Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1718. March 30tli. Sam. Fletcher came from London, and
"would need turn his mother and her husband out of door and take
possession, they compounded with him for quietness and gave him
20 or 30/. When her husband died, he came again and thought to
have done so again—but she gott LordtGre_y to imprison liim, so that
Thomas Fletcher says he could not gett out, if the 12/. were
discharged, etc.
1718. March 31st. Thomas Fletcher was cursing his father that
very night they buryed him, he had left him nothing that he
could keep from him, but two guineas to him and two to his wife,
^nd 20/. to each child. Brotlier will send uncle another account,
and charge the spade to myself. He had a shirt for me, and took no
notice of it to me, till I told him,—mother sent me 5s. by him, he
never spoke of it, tho I was at Newcastle since he received it.
1718. April 1st. Uncle sent me up before on a trifling errand.
I suppose that he and Mr. Hall might have an opportunity of talking
together—suspect that he tells stories. A doctor layd a. gentleman a
wager that he could not eat two eggs after every dinner for a year
and never drink till an hour after, he laid it (it was his estate to,
etc.) and died before the year ended—He was opened, and a hard
thing about his heart—which his relation kept—made a cane head
of it, lying near some radishes it dissolved—he laid the same wager
with the doctor for the same estate, and won it, the eating of
radishes dissolved the eggs.
1718. April 2nd. Yesterday ijiicle received a letter from Whickham
to putt him upon going to London to gett me this living. Bishop
of Carlisle being translated, Mr. Sharp's title to this living was worth
nothing almost, and therefore would for a small consideration give
away his right—which may be done, any time before the Conge
d'EJire be passed by the Dean and Chapter of Londonderry.
1718. April 3rd. He has sent word he will not go, he cannot be
spared, and travelling is uneasy—but is ready to resign, if they can
gett Mr. Sharp's consent, and me into orders. ^^^ This seems a
coldness in my concern—begin to thing (^sic) his promise of resignation
will be like that to uncle Robert—he says he'll resign it, if
uncle Robert will do other things, as if he was not concerned, nor
would not stir in it, when he should be the chief actor.
1718. April -ith. Unci© tells me, if I would have taken his
advice, and gone into orders, he could have sent his resignation and
have the business done without his going up. Begin to suspect his
resolutions about Mrs. Orde, because her father was to be an instiument
in getting me this living, but now it is lost, etc. Mrs.
Clennell,^^° etc., dined here : people thought they were come to con-
'* Priest's orders.
"" Mrs. Clennel was a daughter of Wilfrid Lawson of Brayton, in Cumberland,
and wife of Luke Clennel of
daughters.
Clennel, to whom she bore five sons and two