Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1755. June 1. My sister Elizabeth Gyll,i-^ died at Barton.
She was a verj good woman and a kind sister.
1755. July 23. Mr. Justice Bathurst, one of the Judges of Assize
for the Northern Circuit, having gone from York to Scarborough on
the Sunday before, and coming to Durham by the way of Whitljy,
had a fall from his horse and pitched the back part of his head on a
broken causeway : which stunn'd him so much that he lay above a
quarter of an hour as if he liad been dead, and was prevented coming
to Durham where the Assizes were holden by Mr. Baron Adams, but
two long causes were left untried.
1755. July 28. Mr. Justice Bathurst got to Durham, and lay at
the Red Lion ; was much better in his health and proceeded on the
Circuit.
1755. Sept. 11.
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The passage out of the College called the dark
entr}^' leading to the Prebends-walk, was plaistered and white washed,
and the way at the
and the way doAvn the passage made more easy,
farther end of the new bridge was raised and made more convenient
in going towards Elvet churchyard.
1755. Nov. 10. The dean of Durham had celebrated the king's
birthday from the first year of his promotion in 1716 till this day,
when he left it of.
1756. Jan. 6. Died William Forster, alderman of Durham, an
honest, sensible man ; and left a good fortune in trust for his sister's
son, Henn- Mills. ^-^
1756. Jan. 16. Richard Wharton re-chosen alderman of Durham.
He resigned in a huff on Oct. 5, 1753, with ver\- opprobrious words
to the Corporation. Who ever lives will see him in office, ready to do
some job at a pinch.
1756. Jan. 21. Died at Scorton, in Yorkshire, at the house of
Kobinson, Mshopof London, rector of Ealing and of St. Mildred, Bi-ead Street.
He was made prebendary of the tifth stall in Durham Cathedral in 1721, and
in the following year exchanged for the first stall which he held until his death.
He is buried in the Nine Altais where there is a mural tablet with a very long
Latin epitaph to his memory. His advancement v\as no doubt partly due to
his marriage with one of the daughters of Dr. Sharp, archbishop of York, by
whom he had a son, John Mangey, vicar of Dunmow, Essex.
'-^ 1755. June 3. Mrs. Elizabeth Gyll, daughter of 'Ihomas Gyll, esq.,
buried. J^egisters of Barton St. Ciithhert. Note by the late canon Raine.
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Tuesday last, died at Durham, William Forster, esq., an eminent wine
merchant, and an alderman of that citj*. JVeircast/e Courant, 1 January, 1 756.
According to an inscription on a mural tablet in Brancepeth church, he was
60 years of age. His nephew and devisee, Henry Mills, of Willington, near
Durham, married in 1765, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Fenwick, of Lemington,
in tlie parish of Kdlingham, and died on the 6th of November, 1807, aged
70. leaving a numerous issue. The wine merchant's business at Durham, which
so far as is known, was founded by Forster, was carried on successively under the
style of Messrs. Mills and Hutchinson, Messrs. Hutchinson and Hutchinson,
and now of that of Messrs. Hutchinson and Greenwell. Ex inf. Rev. William
Greenwell, 26th February, 1909.