This is a most interesting book of Local History introducing a complete account of many important families, who have been or are located here, principal among them being The Smeatons, The Grays, The Totties, Mores, Manstons, Howards, Wilsons, and Nelthorpes, as well as an account of the Manors of Roundhay, Newland and Seacroft, and a full century of Baptisms, Weddings and Burials.
#Leeds Parish Church: Saint Peter's at Leeds.# Being an account Historical and Descriptive. By the late James Rusby, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Edited by Rev. J. G. Simpson, D.D., Canon of St. Paul's, late Principal of the Leeds Clergy School. Very fully Illustrated by Herbert Railton. 330 pages, large 4to. Cloth boards, gilt top, &c. Price £2 2 0 nett.
#A History of St. Aidan's Church# (Bishop Woodford Memorial). Compiled by the Rev. R. M. Nicholls, M.A. Crown 8vo., 100 pages, with 10 full-page illustrations printed on antique paper, limited to 200 copies. Price 2/6 nett.
#Yorkshire Anecdotes: or Remarkable Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Yorkshire Men and Women.# By the Rev. R. V. Taylor, B.A. Author of the "Worthies and Churches of Leeds," &c., &c. 2 Vols. Crown 8vo. Cloth boards. 7/6 nett.
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Pages 8, 37, 38, 207, 291: Inconsistent spelling of Praepositors/ Præpositors/Prepositors/prepositors as in original
Pages 10, 220: Variable capitalisation of Sub-Target as in original
Page 20: School-masters standardised to Schoolmasters
Page 25: Chapter title 1553-1592. as in original, differs from table of contents 1553-1599.
Pages 59, 193: Variable spelling of summarised/summarized as in original
Page 63: ninteenth corrected to nineteenth
Page 105: twenth-ninth corrected to twenty-ninth
Page 107: philsophical corrected to philosophical
Page 135: rebuilding standardised to re-building
Page 146: he corrected to be in And it may be that money was taken