generations. It was sold a few years ago by their descendants, and the present possessor is John Thomas Cocker, Esq., of New-bank, Heyside.

Lower Horsedge, adjacent to the town, still contains the remains of a commodious old house, which was for a long time inhabited by the same family of the Ogdens. In 1483, John Okedyn held lands in Oldham, under the Cudworths; and in 1486, there was a Robert Okedene, of Glodlike. Of this family, was Samuel Ogden, a celebrated Nonconformist minister, who was born at Oldham, about 1627, and received his education in Christ's College, in Cambridge. Shortly after leaving college, he married the daughter of a Mr. Barnet, a minister, in Oldham. Becoming a zealous Nonconformist, and settling at Buxton, in Derbyshire, he was, in 1654, presented to the living of Fairfield, by the Earl of Rutland, the patron; but in 1657, he was called to the ministry at Mackworth, where he was ejected on the memorable Bartholomew day, 1662. In 1686, he was appointed by Sir John Gell, to the mastership of the Free School of Wirksworth, and this situation he retained till the time of his death, May 25, 1697. He was buried at Wirksworth. He is described by the "Nonconformists' Journal," to have been possessed of great natural talents, and a distinguished linguist, an excellent mathematician, a lover of music, and an admirer of latin poetry. When the pretended Archbishop of Samos travelled through England, he visited Mr. Ogden, and conversed with him in the Greek tongue. Adam Ogden, yeoman, was resident at Lower Horsedge, in 1759.

A venerable tenement near Hollins, bore the brief name of Brook, and was long the abode of the Schofields, of whom was James Schofield, yeoman, of Brook, living in 1757. Samuel Schofield, yeoman, possessed lands in Oldham in 1681.

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