Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

•
Adam
'67
DIARY.
Memorandum, that I was married the Ith day of March, 1640, to
Christian Thursby.^
Lieute. -general Oliver Cromwell came into Barnard Castle upon
Tuesday, the 2-tth day of October, 1648,^ and w^ent to Richmond the
next day. There went out of Barnard-castle to nieete him and ridd
before him into the town, and soe conducted him into his lodgeing
and presented him witli burnt wine [and] short cake :—Anthony
Martindale. Matthew Stodart, Cuthbert Raine, Robert Hutton, Francis
Huchinson, William Hutton, Morgan Rowlandson, Thomas Heslop,
Samuell Martindaile, George Dayle, John Lively, William Wharton.
Memorandum, that in August, 1648, when the kinge's party
marched through Baruard-castle, I htcro Rcpht ft'cl vcy god adn
found ell the acualeers.^
Memorandum, that upon the 25 October, 1648, I was taken by a
warrant from George Lilburne^ and bound over to answer the first
jale delivery' or assize.
Memorandum, that I was taken the second time, 1648, by George
Whittield, quarteraiaster to Captain Adam Shipson," upon Satm-day
evening, the 10th February, 1648/9.
It is to be i-emembered that the year 1652 was an extraordinarie
drie summer and harvest in which, yeare the 29 of March was a greatt
eclipse of the sunne ; I see stars betwixt ten and eleven [o'Jclocke
in the morneing. Itt was soe diy a yeare that att the 28 day of
October verey manie wells had little or noe water in them, and people
went dry-shod over the Teese, and noe come to be gott in at the
29th of August about Barnard-castle that yeere.
Tuesday, the 29th of March, 165.'). It is to bee remembred that
my deare wife. Christian Sanderson, departed this life in Barnard
'
A pedigree of Tlmrsby of Woolliouse, near Barnard Castle, is given in
Surtees, Durham, vol. iv. part 1, p. 95.
'
'On October 14 [1648] Cromwell was at Carlisle. After a short delay he
marched into Yorkshire where he took up his quarters at Knottingley. ' Gardiner,
Civil Wai-, vol. iii. p. 493. He was at Pontefract on the 9th November. Carlyle,
Cromirell's Letters, letter Ixxiv.
• I heard Ralph Fel say, God confound all cavaleers. C7". Mr. l'\ C.
Beazley's paper, Genealogist, vol. xxii. p. 2"i.
•
For some notices of Captain George Lilburn, see Surtees, DnrluDii, vol. ii.
pp. 21, 178, 179, 388.
Shipperdson of Monkwearmouth, second son of William Shipperdson
of Bishopwearmouth, bore a captain's commission under Cromwell. Cf. Surtees,
Durham, vol. i. p. 114.