Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers - W. E. Winks

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[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]

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