| Description | In three different hands, not one of them that of Mr Gasquoine.
(i) Short biography of Dr John Walker, author of "An Account of the Sufferings ....." (1714).
Extract from Oliver's Eccl. Antiqs., ii,54.
(ii)Extract from the Lords' Journals (V,666-667) under date 23 March, 1642-1643, regarding the delinquency and imprisonment of Dr. Richard Marsh, Vicar of Halifax.
(iii) Transcript of a letter (dated 22 August, 1705) sent to Robert Clavell, Walker's Publisher, from Rev. George Ogden, M.A., about the sufferings of three Anglican clergymen. Now catalogued in the Bodleian as MS. J.Walker, C.l, fol.277.
(iv) Transcript of a letter from Thomas Armetriding of Leyland about the persecution of a previous vicar of the place (William Rothwell). (MS. J.Walker, C.3,fol.248).
(v-viii) Papers relating to the sufferings of Christopher Hindle, vicar of Ribchester. Nos.Vii & Viii contain evidence that the Puritan powers were not indisposed to do justice to Hindle as regards arrears of "fifths". (MS. J. Walker, C.3,ff.6 et seq.)
(ix)Extract from the "Manchester Courier" (July 9, 1875), written by a J.E.Bailey, giving more information about the hard lot of Christopher Hindle. |