INDEX.

Adult schools at Gainsborough, started by J. F. Winks and T. Cooper, 171

Akiba, Ben Joseph, 194, 195

Alexander of Comana, 193

Alexandria, the pious cobbler of, 198

Alley, John B., 277

Andersen, Hans C., 210

Angling, book on, by Younger, 246, 247

Annianus of Alexandria, 192

Ansell and the battle of Aughrim, 245

Apelles and the cobbler, 191

Ashmole, Elias, and Partridge, 221

Askham, John, 248

Athenæum, quoted from, 115, 247, 278

Baldwin, H. P., 277

Baptist jubilee memorial, 131

Baptist missions commenced by Carey and Thomas, 141, 142

Barebones, Praise God, 216

Baudouin, the learned, 200

Baviad and Mæviad, 75, 82, 86-7

Benbow and nautical songs, 17

Bennet, John, poet, 229

Bennett, Timothy, of Hampton-Wick, 212

Bentinck, Lady, visits Carey when dying, 146

Berridge, John, and John Thorp, 257

Blacket, Joseph, 236, 242

Blanshard’s Life of Bradburn, 65, 66, 67, 70

Bloomfield and Blacket, 239

Bloomfield, George, 94, 95, 96, 238

Bloomfield, Nathaniel, 94, 96, 98, 239

Bloomfield, Robert, a farmer’s boy at Sapiston, 94

a ladies’ shoemaker, 171

becomes a shoemaker, 94, 95

Birth and childhood, 94

his first poems, 96, 97

his mother, 94, 102

his last years, death, and burial, 101

life in London, 94, 101

list of his poems, 96, 97, 102-3

marriage of, 98

method of composing “The Farmer’s Boy,” 98

poetical tributes in “Blackwood,” etc., 102, 103

Bloomfield, Robert, publishes “The Farmer’s Boy,” 99

Bœhmen, Jacob, the mystic, 205-207

opinions of, by Charles I., William Law, &c., 206

Bowden, Mr., of Taunton, Lackington’s master, 34

Bradburn, Samuel, and Charles Wesley, 66

and the clergyman, 68, 69

anecdotes of early preaching, 68

born at Gibraltar, 54

called to be a preacher, 61

circuits he travelled in, 64, 65, 66, 71

death and burial, 71

early life at Chester, 55-60

eloquence as a preacher, 67, 68

his conversion, 55-57

his father pressed into the army, 54

his first sermon, 61

his marriage with Betsy Nangle, 65

his marriage with Sophia Cooke, 66

his mother a Welshwoman, 54

his mother’s death, note, 63

his wit and humor, anecdotes of, 70, 71

offered the pastorate of an Independent Church, 66

overtaken in a fault, 71

President of Wesleyan Conference, 67

Brizzio, Francesco, 208

Bruce’s “Elegy written in Spring,” 232

Buch, Henry Michael, “Good Henry,” 201-203

Bunyan and Bradburn compared, 56

Burnet, Rev. John, 259-262

Bushey Park and Timothy Bennett, 213

Byron, Lord, allusion to Gifford, 93

Campion’s “Delightful History of ye Gentle Craft,” 193, 199, 242, 259

Capellini, il Caligarino, 207

Carey and Thomas sail for India, 142

Carey, Eustace, “Life of Dr. Carey,” 131

William, abilities as a shoemaker, 131

and Rev. John Ryland, 131, 138

an enthusiast, 131, 132

apprenticed to a shoemaker, 133

baptized by Rev. J. Ryland, 135

D.D. conferred on him by Brown University, 144

first Bengali New Testament, 143

first marriage a mistake, 137

first sermon and pastorate, 135

first study of languages, 132, 133, 135

first thought of missions to heathen, 138

his death, 146

Carey, William his famous sermon at Nottingham, 141

his self-sacrificing spirit, 143

life briefly sketched, 129, 130

life in India, 142, 146

lives at Moulton, 137, 139

“Only a Cobbler,” 132

pamphlet on Missions, 140

parentage and birth and childhood, 131, 132

Professor of Oriental Languages,

Calcutta, 129, 143

removes to Leicester, 140

Carlisle, Gifford’s guardian, 205

Carlyle on Hans Sachs, 76, 77, 205

Thomas, and Thomas Cooper, 184

Carter, Edward, Esq., friend to John Pounds, 151, 157

Castell, Richard, “Ye Cocke of Westminster,” 210

Caxton Printing Establishment and S. Drew, 121

Chambers’s “Book of Days,” 217

Channing on Noah Worcester, 271, 273

Charles, Rev. Thomas, of Bala, 139

Chartists and Thomas Cooper, 179, 182

Chartist Newspapers edited by Thomas Cooper, 181

Christ’s Hospital and Richard Castell, 121

Claflin, William, Governor of Massachusetts, 277

Clarke, Dr. Adam, and Samuel Drew, 114, 122

Coke, Dr., and S. Drew, 122, 123

Coleridge, S. T., and Boehmen, 206

and shoemakers, 189

Cooksley, Dr., Gifford’s friend, 80, 81

William, son of Dr. Cooksley, Gifford’s will in favor of, 86

Cooper, Robert, mistaken for Thomas

Cooper, 186

Cooper, Thomas, a copyist at the Board of Health, 186

Cooper, Thomas, and “Stamford Mercury,” 178

a sceptic, his lectures as, 185: footnote, 186

as a lecturer on Christianity, 187

becomes a shoemaker, 169

birth and parentage, 165

childhood at Exeter, 165-167

early studies while a shoemaker, 169-175

editorship and authorship in 1848-49, 185

final conversion to Christianity, 185, 186

first poem, 170

his connection with the Methodists, 177, 178

his excessive studies, 175, 176

his first published poems, 177

in Stafford Jail, 182-3

lectures at City Hall, London, on Theism, 186

life in Leicester, 180-3

life in Lincoln, 177

life in London, 179-180

Cooper, Thomas, list of his writings, 181-7

marries Miss Jobson, 177

professes Christianity in Baptism by immersion, 185

schoolboy days, 168, 169

sets up a school, 176

the railway accident, 186

Trial at Stafford and in London, 182-3

Craggs, Secretary, 216

Crispin and Crispianus, 197-199

Crispin anecdotes, 198-216, 223, 228, 242

Crocker, Charles, 247, 248

Cromwell and Fox, 249-51

Cruickshank and O’Neill, 244-6

Curwen’s “History of Booksellers,” 37, 45, 83

D’Albrione, Signor, 178

Davies, Ann, Gifford’s lines on, 68, 87

Dekker, Thomas, 228

Della Cruscan School, 75, 82

Deloney’s “History of Gentle Craft,” 199, 228

Dennis, friend of Lackington, 40

Devlin, James, 242

Dey of Tripoli and Lieutenant Shovel, 20-21

D’Israeli, Mr., and Thomas Cooper, 183

“Dramatists, Early English,” edited by Gifford, 75, 82

Drew, Samuel, as a preacher, 122, 123

as editor and author, list of works, 139-141

apprenticeship days, 111-113

attempts at poetry, 118-119

begins to study, 114-115

birth and childhood, 110-111

competes for prize of £1500, 122

conversion, joins the Wesleyans, 114

Defence of the Methodists, 119

his generosity, 117

his method of writing books while a shoemaker, 121

his works on immortality of the soul, 120

honors conferred on, 123, 124

last days, 124

lives in Liverpool and London, 124

marriage, 118

narrow escape from drowning, 113

quits the shoemaker’s stall, 122

starts in business on £5, his thrift, 116

the midnight visitor, 118

writes “Remarks on Paine’s Age of Reason,” 118

Duncombe, T. S., M.P., and Thomas Cooper, 183

Elliott, Ebenezer, and John Younger, 246

Eyre, Sir Simon, Lord Mayor of London, 228

Fletcher, vicar of Madely and Bradburn, 62

Foster, John, 242

Fox, George, 249

Fullarton’s “Lives of Eminent Englishmen,” 84

Fuller, Rev. Andrew, the friend of Carey, 138, 141

Gainsborough the painter, 93

Gentle Craft, etc., origin of the terms, note, 198

George III. and Shillitoe, 254

Gifford, William, and Lord Grosvenor, 81, 82

childhood and youth, 76, 79

editorship of London “Quarterly,” 75, 76, 83, 84

first attempts at verse, 79

his character, 83, 84

parentage and birth, 76

private tutor to Lord Belgrave, 81

story of the candle, 84

translations of Persius and Juvenal, 82

works his sums on pieces of leather, 78

Goethe’s opinion of Hans Sachs, 204

Grafton, the duke of, and Bloomfield, 100

Grainger’s “Biographical History,” 215, 218, 219

Gray’s Elegy, 232

Gregory Thaumaturgus, 143

Grosvenor, Lord, a friend to Gifford, 81, 82

Guilds or fraternities of shoemakers in Paris, 201-203

Guthrie, Dr., anecdotes and stories, 151

on John Pounds, 151, 152

Halifax, Lord, and Timothy Bennett, 212, 213

Hanley, Thomas Cooper’s speech at, 182

Hardy, Thomas, 265, 266

“Helmsley,” the tune, who composed it? 234

Hewson, Colonel, the Cerdon of Hudibras, 215-217

Holcroft, Thomas, 234

Hook, Dr., of Leeds, and Thomas Cooper, 186

Howard, John, 139

Hudibras and Colonel Hewson, 217

Hugh, Saint, 228

Huntingdon, William, S. S., 257-8

Imperial Dictionary of Biography, 244 257

Iphicrates, 219

Ireland, Dr., Lines to, by Gifford, 96

Jackson’s Lives of Methodist Preachers, 232

Jameson, Mrs., on S. Crispin legendary art, 199

Jefferson on Roger Sherman, 275

Jerrold, Douglas, and Thomas Cooper, 183, 184

Jochanan, Rabbi, 194

Johnstone, J., 242

Jones, John, friend of Lackington, 35

Jong, Ludolph de, 209

Kettering, first collection for Baptist Missions, 141

Kingsley, Rev. Charles, and Thomas Cooper. 186

Kirtland, Philip, of Lynn, Mass., 277

Kitto, Rev. John, D.D., 261-4

Knowles, Herbert, “Lines,” etc., 232

Krishnu, Carey’s first convert in India, note, 146

Law, William, and Boehmen, 206

Lackington, James, and bargain-hunters, 39

apprenticeship, 33, 34

benefactions to Wesleyan denomination, 47

birth and parentage, 31

boyhood, vender of pies, almanacs. etc., 32

business and profits in 1791, 44

buys Young’s “Night Thoughts,” 38

courage as a boy—the ghost story, 32

death and burial, 47

extensive purchases, 42

first sale catalogue, 40

gives up shoemaking for book-selling, 38

goes to London, 1774, 37

helped by the Wesleyan Fund, 39

kindness to his relatives, 46

life in Bristol, 35, 36

marries Nancy Smith, 36

“Memoirs and Confessions,” 29

motto for the door of his carriage, 30

“No credit” system, 41, 42

reads Epictetus, etc., 35

retires from business, 1798, 45

second marriage, 40

sets up a “chariot” and “country-house,” 44

starts as bookseller, 38

strictures on the Wesleyans, 29

“Temple of the Muses,” 29, 45

tour through England and Scotland, 45, 46

Lamb, Charles, on Shoemakers, 91, 227

Lacroix, “Manners and Customs of Middle Ages,” 198

Lee, Dr. Samuel, 172

Gideon, Mayor of New York, 277

“Leisure Hour,” articles on shoemakers, 211

Leno, John B., 248

Lestage, Nicholas, of Bordeaux, 203

Let the cobbler stick to his last, 191

“Literary Gazette ” on Gifford, 93, 94

Living examples of illustrious shoemakers, 248

Llandaff, Earl of, and O’Neill, 245

Lofft, Capel, 99, 239, 243

Mackay, of Norwich, 225

Macon, Mr., on Roger Sherman, 275

Madan, Martin, and “Helmsley,” 234

Marriage, remarks on, 136, 137

Marshman’s “Carey, Marshman, and Ward,” 131, 144, 145

John Clarke, author of “Carey, Marshman, and Ward,” 145

Mr., Dr. Carey’s friend and colleague, 143, 145

Meistersingers of Germany, 204

Men’s and Women’s conscia recti, 225-6

Milbanke, Miss (Lady Byron) and Blacket, 241

Miller, Thomas, and Thomas Cooper, 173, 180

Montgomery, Jas., and Thomas Cooper, 177

Morrison, Rev. Robert, D.D., 258, 259

Mutual Improvement Society at Gainsborough and T. Cooper, 171

Murray, John, and Gifford’s editorial stipend, 83, 84

Murray, John, his “drawing-rooms,” 83

Myngs, Sir Christopher, 19, 218, 219

Narborough, Sir John, 19-21, 219

Newton, Sir Isaac, and Boehmen, 206

Nichol, Rev. James, 239

Notes and Queries, 225

Odger, George, 266-8

Olivers, Thomas, 234

O’Neill, John, temperance poet, 244-6

“Oracle,” The, 268

Parsons, William, of the Junto, 277

Partridge, Dr., 220-3

Peace Societies, founded in America, 273

Peel, Sir Robert, and shoemakers, 266

Polwhele, Rev. Mr., and S. Drew, 120

Pope John XXII., 209

Pope and Partridge, 221

and Savage, 230

Portraits of naval officers at Greenwich, 219

Pounds, John, begins teaching poor children, 153, 154

birth and childhood, 152, 153

gratitude of his old scholars, 156

his death, 157

his workroom described, 153, 154

kindness to his scholars, 156

memorials of, in Portsmouth, 158

method of teaching, 155-157

the roasted potato, 155

Pressgang, 53

“Purgatory of suicides,” 179, 183

Purver, Anthony, 226

“Quarterly Review,” 227, 243

on Baptist Missionary Society, 141, 142

Quarterlies, the Edinburgh and London, 75, 83, 84

Ragged schools, John Pounds a founder of, 151, 152

Raikes, Robert and Sophia Cooke start first Sunday-school, 66

Reading, growth of about 1790;

Lackington’s remarks on, 43

Rigby, Richard, ballad-writer, 227, 228

Robinson, Henry Crabb, Diary, 206, 257, 266

Rousseau, Jean Baptiste, 209

Rowe, J. B., 228

Russell, Admiral, 22

Sachs, Hans, the Nightingale of the Reformation, 203-205

Sandon, Lord, and Thomas Cooper, 188

Savage, Richard, 230

Scott, Rev. Thomas, the Commentator, and Carey, 113, 114

Service, David, 242

Sheaf, Mr., Shoemaker and artist, and John Pounds, 151, 157

Sheffey, Daniel, of Virginia, 276

Shenstone and Woodhouse, 228

Sherman, Roger, 274, 275

Shillitoe, Thomas, 251, 255

Shoemakers and literature, 75

Shoemaker’s holiday, the, 227

Shoemakers, large proportion of eminent men, 189, 190

Shovel, Captain, knighted by William III., 22

Shovel, Cloudesley, made captain, 21

Shovel, Sir C., admiral of the Blue and Red and White, 22

at battle of “La Hogue,” 22

at battle of Malaga, 23

at capture of Barcelona, 23

at the siege of Waterford, 22

death by drowning, 23, 24

epitaph, 17

exploit as cabin boy, 19, 20

exploit as lieutenant, 20, 21

governor of Greenwich Hospital, note, 24

M.P. for Rochester, note, 24

portraits of, 17, 24

presented to Queen Anne, 23

William III.’s opinion of, 22

Sibly, Dr. Ebenezer, 222, 223

Sibly, Manoah, 266

Smerdon, Rev. T., prepares Gifford for Oxford, 81

Smith, Sidney, 75, 130, 145

Sons of shoemakers, 209

Souters of Selkirk, 213-215

Southey, Robert, 230, 255

Southey’s article in “Quarterly Review” on Carey, etc., note, 141, 143, 145

Struthers, John, 243

Sturgeon, William, electrician, 264, 265

Sunday-school, the first, 66, 139

Sutcliffe, Rev. John, the friend of Carey, 136, 138, 140

Swift and Partridge, 222

Tyerman’s Life of Wesley, 233

Toplady and Olivers, 233

Tinlinn, Watt, 214, 215

Timmins, Rev. T., remarks on John Pounds, 154-156

Tichbourne, Sir Thomas, Lord Mayor of London, 227

Thorp, John, 255-7

Thomas, Mr., Carey’s colleague in first mission work, 141, 142

Value of books in 1775, note, 39

Warton, Thomas, and John Bennet, 229

Watts, Dr. Isaac, 210

Wesley, John, and Bradburn, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 71

and Olivers, 231-34

and Thorpe, 255

Weever’s “Funeral Monuments,” note, 198

Whately, Archbishop, 189

White, Henry Kirke, lines on Bloomfield, 103

Whitefield, George, and Olivers, 232

Whittaker, Rev. John, and S. Drew, 120, 122

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 227, 229

lines to “Shoemakers,” 279-281

Wilberforce, William, remarks on Carey, 138

Williams, Dr. Edward, 256

Wilson, Bishop, friendship with Carey, 146

Wilson, Gavin, 242

Wilson, Henry, the Natick cobbler, 277-9

Wilson, Professor, his opinion of Bloomfield’s poetry, 100

Wincklemann, J. J., 209

Winnifred, Saint, 227

Winks, Joseph, Foulkes, and Thomas Cooper, 171, 180, 186

Wolfe’s “Burial of Sir J. Moore,” 232

Woodhouse, James, 228

Worcester, Noah, D.D., 271-4

Wordsworth and Thomas Cooper, 184

Ye Cocke of Westminster, Richard Castell, 210

Younger, John, 246-7

THE END.