LONDON: HENRY GRAY, 47, LEICESTER SQUARE.
HANLEY: ALLBUT AND DANIEL, PERCY STREET PRINTING WORKS.
CONGLETON: ROBERT HEAD.

MDCCCLXXXIX.

247. d. 1.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.—On the Sorrow at the Departure of a Friend, whether for the

Vale of Paradise of this Earth or that of Heaven.-Character and

Accomplishments of Arthur Jewitt, Llewellynn Jewitt's Father.—Tubal-

Cain —Arthur Jewitt's Literary Labours

CHAPTER II.-About Llewellynn Jewitt's Brothers -Arthur George, whose

Poems were Dedicated to H.R.H. George, Prince of Wales, Regent of

Great Britain; and Orlando the Famous Artist

CHAPTER III-Orlando Jewitt's Holiday Tour in Derbyshire, in May,

1817.-His Start from Sheffield; Ringing Low; The East Moor, its

Flora and its Druidical Remains; A Phantom Scene with a noble Lord

in it; Grindleford Bridge; Stony Middleton; Middleton Dale; A Love

Story and a Lover's Leap; The Rock Gardens; Cucklet Dale; Eyam

and the Plague

CHAPTER IV. Orlando Jewitt's Artistic Progress -The Removal toDuffield,

where Llewellynn Jewitt's Minority was spent. His Artistic and Literary

Progress.-Frederick William Fairholt's Visit to Duffield in 1835.-His

Start from London by Coach; St. Albans; Dunstable; Newport; North-

ampton; Leicester; Loughborough; Nottingham; Derby, the Assizes there

and a Stupid Jury; The First Silk Mills in England; The Tutbury "Find”

of Coins.-Time Past ...

CHAPTER V.—Fairholt at Repton; at Derby China Works; at Duffield; at

Matlock.-Samuel Carter Hall's Tribute to the Memory of Fairholt, who

could not sleep at Addlestone for the Nightingales.-Master Robert Juet

and Commodore Henry Hudson. --Washington Irving and Charles

Dickens. "Chewit" and Tobacco.-Armorials of the Jewitts.-Perseus

and Andromeda

CHAPTER VI.—The death of Llewellynn Jewitt's Mother.-Her Clairvoyant

Power.-Her Husband's great Grief.-His touching Verses.—Her True

Lover to the last.

CHAPTER VII-Llewellynn Jewitt's Happy Minority at Duffield. -His

Happy Marriage at Derby.-His Early Life and Labours in London.-

Draws the Interiors of Buckingham Palace and Describes them.—He

Declares the Young Queen to be Lovely, and the Palace not good enough

for so great a Monarch.-The Palace of Vulcan ..

CHAPTER VIII.-Stephen Sly gives a Dinner to the Entire Staff of the

Pictorial Times. -Llewellynn Jewitt Proposes "The Ladies" in a Maiden

Speech.-Goes to the Meeting of the British Association at Cambridge.—

A Walk by Moonlight.-Charmed and Lost to the World.-Much Science.

-The Philosophers of All Nations join Hands, form a Ring, and have

some Fun.-An Interesting Walk to the Fens.-Huge Birds.—Good

Weather for Young Ducks.-Grantchester.-A Wonderful Dog Letter-

Carrier. A Bad Mean Dog.-Home and Work...

CHAPTER IX.-Llewellynn Jewitt goes to Shrewsbury to attend the 1845

Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.—Passes through

Pandemonium on the way.-Shrewsbury Described. -Haughmond Abbey.—

An Excursion into Wales.-A Charming Welsh Girl.-Welshpool.-Powis

Castle.-Buttington.-Llandrinio and an Ancient Dame.-Alberbury.-

Back to Shrewsbury.-The Show.-The Ball.-Its Beauty all Faded now.

-"Turn Thou to Him."-Zephyrus and Hyacinthus ...

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CHAPTER X.-Still at Shrewsbury.-A Pleasant Ramble.-Shelton Oak.—A

Bunch of Roses for his dear Wife.-At Birmingham on the way Home.-

At Home.-The Surrey Zoological Gardens.-Fairholt and Ireland.-

Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick.-The British Crown Dropped and

Broken to Pieces.-The Chapel Royal, Whitehall.-Board of Trade...

CHAPTER XI.-Railway Accidents.-A Journey of Investigation to Ely.-

Description of Ely.-Stuntney.-Cambridge.-Waterbeach Felix.-Green

the Aeronaut.-Home.-"Life of Her Majesty," by Llewellynn Jewitt.-

Loyalty put to the Test.-At Tunbridge Wells.-" Railways, always

Railways!"-"The South Sea Bubble a Fool to it"

CHAPTER XII.--Arthur Jewitt, whose Death we have Recorded, Reappears in

the British Museum.-A Raised Lazarus. His recollections of Old Times.-

His Great-Grandfather.-His Grandfather.--His Father.-The Old Times

were Hard Times with the Sheffield 'prentice.-A Hasty Happy Marriage,

and a very Small Child who Sought to Slay his Brother with a Sword

CHAPTER XIII.-England's War with America, France, and Spain.-Bad

Times, and Trade Disputes in Sheffield.--Llewellynn Jewitt's Grandfather's

part therein.-Curious Old Yorkshire Customs.-The Small Child a

Prodigious Learner.-Arthur Jewitt's Account of his own Marriage-

Another very Happy one...

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CHAPTER XIV.-Arthur Jewitt's New Start in Life after his Happy Marriage.—

A Pleasant Surprise and a Long Walk.-He Beats the London Stage

Coach in a Walk of Nine Miles.-A Gloomy and Perilous Undertaking

becomes a Bright Success.—A Drowning Mouse in a Basin of Milk leads to

Serious Consequences.-A Romantic Marriage, and again a Happy one.-

Pictures of the Beauty and Nobility of Human Nature, and also of its

Meanness." Home! Home! Sweet Home!"

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CHAPTER XV.-The Railway Mania again.-Lincoln's Inn.-The Bar and the

Press at "variance dire."-The Lord Mayor Sworn in in presence of

Arthur and Llewellynn Jewitt.-Lord Mayor's Show on River and Road.-

British Archæological Association.-Orlando Jewitt.-C. Roach Smith's

Bronzes from the Bed of the Thames.-Christmas, 1845.-" Poor William!"

-"Happy Mischief-loving Flea."-George the First

CHAPTER XVI.-An interesting Meeting of the Archæological Association.—

John Martin, the Painter.-Visit to Derby at Midnight, where Love and

Friendship slept so soundly that they could not be awakened.-Rap! Rap!

Rap! at Sheffield with better success.--At Wakefield and Home again.-

John Gilbert, the Painter.-Diorama of London commenced. Poor

William !"-A London Parliamentary Election.-Llewellynn Jewitt joins

the management of Punch.-Removes to Plymouth.-Fairholt, C. Roach

Smith, Samuel Carter Hall, Thomas Wright, and Lord Londesborough.-

Fairholt's Letter from Cairo to Mrs. S. C. Hall.-Death of Fairholt ..

CHAPTER XVII.-Llewellyan Jewitt at Plymouth-His Public Benefactions

there.-Lines on the Death of the Old Year.-Removal from Plymouth to

Derby. His Public Benefactions there.-Establishes the Derby Telegraph.

-"Rifles and Volunteer Rifle Corps."-The Reliquary.-A List of some

other of his Works

CHAPTER XVIII.-Llewellynn Jewitt's Friend Thomas Bateman.—When a

Little Child he Assists his Father at the Opening of Barrows.-Becomes

very Wealthy, and goes in for Antiquities.-Publishes his Father's Notes.-

His splendid Museum.-Memories of him by Llewellynn Jewitt, The

Gentleman's Magazine, Dr. J. Barnard Davis, and Charles Roach Smith.-

Off in a Tiff."—"Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire.”—“Ten

Years' Diggings."—" Barrow Digging by a Barrow Knight."-Thomas

Bateman's Funeral.-His Letters

CHAPTER XIX.-Llewellynn Jewitt's Diary recommenced.-Wirksworth

China.-A very Happy Visit to W. F. Rose, Rock House, Coalport.-

Collecting History at the China Works.-Captain Matthew Webb, his

Father and Brother.-Interesting Discovery of Norman Pottery by Lord

Scarsdale. A great Sale at Glutton, at which the Farmers eat and drink

terribly.-Llewellynn Jewitt's Wonderful Activity, well or ill.-His Visits

to Bristol, Plymouth, Swansea, and Nantgarw, to collect History.-He

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agrees to write the History of Plymouth.-Back "Home, astonishing

everybody."-Opens a Barrow at Minning Low

CHAPTER XX.-"Our dear Boy, Herbert."Alexander Selkirk's Will.-Visit

to London.-S. C. Hall, Silverpen," Sir John Lubbock, etc., and Home

again. A Bog-oak Seventy Feet Long.-Married a Quarter of a Century

and neither have ever repented.--Josiah Wedgwood's Leg, and Mr.

Gladstone's mistake about it.-Llewellynn Jewitt's visit to Mr. Gladstone

and other Notables in London.-A Desperate Journey to Visit a Sick

Brother, and its consequences." A sad, sad day."- Too ill to sit up, and

I must!"-"A pretty considerable Chapter of Accidents."-" Another sad,

sad day."—"Oh God! what shall I, can I do?"-Happiness restored, and

a day of ease.-Has Visitors: a Father aged One Hundred and Three

Years, and his Daughter not yet Twelve.-Opens Barrows at Hungry

Bentley, Tinker's Lane, and Moot Low.-A Happy Day, and Evening

Prayers at a Hermitage.-An Appeal to the Country

CHAPTER XXI.-Llewellynn Jewitt Visits his Birthplace.-Herbert trys the

Derby China Works.-John Mountford's Recollections of Him.-Barrow-

Opening at Cold Eaton.-Death of C. H. Cooper, F. W. Fairholt, J. M.

Greasley, and Lord Vernon.-Charles Dickens and Lord Vernon.-Winster

Hall." Sweet are the Domestic Loves."-Herbert goes to Sea in the

"Shackamaxon."-Duke of Devonshire Visits Llewellynn Jewitt.-A

Message from the Sea...

CHAPTER XXII.-Llewellynn Jewitt and "Flint Jack."-Jack's Flint Arrow

and Spear-heads.-His Ancient British Urns.-His Roman Breastplate.--

His Roman Inscribed Mile-stone and other Stones -Bill Stumps.-Charles

Dickens, Lord Londesborough, and Roach Smith.-A Flint Comb -A

Wonderful Ring.-Jack goes into Partnership with a Jew.-Dissolves it and

goes to London.-Takes them in at the British Museum.-Fills the London

Market with his Antiquities, and Departs for the Provinces.-He Forges

Fossils. He Returns to London and is Employed by Professor Tenant in

the Strand, to whom he confesses his Frauds.-His Public Appearance

before the Geologists' Association.-His Occupation gone.-Llewellynn

Jewitt's generous Appeal on his behalf

CHAPTER XXIII.—“Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire."-Llewellynn Jewitt

has a most awful Dream.-" Thank God, Herbert is Safe."-Happiness at

Winster Hall.-Herbert Sails again.-Barrow-Hunting and Barrow-

Opening. "Guisers" and "Mummers."--Delightful Drives.-Lord Denman.

-Another most awful Dream.-Samuel Carter Hall visits Winster Hall.—

Alton Towers-Herbert Home Again; and Off Again.-" Good-bye, Old

Year!"-New Year's Prayer for Herbert.- Heavy Work with a Light Head.

-A Letter from Herbert, and a Prayer for Him.-"A Service of Plate,

and a Donkey's Breakfast."- "On Fools in general, and April Fools in

particular."- "Ceramic Art'

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CHAPTER XXIV.-Llewellynn Jewitt's visit to London in 1869.-At Samuel

Carter Hall's.-Daniel Douglas Home the Spiritualist.-Letter from the

Queen to S. C. Hall.-His Letter to the Lord Mayor of London.- Death

and Obituary Notice of Orlando Jewitt.-Letters from Herbert.-Home

Again. His Last Departure.-S. C. Hall at Winster.-Letters from

Herbert."Thank God, All Well!"-Hard Labour.-Joseph Mayer.-

The Duke of Devonshire.-English Legion of Honour.-The Diary

Neglected.--Calm before the Storm.-The Thunder and the Thunder-Bolt

at Last.-Herbert "Buried in the Sea," and Young Llewellynn in Winster

Churchyard

CHAPTER XXV.-Llewellynn Jewitt causes a supply of Pure Water to be

brought to Winster, which it had lacked for more than a Thousand Years.

-Public Rejoicings Thereat.-Speech of Lord George Cavendish Thereon.

-Letter from the Duke of Rutland.-Memories of Departed Friends in the

Thirteenth and Fourteenth Volumes of The Reliquary

CHAPTER XXVI.-The Golden Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall.—A Great

Testimonial Fund Started.-Letter and Acrostic from Llewellynn Jewitt.-

Philip Rose, Founder of the Hospital for Consumption, Brompton.-Charles

and Henry Kingsley at a Great Bazaar.-Jenny Lind and the Iron Duke,

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