Memorials to Nathaniel Waterhouse

Halifax Parish Church

IN Memory of the Pious and Charitable Mr NATHANIEL WATERHOUSE, late of Halifax Salter, who Bequeathed his Estate to the Use of the Church and Poor as followeth, Habitation for Twelve Aged Persons, Eighteen Pounds per Ann: to be paid to the said Twelve Aged Persons toward their maintenance, And Six Pounds per Ann: for Clothing, An Hospitall for Ten Boys and Ten Girls, A Master for Teaching the Children to Work, Twenty Shillings per Ann: for the Repairs of the Dwellings of the Aged Persons, and Hospitall, Forty Five Pounds per Ann: to the Master to keep the said Twenty Children with Meat drink etc, and Five Pounds per Ann: to buy them Blue Coats, The Master to be Displaced for Miscarriages, The House and Buildings at Causey Head and a reserved Rent of 12s per Ann: to the Lecturer of the Parish Church of Hallifax, who is to visit the aged and Catechise the Boys and Girls For want of a Lecturer the Profits to go to the Poor, Forty Shillings per Ann: to Defray the Expences of the Feoffees Forty Pounds per Ann: to the Ministers of the twelve Chapels within the Vicarage of Hallifax for preaching a sermon on the first Wednesday of every Month, their severall Stipends are as followeth; the Preacher at   l. s. d.   l. s. d. Sowerby Bridge Chapel 5 0 0 Elland Chapel 4 0 0 Illingworth Chapel 4 0 0 Ripponden Chapel 3 0 0 Coley Chapel 4 0 0 Sowerby Chapel 4 0 0 Lightcliffe Chapel 4 0 0 Luddenden Chapel 4 0 0 Brier Chapel 4 0 0 Heptonstall Chapel 4 0 0 Rastrick Chapel 4 0 0 Crossstone Chapel 4 0 0 If there be a Vacancy in any one of the Chapels the Salary to be Employed for the Benefit of the Children, Forty Shillings per Ann: to the poor of Huddersfield & Mirfield, Three Pounds per Ann: for Repairing Highways, Forty Shillings per Ann: to Hallifax Free School, A Workhouse for Employing the Poor, with all Appurtenances, a Laith Adjoyning to the west part thereof, and a Close called Hatter's Close, and two Hundred pound to purchase Lands which was Laid out in Howkins Farm. For the better Management of his Workhouse, he Appointed a Master and twelve Governours, and obtained letters patents from King Charles the First to make them one incorporated body, he was the first Master.     This pious and Good Man departed this life the Sixth Day of October 1645, Aged 59 years. His body is interred in the north Chapel of this Church