Return to Worsborough, its Historical Associations and Rural Attractions.

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.

• Adams, William, the honest lawyer (3)
• Adams, Edward
• Andrew, Rev John (2)
• Atkinson, Thomas William, the traveller
• Bank Top, a posting house,
• Barracks for the military (2)
• Badgers, destruction of (2)
• Bells, Church
• Beaumont, Joseph, fatal accident to (2)
• Birdwell
• Blacker Hill (2)
• Booth John, of Darley (3)
• Bowns, Charles
• Bosvile of Darfield
• Boundaries, perambulating
• Buckley, Captain
• Button Manufactory (2)
• Burials, Baptisms, and Marriages from 1580 (2)
• Burial Grounds, closing of (2)
• Carrington, Henry, of The Yews (4)
• Carrington, Elizabeth
• Castleford, family of (4)
• Churchyard, sepulchral inscriptions in (2)
• Church Rates in 1708, 1730, and 1800 (2)
• Churchwardens from 1648 to 1737 (2)
• Church Repairs, extracts relating to (2)
• Collieries and Iron Works in 1769 (3)
• Coal Trade (2)
• Coal pits in 17th century
• Coal, extracts from old Town's Books relating to (2)
• Colliery Explosion in 1755
• County Voters in 1741, 1807, and 1835
• Cottons, of Silkstone
• Constables Accounts for 1708, 1730, and 1800 (2)
• Cutler, Sir Gervase, extract from his will
• Cutler, family of, of Rockley Old Hall (2)
• Cudworth, Jonathan
• Darley Cliff (2)
• Darley Hall (2)
• Darley de, family of
• Darley, Lord of the Manor of
• Darley Main Colliery Explosion
• Darfield, tithe of (2)
• Dearman, Mr, of Pindar Oak
• Dearne and Dove Canal, opening of (2)
• Denton, Nathan
• Dixon, Rev Jeremiah
• Ducking stool, extracts about (2)
• Edmunds,
  • John, of Dalton
  • Thomas, of Worsborough, secretary to Lord Strafford (2)
  • original letters and papers (2)
  • extract from will
  • Henry, married to Lady Herbert
  • Thomas, married to Elizabeth Carrington
  • Francis; William Charles; Francis Offiey (2)
  • Thomas, original letters of, relating to civil wars (2)
  • Sepulchral memorials of the family of (2)
• Edmunds Main Colliery explosion (2)
• Elmhirst, the original seat of the family of that name (2)
  • Richard, a referee in cause of Rockley v. Burdet
    • petitions the Houses of Parliament
    • receiver of the Recusant's rents
  • Sepulchral memorials of (2)
  • Dr, of Lincoln
• Everard, Hugh
• Everingham, family of (3)
• Fenton, Richard, of Bank Top (2)
  • family of (2)
  • West
• Foundling Children, burials of (2)
• Foxes, destruction of (2)
• Freeholders in Worsborough, list of, in 1725
• Genne House (2)
• Glass Works
• Gordon, Mr, fatal accident to
• Green, Jemmy, and Johnny Whike (2)
• Gunpowder Works (2)
• Hall, Miss, of Bank Top
• Hanson, Gervase
• Heywood, Oliver, visits Swaithe Hall (2)
  • extracts from his diary (2)
• Highstone (2)
• Horsfield, Louisa Adelaide (2)
• Herbert, Lady (2)
  • a daughter of Sir Gervase Cutler
• Herbert, Sir Thomas (2)
• Houndhill, description of
  • attack upon, in the
  • wars (2)
  • original papers respecting (2)
  • Richard Elmhirst of his compositions to the Common wealth
• Iron Works and Collieries in 1762
• Iron Trade (2)
• Jeffcock, Parkin
• Land Tax in 1708 (2)
• Letters, old franked
• Lecturers, list of (2)
• Lectureship founded by John Rayney (2)
• Library of Monk Bretton Priory (2)
• Losses by fire
• Martin and Martin Edmunds, family of (2)
• Marrow House, birth place of the mother of Pope the poet (2)
• Marrow family, sepulchral memorials of
• Marriages during the Commonwealth (2)
• Militia, the (3)
• Milners of Rockley Cld Hall (2)
• Milner, Major, of Swaithe
• Micklethwait, Richard, of Swaithe Hall (2)
• family of (2)
• Montgomery, James, the poet, visits to Swaithe Hall (2)
• Newman, William (2)
• Offley, Miss (2)
• Ouslethwaite (2)
• Otters, destruction of (2)
• Pack horse Roads (2)
• Parish Apprentices
• Parish Registers, extracts from (2)
• Pope,
  • Mrs, letter of
  • Alexander, the poet, his love for his mother (2)
  • erects an obelisk to her memory
  • Sepulchral monuments in Twickenham Church
• Poor's Rate in 1708, 1730, and 1800 (2)
• Provisions, price of, in 1769
• Radcliffe, Sir George, letter of, (2)
• Radclyffe, William, Rouge Croix (2)
  • trial of (2)
• Rayney, Henry (2)
  • letters of
  • John, founder of the lectureship (2)
  • extract from the will of (2)
  • memorial of (2)
• Rhodes, Jonathan, of Glew House
• Rockley family, history of (2)
  • Old Hall, description of (2)
  • Smithies (2)
  • Bloomery (2)
  • Abbey,
  • Lord Strafford (2)
  • Woodhouse
  • Richard, of Blacker Hall
  • Mill
  • Chantry
  • family, sepulchral memorials of (2)
• Round Green (3)
• Shaw, William, the engineer; a native of Swaithe; sketch of his life
  • family, memorials of
  • Mr, of Worsborough, ejected from his living
• Sod Hall
• Spofford, John, of Silkstone
• Staincross, list of freeholders in 1665
  • Volunteers
• Stocks, Pinfold, and Butts
• Swaithe Hall
  • description of
• Swaithe House
• Tankersley, garrison at
  • engagement at, in the civil wars
  • Duchess of Newcastle's memoirs
• Taylor Robert and Taylor William, of Pindar Cak
• Thoresby, Ralph
  • visits to Swaithe Hall
  • extracts from his diary
• Townend family
  • Richard, of Blacker
• Town's Books, extracts from
• Treats to " parsons "
• Turner, Edith, mother of Pope the poet
  • extract of baptism of
  • marriage of with Alexander Pope
  • William, of Marrow House and " Burfit " Hall
• Turnpike roads
  • diversion of
• Worsborough,
  • early history
  • of in Magna Britannia
  • lands in, belonging to Monk Bretton Priory
  • lords of the manor of
  • families in, at Herald's Wisitation
  • in the civil wars
  • town soldiers temp Elizabeth
  • assessment in 1715 for horse and foot arms
  • owners of land in, at different periods
  • great plague of 1666 (2)
  • cholera in 1849 (2)
  • rebellion of 1745 (2)
  • estreat roll temp Edward III
  • assessments in 1708, 1730, and 1800 (3)
  • rateable value of
  • population of
  • Common
  • commons, enclosure of (2)
  • award of allotments to freeholders in (2)
  • rate of wages in 1769 (2)
  • Mill (2)
  • Church (2)
  • Chantries (2)
  • before the Reformation
  • Dodsworth's notes on (2)
  • the ejected clergy (2)
  • curacy of, increased in 1688, 1700, 1718, and 1722
  • terriers of (2)
  • lectureship of (2)
  • Grammar School (2)
  • list of schoolmasters of
  • trustees of
  • Library (2)
• Walker, William, of Rockley Old Hall
  • Dr Obadiah, a native of Worsborough; head of University College, Oxford; committed to the Tower his published works; library of books; his benefactions &c (2)
• Walpole, Horace, his description of Wentworth Castle (2)
• Wentworth Castle, the Prince of Wales' visit to, in 1789
• Wood, Sir George
  • Foljambe
  • family, of Nabbs
• Wordsworth, John, of Swaith Hall (2)
  • family of (2)
  • letter of Rev J Hunter relating to (3)
• Worsborough Hall, description of
  • relics of King Charles I, at (2)
  • library at
  • tapestry at
  • paintings at
• Wren, Sir Christopher (2)
  • bill of exchange
• Wyrrall, Hugh