Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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am afi'aid tlie world and its pleasures may in time gett hold of my
affections which are now entirely disentangled.
1718. Oct. 7th. W. Wood sent me 12s. Begins to hesitate
about getting degree, expects it at Easter, desires to know what I
think. Mr. Grey approves of this scheme, if he may be allowed 201.
per annum for curacy—but insists that her fortune, and 507. added
to it, be laid out for her use^— -this isi owing to Wood's foolish concession.
She approves of it, least of all. Uncle Reed will allow
him but 301. per annum, he says.
1718. Oct. 8th. Christopher requested to write over my sermon,
I granted, ui>on condition he Avould never lett any body else, tho
he might show it, etc. That night liis wife was killed—women
tatling and saying, she oould expect no better, for her using Mr.
Bailes so, etc. It seems B. Haddon raised a report, that she had
promised him. I deem it malice, for she would had-^o Christ o^Dher
herself.
1718. Oct. 9th. Scarfes I2s. a piece—cost Christopher 13Z. the
burial. Mr. Clennel came thro Rothbury and would not call, etc.
Christopher courted Tib. Potts once. Gossipers say, the news of his;
being married, caused her illness—think that a story, for she begun
not till Candlemas, and he was married in November, besides she's,
had the evil all along—Mrs. Hall to have all her cloths that are here.
1718. Oct. 10th. Mr. Douglas here, has 94:01. Scotts, per
annum, can go into the water in frost, sitt him down upon his cloths
and put on his stockings with as much deliberation as if summer.
Was marri'ing a couple, and the man would say obedient. At another
time the woman would not say obedient. Douglas of Newcastle a
cadet of their family—came from Ouston.
1718. Oct. 11th. Scotch woman asking her daughter that was
sick if she would have any thing—ran thro several, to which she
answered no, at last she asked her, if she would have a man, which
made her tihee, and say, you would make a sick body laugh. '^91
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1718. Oct. 12th. Footpadders mett a man that had only 18c?. and
made him take a purge, vomit and cordial at once—wdiich he had
in his pocket. Dr. Bentley^^^ suspended ah omni gradii suscejjto by
Vioe-chancellour and six Masters for contempt of their authority.
1718. Oct. 13th. One Carr293 ^f Chatta, near Kelso, was in
Italy, and melancholy, etc. His host said he would soon tell if his
mother, etc., ailed oughts—dispatched a fairy, took her ring,—she
turned a maid of—when he returned told her, etc. Mr. Hall told it,
he was in the family, but asked not tlie man.
1718. Oct. 14th. Mrs. Hall keeps all her sister's cloths that are
^^ Query, 'have had.'
-" The last seven words are instead of ' you make me laugh tho' I'm sick,*
crossed through.
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For a biography of Dr. Bentley, see Dictionary of National Biography.
The ancient Border family of Kerr of Chatto near Roxburgh.