Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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persons at devotion, a dormer fell down and hert most of them all.
Mrs. Tunstall had her leg-ges broken, and she died on the Satturday
sennet at night aftenverds.
March tlie 22nd, 1678, Christopher Hawden,!^ the attorney, and
Edmond Bunny,i4 ^^ ^h^ smith house, Wakefield, were drinking
hard ; and in the evening they went into the back side, and how they
quarrelled is not knowne, but Hawdon was runne almost thorrow and
came (sic) fell down betwixt doors, and lived but about two or three
hours, and Bunny had two or three wounds of him in the breast and
lived till Monday at night.
October 15, 1680, my daughter, Margartt Milburne, was brought
to bed of her first child in Newcastle in son Aubone's house, and was
called Henry. Mr. Newton and sonne Aubone, godfathers, and sister
Jane Robson, godmother. ^^
Friday, the 5th May, 1682, the Glocester friget, wherein tlie Duke
of Yorke was goeing for Scotland, was runne upon Lemonds Sands . . .
;
there was three persons of quality drowned, and about 130 seamen,
and severall of the duke's officers drowned. After the duke was
gone out of her, she rouled into 15 fathoms water and presently after
sunke downe.^^
Thursday, July 27, 1682, Mr. Brokell dyed and Mr. Chapman
entered July 30th, being Sunday, and preached. i"
Parson Roberts died at Rumbald-kirke the 6th September, 1682.
" There was a family of the name of Hawdon at this period in the city of
Durham, some member of which was called Christopher. Cf. Register of Durham
Cathedral, ed. White, p. 40. Surtees, Durham, vol. iv. part 2, p. 149.
Query, Edmund Bunny of University College, Oxford, and of Newland, in
'*
the parish of Wakefield, born circa 1622. Cf. Hunter, Familiae Minorum
Gentium, vol. ii. p. 610.
'^
This boy was apprenticed to his godfather and uncle, William Aul)one
of Newcastle, mercer, on the 1st December, 1696, was admitted free of the
Merchants* Company on the 3rd February, 1707, and died circa 1715. Among
the other issue of the marriage of Henry Milburn with Margaret Sanderson
wtTe Mathias, Samuel, Thomas, Jonathan, Dorothj% afterwards wife of
Christopher Mickleton, and Hannah, wife of John Jackson, all of whom, save
Tliomas, were alive and were mentioned in the will of William Sanderson of
Armathwaite Castle, dated 3rd July, 1726. William Milburn, the grandson
of Mai'garet Milburn mentioned in the text (son of Thomas), was of Lincoln's
Inn, barrister-at-law and recorder of Carlisle, and succeeded to Armathwaite
Castle in 1753, on the death of his great-uncle Kobert Sanderson's widow.
The Milburn arms are over the door of the castle.
" '
James sailed on 3rd May [1682] to fetch home his duchess from Scotland
in the Gloucester frigate (a ' third rate '). The Gloucester was wrecked on the
Yorkshire coast, with great loss of life. James was afterwards accused of
having taken particular care of liis strong-box, his dogs, and his priests, while
Legge with drawn sword kept off the other passengers.' Memoir of James
II., Dictionary of National Biography. The Leman sands are south of the
Yorkshire coast.
' John Brockell (of St. John's College, Cambridge, matriculated, 9tli May,
1662. aged 18), perpetual curate of Barnard Castle from 1673 until his (Uath.
He was succeeded by John Chapman, who was presented to the vi< arage of
Wycliffe and died in 1703.