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solicitor. He served his articles with Mr. Grimshawe, in York- 
shire street. This Mr. Grimshawe was one of the family of 
Grimshawes, resident at Fulledge; another member of the family 
was a surgeon. His surgery was where the Burnley Advertiser 
office was fora long time. It is recorded of him that before his 
death he directed that all his books should be burnt, so that 
none of his patients should be compelled to pay their debts. 
Fulledge House was then in its prime; all around it was meadow 
land, broken only by a coal pit in what is now Plumbe street. 
Just at the end of the lane leading to the coal-pit were a few 
cottages occupied by banksmen and colliers. Old Abraham was 
the man in charge of the pit, and his form can still be recalled 
by some few of Burnley’s oldest inhabitants. The Stansfelds 
passed through the toll-bar (near where the Wellington Inn 
stands) and past the end of the road to Causeway Side and 
Bacup. Here they met a party driving over the hill to see the 
famous Whitworth doctor. They had with them a man suffering 
from a damaged ankle, and the repute of Dr. Taylor was 
sufficient to cause the poor man’s relatives to send him past the 
surgery of Dr. Knowles to Whitworth. When this party reached 
Whitworth, they came across a great number of patients who were 
being treated by the renowned doctor. In one of the houses of 
the village there was a young man who had some malformation 
of the foot, his name was Archibald Campbell Tait, and in later 
years he became Archbishop of Canterbury. On the Bacup 
road, opposite the Woodman Inn, there was a double-gate toll- 
bar, one gate protecting the Bacup road, and the other the 
entrance to Hufling lane. 
The Stansfelds called to see a leading inhabitant of the town— 
Mr. Tattersall—who lived at the house now known as the Yorke 
shire Hotel. The house had a triangular garden in front, and a 
the apex towards the Culvert was the entrance gateway. Kitchen 
and flower gardens extended a considerable distance to the rear, 
coveriug the ground now occupied by Sion Chapel, Chapel Street, 
and adjacent buildings ; a very pleasant orchard could be seen 
from Gunsmith Lane, its boundary on the north. In this house 
our friends met with the young man of the house, the late 
Mr. John Tattersall, whose characteristics are not likely to be 
forgotten by those who knew him. After Mr. Tattersall’s death, 
the house was often adopted as a temporary home for officers in 
Her Majesty’s service, who found but small convenience at the 
Barracks. The young ladies of that day frequently cast sly looks 
at the windows of this house as they passed and re-passed from 
neighbouring mansions, and from here General Scarlett went to 
Bank Hall to claim his bride. Captain Halsted occupied this 
house before Mr. Tattersall; he is remarkable as being one of 
the last to cease wearing wigs after the fashion in vogue a 
