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service and an anthem ; and from the church he went to the castle^
and several gentlemen and clergy waited on him there and drmik a
glass of wine.
1751. June 30. The corporation of Durham dined with the bishop.
1751. July 4. The mayor and aldermen of Newcastle dined with
the bishop.
1751. July 6. Sir John Dolben's sjDeech and the bishop's answer
were j^rinted in the Newcastle. Journal.
About this time the information exhibited in Chancery by Robert
Hope against Mr. Middleton of Offerton and Mr. Ralph Robinson,
the governors of Houghton school, and Mr. Griffith, ^^ the schoolmaster,
was dismissed with costs.
1751. July 27. Alderman Thomas Bainbridge of Durham failed
and stopped payment (but afterwards he carried on his trade).
1751. August 7. Dr. Knatchbull^o and his lady overturned in a
chaise going off Elvet Moor down the hill in the way to Brancepeth,
not far from Ra. Lambert's mill. The horse and chaise turned twoor
three times over and the doctor Avas much hurt in his hand, etc.
1751. Aug. 13. Corporation of Stockton dined with the bishop.
1751. Aug. 16. Died at Chester Sir Ralph Conyers,^! bart.,
a glazier, of ye antient family of Conyers, and nearly related tO' Sir
BaldAvin Conyer of Great Stukely in Huntingdonshire, upon whose
death the title came to him, but no part of the estate ; for upon Sir
Baldwin's enquiring of Mr. Gowland (with whom Sir Ralph had a
difference) whether any of his family in the north were living, and
Gowland answering there was not, and as some people thought doneon
purpose to injure Sir Ralph, thereupon Sir Baldwin suffered a
recovery of his estate at Nettlesworth near Durham and settled it
upon his daughters, being worth upwards of 200/. a year, which would
have come to Sir Ralph but for this accident. His eldest son is now
Sir Blaxtone Conyers, bart., an officer on half pay.
1751. Aug. 29. Abraham Gregoiy's wife delivered of a daughter.
*^ 1776. Sep, 21. The Rev. Thomas Griffith, M.A., late master of Kepier
school in Houghton-le-Spring, buried. IFoughton-le-Sprinij 1,'egisters.
He was of Hertford College, Oxford, and was appointed master of Houghton
school in 1738. Some account of the lawsuit in which he engaged may be
found in Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 160 n.
^1760. r3ec. 31. Rev. Dr. Wadham KnatchbuU, buried. Durham
Cathed ra I I'etj inters
He was third son of Sir Ed\\-ard KnatchbuU of Meraham-hatch, bart., and
was a fellow of Trinity-hall, Cambridge. After holding preferment in the
south of England he was presented to the twelfth stall in Durham Cathedral in
1738 and removed to the eleventh stall in 1757. He died on the 27th December,
1760, aged 54, and was l)uried in Durham Cathedral with a monumental inscription
in Latin from the pen of Dr. Lowth, afterwards Bishop of London.
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1751. Aug. 19. Sir Ralph Conyers, baronet, buried. Chester-le-Sfreef
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