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Item, A Close Stool, . . . . £00 05 



Item, A Great Ark, Meal and Wheal, . . 10 00 



Item, A Haifa headed Bed and Bedding, . 01 05 



Item, Cradley, Goo Wane, Little Table, . 00 OG 



"THE OLD SCHOOL," BACUP. 



The following Memorandum, relating to the " Old School " at 

 Bacup, which formerly stood on the site of the present Mechanics' 

 Institution, is copied from a volume of printed Sermons in the 

 possession of the late Samuel Howorth, of Tunstead. The 

 memorandum is written on the margin of the fourth and fifth 

 pages of the last sermon in the volume : — 



"4: Oct". 1747 this day Ould Mr Houlden Burnley parish Came 

 to Baccop chapil Being the fourt gurinney [? journey] So the doars 

 were made by the Schoolmastor by John Lord Broadclough Order 

 & John Heape huttock top Brake in at an Ould Doare that were 

 made with Ould boards and Stoans & so Crept in as he Could & 

 Opened y^ Other doars then Henry Lord Boulton went in & the 

 [? three, or they] of his partey this were in the forenoone & then 

 aftor diner Mr Uttley went into this Chapil or Scoole house and 

 Red & preached the word of God & doctorin of Jesus Christ : 

 Joel : 2 Chap' vers 13. Rent your harts & not your Garments & 

 turn vnto the Lord your God for he is Gracious and mercyfull slow 

 to anger and of Great kindness and Repenteth him of the Evil. 



" Judith Howorth. 



" 9 Oct' 1747 Mr Houlden Came again to Baccop & Ordered 

 Vttley 2 days in a month & Richard Ashworth i & Hen^ Lord 

 Boulton I to preach & teach the word of God & the Gospil of 

 Jesus Christ in the Schoole house or Baccop chapil." 



And apart from the above is the following, written on the margin 

 at the foot of the page : — 



" the [? they] should have Cufenanted one with another these 

 ffefies & it is But them & thair Heirs. 



