Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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publick y:rainiuar school a learned ajid jKjlite geiitleiuan. Some few
je^irs agoe he was offered the lieadiiiastership of Elaton school, but
declined it. He was vic-ar of Billingham when he died, and this
winter he suiTendered the perpetual curacy of Whitworth in favour of
the Rev. Thomas Randal, A.M., his usher. He was tapped the Thursday
preceeding on account of a. dropsy, not arising from intemperance,
for he was a temperate man, and above 24 quarts of water were taken
from him.
1761. March 1. Mrs. Brass buried at St. Maiy's, South Bailey.
She was the last of the Burtons. ^'-
1761. June 7. Matthew "Wliitfield,^'^ esq., died at Wolsingham,
aged about 84. He was the last of the family in the male line : who
hiid been long possessed of the esta.t« at ^^^litfield in Northumberland,
which he sold several years before his death to AVilliam Ord, esq., of
Fenham.
1761. June 26. Died suddenly in his post chaise, whilst taking
the air in the evening, at or near New-bridge, east of Chester, my
honoured friend, Henry Lambton, esq., of Lambton, member of
parliament for the city of Durham. Dying a batchellor, he was
succeeded in his large fortune by his next brother, William Lambton,
esq., one of the benchers of Lincoln's Inn, who is also unmarried. ^"^
1761. July 25. Died at Brussels the Rev. George Saver, archdeacon
of Durham. 1'^
School at Durham, and vicar of Billingham. My sister, Sarah Dongworth,
who lives witli me, executrix. To the Rev. William Braithwaite, my curate at
Billingham, £100. To Mr. Chr. Wardell, attorney-at-law, £50. To the Rev.
Thomas Randal £100. I order that out of the plate which I already have
in my house or out of the money to be left, my executors procure to be made a
silver flagon for the communion table at Billingham, of the same size, shape,
and weight with that which Dr. Chapman lately left for the same purpose.
These words to be added at the bottom : Doiiitm llkhardi Dongworth Vicarii
de Jii// 1111/ham, -with the d&te oi the year. Proved at York, 7th March, 1761.
Raine, Te.-i(. Ebor.
'"" 1761. March 1. Mrs. E Brass buried. J'egisters of St. Mary in the
South Bailey, Durham. Cf. p. 201, supra.
On Sunday last, died at Wolsingham, greatly lamented, Matthew Whitfield,
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esq. , in the 84th year of his age. He was High SheriflF of the county of
Northumberland in the year 17'29. Newcastle Courant, 13th June, 1761.
1761. June 9. Matthew Whitfleld, esq., buried. Wolsivi/hant Bei/istev.
He was the last male heir of the ancient family of Whitfield of Whitfield,
see p. 182, supra.
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On Friday, 26th ult., died suddenly, Henry Lambton, esq., one of the
Members for the city of Durham, wliich place he represented in five successive
parliaments, etc. S^^.wra^itle t'ourant, 4tli July, 1761.
'^ Dr. George Sayer, of Oriel College, Oxford, matriculated 1714, aged 18,
B.A. 1717, M.A. 1719, D.D. 1735; vicar of Witham, Essex, 1722-1732;
rector of Bocking, Essex, 1741 ;
prebendarj- of the tentii stall in Durham
Cathedral 1725-1732 ; rector of Easington 1730-1761 ; archdeacon of Durham
1730-1761. He married a daugliter of Archbishop Potter and in spite of these
rich benefices his circumstances became embarrassed and he retireil to Brussels,
where he died. Cj. Hutchinson, Durham, vol. ii. pp. 210, 222.
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