A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



weekly celebration of the communion, enjoined on the chapter by Archbishop 

 Holgate, had fallen into disuse soon after the Reformation. A monthly 

 celebration had been established in 1 6 17, in addition to the usual commu- 

 nions at the chief festal seasons. Dolben, aided by the precentor, Thomas 

 Comber," succeeded with some difficulty in restoring the weekly celebration. 

 Dr. Peter Samways, who had been ejected from Cheshunt in Hertfordshire 

 during the Civil War, became rector of Wath, near Ripon, after the Restora- 

 tion, and shortly after received the living of Bedale and a stall at York. At 

 Bedale he established a monthly communion every first Sunday, and every 

 second Sunday at Wath. For the thirty-two years of his incumbency 

 morning and evening prayer were said daily at Bedale. Samways preached 

 on Sunday mornings, and expounded the day's gospel in the afternoon." He 

 was a vehement anti-papist, and was said to have disputed on transubstantia- 

 tion at Wath with the Duke of York. After the accession of James II he 

 came into conflict with his diocesan, Bishop Cartwright of Chester. On the 

 deprivation of Bishop Ken in 1690 he was offered, but refused, the see of 

 Bath and Wells.'* 



Archbishop Dolben held his see less than three years. He died in 

 April 1686."* Three months before his death there was a riot in York 

 Minster at the funeral of Lady Strafford. The soldiers who guarded the 

 hearse were attacked, and the mob tore down the escutcheons which had been 

 placed round the quire."' Lawlessness and sacrilege were inevitable conse- 

 quences of the constant change of government and revival of persecution.^^ 

 After Dolben's death, James II placed the compliant Bishop of Chester in 

 charge of the vacant see."^ It was filled in 1688 by the translation of 

 Thomas Lamplugh from Exeter, as a reward for his opposition to the landing 

 of the Prince of Orange. He was enthroned the day after the arrival of 

 William at St. James's." Bishop Cartwright followed James into exile : 

 Lamplugh swore allegiance to William and Mary, and assisted Bishop Comp- 

 ton at their coronation.'" Most of the Yorkshire clergy readily accepted the 

 new order of things ; and few names of importance occur in the list of 

 Yorkshire non-jurors.'^ The coming of William brought peace to the 

 dissenting bodies, but a sword to the Papists. The President of Douay, James 

 Smith, had appeared at York (1687) as vicar apostolic of the north, under 

 the title of Bishop of Calliopolis, and had been solemnly welcomed, not with- 



" Works and Letters of Denis Granville (Surt. Soc. jcxxvii), 175, 176, 181, seq. ; (xlvii), 85 seq. 



" J. Walker, Sufferings of the Clergy, ii, 363 seq. " J. Walker, op. cit. 



" Drake, op. cit. 465. 



" Depositions from the Castle of York (Surt. Soc), 278 seq. 

 See ibid. 12611, 281, 282. The wild condition of parts of the West Riding continued to be no- 

 torious till the very end of the 1 8 th century. Numerous cases of alleged witchcraft occur, notably from 

 the Halifax and Huddersfield districts, in Depositions from the Castle of York (Surt. Soc.) ; see especially 28 seq. 

 38) 5'> 52> 7+> 75> &c., and the case, 75 seq., in which the bewitched person was a Miss Mallory of 

 Studley. Cf. the references in note 62, 49, and Wesley's accounts of the mobs at Halifax and 

 Roughlee {journal, 22 and 25 Aug. 1748) and Huddersfield (9 May 1757). 



•^ J. Walker, Sufferings of the Clergy, ii, 363. 



" Drake, op. cit. 466. Macaulay, Hist, of Engl. cap. ix, tells the story of Lamplugh's flight from 

 Exeter. 



" Diet. Nat. Biog. xxxii, 3 1 . 



" There is a rough and inaccurately spelt list in Hickes' prefatory life to Kettlewell's Works (1729), 

 i (app. pp. xi, xii). Samuel Crowborough, Prebendary of York and Archdeacon of Nottingham, and John 

 Milner, vicar of Leeds, are the principal names among some twenty-three beneficed Yorbhire clergy in York 

 and Chester dioceses. 



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