Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1717. Oct. 24tli. A niariafje-settlement made before the marriage,
the woman is obliged to stand to, but if it be made after she
may chiise whether she will stand to it, or have her thirds, wliich may
be much more, if they have purchased or improved any lands or
ground.
1717. Oct. 25th. Uncle would have lett me gone (sic) to Mr.
Bilton's, but I chose to send Robin. Mr. Gamble, ^2 a clergyman in
this neighbourhood, being very much importuned to ask two persons
in the church, who were within the forbidden degrees of marriage,
and would not be denyed their request, he complyed to ask them,
and then himself forbid the banns.
1717. Oct. 26th. Cotesworth^^ and uncle John were made
arbitrators in a matter between Alderman Ramsey and uncle Robert.
People thought him invincible, and he allow^ed him to be a man of
parts and subtilty, but he conquered him, etc.
1717. Oct. 27th. Mr. Fox^* being once at Aylmer, Bishop of
London's house—and when for coming out, he saw great many poor
people standing at the door, and having not much money in his
pocket, he asked his lordship to lend him 5/.—^and being asked it
again, he said indeed my lord ' I never intended to pay you, for I
laid-it out to the use you should have done.'
\1717. Oct. 28th. Uncle pays the charity uses, Rothbury school,
anci^Vigton church, etc., out of the rent charge near Hexham, and
designs it for those uses, says Mr. Colingwood.^M (No graves in
'- The Rev. Francis Gamul, vicar of Kirk-Whelpington from \6Sr> to his
death in September, 1720. His son, Francis Gamul the j'ounger, was bound
apprentice 7 November, 1695, to Jolin Harrison of Newcastle, barber-snrgeon.
Joseph Gamul, son of Francis Gamul, vicar of Kirk-Whelpington, was apprenticed,
12 Jan., 1719, to Richard Ridley of Newcastle, hostman, and was
admitted free of the Hostmen's Companj-, 23 Jan., 1727.
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Mr. \Yilliam Cotesworth of Gateshead, merchant, who, for his tii'st wife,
married, at St. John's, Newcastle, 9 May, 1699, Hannali, daughter of William
Ramsay, alderman of Newcastle. Cf. p. 81, supra.
Miss Cotesworth has pointed out to the Editor that in the new History
of Northumherland, vol. iv., p. 145, William Cotesworth of Gateshead is
confounded with a contemporary of the same name. Miss Cotesworth lias
sliown that William Cotesworth of Gateshead, sheriff of Northumberland,
1719, was a younger son of Charles Cotesworth of Egglesburn. He died
in December, 17-6, having had issue by his first wife, Hannah, daughter
of William Ramsay, alderman of Newcastle (together with four sons named
John, Charles, William and Cuthbert, who died in his lifetime), Robert
Cotesworth of Gateshead-park, his heir, and two daughters, Hannah, wife of
Henrj' Ellison of Hebburn, and Elizabeth, wife of Henry Carr of Cocken. By
his second wife, Hannah Watson, who had been his housekeeper, William
Cotesworth had issue a daughter Henrietta— whose legitimacy was disputed
who subsequently held an appointment as sub-governess in the royal nursery.
" John Fox, the martyrologist (1516-15S7).
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To the rector and churchwardens of Rothburj' the lease I lately purchased
of John Fergy of Todiiills in Elsdon, the estate which I lately purchased
of Mr. William I'otts, sometime of Low Trewhit, lying in Harbottle, the estate
I lately bought of George Brown in Sharperton, the yearly rent to be laid out
in binding to trades and sending to the University such of the poor scholars as