12. Sunday it was quarter day £4. 12. were brought to the table. Its enough. Blessed be God.

16. Thursday my wife's birthday 65 years ago.

25. Saturday went to Elland.

26. Sunday preacht at the chapel to a full assembly.

27. Monday had a private day. Mr. Bairstow, Mr. Elston, Mr. Priestley prayed.

29. Wednesday preached at the meeting place at Warley. Stayed at Stephen Hall's with Mr. Smith.

November, 1697.

6. Saturday peace was proclaimed at Halifax, great joy.

Thursday, Isaac Longbotham, Jon. Priestley, sen., John Ramsden, Abr. Scot, met Timothy Stock at my house to pay him for the building of Halifax chapel. With much ado urged him to take £14 at my persuasion.

21. Sunday a letter from Mr. T. Jollie of the Surey affair.

30. Monday wept sore on reading the dying hours of Mr. Henry. December, 1697.

7. Monday evening collected [a list of] young ministers in Yorkshire and Lancashire lately springing up.

18. Saturday had 3 letters out of Lanc. whereby I understood my mother in law's death.

24. Friday concluded reading Mr. Baxter's Method. Theol. which I begun about a year before, a learned piece.

January, A.D. 1698.

30. Sunday went to my chapel, read 1 Sam. 26. commented on it, being K. Charles' death day. Preacht on Job. 30. 23. God helped with suitable matter.

May, 1698.

3. Tuesday it was a very snowy day and sharp frost, sad weather. 4. Wednesday a meeting of ministers at Mr. Heywood's, Mr. Priestley, Mr. Lister, Mr. Bairstow came, prayer, conferred on the questions. All prayed after dinner because of the frost and snow and cold season.

11. Wednesday Mr. Chambers and Lawrence Smithys came to discourse with me from Bramham.

26. Thursday spent some time in prayer for the solemnity at Rathmel where I should have been.

June, 1698.

2. Thursday J. H [alstead] going to be a scholar with Mr. Fr [ankland.]

6. Monday a day of thanksgiving at Mr. Ray's at Gummersall. Mr. Holdsworth, Mr. Dawson, Mr. Elston, Mr. Noble.

8. Wednesday, Mr. Wilkinson vicar of Halifax, called of me. 12. Sunday it was my quarterage. There was brought about £5. 22. Wednesday a meeting of ministers at Mr. Dawson's at Morley, near 28 ministers.

23. Thursday Mr. Dawson and I went to Tingley where we had a hard work to bring Mr. Lister to repentance for his great fall. Discoursed long. Mr. Elston, Mr. Dawson and I prayed. Spent six There I lodged. July, 1698.

hours in that work.

17. Sunday got several subscriptions to Mr. Noble's Exposition upon Daniel.

18. Monday Mr. Thorsby, Mr. Jos. Boys, Mr. Sharp came to visit me. 19. Tuesday set myself to answer Mr. Streaton's proposals from London to give him an account of our meetings of ministers, the state of our congregations. I writ almost a sheet of paper.

21. Thursday writing further answer to Mr. Streaton, Mr. John Nettleton of Attercliffe came to me.

August, 1698.

3. Wednesday went to Mr. John Brooksbanks at Elland, discoursed with his wife, her mother Mrs. Gledhill.

27. Sunday writ a letter to Cousin R. Heywood in Ireland.

September, 1698.

26. Monday Jonas Tillotson came for me, with whom I rode to Kipping preached a funeral sermon for his wife Susanna, a full assembly. Dined at Dr. Hall's.

October, 1698.

10. Monday spent the day mostly in writing Mr. Frankland's life. [Mr. F. died Oct. 1.]

11. Tuesday writ Mr. Frankland's scholars' names.

14. Friday writ Mr. Baldwin's life.

15. Saturday writ Mr. Pendlebury's life.

20. Thursday set myself to write the lives of Mr. H. Newcom, Mr. R. Seddon, Mr. Jo. Leaver. Read some things in Mr. Sampson's

papers.

29. Saturday writ two letters to scholars at Rathmell.

November, 1698.

7. Monday I set upon writing a large letter to Dr. Sampson about many things.

10. Thursday did design to spend some time that day in preparing Mr. Sharp's treatise for the press: but puzzled all the forenoon and I could make little of it: but in the afternoon writ remarks on his life. 11. Friday writ Mr. Sharp's life all day.

14. Monday puzzled in ordering a book of Mr. Sharp's for the press, regulating it into chapters, sections. Mr. William Benson, preacher at Knaresborough, came upon business. Lodged with us.

15. Tuesday my heart was helpt in sending him away with prayer: speaking to him he sob'd, wept,-revising Mr. Sharp's book, ordering it. 16. Wednesday writ a letter to Mr. Ab. Sharp about his brother's book. Afternoon Mr. Frankland's life.

17. Thursday writ something of Mr. Frankland's life.

19. Saturday went to Mr. Owen at Rathmel. Received a sad letter from William Wolstenholm.

22. Tuesday designed to begin a great work of writing my farewel

sermons.

29. Tuesday, Letter from Manchester. Strange news of Mr. Charlton's assistant running away.

January, A.D. 1699.

19. Thursday Sarah daughter of Mr. Smith buried at the meeting house at Mixenden. Mr. Heywood preached the funeral sermon. 23. Monday writ a letter to Mr. Sylvester of Sheffield.

30. Monday writ some memoirs on some ministers lives, and other things.

31. Tuesday set about my work for Dr. Sampson. Writ an addition of ministers dead since '92. Searcht also and found out 22 hopeful young [men] entered on the ministry bred up under Mr. Frankland, that are dead since they begun on the work. These I writ also.

February, 1699.

1. Wednesday my cousin John Hill of London and a Dutchman

came.

8. Wednesday writ ministers lives.

9. Thursday writ part of Mr. Sharp's life.

13. Sunday Madam Rhodes of Houghton came to me. A letter from Mr. Owen about Mrs. Mary Frankland.

20. Monday I set myself to write ministers' lives. Read a litigious book of London ministers.

21. Tuesday writ lives of Ministers. Coz. Thomas Wolstenhom and his son Wm. came.

23. Thursday set myself to write Mr. Newcom's life.

24. Friday finished it.

27. Monday writ Mr. Seddon's life. I sent lives away. Searcht papers.

28. Tuesday writ in my book of Repository for the Future.

April, 1699.

23. Sunday received a letter from my son El. of the death of Mr. Taylor.

25. Tuesday writ two letters, to Mat. Taylor and my son Eli.

May, 1699.

4. Thursday Mr. Rastrick minister at Rotherham came and lodged with us.

13. Saturday Mr. John Holdsworth and Mr. Milward preacher at Lydiat dined with us.

24. Wednesday Mr. Dawson, his son and I went into Warley where we ordained 3 young men, Mr. N. Benson, J. Bairstow, B. Denton. Were 7 hours at work.

June, 1699.

28. Wednesday Mr. Timothy Jolly, Mr. Denton and Mr. Mault visited him.

30. Friday writ to Mr. Archer of London.

[Here ends the volume. The next volume begins with October 1699. The leaves which contained July, August, and September of that year being lost out.]

October 2, 1699, to April, 1702, in Vol. IV. Diaries, ed. by J. Horsfall Turner.

Yorkshire Armoury.

Hastings and Rawdon.

Hastings.

of the Citie of London.

He beareth, Sable, three Swan's Necks, couped, proper, by the name of Squire. (Of course-Necksargent, Membring-gules, now used by Swire family).

He beareth, Argent, a Fesse, Sable, three Ogresses or Pellets in Chiefe, proper, by the name of Langley. [Pellets sable, of course]. He beareth, Or, a Fesse Dauncette, Sable. These Armes pertaine to the worthy gentleman Sr. Thomas Vavasour, Knight Marshall of his Maiesties most Honourable household, and of the vierge thereto appertaining. Who anciently to the name, as being the King's Valuasores, being in times past a degree not much inferior to a Baron, and given to their family ex Regis Munere, as Mr. Cambden noteth in Yorkeshire, speaking of Haselwood, being the ancient inheritance of the said family.

A Cheveron betokeneth the atchieuing of some businesse of moment, or the finishing of some chargeable and memorable worke. It represents rafters for supporting the roof.

This Shield is parted per pale Baron and Femme. The first is Argent, on a fesse between three cockes heads erased, Sable, crested, beaked and Iellowped, Or, a miter of the third, borne by the name of Shelleto. The second is Sable, a cheveron between three bull's heads truncked, Or, cabossed, Argent by the name of Bulkley. This coatarmour thus impaled belongeth to George Shelleto of Heth, in the County of York, Esquire, one of his Majesties Justices for the conservation of the Peace within that County, who married with Elizabeth, one of the daughters of Sir Richard Bulkley, of Beaumarish in Anglesey, Knight, and of Mary his wife, one of the daughters of the right honorable William Lord Burgh.

He beareth, Or, on a Bend, Sable, three clusters of Grapes, Argent. This coate appertained to Sir Edmund de Maroley, Knight, of the County of Yorke. He lived in the time of Edward the First.

He beareth, Argent, a Fesse betweene three Asses passant, Sable, by the name of Askewe.

The Asse is the liuely embleme of patience, whom therefore our blessed Saviour honored with his owne riding: which have made some to fancy ever since that time, that the black line on the ridge of all Asses backes, thwarted with the like over both the shoulders, is stampt on them as the marke of his crosse.

He beareth, Azure, three buckes tripping, Or, by the name of Greene.

Gules, three swords conjoined at the pomels in Fesse, their points extended into the corners of the Escocheon, Argent, by the name of Stapleton.

The Field is Ruby, three water bowgets, Pearle. This was the coate-armour of Sir William Roos, a Baron of this Kingdom, who lived in the time of our two first Edwards after the Conquest.

Robert de Roos, his son, bore the same, differently drawn rather, with a File of five lambeaux or points.

He beareth quarterly, Gules and Verrey, over all a Bend, Or. This is the coat-armour of the Ancient and Knightly Family of Constable of Flamborough.

The high dignity of Duke of Yorke hath beene a long time borne by the second sons of the Kings of this land, though of elder times Yorke was but an Earledome, and yet then also it was an honour of so high esteeme, as that it was annexed to the crowne, as appeareth by King Richard the First, who having conferred the title of that County on his nephew Otho, Duke of Brunswike, the Yorkshire men much repined thereat, saying, they would yeeld no homage to any but to the King, vntill such time as they might speake with the King and see him face to face. With which testimonie of their great zeale and affection their Soueraigne tooke so great contentment, that he bestowed on his nephew the Earledome of Poictou in exchange, and reserved