t'HAP. 10.] PARISH OF WHITECHAPEL. 223 



" White Chapel is an unconsecrated Chapel attached to no peculiar 

 district, the whole income of which arises from purchases made by the 

 Govs, of Queen Anue's By. since 1720, and I conceive the minister 

 has no duty to perform but Sunday duty. I cannot administer the 

 Sacrament at W. C. All my flock attend the Sact. at Goosnargh, and 

 therefore the minr. at Goosnargh must attend those who fi'om sickness 

 cannot attend him. I neither marry nor bury," and can baptise only 

 with the permission of the minr. of Goosnargh ; of such baptisms I 

 have no register, but the minr. of Goosnargh orders and pai/s my clerk 

 for sending him the names, and for receiving the fees for him. I 

 receive no dues on any occasion. I have been thus particular, being 

 confident that you wiU not be author of a petition wch. shall contain 

 any statement but what is strictly true. 



" Believe me, with great esteem, 



" Yoiu- much obliged servant, 



" Thomas Saul. 

 ■" P.S. — I believe the true object of the prime movers of this 

 business is to drive me away (knowing the difficulty of procuring a 

 comfortable house) in hopes that my successor may be willing to teach 

 a school of 50 or 70 children for £25 a year, which I decline, and for 

 this sole reason I am persuaded he has kept the school vacant since 

 May last, contrary to the wishes of his neighbours." 



Having been reminded that a house had been at his disposal, Mr. 

 Saul writing to Mr. "Wm. Cross on 3 Dec, 1810, replies that the house, 

 which was part of the farm piu-chased by the bounty money, had been 

 let for 7 or even 8 years, as he did not care to farm the laud like his 

 two predecessors. 



In a postscript Mr. Saul adds, " Perhaps your Clients may inform you 

 what was done with the Money, the Interest of which was to be paid 

 to the Minister of Whitechapel, if he would visit the sick and baptize 

 in the higher part of Goosnargh." Someone, perhaps Mr. Cross, has 



•Should evidently be "particular." the now called Church of Whitechapel 



■^On this fact Mr. Rd. Cookson, in his should have been obliged to emigrate to 



recently pubhshed so-called " History," get wed." Very funny I am sure Mr. 



inanely remarks:- "How funny that ('ookson would have found it had he 



the inhabitants of the Chapeh-y of lived in Whitechapel then. 



