Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1751. Nov. 26. My cousin Frankland, relict of Mr. Anthony
Frankland^^ of Richmond, died and bvii-ied at Downham.
1751. Dec. 12. Mrs. RaAvling,^^ the bishop's housekeeper, died
suddenly at the castle. She was a. daughter of old Ralph Rawling,
formerly of Leasingthorn.
1751. Dec. 18. Ralph Carr, esq.,ioo of Cocken, died lately at
Kensington Gravell Pitts, i.e., on Saturday, December 7th, 1751, and
on Wednesday, December 18th, his corps was brought to Durham in
a hearse and buried priva,tely in Bow church near the i^emains of his
late wife, the daughter of Mr. Nicholas Paxton, foniierly postmaster
of Dui-ham, according as he had directed by a paper found after his
death, in which he ordered eight of his oldest tenants and Mr. Green,
his steward, to attend his corps to the grave all in mourning and to
have no other fooleries (as he term'd it) at his funeral.
1752. Feb. 7. This day at the Court of Pleas I moved to bail
one Shotton, charged on the information of John Coxen, taken before
Mr. Wharton,ioi for a robbeiy on the highway, and the affidavits of
several j^ersons were read to contradict the fact, and upon my taking
notice of a fault in his warrant of commitment because he had not
therein called himself a justice of the peace, and had not taken the
examination of the prisoner, nor bound Coxon or anybody else to
prosecute, the alderman broke out into a most intense passion and
told me that I governed the court, but that by no lawyer should
gxDveni him ; to which I very calmly only told him that I did not
pretend to govern him, that he should be the last man in the world
I would offer to govern. (I should have said since he could not
govern himselfe.) He also swore at and abused poor Mr. R. Stonehewer.
1752. Feb. 13. Mr. Rudd and his daughter set out for Bath by
the way of London. 1°^^
1752. May 19. About one in the morning died at Kneeton-hall
my brother-in-law, Ralph Hobson, gent.
Died ]Mrs. Chr. Wilkinson. She had been ill since beginning of
November last.
1752. June 11. Mr. Rudd returned from Bath, better in health,
but not quite so plump as formerly.
1752. June 16. Accounts from London inform us that by all
the letters from Bath, the bishop of Durham was past all hope of
recovery.
«' Cf. p. 225, po>7.
''1751. Dec. 13. Elizabeth Kawlin buried. Burliam Cathedral Rerjisters.
Mr. Ralph Carr of Cocken, eldest son of Ralph Carr of the same place by
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his wife Anne, daughter of Henry Lord Fairfax of Denton, was born 7th
September, 1694, and married at St. Mary-le-Bow, Durham, 25th April, 1721,
Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Paxton of Durham, and had, with otlier issue,
a son and heir, Ralph Carr of Cocken. He was buried at St. Mary le Bow,
18 Dec, 1751.
"" Cf. p. 194, po'it.
)oi,i T\fp Thomas Rudd, of Durham, and his daughter Mary, afterwards
wife of Thomas Williams of Epsom. Cf. Surtees, DurJiam, vol. iv., p. 107.