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 During
the war Thomas Priestley of Goodgreave, regularly took packhorses
carrying Kersey cloth to his brother John in London. See image
opposite of Packhorse causeway. John Priestley bought wool in
Kent for the return load to Yorkshire, and also arranged for
the sale of the cloth through a factor in Blackwell Hall. Memoirs
of the Priestley family can be viewed here along with the autobiography of Captain John Hodgson and
an extract from Life of Sir Henry Slingsby
After the defeat of the Royalists and the
execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649, Parliament governed
without a king. The importance of Halifax, along with Leeds and
Manchester, was recognised and the support they had given to
the Parliamentary cause rewarded by allowing a Member of Parliament
to represent each town. On 12 July 1654 Jeremy Bentley of Elland
was elected MP for Halifax. The political privilege did not last.
Members for these northern textile towns were removed from the
House of Commons after the restoration of Charles II in 1660.
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