Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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abouts for defence, against the incursions of the Scotts, etc. Called
at Hugh Park's, he uiade us very wellcome, but was often alluding
to uncle's narrow temper, etc.
1717. Aug. 27th. Uncle made his maid rake over the close
again, because he found two or three pieces scattered, and all she
gott might be grasped with one hand almost. Kelsa twice burned
down, most of the houses built of the stones of an abbpy, which some
think a judgement. Uncle says the house^^ that belonged to our
family near Rose-Castle, was built of many stones that were fetched
from there.
1718. Aug. 28th. Out of order both this day and yesterday with
drinking that little at Mr. Park's, etc. Was yesterday at dinner with
Mr. Snowdon, and Mr. Park and spouse came to see us, etc.
Engines near Whiteliaven that will draw near 40 tun of water in
four hours' time—out of coal pits. Cost the undertakers 500/.
they have the monopoly of it for seven years, I think.
1717. Aug. 29th. Cousin says it was not well done that they
should make me a parson, take iDread of other people's mouths,
an instance of it upon my fii*st setting out— poor Mr. Hall had 13/. a
year before I came. The Carthusian monks are forbid iiesh always.
1717. Aug. 30th. Received a letter from Su , when I was
under the greatest terrors and apprehensions of uncle getting it,
being at Newcastle. Fort of St. Ann's in Minorca, a ruinous place
like Tinmouth Castle, or nothing but a light house, and jet there
must be a salary for a governour and other officers, etc.
1717. Aug. 31st. Holme, 4*^ an abbey of White Canons, dedicated
to St. Mary. In Carlisle an abbey of Black Canons—to St. Cuthbert
—but being demolished by the Danes, there was by K
a new one erected out of it—to St. Mary. Hexham, formerly a
bishop's see, added to York.
1717. July [(sic) i.e., Sept.] the 1st. Uncle told Mr. Collingwood,
etc., if I did not disoblige him very much, he would leave me all his
land in Cumberland ; which, with father's, would be about 400/. per
annum, tho he could sell it for 10,000/. Land sells there at more
years purchase than anywhere else. He says brother Richai'd, if he
lives twenty years, will, nevertheless, be the richest of the familv.
1717. Sept. 2nd. Dr. Whitby^a holds that our bodies shall'be
consumed, etc., he socinianizes in this—he has too, odd notions
about government as may be found in his Prdfesfant Reconciled—
whom he had no issue, and dj'ing in the month of June, 1762, he was succeeded
by his nephew and devisee, Gilbert Park, timber merchant at Hatton Wall,
London, who, with the consent of his son, also named Gilbert, sold Warton in
1788, to Mr. John llobson.
" Query, 'Stone Hall,' Hawksdale, in the parish of Dalston. Cf. Arch.
Ael., 2nd series, vol. xv. p. 345.
" Holme Ciiltram, near Wigton.
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Daniel W)ut])y, D.D. (1638-1726), a controversial writer, Cf. Dictionary
of National Biography.