Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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before he oould get out of the room, and they were oblidged to luak©
war for him to get out by breaking down part of the wall :
and
great number of trees, were blown all over the country,' haystacks, etc.
1756. Nov. 4. Mr. John (sic) Smith of Burnhall,i29 died suddenly.
He was a non-juror and generally supposed to be one of their
bishops. He was the eldest son of Dr. John Smith, formerly prebendary
of Durham, and was the editor of Btede's History and of
another work tending to prove our Saxon ancestors were not subject
to .the pope. He left two daughters, one lately married to Anthony
Saivin, esq., of Sunderland Bridge, and the other to Rowland Burdon
of Newcastle, merchant. His only son, John Smith, ^^o doctor of
physick, died in his lifetime and by'. . . ,
his wife, eldest daughter
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of Nicholas Shuttleworth, esq., of Durham, left an only son.
1756. Nov. 21. Sir John Dolben, bart.,i3i died at'his prebendal
house in the College. He w^as a polite gentleman, but reckoned a
staunch friend to the Pretender, or, at least, to hereditary right. He
was the last dignitaiy in the church of Durham of Bishop Crew's
promotion. His body was carried away on Saturday, December
.... in order to be buried at Fyndon in Northamptonshire pursuant
to the directions in his will ; in the 73rd year of his age.
1757. Jan. 27. James Mylot,i32 the last of the ancient family of
Mylot of Whittell, was buried this day at Chester.
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On Wednesday last, died George Smith, esq., of Burn-hall, county
Durham, etc. NtuxaMle Conrant, 6th November, 1756.
Mr. Smith's name was not John but Ueorge : born 7th May 1693, he was
educated at Westminster school under Dr. Knipe, and at St. John's College,
Cambridge. After his father's death in 1715, he saw through the press the
latter"s edition of Bede. Subsequently he took orders in the non-juring church
and became titular Bishop of Durham. He was buried at St. Oswald's, where
there is a long Latin inscription to his memory, in which he is termed esquire
(armiijtr). He was succeeded at Burn-hall by his grandson George, afterwards
Lieut. -Colonel, Smith, the only son of Dr. John Smith and his wife Ann
Shuttleworth, who were married at St. Oswald's on the '2^th May, 1750.
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1750. May 29. Dr. John Smith and Miss Ann Slmttleworth, married.
Registers of St. Osivald's, Durham.
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On Sunday last, early in the morning, died at his house in the College at
Durham, after a few days' illness, the Rev. Sir John Dolben, bart., the senior
prebendary of the cathedral there, aged 73. He was the only son of Sir Gilbert
Dolben, bart., and grandson of the worthy prelate Dr. John Dolben, archbishop
of York. He is succeeded in title and estate \>y his only surviving son, now
Sir William Dolben, bart. Newcastle Cournnt, '27th Nov., 1756.
He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford; B.A., 1705; M.A., 1707;
D.D , 1717 ; vicar of Finedon, 1714 ;
prebendary of sixth stall in Durham
Cathedral, 1718 ; rector of Burton Latimers, 1719.
Sir Gilbert Dolben took a leading part in the Convention Parliament of
1688 (Macaulay, vol. ii. chap. x.).
"- Died, at his house near Chester-le-Street, county Durham, — Millet,
esq., aged 87. JVeircast/e CouraiU, '29th .January, 1757.
The estate of Whitehill, in the parish of Chester-le-Street, was in the
possession of the family of Millot for over foiu- centuries, but John Millot
(nephew of the James Millot named in the text), who died in 1747, unmindful
of the right of his sister and other kindred, gave all his property to the rev.
Henry Wastell, vicar of Simonburn. Cf. Surtees, Durham, vol. ii. p. 153.