another person of the sir-name of Wheelwright, who shall be invested with, and entitled unto, the same powers, profits, and privileges, as the said John Wheelwright is by this Will, in all respects whatsoever. And I do also order, that upon the deaths of the other two Trustees, Ely Dyson and Abraham Thomas, the survivor of them, and the said John Wheelwright, or his heir male, or such other person of the name of Wheelwright as shall be appointed as aforesaid, do and shall elect and appoint other Trustees, whom I desire may be honest, able, and faithful persons, living in the tenements wherein the said Ely Dyson and Abraham Thomas now dwell, in case there be any such, and for default of such, the two surviving Trustees to choose such other person and persons as they shall think fit to be Trustees from time to time, as often as occasion shall require. Item, I hereby order, will, and declare, that in case of any neglect or defaults happening by my said Trustees, or their successors, to be elected as aforesaid, in not making of such elections of Trustees as aforesaid, or in the not duly performing the several trusts hereby in them reposed, or the non-payment of any of the bequests and charges hereby made by me upon my said estates, or any misapplication thereof, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this my Will, that then, and upon any such complaint made, and not otherwise, I do hereby authorise and impower the Archbishop of York, for the time being, to enquire into, and rectify all and every such abuse or default, and to put the same again upon the footing hereby intended, but without further power to intermeddle therein. Item, I do hereby will, order, and appoint, that the clear yearly sum of one hundred pounds per annum shall be, from time to time, paid out of my said estate, to such person and persons who shall more immediately be concerned in the managing and looking after the several trusts aforesaid, the said sum to be paid at four equal quarterly payments in every year. And I do hereby appoint the said John Wheelwright, during his natural life, to manage and look after the same; and after the death of the said John Wheelwright, it is my mind that the said other Trustees shall choose the son of the said John Wheelwright to manage the several trusts aforesaid, and after his decease, shall choose of the issue male of the body of the said John Wheelwright, and for default of such issue,

shall choose and elect another person of the sirname of Wheelwright, to manage and look after the trust aforesaid. And my will is, that all my estate, both real and personal, shall be chargeable with, and subject to, the several uses, trusts, legacies, devices, and charges, herein before mentioned; and whatsoever surplus may arise out of and from my said real and personal estate, over and above the discharge of the several trusts, legacies, orders, directions, and devices aforesaid, the same shall go and be applied by my said Trustees to the purchasing of lands. And it is my will, that the profits thereof shall always be applied to and for the better maintenance and support of the said twenty children, or to the enlarging of the number of scholars there, or for the sending of more of them to the University, as the said augmentation may allow of, in such manner as my said Trustees shall think fit. And I also hereby will and desire, that constant prayers may be read in the said Schools every morning and evening, by the Masters thereof, and that the said children be religiously and virtuously brought up and educated, according to the Doctrine of the Church of England as by Law established. Item, I will, and hereby order, that my said Executor and Trustees, or any of them, shall not demise or grant any part of my several estates, for any term or terms exceeding twenty-one years, nor shall they, or any of them, receive any greater or other rents upon any such lease or demise, than the same are now actually rented at, or let for."

John Wheelwright, above-named, was appointed sole Executor of this Will.

The above extract was made from a copy of the Will, lent by one of the Trustees.

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STANSFIELD.

For John Greenwood's Benefaction to the poor of Stansfield, see under Heptonstall.

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EXTRACT FROM THE

WILL OF MARY HUTTON, of Pudsay,

Dated July 26, 1720.

GIVE and devise to Robert Milnes, of Wakefield,

-"I William Lupton, of the same place, Robert Holds

worth, of Fetherston parish, Jonathan Priestley, of Winteredge, in Hipperholm, Richard Northorp, of Kirkheaton parish, Anthony Rhodes, of Barnsley, and Joseph Armitage, of Heckmondwike, and their heirs and assigns, all and singular my tenements situate at Horton, Bowling, or either of them, in the tenures or occupations of William Booth and John Thornton, or their respective assigns, but upon special trust and confidence nevertheless, that my said Trustees shall, at all times after my decease, receive and take the rents, issues, and profits of the same so to them devised premises, and having thereout first deducted such sums of money as they, or any of them, shall have respectively disbursed in or about the reparation or improvement of the said to them devised premises, or otherwise touching the same, or in or about the execution or defence of the trusts thereby to them reposed, or any of such trusts, or the title of the said to them devised premises, or any part thereof, shall yearly, and every year, pay over the clear remainder of such rents and profits, after such deductions as aforesaid, to such Preaching Protestant Dissenting Ministers as are herein above described, (i. e.) of the Presbyterian or Congregational Persuasion,) who shall be respectively the settled Preachers or Teachers at the several and respective Chapels or Meeting-houses now used, and duly recorded, at the General or Quarter Sessions, as places of Religious Worship hereinafter mentioned, (then follows the names, &c. of seven Chapels, amongst which is Eastwood Chapel, in the township of Stansfield, and parish of Halifax,) and their respective successors, who shall respectively reside every of them within the parish in which such Chapel or Meeting-house, at which he shall so officiate as Preacher or Teacher, is situate, to and for the benefit, better maintenance and support of such Preachers or Teachers, and their respective successors as aforesaid, and equally to be divided amongst them, share and share alike. Provided always,

and my will and mind is, that in case the said seven Chapels or Meeting-houses last mentioned, or any of them, shall cease to be made use of as places of Religious Worship by Protestant Dissenters from the Church of England, having such Teachers and Preachers as aforesaid, by the space of four years, either through the restraint and prohibition of the Civil Government, or otherwise, that then, from and immediately after such discontinuance of Religious Worship there, my said Trustees, their heirs and assigns, upon request, and at the proper costs of such person and persons as, at the time of such discontinuance of Religious Worship there, shall be or shall have last been Teacher or Teachers, or Preacher or Preachers, at such of the said seven Chapels or Meeting-houses last mentioned as aforesaid, where such discontinuance of Religious Worship shall be, or of the respective heirs of such Preacher or Preachers, Teacher or Teachers, in case such discontinuance of Religious Worship as aforesaid, shall be at the same seven Chapels or Meetinghouses, shall convey over all the same tenements, so to my said Trustees devised, to the use and behoof of such seven Preachers or Teachers last mentioned, and their heirs, equally to be divided amongst them as tenants in common and not as joint tenants; and in case such discontinuance of Religious Service as aforesaid shall have been only at some or one of such Chapels or Meeting-houses last mentioned, then that my said Trustees shall so convey over one undivided seventh part of the same tenements so to them devised as aforesaid, to every such Preachers or Teachers of such of the said Chapels or Meeting-houses last mentioned, where such discontinuance of Religious Worship shall have so been, and his heirs, and to his and their use and uses, and to every of such Preachers or Teachers last mentioned, his Executors, or Administrators, my said Trustees shall pay over one full seventh part of the whole in seven equal parts to be divided, of the clear rents and profits of the said tenements last mentioned, which shall be or have been by my said Trustees received and raised from and after such discontinuance of Religious Worship at the said Chapels or Meeting-houses last mentioned."

On the decease of four Trustees, the survivors are, within three calender months, to choose four honest able persons,

Protestant Dissenters from the Church of England as now by law established, and so on from time to time.

CROSTONE CHAPEL.

There is 10s. paid annually to the Curate of this Chapel, for preaching a Sermon yearly in the said Chapel, on Whitsunday, from a farm in Harley-wood, in Stansfield, called the Jumps.

The inhabitants of Stansfield and Langfield, as it is said, did at the first building of this Chapel, charge their estates therein with the annual payment of twenty pounds to the Curate, which, as appears from an old Chapel rental, was paid in 1572, and is continued to this day.

SKIRCOAT.

The first School-master here was one Richard Wilkinson, whose presentation, (as preserved in the Register Book at Halifax Church, vol. ii.) was in the following words:

"Reverendissimo in Christo Patri ac Domino, Domino Mattheo, Archiepiscopo Eborum, Anglie Primati et Metropolitano, vestri humiles filii, Gubernatores possessionum, revenconum, et bonorum, Libere Grammaticalis Schole Domine Regine Elizabethe, in parochia et vicariatu de Halifax, in Com. Ebor. vestreque Ebor. dieces. salutem in Domino sempiternam. Ad Scholam Grammaticalem predictam, jam vacantem, Richardum Wilkinson, in Artibus Baccalaureum, per nos electum ad officium Magistri informatoris ejusdem Schole, Dominationi vestri presentamus, humiliter rogantes, ut predictum Richardum in Magistrum informatorem Schole predicte admittatis, ceteraque omnia et singula perficere et perimplere que vestro in hac parte incumbunt officio pastorali velitis cum favore. Datum apud Bradley, in vicariatu predicto, vicesimo nono die Augusti, anno predicte Domine nostre Elizabethe, Dei gratia, Anglie, Francie, et Hibernie Regine, Fidei Defensoris, quadragesimo secundo. In cujus rei testimonium, Sigillum nostrum commune apposuimus, die et anno supradictis."