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BY STEPHEN GLOVER.
Author of the History of Derbyshire, 4 Vols., the Peak Guide, the Director//
NOTTINGHAM
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED FOR S. GLOYER AND SON.
1844.
PEEFACE.
Compiler assures them that it has been his most anxious desire to
that take place, even daily, in a town of this magnitude ; and that
these will be admitted as a sufficient apology for such errors as
CONTENTS.
HISTORY. Page Page
NOTTINGHAM, the Capital of the The Wesleyan, St. Ann's Street .... 93
County 1 The Wesleyan Association . ..... 93
Situation, distance from other towns 2 The Huntingtonians 94
Scenery, soil, approaches 3 The Jews' Synagogue 93
Air, Water 4 HOSPITALS.
Waterworks 5 Plumptre 94
GaS Works 6 Willoughby 95
Population 7 Collins'" 96
Modern appearance, Buildings ... 8 Handley's 97
Principal Streets, Improvements. .. 10 Woolley's 97
Ancient Houses 11 WarserGate 97
Post- Office, Fairs, Markets 12 Wartnaby's 97
The Exchange 17 Gellestrope's 98
Market and Fair Tolls 21 Labray's 98
Corporation as formerly constituted 22 Lambley's 99
Freedom of the Borough 24 Bilby's 99
Burgess Lands 25 White Rents 100
Officers of the Corporation 27 Patten's 100
Municipal Pveform, — Corporate Body 29 Burgesses 100
The Seven Wards 32 Schools 100
Members of the Corporation 36 Free Grammar School .... 43 and 100
Officers of ditto 38 Blue Coat School 101
Abstract of Treasurer's, Accounts. 39 National School 101
Sir Thomas White's Loan Funds . 43 Lancasterian School 102
Nottingham Elections 45 St. Mary's Girls' School 102
Courts of Law 46 British School 102
Court Houses and Prisons 47 Unitarian School 102
County Hall and Prison 47 St. Paul's Infant School 103
Town Hall and Goal 48 School of Industry 103
The House of Correction 48 Infant Schools , 103
St. Mary's Parish 49 Religious Institutions 103
St. Mary's Church, Monuments, &c. 50 The General Hospital 104
St. Paul's Church 58 The General Lunatic Asylum 106
Trinity Church .- 59 The Dispensary 108
St.John Baptist's Church 61 The General Cemetery 109
New Union Workhouse 63 The Government School of Design. 110
Cost of Union and Poor 67 Bromley House Library Ill
St. Peter's Parish 68 Newspapers Ill
St. Peter's Church 69 The Artisans' Library Ill
St. Nicholas Parish 70 Mechanics' Institute 112
St. Nicholas Church 70 The Assembly Rooms 118
Standard Hill 71 The Theatre 114
St. James's Church 72 The Races 114
Nottingham Castle ;. 73 The New Cricket Ground 115
Mortimer's Hole 76 The Bowling Greens 116
The Catholic Church 77 The Park 116
The Catholic Chapel 81 The Rock Houses 117
dissenters' chapels. The Barracks ,. 1 18
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION
OF
The Town Arms are a Shield—'Gules, bearing three Crowns, Or, With a Cross
raguled, and resting on a trunked Vert, evidently alluding to Notting-
ham being once a Forest Town, and to its former connection with loyalty.
countries.
I J) I HE C 10 It Y OF NOTTINGHAM.
With all these local advantages, Nottingham has for ages past and will
continue to be a great manufacturing town ; but the inhabitants have lost
sight of one most important advantage offered to them when the railways
were about being formed, for the conveyance of passengers and goods,
through the centre of the kingdom, from the metropolis to the north. It
was proposed to make this the grand central station ; by some unac-
countable cause this was neglected, and Derby was selected, and will for
ever enjoy an incalculable benefit, which the inhabitants of Nottingham,
in not embracing the opportunity, have lost for ever.
the most probable is its derivation from w Snottenga," signifying caves, and
Ham," a home
' ;
or dwelling place. It is Dr. Deering's opinion that this
name was given to it by the Saxons, from the condition they found the
neighbourhood in, before they began to improve it by building. It then
belonged to the kingdom of Mercia, and a part of that kingdom in King
,?
Alfred's reign took the name of " Snottingham Scyre from this town.
The town of Nottingham occupies a picturesque and elevated situation
on the north bank of the river Leen, which flows close under the rock on
which the castle is built, and at a short distance to the south-east, falls
into the more magnificent stream of the Trent, a little below the Trent-
bridge, this ancient and noble structure of seventeen arches, is connected
.
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castle, the park, and some parts of the town, are extensive, extremely
interesting, and beautiful ; stretching from east to west over the lux-
uriant Trent vale for a considerable distance, encompassing the range of
hills on which Belvoir Castle stands, the magnificent seat of his Grace
the Duke of Rutland, in the county of Leicester, and the nearer hills of
Ruddington, Clifton, Sneinton, Carlton, Mapperley, &c.
The approach to the town from the south is particularly striking to the
The approaches to the town have been much improved on every side
within the last quarter of a century ; and are now very good with the
exception of that from the New South Road over the West Croft, past
the Railway Station, and through Carrington Street, Lister Gate, Church
Gate, (very narrow and dangerous,) and Wheeler Gate, to the Market
Place. This thoroughfare, particularly at Church Gate, is certainly much
too limited for the great increase of traffic occasioned by the opening of
the Railway and the new line of road to the Trent Bridge. About 1826 the
corporation expended out of their funds three large sums of money in
widening and improving the approaches to the town, —one of the sums,
£900., was expended in opening Chapel Bar. The Corporation have
applied to Parliament for an Improvement Act, and we doubt not, this
thoroughfare will be speedily and greatly enlarged.
The soil in the neighbourhood of the town is chiefly sand, marl, and
clay : of the latter excellent bricks are made, of which the principal
portion of the town is built. A great portion of the land, consisting of
one thousand six hundred acres, belongs chiefly to the corporate body
and the freemen of the borough, who are intituled to depasture their
cattle on it for three month* in the year, so that land on eligible sites for
4 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
building purposes, could not be obtained. This has driven the inhabitants
to obtain sites at some distance from the town, out of the limits of the
borough, — at Sneinton, Lenton, New Radford, New Basford, Hyson
Green, Carrington, Mapperley, Sherwood, and other places ; to the great
detriment of the town, as will be seen on referring to the population of
the town and its immediate vicinity, within a circle of four miles. (See
page 7.)
The air of the surrounding hills is particularly pure and bracing, and the
town being built on a dry soft sand-stone rock, out of which many of the
vaults and cellars are excavated, is less contaminated with smoke and other
offensive vapours, than that of any large manufacturing town in the king-
dom, owing to there being but few mills and factories in the town or neigh-
bourhood where machinery is propelled by steam ; most of the cotton-
thread used in the hosiery and lace manufacture being spun at Man-
chester, Cromford, and other places. Many of the streets are elevated,
open, and airy, and cannot be charged with any defect of salubrity.
Others are built on low ground, and the streets are very narrow. Many
persons, in proportion to the population, have attained to old age, and
even outlived a hundred years, and the general health of the inhabitants
is good.
The town is abundantly supplied with excellent water, from the rivers
Trent and Leen, and from various springs. The floods occasioned by the
swollen waters of the Trent are injurious at periods, when heavy rains
fall, in the adjoining counties of Derby and Stafford, so as to increase the
waters of the Derwent,the Dove, and various tributary streams, which drain
the mountains of the Peak, that flow into it with such impetuosity and
force, as to cause it to overflow its banks. In February, 1795, a frost of
seven weeks was succeeded by a rapid thaw, which occasioned the greatest
flood in the Trent everremembered by the oldest person then living.
The damage done on the banks of the Trent and its tributary streams was
estimated at £1,000,000. This calculation in all probability is very much
overrated, notwithstanding all the inhabitants of the low grounds near
the river suffered greatly in this overwhelming inundation, which swept
away horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, waggons, carts, furniture, and all kinds
of farming implements, and did much damage to the bridges at Notting-
ham, and swept Swarkeston and others completely away, owing partly
to the immense bodies of ice which were carried down the raging torrent.
The water at Nottingham was three feet deep in many of the houses of
.the Narrow Marsh, and the Meadow Plats, where some of the inhabitants
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were kept prisoners in their upper rooms two days and two nights. The
losses of many of the sufferers were alleviated hy the subscriptions of their
more fortunate neighbours. In February, 1809, there was another great
flood, during which the water again entered the houses in the Narrow
Marsh, Leen Side, &c, but the damage was trifling compared with that
of 1795. The general supply of water for culinary use is raised from the
Leen, the Trent, and from a copious spring near the Forest. Twenty
years ago the town had but a scanty supply of indifferent soft water, but
it now possesses two new establishments, which have lately been much
extended and improved.
The Old Water Works Company obtained their original lease of the
tary streams, before it is contaminated by the filth and sewers of the town
and its vicinity. They also discontinued the old engine-house, and
erected a new one in Brewhouse Yard, to which the water is conveyed by
pipes, and then forced by a steam-engine and water-wheel, at the rate of
five hogsheads a minute into the old reservoir, behind the General Hospi-
tal ; from whence, as from a grand artery, the stream is conveyed by
pipes under the pavement, into many of the streets and courts, to the
which will hold two thousand hogsheads. These works supply the
north-eastern portion of the town, and feed a small cistern in York
Street, at which the water-carters are supplied.
The Trent Water- Works, near the Trent Bridge, were finished in
1831 ; they are about one mile and a quarter from the Market Place, and
consist of one engine-house, with a large reservoir, fifty yards from the
Trent, covered with sand and gravel, through which, the river water is
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rate of ten hogsheads per minute, along the main pipe, which is two
miles long, to an elevation of one hundred and thirty feet, where it falls
into a capacious reservoir at the top of Park Row, from which upwards
of twelve miles of piping is extended through different parts of the town.
The Company was established by Act of Parliament in 1825, but owing
to a great panic in trade, occasioned by the failure of many country bank-
ing-houses, a sufficient number of shareholders could not be obtained to
carry out this grand design till 1830, when the great increase made in
the rates charged by the Old Company, after they had enlarged their
works, caused the project of the Trent Company to be revived and carried
into effect. Mr. Thomas Hawksley is the Engineer, and Mr. Hopkin the
Surveyor and Collector of the Water Rent. Exclusive of this ample
supply from the rivers, springs are common ; the water raised by pumps
is very hard and unfit for washing. About fifty years ago the Corpora-
tion erected eight public Pumps, in the most convenient situations,—viz.
two in the Market Place, one in the Shambles, one at the West end of
Chapel Bar, two in Parliament Street, one at Week-day Cross, and one
at the top of Charlotte Street.
Boycroft Spring and Rag Spring, are famed for curing sore eyes ; these
are near to the town, on the road leading to St. Ann's Well. Trough
Close Spring, near Mapperley Hills, is also of some note amongst the
inhabitants. The Spa, in Spa Close, opposite the Castle, was of a strong
Chalybeate quality, but in 1816 the spring head was removed out of the
Close to the bank of the Leen, where it has ceased to flow in dry weather.
The town is well lighted with gas ; an Act of Parliament was obtained
in 1818, and the works in Butcher Street were finished in 1819. The
works now extend to Island Street, comprising an area of four acres.
The Company have erected four large gasometers, which together will
hold about 170,000 cubic feet of gas. The capital first expended by the
Company was £16,000, raised in 320 shares of £50 each.
The Nottingham Gas and Coke Company was reconstituted by Act of
Parliament in 1842, when the shares were reduced to £25 the capital is ;
Company charge 6s. 8d. per thousand cubic feet of gas, to small con-
sumers : 6s. 3d., 5s. 10d., and 5s. 5d. to large consumers, and they
compel every consumer to have a meter. The Manager is Mr. John
Hill, the Accountant Mr. Octavius Thomas Oldknow, the Engineer Mr.
Thomas Hawksley, and the Clerk to the Company, William Hurst, Esq.,
office, High Pavement.
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— — — 2,343 2,642
Wilford 569
Bridgford, West — — 332
Ruddington 868 1,428 1,835
Stapleford 748 — — 1,535 1,837
Bramcote — — — 562 732
Bulwell 2,611 3,157
102493
The population has nearly doubled in forty years, and the increase
would have been three-fold, if the one thousand six hundred acres of
burgess pasture lands which nearly encompass the town could have been
sold or leased for building purposes. These free pastures have prevented
the further extension of the town, otherwise Nottingham would in all
probability have at this time numbered one hundred and twenty thousand
inhabitants. Within the last twenty-five years, almost every vacant
piece of ground in the town, that was suitable and available for the erec-
tion of houses and manufactories, has been sold at a high price and built
upon; between 1821 and 1831, the number of houses increased three
thousand six hundred and seventeen, and the inhabitants ten thousand
two hundred and twenty-two ; between 1831 and 1841, the increase has
not been so great, in consequence of the inhabitants having been driven
for the want of suitable sites, into the neighbouring parishes, in several of
which population and buildings have increased more than four-fold since
1801. The parishes most increased are Radford, Basford, Lenton, and
Sneinton ; so that within a circle of four miles, in 1841, we can number
one hundred and two thousand four hundred and ninety-three inhabitants,
as will be seen on referring to the table of the population.
importance the hosiery branch, so many years the staple trade of the
8 %
niKEOTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
town. The great increase in the population, the spirit of enterprise, the
immense capital employed, the superiority of mechanical skill, all tend to
in 1572 ; and the total number of funerals annually in the three parishes
was about 70 ; but we find no certain data whereby to estimate the num-
ber of inhabitants, till 1739, when they were found to amount to 9990.
Forty years afterwards there were 3191 houses, 3556 families, and 17,711
persons, in the town ; and the burials averaged about 650 annually. In
1793 Sir Richard Sutton surveyed the Town, and found it to contain
25,000 persons. The great increase since that period will be seen by
reference to the population in 1841. St. Mary's Parish then contained
8477 houses inhabited, and 589 uninhabited; 19,161 males, 21,935 fe-
the Castle, viz. : —-Brewhouse Yard, Standard Hill, the Park, and the
Castle, 114 houses inhabited, 1 uninhabited; 341 males, 456 females :
total, 52, 922. In 1839, the deaths in Nottingham and the Park were
1721, in 1840, 1609 ; and in 1841, 1228.
The town of Nottingham at the present time, has a modern appearance,
owing to there being 9470 houses built within the last sixty-five years.
The total number of houses in 1841 was 12,661 of which number 705
were unoccupied. In its suburbs, as well as its principal streets, are
many large and beautiful modern mansions, some of which possess all the
advantages of country villas as well as those of town residences. Plumptre
House, in Stoney Street, stands Conspicuous for age as well as for beauty.
It was built in the early part of the last century, by the wealthy and
charitable family whose name it bears. Bromley House, now used as a
D1KECT0HV- OF NOTTINGHAM, H
Public Library, on the south side of the Market-place, one of the largest
and best built mansions in the town, was erected at the cost of Sir Geo.
Smith, Bart., whose son afterwards took the name, of Bromley, and
removed to Stoke ; though this house long continued to be used as an
occasional residence of himself and his descendants. Thurland Hall, the
largest and most ancient mansion* in Nottingham, was taken down in
Standard Hill, Mansfield Road, George Street, and in several other parts
of the town and suburbs. The principal shops surround the Market
Place, and occupy the great thoroughfares, as Bridlesmith Gate, High
Street, Clumber Street, Milton Street, Pelham Street, Carlton Street,
Goose Gate, Hockley, Long Row, Smithy Row, Exchange, Poultry, Timber
Hill, Wheeler Gate, Angei Row, Chapel Bar, Tollhouse Hill, Lister Gate,
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Park Row, Castle Terrace, many beautiful mansions in the Park, and
between Tollhouse Hill and the Park new streets are forming on the
recently-enclosed land.
Ancient Houses. — Until ^ the fifteenth century there was not a house
in Nottingham but what was thatched with straw or reeds, and built of
wood and plaster. In 1503 the Unicorn Inn, at the end of Long Row, was
tiled. In 1536, many of the houses had then been so long in a state of
decay and ruin, that Henry VIII. caused a statute to be enacted, for the
re-edification of " Nottingham," and several other places, under the fol-
old brick house in Castle Gate, two centuries or more since it was built.
Bugge Hall, now the Old Angel Inn, at the corner of St. Mary's Gate, in
Jan. 13, March 7, 8, -and 9, cheese and cattle ; Thursday before Easter,
horses and cattle ; Oct. 2, 3, 4, cheese, &c. The latter is called " The
1
Goose Fair, '
from the plenitude of roast geese and goose pies, with
which many of the inhabitants treat their visiting friends. Ollerton —
May 1, cattle ; Sept. 27, hops. Retford—March 23, Oct. 2, horses.
ham— week
First May and Martinmas. East Leake—Four times a
in
Old May Day and Martinmas. North Wheatley— Thurs. Nov. First in
The Market Place. — One of the most spacious and elegant the in
kingdom, occupies a triangular area of five acres and a half, and twenty-
six perches. Here, and in Parliament Street, all the fairs and markets are
west by Chapel Bar. Most of the houses that surround it are four stories
high, of different styles of architecture ; the fronts of which, above the
first story, project about six feet, and are supported mostly by stone
columns, which form a continuous piazza nearly the whole extent of the
Long Row, Timber Hill, and Angel Row ; the elegant and well-stored
shops, which surround it, the crowded markets, the extraordinary
variety of merchandize exhibited, all combine in giving it a grand and
imposing appearance.
The Markets are well supplied with corn, butchers' meat, poultry,
game, fish, bacon, cheese, butter, eggs, fruit, vegetables, and innumerable
articles of manufacture. The Smithfield Market is held on Wednesday,
in the spacious Market Place, w hen there r
is generally a supply of from
one hundred to one hundred and fifty head of cattle, and from six hun-
dred to one thousand store and fat sheep. The principal swine market
is held in Parliament Street, on Saturdays. In 1837 there were 42,099
sheep, and 13,865 pigs penned, and the pennage, or toll, amounted to
£191 14s. 2id.
they lay on an addition of from |wenty to thirty per cent., which the
inhabitants are obliged to pay. This is a subject of daily complaint, and
14 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
by a non-burgess, was one penny, without reference to its size but they ;
now demand one penny per foot, according to the length of each stall. A
considerable increase was also made in the tolls of baskets, carts, and
also in the sheep-tolls ; for which latter, says a modern author, there
may be some justifiable plea, as the Corporation are at some expense in
providing, and in setting up and removing the pens, every market-day.
But in the open market, where the vendors provide their own stalls, or
expose their articles in baskets, or on the pavement, the ancient customary
tolls where amply sufficient for the satisfaction of any just claim, which
the municipal body may have for their own emolument, or for the
remuneration of the officers whom they appoint to collect the toll, or for
the expense which they incur in paving the Market Place. In resisting
these additional imposts, who have stalls in the
the non-burgesses
Market, and many of the country farmers, made common cause, and
opened a subscription for the support of Mr. John Gainsley, a bakjBr
and confectioner, who lately filed two actions in the Court of Queen's
Bench, against the Corporation, for seizing part of his goods, as payment
of the tolls, which he had disputed. In the first of these actions, the
law," the plaintiff and his supporters were obliged to wait for another
assault, on which to ground a second action, which is now pending, but
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In this great Market Place, formerly stood two crosses, one on the
west-end of Long Row, near Sheep Lane, seated about ten steps high,
with a pillar in the middle, called the Malt Cross, because near it the
malt used to be sold. Here all proclamations were read, and declarations
of war made in the face of a full market. The other, called the Butter
Cross, stood opposite on the east-end of the Market Place ; this had large
seats about it, of four heights, and was covered with a tiled roof, sup-
ported by six pillars ; here those sat who dealt in butter, eggs, bacon,
&c. ; near it was the fruit-market, plentifully provided with all kinds of
fruit in season.
to buy raw hides, was probably, as now, in front of Smithy Row. There
was no Exchange, but on its site were two shambles, called the Old and
New Shambles. In the Old were thirty-four butchers' stalls, and over
them was room of considerable length and breadth the west-end of
a ;
this room was open about breast high, and the whole market could be
16 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
seen from it, and here the fairs, &cc. were proclaimed. In the south-west
corner of this room, was a small one, wainscotted and seated round.
Here the mayor, sheriffs, and other officers used to meet, in order to
walk the Saturday market ; and in this room sat the steward, or his
deputy, on a market-day, to enter actions, take bail, &c- The remainder
of this large room was appropriated to hatters, grocers, mercers, and others,
who attended the market from Mansfield, Loughborough, and other towns.
" Dr. Deeriug says the New Shambles, which contained twenty-six
stalls for butchers, adjoined to the old ones on the south side ; and over
these a long room, where, in time past, the tanners, after they had done
buying raw hides, used to stand the remainder of the day to sell bend
leather. South of the New Shambles were two rows of buildings, with
a paved passage between, called the " Shoemakers' Booth," where on a
Saturday the men of that trade kept market, but all the week beside
they were shut up. South of these, over against Peck Lane, used to
Before Dr. Deering wrote in 1751, the Market Wall and the Butter
Cross had been removed, and the whole space well paved the Malt ;
Cross had been altered, and was then but four steps high, with a raised
tiled roof, the top of which was adorned and rendered useful by a sun-
dial and a fane. The roof of this Cross rested on six pillars, and about
it sat those who sold earthenware, both coarse and fine ; and this site
High and Middle Pavements. Here the Wednesday and Friday markets
were formerly kept, for butter, eggs, pigeons, wild fowl, and all kinds of
DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 17
fruits in season, and on Fridays sea and river fish. Near this Cross
stood other shambles, placed north and south, where all the week except
on Saturdays the butchers sold all kinds of flesh meat. There was
another Cross, called " High Cross," at the bottom of Barker Gate, on
the site of the Stag and Hounds public-house.
Over and above all these markets, an attempt was made to establish a
night, though in the heart of the town,) was then made good, and as
well paved as any other part of Nottingham. The cross, with a roof
supported by four pillars, was afterwards walled in, and the town's fire
engines kept in it; and on Saturdays the Sheep Market was held here.
The Smithfield Market is now held on Wednesdays, the sheep pens
are set up on the south side of the Market Place, from Beast-market
Hill, to Angel Row, and the Cattle stand between the sheep pens and
Long Row the east portion of the Market Place is occupied by trades-
;
and vegetable market is held on the south side of the Market Place.
The fish and game market is held on the north side of the Market Place,
in front of the Long Row. The butter market occupies the centre,
between the fish and vegetable stalls. The meat market is in the Sham-
bles, under and behind the Exchange. The rest part of the large Market
Place is completely covered with stalls of all kinds of- provisions and
wares, furniture, earthenware, glass, carriers carts, &c. The poultry
market is held where it has been held for centuries, in the square called
the Poultry.
The Exchange was begun in 1724, in the mayoralty of Mr. Mc Pennal,
who was also the architect. This building was erected of brick, one
hundred and twenty-three feet in length, the front of which was sup-
ported by ten stone pillars, and in the middle of the front were three
niches of stone, designed for placing the statues of King George I. and
the Prince and Princess of Wales, and on the top of the building was
D
18 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
placed the statue of Justice ; between the pillars and some shops and the
shambles was an open walk, in the middle of which a broad staircase led
up to the long room, where the tanners were wont to sell their leather
here the mayor and sheriffs gave their entertainments at Michaelmas.
On the left-hand, a few steps higher, was the court where the assizes and
sessions were held for the town, which formerly used to be done in the
Old Town Hall. After the Town Hall had been repaired, new fronted,
and beautified, the assizes were again removed. This building was called
the New Exchange, and cost the Corporation £2,400.
Its external appearance was unchanged until the improvement in 1822,
when the front pillars were removed, and the spaces between them built
up, and the Piazza, which was four paces wide, converted into shops.
The staircase leading into the Exchange Hall were removed from the
west to the north side of the building, where it now is. The three
niches described by Deering, were removed to make room for the large
and handsome Venetian window, ornamented with two Ionic columns,
which now decorates the centre of the building. The outer walls were
stuccoed, and the entire building now presents a very chaste, but plain
appearance.
The Exchange occupies the east side of the Market Place ; the whole
exterior of the building forms a square of one hundred and thirty feet
the south and west fronts are divided into shops, and the Feathers Inn,
the latter having a communication with the Grand Hall. The north is
On the morning of Saturday, Nov. 26, 1836, an alarming fire broke out
DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 19
at the Exchange. The cause of the fire was supposed to have been from
some defect in the gas pipes, by which the dial was illuminated. The
Exchange Hall was discovered to be on fire about ten minutes past eight
o'clock in the morning, by Mr. F. Bestow, and Mr. Barnes the chief
constable, who immediately gave the alarm. Great and successful exer-
tions were then made to save the property of those who lived on either
side of the large room. Beds, bedding, furniture drapery, and other
goods, were thrown out of the windows of Messrs. Watts, Gresham,
Bestow, Darkins, and Judd, and conveyed to places of shelter, and the
most arduous endeavours were made to assist in the safe removal of
their property. The butchers were by this time alarmed, and were
removing their meat, desks, stools, &c, in the greatest confusion, from
out of the Shambles, which are below the Exchange, to places of safety.
This was truly an anxious hour, and the affright and consternation
depicted upon many countenances, will not readily be forgotten.
During the progress of the fire the greatest activity was displayed in
every direction, by persons, supplying the engines, conveying goods from
the Police-office and the adjoining dwellings ; order being maintained by
the special constables, assisted by a detachment of the 6th Carbineers,
from the Barracks, granted by the Commanding Officer, at the instance
siderable height, as did also the flames, completely enveloping the statue
of Justice ; and the roof of Mr. Bestow's house became exposed to the
fury of the flames, which were driven upon it by the wind. In a very
short time the fire had made such progress, that a part of -the roof of one
of Mr. Bestow's rooms, the one next to Mr. Gresham's premises, fell in,
and the bed-curtains and other articles, not having been removed, blazed
away in the most frightful manner. At this period (about ten o'clock)
the destruction of the whole of the north wing appeared inevitable. Few
of the spectators could contemplate the possibility of saving it from the
increasing ravages of the fire. A long ladder was raised in front of Mr
Bestow's house, and Mr. Ashcroft fearlessly mounted it, taking with him
a pipe, assisted by several others at different parts of the ladder. As soon
as he directed the pipe into the room, the fears of the people were in a
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and the room immediately appeared a mass of fire and flame. This was
a perilous moment for Mr. Ashcroft, as he was not able to get the pipe
from one hand to the other, behind him. The least slip in making the
attempt, at such a fearful height, would have been fatal to him. On
lowering the pipe a little in his hand, he was able to pass it at the small
of his back, and insert it in the flaming apartment, and almost imme-
diately succeeded in extinguishing the fire. There being three engines at
work upon this point, all appearance of fire in the front was soon extin-
guished, and at twenty minutes before twelve the fire was entirely subdued.
At ten o'clock the fire was at its height, and it was expected by every
one that the whole of the Exchange would have been burnt down.
Indeed, the alarm was so great, that some of the occupiers of the houses
higher up Smithy Row, began to pack up their valuables, and to hold
themselves in readiness to remove. The windows of the Police Office
were taken out, and also some other windows, and carried into Swann's
Yard opposite, for safety ; the doors torn down ; the books of the
Artizans' Library brought out, and every thing else that could be removed
was carried away in wagons and carts. Indeed, the utmost promptitude
was used in procuring all the help possible. Expresses were sent to
Mansfield, Loughborough, and Derby, for engines, as well as to the
plaees in the neighbourhood. The building was insured for £9,000.,
and the damage done to it by the
fire was estimated at about £3,000,
her hands. A plain stone cornice runs on the pediment and wings, and
at each corner is a neat vase with a bold ornament running round. In
the pediment, the town arms, with an oak branch on one side, and an
olive branch on the other, is carved in stone, and below this is the clock,
the dial being fixed on a stone rim or moulding, with the date, 1815, the
time when the new front of the Exchange was completed. Below the
clock, in the centre is a handsome Venetian window, ornamented with
two elegant Ionic Columns. This window lights the noble and spacious
Hall : the centre is also lighted by twelve, and each wing by twelve
oblong square windows above the ground story, which latter is occupied by
elegant shops. The large room or Hall, is after the proportion most ap-
proved by Pakladio, the famed Architect, and of the exact size of several
rooms built by him, being 75 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high,
with an arched ceiling, well lighted and ventilated, and fitted up in a rich
and elegant style. The two small rooms are 22 feet 6 inches, by 26
feet 2 inches, and 24 feet high, each. In the two partition walls are fold-
ing doors, and small doors on each side : these may be thrown open, and
form one room of 123 feet long, on any public occasion. This room will
dine four hundred persons. The great public meetings and elections of
the town are held in it, as are also tea parties, balls, assemblies, and
public exhibitions.
Market and Fair, or Pickage, Passage, and Stallage Tolls, collected by the
Corporation, as Lords, of the Manor. — For every maund of butter, 2d. ;
basket of butter, eggs, or any other article, Id. ; couple of fowls or ducks,
jd. ;
goose or small turkey, id. ; large turkey, Id. ; sucking pig, 3d.
Gardeners' Market.
1
Stallage. —For the first eight feet, Id. per foot ; all above, l|d. per
foot ; the freemen are allowed eight feet free of toll. .'
Shows. —Each caravan pays 20s. at goose fair for the eight days, and
15s. at the March fair for the same. At these fairs no stallage is charged.
Races. —For every booth erected, Is. per yard frontage for the races,
whether two or three days.
The ancient instrument of punishment called the Cuckstool, stood in
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the Market Place until 1731. In that year the Mayor, Thomas Trigge,
placed a woman in it for prostitution, and left her to the mercy of a foolish
and inhuman mob, who ducked her so severely, that she died soon after,
in consequence of which the mayor was prosecuted, and the Cuckstool
destroyed.
Nottingham can claim as a town of note the age of 931 years, as a
considerable borough, 791 ; as a mayor's town, 548 ;
(being only a cen-
tury posterior to the metropolis,) as a Parliamentary borough, 551 years,
during which it has constantly sent two representatives ; and as a county
of itself, a period of 393 years.
The Corporation. — Nottingham is an ancient borough by prescrip-
tion, for in 1086 it had one hundred and twenty- three burgesses, and
nineteen villeins, and evidently had enjoyed the privileges of a borough
long before that period, and prior to the date of any of its charters or
records now extant. The Normans soon after the Conquest divided it
into two districts, one called the English, the other the French borough.
The division line extended southward across the Forest, down Mansfield
Road, Milton Street, Clumber Street, Bridlesmith Gate, Drury Hill,
Middle Marsh, Sussex Street, and over the Meadows to the Trent Road,
separating what noAV forms the town and county of the town, into two
nearly equal parts ; the eastern portion being the French, and the
western the English borough. If blood was shed by violence in the
latter, the offender was only fined 6s. 4d., but if in the former, 18s.
Until 1714, separate juries were empannelled, and there were two Town
Halls ; that belonging to the French borough stood at the north-west
corner of Wheeler Gate.
The first charter now remaining in the muniments belonging to the
Corporation was granted by Henry II., in 1155 ; this charter grants and
confirms to the burgesses of Nottingham all the free customs they had
been possessed of in the time of his grandfather ; namely, Thol, Theam,
Infangentheof, and Thelonia, from Thrumpton to Newark, and from Remp-
ston to Retford. Thol, or Tol, and Thelonia, imply a power to take, and
a right to be free from toll ; and the burgesses are still exempt from the
market and fair-tolls of Nottingham, and of all cities and boroughs in the
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the Feast of St. Michael. Previous to this the town had been governed
by a borough Reeve. In this charter the ancient yearly ferme paid to
the crown is stated to be £52. The next charter was in the reign of
Edward III., 1330, confirming the former charter, and granting a Satur-
day's market. The next of Richard II., 1378, and another of Henry IV.,
1399, appointing the mayor, aldermen, and recorder, to act as justices of
the peace. Then followed one of Henry V., in 1414 ; and the governing
charter of Henry VI., granted on the 28th of June, 1448, which recites
Escheator by this charter, which after describing the limits of the town,
excepts the King's Hall, (County Hall,) and the Castle from the town.
The aldermen to be justices of the peace in the town, and wear scarlet
gowns of the same fashion as those worn by the Mayor and Aldermen of
the City of London. It also empowers them to hold a county court
every fourth Wednesday, a petty session every day, and "a court of all
The next was the charter of Edward IV., and was a charter of
confirmation. Then follows one of Henry VII., in 1505 of Henry VIII. ;
of the charters was made, and a new one granted, which was acted under
for four or five years, when a dispute arose about the validity of this sur-
render. This queston was referred to the privy council and judges, who
issued a decree, and under that decree the charter of William and Mary
was granted, which sets aside the pretended surrender. By this charter,
the corporation were restored to all their rights, customs, messuages, &.c.
the one upon which the constitution of the corporation, as it now is, rests.
Queen Anne granted to the burgesses two new fairs, each to continue
nine days, beginning on the Thursday before Easter, and on the Friday
before the first Tuesday after Epiphany. Charles II. and James II.
granted new charters, who in the seventeenth century had several riotous
contests with the burgesses. Before the passing of the Municipal Reform
Bill in 1835, the corporation consisted of seven aldermen, (one of whom
is annually chosen mayor,) eighteen senior and six junior councilmen, a
recorder, two sheriffs, two chamberlains, two coroners, and a town clerk,
beyond the limits of seven miles it was conjectured there might be about
800, who were disfranchised by the Reform Bill. The burgess parts
are held by courtesy, though continued for life. These are allotted by
the common hall, and are capable of being resumed, if the corporation
think proper, during the existence of the burgess to whom it was allotted.
These burgess parts are 254 in number, — viz., 112 in the chamber estate,
and 142 in the bridge estate: they are unequal in value, and form a
sort of lottery who shall obtain them.
Freedom of the Borough. The — first son of a freeman born in
Nottingham, on attaining the age of twenty-one, is entitled to his freedom.
* Another authority say?, "in 1681, the corporation charter was surrendered to the
ministers of Charles II., hy the mayor " and his party," which caused great dissatisfac-
tion amongst the rest of the burgesses, though a new charter was received in its place.
At the next election of a mayor, a riotous contest arose, in which " the new chartermen
elected William Toplady, and the old, William Greaves,'' the former, however,
county of the town) is within the Metes and Bounds of Sherwood Forest,
but not within View and Regard. The town hath long made that claim
of discharge, and it hath been allowed them in Eyre. There are very
fair possessions belonging to the corporation, some in general, and some
for particular uses ; as for the maintenance of their Free School, and
their costly Trent Bridges, called Heathbet Bridges."'
The meadows which lie on the south side of the town, betwixt the
Leen and the Trent, consist of the East and West Crofts, divided by the
Flood Road and the Canal, and containing 334 acres of fertile grass land.
The West Croft, comprising 283 acres, is divided into sixteen burgess
parts; but from the 6th of July to the 12th of August, and from the
30th of October to the 24th of November, it is commonable to the bur-
gesses at large. The East Croft contains 51a. 1r. 35p., divided into
thirty-five burgess parts, except three acres, one rood, which form the
piuder's fee. From the 19th of September to the 23rd of October,
each burgess has a right of pasturage for three head of cattle, by
paying 2s. 6d. for each cow, and 3s. for each horse. The herbage
of the fifty-one burgess-parts in the East and West Crofts, during
that part of the year when it is not commonable to the burgesses at
large, belongs to as many poor and aged burgesses, or their widows.
Over Trent Close is divided amongst the aldermen. A piece of land,
bounded by the Whey House Farm, the Boat Close, and the Meadows,
is also the sole property of the Corporation. The Sand and Clay Fields
which lie on the north and north-west side of the town contain six hun-
dred and fifty-four acres, and are the private property of a number of
individuals, subject only to the depasturage of the burgesses.
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26 DIKEGTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
The fields are commonable from the 12th of August to the 12th of
The Forest lies on the north side of the Sand and Clay Fields, and
contains 124 acres ; here the Races are held, and a good Cricket ground is
formed. To the east on the opposite side of the Mansfield Road is Map-
perley Hills, containing about 57 acres, where there are inexhaustable
beds of clay, from whieh most of the bricks have been made, of which the
town is built. The Hunger Hills adjoin them on the east, and now form
about 400 highly-cultivated gardens, each let for about £1. per annum.
These are divided into about forty burgess parts, which are given to as
many aged burgesses or their widows, who let them to the inhabitants
of the town, and each derive from them about £10. yearly. The Coppices
which covered the hill extending from the Hunger Hills to St. Ann's Well,
were cut down many years ago, and the land now forms a fertile farm of
one hundred and ninety acres ; out of the rents of which, the Corporation
pay thirty burgesses 30s. a year each.
The soil of the Forest and Mapperley Plains belong to the Lord of the
Manor ; in other words, it is the soil of the mayor and corporation.
There are 1,600 acres of land in the three parishes, over which the cor-
poration have jurisdiction. The estimated annual value is £2,576 a year.
In 1793, the Bridge Estate was about £300 a year. In 1833, the
Bridge Estate had increased to £1,197. There are some leases granted,
and there has been a great increase of property. This estate was granted
to the corporation for the sustentation of the Trent Bridge.
£. s. d.
DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
The corporation surveyor has a salary of £50 for keeping the accounts,
and giving his opinion as to the value of the corporation property. Ee
has also £30 from the Bridge, and £20 from the Chamber Estate.
The Mayor is the first officer, who is elected by viva voce vote, by the
mayor, aldermen, recorder, coroners, common council, and livery, an-
nually, on the Feast of St. Michael, and until the passing of the Reform
Bill, was allowed, as chief magistrate, three hundred guineas, to defray
the expences of his office. Thomas Wakefield, Esq., being chosen the first
mayor, under the New Municipal Act, did not accept the stipend, which
is considered by some to have been a bad precedent, as there may be
gentlemen selected to fill that important office, who cannot so well afford
to sacrifice their time, and support the dignity of the office, as Mr.
Wakefield. William Vickers, Esq., is the present Mayor (1844.)
The Recorder is the second officer, chosen by the mayor, aldermen,
common council, and livery, for life. His functions are to vote in cor-
porate elections, and at corporate meetings ; he has no salary, and no
incidental emoluments ; the charter is quite silent as to his qualifications
and description. The recorder has always been a nobleman ; the present
recorder is Lord Holland ; his predecessors were the Duke of Portland
and the Duke of Newcastle ; Richard Wildman, Esq., is the deputy-
recorder, appointed in 1837, and receives a salary of £168. a year.
The Aldermen are elected by the mayor, common council, and livery.,
and are all justices of the peace. They have no salary, and no incidental
emoluments. The aldermen under the old corporation had the seventh
part of a meadow, containing 12a. 1r. 24p., known by the name of " The
Aldermen's Parts," which were let out for five or six guineas each. It
The Two Sheriffs are elected by the mayor, aldermen, recorder,- com-
mon council, and livery. They have no salaries or incidental emoluments.
They are to execute all the Queen's writs, to preside with the mayor, to
hold courts of record, and to return the Queen's writ for Members to
serve in Parliament. They are to receive the bridge tolls, the post fine,
and chief rent, and pay a fee-farm rent to the Crown of £63., and the
under-sheriffs bill. The under-sheriff is also steward, and is appointed
by the sheriff viva voce to both offices. His duties are similar to those
of similar officers for counties at large.
The Town Clerk is elected viva voce by the mayor, aldermen, and common
council, for life. He is clerk of the peace, as well as town 'clerk ; the
duties are separate, but the offices are always concentrated in one person.
It requires only one appointment, and one oath. The salary is £3 13s. 4d.
a year. As far as the records go back, he is paid his bill £430., by the
Chambers, out of the rents of the corporation. He has also yearly bills
for business done for the Bridge, the School, and Lambley estates,
and for the management of Sir Thomas White's fund. The sums he
receives are, — for the Bridge estate, £60. ; the School estate, £60. ; Sir
Thomas White's fund, £60. ; and the Lambley estate, £5. The town
clerk has also a fee of one shilling and sixpence on the admission of
every burgess, paid by the burgess, and also a fee of one guinea for affix-
ing the seal of the corporation. The town clerk has always been the
professional adviser of the corporation, —he has his bill as the solicitor of
the corporation ; he has, also, half-a-guinea for affixing the mayor's pri-
vate seal, one shilling for the enrolment of every indenture of apprentice-
ship, and £1 from the charity of the late Mr. Alderman Parker, as
directed by his will. In case of a purchase of an estate, the town clerk
transacts the business.
The Tioo Chamberlains are chosen by the mayor, aldermen, common
council, and livery, and may be chosen out of the burgesses. They
have a salary of £1. 6s. 8d. per year, and two cattle gates in the East
Croft Meadow, worth 12s.
gate.
The Wood Ward is appointed by the mayor ; and he is to look after
the woods, coppices, and fields, for which he has £2, 13s. 4d. a year. It
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for sheep, and 4d. for a pig. He has also a fee of 3d. on the admis-
sion of a burgess.
The Pindar Keeper of the Meadows is appointed as the other, and has a
salary of £16. a year.
The Town Crier is appointed by the mayor ; has 16s. for ringing the
market bell, 2s. 6d. for crying a common hall, and Is. for crying for an
inhabitant.
Municipal Reform.--- 5th and 6th William IV., c. 66, passed 9th
September, 1835, and is certainly a most beneficial act, the chief pro-
To take security from such officers, for the due discharge of their duties,
and to fill up vacancies as they may occur in those situations, sec. 58.
registered, and in case the mayor, upon a requisition to that effect, shoul'd
tions, and to levy a watch rate, sec. 92. It is authorised to renew_ leases
in certain cases, but cannot grant leases for a longer term than thirty -one
years, or sell or alienate any corporate lands, without the approbation of the
Lords of the Treasury. It is to fix the salary of the police magistrate, to
118 ; and also a registrar, &c, and have power to remove from office
the assessors at the election of councillors, and also with the assessors to
revise burgess lists, and appoint clerks for the same, sec. 18. The mayor
to sign a declaration of his acceptance of office, and of his possession of
the requisite qualification, sec. 50. Any councillor elected mayor, but
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official, sec. 53. The mayor is a justice of the peace, ex officio, for the
year of his mayoralty, and the year after, and to have precedence within
the borough, and to be the returning officer at elections for Members of
Parliament, sec. 59 ; he shall sign the notices of meetings of the council,
and in the absence of the recorder, is empowered to open and adjourn
the court of quarter sessions, sec. 106.
Aldermen are to be one-third in number of the councillors, elected
triennially, on the 9th of November, or chosen from the town councillors
or others having the same qualification, half their number to go out of
office every three years ; are not to vote for their successors, but are
eligible for re-election, sec. 25. No one can be elected an alderman, who
is not enrolled in the burgess list, nor unless possessed of a thousand
pounds property, or rated at the annual value of £30., or while holding
any office in the gift of the council, otherwise than that of mayor, nor
while sharing in any contract of employment from the council, sec. 28 ;
not exceeding £50., to the borough fund, which, if not duly paid upon
application of the council, shall be levied by distress and sale ; must sub-
scribe a declaration within five days, or be liable to a fine, sec. 51-
Becoming bankrupt or insolvent, or leaving the borough for more than six
53. No alderman can be appointed coroner, sec. 62, nor recorder, see.
103, are exempt from serving on juries, in their own boroughs. The
number of aldermen are fourteen.
Councillors are chosen in wards, on the 1st November, by persons
whose names are on the burgess roll of such wards. One third part of
at four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day. Every burgess entitled
may vote for any number of persons not exceeding the number of coun-
cillors, to be chosen by delivering to the mayor or assessors, a voting
paper containing the christian and surnames of the persons for whom he
32 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
votes, and signed with his own name and residence, or the property for
which he appears to vote, sec. 32. No councillor is eligible as auditor or
assessor. The barristers appointed have divided the town into seven
wards, — St. Ann's-ward, Byron-ward, St. Mary's-ward, Exchange- ward'
Castle-ward, Park- ward, and Sherwood-ward. Six councillors are chosen
in each ward.
St. Ann's Ward. — Commencing at Mr. Carey's shop, up the north side
of Pelham-street, west side of George-street, north side of Lower Parlia-
ment-street, St. John's -street, west side of Beck-barn, northward along
the Stone-waterings, to the extremity of the borough, then west, crossing
the footway to the Hunger-hills and Goosewing-lane, along the Clay-
fields as far as Mansfleld-road ; from thence, in a strait line, along
Melbourne-street, Milton-street, and Clumber-street, to Mr. Carey's shop.
This is the boundary of St. Ann's-ward.
Sherwood Ward. — Commencing at Mr. Thompson's shop, corner of
Long-row, taking in all the west side along Clumber- street, Milton-street,
Melbourne-street, Mansfleld-road, Mars-hill, along the Horse road lead-
ing to the "Windmills, by which it passes in a southern direction, as far
as the Alfreton-road, then eastward past the General Cemetery, down the
east side of Toll-street, Chapel-bar and Long-row, to Mr. Thompson's.
This is the boundary of Sherwood Ward.
Park Ward.— Commencing at Mr. Smith's shop, south-west corner of
Chapel-bar, up Toll-street, taking in all the south-side of Back-lane, to
the front of the General Cemetery, across Derby-road, along the new
street now forming on the western boundaries of the newly-enclosed
land called the Sand-field, to the reservoir belonging to the Trent Water-
works, east side of Postern-street, St. James's terrace, the Hollows, to
Castle-gate, of which it takes the north side, to St. Peter's-square, west
side of Wheeler-gate, Beastmarket-hill, Angel-row, to Mr. Smith's at
Chapel-bar.
Exchange Ward Commencing at Mr. Staveley's, westward along
Smithy-row, taking in the whole of the Market-place, up to Mount-street,
then eastward by Exchange-row, Cheapside, High-street, taking the east
side of Bridlesmith-gate, Drury-hill, Middle-marsh, Sussex-street, across
Canal-street, Trent-row, over the wooden bridge, along the foot road
To each of these wards six councillors are appointed, sec. 40. A person
elected councillor for more than one ward, is to notify his choice within
three days, in default of this the mayor shall choose for him ; occasional
vacancies in the council, are to be filled up by a fresh election within ten
days, but no fresh election is to take place upon an extraordinary vacancy
unless it be reduced to less than two-thirds of its number, councillors
must subscribe, before two aldermen, a declaration of their acceptance of
office, and their pecuniary qualification. A burgess elected councillor,
and not accepting office, is to pay a fine to the borough fund of £50. No
person disabled by lunacy, imbecility of mind, or deafness, blindness, or
any other permanent infirmity of the body, is liable to pay such fine ; and
any person above sixty-five years of age, or has served, or paid the fine,
is exempt, if he claim within five days after his election ; naval and mili-
tary officers aTe exempt ; bankruptcy, insolvency, or leaving the borough
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more than six months, disqualify. The law with regard to their privi-
leges and exemptions are the same as aldermen.
6. Assessors. —Two are elected annually by the burgesses of every cor-
poration, after the same manner that councillors are elected, and must
have the same qualifications, and in conjunction with the mayor to revise
the burgess lists, insert and expunge names, &c, be present at the elec-
tion of councillors, and with the mayor, to ascertain the result of elections,
at least five years standing, and to hold office during his good behaviour.
His salary is to be paid by the treasurer of the borough fund, but he
cannot be a member for the borough, an alderman, or councillor ; he is
lists of claimants and of persons objected, to, to keep a copy for inspection,
without fee, and copies for sale at one shilling each, sec. 17. He is
council when required, and a summary remedy is given against him for
borough.
9. Treasurer. — Is appointed by the council, of which he cannot be a
member, but can be removed Must give security
at pleasure, sec. 65.
upon order from the council, sec. 59. Submit his accounts when required
by council, and a summary remedy is to be had against him for not
accounting, sec. 60. He is to keep his accounts open for the inspection
DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 35
20s. for each inquest, and 9d. for every mile exceeding two, and make
an annual return of the inquests held by him, to the Secretary of State.
15. Clerk of the Peace is appointed by the council, the appointed clerk
to justices ; his partner or clerk are ineligible to the office of clerk of the
peace, under a penalty of £100 ; the duties are to give ten days notice of
time and place of holding court of quarter sessions ; to summons, at least
seven days before, a sufficient number of grand jurors, and to make out a
list of the names and descriptions of jurors summoned, sec. 121. The
fees payable to this officer are settled by the town council, and confirmed
by the Secretary of State, sec. 24.
16. Overseers of the poor are to make out lists of persons entitled to be
burgesses, which they are to sign and deliver to the town clerk, on the
5th September, every year.
17. Burgesses and Freemen — No one can become such of any borough
by gift or purchase ; but all rights of property in common lands, and
public stock, money or chattels, are reserved to all existing freemen and
burgesses ; and to such persons as might have become freemen or bur-
gesses, had this act not passed, and to their wives, widows, children, or
apprentices, a discharge and exemption from all tolls, dues only excepted.
Nevertheless it is provided that freemen, to be entitled to the beneficial
exemptions, shall have acquired their rights prior to the 5th of June,
1835. All occupiers of houses and shops, rated for three years for the
relief of the poor, are entitled to be burgesses, if resident householders
within seven miles, sec. 9 ; occupancy and the payment of rates are the
only qualifications, sec. 9.
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The burgess roll is annually made out by the overseers ; no stamp duty
is payable on the enrolment of a burgess, and every burgess whose name
is found in the roll, is entitled to vote in the election of councillors, and
for auditors. No inquiry is permitted to be made, except as to the iden-
tity of the voter, in which case three questions are asked : — 1st, are you
the person whose name is signed A. B. to the voting paper now delivered
in by you ? 2nd, are you the person whose name appears as A. B. on the
burgess roll now in force for this borough, being registered therein as
borough, to the amount of £5 and upwards ; and 5th, have paid, before
the last day of August, all poor rates and borough rates for the said
premises, except such as became payable six calendar months before the
last day of August. Such premises need not to have been continuously
the same, sec. 9, 13, and 28.
change.
Quarterly Meetings of the Council — First Thursday in Feb-
ruary, May, and August, and November 9, at the Guildhall, at Ten.
The Corporation are Trustees for the Bridge Estate, the School Estate, the
Lambley Estate, and other Charities. The following is an abstract of their
DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 39
The Exchange Hall Sham. 435 17 6 Cash for the East Croft
The Hancock Ditto 70 13 Agistment 16 6
The Country or Dunkirk . . 298 16 3 Cash from Sales of Parish
The North Ditto 108 16 and Ward Lists 6
The Langley Ditto 96 15 6 Cash of the Governor of
The Jalland Ditto 1 36 5 6 the House of Correction,
The Outside Stalls 23 10 6 for the maintenance of
To Cash for the Market Stall- Military Prisoners con-
ages & Tolls, &for Stall- iined there 7 12 8
age at the Races 1 149 18 8 Cash received at the Cop-
To Cash for the use of the pice Gate 19 8
Exchange Rooms on divers Fine paid on a Resignation
occasions 1 20 6 of the Office of Auditor. 25
To ('ash for Pasture & Grass
of the West Croft 49 19 5 £12,177 17 7
To ditto from the Court of
£. S. d. £. 8. d.
RuralLodgeBenev.SickFund 300 cleaning and lighting the
Mr. G. N. Walsh, (see "Sales Shambles Lamps 9 2 6
of Land Fund " Account) 100 One year's Property Tax on
The Minister of St. Mary, for the whole of the Chamber
Robinson's Charity, I year, Estate HO 8 10
due 21st September 3 One year's Insurance on the
The Minister of St. Nicholas Guildhall, Exchange Hall,
for the like 1 10 Shambles, and other Build-
The Minister of St. Nicholas ings Insured 40 15
forTibson's Charity, 1 year, Rents paid for Rooms during
due 21st September 1 Municipal Elections and
The Vicar of St. Mary, being other incidental expenses 6 6
Staple's Charity for preach- Printing, Stationery, & Adv. 144 5 6
ing two Sermons yearly, Printing Lists of Burgesses,
due Christmas, 1842 10 and Bills as to Election of
The Rector of St. Nicholas, Councillors, Auditors, As-
an Annuity charged on the sessors, &c 55 17 6
Rents and Profits of But- Water Rents for various parts
cher's Close 4 5 of the Estate 17 11 6
The Surveyor 66 13 4 The Sexton of Saint Peter's
The Town Clerk 500 Annuity for Ringing Mar-
The Field Pinder 20 10 gery Doubleday's Bell . J
DIRECTORY OF NOTXIXG-KA.M. 4i
£. s. £. s. d.
£. s. a.
i
£. s. d.
Caudles, Soap, and Gleaning Allowance to Policemen in-
Materials, and Scouring jured when on duty 1
Blankets Watch-house
for 3 ] ] 2 Medical attendance on them 6 1] 6
j
Repairs, and
Alterations, Constables attending the Par-
Whitewashing Watch-hse. 8 8 7 I liamentary Election in Apr.
Lanterns and Rattles for the and extra Police Duty at
Police 2 9 9 j
Public Meetings 15 13
Stationery 4 15 4 j
By the proportion chargeable
Oil and Cotton for Policemen's to the Borough of Notting-
Lamps 16 17 1 ham of the expenditure on
Gas to the Watch and Station the Fabric Account of the
House 6 5 8 Lunatic Asylum, for the
Coal for Watch and Station year ending 30th June, 1843 311 11 10
House 20 3 5 By Bal. in the Treas. hands 438 14 4
Water Rent 2 2
Dntv in the Fields& Meadows 29 Q £12,177 17 7
39 y. To Receipts. £. s. d. £. s. d.
To Balance of last year 765 13 8 mutation for maintaining
To Rentsof Messuages,Lands part of the Road from Not-
and Hereditaments, due tingham to the Trent Edge. 100
Lady -day, 1843 1982 8 9 Gas for the Trent Bridge
Lamps 13 15 7
£2,748 2 5 Water Rent and Land Tax . 9 1(5
Property Tax on the whole of
Ct, By Payments. £. the Bridge Estate 47 12 3
Henry Keyworth for surren- Stationery, Advertizing, and
der of his Lease, and pay- other incidentals 68 8 11
able until Lady-day, 1844 147 Payments to Burgesses and
Samuel Ragg for surrender their Widows in lieu of
of his Lease, 10s. a week Burgess Parts 148 14 8
for his life 26 Repairs of Houses and other
The Trustees of the late John Buildings on various parts
Clay's Children, for Premi- of the Bridge Estate 41 2 4
ses in Millstone-lane, taken Compensations to various per-
by the Bridge Estate, and sons for Land, being Bur-
payable per annum until gess Parts, taken from them
Lady-day, 1844 10 8 for the formation of the
The Surveyor 33 6 8 Coppice Road 5 7 9
The Town Clerk 100 By Cash to the Carrington
The Rent Collector 30 Street Bridge Committee,
The Accountant 50 temporary Loans advanced
Thomas Smart, Salary as per to them, as per Orders of
Contract, for keeping the Council of 9th November,
Trent Bridge Rd. in repair 100 1842, and 4th May, 1843 1510
The Keeper of the Lodge on By Balance in Treasurer's
the Coppice Road 10 8 hands 296 16 9
The Flood Road Trustees, an
annual payment fixed by £2,748 2 5
Act of Parliament, in com-
;
DIRECTOBY OF NOTTINGHAM. 45
the sureties requiring them to sign a declaration, that during the nine
years they are not to hold or receive any part of the £50. The Common
Hall vote the money to all applicants, leaving the Bond Committee to
accept or reject the sureties. The latter meet every two months, to
money returned.
In 1827, the sums due on outstanding bonds were £10,470, and a
balance of £2,296 5s. in the bank of Messrs. Hart, Fellows, & Co., to the
credit of the charity, who allowed 2\ per cent, interest. In 1829, 1834,
and 1839, three sums amounting to £3,511 12s. 2d. were received, and the
present year a further sum will be due, which will make a total of between
£17,000 and £18,000 belonging to this charity. The Trustees are the
same as the Grammar School. The Chamber Estate owes to the charity
£3,400 ; and the Lambley Estate, £800 ; for which 3 per cent, interest
is paid.
THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL
In Stoney Street, founded by Dame Agnes Mellors, in 1513, was rebuilt
of stone, in 1830. William Wilson, Esq., Mayor ; Henry Leaver, gent.
and William Soars, Alderman ; Schoolwardens. The present income of
this munificent charity is upwards of £700 a year, arising from lands,
houses, and tithes. A statement of the property belonging to the charity,
44 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM*
the dates of the several leases, and other particulars, are given in the
Commissioners Reports. At the expiration of the leases, a considerable
improvement in the income of the school may be expected. In 1827,
the annual rental of the lands, tenements, &c, amounted to £529 18s. 4d.
The total quantity of land in the fields and meadows is 1597a. 2r. 24p.
of which 1265a. 3r. 2p. are titheable for the benefit of the charity
The sum received from June 1823, to June 1827, five years, averaged
£165 per annum. In 1827, the outlay of the schoolwardens, for masters'
salaries, £310., surveyor and accountant, £20., collector of tithes and
rents, £20., repairs, (about an average of twenty years,) £185., town
clerk's bill, £27., wine purchased for committee, £10., copy books, &c,
£16., cleaning school, £6., coals and candles, £8., water-rate, £2., sun-
dries, £2., total, £606. The school property has increased since 1728,
when it was only £94 a year, as follows: —In 1740, £122. ; 1750, £133.
1760, £159. ; 1770, £200.; 1780, £227.; 1790, £265.; 1800, £336.;
1810, £592.; 1820, £619.; and 1827, to £698. Until within the last
twenty years, the school was an old room, which was new-modelled, and
made into two rooms, a lower and a upper, and capable of accommodating
sixty scholars, the number then on the foundation. The number of
scholars since the school has been re-built now extended
is to eighty.
Latin, Greek, French, reading, writing, and accounts, are now taught.
The masters by the Charity Trustees appointed under
are appointed
the Municipal Corporation Act. Under the foundation deed the trustees
have the power of making new ordinances for the better government
of the school; accordingly, new ordinances were made on April 10th,
1828, and subsequent periods ; under which the school is now managed.
The inhabitants of Nottingham have bright to send children to the school,
who are nominated by the trustees. The head master the Rev. W. Butler,
M.A., was appointed in 1833 ; he has a good house to reside in, and a
salary of £150. a year, with licence to take ten boarders into his house.
The usher, Mr. Samuel Langworth, has a salary of £110 a year. The
writing-masters, Mr. Thomas Sparey, £110., and Mr. Thomas Hewson,
£100 a year. In 1836, the following gentlemen were appointed trustees
of this and the following charities ; viz., Sir Thomas White's, the Lambley,
Lady Grantham's, and Bilby's charities. Thomas Wakefield, Esq., Aid.
Hart, Alderman Heard, Alderman Roworth, Alderman Wells, Alderman
Leaver, Mr. J. Swann, Alderman Vickers, Mr. Boothby, jun., (non-resi-
dent,) Mr. Gedling, jun., (since dead,) Mr. Nunn, Mr. Scorer, (non-resi-
dent,) Mr. Roberts, Dr. J. C. Williams, and Mr. Mills ; clerk, Mr. S.
Moore, High-pavement.
; 1 : .
DIBECTOBY OF NOTTINGHAM. 45
Before the passing of the Reform Bill the Corporation had great
influence in elections ; notwithstanding, vast sums of money have been
expended in contested elections for the Town and County of the Town
of Nottingham. So long as the Corporation had the power of making
honorary burgesses, it rendered all attempts to oppose them futile.
NOTTINGHAM ELECTIONS.
1710. 1807. Votes.
Votes. Votes. Sir J. C. Hobhouse 1591
John Plumptre, Esq. 728 John Smith, Esq. 1216 William Eagle, Esq. 566
Robt. Sache?erel,Esq. 703 D. Parker Coke, Esq. 937
1835.
Robie Sherwin, Esq. 675 Dr. Crompton 635
Sir R. C. Ferguson and Sir
Borlas Warren, Esq. 574 1812.
John Cam Hobhouse re-
J 722. John Smith, Esq. 2012
turned without opposition
John Plumptre, Esq. 866 Lord Rancliffe 1615
George Gregory, Esq. 808 R. Arkwright, Esq. 1239 1837.
Borlas Warren, Esq. 756 This contest cost Mr. Arkwright Sir R. C. Ferguson 2056
nearly i 20,000. Sir J. C. Hobhouse 2052
Total Polled 1562.
1818. J. C. Plowden, Esq. 1397
1754.
Joseph Birch, Esq. 2228 Horace Twiss, Esq. 1396
Lord Howe 980
Lord Raucliffe 1868
Sir Willoughby Aston 924 1841.*
John Smith, Esq. 1839
John Plumptre, Esq. 915 This was a rery se»er? contest; (Sir R. C. Ferguson died.)
Total Polled the majority, according to one au-
thority, only 23 for Lord Kancliffe
J.Walter, sen., Esq. 1983
Freeholders . . 145
1820. Larpent, Esq. 1745
Burgesses 1757
. .
J 774.
Joseph Birch, Esq. 1891 1841.
Sir Chas. Sedlev, Bt. 1114 Thos. Denman, Esq. 1891 The Candidates were Hobhouse,
Hon Col. W. Howe 971 Asheton Smith, Esq. 18)8 Larpent, J Walter, sen , and T B
^ Lord Edw. Bentinck 91 Col. Rolleston
1826.
1858
.
COURTS OF LAW.
The County Court of the Town is held at the Guild Hall, on every
fourthWednesday, before the Sheriffs of the Town and County of the
Town, for the recovery of debts and damages, under 40s. but, by virtue ;
of a special writ, called a " Justicies," this court may hold plea of many
real actions, and of all personal actions, to any amount, though it is not a
Court of Record ; and the proceedings may be removed from it to the
Queen's superior courts, by writ of pone or recordare.
The Mayor and Sheriffs' Court is held at the Guildhall, on every alter-
nate Wednesday, before the mayor and sheriffs, who are its judges. It
holds pleas of all actions, whether real, personal, or mixt to any amount,
arising within the county of the town of Nottingham. The judges depute
a steward for the purpose of issuing writs of capias ad respondendem, and
ad satisfaciendum; the first of which makes the defendant answerable to
the .plaintiff, and the second is a writ of execution after judgment, em-
powering the officer to take and detain the body of the defendant until
satisfaction be made to the plaintiff. The Steward is the Under-Sheriff
of the town, and the officers are the two Serjeants-at-Mace. The number
of causes entered in this court in 1831-2, up to Michaelmas, had been
300 actions commenced, 15 enquiries, 13 brought to issue, and 4 tried.
high as £50. It is a court of pleas, and extends its jurisdiction over the
whole of the Honour of Peveril, which comprises 170 towns and villages
in Nottinghamshire, 120 in Derbyshire, and several in Leicestershire and
Yorkshire. The town of Nottingham was exonerated from its jurisdic-
tion in 1316. In 1707 Queen Anne granted the Honour of Peveril to
DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 47
roof; on the right is the NisiPrius Court, and on the left the Crown Court,
both of which are small, but very conveniently fitted up, having under-
gone considerable alterations in their internal arrangement about fifteen
years since. The Petty Sessions are held in the grand jury room, in which
are full-length portraits of George III. and Queen Charlotte. The prison is
behind the Hall, on a slope of the rock, which rises to the height of seventy
feet above Narrow Marsh, and commands an extensive view of the country
south of the Trent. The cells and courts are clean and airy, and very
secure, though a female prisoner, in 1831, escaped by throwing herself
over the prison wall, into the Narrow Marsh, where she was taken up by
some of the inhabitants, who concealed her till she regained the use of
her limbs, and then so disguised her that she left the town, and escaped
the vigilance of her pursuers. On Sunday, 31st of December, 1843, six
convicted felons broke out of the prison. They effected their purpose about
half-past four in the afternoon, in the absence of some of the turnkeys.
Their first object was to secure the turnkey, who waited upon them, by
locking him up in the cell, and obtain from him the keys ; having suc-
ceeded in this, they made their way towards the entrance door, but before
they had cleared the prison, they were met by another turnkey, (who had
been in the town, and was returning to his duties,) in the passage of the
prison leading to the front door ; he was instantly struck down by one of
the prisoners, by a brick end or stone they had put into a stocking, and
got clear away. William Lownds, the turnkey, was so seriously injured
from the blow he received on the head, that for some days his recovery
was doubtful. Three of the prisoners, viz., Joseph Bower, John Smith,
and William Green, are still at large. Thomas Burton was re-captured
48 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM,
the same night in Colwick Park, William Binns was taken at Leeds, on
the 5th of January, and William Thompson at Sneinton, on the 8th of
February, 1844. A reward of £360 was offered for their apprehension,
viz: —£50 by the Secretary of State, and £10 by Mr. Brierley, for each
convict. There are forty cells, and the prison is calculated to contain
from sixty to eighty prisoners. M
a good brick building, faced with stucco, with a projecting front, sup-
ported by ten wooden pillars of the Tuscan order, forming a piazza, under
which is the entrance to the prison and the goaler's house. It was re-built
soon after 1741, as was also the prison in 1791, since which many alter-
ations have been made. The Hall, 39 feet long and 32 feet broad, is
approached by a flight of steps, at the west end. Here the town assizes,
sessions, courts, and corporation elections are held. On the east side of
the Hall is a handsome council chamber, which serves also for the grand
jury room, and is adorned with portraits of Sir Thomas White, George
Coldham, Esq., (late town clerk,) and other distinguished characters.
The whole length of the building is 104 feet; the Goal is underneath
the Hall ;
goaler, Mr. Robert Lineker ; matron, Miss Sarah Lineker ;
gave them to the corporation, by whom the convent was converted into a
Bridewell, to which, from time to time, great additions have been made.
A new wing was added in 1806 ; in 1826 a tread-mill was erected, the
labour of which raises the water from a spring for the use of the prison.
In 1827, or 1828, the corporation borrowed the sum of £3,350 on the
DIRECTORY or NOTTINGHAM. 49
county rate, which was expended on building the outer walls, and some
part of the foundation for a new goal.
of the land for the new goal was land belonging to the corporation. The
land adjoining the House of Correction belongs the Bridge Estate, and
pays a ground rent. The sum paid out of the county rate to the Bridge
new goal, is £58., and for the House of Correction, £36 10s.
Estate, for the
The average number of prisoners last year was 58. The corporation have
it in contemplation to do away with the prison under the Guild Hall, and
to remove the prisoners to the House of Correction, which would be a
St. Mary's parish is the largest of the three parochial divisions of the
town and county of the town of Nottingham, as it contains four -fifths of
the buildings and population, [see table-page 7,] and the whole of the
forest and burgess land, comprising 1,600 acres. It includes all the
buildings and lands on the south side of the Leen, betwixt the Trent and
the parishes of Sneinton and Lenton, and all that part of the town on the
north side of the Leen lying east of Sussex-street, Middle-hill, Market-
street, and Fletcher-gate, whence its boundary turns westward, and
includes all the buildings north of Bottle-lane, Poultry, Timber-hill,
Beastmarket-hill, Chapel-bar, and the Park, until it joins the parish of
Radford. Its principal streets are the High-pavement, Stoney-street.
2 M
DIKECTOEY OF NOTTINGHAM.
£92,859, viz., buildings £89,736., and land £2,576. ; the amount of a rate
£3,900, and there are generally six rates in the year ; £23,400. collected
for poor and county-rate. Until 1808, only two overseers were appointed
annually ; but since that year four have been chosen, also two church-
wardens, and twelve guardians of the poor.
collegiate style, in the form of a Latin Cross, with a broad square em-
battled tower, terminated with pinnacles rising from the intersection. It-
stands on the highest rock on which the three parish churches are built,
upon a bold eminence it is ; situated on the north side of the High -pave-
ment, which rises sixty-nine feet above the river Leen and the meadows,
so that it presents a commanding and grand appearance to the spectator
in almost every direction. The foundations are not deep laid upon the
rock, but on a composition. It has evidently been re-built in the Gothic
style of architecture, which prevailed in the reign of Henry VII. ; and
Leland, who visited Nottingham about 1540, describes this Church of St.
Its exterior dimensions are, from east to Avest 215 feet ; from south to
north at the transepts 100 feet; the nave is 108 feet by 32 feet; the
DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 51
aisles 20 feet each ; total width 72 feet ; the transepts 100 feet by 35
feet, the space between the centre of the two piers of the tower 32 feeU
height to the crown of the arches of the tower 45 feet, the chancel 75
by 35 feet, the height to the ridge of the roof 52 feet, the vestry 25
feet by 22 feet, and the porch 13 feet square ; the height of the tower
to the top of the pinnacles is 126 feet. The whole is contrived like a
collegiate church, with stalls on both sides the choir, which last being-
very much decayed in 1625, was put in repair by the farmers of the
tithes, by sequestration of the profits. In 1726-7, the west-end was
re-built in the Doric order, (a display of bad taste,) and the chancel
adorned with a very handsome altar-piece of neat joiner's- work. In the
chancel are fourteen prebendal stalls, made of richly-carved oak, having,
beside other ornaments on the seats, elbows, and backs, numerous gro-
tesque, figures, flowers, &c. Formerly the windows of the church were
adorned with a great variety of figures on painted glass ; a beautiful,
though mutilated, figure of St. Andrew yet remains in the north window
of the chancel. Dr. Deering informs us that there was a painting of St.
Christopher carrying the child Jesus on his shoulder over a river, on the
wall of the chancel. The beautiful Gothic font is large, and has an in-
scription in Greek running round it, and probably is of the same age as
the church. In 1707 a clock was added to this church, made by Mr-
John Howe, of Epperstone, and placed in the upper part of the large
window of the south transept, where it continued 100 years. In 1807,
the clock being very much worn, was removed, and a new one made by
Mr. Thomas Hardy, of Nottingham, for £l26. This clock has quarter-
jacks, and two dials placed east and west in the tower, but no chimes.
The organ-gallery was formerly at the west-end of the chancel. During
the troubles that preceded the civil war, the churchwardens were obliged
to sell the organ-pipes, leaving only the empty case standing, and there
was from that time no organ in the church till 1704. In the second year
of the reign of Queen Anne, a voluntary subscription was made, and a
new set of pipes were purchased for the old organ, which was removed,
and set upon a gallery erected nearly half-way down the nave from the
transept, supported by Tuscan columns, over which was a painting of
David playing on the harp. In 1742 this organ was taken down and
repaired by Mr. Swabrick, of Warwick. In 1776-7 the old organ was
sold, and a handsome new one, with two fronts, was built by the cele-
brated Mr. John Snetzler, of London, at the cost of £630. The present
organ is a fine old instrument, and is justly admired for its tone and
52 J >I RECTORY or NOTTINGHAM.
elegance. This organ was further improved under the able management
of Mr. A. Buckingham, of London, who added horizontal bellows, a set
commodation for the singers, and the children belonging to the Blue
Coat School, who are taught psalmody and chanting. The front of this
gallery is of stone, in the Gothic order of architecture. With the excep-
tion of this small erection, the nave, the north and south transepts, and
side aisles, are thrown open, and the whole building, except the chancel,
is now used for public worship. In 1839, the galleries which had been
erected in the north and south transepts, as well as the old organ gallery,
were taken down. The whole of the nave, side aisles, and the transepts,
were very neatly pewed, and painted oak, by which means 666 additional
sittings were obtained ; and in consequence of a grant from the Incor-
porated Church Building Society, 380 of that number were made free, in
tapering to the crown, an angel at the head, and the countenance sweet
and imploring. This statue was formerly placed on a richly-decorated
altar-tomb, over which is a very handsome Gothic canopy ; the latter
still remains, and to re-place the former, a recumbent effigy in marble,
supposed to belong to a respectable family of the name of RatclifFe, with
— —
DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 53
"Robert Wright, died 17 Mar. 1799, aged 74, and three sons and
six daughters, and Mary, his wife, d. 5 Mar. 1803, a. 74. Edmund,
their son, died 16 May, 1820, a. 46, and Frances, their dau. 1 Dec. 1822,
May, dau. of Thomas Wright, d. 9 Nov. 1713 ; John Wright, Esq., eld.
son of Ichabod and Elizabeth, died 17 Dec. 1789, a. 66 ; Anne, his wife,
dau. of John Sherbrooke, Esq., d. 5 Mar. 1792, aged 70 ; also his two
sisters, Elizabeth died 20 Feb. 1800, a. 71, and Hannah, 23 Aug. 1824,
aged 86 ; Thomas Wright, Esq., d. 20 July, 1790, a. 65 ; Mary his wife,
d. 19 Mary, 1817, a. 79; Mary Neville, their dau. d. 25 Nov. 1784, a.
supposed to have been caused through the settling of it, at the time it
was built ; others are of opinion that the removal of the galleries in the
north and south transepts have caused it to give way ; notwithstanding, it
created considerable alarm, and Mr. Cottingham, of London, was sent for
to examine the tower, and give his opinion as to the danger or safety of
it, and he reported that it was in great danger of falling, and imme-
diately commenced propping it, at the cost of from £500. to £600.
The foundation stones of the piers of the tower consist of various frag-
ments of a much earlier building, probably Saxon, or very early Norman.
They consist of capitals,* shafts, bases, arch mouldings, and plain ashlar
* Mr. Robinson, clerk to Messrs. Walker's, made drawings of two of the capitals
discovered in the foundation of the piers. They are exceeding fine specimens of the
pure Norman style, and the probable date, as inferred from their characteristic
ornaments and workmauship, is from the year 1100 to 1150. One of them consists
of interlacing bands, studded with the nail-head ornament, very commonly found
in the pure Norman and transition periods, and ending in foliage, the pointed
arches formed by the intersection of the bands or scrolls, are also enriched by a grace-
ful leaf: the design of this capital is simple, yet very elegant. The other, which
is the most singular, consists of two winged animals, with a grotesque human head,
which forms the corner of the capital, their tails, which meet in the centre, end in
foliage ; each of them has two feet, which rest on foliage ; the capitals have square
abaci, which are three feet one inch in diameter, and circular torus neck moulds, and
from the diameter at this part the circular column or shaft must have been about two
feet six inches ; the most perfect capitals were found at the base of the north-west pier,
and formed the quoins at the angles of the square footing, — they had evidently
been inserted directly after the destruction of the ancient edifice, as the crimson dis-
temper colour, with which they had been enriched, was in most parts quite fresh. The
foundation of the south-western pier also contained a mutilated capital, which ex-
hibited some beautiful foliage, and many fragments of zig-zag arch mouldings ; also,
part of the shaft and base of a clustered column, apparently of early decorated cha-
^icter, probably of the latter part of the reign of Henry III. It is most likely that
56 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
such as blue, red, &c. These fragments are built up without mortar,
and but slightly bonded on the face ; one of the angles has an upright
joint throughout. The base of the piers have been well secured with
concrete. These piers have a light and elegant appearance ; they are
built in the perpendicular style, with slender shafts, and faintly cut
mouldings, and orices on the face ; the centre or core is filled in with stone
chippings and mortar. The height from the floor line to the top of the
moulded capitals, is twenty-eight feet ten inches, and the diameter at the
bottom of the bases seven feet eight inches. The moulded facing in
many parts is not more than seven or eight inches thick. The four
arches which spring from the tops of these piers are very lofty and
graceful, but they have been sadly mutilated by cutting away the mould-
ings to receive the timber work of some modern plaster ceilings.
the capitals formed part of the nave of the church, and the decorated remains of the
choir, which, if this were the case, would appear to have had aisles, from whence we
may infer that the ancient edifice was of considerable extent. Many very beautiful
specimens of Encaustic or inlaid paving tiles were likewise found in the several exca-
vations ; indeed, a complete series of different ages and design might have been formed,
had they been collected together. The most common variety is about five and a half
inches square, highly glazed, and contains a shield bearing three lions, fleur-de-lis,
&c. ; these tiles, as they are the most common, are also of the latest date, and probably
formed the original pavement of the present church. Others which are about four and
three quarter inches square, appear to be the next in point of age; they have various
patterns of elegant foliage and diaper- work of lozenges, circles, and quatrefoils, which,
when properly fitted, produce beautiful combinations; these we may with safet}' refer
to the decorated period of the middle of the fourteenth century, — they are in general
of better workmanship, and have a more even surface than the others. Another variety
are four and a half inches square, and have the device of a bell, a key, aud a sword,
upon the same tile; these, we should think, are earlier still; but the most ancient
which may
be of Norman, or at least not later than the early English period, are three
inches square, and contain rude designs of a greyhound, and other animals; these arc
in general much worn, aud are of very much ruder design and workmanship than the
others. much to be lamented that these beautiful specimens of the fancy and
It is very
invention of our Gothic ancestors were dispersed as they have been ; they would have
been invaluable, to the contemplated School of Design, as also would casts of the
capitals. We are iuformed that Mr. Cottingham took casts of the latter, and thpn
either broke them up, or reburied them.
IHRECTORY OF VoTTIN OHAM . 57
The tower, consisting of two stages above the church roof, is crowned
with a good battlement, and eight wiry modern pinnacles, one of which
was lately blown down on to the roof, and it is Mr. Cottingham's
opinion that the others will soon follow, if not taken off. The body of
the tower is nearly perpendicular. There is a very large brick vault, on
the east side of the north transept, abutting on the pier of the tower,
which has tended to weaken that part of the fabric.
beams and rafters repaired and restored. The plaster ceiling of the
chancel has been removed, and a great portion of the original oak roof
was found ; it is a very chaste design, but sadly decayed in the main
timbers, which has been facilitated by the exclusion of air by the ceiling
The removal of the modern wainscoting at the east end of the chancel,
has fully developed the lower compartments of a beautiful window, and
brought to light the remains of three sedilia and a piscina ; the restoration
of these would add greatly to the beauty of the chancel. Mr. Cottingham
reports that a substantial reparation and restoration of the tower, with
eight new stone pinnacles of the original size, and three tiers of cast-iron
chain ties, including the shoring up, and the reparation of the foundation
already performed, will cost about £2,440. The architect's, per centage,
journies, and expenses, in addition to this survey and report, £210, for the
clerk of the works, £100. The reparation and restoration of the timber roof,
over the nave, £470, making a total of £3,220. The cost of the repara-
tion alluded to, as being already performed by Mr. Cottingham^ was be-
2 if
58 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
tween £500 and £600, for which sum there appears to have been very
little effectively done. Messrs Walker and Kawlinson, two eminent
architects of this town, made a report, and gave it as their opinion that
imminent danger is to he apprehended from the present state of the
aforesaid piers and tower, but they did not make a calculation of the
cost of reparation.
now considerably reduced, owing to the marriage, burial, and other fees
received by the ministers of St. Paul's and Trinity parochial churches,
and the interments at the Cemetery. The present value of the living is
only about £300 a year. It is in the patronage of Earl Manvers, and the
Rev. J. W. Brooks is the present vicar. The Vicarage House stands
opposite the south-east corner of the church-yard, and was built on the
site of the old one, in 1653. A terrier, published in 1748, contains an
account of the glebe lands, &c. Clerk, Mr. Almonds ; deputy-clerk,
Mr. Parnham ; sexton, Mr. Johnson ; organist, Mr. Noble.
high ; total height of portico 31 feet 4 inches, above which, rises a cupola
in which there is but one bell. The dome and lantern are supported by
eight Doric columns, and from the basement to the apex of the dome is
along the centre aisle are free open seats for the poor. The pulpit, the
reading desk, the galleries all round, and the pews in the body of the
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church, for the use of the congregation and the poor, are particularly neat,
and contain 1,600 sittings. The interior is lighted by oblong square
windows, and with gas.
The church was first erected as a Chapel of Ease to St. Mary's, by a
grant from Government ; but in conformity with a recent Act of Parlia-
ment for the division of large parishes, it is constituted a district, or
parochial church, containing about 9,000 inhabitants. The church-
wardens have the power to call upon the inhabitants for a rate whenever
it requires repairing ; and in which all baptisms, marriages, and burials,
according to the rites of the Church of England, are required to be cele-
brated. Though it stands in the parish of St. Mary's, it is for all Eccle-
burial-ground to this church. The cost of the building, and the site of
the land, was about £11,000. W. Wilkins, Esq., was the architect, and
Mr. Wm. Surplice the builder. The cost was considerably enhanced, in
TRINITY CHURCH
Is built under 1st and 2nd William IV., c. 38, on a site of land called
" Burton Leys," adjoining to Milton Street. Four thousand square yards
of land was purchased of the Commissioners for the enclosure of Burton
Leys, for the sum of £600. The corner stone of this beautiful spire
church was laid en the 23rd day of April, 1840, by John Smith Wright,
Esq., who contributed £600., and the top stone was laid o:i the 8th
day of June, 1841, by Francis Wright, Esq., who contributed the spire,
£50., and a Friend, by Robert Ramsden, Esq., £200. ; Mrs. and Miss
Evans, of Lincoln, £250. ; the late W. E. Elliott, Esq., £200. ; Francis
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Wellford, Esq., and family, £235. ; John Mills, Esq., £150. ; Charles
Jackson, Esq., £145. ; Misses O'Bryen, £200. ; W. Stanford Burnside,
Esq., £75. ; Henry Galley Knight, Esq., M.P., £50. ; Robert Leeson,
Esq., £50. ; late Richard Arkwright, Esq., £100. ; His Grace the Arch-
bishop of York, £50. ; and numerous others, including many of the
most influential manufacturers and tradesmen. The total subscriptions
amounted to near £10,000. The ceremony of laying the first stone was
numerously attended ;—a procession, headed by the Mayor, William
Roworth, Esq., was formed of many of the principal inhabitants, both
Churchmen and Dissenters ; the trustees of the church, and Mr. Stevens,
the architect, followed by the clerk of the works, bearing on a scarlet
cushion a brass plate, on which was the following inscription :-— " A
corner stone of this church, erected by subscription, and to be dedicated
to the Holy Trinity, was laid on Thursday, the 23rd day of April, 1840,
by John Smith Wright, Esq. The Venerable John Henry Browne,
Archdeacon of Ely, John Pemberton Plumptre, Esq, M.P., Robert
Ramsden, Esq., and Francis Wellford, Esq., trustees. Henry Isaac Stevens,
architect. 1st. Peter, ii. c. 6 v. ; Ephesians, ii. c. 19-22 v."
A bottle, with coins of the present reign, and a list of subscribers
written on parchment, were then deposited ; and Mr. Hall, the builder,
having handed the silver trowel to John Smith Wright, Esq., the
ceremony of laying the first stone was gone through, at the conclusion of
which he delivered an impressive and eloquent address to those assem-
bled. This beautiful Gothic edifice, so much admired for its architectural
beauty, and the neatness of its fittings, designed by Mr. Stevens, and
built by Mr. J. Ebrank Hall, of Nottingham, who certainly deserve great
praise for the manner in which the works have been executed ; cost as
follows:— The Builder, £6,957. 7s. 4d. ; Ironfounder, £522. 7s. lid.;
Plumber and Glazier, £377. Is. 9d. ; Painter, £153. 12s. ; Ironmonger,
£104. 8s.; total, £8,094. 17s. The above includes the enclosing the
4,000 yards of land by a wall and pallisading, which, with the endowment,
£1,000, repair fund, £500., and the land, £600., makes the total
The opening sermons were preached in December, 1841, and the collec-
tions amounted to £228 2s. 8d. The nave is internally 80 feet long by
54 feet wide, 30 feet high at the side walls, and 35 feet 6 inches high in
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the centre- The chancel, 23 feet by 21 feet 6 inches ; height from the
floor to the ceiling, 34 feet 8 inches. The lobbies and vestry are 18 feet
6 inches by 10 feet. The nave is lighted by ten triple lancet windows,
21 feet 6 inches high; the centre lights are 3 feet, and the side lights
those at the west-end contain the staircases to the galleries. The seats
in the church are placed transversely, and are separated into three divi-
sions, or ranges ; the greater part of those in the centre division are
unenclosed, and free, Those on each side are in pews, a few of which
remain without division for the accommodation of large families ; the
majority alternately divided so as to form pews of various dimensions to
accommodate respectively four, five, or six persons. The access to the
pews is from the four aisles, extending the whole length of the nave from
east to west. There are 1,215 sittings, 415 of which are free. This dis-
trict church has a population of about 6,000 souls, and for all ecclesiastical
the county of Derby, for the sum of about £3000. The foundation, or
corner stone, was laid by Earl Manvers, on the ninth day of August, 1843,
the Venerable Archdeacon Wilkins assisting in the ceremony. The
style of the building is very early English, or the beginning of the
twelfth century. The stone of which it is built is from Bulwell for the
walling, with dressings from Watstand-well Bridge, Coxbench, Dufheld
Bank, and Mansfield. The outer walling is built with Bulwell stone, in
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random courses in dark mortar, with wrought stone dressings to all the
external angles. The body of the Church is 77 feet long and 55 feet wide
outside, and the walls are 3 feet thick at the west end, and 2 feet 6 inches
the rest. The north and south walls are 16 feet, the chancel walls are
24 feet, and the clere story of the nave is 1 1 feet high. The nave is 25
feet wide and 34 feet high, divided from the aisles, which are 12 feet
of label, in the west gable, and by a two-light lancet window, 15 feet high,
the lights 2 feet. This window is arcaded in five compartments, the second
and fourth glass, and ten lancet windows in the clere story, which is
arcaded on the south side in three compartments, the centre glass, between
each buttress. The north aisle is lighted by five side and two end, and
the south aisle by four side and two end lancet windows, 7 feet high, and
181 inches wide. The entrance door is on the south side, occupying the
space of one window. The chancel is 24 feet by 19 feet, and is lighted
by a beautiful east lancet window of three lights, 1 5 feet high, centre
light, 2 feet 4 inches, side lights, 22 inches wide, between clus-
tered shafts, with carved capitals 12 feet high, and four side lancet
windows 1 1 feet high, and 20 inches wide. The noble arch between the
chancel and nave is 32 feet high, springing from shafts of eighteen feet
high. The nave and chancel roofs are open, the former rises twenty feet
and the latter sixteen feet, with circular knees between each pair of prin-
cipal rafters. On the south side of the chancel arch there is a small
belfry. The entrances are through a good porch into the south aisle, a
door at the west end into the nave, and there is a small vestry or robing
room, on the north side of the chancel. The interior will be neatly fitted
up with open seats. The church is built by subscription, and all the
seats are free ; affording church room and pastoral care for that very
crowded district on the south side of St. Mary's parish, which is bounded
£500. Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, £20.; Earl Manvers, £315.;
;
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, £100. Lord Viscount Newark, M.P.; ;
Burnside, £50. ; Charles Stoier, Esq., M.D. £50. ; Mr. Thomas Adams,
£50. ; Mr. Job Bradshaw, £25. ; a Friend by ditto, £25. ; Sir G. G. H.
Larpent, M.P., £21.; Rev. W. Butler, A.M., £20 ; Mr. H. Cheetham,
£20.; Mr. George Eddowes, £10.; Mr. T. H. Smith, £10. ; George
Mills, Esq. ; £10. ; Mr. J. J Page, £20. ; Rev. J. Woolley, £10. ; Rev.
J. J. Cleaver, £10. ; Messrs. Swann and Son, £10.; Mr. C. G. Kewney,
£20.; Mrs. Wylde, £20.; Rev. F. Hewgill, £10.; Rev. H. Maltby, £10;
J. C. Williams, Esq. M.D., £5. ; Mr. Gimson, £5. ; Mr. Oliver, £5. ;
Mr. Dearden, £5. ; John Hadden, Esq., £5. ; Rev. W. H. Wyatt, £5. ;
The north and south fronts are exactly alike ; the centre and termination
of each wing are four stories high, and the wings three ; the centre
fronts are lighted by 50, the wings by 180, and the termination of the
wings by 70 ; total, 300 windows. The centre contains the master's
house and apartments, and all the stores. The right, or south-east wing,
after performing two hours work for their breakfast and supper, they are
sent away. The accommodation for females is not so good. There is
The corn is ground in the mill-house ; there are eight mills turned by
hand, three men to each mill, and a large mill, worked by a capstone,
requires eight men to manage it ; at this mill the corn is ground, and
the flour dressed, at the same time.
Six yards, for old persons, have wide walks, surrounded by flower
borders, and the centres are all grass plots, and planted with laurel and
other evergreens. In the boys' play-ground, which is very large, are
flower-borders, and a good school-house, in which they are instructed in
reading, writing, and arithmetic ; there were 121 boys in the school
(30th March, 1844,) and some of them had made good progress in writing
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there were 76 girls in the school, and 59 infants are taught in the sitting-
room ; total 256 children receiving instruction.
Recreation. — Before breakfast the children walk out for an hour,
under the care of their teachers ; their clean and healthy appearance is
the admiration of all who contribute to their support ; indeed, they enjoy
superior advantages to the generality of the children of the poor out of
the house, for they have plenty of wholesome food, warm clothing, are
and Saturday : broth, in which carrots and other vegetables are boiled
an unlimited quantity, and bread, each man seven, and each woman six
beyond all praise. Mr. Barnett is also clerk to the Board of Guardians,
and superintendent-registrar, and it is remarkable with what apparent
ease he performs his multifarious duties. For a long series of years few
men have had more experience in parochial affairs, or in the management
of the poor, and every department of this house shews the master-mind
that directs it. Ever since the formation of the Union, Mr. Barnett
has held these important and responsible situations, and we believe he
has enjoyed the confidence and respect of every Board of Guardians.
The building in York-street includes the porter' s-lodge, dispensary,
surgeon's consulting-room, patients' waiting-room, registrar's office, rate-
and the fund necessary to replace the outfit at the end of the lease, are
respectively £3,700, and £1,800, making the total cost amount to £25,312.
On the other hand, deduct for the sale of St. Nicholas Workhouse, £2,600 ;
for St. Peter's, £1,205 ; for part of St. Mary's, £350 ; and £2,500 to £3,000
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for the remaining part of St. Mary's Workhouse, makes the cost of the
New Workhouse from £18,000 to £19,000 more than the property sold.
In the original estimate the land was to have cost £3,000., and the
building £9,000. The old property was to have sold for nearly £9,000.,
and thus the actual cost is six times the original estimate. It appears
from a report of the Board of Guardians, that the deaths have greatly
increased since the occupancy of the New Union House, as compared
with the old, viz., 122 deaths in the first nine months; during the cor-
responding period of the preceding year, 61. In 1843, there were 123
deaths, whereas the corresponding period in 1839, was 80. The number
of deaths in the Old Workhouse, from July 30, 1836, to January 19^
1842, was 470. According to an account of the cost, we have received
from Mr. Barnett the buildings, including the surveyor's charges, and the
purchase of a house, was £15,600., and the fixtures, fittings, forms, tables,
Furniture, £434 17s. 7d. ; corn-mills, £185 4s. 6d. ; interest, £1,535
18s. 2d. ; rent, £366 10s. lOd. ; loans, £3,622 4s. 2d. ; total, £109,416
4s. lOd. From this total deduct £16,000 borrowed on loans, and
£1,757 5s. 9d. from the produce of the sale of St. Nicholas Workhouse,
and the total sum paid out of the rates during the last five years amounts
to £91,658 19s. Id. To this enormous sum must be added about £6,000
a-year for the county-rate, £30,000, making a total of nearly £122,000,
extracted from the pockets of the inhabitants of the three parishes in
five years. In the county rates, the police force forms the most consider-
able item, viz., £2,969 19s. 7d. a year; and it is the opinion of a great
number of the rate-payers that half the force would be quite sufficient for
the services of the town. The next large item in the county rate is the
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House of Correction, viz., salaries, £491 18s. ; food, £332 5s., and the
Goal, viz., salaries, £322; food, £36 18s.; fuel, £18 17s.; repairs,
£20 19s. 4d. ; sundries, £29 2s. 3d. ; total, £4,222., leaving only £1,528
out of the county rate for the improvement of the town.
The sale of St. Nicholas Workhouse has defrayed the whole of the
share of loans for the New Workhouse payable by that parish, and has
left a surplus of £827 3s. Id., the interest to be appropriated in aid of the
rates of the parish ; and the sale of St. Peter's is more than sufficient to
pay the share of the costs of the new house. That there is owing by St.
3,227; admitted into the house, 1,280 persons ; discharged 1,150 per-
sons; average cost per head, 2s. 3|d. ; clothing, 5|d. ; deaths, 108;
births, 39. From this brief description, but an inadequate idea can be
formed of this immense establishment, which is under the direction of a
board of twenty-four guardians, and under the superintendence of Mr.
Absalom Barnett, who is clerk, master, and superintendent-registrar ;
Mrs. Barnett, matron ; Mr. John Bowley, auditor; Mr. Jalland and Mr.
Martin, medical officers ; Mr. Cowlishaw, dispenser ; Mr. Thomas Cave,
office clerk ; Mr. Robert Heazle and Mr. W. Harrison, relieving officers \
Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Lineker, and Mr. J. Moore, collectors for St. Mary's ;
Mr. Wilkinson, for St. Peter's and St. Nicholas ; schoolmaster and mis-
tress, Mr. Hennings and Miss Fowke.
parishes, and averages about 450 yards in length, and 220 in breadth.
Receipts. £. s. d. Disbursed. £. s. d.
£2324 £2160
Receipts. £. s. d. Disbursed. £. s. d.
£2323 £1612
civil wars, when the garrison threw several bombs into it to dislodge a
party of loyalists who had taken possession of it. Since then it has been
frequently repaired, and in 1789, a mason of the name of Wootton took
down and re-built four yards of the spire, without the aid of scaffolding.
In 1800, the south side of the church was rebuilt, and in 1807 the north
side was stuccoed, and the portico taken down. In 1814 the chancel was
repaired. The interior is well pewed, and is particularly neat, and has
a gallery on the north aisle and west end ; in the latter is a good organ,
which was raised by subscription in 1812. A large square window
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at the east end, which contained several coats of arms in stained glass,
was built up in 1720, when an altar piece was placed against it, repre-
senting the Last Supper, but which has since been removed to make
room for a beautiful painting by the late Mr. Barber, of Christ's Agony
in the Garden. In the chancel are several mural monuments. Upwards
of 700 free seats for the use of the poor, were erected in the church about
twenty years ago. In 1831 anew burial ground, containing 1,600 square
yards, in Broad-marsh, was opened for the use of this parish. The
benefice is a rectory, in the patronage of the Queen, valued in the King's
books at £8 7s. The present value
6d. of the living is about £300.
a year. The Rev. Robert White Almond is the present rector ; Mr. "VV.
rateable property is £21,340. The poor-rates for the year ending March,
1831, amounted to £2,365 6s. 3d. The rate amounts to £444., and five
£2651 1 6 £2640 5
£2885 19 3 £2600 2 9
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street, and Rosemary -lane. The building was commenced in 1671, and
finished in 1678, on the site of an ancient fabric which was destroyed by
the parliamentarian soldiers in 1647, when a party of royalists took pos-
session of it, and from the steeple so annoyed the parliamentarians in the
Castle^ that they could not play the ordnance without woolsacks before
them, and the bullets from the church played so thick into the outward
Castle-yard, that they could not pass from one gate to another, nor
relieve the guards without very great hazard."' The church, however,
was soon set on fire, and the royalists obliged to fly from its falling ruins.
The present edifice has a tower at the west-end, containing one bell,
north side. The organ was erected in 1811 ; on each side of the com-
munion-table are paintings representing the Good Samaritan, and the
Prodigal Son ; and the walls are decorated with many neat monumental
tables, and hatchments for the families of Newdigate, Smith, Bromley, and
Cooper. The living is a rectory in the patronage of the Queen ; its
present value is £200 a-year. The Rev. William Joseph Butler is the
present rector, Mr. Wm. Archer the parish-clerk, Mr. John Allen the
sexton, and Mr. William Richardson the organist.
STANDARD HILL
Comprises about five acres of land, nearly one-half of which is occupied
by St. James's Church, and the gardens of the General Infirmary : the
north-end of which charitable institution is within the limits of the county
of the town, in the parish of St. Nicholas, which bounds Standard-hill on
the east, as the Park does on the north and west, and the outward wall
of the Castle on the south. This portion of the ancient Castle-land
derives its name from the Royal Standard which Charles I. erected here
on 25th of August, 1642. In 1807 the Duke of Newcastle divided nearly
all that part of it which is not occupied by the Infirmary, into thirty-two
building lots, containing together about 9,000 square yards of land, which
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he sold for upwards of £7,000., and which now form four handsome
streets, — viz., King-street, Hill-street, Charles-street, and Standard-street
each purchaser at the time of sale, covenanted " to pave and keep in
repair one-half of the streets, so far as they extend in front of each
respective lot ; to make foot-pavements, 4 feet broad, and not to build
any house upon the premises of less value than £25. a-year, nor erect any
manufactory, nor suffer any obnoxious trade whatever to be carried on
upon the premises. Since this sale, St. James's Church, and upwards of
sixty large and handsome houses have been erected, so that every building-
site is now occupied. In 1814, the parishioners of Nottingham com-
plained that the wealthy inhabitants who had built houses on Standard -
hill, were not only exempt from the heavy poor-rates of the town, but
refused to relieve those paupers who by servitude were considered to have
gained a settlement in that extra-parochial district. In consequence of
these grievances, the magistrates appointed two of the inhabitants to act
as overseers, and afterwards gave orders for the removal of a pregnant
servant girl from St. Mary's parish to the house of one of the said over-
seers, where she was refused admittance. After an expensive legal
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fitted up with pews, and commodious galleries over the side aisles, and is
Rev. Benjamin Maddock, curate ; Mr. Bond, organist ; Mr. Seal, clerk
and Mr. Fogg, sexton.
NOTTINGHAM CASTLE.
Was for centuries the strongest fortress in the central part of England.
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This great bulwark and pride of the town has undergone many changes
since it was occupied by the Danes in 868. The first great historical
event occurred before the union of the Heptarchy under one Sovereign.
The Danes having come up the Trent, established themselves in a for-
tress built on the rock, and were there besieged by Buthred, King
of Mercia, and Prince, afterwards King Alfred ; not being able to dis-
lodge them from their stronghold, a treaty of peace was entered into
between the Saxons and the Danes, and the latter returned home
under their leaders, Hinguar and Hubba. For nearly three quarters of
a century the Danes were very troublesome to Nottingham, and the sur-
rounding parts of Mercia. Immediately after the conquest, William de
Peverell, natural son of the Conqueror, in the year 1068, built a castle on
the summit of the rock ; this was always possessed as a royal castle. In
the reign of Henry II. it was besieged, and held out against his rebellious
son, Henry. In the reign of Richard Cceur de Lion, and during that
monarch's captivity on the continent, it was seized by Earl, afterwards
King John, as one of the strongest holds in the kingdom, in his project
brother and his accomplices, but they did not appear. Here Mortimer,
Earl of March, Governor of the Kingdom, during the minority of Edward
III., and paramour to Queen Isabella, held his court ; and it was here
that he was surprised and taken prisoner by the young King Edward III.,
in 1330. King Edward IV. very much enlarged the Castle, by various
towers, extending to the brow of the hill on the north, and covering what
is now called Castle-green. Richard the Third held his court, and mus-
tered his forces here, before he marched his army to Bosworth Field,
where he lost his life. During the reign of the Tudors, this fortress fell
that King erected his standard in the Castle, on the 22nd of August,
1642, and on the hill north of it on the 25th. It was for some time in
the possession of the Parliamentary forces, and had the celebrated Colonel
Hutchinson for its governor; after standing nearly 600 years, it was
destroyed during the protectorate of Cromwell. Previous to this it had
been granted by James I. to the Earl of Rutland, and descended to his
heir, Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. After the restoration, it was claimed
by his heirs, and sold by them to William Cavendish, Marquis, and after-
male issue, his property descended to the Barl of Clare, who had married
his third daughter, afterwards created Duke of Newcastle by William III.
This nobleman also dying without issue, his property descended to his
nephew, Lord Pelham, who in 1718 was created Duke of Newcastle by
George Henry Fiennes Clinton, seventh Earl of Lincoln, K.G.,
I.
fourthDuke of Newcastle.
The present Castle, which for a century and a half stood the majestic
ornament and pride of the town, now stands a sable monument of the evil
effects of popular frenzy. This once noble and magnificent residence was
built in the style in which it now appears, by William Cavendish, Marquis,
and afterwards Duke of Newcastle, who commenced the building of the
present edifice in 1674, and his son Henry finished it, in 1683. The entire
cost of the building is stated by Deering to have been £14,004 17s. I Id.
her accession to the throne. A vast quantity of cedar was used in its
erection, and the perfume which was occasioned by its burning, was dis-
tinctly perceptible during the night at a considerable distance. The
Castle, though now reduced to a mere roofless shell, still appears to the
site, or in unison with the bold features of the lofty frowning rock on
which it stands. The whole is surrounded by a beautiful terrace, seventy-
two yards long, and thirty yards broad, with an arcade on the south side.
the rock, intended to light the passage, and for the soldiers to shoot their
arrows through upon the enemy ; in the upper part are cut out several
large port-holes, which show, that during the civil wars cannon were
planted there, so as to command the road from Trent Bridge ; for near
them are several excavations, evidently intended for the reception of balls
and powder. This wonderful passage was cut during the Danish invasion,
by one of the Saxon Kings, for the better security in case of siege;
and, indeed, in times of peace it was extremely useful, for it afforded a
direct communication with the corn-mill, malt-kiln, and brew-house of
the garrison in the Rock -yard, now called Brewhouse-yard. About seven-
teen yards above the lower entrance to this spacious vault, which is
ascended by nearly worn-out steps cut in the solid rock, is the entrance
to a dark passage, which branches off to the right, and formerly led by
secret doors into the keep of the Old Castle, in which were the state
apartments. This was that secret passage through which Sir William
Eland, in 1330, conducted the young King Edward III., when he seized
Lord Mortimer in the apartment of his royal mother, and brought
him out of the Castle through the same passage, which, in memory of the
fate of that unfortunate nobleman, was ever afterwards called "Mortimer's
Hole." All the entrances to these passages are now walled up, to pre-
vent boys passing that way into the Castle Gardens.
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Barnabas Day, 11th of June, 1844. The church, when complete, will
be the most perfect revival of a parochial church, that has been yet accom-
plished, during the last three centuries. The choir is entirely surrounded
by aisles and eastern chapels. Beneath the choir is a crypt, with vaulting
springing from two rows of low pillars ; at the eastern end of this under-
croft is an altar, dedicated in honour of St. Peter, as being the foundation
or rock of the church. The same staircases which lead up to the rood
loft, at the entrance of the choir, are continued down to the crypt, which
is lighted by side openings in the walls of the choir, which being elevated
several feet above the pavement of the aisles, afford sufficient space for
their introduction. The various chapels, as well as the choir, are enclosed
by oak screens of open tracery, and pannel-work. That j)ortion of the
church eastward of the transept is divided off from the rest of the building
by open screens and gates, on a line with the great rood-screen. The
rood loft extends the whole width between the great east pillars support-
ing the tower, and is raised about fourteen feet from the choir ; it is about
seven feet in breadth, and in the centre a great rood is erected, with
appropriate images, standards for lights, &c.
The choir is furnished with sixteen carved oak stalls and desks, pre-
cisely on the old model, and at the backs of the stalls are oak screens,
which extend along both sides of the choir betwr een the pillars. The
pavement of the choir and sanctuary, as well as that of the eastern
a single slab of stone, supported on eight shafts, with gilt cap and bases.
Immediately behind the altar a rich perforated oak screen extends across
the eastern extremity of the choir, enriched with gold and colours, and
like the other screens, surmounted by standards for wax tapers. Throuo-h
this screen the arched entrance and stained windows of the Lady Chapel
are distinctly seen. In a chapel, on the epistle or south side of the choir,
the Blessed Sacrament is reserved, on a rich altar, surmounted by a
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ment have been designed with especial reference to that great mystery :
are each 15 feet 6 inches in breadth; they are separated from the nave
by eight columns and ten pointed arches, and from the transepts by the
two west pillars of the tower and two arches. From the floor to the
top of the clere story wall is 34 feet; the Choir , 37 feet by 22 feet, is
separated from the transepts by the east pillars of the tower, and from
the aisles north and south of it by six, and from the east by two pointed
arches. The three aisles are each 40 feet by 14 feet 3 inches. The
Chapel of the blessed Sacrament, south of the choir, is 41 feet by 13 feet,
and separated from the south aisle of the choir by three pointed arches ;
and three on the south side, is 25 feet by 16 feet ; on the north of this
is the Chapel of St. Michael and the Holy Angels, and on the south side
the Chapel of St. Thomas of Canterbury and Venerable Bede, in each of
which are three stalls; and each chapel is 15 feet square. The organ gallery
16 feet by 12 feet, is on the north side of the Choir. The north and
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south porches are 12 feet square. The church is cruciform with pointed
gables, each terminated with a cross, and containing an evangelistic symbol.
The tower contains eight belfry windows, and is surmounted by a spire
of the early style, about 150 feet in height, terminating in a metal cross,
surmounted by a cock, at the bases of the spire are four-angle niches,
containing images of Saints Peter and Paul, St. John the Evangelist, and
St. Barnabas, over these are four pinnacles, and between the niches are
four double lancet windows with high gables, on the crests of which are
emblems of the four Evangelists. The whole of the spire is built in
solid masonry, and the weight is borne by internal skew arches in the
angles of the tower, and down to the four great pillars, which rest on
invert arches. The entrance porches are on the north and south side,
and the principal entrance is at the west end.
Beside the high altar there are five other altars, dedicated in honour of
St. Peter, St. Michael, and All Angels, St. Thomas of Canterbury and
Venerable Bede, and the altar of the Blessed Sacrament, These are all fur-
nished with hangings, plate, and other ornaments, in the same character
as the building, and the minutest details have been executed in the spirit of
catholic antiquity. Immediately behind the high altar is an image of our
Blessed Lady, under a rich canopy, and supported by a corbel, represent-
ing a serpent coiled round an apple tree, in allusion to the prophecy, that
the seed of the woman should overcome the serpent ; and on the south
side close to the vestry door is another corbel and rich canopy, intended
for an image of St. Barnabas. The entire cost of the church is about
£15,000, and the chief benefactor is commemorated by the following in-
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North aisle :
Right Rev. Dr. Walsh: Gules, the Crosses of Jerusalem, Or, St. Chad, impaling,
Argent, a fess Azure, between three Martlets, Gules, Walsh.
Right Rev. Dr. Wiseman Azure, the Blessed Virgin and Child Jesus, proper, robed
:
and crowned, Or and Argent, impaling Sable, a Chevron Ermine, between three
coronels, Argent, Wiseman.
The Nottingham Arms: Gules bearing three Crowns, Or with a Cross raguled, Vert.
The transepts are lighted by eight tall and four small lancet windows,
and six quatre-foil lights, over the north and south windows. The choir
is lighted by a beautiful wheel and twelve small quatre-foil-headed windows
in the clere story —the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament by one east
window of three lights, and three lancet windows —the Choir aisles, viz.,
the east aisle by one and the north by two lancet windows —the Ladye
Chapel bv one three-light, east, and two side lancet windows — the Chapel
of St. Michael by one two-light quatre-foil-headed, and three lancet
windows —the Chapel of Thomas of Canterbury by one two-light, and
St.
small windows.
This edifice, which may be considered as one of the most successful
revivals of ancient ecclesiastical architecture, was designed by A. "Welby
Pugin, Esq., the architect of St. George's London ; St. Giles's, Cheadle ;
St. Marie's, Derby, and many other Catholic churches, recently erected.
Mr. Myers, of London, Contractor and Builder. Rev. John Mulligan,
and Rev. Francis Cheadle, resident Priests.
The site of land on which the church is built consists of about 7,000
DISSENTERS' CHAPELS.
The Dissenters in Nottingham, like most other large towns, are nume-
rous and influential ; out of the thirty -four places of worship in the town,
twenty-five belong to congregations not connected with the Protestant
Established Church. Of these chapels seven belong to the Independent
Calvin ists, Jive to the Baptists, seven to the Methodists, and one each to the
Unitarians, Huntingtonians, Quakers, Sii'edenborgians, and Jews.
different times ; the first was about the middle of the last century, when
the presbyterian congregation on the High-pavement adopted Arian sen-
timents, in consequence of which, many families withdrew and joined the
Independents in Castle- gate. The subsequent enlargements have taken
place within the last forty years. The interior fittings are particularly
neat, and in 1826 it was thoroughly repaired and enriched with a good
organ. The chapel will now seat 1000 persons, and is generally well
filled. The building stands in the parish of St. Nicholas, but the large
82 BIBECTOKT OF NOTTINGHAM.
dissenting ministers from coming within five miles of any city, town corporate, or
borough, the people united with a church at Sutton-in-Ashfield, of which Mr. John
James was the minister. This holy man was much persecuted, and frequently im-
prisoned ; in his imprisonment he manifested the Spirit of Christ, frequently wrote
letters of exhortation and encouragement to his flock, aud was so undeviating in his
adherence to the path of duty, that when offered release on condition that he would no
more preach in the name of Jesus, he absolutely refused. He died at Wapping in
1696, aged seventy years. Mr. John Gibbs was chosen his successor; he was of an ex-
ceedingly amiable disposition, his conduct and conversation were exemplary, and in
the discharge of his official duties he was very laborious during his ministry, which,
owing to an early death, only continued four years; the violence of persecution had
however abated, and the church was permitted to assemble without interruption.
After the death of Mr. Gibbs, the spirit of persecution revived, the meetings were
held in secret places, during the darkness of the night, and fines, imprisonments, and
distraints, were for a considerable time the portion of many. During this time the
church was destitute of a pastor, and when not able to procure ministerial services, as
was oftentimes the case, was edified by the pious exhortations of some of its members,
and particularly of the then elder Captain Wright, a man eminently devoted to God,
and who suffered much for the sake of Christ.
In 1688 the two churches separated, owing to their distance from each other, and Mr.
John Ryther, (the son of an excellent rejected minister, who is recorded to have been
a man of strict pieiy whom God wonderfully prospered in his work,) was chosen min-
ister, and continued with the church till his death, January 27th, 1704, Mr. Richard
Bateson was ordained to the pastoral office, and gave great satisfaction to the church,
till 1739, when a declining state of health induced him to lay aside public engagements.
I n 1733, Mr. James Sloss, A.M., was appointed co-pastor with Mr. Rate-on. Mr. Sloss
was highly and universally respected for his learning and ability; he published several
pieces, and amongst them an elaborate work on the doctrine of the Trinity. He con-
tinued in office nearly forty years, and till within a short time of his death, which took
pi ace suddenly on the 1st of May, 1772; a funeral sermon was preached by the Rev*
DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 83
D. Winter, from 2 Tim. iv. 7. The newspapers of that period record his death in terms
of high respect, and represent it as a loss to the poor and needy of every persuasion.
He was interred in a vault in St. Mary's Church. It is remarkable that Mr. Sloss was
a Presbyterian minister of the church of Scotland, but it was stipulated when he be-
came pastor, that he should attempt no alteration in the mode of church government.
After Mr. Batesou's resignation several ministers were chosen to assist Mr. Sloss ; Mr.
Gervas Wylde, afterwards of Birmingham, remained seven years. Mr. Thos. Bingham
continued five years, at the close of which he declined an invitation to become co-
pastor, and accepted one at Dedham. Mr. Porter and Mr. Walker followed, but very
soon left. In 1759, Mr. John Troughton Alliston was appointed co-pastor with Mr.
Sloss, and was ordained in the following year. In 1771, he resigned, in consequence of
the divided state of the church. Mr. Joseph Popplewell was chosen assistant in 1764,
but only remained three years. In 1770 he was ordained pastor of the church in
Hare Court, Loudon. The Rev. Richard Plumbe, A.M., was elected pastor in March,
1772, and ordained April 16th, 1773; he was diligent and faithful in the discharge of
his ministerial duties, was much beloved by his people, and gained the general respect
of the town by his quiet and peaceable disposition. He was a man of reading, and is
said to have been well versed in the classic tongues of Greece and Rome. He died
after a short illness, on the 4th of August, 1791, aged 54. After Mr. Plumbe's death,
they were without a settled minister for more than three years. In 1794, the Rev.
Richard Alliott, who was born at Coventry, on the 1st of February, 1769, became
pastor. His father was an exceedingly zealous and useful minister of the gospel in
that to?ai, and died in the year 1769, at the early age of 30, when his son was only
three weeks old. Mr. Alliott was educated for the ministry at Homerton College, and
first entered on the ministerial office at Stratford-on Avon; he was invited to Castle-
gale, Nottingham, in 1794, and was ordained April 8th, 1795. At the request of the
church, the ordination service was published. During his ministry, which continued
nearly forty-six years, the congregation considerably increased, and the church grew from
41 to 330 members. In 1828 his Son, the Rev. Richard Alliott, LL,D., was appointed
assistant; he was educated at Homerton, and Glasgow University, (from which latter
1840 the degree of Doctor of Laws,) and on the 6ih of January, 1830, was ordained co-
pastor. The charge on that occasion was delivered to him by his father, after whose
death, on the 19th of April, 1840, he became the sole pastor; he continued to labour
with great success for three years after his father's death, when he resigned, to become
the pastor of the church at York-road, Lambeth, London. In September, 1813, the
Rev. Samuel Mc All, of Doncaster, was invited to become the pastor : he was educated
for the ministry at Rotherham College, and had been settled at Doncaster about thirteen
years : he commenced his duties at Nottingham October 9th, 1843 ; the number of church
members at that period amounted to 385. There are seven deacons, — viz., Mr. S.
Thurman, elected 1822, Mr. Thomas Cullen, Mr. Richard Preston, and Mr. Morley,
in 1828; Mr. James Wright, Mr. John Theaker, and Mr. Thomas Knight, in 1832,
Several neighbouring churches in the county, and on the borders of Derbyshire, were
originally branches of this church, — viz., Ilkeston and Melbourn, in Derbyshire ;
84 m RECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
that although this church has existed nearly 200 years, and has had no written articles
of faith, no material change has taken place either in the doctrines maintained, or in
the mode of church government adopted, — the former heing Calvinistic, and the latter
strictly Congregational. Number of children in Castle-gate School, 1844,— boys, 264
girls, 298. Total, 562. Mr. Arthur Wells, superintendent.
with three arched door-ways, and a triplet window in the centre, flanked
The ceiling is divided into two large bays, rising about three feet from
each side towards the centre, the whole being formed into compartments,
with moulded ribs, and enriched bosses at the intersections. At the back
of the chapel is a large room, ranging in height with the gallery, and
communicating with the interior by a wide pointed arch- way : this
stituent part of the chapel, and may, by the removal of the arch, with
the utmost ease be united to the part already occupied for worship.
Underneath the edifice are catacombs for the reception of the dead, a
separate cell being provided for each body. After an interment is made,
Patterson, architect and builder. The Rev. Joseph Gilbert is the pastor,
and Messrs. Jonathan Dunn, Thomas Herbert, and George Packer, are
the deacons. About 250 children attend the Sabbath-school.
whom, with some principal friends, separated, and built the chapel in
Friar-lane. St. James's-street Chapel will seat about 800 persons, and
cost, including the property purchased for its site, the premises now
occupied as the Mechanics' Library, for which they pay £30 a-year, and
the building of the chapel and school-rooms, £5,500. In 1832 there was
a debt upon the chapel and front premises of £2,600., since which time
upwards of £1,000 have been raised, — of this sum £800 was applied to
the liquidation of the debt, and £200 laid out in the erection of a vestry,
leaving a debt of £1,800 upon the premises. The Lastees of the chapel
are anxious to secure, if possible, the rooms occupied by the Mechanics'
Institute, for Sabbath and week-day evening schools ; therefore they are
calling upon their Christian friends to aid them in carrying out this design.
The Sabbath-schools are attended by 170 children, Mr. John Ward, super-
intendent, and the Rev. John Wild is the present respected minister. The
present deacons are John Ward, John Harrison, William Hawley, Nettle-
ship Harrison, William Voce, John Shaw, and Samuel Brown.
METHODIST CHAPELS.
The Wesleyan, or Arminian Methodists in Nottingham, are numerous,
wealthy, and popular, and date their origin from John and Charles
Wesley, who commenced their pious labours at Oxford, about the year
1730, and during the remainder of their lives travelled into all parts of
the kingdom preaching to the poor and ignorant, inculcating the general
part of the doctrine taught by Arminius, a native of Holland, who defended
the religious principles of Beza, in opposition to those of John Calvin.
After meeting some time in a house in Pelham-street, they erected the
"Tabernacle" in 1762 ; this they sold to the General Baptists in 1782,
soon after which it was taken down. They went from the " Tabernacle"
to Hockley Chapel, built in 1782. In 1797, the Kilhamites, or New Con-
nexion, took possession of Hockley Chapel, and held it until 1816, when
they were obliged to relinquish it in favour of the Wesleyan Methodists,
who continued to occupy it until Broad-street Chapel was completed,
when they sold it to the Primitive Methodists for £2,400.
splendid building stands, was a grass plot and garden, extending from
over the cast-iron columns. The pulpit, presented by the ladies, elevated
used for tea-parties ; there are tables, table-cloths, and earthenware pro-
vided, to accommodate 500 persons. The smaller school-room is 35 feet
by 32 feet. In these rooms about 350 girls and 150 boys are taught on
the Sabbath.
There are four vestry-rooms. The sub-story is lighted by 18 oblong
square windows. There is a large Tract Repository, consisting of 30,000
tracts, and a good library. The chapel is heated by a large cockle, with
hot air. In the boys' school-room is the escutcheon of the celebrated
Rev. John Wesley, with four quarterings, first and fourth, Argent, three
escallop shells, Gules; second and third, Sable, three escallop shells,
The purchase of the land was about £2,800., and the cost of building the
chapel, minister's house, kitchen, complete sub-story under the chapel for
school-rooms, class-rooms, vestries, &c, £6,000. ; total, £8,800. The
Rev. W. Wilson and the Rev. T. Nightingale are the present ministers*
singers' seat. The alterations cost upwards of £1,300. There are three
vestry-rooms, and an excellent school-room over them, at the back of the
chapel. The chapel is 74 feet 6 inches by 48 feet outside, well lighted
by ten oblong square windows in the north front, on the west side by two
circular-headed and four oblong square windows, and the George-street
front, in which are the entrances, by eight oblong square windows. There
are about 600 children attend the Sabbath-schools in East-street and
Mansfield-road. The adult week-night school is held in the large school-
room at the back of the chapel. The managing trustees are Mr. John
S. Barnsdall and Mr. R. Sutton. The present ministers are Rev. T. P.
Gibson, Rev. G. J. Donald, and John Bensley, —resident in Nottingham ;
chapel in Broad- street, when they sold it to the Primitive Methodists for
£2,400. It is very neatly fitted up with front and side galleries, pulpit,
singers' seat and pews, and will seat about 1,000 persons. It is lighted
by sixteen side, five front oblong square windows, and two circular-headed
windows in the south front. There are about 140 scholars attend the
Sabbath. schools.
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fitted up with pulpit, pews, and galleries, on the south side, and east and
west end, and approached by three doors on the south side, and will seat
about 1,200 persons. There are four large school-rooms attached to the
chapel, which are attended by upwards of 600 scholars, and the managers
of the Sabbath-school are making arrangements to establish a day-school.
Mr. Robert Parks and Mr. Abraham Worsnop are the town ministers.
families in the town ; amongst whom were the Earls of Meath, Clare,
and Kingstone ; the Pierrepont's, Plumptre's, Sherwin's, &c, and Sir
John Musters was a particular friend to them, and very humanely shel-
tered their persecuted ministers for six months at Colwick Hall, till the
" Five Mile Act" drove them from thence, to the house of a gentleman
Drury-hill ; but the first place in which they assembled after the " Toler-
ation Act," was in a part of the mansion at that time the property and
residence of the Brabazon family, Earls of Meath, north-east corner of St.
Peter-gate, and from that circumstance the place was called- " Little St.
Mary's." Many years afterwards, when the chapel on the High pave-
ment was completed towards the close of the 17th century, the congre-
gation, which was numerous, removed thither, where it has continued to
the present day. The chapel was new-roofed, the floor flued, and the
walls stuccoed, in 1806, a neat organ was added in 1838 and the chapel ?
is well lighted with gas ; it will seat 800 persons. Underneath the
chapel is a large school-room, and there are large Sabbath-schools and
charity day-schools connected with this church. The Rev. W. Reynolds,
A.M., died 9th February, 1697, aged 73 years ; and the Rev. W. Whit-
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lock, A.M., died 1708, aged 83, and lies buried in the chancel of St.
Mary's Church. He was succeeded by his son, the Rev. John Whitlock,
who preached his father's funeral sermon. Dr. Samuel Eaton, a Presby-
terian, was pastor in 1750; the Rev. George Walker, a man of great
erudition, was minister in 1798. The latter was succeeded by the Rev.
James Tayler, who had the Rev. Joseph Hutton, D.D., for his assistant.
both sexes, are supported by the congregation. About 190 boys, and 180
girls, attend the Sabbath schools ; the boys are taught arithmetic,
geography, and the use of the globes, on Monday evenings, and the girls
attend on Tuesday evenings, when they are taught to sew. In the day-
school, forty boys are taught all the elements of a good and substantial
education, without restriction as to doctrine or creed. They are required
to attend some place of worship on the Sabbath. Mr. Taylor has been
for many years the master ; twenty-four girls are taught by Miss Mitchell,
and ten of that number are clothed.
the building, including the site, and two spacious rooms for the Sabbath-
schools, was £6,000. The congregation is one of the largest and wealthiest
DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 91
in the town; under the ministry of the Rev. John Jarman, from 1803 to
1830, a gentleman of very eminent talents, learning, and piety, the church
greatly increased, and after twelve years of his ministry had expired, it
was found necessary to have a much larger place than the chapel in Park-
street, erected by this Society of Christians so early as 1724, and which
isnow occupied by the Scotch Baptists. A modern author says the
Particular Baptists are perhaps a more ancient denomination than
the Independents ; but unfortunately the records of their early history
are lost. On few other denominations has the hand of persecution
pressed so heavily as on this, Not using pedo baptism, they were denied
the right of christian burial, and many of them were buried in their
own private gardens. Therefore, wherever a church was founded, they
generally secured to themselves a place of sepulture, before they erected
a chapel. The burial-ground, on the west side of Mount-street, was
purchased long before they erected their chapel in Park-street. On the
death of Rev. John Jarman, in 1830, the Rev. James Edwards, son in-
law of the late celebrated Dr. Steadman, from Bradford College, was
chosen minister. The Sabbath-schools in George-street are attended by
130 boys and 110 girls, and the Independent-hill School by 60 boys and
80 girls, Mr. Sanderson and Mr. James superintendents.
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Mr. Smith was succeeded by the Rev. Wm. Pickering, who had joined
with him in 1830 the Rev. Hugh Hunter. The church is one of the
largest Dissenting Churches in the kingdom. The number of members
amounts to more than 900. Connected with the church there are nine
village chapels : in each chapel there is a Sabbath- school. The number
of Sabbath scholars, including the school in the town, amounts to 1,600.
Connected with the church, there is a Benevolent and a Religious Tract
Society, both of which are in a prosperous state. A few years ago the
chapel was considerably enlarged, at an expense of £1,600., which sum
has been reduced by subscriptions and collections to about £100. The
following are the present deacons of the church : —Messrs. William
Stevenson, Thomas Roberts, Francis Hilton, George Kerry, Carter Pegg,
John Pole, and Mr. William James.
about 700 persons. The chapel, built of brick, is well lighted, and neatly
fitted up with front and side galleries, at the cost of about £1,800.
towards which Mr. James Smith gave £130., and is one of the trustees ;
his brother, the late Rev. Robert Smith, and a number of members,
separated from the congregation in Plumptre-place, in consequence of
some disagreement in their church government, and built the present
chapel. The Rev. Robert Smith, formerly of Plumptre-place Chapel,
died in 1828, leaving a thriving church. The school-rooms are 66 feet
long, and about 300 children attend the Sabbath-schools. The Rev.
James Fernyhough is the present minister.
the latter, therefore, took it into their own hands in 1832, and sold it in
1839 for £824., to Messrs. Jonathan Hine and James Wallis. These,
with the congregation of " Christians" meeting in that place, have made
great improvements in the interior of the chapel, which will seat from
700 to 800 persons, and is well attended.
DIRECTORY OF- NOTTINGHAM. 93
THE HUNTINGTONIANS
Occupy Providence Chapel, a small building which was first converted
94 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
HOSPITALS.
Seventeen Hospitals, endowed with property, which produced in 1828
upwards of £2100., per annum, afford comfortable asylums for 180 poor
alms-people, besides relieving 32 out-pensioners.
viz., six on the ground-floor and seven on the chamber story. It is sub-
WILLOUGHBY'S ALMS-HOUSES.
Thomas Willoughby, by his will, bearing date 4th September, 1524,
tion to the usual donation of coals, and that none should be admitted
under the age of sixty.
COLLIN'S HOSPITAL,
Founded by Abel Collin, 1704. This Hospital, by appointment of Abel
Collin, late of Nottingham, mercer, deceased, who in his life was of an
extensive charity to the poor of all societies, and at his death by his last
will and testament left a competent estate for erecting and endowing the
same, was, by his nephew and executor, Thomas Smith, begun and
finished in the year 1709. AnOOANftNETI AAAEITAI.
The estate belonging to this charity consists of a farm at Burrough, in
—
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the county of Leicester, consisting of 207a. 2r. 24p., let in 1828 at £400.,
and 30a. 3r. 24p., let in 1828 at £50., rents in Nottingham £105., and
dividends on £6,800 consolidated 3 per cents., £204. standing in the names
of Lord Carrington and Samuel Smith, Esq. ; total, £759. per annum.
The Hospital, which is situate between Hounds-gate and Park-street,
and forming the west side of Spaniel-row, consists of a large quadrangular
Henry Smith, Esq., who inquires into the merits and necessities of the
applicants, and usually gives a preference to the oldest of them, if found
to be deserving. Each of the twenty-four inhabitants of the Hospital
receives 4s. per week, paid every Saturday, which amounts to £249 12s.
a -year, and an allowance of three ton of coals each. With the accumu-
lated funds in the hands of the trustees of this charity, the New Hospitals
in Carrington-street have been erected. " These Alms-houses were
erected a.d. 1830, by the trustees of the late Abel Collin, of this town, in
extension of the charity founded under his will ad. 1709." Arms
Vert, Griffin rampant quardant, Or, clawed and legged, Gules, a Chief
indented, Argent, charged with two crosses forme, Gules, crest, a
Talbot's head, Or ; motto — " Laus deo."
The first twelve were completed in 1831, and the other eight in 1834.
These new erections form the most handsome alms-houses in Nottingham,
and stand in a pleasant and improving part of the town, surrounded with
a large grass plot, enclosed with a neat iron palisading, and planted with
beech trees. They are occupied by twenty alms-people, who have the
same allowance as those in the Old Hospital in Park-street, each having
a sitting-room, 13 feet square, a pantry, and coal-place, and two lodging-
rooms over the same. The new street in front, which, with all the
houses and land in its vicinity, belongs to this extensive charity, and has
its name from Lord Carrington, a descendant of the founder, and the head
of the wealthy family of Smith. The front towards Carrington-street
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1646 ; all the rooms are on the ground -floor, with a garden behind, con-
taining about a quarter-of-an-acre, allotted to the alms-people. These
ancient tenements are occupied by twelve poor men and women, —four of
whom at the north end are appointed by the Mayor of Nottingham, —four
in the centre by John Sherwin Sherwin, Esq., as the owner of the
premises, charged with Mr. Handley's charitable payments, and the four
at the south-end by Earl Manvers. Each of the twelve alms people
receive £3 6s. 8d. a-year, by quarterly payments from John Sherwin
Sherwin, Esq., of Bramcote Hills. Henry Handley, Esq., died on the
10th day of June, 1650, and is interred in Bramcote Church.
from the churchwardens, and Samuel Unwin, Esq., by his will, proved
at York, February, 1818, gave to nine trustees therein-named £1,000.,
that they should, out of the interest thereof, pay yearly to the six alms-
people £18 4s. in- cash annually, at Lady-Day and Michaelmas, and
should purchase for each one ton of coal. Each of the six alms-people
receive an allowance of 45s., and a ton of coals yearly in respect of this do-
WARSER-GATE ALMS-HOUSES,
Of unknown origin, were re-built in 1 775 ; they consist of six rooms, three
on the ground-floor, and three above. The alms-people receive the same
as those in Beck -lane. In 1823, four new dwellings were erected behind
the Warser-gate Hospital, at the cost of £142., in lieu of the Pilcher-gate
Alms-houses, sold for £183. These are occupied by four poor people,
who receive two ton of coals yearly. The interest of £40., in the hands
of the overseers of the poor, and the annual sum of £5. of the income of
Sherwin' s Charity is paid to the alms-people.
98 DIRECTORY OF NOTTmftHiM.
and trustee under Jonathan Labray's will, bearing date 25th of January,
1718, on a piece of waste land, granted by the mayor and burgesses of
Nottingham to the said Thomas Smith, and his heirs, containing 240
square yards of land, on trust for the use of the said intended Hospital
to be held of the Manor of the Town of Nottingham, at the yearly rent
of one penny. The old buildings being in a dilapidated state are now in
the course of being re-constructed, upon an improved plan, and are
intended to bear the following inscription :
—" These Alms-houses were
rebuilt upon an enlarged scale a.d. 1844, by the trustees under the will
of the late Jonathan Labray, of Nottingham, upon the site of the dwellings
originally erected a.d. 1726, by Thomas Smith, his sole executor, in ful-
filment of the terms of the devise, for pious and charitable uses."
" Cast me not off in the lime of old age."
" Forsake me not when my strength faileth." — Psalm lxxi. v. 5, 9.
being exactly opposite to St. Barnabas Church. The rooms on the ground-
floor consist of a sitting-room, 1 1 feet 6 in. by 1 1 feet, a scullery, and a coal-
place under the stairs, leading to the chamber-story, in which are two bed-
rooms, the same size as those below, for each inhabitant. A passage,
five feet in width, from the Derby-road, runs through the building to the
back of the Alms-houses, by which the dwellings are approached. These
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LAMBLEY'S HOSPITAL,
Pleasantly situate on the Derby-road, forms three sides of a square, with
a grass plot in front, enclosed by iron palisades, on a piece of land called
the " Sand Hills," containing twenty-two dwellings, consisting of one
room and a small pantry, built by the corporation in 1811-12. The land
is on a lease from the corporation for 999 years, at a pepper-corn rent.
In 1814, this handsome building was finished, and twenty-two persons,
being either burgesses of Nottingham, or widows of burgesses, were
placed therein. The expense of building the Alms-house was £2,700.
Each of the alms -people receive a ton of coal yearly, but no other allow-
ance. The Lambley Charity Estate consists of a house and out-buildings,
garden, orchard, and twelve fields, containing 104a. 3r. 26p. of land, let
in 1826 at £160. a-year.
tentions for building six or more alms-houses for the habitation of poor
widows, a piece of waste ground, containing in length 35 yards, and in
breadth 9 yards 1 foot, for a term of 500 years. The property belonging
to the Alms-house consists of a public-house, with four small houses
adjoining it in Goose-gate, Nottingham, and ten other small buildings
behind, being houses, shops, stables, &c, held under lease bearing date 7th
March, 1794, for 70 years, to Mr. William Wesson, at a small annual
rent of £16. The Alms-house, situate in St. John-street, consists of
100 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
eight dwellings of one room each, four on the ground-floor and four
above, and is inhabited by eight poor persons, chiefly widows of bur-
gesses. There is also a garden adjoining, occupied by the alms-people.
Each of the inmates receive 9d. weekly, in bread.
and lands were given by the corporation to the three parishes, for the
by poor widows. St. Peter's parish appropriated their share of the money
in building a new workhouse.
was endowed with lands and tenements in the town and neighbourhood,
left in trust to the Corporation for the maintenance of a Master and
Usher.
The Bltte-Coat School, High-pavement, was founded in 1706, but
the present building was not erected until 1723 ; the ground on which it
dends on £7,000. reduced three per cent, annuities, and £16. from £400.
Exchequer-bills. The annual subscriptions and collections from sermons
at the churches amount to about £150. The expenditure for the year
1827 was £412., of which £176. was for clothing the children, and £131.
for five quarter's salary to the master. Henry Smith, Esq., is the
treasurer, Rev. Robert White Almond, chairman of the meetings, and the
estate and management of the school is vested in about twenty trustees.
The National School, High Cross-street, is a brick building, formerly
used as a chapel. The School which is conducted on Dr. Bell's plan, com-
menced in 1811. The principal donations received by the charity are
£200. from the National Society in 1815 and 1817, and £200. given by
John Smith Wright, Esq., in 1815, besides a piece of land for the en-
largement of the School-room. The Duke of Newcastle subscribes ten
guineas annually, and the Dowager Duchess of Newcastle subscribed
five guineas annually until her death. The yearly subscriptions amount
to about £90. and the annual collection at St. Paul's church, in aid of
this charity, averages about £25. The average number of boys instructed
is about three hundred. Mr. Joseph Aldridge has been 31 years master
of the school, and he has, during that period, educated upwards of
20,000 children, and prepared 54 masters and mistresses for other schools
he receives a salary of £80. a-year. St. Paul's Sunday school children
are taught in this school-room.
102 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
the master, and Miss Mary Anne Beecroft the mistress. The rooms will
contain 500 children, and was erected during the mayoralty of William
Roworth, Esq. and partly through his exertions. At the west-end of the
building is a large portico, through which the upper room is approached
by a geometrical staircase where the girls are instructed.
for the education of forty boys and twenty- four girls of any religious
denomination. Ten of the girls are also clothed. Mr. John Taylor is
the master, and Miss Mitchell mistress, —the scholars pay Is. per quarter.
St. Paul's Infant School, opened 14th September, 1840, is held
in a large room in the Robin-Hood Yard. This school is attended by
about sixty children, who pay 2d. each, and the other expences are raised
" open to the sick and lame poor of any country or nation," and ranks as
the largest and most useful charitable institution in the town. The
building, designed and built by Mr. Stretton, is substantially constructed
of brick, with stone string courses and window heads, in the Italian style
£35,805. 4s. Id., being an average of £2,975. a-year. Since its com-
mencement, it has received benefactions and legacies to the amount cf
£33,290., of which sum £6,337. 2s. lOd. was given by the Rev. Francis
Gisborne, rector of Staveley, in the county of Derby, who bequeathed
similar sums to the Infirmary at Derby and Sheffield ; £300. by His
Grace the Duke of Newcastle ; £300. by Lord and Lady Middleton
£1000. by Mrs. Elizabeth Bainbrigge, of Woodborough, £400. by " A
Friend," £300. by John Morris, Esq., of Nottingham ; £300. by His
Grace the Duke of Portland; £1,000. left by Mr. and Mrs. Kay, of
Fulford ; £500. by James Mansfield Chadwick, Esq. ; £300. by Mrs.
Jerrom, of Nottingham ; £1,000. by the Rev. J. B. Copestake, of
Kettleby, £1,000. in the three per cents, by Edward Bennett, Esq.,
of Sheffield; £706. by the Rev. C. Turner, of Treeton; and other donors
of various sums from £1. to £200. In 1835, the receipts of a Bazaar at the
Exchange-room produced £1,026. The annual subscriptions during the
last twelve years have averaged £1,121. The dividends and interests for
£537. The donations and legacies received from 1831 to 1842 inclusive,
amounts to £9,956 12s. 9d. The total receipts for the same period,
During last year 1 18| were the number of patients in the house; additional
accommodation has just been afforded, so that the number of beds available
for in patients is now 122. The capital of this institution is £20,000.
in the 3* per cent, stock, £10,000. lent on mortgage at 4^ per cent., and
£1,000. on the Nottingham towiL-rate, at 5 per cent. The physicians and
surgeons of the Institution lend their assistance gratuitously. Mr. Francis
Sibson is the resident surgeon and apothecary. Benefactors of £100.
and upwards, and subscribers of five guineas or more, have the privilege
of two guineas, can recommend two in and six out-patients, during the
year. Benefactors of ten guineas, and annual subscribers of one, may-
recommend two patients annually. The chief magistrate or body corpo-
rate, overseers of any parish, or a person appointed by any society, giving
a donation or subscribing annually, have the same privilege.
Officers of the Institution. —President, Colonel Whetham. Audi-
tors, Rev. R. W. Almond, M.A. ; Francis Hart, Esq ; Henry Percy,
Esq. Treasurers, Messrs. Samuel Smith and Co ; Messrs. Ichabod and
I. Charles Wright and Co. ; Messrs. Moore and Robinson. Physicians,
R. S. Hutchinson, M.D. ; J. C. Williams, M.D. ; Charles Storer, M.D.
Surgeons, Mr. W. W right, F.R.C S.;
r
Mr. G. M. White, F.R.C.S. ; Mr.
H. C. Attenburrow, F.R.C.S. Chaplain, Rev. W. J. Butler, M.A. Resi-
dent Surgeon, Mr. Francis Sibson. Secretary, Mr. G. Levick. The
ordinary expences of this benevolent Institution, from 1st of March, 1842,
to 1st of March, 1843, was—food, £1,673. ; medicines, &c, £485. ; sala-
It is four stories high, the ground story rather sunk, and the front is
lighted by 120 circular -headed windows. The foundation stone was laid
May 31, 1810, and the building was opened for the reception of patients
on the 5th of February, 1812 ; since which several additions have been
made to the fabric; and in 1829, the want of room was so great, that
two new wards, for the reception of twenty male and twenty female
patients, were erected, at the expense of £2,076., making the total cost
which seven -twelfths was raised by voluntary subscription, and the re-
mainder is paid out of the county -rates, viz., foui twelfths by Notting-
hamshire, and one-twelfth by Nottingham. The establishment is well
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adapted for the comfort and recovery of those afflicted with that most
distressing of all human maladies, insanity ; being provided with commo-
dious and well-ventilated apartments, separated into distinct wards fo t
the classification of the patients, who have the best medical assistance,
and are provided with excellent baths, and with extensive courts and
gardens for their recreation. It furnishes accommodation at this time for
175 patients.
This Asylum was built pursuant to Act of Parliament, passed in the
49th Geo. III., and is now regulated under the Act of 9 Geo. IV., which
enacts that all pauper lunatics or dangerous idiots must be placed in some
asylum sanctioned by the magistrates, and be there kept until they are
females, 155; total, 364; not relieved males, 94; females, 61; total,
155; dead, males, 151; females, 68 ; total, 219; remaining 30th June
1843, considered curable, males, 28 ; females, 33 ; total, 61 ; considered
incurable, males, 48 ; females, 50 ; total, 98 ; numbering in the whole
1,663 patients. Benefactions, by donations, £5,037. ; by legacies,
£5,282. ;
parochial collections, £3,991. ; by annual subscriptions, £287.
. ;
18s. ; cash and funded property, 30th June, 1843, £2,495. ; due to the
Asylum on account of patients and parishes, £1,050. ; due by the united
counties, £1,558. ; total, £5,103.
CASH RECEIVED. CASH PAID.
Dividend on Stock £34 Maintenance and Medicine £2,820
Interest 56 Clothing 237
Subscriptions 315 971
Donations 107 Physicians' Fees, &c. . 3
First-class Patients 217 Ordinary Repairs ..£1,071)
242
Second Ditto 1,806 Charged the Counties. . . 829 i
£5,163
Less allowed from Charitable Fund 307
£4,856 £4,856
Officers and their Salaries : Treasurer, H. Smith, Esq. — Phy-
sician, J. C. Williams, M.D., £150. ; chaplain, Rev. H. W. Whyatt,
£50. ; director and superintendent, Mr. Thomas Powell, M.R.C.S., £150.
matron, Mrs. Powell, £80. ; assistant-matron, £20. ; consulting surgeon,
Mr. White; clerk, Mr. Sadler, £70.; nurses, £88.; keepers, £178.;
gardener, £31. ; stoker, £31. ; Porter, £26. ; servants' wages, £80. ;
was designed by Messrs. ^Nicholson and Goddard, and built by Mr. Drewry.
The following statement of the cost of the building and furnishing is
lease, £30. ; Scott, clerk of the works, £42. 4s. ; law expenses, (two
leases, trust-deed, &c.,) £43. 17s. lOd. ; Nicholson and Goddard, archi-
tects, £79. 5s. 4d. ; furniture, £159. lis. 8d. ; ironmongery, £43. 14s. 6d. ;
plumbing and glazing, £24. ; extra work on building, £59. 13s. ; gas
pipes, fixtures, &c, £16. Is. 8d. ; interest, £16. Is. 5d. ; balance in
treasurer's hands, £13. 14s. 5d. ; total, £1797. 7s. lOd. President for
the year, His Grace the Duke of Newcastle ; Vice-Presidents, Right Hon.
Earl Manvers ; William Vickers, Esq., Mayor; the Venerable the Arch-
deacon of Nottingham ; John Smith Wright, Esq. ; Ichabod Wright,
Esq. ; and Thomas Moore, Esq. ; Physician, Dr. Storer ; Surgeons,
Messrs. Davison, J. Thompson, Massey, and J. N. Thompson ; Resident
Apothecary, Henry Taylor, M.D ; Assistant, Mr. Joseph White ; Secre-
tary, Mr. James Wilcockson ; and Treasurers, Messrs. Ichabod and I. C.
Wright. Those patients who cannot attend the Dispensary, are visited
at their own dwellings ; and though the charity does not include cases
of midwifery, it relieves poor married women after childbirth, provided
is clerk to the Company. The land comprises twelve acres of the Sand-
hills, on the summit and north of Tollhouse-hill, enclosed by a wall
ten feet high.. The grand entrance, through a beautiful Grecian arch,
leads to the Grecian Ionic temple, a neat chapel, standing in the centre of
the Cemetery-grounds, which are tastefully laid out in gravel walks,
flower borders, and grass plots, and planted with evergreens. At the
lower end of this sloping declivity, which recedes to the north, is another
entrance lodge. The whole forms a beautiful arboretum, and is much
who are permitted to walk in the grounds.
frequented by the inhabitants,
The Cemetery was opened in June, 1838 the number of interments from
;
the commencement to June, 1839, were 270; from 1839 to 40, 676.
from 1840 to 41, 509; from 1841 to 42, 416; from 1842 to 43, 550;
total, 2,421 persons in less than five years. The total number interred
in Nottingham and the Park, from June, 1839, to June, 1840, was 1,721 ;
from 1840 to 1841, 1,609; from 1842 to 1843, 1,228 persons; total,
4,558 persons in three years. Mr. Samuel Sutton Rawlinson was the
architect for the Cemetery buildings, and the twelve alms-houses, which
form wings to the entrance. Mr. John Holmes is the superintendent.
In 1832, the cholera morbus visited Nottingham, and out of 796 cases,
296 persons died. Nothing in the memory of man produced so much
alarm and consternation as this dreadful plague. The churches and
chapels, and every house of prayer in the town, were crowded, during its
prevalence.
payment.
LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.
The Bromley House Subscription Library, and News Room,
founded in 1816, at Thurland Hall, by Dr. Storer, contains upwards of
10,000 volumes, amongst which are many scarce and valuable works in
every branch of literature, and the Arts and Sciences, and most of the Par-
liamentary Records of public charities, &c. The Standfast Library is in
Officers of the Institution. —Rev. Robert White Almond, M.A., M.R S.L,
president; John Smith Wright, Esq., treasurer; Thomas Wakefield,
Esq., sub-treasurer; Mr. Samuel Newham, under-secretary ; Mr. John
Walton, librarian.
holders, and 410 subscribers, the former of whom gave £5. each towards
the foundation ; but most of them have relinquished all claim in the
Library, except that of promoting its welfare for the general benefit of
the subscribers, who each pay Is. 6d. per quarter. It is open every
evening, except Sunday, from seven to nine o'clock ; Thomas Wakefield,
Esq., president ; Francis Hart, Esq., treasurer; and Mr. Hunt, librarian.
from the Temple of Vesta, at Tivoli ; and the pilaster caps, with the
panels and terminals of the attic, are of enriched design. The external
dimensions of the edifice are 124 feet long, 61 feet extreme width, and
46 feet high.
to be very complete. Entering beneath the portico, upon the right is the
residence of the librarian, and on the left the staircase leading to the great
hall. Advancing through a corridor, upon each side are two commodious
class-rooms, beyond which are the library, 42 feet by 26 feet, and the
Natural History Gallery, 50 feet by 19 feet 6 inches, with the apartment
of the curator, and at each angle a staircase.
The one pair is almost entirely occupied by a noble hall, 80 feet by 45
feet, and 30 feet high, with an orchestra and platform. Under the
orchestra is an upper gallery for natural history, 50 feet long, 8 feet 6
cheap and easy rate, the means of instruction and improvement in the
public meetings, exhibitions, and auctions, are held in it. The hotel
which has been added to the establishment, and the Assembly-rooms, are
rented of the Committee, by Mr. John Mee. There is also a Chess Club
held every alternate Tuesday, and a Literary Society, Dr. J. C. Williams,
president. The Newstead Lodge of Freemasons is also held here the
first and third Mondays in every month. Mr. Mee lets the Assembly-
room for public purposes, at from £1. 10s. to £2. a-day, and the Tea-
room for auctions, exhibitions, &c, at from 10s. to £1. a-day. In 1838,
there were 150 proprietors, who held 566 shares, £5. each share. The
provisional committee consists of ten gentlemen, who manage the affairs
and audit the accounts.
The contractors commenced pulling down and re-building the Assem-
bly-rooms in July, 1836, and a new suite of elegant and spacious rooms
have been erected at the cost of £1,731., including the purchase, £1100.
the furniture, law charges, &c, total, £3,012. The object of the original
promoters of the News-room was to obtain a handsome and commodious
building, for the use and accommodation of the Conservative party.
The Nottingham Floral and Horticultural Society have seve-
about 1760, by the late Mr. Whiteley. The interior fittings are not at
The Races.— Nottingham races are now held in the second week in
October after the " Goose Fair." Till lately they were held in July or
August, and were more numerously attended and better supported by the
sporting gentry than they are now ; though the course is never out of
order, owing to its having a sandy soil. The present is a lj-mile course,
of an- oval figure, being altered from its original form in 1813. It occu-
DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM:. 115
pies a part of the Forest on the west side of the Mansfield-road, and the
east side of the Alfreton road, and has on its south side a long range of
high ground, from which thousands of spectators may have as good a
view of the sport as those who ascend the Grand Stand. In 1777, the
Grand Stand, a large and handsome brick building, was completed, at the
the present proprietors for £1,100. In the present year races were held
on Wednesday in Easter week, and were numerously attended, there being
upwards of 20,000 spectators on the ground, and it is thought a spring
meeting might be permanently established for two day's sport, and be of
great advantage to the town.
Nottingham has enjoyed the King's Plate for a long period, besides
horses of all ages, which have never won the value of £50. at any one race,
and a Subscription Stakes, for two-year olds : three days sport, William
verdant plain, which has been formed at great labour and expense. In
1791, a great match was played in the meadows, between eleven of the
Nottingham Club, backed by Colonel Churchill, and eleven noblemen
and gentlemen of the Mary-le-bone Club, headed by the Earl of Win-
chelsea. The Nottingham players had no chance of success, though they
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boundaries are enclosed by large and beautiful houses, with hanging gar-
dens in front, descending by an abrupt but picturesque semi-circular
sweep to the green pasture of the Park, which extends to the verge of
the parish of Lenton, and to the north bank of the Leen. Most of the
houses, from their elevated situation, command extensive views over the
built. The land on which the houses are built is held on 99 years leases,
the Duke's property, enables his Grace to carry out his views in forming
a spacious and picturesque line of road. The other is intended to con-
nect the bottom of the Park with Nelson-street, forming a direct approach
to the Market-place, by means of a spacious and ornamental viaduct.
The whole of the unoccupied land in the Park may be taken on 99 years
building leases, at a grount rent, or let in garden plots, for the use and
recreation of the inhabitants.
The " Rock Houses " are a curious range of excavations on the
north bank of the river Leen, at the south-west corner of the Park. Dr.
Stukeley visited them in the early part of the last century, when they
were more perfect ; he says, —" What is visile at present is not of so old
a date as the Britons, yet I see no doubt that it is founded upon theirs.
Bethlehem, and other places in the Holy Land. The altar is natural
rock, and there has been painting upon the wall ; a steeple, I suppose
where a bell hung, and regular pillars. The river here winding about
makes a fortification for it, for it comes to both ends of the cliff, having a
plain before the middle. The way to it was by gates cut out of the rock,
with oblique entrance, for more safety. Without, is a plain with three
niches, which I fancy their place of judicature, or the like ; between this
tion it is scarcely possible to add anything that will give a better idea of
the place two centuries ago. It has suffered considerably from the effects
of time since Dr. Stukeley wrote, but enough still remains to gratify, and
at the same time to excite curiosity. These relics of antiquity are in the
plot of land taken by the Wellington Club for their new bowling green t
archery ground, and pleasure gardens, and as they are clearing them out,
they will become more interesting for the stranger to visit. In the interior
of these excavations is a circular well. The Wellington Club are con-
verting the most spacious room in these curious excavations into a dining
room, in the Gothic order, and are making an archery ground, 80 yards
by 10 yards. The bowling green is to be called " The Newcastle Green."
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The Barracks, built in 1792, (on ground leased from the Duke of
Newcastle, of which lease about ten years are unexpired,) are pleasantly
situate on the western corner of the Park, on a healthy and beautiful
site. This forms the only military depot now possessed by the town.
They contain convenient apartments for the officers, a Sutling-house, bar-
duce of the mines and mountains of Derbyshire are brought. The Trent
is navigable to Burton, in Staffordshire, but has in the passage from thence
to Nottingham several shoals and circuitous reaches, which are avoided
by a side cut, called the Trent Canal, which extends from the Nottingham
Canal at Lenton, to the Trent and Mersey Canal, which opens the passage
to the Grand Trunk Canal, and all the navigable rivers and canals of
Staffordshire, Cheshire, and the western parts of the island. Near Sawley
Ferry, about eight miles south-west of Nottingham, the Trent navigation
is joined by the Derby and the Erewash Canals, and the river Soar, which
latter, with the Leicester Union, the Grand Union, the Grand Junction,
the Paddington, and the Regent Canals, forms a direct line of navigation
betwixt the Trent and the Thames, and thus opens a communication with
all the canals in the south of England.
The Midland Counties Railway was commenced between Nottingham
and Derby in 1837, and opened to the public on the 30th of May, 1839,
the distance being 15f miles, forming a junction with the North Midland,
and the Birmingham and Derby Railroads, at the Derby Station. Not-
tingham is the eastern terminus of the Midland Counties line of Railway,
;
The land on which the station and works are erected was meadow land,
eleven acres, formerly belonging to the corporation, but over which the
freemen had right of common three months in the year ; it was pur-
chased under the powers of the Act, and the claims of the burgesses were
satisfied by pecuniary recompense. The Station-house occupies about 450
square yards, at the eastern extremity of the line, and fronts the London-
road. Its style of architecture is Grecian, has a stone facade 90 feet
in length, brought from the quarry of A. Heathcoat, Esq., Darley Dale,
in the county of Derby. The centre is an architrave, and enriched
consoles to the door and windows, and a dentillated entablature on the
top, with stone balustrade, surmounted with a scroll and shield, bearing
the arms of the Company. The two wings have plain pilasters, with a sunk
panel and enriched Girilloche in the parapet, and are carried up to conceal
the roof of the wings, the centre being concealed in like manner with the
balustrade. The centre is devoted to the entrance-hall, 34 feet by 24^-
feet; in the south wing is a waiting-room for ladies, 18 feet by 10 feet
there is also a room for gentlemen, 23 feet by 17 feet, and another for
with an iron roof. Adjoining the entrance -gate, are buildings appro-
priated for the use of the superintendent of police, &c. The quantity of
land enclosed is five-and-a-half acres, north and west, by a brick wall, east
by the Station-house, and south, by a diverted channel of the Tinker's
Leen. There is a dock canal, 50 feet wide, and 250 feet long, near which
are large sheds for heavy goods; the engine-house is 80 feet by 21 feet,
with coke-stove, 20 feet by 12 feet, and over the latter a water- tank,
The Trains. —There are six up-trains to London, and six down -trains
from London daily, during the week, and four trains on Sundays.
The Up- Trains leave Nottingham 25 m. past 8, 40 m. past 10, in the
morning ; \ past 1, 35 m. past 4, 15 m. past 8, and 40 m. past 9, p.m
The 1st, 2nd, and 5th, are third-class trains, as far as Leicester, and the
others 1st and 2nd. On Sundays, I past 6, J past 12, morning 7 and £ ;
p. 8 in the evening. The first and third are 1st,2nd, and 3rd-class trains.
The Down-Trains arrive at Nottingham \ past 9 a.m., 12 p.m., 20 m.
past 3, p.m., (mail,) J-past 5,p. m., 50 m. past 10 at night, 55 m.
past 6 a.m. The first and fourth are 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-class trains. — The
Sunday Trains, £ past 2, p.m., J past 8 p.m., and f past 8, morning.
The Trains to Derby, 20 m. past 7, 25 m. past 8, 45 m. past 10, morning ;
of eleven ribs, united in the centre out of twenty-two castings, with the
requisite lateral braces. The most remarkable feature in the erection of
early as 1199, King John founded in the town a Merchant's Guilds and
granted a Charter to the burgesses, forbidding all persons within ten
miles round Nottingham to work dyed cloth, except in the borough.
This branch of business was the immediate rise to opulence of several
great families in the town, (merchants of Calais), amongst whom may be
enumerated the Willonghbys, Plumptres, Thurlands, Mapperleys, Bing-
hams, Tannesleys, Allestrees, Amyases, Salmons, Hunts, and others.
But no cloth appears to have been made for exportation till after 1331,
some centuries. At the close of the 17th century, the cloth trade in
Nottingham gave place to the hosiery manufacture.
in silk and those who use cotton only.The stocking-frame was invented
towards the close of the sixteenth century, by Mr. William Lea, M.A. of
St. John's, Cambridge. Ke was born at Woodborough, a village about
seven miles from Nottingham. It is related that he became enamoured
with a lovely stocking-knitter, who instructed and employed young girls
m the same business. She rejected his addresses, and her admirer, in
Holland. The art, in the mean time, began to nourish in this country,
silk, that material being " the best and richest of all others in use and
wearing, and most crediting the artisans, and of the greatest advantage
unto this State and Commonwealth, yielding several payments to the use
of the State before it passes out of the hands of the traders therein, and
increases merchandise by both the ways of importation and exportation
of the same material, imported raw at cheap rates ; exported ready wrought
parts in seven of the whole quantity of this material in the highest value
thereof, wrought up by this manufacture ; which has vindicated that old
proverbial aspersion : the stranger buys of the Englishman the case of the
fox for a groat, and sells him the tail again for a shilling. —And may now
invert and retort upon them :
— the Englishman buys silk of the stranger
for twenty marks, and sells him the same again for one hundred pounds:"-r
Cromwell did not grant the prayer of their petition, but they obtained
a charter from Charles II. soon after the Restoration, by which the ex.
excise of their manufacture was restricted to a company, with a juris-
— ;
" It was Jedediah Strutt, my father, who invented the Derby rib machine
in the year 1758, or thereabouts. About that time he settled in Derby
for the purpose of carrying on the manufacture of ribbed stockings, in
conjunction with his brother-in-law, Mr. Woollatt, who was then a hosier
in that place, and which partnership continued until the death of my
father, in the year 1797. A great part of the time during which the
patent was in force, Mr. Samuel Need, of Nottingham, was a partner,
under the firm of Need, Strutt, and Woollatt. The patent-right was
tried twice in Westminster-hall : first, with the hosiers of Derby, and
afterwards with those of Nottingham ; from which time it was enjoyed
quietly to the end of the term." This improvement has suggested others,
and from it has arisen the art of making open-work mittens, gloves, pan-
taloons, shirts, and various fanciful articles.
The stocking frame invented by the Rev. William Lea, or Lee, of Cal-
verton, in 1589, was very simple, with jacks only, and was a twelve-
gauge ; the improvement introduced by Aston, of Thurgarton, who was
124 DIBECTOKY OF NOTTINGHAM.
two latter counties the object of the workmen was to destroy those
machines which had been introduced for the purpose of superseding
manual labour, but the frame-breakers in the hosiery and lace trades
had not this grievance to complain of, — their sole object was an advance
DIRECTOEY OF NOTTINGHAM. 125
who had been the means of apprehending one of their sworn biethren.
Mr. Garton being apprised of their -visit, had obtained the assistance of
several constables, who, after the assailants had broken into the house
and discharged several shots, returned their fire, when one of the Luddites
fell, and the rest retreated, and in their flight shot dead at his own door,
Mr. William Kilby, who lived in a neighbouring house, and had been
drawn to his threshold on hearing the report of fire arms. On the 8th
of June, 1816, the Luddites broke nineteen lace frames in the houses of
Mr. Wm. Wright and Mr. Thomas Mullen, for which offence two men were
tried at the July assizes, who were acquitted for want of evidence. . This
was the last act of Luddism, its mistaken votaries having discovered ihat
their destructive practices were in the end more injurious to themselves
than their employers, whose losses had to be borne by the county rate.
The state of the inhabitants of Nottingham during this alarming period
may be judged from the number of unemployed families who were relieved
out of the poor rates in the three parishes on the 30th January, 1812 ;
third of the population. In 1831, the hosiery trade employed fewer hands
in Nottingham, Lenton, Beeston, Radford, Basford, Arnold, and Snein-
ton, than it did in 1811. The number of hosiery machines sold between
the years 1824 and 1832 inclusive, was 3,916. The highest prices
realized through these years for this kind of machinery was, in 1824-5-6,
when they were sold for £7. to £8. each frame ; during the six succeed-
ing years they were sold for about £4. each.
By an enumeration in 1812, there were found to be 2,600 stocking
frames in Nottingham, 900 in Old and N ew Radford, 400 in Mansfield,
126 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
1,700 in Leicester, 1,500 at Hinckley, and 400 in and near Derby. The
total number in Nottinghamshire was 9,285 ; in Leicestershire, 11,183 ;
former is now out of use, and the latter is in use. To the family of the
Levers this manufacture is indebted for various improvements, and indeed
the more recent inventions have chiefly consisted of ingenious methods
of adapting the Levers' bobbin-net machine to a variety of purposes ; and
DIRECTORY OP NOTTINGHAM. 127
in 1826, Mr. Roe, Mr. William Crofts and Mr. John Bertie applied the
Levers' machine to make breadths by what is termed a treble-turn-again,
which supersedes all other methods. Of the Messrs. Levers, the elder
died some years ago at New Radford ; his son, Mr. John Lever, went
to reside at Normandy and his nephew, of the same name,
Rouen, in ;
inventions, for bobbins and carriages of the same construction were in-
years patent in 1809, during the existence of which, he and his partner,.
Charles Lacey, Esq., of Nottingham, levied a heavy tax upon all persons
using the said bobbins and carriages, amounting on some machines to
upwards of £30. per annum. After the expiration of this patent, in 1823,
during which almost every capitalist was anxious to embark his money
in bobbin net machines, to assist in the construction of which, hundreds
of mechanics, tempted by extravagant wages, poured into the town from
all quarters ; machines and houses " sprung up like mushrooms*' —money
circulated freely, and the town was intoxicated with an unstable pros-
perity, which was suddenly dispelled by a consequent glut in the home
and foreign markets, and by the failure of many of the London and
country banks, and great commercial houses, in 1825 and 1826. In the
years 1823-4, and the spring of 1825, speculation in machines prevailed to'
such an extent that Levers sold for £90. to £100, circulars £80., and pusher
and traverse warps for £50. to £70. per quarter, machine width; during
the first six months of 1826, Levers fell to £20., circulars to £15. and
£18., and pushers and traverse warps to £10. and £15.. per quarter,
Bobbin net improved in price in 1827, and again fell in 1828 ; in which
year a restriction commenced, which continued for a year, limiting the
time to twelve hours a day. In 1828-9, 535 machines appear to have been
publicly offered for sale; in 1830-1, 206 only were offered. In 1828 many
machines were built, but few in 1829, and more in 1830, chiefly eight-
way generally, and about Christmas, 1832, they sold in many cases under
prime cost.Lever's machines and circulars when offered for sale would
only bring from £4. to £6. a quarter, in six to eight-quarter, pushers
£3. to £4., worth in 1829 from £20. to £25., and traverse warps from
£2. to £3. a machine. Rotary machines when brought into the market
sold for £1 2, to £15. a quarter, eight to twelve-quarter wide. Eight circular
machines, averaging eight quarter eleven-point, and which cost the
parties in 1825, £5,000., were sold for £300. Since the panic in 1825-6
one-third of all the machinery in the trade has passed out of the hands of
the original owners. In 1832 there appears to have been only 213
machines brought into the market. The total number of machines sold
between 1824 and 1832 inclusive, were 1,843. In 1830 and 1831 wages
were reduced 25 per cent., and the number of machines had increased
from 4,000 to 4,500, and one-sixth in capacity of production, and that
new ones were introducing into the trade of such power of production a3
must still more than ever depreciate the value of the property vested in
hand machines, and have a direct tendency to sink the small owners into
journeymen, and either greatly increase the labour or depreciate the
wages of the workmen. The machines that have since been built, if
worked by three men in six-hour shifts, or eighteen hours per day, would
turn off 20,000 yards of good net per annum. So complete was the
despair in 1833 and 1834 of ever making narrow and slow machinery
again profitable, that from 500 to 600 machines were then broken up.
Many of these were thrown piecemeal out of the windows of the upper
rooms, in which they had been worked, into the streets, not being
thought worth the trouble of carrying down stairs, though they had cost
a few years before several hundred pounds a piece, and were still in good
working condition. The depreciation has been chiefly upon the hand
machines, up to nine quarters in width. It was calculated in 1831 that
there were 3,500 hand -machines, of all widths, in the trade : the then
current market value (not cost or actual makers price) was about
£390,000. The extreme market value in 1833, nearly as follows :^-
that about £70,000. were sunk in warp machines. Bobbin net machines
that in 1839 sunk in value to about £35., are now, by laying tfut upon
them ^om £40. to £50. in improvements, worth £150.
GLOVER'S
DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM,
TAKEN 1843.
Bennett Win. Grocer, Tea Dealer, & Coffee Roaster, Wheeler-gate Fr. Oc.
Bennett Amos, Grocer, and Tea-dealer, Wheeler-gate F.
Bennett Sarah, Dealer in Lace, Muslins, &c, South-parade
Benson James, Lace Manufacturer, Carter-gate Fr.
Benson James, Framework-knitter, Cow-court Fr.
Benson William, Willoughby.row Fr.
Benson James, junior, Framework-knitter, Clarence-street Fr.
Benson John, Comb-maker, Bellar-gate Oc.
Benson John, Grocer and Tea Dealer, Bellar-gate Oc.
Benton James, Fruiterer and Confectioner, London-road
Bentley Edward, Victualler, Park Tavern, Elliott-street
Bentley William, Eating and Coffee-house, Cheapside Oc.
Bercino Juliana G. Carver and Gilder, and Joiner, Sheep-lane
Berenhart, Meyer, and Jacoby, Lace Manufacturers, Pilcher-gate
Berresford Henry, Fishmonger, PennelTs-yard
Berresford William, Framework-knitter, Lenton Fr.
Berresford Thomas, Lace Manufacturer, New Lenton Fr.
Berridge James and Son, Hosiers, Hounds-gate
Berridge John, Hosier, Woodhouse's-yard Oc.
Berridge Thomas, Tailor, Plumptre-street
Berridge John, Framesmith, Barker-gate Fr.
Berrey Thomas, junior, Attorney's Clerk, Woolpack-lane Fr.
Berry James, Lacemaker, Alfreton-road
Berry Thomas, Constable, Alfreton-road Fr.
Berry George & Son, Lace Manufacturers, High-pavement, res. Park
Berry John, Lace Manufacturer, Cherry-place Fr.
Berry George, senior, Lace Manufacturer, Park F.Fr.
Berry George, junior, Lace Manufacturer, Park F.
Bertie John, Lace Machine-maker, New Lenton Fr.
Berwick William, Tailor, Salisbury-square
Best Charles, Framework-knitter, Fletcher-gate Fr.
Best William, Lace Manufacturer, Hounds-gate
Best Charles, Framework-knitter, Rick-street Fr.
Bestow Frederick, Painter, Smithy-row Oc.
Bestow Samuel, Victualler, Feathers Tavern, Exchange Fr. Oc.
Bestow William, Lace Dresser, New Bridge-street Oc,
Betts Samuel, Lacemaker, Back-lane Oc.
Betts George, Warphand, De-Ligne-strect Fr.
Betson Mrs. Elizabeth, Postern-street
Bettney Joseph, Painter and Beerseller, Walker-street
Bettney Thomas, Pipe-maker, Corn-hill Oc.
Beveridge Thomas, Surgeon, Market-street Oc.
Biddle and Birkin, Lace Manufacturers, St. Mary's-gate
Biddle William, Dyer, Glssshouse-street
Biddle Richard, Lace Manufacturer, St. Mary's-gate F. Fr. Oc.
Biddulph Frederick Thomas, Gent's. Boarding-school Halifax-place Fr.
Biddulph Sampson, Gentleman, Standard-hill Oc. Fr.
Biggs Mrs. William, Milliner, Hounds-gate
Biggs William, Brazier, Hounds-gate Oc.
Bilbank Richard, Warehouseman, Melbourne-street
Bilbie Walter, Lace Manufacturer, Mansfield-road Oc. Fr.
Bilbie John, Plumber and Glazier, Bromley-street ,Fr.
12 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
terrace Oc.
Coleman James, Cork-cutter, Milton- street
Coleman William, Lace Manufacturer, Greyfriars'-gate Oc.
Collett Henry, Victualler, Nottingham Castle, Carter-gate Oc.
Collett William, Butcher, Shambles
Collier Samuel, Joiner, Coal-court Oc.
Collier Henry, Framework-knitter, Fyne-street
Collishaw .] oseph, Framework-knitter, Coldham-street Fr.
Collyer Samuel, Framework-knitter, Ilkeston-road Fr.
Collyer Samuel, Lacemaker, Derby-road Oc.
Colson James, Framework-knitter, Middle-hill Fr.
Coltman John, Chemist and Druggist, Long-row F. Oc.
Coltman Mrs., Park-street
Coltman and Ratcliff, Chemists and Druggists, Long -row & Sion-hill
Colton Sarah, Smallware-dealer, Hollow-stone
Colton Joseph, Coal-agent, Broad-street, Fr.
Colton Joseph, Smallware-dealer, Parliament-row Oc.
Comery George, Setter-up, Sneinton Fr.
C ornery William, Lacemaker, Hyson-green Fr.
Comery William, Setter-up, Hyson-green Fr.
Conner Joseph, Victualler, Queen Caroline, Charlotte-street
Conduit William, Lace-stamper, Newcastle-street Fr.
Cooke William, Shoemaker, Coalpit-lane
Cooke Joseph, Beerseller, Coalpit-lane Oc.
Cooke Miss, Milliner, Mansfield-road
Cooke Alfred, Shoemaker, Woolpack-lane
Cooke Thomas, Ironmonger, Brazier, &c. London-road Oc.
Cooke Robert, Draper, Park, shop, Long-row Fr. Oc.
Cooke Nathan, Pork-butcher, Goose-gate Oc.
Cooke James, Lace-gasser, Rice-place Oc.
Cooke and Foster, Linen and Woollen Drapers, Long-row
Cooke Thomas Timms, Brace Manufacturer, Malin-hill Fr.
Cooke Thomas Martin, Brazier, Bridge-street Fr.
DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 29
40 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
Herbert and Sneath, Tatting and Purl Manufacturers, Hounds gate Oc.
Herbert Frederick, Lace Manufacturer, Hounds-gate Oc.
Herbert William, Esq., Castle-place F. L.
Hernshaw Thomas, Warehouseman, Hay wood-street Fr.
Herrod George, Bobbin and Carriage -maker, Earl-street Fr.
Herrap James, Lace-agent, Severn's-yard, Middle-pavement Fr. Oc.
Herrick William Kelk, Schoolmaster, Sneinton Fr.
Herrod John, Bobbin and Carriage -maker, Earl-street Fr.
Herrod Joseph, Framework-knitter, Stanhope-street Fr.
Herrod John, Framework-knitter, Sneinton Fr.
Herrod John, Sinker maker, Earl-street Fr.
Herron Valentine, Lace-maker, Mansfield- terrace Fr.
Hetherington John, junior, Gun-maker, Bridlesmith-gate Oc. Fr.
Hetherington William, Cow-keeper, Mills tone -lane F.
Hetherington John, Gentleman, Burton Joyce F.
II ewes Anthony, Victualler, Sneinton Oc.
Hewitt James, Maltster, Park-row Oc. F.
Hewitt Robert, Framework- knitter, Apple-row Fr.
Hewitt Thomas, Silk Throwster, "Shakspeare-row Fr.
Hewitt Francis Pike, Hosier, Castle -gate Oc. Fr.
Hewitt F. P. & Co., Hosiers, Rutland-street
Hewitt John, Lace-maker, New Radford Fr.
Hewitt William White, Framework -knitter, Woolpack-lane Fr.
Hewson Thomas, Writing-master, Grammar School, Sherwood-hill Oc.
Hextall Thomas, Framework-knitter, Plumptre-street Fr.
Iieymann Lewis, Lace Manuf. West Bridgford, wareh. Stoney-st. Fr. F.
Hibbert John, Brewer, Grandvilla-street Fr.
Hibbert William, Lacemaker, Mansfield-road
Hibbert Christopher, Victualler, Bunker's-hill Fr. Oc.
Hibbs John, Shoemaker, Count-street
Hibbs Thomas, Hairdresser, Sneinton-street F. Oc.
Hickling Christopher, Lace-maker, March-street
Hickling Henry, Book-keeper, Mansfield-road F.
Hickling Edward, Whitesmith, Woolpack-lane Oc.
Hickling Thomas, Needle-maker, Woolpack-lane Fr.
Hickling George, Lace-maker Queen-street
Hickling Thomas, Lace Manufacturer, Derby-road Oc.
Hickling George, Auctioneer and Building Surveyor, Clumber-street,
residence Babbington-terrace . Oc.
Hickling James, Framework knitter, Parliament-street Fr.
Hickling William, Lace-maker, Upper Parliament-street Oc.
Hickling Mrs., Seminary, Island-street
Hickling Samuel, Lace-maker, Sussex-street Fr.
Hickling — Lace-maker, Broad-marsh
Hickling Charles, Commercial Traveller, Storiey-street
Hickling Thomae and Co., Figured Lace Manufacturers, Pilcher-gate
Hickling James, Victualler, Canal Inn, London-road
Hickling Ebenezer, Collector and Agent, Normanton-street Oc.
Hickling Robert, Printer, Maypole-yard Fr.
Hickling Elizabeth, Ladies Boarding and Day School, Toll-street
Hickling Mrs. Dress-maker, Carrington-street
Hickling John James, Confectioner, Carrington-street
58 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
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bridge Wharf
Tunley William, Wharfinger, New-bridge Wharf
Tunnicliff Charles, Farrier, Cur-lane
Tunson William, Jobber, Lock-court Fr.
Tunstall Thomas, Leather-cutter, Parliament-street F. Oc.
Tupling Thomas, Framework-knitter, Carter-gate Fr.
Tupling Thomas V Lacemaker, Denmark- street, Radford
, Fr.
Turner William, Stonemason, Walker-street
Turner Thomas, Victualler, Shoulder of Mutton, Smithy-row Oc. Fr.
Turner Thomas Wm., Boy's Day-school, Parliament-street, res. Sneinton
Turner Joseph, Framesmith, Toll-street Fr.
Turner Isaac, Framework-knitter, Stanhope-street Fr.
Turner James, Wood and Iron- turner, Pomfret-street Fr.
Turner Joseph, Warehouseman, Halifax-place Fr.
Turner George, Maltster, Radford Fr
DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 123
1 10 Cullen, Thomas 32
Robinson, Thomas Smith, John
101 110 Dale, Thomas 33
Wayte, William 144 Smith, Samuel 110 Dalton, Thomas 33
Smith, John 111 Damms, John 33
BRAZIERS, &c. Taylor, JohnI
118 Drewry, John 37
Bales, James 6 Toplis, John 121 Drewry and Wright 37
Beard, Henry Towle, John 121 East, Thomas 38
Biggs, William Eden, William 38
Bowman, Ann BRICKLAYERS. Elliott, Frederick 39
Chapman, William Briggs, William 141 Ferguson, James 40
Cooke, Thomas Byron, Robert 22 Flamson, Thos & Hy. 41
Cooke, Thomas Martin Byron. William 22 Hall, James Ebrank 50
Dale, James Bullock, Thomas 14]Hare, John 52
Dickisson, William Clough, George 27 Harmston, John 52
Farnsworth, David Coooer, George 29 Hawley, John 54
Farnsworth, Daniel 40 Clx, John !
141 Ingar, William 65
Fidler, John 41 Dale, Thomas 33 Ingar, John 65
J
Muxlow, Charles j
85 Smith, John 1 1
BREWERS, &c. j
Nix, Thomas 86 Smith, William 112
Bailey, Thomas 5 ! Nix, Samuel 87 Soar, Joseph
j
112
Beasley and Champion 9 i
Ostick, Thomas 89 Soar, James 11'-
James, Thomas 66 ;
Ostick, John 89 Spurr, Richard 14
1
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Barnett, Henry Rose 7 Carey, Henry and Co. 22 Hardy, John 52
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PAGE. PAGE.
PRINTERS, &c, REGISTRAR OFFICES
(see SETTERS-UP.
Booksellers.) FOR BIRTHS, DEATHS, Daniel, Matthew 33
PROF, and TEACHERS. AND MARRIAGES. Gilding, Henry 54
Assolari, Signor 4 Langham, Joseph 70
Bond, Henry 13 Barnett, Absalom 7 Mather, James 79
Frearson, Miss 43 Barton J., Bottle-lane Mellor, John 82
Garland, Wm. M. 44 George, Charles 45 Nottman, William 87
Hall, William Belk 51 Kidd, W. M. 70 Rose, John 102
Hopkins, J. H. 62 Moore, Samuel 83 Shipley, George 108
Lee, John 73 Moore, Samuel 83 Skevington, Bakewell 109
Owencroft, John 89 Parr, John 90 Slater, George 110
Price, Sarah 96 Pearson, George 92 Slater, Ephraim J 10
Quick, Edmund 96 Wells, H. 129 Waldrum, William 125
Richards, S. A. 99 Wilcockson, J. 133
Sandier Louis, Low-parem. SHARE BROKERS.
White, James 131 ROPE, TWINE, AND Parsons, John 91
Wilkinson, Mary A. 133 SACKING MANUFRS. Spencer, Charles 113
Woolley, Thomas 138
Allen, Ann SHOEING SMITHS and
PROVISION DEALERS. Baker, Samuel FARRIERS.
Bell, Joseph 10 Clarke, Allan (See Blacksmiths.)
Billiald, Alfred 12 Clarke, Samuel
Clater, James 27 Coates, James SILK THROWSTERS.
Ford, John 42 Dickisson, George Bean and Johnson 9
Greaves, Walter 48 Haines, Solomon Bridget!;, Thos & Co. 104
Jarman, John 67 Henley, John Gill, F. B. and Co. 46
Malin James, Chapel-bar Millington, Thomas 82 Taylor, William 65
Maycock, William 80 Sewell, Charles 106 Walsh & Windley 126
Slater, John 110 Smith, James 110
Watton, William 128 Smith, Stephen SILK MERCER.
Whittaker, Thomas 132 Smith, James 111 Foster, M. P. 42
(See Pork Butchers.) Taylor, Barnabas 118 (See also Drapers.)
Tomlinson, Robert 121
PUBLISHERS. White, Jervase 134 SILK MANUF. EDGING
& Son
Glover, Stephen 46 Moore, S. W. & C. B. 82
SADDLERS & HARNESS
RAFF MERCHANTS. MAKERS. SINKER-MAKERS.
Barnsdall, N. and Co. 7 Arnold, James 3
(See Timber Merchants.) Andrews, John 3 Bailes, Thomas 5
Andrews, John 3 Chadwick, John L. ! 24
RAG DEALERS. Bagguley, Samuel 5 Dodsley, William
I
36
Alvey Wm., Fisher-gate Caddick, Ichoiada 22 Heathcote, John
1 55
Ashling, Jonathan 4 Chester, William 25 Hemsley, Edward 56
Barrows, James 8 Creeke, Wm. Woollard 31 Howitt George, senior
I
63
Crabtree Wm., Mansfield-rd Elliott, Joseph 39 Howitt George, junior
|
63
Leighton, John 74 Griffin, John C. 49 j
Hough, John -
62
Martin, T. Parl.-street Mallett, Henry 77 James, Charles 66
Page, George 89 Mallett, John 85 ;
Kerry, George 69
Parker, Wm,, (wholes.) 90 Nelson, John 85 !
King, Joseph 70
Pashley T., Convent-stieet Place, John 94 Potter, Samuel 93
Walker and Son 125 Radnall, Chas, Robert 97 Roper, Thomas
!
102
Shaw, William 107 Rumley. Jonathan
|
103
REGISTER OFF. FOR Swann, Samuel 116 Rushton, Anthony 103
SERVANTS. Scott, Thomas 105
Africanus, Elizabeth 2 SEED CRUSHERS, Robert j
Scott, 105
Christian, William Seymour, Richard
35 Barnsdall, N, and Co. 7 !
106
Goodwin, Mrs. 47 Street, George I 115
Wainwright, Mary SEED MERCHANT. Tew, William 118
Chadburn, John 24 Treece, George 122
REGISTRY AND ARCH. Turner, William ! 123
OFFICE. SEMINARIES, Wells, Samuel |
129
Balguy, C. G., Esq. 6 (See Academies.) Wells, William |
129
1 1
Pigott,
Poole, John 94 TAVERNS, HOTELS, & Eaton, William 38
Poyser, William 95 PUBLIC HOUSES. Ellerthnrne, Jas. (Beer] 38
Ragsdale, Ruth 97 Adcock, William 1 Elson, Job 39
Richards, Ah, J. 99 Baker, William 5 Everall, John 40
Riley, John 100 Baker, Henry 5 Farmer, John 40
Rip pin, Ambrose 100 Bannister, John 6 Farrands, Lettice 40
Roberts, Charles 100 Barber, Joseph 6 Fenton, Joseph 40
Roe, A. W. 10! Barker, Joseph 6 Flower, Thomas 42
Sansome. William 104 Barker, Joseph 140 Foster, John 42
Scrimshaw, Samuel 106 j
Beecroft, Richard 10 Foster, Joseph 142
Sharp, John 106 j
Bennett, John 10 Foster Thos., Red Lion 93
Sharp, Thomas 106 j
Bentley, Edward 11 Freeman, John 43
Smith. Christopher 112 Bestow, Samuel 11 Galloway, Robert 44
Stagg, William 114 Bishop, John 12 Gilberthorpe, Win. T. 45
Stansfi eld, John 114 Richard Bodill, 13 Glover, Sydney 46
Stout, Samuel 115 Bonnington, George 13 Godber, James 46
Tebbutt, Robert B. 118 Brigg c Thomas , 17 Goddard, Thomas 46
Thorpe, William 120 Bristow, William 17 Goodrich, Eliz. 47
Ton\ Jnnics l?l Frown, James. 18 -Groves, John 49
Tattell, V. Iwin . 12 row ii, William
5 j
i 19 Guyler, William 50
Twells, William 123 Bugg, Thomas j
20 Guyler, John 50
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PAG&-
TIMBER MERCHANTS. UMBRELLA MAKERS.) WHEELWRIGHTS.
Barnsriull, Nath. & Co. 7 Need, Nath. P. 85 Cross. Henry 32
Burton, Benjamin 21 Pickering, G. V, 93 Davies, Isaac 34
Knight, Robert & Son 71 Scorer, Joseph 104 Eyre, Richard 40
Knight, William 7 Fairholme, George 40
Loveitt, Peter 75 UPHOLSTERERS. Hadden, William 50
Martin, Samuel 79 Addicott, Edward 2 Hadden, John 50
Oldham, John 88 Blackwall, William 13 Manners, Hugh 77
Smith, George 112 Brothers, Benjamin 18 Quinton, John 96
Woodford, David 137 Dean, William 35 Wilcockson, Thomas 133
Youle, Henry 139 Hawlev, William 54
Hill, Charles 58 WHITESMITHS.
TOBACCONISTS. Jones, Edward 68 Glover, Charles 46
Barnes, Robert 7 Lock, William Cook 75 Hackett, William 50
Brown, James 18 Maples, John 143 Hickling, Edward 57
Budworth, Mary 20 Smith, John 112 Hood, Richard 61
Corden, Robert 30 Howarth John, & Son 63
Holmes, James 61 VETERIN. SURGEONS. Millington, David 82
Mendheim, Mendez 81 Henry Pyatt, 96 Philips, George 93
Peet, Thomas 92 Rushton, John 103 Simpson, John 109
Spybey. George 114 Taylor, Charles 118 Sims, George 109
Sysson Henry, Lenton Wardlev, James 127
Tan turn Will am
, i 1 1 W ATCH & CLOCK MRS. WHIPTHONG MAKRS.
r
Shepperley, George
! 108 Jones, Thomas 68
Bam ford, Henry 6 Sullev, Richard " 116 Killingley and Co. 70
Brown, Zephaniah 19 Tiller, William 120 Mallby Gilbert, & Co. 77
Burton, Jonathan 21 Tyler. William
i
123 Middleton & Whetnall 81
Cawthome, James 24 Walker, George 125 Newham, Samuel 86
Cooke, H. A. 29 Warren, William 127 Noyes, Francis 87
Davies, Henry 34 White, Edward 131 Severn, James 106
Dilks, Joseph 36 Windley, Samuel 135 Severn, John 106
Ellison, Thomas 39 Yeomans, Henry 139 Skipwith and Saxton 109
Hall, John £I Slater, Samuel B. 110
Hutchinson, WilUam 65 WHARFINGERS. Smith, Maiy H. 110
Laughton, Henry 72 Bradshaw John, & Sons 15 Truman, Robert 122
Lester, John 74 Bradshaw, Nathan 15 Truswell, Joseph 122
Lichfield,Matthew 75 Brown Daniel, & Co. 18
Manning, John 11 Cutts, Hannah 32 WlREW ORKERS.
T
Contractions — N. It., Now Radford; N. S., New Sneinton; S., Sneinton;- K., Radford
SEATS
OF
COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAM.
Miss Longdon
Vicarage, Rev. Joseph Shooter, and Rev. Isaac Altham, curate,
Hills, John Sherwin Sherwin, EsqX
Bridgeford (West), 2 m. s. of Nottingham, Rev. John Peatfield, and
Clifford Caunt, Esq.
Rectory, Rev. William Musters, of Colwick
Hall, Mrs. Smith
(East), 10 m. e. by n. of Nottingham, Geo. Beaumont, Esq.
3 m. n. of Bingham, Rev. J. B. Wright
188 DIRECTORY OF NOTTINGHAM.
V J. M. B. Pigot, M.D.
—
Cotgrave Place, 5 m. s. e. of Nottingham, Robert Burgess, Esq.
— Lesiter
(South) Rectory, 6 in. n. by e. of Newark, Rev. Jos. Mayor
Colston Basset Vicarage, 5 m. s. of Bingham, Rev. Joshua Brooke, B.D.
Hall, Henry Martin, Esq. and E. Martin, Esq.
Cossall, 6 m. w.n.w. of Nottingham
Costock, 9 m. s. of Nottingham. Samuel Bagnall Wild, Esq.
Rectory, Rev. Edward Wilson
Cromwell Rectory, 5 m. n. of Newark, He v. Charles John Fynes Clinton
Cropwell Bishop, Vicarage, 4 m. s.e. of Bingham, Rev. George Gould
Crop well Butler, 10 m. s. of Nottingham, Henry Cortey Bingham, Esq. ;
Kinoulton Vicarage, 10 m
s.e. of Nottingham, Rev. Thomas Hook
Kirkby Hardwicke, 5 m. s.w. of Mansfield, George Hodgkinson, Esq.
Rectory, Hon. and Rev. John Venables Vernon
Kirklington Hall, 2 J m. n.w. of Southwell, Col. John Whetham ;
and Alexander Broddam, Esq.
Kirton, 3 m. n.e. of Ollerton, Rev. Joseph Blandford
Kneesall, 4 m. e.s.e. of Ollerton, Rev. John Ison
Knee ton, 8 m. s.w. of Newark, Rev. R
Randall Rawlins, (of Sereveton)
Those marked thus * are also Her Majesty's Deputy -Lieutenants for the County
of Nottingham, as are also the following Noblemen and Gentlemen
not included in the above List —
Burnside, William Stanford, Esq. Gedling House
Foljambe, Henry Savile, Esq. Osberton Hall, Retford
Fillingham, George, Esq. Syerstone Hall, Newark
Gal way, the Lord Viscount Serlby Hall, Bawtry
Moore, Thomas, Esq. Ruddington, Nottingham
Manvers, the Rt. Hon. C. Herb. Earl Thoresby Park, Ollerton
Pocklington, Roger, Esq. Leamington, Warwickshire
Rancliffe, the Right Hon. George)
Bunny Park
Augustus Henry Anne Baron - J
Royal Mail, to Lincoln and Hull, every morning, at a quarter before five.
Royal Mail, to Grantham aud Stamford, every morning at seven, (Maypole Hotel.)
Royal Mail, to Grantham, Norwich, and Yarmouth, at half-past one, (Lion Hotel,)
Royal Mail, to Sheffield, through Mansfield and Chesterfield, every afternoon at two,
(Maypole Hotel.)
Royal Mail, to Derby, every evening at a quarter past eight, (Lion Hotel.)
Union, to Norwich, Lynn, and Yarmouth, at a quarter before five every morning,
Sunday excepted, (Lion and Maypole Hotels.)
Wonder, to London, through Loughborough, Leicester, Harborough, Kettering, Bed-
ford, Hitchin, to the La Belle Sauvage, at seven in the morning, (Black Boy Hotel.)
Champion, Manchester, every morning at half-past eight, through Mansfield, Ches-
to
terfield, Bakewell, and Buxton, (Lion and Black Boy Hotels.)
Red Rover, to Cambridge, every morning, at seven, (Maypole Hotel.)
Umpire, to Newark, Lincoln, and Boston, every morning at seven, Sunday excepted,
(Lion. Maypole, and Black Boy Hotels.)
Prince Albert, to Lincoln, Ne.rark, and Boston, every afternoon at four, Sunday
excepted, (Lion, Maypole, and Black Boy Hotels.)
Queen, to Gainsborough, through Southwell and Retford, every afternoon at a quarter
past three, Sunday excepted, (Maypole Hotel.)
Accommodation, to Southwell and Newark, at a quarter before six in the evening,
Sunday excepted. (Lion, Maypole, and Black Boy Hotels.)
Imperial, to Hull, Brigg, and Bartou-water-side, through Newark and Lincoln, at
half past nine in the morniug, Sunday excepted, (Maypole and Lion Hotels.)
DefLmce, to Derby, at half-past eight in the morning, Sunday excepted, (Lion Hotel.)
Express, to Derby, at one, (Lion Hotel.)
Aniits to Doncaster, at half-past twelve, Sunday excepted, (Lion Hotel.)
,
Lincoln, through Southwell aud Newark, every morning at a quarter before seven
o'clock,from the Shoulder of Mutton Inn, Smithy Row.
Manchester, through Mansfield, Chesterfield^ Stony Middleton, Tideswell, and
Chapel-en -le Frith, every morning at a quarter before eight o'clock, from the Lion
Hotel, Clumber Street.
LIST OF CARRIERS,
With the days they leave Nottingham, ami the Inns they start from.
ARITHMETIC.
Upon principles purely his own ; the simplicity and extent of which
is evident from the fact, that questions containing eleven conditional
terms are mentally performed in the space of a few seconds, which,
by the old systems, would require an operation containing five
hundred figures. But this is only amusement in numbers, or a method
of rewarding the best boys; yet, under the class system, these very
youths, after a six years training, have been chastised for not being
able to make the most simple calculations, and contemned for not
understanding a rule which has never been explained to them.
Book-keeping, Mathematics, Land Surveying, Elements of
Astronomy, Geography, with the use of the Globes, Music, Drawing
Perspective, History, Elocution, Logic, and Composition.
TERMS.
£1. Is. per Quarter. No extra charges, and no long vacations,
Plumptre Street, Nottingham.
;
J. THOMPSON,
©IP IF STEAKS',
AND
WM. COULBY,
ENGINEERS, MILLWRIGHTS,
MACHINE AND TOOL MAKERS,
IRON & BRASS POUNDERS,
BAR IRON AND STEEL MERCHANTS.
fitted up, and furnished the abo^e Inn, w ith the intention to afford
every accommodation and comfort to all who may honour him
with their custom. This old established Inn, being situate in the
Market Place, will be found extremely convenient for Strangers,
Commercial Gentlemen, Agriculturists, Cattle Dealers, Tradesmen,
Carriers, and others attending the Market.
Fine old Wines and Spirits, of the best quality, good Beds and
Stabling. An ordinary every Saturday at Two o' Clock.
TUITION IN
FRENCH, ITALIAN, SP 4NISH. PORTUGUESE
AND GERMAN.
s g no RnSTs^olTFR
i I,
FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA,
Returns his grateful thanks to the Nobility and Gentry, for
the kind patronage he has met with during his residence in Not-
tingham, and for the accommodation of County families, who live
in the neighbourhood he is in the habit of visiting, begs to name
the days he devotes, every week to the different parts of the Coun-
ty and adjacencies, as well as those be is to be found in Nottingham.
Namely —
Wednesday, Newark and neighbourhood Thursday,
:
;
BREWER,
FOREST BREWERY, BULWELL & MAY-POLE YARD,
NOTTINGHAM.
The attention of private Families and the Public generally, is
THOMAS TURNER,
Most respectfully returns his acknowledgment for the support he
has received since be entered upon the above inn, and begs to as-
sure his Friends and the Public it will be his constant study to merit
their future favours; from the central situation, this Inn will be
found extremely convenient for Commercial Gentlemen, Farmers,
Dealers, Butchers, Carriers, and others visiting Nottingham, on
business or pleasure.
BEVBEN B®SW©BTH,
14, UPPER PARLIAMENT STREET, NOTTINGHAM,
MANUFACTURER OF
GEORGE HXCKLIN&,
A.M$3; MuUMng Surveyor,
CLUMBER STREET, NOTTINGHAM.
Agent for the Yorkshire Fire and L4fe Insurance Company.
STANDARD HIHL ACAM9K1T.
NEAR NOTTINGHAM.
Mr. W. GOOD ACRE receives young Gentlemen for Instruction
id the various branches of a liberal English Education, preparatory
to Commercial Life; or a thorough Classical and Mathematical Pre-
paration for entrance into College.
This Establishment combines the advantages of a town residence,
with the pure air and retirement of the Country, and the situation,
adjoining the Castle, commands an extensive view into the adjacent
Counties. The Master of the Classical Department, a Graduate of
the University, and the French Master, direct the evening studies
of the senior Pupils, so as to secure an extensive Reading, sound
Grammatical Knowledge, and a pure Accent. The English Studies
of the Pupils are conducted with the view of making them men of
business, in the formation of a good Commercial Hand Writing, a
correct style of Reading and Composition, and an expeditious mode
of Calculation, as well as the practice of Surveying, Drawing, and
Model Designing, Elocution, &c. In the training of young Per-
sons, Mr. G. exerts a moral and religious influence, aided by author-
ity when necessary, at the same time forming in them habits of good
order and gentlemanly deportment. Their health is promoted by
a Gymnasium and frequent exercise in the adjoining Park. Lec-
tures on Astronomy, Pneumatics, Chemistry, &c. are delivered once
a week, outlines of which, together with Terms, Plans of Teaching
and Domestic Regulations, can be forwarded by Post on application.
The Academy reopens after the Christmas and Midsummer
vacations, on the Thursday next after January 2i, and June 21.
W. LEWIS,H. 6
Slaters antl Slate JUCercUants,
CANAL STREET, NOTTINGHAM.
Dealers in Staffordshire Paviers and Tiles.
G. J. ROBINSON,
ACCOUNTANT AND GENERAL AGENT,
No. 4, Ram Yard, Long Row, and Park-street,
NOTTINGHAM.
N.B. — Rents, received and Debts recovered, Mortgages effected
Bills discounted, Ledgers rectified, and Cash advanced on approved
security.
THOMAS FOSTER,
BRIDGE STREET, LONDON ROAD,
NOTTINGHAM,
Most respectfully informs the Inhabitants of Nottingham, his Friends, and the Public,
that he has entered on the above commodious and convenient Inn, and he assures them
it will be his study to accommodate those Friends who may honour him with their
favours, in the best possible manner, having provided Good Beds, and laid in a Stock
of Wines, Spirits, and Malt Liquor, of superior quality.
assure those who may honour him by their commands, that the
JOHN SMITH,
CABINET MAKER, IfPHOMEREK,
JOINER, &C.
CHAPEL BAR, NOTTINGHAM.
JAMES SUTTON & COMPY.
I. B. LOWE, AGENT.
E»WARD CARVER,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
AND AT
Wharf, Paddington Basin 7
1
3
,
ONDON
White Bear Yard, Basinghall St.
1 Dukes Dock LIVERPOOL.
Castle Field Wharf. MANCHESTER.
Queen Street Wharf. CHESTER.
Public Wharf, and 164, Belgrave Gate.. .LEICESTER.
Castle Field Wharf DERBY.
Bond End Wharf BURTON-UPON-TRENT.
Stoke-upon-Trent STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES.
J. WILDEY,
•Mmetimieeri Appraiser,
AND
WILLIAM GODBER,
WHOLESALE BREWER,
EASTWOOD.
MANLY AND ALDRIDGE,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
AND
l&owtH Vantage,
MARKET PLACE,
NOTTINGHAM.
FASHIONABLE
CIOfHIM© EiTABIJSHHfiNT,
The greatest variety and best style of Clothing suitable for
the present season, may be seen at
Brief Sketch
A Good
of Prices for
Pit Warranted.
Ready Money, the only terms
on which W. W. S. can do business. £ s. d. £ s. d.
150
. . '
. from. 0150tol50
Youths' Plaid Tunic Suits, from . 10 to 15
Youth's Cloth ditto . . . 1 to 2
Hussar Suits . . . 1 to 2
French Velvet Hats, very best
French Silk ditto
Gossimer Hats, best quality
.
.
.
.080 12
6
6
Robert Tomlinson,
Manufacturer of Sacks, Bags, Bed Sackings ; Cart, Waggon, and
Rick Covers; Horse Cloths, and W aterproof
T
Capes; also Dealer
in Bed Ticks, Rope, Twine, &c,
Hollow Stone, near the London Road, Nottingham.
. i
16,
HEIM
CLUMBER
MEEMM1T,
STREET, NOTTINGHAM,
Wholesale and Retail
mL 5LaHS^H^
f
<& ©sang© ES^IEm,
DEALER IN LACE, DRAPERY, HABERDASHERY,
STRAW BONNETS, &c,
STAYS,
No. 3, THURLAND STREET, NOTTINGHAM.
JOHN HAYES,
tltitf Muildina Surveyor,
HIGH PAYEMENT, NOTTINGHAM.
MOMEMT CMJtM&MMJT,
WHITE HART INN,
MARKET PLACE, NEWARK,
Returns his sincere thanks to his Friends and the Public
generally for the support he has hitherto received at their
hands, and hopes that strict attention to their comforts, com-
bined with moderate charges, will continue to secure the
patronage of a discerning public.
Every accommodation for Commercial Gentlemen,
Dealers, &c.
Well Aired Beds, Lock-up Coach House, Good Stabling,
and Loose Boxes.
Wines and Spirits of first-rate quality, Barclay and Per-
kins's justly celebrated Brown Stout, Fine Home Brewed Ale.
Families supplied with spirits, <fce. at the following Prices,
3 months Credit.
Gin, 10s. 6d per Gallon Fine Jamaica Rum, 15s. per
;
VHomas JB[anncU 9
JTOHW HH»«E 9
Mailway,
ROYAL MAIL AND GENERAL COACH OFFICE,
Daily to every City and Manufacturing Town in the
Kingdom.
Parcels dispatched from this OfSce by every Railway
Traia.
Omnibus to and from every Train.
THOMAS SHARP.
(From Morgan & Co. Albermarle st., Picadilly, London,)
WooUen Mru&er,
TAILOR AND HABIT MAKER,
ST. JAMES'S STREET, NOTTINGHAM.
MALSTERS, &c-,
NEWARK ON
TRENT.
John C. PAYNE,
(Successor to the late Mr. Oates.)
JFumisMnff Ironmonger,
BAR IRON MERCHANT,
AND HORSE NAIL MANUFACTURER,
RETFORD.
PRINTER, BOOKSELLER, STATIONER, BINDER,
PAPER HANGER, AUCTIONEER,
And Vender of Genuine Patent Medicines,
KIRK GATE, NEWARK,
Embraces this opportunity of returning his sincere thanks
to the Inhabitants of Newark and its Vicinity, for the distin-
guished patronage he continues to experience in the various
branches of his business, and earnestly invites their attention
to his large assortment of recently purchased articles, and to
an inspection of his extensiveand well selected stock of
PAPER HANGINGS, which he feels assured, cannot
be excelled.
The experience R. P. has had in the various departments
of his business, combined with his determination to devote the
strictestpersonal attention to all Orders with which he may
be honored, will, he trusts, continue to ensure him the full
satisfaction of his numerous friends and hopes by a
;
Hay, Corn and every other article of the best quality and at
moderate charges.
N.B. Excellent Stabling, Loose Boxes for Hunters, Lock
up Coach House. &c.
George Gorrall,
William Wayte,
BRASS AXB IRON FOVIDUR,
AND
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT MANUFACTURER,
Basford Foundry and Wheeler Gate, Nottingham.
g s jpajrmjem,
GENERAL CARRIER,
From Newark to Nottingham, Lincoln, Gainsborough, Slea-
ford, Boston,and all parts of Lincolnshire daily, Warehouse,
Barker-gate, Newark, Black Boy, Nottingham, City Arms,
Lincoln, Cross Keys, Sleaford, Green Dragon, Boston, and
Woolpack, Gainsborough, from whence parcels are for-
warded with care and dispatch in connexion with carriers by
Canal and Railway to all parts of the kingdom.
FROM LONDON,
SAINT JAMES'S STREET, NOTTINGHAM.
John Nee,
*&$§emM!j Mooms ami Hotel*
LOW PAVEMENT, NOTTINGHAM,
Most respectfully informs Ids Friends and the Public that,
having taken the Assembly Rooms and Hotel of the Com-
mittee, he can offer superior accommodation at moderate
charges for Auctioneers, Lecturers, Balls, Concerts, Public
Meetings, Public Dinners, Tea Parties, &c. The Rooms
being large and elegantly fitted up, and lighted with gas.
J. M. keeps a well-selected stock of choice Wines and
Spirits, and provides Dinners, Tea, &c. for parties requiring
the same, on the shortest notice.
W P1BRER
Rag and Paper Merchant,
PARLIAMENT STREET, NOTTINGHAM.
Hop JPoie Inn, Ollerton
FREDERICK LISTER,
Returns thanks to the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, for
the favours conferred on him since he entered to the above
Inn, and hopes, by unremitting attention, to merit a share
of their future patronage.
To Families travelling it may be necessary to observe, that
the road from Newark to Doncaster, by the way of Ollerton
and Worksop, is equally as good as the North Road, the dis-
tance the same, and the Parks being in the line, add much to
the beauty of the country.
Commercial Gentlemen it is hoped will find every comfort-
able accommodation, the Beds being good, and F. L. having
always on hand a Stock of Wines and Spirits of the best
quality
Neat Post Chaises, with good Horses and steady Drivers,
at the shortest notice.
The Queen Coach from Nottingham to Gainsbro every
day except Sunday, leaves the Maypole, Nottingham after
the arrival of the 3 o'clock train from London, and passes
through Southwell, Ollerton, and Retford, and arrives at
\
Frederic Eggleston,
Confectioner amS Miseuit Halter,
WEST CORNER, MARKET PLACE, NEWARK.
AGENT TO THE LONDON GENUINE TEA COMPANY.
TWIHIdLJH ItHWW-ETT,
White Hart,
FAMILY AND COMMERCIAL HOTEL,
RET FORD.
.
WILLIAMS'S
GENERAL
PRINTING OFFICE,
PARK STREET, NOTTINGHAM.
W. R. WILLIAMS, in returning thanks to his Friends, and the
Public in general, for the very liberal patronage conferred on him
since his commencement in the above business, begs to submit to
them a sketch of his
Hand Bills.
Inches.
5000 7fbv 5 .
10,000 . l\ by 5 .
5000 9 by 5f
10,000 . 9 by 5$
5000 10 by 8
1000 . .11 by 9 .
Posting Bills-
Inches.
100 224 by 18 .
250 .
22f by 18
100 30 by 19£ •
250 . 30 by 19|
Cards.
Inches.
500 3* by 2f
500 . 44 by 3 .
Circulars.
Inches.
. 9 by 7 .
11 by J5
MAY, 1844.
MISS CARTER'S TERMS
FOR THE
BOARD AND EDUCATION OF YOUNG LADIES,
Parliament Street, Nottingham.
J. M. P©TT,
AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER, & GENERAL AGENT,
Office, Oliver's Yard, Long Row,
NOTTINGHAM.
JAMES WOOD
Respectfully announces to the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Inhab-
itantsof Nottingham and its Vicinity, that he has succeeded to the
Business lately carried on by Mr. F. Nichols, Chemist and Druggist,
opposite the Lion Hotel, Clumber Street, Nottingham, and begs to
assure them that by strict attention to the purity of his Drugs and
Chemicals, the most minute accuracy in the dispensing of Physicians'
Prescriptions and Family Recipes, and unvarying punctuality, he
hopes to merit a continuance of that support so liberally bestowed
on his predecessor.
w. leMETic*:,
(Late Darkins,)
EXCHANGE, NOTTINGHAM.
P. JUDD,
Xsinen l*raper, Silk Mercer , S£c.
29, Long Row, and
CARPET WAREHOUSEMAN,
EXCHANGE HOUSE, NOTTINGHAxM.
Robert White,
•Auctioneer antl •appraiser,
LEEMING STREET, MANSFIELD.
HARDY AND COMPANY'S
DAILY
EXPEDITIOUS CONVEYANCES,
JPor $*®mls fk, JUCercHanMse,
BY RAILWAY AND WAGGONS,
To and from the undermentioned & all intermediate places,
WARE HOUSES,
May-pole Yard 4" Railway Station
NOTTINGHAM.
WILLIAM BOOKER,
ARCHITECT, BUILDING, AND LAND SURVEYOR,
{Late Principal Clerk and Assistant to Mr. H. M. /Food,)
JOHH SEARLES,
JFreneH mul SttuflT Hat JtEaher,
TOP OF LONG ROW, NOTTINGHAM,
Most respectfully informs his Friends and the public, that he
has entered upon the Premises lately occupied by Mr. L. S.
West, Draper, where he intends keeping Hats and every
article connected with the Trade, of the best quality, and on
the lowest possible terms.
Ill WALKERS
Illil
SION HILL WATER
jll! !|j| IS! g
AND MARBLE WORKS,
G. F. & S. J. WALKER,
NOTTINGHAM,
Foreign & nritisn Marble Works.
hy Steam Power,
SHOW ROOMS, OUTSIDE CHAPEL BAR,
DERBY ROAD, NOTTINGHAM.
HUMPHREYS'
CAMOMILE PILLS,
A SIMPLE AND INFALLIBLE REMEDY FOR
Prepared; hy M. Humphreys,
<mMM\$t&.m&mwf mump m%x» mTimmtm* t
Sold in Bottles at Is. 14. and 2s. 9d. each.
The 2s. 9d. Bottles contains Three of the Is. If. ones.
^Observe! The genuine have the Proprietor's name written on the Goyermemt
Stamp own hand- writting.
in his
Sold Wholesale by Messrs. SUTTON, BARCLAY, EDWARDS, and ELLIS
& Co. London t and HORLEY and EYRE, Liverpool; and Wholesale and Retail by
HANNAY & DIETRICHSEN, 63, Oxford Street, and Mr. THOM AS BUTLER,
4, Cheapside, London.
1^" Sold Retail in Nottiugham and Nottinghamshire, by Cheetham, Harrison, Sutton,
Barlow, Potts, Allen, Wilcockson. Robinson, Nunn and Gelsthorpe, and C. and F.
Buttery: in Newark, Ridge and Eggleston: Mansfield. Langley, Gothing, and Jones;
Southwell, Ridge: Retford, Ifctker: Worksop, E.Harrison; Kiddey Belter and by one
or more respectable Medicine Venders in almost every town in the Kingdom.
JOHN DODSLEY,
WHEAT SHEAF
LONG ROW,
MARKET PLACE, NOTTINGHAM,
A House well fitted up, and containing excellent accom-
modation for Commercial Travellers and Visitors attending
the Town, whether on business or pleasure. As a Market
House, it is peculiarly well adapted, and has the best of
Stabling. If any one thing is more deserving of notice than
another, it is the spacious Dining Room, capable of accom-
modating two hundred persons, and is in every respect
suited for Public Sales of Property, &c, and, in fact, where
a Room so situated, and of similar dimensions, has long
been a desideratum in the Town of Nottingham. In
Bed Rooms are fitted up in the best
addition to this, the
style,and with every attention to comfort.
—
N.B. The best of Wines, Liquors, Home-brewed Ale,
and every attention paid to Friends and Patrons.
WA Private Show Room for Clothiers or others,
requiring such accommodation.
MELVILLE TERRACE,
NOTTINGHAM.
William Hurley,
Watstandwett Bridge,
Two miles from the Ambergate Station, four miles from
Cromford, and five miles from Matlock Bath. This Inn is
delightfully situated on the east bank of the Derwent, and
affords every accommodation to Anglers, Commercial
Gentlemen, and Families.
BECK WORKS IRON AND BRASS FOUNDRY,
Beck Street, Nottingham.
Nelson Inn,
MARKET PLACE, LOUGHBOROUGH,
Most respectfully informs Commercial and other Travellers,
by Coach and Railway, that they will find every comfortable
accommodation and attention at the above Inn, with
moderate charges. Well aired Beds, Wines, Spirits, and
Malt Liquor of the best quality.
Nathaniel T. Warren,
Grateful to his Friends and the Public in general, for their
kind patronage during the ten years he has been honoured
by their support, respectfully assures them, that if Good
ALE, Prime Liquors, Excellent Wines, Comfortable Beds,
the Best Accommodation his House can afford, together
with Polite attention and Moderate Charges, can ensure
him their favours, they shall find no lack of them at the
Old SHIP.
Thomas Stokes,
Tailor ana Woollen Draper.
SPANIEL ROW, NOTTINGHAM.
T WALTON,
Family and Commercial MoU 1
Henry
Dennis*
Turner and Machine Maker,
ST. JAMES' STREET NOTTINGHAM,
Manufacturer of heated and every variety of Lace Rollers >
JOHX CRESSET,
NOTTINGHAM,
Retnrns thanks for the liberal patronage he has hitherto
been favored with, and begs to assure his Friends and the
Public, that every article which he vends is of the best
quality.
J. C. hopes by strict attention and moderate charges to
give satisfaction to all who may favour him with their
commands.
An Ordinary every Day at One o' Clock.
<y The Omnibus to andfrom the Railway Station passes the House,
&EOM&H BA.TTJEUSI,
(Late Ingram and Cooke,)
17, CHAPEL BAR, NOTTINGHAM,
Wholesale & Retatl Stationer, Printer,
Book Binder, & Account Book Manufacturer,
Sole Agent for Parr's Life Pills, and
Morison's Universal Medicine, and all
other respectable and Genuine Patent
Medicines, fresh and direct from the
Proprietors.
Quarto Post Letter and other Papers,
is bought by an
at this establishment
experienced London Paper Dealer,
who is always on the spot and is en-
abled to purchase paper 20 per cent
lower than any other house out of London.
LIST OF k-.JSTTER PAPER.
Waranted 21 perfect sheets to the quire.
Thin yellow wove Post 3:1. per quire, or 4s. 6d. per Ream.
Capital Bath Post glazed, Id. per quire, or 6s. per Ream.
Very fine yellow wove, blue shade, rolled, fit for every
body's use, 6&. per quire or 9s. per Ream.
Thick yellow wove, blue shade, universally approved of, 8d.
per quire, or 12s, per Ream.
Thick laid Post, 9d. per quire, or 13s. 6d. per Ream.
Superfine ivory Post, lOd. per quire or 15s. per Ream.
Super thick yellow wove Post, gilded, Is. per quire, or 17s.
6d. per Ream.
SCHOOL STATIONERY.
Post quarto Copy Books ruled 3 hands made of the very best
paper 4s. second 3s. 6d. and a very good paper 3s. per doz.
Post quarto Cyphering Books made of a Superfine Paper,
with splendid engraved title page Is. 6d. 2s. and 2s. 6d. ea.
Foolscap Copy Books ruled 3 hands Is 2d. per doz. a super-
fine glazed paper plain 2s. Ditto ruled 3 hands 2s. 3d. and
thick paper plain 2s. 3d. per doz. Foolscap Cyphering Books
made of a super thick paper, 9d. Is. Is. 3d and Is. 6d. ea.
MISCELLANEOUS LIST OF STATIONERY.
Colors, single half Cakes Quills and Pens
Music, an assortment at half price Steel Pens, Is. per gross
Music Paper, of a very rich blue shade, Sealing Wax, 4s. per pound
perfectly matchless, ls.6d. per quire Ink Stands
Envelopes, a great variety Patent Leads for the ever-pointed pencil*
Mourning Paper, broad, middle, narrow Playing Cards
black border School Spelling Books Guy'*, Carpenter's
Club Boks Fenning's, Vye's,Dil worth's, & Kenny't.