Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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Parson Hiltou^^ was inducted to the said parsonage the ... of
October, being Sunday, and preached ; his text the I Corinthians,
iv. 1. After, he had a great feast, and many invited. He brought
his wife first to Rumbald the 9 of November, 1682 ; she got a fall,,
of horseback, after she was over Egle.ston bridg, going up the banke»
and hurt her head. Hee fell sick the next day, at afternoon, and
dyed there on Tuesday, being the 14 of November, 1682.
My Sonne in law, William Aubone,^^ was elected alderman at
Newcastle, Monday, the 11 of June, 1683.
Friday, ye 6 Feb. 1684/5, King Charles the 2nd died at Westminster
between 11 and 12 in the forenoone. The duke of Yorke spoke
these words following ye same aftemoone, Now the Crowne ' is descended
upon mee, I doe declare never to alter the government as
is now established in Church and State, and I will sacrifico f^ last
dro|) B^ ffl-f blood te maintaine ye protestant religion, and, as farr
as in mee lyeth, I will follow my late brother's example,' and more
not here sett down.
The same day at 4 in the afternoon he was proclaimed king in
London; and att Durham, Wednesday, the 11th of February; and
at Auckland, Thursday, the 12th of February; at Darlington, Monday,
the 16th February ; and at Barnard Castle, ye 18th of February,
1684/5.
My daughter, Katherine Aubony, sailed in the Pink, Friday, the
23rd July, and was nine or ten days at sea.
August 24, 1685, my daughter, Katherine Aubony, then beeing
Mrs. Mairis of Newcastle, dyed in London, in the forenoon, in a
flux of rume that ohoaked her in her throat ; begun about 10 a olocke,
and dyed about 12. She was shamefully neglected by her husband's
sister, Besse White (alias Eliott), that wente to London to attend
her : she had but the opinion of one surgeon.
Deane Thomas Musgrave^o dyed about ye 26th March, 1686, and
Sr. Joseph Cradock^i dyed Sunday forenoone, being Easter-day, ye
4th April, 1686.
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Alexander Hilton, son of Lancelot Hilton, was curate of Denton, 1674-
1682. Of. Longstaffe, Darlington, p. xxxix, and also Hilton pedigree, No. VI.
" William Aubone, son of Thomas Aubone of Newcastle, master and
mariner, apprenticed 25th April, 1655, to George Dobson of Newcastle, mercer,
admitted free of Merchants Company, 16th Aug. 1665 ; alderman of Newcastle,
1683 ; mayor, 1684 ; died 29th September, 1700. Among the names of his
successive apprentices entered in the books of the Company of Merchant
Adventurers, were (his nephew) William Aubone, 1688, and his wife's nephews,
Henry Millnirn, 1696, and William Milburn, 1700.
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Dr. Thomas Musgrave of Queen's College, Oxford, fifth son of Sir Philip
Musgrave of Edenhall, bart. , rector of Whitburn, 1675-1686; prebendary of the
third stall in Durham Cathedral, 1675-1686; dean of Carlisle, 1684-1686; died,
28th March, 1686, aged 46, and was buried in the north aisle of Durham
Cathedral, where there is a monument to his memory.
'' Sir Joseph Cradock, knight, commissary of the archdeaconry of Richmond,
father of Dean Musgrave's second wife, was buried at Richmond on the 16th (?)
April, 1686, aged 81.