Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1718. Nov. 5th. Edw. BroweF°2 went in nightrgown to visit
Sir William Blacket^os soon after his arrival—he begun to banter
him, to ask where was the ringing of bells, the joy, and hurras of
the mob—for his well-come,—had the mayor been to wait ujDon him,,
or any of the alderman, etc. Sir W[illiam] was then just going to
ride out, but when he returned he went to Mr. BroweFs, enquired for
him and caned him, etc.
1718. Nov. 6th. Wood left B. discontented and uneasy, her illnatured
sister up[b]raids her, etc. In Judge Hales's-'^''^ life a story of
a gent-, who had a neice, to whom he was guardian—upon a quarrell
with tlie maid she run away—some malicious people reported he had
killed his neice, and was brought to his tiyal and like to have been
condemned, but begged respite till next assizes—and at them to thenext—and
yet could not hear of her, so that he bribed a young girl
to appear—who, being discovered, he was condemned and executed,
and after his death about a fortnight the neice came home : Judge-
Hales repented of his rashness.
1718. Nov. 7th. Upon 'debate about electing Sir W. Blackett
mayor,^°^ they objected his disaffection, and that General Wills had
threatened to send a regiment of soldiers to quarter upon them if
they did—but he gott a letter from the Secretary of State, signifying
their opinion of his loyalty, and he said for himself that he had
kissed the king's hand, which was more than they had, or perhaps
could do—and thev were more disaffected than he, etc.
1718. Nov. 8th. The mayor^oe objected that Sir W[illiam] came
seldom amongst them, and therefore could not be supposed to understand
their statutes and customs, etc., he replyed, 'Mr. Mayor, that
objection reaches yourself, for you never lived among us till the
year of your mayoralty, and when that expires, you will, I supiDOse,
return to Gate-side again.'
1718. Nov. 9th. Alderman lleay,^^^ I think, objected that he
kept a mistress, and debauched young women—he said, but ' I do
not meddle with other men's wives, and in such a place as a church
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Probably Edward Browell, son of Mark Browell of Newcastle, baptized
at All Saints, 11 September, 1689 ; admitted to St. John's College, Cambridge,
14 June, 1707 ; rector of Romaldkirk until his death, 23 December, 1763. Cf.
Richardson, Reprints of Rare Tracts, Biographies, vol. i.
ao3 g^j, Wiiiian^ Blackett of Newcastle and Wallington, bart., by Elizabeth,
daughter and eventually heiress of Ralph Ord of West Ord, had a natural
daugliter, Elizabeth Ord, who was born on the 10th December, 1711. By a
family arrangement, she was married to her putative father's nephew. Sir Walter
Calverley, bart., who assv;med the additional name of Blackett. Cf. Raine,
North Durham, p. 253. Welford, Men of Mark, etc.
^'"
Burnet, Lift and Death of Sir Matthew Hale, London, 1682.
"'' Sir William Blackett, bart., who was elected mayor of Newcastle in
1718, was suspected to be a Jacobite.
308 j^jj, jTrancis Rudston, the outgoing mayor of Newcastle.
^'" Henry Reay, alderman of Newcastle, and mayor in 1712 and 1729, died
18 October, 1734, aged 63, and was buried at Tynemouth Priory.