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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 17 d . 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 Handf 2 ; 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 chappie 3 : 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 M ris 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.
William 4 : 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
Ingrams 5 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 being 1 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 x 1 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 pisimers 6 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-house 8 a great booke of 2 sheetes
of parchment subscribed by W: D : wherein were feoffees in trust :
Com : Sarisburiens : Sir Gualter Cope 9 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.
6
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 : reserveing 1
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's 10 receipt
practised uppon old, cripple, and many other horses with good succes :
Receave of euphorsion 10a 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 Allerstone 11 to Ellenthorpe lla in 5
houres. Where discourseing about the great storme I was there
credibly informed that uppon Ribstone Moore (which is neere Sir
Henn : Gooderickes 12 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.
lla Ellenthorpe, 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.
8
corne from shooteing freely. A most extreme winter allsoe hath
here been in Ireland : and such drought, and extreme heate here att
Ennerscoffie 14 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 Cross 16 twixt Hintley 17 and Lutterworth
to Adderstone. 18 From Caterig-brigg 19 to Piers-brig 20 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
palace 3 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.
10
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. Dod 4 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 : Hunsdon 7 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 fraught 8 :
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 M tie . 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.
11
Presence where the Count-ess of Oxford 9 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 Ma tie . 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 : Archies 10 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
12
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: Blackstone 13 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.
13
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-
berrie 15 : In this there is a verye little chappell : and noe great hall 16
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 font 17 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 organs 18 which looke both into
the bodye of the church, and chaunoell : a. stately altar stone 19 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 cope 20 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.
u
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 Langley 3 : 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.
15
seated uppon the same hill, are within the walls, which doe (sic)
encompassed with the wall of the cittie 6 : 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 Castle 8 : 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.
16
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 bridges 9 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 ship 12 : 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 Boothes 13 : 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 bowles 14 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 chaldron 15 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.
Carres 16 in this towne : Wee lodged att the Swan att Mr. Swans
the post-maisters 17 : and paid 8d. ordin : and noe great provision :
Hee is a verye forward man to have a coy 18 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 Arington 19 : 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.
20
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 house 20 :
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 castle 1 : 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 North 2 :
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 Bellford 4 which is next post-towne : 1 2 miles : Here
looseing our way, wee wandred : thence to Fennam 5 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 Suffolke 6 : 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 : Rugg 7 : capt : of the fort, and with
Mr. Joanes 8 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 yo r 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 bridge 9 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 pinke 10 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 Buss 10a :
Bergen : or Antwerpe or Gravelin : these were begun by Queen
Marye : finished by Queen Eliz 11 : 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 Apithomas 15 : and nott farr hence you leave the castle
and towne of Dunglass 16 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 Anderwicke 17 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 wreck 18 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 : scoutes 20 : 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 Whitens 1 : 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-coast 2 : 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-land 5 : 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 106 7 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 streete 8 : which I doe take to bee
an Engl : mile long : and is the best paved streete with bowther
stones 9 (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 boungrace 11 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 churches 12 in this cittie : and itt is observed : that
there are noe more then about 4,000 communicants in every pareish :
Here is a daintie Hospitall 13 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 Gawrie 16 :
Many High-landers wee observed in this towne: in their plades T
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 jakes 19 ), 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 begg y
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 Ireland 20 :
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 Treasurer 1 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
Shenley 3 : 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
Lightgoaw 5 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 Failkirk 6 : whence, about 7 miles distant (which wee discerned
as we came), is seated the best house or castle of his M tie . in this
kingdome, called Sterlin 7 : 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
M ties houses an abbay called Drum-tarmalin, 8 which is nott above
10 distant hence. And his M ties 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 butt 9 *
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 Wall 10 , 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 battayle 11 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 : Steward 12 of Butts Cout (sic) (of which house
itt is said his M tie , that now is, hath discended) and Sir John
Grhames 13 ; 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 Caricke 14 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 Caricke 15 : 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 rocke 16 :
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 Weghkton 17 : 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-meadow 19 : 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 30 20 miles from Edenborow : 18 from Failkirke : This is an
arch-bishopps seat©, an auntient universitie 1 : One onely colledg
consisting of about 120 students: wherein are 4 schooles : one
principeall : 4 regents : There are about 6 or 700 la 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 church lb 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 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.'
lb For 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-bishopps 2 : of St. Andrewes : Spotswood : Chanc :
Regent : The other of Glasgoaw : Dr. Lindsey — bishopps above 20 :,
The prime citties in Scottland : Edenborough : St. Andrewes :
Dondye 3 : Aberden : Glasgoaw : Perth, or St. Johnstone : Lightgow :
Aire : Sterling : Dumbarton : Erwing : 4 : Don Fris 5 : Haddington :
Dunbarr : Erwin : Elgin : Murray : Bamffe : Enverness : Boughan 5a :
Fairest bridges in Scottland : Done 5b , 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 hereof 6 * :
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. 5a Buchan.
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 Castle 9 : nott
inhabited but with abundaunce of fowle: and 2 eareis 10 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 geese 1 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 Erwin 12 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
Ennerness 13 : and are gone for Ireland 14 : 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 frame 15 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 Deputie 16 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 Frise 17a 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 parts 170 :
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's 17d 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 minister 18 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
castle 198, 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-cakes 20 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 Chappell 1 : 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 locke 2
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-worke 3 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-Patrick 4 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 Mountgomeries 6 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 Mague 7 : 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 cleered y
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 Colrane 8 in Ireland are the highest
running seas about the sound of Raughrick 9 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
Ireland 10 : 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
50
Junii Miles.
29. To Lightgow 12 : to Fail-
kirk 6 :
18
30. To Glasgoaw
Julii
1. To Erving 18 13 )
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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.]
S r 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.
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.
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.
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 Dobinson 13 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.
5a 1684. 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.
la 1692. 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. Trollop 9 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
Sunday 15 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 Jo n 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.
65
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
66
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.
67
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.
68
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.
69
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.
70
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.
71
*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.
5a 1683. 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.
73
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.
74
*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.
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.
14a 1693. 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. Edw d 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. Christop r 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 S r 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
la 1672. 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.
10a 1682. 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.
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's 1 , 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
Friday 5
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.
J 1687. 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 Friday 12
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 Friday 11
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. Cuth bt 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 Smith 3 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 3 d 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. Jo n 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.
s 1694. 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.
x 1696. 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 Jo n 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. W m 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 Jo n 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 Jo 11 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, tt mpio .
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. 13 v
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 9 th of September, 1701. He was murthered on
Sunday, ye last of August, at 12 at night by I n 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.
13a Haram 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. S r 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.
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. S r 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-
177
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
178
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.
179
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.
180
*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.
181
* 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
182
idem, Mr. Thomas Partis, 19 ) A1( j ermen
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.
183
[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
184
1687/8. Mar. 17. Then turned out Aldermen Robson, Fen wick,
Aubonye, and William Johnson j and on. their roome Mr. Ralph Wid-
drington 6 of ye Grange ; Ralph Brandling 7 of Fellen, esq. ; Henry
Jenison 8 of Newcastle, and Ralph Elstob 9 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
' S r 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 bishops 11 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., Wright 12 and Allibone 13 for the King, Halloway 14 and Powell 15
"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 : —
S r William Creagh, maior.
Mr. Thomas Radcliffe 17 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 Partis 8 , 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 Akinside 1 his Booke.
Memorandum —
Mark Akinside was married to Mary 2 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 Thomas 3 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 Jane r y the 9th.
My daughter Dority 4 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 25 th 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 6 th 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 Mark 5 was born aboute eight a clock at night, and was
baptized ye 30th of Novr.
1723. 23 Sept 1 *. 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
7 th 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 Chri 
