AN ACCOUNT OF THE GENTRY AND OTHER EMINENT
PERSONS BORN IN THE SAID TOWN,
AND THE LIBERTIES THEREOF.

ALSO,

ITS ANTIENT CUSTOMS,

AND

MODERN IMPROVEMENTS.

ALSO,

THE UNPARELLED TRAGEDIES COMMITTED BY

Sir John Eland of Eland,

AND

His Grand Antagonists ;

WITH A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF

WILKIN LOCKWOOD,

AND

ADAM BEAUMONT, ESQUIRES.

ALSO,

A CATALOGUE OF THE SEVERAL VICARS OF
HALIFAX CHURCH,

WITH THE TIME OF THEIR INSTITUTION AND DEATH.

HALIFAX:

Printed by E. Jacobs, for J. Milner, Bookfeller, in the Corn-Market,

MDCCLXXXIX.

75 1737.

2. Eland, dis john 6.0.(1)

T. HE

HISTORY

OF

HAL IFA X.

HE parish, or vicarage of Halifax, in the Weft-Riding of Yorkshire, and wapentake of Morley, confifts of twenty-fix townships, or hamlets, viz. Barkifland, Brighouse, Eland, Eringden, Fixby, Greetland, Halifax, Heptonftall, Hipperholme, Langfield, Linley, Midgley, Northouram, Norland, Ovenden, Raftrick, Rifhworth, Stainland, Stansfield, Shelf, Skircoat, Sowerby, Soyland, Southouram, Warley, and Wadfworth. This parifh has often been compared to Rutlandfhire for fize, but perhaps is the larger place, if Mr. Wright, in his Defcription of that Country, has reckoned by ftatute miles, when, at page 1. he says, "its dimenfions are not above fome twelve miles over in any place," for the length of this parish, from the upper end of Bradley-wood to the top of Widdop, in NUMB. I.

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