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 Saddler, Joseph, miner: Stafford, David, do.: Scott, Benjn, do.: Turton, Jonas, servant: Tyas, John., blacksmith: Waters, John, carpenter: Willcock, John, woodcutter: Willcock, Thos., do.: Willcock, Richd., do.

In the first Subscription List of 1803 are the following local names:

G. W. Wentworth, £500: W. Spencer Stanhope, £300: W. Beaumont, £200: Saml. Thorp, £25: Joseph Beckett, £50: Francis Edmunds, £100: W. Elmhirst, £50: Henry Clarke, £21: John Perkins, Kexbrough, £25: Richard Perkins, Dodworth, £21. At Cawthorne: John Beatson, £25: Mrs. Howson, £5 5s.: Thos. Dransfield, £5 5s.: Judah Hinchliffe, £2 2s.: John Moxon, £2 2s.: John Stead, £1 10s. 6d.: Mr. Eyre, £5 5s.: Jno. Drury, £1 1s.: Jonathan Greaves, 10s. 6d.: Thos. Hinchliffe, £1 1s.: Thomas Shirt, £1 1s.: Eleanor Walton, £1 1s.: John Johnson, £5 5s.: John Marshall, 10s. 6d.: John Rhodes, £1 1s.: Joseph Shaw, £1 1s.: Jas. Wigglesworth, £1 1s.: Josiah Charlesworth, 5s.: Thos. West, £26 6s.: Jno. Lindley, £2 3s.: Joshua Armitage, £1 1s.

In a second Subscription List, 1807, W. Spencer Stanhope gives £131 5s.: Godfrey W. Wentworth and J. M. Beaumont the same: Saml. Thorpe, £10 10s: Mr. J. Beatson, £6 6s.: Mr. J. Rowley, £5 5s.: many other names in the earlier list are found again in this.

In the middle of the seventeenth century, and for more than a hundred years afterwards, the Spencers of Cannon Hall were among the largest iron manufacturers of the neighbourhood, at one time or other connected with the Barnby Furnaces, the Wortley Forges, Bank Furnace in the Parish of Thornhill, and the ironworks at Kirkstall near Leeds. The large woods around provided the necessary fuel at a time when coal had not begun to be used for smelting purposes. So great, indeed, was the consumption of wood in iron-smelting, that Parliamentary legislation had to place it under severe restrictions. It was not till the middle of the eighteenth century, when the total home manufacture of iron had dwindled down to 18,000 tons a year, that pit-coal began to be extensively used in smelting. This led to such an immense increase in the consumption of coal, that the out-