Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1683. 22 Aug. Jane Hutchinson, daughter to Richard Hutchinson
(Ti-inidan Dick) [married] to one Kitchen. i*
lt)8.'5. 9 Sept. A thanksgiven day was keep throughout England
for the preseiTcing the king from a horrid plot by Presbiterians this
year.^^
1683. 15 Sept. There was a man, a glasier by traid, came from
Gateshead and stood in the pillery in Durham about one hour and
one half (his name was Simpson), for taking a brib from one . . .
a quaker.
1683. 18 Sept. Seven bouohers should have play'd at foot-ball
with seven glovers, being Tuesday, this year above, and my man
Christopher went without leave to plav. [And stay'd out all night,
the 16 day of March, 1683. ]i6
1683. Sept. . . . Mr. Ixobert Wilson of Cambridge is but 5-4
yeares of age, and Jacob Bee and Robert Wilson of Durham, singing
man, did lay a wager of three quarts of ale that the said Robert
Wilson is not 54 years of age.
1683. 14 Oct. Bett Thompson was churcht at Ryton church,
her month was out the Sunday before.
1683. 18 Nov. Duke Errington drunk 6d. : and six pence owne
by his wife.
1683. 11 Xov. Mai-gret Kirkhouse, daughter to Henry Kirkhouse
[married] to Henry Brittan, servant to the esquire of Xewton.
1683 4. 8 Jan. Robert Hilton, esquire, justice of the peace in
Westmorland, came to Durham and lived in tlie Coledge : he died very
suddenly, having been abroad at supper the night before, and went
very- well to bed the night before.^"
'1683/4. 29 Feb. Richard Hutchinson, son to Richard Hutchinson,
comonly called little Dick [died].^^
1683/4. 2 March. Mr. Thomas Butterry, attorney at law [married]
to Elizabeth Browne, Richard Browne's daughter, the sexton of
Framwelgat church.
1684. 3 April. Old Mrs. Morland, Justice Morland's wife [died].i9
" See entries snh 29 Feb., 16S3 4 ; 12 Feb., 1692 3 ; 9 March. 1698 9.
'^ The Rye-house Plot. C/. Trevelyan, England Under the Stuarts, p. 420.
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Christopher again misconducted himself on the 14th July, 1684.
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1683 4. 9 Jan. Robert Hilton, esq., on Wednesday, buried. Durham
Cathedral RtfixMers. He was of Helton-Bacon and Murton, and married, 2nd
Nov., 1647, Mary daughter of John Hilton, baron of Hilton in the Bishopric.
Cf. Longstaffe, Darlinrjlon, Hilton Pedigree, No. II.
" 1683 4. 1 March. Richard Hutchinson, buried. JRegisteri of St. Margaret's,
Durham.
" She was baptized 8th Feb., 1623/4, at St Oswald's, as Thomazine, ' daughter
of Mr. George Martyn, gent.,' her god parents being Mr. John Calverley, Mrs.
Dorothy Craddocke and Mrs. Margaret Heethe ; and wa.s married at the same
church 10th May, 1642, to 'Mr. John Morland.' She was buried 4th April,
1684, and her husband was laid beside her on the 27th January, 16S7 8, being
described in the register of burials as 'John Morland, Esq.' liegisters of St.
Ostoa/d's, Durham.