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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Wilkinson's ' History of Worsborough,' and vol. Ixv. of the publications of the Surtees Society (' Yorkshire Diaries ').

E. G. B.

THE INGHAMITES. The ' New Inter- national Encyclopaedia,' published in New York (Dodd, Mead & Co.) in 1915, contains a curious slip in connexion with the religious sect founded by Benjamin Ingham in 1742. A very short biographical notice ends with the statement that " in 1759 the greater part of his followers deserted him and went over to Sandeman, and in 1760 Ingham himself joined the Sandemanians and the Inghamites disappeared." This is incorrect as the sect still flourishes in North Lanca- shire, seven churches at least being in existence : six within a three-mile radius of Colne, and one in Kendal. They are all small when compared with the Methodist chapels in the neighbourhood, the seating capacity of the lot being not above 2,000. At Colne a new church was erected in 1908, and the graveyard in Wheatley Lane (Pendle Forest) is extensive, though many interred there were not adherents to this particular faith. There is also a chapel in existence at Salterforth, near Barnoldswick (Yorks), and this was, I believe, the first to be formed ; whilst the Colne emigrants to Ontario (Canada) have founded a meeting-house at Farringdon, 2 miles from Brentford in that State, the preacher and lesson-reader at a service two years ago being both Colne men.

The Inghamites are an offshoot of the Methodists, it being clear that Benjamin Ingham was associated with both John and Charles Wesley, and accompanied them in 1737 on a visit to the Moravians in Germany. He became so strongly attached to their doctrines that he broke with, the Wesleys and founded the sect which now bears his name, but to which he gave the name of " Moravian Methodists." He en- deavoured to unite in this organization the chief doctrines of the Moravians and Methodists, and so successful was he as general overseer " that in a few years there were 84 of these congregations in England." It is curious that he should have married a sister of the Earl of Huntingdon (1741) whose wife's name is connected with another Methodist sect, known as the " Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion."

It was not until 1760 that Ingham largely adopted the hazy views of Robert Sandeman, and this ultimately led to bitter controversy and the disruption of many of the Inghamite churches, most of which became incorporated

with the Methodists. A few, however, remained loyal to the faith of their founder, and, it may be presumed, have come down to us practically unweakened since Ingham' s death in 1772. A collection of hymns was published at Leeds in 1748 for the use of his congregations.

From these few particulars it will be seen that the " Inghamites " are still in existence. ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.B.S.L.

NAPOLEON AND WELLINGTON: DID THEY EVEK MEET ? (See 11 S. vi. 349 ; x. 195.) At, the first reference this question is asked : at the second ROCKINGHAM gives a reply which almost establishes a negative, by inference.

In Temple Bar, vol. Ixxxii., January- April, 1888, is an article giving ' Conversa- tions with the Duke of Wellington.' The article says :

"The following extracts have.... been made from the \mpublished commonplace books of the Rev. J. Mitford of Benhall, who appears to have collected them from his diaries after the Duke's death in 1852." On p. 510 is the following :

" ' I never saw Buonaparte,' observed the Duke, ' though he was once, during the battle of Waterloo, within a quarter of a mile of me.' "

According to the ' Dictionary of National Biographv,' Mitford' s commonplace books are Addit. MSS. 32559-32575 at the British Museum. He was for some years, to the end of 1850, editor of The Gentleman's Magazine. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

BULWER LYTTON'S ' PELHAM.' I notice in ' N. & Q.' for November last (p. 479) a slip in the date of the publication of this novel, which is given as 1827, whereas the real date was May 10, 1828. The Athenaeum for May 14 has ' Pelham ' in its list of new books of the week, and has also a review of it.

In the unfinished ' Life of Bulwer Lytton ' by his son, the first Earl of Lytton, the date is given as June 1 0, and this error reappears in the ' Life ' by Mr, Escott. I called the attention, however, of the present Earl to the mistake, and in his complete biography of his grandfather the date is given correctly.

W. A. FROST.

"LETTER A, No. 1." The ' N.E.D.' quotes 'Pickwick' for "A 1," and Mrs. Stowe for " A, No. 1," but gives no example of the phrase above. It may therefore be worth while to record that Disraeli used it in 1844 in ' Coningsby,' bk. ii. chap. vi. :

" I tell you what, Mr. Taper, the time is gone by when a Marquess of Monmouth was Letter A,

No - li " JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.