Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1787. March 19. Died at Alnwick, Mrs. Daglish, wife of Thomas
Daglish, gardener and innkee^oer.^
1787. March. Memorandum : that William Charlton, esq., has
acted as commissioner for His Grace the Duke' of Northumberland for
eighteen years at this time.*
1787. March 21. The seven year old Howick O'X was killed at
Alnwick, amazingly fat, and weighed as follows :—the carcase 152 st.
8 lbs., the tallow 16 st. = 168 st. 8 lbs. Bolton and Embleton, butchers,
The head and feet of this ox were not weighed. It was sold at
tenpence jDer pound, in pieces, and stakes of it at one shilling ; calculated
to have sold, adding every article together, for the sum of
100/. or thereabouts. Yery remarkable to be fed in Northumberland.
It is to he remarked that in the month of December, 1779, an ox,
fed at Blackwell, was killed in that month at Darlington, which
weighed as follows: —the carcase iol st. 10 lbs., the tallow llst.=
162 St. 10 lbs. He was six years old, and said to have been sold for
109/. 11«. od., but not much credit given to either weight or sale,
partioula,rly as the Howick ox exceeds in weight 5 st. 12 lbs. The
head and feet of the Blackwell ox was Aveighed, wliich makes a
difference.
1787. March. Died at Newcastle, John Rotherham, M.D., one of
the physicians to the infirmary, aged 68.^
Norwich election poll:—Hon. Henry Hobart 1392, Sir Thos.
Beevor 1313 [some words unintelligible] it's said a scrutiny!
1787. March 26. Died at Alnwick, Mr. Bryan Grey, attorney at
law, wdth a very good charactei', aged 31.'^
^ '
To the memory of Isabella, wife of Thomas Daglish of Alnwick, who
departed this life March 10, 1787, aged 50 years.' Monumental Inscription,
Alnwick.
^
Mr. William Charlton of Lee-hall married at St. John's Church, Newcastle,
10 Feb., 1752, Miss Esther Williams, by whom he had a numerous issue.
He resided at Alnwick and died there on the 20 Sept., 1794, aged 75. Cf.
Monumental Inscription, Alnwick.
He was succeeded as commissioner to the Duke of Northumberland by
Henry Collingwood Selby. See p. 303, post.
^ The NeiccastJe f'oiirant of 24 March, 1787, in announcing Dr. Rotheram's
death on March 18, states that ' his house was a receptacle on certain days for
the afflicted poor to whom he prescribed gratis with chearfulness, complacency
and success. ' An admirable memoir may be found in Mr. Welford's Men of Mark
'firixf Tyne and Ticeed. He was a native of Kendal, educated at the University
of Edinburgh, and was afterwards physician to Newcastle Infirmary from 1771
to 1786. He died aged 68 j'ears and was buried in Hexham church, leaving
with other issue John Rotheram, M.D. , a professor of St. Andrews, and Edward
Rotheram, captain R.N. Cf. Embleton, The Medical Society of Xeii-castle One
Jfundred Years Ago, p. 44.
" Mr. Bryan Grey, born at Craster and baptized at Embleton, Aug. 13,
1756, was heir-apparent of his grandfather Bryan Grey of Kyloe, who died
in July, 1792, being the eldest son of Marmaduke Grey (died 1763), by his
marriage with Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Forster of Brunton. The following
is an abstract of the grandfather's will :—
1787. April 6. Will of Bryan Grey of Kyloe, esq. I give my plate to my