Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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17S7. Feb. '20. A pig in tnwn for puljlic show, remarkable for
it« luaiiy perforiuaiices.
17S7. Feb. Edward Collitigwood, of Cliirton, esq., appointed
high sheriff.
17S7. Feb. Died, Mr. Robert Dunn, of Smeafield, formerly of
Hoppen, aged 70.
1787. Feb. Neither Mr. Cook nor Mr. Bowe have got the living
of Shilbottle as mentioned, as a Hev. Mr. Cockeram of Colquhoun,
from Edinburgh is appointed. This confusion was occasioned l)y
Lord Chancellor's clerk. -^
1787. Feb. Charles Grey, esq., member for Northumberland,
made his maiden speech in the House of Commons against the Treaty
entered into l>etween Great Britain and France last September,
greatly condemning it. It's deemed well of a young man.
1787. Feb. A fever raging in Alnwick, and sinittle,-^ but the
doctors give no name; it continues long with the patient but not
very mortal ; comes on with a shivering and pain in the back : mostly
the inhabitants of Clayport and Bondgate streets afi'ected.
1787. Feb. 28. Died, Mrs. Hindmar.sh, wife of Mr. Michael
Hindniar.sh, ironmonger, in Alnwick.^
1787. March 2. Died at Alnwick, Miss Dixon, daughter of the late
Mr. Robert Dixon, of Ratsheugh, in the parish of Longhoughton, aged
57; possessed of 2,200/. and upwards; money in different places.
1787. March. The trial in the House of Commons and Lords
respecting the misconduct of Warren Hastings, esq., abroad.
1787. March. Mr. Whitfield, of the Phoenix inn, in Morpeth, is
greatly in debt.
1787. March. The Treaty before mentioned has passed lx>th
Houses of Parliament, as likewise the Irish House, being Xeiii. Con.,
which is rare there.
1787. March. Rowland Stephenson, esq., elected member for
Carlisle by i^etition. Henry (sic) J. Lambton, esq., son of General
Lambton, elected member for Durham. John Scott, 2* esq., King's
Councel, is appointed Chancellor of Durham vice Judge Willes,
deceased.
1787. March i;5. A jargonel pear planted against the brick wall.
Mrs. Mackey.
1787. March l.'i. Two remarkable tine oxen bred and fed at
Howick by Sir Henry Grey, bart. : the height and weight not yet
known, one of them seven years old, the other six.
-' Nothing whatever is known of this clergyman, and there is no evidence
of his induction to the benefice of Shilbottle.
" Sinif//e : infectious. Heslop, Xort/inmher/tntd \\'o)d.^.
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She was Elizabeth, daughter of George Snowdon, and died on the 27
February, 1787, age '21 years, having been only ' ten months a beloved wife and
ten days an affectionate mother.' Monumental Inscription, Alnwick.
M730 1, Feb. 18. Eleanor, daughter of Robert Dixon of the Hill-top,
baptized. Louij J/omjhtoii y('p;/i'>V«/-.