Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

95
reformation of the calendar by Pope Gregory the XIII.—called now-
New Style—consists of 3G5 days, 5 hours 49', and 12"—but ought
to be 16"—Old Style consists of 1565 days, 6 hours—and before Julius
Cesar it consisted only of 365 days. Ten days in October by Pope
Gregory—from the -Ith to the 1-ith—were struck out, so that they
are 10 days before us—I beleive eleven now, for want of the 4".
1717. Dec. -ith. The Scotch gent's, servant, for confirmation of
what his master had said—told the gent. Mrs. that they had
cabbages so large, that their wain one day was sheltered from a
violent shower of hail, etc.—^and their cheeses, tho he could not tell
exactly whether they were as big as a mill-wheel, yet he was sure
they (sic) whey that came from them drove tlxree mills about—and
their house was so high that one Sunday he heard the angels singing
psalms in he'en i.e., heaven.
1717. Dec. 5th. Buxtorfii^ tells us that the rabbis make the
behemoth a great bull, and the leviathan a gi'eat fish—both which
must be dressed at the Messias's coming, and wine out of Adam's
cellar to drink, all proved from Scripture, as they wrest it, a bird's
ego: falling, l^roke down three hundred cedars, and drowned sixty
villages—in the same book.
1717. Dec. 6th. Lord Scarborough's^-^ father entertaining King
Charles at Lumley Castle asked him whether he would have his dishes
come up in course or one by one, the king answered one by one, at
which the earl held up his hands and thanked God they had a king
that knew how to eat,
etc.
1717. Dec. 7th. A pain in one stone, that wanders out in my
back and legs sometimes. People talk of my marrying Dolly—Mrs.
Hummell prepared a good dinner for us, and uncle would not go
she sent me a leg of turkey.
1717. Dec. 8tli. Had a bowl of punch of Christopher^—they are
veiy kind—his Avife send (sic) for my bands and washed—as much
difference l>etween those she washed and Jenny's as between fowl
ones and clean. ^-^
1717. Dec. 9th. Writt the other day to Mr. Brigby—ordered him
to call on Witty (sic) about her spoon and Mr. Watson, etc. Uncle
said Mr. Fenwick was a pretty young man enough, but would never
thrive. I was .surprized. He said because he had an estate in church
lands at Brenckburni22 ^nd would not keep up the abbey, and have
divine service in it.
"* John Buxtorf, author of Synagoga Judaica, 1656, etc., etc.
'-"The first Earl of Scarborough, who died 17 Dec, 1721, succeeded his
grandfather. Sir Richanl Lumley of Lumley, knight, who was created Viscount
Lumley in the peerage of Ireland.
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Mr. John Fenwick of Stanton and Brinkburn was eldest son of Roger
Fenwick of Stanton, by his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Oeorge
Fenwick of Brinkburn. He was born on the •J4th February, 169S, and for his
first wife married Margaret, daughter and coheir of William Fenwick of Bj'AvelL
thus uniting in his issue the three houses of Stanton, Brinkburn and B^well.