Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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elude a match, etc. Mr. Nicholson, i**^ lethargical, feared it wiU
carry him of—uncle pretended a great uneasiness and sorrow for
him. [They] are to meet, to have liim settle his affairs—if he do not
he said before them he (sic) all—his children may some come upon
the parish.
1718. April yth. Jolm Sanderson desired me to speak to gent,
of Alnwick, if ever I went that way, about the town-clock**^- they
had thoughts of having, etc. Uncle says he gott Mr. Nicholson his
living, and who can tell
Init he may gett me it—or Harbron,*^^ which
is much better—the first 120^ per annum, the other 180.
1718. AprdCth. Writt a letter of thanks to Ch. Richardsoni84
—told him he might think I was very indifferent, when I gott out of
the way, when his letter came—but assured him I was not, and that
no proposals freinds could make here, could ballance my desire for
St. John's—writt to cousin Tom, junior, vid., letters, etc. And to
Mrs. Susan of which I have a copy.
1718. April 7th. Told John Clark I would not be so ungrateful
as to send back the gown, because I knew he must lose by it—tho
he desired me to make no apology, but send it. I told him I was
imeasy after I had sent him that letter after receipt of gown—having
writt it in some warmth of passion, kindled or blown up by the
instigations of one who was no freind to cousin Grainger (for he
knew it came from her), and I was afraid I might have dropt some
imguarded expression which he might take ill. Desired liim to
convey the parcell to me from Brigby, etc.
1718. April 8th. Told namesake I had tryed one woman and
did not like her, I was to try another shortly, for some overtures had
been made, etc., and if I found her answer the description, etc., I
intended to attack her veiy bri.skly and reduce her by storm, etc.
Told them I hoped to see them before any of us dyed, when I was
in a capacity of showing them how much I respect them, and how
much I think my self obliged to their family.
1718. April 9th. Writt to Jonathan Banks—and to Mr. Brigby
about parcel, etc., told him I would not have Su. exposed—Avanted to
know what remarkable was in that letter he had, wliich she says he
opened, but was returned, etc. Asked him what j^i't'sent would be
acceptable to him, no service to him or his should ever be wanting
from me, etc. Writt to Alnwick last week about books, etc.
1718. April 10th. Mr. Hall took occasion before me to tell uncle
of the opportunity of getting this living, etc., the parish would be
well satisfied—uncle replyed the parish were no judges (which, in my
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Mr. Joseph Nicolson, vicar of Whittingham, died in 1722.
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A new clock was ordered by the Cliamberlains and the Four and Twenty
of the borough of Alnwick, in 1717, but it was apparently made by a clockmaker
named Ogden. Tate, Ahnrirl:, vol. ii. p. 263.
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Hartburn vicarage.
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Probably Charles Richardson, a Cumberland man, wiio matriculated
at St. John's College, Cambridge, 6 July, 1709.
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