56 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TITUS WHEATCROFT. 



SjC ^ year, which money was raised by subscription for the 

 3 first years. 



"In the year 1707, June 29, Mr. Obadiah Bourne began to 

 preach in this Church of Ashover. His text was i John v. 3. 



"On June 22, being y" Wakes Sunday, my sister Hester came 

 from London and staid with me. Likewise Unckle Samuel's 

 daughter, Ann, and her husband came with Hester, but they 

 went on the 9 of September and took cuz. Samuel's daughter, 

 Ann, with them. 



" March 20, sister Hester made the new surplis for Mr. Bourne. 

 She had 5"- for making it, and I had the old one, April the 

 i6"'' 1708. My father made this in 1662. 



"Hester went up to London, May 31, 1708, and was wed 

 to cousin Matthew Hawley, May 28, two days before she went 

 up. 



"June 10, 1708, being the Visitation at Chesterfield, there 

 I light on a young woman who came to the Visitation to be 

 confirmed by the Bishop, called Anne Bowne, at which time 

 I fell in love with her, and courted her till Michaelmas, and 

 we were three severall Lord's days or hollidays published both 

 in Matlock Church and Ashover Church, and nothing was 

 objected against us, but that we might lawfully proceed to 

 marriage, the which wee did, being Oct. 7, 1708. 



" It pleased God that my wife conceived by me, and had a very 

 sore labour, and on Wednesday, the 29 June, 1709, she was 

 brought to bed of a daughter, and it was baptized on the 30 July, 

 and I called her name Hannah. 



" Nov. 5, 1712, came 2 singing masters to our town of Ashover : 

 one was called Richard Atkins, and the other Joseph Wright. 

 They came from Wigson in Leicestershire. They taught halfe 

 a yeare and had above 50 schollers. 



"March 4, 17 12, my daughter Martha was borne, and baptized 

 April 6, 17 13. Her godfathers were brother Henry Bowne and 

 Richard Atkin [evidently the singing master], and the godmothers, 

 Anne Botham and Mary Yates. 



"In the year 1714, April 11, Mrs. Anne Hodgkinson, of 



