ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



to be built where they were needed.^^ The chapel of Meltham was con- 

 secrated in 1 65 1 by Bishop Tilson of Elphin" ; and chapels were built 

 atRawdon,in Guiseley parish (i653),«» East Hardwick,in Pontefract (1653),^' 

 Bramhope, in Otley/^ and Stannington, in Ecclesfield.*' 



The new order of things, however, did not make for religious peace. 

 Two 'able and painful ' ministers were contending about 1650 for the 

 church of Arksey, one pleading the authority of the Great Seal, the other that 

 of the Committee for Plundered Ministers.'* In 1645 John Shaw was 

 appointed lecturer at Trinity Church in Hull, and fell out with the vicar, 

 Mr. Styles, over the privilege of preaching on Sunday mornings. A further 

 ^dispute arose over the mastership of the Charterhouse at Hull.'^ Styles was 

 deprived of his living and the mastership for demurring to the execution 

 of the king.'* Shaw succeeded him in the mastership ; but his claim to the 

 benefice was disputed by the governor's candidate, John Canne. Each dispu- 

 tant disparaged the other with some heat, and Canne in particular accused 

 Shaw of corruption in municipal politics.'^ A new minister of Hull was 

 appointed ; Shaw continued to be lecturer, while Canne was allowed to 

 preach to the garrison in the chancel of Holy Trinity. A wall was built to 

 shut off the chancel ; and Shaw attracted large congregations in the nave.''' 

 He tells us that his exclusion of profane persons and ' dangerous seducers ' 

 from the communion caused much opposition and persecution,^' and that he 

 'found Hull, like Jeremy 's figgs, the good very good, and the bad very bad.''" 



The Yorkshire Puritan clergy were not wanting in ability, zeal, and 

 scholarship. The parliamentary survey, however, notes depreciatingly of the 

 minister of Driffield that he ' preaches at both churches of Great Driffield 

 and Little Driffield after his fashion.' " At Walton, near Wetherby, it found 

 the minister ' a man of evil life and conversation, who preacheth not above 

 four times in the year, and he frequently useth the book of Common 

 Prayer.' '*' The parson of a mediety of High Hoyland was guilty of the 

 same practice.^' Royalist clergy gave some trouble. In 1651 Edward 

 Mainwaring, of Sowerby, near Thirsk, was presented at Malton for marrying 

 people privately and using the Prayer Book.^* About the same time Robert 

 Ashton was charged with bastardy at York Assizes. This eccentric person, 

 a native of Askew, near Lastingham, had been banished from county Durham, 

 and settled at Leeming, where he practised physic without licence, and was 

 accused of keeping a disorderly ale-house with a bowling-alley and butts. 



" e.g. churches were recommended at Heck (note 9), Hellaby (note 1 2), and Stannington (note 8). 

 The building of Stannington chapel was probably the practical outcome of this scheme. 



" Lawton, op. cit. 107. 



'" Ibid. 86. The chapel was consecrated by Archbishop Dolben. 



" Lawton, p. 1 5 1 (Charity Com. Rep. xii, 646). 



" Lawton, op. cit. 99. 



" Ibid. 191 ; Hunter, Hallamshire (ed. Gatty), 4.68, gives date as 1652 or 1653. 



*' Lawton, op. cit. 1 7 1 (Pari. Surv. xviii, 490). 



'' Yorkshire Diaries (Surt. Soc), 424, 425 (App.). Shaw had been Vicar of Rotherham and afterwards 

 lecturer at All Saints', Pavement, York (see note 53 above, p. 58). 



'Mbid. 425. The deprivation took place early in 165 1, J. Walker, S/#r/«?/ of the Clergy, pt. n, 

 371, says 'about 1647,' and says that Styles was subsequently offered the vicarage of Leeds. 



''Yorkshire Diaries (Surt. Soc), 428 ; ibid. 143, 144 ; note in App. ibid. 422, 423. Canne had been 

 pastor of the Brownists in Amsterdam. 



"'Ibid. 144. "' Ibid. 142. '° Ibid. 141, 142. 



" Lawton, op. cit. 295. " Ibid. 81. 



'' Ibid. 201. " Quarter Sess. Rec. (N. R. Rec. Soc), v, 97 



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