome Mr., New Basford, ' Ditto limberry Mr., Hyson Green, Ditto Leeson Mr., New Lenton, Ditto Lomax Mr., Derby-terra«e, Ditto MUward R,, Esq., Thurgaton Priory, Notts. Massey I. Esq., M.D., Nottingham Moore Samuel, Esq., Church-gt., Ditto MUls G., Esq., Regent-street, Ditto Maltby C, Esq., Ditto Maltby T., Esq., Woodthorpe, Notts. Mower C. Esq., Burton Joyce, Ditto MUls Rev. J. P., Hockerton, Ditto l^uUigan Eev. J. J., Derby-road, Nottingham Maltby Eev. B., Whatton, Notts, MUes Eev. E., Bingham, Ditto Marriott J. Esq., CropweU-Butier, Ditto Mann J., Esq., Stragglethorpe, Ditto Morley James, Esq., NuttaU, Ditto Maltby W., Esq., Basford, Ditto Mundella H. J, Esq., CoUege-st., Nottingham Derbyshire Notts.DittoNottingham Notts. Ditto Ditto Morley H. Esq., Spondon, MUnes Mr. John, Old Basford, Massey Mr., Thrumpton, Mee Mr. J., Assembly Eooms, MUnes Mr. T. B.. Basford, Morley Mr. Josias, Kimberley, Marriott Mr. B., Kimberley, Maxfield Mr, H. .M. Somercotes, Derbyshire MeUers Mr. H., Newcastie-street, Nottingham Malpas Mr. W. H., Poultry, Ditto Moody Mr. Thomas, Eadford, Notts. Mann Mr. M., New Radford, Ditto Marshall Mr. H., Lincoln-street, Nottingham May Mr. W., Manchester-street, Ditto May Mr. WUUam, Beck-street, Ditto Martin Mr. J., 57, Swinton-street, London MeUers Mr. T., Castie-terrace, Nottingham Meekley Mr. H., jun., accountant, Ditto Moreton Jesse, Eadford, Notts. Maclean Mr. J., Bromley-place, Nottingham Moore Mr. John, Calverton, Ditto MarshaU Mr. T. B., Eempstone, Ditto MarshaU Mr. J., Stoke Bardolph, Ditto Madin Mr Wm., 12, Berkley-st,, Nottingham Morton Mr. John, New Eadford, Notts. Mason Mr., Samuel, Mansfield, Matthews Mr. T., Car-Colston, Monk Mr. W., sen.. Old Eadford, Mosley Mr., Snenton Elements, MannweU Mr. T., Tuxford, MarshaU Mr. Castie-gate, Marriott Mr. W,, Lister-gate, Manderfield Mr. J., Albert- street, Ditto Moody Mr. Wm., Park-row, Ditto Marx Mr. A., Hounds'-gate, Ditto Matthews Mr., St. James,'s-street, Ditto Morley Mr. T. G., Mary-gate, Ditto Mead Mr. J., Poultry. Ditto MaUet Mr., Mary-gate, Ditto MUler Mr. S., Old Eadford, Notts. Maltby Mr. Joseph, Old Eadford, Ditto Moore Mr. Samuel, New Radford, Ditto Marriott Mr. G., Bridlesmith-gt,, Nottingham Marriott Mr. Joshua, merchant. Ditto Martin Mr. W., MeMUe-street, Ditto Marsahll Mr. W., Chesterfield-st, Ditto DittoDitto Ditto Notts. Ditto Nottingham Ditto Morley J., Esq., Spaniel-row, Munk E., Esq., Park, Marshall Mr., Dean-street, Middleton Mr., Warser-gate, Markham Mr., Beeston, Morley Mrs., RatcUffe, Marr iMr., Derby-road, Marriott Mr., Beeston, MUton Mr., Mount-street, Maltby Mr., Old Basford, MitcheU Mr. George, Linby, Mercer Mr. Eichard, Chapel-bar, Mann Mr., New Basford, Marshall Mr., Cotgrave, Moss Mr, WiUiam, Mansfield, MarshaU Mr. J., Castie-gate, MeUors Mr., Carrington-street, MeUor Mr., Canal-street, Merrin Mr., Leen-side, Morrison Miss, Stoney-street, Marriott Mr., Peter-gate, Marriott Mr., South Parade, Massey Mr., Clumber-street, Musson Mr., Thurland-street Maltby Mr. G., Thurland-street, Maltby Mr. Charles, Woodthoi-pe, Mason Mr. Luke, Snenton, Morris Mr., Snenton, Marriott Mr., Carlton-road, Moore Mr. S. W., Hockley-mUl, Massey Mr., Broad-street, Maltby Mr., Mansfield-road, Marriott Mr., Eldon-st., Snenton, Mee Mr., Basford-lane, Morris Mr., ChUweU, Meri-Ul Mr., Pleasley, Mansfield, Nottingham DittoDittoDitto Notts. gk Ditto ^ Nottingham Notts.Nottingham Notts. Ditto Nottingham Notts. Ditto Notts. Ditto"DittoDitto DittoDitto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Notts. DittoDitto Nottingham DittoDitto Ditto Notts. Ditto Ditto Ditto Newcastie, His Grace the Duke of. Clumber, Notts. Newark Viscount, Holme-pierrepont, Notts. Newham Samuel, Esq., Park, Nottingham North Thomas, Esq., Cinder HUl, Notts. Neep W., Esq., SouthweU, Notts. Nokes Mr. W., Pelham-street, Nottingham Nottingham Mechanics' Institution. Norris Mr. G. G., Mount Vernon, Nottingham Nelson Mr. A. B., Radford, Notts, Needham Mr. S., Kimberley, Ditto NuttaU Mr., Basford, Ditto Naylor Mr. J., High-pavement, Nottingham Nutt Mr T. C, Old Lenton, Notts. Norton Mr. R., Newark, Ditto New Mr. G., Old Radford, Ditto Nightingale, Mr. J., Mary-gate, Nottingham Nelson Mr. A., jun., New Radford, Notts. Newbold Mr., Bold-lane, Derby Norman Mr., Ilkeston, Derbyshire Newbold Mr., RateUffe-street, Nottingham Newbold Mr. C, Carrington-st. Ditto Nixon Mr., Lincoln-street, Ditto Nicholson Mr., St. Mary's-place, Ditto Newham Mr,, New Eadford, Notts. Nicholson Mr., Mount Hooton, Nottingham Oldknow Henry, Esq., Draycott, Derbyshire OUver Mr. Andrew, Basford, Notts. Oldham Mr. Thomas, ChilweU, Ditto Oldham Mr. J. N , Mount-street, Nottingham OUver Mr., Basford, Notts. Orange Mr. James, Granby-st., Nottingham ANNALS OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Oldham Mr. J. N., Derby-road, Nottingham Owencroft and Son Messrs., Ditto Oscroft Mr., Sutton -in -Ashfield, Notts. Owen Mr., Mount-street, Nottingham ^ OUver Rev. S, Calverton, Notts. ~ Oylett Mr. Edmund. Warsop Notts. Osborne Mr. J. H., Epperstone, Ditto Oliver Mr. J. D., Bingham, Ditto Operatives' Library, No. 1, Nottingham OUver Mr., Mount street, Ditto Oxley Mr. John. Hoveringham, Notts. Oldlmow Mr.. Haughton-street, Nottingham Oldershaw Miss, StreUey, Notts, Patohitt E. Esq., solicitor, Nottingham Page W., Esq.. Bobber's-mUl, Notts. Percy Edmund, Esq., Park, Nottingham Parsons Arthur. Esq., soUcitor, Ditto Pyatt Henry. Esq St. James's-st, Ditto Parsons W. Esq., WeUington-cir, DitBT Popham . Dr. , Park-street, Ditto Peach Rev. J. J., Holme-pierrepont, Notts. Plumptree Eev. H. W., Eastwood, Ditto Power Eev. J., Norman ton-on-Soar,Leicestersh. Potter T. E., Esq., Wymeswold, Ditto Padley Eev. A.. BulweU Hall, Notts Pearson Mr. John, Beeston, Ditto Parker Mr. T. S., Oxton, Ditto Perry Mr. J. M., New York, America Pettinirer Mr., G., Cinder HUl, Notts. Perry Mr. John, 'Talbot-street, Nottingham Perrons Mr. John, Basford, Notts. Pierce Mr. John, Forest-side, Nottingham Porter Mr. WiUiam, North-st., Ditto Parker Miss Jane, Burton-street, Ditto Patt Mr. R. S., HoUow-stone, Ditto Pearson Mr., Whitemoor, Basford,Ditto PaUng Mr. Samuel, Ilkeston, Notts. Page Mr. Jonathan, Long-row, Nottingham Porter Mr. Robert, Beeston, Notts. Pinkney Mr., High-pavement, Nottingham Pickering Mr. E. G., Long-row, Ditto Place Mr. John, Snenton, Notts. Pratt Mr., Wheeler-gate, Nottingham Patterson Mr., Forest, Ditto Peet Mr. Eobert, Burton Joyce, Notts, Pearlby Mr. R., South Muskham, Notts, Pearson Mr. J., Budby, Ditto Parr Mr. Samuel, Granby, Ditto Pyatt Mr. A., WUford, Ditto PUgrim Mr. P., Shelford, Ditto Poole Mr. F., East Bridgford, Ditto Price Mr. WUliam, Gotham, Ditto Pogson Mr. P. F., Stoke-Bardolph,Ditto Piggin Mr. John, HucknaU, Ditto Piggs Mr. J. 0.. Nottingham Parkin Mr. Geo., Mount Vernon, Ditto Potter Mr. Samuel, Clare-street, Ditto Plott Mr. Edmund, Warsop, Notts Pott Mr. J M., High Holborn, Nottingham Peel Mr., Back-commons, Ditto Pearce Mr. W., Pelham-street, Ditto Pratt Mr. Jno , Poultry, Ditto Peet Mr. Carlton-street, Ditto Packer Mr. Geo., Park, Ditto Pacey Mr. G., Cariton -road. Ditto Pi-att Mr., Sussex-street, Ditto Poole Mr, Wm., Highhurst-st., Ditto Pilkiugton Mr. Geo., Ison Green, Notts. Pearson Mrs. A. W., Barker-gate, Nottingham Potter Samuel, Esq., Ilkeston, Derbyshire Pearson Mr. J., Whitemoor, Basford, Notts. PUgrim Mr. Peter, Bingham, Notts. Parsons Mr., WUford, Ditto Potter Mr. W. H., East Leake, Ditto Price Mr. Wm., Gotham, Notts, Plowright Mr., Parliament-st,, Nottingham Pearson Mr.. Chapel-bar, Ditto Palethorpe Mr., Mount-street, Ditto Perkins Mr., Angel-row, Ditto Pearson Mr. C, Plumptree-str., Ditto Parr Mr. Samuel Lambley, Ditto Paling Mr. S., Lambley, Ditto Paulson Mr. E., Mansfield, Notts. Penford Mr.. Mansfield, Ditto Penn Mr., Shenyood, Notts. Peet Mr. P., High-street, Nottingham Pattison Mr., James's-street, Ditto Peet Mr., Granby-street, Ditto Porter Mr. F., Castle-gate, Ditto Place Mr., Low-pavement, Ditto Page Mr. G., Drury- hiU Ditto Pierson Mr., Eed Lion-street, Ditto Palethorpe Mr., Carrington-st,, Ditto Pickering Mr., MelvUle-street, Ditto Parr Mr. S., Cheapside, Ditto Parker Mr. Hockley, Ditto Place Mr,, Lenton Priory, Notts. Potts Mr., Mansfield-road, Nottingham Peach Mr. J., Sherwood-street, Ditto Pogson Mr., Mansfield-road, Ditto Place Mr., New Lenton, Notts. Peady Mrs., New Lenton, Ditto Pearson Mr., Old Lenton, Ditto Plowright Mr. W., Apsley-lane, Nottingham Plummer Mr. S., SouthweU, Notts, Pegg Mr. James, Ball-street, Norwich Eobinson F. Esq., Banker, Nottingham Reckless J., Esq., Park-side, Ditto Rawson G., Esq., Bestwood Park, Notts. Redgate T B , Esq., Scarthing-moor, Notts. RoUeston L.. Esq., WatnaU, Ditto RoUeston Rev. J., Burton Joyce, Ditto Rogers E. S., Esq., Rocklsy, Ditto Robinson Miss. Beeston, Ditto RUey Mr. John, Newthorpe, Ditto Ringham Mr. J., Carrington-st., Nottingham Raynor Mr. J., Long-row, Ditto Robinson Mr. T., Old Basford, Notts. Renals Mr. W., Old Lenton, Ditto RichardsouMr. W., Market-place, Nottingham Rawson Mr. T., Peter-gate, Ditto EanoUfie Arms Library, Sussex-st, Ditto Ride Mr. Joseph Basford-station, Notts. Rice Mr. E. J., Carrington, Ditto Robinson Mr. G. J., Middle-pmt., Nottingham Rowntree Mr. M., Friar-lane, Ditto Rodgers Mr. G., WUford-street, Ditto Reddish Mr. J.. Fletcher-gate, Ditto Redgate Mr. James, Sneinton, Notts. Eenshaw Mr., Fletcher-gate, Nottingham Roworth Mr. T., ParUament-st., Ditto Roberts Mr. J., Chapel-bar, Ditto Richardson Mr. J.. New Radford, Ditto Ross Mr., Old Basford, Ditto Raven Mr. Joseph, WatnaU, Ditto Richards Mr. John, Bobbers-miU, Ditto Richards Mr. S., New Radford, Ditto Robinson Mr. Charles, Mansfield, Ditto 10 LIST OF SUBSCEIBEES TO Eose Mr. J., EadcUffe-on-Trent, Ditto Eichardson Mr. C, Thurgarton, Ditto Eadford Mr. Crescent-place, Nottingham Royston Mr. Cuthbert, Albert str., Ditto Redgate Mr., Parliament-street, Ditto Eandall Mr., Long Eaton, Derbyshire Rowland Mr., Bingham, Notts. Rideout Mr., Goldsmith-street, Nottingham Redfem Mr., Chapel-bar, Ditto Rawlinson Mr., Bromley-house, Ditto Richardson Mr. C, Thurgarton, Notts. Reddish Mr., Gonalstone, Ditto Ridley Mr., Burton Joyce, Ditto Eadford Mr., Newark, Ditto Eobinson Mr. C. L., Mansfield, Ditto EedmUe Mr. J., Old Basford, Ditto Eandal Mr. J., jun., Cotgrave, Ditto Raven Mr. John, WatnaU, Ditto Richards Mr. J., Whitmore, Bas., Ditto Ehodes Mr., Peter's-square, Nottingham Roe Mr. James, Hounds'-gate, Ditto Redfem Mr., Meadows, Ditto Reed Mr., Byard-lane, Ditto Eolph Mr., Stoney-street, Ditto RatcUffe Blr., Earle-street, Ditto Redgate Mr., Trinity-tei-race, Ditto Revis Mr.. Mansfield-road, Ditto Redgate Mr., New Basford, Notts. Robinson Mr., Mount-street, Nottingham Redgate Mr., Mount-street, Ditto Robinson Mr., Chapel-street, Ditto Robinson Mr., jun., New Basford, Notts. Richardson Mr., Forest-side, Nottingham EevUl Mr., Eadford, Notts. Eedfem Mr., New Eadford, Ditto Eichards Mr., New Eadford, Ditto Robertscr Miss, Beeston, Ditto Ruddick Mr. T., Parliament-st, Nottingham Reynolds Mr., Lowdham, Notts. Eowarth Mr., ParUament-street, Nottingham Eedfern Mr. C, Stoney-street, Ditto RadneU Mr. C, Sheep-lane, Ditto. Read Mr., Carlton-road, Notts. Reddish Mary, New Basford, Ditto Eepton Mr. J., Old Eadford, Ditto Strutt Right Hon, E., M. P., Kingstone, Notts. Smith H., Esq., WUford, Ditto Sherwin J. S., Esq., Bramcote, Ditto Sherbrooke H. P., Esq., Oxton, Ditto Sneath C, Esq., Amot Vale, Ditto Simpson J., Esq., Arnot Vale, Ditto ¦ Storer C, Esq., M.D., Lowdham Grange, Ditto Smith T. H., Esq., Pelham-st., Nottingham Swann John, Esq., Standard-hiU, Nottingham Simpson J., jun., Esq., Arnold, Ditto Sykes Rev. J., Chantry House, Newark, Notts. Smith Frederick. Esq., Nottingham SavUe W., Esq., Park, - Ditto Swann C Esq., Ditto ShUton C. D'Aubigne, Esq., Ditto ShUton S. R. P., Esq., Ditto Sleight Henry, Esq. Eastwood, Notts. Stretton Leiutenant-Colonel, Southampton Shipley F. E., Esq., GUtbrook, Notts. Statham Rev, F, F., M.A., Wal worth, London Sneath Mr., Linby. Notts. Stimpson Mr. T,, GreenhiU-lane, Derbyshire Shipstone Mr. J., New Basford, Ditto Saxton Mr. F., Newthorpe, Notts, Shaw Mr. S.. Eastwood, Ditto Spray Mr, W., Langley, Ditto Smith Mr G., WoUaton, Ditto Simpson Mrs., Basford, Ditto Shelton Mr., Lenton Cottage, Ditto Soars Mr., Sneinton, Ditto Soars Mr.. Carlton-road, Nottingham Streets Mr., Clare- street. Ditto SmaUey Mr. W.. Cross-street, Ditto Sanders Mr. J., Mansfield-road, Ditto Sutton Mr. J,, High-pavement, Ditto Smith Mr, G,, George-street, Ditto Smith Mr. C, Radford, Notts. Sheppard Mr. J.. Kimberley, Ditto Stevenson Mr., Park-hiU, Ditto Spybey Mr., Long-row, Nottingham Sharpe Mr. J., High -pavement. Ditto Skelston Mr., Old Eadford, Notts. Stevenson Mr. . Smithy-row, Nottingham Shaw Mr. Joseph, Ditto Shipley Mr. C, GUtbrook, Notts. Spearing Mr., Portland-place, Nottingham Stones Mr., Clare-street, Ditto Shipley Mr. H, W., CoUin-street, Ditto Shelmerdine Mr,, Victoria-street, Ditto SuUey Mr. E., Forest-side, Ditto Semple Mr. J., Notintone-place, Ditto Smith Mr Joseph, Castle-gate, Ditto Shelton Mr. John, Beeston, Notts. Simpson Mr. Henry, Sherwood, Ditto Smith Mr. E., Cheapside, Ditto Spencer Mr. John, Queen's-road, Ditto Scales Mr. George, Stoney-street, Ditto Stocks Mr. Thomas, Derby-road, Ditto Sowter M. J., Carrington-street, Ditto Simmons Mr. S., Coventry, Warwicksh. Smith Mr. J. W., High- street, Nottingham Seymour Mr. J., Pointon-street, Ditto Sanday Mr. J., Elksley, Notts. Spencer Mr. E. B., Basford, Ditto Styring jVIr. J., Old Lenton, Ditto Savage Mr. G., Mansfield, Ditto Stone Mr. James, Mansfield, Ditto Smith Mr. CropweU-Bishop, Ditto Sleight Mr. E., New Sneinton, Ditto Swanwick Mr. G., CropweU-Butier, Ditto Stone Mr. R., Radcliffe-on-Trent, Ditto Scottom Mr. T., Cotgrave, Ditto Shaw Mr. Robert, Keyworth, Ditto Smith Mr. James, Ruddington, Ditto Smith Mr. Hiram, Lambley, Ditto Sibrey Mr. F., Long Clawson, Leicestersh. Staples Mr. J., New Radford, Notts. Smith Dr., Eastwood, Ditto Sheppard Mr. T., Mansfield, Ditto Smith Mr. S., Old Sneinton, Ditto SmaU Mr., High Holbom, Ditto Soar Mr. Joseph, New Spring House, Robin Hood's Chase, Ditto Shaw Mr. Thomas, Park-street, Ditto Sharp Mr., Parliament-street, Ditto Sanders Mr. J., VUla Terrace, Ditto Sherritt Mr., Trinity-terrace, Ditto Shelton Mr., Walnut-tree-lane, Ditto Swann Mr. J., jun., Odston Hill, Smith Mr., RateUffe, Notts. ANNALS OF NOTTINGHAMSHIEE. 11 Sherbrooke H., Esq., Oxton HaU, Notts. Storer Mr. C, M.D., Lowdham, Ditto Spittlehouse Mr., East Leake, Ditto Smedley Mr. J., East Leake, Ditto Smedley Mr. C, East Leake, Ditto Scales Mr. F., Mill-street, Nottingham Sargent Mr., Derby-road, Ditto Shaw Mr., Derby-road, Ditto Severs Mr., ParUament-street, Ditto Stevenson Mr. J., Radford, Notts. Stevenson Mr., Radford, Ditto SaviUe Mr., Eegent-street, Ditto Samuels Mr. J., Park-hollow, Ditto SoUory Mr., Mount-street, Ditto SmeUe Mr., Euddington, Notts. Straw Mr. T., Mount-street, Nottingham Smith Mr., Daybrook, Notts. Smith Mr. T., Sutton-on-Trent, Ditto Smith Mr. C, North Muskham, Ditto Sheppard Mr. S., Old Basford, Ditto Sneath Mr., Linby, Ditto Sleight Mr., Eastwood, Ditto Shaw Mr. S., Eastwood, Ditto Spray Mr., Langley, Derbyshire Stimson Mr. T., GreenhUl-lane, Ditto Smith Mr., Newark, Ditto Sleight Mr. E., Sneinton, Ditto Shaw Mr., jun., High-pavement, Nottingham Spencer Mr., Queen's-road, Ditto SissUng Mr. W. C. Trent-bridge, Ditto Smart Mr., Trent-bridge, Ditto Smith Mr. H., New Eadford, Notts. Smith Mr., New Eadford, Ditto Sudbury Mr., South-street, Ditto Shacklock Mr., Maiden-lane, Nottingham Salmon Mr. E. W., Wheeler-gate, Ditto SuUey Mr. E., Angel-row, Ditto Sharpe Mr. G. H., Pavement, Ditto Severn Mr, J. B., Stoney-street, Ditto SuUey Mr. E., Plumptre-street, Ditto Simpson Mr., Shakspeare-street, Ditto Smith Mr., Bridlesmith-gate, Ditto Smith Mr., Sneinton-road, Ditto Shepherd Mr., Mansfield, Notts. Sharp Mr. C, Arnold, Ditto Simpson Mr. F., Old Lenton, Ditto Spencer Mr. C, PhUadelphia, America Stafford Mr. Yealand Conyers, Lancaster Soattergood Mr. P., Stapleford, Derbyshire Thackeray, W. Esq., Mayor of Nottingham Taylor H.; Esq., Wheeler-gate, Ditto Teggin Eev. J. G., Mansfield, Notts. Taylor W., Esq., RadcUffe-on-Tr. Ditto Thomley Mr. J., Sneinton, Ditto Trivett Mr. J., South-parade, Nottingham Taylor Mr. R., Lister-gate, Ditto Townsend Mr. W., Sneinton, Notts. TomUnson Mr. W., Hyson Green, Ditto Taylor Mr. W., Clarendon-street, Nottingham Taylor Mr. J., jun., Sneinton, Notts. Thompson Mr. J., Derby-road, Nottingham Townroe Mr. J. W., Forest, Ditto Tudor Mr. W. T., Hyson Green, Notts. , Tebbutt Mr., New Lenton, Ditto TomUnson Mr., Newark, Ditto Thompson Mr., Mansfield, Ditto TweUs Mr., Old Basford, Ditto Thorpe Mr., Park-side, Nottingham Taylor Jno., Esq., Ilkeston, Ditto Thompson Mr., Sneinton, Notts. Treese Mr. J., Bradmore, Ditto Turner Mr. S., Hyson Green, Ditto Turney Mr., Eadford, Ditto Turner Mr., Radford, Ditto TweUs Mr. W., WatnaU, Ditto TweUs Mr., Parliament-street, Nottingham Taylor Mr., Bridlesmith-gate, Ditto Tebbutt Mr., Long Eaton, Derbyshire. Toplis Rev. J., South Walsham, , Norfolk Tomkinson Mr., Mansfield-road, Nottingham Topham Mr., Mansfield-road, Ditto Trueman Mr., New Basford, Notts. Turney Mr., Raleigh-street, Nottingham Thackeray Mr., New Radford, Notts. Tansley Mr. E., New Lenton, Ditto. Tebbvitt Mr., Lenton Sands, Ditto TomUn BIr., Newstead, Notts. Underwood Mr. , Pelham-street, Nottingham Upton Mr., Ratcliffe-on-Trent, Notts. Upton Mr., Saxondale, Ditto Upton Mr., Thoresby Park, Ditto Vere J., Esq., Carlton-on-Trent, Notts. Vicars W., Esq., Park-side, Nottingham Vickers Mr.. Chesterfield-street, Ditto Vickerstaff Mr., Ilkeston, Derbyshire Vance Mr. J., Peck-lane, Nottingham Varney Mr. J., Windsor-street, Ditto Wrightl, C.,Esq„ Stapleford Hall, Notts. Wright I., Esq., Mapperley, Ditto Wylde J. C, Esq., SouthweU, Ditto WUUams Dr., Wheeler-gate, Nottingham White J., Esq., Gen. Hospital, Ditto Watson 'Thomas, Esq,, Ditto Woodhouse T, J., Esq., Overseal, Leicestersh. Whyatt John, Esq., Basford, Notts. Weightman Captain, Forest-side, Ditto Watson John, Esq., Beeston, Ditto Wood H. M., Esq., Park-street, Nottingham Wadsworth J., Esq., Circus-street, Ditto WUd J., jun., Esq., Park, Ditto WeUs A., Esq,, Fletcher-gate, Ditto WeUs John, Esq., Woodborough, Notts. Whyatt J., Esq., Waveriey-street, Nottingham WUkins Venerable Archdeacon, SouthweU, Notts. Whaley Rev. D. Carrington, Ditto Walker Sir E., Beny HUl, Ditto WUde S. B., Esq., Costock, Ditto Watson John, jun., Esq., Ditto Whittaker J , Esq., Ramsdale, Ditto Whitehead Mr. W. , Holborn ViUas, Nottingham WalUs Mr. T., New Basford, Notts. Wright Mr. John, Long-row, Nottingham White Mr. Frank, Long-row, Ditto Wood Mr. J. F., Coppice, Ditto Wood Mr. J., Beauvale MUls, Derbyshire WiUiams Mr., Chandlers-lane, Nottingham Wood Mr., GrenvUle-street, Ditto Whittaker Mr., Ditto Whitby Mr., Carrington, Notts. Wild Mr, John, Stockeston, Ditto Woodhouse Mr., Castie-terrace, Nottingham WUlis Mr., Great Alfred-street, Ditto Wain Mr. Lister-gate, Ditto Wheeler Mr. B., Albert-street, Ditto 12 LIST OF SUBSCEIBEES TO WUde Mr. Trent-bridge, Nottingham WUcockson Mr. G. V., Long-row, Ditto Whitby Miss, Castie-gate, Ditto Walker Miss, Kimberley, Notts. Walker Mr, G., Sneinton, Ditto Wright Mr. James, Sneinton, Ditto WUson Mr. J., BUdworth, Ditto WUlows Mr. T., Over Broughton, Ditto Walker Mrs., Holme Pierrepont, Ditto Whitelow Mr. G , Bingham, Ditto Woodward Mr. G., Barton, Ditto WUkinson Mr. T., Barton, Ditto WUkie Mr. T., Radford, Ditto WUd Mr. John, Selston, Ditto Wheatley Mr. E. J., Derby-road, Nottingham Wheatiey Mr. E..E„ Derby-road, Ditto WUson Mr, L. S , Ram Hotel, Ditto WUson Mr. G., York-street, Ditto Wildey Mr. J., ParUament-street, Ditto Wood Mr. T., Maypole-yard, Ditto Wragg Mr., Beeston, Notts. Wilson Mr. J , Goose-gate, Nottingham Woodward Mr., Chapel-bar, Ditto Welch Mr.. East Eetford. Notts. Wood Mr. Jas., Market-street, Nottingham Wilkinson Mr. F., Albert-street, Ditto Wood Mr. Hounds-gate, Ditto Wright Mr. T., Parliament-street, Ditto Wade Mr. E. H., WoUaton-street, Ditto Wragg Mr. C, Pelham-street, Ditto Woodward Mr., Pelham-street, Ditto Wright Mr. J., Sneinton. Notts. WUson Mr. John, Eadford, Ditto WUkinson Mr. H., Coldham-st., Nottingharn White Mr. S , Ison Green, Notts. White Mr. S.. jun. Ison Green, Ditto WapUngton Mr., Ison Green, Ditto WUson Mr., ChilweU, Ditto Whitehead Mr. T , WoUaton, Ditto West Mr., Old Eadford, Ditto Walker Mr. T., BulweU, Ditto Walker Mr. B., BulweU-lane, Ditto WooUey Mr. South, CoUingham, Ditto Walker Messrs. , Derby-road, N ottingham Whittaker M r . 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Whiteing Mr., Eadford, Ditto Wroughton Mr., E., Eadford, Ditto Watson Mr., R., New Radford, Ditto WUkinson Mr. T., New Lenton, Ditto Wood Mr. J., New Lenton, Ditto Wells Mr., New Lenton, Ditto Watson Mr. R., Whitemore, Ditto Whitehead Mr., WoUaton, Ditto Weightman Mr. J. H., Ripley, Derbyshire WUkinson Mr. J., Beaverlee, Ditto WUd Mr. Geo,, Pinxton, Ditto Yates Walter, Esq., Derby-road, Nottingham Yates Mr. G.B., Forest VUle, Ditto Yeomans Mr. H., Clumber-street, Ditto Zimmern Mr., Postern-street, Nottingham Abbott Mr., Lowdham, Notts. Booker W., Esq., High-pavement, Nottingham Tlie Author, notwithstanding the above extensive List of Subscribers, has to regret the absence of many names which the neglect, or inadvertence, of Booksellers or Agents, has caused to be omitted. YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 3 9002 04078 4333 BRmSHH5ST0RY PRESERVATION PROJsICTil SUPPORTED BY .^-EH