38 Bradford-upon-A von. 
have no authentic information at present. The “fish”? which forms 
the vane at the top of the chapel is, probably, the old ecclesiastical 
emblem of our Blessed Lord—the ichthus,\—the letters of which 
are the initial letters of other Greek words, signifying “‘JEsus 
Curist, the Son or Gop, our Saviour.” 
In the deeds, which have been already alluded to, we meet with 
the names of some of the Chaplain Priests. Adam Atte-well and 
John Middleton were two of them. By adeed dated 7 Henry V. 
(a.p. 1420), Reginald Halle provides for the endowment of a chap- 
lain to serve at the altar of St. Nicholas in the Church of the Holy 
Trinity at Bradford.? A few years later we find Thomas Horton 
founding a Chantry, and probably building, if not the whole, at 
least part of the south aisle of the church, the date of that portion 
of the church being towards the close of the fifteenth century. The 
fact of this same Thomas Horton,? we may remark in passing, hay- 
ing been a ‘merchant of the staple,’ is recorded by the ‘ merchant’s 
1See Parker’s Glossary, under (‘ Vestca Piscts.’) 
2 The words of the deed are,—‘‘ Volo quod capellanus idoneus inveniatur. . . 
ad celebrandum in Ecclesiaé Sancte Trinitatis de Bradford ad altare Sancti 
Nicholai pro anima mea, anima mee matris,” &e. 
3 Leland visited Bradford (1538-40), and in his Itinerary, ii. 54, (printed in 
the Wilts Archeological Mag., i. 148,) speaks of a rich clothier named ‘ Horton,’ 
who (his words seem to imply) died no very long time before, his wife being yet 
alive. He may allude to the same person as the founder of the Chantry. He 
dwelt, according to Leland, in a house built by himself ‘at the north est part 
by the Chirch.” He also built ‘‘a goodly large chirch house ex lapide quadrato 
at the est end of the chirch yard without it.” I can have no doubt that the 
present work-shops, in what is called the Abbey yard, belonging to Messrs. 
Edmonds, formed part of Horton’s house, the situation exactly according with 
Leland’s description, and having within unmistakable evidences of haying been 
formerly a dwelling house. The ‘Church House,’ which is also said to have 
been built by Horton, is still standing; it is situated in Church street, and is 
now the property of Mr. Butterworth. Both these buildings are of about the 
same date, and the similarity of their oak ceilings strikes you at once. The 
Church House, which, in a map of 1748, I have seen distinctly marked out as 
the building alluded to, was the place in which, before the days of rating, meet- 
ings were held for raising funds for church repairs, the poor, &c. The order of 
these meetings seems to have been ‘business first, pleasure afterwards,” for no 
sooner had they attended to the wants of others than they had a little care for 
themselves, and indulging first of all in a little good cheer, then betook themselves 
to various kinds of festivities. The memory of one of their amusements is still 
preserved in the name—(happily now it is no more than a name)—of the Bull Pit, 
where they used to witness the then popular sport of bull-baiting. 
