Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1717. Nov. 2iid. Mrs. Park gave me syrup with brandy, very
genteel and necessary thing. Uncle says Broomfield^*'^ had lost that
ten pound allowed to the school by the Mercers, if he had not been.
Nelly said uncle was the blackest face that ever R(jthbury saw.
1717. Nov. 3rd. Preached in the afternoon, but could scarce
read, it was so dark. In Sir William Uugdale's^°- short View—the
Jesuits and Dissenters paralleled. Doleman's^o^ or Parsons' Title tc^
the Crown, the most pestilent book that ever was writt against the
government.
1717. Nov. -Ith. Went to Horsley ; uncle said I must mind the
way, he would leave me to myself sometime, I should not want him
to manage the parish, or I should be able to do it without him sometime,
etc. Mr. Cowper saying he coveted uncle Robert's acquaintance,
he was a usefull man, had a fine librax-y,i°^ etc. Uncle John
said you talk of library, why, the best ' jjart of them are mine,' etc.
Mr. Cowper begged his pardon, he did not know. Mrs. Bilton very
kind, gave me peach, pear and apple, and fetched out a bottle of
gooseberry-wine, because I would drink no brandy.
1717. Nov. 5th. On Sunday, giving notice of this day, called it
a fast, and this day prayed for K[ing] Ch[arles] instead of K[ing]
W[illiam].^'^5 Xo pews in churches, till since the Reformation
only for the better sort, and the parson had the profit of them.
Writt for uncle Robert to come and advise us about the house
finishing.
1717. Nov. 6th. Mr. Werg^^*^ asked me to change churches for
one Sunday when I was at Alnwick, lent me Dr. Jenkins, ^o' ^Mien
I went and told uncle on Monday that I had rather stay at home,
I had gott a cold, he said no, you'll do your * self harm,' he thought,
I beleive, the hip was coming upon me,—riding is good for a cold.
As stublx)rn as Mahomet's mountain, which he commanded to remove
to him. but it would not.
1717. Nov. 7th. Lord Peterborough's conduct in Spain
thought a romance, even in these days, when there are hundreds
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Before Mr. John ThoinUnson was preferred to the rectory of Rothbury
he had been vicar of Bromtield.
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Dugdale, View of the fate Troubles in England, 1681.
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Dolenian, an o/jo-s of Robert Parsons the Jesuit, author of ^-1 Conference
about the next Succe-i