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And this priest Lowry was suddenly stricken, and had all the use 

 of one side of his tongue, and his understanding much taken from 

 him, and so he continued a long time. The said Hugh Tickell 

 patiently bore all his sufferings, and wiUingly endured these for 

 the testimony of Jesus and for a good conscience. But in his last 

 imprisonment he contracted a distemper of body which, increasing 

 upon him after he came home, he grew weak, but continued in 

 great patience, ' set his house in order,' and died." 



The registers of the Society of Friends contain no account of 

 his death. In Besse's " Sufferings of the People called Quakers," 

 quoted by Mr. R. S. Ferguson, F.S.A., in his appendix to his 

 notice of " Early Cumberland and Westmorland Friends," he gives 

 the date of Hugh Tickell's second imprisonment 1682, and the 

 printed account of him, Thomas Laythes, and others, was pub- 

 lished, according to Smith's Catalogue, in 1690, so that must be 

 the latest date we can assign as that of his decease. The account 

 says that he was buried at Portinscale, but the old meeting-house 

 graveyard at High Hill would be the place of his interment, being 

 the nearest burial place for that body, to Portinscale. 



On the 27th February, 1685, the properties called the "Quakers' 

 Charities," in this parish, were in part conveyed by Hugh Tickell 

 to trustees, two-thirds of the property to go the County Charity, 

 and one-third to the parish of Crosthwaite. And on the same day 

 he devised by will certain fields to the same trustees, with reserva- 

 tion in each case for his own life and the life of his wife Dorothy. 

 A complete division, with a partial exchange, of the two properties 

 was made in 1769. 



The property held for the county includes the farm at Millbeck 

 long tenanted by Mr. Stamper's family, and School House Orchard 

 at High Hill, upon a portion of which the Crosthwaite Sunday 

 School is built. The old meeting house at High Hill, now con- 

 verted into two cottages, with the burial ground close by, still belongs 

 to the Quakers' Charity. The portion of the charity given to the 

 parish of Crosthwaite is distributed at Easter by Mr. Charles 

 Christopherson, Mr. Joseph Wren, Mr. Joseph Hall, and Mr. 

 William Mayson. 



