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first page is embellished by a woodcut, " Joe's Cottage, from a 

 drawing taken on the spot," from the hands of that prince of 

 local illustration, Mr. Orlando Jewitt. The Httle pamphlet is 

 rare, the only copy known to the writer belonging to Mr. T. H. 

 Godbehere, cashier at Messrs. W. G. & J. Strutl's. 



Mr. Ogle was succeeded by Mr. Rosewarne, who originally came 

 from Wirksvvorth. Mr. Rosewarne was a teacher in the Wesleyan 

 Sunday school, ami had a weakness for toffee. It was his duty to 

 take away the toffee from the Sunday school scholars when in class, 

 which duty he carried out faithfully, but his fatal taste often pre- 

 vented him in carrying out his duty as faithfully in returning it 

 at the close of school. In 1836, he printed the Miner's Arith- 

 metic, issued at the price of sixpence. In size it is 12 mo., and 

 somewhat insignificant in appearance ; it was probably the result 

 of his acquaintance with the mining district of Wirksworth. 

 About the same time Mr. Rosewarne printed a pamphlet, 

 " Important to Young People | An | Interesting and authentic 

 account | of | Henry Shooter | a Young Surgeon | lately residing 

 in Belper Derbyshire | who committed | Parricide and Suicide | 

 on September 7th 1830 | at Sutton in Ashfield | near Mansfield | 

 in the county of Nottingham | Belper : | Printed and Published 

 by J. Rosewarne, Bridge Street | Price Threepence." It is 

 twenty-four pag^^s octavo, in addition to a blue paper cover. 

 The copy owned by the writer bears the autograph " Dr. Dolman, 

 Derby." In 1838, he also published a volume entitled, " Short 

 Poems 1 on | various Religious Subjects | by | the Rev. B. 

 Gregory | Wesleyan Minister | Belper : | Printed for the Author 

 1 by J. Rosewarne, Bridge Street | 1838." The book is i2mo., 

 of one hundred pages, and contains a well-executed portrait of 

 the author by Mr. C. J. WiUiams, of Derby. The author, a son 

 of whom became a president of the Wesleyan Conference in 

 recent years, was a somewhat eccentric man. On one occasion 

 after giving out his text, he paused long with hesitation, and at 

 last exclaimed, " It won't go, and I can't make it go." He 

 resided in the neighbourhood of Field Head. The poems, 

 which Mr. Gregory avows in his preface to be the mere recrea- 



