Charles Tiplady Pratt

“ This notice shows that our first annual Harvest Thanksgiving Day, which has ever since been such an interesting and happy parochial institution, dates back to the year 1858, when a week-day Thanksgiving Service was first held, on the suggestion of Miss Frances Stanhope to the present Archdeacon Badnall, who was then Curate of the Parish. ”

“ The Parish-page 153ioners, it will be seen, oblige themselves to add £8-2-8 to this £5-4s, and "to keep and maintain a commodious Schoolhouse," having already "of late at their great charge built and decently "furnished a spacious schoolhouse, with other necessary rooms for a "Schoolmaster." The endowment is still paid by the Duchy of Lancaster "at the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel," the Master until within the last four or five years having a yearly notice to attend personally at Pontefract to receive it. ”

“ Baron Henden, one of the Judges Assistant of this Court, and "upon Consideration had of the said decree of this Court, whereby "it appeared that the distance of the said Town of Cawthorne from "the Town of Pontefract was then informed to be but eight miles, "and that the principal cabse of translating the said stipend was the "want of a Schoolhouse at Cawthorne aforesaid, and also that the "Court nevertheless reserved power to sever the said stipend so "united to Pontefract, if there should be Cause ”