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History of the Alum-Trade, concluded 265 The Sisters, a true Tale..

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Remarks on the Influence of the Fine Arts and Works of Fiction on the Moral Character....

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HANDSWORTH, or Hanesworth, is connected in the record called Doomsday, with Whiston; in that survey it is said there was, "in Widestan and Handesvvrde soke four carucates and a half. Torchil had one manor of five carucates to be taxed, and there may be seven ploughs there. Richard has now there one plough, and eleven villanes and four borders, and six sokemen with seven ploughs and a half, wood-pasture three miles long, and one broad, the whole manor two miles and a half long, and two miles broad, value in King Edward's time eight pounds, at present forty shillings."

The village of Handsworth is situate about four miles east from Sheffield, on the road to Worksop; and on an elevation which renders it considerably picturesque. From thence the eye commands a most beautiful amphitheatre of diversified scenery, stretching from north to south with an expansion of landscape, rarely exceeded in sylvan variety and luxuriant cultivation. Enthusiasm might be tempted to exclaim with more than poetical propriety, Here health has fixed her residence, and offers her blessings to temperance and industry ;—and here it seems easy to be temperate, there being few incitements to excess; here industry receives from the lap of plenty its own reward. Northerly is seen rising from a coppice at Scholes, that beautiful monument called Keppel's Pillar*; this column adds much to the effect of the perspective scenery; but a principally interesting feature, as seen in the distance from Handsworth, is the aspiring steeple of the church of Laugton-en-le-Morthen; rising apparently from the elevated and extreme verge of the horizon, when the beams of the sun first illumine the eastern hemisphere, while mists envelop the circumjacent hills, and the shining river winds through the valley like a sinuous chain of silver, the steeple is seen de fined on the saffron skies, like an index on the dial of morning: and is rally mentioned among the country-people with the apposite misnomer of Lighton-ith'-morn.

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According to the returns made in the census of the year 1811, Handsworth was said to contain, within its parish, 308 houses, and 1424 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in agriculture, cutlery, and collieries. The nursery-grounds of Mr. Littlewood skirt the village, and give employment to several hands.

This pillar was erected to commemorate the honourable acquittal of Viscount Keppel, from certain charges preferred against him by Sir Hugh Palliser, during the American war.

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