Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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DIARY.
1681. 5 Sept. John Phillipson, taylor, and Katherin Rowell
{married], with a hiwles minister at Newca'stle.
1682. 27 March. John Maddison's child Margaret went out of
Durham to Newcastle for London to be toutcht for the evill.
1682. April. Two great floods of watter upon Wednesday and
Tliursday, being the 26th and 27th of April.
The first day that men and women servants presented themselves
to be hired in Durham markett was the 6th day of May, 1682.
1682. 31 May. Betwixt 11 and 12 at night, was a very fearfull
thunder, with flalshes of fire, very tirrible.
1682. 28 July. Captain Thomas Featherston, of Stanhope hall,
depaj-ted this life, being Friday, at night about 11a clook.^
1682. 15 Aug. A blading stare appeared.
1682. 6 Sept. Mr. William Witherington, one of the bead-men
of Abby church [died].
1682. 28 Sept. . . . Sofly, sone to Richard Sofly, was borne,
being Thursday : and Elizabeth Dobinson was her midwife and the
first that ever she [had] laid.^
Anthony Fewster became not well the 1st of February, 1681/2
.... and was not well again the 2;3rd October, 1682.
1682. 20 Nov. Being Munday this yeare and a great wind which
blew one half of the west end of a window in Abby church.^
1682. 20 Nov. William Ross, junior, departed this life.s
1682/3. 5 Jan. Mr. Wilson commonly called Judge Wilson
[died].6
1682/3. 14 Jan. The watch gave over in Cross-gate.
1682/3. 25 Jan. A sad cruel murther comitted by a boy about
eighteen or nineteen years of age, nere Ferryhill, nere Durham, being
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1682. 30 July. Thomas Fetherstonehalgh, esquire of Stanhopliall, buried
in linnen. Stanhope RegiMers.
He was a knight of the shire for Durham, 1679 and 1680.
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1682. 6 Sept. William Witherington of the Palace Greene, headman,
buried. Registers of St. Osica/d's, Durham.
' 1682. 3 Oct. William sou of Richard Softly baptized. Registers of St.
Margaret's, Durham.
*
Cf. Longstaffe on 'The Stained Glass of Durham Cathedral.' Arch. Atl.
2 series, vol. vii. p. 125.
*
1682. 20 Nov. William Rose, bur. Registers of St. Margaret's, Durham.
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16S2/3. 7 Jan. Mr. Cieorge Wilson, attorney, buried. Registers of St.
Oswald's, Durham.