Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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A rei^ort prevailed about this time that Doctor Leslie,^^ rector of
Sedgefield, who fonnerly had been an Irish papist, had the funeral
service performed in private by a popish priest in his own house over
a child of his own that lately died of feaver and sore throat, and that
the body was afterwards, in a morning, put into the grave by a
popish servant of the doctor's without any ceremony. Strange, if
true !
1749. Some time in the beginning of this year Dr. Hunter of
Durham, sold his library of books, consisting of some hundreds of
volumes, to John Richardson, bookseller in Durham, for 350L or
thereabouts. Cheap. ^*
174:9. April 30. Died Mary Poison, widow, at her house in the
North Bailey, Diirham, in a very advanced age.^^^ She was a refugee
of French extraction, near Bourdeaux. Her maiden name was Huet,
and of the same family with the famous Huet, bishop of Avranches.
She kejDt for many years a carding assembly at her house.
1749. May 3. The hon. Henry Vane, esq., of Raby Castle, being
apjDointed one of the Lords of the Treasury, was re^chosen a representative
for the county of Durham without opposition.
1749. May. In the night between the 8th and 9th of this
month died Elianor Wilson (formerly Macham), widow of Henry
Wilson, of Newbottle. Her fortune, between 2,0007. and 3,000^.^
being personal and settled by her husband in his life, upon her death
came to her (sic) brothers Chilton Wilson, George, and his sister
Eliza Wilson. 15
1749. May. Some time in the beginning of this month died
the Rev. Mr. Nicholson, vicar of Stainton,i° the j^atronage of which
living in the Crown, and was succeeded therein by the Rev. Mr.
John Emmerson, rector of Middleton-in-Teasdale.
1749. May 27. George Baker of Elemor hall, esq., great nephew
of the learned Mr. Thomas Baker of St. John's college, Cambridge,
April, 1720. John Fenwick was the second son of John Fenwick, of Stanton
and Brinkburn, by his marriage with Margaret, daughter and colieir of
William Fenwick, of By well. ('/. new History of Northumberland, vol. vi.
p. 99.
Rev. James Lesley, an Irishman, married a niece of Dr. Chandler, bishop
'^
of Durham, and thus obtained much preferment in the diocese of Durham,
He was rector of Wolsingham, 1741-1747 ; rector of Sedgetield, 1747 ;
prebendary
of the eighth stall in Durham Cathedral, 1743 ; bishop of Limerick, 1755.
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This was Christopher Hunter, M.D., the distinguished antiquary. See
p. 201 poM.
'^" 1749. May 1. Mary Poison, widow, buried. Registers ofSt. Maryle Bow.
'' 1749. May 11. Mrs. Wilson, buried. St. Margaret's Registers, Durham.
" Here lieth the body of the Reverend Thomas Nicholson, rector of Great
Stainton, otherwise Stainton in the Street, who departed this life May the 13th,
Anno Dom. 1749, aged 87. M.I. Stainton Chancel. Hutchinson, Durham,
vol. iii. p. 171. He was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford, 29th November,
1682, as son of Guilbert Nicholson, of Poulton, co. Lancaster, being then 26
years of age; B.A., 1683; M.A., 1685. He provided some small endowment
for a school at Stainton. Cf. Hutchinson, Durham, vol. iii. p. 172.