Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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Thursday, at night. The maner is, by report:—When the parents
were out of dores a young man, being sone to the house, and two
daughters was kil'd by this boy with an axe, having knockt them in
the head, afterwards cut ther throts : one of them being asleep in the
bed, about ten or eleven yeares of age : the other daughter was to be
married at Candlemas. After he had kil'd the sone and the eldest
daughter, being above twenty yeares of age, a little lass, her sister,
about the age of eleven yeares being in bed alone, he drag'd her out
in bed and killed her alsoe. The same Andrew Millns alias Miles,
was hang'd in irons upon a gybett nere Ferryhill upon the 15th day
of August, being Wednesday, this year 1683.'^
1682/3. 12 March. Mr. Anthony Smith, once a Member in
Parliament, in Oliver's time [died].^
1683. 11 April. Francis Shaw,^ servant to Thomas Skinner
[died] very suddenly, being vei-y well the Munday before in my
house.—Jacob Bee.
1683. 6 June. Margaret Richardson, the midwife [died].i°
William Fawcett, mow-maker [died] in the gaoll in Durham. ^^
1683. Two men fought a prize in the New Place, upon a stage -
Swainston and Wood—but Wood wounded Swainston with back
sword, although Swainston got the better.
1683. 21 July. William, Lord Russel beheaded in Lincolns Infeilds,
being guilty of a conspring {sic), against the king, as was
supposed. 12
The day before was hang'd, drawne, and quartered Captain
Walcott, Mr. Hone, and Mr. Rouse, being Friday.
1683. 3 Aug. The assisses begun, and such an inundation of
watter that the judges was forcet to come down Gillygate, and come
in about 8 at night, and read their commission. Judges names,
Jones and Strut. ^^
'
1682/3. 26 Jan. John Brasse, Jane Brasse and Elizabeth Brasse, the
son and daughters of John Brasse of Ferryhill, all three murdered in their
father's house, by one Andrew Mills, and were all three buryed. Kirk Merrington
Registers.
*
1682/3. 13 March. Mr. Anthony Smith, mercer, templo, buried. Registers
of St. Nicholas', Durham.
He was member of parliament for the City of Durham in the parliaments of
1654 and 1656. Cf. Hutchinson, Durham, vol. ii. p. 45.
' 1683. 12 April. Frances Shaw, buried. Registers of St. Margaret's,
Durham.
'"
1683. 7 June. Margaret, wife of George P^ichardson, cordwainer, buried.
Registers of St, Nicholas', Durham.
" 1683. 7 June. William Fawswett, buried. Registers of St. Osivald's,
Durhain.
'2 Cf. Macaulay, England, vol. i. p. 268. Trevelyan, England Under the
Stuarts, pp. 423, 424.
" Query, Chief Justice Jones, who was dismissed by James II. in 1686,
and Baron Street, who truckled to the king in the same year on the question of
the Dispensing Power. Cf. Macaulay, England, vol. ii. pp. 81, 84.