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controversialist, and author of two polemical works one 

 entitled " The Picture of a Puritan/' published in 1605, and 

 the other "The Picture of a Papist/' published in 1606. 

 Oliver Ormerod was presented to the Rectory of Norton 

 Fitzwarren, Co. Somerset, by William Bourchier, third Earl 

 of Bath, and afterwards to the Rectory of Huntspill in the 

 same county, where he died in the year 1625. 



Something, however, occurred in 1784 of much interest 

 to our own branch of the family, leading subsequently to 

 great increase of property, and likewise in some degree, 

 connecting us with the Jacobite troubles of 1745. This was 

 the marriage of my grandfather with Elizabeth, second 

 daughter of Thomas Johnson, of Tyldesley. Thomas 

 Johnson (my great grandfather) having married, secondly, 

 Susannah, daughter and co-heiress of Samuel Wareing, of 

 Bury and Walmersley, got with her considerable estates, 

 inherited from the Wareings, the Cromptons of Hacking, 

 and Nuthalls of Golynrode. On the occasion of the march 

 of Charles Stewart to Manchester in 1745, "Tyldesley" to 

 use the form of appellation often given from property in 

 those days suffered many hardships. As one of the five 

 treasurers who had undertaken to receive Lancashire 

 subscriptions in aid of the reigning monarch, King George 

 the Second, and as an influential local friend of the cause, 

 he was one of those who suffered the infliction of 

 domiciliary military visitation, and also threat of torture by 

 burning his hands to induce him to give up government 

 papers and money in his possession. I have still in my 

 house (1901) the large hanging lamp of what is now called 

 "Old Manchester" glass, which lighted the dining-roorn 

 when my great grandfather stood so steadily to his trust that 

 although the straw had been brought for the purpose of 

 torture (or to terrify him into submission) extremities were 

 not proceeded to. He was ultimately left a prisoner on 

 parole, in his house, until released in December, 1745, in 

 consequence of the retreat of the rebel army. But 

 disagreeable as this state of things must have been at the 

 best, it was to some degree lightened by kindness (or at least 

 absence of unnecessary annoyance) on the part of the 

 Jacobite officers, of whom stories remained in the family to 

 my own time. One especial point was their kindness to my 

 eldest great aunt, 1 then a little child, whom they used to take 

 on their knees to show her what she described as their 

 "little guns." The drinking of the healths of the rival 

 1 Anne, born 1739, by a first marriage, married Charles Ford, 



