Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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with seven score at [a S2)ace left], but not being content would attack
the elder sister, worth 10/. per annum, she rejected him, and the
other was affronted.
1717/8. March 22nd. Mr. Fletcher sick—cannot be brought tO'
think he is in any danger of death—seems to have no sense of his.
sins, nor any desire for prayers—a judicial infatuation, that he
should think himself in no danger of death. His son, Thomas, shows
little or no concern for him—gone home ag-ain.
y^1\1 j^. March 23rd. Bead an excommunication against Thomas
^Houy and Eleanor Robson. Bishop of London-Derry^''^ dead—they
talk Carlisle^''* will be translated thither and Dr. Bradford^'^'^ be
made bishop of Carlisle. Was last Thursday at Little B3'le for the
ashes— people imagined I went a courting—do not approve of uncle's
sending me alone thither, etc.
1717/8. March 24th. Sew lettice on Monday—this day sennight^
and parsley and spinage about ten days since. The Thracians used tO'
mourn at the birth of peoj^le, and rejoyce at their death. Stephen
Fletcher a drunken man—Thomas not much better. Burns and
heuglis, words of termination to many towns—as Brenkburn and
Brenk-heugh, Wester-heugh, etc.
1718. March 25th. Mr. Fletcher dead. Sam. Fletcher, the
captain's^''^ son, by Mrs. Potts, now in the gaol of Morpeth, sent tO'
my uncle, to intercede for him with Mr. Fletcher now at the point of
death—the debt 12/.—B. Haddon has nothing left her, they say
gloves and scarfe all she getts.
1718. March 26th. Mr. Glanvil, a. younger brother, gott the
estate by his elder brother being disinherited—the elder was reclaimed
ujDon reflecting that he should provoke a father to do this
the younger kept the estate some years, and when he thought his
'" St. George Ash, bishop of Cloyne in 16S5, translated to Clogher in 1697,
and to Londonderry in 1717.
'"^ Dr. Nicolson, bishop of Carlisle, was translated to Londonderry in
1718, and to Cashel in 1726.
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Dr. Samuel Bradford of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, chaplain tO'
William III. and to Queen Anne, successively a canon and dean of Westminster
; appointed to be bishop of Carlisle in 1718, and translated to
Rochester in 172.3.
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Little is known of Captain George Fletcher of Rothbury, who died on
the 25th of January, 1710/1, aged .58, during his shrievalty of Northumberland.
His first wife, Rebecca, was buried at Rothbury on the 14th January, 1706/7,
and he had married again with a certain Penelope before he made his will, on
the 6th October, 1709. He gave annuities to his wife, to his bastard son,
Samuel, and charged his lands at Spital in Rothbury witli £6 per annum to be
paid to the master of Rothbury school. He gave legacies to his grandchildren,
Henry Martin, George Martin and Rebecca Martin, to his brothers Edward
Fletcher and Anthony Fletcher, to his brother[-in-law] William Wood, etc.
Subject to these payments, he gave his property to the son or daughter, of
which his wife was then with child, with remainder to his trusty friend Richard
Fletcher of Newcastle, cordwainer, remainder to Thomas Fletcher of Newcastle,.
merchant, etc., etc., etc. The will was proved at Durham, 19 Feb. 1710/1.