A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



Saints', Pavement, the church in which the citizens took the Solemn League 

 and Covenant. Edward Bowles, the chief of these, preached and expounded 

 scripture every Sunday, and took his part in week-day lectures and expositions." 

 Dr. Edward Richardson took the place of dean and chapter at Ripon." 

 A committee of ministers sat weekly in the chapter-house at York, to 

 supersede ' ignorant and scandalous ' ministers." Little wilful damage was 

 done to the fabrics of Yorkshire churches during the Commonwealth period, 

 though much harm had been done in places directly affected by the war, for 

 which both parties were responsible. St. Nicholas's Church at York was 

 totally ruined,^' and St. Olave's greatly damaged.'' Irreparable injury was 

 done to Pontefract Church.^"^ The glass of the east window at Ripon 

 was destroyed by Parliamentary soldiers in 1643.^ But in time of peace 

 every precaution was taken to keep churches in repair. The parliamentary 

 surveyors carefully noted examples of decayed fabrics.* Impropriators and 

 churchwardens were presented continually at quarter sessions for neglecting 

 to attend to the buildings." It is true that the recommendations of the 

 parliamentary survey for re-modelling boundaries and creating new parishes 

 included the demolition of superfluous churches and chapels.* An order was 

 made for the removal and rebuilding of Adel Church in a more central 

 position, which the parishioners were ready to carry out at their own 

 expense.' Schemes for subdividing large parishes anticipated much that has 

 taken place in recent times. Five new parishes were recommended to be 

 made in the chapelries of Leeds,' eight in Halifax,'' four in Ecclesfield* and 

 Snaith,' three in Almondbury,'" two in Birstal," Braithwell,'^ Bradford," 

 Darfield," Huddersfield,'^ Sheffield," and Silkstone." Parish churches were 



" Calamy, op. cit. iii, 455, 456. See note in Yorksh'tre Diaries (San. Soc), 157. Bowles exercised 

 great political influence in York, and was said to be ' The spring that moved all the wheels ' within the city. 



" J. Walker, op. cit. ii, 89 ; Calamy, op. cit. iii, 445, 446; cf. Lawton, op. cit. 539. 



" Torkshire Diaries (Surt. Soc), 140. Shaw was secretary to the committee, and burned their minutes 

 at the Restoration. 



" Lawton, op. cit. 21. "Ibid. 33. 



"" Ibid. (Pari. Surv. xviii, 393), 146. St. Giles's chapel in the market-place became the parish 

 church in 1778 (149). The eastern arm of Scarborough Church was ruined by royalist fire from the 

 neighbouring castle. 



' Hallett, Cathedral Church of Ripon (1901), 34. 



'See their reports, e.g. on Howden (Lawton, op. cit. 296), Withernsea (385), and Gisburn (255). 



'See Quarter Sess. Rec. (N. R. Rec. Soc.) v, 117 (Wigginton), 119, 120 (Kirkby Moorside, both 

 5 Oct. 1652) ; presentations of parishioners for refusing to pay assessments towards repair, ibid. 195 (Thirsk, 

 2 Oct. 1665), 204 (Hutton Rudby, 17 Jan. 1655-6), 251 (Sowerby, 6 Oct. 1657). 



* e.g. Thorp Arch (Lawton, op. cit. 81), Over Poppleton (71). At York (33) the commissioners recom- 

 mended the union of St. Olave's and St. Helen's Stonegate with St. Michael's-le- Belfry, ' and the materials of 

 the same churches may be disposed of, as the lord mayor and aldermen . . . shall think most convenient, for 

 the public use of the said city in reference to church maintenance.' 



' Lawton, op. cit. 84. 



° \'iz. St. John's, Leeds ; Beeston; Farnley, with Armley, Bramley, and Wortley ; Holbeck; Hunslet (ibid. 



89.93, 95, 96)- 



' Coley with LightclifFe ; Cross Stone with Heptonstall ; EUand with Rastrick ; Sowerby; lUingworthi 

 Luddenden ; Ripponden (ibid. I28 seq.). 



' Bolsterstone ; Bradfield ; Midhope ; Stannington (ibid. 189 seq.) 



' Carlton in Balne ; Heck, with Hensall, Balne, and part of Whitley ; Hook, with Airmyn and Goole .- 

 RawcIifFe (ibid. 155 seq.). 



'° Honley ; Marsden ; Meltham (ibid. 106, 107). 



" Cleckheaton, with Hunsworth and Wyke ; Tong (ibid, ill, 112). 



" Bramley ; Hellaby with Woodlaiths (ibid. 177). 



" Haworth ; Wibsey (ibid. 1 14, 1 16). " Wombwell ; Worsborough (ibid. 182). 



" Scammonden : Slaithwaite (ibid. 139). 



'* Attercliffe ; Ecclesall (ibid. 223, 224). " Bamsley ; Cawthorne (ibid. 226, 228). 



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