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THE

PAROCHIAL HISTORY

AND

Antiquities

OF

STOCKTON-UPON-TEES;

INCLUDING AN

ACCOUNT OF THE TRADE OF THE TOWN,

The Navigation of the River,

AND OF

SUCH PARTS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

AS HAVE BEEN CONNECTED WITH THAT PLACE.

SECOND EDITION,

WITH ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS.

— “Celebrare domestica facta”—HOR.

BY JOHN BREWSTER, M. A.,

RECTOR OF EGGLESCLIFFE,

FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.

STOCKTON-UPON-TEES:

Printed by Thomas Jennett;

AND SOLD BY JOHN RICHARDSON, 91, ROYAL EXCHANGE,

LONDON.

MDCCCXXIX.

BODLEIA!

12 DEC. 1933

Upwards of thirty years having elapsed since the appear. ance of the first edition of this history, the writer had in a great measure dismissed it from his mind, and adopted studies more congenial with the decline of life. But the increase of population in the town of Stockton, the enlargement of its buildings, and the prosperity of its trade, having as it were, given a new era to its history, he has been induced, at the request of many of its respectable inhabitants, and of his few remaining friends, to revise his almost forgotten narrative, and to make such alterations and additions. as the lapse of time and other circumstances had pointed out.

There was another, and more cogent reason, which warmly applied itself to the writer's feelings, in complying with this request. Almost thirty years of, what is now, a long life, had been spent within its walls in that most interesting of all situations, as its parish minister, in the successive duties of Curate, Lecturer, and Vicar: and when he was moved by his venerable diocesan and friend to fill other stations in the church, it is truly grateful to him to record that he did so with an elegant and valuable expression of his parishioners' kindness; inducing an humble trust, that the days he had spent in his residence amongst them, had not been unprofitable.

"Peace be within thy walls, and plenteousness within thy palaces!-for my brethren and companion's sake, I will wish thee prosperity. Yea, because of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek to do thee good."

J. B.

Egglescliffe Rectory, June, 1829.

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