The History and Antiquities of Morley, in the West Riding of ... York. With ... illustrations

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THE HISTORY OF MORLEY. i H.A.aiaid jjc Erom Fhc to graph by Biaithwaite . Leeds. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF MORLEY, In tljc Œrst Kioing of the Countg of govk. 11727/ UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDBED ILLUSTRATIONS. i.\ WI-LLI-AM SMITH, F.S.A..8., author of "adventures with my alpen-stock and carpet-bag : OR A three WEEKS' TRIP TO FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND;" "A YORKSHIREMAN's TRIP TO ROME;" ''RAMBLES ABOUT MORLEY ;" "THE CHRONICLES OF MORLEY;" ETC, ETC. LONDON : LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. 1 8 7 G . [ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.] MORLEY : PRINTED BY S. STEAD, "OBSERVER" OFFICE, COMMERCIAL STREET. TO SIR TITUS SALT, BART., J.P., D.L i OF SALTAIRE AND CROW NEST. Dear Sir, Allow me to thank you most sincerely for the permission, so politely and readily granted, to dedicate to you this humble attempt to make the inhabitants of Morley better acquainted with their ancestors and the history of the place in which, by the order of Providence, they first saw the light.

Al VI DEDICATION. I esteem it a high gratification to be permitted to dedicate this work to you, a native of Morley, not more noble by tbe rank into which our Sovereign has raised you, and by your social position, than by the virtues with which you adorn the station in which yon are placed. Your benevolence and kindness are virtues of the highest order, in as much as they are both liberal, diffusive, and universal. Not narrowed by party prejudice, nor bounded by the limits of party connection or local circumstances, your generosity has scarcely known any bounds, but purified, strengthened, and animated by Christian principle, it has been steady, uniform, and persevering. Of your public career it may with truth be said, that your eloquence has been more that of deeds than one of words. While others have spent a lifetime in endeavouring to define benevolence, you have studied the practice of it; and like your Divine Master, whose example you have copied, you have gone about "continually doing good."

During a long and laborious life, you have rendered noble services to the cause of humanity, of social progress, and of religion. To furnish employment for thousands of your countrymen ; to supply the pressing needs of the really indigent and necessitous ; to assuage the sorrows of poverty overtaken by sickness or cast down by misfortune ; " to smooth the furrowed cheek, and make the winter of age wear the aspect of spring;" to be a father to the helpless orphan; to relieve the distress and yet spare the blushes of those who have known better days ; to help the cause of religion when struggling with worldly difficulties; these have been your employment — these the objects of your beneficence — these the offices of mercy in which you have delighted. As a tribute of respect, for your public spirit and services, this Work is dedicated to you, by Your Obliged and Humble Servant, WILLIAM SMITH. Morley, June 1st, 1876.