Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
on Sunday the at which myself and Elder Ward
attended. Elder John Banks was called to the chair. During
the day Elder Leonard Hardy was chosen to preside over the
Conference and there were eleven Branches represented with 505
members
Next day I took a walk through the city and
visited the old Cockpit where Elders Kimball and Hyde had
preached so much at the first opening of the British mission and
where also Dr Willard Richards afterwards also preached.
We walked up and down the river where
many hundred of the Saints had been baptized and I also viewed
^from whare^ the Scotch made an attack upon the English at Preston when the
gallant enthusiastic followers ^army^ of the Young Pretender made ^their^ illfated
and mad attempt to unseat the first George from the English
throne and give it to their bonnie Charle ^[wished] it the house of the Stuarts^. Some of the Scotch
entered the town as far as the Cockpit but most of them was
slain in the valley. I saw their burial place. There is now a
grove growing over their bodies. This was in the year 1745
just one hundred years before this date
We returned to the town and after dinner
I took the parting hand of Elders Banks and Hardy and the
Saints of Preston and returned to Liverpool
