Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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April 8, being Sunday, 1688, my wife Katherine^s dyed; and was
buryed in Egleston chapel under the comunion table the T'uesday
following, and was carryed to church by Sir William Bowes, Mr. John
Bowes, Mr. Edward Hudleston, Mr. John Dale, Mr. Thomas Watson,
my Sonne Mr. Thomas Wickeliffe, and my four sons, Ciithbert,
William, Robert and James. And all had aJamood scarfes, three
yards apeece, and Mr. Chancellor Tully^'' had likewise a scarfe, and all
the gentry had sweet-meats.
Wednesday, the 25 of July, 1688, Robertas and James did rise out
of bed and went and lay out. On Thursdayith evening Robert came
in, and James came not in till Friday night, and they both gave their
promise under their hands never to do the like but to abhorre
drinking ; which writing I shall keep as a recognission against them
if ever they doe the like again.
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She was the Diarist's third wife and apparently a daughter of William
Fielding of Startforth and sister of Israel Fielding of that place. If this were
so, father and son married sisters. See Fielding pedigree in Harrison's Yorkshire,
p. 392.
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Mr. Thomas Tullie, chancellor of Carlisle, 1683-1727, and also dean from
1716 to his death in January, 1726/7.
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A youthful escapade of the future archaeologist and learned joint editor
of Rymer's Foedera, already mentioned in the introduction. According to the
Dictionary of National Biography, he married four times. He died, s.p., 25th
Dec, 1741. By his will, dated the 5th Dec, 1741, and proved at the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury on the 29th of the same month, he gives the castle,
manor and estate of Armathwaite, his lands at Whorlton and at Aldbrough,
etc., to his wife for her life, and then to his great-nephew William Milburn of
Lincoln's Inn. Cf. Mr. Beazley's paper on the Diary ' and Pedigree of
•Cliristopher Sanderson,' Genealogist, vol. xxii. p. 82.