Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1786. May 12. Died at Alnwick, the Rev. Mr. Monteath, a
dissenting minister, aged 60. ^^
1786. May 12. Being Alnwick Fair, fat and midling fat cattle
sold well for the farmers, the price upon an average at or above 5s.
per stone : and lean cattle likewi.s.e sold tolerably : deemed the best
market for 20 years past.
1786. May 24. Died at Warkworth, Richard Clutterbuck, esq.,
one of His Majestie's justices of the peace for Northumberland. i'^
1786. May 28. A funeral sermon preached at Warkworth by the
Rev. Mr. Bowej^" from Psalm Ixxxix., 48.
1786. June 1. Died, Anne Nicholson, widow of the late Alexander
Nicholson, maltman, aged 83.
1786. June 6. Died at Sion, near London, the Rt. Hon. Hugh
Percy, Duke of Northumberland, aged 74. His coi^ps lies in state
twelve days. By the death of the Duke, Lord Algernon Percy, second
son, is created Lord Lovaine and Baron of Alnwick, so he is entitled to
a seat in the House of Peers, wherel)y he being a member of Parliament
for Northumberland, his seat becomes vacant in the House of
Commons, so that a new member must be elected in his stead.
Married, John Lowes, esq., of Ridley-hall, to Miss Stott, daughter
of the Rev. Mr. Stott, in Galway, N.B.i«
1786. June 19. Little moving about a new member, only an
advertizement signed by Sir Henry Grey, bart., for his nephew, Mr.
Charles Grey : well penned !
1786. June 21. Duke of Northumberland's cor|JS interred in great
funeral pomp in St. Nicholas's chapel, Westminster abl^ey, close by
the Duchess' corps.
1786. June 23. Died, Nicholas Grey, butcher, aged 37. By an
irregular life he shortened his days.^^
1786. June 25. By invitation dined with the Rev. Mr. P. Stockdale
at Lesbury vicarage-house.
'''
The Rev. Thomas Monteith of Dunse was minister of the Presbyterian
church in Bondgate from December, 1771, to his death in 1786, from paralysis.
'" Cf. pedigree of Chitterbuck, new HUiory of Northnmherland, vol. v. p, 459.
''
Mr. George Bowe, sometime chaplain 60th Foot, was presented to the
vicarage of Sliilbottle in 1788. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Skelly,
vicar of Stockton, by his wife Lady Betty Gordon, daughter of the second Duke
of Gordon, and died at Shilbottle on the '21st April, 1803, aged 55 years.
"* The marriage took place at Kilton-house, near Dumfries, on Sunday,
4 June, 1786. JSeiocasffe Courant, 17 June, 1786. Cf. pedigree of Lowes of
Ridley-hall, Rev, John Hodgson's History of Northumberland, part il. vol. iii.
p. 337.
'*
Nicholas Grey was presumably grandson of Nicholas Grey, butcher,
drover, and inn keeper at Long Houghton, and afterwards of Alnwick, butcher,
who was baptized at Long Houghton, 13 April, 1686, being the eldest child of
Peter Grey of Boulmer, 'gentleman and inn keeper,' who, 16 June, 1685, had
married Rachel Dowell, Loiuj Houghton Registers.