Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1718. Nov. 28th. Young Parson BurrelP^- courts Mrs. Jane
BixDwn. Her father steward to the earl of Tankervdlle at Chillingham
—he laid out money for Lord Ossalton in cloaths and horse, etc.,
•nhen he came from Holland in qviest of butcher's daughter,^^^ but
the earl would not repay it—nor will not see him, etc.
1718. Nov. 29th. A young woman near the Borders married out
and the bridegroom out
of a window, the parson (in a miller's coat)
of doors—and the father had the key of her chamber in his pocket.
Match between T. Selby and M. Grey like to be broke of—her father
will not give above 20 or 30 guineas.
1718. Nov. .30th. Was at G. Brown's to baptize his child, ^i*
tho it was not sick—is not this partiality, says Mr. Hall. Voted for
a supply to the king, etc. Walpole objected against the sum, that
it was more by [blank] than Marlborough had in Flanders, but it was
carried against him— 1 to 97.
1718. Dec. 1st. Witness to a will where uncle and Rob. Snowdon
are trustees, for wife and child—to pay for lease compounding and
to re-imburse them selves out of yearly j^i'ofits of it and allow them
the remainder—and Avhen they are paid—the wife to have thirds of
lease and the rest for son—to make him a fuller—one Fletcher^^^
of the Hill-head—Will made after his death 5 days, and 3 witnesses
to his verbal will, less insufficient. Jane lends to the widow—
Rol:). Snowdon bound with her for payment.
1718. Dec. 2nd. Dr. Mede in a letter to Dr. Txvisse,^!^ supposes
no inhabitants in America till since our Saviour, no monuments of
antiquity al:)ove that, etc. He says the devil being imjDatient of the
sound of the gospell, and foreseeing his kingdom Avould go near to be
destroyed he thought to provide himself of a seed, over which he
might reign securely—and so drew a. colony of some people on the
Northern Ocean to America, promising them by oracle to show them
a better country, etc. Out of the memorials of their own kingdom,
the Mexicans relate their coming from the North—and not being
above 400 years standing when we discovered them—led by their
God Yitzilipukli, going before them in an ark, etc.
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Mr. William Burrell of Broome park, vicar of Chatton (1713-1752), did
not marry Miss Jane Brown but Philadelphia, daughter of Bryan Grey of Kyloe.
C/. new History of Xorthumherland, vol. vii. p. 223.
^" This statement refers to the romantic courtship and subsequent marriage
of Charles, third Earl of Tankerville, with Camilla, daughter of Edward Colville
of Whitehouse, near Gateshead, a ladj' who adorned the situation to which she
was raised bj' her marriage. Cf. Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore and
Legend, vol. for 1887, p. 274.
"* 1718. Nov. 30th. George, Jlliufi George Brown, junior, Longhaugh,
baptized.
Itotlihury liegisters.
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1718. Nov. 30th. Robert Fletcher, Hill-head, buried. JiothJniry
Registers.
The testator had apparently made a nuncupative deathbed will, which was
subsequently reduced to writing.
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William Twisse, D.D. (1578-1646), rector of Newbury, Berks, was
buried in Westminster Abbey. Cf. Dictionary of National Biography.