Buried By Torchlight

Allertcm hall was upward of four centuries the property aud residence of the Kitchingman family. It was the largest and most ancient ruansion in Chapeltown, consisting of about 60 rooms, with gardens and pleasure grounds. The Kitchingman family for upward of 400 years were carried from this hall by torchlight to be interred in the choir of St. Peter 'schurch inLeeds. At the interment of any of the family the great chandelier, consisting of 36 branches, was always lighted. In the year 1716 Mr. Robert Kitchingman died May 7, aged 100 years. He ordered his body to be buried with torchlights at chapel Allerton. He was interred on May 16, when 100 torches were carried. The room where the body was laid was hung with black, and a velvet pall, with escutcheons, was born by the chief gentry. The pallbearers had all scarf , biscuits and sack ; the whole company had gloves. Fif ty pounds were given among the poor in the chapel yard on the day of his interment. Mary, his wife, died July 28, 1716, aged 97 years. She was interred precisely in the same