Excerpt from The Autobiography of Joseph Lister, of Bradford in Yorkshire: To Which Is Added a Contemporary Account of the Defence of Bradford and Capture of Leeds by the Parliamentarians in 1642 Joseph Lister is mentioned several times by Oliver Heywood, one of the non-conforming ministers under the Act of 1662 for the Uni formity of Public Worship, &0. In England, who left a large mass of auto-biographical manuscript. He was living at Allerton on the 26th of May, 1682, and on the 4th of June, 1686, when he was Visited there by Mr. Heywood. Joseph him self sometimes preached as a gifted brother' in the dissenting congregation of Kipping, to which he belonged, in the absence of the pastor, as was the practice in the section of the non-conformists called Independents. They had for a time a minister who preached the Fifth Monarchy, from whom Lister and others withdrew. Kipping is near Thornton, which was a chapel to the church of Bradford, in which were several puritan minis ters who prepared the way for the subsequent non conformity of this rural district. Joseph Lister was buried in Thornton Chapel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.