CORNV HOC VLPHVS, IN OCCIDENTALI PARTE DEIRAE PRINCEPS, OLIM DONAVIT : ADMISSVM VEL ABREPTVM HENRICVS DS FAIRFAX DEMYM RESTITVIT DEC. ET CAP DE NOVO [Archæologia, vol. i., p. 168, et seq.] [The following lands are mentioned in Doomsday Book as having formerly belonged to Ulf, and now (1087) belonging to the Archbishop of York. WADSLEY.-Josiah Beckwith (editor of the 1784 edition) was informed by his correspondent, Mr. Wilson, of Broomhead, that he has heard old men speak of an ancient custom in the Manor of Wadsley which was that the lord or owner of Wadsley Hall always maintained twelve men and their horses at free commons twelve days in Christmas. and when they went away every one stuck a large pin, or a needle, in the mantle tree. WAKEFIELD.-John, Earl of Warren and Surrey, granted to one John Howson a messuage in Wakefield, the said Howson paying the annual rent of a thousand clusters of nuts, and upholding a gauntlet firm and strong. [Watson's Memoirs of the Earls of Warren and Surrey, Vol. 1, pa. 264; from a deed in French, dated 7 Edw. I., late in the possession of Mr. Thos. Wilson, of Leeds.] Saltaire, as will be seen from the plate herewith, is a modern town, with a newly-invented name. It is the grand design of a noble mind. The Founder of Saltaire was the son of Daniel Salt and Grace, his wife, daughter of Isaac Smithies, of Morley. He was born September 20th, 1803, and named after his grandfather, Titus Salt, of Hunslet. Soon after his birth, which took place at the old Manor House, Morley, the family removed to a farm at Crofton. Whilst Titus was at Heath Grammar School, Wakefield, his father removed to Bradford, and commenced business as a woolstapler, and was joined in due time by his son, the firm becoming known as Daniel Salt and Son. During the partnership with his father, he introduced the Russian Donskoi Wool into the worsted trade. About 1836, he first became acquainted with Alpaca, and the business outgrew the Bradford accommodation. It is said that Sir Titus intended to form a new establishment east of Brighouse, but failing to agree with Sir George Armytage about the land, he procured a site at Shipley, and in 1851 commenced the erection of the model factories and town, now known as Saltaire, from the founder and the river, Y.N.Q. |