But the case was entirely altered when, at Mr.Charnock's death in 1819, they conceived that the trustees had been unjustly deprived of their rights by the Vicar of Bradford, who appointed Mr.
Redhead as perpetual curate.
The first Sunday he officiated, Haworth Church was filled even to the aisles; most of the people wearing the wooden clogs of the district.

But while Mr.Redhead was reading the second lesson, the whole congregation, as by one impulse, began to leave the church, making all the noise they could with clattering and clumping of clogs, till, at length, Mr.Redhead and the clerk were the only two left to continue the service.

This was bad enough, but the next Sunday the proceedings were far worse.

Then, as before, the church was well filled, but the aisles were left clear; not a creature, not an obstacle was in the way.

The reason for this was made evident about the same time in the reading of the service as the disturbances had begun the previous week.