Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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17S2. Julyl. Died, Dr. .lohii Iluiiii', hislid]) of Salisbury, chancellor
of the Order of the Garter.'
17S2. July 8 and 9. A connnission of haid^ruptcy executed at
Mr. Loftus's, Flesh Market, Newcastle, ap-ainst Hol;ert Lowes,
scrivener, of Hexham.**
1782. Julyl). Mr. Thonaas Alder and Abigail Lindsay, daughter
of Thomas Lindsay, married at Alnwick church.^
1782. July 1-4. Duke of Northumberland came to Alnwick Castle.
1782. Julv 21. Rev. Mr. Samuel Hall inducted to the vicarage of
Chatton.i"
1782. July 25. Earl Percy and his lady came to Alnwick Castle.
Bishop of Dromore,^^ in Ireland, came to the Castle also.
1782. July 28. New furniture put into the church and chancel,
crimson velvet trinnned with gold lace, pulpit, reading-desk, altartable
and the duke of Northumberland's seats : all at expense of His
Grace. 12
Hev. Mr. Hall preached in Alnwick church from Phillipians iv. 11.
Died at Alnmouth, Mr. G. Stains, deputy-collector of the customs. ^^
1782. Aug. Little company at the Castle as yet.
1782. Aug. 4. Bishop of Dromore preached, a.nd took his text
from Romans i. IG.
1782. Aug. 6 and 7. Alnwick races. ^^ His Grace dined in public
both days at the White Swan, had his iniblic breakfasts at the Castle.
Mr. Gregson win the first prize ; Mr. Weatheral win the second, etc.
1782. Aug. 18. Mr. Hall's text, St. John xvi., 33.
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1782, June 26. 'In Stanhope Street, Mayfair, Dr. John Hume, bishop of
Salisbury, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, and brotlier to the Earl of
Kinnoul.' O'ent/emaii's Mar/azine, 1782, p. 312.
" See p. 239, supra.
' Query, Thomas Alder who died May 19, 1790, aged 37. M.I. Alnwick.
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Mr. Hall was presumablj^ son of the Rev. Samuel Hall who was vicar of
Long Houghton, 1730-1752, vicar of Chatton from 1752 until his death in March,
1775. Samuel Hall, the younger, held the perpetual curacy of Alnwick,
together with the vicarage of Chatton, until his death, 24 March, 1799,
aged 56. Chatton R€(iister