INCORPORATION OF THE BOROUGH.
TO SAMUEL RUDGE, Esq., MAYOR OF DUDLEY.
We, the undersigned, Ratepayers and Inhabitants of the Parish of Dudley, respectfully request you to convene a PUBLIC MEETING, for the purpose of considering the desirability of presenting a Petition to the Queen in Council, praying Her Majesty to grant a Charter of Incorporation to this Borough.
James C. Browne, D.C.L., vicar
Alexander George Davies, M.A., incumbent of St. James’s
John Davies, M.A., incumbent of St. Edmund’s
E. H. L. Noott, B.A., incumbent of St. John’s, Dudley
Robert Harper, M.A., head master of the Grammar School
George Lewis, Presbyterian minister, Dudley
Richard Rymer, Wesleyan minister, Dudley
David Evans, Baptist minister, Dudley
Matthew Gibson, Unitarian minister
Jas. Bond, Catholic priest, Dudley
Samuel Price, tanner and currier
Hy. Coldicott, solicitor
Theophilus Tinsley, merchant
Thos. Sheppard, ironmonger
Geo. J. England, maltster and brewer
Ed. M. Warmington, solicitor
John Round Tilley, tanner
Daniel Timmins, surgeon
R. C. Buck, chemist
W. Challingsworth, victualler
Reginald Unwin Dudley, silk mercer
William Beddard, Jun., wholesale grocer
John Finch, iron founder
Henry Bagott, woollen draper
C. F. G. Clark, chemist
Thomas Price, tanner and currier
J. O. Pearse, agent
James Cartwright, wine merchant
Saml. D. Fereday, surgeon
J. H. Deakin, wine merchant
Joseph Taylor, agent
W. H. Laxton, bookseller
Thos. Baker, shoe manufacturer
John Dawson, chemist
John Whitehouse, Dudley
Saml. Bastick, hatter
John S. Fisher, jeweller
James Hemmings, shoe manufacturer
H. Wythes, plumber
Ed. Bowen, draper
Joseph Sheldon, milliner
Alexander M. Intyre, draper
Thos. Maguire, boot maker
Ebenezer Hutchings, news agent
C. Cetti, furniture dealer
Joseph Holland, pork butcher
William Coleman, spirit merchant
Isaac Collins, hosier
William Hewitt, fruiterer
George Henry Hewitt, ditto
E. Lancey
George Whitford, bookseller
S. Q. Cook, draper
Joseph Caswell, tobacconist
J. C. Green, banker
John Cartwright, banker’s clerk
E. Dunn, chemist
W. Piddington, tobacconist
Henry Woodhouse, innkeeper
F. C. Hickling, clerk
John Bromwich, jeweller
Cornelius James, wire worker
George Thorns, pork butcher
Edwin Baker, fruiterer
J. C. Westley, brass founder
B. Wilcox, currier
J. Parsons
Alexander Barker
Bartholomew Duffy, shoemaker
James Frost, iron merchant
Jos. Walker, wholesale draper
William Palmer
William Holland, builder
John G Wright, auctioneer
S. Grosvenor, M.B., Oxon.
W. Fletcher and Sons, nail ironmongers
William Smith, victualler
James Grigg, wheelwright
William Wilkinson, vice and anvil manufacturer
James Woodall, builder
Matthew Smith
John Jones, shoemaker
Charles Pardoe, victualler
John Baker
Thomas Lees, shopkeeper
William Iles, iron dealer
Saml. Ward, butcher
Charles T. Sturtevant, artist
James Henry Bourne, grocer
Joseph Owen, broker
John Fisher, merchant
William Richards, draper
Richard Coates, watchmaker
William Insull, bookseller
Fredk. Tandy
Saml. Lee, baker
Hy. Mence, shoemaker
J. Thompson, painter
Richard Davies, fruiterer
J. T. Edwards, watchmaker
Francis Garner, confectioner
Richard Williams, shoemaker
Joseph Watson, victualler
Henry Bodin, builder
George Grove, builder
Wm. Hooper, victualler
George Smith, engineer
Edward Round, agent
George Hartshorne, iron merchant
Daniel G. Ward, iron merchant
George Cooke, victualler
James Wright, engineer
H. and J. Wright and Co., engineers
Thomas Ward, victualler
Jesse Crompton, farrier
John Hyslop, wine merchant
George Ashfield, baker
Thomas Hale, schoolmaster
Thomas Marsh, grocer
William Nelson, builder
George Chaplin, hatter
Robert Houghton, draper
John Williscroft, hatter
Thomas Roberts, draper
John Evans, hosier
C. H. Gare, chemist
John Smart, fruiterer
Mark Malugani, umbrella manufacturer
Thomas Timmins, butcher
Joseph Waterson, cabinet maker
Mark W. Dickins, agent
Joseph Williams, schoolmaster
Charles W. Westley, brass founder
Hy. Harper, coal master
James Fisher, surgeon, Dudley
John Tandy, Dudley
William Gordon Coulton, solicitor, Dudley
George Wood, wine merchant
Joseph Stokes, solicitor, Dudley
Samuel Mills, stationer, Dudley
Enoch Brooks, currier
James Shedden, stationer
William Waring, tailor
Samuel Waring, tailor
Thomas Wright, ironmaster
James Wilkins, hair dresser
Samuel Dudley, confectioner
Joseph Green, millinery warehouseman
John Harris, hosier
James Homer, butcher
Messrs. T. and S. Davies, spirit merchants
C. H. Tyler, cement manufacturer
W. Morris, tailor
John Bagott and Son, tailors
E. Hollier, chemist
T. L. Rutland, clothier
Edward Smith, grocer
John Neale, hatter
George Morris, cab proprietor
M. Dennison, chemist
Thomas Willis, wholesale grocer, Market Place
Fox Wright, commercial traveller, Rose Hill
Thomas Stevenson, clothier
Benjamin Guest, confectioner
Edward Wood, woollen draper
Thomas Reynolds, confectioner
Thomas L. Stevenson, clothier
James Cowden Haxeltine, butcher
Thomas Allen, wine merchant
James Ellis, wine merchant
Richard Clark, haberdasher
George Stevenson, clothier
Edward Devall, clothier
Joseph Stevenson, clothier
Joseph Goodwin, printer, &c.
John Davies, furniture dealer
Henry Timmins, butcher
James Brown, egg merchant
William Pearsall, victualler
James Smitheman, victualler
M. Brown, agent
Hughes and Hanson, wine merchants
Cordy Manby, merchant, Dudley
Henry Jennings, clerk, Dudley
J. W. Matthews, oil merchant, Dudley
Joseph Eld, tobacconist, Dudley
George Edward Horton, surgeon
John Underhill, licensed victualler
Owen Wright, vice and anvil manufacturer, Tower-street
J. Houghton, surgeon, New-street
Evan Roberts, innkeeper
Thomas Brettell, surveyor
Thomas Davenport, innkeeper
Thomas W. Smart, bacon factor
Arthur Timmins, upholsterer
John Castree, agent
Geo. Burn Lowe, attorney at law
Thomas Morris, chemist, &c.
Chas. Russell, auctioneer
John Bent, Jun., auctioneer
Thos. Steedman, merchant
Richard Winter, banker’s clerk
James Sackerson, cabinet maker
Richard Wilkinson, vice manufacturer
Joseph Skidmore, victualler
A. Gaul, saddler
George Bagott, Chemist, High-street, Dudley
E. T. Terry, grocer, Dudley
John Danes, shoe manufacturer
William Summerland, milliner, &c.
John Jordan, grocer
Edward Grainger, draper
Rudge and Griffith, drapers
James Shedden, tailor
Alexander Shedden, tailor
Alfred Bowers, butcher
Isaac Aulton, victualler
William and Edward Thompson, maltsters
Edward Packwood, pork butcher
Thomas Danks, auctioneer
William Steele, photographer
Henry Smith, maltster
Frederick Blunson, hosier, &c.
George Pitt, currier
Joseph Hillman, currier
Thomas Harvey, general dealer
Daniel Timmins, hairdresser
John Roberts, watchmaker
Henry Hayward, butcher
James Stokes, cutler
William Bagott, draper
Henry Wood, grocer
Thomas Mason, tobacco dealer
Thomas Smith, maltster
James Evans, butcher
Job Thomas Hamblett, grocer, &c.
Ann Richards, grocer
Henry Rushton, builder
Solomon Danby, victualler
John Chambers, victualler
Joshua Wilkinson, vice maker, Freebodies
William Clarke, baker
Jacob Westwood, slater
John Lloyd, victualler
Daniel May, butcher
Henry Beeston, butcher
Thomas Price, pawnbroker
And others, making a total of 717 signatures of largest Ratepayers.
In compliance with the above numerously signed Requisition, I hereby convene A PUBLIC MEETING to be held in the PUBLIC HALL of the NEW MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE, Wolverhampton Street, on FRIDAY Evening, JANUARY 22nd, 1864, at half-past Six o’clock.
SAMUEL RUDGE, Mayor.
January 15th, 1864.
MUNICIPAL INCORPORATION
OF THE
PARLIAMENTARY BOROUGH OF DUDLEY.
WHEREAS, in pursuance of the Provisions of the Act of Parliament passed in the 5th and 6th years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter 76, entitled “An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales” and of other Acts of Parliament passed for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations, and of a Petition of the Inhabitant Householders of the Parliamentary Borough of Dudley, in the County of Worcester, addressed to the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council, praying for a Charter of Incorporation to the said Parliamentary Borough of Dudley.
INQUIRY has been directed to the subject Matter of such Petition.
NOTICE is therefore hereby given, that on FRIDAY, the 15th day of JULY instant, at Eleven o’clock in the forenoon, at the MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE, IN DUDLEY, CAPTAIN DONNELLY, R.E., the Commissioner appointed by the Lords of Her Majesty’s Privy Council for the purpose:—Will proceed upon the said Inquiry, and will then and there be prepared to hear all Persons (being Inhabitant Householders within the said Parliamentary Borough of Dudley), or their representatives, desirous of being heard before him upon the subject of the said Inquiry.
BY ORDER.
Dated this 5th day of July, 1864.
JONAH CHILD, Portrait Painter, and Modeller.
Specimens may be seen at his Residence.
“Think not, my friend, with supercilious air,
I rank the Portrait as beneath thy care:
Blest be the pencil, which from death can save,
The semblance of the virtuous, wise, and brave;
That youth and emulation, still may gaze
On those inspiring forms of ancient days,
And, from the force of bright example, bold,
Rival their worth, “and be what they behold”
Blest be the pencil! whose consoling power,
Soothing soft friendship in her pensive hour,
Dispels the cloud, with melancholy fraught,
That absence throws upon her tender thought.
Blest be the pencil! whose enchantment gives
To wounded Love the food on which he lives;
Rich in this gift, tho’ cruel ocean bear
The youth to exile from his faithful fair,
He in fond dreams hangs o’er her glowing cheek,
Still owns her present, and still hears her speak.
Oh! Love, it was thy glory to impart
Its infant being to this magic art!
Inspir’d by thee, the soft Corinthian maid
Her graceful lover’s sleeping form portray’d;
Her boding heart his near departure knew,
Yet long’d to keep his image in her view:
Pleased she beheld the steady shadow fall,
By the clear lamp, upon the even wall;
The line she trac’d with fond precision true,
And drawing, doated on the form she drew;
Nor, as she glow’d with no forbidden fire,
Conceal’d the simple picture from her sire:
His kindred fancy still to nature just,
Copied her line, and form’d the mimic bust,
Thus from thy power, inspiring Love, we trace
The Modell’d Image, and the Pencil’d Face.”
The publication of the following celebrated Will, led to the resuscitation of a valuable charity bequeathed to this town.
EXTRACTS FROM THE WILL
OF THE
LATE REV. HENRY ANTROBUS.
“In the Name of God, Amen. I, Henry Antrobus, Rector of Himley, in the County of Stafford, and now living at Dudley, in the County of Worcester, being in perfect health, and of sound mind, memory, and understanding, blessed be God for it, do make and ordain this my last will and testament.
“For my body, I desire it may be buried in the same grave with my dear mother, in the centre of the dome of St. Edmund’s Church, in Dudley; on the right side of which I desire may be fixed in the wall, a small monument of marble, of an oval form, with this inscription:—”Near this place lies interred the body of Penelope Antrobus, widow, who departed this life the 10th day of Aug. 1756, aged 59, adding these words: “She departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.” On the left side I desire another for myself, and of the same size and form, with this inscription:—“Here lies the body of the Rev. Henry Antrobus, &c.” adding these words:—“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.” As for my worldly estates, which God of his undeserved goodness hath given me, I dispose thereof as follows:—
“Whereas, it was my aunt Oliver’s desire, that I should buy Land to the value of ten pounds per Annum, to pay a School Mistress FOR TEACHING FORTY POOR GIRLS, of the Parish of Dudley, to read, sew, and knit; that they be brought to church constantly when there are prayers, and to be catechised every Friday in Lent, by the Minister of the Parish; which Land is not as yet purchased. I do hereby give, devise and bequeath MY ESTATE AT HOKEHAM, which John Whitehouse holds of me, for that purpose; and desire my executrix, hereafter mentioned, to lay out the sum of SIX HUNDREDS POUNDS, the profits whereof to make a provision for Clothing the said Girls every year, and to buy Books for the use of the School.
Item.—I give, devise, and bequeath MY ESTATE which William Aynsworth holds of me, in the Parish of Rowley Regis, to the intent TO CLOTHE, (according to Mr. Oliver’s will, who left One Hundred and Fifty Pounds for that purpose, to which was added Fifty Pounds more by his Wife, which money remains in my hands, and has not, as yet, been disposed of,) SIX POOR MEN, belonging to the Parish of Dudley, upon every 1st day of November for ever; and if the profits of the said Estate will bear it, to add a seventh then to the above-mentioned number.
“Whereas, my aunt Oliver had desired that FIFTY POUNDS might be given to erect a GALLERY in the NEW CHURCH in Dudley:—I desire my executrix, hereafter mentioned, to pay within twelve months after my decease, or begin the Gallery, and carry it on as far as the money will go, as soon as possible.
“I do hereby appoint and nominate the said Elizabeth Perry, sole executrix of this my last will and testament: CHARGING HER, AS SHE MUST ANSWER IT AT THE DREADFUL DAY OF JUDGMENT, to fulfil the Will of the Rev. Thos. Oliver, my aunt, and my own, as punctually as may be; and to have all the Charities enrolled in Chancery, as soon as possible; THAT THE POOR MAY NOT BE DEPRIVED OF THEIR RIGHTS!!! To this my last will and testament have set my hand and seal, this 30th day of December, 1762.”
Proved at London, 9th Dec. 1766, by the oath of Eliz. Antrobus, formerly Perry, widow, relict of the deceased.