_Reverend Richard Midgley, Vicar of Rochdale, temp. Eliz._--Dr. T. D.
Whitaker mentions, in a note in his _Life of Sir George Radcliffe,
Knt._, p. 4., 4to. 1810, that at an obscure inn in North Wales he once
met with a very interesting account of Midgley in a collection of lives
of pious persons, {381} made about the time of Charles I.; but adds,
that he had forgotten the title, and had never since been able to obtain
the book. Can any reader of "N. & Q." identify this "collection," or
furnish any particulars of Midgley not recorded by Brook, Calamy, or
Hunter?