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Page 4, note 5. For ' Charlie ' read ' Charles. '

Page 11, note 10. ^V>r ' Arthurea ' read ' Arthuret.'

Page 22, note 8. The name written ' Awthor Long ' is apparently meant
for ' Ochterlony. ' The name of George Ochterlony occurs as curate of Tweed-
mouth in 1640.

Page 25, note 16. For ' Douglas ' read ' Dunglas.'

Page 43, note 17d. Delete 'For.'

Page 46, note 6. For 'Bellymena ' read ' Ballymena."

Page 70, note 19\ The pedigree given in this note is inadvertently
repeated on page 131, note 17, with some amplification.

Page 118, note 1. The name of the wife, and the date of the marriage of
Taylor Thirkeld, mentioned on the fourth line from the foot of the page, has
been repeated on the following line.

Page 128, note 15. For 'Dennis' read 'Denis.'

Page 139, note 1 3. For < Skern ' read < Skerne. "

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At a Meeting" of the Council of the Surtees Society,
held at Durham Castle, on Tuesday, December 5th, 1911, the
Dean of Durham in the chair.

' It was resolved that a second volume of North Country
Diaries be edited by Mr. John Crawford Hodgson, F.S.A.'

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

PREFACE viii

JOURNAL OF SIR WILLIAM BRERETON, 1635 1

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR JOHN GIBSON, 1655 51

JACOB BEE'S CHRONICLE 54

MARK BROWELL'S DIARY 176

THE FAMILY OF MARK AKENSIDE, THE POET 190

TWO LETTERS OF BISHOP WARBURTON 193

NORTHERN JOURNEYS OF BISHOP RICHARD POCOCKE ... 199

DIARY OF JOHN DAWSON OF BRUNTON 253

INDEX TO PLACES 295

INDEX TO PERSONAL NAMES 305

INDEX OF THE MORE IMPORTANT SUBJECTS 327

PREFACE.

Of the diaries and similar documents printed in this
volume some are already known to the student of local history.
The Journal of Sir William Brereton, which is perhaps the
most valuable of the series, formed the first volume of the
Chetham Society's publications and was reprinted in Richard-
son's Imprints and Reprints of Rare Tracts in 1844. But as
both of these editions have become rare, the Journal may very
fitly find a place in the present series, the more so as Sir
Philip H. B. Grey-Egerton, the present owner of the MS.,
lias permitted a fresh transcript to be made for the Surtees
Society. The fate of the original diary of Mark Browell is
unknown, but it was copied for the same series of Richard-
son's Reprints. The family records of Mark Akenside were
contributed by Mr. Richard Welford, M.A., to that valuable
but short-lived repository of local information, Northern
Notes and Queries. Of Warburton's letters a few copies have
been struck off by the Bishop of Durham for private circula-
tion ; and large extracts from John Dawson's Diary may be
found in the Proceedings of the Newcastle Society of Anti-
quaries. So far as is known, the other documents are now
printed for the first time.

Although Sir William Brereton's description of Edinburgh
in 1635 is not flattering, he displays both candour and discern-
ment. He seems to have been especially interested in salt
works and in decoys for duck. Jacob Bee's Chronicle
comprises those parts of the original MS. which are not given
in his diary printed in Six North Country Diaries. It deals
for the most part with humble and unimportant people, but
it may interest the inhabitants of the city and neighbourhood
of Durham, as will Bishop Warburton's caustic letters. The
Journal of Bishop Pococke will appeal to a wider circle,
containing, as it does several otherwise unrecorded Roman
Inscriptions; while the diary of John Dawson, kept during a
time when he was an active and conscientious militia officer,
may amuse those interested in military affairs.

PREFACE IX

The Editor desires to express his great obligation to Mr.
Welford, and Mr. H. M. Wood, B.A., for reading the whole of
his proofs; and to the Rev. J. J. M. L. Aiken, B.D., Mr.
Robert Blair, F.S.A., Mr. William Brown, F.S.A., and Mr.
William Maddan for reading portions of the same.

To the following gentlemen he is indebted for valuable
suggestions and information : —

Mr. Farnham Burke, Norroy King of Arms.
The Rev. William Greenwell, F.R.S.
The Rev. Henry Gee, D.D.
The Rev. Canon Fowler, F.S.A.
Professor Haverfield.
Mr. George Neilson, LL.D.
Mr. J. W. Clay, F.S.A.
Mr. William Chamney.
Mr. Edwin Dodds.
The Rev. E. G. Cull, and others.
He is also obliged to the Proprietors of the Newcastle
Journal for the loan of the file of the Newcastle Courant for
1760, in which are reported the proceedings arising out of the
Hexham Riot; and also to Miss M. T. Martin for making
careful transcripts at the British Museum and Record Office
of Brereton's, Gibson's, and Pococke's MSS.

The Editor desires also to express his obligation to the
Bishop of Durham for Bishop Warburton's letters; to Sir
Philip H. B. Grey-Egerton for the use of the original diary of
iSir William Brereton ; to General Surtees, for the use of the
original MS. of Jacob Bee; and to the Rev. Thomas Stephens,
for the use of the original diary of John Dawson. At Mr.
Welford's request the Akenside entries have been printed
with capital letters and contractions exactly as they appear
in the Registers of the Church of the Divine Unity, New-
castle. In the other documents, contractions — save in cases
of doubt — have been treated as matters of caligraphy and
have been extended, the prodigal capital letter being reduced
to modern practice.

J. C. Hodgson.
Alnwick, 12 May, 1915.

THE JOURNAL OF SIR WILLIAM BRERETON, 1635

INTEODUCTION.

Sir William Brereton of Handforth, Cheshire, was son and heir
'of William Brereton of that place, the representative of a younger
branch of the family of Brereton of Brereton and Malpas, by his
wife Margaret, daughter and coheir of Richard Holland of Denton in
Lancashire. Born circa 1604, he was baptized at the Collegiate
Church of Manchester, and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford,
where he matriculated 2nd November, 1621 : he was admitted to
Gray's Inn 29th January, 1622/3, was created a baronet 10th March,
1626/7, was Knight of the Shire for Chester in 1628, and twice in
1640.

In the Civil War he took a prominent part on the side of the
Parliament, being made Commander-in-chief in 1642 of the Cheshire
forces, in which capacity he greatly distinguished himself.

Sir William Brereton married circa 1627, Susan, daughter of
"Sir George Booth, first baronet, of Dunham Massey, who died in 1637,
leaving issue an only son, Thomas, who succeeded his father as
second and last baronet. He married, secondly, Cicely, widow of
Edward Mytton, and daughter of Sir William Skeffington, first
baronet. He died at Croydon Palace — which had been granted him
by the State — on the 7th of April, 1661, and was carried thence for
burial in his parish church at Cheadle. His will, dated 6th April,
1661, was proved on the 27th of July following.

In the year 1634 — in the months of May and June — Sir William
Brereton travelled in Holland and the Seventeen Provinces : his
journal for that period occupying thirty-nine pages. In the follow-
ing year, leaving his home at Handforth on the 11th of June, he
travelled through Yorkshire, Durham, and Northumberland, to
Edinburgh, then by Glasgow to Port. Patrick in Wigton-shire, where
he embarked for Ireland on the 4th July, and landed at Carrick-
fergus on the following day. To Ireland he gave twenty days, and
having secured a passage for himself, his servants, and horses on
board the Ninth Whelp, a vessel belonging to the Royal Navy,

manned with sixty men, commanded by Sir Beverley Newcomen, he
sailed from Waterford on the 25th of July and landed at Kings-road,
near Bristol, apparently on the following day. Visiting Minehead,.
Bridgewater, Glastonbury, Wells, Bath, Gloucester, Hereford, Lud-
low, Shrewsbury, and Chester, he reached his own home at Handforth
on the 5th of August in the year 1635.

The journal throughout is in Brereton's clear, small, regular and
very close handwriting, very few words being altered or cancelled.
In size it is a small folio, and it is in its original plain vellum binding.
In the fly leaves are some notes from which the following details-
are obtained : —

The MS. belonged to Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, and by him
was given to Mr. Cooper Walker, ' a gentleman of some literary
eminence at that period.' After the death of the latter it was sold
by his sister-in-law to Mr. Christopher Bentham, a cultivated Birken-
head Quaker, who lent it to Sir Walter Scott. The latter was much
interested in the journal and strongly urged its publication, going so
far as to offer his services as an editor. The proposal dropped
through, and ultimately the MS. was presented by Mr. Bentham to
Sir Philip de M. Grey-Egerton of Oulton, tenth baronet, a Trustee of
the British Museum, in the hands of whose grandson, Sir P. H. B.
Grey-Egerton, it still rests.

In the British Museum (Additional MSS. 11331, 2, 3), are tran-
scripts or drafts of letters to and from Sir William Brereton ; of
whom there is also a portrait, in line engraving, by G. Glover, repre-
senting him on horseback in armour, with truncheon in right hand,
an army in background.

The manuscript has been already printed, having been edited by
the late Mr. Edward Hawkins, Keeper of the Antiquities in the British
Museum, in 1844, for the Chetham Society, from which edition the
sections dealing with the North of England and with Scotland have
been reprinted respectively by Richardson in his Imprints and
Reprints, and by Mr. Hume Browne in Early Travellers in Scotland^
Mr. Hawkins seems to have thought it unnecessary to print the
journal verbatim, therefore what is now presented to the Surtees;
Society is printed from a new transcript of the original made with
the ready permission of Sir Philip H. B. Grey-Egerton by Miss M.
T. Martin. The text has been followed literally, although the
Diarist's liberal use of capitals has been modified to fit modern usage.

THE JOURNAL.1

[1635] Junii 11. Wee came from Handf2; and tooke horse
about 8 in the morneing, and came to Wakefield about 7 ; wee baited
att Bostockes att Woodhead where wee paid two-pence a pint for ale
and 3s. 8d. pro victualls; and att Wakefield att the Bull, where wee
lodged, wee paid 5s. for supper and breakefast. Itt is an honest, and
excellent house : Here next morning I gave my bay mare garlyck and
butter for hir cold butt itt wrought nothing with hir ; nor did the
drench, which I usually give, which I gave hir att Yorke next morne-
ing ; butt by the way I observed a connie-warren walled about with
stone containeing about one or 2 acres of land ; and nott farre from
Yorke I went about half a mile out of the way to take a view of
Bishopps-thorpe, the arch-bishopps palace which is about a mile or
two distant from Yorke, placed sweetly uppon the banckside of the
river Owes : Itt is the poorest and least capacious house, which I
have found in Engl : belonging to any bishopricke : a verye little
poore hall, and noe faire roomes in the whole house. In the chappie
I observed the table, representing the altar, placed in the lower end
of the chappie3 : A stone building which seemes to have been, an old
chappie, converted into a dovehouse which hath two tunnells:

The church, which is the pareish church, called Bishops-thorpe
church, is the least and poorest church I have mett withall in Eng-
land ; here is onely a, curate maintained to say service.

The bishopps cellar here well furnished with 32 hoggsheades of
good stronge beere and 8 pipes of the same; wee tasted of itt.

[June] 12. Wee lodged on Friday att Mris Keyes in Cunie-
streete in Yorke where wee had excellent entertainment, and verye
reasonable, and, next morneing, takeing another view of the Minster
and chapterhouse I observed the round roofe hereof (for which itt
is most famous) to bee framed of wood and boards painted : In the
chappie wherein the bishopp is enstalled sitting in St. Peters Chaire,
which is an old, little, decayed chaire, and famous for nothing butt
the antiquitie thereof, there was a decayed monument for St.

1 Some portions of this journal were reprinted, from the Chetham
Society's volume, in Richardson's Imprints of Rare Tracts, Newcastle, 1848.

2 Hanf = Handf ord, now Hanforth, in the parish of Cheadle, Cheshire,
where the Diarist's property and home were.

3 Viz., at the west end of the chapel.

William4 : the residue of whose bones were taken by the sexton, 1633,
and laid carefully uppe, and this, as hee said, was done by the kings
spetiall commaund. This man shewed us a rich gilt baseon and ewre
and two faire bowles with plates to cover them guilt, these made
use of when the sacrament of the Lords Supper is administred ; and,
as hee said, they cost the king 300* or 400* : Here is a draw-well
called St. Peters Well, which the sexton much magnified :

A verye stately organ lately erected in the Minster quire under
which is written : Benedictus Deus Patrum nostrorum qui dedit in
corde regis ut adonaret^ domum suam:

On the north or northeast side of this Minster seated Sir Arthur
Ingrams5 house and brave garden : whereof nott a third part
furnished with flowers : butt disposed into little bedds whereon placed
statues, the bedds all grass : verye faire high spatious walls round
about this garden, and large faire trees, butt nothing well furnished
with fruite. Here I observed a slopeing border a full yard high
placed to the trees, which hath brought forth rootes out of the lowre
part of the bodye of the tree ; this border is kept green : butt the

4 William Fitz-herbert, commonly known as St. William, son of Count
Herbert by his wife Emma, sister of King Stephen, was treasurer of York
in 1130, and with it held other preferment. He was elected archbishop
in 1142, but, the election being1 contested, he was not consecrated until
26 Sept., 1143. His opponents obtaining the upper hand, he was removed
from his see in 1147; and it was not until 1154 that he was restored and
re-entered the city and his cathedral on the 9th of May in that year. His
tenure was short, for he died on the 8th of June following, and was buried
in the minster, at the first, near the south-west pillar of the lantern and
afterwards translated to the choir. He was canonized by Pope Nicholas
III. and he was commemorated on the 8th of June. Cf. Raine, Fasti
Eboracenses, pp. 220-233.

4a Canon Fowler is of opinion that ' adonaret ' should read adomaret,
the passage being apparently suggested by 1 Kings in, 9, vin, 17, 18;
1 Chronicles xxix, 6-20, etc.

5 Sir Arthur Ingram was a son of Hugh Ingram of London, citizen
and linen draper, a native of Thorp-on-the-Hill, Yorkshire. Having
acquired a plentiful fortune as a mercer in Fenchurch street, London, he
purchased Temple Newsam and other estates in Yorkshire. He was
appointed comptroller of the port of London in 1604. Knighted 9th July,
1613, he was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1620 and sat in Parliament as
M.P. for Stafford in 1609, for Romney 1614, Appleby 1621, York 1624, 1625,
1626 and 1628. Having acquired from the Archbishop of York a long
lease of the decayed arehiepiscopal palace situated on the north side of the
minster, he repaired and beautified the house and laid out its gardens
with so much taste that they were one of the sights of the city. In 1640
he built the hospital bearing the name of Bootham and died, circa 1642.

The lease granted by the Archbishop to Ingram was renewed again
and again to his descendants until the year 1817, when the property was
acquired by the Dean and Chapter and the lease surrendered (for a con-
sideration) by Francis, second Marquis of Hertford, who had acquired the
same with his second wife Isabella, daughter and coheir of Charlie Ingram,
ninth Viscount Irwin. See Clay, Extinct and Dorman Peerages, p. 111.
The Dean and Chapter cleared the site and on it built a new deanery and
a house for the canon in residence.

gardiner conceives itt noe advantage to the trees : which are now
cutt, and dubbed, butt the gardiner dislikes that course : To keepe
in order and to weede, and maintaine this garden, another spatious
orchard, wherein are manye walkes, and to keepe a faire stately walke
uppon the cittie walls, which doe bound and compass this orchard :
to tend and dispose of his fish, to keepe which hee hath divers fish-
ponds in this ground, and to breed, and bringe uppe young pheas-
aunds : there is onely allowed him x1 per annum and Sir Arthur to
bee att noe more chardge :

The pheasaunds are bred in this manner: when the pheasand
henns begin to lay, their eggs are taken from them : kept in bran
and sett, and hatcht under an hen : fed with pisimers6 and kept in
an house :

Foure cisternes here are made of bricke about a yard deepe, and
square, to keepe pikes : breames : tench : and carpes : Water is ■
pumped into these, butt I doe nott expect these to succeed well ; they
are placed in an open house, walled, butt the roofe sufficiently open
and yett under locke and key : This gardiner conceaves that mingle-
ing muck with soile, and plaoeing itt to the tree rootes is verye good :
butt nott muck alone :

Munday Junii 5. I went to see Sir Ti : Hob :7 with whom I had
much discourse circa quendam nob: whom hee had found a most
dangerous man to discourse with in private, and therefore this was
allwayes his answer, when his opinion or advise was required : that
hee would consider of itt, and returne his answer in writeing : Some
things chardged and fathered uppon him which he never spoake :

Instaunce given of a most dishonest practise in P : W : unto
whom was delivered in Channell-roe-house8 a great booke of 2 sheetes
of parchment subscribed by W: D : wherein were feoffees in trust :
Com : Sarisburiens : Sir Gualter Cope9 and others : A fine there is
still extant, leadeing to this booke which hee finding repaired
presently ad Com : Sarisb : and said unto him : " You and some
others are feoffees for such an. estate : enquire I beseech you into

6 Pisimers = pismire, an ant or emmet.

7 This contracted name has been identified by Mr. J. W. Clay, whose
knowledge of Yorkshire families of this period is unmatched, with Sir
Thomas Posthumus Hoby of Hackness in Yorkshire, who was knighted
7 July, 1594, in Ireland by the Lord-Deputy. A transcript of Lady Hoby's
diary, 1599-1605, from the original in the British Museum, is in the posses-
sion of Mr. Clay. One of the family seems to have been Sir William
Brereton's companion in the expedition.

8 Channell-row-house was at, or near, New Palace Yard, Westminster.

9 Sir Walter Cope was grandson of Sir Anthony Cope of Hanwell in
Oxfordshire, a well-known personage in Tudor times. He was a member of
the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries; was knighted by James I. at
Worksop 21st April, 1603; was appointed Chamberlain of the Exchequer,
where he helped to arrange the records, and Master of the Wards in 1613.
In 1607 he built Cope Castle, now known as Holland House, and. five years
later purchased the manor of Kensington. He died 31st July, 1614.

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your fathers evidence ' ' : Whereuppon search beeing made by him,
hee found the booke, and delivered itt unto him : whereby W:
Comis D : conveys over lande and goodes ejus Comitis : reserveing1
onely Bidst : and 1000* per annum : In this provisio facta pro
Bom : R : 5 : This booke delivered in loco predicto to P : W : with
this chardge, and commaund : that the same should bee most carefully
kept, and laid uppe against his comeing that summer ad L : where
was then D : de T : This was receaved by P: W : and itt was
promised : butt att his comeing ad L : and that hee was desired to
peruse the evidence in Eagl : Tow : See soone as hee came thereinto :
hee spoake thus to P : W: "Lett us begin where wee last left:
Where is that booke I gave you att Lend : in loco predicto t ' ' Hee
answered in such a box ; where searching, noe such thing was to bee
found : every box, till and corner searched, butt itt was nott to be
found in that house : Quare utrum nil negatur super sacr amentum
P: W:

This man the most understanding, able, and industrious justice
of peace in this kingdome.

Noe warrant graunted out butt he takes notice thereof in a booke :
and att sessions an account demaunded of all those warrants sent
out : which if the constables to whom, they are delivered, doe not
exequute nor returne, and give an account: they are called uppon
att the sessions : or if those that require and procure the warrants
keepe them in their hands, and make use of them for their owne
ends and doe nott deliver them to bee served they are bound over
to the sessions.

This day a widdow by him ordered to bee committed, because
shee refused to pay the money, which was five pound, committed to
hir husband as overseer of the poor of the pareish whose stocke this
was : shee beeing his exequutor : this hee said might bee justified,
and that the law thus directs.

To cure a straine of the back sinewes : Ralph Hungate's10 receipt
practised uppon old, cripple, and many other horses with good succes :

Receave of euphorsion10a three pennieworth : as much cantharides : Lett
these bee bruised and mingled with Oile de Bay, 3 pennieworth : or for
want thereof with swine's grease rendred : whereof you make an ointment
or salve, if it bee a great or an old straine you must add unto itt 1 : or 2 :
pennieworth of white mercurie (more or less to bee used as in discretion
you thinke fitt and according to the straine). This beeing mingled with
the former to bee applied thus : — When all the haire is dipt of where the
swelling and straine is : then allsoe shave itt with a sharpe razeor and after-
wards with a penknife sharpe and well whetted, launce itt downe the
backe and swelled and strained part of the legg in 3 or 4 long razes : and
the ointment with your hand is to bee rubbed and chafed uppon the place
shaved and launced. : if your horse be unruely hee must bee cast : then
take a fire-shovell, red hott, or a red hott iron plate and hold before the

10 Probably Ralph Hungate of Sandhutton, third son of William
Hungate of Saxton.

10a Euphorbia or Euphorbium.

place thus anointed untill the ointment sinke and drench into the skin :
These cautions to bee observed :

1. Firsti the horse is to be tied soe short as that hee cannott reach
itt with his mouth, least hee gnaw when itt smarts, and bee poisoned,
after 24 hours thus tied you may turne him out of doores, for he must
not stand still in the stable : This beeing thus anointed will blister
within half an houre or an houre :

2. Observe whether itt swell upwards and towards the bodye which
if you discerne speediely with milke anoint and with your hand stroake
the swelling downewards twixt his briskett and his knee. He must (sic)
diligently watched and attended and after 5 or 6 dayes you must
anoint the same with fresh butter.

[1635] Junii 10. I went from Allerstone11 to Ellenthorpella in 5
houres. Where discourseing about the great storme I was there
credibly informed that uppon Ribstone Moore (which is neere Sir
Henn : Gooderickes12 in Yorkesh : ) there perished 7 persons in the
storme nott 12 score from their habitations : and a woeman neere
Goolesborrow, Judg Huttons,13 that attained to the doore of: hir
husbands house beeing shutt : one of hir maides saw hir att the doore
thorow the window : butt shee beeing spent, sate downe uppon a
blocke before the doore. They went unto and opened the doore in
all hast and found hir quite dead. Sea fish uppon the coast of
Lanckashire perished in the storme 50 cart loade together.

Great complaint here att Failkirk in Scottl : as of ithe last
winters extremitie of cold, frost and snow : wherein perished many
in their houses for want of releefe: divers and many houses, beeing
buried in the snow, and could nott bee found, butt by the smoake of
the chimneyes : many sheepe and cattle perished in this storme.
Soe now, they are mightiely punished with extreme drought ; which
as itt keepes downe their summer, soe allsoe doth itt hinder the winter

11 Thomas Egerton of Allerston in Pickering Lythe was second son of
Sir Richard Egerton of Ridley in Cheshire, knight, and brother of Richard
Egerton of Ridley, who married the Diarist's sister.

llaEllenthorpe, near Boroughbridge.

12 Sir Henry Goodrick of Ribston, eldest son of Richard Goodrick of
the same place, was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, where he matricu-
lated 23rd July, 1596, being then 18 years of age. He was admitted to
•Gray's Inn 22nd November, 1598; knighted 11th May, 1603, and was
subsequently appointed Vice-President of the Council of the North.
Dying 22nd July, 1641, he was buried at Ribston, where there is a monu-
mental inscription. Cf. Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, ed. Clay, vol. i,
p. 55.

13 Sir Richard Hutton of Goldsborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, son
of Anthony Hutton of Hutton, near Penrith, was educated at Jesus
College, Oxford, admitted to Gray's Inn 26th October, 1580, called to the
bar 16th June, 1586, sergeant at law 1603, recorder of York 1608, recorder
of Ripon 1610, puisne judge, 1617, being knighted 13th April, 1617, and
keeper of the Great Seal of Durham, 1631. He was one of the judges in
the trial of Hampden on his refusal to pay Ship Money and was one of
five judges who gave judgment in his favour. Dying 26th February,
1638/9, he was buried at St. Dunstan in the West.

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corne from shooteing freely. A most extreme winter allsoe hath
here been in Ireland : and such drought, and extreme heate here att
Ennerscoffie14 and Washford,15 as doth burne uppe all their corne
and grass : These heates began Julye 7 : and itt was as extreme
violent hott weather as ever I felt in my life from this day. Itt did
exceedingly distemper us to travell in the heate of the day, or indeed
any time of the day; except there were some cooleing refreshing-
wind : dureing this time the wind stood most easterly : This extreme
hott scortching weather did continue in Ireland untill about 21 Julii :
uppon which day was much raine and itt continued dropping weather
untill wee left Ireland Jul: 25. In all high field grounds much
want of hay and grass : which is burnt uppe insoemuch as Mr. Ward
mine host att Waterford affirmed that where hee had two loade of
hay last yeare, hee had scarce one this yeare : Here allsoe they had
extreme stormes of frost, and snow : And when I came into Engl :
Julii 26 : I found the like wants and complaints in Engl : I paid
att Bristoll 12d. day and night hay: and att Bath lOd. a night for
hay : and a minister affirmed unto mee, comeing twixt Bath and
Bristoll, that where they had 20 loade of hay last yeare they had
nott 4 loade this yeare. About this time here was much dropping
weather. Mightiely punished in this countrie by drought and much
more in the south : Here they are constrained to putt their melch
kine into their meadowes : noe raine to speake of hath fallen here
since the storme : and in the Bishopricke noe grasse allmost to bee
found, nor any low meadowes.

Ju : 19. Wee left Ellenthorpe : whence to Catericke Brig is 12
miles : faire way : Leemeing Lane 7 long : as straight levell way as
is Wattling-streete from the Cross16 twixt Hintley17 and Lutterworth
to Adderstone.18 From Caterig-brigg19 to Piers-brig20 7 miles a
straight way allsoe : thence to Bishoppe Auckland 7 mile. Wee
lodged att Newton 2 miles out of the roade, and from. Peires Brig,
with generous Mr. Henerye Blackstone,1 younger brother to Sir
W : Blackst : of Gibsett, whose eldest son married my cosin Mary
Eggert : Here I was kindly and neately entertained and this gent :
brought mee (sic) Aukeland : invited mee to his brother's and his
nephew Wrens, — Mr. Linsley Wren who married Sir W : Blackst :
daughter — a fine gentl : very lively e, and of a free cariage etc.

Here hee lodged all night, and (uppon his returne to Auckland
next morne:) staide with mee untill evening.

14 Query Enniscorthy or Enniscoffey, co. Westmeath.

13 Query Waterford. 16 High Cross. 17 Hinckley.

18 Atherstone. 19 Catterick-bridge. 20 Piercebridge.

1 Henry Blakiston of Archdeacon Newton, brother of Sir William
Blakiston of Gibside, died in 1641. His son Sir William Blakiston, a
colonel in the service of Charles I., married the Diarist's kinswoman, Mary,,
daughter of Sir Richard Egerton of Ridley in Cheshire. See Surtees>
Durham, vol. n, p. 255.

Junii 20. Wee went from this good famielye uppon Sat : 20 :
Ju : and by the way in his grounds hee showed good marie ; he
breedes about 20 calves yeerely : I saw hansome wellikeing stirkes
of his about 20 : This morneing I tasted pure white honey out of the
last yeares combe. Here bees prosper well, though itt bee soe much
north ; here is about 18 hives : none perished last winter : The
mouthes stopped in winter close uppe : onely to admitt fire, butt a
little hole bee made with a stick : The hives were onely covered on
the top with a clod of earth, and are indeed verye strong and sub-
stantiall : In some places in this countrey they remoove their hives
in winter into their houses : They yeeld most profitt, and purest
honey, if they live nott above 2 : or 3 : yeeres : and then may bee
drowned : A good hive worth 11. 10s. 0. or 21. per annum. Soe much
were their bees worth : Here I saw the most and best purest honey
that I ever met withall : One great pott worth 5 or 6Z. Greater
profitt herein than in any other commoditie, and with least trouble
and chardge :

This day att Bishoppe-Auckland with Dr. Moreton,2 Bishopp of
Durham, who maintaines great hospitalitie, in an orderly well
governed house, and is a very worthy reverend bishoppe : whose
importunitie I could nott resist : who when I offered to take leave,
brought mee into my chamber :

This castle as itt is a stately, pleasaunt seate, of great receipt,
soe is itt of great strength, compassed with a thicke stone wall seated
uppon the side of an hill, uppon a rocke : a river running below :
and good store of wood (though little timber) encompassing above.

Here is a verye faire, neate hall, as I have found in any bishopps
palace3 in Engl : Two chappies belong hereunto : the one over the

2 Thomas Morton, born at York 20 March, 1564, being son of Eichard
Morton of that city, mercer and alderman, was educated at St. John's
College, Cambridge, of which society he was elected scholar in 1584, B.A.
1586, M.A. 1590, B.D. 1598, D.D. 1606. He was successively rector of Long
Marston, chaplain to Ealph, Lord Eure when ambassador extraordinary to
the Emperor, in which office he not only became acquainted with many
learned men but had an opportunity of furnishing his library by judicious
purchases at Frankfort. He was made dean of Gloucester in 1607, dean
of Winchester in 1609, prebendary of York in 1610, bishop of Chester 1616,
bishop of Lichfield 1618, and bishop of Durham in 1632. When in 1641 it
was resolved that cathedral establishments should be suppressed, Dr. Morton
with other of his brethren protested and was impeached and his revenues
sequestrated. The proceedings against him were allowed to drop, but
in 1645 he again came into conflict with the Government of the day and
in the following year he was deprived of the revenues of the see. A con-
siderable annual allowance was promised him though apparently never paid.
He died in retirement 22 September, 1659, aged 94. There is an engraved
portrait of Bp. Morton in Hutchinson, History of Durham, vol. i, p. 495.

3 A full account of the Bishop of Durham's house at Auckland, may be
found in Eaine, Auckland Castle, Durham, 1852. For notices of the original
chapels built by Bishop Bek in 1308, described by the Diarist, and for an
exhaustive description of the present magnificent chapel, see a paper by
the Eev. J. F. Hodgson in Arch. Ad., 2 ser., vol. xvm, pp. 113-240.

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other : the higher a most dam tie, neate, light, pleasaunt place : butt
the voice is soe drowned, and swallowed by the echo, as few wordes
can bee understoode. The tower is made use of uppon Sabbath-
dayes : where 21 Ju : Dr. Dod4 now Deane of Rippon made an excel-
lent sermon : great resort hither on Sab : by the neighbourhood :
one sermon in mor : and praiers in aftern : Here are 3 dineing
roomes : a faire matted gallerye : wherein there was placed on both
sides these pictures : Jo : Huss : Hierom of Prauge : Luther :
Zuinglius : C'ranmer : Latymer : Whittakers : Wickclifte : Calvin :
Beza : Perkins : Bullinger : Jewell : Fagius : Ridley : Bradford :
Zanchius: Bucer : etc. and none butfc of this straine.5

A daintie, stately parke, wherein I saw wild bulls and kine which
had 2 calves runners : There are about 20 wild beasts all white : will
nott endure your approach ; butt if they bee enraged or distressed,
very violent and furious : their calves will bee wondrous fatt.6

Apud Prandium, this 20 Junii : A discourse per ijosum episcojnim
of a petition or supplication presented to the Queen Eliz : by a girle
of 12 or 14. yeares of age: whose father was injurious^ committed
to prison by the meanes and greatness of my L : Hunsdon7 then L :
Chamb : who beeing committed sends for a daughter, a child of preg-
nant witt and parts : and gives hir money to pay for hir fraught8 :
directs hir to take presently a paire of oares to Greenwitch : and to
goe directly to the Queen and nott to impart unto any hir errand :
onely shee was by hir father directed to answer all that questioned
hir : I have a supplication, hir Mtie. Shee was brought uppe into the

4 Thomas Dod, D.D., dean of Ripon, is mentioned in Six North
Country Diaries, p. 30n. He died in February, 1647-8.

5 John Huss, the Bohemian reformer and martyr, horn 1370, died 1415.
Jerome of Prague, the friend and disciple of John Huss, born circa 1365,
burnt 1416. Luther, the reformer, born 1483, died 1546. Zuinglius, the
Swiss reformer, horn 1484, died 1531. Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury
and reformer, born 1489, burnt 1556, to whose wisdom the Book of Common
Prayer owes much. Latimer, bishop of Worcester and a Marian martyr,
died 1555. William Whittaker, Master of St. John's College and protestant
controversialist, born 1547; died 1595. Wickliffe, the reformer, born 1324,
died 1384. Calvin, the Swiss reformer, born 1509, died 1564. Beza,
protestant theologian, born 1519, died 1605. William Perkins, fellow of
Christ's College, Cambridge, and protestant controversialist, born 1558,
died 1602. Bullinger, a Swiss reformer, born 1504, died 1575. Jewell,
bishop of Salisbury, a protestant apologist, born 1522, died 1571. Fagius,
a German protestant, died at Cambridge in 1550, aged 44. Ridley, bishop
of London, one of the Marian martyrs, died 1555. John Bradford, a
Marian martyr, died 1555. Zanchius, otherwise Zanchi, an Italian pro-
testant, born 1516, died at Heidelburg, 1590. Bucer, the reformer, born
1491, died 1551.

6 The wild cattle at Auckland remained until the Civil War.

7 Sir Henry Carey, first cousin of Q. Elizabeth, was created Baron
Hunsdon in 1559, and held many important public offices. He was Lord
Chamberlain of the Household from 1585 to his death in 1596.

8 Fraught = the hire of a boat for the transportation of a freight or
cargo, New English Dictionary.

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Presence where the Count-ess of Oxford9 personated the Queen : and
deceived the child : afterward® beeing brought before the Queen,
my Lo : Hunsd : present, who seeing hir, said : ' This is a prettie
supplioatour ' : who beeing commaunded to deliver hir message,
said : ' A supplication, to your Matie. my L : Hunsd : hath committed
my father like a theyfe, to prison, for seekeing his owne ' : The
Queene much displeased, said : ' My Lordi ex ore infantice you are
condemned. Lett this bee reformed ■ ; hee was therebye sett at
libertie.

Some other facetious discourses I remember : Archies10 answer
to Don Olivaries : (when there was a solemne precession and great
adoration of the hoast mi the streetes) who demaunded whether hee
did nott beleeve that Christ was there really and personally present :
He answered : Noe : for hee had heard itt said : that when hee was
uppon the earth: that the whoresome theeves crucified him, there-
fore hee will come noe more amongst them, : Herewith Olivaries much
taken asked him another question : ' Dost nott thou beeleeve that
the Popes Holliness is guided with such an infallible spiritt, as that
hee cannott erre : see as if he say your red coate be black, you are
bound to beeleeve him ' : to* which hee answered : ' What saith your
Excellence ' : Hee repeated the same question : After he had a little
paused, and stammered : he answered : ' If the Pope say soe, hee is
ill of eyesight ' : These answers were reported to the King and
Queen o^ Spaine, who were much affected therewith and then was
there conferred, and is still continued, a pension of 100/. per annum.

I demaunded from him : whether bowing to the altar were
injoyned, and commaunded by any canon, or left free and arbitrarie :
Hee answered : Itt was left free and arbitrarie : Itt was nott bowing
to the altar now in use, butt towards the east', as Daniell pray (sic) :
and itt was nott to bee accounted an altar, butt the communion
table" :

9 Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, succeeded his father
in 1562 and died in 1604. He married, first, Anne, daughter of William
Cecil Lord Burghley; and, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas
Trentham of Roucester. See Burke, Extinct Peerage.

10 Archibald Armstrong, more commonly known as Archie the King's
jester, said to have been originally a sheep stealer in Eskdale, stood high
in the favour of James I, who permitted him to accompany Charles, Prince
of Wales, and Buckingham to Spain in 1623 when the Prince went to
woo the Infanta. With the Eoyal family at Madrid Archie managed to
ingratiate himself and also received gifts from Olivarez, the all powerful
prime minister. He retained his office of Court Fool on the accession of
•Charles I., but experienced the ill offices of Laud whom he is said to have
insulted by begging permission to say grace at Whitehall, he being present,
and blurting out 'Great praise be given to God and little laud to the
Devil.' He subsequently retired to Arthuret in Cumberland, where he, or a
kinsman of the same name, was buried 1 April, 1672.

II Daniel ' went into his house (now his windows were open in his
■chamber towards Jerusalem;) and he kneeled upon his knees.' Daniel vi, 10.
Jerusalem must be west or south-west from the place of Daniel's exile.

No one who has visited St. Sophia in Constantinople, built for a

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A certaine person seeing some sitt above the communion table*
in St. Nichol : church in New-castle : said : ' Itt was nott fitt that
any should sitt above God himself/12

This bishopp assured mee, that faire spring water in the morneing*
receaved into your mouth, and there kept untill itt bee lukewarme
and then swallowed is an excellent medicine to cure the choliok and
stone : and that hee himself hath been hereby cured, and allsoe Sir
Will: Blackstone13 of Gibsett: The reason hereof by him appre-
hended was that the fasting spittle was herewith swallowed : which
hath an excellent virtue fasting : even to kill a serpent : Hee said hee
knew some who would never part with any spittle : but swallowed
itt downe : Here wee rested the Lord's day : and were verye gener-
ously and nobly entertained : Here dined with him this day Mr.
Linsley Wren of Winchester,14 and his wife a mightye gallant, a fine
daintie gentlewoeman : if shee knew not how to value and prise the
perfections God hath given hir: whose husband hath impaired his
estate in maintaining 14a att soe«great height.

Junii 22 : Uppon Munday morneing early, Dr. Dod and myself
hence departed : and I delivered unto his servaunt my packquett of
letters for Cheshire : I went hence to the cittie of Durham, which is
7 miles from Auckland castle : where I gave in rewards to the officers
10s. 6d:

Durham. Wee saw Durham hence : which stands high uppon
divers hills, and is a stately and delightfull prospect : Especially the
Minster, and the bishopps pallace, which is built castle-wise, this is

Christian temple and now a Mohammedan mosque, can have failed to
observe the curious effect produced by the lines of prayer carpets being
angled, so that the worshippers, in accordance with Moslem ritual, may
pray toward Mecca. In this way the faithful seated on the floor — row
behind row — direct their faces not towards the apse but towards the
south-east angle of the vast building. This was seen by the Editor on-
Saturday, 11 January, 1896.

12 The place in St. Nicholas's church where ' some sitt above the com-
munion table ' was probably the gallery over the chancel screen — the old
rood loft — in front, or on the west side, of which the holy table may have
been placed at the communion time in accordance with post-Reformation'
custom and agreeable to the rubric. In 1639 Bishop Morton wrote to
Yelderd Alvey, vicar of Newcastle, ' it was required of the churchwardens,
of St. Nicholas', according as his Majesty hath commanded, that the gallery
which obstructs the chancel shall be removed.' See Memoirs of Ambrose
Barnes, p. 327.

13 Sir William Blakiston of Gibside in the county of Durham who was
knighted 23 April, 1617, and died in 1641.

14 The name of the place which formerly belonged to the family of
Wren is Binchester, near Bishop Auckland. Lindley Wjren mentioned in
the text, born circa 1600, was eldest son and heir of Sir Charles Wren of
Binchester, knight, and of Gray's Inn. He married, circa 1622, Barbara,,
daughter of the above named Sir William Blakiston

Ua There is space for a word left here.

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a place of great strength, and is in good repaire : wherein the bishopp
doth winter : which is nott large as Auckland butt verye stately,
and convenient : Hee is Bishoppe of Durham, and Earle of Sad-
berrie15 : In this there is a verye little chappell : and noe great hall16
and 3 dineing roomesi, and a little gallerie wherein are the armes of
all the gentlemen of this countrie of Bishoppricke :

The Minster is as neately kept as in (sic) any in England, built
like unto Paules : Wherein are, in the bodie of the church, on either
side, 3 great and stately pillars, as great as Paules : Herein the dain-
tiest font17 that I have seen in Engl : The bodie, or font-stone, and
foote of pure marble : over which is placed a cover, or canopie folding
of wood, curiously carved, wherein described the historye of C*.
baptisme.

Herein a stately paire of double organs18 which looke both into
the bodye of the church, and chaunoell : a. stately altar stone19 all of
fine marble standing uppon a frame of marble pillars of the same
marble of the font : When the communion is here administered, which
is by the bishoppe himself : here is laid uppon this altar, or rather
communion table, a stately cloath of cloath of gold : The bishopp useth
the new red embroidered cope20 which is wrought full of starrs : like
one, I have seen, worae in St. Dennis in Fraunce : there are here

15 Bishop Pudsey (1153-1195) purchased the wapentake and official
earldom of Sadberge, near Darlington, from Richard I., when the latter
was preparing for his crusade; the subject is obscure and has not been
thoroughly worked out; but see Dr. Lapsley in his notable work The
■County Palatine of Durham.

16 The Diarist's statement that there was no great hall can only be
explained on the supposition that Bp. Hatfield's noble hall — one of the
chief ornaments of the castle — had been subdivided into the three dining
rooms mentioned in the text in a more substantial manner than has
been supposed.

17 The red marble font admired by the Diarist was set up by Dean Hunt
circa 1620 and was destroyed when the Scots were quartered or imprisoned
in the cathedral in 1641. In 1663 a handsome white marble basin was set
up but was turned out in 1847 to make room for the pseudo Norman struc-
ture now in use. Happily the 1663 font has been preserved in Pittington
church.

18 The ' pair of double organs ' may be identified with the organ built
in 1621 and destroyed during the Scottish occupation of the cathedral in
1641. See Rites of Durham, ed. Fowler, pp. 163, 299.

19 The ' stately altar stone ' descriebd in the text represents the com-
munion table set up by Dean Hunt circa 1621, and still existing out of
sight, being masked by a table of more fashionable dimensions. It consists
of a slab of red marble carried on six supports of the same material inlaid
with marble of a greenish colour. See Rev. W. Greenwell, Durham
Cathedral, 2 ed. (1886), p. 61.

20 If the Diarist's statement about the copes means that this vestment
had been recently introduced into the Durham ritual it would conflict with
the entry in Gyll's Diary recording its disuse in July or August, 1760.
See Six North Country Diaries, p. 208. Possibly Gyll's statement may be
regarded as an instance of the growth of tradition.

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other two rich coapes : all which are shaped like unto long cloakes
reaching downe to the ground, and which have round capes :

In the higher end of the church, above the chauncell stoode the
shrine of St. Cuttbert : which doubtless was verye larg and rich :
inasmuch as before itt, and on either side: you may discerne the
stones, whereupjDon you tread, much worne, and great cavities made
by the scrapeing of those that came to worshipp, and offer to this St.
And betwixt this shrine, and the higher end and wall of the church,
there is a cross ile, which doth allsoe encompass the chauncell : Here
still appeares where there were formerly 9 altars which are now
demolished : In the window there is placed the picture of St. Cutt-
bert praying in the Holy Isle,1 the water flowing uppe to> his chin:
The picture, allsoe in glass, of a frior correcting a nun, and turneing
downe the bed cloathes to hir middle : Here in the chauncell, which
is very neate, is a most stately deske of brass,2 which was the part
of a candlesticke : which att the Dissolution was throwen into an
obscure place, and found butt of late : This was a most mightye vast
candlesticke : In the lower end of this Minster, (which is called St.
Cuttbers) is St. Maries chappie, which was erected, and added unto
the church, by Bishoppe Langley3 : Herein is now the consistorie kept :
and herein allsoe is a tombe and monument of Bede: Hie jacet in
fossa Bedce venerabilis Ossa :

In the churchyeard is the tombe of him that was the steward, and
disburst the money, when the church was erected : of whom itt is
reported : that all his money being paid overnight : his glove was
by a spiritt every night filled, and supplyed : soe as though itt was
emptie overnight, yett was replenished next morneing : His hand is
made holding a glove stufft with money : and by this meanes was
this great worke built : The name of steward of the worke was
Huppabella.4

Uppon the highest hill within this towne is seated this Minster
and pallace,5 and those parts of the streetes of the towne which are

1 According to a statement in Bites of Durham, edited by Canon
Fowler, p. 115, the window described in the text must have been in the
north aisle of the choir.

2 A notice of the brass lectern, or desk, as it was called, given by
Robert Swift, prebendary of the first stall 1562-1599, and rector of Sedge-
field, may be found in Rites of Durham, ed. Fowler, p. 206. It was made
out of a portion of the metal of the pre-Beformation paschal candlestick.

3 The heautiful consistory-court or Galilee chapel, built by Bishop
Pudsey (1153-1195) was reroofed, repaired and beautified by Bishop Langley
(1406-1437). Of the propriety of this addition to the west part of the
cathedral each must judge for himself. See Greenwell, Durham Cathedral,
2 ed. (1886), p. 66.

4 The legend of Hobby Pellel or Hobb of Pelaw, to whom the effigy
mentioned in the text is mistakenly ascribed, is discussed by Canon Fowler,
Rites of Durham, pp. 169, 301. See Metrical Life of St. Cuthbert, Introduc-
tion, p. xii; Eaine, Brief Account, p. 64n; and Scriptores Tres., p. 26.

5 The designation of palace as applied to the Castle of Durham, is only
preserved in the name of Palace Green, although the latter name is
possibly a corruption of Place Green.

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seated uppon the same hill, are within the walls, which doe (sic)
encompassed with the wall of the cittie6 : This Minster is endowed
with mightye large revenewes : Tis said: noe less than 7 or 8,0001.
per annum.

Twelve prebends belong hereunto : worth 200 or 300Z. per
annum : The deanerie worth about 1,400/. and 12 pettie canons about
101. per annum.7

This hill whereon seated the Minster, and castle is allmost com-
passed round with the river Weare : over which there are placed two
faire bridges : There are 4 or 5 other streetes of the towne and
suburbs : placed straggling one from another uppon the hill-topps :
Some reasonable hansome houses in this cittie, which is butt poore
by reason here is noe trade : this cittie is compassed about with
much higher hills than itt is built uppon. Hence in the afternoone
goeing toward Newcastle uppon (sic) wee saw Lumley castle which
belongs to my Lord Lumley : it's in reasonable good repaire though
of noe great strength : neere hereunto, and about 3 mile from New-
castle, there is a towne placed, called Chester in the Streete : The
suburbs of Newcastle on this side the bridg are in the Bishopricke,
and itt is said : that the counties of Bishopricke and Northumber-
land divide uppon the middle of Tine Bridg :

Newcastle-uppon-Tine. This is beyond all compare the fairest
and richest towne in England : inferiour for wealth and building to
noe cittie save London : and Bristow : and whether itt may nott
deserve to be accounted as wealthy as Bristow, I make some doubt :
Itt is seated uppon the river Tine : the mouth of which river
affoardes such a narrow channell att low water, as, itt is said, nott to
bee above 40 yards broade : and, att the mouth, there is a great
shelfe and bancke of sand : soe as att a high water allsoe itt is most
dangerous passage for strangers, inasmuch as they must pass neere
to that side of the haven which lyeth close by and neere under the
commaund of Tine-mouth Castle8 : which is a daintie seated castle,
allmost compassed with the sea, wherein hath been the fairest church
I have seen in any castle : butt now itt is out of repaire, and much
neglected : Itt belongeth to the Earle of Northumberland. This

6 A learned paper written by the late Mr. W. H. D. Longstaffe entitled
'Is the Cathedral within the City of Durham '? may be found in Arch. Ad.,
ser. 2, vol. ii, p. 203, in which it is stated that the cathedral-college and
precincts were free from the mayor of Durham's jurisdiction, his admission
being barred by the Bailey gate, or gaol, which formerly stood across the
street where the lines of demarcation ran.

7 It is stated that previous to the setting up of the Ecclesiastical Com-
mission and to the transfer to that body of the estates belonging to the
deanery, to the twelve stalls and to the chapter, the Dean and Chapter of
Durham were possessed of an annual income of .£100,000. Ex. inf., the
Eev. William Greenwell.

8 Tynemouth castle was dismantled three years after it was visited by
the Diarist. An exhaustive description of the priory church, part of which
was parochial, with a plan, may be found in the new History of Northumber-
land, vol. VIII.

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river conveyes a navigable channell from the sea to Newcastle,
which is about 7 miles : and itt doth flow about 6 or 7 miles (as I
was informed) above the towne into the countrey : This river is verye
plentifully furnished with salmon : and over the same, twixt Bishopp-
ricke and Northumberland, there is erected (except London Bridge
over Thames and the bridge att Barwick over Tweed) one of the
fairest bridges9 I have mett with in England, consisting of eight
arches: London containes 18 arches: Barwick bridg 15: and this
of Newcastle 8 arches : Rochester bridge over Medway hath 6 large
arches erected with most dimcultye and over the deepest channell :
and itt is a neate bridg, which hath iron bars placed on both sides :
This towne of Newcastle is governed by a maieor,10 a recorder, a
sheriffe, and 12 aldermen: Itt hath great revenewes belonging unto
itt (as I was informed) att least 5,000/. or 6,000/. per annum : besides
great colearies imployed for the use and supply of the commons and
poore of the towne : Herein are 5 churches : and St. Nichol : u
church, which is the fairest, is as neate pewed, and formed with as
much uniformitie, as any I have found in England : and itt (sic) as
neately kept and trimmed : This towne was assessed to pay 3,570/.
towards the building of the late ship12 : and Yorke taxed 1,800 :
and some tewnes of the countrye contributed with them and paid
700/. part of 1,800/. taxed:

There is every day a markett here kept ; and in a daintie markett
place. Thuesday and Saturday a mightye markett and much pro-
vision comes out of Northumberland : infinite store of poultrye.

This towne (a great part of itt) placed uppon the highest and the
steepest hills, that I have found in any great towne : These soe steepe
as horses cannott stand uppon the pavements : therefore the daintiest
flagged channells are in every streete that I have seen : hereuppon
may horse or man goe without danger of slideing : Resting here,
23 Jun : I tooke boate about 12 clooke and went downe to Tinemouth
and to the Sheeldes : and returned about 7 clocke : itt is about 7

9 ' The Three Bridges over the Tyne at Newcastle ' are the subject of
a paper by the Rev. J. C. Bruce printed in Arch. Ad., 2 ser., vol. x, p. 1.
The bridge seen by the Diarist is described in two admirable papers by
Mr. Jas. Clephan entitled respectively, ' Old Tyne Bridge and its Cellars '
and ' Old Tyne Bridge and its Story.' See Arch. Ad., 2 ser., vol. ix, p.
237 also vol. xn, p. 135. That bridge, flanked with shops and houses like
the Ponte Yecchio at Florence, was destroyed by the Flood of 1771.

10 At the time of the Diarist's visit the mayor of Newcastle was Ralph
Cock, the sheriff, John Marley, and the recorder, Sir Thomas Riddell.

11 The town of Newcastle was, and in some respects is still, one parish,
with St. Nicholas's as the parish church. There were three urban parochial
chapels, viz.: St. Andrew's, St. John's and All Saints', together with the
free chapel of St. Thomas on the Tyne bridge, belonging to the Hospital of
St. Mary Magdalen. The two rural chapels of Gosforth and Cramlington
were also dependent on the parish church of St. Nicholas.

12 Particulars of the attempt of the Crown to levy ship money in
Newcastle may be found in the third volume of Mr. Richard Welford's
Newcastle and Gateshead.

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miles : Here I viewed the salt-workes wherein is more salt workes, and
more salt made then in any part of England that I know, and all the
salt here made is made of salt water : these pans which are not to bee
numbred beeing placed in the river mouth : and wrought with coales
brought by water from Newcastle pitt9 :

A most daintie new saltworke lately here erected : which is abso-
lutely the most compleate worke that I ever saw :

In the breadth whereof is placed 6 ranke of panns : 4 pans in a
ranke : Att either out-side the furnaces are placed in, the same
manner as are my brother Boothes13 : under the grate of which
furnaces the ashes fall : and there is a lid or cover for both : and
by the heate of these ashes : there beeing a, pan made in the floore
betwixt every furnace which is made of brick : for which allsoe there
is a cover : there is boiled, and made into lumps of hard and blacke
salt which is made of the brian which drops from the new-made salt,
which is placed over a cistern of leade : which cistern is under the
floore of the storehouse : which is in the end of the building : These
great lumps of hard black salt are sent to Colchester to make salt
uppon salt : which are sold for a greater price then the rest : because
without these att Colchester, they cannott make any salt.

These 24 pans have only 12 furnaces, and 12 fires : and are erected
in this manner : all being square, and of like proportion : They are
placed by two and two togeather one against the other : The 6 pans
in the highest ranke, the bottom equall with the top of the lower :

The highest pans are thrice filled, and boiled till itt begin to draw
towards salt : then a spiggott beeing pulled out, the brian thus pre-
pared, runnes into the lower pans : which brings itt to a larger
proportion of salt, then otherwise : gaines time and saves fire :
because itt must bee longer boiled in the other pans, and would spend
fire : which is saved by reason of the heate which derives from the
furnace of the upper pan, which by a passage is conveyed under the
lower pan : which passage is about half a yard broad in the bottom,
and is, att the topp, of the breadth of the pan which rest uppon a
brick wall which is of the thickness of one bricke att top : and this
eoncavitie under the lower pans is shaped slopewise like unto a kilne :
narrow in the bottom, and broade att the toppe : and this heate,
which is conveyed under, and makes the lower pans to boile, comes
togeather with the smoake, which hath noe other passage, under these
pans through loope holes, or pigeon holes, which is conveyed into a
chimneye : a double ranke whereof is placed in the middle of this
building : betwixt which is a passage for a man to walke in : In the
middle of every (sic) these chimneyes is there a broade iron plate,
which is shaped to the chimney : which as itt stopper, and keepes in
the heate : soe itt beeing pulled out abafes the heate :

Itt is to bee observed that the 12 lower panns are onely to bee
drawne twice in 24 houres : and by that time they are readie to bee
drawne : the brian in the higher pans will bee sufficiently boiled,

13 That is the Diarist's wife's brother.

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and prepared to bee lett into the lower : which are onely to bee-
draw en, and that twice in 24 houres : they yeeld every of them every
draught two bowles, which is worth 2s. a. bowle; and sometimes.
2s. id. : soe every pan yeelding every day 4 bowles14 att two< draughts,
which comes to Ss. Od. : all 12 pans are worth every day 4/. 16s. Od.
Soe as all the 12 pans in a weeke make salt worth 281. a, weeke :
which in the yeare amounts unto 1,400/., accounting 50 weekes to-
the yeare :

Two men and one woeman to gett out ashes, and one to pumpe
their brian, manage and tend this whole worke : the mens wagis is
lis. a weeke: besides hee that pumpes: This salt is made of salt-
water which out of a brian pitt made which is supplyed att full sea,.
is pumped and by pipes of leade conveyed into every pan : The wall
of this house is <stone and the roofe of this, and all the rest of the
houses wherein are brian-pans are boardes : Touching the proportion
of fuell here spent, and some other particulars : Dobson (sic) letter
is to bee perused and some further directions are to bee receaved
from him :

Here att the Shields are the vastest saltworkes I have seen, and
by reason of the conveniencye of coale, and cheapness thereof : beeing-
att 7s\ a chaldron15 which is 3 waine loade.

Here is such a cloud of smoake, as amongst these workes you
cannott see to walke : there are (as I was informed) about 250 houses,,
poore ones, and low built : butt all covered with boardes : Here in
every house is erected one faire great iron pan : 5 yards long, 3 yards
and half broade : The bottom of them made of thin plates nailed
togeather, and strong square revetts uppon the naile heades about the
breadth of the ball of your hand : These panns are 3 quarters of a
yard deepe : Ten great barrs there are placed on the inner-side of
the pan : 3 square 2 inches thioke : every of these great panns (as
Dobson informed mee) cost about 100/. and cannott bee taken downe-
to bee repaired with less than 10/. chardge.

Every pan yeeldes foure draughts of salt in a weeke : and every
draught is worth about 1/. 10s. ; Spent in ooale, 10 chaldron of coale
att 7s. a chaldron : which amounts to 3/. 10s. Od. in coales : deduct
out of 6/. there remaines 21. 10s. Od. : besides one mans wagis.

Soe as in these 250 panns there is weekly spent in coles 775/. :
every pan yeelding 6/. weekely : beeing 250 : tote-all of the worth-
of the salt made in them amounts 1,500/. : gained 735/. : deduct of
this 120/. workemens wagis for makeing itt 120: cleere gaine about
600/. a yeare.

14 In Northumberland salt, corn, coal, lime and some other things were
sold by the measured boll. The /old boll' contained six bushels, the 'new
boll ' two bushels. In 1856 the boll of coal was computed to contain 9,676'8-
cubic inches, or 34-899 imperial gallons. See Heslop, Northumberland
Words.

15 The Newcastle chaldron of coal was originally 2,000 lbs. and is now
computed at 53 cwt. In measure a chaldron contained about 7| bolls. A
keel of coal is eight Newcastle chaldron?. See Heslop, Northumberland Words.

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A weane loade of salt is here worth about SI. 10s. Od., and a chal-
dron of coales which is worth 7s. is 3 weane loade :

Here att New-castle is the fairest key in Engl : I have mett
withall : from Tine-bridge all along towne-wall and allmost to the
glass-workes where is made window glass :

Divers havens of stone-wall erected : to cast out there ballast
uppon : and they pay for every tun cast out : 6d.

This is a spatious haven now naked of shipps : butt sometimes
thronged : The fairest built inne in Engl : that I have seen, is Mr.
Carres16 in this towne : Wee lodged att the Swan att Mr. Swans
the post-maisters17 : and paid 8d. ordin : and noe great provision :
Hee is a verye forward man to have a coy18 here erected :

This towne, unto this oountrye, serves in steade of London : by
meanes whereof the countrye is supplyed with money : whereas other-
wise : soe much money is carried out of the countrie to the lords : and
land-lords : as there would bee neither sufficient money to pay the
tenaunts rents : nor would the countrye bee supplyed with money.

This towne is allsoe famous for the walls which compass round
the towne, about which you may walke : and which is strengthened
with strong towres placed uppon the wall noe great distance.

Hence to Carlile was there erected the Picts Wall, which was the
auntientest monument I have heard of in England : Itt was the
worke of the Romanes: in some places itt is said to bee above 20
yeardes broade towardes Carlile : the people goe to market* uppon itt :
and itt may well bee owned by the Romanes : as beeing the bravest
and best deserving worke of greatest industrie and chardge : and the
strongest fortification that I have ever mett in England : reaching,
as here itt was reported, from this towne to the cittie of Carlile,
which is said to bee 60 miles : Itt was made against the incursions
of the Picts : Many inscriptions uppon divers of these stones : which
perpetuate the fame and memorie of the Romans :

Junii 24. Wee left Newcastle, and came to Marpeth which is 12
miles : and is the post towne : and by the way, about 7 miles from
Newcastle, wee tooke notice of a convenient seate of a coy in Pointe
Island which belongs unto Mr. Marke Arington19 : Wee found att

16 Leonard Carr's inn, the Nag's Head, facing the Sandhill, is figured
in Welford, Newcastle and Gateshead, vol. in, p. 34. Carr. wlio was also a
prosperous wine merchant, was an alderman and served as sheriff in 1635-6.

17 George Swan was postmaster down to 1637 and probably later.
Welford, Newcastle and Gateshead, vol. in, p. 347.

18 Several passages indicate the Diarist to have been greatly interested
in decoys.

19 Mark Errington, mentioned in the text, sprang from the family of
Errington of Woolsington and Denton, acquired property in Ponteland
on his marriage with Margaret, daughter and sole heir of Jasper Mitford of
Ponteland, and died in 1637. His great-grandson, also named Mark,
married Anne, daughter of Gilbert Stapleton of Carlton in Yorkshire, and
their son, or grandson, assumed the name of Stapleton in lieu of that of
Errington.

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Marpeth a fine little castle in good repaire : which belongs unto my
Lord Will : Howard : a markett towne, butt poore houses : Wee dined
att postmaisters, and paid I2d. ord : and §d. ord: Thence to
Anewicke is 1 4 miles : where wee lodged att the post-maisters house20 :
6d. ord ; and good victualls and lodging : Here wee saw a mightye
great castle belonging to the Earle of Northumberland : wherein
were all houses of office : many of them now in decay : butt my Lord
is repaireing the same by degrees : Great revenewes paid unto him
out of this oountrie : att least 8 horse-loade of money : Hee hath 4
castles in this co untie : viz. : This castle : Warpurth castle1 : Tin-
mouth castle: and [Prudho we castle.]1*

Great lands hee hath in Yorkeshire : att and about Topliffe where
hee sometimes lived : whence hee rose in the Rebellion in the North2 :
and uppon a moare neere Burrough-bridges, which belongs unto Mr.
Mallorye of Studdley, there assembled the forces, and there mett him
the Earle of Westmerland :

Two horrible and most cruell detestable murthers have of late
beene committed in Bishoppricke and Northumb :

Mr. Lampton,3 of Whittle neere Chester- Streete, which is 3 miles
from Newcastle, an auntient gentlem : of 3 or 400Z. per annum is
now prisoner in Durham gaole for poisoning two wives : His first wife
was Mr. Heath of Kepeirs daughter : by whom hee had 5 sons and
daughters. Bee sent one of hir maydes to' Newcastle to buy mer-

20 Alexander Armorer was postmaster of Alnwick in 1637. See Tate,
Alnwick, vol. n, p. 410.

1 Warkworth Castle.

la The square bracket and the words within it are added in a more
modern hand.

2 The history of the rising may be found in Memorials of the Rebellion
of 1569, London, Nichols, 1840, published anonymously, but compiled with
great care by Sir Cuthbert Sharp from original correspondence, etc.,
preserved at Streatlam Castle.

3 The individual accused of the wife murder seems to have been Ralph
Lambton, lessee or proprietor of Tribley in the parish of Chester-le-Street,
eldest son of William Lambton — a scion of the ancient family of Lambton
of Lambton — who was described as of Lambton Woodhouse in 1609, of
Tribley in 1628 and again of Whitehill, of which latter place he was
certainly not the owner. Ralph Lambton was baptised at Chester-le-
Street 14 January, 1592-3, and therefore when the Diarist speaks of him
as an ' ancient gentleman ' he probably means a gentleman of ancient
family. According to the pedigree in Surtees, Durham, vol. n, p. 201, his
first wife was Susan, daughter of John Groves, an alderman of York
(married at Chester-le-Street, 16 June, 1618), by her he had issue five
sons and two daughters. He subsequently married at Pittington, 19
May, 1633, Elizabeth, widow of Ralph Simpson of Pittington Hall Garth;
she was buried at Chester-le-Street 4 May, 1635. The date of Ralph
Lambton's death has not been ascertained, but he was alive in 1657. The
gaol at Durham to which he was confined in 1635 was the great gateway
of the castle which stood across the road leading into the Bailey. It was
taken down about 1820.

It is probably that the Diarist was misinformed as to the name of
Lambton's first wife, unless indeed he was married three times.

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curie : arsenick : and stybium : which itt should seem by some meanes
he procured his wife to receave (a day or two after shee was
churched), who as she died suddenly and unexpectedly, soe was shee
as suddenly and secrettly buried : Hee hath since given to this maide-
servaunt and assured unto hir dureing hir life : a pension of 21. per
annum : This trustie servaunt hee hath since made use of an engine
to effect and accomplish the like designe : and as is now proved by
the apothecarie in Newcastle of whom the poyson was bought (all
whom my Lord Bish : commaunded before him by warrant) itt
appeares by his testimonye uppon oathe : that this maide came divers
times unto him in hir maisters name for mercurie, arsenick and
stybium : which hee refused to furnish hir withall. Hereuppon Mr.
Lampton himself came to the apothecarye, and expostulated with
him : The apothecarie answered : Except hee sent a note under his
hand, that hee might bee assured itt was for him : hee would send
none : Hereuppon hee sent a note under his hand (which was pro-
duced) and mercurie, arsenicke and stybium were by the same maide
sent him the day before his wifes death : Who was a rich widow
(Raph Simpson a grasier (sic) wife) who brought him 3,0001. and 300
or 400/ . untill hir son came to age: this 3,000£. was left unto the
younger children : which hir eldest son comeing to age : and sueing
Mr. Lampton : Hereuppon some dislikes were conceaved, by him
against his wife : who nott beeing well, and haveing taken physick :
and sending for a capt : who was left in trust by hir former husband :
and sending for ale for him : whereof one bowle full was left un-
drunke, when shee went to bring him downe staire : in the meane
time, hir husband staies in the chamber and putts this poyson into
the cuppe and invites hir drink itt att hir returne : which (after shee
had putt sugar into) shee druncke : and presently fell into great
extremitie : accused hir husband to have poysoned hir : sent for the
capt : who immediately returneing found hir att point of death whose
last words were : that shee tooke itt uppon hir death, hir husband
had poysoned, and withall shee related the manner, and soe died,
desiring that hir children and this capt : would see hir death re-
venged : After hir death, hir bo dye was viewed by the phisitians,
and all of them unanimously afnrme, that shee was certainely poy-
soned. Hee is committed to Durham gaole, but pieades himself
innocente.

Junii 25. Wee lodged att the post-masters att Anewick last
night : where wee were well used : 6d. ordin : supper and id. breaker
fast : good lodging and meate :

Hence to Bellford4 which is next post-towne : 1 2 miles : Here
looseing our way, wee wandred : thence to Fennam5 4 or 5 miles :
whence over the sands to the Holly Island is two miles : In this island
there was formerly a faire abbey dedicated to St. Cuttbert, to the
abbott whereof belonged great revenewes : In this Holly Island in-
habited (sic) (as they here report) St. Cuttbert inhabited in winter,

4 Belford. 5 Fenham in Islandshire.

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and in the summer season in the Islands of Fern© : which you may
hence discern : which are reported to breed abundance of fowle : this
whole isle which is 7 miles about: though now itt is nott worth more
than 100/. a yeare besides the warren, which is 40Z. per annum : all
belongs to my Lord Suffolke6 : This church and abbey ruinated : only
the. walls, and pillars of it remaine : and they are very faire pillars,
and resemble Durham : There is another little church now used and
in repaire, which stands neere to the abbey-church : whereunto resort
the inhabitants of Fennam, a village placed on the other side the
island : Here, touching the sea intermitting hir course of flowing
on the Sabbaoth day twixt 9 and 12, and soe in the after-noon e : I have
heard much and often : and applyed myself to enquire the certaintie
hereof : I spoake with Capt : Rugg7 : capt : of the fort, and with
Mr. Joanes8 an inhabitant here, an intelligent gentl : an Oxford : as

6 George Hume, Earl of Dunbar, in 1604 purchased the royalties of
Norhamshire and Islandshire from Sir Robert Carey (Raine, North Durham,
pp. 32, 157). He died in 1611 leaving two daughters and co-heiresses, Anne,
wife of Sir James Hume of Cowden-knowes, and Elizabeth, wife of
Theophilus, second Earl of Suffolk.

7 The Rev. James Raine, in his History of North Durham, p. 164, prints
a jocular letter in verse purporting to be written by Robert Rugg, dated
May, 1643. The lines begin :

' The greate Commander of the Gormorants,
' The Geese and Ganders of these Hallowed Lands,
' Where Lindisferne and Holy Hand stands,
' These worthless lines sends to yor worthie hands ' ;
He married Katherine, daughter of Henry Jones, and succeeded his father-
in-law, as Deputy Captain of the Island. He died at Berwick 6 September,
1647, the day after making a nuncupative will, whereby he gave the sum of
£100, given to him by Parliament but then in arrear, to his grandchild
Philadelphia Shaffield, the interest of which was to be paid to his wife
Katherine.

Robert Rugg's daughter Jane, wife of Thomas Sheiffield, died in her
father's lifetime and was buried at Holy Island 14 March, 1640-1.

Katherine (widow of Robert) Rugg married, 20 June, 1648, George
Allison, and was buried at Holy Island 14 April, 1667.

For other notices of Captain Rugg see Six North Country Diaries, p. 18.

8 ' Mr. Joanes ' may be identified with Peter Jones of Holy Island, son

of Henry Jones, who served as Deputy Captain under Sir William Reed and

Sir James Ouchterlong (knighted in 1603), successively governors of Holy

Island.

Henry Jones served as churchwarden in 1608, 1609 and 1616, and died
14 September, 1629.

1629, Aug. 13. — Will of Henry Jones of Holy Island, esq., deputy
captain of Norham and Island shires. To be buried in Holy Island
church. I give all my lands, houess, etc., in Holy Island to my son,
Peter Jones, and his heirs : remainder to my grandchild, Jane Rugg,
daughter of Robert Rugg, and her heirs : remainder to my right heirs.
My wife, Elizabeth, before my marriage with me and before the
marriage of my son Peter with Jane, one of the daughters of the said
Elizabeth, gave my said son £20 per annum out of Murton, co. Palatine.
I have caused my said son to give up the said annuity. Sir James
Awtherlong is in arrear to me £54 15s. for a year and a half's pay
at 2s. per diem and also £18 5s. which I have laid out in repairing the

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allsoe I did enquire of our hoast : and our guide, and divers other
inhabitants of the isle : who all una voce concurred (noe man dissent-
ing) in the assertion : that there was nothing super-naturall therein
to be observed : for ail-though they acknowledged itt to bee most
true that itt is allwaies passable over those sands att 9 a clocke soe
as those that live and reside uppon the maine land may every Lord's
-day come over those sands to church about that houre : This is, by
those that are Popishly affected, superstitiously applyed, and im-
puted to the meritt and effect of St. C'uttbersi preiers : whereas
indeed there is nothing extraordinarie therein : They give this
naturall reason : itt allwaies soe falls out that att the change and
full of the moone : the floode is att the height att or about 3 a clocke :
, -and then per consequence, itt is low water, and the sands are drie
att or about 9 : clocke : soe as then itt is most easie to pass : when
itt is full sea att 3 clocke : itt must needes bee low water att 9 clocke :
And when itt is noe springe tyde you may ride over the sands (if you
l>ee well acquainted with them, as those are that inhabitt nere, and
resort to church there) att full water, and this is nott onely ordinarie
uppon the Lord's day, butt uppon all other dayes of the weeke : thus
did our guide afiirme : that itt had been ordinarie in his practise :
if therefore itt should soe fall out as to bee full water uppon the Lord's
-day att or about 9 clocke : (which cannott often happen) yett may itt
then bee passed because itt is low, and ebbe floodes, as well, and noe
otherwise then uppon other dayes of the weeke : In this island, in a
daintie little fort, there lives Capt : Rugg, Governor of this fort :
who is as famous for his generous and free entertainment of strangers,
as for his great bottle nose, which is the largest I have seen : This
is a daintie little fort built towre-wise uppon the toppe of a little
round hill, which is a rocke : This planted with ordinance : Below on
verye top of the hill : a neate flagged, and walled court before the
•doore : where are 2 brass ordinaunce : the one brought from Cales :
and 3 iron ordinaunce : one of them came allsoe thence :

There are neate, warme and convenient roomes in this little fort:
liere in this island was brought unto us a young seale : or (as some

Forth of Holy Island. I give the said sum to my son Peter. He

sole executor. My friend Roger Witherington, esq., supervisor. Proved

at Durham 1630. Raine, Test. Dunelm.

The testators first wife, Ann Jones, died 19 February, 1625, and an
inscription in Latin was set up to her memory in Holy Island church by
her son Peter. The testator married, secondly, the mother of his son's
wife, Elizabeth, widow of George Morton of Berwick, who possessed some
property at Murton, near Tweedmouth. She survived her second husband
less than two months and was buried 3 November, 1629.

Peter Jones, son and heir of Henry Jones, was educated at Queen's
•College, Oxford, where he matriculated 10 March, 1619-20, aged 17; B.A.,
1623. He was churchwarden for Holy Island in 1628, 1634, 1635 and 1636;
and as appears, by his father's will, married Jane, daughter of George and
Elizabeth Morton of Berwick and of Murton. He probably left the Island
after the Diarist's visit, for the Register contains no entries of the burial
of him or his wife.

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call itt) a sea-calfe : which was this morneing left by the* tide, uppor*
the sands drie : they nourish itt with milke : itt hath an heade and
eyes like a calfe : and hath two fins before, like feete, and two behind,,
which itt cannott draw uppe like fins : whereby allsoe itt is enabled
to moove in a creeping manner : and that slowly yett constantly, and
restless : itt hath a navill : and cries :

Hence to Barwicke 7 miles : whereof 3 miles is uppon the sand :

Barwick [1635] Junii 25. Wee arrived about 5 clocke att Bar-
wicke : where wee passed a verye faire, stately bridge9 over Tweede
consisting of 15 arches which was built by King James : and as itt is=
said: cost 17,000/. This river most infinitely stored with salmon,,
100 or 200 salmons att one draught : butt much more was reported
by our host : which is most incredible : that there were 2,000 salmons
taken since Sunday last : This towne seated uppon the maine sea, the
Northern Ocean, and seemes to bee allmost environed with the sea :

The haven is a most narrow, shallow, barred haven : the worst
that I have seen : itt might bee made good, a brave and secure haven,,
whereas now onely one little pinke10 of about 40 tun belongs unto itt,
and some few fishing boates :

There beeing therefore noe trade in this towne, itt is a verye poore
towne, many indigent persons, and beggars herein : Here were the
strongest fortifications I have mett with in England : double walled :
and outt-workes of earth : and the outter walls like unto Chester
walls : and without the inner walls a deepe and broade moate well
watered : The inner walls of invincible strength : stone wall within,
and without lined with earth about 20 yards thick : with bullwarkes
conveniently placed to guard one another : like unto the Buss10a :
Bergen : or Antwerpe or Gravelin : these were begun by Queen
Marye : finished by Queen Eliz11 : butt something in decay : These
walls environ the towne :

9 Berwick bridge built with money granted by the Crown was com-
pleted in 1624. A rent charge of <£i.00 per annum payable out of the
Customs was, and is still, provided for its maintenance.

10 Pink, a type of collier vessel, the stern of which was ' cat built/
falling off to a point almost as sharp as the narrowing at the bow, and on
the top of this stern a square erection forming a high poop was built-
Heslop, Northumberland Words.

10a Mr. Hume Brown suggests that Bois-le-Due is the place referred to..

11 The Elizabethan fortifications of Berwick are said to have been
designed, or at the least carried out, by ' William Spicer of Knapton in
the County of Warwick, esq., Surveyor of Her Majesty's Town and
Fortifications of Berwick/ He (or his son of the same name) hzd a grant
of arms, 4 November, 1591, sable, a jess embattled or, between three lions
rampant or: Crest, a monument or tomb argent. His descendant, the late
Dr. Ware, Bishop of Barrow in Furness, who communicated these details in
a letter to the Editor dated 17 Sept., 1905, also informed him it was believed
the reason for the very extraordinary crest was to commemorate the deathi
at the stake of an ancestor in the Marian persecution.

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A stately sumptuous, and well-seated house, or castle,12 was here
begun by the last Earle of Dunbar, where the old castle stoode, butt
his death putt an end to that worke : Here was a most stately platt-
forme propounded and begun: a faire long gallerye joyced, nott
boarded : wherein is the largest mantletree I have seen neere 5 yards
long of one peice : This leaded over, which gives the daintiest pros-
pect to the sea, to the towne, to the land, and the river : This, with
much lands hereabout, was bestowed uppon him by King James ; who
left all his lands to his daughter and heire who married the .now
Earle of Suffolke : This towne is seated on the north-side of Twede,
and is placed uppon the slopeing of a steepe hill : They speake
of 3G0 salmons taken att one draught, and ordinariely about 80 : and
100 or 120 att one draught.

We lodged att the Crowne : were well used : 8^. ordinarie : and
hd. our servaunts, and great entertainment, and good lodging. A
respective (sic) hoast, and honest reckoning.

26 Junii. Uppon Friday wee departed from Barwicke, which
though itt bee seated in Scottland : yett itt is Engl : and is annexed
to the Crowne of England by Act of Parliament : and send 2 bur-
gesses to the Parliament House : and here the countrie is nott
reputed Scottish untill you come to a towne, 4 miles distant from
Barwick, called Aten : which belongs to the Lord Aten,13 who hath
there a prettie castle placed on the side of an hill : Hence you pass
(after you leave a few corne fields neere the towne) over the largest
and vastest moares,14 that I have ever seen : which are now drie : and
whereuppon (in most parts) is neither sheepe, beast, nor horse : Here
is mighty want of fire in these moares : neither coale nor wood, nor
furse ; onely the (sic) cutt and flea top-turves with linge uppon them :
These moares you travell uppon about 8 miles : and then come to a
village called Apithomas15 : and nott farr hence you leave the castle
and towne of Dunglass16 on left hand : which is pleasantly seated,
and seemeth to bee in good repaire : and nott farr hence is there an

12 Berwick castle was granted by James I. to George Hume, Earl of
Dunbar; a schedule of the muniments of title of the same from 1641 to
1805 may be found in the History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club,
vol. xix, pp. 350-354.

13 The Diarist allowed himself to be misled in ascribing the ownership
of Ayton to ' Lord Aten/ The castle and estate of Ayton belonged to a
branch of the Homes of Douglas — it is stated from the fifteenth century —
down to 1716. The proprietor of the time would naturally be styled the
Laird of Ayton.

11 Coldingham moor is still bleak and largely unenclosed.

15 Probably either Old Cambus or Cockburnspath.

16 Dunglas was the seat of the Scottish branch of the Border family of
Papedy whose arms were azure three papingoes vert (Nisbet). The heiress-
of the family carried the property to Sir Thomas Home of Home.
Douglas was sold circa 1644 by the Earl of Home to Sir John Euthven.
See History of the Berwickshire Nat. Club, vol. vm, pp. 410, 430-490.

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Jiigh-built house or castle called Anderwicke17 belonging to Mr. Max-
well of the Bedchamber.

Enquireing the way before, how far to Dunbarr : itt was answered
itt was 3 miles : I demaunded whether soe farr : he said : ' Yes itt
was about a mile from Dunbar ' : wee observed this husbandrye : —
the grass, weedes, and wreck18 brought by the sea, and with the tide,
and left uppon the sandes, was carried and laid thicke uppon the
ground: this used for corner Here is my Lord Rocksburne house,19
or castle, seated with (sic) 6 score i(sic) of the maine sea : where
groweth and prospereth many kinds of wood : the highest thornes
that I ever saw : this I admired : because I have observed all the
sea-ooastes whereby wee passed allmost an 100 miles : and could nott
find any manner of wood prospering neere the sea-coast : Here in the
village wee observed the sluttish weomen washing their cloathes in a
great tupp with their feete : their coates, smocks, and all, tucked
uppe to their breech :

Wee came from Barwicke about 7 a clocke and came to Dunbarr
about 12 which is 20 Engl : miles : Itt is nott improperly called
Dunbarr : because itt is soe environed with shelfes : barrs : and sands :
as there is noe manner of haven, though the maine sea beate uppon
the towne, which indeed is nott seated uppon any river : which might
furnish itt with a haven, or a navigable channell : onely here is an
haven made of great stones piled uppe : whereinto att a. spring-tyde
a shippe of 100 tun may enter : butt nott without much hazard :

Six miles hence in the sea (though itt bee a farr shorter cutt by
land), is the Island of Bass which is here verye conspicuous : a mightye
high rock placed in the sea., whereinto there is onely one passage,
and that for a single person : This is now fortified, and inhabited by
the Lord of the Bass : itt is about one Engl : mile about : Herein are
kept sheepe, and some kine, and connies : abundance of fowle breed
here : solem geese : storts : scoutes20 : and 20 severall sorts of
fowle : which make such a noise, as that you may heare them, and
nothing else, a mile before you come to them : These solem-geese (as
itt is reported of them) when their eggs are suffitiently sitten, they
stamp© uppon them with! their feete, and breake them : they breed
in the sides of the rockes, and there is fowle (said to bee) sold here
taken in this island worth 2001. per annum. Here is excellent fresh
water in this isle, a daintie pure springe, which is to bee the more

17 There is a plate of Innerwick Castle in Grose reproduced in the
History of the Berwickshire Nat. Club, vol. xv, p. 180. It is stated to have
been an old seat of the Stewarts and after them of the Hamiltons.

18 Wrack, formerly sea-ware or sea-weed, largely and still to some extent
used for manure in seaboard parishes.

19 Broxmouth, near Dunbar, which still belongs to the Duke of
Hoxburgh.

20 The stort is identified by Mr. Hume Brown in his Early Travellers
in Scotland with the scart or cormorant ; and the ' scout ' with the
guillemot.

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admired : The Isle of May is nott hence above 3 leauges and itt is
easie to bee discerned: wherein allsoe abundaunce of fowle breed:
From Dunbarr to Edenburgh wee came this day in the after-noone;
itt is called butt 20 miles : butt itt is 25 or 26 miles att least : and,
by the way, we observed verye many stately seates of the nobles : One
we passed neere unto, which is the Earle of Whitens1 : a daintie seate
placed uppon the sea : Here allsoe is apple-trees, walnutt-trees : sica-
moare, and other fruite trees, and other kinds of wood which prosper
well : though itt bee very neere unto and within the aire of the sea :
In this house the king lodged 3 nights : and in this earles chamber
att Eden bo rough, in Mr. Will : Callis his house in the High Streete
neere the Cross, I lodged, and paid Is. §d. per noctem for my
lodging :

About 6 or 7 miles from this cittie I saw, and tooke notice of
divers salt-workes, in poore houses, erected uppon the sea-coast2 : I
went into one of them : and observed iron panns 18 foote long and
9 foote broade: these larger panns and houses then those att the
Sheildes : An infinite innumerable number of salt-workes here are
erected uppon this shoare : all make salt of sea-water : About i miles
hence stands Mussleborrow : touching which they have this proverbe :
* Mussleborrow was a borrow when Edenborough was none, and shall
bee a burrough when Edenborough shall bee none ; :

Edenborough. About 9 : clocke : att night wee came into Eden-
borough, where by reason of the footboyes negligences : wee were
putt uppon great straights : and had our lodging to seeke att 10 :
clocke : and in conclusion were constrained to accept of meane and
nasty lodging : for which wee paid Is. 8d. : and the next morneing
Saturcl : 27 : Junii wee went to the Tbwle-boothe : where are the
Courtes of Justice : which are six.

1. The Court wherein meete the Lords of the Privie Counsell,
whereof are most of the eminent nobles of the land :

2. That court, wherein there are 15 judges sitt attyred in purple
gownes turned uppe with veivett of the same colour: hereof the
President is Sir Robert . . . . 3. As itt is here reported, if any of
those 15 bee absent hence any day : they incurr the forfeiture of and
pay 1/. a day for absence : The Archbishoppe of St. Andrewes, Lord
Chauncellour of Scotland,4 is the prime man in this kingdome.

3. There is another inferiour court neere adjoyneing hereunto,
wherein eitta weekely, and successively every of these 15 judges alone :

1 Probably Seaton house, the seat of the Setons, Baron Seton and Earl
of Winton.

2 Preston-pans in Haddingtonshire.

3 No surname is given in the MS. Sir Robert Spottiswood of New-abbey
was made Lord President of the Court of Session in 1633.

4 Dr. John Spottiswood, archbishop of Glasgow, translated to St.
Andrew's in 1615, Lord Chancellor of Scotland 1635, took refuge in
Newcastle, and was dispossessed of his see with other Scottish bishops in
1638, and died in London 26 November, 1639, aged 73.

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this court takes onely cognizance of inferiour causes, and of less
importaunee : and as itt is (sic) seames unto mee is erected in favour
and ease of the rest 15 judges : and if any intricate cause, or of greater
consequence, occurr : the present judg then propounds unto and con-
sults with the: rest of the 15 judges: In this court I observed the
greatest rudeness, disorder, and confusion that ever I saw in any
court of justice: noe nott the like disorder in any of our sessions.
For here 2 or 3 pleade and speake togeather and that with such a
forced strained voice, a® the strongest voice onely carries itt : yea,
sometimes they speake about 2 or 3 severall causes, att one and the
same time : which makes an extra-ordinarie disorder, and confusion :
soe as noe man breathing can heare distinctly, or understand any
thing soe promiscuously spoken.

4. There is an Exchequer, or court of the kings revenew,

5. There is a court below under the befo renamed courts, wherein
sitt the judges touching crimineall matters and misdemeanours.

6. The consistorie which takes onely cognizance of ecclesiastical!
affaires.

In this kingdome the clergie of late extend their authoritie, and
revenewes : Arch-Bishopricke of St. Andrewes is Lord Chancellour
of Scottland and Kegent here :

And as I was informed by some intelligent gentlem : itt is here
thought and conceaved that they will recover soe much of that land,
and revenewes belonging formerly to the abbeyes, as that they will
in a short time possess themselves of the third part of the kingdome :
The Duke of Lennox and Marquess Hamilton are possessed of the
largest proportion of church-land5 : Itt is expected that they should
resigne, and deliver uppe, their interests, and rights" therein to the
church : Whose example itt is thought will induce the rest of the
nobilitie to doe the like : And to the end that they may carrie some
sway in Parliament, itt is now endeavoured (as some here informed
me, Mr. Calderwood,6 and Dr. Sharpe) : to restore abbotts, and to
invest them in the revenewes, and scales (sic) of abbeyes : hereof they
say there are 48 which are intended to bee established, who are all to
sitt, and carrie voices in Parliament : Which if itt can bee effected
then there will bee allwayes in the Parliament House soe stronge a
partye for the kinge : considering those officers that have an immedi-
ate dependaunce uppon him : and the bishopps, and abbotts : as that
they will be able to sway the whole House :

Divers of the clergye incline this way, and many allsoe are mightye
opposite and averse hereunto.

This Saturd : after dinner I tooke a view of the Castle here,
which is seated verve high, and suffitiently commaunding, and beeing

5 For the most recent account of the disputes about the tithes and
other ecclesiastical property at this period, see Lang, History of Scotland,
vol. in, pp. 10-14.

6 David Calderwood, the historian.

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able to batter the towne : this is allsoe seated uppon the toppe of a
most hard rock, and the passage whereunto was (as they there
report), made thorow that hard and impregnable rocke, which cannott
bee toucht or hewed : and itt is indeed a stately passage : wherein was
used more industrie, paines, art and endeavour then in any place I
have found amongst the Scotts : Itt is butt a. verye little castle of noe
great receipt, butt mightye strength : Itt is called Castrum Puellarum :
because the kings of the Picts kept there virgins therein : Uppon the
wall of the castle towards the toppe is this inscription, part thereof
guilt : A crowne, and scepter, and dagger placed under itt cross-wise
with this supterscription : Nobis hcec invicta miserunt 1067 Proavi:
The same amies and inscription is placed uppon the front of the
abbey which is the kings house : Outt of the court of this high seated
castle : there was one that watched, (a souldier in his turne), in a
little woodden house, or cabin, which by a whirle-wind was taken, and
throwen downe both togeather over the castle-wall, and to the bottom
of this high and steepe rocke, and the man nott hurt, nor bruised,
save onely his finger putt out of joint : Hence you may take a full
view of the scituation of the whole cittie : which is built uppon an
hill nothing over-steepe, butt suffitiently sloapeing and ascending to
give a grace-full ascent to the great streete8 : which I doe take to bee
an Engl : mile long : and is the best paved streete with bowther
stones9 (which are verye great ones) that I have seen : the channells
are verye conveniently contrived on both sides the streete : soe as
there is none in the middle, butt itt is the broadest, largest, and fairest
pavement, and that entire : to goe, ride, or draw uppon : Here they
usually walke in the middle of the street : which is a faire, spatious
and capacious walke: This streete is the glorye and beautie of this
cittie : Itt is the broadest streete (except in the Low-Countries, where
there is a navigable channell in middle of the streete) and the longest
streete I have seen : which begins att the Pallace, the gate whereof
enters straight into the suburbs, and is placed att the lower end of
the same : The suburbs make an hansome streete : and indeed the
streete, if the houses, which are verye high, and substantially built
of stone (some 5, some 6 storyes high) were nott lined to the outside,
and faced with boardes : itt were the most stately and gracefull strete
that ever I saw in my life : Butt this face of boardes,10 which is
towardes the streete, doth much blemish itt, and derogate from
glorye, and beautie : as allsoe the want of faire glass-windowes whereof
few or none are to bee discerned towardes the streete : which is the

7 This looks exactly like the figures 106. According to the legendary
chronology of Scottish Kings, James V. (1514-1542) was the one hundred
and sixth. Ex. inf. Dr. George Neilson.

8 The High Street of Edinburgh from the Castle to Canongate and
Holyrood.

9 Boulder stones.

10 Query : the luckenbooths of Edinburgh, traces of which can still be
found in ancient houses in the High Street.

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more compleate : because itt (sic) as straight as may bee : This lineing
with boardes (wherein are round holes shaped to the proportion of
mens heades), and this incroachment into the streete about 2 yards is
a, mightye disgrace unto itt : for the walls (which were the outside)
are stone : soe, as if this outtside faceing of boardes were remooved
and the houses built uniforme all of the same height, itt were the most
compleate streete in Christendome.

This cittie is placed in a daintie health-full pure aire : and doubt-
less were a most health-full place to live in : were nott the inhabitants
most sluttish, nastye and sloath-full people : I could never pass thorow
the hall, but I was constrained to hold my nose: Their chambers,
vessell, linnen, and meate, nothing neate, butt verye sluvenly : Onely
the nobler, and better sort of them bra,ve well-bred men, and
much reformed : This streete which may indeed deserve to denominate
the whole cittie, is allwaies full thronged with people, itt beeing the
markett place : and the onely place where the gentlemen, and mer-
chants meete and walke, wherein they may walke drie under-foote,
though there hath been abundaunce of raine : Some few coaches are
here to bee found for some of the great lords, and ladies, and bishopps :

Touching the fashion of the citizens : — The weomen here weare
and use uppon festiveall dayes 6 or 7 severall habitts, and fashions :
some for distinction of widowes, wives and maides : others apparelled
according to their owne humour and phantasie : Many weare (espeti-
ally of the meaner sort) plaides : which is a garment of the same
wollen stuffe, whereof our saddle-cloathes in Engl : are made : which
is cast over their heades, and covers their faces on both sides, and
would reach allmost to the ground : butt that they plucke them uppe,
and weare them cast under their armes : Some auntient weomen, and
citizens weare sattin straite-bodied gownes : short little cloakes : with
great capes : and a broad boungrace11 comeing over their browes,
and goeing out with a corner behind their heades : and this boungrace
is, as itt were, lined with a white, stracht (sic) cambrick suite-able
unto itt : Young maides nott married all are bare-headed : some with
broad thin shagg ruffes, which lye flatt to their shoulders : and others
with half bands with wide necks either much stiffened, or sett in wyre :
which comes onely behind : and these shag ruffes some are more
broade and thicke then others.

This cittie of Edenborough is governed by a Lord Provast (which
is equivalent to a Lord Maieor) and 2 or 3 bayliffes : who xequute
the office of sheriffes : who as they assume noe extraordinarye state,
onely some few officers attending them, soe they doe nott maintaine
any great houses, and hospitalities : and when any occasion of greater
consequence, and importaunce occurres : they then call unto them,
and consult with, as assistaunts, some of those that have been
formerly Lord Provasts :

11 Bongrace, a shade or curtain formerly worn on the front of a woman's
bonnet to protect the complexion from the sun, New English Dictionary.
The Editor has seen it worn in North Northumberland, but there it was and
perhaps is still, called an ' ugly/

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The people here are sloath-full (««?) that they fetch nott fresh
water every day : butt onely every other day : which makes their
water much worse (espetially to drinke) which, when itt is ait best, is.
bad enough : Their houses of office are tubhs, or firkins, placed uppon
the end : which they never emptie, until! they bee full, soe as the sent
thereof a-nnoyeth, and offendeth the whole house:

I was this day with an intelligent understaunding man, who told
mee there were above 60 back-lanes, or streetes, which were placed in
the side of this streete, and went out of itt : narrow and inconvenient
straight lanes, some wider, some narrower, some built on both sides,
others onely on one side : And enquireing what number of persons-
might bee in this cittie, I found that itt was generally computed :
that there were noe more than 60,000 persons : because there are
onely 4 pareish churches12 in this cittie : and itt is observed : that
there are noe more then about 4,000 communicants in every pareish :

Here is a daintie Hospitall13 erecting, nott yett finished :

I tooke notice here of that common brew-house, which supplyeth
the whole cittie with beere, and ale : and observed there the greatest,
vastest, leades boile in keeres,14 cisterns, and combes,15 that ever I
saw : the leades to coole the liquor in were as large as the whole
house, which was as long as my court :

Junii 29. Wee went this morneing to behold and take a view of
Leith : where is the haven belonging to this cittie : which is a prettie
little haven, neither furnished with neere so many shipps as itt is
capable of : nor indeed is itt a large haven capeable of many shipps :
There are two neate woodden peeres here erected which run uppe into
the river, butt not one ship saw I betwixt them : There are two
churches in this towne, which belongs unto, and is subordinate to the^
cittie of Edenborough :

This towne of Leith is built all of stone, butt itt seemeth to bee
butt a poore place, though seated uppon a daintie haven : The countrey
twixt this and Edenborough and all hereabout this cittie is corne, (sic)
scituate betwixt the hills and the sea :

Uppon the toppe of the Toole-bowthe stands the head of Gawrie :
Here are pies (whereof I have had some this day to dinner) which are
sold 12 for a pennie Engl :

Here uppon the Tole-boothe stands the head of Earle Gawrie16 :

Many High-landers wee observed in this towne: in their pladesT

12 The four parishes of Edinburgh at this period were St. Giles, High
Church, Trinity College Church, and Grey Friars.

13 Heriot's Hospital, begun in 1628, for the maintenance and education
of a certain number of sons of burgesses.

14 Query keeve, a large tub or vessel used in brewing.

13 Comb, a four bushels measure.

16 Evidently the head of John Ruthven, third Earl of Gowrie, killed
at Perth 5 August, 1600, in the mysterious Gowrie Conspiracy against the
person of James VI. of Scotland. His body was arraigned in Edinburgh
and convicted of treason, his honours and estates being forfeited.

many without dubletts, and those who have dubletts have a kind of
loose nappe garment hanging loose about their breech, their knees
bare, they inure themselves to cold, hardshippe, and will nott diswont
themselves : proper, personable, well complectioned men, and of (sic)
able men : the verye gentlemen in their blue capps, and plaides :

The sluttishness and nastiness of this people is such, that I cannott
ommitt the particularizeing thereof, though I have more then suffi-
tiently often toucht uppon the same : Their houses, and halls, and
kitchens have such a noysome tast and savour, and that soe strong,
as itt doth offend you, soe soone as you come within, their walls, yea,
sometimes when I have light from my horse, I have felt the distast of
itt, before I have come into the house* : yea, I never came to my owne
lodgeing in Edinborough, or went out, butt I was constrained to hold
my nose, or to use worme-wood, or some such sented plant : Their
pewter, I am confident, is never scowred : they are afraid itt should
toe much weare and consume thereby : onely sometimes, and that butt
seldome, they doe sleightly rubb them over with a filthy dish-clowte
dipped in most sluttish greasie water : Their pewter potts wherein
they bring wine and water are furred within that itt would loath you
to touch any thinge which comes out of them : Their linnen as itt (sic)
skittishly and sloath-fully washed by weomens feete who after their
linnen is putt into a great broad lowe tubbe of water, then (their
cloathes being tucked uppe above their knees), they steppe into the
tubbe, and tread itt, and trample itt with their feete, (never voutch-
safeing a hand to nett,17 or wash itt withall), untill itt bee sufficiently
cleansed in their apprehensions : and then itt lookes as nastiely as
ours doth when itt is putt unto and designed to the washing : as
allsoe itt doth soe strongly tast and smell of lant,18 and other noy-
some savours, as that when I came to bed, I was constrained to hold
my nose and mouth togeather : To come into their kitchen, and to
see them dress their meate, and to behold the sinke (which is more
offensive than any jakes19), will bee a sufficient supper, and will take
of the edge of your stcmack.

Junii 28. Lords day. Touching the government, and orders of
the church here established : Itt is governed by pastors : elders : and
decons : There are about 12 elders : 18 (sic) deacons : and 2 pastors in
every pareish (as Mr. Wallis, a juditious merchaunt, informed mee) :
These deacons, their imployment, and office is to provide for the
poore : the elders take notice, and cogniseaunce of all misdemeanours,
and offences, committed in their pareish : unto every of which elders
there is proportioned, and allotted, a part of the pareish, which is
under their care and chardge : who take notice of all fornifications,
adulteries, thefts, drunkards, swearers, blasphemers, slanderers, ex-

17 Nett, to wash or rinse out in clean water. Wright, English Dialect
Dictionary .

18 Lant, stale urine. Wright, English Dialect Dictionary.

19 Jakes, a house of office.

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tortioners, and all other scandalous offences committed in their
pareishes : these (by virtue of their offices, and strict vowes and
protestations) are to present all these offenders unto the minister, and
■church-officers, who proceed to ecclesiasticall censure : Itt is the
dutie of these to provide bread and wine, for the parishioners, att the
•communion, and this uppon the pareish chardge : these allsoe are
assistaunts to the pastors in the administration of the sacrament : All
these officers are yeerly changed, and chosen by the parishioners, and
Are proclaimed in the church to bee designed for those places a yeere
before they are invested in those places : that soe if amy just exception
oan bee made against them, they may bee putt by that office, and
others elected :

Once ©very week© the pastors, and elders, and sometimes the
-deacons, assemble and meete togeather to consult uppon, and con-
sider of the affaires of the pareish : They are most strict in their
•censures against fornicatours and adulterers : those that committ
fornication under colour of intended mariage, and after promise of
mariage, are injoyned to sitt uppon the stoole of repentaunce one day :
This stoole is a publique and eminent seat© erected towardes the
lower end of the church about 2 yards from the ground, either about
some pillar, or in some such conspicuous place, where the whole con-
gregation may take notice of them. : this seat© is capable of about 6
or 8 persons : Here this day 28 Junii I was att sermon in the Gray
Priors, where there stood© 3 weomen uppon the stoole of repentuance :
who are admitted to sitt dureing the sermon :

Those other fornicatours are injoyned 3 day penaunce in this
•stoole : adulterers are censured to stand every Lords day uppon this
stoole dureing 12 moneths in a sheete of heare : and this injoyned
them in divers churches : This day after sermon the preacher ad-
monished some who had persevered in a course of impcenitence and
uncleanness, and had often been admonished, and injoyned to give
testimony© of their repentaunce and to make satisfaction to the
•congregation : this hath been delayed, and is nott performed : hee said :
he© wondred that people were nott ashamed to sin against God and
•against their brethren, and against their owne soules : and yett they
were ashamed to make satisfaction unto th© church which had con-
'Ceaved just matter of offence against th©m for so© great scandall
thereby given : He added that they had proceeded with much remiss-
ness against them, and forborne them nott one yeare butt two : butt
if, att the next meeteing, they did nott make their appeareaunce :
the next Lords day, they would publish their names to the congrega-
tion : They proceed in their ecclesiasticall censures with all meekness,
-endeavoureing a reformation first by those meanes : and verye rarely,
nott one© in many yeares do© they denounce any excommunicate :
There are some officers made choise of to tak© notice of, and to
apprehend, all those that loiter in the streetes uppon the Lords day
-dureing service and sermon time : these are punished by beeing
committed to the Toll-bowth.

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And if any are found in any house tippling, or gameing in churcb
time : they are committed to prison : Those allsoe called to account
that are mett walkeing from-wards the church: and are detained
in dureance untill they bee brought before the bayliffes of the towne :
who punisheth them severely ^

Good provision is here made by the deacons, the church-officers;
for the poore : a collection and contribution every Lords day, before
sermon : every well-affected parishioner doth receave the almes ancE
bountie of those who come to church : (all which give some-thing);
in a box : hereunto they are chosen, and designed by the church-
officers : this they receave att the church doore : and there is allsoe'
a monethly taxation and assessment laid uppon all the inhabitants
of the pareish towardes the releefe of the poore : soe as none beggy
nor are suffered to wander uppon and downe the pareish : Butt
though many poore people swarme and abound here, and more then
I have mett with in any part of the world : yett these most abound
here, and the most miserable creatures in the world.

Bought in Edenburgh : Thanksgiveing Sermons uppon Birth of
Prince : and the Itinerarie of Scottland and Ireland20 :

Two paire of pistolls which cost 8 rix-dollars : which is 11. 18s. id\.

A dugeon-hafted dagger and knives guilt 3s. Sd.

Divers earles and lords houses here in Edenburgh as meane-
buildings as gentlemen s and knights in London and Engl : Here I
saw the Earle of T'requhares house : who is Deputie Treasurer1 under
my Lord Moreton : hee was made earle : when the king was last here.

I paid here for my horses : 2 rix-dollars : and for our lodging :
for 6 persons 3 bedds : every night Is. Qd.

For victualls : Saturd : 7s. 2d. : Sund : Mund : Thuesd : breake-
fast: about 11. 5s. Od. : washing Is. 8d. : rewards to the maide and'
cooke, 0/ 2s. Od.

The colledge of Edinburgh,2 called King James his colledge, was
founded by the citizens about 70 years agoe, by the direction of Mr.
Bollock the first principall thereof, and minister of the Colledge-
church :

The order that is observed in the worshippe of God is this uppon
the Lords day : they doe assemble twixt 8 and 9 : houre in the morne-
ing and spend the time in singing psalmes, and readeing chapters
in the Old Testament untill about 10 houre : Then the preacher comes
into the pulpitt : and the psalme beeing ended : hee reades a printed,
and prescribed praier, which is an excellent praier : this beeing ended

20 Probably An Itinerary written by Fynes Morison, gent., London,.
Beale, 1617, folio being the travels of Fynes Moryson in 1598.

1 John Stewart, created Earl of Traquair 23 June, 1633, Lord High
Treasurer of Scotland 1636-1641, died 1659.

2 The University of Edinburgh, as it now is, was opened for students
in 1583. Mr. Eobert Bollock, the Principal, was minister of the High
Church of Edinburgh in 1587, and moderator of the General Assemblv in
1597. Scott, Fasti Ecc. Scot.

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another psalme is sung, and then he prayes before sermon, and con-
cludes his sermon betwixt 11 and 12 houre: And dureing the inter-
mission, many continue in the church untill the afternoones exercise,
which begins soone after one, is performed in the same manner, as
in the morneing : save the chapters then reade out of the New Testa-
ment : and they conclude about 4 houre : I was in the morneing att
the Gray Friors : where I heard a verye worthy man Mr. James
Shenley3 : In the wall of the yeard of this church I observed verye
faire tombes, and monuments erected in memorye and honour of
divers merchaunts, and others interred in this church -yeard : which
custome if they continue : in the revolution of a short time : the
whole wall will bee most grace-fully adorned with tombes which
are most stately ornaments, round about the same : In the afternoone
I went to the Colledge kirk : where I heard a blind-man preach : much
to bee admired : Here I saw the sacrament of baptisme administred in
this manner : — the preacher standing in the pulpitt, and there beeing
placed, and fastened into the same : a frame of iron shaped, and pro-
portioned to a baseon : wherein there stands a silver baseon and
ewre : here the Minister useth an exhortation of gratitude for God's
great goodness in admitting them to this priviledg etc. : and de-
maunding from the witnesses (which are many sometimes 12 : some-
times 20) according to a printed forme or Baptisme : the parent
receaves the child from the midwife,4 presents the same unto the
preacher, who doth baptize itt without any manner of ceremonie :
giveing a strict care of christian and religious education first unto
the parent, then to the witnesses.

When the sacrament of the Lords Supper is administred : a narrow
table is placed in the middle isle, the whole length of the isle : about
which the most of the reeeavers sitt : as in the Dutch and French
churches : butt now the ceremonies of the Church of England are
introduced, and conformitie is much pressed, and the gesture of
kneleing is allsoe much pressed :

About 26 yeares last past, by virtue of an Act of Parliament
made in this kingdome : there was every yeare once assembled a
Nationall Councell, consisting of one burgess for every burrough :
one baron or elder in every presbyterie : and 2 or 3 ministers or
pastors for a presbyterie : butt these meeteings were dissolved and

3 This is evidently a misreading for Fairley. The Rev. James Fairley,
M.A., minister of South Leith, 1625, professor of Divinity in the University
of Edinburgh, 1629, was appointed to the Grey Friars, second charge, in
1630, Bishop of Argyll 1637, minister of Lasswade 1644, died 1658. Scott,
Fasti Ecc. Scot.

4 ' A late minister of Caithness, when examining a member of his flock,
who was a butcher, in reference to the baptism of his child, found him so
deficient in what he considered the needful theological knowledge, that he
said to him: "Ah, Sandy, I doubt ye're no fit to haud up the bairn."
Sandy conceiving" that reference was made not to spiritual but to physical
incapacity, answered indignantly, " Hout, minister, I could haud him up
and he were a twa-year-auld stirk." ' Ramsay, Reminiscenses of Scottish
Life and Character, 12 ed., p. 28.

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taken away about 20 yeares last past : And now that Act of Pari :
is made void and abrogated.4*

The discipline of the Church of Engla : is much pressed, and much
opposed by many pastors, and many of the people : Quare touching
Aire: 77:

The greatest part of the Scotts are verye honest, and zealously
religious : I observed few given to drinke, or sweareing : butt if any
oatbe, the most ordinarie oath was: — 'Uppon my soule J : The most
of my hosts I mett withall, and others with whom I conversed, I
found verye sound, and orthodox, and zealously religious : In their
demaundes they doe nott soe much exceed, as with us in Engl : , butt
insist uppon, and adhere unto, their first demaund for any commoditie.

I observed few bells runge in any of their churches in Eden-
borough, and as I was informed, there are butt few bells in any
steeple, save in the abbey church steeple, which is the Kings Pallace :
Herein is a ringe of bells erected by King Charles immediately before
his comeing into Scotland : Anno Domini 1635 : butt none here knew
how to ringe or make any use of them : untill some came out of
England for that purpose : who hath now instructed some Scotts in
this art:

In most of their eminent churches, in this cittie, the kinge hath
a stately seate placed on high, allmost round about some pillar opposite
to the pullpitt :

Jun : 30. About 12 houre wee left Edenborough, and came
Lightgoaw5 12 miles from thence : This seemes to bee a faire auntient
towne, and well built, some part of itt of stone : Here is a faire
church : and a daintie conduict in the middle of the streete : Here
the king hath a verye faire pallace built castlewise, well seated :
soe as itt may commaund the whole towne : which is governed by a
provast and bayliffes who have power to punish with death offences
committed within their liberties : By the way, I observed : gentlemens
(here called lairds) houses built all castlewise : Wee lodged this night
att Failkirk6 : whence, about 7 miles distant (which wee discerned
as we came), is seated the best house or castle of his Mtie. in this
kingdome, called Sterlin7 : which is placed uppon an high commaund-
ing rock and hill and nott farr from the faire navigable river Frithe,
neere adioyning whereunto this is scituate : Here is another of his
Mties houses an abbay called Drum-tarmalin,8 which is nott above
10 distant hence. And his Mties most pleasaunt and gallant houses
are Falkeland and Sterlin : and Luthgow : and there is allsoe another
pallace in the abbacye of Scune,9 where the kings formerly were
crowned.

All along the shoare of Frithe are placed, even allmost to Sterlin,

4a If the Diarist refers to ' the Golden Act ' which regulated the
meetings of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, he mistakes
the act, for it was passed 5 June, 1592. See Lang, History of Scotland,
vol. n, p. 483.

5 Linlithgow. 6 Falkirk. 7 Stirling. 8 Dumfermline. 9 Scone.

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from beyond Mussleborough : salt-panns : wherein a mighty pro-
portion of salt is boiled : which cannott bee estimated and ghuessed :
because the workes are nott easiely to (sic) numbred, which are
placed all along the shoare att least 30 Engl : mile :

The conveniencye of coales gives greatest encouragement to the
erection and pursuite of these workes : coales abound all along the
shoare, yea itt is conceaved that the veine lyes all under the river,
seeing itt is found on both sides, as itt were, reaching towardes the
other : Here the chiefe ohardge of coales is the getting, which is butt9*
easie seeing the veine lyes sometimes 26 or 20 fathom deepe :

The greatest part of salt here made is transported into Holland :
Here now are some of their shipps: : which are allsoe supplyed with
coales hence : now the rather : because the custome of 4s. uppon a
chaldron beeing encreased : they decline the trade there, and none
or few of them are there to bee now found :

Coales are sold for 3s. or 3s. 6d. chauldron : and cariage 2s. 8d.

Here was (about 1,700 yeares since) a great stone and earth -wall,
called Grhames Wall10, leadeing from Forth, 6 miles below Leith, over
the maine land to Dumbarton, which is uppon the west-sea : which
Wall was 32 miles long : and gave bounds to the kingdomes of Scotts
on the south, and Picts on the north : Att every miles end was there
erected a tower for the watchmen, and a castle att every 2 miles end,
wherein was a strong garrison :

About half mile hence was there a cruell battayle11 fought betwixt
the Engl : and Scotts : in anno 1298 : in Julii : 22 : Then was there
slayne, which here are buried in the church yeard, and whose monu-
ments are still extant : Steward12 of Butts Cout (sic) (of which house
itt is said his Mtie, that now is, hath discended) and Sir John
Grhames13 ; both brave men :

9a Query : not easy. 10 The Antonine Wall.

11 The Battle of Falkirk 22 July, 1298, at which Edward I. defeated
Wallace.

12 The following monumental inscription in Falkirk churchyard marks
the burial place of Sir John Stewart of Bonhill : —

Here lies a Scottish hero, Sir John Stewart, who was killed at the

battle of Falkirk, 22nd July, 1298.
Rogers, Monuments and Monumental Inscriptions of Scotland, vol. n, p. 26.

He was brother to the Steward of Bute. See Lang, History of Scotland,
vol. i, p. 186.

13 The following monumental inscription records the burial place of
Sir John Graham in Falkirk churchyard: —

Mente manuque potens, et Valla? fidus Achates,
Conditur hie Gramus, bello interfectus ab Anglis,

Here lys
Sir John the Grame baith wight and wise,
Ane of the chiefs reskewit Scotland thrise ;
Ane better knight not to the world was lent,
Nor was gude Grame of truth and hardiment.

Rogers, Monuments and Monumental Inscriptions of Scotland, vol. n, p. 26.
From Sir John Graham's uncle, Patrick Graham, descend the Dukes

of Montrose. See New Scottish Peerage.

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About 1 4 miles henoe : is a meare or lake called Loemund in
Perth. : wherein are the flitting islands, which moove (my host Mr.
Fleemeing affirmed hee hath seen itt), itt is most rough in calme
weather : the fish are without fins : There is in Caricke14 a rocke
3 yards long, and one broade : uppon which if you tingle with your
knife, itt will ring like brass pan : this is called the Ringing Rocke,
and is neere the high, way about 16 miles from Port Patricke :

Strange foot-stepps in the Cave of Caricke15 : wherein (as my
host here affirmed that hee had often seen itt) are allwayes to bee
seen and found the prints and foot-stepps of men, weomen and chil-
dren : of doggs, catts, sheepe, kine, horses, deere and all manner of
beasts : Yea hee further protested that hee had seen itt, that though
the sand were over-night sifted : yett these impressions were to bee
found next morneing :

And whereas some write and some report of a deafe rocke16 :
Itt is butt a table (sic) : soe I was informed by verve juditious men :
Here wee paid 6s. Engl. : supper for 7 persons : and lodged in Mr.
Fleemeings house : who is a very intelligent, proper, compleate, and
well- bred man.

There is a great Earle of this countrie, his name is Fleemeing,
and his title Weghkton17 : whose house,18 or pallace, wee saw, butt
there was soe much wood encompassed the same, as wee could nott
discern the same : Here wee were showed by Mr. Guordon : a madow
of his reputed the fairest meadow in Scottland : I would nott give in
exchang for itt the Broade-meadow19 : though itt bee much larger :
One acre of the Broade-meadow worth 2 of this :

I paid for hay here 6d. per noctem : and 13^7. peck for oates :

Julii 1. Hence I departed and about 12 miles hence: there is a
towne called Cuntellen. This the inhabitants make coy to name :
and are much incensed if you aske the name : One answered Parker :
1 You know the Name well enough: your father was hangman here.'

Another said : ' Thrust your finger in mine and licke the ' :

and a third answered : ' This towne is the Heart of Scottland.'

Mr. Guerdon said : they might easiely bee provoaked to fall uppon
any that insist uppon this question :

Here by the way : wee were showed the reliques of a stately
wood cutt downe, which belonged to this Earle of Weghkton : There
is verye little or noe timber in any of the south or west parts of this
kingdome : much less then in England : I have diligently observed
butt cannott find any timber in rideing neere 100 miles : All the

14 Carrick is one of the three ancient divisions of Ayrshire, the other
two being Cunningham and Kyle.

15 See p. 44. 16 On the coast of Ayrshire.

17 John Fleming, sixth Baron Fleming, was created Earl of Wigton in
1606 and died in 1636.

18 Query : Cumbernauld House.

19 The ' Broad meadow ' was evidently the best meadow field on the
Diarist's estate at Handforth.

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countrey poor© and barren, save where itt is helped by lyme, or sea-
weedes : Lyme-ston© here is verye plentifull : and coales, and where
there are noe coales, they have abundaunce of turves : poorest houses,
and people that I have seen inhabitt here : the houses accommodated
with noe more light, then the light of the doore : no© window© : the
houses covered with clodds : The weomen on©ly neat© and hansom©
about the feete : which comes to pass by their oft©n washing with
their feet© :

Glasgoaw. About 1 : hour© wee cam© to the cittie of Glasgoaw
which is 3020 miles from Edenborow : 18 from Failkirke : This is an
arch-bishopps seat©, an auntient universitie1 : One onely colledg
consisting of about 120 students: wherein are 4 schooles : one
principeall : 4 regents : There are about 6 or 700la communicants, and
about 20,000 persons in the town© : which is famous for the church,
which is fairest and stateliest in Scottland : for the Tole-boothe : and
bridge :

This churchlb I viewed this day : and found itt a brave auncient
piece : Itt was said in this church this day that there was a contri-
bution throughout Europe (even Rom© itt self contributed) towards
the building hereof : Ther© is a great partition, or wall, twixt the
bodye of the church and the chauncell, ther© is no© use of the bodye
of the church : onely divine service and sermon is used, and
performed in the quire or chauncell : which is built, and framed
church-wise : and und©r this quire : there is allsoe another church
which carries the same proportion under this, wherein allsoe there is
■2 sermons every Lords-day : Three places or roomes, one above
another, round and uniformed : like unto chapter-houses : which are
compleate buildings, and roomes : The Tole-boothe which is placed
in the middle of the town© and neere unto the Cross, and Market-
place, is a verye fair© and high built house, from the topp whereof,
beeing leaded, you may take a full view, and prospect of the whole
cittie : In one of these roomes, or chambers, sitts the Councell of this
cittie : In other of the roomes, or chambers : preparation is made for
the Lords of the Councell to meete in : these stately roomes : Herein
is a closett lined with iron : walls : toppe : bottom : floore and door©
iron : wherein are kept the evidences, and records of the cittie : this
made to prevent the danger of fire : This Tole-booth said to bee the
fairest in this kingdome : the revenewes belonging to this cittie are
about 1,000Z. per annum: This town© is built: two streetes which
are built like a cross : in the middle of both which the Cross is placed,
which lookes 4 wayes into 4 streetes : though indeed they bee but

20 The 0 is not quite clear, possibly 38.

1 The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451 under a bull obtained
from Pope Nicholas II.

]a Perhaps for ■ 700 ' should be read ■ 7,000.'

lbFor Scott's description of the cathedral of Glasgow see Rob Roy,
chap. xix.

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2 straight streetes : The one reaching from the church to the bridge*
a mile long : the other which crosseth that is much shorter :

Two arch-bishopps2 : of St. Andrewes : Spotswood : Chanc :
Regent : The other of Glasgoaw : Dr. Lindsey — bishopps above 20 :,

The prime citties in Scottland : Edenborough : St. Andrewes :
Dondye3 : Aberden : Glasgoaw : Perth, or St. Johnstone : Lightgow :
Aire : Sterling : Dumbarton : Erwing : 4 : Don Fris5 : Haddington :
Dunbarr : Erwin : Elgin : Murray : Bamffe : Enverness : Boughan5a :

Fairest bridges in Scottland : Done5b, which is in the north, under
which as Mr. Guerdon informed mee that a shippe of 50 or 60 tunne-
may pass with hir sayles full spread : this is butt one arch placed
on a high rocke, uppon either side much above the water : A verye
faire bridge att Glasgoaw overleyd the river : St. John-stone is a.
gallant bridge, stands uppon Tay : Aberden :

Glasgoaw is a faire bridge consisting of 7 or 8 faire arches which
are supported and strengthned with strong buttresses : This river iss
now navigable within 6 miles of this cittie : itt ebbs and flowes above
the bridge though now the water is soe shallow, as you may ride
under the horse-bellye : Beyond this river there is seated pleasauntry
a house which was Sir Geo: Elvinstones,6 and is to bee sold to pay
his debts : the revenew thereto belonging is above 300Z. per annum,
the price off red by this cittie who are about to buy itt is 6,0001 :
The suburbs and privileged places belonging unto itt induce them
to buy itt.

Wee lodged in Glasgoaw in Mr. David Weymes house : his wifes
name is Margrett Cambell (the wives in Scottland never change butt
allwayes retaine their owne names) noe stabling hereunto belonging :
In the towne wee were constrained to provide stableing : I paid 5d..
for pease-straw for my straw : noe hay would bee gotten :

Wee paid for vitualls : dinner, and breakefast, 7 persons : 2 rix-
dollars : There is a good hansome foundation propounded and sett
out to add a good, faire, and colledg-like structure, to bee built quad-
rangular : one side is allready built, and there hath been collections
throughout Scottland towards the building of this colledg : and much
more money is collected, then isi need-full to the building hereof6* :

2 The two archbishops of the period were Dr. John Spottiswood, arch-
bishop of St. Andrew's, and Dr. Patrick Lindsay, archbishop of Glasgow.
The latter was previously Bishop of Ross from which see he was translated
to Glasgow in 1633. He is said to have performed the duties of his office-
with mildness and moderation. With the other bishops, he was deprived
in 1638, and retiring to England, he died at York in 1644.

3 Dundee. 4 Irvine. 5 Dumfries. 5aBuchan.

5b Doune, in Perthshire, where is, or was, a two-arched bridge over
the Teith, built in 1535.

6 Sir George Elphinstone knighted 30 Aug., 1594, by James VI. on the
baptism of his son.

Ga Charles I. being at Setoun on the 14 July, 1633, granted £200 sterling
for the advancement of the library and fabric of the college of Glasgow ;
but it was not paid until 1654 when the royal promise was redeemed by the>.
Protector. Ex. inf. Mr. William Maddan.

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Here the librarie is a very© little roome, nott twice soe large as
my old closett : That part of itt which is now standing, is old, stronge,
plaine buildeing : This colledg is governed by one Principeall, 4
Regents, and about 120 students: Here the sohollars may bee
distinguished from others by gownes (in Edenborough they use
coloured cloakes) though coloured : some red, some gray, and of other
colours as please themselves: Here I visitted the arch-bishoppes of
Glasgoawes pallace,7 which seems a stately structure, and promises
much when you looke uppon the out-side: Itt is said to bee the
inheritaunce of the Duke of Lennox : but the areh-bishopps succes-
sively make use of it:

Here I went to see the hall, and pallace: and goeing into the
hall which is a poore and meane place : the arch-bishoppe's
daughter an hansome well-bred proper gentlet-woeman entertained
mee with much civill respect, and would not suffer mee to depart,
untill I had druncke Scotch ale : which was the best I tasted in Scott-
land, and drunke onely a draught of this ale in this kingdome : One
faire house is here lately built, hee that built itt, died before bee
finished itt :

Uppon the way hence to Erwin, wee discerned manye islands,
and amongst the rest the great Isle of Arran, belonging to the
Marquess Hamilton : Many more islands hence appeare, and indeed
the isles belonging and annexed unto this kingdome are said to bee
more land, then halfe the ma.ine land of this kingdome : Mr. Guerdon
informed mee : that they were above 306 in number : One more
remarkable isle hence showes itt self att 40 miles distaunce, this is
placed in the sea, about 16 miles from shoare: Itt is a mightye high
rocke, seeming verve steepe and high, round att the toppe : The
name of itt is Ellsey,8 and itt belongs to my Lord Castle9 : nott
inhabited but with abundaunce of fowle: and 2 eareis10 of goose-
hawkes,11 this yeare stollen by some High-landers : This rocke or
island was in our view 3 dayes, whilst wee travailed betwixt 60 and
70 mile, and when you are att a great distaunce itt presents itt self
in shape like a sugar-loafe, and when you approach neerer, itt seemes
lower and flatter att the toppe : butt itt is a much to bee admired
peice of the Lord's workman shippe : In this Isle of Ellsey, which is
my Lord Castles', there breed abundaunce of solemne geese1 la; which
are longer necked and bodied then ours, and soe extreme tall (sic) are
the young, as that when they ease (sic) them : they are placed in the

7 The Royal Infirmary of Glasgow stands on the site of this ancient
palace of the archbishops. Ex. inf. Mr. W. Maddan.

8 Ailsa Craig.

9 John, Earl of Cassillis, who succeeded his uncle in 1615, and died
in 1668. His daughter Margaret was wife of Gilbert Burnett, Bishop
of Salisbury. He was ancestor of the Marquis of Ailsa.

10 Eareis, eyry, or aerie, a place where birds of prey construct their
nests and hatch their eggs.

11 The goshawk. "» Solan geese.

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middle of the roome, soe as all may have access about itt : their amies
stripped uppe, and linnen-eloathes placed before their cloathes to
secure them from being defiled with the fall (sic) thereof : which doth
besprinkle, and besmear all that neere unto itt :

Julii 1 : Erwin : I came from Glasgoawi about 7 houre, and
came to Erwin12 about 12 houre, which is 16 mile: Wee passed
thorow a barren and poo re countrey, the most of itt yealding neither
corne, nor grass : and that which yeeldes corne is verye poore, much
punished with drought : Wee came to Mr James Blares in Erwin : a
well-affected man : who informed mee of that which is much to bee
admired : Above 10,000 persons have within 2 yeares last past left
the countrye wherein they lived, which was betwixt Aberden and
Ennerness13 : and are gone for Ireland14: they have come by 100
in company thorough this towne : and 300 have gone hence togeather
shipped for Ireland att one tyde : None of them can give a reason,
why they leave the countrey : onely some of them who make a better
use of God's hand uppon : have acknowledged to mine host : in these
words : ' That itt was a iust judgment of God uppon them, to spue
them out of the land for their unthank-full-ness ' : This countrye
was soe fruitt-full formerly, as that itt supplyed an overplus of corne,
which was carried by water to Leith : and now of late for 2 yeares is
soe sterill of corne, as they are constrained to forsake itt : Some say
that these hard yeares, the servaunts were nott able to live, and
subsist under their maisters, and therefore generally leaveing them,
the maisters beeing not accustomed, nor knowing how to frame15 to
till, and order their land, the ground hath been untilled : soe as that
of the Prophett David is made good in this their punishment : ' A
fruitt-full land makes hee barren for the wickedness of them that
dwell therein ' : For itt is observed of these : that they were a most
unthank-full people : One of them I mett withall, and discoursed with
att large : who could (sic) noe good reason : butt pretended : the
land-lords encreaseing their rents : Butt their swarmeing in Ireland
is soe much taken notice of, and disliked, as that the Deputie16 hath
sent out a warrant to stay the landing of any of these Scotch, that
came without a certificate : Three score of them were numbred
returneing towards the place whence they came, as they passed this
towne : Some of them complayne of hard yeares (the better to colour,
and justifie this their departure) butt doe withall acknowledg that
corne is as cheape with them, as in this towne : butt in the distrac-

12 Irvine. 13 Inverness.

14 Much information on the subject of the emigration from Scotland
to the Ulster plantation may be found in the Register of the Privy Council
of Scotland, 1635-1637. Most of it went by way of Portpatrick. Proclama-
tions were put forth forbidding all tenants from passing over without a
certificate from their landlords or a justice of the peace.

15 Frame, to profit, be of service, prosper, succeed, N.E.D.

16 Thomas, Viscount Wentworth, afterwards Earl of Strafford, was
appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1633.

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tion, and different relation of themselves, there may bee observed
much matter of admiration : and doubtless : Digitus Dei is to bee
-discerned in itt :

Here wee were well used : and paid about OZ. is. id. for our
dinners : Here I exchanged Mr. Hobbyes nag with Mr. James Blare
for the white nagge, and paid 11. 6s. Sd. to boote :

This towne of Erwin is daintiely scituate : both uppc-n a navigable
arme of the sea, and in a daintie, pleasaunt, levell, champion (sic)
eountrey : Excellent good corne there is neere unto itt where the ground
is enriched, and made fruitt-full with the searweedes, or lyme : the
•other ground which lyes att toe great distance to bee thus helped :
either verye poore corne if itt bee sowen, or if itt lye, noe grass at
all : The minister of this towne is Mr. David Dike,17 a worthy man :
And uppon further conference with my host, I found him a right
honest man of approoved integritie, who* is allsoe part owner of the
best shippe belonging to this towne: wherein I spoak with a
merchaunt, who came lately from West-chester : and performed the
journey in 5 or 6 miles (sic) : beeing about 180 miles : From hence
to Don Frise17a 44 miles : thence to Carlile 24 : and soe to Pereth,17b
etc. : Hence to Dublin by sea is about 40 houres sayle with a good
wind : Hence they trade much into Burdeaux in Fraunce, and are now
furnished with good wine : Nott farr henoe about 2 miles lives the
Earle of Egglington att Killwining : hee hath a dozen or 16 halls, or
houses, here-aboutes, and swayes much in these parts170 :

Aire. Hence wee came to Aire : which is 8 miles : uppon the
sea-coast, a most daintie pleasaunt way as I have ridden, wherein you
leave the sea on your right hand : here wee taught our horses to drinke
salt-water, and much refreshed their limbes therein : Comeing late
to Aire, wee lodged in one Patrick Mackellen's17d house where is a
cleanly neate hostess, victualls hansomely cooked, and good lodging :
-8 ordinarie : good entertainment : Noe stable belonging to this inne :
wee were constrained to seek for a stable in the towne : where wee
paid 8d. a night for hay and grasse for an horse, and Is. a pecke
for base oates.

This allsoe is a daintie pleasaunt seated towne, much plain rich
corne land about itt : and better haven, there beeing a river, whereon
itt is placed, which Howes much higher then the bridge : which is
a great, and faire neate bridge : yett nevertheless itt is butt a bare
naked haven : noe peere, nor defence against the stormes, and

17 Rev. David Dickson, afterwards Professor of Divinity at the univer-
sity of Glasgow; he was moderator of the General Assembly in 1639.

17a Dumfries. 171> Penrith.

17(5 The right of Sir Alexander Seton to the Earldom of Eglinton being
challenged, he procured, 24 March, 1614, a patent of the disputed dignity.
Kilwinning — previously ecclesiastical property — was purchased by his pre-
decessor in 1594.

,7d For Macklellen that is Maclellan.

u

weather : Better store of shipping then att Erwin : Most inhabiteing-
in the towne are merchants tradeing unto, and bred in Fraunce :

Enquireing of my hostess touching the minister18 of the towne :
shee complained much against him : because hee doth soe violently
press the ceremonies, espetially shee instanced in kneeleing att the
Communion : Whereuppon uppon Easter day last, soe soone as hee
went to the communion table, the people all left the church, and
departed, and nott one of them staide, onely the pastor alone :

Juli : 2 : Hence wee went to the Cave of Carick : which is about
8 miles from Aire : Where there dwells a laird : Sir Alexander
Kenarick of Cullen,19 who hath a prettie pleasaunt seated house, or
castle198, which looks full uppon the maine-sea : Hereinto wee went :
and there found noe hall, onely a dineing roome, or hall : a faire roome,.
and allmost as large as the whole pile : butt verye sluttishly kept :
unswept : dishes, trenchers, and woodden cupps throwen uppe and'
downe : and the roome verye nastye and unsavourye : Here wee were
nott entertained with a cuppe of beere, or ale : onely one of his sons,,
servaunts, and others tooke a candle, and conducted us to the cave :
where there is either a notable imposture, or most strange, and much
to bee admired foot-stepps, and impressions, which are here to bee
seen : of men, children, doggs, connies and divers other creatures :
These here conceaved to bee spiritts : and if there bee noe such thing,,
butt an elaborate practise to deceave : they doe most impudently
betray the truth : for one of this knights sons, and another Galloway
genii : affirmed unto mee : that all the foot-stepps have been putt out,
and buried in sand over-night : and have been observed to bee renewed
next morneing : This cave hath many narrow passages, and doores,
galleries allsoe, and a closett and divers roomes, hewed with mightye
labour out of an hard lyme-stone rocke : Herein are 2 daintie springe
wells, whereof I tasted : a. fowle, slipperye, darke passage is there-
into : And itt was first framed and intended for a strong-hold, or
place of defence : noe way to bee offended or annoyed by any assault :
if the port bee made good : though one doore lookes towards, and
conveyes light from the sea- ward : yett these seas are soe guarded

18 The minister of Ayr in 1635 was the Kev. William Annand. In
consequence of a sermon preached in 1637 before the synod of Glasgow
defending the liturgy, he was twice in one day mobbed by women and
severely handled. Deprived in 1638, he retired to England where he was
preferred to the vicarage of Selling in Kent in 1639 and to the rectory
of Throwley in the same county in 1649. He died in 1663. His son
William Annand became Dean of Edinburgh. Scott, Fasti Ecc. Scot.

19 Now Culzean in Ayrshire. Sir Alexander Kennedy of ' Collen ' was.
dubbed knight of Holyrood, 12 July, 1633. He was grandson of Gilbert,
third Earl of Cassillis, to which title his lineal descendant, Sir Thomas
Kennedy, succeeded after the death of the ninth Earl in 1759.

19a The modern house or castle of Culzean in the parish of Kirkoswald,
Ayrshire, was built in 1777 by David, Earl of Cassillis, the garden of the
old house which stood near by, being retained. The coves or caves of
Culzean are six in number, the largest of them being some 200 feet in
length and 50 feet in height.

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with rockes all along the shoare of Caricke (such terrible rockes, and
stones I never saw) as noe shipps dare nor doe frequent those seas :
This day wee were exceedingly punished for want of drincke, and
meate for our selves and our horses : and could nott meete with any
good accommodation in rideing 40 long miles : The entertainment
wee accepted in a poorer house then any uppon Handforth Greene,
was tharck-cakes20 and eggs, and some dried fish buttered : this day
as many dayes before, I drunck nothing butt water : and divers of
our horses, and Will : Baylye allmost fainted for lack of releefe : This
day wee passed uppe and downe many high and steepe hills, which
you cannott ride: and verye much hard and stronge beateing way:
exceeding much moareish or barren land :

Wee came into Galloway about 6 miles from the Chappell1 : and
therein observed one of the widest, broadest, plainest moares that I
have seen : itt is much moss butt now soe drie as itt is good hankeing :
Comeing of this moare, wee observed an eminent stone and tried itt
with our knives, and itt did ring, and sound like mettall : About 8
houre wee came to this long desired Chappell, the towne is thence
denominated, and soe called : This is scituate uppon, a long locke2
4 miles long : wherein the sea ebbs and flowes : Here wee found good
accomodation (onely wanted wheate bread) in Hughe Boydes house :
ordin : 6<i., good victualls : well ordered : good wine, and beere, lodg-
ing, and horse-meate: This house is seated 4 miles from the Port-
Patrick whence itt is to Carling-worke3 32 miles : best lodging there is

20 Query tharf : tharf cake, an unleavened cake of flour or meal mixed
with milk or water rolled out thin and baked. Wright, English Dialect
Dictionary.

1 The borough of Stranraer has absorbed the village called Chapel or
St. John's Chapel. At the time of the Diarist's visit the place belonged
to the Kennedys.

2 Loch Evan.

3 Carlingwark is the name of a loch close to Castle Douglas, the old
name of which was Causeway-end.

Sir William Douglas, one of Kirkcudbright's successful sons, sprang
from the parish of Kelton, Kirkcudbright, being son of John Douglas by his
wife Mary, daughter of James Heron of Penningham. Going up to
London with the proverbial half-crown in his pocket he acquired great
wealth in the American trade in partnership with Sir James Shaw, knt.,
some time M.P. for the City of London. With part of his acquired wealth
he purchased the village of Causeway-end, otherwise Carlinwark, and in
1792 procured it a charter of incorporation as Castle Douglas. It is now
the most important town in the Stewartry. Douglas also purchased the
estate of Gelston where he built a house which he called Douglas Ca?tle.
His obsession with the name of Douglas ga\e rise to the good-humoured
banter of his neighbours, one of whom is stated to have addressed a letter
to : — Sir William Douglas of Douglas Castle, bart., Douglas Castle,
c/o Mrs. Douglas, Douglas Arms Inn, Castle Douglas. He was created a
baronet 17 July, 1801, and died s.p. 1809. He had four brothers and
one sister, viz. : James Douglas of Orchardton, who left issue; John
Douglas, who died unmarried; George Douglas of New York, who left issue;
Samuel Douglas of Crae and Cannock, who left issue; and Margaret, wife

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Tho : Hutton : thence to Don-Frise 28 miles : best lodging is John
Harstein : thence to Carleil 24 :

Juli : 4 : We went from hence to the Port-Patrick4 which is fowle
winter way over the mossye moares : and there wee found onely one
boate, though yester-night there were 15 boates here: We hyred a
boate of about ten tunne for 5 horses of ours, and for 5 Yorkeshire-
men and horses : for this wee paid 1/. Os. Qd. and conditioned that noe
more horses should come aboard, save onely 2 or 3 of an Irish lairds :
who then staid for a passage : and carried his wife and 3 horses. His
name is Levinston,5 laird Dun Draide : Here wee shipped our horses
2 houres before we© went abroad.

Itt is a most craggye, fylthy passage, and verye dangerous for
horses to goe in or out : a horse may easiely bee lamed, spoiled, and
thrust into the sea : and when any horses land here, they are throwen
into the sea, and swim out : Here was demaunded from us by our
boast, Tho : Marchbanke, a custome of 2s. an horse : Which I stumbled
att, and answered : that if hee had authoritie to demaund or receave
itt, I was bound to pay itt : otherwise nott, and therefore I demaunded
to see his authoritie : otherwise I was free to pay, or refuse : Here-
with hee was satisfied, and declined his further demaund : Here is a
prettie ehappell lately built by Sir Hugh Mountgomeries6 laird of
Dunskie, on this side, where hee hath a castle, and of Newton de
Clanyboyes, on the Irish side, where hee hath a markett towne : The
boateman that carried us in a barke of about 15 tun : his name was
David Dickie : who hath a daintie fine prettie nimble boy to his son,
who will make a good sayleor : The boate is a good sayleing vessell,
and good, expert mariners, butt nott manned with sufficient number
of men : Shee tooke in 4 horses more than wee covenaunted, and was
soe much overthronged with passengers, as wee had nott every man
his owne length allowed to lye in att ease :

Our horses were shipped about 11 houre : the wind beeing north-
west : butt turneing into the south-west, or rather west south-west :

of David McHaffie of Wigtonshire. She was the great-grand-
mother of Mr. William Brown, the Hon. Sec. of the Surtees Soc, who has
contributed some of the above information.

4 Portpatrick, originally called Portree, was constituted a borough
in 1628 by royal charter under the name of Port Montgomery, the then
proprietor being Sir Hugh Montgomery, afterwards second Viscount Mont-
gomery of Ards in Ireland. It is only 21 miles from Donaghadee in Ireland.

5 Sir William Livingston was made a knight 30 Aug., 1594, by James
VI. on the baptism of his son.

6 In 1604 Sir Hugh Montgomery of Braidstane, Ayreshire, obtained a
crown grant of the lands of the O'Neils in Ulster : these he colonized with
West-country Scots. He seems to have obtained Portpatrick, under the
name of Portree, and Dunsky from William Adair in exchange for lands in
Ballymena in Ulster. Dunsky was sold circo, 1645 by Hugh, Viscount
Montgomery of Ards, to the Rev. James Blair, minister of Portpatrick,
in whose descendants the property rests. The castle, which was in ruins
in 1684, is engraved by Grose.

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Wee went nott aboard untill after 3 houre : the wind then beeing soe
much averse, and soe directly against us, as that wee could nott gett
out of the haven : soe as they were constrained to hale out with a
cock-boat© a good way : Wee were gott cleere out of the haven about
4 houre : and before wee had sayled a leauge, the wind was more
averse : butt presently favoureing us something more, with a full gal©
of wind, wee had soe speedie a passage as that by 6 : houre : wee were
within 16 miles of the coast of Ireland: The wind then fayled, and
was sometimes verye weake and poore, and sometime due west, and
directly averse : yett wee passed on, though slowly, and about 8 or 9
mile from the coast of Ireland wee passed the Strangawre, which is a
mightye, high running channell, where there is a concurrence and
confluence of three strong tides, which runne about 9 or 10 mile in
length, and about 2 mile in breadth, these occasioned by the islands,
and points of land : butt when wee passed them, the wind was soe
weake, as itt was there more calmed, and less troubled then in any
other part of our passage : Wee had noe sooner passed the Strane-
gawre, butt (ail-though when wee went aboard, itt was verye calme,
and like to bee faire weather, which gave encouragement to them to
hazard a passage by night), the wind fayled us, and wee were much
affected with the apprehension of the inconvenience of lyeing att sea
all night : because the tydes are soe strong as they would carrye us
with tke ebbing water downe towardes the isles of Scottland, the wind
allsoe beeing either soe averse as to bring us backe to the shoare of
Scottland, or to concurre with the tide to carrye us downe towards
the isles of Scottland : Butt then suddenly arose a strong wind, and
storme of raine, which did come out of the west, and from the land-
ward : which did much perplex the sayleors : soe as they were con-
strained to take downe, and did in all hast take downe the lower part
of the mayne-sayle and the fore-sayle : which they call the main©
bowleing, or maine bonnett :

Two or three of these showers and stormes did follow one another,
which though they did encrease, and renew our feares : yett itt pleased
God (who knowes better what might conduce unto our safetye then
our selves), to make these stormes the instruments of bringing us to
harbour about 1 1 : houre uppon the coast of Ireland under the Black©
Rocke which is in the Island of Mague7 : Hereby wee were sheltered
all night from most cruell, violent, and tempestuous stormes, which
did much affect, and discourage us, though wee lay att anchor, and
under the shelter of an high hill : Here wee tooke uppe our lodging,
in this open boate, and suffered a wett cold lodging : yett itt pleased
God that I tooke noe cold : nor did any other distemper seaze uppon
mee : save onely a fainteingness when I came on shoare, and an
extreme purgeing : ail-though the sea wrought effectually, and plenti-
fully with mee, and purged mee more by vomitt, onely when I was att
sea, then ever formerly : soe as my stomack was nott onely cleeredy

7 Magee, co. Antrim.

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and dischardged of flegme, butt allsoe of abundance of choller and
green stuffe :

Twixt Erwin in Scottland, and Colrane8 in Ireland are the highest
running seas about the sound of Raughrick9 which is an island belong-
ing to the Earl© of Antrem : The shortest passage twixt Scottland
and Ireland is from Mule Kenteir, a rooke or point of the high-landers
in Scottland, which is 16 mile to the Faire-head, or Marble head in
Ireland10 : This is onely a passage for the High-landers : From Port
Patrick to Carick-Fergus is about 19 leauges : and from Donoh-Dee,11
or Groomes Port about 15 leauges :as one of the sayleors informed me :

Att our landing in Ireland, the shippe came as neere the shoar©
as she durst and all the horses were throwen into the sea,, and did swim
to land, and climbe a great steepe rocke :

Jul : 5. Carig-Fergus : Uppon the Lords day in the morneing
wee went ashoare the coast of Ireland in the Isle of Mague where wee
were landed uppon the rocke, whence wee found a difficult and tedious
passage : and att the toppe of the hill, wee were verye civilly, and
courteously entertained by a Scotch gentleman, who lives in a meane
poore house : hath good store of corne, milke, calves and kine : hence
wee went to Carick-Fergus, corruptly called Knock-Fergus, which is
4 miles : and come thither about 1 1 houre.

Coynes currant in Scotland.

In copper.

Turners 6

Placks 3

I

To one penny English
Or 12 Scottish.

Baubyes 2 I

Achesons 1 and a plack. )

In silver.

19s. or a Cardicue, French money In English 19d.

29s. Half© a nicks 29d.

23s. Halfe a dog daeler 23d.

1$6s. A Swedes daeler, Swedish money 3s.

46s. A dog daeler, Dane 4s. wanting 2d.

58s. A nicks daeler, Germane 4s. lOd.

Of these Germane there be 60 kynds currant.

Onely note their most common computation of moneys to be by
marks rather then pownds, wherein their difference from the English
is (as appears) that they call all their money 12 tymes as much as
they doe in England viz. Id. — 12d. — Is. — 12s. 1 mark is 12 marks —
11. — 121. and soe in the rest.

8 Irvine and Coleraine.

9 Isle of Rathlin, off the coast of Antrim.

10 Mull of Cantyre and Fairhead, otherwise Bermorehead.

11 Donagliadee.

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Speech in Scotland.

We call here : — A clock a, knock, a watch a munter, a dyell an
orelege ; a band an oily layer. For slight, hough, a shop a buith, or
booth. In many words a*j chest, shall, etc. there is not h pronounced.
A cap a mutch if it be linn-en, a bonnet if it be woolen or lether. A
mans coat a juipe or joope. And generally they pronounce ow oo as
towne toone. And that which we spell in England with ou but pro-
nounce as if it were oo as in the word enough they call it enuigh
changing it into ui. Our a that we in England pronounce as they
do yta : i.e. as it were ae, they in Scotland pronounce, as it were ao.
And in some words ai. So that concerning their accent no few
generall prescripts will give any satisfaction, but onely experience
and use acquired by cohabitation among themselves. They have
many words in the country that citizens understand not, but if all
the propertyes of language were concurrent there, as well as signiii-
cancy in pathetick speeches and innumerable proverbs and bywords,
they might compare with any people in the world.

A JOURNALL SINCE MY COMEING OUT OF CHESHIRE.

Junii Miles. Lodged.

11. From Handford to Wake- "I „q Att the Bull: good usage:

field : J

12. Thence to Yorke Att Mrs. Keyes : excellent

usage :

13. Thence to Allerstone With my Sister Eggerton.

17. To Ellenthorpe With my Uncle Alde-burgh.

19. To Newton. Mr. Hen: ) 9fi Mr. Blakestones in Bishop-

Blaket's : f Jt> rioke.

20. To Auckland My noble Lord of Durhams.

22. To Durham 7 : to Ches- ) . Att the Post-maisters, Mr.

ter 9 : and to New- > 19 Swans, att the Signe of the

castle 3 : ) Swan : 8cl. ord : meane

entertainment.

24. To Marpeth 12 : To Ane- ] 9fi Att Postmr. good victualls

wicke 14 : f and lodging Qd. ord :

supp : and id. break :

25. To Bellford 12: to Fen- \ An excellent house att

nam 5, to Holly Island ( 9 Crowne good lodging:

over the Sands 2: to ( Sd. ordi : good victualls:

Barwick 7 : ) and 6 our men : this is an

honest inne.

26. To Aten 4 : Apthomas 8 : } Mr. Wallis his house in high

Dunglass 2 : Dunbarr 6. / streete over against the

Muscleborough 16: f ^ High-Cross: wee paid 18 a

Edenb. 4 : ) night for lodg : and vic-

tualls out of a cookes
shoppe kept in the same
house.

4

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Junii Miles.

29. To Lightgow 12 : to Fail-
kirk 6 :

18

30. To Glasgoaw

Julii

1. To Erving 1813 )

V26

2. To Aire 8 j

3. To Minibole 6 : though we

came by the Cave of
. C'arick which is 8 mile:
thence to the Chappell :
32 long miles and stonye
uneven way :

4. To Port Patricke 4 miles,

here wee dined with one
Thorn : Marchbanke :

5. To Carick-Fergus in Ire-

land.

Lodged.

Att Mr. Flemmings house :
good lodging victualls : 7
persons 65. sterl : and hay
6d.

Att Mr. David Weymes.

Here we baited att Mr. James
Blares.

Lodged in Patrick Mac-
kellen : good ord : 8d.
good lodging.

Here wee lodged att one
Hughe Boydes where wee
had ord : 6 : good meate
and 3 a night for hay and
grass : and 6d. peck pro-
vender : the best Inne in
Scottland.

This day wee went aboard
about 3 houre, and anchor-
ed uppon the coast of Ire-
land under the Isleand
Mague.

13 18 ; but clearly 16, see p. 42.

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR JOHN GIBSON, 1655.

INTEODUCTION.

Sir John Gibson of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, in Yorkshire,
was bom 20th January, 1605/6 at Crayke, being the eldest son of
Sir John Gibson of Welburn, High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1630. He
was educated at York and Cambridge, and on the 18th June, 1629,
married Penelope, daughter of William Woodhall, Registrar of the
Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, by whom he had
issue twelve sons and three daughters. Many of his children, with
their mother, were dead before 1655. He was knighted at Dublin,
3rd April, 1636, by Lord Wentworth, Lord Deputy of Ireland.

In the Civil War he was Captain of the North Riding Horse on
the King's side, but surrendered to the Parliament in 1645 or 1646.
Although he took the Covenant and lived quietly, his estate was
sequestrated for his delinquency, and he was fined in two sums
together amounting to 1,000Z. On his agreeing to settle the tithes
of Welburn, worth 100Z. a year, upon the incumbent of Kirkdale, in
which parish Welburn is situated, the sum of 400£. was ordered to be
deducted from his fine.

His troubles were not at an end, for he was subsequently cast
into prison, and confined to the old gaol of Durham, which spanned
the roadway leading into the Bailey, where he spent much of his time
in writing, the keeper of the gaol at that time being John Jopling.
Several of his MSS. are in the British Museum, e.g. transcripts of
sermons, attempts at versification — chiefly devotional — copies of
letters addressed to unnamed friends, epitaphs, etc.

Obtaining his release apparently at the Restoration, certainly
before 30th September, 1662, he died on the 13th June, 1665.

The Editor's attention wasi directed to Sir John Gibson's auto-
biography by Dr. Gee. An excellent pedigree of the Diarist's family
may be found in Mr. J. W. Clay's edition of Dugdale's Visitation
of Yorkshire, vol. n. p. 387.

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY.1

1655.

Crake it had my infancye,

Yorke did my youth bringe up,

Cambridge had my jollitie,

When I her brestes did sucke.

London brought me into thraule

And wed me to a wife.

Welburne my carefull time had all

Ioyn'd with a troubled life,

When uncivill civill warres withall

Did bloudshed bringe and strife.

Twelve sonnes my wife Penelope

And three faire daughters had,

Which then a comfort was to mee

And made my heart full glad.

Death tooke awaye my children deare,

And at the last my ioye,

And left me full of care and feare,

My only hopes a Boye.

Ireland to me honor gave,

By makinge me a knight.

But England did me much enslave,

Maintaineinge the Kinge's right.

A Captaine once I was of Horse,

Under Kinge Charles the Martyr,

The honor is of much more force

Than Lordes of the new Charter.

Durham did my aged yeares

In prison keepe full fast.

My daylye crosses still appeares,

And comes with too swift haste.

The fa-tall griefe fame in my barton,

The same to you I saye,

Is to be banisht from the Churche,

And my owne Ithica.

The Decimation of my 'state,

'Tis not worth valuation.

I feare 'twill prove a common fate,

To all of this same Nation.

British Museum. Additional MS. 37719, folio 167.

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Can I expect freedome to have,

My master for to see,

When hee is banisht like a slave

Into a farr Countrie.

My glasse is run, my time is spent,

As plainely you may see,

Then learne, fond man, now to repent,

Since 'twill noe better bee.

In infcelicitate fcelix.
Per varies casus, per tot discrimina rerum
Tendimus in latum ccelum.

Suprema hora
Prima quies.

When cruell Atropos doth cut my fatall thred,
Then shall I be at rest, within my earthy bed.

Now I expect the Poets common lot,

Read and commended, and then quite forgot.

[draft op epitaph.]

Sr John Gibson, Kt. of Welburne, Captaine
of the North-Rydinge Horse under
Kinge Charles the
Martyr.
This marble square doth his dead ashes presse,
Not fam'd for curious worke, but comelinesse,
Scorninge the Artist hand ; as 'twere content,
To have the honor of his Monument.
Suprema hora,
Prima quies.
0 gentle Reader doe not him molest ;
Who ne're in Life had ease ; in Death let rest.

[here follows a sketch of a coffin.]

Quisquis es, es pulvis, cineres modo perspice nostros :
Mortua dum tereti corpora in orbe latent.

[Several sentences, and quotations chiefly from the Bible, concern-
ing death, occur on the preceding page and the two pages following.]

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JACOB BEE'S CHRONICLE

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND MORTALITY.

INTRODUCTION.

When the extracts from the Diary of Jacob Bee of Durham were
orinted in Six North Country Diaries it was known from references
and quotations by Mr. .Surtees in his History of Durham that they
represented selections made from a larger document then believed
to have perished. That MS. has been discovered at Mainsforth, and
by Colonel Surtees has been placed at the service of the Surtees
Society. As the selections already printed are represented to have
provided information of interest to those who are conversant with
the civil, parochial and home life of the city of Durham, it has been
decided to print in full Bee's Chronicle or register of births, marri-
ages and mortality. The Editor has been confirmed in this resolu-
tion by the generosity of his friend, Mr. H. M. Wood, who has not
only made the transcript but has provided the invaluable proofs
from the Parish Registers of Durham and elsewhere which, set out
in the foot-notes, so amply confirm the accuracy of the Diarist. The
admirable foot-notes of the late Mr. Edward White, F.S.A.,
which enrich the Registers of Durham Cathedral, printed by the
Harleian Society, have been suggestive as well as useful.

Since Jacob Bee's Diary was printed some details respecting his
family have been recovered, and it may be permissible to re-present
his pedigree : —

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I. Nicholas Bee, of the parish of St. Margaret's, Durham, married first

at St. Margaret's, 12 June, 1621, Jane Haslebe; and secondly at the
same church, 15 June, 1624, Barbara Ussie, widow ; by the last named,
he had issue: —

Kalph, baptized at St. Margaret's, 31 Oct., 1627, buried, 30 Nov.,

1636.
Jacob II.

Margaret, baptized at St. Margaret's, 22 Jan., 1624/5.
Barbara, baptized at St. Margaret's, 5 Mar., ] 629/ 30; buried, 29

Aug., 1634.
Jane, baptized at St. Margaret's, 15 May, 1633; buried, 14 Sept.,
1634.

II. Jacob Bee, the Diarist, baptized at St. Margaret's, 17 June, 1636,

married Elizabeth Rabbet, their banns having been published in the
Market Place, 28 Jan., 1657/8, and registered at St. Margaret's. She
was buried at that church, 27 Sept., 1710, and he was laid beside her,
15 January, 1711/2, having had issue : —
Nicholas III.
Thomas, baptized at St. Margaret's, 4 Aug., 1661; buried 29 May,

1671.
Jacob, baptized at St. Margaret's, 24 April, 1664; buried, 21 Feb.,

1670/1.
John, baptized at St. Margaret's, 1 Nov., 1670; buried, 2 April.

1675.
Margaret, baptized at St. Margaret's, 7 May, 1667; buried, 28
Oct., 1671.

III. Nicholas Bee, baptized at St. Margaret's, 22 July, 1658, of Durham,
afterwards of Garrigill in the parish of Alston; married, first, at St.
Margaret's, 5 July, 1681, Elizabeth Harason, who, dying in child-birth
was buried, 10 April, 1684; the name of the second wife has not been
ascertained. Jacob Bee died at Garrigill, 7 May, 1694, having had
issue: —

Anne, baptized at St. Margaret's, 25 June, 1682; married^ 25

Nov., 1704, Richard Coulson of Gilesgate.
Jacob, of whom his mother died, died in infancy and was buried

at St. Margaret's, 1 April, 1684.
Jacob, son of the second marriage, baptized at St. Margaret's,

28 May, 1689.
Elizabeth, born 29 May, 1690.
Margaret, baptized at St. Margaret's, 23 Oct., 1692; married there

7 June, 1720, John Robinson.

The entries to which an asterisk * is prefixed have already been
printed in Jacob Bee's Diary in Six North Country Diaries, to which
the student's attention is directed as the foot-notes are not repeated.

* When the name in the entry and the note differ the latter is in italic.
The Registers mostly quoted are of churches in the city of Durham.

56

BIRTHS.

1630.
April 11. John, son of Robert Robinson, white-smith, baptized.1

1658.
July 20. Nicholas Bee was born.2

1681.
Sept. 18. Jonathan Hutchinson, bookseller, was baptized at ye
years of 21, being Sunday.0

Dec. 31. Francis Middleton, sone to Fran: Middleton, barber,
was borne.1

Feb. 1. Isabell, daughter of Ralph Fisher, was borne, being
Wednesday.2

Feb. 8. Thomas, son to Mr. John Areson, was borne, being
Wednesday.3

1 1630. Apr. 11. John, son of Robert Robinson, baptized, whitesmith.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

2 1658. July 22. Nickholas, son of Jacob Bee, baptized. St. Margaret's
Registers.

0 1681. Sept. 18. Jonathan, son of William Hutchinson, baptized. St
Margaret's Registers.

1 1681/2. Jan. 10. Francess, son of Francess Meddleton, baptized.
St. Margaret's Registers.

2 1681/2. Feb. 1. Isabell and Dorathy, both daughters of Ralph
Fisher, baptized. Ibid.

3 1681/2. Feb. 21. Thomas, son of John Ayreson, mercer, baptized.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

I. John Ayreson of Durham, alderman and mercer, married at St. Nicholas',

17 Jan., 1636/7, Margaret, daughter of Mark Forster, town clerk of
Durham (who, dying during her husband's mayoralty, was buried in
' St. Nicholas' church, 28 May, 1655). He was mayor in 1648, 1649, and
1654^ and was laid beside his wife 20 June, 1674. He had issue —

Christopher, baptized at St. Nicholas', 4 April, 1638, buried in the

church 15 Dec, 1644.
John II.
Thomas, baptized at St. Nicholas', 4 Aug., 1647, buried in the

church, 2 Aug., 1654.
Elizabeth, baptized at St. Nicholas', 19 April, 1639, married,

13 June, 1669, John Homphrey of Brancepeth.
Mary, baptized at St. Nicholas', Jan., 1641/2, buried in the church

24 June, 1647.
Margaret, baptized at St. Nicholas', 8 April, 1645, buried in the

church, 8 Aug., 1661.
Frances, baptized at St. Nicholas', 21 June, 1646, married at the

Cathedral, 7 Feb., 1669/70, Robert Lamb of Durham.
Matilda, baptized at St. Nicholas', 28 July, 1648.
Mary, baptized at St. Nicholas', 27 Dec, 1651.

II. John Ayreson the younger of Durham, mercer, baptized at St. Nicholas',

16 April, 1643, married, first, Margaret , who was buried in St.

57

Feb. 9. Amma, daughter to Mr. John Rayne, attorney at
law, was borne, being Thursday.4

Feb. 13. , son of John, Jackson, shoe-maker, was borne

the 13th, being Munday;5 married 14 weeks before and 3 days.

Feb. 16. William, son of Thomas Trolopp, was borne, being
Thursday.6

Feb. 25. Mary, daughter to William Wissman, was borne be-
twixt 12 and one in the morning.7

Nicholas', 28 Feb., 1675/6, and, secondly, at St. Margaret's, 1 May,
1681, Hannah Green. John Ayreson was buried 29 July, 1712, and his
widow on the 2 Jan., 1730/1. He had issue by his first marriage :
John, baptized at St. Nicholas', 19 April, 1670.
Alice, baptized at St. Nicholas', 1 Oct., 1671, buried in the church

23 Dec, 1675.
Margaret, baptized at St. Nicholas', 24 Feb., 1673/4.
and by his second marriage :

Thomas, baptized at St. Nicholas', 21 Feb., 1681/2.

Christopher III.

Isabel, baptized at St. Nicholas', 18 July, 1683, buried in the

church, 18 June, 1690.
Frances, baptized at St. Nicholas', 12 June, 1687, married, 12 June,
1714, Nicholas Dixon.

III. Christopher Ayreson of Durham, grocer, baptized at St. Nicholas',
8 Sept., 1689, married, at St. Oswald's, 4 May, 1717, Ann Shaw, who
was buried at St. Nicholas', 11 March, 1754; her husband being laid
beside her, 4 Jan., 1775. He had issue :

John IV.

Christopher, baptized at St. Nicholas', 21 Dec, 1719.

Thomas, baptized at St. Nicholas', 8 Jan., 1723/4, buried 13 Dec,

1738.
George, baptized at St. Nicholas', 12 Feb., 1724/5, buried 4 Jan. ,

1730/1.
Thomas, baptized at St. Nicholas', 8 Jan., 1723/4 buried 13 Dec,
1738.

William, baptized at St. Nicholas', 26 Feb. 1730/1.
Richard, baptized at St. Nicholas', 16 April, 1734.
Margaret, baptized at St. Nicholas' 15 Nov., 1721. buried 25 July,

1722.
Thomasin, baptized at St. Nicholas', 14 Jan., 1727/8, married,

25 Sept., 1748, at the same church, Richard Emmerson.
Anne, baptized at St. Nicholas', 30 Jan., 1736/7, buried 14 June,

1741.

IV. John Ayreson of Durham, baptized at St. Nicholas'. 15 June, 1718.
married at St. Mary-le-Bow, 13 Nov., 1744, Elizabeth Allen and had
issue. He probably married secondly at St. Nicholas', 23 May, 1762,
Frances Gale and had further issue.

4 1681/2. Feb. 16. Emma, daughter of Mr. John Rayne, baptized.
St, Margaret's Registers.

5 1681/2. Feb. 19. John, son of John Jackson, cordwainer, baptized.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

6 1681/2. Feb. 21. William, son of Thomass Troolup, baptized. St.
Margaret's Registers. See Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 93.

7 1681/2. Mar. 2. Mary, daughter of William Wisman, baptized. St.
Margaret's Registers.

58

1682.

April 7. Ann, daughter of Mr. John Richardson, was borne,
being Friday morning about 4.8

June 6. Elizabeth, daughter of Tho. Arundall, was borne, being
Tuesday.9

June 15. Ann, daughter of Nicho : Bee, was borne, being Thurs-
day.10

July 13. William, son of Ralph Hall, was borne, being Thurs-
day.11

Aug. 25. Richard, son of Mr. Richard Raw, was borne, being
Wednesday morning.12

*Sept. 28 [mort.] Son of Richard Sofly, was borne, being Thurs-
day, and Elizabeth Dobinson13 was her midwife and ye first yt
ever she [had] laid.

Sept. 28. Ralph, son to Henry Rippon, was borne, being Thurs-
day and baptized 1st of October.14

Oct. 4. Jacob, son of Thomas Walker, was borne, being
Wednesday, and baptized the Sunday after.15

Oct. 14. Nicholas, son to Thomas Marshall, was borne betwixt
11 and 12 and being Saturday night.16

Nov. 26. Portington, son of Nathaniel Hightley, was borne,
being Sunday.17

Feb. 24. Anthony, son of Anthony Emmerson, was borne,
being Satterday morning.18

1683.

Mar. 31. Thomas, son of Thomas Trolopp, was borne, being
Satterday.19

8 1682. Apr. 7. Ann, daughter of Mr. John Richardson, born. Ibid.

9 1682. June 11. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Arrundell, baptized.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

10 1682. June 25. Ann, daughter of Nickolass Bee, baptized. ,57.
Margaret's Registers.

11 1682. July 23. William, son of Ralph Hall, baptized. Ibid.

12 Crossed out in the Diary.

13 1682. Oct. 3. William, son of Richard Softly, baptized. SU
Margaret's Registers.

14 1682. Oct. 1. Ralph, son of Henry Rippon, baptized. Ibid.

15 1682. Oct. 8. Jacob, son of Thomas Walker, glover, baptized. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

16 1682. Oct. 22. Nickellass, son of Thomas Marchell, baptized. St.
Margaret's Registers.

17 1682. Dec. 5. Portington, son of Nathaniell Highley, baptized.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

18 1682/3. Feb. 27. Anthony, son of Anthony Emmerson, baptized.
St. Giles' Registers.

19 1683. April 9. Thomas, son of Mr. Thos. Trollup, baptized. 8U
Margaret's Registers. See Surtees, Durham, vol. i, p. 39.

59

Aug. 1. William, son of Robert Sofley, was borne, being
Wednesday.20

Nov. 24. William, son of John Maddeson, was borne, being
Saterday night about 8 o'clock.1

Dec. 30. Cuthbert, son of John Rayne, was borne, being Sunday.

Jan. 30. -, daughter of Matthew Shaw, was borne, being

Wednesday.2

Feb. 24. Jane, daughter of Thomas Arundall, was borne, being
Sunday.3

1684.

Sept. 29. Mr. Kitchin's boy was borne.

Oct. 19. Thomas, son of Ralph Rennoldson, was borne, being
Munday.4

Oct. 25. Frances, daughter of Mr. Thomas Taylorson, was
borne, being Satterday morning.5

Nov. 17. Bess Lodge's baster child, was borne, being Monday.

Dec. 3. Ann, daughter of James Poulson, was borne, being
Wednesday.6

Feb. 28. Mr. John Hutchinson's daughter, late Mayor of
Durham, was born, being Satterday, being called by ye name of
7

Feb. 28. Mr. John Hutchinson's .daughter Jane was borne,
being Satterday.

1685.

July 14. Thomas, son of Henry Dobinson, was borne, being
Tuesday at night.

Aug. 10. Ann, daughter of John Dothwaite, was borne, being
Munday.

Oct. 6. Thomas, son of Nicholas Collison, was borne, being
Wednesday.8

20 1683. Aug. 5. William, son of Robertt Softly, baptized. St.
Margaret's Registers.

1 1683. Dec. 2. William, son of John Maddeson, baptized. Ibid.

2 1683/4. Feb. 5: Elinor, daughter of Mathew Shaw, white-smith,
baptized. St. Nicholas' Registers.

3 1683/4. Mar. 2. Jaine, daughter of Thomas Arrundell, baptized.
Ibid.

4 1684. Oct. 26. Thomass, son of Ralph Reneldson, baptized. St.
Margaret's Registers.

5 1684. Oct. 25. Margarett, daughter of Mr. Thomas Taylerson,
baptized. Ibid.

5a1684. Nov. 25. Isabell, daughter of Margaret Lodge, a basterd,
baptized. Ibid.

6 1684. Dec. 9. Ann, daughter^ of James Powlson, baptized. Ibid.

7 1684/5. Mar. 2. Elener, daughter of Mr. John Hutchinson, baptized.
Ibid.

8 1685. Oct. 11. Thomas, son of Nickellass Collinson, baptized. Ibid.

60

Oct. 18. Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Browne, was baptized.9
Jan. 30. Francis, daughter of Frank Kitching, was borne, being
Satterday.10

1686.

May 28. George, son of John Maddinson, was borne at 2 in
morning, being Friday.11

Sept. 24. Bese Eggleston's baster child was borne, being
Friday.12

Oct. 3. Nann Allinson two bastards, gotten by Reachy, an
exciseman, was borne but dead at birth, being Sunday.

Feb. 18. Sussana, daughter of Doctor Arnold, was borne,
being Friday.128,

1687.

Dec. 9. Elizabeth, daughter of John Maddinson, was borne,
being Thursday morning.13

1688.

*June 10. The supposed Prince of Wailes was borne, being
Sunday.

June 10. And that day Joseph, son of John Richardson, mer-
chant, was born.14

1689.

May 19. Jacob, son of Nicholas Bee, was borne, being Whit-
sunday this year.15

June 11. Robert, Alice Woodmas' girle (sic), was borne, being
Sunday.16

1690.

Mar. 30. Robert Wilson's daughter Jane, was baptized, being
Sunday.17

9 1685. Oct. 18. Dorrathy, daughter of Thomas Brown, baptized.
Ibid.

10 1685/6. Feb. 9. Frances, daughter of Francess Kitchin, baptized.
Ibid.

11 1686. June 6. George, son of John Maddeson, baptized. St.
Margaret's Registers.

12 1686. Sept. 26. Elizabeth, daughter of Elizabeth Eggelstone, a
bastard, baptized. Ibid.

12a 1686/7. Feb. 24. Dorathy, daughter of Mr. John Fratherick
Arnold, baptized. Ibid.

13 1687. Dec. 13. Elizabeth, daughter of John Maddeson, baptized.
Ibid.

14 1688. June 19. Joseph, son of Mr. John Richardson, baptized. Ibid.

15 1689. May 28. Jacob, son of Nicholas Bee, baptized. Ibid.

16 1689. Julv 4. Alice, daughter of Mr. Robert Woodmas, baptized.
Ibid.

17 1690. Mar. 30. Jane, daughter of Eobert Wilson, baptized. Ibid.

61

May 29. Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Bee, was borne, being
Thursday.

June 28. Petter, son of James Harry, was born, being Setter-
day, betwixt 7 and 8 of ye clock at night. 17a

Aug. 3. Edward, son of John Maddinson, was borne, being
Sunday.18

Feb. 24. Jane, daughter of Henry Dobinson, was borne, being
Tuesday.

1691.

April 30. John, son of John Thompson, tallow chandler, was
borne, being Thursday.19

Oct. 3. William Baxter's boy was borne, being Satterday,
between ye hours of 10 and 11 of ye forenoon.20

Oct. 3. Thomas, son of William Baxter, was borne, being
Satterday.

Nov. 13. Richard, son of John Lambe, was borne, being Friday,
one quarter before 9 in ye morning.1

1692.

April 15. Thomasin Sofley's bastard child was borne, being
Friday: la

May 28. Hugh Hutchinson's first borne girle was borne, being
Satterday.2

June 9. Andrew Wedd ell's first borne girl was borne, being
Thursday.

Oct. 8. Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Bee, was borne, being
Satterday.3

Dec. 8. John, son of George Sheifeild, was borne, being
Thursday.4

Dec. 28. , son of Mr. Thomas Lassells, was borne, being

Wednesday.5

17a 1690. July 13. Peter, son of James Harry, baptized. Ibid.

18 1690. July 10. Edward, son of John Maddison, baptized. Ibid.

19 1691. May 10. John, son of John Thompson, tallow chandler,
baptized. St. Nicholas' Registers.

20 1691. Oct. 12. Thomas, son of William Baxter, baptized. St.
Margaret's Registers.

1 1691. Nov. 22. Richard, son of John Lamb, baptized. Ibid.

la1692. April 19. Joseph, son of Richard Sofley, baptized. Ibid.

2 1692. June 14. Frances, daughter of Hugh Hutchinson, baptized.
Ibid.

3 1692. Oct. 23. Margarett, daughter of Nicholas Bee, baptized. Ibid.

* 1692. Dec. 19. John, son of George Shaffield, baptized. Ibid.

5 1692. Dec. 29. William, son of Mr. Thomas Lassells, baptized. Ibid.

62

1693.

April 22. , daughter of William Norman, was borne at night,

being Satterday.6

April 22. And Dr. Morton his child to his latter wife, was borne
about ye same time, Satterday night.7

Aug. 3. Ollimpa Frappert was borne, being Thursday and
dyed ye 27 of November '93.

Nov. 22. Elizabeth, daughter of William. Baxter, was borne,
being Friday, one quarter of an hour before 10 in the morning.8

Dec. 21. Thomason Trolopp and Thomasin Hutchinson,
daughters to Mr. Trollop9 and Richard Hutchinson, was borne, being
Thursday .

Jan. 15. James La-sley, his boy, was borne, being Munday.
*Feb. 2. William Rocksby, Bet Conyers' husband of Sunder-
land, saylor, his boy was borne, being Friday.

Feb. 20. John, son of Thomas Dobinson, was borne upon
Shrove Tuesday.10

Feb. 23. Mary, daughter of Mr. Gabriell Swainston, was borne,
being Friday.11

1694.

June 29. Mr. Trotter's boy was borne, Mr. Wilkinson's son-
in-law.12

July 7. John, Philip Stoot's boy was borne, being Sunday.13

Aug. 15. , son of Alderman Tweddell, was borne, being

Wednesday and dyed ye 25th of April '95, being Friday.14

Aug. 31. , son of Joseph Coulson, was borne.

Jan. 27. Ralph, son of Ralph Rennoldson, was borne, being
Sunday15 and dyed this life ye 16th of January 1695/6.

6 1693. Apr. 25. William, son of William Normond, baptized. Ibid.

7 1693. May 1. Ositha, daughter of Dr. Morton, baptized. Cathedral
Registers. Dr. John Morton was a prebendary of Durham and archdeacon
of Northumberland.

8 1693. Dec. 28. Elizabeth, daughter of William Baxter, baptized.
St. Margaret's Registers.

9 1693/4. Jan. 2. Thomasin, daughter of Mr. Thomas Trollupp,
baptized. Ibid.

10 1693/4. Mar. 4. John, son of Thomas Dobinson, baptized. Ibid.

11 1693/4. Mar. 5. Mary, daughter of Mr. Gabriell Swainston, baptized.
Ibid.

12 1694. July 2. John, son of John Trotter, esq., baptized. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

13 1694. July 22. John, son of Phillipp Stout, baptized. St. Margaret's
Registers.

14 1694. Sept. 2. John, son of Mr. George Tweddell, mercer and alder-
man, baptized. St. Nicholas' Registers.

15 1694/5. Feb. 3. George, son of Ralph Rennoldson, baptized. St.
Margaret's Registers.

63

1695.

Oct. 14. Gabriell, son of Mr. Gab. Swainston, was borne, being
Munday, betwixt 4 and 5 in ye morning.16

Oct. 23. Robert, son of James Richardson, was borne, being
Wednesday, 6 months after marriage.17

*Nov. 9. Charles Hadson's two twins was borne, being Satter-
day.

Dec. 2. Frances,, daughter of John Harry, was borne, being
Munday.18

Feb. 27. Mary, daughter of Nick Richardson, was borne
upon Ash Wednesday.19

1696.

Aug. 2. Robert, son of William Norman, was borne, being
Sunday.20

1697.

April 5. Ann, daughter of Mr. Gabriell Swainston, was borne,
being Easter Munday.1

May 8. Elizabeth, daughter of William Pearson, shoe maker,
was borne about 3 o'clock in the morning, being Satterday.2

Sept. 25. Edward, son of John Harry, was borne, being Mun-
day morning.3

Dec. 1. , son of Charles Hudson, was borne, being Wed-
nesday, in the afternoon.4

Dec. 1. Thomas, son of Thomas Peckton, was borne, being
Wednesday a night betwixt 9 and 10.5

Mar. 15. Thomas, son of Peter Milner, was born, being Tuesday,
about two of ye clock in ye morning.6

16 1695. Oct. 14. Gabriell, son of Mr. Gabriell Swainston, baptized.
Ibid.

17 1695. Nov. 3. Robert, son of James Richardson, baptized.. Ibid.

18 1695. Dec. 15. Frances, daughter of John Harrey, baptized. Ibid.

19 1695/6 Mar. 23. Mary, daughter of Nicholas Richardson, baptized.
Ibid.

20 1696. Aug. 9. Robert, son of William Normond, baptized. Ibid.

1 This entry is crossed out in Diary but, ' 1697, May 4, Anne, daughter of
Mr. Gabriel Swainston,' baptized. Ibid.

2 1697. May 23. Elizabeth, daughter of William Pearson, baptized.
Ibid.

3 1697. Oct. 10. Edmond, son of John Harrey, baptized. Ibid.

* 1697. Dec. 18. Charles, son of Charles Hudson, baptized. Ibid.

5 1697. Dec. 14. Thomas, son of Thomas Peckton, baptized. Ibid.

6 1698. Mar. 27. Thomas, son of Peter Milner, baptized. Ibid.

64

1G98.

Aug. 8. Frances, daughter of Nick Richardson, was borne at
night, being Friday.7

Sept. 9. Mathew, son of Mathew Wright, was borne, being
Friday morning.8

Jan. 5. Ann, daughter of Henry Wisman, was borne, being
Thursday.9

1699.

Jan. 9. Margery, daughter of Mr. John Hall, merchant, was
borne, being Tuesday.10

Jan. 30. Margaret, daughter of Mr. Gab. Swainston, was borne,
being Tuesday.11

Feb. 16. James, son of James Poulson, was borne, being Satter-
day"

Mar. 1. , son of John Wills, was borne, being Friday.13

1700.

June 10. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Dent, was borne, being
Munday, and baptized the 23rd of June after.14

June 16. Christo : son of John Coulson, was borne about 6 of the
clock in the morning.15

June 24. Frances Grieves' two twins was borne, being Satterday.

Nov. 30. Andrew, son of John Milbourne, was borne, being
Satterday morning.16

Dec. 28. Peter, son of Peter Miller, was borne, being Satter-
day, at night.17

7 1698. Aug. 28. Frances, daughter of Nicholas Richardson, black-
smith, baptized. Ibid.

8 1698. Sept. 27. Matthew, son of Matthew Wright of Crossgate,
taylor, baptized. Ibid.

9 1698/9. Jan. 29. Anne, daughter of Henry Wiseman, cordwayner, in
Crossgate, baptized. Ibid.

10 1699/1700. Jan. 31. Margery, daughter of Mr. John Hall, Crossgate,
merchant, baptized. St. Margaret's Registers.

11 1699/1700. Feb. 11. Margaret, daughter of Mr. Gabriel Swainston,
Crossgate, prockter, baptized. Ibid.

12 1699/1700. Feb. 15. James, son of James Poulson of Crossgate, dyer,
baptized. Ibid.

13 1699/1700. Mar. 21. Edward, son of Jon Wills of Crossgate, barber,
baptized. Ibid.

14 1700. June 23. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Dent of Crossgate,
cordweyner, baptized. Ibid.

15 1700. July 7. Thomas, son of John Coulson of Crossgate, roper,
baptized. Ibid.

16 1700. Dec. 15. Andrew, son of John Milburne, miller, of Crossgate,
baptized. Ibid.

17 1700/1. Jan. 14. Peter, son of Peter More of Crossgate, baptized.
Ibid.

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Jan. 12. Margaret, second daughter of Mr. John Hall, was
borne, being Sunday.18

1701.

April 28. Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Swainston, was borne, being
Sunday.19

July 28. Dorothy, daughter of Nich : Richardson, was borne,
being Munday, about 1 m the morning.

July 1. Elizabeth, daughter of John Hood, shoe-maker, was
borne, being Tuesday.20

Nov. 2. John Bowey, Backhouse man's daughter was baptized,
being Sunday.1

Jan. 25. Thomas Reed's daughter, tanner, was born, being
Sunday.2

1702.

Sept. 30. William, son of Mr. William Suretise, was borne, being
Wednesday.3

Oct. 31. Burdon, son of Christopher Burrell, was borne, being
Satterday.4

Nov. 29. John, son of Mr. John Richardson, was borne, being
Sunday.5

Jan. 21. Fran, son of Francis Middleton junior, was borne,
being Thursday.

Jan. 24. Mary, daughter of John Coulson, smith, was borne,
at night.6

Feb. 3. John and Thomas, sons of Thomas Richardson, twins,
was borne, being Wednesday.7

18 1700/1. Jan. 28. Margarett, daughter of John Hall, Crossgate,
grocer, baptized. Ibid.

19 1701. May 7. Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Gabriel Swainston, Cross-
gate, baptized. Ibid.

20 1701. July 13. Eliz., daughter of John Hude of Framwelgate,
labourer, baptized. Ibid.

1 1701. Nov. 2. Elizabeth, daughter of John Bowey of Crossgate,
labourer, baptized. Ibid.

2 1701/2. Feb. 10. Jane, daughter of Thomas Reed of Framwelgate,
tanner, baptized. Ibid.

3 1702. Oct. 13. William, son of Will Suretas, yeoman, baptized. Ibid.

4 1702. Nov. 9. Burdon, son of Christopher Burrell, baptized. Ibid.

5 1702. Dec. 1. John, son of John Richardson, the younger, Crossgate,
baptized. Ibid.

6 1702/3. Feb. 8. (blank) son of John Coulson, Crossgate, baptized.
Ibid.

7 1702/3. Feb. 17. Tho. and John, sons of Tho. Richardson, smith,
Crossgate, baptized. Ibid.

5

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1703.

Mar. 26. , daughter of Mr. Swainston, was borne, being

Good Friday.8

June 20. , daughter of Thomas Armstrong, was born be-
twixt one and two in the morning.9

Aug. 8. Ralph, son of William Sherewood, was borne, being
Sunday.10

Sept. 6. John, son of John Wills, was borne, being Munday
morne.11

1704.

Sept. 5. Robert White, weaver, his boy was borne, being a
great rejoycing day.12

1705.

Sept. 9. John, son of John Coulson, was borne, being
Sunday.13

Feb. 1. Margery, daughter of Mr. Andrews, was borne, being
Friday.14

Feb. 3. , daughter of William Sherewood, was borne,

being Sunday, about 11 of ye clock.

1706.

Sept. 13. Thomas, son of Jacob Holland, was borne, being
Sunday.

Oct. 5. Ann, daughter of Richard Coulson, was borne Satter-
day betwixt 9 and 10 in the morn.15

Jan. 26. Thomas Dent's youngest boy was borne, being
Sunday.16

8 1703. Mar. 30. Mary, daughter of Gabriel Swainston, baptized.
St. Margaret's Registers.

9 1703. July 11. Rebecca, daughter of Tho. Armstrong, Crossgate,
baptized. Ibid.

10 1703. Aug. 22. Ralph, son of William Sherwood, Crossgate,
baptized. Ibid.

11 1703. Sept. 28. Edward, son of John Wills, Crossgate, baptized.
Ibid.

12 1704. Sept. 24. Robert, son of Robert White, Crossgate, baptized.
Ibid.

13 1705. Sept. 27. John, son of John Coulson, baptized. Ibid.

14 1705/6. Feb. 19. Margery, daughter of John Andrew, Framwelgate,
baptized. Ibid.

15 1706. Oct. 20. Anne, daughter of Richard Coulson, baptized. St.
Giles' Registers.

16 1706/7. Jan. 26. Thomas, son of Thomas Dent, born. St. Margaret's
Registers.

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1707.

May 26. , daughter of Robert White, was born.17

June 19. Mrs. Jane Tempest's daughter was borne.18
June 24. Mr. Burdess his daughter was born.19

1709.

May 5. Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Coulson, was borne,
being Tuesday at night.20

1711.

Deo. 21. Thomas, son of Richard Coulson, was borne, being
Friday.20*

17 1707. June 15. Anne, daughter of Robert White of Crossgate,
weaver, baptized. Ibid.

18 1707. June 19. Jane, daughter of Mr. John Tempest, esq., born and
baptized. St. Nicholas' Registers.

19 1707. June 24. Mary, daughter of Mr. Thomas Burdas of Fram-
welgate, baptized. St. Margaret's Registers.

Thomas Burdus of Durham, barrister-at-law, married Elizabeth, only
surviving daughter of Thomas Mascall of Durham, attorney, by his wife,
Mary, daughter of Timothy Whittingham of Holmside. Mrs. Burdus
'diffusive in her charity to the poor and courteous in her deportment
towards all/ died 28 September, 1741, and was buried in St. Margaret's
where there is an inscription to her memory.

20 1709. May 29. Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Coulson, baptized.
St. Giles' Registers.

21 1711. Dec. 30. Thomas, son of Richard Coulson, baptized. Ibid.

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MARRIAGES

A particular marriage in the year 1677, November 4.

Nov. 4. The Prince of Orange was married to the Lady Mary,
the present King of England's daughter, James the Second, being
the eldest daughter, being Sunday.

1681.

July 17. Thomas Arundall and Rett Murton was married, being
Sunday.1

*Sept. 5. John Phillipson, taylor, and Katherin Rowell was
married the 5th of September, being Monday, with a lawles minister
at Newcastle.

Oct. 29. Allis Dothwaite was married to Henry Dobinson, being
Satterday.2

Oct. 1. Andrew Milner and Christopher Fenwick's daughter
was married, being All Saints' Day.3

Nov. 15. Susana Yeansley — Jefferson's maid — was married to
an Auckland man, being Tuesday.4

Dec. 6. Mr. Robert Reed, apothecary, was married, being
Tuesday.5

1 1681. July 17. Thomas Arundell and Elizabeth Morton was married
by licence. St. Nicholas' Registers

2 1681. Oct. 29. Henry Dobbinson and Alice Dowthwaite, both of the
parish of Branspeth, married. St. Oswald's Registers.

3 1681. Nov. 1. Andrew Milner and Jaine Fen wick, spinster, by
licence, married. St. Nicholas' Registers.

* 1681. Nov. 15. James Clarke and Susana Ansly, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

5 1681. Dec. 8. Robert Reed and Isabell Lanchester, spinster, married.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

I. Robert Reed apparently had no issue by his wife, Isabel Lancaster, who

was buried at St. Oswald's, 7 June, 1683. He married, secondly, Jane

who survived him. He was laid beside his first wife, 14 May,

1714. He had (perhaps with other) issue: —

Robert, baptized at St. Nicholas', 13 Oct., 1687.

Thomas II.

Ann, baptized at St. Nicholas', 20 May, 1686.

II. Thomas Reed of Durham, apothecary and surgeon, baptized at St.

Nicholas', 5 Sept., 1689; died, 11 Nov., 1761, aged 72, and was buried at
St. Oswald's where there is a long Latin inscription to his memory.
By his wife, Catherine, who died 2 Sept., 1789, aged 79, he had (with
other) issue : —

Thomas Reed, baptized at St. Nicholas', 30 July, 1730, and dying,
7 Feb., 1786, aged 56 was buried at St. Oswald's.

Edward John III.

William, baptized at St. Nicholas', 26 May, 1740.

III. Edward John Reed of Durham, surgeon, baptized at St. Nicholas',
8 May, 1735; died, 14 July, 1767, aged 32, and was buried at St.
Oswald's in his father's tomb. He had issue: —

Thomas Reed, baptized at St. Nicholas', 27 April, 1763.
Catherine Esther, baptized at St. Nicholas', 22 Feb., 1764.

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Feb. 25. John Duckett, blacksmith, was married, being
Satterday.6

1682.

April 25. Anthony Allinson was married, being Tuesday.7

May 18. Bartholomew Browne, white-smith, was married,
being Thursday.8

May 21. Richard Vasey was married, being Sunday.9

July 30. Jonathan Hutchinson was married, being Sunday.10

Aug. 1 . Thomas Burnup was married to Nell Bell sister, being
Tuesday.11

Sept. 20. Andrew Wilkinson and Nan Burdiss was married,
being Wednesday.12

Oct. 24. George Walton and Phillis Lee, of Broome, was mar-
ried, being Tuesday.13

Dec. 28. Mr. George Parkinson and Mrs. Stokeld was married,
being Thursday.14

Jan. 31. Ralph Gelson was married to Ann Binion, being
Wednesday.15

Feb. 11. Mathew Shaw was married to a widow in Newcastle,
being Sunday.16

Feb. 19. Thomas Palmer was married, being Munday.17

' 1681/2. Feb. 25. John Duckett and Mary Harason married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

7 1682. Apr. 25. Anthony Alinson and Alezes Merington, married.
Ibid.

8 1682. May 18. Barterim Brown and Mary Waide, married. Ibid.

9 1682. May 21. Richard Vase and Mary Warde, married. Ibid.

10 1682. July 30. Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson and Ann Maddison,
married. St, Giles' Registers.

11 1682. Aug. 1. Thomas Burnup and Elizabeth Wild, married. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

12 1682. Sept. 20. Andrew Wilkinson and Anne Burdess, married.
Cathedral Registers.

13 1682. Oct. 25. George Walton, parish of Witton Gilbert, and Phillis
Lee, widow, of Broome, within this parish, married by licence. St. Oswald's
Registers.

14 1682. Dec. 28. Mr. George Parkinson and Mrs. Mary Stokeld,
married. St. Margaret's Registers.

15 1682/3. Jan 31. Raiph Gelson and Jaine Binyon, married. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

16 1682/3. Feb. 10. Matthew Shaw of Durham and Margaret Davison
of Newcastle, married with lie. Gateshead Registers.

17 1682/3. Feb. 19. Thomas Palmer and Anne Mason, married.
Cathedral Registers.

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1683.

April 15. Charles Hudson, ye London baker, was married, being
Sunday.18

May 1. Stephen Maugham wasi married to Gilbert Watson's
daughter, being Tuesday.19

May 6. Mr. William Hodshon was married to Ann Paxton,.
being Sunday.19*

May 12. Henry Havers was married to Sarah Buttery, being
Saterday.20

May 12. George Foster and Margrett Hand's maid was married,
being Satterday.1

Aug. 19. Ralph Trotter and Margret Ladler was married at
Abbey Church, being Sunday.

Aug. 20. John Hunter, a ourrier, was married to William
Kirkle's daughter, being Munday.2

18 1683. April 15. Charles Hudson and Elizabeth Ridley, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

19 1683. May 1. Stephen Mawan and Elizabeth Watson, married.
Ibid.

19a I. George Hodgson of Durham, alderman and mercer, was mayor in

1671. By his wife, Matilda, who survived him and was buried in St.

Nicholas' church, 26 May, 1692, he had (perhaps with other) issue : —

William II.

Charles Hodgson, baptized, St. Nicholas', 31 May, 1663 [of Durham,

apothecary, buried, 26 Sept., 1718].
George, baptized, St. Nicholas', 4 Feb., 1665/6; buried in the

church, 20 June, 1666.
Mark, of Durham, mercer, baptized, St. Nicholas', 14 July, 1667;

buried in the church, 13 Mar., 1699/1700.
John, baptized, St. Nicholas', 19 June, 1669; buried, 1 July, 1669.
Peter, baptized, St. Nicholas', 12 Aug., 1673; buried, 27 Nov., 1674.
II. William Hodgson of Durham, alderman and mercer, baptized at St.
Nicholas', 6 Feb., 1661/2, mayor in 1694, was buried in the same church,
12 May, 1706. By his wife, Ann (daughter of Nicholas) Paxton, he had
issue: —

William, baptized, St. Nicholas', 6 June, 1686.

George, baptized, St. Nicholas', 13 Dec, 1687; buried, 9 Jan.,

1687/8.
Nicholas, baptized, St. Nicholas', 1 May, 1689.
John, baptized, St. Nicholas', 6 May., 1691; buried, St. Oswald's,

6 May, 1707, registered at St. Nicholas'.
George, baptized, St. Nicholas', 24 Aug., 1696.
Ann, baptized, St. Nicholas', 31 Mar., 1684; buried, 31 July, 1689.
Matilda, baptized at St. Nicholas', 23 May, 1692.
Elizabeth, baptized, St. Nicholas', 22 Sept., 1693, buried, 16 July,

1694.
Eleanor, baptized, St. Nicholas', 15 Sept., 1697/8.
20 1683. May 12. Henry Havers, of this parish, and Sarah Buttery, of
the parish of St. Nicholas', married. St. Oswald's Registers.

1 1683. May 12. George Forster and Mary Maddison, married. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

2 1683. Aug. 20. John Hunter and Elizabeth Kerkly, married. St,
Margaret's Registers.

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*Aug. 22. Jane, daughter to Richard Hutchinson, Trimdon Dock,
was married to one Kitchin, being Wednesday.3

Oct. 14. Thomas Taylorson and Bett Frizell was supposed to be
married, being Sunday.

Oct. 23. Jacob Jackson and Katherin Lowther was married,
being Tuesday.4

Oct. 23. William Preston and Ann Fisher was married the same
day.5

Nov. 5. George Jackson, milner, and Doll Huntley's daughter
was married, being Munday.5a

*Nov. 11. Margret, daughter to Henry Kirkhouse, was married
to Henry Britton, servant to ye Esquire of Newton, being Sunday.

Feb. 5. Ralph Rowell, mayson, was married to Ann Watson,
being Tuesday.6

Feb. 5. Thomas Hopper, shoemaker, was married to Bett
Stott, Hugh Stott's daughter, being Tuesday.7

•Mar. 2. Mr. Thomas Buttery, attorney at law, was married to
Elizabeth Browne, Richard Browne's daughter, the sexton of Fram-
welgat Church, being Sunday.

1684.

April 1. Mr. Thomas Taylorson was married to Betty Frizell
upon Easter Tuesday.8

April 8. Ralph Renmoldson and Margret Sherewood was mar-
ried, being Tuesday.9

April 28. Arthur Bell and Bett Jackson, both servants to Mr.
Stephen Thompson, was married being Munday.10

*May 1. Richard Williamson, commonly Lapper, or Lapthorne,
was married to Jane Ingeham, being Thursday.

May 1. Robert Wilson was married to Allis Rowell, being
Thursday.11

June 8. Henry Robson, which was Backhouse man of Elvett,
was married to Mary Coltman, being Sunday.12

3 1683. Aug. 22. Frances Hitching and Jane Hutchinson, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

* 1683. Oct. 23. Jacob Jackson and Catherin Lowder, married. Ibid.

5 1683. Oct. 23. William Preston and Ann Fisher, married. Ibid.

5a1683. Nov. 9. George Jackson and Susanna Crawhall, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

6 1683/4. Feb. 5. Ralph Rowell and Ann Watson, married. Ibid.

7 1683/4. Feb. 5. Thomass Hopper and Elizabeth Stoote, married.
Ibid.

8 See entry under 14 October, 1683.

9 1684. April 8. Ralph Reneldson and Margarett Sherwood, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

10 1684. April 28. Auther Bell and Elizabeth Jackson, married. Ibid.

11 1684. May 1. Robart Wilson and Alezs Rowell, married. Ibid.

12 1684. June 8. Henry Robson and Mary Coultman, married. Ibid.

72

Aug. 31. William Huson, carrier, was married to John Midford's
sister, being Sunday.13

Aug. 31. Edward Hodshon, milner, was married upon Sunday.14

Nov. 16. William Conyers, carpenter, was married to George
Jackson's sister, the milner, this being his third wife, being Sunday.15
*Nov. 18. Francis Middleton to a woman out in Ilellgate,16
being Tuesday.

Nov. 25. George Atkinson was married at Stockton, being
Tuesday.

Nov. 23. Stephen Hodgson, barber, was married to Ann
Bryers, being Sunday.17

Dec. 4. Magdalin Stott, Edward Stot's daughter, was married
to a straynger, being Thursday — Matthew Stott's sister, the roper.18

Dec. 14. John Atkinson, shoemaker, was married to Katherin
Ladler, being Sunday morne.19

*Feb. 28. Ann Allinson, Thomas Allinson daughter, skinner,
was married to a country boucher, being Satterday.

1685.

*April 23. Judeth Sherewood was married to a taylor, of Hexham,

being Thursday, the King's Coronation-day.

May 5. Richard Padman was married to Margaret Natras,

being Tuesday.20

May 12. John Mountaine, taylor, was married, being Tuesday.1
June 14. John Stoot, sadler, was married, being Sunday.2
June 16. Thomas Browne, of Tuday, was married to a Chester

lass.

July 28. John Lambe and Jane Teasdall was married.3

13 1684. Aug. 31. William Hewitson and Dorrathy Poulton, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

14 1684. Aug. 31. Edward Hodshon and Jaine Olliver, married. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

15 1684. Nov. 16. William Connyers and Ann Jackson, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

16 Ilellgate = Gilligate or Gilesgate.

17. 1684. Nov. 23. Stephen Hodgson and Anne Breers, married by
licence. St. Nicholas' Registers.

18 1684. Dec. 4. Robartt Lawson and Magdalen Stoot, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

19 1684. Dec. 14. John Atkinson and Catherine Ladler, spinster,
married by licence. St. Nicholas' Registers.

20 1685. May 5. Richard Padman, parish of St. Nicholas', and Mar-
garet Nattress, of this parish, married. St. Oswald's Registers.

1 1685. May_ 12. John Mounton and Susanna Harason, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

2 1685. June 14. John Stout and Anne Chapman, spinster, married.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

3 1685. July 28. John Lambe and Jane Tesdall, married. St. Mar-
garet's Registers.

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Aug. 4. Mathew Browne, son to Richard Browne, milner, was
married to John Darby's daughter, being Tuesday.4

Sept. 3. Mr. Montague and Madam Foster was married, being
Thursday.5

Oct. 1. Roger Thornton was married, being Thursday.6

Oct. 22. Ralph Hall was married to Robert Farrow's maid,
being Thursday.7

Nov. 17. Michael Browne was married to Elizabeth Swann,
being Tuesday.8

*Nov. 24. " Doctor Dick Smith was married to Pegg Wappe being
Tuesday.

Dec. 29. John Middleton, esq., a barrister at law, was married
to Mrs. Ann Harrison, Mrs. Craddock's cozen, being Tuesday.9

Feb. 5. Mathew Marshall was married, being Friday.

Feb. 14. George Marley, lymner, was married to Ellinor Forcer,
being Sunday.10

1686.

May 2. Thomas Dixon, mayson, and Elizabeth Dods was mar-
ried, being Sunday.11

4 1685. Aug. 4. Matthew Browne and Mary Darbishire, both of this
parish, married. St. Oswald's Registers.

5 1685. Sept. 3. Charles Montague, armiger, and Elizab. Foster, mar-
ried. Cathedral Registers.

He was son of the Hon. George Montague, and grandson of Henry, first
Earl of Manchester. An account of Charles Montague, who founded the
Bank of England, and of his other great services to the State, for which he
was created Baron Halifax, may be found in Macaulay, History of England,
vol. iv. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter and eventually heiress of
Francis Forster, of Easington Grange, in the parish of Bamburgh, which
Francis was a younger son of Thomas Forster of Adderstone.

6 1685. Oct. 1. Roger Thornton and Isabell Guy, married. St. Mar-
garet's Register.

7 1685. Oct. 22. Ralph Hall and Elizabeth Littellton, married. Ibid.

8 1685. Nov. 17. Mickell Brown and Elizabeth Swan, married. Ibid.

9 1685. Dec. 29. John Midleton and Anne Harrison, married. Cath-
edral Registers.

John Middleton, third son of Nathaniel Middleton, of the city of
Durham, was baptised at St. Nicholas', 28 March, 1659, and was entered at
Oray's Inn, 27 November, 1677; he was elected Recorder of Durham, 3 June,
1696, and was buried at the church where he was baptized on the 21st
February, 1702/3. His wife, by whom he had issue two sons and eight
daughters, was Anne, daughter of John Harrison, of Scarborough. See
Surtees, Durham, vol .iv., p. 168.

10 1685/6. Feb. 14. George Marley and Elinor Forcer, married. Esh
Registers.

11 1686. May 2. Thomas Dixson and Elizabeth Dodds, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

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*June 8. Mathew Wright and Elizabeth. Bryson was married,
and a great deal of thunder and raine, being Tuesday.

Aug. 3. Isabell Dixon, daughter to Nicholas Dixon, was
married to Christopher Ramsey.12

Aug. 31. John Sympson was married to the widow of Katter-
house, near Durham, Thomas Parkin's widow, and he William Simp-
son's brother, milner.13

*Aug. 31. Magdalin Barnsfather and John Holdmystafe, alias
Smith, was married.

Sept. 14. Simon Hutchinson and Elizabeth Kemp Robinson
was married; Edward Robinson's widow.14

Oct. 12. Nicholas Paxton, junior, was married to Deborah
Midleton, being Tuesday.15

12 1686. Aug. 3. Crestephor Ramshaw and Isabel Dixson, married.
Ibid.

13 1686. Aug. 31. John Simson and Ann Parkinge, married. Ibid.

14 1686. Sept. 14. Simond Hutchinson and Elizabeth Robinson, widow,
married by licence. St. Nicholas' Registers.

15 Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 168, states that Nicholas Paxton and
Deborah Middleton were married at St. Mary-le-Bow, but the Register of
Marriages for that year is no longer extant. She was daughter of
Nathaniel Middleton, of Durham, and sister of John Middleton, afterwards
the Recorder, being baptised at St. Nicholas', 28 September, 1662. Nich-
olas Paxton was the postmaster of Durham and was buried at St. Mary-le-
Bow, 22 October, 1730, aged 76, his wife having died in the month of
September, 1722.

I. Nicholas Paxton of Durham, cordwainer, was buried at St. Nicholas',

22 Jan., 1689/90, having had issue by Elizabeth, his wife, who was
laid beside him, 18 April, 1703, four sons and three daughters, all of
whom were baptized at St. Nicholas': —

William, baptized, 23 April, 1653. nU

Nicholas II. «

Thomas Paxton, baptized, 27 Nov., 1659 [? of Durham, clothier,
buried at St. Oswald's, 22 Nov., 1702, and registered at St.
Nicholas'].

Ralph Paxton of Durham, alderman and mercer, baptized, 25 Dec.,
1666; married, 17 Jan., 1693/4, at St. Nicholas', Anne, daughter
of Francis Tweddell of Durham; churchwarden of St. Nich-
olas', 1710; he was buried 19 Sept., 1718.

Ann, baptized, 5 July, 1657, wife of William Hodgson of Durham,,
mercer.

Elizabeth, baptized, 25 Dec, 1661; buried in the church, 16 Aug.,
1666.

Eleanor, baptized, 13 April, 1664; married. 26 Nov., 1693, at St.
Nicholas', Christopher Fulthorpe of Durham, attorney.

II. Nicholas Paxton of Durham, cordwainer, baptized, at St. Nicholas',

24 May, 1655; married, 12 October, 1686, Deborah, sister of John
Middleton, the Recorder of Durham. He became postmaster circa 1700.
By his wife, who was buried in St. Nicholas' church, 26 Jan., 1707/8, he

70

Nov. 25. Mathew Marshall was married to William Ilea's
daughter, being Thursday.16

Nov. 28. John White, weaver, and Mary Scott, was married,
being Sunday and bore a child the 22nd of May, 1687.17

Nov. 30. Mr. John Kowell that belongs to the Spirituall Court
was married to Mrs. Church daughter, being Tuesday.

*Jan. 16. Thomas Wade, fidler, was married to a Londoner, a
widow, being Sunday.

1687.

April 26. George Wilkinson, son to Gilbert Wilkinson, Sadler
Street, tallow chandler, was married to Allice Stoot, daughter to
Rowland Stout, butcher, being Tuesday.18

April 26. Jane Burdess was married to Mr. Peacock's man,
being Tuesday, and went to live at Mr. Whitsmack's.

May 1. Thomas Peareson, smith, was married, being Sunday.

June 2. Phillip Stout was married, wanting 12 weekes of his
time, being Thursday.19

June 23. Mr. Michael Mickleton, son to James Mickleton,
lawyer, was married to Mr. John Spearman's daughter, he being
Under Sheriff, it being Munday.20

(unless he had a contemporary of the same name) had issue, all of
whom were baptized at St. Nicholas' : —
Richard, baptized, 6 May, 1689.
Nicholas, baptized, 3 Sept., 1690.
Abraham, baptized, 18 Aug., 1691; buried in the church, 25 July,

1695.
Ralph, baptized, 2 May, 1695 ; buried in the church, 7 May, 1695.
Nathaniel, baptized, 8 Mar., 1697/8.
Thomasin, baptized, 24 July, 1687.
Deborah, baptized, 29 Aug., 1693.
Elizabeth, baptized, 21 May, 1696.
Catherine, baptized, 25 Sept., 1699; buried in the church, 29

Jan., 1700/1.
Margaret, baptized, 12 Feb., 1700/1.
16 1686. Nov. 24. Matthew Marshell, of ye parish of St. Margaret's,
and Jane Rea, of this parish, married. St. Oswald's Registers.

17 1686. Nov. 28. John White and Mary Skote, married. St. Mar-
garet's Registers.

18 1687. April 26. George Wilkinson and Alice Stout, spinster, mar-
ried. St. Nicholas' Registers.

19 1687. June 2. Phillip Stout and Margret Raisebeck, married.
St. Mary-le-Bow Registers.

20 1687. July 4. Michael Mickleton and Elizabeth Spearman, married.
Cathedral Registers.

Cf. pedigree of Mickleton of Crook hall. Surtees, Durham, vol. iv.,
p. 140. His son, Christopher Mickleton, married Dorothy Milburne, grand-
daughter of Christopher Sanderson, whose diary is printed in Six North
Country Diaries.

76

Aug. 24. Christopher Marshall, wanting 26 weekes of his time,
being Wednesday.

Aug. 30. Rowland Brown, son to Richard Browne, sexton, being
Tuesday.

Nov 15. John Williamson was married to Bess Young, being
Tuesday.1

Nov. 30. Richard Craggs was married, being Wednesday.

Dec. 27. Margaret Dunce and a seaman was married, being
Tuesday.2

Feb. 2. Mr. Joseph Hall was married to Mrs. Frances Gibson,
being Thursday.3

Feb. 28. Christopher Colson, glover, was married to John
Baister's daughter, being Shrove Tuesday.4

1688.

April 16. Jonathan Walton and Dorothy Sanderson was mar-
ried, being Munday.5

Sept. 16. Robert Woodmas and Allice Johnson was married,
being Sunday.0

1 1687. November 15. John Williamson and Elizabeth Younge, mar-
ried. St. Margaret's Registers.

2 1687. Dec. 27. Cudbarth Burell and Margarett Dunce, married.
Ibid.

3 1687/8. Feb. 2. Joseph Hall and Frances Gibson, married. Cath-
edral Registers.

I. Joseph Hall of Durham, attorney, according to a pedigree in Surtees,

Durham, vol. ii., pp. 291, 292, married, 2 Feb., 1687/8, Frances Gibson,
by whom he had issue: —

Stephen, baptized, 3 Feb., 1690/1 ; buried 13 July, 1693.

John, baptized, 11 June, 1689.

Joseph II.

Thomas, baptized, 27 April, 1698; buried same year.

Margaret, baptized, 30 June, 1699.

II. Joseph Hall of Durham, baptized, 14 Sept., 1693, married at Skelton,

14 Dec, 1716, Catherine, daughter of Edward Trotter; buried, 27 Aug.,
1731, having had issue: —

Joseph Hall, buried at St. Margaret's, 25 Oct., 1723, aged 6.

John Hall of Skelton Castle (the Eugenius of Sterne), married Anne,

daughter and co-heir of Ambrose Stevenson of Manor-house in

Lanchester. 4,
George Lawson Hall, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 2 Aug., 1724, a

colonel in the army.
Thomas Hall, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 21 Nov., 1725, a

general in the army.
Frances Elizabeth, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 16 April, 1727,

wife of Walter Hawksworth of Hawksworth.

4 1687/8. Feb. 28. Crestepher Coulson and Sarah Baster, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

5 1688. April 16. Jonathan Walton, parish of St. Nicholas', and
Dorothy Sanderson, of the chapelry of Esh, spinster, married by licence.
St. Nicholas' Registers, also in Esh Registers.

6 1688. Sept. 16. Robard Woodmass and Alizes Johnson, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

77

Oct. 7. James Harry, cooper, and his servant, Jane, was
married at Whickham, being Sunday.7

Oct. 11. Ralph Fisher with Worrell's widow and John's whore.8

1689.

Mar. 31. Thomas Parkinson and Isabell Dobinson was married,
being Easter Sunday.9

May 26. John Smith, collyer, was married to Mary Watson's
daughter.10

Aug. 9. George Sheiffeild was married to his second wife, being
Friday.11

Aug. 13. Michael Huson and Ann Dury married at Ash, being
Tuesday.12

Nov. 22. Nicholas Hutchinson, taylor, was married to Margaret
Hutchinson, being Sunday.13

*Dec. 26. Margaret Browne, Oster Peg, and John Thompson was
married, being St. Stephen's Day.

Feb. 4. Ann Bell, daughter to Will Bell, was married to a
Hexham glover and skinner, being Tuesday.14

Feb. 25. Mary Niokson was married to one Hall, being Tues-
day.15

*Feb. 28. Nedy [Edward] Stoot was married.

1690.

*June 16. Thomas Bell and Francis Kirkley was married, being
Munday; and the said Francis bore a child the 29th of June, 1690,
being Sunday.

Aug. 3. Robert Stelling of Low Brassid was married, being
Sunday.

7 1688. Oct. 26. Bond of marriage, James Harey, of Framwelgate,
cooper, and Jane Taylor, spinster.

8 1688. Oct. 11. Ralph Fisher and Jane Worell, married. St. Mar-
garet's Register.

1688. Oct. 11. Ralph Fisher and Jane Worrell, widow, chapelry of
St. Margaret's, married by licence. St. Nicholas' Registers.

9 1689. Mar. 31. Thomas Parkinson and Tsobell Dobinson, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

10 1689. May 26. John Smith and Anne Watson, married. Ibid.

11 1689. Aug. 8. Bond of marriage, George Sheffield, .... tanner,
and Elizabeth Linsley, spinster.

12 1689. Aug. 12. Bond of marriage, Michael Huson, .... roper,
and Anne Dury, spinster.

13 1689. Sept. 28. Nicholas Hutchinson and Margrett Hutchinson,
married. St. Margaret's Registers.

"1689/90. Feb. 4. Thomas Eobinson, glover, and Ann Bell, spinster,
married. Hexham Registers.

15 1689/90. Feb. 25. Eichard Hall and Mary Nixon, married. St.
Margaret's Registers .

78

Oct. 5. Mr. William Dury and Betty Frizell was married,
being Sunday.16

Oct. 6. Ralph, Kirkley and Barbary Starfoot was married,
being Tuesday.

Nov. 23. Ellinor Sheiflieild and William Taylor, weaver, was
married, being Sunday.17

Dec. 7. William Baxter, blacksmith, and Elizabeth Browne
was married, being Sunday.18

Deo. 5. Thomas Swalwell and Jane Shipheard was married,
being Friday.19

Jan. 6.' Cuthbert Adamson, hatter, and Bett Welsh was
married, being Tuesday.20

Jan. 17. Doctor Eden and Mrs. Walker was married, being
Satterday.1

16 1690. Oct. 5. Mr. William Dewry and Mrs. Arabaell Frizell, mar-
ried. St. Margaret's Registers. Probably a son or kinsman of John
Drury, some time minor canon of Durham.

17 1690. Nov. 23. William Taylor and Ellener Shaffield, married.
Ibid.

18 1690. Dec. 7. William Baxter and Eliz. Browne, married. Ibid.

19 1690. Dec. 5. Thomas Swalwell and Jane Richardson, married.
Ibid.

20 1690/1. Jan. 5. Bond of marriage, Cuthbert Adamson, Durham,
felt-maker, and Elizabeth Welsh, spinster. By his second marriage with
Jane Eden, Cuthbert Adamson was ancestor of John Adamson, of Newcastle,
solicitor, the first Secretary of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries.

1 1690/1. Jan. 6. Bond of marriage, Henry Eden, Shenckley, Durham,
gent., and Tabitha Walker, widow. She was widow of Michael Walker of
Durham and daughter of Paul Thoresby of Leeds, merchant and alderman.
Henry Eden of Shincliffe, doctor of physic, was baptized at St. Oswald's,
25 March, 1643, as son of Henry Eden of that place, his sponsors being his
maternal grandfather, George Martin of Durham, attorney, William Sidg-
wick, and Mrs. Elizabeth Tempest. He married, first, Mary, widow of
Robert Chapman, and daughter of William Blythman of Westoe, who was
buried at St. Oswald's, 15 March, 1685/6; and, secondly, Tabitha, widow
of Michael Walker of Durham, and daughter of Paul Thoresby, a near
kinsman of Ralph Thoresby, the antiquary. She was buried at St.
Oswald's, 16 March, 1699/1700, and he was laid beside her 29 July, 1702.
By his first wife he had issue : —

Henry Eden, baptized at St. Oswald's, 5 Sept., 1676; D.D. and Fellow

of Trinity College, Cambridge, buried at St. Oswald's, 9 June, 1711.

Blythman Eden, baptized at St. Oswald's, 31 Aug., 1680, of Newcastle,

attorney. ^
William Eden, baptized at St. Oswald's, 18 May, 1682, of Durham,
apothecary, buried at St. Oswald's, 4 April, 1712, where there is
a Latin inscription to his memory.
Jane, baptized at St. Oswald's, 4 May, 1675, married, first, Thomas
Rowland, and second, 30 Jan., 1703/4, at St. Oswald's, Cuthbert
Adamson. ,
Elizabeth, baptized at St. Oswald's, 12 Feb., 1677/8, married there,

79

Jan. 24. Nicholas Hutchinson, shoemaker, and Grace Walker
was married, being Satterday.2

1691.

Mar. 28. Mary Dothwaite was married to John Martin, a saylor,
being Saturday.

*June 1. Barbary Williamson, commonly called Lapper, was
married to a collier, being Munday.

June 23. Hugh Hutchinson, shoomaker, was married to Roger
Thornton's wife's sister, being Tuesday.3

Aug. 31. Andrew Weddall and Maxton Dent was married at
Stockton, being Munday.

Sept. 19. George Clarke and Bett Richardson, servant to Mrs.
Jefferson, was married, being Satterday.4

Nov. 12. Mr. Thomas Lassells was married to Mrs. Gibson,
being Thursday.5

6 April, 1702, Francis Salkeld of the parish of All Saints, New-
castle.

Barbara, married at St. Oswald's, 11 May, 1696, John Smart of the
parish of Jarrow.

Mary, married at St. Oswald's, 10 Sept., 1692, Richard Huntley, of the
parish of St. Nicholas', Newcastle ; ancestor of the mother of John
Hodgson Hinde, the historian.

Anne, baptized at St. Oswald's, 16 Oct., 1684.
Cf. Pedigrees of the Family of Adamson of Newcastle. Privately printed.

N.D.

2 1690/1. Mar. 24. Nicholas Hutchinson and Grace Walker, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

3 1691. June 23. Hugh Hutchinson and Dorothy Guy, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

* 1691. Sept. 18. George Clarke, Newarke, and Elizabeth Richardson,
Durham, married. Ibid.

6 1691. Nov. 12. Mr. Thomas Lascell, of Mount Grace, and Dorothy
Gibson, married. Stockton Registers.

I. Thomas Lassells of Durham, married 9 Sept., 1669, at St. Margaret's,

Frances, daughter of William Heighington of Durham, and died circa
1672; (his widow marrying secondly James Church, attorney). He
had issue: —
Thomas II.

Margaret, posthumous daughter, baptized at St. Margaret's,
18 Oct., 1672, and dying 28 July, 1684, was buried at the same
church.

II. Thomas Lassells of Mount Grace, baptized at St. Margaret's, 27 Oct.,

1670, married at Stockton, 12 Nov., 1691, Dorothy Gibson, and was
buried at St. Margaret's, 1 April, 1717, having had issue : —

III. William Lassells, baptized at St. Margaret's, 29 November, 1692,

married Alice Woodmas, and had (perhaps with

other) issue, a daughter, Dorothy, who married, 6 April, 1749, John
Fenwick of Bywell.

Cf. Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 99.

80

Nov. 17. Diok Stephenson was married to Mrs. Simpson's maid,
being Tuesday.6

Nov. 23. John Rippley, senior, was married ye second time to
a woman in Gyligate, or C'lapeth, being Munday.

Jan. 4. Mr. Thomas Bowes was married to Mrs. Marley, being
Thursday.7

Jan. 7. Joseph Hutchinson was married to Katherin Marshall,
being Sunday.8

Jan. 7. Robert Crow and Dorothy Joplin was married, being
Sunday.

1692.

April 12. George Pickering and Mary Skinner's made was
married, being Tuesday.9

April 24. George Forster and Jane Wren was married, being
Sunday. io

May 5. Dorothy Grinwell was married, being Tuesday.

May 12. John Martin, skinner, and Elizabeth Mainsforth was
married, being Thursday.11

May 16. John Ripley ye younger was married, being Munday,
and bore a child ye 19th of August, '92. 12

*May 17. George Jackson, master usher to Gramer School, was
married to a country-woman, being Tuesday.

6 1691. Nov. 17. Richard Stephenson, parish of St. Margaret's, and
Elizabeth Rawe, of this parish, married by licence. St. Mary-le-Bow
Registers.

7 Thomas Bowes of Durham and of Quarryhill, younger son of Ralph
Bowes of Bradley, married Catherine, daughter of William Marley of
Nunshouse, and was buried 23 April, 1719, at St. Mary in the South
Bailey, where his wife was laid beside him, 29 January, 1728 : they had
issue : —

Thomas Bowes of Quarryhill, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 28 Jan.,

1695/6.4,
William Bowes, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 14 Oct., 1715.
Elizabeth, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 29 Nov., 1692.
Margaret, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 11 Nov., 1694.
Anne, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 30 Nov., 1697, married at Wolsing-
ham, 12 June, 1722 (as his third wife), John Gray of Durham,
alderman.
Catherine, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 27 Nov., 1705, buried, St. Mary

in the South Bailey, 16 December, 1705. ,

Margery, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 30 April, 1713.
Cf. Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 111.

8 1691/2. February 17. Joseph Hutchinson and Catherine Marshall, of
this parish, married by licence. St. Nicholas' Registers.

9 1692. April 12. George Pickering and Mary Browne, married. St.
Margaret's Register.

10 1692. April 24. George Forster and Jane Wren, married. Ibid.

11 1692. May 19. John Martten and Elizabeth Mensfeild, married.
St. Giles' Registers.

12 1692. May 16. John Ripley and Elizabeth Nicholson, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

81

May 22. James Smarte, junior, was married to Elizabeth Harri-
son, widow, being Sunday.13

July 2. Gabriel Swainston and Bess Rayne was married, being
Satterday.14

*July 26. One Norman, Mr. Swinburn's steward, and Bett Dury
was married, being Tuesday, and bore a child ye 24th of February,
1692/3.

July 27. William Frizell and Mary Watson was married, being
Wednesday.15

Aug. 14. Edward Mcholson and Ann Browne was married,
being Sunday.16

Aug. 28. William Yapdale, glasser, was married to Jane Faw-
don's maid.17

Sept. 3. Mr. John Trotter, a Scotch man, and Elizabeth Wilkin-
son was married, being Satterday.18

Sept. 7. John Wilson, John Williamson's apprentice, was mar-
ried, being Wednesday.19

Sept. 29. Mr. William Forster, apothecary, and Susanna Padman
was married, being Thursday.20

13 1692. May 22. James Smart and Elisebeth Harrison, married.
Ibid.

14 1692. July 2. Bond of marriage, Gab. Swainston, Durham, gent.,
and Elizabeth Raine, widow.

Gabriel Swainston, B.L. of Durham, was a notary public and proctor;
dying 22 Feb., 1711, aged 63, he was buried at St. Margaret's, where a long
Latin inscription was set up to his memory. He had issue: —
Gabriel, baptized at St. Margaret's, 14 October, 1695.
Mary, baptized at St. Margaret's, 5 March, 1693/4.
Anne, baptized at St. Margaret's, 5 May, 1697.

Margaret, baptized at St. Margaret's, 11 Feb., 1699/1700, married at
the same church, 30 Nov., 1732, Cuthbert Rayne, and died
24 March, 1764, aged 64.
Elizabeth, baptized at St. Margaret's, 7 May, 1701.
Mary, baptized at St. Margaret's, 30 March, 1703, died 5 May, 1770,
aged 67.

15 1692. July 27. * William Frizell and Mary Watson, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

16 1692. Aug. 14. Edward Nicholson and Anne Browne, married.
Ibid.

17 This entry is crossed out in the Diary. See 1694, August 28.

18 1692. Sept. 3. Mr. John Trotter and Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkinson,
married. St. Margaret's Registers.

19 1692. Sept. 7. John Wilson, chapelry of St. Margaret, and Mary
Lister, of this parish, married. St. Oswald's Registers.

20 1692. Sept. 29. Mr. William Forster, apothecary, and Susanna
Padman, both of the parish of St. Nicholas, married by licence. Ibid.

He died 12 Nov., 1697, and was buried at St. Oswald's on the following
day; his wife was laid beside him 1 August, 1731. They had issue two
daughters: Anne, baptized 22 June, 1693, and Susanna, bapt. 19 Dec.,
1695, both at St. Nicholas'; the latter was buried at St. Oswald's, 28 March,
1696.

6

82

Oct. 24. George Chapman and Mary Cook was married, being
Satterday.1

Nov. 1. Roger Thornton and Margaret Harrison was married,
being Tuesday.2

*Nov. 1. Mr. Hamond Hendry brought his brid though
Durham.3

Nov. 13. Thomas Dobinson and Margaret Thompson was mar-
ried, being Sunday.4

Nov. 17. John Kirkhouse and Frances Pepper was married,
being Thursday.5

Nov. 20. Mrs. Hubbuck and Robert Burdon was married, being'
Sunday.

*Nov. 29 John Dent, barber, and one Bell was married, being
Tuesday.

1693.

April 30. Robert Russell and Margaret, John Johnson's man and
maid, was married, being Sunday.6

May 1. Thomas Eales, son to Robert Eales, was married to
Mr. John Crosby's maid, being Munday.7

1 1692. Sept. 24. George Chapman, parish of St. Nicholas and
Barbara Coocke, of this parish, married. St. Oswald's Registers.

2 1692. Nov. 1. Roger Thornton of this parish and Margaret Harrison
of the chapelry of St. Margaret, married by licence. Ibid.

3 1. Cuthbert Hendry of Shincliffe, yeoman, was buried at St. Oswald's,.
6 January, 1694/5; his wife, Anne, being laid beside him 26 October, 1707.
They had (perhaps with other) issue : —

Hammond II.

Isabel, wife of Thomas Rudd, master of Durham School.
[Anne, married, 29 Sept., 1683, Robert Hopper.]

II. Hammond Hendry of Durham, attorney, and of Shincliffe; 13 Nov.,
1692, took out a licence to marry Mrs. Philadelphia Crow, widow,
believed to be a connection of the Mitford family. She was buried at
St. Oswald's, 30 Jan., 1742/3, being described in the Register of Burials
as a widow, but the date of her husband's death has not been ascertained.
They had issue : —

Cuthbert, baptized at St. Oswald's, 4 Sept., 1695, buried 21 May, 1699,

as son of ' Mr. Hamon Hendrv, deceased.'
Mitford III.
Anne, baptized at St. Oswald's, 26 Sept., 1693, married at Washington,

13 Aug., 1719, Richard Stonehewer, and registered at St. Oswald's.

III. Mitford Hendry of Durham, baptized at St. Oswald's, 1 Jan.,.
1696 '7; had (perhaps with other) issue : —

Mary, baptized at St. Oswald's, 29 Oct., 1726.
Frances, baptized at St. Oswald's, 24 Dec, 1727.

4 1692. Nov. 13. Thomas Dobinson and Margarett Thompson, mar-
ried. St. Margaret's Registers.

5 1692. Nov. 17. John Kirkhouse and Frances Peppers, spinster, mar-
ried by licence. St. Nicholas' Registers.

G 1693. April 30. Robert Russell and Margarett Henderson, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

7 1693. May 1. Thomas Eales and Anne Robinson, both of this parish,,
married. St. Oswald's Registers.

83

May 3. John Taylor and Mathew Litster's daughter was
married, being Wednesday.8

*May 13. Mr. George Tweddall and Bett Heslop was married,
being Satterday.9

June 11. James Lesley and Mr. Skinner's servant was married,
being Sunday.10

Sept. 7. Joseph Coleson and Mary Roper was married, being
Thursday.11

•Sept. 14. Thomas Rowell and John Benson's maid was married.12

Nov. 12. Thomas Leavers and Bett Dothwait was married,
being Sunday.13

Nov. 16. John Hall and Mrs. Thompson's maid was married,
being Thursday.

Nov. 26. Stephen Coulson, blacksmith, was married, being
Sunday.1*

Nov. 27. Thomas Richardson and Bett, a Scotchwoman, William
Drury's servant, was married, being Munday.14a

Nov. 26. Mr. Foulthrop and Ellinor Paxton was married, being
Sunday.15

Jan. 9. Henry Frizell, milner, and Roger Wilkinson's daughter
was married, being Tuesday.16

8 1693. May 3. John Taylor and Elizebeth Litster, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

9 George Tweddell, alderman of Durham, married at St. Nicholas',
Elizabeth, daughter of William Heslop, of Durham, butcher, who is
believed to have been brother of Dame Anne Duck. See Surtees, Durham,
vol. iii., p. 82 and vol. iv., p. 156.

10 1693. June 11. James Lashly and Elizabeth Barber, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

11 1693. Sept. 4. Bond of marriage, Joseph Coulson, Wall Nuke, Dur-
ham, yeoman, and Mary Rcper, spinster.

12 This entry is crossed out in the Diary.

13 1693. Nov. 12. Thomas Lever and Margaret Dowthwaite, both of
this parish, married by licence. St. Mary-le-Bow Registers.

14 1693. Nov. 26. Stephen Coulson and Judith Watson, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

14a1693. Nov. 25. Bond of marriage, Thomas Richardson, Elvett,
yeoman, and Elizabeth Dodds, spinster.

15 1693. Nov. 26. Christopher Fulthorp and Ellinor Paxton, spinster,
married by licence. St. Nicholas' Registers.

Christopher Fulthorpe of Durham, attorney, probably a scion of the
ancient family of Fulthorpe of Fulthorpe and Tunstall (see Surtees,
Durham, vol. iii., p. 126), married at St. Nicholas', 26 Nov., 1693, Eleanor,
daughter of Nicholas Paxton, cordwainer (who was buried 21 Oct., 1731),
and was buried, 18 April, 1703, having had issue : —

George, baptized at St. Nicholas', 20 June, 1698.

Elizabeth, baptized at St. Nicholas', 10 Sept., 1694, buried in the
church, 22 Dec, 1695.

Anne, baptized at St. Nicholas', 10 Sept., 1696, buried 2 Sept., 1700.

16 1693/4. Jan. 4. Henry Frizell and Christiana Wilkinson, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

84

Jan. 16. Ralph Paxton and George Tweddell's sister was
married, being Tuesday.17

Feb. 3. William Vasey was married, being Satterday.

1694.

May 8. Mr. Mickleton's gardener, Alexander, and Margaret
Tod was married, being Tuesday.18

May 8. John Shaw and Bess Craw was married, being Tues-
day.19

July 31. Mr. Thomas Wilson, attorney at law, was married,
being Tuesday.20

July 31. Nicholas Wilson, singing-man, was married to Mr.
Gowland's maid, being Tuesday.

Aug. 19. Nicholas Sheiffeild was married to a country lass,
being Sunday.1

Aug. 21. William Milnes and Jane Hymers was married, being
Tuesday.2

Aug. 28. William Appdale, glasser, was married to Jane Faw-
don's maid, being Tuesday.3

Sept. 23. Ussasa Robson and John Dixon, man, was married.4

Nov. 20. Clement Kitfield was married to Margaret Knaggs.5

Nov. 20. Bryan Pearson was married.6

Nov. 20. Abraham Allinson brought home his wife.7

Nov. 29. John Harry and Mary Sherewood was married, being
Thursday.8

Jan. 20. Thomas Mountaine was married to Margaret Breers,
being Sunday.

17 1693/4. Jan. 17. Balph Paxton and Anne Tweddell, spinster,
married. St. Nicholas' Registers. See p. 74, supra.

18 1694. May 8. Alexander Hume and Margaret Todd, both of this
parish, married. St. Mary-le-Bow Registers.

19 1694. May 8. John Shaw and Elizabeth Crow, married. St. Nich-
olas' Registers.

20 1694. July 31. Mr. Thomas Wilson and Mrs. Ann Roches, both of
Elvett parish, married. St. Giles' Registers.

1 1694. Aug. 19. Nicholas Shaffield and Eliz. Jefferson, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

2 1694. Aug. 21. William Mills and Jaine Hayemers, spinster, mar-
ried. St. Nicholas' Registers.

3 1694. Aug. 28. William Abdell and Ellinor Porter, spinster, married.
Ibid.

4 1694. Sept. 23. John Story and Ursula Robson, married. St. Mar-
garet's Registers.

5 1694. Clement Kitfeild of this parish and Margaret Knaggs of

Crossgate, married by licence. St. Mary-le-Bow Registers.

6 1694. Bryan Pearson and Anne Dixon, both of this parish,

married. Ibid.

7 1694. Oct. 18. Abraham Allinson of this parish and Margaret Fisher
of Elvett parish, married on St. Luke's day. St. Giles' Registers.

8 1694. Nov. 28. John Harry and Mary Sherwood, married. St. Mar>
garet's Registers.

85

1695.

April 24. John Key's daughter and Abram Smith's sonn was
married, being Wednesday.9

*April 25. Robert Young's son was married to Pegg Dunce, being
Thursday.

April 27. James Richardson and Bess Adamson was married,
being Satterday.10

*June 11. Mr. George Dixon and Betty Gray was married, being
Tuesday.11

Aug. 4. Anthony Allinson and Bett Arundall was married,
being Sunday.12

Nov. 28. Thomas Rennoldson, weaver, was married, being
Thursday.13

Jan. 29. Rebekeki Darlington was married to a collier in Gates-
head, being Wednesday

Feb. 2. Thomas Whitingham's youngest sonn, was married to
Jo. Wells' servant, being Tuesday.14

Mar. 10. Mr. Forster, attorney at law, was married with Mrs.
Jane Mascall, being Tuesday.15

1696.

April 26. William Chippchass was married to Dowager MaskalPs
maid, being Sunday.16

May 1. William Stout, sadJer, was married, being Friday.17
*May 3. Thomas Jackson, Madam Duck's coachman, and Mar-
garet Walton was married, being Sunday.

May 23. Peter Milner and Ann Yapdale was married, being
Satterday.18

9 1695. April 24. Ralph Smith and Barbary Key, married. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

10 1695. April 23. James Richardson and Eliz. Adamson, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

11 George Dixon, an attorney in Durham, and of Aykleyhead, married
first Elizabeth, daughter of Alderman Robert Gray, and second, Sarah,
daughter of Francis Johnson of Newcastle.

12 1695. Aug. 4. Anthony Allinson of this parish, and Elizabeth
Arundel of St. Nicholas' parish, married. St. Giles' Registers.

13 1695. Nov. 28. Thomas Rennoldson and Anne Robson, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

14 1695/6. Feb. 2. John Whittington and Eliz. Stobbs, married. Ibid.

15 1695/6. Mar. 10. Mr. Thomas Forster and Mrs. Jane Mascall, mar-
ried. Ibid. She was one of the daughters of Thomas Mascall of the city
of Durham, attorney, and sister of Francis Mascall of Eppleton.

16 1696. April 26. William Chipchase and Mary Blareton, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

17 1696. May 1. William Stout and Mary Bolderson, married. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

18 1696. May 23. Peter Milner and Ann Ebdon, married. St. Mar-
garet's Registers.

86

May 26. John Martin, son to Person John Martin, was married,
being Tuesday.19

*June 7. Thomas Nattrus was married to Nairn Wood's maiden,
being Trinity Sunday.

June 24. Thomas Litster was married the 2nd time, being
Wednesday.20

*July 9. Justice Ellison of Heberon Hall was married to Esquire
LiddelPs daughter at Witton Gilbert, being Thursday. 1

Aug. 30. Mr. Skinner's maid went away from Durham to'
Sunderland, being married the week before upon Thursday.

Aug. 6. William Peareson and Ann Stout was married, being
Thursday.2

*0ct. 6. Edward Hodshon and Barbary Younger was married,
being Tuesday, being both computed to be aged 140.

Dec. 27. William Corner and Ann Huson was married, being
Sunday.3

Jan. 28. Hugh Roddam and Isabell Mayson was married
Thursday.4

*Feb. 14. Thomas Pecton, sadler, was married to Doll Wilkin-
son, being Sunday.5

Feb. 15. William Frizell and Mary Burdon was married, being
Munday.6

Feb. 19. Henry Arrowsmith and Ann Jordan was married.

1697.

*May 2. John Cock, Quaker, gardner, and Ann, his wife, was
married, being Sunday.

May 19. Mr. Tayton and Mrs. Lowranoe was married, being
Wednesday.7

19 John Martin, the elder, one of the minor canons of Durham, was
buried 11 Nov., 1697. Cathedral Registers. Another John Martin, perhaps
the person named in the text was perpetual curate of St. Mareraret's from
1694 to 1703.

20 1696. June 24. Thomas Litster and Jane Forster, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

1 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 57.

2 1696. Aug. 9. William Pearson and Ann Stout, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

3 1696. Dec. 27. Wm. Corner and Anne Hewson, married. Ibid.

4 1696/7. Jan. 28. Hugh Rodham and Isabell Mason, spinster, married.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

5 1696/7. Feb. 14. Thomas Peckton and Dorothy Wilkinson, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

6 1696/7. Feb. 15. William Fryssell and Mary Burdon of the city of
Durham, married. Witton Gilbert Registers.

7 1697. May 19. Robert Tatham and Mary Loraine, both of St.
Margaret's, Durham, married. Lanchester Registers.

87

June 8. Thomas Taylorson and Mrs. Heighington was married
at Witton, being Tuesday.8

*Aug. 8. Nanh Spenceley and a Newcastle man was married.

Aug. 21. Mathew Mayson was married, being Tuesday.9

Nov. 7. Robert Fawell was married to Margaret Turner, being
Sunday, by Parson Martin, which was ye last that he married.10

Nov. 13. Robert Beaverly was married to Elizabeth Armstronge,
Mr. Joseph Hall's servant, being Satterday.11

Nov. 14. Wall and Elizabeth Smith was married, being

Sunday.12

Nov. 16. John Dixon and Mr. Wharton's maid was married,
being Tuesday.13 •

Nov. 21. Peter Moore and Doctor Gray's cook-maid was mar-
ried, being Sunday.14

Feb. 17. Henry Wissman and Isabell Todd was married, being
Thursday.15

1698.

Mar. 26. William Maston, son to John, was married to Bett
Parkin, being Satterday.16

May 10. John Reed and Mary Jackson was married, being
Tuesday.17

May 15. John Wilkinson, mason, was married to Doll Ethrin-
ton, being Sunday.18

June 29. Thomas Clough and Bett Harrison was married, being
Wednesday.19

8 1697. June 8. Thomas Taylorson, gent., and Mary Heighington of
ye city of Durham, married. Witton Gilbert Registers.

9 1697. Aug. 24. Matthew Mayson and Anne Welsh, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

10 1697. Nov. 7. Robert Fawell and Margaret Turner, spinster,
married. St. Nicholas' Registers.

11 1697. Nov. 13. Robert Bevverly and Elizabeth Armestrong, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

12 1697. Nov. 14. Christopher Wall and Elizabeth Smith, married.
Ibid.

13 1697. Nov. 17. John Dixon and Margaret Hodgshon, married. St.
Mary in the South Bailey Registers.

14 1697. Nov. 23. Peter Moore and Margarett Bee, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

15 1697/8. Feb. 17. Henry Wiseman and Isabell Todd, married. Ibid.

16 1698. Mar. 26. William Maston, of ye parish of St. Nicholas, and
Elizabeth Parking of ye parish of St. Margaret, married by licence. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

17 1698. May 10. John Reed and Mary Jackson, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

18 1698. May 15. John Wilkinson, parish of St. Margaret, and
Dorothy Heathrington, of this parish, married. St. Nicholas' Registers.

19 1698. June 29. Thomas Clijfe and Elizebeth Harrison, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

88

July 31. Robert Younger and Mrs. Smith was married at
Witton, being Sunday.20

Sept. 27. Mr. John Hall, merchant, and Rett Richardson was
married at Witton, being Tuesday.1

Oct. 9. Mr. Lewens and Mr. Gordon's daughter was married,
being Sunday.2

Dec. 25. Thomas Hutchinson — Leinghthy Tho — and Elizabeth
Dobinson was married, being Christmas day.3

Dec. 26. Reed and Jane Reed was married, being Munday.

Dec. 27. Henry Starfoot and Mary Wood was married, being
Tuesday.4

Jan. 19 Mr. Anthony Hall, alderman, was married, being
Thursday.5

20 1698. July 31. Robert Younger and Elizabeth Smith, married.
Witton Gilbert Registers.

1 1698. Sept. 27. John Hall, gent., and Elizabeth Richardson, married.
Ibid. She was daughter of John Richardson of Framwellgate and Cater-
house; and by her marriage with John Hall she had issue two daughters.
Cf. pedigrees of Richardson and Bright, Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 145.

2 1698. Oct. 9. Mr. Thomas Lewens, attorney, and Mrs. Anne Gorden,
married. St. Nicholas' Registers.

Thomas Lewen I., of Durham, attorney, son of George Lewen, attorney,
was baptized at St. Nicholas', 11 June, 1671, and was buried at the same
church, 11 July, 1724. By Anne Gordon, his wife, he had, with other issue,
a son, Thomas Lewen II., of Durham, barrister-at-law, who married, at
Lamesley, 6 June. 1734, Sarah, daughter and co-heir of William Bonner of
St. Anthony's, near Newcastle (who was buried at St. Nicholas', 22 Feb.,
1747/8), by whom he had issue one son and two daughters, viz. : —

William Bonner Lewen, baptized at St. Nicholas', 8 March, 1736/7,

buried 9 August, 1737.
Anne, baptized at St. Nicholas', 30 Sept., 1735, buried 29 May, 1741.
Margaret, baptized at St. Nicholas', 29 March, 1742, sole heir to her
mother; she was a convert of John Wesley, who described her as
' a pattern to all young women of fortune in England.' She left
her father's roof and died at Leytonstone, 30 October, 1766. Like
many devout women she was morj generous than just, and, by her
will, dated 21 Nov., 1764, she gave her residuary estate to Mr.
Wesley ' for the furtherance of the Gospel.' See Mr. T. C.
Dale's article on ' Durham Associations of John Wesley,' in
Memorials of Old Durham, ed. Leighton, pp. 231-233.
Thomas Lewen II. married secondly, 29 Jan., 1765, at St. Nicholas', Mary,
daughter of Thomas Brass of Flass, who, dying within the year, was buried
on the 30 September following. He was buried within St. Nicholas' church,
29 December, 1783.

3 1698. Dec. 25. Thomas Hutchinson, yeoman, and Eliz. Dobinson,
Crossgate, married. St, Margaret's Registers.

4 This entry is crossed out in the Diary.

5 1698/9. Jan. 19. Mr. Anthony Hall, alderman, and Mrs. Tiseik,
married at St. Mary's. St. Nicholas' Registers.

1698/9. Jan. 19. Mr. Anthony Hall, of St. Nicholas', and Elis.
Tizick, of South Bayley parish, married. St. Mary in the South Bailey
Registers. She was widow of Timothy Tyzack of Newcastle and daughter of
.... Blencowe of Little Blencowe.

I. John Hall of Durham, alderman and draper, mayor 1644 and 1646,

89

Jan. 22. Thomas Hodshon and Rett Pecton was married, being
Sunday.6

Feb. 16. One Chapman and Isabel! Peareson of Coxey was
married, being Thursday.

1699.

April 20. Ralph Bainbridge and Mrs. Betty Dixon was married,
being Thursday.7

April 23. John Mauwhen and Elizabeth Harrison was married,
being Sunday.

*May 1. Straight Pegg White and a miller was married, being
Munday, and bore a boy the 8th of Dec., '99 after.

June 6. Edward Fauwell and Bett Knaggs was married, being
Tuesday.8

was buried in St. Nicholas', 23 December, 1658, as ( Mr. John Hall, elder,
alderman.' He married twice and left with other issue: —
John II.

Anne, baptized at St. Nicholas', 28 Sept., 1637, married Major John

Clark of London ; and as a widow presented to the church of St.

Nicholas' two large silver flagons for the administration of the

Communion, the presentation heing formally made 24 Dec, 1686,

through her brother who was attended by his son Jonathan.

II. John Hall of Durham,, alderman and draper, mayor 1670, married

Anne, daughter of William Kennet of Coxhoe, and was buried in St.

Nicholas', 31 Aug., 1697, having had with other issue : —

Anthony Hall of Durham, alderman, married at St. Mary in the South
Bailey, 19 January, 1698/9, Elizabeth, widow of Timothy Tyzack of

Newcastle, and daughter of Blencowe of Little Blen-

cowe, Cumberland, buried at St. Nicholas', 11 September, 1722.
John, baptized St. Nicholas', 15 Sept., 1663, buried same year.
Thomas Hall, baptized at St. Nicholas', 21 Sept., 1668, ancestor of

Hall of Flass and of Hall (afterwards Standish) of Durham.
John, baptized, St. Nicholas', 15 Nov., 1670, buried, 22 Sept., 1671.
Jonathan Hall, baptized at St. Nicholas', 8 Sept., 1679, educated at
Durham and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he matricu-
lated 10 April, 1696, rector of Cockfield, Suffolk, 1720, prebendary
of the fifth stall of Durham, 1723, buried in the Nine Altars of
the Cathedral, 15 June, 1743.
Mary, baptized at St. Nicholas', 15 April, 1662, wife of Robert

Wharton.
Other daughters died unmarried.
There was a contemporary John Hall who was buried in St. Nicholas',
23 Feb., 1668/9, as ' Mr. John Hall, senior, alderman.'

Cf. pedigree of Hall of Durham and Flass, Surtees, Durham, vol. iv.,
p. 154.

c 1698/9. Jan. 22. Tho. Hodgson of Durham and Elizabeth Pecton of
Hetton. H on ghton-le- Spring Registers.

7 1699. April 20. Ralph Bainbridge, parish of St. Nicholas, grocer,
and Eliz. Dixon, married. St. Margaret's Registers.

1699. April 20. Ralph Bainbridge, in this parish, and Mrs. Dixon,
parish of St. Margaret, married. St. Nicholas' Registers.

He was proprietor of Aykley Heads in the parish of St. Margaret :
his will is dated 21 February, 1724. Cf. Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 141.
8 1699. June 6. Edwd Fawell, butcher, and Eliz. Knaggs, Crossgate,
married. St. Margaret's Registers.

90

July 11. Cuthbert Moore and Margaret Hopper was married,
being Tuesday.9

Aug. 29. Thomas Dent and Elizabeth Hopper was married,
being Tuesday.10

Nov. 5. William Dowglas, a bellringer, N , and Jane Pea-
cock was married, being Sunday.11

*Nov. 15. Bess Gray and a tinker was married, being Wednesday.

Nov. 16. Christopher Dixon, taylor, was married to Margaret
Renney, being Thursday.12

Nov. 30. Thomas Cooper and Thomas Eales' wife's sister was
married, being Thursday.13

Nov. 30. William Scott, junior, and Mary Fairefax was married,
being Thursday.14

Nov. 30. Robert Foggan was married, being Thursday.15

Dec. 24. John Justice, taylor, was married to Mrs. Thirkeld,
midwife, being Sunday.16

Dec. 23. Mr. Richard Badley was married to Mrs. Gelder, being
Satterday.17

9 1699. July 10. Cuthbert Moore, Framwelgate, butcher, and Mar-
garett Hopper, married. Ibid.

10 1699. Aug. 29. Thomas Dent and Elizabeth Hopper, Crossgate,
married. Ibid.

11 1699. Nov. 5. William Douglas, of this parish, and Jane Peacock,
chapelry of St. Margaret, married. St. Mary-le-Bow Registers.

12 1699. Nov. 16. Christopher Dixon, chapelry of St. Margaret, and
Margaret Renney, of this parish. Ibid.

13 1699. Nov. 30. Thomas Cooper, cordweyner, and Marg* Robinson,
married. St. Margaret's Registers.

14 1699. Nov. 30. Robert Scott and Mary Fairfax, married. St. Giles'
Registers.

15 1699. Nov. 30. Robert Foggan and Alice Sweedle, married. Ibid.

16 1699. Dec. 24. John Justes and Hannah Thirkell, widow, married.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

17 1699. Dec. 23. Mr. Richard Baddeley and Ann Geldart, widow, of
ye parish of St. Mary-le-Bow, North Bailey, married. Cathedral Registers.

Mr. Edward White in his very valuable footnotes to the Durham
Cathedral Registers, Harl. Soc, states that Richard Baddely I., secretary of
Bishop Morton, whose life he wrote, published in 1663 a reprint of Robert
Hegg's " Legend of St. Cuthbert." He was born at Keldliolme, near Kirby

Moorside, and married first the widow of Bridges, who was alive in

1634, and secondly Casandra, daughter of John Mole, who was for thirty-
two years a prisoner " for the testimony of Christ's true religion " in the
Inquisition. Richard Baddeley, whose will is dated 30 Sept., 1670, had
with other issue : —

Richard (II.).

Dulcibella, wife of Joseph Naylor, archdeacon of Northumberland.

Ann, wife of Richard Wrench, prebendary of Durham.
II. Richard Baddely seems to have huried his first wife Martha, at St.
Mary-le-Bow, on the 9 Sept., 1699, and to have married, with indecent haste
on the 23 December following at the Cathedral, Ann, widow of John
Geldert, whom she had married at the Cathedral, 8 Feb., 1678/9, as Ann
Hilton. Richard Baddely was buried at the Cathedral, 16 Jan., 1713/4.

91

Feb. 13. Mary Yapp was married, being Shrove Tuesday.18
Feb. 13. Doctor Burnett and Mr. Daniel Richardson's widow-
was married, being Shrove Tuesday.19

1700.

April 2. Robert Whitte, weaver, was married to Thomas
Cooper's wife's sister, being Easter Tuesday.20

April 3. William Heighington, Quaker, was married, being
Wednesday.

May 21. Thomas Sharpe and Rasshalls was married, being

Whitsun Tuesday.1

♦July 23. My Lord Bishopp Crew was married to Madam Foster,
being Tuesday.2

Aug. 6. Henry Wisman and Margaret White, widow, was mar-
ried, being Tuesday.3

Oct. 8. Mary Peareson, John Wells' servant, was married to a
Scotchman, being Tuesday.4

*0ct. 27. Betty Moody and a Scott was married, being Sunday;
and a great shoore of snow fell when she came from church.

Nov. 5 Jobi Arrowsmith and Beit Wood married at Trimdon,
being Tuesday.

*Nov. 17. Thomas Wade, a fidler, and a servant of Doctor Burnet
was marriel, being Sunday.

Jan. 16. Thomas Reed, tanner, and Jane Wilson was married,
being Thursday.

18 1699/1700. Feb. 13. Tho. Taylor and Mary Yapp, both of Bow
parish, married. Cathedral Registers.

19 1699/1700. Feb. 12. Mr. Rob. Burnet, phys., and Mrs. Frances
Richardson, both of St. Mary-le-Bow parish, married. Ibid.

The bride's first husband, Daniel Richardson I. was probably an
apothecary, and was buried at St. Mary-le-Bow, 14 March, 1696/7, leaving
with other issue a son, Daniel Richardson II., apothecary, who was buried
at the same church, 18 October, 1730. Mrs. Burnett was buried at St.
Mary-le-Bow, 27 November, 1702, and her second husband was laid beside
her, 18 March, 1706/7; their only child, Thomas Burnett, was baptized 17
Nov., 1700, and died in infancy.

20 1700. April 2. Robert White, weaver, and Mary Robinson, both of
Crossgate, married. St. Margaret's Registers.

1 1700. May 21. Thomas Sharp and Dorothy Rashell, Framwelgate,
married. Ibid.

2 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 59.

3 1700. Aug. 6. Henry Wiseman and Elizabeth (blank) of Crossgate,
married. St. Margaret's Registers.

4 1700. Oct. 7. William Webster, parish of St. Nicholas, and Mary
Pearson. Ibid.

1700. Oct. 3. William Wabster and Jane Person married at St.
Margaret's. St. Nicholas' Registers.

92

1701.

April 12. Anthony Dobson, skinner, junior, was married, being
Satterday.5

April 29. Parson Robson and Mrs. Wilson was married, being
Tuesday.6

*June 7. Mathew Maysoii, weaver, and William Belley's daughter
Christobell (by name Sackless Willey), was married, being Satterday.
*July 10. John Parkin, dyer, was married to an Auckland lass,
being Thursday.

July 27. Mr. Francis Mascall and Mrs. Hannah Ayeton was
married, being Sunday.7

5 1781. April 12. Anthony Dobson, of this parish, and Margaret Chip-
chase of St. Nicholas' parish, married. St. Giles' Registers.

6 1701. April 23. Bond of marriage, Philip Robson, A.M., Durham,
clerk, and Elizabeth "Wilson, spinster. He was probably of Queen's College,
Oxford; if so he was son of James Eobson of Carlisle, and matriculated
24th October, 1687, aged 17, B.A. 1691, M.A. 1694.

7 1701. July 27. Francis Mascal and Hanna Ayton, married. Lan-
chester Registers. She was daughter of John Ayton of Fawside.

I. Thomas Mascall, the first of his name to settle in Durham, was son
of Thomas Mascall of York, " cityzen and imbrotherer," and was admitted
to the freedom of York in 1660 by patrimony. Having settled in the city
of Durham as an attorney, he was chosen to be an alderman and became
coroner for Chester Ward. Being mayor in 1666 when Dugdale made his
Visitation he obtained a grant of arms sable, six fleurs de lis 3, 'J, and 1 or,
a crescent, a bordure engrailed or and entered his pedigree, being then
about forty years of age. By his first marriage with Elizabeth,
daughter of Richard Harrison of Framwellgate, whom he married at St.
Margaret's, 24 Nov., 1647, he had issue eight sons and five daughters; and
by a second marriage he had one daughter born posthumously. He died
22 Feb., 1684/5, and was buried at St. Margaret's. Of his large family,
three sons only shall here be mentioned : —

Thomas Mascall of Durham, attorney, born circa 1648, married Mary,

daughter of Timothy Whittinghani of Holmside, and dying

30 April, 1686, was buried at St. Margaret's.,]/
Richard Mascall of Framwellgate, alderman and merchant, baptized

at St. Margaret's, 4 May, 1652, was buried at St. Oswald's, 8 Jan.,

1724/5.4,
Francis II.

II. Francis Mascall of Durham, attorney, baptized at St. Margaret's,
6 May, 1662, purchased Eppleton in 1692, and was buried at Houghton-le-
Spring, 6 August, 1725. By his wife, Hannah, daughter of John Ayton of
Fawside, whom he married at Lanchester, 27 July, 1701, he left, with other
issue, an eldest son, Francis III.

III. Francis Mascall of Eppleton, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 23 July,
1702, married, first in 1733, Hannah, daughter of Archibald Reed of
Bellingham, sister of John Reed of Chipchase ; secondly, in 1756, Elizabeth,
daughter of Thomas Lambton of Hardwick, by whom he had issue; and
thirdly in 1760, Jane, daughter of William Byers of Newbottle, by whom
he had further issue. He was succeeded by his son, Francis IV.

IV. Francis Mascall of Eppleton, second but only surviving son of
Francis Mascall by Elizabeth Lambton, his second wife, baptized at

93

Sept. 4. Ephraim Smith was married, being Thursday.8

Sept. 23. Mr. Ba.yty, my lord's porter, was married with Richard
Croft's daughter, being Tuesday.9

Oct. 12. Anthony Coltman and Frances Hopper's servant was
married, being Sunday.10

Nov. 20. William Mitchell and Elizabeth Taylor was married,
being Thursday.

Nov. 27. Albert and Bett Hodshon was married, being Thurs-
day.11

Houghton-le-Spring, 21 June, 1762, educated at University College, Oxford,
where he matriculated 9 Dec, 1780, was entered at Lincoln Inn, 13 March,
1782. He married at St. Mary-le-Bow, 22 November, 1788, Elizabeth,
daughter of Richard Radcliffe of Cockermouth, by whom he had issue an
only child, Francis Mascall V., to whom he was at the first so greatly
attached that he had himself called to the bar on the same day, with him,
though in every way blameless, he subsequently quarrelled and to his
lasting shame disinherited him and his issue, leaving the estate of Epple-
ton, the mansion house and its contents, including a portrait, by Romney, of
his wife's mother, Maria Dorothy Nowell, to his steward or agent.

V. Francis Mascall, only son and disinherited heir of the last-named
Francis Mascall of Eppleton, was baptized at Houghton-le-Spring, 27 Octo-
ber, 1789, and is said to have been educated at his father's old college,
although in the entries of admission printed by Foster in Alummi
Oxonienses there is an apparent confusion between father and son; he was
entered at Lincoln Inn, 26 May, 1810, and did well at the bar. He left
(perhaps with other) issue a son, General Mascall, who apparently left
descendants. Ex. inf. Rev. William Greenwell, 1 Dec, 1914.

Richard Radcliffe of Cockermouth, a direct descendant of Sir Nicholas
Radcliffe by his marriage with Margaret de Derwentwater, married Maria
Dorothy, daughter of John Nowell, receiver, or agent, of the Earl of Carlisle
at Naworth, by whom he had issue three sons and four daughters : —

Richard Radcliffe of Durham, solicitor, married Jane, daughter of
Francis Mascall of Eppleton, and died without surviving issue.

Henry William Radcliffe, a colonel in the East India Company Service ;
ob. s.p.

John Radcliffe, rector of Sutton Coldfield; ob. s.p.

Elizabeth, married 22 Nov., 1788, Francis Mascall of Eppleton.

Maria Dorothy, married at Houghton-le-Spring, 12 Jan., 1790, John
Fisher of Lysick-hall.

Bridget, married Goodair, Lieut., R.N.

Anne, married first Nicholson Lightbody of Liverpool and secondly,
Francis Smales of Durham, solicitor.
Ex inf. Rev. William Greenwell, March, 1911; cf. Six North Country
Diaries, p. 218.

See pedigree of Mascall of Durham and Eppleton, Surtees, Durham,
vol. i., p. 220.

8 1701. Sept. 4. Ephraim Smith and Margret Walton, married. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

9 1701. Sept. 23. John Baty and Thomasine Croft, both servants to ye
Bishop at ye Castle, married. St. Oswald's Registers.

10 1701. Sept. 29. Anthoney Coltman and Mary Bailes, Crossgate,
married. St. Margaret's Registers.

11 1701. Nov. 27. Albert Hodgshon and Elizabeth Hodgshon, Cross
gate, married. Ibid.

94

Nov. 23. Alderman Gordon and Mrs. Taytam was married, being
Sunday. !2

Dec. 11. Mr. Robert Spearman, the SherifiVs brother, was mar-
ried to Mrs. Webster, being Thursday.13

*Jan. 11. The supposed marriage of Francis Middleton, barber,
junior, and Ann Richardson, whore, being Sunday.

Jan. 17. Jane Harry, widdow, was married to a collyer, being
Satterday.14

Jan. 29. Mr. John Richardson, junior, attorney at law, was
married to old Mr. Simon Peacock's daughter of Elvit, being
Thursday.15

1702.

April 26. William Clarke and Ann Coulson was married, being
Sunday.16

April 26. Christopher Yapdaile and Christop : Ballann's daughter
was married, being Sunday.17.

May 3. John Rutledg was married, being Sunday.18
*May 3. Bett Richardson, Scotch Bess her sister, Lillus is her
name, was married.

May 7. William Rippley and Mr. Downes' maid was married,
being Thursday.19

12 1701. Nov. 22. Mr. John Gordon and Mrs. Anne Tatam, married.
St. Nicholas' Registers. She was apparently widow of Robert Tatam, of
the parish of St. Nicholas, draper, and was the third wife of John Gordon,
mercer. Cf. Registers of Durham Cathedral, ed. White, p. 110.

13 1701. Dec. 11. Mr. Rob. Spearman and Mrs. Han. Webster, mar-
ried. Cathedral Registers. Robert Spearman of Durham, attorney, fourth
son of Robert Spearman of Preston, in the parish of Tynemouth, was
baptised at Tynemouth, 23 April, 1657, and dying on the 18th October, 1728,
was buried in the Abbey-yard. His wife was Hannah, daughter of William
Webster, of Stockton, merchant. A pedigree of their descendants may be
found in Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 96.

14 1701/2. Jan. 17. Thomas Wilde and Jane Harrey, both of Cross-
gate, married. St. Margaret's Registers.

15 1701/2. Jan. 29. John Richardson, of St. Margaret's parish,
attorney-at-law, and Elizabeth Peacock, of St. Oswald's, married. St.
Giles' Registers. John Pichardson of Durham, attorney, was son of John
Richardson, and grandson of the John Richardson who was buried in his
garden at Caterhouse, 29 September, 1864, see p. 110 post. He was baptized at
St. Margaret's, 16 Sept., 1672, and died in the month of April, 1716. By
his marriage with Elizabeth Peacock he had an only son also named John,
who was baptized 1 Dec, 1702, and resided in Framwellgate.

Cf. pedigree of Richardson, Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 145.

16 1702. Mar. 26. Will Clarke, parish of Pittington, and Ann Coulson,
married. St. Margaret's Registers.

17 1702. April 26. Christopr Ebdon and Anne Ballant, married. St.
Oswald's Registers.

18 1702. May 3. John Rutledge and Jane Hutchinson, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

19 1702. May 7. William Ripley and Alice Littelfare, married. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

95

Aug. 6. William Sherewood and Ann Ellott was married,
being Thursday.

Nov. 21. Robert Cooper and Jane Stelling was married, being
Satterday.20

Jan. 3. John Reed of Unthanke, taylor, and Margaret Holmes
was married, being Sunday.

Jan. 17. Roger Norton was married to Sarah Greenwell, being
Sunday.1

1703.

May 23. Thomas Ridley and Hilday Hills was married, being
Sunday.2

May 28. Mr. Robert Dobson, merchant, was married, being
Friday.3

July 20. Michael Walker and Jane Hopper was married, being
Tuesday.4

July 29. William Lee, son to Thomas Lee, cordwayner, was mar-
ried to Christiany Johnson, being Thursday.5

Dec. 11. Stephen Taylor, junior, was married to John Heighon-
ton's servant.6

1704.

April 23. Robert White, dyer, was married to Allice Burdon,
being Sunday.7

April 25. William Eggleton, butcher, was married to Margaret
Jackson, being Tuesday.8

April 23. Henry Wrangham was married to Bess Natras, being
Sunday.

20 1702. Nov. 19. Robt. Cooper and Jane Stelling, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

1 1702/3. Jan. 17. Roger Norton and Sarah Grinwell, married. Ibid.

2 1703. May 23. Thomas Ridley and Helda Hills, married. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

3 1703. May 28. Robt. Dobson, of St. Nicholas' parish, merchant, and
Christian Sanderson of ye parish of Barnard Castle. St. Giles' Registers.
She was daughter of Philip Sanderson of Barnard Castle and grand-
daughter of Christopher Sanderson ; whose diary is printed in Six North
Country Diaries.

4 1703. July 20. Michael Walker and Jane Hopper, Crossgate, mar-
ried. St. Margaret's Registers.

5 1703. July 29. William Lee, St. Nicholas' parish, and Christiana
Jobson of Framwelgate, married. Ibid.

6 1703. Dec. 12. Stephen Taler and Mary , married. St.

Nicholas' Registers.

7 1704. April 23. Robt. White and Alice Burdon, married. Ibid.

8 1704. April 25. William Egleston and Margaret Jackson, both of the
chapelry of St. Margaret. St. Mary in the South Bailey Registers.

96

April 27. Mr. Ingleby, schoolmaster, was married to his servant,
Margaret Hall, being with child, being Thursday.9

♦May 19. Mr. Burton, schoolmaster to the Gramar Schoole, was
married to Madam Fenwick.10

June 11. Robert White, tobacco merchant, and Frances Pearson
was married, being Sunday.11

June 6. Michael Stott, cordwayner and roper, Gilbert Stott' s
son, was married, being Tuesday.12

June 11. Walter Middleton and Martha Robinson, Mr. Skinner's
man and maid, married at Warmouth.13

July 4. Eloner Thompson was married to a Gyligate man :
strong Walton lass.

July 6. Widdow Hills of Gyligate was married to Captain
William Tempest his coachman, being Thursday.

Sept. 11. Ann Gofton and a. Gateside man was married, being
Munday.

Oct. 12. Mr. Andrews and Ann Richardson was married, being
Thursday.14

Nov. 21. John Huntley and Margaret White was married.15

Nov. 23. John Dixon and Jane Kay was married, being
Thursday.16

*Nov. 25. Richard Coulson and Ann Bee was married, being
Satterday.

Nov. 26. Mr. Henry Foster, merchant, and Mr. Lee's daughter
was married, being Sunday.17

9 1704. April 27. William Ingleby and Margaret Hall, Crossgate,
married. St. Margaret's Registers.

10 1713. July 1. Nicholas Burton, M.A., lecturer at ye Abby and
St. Nicholas, buried. St. Mary-le-Bow Registers.

1744. Nov. 3. Elisabeth, relict Sr Robt. Fenwick, of Bywell, her first
husband, and Nicholas Burton, A.M., her second, buried. Ibid. See also
Six North Country Diaries, p. 62.

11 1704. June 11. Robert White, St. Nicholas' parish, and Frances
Pearson, Framwelgate, married. St. Margaret's Registers.

12 1704. June 7. Michael Stott and Mary Rippon, Framwelgate, mar-
ried. Ibid.

13 1704. June 11. Walter Midleton and Martha Robinson of Were-
mouth, married. Bishop Wearmouth Registers.

11 John Andrews of Crossgate married Anne, daughter of John Richard-
son of Framwellgate and Caterhouse, and had, with other issue, a son, John
Andrews, of Shotley-hall, whose daughter and co-heiress, Anne Andrews,
married 31st July,' 1800, Charles, 13th Marquess of Winchester. 0/.
Andrews pedigree, new History of Northumberland, vol. vi., p. 286.

^1704. Nov. 23. John Huntley and Margaret White, Framwelgate,
married. St. Margaret's Registers.

16 1704. Nov. 21. John Dixon, Framwelgate, and Jane Cay, St. Nich-
olas', married. Ibid.

17 1704. Nov. 26. Henry Forster and Jane Lee, married. St. Nich-
olas' Registers.

97

Jan. 28. Christopher Wall and Jane was married, being
Sunday.18

1705.

April 10. Jacob Holland and Mrs. Carr's daughter was married,
being Tuesday.19

April 25. William Hall, saylor, son to Ralph Hall, sexton, was
married.

April 28. Ann Taylor, daughter to Stephen Taylor, was married
to a Barnard-Castle shooemaker, being Satterday.20

*May 6. Thomas, son of Thomas Wilkinson, commonly called
Fish, was married, being Sunday.

*June 5. Thomas Dent was married to a Sunderland woman.

April 29. Joseph Harrison and Ann Hall was married, being
Sunday.

Nov. 27. William Dixon, taylor, was married, being Tuesday.1

1706.

April 9. Thomas Holmes of Unthank was married to his cosin
Holmes, being Tuesday.

*April 14. Bett Kirkhouse and one Lavererick was married.

June 24. John Tempest, esquire, was married to Madam Jane
Wharton, being Munday.2

June 6. John Smith, glover, was married to Margaret Frizell,
being Satterday.3

Jan. — Mr. John Hutchins was married to Mr. Shadforth's
daughter, Keeper of Durham Jayle.4

Jan. 30. Thomas Mountaine, mayson, was married, being
Thursday.5

18 1704/5. Jan. 28. Christopher Wall and Jane Dunne, Crossgate,
married. St. Margaret's Registers.

19 1705. April 10. Jacob Bewchanon and Mary Carr, married. Ibid.
Can this man have been a Dutchman? See p. 98, post.

20 1705. April. 28. John Chayter and Anne Taylor, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

1 1705. Nov. 27. William Dixon and Isabel Parsevell, married. Ibid.

2 1706. June 24. Mr. John Tempest and Mrs. Jane Wharton, married.
St. Giles' Registers. John Tempest, son and heir of William Tempest of Old
Durham, was knight of the shire for Durham in 1705, and died in January,
1737. See pedigree of Tempest, Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 93.

3 1706. July 6. John Smith and Margaret Frisell, married. St.
Margaret's Registers.

4 1706/7. Jan. 9. Mr. John Hutchinson and Mrs. Mary Shadforth,
married. Middleton St. George's Registers. Cf. pedigree of Hutchinson
of Bitchburn and Dry burn. Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 155.

5 1706/7. Jan. 30. Thomas Mountain and Elinor Brage, both of this
chapelry, married. St. Margaret's Registers.

98

1707.

John Logan was married.6

Mathew Holland was married with Thomas Catcheside's

Thomas White, weaver, was married.
Bet Buckley was married.8
Bet Trollop was married.9
Jane Harry was married to Emmerson.10
John Hall was married to George Forster's sister.11
Mr. Forster and Bett Madeson was married.12
John Rutledge was married to Margaret Robson,
Robinson (sic), being Sunday.13

Dec. 27. William Brocket and Bet Trollopp was married.

May

1.

May

18.

daughter.7

June 10.

Oct.

7.

Oct.

7.

Oct.

10.

Oct.

12.

Oct.

12.

Nov.

9.

6 1707. May 1. John Logan and Margrat Byerly, both of St. Mar-
garet's, Durham, married. Cathedral Registers.

7 1707. May 18. Matthew Blewcannon and Margrat Catcheside, both
of this chapelry, married. St. Margaret's Registers. Can this have been
another Dutchman. See p. 97 supra.

8 1707. Oct. 7. Richard Hornsbey and Margrett Buckley, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

9 1707. Dec. 27. William Brocket and Elizabeth Trowlop, married.
Ibid.

10 1707. Oct. 11. John Wright and Jane Herry, married. Ibid.

11 1707. Oct. 12. John Hall and Dorothea Smith, married. Ibid.

12 1707. Oct. 12. Thomas Foster and Elizabeth Maddison, married by
licence. Esh Registers.

13 1707. Nov. 9. John Rutlas, parish of St. Margaret and Margaret
Robinson, of this parish, married. St, Mary-le-Bow Registers.

14 1707. Dec. 27. William Brocket and Elizabeth Trowlop, married.
St. Margaret's Registers.

99

MORTALITY.

1672.
Aug. 7. Tho. Milner, gardener, departed this life.1*

1681.

Sept. 21. Mr. Snaith, Mr. Emmerson's father-in-law, departed
this life ye 21st day of September in Giligate and was buried at
Witton.

Oct. 1. David Eales, plumber, .... being Satterday at
night.1

Nov. 14. Allis Peareson, Buney BuckeTs sister, .... being
Munday.2

Deo. 6. George Walton, cripple and headman to my lord,
.... being Tuesday.3

Dec. 13. Ann Dent, widow, she came from Rumblekirk, ....
being Tuesday.4

Dec. 27. Old Isabel Wade, senior, .... being Tuesday.5

Jan. 9. Thomas Weames, junior, in Elvitt, .... being
Munday.6

Feb. 13. Mrs. Church, wife of Mr. John Church, attorney- at-law,
.... being Munday.7

Feb. 2. Thomas Weames, senior, .... being Thursday.8

Mar. 1. Henry Peareson, John Simpson's ostler, was buried,
being Ash Wednesday.9

Mar. 3. Robert Wissman, of Crossgate, .... being Fryday.10

la1672. Aug. 8. Thomas Milner, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.
After this entry the words ' departed this life ' have been omitted.

1 1681. Oct. 2. David Eales, buried. Cathedral Begisters.

2 1681. Nov. 15. Catherine, wife of Thomas Pearson, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

3 1681. Dec. 7. George Walton, buried. Ibid.

4 1681. Dec. 14. Ann Dent, widow, buried. Ibid.

5 1681. Dec. 28. Isabell Waide, a weedow, buried. Ibid.

6 1681/2. Jan. 10. Thomas Weames, son of Thomas Weames, skinner,
buried. St. Oswald's Begisters.

7 1681/2. Feb. 14. Mrs. Isabell Church, wife of Mr. John Church, of
the parish of St. Nicholas', buried. Ibid.

1681/2. Feb. 14. Mrs. Church, wife of Mr. John Church, buried at
St. Oswald's. St. Nicholas' Registers.

8 1681/2. Mar. 3. Thomas Weames, skinner, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers.

9 1681/2. Mar. 1. Henry Peirson, buried. Cathedral Registers.

10 1681/2. Mar. 3. Robert Wisman, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

100

Mar. 5. George Ridley, senior, putterer, of Elvitt, departed
this life, being Sunday, going to church.11

Mar. 18. John Clarke, virger in Abby Church, .... being
Satterday.12

1682.

Mar. 27. Mr. Joyce, petty cannon of Abbey Church, ....
being Munday.

April 6. William Reed, junior, merchant, .... being Thurs-
day morning.14

April 13. John Lowther, attorney-at-law, and ye Sheriff's clarke,
.... being Skyes (sic) Thursday.15

April 17. James Harry, junior, .... being Easter Munday
morning.16

April 19. Mr. Samuel Martin, priest, .... being Wednes-
day."

April 30. Jane Hutchinson, wife to Cuthbert Hutchinson, taylor,
.... being Sunday.18

11 1681/2. Mar. 7. George Riddley, peuterer, buried. St. Oswald's
Begisters.

12 1681/2. Mar. 19. John Clark, buried. St. Margaret's Begisters.

14 1682. Apr. 7. William Reed, buried. Ibid.

15 1682. Apr. 14. Mr. John Lowther of the city of Durham, buried.
St. Oswald's Registers.

16 1682. Apr. 18. James Harry, buried. St. Margaret's Begisters.

17 1682. Apr. 20. Samuel Martin, minor canon of this church, buried.
Cathedral Registers.

I. Samuel Martin, master of Bishop Langley's school, a minor canon of

the Cathedral, and also, from 1663 to 1680, perpetual curate of St.
Nicholas', married Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Sonkey, jailor of
Durham. She was buried at the Cathedral, 29 June, 1676, and he was
laid beside her 20 April, 1682. They had (perhaps with other) issue : —

Samuel Martin, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 19 November, 1644,
of St. John College, Cambridge, where he matriculated 21
June, 1661.

John II.

Elizabeth, baptized St. Mary le Bow, 8 April, 1642.

Thomasine, baptized St. Mary le Bow, 12 November, 1652.

II. John Martin of Durham, mercer, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 5 June,

1650; of the parish of St. Nicholas'; buried at the Cathedral, 16 June,
1702; having had issue: —

Samuel, baptized at St. Nicholas', 10 November, 1700, the first

baptized in the new font.
[Elizabeth, baptized St. Mary le Bow, 28 July. 1697.]
Grace, baptized St. Nicholas', 3 September, 1702; buried 7 Septem-
ber, 1702.
The relationship of John Martin, curate of St. Nicholas', 1682-1697, and
a minor canon, who was buried at the Cathedral, 11 November, 1697,.
and registered at St. Nicholas', has not been ascertained.

18 1682. May 1. Jane, wife of Cuthbertt Hutchinson, buried. St.

Margaret's Begisters.

101 ' -

May 2. Jane Wood, wife to Dick Wood, glover, .... being
Tuesday.19

May 21. Mrs. Ledger, .... being Sunday.20

May 24. Thomas Thompson, called by ye name of Start Faire,
... .being Wednesday, at night.1

May 25. Cuthbert Hutchinson, taylor, .... being Thurs-
day.2

May 31. Elizabeth Corneforth, .... being Wednesday.3

June 17. Mr. Thompson, petty cannon of ye Cathedral of
Durham, .... being Satterday morning.4

June 19. Isabell Lodge, aills Benson, wife to John Benson, cooke
to the Dean of Durham, .... being Munday at night.5

June 24. Margaret Browne, mid-wife, .... being Satterday,
in ye morning erely.6

June 25. Mr. John Stokeld, alderman, .... being Sunday.7

June 25. Edward Carver, ye gaoler's man, .... being Sun-
day.8

July 8. Richard Wood, glover, .... being Sattorday.9

19 1682. May 3. Jane Wood, wife of Richard Wood of the parish of St.
Nicholas, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

1682. May 3. Jane Wood, wife of Richard Wood, glover, buried at
St. Oswald's. St, Nicholas' Registers.

20 1682. May 22. Mrs. Jane Ledgard, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.
1 1682. May 25. Thomas Thompson, buried. Ibid.
2 1682. May 21. Cuthbert Hutchinson, buried. Ibid.
3 1682. June 1. Elizabeth Cornforth, buried. Ibid.
4 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 45.

5 1682. June 20. Isabell, wife of Jo. Benson, buried. Cathedral
Registers.

6 1682. June 24. Margaret Brown, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.
7 1682. June 26. Mr. John Stokeld, mercer and alderman, buried,
templo. St. Nicholas' Registers.

John Stokeld was mayor of Durham in 1665. By Mary, his wife, who was
buried in St. Nicholas', 23 March, 1668/9, he had (perhaps with other)
issue : —

John, buried in St. Nicholas', 5 August, 1664.

Daniel, baptized at St. Nicholas', 6 April, 1665 ; buried 9 January,

1667/8.
Timothy, buried in St. Nicholas', 23 September, 1666.
Jane, baptized at St. Nicholas', 7 December, 1658.
Ann,' baptized at St. Nicholas', 21 February, 1662/3; buried 24

Nov., 1665.
Jane, baptized at St. Nicholas', 31 October, 1667.
The connection of the above-named John Stokeld with Thomas Stokeld,
who was mayor of Durham in 1677, has not been ascertained.
8 1682. June 25. Edward Carver of ye parish of St. Nicholas, buried.
St. Oswald's Registers.

9 1682. July 9. Richard Wood of the parish of St. Nicholas, buried.
Ibid.

102

July 7. Mrs. Lodge, wife to Mr. Anthony Lodge, .... being

Fry day.10

July 14. Doctor Danzey, Doctor of Phisick, .... being

Friday.10*

*Ju]y 28. Captain Thomas Featherston, of Stanhope hall, . . . .

being Friday, at night about 11 a clock.11

Aug. 28. Thomason Loftus' daughter, Elizabeth Loftus, ....

being Munday.12

*Sept. 6. Mr. William Witherington, one of the beadmen of

Abby Church, .... being Wednesday.

Sept. 22. John Moody, carraige man, .... being Friday.13
Sept. 25. Mr. Cam, parson of Gyligate, .... being Munday.14
Oct. 2. Robert Cogden, late bellman, .... being Munday.15
Oct. 3. Mr. Timothy Whittingham, senior, of Homsside,

.... being Tuesday.16

10 1682. July 7. Merrell, wife of Mr. Anthony Lodge, buried. Cathedral
Registers.

10a1682. July 15. Mr. Edward Dantesey, Doctor of Physic, buried.
St. Oswald's Registers.

By Brilliana, his wife, who was buried at St. Oswald's, 4 Dec, 1673, he
had issue : —

John, baptized, St. Oswald's, 21 April, 1663 [Pburied, 27 Oct.,

1738].
Edward Dantesey, baptized, St Oswald's, 19 Jan., 1664/5.
Thomas, baptized St. Oswald's, 26 Nov., 1668; buried on the

following day.
Gabriel, baptized St. Oswald's, 29 Nov., 1670; buried 16 Jan..

1671/2.
Brilliana, buried St. Oswald's, 8 May, 1662.

Alice, baptized St. Oswald's, 15 May, 1666; buried 1 June following.
Philippa, baptized St. Oswald's, 23 Jan., 1671/2.
11 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 45.

12 1682. Aug. 29. Thomasin Loftus, spinster, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers.

13 1682. Sept. 23. John Muddy, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.
14 William Cam, perpetual curate of St. Giles' from about 1678 to his
death, buried St. Giles' 26 Sept. 1682.

15 1682. Oct. 3. Robert Cogdon, Segerston, buried. St. Nicholas"
Registers.

16 Timothy Whittingham, born 1611, was the eldest son of Timothy
Whittingham (who died in the life time of his father), grandson and heir of
Sir Timothy Whittingham of Holmside, and the representative of William
Whittingham, the much abused Elizabethan Dean of Durham. He was
admitted to Gray's Inn 11 Feb., 1632/3, and succeeded to Holmside on his
grandfather's death in 1638. As was to be expected he was of the Puritan
way of thinking, and in his household maintained a chaplain named Clement
Fulthorpe, who probably acted as tutor to his children. He was a member
of the family of Fulthorpe, of Tunstall, whose pedigree is given in Surtees*
Durham, vol. iii, p. 127. It is stated that Fulthorpe became a backslider
and occasioned the loss of money to his patron. Timothy Whittingham
was buried in the chancel of Lanchester, 9 October, 1682, but singular to
say his name does not appear on any one of the three limestone slabs which
marks the resting place of the family. He left a Diary which is at present
inaccessible.

Deo.

26,

Dec.

30.

Jan.

4.

Jan.

4.

Jan.

5.

103

Oct. 26. Dorithy Belly, .... being Thirsday.17
*Nov. 20. William Roses, junior, .... being Munday, and a
great wind which blew one halfe of ye west end of a window in Abby
Church.

Dec. 4. Margaret Whitfield; wife to Christopher Whitfield,
.... being Munday.18

Dec. 12. Anthony Fewster, son to William Feuster, ....
about 12 a'clock at night, being Tuesday.19

Dec. 13. And Henry Brice, his son, .... being Wednesday.20
Henry Wood, .... at night.1
George Jopling, . . . being Satterday.2
Robert Padman, .... being Thursday.3
Dr. Cartwright 's wife, .... at night.4
Mr. George Wilson, commonly called Judge Wilson,
.... being Friday at night.5

Jan. 16. Nicholas Ladler, butcher, senior, .... being
Tuesday.

Jan. 24. Mr. Appleby, which lay at Mr. Duck's, .... being
Wednesday at night.6

Jan. 26. Mr. Richard Mathews, senior, . . . being Fryday.7

17 1682. Oct. 27. Dorothy Belly, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

18 1682. Dec. 5. Margaret Whitfeild, senior, widow, buried templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

19 1682. Dec. 11. Anthony Fuster, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

20 1682. Dec. 11. Hennery Brice, buried. Ibid.

1 1682. Dec. 27. Henry Wood, of the parish of St. Nicholas, buried.
St. Oswald's Registers.

2 1682. Dec. 31. George Jopling, cordwainer, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

3 1682/3. Jan. 5. Robert Padman, of ye parish of St. Nicholas', barber,
buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

4 1682/3 Jan. 6. Sarah, wife of Dr. Tho. Cartwright, Deane of Rippon,
buried. Cathedral Registers. Dr. Thomas Cartwright became prebendary
of the fifth stall of Durham Cathedral 15 November, 1672, Dean of Ripon in
1675, and Bishop of Chester in 1686. See Registers of Durham Cathedral,
ed. White, p. 11.

5 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 45.

6 1682/3 Jan. 26. Mr. Francis Appelbie, of the parish of St. Nicholas,
buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

1682/3. Jan. 26. Mr. Frauncis Appleby, a parishioner, buried in the
chancell of St. Oswald's. St. Nicholas' Registers.

7 1682/3. Jan. 27. Richard Mathewes, gent., buried. Cathedral
Registers.

Richard Matthew, described as ' gentleman,' resided in the parish of St.

104

Mar. 6. Christopher Fenwick, milner, .... being Tuesday
morning.8

*Mar. 12. Mr. Anthony Smith, one© a member in Parliament in
Oliver's time, .... being Munday at night.9

1683.

*April 1 1 . Frances Shaw, servant to Thomas Skinner, .... very
suddenly, being Wednesday, being very well ye Munday befor in my
house, Jacob Bee.

April 23. John Archebald, allis Catch, .... being St. George's
day.10

April 27. Mrs. Briggs, of Broomhall, died in childbirth, being
Friday.11

Mary le Bow, at which church his first wife, Margery, was buried, 11
July, 1649. They had issue: —

William, baptized St. Mary le Bow, 16 Aug., 1629.

Thomas, baptized St. Mary le Bow, 1 Nov., 1633.

Cuthbert, baptized St. Mary le Bow, 11 Feb., 1635/6; buried 17

May, 1643.
Eichard, baptized St. Mary le Bow, 1 Aug., 1642.
Fortune, baptized St. Mary le Bow, 17 Nov., 1631; buried 11 Sept.,

1634.
Frances, baptized St. Mary le Bow, 11 Feb., 1735/6; buried 11

Feb., 1635/6.
Mary, baptized at St. Mary le Bow, 6 Nov., 1638; buried 14 May,

1643.
Elizabeth, baptized at St. Mary le Bow, 30 June, 1640.
Elizabeth, baptized at St. Mary le Bow, 11 June, 1646.

Eichard Matthews married a second time Isabel , who was buried at

the Cathedral, 21 Dec, 1687.

8 1682/3. March 7. Christopher Fenwick, milner, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

Christopher Fenwick, by Frances, his wife (who died 25 Dec, 1684), had
issue, two sons and three daughters, all baptized at St. Nicholas' :
John, baptized 30 April, 1671.

James, baptized 26 May, 1672, buried 26 Oct., 1673.
Thomasin, baptized 27 Dec, 1666.

Barbara, baptized 21 June, 1674, buried 11 Oct., 1679.
Frances, baptized 21 May, 1676.

9 1682/3. March 13. Mr. Anthony Smith, mercer, buried, templo.
St. Nicholas' Registers. He was Burgess in Parliament for the City of
Durham in 1654 and again in 1656. Surtees states (Durham, vol. iv, p. 18)
that he was one of the members who offered the crown and the title of King
to Cromwell.

10 1683. April 24. John Archbold, als. Capt. Catch, buried in woollen.
St. Mary-le-Bow Registers.

11 1683. April 25. Frances, wife of Mr. Thomas Briggs, buried.
Witton Gilbert Registers.

105

May 4. Mr. Ambrose Heighington, son, to Mr. William Heigh-
ington, .... being Friday.12

May 8. Elizabeth. Brownie, widdow to Thomas Browne, ye Mayor
sargient, .... being Tuesday.13

May 13. Mr. Blackston, Madd Blaokston, .... being Sunday,
at night.14

May 20. John Wharton, hatter, .... being Sunday.15
May 21. Richard Padman, barber, the elder, .... being
Munday.16

June 6. Mr. Robert Reed's wife, ye apothecary, . . . . 17
*June 6. Margret Richardson, ye mid-wife, .... being Wed-
nesday morning.

*June 6. William Fawcett, bowmaker, departed this life in the
gaoll in Durham.

June 13. Ann Brass, Margaret Robson's mother, of Harom, being
Wednesday.

June 17. Christopher Skirrey, .... being Sunday.18
June 30. John Kenleside, .... being Saturday.19
July 8. John Fairless, tanner, .... being Sunday.20
Sept. 22. Ann Wilson, wife to Robert Willson, glover, ....
"being Satterday, at night.1

12 1683. May 5. Mr. Ambrose Highington, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers. Ambrose Heighington, a son of William Heighington, of the
•city of Durham, took out a licence, 26 September, 1676, to marry Catherine,
daughter and co-heir of Dr. Thomas Musgrave, Dean of Carlisle and pre-
bendary of Durham, and by her had issue two sons and two daughters.
See Registers of Durham Cathedral, ed. White, p. 14; Heighington pedigree,
Surtees, Durham, vol. i, p. 99.

"1683. May 9. Elizabeth Browne, of the parish of St. Nicholas',
widow, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

1683. May 9. Elizabeth Browne, widow, a parishioner, buried at St.
Oswald's. St. Nicholas' Registers.

14 1683. May 15. Henry Blakiston, gent., buried. Cathedral Registers.
He was a younger son of Sir William Blakiston of Gibside, kniglit; and
married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of William Blakiston of York,
attorney at law, by whom he had issue. See Registers of Durham Cathedral,
ed. White, p. 103.

15 1683. May 21. John Wharton, feltmaker, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

16 1683. May 22. Mr. Richard Padman, of the parish of St. Nicholas,
barber, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

1683. May 22. Mr. Richard Padman, senior, barbsr. buried in the
churchyard of St. Oswald's. St. Nicholas' Registers.

17 1683. June 7. Mrs. Isabell Reed of the parish of St. Nicholas, wife
•of Mr. Robert Reed, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

1683. June 7. Issabell Reed, wife of Mr. Robert Reed, apothcary, a
parishioner, buried at St. Oswald's. St. Nicholas' Registers.

18 1683. June 18. Cristopher Shirry, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

19 1683. . July 1, John Keinlaside, skinner, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers .

20 1683. July 8. John Fairlass, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.
neSS. Sept. 21. Ann, wife of Robertt Wilson, buried. Ibid.

406

Sept. 27. Mrs. Jefferson, Lawyer Jefferson's mother, ....
being Thirsday.2

Nov. 5. Ann Atkinson, John Maddeson's wife's sister, ....
being Munday.3

Nov. 15. Allice Wills, .... being Thursday.4
Dec. 7. Thomas Botcherby, .... being Friday.5
Dec. 21. Elizabeth Hodshon, wife to Edward Hodshon, milner,
.... being Friday.6

*Ja,n. 8. Robert Hilton, esquire, Justice of ye Peace in. Westmor-
land, came to Durham and lived in the Coledge : he died very sud-
denly, having been abroad, at supper, the night bef or and went very
well to bed ye night before, being Tuesday morning.7

2 1683. Sept. 28. Mrs. Margaret Jefferson, widow, buried in the quire.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

I. Richard Jefferson, of the parish of St. Nicholas', had issue : —

John II.

Elizabeth, baptized at St. Nicholas', 23 Dec, 1604, buried, 26
Feb., 1614/5.

II. John Jefferson, mercer, baptized at St. Nicholas', 29 Jan., 1603/4,

married, at St. Giles', 6 June, 1631, Margaret, daughter of Hugh
Walton, alderman, and died before the 18 Mav, 1643 : his widow died
27 Sept., 1683: they had issue: —
John III.

Thomas Jefferson, mercer and postmaster of Durham, baptized
at St. Nicholas', 5 Jan., 1639/40, married, 26 Oct., 1674, at
St. Mary's in the South Bailey, Margaret Frizell, and was
buried in St. Nicholas' chancel, 10 Nov., 1685.
Anthony, posthumous, baptized at St. Nicholas', 18 May, 1643.
Jane, baptized at St. Nicholas', 12 April, 1638, buried, 27 Jan.,
1638/9.

III. Sir John Jefferson, baptized at St. Nicholas', 13 Sept., 1635, entered at
Grav's Inn, 26 Nov., 1651; admitted free of the Mercers' Companv,
21 Dec, 1663; sergeant-at-law, 1683; Recorder of Durham, 1686-1691;
Justice of Common Pleas, Ireland, 1691; knighted at Dublin, 5 Nov.,
1692. He married, at Gateshead, 22 Sept., 1664, Elizabeth, daughter
of James Cole, brother of Sir Nicholas Cole of Brancepeth, bart.,
by whom he had issue : —

James, baptized at St. Nicholas', 12 June, 1666, buried in the

chancel of the same church, 17 Sept., 1673.
John, baptized at St. Oswald's, 5 July, 1681.
Elizabeth, baptized at St. Nicholas', 9 June, 1670.
Margaret, baptized at St. Oswald's, 27 May, 1679.
Anne, baptized at St. Oswald's, 11 June, 1683.
See pedigree; Surtees, Durham, vol. iv, p. 156.

3 1683. Nov. 6. Anne Atkinson, spinster, buried. St. Oswald's

Registers.

4 1683. Nov. 16. Alizes, wife of Thomas Wills, buried. Si* Margaret's
Registers.

5 1683. Dec. 8. Thomas Botchbey, joyner, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

0 1683. Dec 22. Elizabeth, wife of Edward Hodgshon, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

7 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 47.

107

Jan. 11. Mary Middle ton, wife to Francis Middleton, barber,

.... being Friday.8

Jan. 19. Katherin Hubback, alis May son, .... being Satter-
day.9

Jan. 31. Margret Hand, wife of Thomas Hand, .... being
Thursday.19

Feb. 9. David Dunce, milnewright, .... being Satterday.11

Feb. 10. Mr. William Fenwicke of ye Bull, .... being
Sunday."

Feb. 16. Poor John Black ett, servant to Mr. Clarke, ....
being Friday.13

*Feb. 29. Richard Hutchinson, son to Richard Hutchinson, com-
monly called Little Dick, .... being Friday.

Mar 3. John Dobinson of Crossgate, tanner, .... being
Munday.14

Mar. 16. Rowland Harrison, glover, son to John Harrison, car-
penter, .... being Sunday at night.15

Mar. 17. Old Mrs. Mathew, .... being Munday, at night.16

8 1683/4. Jan. 12. Mary, wife of Francess Middelton, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

9 1683/4. Jan. 20. Katherine Hubbock, buried on Sunday. Cathedral
Registers.

1683/4 Jan. 20. Catherine, wife of Mr. John Hubbock, sen., buried in
the Abbey churchyard. St. Nicholas' Registers.

10 1683/4. Feb. 2. Margaret Hand, widow, buried, Umplo. Ibid.

11 1683/4. Feb. 10. David Dunce, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

12 1683/4. Feb. 11. Mr. William Fenwick, buried, templo. St. Nich-
olas' Registers.

William Fenwick, of the Bull, in the parish of St. Nicholas', Durham,
was the owner of a small freehold estate at Newton Garths, in the parish
of Boldon, purchased in 1604 by his predecessor, variously described as of
Shele Mylne, in the county of Durham, and of Whitchester, in the parish
of Heddon-on-the-Wall, whose will is dated 25 June, 1615. His wife was
Mary, only daughter and heir of John Hall, of Durham, alderman and
vintner, and by whom he had no issue. She, in her widowhood, on the 29
Jan., 1686/7, presented a chalice, still in use, to St. Nicholas' church. It
bears the arms argent three martlets, two and one, a crescent on the honor
point for difference, and on a chief, three martlets in fess for Fenwick, im-
paling a chevron between three demi-lions rampant, on a chief as many
annulets fretty for Hall {Proceedings of Newcaslte Soc. of Antiq., 2 ser.,
vol. iv, p. 126). After her husband's death the widow apparently continued
to keep on the Bull, which may have been her own property, to her death on
the 25 Sept., 1689. William Fenwick's will, dated 20 Oct., 1677, names
his brother, Ralph Fenwick, of Great Bavington, in the parish of
Whelpington, and his two sons, viz. : William Fenwick, of Nunnykirk, and
Ralph Fenwick. Michael Fenwick, son of the last-named Ralph, sold
Newton Garths in 1711. See Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 52.

13 1683/4. Feb. 18. John Blackett, buried. Ibid.

14 1683/4. March 4. John Dobinson, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

15 1683/4. March 17. Rowland Harrison, buried. Ibid.

16 1683/4. March 18. Rebecca Mathewes, buried on Tuesday. Cath-
edral Registers.

108

1684.

April 1. Matthew Craggs, taylor, in Sadler Street, . . .
being Tuesday.17

* April 3. Old Mrs. Morland, Justice Morland's wife, . . .
being Thursday.18

* April 10. Elizabeth Bee, wife to Nicholas Bee, in childbirth,
. .' . . being Thursday.19

April 1 1 . Old Jane Teasdall, of Crossgate, .... about one in
the morning, being Friday.20

April 16. Mr. John Hall of Framwelgate, tanner, .... being
Wednesday.1

April 20. John Parsley, .... being Sunday.
♦May 2. Mary Coats was drowned beside Keepier, being Friday
morning, about two as was supposed.

*May 14. Mrs. Sarah Hodgshon, Nick Hodshon's wife, silver-
smith, .... being Wednesday at night.2

*May 15. Old William Maddeson, John Maddeson's father, Mr.
Jefferson's ostler, .... being Thursday betwixt 8 and 9 at night.

•May 18. Mr. Lee, an exciseman, lay at Robert Cornforth,
.... being Sunday in the srnale-pocks.

July 8. Mr. John Browne, attorney-at-law, .... being
Tuesday, in the morning.3

July 22. Magdalin Wells, wife to John Wells, chapman, ....
being Tuesday, dieing in childbirth.4

July 28. Margret Lassells, grandchild to Mr. Heighington,
being Munday.5

Aug. 1. Richard Wright of Langley, .... being Friday.

Aug. 10. Old Hugh Stott, tanner ...... being Sunday.6'

17 1684. April 2. Matthew Craggs, draper taylor, buried. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

18 For pedigree of Morland, see Surtees, Durham, vol. iii., p. 276.

19 She was the Diarist's daughter-in-law, being- Elizabeth Harason, who
was married to Nicholas Bee, 5 July, 1681, at St. Margaret's.

20 1684. April 20. Jane Tesdell, buried. St, Margaret's Registers.

1 1684. April 17. Mr. John Hall, buried. Ibid.

2 1684. May 15. Sarah, wife of Nicholas Hodgson, buried Thursday.
Cathedral Registers. Her husband was buried at St. Oswald's, 9 Sept.,
1712.

3 1684. July 8. Mr. John Browne, buried. St. Margaret's Begisters.

4 1684. July 23. Magdallen, wife of John Wailes, buried. Ibid.

5 1684. July 29. Margarett Lasshalls, buried. Ibid. She was daugh-
ter of Thomas Lascells who married, 9 Sept., 1669, at St. Margaret's,
Frances Heighington. The family of Lascells, owners of Mount Grace in
Yorkshire, resided in the city of Durham at the end of the seventeenth
and the beginning of the eighteenth century. See pedigree of Heighington,
Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 99.

6 1684. August 10. Hew Stoote, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

109

*Aug. 10. Thomasin Adamson, old Parson Martin's daughter,
Cholertcn's wife, .... being Sunday.7

*Aug. 1 3 . John Raw of Bearparke, dyed of a broken legg ait
Plawsworth, being Thursday.

Aug. 14. Mr. Ralph Davison, justice of ye peace, .... being
Friday.8

Aug. 20. Mary Corner, wife to Mathew Corner, senior, ....
being Wednesday.9

Sept. 6. Mr. Shutles worth of Elvitt, .... being Satterday
morning.10

Sept. 7. William Rowell, mason, . . . . n

7 1677. July 5. Bond of marriage, Robert Adamson of Elsdon, North-
umberland, and Thomasin Martyn. She was buried at the Cathedral.
See also Six North Country Diaries, p. 48.

8 1684. Aug. 17. Ralph Davison, esq., buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

I. Ralph Davison, of Durham and of Thornley, second son of Sir Alexander

Davison, of Newcastle, knight and alderman, baptized at St. Nicholas',
Newcastle, 11 July, 1609, married, 16 Jan., 1637/8, Timothea, daughter
of Sir William Belasis, of Morton House, and dying 15 Aug., 1684,
was buried at St. Oswald's, aged 74, where there is, or was, a monu-
ment to his memory. He had issue: —

William II.

Alexander Davison of London, baptized at Houghton-le-Spring,
18 Nov., 1638.

Thomas Davison, baptized at Grindon, 2 June, 1641.

Ralph Davison, baptized at Grindon, 28 June, 1644

Anne, baptized at Grindon, 1 May, 1642.

Margaret, baptized at Houghton-le-Spring, 23 Mar., 1642/3.

Mary, baptized at Grindon, 18 Feb., 1646/7.

II. William Davison, of Durham and Thornley, born circa 1640; entered

at Gray's Inn, 1 May, 1656; buried at St. Oswald's, 29 April, 1696.
By his wife, Joan, daughter of William Pennyman, of Normanby, who
was buried at St. Oswald's, 18 Nov., 1689, he had issue : —

Ralph Davison, of Durham and Thornley, born at Layton, educated
at St. Paul's school, London, and at St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, matriculated, 9 June, 1687, aged 18, buried, St.
Oswald's, 5 May, 1699.

Alexander Davison, of Durham, baptized at Sedgefield, 17 Feb., 1671.

John, baptized, St. Oswald's, 1 June, 1673, buried, 10 Feb., 1676/7.

Thomas Davison, baptized, St. Oswald's, 9 Aug., 1674.

James, baptized, St. Oswald's, 29 Aug., 1675.

Charles Davison, of Durham, baptized, St. Oswald's, 15 Oct., 1676.

John, baptized, St. Oswald's, 8 May, 1681.

William Davison, baptized, St. Oswald's, 18 June, 1682.

Joseph Davison, baptized, St. Oswald's, 4 Nov., 1683; educated at
Durham and St. John's College, Cambridge, matriculated, 15
June, 1702, aged 18.

James, baptized, St. Oswald's, 25 July, 1686, of North Biddic.

Anne, baptized, St. Oswald's, 25 Nov., 1677, buried, 18 Jan., 1678/9.

Margaret, baptized, St. Oswald's, 5 Jan., 1677/8.

Mary, baptized, St. Oswald's, 11 Mar., 1679/80, buried, 4 April, 1681.

9 1684. Aug. 20. Mary Corner, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.
10 Apparently a member of the family of Shuttleworth of Gawthorp and
of Forcet, who were closely connected with the Tempests of Old Durham.
11 1684. Sept. 7. William Rowell, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

110

*Sept. 28. John Richardson, senior, and maltman and tanner, in
Framwelgate, .... being Sunday, being excommunicated, and
buried in his owne garden at Cater-house, nere Durham, being denyed
by the Bishopp to bury him in the church, it being his desire, the
grave was opened in ye quire but shup (sic) up againe by orders, as
above; buried the 29th.12

Sept. 28. Mr. Hugh Hutchinson, book-binder, his wife, . . . .
being Sunday.13

Oct. 7. Ann Hall, wife to Ralph Hall, tayler, .... being
Tuesday morning.14

Oct. 24. Mr. Robert Conyers of Netlesworth, .... being
Friday.15

Nov. 20. Nicholas Dixon, glover, .... being Thursday.16

Nov. 26. Mrs. Humes, the javlor's wife, .... being Wednes-
day.17

*Nov. 29. Doctor John Sudbury, Dean of Durham, .... being
Satterday, at night about 10 a clock and was buried upon ye Wed-
nesday after.18

Dec. 6. Ralph Teasdall, senior, glover, .... being Satter-
day morning.19

Dec. 7. John Dothwaite, beadman, of the Place Greene, . . .
6eing Sunday morning, being betwixt 4 and five in the morning.20

*Dec. 7. A boy called Richard Beaverly, Ralph Hutchinson,
joyner and baker, his wife being his whole aunt, .... being Sunday.

Dec. 24. Francis Fenwick, Christopher Fenwick's wife, milner,
.... being Wednesday.1

12 The explanation of the bishop's action was probably as follows: —
Neither incumbent nor diocesan has power to deny the common-law right
of burial for a deceased parishioner, although the incumbent may select
an unacceptable spot in the grave yard; but the bishop, as ordinary, was
clearly within his rights in refusing any burial within the chancel, and
probably also within any other part of the church itself. The representa-
tives of the deceased probably followed the course adopted after being
refused the demand for a chancel burial, on the plea of ' all or nothing.'

13 1684. Sept. 29. Mrs. Hutchinson, wife of Hugh Hutchinson, book-
seller, buried in the chancell of St. Margaret's. St. Nicholas' Registers.

14 1684. Oct. 7. Ann, wife of Ralph Hall, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

15 Robert Conyers, of Nettlesworth, was the third son of Sir John
Conyers of Horden, first baronet. See pedigree, Surtees, Durham, vol. i.,
p. 29.

16 1684. Nov. 21. Nickolass Dixon, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

17 1684. Nov. 27. Mrs. Isabell Humes, wife of Mr. George Humes,
jaylor, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

18 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 49.

19 1684. Dec. 6. Ralph Tesdell, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

20 1684. Dec. 7. Jo. Douthwaite, beadman, buried on Sunday.
Cathedral Registers.

1 1684. Dec. 25. Frances Fenwick, widow, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

Ill

*Dec. 25. John Etherington, showmaker and seargeant for Mr.
Mayor concerning the lotes, .... being Thursday.

Jan. 1. Justice Blackston, in Elmit, .... being Thursday.2
*Jan. 17. John Borrow, .... being Satterday : 'twas reported
yt he see a coach drawne by 6 swine all black, and a black man satt
upon the cotch box; he fell sick upon't and dyed, and of his death
severall apparritions appeared after.

Jan. 31. Old John Skeathlock, .... being Saterday.3

Feb. 6. King Charles ye Second departed this life the 6th day
of Feb., being Friday, this year 1684/5, dying in a distemper call'd
an appoplexy.

Feb. 17. Stephen Harrison, joyner and carpenter, .... be-
twixt the hours of 12 and one in ye morning, being Tuesday.4

Feb. 17. Katheron Rowell, wife to William Rowell, mason,
. . . . being Tuesday.5

Feb. 18. Dorothy Mitford, wife to John Mitford, .... being
Wednesday morning betwixt 1 and 2.6

Feb. 22. Mr. Alderman Mascall, ... being Sunday at night,
betwixt 9 and 10 at night, and his wife bore a child the 21st of
November, 1685.7

Feb. 27. George Ridley, junior, puterer, .... being Friday.8

Feb. (sic) 5. Mr. William Harrison, attorney- at-law, ....
being Thursday.9

2 1684/5. Jan. 2. William Blakiston, esq., buried. St. Oswald's
Registers. He was of Old Malton and married Mary, widow of Henry
Simpson of Pittington Hall, only daughter of Sir William Eelasyse of
Morton House, by whom he had issue, Anne, an only child who died in
infancy. See Surtees, Durham, vol. iii, p. 163. Also Dean Granville's
Correspondence, Surt. Soc. publ., vol. 37, p. 152.

3 1684/5. Feb. 1. John Skaithlock, weaver, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

4 1684/5. Feb. 17. Stephen Harason, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

5 1684/5. Feb. 18. Catherin Rowell, buried. Ibid.

6 1684/5. Feb. 17. Dorothy, wife of John Mitford, departed this life a
little before one a clocke on Tuesday morneing, buried the same day. St.
Mary-le-Bow Registers.

1684/5. Feb. 18. Dorothy, wife of Jo. Mitford, buried Wednesday.
Cathedral Registers. As Dorothy Scruton she was married at the Cathedral,
11 Nov., 1669. Registers of Durham Cathedral, ed. White, pp. 39, 104, 112.

^1684/5. Feb. 24. Mr. Thomas Maskill, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers. Thomas Mascall, of Durham, attorney, married first Elizabeth,
daughter of Richard Harrison, of Framwellgate, and secondly, Margaret
Dent of Romaldkirk. The latter remarried 1695, William Chipchase.
Margaret, posthumous daughter of Thomas Mascall and only child of his

second marriage, married 1714, Jonathan Walton of Durham.

Cf. Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 220.

8 1684/5. Feb. 27. George Ridley, of the parish of St. Nicholas, pew-
terer, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

1684/5. Feb. 27. George Ridley, pewtherer, a parishioner, buried at
St. Oswald's. St. Nicholas' Registers.

9 1684/5. March 6. William Harrason, buried. St. Margaret's Regis-
ters.

112

Mar. 15. Mr. John Plumton, of Butsford, an archer, . . . .
being Sunday.10

1685

*Mar. 28. Gregory Welsh, porter to ye Bishopp of Durham,
Nathaniel Crew, .... being Satterday morning.11

April 5. Elizabeth Beckles, .... being Sunday morning.12
April 7. Old Mr. Marley yt married Mrs. Elizabeth Kirkby,
.... being Tuesday morning.13

April 20. Mr. Cuthbert Hawdon, attorney-at-law, .... being
Easter Munday.14

*May 7. An old man fell of horse-back and kild himself e the day
before in Renton Longing, called by ye name of John Bell.

*May 8. Mr. Price, shooemaker and brandy seller, was drowned
nere Pelly leases; by accident, being Friday.15

May 8. Ann Wilkinson, w>fe to Andrew Wilkinson, liveing in
Bow Church lane, .... being Friday.16

10 The name of Plumton occurs in St. Oswald's Registers.

11 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 50.

12 1685. April 5. Elizabeth Beckles, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

13 1685. April 8. Mr. William Marley, buried in the quire. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

14 1685. April 21. Mr. Cuthbert Hawdon, attorney-at-law, buried,
templo. Ibid.

I. Cuthbert Hawdon, draper, married, at St. Nicholas', 10 Oct., 1585,

Jane , who was buried 16 Nov., 1587; and secondly, at the same

church, 4 Feb., 1588/9, Isabel ; he was buried 26 Mar., 1637,.

having had issue : —

William II.

Ralph, baptized, St. Nicholas', 13 Mar., 1598/9.

Richard, buried, 30 Jan., 1590/1.

Jane, baptized, St. Nicholas', 8 Aug., 1587.

Alice, baptized, St. Nicholas', 2 Sept., 1593, buried in the church,
24 April, 1614.

Margaret, baptized, St. Nicholas', 23 Nov., 1595.

Elizabeth, baptized, St. Nicholas', 26 Dec, 1603.

II. William Hawdon, draper, baptized at St. Nicholas', 8 Sept., 1591, was

buried in the same church, 1 April, 1637, having had with other issue
a son.

III. Cuthbert Hawdon, attorney, baptized at St. Nicholas', 7 Jan., 1626/7,
sheriff of the city of Durham, 1652, and died 20 April, 1685, having
had with other issue a son.

IV. Francis Hawdon, baptized at St. Nicholas', 13 Jrly, 1656, buried in
the church, 3 Oct., 1685.

15 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 50.

16 1685. May 8. Ann, late wife to Andrew Wilkinson of Northbaly
Durham dyed on Friday. St. Mary-le-Bow Registers.

113

May 9. Mr. Miles Stappleton, justice of ye peace, . . . .
being Satterday.17

*April 23. Mr. John Whitle, a popish taylor, being very vexa-
tious to ye taylors in Durham, .... being Satterday.

Mav 29. Mr. Lancelote Hilton, attorney-at-law, .... being
■Friday, is

*June 20. James Fairelesse, swordsliper, .... being Satter-
day.

June 23. Richard Wilkinson, son to Clement Wilkinson, ....
being Munday.19

Aug. 3. William Druick, senior, and carrier, .... being
Munday. 20

Sept. 14. John Burnupp, tanner, .... being Munday.1

Oct. 2. Mr. Francis Hawdon, son to Mr. Cuthbert Hawdon,
being Friday.2

Oct. 7. Mr. Anthony Emmerson, junior, .... being Satter-
day.3

*Oct. 9. Mr. Thomas Jefferson, late post-master, .... being
Munday.4

17 1685. May 10. Miles Stapylton, esq., buried Sunday. Cathedral
Registers. Miles Stapylton, third son of Bryan Stapylton of Myton, in
the county of York, occupied an office of trust under Bishop Cosin, being
variously described as secretary, auditor and librarian. By his wife,
Elizabeth, daughter of ... . Hinde of London, he left issue. See the
Rev. James Raine's paper on Marske, Arch. Ael., 2 ser., vol. v., p. 12.

18 1685. May 29. Lancelot Hilton, gent., buried. Cathedral Registers.

1685. May 29. ' Mr. Lancelott Hilton, my very kind, much esteemed
and honoured friend, departed this life the 28 May, and was interred by his
owne order and request near unto his brother, Mr. Christopher Mickleton,
his grave and tombstone in the Cathedral church-yard at Durham/ St.
Mary-le-Bow Registers. Lancelot Hilton of Durham, attorney, and of
Hilton in Staindropshire, was the third son of Lancelot Hilton of Gainford
and Dyons in the parish of Gainford. He married first, Mary, daughter of
Thomas Colmore of Durham, by whom he had issue; secondly, Dorothy,
widow of John Cradock of Gainford, and daughter of William Wright, by
whom he had issue; and thirdly, Anne, widow of William Hilton of New-
castle, apothecary, and daughter of Ralph Salkeld of Berwick. How Lance-
lot Hilton came to be ' brother ' to Christopher Mickleton has not been
ascertained. Cf. Hylton pedigree No. 1, Longstaffe, Darlington, and
Mickleton pedigree, Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 140.

19 1685. June 22. Richard Wilkingson, buried. St. Margaret's Reg-
isters.

20 1685. Aug. 4 William Druich, buried. Ibid.

^SS. Sept. 15. John Burnup, buried. Ibid.

2 1685. Oct. 3. Mr. Francis Hawdon, buried, templo. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

5 1685. Nov. 9. Mr. Anthony Emerson, buried. St. Giles' Registers.

4 1685. Nov. 10. Mr. Thomas Jefferson, mercer and postmaster,
buried in the chancell. St. Nicholas' Registers. See pedigree of Jefferson,
Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 156.

in

Oct. 11. Edward Forster, shoemaker, in Sadler Street, ....

being Wednesday.5

Oct. 11. And Mr. Dodsworth, .... being Wednesday.6

Nov. 16. Mr. Robert Farrow, barber, .... being Munday.7

Nov. 19. Captain John Taylor, .... being Thursday.8

*Dec. 21. John Morland, junior, called King John, .... being

Munday.9

Dec. 23. Mr. John Raine, attorney-at-law, .... being Wed-

Dec. 29. Isabell Carr, of Low Bayley, .... being Tuesday.

Nov. 28. John Harrison, carpinter, tenant to Elizabeth Farrow,
nere the Strand, .... being Satterday at night.11

Dec. 5. Thomas Davison, hatter, .... being Friday morn-
ing.12

Dec. 5. William Hall, of Alton-feild, son to Mary Hall.13

Dec. 5. Mary Hall, .... the same day, being Friday.14

Dec. 2. John Mackarty wa*s slaine at Stranton, being a baliffe,
being Tuesday.

Dec. 10. Ann Binnion, wife to Thomas Binnyon, .... being
Thursday.15

Jan. 24. Edward Robinson, shooemaker in Silver Street, ....
being Sunday at night.16

5 1685. Nov. 12. Edward Forster, cordwainer, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

6 1685. Nov. 13. Mr. Anthony Dodsworth, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers. He was the head of the ancient family of Dodsworth of Stran-
ton, being the son of Anthony Dodsworth of that place by his wife, Eleanor,
daughter of Lewis Widdrington, of Cheeseburn Grange. He was baptized
at Stranton, 11 October, 1638, was admitted to Gray's Inn, 28 June, 1656,
and married 15 April, 1662, at St. Nicholas', Newcastle, Elizabeth, daughter
of Henry Maddison of Newcastle, merchant adventurer, by whom he had
numerous issue. He sold his property at Stranton in 1683. See pedigree
of Dodsworth, Surtees, Durham, vol. iii., p. 123.

7 1685. Nov. 17. Robert Farrow, parish of St. Nicholas, barber, buried.
St. Oswald's Registers.

8 1685. Nov. 20. Mr. John Taylor, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

9 See Morland pedigree, Surtees, Durham, vol. iii., p. 276. John
Morland married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Shadforth, of Eppleton,
and left issue.

John Harason, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

Thomas Davison, feltmaker, buried. St. Nicholas'

William Hall of Outon Field, yeoman, buried. St.

Mary Hwll, widow^ buried^ temjrfo. St. Nicholas'

Anne Binyon, wife of Thomas Binyon, buried. Ibid.
25. Edward Robinson, cordwainer, buried, templo.

11 1685.

Nov.

29.

12 1685.

Dec.

4.

Registers.

13 1685.

Dec.

6.

Oswald's Registers.

14 1685.

Dec.

5.

Registers.

15 1685.

Dec.

11.

16 1685/

6. Jan. :

Ibid.

115

Jan. 31. Thomas Dowsey, .... being Sunday.17

Feb. 4. Thomas Kenleside, skinner and glover, .... being
Thursday.18

Feb. 23. William -Sheapheard, junior, oarpinter, .... being
Tuesday.19

Mar. 2. Person Humes, of Chester, .... being Tuesday.19*

1686.

*Mar. 27. Mr. Convene, High Sheriff of ye County Pallintin of
Durham, .... being Satterday.20

*Mar. 28. Mr. Musgrave, prebind of the Chathedrall Church of
Durham, .... being Palme Sunday.1

April 3. Ann Jackson, wife to John Jackson, .... being
Satterday.2

April 28. Mr. Cuthbert- Hilton, attorney-atHaw, .... being
"Wednesday.3

April 30. Mr. Thomas Mascall, attorney-at-law, .... being
Friday.4

May 28. Thomas Younger, wheel-wright and waine-wright,
.... being Friday.5

11 1685/6. Feb. 1. Thomas Dowson, butcher, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

18 1685/6. Feb. 5. Thomas Keinlaside, skinner, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers.

19 1685/6. Feb. 25. William Sheppard, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

i9a William Hume of Peterhouse, Cambridge, matriculated, 20 April,
1668; B.A., 1671; M.A., 1675; perpetual curate of Chester-le-Street,
1673-1674.

20 See Six North Country Diaries t p. 51.

1 He has a monumental inscription in the Cathedral. Ibid.

2 1686. April 4. Ann, wife of John Jackson, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

3 1686. April 28. Cuthbert Hilton, gent., buried. Cathedral Registers.

1686. April 28. • Mr. Cuthbert Hilton, son of the sayd Mr. Lancelott
Hilton, my life friend in all respects, departed this life this 28 day of Aprill
and was interred the same night in a grave adjoyneing, and as neare as
possibly can be to his father's/ St. Mary-le-Bow Registers. The Latin
inscription on the fiat stone which marks his grave can still be read, in part,
but his age is illegible. By his wife, Jane, daughter of Robert Newhouse,
attorney and registrar of the Consistory court of Durham, he left with other
issue, a son, Robert Hilton, an attorney in Bishop Auckland, born 1668,
died 1728.

4 1686. May 1. Mr. Thomas Maskell, junior, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers. Thomas Mascall, married Mary, daughter of Timothy Whitting-
ham of Holmside, and by her had issue, with two sons who died in infancy,
a daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Burdus of Durham,
barrister-at-law. Mrs. Burdus died 28 Sept., 1741, aged 57, and was buried
at St. Margaret's, where there is an inscription to her memory. See
Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 220.

5 1686. May 29. Thomas Younger, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

116

June 7. William Richardson, senior, of Crossgate, blacksmith,

. ... being Munday in ye afternoon.6

Aug. 9. Mr. Ralph Adamson, attorney-at-law, .... being
Munday.9

Aug. 16. Anthony Stott, tanner, .... being Monday.10

*Sept. 4. Captain Thompson, muster-master, .... being
Satterday.

Sept. 6. Mr. George Hume, jaylor in Durham, .... being
Munday.11

6 1686. June 8. William Richardson, buried. Ibid.

9 1686. Aug. 11. Mr. Raiph Adamson, attorney-at-law, buried in the
chancel. St. Nicholas' Registers.

I. Ralph Adamson of Durham, attorney, married, first, Margaret , who

was buried in St. Nicholas' chancel, 28 Sept., 1673, having had issue : —
Robert, baptized, St. Nicholas', 11 Feb., 1668/9, buried in the
chancel, 7 Dec, 1671.

Ralph, baptized, St. Nicholas', 18 Oct., 1670, buried in the chancel,

21 Nov., 1670.
Elizabeth, baptized, St. Nicholas', 30 Oct., 1671, buried in the

chancel, 21 May, 1719.

Margaret, baptized, St. Nicholas', 14 Jan., 1672/3, buried in the

chancel, 26 July, 1680.
He married, secondly, at South Shields, 17 Mar., 1673/4, Elizabeth, daughter
of William Blythman of Westoe, and himself was buried in St. Nicholas'
chancel, 11 Aug., 1686, having had further issue : —

Blythman, baptized, St. Nicholas', 4 Mar., 1674/5, buried in the

chancel, 6 Dec, 1676.
Blythman, baptized, St. Nicholas', 19 Mar., 1677/8, buried in the

chancel, 12 Oct., 1685.
Ralph, baptized, St. Nicholas', 4 Mar., 1678/9, buried in the

chancel, 10 June, 1681.
Robert II.
William, baptized, St. Nicholas', 25 April, 1686, buried in the

chancel, 18 July, 1686.
Barbara, baptized, St. Nicholas', 21 Dec, 1676.
Anne, baptized, St. Nicholas', 6 May, 1683, buried in the chancel,

2 Dec, 1683.

II. Robert Adamson of Durham, baptized at St. Nicholas', 16 Mar., 1680/1,

married, 2 Feb., 1711/2, at the Cathedral, Dorothy, widow of Thomas
Paxton and daughter of John Martin of Durham, who was buried at St.
Nicholas', 26 July, 1719: he was buried at St. Mary in the South
Bailey, 25 Mar., 1733, having had issue : —

William Blythman Adamson, baptized, St. Nicholas, 29 May, 1715,

of Lincoln College, Oxford, matriculated 11 Oct., 1732, aged 17.
Robert, baptized, St. Nicholas', 23 Mar., 1717/8, buried, 8 April,

1718.
Elizabeth, baptized, St. Nicholas', 22 Feb., 1718/9, buried, 21 May,
1719.
See Pedigrees of the Family of Adamson, privately printed at South Shields.
10 1686. Aug. 17. Anthony Stout, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.
11 1686. Sept. 7. Mr. George Humes, javeler, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers.
George Humes, a Scotsman, an ensign in the army, married at St. Oswald's,

117

Sept. 9. Margaret Harrison, wife to John Harrison, carpinter,
nere the Strand, .... being Thursday about 12 at night.12

*Deo. 1. Simon Browne, oyster Simon, .... being Wednes-
day.13

Dec. 13. Mr Michael Speareman, attorney-at-law, .... being
Tuesday at night.14

Jan. 7. Bartholomew Frizell, .... being Friday.15

Jan. 11. Cuthbert Stoot, sadler, .... being Tuesday.16

Jan. 22. Mr. Christopher Wright, Mr. John Richardson's
printice, merchant, .... being Satterday.17

Feb. 5. Mrs. Farrow, being with child to one Teasdale, an
attorney-at-law, and died with ye child in her womb, .... being
Satterday.18

Feb. 8. Mr. George Kirkby, .... in the morne, being
Tuesday.19

Feb. 16. Mr. Thomas Power, .... being Wednesday.20

12 July, 1641, Isabel Snaith, and became the gaoler at Durham. His
-wife was buried at St. Oswald's1, 27 Nov., 1684, being described as ' Mrs.
Isabell Humes, wife of Mr. George Humes, jaylor ; ' he was laid beside
her on the 7 Sept., 1686, being described as ' javeler.' They had issue: —

John Humes, baptized at St. Oswald's, 26 Sept., 1641, as ' son of

George Humes, Scottishman, ensigne to Captaine Weather-

burne ; the mother Isabell, daughter of Willm. Snaith. ' He was

buried, 20 July, 1642.

George, baptized, St. Oswald's, 17 June, 1643, buried, 30 Aug.,

1675, as 'George Humes, junior; he lived in Durham jale.'^,
William, buried at St. Oswald's, 13 April, 1651.
William Humes succeeded George Humes as jaylor being, probably, his
son, and was buried, June, 1689.

12 1686. Sept. 10. Margarett Harason, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

13 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 51.

14 1686. Dec. 14. Michael Spearman, gent., buried. Cathedral
Registers. He was the second son of John Spearman, for many years under-
sheriff of the city of Durham. See Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 95.

15 1686/7. Jan. 8. Bartholomew Frezell, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

16 1686/7. Jan. 12. Cuthbert Stoute, buried. Ibid.

17 1686/7. Jan. 23. Cresepher Wright, buried. Ibid.

18 1686/7. Feb. 6. Mary Farrow, widow, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers.

19 1686/7. Feb. 9. George Kirby, gent., buried. Cathedral Registers*
His widow died 10 March, 1693/4, see p. 136, post.

20 1686/7. Feb. 17. Mr. Thomas Power, buried. St. Margaret'*
Registers.

118

*Feb. 17. Mrs. Thirkeld of ye Ross and Crowne, .... being
Thursday at morne.1

1 1. Edward Thirkeld of Durham, third son of John Thirkeld of Dale in
Cumberland, was 48 years of age in 1666, when he entered his pedigree
at Dugdale's Visitation of Durham; he married at Witton Gilbert,
19 Sept., 1643, Anne, daughter of William Bell, alderman of Durham.
[Query, buried in St. Nicholas', 20 Mar., 1685/6, as Anne Thurkeld,
widow.] Edward Thirkeld was buried in St. Nicholas' church, 10
Nov., 1674; having had issue, two sons : —

William Thirkeld, son and heir, who was 18 years of age in 1666
(Dugdale's Visitation) of whom nothing is known.

Edward II.

II. Edward Thirkeld, of Durham, 16 years of age in 1666, was entered at

Gray's Inn 13 .Tune, 1670. His wife's maiden name has not been
ascertained, but it may have been Taylor; her christian name was
Anne; by her, who was buried in the chancel of St. Nicholas', 18 Feb.,
1686/7, he had (perhaps with other) issue, three sons and two
daughters : —

Taylor III.

Edward, baptized at St. Nicholas', 1 Feb., 1680/1, [buried in the
chancel, 15 April, 1682, as ' son of Mr. Edward Thirkeld.']

John, baptized at St. Nicholas', 19 July, 1686, buried in the chancel
of the same church, 26 April, 1688.

Eleanor, baptized at St. Nicholas', 1 Feb., 1676/7.
Anne, baptized at St. Nicholas', 11 Sept., 1683, buried in the
chancel of the same church, 2 June, 1689.

III. Taylor Thirkeld, baptized at St. Nicholas', 22 Dec, 1678. On the 29
Sept., 1697, at an unusually late age he was apprenticed to George Airy,
of Gateshead, a freeman of the Drapers and Mercers' Company, and was
enrolled 16th November, 1698. He settled in Newcastle, where he
resided in the Bigg market and traded as a druggist (Newcastle
Courant, 20 May, 1732), and where he is stated to have died 14
Aug., 1738. His first wife, Elizabeth, was buried at Whickham, 15
Mar., 1711/2. His second wife, Mary, made her will 24 July, 1743.
By his first marriage he had (perhaps with other) issue : —

Francis, stated to have been born 12 May, 1701.

Taylor IV.

Edward, stated to have been born 29 March, 1708: apprenticed
26 Oct., 1721, to John Snowdon of Newcastle, barber-surgeon.

Eleanor, stated to have been born 20 April, 1704. Married at
St. Andrew's, Newcastle, 21 August, 1724, Blythman Adamson,
of Newcastle, master and mariner. 4,

Hannah, baptized at Whickham, 26 December, 1710.

IV. The Rev. Taylor Thirkeld was born at Woolly-burn-foot in the parish
of Allendale, and was baptized 7 January, 1705/6. Educated at
Newcastle and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he matriculated 16
October, 1723; B.A., 1727; M.A., 1730. Stipendiary curate of Whick-
ham and perpetual curate of Barnard Castle. He married at St.
Mary-le-Bow, 10 October, 1732, Dorothy, daughter of John Bacon of
Staward, and dying on the 9 Aug., 1740, was buried at St. Nicholas',
Durham. His widow resided for some years in Durham and afterwards

119:

Feb. 25. Mr. George Forcer, of Harberus, .... being Friday.2
Mar. 15. Dorothy Sheepheard, junior, .... being Tuesday.3

1687.

*April 27. Magdalin Snadden, wife to James Snadon, did hang

he selfe in a hanke of yarn, .... being Wednesday in the morning.
May 11. Katherin Hedley, .... being Wednesday.4
May 27. Anthony Hutchinson, senior, tanner, .... being

Friday5

June 7. George Wood, .... being Tuesday at night about 12

a clock.6

June 11. John Wood, barber, departed this life the 11th day of

June, commonly called the longest day, being Satterday morning.7
June 20. John Selby, .... being Munday.8
July 5. Nicholas Ladler, barber, . . . being Tuesday.9
July 7. Mrs. Elizabeth My res, .... being Thursday.10

in Westgate, Newcastle, where she died 11 April, 1775. They had
issue, two sons and one daughter : —

John, baptized at Whickham, 31 August, 1733; buried at St.

Nicholas', Durham, 27 Sept., 1745.
William, baptized at Whickham, 20 Aug., 1738; went to sea.
Isabel, baptized at Whickham, 10 Nov., 1736; married at St.
John's Newcastle, 1 January, 1765, Benjamin Gib~on of
Newcastle, ' an eminent linen draper ' (Newcastle Courant,
5 Jan., 1765).

See pedigree of Thirkeld, Arch. Ael., 2 ser., vol. iii., p. 98, by that
proficient genealogist, the late Mr. W. H. D. Longstaffe, in some of whose
details the Editor, with diffidence, has ventured to differ.

2 1686/7. Feb. 26. George Forser, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.
He was the head of the very ancient Eoman Catholic family of Harberhouse,
near Durham, seated in the parish of Thockrington as early as the thirteenth
century, and at Kelloe from the fourteenth century. They gave a prior to
the convent of Durham. For an account of their ancient sepulchral mem-
orials, see new Hist, of Northumberland, vol. iv., p. 394; and for their
pedigree, Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 65.

3 1686/7. March 16. Dorothy Shepard, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

J1687. May 12. Catherine Hedley, spinster, buried at St. Giles'. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

5 1687. May 28. Anthony Hutchinson, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

6 1687. June 9. George Wood, buried. Ibid.

7 1687. June 11. John Wood, of the parish of St. Margaret's, buried.
St. Oswald's Registers. According to the New Style, or the Calendar of
Pope Gregory, the 21st of June represents the 11 June, 1686.

8 1687. June 21. John Selby, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

9 1687. July 6. Nicholas Ladler, buried. St. Nicholas' Registers.

10 1687. July 8. Elizabeth Myres, widow, buried. Cathedral Regis-
ters. She was the widow of Anthony Myers, plumber of the Cathedral, who
was buried 18 March, 1666/7. Their son, Ambrose Myres, matriculated
at St. John's College, Cambridge, 24 Sept., 1668, aged 16.

120

July 21. Mr. Anthony Lodge, attorney-at-law, .... being
Thursday.11

July 22. John Grieve, .... being Friday12

Dec. 6. Mr. Nicholas Barwick, .... being Tuesday.13
*Dec. 10. Mr. Salvin of Outon was brought to Mr. Hall's house,
being there chappell, and was buried the 10th of December, brought
to Durham the 10th, 1687. 14

*Jan. 4. Mrs. Hutchinson, Mrs. Raws' mother, being an 103
years of age, .... being Wednesday.

Jan. 18. Mary Coleson, Christopher Coleson's wife, glover,
being Wednesday.15

Jan. 24. John Stott, tanner, .... betwixt 11 and 12 of ye
clock at night, being Tuesday.16

Jan. 25. John Morland, esquire, justice of the peace, senior,
.... being Wednesday.17

Feb. 14. Francis Harry, .... at night about 10 of ye clock,
being Tuesday.18

Feb. 28. Christopher Rennoldson, weaver, .... being Tues-
day at night.19

Feb. 3. Rowland Harrison, carpenter, .... being Satter-
day morning.20

Mar. 4. John Marshall, butcher, in Silver Street, ....
being Sunday.1

11 1687. July 21. Mr. Antho. Lodge, buried. Cathedral Registers.
He was a Wolsingham man, and married, at St. Giles', 26 April, 1664,
Merrill Whitfield, who was buried in the Cathedral grave-yard, 7 July, 1682.

12 1687. July 22. John Grieve, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

13 1687. Dec. 7. Nicholas Barwicke, gent., buried. Cathedral Regis-
ters.

1667. Sept. 21. Nicholas Barwick, gentleman, and Helen Green
married. Ibid.

He was brother of Doctor John Barwick, Dean of Durham, 1660-1661,
and son of George Barwick, of Witherslack in Westmorland. See Registers
of Durham Cathedral, ed. White, pp. 38, 105.

14 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 52; also pedigree of Salvin, Surtees,
Durham, vol. iv., p. 129.

15 1687/8. Jan. 19. Mary, wife of Cristepher Coulson. St. Margaret's
Registers.

16 1687/8. Jan. 25. John Stoot, buried. Ibid.

17 1687/8. Jan. 27. John Morland, esq., buried. St. Oswald's Regis-
ters. By his wife, Thomasine, daughter of George Martin, of the city of
Durham, he had with other issue, George Morland, his heir, who was buried
at St. Oswald's, 6 March, 1711, and John Morland, who was buried 2 Dec,
1685, both of whom left issue. See pedigree of Morland. Surtees, Durham,
vol. iii, p. 276.

18 1687/8. Feb. 15. Frances, wife of James Harry, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

19 1687/8. Feb. 29. Crestepher Renison, buried. Ibid.

20 1687/8. March 4. Rowland Harason, buried. Ibid.

1 1687/8. March 5. John Marshall, butcher, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

121

*Ma.r. 11. Major John Conyers, of Chester in ye Street, ....
■being Sunday.2

Mar. 18. Mrs. Ma?om, . . . betwixt 11 and 12 at night.3

1688.

April 17. Mr. Ralph Lumley, . . . . 4

April 27. G-eorge Harrison, shoomaker, John Harrison's son,
the carpinfcer, .... being Friday.5

May 22. Mr. Bellingim, .... being Tuesday and was buried
the 24th, being Assention day.6

*May 29. Thomas Binnian, the Mayor's Sergiant, .... being
Tuesday.

July 1. Isabell Fisher, Ralph Fisher's wife, .... being
Sunday.7.

*July 10. John Simpson of Bayley, fait John, .... being
Tuesday.

July 14. Mrs. Mary Jackson, Mr. Gabriel Jackson's wife, the

proctor 8

*Oct. 14. Mr. Captain Blackston in Elvit, .... being Satter-
•day.9

Deo. 27. Jane Burnupp and Thomas Hopper, baker, senior,
departed this life.

Jan. 4. Ralph Fisher, clarke, . . . being Friday.

Jan. 25. Mr. Simon Lakenby. . . being Friday.

Jan. 25. Richard Kenleside, junior, . . . . 10

Jan. 27. Cuthbert Rayne being Sunday.11

2 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 52, and pedigree of Conyers, Surtees,
Durham, vol. i., p. 29.

3 1687/8. March 20. Mary Massam, widow, buried. Cathedral
Registers. She was probably widow of Thomas Massom, singing-man, who
^vas buried at the Cathedral, 20 Sept., 1675.

1687/8. March 20. Mrs. Mary Massam, widow, a parishioner, buried
in the Abbey churchyard. St. Nicholas' Registers.

4 1688. April 18. Ralph Lumley, buried in the chancell. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

5 1688. April 28. George Harason, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

6 1688. May 24. Mr. Thomas Bellingham, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers. Probably a scion of the family of Bellingham of Levens and
of Great Worsall, who represented the ancient Northumbrian house of
Bellingham of Bellingham. See Proceedings of the Newcastle Society of
Antiquaries, 3 ser. vol. v., p. 11.

7 1688. July 2. Isabell Fisher, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

8 1688. July 15. Mrs. Mary Jackson, widow, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers.

9 See Surtees, Durham, vol. iii., p. 164.

10 1688/9. Jan. 26. Richard Keinlaside, skinner, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers.

11 1688/9. Jan. 27. Cuthbert, son of Mr. John Raine, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

122

Feb.

4.

Mar.

2.

day.13

Mar.

18.

May

26.

June

— .

July

21.

.... being

Aug.

10.

ton waterside.

Sept.

9.

Munday.

18

Sept.

25.

at night

19

*Oct.

2.

Nov.

16.

*Dee.

8.

Sunday.

Deo.

27.

Dec.

27.

Dec.

20.

night.3

Richard Browne, sexton, .... being Munday.12
Robert Stellinir. carriage man being Satter-

Person Edward Kirkbv, . .

1689.

being: Munday.14

Phillip Browne, .... being Sunday.15
William Hume, jaylor, . . . . 16

Mary Jackson, daughter to John Jackson in Crossgate,
Sunday at night about 11 of the clock.17
Ann Dothwaite, wife to Ralph Dothwaite, of Willing-
.... being Satterday.
James Robson of Broome Close-house, .... being

Mrs. Fenwick of the Bull,

being Wednesday

Little Dick Hutchinson, .... being Wednesday.20
Thomas Walker, .... being Satterday.1
Mrs. Ann Stott, slim TVme's wife, .... being

George Burden, dyer, .... being Friday.2

George Mayson of Brandon, ....

Person Leonard Featherston, .... being Friday at

Ibid.

Feb. 5. Richard Browne, sexton, buried.
March 3. Robert Stelling, buried. Ibid
March 19. Mr. Edward Kirkby, clerke, buried.

12 1688/9.
13 1688/9.

14 1688/9. March 19. Mr. Edward Kirkby, clerke, buried. St. Mary-
le-Bow Begi*1< r*.

1688/9. March 19. Mr. Edward Kirkby, praecentor of this church,
buried. Cathedral Registers. He was of Peterhous-e, Cambridge, where he
matriculated, 25 June, 1664; B.A., 1667; M.A., 1671; perpetual curate of
Witton, co. Palatine, 28 Sept., 1671; vicar of Heighington, 1684; a minor
canon of the cathedral ; married there 27 May, 1674, Elizabeth Thompson.
He has a Latin monumental inscription in the cathedral.

15 1689. May 26. Phillip Browne, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

16 1689. June 26. Mr. William Humes, buried. St. Oswald's Regis-
ters.

17 1689. July 22.
Margaret's Registers.

18 1689. Sept. 10.

19 1689. Sept. 27.
Nicholas' Registers.

20 See p. 107, supra.

1 1689. Nov. 17. Thomas Walker, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

2 1689. Dec. 28. George Burdon, dyer, buried, templo. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

! Leonard Featherston, son of George Featherston, born in the county
of Durham, was educated at Durham school and at Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, where he matriculated 16 April, 1681, aged 19; B.A., 1685.

Mary, daughter of John Jackson, buried.

St.

James Robson, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.
Mrs. Mary Fenwick, widow, buried, templo. St.

123

Jan. I. John French, druemer, was killed, being Wednesday.4

Jan. 8. Mr. William Paxton, . . . . 5

Jan. 11. Mr. Stephen Thompson, .... being Satterday.6

Jan. 11. Barbary Snawdon, wife to William Snawdon, ....

bein g Satterday . 7

Jan. 11. Mr. Walker, draper taylor, .... being Satterday.8

Jan. 13. Captain Thomas Wright, .... being Munday.9

Jan. 19. Captain Marmaduke Allinson, . . . . 10

Jan. 21. Nicholas Paxton, senior, .... being Tuesday.11

Feb. 25. Thomas Cradock, esquire, .... being Tuesday.12

Mar. 8. Jane Miller of South Street, gardener, .... being

Satterday.13

4 1689/90. Jan. 2. John France, drummer, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

5 1689/90. Jan. 9. William Paxton, mercer, buried, templo. Ibid.

c 1689/90. Jan. 12. Mr. Stephen Thompson, alderman, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

7 1689/90. Jan. 12. Barbara, wife of William Snawdon, buried.
Cathedral Registers. She was married at the Cathedral 1 May, 1678, her
name being Wilson. Her husband was laid beside her on the 15 October,
1692.

8 1689/90. Jan. 13. Michaell Walker, draper, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

9 1689/90. Jan. 15. Capt. Thomas Wright, buried, templo. Ibid.
When St. George, Norroy king of arms, made his Visitation in 1615, Hugh
Wright, being that year mayor of Durham, took the opportunity to enter
his pedigree and to obtain a confirmation of his arms. His eldest
son named Toby, died in his life-time, and on his death he was suc-
ceeded by his grandson, Thomas Wright, of Durham and Windleston,
who was baptized at Auckland St. Andrew, 11 June, 1640. He made up his
pedigree at Dugdale's Visitation in 1666 having previously married Mary,
daughter of Charles Elstob of Foxton. He was prothonotary of the Court
of Common Pleas of Durham, and having come into conflict with Dean
Granville, was, by the latter, in a letter written to the Bishop of Durham,
apparently in 1675, vilified as ' a notorious sott ' and a ' train-band captain/
who had ' gotten his noddle as full of drinke as his heart with folly and
malice.' See Miscellaneous Correspondence of Dean Granville, Surtees
Soc. publ., vol. 37, p. 155; and pedigree of Wright, Surtees, Durham, vol.
iv., p. 153.

10 1689/90. Jan. 20. Mr. Marmaduke Alleson, buried. St. Mary-le-
Bow Registers.

11 1689/90. Jan. 22. Nicholas Paxton, the elder, cordwainer, buried.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

12 1689/90. Feb. 28. Thomas Cradock, esqr., buried at the Cathedral
church. Memorandum : No affidavit brought within ye time limited, but
upon informacon the forfeiture paid and distributed according to law. St.
Mary-le-Bow Registers. He was eldest son of Sir Joseph Cradock, com-
missary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond; he was of Trinity Hall, Cam-
bridge, and of Gray's Inn, barrister-at-law. He was married twice, but
left no issue. A long Latin inscription marks the place of burial in the
south aisle of the Cathedral. See pedigree of Cradock, Surtees, Durham,
vol. iv., p. 13.

13 1689/90. March 9. Jane Milner, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

124

Mar. 18. Mrs. Sarah Nelson, .... being Tuesday.

Mar. 18. Robert. Knaggs, .... being Tuesday at night.15

Mar. 20. Ralph Teasdale, junior, .... being Thursday about
two of the clock in the morning.16

Mar. 20. Margaret Dobson, wife to Robert Dobson, of Gyligate,
skinner, .... being Thursday.

Mar. 24. Michael Oliver, butcher, . . . being Munday.17

1690.

*Mar. 31. Mr. George Barkas, attorney-a,t-law, clarck to every
mayor in Durham during his time, .... being Munday.18

Mar. 31. Mrs. Newby, Mr. Robert Newby's widow, . . .
being Munday.19

* April 10. Mr. Francis Crossby, junior, attorney-at-law and
merchant, .... being Thursday.

April 13. John, Hickson, butcher .... being Sunday.20

April 18. Thomas Browne, son of Phillip Browne, . . . being
Friday.1

April 19. Tymothy Stott, . . . being Satterday.2

May 4. George Willowby, tallow chandler, .... being
Sunday.3

May 10. Ann Bambridge, wife to Ralph Bambridge, shooe-
maker, .... being Satterday.4

May 14. John Kirkby, barbar, .... being Wednesday.5

15 1689/90. March 19. Robert Knaggs and a souldier, buried. Ibid.

16 1689/90. March 20. Ralph Teesdell, buried. Ibid.

17 1689/90. March 25. Michaell Oliver, butcher, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

18 1690. April 1. George Barkas, gent., buried in the Abby church
yard. St. Mary-le-Bow Registers.

1690. April 1. George Barkas. Notary Public. Cathedral Regis-
ters.

19 1690. April 1. Ann Newby, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

20 1690. April 13. John Hickson, butcher, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

1 1690. April 19. Thomas Browne, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

-1690. April 20. Mr. Timothy Stott, buried. Ibid.

3 1690. May 4. George Willoughbey, tallow chandler, buried. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

4 1690. May 12. Anne, wife of Ralph Bainbrig, cordwainer, buried,
templo. Ibid.

5 1690. May 15. Mr. John Kirby, of the parish of St. Nicholas, buried.
St. Oswald's Registers.

1690. May 15. John Kirby, a parishioner, buried at St. Oswald's.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

125

June 7. Mrs. Fran. Mickleton, wife to James Mickleton,
lawyer, .... being Sunday.6

*July 18. Mrs. Richardson, wife to Mr. John Richardson, junior,
maltman, departed this life at Stockton and was buried at Katter-
house garden with her husband.7

July 28. Mr. Pexell Forster, senior, .... in Durham gaol.8

6 1690. June 8. Mrs. Eliz. Mickleton, wife of Mr. James Mickleton,
buried. St. Margaret's Registers. The christian name given in the text
seems to be correct : she was daughter of Michael Hall of Durham, and
was married at St. Margaret's, 29 April, 1660. See Surtees, Durham,
vol. iv., p. 140.

7 She was, Anne, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Atkinson of Cater-
house.

8 1690. July 28. Mr. Pexall Forster the elder, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers. See also Forster pedigree, Surtees, Durham, vol. iv.,
p. 152.

I. Mark Forster, town clerk of the city of Durham and Notary Public, was

buried in St. Nicholas' church, 15 Jan., 1622/3, having had issue by
his wife, Margaret, daughter of Edward Hudspeth of Durham, three
sons and three daughters, viz. : —
Thomas II.
John, baptized, St. Nicholas', 2 Dec, 1604, of Christ College,

Cambridge.
Edward, baptized, St. Nicholas', 14 Feb., 1612/3, rector of Ring-
stead St. Andrew, Norfolk.^
Alice, baptized, St. Nicholas', 12 Oct., 1606.
Elizabeth, baptized. St. Nicholas', 15 Jan., 1608/9.
Margaret, married at St. Nicholas', 1.7 Jan., 1636/7, John Ayreson,
alderman of Durham

II. Thomas Forster of Durham, draper, was buried in St. Nicholas'. 1 Nov.,

1642, having had issue by his wife, Eleanor, daughter of John Southern
of Newcastle, merchant, one son and three daughters, viz. : —
Pexall III.
Matilda, wife of George Hodgson, alderman of Durham, and died,

25 May, 1692.
Anne, wife of William Dent of Durham, apothecary.
Margaret, married at St. Nicholas', 13 July, 1669, Tobias
Blakeston.

III. Pexall Forster of Durham, entered his pedigree at Dugdale's Visita-
tion, 20 Aug., 1666, being then aged 39 years and 10 months. He
married Dorothy, daughter of Tobias Blakeston of Newton, and
apparently died in Durham gaol on the 28 July, 1690, having had
issue : —

Mark, buried in St. Nicholas', 17 May, 1660.
, Pexall IV.

Marmaduke, baptized at St. Nicholas', 3 Oct., 1664.

IV. Pexall Forster, baptized at St. Nicholas', 29 Mar., 1663, of Peterhouse,
Cambridge, curate of St. Giles', vicar of St. Oswald's, 1690-1711, rector
of Egglescliffe, 1711, to his death, 27 Feb., 1739. By his wife, Averill,
daughter of Robert Robson of Durham, he had with other issue : —

Pexall Forster, baptized St. Oswald's, 30 March, 1693, of Lincoln
College, Oxford, matriculated, 22 Mar., 1709/10; B.A., 1713;
incorporated Cambridge, 1718; vicar of Lakenham, Norfolk,
1718.

William Forster, baptized at St. Oswald's, 28 March, 1695, of
Lincoln College, Oxford, matriculated, 8 April, 1712; B.A.,
1715; M.A., 1718; vicar of Aycliffe, 1723 ; vicar of St. Oswald's,
1725 to his death, 18 Mar., 1765. ^

Satterday.11

Oct.

4.

tanner, ,

Oct.

10.

♦Oct.

12.

Durham,

Nov.

it!

night,14

Nov.

23

*

126

*July 27. Drunken Peg Hutchinson, ....

Sept. 7. Margaret Hutchinson, Nicholas Hutchinson's wife, the
taylor, departed this life in childbirth about one of ye clock in the
morning, being Sunday.9

Sept. 7. Ursaly Hull, alias Wills, daughter to Thomas Wills,
.... in childbirth, being Sunday.10

Sept, 20. Mr. Duncan, late Keeper of Beerpark, .... being

Mary Hutchinson, Anthony Hutchinson, daughter,
. being Satterday.

William Knaggs, drover, . . . being Friday.12
Mr. Roger Blackston, virger in ye Chathedrall of
. . being Sunday.13
Thomas Wade, mayson, .... being Mini day, at

Ann Midleton, wife to Francis Middlleton, barber,
being Sunday, at night.15
'Nov. 27. Mr. William Wilson, in the Bailey was drowned, being
Thursday at night, and was found the 7th of December, being Sun-
day, nere Cocken boat, and was buried that night in the Ninne
Altars.16

9 1690. Sept. 7. Margaret, wife of Nicholas Hutchinson, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

10 1690. Sept. 7, Ursila, wife of John Hull, buried. Ibid.

11 1690. Sept. 21. Mr. Edmond Duncon, buried, templo. St. Nicholas'

Registers.

12 1690. Oct. 10. William Knaggs, buried. Witton Gilbert Registers.

13 1690. Oct. 13. Mr. Roger Blakeston, buried. St. Mary in the South
Bailey Registers.

Koger Blakeston, the verger, was apparently a scion of the ancient
house of Blakeston, possibly of the Gibside family, who used the christian
name of Roger; being described as gentleman in the entries in the Registers
of St. Mary's in the South Bailey, which record the baptism of his children
William, baptized, 20 Sept., 1659, and Thomas, baptized, 22 Dec, 1661.
His wife's name was Margaret. On June 16, 1686, he was obliged to do
penance for drunkenness by Dean Granville, who apparently intimidated
him into saying he had ' done dishonour to God, and given offence to [his]
superiors of this Cathedral. ' See Dean Granville's Correspondence,
Surtees Soc, No. 47, p. 135. In the entry of his burial at St. Mary's in
the South Bailey on Oct, 13, 1690, he is described as ' Mr. Roger Blakeston.'

14 1690. Oct. 24. Thomas Wade, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

15 1690. Nov. 25. Frances, wife of Francis Middleton, buried. Ibid.

16 1690. Dec. 7. Mr. William Wilson, most unfortunately drown'd
November 27, found and buried in the Cathedral church. St. Mary-le-Bow
Registers.

1690/1. Feb. 18. Mrs. Mary Wilson, his wife, buried there. Ibid.
The latter was daughter of Marmaduke Allinson, and brought her husband
an interest in a Bishop's lease of Quarrington. They had one son, Sudbury
Wilson. See Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 74.

127

Dec. 16. Henry Wanlasse, alderman, senior, .... being
Tuesday.17

Dee. 17. James Clemant, carpenter, .... being Wednesday.18

Dec. 23. Barnard Hutchinson, schoolmaster, departed this life
at Morpeth, being Tuesday.

Jan. 17. Thomas Key, currier, .... being Satterday.1

Feb. 4. Jonathan Hutchinson, booke-binder, .... being
Wednesday.

Feb. 9. Mr. Powells, a Presbiterian minister, departed this life
at John Jackson's, being Munday.

Feb. 13. Ann Wood, wife to John Wood, barber, .... being
Friday.2

Feb. 17. Mrs. Wilson, Mr. Wilson's wife, lately drowned,
.... being Tuesday.3

Feb. 19. Mr. Michael Heighington, .... being Thursday.4

Feb. 20. Abigaell Fewster, alis Avirill, wife to William Fewster,
shoomaker, .... being Friday.5

*Mar. 17. Thomas Wilkinson, of ye House of Correction, weaver,
.... being Tuesday.

Mar. 18. Aby Lodge, .... being Wednesday.6

1691.

May 4. George Harrison, tanner, in Framwelgate, . ... at
night about 11 a'clock. .

May 15. Mrs. Padman, wife to Robert Padman, barber, ....
being Friday.7

June 27. Mr. Ralph Trotter, merchant, .... being Satter-
day.8

17 1690. Dec. 17. Mr. Henry Wanless, alderman, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

18 1690. Dec. 18. James Clement, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

1 1690/1. Jan. 18. Thomas Key, currier, buried. St. Nicholas'

Registers.

2 1690/1. Feb. 11. Anne Wood of the parish of St. Margaret, buried.
St. Oswald's Registers.

3 See supra p. 126, n. 16.

4 1690/1. Feb. 21. Mr. Michael Heighington, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers. Evidently a member of the family of Heighington of Windgate
and Durham, who does not find a place in the recorded pedigree. See
Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 99.

5 1690/1. Feb. 22. Abigaell Fewster, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

6 1690/1. March 19. Averill Lodge, buried. Ibid.

7 1691. May 16. Mary Padman, widow, of the parish of St. Margaret,
buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

8 1691. June 28. Mr. Ralph Trotter, mercer, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

128

July 26. Grace Hawdon, .... being Sunday.9
July 30. Michael Harrison, shoe-maker, .... being Friday
about 12 at night.10

Aug. 7. Mrs. Eldridge, late widow to Mr. Lowther, ye Sheriff's
clarke, .... being Friday11

Aug. 12. Abraham Paxton, of Claypath, .... being Wednes-
day.12

*Aug. 26. Sir John Duck, bart., .... being Wednesday at
night; was buried upon Munday after, being ye 31st of August.13
Aug. 27. John Bambridge, butcher, .... being Thursday.14
Oct. 12. Madam Green vill, wife to ye late Dean Green vil,
.... being Munday.15

9 1691. July 28. Grace Hawdon, buried. No affidavit brought accord-
ing to the Act of Parliament for burying at woolen. St. Mary-le-Bow
Registers.

10 1691. Aug. 1. Michael Harrison, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

11 1691. August 8. Margaret, wife of Mr. John Elleridge, buried.
St. Mary-le-Bow Registers.

1691. Aug. 2. Margarett, wife of John Eldridge, buried. Cathedral
Registers. Under the name of Margaret Lowther she was married at the
Cathedral, 18 March, 1688/9.

12 1691. Aug. 13. Abraham Paxton, buried, temjrto St. Nicholas'
Registers.

13 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 52. For the little that is known of
Sir John and Lady Duck, see Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., pp. 53, 54, also
a pedigree of Duck, Heslop and Nicholson. Ibid. p. 156.

14 1691. Aug. 28. John Bainbridg, butcher, buried, templo. St.

Nicholas' Registers.

15 1691. Oct. 14. Anne, wife of Dr. Granville, Dean of Durham, buried.
Cathedral Registers. Mrs. Granville was Anne, daughter of Bishop Cosin,
and was married to Dennis Greneville, subsequently Dean of Durham, on
Sept., 16, 1662, at Auckland St. Andrew, being then about 19 years of age.
Granville seems to have; alleged subsequently that he had been insnared
to marry ' a distracted wife/ which provoked Mrs. Granville, probably at
her father's instigation, to make a declaration before a notary public that
the distemper she sometimes had for a day or two was not concealed from
her husband before he wooed and married her (see Remains of Dean
Granville, Part n, pp. 2, 4).

Denis Granville, a younger son of Sir Bevil Granville, was born 13
Feb., 1636/7, and was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he
matriculated, 6 Aug., 1658; M.A., 1660; D.D., 1670. He was ordained in
1661 and was presented in the same year to the family living of Kilk-
hampton. In the following year he was made a Fellow of Eton and
prebendary of the first stall in the Cathedral of Durham, 1662-1668. His
subsequent preferments were as follows : — rector of Easington, and arch-
deacon of Durham, 1662-1691; rector of Elwick, 1664-1667; prebendary of
the second or Golden stall of Durham, 1668-1684; rector of Sedgefield,
1667-1691. In spite of this ecclesiastical monopoly he was arrested for debt in
the cloisters of the Cathedral, 8 July, 1674, on returning to his house in the
College from attending the funeral of Captain Forster, and was carried off to
gaol. On pleading his privilege as a Royal chaplain-in-ordinary he obtained
an order from the King in Council for his release; his creditors being
reprehended and ordered to be prosecuted. He was appointed to be Dean
of Durham in 1684, at the instance of Bishop Crewe, who is reported to

129

Nov. 19. Mrs. Beamond, wife to Person Beamond, ....
being Thursday.16

Nov. 23. Robert Jackson, skinner in Gyligate, .... being
Munday.

Dec. 1. John Yapp, .... being Tuesday.17

Dec. 18. * Mr. Marshall, minor cannon in ye Chathedrall of
Durham, .... being Friday.18

Dec. 18. And Elizabeth Richardson of Clapath, little Thorn's
wife, departed ye same day.19

*I)ec. 19. William Peareson, glover, comonly called Laird Peare-
son, .... being Satterday about 6 of ye clock at night ; and made
his will ye 15th day.

*Dec. 25. Michael Huson, .... being Friday.20

Jan. 1. Margery Rutlass, wif to Ralph Rutlass, .... being
Friday.1

Jan. 22. Margaret Hall, wife to Robert Hall, of Stotgate,
being Friday.2

have retorted to Archbishop Sancroft's warning that ' Greenvill was not
worthy of the least stall in Durham church/ by saying he ' rather chose
a gentleman than a silly fellow, who knew nothing but books ' (see Bishop
Crewe's Life, quoted in vol. 37 of this series, p. 187, note). Granville seems
to have used his influence with the clergy in 1688 to read James II. 's illegal
Declaration and notes that in the sixty-five churches in his jurisdiction as
archdeacon, in twenty only was it read : he ' was mightly surprised at this
unexpressed spirit of opposition/ On the 11 Dec, of the same year, he left
the ancient deanery-house of Durham and took refuge in France, leaving
his wife dependent on the compassion of the Cathedral body, who, on the
8 Dec, 1690, granted her .£20 to be paid quarterly, she being left ' destitute
and unprovided for her present subsistence ' (see vol. 37 of this series,
Introduction, p. xli.). Having thus withdrawn himself from the realm
without having, as prescribed by Parliament, taken the Oath of Allegiance
to William and Mary, Granville on the 1 Feb., 1690/1, vacated his prefer-
ments. He died at Paris, 18 April, 1703. His letters and other literary
remains have been sympathetically edited by the Rev. George Ornsby and
may be found in vols. 37 and 47 of this series.

16 Apparently wife of Hammond Beaumont, some time curate at
Easington.

17 1691. Dec. 2. Mr. John Yapp, buried. St. Mary-le-Bow Registers.
1691. Dec. 2. John Yappe, bailiff to ye Dean and Chapter, buried.
Cathedral Registers. He married 3 Feb., 1667/8, at the Cathedral, Eleanor
Hilton, daughter of Lancelot Hilton, of Durham, attorney, and of Hilton
in Staindropshire, by whom he had issue, Abraham Yapp, clerk in orders, of
St. John's College, Cambridge, when he matriculated, 8 Feb., 1680/1, minor
canon of Durham.

18 1691. Dec. 19. William Martiall, clerk, M.A., minor canon, buried.
Cathedral Registers.

19 1691. Dec. 20. Elizabeth Richardson, widow, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

20 1691. Dec. Michael Hewson, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.
1 1691/2. Jan. 2. Margery Rutledge, buried. Ibid.

2 1691/2. Jan. 23. Margarett Hall, of Stotgate, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers.

130

Feb. 3. Robert Hall of Stottgate, .... being Wednesday.3

Feb. 4. Mr. Alderman Walker, .... being Thursday.4

Feb. 8. Mrs. Heighington, .... being Munday.5

Feb. 11. George Ridley, spurrier and cocker, .... being

Thursday.6

Feb. 15. Thomas Jackson of Sadler Street," .... being

Munday.7

Feb. 15. And John Stott ye roper, dyed ye same day.8

Feb. 16. Doctor Frederick Arnold, .... being Tuesday.9

Feb. 23. Jane Belley, .... being Tuesday.10

Feb. 25. Margaret Ross, .... being Thursday.11

Mar. 10. Edward Hodshon, miller of Keepier Mill, .... being

Thursday.12

Mar. 20. Katherin Thornton, wife to Roger Thornton, ....

being Sunday.13

1692.

May 18. Jane Dickinson, .... being Thursday.14

May 18. Thomas Colly son, .... being Thursday.15

*May 23. Mr. Ralph Heath, he being blind, .... being Mun-

day.

1G

3 1691/2. Feb. 4. Robert Hall of Stottgate, buried. Ibid.

4 1691/2. Feb. 5. Mr. John Walker, mercer and. alderman, buried in
the chancell. St. Nicholas' Registers.

5 1691/2. Feb. 11. Mrs. Frances Heighington, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers. She was wife of William Heighington, who in 1656, purchased
a moiety of Windgate in the parish of Kelloe. Her husband died 28 Nov.,
1693. See also pedigree of Heighington, Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 99.

6 1691/2. Feb. 12. George Ridley, spurrier, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

" 1691/2. Feb. 16. Thomas Jackson, joyner, buried, templo. Ibid.

8 1691/2. Feb. 16. John Stott, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

M691/2. Feb. 17. Fredderick Arnold, buried. Ibid.

"1691/2. Feb. 24. Jane Belly, buried. Ibid.

"1691/2. Feb. 26. Marg* Rose, buried. Ibid.

12 1691/2. March 11. Edward Hodgshon, buried. Ibid.

13 1691/2. March 21. "Katharin Thornton, wife of Roger Thornton,
yeoman, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

14 1692. May 19. Jane Dickenson, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

15 1692. May 19. Thomas Collison, buried. Ibid.

"Ralph Heath of Little Eden, only son and heir of Nicholas Eden of
that place, died unmarried and was buried at St. Margaret's, 25 May,
1692. His only sister, Dorothy, married Thomas Cradock, attorney general
to the Bishop of Durham. See pedigree, Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 38.
Nicholas' Registers .

131

May 25. Mrs. Matilday Hodshon, Alderman George Hodshon's

wife, .... being- Wednesday.17

*June 4. Mr. Thornton, our Dean's, Doctor Cumber's wife's

brother, .... being Satterday.18

June 4. Alexander Shaw, whitesmith, senior, . . . . 19
June 10. William Kirkley, weaver, .... being Friday.20
July 16. John Bailey, chapman, departed this life suddenly,

being Satterday.1

17 1692. May 26. Mrs. Matilda Hodgson, widow, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

I. George Hodgson of Durham, mercer and alderman, was churchwarden

of St. Nicholas* in 1665, and mayor in 1671. He married Matilda,
daughter of Thomas Forster and sister of Pexall Forster, who survived
him, and was buried in St. Nicholas' church, 26 May, 1692. They
had issue : —
William II.
Charles Hodgson [apothecary], baptized, St. Nicholas', 31 May,

1663 [buried, 26 Sept., 1718].
George, baptized, St. Nicholas', 4 Feb., 1665/6, buried in the

church, 20 June, 1666.
Mark Hodgson of Durham, mercer, baptized, St. Nicholas', 14 July,

1667, buried in the church, 13 Mar., 1699/1700.
John, baptized, St. Nicholas', 19 June, 1669, buried in the church,

1 July, 1669.
Peter, baptized, St. Nicholas', 12 Aug., 1673, buried in the church,
27 Nov., 1675.

II. William Hodgson, mercer and alderman, baptized at St. Nicholas', 6

Feb., 1661/2, was mayor of Durham in 1694. He married, 6 May,
1683, Ann, daughter of [William] Paxton, and was buried in St.
Nicholas' church, 16 May, 1700, and had issue: —

William, baptized, St. Nicholas', 6 June, 1686 [buried 12 May,

George, baptized, St. Nicholas', 13 Dec, 1687, buried in the

church, 9 Jan., 1687/8.
Nicholas, baptized, St. Nicholas', 1 May, 1689.
John Hodgson, merchant, baptized at St. Nicholas', 6 May, 1691
George, baptized, St. Nicholas', 24 Aug. 1696.
Anne, baptized, St. Nicholas', 31 Mar., 1684, buried in the church,

31 July, 1689.
Elizabeth, baptized, St. Nicholas', 22 Sept., 1693, buried in th:

church, 16 July, 1694.
Eleanor, baptized, St. Nicholas', 15 Feb., 1697/8.

18 He was son of William Thornton, of East Newton, Yorkshire, and
matriculated at University College, Oxford, 1 June, 1682. aged 19; B.A.,
1683; M.A. from Magdalen, 1686; rector of Boldon, 1691; and was buried
in the Nine Altars on the 6 June, 1692.

"1692. June 5. Alexander Shaw, whitesmith, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

20 1692. June 10. William Kirkley, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

1 1692. July 17. John Bailey, buried. Ibid.

132

*July 23. Mr. John Hubback, postmaster, junior, .... being
Salter day.2

July 26. Two young men was drowned above New Bridge;
Marley and Chilton by name, one a. painter, ye other, a shoomaker,
Arthur Riddley's man.3

•Sept. 15. Michael Welch, the Bishopp's porter, .... being
Thursday.4

*Sept. 15. Bett Lamb, dyed ye same day at night.
Sept. 16. Ralph Rutlish," .... being Friday.5
Oct. 14. William Snawdon, plummer, .... being Friday.6
Nov. 30. Christopher Lambe, smith, .... being Wednesday.7
*Deo. 22. Robert Meaburne, .... being Thursday, was killed
by ye fall of a peece timber.

Jan. 3. Ann Younger, wife to Cuthbert Younger, .... being
Tuesday.8

2 1692. July 21. Mr. John Hubbock, postmaster, buried, templo.
St. Nicholas', Registers.

John Hubbock is described in St. Nicholas' Registers in 1661 as postmaster.
He buried his first wife, Matilda, in that church, 26 Jan., 1663/4;
and on the 21 July, 1664, married, secondly, at Seaham, Catherine
Mason, widow; her he buried at the Cathedral, 20 Jan., 1683/4. He
had (perhaps with other) issue : —

Samuel, buried in St. Nicholas', 20 June, 1660.

Alice, buried in St. Nicholas', 30 Mar., 1661.

Matilda, baptized at St. Nicholas', 15 Sept., 1661, buried 21 Dec,
1662.

Frances, baptized at St. Nicholas', 17 Oct., 1663

James, buried in St. Nicholas', 24 April, 1665.

Elizabeth, buried in St. Nicholas', 26 Mar., 1675.
John Hubbock, the younger, was probably a son of the first-named and
seemed to have succeeded him in the pastmastership, or perhaps as
joint postmaster. He occurs in St. Nicholas' Registers in 1687 as
vintner. He had issue : —

John, baptized at St. Nicholas', 24 Sept., 1682.

Joseph, baptized at St. Nicholas', 27 Jan., 1683/4.

Frances, buried at St. Nicholas', 12 Dec, 1679.

Mary, baptized at St. Nicholas'. 10 Feb., 1685/6.

Matilda, baptized at St. Nicholas', 26 Feb., 1687/8; married 29 Nov.

1724, James Richardson.

Elizabeth, baptized at St. Nicholas', 16 Jan., 1689/90.

3 1692. July 27. Robert Morley, painter, and Robert Chilton, cord-
wainer, were drowned beside the new bridge the 26 July; buried. St.
Oswald's Registers.

4 Michael Welsh must have succeeded (his kinsman) Gregory Welsh,
who died 28 March, 1685. See p. 112 supra. Also Six North Country
Diaries, pp. 50, 55.

5 1692. Sept. 17. Ralph Rutledge, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

6 1692. Oct. 15. William Snawdon, yeoman, buried. Cathedral
Registers. His wife died 11 Jan., 1689/90.

7 1692. Dec. 2. Christopher Lamb, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

8 1692/3. Jan. 3. (Blank) wife of Cuthbert Younger, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

133

Jan. 10. Mrs. Sutton, sister to Mr. Sutton, Sir Edward Smith's

steward, .... being Tuesday.9

Jan. 15. John Robinson, servant to Jo. Jackson, .... being

Sunday morne about 1 our.

Feb. 18. Mrs. Arrabella, Drewry, . . . being Satterday.10
Feb. 18. Mr. William Stagg, attorney-at-law, . . . .**
*Feb. 18. Franns Hutchinson, Dick of Trymdon's wife, ....

at night about ten and eleaven.

Feb. 18. Thomas Allinson, in Gilygate, skinner, .... being

Satterday at night.

Feb. 23. Mr. George Nicholson, attorney-at-law, .... being

Thursday.12

1693.
April 14. Elizabeth Kemps, Symon Hutchinson's wife, ....

being Good Friday 13

April 21. Mary Chipeha.se, wife to William Chipecha.se, ....

being Friday.14

May 1. Mr. Handby, senior, .... being Munday.15

May 14. Mrs. Martin, Mr. Thomas Martin's wife, .... being

Sunday at night about 11 of ye clock.16

May 17. Mr. Nicholas Heath, .... being Wednesday.17
June 14. Mrs. Heath, .... being Wednesday at 10 at night.18
July 8. Alice Hawdon, .... being Satterday.19
Aug. 3. James Mickleton esq., councill-at-law, .... being

Thursday.20

9 1692/3. Jan. 11. Mrs. Judith Sutton, buried. Ibid.

10 1692/3. Feb. 19. Arabella, wife of William Dewry, buried. Ibid.

"1692/3. Feb. 19. William Stagg, Not. Pub., buried. Cathedral
Registers. He married 29 Aug., 1677, at the Cathedral, Alice Scurf eild,
widow, and by her had issue.

12 1692/3. Feb. 24. Mr. George Nicholson, buried. St. Mary-le-Bow
Registers.

13 1693. April 15. Elizabeth Hutchinson, wife of Simon Hutchinson,
•cordwainer, buried, templo. St. Nicholas' Registers.

14 1693. April 22. Mary, wife of William Chipses, buried. St. Mar-
garet's Registers.

15 1693. May 3. Mr. William Hanby, buried. St. Mary-le-Bow Regis-
ters.

16 1693. May 16. (Blank) wife of Mr. Thomas Martin, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

17 1693. May 18. Mr. Nicholas Heath, buried. Ibid. Apparently
Nicholas Heath of Little Eden. See Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 38.

18 1693. June 16. Mrs. Barbary Heath, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

19 1693. July 8. Alice Hawdon, buried. No affidavit brought accord-
ing to the Act of Parliament for burying in wollen. St. Mary-le-Bow
Registers.

20 1693. Aug. 4. James Mickleton, esq., buried. Cathedral Registers.
This was the author of the invaluable Mickleton collection in the possession
of the Dean and Chapter. He was a son of Christopher Mickleton, of

134

*Aug. 14. Old Mr. Henry Justice Lambton, of Lambton, . . .
being Munday, and was buried upon Friday after.1

Aug. 20. George Chapman, show-maker, . . . .about 2 in ye
morning, being Sunday.2

Aug. 23. Mr. James Church, .... being Wednesday morne
about 1 in ye morning.3

Oct. 2. Anthony Vasey, cobler, .... being Tuesday.4

Oct. 10. Sir Christopher Cbnycrs was brought through Durham
ye 10th of October, being Tuesday.

Oct. 19. John Stoot, sadler, .... being Thursday.5

Oct. 29. William Brass, cobler, .... being Tuesday.6

Nov. 10. Margaret Marshall, wife to Thomas Marshall, cooper,
. . . . being Sunday.7

Nov. 10. Beardy Gray, dyed ye same day.

Nov. 15. Mr. George Shires, alderman, .... being Friday.8
*Nov. 16. Mr. Ellis, the King of the beggars, .... being
Satterday, at night.

Nov. 18. William Hutchinson, tanner, Dick of Trimdon's son,
.... being Munday.9

Nov. 18. John Southerin, .... being Satterday.

Nov. 25. Doctor Dent, .... being Satterday.10

Durham, attorney (who was born at Mickleton in Lunedale, co. York),
and was baptised at St. Mary-le-Bow, 20 April, 1638, and admitted to Gray's
Inn, 26 November, 1652. By his wife, Frances, daughter of Michael Hall
of Durham, he left an only surviving son, Michael Mickleton of Durham,
barrister-at-law. His name, date of death, and age were cut on his father's
tombstone ; the inscription although no longer legible, has been preserved by
Hutchinson, Durham, vol. 11, p. 271.

1 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 56.

2 1693. Aug. 20. George Chapman, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

3 1693. Aug. 23. Mr. James Church, buried. St. Margaret's Regis-
ters.

4 1693. Oct. 3. Anthony Vasey, buried. Ibid.

5 1693. Oct. 20. John Stout, a parishioner, buried at St. Margret's.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

1693. Oct. 20. John Stout, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

6 1693. Oct. 30. William Brass, cordwaner, buried, templo. St„
Nicholas' Registers.

7 1693. Dec. 11. Margarett Marshall, buried. St. Margaret's Regis-
ters.

8 1693. Dec. 16. Mr. George Shyres, alderman, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Begisters.

9 1693. Dec. 19. William Hutchinson buried. St. Margaret's Registers..

10 1693. Nov. 26. Mr. William Dentt, of the parish of St. Nicholas',
buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

1693. Nov. 26. Mr.' William Dent, apothecary, buried at Elvet. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

135

Nov. 28. Mr. William Heighington, „ . . . being Tuesday.11

Nov. 29. Clement Laydler, boucher, .... being Friday.

Dec. 6. Mr. Bacon, apothecary, .... being Wednesday.12

Jan. 1. Mrs. Skinner, Mr. Thomas Skinner's wife, . . . .
being Munday.13

Jan. 1. John .Stoot, son of Cuthbert Stoot, sadler, . . . .
being Munday.14

Jan. 10. Ralph Nicholson, hardwareman. and Quaker, . . . .
being Wednesday.

Jan. 12. Mr. Thirkeld, apothecary, .... being Friday.15
*Jan. 29. Mr. Archdeacon's wife, .... being Munday.16

11 1693. Nov. 29. Mr. Will Heighington, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

I. William Heighington of Durham [postmaster, 1648], purchased a moiety

of Windgate, in the parish of Kelloe, in 1656. He married Frances
[daughter of Ambrose Myres of Durham, plumber and alderman], and
died 28 Nov., 1693. His wife died 8 Feb., 1691/2. They had issue : —
Ambrose II.

Michael [buried at St. Margaret's, 21 Feb., 1690].
Frances [baptized at St. Nicholas', Aug., 1648], married at St.
Margaret's, 9 Sept., 1669, Thomas Lassells of Mount Grace
and of Durham, and secondly, James Church of Durham,
attorney.
Elizabeth [baptized, St. Nicholas', 4 April, 1652], married, at St.
Margaret's, 7 Oct., 1677, Edward Beckworth.

II. Ambrose Heighington of Durham and White Hurworth, baptized at

St. Margaret's, 30 May, 1654, of St. John's College, Cambridge,
matriculated, 20 April, 1672, aged 18, and died, 4 May, 1683, in his
father's lifetime. By his wife, Catherine, daughter of Thomas Mus-
grave, Dean of Carlisle (see p. 115, supra) he had issue: —

William, Heighington, baptized at St. Margaret's, 12 Mar.,

1677/8, of Queen's College, Oxford, matriculated, 16 June,

1694, aged 16, sold his property at Windgate in 1701.

Musgrave Heighington, baptized, St. Mary in the South Bailey,

2 March, 1679/80, stated to have died at Dundee circa 1774.^,

Catherine, baptized at Pittington, 16 Aug., 1681, named in her

grandfather's will, 1692.
Mary, posthumous, baptized at the Cathedral, 20 June, 1683,
buried at St. Margaret's, 27 Aug., 1684.
See pedigree of Heighington, Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 99.

12 1693. Dec. 7. Mr. Christopher Bacon, apothecary, buried, temple
St. Nicholas' Registers.

13 1693/4. Jan. 2. Ann Skinner, buried. Witton Gilbert Registers.
14 1693/4. Jan. 2. John, an infant son of John Stout, sadler, deceased,
buried at St. Margaret's. St. Nicholas' Registers.

15 1693/4. Jan. 13. Mr. Thomas Thirkeld, apothecary, buried, templo.
Ibid. He may have been a member of the family of Thirkeld of Even wood,
of whom was William Thirkeld, stipendiary curate of Brancepeth and
incumbent of Startforth, who died in April, 1675. His son, William, was a
doctor at Durham. See Arch Ael., 2 ser., vol. iii., pp. 99, 100.

16 1693/4. Feb. 1. Anne, wife of Archdeacon Booth buried. Cathedral
Registers. She was daughter of Sir Kobert Booth, Chief Justice of the
Court of Common Pleas of Ireland, and first wife of Robert Booth, arch-
deacon of Durham, afterwards Dean of Bristol. See Registers of Durham
Cathedral, ed. White, p. 107.

136

Feb. 4. Henry Brittaine of Durham Moore house, ....
being Sunday.17

Feb. 11. Mrs. Rippon, Doctor Gray's housekeeper, ....
being Sunday.18

Fob. 14. Mr. Nicholas Crossby, attorney-at-law, .... being
Wednesday.19

*Feb. 25. My Lord of Durham's porter, Mitchell by name, ....
being Sunday.20

Mar. 5. George Thompson, smith, in Elvett, .... being
Munday.1

Mar. 10. Mrs. Kirkby, Mr. George Kirkby's wife, .... being
Satterday.2

Mar. 1 1 . Elizabeth Stout, wife to Cuthbert Stout, sadler, ....
being Wednesday.3

1694.

April 11. Timothy Horsman, .... being Wednesday.4

May 7. Nicholas Bee, son of Jacob Bee, at Garrigall, nere
Auston, .... being Munday.5

May 9. Robert Dobson, son to Anthony Dobson, .... being
Wednesday.

May 10. Cuthbert Heighington, plumer, .... being Thursday.

May 11. Sissala Todd, .... being Friday.

May 13. John Kirkley, weaver, .... being Sunday, having
gott a fall downe Broken Walls the day before.6

May 16. Gilbert Wilkinson, senior, chandler, .... being
Wednesday.7

June 7. Cuthbert Younger, joyner, .... being Thursday.8

June 9. Nicholas Corby, very suddenly, .... being Satter-
day.

17 1693/4. Mar. 5. Henry Brittan, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

18 1693/4. Feb. 13. Dorothy Rippon, buried. Ibid.

19 1693/4. Feb. 15. Mr. Nicholas Crosby, of the parish of St. Nicholas,
buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

20 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 56.

1 1693/4. Mar. 6. George Thompson, whitesmith, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers.

2 1693/4. Mar. 11. Mary Kirkby, widow, buried. Cathedral Registers .

1667. April 14. Mr. George Kirkly and Mrs. Mary Smith of this
parish, married with licence. St. Oswald's Registers.

'1693/4. Mar. 30. Eliz. Stout, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

4 1694. April 12. Timothy Horseman, buried. Cathedral Registers.

5 He was the Diarist's eldest son and was baptized at St. Margaret's,
22 July, 1658.

6 1694. May 14. John Kirkley, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

7 1694. May 17. Gilbert Wilkinson, tallow chandler, buried, templo.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

8 1694. June 7. Cuthbt Younger, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

137

June 19. Elizabeth Rutter, Isaac Butter's wife, Little Dick's
daughter, .... being Tuesday.9

July 27. Dorothy Mitchell, wife to William Mitchell, junior,
.... being Friday.

Aug. 17. Francis Hunter, .... being Friday.10

Aug. 28. William Turbitt was killed by a madman at night,
being Tuesday.11

Sept. 12. Mady Batmesonn of Primoroseside, .... being Wed-
nesday.

*Sept. 16. Lard Atkinson of Canny Wood Side, departed this
life the 16th day of Sept. ('94), being supposed to be killed by
Raiph Maddison of Shotley Briggs, which alter was hang'd for the
murther.13

Oct. 7. Bealy Smith of Crossgate, .... being Sunday.14

Oct. 13. Mr. Thomas Cole of Branspeth, suddenly, .... being
Satterday.15

Oct. 23. Doctor Ayre, prebend of Durham, .... being Tues-
day, and was buried ye 25. 16

Oct. 27. Mrs. Francis Thompson of Crossgate, .... being
Satterday morning, about 3 a clock.17

Nov. 16. Mr. Charles Rayne, attorney-at-law, .... being
Friday.18

Nov. 22. Old Jane Dobson, .... being Thursday.

Nov. 30. Elizabeth Bowes, wife to Cuthbert Bowes, . . . .
being Friday.19

9 1694. June 21. Elizabeth, wife of Isaac Rutter, buried. Ibid.

10 1694. Aug. 18. Francis Hunter, buried. Ibid.

11 1694. Aug. 29. William Turbee, buried. St. Nicholas' Registers.

13 He was known as Mad Maddison. His lands in Shotley Low Quarter
passed into the hands of the family of Andrews of Durham. See new Hist,
of Northumberland, vol., vi., p. 285. 'Lard' should be Laird Atkinson.

14 1694. Oct. 8. Belah Smith3 buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

15 Thomas Cole, born at Kepier, was baptized at St. Giles, 21 Feb.,
1636/7, as son of Nicholas Cole, gent., created a baronet in 1640.

16 1694. Oct. 25. Samuel Eyre, D.D., prebendary of ye 3d prebend,
and rector of Whitburn, buried. Cathedral Registers. He was son of
Reg. Eyre of Nether Seale, Leicestershire, and matriculated at Lincoln
College, Oxford, 17 Mar., 1664/5, aged 15; B.A., 1668; M.A., 1671; B.D.,
1680; D.D., 1687.

17 1694. Oct. 23. Mrs. Dorothy Thompson, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

18 1694. Nov. 17. Mr. Charles Raine of the parish of St. (blank),
attorney. St. Oswald's Registers.

1694. Nov. 17. Charles Raine, a parishioner, buried at St. Oswald's.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

19 1694. Dec. 1. Elisabeth, wife of Cuthbert Bowes, buried. Cathedral
Registers.

1694. Dec. 1. Elisabeth Bowes, wife of Mr. Cuthbert, draper t ay lor, a
parishioner, buried in the Abbey church yard. St. Nicholas' Registers.
Her husband (who was son of Edward Bowes of Darlington) was laid beside
her, 22 Feb., 1714/5, being described in the registers as a taylor.

Nov.

30.

Nov.

30.

Dec.

4,

Dec.

23.

Dec.

26.

day.3
*Dec.

28.

Jan.

4.

Feb.

19.

being Ti
Feb.

27.

Mar.

1.

day.7
Mar.

3.

•Mar.

6.

138

.Rachel Unthank's husband(?)
John Smith, labourer, .... being Friday.20
Thomas Arundall, .... being Tuesday at night.1
Old Jane Hopper, baker, .... being Sunday.2
Mrs. Shuttleworth, of Elvitt, .... being Wednes-

Queen Mary departed this life, being Friday.
Cuthbert Hendry of Shinkley, .... being Friday.4
Ann Todd, daughter of Matthew Todd, mayson, . .

Richard Green, glasser, .... being Wednesday.6
Mary Watson of South Street, .... being Thurs-

Cuthbert Bee, .... being Sunday.8
Mrs. Margaret Coulson, Pexell Padman's Delilay,
.... being Wednesday morning.

1695.

April 1. John Benson, cook, .... being Munday.9

April 2. William Hutchinson, book-binder, .... being Tues-
day.10

April 7. John Evens, blacksmith, .... being Sunday.
morning.11

April 18. Robert Woodmas, .... being Thursday.12

20 1694. Dec. 3. Jon Smith, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

1 1694. Dec. 5. Thomas Arrundell, buried, templo. St. Nicholas''
Registers.

2 1694. Dec. 25. Jane Hopper, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

s1694. Dec. 28. Mrs. Elizabeth Shuttelworth, of this parish, was
buried in the Abbie church-yard. St. Oswald's Registers. She was widow
of Nicholas Shuttleworth of Forcet, in Yorkshire, and daughter and co-
heiress of (Thomas?) Moore of Berwick-on-Tweed. See Six North Country
Diaries, pp. 222, 223.

4 1694/5. Jan. 6. Cuthbert Hendry of Shinkliffe, yeoman, buried. St.
Oswald's Registers. He was probably the father of Hammond Hendry of
Durham, attorney. See p. 82, supra.

5 1694/5. Feb. 21. Anne Todd, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

6 1694/5. Feb. 28. Richard Greene, glasier, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

7 1694/5. Mar. 2. Mary Watson, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

s 1694/5. Mar. 4. Cuthbert Bee, draper taylor, buried. St. Nicholas''
Registers.

9 1695. April 2. Mr. John Benson, buried. St. Marjj-le-Bow Registers.

10 1695. April 3. Hugh Hutchinson, bookebinder, a parishioner,,
buried in the chancell of St. Margaret's. St. Nicholas' Registers.

11 1695. April 8. John Evance, blacksmith, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers.

12 1695. April 19. Mr. Robert Woodmas, buried. St. Margaret'*
Registers.

1688. Sept. 14. Robard Woodmass and Alizes Johnson, married. IbicL

139

Aug. 17. Mr. Edward Arden, my Lord Bishopp Crew's steward,
.... being Satterday at night.13

Aug. 19. William Foster, shooemaker, .... being Munday.14

Sept. 23. Mrs. Shadforth, .... being Munday.15
*Oct. 11. Ursula Best was smothered in a sand-hole, being
Friday.

Oct. 31. Nicholas Mavson, weaver, he died suddenly, being
Thursday.16

*Dec. 14. My Lady Duck departed this life in ye morning, being
Satterday, and buried the 18th day, being Wednesday.17

Dec. 17. Christopher Jolley, butcher, .... being Tuesday.18

Dec. 27. Thomas Rowell, mason, .... being Friday morn.19

Jan. 26. John Bowman, the Bishopp's porter, .... being
Sunday.20

Jan. 26. Mary Frizell, William FrizelPs wife, .... being
Sunday at night.1

Feb. 8. Mathew Littster, milner, .... being Satterday at
night. 2

Feb. 9. Mrs. Taylorson, .... being Sunday.3

13 Edward Arden was secretary to Bishop Crewe, and was admitted to
the freedom of the Mercers' Company of Durham 16 Oct., 1676 (Surtees,
Durham, vol. iv., p. 23). He may perhaps be identified with the seventh
son of Ralph Arden, otherwise Ardern, of Alvanley, a family what seems
to have had some connection with Bishop Crewe : one of the above-named
Edward Arden's great nephews being named Crewe Arden. See pedigree
of Arden, Ormerod, Cheshire, vol. ii., p. 42. Later in the pedigree may
be found the name of John Arden of Arden, in Cheshire, and of Pepper
Arden, North Riding of Yorkshire, father of the first Lord Alvanley and
of Laetitia, wife of Edward Rudd, rector of Haughton-le-Skern, who died
14 May, 1806. See Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 107. Several of his letters
are printed in Surtees, Durham, vol. i,, appendix, clxiii.-clxv.

14 1695. Aug. 19. William Foster, cordwainer, buried at St. Margaret's.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

15 1695. Sept. 24. Mrs. Elizabeth Shadforth, widow, a parishioner,
buried at St. Margaret's. Ibid. She was probably the daughter of
Marmaduke Blakeston, of Newton Hall, and widow of Thomas Shadforth, of
Eppleton. See pedigree of Shadforth, Surtees, Durham,, vol. i., p. 221.

16 1695. Nov. 1. Nicholas Mayson, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

17 1695. Dec. 18. Madam Duck, buried. Ibid.

18 1695. Dec. 18. Christopher Jolley, butcher, buried. St. Nicholas*
Registers.

19 1695. Dec. 28. Thomas Rowell, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

20 1695/6. Jan. 27. John Bowman, buried. Cathedral Registers. He
was laid beside his wife, who was buried 25 Mar., 1690.

1 1695/6. Jan. 27. Mary, wife of William Frizell, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

* 1695/6. Feb. 9. Mathew Lister, miller, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers.

3 1695/6. Feb. 10. Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Thomas Taylorson, buried.
St. Margaret's Registers.

1716. Dec. 13. Mr. Thomas Taylorson and Mrs. Frances Lassells.
married. Ihid.

140

Feb. 15. Elizabeth Arrundall, Robert Arundall's wife, ....
being Satterday.4

Feb. 22. Mr. Alderman Peacock, .... being Satterday, at
night.5

Feb. 29. John Harrison, Barbary Younger 's husband, ....
being Friday.6

Mar. 9. Andrew Milner, .... being Munday, at night.7

Mar. 8. Cuthbert Sanders, .... at night.8

Mar. 14. Mr. Edward King, barber, .... being Satterday.9
And Robert Hall, ye tinker ye day before.10

Mar. 22. Robert Arundall, .... being Sunday at night.11

1696.

April 27. Richard Hills, cadger, .... being Munday.12
*April 28. Lawyer Davison, of Elvet, dyed very suddenly at
Hardwick, being Tuesday.13

April 9. Robert Johnson, drap. taylor, .... being Maundy
Thursday.14

April 29. John Reah, butcher, .... being Wednesday.15

May 22. Nicholas Hutchinson, taylor, .... being Friday.16
*June 1. Mrs. Tunstall, .... being Munday, and was buried
in Pexell Dent's yard.

July 1. George Page, cordwayner, .... being Wednesday.18

4 1695/6. Feb. 16. Mrs. Arundell, wife of Robert Arrundell, buried,
templo. St. Nicholas' Registers.

5 1695/6. Feb. 23. Mr. John Peacock, mercer, buried, templo. Ibid,
Probably an unidentified member of the family of Peacock of Burnhall. See
Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 99.

6 1695/6. Feb. 29. John Harrison, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

7 1695/6. Mar. 10. Andrew Milner, cordwainer, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

8 1695/6. Mar. 9. Cuthbert Sanders, buried. Ibid.

9 1695/6. Mar. 15. Edward King, barber, buried. Ibid.

10 1695/6. Mar. 15. Robert Hall, brazer, one of the poore belonging to
this parish. St. Oswald's Registers.

11 1695/6. Mar. 23. Robert Arrundell, buried, templo. St. Nicholas'
Registers. See his wife's death in the previous month.

12 1696. April 28. Richard Hills, carrier, buried. Ibid.

13 Alexander Davison, eldest son and heir of Ralph Davison, of Thornley-
Gore and Elvet was admitted to Gray's Inn 1 May, 1656, and married Joan,
daughter of William Pennyman, of Normanby, Yorkshire, by whom he had
issue, nine sons and two daughters. He was buried at St. Oswald's. See
pedigree of Davison, Surtees, Durham, vol. iii., p. 167.

14 1696. April 13. Robert Johnson, draper taylor, buried, templo.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

15 1696. April 30. John Reah, buried. St. Margaret's Register?.

16 1696. May 23. Nicholas Hutchinson, buried. Ibid.

1696. July 2. George Page, cordwainer, buried. St. Nicholas'

HI

July 5. Parson Henry Smith, .... being Sunday.19

Aug. 1. William Richarrdson, mayson, .... being Satter-

day and was buried that night.20

Aug. 17. Mrs. C'rossby, blind Crosby, .... suddenly, being
Munday.1

Aug. 27. Dorothy Teasdale, of Claypath, .... being Thurs-
day.2

Aug. 27. John Howell, mason, .... being Thursday.3

Sept. 8. Mr. Richard Wharton, attorney-at-law, .... being
Tuesday.4

Dec. 9. John Eggleston, bucher, .... being Wednesday.5

Jan. 1. Henry Wanlass, .... being Friday.6

Jan. 1. Christopher Wilkinson, Mary Wilkinson's son, ....
being Friday.7

Jan. 8. Ralph Gelson, .... being Friday.8

Jan. 15. Henry Frizell, milner, .... being Friday.9

Jan. 30. Simon Comyn, smith, .... being Satterday.10

Feb. 5. Thomas Hopper, glover and baker, .... being
Friday.11

19 1696. July 6. Mr. Henry Smith, clerk, buried. On the 19th of
the preceding month his wife. Tamar, was buried. Cathedral Registers.
The son of Elias Smith, he was baptized at the Cathedral 10 Feb., 1642/3,
and was rector of St. Mary in the South Bailey, 1675-1696.

20 1696. Aug. 1. William Richardson, buried. St. Margaret's Regis-
ters.

x1696. Aug. 19. Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Thomas Crosby, buried.
Cathedral Registers. She was daughter of Ambrose Myers, and was
married at the Cathedral, 9 October, 1681. Her husband, an attorney in
Durham, was laid beside her, 9 Nov., 1707.

2 1696. Aug. 28. Dorothy Teasdale, widow, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

3 1696. Aug. 28. John Rowell, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

4 1696. Sept. 10. Mr. Richard Wharton, buried, templo. St. Nicholas'
Registers. He does not seem to have been a member of the Old Park
family. See pedigree, Surtees, Durham, vol. iii., p. 300.

5 1696. Dec. 9. John Eggleston, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

6 1696/7. Jan. 2. Henry Wardless, dyer, buried, templo. St. Nich-
olas' Registers.

7 1696/7. Jan. 2. Christopher Wilkinson, a parishioner, buried att
St. Oswald's. Ibid.

1696/7. Jan. 2. Christopher Wilkinson of the parish of St. Nicholas',
butcher, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

8 1696/7. Jan. 9. Ralph Gelson, sergean, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

9 1696/7. Jan. 16. Henry Frizell, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

10 1696/7. Jan. 30. Simon Comyn, buried. Ibid. 1680. Nov. 23.
Simon Cominge and Jane Dente, married. Ibid.

11 1696/7. Feb. 9. Cuthbert Hopper, a stranger, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

142

Feb. 14. Robert Wilson, glover and singing man, .... being
Sunday.12

Feb. 18. Mrs. Martin, Person Martin's wife, .... being
Thursday. 13

Feb. 19. Ann Sherewood, wife to Ralph Sherewood, ....
being Friday.14

Mar. 6. Margaret Chapman, wife to William Chapman, .....
being Satterday.15

Mar. 7. Isabell Teasdale, wife to Mathew Teasdale, ....
being Sunday.16

Mar. 7. Mr. Tempus, my Lord Lumley steward, departed this
life; and was buried the 10th dito, being Wednesday.17

*Mar. 8. Mr. Salvin, Duck's Salvin departed this life, being
Munday, and was buried the 11th dito.18

1697.

April 14. Ann Maddeson, daughter to John Maddeson, ....
being Wednesday.19

April 19. John Jackson of Crossgate, skinner, .... being
Munday.20

April 21. Old Thomi Earle, .... being Wednesday.

May 10. Mrs. Lewence, . . . .being Munday.1
*May 15. Alexander Hume, Mr. Mickleton's gardener, Pegg
Todd's husband, .... being Satterday.

July 2. Mary Younger, Robert Younger 's wife, .... being
Friday.2

July 23. Collonel John Tempus, .... being Friday, and
buried at Forcett.3

Robt. Wilson, buried. St. Margaret's R gistzrs.
Elizabeth Martin, buried. Cathedral Registers.
Anne Sherwood, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.
Margt. Chapman, buried. Ibid.
Isabel Teasedale, buried. Ibid.
17 An unidentified member of the Tempest family.

18 1696/7. Mar. 11. Mr. Nicholas Salvin, of the parish of St. Nicholas,
buried. St. Oswald's Registers. He was a son of Gerard Salvin of Crox-
dale, and seems to have been a parasite of Sir John Duck, who from
obscurity rose to be a most distinguished citizen of Durham.

19 1697. April 15. Anne, daughter of Jon Maddison, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

20 1697. April. 20. John Jackson, buried. Ibid.

1 1697. May 11. Ellenor Lewins, buried. Cathedral Registers.

2 1697. July 3. Mary, wife of Robert Younger, buried. St Margaret's
Registers.

3 John Tempest of the Isle, eldest son of Sir Thomas Tempest, some time
attorney general of Ireland, married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John
Heath, of Old Durham, by whom he had issue four or five sons. His eldest
daughter, Margaret, married Sir Richard Shuttleworth, of Forcet, another
daughter, Dorothy, married William Sanderson, of Armathwaitf C istle.
See Six North Country Diaries, p. 41; and Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 93.

1696/7.

Feb.

15.

1696/7.

Feb.

19.

1696/7.

Feb.

20.

1696/7.

Mar,

7.

1696/7.

Mar.

8.

W6

July 21. Margaret Heighington, wife to William Heighington,

. . . . being Wednesday.

Aug. 7. James Smarte, lay singing man in ye Chathedrall of

Durham, .... at night betwixt 12 and one.4

Aug. 19. Elizabeth Walker, .... about 4 in the morneing,

being Thursday.

Aug. 30. Mr. John Hall, alderman, .... being Munday.5

Aug. 30. Elizabeth Heron, .... being Munday.6

Aug. 29. Robert Welsh, mayson or bricklayer, .... being

Sunday.7

Sept. 25. Henry Atkinson of Branspath, tanner, .... being

Satterday, at night.

Oct. 1. Mrs. Jane Foster Mascall, .... being Friday.8
Nov. 10. Parson John Martin departed this life, being Wednes-
day ; and married ye Tueday >(sic) senet before to Mrs. Jane Hume.9
Nov. 12. Mr. William Foster, appothecary, .... being Friday

morning.10

Dec. 7. Roger Wilkinson, mayson, .... being Tuesday.11
Dec. 7. George Huntley, .... being Tuesday.12
Dec. 12. Mrs. Alinson, of ye Baley, .... being Sunday.13
Dec. 21. John Addison, Backhouse man, .... being Tuesday.

4 1697. Aug. 8. James Smart, senior, one of the lay clerks of the
Cathedral, buried. Cathedral Registers.

5 1697. Aug. 31. Mr. John Hall, alderman, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers. He was son of John Hall of Durham, alderman and
draper, and married Anne, daughter of William Kennet of Coxhow by
whom he had issue five sons and six daughters. His youngest son, Dr.
Jonathan Hall, subsequently became a prebendary of Durham. See
Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 154.

6 1697. Sept. 2. Elizabeth Heron, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

7 1697. Aug. 30. Robert Welsh, buried. St. Giles' Registers

8 1697. Oct. 3. Jane, wife of Mr. Thomas Forster, buried. St. Mar-
garet's Registers. She was Jane, youngest daughter of the first marriage
of Thomas Mascall, of Durham, attorney, and was married at St. Mar-
garet's, 10 Mar., 1695, to Thomas Forster.

9 1697. Nov. 11. Jo. Martin, minor canon of the Cathedral Church of
Durham, buried. Cathedral Registers.

1697. Nov. 11. Mr. John Martin, minister, buried in the Abbey
church yard. St. Nicholas' Registers.

10 1697. Nov. 13. Mr. William Forster, apothecary, in the parish of
St. Nicholas, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

1697. Nov. 13. William Forster, a parishioner, buried at St. Oswald's.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

1692. Sept. 29. Mr. William Forster, apothecary, and Susanna
Padman, both of the parish of St. Nicholas, married. St. Oswald's Registers.

11 1697. Dec. 7. Roger Wilkinson, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

12 1697. Dec. 7. George Huntley, buried. Ibid.

13 1697. Dec. 14 Mrs. Mary Allenson, widow, buried. St. Mary in
the South Bailey Registers.

144

Jan. 1. Mrs. Peacock, in El vet, .... being Satterday.14
Jan. 30. Richard Manson, .... being Sunday.15
Feb. 22. Mr. Elderidge, inn-keeper, .... being Tuesday.16
Feb. 22. Old Mrs. Raw, .... being Tuesday."
Mar. 23. Old Thomas Harrison, of South Street, carpenter, and
aged 94, ... . being Wednesday.18

1698.

*April 4. John Smith, of Ash, was murthered and thrown into

a coal pit, being Munday, at night.19

April 9. Mrs. Church in the Bailey, .... being Satterday

morning.20

April 12. William Mitchell, junior, .... being Tuesday.1
April 14. Elizabeth Allinson, alis Jefferson, .... being

Thursday.

May 29. Richard Shacklock, showmaker, .... being Sunday.2
July 8. Ann Carde, widow, at William Skirfields, in South

Street, .... being Friday.3

Aug. 11. Katherin Johnson, wife to John Johnson, tanner,

.... being Thursday.4

14 1697/8. Jan. 3. Mrs. Anne Peacock, wife of Mr. Simon Peacock,
senior, buried. St. Oswald's Registers. Her husband, Simon Peacock II.,
was laid beside her 8 Nov., 1702. See pedigree of Peacock, Surtees, Durham,
vol. iv., p. 99.

15 1697/8. Jan. 31. Richard Morston, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

16 1697/8. Feb. 24. Mr. John Eldridg, buried. Cathedral Registers.
He married 18 Mar., 1688/9, Margaret (widow of Thomas) Lowther. She
died in August, 1691.

17 1697/8. Feb. 24. Mrs. Jane Rowe, widow of Richard Rowe, buried.
Cathedral Registers. The daughter of Barnabas Hutchinson, of Durham,
attorney and proctor, she carried lands at Plawsworth to her husband,
Richard Rowe of South Shields, who was buried in the Cathedral grave yard
Jan., 1678, aged 58. They had, with other issue, a son and heir, John Rowe
of Durham, barrister-at-law. and of Plawsworth. See Surtees, Durham,
vol. ii., p. 203.

18 1697/8. Mar. 24. Thomas Harrison, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

19 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 58.

20 1698/9. April 12. Mrs. Marg* Church, widow of Mr. William Church,
in ye parish of Little St. Maries, So. Bailey, buried. St. Mary in the
South Bailey Registers. William Church, under sheriff of the county of
Durham, married at Witton Gilbert, 16 Sept., 1643 (St. Mary-le-Bow
Registers), Margaret, daughter of Anthony Thompson of Crossgate, and was
buried at St. Mary's in the South Bailey, 14 Jan., 1663/4.

1 1698. April 12. William Mitchell, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

2 1698. May 30. Richard Shacklock, buried. St. Mary-le-Bow Registers.

3 1698. July 9. Anne Card, of the chapelry of St. Margaret's, widow,
buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

4 1698. Aug. 13. Catherin, wife of John Johnson, buried. SL
Margaret's Registers.

145

Aug. 28. Mary Smith, wife of John Smith, joyner, ....
being Sunday.5

Sept. 24. John White, of Pimlico, weaver, junior, .... being
Sunday, at night.6

Sept. 15. William Fewster, shoomaker, .... being Thursday
morning.7

Sept. 22. William Morton, weaver, .... being Thursday.8

Oct. 21. Mr. Sutton's daughter, .... being Friday.9
*Dec. 16. Nann Browne, alis Nan Clout, .... being Friday.

Dec. 21. Jane Rowel, Geo. Rowel's wife, the boucher, ....
being Wednesday.10

*Jan. 17. Mr. William Frizell, lard Frizell of the Swan, ....
being Tuesday.11

Jan. 28. Capt. William Unthanke, .... being Satterday.12

Feb. 7. Mr. Cuthbert Hall, attorney-at-law, .... being
Tuesday.13

Feb. 15. John Browne, carpinter in Gyligate, .... being
Wednesday.14

Feb. 16. Mr. Taylor, in Bailey, .... being Thursday.15

Feb. 19. William Stephenson, bailife, .... being Sunday.16

Feb. 21. Dorothy Heslopp, .... being Shrove Tuesday.17
*Mar. 9. Margret Hutchinson, in Framwelgate, little Dick's
wife, .... being Thursday.

Mar. 11. Ellinor Wells, daughter to John Wells, .... about
11a clock, at night.18

5 1698. Aug. 29. Mary, wife of John Smith, joyner, buried. Ibid.

6 1698. Sept. 5. John White, sen., weaver, buried. Ibid.

7 1698. Sept. 16. Willm. Fewster, cordweyner, buried. Ibid.

8 1698. Sept. 23. Wm Morton, weaver, buried. Ibid.

9 1698. May 23. Mr. Thomas Erring-ton and Mrs. Anne Sutton,
married. St. Oswald's Registers.

1698. Oct. 24. Anne, wife of Mr. Erring-ton of Elvett, gentleman,
buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

10 1698. Dec. 22. Jainne Rowell, widow, buried, templo. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

11 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 58.

12 1698/9. Jan. 29. William Unthank, buried, temjjlo. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

13 1698/9. Feb. 9. Mr. Cuth. Hall, buried. Cathedral Registers.

14 1698/9. Feb. 17. John Brown, yeoman, buried. St. Giles' Registers.
15 1698/9. Feb. 18. Mr. John Taylor, buried. St. Mary-le-Bow Registers.

He was probably the John Taylor who married at St. Mary-le-Bow, 29 Aug.,
1682, Joyce Dury, she being given away by Mr. Richard Bell, a petty
canon.

16 1698/9. Feb. 19. Willm. Stephenson of Crossgate, taylor, buried.
St. Margaret's Registers.

17 1698/9. Feb. 23. Dorothy Heslop, widow, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

18 1698/9. Mar. 13. Ellenor, daughter of Jon Wells of Framwelgate,
buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

10

146

1699.

April 8. Mrs. Longfeild, .... being Satterday.19
April 13. Joseph Smirk, weaver, .... being Thursday.20
April 27. Doctor Browne, in Elvet, .... being Thursday.1
April 29. Ann White, wife to John White, senior, .... being

Satterday.2

May 26. Mr. Robert Grey, late alderman of Durham, ....

being Friday, at night.3

May 28. Thomas Whittingham, gardiner, .... at night,

being Sunday.4

19 1699. April 9. Mrs. Longfield, buried. Cathedral Registers. Her
christian name seems to have been Elizabeth, and her husband's, Thomas.
See St. Mary-U-Bow liegisters.

20 1699. April 14. Joseph Smirke of Crossgate, weaver, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

1 1699. April 28. Mr. William Browne, doctor of physick, buried. St.
Oswald's Registers. Several of his children were baptized at the same
church.

2 1699. April 30. Anne White of Crossgate, a poore woman, buried.
St. Margaret's Registers.

3 1699. May 28. Eobert Gray, dyer, buried, templo. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

I. Eobert Gray of Durham, alderman and dyer, baptized at St. Nicholas',

10 Sept., 1643, as son of John Gray, dyer, was churchwarden of St.
Nicholas' in 1673, 1675, and 1676, and was buried within the church
28 May, 1699, leaving, with other issue, a son, John II.

II. John Gray of Durham, alderman and dyer, was baptized at St. Nicholas'

10 Dec, 1674, and married, first, 23 Jan., 1699, Rebecca, daughter of
William Chipchase of Norton (who was buried at St. Nicholas', 14
Jan., 1716/7), by whom he had issue five sons and one daughter, viz : —

Robert, baptized, St. Nicholas', 17 Feb., 1701/2, buried in the
church, 21 June, 1704.

Chipchase, baptized, St. Nicholas', 17 Feb., 1705/6.

Robert, born 11 Feb., 1706/7, and baptized at St. Nicholas', buried
in the church, 12 Feb., 1706/7.

John III.

William, baptized, St. Nicholas', 21 Mar., 1711/2, buried, 18 July,
1712.

Rebecca, baptized, St. Nicholas', 26 Nov., 1710.

Ann, baptized, St. Nicholas', 11 May, 1715.
He married, secondly, at St. Mary's in the South Bailey, 5 Aug., 1718,
Mary, daughter of George Bowes of Bradley, by whom he had no issue,
and thirdly, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Bowes of Quarry-hill,
and cousin of his second wife, by whom he had further issue. John
Gray was mayor of Durham in 1707, 1715, 1722, and 1735, and was
buried in St. Nicholas', 17 Sept., 1750.

III. John Gray of Durham and Norton, baptized at St. Nicholas', 21 July,
1709, succeeded his father as eldest surviving son : ancestor of Grey,
now Scurfield, of Hurworth, also of Grey, now Robinson, of Silksworth.

4 1699. May 31. Thomas Whitting-ham of Framwellgate, a poore man,
buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

U7

May 30. Thomas Taylor, butcher, .... being Tuesday, at

night.5

June 1. Isabell Holland, .... being Thursday.
July 3. Doctor Browne's wife, .... being Munday.6
July 4. Justice Sedgwick, .... being Tuesday, at night.7
July 1 1 . Mary Justice, wife to John Justice, taylor, .... at

night, being Tuesday.8

*July 13. Old Bess Gaire, .... being Thursday.
July 21. Anthony Lax, tobacco merchant, .... being Friday.9
July 26. Jane Carneby, .... at night, being Wednesday.10
July 24. Mrs. Sedgwick, .... being Wednesday.11
*Aug. 1. George Bullock, bellows-blower in Abbey Church

organs, .... being Lamas day.12

*Aug. 7. Captain George Baker, he was Master of Shereburne

Hospital, departed this life, being Munday, he was buried upon the

Friday after.13

Aug. 13. Old Richard Atkinson, of Newton, .... being

Sunday.14

Aug. 13. John Lowther, .... being Sunday.15

Aug. 20. Thomasin Rennoldson, .... being Sunday, at

night.16

Aug. 30. Martin Jackson, of Hemleton-row, .... being

Wednesday.

5 1699. June 1. Thomas Taler, butcher, buried. St. Nicholas' Registers.

6 1699. July 4. Mrs. Martha Browne, late wife of Mr. Richard Browne,
doctor of physic, deceased, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

7 1699.. July 6. John Sedgwick, esq., buried. St. Oswald's Registers.
He was probably baptized at the same church, 7 July, 1641, as son of Mr.
William Sedgwicke. Surtees, Durham, vol. iii., p. 82, gives a pedigree of
Sedgwick of Thorpthewles, but these names do not appear in it.

8 1699. July 12. Mary Justes, wife of John Justes, taler, buried at
St. Margaret's. St. Nicholas' Registers.

9 1699. July 22. Anthony Lax of the parish of St. Nicholas, buried.
St. Oswald's Registers.

1699. July 22. Anthony Lax, buried at St. Oswald's St. Nicholas'
Registers.

10 1699. July 27. Jane Carnaby of Crossgate, widow, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

11 1699. July 28. Mrs. Grace Sedgwick, late wife of John Sedgwick,
esq., deceased, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

"George Bullock was buried in the Cathedral grave-yard on the
2 Aug., 1699, beside his first wife, Ann Pattison. He married, secondly, at
the Cathedral, 22 October, 1679, Margeret Waistell.

13 See Sin North Country Diaries, p. 59.

14 1699. Aug. 14. Richard Atkinson of Framwelgate, yeoman, buried.
St. Margaret's Registers.

15 1699. Aug. 14. John Lowther of Crossgate, poor, buried. Ibid.

16 1699. Aug. 21. Thomasin Renoldson of Crossgate, widow, poore,
buried. Ibid.

148

Sept. 2. Elizabeth Marshall, bucher, .... being Saterday.17

Sept. 16. Pexell Dent, .... being Satterday.18

Sept. 24. Mr. Chamney Wright, .... being Sunday.19

Oct. 1. Jane Buhner, .... being Sunday.1

*Oct. 9. Old Mrs. Naylor, .... being Munday.

*Oct. 30. John Sanders, Mr. Lambton coachman, .... being

slaine by the coach.

Oct. 30. Eppy Bocksby, .... being Munday.

Nov. 9. Ralph West garth, balife, .... being Thursday.2

Nov. 10. Edward Stelling, currier, .... being Friday.3

Nov. 18. Mr. John Phillipson, of Elvit, .... being Satter-
day.4

Nov. 19. Honour Ward, wife to Thomas Ward, .... being

Sunday.5

*Nov 25. Doctor Cumber, Dean of Durham, departed this life,

being Satterday ; and yt day Jacob Bee broke his arme.6

*Dec. 2. Magdalen-hold-my-staf, alies ' Smith, .... being

Satterday.7

Dec. 3. John Wells, junior, .... being Sunday.8

Dec. 30. William Dunn, tanner, .... being Satterday.9

Dec. 30. Old Nicholas Green, glassier, .... being Satterday

night.10

Jan. 3. Bett Harrison, allias dough, .... in childbirth,

being Wednesday, and her boy was borne the same day.

17 1699. Sept. 3. Elizabeth Marshall, widow, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

18 1699. Sept. 17. Pexall Dent of Crossgate, cordweyner, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

19 1699. Sept. 24. Chamler Wright, buried, templo. St. Nicholas'
Registers. Apparently a member of the family of Wright of Durham. See
pedigree in Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p 153.

1 1699. Oct. 1. Jane Bulmer of Framwelgate, poore, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

2 1699. Nov. 10. Kalph Wistgarth, dyer, buried, templo. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

3 1699. Nov. 11. Edward Stillen, currer, buried. Ibid.

4 1699. Nov. 19. Mr. John Phillipson, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.
He was an attorney in Durham and resided at Burn-hall, he may be
perhaps identified with the person of that name baptised at St. Oswald's,
21 Feb., 1653/4, as son of John Philipson, also an attorney in Durham.

5 1699. Nov. 20. Honner Wade, wife of Thomas Wade, buried. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

G See Six North Country Diaries, p. 59.

7 Ibid., p. 59.

8 1699. Dec. 4. John, son of Jo11 Wells of Framwelgate, weaver, buried.
St. Margaret's Registers.

9 1699. Dec. 31. Willm. Dunne of Framwelgate, tanner, buried. Ibid.

10 1699/1700. Jan. 1. Nicholas Greene, glaser, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

149

Jan. 5. Isabell Wisman, wife to Henry, . . . betwixt 12 and
one at night.12

Jan. 7. Mr. Sutton, in Elvet, .... being Sunday.13
*Jan. 13. My Lady Burton, .... being Satterday.14

Jan. 14. Mr. Christopher Fawcet, of Lampton, .... being
Sunday.15

Jan. 20. John Harry, cooper, .... betwixt 11 and 12 at
night, being Statterday (sic).1Q

Jan. 26. Clement Laidler, merchant, .... being Friday.17

Jan. 26. Thomas Laynge, butcher, dyed in Durham jayle,
.... being Friday.18

Jan. 26. Margaret Wilson, commonly called Mother Red-cap,
. . . . being Friday.

Feb. 3. Katherin Norton, wife to Roger Norton, .... being
Satterday.19

Feb. 12. Elizabeth Norman, wife to William Norman, ....
being Munday.20

Feb. 19. Peter Rowell, boucher, .... being Munday.1

Feb. 22. William Grunwell, dyer, late apprentice to James
Poulson, .... being Thursday.2

Mar. 6. Barbary, wife of Robert Johnson, taylor, in Sadler
Street, .... being Wednesday.3

*Mar. 9. Joseph Hutchinson, butcher, called English Joseph,
.... being Satterday, at night.

Mar. 12. Mr. Mark Hodshon, merchant, .... being Tuesday

12 1699/1700. Jan. 8. Isabel, wife of Henry Wiseman of Crossgate,
cordweyner, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

13 1699/1700. Jan. 8. Mr. Francis Sutton of this parish, was buried
in the chapplery of St. Margaret's in Durham. St. Oswald's Registers.

14 Bishop Cosin's much married daughter. See Six North Country
Diaries, p. 59.

15 Christopher Fawcett was ancestor of several distinguished lawyers and
divines. See pedigree of Fawcett, Surtees, Durham, vol. ii., p. 60.

16 1699/1700. Jan. 31. James Harry of Crossgate, poore, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

17 1699/1700. Jan. 27. Mr. Clement Ladler, mascer, buried, templo.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

18 1699/1700. Jan. 27. Thomas Laing, butcher, buried, templo. Ibid.

19 1699/1700. Feb. 4. Catherine, wife of Roger Norton, cordwayner,
buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

20 1699/1700. Feb. 13. Eliz., wife of W» Norman of Crossgate, poore,
buried. Ibid.

1 1699/1700. Feb. 20. Peter Rowell, butcher, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

2 1699/1700. Feb. 23. William Grrinwell, dyer, buried, temp lo. Ibid.

3 1699/1700. Mar. 6. Barbrey Johnson, widow, buried, templo. Ibid.

4 1699/1700. Mar. 13. Mr. Mark Hodgshon, mascer, buried, templo,
Ibid.

150

Mar. 12. Captain William Tempest, of Old Durham, ....
being Tuesday.5

*Mar. 16. Siball Grieve, one of the beadwomen of the Place
Green, .... being Satterday, at night.

*Mar. 16. Our Bishopp Crew's lady was buried, .... being
Satterday.

Mar. 24. Richard Vasey, roper, . . . . 7

1700.

Mar. 25. Thomas Goodyeare, cord-wayner, .... being Mun-
day.8

Mar. 30. George Richardson, coyner [? cord-wayner]

Easter Eve.9

April 3. Lawyer Robinson, in Durham, .... being Wednes-
day.

April 3. Old Corner, ye miller, died yt day.10

April 11. Humphrey Holdon, skinner, .... being Thursday.11

April 22. Mary Sheales, wife to Henry Sheales, . . . being
Munday.12

April 26. Robert Corney, trencherman, .... being Friday.13

April 29. Edward Hodshon, carpenter, very suddenly, ....
being Munday.

May 13. George Middle-ton, butcher, .... being Munday, at
night.14

May 14. Mrs. Margaret Hutchinson, wife to Mr. John Hutchin-
son, attorney-at-law, .... being Tuesday.15

May 15. Mr. William Hodshon, alderman and merchant, ....
being Wednesday.16

5 1699/1700. Mar. 15. Mr. William Tempest of Old Durham, patron of
our church, buried. St. Giles' Registers.

6 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 59.

7 1700. Mar. 25. Richard Vasey of Crossgate, roper, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

8 1700. Mar. 26. Thomas Goodare, eordwiner, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

9 1700. Mar. 31. George Richardson, eordwiner, buried. Ibid.

10 1700. April 4. Thomas Corner, miller, buried. Ibid.

11 1700. April 12. Humphrey Holden, skinner, buried. St. Giles'
Registers.

"1700. April 23. Mary Sheeles, wife of Henry Sheeles, skinner,
buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

"1700. April 26. Robt. Cornee. turner, buried St. Nicholas'
Registers.

14 1700. May 14. George Midilton, butcher, buried. Ibid.

15 1700. May 15. Margarett, wife of Mr. John Hutchinson of Fram-
welgate, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

M 1700. May 16. Mr. William Hodgshon, alderman, buried, ttmpio.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

151

May 19. Mr. Robert Dixon, of Framwelgate, .... being
Whitsun Sunday.17

May 19. Mrs. Greggs, wife to Mr. Gregs, organist, ....
being Sunday.18

May 22. Thomas Buttery, attorney-at-law, .... being Wed-
nesday.19

May 30. Richard Brice, hatter, .... being Corpus Christy
day.20

May 31. Mathew Stott, senor and roper, .... being Friday.1

May 6. William Maddeson, son to John Maddeson, ....
being Thursday.2

June 22. Cuthbert Wilkinson, son to Roger Wilkinson, ....
being Satterday.3

July 6. Stephen Hodshon, barber, .... being Satterday.4

July 7. Elizabeth Dent, wife to Thomas Dent, .... being
Sunday.5

July 6. Richard Holme, of Untbanke, taylor, .... being
Satterday.6

July 12. Robert Pattason, baylife, .... being Friday.7

July 20. Eppy Botcheby, .... being Satterday.8

Aug. 3. Mrs. Liddell, of Framwelgate, papist, .... being
Satterday.9

17 1700. May 20. Mr. Robert Dixon of Framwelgate, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

18 1700. May 20. Frances, wife of William Greggs, gen., buried. St.
Mary in the South Bailey Registers. William Greggs was laid beside his
wife, 16 Oct., 1710.

19 1700. May 22. Thomas Buttery, gen., a poor inhabitant, buried. St.
Mary-le-Bow Registers.

20 1700. May 31. Richard Briss ye alder, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

1 1700. June 3. Matthew Stott of Framwelgate, roper, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

2 1700. June 11. Willm., son of John Maddison of Framwelgate, smith,
buried. Ibid.

3 1700. June 23. Cuthbert Wilkinson of Framwelgate, mason, buried.
St. Giles' Registers.

* 1700. July 7. Stephen Hodgshon, barber, buried at St. Margaret's.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

s 1700. July 8. Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Dent of Crossgate, cord-
weyner, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

6 1700. July 8. Rich. Holmes of Broom, taylor, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers.

7 1700. July 13. Robert Pattison, a bailiff, buried. St. Mary-le-Bow
Registers.

8 1700. July 88. Apollina Botchby, widow, buried, templo. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

•1700. Aug. 4. Mary, wife of Mr. Henry Liddell of Framwelgate,
buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

152

*Aug. 5. Mr, Henry Young, of Witton-upon-Weer, very suddenly
as he was going to Newcastle to accompany Mr. Wilkinson, he being
the High Sheriffe of Northumberland, being Munday, and was buried
at Chester in the Street.

Aug. 12. John Ramshaw, son of John Ramshaw, .... being
Munday.11

Aug. 13. Petter Endrick, butcher, .... in Durham gaole,
being Tuesday.12

Aug. 14. Mathew Middleton, butcher, .... being Wednes-
day. 13v

Aug. 23. William Corner, miller, .... being Friday.

Aug. 25. Mr. Thomas Crossby, attorney-at-law, .... in
Durham jayle, being Sunday.14

Aug. 29. Allice Stephenson, of Crossgate, widow, .... being
Thursday.15

Aug. 29. John Wood, clarke of Elvitt, .... being Thursday.16

Sept. 1. Esquire Foster of Bamburgh, .... being Munday.17
•Sept. 7. A servant that belong to Esquire Claverin, as he was
coming from the lymn kilne, fell down dead in Claypath and never
spoke more, being Satterday.

*Sept. 6. One Hutchinson, a butcher, that had bought a horse in
the Market, fell from his horse and was killed, and never spok word.18

Sept. 17. Thomas Hopper, of Framwelgate, shoomaker, ....
being Tuesday.19

Sept. 22. Old Mrs. Parkinson, oute of Hagghouse, .... being
Sunday.20

11 1700. Aug. 13. John Ramshaw of Crossgate, collier, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

12 1700. Aug. 14. Peter Endek, buried, templo. St. Nicholas' Reg-
isters.

13 1700. Aug. 15. Mathow Midelton, butcher, buried. Ibid.

14 1700. Aug. 26. Thomas, son of Francis Crosby, buried. Cathedral
Registers. Francis Crosby, Clerk of the Peace for the' County Palatine of
Durham, married, 17 April, 1655, at St. Oswald's, Anne, daughter of John
Richardson, and was buried at that church, 23 Oct., 1700.

15 1700. Aug. 31. Alice Stephenson of Crossgate, widow, buried. St,
Margaret's Registers.

16 1700. Aug. 29. Mr. John Wood, parish clerke, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers.

17 William Forster of Bamburgh Castle, eldest son of Sir William
Forster, was born 28 July, 1667, educated at Durham school under
Battersby, and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he matriculated,
4 July, 1682 ; married, 1693, Elizabeth, daughter of William Pert, and was
buried in the chancel of Bamburgh, 6 Sept., 1700. He was brother of
Lady Crewe, second wife of Bishop Crewe.

18 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 60.

19 1700. Sept. 19. Thomas Hopper of Framwelgate, cordweyner, buried.
St. Margaret's Registers.

20 1700. Sept. 24. Mrs. Isabel Parkinson of Framwelgate, widow,
buried. Ibid.

153

Sept. 29. Robert, son of Richard Hutchinson, shoomaker, ....
being Sunday.1

Sept. 29. George Stephenson, tayler, .... being Sunday.2

Sept. 29. Katherine Cooper, wife to Abraham Cooper, ....
being Sunday.3

Oct. 1. Jane Comyn, widow to Simon Comyn, blacksmith,
.... being Munday.4

Oct. 7. Thomas Nattrass, Mrs. Wbodmas' ostler, ....
being Munday.5

Oct. 10. Robert Adamson, mayson, ..... being Thursday.6

Oct. 13. John Lambe, of Crossgate, cordwayner, .... being
Sunday morne about 5 of ye clock.7

Oct. 18. Margery Clarke, .... being Friday.8

Oct. 18. Elizabeth Hopper, Thomas Hopper, wife, the shoo-
maker in Framwelgate .... being Friday.9

*Oct. 18. William Dury, junor and newsmonger, .... being
Friday.

Oct. 21. Mr. Francis Crosby, senior, attorney-at-law, . . . .
being Munday.10

Oct. 25. Mrs. Gordon, wife to Alderman Gordon, a second wife,
.... being Friday.11

1 1700. Sept. 30. Robert Hutchinson of Crossgate, singing man, buried.
Ibid.

2 1700. Sept. 30. George Stephenson of Crossgate, taylor, buried.
Ibid.

3 1700. Sept. 30. Catherine, wife of Abraham Cooper, dyer, buried.
Ibid.

4 1700. Oct. 2. Jane Comyn of Crossgate, widow, buried. Ibid.

3 1700. Oct. Thomas Natteress of Crossgate, yeoman, buried. Ibid.

6 1700. Oct. 11. Robert Adamson of Crossgate, mason, buried. Ibid.

7 1700. Oct. 14. John Lamb of Crossgate, cordweyner, buried. Ibid.

8 1700. Oct. 19. Margery Clarke of Crossgate, widow, buried. Ibid.

1700. Oct. 19. Elizabeth Hopper of Framwelgate, widow, buried.

9T-
Ibid.

10 1700. Oct. 23. Mr. Francis Crosby, attorney-at-law, buried. St.
Oswald's Registers. He was Clerk of the Peace and father of the Thomas
Crosby, who died in Durham gaol on the 25 Aug. previously.

11 1700. Oct. 27. Mrs. Ann Guorden, wife of Mr. Alderman Guorden,
buried. Cathedral Registers.

1700. Oct. 27. Mrs. Gordon, wife to Mr. John Gordon, alderman,
buried at ye Minster Yard. St. Nicholas' Registers.

John Gordon of Durham, alderman and mercer, son of James
Gordon of Durham and Hurworth, was apprenticed, 20 Mar., 1663,
and admitted free of the Merchants Company in 1672. He married first
at Heselden, 24 July, 1677, Isabella, daughter of Robert Bromley of Nesbett

154

Oct. 28. Mrs. Margaret Hall, widow to Mr. Michael Hall,
.... being Munday.12

Nov. 16. Isabell Walton, daughter to Authur Walton, ....
being Satterday.13

Nov. 27. Mr. Robert Chilton, merchant, .... being Wed-
nesday.14

Nov. 28. Robert Eales, of Elvit, glover, very suddenly, . . .
being Thursday.15

Nov. 30. John Parkin's wife, dyer, .... being Satterday.16
Dec. 2. Mr. Joseph Hillier, supervisor, .... being Munday.17
Dec. 2. Mrs. Alice Woodmas, .... being Munday.18
Dec. 5. Mr. Cotey Sheiffield, apothecarv, .... being Thurs-
day.19

Dec. 7. Mrs. Wharton, Doctor Wharton's wife, .... being
Satterday.20

(who was buried in St. Nicholas' church, 1 Feb., 1679/80), by whom he had
issue two daughters, viz. : —

Anne, baptized at St. Nicholas', 9 May, 1678, married at the same
church, 9 Oct., 1698, Thomas Lewens of Durham, attorney.

Margery, baptized at St. Nicholas', 18 Jan., 1679/80.
He married secondly at St. Oswald's, 29 July, 1684, Anne Smith, who was
buried in the Cathedral grave yard, 27 October, 1700; and thirdly at St.
Nicholas', 23 November, 1701, Anne Tatam, who was buried at the same
church, 30 April, 1706. John Gordon was mayor of Durham, 1695, and was
buried at St. Nicholas' church, 11 April, 1713. See Registers of Durham
Cathedral, ed. White, Harl. Soc, p. 110.

12 1700. Oct. 29. Mrs. Margaret Hall of Crossgate, widow, buried.
St. Margaret's Registers. The daughter of Sir William Belasyse of
Murton-house, she was married at St. Oswald's, 13 Jan., 1666/7, to Michael
Hall of Durham and Consett. See pedigree, Surtees, Durham, vol. ii., p.
297.

13 1700. Nov. 17. Isabell, daughter of Arthure Walton, cordwainer,
buried, templo. St. Nicholas' Registers.

14 1700. Nov. 29. Robert Chilton, buried, templo. Ibid.

15 1700. Nov. 29. Robt. Eales, skinner, one of ye poor, buried. St.
Oswald's Registers.

16 1700. Dec. 1. Mary, wife of John Parkin, dyer, buried. St. Nich-
olas' Registers.

17 1700. Dec. 3. Mr. Joseph Hellier, officer in ye Excise, buried. St.
Oswald's Registers. He may possibly have been a member of the family
of Hildyard, of Durham, who were used to bury at St. Oswald's. See
pedigree in Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 151.

18 1700. Dec. 3. Alice Woodmas, of Crossgate, widow, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers. [1688. Sept. 10. Eobard Woodmass and Alizes
Johnson, married. Ibid.]

19 1700. Dec. 6. Mr. Amcotts Sheffield, apothecary, buried. St.
Oswald's Registers. The son of Mr. Christopher Sheffield, he was baptized
at St. Oswald's, 30 January, 1671/2.

20 1700. Dec. 8. Mrs. Mary Wharton, wife of Dr. Wharton, buried,
templo. St. Nicholas' Registers. She was daughter of John Hall, alder-
man of Durham and the first wife of Thomas Wharton, M.D. See pedigree
of Wharton of Old Park. Surtees, Durham, vol. iii., p. 300.

155

Deo. 13. Abraham Stout, butcher, .... being Friday morne.1
Dec. 15. John Fairless, virger in the Chathedral Church, ....

being Sunday.2

*Dec. 16. Mr, John Massom, he a little melancholy, .... being

Munday.3

Dec. 18. Jane Faireless, midwife, wife to John Faireless, virger,

*..-.'. being Wednesday.4

Jan. 24. Mr. Gilbert Spearman's wife, .... being Friday.5
Feb. 3. Nicholas Ayre, tobacco merchant, . . . .being

Munday.6

Feb. 14. Katherin Pecton, wife to Thomas Pecton, . . . . being

Friday.7

Feb. 19. William Hills, gardner, .... being Wednesday.8
Feb. 21. Robert Barker, weaver and broomemaker, . . . .

being Friday.9

Feb. 23. Mr. John Hall, merchant, .... being Sunday.10
Feb. 25. Margaret Maddeson, daughter to John Maddeson, . . .n
Mar. 9. Ralph Smith, of South Street, meale seller, ....

being Sunday.12

1 1700. Dec. 13. Abraham Stout, butcher, buried, templo. St. Nich-
olas' Registers.

2 1700. Dec. 16. John Fairlesse, virger, buried. Cathedral Registers.

3 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 60.

4 1700. Dec. 18. Jane, ye wife of John Fairlesse, buried. Cathedral
Registers.

8 1700/1. Jan. 26. 'Mary, wife of Gilbert Spearman, gen., buried in
the Cathedral churchyard, nigh his son John, who was buried there 27
Sept., 1699.' St. Mary-le-Bow Registers.

1700/1. Jan. 26. Mary, wife of Mr. Gilbert Spearman, buried. Cath-
edral Registers. She was daughter and coheiress of Robert Bromley of
Nesbett. Her husband married, secondly, 1 Sept., 1701, Margaret, daughter
and ultimately heiress of Robert Pearson of Startforth and Forcet. She
(Mary) has a Latin monumental inscription in the Cathedral grave yard.
See Registers of Durham Cathedral, ed. White, pp. 48, 110.

6 1700/1. Feb. 4. Nicholas Are, buried, templo. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

7 1700/1. Feb. 16. Katherin, wife of Thomas Pecton, sadler, buried.
St. Oswald's Registers.

8 1700/1. Feb. 20. William Hill, yeoman, buried. St. Giles' Regis-
ters.

'1700/1. Feb. 24. Robert Barker, of Framwelgate, weaver, buried.
St. Margaret's Registers.

10 1700/1. Feb. 24. John Hall, of Crossgate, grocer, buried. Ibid.
He married circa 1698, Elizabeth, daughter of John Richardson of Cater-
house. A pedigree of his descendants is given in Surtees, Durham, vol. iv.,
p. 146.

11 1700/1. Feb. 26. Anne, daughter of John Maddeson of Framwel-
gate, buried. Ibid.

"1700/1. Mar. 12. Ralph Smith, of Crossgate, yeoman, buried.
Ibid.

156

Mar. 21. Isabell Coraeforth, wife to Robert Corneforth, ....
being Friday.

Mar. 21. Francis Middleton, barber, .... being Friday.13

1701.

*Mar. 27. Mary, wife of Thomas Watson, mayson, .... being
Thursday.

Mar. 27. Old Lapper died ye same day.14

Mar. 28. Ann, wife of Thomas Young, servant to my Lord
Bishopp of Durham, .... being Friday.15

April 5. Dorothy Hutchinson, widow to Thomas Hutchinson in
Framwelgate, t ay lor, .... being Satterday.16

*April 14. Mrs. Shaw, once Mr. Foster's widow, organist, ....
being Munday.17

April. 16. William Hall, a Scotchman, servant to Mr. John
Hall, merchant and maltman, .... being Wednesday.

May 3. Humphrey Stephenson, a virgir in ye Chathedrall,
.... being Satterday.18

May 18. Robert Whitle, of South Street, weaver, his wife Mary
departed in childbirth, being Sunday.19

*May 18. And William Belley, called scackless Willy.

June 2. John Wheailey, carpinter, .... being Munday.20

June 7. Ann Walton, wife to John Walton, shoomaker, a second
wife, .... being Satterday. 1

July 5. Robert Bell of Shinkley, a beadman of the Palace
(sic) Green, .... being Satterday.2

13 1700/1. Mar. 15. Francis Middleton, of Crossgate, barber, buried.
Ibid.

14 1701. Mar. 27. Margaret Williamson of Crossgate, buried. Ibid.

15 1701. Mar. 29. Anne, wife of Tho. Young, buried. St. Nicholas*
Registers.

16 1701. April 6. Dorothy Hutchinson, of Framwelgate, widdow,
buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

17 She was widow of John Foster, the organist, who was buried at the
Cathedral, 21 April, 1677. Seven months afterwards, on 29 Nov., she
married Alexander Shaw.

18 1701. May 3. Humphrey Stephenson, joiner and verger, buried.
St. Mary in the South Bailey Registers.

19 1701. May 19. Mary, wife of Rob. White of Crossgate, buried.
St. Margaret's Registers.

20 1701. June 4. John Wheatlev of Framwelgate, joyner, buried.
Ibid.

1 1701. June 8. Anne, wife of John Walton, cordwiner, buried, templo.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

2 1701. July 6. Robert Bell, a very aged parishioner, one of ye
Bishop's Hospital, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

157

July 6. Margaret Slurry, wife to Christopher Skirry, mayson,
.... being Sunday.3

July 20. Captain Thomas Hillman, .... being Sunday, at
night.4

July 25. Henry Foster's, merchant, brother, .... being
Saterday.

Aug. 6. Mr. Beamond, a priest in Durham, .... being
Wednesday.5

*Aug. 22. Ferdenando Foster of Bambrough, esquire, was killed
in a. duel by Mr. Fenwick, being Friday.6

*Sept. 7. Thomas Hugall, .... and supposed to be slaine by
Mr. Lackenby and Mr. Dixon, apothecary, being Sunday.7

Sept. 20. Robert Stephenson, tanner, .... being Satterday.8

Sept. 25. Mr. Fenwick was hanged for killing Esquire Farden-
ando Forster, a member of Parliament a<t Newcastle, being Thurs-
day.9

Nov. 11. Jane Foster, Mary Wilkinson's sister, of Sadler
Street, .... being Tuesday.

3 1701.
Margaret's

July 14.
Registers.

4 1701.

Registers.

July 21.

5 1701.

Aug. 7.

Margaret Skirrey of Crossgate, widow, buried. St.
Thomas Hillman, buried, templo. St. Nicholas*

Mr. Hammond Beaumont, clerk, buried. St, Mary
in the South Bailey Registers. Hammond Beaumont of Fangfoss, entered
his pedigree at St. George's Visitation of Yorkshire in 1612. The person
mentioned in the text was apparently the Rev. Hammond Beaumont, who
served as curate of Easington to the absentee rector, Dean Granville (see
Granville's Correspondence, part ii., p. 158). He was of Peterhouse, Cam-
bridge, matriculated, 9 June, 1659; B.A., 1662; M.A., 1666. By his wife,
Mary, daughter of Thomas Delaval of Durham and granddaughter of Sir
Ralph Delaval, he had, with other issue, Hammond Beaumont, of Peter-
house, Cambridge, matriculated, 5 Feb., 1699/1700, aged 18; B.A., 1703:
M.A., 1707 ; vicar of Chillingham, 1712-1725, and at the same time perpetual
curate of Bamburgh ; who on the 26 April, 1720, took out a licence to marry
Margaret Forster of Bamburgh, and died in the end of June, 1725; also a
second son, Delaval Beaumont, some time of Bishopwearmouth, who was
married at the Cathedral, 24 Aug., 1714, to Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson of the
parish of Bishopwearmouth.

8 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 61.

7 William, ye son of Thomas Hugill and searcher of ye Company of
Glovers, was buried ye 9th of September, 1701. He was murthered on
Sunday, ye last of August, at 12 at night by In Luckenby and Thom. Dixon.
St. Giles' Registers.

8 1701. Sept. 21. Robert Stephenson of Framwelgate, tanner, buried.
St. Margaret's Registers.

•*' Mr. John Fenwick of Rock, stab'd Mr. Ferdinando Forster, esq.,
parliament man for Northumberland, the twenty-second day of Aug., 1701,
betwixt the White Cross and the Thorntree. Mr. John Fenwick of Rock
was hanged the 25 day of Sept., 1701, for stabin Mr. Ferdinando Foster.'
St. Andrew's, Newcastle, Registers. John Fenwick belonged to the family
of Fenwick of Kenton. Ferdinando Forster was educated at Durham
school under Battersby.

158

Nov. 12. Mr. Joseph Hall, attorn ey-at-law, .... being
Wednesday.10

Nov. 12. Old Katherin Hiokson, .... being Wednesday.11
Jan. 1. Mr. Ralph Bambridge, shoemaker, .... being
Thursday.12

Jan. 20. Mr. Alderman Dobson, .... being Tuesday.13
Jan. 20. Jane Lampshaw, wife to Cuthbert, .... being
Tuesday.14

Jan. 28. Nicholas Richardson, junior, .... betwixt the
hours of 8 and 9 at night.15

*Feb. 11. Old Ann Comyn, 97 years of age and more, ....
being Wednesday betwixt 3 and 4 in the morning.

Mar. 13. Ann Wood, belonging to the Bull's Head signe, de-
parted this life at Bra(n)speth.

Mar. 15. Ralph Jackson, skinner, .... being Sunday.16
Mar. 20. John Harry, cooper, .... being Friday.17

10 1701. Nov. 13. Mr. Joseph Hall, attorney, of Market Place, buried.
St. Margaret's Registers. He was ancestor of the family of Hall of Skelton
Castle. See Nichols' Literary Anecdotes, vol. iii., p. 87; vol. ix., p. 156.
Surtees, Durham, vol. ii., pp. 291, 292.

11 1701. Nov. 13. Catherin Hixon, widow, buried. St. Nicholas'
Begisters.

12 1701/2. Jan. 2. Ralph Bainbridgs, cordwiner, buried, templo.
Ibid.

13 1701/2. Jan. 21. Mr. Whetley Dobson, alderman, buried, templo.
Ibid.

I. Wheatley Dobson, alderman and mercer, mayor of Durham, 1692, 1693,

1696, and 1697, and churchwarden of St. Nicholas' in 1673. On 1
Sept., 1670, he took out a licence to marry Elizabeth Welbury, and
had issue : —

Welberrie, baptized at St. Nicholas', 27 Aug., 1671.
Christopher, baptized at St. Nicholas', 13 April, 1673. buried, 10

Aug., 1680.
Edward, baptized at St. Nicholas', 21 Feb., 1674/5, buried, 2 Aug.,

1681.
Robeit II.

Anne, baptized at St. Nicholas', 8 Feb., 1679/80 [buried, 30 Jan.,

1686/7].
Mary, baptized at St. Nicholas', 19 Feb., 1681/2.
Elizabeth, baptized at St. Nicholas', 6 April, 1684.

II. Robert Dobson of Durham, mercer, baptized at St. Nicholas', 10 April,

1677, married, 28 May, 1703, at St. Giles', Christian Sanderson, of

Barnard Castle, and had issue a son : —

Wheatly, baptized at St. Nicholas', 21 April, 1704.

14 1701/2. Jan. 20. Anne Lampson, widow, buried. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

15 1701/2. Jan. 29. Nicholas Richardson, junior, smith, of Crossgate,
buried. St. Margaret's Begisters.

16 1701/2. Mar. 16. Ralph Jackson of Crossgate, glover, buried. Ibid.

17 1701/2. Mar. 21. John Harrey, of Crossgate cooper, buried. Ibid.

159

1702.

April 17. Mrs. Jefferson, widdow to Mr. Thomas Jefferson, once
postmaster, .... being Friday.18

April 21. Cuthbert Allinson, carpinter or joyner, whom was
robed of 36 pounds, .... being Tuesday.19

April 24. Elizabeth Jackson, wife to Ralph Jackson, skinner,
and she a great begger, . . . . 20

April 26. John Jefferson, the letter carrier, .... being
Sunday.

April 28. Margaret, wife tp Thomas Dobinson, .... being
Tuesday.1

*April 29. Mr. Bonney, one steward to my Lord Scarborough,
.... having gott his death by the stroak of a horse on the belly.2
*June 4. George Williamson, glover, haveing been at Auklamd
and had gott drink, fell of horseback and kild himselfe and died be-
twixt 12 and one at night upon Corpus Christy day.3

June 15. Mr. John Martin, merchant, Person Martin's sonn,

4

July 4. Mr. Robert Young, once Richard Reed's apprentice,
.... being Satterday.5

July 11. Cuthbert Adamson, hatte hatter, junior, Bett his
wife 6

18 1702. April 17. Margret Jefferson, widow, buried. Ibid.

19 1702. April 23. Cuthbert Allison, of Market-place, joyner, buried.
Ibid.

20 1762. April 25. Eliz. Jackson, Crossgate, buried. Ibid.

1 1702. May 6. Margrett Dobinson, Crossgate, buried. Ibid.

2 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 61. 3 Ibid.

4 1702. June 16. John Martin, of St. Nicholas' parish, buried.
Cathedral Registers. His father, Samuel Martin, perpetual curate of St.
Nicholas' and a minor canon of the Cathedral, died 19 April, 1682, leaving
issue by his wife, Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Sonkey of Durham, gaoler :
Samuei Martin, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 19 Nov., 1644, matriculated
at St. John's College Cambridge, 21 June, 1661 ; John Martin mentioned in
the text, who was baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 5 June, 1650; and others.
There was a contemporary family of Martin residing in Elvet, whose
pedigree is given in Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 149.

5 1702. July 5. Robert Young, who dig (sic) in ye gaill, buried, templo.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

6 1702. July 12. Elizabeth, wife of Cuthbart Adamson, buried,
templo. Ibid. Cuthbert Adamson, son of Cuthbert Adamson, a freeman
of Durham, baptized at St. Nicholas', 27 Dec, 1671; apprenticed 24 June,
1685, to Thomas Adamson, feltmaker, was admitted free of the Felt-makers
Company, 26 June, 1690. On the 5 Jan., 1690/1, he took out a licence to
marry Elizabeth Welsh. He married secondly at St. Oswald's, 30 Jan.,
1703/4, Jane, widow of Thomas Rowland and daughter of Henry Eden of
Shincliffe, M.D., and having had issue by both marriages, was buried at
St. Oswald's, 28 Dec, 1715. See Pedigrees of the Families of Adamson of
Newcastle, by the Rev. C. E. Adamson, privately printed. No date.
I. Mary Adamson, daughter of Cuthbert Adamson by his second wife,

Jane Eden, baptized at St. Oswald's, 17 Jan., 1704/5, was married

160

July 23. Thomas Rennoldson, weaver, junior, .... being
Thursday.7

July 23. Thomas Brown's wife, in Claypath, carpinter, John
Wilson's half-sister, .... being Thursday.8

to Peter Blenkinsop, who, for 65 years, was singing boy and man at the

Cathedral; an innkeeper in the parish of St. Mary-le-Bow. Dying on

the 7 Dec., 1761, she was buried at St. Oswald's where her husband,

who died 4 Dec., 1778, aged 75, was laid beside her. They had issue : —

John Blenkinsop, baptized, St. Oswald's, 19 May, 1731.

Peter II.

William Blythman Blenkinsop, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 16

Aug., 1735.
Cuthbert Blenkinsop, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 18 May, 1737.
Jane, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 9 Oct., 1732.
Mary, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 15 May, 1738.
Anne, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 12 May, 1740.
Jane, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 25 Jan., 1745/6, married, at
the same church, 17 July, 1770, William Porter, surgeon to
the Inniskilling Dragoons, who died 8 Sept., 1779. She died
at Esher, Surrey, 18 June, 1831, having had issue four sons and
two daughters : —

William Porter, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 27 June, 1771,

died in infancy.
William Ogilvie Porter, surgeon, R.N., died at Bristol,

15 Aug., 1850, aged 76. M.I. Bristol Cathedral.^
John Porter, settled in Antigua, but died Isle of Man, aged

38.
Bobert (Ker) Porter, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 10 July,
1777, originally an artist, afterwards minister of
Venezuela; knighted, 1807, by Gustavus IV. of
Sweden ; married, in Russia, circa 1812, Princess Marie
Scherbatoff, by whom he had issue. He was author of
Travels in Georgia, etc., 2 vols, 4to, published at
£9 2s.; he died in Russia, 4 May, 1842.
Jane, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 17 Jan., 1776, author of
The Scottish Chiefs, Thadeus of Warsaw; and died at
Bristol, 24 May, 1850.
Anna Maria, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 7 Sept., 1779,
author of Don Sebastian, The Hungarian Brothers,
etc.; died at Bristol, 21 June, 1832.

it. Peter Blenkinsop of Durham, son of Peter Blenkinsop and Mary
Adamson, his wife, was baptized at St. Mary-e-Bow, 8 Oct., 1733,
married, and had issue : —

Peter Blenkinsop, baptized, St. Nicholas', 2 Jan., 1765.
William Blythman Blenkinsop, baptized, St. Nicholas', 1 Jan.,

1766.
Mary, baotized, St. Nicholas', 1 Sept., 1762 [married, St. Mary-
le-Bow, 23 Nov., 1795, William Livick].
Laetitia Cash, baptized, St. Nicholas', 19 Oct., 1763.
Anne Jane, baptized, 14 June, 1767.

7 1702. July 27. (Blank) daughter of Thos. Renouson, weaver, Cross-
gate, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

8 1702. July 24. Elizabeth Browne, wife of Thomas Browne, joyner,
buried. St. Nicholas' Registers.

161

Aug. 31. Esquire Ayeton of the Fawside, .... being Mun-
day.9

Sept. 2. Alice, wife to William Mitchell, senior, .... being
Wednesday betwixt 8 and 9 at night.10

Sept. 19. John Brasse, glover, .... being Satterday.11

Oct. 30. John Moore, junior, .... being Friday.12

Nov. 21. Mr. Paxton, draper taylor, .... being Satterday.13

Dec 3. John Bancks, milner, of Keeper Milne, .... being
Thursday.14

Dec. 6. Clement Wilkinson, senior, draper taylor, of Crossgate,
.... being Sunday.15

Dec. 19. Mr. Gilbert Machin, that married Mr Salvin's
daughter in Elvit, departed this life, being Satterday.16

Dec. 23. Raiphe Holme of Unthanke, .... being Wednesday.

Dec. 24. Thomas Wild, husband to Jane Harry, late wife to
James Harry, .... being Thursday.17

Jan. 1. Richard Browne, senior, milner, .... being Friday.18
*Jan. 5. Ann Johnson, William Johnson's wife, tanner, who went
from Durham for debt, .... being Tuesday.

9 John Ayton, of Fawside, in the parish of Lanchester, and of West
Herrington in the parish of Houghton-le-Spring. See pedigree of Ayton,
Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 186.

10 1702. Sept. 2. Alice, wife of Will. Mitchell, glover, Crossgate,
buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

11 1702. Sept. 20. John Brasse, glover, Framwelgate, buried. Ibid.

12 1702. Nov. 1. John Mouer, cordwiner, buried at St. Margaret's.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

13 1702. Nov. 22. Mr. Thomas Paxton, draper, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers.

1702. Nov. 22. Thomas Paxton, clother, buried at St. Oswald's.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

14 1702. Dec. 4. Jon Banks, miller of Keepyer Mills, buried. St.
Giles' Registers.

15 1702. Dec. 8. Clemett Wilkinson, Crossgate, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

16 1702. Dec. 21. Mr. Gilbert Machon, grandson of the Rev. Mr. John
Machon, late Master of this Hospitall, was buried in this chappel before
the altar table on St. Thomas's day. Sherbum Hospital Registers. He was
son of Thomas Machon, prebendary of Lichfield, who died 27 Feb., 1672,
and was also buried at Sherburn. Gilbert Machon, by his wife, Anne,
daughter of Anthony Salvin of Sunderland Bridge (who married secondly
George Bowes), had issue three daughters and co-heirs, Anne, wife of
George Vane of Long Newton; Deborah, wife of Anthony Wilkinson of
Crossgate, Durham ; and Eleanor, who died unmarried. See pedigree of
Machon, Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 143.

17 1702. Dec. 25. Thomas Wilde, a poor collier, of St. Margaret's
parish, buried. St. Giles' Registers.

18 1702/3. Jan. 2. Eichard Brown, miller, an old man, buried. St.
Oswald's Registers.

11

162

Jan. 8. John Moore of Framwelgate, taylor and maltman,
. . . being Friday.19

Jam. 12. Mrs. Power, Mr. Thomas Power, Captain, widdow,
. . . . being Tuesday.20

Jan. 21. James Lee, draper taylor, .... being Thursday.1

Jan 28. Thomas Atkinson, the Bishopp's brewer, .... being
Sunday.

Feb. 12. Old Thomas Blenkinship, milner, .... being Friday.2
*Feb. 13. Mr. John Church, attorn ey-at-law, .... very sud-
denly, being well that day, being Satterday.3

*Feb. 20. Mr. John Middleton, lawyer and Recorder, ....
being Satterday.4

19 1702/3. Jan. 10. John Moor, Framwelgate, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

20 1702/3. Jan. 13. Mrs. Poor, Crossgate, buried. Ibid. See her
husband's death, p. 117, supra.

1 1702/3. Jan. 22. James Lee, taylor, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

2 1702/3. Feb. 13. Thomas Blenkinship, Crossgate, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

3 1. William Church of Durham, married, at Witton Gilbert, 16 Sept.,
1643, Margaret, daughter of Anthony Thompson of Crossgate; he was
under-sheriff of the county of Durham, and was buried at St. Mary's
in the South Bailey, 14 Jan., 1663/4, his wife being laid beside him,
10 April, 1698. They had issue : —
John II.
Cuthbert, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow. 7 Mar., 1647/8, buried, 27

July, 1649.
Anthony, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 18 Nov., 1651.
James Church of Durham, attorney, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow,
22 Aug., 1653, married Frances, widow of Thomas Lassells,
and daughter of William Heighington, both of Durham,
buried, St. Margaret's, 23 Aug., 1693.
Mary, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 3 Mar., 1644/5, married,

30 Nov., 1676, at the Cathedral, Thomas Bowser.
Barbara, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 13 May, 1650.
Elizabeth, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 1 Aug., 1655.
Cassandra, baptized at St. Mary in the South Bailey, 2 Aug.,

1659, buried, 27 Feb., 1659/60.

Margaret, baptized, St. Mary in the South Bailey, 20 Jan., 1662.

II. John Church of Durham, attorney, was baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow,

20 July, 1646. He buried his first wife, Isabel, at St. Oswald's, 14

Feb., 1681/2, and he himself was buried in St. Nicholas', 14 Feb.,

1702/3. By a second marriage he had issue : —

Thompson, baptized at St. Nicholas', 27 Sept., 1687.

William, baptized at St. Nicholas', 17 May, 1689.

Mary, baptized at St. Nicholas', 11 May, 1686, buried in the

church, 13 July, 1691.
Margaret, baptized at St. Nicholas', 14 Nov., 1693.
See Six North Country Diaries, p. 62.

4 John Middleton was entered at Gray's Inn, 27 Nov., 1677, as son and
heir of Nathanial Middleton of the city of Durham, was appointed Eecorder
of Durham, 3 June, 1696, and was buried at St. Nicholas', 21 Feb., 1702/3.
By his marriage with Anne, daughter of John Harrison of Scarborough, he
had issue two sons and eight daughters. See pedigree, Surtees, Durham ,
vol. iv., p. 168.

163

Feb. 23. James Rowell, mayson, .... being Tuesday.5
Mar. 3. Mrs. Thomasin Middleton, Lawyer Middleton 'si mother,
being Wednesday.6

1703.

Mar. 28. William Weardon, bookseller, .... being Easter
day.7

April 16. Elizabeth Paxton, wife to Nicholas Paxton, shoomaker
and senior, .... being Friday.8

April 16. Mrs. Browne, Mr. John Browne's wife, the attorney-
at-law, .... being Friday.9

April 17. Mr. Foulthorpe, attorney-at-law, .... being Satter-
day.10

April 26. Margaret, wife of James Poulson, .... being Mun-
day, at night.11

April 26. And Margaret Scott, that same day.12

5 1702/3. Feb. 24. James Rowell, Crossgate, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

6 1702/3. Mar. 4. Mrs. Midletou, widow, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers. She was Thomazine, daughter of Richard Lee, alder-
man of Durham, and was married at St. Nicholas', 1 Mar., 1655/6. Besides
John Middleton, the Recorder, she had issue two sons and two daughters.

7 1703. Mar. 29. William Werdon, bookseller, buried. Cathedral
Registers.

1703. Mar. 29. Mr. William Wardon, buried in the Abay yard. St.
Nicholas' Registers. He was laid beside his wife who was buried 17 Oct.,
1688.

8 1703. April 18. Elizabeth Paxton, mother-in-law of Christopher
Foulthroup, buried. St. Nicholas' Registers.

'1703. April 18. Jane Browne of North Bailey, buried. St. Mar-
garet's Registers.

John Brown of Durham, attorney, married Jane, daughter of Richard
Hutchinson of Durham, before the 20 Aug., 1666, when her father
entered his pedigree at Dugdale's Visitation. They had (perhaps
with other) issue: —

John, baptized at the Cathedral, 30 June, 1670.
John, baptized at the Cathedral, 9 Nov., 1675.
Gerard, baptized at the Cathedral, 18 Feb., 1678/9.
Elizabeth, named in her father's will.

Jane, married, at the Cathedral, 30 April, 1683, David Dixon of
Durham, attorney, buried, St. Oswald's, 21 Dec, 1718.

10 1703. April 18. Mr. Christopher Foulthroup, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers. He has not been affiliated to the family of Fulthorpe
of Tunstal; see Surtees, Durham, vol. iii., p. 126; though the christian
name of Christopher was used by them. Christopher Foulthorpe married
Eleanor Paxton, 26 Nov., 1693.

11 1703. April 28. Margarett, wife of James Poulson, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

12 1703. April 28. Margarett Scott, Crossgate, buried. Ibid.

164

May 10. Mrs. Margaret Blackston, Mr. Tobias Blackston's wife,
.... being Munday.13

May 10. And Isabell Stoot dyed that day.14

May 16. Ralph Sherewood, waite of Durham, .... being
Whitsunday.15

May 19. Mr. Peter Nelson, schoolmaster, .... being Wed-
nesday.16

May 29. Mr. Gilbert Wharton, attorney-at-law, .... being
Satterday.17

May 31. Elizabeth Hudson, Charles the baker's wife, . . . .
being Munday.18

June 15. Sarah Catcheside 19

June 23. John Binnion, draper taylor, and farmer of the toles
of corne, . . . .20

*June 23. And Long Tom, the taylor.

July 4. Richard Maugham, miller, .... being Sunday.1

July 15. Mr. John Rackett of Framwelgate, .... being St.
S wet-hen' s day.2

Aug. 6. Grace Wilkinson, wife to Roger Wilkinson, . . . .
being Friday.3

13 1703. May 11. Mrs. Margret Blakiston, buried at St. Margaret's.
St. Nicholas' Registers. She was widow of Toby Blakiston of Newton
Hall, near Durham, and of Gray's Inn, harrister-at-law, (who was buried
at St. Margaret's, 2 July, 1680), by whom she had (perhaps with other)
issue two sons and two daughters. See Surtees, Durham, vol. iii., p. 164.

14 1703. May 13. Isabel Stout, buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

15 1703. May 18. Ralph Sherwood, buried. Ibid.

16 1703. May 20. Mr. Peter Nelson, writing master, buried. Cathe-
dral Registers. He was the second master of the Grammar School, and
married at Long Newton, 1 June, 1669, Ann Thorp of Yarm, who was laid
beside him, 28 Jan., 1721/2. See Durham Cathedral Registers, ed. White,
pp. Ill, 116.

17 1703. May 30. Gilbert Wharton of Wolsingham, buried. St. Mar-
garet's Registers. He was apparently not of the family of Wharton of Old
Park. See pedigree, Surtees, Durham, vol. iii., p. 300.

18 1703. June 1. Elizabeth, wife of Charles Hudson, buried at St.
Margaret's. St. Nicholas' Registers.

19 1703. June 16. Sarah Catcheside, Framwelgate, widow, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

20 1703. June 24. John Binyon, talor, buried. St. Nicholas' Regis-
ters.

1 1703. July 7. Richard Maugham, buried at St. Gyles. Ibid.

2 1703. July 16. John Rackett, Framwelgate, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers. He married at St. Margaret's, 29 July, 1649, Elizabeth, widow
of Jacob Skinner, and his daughter Margery was married in the same
church, 31 August, 1671, to John Richardson of Framwelgate and Cater-
house, who was buried there, 3 Oct., 1708. He was the son of John
Richardson, who, as stated above, p. 110, was buried in his own garden at
Caterhouse, 29 Sept., 1644. See Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 145.

3 1703. Aug. 7. Grace Wilkinson, widdow, Framwelgate, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

165

Aug. 7. Mrs. Middle ton, the Recorder's widdow, .... being

Satterday.4

Aug. 8. Ann, wife to William Pearson, .... being Sunday.5
Aug. 22. Thomas Lowther, skinner, .... being Sunday at 10

of the clock at night.6

Sept. 13. William Mayson, weaver, .... being Munday.7
Sept. 12. Mr. Richard Newhouse, junior, .... being Sunday.8
Sept. 21. Mr. John Spearman, under Sheriffe for the County of

Durham, .... being Tuesday.9

Oct. 16. Madam Bagshall a(t) Houghton in the Spring, ....

being Satterday.10

Oct. 2. William Taylor, weaver, .... being Tuesday.11
Nov. 16. John Maddeson, ostler to Mr. Burrell, .... being

Tuesday.12

*Dec. 23. Mr. Thomas Richardson, commonly called London

Thorn 13

Dec. 30. Roger Walton, cordwainer, one of the Mayor sergeants

for the towne, .... being Thursday.14

Jan. 16. Mr. Robert Roper, attorn ey-at-law, .... being

Sunday.15

4 1703. Aug. 8. Mrs. Midleton, wife of Mr. John Midleton, councler,
deceased, buried, templo. St. Nicholas' Registers.

5 1703. Aug. 9. Anne, wife of Wilm. Pearson, Crossgate, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

6 1703. Aug. 23. Thomas Lowther, of Giligate, skinner, a man of
great estimation amongst his neighbours, buried. St. Giles' Registers.

7 1703. Sept. 14. Willm. Mason, of Framwelgate, weaver, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

8 1703. Sept. 13. Mr. Richard Newhouse, buried. St. Mary in the
South Bailey Registers. The Newhouse family were long resident in the
parish of St. Mary-le-Bow and St. Mary in the South Bailey. See the
Registers of these parishes printed by the Durham and Northumberland
Par. Reg. Soc.

■ 1703. Sept. 22. Mr. John Spearman, under-sheriff, buried. Cathe-
dral Registers. The son of Robert Spearman of Preston, he was baptized
at Tynemouth, 16 January, 1645/6. He married Elizabeth, daughter and
coheir of Richard Whitfield, alderman of Durham, bj whom he had a
numerous issue. His archaeological and legal collections are preserved
in Bishop Cosin's library. See pedigree, Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 95.
Registers of Durham Cathedral, ed. White, p. 111.

10 1703. Oct. 18. Mrs. Mary Bagshaw, wife of the Rev. Docter
Bagshaw of Houghton, buried. Houghton-le-Spring Registers. She was
47 years of age, and wife of Henry Bagshaw, rector of Houghton-le-Spring,
prebendary of the 9th stall in Durham Cathedral. Dr. Bagshaw has a
long Latin monumental inscription in the chancel of Houghton-le-Spring.

11 1703. Nov. 2. William Taylor, Crossgate, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

12 1703. Nov. 17. John Maddison, Framwelgate, buried. Ibid.
13 1703. Dec. 24. Thomas Richardson, of ye city of Durham, buried.
Ibid.

14 1703. Dec. 30. Roger Walton, cordwiner, buried. St. Nicholas' Beg.
15 1703/4. Jan. 17. Robert Roper, buried, templo. Ibid.

166

Jan. 18. Anthony Fauwell, butcher, .... being Tuesday.16

Jan. 19. John Ramshaw, collier, in South Street, .... being
Wednesday.17

Jan. 19. Ann Miller, Peter's wife, .... being Wednesday at
night.18

Jan. 29. Mr. Thomas Skinner, chyrurgion, .... being Sat-
terday, being of age 68 years gone the 21st day of December last
from the date hereof.19

Feb. 14. Mr. John Busby, Cassopp John, .... being Mun-
day.20

Feb. 21. Mr. Robert Smith, attorney- at -law, .... being
Munday.1

Feb. 14. Mr. Thomas Tweddall, merchant, .... being Tues-
day.2

Feb. 14. Thomas Hopper, Quaker, .... being Tuesday.3

Mar. 4. Old Mr. Surtees of Woodhead, .... being Satter-
day.4

Mar. 23. Mr. Beckworth, .... in Yorkshire, being Thursday.5

16 1703/4. Jan. 19. Anthony Fawell, Crossgate, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

17 1703/4. Jan. 20. John Ramshaw, Crossgate, buried. Ibid.

18 1703/4. Jan. 20. Anne, wife of Peter Milner, Crossgate, buried.
Ibid.

19 1703/4. Jan. 30. Mr. Thomas Skinner of Crossgate, buried. Ibid.

20 1703/4. Feb. 15. John Busby, buried, templo. St. Nicholas' Registers.
He represented a family seated at Cassop since 1587 ; and was succeeded
by his son, Henry Busby of Durham, attorney, who was buried at St.
Oswald's, 13 Oct., 1712, leaving issue. See pedigree, Surtees, Durham,
vol. i., p. 75.

1 1703/4. Feb. 23. Mr. Robert Smith, widower, buried. Cathedral
Registers.

1703/4. Feb. 23. Mr. Robt. Smith, buried at ye Minster yard. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

2 1703/4. Mar. 15. Mr. Thomas Tweddell, buried, templo. Ibid.
He was probably third son of Frances Tweddell of Thorpthewles, and
an elder brother of George Tweddell mentioned p. 167 post.

3 1703/4. Mar. 17. Thomas Hopper, Quaker, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

4 William Surtees of the Woodhead, in the parish of Ovingham, was
ancestor of the family of Surtees of Woodhead, Hedley, Newcastle and
Dinsdale.

5 Probably the 'Mr. Edward Beckworth' who married, 7 Oct., 1677,
at St. Margaret's, Elizabeth, daughter of William Heighington of Durham,
by whom he had issue two sons and a daughter, viz. : — Thomas, Edward,
and Frances. See Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 99. He may have been a
member of the family of Beckworth of Trimdon and of Thurcroft in
Yorkshire.

167

Mar. 24. John Hutchinson esquire, justice of the Peace and
attorney-at-law, .... being Friday.6

April 5.
Wednesday.7

April 5.

April 5.

April 17.
Munday.10

♦April 29.
begger, . . .

May 13.

June 5.
Munday.13

June 7.
.... being

June 28.

July 8.
Chathedrall, .

1704.
Mr. George Tweddall, alderman, being

Thomas May Ion, butcher, .... being Wednesday.8

John Hutchinson, plumer, in Elvitt.9

William Key, Jersey comber, .... being Easter

Old James Peacock, a currier by trade and a great
. suddenly in the cloisters, being Satterday.11
Richard Huntley, tanner, .... being Satterday.12
Mr. Ingleby, schoolmaster, .... being Whitsun

Old Margaret Milbourne, servant to Mrs. Church,
Wednesday.14

Mary, wife of John Duckett, blacksmith, . . . ,15
Doctor Gray, Doctor of Divinity and Prebend of the
. . . being Satterday.16

6 1704. Mar. 26. John Hutchinson of Framwelgate, esq., buried.
St. Margaret's Registers. He was mayor of Durham in 1681 and 1684. He
died seised of Bitchburn and Dry burn. See pedigree, Surtees, Durham,
vol. iv., p. 155.

7 1704. April 7. Mr. George Tweddell, alderman, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers. George Tweddell was mayor of Durham in 1701. By
his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of William Heslop (who was master
and father-in-law of Sir John Duck), he left issue, a son, George Tweddell
of Thorpthewles, who was grandfather of John Tweddell, the distinguished
Greek scholar, who, dying at Athens on the 25 July, 1799, was buried in
the Theseum. See pedigree, Surtees, Durham, vol. iii., p. 82.

8 1704. April 6. Thomas Maland, butcher, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers.

9 1704. April 5. John Hutchinson, plumber, buried. St. Oswald's
Registers.

10 1704. April 18. William Kay, buried, templo. St. Nicholas'
Registers.

11 See Six North Country Diaries, p. 62.

12 1704. May 14. Richard Huntley, buried, Crossgate. St. Margaret's

Registers.

13 1704.

14 1704.

15 1704.
Ibid.

16 1704.

June 7. William Ingleby, Crossgate, buried. Ibid.

June 8. Margaret Milburn, Crossgate, buried. Ibid.

June 29. Mary, wife of John Dacket, Framwelgate, buried.

July 13. Dr. Robert Gray, rector of Weremouth parish,
buried. Bishopwearmouth Registers. A younger son of Sir Ralph Grey of
Wark and Chillingham, Robert Grey was educated at Northallerton, under
the distinguished Amur Oxley, proceeding to Christ's College, Cambridge,
He held the rectory of Bishopwearmouth and the eighth stall in Durham
Cathedral from the year 1652 to his death. See memoir, Welford, Men of
Mark.

168

July 8. John Cogdon, junior, .... being Satterday at night.17
July 28. Mrs. Baites of Newcastle, .... being Friday.18
*Aug. 5. Bonet Bess dyed.19

Aug. 9. Sir Ralph Cole of Branspath, .... being Wednesday.
Sept, 29. My Lady Cole, Sir Ralph's lady, .... being Friday.20
Oct, 3. Mr. John Midford, my lord of Durham's parratour,
. . . . being Tuesday.1

Oct. 8. George Stott, roper, .... being Sunday about one
a clock in the mome.2

Oct: 6. Person Blackston of Elvit, .... being Friday.3
Nov. 6. Richard Padman, junior, barber, .... being Mun-
day.4

Nov. 13. Mrs. Mickleton of Crook Hall, .... being Munday.5
Deo. 24. Mary Darneton, widdow, .... being Sunday.6
Dec. 25. ' And Nedy Stoot, the next day in the House of Cor-
rection.7

17 1704. July 9. John Cogdon, buried. St. Nicholas' Registers.

18 She was Margaret, third wife of Richard Bates of Newcastle,
apothecary (of the family of Bates of Halliwell), and daughter of [Michael]
Clark. She was married at Tynemouth, 19 Dec, 1694, and was buried at
All Saint's, Newcastle, 30 July, 1704. See new History of Northumberland,
vol. ix., p. 373.

19 She was wife of Christopher Wall of Crossgate, shoemaker, and wrs
buried at St. Oswald's, 6 Aug., 1704.

20 1704. Aug. 12. Sir Ralph Cole of Brancepath, bart., died 9 Aug.,
1704, and was buried in the vault in the Lady's porch. Brancejieth Registers.

1704. Oct. 2. Catherine, the Lady Cole, relict of Sir R. Cole, died at
Durham, 29 Sept., 1704, and was buried beside Sir Ralph in ye Vault in
the Lady's porch. Ibid. The rise, the meridian, the eclipse, and the
sunset of the Tyneside family of Cole is related by Mr. Richard Welford in
Men of Marie. Sir Ralph Cole, mentioned id the text, was distinguished
for love of the fine arts and was much given to hospitality.

1 1704. Oct, 4. John Midford, apparitor, buried. Cathedral R"gisters.

2 1704. Oct. 8. George Stott, Framwelgate, buried. >S7. Margaret's
Registers.

3 1704. Oct. 9. Mr. Francis Blakiston, rector of Whitburn, buried.
St. Oswald's Registers. The younger son and eventual heir of Captain
Robert Blakiston of Old Elvet (who died 14 Oct., 1688), he was baptized
at St. Oswald's, 30 June, 1654; matriculated at Peterhouse, Cambridge,
6 July, 1667; B.A., 1671; M.A., 1675; vicar of Aycliffe, 1679; and father of
Robert Blakiston, some time vicar of Berwick. See pedigree, Surtees,
Durham, vol. iii., p. 164.

4 1704. Nov. 7. Mr. Richard Padman of St. Nicholas' parish, barber,
buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

1704. Nov. 7. Richard Padman, barber, buried at St. Oswald's. St,
Nicholas' Registers.

5 1704. Nov. 14. Mrs. Eliz. Mickleton, wife of Mr. Mich. Mickleton,
buried. Cathedral Registers. She was the daughter of John Spearman and
was married at the Cathedral, 4 July, 1687. See Pedigree of Mickleton,
Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 140.

1704. Dec. 25. Mary Darneton, Crossgate, buried. St. Margaret's
\ters.
7 1704. Dec. 26. Edmond Stout, Crossgate, buried. Ibid.

169

Dec. 27. William Bell, glover, .... being Wednesday, at
night.8

Dec. 30. Robert Comeforth, butcher, .... being Friday, at
night.9

Dec. 30. Christopher Dixon, taylor, .... at night.10

Jan. 17. Esquire Hedworth of Chester Street, .... being
Wednesday.11

Jan. 18. Robert Patteson of Nafferton, .... being Thursday.

Jan. 18. Mrs. Jackson of Haram.lla ....

Jan. 25. Mrs. Mary Taylor, alias Yapp, .... being St. Paul's
day.12

Feb. 2. William Hagar, ... being Friday.13

Feb. 4. William Mitchell, senior, being Sunday.14

Feb. 9. Mrs. Margaret Ingleby of Moore-houses, .... being
Friday.15

Feb. 15. Mr. Alderman Greeveson, .... being Thursday.16

Feb. 24. William Chapman of Crossgate, yeoman, .... being
Satterday at night.17

Feb. 26. Ann Huntley, wife to Richard Huntley, tanner, ....
being Sunday, at night.18

1705.

April 29. Abraham Cooper, dyer, .... being Sunday.19

8 1704. Dec. 28. William Bell, Crossgate, buried. Ibid.

9 1704/5. Jan. 1. Robert Cornfourth, butcher, buried, templo. St.

Nicholas' Registers.

10 1704/5. Jan. 1. Christopher Dixon, Framwelgate, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

11 Ralph Hedworth of Chester Deanery, married Eleanor, daughter of
Henry Lambton of Lambton, by whom he had issue five sons and seven
daughters. See pedigree, Surtees, Durham, vol. ii., p. 151.

13aHaram is the name of a farm near Ushaw.

12 1794/5. Jan. 26. Mary, daughter of Ellenor Yappe, buried. Cathedral
Registers. She was the daughter of John Yapp of Magdalen College,
Oxford, bailiff to the Dean and Chapter, who was buried in the Cathedral
grave yard, 2 December, 1691.

13 1704/5. Feb. 2. William Ager, Crossgate, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

14 1704/5. Feb. 5. William Mitchell, Crossgate, buried. Ibid.

15 1704/5. Feb. 10. Margaret Ingleby, Crossgate, deceased. Ibid.
She was probably widow of William Ingleby, who died on the 5 June
(p. 167 supra), if so, her maiden name was Hall and she was only married
to him on the 27 April, 1704, at St. Margaret's.

]6 1704/5. Feb. 16. Mr. William Greeveson, alderman, buried,
templo. St. Nicholas' Registers.

17 1704/5. Feb. 25. William Chapman, Crossgate, buried. St. Mar-
garet's Registers.

18 1704/5. Feb. 26. Anne Huntley, Framwelgate, buried. Ibid.

19 1705 April 30. Abraham Cooper, Crossgate, buried. Ibid.

170

May 12. William Skirfeild, carriagman, of the Strand in

Durham, .... being Satterday.

May 14. William Keed, tanner, .... being Munday.20

May 22. John Benson, collier, .... being Munday.1

June 4. Mr. John Miller, minor cannon in the Chathedral of

Durham 2

June 8. Ann Drury, widow, .... being Friday.3
June 20. Doctor Robert Selby, .... being Wednesday.4
*July 5. Mr. John Rowell, by a fall from his horse, .... too

sudden an accident, being Thursday, at night.5

July 26. Mr. Newhouse, Register of the Spiritual Court, ....

being Thursday.6

Aug 9. Richard Hutchinson, tanner, Trimdon Dick so called,

.... being Thursday.7

Sept. 6. Robert Crow, butcher, .... being Thursday.8

20 1705. May 16. William Reed, Framwelgate, buried. Ibid.

1 1705. May 22. John Benson, Framwelgate, buried. Ibid.

3 1705. June 5. Mr. John Milner, praecentor, buried. Cathedral
Registers. He married at the Cathedral, 4 Nov., 1675, Joanna Stones,
widow, who was laid beside him on 11th March, 1730/1.

3 1705. June 9. Anne Dury, Crossgate, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

* An unidentified member of the North Durham family of Selby.

6 1705. July 7. Mr. John Rowell, buried. St. Mary in the South
Bailey Registers.

6 1705. July 28. Mr. Gabriel Newhouse, gent,, of the parish of St.
Mary-le-Bow, buried. Ibid.

I. Robert Newhouse, attorney and Registrar of the Consistory Court, was

buried at St. Mary-le-Bow, 19 Sept., 1668. By Barbara, his wife,
daughter of Hugh Walton of Durham, mercer, he had issue : —
Richard, baptized, St. Mary in the South Bailey, 21 Aug., 1638.
William, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 10 July, 1646.
Gabriel II.
George, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 8 May, 1654, buried, 20 Jan.,

1654/5.
Frances (dau.), buried, St. Mary in the South Bailey, 30 J ,

1639.
Jane, baptized, St. Mary in the South Bailey, 19 Mar., 1641/2;

married, before 18 Sept., 1668, Cuthbert Hilton of Durham,

attorney, and was buried at the Cathedral, 7 Dec, 1732.
Ann, baptized at St. Mary in the South Bailey, 18 Feb., 1643/4.
Margaret, baptized, St. Mary-le-Bow, 20 Aug., 1659.

II. Gabriel Newhouse, attorney and Registrar of the Consistory Court,

baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 2 Feb., 1650/1, buried at St. Mary in the
South Bailey, 28 July, 1705. His widow, Jane, married, secondly, 6
Oct., 1709, at the Cathedral, James Finney, prebendary of Durham,
and thirdly, Anthony Emerson.

7 1705. Aug. 10. Richard Hutchinson, Framwelgate, buried. St.
Margaret's Registers.

*1705. Sept. 7. Robert Crow, butcher, buried. St. Nicholas' Regis-
ters.

171

Sept. 6. Roger Norton, .... being Thursday.9

Sept. 11. Mr. Shuttleworth, merchant, .... being Tuesday.10

Oct. 15. John Williamson, glover, .... being Munday

morning.11

Oct. 18. James Hall, carpinter, or joyner, .... being

Thursday.12

Nov. 4. Henry Rutledg, .... being Sunday.13

Nov. 22. Margaret, wife of Nicholas Wood, . ... being

Thursday.14

Dec. 28. Sir William Blacket departed this life at London, and

came to Durham 28th of December, being Friday this year 1705,

and was buried at Newcastle, the 29th after.15

Jan. 2. Old John Heighington, Quaker, .... being Tuesday.

Feb. 9. Mrs. Salvin, Mr. Anthony Salvin 's wife, .... being

Satterday.16

Feb. 13. Margaret, wife to Thomas Mountain 17

Mar. 12. John Dent, barber, .... being Thursday, . . , .

being Tuesday.18

Mar. 18. Mr. Thomas Peareson, merchant, .... being

Munday.19

9 1705. Sept. 7. Roger Norton, Crossgate, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

10 1705. Sept. 13. Mr. Nicholas Shuttleworth, grocer, buried. St.
Oswald's Registers. His wife, Lucy, daughter of the Rev. Francis Blakis-
ton, married secondly at St. Oswald's, 14 July, 1713, Thomas Philipson.
See Surtees, Durham, vol. iii., p. 164. Six North Country Diaries, p. 223.

John Williamson, Crossgate, buried. St. Margaret's

]' 1705.
isters.

Oct. 16.

12 1705.

Oct. 19.

13 1705.

Nov. 5.

James Hull, Framwelgate, buried. Ibid.

Henry Rutlidge, Crossgate, buried. Ibid.

14 1705. Nov. 23. Margaret, wife of Nicholas Wood, of St. Nicholas'
parish, glover, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

15 1705. Dec. 29. Sr William Blackett, barr", St. Andrew's (chapelry),
buried. St. Nicholas' Newcastle Registers. Alderman of Newcastle, mayor
1683 and 1698, created a baronet 23 January, 1684/5, M.P. for Newcastle
1685-1689, 1695, 1698, 1705; High Sheriff of' Northumberland, 1689. See
memoir in Mr. Richard Welford's Men of Mark.

16 1705/6. Feb. 11. Elinor, wife of Mr. Anthony Salvin, buried. St.
Oswald's Registers. The daughter of Simon Peacock of Burnhall, she was
married at St. Oswald's, 10 October, 1676, to Anthony Salvin of Sunderland
Bridge, by whom she had issue four sons and seven daughters. See
pedigree, Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. J 20.

17 1705/6. Feb. 14. Margaret, wife of Tho. Mounton, Crossgate,
buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

18 1705/6. Mar. 13. John Denton, barber, buried. Cathedral Regis-
ters.

19 1705/6. Mar. 19. Thomas Pearson, Crossgate, buried. St. Mar-
garet's Registers.

172

1706.

Mar. 26. Ralph Rowell, mayson, .... being Tuesday.20

April 29. Mrs. Gordon, Alderman Gordon's wife, his third
wife 1

May 5. Margaret Smith of South Street, meale wife, ....
being Sunday.2

May 20. Mrs. Elizabeth Trollop, wife to Mr. Thomas Trollop,
.... being Munday, at night about 11 of ye clooke.3

June 2. Mr. Robert Lambe, alderman, .... being Sunday.4

20 1706. Mar. 27. Ralph Rowell, Crossgate, buried. Ibid.

1 1706. April 30. Mrs. Ann Gordon, wife of Mr. John Gordon, alder-
man, buried, templo. St. Nicholas' Registers. See the death of his second
wife, p. 153 supra.

2 1706. May 6. Margaret Smith, Crossgate, buried. St. Margaret's
Registers.

3 1706. May 22. Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Trollop, buried Ibid.

I. Thomas Trollop of Durham, attorney, 27 July, 1639, obtained a grant

of arms (Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 93). By his wife, Dorothy,
daughter of Anthony Busby of Cassop, he had, with other, issue an
eldest son : —

II. William Trollop of Durham, who, with other issue, left an eldest son.

III. Thomas Trollop of Durham, attorney, baptized at St. Margaret's,
10 February, 1659, and was buried at the same church, 21 Aug., 1723.
He apparently married twice, his first wife, Catherine, being buried 26
Mar., 1698, and his second wife, Elizabeth, on the 22 May, 1706. He
had issue : —

John, buried at St. Margaret's, 1678.

William, baptized, St. Margaret's, 21 Feb., 1681/2, buried, 7

Mar., 1682.
Thomas Trollop of Durham, baptized, St. Margaret's, 9 Aug.,

1683, buried, 13 June, 1721.^
Elizabeth, married, at St. Margaret's, 27 Dec, 1707, William

Brockett.
Mary, baptized, St. Margaret's, 27 Jan., 1684, buried, 24 Dec,

1706.
Catherine, baptized, St. Margaret's, 9 Nov., 1686, married

Hutchinson.
Jane, baptized, St. Margaret's, 18 June, 1689.
Dorothy, baptized, St. Margaret's, 1 June, 1692.
Thomason, baptized, St. Margaret's, 2 Jan., 1693/4, buried 9 May,

1708.
See pedigree, Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 93.

4 1706. June 3. Mr. Eobert Lamb, alderman, buried, templo. St.
Nicholas' Registers. <

I. Robert Lamb, alderman and tobacconist, married at the Cathedral,

7 Feb., 1669/70, Frances, daughter of John Airson of Durham, and
by her, who was buried in St. Nicholas' church, 12 Feb., 1685/6, he
had issue with two daughters and a son, John Lamb II., and died 1705.

II. John Lamb, alderman and mercer, was baptized at St. Nicholas',

1 May, 1683 by, his wife, Mary (who proved his will, 21 Feb., 1738/9),
had with other issue, a son Robert III., and was buried at St.
Nicholas', 13 Feb., 1738/9.

III. Robert Lamb, clerk in orders, baptized at St. Nicholas', 15 Aug.,
1711; matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge, 13 April, 1728;

173

*June 7. Elizabeth Wrongham, of ye Bull's Head, ....
being Friday.

ordained deacon by Bishop of Lincoln, 23 Sept., 1733; minor canon of
Durham Cathedral; curate of South Shields; vicar of Norham, 1747, to
his death, 7 May, 1795. He was author of The History of Chess,
published in 1764, the ballad entitled " The Laidley Worm of Spindle-
ston Heugh," which he gave to Hutchinson in 1776, and editor of a
History of the Battle of Flodden, published in 1774. He married at
Norham under romantic circumstances, related by Mr. Richard
Welford in Men of Mark, on 11 April, 1755, Philadelphia Nelson (who
was buried at St. Giles', Durham, 13 Jan., 1772) of Durham, a native
of Kensington by whom he had issue two sons and one daughter,
viz. : —

Robert Lamb, baptized at Norham, 16 Mar., 1759, and buried

their, 24 Sept., 1771.
Ralph Lamb, baptized at Norham, 13 Sept., 1763, and buried

there, 25 June, 1764.
Philadelphia IV.
IV. Philadephia Lamb, baptized at Norham, 18 April, 1756, married there,
24 Aug., 1773, Alexander Robertson of Prendergest and Gunsgreen,
Berwickshire, by whom she had issue seven sons and eight daughters.
The first named, Robert Lamb, who died in 1705, had a brother, or other
near kinsman, John Lamb (I.) of Gilesgate, Durham, who was buried at
St. Giles, 31 Mar., 1710, having married twice (see Surtees, Durham, vol.
i., p. 186), and by his second marriage leaving issue, a son, John (II.).
(II.) John Lamb, described as of Hetton, married Margaret, daughter of
Ralph Hedworth of Chester Deanery, (who married secondly, Cuthbert
Morland ,and had further issue by him). His will is dated 31 Aug.,
1705, and was proved in 1712. He had, with other issue who died
childless, a son William Lamb (III.).
(III.) William Lamb, clerk in orders, matriculated at Exeter College,
Oxford, 18 Mar., 1724/5, aged 18; B.A., 1728; M.A., 1732; rector of
Gateshead, 1733 to his death, 29 May, 1769. He married Dorothy
Harrison of Gateshead, and by her had issue two sons : —
John (IV.).

William Lamb of Merton College, Oxford, matriculated, 28 Nov.,

1763, aged 17; B.A., 1767; M.A., 1770; vicar of Kirknewton;

died unmarried.

(IV.) John Lamb, a captain in the 8th Regiment, described as lay rector

of Alnwick (see Six North Country Diaries, p. 307), died unmarried,

9 July, 1790, having, by will, dated 14 Dec, 1787, constituted his

kinsman, Anthony Storey of Bishopwearmouth, his heir, who was

a descendant of the testator's grandmother, Margaret Hedworth, by

her second marriage with Cuthbert Morland.

The devise to Story did not pass certain copyhold lands in the manor
of Chester-le-Street, to which, on the 22 Dec, 1801, " Philadelphia Robert-
son, wife of Alexander Robertson of Prendergast, in the county of Berwick,
in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, heiress-at-law of the Rev.
William Lamb, clerk, deceased, late rector of Gateshead, in the county of
Durham, and also of John Lamb, esq., late a captain in His Majesty's
Eighth Regiment of Foot, also deceased (to wit), daughter and heiress of
the Rev. Robert Lamb, late of the parish of St. Giles in or near the city
of Durham, clerk, deceased, who was cousin and heir of the said John
Lamb, who was the son and heir of the said William," was duly admitted
tenant. From Durham Halmote Rolls, communicated by Mr. G. A. Smith.
See Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 186.

174

Aug. 20. Richard Hutchinson, singing-man, of the Strand,
Durham, .... being Wednesday about 2 a clock in the morning.5

Sept. 8. Humphry Adam&on, of South Street, mayson 6

Sept. 25. Mr. Jonathan Hall, merchant, .... being Wednes-
day.7

Oct. 8. Frances Hopper, .... being Tuesday.8

Oct. 18. Person Dunn, .... being Friday.9

Nov. 19. Nicholas Wood, skinner and glover, .... being
Tuesday.10

Dec. 12. Lancelote Lowther, merchant, .... being Thurs-
day.11

Dec. 22. Mrs. Mary Trollop, daughter to Mr. Thomas Trollop,

being Sunday.12

Jan. 13. Mr. Anthony Emmerson, .... being Munday.13

Jan. 28. Charles Hudson, baker, .... being Tuesday.14

Jan. 24. Sir William Bowes departed this life in London, being
Friday.15

5 1706. Aug. 21. Richard Hutchinson, Crossgate, buried. St. Mar-
garet's Registers.

0 1706. Sept. 9. Humphrey Adamson of Crossgate, buried. Ibid.

7 1706. Sept. 6. Jonathan Hall of Crossgate, buried. Ibid. Possibly
a member of the family of Hall of Durham and Flass, of which there is a
pedigree in Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 154.

8 1706. Oct. 29. Frances Hopper of Framwelgate, buried. St. Mar-
garet's Registers.

9 1706. Oct. 20. William Done, curate of this parish, buried. St.
Giles' Registers. He was presented to the benefice of St. Giles in 1691,
and married in his own church, 17 July, 1692, Mrs. Elizabeth Davies of
West Chester^ (i.e. Chester on the Dee). He has, or had a monumental
inscription at St. Giles. See Memorials of St. Giles', Surt. Soc. publ., 95,
p. 266.

10 1706. Nov. 20. Nicholas Wood, St. Nicholas' parish, skinner, an
old man, buried. St. Oswald's Registers.

11 1706. Dec. 13. Lancelot Lowther, mercer, buried. Cathedral Reg-
isters. He was resident in the South Bniley. He married at the Cathe-
dral, 4 June, 1698, Jane Smith of Lamesley.

12 1706. Dec. 24. Mary, daughter of Mr. Trollop, Crossgate, buried.
St. Margaret's Registers. She was baptized at St. Margaret's, 27 Jan.,
1684.

13 1706/7. Jan. 15. Mr. Anthony Emerson of the parish of Little St.
Mary, buried. St. Giles' Registers.

14 1706/7. Jan. 29. Charles Hudson, buried. St. Margaret's Regis-
ters.

15 1706/7. Jan. 7. Sr William Bowes departed this life and was buried
Feb. ye 11th, of Streatlam. Barnard Castle Registers. By his marriage
with Elizabeth, daughter and ultimately sole heir of Sir Francis Blakeston
of Gibside, bart., he had issue three sons and four daughters. See pedi-
gree, Surtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 108.

Jan.

27.

day. 16

Feb.

6.

♦Feb.

27.

Mar.

1.

Mar.

9.

175

Alice, wife to George Wilkinson, .... being Mun-

Ann Davison of Claypath, .... being Thursday.17
Anthony Allinson, Black Cock, .... being Thursday.

Elizabeth Noble 18

Doctor Burnet, .... being Sunday.19
Mar. 10. Dorothy Shepheard of Framwelgate 20

1707.

May 1. Jane Rutledge *

July 21. Nicholas Wilson, lay singing [man]. . . . . 2
July 22. James Paulson, dyer, .... being Tuesday.3

1710.

Sept. 26. Elizabeth, wife to Jacob Bee, .... being Tuesday,
between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning.4

16 1706/7. Jan. 27. Alice, wife of George Wilkinson, buried, templo.
St. Nicholas' Registers.

17 1706/7. Feb. 14. Anne Davison, widow, an antient and credible
housekeeper in ye parish of St. Nicholas. St. Oswald's Registers.

18 1706/7. Mar. 2. Elisabeth, wife of William Noble, of Framwelgate,
buried. St. Margaret's Registers.

19 1706/7. Mar. 18. Robert Burnet, gent., buried. St. Mary-le-Bow
Registers. He married at the Cathedral, 12 Feb., 1699/1700, Frances,
widow of Daniel Richardson, by whom he had issue.

30 1706/7. Mar. 11. Dority Shipherd of Framwelgate, widow, buried.
St. Margaret's Registers.

1 1707. May 2. Jane, wife of John Rutledge of Crossgate, buried.
Ibid.

Nicholas Wilson, buried. St. Mary in the South

James Poulson of Crossgate, dyer, buried. St.

Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Bee, buried. Ibid. Her
maiden name was Rabbet, and she was married to the Diarist, circa 1658.

2 1707. July
Bailey Registers.

22.

3 1707.
Margaret's

July 23.
Registers

4 1710.

Sept.

27.

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MARK BROWELL'S DIARY.

INTRODUCTION.

Mark Browell of Newcastle, attorney, was a son of George Browell
of the same place, butcher. The date of his birth has not been
ascertained, but he was educated for the law and was entered at
FurnivaPs Inn before commencing to practice his profession in his
native town. On the 20th March, 1686, he married at All Saints,
Newcastle, Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Ive, a citizen and stationer of
London, afterwards of Newcastle, by whom he had issue a son,
Edward, and a daughter, Margaret. She died on the 9th Sep-
tember, 1689 ; and, after a very short interval he married
again, at St. Andrews, 17 June, 1690, Jane Sanderson, spinster,
whose eldest son, George Browell, was baptised on the 18th
October, 1691. Mark Browell, who was admitted to the freedom
of the Butcher's Company on the 24th February, 1688, served as
churchwarden of All Saints, in which chapelry he apparently resided,
for the year 1695 and 1696. His professional career seems to have
been prosperous and before his death, in 1729, he was able to educate
his eldest son at St. John's College, Cambridge, and to make adequate
provision for his surviving four younger children. He was buried in
the south aisle of the old church of All Saints, under a stone the in-
scription on which has been preserved by Bourne : — >

MARCUS BROWELLUS GENEROS. ATTORNAT. DE BANCO, S0C. HOSPIT.
FURNIVAL LOND. HOC SIBI ET SUIS POSUIT ET C02LIS PARATA jETERNA
MANSIO. IPSE OBIIT SECUNDO DIE NOVEMBRIS ANNO DOMINI 1729.

He was buried on the 5th November in that year and the entry
of his interment in the register of All Saints is marked by a quota-

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tion in Latin thus: '1729 Nov. 5 Mark Browel, attorney Dies

Revel abit.'

The following abridgement of his will is taken from Richardson's

edition : —

20 October, 1729. Will of Mark Browell of Newcastle, gent., being grown
into years, yet of sound mind and memory. If I die in, or within twenty
miles of Newcastle, I do order my body to be buried in the church of All
Hallows, in my buriall place in the south isle thereof, and that no more than
these words be in capitall letters ingraven on the stone, viz., ' Ipse obiit,'
adding in figures the date of my death and the year, like as it is done for
my wife. Among the sentences collected and writ in the white leaves of my
prayer book, I have writ that this verse may be on my grave stone when I
am dead, viz. : ' Hcec domus ceterna est hie sum situs hie ero semper.' I now
forbid the same lest the sence of it should be misconstrued, and I be censured
to enervate the belief of the resurrection. And I will that my funeral shall
be without state or pomp, and in such like decent manner as my wife's, only
I will not have it exceed forty pounds, and I give rings to none. To my
daughter Frances Browell £600, to my daughter Julian Browell £600, my
•daughter Mills £300, having given her £300 at her marriage.

To my son Edward Browell,a Doctor in Divinity, his heirs &c, my messu-
ages, &c, situate without the walls, but within the liberties of the said town
of Newcastle, in a certain street or place there called Sidgate. He to pay £200
into my personal estate to make my daughters sure of their several portions,
for when I consider that my said son has been much advanced in the world,
and through my endeavours and God's blessing only, I cannot but say he has
shared well in my little estate, and has had a handsome legacy to remember
me by. To my son Edward all the books mencioned in a paper signed by
me, bearing the date of this will. To my daughter Frances Browell, all the
letters, papers and accounts that have passed between me and my son
Edward Browell, to keep by her, and my diaries, confiding in her prudence
in the using of them, and that she will not do anything but for the clearing
of truth and avoiding all bitterness and wrath.

To my son, Mark Browell, my messuage in the Syde, and one-fifth of a
farm or tenement in School Aycliffe, and my rent charge of £6 per annum
out of Great Bavington. To my son Mark all my draughts and paper books
of pleadings, at law and in equity, and in the Sheriff's oifiee, in which last
I have laboured abundantly, but I would not have him to part with or dis-
pose of any of them least they should be lost.

To my son Edward, the silver porringer which I had with his mother.

a Edward Browell, eldest son of Mark Browell, by his first wife, Elizabeth
Ive, was born at Newcastle and was baptized at All Saints, 11 September,
1689. He was educated at Sedberge under Mr. Dwyer, and at St. John
College, Cambridge where he matriculated 14 June," 1707, being then 17
years of age, B.A., 1710; M.A., 1714; D.D., 1726; rector of Romaldkirk from
1713 to his death 23 December, 1763, when he was laid beside his wife,
Elizabeth, who died 2 Jan., 1762/3. His only daughter, Elizabeth, married
•George Clavering of Greencroft, and died s.j). 19 October, 1763, aged 37.

12

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To my son Mark, my buriall place in the west end of the north aisle be-
queathed to me by my cousin Abraham Corbett, — nephews, Robert Corn-
forth and George Browell.

To my daughter Frances, my picture and her mother's, drawn by Mr.
Stephenson.

To my son Edward, the other picture drawn of me when I was younger,
which has my features and likeness att that time, according to my judgment
of it, though it is not so much set by as the other picture is.

My daughters, Frances and Julian, executrices. Women not being fit for
law-suits; in case of law-suits I appoint my sons Edward and Mark, and
John Mills to be executors.

There are nine books of Reports of Lord Coke, all in French, very valu-
able, and other French books which my son Mark will never take the pains
to spell out, therefore I would have him to sell them. Let him have all my
letters, books in business, and letters in answer, which must be of great use
to him in any business that has happened through me for more than thirty
years.

The Diary apparently passed into the possession of the Diarist's
son, Mark Browell, also an attorney, who died in the month- of
April, 1739. After passing through intermediate hands it was
acquired by John Bell the younger, the once well-known Newcastle
bookseller, antiquary and collector, who in 1847 permitted M. A.
Richardson to give it a place in his valuable series of Imprints and
Reprints of Rare Tracts. It is not known whether the original MS. is
now in existence, and the following pages are reprinted from Mr.
Richardson's edition, from which also the Diarist's will, Avith some of
the biographical and personal notices appended, have been borrowed.

Notices of the surrendered charter of the town of Newcastle
referred to in Browell's Diary may be found in the Records of the
Merchant Adventurers, No. 93 of this series, p. 237 ; or Brand,
History of Newcastle, Vol. ii., p. 195, etc., and are more particularly
related in the Memoirs of Ambrose Barnes, No. 50 of this series,
p. 176, et seq.

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THE DIARY

[1687/8]. Jan. 1. *J[ohn] Squire, esq.,1 maior, Newcastle.
*Sir William Blackett,2
*Sir Ralph Carr,3

Nicholas Cole, esq.,4 )■ Aldermen.
*Mr. Timothy Davison,5
*Mr. George Mourton,6

1 John Squire, son of Sampson Squire of Thruntoft, Yorkshire, was
apprenticed, 1 Mar., 1658/9; to Thomas Sherwood of Newcastle, boothman,
and was admitted free of the Merchants' Company, 27 Jan., 1669/70. He
married, 10 Nov., 1672, at St. Nicholas', Mary Forster, widow; was sheriff
of Newcastle, 1681, and mayor, 1687, being removed by mandamus from
the king on the 24 Dec. On the 2 May following he was killed by a fall
from horseback near Chester-le-Street, and four days later he was buried
in St. Nicholas'. His widow on the 7 Nov., 1689, married for her third
husband, Nicholas Fenwick, alderman of Newcastle, she being his third
wife.

2 Sir William Blackett, baronet, a very important man in Newcastle,
of whom a biography may be found in Mr. Richard Welford's Men of
Marie twixt Tyne and Tweed.

3 Sir Ralph Carr, a wealthy burgess of Newcastle, purchased Cocken,
co. Durham, in 1665, was knighted, 22 June, 1676; mayor of Newcastle,
1676, 1693, and 1705; M.P. for Newcastle, 1679, 1680, 1688, and 1689. He
married, first, Jane, daughter of Sir Francis Anderson of Bradley, and,
secondly, Isabella, daughter of the Hon. James Darcy. He died, 5 Mar.,
1709/10, having had issue by both marriages. See pedigree of Carr of
Cocken, Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 209.

4 Nicholas Cole, second son of Sir Ralph Cole, second baronet, of New-
castle, merchant, and of Brancepeth, was born at Kepier and was baptised
at St. Giles', Durham, 28 Feb., 1653/4, he was mayor of Newcastle, 1686,
and, dying in the month of July, 1701, in his father's lifetime, was buried
at Brancepeth.

5 Timothy Davison was made free of the Merchant Adventurers Company
by patrimony, 13 Jan., 1663/4, being son of Thomas Davison, merchant, by
his wife, Anne, daughter of Ralph Cock, sometime alderman of Newcastle.
He was sheriff in 1666 and mayor in 1673. He married, 4 Jan., 1663/4, at
St. Nicholas', Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Blackett, and died 28th
Dec, 1696, aged 54, and was buried in St. Nicholas'. He purchased the
estate of Beamish, co. Durham, and transmitted it to his descendants.

6 George Morton was sheriff of Newcastle in 1673 and mayor in 1679 and
alderman at the date of the Diary. He was buried in the north aisle of the
old church of All Saints, where was the following epitaph : ' Here lieth
interr'd the body of George Morton, draper, alderman and twice mayor of
this town : he departed this life the 26th of November, anno Dom. 1693.

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*Mr. Matthew Jeffreyson,7

Mr. Timothy Robson,8

Mr. Nicholas Fenwick,9 V Aldermen.

Mr. William Aubonie,10
*Mr. Nicholas Ridley,11

7 Matthew Jefferson, son of Richard Jefferson of Elton in the county of
Durham was apprenticed 1 April, 1645, to Richard Thursby (a kinsman of
the Yorkshire antiquary) of Newcastle, boothman, and was admitted free
of the Merchants' Company 5 October, 1655. He was sheriff of Newcastle in
1671 and mayor in 1678. He married 13 December, 1664, at St. Nicholas',
Mary Barker, widow, by whom he had issue nine children, of whom six
survived him. He died 1 Mar., 1687, having by his will dated 16 Oct.,
1685, given his property at Bingfield in the parish of St. John Lee to his
son, John Jefferson; the latter died 4 Mar., 1700/1, leaving his three
sisters, Anne, wife first of William Shafto of Carrycoats and secondly of

John Cotesworth of the Hermitage, Elizabeth, wife of Brumell, and

Mary, wife of Vernol, his co-heirs.

8 Timothy Robson, son of William Robson of Newcastle, cordwainer,
was apprenticed 29 Sept., 1646, to George Errington of Newcastle, booth-
man, and was admitted free of the Merchants' Company 15 Oct., 1656. He
was sheriff of Newcastle in 1677 and mayor in 1681 and 1695. He married
first, in or about the year 1659, Elizabeth Jefferson, spinster, his banns,
after the Commonwealth custom, being published in Newcastle market place
in September of that year. He married secondly, before the expiration of
the year of his shrievalty on the 30 Sept., 1678, at St. Nicholas', Jane
Scurfield, widow. In 1682 he purchased together with (his brother-in-law)
Matthew Jefferson, property in Bingfield, and dying 30 Dec, 1700, was
buried in St. Nicholas'. He left surviving him, the issue of his first
marriage, an only daughter, Mary, wife of John Milbank of Thorp Perrow.

9 Nicholas .b enwick, son of Robert Fenwick of Brenkley, was appren-
ticed 20 May, 1648, to Ralph Heron of Newcastle, boothman, and was
admitted free of the Merchants' Company 4 June, 1658. He was sheriff of
Newcastle in 1678 and mayor in 1682 and 1697, and died circa 1707. He
was married three times : his first wife being Margaret, daughter of Robert
Young, alderman, the second Elizabeth Bonner, and the third, as already
mentioned, Mary, widow of John Squire; the latter corrects the name given
as Symon in the pedigree of Fenwick of Lemington in the new History of
Northumberland, vol. vii., p. 174.

10 William Aubone, son of Thomas Aubone of Newcastle, master and
mariner, was apprenticed 25 April, 1655, to George Dobson, boothman, and
was admitted free of the Merchants' Company, 16 Aug., 1665. He was
sheriff of Newcastle in 1679 and mayor in 1684. He married Catherine,
daughter of Christopher Sanderson of Barnard Castle (whose Diary is
printed in the first series of North Country Diaries), the bond of marriage
being dated 22 Jan., 1665/6, by whom he had (perhaps with other) issue
three daughters, viz., Frances, wife of Edward Surtees of Woodhead,
Phillis, wife of Robert Greenwell of Kibblesworth, and Jane, wife of John
Greenwell of Newcastle. The said Robert and John Greenwell were sons
of William Greenwell of Greenwell Ford. William Aubone died 29 Sept.,
1700.

11 Nicholas Ridley, son of John Ridley of Willimoteswick was appren-
ticed 8 Aug., 1661, to Robert Fenwick, mercer, and was admitted free of
the Merchants' Company, 2 Nov., 1671. He was sheriff of Newcastle in
1682, and mayor in 1706. He married 26 Feb., 1673/4, Martha, daughter
of Richard March of Newcastle, merchant, and died 22 Jan., 1710, leaving
issue. He was ancestor of Viscount Ridley.

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* Henry Lambton, esq.,12 Deputy Recorder.
*Mr. William Ramsay,13 Sheriff©.

[1688/9]. Jan. 2. Turned out all yt are thus markt * and in
their places

[1688/9]. Jan. 3. Sir William Creagh, mayor,14 papist.

[1688/9]. Jan. 4 Edward Widdrington, esq.,15
papist.

fanatick, Mr. William Johnson,16 honest, \ Aldermen.

fanatick, Mr. Ambross Barnes,17

fanatick, Mr. William Hutchinson,18

12 Henry Lambton, second son of Henry Lambton of Lambton, was of
Queen's College, Oxford, where he matriculated 25 Oct., 1659; was admitted
to Grays' Inn, 3 June, 1662; appointed by Bp. Crewe, attorney general of
the co. palatine; occurs in 1685 as deputy recorder of Newcastle, and died
unmarried in October, 1713.

13 William Ramsay, son of William Ramsay of Newcastle, goldsmith,
was apprenticed 1 Oct., 1675, to Phineas Allan, boothman, and admitted
free of the Merchants' Company, 18 Mar., 1686/7. He was sheriff of New-
castle in 1687 and mayor in 1690, and either he, or another of his name,
was mayor in 1701. He died s.p. on the 14 April, 1716, and was buried in
the old church of All Saints. His will is dated 14 May, 1713.

11 Sir William Creagh, a Roman Catholic Irishman, was knighted 1 Jan.,
1684/5, and enjoyed the doubtful favour of James II., under whose man-
damus he was successively admitted 4 May, 1686, to the freedom of the
Merchants' Company and to that of the Hostmen's Company, and, on the
30 June, 1687, to that of the town. By the same unconstitutional method
he was made mayor of Newcastle in 1687. He was buried at St. Nicholas',
27 Dec, 1702. By his marriage with Mary, daughter of John Rogers of
Newcastle, merchant, he had issue four daughters, two of whom were
married, viz., Mary, wife of Dominick Archdeacon, a merchant in Cork, and
Margaret, wife of Anthony Isaacson of Newcastle, in whose respective issue
the great wealth of John Rogers, the lunatic, brother of Dame Mary
Creagh, ultimately wholly or in part centred.

15 Edward Widdrington may perhaps be identified with the third son
of William first Baron Widdrington. If so he was admitted to Gray's
Inn, 14 May, 1656. By his marriage with Mary, the richly dowered widow
of Robert Lisle of Felton, he obtained that estate, but throwing in his lot
with James II. he was killed at the Battle of the Boyne, 11 July, 1691. He
is several times mentioned in Thorsby's Correspondence.

16 William Johnson named in the text, was probably William Johnson
the younger, who was admitted to the freedom of the Merchants' Company
4 July, 1684, by patrimony as son of William Johnson, mercer, deceased.
The latter had acquired Kibblesworth by purchase. He never attained
either the mayor's or sheriff's chair, and died in 1706. But there was a
contemporary William Johnson, also a member of the Merchants' Company.

17 Of Ambrose Barnes the famous Puritan merchant and alderman of
Newcastle, his memoirs admirably edited by the late Mr. W. H. D. Long-
staffe, forming No. 50 of this series, speak for themselves.

\* William Hutchinson, son of Francis Hutchinson of Gilling, York-
shire, was apprenticed 10 October, 1646, to Benjamin Ellison of Newcastle,
mercer, and was admitted free of the Merchants' Company 15 Oct., 1656.
He was mayor of Newcastle in 1688 for six weeks only but was removed on
the 5 of November for political reasons related by Mr. Richard Welford in
Men of Mark, n., p. 585. He died on the 6 Mar., 1689/90, and was buried at

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idem, Mr. Thomas Partis,19 ) A1(jermen

papist, Mr. John Errington,20 j

fanatick, Mr. Joseph Barnes, 20a Recorder. [1688/9]. Jan. 11.

fanatick, Mr. Samuel Gill,20b Sheriffe. [1688/]. Jan. 16.
Putt in by mandamus.

1687/8. Jan. 29. Kept a day of rejoyceing for the Queen's
being with child.

[1687/8]. Feb. 10. A Quo Warranto against the Charter of
Newcastle, and such like process against the electors for nott electing
the present mayor and new aldermen: — returned 13 instant.

All Saints, leaving by Ruth Hodgson, his wife — whom he married at St.
John's, Newcastle, 25 December, 1656 — with other issue, an eldest son,
Jonathan Hutchinson, some time M.P. for Berwick-on-Tweed.

19 Thomas Partis the younger, was son of Thomas Partis of Newcastle,
tobacconist, and after serving his apprenticeship with Robert Mitford,
hostman, was admitted free of the Hostmen's Company, 31 Jan., 1673/4.
His father having died in 1669 he succeeded to the business. He married
12 Feb., 1673/4, at Long Benton, Mehitabel, daughter, and, in her issue,
co-heir, of Luke Killingworth of Killingworth, by whom he had with other
issue a daughter, named after her mother, wife of John Hodgson of New-
castle, merchant, ancestor of the late Mr. John Hodgson Hinde. Thomas
Partis was buried in St. Nicholas', 12 Jan., 1688/9.

20 John Errington of Errington and Beauf ront, described in Ambrose
Barnes' Memoirs, as ' a person of great parts, great breeding and of a
magnificent soul.' He and his brother Thomas being considerable dealers
in lead, largely obtained from the lead mines of the Earl of Derwentwater,
to whom they seem to have acted as agents and business managers, were
under mandamus admitted to the freedom of the Merchants' Company of
Newcastle, 25 June, 1686, having three days previously been admitted —
also by mandamus — to the freedom of the Hostmen's Company. He died
unmarried 19 Dec, 1713, and was buried at St. John Lee.

20a Joseph Barnes, barrister-at-law, eldest son of Ambrose Barnes,
already mentioned, was baptised at St. Nicholas', 2 April, 1658. He won
for himself the reputation of being one of the hardest students and
' frugallest ' commoners in the Temple, ' his parts were extraordinary, a
strong memory, profound judgment, of a quick and lively apprehension and
of a ready wit.' He was appointed Deputy Recorder of Newcastle 24 Dec,
1687, by mandamus, but was superseded at the Revolution. Many years
afterwards, on 28 April, 1710, he was made Recorder of Berwick, but he
died two years later, and was buried in St. Nicholas', 21 Mar., 1711/2. He
left four sons and four daughters. Cf. Mr. Richard Welford's Men of
Mark.

20b Samuel Gill, son of Humphrey Gill of Seaton Delaval, was appren-
ticed 1 Aug., 1668 to Ralph Jenison of Newcastle, boothman, and was
admitted free of the Merchants' Company 4 Nov., 1678. He was sheriff of
Newcastle by mandamus in 1687. In the early part of the eighteenth
century he acquired the small estate of Wooden in the parish of Lesbury,
and by will dated 25 Nov., 1719, gave it to his nephew, Henry Gill in
tail male, with remainder to his (testator's) two nieces, Elizabeth, wife of
Ralph Lazenby, and Frances, wife, or widow, of ... . Dawson of Hexham.
It seems probable that the three devisees were children of the testator's
half-brother, Joseph Gill, Nonconformist minister at Hexham. Samuel Gill
was buried in St. George's porch in St. Nicholas', 26 October, 1720. Henry
Gill's only son, John Gill, M.D., was residing in Edinburgh in 1748 and
1774, but subsequently settled at Kinsale in the Kingdom of Ireland.

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[1687/8. Feb.]. In this month there was a paper conteining yt
the subscriber should give his vote and interest to elect such mem-
bers in ye Corporacon to bee Burgesses in Parliament as ye King
should recommend, they being members of ye Church of England
and freemen of ye Corporacon, offered to ye burgesses of Newcastle
and by ye Bishop of Durham to ye free men in Durham : an engine
us'd for to repeale the penall laws against all dissenters and recusants,
and those other laws that support ye church establish' d.
Sign'd this paper :

Mr. Samuel Gill.

Mr. Robert Wetwang.1

Mr. John Eden.2

Mr. Edward Green.3

Mr. Edward Grey.4

Mr. John Pickells.5

1 Robert Wetwang, son of John Wetwang of Newcastle, gent., was
apprenticed 11 November, 1665, to John Strangeways, draper, and was
admitted free of the Merchants' Company, 26 March, 1675. His father, a
member of the ancient family of Wetwang of Dunston in the parish of
Embleton, had been a naval captain and made himself feared in the Dutch
wars in the time of Charles II. John Wetwang was subsequently master
of the Trinity House of Newcastle and was knighted at Whitehall on the
20 Nov., 1680. Robert Wetwang was buried at or in the old church of
All Saints, 30 Mar., 1698. By Isabella Fell, his wife, he had (perhaps
with other) issue two sons, both of whom apparently died young; and five
daughters.

2 John Eden, son of John Eden of West Auckland, was apprenticed
1 Sept., 1662, to Sir Nicholas Cole, knight and boothman, and was admitted
free of the Merchants' Company, 26 Mar., 1675. He was brother to Sir
Robert Eden, created a baronet 13 Nov., 1672. John Eden died 12 July,
1696.

3 Of Edward Green little is known. He, or a kinsman of that name,
was churchwarden of All Saints in 1653, 1662 and 1685; and in the
month of July, 1655, an Edward Green had some dispute with the Host-
men's Company about some keels he had taken (see Dendy, Newcastle
Hostmen, p. 104. In the old church of All Saints there were monumental
inscriptions to Joshua Green, merchant adventurer, with the arms a chevron
between three fleurs-de-lis, and to John and Michael Green, confectioners,
with the arms on a fess between three roundels each charged with a lion's
head erased, a griffin passant between two escallop shells.

4 Edward Grey, son of George Grey, deceased, of Newcastle, master and
mariner, was apprenticed 12 April, 1676 to George Pescod and was admitted
to the freedom of the Hostmen 's Company, 9 February, 1683/4. He rose
high in that Company and took a leading part in founding and erecting the
Keelmen's Hospital, and, as appears by an inscription above the entrance,
he was one of the original trustees. He served as churchwarden of All
Saints for the year 1685. His first wife, Magdalen, was buried there
20 June, 1691; his second wife, Sarah, on the 19 Dec, 1703, and no doubt
he himself lies among the unnumbered dead in that ancient cemetery.

5 John Pickells, scrivener and notary public, was churchwarden of
All Saints in 1682. As a scrivener he witnessed a deed dated 17 Jan.,
1676/7, relating to property on the Quayside, and as a notary public, was

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1687/8. Mar. 17. Then turned out Aldermen Robson, Fen wick,
Aubonye, and William Johnson j and on. their roome Mr. Ralph Wid-
drington6 of ye Grange ; Ralph Brandling7 of Fellen, esq. ; Henry
Jenison8 of Newcastle, and Ralph Elstob9 of ye same, mercer, which
are named in ye additional charter geven this town© by this King,
James the Second.

[Ralph Elstob dy'd shortly after, and in his place named young
Esq. Brabant.10]

[1688]. From April 1st such great and soe many shoures of
snow, as hath nott been within the remembrance of maun all that
season, till 9th instant.

witness to an indenture dated 15 April, 1689, between John March, vicar
of Newcastle, and John Coatsworth of South Shields, master and mariner,
concerning two salt pans at South Shields. Cf. Arch. Ael., 2 ser. vol. xxiv.,
p. 136, and 3 ser. vol. v., p. 141.

G Ralph Widdrington of Cheeseburn Grange, was third son of Sir Henry
Widdrington of Black Heddon, and nephew of Sir Thomas Widdrington of
Cheeseburn Grange, Speaker of the House of Commons : he was alive 2 Aug.,.
1704, but died before 25 April, 1708.

7 Ralph Brandling, described as of Felling, was third son of Charles
Brandling of Alnwick Abbey, and stepson of Sir Richard Neile, already
mentioned, and ultimately heir of his brother Robert Brandling of Alnwick
Abbey. Born 7 Dec, 1662, he was admitted to Gray's Inn, 29 May, 1685.
By his marriage with Anne, daughter and sole heir of John Leghe of
Middleton in the parish of Rothwell, Yorkshire, he acquired that estate
and dying s.p. devised the same to his brother Charles Brandling.

8 Henry Jenison, second son of Sir Ralph Jenison of Newcastle acd of
Elswick by his first wife, Barbara, duaghter of Henry Bowes of Newcastle,
merchant and alderman, was born circa 1644 and was admitted by patri-
mony in October, 1668, to the freedom of the Company of Merchant
Adventurers. He was sheriff of Newcastle in 1674, and dying 19 Aug.,
1703, he was buried in St. Nicholas'. He left issue.

9 Ralph Elstob, son of Charles Elstob of Foxton, in the county of
Durham, was apprenticed 1 April, 1662, to Robert Rutter of Newcastle,
draper, and was admitted free of the Merchants' Company, 24 April, 1672.
He married at All Saints, 20 Oct., 1672, Jane, daughter of William Hall
of Newcastle, merchant. He was sheriff of Newcastle in 1685, but dying
in 1688, was buried in St. Nicholas' on the 13 April. He left issue
three young children, of whom two, William and Elizabeth, became the
Saxon scholars whose biography is given in Mr. Richard Welford's Men
of Mark.

10 Sir Henry Brabant was the son of John Brabant of Pedgbank in the
county of Durham, and was apprenticed 2 Feb., 1636/7, to Alexander Davison
of Newcastle, boothman, being admitted to the freedom of the Merchants'
Company, 2 July, 1647. He held the Stuart doctrine of the Divine Right
of Kings and its corollary of Implicit Obedience, as to profess that ' if
the King should command him to kill a man in cold blood, he took himself
bound in conscience and duty to execute his commands.' Such dutiful
sentiments procured from Charles II. the office of Collector of Customs.
He was sheriff of Newcastle in 1662 and mayor in 1667 and 1685. In the
latter year he appears to have been knighted, although no record of the
fact has been preserved in the official lists or shown in Shaw, Knights of
England, but he was buried in St. Nicholas' on the 15 June, 1687, as
' Sr Henry Brabant, knt. alderman.'

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1688. May 2. My kind friend, Mr. John Squire, by fall of
horse in Chester lane, was struck dead.

[Then follow in the original MS. an account of the bishops who-
ordered the King's Declaration for Liberty of Conscience to be read
in their dioceses, of whom Dr. Nathaniel Crewe, Bishop of Durham,
was one, and the committal to the Tower of the Seven Contuma-
cious Bishops who did not order the King's Declaration to be read.]

[1688]. June 12. A rejoycing day kept att Newcastle for a
young Prince of Wales, who was borne ye 8th instant.

[1688]. June 12. The said bishops11 by habeas corpus was
brought to ye King's Bench and their peerage over-ruld, they entred
into a recognizance to appear the 29th instant.

[1688]. June 29. The said bishops appeared and the debate
held from 9 in the morn till 7 att night; the Courte was divided,
viz., Wright12 and Allibone13 for the King, Halloway14 and Powell15

"The story of the Seven Bishops, their moral courage, trial and
acquittal, has been told once and for all by Macaulay in the eighth chapter
of his History of England.

12 Sir Eobert Wright, son of Jerome, otherwise Jermyn, Wright of
Wangford, Suffolk, was educated at Thetford school and Peterhouse>
Cambridge, where he matriculated 23 Dec, 1653, B.A. 1657, M.A. 1661,
admitted to Lincoln's Inn, 14 June, 1654; M.P. for King's Lynn, 1668;
sergeant-at-law, 12 May, 1680: Eecorder of Cambridge, 1685; Justice of
King's Bench, 23 Oct., 1685; being 'poor, dissolute and shameless, he had
become one of the parasites of Jeffreys, was promoted him ' to be Lord Chief
Justice of England, 22 April, 1687, ' over the heads of many abler and more
learned men solely on account of his unscrupulous servility (Macaulay,
Hist, of England, cap. vin). Imprisoned at the Eevolution he died of a
fever in Newgate, 18 May, 1689. His portrait by Eiley was engraved by
Eobert White.

13 Sir Eichard Allibone, son of Job Allibone, or Allibond, of Dagenham,
Essex, was born circa 1636 and educated at the English College at Douay,
at which he was entered 24 Mar., 1652. He was admitted to Gray's Inn*
27 April, 1663; sergeant-at-law 1687. ( Even more ignorant of the law
than Wright, and who as a Eoman Catholic was incapable of holding office '
he was appointed a Judge of the King's Bench in 1687 by the dispensing
power." Dying at Holborn, 22 Aug., 1688, he was buried at Dagenham. He
had a local connection with the North of England, for his wife was Barbara
Blakiston of the family of Blakiston of Gibside.

14 Sir Eichard Holloway, son of John Holloway, Official to the Arch-
deacon of Berkshire, was admitted to the Inner Temple, 7 Feb., 1634, and
called to the bar 24 Nov., 1658; Eecorder of Wallingford, 1666; sergeant-at-
law, 1677; and Justice of the King's Bench, 25 Sept., 1683. His conduct at
the trial of the Seven Bishops was such as to blot out all previous short-
comings ; but he was excepted out of the Act of Indemnity of 2 William and
Mary, and is stated to have died circa 1695.

15 Sir John Powell, son of John Powell of Llanvard, otherwise of Ken-
ward, Carmarthenshire, a pupil of Jeremy Taylor was admitted to Gray's
Inn, 12 Nov., 1650. He was made serjeant-at-law, 21 April, 1686; justice
of the Court of Common Pleas, 26 April, 1686, and transferred to King'a
Bench, 16 April, 1687. His 'character for honesty stood high,' and hia

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for the bishops ; itt was left to ye jury, and att 7 next morning they
brought them in Nott Guilty, for which there was soe great rejoycing
by ringing of bells, etc., in Newcastle on the third and fourt dayes
of July as never was, since King Charles the 2nd was restor'd : —
rung all night.

[1688]. June 22. Being sett forward for London, I returned
home the 23rd. sick and so continued till 28.

[1688]. June 28. Dr. Crew,16 Bishop of Durham, was his
visitacon att Newcastle, and summonsd all the clergy there and in
Northumberland, to meet him, who did soe. His questions were :
If they had received and rea.d the King's Declaracon for Liberty of
Conscience in their severall churches, according to order, on the third
and tenth instant? Their reply, that they had received itt, and
none of them read itt, butt the refuse of the clergy. It was not read
in any church in Newcastle. The Bishop went home the same day,
being little respected by any, clergy or laity, for there were but five
black coates att dinner, and not an alderman butt two, Edward Wid-
drington and Thomas Partis, the former a papist, the latter a phana-
tick, the Recorder Barnes, and ye Sheriffe, Samuel Gill.

[1688]. July 1. A day kept for the solemnizing the birth of the
young prince.

[1688]. July 6. I gott a relapse, and was indisposed till the
12.

1688. Aug. 3. This day our new charter for Newcastle came
home, and was mett with fourty six horsemen, gentlemen and their
servants. The persons named for the magistracy in that charter
were as follows : —

Sr William Creagh, maior.

Mr. Thomas Radcliffe17 of Dilston.

Edward Widdrington, esq.

Ralph Brandling, esq.

Ralph Widdrington, esq., of the Grange.

Nicholas Cole, esq.

Ambrose Barnes, whigg.

William Hutchinson, merchant, whigg.

Thomas Partis, smoaker, whigg.

Jonathan Hutchinson, merchant, whigg.

•conduct at the trial of the Seven Bishops brought him immortal fame. He
died at Exeter, 7 Sept., 1696, and was buried at Broadway in Carmarthen-
shire. His portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery. There seems to
have been a contemporary Sir John Powell also a judge.

16 Of Nathaniel Crewe, Baron Crewe, the least estimable of the long
line of distinguished men who have been Bishops of Durham, there is a
little known life in Camden Miscellany, vol. ix., Camden Society publica-
tions, new series, No. 53. Cf. Dictionary of National Biograi>hy.

17 Thomas Radcliffe, the third son of Sir Francis Radcliffe, 3rd baronet,
who, in 1688, was created Earl of Derwentwater, was born 9 July, 1658, and
entering the army attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1688. He died
in exile at Douay, 29 Dec, 1715.

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Mr. John Errington, papist.

Joseph Barnes, Deputy Recorder, whigg.

Mr. Samuel Gill, merchant, Sheriff, whigg.

[1688]. Aug. 13. Newcastle and Northumberland Assizes: —
Judges : Lord Chief Justice Wright, Baron Jenner.18

The former satt the Nisi prius ; the latter, the Crown side.
Sheriff e for the county, Sir Richard Neile. 19

1688. Sept. 15. My wife was delivered of a female child
betwixt three and foure a clock in the morning.

[1688]. Sept. 25. My child christ'ned Margaret, p. Mr. Joseph
Bonner,20 curate. Sureties: John Hindmarsh, esq.;1 Madam Jane
Robson,2 Mrs. Margaret Ive.3

1688. Oct, 28, Sunday. My child Margaret dyed betwixt

18 Sir Thomas Jenner, son of Thomas Jenner of Mayfield, Sussex, was
educated at Tunbridge Grammar School and at Queen's College, Cambridge.
He was admitted to the Inner Temple, 1659; was sergeant-at-law, 23 Jan.,
1683/4; recorder of London, 1685; baron of the Exchequer, 13 Feb., 1686/7;
Justice of the Common Pleas, 6 July, 1688; was one of the Special Com-
mission sent to James II. to visit Magdalen College. At the* Revolution
he fled with James II., but was captured at Faversham and was excepted
from the Act of Indemnity of 2 William and Mary. Dying at Petersham,
1 Jan., 1707, he was buried in the church there. He was ancester of
Jenner-Fust, baronets.

19 Sir Eichard Neile was a younger son of Sir Paul Neile of Hutton
Bonville and grandson of Richard Neile, successively Bishop of Durham
and Archbishop of York. He was knighted 29 Nov., 1686, and married
Anne, widow of Charles Brandling of Alnwick Abbey, with whom he
acquired Plessey in the parish of Stannington. He died 3 Mar., 1692/3.

20 The Rev. Joseph Bonner, son of Timothy Bonner of Newcastle,
merchant, was baptized at St. Nicholas', 8 Dec, 1661, and was educated at
University College, Oxford, where he matriculated, 15 Dec, 1677; B.A.,
1681; curate of All Saints, Newcastle, 1688-1695; vicar of Bolam, 1695;
and died, 8 Oct., 1721, leaving issue.

1 John Hindmarsh of Little Benton, was born at Wallsend circa 1649,
educated at Newcastle school and at Christ College, Cambridge, where he
matriculated, 6 July, 1665, and was admitted to Gray's Inn, 5 June, 1667.
He married at All Saints,- Newcastle, 4 October, 1679, Julian, daughter and
co-heir of Thomas Dent of Newcastle, merchant, by whom he had (perhaps
with other) issue, two sons and two daughters. He was buried at All
Saints, 31 July, 1694.

2 Madam Jane Robson, wife of the Timothy Robson mentioned above.

3 Mrs. Margaret Ive was the Diarist's mother-in-law. Richardson states
that down to 1816 there was on a flat stone in St. Nicholas' church the
following inscription: —

' The burial place of Roger Ive, citizen and stationer of London,
and Margaret, his wife and children, anno 1671. Edward, his son,
departed this life, Aug. 7, 1671 ..... Margaret, their daughter,
departed this life the 25 of February, anno 1687. Elizabeth, their
daughter, marryd with Mark Browel, gent., they had issue betwixt
them, Margaret and Edward. Margaret dyd 28 of October, anno
1688. She dyd 9*h of September, anno 16S9.

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tenn and eleven in the forenoon© , soe shee lived six weekes, one day
and seaven houres ; distemper, convulsions in her bowells.

[1688]. Oct, 30, Tuesday. She was buried att St. Nicholas
church att 3 in the afternoone by Mr. William Drake,4 curate, and
laid on the north side of her grandfather's stone. Bidder, Nicholas
Sackeild;5 Servers, Mrs. Katherine Snow,6 Mrs. Margaret Clark.7

[1688]. Oct. 1. Mr. William Hutchinson chosen maior of
Newcastle, and Mr. Matthias Partis8, sheriff e.

[1688]. Oct. 10. To attend Mr. Elison's comfmission] att Mor-
peth; putt of till the 15.

1688. Nov. 5. Then was restored to the Corporacon of Newcastle
upon Tyne, their antient Charter, with their liberties and franchises,
with their magistracy, and all other things as in the yeare 1679 ; all
innovations and changes which since that time happened, being by
proclamacon taken away.

The Magistrates are as follow : —
Nicholas Ridley, esq.. Mayor.
Sir William Blacket,
Sir Ralph Jenison.
Sir Ralph Carr.
Timothy Davison, esq.
Timothy Robson, esq.
George Mourton, esq.
Nicholas Fenwick, esq.
William Aubonie, esq.
William Carr,9 esq., new one.
John Rumney,10 esq., new one.
William Ramsay, esq., new one.

4 The Rev. William Drake, stipendiary curate of St. Nicholas', 1678 J
stipendiary curate of St. Andrews, 1688-1689; buried at St. Nicholas', 24
May, 1693.

5 Nicholas Salkeld.

6 Mrs. Katherine Snow. The Snow family had a burial place in the
north aisle of the old church of All Saints.

7 Query Margaret, wife of Charles Clarke, barber-surgeon ; if so, she
died 30 Mar., 1683, and was buried in the chancel of St. John's.

8 Mathias Partis, son of Thomas Partis of Newcastle, tobacconist, was
baptized at St. Nicholas', 26 Feb., 1654/5. He was sheriff of Newcastle in
1688. He was buried at St. Nicholas', 2 Jan., 1717/8. His descendants
became possessed of Tallentire hall in Cumberland.

9 Perhaps the William Carr who was mavor of Newcastle in 1702 and
M.P. in 1689, 1702, 1705, and 1708.

10 John Ramsay, who was an alderman of Newcastle in 1688.

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Matthew White,11 esq., Sheriff.

Sir Robert Shaftoe,12 Recorder.
Coroners : —

Mr. George Winfield.13

Mr. William Bootflower.14
1688. Nov. 4. The Dutch anchored in England, and the 5th
landed at Dartmouth, Turbay and Exmouth in the West.

11 Matthew White, son of Miles White of Hawthorn in the county of
Durham, baptized at Easington, 12 Mar., 1653/4, was apprenticed 1 Feb.,
1668/9, to Nicholas Fenwiek, boothman, and was admitted free of the
Merchants' Company, 21 Mar., 1678/9, of which Company and that of the
Hostmen's he in due* cause became Governor. He was Mayor of Newcastle

in 1691 and 1703, and dying on the 12 of Oct., 1716, he was buried in the
old church of All Saints, under a stone, with the arms three cocks heads
erased, recording that by Jane, his wife, he had issue ten children.

12 Sir Robert Shafto, eldest surviving son of Mark Shafto of Gray's Inn
and of Whitworth, baptized, 13 May, 1634, and was entered to Gray's Inn
at the age of six years on the 16 Mar., 1640/1, and was made Recorder of
Newcastle in 1660. He was knighted, 26 June, 1670. and made a sergeant-
at-law, 21 April, 1675. Dying 21 May, 1705, aged 72, he was buried in St.
George's porch in St. Nicholas'. By his wife, Catherine, daughter and
co-heir of Sir Thomas Widdrington, of Cheeseburn Grange, Speaker of the
House of Commons, he left issue.

13 George Whinfield, son of George Whinfield, late of Bridge-end in
Woodland (query Bolland) in Lancashire, was apprenticed 2 Feb., 1660/1,
to Henry Bowes, the elder, of Newcastle, draper, and was admitted free
of the Merchants' Company, 27 April, 1670. He was sheriff of Newcastle
in 1693, and mayor in 1696. Dying in his second mayoralty, on the 25 June,
1710, he was buried in St. Nicholas'.

14 William Boutflower, son of Thomas Boutflower of Apperley in the
parish of Bywell St. Peter, was apprenticed 14 April, 1675, to Benezer
Durant, mercer, and was admitted free of the Merchants' Company, 9 Oct.,
1684. He was sheriff of Newcastle in 1701, and was buried at St. Nicholas',
26 May, 1712. He was married twice, and left issue by both marriages.

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THE FAMILY OF MARK AKENSIDE THE POET.

INTRODUCTION.

Mark Akenside of Newcastle the elder, the entries of whose family
in Diodati's Annotations on the Bible are now printed, was a, younger
son of Abraham Akenside of Each wick, in the parish of Heddon on
the Wall. The latter represented a Protestant Nonconformist family
of small landowners, who, like their more opulent neighbours, placed
their younger sons as apprentices: to tradesmen and merchants in
Newcastle. The main line of the family seems to have ended in
William Akenside, a captain of the 14th regiment of Foot, who died
on the 22nd of October, 1830.

Having obtained the freedom of the Butchers' Company, appar-
ently by apprenticeship, Mark Akenside established himself in busi-
ness as a butcher, and on the 5th of September, 1710, being then of
the parish of St. Nicholas, he took out a licence to marry Mary
Lumsden, of the parish of All Saints, spinster. The marriage was
celebrated in St. Nicholas on the 10th of October, and it is not
improbable that Mrs. Akenside may have been a member of a family
of Lumsden, seated at Morpeth for some generations. The date of
his death has not been ascertained, but he was living in 1741, in which
year he voted at the Newcastle election as a member of his Company,
for William Carr and Matthew Ridley.

The extracts from Diodati's book possess such an exceptional
interest that their inclusion in the present volume may be justified ;
they were made by some person connected with the Unitarian Church
in Newcastle (to which the Akensides belonged) from the original
and are preserved in the Registers of the Church of Divine Unity.

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THE FAMILY OF MARK AKENSIDE.

Mark Akinside1 his Booke.

Memorandum —

Mark Akinside was married to Mary2 his wife, in ye 10 of October,
1710.

My daughter Ruth was born the 26th of July, 1711, aboute a
leevin a clock at night, and was baptized the 4th of August, and she
departed this life ye third of December, 1712.

My son Thomas3 was born the 20th of June, 1712, aboute two
a clock at afternoon and was baptized June ye 28th.

My daughter Mary was born ffebr. the 8th, 1715[16] aboute
a leevine cloke night and was baptized March ye 1st.

My daughter Jane was born Deer, ye 16, 1717, between eliven
and twelve at night and was baptized Janery the 9th.

My daughter Dority4 was born Aug. ye 23, 1719, and was bap-

1 Mark Akenside had a brother, Abraham Akenside, also a butcher in
Newcastle who, at the election of 1741, voted as a member of the Butchers'
Company for Blackett and Ridley. He made his will on the 9 Dec, 1749,
and after providing for the children of his nephew, John Wilkinson, he
gave for a term of years a rent-charge of £4< per annum charged on his
messuage in Butchers' Bank to his nephew, William Akenside. He gives
to his niece, Dorothy, daughter of his late brother, Maik Akenside, <£20;
and after mention of his niece, Mary Softley and her children, he gives
the residue to his brother Aaron Akenside to be disposed of among such
of his relatives as he should think proper. Ex. Mr. Richard Welford's
Collections.

2 Wednesday died in the 76th year of her age, after a lingering illness,
at her son-in-law's house in the Close, Mrs. Akenside, mother of the learned
and ingenious Dr. Akenside of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London; her
death is much regretted by all her acquaintance. Newcastle Courant,
5 July, 1760.

3 Thomas Akenside, eldest son of Mark Akenside, born in 1712, was
probably educated, like his famous younger brother, at the Grammar
School of Newcastle. He was apprenticed on the 25th of April, 1728, to
George Punshon of Newcastle, surgeon, and after completing his appren-
ticeship, he was admitted to the freedom of the Company of Barber-
surgeons. As a member of that Company he voted at the Newcastle
election of 1741, plumping for William Carr. On the 6th of October, 1742,
he took out a licence to marry Sarah Airey of the parish of All Saints,
spinster, aged 23 years : the bondsman being Alexander Williamson of
Newcastle, surgeon. Subsequently he left Newcastle, and his death was
announced in the Newcastle Courant of 27 February, 1748, as follows : —
' We hear that Mr. Thomas Akenside, some time ago an eminent surgeon
in this town, died suddenly at London.'

4 Dorothy, third daughter of Mark Akenside the elder, born 1719, was
married at St. Nicholas', 4 Jan., 1759, to Joseph Addison. In the marriage
licence he is described as of the parish of St. Nicholas', glazier, aged 30 :
the bondsman was Aaron Akenside of Newcastle, house-carpenter, who

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tized Sept. ye 7th, ye day of her birth being Sabith day about two
a clock in ye morning.

November ye 9, 1721.

My son Mark5 was born aboute eight a clock at night, and was
baptized ye 30th of Novr.

1723. 23 Sept1*. My wife was delivered of a daughter, but was
not born alive.

1725. May 16. My wife was delivered of a son, but was not born
alive.

1727. Xber the 9th. My daughter Mary was born, betwixt
aleeven and twelve a. clock at night and was baptized by the Rev.
Dr. Lamuell Lathem.6

Oct. 30, 1719. My daughter Mary departed this life.

was also an attesting witness to the marriage. Joseph Addison voted
as a glazier at the Newcastle elections in 1777 and 1780. He resided
in the Close, and lived until 1805; when his death was announced in
the Newcastle Courant of the 12th of January : — ' On Tuesday last, aged
■81, Mr. Joseph Addison, painter and glazier, and a proprietor of the
Skinner Burn pottery near this town.' The date of Dorothy Addison's
death has not been ascertained, but her husband married a second wife,
at the sale of whose effects in 1812, Mark Akenside \s family bible was sold.

5 Mark Akenside, the poet and physician, second son of Mark Akenside
the elder, was born as mentioned in the text on the 9 Nov., 1721, and
was baptised on the 30th of the same month by the Rev. Benjamin Bennet,
the famous minister of the Close-Gate meeting. He was educated first
at the Royal Grammar School and afterwards at a private school kept
by William Wilson, a member of the Close-Gate meeting, proceeding to
the University of Edinburgh when in his eighteenth year, with a view to
entering the ministry of the church. In less than a year he abandoned
that intention for the study of medicine. His best known poem on The
Pleasures of Imagination must have been composed immediately after
leaving the university, for it was published in the month of January,
1743/4. Like many other ambitious students of medicine, he kept his
terms at Leyden, and according to the Index to English Speaking Students
who have graduated at that famous university, he took his degree on the
7th of April, 1744. It has been stated that he commenced to practice in
Newcastle, but this statement apparently rests on confusing him with his
eldest brother. After practising in Northampton for a short time he
removed to London where he attained considerable eminence, and was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on the 8th of February, 1753. His
death is announced in the Newcastle Courante of 30 June, 1770: — 'Sunday,
died at his house in London, Mark Akenside, esq., M.D., physician to Her
Majesty, a native of this town, author of the Pleasures of Imagination
and several other admirable pieces, and whose sole merit raised him to his
late dignity.'

6 Lemuel Latham, M.D., of Sunderland, where he practiced medicine
as well as exercised the pastoral office, married the daughter of the Rev.
Benjamin Bennet, the minister of the Close-Gate meeting already men-
tioned. In 1728 he published some of his father-in-law's sermons Under
the title The Second Part of the Christian Oratory, and in 1730, another
series entitled The Truth, Inspiration and Usefulness of the Scripture
Asserted and Proved. Dr. Latham died in his 75th year on Sunday,
15 Nov., 1767, and was buried at Bishopwearmouth. His only daughter,
with a fortune of £2,000, was married at the parish church of Tynemouth,
on the 22 June, 1772, to ... . Watson of North Shields, brewer.

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TWO LETTERS OF BISHOP WARBURTON.

INTRODUCTION.

Doctor William Warburton, Prebendary of Durham and Bishop
of Gloucester, was born at Newark, 24th December, 1698, being the
son of George Warburton, the town-clerk of that place. Educated
at Oakham Grammar School, he was articled in 1714 to an East
Markham attorney, and on the completion of his articles returned
to his native place to practice his profession, occasionally helping his
kinsman, the Master of the Grammar School, as an assistant master.
Having made up his mind to take holy orders, he was ordained deacon
in 1723 by the Archbishop of York, and priest in 1727. His prefer-
ment was as follows: — Incumbent of Greasley, 1727; Hon. M.A.,
Cambridge, 1728; incumbent of Brant Broughton, 1728-1759; in-
cumbent of Frisby, 1730-1756; chaplain of Prince of Wales, 1738;
preacher of Lincoln's Inn, 1746 ; prebendary of Gloucester, 1753-
1755; chaplain to the King, and D.D. (Lambeth), 1754; prebendary
of the first stall of Durham, 1755-1779 ; Dean of Bristol, 1757-1759 ;
Bishop of Gloucester, 1759-1779.

As a controversial writer his activity was great. His best work
is considered to be on the Alliance between Church and State, pub-
lished in 1736, but that by which he is remembered is The Divine
Legation of Moses, in two parts, published in 1737 and 1741. In 1745
he attacked Mark Akenside the poet (see p. 190 supra), and later
Bishop Pococke (see p. 199 post). By his wife, Gertrude Tucker whom
he married 5th September, 1745, he had an only surviving son,
intended for the bar, who died in his father's life-time at the age

of 19.

13

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Bishop Warburton died at Gloucester 7th June, 1779, and was
buried in the Cathedral there. His portrait by Hoare, preserved
in the Bishop's Palace at Gloucester, was engraved by Hall ; and there
is a memoir of him in the Dictionary of National Biography .

The originals of the following letters are preserved at Bishop
Auckland, and they are included in this series by the kindness of the
Bishop of Durham, who in 1913 struck off a few copies for private
distribution. They were addressed to Ralph Allen of Prior Park,,
near Bath, Warburton's uncle by marriage, and his very kind friend.

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WILLIAM WARBURTON TO RALPH ALLEN OF PRIOR PARK.

Honoured Sir,

I have now been near a week at Durham ; and tho' I
came during a cessation of eating, that is, between the going out of
one prebendary and the coming in of another, I have done nothing
but feast from morning to night.

The town is finely situated. It hangs upon an eminence over
the River Weir, which runs almost round it. Most of the prebendal
houses stand on the western bank,1 and have a. delicious view to the
opposite hill, which, together with this, make the vally, thro' which
the river runs. The opposite hill, in full view of the town, is
inriched with a beautiful wood or thicket, thro' which a riding or
avenue is cut. And this wood belongs (with another, at a greater
distance and much larger extent) to your humble servant, as part of
his corps. But I have not a view of my own, wood. For my house
stands on the other side of the college area. It is better than some
others, and those which are better than it are made so by modern
improvements ; such as that which was the Bishop of Gloucester's,2
and that which is Sr John Dolben's, and some others who live in this
country and reside pretty much here. My house is more regular in
the front than any other. It is what you call a half H. There are
five rooms on a floor, chambers and garret, with all convenience of
stabling and outhouses. The great room for entertainment, being
scarce so good as any of [those I] have seen in these prebendal houses,
being much of the bandbox fashion. In the repairs or alterations of
our prebendal houses the Chapter allows all timber, boards and wood
of all kinds, for roofs, rafters, floors, wainscot, etc., which is a good
article ; and I suppose was intended as an encouragement for improve-
ments and repairs.

The under-treasurer of the Church, whom I employ as my agent
to take care of all my matters, has given me a rental of my corps,
which is exactly the same I sent you from London. It is the third in
value in the Church, tho' the first in order : being called the first
prebend and the stall next the Sub-dean's. The two others, that ex-
ceed it in value, are S** John Dolben's and the late Bp. of Gloucester's,
now Steam's. Sr J. Dolben's is the best, but not, all out, one
hundred pounds a year more than mine. Stearn is •* little under
Sr J. D.'s. Tho' common report as usual has made Sr J. Dolben's eight
hundred pounds a year and Steam's between seven and eight ; whereas

1 - One of the curiosities ' of the first of the two letters, writes the
Bishop of Durham, ' is the strange lapse of thought by which Warburton
places the houses at the upper end of the College on the west bank of the
River Wear.'

2 Martin Benson, Bishop of Gloucester, who was prebendary of the
Second, or Golden Stall from 1723 to his death, 30 August, 1752.

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Sr John's without the 5011 allowance (which as he lives altogether in
Durham he rightly reckons as part of his revenue) is not GOO11.3

I hope you and my aunt continue well. Were Durham no further
off than Gloucester, I am sure she and you would take great delight in
it. As it is, the agreeableness of the country without you is nothing.
I beg my best duty to her and am most dear and honour' d

Sir, your most dutifull nephew
and devoted servant,

W. Warburton.
Durham May 30th 1755.

Durham, July 27th, 1756.
Dear Sir,

I understand from Prior Park that they got a glympse of
you. But tho' you did them this pleasure, it was all. They could
not prevail on you to dine with them.

I am here in residence. Last week, at a general chapter, the
twelve were found assembled — an adventure that has not happened
these fifty years — which gave me an opportunity of seeing my breth-
ren, no common sight I will assure you ; for there is a, prebendary, I
could name, in this Church, who has never yet seen the face of the
Dean,4 tho' he has been possessed of his stall these 14 years. Shall
I reckon them up to you? Sr John Dolben5 is a gentleman; Dr.
Sharpe6 a divine; Dr. Knatohbull7 what the English call a good

liver ; Dr. Stearne8 what the French call a. bon vivan ; Dr. but

hold I will not turn panegyrist. Suffice it for you to know that
every one of us being of use to others, or of importance to himselfe,
we abound in benevolence and politeness. But one, who has just
deserted us for a bishoprick in Ireland, I must bring you acquainted
with, that you may understand what bishops we send, or rather what
bishops we return, thither ; for you will not need to be told that the

3 The Rev. William Greenwell, under date 13 June, 1913, writes ' As
far as I am able to judge, I think Warburton refers to the property attached
to each individual stall and does not take into account the share which
each prebendary had on the general corps of the Chapter/

4 The Hon. Spencer Cowper, Dean of Durham from 1746 to his death,
25 March, 1774 : buried in the Nine Altars.

5 Sir John Dolben, bart., prebendary of the sixth stall, 1718, trans-
ferred to the eleventh stall, in the following year, holding the same to his
death, 21 Nov., 1756: buried at Finedon, Northamptonshire, of which parish
he was vicar.

6 Thomas Sharpe, archdeacon of Northumberland, 1722. prebendary of
the tenth stall, 1732, until his death, 16 March, 1758 : buried in the Galilee.

7 William Knatchbull, prebendary of the twelfth stall, 1738, transferred
to the eleventh stall, 1757, holding the same to his death, 27 Dec, 1760 :
buried in the Galilee.

8 Jacques Sterne, prebendary of the second or Golden stall from 1755
to his death, 9 June, 1759 : buried at Rise, Yorkshire. He was uncle of
Lawrence Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy.

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hero of my story is a, native of that country. His name is Lesley,9
to whom. Lowth has procured Lim/rick in exchange for a large living
and prebend of this Church, to which Lesley had been some years
ago advanced by the miserable Chandler,10 for the merit of marrying
his niece. When this man went last to Ireland (I think it was to
perfect his church-bargain) he contrived, in order to secure himselfe
of a safe and easy passage, that the vane on the top of his house
should be tied down to the east point. Don't think I tell you a
flam ; it is a litteral truth. It was, I suppose, a family charm ; he
might have learnt it of his ancestors, the descendants of those Lap-
land witches whom King Sweno transplanted into the North of
Ireland to civilize the savage inhabitants. And you know how
famous those Sibylls were for selling tyed-up winds. After such an
exploit, you need not wonder at the success of his voiage ; and indeed,
by virtue of this new kind of inspiration, he returned a bishop.
But as a charmer, charm he never so wisely, may do mischief, one
unluckey circumstance attended his incantations. For while thisi
intrigue was carrying on between him and his weathercock, Sr John
Dolben was just got out of a tedious illness, and wanted exercise to
re-establish his health. But as he was to wait for mild weather, he

9 Doctor James Lesley, Prebendary of Durham, and afterwards Bishop
of Limerick, is stated to have been son of John Lesley of County Kerry,
and grandson of John Lesley, rector of Urney in the diocese of Derry. He
was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and taking holy orders, became
successively curate of Swords, vicar of Donabate, and perpetual
curate of St. Nicholas', Dublin. In accordance with the Irish principle
that their way of supporting Foreign Missions is to export clergy annually
to evangelise the English, he came into the diocese of Durham, having
married a grand niece of Bishop Chandler, by whom he was collated to the
rectory of Wolsingham, 1741-1747, to the eighth stall at Durham, 1743, and
the rectory of Sedgefield in 1747. In 1755 he was permitted to effect an
exchange with Doctor Robert Lowth, who had been nominated Bishop of
Limerick, by which he surrendered his stall and rectory and received the
see. When at Sedgefield he was accused, almost certainly unjustly, of
being a Papist in disguise (see Six North Country Diaries, p. 172).

By his marriage with Joyce, daughter of Anthony Lyster, of Lysterfield,
County Roscommon, Bishop Lesley had with other issue, the following
children who were christened in the Cathedral of Durham: —

Edward Lesley, baptized 5 Jan., 1746; of Wadham College, Oxford,

matriculated 29 June, 1765; of Middle Temple, barrister-at-law

1777 ; M.P. for Old Leighlin, 1787-1790 ; created a baronet, 3 Sept.,

1787; died 21 Nov., 1818 s.p.m.

Richard Lesley, baptized 18 May, 1749; of Wadham College, Oxford,

matriculated 29 June, 1765; in holy orders.
Barbara, baptized 9 May, 1744 ; buried at Sedgefield, 12 March, 1748/9.
Mary Ann, baptized 8 July, 1745, wife of Francis Warren Bonham.
Elizabeth, baptized 8 Feb., 1747; buried at Sedgefield, 27 March, 1749.
Also : —

Katherine Elizabeth, baptized at Sedgefield 22 Oct., 1755.
Jacosa, buried at Sedgefield 19 Mar., 1749.
Bishop Lesley died in Limerick, 24 Nov., 1770.

10 Doctor Edward Chandler, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, was trans-
lated to Durham in 1730, being confirmed on the 21st November : he died
20h* July, 1750.

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would needs be carried out every day into his garden to see how the
wind stood. Unluckily no other weathercock was in sight, from
thence, but Lesley's j and that, still pointed east. The young ladies,
his daughters, would by no means commit him to his exercise, during
that inclement quarter; so he was content to wait for a change.
But the vane, as well it might, continuing steady to its trust, and
the weather growing warm, the old knight lost all patience; and
complaining to a friend of this discordancy between wind and
weather, " I'll be hanged (said the other) if Lesley has not been play-
ing tricks with his weathercock ; for I remember being with him the
morning he went away; when a, workman came down stairs, and
assured the Dr he had made all safe." This set them upon enquiry ;
and the spell, the blockhead had clapt upon the vane became the
jest and entertainment of the place.

This wonderful person is at present with us. And by the massi-
ness of his looks and his unconquered taciturnity (for I tried to touch
him to the quick) I judge him capable of still greater things. But
what he has already done (sic) adds reverence to the sacred order,
and what has been done for him is enough to distinguish this virtuous
and well judging age.

You have always my best wishes, which are health and the con-
tinuance of your chearfullness. Believe me to be,

My dear friend, your most

affectionate and faithful servant,

Ralph Allen, Esqr.n W. Warburton.

11 Ralph Allen is stated to have been born circa 1694, being son of John
Allen of St. Blazey, Cornwall, innkeeper. Obtaining a situation in the
important post office of Bath he attracted the notice of General Wade,
whose natural daughter, Miss Earl, he married. Having devised a scheme
of cross-posts for England and Wales, which he was allowed to farm greatly
to his own advantage, his profits, from 1720 to 1764, according to his
memoir in the Dictionary of National Biography, averaging d£12,000 a year.
He also became proprietor of extensive quarries near Bath, out of which
he built himself a fine mansion house which he called Prior Park. Here
he used his wealth in benevolence and hospitalty, and he is said to be
the original of Squire Allworthy in Tom Jones, and to him Fielding-
dedicated his Amelia.

By his second marriage, with Elizabeth Holder, Allen had an only child
Ralph Allen the younger, comptroller in the bye-letter office, who died in his
father's lifetime.

Through his influence with Pitt, who sat as member for Bath, Allen
obtained ecclesiastical preferment for Warburton who had married his
favourite niece, Gertrude Tucker.

He died s.p. 29 June, 1764, and was buried at Claverton. By his will
he gave Prior Park to his wife for her life and after her decease to his
niece^ Mrs. Warburton, with remainders over. To his brother, Philip
Allen, postmaster of Bath (who died 17 Oct., 1765) he gave property at
Hampton and Tiverton.

Ralph Allen's head, in profile, was painted and etched by W. Hoare ;
and in the Guildhall of Bath there is a portrait in oils.

Mrs. Warburton, who married, secondly, the Rev. Martin Smith,
sometime rector of Fladbury, Worcestershire, succeeded to Prior Park
and made it her residence.

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NORTHERN JOURNEYS OF BISHOP RICHARD

POCOCKE.

INTRODUCTION.

Richard Pococke, Bishop of Meath, was born at Southampton
in the year 1704, being the son of the Reverend Richard Pococke,
master of the Edward VI. Grammar School of that place. He
matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 13 July, 1720, and
graduated B. A. 1725; B.C.L., 1731; D.C.L., 1733. Having influence
in the Church of Ireland through his maternal uncle, Thomas Milles,
Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, he took holy orders and settled in
that kingdom. At the earliest canonical age he was made Precentor
of Lismore ; he was appointed Vicar-General of Waterford and Lis-
more in 1734, Precentor of Waterford in 1745, and, in the same
year, Archdeacon of Dublin. He was appointed Bishop of Ossory in
1756 and was translated to Meath in 1765.

The Irish bishops of the eighteenth century have fallen under the
lash of Macaulay, but their shortcomings were largely due to the
ecclesiastical and political system of the period under which- the
Government of the day maintained its position and power through
the purchase of votes in both Houses of the English Parliament by
the distribution of titles and sinecure offices in Church and State. A
close examination and study of the engraved portraits of Irish bishops
fails to suggest that they were otherwise than learned and respectable
men. Their misfortune was to draw an official income with no
opportunity to render corresponding service. Between the years 1733
and 1742 Pococke made several tours on the Continent of Europe and
in the East, the result of which he gave to the world in two volumes,
published respectively in 1743 and 1745, entitled, A Description of
the East and Some Other Countries, a work which Gibbon in his
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, cap. fifty-one, note 71, ed.

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Milman, characterizes as a pompous folio. His journeys in England and
Wales in the years 1750, 1751, 1754, 1756, and 1757, as recorded
in letters addressed to his sister, Miss Elizabeth Pococke of Newtown,
near Newbury, Berkshire, have been, printed by the Camden
Society and form vols. 42 and 44 of the second series of their publi-
cations. His tours in Scotland in 1747, 1750, and 1760, edited by
Mr. D. W. Kemp for the Scottish History Society, were printed in
1887. When in Scotland in 1760, and at the request of the Epis-
copal community, who had been destitute of bishops for some genera-
tions, he confirmed in the Episcopal Chapel at Elgin. (See Cotton,
Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae, vol. ii., p. 287.) In his own diocese
Bishop Pococke did much useful philanthropic work ; he was also the
founder of the institution now known as the Incorporated Society for
Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland.

In the garden at Ardbraccan of what (until the disestablishment
of the Church of Ireland) was the seehouse of the diocese of Meath,
there are still fine cedars grown from seed brought by Bishop Pococke
from the Lebanon.

Bishop Pococke, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society,
11 February, 1741/2, died at Charleville when on an episcopal visita-
tion in the month of September, 1765, and was buried at Ardbraccan.

His portrait in oils by an unknown artist is preserved at the office
of the Incorporated Society for Promoting Protestant Schools in
Ireland, 48, Kildare Street, Dublin ; it is a three-quarters length,
seated in episcopal robes and wig; and in the unmatched collection
of engraved portraits of Irish Bishops belonging to Mr. William
Chamney of Dublin, there is a, small print of another portrait.

It is believed that the following letters relating to the Bishop's
journeyings in the North of England in the year 1760, preserved in
the British Museum, are now printed for the first time.

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LETTERS.

Darlington1 in the Bishoprick of Durham,
May 14th, 1760.
Dear Madam,

On the 13th I went to Easby Abbey.2 The church is an
oblong square and singular, with handsome Gothic windows. It seems
to have been built on an old church; the arches of which are fallen
in, but the old Saxon windows remain. The site of the cloyster to the
north was large, and adjoyning to it was the refectory, and a building
that was probably the chapter-house ; over another areh'd building on
the north iside of the cloyster was another large room and several
buildings adjoyning which seem to have been the abbot's lodgings.
The old mill wall remains and part of a very grand barn.

I went on two miles to Cataric-bridge over the Swale where are
remains of a chapel ; within a hundred yards of the bridge to the
south is the north rampart of the old Roman town called Catarac-
tonium3 ; which is about 200 yards wide : from this northern rampart
it extends about a quarter of a mile mostly by the ditch for a little
more than the length of two fields. The farmer told me he discovered
the old town wall in ploughing, a*s they did in the third field about
twenty yards from the ditch ; but no walls are to be seen, except about
the middle of the east side, where the foundations of a building within
the wall do appear; but the wall is visible in several places to the
west on the hanging ground, probably over the river at that time,
which is now gone about 50 yards further west, and he told me that
they took up what appear'd to have been an old gateway, and us'd
the stone in the cornice of the house. They find a. great deal of old
coin which they all carry to Brugh-hall to Sir 4 Lawson. I

got two or three of the lower Empire and a fine Tragan (sic) of Middle
Brass. The legend of the reverse is s p q ro optimo principi s.c. But
the figure is so much eaten out that I cou'd not discern what it is. I
saw two small barrows at some little distance to the west, and there is

1 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14256.

2 A valuable plan of the Praemonstratensian abbey of St. Agatha at
Easby may be found in the Archaeological Journal, vol. lxv., p. 332.

9 See plan of Cataractonium in MacLauchlan, The Watling Street*
map no. 1.

*A space is left here. The statement, no doubt, refers to Sir Henry
Lawson, fourth baronet, who succeeded his father in 1739 and died in 1781.

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a large tumulus at Cataric a mile to the west. Going half a mile
further I came to the lime-kilns in a quarry of a, kind of freestone in
which there is much spar ; especially in several cavities of it in which
it forms round the cavities as christal does in hollow stones.

I went to Appleton within a mile of Holdenby5 Castle, where I
had been in 1747. I returned to Cataric-bridge, and went about 5
miles in the road towards Peircibridge, and turning to the north came
in three miles to the Tees, which we forded into the Bishoprick of
Durham, and came in two miles to Darlington, situated on a rivulet6
which is famous for bleaching ; they make here huckabacks7 of all
breadths down from 2 yards and a half, and, of late, woollen tamies8
for women's ware. They have a church9 here built in the cathedral
manner. It was collegiate with a dean and four prebendaries, founded
by Hugh Pusar, or Pudsey, Bishop of Durham, their walls remain in
the choir, which within is a mixture of Saxon and G-othic architecture.
The transept is very handsome Gothic within ; the outside of the body
and choir and west end are in a beautiful light Gothic style consisting
of arches supported, or rather adorned, with slender pillars of one
stone ; a few of them have narrow windows with large sweeps from
the pillars, which wou'd have been much more beautiful if they had
been of the full size of the arches. To the south of the church is a
large court which might be a cloyster and contain the buildings for the
-chapter and choir ; at the south-east corner is an hospital, which was
the Bishop's house, in which there are some Saxon windows.

The copper and lead mines here destroyed most of the fish in the
Tees in these parts, and they have had a sute to hinder the water
running into the Tees that comes from the washing of the ore, but
have been cast.

In Richmondshire they are great breeders of horses, every farmer
is a courser, which I believe has greatly corrupted the morals of that
rank of people. They have also here, and in the Bishoprick, a very fine
race of black cattle. They have short horns10 like the Alderney kind,

5 Hornby, North Riding of Yorkshire, five miles south-west of Catterick.
•The Skerne.

7 It is stated that at one time there were upwards of 1,500 (hand)
looms in Darlington and the neighbourhood. See Longstaffe, Darlington,
p. 333.

8 Tammy of obscure derivation ; a fine worsted cloth of good quality
often with a glazed finish, much mentioned in the seventeenth and
eighteenth century but apparently obsolete before 1858; revived circa
1858, see New English Dictionary.

9 See Mr. (afterwards Sir) G. G. Scott's paper : ' St. Cuthbert's Church,
Darlington,' in the Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological
Society of Durham and Northumberland, vol. i., p. 9; and the Rev. J. F.
Hodgson's paper on ' Darlington and Hartlepool Churches,' Arch. Ael.,
ser. ii, vol. xvii., p. 145.

10 For an account of the development of the shorthorn which originated
in this district, see Bates, Thomas Bates and the Kirklevington Shorthorns ,
chapter ii., where the subject is fully investigated.

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but are the largest cattle in Britain, and beautifully marked, most
■commonly with spots of either red, black, or liver colour on a white
ground, and some only mixed with white. They say it was a cross
with the Dutch breed. They are far beyond any cattle I ever saw
in any part of the world ; the Hungarian come the nearest to them.

Alstonmore11 in Cumberland.

May 16th, 1760.

Dear Madam,

We left Darlington on, the 14th in the afternoon and came
in four miles to Gunsley.12 The church is curiously situated on an
eminence, and the rock is cut away on three sides so as to form a
perpendicular precipice, and this has been done to come at a vein of
limestone, which is hard and like marble, but there is under it a great
bed of fine freestone. In a mile we came to Peircebridge on the Tees.
A small stream13 falls into the Tees ; and to the west of it was the
ancient town ; there seemed to have been considerable buildings just
at the meeting of the rivers where there is a farm house called Corn-
burry14 ; but a little to the west is a barn which I thought was at the
fossee of the town the old Magi. They told me formerly a road went
there to a ford15 over the Tees, but going on I discovered at the back
of the town, to the east of the street, a rampart running east and west
about 80 yards long, and that is turned on the east towards the river.
I cou'd not follow it by reason that the houses are built in that direc-
tion, but it seems to have inclosed the part near the bridge and might
be between 2 and 300 yards in length from north to south. I at first
thought this might have been the square citadel and that the rivers
might have gained to the south. Near the bridge are ruins of a large
chappel. They find coin here both silver and copper, of the former a
Julia Soemia (sic). We came on four miles in the turnpike road
towards Bernard Castle and turning near to the rivulet Garnlees,16 on
which Staindrop stands, we turned out of the road to the north,
having seen what they call Belset17 on an eminence lower down, over
the Tees, where there are large ruins which seemed to be of a church.18

^Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14256.

12 There can be no doubt that Coniscliffe is the church and place
referred to : it is pronounced locally Cunscley.

13 Query, the Dyance-beck.

14 Query, Carlbury, where lime-stone was formerly extensively quarried.
See Hutchinson, Durham, vol. iii., p. 219.

15 Shown in MacLauchlan's The Watling Street, map no. 1.

16 The Gaunless.

17 Barford, or Barforth, opposite Gainford.

18 On the ordnance map is marked the ruins of a chapel dedicated to
St. Lawrence. Cf. Proc. Newcastle Soc. of Antiq., 3 ser., vol. n., p. 351.

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We passed by Seleby19 an old mansion house ; and came to Stain-
drop, a town that King Canute20 gave to the Chapter of Durham ;
it is neatly built, but is something like a, village. The body of the
church with a large rude tower seems to be old, but the church has
been improved in part with modern Gothick windows. In the south
side are two ancient monuments in niches of the wall with the
couchant statue of a man and a woman in each, such as are made for
founders or benefactors ; and there are 3 niches for the persons to
sit in who administered at the altar : the choir seems to have been an
addition to the church, probably erected by the Nevils, who are com-
monly said to have built the church. There is a very fine ancient
monument of the Nevils. It is in the taste of Henry the VII's Chapel ;
the sides and ends entirely ornamented with Gothick sculpture like
that chapel ; on it are the couchant statues of Charles Nevill and
his two wives. Below it is the tomb of Henry, Earl of Westmoreland
of 1560 ; on it are the couchant statues of his two- wives and on each
side are four children kneeling within the pillars which support the
top ; the whole is of wood.1

I set out on the 15th and went a mile to Raby Castle,2 the seat
of the Earl of Darlington ; it is in a fine situation. The castle is built
round a court, with a tower near the south-east corner : some ruins
appear as of another court. There is much room in it, but the most
remarkable are the great hall 83 feet long and about forty broad as
I conjectured, and a winter and summer dining and drawing rooms :
Two fine pieces of water appear like a serpentine river, and one of
them comes to the house. There are several ornamental buildings in
and near the park in the Gothick taste, as a bath, an alcove seat, a
farm house and dog-house. This manner was given by King Canute
to the Chapter of Durham, and it was held by the Nevils paying a
small chicfry, who built the castle and resided in it. It has belonged
to the Vanes since the time of James I., now earl ennobled by the
title of Darlington.3

19 Selaby.

20 Item Cnut rex dedit Sancto Cuthberto tempore Eadmundi episcopi,
.... villam quae vocatur Standropa. Cf. Symeon of Durham, p. 151,
Surt. Soc. publ., No. 51.

1 These effigies and tombs are described by the Rev. J. F. Hodgson in
the Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham
and Northumberland, vol. iii., pp. 105-110. By sacrilegious hands they
have been displaced in order to make the choir arrangements more fash-
ionable.

2 The history of Raby, with plans and architectural description, has
been told by the Rev. J. F. Hodgson in the Transactions of the Architectural
and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, vol. iii., pp.
113-182; vol. iv., pp. 49-122, 153-260.

3 Catherine Sedley, the plain looking but witty mistress of James II.,
was created Baroness of Darlington, 2 Jan., 1685/6.

Sophia Charlotte Platen, wife of Baron Kilmanseck in Hanover,
mistress of George I., was created Countess of Darlington, 10 April, 1722.

Henry Vane, third Baron Barnard, was created Earl of Darlington,
3 April, 1754.

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I went on through West Awkland, Awkland St. Helens and Awk-
land St. Andrews to Bishop's Awkland (in all 8 miles) situated on a,
rising ground over the Wear. The Bishop of Durham has a house4
here, built in the time of Edward I. by Bishop Beck ; the house
was much ruin'd in time of the Civil Wars. Bishop Cosins repair'd
and enlarged it, and particularly adorned the beautifull Gothick chapel
which is supported by slender pillars, as I conjectur'd of the stone
of Frusterly quarry in Wardale, being the same kind of stone, but
Leland calls it Eggleston stone, the two pillars next to the altar are
of one stone, but as they were probably taken at the top of the quarry
they do not polish ; but the coral and other petrifactions appear in
them. I saw a chimney piece of this marble in Raby Castle which
is polished, and I took a specimen of it at the quarry. Bishop Cosins
lies under a flat stone on which there is an inscription.
• The house, the old hall, and the appartment of a dining saloon,
&c. are very handsome. Here are pictures of Jacob and the twelve
Patriarchs by 5 and a fine piece of the four Doctors

of the Church.6

There is a small park adjoyning ; the ground lyes most beautifully
on the Wear, and a rivulet that runs into it. I walked round by the
river and close to this park to Binchester,7 certainly the ancient

4 See A Brief Historical Account of the Episcopal Castle or Palace of
Auckland, by the Rev. James Raine, Durham, 1852. The pillars of the
chapel are of Frosterley marble.

5 A space is left here. The picture of Benjamin is by Pond, the others
T)y Zurberan, ibid., p. 108 note.

c Viz., Augustine, Gregory, Jerome, and Ambrose; the paintings are
by Bloemart, ibid.

7 The ' Wrathful Wrens ' of Binchester, as they were styled in the
Bishopric, have been already mentioned (pp. 8, 12, supra), but there was
a difficulty in their pedigree which has only been cleared up by the kindness
of Mr. Farnham Burke, Norroy King of Arms, who has supplied from the
official records preserved at Heralds' College, the generation omitted in-
the edition of Dugdale's Visitation of Durham, published by Mr. Joseph
Foster in 1887. The names and details furnished by Norroy are printed
in italics : —

I. William Wren of Sherburn house, near Durham, married for his first

wife. .... Tippin (Flower's Visitation) and had, with other issue :

II. William Wren of Sherburn house and Billy-hall, who married

Margaret, daughter and co-heir of Robert Simpson of Henknoll
(Flower's Visitation), by whom he had, with other issue : —

III. Anthony Wren of Billy hall and Binchester, who entered his pedigree
and obtained a confirmation, or grant, of arms at Flower's Visitation
in 1575. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Wandesford
of Kirklington, and dying at Binchester, was buried at Auckland St.
Andrew, 11 Nov., 1595, having had (perhaps with other) issue : —

Charles TV.

Francis Wren of Henknoll, buried at Auckland St. Andrew, 5 Nov.,

1630.4,
Mary, wife of Sir John Claxton of Nettlesworth.
Jane, wife of (Sir) Henry Franklin of Oldwark, Yorkshire,

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Continuation of note 7.

married at Escombe, 3 July, 1592, buried Auckland St..
Andrew, 12 Feb., 1605/6.
[Elizabeth, wife of Brian Downes of Evenwood.]

IV. Sir Charles Wren of Binchester was eleven years of age in 1575.
(Flower's Visitation), of Brasenose College, Oxford, matriculated
12 Dec, 1580, aged 16, entered at Gray's Inn, 5 Feb., 1583/4, knighted
28 May, 1607, buried at Auckland St. Andrew, 24 March, 1620/1. By
his wife Gertrude, daughter of John Thornhaugh of Fenton, Notting-
hamshire (who was buried at Auckland St. Andrew, 4 Dec, 1616) he
had issue : —

Lynley V.

Charles, baptized at Auckland St. Andrew, 1 Nov., 1601, died
unmarried.

John, baptized at Auckland St. Andrew, 22 July, 1604, died
unmarried.

Jeremy, died unmarried, buried in the quire, Auckland St.
Andrew, 9 July, 1616.

Henry Wren of Bishop Auckland, married Mary, daughter of
Michael Pemberton.

William, baptized at Auckland St. Andrew, 31 Dec, 1609, buried
in the quire, 23 July, 1616.

Frances, wife of Sir Ralph Blakiston of Gibside, bart.

Gertrude, baptized at Auckland St. Andrew, 20 Oct., 1611, who
' nobler by vertue than by birth, and yet the daughter of
Sr Charles Wren, knight, pretty towards God, fervent in
charitie, to the poor blessedly prodigal, and inferior to none
in sweete respects to all, she lived the wonder of many, and
dyed the glorie of her sex a virgin espoused to Christ,.
Februarie 9, 1637.'

Elizabeth, baptized at Auckland St. Andrew, 17 July, 1614, buried
1 Nov., 1614.

V. Lynley Wren of Binchester, son and heir, baptized at Auckland St.

Andrew, 14 Oct., 1600, his god parents being Sir Henry Lynley, knight,
Doctor William James, Dean (sic) of Durham, and Mrs. Eleanor Bowes
of Aske. He was sequestered for delinquency in 1646 and died 18 July,.
1655 (sic) (was buried in the quire of Auckland St. Andrew).
By his wife, Barbara, daughter of Sir William Blakiston of Gibside,
* a fine dainty gentlewoman ; and she knew how to value and prize the
perfection God hath given her' (p. 12, supra), who was buried at
Auckland St. Andrew, 8 March, 1651/2, he had issue : —
Charles VI.

Lynley Wren, baptized at Auckland St. Andrew, 12 Dec, 1633, to

whom his father transferred the butlerage of Newcastle

(Welford, Boyalist Comp., p. 397) ; apprenticed 1 Jan.,* 1650, to

John Forth of Newcastle, boothman, died unmarried.
William, baptized at Auckland St. Andrew, 11 Jan., 1634/5, buried

28 Feb., 1634/5.
Anthony, baptized at Auckland St. Andrew, 11 Nov., 1646.
Ralph, baptized at Auckland St. Andrew, 14 Jan., 1650/1.
Isabel, wife of Robert Harrison of Auckland.
Barbara, baptized at Auckland St. Andrew, 19 Nov., 1639, wife of

Francis Blaket of Bishop Auckland.
Gertrude, baptized at Auckland St. Andrew, 13 May, 1642, buried

same year.
Elizabeth, baptized at Auckland St. Andrew, 14 Oct., 1644.

VI. Charles Wren of Binchesler, son and heir, baptized at Auckland St.
Andrew, 13 Jan., 1627/8, his god parents being Sir John Jackson, Sir

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Continuation of note 7.

Wilh'am Blakiston, and ' my Ladie Foster/ married at St. Giles's,,
Durham, 28 Dec, 1649, Peregrina, daughter of Ralph Fetherstonhalgh
of Stanhope; and at Dugdale's Visitation, 4 Sept., 1666, certified his.
pedigree, being then 38 years of age. He had (perhaps with other)
issue : —

Charles VII.

Joseph Wren was 11 years of age in 1666, entered at Gray's Inn>
14 May, 1677.

Jane, baptized Auckland St. Andrew, 14 Oct., 1650, living 1666.

Barbara was 12 years of age in 1666, married at Auckland, 12 June,.
1681, John Fenwick.

Margaret was 4 years of age in 1666.

VII. Charles Wren of Binchester, son and heir, baptized at Auckland St.
Andrew, 26 July, 1652; also registered at St. Giles's, Durham, 3 Aug.,.
1652, was 14 years of age at the time of Dugdale's Visitation in 1666;
married at Durham Cathedral, 8 Sept., 1673, Elizabeth, daughter of
Eev. Eobert Euddock of Kirklington, the marriage being registered
not in the Cathedral Eegisters but at Auckland St. Andrew; and was
buried at Auckland St. Andrew, 10 July, 1722, having had (perhaps,
with other) issue : —

VIII. Eobert Wren of Binchester, son and heir, baptized 16 March, 1679;
married 2 May, 1711, at Sedgefield, Eebecca, daughter and co-heir of
John Farrer of Bradbury, and was buried 19 February, 1732, having
had (perhaps with other) issue, six sons : —

Charles Wren, baptized at Sedgefield, 24 May, 1712, buried
22 March, 1712/3.

John Wren, baptized at Sedgefield, 6 July, 1713, buried 18 Feb.,
1713/4.

Francis Wren, baptized at Sedgefield, 2 Aug., 1714.

William Wren, baptized at Sedgefield, 26 Dec, 1715, buried
30 Aug., 1717.

Farrer IX.

Eobert Wren of Newcastle, merchant, baptized at Sedgefield,,
7 Feb., 1717; apprenticed 24 Sept., 1734, to William Ellison of
Newcastle, mercer, admitted free of the Merchants' Company,
4 April, 1745; married at Jarrow, 29 Dec, 1746, his master's
daughter Isabella, and dying Sept., 1751, was buried at
Auckland St. Andrew. His widow died at Bishop Auckland,
10 July, 1795, aged 81. They had issue :—

(1) Charles Wren of Pilgrim Street, Newcastle, attorney,
baptized 4 March, 1750; married in London, July,
1789, Mary, widow of Edward Eeynolds of Charlton,

and daughter of Boydell. He died suddenly

29 Jan., 1799, s.p.

(2) Cecilia, baptized at All Saints, Newcastle, 4 Feb.,
1747; died Percy Street, Newcastle, 11 Dec, 1829, aged
82 : the last of the Wrens.

(3) Isabella, married at St. Andrew, Newcastle, 10 Sept.,
1796, John Bacon, perpetual curate of Auckland St.
Andrew, and died 2 Feb., 1812, aged 62.

IX. Farrer Wren of Binchester, son and heir, baptized at Sedgefield,
26 Dec, 1715, on the same day as his brother, William; married three
times, first Jane, daughter of John Hodgson of Bishop Auckland, who
died 3 Sept., 1748; secondly, at Whitkirk, Yorks, Feb., 1750, Mary,
daughter "of George Nelthorpe of Seacroft, who died 1756; thirdly,
Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Eobert Pennington of Seaton,
Cumberland, wno died 22 April, 1781. Farrer Wren was burnt to

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Vinovhun.8 It is on the high ground over the Wear the antient
Vedra according to the new map which calls the Tine, Tina, and
places the Vedra to the south of the Wall. The town measures about
250 yards from east to west, and about 180 on the west side; to the
north side are great remains of the walls. The river makes a turn
at Awkland and forms a peninsula to the south of this place like the
Isle of Dogs opposite to Deptford. Here I imagined I saw an intrench-
ment to the north and east which might be the Castra JSstiva. They
lately found in the park several urns like common potts ; some with
burnt bones in them, and lately two or three full of earth, which have
not yet been examined. They have no manufacture at Awkland.

I sett forward over the heath, and in an hour passed near the
collieries of Horgil and Pitsburn,9 and saw Whitley Castle10 on the
other side of the river; I passed by Greatly11 house, an old castle, and

^Continuation of note 7.

death on Christmas Eve, 1794, aged 79, and was buried at Auckland
St. Andrew, having had (perhaps with other) issue : —
Farrer, died in childhood.
Barbara, died in infancy.

Mary, baptized at Auckland St. Helen, 4 July, 1753, daughter and

sole heir, married 13 June, 1774, the Hon. Thomas Lyon of

Hetton-le-Hole, son of Thomas, 8th Earl of Strathmore.

The Hon. Thomas Lyon of Hetton and of Binchester, jure uxoris, born

•circa 1741; M.P. for Aberdeen, 1768; died at Binchester, 13 Sept., 1796,

having had issue by his wife, Mary Elizabeth Wren (who died 31 May,

1811) three sons and eight daughters. Their second son : —

Charles Lyon, born 18 Oct., 1782, and baptized at Houghton-le-Spring,
succeeded to Binchester at his mother's death. He married 11 Oct., 1823,
Jane Gibson, heiress of Matthew Gibson of Bishop Auckland, attorney.
In 1830 under a private Act of Parliament 7 and 8 George IV. Binchester
was purchased by Bishop Van Mildert, and attached to the see of Durham
in perpetuity. The important and extensive collection of altars and other
Roman sculptured stones found from time to time in the camp of Binchester
and elsewhere, and preserved with care in an outbuilding of the mansion,
were, with one exception, destroyed before the sale of the estate being used
in the construction of underground works in a coal pit which Mr. Lyon
had sunk in order to compel the Bishop to purchase. Cf. Baine, Auckland
"Castle, p. 4 note.

Mr. Charles Lyon died 14 August, 1859, s.p. His widow having adopted
David Dunglas Home, the at one time much talked of spiritualist, and gave
to him £60,000 stock, whereupon he assumed the name of Lyon-Home. A
quarrel having taken place, Mrs. Lyon, then residing at Worth Grange,
Bridport, Dorset, filed a bill in chancery for the restitution of the sum
she had transferred; she obtained judgment in her favour from Vice-
Ohancellor Giffard. See Dictionary of National Biography, under D. D.
Home.

8 Vinovium is described by MacLauchlan, Memoir of the Survey of
Watling Street, p. 4; see also Map No. 2; see also Dr. Hooppell's papers,
Arch. AeL, 2 ser., vol. ix., pp. 169, 191.

9 Query, Hargill, Beechburn.

10 Query Witton Castle, or possibly ' The Castles ' near Hamsterley.
See Proc. Newcastle Soc. of Antiq., 3 ser., vol. v, p. 194.

II Query, Bradley.

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through a large village called Walsingham on the Wear, and viewed
Frusterly12 quarry ; in this marble are many cockles as well as coral ;
the marble in which the cockles are is the darker bed.

I came on to Stanhope on the Wear having first passed near
Bollyope13 beck, which is on the other side, on which there are lead
mines, and a smelting house. Stanhope is a town, or rather a large
village, with an old castle. It is said the Stanhopes have their name
from this place, of which family there are three earls, Stanhope,14
€hesterfield,15 and Harrington.16 This living is 900/. a year, above
300/. of which arises from the tythes of lead mines : the late Bishop
Butler17 was minister of it, and the present Bishop of Chester18 enjoys
it at present. It is the estate of the Earl of Carlisle ; but the Bishop
of Durham has a large estate also here which is leased in fee-farm for
a chiefry ; he has the royalties and especially the lead mines which
are in abundance up the Weare, and are leased to sir Walter Caverly
Blacket of New-castle. They thatch their houses with a very thick
coat of heath, and make the roofs steep that the melted snow may
not soak into the thatch, and lay loads across the top of it to keep
out the water. At Stanhope they are chiefly farmers and miners
whom they call groves.

Haltwesel1 in Northumberland,
May 17th, 1760.
Dear Madam,

I set out on the 16th and came to Stanhope park, where the
Scots were encamped in the time of Edward the III., and where there
are trenches and remains of their camp ; the English were encamped
to the south of the Wear at some distance at Dridgills. One Douglas
had got through, and cutt the cords of the King's tent, and would
have murdered the King if he had not been intercepted by his chap-
lain at the expense of his own life. It is said the Scots made a feint
to deceive, and stole off in the night.2

12 Frosterley. 13 Bolihope burn.

14 James Stanhope, created Baron Stanhope, 1717, and Earl Stanhope in
the following year.

15 Sir Philip Stanhope, created Baron Stanhope in 1616 and Earl of
Chesterfield in 1628.

16 William Stanhope, created Baron Harrington in 1730 and Earl of
Harrington in 1742.

17 Joseph Butler, rector of Stanhope, 1725,1740; Bishop of Bristol,
1738-1750; Bishop of Durham, 1750-1752.

18 Edmund Keene, rector of Stanhope, 1740-1771 ; Master of Peterhouse,
1748-1754; Bishop of Chester, 1752-1771; Bishop of Ely, 1771-1781.

1 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14256.

2 This happened in 1327. The story of the escape of the Scots from
Edward III. and his forces is given by Ridpath in his Border History, pp.
283-285. The Park quarter is one of the townships of the immense parish
of Stanhope.

14

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We came by the Wear to Wear-head where three rivers3 meet:
the most southern and nearest is Burnhope, the next is Walhope and
the third Kilhope, where there is a mount that I took to be a barrow.
At Westgate near Wairhead we saw to the south a well built new
chapel called St. John's.4 We went about a mile over the foot of a
hill by Killhope and came to Birdtreeford,5 where the Kilhope falls
down the rocks in beautifull cascades ; another rivulet comes from
the west called Sadlingburn and joj^ns with it; I saw another rivulet
which falls into that called Northgrain. We came to a lead mine on
the Bishop's estate belonging to sir Walter Blacket, it is called
Killhope-head heath.6 We went by very bad roads over the bed of a
mountain torrent, and at length got to the top of the mountain, and
going a little way on it, came to Rampe-gill7 groove, or mine, on
Lord Derwentwater's estate, now belonging to Greenwich Hospital.

Across the mountains we had come into Cumberland, where Stan-
hope parish ends, which is, I believe, not less than 20 measured miles
in length, and there are in it a great number of inhabitants. We
here came into Alston parish, which is a living of about 70/. a year
in the gift of the parish,8 who I suppose purchased the tythes, as at
Orton. Both this and the above mention 'd mines are rich lead, and
contain about 15 ounces of silver in a ton of lead. This is near the
head of Nent and goes by that name.

We came to the River Nent and went a little way in a pleasant
valley ; and crossing over the heath came down to Alston commons,
commonly writ Alston More, prettily situated on the side of a hill in a
pleasant valley over South Tyne just below the town. The Nent falls
into it in beautifull cascades running through the rocks which have
fallen down on each side in large pieces and make a most romantic
prospect; it is a marble; and I reckon'd 14 or 15 courses in the

3 The three streams, which by their union form the Wear, viz., the
Killhope, the Wellhope, and the Burnhope burns, all rise in the watershed
which forms the boundary of the county of Durham.

4 St. John's Chapel in Weardale was rebuilt by Sir Walter Blackett to
meet the spiritual needs of his lead miners. It replaced a medieval chapel
of ease, or parochial chapel in the parish of Stanhope.

5 This place gives its name to the Great Burtreeford dyke in upper
Weardale, which may be traced into Yorkshire. See Westgarth Forster,
Strata, ed. Nail, p. 142.

G Killhope mine of lead and blende belonging to the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners as representing the Bishop of Durham.

7Rampgill, south-south-east of Alston, belonging- to the Lords of the
Admiralty, as trustees for Greenwich Hospital, parcel of the forfeited
estate, of the Earl of Derwentwater.

8 The advowson of Alston was in the prior and convent of Hexham until
the dissolution of the monasteries. Randal states that it was obtained by
Arthur Lee and Thomas Archer in the time of Edward VI. William
Archer, of Alston, presented in 1624, but the patronage is now in the Lords
of the Admiralty as representing the Greenwich Hospital Commissioners,
to whom were granted the forfeited estates of the Earl of Derwentwater*
the great territorial magnate.

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perpendicular cliff ; and going1 about the bed of the Tyne I saw some
coral in the stones. This is entirely a mining town, and Mr. John Rea
gave me some very curious spars and ores which he procured mostly
at Alanhead in North Cumberland and his own mine of Rampgill.

To the south are three or four mountains. Duni-fell8a is the most
eastern, out of which rises the Tees ; Cross Fell is in the middle and
the north side is covered with snow till towards July ; out of this rises
the Tyne. Then there is Middle Fell ; and the Blackburn comes from
this, and Gelderdale rivulet more to the north. They have no market
town, nearer to them than Penrith and Hexam, each a]?out 18 miles
off ; so that they have great markets here for meat every Saturday.
From Cristmass to Easter they kill weakly twenty calves and four
beeves .; from Easter to Midsummer 50 calves and 6 or 7 beeves ;
from that to the first of September 20 sheep and 40 lambs ; for six
weeks before Christmass 30 beeves and 20 sheep, being the time they
lay in salt stores of beef9 ; and at Christmass, 'tis said, they have been
known to sell 17 beeves, 500 sheep, seventy calves, and a 1,000 gueese ;
veal and lamb Id. J per lb., the rest from 2d. to 3d.

We sett out. on the 17th and soon came into Northumberland,
passing by Kirk Aluf,10 near which is an ancient Roman town on the
west side of Tyne on or near Fileburn at Whitley Castle.11 I did not
know of it from Horseley untill I got to Brampton . It is at Whitley
Castle which is the old Alione or Alone, it is encompassed with a
quadruple fossee and was the only place on the Maiden Way from
Brougham to Carvorran or Magna on the Wall; and erected at Bew-
castle north-west of it is the old Apiato ruin. We went through a
most pleasant romantick valley adorn'd with wood and fine pasturage,
and in five miles from Alston came to Stone-hall church12 ; three miles
more brought us to Featherstone castle,13 where there is a bridge of

8a Dun Fell is the proper name.

9 The late Mr. William Woodman, writing, in 1892, on obsolete
' Morpeth Social Customs,' states that down to the beginning of the nine~
teenth century almost every house in Morpeth at Martinmas killed a
mart or shared in part of a mart for winter provision of salt meat; from
the blood of the animal black puddings were made, and from the tallow,
candles. History of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club, vol. xiv., p. 128.

10 Evidently Kirkhaugh.

11 For notices of Whitley station or castle, see Horsley, Britannia
Bomana, pp. Ill, 250, 453; Rev. John Hodgson, History of Northumberland,
part ii., vol. iii., pp. 69-75, where the Roman inscriptions found at the
place are noticed; see also Bruce, Roman Wall, p. 354, and Lapid. Sept.

12 Query, Knaresdale Church. ' Lead miners generally work eight
hours a day, and four, five, or six days a week. Some miners have small
farms which occupy their leisure time.' Boyle, Guide to the County of
Durham, 1892, p. 114.

18 At the period of the Bishop's visit, Featherston Castle belonged to
Mr. Matthew Fetherstonhaugh of Newcastle, who claimed to be descended
from the ancient house of Fetherstonhaugh, of Fetherstonhaugh, he having
purchased the property from the Earl of Carlisle.

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one arch, I believe 60 feet wide ; near it, Burnbeck falls from the west
into Tyne ; about a mile south of it is a mill-stone quarry of a hard
grit like the whetstone. Going two miles farther we came to Halt-
wesel, having crossed the foot of the mountains, and the Tyne about
four miles from Alston. Alston was the road from Penrith to Hexam
and Newcastle ; but since this turnpike road has been made by Burgh
they all go that way, so that Alston not being frequented there is a
very agreeable, honest, simplicity among the people. Most of the
miners come home before Sunday, and on Monday carry their provision
for the week to the mines ; the women wear the large bonnets which
were in fashion in the south the latter end of last century. They
make here a small round pile of wood and place limestone round it,
cover it over with sods ; sett the wood on fire and supply fuel untill
it is sufficiently burnt, and this commonly on the spot they want to
manure; they have coal from about Blinkesop.14

Halt-wesel is a very small town of good inns, over the Tyne, a
turnpike road branches out from the Military road about two miles
north-west and goes to Hexham and Cbrbridge, where it comes into
the Military road again. We went on in this road and came into the
Military road and soon after turn'd to the south to some houses at a
hamlet called Woodhead, directly opposite to Blinkesop castle, where
on a red gritt stone I saw on an altar this imperfect inscription,15
on the top of the stone is a patera in relief : —

SILVANO
VELLAEVS

The rest is broken off. We passed near Carvorran or Magna which
I had seen before and came to the inn at Glenwell16 by the rivilet
call'd Greenhead, where we saw this imperfect inscription17 : —

CIVITAS
DVMNI

and another stone which seemed to be sepulchral. I could not be
absolutely sure even of the following letters18

NVN

AXSV

I went by the stream a quarter of a mile to Thistwell19 castle, a
work of the Middle Age ; there is a sort of a tyger's head of that time
sett up on a wall. The Roman Wall20 is plain on the brow to the
east, and to the west we took it up and Hadrian's Vallum which are

14 Blenkinsop, which formerly belonged to a family taking its name
from the place.

"Not in Lapidarium Septentrionale. [C.I.L. vn., No. 304 gives under
Whitley Castle deo silvano.]

16 Glenwhelt. 17 Lapidarium Septentrionale, p. 168.

18 Ibid., p. 170, given as >mvn|aksv. See also C.I.L., No. 786.

19 Thirlwall. 20 See MacLauchlan, Roman Wall, maps no. iii., iv., v.

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here close to one another, but were soon intercepted by corn fields.
I observed a trench cutt in a barrow just over the rivilet to the west
and marks of a fortification about the uneven ground. The Wall soon
crosses the Irthing near Burdoswald, the old Amboglanna, and keeps
to the north of it. I returned to the Military way at the xxxix Stone
from New-castle. The flatt of the ground is about 12 feet, the slope
on each side may be six, and the ditch six more, and it rises about
four feet ; near town it is wider. We passed near Naworth Castle
about the xlv Stone and a little beyond the xlvi came to Brampton
having come again into Cumberland above the xl Stone. I first saw
the bird-cherry tree, called here the bird tree, about Pendragon
castle ; it is also found along the upper parts of the Wear, and in
great plenty on South Tyne.

Brampton is situated on a small stream which rises out of the
adjacent morasses, and runs through the town. It is a poor place,
without manufacture, and may consist of about 150 houses, that
may be equally divided into shops, farm-houses, publick-houses and
labourers. The parish church21 is a mile from the town so they have
commonly service in a chapel of an alms-house founded by the Right
Hon16. Edward Earl of Carlisle in 1688. Close to the town is a high
sandy hill22 fortified with a dyke on the west parts, and formed into
a terras near the top on the strong sides of it ; round the outside of
the rampart it is about 300 yards in compass. It is something of an
oblong square, and, as I conjecture, about 100 yards long and 50
broad, for at the top, allowing for parts fallen down, it is about 20 by
40. It commands a good view of the fine country to the west ; that
to the east appears as a heath of small hills. They have their coals
here from Tinens Fell about four miles to the east.

Mblross on the Tweed,1

Sepr. 26th, 1760.
Dear Sister,

I departed from Donglass2 on the 2 2d. and leaving East
Lothian came into Mers or Berwickshire ; then going about two miles
in the road that leads to Berwick, we turned out of it to the east to
go to Coldingham.

********

We went on [from Coldingham] six computed and nine measured
miles to Berwick ; in three miles we passed a pleasant village called

21 A portion of the old parish church of the parish of Brampton has
been retained as a cemetery chapel.

22 See MacLauchlan, Roman Wall, map no. iv., and Memoirs, p. 65,
for an account of the Mote at Brampton.

1 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14259

3 Dunglas in East Lothian, whence the Bishop wrote to his sister
a letter dated 21 Sept., describing his visit to ' Crichton, Glanston, Salton,
Milton, Gifford, Yester/

214,

Eden3 on the Hy; about two miles from it is a little seaport town
called Hymouth.4 We pass'd by Lamurtin and Lamurtin-hill on which
there is a camp,, and near Holly-down-hill5 to the west, famous for
many battles between the Scotch and English.

We left Scotland and came into the government of England to
Berwick; on the 24th from Cornhill we went into Scotland again.
Here in one spot three countys and two kingdoms meet.

Selkirk,6

Sepr. 27th, 1760.

Dear Sister,

On the 23d. I went from Cornhill in Northumberland, a
mile to the ferry7 over the Tweed (within half a mile of Coldstream)
which I cross'd, and stop't at that poor town ; there are no remains of
the old Cistercian nunnery8 here except part of the gateway ; it was
founded by Patrick Earl of March, and Derder his lady, about 1166.
Near it is Abbey Leys, doubtless the dairy of the abbey, where Mr.
Pringle has built a handsome house, and made a beautifull planta-
tion.9 Half a mile below the ferry is Old Coldstream, where I ob-
served a ruined chapel. About a quarter of a mile from Cornhill, the
river seems to have left its chanel and to have encroached on the
Scotch side and left a piece of Scotland on the east side, for there is
one field there in Scotland, so that in this place two kingdoms meet
and three counties, that is Mers in Scotland, Northumberland in
which Cornhill parish is situated, and a part of the Bishoprick of
Durham.

I left Cornhill on the 24th and having passed Wark and Carram
crossed a stream into the shire of Roxborough, or Tiviotdale, in Soot-
land.

3 Ay ton, in Berwickshire, through which runs the burn named Eye.

4 Eyemouth, in the parish of Ayton.

* Halidon, in the parish of Berwick ; and Lamberton.

6 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14259.

7 The ancient ferry from Wark, in the chapelry of Carham, on the right
bank of Tweed, to the Scottish side is still in use. The ferry used by the
Bishop was probably superseded by the fine bridge over the Tweed, connect-
ing Coldstream with Cornhill, built in 1763.

8 The Cistercian convent for nuns at Coldstream was founded by
Gospatric III. and his wife, Derdere. He died 1166 and was buried at
Eccles. See new History of Northumberland, vol. vii., p. 44; also
Chartulary of Coldstream, ed. Rogers.

9 Lees, near Coldstream, parcel of the possessions of the Cistercian
monastery of St. Mary at Coldstream, belonged to the family of Pringle
from before the year 1633 down to 1769, when the Mr. (James) Pringle
jiamed in the text was succeeded by his maternal kinsman, Edward
Majoribanks of Halyards. See History of the Berwickshire Naturalists
Club, vol. viii., p. 276.

215.-.

Wooller10 in Northumberland.
Sepr. 28th, 1760.
, Dear Sister,

Mellerstain is well situated on an eminence with a hill
behind it, to the west, adorn'd with plantations form'd into ridings
and stars. * ******

(Inscriptions to George Baillie of Jerviswood, esquire, 1738, and to
Lady Grisell Baillie, 1746.)

********

Alnewick,11 Northumberland.
Sepr. 29th, 1760.
Dear Sister,

At Melross I took leave of Mr. Baillie and went on for
Selkirk four miles.

********

I left Jedburgh in the afternoon, and came, in two miles, to Creiling-
hall on a rivulet which falls into the Jed, and in two more to Set-
ford Castle,113, near such another rivlet. This building consists of a
grand apartment on each floor and a smaller in a return adjoyning
to it. In another mile we came to Merbo(t)hillllb on a larger rivlet and
in an open plain, and going on we pass'd by the rise of the river
Bowman, and ascended to Yetham12 the last village in Scotland.
And about a, mile from it came into England having that river to
the right, being I believe not above three miles from that place,
where we had entered Scotland to the west of Carraw13 and so took
leave of Scotland, this being the shire of Roxborough which includes
Tiviotdale and also Liddesdale, in which I had been, and extends very
near to Netherby (at which place I was) in Cumberland ; Jedburgh
being the town for the Sheriff's Deputy to attend in, and hold his
courts for that shire.

ROTHBURT14 IN NORTHUMBERLAND.

Sepr. 30th, 1760.
Dear Sister,

On the 2 2d. of September I came to Berwick near the
mouth of the Tweede which is a town and county extending on the
north side of Tweed about three miles, and as I apprehend every way
as far a,s the parish of Berwick. It stands on the north side of the
Tweed, the Tueda of the new map. It is near the mouth of the
Tweed and is very finely situated. It was first given in ransom for
King William of Scotland to Henry II. and was afterwards often
taken and retaken. It formerly stood on an eminence within the

10 Brit, Mus. Add. MS. 14259. " Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14259.

"• Query, Cessford. ••■- llb Query, Morebattle.

12 Yetholm. 13 Query, Carham, see p. 220 post.
14 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14259.

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present rampart, which is now called the Castle.15 The old castle,
as the citadel without the walls, being doubtless joyned to it, which
was very strong in its natural situation, there were two waies to it,
and a wall down to the river, which seems to have been built in
.steps down the top of it like the walls of Antioch. The town is now
a modern fortification with two bastions to the north; and Queen
Elizabeth built a fine bridge here of fifteen arches. I could get no
account of any of the monasteries of this place, which were the Red
Friars founded by a Scotch king16 ; the Dominicans17 at the mouth
of the Tweed founded by Alexander II. in 1230: a parliament was
held in this convent by Edward the First to determine the right of
the crown between Bruce and Baliol. There were also Franciscans,
and Bernardine nuns18 founded by David I., but Robert III. gave
their possessions in Scotland to the abbey of Dryburgh on account
of their attachment to the English. The parish church19 is a hand-
some Gothic fabric, tho' somewhat singular, and seems to have been
built so late as the time of Queen Elizabeth or James 1st. Opposite
to it, is a handsome barrack20 and store-houses built round a court.
They have erected in the middle of the chief street a very beautifull
town-house1 and market-house of freestone. The lower part is in
the Rustick channel style, over which there is a first floor and an
attick story ; a Tuscan portico in front, and a tower over it crowned
with a spire : the two stories of the tower are of the Doric and Ionio
orders, all exceeding good architecture. They have a good quay, and
build small ships here. The export is chiefly salmon and corn ; they
have plenty of coal about four miles from the town.

I came to the other side, commonly reckon' d in Northumberland,
but for about two miles south, is within the Bishoprick and county
of Durham, which extends to the west; and is not observed in maps.

I shall here give some account of the kingdom of Northumber-

15 Berwick Castle was surrendered in 1174 by William the Lion of
Scotland to Henry II., but was re-surrendered in 1189 to the Scottish Crown.

16 William the Lion is stated to have founded a convent at Berwick for
the Bed, or Trinitarian Friars. The House stood between West Street and
Bank Hill. Cf. Scott, History of Berwick, p. 338.

17 The monastery of the Black Dominicans, or Friar Preachers is
believed to have been close to the castle. Ibid., p. 339.

18 The nunnery founded by David I. seems to have been of the Cistercian
order. Its site has not been ascertained. Ibid., p. 345.

19 The foundation stone of the parish church of Berwick was laid by
26 April, 1650, and the structure, largely built out of the material of the
old castle, though not yet furnished with galleries and pews, was brought
into use in 1652. Ibid., pp. 361-363.

20 The barracks were built between the years 1717 and 1721. Ibid.,
p. 222.

1 The town house, with its imposing steeple, was begun in 1750. Ibid.,
p. 227. On the facade is cut in bold letters ' Finished a.d. mdccliv, William
Temple, esq., mayor.' The latter was a lineal ancestor of Doctor Temple,
the late Archbishop of Canterbury.

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land.2 It was subjected to the Saxons by Osca,2a brother of Hengist,
was under the Danes, who did homage to the kings of Kent. The
kingdom of Bernicia, between Trent and the Frith of Forth, was
subject to the kings of Northumberland, and when this kingdom
came to an end, all to the south of Tweed became subject to Scot-
land ; but Northumberland was given to Egbert, king of the North-
umbrians, and Eanred their king paid him tribute. The Danes had
it under Alfred, who were dispossessed by Athelstane, tho' the people
made Eitric the Dane their king : from this time they were Earls.
And the Peircies came to be the Earls of Northumberland ; they
were descended from the Earls of Brabant,3 the true off-spring of
Charlemagne, who were called Percies when Jocelyne, the younger
son of Godfrey duke of Brabant, married Agnes, sole heir of William
Percie, whose great grandfather came into England with William the
Conqueror.

1 went, on the 23d., three miles in the turnpike road to the west,
and leaving it came two miles to the west north west, to Norham, or
Northam, of old called Ubbanford ; it belongs to the see of Durham.
Egfrid, Bishop of Lindiesfarne, built the town and church ; the next
Bishop Ralph built the castle a little to the east of the town on an
eminence over the river. The wall round it takes in a pretty large
compass.

Over the river is a ruined building, which they say was the church.
The old castle part is to the east, it is an oblong square building, in
which there are two rooms sixty feet long, one is fifteen wide the other
about twenty with vaults under them, there were four stories, and the
walls seem to be about twenty feet high, and are twelve feet thick ;
over a door are remains of three coats of arms. This castle is built
of hewn freestone.

The church4 is at the west end of the town. The east end is
very old, on the north side are small arched windows with members
over the arches, and from them a water-table is carried along the
whole length of the building ; on the south side the arches of the
windows are supported by a Corinthian pillar on each side with a
case and plinth, and only four single leaves round them, and seem
to be very old. The entablature is adorned with four heads in the
lower member and four less in the member over each window. The
south side of the body consists of five or six arches supported by
round pillars with octagon capitals, and four single leaves on each

2 For a chronological account of the kingdom of Northumbria, see
Hodgson Hinde, Northumberland, 1858; also Bates, History of Northum-
berland, published by Elliot Stock, 1895.

2a Query, Ossa, grandfather of Ida, who founded the kingdom of
Bernicia in 547

3 See Fonblanque, Annals of the House of Percy, 1887. Privately
printed.

4 For a description of Norham church with a plan, see Wilson,
Churches of Lindisfarne, p. 27; also Transactions of the Architectural and
Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland , vol. v., cix.

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side with the top of a leaf appearing between them above, and
betwixt the bottom of the leaves is a circle formed from the outer4*
line and another within them. The former seems to be the old
church built by Egfrid,4a in which Ceolwolph, King of Northumber-
land, who became a monk at Lindiesfarne, was buried, to whom Rede
dedicates his Ecclesiastical History. And when the Danes had
destroyed the Holy Island, the body of St. Cuthbert, bishop of that
place, was deposited here. And where on this account, and on St.
Ceolwolph's, great devotion was paid to the place, it is probable the
body of the church was built, which has been in part destroyed.
Over the door is this inscription. " This Church was repaired by the
Parichinaris of Norham Maister Patrick Wait being preacher there
Anno 1617."

We went on in this turnpike road which comes within half a mile
of this town. At Ribley, near about 200 years agoe, were. found the
shedds of a knight's belt and the hilt of a sword, which were given
to Bishop4b ....

We came in two miles to Wesel5 bridge over the Till, which has
its name from Wesel-house on an eminence over it; a little below
which it falls into the Tweed. The bridge here consists of one arch
90 feet and eight inches wide. From Flodden I saw, at a small
distance, Etal, of old the seat of the Manners' s, from whom the
Duke of Rutland's family is descended ; here is a wooden bridge, on
stone piers. Near Etal is Ford Castle, Mr. Carr's, where there is a
stone bridge over the Till, both fine situations'. Two miles more
brought us to Cornhill, a considerable village, very near the Tweed.
They have here a water6 like that of Epsom wells, from which they
extract a salt; it is esteem'd good in nephritick and scorbutic dis-
orders. Near it is a cold bath, which they use much when they
drink the water. This parish is in Northumberland.7

From this place I went three miles, by Brankeston, where there
is a thatched church, to Flodden Field,8 famous for the battle with
James IV., (who being drawn in by the French — that made use of
two or three of his own subjects as tools — to invade England, when
Henry VIII. lay before Tournay). The Earl of Surry was sent
against them, as the Scotch historians say, with 26,000 men, the
Scotch not above 7,000, Thomas Lord Howard led the van, Sir

4a ' qu ' in the same hand as Ceolwolph = a hand in which several other
names and words in the MS. are inserted.

4bThe Bishop's name is not given. Ribley may be represented by
the farmhold named Royalty. 5 Twizel.

6 The properties of the mineral spring at Cornhill are mentioned in
Wallis, Northumberland, vol. i., p. 15.

7 The Bishop was misinformed. Cornhill is a parochial chapelry of the
ancient parish of Norham, and at the time was in North Durham.

8 For the most recent studies on this, see Hodgkin, ' The Battle of
Flodden ' and Bates, ' Flodden Field/ both in Arch. Ad., ser. 2, vol. xvi.,
pp. 1, 351.

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Edward, his brother, one of the wings, Lord Dacres and Clifford,
and Sir Edward Stanley the rear. The van and one of the wings
came over by Wesel bridge,9 the rear by Mylfield ford above Ford
Castle. The Scotch were divided into four parts, one of which was
a corps of reserve, the king engaged in the middle. They were
drawn up first on a hill near the King's Seat, but seeing the English
coming towards Brankeston, and apprehending they wanted to cut off
the rear from the camp, they moved to the hill nearer to the village,
and came down to them in the valley at the well. In the first onset
'tis said the English were broke, but the Highlanders coming on
without order they began to rally, were supported, and the battle
was very bloody. There was a gentle rising ground with a little
hollow to the south of this. The rear of the English who passed at
Mylfield, it is supposed, either crossed over the hill to the north or
came round the end of it, which drew the battle more towards that
part ; the Scotch still fighting most bravely, tho' the corps of reserve
under Lord Hume, it is said, could get no word of command from
him to engage. They fought till the night separated them, 5,000
were killed on each side, but of the Scotch a great number of the
flower of their nobility. The English did not know they were con-
querors, till Lord Darcy went next morning on the field of battle,
saw their artillery, and the dead bodies not stripped. It is thought
that the Earl of Surry made use of a. lady and her daughter at Ford
Castle to cause delays, and that the King was amusi'd at that house.
The Earl of Surry sent to the King to leave England or come down
and fight fairly, and appointed a day, which he did not keep ; that
those who were at first against this enterprize, advised him to take
all advantages of situation, but to no purpose, and when he did not
keep the day, to retire. They show a rock where the King sat,
doubtless before the battle, in which he was certainly present. This
is called the King's Seat. Many were dressed like him to prevent
their aiming at the King, and one was taken up dead and buried for
him, but he had not the iron chain about him which the King wore
for pennance. And it is at this day reported in the country, that he was
seen passing the next morning Hempside93, ford already mentioned ;
and the Scotch believe he was conducted to Hume Castle, and
murdered there ; Lord Hume being in such circumstances as to give
reason for this suspicion. And I was told that lately a silver chain
was found not far from Hume Castle, and that it is in possession of
Lord Marchmont ; in which case, if it was the chain about the King,
it must have been a silver chain he wore, and not a chain of iron.
I saw some little risings in the ground, which seemed to be places
where the bodies had been buried.

On the 24th I left Cornhill and soon came to Wark, where I had
seen at a distance the remains of the castle which is on the decline
of the hill, and seems to have been encompassed with a circular wall ;

9 Twizel-bridge. 9a Hempside ford has not been identified: ~

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at some distance from, the castle, a deep fossee is cut through the
hill, so as to make the east end of the hill serve for a camp. Here
is a ford which the Scotch commonly passed when they came into
England in time of war. We came to the last parish or rather
chapelry in England called Carham,10 the minister of which goes
often to Kelso, and performs divine service to a few of the episcopal
church settled there, under a legal license. We passed the bounds of
this parish which is also the bounds of Scotland.

Ellesden11 in Northumberland.
October 1st, 1760.

Dear Sister;

On the 27th about a mile east of Whetham12 I came
again into Northumberland from Scotland, the river Bowman13 being
to the right. We shou'd have passed this river, but we came on to
a village situated to the east, called Padston,14 placed in Speed's
maps and others to the south but ought to be to the north of the
river, and then turning south in half a mile we crossed the river, and
came, as I take it, to Kilham, and in about a mile to Kirk-Newtoun, a
large village.15 Here we were encompass'd with the Cheviot hills.
Four miles more brought us to Wooller, having passed the river Glen
and close to Yeveron,16 to the east of Newton, to which place, accord-
ing to Bede, Paulinus came with the King and Queen to the royal
manner of Adgebrin (now called Yeveron), stayed there with them
36 daies which he spent in the duties of catechising, and after they
were instructed, baptized them in the neighbouring river Glen, and
'tis said, two pillars are set up here in memory of this remarkable
transaction.

Wooler is a poor town,17 mostly of thatched houses with a market
and small woollen manufacture, they have two presbyterian and one
independent meeting house. Not far from it is Humbledown, men-
tion'd in the old ballad of Chivy Chase, where they have a tradition
a battle was fought in 1335, and about this time Edward III. for the
fourth and last time invaded Scotland.

The Cheviot hills produce the best and soundest mutton, and the
country to Brandon is allmost wholly laid out in sheep walks. In

10 Carham is a chapelry of the ancient parish of Kirknewton.

11 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14259. 12 Yetholm, co. Koxburgh.

13 The river Bowmont.

14 Paston, now generally spelled Pawston, an old residential estate of
the Selbys.

15 The village of Kirknewton at the present time comprises the church
and vicarage, the mansion house and farm cottages.

16 Yeavering.

17 The thatched church of Wooler having become ruinous was taken
down in 1765, and the present structure built with the help of .£1,156
raised by a brief. Sykes, Local Records, vol. i., p. 256; Bewes, Church
Briefs, p. 329.

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the north part of Northumberland, they drive two oxen18 and two
horses, and, in the south part, a horse in the Philhors and two horses
together before. The former have wagons which consist only of the
frame without boards at the bottom.

'I left Wooller on the 29th and in a mile came to the inn of
Wooller Hawk head,19 having crossed the Till. This place is much
frequented for drinking goat's whey. In another mile we came to a
fine glyn covered with aldars on which is situated West Lisbow
Castle.20 In two miles more we passed such another rivlet, and
going by Brandon White-house, in two more we passed the Branisk {sic),
which lower takes the name of the Till. On the height we came to a
small octagon pillar1 of unequal sides set in a large stone, both
together about ten feet high, four sides of it are adorned with two
or three fish and roses over them. On one side of the pedestal are
these letters cut very plain and I doubt whether they are old :

W • W • K I. W L • £ P • P • T •

I B • R H • Vh W •

The common opinion is that the battle of Chivy Chase was
fought here, but this, if I mistake not, is said to be the spot where
another skirmish mention'd in the famous ballad, by the name of
Humble-down, in which they say the leader Percie was killed. But
as I was not fully inform'd in these particulars, I cannot say whether
this was the place of the skirmish of Chivy Chase or of Humble-
down, but as the latter was most for our honour, I should take this
to be the spot and that this affair of Chivy Chaise was too incon-
siderable to be recorded by our historians.

To the left we passed by Crouley Tower,2 and in a mile came to
the village of Bra den,3 and in two short miles to Whittingham. We

18 Not long after the Bishop's tour, oxen became disused for ploughing
and carting, but about 1790 owing to the great advance in the price of
horses, their use for the^e purposes was resuscitated. Bailey and Culley
in their Agricultural View of Northumberland, ed. 1797, chapter xiii. on
Live Stock, present a comparative statement between Horses and Oxen for
the purpose of the draught.

19 The ancient wayside inn, under the sign of St. George and the Dragon,
at Wooler Haugh Head, near which place Surrey encamped before Flodden,
and where Home put up the first night on his journey to London to
stage his tragedy of Douglas, has been described by Hutchinson, Hist, of
Northumberland, vol. i., p. 240, and in Northern Notes and Queries, p. 161.

20 There was never a castle at West Lilburn, hut a tower was in exist-
ence in 1541, and, apparently, as early as 1415; the ruins of which still
remain.

1 Percy's Cross marking the site of the Battle of Hedgeley Moor, fought
25 April, 1464, in which Sir Ralph Percy, one of the younger sons of the
second earl of Northumberland was killed. The cross is figured in Richard-
son, Borderer's Table Book, vol. i., p. 162.

2 John Heron obtained licence 20 Nov., 1343, to crenellate his house at
Crawley.

3 Branton.

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had seen Chilingham, Lord Tankervile's, under the hill to the east,
arid here we saw Lord Ravensworth's,4 two miles to the west, in the
valley. We were now on the river Aln, the Alauna of the new map
and Alaunus of Ptolemy, and in two miles came to Lamington,5
Mr. Fenwick's, a large house on the side of the hill. We soon came
to coals and lime-stone, a blew stone which at top rises small, and
they make bricks also in the same place. We descended to Aln-
wick twelve computed miles from Wooller. The entrance of the
town is by a handsome Gothic gate6 ; there are several good houses
in the town which chiefly consists of two streets. The principal
support of this place is its lying in the great road to the north, the
markets, fairs, and sessions, also coals ; a salmon fishery and an export
of corn at Aylmouth where small vessels come in and carry oats etc.
to different parts, the salmon goes chiefly pickled to London. There
is a good church, with a tower, all in the style of the time of Henry
VI. ; a little above it, on the other side of the water, was the
abbey of the Prsemonstratenses founded, in 1147, by Eustace fitz
John. A handsome gateway remains, built with four arches and a
small square tower at each corner, on it is an escutcheon of a lyon
rampant and three fish, quartered, (Percy and Lucy), and a plain
cross and another made sharp at the angles. A good private house7
is built out of the ruins, it is a low situation on the river.

The castle of Alnwick, the ancient place of residence of the Percys,
Earls of Northumberland, is one of the grandest and most entire
in Britain. It is built round a small court with an enclosure on
every side except to the north and west, and is defended by towers.
To the west it is fortified by a large enclosure in which are the stable
offices, to the right of the second court are the kitchen offices and
those for servants. In the inner court are two grand rooms fitted up
in the finest Gothic style. The dining room is adorned with small
arches, and the drawing room in a most elegant taste of arches inter-
secting one another, and the ceilings of both are richly ornamented.
The ornaments in the offices are plain Gothic. The Earl has made a
Gothic gateway to the south, by which the common, entrance is to be

4Eslington.

5Lemington is stated to have been built by Nicholas Fen wick who died
in 1752; but if it were designed by William Newton of Newcastle (born
circa 1730) as was probably the case, then it is more likely that the
mansion was erected by Robert Fenwick, son and heir of the above-named
Nicholas Fenwick. Incorporated in the structure is the ancient tower of
the Beadnells.

6 Clayport Tower which defended the western entrance to Alnwick, was
probably built circa 1450, and was removed in 1804. It was similar in form
to, but larger than, Bondgatc Tower, which still stands.

7 Michael Doubleday, a Quaker, succeeded to Alnwick Abbey on the
death of his father in 1751 and made it his residence. He died in 1797,
and in the following year the property, comprising near 2,000 acres of the
annual value of over £2,000, was purchased by his nephews and, in part,
resold by them in lots

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entirely clear of the town, and the grind gateway is to be closed.
He is also making a park, one of the gates of which is almost built,
purposing to take up his constant summer residence here. Alnwic
has been a fatal place to the Scotch. Opposite to the castle on the
north side of the river, they show the place of the famous battle ;
it is a plain field, and a gentle rising of the ground to the north of
it. Here William8 King of Scotland in 1174 was taken prisoner and
presented to Henry the Second. And Malcolm9 III. King of Scot-
land having reduc'd the castle by famine, was killed by a soldier
who pretended to deliver the keys of the castle to him on the point
of the fatal spear. And his son Edward falling on the enemy to
revenge his father's death, received a wound of which he died. I
left this place and came back to Lamington, leaving it to the left,
and soon descended near to Edlingham where there is an old square
castle10 with ruinous enclosure to the north, defended by towers; it
is on a rivilet which falls into the Aln. We saw the cascades in great
beauty, travelling by hills to the east and over a heathy hill all the
way by a turnpike road to Rothbury twelve measured miles from
Alnwick.

Bellingham11 in Northumberland.
October 2d, 1760.
Dear Sister,

Rothbury is a poor town of two streets which are not
paved, and the houses are mostly thatched ; they cover them with
sods for warmth, and thatch with heath, which will last thirty years.
There are turnpike roads from it to Hexham, Newcastle, Morpeth,
and Alnwick, which make it a thoroughfare from all the villages to
the west and north and from Ellesden, for there is no other town this
way to the west or north ; the rise of the Coquet which is pronounc'd
Cocket, being the bounds of Scotland at about twelve miles distance.
It is a market town and they have some fairs chiefly for black cattle ;
and wool is sent from this place to Newcastle. They have several
shops and handicrafts exercised here, particularly that of hatters.
The living is in the gift of the Bishop of Carlisle and 500Z. a year,

8 The place where William the Lion, King of Scotland, was taken
prisoner in 1174 is, not on the north but, on the south side of the river
a quarter of a mile to the west of the castle. The spot is marked by a
block of sandstone, with an inscription, which replaces an eighteenth
century monument.

9 The place where Malcolm, King of Scots, was slain in 1093 has been
marked from early times by a cross. The latter was renewed in 1774 but
the remains of the earlier structure are preserved close by. It is on the
north side of the river and about a mile from the Castle.

10 For a full description of the castle of Edlingham and history of the
manor, see new History of Northumberland, vol. vii., p. 122.

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so that 'tis often made an option12 by the Arch-bishop of York.
The parsonage house is an old tower-castle with an addition to it.
Near it, the late incumbent, Dr. Sharp,13 prebendary of Durham,
built a round tower about 30 feet high, with battlements at top from
which, they say, there is a prospect of the sea. Most part of the town
belongs to the Earl of Northumberland. Dr. Sharp's immediate
predecessor, Tomlinson,14 founded a free school, with a salary of 201.
a year and a house, to teach all the children of the parish, to read,
write, arithmetic, and Latin. I went half a mile down the river
to see the Thrum where the river falls about ten feet in a gentle
dtescent of a cascade, and then runs about forty yards through a
narrow passage15 between the rocks about five feet wide. The salmon
comes here in November to spawn, but they are not permitted to
take them.

The Cocket16 empties itself a little to the south of Aylmouth.
Near the mouth of it is Warkworth castle, belonging to the Earl of
Northumberland ; and half a mile below, on the river, there is a chapel
cut out of the rock and Hermitage.17

On the 30th I came on to Ellesden 8 computed miles. We traveled
on' the south side of the river, the waters being high, the road is
mostly on a low hill which abounds with lime-stone; the mountains
above are freestone. Over the Thrum is a quarry of thin flag-stones
which serve for slates, and so there is at Old Rothbury18 ; which is
an old fortification on a hill half a mile below the town. I took
specimens of the lime-stone which seems to be a brown kind of
marble. They have also plenty of coals in this neighbourhood.
We came in a mile to Newtown19 where there is an old tower, and a
fortified hill beyond it : opposite to it we saw Thornton, where there

12 Option. The right which an archbishop formerly had, on consecra-
tion of a bishop, of choosing one benefice within the see of the latter to be
in his own patronage for the next presentation. This privilege was abol-
ished in 1845 by Act of Parliament. New English Dictionary .

13 The tower was built by Doctor Thomas Sharp, rector of Rothbury
from 1720 to his death, 16 March, 1758 : he was also Archdeacon of North-
umberland, and prebendary of the tenth stall at Durham.

14 Doctor John Thomlinson, rector of Rothbury from 1679 to his death,
23 May, 1720, was uncle of John Thomlinson, whose diary is printed in
Six North Country Diaries.

15 The channel threaded by the Coquet called the Thrum is stated to be
fourteen feet in depth.

16 Until the year 1765 the place where the river Coquet debouched into
the sea was considerably to the north of the present mouth at Amble, and
nearer to Alnmouth. See new History of Northumberland, vol. v., p. 196.

17 The far-famed Hermitage of Warkworth is on the left, or opposite
bank of the Coquet and above the Castle.

18 The prehistoric camp at Old Rothbury is described, with a plan, by
Mr. R. C. Hedley in Arch. Ael., ser. 2, vol. xiii., pp. 230-233.

19 The township of Rothbury Newtown lies on the south side of the
Coquet.

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is a popish chapel; there being many of that persuasion in these
parts, and they have several chapels in which they say Mass openly.
The Claverings, Teleinston, Calala,20 or Wallington, near Whitingham
are the chief of them.

Close to Newtown, is Great Trosson, half a mile further we came
to Becherfield,1 and in two miles to Gootlup2 half way, where we
left the river and turned to the south, and then to the south-west
over the hills to Ellesden. On these hills they find coal, and tho'
they are mostly of freestone, yet they have patches in several parts
of lime-stone. Here we came on the streams which fall into the river
Reid that empties itself into North Tine near Bellingham j the Tine
being the ancient Vedra. On one of these is Ellesden, a small village
on each side of a green, the church being on the north side, and a
little above it an old tower-castle which is the parsonage house. On
it to the south is a coat of arms3 of three roses at top, and three
more on each side, and one in the middle, the crest is two lyons
holding a standard, under it are the following letters, if I read them
right, rdarcie in Gothic characters.4 The church is singular,
having pillars on each side of the body, about three feet from the
wall, and the same on the west side of the transept, which may
account for what I have often seen, (viz.) one row of pillars in a
church : in which case it is to be supposed, that churches having been
ruined by age, they might be rebuilt, and only one row of pillars
left, for one can hardly suppose a church to be originally built so, and
this is the style of what we call the Egyptian hall. Here is a font,
something like a barbarous Saxon capital which is probably very old :
This parish is twenty miles long extending westward to Scotland, and
is divided into six wards, tho' there is only one other burial place
(viz.) that of Bernice,5 which seems to be a remains of the ancient
name of Bernicia., the old kingdom between the Tees and the Forth.
And yet it is not one of the six wards, which are Woodside, Elsden,
Otterburn, Through-end, Rochester, and Monkridge. Towards the
west end is a presbyterian meeting house.6 The inhabitants have a
notion that this was a large place and a city on record, and they call
the church the cathedral, and add that the town was often burnt
down by the Scotch, which probably is true, for there are many

20 ' Calala ' in a different hand. The names are Yetlington and Callaly.
1 Bickerton. 2 This name has not been identified.

3 The heraldic panel containing the arms of Umframville appears to
have been inserted between 1421 and 1436. See Bates, Border Holds,
p. 19 note.

4 The inscription r[obertus] d[ominus] d[e] rede is immediately below
the shield armorial, but is cut on another stone.

5 The present parochial chapel or church of Byrness, the smallest in the
archdeaconry of Lindisfarne, was erected apparently about the year 1786,
which date is cut on a stone formerly near the doorway. See plan in
Wilson, Churches of the Archdeaconry of Lindisfarne , p. 108.

6 The meeting house of the Presbyterian church at Birdhopecraig repre-
sents one of the oldest in the county, dating probably from the Great
Revolution or soon after.

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foundations of houses, and they often dig out stones which, as I saw,
appear to have been burnt. It is said by some writers (but on what
authority I know not) that an imperfect altar,7 broken urns, and bones
of beasts, and ashes, have been found here, but I cou'd get no informa-
tion of any such thing. There is a turnpike road from this place to
Newcastle, and from that road another road goes to Hexham sixteen
computed miles, and to New-castle 29J measur'd, and it is twenty
measured miles from Jedburgh. I was told that at Bringburne,8
seven miles east of Rothbury on the Cocket, are several ruins. The
post comes neither to this place or Rothbury. This advowson, worth
300/ a year, and an estate of 100/. a year was sold by a Howard to
the Duke of Somerset, and now belongs to the Earl of Northumber-
land.9 Bernice is 9 miles from Ellesden and a.bout five miles from
the bounds of Scotland.

To the north-east of the church is what they call the High Mote,10
which very much resembles the site of Old Salisbury. It is a mount
about forty feet high with a fossee round it, to which there is a raim
part, that may be 20 feet high, on every side, except to the north, on
which side there is an out-work, which tho' not regular, may be about
a fragment of one third of a circle, rising ten feet above the fossee,
and is about eighty yards in length from east to west, to the north
is a rampart to this out-work which may be 15 feet high within, and
turns in to the south at each end about twelve yards', and fifty yards
from the south side; this is about fifty feet high to the west over
the burne. To the Mote there is a steep way up to the south-east,
it is about 45 yards over from east to west, and about 40 from north to
south, there being a rampart nine yards broad and four feet high which
comes about two-thirds round it on the north and partly to the east and
west' : from this fossee that encompasses it is a descent in most parts
of about 20 feet as mentioned before. I am inclined to think that
this is a Roman work, a view of it is represented on the other side.11

CORBRIDGB12 IN NORTHUMBERLAND.

October 3d, 1760.
Dear Sister,

On the 31st I went two miles to the north west to Camp

7 No doubt the Bishop refers to the inscription from High Rochester,
— now in the church. See Lapidarium, p. 291; C.I.L., vn., no. 1054.

8 Brinkburn.

9 Hugh, Earl (afterwards Duke) of Northumberland, purchased the
manor of Redesdale, the advowson of Elsdon, and the farm of Overacres,
in 1750, from William Howard.

10 For a description of Elsdon Mote-Hills, see Rev. John Hodgson,
History of Northumberland , part n., vol. i., p. 97. A Roman slab from the
Mote Hills is in the Cathedral Library at Durham. See Lapidarium,
p. 290, no. 558.

11 A drawing in Indian ink. Beneath it is written ' A Fort at Ellesdon.'

12 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14259.

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hill,13 where there is a camp of a circular figure containing about
three acres ; and such another on a summit of the same hill half a
mile to the north west and is directly over Otterburne. These are
supposed to be the camps of the English commanded in 1388 by Henry
Percy, commonly called Hotspur on account of his daring valour. The
Scotch Army was commanded by James Earl of Douglas; and they
fought near this place as shall be more fully related. This battle14
has falsely been taken for the battle of Chivy Chase mention 'd in the
antient ode, for these reasons, as ; the famous song of Chivy Chase
mentions both the generals ; and that what has led some to think the
battle of Chivy Chase was fought in another place is that these hills
have lost the name of the Cheviot hills which they think belonged to
the whole chain of hills from Wooller to Ellisden, and another battle
was fought at Humble-down near Wooller which is mentioned in this
ballad. Earl Douglas was filled, and Peircy was taken prisoner after
the battle had been doubtfull two or three times, but at last the victory
was with the Scotch, almost with the loss of their whole army, and
1,500 English were left dead on the field. Near a measured mile
north west of the camp is a large heap of stones near the end of a low
ridge which extends first to the north and then to the west from the
camp ; so that we may suppose the English came down this end of the
hill, and that the sharp engagement was here. The Scotch were
buried on the spot. It is heathy all round except about 20 yards to
the south and west, where it is like a fine rich meadow ; and possibly
the bodies of the Scotch might be trenched into this spot in which
there are some inequalitys. On the top of the hill is a small mount,
and below it I observed a spot of rank grass, where the English might
be interred. It is a, large heathy plain below, and very fit for the
engagement of two armies. This spot is in the parish of Ellesden and
the ward of Otterburne. On the whole, this battle of Otterborn is
related by our historians in this manner; but in the famous ballad,
the action is represented only as a 'skirmish at a hunting match, be-
tween a handfull of men ; and both the chiefs were kill'd ; so that
action doubtless happen 'd in some other place about the hills which
now go by the name of Cheviot, and this is the opinion of the country.
We travelled this plain to the south west, and in about two miles
came to Greenchesters. The name would make one look for some-
thing Roman, and a branch of a military way is mention 'd as leading
to it from Ellesdon, and by Ely house a little to the south west, and
as crossing the Reid to Blaikhope15 close to the river and joyning

13 The two camps mentioned in the text are shown on the map prefixed
to Robert White's History of the Battle of Otterburn.

14 For an account of the Battle of Otterburn, see Rev. John Hodgson,
Northumberland, part n., vol. i., pp. 115-132; also a paper read by Dr.
Neilson, before the Glasgow Archaeological Society, on a fourteenth
century poem on the fight, by Thomas of Barry, canon of Glasgow.

15 This does not refer to the mountain named Blakehope, but to a
hamlet or farm of the name on the right bank of the Rede, near to
Elishaw bridge.

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there to Watling Street ; and at this place there is a ford over the
river, tho I saw nothing of the road ; but I observed a. furlong from
Greench ester,16 on the brow of the hill two sides of a small Roman
Exploratory Camp : but the south side of it is destroyed : under this
is Battlewood and a small enclosure below it, where they say bodies
were interr'd, and there were some little risings in the ground, and
the common notion is, that the slain were buried here, which might
be, in relation to some part of the army, that might skirmish or be
pursued. We went on about three miles up the river Reide, and came
to Rochester, sometimes called Ribchester and Ritchester, consisting of
two or three hamlets, at the upper hamlet are the remains of the
ancient Bremenium,17 twenty miles from Corstopitum at Corbridge,
by Watling Street : so that this road must have crossed the Reide
both here and at Risingham being 15 computed miles from Jedburgh.
It must have been about 24 from Ancrum or Chester where I suppose
was CoriaOttadenorum. This town was strongly fortified; the fossee
on which the wall was built being about fifteen feet high, and there
was a double fossee all round; and to the east I believe there were
three ; to the west at a little distance is a rivlet, and a glyn rather
deep so as to be a defence on that side ; on the top of the wall it was
near about 150 yards square, there are modern ruins in it, and they
talk of some gentleman having lived in a house built within the walls.
I here met with this imperfect inscription,18

v/ota IECMA

X SVSCEPTAE

\C I S$ hsEL VC

The famous inscription in Horsley, the 95th in Northumberland,
mentioning the name of the place, was found here. They have often
discover' d broken pots (probably urns) but I could meet with no
coins. From this place I returned by the river, and by Otterborn19
where is the only gentleman's house in this vale, and that not con-

16 See MacLauchlan, Map of Watling Street; and White, Battle of
Otterburn, p. 30, where there is a plan of Greenchesters Camp.

17 For a plan of Bremenium see MacLauchlan, Map of Watling Street;
and for a description, Bruce, Roman Wall, p. 313.

18 This inscription has not heen traced.

19 At the time of the Bishop's visit, Otterburn belonged to Miss Isabella
Hall as devisee of her brother Enoch Hall of Otterburn and Newbiggin,
Chancellor of Carolina, who died October, 1753.

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stautly inhabited ; then by a good house Netherwick,20 and Over
Aires,1 the Earl of Northumberland's estate, who is lord of the whole
dale. I saw on the opposite side of the river, on the hill, an old tower2 ;
and coming within a measured mile of Ellesden, crossed Ellesden
burne, and came over the heathy mountains to Woodburne where I
saw an old altar3 set in a wall of a cow house, on one side is a spread
eagle as in the cornice, and in the die is a flagon with a handle, a
patera below it, and a broad knife of sacrifice on one side. This altar
must have been brought from Risingham here; a little below this
place where the Woodburne falls into the Reide is a bridge over the
river.

We went about a mile over a hill to Risingham, another Roman
town, on Watling Street, and must have been Habitancum5 of the
Itinerary . . . .4 miles from Bremenium. A little above the town
are remains, as they told me, of a. stone bridge. This town is situated
very near to the river, but it may be concluded from part of the fossee.
which remains, that it does not seem to have been washed away by the
river : it was not very strong, the rampart not being above ten feet
high, and I saw no marks of a, second. It is about 140 yards square
on the top of the wall. I here found the following inscription,6 and
fragments

C I VL - P V PL-

?.\V$ Tfcl 8

VS. L' M-

I saw an altar7 cut in two all down in its length one piece was put
over a chimney, on the other was this fragment

20 Hatherwick, at the time of the Bishop's visit belonged either to
Thomas Hall of that place or to his son, Gabriel.

1 Overacres with the regality of Redesdale, purchased in 1754, by the
Earl, afterwards Duke of Northumberland.

2 Perhaps the tower of Troughend.

3 This altar was seen by Lionel Charlton in 1753, who communicated a
description to the Gentleman's Magazine for May of that year. See Rev.
John Hodgson, Northumberland, part n., vol. i., pp. 183-184; and Lapi-
darium Sept., Nos. 591 and 592.

4 A space is left here.

5 For a plan of Habitancum see MacLauchlan, Map of Watling Street,
and for description, Bruce, Roman Wall, p. 331.

6 Lapidarium Sept., p. 308, No. 590; C.I.L. vii., No. 991.

7 Ibid., p. 310, No. 596; C.I.L. vii., No. 992, marti|victori|-vl-pvbli|-ivs

TRIBJVSLM.

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At the same place is another altar8 but the inscription, if any, is
worn off at the bottom, and the letters inverted, and therefore I doubt
if ancient, which are these

O DANA ; II /

They find medals here ; I saw one of large brass of Maximian, and
another of the Low Empire. There were some inscriptions that lay
close to the river, and were washed away, but probably copied among
the several inscriptions which Cambden has given from this place, by
which it appears that the god Mogon was worshiped here, according
to a. tradition he mentions among the inhabitants ; there is a lower
bank between the rampart and the river. The folk on this side Wood-
burae are a good sort of people, but in Reiddale they are sharper
probably owing to the ancient Scotch incurtions. And in Tindale
they seem to be a people of great simplicity. We proceeded over
dismal heaths, two miles to the curious bridge of one arch over the
Hied, it is about one 3d. of a circle, turned with a double arch, and
two tiers of stone only over them for the battlement. A drawing of
it is here seen.8a

We came over the same kind of heaths two measured miles to
Billingham on Tine. In this vale Cambden mentions the old forts of
Wilchester, Delaby probably Dala,8b and Tarset, as formerly belonging
to the Commins9 ; I suppose of Scotland. The Tine is woody about the

8 This inscription has not been traced.

8aA drawing in Indian ink faces folio 68 of the MS. Beneath it is
written ' A Bridge over the Reid.'

8b Dalley or Dala Castle on the Chirdon burn was built by David de
Lindesey in 1237. See Bates, Border Holds, pp. 55-56.

9 The title of the Kings of Scotland in the franchise of Tindale is
believed to have root in the marriage of David I. with Maud, daughter of
Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland. From King David, Richard Cumin
obtained a grant of Thornton, Staincroft, etc., in the valley of the South
Tyne; and on the marriage in 1221 of Alexander II. with Jane, daughter
of Henry III., William Cumin, the Scottish justiciary, obtained the
privilege of holding a weekly market at Thornton. He was also the owner
of Tarset, where, in 1267, John Cumyn had a camera which he obtained
licence to crenellate (Bates, Border Holds, pp. 7-8).

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place where the Ried falls into it, and forms a beautiful vale as far as
I could see. Bellingham is finely situated on the Tine about two miles
above the confluence of the Reide. It is a poor small market town, of
not above fifty houses, and without any manufacture, 16 miles from
Haltwesel, 18 from Brampton, 12 from Hexham, and about 16 from
Bew-castle which I visited in Cumberland, which is .... 10 miles
distant from Longtown. This North Tine, the Lidd11, and thelrthing
which falls in at Carlisle, rising out of the same mountain about fifteen
miles off. They told me that all along North Tine to the Reid, and
on the west side below, there is only one parish (viz.) Simonburne,
and the church is situated at the south east extremity of the parish ;
There are two chapels of ease, one here, and one about six miles higher
at Fauton12 hall. Mr. Charleton, a Roman Catholick, has a large
house and pleasant situation a mile above the town.13 They have
lime-stone here towards the top of the hills to the south ; they have it
also to the north, and I believe in the same position. There is not one
bridge over North Tine, but they have a summer ford at the town,
and a winter ford a mile lower called Brigford which we crossed in
the way to the south, and observed a farm house Buckland14 to the
east of the Tine, which commands a fine view all over the valleys, and
adjacent country.

Tinmouth15 October 1760.

Dear Sister,

On the 3d. I set forward, and having cross'd the river,
came in a mile to the Tine again, which runns in a deep narrow valley,
the hanging ground being covered with wood and is very beautifull.
In about a mile we came to Lee-hall,16 a small gentleman's seat; here
the road turns to the west, we soon after came to a ford, which is the
best road, but not chusing to cross it, we came to green banks which
appears as if it had been a peninsula with a rivlet to the west of it.
Here the river turns again to the south. Ascending the hanging

io ' pive » erased here. X1 The Liddell.

12 Falstone, where there must have been a pre-Conquest chapel. An
Anglian inscribed stone found there, is described with a plate, in Arch. Ael.,
ser. 1, vol. i., p. 103.

13 Crossed through here. ' He is married into the baronet family of
Swinburne towards Morpeth of the same persuasion.'

Edward Charlton of Hesleyside married Teresa, daughter of Sir John
Swinburne of Capheaton, third baronet. The house at Hesleyside seen by
the Bishop, must have been the present mansion, which replaced a house
stated to have been destroyed by fire circa 1740.

14 Buteland in the parish of Chollerton and chapelry of Birtley. See
new History of Northumberland, vol. iv., pp. 363-375.

. 15 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14259.

lts A small estate in the parish of Simonburn, and on the right bank of
the North Tyne which formerly belonged to a Protestant line of the Tyne-
dale ' grain ' of Charlton, and the traditional scene of the Border story of
the Long Pack.

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ground, we had some very bad road through the woods ; as we should
have come to this place across the heath. In about two miles we
pass'd by Wark chapel which is allmost in ruins, and would be a very
convenient place for a chapel, as they cannot pass to Bellingham when
the waters are high ; and they are four miles from Simon-burne
church ; what remains is an old building and seems to have been
larger, there being two arches supported by a sort of Doric octagon
pillars now filled up with part of the north wall ; half a mile beyond
it is the village of Warke with a large mote-hill close to it ; we crossed
a rivlet on such a bridge as described over the Reide. In about two
miles we came near to Ninwick17 ferry from which there is a turnpike
road for two miles into the Military road from Carlisle to New-castle.
Allmost opposite to this ferry, is Ohepcbase, Mr. Reed's, a large well
built house of hewn stone of the last century with two fronts. At
Ninwick Mr. Algood has a small house new built with a handsome
front of hewn freestone, large offices, and a good plantation about it.
Haifa mile to the west of it is Simon-burne church. I saw Swinburne
Castle18 on the other side of the river, and a mile up the hill, Great
Swinburne, a handsome house19 Mr. Riddle's. On this hill, we
cross'd is a limestone quarry ; and soon came into the Military road,
the Roman Wall being on one side and the vallum on the other, it
then crosses the Wall, and both go down to Chester on the Wall20
about a quarter of a mile below the bridge, which is at Chollerford.
The Wall is resumed at the south side of the eastern gate of the
antient town Chester on the Wall and goes down to the river where
one sees the remains of the pier of the bridge1 in the bank, and more
of it appears when the water is low. The Wall and vallum is visible
all up the hill on the other side, and soon after, the Military road is
carried along on the Wall with the fossee to the left, or north, and the
vallum a little distance to the south, and so it is near as far the XVII.
Stone from New-castle, that is about 3 miles from the bridge, and
beyond that place where I turned of to go to Corbridge. How it is
further I do not know. In this Chester on the Wall, I was shown a
cavity called Adam's Garden, and a narrow building terminating in a
semicircle, which they told me was lately discovered, and was arched
over. This place call'd Chester on the Wall, or Warwick Chester, is
the Roman Cilurnum.2 I went half a mile south to Warwick Grange

"Nunwick, 'came by purchase from the Herons to the Allgoods/ in
whom the place rests. Rev. John Hodgson, Description of Northumber-
land (1813), 8vo, p. 137.

18 The Bishop evidently refers to Little Swinburn Tower. See new
History of Northumberland, vol. iv., p. 302.

19 For a description of Swinburn Castle and an account of the township
of Great Swinburn, see new History of Northumberland, vol. iv., pp. 272-
289.

20 Chesters, in the parish of Warden.

1 The ancient Roman bridge at Chollerford is fully described, with
plans, in the new History of Northumberland, vol. iv., pp. 164-168.
2Cilurnum is described in Bruce, Roman Wall, pp. 149-164.

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which belongs to Mr. Errington. Here are some reliefs, on one — which
was an altar, and is set into a wall with only one side visible — is an
instrument of sacrifice in relief with which they killed the beasts : on
another stone is the relief of a man on horseback with sword in hand
and much defaced, on another is a lyon with his paw upon a man on
the ground, in another compartment a man sitting with a pike in his
left hand, in the right a sword, and some other relief on the foot of
the chair. These as well as the inscriptions3 are in freestone and
much defaced, and I give them that it may be seen which of them have
been copied before when they were more perfect.

to N

Another

X H El

Under a head in relief within a corona which seems to be sepul-
chral, is this inscription4 : —

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COM = V
C A £" C I l I
?rRit c

On one which seems to be sepulchral5 : —

R AI3CU
//ASftVRX/.lP
II CAI- IVS2>£0

3 Lapidarium Sept., No. 125.

4 Ibid., Nos. 128 and 129 coh v | caecili[i] | procvl[i].

5 This inscription has not been traced.

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On a. small altar6 the top of which is broken off : —

I E F0 M € R I S
£T SV/S OMNI 3 V5

They now find very little coin at Chester.

We came into the road at the XXII Stone from New-castl1, passed
over a very good bridge, and ascended the hill, towards the top of
which are little stone quarries, and came to the church of St. Oswald7
which is entirely new built. There are ruins and signs of foundations
a.bout it. Oswald was king of Northumberland, made a saint probably
by the voice of the people, which was doubtless the way of canonizing
in those ages. Sigga a great man insidiously murdered Elfwald8 king
of Northumberland, on which the religious — it may be, professed
religious like the Culdees in Scotland — built a church to St. Outhbert
and St. Oswald, and the former title came to be swallowed up in the
latter. This happenned at Cilumum supposed as said to be Silchester
(sic) on the Wall. Oswald in a battle against Cedwall, king of Cumber-
land, invoked Christ, imagining he might be a tutelar deity to him ;
obtained the victory, became a Christian, and sent for Aidan of Scot-
land to instruct his people. The place where the battle was fought, was
called Heavenfield, now Halidon, which I was shown about five miles
to the north north east being on the heighth of those downs. We had
crossed the road from Alnewick by Rothbury to Hexam just beyond
the bridge. That place I saw in 1747. Queen Ethelreda,9 daughter of
Ina king of the East Angles, gave Hexham to St. Wilfrid, Bishop of
York, about 674 for an episcopal see, which he founded to St. Andrew :

6 Ibid.

7 The chapel, or church, of St. Oswald probably occupies the very
spot where King Oswald set up the cross before the decisive Battle of
Hefenfeld. See new History of Northumberland, vol. iv., pp. 176-180.

8 Alfwald the Just, King of Northumbria, was slain, 23 Sept., 788,
at c Scythlescester/ near the Wall, by the Patrician Sicgan. Bates,
Northumberland, p. 81.

9 Ethelrid, queen of Ecgfrid, King of Northumbria, and daughter of
Ine, King of the East Angles, gave to St. Wilfrid, in 674, out of her dower,
a tract of land comprising the district afterwards known as the regality
of Hexham. See new History of Northumberland, vol. iii., p. 105.

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There were 12 bishops in it before 814 when it was annexed to the
see of Durham. Henry I. gave it to the see of York in 1173 and the
Arch-bishop placed here canons regular of St. Austin.

I came on, passed the XVIII Stone and saw the lime-stone
quarries, and turning to the south east came in three miles to Cor-
bridge.

Newcastle2 October 5th, 1760.

Dear Sister,

About half a mile from Corbridge is Dilston castle,3 a
large house of the late Lord Derwentwater's built to a square tower
castle, there is a small chapel before it, in which mass used to be
said, and potage given to all the poor people who would attend it.
It is a fine situation. Near it at Denises-burne4 (now corrupted into
Dilsburne or Devilsburne) Oswald killed Cedwall, who had mur-
dered two kings of Northumberland. Opposite to it is Beaufront
a charming situation belonging to the family of Erington.1

Corbridge5 is a small town finely situated on the north side of the
Tine with hanging ground to the river. They have no manufactory
but subsist by the great road leading thro' it to Hexham, from New-
castle. The tower of the church seems to be old and built out of the
ruins of the Roman bridge (the stones having marks of iron champs
(sic) fixed in them) in the most barbarous time of the Saxons. Part
of it has been destroyed, several octagon pillars remain in it. The
Roman town Gorstopitum now call'd Cbleoester was about a quarter
of a mile to the west of the town, it is so defac'd that the walls and

10 For a list and brief notices of the Anglian Bishops of Hexham, see
new History of Northumberland, vol. iii., pp. 112-116.

II The ecclesiastical government of the church of Hexham with the
district which belonged to it were surrendered to Archbishop Thomas I. of
York by Uthred, Provost of Hexham, during the confused and troubled
times after William the Conqueror ravaged the North in 1071. Archbishop
Thomas II. sent secular canons in 1113, who were replaced by Archbishop
Thurston with Austin canons. The grant assumed to have been made by
Henry I. must have been after 1100 and before 1128; the Papal confirmation
is circa 1119. See new History of Northumberland, vol. iii., pp. 121, 125,
126, 130.

1 Crossed through here : — c The widow married Lord Molyneux, a
younger brother, the elder being a priest.'

2 Brit, Mus. Add. MS. 14259.

3 For an architectural account of the old mansion or castle at Dilston
with plans, see new History of Northumberland, vol. x., pp. 286-296.

4 The place where Cadwalla was clain after the battle of Hefenfeld
in 634, is fixed by a charter made in 1233 between Thomas de Whitington
and Archbishop Gray at Denisesburn, now the Rowley burn, where it
joins the Devil's Water. See new History of Northumberland, vol. iv., p.
45. There is a plate of the old mansion house of Beaufront, removed in
1841, in the new History of Northumberland, vol. iv., p. 198.

5 For a scholarly and very full account of the ancient Corstopitum and
the town of Corbridge and its church, with illustrations and plans, see new
History of Northumberland, vol. x.

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fossees cannot be trac'd, but there are signs of several walls running
from, east to west, and there are some little remains of two buildings
in a line from north to south, which they call Constantine's palace ;
and might be a public building where the Roman Emperors may
have lodged. Watling Street6 came down to it from the Roman
Wall, where the present road is now seen. They find a great num-
ber of coin, mostly of the Lower Empire, some silver also of the
Upper Empire, and a few of gold : the altars and everything relating
to sacrifices have been found at Colecester above mention' d, where
the temple might be. They have found not only plain red glazed
ware, but also much of that kind of ware with beautifull reliefs on
it with the names of the potters and (DF for Officina after all 'the
names, as vxolini, aventini.m. in which last M. stands for Montis, of
the mountain,611 silvi.capellani.alavtiani. And Mr. Walton" the
minister has these, and several other pieces of antiquity, among them
a sort of a leaden tessera., of the size of the small brass of the Lower

Empire ; on it civaele with a star and branch under it ; reliefs of

-**

a boar on one stone, and a Capricorn on another ; on a stone is this

inscription8 : —

IMPE.M
P I V O N J O

victo a i

NO PF

A VG

On an altar having a Greek inscription9 which with one other

c For an account of Watling Street, see new History of Northumberland,
vol. iv., pp. 214-219; and MacLauchlan, Survey of the Watling Street, etc.

GaMr. Robert Blair writes that the Bishop was in error, and that M
•stands for ' Manu,' by the hand of.

7 John Walton, the younger, succeeded his father of the same name
as vicar of Corbridge in 1742; he was a correspondent of Stukely and
several of his letters are printed in vol. 80 of this series. He died in
1765, and some portion of his collection of Roman antiquities apparently
went to Netherby.

8 This inscription has not been traced.

9 Described in new History of Northumberland, vol. x., pp. 496-7, No. 1.
See also Lapidarium Sept., No. 637.

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are all that ever have been discovered in Britain is a patera on one
side, and a flagon on the other : —

A C T > Til C

B QJ~ Ho /v m
$ ec<> PAc
tto y* \-x e pa<

On another stone<Ja : —

ifL-r

TlTlCi/K

VlBn/y/

TA£
UVI\tc F

On a stone now much defaced at the north east angle of the
church is an inscription10 which he told me is as follows : —

LEG. II. AUG. COH. IV. FECT.

There are several statues of a lyon over another lyon which is-
fallen under him, two large ones I saw, so that it was probably the
military sign of the legion stationed here.

The following inscription11 was lately found at Halton (Nunnum)
(sic) on the Wall in which the mention of two legions is extra-
ordinary : —

9aThis inscription has not been traced.

10 Described in new History of Northumberland, vol. x., p. 502, No. 22.
See also Lapidarium Sept., No. 645.

11 This inscription has not been traced.

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On the 3d. I set out and went eastward, not far from the river
to Biding, and beyond the mill on the rivlet called Dipton, ascended
the hills. In a mile more we came to Bromley. And then to Lead-
hills whereto they bring piggs of lead, which are smelted at Dukes-
hill mills,12 ; the ore being brought from the mines of Alan and
Wardle13 belonging to Sir Walter Blacket, and are conveyed to
Bladen in order to be carried by water to Newcastle. I saw a castle
upon the banks of the river Tyne which I take to be Eltringham.14
We came to Wittenstall Chapel,15 the west part of which is in ruins ;
it is an old Gothic building. There is a long stone16 in the church —
yard with these letters on it c o l. but whether old or not I cannot
say. We pass'd over another hill and descended to a delightfull
vale on the Derwent, near which the fields and meadows are adorned
with clumps of trees in a most beautifull manner. The vale also in
which the Tine runns, is most charmingly divided with fields en-
closed with wood. This country is supplied with limestone from
Cleydon16a in the Bishoprick, brought by sea, and then in flat bottom'd
boats to Blaydon.

12 For an account of Dukesfield smelt mills, the carriage of lead or pack
horses, and of the inn where the horses rested at Leadhill, see new History
of Northumberland, vol. vi., pp. 162, 372.

13 Weardale, see p. 210, supra.

14 There is no castle at Eltringham ; the Bishop evidently refers to
Prudhoe Castle.

15 The only fragment of the ancient chapel at Whittonstall, which was
taken down in 1830, is an Early English corbel figured in new History of
Northumberland, vol. vi., p. 199.

1G The Bishop evidently refers to a coped grave-cover having a sword
incised down the middle, which though shattered still exists.

16a Cleadon, near Sunderland.

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We ascended up to Ebchester, a village which is on the site of the
antient Vindomora, nine miles from Corstopitum. The rampart to
the west and south is over the glyns by which it was defended, it is a
little irregular to the west as the ground is. The old town was
about 200 yards long from north to south, 170 from east to west.
They have found shores covered with flag stones and the outlets
arched towards the valleys. They find no coin, and all the inscribed
stones have been carried away. I met with a small altar just dug
out with this inscription18 on* it : —

On one side

<£

X> L0 N*

ARKLN

/v\JG KP»

On the other side

We had entered the Bishoprick of Durham when we passed the
Derwent. I went on, and descended to a vale on the Derwent, and
went over another hill, which led to the collieries, and turned to the
left out of the road to Gibside, the late Mr. Bowes's, where I had
been very kindly entertained by him in 1747, who carryed me from
Durham to his house here and showing me, or taking care that I
should see, every thing curious in the country. He was then making
the fine green terrace which is very broad, and about a measured mile
long, just before the house ; we came through a lawn on the river
with single trees in it, and turned up by the wTood (by the road which
leads to the house) in which there are winding walks on the side of
the hill, which lead to a summer-house at this end. We rid through

17 For an account of the station at Ebchester, see Bruce, Roman Wall,
p. 346; Arch. Ael., ser. 1, vol. iv., p. 266; Proceedings of Newcastle Society
of Antiquaries, ser. 2, vol. iii., pp. 55-58; iv., p. 186. An account of the
early history of the place may be found in a paper by the late Mr.
W. H. D. Longstaffe, in Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeo-
logical Society of Durham and Northumberland, vol. ii., p. 125. For some
notice of the very early Norman church, by Mr. C. C. Hodges, see Proceed-
ings of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries, ser. 2, vol. iii., p. 56. The
church suffered a ' restoration ' in 1876 ; and in 1912 with misplaced zeal a
tower was added which, like an upstart, breaks the tranquillity of the
ancient building.

18 Cf. Lapidarium Sept., p. 351 = deo m|arti et n| avg n.

19 Some account of the stately mansion of Gibside, now deserted by its
owner, and of the history of the place may be found in Surtees, Durham,
vol. ii., pp. 253-254.

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the wood and came to the house with a lawn between it and the
grand terrace. From the lawn at the house is a view of a pillar at a
distance on which is the statue of Liberty gilt, and going through the
wood, we soon came to a handsome building facing the east, which I
believe serves for some office, and then to a piece of water of a
multangular figure. Over which on the hill is a large Gothic build-
ing for a summer-house with slopes up to it. We then rid about a
mile through the wood having a view of the pillar in some places,
by that road in which Mr. Bowes20 that day fortnight was carried
to be burried at the parish church of Wickham. The whole ride
through these plantations is about two measured miles. There was
an old house, of the style of building used in the time of King James
I. to which they have made an addition in the same line and a
return ; we came, in about two miles, to Wickham, and saw to the
left Sir Thomas Clavering's fine large house,1 the shell of which is
just finished, in hewn freestone, and a little beyond it are the great
iron works which I formerly viewed. They belong to Mr. Crowly.2
We then came most of the way by the coal wagon-roads, in which it
is curious to see the wagons go down the hills without any horse or
man to draw them ; only a man to stop the wheels when it is too
steep, the horse being tyed behind, and when they come on a level
he is taken of and draws, the wheels are of cast iron with a rim

20 George Bowes of Gibside, born, 21 Aug., 1701; died at Gibside, 17
Sept., 1760; and was buried at Whickham. He was succeeded by his only-
child, Mary Eleanor Bowes, who married first John Lyon, ninth earl of
Strathmore, in those descendants the estate rests; Lady Strathmore married,
secondly, Andrew Kobinson Stoney of Grey fort, Tipper ary.

1 Sir Thomas Clavering, seventh baronet, the representative of opulent
Newcastle merchants, descended from the very ancient house of Clavering
of Callaley, born 1718, built his new mansion house from a design of
Payne's in the grounds of White House, in the parish of Eyton, an old
seat of the Selbys, and transferred to it the name of a seat-house at Axwell
Houses, across the river Derwent, in the parish of Whickham.

3 For accounts of the ironworks established at Winlaton circa 1690 by
Sir Ambrose Crowley (died 1713), see Surtees, Durham, vol. ii., pp. 272-273;
and Monthly Chronicle, vols. 1888, p. 97; 1889, p. 148; 1890, p. 536.
Sir Ambrose Crowley had an only son, John Crowley, born 1689, who
married Theodosia, daughter of Doctor Joseph Gascoigne, vicar of Enfield,
and had issue two sons and four daughters. The sons, John and
Ambrose, died s.p. and the great inheritance fell to the four daughters
and their issue. Elizabeth Crowley, the second daughter, became the wife
of John, "second Earl of Ashburnham, 28 June, 1756.

In addition to the great wealth which Lord Ashburnham obtained by
his marriage with Elizabeth Crowley, he acquired some of the magnificent
silver plate which was offered for sale at Messrs. Christie and Manson's,
24th, 25th and 26th March, 1914. The Crowley pieces comprised : —

A toilet set of silver gilt, weighing 626 oz., most of the articles having
been made in 1719 by George Pyne and having the arms of Crowley
impaling Gascoigne ; sold for £6,100.

A wine cistern weighing 667 oz., made in 1720 by Gabriel Sleath,
having the arms of Crowley impaling Gascoigne; sold for £1,934.

A centre piece weighing 513 oz., made in 1747 by Nicholas Sprimont„
with the arms of Ashburnham and Crowley; sold for £307.

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round within which hinders them from going off the frame and they
are made a little hollow from that rim to the outside. I came to
Newcastle on Tine.

Sunderland3 October 8, 1760.
Dear Sister

From Newcastle I made an excursion on the 4th to the
north east, went about a mile in the Morpeth road, and in two miles
came to a large village I think called Gosford. In a mile more to
Long Benton, beyond which is a church. In 2 miles we came to
Kilingworth, in two more to Base-worth.4 and about a mile further
to Sighill where Mr. Algood of Nenwick,5 mentioned before, has a
house built to a castle. Here Cambden,6 I know not for what reason,
places Segedunum. I enquir'd after it, and about a quarter of a mile
north of the house I was shewn a small entrenchment about fifty
yards square, and there is another about a quarter of a mile near
west of the same size, which I look upon only as a sort of iircetorium
for the general, and it may be a second great officer when the Roman
army were on their march. We went on a little way to the north,
and then about two miles to the south east, to Seaton Delaval, where
I saw Mr. Delaval's house and plantations. The avenue, about half
a mile long, is planted on each side with wood : and there is an
obelisk on one side which is not high enough, as the woods are grown
up. At the back of the house and to the south are plantations and
walks, and a high pillar terminates the view one way. The house is
exactly in the Vanbrugh style with a high pavilion in the middle, a
tower on each side towards the middle, and a sort of a bow of five
sides at each angle of the front said to be the architecture of Sir
George Refeld.7 But the offices on each side are in a good style; in
the length of one is a narrow gallery for a library. The house con-
sists of a hall up to the top which is all hewn stone within as well
as the galleries ; in these niches on each side towards the top are six
colossal statues representing the Arts and Sciences. On each side of
it are family apartments. The hall leads to the grand apartment at
the back of the house, first a fine saloon, then a dining room, a
drawing room and a room beyond it with a bow window in the side

3 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14259.

4Backworth, in the parish or chapelry of Earsdon.

5 Sir Lancelot Allgood obtained Seghill in marriage with Jane Allgood,
only child of Robert Allgood of Nunwick, also, at length, heiress-at-law
of George Allgood of Seghill, who died in 1727. He was knighted in 1760.
See new History of Northumberland, vol. ix., p. 71.

6 For a discussion on Camden's attempted identification, see ibid., p. 54.

7 The mansion house of Seaton Delaval, as designed by Sir John
Vanbrugh, was commenced in 1720 and completed in or before 1729. It
suffered greatly from a fire in 1752, and it is probable that the rebuilding,
which was on the original plan, may have been under the superintendence
of the ' Sir George Befeld ' mentioned in the text. For a description of
the structure see new History of Northumberland, vol. ix., pp. 179-182.

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of it ; all well furnished and adorned mostly with family pictures, but
there are some good Italian pieces, as a Bassano, &c, and some of
the family pieces are well copied by Mrs. Ashly,s a lady of the family,
who had a genius for painting. Most of the good pictures9 were the
furniture of the Admiral's10 cabin, who if I mistake not was at the
taking of Vigo.11 They have a good reding house here.

I went on and passed through the small village call'd Seaton, and
then by Hartley saltpans, and in four miles came to Tinmouth. About
half a mile to the north of it on the sea. I observed a mount which
seemed to be an old Roman fort and if the Vallum did come so far,
as some imagine, it is a probable termination of it, and answers by
the name of Penval Craig, (the head of the Rampier in the rock).
Tinmouth is a most pleasant situation at the mouth of the Tine,,
where the castle takes up the south east angle. Horsley makes this
Segedunum and places Tunnocetum at Boultness where the Alia
Classica was stationed. Oswy12 king of Northumberland caused
Oswik another king of Northumberland to be murdered, and his body
iwas buried in the oratory of St. Mary at the mouth of the Tine,
where many lived together in a monastick way. Hingheu and
Hubba the Danes13 destroyed this monastery, and the monks flying
to a church, they burnt them in it. There was a castle here belong-
ing to the Earls of Northumberland. Earl Robert de Mowbray14
brought monks to the old church and made it a Benedictine cell to
St. Albans.15 It then seemed to have been only near the castle within
wrhich it is now enclosed. He made it a stronghold when he rebelled
against William Rufus and, being obliged to surrender, he retired to
the monastery, but was taken out of it, and confined in a noisome

8 Rhoda, daughter of Francis (Blake) Delaval, Captain R.N., born
1 July, 1725, married 23 May, 1751, Mr, Edward Astley of Melton Constable,
afterwards fourth baronet.

9 The picture gallery is broken up and its contents are scattered. The
best pictures seem to have gone to Ford Castle; and on the sale of that
estate in 19..., some of the family portraits were transferred to Lord
Waterf ord's Irish home at Curraghmore ; other portraits are at Doddington
in Lincolnshire.

10 Vice-Admiral George Delaval, born circa 1660, sometime envoy to the
Emperor of Morocco and to the King of Portugal, became owner of Seaton
Delaval in 1718, by purchase from his kinsman, Sir John Delaval. He
provided the consideration paid for the estate and paid for the building of
the mansion house out of his prize money.

II Vigo was taken 12 October, 1702.

12 Oswin, King of Deira, slain by Oswy, King of Bernicia, was buried at
Tynemouth, as was asserted and believed, and was afterwards made the
patron saint of the monastery.

13 The Danes under Halfdene sailed into the Tyne in 875 and destroyed
the Anglian monastery of Tynemouth. See new History of Northumber-
land, vol. viii., p. 40.

14 Robert de Mowbray, the Earl of Northumberland, fell into rebellion,
and was defeated in 1095 to suffer a long imprisonment before his death.

15 Robert de Mowbray, transferred the church of Tynemouth to the
Abbot and Convent of St. Albans in 1085.

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prison till he died. It appears that the original church16 was des-
stroyed, for a large Saxon17 pillar or two, and an arch remain at the
north east end of the body of the present church, which was rebuilt
with octagon pillars and the Gothic Doric capital. But the east end
and transept (which latter is mostly destroyed) is a most magnificent
Gothic building, with three long narrow windows at the east end and
on each side, adorned with sculpture, and there are signs of the
arches that covered the buildings, but there is an addition over these
of at least 15 if not twenty feet, with oblong square windows, and
the building within is not cased with hewn stone. I could not con-
ceive the purpose of this, unless that the arch having fallen in, or
being destroyed, they intended to raise the church, but the Reformat
tion coming on, and the monastery being dissolved, prevented the
design. There are ruins of great buildings of the monastery to the
south of the church. The bad entrance to the harbour, occasion'd
by a bar of sand and rocks, is remedied as much as possible by light-
houses18 <fec. Here is great resort in summer for bathing in, and
drinking of salt water. The port of Newcastle reaches to North and
South Sheels,19 and a little higher up where there are great salt
pans.20 To this place, the coals are brought in lighters down to the
ships ; and here is commonly a man of war ; and at Tinmouth are
batteries for defence of the harbour, and » barrack for several com-
panies:, who are always quartered here in time of war. I came nine
miles to Newcastle, passing near Walls-end at three miles from the
town, where the foundation of the Wall has been dug up ; and here,
it is supposed to have ended. Near Sheels a Roman altar was found
several years agoe of which Dr. Lister1 gave an account to the Royal
Society.

Newcastle, anciently called Monk-Chester, is a town, and county
finely situated on a rising ground to the north of the Tine, and is a
large populous town. They compute 30,000 souls, and have four
churches, or rather one church and three chapels.2 In the principal

16 For an exhaustive description of the church and monastery of Tyne-
mouth with plans and illustrations, see new History of Northumberland,
vol. viii., pp. 136-153.

17 The Anglian stones of Tynemouth are figured ibid., pp. 132-135.

18 For notices of the light-houses, ibid., pp. 205-207, 274-278.

19 For an account of Sir William Brereton's visit to South Shields salt
pans in 1638, see p. 18, supra.

20 Probably Howden Pans.

1 See Philosophical Transactions for 1682 No. 145, p. 70. Martin
Lister, M.D., was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2 Nov., 1671.

2 The great church of St. Nicholas is the parish church of Newcastle,
and the incumbent thereof is the Vicar of Newcastle. Under it and within
the parish are the three ancient parochial chapels of St. Andrew, St. John
and All Saints, formerly called All Hallows, the incumbents of which,
though now styled vicars, are perpetual curates, and are admitted by the
bishop's licence, on the presentation of the vicar of Newcastle as patron,
without institution or induction.

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church, which is the mother-church, there is much Gothic work ; the
old stalls remain in the quire, and skreens about the chapels and at
the west end of the quire.3 The castle was rebuilt by Duke Robert,
the Conqueror's son ; it is a square high building and perfectly in the
Saxon taste4; from this castle the town changed its name to New-
castle. It is encompassed with walls,5 and they say that Pandon-gate6
is a tower of the old Roman Wall. They have an exchange, market
house, and a good quay. The old town is ill laid out, the streets
being steep and narrow up the hill ; but in the upper parts of the
town are some wide streets where many gentlemen have houses who
live constantly in town, and others who winter here. Dr. Tomkins7
gave his books to the Corporation, and Sir Walter Blacket, or one of
his family, built a library for them, and settled a larger salary on
the librarian.

Besides the great trade of coal, they have glass-houses,8 the trade
of iron-ware made at the iron-works near, by Mr. Crowly.9 They
export lead having first melted it down and taken out the silver they
get. A great quantity is sent to Holland to make white lead, and it
is said the Dutch extract more silver out of it. They here export
the salmon which is caught in the Tweed at Berwick, and also the
salt made at Sheals and other places, build a great number of ships,
and import every thing for the use of Northumberland, Durham
Westmoreland and part of Cumberland, so that they have great shops
of all kinds. And the new Military road10 is an advantage to their
trade, for Carlisle is supplied with everything from Newcastle that
comes from the north and eastern ports, along the British sea,. It
is thought to be Pons JElis of the Notitia. The Corporation here

3 All the carved wood work in St. Nicholas's was torn down and the

* many f aire monuments ' were removed in 1783, in the first of the many

* restorations ' which the church has since suffered, and no doubt will
continue to endure.

*The castle of Newcastle was built in 1080 by Robert, son of William
the Conqueror.

6 For an admirable account of the town walls see a paper by the late
Mr. Sheriton Holmes on ' The Walls of Newcastle-upon-Tyne/ Arch. Ael.,
ser. 2, vol. xviii., p. 1.

6 Pandon gate is figured in Richardson's Table Book, vol. ii., p. 374. It
was pulled down in 1795. •

7 ' Tomkins ' underlined, and in another hand * Tomlinson, quere,'
written above it. See Six North Country Diaries, p 89, for notice of
Dr. Thomlinson's foundation. When the rooms built by Sir Walter
Blackett, adjoining St. Nicholas's, were desired for ecclesiastical purposes,
such portion of the library as had escaped the neglect of six or eight
generations was transferred to the Public Library of Newcastle. The
endowment, secured by a rent charge on the farm of Kearsley in the parish
of Stamfordham, has been commuted or sold, but the proceeds of the same
have not been transferred to the Public Library authorities.

8 Not one of the glass houses, which stood in the Close, at the mouth of
the Ouse-burn and further down the river, now remains.

9 See p. 212, supra.

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has 10,000/. a year : and pay large stipends to their ministers. This
place is also a great thoroughfare to Scotland, so that it is every way
the fourth town for trade in England, after London, Bristol and
Liverpool. There is a large bridge11 over the Tine, half of it belongs
to Durham, and the other part to Newcastle, and is divided by a gate :
They have shops in each side of the bridge. It leads to the suburb
called Gateshead in the Bishoprick of Durham which is much in-
habited by colliers. Here is a beautifull Gothic chapel12 with seven
single windows in front, a fine door case, and two ornamental niches
in two stories on each side. It was a Popish mass-house13 and
destroyed by the mob in 1745, and is now in ruins.

Hartlepoole14 October 9th, 1760.
Dear Sister

I made an excursion 8 miles to the south to Chester on
the Street where there is a fine light spire to the church in which are
many monuments of the Lumley family. A little beyond it we left
the high road to go to Lumley Castle and crossed the Were. It is
a most noble building with a tower at each angle and built round a
court. This family is descended from Liulphus a nobleman of the
time of Edward the Confessor. Ralph was made Baron of Lumley
by Richard II. John Lord Lumley15 collected all the monuments of
the family, made some new ; and placed them in the church of
Chester16 at which church the Bishops of Lindisfarne17 lived 113
years, during the Danish wars and brought to it the body of St.
Cuthbert. Bee, Bishop of Durham, founded here a collegiate church
with a dean and seven prebendaries. Bishop Egelric is said to have

10 The Military road connecting1 Carlisle with Newcastle, was made by
General Wade in the middle of the eighteenth century.

11 The Tyne bridge erected in the thirteenth century was destroyed by
the great flood of November, 1771.

12 The chapel of the Hospital of St. Edmund at Gateshead.

13 According to Surtees, Durham, vol. ii., p. 127, the destruction of St.
Edmund's house at Gateshead by the mob took place in 1747.

14 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14259.

15 John, Lord Lumley, ultimus, died 11 April, 1609.

16 The same John, Lord Lumley, inflated by pride of family,
caused to be placed in the church of Chester a long line of tombs to
represent his ancestors as he thought they should appear. Two out of
the twelve were obtained from the Cathedral of Durham by licence of
Bp. Matthew; they were not of members of the Lumley family, but probably
that of FitzMarmaduke. Another, the effigy of the said Lord Lumley's
father, may be accepted as correct. See Transactions of the Architectural
arid Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, vol. iii., p. v.

17 When the congregation of St. Cuthbert fled from Lindisfarne on
account of the Danish invasion, they settled at Chester, circa 882, on the
site of a Roman station : there they built themselves a church of wood
which remained until the time of Bishoj) Egelric (1042-1056) when he
replaced it by one of stone. See ibid., vol. iv., pp. lxxiii.-lxxiv., where the
story of the recovered treasure is mentioned.

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found a great deal of money in digging here to rebuild the church,
and left his bishoprick, returned to his abbey of Peterborough and
made several causeys through the Fens. Lumley Castle stands very
finely ; in it is a hall in which are the pictures of Richard the II.,
giving the patent,18 and of several of the first lords : beyond that is
a very fine saloon highly finished with stucco, a large dining room, a
drawing room, and two others; above are very convenient bed
chambers. In the rooms are several pictures mostly either family
pieces, or of kings and queens and great persons. 18a

I went three miles further up the Were, on the other side of it is
Cocken19 Mr. Carr's, a most beautifull place. The river winds and
forms a peninsula., and some others beyond it. One ascends from the
river up to the house by a riding through a wood, you then go to a
high ground which commands a view of the river, and winding round,
a peninsula appears and several views of it in different parts. The
walk winding round the heighth (sic), and at length leads down to the
river near Finkale Abbey, where there is a walk up the river with
high perpendicular cliffs, and trees growing out of them, and wood on
the hanging ground on the other side, and so also below where we
saw a seam of coal in the rock. We came to a lawn, and then had
lower cliffs in the same manner on the other side of the river, all
finely kept and adorned with flowers and flowering shrubs, which
makes it altogether a most delightfull place. I went over to see
Finchale Abbey.20 Here lived Godrious a hermit, and here Bishop
Pudsey's brother built a chapel. It was afterwards a prior)- and cell
to the monastery of Durham. Synods were held here in 788 and
798. The present church is large, and appears to have been allmost
destroyed, and they have built up Gothic windows between the
pillars ; they are of the Doric Gothic, and there is something parti-
cular in the capital. The pillars that supported the tower in the
middle are seven feet in diameter and one is 8, in which there is a
stair case. The priors lodging seems to have joyned to the church ;
under the refectory are vaults supported by pillars, and there are
great ruins about it, so that probably it was a place for the monks
of Durham to retire to in summer, from which place it is about four
miles.

18 Described by Surtees, Durham, vol. ii., p. 154.

18a Crossed out here. ' An estate came into the family by an heiress ;
whoever took that estate was not to have the old estate of the family, and
it being about £500 a year better than the Lumley estate. This is given
up to Mr. Lumley, a younger branch of the family.'

19 For an account of Cocken in the parish of Houghton-le-Spring, with
pedigree of Carr, see Surtees, Durham, vol. i., pp. 206, 208-209.

20 For an account of Finchale Abbey, see Dr. Kaine's volume, being
No. 6, and the Eev. Joseph Stevenson's volume, being No. 20 of this series;
Inventory of the vestments, books, etc., circa 1481, edited by Dr. Fowler :
Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham
and Northumberland, vol. iv., p. 134; Proceedings of the Newcastle Society
of Antiquaries, 3 ser., vol. vi., pp. 229-236.

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I left New-castle on the 8th and came six miles on the south of
the Tine to Jarrow, formerly called Gerwy, the native place of Bede,
where he studied and lived, in whom learning seemed both to revive
and dye. It was founded by Bishop Benedict in the time of King
Ecfrid, who sent Ceolfrid to it as first abbot, with 17 monks from
Weremouth, and probably he inspected and directed the building,
and therefore in the following inscription,1 which is in the wall of
the church, is called the founder.

DEDICATIO BASILICAE

SCI PAVLI Villi KL MAII

ANNO XV EGFRIDI REG

CEOLFRIDI ABB. EIVS DEMQ it IS SO (sic)

Q. ECCLES. D. />. AVCTORE

COND1TORIS ANNO IIII

In ancient times large churches, with a body and a quire, were
called basilicae. It was dedicated to St. Paul, and William of Malms-
bury by mistake places at Weremouth. The tower of the church is
built with clumsy Saxon arches between the body and the quire. The
tower on the outside also is of Saxon architecture with two arched
windows on two sides, within a square compartment; below is a
window divided by a Saxon pillar ; from the top of this it begins to
lessen gradually to the upper windows. The windows to the church
are arched and small. There is a porch to it, which seems to have
been patched up to the old door, and the church has been widened
with a Gothic arch on each side. They pretend to shew Bede's Chair;
the two sides are of thick oak and seem to be old, but all the other
parts seem to be modern additions. There are some remains of the
refectory and other buildings, and particularly to the south of the
church, with some old Saxon door-cases, which might be the chapter-
house, and abbot's lodgings. It is a fine elevated situation, a penin-
sula between the river and a rivlet that falls in here, into which the
tyde comes. From this place I went three miles to Cleydon2 lime-
stone quarries, in which there is in one part, what they call the coral
bed, about ten feet thick, there being for four or five feet over it a
bed of coarse stone, and sort of round nodules joyn'd together,
appearing to be made by the running of water. When broke, they
appear some of them stony in the middle with sparry shoots from

1 When the nave of the church at Jarrow, with part of the chancel, was
rebuilt in 1782, the inscription set out in the text was taken from its
place in the north wall of the chancel and removed to the arch of the
tower. See Surtees, Durham, vol. n., p. 67; ' The Monastery and Church of
St. Paul, Jarrow,' by J. R. Boyle, where the stone is figured; Arch Ael.,
2 ser., vol. x., pp. 195-217; 'Jarrow Church and Monastery,' by the Rev.
H. E. Savage, now Dean of Lichfield; Arch. Ael., 2 ser., vol. xxii., p. 30;
also Inventories and Account Rolls of the Houses of Jarrow and Monk-
wearmouth, ed. Raine, being No. 29 of this series.

2 Cleadon, in the parish of Whitburn.

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the centre stone, and such there are between the bed of the coral.
The coral runs through the bed and is large, it seems to be of the
Madrepore kind, but in some other beds there are smooth stones
with circles in them which do not go through but lye in thin lamina,
and no sign of such veins from the center as in coral. Some of the
nodules seem to be entirely shot out and no stone left in the middle,
and that in shape of some of the ribbed limpets. I took specimens
of all these kinds. There is some which resembles what is commonly
called petrified moss. I was at East Bowden, but there it is a plain
stone. This stone is sent to distant parts to make lime being near
water carriage.

I went on to Monks-Were-mouth,3 opposite to Sunderland, where
the same Bishop Benedict built another church and founded a
monastery, and I believe the old church is still remaining. Con-
cerning this Benedictine cell, see Tanner's Notitia. On the side
of the Were they build ships. At Whitburn adjoining, some Roman
coins have been found.

I crossed the Were, the Vedra of Ptolemy and the new map, to
Sunderland,4 a town which lias risen up within this 100 years, mostly
by the coal trade. It consists chiefly of the lower street near the
key and river, and the upper street, and some lanes which go from
them. They have built a pier 400 yards long and near 40 feet broad.
To part of it is a wall to the south ; and there are stairs down to the
water, and windlaces to draw up ships or boats against the current,
and the whole is flagged. They are at great expense in improving
the harbour. They have large decked boats on which women throw
up all the earth and gravel they can get up, and then the boat is taken
out, and 'tis shovePd into the sea ; and they also dredge for the earth,
and draw harrows backward and forward in the water in order to
loosen the earth that it may be carried out by the current. They
have a fine large church5 built about 50 years agoe of brick, and
arched sash windows with window cases, door cases and cornice of
freestone. The roof is supported by Corinthian pillars ; near it is an
hospital on one side ; and, to the south, an assembly room and hos-

3 For notices of Monkwearmouth Church, see ' Abbess Hilda's First
Religious House/ by Rev. H. E. Savage, now Dean of Lichfield, Arch. Ael.,
ser. 2, vol. xix., p. 47; Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeol-
ogical Society of Durham and Northumberland, vols, ii., iii., v. ; the Rev.
J. R. Boyle ' on the Monastery and Church of St. Peter, Monkwearmouth/
Arch. Ael., ser. 2, vol. xi., p. 33; see also The Early Christianity of North-
umbria, a lecture delivered at Sunderland 6 April, 1875, by A. P. Stanley,
Dean of Westminster : privately printed by Mr. V. A. Williamson, 1904.

A The town and township of Sunderland in 1719 constituted a parish and
rectory by Act of Parliament, being taken out of the ancient and extensive
parish of Wearmouth, has come to give its name to the two Wearmouth
parishes on either side of the river.

*It is stated that Sunderland parish church retained to the third
quarter of the nineteenth century a square communion table which stood in
a circular recess, covered by a dome, at the east end of the chancel,
presenting a late survival of the Puritan fashion.

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pital6 for decayed seamen and their families. The ships are half
laden at the keys, then go out and the coals are brought in lighters
to fill them ; and in bad weather so many drop into the sea., that the
poor pick them up and are chiefly supplied with fuel this way.

Gisborough7 October 10th, 1760.
in Yorkshire.

Dear Sister,

On the 9th I left Sunderland, went three miles by the
strand, and observed in the freestone cliffs some thing like a ludus
Helmontii made by a sparry substance, and the compartments were
three feet each way. Most of the stone on the shear is lime-stone.
We went seven miles to Eden, and then down again to the strand,
and came by it four miles to Hartlepool,8 which is a most beautifull
and singular situation, being a peninsula joyned by an isthmus to the
west, on which there is a wall defended by towers, some of which
are round, others square, and an arch turned in the wall now filled
up, which probably was to bring in their small boats within the wall
in time of danger. This enclosure extends a little way to the north
west ; on the other side, the town is mostly defended by cliffs
towards the sea. It consists of one broad street, near the end of
which is the fine church and tower, and beyond that some fields on
the cliffs to the east, as well as on each side. To the Gothic single
windows of the church are false windows on each side, and the round
pillars on each side of these are in the Saxon style; and the south
door is Saxon. They have built buttresses originally to the tower;
those to the west seem to have formed a porch, on each side of which
is a door with a treble arch. In the porch to the south door, are a
sort of Corinthian Saxon small pillars the capitals of which are a
running foliage; each side of the porch was divided by them into
three parts, the other pillars being in couplets. The isles have been
refitted with a sort of Venetian window in imitation of the Gothic.
The east end extended, as 'tis said, twelve yards further. The pillars
of the arch leading to it were also Saxon, the others are adorned
with a fillet and the middle pillar is pointed : the other pillars con-
sist of eight round pilasters.

There was a monastery9 here to the north of the church ; but all

6 For some notices of the charitable institution known as the Muster
Roll for Seamen, which owns the assembly room and almshouse, see Surtees,
Durham, vol. I., p. 267.

7 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14259.

8 For a general history of Hartlepool, see report of the late Mr.
W. H. D. Longstaffe's address, delivered there 23 May, 1865; Transactions
of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northum-
berland, vol. i., p. xii.; see also the Rev. J. F. Hodgson, on Hartlepool
and Darlington Churches, Arch. Ael., ser. 2, vol. xvii., pp. 145-201.

9 See History of Hartlepool, by Sir Cuthbert Sharp, and Surtees,
Durham, vol. in., p. 119.

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is destroyed, and the house built on the spot is called the old Frery.
Bede calls this place Heorfte. Huntingdon calls it Gervi insula,
and sales a woman called Heiu built a monastery here about 640.
She is also called St. Bega. This monastery was called Heorthu
and St. Hilda was Abbess of it. This probably was at the church ;
and the Grey-friers founded before 1275 was probably at the friery.
They have two bastions to defend them from the privateers, and a
pier to shelter the shipping.

Their chief support is the colliers putting in when the weather
is bad, and some export of corn and a small market : and of late
years people come to drink the salt water and bathe. They have a
handsome town-house which serves for an assembly room. The shear
affords some curious shells, as the red and purple Came ; the small
Trochi and Buccinum ; the phrygian bonnet, limpet and others.
The rocks here are freestone. It is nine computed miles to Stockton
on the Tees : the Dunum Estuarium of Ptolemy, and the Tera of
the new map, and when the tyde is in, it is eleven.

Stockton is finely situated and most beautifully laid out, the
principal street is about fifty yards broad, with a town house and
shambles in the middle of it, and it is a quarter of a mile long. Two
streets run paralell with it from the east for about 200 yards, and
there are three or four streets which lead from it to the keys and
bank, for there is a key at each end; and to the east they build
ships. At the end of the town is a handsome well built church of
brick, the windows are built in this singular manner [a sketch] being
divided into three parts;, with piers of brick arched over instead of
iron as usual in windows of that kind, and at the east end a window
in this form with an entablature at the spring of the arches and the
window frames and piers with bases is formed into a kind of Vene-
tian window which has a. good effect on the whole, the middle window
being divided also by mullions instead of iron bars according to the
common way. Beyond the church m a bowling green with buildings
on three sides of it, among which is a store-house for giving out of
flax to spin, as they have a great manufacture of sail cloath, and
other coarse cloaths. They have also an export of corn, butter,
bacon, and lead.

I went four miles to Yarum10 (by a turnpike road) situated on
the Tees in Yorkshire, over which river there is a bridge here of five
arches. The river forms a peninsula, and small vessels come up to
the town ; which consists of a. very handsome street, a. small town
house and some lanes which go from the streets. They have & hand-
some church of stone almost new built. There is a great market and
large store houses, the merchants of Stockton buying up goods here
which are brought even from Cumberland. Near the church is a
field called Road-hill, where there are some old foundations, and they

10 See Graves, History of Cleveland, p. 62, for a description of Yarm
circa 1808. The author was curate of Worsall near by.

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have a notion that here was a monastery. This might be the hos-
pital11 of St. Nicholas founded by one of the Bruse family in 1185 and
granted afterward by Alan de Wilton to the canons of Helagh Park.

At the west end of the town Mr. Farmer has a house and pleasant
walks from it on the hanging ground over the river. This is called
the Frerie and here also they suppose there was a, convent. And
without doubt it was the house of the Black Friars founded by Peter
de Brus the II. who died in 1271.

I went on from Yarum and left the Gisborough road to go to
Stokesly through Hilton where there is a small old church with a
Saxon door case and windows ; and by Semer, where there is likewise
a small old church with Saxon windows, that is, narrow arched-
windows without any carved work.

Stokesly12 is a small market town on Levenbee (sic) which runs in a
beautifull glyn richly adorned with wood. The town consists of one
well built street. They have a good Gothic church fitted up with
carved seats, there is a singular old font, something in the shape of
a bell inverted. They have a very great fair here for black cattle.
Here a certain writer saies (but he is mistaken in the place) the
famous battle of the Standard was fought, which Standard was never
erected except when the kingdom was in great danger. In this
bloody battle David King of Scotland was defeated by Tunstal, Arch-
bishop of York, who was King Stephen's lieutenant. This battle
was fought near North- Allert on. The Standard was a mast, on the
top of which they placed a silver pix with a consecrated host, and
the banners of St. Peter and St. John Beverley.

I went on to Gisborough through a very pleasant country, and
near the Cleveland hills the foot of which is improved in fields and
roads. All this road from Yarum is mostly a clay ground without
stones ; the roads in winter are excessive bad ; and they have narrow
paved cause-ways for one horse. We had left the Leven and came
to another small river on which Gisborough, called by historians
Gisburne, stands most beautifully situated, about four miles from the
sea, encompassed with an amphitheatre of hills, beautified with
woods. It is a poor town of one street, and the houses are mostly
thatched ; however they have a manufactory of sail-cloth. Robert
de Brus who came over with the Conqueror and (sic) who gave him
one and fifty manors in this Riding, by the advice and importunity of
Pope Calixtus the II., and of Thurston Arch-bishop of York founded
here, in 1129, a most noble monastery13 of canons of St. Austin, and

II For an account of the Austin Hospital at Yarm, see Dugdale,
Monasticon, vol. vi., part ii., p. 636, where is printed the charter of Peter
de Brus.

12 The name of the river is the Leven. For an account of Stokesley,
see Graves, History of Cleveland, p. 222.

13 The Guisbrough Chartulary, ed. by Mr. William Brown, is given in
Nos. 86 and 89 of this series. In the introduction to these respective
volumes there may be found the history of the priory of Austin Canons.

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was buried in it; and it became the burial place of most of the
nobility of these parts. There is nothing of it remade ing but part
of the enclosure, and the grand east end of the church which seems
to be a building of much later date than the foundation. The
window is exceeding beaut if ull and lofty, and what is particular, over
it is another broad Gothic window. There are two buttresses on each
side : in that to the south a false Gothic window is cut in relief.
The historian Walter de Hemingford was of this monastery. It now
belongs to the Chaloners I suppose descended from Sir Thomas
Chaloner, tutor to Prince Henry, who discover' d the alum mines
here, which are not now worked. It was granted to him14 in the
time of Edward VI. A large house is built out of the materials of
the monastery. There is a good Gothic parish church to the north
of the abbey, the arches of which are supported with octagon pillars.
On the shore at the bottom of the rocks, under Huntley Nab, they
find many of the round stones which contain the Comu Ammonis ;
and at the first clift (sic) they find coperas15 stones and pyrites.

As in these northern parts they draw with oxen and horses before
them, two and two, so here, when the roads are bad, they draw with
four oxen and two horses before them.

Upon all this coast from Sunderland they have a boat called a
coble, it is flat bottomed, in order to land on the strands, has a flat
keel arm'd with iron towards the head, where it mostly wears, and a
rib, nailed along the bottom on each side from the head almost the
whole length, to defend the bottom ; it is cut off at the stern, so as
to be about 18 inches broad, and 'tis said they endure the sea better
than a sharp bottom 'd boat.

14 The site of the monastery of Guisbrough and lands adjacent were
granted 31 Oct., 1550, by Sir Thomas Challoner, knight, and Dame Joan,
his wife, and his heirs. He was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, 20 Oct.,
1565. There is an excellent pedigree of Chaloner of Guisborough in
Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions, ed. J. W. Clay, vol. ii.
(1907), p. 230. Mr. Brown points out a curious account of Guisbrough and
the neighbourhood conceived in very inflated language in a letter written
about 1640, printed in the Topographer and Genealogist, vol. n., p. 403.

15 The discovery of the copperas of commerce is ascribed to William
Scurfield of Sunderland, surgeon, who purchased a portion of the estate of
Ford in the parish of Bishopwearmouth in 1750.

DIARY OF JOHN DAWSON OF BRUNTON.

INTRODUCTION.

John Dawson of Brunton, in the parish of St. John Lee, was the
son of Robert Dawson, who had inherited a small estate in the
township of Wall from his father and grandfather, whose surname
appears in lists of tenants of Wall from 1538 downward. He
was an only son, and his father dying in 1729, he was educated at
Queen's College, Oxford, where he matriculated 17 March, 1745/6,
aged 19, his name having been already entered at Gray's Inn, 30
Jan., 1743/4. In 1752 he married Barbara Hall, who died after
giving birth to his only child, a second John Dawson, who was bap-
tized at St. John Lee, 28 October, 1753. When the Northumberland
Militia was first embodied in 1759 under an Act of Parliament passed
30 George II., John Dawson was appointed to be captain of a Tynedale
company, his lieutenant being Francis Dawson of Newcastle, perhaps
a kinsman, and his ensign Henry Fenwick of Hexham. The Diary
printed is very much concerned with the doings of the Militia during
the year 1761. In the month of August, 1766, he married secondly,
in London, Anne Smith, described in the Gentlemen's Magazine of
that year, as of Brampton, the niece of Doctor Thomas, Dean of West-
minster; and he died in the month of April, 1769, and was buried
at St. John Lee.

The Diarist's only son John, or Jack, as he is named in the Diary,
in whose education the father was so much interested, was entered at
Gray's Inn, 16 June, 1768, and married Frances, daughter of William
Smith of Haughton Castle. In his life time he sold his property at
Brunton, reserving a lease of the house, and dying s.p. 18 March,
1807, was laid beside his wife at St. John Lee, she having died on the
8 May, 1806.

The Diary now belongs to the Rev. Thomas Stephens, vicar of
Horsley in Redesdale, who having already communicated large
extracts to the Proceedings of the Newcastle Society of Antiquarians,
ser. 3, vol. iii., p. 46, has generously permitted the Editor to include
it in the present series.

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DIAKY.

1761. March 8. Sunday. Berwick. On Saturday the first of
March, 1760, the Northumberland Regiment of Militia1 came into
Berwick. We have now been fifty -three weeks in Berwick gone
yesterday. For the last week past we have had several accounts of
mobs rising to prevent the execution of the Militia Laws. Not at
church to day. I am heartily tired of a soldier's life. This after-
noon I was introduced by our major to Captain Fordoyce. Captain
Reed2 went home yesterday. Lord Jeffreys was a rascal, witness his
conduct to Baxter, ' I know how to deal with saints as well as sinners/
The Life of Atterbury is not compleat, for Warburton says that Mr.
Pope was sensible, that he (Atterbury) when in France, was engaged
in the intrigues of the Pretender.

[1761.] [March] 9. Bloody Monday. The mob arose at Hexham
yesterday. Orders for trying Jack Gibson by a Court Martial. I
am inclined to think he will be tied to the halberts. Discipline must

1 The following notices relating to the Northumberland Militia are
from the Newcastle newspapers of 1759 : —

All persons qualified to serve as officers in the militia of the county of
Northumberland, and willing to accept commissions therein, are desired to
meet at Mr. Grey's, at the Swan Inn, in Alnwick, on Thursday, the fifth of
April, 1759, etc., etc. Signed Northumberland. — Newcastle Courant, 31
March, 1759.

(Similar notice in respect of the militia of the town of Newcastle.)
At a meeting in Newcastle, called by the Lord Lieutenant, held on the
5 April, John Erasmus Blackett, Edward Mosely, and Robert Stephenson,
esquires, offered to serve as officers in the militia for the town. — Newcastle
Courant, 7 April, 1759.

Tuesday the Deputy-lieutenants met the Right Hon. the Earl of
Northumberland, Lord Lieutenant for the County of Northumberland, at
the Turk's Head, agreeable to his advertisement, on militia affairs, on
which business the following gentlemen offered personally, or by letters, to
serve their county as officers on this constitutional plan, viz. :

Field Officers : Sir Edward Blackett, bart. ; Sir Matthew White, bart. ;

George Delaval, esq.
Captains : Abraham Dixon, esq.; Christopher Reed, esq. ; John Erasmus
Blackett, esq. ; John Hall, esq. ; Gabriel Selby, esq. ; William
Ward, esq.; John Dawson, esq.; William Ord, esq.; Alexander
Collingwood, esq.; Stephen Watson, esq.
This grand point being now happily compleated, we hope soon to see
the militia of Northumberland on as noble a footing as any of the southern
counties. — Newcastle Courant, 30 June, 1759.

2 Christopher Reed was son of Christopher Soulsby of Newcastle, mer-
chant, and nephew and devisee of John Reed of Chipchase, whose name he
assumed. He was appointed captain in 1759, the year the militia was
embodied : he died 6 Nov., 1770, aged 48. For a pedigree of Reed, see new
History of Northumberland, vol. iv., p. 347.

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be kept up j from what I have heard of his offence I think that whip-
ping will be too severe. Let the punishment be proportioned to the
offence. Man who was made in the image of God ought not to be
stript for every trifling offence, but he has offended several! ways.
1st, he would not attend divine service; 2nd, he was found in a
pub lick-house ; 3rd, he was Yerj fuddled; 4th, he abused the Ser-
jeant who took him prisoner ; which severall offences (if proved
u(pon) him) I am affraid, will make his judges somewhat severe upon
him. But punishments in the army are salutary, they are produc-
tive of much good order amongst the men.

It is said that the vacant commissions in the regiment will be filled
up some time the next month. I know of no seniority nor any one
officer whose merit exceeds that of another. To decide the affair to the
satisfaction of the majority of the subalterns will be for them to
ballot, or cast lots. Our case is not the same with that of the
regulars ; with them there is both seniority and merit ; with us it is
otherwise, we all took up arms at one and the same time, neither has
any of us ever been in action, where then is seniority or merit ?

This -evening at roll-calling I saw one of our soldiers in his new
regimental coat ; the lace contributes much to set it off.

Mr. Pratt informed [us] of his engagements with and intention of
marrying Miss Paterson, Sr John['s] sister.3

Surely the best scholars are the best citizens, for here I find that
those whose minds are least cultivated are absolutely very indifferent
company ; I should say dangerous company — half an hour is badly
spent amongst many of them. Surely it may be called, without im-
propriety, premeditated murder of time. Three of the greatest men
in history were disgraced for bribery and corruption, viz. : Demos-
thenes, Seneca and Bacon. Bacon did not die in poverty, he had a
genteel sufficiency to support any gentleman, but he was naturally
profuse. He was the first that opposed Aristotle's philosophy. All
Europe is indebted to him for opening the passage to true philosophy.

[1761.] March 10. Tuesday. Awaked this morning about 4
o'clock and arose at 6. Without a good knowledge of the Scriptures.
a man never can make a tolerable figure in society; the best and
wisest men have been in all ages and in all nations the strongest advo-
cates for the sacred writings, but with the abandoned and ignorant
we find the reverse. A man starving of hunger would be deem'd a
madman to refuse victuals when offered to him, but. how must we
term that man who refuses to eat of the bread of life, to whom immor-
tality is offered and yet rejected. What fools are men !

This morning I attended the court martial upon Gibson's and
Beard's trials. Gibson can hardly escape; Beard may, he being a
young soldier. There is a necessity to support the authority of the

3 William Pratt of Warenton in the parish of Bamburgh, a scion of a
family of opulent Berwick merchants, was appointed ensign in 1759. The

lady referred to was , daughter of John Patterson, and sister

of Sir John Patterson of Eccles, third baronet. See p. 266 post.

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sergeants j if the officers permit the private men to affront them with
impunity, they may bid a final farewell to discipline. Admonitions
are of no service to some» brutes now among us. One lecture upon
the shoulders is worth a thousand administered to the understanding.
Not that I am a friend to severity ; but who can expect, indulgence
from their officers when they (the men) are continually rebelling
against your authority. If they are dissatisfied with their stations
let them hire another to supply their places. Let punishments take
place ; for to try without punishment is to make a Penelope's Web
{that is) it is doing nothing. Punish according to the sentence, or
leave of (sic) holding court-martials. Without punishment they will
be regarded only as bugbears.

This evening I met Mr. Surtees4 of Hexhamshire. It is said that
he is courting Miss Fewster5 of Bambrough.

[1761.] March 11. Wednesday. This morning the regiment
under arms. Gibson and Beard were flogged : Gibson instead of
receiving 150 got 80 lashes ; Beard got 50 instead of 100.

By letters this morning from Alderman Ridley and Captain
Blackett we are informed of the melancholy affair that happened at
Hexham6 on Monday last. Severall thousands being assembled to

4 Anthony Surtees of Newbiggin, in Hexham Low Quarter, son of
Anthony Surtees of Milkwell-burn, attained the rank of major in the
Northumberland Militia in or before 5 April, 1778; gained great credit for
his services in helping to quell the Gordon riots in London in 1780. He died
unmarried 20 July, 1803, aged 60, and was buried at Hexham Abbey. See
pedigree of Surtees of Newbiggin, new History of Northumberland, vol. iv.,
p. 38.

5 The Fewsters were a Derwent valley family. The lady may perhaps
have been the Dorothy Fewster who, in or before 1763, became wife of
Henry Grey of Shoreston, and died in 1820, aged 78.

6 We are informed by good authority from Hexham that on Monday
last, the Deputy-lieutenants met there, pursuant to an advertisement for
that purpose, to receive lists from the constables, of the persons in Tindale
Ward liable to serve in the militia; and that being previously informed
from different parts of the county, that a great number of persons were
determined to assemble in a riotous manner to prevent such lists being
delivered in : a detachment from the two battalions of the Yorkshire
militia quartered at Newcastle, was, at the request of the Deputy-lieuten-
ants and Justices, ordered by Colonel Duncombe, under the command of
Major Crow, from thence to Hexham, and, on the day of meeting, was
drawn up in the market place near to the gateway that leads to the sessions-
hall The rioters still remaining obstinate and not dispersing, tbe

Proclamation in the Act for Preventing Tumults and Riotous Assemblies,
was made; soon after which the rioters attempted to force the lines of
militia to come at the Deputy-lieutenants, and one of them, with a pistol,
wounded Ensign Hart, of which wound he is since dead : a party of the
rioters then breaking into the militia, the magistrates were obliged to and
did give the command to fire, which was accordingly done and a great many
of the rioters were killed and others of them wounded. This put a check
to the firing of the rioters who thereupon fled and dispersed themselves .-^~
Newcastle C our ant, 14 March, 1761.

The Bichmondshire regiment commanded by Colonel Sir Ralph

Milbank, bart., marched hence last Monday for Scarborough.

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prevent the justices from putting the Militia Laws in execution ; six
companys of the Yorkshire militia, which were sent there the day
before, were formed into a hollow square, when the mob broke in
upon them, in which they fired some platoons. Mr Ridley7 says that
17 men were kill'd upon the spot; Captain Blackett8 says 20, besides
numbers wounded. Ensign Hart9 was shot thro' the body. Major
Crow was commander. Another mob was expected to rise last Mon-
day, near Newcastle, on which a Capt[ai]n's guard was appointed for
the protection of the town.

At the club this evening.

[1761. March] 12. Thursday. It was expected this morning
that the mob would have rose at Ancroft. 15 men were ordered out
of each company to be in readiness to go there in case Mr. Temple10
thought it necessary : Captain Selby11 to command.

Supt at the Harrow12 this evening. Mr. Temple said there were
about 60 men assembled but no disturbance. This mob was against
the militia.

Gratitude obliges us to confess that we part with this battalion with regret
on account of the service they did us in suppressing a most terrible
riot at Hexham. — Newcastle Journal, 23 May, 1761.

7 Matthew Eidley of Heaton, alderman of Newcastle, of which town he
was mayor in 1733, 1745, 1751, and 1759; M.P. for Newcastle in four suc-
cessive parliaments from 1747 to 1774; died April 6, 1778, aged 66. Ancestor
of Viscount Eidley. See Men of Mark, vol. in, p. 319.

8 John Erasmus Blackett, one of the younger sons of John Blackett of
Newcastle, born Jan. 1, 1728, became free of the Merchants' Company in
1753, by patrimony. He became a captain in the Northumberland Militia in
1759. On the 31 March, 1761, he was married at the Episcopal Chapel,
Edinburgh, to Sarah, daughter and co-heir of Bobert Eoddam (more than
one of whose immediate ancestors had been postmasters of Berwick), and
with her sister, owner of the beautiful farm of Hethpool in the highlands
of Northumberland. John Erasmus Blackett died 11 June, 1814, leaving
issue him surviving, Sarah, wife of Admiral Lord Collingwood ; another
daughter, Martha, wife of Benjamin Stead, sometime of Eyal in Stamford-
ham, having, apparently, died in his life-time.

9 1761. March 10. Mr. Joseph Hart, ensign of ye Yorkshire Militia,
buried. Hexham Registers.

10 William Temple, burgess and collector of H.M. Customs at Berwick,
mayor of that town in 1749 and 1753, married Sarah, daughter of Alexander
Johnson of Newcastle, with whom he obtained property at Allerdean,
near Tweedmouth. His affairs became disordered about the year 1763. He
was the great grandfather of Dr. Temple, the archbishop of Canterbury.

11 Gabriel Selby of Pawston in the parish of Kirknewton, was son of
Gerard Selby of the same place by his marriage with Sarah, daughter of
Gabriel Hall of Catcleugh in Eedesdale. He was a captain in the Northum-
berland Militia in 1759, major in 1764, and subsequently lieutenant-colonel.
He married Anne, daughter of Wilfiam, fifth Lord Cranstoun, by whom he
had no issue. He died, the last heir male of his ancient line, June 9, 1785,
aged 68, and was buried in the family vault at Cornhill chapel. See Six
North Country Diaries, p. 264.

12 There is not now any inn or licensed house in Berwick under the sign
of the Harrow, but there is an old-established house in Tweedmouth so
designated.

17

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Sat up very late.

This evening I sent Corporal Forster and Cuddy Oliver to Mr.
Forster's for the clock, which they got. This clock I lent to Forster
when at Bellingham, from Highfield, which he thought proper to
bring along with him to Berwick. Honesty!

By a letter from Mr. Heron, clerk to Cuthbertson,13 we are in-
formed that Mr. Tulip was of great service in forming again the left
wing of the square which was broke by the mob.

Ensign Hart is dead.

Cuddy Oliver says that as he came thro' Wall last Monday morn-
ing he met several of my neighbours going to join the mob at Hexham.

By a letter received a few days ago I find that Mr. Loraine of the
Wood Head14 is dead.

[1761. March] 13. Friday. At the Harrow last night, Mr.
Pratt declared he was to be called with Miss Paterson at Eccles
church on Sunday first : he is to keep her a, chaise and pair.

" George Cuthbertson the elder, and his son George Cuthbertson the
younger, were successively Town Clerks of Newcastle. The first-named
died in 1767, having survived his son, who died in 1756. Ealph Heron of
Newcastle, solicitor, in, or before 1763, made a Gretna Green marriage with
Anne, daughter of George Cuthbertson, the elder, to whose practice he
seems, eventually, to have succeeded. He died 13 April, 1801, aged 64.

11 1761. Feb. 23. Mr. Robert Lorran, Bufront Woodhead, buried.
Register of St. John Lee. Notice to his creditors was given in the
Newcastle Journal of May 16, 1761, to send in their claims against his
estate to Mr. William Hunter of Hexham.

I. Thomas Loraine was probably one of the thirteen younger sons of Sir

Thomas Loraine of Kirkharle, first bart., by Grace Fenwick, his wife.
By his marriage with Jane Errington, he had (perhaps with other)
issue, a son, Robert II. and two daughters, viz., Margaret, wife of
Robert Young of Hexham (articles before marriage dated 18 April,
1749), and Mary, wife of Robert Alder of Woodhall in the parish of
Alwinton (articles before marriage 26 Nov., 1764).

II. Robert Loraine of Beaufront Woodhead, mentioned in the text, was

probably the only surviving son of the above-named Thomas Loraine.
He died in February, 1761, intestate and according to his widow's
statement insolvent, having had sons and daughters, viz.: —

(1) Edward Loraine of Hexham, married Isabella, daughter of
John Nattrass (who married 12 June, 1777, secondly, Nicholas
Ruddock of Hexham and Okerland) by whom he had issue an
only daughter Jane, wife of the Rev. John Heelis, rector of
Broughton.

(2) George Loraine married Jane Grews, and had with other issue
five sons, viz., Robert Grews, Robert Grey, George Allgood,
William Clark and Edward.

(1) Jane, imbecile, living 1778.

(2) Frances, wife of William Caley of Kingston-upon-Hull,
married 2 Jan., 1781.

(3) Margaret, wife of Thomas Smith of the parish of Alwinton,
married 28 Nov., 1782.

(4) Mary, deformed, living 1778.

(5) Anne, wife of John Smith of the parish of Rothbury, married
31 May, 1781.

(6) Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Champneys of Burstwick (sic)*
married 10 Jan., 1781.

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An Independant Company of Highlanders came to town yester-
day. One of the officers, a little man, assisted in carrying General
Wolfe off at Quebec. Great desertion amongst them !

This night at the Harrow : Captain Campbell there, also Lieuten-
ant Campbell, Lieutenant Forfar, of the Independant Highlanders.15

[1761. March] 14. Saturday. This day, Robin Hymers, my ser-
vant, came to Berwick.

Two letters this morning to Sr Matthew White from Captain
Reed about the mob at Hexham.16

Robin Hymers' account of the mob at Hexham. By report : —
(1) 120 kilPd on the spot and dead of their wounds.17

15 (Wednesday) Captain Graham's Company of Highlanders came in
here from the North. — Newcastle Courant, 21 March, 1761.

Yesterday the several Companies of Highlanders which lately came
here from the North marched to the Barracks at Tynemouth ; when the first
division of them consisting of 120 men commanded by Captain Gunn, came
in here from the North. — Ibid., 11 April, 1761.

Yesterday Captain McCauley's Independent Company of Highlanders
came in from the North. — Ibid., 18 April, 1761.

Monday, Captain CampbelFs Company of Highlanders came in here
from the North.— Ibid., 2 May, 1761.

16 The following list of men and women wounded in riot at Hexham is
preserved in the Rev. John Hodgson's collections : —

James Wood, Burtonside, husbandman; Robert Rowell, Gunnerton,
farmer; Thomas English, Aynick, labourer; Thomas Robson, Heley-burn;
James Robson of Healey-hill-head, husbandman ; Henry Waugh, farmer at
Blakelaw; Henry Hogarth, Newbrough, pitman; Jos Burdus, Slaley;
William Usher, Delicate-hall; John Storey, Coastley; Leviston's wife;
John Elliot, Hawkwell, weaver; Matthew Fairlamb, Cronkley, farmer;
George Barrow, High Fotherley; Henry Leighton's son, Broomley, tailor;
William Heslop, near Wylam; John Coulson, Gunnerton; Michael Scott,
Acomb; William Ridley's son, Hexham; William Shotton, Corbridge;
Joseph Rowell, Moor-house; William Carter's wife and son, Hexham;
Johnson, Loudside; John Hepple, Birkley; John Charlton, Birkley; Ralph
Dodd, Birkley; George Johnson, Wall, waller; John Dixon, Low Airdley;
James Cumming, Hexham; James Howard's daughter, Hexham; Thomas
Bates, Bellingham; Matthew Crow, Newburn; William Willy, Whittins-
dale (sic); William Brown and his two sons, Whittinsdale (sic); Roger
Robson, Lambshield, servant; John Elldart, Shortmoor, nigh Chipchase;
William Lamb, Low Staward ; Thomas Pattison, Needspeth; William
Forster, Harlow Hill ; Thomas Bamborough, Beal ; John Coats, Gunnerton
Hill-head; Nicholas Forster, Staward, William Watson, Fourstones ; Thomas
Forster, Hollands; John Gibson, Hexham; John Dodd, Hexham, shoe-
maker ; John Carr, Throckley ; Matthew Maudlin, Thomas Sandford, Joseph
Rowell, Newton-hall.

17 The following persons, buried at Hexham, seem either to have been
killed or to have died of wounds received in the Riot: —

1761. Mar. 10. Joseph Dodd, Stamf ordham ; Christopher Johnson,
Ordley ; William Scott, Swinburn ; Matthew Fairlamb, Cronkelton ; Michael
Burdus, Slaley; John Roe, Cambsaugh-house ; Anthony Brown, Sandhoe;
William Brown, Hugh-mill ; William Watson, Fourstones ; William Ruther-
ford, Rochester; John Minto, Forsett. — Hexham Registers.

1761. Mar. 11. George Schiddel, Crookgate; John Elliot, Stamford-
ham; Thomas Fewster, the Hollings; David Murrah, labourer (Hexham);
John Dodd, cordwainer (Hexham); Jane, wife of Thomas Levingstone,
Gateshead. — Ibid.

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(2) George Johnson18 of Wall, mason, killed.

(3) Will. Pattison of Wall, wounded in the arm.
»(4) Proclamation against riots, three times read.

(5) Bellman sent twice about the town.

(6) Ensign Hart shot.

(7) Carter's wife19 shot ; big with child : the ball found in

the child's belly.

(8) Barbarity in some of the Yorkshire militia ; running

their bayonets thrice into a man's body when lying at
James Charlton's shop door. (Not true, written in
margin.)

(9) Mr. Allgood's house guarded by 14 men.

(10) Query. If J did not give the word to fire [in margin

G. Delavel].

(11) Numbers found dead upon the roads.

(12) 13 men lying in Hexham church, not owned.

Captain Reed says that 20 were killed upon the spot and that the
surgeons had dressed the wounds of 80, most of which were mortal.
At Dr. Doubleday's this evening.
[1761. March] 15. Sunday. Not at church to day.

[1761. March] 16. Monday. This morning Samuel M'Cleary in
my company received a letter from Hexham ; by it we learn that not
less than 200 have been killed and wounded in the late Riot at Hex-
ham. The Newcastle paper this day says that not only Mr. Hart was
shot and one of the soldiers killed, but that the mob had also broke
into the lines of the militia before the word to fire was given.

[Written in margin ' upon conversing with Dr. Smith he is of
opinion that about 200 were killed and wounded.']

This morning 20 men out of each company were ordered to be in
readiness to-morrow morning to march to Bellford to oppose a riot
intended there against Wednesday first.

Mr. Forster promises me to write to Willson about three pounds
overpaid to him on Willson's account.

This morning the Independant Company of Highlanders marched
to the South.

[1761. March] 17. Tuesday. This morning 200 of our men
under the command of Captain Selby marched to Bellford to protect
the justices in case there should be a riot. Officers sent, Selby,

18 1761. Mar. 11. George Johnson, Wall, buried. St. John Lee
Registers.

19 1761. Mar. 10. Sarah, wife of William Carter, wheelwright, buried.
Hexham Registers.

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Burrel,20 Hall,1 Gibson,2 Moseley,3 adjutant,4 8 sergeants, 10 cor-
peralls.

[1761. March] 18. This morning Sr Matthew White5 went to
Bellford to attend the meeting, and this command devolved upon
myself; 3 field officers and 6 captains now absent.

This afternoon the 200 men, &c, returned from Bellford. The
mob did not appear, but it is generally believed that in case our men
had not been there that a very great mob would have been assembled
there.

Colonel Crawford went from hence this afternoon to Edenburgh.

Sr Edward Blackett6 came to town this evening.

Tulip7 has been absent 7 weeks, this day, from Berwick.

At the club this evening, and I was appointed president.

[1761.] March 19. Thursday. This morning Mr. Charlton of
London, druggist, call'd upon me. Supt with him, Mr. Stanton and
a gentleman of Leeds at Tweedmouth.

20 William Burrell of Howtell in the parish of Kirknewton, the
stammgut of the family of Burrell, succeeded his father also named William
in 1731 or 1732. He was a lieutenant in the Northumberland Militia in
1759. He died at Wooler in the month of January, 1783, the last male
heir of his ancient house, leaving issue three daughters and co-heiresses.

1 Probably Edward Hall of North Shields, who occurs as a lieutenant
in the Northumberland Militia in 1759.

2 Reginald Gibson of High Balk, in the parish of Corbridge, who occurs
as ensign in the Northumberland Militia in 1762, and afterwards captain in
the same regiment. He died at Corbridge, March 30, 1809, aged 75.

3 Edward Moseley of Newcastle, who occurs as lieutenant in the North-
umberland Militia in 1759 and again in 1762, was apprenticed, 4 Dec, 1734
(as son of Rowland Moseley of York, apothecary, deceased), to Joseph
Watson of Newcastle, hostman, and was admitted free of the Hostmen's
Company, 17 Sept., 1741; mayor of Newcastle, 1767, 1774, 1781; died, 12
Feb., 1798, aged 81. Monumental inscription, St. Nicholas', Newcastle.

4 John Evans, who was adjutant of the Northumberland Militia in 1759,
died 29 Sept., 1778.

5 Sir Matthew White, of Blagdon, bart., the only surviving son of
Matthew White of Newcastle, merchant adventurer, was high sheriff of
Northumberland in 1756 and was created a baronet the same year with
special remainder to the heirs male of his sister, Elizabeth, wife of Matthew
Ridley of Heaton, was majoi* in Northumberland Militia in 1759, and
lieutenant-colonel in 1762. Hying 21 March, 1763, he was buried in the
old church of All Saints, Newcastle.

6 Sir Edward Blackett of Newby, fourth baronet, elder brother of Johu
Erasmus Blackett, already mentioned, was colonel of the Northumberland
Militia in 1759, and Knight of the Shire for Northumberland from 1768 to
1774. He obtained Matfen in marriage with Anne, daughter and heir of
Oley Douglas of Newcastle, and died in the month of January, 1804.

7 Henry Tulip, of Fallowfield, in the parish of St. John Lee, born
circa 1724, was a lieutenant in the Northumberland Militia in 1759, was
captain in 1762, but apparently retired soon afterwards. He acquired
Walwick, in the parish of Simonburn, by purchase and is described as a
good-tempered inoffensive man. He died unmarried December 3, 1800, aged
76, and was buried at St. John Lee.

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To-day Mr. Rumney8 got a letter from his brother at Alnwick,
who says that it was reported there that the mob had rose upon the
Westmorland militia which are at Carlisle and had kill'd several of
them. Not true.

[1761. March] 20. Good Friday. My servant Robin Hymers
taken ill this morning. This day seven years my poor mother died.

This morning Mr. Charlton9 calPd upon me to take his leave ;
he is going to Reedsmouth.

Sent for Dr. Doubleday10 to see Robin.

The report concerning a mob rising at Carlisle is without founda-
tion.

This evening I bought Pope's ' Homer's Iliad and Odessey ' ; they
want the cuts.

About three nights ago I called at the hospitall to see Truman
the barber ; he was in great spirits, his leg mends fast. To morrow
it will be eleven weeks since his leg was broke.

[1761. March] 21. Saturday. Regiment under arms. Sr Edward
thanked the men for their behaviour at Bellford and gave them 10
guineas to drink.

Mr. Rumney my landlord went to Alnwick to visit his brother for
a few days.

Robin is much better.

The weather is very cold.

There is to be a grand meeting on Monday first at Morpeth on
account of the late riots.

Paid Dr. Doubleday lO.s. for Robin.

8 The Rev. Joseph Rumney, master of Berwick Grammar School, 1750-
1801, vicar of Berwick, 1768, to his death, February 24, 1805. By his wife,
Miss Isabel Harrison of Appleby, he left issue. His brother, Abram
Rumney, educated at Appleby, was master of Alnwick Grammar School
from 1737 to his death, December 21, 1793, aged 77. He is stated to have
been married thrice, his second wife being Anne, daughter of Jonathan
Harle, Nonconformist minister and physician, the most distinguished
clergyman who has served at Alnwick. A kinsman of these two brothers,
Peter Rumney, was master of Hexham Grammar School, 1765-1771, per-
petual curate of Hexham, 1765 to his death, Feb. 16, 1771, aged 56.

9 ' Mr. Charlton of London, druggist/ who called on the diarist on the
19 March, and on the following day set out for Redesmouth, was apparently
a member of the family of Charlton of the Bower and of Redesmouth (see
pedigree, new History of Northumberland, vol. iv., p. 375). He may,
perhaps, have been William Charlton, baptized at Warden, 6 May, 1720,
being third son of Edward Charlton of Hexham, M.D. : this William
Charlton died at Bath in 1776.

10 Nicholas Doubleday, seventh son of Humphrey Doubleday of Durham
and of Butterby by Elizabeth Nicholson, his wife, was born November 5,
1716; married Sept. 2, 1766, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Thomas Thorp,
vicar of Berwick, and died April 12, 1802, s.p. His will is dated June 26,
1797. His sister, Hannah, married July, 1728, William Hutchinson of
Durham, by whom she had, with other issue, a son, William Hutchinson,
the industrious and indefatigable historian of Durham and Northumberland.

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Mr. Walker of Kirknewton,11 at the head of Millfield Plain, call'd
upon me to ask my advice about a prosecution in the Exchequer
against him. He married Parson Nixen's of Haltwhistle12 eldest
daughter. Younghusband of the Excise Office was along with him.

Captain Watson13 goes home to morrow morning.

Colonel Crawford neturn'd from the north this evening.

I have now been six weeks at Berwick this night.

[1761. March] 22. Sunday. Not at church this day.

I am told that Sr Edward [Blackett] and Sr Matthew [White] are
gone this day for Morpeth, where there is to be a great meeting to
morrow of the magistrates concerning the Riot at Hexham.

I am greatly to blame for not attending divine service more than
I do. I shall repent it.

To call on Mr. Rowell for Mr Story's cash. Also upon Mr.
Wrangham.

[1761.] March 23. Monday. Robin much better.

At the Harrow this evening with Selby, &c. Thisi evening Mrs.
Johnson was at Mr. Rumney's; she formerly liv'd in Hexham.

[1761. March] 24. Tuesday. This morning I was president of a
court martial held upon one. Douglass for abusing Sergeant Orrick
and Corporal Smith : punishment Black-hole 48 hours.

Received of Captain Blackett 00/. (sic) in part of pay.

Came from Berwick about o'clock, and staid at Wooller

Haugh-head14 all night. Supt with Wrangham. N.B. Wrangham's
conversation below.

[1761. March] 25. Wednesday. Came from Wooller Haugh-
head with Wrangham. We parted at Whittingham.15 I din'd there
with a Londoner and a Swede(?). Got home about 8 o'clock at night.

II The farm of Broadstrother in the parish of Kirknewton belonged to
a family named Walker. It was conveyed by James Walker in 1776, to
Benjamin Adams of Acton, to secure a mortgage of ,£1,275. James Walker
was succeeded by his eldest son, also named James, who was dead before
1819, when the property, subject to the mortgage, was vested in Carlton
Walker of Wilmington in North Carolina, who was (apparently the brother,
and) the heir-at-law of James Walker the younger.

12 Rev. Martin Nixon was vicar of Haltwhistle from 1720 to his death
circa 1735 : he married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Brass of Flass, near
Durham. He was succeeded in the vicarage of Haltwhistle by Rev. Edward
Wilson, who subsequently married his predecessor's youngest daughter.

13 Stephen Watson of North Seaton, was a captain in the Northumber-
land Militia in 1759, and afterwards major. He was chairman of Quarter
Sessions and died 1805, aged 93.

14 At Wooler Haugh-head in the township of North Middleton, there
is still or was until recently, a wayside ale house representing what was
until a hundred years ago a well-frequented inn under the sign of George
and the Dragon with extensive stabling, much used by cattle drovers and
carriers. Here it was that John Home put up when on his way to London
with the MS. of his famous tragedy ' Douglas ' in one pocket of his great
coat and his clean shirt and night cap in the other. William Hutchinson
had an unpleasant experience of its capabilities in 1776 which he relates in
unflattering words in his History of Northumberland, vol. i., p. 240.

15 The roomy old-fashioned ' Castle Inn ' at Whittingham is still carried on.

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[1761. March] 26. Thursday. This morning Geordy Wilkinson
taken up at Wall by a party of soldiers on account of the late Riot.16
2 groovers also taken up this morning. Mr. Chicken17 of Anick
high-constable.

[1761.] March 27. Friday. Great confusion among our neigh-
bours ; few of them dare lie in their own beds. Such are the effects
of riotts. Some of them at Brunton all night.

Yesterday morning Jack began to read Pope's 'Homer.'

[1761. March] 28. Saturday. This morning the soldiers were in
search of Stephen Thomson ; but not to be found.

[1761. March] 29. Sunday. Not at church. At home. Mr.
and Mrs. Shaftoe,18 Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Haughton Castle,19 at
Brunton in the afternoon

[1761. March] 30. Monday. This morning 5 prisoners (George
Wilkinson, Laird Bell, Bell of Acomb, Jack Hudson and . . . .) were
carried to Morpeth goal (sic) on account of the late Riot.

Mr. Greenwood of Newcastle, an attorney, call'd at Brunton.

Mrs. Smith of Wester-hall20 and Mally Hubbuck1 at Brunton in
the afternoon.

Mally Hubbuck is going to London to see her daughter.

The rioters of Wall are returning home.

[1761. March] 31. Tuesday. At the Bridge-end2 with Jack lay-

16 The following list of men apprehended under a warrant granted
25 March, 1761, and charged with being concerned in the Hexham Riot is
preserved in the Rev. John Hodgson's Collections: — William Eltringham,
Bingfield Comb, farmer; George Wilkinson, Wall, blacksmith; George
Oliver, Bingfield East Quarter, husbandman; James Sanderson, Holton
(sic), weaver; William Scott, Acomb, ' ingin keeper'; John Brunton,
Halton, husbandman; William Robson, Halton, husbandman; Edward
Gibson, Halton, farmer; John Hutchinson, Halton, weaver; George
Walker, Halton, husbandman; George Bell, Halton, husbandman; George
Jemmison, Halton, husbandman ; Thomas Neaving, Halton Carr-house,
husbandman; James Bowey, Acomb, miner; George Bell, Hexham, yeo-
man; Thomas Bell, Acomb, miner; John Hudson, Acomb, blacksmith.

17 The family of Chicken of Anick had a small property in Great
Whittingham, parish of Corbridge. See new History of Northumberland,
vol. x., p. 428.

18 William Shafto of Humshaugh, brother of George Shafto Delaval, of
Little Bavington, and youngest son of Edward Shafto of Hexham, died 22
May, 1762. Of. Shafto pedigree, new History of Northumberland, vol. iv.,
p. 419.

19 William Smith of Haughton Castle, in the parish of Simonburn,
which place was purchased by his ancestor, Robert Smith of Tecket circa
1642. He died 17 Nov., 1795, aged 63. His descendants held Haughton
Castle until 1862.

20 [Ralph] Smith of Wester-hall, near Haughton Castle, to the pro-
prietor of which he was a kin, but not always kind.

1 Possibly the Mary Teasdale who was married May 4, 1745, at Hexham,
to Robert Hubbock. Various persons of the name voted in respect of
property in Hexham at the elections of Knights of the Shire in 1748 and
1774.

2 The reference is apparently to the George Inn standing at the west end

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ing in the lines. Earl of Galloway3 there; he had been at Morpeth,,
on- account of his son's election.

William Shaftoe4 went to Hexham school yesterday.

[1761.] April 1. Wednesday. Mrs. Smith of Wester-hall here
in the afternoon.

[1761. April] 2. Thursday. Went to Humshaugh.

Mr. Soulsbye came to Brunton from the Bridge-end : he is going
to fish in North Tyne.

Dr. Smith here.

[1761. April] 3. Friday. Sr Lancelot Allgood5 and Parson Will-
son6 caird at Brunton : they are going to Newcastle.

Men in Wall in a great fright.

[1761. April] 4. Saturday. Soulsbye here, in the afternoon.

Mr. Shaftoe and Mr. White7 din'd here.

[1761. April] 5. Sunday. At Hexham with Mr. Fen wick.8 Light
Horse and Yorkshire Militia at Hexham.

Dr. Smith and Green here in the evening.

[1761.] April 6. Monday. Parson Willson here in the after-
noon : he came from Durham to day. Election for the county over
there.

[1761. April] 7. Tuesday. The firs planted this morning at the
head of the garden by Robin Craigs, Stephen Kitchen,9 Robin Hew-
son and Robin Hymers.

of Chollerford-bridge. John Stewart, Viscount Gairlies, eldest son of
Alexander, seventh Earl of Galloway, was elected M.P. for Morpeth in
1761.

3 Ralph Soulsby of Hallington, elder brother of Christopher (Soulsby)
Reed of Chipchase, baptised Nov. 17, 1723, married Mary, daughter of John
Fenwick of Stanton, and half-sister of William Fenwick of Bywell, and
died in the month of July, 1769, leaving issue.

4 William Shafto, second son of William Shafto of Humshaugh, and
eldest son of his second marriage, was baptised at Simonburn, April 16,
1752, and died at Hexham, April 28, 1833, leaving an only son who succeeded
to Carrycoats in 1837 under the will of his kinswoman, Margery Johnson.
Cf. Shafto pedigree, new History of Northumberland, vol. iv., p. 407.

5 Sir Lancelot Allgood of Hexham, married in 1739, his kinswoman,.
Jane, daughter and heir of Eobert Allgood of Nunwick.

c See p. 273 post.

7 Teasdale White, son of George White of Humshaugh, who married in
1709, Elizabeth, sister and co-heir of Thomas Teasdale of Newcastle and
Steel-hall in Slaley.

8 Henry Fenwick of Hexham, ensign in the Northumberland Militia in
1759. He married 12 Aug., 1747, Catherine, daughter of George Mitford
of Hexham, surgeon and apothecary, and died 1 June, 1796, being described
in the contemporary newspaper announcement as ' formerly an ensign and
lieutenant in the Northumberland Militia/ Mrs. Fenwick was aunt of
the father of Miss Mary Russell Mitford, the authoress of Our Villagey
etc.

'Stephen Kitchin was appointed Parish Clerk of Chollerton in 1762,
which office he held until his death in the month of August, 1771.

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Mr. Craister of Newcastle calPd about my shop.

[1761. April] 8. Wednesday. Neddy Kell here; lent him 3
guineas.

Sent Bob Wilkinson to Mr. Reed about the late Riot.

[1761. April] 9. Thursday. Jack and Peggy went to see the
sham fight of the Light Horse at Hexham.

[1761. April] 10. Friday. Pease and quietness!

[1761. April] 11. Saturday. Ned Hymers can leap up my stair-
case at two jumps; afraid of the soldiers on account of the Riot.

[1761.] April 12. Sunday. Not at church. Pease and quiet-
ness !

Some of the Wall men here as usual on account of the late Riot.

[1761. April] 13. Monday. Pease and quietness!

[1761. April] 14. Tuesday Mr. Soulsbye, and Willy Potts din'd
here.

William Anick prisoner at Hexham this day for High Treason.

Captain Blackett10 and Mr. Pratt,11 officers of the Militia, married
last week.

[1761. April] 15. Wednesday. At home. In the afternoon went
to the Bridge-end with Jack.

[1761. April] 16. Thursday. Din'd at Hexham. An appeal day
on account of the militia. Came home before dark along with Ensign
Harry Fenwick.

[1761.] April 17. Friday. Invited to Mrs. KelPs funeral against
to-morrow : George Kell's mother.12

[1761. April] 18. Saturday. Sent Robin Hymers to Mrs. Kell's
funeral.

Lumley here }-esterday ; a pensioner.

[1761. April] 19. Sunday. At home all day. Mr. Soulsbye,

10 On Tuesday, the 31st ult., was married at Edinburgh, Captain John
Erasmus Blackett of the Northumberland Militia, to Miss Rhodam, a young
lady whose beauty, merit, and accomplishments have made her universally
admired, with a fortune of £5,000. Newcastle Courant, 11 April, 1761.

11 Last week was married at Eccles, near Kelso, Captain William Pratt
of the Northumberland Militia, to Miss Paterson, sister of Sir John
Paterson, bart., an accomplished young- lady with a considerable fortune.
Newcastle Courant, 11 April, 1761.

Sir John Patterson, of Eccles, third and last baronet, son and heir of
John Patterson by Margaret, daughter of Sir William Seton of Pitmeddan,
bart., succeeded his grandfather in 1759. He was Knight of the Shire for
Berwickshire, 1779-1780, and married 2 Oct., 1755, Anne, daughter of Hugh,
third and last Earl of Marchmont. He died at Bath s.p.m. on 14 Jan.,
1782, and his widow at Newcastle, 27 July, 1790. His only child and
heiress, Anne Patterson carried Eccles in marriage to Sir Philip Anstruther
of Anstruther, bart., whom she married 17 Feb., 1778.

12 1761. April 18. Jane Kell, Hexham, buried. Register of St. John
Lee.

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Captain Dodds, Attorney Hunter13 at Brunton in the evening. Dodds
belongs to the Roval Foresters.

1761. April] 20. Monday. At home all day.

1761. April] 21. Tuesday. Corporal Watson, and Jackson that
has the blind wife, at Brunton on furlow from Berwick.

Went to Newcastle this day : Nicholson with me in the evening.
Mr. Charlton of London and .... there.

[1761. April 22.] Wednesday. Saw Captain Cambell of the In-
dependent Highlanders.

Nicholson and Snowball din'd with me.

Received some of the rent® this day.

Supt with an Highland Officer.

[1761.] April 23. Thursday. Frank Dawson14 wants to cheat
me of a year's rent of the shop. Gave Mr. Lamb power to receive
the remainder of the rents ; signed his lease; he is to let the shop.

Saw Ensign Stephenson.

Drew bills for Mr. Soulsbye. Cook paid Mr. Hymers for the
porter : ordered more. Came home this day.

5 of the Throcklow men15 taken last Tuesday night. Light Horse
in search of some of the rioters at Matfen, &c.

Paid Mr. Dobson 31. interest.

[1761. April] 24. Friday. Mrs. Shaftoe here.

[1761. April] 25. Saturday. Mr. Lieutenant Newton16 and Anty
Hunter17 here this morning.

Mr. Ensign Gibson18 here in the afternoon.

Lent to Billy Thomson 21. 2s. Od. a few days ago.

[1761. April] 26. Sunday. Parson Harrison called here going to
the chapel.

1S William Hunter of Hexham, attorney, son of Isaac Hunter of
Dukesfield-hall in Slaley, born 1734, married 1764, Esther, daughter and
co-heir of Lancelot Allgood of Riding in By well, died circa 1783. Cf.
Hunter pedigree, new History of Northumberland, vol. vi., p. 275.

14 Francis Dawson of Newcastle, was an ensign in the Northumberland
Militia in 1759.

15 Yesterday, five more of the persons concerned in the riot at Hexham
were apprehended at Throckley-fell and committed to Morpeth gaol.

Newcastle Courant, 25 April, 1761.

16 Thomas Newton of Hawkwell in Stamfordham, a lieutenant in the
Northumberland Militia in 1759, eldest son of Robert Newton of that
place by Catherine Surtees, his wife, was baptised at Stamfordham,
May 20, 1737. In 1767 he made an elopement with Anne, daughter and co-heir
of Robert Andrews, of Hexham, to whom he was married at Edinburgh,
on or about July 15 of that year. She only survived her marriage a few
weeks and died unreconciled to her mother. See Newcastle Courant 18 July,
1767 and 8 Aug., 1767. Thomas Newton is described in his will dated
March 26, 1771, as 'late of Hawkwell and now of Morpeth.' He died in
the first week of the following month.

"Anthony Hunter of Chollerton in 1758 was a trustee under the will
of his sister, Mrs. Anne Armstrong of Mollersteads in Hexham Middle
Quarter. Cf. new History of Northumberland, vol. iv., p. 51.

"Reginald Gibson, High Balk. Cf. p. 261 supra.

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1761. April 27. Monday. At home. Robin got the guy yester-
day at il. 10s.

Ballotting at Hexham this day: Matthew Robson drawn.

"1761. April] 28. Tuesday. At home.

1761. April] 29. Wednesday. At home. Mr. Green here.

1761. April] 30. Thursday. At home.

1761.] May 1. Friday. At Hexham. Settled all affairs with
Mrs. Hindmarsh ; saw the account. Mrs. Proctor, my crfeditor].

Came home late at night.

Mr. Soulsbye din'd here this day.

[1761. May] 2. Saturday. At" Willy Shaftoe's in the afternoon.
Parson Willson there. Jack with me.

1761. May] 3. Sunday. Not at church. At home all day.
1761. May] 4. Monday. Mr. Green called here; he is going to
Mr. Roberts,19 who is at Nunwick.

[1761.] May 5. Tuesday. Jemmy Dunn and his son the drummer
call'd at Brunton this morning.

[1761. May] 6. Wednesday. At home. Paid the Easter reckon-
ings.

1761. May] 7. Thursday. At home.

1761. May] 8. Friday. Carrick of Wardrew and Davy Urvin
call'd at Brunton going to the fair. At the Bridge end.

[1761. May] 9. Saturday. Whitsun fair-day.

Jenny Reed here. Drummers Dun and Hemley here. Willy
Shaftoe din'd here. N.B. his brother Caput (?).

[1761. May] 10. Sunday. Betty Thomson here. I wrote to Mr.
Reed on Stephen's account ; he advises him not to return yet. Not
at churcK.

[1761. May] 11. Monday. Mrs. Shaftoe here in the afternoon.
Dr. Smith call'd.

[1761. May] 12. Tuesday. Whitsun hiring-day.

Lamb-ton's Company came into Hexham yesterday.

[1761. May] 13. Wednesday. At home. Mr. Soulsbye called :
he is going to Morpeth meeting.

Young Mr. Mewburn here in the afternoon, He has still Livy's
History. At Humshaugh in the afternoon.

[1761. May] 14. Thursday. Jack, Will Shaftoe, G. White, Bob
and self at Warden hills. In the afternoon went to Acomb and round
by Codlaw hill.20

[1761. May] 15. Friday. Jack Gibson, Rob. Johnson and Cum-
mins and Dixon here. Betty Crowhall, Nan Jennings here.

19 Nicholas Roberts, step-son of Sir Edward Blackett, third baronet,
resided at Hexham Abbey; he owned some property near Humshaugh in
the parish of Simonburn, and died December 8, 1761, aged 61. Cf. Roberts
pedigree, new History of Northumberland, vol. iii., p. 297.

20 At Coldlaw, anciently Codden, to the east of Brunton, a coal mine
was worked as earlv as 1499.

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[1761. May] 16. Saturday. Mr. Soulsbye here, coming from
Morpeth. Mr. Salmon and Mr. Green1 here.

George Scott and a recruit, Hutchinson, going to Berwick.

Bambrough of Bearel taken up by the Light Horse on Thursday
morning and carried to Morpeth gaol on account of the Riot.

[1761. May] 17. Sunday. Trinity Sunday. Not at church.
Jack Hubbuck call'd, furlong (sic) renewed. Dr. Smith2 din'd here.
Mrs. Shaftoe and Mrs. Cookson here.
. [1761. May] 18. Monday. At home all day.

[1761.] May 19. Tuesday. Jack and self at Humshaugh. Peggy
at Hexham. Neddy Kell here.

[1761. May] ^0. Wednesday. Came from Brunton this afternoon
and got to Rothbury about 7 at night.

[1761. May] 21. Thursday. Came from Rothbury about nine and
•dined at Wooller Haugh-head and got to Berwick about 7 at night.

[1761. May] 22. Friday. Berwick fair; Mr. Hall3 the mayor,
opening the fair with music ; Ned Hall4 officer on guard.

Note that 7s., 3s. Qd., &o. is to [be] allow'd as militia money. See
ancient book at home.

[1761. May] 23. Saturday. Yesterday I bought the London
Vocabulary for Jack.

At the play : Gentle Shepherd acted. Captain Blackett's lady
there.

Supt at Dr. Doubleday's.

[1761. May] 2-1. Sunday. Not at church : in the house all day.

[1761. May] 25. Monday. At the Harrow in the evening. £P
Matthew White came to town this evening about half an hour past
ten. Old Mr. Grey5 and his two sons there.

[1761.] May 26. Tuesday. Staid at the Harrow till 5 this morn-
ing. N.B. Sr Matthew swore last night that he would have little
Nemo Stephenson tried by a court martial. Query : Is Sr Matthew
right in the head-piece?

Went to the Spittal in the afternoon.

[1761. May] 27. Wednesday. Supt at the Harrow this evening.

1 The families of Salmon and Green were yeomen proprietors in the
parish of Slaley.

2 Probably Robert Smith of Hexham, surgeon and apothecary, to
whose son Robert and a daughter, baptised respectively in 1743 and 1745 at
Hexham, Mr. George White [of Humshaugh] stood sponsor.

3 William Hall, mayor of Berwick,' 1760-1761.

4 Edward Hall of North Shields, a lieutenant in the Northumberland
Militia, in 1759.

5 Bryan Grey of Kyloe in the parish of Holy Island died very aged,
12 July, 1792, having had, with other issue, five sons. John Grey, the
youngest son, was an attorney at Berwick, and when returning home from
Etal on the 15 November, 1774, fell from his horse and was killed, dying
* with a fair character.' Newcastle Journal, 19 Nov., 1774. His daughter
Dorothy took an annuity under a codicil of the will of her paternal grand-
father, Bryan Grey. See Six North Country Diaries, p. 283n.

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' Romeo and Juliet ' acted this night.

Carr of Etal and Mrs. Ogle6 were married about two days ago.

Sr Matthew was enquiring for Fenwiok last night.

[1761. May] 28. Thursday. It is 13 weeks this day since Fen-
wick went from Berwick to Hexham.

Yesterday Mr. Rumney went to Alnwick.

Hubbuck and some more came up from Hexham this day.

Mr. Reed has had my grey horse these two days past ; he was
fishing.

[1761.] May 29. Friday. Charles the Second Restoration.

Ensign Gibson came to town this day.

[1761. May] 30. Saturday. By the London papers this day we
learn that the English have taken the town of Talais in Bell Isle, and
that the French had retired into the citadel.

Sr Matthew White with Captain Ward7 call'd upon me this morn-
ing to acquaint me about filling up the vacant commissions. Sr
Edward [Blaekett] wrote to him about it.

Supt at the Harrow with Sr Matthew, Mr. Selby, Reed, Collector,8
Adjutant.

[1761. May] 31. Sunday. Not at church. Mr. Rumney came
home this evening.

Walkt with Dr. Doubleday on the ramparts and in his garden.

[1761.] June 1. Monday. Captain Dixon9 came to town last
night.

Bill Dodds of Hexham has been in custody ever since Saturday
morning.

Mr. Rumney began school to-day.

At the Spittal in the afternoon. I saw there old Sergeant Thom-
son discharged from the militia : he is going to London for his
pension.

Went te the play at night. Hamlet acted. Sr Thomas Hagger-

6 Anne, daughter and co-heir of William Ord of Newbiggen, ' a beautiful
lady with a fair fortune/ married first 13 Oct., 1736, Henry Ogle of
Causey Park (died 1761), and secondly William Carr of Etal, and she died
s.p. 1766. Cf. Ord pedigree, Raine, North Durham, p. 311.

7 William Ward of Nunnykirk, captain in Northumberland Militia,.
1759, was the second son of William Ward of Morpeth and Nunnykirk by
his wife Anne, sister of Edward Collingwood of Chirton, Recorder of
Newcastle. He was born Nov. 19, 1733, married June 12, 1771, to Ann Ord,
and died s.p. in London in the month of April, 1784.

8 William Temple, Collector of H.M. Customs, Berwick; see p. 257 supra.

9 Abraham Dixon, baptized at St. John's, Newcastle, 10 Mar., 1723/4,
eldest son of Abraham Dixon of Newcastle, merchant adventurer, (who, in
1726 purchased Belford, and died in 1746), a captain in the Northumber-
land Militia in 1759, major 1762, lieutenant-colonel 1764, married, 21 Nov.,
1779, at Belford, Mrs. Anne Wilkinson, and died s.p. 5 Jan., 1782.

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ston,10 his lady, and his brother Haggerston there. High Life Below
Stairs, the farce.

[1761. June] 2. Tuesday. At the Harrow in the evening. N.B.
Sr Matthew's and Captain Reed's quarrel ; a glass of punch in Sr
Matthew's face.

Captain Hall11 came up on Monday evening last night.

[1761. June] 3. Wednesday. Came from the Harrow this morn-
ing about 3 o'clock.

At the play. Mrs. Cay12 of Charlton there, Mrs. Selby13 there.

Mr. Ensign Fen wick14 came to town this afternoon.

Play : Recruiting Officer with the Tarrs of Old England acted.

At the printing office this afternoon.

[1761. June] 4. Thursday. 14 weeks yesterday since Ensign
Harry r^enwick left Berwick ; but yesterday he came to town.

King George the Third's birthday; 3 fires in the parade; 15
officers din'd at the Red Lion,15 5 did not ; the Mayor and gentlemen
of the town there. N.B. Not above 5 or 6 officers absent from town.
All in new regimen tails but 5 of us. Soulsbye came to town just after
dinner.

A grand quarrel between Mr. Hall, now mayor, and Captain
Romer.16 Romer jumpt upon the table to attack the Mayor at the

10 Sir Thomas Haggerston of Haggerston, fourth baronet, born circa
1722, married, in 1754, Mary, daughter of George Silvertop of Minsteracres,
and died 1777. His next brother, William, assumed first the name of
Constable and subsequently that of Maxwell. The third brother, Edward
Haggerston of Ellingham, named in the text, died in 1804, aged 72.

11 John Hall of Whitley, in the parish of Tynemouth, brewer, a captain
in the Northumberland Militia in 1759, died at Berwick 19 April, 1762, and
was buried there, being honoured with a military funeral.

12 John Cay of North Charlton, in the parish of Ellingham, and of the
Middle Temple, married, in 1756, Frances, daughter of Ralph Hodgson
of Lintz, in the county of Durham. See pedigree of Cay, new History of
Northumberland, vol. ii., p. 298.

13 Mrs. Gabriel Selby of Pawston.

14 Either Henry Fenwick of Hexham, an ensign in the Northumberland
Militia in 1759.

15 'George Reedpath of the Press returns his sincere thanks to his friends
and customers for their past favours, and begs leave to acquaint the noble-
men, gentlemen, travellers, etc., that he has re-entered to the Red Lion
Inn in Berwick, where they may be furnished with the best accommodations
and good entertainment, and their favours gratefully acknowledged by
their obedient servant, George Reedpath.

N.B. — Good four-wheeled post-chaises, with able horses and careful
drivers, on the shortest notice. He continues the inn at the Press as usual.'
Newcastle Journal, 18 Sept., 1773.

16 John Romer — son of John Lambertus Romer, R.E., and grandson of
Wolfgang Romer, who coming to England with William III. became chief
engineer at Portsmouth — born 1713, married, 1746, Margaret Armorer of
Tweedmouth, died at Berwick in the month of June, 1773, leaving, with

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In the evening after assembly went with Mr. Soulsbye, &c. to
Mr. Todd's.

[1761. June] 5. Friday. Major Sr Matthew White turn'd the
guard 3 times out last night. N.B. Steady major! Steady!

This afternoon George Forster17 formerly of Bellingham, was
buried at Tweedmouth; Captain Reed, Dr. Doubleday, Dr. Wood,18
two more with myself were bearers ; old Elliot server.

At the Harrow in the evening.

[1761. June] 6. Saturday. Received a letter from Mr. Lowes
this morning.

N.B. Mr. Soulsbye came to town last Thursday : he had not been
10 minutes in the room till he saw : —

1. The Mayor of Berwick and Captain Romer ready for a boxing
match.

2. Noise, drunkenness and confusion.

3. The major, down with his breeches and up with his shirt and
shew'd his belly above the navel.

4. The major mob'd at night, and N.B. Major, damn your soul,
what do you want. Major, stead}^ ! Major, steady ! Saturday Evening
for ever.

The Mayor, Mr. Temple, Captain Romer, Captain Reed, Mr. Souls-
bye, Selby, the major and self at Rippath's in the evening. The
mayor and Captain Romer friends again. N.B. Sr Matthew and Gib-
son19 ; Gibson commands his purse, his horse and is to kiss his
maidens at Blagdon.

[1761. June] 7. Sunday. Came from Berwick with Mr. Souls-
"bye, Mr. Gibson and din'd with Captain Dixon at Bellford. Captain
Reed and Lieutenant Ord20 there. Dr. Sharp1 came in the after-
other issue, a son, John William Romer, of the 60th regiment, afterwards
a general in the army.

1769. Dec. 15. Will of John Romer of Berwick, esq. : to my wife, £45
per annum out of my lands in Cheswick ; to my son, John William, £600
when 21 ; to my son, Henry Clennel, £600 ; to my son, Collingwood, £600 ;
to my daughter, Anne, £600; to my daughter, Margaret, £600; to my
daughter, Mary, one guinea, she being married ; my land to my eldest son,
Robert. Codicil, 15 May, 1773. My daughter, Anne, now wife of John
Meadows, esq. Proved at Durham, 1775. Raine, Testamenta Diinelm.

17 1761. June 5. Mr. George Forster, General Surveyor of the King's
Salt Duties at Berwick, buried. Tweedmouth Registers.

18 James Wood, who occurs as surgeon of the Northumberland Militia
in 1762, married in 1750, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Simpson of Nun-
lands, and died, leaving issue, Sept. 28, 1796, aged 73 or 75 years.

39 Reginald Gibson. See p. 261 supra.

20 William Ord of Morpeth, a lieutenant in the Northumberland Militia
in 1759, was eldest son of John Ord of Morpeth, and of Grindon in North
Durham. He married his cousin Anne, daughter and heiress of William
Ward of Nunnykirk, and died in 1814, aged 79.

JThe Rev. Thomas Sharp, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, some
time vicar of Hartburn and perpetual curate of Bamburgh.

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noon. Conversation on the Transit of Venus2 over the disk of the
sun. Staid with Captain Dixon all night.

[1761. June] 8. Monday. Came from Bellford this morning.
Left Dixon, Reed, Soulsbye and Ord at the boathouse, they going to
the Fairn Islands. I went forward to Mr. Wood's3 of Beadland and
dined there. Mr. Wood came after dinner. From thence I came to
Alnwick in the evening.

[1761. June] 9. Tuesday. Mr. Soulsbye came to me at Alnwick
and we came from thence about 11 o'clock and din'd at Rothbury.
We parted about 6 miles on this side of Rothbury : he went to Long-
witton and I got home about 9 at night.

Came past Sergeant Maudlin's) at Chollerton.

A book left either at Berwick or Alnwick.

[1761. June] 10. Wednesday. 3 weeks this day since I went
last to Berwick.

Sergeant Maudlin here this morning.

Jack began to conjugate Amo this morning. At Humshaugh in
the evening with Jack.

[1761. June] 11. Thursday. Went this afternoon with Jack3* and
Bob to Hallington to see Mr. Soulsbye ; he was not at home ; he was
at Carryooats, standing god-father to Mr. Shaftoe's son.

[1761. June] 12. Friday. With Jack upon Wall craggs.

Mr. Soulsbye here in the morning; he is going to Hexham on
account of the Riot, Mr. Perrot, sollicitor to the Treasury, is come
from London to take fresh informations.

[1761. June] 13. Saturday. Mr. Shaftoe here in the afternoon.
The soldiers in search of Jemmy Wiggam yesterday afternoon.

[1761.] June 14. Sunday. Parson Willson's4 3 children here in
the afternoon. Not at church.

2 The transit of Venus over the disk of the sun occurred 6 June, 1761,
* as the morning proved very favourable, this uncommon phaenomenon,
which made a wonderful and delightful appearance, even to the naked eye,
was seen from the rising of the sun to the end of the transit without the
interruption of any clouds to obscure it.' Newcastle Journal, 13 June,
1761.

3 Thomas Wood of Beadnell (eldest son of John Wood, tenant of Presson
near Cornhill, who purchased lands in Beadnell in 1735), married in 1737
Anne, daughter of John Craster of Craster, and died in the month of July,
1766.

Sa-Jack was the Diarist's son; Bob has not been identified.

4 • Parson Wilson ' was probably the Rev. Cuthbert Wilson of Queen's
College, Oxford, successively curate of Gateshead, lecturer of St. Nicholas'
and of St. Ann, Newcastle. He was residing in Rosemary Lane, Newcastle
in 1763, when he advertised to be sold Walwick, Ryehill, the Carts, etc. He
ultimately sold Walwick to ... . Dixon of Newcastle, attorney, who
resold (before the year 1774) to Henry Tulip of Fallowfield (cf. new History
of Northumberland, vol. iv., p. 159). He died circa 1773. His son, Robert
Wilson, of All Souls' College, Oxford, was lecturer of St. John's, Newcastle,
irom 1790 to his death, 9 Nov., 1811.

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[1761. June] 15. Monday. Jack, Bob and self went to Mrs.
Bacon's5 at Newbrough ; Tulip6 there. Met Dr. Hunter in the town.

[1761. June] 16. Tuesday. Jack, Bob and self went to Chip-
chase in the evening: Mr. Tulip there. Mr. Reed came home last
Saturday.

Mrs. Shaftoe7 at Brunton in the afternoon.

[1761. June] 17. Wednesday. This morning news came to Hex-
ham that we had taken Bell Isle.

Mr. Soulsbye din'd here ; coming from Hexham cockfighting :
Dr. Hunter won.

N.B. Sold the black horse to Mr. Soulsbye this day, and he took
him home with him in the afternoon. 5Z.

[1761. June] 18. Thursday. Jack, Bob and self at Humshaugh
in the afternoon.

Mr. John Shaftoe, Mr. Roberts8 and Captain Heriot call'd at Mr.
Shaf toe's.; they coming from Mr. Allgood' s.9

[1761. June] 19. Friday. At home all day.

[1761. June] 20. Saturday. Jack, Bob and self went to the
Chesters to view the remains of the Roman fort and bridge.

In this day's paper was confirmed the taking of the citadel of
Talais in Bell Isle.

[1761. June] 21. Sunday. Parson Harrison called, going to the
chapel. He informed me of Mr. Aynsley10 of Threepwood's death
and says that he is to be buried to-morrow at Haydon church.

5 Jane, widow of John Blenkinsop, and daughter of Thomas Marshall
of Walltown, married secondly circa 1715, John Bacon of Newbrough and
Bellister, and died Feb. 12, 1789. Cf. pedigree of Bacon, new History of
Northumberland, vol. vi., p. 235.

6 Henry Tulip of Fallowfield, lieutenant in Northumberland Militia.
See p. 261 supra.

7 Probably John Shafto, who but for the attainder of his father,
William Shafto of Little Bavington, for taking part in the rebellion of
1715, would have inherited the family estates. In early life he was a page
in the service of the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, but afterwards
retired to Hexham, where he died unmarried, June 27, 1773.

8 Nicholas Roberts of Hexham Abbey. Cf. p. 268 supra.

9 Possibly the widow of Robert Allgood of Nunwick, mother of Dame
Jane Allgood of Nunwick.

10 ' Sacred to the memory of John Aynsley, late of Threepwood, in the
county of Northumberland, esquire, who died on the 18th day of June,
1761, aged 48 years. He acted for many years in the commission of the
peace and as a deputy lieutenant. He also had the command of a company
in the regiment raised in 1745 to preserve the internal peace of the county
at that perilous time, in all which stations he behaved himself with
propriety, resolution and integrity. He was a true friend to the religion,
laws and liberty of his country. This monument is erected by his kinsman
and executor, G-awen Aynsley of Little Harle Tower, esquire.' Mural tablet
in Haydon (Old) Chapel.

He was the only surviving son of John Aynsley of Hexham, attorney,
who purchased Threepwood in 1711 and is stated to have acted for the Earl
of Derwentwater. He died at Hexham 12 September, 1751, aged 92; his
will dated 5 January, 1748/9, was proved at York. See pedigree of Aynsley*
new History of Northumberland, vol. x., p. 159.

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Not at church : at home all day.

[1761. June] 22. Monday. Mrs. Shaftoe here in the morning,
and also Mr. Green, he is going to Simonburn.

N.B. The officers of Lambton's regiment behaviour at Hexham;
Dacres, Roche, Matthews belong' d to the Royal Forresters.

This day the Races begin at Newcastle.

Jack, Bob and self went to see Biddy' s Crags.

[1761. June] 23. Tuesday. Mrs. Shaftoe here in the afternoon.
At home all day.

[1761. June] 24. Wednesday. Truman, the barber at Brunton,
he's discharged from the militia on account of his leg which was
broke.

Mrs. Fairlamb of Hexham here in the afternoon.

Bathing with Jack and Bob in the evening.

[1761. June] 25. Thursday. Went to Newcastle this day. Went
to the Assembly at night. Race Week.

[1761. June] 26. Friday. Came from Newcastle in the after-
noon and got home at night. Saw and spoke to Captain Campbell
of the Highlanders. Settled all accounts with Mr. Lamb about the
rents of my house.

Peggy says that Mr. Soulsbye and Mrs. Shaftoe were at Brunton
this day.

This day the races end at Newcastle.

N.B. Frank Dawson to pay 40/ . for a rape.

[1761. June] 27. Saturday. At home. Mr. Francis Stokoe11 at
the door in the evening.

Jack Oliver, Tom Husband,12 Ned Hymers here at night under
apprehension of the soldiers of Hexham taking them up as rioters.

Nan Milburn went to Mr. Shaftoe 's to continue there for the
week ensuing.

[1761. June] 28. Sunday. At home all day. Jack Nicholson at
Brunton.

[1761.] June 29. Monday. Mr. Wear says that Mr. Heron13 of
Nine-Banks is lam'd by a fall from his horse.

This morning one Henderson of Heddon-on-the-Wall was taken up
on account of the Riot.

The soldiers still searching for rioters.

[1761. June] 30. Tuesday. At home all day.

11 Francis Stokoe was a contemporary attorney at Hexham, the baptism
of whose children are entered from 1759 to 1773 in Hexham Parish Registers.

12 1771. Feb. 12. Thomas Husband, Brunton, buried. Register of
St. John Lee.

1773. Dec. 8. Thomas Husband, Wall, buried. Ibid.

" John Heron of Shield-hall in SI a ley, only surviving son of John
Heron of that place and of Birtley in the parish of Chollerton, married in
1748, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of George Robson of Ninebanks, and
died circa 1805, leaving issue. See Heron pedigree, new History of North-
umberland, vol. iv., p. 362.

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[1761.] July 1. Wednesday. Mr. Soulsbye, Green, Dr. Hunter,
Tony Liddle din'd at Brunt on.

Jack, Bob and self rode beyond Wallwick to view the Roman
Wall. Mr. White came after dinner.

[1761.] July 2. Thursday. vVent with Jack [and] Bob to Hums-
haugh this afternoon.

[1761.] July 3. Friday. Parson Dunn call'd at Brunton this
morning.

At the Bridge-end with Mr. Soulsbye, Green, Mrs. Soulsbye, Dr.
Hunter and several others : left the company there.

[1761.] July 4. Saturday. This morning Mr. Shaftoe tells me
that Mr. White and Captain Joe Reed had a very great quarrel after I
left them at the Bridge-end.

Midsummer fair-day. In the evening went with Jack and Bob
to Stagshaw-bank : met with Bill Robson and Bill Dodds there.

Joe Reed in the fight lost two teeth and Teasdale got a black eye
and Jemmy Moor was fell'd.

Mr. Vazey at Brunton : paid him 171.

[1761. July] 5. Sunday. At Mr. Shaftoe's (Humshaugh), but he
not at home : staid there about an hour.

Lent Jemmy Turner two shillings.

[1761. July] 6. Monday. At home all day.

[1761. July] 7. Tuesday. Jack and self went to see Cocklaw
Tower.

This morning Jemmy Spoor, Bill Dodds and Blaiklock call'd at
Brunton : they are going to Berwick.

[1761.] July 8. Wednesday. At home all day.

[1761. July] 9. Thursday. Went with Jack and Bob to see
Swinburn in the evening.

[1761. July] 10. Friday. Went with Jack, Bob [and] George
White to Sewen Shields Castle ; King Arthur would not appear.
Call'd at Wallwick.

[1761. July] 11. Saturday. Sandy Black, who lodges at Mary
Johnson's, has pepper and eggs for supper. N.B. Mary is a widow.

At Mr. Shaftoe' s in the afternoon.

[1761. July] 12. Sunday. At church with Parson Stokoe14 at
Chollerton : he din'd at Brunton. In the afternoon Mr. John
Shafto>>, Willy Shaftoe, wife,15 Dr. Smith at Brunton the afternoon.

[1761. July] 13. Monday. At home all day.

[1761.] July 14. Tuesday. At home all day.

14 The Rev. Alexander Stokoe; master of Hexham Grammar School,
perpetual curate of St. John Lee, 1734, to his death, Feh. 22, 1766.

18 William Shafto of Humshaugh, married secondly circa 1750, Eliza-
beth Coxon, who survived until 1799. See pedigree, new History of North-
umberland, vol. iv., p. 419.

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^ [1761. July] 15. Wednesday. Mr. Lieutenant Newton16 and Mr.
Hind17 of the Stelling call'd this morning.

Mr. and Mrs. Richardson came to Wallwick last Sunday night.

Mrs. Shaftoe and Mrs. Hirdman in the afternoon.

Hexham Sessions began this day. Insolvent debtors to be dis-
charged.

[1761. July] 16. Thursday. Niehol Waugh discharged.

Jack, Bob and [self] at Haughton Castle and Humshaugh.

[1761. July] 17. Friday. Jack, Bob and self ride round by the
kilns.

[1761. July] 18. Saturday. At Hexham with Jack and Bob.

Paid Neddy Charlton 10 pounds on account.

[1761.] July 19. Sunday. Jack and self at Hatheridge in the
afternoon to see Mr. and Mrs. Richardson.

[1761.] July 20. Monday. Went to see Mrs. Soulsbye. Dr.
Hunter, Mr. Green at the Bridge-end.

[1761. July] 21. Tuesday. Came from Brunton to Berwick.
Call'd at Mr. Soulsbye's at Hallington Mains. Came from thence to
Cambo and din'd there, — from thence to Ellsdon and stopt there
about an hour ; thence we came to Whittingham and stopt there.

[1761. July] 22. Wednesday. Staid last night at Whittingham.
Mr. Lowes18 of Newcastle and his lady call'd there this morning.
From Whittingham came to Wooller Haugh-head and din'd there;
from thence to Berwick this evening.

A meeting last Saturday. 8 men in custody.

At the Club in the evening.

[1761.] July 23. Thursday. In the house all day.

[1761. July] 24. Friday. Mr. Fenwick and self went to Thorn-
ton to see Mr. Nicholson19 ; about 5 miles from Berwick.

In the evening Captain Dixon and Captain Reed came to town.

[1761. July] 25. Saturday. Captain Reed went home again this
morning.

By the Gazette this morning we learn that the English had taken
Pondicherry on which the great guns were fired and the Regiment
under arms.

Saw Mr. Robson of Wallington this morning.

1G Thomas Newton. See p. 267 supra.

11 Oswald Hind of Stelling, in the parish of Bywell St. Peter, born
1706, died 1781. See pedigree, new History of Northumberland, vol. vi., p.
141.

18 William Lowes of Newcastle, attorney, and of Ridley-hall, in the
parish of Haltwhistle, born 1711, married Margaret, daughter of R. Marley
of Pelton, and died 1783, leaving issue.

19 The family of Nicholson owned Loan-end and rented Thornton in
the parish of Norham for several generations. The Mr. Nicholson named
in the text was George Nicholson, born 1720, died October, 1777 (cousin
german of George Nicholson of Loan-end, born 1712, died March, 1777).
The pedigree in Raine, North Durham, p. 302, stands in need of revision.

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In the afternoon at Mrs. Younghusband's20 along with Mr. Nichol-
son of Thornton ; Mr. Fenwick, Mr. Forster, &c.

In the evening at the Harrow, and afterwards at the Excise Office.

[1761. July] 26. Sunday. Sergeant Hanson confined this morn-
ing in the Black Hole.

This morning by express we learn that Prince Ferdinand had
given a total defeat to the French army.

This morning Billy Heron's daughter was married to one of our
soldiers. Mr. Harry Fen wick gave her away.

In the evening at the Excise Office with Mr. Fenwick, Gibson and
Mr. Alder.1

This evening Mr. Tulip came to town.

[1761. July] 27. Monday. This morning a firing on the Parade
on account of Prince Ferdinand's victory.

Robin Hymers with Mr. Gibson and George Ramsay went home.

At the Excise Office with Fenwick and Newton this evening.

From what I can learn from Mr. Moseley and Newton, Ensign
Stephenson2 has taken his farewell of us on account of his cowardly
behaviour with Captain Selby. The quarrel arose about the mutiny.

Assizes begin this day at Newcastle : Captain Collingwood3
High Sheriff.

[1761.] July 28. Tuesday. A field-day; but not there. At the
Harrow in the evening.

[1761. July] 29. Wednesday. Received 2 letters, one from En-
sign Stephenson, and Cook of Hexham.

This morning I was President of a court martial upon one Bruce
in Captain Hall's company ; he is to have 200 lashes.

At the Harrow in the evening.

[1761. July] 30. Thursday. This morning Bruce was whipt and
got 175 lashes : I was not present.

[1761.] July 31. Friday. Pease and quietness.

This evening I supt with Mr. Rumney. Mr. Stockdale4 and young

20 The Mrs. Younghushand mentioned in the text was probably Eliza-
beth, widow of George Younghusband of Berwick, whose son, Major-
General Charles Younghushand, married Dec., 1814, Frances, daughter of
Robert Romer of Berwick, granddaughter of Robert Romer named above,
p. 271 supra. See pedigree, new History of Northumberland, vol. i., p. 414.

1 William Alder of Horncliffe, half-brother and heir of Ralph Alder of
that place, who died in 1758. He was born in 1742, matriculated at Corpus
Christi College, Oxford, in 1759, and died in 1800, leaving issue. Cf. Alder
pedigree, Arch. Ael.} 3 ser., vol. v., p. 35.

2 Robert Stephenson of Newcastle, an ensign in the Northumberland
Militia in 1759, remained as such up to the year 1762, and perhaps later.
John Stephenson of North Shields was a lieutenant in 1759.

3 Alexander Collingwood of Unthank and Little Ryle, was a captain in
the Northumberland Militia in 1759, and High Sheriff of Northumberland
in 1761.

*Percival Stockdale, only son of the Rev. Thomas Stockdale, vicar of
Branxton, born Oct. 26, 1736, educated at Alnwick Grammar School under

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Mr. Temple were there. N.B. Stockdale's engagement with Miss
Buck ; by verdict to pay 300/. : he is determined not to pay her one
penny.

[1761. J August 1. Saturday. At Mr. Wood's house this morn-
ing : his youngest daughter still very bad.

With Mr. Fenwick in the evening at the Excise Office and after-
wards we went to the frigates.

[1761. August] 2. Sunday. At Rippath's with Jack Hubbock in
the evening.

[1761.] August 3. Monday. By the Newcastle paper this morn-
ing we learn that Jack Hudson of Acomb with some more were dis-
charged at the Assizes5 the last week on account of Hexham Riot ;
George Wilkinson of Wall, Laird Bell with others are to take their
trialls against the 17th instant. Tom Bambrough to appear again
upon his recognizance.

Mr. Wood and Fenwick at my lodgings in the afternoon. Rode
out in the evening.

[1761. August] 4. Tuesday. Rode out in the afternoon. Supt
with Mr. Wood in the evening at his house in Ratten Raw6 : Rumney,
Fenwick, Doubleday there.

[1761. August] 5. Wednesday. This morning Liddel of Hexham
with the seven other persons concerned in the riot at Tweedmouth
and for the meeting at the Bridge Guard on the 20th of the last
month were tried by a court martial : the riot was on the eighteenth.

Abraham Rumney, at Berwick School under Joseph Rumney, and at the
University of St. Andrews, obtained a commission in the Royal Welsh
Fusiliers in 1755, which two years later he resigned. Through the disin-
terested kindness of the Sharpe family (see p. 272 supra) he was enabled to
take orders with a title as curate to Mr. Sharp in London. In or before
1762, he became curate to the Rev. Thomas Thorp, vicar of Berwick, but
apparently did not obtain priest's orders until 1781. He subsequently
obtained the benefices of Lesbury and Longhoughton, which he continued to
hold until his death, Sept. 14, 1811. Some account of his literary career is
given in Six North Country Diaries (No. 118 of the series, p. 266). His wife
(or one of his wives) was the Miss Christian Buck mentioned in the text,
who lived apart from her husband, whom she survived until the month of
July, 1812, when she died at Alnwick, at the age of 85. See Newcastle
Courant, 15 Aug., 1812.

5 At the assizes here this week the following persons charged with
opposing the execution of the militia laws were (illegible), viz., George
Oliver, Thomas Bell, John Hudson, Jacob U . . . ., John Young, Thomas
Stewart, Patrick Ramsay, William Watson, Joseph Taylor and Jacob
Robson. And Peter Patterson, George Bell, George Wilkinson, George
Urwin, William Alder and John Shield, against whom indictments were
found for riotously and contemptuously opposing the execution of the
militia laws, were ordered to be confined in prison till the next assize
which will be held here on Monday, the 17th inst., when they are to take
their trials. William Elteringham, who was out on bail, on surrendering
himself, was ordered to be put in irons and to take his trial with the six
above mentioned. Thomas Bell and Thomas Bamborough were set at
liberty on giving bail for their appearance at the assizes. Newcastle
Journal, 1 Aug., 1761. 6 Now called Ravensdown.

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At the Club this evening and chosen President by (sic) Mr. Isaac
Brown.

[1761.] August 6. Thursday. Came from the Harrow this morn-
ing at three o'clock.

This morning 4 of the mutineers were whipt. Liddell was one of
them, and Kirby, or Corby, in my company. This morning Sergeant
Maudlin in my company was broke by Captain Dixon. N.B. He was
condemned without being heard. Jedburgh Law !

At the Spittal in the afternoon. With Fen wick at the Excise
Office in the evening.

[1761. August] 7. Friday. A field-day, but not there. Much
rain.

[1761. August] 8. Saturday. This afternoon Mr. Ensign Fen-
wick and Jack Hubbuck with me.

Miss Bell came home this afternoon from London. She was
witness against Parson Stockdale about his contract with Miss Buck.
1761.] August 9. Sunday. In the house most of the day.

"1761. August] 10. Monday. Walked with Mr. Fenwick into
Tweedmouth fields this morning.

Sr Edward Blackett is expected soon.

Robin Hymers came to town this day to desire me to go home on
account of George Wilkinson, who is to be tried on Monday first.

[1761. August] 11. Tuesday. Came from Berwick this morning
about 11 o'clock: din'd at Wooller Haugh-head : got to Rothbury
about 8 at night.

[1761. August] 12. Wednesday. Came from Rothbury about 11
o'clock in the morning and din'd at Cambo : got home a little
before 7 o'clock. Met Mr. William Shaftoe going to Bavington.

[1761. August] 13. Thursday. Mr. Robson of Hubback call'd
with his grandson and another.

Mr. Green here in the afternoon. Ned Wilkinson7 here in the
morning and the afternoon, on account of his brother who is to be
tried on Monday first on account of the Riot at Hexham.

[1761. August] 14. Friday. At home all day.

[1761. August] 15. Saturday. Parson Willson, Mr Richardson
and Parson Stokoe at Brunton in the afternoon.

[1761. August] 16. Sunday. Mrs. Shaftoe din'd here.

In the afternoon went with Mr. Teasdale White8 to Newcastle to
give evidence on behalf of Geordy Wilkinson to be tried on account
of the Hexham Riot : we were to speak to his character. Got to New-
castle about 10 at night.

7 1792. May 30. Edward Wilkinson, Wall, buried. Registers of St.
John Lee.

8 Teasdale White of Humshaugh, son of George White of that place by
his wife, Elizabeth, sister and co-heir of Thomas Teasdale of Steel-hall in
Slaley and of Newcastle. Cf. Teasdale pedigree, new History of Northum-
berland, vol. vi., p. 374. George White and Elizabeth, his wife, were
married 29 Dec, 1709, and she was buried in the chancel of Simonhurn,
18 Oct., 1727.

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[1761.] August 17. Monday. Assizes9: Bathurst and Lloyd',
judges. Alder for the Bellford riot found guilty : Sr Matthew White
and Mr. Brown of Doxford, &c. witnesses.

Spent the evening with Frank Dawson, Mr. White.

[1761. August] 18. Tuesday. Peter Patterson found guilty this-
morning : Laird Bell, George Wilkinson, Eltringham &o. acquitted.
Alder and Patterson received sentence to be hanged.

Got home at night.

[1761. August] 19. Wednesday. At home all day. This after-
noon Geordy Wilkinson got to Wall after being confined to Morpeth
gaol since the 30th of March last. He was taken into custody on the
26th of March and confined at Hexham, till he was carried to Morpeth
on the 30th. Great joy at Wall on his arrival.

[1761.] August 20. Thursday. At home all day. Geordy Wil-
kinson here in the morning. Nichol Waugh here.

[1761. August] 21. Friday. At home all day.

[1761. August] 22. Saturday. Stephen Thompson here this
morning ; he got home last night ; he went off on account of the Riot
the 27th of March last : almost 5 months absent.

Went to Humshaugh in the afternoon : Frank Dawson at Brunton
in the evening; he paid me the ballance due on Widdrington's
account.

[1761. August] 23. Sunday. Dr. Smith called in the morning.
Mrs. Smith of Westerhall, Mally Hubbuck, Captain John Willson, Mr.
Ralf Smith, Jacky Reed here in the afternoon. Parson Stokoe call'd
in the evening.

[1761.] August 24. Monday. Went with Jack and Bob to Hall-
ington Mains, but Mr. and Mrs. Soulsbye not at home.

[1761. August] 25. Tuesday. Came from Brunton to Berwick.

9 At the assizes held here by adjournment for the county of Northum-
berland, on Monday last and which ended on Tuesday, Peter Patterson and
William Elder indicted for High Treason were found guilty, received
sentence of death, and were ordered for execution on Wednesday the 30th of
September next. George Wilkinson, George Bell, and William Eltringham
all indicted for High Treason were acquitted (Eltringham by verdict, and
the two former by consent of the counsel for the Crown who with great
humanity declined entering into all the evidence against them, as some
favourable circumstances appeared in their behalf). Thomas Bambrough
and Thomas Bell indicted for misdemeanours at the assizes on the 27th of
July, and who had pleaded Not Guilty thereto, now withdrew their pleas
and confessed the indictments and are also ordered to pay a fine and to be-
respectively imprisoned for one week. Jane, the wife of George Longstaff*
indicted for a misdemeanour, having pleaded Guilty, was ordered to be
committed to jail for three months and also to pay a fine. George Erwen,
indicted for a misdemeanour, having entered into a recognizance with two-
sufficient sureties to try his traverse at the next assizes, was discharged
out of custody. The King's Counsel have shown the greatest clemency in
every prosecution, and have discharged several out of custody without
preferring any indictment, who did not appear by the informations against
them to have been of dangerous dispositions, or remarkably active in the
riots. Newcastle Journal, 22 Aug., 1761.

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Din'd at Cambo with Mr. Lodge of Bernard Castle j got to Whitting-
ham and staid all night.

[1761.] August 26. Wednesday. Came from Whittingham and
din'd at Wooller Haugh-head : got to Berwick about six o'clock at
night.

Generall Sinclair came to town this afternoon ; he is to review us
to morrow.

At the Harrow in the evening.

[1761.] August 27. Thursday. We were reviewed by Generall
Sinclair10 : all the officers in town but Mr. Delaval,11 Sr Matthew
White and Mr. Gibson. Lieutenant Newton in town but not well.
About 4 o'clock Generall Sinclair went out of town for Bellford.

At the Harrow about two hours this afternoon. At the assembly
in the evening.

[1761. August] 28. Friday. At home all day. N.B. Sr Edward's12
reproof for wearing a blue coat.

[1761. August] 29. Saturday. Supt in the evening with Mr.
Rumney and Dr. Doubleday.

[1761. August] 30. Sunday. In the house most of the day. In
the evening at the Excise Office with Fenwick, Evans,13 Rutherford.14

[1761. August] 31. Monday. This morning Sr Edward Blackett
and Mr. Tulip went home.

Supt with Captain Reed, Blackett, &c. at the Hen and Chickens.15

[1761.] September 1. Tuesday. Spittal Feast was yesterday.

In the house most of the day : went to the Harrow to sup, but
did not.

[1761. September] 2. Wednesday. Captain Reed better of his
•gravel.

Club night, at the Harrow.

This afternoon Captain Reed, Lieutenant Newton, Mr. Fenwick at
my room.

Miss Shell's16 grandmother to be buried to morrow : Mrs. Forster
(query).

10 The inspecting officer expressed ' satisfaction at the exact manner in
which they went through all the firings and evolutions, and at the behaviour
■of the whole regiment.' Newcastle Journal, 5 Sept., 1761.

11 George Delaval, eldest surviving son of Edward Shafto of Hexham,
assumed the name of Delaval on succeeding to Little Bavington under the
will of his maternal uncle, Admiral George Delaval (who died in 1723), he
having purchased the same from the Commissioners of Forfeited Estates.

12 Sir Edward Blackett of Matfen, bart., Colonel of the Northumber-
land Militia.

13 John Evans in 1759 adjutant of the Northumberland Militia, in 1762
adjutant and quartermaster, died Sept. 29, 1778.

14 Thomas Eutherford of Whitley in the parish of Tynemouth, ensign
in the Northumberland Militia in 1759.

15 The Hen and Chickens still survives as an old established licensed
house in Bridge Street, Berwick.

16 The Shells were an old Berwick family.

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[1761. September] 3. Thursday. Captain Reed with me in the
afternoon. At the Hen and Chickens with Captain Blackett, Mr.
Adams,17 Pratt, Adjutant and Mr. Ensign William Fenwick.

N.B. Miss Jenny Bell's sister and Dr. Lauder.

[1761.] September 4. Friday. Came from Berwick to Brunton:
at Whittingham all night : Whittingham fair. Lay with Captain
Watson in Crawford's regiment : he succeeded Lord Warkworth.

[1761.] September 5. Saturday. From Whittingham I came to
Rothbury and from thence to Cambo where I din'd ; from thence I
came to Mr. Soulsbye's and so home.

[1761. September] 6. Sunday. At Mr. Shaftoe's in the after-
noon : old Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Richardson and my sister18 there.

Tommy Reed very bad.

[1761. September] 7. Monday. At home all day. This morning
Captain Reed of Humshaugh was married to Miss Smith of the Wester-
hall.

[1761.] September 8. Tuesday. At home all day: Neddy Kell
here.

[1761. September] 9. Wednesday. At Haughton Castle seeing
Captain Reed and his wife.

Sergeant Hanson at Brunton, but lame.

[1761. September] 10. Thursday. At Humshaugh in the after-
noon.

Sergeant Hanson began to trench in the afternoon.

[1761. September] 11. Friday. Mr. Soulsbye, Mr. Richardson,
and Mr. Teasdale White at Brunton : they are to dine at Dr. Smith's.
It is George Smith's birthday.

[1761. September] 12. Saturday. This morning Tommy Reed
of Humshaugh died about 6 o'clock.

Peggy Scott's churn-supper this evening.

~1761.] September 13. Sunday. At home all day.

1761. September] 14. Monday. Nichol Waugh here in the
morning : promised to write to London about his son. Neddy Kell
called.

[1761. September] 15. Tuesday. This morning I was told by
old Thomas Husband19 that young Mr. Mewburn20 (Mr. Mewburn of

17 Edward Adams of Alnwick and of Acton, in the parish of Felton,
eldest surviving son of Benjamin Adams of Long Houghton and Acton, born
1733, a lieutenant in the Northumberland Militia in 1759, died in 1767,
unmarried.

18 Anne, daughter of Robert Dawson of Brunton and Wall, and sister
of the Diarist, under her father's will took d£l,000 and a house.

19 1771. Feb. 12. Thomas Husband, Brunton, buried. Registers of St.
John Lee.

20 ' On Sunday morning, died in Pilgrim Street, Mr. James Mewburn of
Acomb, near Hexham, a promising young gentleman who is deservedly
lamented by all his friends and acquaintance.' Newcastle Journal,
19 Sept., 1761. He was son of Simon Mewburn of Acomb by Mary Tulip,

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Aeomb's son) was dead at Newcastle, and that they were gone this
morning to bring the corps from Newcastle.

This afternoon Tommy Reed was buried at Simonburn. I went
as far as Haughton fields and came home.

Militia men — Dixon, Daglish, Anderson — at Brunton, about pro-
longing their furlough.

[1761.] September 16. Wednesday. Mr. Green and Dr. Hunter
call'd ; they are going to Hatheridge1 to dine.

Went to make John Thomson's will ; he is a relation of Neddy
Kell's ; he is now at the Herds-house. I think that he was not
quite sensible.

Invited to Mr. Mewburn 's funeral.

[1761. September] 17. Thursday. This afternoon young Mr.
Mewburn was buried at St. John Lee ; bearers, Soulsbye, Dr. Hunter,
Mr. Brown, Dr. Jefferson,2 young Mr. Lee and myself. He was 18
years of age last Aprill. Mr. Soulsbye and Dr. Hunter went home
together in the chaise. After the funeral stopt a while at Parson
Stokoe's. Mrs. Mewburn in great concern about her son. 12
scarfs ; Parson Stokoe, Parson Totton3 there and also Mr. Errington
of Warwick Grainge.

George Sharp begun to paint the stair-case this day.

[1761.] September 18. Friday. Sergeant Hanson went for Ber-
wick this morning.

Mr. Sergeant Webster call'd and also severall other soldiers. At
home all day.

1761. September 19 Saturday. Bellingham fair day. At home
all day.

[1761. September] 20. Sunday. This day Mr. Whitelock and
his wife, formerly Mrs. Dryden (old Simon Dryden's widow), din'd
at Brunton. At home all day.

Paid Robin as a soldier for Friday sen'night.

[1761. September] 21. Monday. At home all day. Mr. Richard-
son sent to borrow horse, but could not lend it.

[1761.] September 22. Tuesday. The King's Coronation this
day.

This day Mr. Richardson and wife went past Brunton for the
south.

his wife, which Simon was son of James Mewburn of Seaton Delaval, an
agent or factor of the Delaval family, by his marriage with Jane, daughter
and heiress of Simon Armstrong of Acomb. Cf. Mewburn pedigree, new
History of Northumberland, vol. iv., p. 142.

1 Hatherage, in the parish of Simonburn, is now parcel of the Chesters
estate.

3 Philip Jefferson of Hexham, surgeon, occurs in 1745 as a reputed
papist.

8 The Rev. William Totton of St. John's College, Cambridge, lecturer
of Hexham from 1758 to 1766. He was perpetual curate of Edgeware,.
Middlesex, from 1764 to his death, 24 Dec, 1787.

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Mr. Shaftoe din'd here.

Brunton windows illuminated and gave my neighbours a good
drink.

[1761. September] 23. Wednesday. At home all day. Nichol
Waugh call'd in the evening.

[1761. September] 24. Thursday. This morning I was told that
Mr. Mayers4 of Simonburn was buried last night.

George Sharp still painting at Brunton.

[1761. September] 25. Friday. Yesterday, I am told, was
fought a grand battle between the Lady of the Wester-hall and the
Lady of the Castle. The young lady threw a tankard of ale on the old
lady's face. After much altercation the old lady thought proper to
retreat.

Sr Lancelot Allgood call'd this morning to know if I had any
memorandums among Mr. Tone's papers concerning the boundaries
of Shitlington common, or Elingham-rig common.

Mr. Green and Mr. Salmon call'd, going to Chipchase.

Mr. Teasdale White and Captain Joe Reed at Brunton in the
evening.

[1761. September] 26. Saturday. Lady of Wester-hall din'd
here. She gave me a particular account of the battle between her
and the young Lady of the Castle.5 She was in tears about her
daughter's marriage with Captain Reed.

Some of the militia men here; Craig of Allendale, &c.

Nicholson here, Graham mending the leads.

[1761.] September 27 Sunday. This afternoon young Tommy
Stokoe and Kit Dickinson at Brunton, afterwards came Ensign Harry
Fenwick on his road to Hexham from Berwick.

Not at church.

[1761. September] 28. Monday. At home all day. Some of the
militia-men going to Berwick, as George Scott, &c.

[1761. September] 29. Tuesday. At home all day.

4 ' We hear from Alnwick that last week came on the election of a coroner
for the county of Northumberland in the room of Mr. Mayers, deceased;
when Dr. Scott of Stamfordham, was duly elected. Newcastle Journal,
12 Dec, 1761 Mr. Thomas Mayers of Simonburn occurs in 1726 and 1739.
He was probably father of Deborah, wife of John Mitford of Tyne Mills,
Hexham. See new History of Northumberland, vol. iii., p. 298.

5 ' The old lady ' was Mrs. Smith of Haughton Wester Hall : ' the young
lady ' who got through her manners was, apparently, Anne, wife of William
Smith of Haughton Castle, and daughter of Keenlyside. She was married
in or before 1750 and died 5 Jan., 1789. Cf. Newcastle Courant, 10 Jan..
1789.

The pedigree of the two lines of the family of Smith, proprietors,
respectively, of Haughton Castle and Wester Hall, has not been worked out,
but in the Registers of Simonburn the name constantly occurs. In the
churchyard are some monumental inscriptions, none of which are earlier
than the nineteenth century; the older burial place of the family being
within the church, at the west end of the north aisle. Ex inf., Rev. E. Cull,
rector of Simonburn.

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[1761. September] 30. Wednesday. Mr. Reed called this morn-
ing going to Hexham and then to dine at Parson Willson's.

Surtees in my company, with his wife (she is a Berwick woman)
at Brunt on this morning : he belongs to Hedley.

Mr. and Mrs. Errington call'd this morning.

El 761.] October 1. Thursday. At home all day.
1761. October] 2. Friday. At home all day. Still reading the
English grammar with Jack.

[1761. October] 3. Saturday. This afternoon Jemmy Perrot's
child at Codlaw Hill was buried. Peggy and Robin there. Rainy
afternoon.

[1761. October] 4. Sunday. Parson Stokoe din'd here, from St.
Oswald.

Accounts come of Peter Patterson to be hanged to-morrow or
Tuesday.

[1761. October] 5. Monday. At home all day.

[1761. October] 6. Tuesday. Peter Patterson6 was hanged yes-
terday, at Morpeth on account of the riot which happened there about
eight months ago. Peter Patterson was a leader of the mob. In
this riot Mr. Fenwick of Bywell got his head broke. Nichol Waugh
who came from Morpeth this morning gives the following account
about Peter Patterson, viz. : —

That he was with him on Sunday evening last when he was chear-
ful. That yesterday morning he took his leave of Peter. That Peter
died very penitent. That when he was hung up, the rope either
slipt or broke and so he fell. That after he was recovered he was
hung up a second time ; then cut down ; his head cut off ; his heart
taken out and thrown into the fire ; then his four quarters were cut.
across but not cut off. He is supposed to have died worth between
three and four thousand pounds. That excepting an annuity to his
wife, he has left all his fortune to his mistress. Mr. Brown of Kirk-
harle is trustee for the woman and children. Nichol Waugh gave me-
ttle above account at my own door at Brunton. Peter Patterson was-
about 74 years of age.

[1761. October] 7. Wednesday. Jack began to write and con-
strue his Propria quae maribus this morning.

1761. October 8. Thursday. Mary Johnson's night-wark or
merry-meeting this night.

[1761. October] 9. Friday. Jack Nicholson here. Went to
Humshaugh in the afternoon .

[1761.] October 10. Saturday. At home all day. Renewing
furloughs.

6 ' On Wednesday an express arrived from the Secretary of State's
office importing that it was His Majesty's pleasure that the sentence against
William Alder for high treason should be delayed being in execution,
but that the law must take its place on Peter Patterson the other convict.'
Newcastle Journal, 3 Oct., 1761.

'He behaved penitently but did not think the crime he suffered for
worthy of death.' Ibid., 10 Oct., 1761.

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[1761. October] 11. Sunday. At the chapel.

This morning Mally Charlton of Codlaw-hill7 died. See Septem-
ber [query October] 3rd when her grandchild was buried.

Jack Brown, &c. here.

[1761. October] 12. Monday. At home all day.

[1761. October] 13. Tuesday. Mr. William Charlton from Lon-
don dined with me. Mr. and Mrs. Shaftoe here in the afternoon.

Mr. Pitt, Secretary of State, has resigned his employments.

Mally Charlton of Codlaw-hill was buried this afternoon.

[1761.] October 14. Wednesday. At home all day.
1761. October] 15. Thursday. At home all day. I neither
can nor will.

Some of the Chief's8 tenants here in the evening, viz., Bill Coul-
son, &c. ; they complain greatly about their articles of contract.

[1761. October] 16. Friday. Mrs. Archer, with Lee of Bingfieldr
here in the afternoon, on account of Mrs. Archer's thirds or dower.
At home all day.

"1761. October] 17. Saturday. At Humshaugh in the afternoon.

1761. October] 18. Sunday. Not at church. At home all day.

1761.] October 19. Monday. Mrs. Shaftoe drank tea here and
Mr. Wear.

Mr. Armstrong,9 attorney, called to let me know that I was
appointed arbitrator between Mary Lee of Acomb and her daughter-
in-law.

Tom Scott here ; he went to Chipchase, and called again to let me-
know that Mr. Reed would not renew his furlough.

1761. October] 20. Tuesday. At home all day.

1761. October" 21. Wednesday. At home all day.

1761. October] 22. Thursday. Ned Taylor here this morning;
gave him an order upon. Widdrington10 for Mrs. Dawson's stays..
Paid him for Polly Tone's stays. See Parson Willson's account.

[1761.] October 23. Friday. Mr. Ensign Fenwick dined here..
N.B. 201.

[1761. October] 24. Saturday. Nichol Waugh here : directions to-
his son, ' George Waugh to the care of Mr. Jasper Hall,11 merchant,.

7 1761. Oct. 13. Mary, wife of Eannell Charrilton, Codlaw-hill,
buried. St. John Lee Registers.

8 The ' chief of Beaufront,' as Mr. Errington was locally termed.

9 Francis Armstrong of Hexham, attorney, married at Hexham,.
19 July, 1758, Jane Maughan of the chapelry of Haydon, by whom he had
issue. ' Tuesday, died in an advanced age at Hexham, Mr. Francis Arm-
strong, father to Mr. Francis Armstrong, attorney there.' Newcastle
Courant, 19 April, 1766.

10 For a very readable account of 'John Widdrington of the Old Bank,'
see Arch. Ael., 2 ser., vol. x., p. 138.

11 Jasper Hall was, apparently, a local man settled in Jamaica. Mr.
Jasper Hall of Colwell in the parish of Chollerton was one of the three
commissioners appointed, 14 May, 1716, to carry into effect the division of
the townfields of Barrasford. Cf. new History of Northumberland , vol. iv.,.
p. 317.

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4tt Kingston in Jamaica.' 2 letters. Mr. Charlton to take care of
them.

[1761. October] 25. Sunday. Not at church.

Widow Led of Newbrough and her brother Newton at Brunton
in the afternoon, to acquaint me with the dispute between her and
her mother, Mary Lee of Acomb.

[1761. October] 26. Monday. At home all day. Mrs. Smith of
Wester-hall here in the afternoon.

[1761. October] 27. Tuesday. At home all day. Mr. Soulsbye
and Willy Potts call'd.

[1761.] October 28. Wednesday. This is my birthday. This
day I am 35 years af age. I came of age on the 17th of October
(old stile) in the year 1747.

Mr. Soulsbye, Dr. Smith, Mr. Green, Dr. Hunter, Mr. Teasdale
White and Mr. Robert Wear dined at Brunton : they went away
about 5 o'clock.

Received a letter from our adjutant wherein he says that Sr
Edward Blackett desires I will return to Berwick.

Foulden fair near Berwick is this day.

[1761. October] 29. Thursday. This morning Jack went a hunt-
ing. At home all day.

[1761. October] 30. Friday. Din'd at Hexham this day. Spoke
to Mr. Lowes about Dixon's cash; he says he will allow it to him.
N.B. I am bound for Routledge to Dixon of Darwent. (Marginal note,
I sent the cash myself.) Came home in the evening.

~1761.] October 31. Saturday. At home all day.
1761.] November 1. Sunday. At St. Oswald ohappel. Parson
Stokoe din'd at Brunton.

[1761. November] 2. Monday. Robin Hymers and Jack Bewick
are gone to Highfield this morning. Jack's 20Z. This morning
Mr. Reed and Mr. Stoddart12 called ; they are going to Hexham.

[1761. November] 3. Tuesday. Robin came from Highfield: he
brought 10/. Is. Od.

Tommy Oliver called in the afternoon ; also one of Mrs. Rob-
law's13 daughters about her brother's effects.

Mr. Wastell14 desires me to dine wit]i him to morrow.

[1761. November] 4. Wednesday. At home all day. Mr. Mew-
burn with me in the afternoon ; he brought me Livy's ' History.' See
13th May.

[1761.] November 5. Thursday. Gunpowder Plot. At home
all day.

[1761. November] 6. Friday. Frank Dawson called. He offered

12 The Rev. Charles Stoddart, vicar of Chollerton from 1733 to his
death in the month of June, 1790.

" The Rev. William Robley occurs in 1715 as curate of Simonburn
(see Simonburn Registers).

14 The Rev. Henry Wastell, rector of Simonburn, where he died 1 March,
1771, aged 82, leaving issue.

1761. November
1761. November

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me 51. by way of satisfaction on account of my shop, but I refused
it.

Mr. Smith of the Castle15 came when I was at dinner, but he,
honest man, was drunk.

[1761. November] 7. Saturday. At home all day.

[1761. November] 8. Sunday. At home all day. Bill Robson's
wife here, wanting me to renew her husband's furlough ; but could
not : she went to Chipchase.

"1761. November] 9. Monday. Hexham fair: ox, quy-calf sold.
"10. Tuesday. At home all day.

11. Wednesday The ox killed this morn-
ing."

[1761.] November 12. Thursday. Received a letter from Sr
Edward Blackett, desiring me to go to Berwick, and go I must,
greatly against my inclination. See the 8th of March when I first
grew tired.

1761. Nov. 13. Friday. This morning I left Brunton to go for
Berwick. 10 weeks this day since I left Berwick. See Sept. 4.
Got to Cambo about two o'clock, from thence to Rothbury, where I
staid all night.

[1761. November] 14. Saturday. From Rothbury I came to
Whittingham where I din'd with Mr. and Mrs. Walker (she was
Parson Nixon's daughter) ; they are going to Haltwistle. My land-
lord, Scott, assured me that the person who appear' d as Captain

15 Mr. William Smith of Haughton Castle, mentioned in the text, was
probably the father of William Smith, proprietor of Haughton Castle,
who erected in 1788 a paper-mill ' drove by the never failing and powerful
stream of North Tyne with a good supply of excellent washing water,
containing three engines, two white and one brown vatt with every other
convenience for carrying on an extensive and profitable paper trade ; a good
connection having been formed ' (advertisement in Newcastle papers of
May, 1796). This was the mill, as is alleged, where the paper was made for
the forged French Assignats, the printing being done elsewhere. The foreman
of the mill at the time was named Magnay, whose son, Christopher Magnay
of London, citizen and stationer, was alderman of Vintry Ward in 1811,
and Sheriff of London, 1814. The subject is discussed in Notes and
Queries, second series, vol. vi., p. 255, and is related more at length by the
Rev. G. R. Hall, in the History of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club,
vol. xi., pp. 153-155.

16 Up to the nineteenth century almost every house killed a bullock or
shared in a bullock at Martinmas, locally called a mart, which provided the
household with salted meat throughout the winter months. Hence the
attraction of plum-puddings, dumplings, etc. to our ancestors, who found
them anti-scorbutic. The general cultivation of the swede turnip, and
winter feeding, have done away with the need of such things. When the
mart was killed, from the blood were made black-puddings, and from the
tallow, candles.

' And Martinmas beef doth bear good tack
When countrie folks do dainties lack.'

Cf. ' Morpeth Social Customs, now Obsolete,' by William Woodman,
History of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club, vol. xiv., p. 128.

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Watson,17 and was my bedfellow, is the same that is now confined
in Newcastle goal for stealing silver spoons. It now appears that
he was formerly a collier at Shilbottle. Staid there all night on
account of the rains.

[1761.] November 15. Sunday. Came from thence with Mr.
Howey18 of Wooller Haugh-head, who guided us through Breamish
river and Aller-burn, which were very deep and the fords quite broke
up; got to Wooller Haugh-head about 11 o'clock, and obliged to
stay there all day on account of the rains, and the river Till which
overspread the haughs, so there was no getting to Dorrington-
bridge.19 Heavy rains all day.

[1761. November] 16. Monday. At Wooller Haugh-head all
night. The weather is still very bad. The barber who shaved me
says that the fields below Wooller are one continued sheet of water
for a mile in length, and that such a flood has not been known for
many years.

[1761.] November 17. Tuesday. This morning I came from
Wooller Haugh-head. Mrs. Morton's20 servant conducted me
through the waters to Dorrington-bridge : got to Berwick about 3
o'clock.

N.B. Dr. Doubleday's housekeeper is gone off, with child; the
doctor is a Quaker. Sad work among the housekeepers at Berwick
lately.

This evening Mr. Sergeant M'Clean called upon me to certify for
his conduct ; he is in hopes of being preferred in the army.

[1761.] November 18. Wednesday. Mr. Gibson called in the

17 'On Wednesday, Thomas Watson, who says he is a captain in the
Eoyal Volunteers, and appeared in the uniform of that regiment, was
detected here in offering to sell some silver table spoons at Mr. Langlands,'
goldsmith; and on examination before the Right Worshipful Aubone
Surtees, esq., mayor, not being able to give a satisfactory account of
himself, but on the contrary clear proof being given that the spoons were
stolen ones, he was directly ordered to Newgate.' Newcastle Journal,
17 Oct., 1761.

18 The Howeys were the great carriers between Newcastle and Edin-
burgh, and rented and carried on the inn at Wooler Haugh-head for the
convenience of their carrying business. See Six North Country Diaries,
p. 265n.

19 ' Dorrington ' was, and to some extent is still, the popular name of
Doddington near Wooler and a chapelry of the ancient parish of Chatton.
There is a Northumbrian pipe-tune associated with the place. When
Will Allen, the noted pipe^ was on his death-bed he was exhorted by
pious neighbours to repent him of his sins. ' Pshaw !' quoth he, ' hand me
my pipes and I'll gie ye "Dorrington Lads Yet."' Cf. Denham Tracts,
ed. Hardy, vol. i., p. 272.

20 ' In the churchyard at Doddington there are still several handsome
tombstones of the family of Morton, who farmed at Doddington under the
Earl of Tankerville. The last representative of the family attained great
wealth as a land agent in the county of Durham, and purchased Yeavering,
Twizell in Bamburghshire, etc

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morning: Mr. Wood at my room in the afternoon. We spent the
evening together at the Red Lion.

[1761. November] 19. Thursday. Captain Watson came to
town last night. Wrote to Mr. Davidson, Mr. Green and to Peggy
White.

[1761.] November 20. Friday. Last Wednesday, at the Red
Lion, Mr. Wood told me about Sergeant Storey running off to Eden-
burgh without leave and also about his cheating Isaac Brown, the
attorney, of his watch. Rippath spoke as to his pawning the watch
with his drawer for 40s.

In the house most of the day.

[1761. November] 21. Saturday. In the house till the evening,
then went with Mr. Rumney to sup with Mr. Thomas Wood : his
brother Mr. William Wood1 and Dr. Doubleday there. N.B. A
genteel young fellow and married one of the finest women in their
country; no wonder his son, &c.

[1761.] November 22. Sunday. Not at church. Still very bad
weather.

Sr Matthew White, and Captain Hall came up this evening, also
Mr. Newton. Sr Matthew has ordered Sergeant Storey to be arrested
at Eden burgh.

[1761.] November 23. Monday. In the afternoon went to Mr.
Humphrey's at Tweedmouth : had three books with me, viz. Taylor's
'Life of our Saviour,' Clarke's ' Corderius Colloquies,' and also his
Introduction to making of Latin. I find from Mr. Rumney 's con-
versation that my son Jack follows the very method of Mr. Rumney's
scholars as to the preter-perfect tense and supines of which he was
master some time ago.

S1761. November] 24. Tuesday. In the house most of the day.
1761. November] 25. Wednesday. By a letter from Mr. Green
this morning I learn that Mr. Roberts has got the gout in his
stomach ; that the bridge to Ridley-hall and also that of Glenwhelp,2
in the Military road, were taken away by the floods which happened
on Thursday last. Mr. Reed, according to Mr. Green's letter, is to
set out on this day for Berwick.

I spoke to Mr. William Fenwick3 on account of Jemmy Kell who
has staid about 8 days longer than the last prolongation of his
furlough. Jemmy brought me the magazines. Sergeant Chesters

1 Thomas Wood of Beadnell, diei 1766, and his brother, William Wood,
of Presson, near Cornhill. The latter married, 1744, Miss Elizabeth
Robertson, and died 1778, leaving issue.

2 ' Last week the bridge at Glenwelt, on the Military Road, and confines
of Northumberland, was broke down and swept away by the rivulet there,
which had been raised to a most amazing height by the late rains. The
bridge across the Tyne near Ridley-hall was also carried away.' Newcastle
Journal, 28 Nov., 1761.

3 William Fenwick of Alnwick, ensign in Northumberland Militia in
1759.

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applied to me on account of Hanson's wife : striking his wife this
night. Chester's son Frost informed me of it.

[1761. November] 26. Thursday. At home all day. This
evening Captain Reed came to town.

[1761. November] 27. Friday. Parties sent out in search of
Emerson.

[1761. November] 28. Saturday. Captain Reed with me, and
read & Lancelot Allgood's letter about Ralf Hutchinson's gun, which
Captain Reed had taken from him. Mr. Reynard Gibson goes home
to morrow morning.

[1761.] November 29. Sunday. Rainy day. Mr. Gibson goes
home this day.

[1761. November] 30. Monday. Captain Reed taken ill of the
gravel this morning.

[1761.] December 1. Tuesday. Called upon Captain Reed this
morning : Captain Watson there. At the Harrow in the evening.

[1761. December] 2. Wednesday. At the Spittal in the after-
noon. N.B. Miss Shell laid upon her back at Edenburgh when her
teeth drawn.

[1761. December] 3. Thursday. Sergeant Storey came a pris-
oner to Berwick this day.

At the Harrow in the evening. N.B. Mr. Temple and Mr.
Alder's misfortunes.

[1761. December] 4. Friday. Captain Blackett, and Mr. Adams
came to-night.

At the Harrow till 12 o'clock.

[1761. December] 5. Saturday. At the Harrow in the evening.

[1761.] December 6. Sunday. Not at church.

At the Harrow in the evening : supt alone.

Conversation with Mistress Nixon about Mr. Temple's affairs ;
sad work !

[1761.] December 7. Monday. Sergeant Storey tried by a court
martial for absence without leave. Sergeant Storey is reduced to
serve in the ranks.

Cornwall4 fair to-day.

At the Harrow in the evening.

[1761. December] 8. Tuesday. Took a turn upon the ramparts.
In the house most of the day.

[1761. December] 9. Wednesday. This morning I got a letter
from Mr. Fenwick wherein he says that he can't return to Berwick
as yet. He says also that old Mr. Roberts died yesterday morning.

'Sergeant Hanson wants to go to Hull to bring his child to Berwick.

[1761.] December 10. Thursday. In the house most of the day.
At the Harrow in the evening. N.B. Cards. Reed and Blackett.

[1761. December] 11. Friday. Went to Tweedmouth in the
afternoon. In the evening at the Harrow.

'i.e., Cornhill-on-Tweed in the parish of Norham.

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[1761. December] 12. Saturday. Came from the Harrow this
morning about 3 o'clock.

At the Harrow in the evening.

[1761. December] 13. Sunday. Supt with Mr. Rumney; Dr.
Doubleday, Mr. Wood and Mr. Boran5 present.

[1761. December] 14. Monday. Came from Berwick this morn-
ing about 10 o'clock. Got to Wooller Haugh-head about half an
hour after two.

[1761.] December 15. Tuesday. From Wooller Haugh-head
came to Eothbury.

[1761. December] 16. Wednesday. From Rothbury to Halling-
ton ; dined there : Mr. Soulsbye not at home : Mr. Teasdale White,
Ralf Smith there. Got home at night.

Jack begun his Cordery this night. See 25th.

[1761. December] 17. Thursday. Mr. Soulsbye called, going to
Parson Stokoe's.

[1761. December] 18. Friday. Mr. Soulsbye and wife, Miss
Smith, Master and Miss Soulsbye din'd here. Green, Hunter,
Surtees called.

[1761. December] 19. Saturday. At home all day. School
broke up.

[1761. December] 20. Sunday. Mr. Green called. Gave him
281. 10s. to pay for me. Mr. Fenwick, Wester-hall, Neddy Elliot6
with Mr. Smith's tenants about the dame of Humshaugh.

[1761. December] 21. Monday. At home all day.

[1761. December] 22. Tuesday. William Shaftoe, George White
here. Peggy White at Hexham.

[1761. December] 23. Wednesday. Nichol Waugh here. Mr.
Wear here. Peter Smith here.

[1761. December] 24. Thursday. Jack Davidson here. Jack
Hubbuck here.

[1761. December] 25. Friday, Christmas Day. Jack begun Cor-
dery, on Wednesday sen 'night.

At the Bridge-end this morning.

[1761. December] 26. Saturday. Mr. Soulsbye called. Mr. Green,
two Mr. Hunters here.

[1761.] December 27. Sunday. At home all day.

[1761. December] 28. Monday. At home all day.

5 Robert Baron, of Alnwick, successively lieutenant, captain and adju-
tant of the Northumberland Militia, married at Bishop Middleham, July
5, 1768, Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Heron-Middleton, of
Bowlby, North Riding of Yorkshire, fifth and last baronet of the Chipchase
family. He was buried at Alnwick, 27 Oct., 1789. See new History of
Northumberland, vol. iv., p. 342.

•Edward Elliot of Haughton Strother, eldest son of Robert Elliot of
the same place, was possessed of some small property at Barrasford :
dying unmarried he was succeeded by his brother, Robert, one of whose
granddaughters and co-heiresses, Mary Ann Elliot, married John Rawling
Wilson, landing surveyor in H.M. Customs, Newcastle.

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[1761. December] 29. Tuesday. Matthew Brown here : received 8
pounds. Received a letter from Mr. Adams.

[1761. December] 30. Wednesday. At home all day.
[1761. December] 31. Thursday. Jack hunting in Chollerton
fields with Mr. Tulip's dogs.

Mr. Green and Dr. Hunter called. They say that Spain has
declared war against England.

Here I finish this journal begun the 8th of March last past. My
fingers still very weak.

John Dawson,

Brunton,

December 31st, 1761.

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INDEX TO PLACES.

A

Alanus, 222

Aberdeen, 40, 42

Acomb, 259, 264, 279, 283, 284, 286,
288

Acton, 263, 283

Ailsa Craig, 41

Aykley-heads, 85, 89

Alia Classica, 242

Allan(dale), 238, 285

Allanheads, 211

Allerburn, 290

Allerdean, 257

Allerston in Pickering, 7, 49

Aln, river, 223

Alnwick, 20, 21, 49, 215, 222, 223,
234, 254, 262, 270, 271, 273, 278,
279, 285, 291, 293; castle, 20, 222,
223; school, 262, 278; abbey,
184, 187, 222

Alone, 211

Alston, 210, 211, 212; markets,
211

Alvenley, 139

Alwinton, 258

Amboglanna, 213

Ancroft, 257

Ancrum, 228

Anick, 259, 264

Anstruther, 266

Antigua, 160

Antwerp, 24

Apiato, 211

Apperley, 189

Appleby, 262

Appleton, 202

* Apthomas/ 25, 49

Archdeacon Newton, 8, 49

Ardbraccan, Co. Meath, 200

Arden, Cheshire, 139

Ardley, 259

Armathwaite, 142

Arran, Isle of, 41

Aske, 206

Athens, 167

Atherton, 8

Auckland (Bishop, St. Andrew,
St. Helen, West), 8, 9, 10, 12,
13, 49, 92, 115, 123, 128, 159,
183, 194, 205, 206, 207, 208

Aycliffe, 125, 168, 177

Ayr, 40, 43. 44, 49

Ayton, Berwickshire, 25, 49, 214

Axwell, 240

B

Backworth, 241

Ballymena, 46

Bamburgh, 152, 157, 256, 272

Banff, 40

Barford, 203

Barnard Castle, 95, 97, 118, 158,
203, 282

Barrasford. 286, 293

Bass Rock, 26

Bath, 2, 198; Guild-hall, 198;
Prior Park, 194, 196, 198

Battlewood, 228

Bavington, 107, 177, 264, 274, 280,
282

Beadneli, 273, 291

Beal, 259

Bearpark, 109, 126

Beaufront, 235 286; Wood-head,
258

' Becherfield/ 225

Beechburn, 208

Belford, 21, 49, 260, 261, 262, 270,
272, 273, 281

Belle-isle, 270, 274

Bellingham, 92, 121, 223, 225, 230,
231, 232, 258, 259, 272, 284

Bellister, 274

'Belset/ 203

Benton, 182, 187, 241

Bergen, 24

Bernicia, 217, 225, 242

Bermore Head, 48

Berwick, 23 24-25, 26, 49, 113,
138, 168, 173, 182, 213, 214, 215,
216, 244, 254-263, 267, 269-272,
276, 277-281, 284, 285, 288, 289,
290-293; castle, 25, 216; church,
216; bridge, 16, 24; grammar
school, 262, 279; town hall, 216;
Red Lion, 271, 291; Harrow,
257, 258, 259, 263, 269, 270, 271,
272, 278, 280, 282, 292. 193;
Hen and Chickens, 282, 283

Berwickshire. 213. 266

296

Bewcastle, 211, 231

Bickerton, 225

Biddic, 109

Billyhall, 205

Binchester, 12, 205-208

Bingfield, 180, 264, 286

Birdhopecraig, 225

Birdoswald, 213

Birkenhead, 2

Birtley, parish of Chollerton, 231,

259, 275
Bishopric (of Durham), 202, 239,

245
Bishop Auckland (see Auckland)
Bishop Middleham, 293
Bishopthorpe, 3

Bitchburn, 97, 167 (see Beechburn)
Blackburn, 211
Blakehope, 227
Blakelaw, 259
Blagdon, 238, 261
Blencowe, 88, 89
Blenkinsop, 212; castle, 212
Bois-le-duc, 24
Bolam, 187
Boldon, 131 248
Bolland, 189

Bollyhope (Bolihope), 209
Bonhill, 37

Bordeaux wine trade, 43
Borough bridge, 20
Bowes, 262
Bowlby, 293
Bowmont river, 215, 220
Boyne, battle of, 181
Bradley, 80. 179, 207, 208
Brampton, 211, 213, 231, 253
Brancepeth, 56, 68, 106, 135, 158,

168, 179
Brandon, 122, 220. 221
Branton, 221
Brant Broughton. 193
Branxton, 218, 219, 278
Brasside, near Durham, 77
Breamish, river, 221
Bremenium, 228, 229
Brenkley, 180
Brereton, 1
Bridgewater, 2
Bridport, 208
Bridy's Crags, 275
Brigford, 231
Brinkburn, 226
Bristol, 160, 193
Broadway, Co. Carmarthen, 186
Broadstrother, 263
Broomley, 238, 259
Brooms, 69, 122, 151
Brough-hall, 201

Brougham, 211
Broughton, 258
Broxmouth, 26
Brunton, parish of St. John Lee,

253, 264-268, 273-277, 2S0 289,

293-294
Buchan, 40
Burnbeck, 212
Burnhope, 210
'Burstwick,' 258
Burtonside, 259
Burtreeford, 210
Buteland, 231
Butsford, 112
Butterby, 262
Byrness in Redesdale, 225
By well, 79, 96, 265, 286

Callalev, 225. 240

Cambol 277, 283, 289

Cambridge, 52

Cambshaugh, 259

Cambus, Old, 25

Cannock, 45

Canny Wood-side, 137

Capheaton, 231

Carham, 214, 215, 220

Carlbury, 203

Carleton, 19

Carlisle, 19, 43, 231, 232, 244, 245,

262
Carlingwark, 45
Carolina, 228

Carrick, Cave of, 38, 44, fO
Carrick-fergus, 1, 48, 50
Carvorran, 211, 212
Carrycoats, 180, 265, 273
Carts, 273
Cassop, 116, 172
Castle-Douglas, 45
Castri JEstiva, 208
Cateractonium, 201
Catcleugh in Redesdale, 257
Caterhouse, near Durham, 74, 88,

94, 96, 110, 125 155, 164
Catterick Bridge, 8, 201, 202
Causeway-end, 45
Cawsey-park, 270
Cervi Insula, 250
Cessford Castle, 215
Cilurnum, 232, 234
Chapel, near Stranraer, 45, 50
Charleville, Ireland, 200
Charlton, 207, 271
Cheadle, 1, 2
Cheeseburn Grange, 114, 184, 188,

189
Cheshire. 1. 12

297

Chester on the Dee, 1, 2, 12, 24,

43, 174
Chester-le-Street, 15, 20, 49, 72,

92, 115, 121, 152, 169, 173, 179,

185, 245
Chesters, Northumberland, 232,

234
Chester, or Ancrum, 228, 274, 284
Cheviot, 220, 227
Cheswick, 272
Chevychase, 221, 227
Chillingham, 157, 167, 222
Chipchase, 92, 232, 254, 259, 265,

274, 285, 286, 293
Chirton, 270
Chollerton, 231, 232, 265, 267, 273,

276, 288, 294
Chollerton Bridge-end inn, 264,

265, 266, 268, 276, 277, 293
Clanyboys, 46
Claverton, near Bath, 198
Cleadon, 238, 247
Cleveland-hills, 251
Coastley, 259
Cockburnspath, 25
Cocken, 126, 179, 246
Cockermouth, 93
Cockfield, Suffolk, 89
Cocklaw Tower, 276
Codlaw-hill, 268, 286, 287
Coldingham, 25, 213
Coldstream, 214
Colchester, Essex, 17
Colechester, Northumberland, 235,

236
Coleraine, 48
Colwell, 286
Coniscliffe, 203

Constantinople, St. Sophia, 11, 12
Cope Castle, 5
Coquet river, 223, 224
Corbridge, 212, 226, 228, 232, 235,

236, 259, 261
Coria Ottadenorum, 228
'Cornbury,' 203
Cornhill, parish of Norham, 214,

218, 219, 257, 273, 292; well,

218
Cork, 181

Corstopitum, 228, 235, 239
Coxhoe, 89
Crae, 45
Crailing, 215
Craster, 273
Crawley, 221
Crayke, 51, 52
Cronkelton, 259
Cronkley, 259
Crookgate, 259

Crook-hall, 168
Crossfell, 211
Croxdale, 142
Croydon, 1

Culzean in Ayrshire, 44
Cumberland, 210-211
Cunningham, 38
'Cunscley/ 203
'Cuntellen,' 38
Curraghmore, 242

Dagenham, Essex, 185

Dala Castle (Dalley, Delaly), 230

Dale, Cumberland, 118

Darlington, 137, 201, 202, 203

Dartmouth, 189

Deira, 242

Delicate-hall, 259

Denisesburn, 235

Denton, 1, 19

Deptford, 208

Derwent river, 238, 288

Devil's Water, 235

Dilston, 186, 235

Dinsdale, 166

Dipton, 238

Doddington parish of Chatton,
290

Doddington, Lincolnshire, 242

' Dorrington/ 290

Douglas Castle, 45

Doune bridge, 40

Doxford, 281

Dryburn, 97, 167, 216

Dublin, 43, 106, 197, 199, 200;
Trinity College, 197; St. Nicho-
las, 197; Donabate, 197; Swords,
197

Dukesfield, 238, 267

Dumbarton, 37, 40

Dumfries, 40

Dunbar, 26, 27, 40, 43, 46, 49

Dundee, 40

Dunfermline, 36

Dunglas, 25, 45, 213

Dunham Massey, 1

Dunifell, 211

Dunsky castle and chapel, 46

Dunston, 183

Dunum Estuarium, 250

Durham, 12, 14, 15, 20, 49, 51, 54-
175, 179, 180. 193-198, 207, 262;
cathedral, 12, 14, 15; castle,
12, 14; college, 195; gaol and
gaoler, 20. 51, 110, 116, 117, 122,
149, 152, 153; Old, 97, 109, 142,
150; county, 201-210, 245-250

Dyons, Dyance, 113, 203

298

E

Eachwick, 190

Easby, 201

Easington in Bamburghshire, 73

Easington, Co. Durham, 128, 129,
157, 189

Ebchester, 239

Eccles, 214, 255, 266

Eden, Co. Durham, 133, 249

' Eden ' (Ayton), Berwickshire, 214
.Edgeware, 284

Edinburgh, in the year 1635, 27-
36; 39, 40, 41, 182, 192, 257, 261,
266, 267, 290, 291, 292; castle,
29; Holyrood, 29, 36; Greyfriars
and other churches, 31-35, 257 ;
College, 34, 35, 41; Parliament
House, 28; lucken-booths, 29,
30; Heriot's Hospital, 31; Tol-
booth, 27, 31, 33; High Street,
29

Edlingham Castle, 223

Egglescliffe, 125

Eggleston, 205

Elgin, 40, 200

Elinghamrig Common, 285

Elishaw, 227

Ellenthorpe, 7, 8, 49

Ellingham, 271

Elsdon, 109, 220, 223, 225, 226,
227, 229, 277; rectory house,
225-6; mote-hills, 226

Elswick, 184

Elton, 180

Eltringham, 238

Elwick, Co.' Durham, 128

Elyshaw, see Elishaw

Embleton, 183

Enfield, 240

Enniscoffey, 8

Enniscorthy, 8

Eppleton, 85, 92, 93, 114

Esh, 76, 144

Esher, 160

Eskdale, 11

Eslington, 222

Etal, 218 269, 270

Eton, 128

Evenwood, 135, 206

Exmouth, 189

Eye, river, 214

Eyemouth, 214

F

Fairhead, Co. Waterford, 48
Falkirk, 7, 36,^37, 50
Fallowfield, 261, 273, 274

Falstone, 231

Fangfoss, 157

Faversham, 187

Fawside, 92, 161

Fame Islands, 22, 273

Featherston. 211

Featherstonhaugh, 211

Felling, 184

Felton, 181

Fenham in Islandshire, 21, 22, 49

Fens, 246

Fenton, 206

Finchale abbey, 246

Finedon, 196

Fileburn, 211

Fladbury, 198

Flass, 88, 89, 174, 263

Flodden-field, 218, 219, 221

Forcet, 109, 138, 142, 155

Ford, Northumberland, 218, 219,

242; Co. Durham, 252
Forth river, 36, 217
Fotherley, 259
Foulden, Berwickshire, 28S
Fourstones, 259
Foxton, 123
Frisby, 193
Frosterlv, 205, 209
Fulthorpe, 83

G

Gainford, 113, 203

Galloway, 45

Garrigill, 55, 136

Gateshead, 85, 106, 118, 173, 245,

259, 273
Gaunless river, 203
Gawthorp, 109
Gelderdale burn, 211
Gelston, 45
Gibside, 8, 12, 105, 126, 174, 185,

206, 239-240
Gilling, 181

Glasgow in 1635, 39-41; 1, 49
Glastonbury, 2
Glen, river ] 220
Glenwhelt, 212, 291
Gloucester, 2, 193, 194, 196
Goldsborough, 7
Gosforth, 241
Graham's Wall, 37
Graveline, 24
Greasley, 193
Greenchesters, 227, 228
Greencroft, 177
Greenhead, 212
Greenwell-ford, 180
Greenwich. 10

299

Greyfort, Tipperary, 240
Grindon, 109, 272
Guisborough, 249, 251, 252
Gunnerton, 259
Gunsgreen, 173
*Gunsley/ 203

Habinancum, 229

Hackness, 5

Haddington, 40

Haggerston, 271

Hagg-house, 152

Halidon, 214

Hallington, 234, 265, 273, 277,

281, 293
Halliwell. chapelry of Earsdon,

168
Halton, 237, 264
Haltwhistle, 209, 212, 231, 263,

289
Halyards, 214
Hampton, 198
Hamsterly ' Castles/ 208
Handforth, Cheshire, 1, 2, 13, 38,

45, 49
Hanwell, Oxfordshire, 5
Harber-house, near Durham, 119
Hardwick, 92
Hargill, 208
Harle, Little, 274. See Kirk-

harle
Harlow-hill, 259
Harram, near TJshaw, 105, 169
Hartburn, 272

Hartlepool, 202, 245, 249-250
Harley, 242
Hatherage, 277, 284
Hatherwick, 229
Haughhead. See Wooler Haugh-

head
Haughton Castle, 253, 264, 277,

283, 284, 285. 289, account of

paper mills, 289
Haughton Wester-hall, 264 265,

281, 283, 285, 288, 293
Haughton-le-Skerne, 139
Haughton Strother, 293
Hawkwell, 259, 267
Hawthorn, 189
Haydon, 274
Healey, 259
Heaton, 257, 261
Hebburn, Co. Durham, 86
Heckley, 8

Heddon-on-the-Wall, 190, 275
Heddon, Black, 186
Hedley, 166

Hedgeley Moor, 221

Hefenfeld, Heavenfield, 234, 235

Heighington, 122

Helagh-park, 251

* Hemleton-row/ 147

' Hempsidef ord/ 219

Henknoll, 205

'Heorfte,' 250

'Heorthu,' 250

Herdshouse, 284

Hereford, 2

Hermitage, parish of St. John

Lee, 180
Herrington, 161
Hetton-le-Hole, 208
Hesledon, 153
Hesleyside, 231
Hethpool, 257
Hexham, 77, 182, 211, 212, 223,

226, 231, 234, 235, 253, 254, 256.

258, 259, 260, 263, 264, 2C.5, 266,

267 268 269 270 271, 273 274

2755 277, 278 279, 280, 281, 284,

285, 286, 288, 289, 293; Giam-

mar school, 262, 276; Tyne

mills, 285
Hexhamshire, 256
Highbalk, parish of Corbridge,

261, 267
High-cross, 8
High-field, 288
Hilton-on-the-Wear, 251
Hilton, parish of Staindrop, 113,

129
'Holdenby/ 202
Holland, 1
Hollands, 259
Holland House, 5
Hollings, 259
Holmeside, parish of Lanchester,

67, 92, 102, 115
Holy Island, description of, 21-24,

49
Horgil, 208
Hornby, 202
Horncliffe, 278
Horsley in Redesdale, 253
Houghton-le-Spring, 93, 109, 165,

208
Howdon Pans, 243
Howtell, 261
Hubback, 280
Hugh-mill, 259
Hull, 292

Humbleton, 220, 221, 227
Hume Castle, 219
Humshaugh. 264, 265, 268, 269,

273, 274, 276, 277, 281, 283, 286,

287, 293

300

Huntley Nab, 252
Hurworth, 135, 146, 153
Hut-ton, 7

Hutton Bonville, 187
« Hy,' Eye, 214

Innerwick Castle, 26

Inverness, 40, 42

Ireland, emigration to, 42; 196,

197
Irthing, river, 231
Irvine (Erwin), 40, 41, 42, 43, 44,

48, 49
Islandshire, 22
Isle of Dogs, 208

Jamaica, 286, 287

Jarrow church and dedication

stone, 247
Jedburgh, 215, 226, 286
Jerviswood, 215

K

Keldholm, near Kirkby Moorside,

90
Kelloe, 143
Kensington, 5
Kelton, 45
Kensington, 173
Kenton, 157
Kenward, 185

Kepier, 108, 130, 137, 161, 179
Kibblesworth, 180, 181
Kilham, 220

Kilhope, 210; Kilhopehead, 210
Kilkhampton, 128
Killingworth, 182, 241
Kilwinning, 43
King's-road, near Bristol, 2
King's Seat, near Flodden, 219
Kingston, 258
Kingston, Jamaica, 287
Kinsale, 182
' Kirk Aluf,' 211
Kirkharle, 258, 286 (see Harle).
Kirkhaugh, 211
Kirklington, 205, 207
Kirknewton, 173, 220, 263
Knapton, Warwickshire, 24
Knaresdale, 211
Kyle, 38
Kyloe, 269

Lakenham, Norfolk, 125
Lamberton, 214

Lamb Shield, near Hexham, 259

Lambton, 20, 134, 149, 181

Lamesley, 88, 174

Lanchester, 102

Langley, 108

Laswade, 35

Lay ton, 109

Leadhills, 238

Lee, 214

Lee-hall, 231

Leeds, 78, 261

Leeming-lane, 8

Leith, in 1635, 31 35, 37; 42

Leighlin, Old, 197

Lemington, 180, 222, 223

Lesbury, 279

Leven river, 251

Levens, 121

Leytonstone 88

Lichfield, 161

Liddell, 231

Liddesdale, 215

Lilburn, 221

Limerick, 197

Lindisfarne, 217, 218, 245

Lincoln's Inn, 193

Linlithgo, 36, 40, 50

Lintz, 271

Liverpool, 93

Lismore, 199

Llanvard, Carmarthenshire, 185

Loanend, 277

Lomond. Loch, and its floating

island, 38
Longhoughton, 279, 283
Longtown, 231
Longwitton, 273
London, 16, 89, 171, 174, 176, 187,

191, 192, 222, 261, 264, 267, 270,

283, 286; St. Bartholomew's

Hospital, 191
Lothian, East, 213
Loudside, 259
Ludlow, 2

Lumley Castle, 15, 245, 246
Lutterworth, 8
Lynn, 185
Lysick, 93
Lysterfield, Co. Eoscommon, 197

Madrid, 11
Magi, 203
Magna, 211, 212
Magee, Island of, 47, 48
Maiden- way, 211
Mainsforth, 54
Malpas, 1

301

Malton, Old, 111

Man, Isle of, 160

Markham, East, 193

Marston, 9

Matfin, 261, 282

Mayfield, Sussex, 187

May, Isle of, 27

Meath, 199

Mellerstain, 215

Melrose, 213, 215

Melton Constable, 242

Merse, 213, 214

Mickleton in Lonsdale, 134

Middleton, 263

Middle-fell, 211

Milfield, 219, 263

Milkwell-burn, 256

Military Way from Newcastle to
Carlisle, 212, 232, 244, 245, 291

Minehead, 2

Minibole, 50

Ministeracres, 271

Mollersteads, 267

Monkchester, 243

Monkridge, 225

Monkwearmouth, 248

Moor house, 259

Morebattle, 215

Morpeth, 19, 20, 49, 127 190, 211,
223, 241, 262, 263 264,' 265, 267,
268, 269, 270, 272, 281, 286, 289

Morton-house, 109, 111, 154

Mount Grace, 79, 108, 135

Mull of Cantyre, 48

Murton, near Tweedmouth, 22, 23

Murton. See Morton-house

Murray, 40

Musselborough, 27, 37, 49

Mytton, Co. York, 113

N

Nafferton, 169

Naworth, 213

Needspeth, 259

Nesbit, 153, 155

Nettlesworth, 110, 205

Newbiggin, 228, 256, 270

Newbottle, 92

Newbrough, 259, 274, 288

Newburn, 259

Newbury, 200

Newby, 261

Newcastle, description of, in 1635,
15-16, 19; 12, 20, 68, 69, 78, 79,
88, 89, 109, 113, 114, 118, 119,
125, 157, 166, 168, 171, 176-189,
190-192, 206/207, 209, 211, 213,
222, 223, 226, 232, 234, 235, 241,

243-245, 247, 253, 254, 256, 257,
258, 259, 260, 261, 265, 273, 275,
277, 278, 280, 290, 293; castle
244; churches, 12, 16, 243-244;
bridge, 15, 19, 245; Pandon
Gate, 244; Tomlinson library,
244; glass houses, 244

Nent, river, 210

Newton, near Durham, 71 139,
147, 164

Newton, East, Yorkshire, 131

Newton, Long, 161, 164

Newton-hall, Bywell, 259

Newton Garths, 107

Newtown, 200

Newark, 79, 193, 265, 266

Nine-banks, 275

Norham, 22, 173, 217, 218; castle
217; church, 217, 218

Normanby, 109, 140

Northallerton, 251

Northampton, 192

Northgrain, 210

Norton, 146

Northumberland, 211-244

Northumbria, kingdom of, 216-217

Nunnikirk, 107, 270, 272

Nunlands, 272

' Nunnum,' 237

Nunshouse, 80

Nunwick. 232. 241. 268. 274

O

Oakham, 193

Okerland, 258

Oldwark, 205

Orchardton, 45

Ordley, 259

Orton, 210

Ossory, 199

Otterburn, 225 228; Field of,

227; Camphill, 227
Ouse, river, 3

'Outon/ near Durham, 114, 120
Overacres, 226, 229
Oxford, 1

Pawston (Paston), 220, 257, 271

Pedgebank, Co. Durham, 184

Pelton, 277

Pendragon Castle 213

Penrith, 211, 212 '

'Penval Craig/ 242

Percy's Cross, 221

Perth (St, Johnston) 40, 43

Peterborough, 246

Pepper Arden, 139

302

Picts' Wall, 19
Pieroebridge, 8, 203
Pimlico, 145
Pitmeddan, 266
Pitsburn, 208

Pittington, 20, 94, 111, 135
Plessey, 187
Plawsworth, 144
Pondicherry, 277
Pons jEUs, 244
Ponteland, 19

Portpatrick, 1, 42, 45, 46, 48, 50
Portsmouth, 271
Prendergest, 173
' Press/ Berwickshire, 271
Pressen, 291
Preston in Tynemouthshire, 94,

165
Preston Pans, 27
Prudhoe Castle, 20, 238

Q

Quarington, 126
Quarryhill, 80, 146
Quebec, 259

R

Raby Castle, 204, 205

Rampgill, 210, 211

Rathlin, Isle of, 48

Rede, river, 227, 228, 230, 231, 232

Redesdale, 226, 230

Redesmouth, 262

Ribchester, 228

Ribley, near Northampton, 218

Ribston, 7

Richmond, 123

Riding, 238, 267

Ridley, Cheshire, 8

Ridley-hall, 277, 291

Ringing-rock, 38, 45

Ringstead, 125

Rise, 196

Rochester, Kent, 16

Rochester. Redesdale, 225, 228

Rochester (Rudchester), Tyndale,
259

Romaldkirk, 99, 177

Roman Wall. See Wall

Roma a inscriptions 212, 228, 229,
230, 233, 234, 236, 237, 238, 239

Rothbury, 223, 224, 226, 234, 258,
269, 273, 280, 283, 289, 293
rectory house, 224; school, 224
benefice, 223; Thrum, 224
Newtown, 224, 225; Old, 224

Rothwell, 184

Rowley-burn, 235

Roxburghshire, 214

Royalty, in Norhamshire, 218

Ryal, parish of Stamfordham, 257

Ryan, Loch, 45

Ryehill, 273

Ryle, parish of Whittingham, 278

Russia. 160

Sadlingburn, 210
St. Albans, 242

— Andrews, 40

— Anthony's, 88

— Blazey, 198

— Denis, 13

— John's Chapel, Weardale, 210

— John Lee, 253, 261, 284

— Oswald's, 234, 286, 288
Sandhoe, 259
Sandhutton, 6

Saxton, 6

Scarborough. 73, 162, 256

Scone, 36

* Scythlescester,' 234

Scottish Islands, 41, 47

Seacroft, 207

Seaham, 132

Seale, Co. Leicester, 137

Seaton, 207 263

Sea ton Delaval, 182, 241-242, 284-

Seaton-house, N.B., 27

Sedgefield, 109, 128, 197, 207

Segedunun, 241 242

Seghill, 241

Selaby, 204

Selkirk, 214, 215

Selling, Kent, 44

Setoun, N.B., 40

Sewenshields, 276

Shawcross, 45

Shele-miln, 107

Sherborn Hospital, 147, 161;

House, 205
Shield-hall in Slaley, 275
Shields, North, 16, 18, 243, 261,

278
Shields, South, 116, 144, 173, 184,

243
Shields salt pans, 16, 17, 18, 27„

243, 244
Shincliffe, 78, 82, 138, 156, 159
Shoreston, 256
Shortmoor, 259
Shotlington, 285
Shotley, 96, 137
Shrewsbury, 2
Shilchester, 234
Silksworth, 146
Simonburn, 231, 232, 275, 280, 284,

285, 288

303

Skelton Castle, 76, 158

Skerne, river, 202

Slaley, 259, 269

Southampton, 199

Spain, court of, 11, 294

Spital, near Berwick, 269, 270, 280,

282, 292
Stagshawbank, 276
Staincroft, 230
Staindrop, 203, 204
Stamfordham, 259, 267, 285
Stanhope, 12, 102, 207, 209, 210
Stannington, 187
Stanton, 265
Startforth, 135, 155
Staward, 118, 259
Steel-hall, 265, 280
Stelling, 277
Stirling, 36, 40
Stockton, 72, 79. 94, 125, 250-2
Stokesley, 251
Stonecroft, 230
' Stone-hall ' church, 211
Streatlam, 174
Stranraer, 47
Stranton, 114
Studley, 20
Sunderland, 97, 192, 241, 248, 249,

252
Sunderland Bridge, 161
Sutton Coldfield, 93
Swale, river, 201
Swinburn, 232, 259, 276; castle,

232

Talais, 270

Tallentire, 188, 274

Tarset, 230

Tecket, 264

Tees, river, 202, 203, 211

Temple Newsam, 4

Thetford, Suffolk, 185

Thirlwall, 212

Thockrington, 119

Thornley, 109, 140

Thornton, 230, 277, 278

Thorp-thewles. 147, 166, 167

Thorp-on-the-Hill, 4

Th orp-perrow, 180

Threepwood, 274

Throckley, 259, 267

Thropton, 224, 225

Throwley, 44

Thruntoft, 179

Thrum, the, near Rothbury, 224

Thurcroft, 166

Till, river, 221

Tina, 208

Tinnensfell, 213

Tiviotdale, 214, 215

Tiverton, 198

Topcliffe, 20

Torbay, 189

Tosson, 225

Trent, river, 217

Tribley, Co. Durham, 20

Trimdon, 91, 133, 134, 166, 170

Troughend, 225 229

Tueda, 215

Tunnocetum, 242

Tunstal, 83, 102, 162

Tweed, river, 215, 216, 218, 244

Tweedmouth, 257, 261, 271, 272,

279, 280, 291, 292
Twizel in Norhamshire, 218, 219
Twizel in Bamburghshire, 290
Tyne, river, 17-18, 211, 212, 213,

225, 230-231, 238, 242, 243, 245,

247, 265, 291 ; salt pans, 17-18
Tynemouth, 168, 192, 231, 242,

259, 271; castle, 15, 20; priory

church, 243
Tyndale, 230

U

Ubbanford, 217

Unthank, 97, 151, 161, 278

Urney, Ireland, 197

Vedra, 208, 225, 248
Venezuela, 160
Vindomara, 239
Vinovium, 208

W

Wakefield, 3, 49

Walhope burn, 210

Wall, township and village, 253,.

258, 260, 264, 279, 280, 283
Wall, the Roman, 19, 37, 211-212,

232, 236, 244, 276
Wall-craggs, 273
Wallsend, 187, 243
Wallingford, 185
Wallington, 225, 277
Walltown, 274
Walwick, 261, 273, 276, 277, 284;

Cheaters, 232; grange, 232
Wangford, Suffolk, 185
Wardon, 262, 268
Wardrew, 268
Wark-on-Tyne, 232
Wark-on-Tweed, 167, 214, 219,

220- castle. 219. 220

304

Warkworth Castle, 20, 224; Her-
mitage, 224

Warrenton, 255

Waterford, 2, 8, 199

Watling^street, 8, 228, 236

Wear, river, 195, 205, 209, 210,
213, 245, 246, 248

Weardale, 210, 238

Wearhead, 210

Wearmouth (Bishop and Monk),
96, 157, 167, 173, 192, 247, 248
See Sunderland

Welburn, parish of Kirkdale, 51,
53

Welhope, 210

Wells, 2

Westgate in Weardale, 210

Westmoreland, 106

Westerhall, see Haughton Wester-
hall

Westoe 1 16

Whickham, 77, 118, 119, 240

Whitburn, 137, 248

Wbitchester, 107, 230

Whitehall, near Chester-le-Street,
20

Whitehouse, parish of Eyton, 240

Whitkirk, 207

Whitley, 282

Whitley Castle, 208 211, 212

Whittingham, 221, 225 263, 277,
282, 283 289

Whittonstall, 238 259

Whitworth, 189

Wigton, 38

Willimoteswick, 180

Willington, 122

Wilmington, Carolina, 263

Windgate, 127, 130, 135

Windlestone, 123

Winlaton, 240

Witherslack Westmorland, 120

Witton, 122

Witton Gilbert, 69, 86, 87, 88,

118, 144 162
Witton Castle, 208
Witton-le-Wear, 152
Wolsingham, 19, 164, 209
Woodburn in Redesdale, 229-230
Wcodhall, parish of Alwinton, 258
Woodhead, 3 166, 180, 212
' Woodlaw,' 189

Wooden, parish of Lesbury, 182
Woodside, 225
Wooler, 215 220, 221, 227, 261,

Haughhead inn 221, 263, 277,

280 290, 293
Woolley-burn-foot, Allandale, 118
Worsall, 121, 250
Worth Grange 208
Wylam, 259

Yarm, 250-251; hospital, 251;

Friary, 251
Yeavering, 220, 290
Yetholm, 215, 220
Yetlington, 225
York 3, 4 5, 9, 16, 49 52, 92,

105, 235, 261; Minster, 3, 4; Sir

Arthur Ingram's house, 4, 5
Yorkshire 166, 250 251, 256 257.

260

805

INDEX TO PERSONAL NAMES.

A

Abdell, William, 84

Adams, Benjamin, 263, 283; Ed-
ward, 283; Mr., 292, 294

Adamson, Anne, 116; Barbara,
116; Blythman, 116, 118; Cuth-
bert, 78, 159; C. E. cited, 159;
Dorothy, 116; Elizabeth, 78, 85,
116, 159; Eleanor, 118; Hum-
phry, 174; Jane, 159; John, 78;
Margaret, 116; Mary, 159, 160;
Ealph, 116; Eobert, 116, 153;
Thomas, 159; Thomasin, 109;
William, 116; William Blyth-
man, 116; Parson, 109

Addison, Dorothy, 191, 192;
Joseph, 191, 192; John, 143

Adair, William, 46

Ailsa, Marquess of, 41

Airey, George, 118; Sarah, 191

Akenside, Mark, family register,
190-192; biography, 192; Aaron,
191 ; Abraham, 190, 191 ; Dor-
othy, 191; Jane, 191; Mark
(father and son), 190, 191, 192,
193; Mary, 190, 191, 192; Ruth,
191 ; Thomas, 191 ; William, 190,
191

Aldeburgh, — , 49

Alder, Mary, 258; Ealph, 278;
Eobert, 258; William, 278, 279,
286; Mr., 292

Alexander II., King of Scots, 216,
230

Alfred, King, 217

Alfwald, King, 234

Allan (Allen), Ealph, letters ad-
dressed to, 195-198; biography,
198; Elizabeth, 57, 198; John,
198; Philip, 198; Ealph, 194-
198; Thomas, 181; William, the

piper, 290
Alii

good of Nunwick, 232; Esther,
267; George, 241; Jane (Lady),
241, 265, 274; Lancelot (Sir
Lancelot), 241, 265, 267, 285,
292; Eobert, 241, 265; Mr. 260;
Mrs., 274

Alison (Allison, Allinson, Allen-
son), Abraham, 84; Anne, 60,
72; Anthony, 69, 85, 175; Cathe-
rine, 22; Cuthbert, 159; Eliza-
beth, 144; George, 22; John, 72;
Marmaduke, 123, 126; Mary,
126, 143; Thomas, 72, 133

Allibone, Barbara, 185; Sir Eich-
ard, 185

Alvanley, Lord, 139

Alvey, Yelderd, vicar of New-
castle, 12

Andrews, Anne, 96; John, 66, 96;
Margery, 66; Eobert, 267

Anderson, Anne, 267; Sir Francis,
179; Jane, 179; Eobert, 267;
T , 284

Anick, William, 266

Annand, William, of Ayr, 44;
Dean of Edinburgh, 44

Anstruther, Anne, 266 ; Sir Philip,
266

Antrim, Earl of, 48

Appdale, William, 84

Appleby, Frances, 103

Archbold, John, 104

Archdeacon Dominic, 181; Mary,
181

Archer, Thomas, 210; William,
210; Mrs., 287

Arden, Edward, 139; Crewe, 139;
John, 139; Laetitia, 139; Ealph,
139 ,

Armorer, Alexander, postmaster
at Alnwick, 20; Margaret, 271

Armstrong, Archibald, the Court
Fool, 11; Elizabeth, 87; Frances,
287; Jane, 284? 287; Eebecca,
66; Simon, 284; Thomas, 66

Arnold, Dorothy, 60; Frederick
(John Frederick), 60, 130

Arrowsmith, Henry, 86; John, 91

Arundel, Elizabeth, 58, 85, 140;
Jane, 59; Eobert, 140; Thomas,
58, 59, 68, 138

Ashburnham, Elizabeth, Countess
of, 240; John, Earl of, 240

Astley, Edward, 242; Ehoda, 242

'Aten/ Lord, 25

20

306

Atkinson, Ann, 106, 125 ; George,
72; Henry, 143; John, 125;
Richard, 147; Thomas, 262;
Laird, 137

Atterbury, Bishop, 254

Aubone, Catherine, 180; Frances,
180; Jane, 180; Phillis, 180;
Thomas, 180; William, 180, 184,
188

' Awther Long,' see Ouchterlony

Aynsley of Threepwood, 274; Gaw-
en, 274 ; John, 274 ; Susan, 68

Ayre, Nicholas, 155; Reginald,
137; Dr. Samuel, 137

Ayreson, Alice, 57 ; Anne, 57 ;
Christopher, 56, 57; Elizabeth,
56, 57; Frances, 56, 57, 172;
George, 57; Hannah, 57; Isabel,
57; John, 56, 57, 125, 172; Mar-
garet, 56, 57, 125; Mary, 56;
Matilda, 56; Richard, 57;
Thomas, 56, 57; William, 57

Ayton, Hannah, 92; John, 92,161;
1 esquire/ 161

B

Bacon, Christopher, 135; Dorothy,

118; Isabel, 207; John, 118, 207,

274; Mrs., 274 '
Backhouse, — , 65, 71, 143
Baddeley, Anne, 90; Casandra,

90; Dulcibella, 90; Martha, 90;

Robert, 90
Eagshaw, Dr. Henry, 165; Madam,

165; Mary, 165
Bainbridge, Anne, 124; John, 128;

Raiph, 89, 124, 158
Bailey (Bel ley, Bayley), Christo-

beli 92; Dorothy, 103; George,

215; Jane, 130; John, 131;

William, 45, 92, 156
Bailey and Culley, cited 221
Bsiles, Mary, 93
Baister, John, 76 ; Sarah, 76
Baker, Captain George, 147
Ballant, Anne, 94
Bancks, John, 161
Bamburgh, Thomas, 259, 279, 281;

— , 269
Barkas, George, 124
Barker, Mary, 180; Robert, 155
Barnes, Ambrose, 181, 182, 186;

Joseph, 182, 186, 187
Baron, George, 259; Mary, 293;

Captain Robert, 293
Barry, Thomas, Canon of Glas-
gow, 227

Barwick, George, 120; John, Dean
of Durham, 120 ; Nicholas, 120

Barnsfather, Magdalen, 74

Bates, C. I. cited, 202, 218, 225,
234; Margaret. 168; Richard,
168; Thomas, 259

Batey, John, 93; Thomasin, 93;

Bathurst, Mr. Justice, 281

Batmeson, ' Mady/ 137

Baxter, Elizabeth, 62; Thomas,
61 ; William, 61, 62, 78

Beard, — , 255, 256

Beaumont (Beaumond), Delavel,
157; Elizabeth, 157; Hammond,
157; Rev. Hammond (father and
son), 129, 157; Margaret, 157;
Mary, 157; Mrs., 129

Bee (Bek), Bishop", 9, 245

Beckles, Elizabeth, 112

Beck worth, Edward, 135, 166;
Elizabeth, 135, 166; Frances,
166; Thomas, 166

Bede, the Venerable, 14, 218

Bee, Jacob, Chronicle of Births,
Marriages and Mortality, 54-
175; pedigree, 55; Anne, 55, 58,
96; Barbara, 55; Cuthbert, 138;
Elizabeth, 55, 61, 108, 175 ;
Jacob, 54, 55, 56, 60, 104, 108,
136, 148, 175; Jane, 55; John,
55; Margaret, 55, 61, 87; Nicho-
las, 55, 56, 58, 60, 61, 136;
Ralph, 55; Thomas, 55

Bell, Anne, 77, 118; Arthur, 71;
George, 264, 279, 281 ; Jane, 283 ;
John, 112, 178; Nell, 69;
Robert, 156; Thomas, 77, 264,
279; William, 77, 118, 169; Mrs.,
280 ; Laird, 264, 279, 281 ; of
Acomb, 264

Bellasis (Belesyse), Margaret, 154;
Timothea, 109; Sir William,
109, 154

Bellingham, Thomas, 121

Belly, see Bailey

Benedict, Bishop, 247, 248

Bennet, Benjamin, 192

Benson, Isabel, 101 ; John, 83, 101,
138, 170; Martin, Bishop of
Gloucester, 195

Bentham, Christopher, 2

Best, Ursula, 139

Beverley, Richard, 110; Robert, 87

Bewchanon, Jacob, 97. See Blew-

cannon
Beza, 10
Binion, Anne, 69, 114; Jane, 69;

John, 164; Thomas, 114, 121
Bishops, The Seven, 185

307

Black, Alexander, 276

Blackett, Anne, 261; Barbara,
206: Frances, 206; Sir Edward,
254, 261, 262, 263, 268, 280, 282,
288, 289; John, 107, 257; Cap-
tain John Erasmus, 254, 256,
257, 261, 263, 266, 282, 283, 292;
memoir, 257; Martha, 257;
Sarah, 257; Sir Walter, 209, 210,
238, 244; Sir William, 171, 179,
188; Mrs., 269

Blacklock, — , 276

Blair, James, 42, 43, 46, 50;
Robert, cited, 236

Blakiston, Anne, 111 ; Barbara, 12,
185, 206; Elizabeth, 105, 139,
174; Francis and Frances, 168,
171, 174, 206; Henry, 8, 49, 105;
Lucy, 171; Marmaduke, 139;
Margaret, 125, 126, 164; Mary,
8, 111; Ralph (Sir Ralph), 206;
Robert, 168; Roger, 126; To-
bias, 125, 164; William (Sir
William), 8, 12, 105, 111, 126,
206, 207; Madam, 105; Captain,
121

Blare ton, Mary, 85

Blencowe, Elizabeth, 88, 89

Blenkinsop, Anne, 160 ; Anne
Jane, 160; Cuthbert, 160; Jane,
160, 274; John, 160, 274; Laeti-
tia, 160; Mary, 160; Peter, 160;
Thomas, 162; William Blyth.
man, 160

Blewcannon, Matthew, 98. See
Bewchanon

Blythman, Elizabeth, 116; Mary,
78 ; William, 98, 116

Brocksby, Eppy, 148. See Botchby

Bodger, — , 90

Bolderson Mary, 85

Bonham, Francis W., 197

Bonner, Elizabeth, 180; Joseph,
187; Sarah, 88; Timothy, 187;
William, 88

Bonney, Mr., 159

Booth, Anne, 135; Sir George, 1;
Robert (Sir Robert), 135; Sus-
anna, 1 ; brother-in-law, 17

Borrow, John, 111

Botchby (Botcherby), Appelina,
151; Eppy, 151; Thomas, 106;
see Brocksby

Boutflower, Thomas, 189 ; William,
189

Bowes, Anne, 80, 161 ; Barbara,
184; Catherine, 80; Cuthbert,
137; Elizabeth, 80, 137, 146,
174; Edward, 137; George, 146,

161; Henry, 184, 189; Margaret
and Margery, 80; Mary Eleanor,
240; Mary, 146; Ralph, 80;
Thomas, 80, 146; William (Sir
William), 80, 174; of Cibside,
239-240

Bowey, Elizabeth, 65; James, 264;
John, 65

Bowman, John, 139

Bowser, Mary, 162; Thomas, 162

Boyd, Hugh, 45, 50

Boydell, Mary, 207

Brabant, Dukes and Earls of, 217;
Sir Henry, 184; John, 184

Bradford, — , 10

Brage, Eleanor, 97

Brandling, Anne, 184, 187 ; Charles
184, 187; Ralph, 184, 186;'
Robert, 184

Brass, Anne, 105 ; John, 161; Mary
88; Thomas, 88; William, 134 '

Brice, Henry, 103 ; Richard, 151

Brereton, Sir William, journal, 3-
50; biography, 1; Cicely, 1;
Margaret, 1; Thomas, 1; Wil-
liam, 1

Briggs, Frances, 104; Thomas, 104

Brinton, John, 264

Britain, Henry, 71, 136

Breers, Margaret. 84

Brocket, Elizabeth, 172; William,
98-172

Bromley, Isabella 153 ; Mary, 155 ;
Robert, 153, 155

Browell, Mark, diary, 176-189;
biography, 176; Edward, 176,
177, 178, 187 ; Elizabeth, 176, 177,
187; Frances, 177, 178; George,
176, 178; Jane, 176; Julia, 177,
178; Margaret, 176, 187; Mark,
187; Mark, jun., 177-178; Wil-
liam, 177

Brown, Anne, 81, 145; Anthony,
259; Barbara, — ; Bart., 69;
Dorothy, 60; Elizabeth, 71, 78,
105, 160, 163, 263; Gerard, 163;
Hume, cited, 2, 24, 26; Isaac,
280, 291; Jane, 163; John, 108,
145, 163, 287 ; Margaret, 77, 101 ;
Mary, 80; Martha, 147; Mary,
80; Matthew, 73, 294; Michael,
73; Philip, 122, 124; Richard.
71, 73, 76, 122, 147, 161; Row-
land, 76; Simon, 117; Thomas,
60, 72, 105, 124, 160, 263; Wil-
liam, cited, 46, 251, 252; Wil-
liam, 146, 259; Mr., 284; Mr., of
Doxford, 281; Mr., of Kirkharle,
286

308

Bruce, J. C, cited, 16; Peter, 251;

Eobert, 251; Private, 278
Brumell, Elizabeth, 180
B runs wick- Wolf enbuttel, Duke of,

274
Bryen, Ann, 72
Bryson, Elizabeth, 74
Bucer, 10

Buck, Christian, 279
Bucket, Buney, 99
Buckley, Elizabeth, 98; Margaret,

98
Buckingham, Duke of, 11
Bullinger, 10
Bullock, Anne, 147; George, 147;

Margaret, 147
Bulmer, Jane, 148
Burdas (Burdus) Anne, 69; Eliza-
beth, 67, 115; Jane, 75; Joseph,

259; Mary, 67; Michael, 259;

Thomas, 67, 115'
Burden, Alice, 95; George, 122;

Mary, 86; Robert, 82
Burnett, Bishop, 41; Frances, 91,

175; Margaret, 41; Robert, 91,

175; Thomas, 91
Burnup, Jane, 121 ; John, 113 ;

Thomas, 69
Burke, Farnham, Norroy King of

Arms, cited, 205
Burrell of Howtell, 261; Burdon,

65; Christopher, 65; Cuthbert,

76; William, 261; Mr., 165
Burton, James, 259; Nicholas, 96;

Lady, 149
Busby, Dorothy, 172; Henry, 166,

172; John, 166
Butler, Bishop, of Durham, 209
Buttery, Sarah, 70; Thomas, 71,

151
Byerley, Margaret, 98
Byers, Jane, 92 ; William, 92

Cadwalla, 235

Calderwood, David, 28

Caley, Frances, 258; William, 258

Calixtus II., Pope, 251

Callis, William, 27

Calvin, 10

Camden, cited, 230, 241

Campbell, Captain, 259, 267, 275;

Lieutenant, 259
Canute, King, 204
Carde, Anne, 144
Carey, Sir Henry, 10; Sir Robert,

22

Carker, Edward, 101

Carlisle, Bishop of, patron of
Rothbury, 223

— , Earl of, founder of Brampton
almshouses, 213

Carnaby, Jane, 147

Carr of Cocken, 246

Carr of Ford, 218

Carr, Anne, 270; Isabel, 114, 179;
Jane, 179; John, 259; Leonard,
19; Mary, 97; Sir Ralph, 179,
188; William (Sir William), 102,
188, 190, 191, 270; Mrs., 97

Carrick, — , 268

Carter, Sarah, 260; William, 259,
260

Cartwright, Sarah, 103; Bishop
Thomas, 103

Cassilis, David, Earl of, 44; Gil-
bert, Earl of, 44; John, Earl of,
41

' Cassop John/ 166

'Catch/ Captain, 104

Catcheside, Margaret, 98; Sarah,
164; Thomas, 98

Cay, Frances, 271 ; Jane, 96 ; John,
271

Cecil, Anne, 11; William, Lord
Burleigh, 11

Cedwall, King, 234, 235. See Cad-
walla

Ceolfrid, Abbot, 247

Ceolwulf, King, 218

Challoner of Guisborough, 253;
Dame Joan, 252; Sir Thomas,
252

Chamney, William, collection of
engraved portraits, 200

Champney, Elizabeth, 258; Tho-
mas, 258

Chandler, Edward, Bishop of
Durham, 197

Chapman, Anne, 72; George, 82,
134; Margaret, 142; Robert, 78;
William, 142, 169; — , 89

Charles I., 11, 36, 40, 52, 53

Charles II., Ill, 183, 184, 186

Charlton of the Bower, 262 ; of Lee
Hall, 231 ; Edward, 231, 262, 277 ;
James, 268 ; John, 259 ; Lionel,
229; Mary, 287; Rannell, 287;
Teresa, 231; William, 262, 287,
288; Mr., 261, 267

Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, first
Earl of, 209

Chesters, Sergeant, 291

Chicken of Great Whittington,
264

Chilton, Robert, 132

309

Chipchase, Margaret, 92, 111;
Mary, 133; Rebecca, 146; Wil-
liam, 85, 111, 133, 146, 154

Church, Anthony, 162; Barbara,
162; Cassandra, 162; Cuthbert,
162 ; Elizabeth, 162 ; Frances, 79,
162 ; Isabell, 99, 162 ; James, 79,
134, 135, 162; John, 99, 162;
Margaret, 135, 144; Mary, 162;
Thompson, 162; William, 144,
162; Mrs., 75, 167

Clark, Anne, 89; Charles, 168;
George, 79; James, 68; John,
89, 100; Margaret and Margery,
153, 168, 188; Michael, 168;
William, 94; Mr., 107

Clavering of Calally, 225; Eliza-
beth, 177; George, 177; Sir
Thomas, 240; esquire, 152

Clay, J. W., cited, 5, 51, 252

Clayton, John, 97

Claxton, Sir John, 205 ; Mary, 205

Cliffe, Thomas, 87

Clifford, Lieutenant, 219

Clement, James, 127

Clephan, James, cited, 16

Clough, Elizabeth, 148; Thomas,
87

Clout, Nan, 145

Coats, Mary, 108; John, 259

Cock, Ann, 86, 179; John, 86;
Ealph, 16, 179

Cogdon, John, 168; Robert, 102

Cole, Dame Catherine, 168; Eliza-
beth, 106; James, 106; Nicholas
(Sir Nicholas), 106, 137, 179, 183,
186; Sir Ralph 168 179;
Thomas, 137

Collingwood, Alexander, 254, 278;
Anne, 270; Edward, 270; Sarah,
257; Lord, 257

Collinson, Nicholas, 59; Thomas,
59, 130

Colmore, Mary, 113; Thomas, 113

Coltman, Anthony, 93; Mary, 71

Comber, Dean of Durham, 131, 148,
Mrs., 131

Comyn, Anne, 158; Jane, 141, 153;
Simon, 141, 153. See Cumin

Conyers, Bet, 62; Sir Christopher,
134; John (Sir John), 110, 121;
Robert, 110; William, 72; Mr.,
115

Cook, Barbara, 82; Mary, 82; of
Hexham, 278; — , 267

Cookson, Mrs., 269

Cooper, Abraham, 153; Averill,
169 ; Catherine, 153 ; Robert, 95 ;
Thomas, 90, 91. See Cowper

Cope, Sir Anthony, 5; Sir Walter,

5
Corbett, Abraham, 178
Corby, Nicholas, 136; T— , 280
Corner, Mary, 109; Matthew, 109;

Thomas, 150; William, 86, 152
Corney, Robert, 150
Cornforth, Isabel, 156; Elizabeth,

101 ; Robert, 108, 156, 169, 178
Cosin, Bishop of Durham, 113, 128,

149; Anne, 128
Cospatric, Earl of March, 214
Cotesworth, Anne, 180; John, 180,

184
Coulson, Anne, 55, 66, 94; Christo-
pher, 64, 76, 120 ; Elizabeth, 67 ;

John, 64, 65, 66, 259 ; Joseph, 62,

83; Margaret, 138; Mary, 65,

120; Richard, 55, 66, 67, 94-;

Stephen, 83; Thomas, 64, 67;

William, 287
Cowper, Spencer, Dean of Durham,

196. See Cooper
Coxon, Elizabeth, 276
Cradock, Dorothy, 113, 130; John,

113; Sir Joseph, 123; Thomas,

123, 130; Mrs., 73
Craggs, Matthew, 108; Richard,

76; Robert, 265
Craig, — , militiaman, 285
Cranmer, Archbishop, 10
Cranstown, Anne, 257; William,

Lord, 257
Craster, Ann, 273: John, 273; Mr.,

of Newcastle, 266
Crawford, Colonel, 261, 263, 283
Crawhall, Elizabeth, 268; Susanna,

71
Creagh, Margaret, 181 ; Dame

Mary, 181 ; Sir William, 181, 186
Crewe, Nathaniel. Bishop of Dur-
ham and Baron Crewe, 91, 112,

128, 129, 139, 150, 152, 181, 185,

186; Lady, 150, 152
Croft, Richard, 93; Thomasin, 93
Crosby Anne, 152; Elizabeth, 141;

Frances, 124, 152, 153; John, 82;

Nicholas, 136; Thomas, 141, 152,

153
Crow, Elizabeth, 84; Philadelphia,

82; Matthew, 259; Robert, 80,

170; Major, 256
Crowley, Ambrose (Sir Ambrose),

240; Elizabeth, 240; John, 240;

Theodosia, 240; ironworks, 240,

244
Cumin, John, 230; Richard, lord

of Tarset, 230; William, justici-
ary of Scotland, 230. See Comyn

310

Cumming, James, 259; — , 268
Cuthbertson, Anne, 258; George,
town clerk of Newcastle, 258

D

Dacre, Lord, 219; — , 275

Daglish, Private, 284
Dantesey, Alice, 102 ; Brilliana,
102; Edward, 102; Gabriel, 102;
John, 102; Philip, 102; Thomas.
102

Darcy, Isabel, 179; James, 179;
Lord, 219

Darlington (Darneton), Mary, 168;
Rebecca, 168; Catherine Sedley,
Countess of, 204; Sophia Platen,
Countess of, 204; Henry Vane,
Earl of, 204

David, King of Scots, 216, 230, 251

Davidson (Davison), Alexander (Sir
Alexander), 109, 140, 184; Anne,
109, 175, 179; Charles, 109;
Elizabeth, 179; James, 109;
Joan, 109, 140; John, 293;
Joseph, 109; Margaret, 69, 109;
Mary, 109; Ralph, 109, 140;
Thomas, 109, 114, 179 ; Timothea,
109 ; Timothy, 179, 188 ; William,
109; Mr., 291

Davies, Elizabeth, 174

Dawson, John, of Brunton, Cap-
tain Northumberland Militia,
diary, 254-294; biography, 253;
date of birth, 288; John, junior
(Jack), 253, 264, 266, 268, 269,
273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 281, 286,
288, 291, 293, 294; Anne, 253,
283 ; Barbara, 253 ; Francis, 182,
253, 267, 275, 281, 288; Robert,
283; Captain John's sister, 283;
Mrs., 287

Delaval, George, 254, 260, 282;
George Shafto, 264; Francis,
242; Sir John, 242; Mary, 157;
Rhoda, 242; Thomas, 157; Ad-
miral, 241, 242, 282

'Delilay/ 138

Dent, Anne, 99 ; Elizabeth, 64, 151 ;
Jane, 141; John, 82, 171; Julia,
187; Margaret, 111; Maxton, 79;
Pexell, 140, 148; Thomas, 64, 66,
90, 97, 151, 187; William, 134

Denton, John, 171

Derbyshire, Mary, 73

Derwentwater, Margaret de 93;
Lord, 186, 210, 235

Dickinson, Christopher, 285; Jane,
130

Dickie, David, 46

Dickson, see Dixon

' Dike/ David of Irvine, 43

Dixon of Belford, 270

Dixon, Abraham, 254, 270, 272,
273 ; Anne, 84, 270 ; Christopher,
90, 169; David, 43, 163: Eliza-
beth, 89; Francis, 57; George,
85; Isabel, 74; Jane, 163; John,
84, 87, 96, 259; Nicholas, 57, 74,
110; Robert, 151; Thomas, 73,
157; William, 97; of Newcastle,
attorney, 273; of Derwent, 288;
Captain, 277, 280; Private, 284;
— , 268

Dobinson, Elizabeth, 58, 88;
Henry, 59. 61, 68; Isabel, 77;
Jane," 61; John, 62, 107; Mar-
garet, 159; Thomas, 59, 62, 82,
159

Dobson, Anne, 158; Anthony, 92,
136; Christian, 158; Christopher,
158; Edward, 158; Elizabeth,
158; George, 180; Jane, 137;
Margaret, 124; Marv, 158;
Robert, 95, 124, 136, 158; Wel-
bury, 158; Wheatley, 158; Mr.,
267

Dodds (Dodd), Elizabeth, 73, 83;
John, 259; Joseph, 259; Ralph,
259 ; Thomas, Dean of Ripon, 10,
12; William, 276; Captain, 267

Dodsworth, Anthony, 114 ; Eleanor,
114; Elizabeth, 114

DolbeUj Sir John, prebendary of
Durham, 195, 196, 197, 198

Done (Dunn), Elizabeth, 174; Par-
son William, 174

Doubleday, Elizabeth, 262; H— ,
262; Humphrey, 262; Nicholas,
262; Michael, 222; Dr., 260, 270,
272, 282, 290, 291, 293

Douglas, Anne, 261 ; George, 45 ;
James, 45 ; John, Earl of, 27 ;
John, 45 ; Margaret, 45 ; Mary,
45; Oley, 261; Samuel, 45; Wil-
liam (Sir William), 45, 90; Pri-
vate, 263

Dowthwaite, Alice, 68 ; Anne, 59,
122; Elizabeth, 83; John, 59,
110; Margaret, 83; Mary, 79;
Ralph, 122

Downes, Brian, 206; Elizabeth,
206; Mr., 94

Downey, Thomas, 115

Drake, Rev. William, 188

Drewry (Drury), Anne 77, 110;
Arabella, 133; Elizabeth, 81;
John, 78; Joyce, 145; William,
78, 83. 133, 153

311

Dryden, Simon, 284; his widow,
284

Druich, William, 113

Duck, Sir John, 103, 128, 142, 167 ;
Lady (Madam), 83, 85, 139

Duckett, John, 69, 167; Mary, 167

Dunbar, Earl of, 22

Duncan, Edmund, 126

Duncombe, Colonel, 256

Dunce (Dunse), David, 107; Mar-
garet, 76, 85

Dunn, James, 268; Jane, 97;
William, 148, 174; Parson, 174;
drummer, 268, 276

Durant, Benezer, 189

Dury, see Drewry

E
Eales, David, 99 ; Robert, 82, 154 ;

Thomas, 82, 90
Eanred, King, 217
Earle (Earl), * Thomi,' 142; Miss

(natural daughter of Marshall

Wade), 198
Ebdon, Anne, 85; Christopher, 94
Ecfrid (Ecgfrid), King, 234, 247
Eden, Barbara, 79; Blythman, 78;

Elizabeth, 78; Henry, 78, 159;

James, 78; Jane, 78, 159; John,

183; Mary, 78, 79; Sir Robert,

183; Tabitha, 78; William, 78
Edward the Confessor, 245
Edward I., 216
Edward III., 209
Edward VI., 252
Edward, Prince of Scotland, 223
Egbert, King, 217
Egelric, Bishop, 245
Egerton, Mary, 8, 49; Richard, 7,

8 ; Thomas, 7
Egfrid, Bishop, 217
Eggleston (Egleston), Elizabeth,

60 ; John, 141 ; William, 95
Eglington, Alexander Seton, Earl

of, 43
Eitric, King, 217
Elder, William, 281
Eldridge, John, 128, 144; Mar-
garet, 128, 144
EJfwald, King, 234
Elizabeth, Queen, 10, 11, 24, 216
Elldart, John, 259
Elliot, Anne, 95; Edward, 293;

John, 259; Mary Anne, 293;

Robert, 293; — , 272
Ellis, King of the Beggars, 134
Ellison, Benjamin, 181 ; Isabella,

207; William, 207; Justice, 86;

Mr., 188

Elphinstone, Sir George, 40
Elstob, Charles, 123, 184; Eliza-
beth, 184 ; Jane, 184 ; Mary, 123 ;
Ralph, 184; William, 184
Eltringham, William, 264, 279, 281
Emma, sister of King Stephen, 4
Emmerson (Emerson), Anthony, 58,
113, 174 ; Private, 292 ; — , 98, 99
Endick (Endek), Peter, 152
English, Thomas, 259
Errington of Walwick, 233; of
Beaufront, 235 ; Anne, 145 ;
George, 180; Jane, 258; John,
182, 187 ; Mark, 19 ; Thomas, 145,
182; Mr., 284; 286, 287; Mrs.,
286
Erwen, George, 281
Ethelrid, Queen, 234
Etherington, John, 111
Eure, Ralph, Lord, 9
Eustace Fitz John, 222
Evans, John adjutant, 138, 261,
282

Fagius, 10

Fairfax, Mary, 90

Fairlamb, Matthew, 259; Mrs., 275

Fairless James, 113; Jane, 155;
John, 105, 155

Fairley, Bishop, 35

Farmer, Mr., of York, 251

Farrer, John, 207; Rebecca, 207

Farrow, Mary, 117; Robert, 73,
114

Fawcett, Christopher, 149; Ed-
ward, 89; William, 105

Fawdon, Jane, 81, 84

Fawell, Anthony, 166; Robert, 87

Featherston, George, 122; Parson
Leonard, 122; Matthew, 211;
Peregrina, 207; Ralph, 207;
Thomas, 102

Fell, Isabella, 183

Fenwick, Barbara, 104; Catherine,
265; Christopher, 68, 104, 110;
Dorothy, 79; Elizabeth, 180;
Dame Elizabeth, 96; Frances,
104, 110 ; Grace, 258 ; Henry, 253,
265, 266, 270, 271, 277, 278, 279,
280, 282, 285, 287; James, 104;
John, 79, 104, 157, 265; Mar-
garet, 180; Mary, 107, 122, 179,
180 265 ; Michael, 107 ; Nicholas,
179, 180, 184 188, 189, 222;
Ralph, 107 ; Robert, 180, 222 ; Sir
Robert, 96; Thomasin, 104;
William, 107, 283, 291; Mr., of
Bywell, 286; Mr., 292, 293

312

Ferdinand, Prince, 278

Fewster, Abigail, 127; Anthony,
103; Averill, 127; Dorothy, 256;
Thomas, 279; William, 103, 127,
145

Finney, Jane, 170 ; Eev. James, 170

Fisher, Ann, 71 ; Dorothy, 56 ; Isa-
bel, 56, 121 ; John, 93 ; Margaret,
84; Maria Dorothy, 93; Ralph,
56, 77, 121

Fitzherbert, William, Archbishop
of York, 4

FitzMarmaduke, family tombs and
arms, 245

Fleming, John, Baron, 38; Mr., 38,
50

Foggan, Robert, 90

Forcer, Eleanor, 73; George, 119

Fordyce, Captain, 254

Forfar, Lieutenant, 259

Forster, Alice, 125; Anne, 81, 125;
Averill, 125; Captain, 128; Cor-
poral, 258; Dorothy, 125; Ed-
ward, 114, 125; Eleanor, 125;
Elizabeth, 73, 125, 152; Ferdin-
and, 157; Francis, 73; George,
70, 80, 96, 272; Henry, 96, 157;
Jane, 86, 143, 157; John, 125;
organist, 156 ; Margaret, 56, 125 ;
157; Mark, 56, 125; Marmaduke,
125; Mary, 179; Matilda, 125,
131; Nicholas, 259; Pexall, 125,
131; Susanna, 81, 143; Thomas,

73, 85, 96, 125, 131, 143, 259;
William, 81, 125, 139, 152, 259,
Sir William, 152; Madam, 73, 91,
143; Lady, 207; Mr., 258, 260,
278, 282

Forth, John, 206

Fowler, Rev. J. F., cited, 4, 14

France, John, 123

Franklin, Sir Henry, 205; Jane,
205

Frappart, Olimpa, 62

French, John, 123

Frizell, Arabella, 78; Bart., 117;
Bell, 71; Bett, 71; Henry, 83,
141; Laird, 145; Margaret, 97,
106; Mary, 139; William, 81, 86,
139, 145

Fulthorp, Anne, 83; Christopher,

74, 83, 163; Eleanor, 83; Eliza-
beth, 83; George, '83

G

Gair, Elizabeth, 147
Gairlees, John, Viscount, 265
Gale, Francis, 57

Galloway, Alexander, Earl of, 265
Gascoign, Joseph, vicar of Enfield,

240; Theodosia, 240
Geldart, Anne, 90 ; John, 90
Gee, Dr. H., cited, 51
Gelson, Ralph, 69, 141
Gibson, Benjamin, 119; Dorothy,

79; Edward, 264; Frances, 76;

Isabel, 119; Jane, 208; Sir John,

autobiograph, 52-53 ; biography,

51; John, 254, 255, 256, 259,268;

Matthew, 208; Penelope, 51;

Reginald (Reynard), 261 267,

270, 272, 292; Ensign and Mr.,

278, 282, 290
Gill, Henry, 182 ; Humphrey, 182 ;

John, 182 ; Joseph, 182 ; Samuel,

182, 183, 186, 187
Glover, G., 2
Godrick the Hermit, 246
Gofton, Anne, 96
Goodacre, Bridget, 93; Lieutenant,

93
Goodare, Thomas, 156
Goodrick, Sir Henry, 7 ; Richard,

7
Goodvear, Thomas, 156
Gordon, Anne, 88, 94, 153, 154,

172; Isabel, 153; James, 153;

John, 94, 153, 154, 172; Mar-
gery, 154; Mr., 38, 40, 41
Gowland, Mr., 84
Gowrie, John, Earl of, 31
Graham, A., 259; Sir John, 37;

Patrick, 37; — .' 285
Granvill, Anne, 128-129; Sir

Bevil, 128; Denis, Dean of

Durham, 123-126, 128-129, 157
Green, Edward, 183; Hannah, 57;

John, 183; Joshua, 183; Michael,

183; ' Nicholas, 148; Richard,

138; Mr., 268 269, 275, 276 277,

280, 284, 285, 288, 291, 293 294;

— , 265
Greenwell, Dorothy, 80; Jane,

180; John, 180; Phillis, 180;

Robert, 180; Sarah, 95; Rev.

William, cited, 13, 14, 15, 93,

196; William, 149, 180
Greenwood, Mr., of Newcastle,

264
Greggs, Frances, 151; William,

151
Greeveson, William, 169
Grieve (Grieves), Frances, 64;

John, 120; Sybel, 150
Grews, Jane, 258
Grey (Gray), of Kyloe, 269;

Anne, 80, 146; Bryan, 269;

313

Chipchase, 146; Dorothy, 256,
269; Edward, 183; Elizabeth,
85, 90, 146; George, 183;
Henry, 256; John, 80, 146, 269;
Magdalen, 183; Mary, 146; Sir
Ealph, 167; Rebecca, 146;
Robert (Doctor), 85, 87, 136, 146,
167; Sarah, 183; William, 146;
'Beardy/ 134

Grey-Egerton, Sir Philip, 2; Sir
P. H. D., 2

Groves, John, 20; Sarah, 20

Gunn, Captain, 259

Gustavus IV., 160

Guy, Dorothy, 79; Isabel, 73

' Hadson/ Charles, 63

Hagar, William^ 169

Haggerston, Edward, 271; Mary,
271; Sir Thomas, 270-271; Wil-
liam, 271

Haleby, Jane, 55

Half-dane, the Dane, 242

Halifax, Baron, 73

Hall, Anne, 89, 97, 110, 143; An-
thony, 88, 89; Barbara, 253;
Catherine, 76; Cuthbert, 145;
Edward (Sir Edward), 261, 269;
Elizabeth, 88, 155; Enoch, 228;
Frances, 76, 134; Frances Eliza-
beth, 76; Gabriel, 229, 257;
George Lawson, 76; Isabella,
228; James, 171; Jane, 184;
Jasper, 287; John, 64, 65 76,
83, 88, 89, 98, 107, 108 ' 143,
154, 155, 156, 254, 271; Jona-
than, 89, 143, 174; Joseph, 76,
87, 158; Margaret and Mar-
gery, 64, 65, 76, 96, 129, 154,
169; Mary, 89, 107, 114, 154;
Michael, 125, 134, 154; Ralph,
58, 73, 97, 110; Richard, 77;
Robert, 129, 130, 140; Sarah,
257; Stephen, 76; Thomas, 76,
89, 229; William, 58, 97, 114,
133, 156, 184, 269, 271, 272; Mr.,
120; Captain, 271, 278, 291

Hamilton, Marquess of, 28, 41; of
Innerwick, 26

Hand (Hands), Margaret, 70, 107;
Thomas, 107

Harle, Anne, 262; Joseph, 262

Harrington, William Stanhope,
first Earl, 209

Harrison, Anne, 73, 162; Dorothy,
173; Elizabeth, 55, 81, 87,. 89,
92, 108, 111, 148; George, 121,
127; Isabel, 262; John, 73, 107,

114, 117, 121, 140, 162; Joseph,
97; Margaret, 82, 117; Mary,
69; Michael, 128; Richard, 92,.
Ill, 69, 120; Rowland, 107;
Stephen, 111 ; Susan,' 72 ;
Thomas, 144; William, 111;
Sergeant, 283, 284, 291, 292;
Parson, 267, 274

Harry, Edmund, 63; Edward, 63;
Frances, 63, 120; James, 60, 77,
100, 120, 149, 161; Jane, 94, 98„
161; John, 63, 84, 149, 158;
Peter, 60

Harstein, John, 46

Hart, Joseph, Ensign, killed at
Hexham riot, 256, 257, 258, 260

Hanson, Sergeant, 278

Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, 13

Haven, Henry, 70

Hawdon, Alice, 112, 133; Cuth-
bert, 112, 113: Elizabeth, 112;
Frances, 112, 113; Grace, 128;
Isabel, 112; Jane, 112; Mar-
garet, 112; Ralph, 112; Rich-
ard, 112; William, 112

Hawkins, Edward, 2

Hawksworth, Walter, 76

Heath, Barbara, 133; Dorothy,
130; Elizabeth, 142; John, 142;.
. Nicholas, 130, 133 ; Ralph, 130 ;
Mr., 20

Hedley, Catherine, 119

Hedworth, Eleanor, 169; Mar-
garet, 173; Ralph, 169, 173

Heelis, Jane, 258; John, 258

Hegg, John, 90

Heighington, Ambrose, 105, 135 ;
Catherine, 105, 135; Cuthbert,.
136; Elizabeth, 135, 166; Fran-
ces, 79, 108, 130, 135, 162; John,
95, 171; Margaret, 143; Mary,
87, 135; Michael, 127, 135;
Musgrave, 135; William, 79. 91,
105, 130, 135, 143, 162, 166; Mr.,.
108

Henderson, Margaret, 82; — , 275

Hendry, Anne, 82; Cuthbert, 82,
138; Frances, 82; Hammond,
82, 138; Isabel, 82; Mary, 82;.
Mitford, 82; Philadelphia, 82

Hengist, 217

Henry, I., 235

Henry II., 215, 216

Henry III., 230

Henry IV., 222

Henry VIII., 218

Hepple, John, 259

Herbert, Count, father of St-
William of York, 4

314

Heriot, Captain, 274

Heron, Anne, 258; Elizabeth, 143
275; James, 45;' John, 221, 275
Mary, 45; Ralph, 180, 258
William, 278

Heron-Middleton, Mary, 293; Sir
Thomas, 293

Hertford, Francis, Marquess of,
4; Isabella, Marchioness of, 4

Heslop, Dorothy, 145; Elizabeth,
83, 167; William, 83, 167, 259;
E. 0. cited, 18, 24

Hetherington, Dorothy, 87 ; John,
111

Hewitson, William, 72

Hewson, Robin, 265; William, 72

Hickson, Catherine, 158; John,
124

Highley, Nathaniel, 58; Porting-
ton, 58

Hillman, Captain Thomas, 157

Hills, Hilda, 95; Richard, 140;
William, 155; widow, 96

Hilyard (Hilliard), Joseph, 154

Hilton, Anne, 90, 113, Cuthbert,
115, 170 ; Dorothy, 113 ; Eleanor,
129; Jane, 115/170; Lancelot,
113, 115, 129; Marv, 113;
Robert, 105, 115; William, 113

Hinde, Eliz e 113; Oswald, 277

Hindmarsh, John, 187 ; Julia, 187 ;
Mrs., 268. See Hymers

Hinghew the Dane, 242

Hirdman, Mrs., 277

'-Hobby Pellel/ 14

Hoby, Sir Thomas, 5 ; Lady, 5 ;
Mr., 43

Hodges, C. C, cited, 239

Hodgson, Albert, 93; Anne, 131;
Charles, 70, 131; Edward, 72,
86, 106, 130, 150; Eleanor, 70,
131; Elizabeth, 93, 106, 131;
Frances, 271; George, 70, 125,
131; James, 207; John, 70,
131, 182, 207; Margaret, 87;
Mark, 70, 131, 149; Matilda, 70,
125, 131; Nicholas, 70, 108, 131;
Peter, 70, 131; Ralph, 271;
Ruth, 182; Sarah, 108; Stephen,
72, 151; Thomas, 89, 218; Wil-
liam, 70. 131, 150; Rev. J. F.
cited, 9, 202, 204, 249

Hodgson Hinde, John, cited, 79,
182, 217

Hogarth, Henry, 259

Holden, Humphrey, 150

Holder, Elizabeth, 198

* Hold-my-staff ' John, 74 ; Magda-
len. 148

Holland, Isabel, 147; Jacob, 66,
97; Margaret, 1; Matthew,' 98;
Richard, 1; Thomas, 66

Holloway, John, 185; Sir Richard,
185

Holme (Holmes), Margaret, 95;
Ralph, 161; Richard, 151;
Thomas, 97

Home of Dunglas, 25

Home, Earl of, 25

Home, John, author of Douala*,
221, 263

Home, Sir Thomas, 25

Homphrey, Elizabeth, 56; John,
56

Hood, Elizabeth, 65; John, 65

Hopper, Cuthbert, 141; Elizabeth,
90, 153; Frances, 93, 174; Jane,
95, 138; Margaret, 90; Thomas,
71, 121, 152, 153, 166

Horseman, Timothy, 136

Hornsby, Richard, 98; — , 268

Hotspur, 227

Howey of Wooler Haugh-head, 291

Howard, Sir Edward, 219; James,
259; Lord Thomas, 218; Wil-
liam (Lord William), 20, 226

Hubba the Dane, 242

Hubback, Alice, 132; Catherine,
107, 132; Elizabeth, 132; Fran-
ces, 132; James, 132; John, 107,
132, 269, 279, 280, 293; Joseph,
132; Mary, 132, 264; Matilda,
132; Mally, 264, 281; Robert,
264; Samuel, 132; Mrs., 82

Hubbart, — , 270

Hude, Elizabeth, 65; John, 65

Hudson, Charles, 63, 70, 164, 174;
Elizabeth, 164; John, 264, 279

Hudspeth, Edward, 125; Mar-
garet, 125

Hugal, Thomas, 157 ; William,
157

Hull, James, 171; John, 126 Ur-
sula, 126

Hume (Humes), Alexander, 84,
142; Anne, 22; Elizabeth, 22:
George 110, 116, 117; George,
Earl of Dunbar, 22, 25; Isabel,
110, 117; Sir James, 22; Jane,
143; John, 117; William, 117,
122; Parson William, 115;
Lord, 219

Humphrey, Mr., 291

Hungate, Ralph, 6; William, 6

Hunsdon, Henry Bara, 10, 11

Hunt, Dean of Durham, 13

Hunter, Anthony, 267; Esther,
267; Frances, 187 ; Isaac, 267;

315

John, 70; William, 267; Dr.,
274, 276, 277, 284, 288, 294; — ,
293

Huntley, Anne, 169; Dorothv,
71; George, 143; John, 96;
Mary, 79; Richard, 79, 167, 169

Husband, Thomas, 275, 283

Huson, Anne, 86; Michael, 77,
129; William, 72

Huss, John, 10

Hutchinson, Anthony, 119, 126 ;
Barnabas, 144 ; Bernard, 127 ;
Catherine, 172; Cuthbert, 100,
101; Dorothv, 156; Eleanor, 59;
Elizabeth, 133; Frances, 61, 133,
181; Hugh, 61, 79, 110, 138;
Jane, 59, 71, 94, 100, 144, 163;
John, 59, 97, 150, 167; Jona-
than, 56, 69, 182, 186; Joseph,
80, 149; Margaret, 77, 126, 145,
150; Mary, 126; Nicholas, 77,
79, 126, 140; Ralph, 110, 292;
Richard, 62, 71, 107, 122, 133,
134, 153, 163, 170, 174; Robert,
152; Ruth, 182; Simon, 74, 133;
Thomas, 156; Thomasin, 62,
88; William, 134, 138, 181, 186,
188; Mr., 120; Mrs., 110; — ,
152; William the historian, 262,
263; Private, 269

Hutton, Anthony, 7; Sir Ralph,
7; Thomas, 46

Hymers, Edward, 266, 275 ; Jane,
84; Robin (Robert), 259, 262,
263, 265, 266, 268, 278, 280, 284,
288; Mr., 267. See Hindmarsh

Ida, King, 217

Ingham, .fane, 71

Ingleby, Margaret, 169; William,

96, 167, 169
Ingram, Sir Arthur, 4; Charles,

4; Isabella, 4
Irwin, Charles, Viscount, 4
Isaacson, Anthony, 181; Margaret,

181
Ive, Edward, 187; Elizabeth, 176,

187 ; Margaret, 187 ; Roger, 176,

187

Jackson, Anne, 72, 115; Elizabeth,
71, 159; Gabriel, 121; George,
71, 72, 80; Jacob, 71; John (Sir
John), 57, 115, 122, 127, 133, 142,
206; Margaret, 95; Marv, 87,

121, 122; Martin, 147; Ralph,
158, 159; Robert, 129; Thomas,
85, 130; Mrs., 169

James I. (VI. of Scotland), 11, 21,
24, 25, 31, 34, 40, 216

James II., 68, 183, 184, 187

James IV. of Scotland, at Flodden,
218, 219

James V. of Scotland, 29

James VI. of Scotland, 21

James, William, 206

Jane, Queen of Scots, 230

Jefferson, Anne, 106, 180; Anth-
ony, 106; Elizabeth, 84, 106,
144, 180; James, 106; Jane,
106; John (Sir John), 106, 159,
180; Margaret, 106, 159; Marv,
180; Matthew, 180; Philip, 284;
Richard, 106, 180; Thomas, 106,
113, 159, Mr., 108; — , 68

Jeffreys, Lord, 254

Jenison (Jennison), Barbara, 184;
George, 264; Henrv, 184;
Ralph (Sir Ralph), 182 ," 184, 188

Jenner, Thomas (Sir Thomas), 187

Jennings, Anne, 268

Jerome of Prague, 10

Jewell, Bishop, 10

Jobson, Christian, 95

Johnson, Alice, 76, 138; Alan,
154; Alexander, 257; Anne, 161;
Barbara, 149; Catherine, 144;
Christian, 95, 259; Frances, 85;
George, 259, 260; John, 82,
144; Margery, 265; Mary, 276,
286; Robert, 140, 149, 268;
Sarah, 85, 257; William, 161,
181; Mr., 263; — , 259

Jolley, Christopher, 139

Jones, Anne, 23; Catherine, 22;
Elizabeth, 22, 23; Henry, 22,
23; Jane, 22; Peter, 22, 23

Jopling, Dorothy^ 80; George,
103; John, 51

Jordan, Anne, 86

Joyce, — , minor canon of Durham,
100

Justice, John, 90, 147; Mary, 147

Jane, 96. See Cay
Keene, Bishop of Ely, 209
Keenlyside, Anne, 285; John,

105; Richard, 121; Thomas,

115
Kell, Edward, 266, 269, 283, 284;

George, 266; James, 291; Mr.,

266

316

Kempe, D., 200; Elizabeth, 74,

133
Kennedy, Sir Alexander, 44; Mar-
garet, 41 ; Sir Thomas, 44
Kennet, Anne, 89, 143; William,

89, 143
Key (Keys), Barbara, 85; Thomas,

127; William, 167; Mrs., of

York, 3, 49
Killingworth, Luke, 182; Mehi-

tabel, 182
King, Edward, 140
Kirby, John, 124; Private, 286
Kirkby, Edward, 122; Elizabeth,

112, 122; George, 117, 136; Mary,

136
Kirkhouse, Elizabeth, 97; Henry,

71; John, 82; Margaret, 71
Kirkley (Kirkley), Elizabeth, 70;

Frances, 77; John, 136; Ralph,

78; William, 70? 131
Kitchen, Frances, 60, 71; Frank,

60; Stephen, 265; Mr., 59
Kitfield, Clement, 84
Kitson, Clement, 84
Knaggs, Elizabeth, 89 ; Margaret,

84; Robert, 124; William, 126
Knatchhill, William, prebendary

of Durham, 196

Lackenby, Simon, 121; I., 157

Laidler, Catherine, 72; Clement,
149; Margaret, 70; Nicholas,
103, 119 ; Thomas, 149 ; William,
135

Lamb, Christopher, 132; Eliza-
beth, 132; Frances, 56, 172;
John, 61, 72, 153, 172, 173; Mar-
garet, 173; Mary, 172; Phila-
delphia, 173; Ralph, 173; Rich-
ard, 61; Robert, 56, 172, 173;
William, 173, 259; Mr., 267,275

Lajnbton, Eleanor, 169; Eliza-
beth, 20, 92; Henrv, 134, 169,
181; Ralph, 20, 21 ; Susan, 20;
Thomas, 92; William, 20; Mr.,
148

Lampshaw, Cuthbert, 158; Jane,
158

Lampson, Anne, 158

Lanchester, Isabel, 68

Langlands, — , goldsmith, 290

Langley, Bishop, 14

'Lapper/ 71, 79, 156

Lapsley, Dr., cited, 13

' Lapthorne/ 71. See Lapper

Lassells, Alice, 79; Dorothy, 79;.

Frances, 79, 108, 135, 139, 162;

Margaret, 79, 108; Thomas, 61,.

79, 108, 135, 162; William, 61,

79
Latimer, Bishop, 10
Latham, Lemuel, 192; Miss, 192
Laud, Archbishop, 11
Lauder, Dr., 283
Laverick, — , 97
Lawson, Sir Henry, 201; Robert y

72
Lax, Anthony, 147
Lazenby, Elizabeth, 182; Ralph,

182
Leavers, Thomas, 83
Ledger, Jane, 101
Lee, Arthur, 210; James, 162;

Jane, 96; Mary, 287, 288; Phil-

lis, 69; Richard, 163; Thomas,

95 ; Thomasin, 163 ; William, 95 ;

Mr., 96, 108, 284; widow, 288
Leghe, Anne, 184; John, 184
Leighton, Henry, 259
Lennox, Duke of, 28, 41
Lesley, Barbara, 197; Catherine,

197; Edward, 197; Elizabeth,
♦197 ; Jacosa, 197 ; James, Bishop

of Limerick, biography, 197 ;

James, 62, 83 ; John, 197 ; Joyce,

197; Mary Anne, 197; Richard,

197
Lewen (Lewens), Anne, 88, 154;

Eleanor, 142; George, 88; Mar-
garet, 88 ; Mary, 88 ; Sarah, 88 ;

Thomas, 88, 154; William Bon-
ner, 88
Levingston, Jane, 259; Thomas,

259; Sir William, 46
Leviston and wife, 259
Liddell (Liddle), Anthony, 276;

Henry, 151; Mary, 151; esquire,

86; Private, 280
Lightbody, Anne, 93; Nicholson,

93
Lindsay, David de, builder of

Dalley Castle 230; Archbishop,.

40
Linsley, Elizabeth, 77
Lisle, Mary, 181; Robert, 181
Lister, Elizabeth, 83; Martin,

243; Mary, 81; Matthew, 83,

139; Thomas, 86. See Lyster
Littlefare, Alice, 94
Littleton, Elizabeth, 73
Livick, William, 160
Lloyd, Mr. Justice, 281
Lodge, Aby, 127; Anthony, 102,

120; Benjamin, 59; Isabel, 59,

317

101; Margaret, 59; Merrell,
102, 120; Mr., of Barnard
Castle, 282

Loftus, Elizabeth, 102; Thomasin,
102

Logan, John, 98

Longfield, Elizabeth, 146; Thomas,
146; Mrs., 146

Longstaffe, George, 281; Jane,
281; W. H. D., cited, 15, 119,
181, 202, 239, 249

' Long Tom/ 164

Loraine of Hexham and of Beau-
front, 258; Mary, 86; Sir
Thomas, 258

Lowes, Margaret, 277; William,
277; Mr., 272, 288

Lowth, Bishop Robert, prebend-
ary of Durham, 197

Lowther, Catherine, 71; Jane,
174; John, 100, 147; Lancelot,
174; Margaret, 128, 144;
Thomas, 144, 165; Mr., 128

Lumley of Lumley Castle, monu-
ments of, 245; John, Lord, 245;
Ralph, Lord-, 245; Ralph, 121;
Lord, 15, 142; Mr., 246

Lumsden, Mary, 190, 191

Luther, 10

Lynley, Sir Henry, 206

Lyon, Charles, neglect of Bin-
chester, 208; Jane, association
with spiritualism, 208

Lvon-Home, D. D., the spiritual^
ist, 208

Lyster, Anthony, 197; Joyce, 197.
See Lister

M

McCauley, Captain, 259

M'Cleary, Samuel, 260

McHaffie David, 46; Margaret 45

MacKail,' William, 129

MacKarty, John, 114

McLean, Sergeant, 290

MacLellan, Patrick, 43, 50

Macho n, Anne, 161 ; Deborah,
161; Eleanor, 161; Gilbert, 161;
John, 161; Thomas, 161

Madden, WTilliam, cited, 40, 41

Maddison, Anne 69, 142, 155; Ed-
ward, 61; Elizabeth, 60, 98, 114;
George, 60; Henry, 114; John,
59, 60, 61, 106, 108, 142, 151, 155,
165; Mary, 70; Ralph, 137;
William, 59 108, 151; 'Mad/
137

Magnay, Christopher, alderman
of London. 289

Mainsforth, Elizabeth, 80

Maland, Thomas, 167

Malcolm III., 223

Malory, Mr., of StudLey, 20

Manchester, Earl of, 73

Manners family, 218

Manson, Richard, 144

March, Patric, Earl of, 214; his
wife, Derdere, 214

Marchmont, Lord, 219, 266; his
daughter, 266

Marjoribanks (Marchbanks), Ed-
ward, 214; Thomas, 46

Marley, Catherine, 80; George,
limner, 73; John, 16; 'Margaret'
277; Robert, 132; R. 277- Wil-
liam, 80, 112

March, John, vicar of Newcastle,
184

Marshall, Catherine, 80; Chris-
topher, 76; Elizabeth, 148;
Jane, 274; John, 120; Margaret
134; Matthew, 73, 75; Nicholas^
58; Thomas, 58, 134 274- Wil-
liam, 129

Martin, Dorothv, 100 116 159;
Elizabeth. 100~, 142; 'George 78
120; Grace, 100; John 79' 80'

86, 100, 116, 143, 159;'Sainuei;
100, 159; Thomas, 120, 133;
Thomasin. 100, 109; Parson 86'

87. 109. 142, 143, 159; Mrs, 133;'
Miss, M. T., cited, 2

Mary, Queen, 68, 138

Mascal. Elizabeth, 67, 92 93 111
115; Francis, 85, 92, 93; Han-
nah, 92; Jane, 85, 92, 93 143;
Margaret, 111; Mary, 67, 92
115; Richard 92- Thomas 67
85, 92. Ill, 115, 143; Alderman]
111; Dowager, 85; General, 93

Mason, Anne, 69; Catherine, 'l32.
See Mayson

Massom (Masom), John, 155;
Mary, 121; Thomas, 121

Maston, John. 87; William, 87

Matthew, Bishop. 245

Matthew (Matthews), Cuthbert,
104*; Elizabeth, 104; Fortune
104; Francis, 104; Isabel, 104;
Margery, 104; Mary, 104; Re-
becca 107; Richard, 103, 104;
Thomas, 104; William 104; — ,
275

Maud. Queen of Scots. 230

Maudlin, Sergeant, 273, 280

Maudle, M— , 259

Maughan, Jane, 287; John, 89;
Richard, 164; Stephen, 70

Maxwell, of Innerwick, 26

31$

Mayers, Thomas, coroner of North-
umberland, 285

Maylon, Thomas, 167

Mayson, Catherine, 107; George,
122; Isabel, 86; Matthew, 87,
92; Nicholas, 139; William, 165

Meaburn, Robert, 132

Meadows, Anne, 272; John, 272

Mensfield, Elizabeth, 80

Merrington, Alice, 69

Mewburn James, 283, 284; Jane,
284; Mary, 283; Simon, 283, 284;
Mr. 268, 288

Mickleton, Christopher, 75, 113.
133; Elizabeth, 125, 168; Fran-
cis 125 134; James, 75, 125,
133; Michael, 75, 134, 168; Mr.,
84, 142

Middleton, Anne, 126, 162; De-
borah, 74; Francis, 56, 65, 72,
94 107 126, 156; George, 150;
John, 73 74, 162, 163, 165;
Mary, 107; Matthew, 152;
Nathaniel, 73, 74, 162, 163;
Thomasin, 163; Walter, 96;
Mrs., 165

Milbank, Mark, 180; Mary, 180

Milburn, Andrew, 64; Dorothy,
75; John, 64; Margaret, 167

Miller (Milner), Andrew, 68, 140;
Anne, 166; Jane, 123; John, 170;
Peter, 63, 64, 85, 166; Thomas.
63 99

Mills (Milles), John, 178; Thomas,
Bishop of Waterford, 199; Wil-
liam, 84; Mrs., 177

Minto, John, 259

Mitchel, Alice, 161; Dorothy, 137;
William, 93, 137 ; Bishop of Dur-
ham's porter, 136, 144, 161, 169

Mitford (Midford), Catherine, 265;
Deborah, 285; Dorothy, 111;
George 265- Jasper, 19; John,
72, 111', 168, 285; Margaret, 19;
Mary Russell, 265; Robert, 182

Mole, John, 90; Commander, 90

Molyneux, Lord, 235

Montgomery, Sir Henry, 46; Vis-
count, 46

Montague, Elizabeth, 73; Hon.
George, 73 ; Henry, Earl of Man-
chester, 73

Moody, Elizabeth, 91; John, 102

Moor (More), Cuthbert, 90; Eliza-
beth, 138; James, 276; John,
161, 162 ; Peter, 54,87 ; Thomas, 138

Morland, Cuthbert, 173; George,
120; John, 114, 120; Margaret,
114, 173; Thomasin, 120; Jus-
tice, 108; Mrs.. 108

Morston, Richard, 144

Morton (Moreton, Murton), of
Doddington, 290; Elizabeth, 23,
68; George, 23, 179, 188; Henry,
290; Jane, 23; Dr. John, 62;
Ositha, 62; Richard, 9; Wil-
liam, 145; Lord, 34; Mrs. of
Doddington, 290

Morton, Bishop of Durham, 9, 12,
20, 49, 90

Moslev, Edward, 254, 261; Row-
land, 261; Mr., 278

Mountain, Margaret, 171 ; John
72 ; Thomas, 84, 97, 171

Mowbray, Robert de, Earl of
Northumberland, 242

Murray, David, 259

Murton. See Morton

Musgrave, Catherine, 105, 135;

Thomas, Dean of Carlisle, 105,
115, 135

Myres, Ambrose, 119, 135, 141;
Anthony, 119; Elizabeth, 119,
141 ; Frances, 135

Mytton, Edward, 1

N

Nattrass (Natras), Isabel, 258;
John, 258; Margaret, 72;
Thomas, 86, 153

Naylor, Dulcibella, 90; Arch-
deacon John, 90; Mrs., 148

Neaving, Thomas, 264

Neile, Anne, 187; Sir Paul, 187;
Sir Richard, 184, 187; Richard,
Archbishop of York, 187

Neilson, George, cited, 227

Nelson, Ann, 164; Philadelphia,
172; Peter, 164; Sarah, 124

Nelthorp, George, 207; Mary, 207

Newby, Anne, 124; Richard, 124

Newcomen, Sir Beverly, 2

Newhouse, Anne, 170 ; Barbara
170; Frances, 170; Gabriel, 170
George, 170; Jane, 115, 170
Margaret, 170; Richard, 165,
170; Robert, 115, 170; William,
170

Newton of Hawkwell, 267; Anne,
267; Catherine, 267; Robert,
267; Thomas, 267, 277, 282;
William, architect, 222; Mr.,
287, 291

Nicholas II., Pope, 39

Nicholson of Loan-end, 277; Ed-
ward, 81; Elizabeth, 80, 262;
George, 133, 277, 278; John,
275, 286; Ralph, 135; — , 267,
285

319

Nixon (Nickson), Elizabeth, 263;
Mary, 77; Martin, vicar of
Haltwhistle, 263, and his daugh-
ter, 263; Parson, 289; Mrs.,
292

Noble, Elizabeth, 175; William,
175

Norman, Elizabeth, 149; Robert,
63; William, 62, 63, 149; — , 81

Northumberland, Earl of, 20, 217,
224, 226, 229, 254; Duke of, 226,
229, 254

Norton, Catherine, 149; Roger,
95, 149, 171

Nowell, John, 93; Maria Dorothy,
93

Ogle, Anne, 270; Henry, 270

Olivarez, Don, 11

Oliver, Catherine, 258; Jane, 72;

George, 264; John, 275;

Michael, 124; Thomas, 288
Ord, Anne, 270, 272; John, 272;

William, 254, 270, 272; Captain,

273
Orange, William, Prince of, 68
Orrick, Sergeant, 263
Osea, 217
Ossa, 217
Oswin, King, 242
Oswy, King, 242
Ouchterlony (Awther Long), Sir

James, 22
Oxford, Anne, Countess of, 11 ;

Edward, Earl of, 11; Elizabeth

Countess of, 11
Oxley, Amor, 167
' Oyster Peg/ 77

Padman, Mary, 127; Pexall, 138;

Richard, 72, 105, 168; Robert,

103, 127; Susanna, 81, 143;

Mrs., 127
Page, George, 140
Palmer, Thomas, 69
Papedy of Dunglas, 25
Parker, — , 38
Parkin (Parking), Elizabeth, 87;

John, 92, 154; Mary, 154;

Thomas, 74; Mrs., 74
Parkinson, George, 69; Isabel,

152; Thomas, 77
Parsley, John, 108
Partis, Matthias, 188; Mehitabel,

182; Thomas, 182, 186, 188

Patterson (Pattinson, Pattison)„
Anne, 147, 266; John (Sir John),
255, 266; Margaret, 266; Peter,
279, 281, 286; his wife and chil-
dren, 286; Robert, 151, 169;
Thomas, 259; William, 260;.
Miss, 255, 258, 266

Paulson, Anne, 59; James, 59;
Jane, 175

Paxton, Abraham, 75, 128; Anne,.
70, 74, 131; Catherine, 75; De-
borah, 74, 75; Dorothy, 116;
Eleanor, 74, 83, 163; Elizabeth,.

74, 75, 163; Margaret, 75;
Nathaniel, 75; Nicholas, 70 74,

75, 83, 123, 163; Ralph, 74^ 75,
84; Richard, 75; Thomas, 74,.
116, 161; Thomasin, 75; Wil-
liam, 74, 123, 131

Peacock, Anne, 144; Eleanor, 171;
Elizabeth, 94; James, 167; Jane,
90; John, 140; Simon 94, 144„
171; Mr., 75

Pearson, Alice, 99; Anne, 165;
Bryan, 84; Catherine, 99; Eliza-
beth, 63; Francis, 96; Henry,
99; Isabel, 89; Jane, 91; Mar-
garet, 155; Mary, 91; Robert,
155; Thomas, 75, 99, 171; Wil-
liam, 63, 86, 129, 165 ; Laird, 129

Pecton, Catherine, 155; Elizabeth,
89; Thomas, 63, 86, 155

Pelaw, Hobb of, 14

' Pellel Hobby/ 14

Pemberton, Mary, 206; Michael,
206

Pennington, Elizabeth, 207; Ro-
bert, 207

Pennyman, Joan, 109, 140; Wil-
liam, 109, 140

Pepper, Frances, 82

Percival, Isabel, 97

Percy, Agnes, 217; Sir Ralph, of
Hedgleymoor, 221; W., 217;
Bishop, 2

Perkins, — , 10

Perrot, James, 286; — Treasury
solicitor, 273

Pert, Elizabeth, 152; William,
152

Pescod, George, 183

Philipson, John, 68, 148; Lucy,
171; Thomas, 171

Pickells, John, 183

Pickering, George, 80

Pitt, William, 198, 287

Plumpton, John, 112

Pococke, Richard, Bishop of Meath,
Northern Journeys, 201-252; bio-

320

graphy, 199; other notices, 193;
Elizabeth, sister of the Bishop,
201, 203, 209, 214, 215, 220, 223;
Kichard, master of Southamp-
ton school, 199

Pope, Mr., 254

Porter, Anne Maria, 160; Eleanor,
84; Jane, 160; John, 160; Prin-
cess Maria, 160; Sir Robert Ker,
160; William Ogilvie, 160

Potts, William, 266, 288

Poulson, James, 64, 163; Mar-
garet, 163

Poulton, Dorothy, 72

Powell, John (Sir John), 185, 186;
Mr., 127

Power, Thomas, 117, 162; Mrs.,
162

Pratt, William, 255, 258, 266

Preston, William, 71

Price, Mr., 112

Pringle of Lees, 214; James, 214

Proctor, Mrs., 268

Pudsay, Bishop of Durham, 13, 14,
202; his brother, 246

Punshon, George, 191

Pyne, George, silversmith, 240

P. W.. 5, 6

B

Rabbet, Elizabeth, 55, 175

Rackett, Elizabeth, 164; John,
164; Mary, 164

Radcliffe, Anne, 93; Bridget, 93;
Elizabeth, 93; Sir Francis, 186;
Henry W., 93; Jane, 93; John,
93; Margaret, 93; Maria Doro-
thy, 93; Sir Nicholas, 93;
Thomas, 186

Raisbeck, Margaret, 75

Raine (Rayne), Charles, 137; Cuth-
bert, 59, 81, 121; Elizabeth, 80,
81; Emma, 57; Rev. James,
cited 9, 14, 22, 113, 246, 247;
John, 57, 59, 114, 121

Ralph, ' Bishop, 217

Ramsay, Christopher, 74; George t
278; John, 188; Patrick, 279;
William, 181; Dean, cited, 35

Ramshaw, Christopher, 74; John,
152, 166

Rashell, Dorothy, 91

Raw (Rawe), John, 109; Richard,
58; Mr., 120; Mrs., 144. See
Rowe

Rayne. See Raine.

Rea (Reah), James, 75; John, 140,
211- William. 75

Redpath (Reedpath, Rippeth),
George, landlord of the Red
Lion, Berwick, and of the Press,
Berwickshire, 271, 279, 291

Reed of Chipchase, 232*

Reed, Anne, 68; Archibald, 92;
Catherine, 68; Catherine Esther
68; Christopher, 254, 259, 260,"
265, 268. 270, 271, 272; Edward
John, 68; Hannah, 92; Isabel,
68, 105; James, 283; Jane, 65,
88; John, 87, 92, 95, 254, 281;
Joseph (Captain), 276, 285;
Mary, 68 ; Richard, 159 ; Robert,
68, 105; Thomas, 65, 68, 91, 283,
284; William (Sir William), 22,
100 170; Captain and Mr., 29
273^ 274, 277, 282, 283 286, 287
292 : Mrs., 288; — . 88'

' Refeld,' Sir George, architect, 241

Rennoldson, Christopher, 120 ;
George, 62; Ralph, 59, 62, 71;
Thomas, 59, 85, 160; Thomasin,
147

Renny, Margaret, 90

Revnolds, Edward, 207; Mary, 207

Richard I., 13

Richard II., 245, 246

Richardson, Anne, 58, 94, 96, 152;
Daniel, 91; Dorothv, 65; Eliza-
beth, 79, 88, 94, 129, 155; Fran-
ces, 64 91, 175; George, 150;
James 63, 85 132; John, 58, 60
65, 88.' 94, 96, 110, 117, 125, 152,
155, 164; Joseph, 60; Margery
and Margaret, 105, 164; Mary,
63; Mathilda. 132; Moses Aaron,
2, 178; Nicholas, 63, 64, 65, 158;
Robert, 63; Thomas, 65, 83, 165;
'Little Thorn/ 129; William
116 141- Mr., 125 277, 280, 283,
284'; Mrs., 277, 284

Riddell of Swinburn, 232; Sir
Thomas, 16

Ridley, Arthur, 132; Elizabeth,
70; George, 100, 111, 130; John.
180; Martha, 180; Matthew,
190, 261; Nicholas, 180, 188;
Sarah, 261; Thomas, 95; Wil-
liam, 259; Viscount, 180; Alder-
man,' 256, 257; Bishop, 10

Riley, the painter, 185

Ripley, John, 80; William, 94

Rippa, Mary, 96

Rippeth. See Redpath

Rippon, Dorothy, 136; Henry, 58;
Ralph, 58

Robert III., 216

Robert, Duke, son of the Con-
queror, 244

321

Roberts Nicholas, 268, 274; Mr..
291, 292

Robertson, Alexander, 173; Eliza-
beth, 291; Philadelphia, 173

Robinson of Herrington, 146;
Anne, 82; Edward, 114; Eliza-
beth, 74; John, 55, 56, 133; Mar-
garet, 55, 90, 98; Martha, 96;
Mary, 91; Robert, 56; Thomas,
77; Lawyer, 150

Robley, Rev. W., 288

Robson Anne, 85; Averill, 125;
Elizabeth, 92, 180, 275; George,
275; Henry, 71; Jacob, 279;
James, 92, 122; Jane, 180, 187;
Mary, 180; Margaret, 98, 105;
Matthew, 268; Philip, 92;
Robert, 125; Roger, 259; Tim-
othy 180, 184, 187 188 ; Thomas,
259; Ursula, 84; William, 180,
264, 276 289; his wife, 289;
Mr., 277, 280; Parson, 92

Roe, John,' 259

'Robblaw/ Mrs., 288

Roche (Roches), Anne, 84; — , 275

Roddam, Hugh, 86; Robert 257;
Sarah, 257, 266

Roger, John, 181; Mary, 181

Rollock, Principal Robert, 34

Romer, Anne, 272; Collingwood,
272; Frances, 278; Henry Clen-
nell, 272; John (Captain), 271,
272; John Lambertus, 271; John
William 272; Margaret, 271,
272; Mary, 272; Robert, 272
278; Wolfgang, 271

Roper, Mary, 83; Robert, 165

Rose (Roses, Ross), Margaret,
130; William, 103

Ross. See Rose.

Rowe, Jane, 144; John, 144;
Richard, 144. See Raw

Routledge, Henry, 171; Jane, 175;
John, 94, 98, 175; Margery, 129;
Ralph, 129, 132; — , 288

Rowell, Alexander, 71; Catherine,
68, 111; George, 145; James,
163; Jane, 145; John, 75, 141,
170; Joseph, 259; Ralph, 71,
172; Robert, 259; Peter, 149;
Thomas, 83, 139; WTilliam 109,
111; Mr., 263

Rowland, Jane, 78, 159; Thomas,
78, 159

Roxburgh. Duke of, 26

Roxby, William, 62

Rudd, Edward, 139; Laetitia, 139

Ruddock, Elizabeth, 207; Isabella
258; Jane, 258; Nicholas, 258;'
Robert. 207 .

Rugg, Catherine, 22; Jane, 22,
Captain Robert, of Holy Island,
22, 23

Rumney, Abraham, master of Aln-
wick school, 262, 279- Anne,
262; George, 278, 279; Isabel,
262; John, 188; Joseph, master
of Berwick school and vicar of
Berwick, 262, 263, 270, 282, 291,
293; Peter, master of Hexham
school, 262

Russell, Robert, 82

Rutherford, Thomas, 282; Wil-
liam, 259;

Ruthven, Sir John, 25; John, Earl
of Gowrie, 31

Rutland, Duke of, 218

Rutter, Elizabeth 137; Isaac 137;
Robert, 184

'Sackless Willy/ 92, 156

Saint Andrews, archbishop of, 27.
28

Saint Bega, 250

Saint Cuthbert, 14, 20, 23, 218, 234,
245

Saint Hilda, 250

Saint Oswald, the king, 234, 235

Saint Oswin, 242

Saint Wilfrid, 234

Salkeld, Anne, 113; Elizabeth, 78 ;
Frances, 79; Nicholas, 188;
Ralph, 113

Salmon, Mr., 269, 285

Salvin, Anne, 161; Anthony, 161,
171; Eleanor, 171; Gerard, 142;
Nicholas, 142; Mr., 120;
'Duck's/ 142

Sancroft, Archbishop, 129

Sanders, Cuthbert, 140 ; John, 148

Sanderson, Catherine, 180; Chris-
tian, 95, 158; Christopher, 75,
95, 180; Dorothy, 76, 142;
James, 264; Jane, 176; Philip,
95; Thomas, 259; William, 142

Savage, Dean, cited, 248

Scarborough, Lord, 159

Scherbatoff, Princess Maria, 160

Schiddell, George, 259

Scott, George, 269, 285; G. G
cited, 202; Margaret, 163, 283,
Mary, 75 ; Michael, 259 ; Robert,
90; Thomas, 287; William, 90,
259, 264; Dr., 285; — of Whit-
tingham, 289

Scruton, Dorothy, 111

Scurfield of Hurworth, 146 ; Alice,
133 ; Anne, 144 ; Jane, 180 ;

21

322

William (discoverer of copperas),
144, 170, 252

Selby, Anne, 257; Gabriel (Cap-
tain), 254, 257, 260 263, 271, 272
278; Gerard, 257; John, 119;
Robert, 170; Sarah, 257; Mr.
270 ; of Pawston, 257

Seton, Baron, 27; Alexander, Earl
of Eglington, 43 ; Margaret,
266; Sir William, 266

Sicgan, the Patrician, 234

Sidgewick (Sedgewick), Grace,
147; John, 147; William, 78,
147

Sigga, 234

Silvertop, George, 271; Mary, 271

Simpson, Elizabeth, 20, 272; John,
74, 99, 121; Margaret, 205;
Ralph, 20, 21; Robert, 205;
Simon, 272; William, 74; Mrs.,
80

Sinclair, George, 282

Shacklock, John, 111 ; Richard,
144

Shadforth, Elizabeth, 139; Mar-
garet, 114; Mary, 97; Thomas,
114, 139; Mr., 97

Shafto, Anne, 180 ; Catherine, 189 ;
Edward, 264, '282; Elizabeth,
276; George, 282; John, 274,
276; Mark, 189; Robert (Sir
Robert), 189; WTilliam, 180, 265,
268, 274, 276, 293 ; Mr., 264, 267,
268, 273, 276, 280, 283, 285, 287;
Mrs., 264, 269, 275, 277, 280, 287

Sharp, Sir Cuthbert, cited, 20;
George, 284; Thomas (Arch-
deacon), 91, 196, 224, 272; Dr.,
28; Rev., 279

Shaw, Alexander, 131, 156; Anne,
57; Eleanor, 59; Frances, 104;
John (Sir John), 45, 84;
Matthew, 59, 69; Mrs., 156

Sheffield, Amcotts (Cotey), 154;
Christopher, 154; Eleanor, 78;
George, 61, 77; Jane, 22; John,
61; Nicholas, 84; Philadelphia,
22; Thomas, 22

Shell, Miss, 282, 292

Shenley, James, 35

Shepherd, Dorothy, 119, 175;
Jane, 78; William, 115

Sherwood, Anne, 142; Judith, 72;
Margaret, 71; Mary, 84;
Ralph, 66, 142, 164; Thomas,
179; WTilliam, 66, 95

Shield (Shields^ Henry 150; John,
279; Mary, 150

Shires, George, 134

Shotton, William, 259
Shuttleworth, Elizabeth, 138;

Lucy, 171; Margaret, 142;

Nicholas, 138, 171; Sir Richard,

142; Mr., 109
Skeffington, Cicely, 1 ; Sir William,

Skinner, Anne, 135; Elizabeth,
164; Jacob, 164; Mary, 80;
Thomas, 104, 135, 166; Mr., 83,
86, 96

Skirry (Skerry), Christopher, 105,
157; Margaret, 157

Sleath, Gabriel, silversmith, 240

Smales, Anne, 93; Francis, 93

Smart, Barbara, 79; James, 81,
143; John, 79

Smith, Abraham, 85; Anne, 154,
285; Anthony, 104; Belah, 137;
Dorothy, 98; Edward (Sir Ed-
ward), 133; Elias, 141; Eliza-
beth, 87, 88; Ephraim, 93;
Frances, 253; George, 283;
G. A., cited, 173; Henry, 141;
Jane, 174 ; John, 77, 99, 138, 144,
145; Joseph, 146; Magdalen,
148; Margaret, 172, 258; Mary,
136, 145; Martin, 198; Peter,
293; Ralph, 85, 155, 264, 281,
293; Richard, 73; Robert, 166;
Tamar, 141; William, 253, 258,
264, 285, 289; Dr. (Robert), 265,
269, 276, 281, 283, 288; Mr. 264
281, 288, 293; Mrs., 264, 265 283]
285, 293; Corporal, '263*; of
HaugMon Castle, notice of, 289

Snaith, Isabel, 117; William, 117;
Mrs., 99

Snowball, — , 267

Snowdon, Barbara, 123; Cathe-
rine, 188; James, 119; John,
118; Magdalen, 119; William,
123, 132

Softley (Sofley), Joseph, 61;
Mary, 191; Richard, 58, 59, 61;
Thomas, 61; William, 58, 59

Somerset, Duke of, 226

Sonkey, Dorothy, 100, 159;
Thomas, jailor at Durham, 100,
159

Soulsby, Christopher, 254, 265;
Mary, 265; Ralph, 265, 266, 267,
268, 269, 272, 273; Mr., 273, 274,
275, 276, 277, 281, 283, 284, 288,
293; Mrs., 276, 277, 281

Southern, Eleanor, 125; John, 125

Spain, King and Queen of, 11

Spearman, Elizabeth, 75, 165, 168;
Gilbert, 155 ; Hannah, 94 ; John,

323

75, 117, 165, 168 ; Margaret, 155 ;
Mary, 155; Michael, 117;
Robert, 94, 165

Spenceley, Anne, 87

Spicer, William, surgeon at Ber-
wick, 24

Spoor, James, 276

Spottiswood, Archbishop John, 27,
40; Robert, 27

Sprimont, Nicholas, silversmith,
240

Squire, Mary, 179, 180; John, 179,
180, 185; Sampson, 179

Stagg, Alice, 133; William, 133

Stanhope, James, first Earl of,
209 ; Sir Philip, Earl of Chester-
field, 209; William, Earl of Har-
rington, 209

Stanley, Sir Edward, 219; Dean,
cited, 247, 248

Stanton, Mr., of Leeds, 261

Stapleton, Anne, 19; Bryan, 113;
Gilbert, 19; Elizabeth, 113;
Mark, 19; Miles, 113

Starfoot, Barbara, 78; Henry, 88

Stead, Benjamin, 257 ; Martha, 257

Stelling, Edward, 148; Jane, 95;
Robert, 77, 122

Stephen, King, 4, 251

Stephenson (Steavenson), Alice,
152; Ambrose, 76; Anne, 76;
George, 153 ; Humphrey, 156 ;
John, 278; Richard, 80; Robert,
157, 254, 278 ; Rev. Thomas, 253 ;
William, 145; Ensign, 267, 278;
Mr., artist, 178

Sterne, Jaques, prebendary of
Durham, 196; Lawrence, 196;

Stewart, John, Earl of Traquair,
34; Viscount Eglington, 265; Sir
John, 57; Thomas, 279; of
Innerwick, 26

Stobbs, Elizabeth, 85

Stockdale, Christian, 279; Perci-
val, 278, 279, 280; Thomas, 278

Stoddart, Rev. Charles, 288

Stokeld, Anne, 101; Daniel, 101;
Jane, 101; John, 101; Mary, 69;
Thomas, 101; Timothy, 101
Stokoe, Alexander (incumbent of
St. John Lee), 276; Frank, 275;
Thomas, 285; Parson, 280, 281,
284, 286, 288, 293
Stonehewer, Anne, 82; Richard,

82
Stony, Andrew Robinson (after-
wards Bowes), 240
Stott, Anne, 122; Elizabeth, 71;
George, 168; Hugh, 71, 108;

John, 72, 120, 130; Magdalen,
72; Matthew, 72, 151; Michael,
96; Timothy (Slim Tym), 122,
124

Story, Anthony, 173; John, 84,
259; Sergeant, 291, 292; Mr.,
263

Stout, Abraham, 155; Alice, 75;
Anne, 86; Anthony, 116; Cuth-
bert, 117, 135, 136; Edmund,
168 ; Edward, 77, 168 ; Elizabeth,
136; Isabel, 164; John, 62, 134,
135; Philip, 62, 75; Rowland,
75; William, 85

Strafford, Earl of, 42

Strangeways, John, 183

Strathmore, John, Earl of, 240;
Lady, 240

Stukely, — , 236

Sudbury, John, Dean of Durham,
110

Suffolk, Earl of, 22, 25

Surrey, Earl of, 218, 219, 221

Surtees, Anthony, 256; Catherine,
267; Edward, 180; Frances,
180; Frances, 180; M— , 286;
William, 65, 166; — , 293;
General, owner of Bee's Diary,
54

Sutheron, John, 134

Sutton, Frances, 149; Judith, 133;
Mr., 133, 145

Swainston, Anne, 63, 81; Eliza-
beth, 65, 81; Gabriel, 62, 64, 65,
66, 81 ; Margaret, 64, 81 ; Marv,
62, 66, 81

Swalwell, Thomas, 78

Swan, Elizabeth, 73; George,
postmaster at Newcastle, 19, 49

Sweedle, Alice, 90

Swinburn, Sir John, 231 ; Teresa,
231; Mr., 81

Tankerville, Earl of, 222

Tate, George, cited, 20

Tatham (Taytham)^ Anne, 94;
154; Mary, 86; Robert, 86, 94

Taylor, Anne, 97; Edward, 287;
Elizabeth, 93; Jane, 77; Jeremy,
185; John, 83, 114, 145; Joseph,
279; Joyce, 145; Mary, 169;
Stephen, 95, 97; Thomas, 91, 147;
William, 78, 165

Taylorson, Elizabeth, 139; Fran-
ces, 59 139; Margaret, 59;
Thomas,' 59, 71, 87, 139

324

Teasdale, Dorothy, 141; Eliza-
beth, 265 280; Isabel, 142;
Jane, 72, 108; Mary, 264; Mat-
thew, 142; Ralph, 110, 124;
Thomas, 265 280; Attorney,
117; — 276

Tempest, Dorothy, 142; Elizabeth
78; Jane, 67; John, 67, 97, 142;
Margaret, 142; Sir Thomas,
142; William (Captain), 96, 97,
150; Mr. 142

Temple, Sarah, 257; William, 216
257, 270; Archbishop, 216, 257;
Mr., 272, 292; Mr., jun., 279

Thirkeld, *Anne, 118; Dorothy,
118; Edward, 118; Eleanor, 118;
Elizabeth, 118- Frances, 118;
Hannah, 90, 118; Isabel, 119;
John, 118, 119; Mary, 118;
Taylor, 118; Thomas, 135; Wil-
liam, 118, 119, 135

Thomas, Dr., Dean of Westmin-
ster, 253

Thomlinson, John, the diarist,
224; John, rector of Rothbury,
224; Dr. Richard, 244

Thompson, Anthony, 144, 162;
Dorothy, 137; Eleanor, 96; Eliz-
abeth, 122, 268; George, 136;
John, 61, 77, 284; Margaret, 82
144, 162; Stephen, 71, 123, 264,
281; Thomas, 101; Mrs., 83;
Captain, 116; Sergeant, 270

Thornhaugh Elizabeth, 206; John
206

Thornton, Catherine, 130; Roger,
73, 79, 82, 130; William, 131;
Mr., 131

Thorsby (Thursby), Paul, 78;
Ralph, 78; Richard, 180

Thorp, Anne, 164; Elizabeth, 262;
Thomas, vicar of Berwick, 262,
279

Todd, Anne. 138; Cecily, 136; Isa.
bel, 87; Margaret, 84", 142; Mat-
thew, 138; Mr., 272

Tone, Mary 287; Mr., 285

Totton, Rev. William, 284

Traquair, John, Earl of, 34

Trentham Elizabeth, 11- Thomas
11

Trollop, Catherine, 172; Dorothy,
172; Elizabeth, 98 172; Marv
172, 174; James, 172; John, 172;
Thomas, 57, 58, 62, 172, 174;
Thomasin, 62, 172; William, 57,
172

Trotter, Catherine, 76; Edward
76; John, 62, 81; Ralph 70, 127

Trueman, 262, 275

Tucker, Gertrude, wife of Bishop
Warburton, 193, 198

Tulip, Henry, 261, 273, 274; Mary,
283; Mr., 258, 278, 282, 294

Tunstall, Mrs., 140

Turbit (Turbee), William, 137

Turner, James, 276; Margaret, 87

Tweddell (Tweddle), Anne, 74, 84
Elizabeth, 167; Francis, 74, 166
George, 62, 83, 84, 166, 167
John, 62, 167; Thomas, 166

Tyzack, Elizabeth, 88, 89; Tim-
othy, 88, 89

Unthank, Rachel, 138; William,

145
Urwin, David, 268; George, 279
Usher, William, 259
Ussie, Barbara, 55
Utred, Provost of Hexham, 235

V

Vane, Anne, 161 ; George, 161
Van Mildart, Bishop of Durham,

208
Vasey, Anthony, 134; Richard,

69, 150; William, 84; Mr., 276-
Vernol, Mary, 180

W

Wade, Isabel, 99; Mary, 69;
Thomas, 75, 91, 126; General,
198; and his natural daughter,
198

Waistell. See Wastell

Wailes, John, 108; Magdalen, 108

Wait, Patrick, vicar of Norham,
218

Wales, Prince of, 60, 185

Walker Carlton, 263; Cooper, 2
Elizabeth, 143; Grace, 79, 264
Jacob, 58 ; James, 263 ; John, 130
Michael, 78, 95, 123; Tabitha, 78
Thomas, 58, 122; Mr., 289; Mrs..
289; of Broad Strother, 263

Wall, Christopher, 87, 97, 168

Wallis, Mr. of Edinburgh, 32 49

Walsh, Elizabeth, 78

Waltheof. the Earl, 236

Walton, Anne, 156; Arthur, 154;
Barbara 170; George, 69, 99;
Hugh, 106, 170; Isabel, 154;
John, 156, 236; Jonathan, 76,
111; Margaret, 85, 106, 111;
Mary, 93; Roger, 165; — , 96

Wandesford, Christopher, 205 ;
Elizabeth, 205

Wanless, Henry, 127, 141

Wappe, Margaret, 73

325

Warburton, William, Bishop of
Gloucester; letters, 193, 198;
biography, 193; other notices
24; George, of Newark, 193;
Mr., 193, 196; — , 254

Ward, Anne, 270, 272; Honor,
148; Mary, 69; Thomas, 148;
William, 254, 270, 272; Mr. of
Waterford, 8

Warkworth, Lord, 283

Wastell (Waistell), Rev. Henry,
288; Margaret, 147

Waterford, Marquess of, 242
Watson, Anne 71, 77; Gabriel,
70; Joseph 261; Judith, 83;
Mary, 77, 8i, 138, 156; Stephen,
254, 263; Thomas, 156, 290; Wil-
liam 259; Captain 263, 283, 290
291, 292; Corporal, 267; of North
Seaton, 192

Waugh, George, 287; Henry, 259;
Nichol, 277, 281, 283, 285, 286,
293

Weames Thomas, 99

Wear, Robert, 288; Mr., 275, 287,
293

Weardon, William, 163

Weatherburn, Captain, 117

Webster, Sergeant, 282; William,
91

Weddell, Andrew, 79; Arthur, 61

Welbery, Elizabeth, 158

Welford Richard, cited, 16/167
168 171, 173, 179, 181, 182, 181
191, 206

Wells, Eleanor, 145; John, 85, 91,
108, 145, 148; Magdalen, 108

Welsh, Anne, 87; Elizabeth, 159;
Gregory, 112, 132; Michael, 132;
Robert. 143

Wentworth, Lord, 42, 51

Wesley, Rev. John, 88

Westgarth, Ralph, 148

Westmorland, Earl of, 20, 204

Wetwang, Isabella, 183; John,
183; Robert, 183

Weyman, David, 50

Wharton, Gilbert, 164; Jane, 97
John, 105; Mary, 89, 154
Richard, 141; Robert, 89
Thomas, 154; Mr., 87; Dr., 154

Wheatley, John, 156

Whinfield, George, 189

Whitfield, Christopher, 103; Eliza-
beth, 165; Margaret, 103;
Merrill, 120; Richard, 165

White, Anne, 67, 146; Edward, cit-
ed, 54, 90; Elizabeth, 265. 289;
George, 265, 268, 269, 276, 280,

293; Jane, 189; John, 75, 145,
146, 185; Margaret, 89, 96, 291,
292; Mary, 91, 156; Matthew (Sir
Matthew), 189, 254, /59, 261 263
269, 270, 271, 272 281 282, 291-
Miles, 189; Robert, 66, 67 91,
95, 96, 156; Sarah, 261; Teasdale,
265, 280, 283, 285, 288; Thomas,
98; Mr.. 276; 281

Whitelock, William, 284

Whitesmock, Mr., 75

Whittaker, — , 10

Whittingham, Mary 67, 92, 115;
Timothy (Sir Timothy), 67, 92
102; Thomas, 85, 146, 235; Wil-
liam, 102, 115

Whittle, John, 113; Mary, 156;
Robert, 91, 156

Wicliffe, 10

Widdrington, Catherine 187; Ed-
ward, 181, 186; Eleanor, 114,
Henry (Sir Henry), 184; John,
287; Lewis, 114; Mary, 181 •
Ralph, 184, 186; Roger, 23;
Thomas (Sir Thomas), 184, 189;
William, 102, 181

Wiggan, James, 273

Wigton, Earl of, 38

Wild, Elizabeth, 69; Jane, 161;
Thomas, 94, 161

Wilkinson, Alice, 175; Andrew
69; Anthony, 161; Clement, US'
161; Christina, 83; Christopher
141; Cuthbert, 151; Deborah
161; Dorothy, 86; Edward 280,
Elizabeth, 81; George, 75 175,
264, 279. 280, 281; Gilbert, 75;
Grace, 164 ; John, 87 ; Mary, 111
157; Richard, 113; Robert 265;'
Roger, 83, 143, 151, ' 164;
Thomas. 127; Mr., 62, 152

Willey, William, 259

William the Conqueror, 217 244

William Rufus, 242

William III., 271

William the Lion, King of Scots,
215, 216, 223

William St., Archbishop of York,
4

Williamson, Andrew, 112; Anne,
112; Alexander, 191; Barbara
79; George, 159; Gilbert, 136;
John, 76 81, 171, 191; Margaret
156; Richard, 71; Thomas, 97;
Victor A., cited, 248

Willoughby, George, 124

Wills, Alice, 106; "Edward, 64, 66;
John, 64, 66; Thomas, 106, 126;
Ursula, 126

326

Wilson, Anne, 105, 270; Barbara,
123; Cuthbert, 273; Edward,
263; Elizabeth, 92, 157; F. K.,
cited, 217, 225; George, 103;
Hannah, 94 ; Jane, 60, 91 ; John,
81, 160, 281; John Rawling, 293;
Margaret, 149; Mary, 126, 127;
Mary Ann, 293; Nicholas, 84,
175; Robert, 60, 71, 105, 142,
273; Sudbury, 126; Thomas, 84;
William, 94, 126, 127, 192; Mr.,
260; Mrs., 283; Judge, 103;
'Mother Red-cap,' 149; Parson,
268; 273, 280, 286, 287

Wilton, Alan de, 251

Winchester, Marquess of, 96

Winton, Earl of, 27

Wiseman, Anne, 64; Henry, 64
87 91, 149; Isabel, 149; Mary
57'; Robert, 99 ; William, 57

Wood, Anne, 86, 127, 158, 273
Elizabeth, 91, 273, 291; George
119; Herbert M., cited, 54
Henry, 103; James, 272; Jane
101; John, 119, 127, 152, 273
Margaret, 171; Mary, 88; Nich
olas, 171, 174; Richard, 101
Thomas 273, 291; William, 289
291; Mr., 279, 293; his daughter
279

Woodhall, Penelope, 51; William,
51

Woodman, William, cited, 211

Woodmas, Alice, 60, 79, 138, 154;
Robert 60, 76, 138, 154; Mrs.;
153

Worrell, Jane, 77

Wrangham, Elizabeth, 173; Henry
— : Mr.. 263

Wren of Binchester, pedigree, 205.
208; Anne, 90; Barbara, 12, 206.
207 ; Sir Charles, 12, 206 ; Frances,
207, 208; Gertrude, epitaph, 206;
Jane, 80, 207; Lindley, 8, 12,
206; 'Richard 90

Wright, Chamber, 148; Chamney,
148; Christopher, 117; Dorothy,
113; Hugh, 123; Jermyn, 185;
Jerome, 185; John, 98; Matthew,
64, 74; Mary, 123; Richard, 108;
Sir Robert, 185, 187; Thomas,
123; Toby, 123; William, 113

'W. D.', 5

Y

Yapdale, Anne, 85; Christopher,
94; William, 81

Yapp, Abraham, 129; Eleanor,
129; John, 129, 169; Mary, 91,
169

York, Archbishops of, Grey, 235;
Thurston, 235, 251; Thomas I.,
235; Thomas II., 235; Turtell,
251

Young, Anne, 156; Elizabeth, 76;
Henry, 152; John, 279; Mar-
garet, 180, 258; Robert, 85, 159,
180, 258; Thomas, 156

Younger, Anne, 132; Barbara, 86,
140; Cuthbert, 132, 136; Mary,
142; Robert, 88, 142; Thomas,
115

Younghusband, Charles, 278 ;
Elizabeth, 278; Frances, 278;
George, 278; — , 263

Zanchius, 10
Zuinglius, 10

INDEX OF THE MORE IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
MENTIONED IN THE TEXT AND IN THE NOTES.

Bee-keeping, 9
Biographical Notices: —
Addison, Dorothy, 191
Akenside, Mark, the elder, 190;

the younger, 192; Abraham,

191; Thomas, 191
Allan, Ealph, 198
Allibone, Sir Richard, 185
Annand, Rev. William, 44
Andrews, John, 96
Arden, Edward, 139
Armstrong, Archibald, the Court

Fool, 11
Aubone, William, 180
Aynsley, John, 271
Bacon, Jane, 274
Bagshaw, Margaret, 165
Barnes, Rev. Joseph, 182
Baron, Robert, 293
Beaumont, Rev. Hammond, 157
Beckwith, Edward, 166
Bee, Jacob, 54
Blackett, Sir Edward, 261; John

Erasmus, 257
Blakiston, Francis, 168; Roger

virger, Durham Cathedral, 126
Bonner, Rev. Joseph, 187
Boutflower, William, 189
Brabant, Sir Henry, 184
Brandling, Ralph, 184
Brereton, Sir William, 1
Browell, Edward, 177
Browell, Mark, 176
Burdus, Elizabeth, 67
Burrell, William, 261
Busby, John, 166

Charlton (William) of London, 262
Carr, Sir Ralph, 179
Cole, Nicholas, 179; Sir Ralph,

168
Cope, Sir Walter, 5
Cradock, Thomas, 123
Creagh, Sir William, 181
Crowley, Sir Ambrose, 240
Cuthbertson, George, 258
Dodsworth, Anthony, 114
Davison, Alex., 140; Timothy, 179
Dawson, Captain John, 253
Dick, William, 188
Dixon, Abraham, 270
Done, Rev. William, 174
Douglas, Sir William, 45
Doubleday, Nicholas, 262
Eden, John, 183
Elliott, Edward, 293
Elstob, Ralph, 184
Errington, John, 182; Mark, 19

Fairle, Bishop, 35

Fenwick, Henrv, 265; Nicholas,

180; William, 107
Forcer, George, 119
Gibson, Sir John, 51 ; Reginald,

261
Gill, Samuel, 182
Goodrick, Sir Henry, 7
Granville, Dean, 128
Green, Edward, 183
Grey, Bryan, 269; Edward, 183;

Dr. Robert, 167
Haggerston, Sir Thomas, 271
Heighington, Ambrose, 105
Heron, John, 275
Hindmarsh, John, 187
Hilton, Cuthbert, 115; Lancelot,

113
Holloway, Sir Richard, 185
Huss, John, 10
Hutchinson, William, 181
Hume, George, Earl of Dunbar,

22
Hutton, Sir Richard, 7
Ingram, Sir Arthur, 4
Ive, Margaret, 187
Jefferson, Matthew, 180
Jenison, Henry, 184; Sir Thomas,

187
Johnson, William, 181
Jones, Henry, deputy captain of

Norham, 22
Kirkby, Rev. Edward, 122
Lambton, Henry, 181; Ralph of

Tribley, 20
Latham, Dr. Lemuel, 192
Lesley, Bishop, 197
Lyon, Charles, 208; Jane, 208
Machon, Gilbert, 161
March, John, 159
Mayers, Thomas, 285
Mickleton, James, 133
Middleton, John, 73
Montague, Charles, 73
Montgomery, Sir Hugh, 46
Morland, George, 120
Morton, George, 179; Bishop

Thomas, 9
Moseley, Edward, 261
Neile, Sir Richard, 187
Nelson, Peter, 164
Newton, Thomas, 267
Nixon, Rev. Martin, 263
Ord, William, 272
Partis, Matthew, 188; Thomas,

182
Patterson, Sir John, 185, 266

328

Pickles, John, 183

Pococke, Bishop, 199

Rackett, John, 164

Ramsay, William, 181

Richardson, Daniel, 91; John,
94

Ridley, Nicholas, 180

Roberts, Nicholas, 268

Robson, Timothy/ 180

Romer, John, 271

Rowe, Jane, 144

Rugg, Captain Robert, 22

Rumney, Joseph, 262

Selby, Gabriel, 257

Shafto, John, 274 ; Sir Robert, 189

Smith, William, Haughton Castle,
289; Mrs., Westerhall, 285

Spearman, John, 165; Robert, 94

Squire, John, 179

Stapleton, Miles, 113

Steward, Sir John, 37

Stockdale, Percival, 278

Surtees, Anthony, 256

Tempest, John, 142

Temple, William 257

Thirkeld, Thomas, 135

Tulip, Henry, 261

Tweddell, George, 167

Warburton, Bishop, 193

Ward, William, 270

Wetwang, Robert, 183

Whinfield, George, 189

White, Matthew, 189; Sir

Matthew, 261; Teasdale, 280

Whittingham, Timothy, 102

Widdrington, Edward, 181; Ralph,
184

William, St. of York, 4

Wilson, Rev. Cuthbert, 273

Wright, Sir Robert, 185 ; Captain
Thomas, 123

Yappe, John, 129
Bridges, 15, 16, 24, 40, 43
Brewing in 1635, 31
Cattle-breeding in 1760, 202-203
Cattle, Wild, in 1635, 10
Cobles, or fishing-boats, 252
Court-fool, 11

Ecclesiastical customs in 1635 : in
England, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14; in
Scotland, 32, 34, 35, 36, 44
Female dress in 1635, 30
Gardens in 1635, 5, 27
Inns in 1635, 3, 8, 19, 20, 21, 25, 27,
32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 43, 45, 46, 49,
50
Ireland immigration from Scotland in

1635, 42
Irish bishops of the 18th century, 199
Ironworks at Winlaton, 240, 244

Lead-mining, 209, 210, 238, 244
Medical recipe, 12
Pedigrees :

Adamson of Durham, 116; of
Durham and Newcastle, 159

Ayrson of Durham, 56

Baddeley of Durham, 90

Bee of Durham. 55

Bowes of Durham, 80

Brown of Durham^ 80

Church of Durham, 162

Davison of Durham and Thornley,
109

Dobson of Durham, 158

Eden of Durham and Shincliffe, 78

Fenwick of Durham, 104

Forster of Durham, 125

Fulthorp of Durham, 83

Gordon "of Durham, 153

Grey of Durham, 146

Hall of Durham (and Skelton), 76 ;
of Durham and Flass, 88

Hawdon of Durham, 112

Heighington of Durham, 135

Hendry of Durham and Shincliffe,
82

Hodgson of Durham, 70, 131

Hubback of Durham, 132

Humes of Durham, 116

Jefferson of Duiham, 106

Lamb of Durham and Norham,
172

Lascelles of Durham and Mount
Grace, 79

Lesley of Ireland, 197

Lewen of Durham, 88

Loraine of Hexham, 258

Martin of Durham, 100

Mascall of Eppleton, 92

Matthew of Durham, 103

Newhouse of Durham, 170

Paxton of Durham, 74

Radcliffe of Durham and Cocker-
mouth, 93

Reed of Durham, 68

Stokoe of Durham, 101

Swainston of Durham, 81

Thirkeld of Durham and New-
castle, 118

Trollop of Durham, 172

Wren of Binch ester, 205
Paper-mills on North Tyne, 289
Roman inscriptions, 212, 228, 229, 230,

233, 234, 236, 237, 238, 239
Salt pans and works, 17-19, 27, 37
Scottish coinage in 1635, 48
Scottish speech in 1635, 49
Storms and drought, 7, 8, 47
Veterinary recipe of 1635, 6
Weaving and bleaching in 1760, 202

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LIST OF OFFICERS & MEMBERS, 1913.

PATRON AND PRESIDENT.
His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

Lord Barnard, Raby Castle, Darlington.

Kennett C. Bayley, Durham.

Rev. William Brown, Old Elvet, Durham.

S. J. Chadwick, Lyndhurst, Dewsbury.

J. W. Clay, Rastrick House, Brighouse.

Francis Collins, M.D., Lyme Regis.

F. W. Dendy, Osborne Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

R. H. Edleston, D.C.L., Rhadegund Buildings, Cambridge.

Rev. Canon Fowler, Durham.

Rev. Dr. Gee, Durham.

Rev. William Greenwell, Durham.

The Very Rev. H. H. Henson, Dean of Durham.

Richard Oliver Heslop, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

J. Crawford Hodgson, Alnwick.

J. G. Hodgson, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Rev. J. M. Marshall, Croft Rectory, Darlington.

Colonel Parker, C.B., Browsholme Hall, Clitheroe.

The Very Rev. A. P. Purey-Cust, Dean of York.

The Very Rev. H. E. Savage, Dean of Lichfield.

Colonel Surtees, C.B., Mainsforth Hall, Ferryhill.

R. B. Turton, Kildale Hall, Grosmont, York.

Richard Welford, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Rev. F. G. Wesley, 70, Christchurch Road, Winchester.

Rev. James Wilson, Dalston Vicarage, Cumberland.

SECRETARY.
William Brown, The Old House, Sowerby, Thirsk.

TREASURER.
John George Gradon, Durham.

AUDITOR.
Kennett C. Bayley, Durham.

MEMBERS, WITH THE DATES OF THEIR ADMISSION.*

Wilfrid H. Acum, 15, Lordship Lane, Wood Green, N. 7th March, 191 1.
Rev. C. E. Adamson, Houghton le Spring. 4th December, 1898.
Lord Aldenham, Aldenham Park, Elstree, Herts. January, 1908.

* The number of three hundred and fifty members, to which the Society is limited, is
generally full. Judging from past experience, there will be ten or twelve vacancies every year,
and these will be regularly filled up. New members will be elected by the Council according
to priority of application, unless the son or representative of a deceased member wishes to be
chosen in his place. This list is corrected up to December, 1913.

13

Lady Amherst (Lady William Cecil of Hackney), Didlington Hall, Brandon,

Norfolk, ist December, 1868.
Sir J. E. Backhouse, Bart., Darlington. 5th June, 1877.

Thos. H. Barker, Brookfield Gardens, West Kirby, Liverpool. 4th Decem-
ber, 1902.
Lord Barnard, Raby Castle, Darlington. 6th December, 1892. {Vice-Presi-
dent, 1900 — 19 1 1.)
Kennett C. Bay ley, Durham. ist December, 1903. {Vice-President and

Auditor, 1906 — 1911.)
Rev. Canon Beanlands, Aynscombe House, Sevenoaks, Kent. 7th December,

1909.
Sir Hugh Bell, Bart., Rounton Grange, Northallerton. 4th June, 1907.
Edward Bell, York Street, Covent Garden, London. 3rd March, 1891.
John Bilson, Hessle, Hull. 5th March, 1895.
Edmund Bishop, Caburn, Barnstaple, ist December, 1874.
Thomas M. Blagg, 25, Cartergate, Newark-on-Trent. 4th December, 1898.
Lord Bolton, Bolton 'Hall, Wensley. 5th March, 1889.
Messrs. Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge. 7th March, 1865.
Thomas Boynton, Norman House, Bridlington Quay. 2nd December, 1884.
Noel P. W. Brady, Ferryside, Twickenham, ist December, 1903.
W. Parker Brewis, 2, Grosvenor Road, Newcastle. 3rd March, 1908.
John A. Brooke, Ferray Hall, Huddersfield. 1st December, 1908.
Rev. William Brown, Old Elvet, Durham. 3rd December, 1889. {Vice-
President, 1897 — 191 1.)
William Brown, The Old House, Sowerby, Thirsk. 3rd December, 1889.

{Secretary, 1897 — 191 1.)
The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry. 7th December, 1886.
George Buchanan, Whitby. 6th June, 1876.

The King of Bulgaria, Sophia Palace, Bulgaria. 4th March, 1902.
Rosalind, Countess of Carlisle, Boothby Manor House, Brampton. 4th

December, 191 2.
S. J. Chadwick, Lyndhurst, Oxford Road, Dewsbury. 6th December, 1881.

( Vice-President, 1 90 1 — 1 9 1 1 . )
J. E. Champney, Abchurch Chambers, London, W. 3rd December, 1895.
H. M. Chapman, St. Martin's Priory, Canterbury. 6th June, 1882.
Edward Thomas Clark, Snaith, Yorkshire. 7th December, 1880.
G. D. A. Clark, Belford Hall, Belford. ist December, 1874.
J. W. Clay, Rastrick, Brighouse. 2nd June, 1868. {Vice-President, 1900 —

1911.)
Mrs. Clayton, The Chesters, Hexham. 2nd December, 1890.
E. F. Coates, c/o E. Almack, 99, Gresham Street, London, E.C. 4th March,

1901.
Rev. Carus Vale Collier, Langton Rectory, Malton. 3rd December, 1897.
Francis Collins, M.D., St. Andrews, Lyme Regis. 7th December, 1886. {Vice-
President, 1897 — 1 91 1.)
Lady Cowell, Clifton Castle, Bedale. 5th March, 1895.
Right Rev. Bishop Cowgill, Bishop's House, Leeds. 3rd December,

1911.
Hubert H. E. Craster, All Souls' College, Oxford. 4th December, 1906.
The Marquis of Crewe, Crewe Hall, Nantwich. 30th December, 1858.
Lord Crewe's Trustees, c/o K. C. Bayley, The College, Durham. 2nd June,

1891.
Ralph Creyke, Rawcliffe Hall, Selby. 7th December, 1880.
E. W. Crossley, Dean House, Triangle, Halifax. 5th June, 1906.
Rev. Matthew Culley, Coupland Castle, Kirknewton, Northumberland.
5th June, 1902.

F. W. Dendy, Eldon House, Osborne Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 4th Decem-

ber, 1894. {Vice-President, 1897 — 191 1.)
Sir Lewis T. Dibdin, D.C.L., Chancellor of Durham, 15, Old Square, Lincoln's

Inn. 3rd March, 1891.
Robert Dobson, Golden Square, Market Place, Warrington. 6th June, 1907.
Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle. 3rd March, 1908.
Earl of Durham, Lambton Castle, Fence Houses. 1st December, 1901.
R. H. Edleston, D.C.L., Rhadegund Buildings, Cambridge. 3rd December,

1895. (Vice-President, 1908 — 1 1.)
John Eland, 40, Carey Street, Strand, W.C. 6th March, 1900.
Rev. H. Ellershaw, Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham. 1st March, 1892.
C. J. Fogg Elliot, Staindrop, Darlington. 6th June, 1913.
H. G. Carr-Ellison, 15, Portland Terrace, Newcastle. 4th December, 1906.
J. Meade Falkner, Divinity House, Durham. 5th December, 1905.
Wm. Farrer, Hallgarth, Carnforth. 3rd March, 1914.

G. Foyle Fawcett, 29, Beaumont Street, Liverpool. 6th June, 1905.
Mrs. Hugh Fenwick, Brinkburn Priory, Morpeth. 3rd June, 1897.
R. H. Forster, 2, Enmore Road, Putney, S.W. 2nd March, 1909.
Rev. Canon Foster, Timberland Vicarage, Lincoln. 5th June, 191 2.

Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., D.C.L., F.S.A., Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham.
4th June, 1872. (Vice-President, 1872 — 191 1. Treasurer, 1883 — 88.)

Sir Alfred Scott Gatty, Garter King of Arms, Heralds' College, London.
7th March, 1876.

Rev. H. Gee, D.D., University College, Durham. 3rd June, 1902. (Vice-
President, 1905 — 191 1.)

C. O. P. Gibson, Bywell Castle, Stocksfield-on-Tyne. 3rd June, 1914.

C. W. Goodger, 18, Market Street, Newcastle. 1st December, 1908.

John George Gradon, Lynton House, Durham. 3rd March, 1891. (Treasurer,
1891 — 1911.)

Sir Walpole Green well, Bart., 17, Portman Square, London, W. 4th
December, iqo6.

Rev. William Greenwell, D.C.L., F.R.S., &c, Durham. 28th September,
1843. (Treasurer, 1843 — 49. Vice-President, 1849 — 1911.)

Col. J. D. Gregson, Burdon Hall, Sunderland. 6th June, 1913.

C. O. Hall, Settrington House, Malton. 4th December, 1900.

The Very Rev. H. Hensley Henson, Dean of Durham. 3rd June, 1913.

Richard Oliver Heslop, Akenside Hill, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 6th June, 1899.
( Vice-President, 1 905 — 19 1 1 .)

T. E. Hodgkin, Old Ridley, Stocksfield-on-Tyne. 2nd December, 1913.

J. C. Hodgson, Abbey Cottage, Alnwick. 6th December, 1892. (Vice-
President, 1 899 — 1 9 1 1 . )

J. G. Hodgson, Northern Counties Club, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 14th August,
1885. (Vice-President, 1897— 191 1.)

John E. Jefferson Hogg, 59, Elm Park Gardens, London, S.W. 1st December,
1903.

Rev. H. C. Holmes, Birkby Rectory, Northallerton. 4th December, 1877.

Lord Hotham, West Hill, Tichfield, Hants. 3rd December, 1872.

Edward Hutchinson, Darlington. 7th December, 1869.

Wm. I'Anson, Glenside, Saltburn-by-Sea. 2nd December, 1913.

W. A. James, 22, Norfolk Square, London. 2nd March, 1897.

Lord Joicey, Ford Castle, Northumberland. 5th December 1882.

Thomas Jones, Durham. 7th Decembei , 1880.

A. B. Kempe, K.C., Chancellor of Newcastle, 2, Paper Buildings, Temple,
London. 5th March, 1889.

C. E. Kempe, 28, Nottingham Place, London. 5th December, 1893.

H. F. Killick, King's House, Thetford. 5th December, 1899.

*5(

R. L. Kirby, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough. 5th March, 1889.

A. L. Knight, Curren Hall, Ilkley. 4th December, 1900.

W. H. Knowles, Little Bridge, Gosforth, Newcastle. 6th March, 1906.

W. T. Lancaster, 7, Clarendon Place, Leeds. 4th December, 1883.

Arthur F. Leach, 34, Elm Park Gardens, London. 1st December, 1891.

J. Wickham Legg, M.D., F.S.A., 4, St. Margaret's Road, Oxford. 2nd
December, 1890.

The Marquess of Londonderry, Wynyard, Durham. 7th December, 1886.

Sir Clements R. Markham, K.C.B., Eccleston Square, London. 1st December,
1891.

Thomas W. Marley, Marton Grove, Darlington. 4th June, 1895.

Rev. J. M. Marshall, Croft Rectory, Darlington. 5th March, 1889. (Vice-
President, 1899 — 1 91 1.)

James Melrose, Clifton Croft, York. 7th December, 1875.

Walter Morrison, 77, Cromwell Road, London. 1st March, 1864.

Lord Northbourne, Betteshanger, Sandwich. 7th March, 1893.

The Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle. 6th June, 1865.

A. M. Oliver, West Jesmond Villa, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 5th December,
1911.

Wm. Page, The White House, St. Peter's, St. Albans. 1st December, 1885.

Colonel Parker, Browsholme Hall, Clitheroe. 6th March, 1907.

Parker and Son, 27, Broad Street, Oxford. 7th March, 191 2.

Howard Pease, Otterburn Town, Woodburn. 3rd December, 1901.

John S. G. Pemberton, Belmont Hall, Durham. 3rd December, 1901.

The Very Rev. Arthur P. Purey-Cust, D.D., Dean of York. 7th December,
1880. (Vice-President, 1887 — 191 1.)

Sir J. W. Ramsden, Bart., Byrom Hall, South Milford, Yorkshire. 14th
March, 1862.

Viscount Ridley, Blagdon, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 3rd Majrch, 1891.

The Marquess of Ripon, Studley Royal, Ripon. 15th December, 1859.

J. W. Robinson, Brokenheugh, Haydon Bridge. 7th December, 1909.

W. H. Rylands, F.S.A.,South Bank Lodge, Campden Hill Place, Kensington,
W. 5th June, 1883.

Philip Saltmarshe, Lt.-Col., Daresbury, The Mount, York. 4th December,
1894.

The Very Rev. H. E. Savage, Dean of Lichfield. 3rd December, 1897.

Slingsby D. Shafto, Beamish Park, Beamish. 7th March, 1905.

J. B. Simpson, Bradley Hall, Wylam-on-Tyne. 3rd December, 1901.

F. W. Slingsby, Thorpe Underwood Hall, Ouseburn, York. 3rd December,
1878.

John T. Spalding, 22, Villa Road, Nottingham. 5th December, 1899.

Col. H. C. Surtees, C.B., D.S.O., Mainsforth, Ferryhill. 5th December, 191 1.

H. P. Surtees, 6, St. Helen's Place, E.C. 6th June, 1899.

Siward Surtees, Somersham, Maidenhead. 3rd December, 1895.

Thos. Taylor, Chipchase Castle, Wark-on-Tyne. 3rd March, 1902.

Rev. R. Fetzer Taylor, Grundisbury House, Woodbridge, Suffolk. 1st Decem-
ber, 1903.

Major A. C. Tempest, Broughton Hall, Skipton. 3rd June, 1879.

Mrs. Graves Tempest, Bradenham House, High Wycombe. 9th December,
1909.

F. J. Thairlwall, 12, Upper Park Road, Hampstead, London. 3rd December,
1875.

Legh Tolson, Elm Lea, Dalton, Huddersfield. 7th December, 1886.

Robert B. Turton, Kildale Hall, Grosmont, York. 2nd March, 1897. (Vice-
President, 1903— 191 1.)

Robert Charles De Grey Vyner, Newby Hall, Ripon. 3rd December, 1895.

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Henry Wagner, F.S.A., 13, Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, London. 4th

December, 1877.
Rev. Walter Walsh, Folkington Rectory, Polegate, Sussex. 2nd December,

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William Warde-Aldam, Frickley Hall, Doncaster. 3rd March, 1891.

T. E. Watson, St. Mary's Lodge, Newport, Mon. 2nd March, 1907.

Richard Welford, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 1st March, 1892. (Vice-
President, 1894, 1905 — 191 1.)

Rev. F. G. Wesley, Winchester. 5th December, 1882. (Vice-President,
1899 — 1911.)

Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bart.. Whitburn Hall, Sunderland. 3rd December,
1895.

Rev. Jas. Wilson, Dalston Vicarage, Cumberland. 4th June, 1903. (Vice-
President, 1906 — 191 1.)

H. M. Wood, 5, The Grove, Sunderland. 4th March, 1902.

Rev. Canon Wordsworth, St. Peter's Rectory, Marlborough. 5th December,
1893.

The Lord Archbishop of York, Bishopthorpe, York. 5th December, 1893.

Thomas Edward Yorke, Bewerley Hall, Pateley Bridge. 5th June, 1894.

Libraries and Public Institutions-. —

The University of Aberdeen. 1st March, 1881.

The Library of Ampleforth Monastery, near York. 3rd December, 1895.

The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A. 5th June, 1883.

The Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, U.S.A. 3rd December, 1889.

The Barrow-in-Furness Public Library. 3rd December, 1901.

The Battersea Central Library. 3rd December, 1901.

The Queen's College, Belfast. 7th December, 1886.

The Imperial Library, Berlin. 14th March, 1863.

The Birmingham Free Library. 3rd March, 1874.

The Oratory, Birmingham. 2nd June, 1914.

St. Thomas' Abbey, Erdington, Birmingham. 3rd December, 1901.

The Bolton Public Library. 4th March, 1884.

The Boston Athenaeum, U.S.A. 1st March, 1870.

The Peabody Institute, Boston, U.S.A. 4th March, 1873.

The Boston Public Library, U.S.A. 7th December, 1886.

New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, U.S.A. 6th March,

1903.
The Bradford Free Library. 5th June, 1883.
Bristol Public Libraries. 2nd December, 1902.

The Society of Bollandist Fathers, Brussels. 3rd December, 1895.
Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. 6th March, 1904.
The University of California, Berkley, U.S.A. 5th March, 1903.
Christ's College, Cambridge. 13th December, 1862.
Trinity College, Cambridge. 5th June, 1866.
The Public Library, Cardiff. 4th December, 1890.
The Carlisle Free Library, Tullie House, Carlisle. 1st March, 1892.
The Chelsea Public Libraries. 1st March, 1892.
The Dean and Chapter of Chester. 1st March, 1887.
The Chicago Public Library, U.S.A. 1st March, 1887.
The Newberry Library, Chicago, U.S.A. 6th December, 1892.
The University of Chicago, U.S.A. 3rd June, 1902.
University Library, Christiania. 7th March, 1903.
Cincinnati Public Library, U.S.A. 3rd December, 1901.
Royal Library, Copenhagen. 7th March, 1905.
The Darlington Public Library. 2nd June, 1885.

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The Public Library, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. 7th June, 1887.

The Dewsbury Public Library. 2nd June, 1891.

The Doncaster Public Library. 4th December, 1883.

The National Library of Ireland, Dublin. 3rd June, 1884.

St. Chad's Hall, Durham. 7th March, 191 1.

The Dean and Chapter of Durham. 1st June, 1869.

The University of Durham. 16th June, 1858.

The Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. 13th March, 1851.

The Signet Library, Edinburgh. 6th December, 1864.

The University of Edinburgh. 5th June, 1883.

The Public Library, Edinburgh. 3rd March, 1896.

The Royal Albert Memorial Public Library, Exeter. 1st December, 1909.

St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort Augustus, N.B. 4th March, 1902.

The Gateshead Public Library. 3rd December, 1889.

The Mitchell Library, Glasgow. 4th December, 1877.

The University of Glasgow. 3rd March, 1874.

The University of Gottingen. 8th December, 1863.

The Public Library, Harrogate. 3rd March, 1896.

The Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. 1st March, 1887.

The Free Library, Hawick, N.B. 3rd March, 1889.

House of Lords Library. 2nd June, 1908.

The Public Library, Huddersfield. 3rd December, 1903.

The Public Libraries, Hull. 5th March, 1895.

The Hull Subscription Library. 14th March, 1862.

Law Association of Philadelphia, U.S.A. 2nd March, 1909.

The Central Free Public Library, Leeds. 7th June, 1898.

The Leeds Institute of Science. 1st December, 1903.

The Leeds Library, Commercial Street, Leeds, nth December, 1856.

The Library of the Church Institute, Leeds. 7th June, 1892.

The Thoresby Society, Leeds. 7th June, 1892.

The Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. 7th June, 1882.

The Liverpool Athenaeum. 6th June, 1855.

The Liverpool Free Library. 3rd March, 1874.

The University of Liverpool. 5th March, 1895.

The Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, London. 1st March, 1864.

The Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, London. 12th December, 1861.

Constitutional Club, Northumberland Avenue, London. 3rd December,

1 901.
The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, London. 2nd June, 1874.
The Guildhall Library, London. 1st December, 1874.
The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, London. 3rd December,

1867.
The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London, nth March, 185 1.
The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, London. 1st December,

1868.
The Law Society, Chancery Lane, London, W.C. 7th March, 1905.
The London Library, 12, St. James's Square, London. 13th March/1851.
The Library of the Oratory, South Kensington, London. 7th June, 1881.
The Library of the Public Record Office, Fetter Lane, London. 4th

December, 1894.
The Reform Club, London. 3rd December, 1895.
The Royal Institution, London. 4th June, 1872.
The Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, London. 4th December, 1883.
Sion College, London. December, 1857.

The Library, University College, London. 7th December, 1886.
The New University Club, St. James's Street, London. 1st December,

1891.

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Dr. Williams' Library, Gordon Square, London, W.C. 1st December, 1903.

The University of Lund, Sweden. 3rd March, 1891.

Chetham's Library, Manchester. December, 1857.

The John Rylands Library, Manchester. 4th December, 1900.

The Manchester Free Library. 3rd December, 1867.

Owen's College, Manchester. 7th March, 1871.

The Public Library, Melbourne. 4th June, 1895.

Grand Rapids Public Library, Michigan, U.S.A. 3rd March, 1908.

University of Michigan. 5th June, 1904.

The Middlesbrough Free Library. 6th March, 1883.

The House of Resurrection, Mirfield, Yorks. 6th June, 1907.

The McGill University, Montreal. 2nd June, 1914.

The Royal Library, Munich. 14th March, 1863.

The Cathedral Library, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 2nd June, 1891.

The Public Libraries, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 4th December, 1883.

The Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 24th September, 1853.

The Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 17th March,

1853.
The Library of Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S.A. 1st March,

1887.
The Brooklyn Library, New York, U.S.A. 4th December, 1883.
The Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. 4th December, 1883.
The General Theological Seminary, New York, U.S.A. 7th December, 1910.
Union Theological Seminary, New York. 3rd December, 1912.
New York Historical Society, U.S.A. 7th March, 1905.
The New York State Library, Albany, New York, U.S.A. 1st March, 1887.
The New York Public Library, U.S.A. 1st March, 1887.
The North Riding of York County Council, Northallerton. 4th December,

1906.
The Nottingham Free Library. 1st March, 1881.
The Oxford Union Society. 4th March, 1902.
All Souls' College, Oxford. 3rd March, 1908.
Exeter College, Oxford. 5th March, 1878.
St. John's College, Oxford. 14th March, 1863.
Magdalen College, Oxford. 18th June, 1862.
Queen's College, Oxford. 2nd March, 1875.
Bibliotheque National, Paris. 6th June, 1905.
The Free Library of Philadelphia. 5th December, 191 1.
The Library Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A. 5th December, 1882.
Dr. Shepherd's Library, Preston. 6th December, 1864.
St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate. 3rd December, 1901.
The Dean and Chapter of Ripon. 3rd March, 1874.
The Rochdale Public Library. 4th March, 1884.
The Rotherham Free Library. 3rd June, 1884.
The University of St. Andrew's. 7th December, 1886.
The Imperial Library, St. Petersburg. 14th March, 1863.
The Mechanics' and Literary Institute, Scarborough. 5th December,

1899.
The Sheffield Free Library. 1st March, 1881.

The Literary and Philosophical Society, Sheffield. 4th March, 1881.
The North Shields Free Library. 3rd December, 1889.
The South Shields Free Library. 1st June, 1875.
The Abbey of Solesmes, Appeldurcombe, Wroxall, Isle of Wight. 3rd

December, 1895.
The Stockton-on-Tees Free Library. 2nd March, 1897.
St. John's College, Stonyhurst. 4th March, 1873.

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The University Library, Strasburg. 4th June, 1895.

The Sunderland Free Library. 5th June, 1883.

The Subscription Library, Fawcett Street, Sunderland. 3rd December,

1889.
The Free Library, Toronto, U.S.A. 1st March, 1892.
University of Texas, U.S.A. 2nd March, 1909.
The University of Upsala, Sweden. 2nd June, 1891.
The President of St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, Durham. September,

1838.
Genealogical Society of Utah, U.S.A. 6th December, 1914.
The Imperial Library, Vienna. 14th March, 1863.

The Library of the Congress, Washington, U.S.A. 2nd December, 1873.
The Public Library, West Hartlepool.' 3rd March, 1896.
The Library of the Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster. 4th June,

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The Literary and Philosophical Society, Whitby. 5th June, 1906.
The Wigan Free Public Library. 3rd December, 1901.
The Royal Library, Windsor. 7th December, 1886.
The Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, Vermont, U.S.A. 7th

June, 1887.
Wisconsin State Historical Society, U.S.A. 1st June, 1909.
The Yale College, Connecticut, U.S.A. 7th March, 1876.
The City of York Public Library. 6th March, 1894.
The Dean and Chapter of York. 13th March, 1857.
The Literary and Philosophical Society, York. 7th December, 1880.
The Subscription Library, York. 16th March, 1861.
The Yorkshire Archaeological Association. 3rd March, 1868.
The Yorkshire Architectural Society. 7th March, 1871.

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