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LIFE OF FARADAY.

years ago, and a common sort of farm-house built in its place.

It is now little better than a stone cottage. The door opens directly into a kitchen, flagged with four large flags. What remains of the old Hall is, if


CLAPHAM WOOD HALL WITH MILL AS IT WAS. anything, meaner than the dwelling itself. At this Hall Robert and Elizabeth Faraday lived, and had ten children, whose names and birthdays, and callings in after life, so far as they are known, were these:—

Robert; born 1724, died 1786, married 1756 to Elizabeth Dean of Clapham Wood Hall. Richard, born June 16, 1757, was an innholder, slater, grocer. John, born May 19, 1759, was a farmer. James, born May 8, 1761, was a blacksmith. Robert, born February 3, 1763, was a packer in a flax mill. Elizabeth, born June 27, 1765. William, born April 20, 1767, died in July 1791. Jane, born April 27, 1769. Hannah, born August 16, 1771. Thomas, born November 6, 1773, kept a shop. Barnabas, whose birthday is not known, was a shoemaker.

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