Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

[May] 6. The king came to towne on Monday the 6th, was met
upon the way about halfe a mile out of to^\^le with the lord generall's
and lord lieutenant generall's troupes of horse, and by many of the
servants in their souldiour's equipage on horseback, the king himselfe
having left his cuach and mounted on horse back, soe entered the
towne, and in the markett place, called Sand-hill, neare the Southgate,
hee was attended by the maior and aldermen, and there the
towne dark, Mr. Tho. Riddall^'' (in the recorder's stead, hee beeing^
then sicke) pronounced a gratulatory speech to the king, and in the
name of the citty presented him with a purse of gould. Afterwards
the king rode up and was lodged at Mr. Lyddall'si^ house in Pillgrim
Streete, one of the alldermen, and the bells and ordinance from the
walls, beeing about 26, ecchoed his welcome.
[May] 5. The Sonday before which was the 5th a proclamacion
was openly read in time of Divine service in St. Nicholas church,
proclaiming pardon to the Scotts, etc., if they would come in
within 8 dayes, if not they must expect the king's wrath. Vid.
proclamacion.
Now began the preparations to bee more warrlike, the numbers
of souldiours to encrease, officers to bee chosen and discipline to
bee used ; and all sounded now noething but blood and death, yet
the Scots held their countenance still.
[May] 9. The 9th, being Thursday, the king and all his servantswere
feasted at the maior's and some of the alldermen's houses.
Wee of the privy chamber (with divers others) at Sir LyoneU
Maddisou's.^9 And the king for a reward of their munificence,
honoured the maior with knighthood, Sir Alexander Davison,20 a
Salter by trade. And the towne clarke. Sir Tho. Riddall.
Tliis night, after the king had supped, Mr. Richard Egerton presented
himselfe and Mr. Tho. Egerton, his brother, in cuirassier's
armes on horseback, and six horsemen in buffe coates and carbines.
This same day Sir Wm. Savill's regiment, Yorke-shire men, beeing
900 very able fellows, passed through the towne, and the king came
downe to the court gate to see them march.
Sir Thomas Riddell of Fenham became colonel of one of the Foot regiments
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he died in exile and was buried in the church of St. Jaques at Antwerp in
April, 165'2. Cf. new History of 2f0)-thumher/aud, \ol. ii., p. 284; vol. viii.,
pp. 183-188 ; and Brand, Xewcnstle, vol. ii., p. 215?;.
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Mr. Thomas Liddell of Newcastle, merchant adventurer, created a
baronet in 1 642.
" Sir Lionel Maddison, merchant adventurer, mayor of Newcastle in 1632,
died on the 18th of November, 1646, and was lionoured with a magnificent monument
in the church of St. Nicholas. C'f. Welford, Men of Mark, where a
memoir may be found.
"Sir Alexander Davison, merchant adventurer, mayor of Newcastle, 162t)
and l()38, was mortally wounded at the siege of Newcastle on the 19th October,
1644, and was buried in the cliurch of St. Nicholas on the 2!)th of the same
month. Cf. Welford, Men of Murk. New f/islori/ of Xorthiimherhaiil, vol. viii.,
p. 298, note 3.