SMALLEY.
Smalley. By the Rev. Charles Kerry. (Bemrose and Sons. 45. 6d. net.)—Mr. Kerry deserves our thanks for preserving recollections and traditions which might otherwise have disappeared. Fifty years ago he got from an old inhabitant the description of the old church, destroyed in 1'794. The old man had been blind for fifty years, but blindness had intensified the impressions left by earlier days. It is true that the local history has nothing very remarkable about it. Smalley, though it had a church and priest when Domesday Book was compiled, became part of Morley parish, and has had a separate existence for some twenty-five years only. It was served by a succession of ill-paid curates,—we hear of one of them charging eighteenpence for a baptism The parish has an endowed school, with funds largely derived from the sale of coal, and, besides other charities, alms- houses founded by Jacinth Sacheverell in the first half of the seventeenth century. He was a recusant, and fell in his old age on evil times. Here is the fine epitaph on his tomb (somewhat corrected from the copy given here) :— "• Quae mild nascenti luxerunt sidera 7 quae tam nosia pars caeli eat, ut me nil tale merentem laeserit, et primis infortunarit ab annis ? "
Does any one recognise it? " Infortnnarit" is not classical, though fortuno is and infortunatus.
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