Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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The Rev. Mr. Middleton, vicar of Long Horsley, aged 80. ^^
Henry Peareth, esq., of Little Houghton, aged 80.^^
Dutches of Argvle.
Dutches of AthoU.
In Westgate street, Newcastle, Mrs. Stewart, aunt to D. R. Grieve^
esq.'s wife. IS
At Mountain, near to Wliittingham, Mr. Bolton of Black-pool.
1790. Dec. Great debates in the House of Commons respectinga
further tryal of Hastings. Query whether a dissolution of Parliament
should prevent a further enquiry into the impeachment or not.
Veiy elegant speeches.
The diaries for 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795 are lost.
1796. Jan. 8. Princess of Wales delivered of a daughter.
Austrians and French said to have a suspension of arms.
1796. Jan. Died, Robert Wright, esq., a cajjtain in the Durham
militia, aged 35.1^
1796. Jan. Married, Mr. Wilkie of Hetton to Miss Tarret of
Berwick-ujDon-Tweed. 1''
1796. Jan. 25. Died at Alnwick, Mrs. Selby, wife of Mr. George
Selby, attorn ey-at-law. IS She was one of the Cook family of Togston,
aged 83.
1796. Jan. General Harcourt's Light Horse still at Alnwick, as
also Durham militia, which may continue some time.
" Mr. Joseph Middleton, B.A., presented to the vicarage of Long Horsley
in 1748 by the Crown. The Gentltmaii'i Magazine of 1790, p. 1215, states that
he was ' in his S6th year.
'* Mr. Henry Peareth, son of Henry Peareth of Newcastle, merchant, by
his second wife, and heir to his mother, was baptized at St. Nicholas', New*
castle, 18 Sept., 1713. Cf. pedigree of Peareth of Little Houghton, new
History of Xortlnimherland, vol ii. p. 409.
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Yesterday se'nnight, at her house in Westgate Street, in an advanced
age, Mrs. Stewart, relict of the late Edward Stewart, esq. yeiocast/e ( 'ourant,
31 Dec, 1790.
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'Mr. Robert Wright died at Alnwick 14 Jan.' Cf. Kewccn^tle Courant,.
16 Jan., 1796.
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Mr. John Wilkie married at Berwick, 12 Jan., 1796, Anne, daughter of
the late Captain Terrot 'of the Invalids' at Berwick. J\'ewca-'