18th; the last-named, as well as two entries on the 1st and 4th Nov. of the same year, speaking of him as 66 then Minister of Stretford."

There are two baptisms in 1710; one on the 30th April "by John Collier, curate of Eccles ;" and the other (the last Collier entry in the old register) on the 3rd August, "p. Mr. Jno. Collier." There is reason to believe that some of these entries are in the handwriting of Collier, who during the years in question was resident at Urmston.

In 1709 and 1710 "MR. THOMAS ELLISON, Rector of Ashton sup. Mersie," is mentioned; and there are several entries relating to families belonging to that parish.

In 1710 and 1711 the name of MR. SEISWICK, or SEDGWICK, Parson of Flixton, appears as officiating at the Chapel.

Two baptisms on 8th April, 1711, are celebrated by "MICHELL FFLETCHER, Presbytarian parson of the Crostreet Chapel."

"PARSON HOLT" baptises two children at the Chapel on the 2nd and 8th November, 1711.

On 24 Feb. 1711-12 "MR. ROE" baptises one of the Birch family. This was the well known Warden Wroe. "JNO. JACKSON, M.A., minister, 1721;" "Stratford, Nov. ye. 29, 1737-Jon. Jackson, minister," are names scribled on page 3 and on a page filled with entries belonging to 1670.

The "simple annals of the parish poor" contain a few entries which the poet of the poor might have turned to account. I note the following :

1657; “An ould poor woman was buried the third day of September at Stretford Chapell having a brother in

Maxfild neere the broken Cros."

1659. "Sammuell the sonne that was taken to nors by

Richard Talior the Tinker was buried the thirteenth day of Janvary being Monday anno dommini 1659.” 1667. "Grissi (or Griffi) Harry was bvried the first day of October."

(Qy. Where is "Shawcross Pit" or Shawcross Mill, as it might be read)?

The bulk of the names in this old register belong to the families of the villagers. The only callings that are noticed are those of the village smith and a few carriers; entries which afford a testimony to the rising importance of Manchester. A solitary "linnen weaver is the only entry that indicates that the village is not wholly given up to agriculture. The three families of Hulme, Harrison, and Newton seem to have been considered of the greatest importance, they being frequently mentioned with the titles of "Mr. or "gentilman." The three entries which follow are all that relate to the Trafford family:

1672: "Sir Sissill Trafford was bvried the 29 day of November."

1672: "mistris franchis Trafford was bvried the 27 day September."

[24.] BYROM FAMILY.-The following entries occur in the Wilmslow parish registers. (vols. ii. and iii.) They are of interest in supplementing in some slight degree the three elaborate pedigrees of Byrom, published by the Chetham Society. The Edward Byrom, of Warrington, here mentioned, does not however appear in them.

"Aug. 28, 1656, were married togeather Edward Byrom, of Warrington, in the countie of Lancaster and Martha Worthington, of the parish of Wilmeslow, being published three Lord's days in the parish church of Wilmeslow at the close of the morning scervise and nothing aleaged but that they might bee joyned to geather in mariage and they were married before Colonel Henry Bradshaw, Esqr., one of the justices for this countie."

Edward Byrom appears to have taken up his the same registers :— residence in Wilmslow for the following entries occur in

[25.] MANCHESTER ANTIGALLICANS. [No. 7. April 29; No. 17. May 13.]-The following book by a Cheshire clergyman is interesting as relating to the Antigallican Society. It was published in 1758 :--"The Sentiments of a True Antigallican or a Collection of Political Pieces respecting the Interest of England, by John Free, D.D., Vicar of Runcorn, in Cheshire, Thursday Lecturer at St. Mary Hill, London, and Lecturer at Newington, in Surry, London."-Svo., pp. 214.

It contains a long list of subscribers, of whom those marked are stated to have been members of some of the many “laudable Associations of Antigallicans.” Those relating to Lancashire and Cheshire are as follows, but to none of these is there a * appended :

Mr. James Astley, Preston in Lancashire.
Rev. Mr. Baxter, Minister of Stretford in Lancashire.
Mr. Barlow, of Eccles in Lancashire.

Mr. Thomas Crowther, merchant in Liverpool.

The Right Honourable the Earl of Derby.

Rev. Mr. Dutton, of Ardwick Chapel, Manchester. Rev. Tho. Foxley, M. A. and Fellow of the Collegiate Church in Manchester.

Lady Hoghton, Lancashire.

Mr. Thomas Lediard, Great St. Helens.
Edward Maddock, gent. Liverpool.

Rev. Peter Mayor, B.A. Macclesfield in Cheshire.
Rev. Samuel Peploe, LL.B. Chancellor of the Diocese
of Chester, and Warden of the College in Manchester.
Mr. James Rigby, gent., Liverpool.

Mr. Peter Rigby, merchant in Liverpool.
Mr. John Smith, apothecary in Liverpool.
Mr. Rob. Shepherd, teacher of the mathematics at
Preston, in Lancashire, 2 books.

Mr. John Tomlinson, of Urmstone, in the parish of
Flixton, Lancashire.

Mr. Joseph Valens, merchant in Liverpool. Rev. Joseph Ward, M.A., vicar of Presbury. In 1757 was published a small book (12mo.), entitled, "The Antigallican, or the History and Adventures of Harry Cobham, Esq., inscribed to Louis XV. by the Author. London. 1757."

It is dedicated "to the man who calls himself Most Christian King, whom I call most infamous Treaty

Breaker."

J. P. EARWAKER.

[26.] MANCHESTER ANTIGALLICANS [No. 7, April 29; No. 17, May 13.]-In the " Monthly Review," vol. LIX., p. 78-9, there is a review of a "Sermon Preached before the Laudable Association of Antigallicans, at the Parish Church of St. George's, Middlesex, at their General Annual Meeting, on Thursday the 23rd of April 1778. By the Rev. Isaac Hunt. M.A." 4to.

It is there stated that "the Antigallican Society was instituted in the beginning of the memorable year 1745 when the finances and commerce of France were so far recovered from the ruinous state into which they were thrown by the wars of Queen Anne as to enable it again to disturb the peace of Europe and brave the British arms. At this time a number of individuals residing in London, fired with the just indignation of Englishmen against the insiduous arts as well as open insolence of the French nation, entered into an association to support and diffuse among their fellow citizens the like spirit of patriotic resentment against these perfidious enemies to Britian. The professed design of this association was to discourage by precept and example the importation and consumption of French produce or manufacture and to encourage those of Great Britain. The society soon became very They offered public prizes to encourage the herring fishery, and were distinguished for their

numerous.

also a reference to the Antigallican Society in Notes and Queries, 4th series, vol. iii., p. 482. T. J.

[27.]"THE MATHER FAMILY." [No. 14, May 6th.] According to Wood's "Athenæ," and Brook's Puritans, Richard Mather married Katharine, daughter of Edward Holt, Esq., of Bury in Lancashire. His son Samuel was born at Much Woolton, near Liverpool. Much Woolton is near Toxeth Park, at the chapel of which Richard Mather was, according to Brook, "minister and schoolmaster."

Very copious notices of the "Mather Family" will be found in the first volume of "Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harwood University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts," by J. L. Sibley, M.A., Cambridge, Mass., 1873.

[28.] JOHN BYROM, M.A. [No. 6, April 29. No. 20, May 13.] I am not aware that Byrom had any other title to the prefix of "Dr." than that of courtesy; certain it is that he never took that degree at any English University. Born at Manchester in 1691, he received his early education at Chester and at Merchant Taylors in London after which he was admitted at Trinity College Cambridge where he took his B.A. in 1711 and was subsequently elected to a fellowship which he vacated in 1716. In the following year he visited Montpelier in France and while there or immediately after his return to London he turned his attention to the study of medicine, and though there is no evidence that he ever followed the practice of it, he seems from that time to have acquired among his friends and acquaintances the familiar title of "Dr." In the first edition of "Lancashire: Its Puritanism and Nonconformity," Dr. Halley falls into an unaccountable error respecting Byrom, imagining him to have been a reverend doctor, and describing him as one of the Fellows of the Collegiate Church and "the leader of the Tory clergy whose popular eloquence drew crowded congregations"! This mistake is corrected in the second edition. Byrom was never a Doctor of Medicine, of Divinity or of Laws.

QUERIES.

CESTRIENSIS, F.S. A.

[29.] REV. THOMAS HUNTER. MA., VICAR OF WEAVERHAM, Co. CHESTER.-Information concerning this clergyman will be acceptable to supplement the

following facts respecting him. When a young man, fresh from the University, Mr. Hunter was appointed Master of the Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth at Blackburn, and held that post about thirteen years. I copy from the Records of that School the minutes referring to his election and resignation:

1737. Aug. 2. The Governors elected," instead of Mr. Daniel Markland, late deceased,"-"Mr. Thomas Hunter, of Queen's Colledge in Oxford," to be Head

Master.

1750. Aug. 29. The Governors elected Revd. Robert Smith, B.A., Head Master, in place of Revd. Mr. Hunter, resigned.

During his residence in Blackburn, Mr. Hunter married, February 28th, 1738, Mrs. Mary Baldwin, widow, whose first husband, Hugh Baldwin, of Blackburn, gent., had died, aged 30, in Jan., 1736-7. By this lady, Mr. Hunter had sons, Thomas and Joseph, both died in infancy, within two days of each other, in August, 1745; William, born 1741; and a second Thomas, born 1748. I conjecture Mr. Hunter resigned the mastership of the Blackburn Grammar School to become vicar of Weaverham in Cheshire. At any rate he held that benefice subsequently. In 1774 were issued from the press (published by subscription), in two volumes, "Moral Discourses on Providence, and other important subjects. By Thomas Hunter, M. A., vicar of Weaverham, in Cheshire. Warrington: Printed by William Eyres, 1774." In volume first is inserted a subscription list of nearly 1,000 names, including most of the

[31]. WILMSLOW JERSEY COMBERS IN 1770.-Can any correspondent explain the meaning of the following extract from an old manuscript account of Fulshaw, &c., "In 1770 the quelling of the Wilmslow Jersey Combers, then a rumerous body, and the Mug Carriers, both become terrible to the people, was his (Mr. Finney's, of Fulshaw) first exploit, in which he had such success that the first ever after behaved with more reserve, and the latter ever since have passed quietly and peaceably throught the parish."

Who were the "Wilmslow Jersey Combers," and the "Mug Carriers," and have any similar names occurred in other parishes? J. P. E.

ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

[32.] ROLL OF THE SECOND TROOP OF THE MANCHESTER AND SALFORD LIGHT HORSE VOLUNTEERS. 1808. The following interesting document has recently been presented to the Chetham Library by Mrs. G. Linnæus Banks, who has kindly permitted it to be republished in this column. It is the original roll of the members of the second troop of the Manchester and Salford Light Horse Volunteers in July, 1808, giving their full names and addresses, and in addition, stating whether they were the effective or non-effective. It is not known whether other of these rolls are elsewhere preserved, but should any of our readers kindly inform us of their existence, we shall be very pleased to print them. To old Manchester residents many of the names in this list will be familiar, as both officers and men were connected with some of the leading families of that time.

Writing in 1804, the author of the Manchester Guide says (p. 285-6):-"It certainly ought to be remembered that in the hour of danger, when the independence of Britain was threatened, so many patriots were found in the towns of Manchester and

Salford to rally round the standard of their country. The volunteer Cavalry have existed as a corps from an early period of the last war, and are under the command of Shakespeare Phillips, Esq., as major commandant. They consist of two troops. The gentlemen are mounted, in general, upon capital horses, and have for their uniform helmet-caps, scarlet-jackets, blue pantaloons, and hussar boots. Their arms are sabres and pistols. They serve without pay, and were individually at the expense of their own appointments."

ROLL OF THE SECOND TROOP.
M. & S. L. H. V.

NAMES.

Capt. ROBERT HINDLEY.
Lieut. JOHN TIPPING.
Serjeant, JOHN N. VARLEY.
ditto, JAMES BOOTH.
Drill ditto, WILLIAM
SKIMMING.

EDITOR.

RESIDENCE. Dawson's Croft, Salford. Tipping's Court. Strangeways. Fennel-street.

Grecian's Head, Deansgate.

Trumpeter, JOHN HOPKINS. Bootle-street. Corporal, W. H. CHEEK. St. Mary's-gate. ditto, RICHARD RICHMOND. Deansgate.

[35.] SAMUEL TORSHELL. [No. 13, May 6.] In the introduction to "Stock and Torshell on the Prophecy of Malachi," published in Nichols' series of Puritan Commentaries, Edinburgh, 1865, I have given all that is known of the history of this Puritan writer. His birthplace is not known, nor are the names of his father and mother recorded. He had at least one sister, Sarah Torshell. He matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge, as a sizar, 22 March, 1620-1, proceeded B. A., 1624-5, and M.A., 1628. About this time he went to London and commenced preaching there, and 1629 in (the following year) was presented to the perpetual curacy of Bunbury, in Cheshire, on the nomination of the Master and Wardens of the Haberdashers' Company,

1633. 97r. [September] Ric. fil: Sam Torshell. 1636. May. Sam Torshell fil Sam T.

1637. 31 Or. [October] Jo. son of Sam: Torshell. BURIALS.

1639. 23 Jan. Eliz. Torshell. 1661. 3 Nr [November]. W. Torshell. Nothing is recorded of his wife, unless she was the

Eliz. Torshell buried in 1639, nor is the after history of

any of his children known. It would appear that he was "Curate" of Bunbury, as distinguished from the "Preacher," or senior clergyman of that parish.

During the civil wars he probably removed to London, but before doing so published anonymously, in 1643, what is now a very scarce tract entitled, "A Case of Conscience concerning Flying in Times of Trouble. (The epistle to the reader is signed S.T.).

On May 12, 1646, he preached before the House of Commons a sermon (afterwards printed) called "The Palace of Justice," but before this, in 1643-44, he had been appointed household chaplain at St. James' to two of the children of Charles I.-Henry, Duke of Glocester, and the Princess Elizabeth-then under the care of the

[36.] REV. THOMAS HUNTER. [No. 29. May 20.]--He published a Funeral Sermon on the death of William Stratford Esq. LLD. who died 7 Sept. 1753, with a "Character" of Dr. Stratford by the Rev. Thomas Hunter, Vicar of Garstang, 4to 1754. In 1755 he resigned Garstang, I believe he was afterwards Vicar of Weaverham. His "Moral Discourses on Providence," in two octavo volumes, 1774, are dedicated to Bishop Warburton in a strain of adulation probably never exceeded in that style of address. He says- "The most. insignificant acquire consideration in the eye of the public from Bishop Warburton's regard. Your approbation alone, my Lord, is fame-is more than place and dignity-than wealth or title-than the voice of th Senate and People-than the interest of the Minister or There is no list of the favour of the Prince" (p xiii.) Subscribers in the copy before me. Milnrow Vicarage. F. R. RAINES, F.S.A. [37.] REV. THOMAS HUNTER. [No. 29. May 20.] I. Observations on Tacitus. In which his character, as a writer and an historian, is impartially considered and compared with that of Livy. By the Rev. Thomas 1752. Hunter, vicar of Garstang, in Lancashire. Reviewed in The Monthly Review. Vol. vi, p. 441. "Our author, in the second part of his work, compares Tacitus with Livy, and is equally judicious in the commendations he bestows on the latter, as he is in the censure which he passes on the former."

II. The Character of Lord Bolingbroke. 1770. "Hunter sent me his View of Lord Bolingbroke's character. He is a good man; but, in this book, I think he has shown himself very absurd and indiscreet. Absurd in a florid declamation; and indiscreet, as well as very injudicious, in the most extravagant encomium of Bolingbroke's parts that ever was; even to say, p. 323, he reasoned with the pride of a superior spirit, and I had almost said (says he) with the faculties of an angel." (Warburton's Letters to Hurd. cciv.)

III. Moral Discourses on Providence and other im

too

portant subjects. 1774. "The critical reader will observe a small inaccuracy in this extract, viz., was two or three times, instead of were, the past time indicative, instead of the present subjunctive. Why do classical scholars subject themselves to the remark, often justly made, that they do not understand, or at least attend to, the principles of the English Grammar? We bear testimony to the learning and ingenuity of this writer with particular pleasure, as we are informed that he is a gentleman of respectable character; that he has been afflicted many years with blindness; that under this affliction he has employed himself in educating pupils; and that this publication is intended to assist him in the first and most indispensable office of charity