Memories of half a century

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THE GIFT OF

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An old writer, whose manly sentiments and vigorous style of expressing them have ever commanded the respect of Englishmen, devotes many pages to set forth the advantages of a man's writing memoirs of himself.^ The advantage is to accrue from the reflex action of the practice on a man's own life and character. He will trace the effect of the passing events wherein he has been an actor, the conclusions he has deduced, the mistakes he has made, their disturbing effect on his mental peace, and the determinations deduced therefrom as to his future actions and line of conduct. Thus '' the story of our lives from year to year" becomes to the chronicler a useful and instructive monitor and pioneer.

It is evident that such memoirs would be intended in the first instance for the writer himself alone. He would never intend to blazon to the world the workings of his own heart and the experiences of his daily life.

In process of time such memoirs would become

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unconsciously less personal and more historic. The writer would extend his area, and his remarks would become more descriptions and less of the character of reflections, whilst all would radiate from the life and the doings of the writer himself, or the personages who have figured in the drama in which he has played his part.

Perhaps no literature is so rich in this species of compositions as the French. The memoirs may have been compiled in the first instance without any view to publication : yet published they have been ; and have been generally devoured with avidity. In process of time such memoirs and diaries have become the sole records of the events of the period, and the dramatist, the poet and the historian have found these sketches — in the first instance so apparently fugitive — the sole authorities whereon to build their respective structures. Such would be Sully's memoirs and numbers of others, which have ever found eager readers. Even books of an apparently much more fragile conception, such as Un Voyage autour de ma Chambre and TJn Philosophe sous les Toils, have been read with avidity.

Later in time, and perhaps suggested by the example of the French, our own language has become enriched by memoirs and diaries of an autobiographic character. The memoirs of Lucy Hutchinson have become an authority on points connected with our Civil War ; Pepys's diary is well known, and that of Madame D'Arblay is as attractive to the reader now as when first published. It

PREFACE. IX would seem as if the appetite "has increased by what it fed upon," for the taste for biographical reading in every form has been intensified in the last half-century. To gratify this taste writers have turned attention ; bishops and statesmen and travellers and poets and self-made men risen from the ranks, have found some friend or admirer to chronicle their lives and its interesting passages, if there were any, even if they have not been themselves their own portrayers. In some cases, perhaps, the expected interest in the proposed memoir has been exaggerated, the volume has fallen flat ; but even then the failure may be accounted for : the life has been deficient in incident, circumscribed in operation, or drearily told. But these are the exception. The effect in the main has been for individual, and so for the national, good. How many thousands of youths have been benefited by the Life of Arnold; how many Churchmen have read with thrilling interest such biographies as those of Hook, Pusey, Stanley, and perhaps few books during the last half-century have been more welcomed than the autobiography of Lord Roberts ; the hero being himself the narrator intensifies the fascination of the volumes.

The same remark applies to works of fiction : these attract in proportion as the incidents are varied, startling or novel, and set forth with a power of description that rivets attention. But when it transpires that the volumes are mainly personal — as in some of Dickens's — the incidents real, the scenes well-known and capable of being

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verified by numbers still living, to the general reader there is created an additional attraction. It is with that impression that the following pages have been written.

The writer has been no man of great mark, no daring traveller with thrilling adventures by flood and field ; he has not served his country as a valiant soldier or sailor, nor has he as a statesman commanded the applause of listening senates, nor heaped up piles upon piles as a millionaire. Judged by these standards he has no cause to bid his fellow-men to lend him their ears. And yet, in spite of these disqualifications, he is venturing so to do. Passing half a century in active clerical and educational life, he has in that period mixed with all sorts and conditions of men, has had his eyes open, and witnessed not a few interesting episodes, and known not a few of his fellow-men of greater mark than himself Now that he has long passed the limit of life assigned by the Psalmist, and is debarred by many infirmities from the active life hitherto alike congenial and habitual to him, he has had much leisure for reminiscence. As he literally has lain on his back, scenes long past of joy and pain have come wildering o'er his brain, the drama of his life has been re-enacted before his eyes, and he has endeavoured to arrest some of the fleeting images and impress them permanently on his canvas.

On skimming over the tables of contents a cursory observer might consider the book to be mainly a series of biographical sketches, many of them of

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persons of little note, and perhaps long forgotten. That, it is submitted, would not be a fair construction. Every individual described or referred to was the centre of a circle of influence, in manycases not inconsiderable ; their lives were not without effect on their fellow-men ; there are those who remember them still ; some are still living ; thus hundreds will peruse, not without interest, these reminiscences of those early days. And even if that be not the case, that brain must be very obtuse, and that taste very perverted, that can read the record of a single life with indifference : surely an aggregate of such lives should present some attraction to every taste.

In some cases it has been thought expedient to disguise the name. A record, to be worth anything, should be true, but the statement even of truth may in some conceivable cases cause pain or annoyance. The biographer is then going too far. He may narrate what he feels to be truth and essential to give point to his narrative, but he may not give pain.

Part of the writer's original plan was to append several chapters of incidents of foreign travel. Having travelled with his knapsack leisurely in many spots where Smith, Jones and Robinson usually pay only flying visits and gather little to record, it seemed that notes, made by one who sought for information and observed carefully, might prove alike entertaining and instructive. The more primitive modes of travelling before railways intersected the continent, the battle-fields of the Franco-

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German War, the passes of the Alps, and spots in Eastern Switzerland not often visited, would have provided abundant material. But they would have extended the volume to undue dimensions, and would have needed many maps and diagrams. This part of the author's plan has been abandoned, and several illustrations which might perhaps have embellished the book. Still, he hopes that his various sketches will afford not a little interest to friends scattered far and wide, whom he may never see again, and long after he himself has been called away.

WiGHILL ViCABAaE,

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BOOK L— INTRODUCTORY.

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Chapter I. — The writer's father's struggles— Boyhood— Father tries to give

his sons better opportunities 3

Chapter IL — Life in a country vicarage — Some particulars about the vicar — His labours, educational and clerical — Living sold — Purchasers described, intending and actual 5

Chapter III. — Westoning life continued — Two breaches of discipline — Pearse's stateliness — Parish described — Former low moral tone — Anti-nomianism — Early marriages — Starvation in vnnter — School built — Church restored — Some pupils described — My friend Church— St. Mary Hall chosen — Why? — Journey thereto — "Ad Eundem" coach — Griffin Fletcher, stories of 8

BOOK IL— LIFE IN OXFORD.

Chapter IV.— Halls in Oxford— Each peculiar — Magdalene Hall— Elderly and married men — St. Alban Hall — Mostly empty — St. Mary Hall (Skimmery) — Its buUdings described — New Inn (the Tavern) 17

Chapter V. — Principals of SL Mary Hall — King, his epitaph — Nowell— Pett, tutor to Canning — Deane — Style of his men — Hunting — No lectures — His Toryism — Opponent of Examinations — Hampden — Alters tone — Goes to Christ Church — Excitement against him — Hayward Cox, Vice- Principal — Kindness to writer — Hampden made Bishop — Bliss, the Registrar — Chase — His discipline — Alters the whole tone — His heroic enorts ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ^x

Chapter VI. — Some of "Ours" — Sinclair, first President of the Union — Jackson, Bishop Blomfield's right-hand — The Binghams, two wealthy brothers — Lumley, the "Captain" — His previous history — His musical party — Next day's amends — Lascelles — Conduct of father — Of mother — Boy left penniless — Cox's care of him — Bachelor uncle — Word pluck explained — Goes on Continent — His end 31

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Chapter VII.— More of " Ours "— Waterfield— His oddities— Explanation of them- His isolated life in Oxford— His elder brother's history and death — Waterfield gives up clerical life and farms — Hitchin another oddity — His delusions — His examination — His disappearance — Dutchman tries for an exhibition— Entered by Cox — Kind help by Bliss — His pranks — The two deaf men — Waterfield and a walk — Hitchin in chapel — Meeting the proctor — His financial pressure — Usurer cut out — His success ... 38

Chapter VIII. — More of "Ours" — Montesquieu — His bounce — Fails in examination — Orator — Actor — Popular preacher — His receptions — Divorce — 'Finale^Wilberforce — His person — Habits — Disney — The rider — His examination — Family living — Druce — The impenetrable — Femie — The man of the turf — Convivial habits — 5th of November row — A stowaway — Fernie disappears — Philipson — To be pitied — Would not get up — Fails in examinations — His fall — William Charsley — Blinded by an accident — Leaves Oxford but returns — His great strength of mind — Uniform cheerfulness — Takes his degree— Offered a chaplaincy — His marriage — Founds a Hall — Retires 48

Chapter IX. — More of "Ours" — Adam Storey Farrar — His parentage — Early training — His historical knowledge — Honours — Fellow of Queen's — Great coach — Bampton Lecturer — Professor in Durham University — His munificence — Wharton — The law coach — Democrat then Tory — Not a successful advocate— Case at Carlisle — Kirkpatrick — Becomes scholar of Lincoln — Studies on the Continent — Disappointed in Oxford and in after life — Lives and dies in Scotland — Hedges, the porter — The perquisite system — Collision with the portly dame — His readiness in reply — Close of the Hall 59

Ohapter X. — Oxford celebrities in my time — Newman — The real author of the movement — His appearance — Origin of that school — Newman's preaching — Retirement at Littlemore — Pusey — Sermon after suspension — His appearance and habits — Main features of his school — Not a Ritualist 67

Ohapter XI. — Jelf, the Proctor — His previous history — Proctor's office described — Variously performed — Jelf's ubiquity — Victimised — The mailguard — The cab — Commemoration described — Degree-giving — " The boys " and their fun — Jelf s commemoration and the uproar — Jelf s love affair 72

Chapter XIL — Routh of Magdalene, described in Burgon's book — His appearance — Bibliomania — Mrs. Routh — Story of the mendicant — Dr. Wynter suspender of Pusey — Not made a bishop — A Tory of the old school — Dr. Bull the pluralist — The hotel dinner — Symons — Warden of Wadham — Hated by the Tractarians — His imputed uxoriousness — An artful dodger Penurious in his old age — His ride to Littlemore 79

Chapter XIII.— Sewell of Exeter— "The shadow of a cloud "—His private party — Jacobson — Passed over as head and why ? — Failure at Radley — Liddell— Tlie lexicon— Hard student— Reserved— Various offices— Said

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to have declined a mitre — Statue in his lifetime — Gaisford — Dean and professor — His sermon — Loss of his son — Two other specimens of pulpit utterances 86

Chapter XIV. — Jenkyns, Master of Balliol — He throws open scholarships and fellowships — Yellow belly — A man's appeal to postpone his examination — Successful — his anti-boating attack — The uppish man — Jowett — His early successes — Able college tutor — Not made master at first vacancy — His hard work — Story of his garden 93

Chapter XV. — A few additional celebrities — Sacheverell Johnson — A reformer — Tone of Queen's Scholars and Fellows — His sarcasm in lecture — The pretended aeger — University Commission — Arthur Stanley — Biographer of Arnold — His earnestness — His popularity — Edwin Arnold — His eccentric club — Recites his Newdigate — Writes for the Daily Telegraph — His reputation — Osborne Morgan — Imaginative — His inventions about the Welsh Chxirch — Lord DuflFerin — His delicacy — His munificence — The Irish famine — His letters in The Tirnes — Public appointments — Universal respect — Charles Parker — His academic position — Becomes M.P. — Does not equal expectations — Story of him as volunteer — Retires to private life — Edward Hayes Plumptre — The pioneer of university reform— He prosecutes his brother fellows —Promoted very tardily — Thorold Rogers — Great memory — High Church clergyman — Then Radical M.P. — Is disappointed — Goulburn — College tutor — Parish clergyman — Head of Rugby — Dean of Norwich — Writer 101

Chapter XVI. — Changes in Oxford — A student's day fifty years ago described — Breakfast — Lectures — Afternoon recreation — All changed — Cavalry disappeared — Cycling — Breakfast parties — Class of men formerly frequenting Oxford — Now the well-to-do middle class — Clerical element reduced— Effect on the learning of the Church— Chalmers's remark — Change in dress — Incessant examinations — Apparent decadence of honour — Two instances to the contrary 113

Chapter XVII.— Feelings of an old Oxford man towards Oxford 122

Book Iii.— Life In Liverpool

Chapter XVIIL— Retrospect up to graduating— Get a mastership in Liverpool — Origin of the Collegiate Institution— Its arrangements 127

Chapter XIX.— Conybeare— The first Principal— Theories to be tried— Hamiltonian system— Punishment— Prank played— His health— Authorship — Epitaph — Howson succeeds — His ubiquitousness — His choice of staff— Gets rid of the debt— Dublin professor's stories— Howson' s brotherly conduct— Tries his hand with little ones— A good snubber— A Rufus— Howson as dean— Restores Chester Cathedral— Difficulties— As a writer ^^2

Chapter XX.— Some of our staff— Vice-Principal Cheetham— Poor health- Becomes chaplain at Dulwich— Archdeacon and canon— his reputation— xvi CONTENTS.

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Ellis— Fellow of Trinity— Its eflfect— Undignified treatment — A conscientious worker— Green succeeds— Becomes a master at Rugby— Hayman's unpopularity— Both withdraw— Porter— Erratic ways— A Sunday out— Our reception— The ex parte statement— His midnight journey— Becomes head of his college in Cambridge— Portrait presented 144

Chapter XXI.— Stafifcontiuued— Underwood— His sound judgment— General appreciation— Testimonial— Retires to parish life — Lawlessness of the parish — He builds house — Schools — Restores church — Parkinson of St. John's— Aids struggling men — Mayor — Peter Mason — Altered life — Underwood again an organiser — Loses wife — Friend — Sister — Part of fortune— Balls— Classical master— Hospital service — His illness and death — Kindness of medical men— The stingy man of wealth — Sattler, the German- Vittoz, the Swiss —Returns there— Has a school — The Simplon Tunnel — Song of Bernese boy — Milanese hymn — Harrison, the porter ... 152

Chapter XXII.— Out directors and friends— First the clerical — Bishop Graham — His readiness of speech — The Mackenzie mission — Meeting for it — Speeches of Graham— Wilberforce — Brougham- Graham's dislike to letters— His kind-heartedness— Liverpool Church patronage — Dual incumbencies — Proprietary churches 166

Chapter XXIII. —Archdeacon Brooks— Sportsman— Oratorio arrangements- Tone of society — St. Luke's Church— Its building — Brooks's business habits — The cemetery — Engaging a butler — The book sale — His uniform kindliness — Rector Campbell — Holds two livings — His reserved manners — Industry — Munificence — Popular at last ... ... ... ... ... 172

Chapter XXIV. — Archdeacon Jones — His success as a preacher — Attachment to him — Hugh McNeile — His early life — His natural gifts — Careful preparer — His eloquence as a preacher and speaker — Adulation — His traducers — Raises the standard of preaching — Charles Lawrence, of St. Luke's — Frederick Barker, Bishop of Sydney — James North — Stories of him and his friends — The stingy merchant — The spittoons 177

Chapter XXV. — Falloon — His great work at St. John's — His style — His success — "The poplar preacher " — Gray — Tutor to Sefton family — Then at Kirkby — His hospitality — Learning — Retirement — Drawn out by Jacobson — His courage in his duty — Two instances — His calligraphy — His promotion — Frank Geoffrey — Always in rows — A middy — A curate — A row at his ordination — His evangelising zeal — Frank in society — His marriage — The bride comes out 187

Chapter XXVI. — Some itinerancy — Al tear Church and surroundings described — The service — The former vicar— The state of the parish — Coroner's story — A charge near the Rivington Pikes — Class-leading — The service in church — The lads — Tlie Scotch engineer — Evils of itinerancy — The stranger near Paris — Droll incidents at marriages — A clerical gathering — Sydney Smith — The bore — The clerical society — Expulsion of a member — Book club — Evils of the voluntary system in churches 195

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Chapter XXVII.— Some Liverpool families— Edward Cropper's family- The Macaulays— Friends of negro emancipation— Charles Bright and the cable— Guest's story of birthday bottle— The Denmans— Justice Denman —Removal to Swaylands— Then to Rosebush, S. Wales— Investments there — Christopher Bushell — Churchman — Philanthropist— Wit— Kind host 208

Chapter XXVIII.— Foreman of the jury in the Hopwood vnll case— The case described— The judge— The counsel— Cockbiirn's brilliant management- Son's efforts for an interview with his father — Witnesses well crushed — A bishop— Sir James Graham— The result— Noble conduct of the jury afterwards — Story of one — Another cmise c^Ubre — Evan Thomas, the bone-setter — Prosecuted— Conduct of faculty— Their evidence— Coimter evidence — Great amusement — Thomas's fame — William Tarbet, merchant — Takes active part in religious matters — Becomes an Irvingite — The principles of that body described 215

Chapter XXIX.— More Liverpool friends— Edward Whitley, the lawyer- Philanthropist — His mayoralty — His quiet marriage — The pantomime — Made M.P. — A carriage got — His esteem — W. Stewart, senior, of the Customs — Story of officer and smugglers — Companion — Our deafness — Stewart, junior — His energy — His first brief — Becomes stipendiary — Hamilton Parr — Drives the mail — His sporting parson friends — Story of Jacky Russell and the clerk — His song on the stage — A sailor on the stage — Parr's last public achievement — The Liverpool Bar — Pleasant intercourse — Barrister's story of curate and bottle of port — Close of Liverpool life 222

Book Iv.— Yorkshire Memories -scholastic

Chapter XXX. — Thorparch — Origin of name — Surroundings — Moat-house — St. Helen's Well — Stories of Nevison — Final arrest — Building of the Grange — Kindly aid — Remarks on English education — Public schools — Grammar schools — Private schools — Curriculum of these latter — Their conductors — Defects of public schools — Difficulties of private schools ... 237

Chapter XXXI. — Brother Alfred as colleague — His antecedents — Our hearty co-operation — Digression as to his history — Opening in 1861 — Style of connection — French and German to the front — Efforts made to meet the demand — Our special Sunday service — Gradual appreciation — The Lancashire connection — Building extensions — Water supply — Outbreak of scarlet fever — Death of a boy — Of two children — Dispersion of the school — Noble conduct of our doctor — Cleansing of house — Job's comforters — Loyalty of parents — An earlier instance — Circular sent and boys return... 248

Chapter XXXII. — Change of curriculum — Troubles of foreign language tuition — Some experiences described — More Greek taught — Its results — Further extension of premises — Dining-hall — Cubicles — Cricket field — Organist —

Drawing — Mr. Moore — Singing master — Two adventures 256

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Chapter XXXIII. — Scholastic adventures — One by moonlight — Sunday morning pillow-fight — Another Sunday morning — A case of corporal punishment — Much regretted — Two others — A bad case of bullying detected- Two fiendish acts — The poisoned bird — The smudged drawing — A forgiving spirit 263

Chapter XXXIV. — A remarkable confession — Thieving in schools— Culprits caught in the act^Another — How the truth was extracted — Boys unwilling to peach — Subsequent history of the offender — Informed of another by letter — Another openly denounced 269

Chapter XXXV. — Further incidents— Amusements — Cricket matches — Pets of the house — Crib, the rascal — Tycho, the pious — A very eccentric parent — His proceedings with us and his family — His end — General conduct of our parents 273

Chapter XXXVI. — Some of my colleagues — A few more words about my brother — Smith — His strange history — Fisher — His subsequent advancement — Some more of my colleagues — Staub, the Swiss — His adventures en route — His successful career — Botterill — His great sensitiveness — His sterling worth — Career as a clergyman — Digression about La Grande Chartreuse — Its inmates and their mode of life — Story of their porter — Decision formed to leave Tliorparch Grange — Reasons given — Successors prove failures — Sold to the Leeds School Board 281

Chapter XXXVII. — RisumSoi educational experience — Materials of a private school — Taken to business — Generally below par physically and intellectually — Plans arranged accordingly — Sports — Matches — Clergy who take an interest therein — Remarks of foreigners — Foreign schools — their diversions — Story of English judge — Recreation must be limited — The main object was work — Our plan described to get the most progress — Instances of success — BaflSed in others — Boys of musical taste have disappointed — Story of Dr. Crotch — Have trained no M.P.'s — Treatment of some exceptional cases described — Brilliant youths mostly failures — Plodders win — Examples of both 292

Chapter XXXVIII.— The future of English education— Act of 1870— Mr. Forster's data — His objects in his Act — Both commendable — The Act not final — Future of private schools 306

BOOK v.— CLERICAL LIFE IN YORKSHIRE

Chapter XXXIX.— Description of Wighill— The church— The Stapyltons— Incident of Henley Regatta — Particulars of the Stapylton family — Fountayne Wilson — Stories of his eccentricities — The tithes of Leeds — The York family — Two stories — Mrs. Edward York — Her munificence — Former vicars of Wighill — Few services — Story of a curate — The curatage — Appointment of Dr. Jessop — His labours — Ministers to lunatics — His munificence — Story of railway porter — Jessop' s great learning lost — Snuff-taking — His son-in-law succeeds 313

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Chapter XL,— Archbishops of York— Harcourt— The poor parson at dinner — Story of French curd — Style of clergy of the period — The examinee— Hai'court and the quaker — His nepotism — Only parallel — Bishop Sparks — Musgrave — His private munificence — Longley — His antecedents — His work at Ripon — His preaching — Rewarder of merit — His munificence — Translated to York — Confirmation addresses — The unpunctual curate — Memorable charge 324

Chapter XLI. — Thomson — As tutor and provost— Curate to Wilberforce — As a writer — His Bampton Lectures — His career in York — The Archbishop of society — The Great Me — Great sermons — Confirmation addresses — The people's archbishop — His intoning — His case before the Queen's Bench — Fishing — The inn -keeper — His laboriousness — His mode of patronage criticised — Treatment of old friends — contrasted with Lloyd and Stanley — Magee succeeds — his previous fame as a preacher — His episcopate at Peterborough — Origin of advowsons — Magee's efforts against their sale — One case adroitly frustrated — His generosity — Short tenure of York 333

Chapter XLIL — More dignitaries — Jacobson at Chester — Story of a porter — His relations to his clergy — Atlay — Vicar of Leeds — Bishop of Hereford — Interview of complaining clergy — Ryan — In Liverpool — Church built for him — Bishop of the Mauritius — Vicar of Bradford — Travelling habits — Archdeacons Creyke, Jones, Hey, Yeoman, remarks on each — Bishop Crosthwaite — His earnest work and its appreciation — Dean Purey-Cust — Canon Jackson of Leeds — His history — His weight — His funeral — The revival of the Church— Hook — Sinclair— Story of the banker — The Mayor 344

Chapter XLIII, — Our village— The Park — The Montagu family — First tenants — The Yorks — The Hawke family— Admiral Hawke— The late lord — His history — Love of French— Buried in Wighill— His brother, Captain Hawke — Account of — Our diminishing population — Do. in France — Accounted for — Few cottages — Revival of peasant proprietors — One family of long standing — An eccentric parishioner — Stories of him — The parish clerk — Origin of — Stories of " Ours " — Marriage of his son — Strong language — Thefts — Confirmation dinner — Effect of their isolation on the tone — Siirgeon's story — Fxirther account of the clerk 357

Chapter XLIV.— Our village continued — Its Methodism — How it arose— Supplementary — Choice of site— Church Methodists— Cordial relations- Extravagances — Loss of parish registers— How it arose— Odd discovery of a lost benefaction — Beating of bounds— Why discontinued — Reference to some now passed away ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ■•- 371

Chapter XLV.— Our neighbours— Some laymen— A hunting neighbourhood — Sport links all classes— The mixture described— Efi'ect on national character — Mostly now by subscription— Hunting ought to be by licence —Remarks— Bramham Moor— Master G. L. Fox described— Sketch of his life— His funeral— Earl of Harewood— Sir W. Worsley— J. L. Wharton

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— The Fairfax family — Connection with the Stapyltons — Estate sold — Some munificent men in Chm-ch matters — Sir T. Sykes — Lord Downe — Darwin — Fielden — Brooksbank 378

Chapter XL VI. — Our neighbours— Some clergy — Archdeacon Yeoman — Stories of Sydney Smith — Awful Thomas — The smiler in church — The mal-d-propos vicar — Stories of him — Of Mr. Gaisford — His learning — Protestantism — His Sunday service — Sermons — Story of his marriage — Trespassing and summons — His nocturnal rambles — His last days . . . 388

Chapter XL VII. — More neighbouring clergy — Mr. Peacopp — Shy — Retiring — Scholarly — Dr. Geldart — Ever the kind friend to the writer — Charles Page Eden — Successor to Newman in Oxford — Newman's preaching — Mr. Landon — Eden's clerical meetings — Story of Hartwell Home — Sporting parsons — Rector of Newton Kyme — Shropshire rector — Wilton — The Northumbrian rector — His rides to church — Latin epitaph — Ick alias Brodrick, in search of a university 396

Chapter XLVIII. — A few general reminiscences — The first parliamentary election in Leeds after the Reform Act of 1832 — The war cries — The process of election — Opening of the first Yorkshire railway — Carriages described — First third-class train — State of primary education — Service in cathedrals — Advance of missionary enterprise — Conclusion 405