so opposed that, after only three weeks' possession, he
was compelled to resign." A Yorkshire gentleman, who has kindly sent me
some additional information on this subject since the second edition of
my work was published, write, thus:--

"The sole right of presentation to the incumbency of Haworth is vested
in the Vicar of Bradford. He only can present. The funds, however,
from which the clergyman's stipend mainly proceeds, are vested in the
hands of trustees, who have the power to withhold them, if a nominee
is sent of whom they disapprove. On the decease of Mr. Charnock, the
Vicar first tendered the preferment to Mr. Bronte, and he went over to
his expected cure. He was told that towards himself they had no
personal objection; but as a nominee of the Vicar he would not be
received. He therefore retired, with the declaration that if he could
not come with the approval of the parish, his ministry could not be
useful. Upon this the attempt was made to introduce Mr. Redhead.

"When Mr. Redhead was repelled, a fresh difficulty arose. Some one
must first move towards a settlement, but a spirit being evoked which
could not be allayed, action became perplexing. The matter had to be
referred to some independent arbitrator, and my father was the
gentleman to whom each party turned its eye. A meeting was convened,
and the business settled by the Vicar's conceding the choice to the
trustees, and the acceptance of the Vicar's presentation. That choice
forthwith fell on Mr. Bronte, whose promptness and prudence had won
their hearts."

In conversing on the character of the inhabitants of the West Riding with
Dr. Scoresby, who had been for some time Vicar of Bradford, he alluded to
certain riotous transactions which had taken place at Haworth on the
presentation of the living to Mr. Redhead, and said that there had been
so much in the particulars indicative of the character of the people,
that he advised me to inquire into them. I have accordingly done so,
and, from the lips of some of the survivors among the actors and
spectators, I have learnt the means taken to eject the nominee of the
Vicar.

The previous incumbent had been the Mr. Charnock whom I have mentioned as
next but one in succession to Mr. Grimshaw. He had a long illness which
rendered him unable to discharge his duties without assistance, and Mr.
Redhead gave him occasional help, to the great s