Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1788. May 4:. Died at Lesburv Field-house, Mr. Richard Robson^
aged 87.12
1788. May 12. At Alnwick fare a very remarkable shew of good
cattle which sold high.
1788. May 14. Died at Alnwick, Miss Isabella Rosedon, aged
60.13
1788. May. King of France has totally disannulled his Parliament,
discharging them and setting them at rovers. Himself tO'
govern the whole, not to be controuled in the management of his
affairs by any. To be sole director.
1788. May 25. Rev. Mr. Wesley preached in the Methodist-house
to a veiy crowded audience. i*
1788. May. Immence failures in London and Manchester among
the cotton manufacturers, oweing to the currency of bills and extending
their arms too farr : a loss that won't soon be surmounted, for
several banlvruptcys will be the consequence. Don't affect the north.
1788. May. "Died at Alnwick, Mary BeU, widow of the late
Thomas Bell, innkeeper at the Angel inn.
1788. May. Room compleat at Warkworth by Mr. Harrison,.
Howick. In length 30 feet, height 16 ft., breadth 18 ft.i^
1788. June 2, The Durham and Northumberland militia embodied.
Calendar of Maniacs
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—In 1786 Mrs. Margaret Nicholsoni'^ versus
Mr. Richard Robson married three times, first Hannah, died 30 Oct.,
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1755, second 27 July, 1756, Eleanor Mills, who died 3 Feb., 1759, and third,
Esther Marshall of Newcastle, who died 18 Dec, 1784.
" The Rosedons, or Rosedens, were tenants in Bilton under the Earls of
Northumberland from the sixteenth centui-y downward. Heni-y Rosedon died at
Bilton Barns and was buried at Lesbury, 16 April, 1717. By his wife Constance,
wlio was buried 5 Dec, 1706, he had, with other issue, a son, also named Henry,
who dying at Bilton Barns, aged 65, was buried at Lesbury 25 January, 1746/7.
The latter by his wife, Alice, had issue six sons Henry, John, Mark, Joseph,
George and Michael, also three daughters, viz., Isabella, baptized 23 June,
1730, Constance, baptized 4 Feb., 1737, and (apparently) Dorothy, wife of
Heni'y Tomlin of Barnhill.
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1788. 'Saturday, May 24. About one we reached Alnwick. I was a
little surprised at the new preaching house (in which I preached in the evening)
exactly resembling the meeting house we have at Brentford. Had they no
eyes? Or had they never seen any English house? But the scare crow must
now stand without remedy.'
1788. 'Sunday, jMay 25. This was the day on which all the Non-juring
congregations in Scotland began, by common agreement, to pray in all their
public worship for King George and his family. I preached at nine, at two,
and at half-past five, the last time on the Gospel for the daj', (the historj- of
Dives and Lazarus,) with much enlargement of spirit. After preaching at five
in the morning, on Matt, xxvi., and taking a solemn leave of the congregation, I
went on to Morpetli. ' Rev. John Wesley's Journal, vol. iv. p. 420.
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This refers to the long room in the Sun Hotel, Warkworth.
Cf. p. 274, .^ujira.