Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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thrown into gaol. And Catherine liad a chikl within a month or two
after marriage—and they say John Humes laid with Hannah that
day she was maiTied, in the car-house.
1717/8. March 10th. Father at law about Apple-garth estate,
bought upon a wrong title—it will cost him more than it is worth
l^erhaps. Uncle gave the close in Broomfeild to the living for a compensation
for the tythes impropriated. In Low Moor—it is worth
30 or 10/. per annum. Pape Miller never had a good plea but once
in his life, and he left it to try it self and lost it.
1717/8. March 11th. Jackson of St. Bees will, in company, talk
to himself and say—
' Cumberland never saw such another as thee,
T. Jackson—it will have a great loss of thee,' etc. They intend
"\Yilli67 fQj. o nierchant. Father would have him a husbandman—
Uncle says to what purpose, he's not like to have the land,' ' etc.
1717/8. March 12th. lon^^^ stopt of orders—he spent extravagantly
at Pattinson's father's—and had but about three or four
shillings in his pockets ;
gott Jos. to borrow him fifteen or sixteen
shilling of his brother, a tanner — promised to return it in a month,
and it is now three or four.
1717/8. March 1.3th. Uncle Reed has lost four score pound of
one Lawrence, in Carlisle—Father says if they had told him of it
he could have secured it. One of Mr. Reed's daughters married
to Tho. Pattinson, with child before marriage long—much ado to
persuade him to take her. Uncle Reed and brother borrow 300/. of
father now, in order to pay for this wood—I writt to call in his debts
in the Holm.
1717/8. March Uth. Sett forward for Rothbury—John Sanderson
followed us—Uncle called him rogue and rascal, etc. He has
brought in things to my father which he never had done—denyed that
John Slack was at our house, when they ballanced accounts, Avhen
Mr. Brown and Mr. Rook^sa were there—called Slack to testify what
he said, and he witnessed directly against him—no account between
them this 14 years—a bill made within this half year—Father told
'em many things they could not have remembred.
1717/8. March 15th. Uncle told Mr. Rookies of Ferg. Storey's
son,i"o Franck Anderson, and Mrs. Park's two brothers,^'^^ for his
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The Diarist's brother William. Cf. p. 71, supra.
Probably Joseph Ion of Eamont Bridge in Westmorland, who was
matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge, on the 15th May, 1711, aged 16
years.
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There was a contemporary Mr. Henry Rookwho, before 8 March, 1738, married
Margai-et, daughter of Edward Cook of lilakemoor, a cadet of the widespread
family of Cook of Togston and Amble. They had issue a son, .Jolm Rook, clerk in
orders, dead before 1786, and four daughters, viz., Ann, Dorothy, Mai'garet and
Elizabeth, who are named in tlie will of their aunt Isabella Cook of Blakemore.
'° For a pedigree of the family of Fergus Story, see new History of Northumhtrland,
vol. vii. p. 185.
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Mrs. Park's brothers were the Wilsons of Ulgham.