warr time; the minister's name was Walker. He was present at the Church when some soldiers came and forced him out, and obliged him to run into Silkston fall, to hide himself. He was ejected, and [John] Spofforth who lies buried in Silkstone Churchyard was put in his place."
He was an executor of Mr. Edward Spencer's will who died at Cannon Hall, 1729. An entry of Hobson's Diary in 1733 states, "Young Mr. Cockshutt and his bride at our house."
Mrs. Cockshutt his mother was a daughter of Mr. John Wilson of the Broomhead Hall family, who had an estate at Huthwaite. Mr. Cockshutt's second son James succeeded to the property on the death of an elder brother in 1798. He was a civil engineer, F.R.S., commander of a company of local militia, and a magistrate of the West Riding.
The elder Mr. Cockshutt was a Vicar of Penistone.
The Rev. S. Phipps was Vicar of Penistone, Silkstone, and Cawthorne, and traditions of his memory have scarcely yet died out: the late George Ashton, when our "oldest inhabitant," remembered many things about him.
Mr. Goodair's letter of thanks to "Walter Spencer Stanhope, Esquire, Grosvenor Square, London," is lying before me, showing how much importance Mr. Stanhope attached to the Incumbent's residing at Cawthorne for the future.
The Rev. E. Paley published "An earnest and affectionate Address to the people called Methodists," who were at that time building a chapel at Cawthorne.
On Mr. Buee's death in 1822, the owner of Bretton with the approval of the representative of the Bosvile estate offered the Living to the Rev. John Sinclair, who afterwards was Archdeacon of Middlesex: but, when the latter found that Mr. Stanhope desired his brother to accept it, he at once wrote to withdraw his promise of support to Mrs. Beaumont's nominee and gave it to Mr. Stanhope.
The Rev. C. S. Stanhope was one who took a peculiar pleasure in helping forward any natural talent, and especially any talent in art. It has been already mentioned how he assisted Mr. Atkinson the
