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the tourists during the season. His restoration of the parish 

 church, at a cost of over _;^4,ooo, is a lasting monument to his 

 memory. His advocacy of the Church Missionary Society, the 

 Bible Society, and the Society for Propagating Christianity 

 amongst the Jews was effective, and he frequently accompanied 

 the deputation to other towns to assist in the work. He was a 

 supporter of many other similar societies, but he founded branches 

 of those I have named in Keswick, which still flourish. His 

 memory is cherished in the hearts of all who were so happy as to 

 come within his influence ; and the result of his life-long labours 

 in the cause of religion and education will remain for generations 

 to come. 



The name of Tickell is also among the earliest of the dalesmen, 

 and although of German origin, the family was settled in Cumber- 

 land before the colony of German miners. 



Of this family was Hugh Tickell, a Quaker, who was distinguished 

 for his zeal as a preacher, and for the sufferings he underwent for 

 his religious convictions. The following notice of him is extracted 

 from a tract published by Dorothy Tickell, his widow. 



"Hugh Tickell was 'convinced' in 1653, when George Fox 

 first came into Cumberland, and he gave up his house for meet- 

 ings. And in time the Lord blessed him in both ' spirituals and 

 temporals,' and he became a minister of the Society, and in that 

 capacity he travelled in Scotland, the west of England, and other 

 places. He suffered much for his 'testimony,' both in the spoiling 

 of his goods and imprisonment of his body for tithes ; as in the 

 year 1664, he and four friends more were cast into Carlisle gaol by 

 Henry Marshall, priest of Crosthwaite : though he kept him in 

 prison about three years, yet he took tithe of his land. But after- 

 wards this priest Marshall fell down a pair of stairs, and broke his 

 skull, upon which he died. He was afterwards imprisoned in the 

 same gaol in his old age (being about sixty-eight years old) by 

 Richard Lowry, another priest of the said Crosthwaite, because he 

 would not pay him tithes ; who kept him in prison about nine 

 months, part of it in cold winter, and in a cold nasty place, not fit 

 for honest men to lie in, till Providence ordered his enlargement. 



