Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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to have resigned his fellowship in my favour, if the master had not
used him so scurvily by pretending to declare it void, etc., so that
he was resolved to keep it till after the election, if he had resigned
the next day. Cotesworth^is abused abominably by serjeant [a
space left here] in his trial with Lady Clavering last year—expected
to be knighted, or some particular mark of favour.
1718. June 1st. Preached on Descent of the Holy Ghost—Mr.
Parke and Mr. Dunlap thanked me for it^—the latter said it was the
best he ever heard in his life. Stephen Fletcher found 120 guineas
in an old glove and a purse among some trumpen- in his father's
closet, so transported that he was perfectly foolish, and childishly
carried it about and shewed it to everj- one.
1718. June 2nd. D. Colingwood at the fair : gave her and Fanny
Parke each a girdle for fare, and Mrs. Little, and her sister and ^I.
Snowdon and Har. Potts head-knotts. Mr. Cowper had a very light
natural wig for 28 shillings. Sam. Lisle^i^ has gott a living in
York-shire.
1718. June 3rd. Observe uncle smiles often at my coming in to
him, after Mr. Hall and he has had private conference up the bank
and Mr. Hall slily enquired whether I had been at any place this
afternoon, while they were about the pews—suspect he tells stories.
That niglit bee w^ent to Rob. Potts—he called Mr. Hall to walk with
him a little, suppose to tell him to have an eye over me, for it was
not for want of company—Jessy Hall l^eing along with him.
1718. June -Ith. Mrs. Robson makes a great noise about precedence
in the church—she Avould have all the upper seats-—will not
sitt below Mi-s. Hummell—uncle has given her but two above and
two below—her husband she says swares be will never come to
chm-ch again, if he has no more seats.
1718. June 5th. Mr. Tliomas Clennell will be shortly in the
North, his lirother says there is nothing between him and Mi'S. B.
Potts as reported—Mr. Hall says Ford Grey is marryed to her mother.
At R. Potts' funeral yesterday^^o—Hugh Park asked me why I was
backward about Dolly Colingwood, or some such words to that purpose—I
said I had no commission from uncle, and would [not] engage
with any l^efore I had.
1718. June 6th. Esquire Clennel hen-pecked, cannot command
the house, says Mr. Dunlap—no more could Alexander Colingwood
when his wife was alive. Went to Mr. Bilton's—Mr. Henderson^si of
*"*
See p. 87, supra. William Coatsworth was high sheriff of Northumberland
in 1719.
See p.
•" See p. 67, suj/ra,
-* 1718. June 4th. Mr. Robert Potts, Warton, buried. Nothhnri/ Reijisters.
118, supra.
Robert Henderson, M.A., fellow ' of Trinity College, Cambridge,' vicar
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of Felton from 1683 until his death. 27 April, 1730, aged 71. His predecessor,
John Harrison, was appointed in 1672, and married 15 May, 1676, Mrs.
Margaret Swinhoe of Whittle in the parish of Shilbottle.