ANNALS AND HISTORY

OF

LEEDS,

AND OTHER PLACES

IN THE

County of York,

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE

PRESENT

TIME.

JOHN

COMPILED BY

MAYHALL.

Still on it creeps,

Each little moment at another's heels,

Till Hours, Days, Years, and Ages are made up
Of such small parts as these, and men look back,
Worn and bewildered, wond'ring how it is.
Thou trav❜llest like a Ship in the wide ocean,
Which hath no bounding shore to mark its progress.

Joanna Baillie.

LEEDS:

PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH JOHNSON, ROTATION.

OFFICE YARD, KIRKGATE.

1860.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

NOV 11 1916

SUBSCRIPTION OF 1916

5491
57-21

PREFACE.

THIS volume contains in chronological order, the principal local and historical events that have occurred in, or relate to Leeds and other places in Yorkshire, from the date of the most remote authentic histories, down to the close of the year 1859.

The events have been selected and condensed from every source of information within the reach of the compiler, and through the kindness of friends, several curious and interesting particulars are now published for the first time.

Great care has been taken to avoid giving a party or political bias to the work, so that it will be found interesting to all classes of readers.

The compiler feels grateful to Mr. Kemplay, for the loan of the Intelligencer from 1830 to 1834 inclusive, and to other gentlemen who have favoured him with books and manuscripts.

Where so many subjects are treated upon, notwithstanding that the utmost attention has been paid to accuracy, mistakes will doubtless have been made; but the compiler hopes for the reader's iudulgence, and would state in palliation of faults, both of omission and commission,