Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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Castle, in William Wharton's house, and was interred in Barnard
Castle church the 31st day, in the pue-, or stall, where my father
sitts. Mr. George Sanderson^ preached her funerall sermon.
to be remembred that my second wife was called Margarett
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Webster, daughter to Robertt Webster of Hartenpoole, merchant.
Wee were married at Langley Hall at my cossen Gab. Jackson's upon
the 15th day of September, 1653, and that night went to Hartenpoole.
Monday, February the 10th, 1667, my deare wife Margaret
departed this life at Egleston, and was interred in Egleston chappel
in the quire the 13th day. Mr. Timothy Tully^ preached her funeral
sermon ; his text was out of Romans viii., 10, which shee named
her selfe.
There was above four hundred red deer in T'easdale-forest at
Rood-day,io 1673, but the winter following being such a great snow,
they were all lost to betweene forty and fifty.
Sunday, the 18 of Januaoy, 1673/4, the moon being in the last
quarter that night, was oast away upon the coast of Northumberland
thirty nine saile of shippes, whereof sixteen did belong to Newcastle
and Sheels, and those of their best shippes.
1671 ... If great quantity of rye and other grain had not
come in at Newcastle and Stockton, undoubtedly we had had a great
famine in WestmorlaJid and Cumberland, Bishoprik, Northumberland,
and the North Rideing of Yorkshire. Not many oats were reeped
and got in to the barn before St. Luke day, but the most out then,
and some barley to sheare after St. Luke's day.
In all the wells about the market, place in Barnard Castle at the 17
of October, 1676, there was not water in them sufficient to serve for
the steeping of their big for malt. I was at Raby the 16, and the
pipes in the castle were dry and did not run any water. On the 17
of September Mr. Robert Branthwait's wife did cast herself of Pendragon
castle^^ and broake her back and some of her limbes, and
within two days dyed.
November 12, 1676, being Sunday, Mr. Francis Tunstall's^^ house,
in a high chamber, over the dineing-room, there being about 23
* Mr. George Sanderson was the Commonwealth, or intruding, vicar of
Gainford.
« Timothy TuUie, M.A., vicar of Middleton-in-Teesdale, 1660-1700. He
married, 10th December, 1650, Elizabeth Hutton of Streatlam ; Proceedings
of the Newcastle Society of Antiqiiaries, vol. viii. p. 222.
'"
Holy-rood-day, or Exaltation of Holy Ci'oss, is on the 14th of September.
" The castle of Pendragon, or Mallerstang, is in the parish of Kirkby
Stephen in Westmorland.
'- Mr. Francis Tunstall of Scargill and WyclifFe, who was 28 years of age in
1665, married Cecily, daughter of John Constable, Viscount Dunbar ; their second
son, Cuthbert Tunstall, assumed the name of Constable on succeeding to the
estates of his uncle, William, fourth Viscount Dunbar. Cf. Harrison, Yorkshire,
p. 301.