Transcriptions of the Memoranda of William Brocklehurst Stonehouse

  • Reference
    • GB 133 Eng MS 516
  • Dates of Creation
    • c 1858-1870
  • Language of Material
    • English and Latin
  • Physical Description
    • 195 x 162 mm. 1 volume (65 + v folios);

Scope and Content

The volume contains three items:

  • folios 1-49: Extracts from a folio volume of memoranda of W.B. Stonehouse, entitled: Memoranda Quaedam Delegationis Gul. B. Stonehouse Artium Magistri;
  • folios 50-54: Transcript of notes on destroyed churches and chapels, entitled: Notes respecting churches & chapels destroyed in the Archd[eaconr]y of Stow (not in Stonehouse's hand);
  • folios 55-65: Transcript of the Notitia of W.B. Stonehouse, entitled: The Notitia of the Venerable Archdeacon of Stow concerning his pilgrimage at Messingham during the period he was curate to the late Archdeacon Dr Bayley, vicar of that parish.
Dating: the paper is watermarked "1858".

Administrative / Biographical History

William Brocklehurst Stonehouse, MA, DCL, was born in Manchester in 1792. He was prebendary of Empingham, 1843-6, and served as archdeacon of Stow from 1844 until 1862 (see references for Prebendaries: Empingham and Archdeacons: Stow at http://www.british-history.ac.uk). He was the author of several antiquarian and theological works, including History and topography of the isle of Axholme: being that part of Lincolnshire which is west of Trent (London: Longman, Rees, Orme & Co. and others, 1839), and The alliance between church and state not the cause of those evils by which the influence of Christianity is impeded (London: 1848). His notes on churches in the archdeaconry of Stow were published by the Reverend Canon N.S. Harding under the title A Stow visitation (Lincoln: Keyworth & Sons, 1940). Stonehouse died at Owston, Lincolnshire, on 18 December 1862.

Acquisition Information

Donated to the John Rylands Library by Julian Peacock in September 1929.