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by
William Smith Jnr.
Please note that this index is given in good faith as a
guide to the contents of the book, but there may be errors in
both the original index and the transcription of the index.
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- Situation of Morley.
- Origin of Name
- Earliest mention in Doomsday Book
- Wapentake of Morley.
- Ilbert de Lacy, First Lord of the Manor of Morley
- Morley, Two Centuries ago.
- Population,
- Curious Entries in Old Town's Book
- Morality of the Villagers
- Dialect of the People
- Political Aspect of Morley, Past and Present
- List of Morley Voters at the West Riding Election, 1741
- Do. do. do. 1807
- Corn Law AgitationPublic Meetings
- Public Rejoicings on various occasions
- Religious Aspect of Morley
- Physical do. do
- Description of Saint Peter's Church .
- Church Rate Agitation.
- Saint Peter's Churchyard.
- Rooms Lane, with Extract from Town's Book, respecting it
- Old White Cross Inn.
- Nelson's Arms Inn, the Village Court House, of Fifty years
ago
- Floral, Horticultural and Agricultural Society
- Cricket in Morley, with Notice of Nelson Cricket Club
- Albion Mill, Church Street.
- Rise of the Woollen Manufacture in Morley.
- The Apprenticeship System
- The Domestic Manufacture a Century ago.
- Crank Mill, Station Road, erected 1790.
- Opposition to Introduction of MachineryTown's Meetings
- Turn Out in 1833. Riotous Conduct of the Villagers
- Gillroyd Mill Company formed, 1834
- Introduction of Mungo into the Morley Manufacture
- The Plug Drawing of 1842.
- Introduction of Power Looms and Cotton Warp
- Present Position of the Morley Manufacture.
- The Various Processes of Manufacture
- Chamber of Commerce.
- Old House and Ancient Gateway, Church Street
- Post Office, with notice of the Hornblowers
- Old New Chapel and Graveyard, .
- Longevity of Inhabitants of Morley.
- Old David Hirst. A Village Sketch
- Banks Hill in the Olden Time.
- The Old Fold.
- Mr. John Gisburn
- Mr. John Webster
- Bank House.
- Yew Tree House, with Notices of Several former Owners
- Dr. Swinden, a Biographical Sketch.
- Captain Webster.
- Providence Mill.
- Neepshaw Lane, with Extract from Town's Book respecting it.
- Old White Swan, a Wayside Inn of a Century ago.
- Rehoboth Chapel, School and Burial Ground.
- Mr. Nathaniel Dixon.
- Morley Hall, with Notices of former Occupants
- Dr. Priestley .
- The Bottoms.
- The Village Dame School.
- Visitation of Cholera, 1849.
- Pinfold or Common Pound.
- Ducking Stool, with Remarks on this mode of punishment
- Crank Mill and Station Road
- Ancient Modes of Travelling
- Description of Morley Tunnel
- Morley Gas Light Company
- Valley Mills.
- Morley Main Colliery.
- Low Common, the Recreation Ground of our Forefathers
- Old Customs and Amusements.
- Our Village Feasts, Past and Present
- Riding the Stang .
- Perambulating the Parish Boundary
- Temperance Society, established 1832
- Mount Pleasant. .
- Primitive Methodist Society's Chapel, Troy Road,
- New School, Troy Hill.
- Town's School.
- Sketches of Vestry Meetings of the Past and Present.
- Scatcherd's Lane.
- Morley House, with Notices of tho Scatcherd Family.
- The Village Stocks
- Old Chapel, Notes on Restoration.
- Origin and Foundation of the Old Chapel
- Nicholas de Rotherfield
- Ancient Inscriptions on the Walls of the Old Chapel
- Religious Changes the Old Chapel has undergone (2)
- Account of the various Old Chapel Trust Deeds.
- Catalogue of the Ministers of the Old Chapel since 1626
- Biographical Sketch of the Rev. Samuel Wales.
- Do. do. do. Etherington.
- Do. do. do. Christopher Nesse, M. A.
- Do. do. do. John Noble, MA.
- Do. do. do. Samuel Bailey.
- Do. do. do. Thomas Sharp, M. A.
- Do. do. do. Robert Pickering, M. A.
- Do. do. do. Joseph Dawson.
- Do. do. do. Timothy Aldred
- Do. do. do. Thomas Morgan
- Do. do. do. Samuel Lucas
- Do. do. do. Spencer .
- Do. do. do. Duncan
- Do. do. do. Abraham Hudswell.
- Do. do. do. Joseph Fox.
- Do. do. do. John Morris.
- Do. do. do. James Wonnacott
- Do. do. do. Frederick Barnes, B. A.
- Old Chapel Graveyard, with Copies of Inscriptions on Grave
Stones
- Extracts from the Old Chapel Register Books.
- Formation and Present Condition of Mechanics' Institution.
- Naturalists' Society.
- The Old Manor House and its Historical Associations.
- Lords of the Manor of Morley. .
- Account of the Farnley Wood Conspiracy.
- Biographical Sketch of Titus Salt, Esq, Ex M. P. for Bradford.
- Zion Independent Chapel, and Sunday Schools.
- Hope Foundry. .
- Description of New Wesleyan Chapel .
- Origin and Progress of the Wesleyan Sunday School.
- Wesleyan Reform Chapel.
- National School, Town End.
- Cinderhill, with Remarks on the Origin of the Name.
- Ratten Row, the " Muster Row " of former Days.
- Old Ike Rodgers and his Hunting Propensities.
- Old Farm House, with Extracts from Old Lease, referring to
it.
- Biographical Sketch of the late Isaac Crowther, Esq. of Morley
- Hungerhill, with Remarks on the Origin of the Name.
- Ebenezer Chapel, belonging to the Primitive Methodists
- Hembrigg Mill, with Account of Boiler Explosion, in 1863.
- Stone Quarries. Account of Organic Remains found therein
- Stump Cross, with Remarks on its Origin.
- Remarks on Benefit Societies, Lodges, etc, in Morley.
- Cross Hall. Notices of former Owners and Occupants
- Miss Bosanquet, afterwards the celebrated Mrs. Fletcher
- Account of the Quaker's Burial Ground, Bruntcliffe Lane.
- Springfield House, with Sketch of John Webster, Esq.
- Concluding Remarks.
- Appendix I. Catalogue of Churchwardens from the year 1700.
- Appendix II. Table of Benefit Societies, etc, in Morley.
- List of Subscribers.
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