Halifax Parish

HAUGH END, (the seat of Major Priestly) in the township of Sowerby, and parish of Halifax, liberty of Wakefield, 3½ miles SW. of Halifax, 8½ from Huddersfield.

At this place, in Oct. 1630, the celebrated Dr. John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury, first drew breath, a place that will ever be regarded with veneration, by all who know how to estimate religion without bigotry, and reason without scepticism. He was the son of a clothier; and received his education at Clarehall, Cambridge, where he was chosen Fellow in 1651. He attended Lord Russell on the scaffold, and endeavoured to prevail on him to acknowledge the doctrine of non resistance, a principle which the Doctor had afterwards occasion to renounce. He was zealous against popery in the reign of James II. and, after the revolution, was the confidential friend of William and Mary, who bestowed on him the Archbishopric of Canterbury. His sermons were published in 10vols. 8vo. and 3 vols. folio. He died in 1694, much lamented.