Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1717/8. Feb. Uth. Liust night putt Mrs. Ordu and Wheler's.
name on peice of paper in a luitt, and gott the first out, etc. Laid
out 2 and id. for garden seed, lOd. for gentien zedoary^^^ and
lozenges for uncle, and -is. and id. for indentures— gott only 2s.
again for garden seed, etc.
1717/8. Feb. lutii. Brother bought a wcjod in Scotland—for
having a mill and forge in Cunil^erland, somewhere near Whitehaven.
Uncle says they'll ruin tliem-selves by projecting. He tells hirn
they keep too many chirks—uncle Reed not pleased at W. Wood's,
coming, says he knows nothing of the business, and is superfluous
too, if he did.
1717/8. Feb. Kith. Bishop of Durham lost a lordship, as he has
done two more in the neighbourhood of Whickhani. This last was
carryed into the House of Lords, and Sir Harry Lyddale^^" gott it
without any opposition almost, not above one speaking in his lordship's
favour, and he too, but coldly—Sir Harry is zealous for the
government, and the bishop, a good-for-nought fellow,^^^ and so
they scarce had any difficulty or dispute. Preached on judging our
brother. Uncle said I had not enlarged enough on the reason, etc.,
because we shall all appear at the judgement seat of Christ.
1717/8. Feb. 17th. Mrs. W^ood said the widow Mr. Dunlap courts
has been a naughty woman with a man she now has with her, wliose
child her last was—and with Anth.^^^ Leighton of Whickham parish,
in Newcastle somewhere. Raised a report that Mr. Dunlap was
poxed, occasioned, uncle supposed, by liis having once something like
a fistula, for which he went sometimes to Alnwick.
1717/8. Feb. 18th. Mr. Nicholson provoked by R. Snowdon, has
taken near six yards of ground from his neighbourhood to make it
parallel with the gavel of his house, whereas his neighbour has had
it time out of mind. Has taken some of the common too, in right,
he says, of being duke of Somerset's tenant.
1 < 1 J/8. Feb. 19th. Uncle says lie will make R. Snowdon give
him a writing for the peice he has taken of the common, or pull
down his wall. He has heard by several that he is a very pert,
saucy fellow, but he dare not (says he) be so before me. Uncle says
all Whittoniso -w-xg given to the parson, and what would they say if
he should seize on it--.
1717 8. Feb. 20. LWent to christen a child at Heppell, lighted at
G. Humbles, entertained very kindly—^he would be transported to
"* A medicinal root, grown in the East Indies, used as a stomachic.
'" This statement appaientlj' relates to a cause about the j-ear 1715, in
which it was deciiletl that the bisliop of Durham was entitled to the mines and
Sir Henry Liddell, bait., to the soil of Blackburn Fell in the parish of Lamesley.
Cf. Surtees, Dtirham, vol. ii. p. 214.
'^'' '*^
This was Bi.shop Crew. Or Arth(ur), the writing is indistinct.
"" Whitton Tower is the parsonage liouse of tiie rectory of Rothlnny. Tlie
rector claims to be lonl of the manor of tlie adjacent hamlet, of the lands of the
freeholders as well as of his own fertile glelie.