Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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Ten days ago, died at High Buston, Mr. Roger Buston, aged 81 >
1786. Feb. 15. Died at Shilbottle, Rev. Mr. Salkeld, vicar there,
aged 84.5
James Allgood of Nunwick, esq., nominated High Sheriff for
Northmiiberland.
1786. Feb. 25. Died at York, Mrs. Taylor, widow and relict of
Mr. George Taylor, late of Fleetham, aged 67 : her annuity of 407.
per annum falls to Mr. T. Taylor.^
1786. Feb. 28. Died at Alnwick, Mrs. Margaret Grey, great aunt
to Edward Gallon, esq.," stiled, by Stockdale, 'the Gothic Squire,'^
aged 89.
1786. Feb. Paper war between Mr. Stockdale and Doctor Thos.
Collingwood.*^
1786. March 12. Rev. Mr. Charles Charlton's text in Alnwick
church, Psalam xxiii., 4.^
1786. March. It's currently reported, as also mentioned in the
newspapers, that His Royal Highness, George, Prince of Wales, is
married to a young widow, a Mrs. FitzHerbert, who has an annuity of
2,000/. per annum, but a Roman Catholick. Acts of Parliament
against such marriages (William and George). Probably this marriage
will be void, but those attending the ceremony, etc., will be
punished.
1786. March. Thomas Blacket, inn keeper, failed, in 500/. debt.
Great disturbances with respect to 32 executions out of the Towncourt,
and the validity of a Bill of Sale to one Mr. Hindmarsh of
Berwick, carjDenter, for the benefit of the creditors.
1786. March 16. First court of James Allgood, esq. Then determined
a Writt of Justice, Johnson Falkoner v. Thomas Marshall, in
favour of plaintiff, with respect to a desk and bookcase sold and
delivered : a cheat, intended—very flagrant— by defendant.
* For pedigree of Buston of High Buston, see new Hi^fori/ of Northumherland,
vol. v., p. 214.
Mr. John Salkeld, curate of St. Oswald's, Durham, where three of his
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children were baptized, was presented to the vicarage of Shilbottle in 1742, and
was buried there on 18 Februai-y, 17S6.
" Mr. George Taylor of Fleetham married Margaret, daughter of William
Grieve of Berwick, and dying .s._/j., was buried at Bamburgh. His widow made
her will on the 23rd December, 1779. Thomas Taylor of Fleetham, who succeeded
to his brother's property at Beadnell, died on the 19th August, 1802,
aged 82, and was buried at Beadnell, where there is a monument to his
memory.
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Cf. pedigree of Gallon, new History of Northumberland, vol. ii., p. 486.
" Mr. Thomas Collingwood, a surgeon and apothecary in Alnwick, wrote a
play, which was publicly acted, the plot being founded on the matrimonial differences
of Stockdale and his Mdfe. Tt was printed at Berwick for the author,
in 1786, and is entitled '
: A Farce
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the Alive Again
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To which is added Agreeable Separation Entertainment
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Copies of it are excessi\'ely rare.
' Mr. Charles Charlton was of the family of Charlton of Lee-hall, and was
presented to the vicarage of Tynemouth in 1789, holding the same to his death,
18 August, 1824, aged 65.