Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1718. June 28tli. Mrs. Forster railed bitterly at Carnab\%
wondered my uncle would trust himself with him, etc. She was Mr.
Forster's house-keeper--^—sister to Mr. Anderson's wife. Uncle told
ii story of Judge Hales marn'incr his maid—and iu^^tinfr his children,
asking them their opinion—he said it was the Lord's doing, to which
they replyed it was '^marvellous in our eyes.' This was perhaps
levelled at Mrs. Forster, because she had nettled him about Mr.
Caruaby.
1718. June 29th. Mr. Hall preached for me—lent him my sermon
on Descent of the Holy Ghost to read. Obsei-ve uncle always smiles
at my first appearance after he and Mr. Hall have had some private
conference. Suppose he told him what I said of K., a veiy pretty
woman, etc.
1718. June30th. Had a day of liumil[iation]— 1st time of Phys. for
Sab. Visiting the woman, etc.,-^*^ somewhat discontented in afflictions.
Uncle would scarce allow me to say Thomas Clennell-^^ was an ordinary
scholar, when he came to the University—their names Mac Leans
—from the Highlands. His grandfather kept an ale-house.
1718. July 1st. This day we were invited to WooUer at the
meeting of the clergy, etc. Mr. Hall had writt great part of my
sermon, took it from him, and would not lend it again, tho he
promised upon his word, not to write it—told him the preface was
not entirely a projjo, and had taken bishop Pearson's^^s arguments
with little variation, etc., and would not submitt it to a critical
observation, etc.
1718. July 2nd. Went yesterday for cows, too fat. We was
offered iOs. jjeioe for 10 together. Disputed whether 'the charge
might not be transferred from the man that stood wittness, to another
he represented, if he would take it upon him, etc.
1718. July 3rd. Went to Ryle—Pewter black, knifes bads (sic).
Uncle found fault with Dol. dress. He said uncle Robert designed to
hound one, etc., he was for one that would treat him handsomely
when he came to see us, as he would do us, etc., and indeed it was
more his concern, for he himself would seldom come near us, unless
I gott a living in some place, and then he must come to Rothbury.
1718. July 4th. The stor)' of an old man and little lad riding
both on a poor horse—he first and then the child lighted, and still
men that mett them were not pleased—he drowned it when he gott
home. He commends Thomas Clennell wonderfully, and so does Mr.
Lawson—uncle thinks neither of them good judges.
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Mr. Thomas Forster of Atlderston, father of the rebel general, married,
thirdly, rirca 1701, Barbara Laws, but he had no issue by her.
-"After, etc. 'Fin [or Trin.], etc.,' is crossed through. Xame of the
woman ?
^' Thomas Clennell matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge, on tlie
19th June, 1710, and therefore was a fellow student of the Diarist.
' John Pearson (1613-1686), bishop of Chester, autlior of An K.vfio.iifion of
the Creed.