Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1685. 21 Dec. John Morland. junior, called King John, dejiarted
this life. ^3
1685. L'9 Dec. Mr. Stau:ge entred upon the post place.
1685/6. 17 Feb. [Died] Mrs. Thirkeld of the Ross and Crowne.^o
1686. 27 March. [Died] Mr. Conyers, high sheriff for the county
Palliutin of Durham. ^^
1686. 2S March. [Died] Mr. Musgrave, prebind of the cathedrall
chui'ch of Durham, being Palme Sunday. ^^
1686. 26 April. Nann Bee went to school, being Munday.^^
1686. 8 June. Matthew Wright and Elizabeth Bryan [married],
and a great deale of thunder and raine.
1686. 31 Aug. Magdaliu Barnsfather and John Hold-my-stafe,
alis Smith [married].
1686. l Sept. [Died] Captain Thompson, muster-master.
1686. 1 Dec. [Died] Simon Browne—Oyster Simon. ^4
1686/7. 16 Jan. Thomas Wade, fidler, was married to a. Londoner,
a widow. 45
1686/7. 21 Feb. Robert Wood got a misfortune by a leg that was
either streen'd or broken.
^' 1685. 22 Dec. Mr. John Morland, being a parishoner, buried att St.
Oswald's. Registers of St. Nicholas', Durham.
1685. 22 Dec. Mr. John Morland, of the parish of St. Nicholas, mercer,
bui"ied. Begistera of St. Osimifd's, Durham. He was baptized at St. Oswald's,
1 March, 1645/6, and some notice of his parents may be found on p. 47, supra.
*" 1685/6. 20 March (sic). Anne Thurkeld, widow, ie7nplo, buried. Begi-
Xicholas', Durham.
*'
1686. 29 March. Nicholas Conyers, esquire (and Hye Sherife for this
sters of St.
county) of Biddick, buried.
Houghton-le-Spring liegisters.
His epitaph, at Houghton-le-Spring, describes him as 'chief of the family
of the Conjers of the house of Boulby in Yorkshire.
Truth, faith, and justice, and a loj'al heart.
'
In him show'd Nature, which in most is Art."
He died at South Biddic, aged 57. He bore as arms, azure a manch or rfebruised
by a bend compony ermine and gules, Conyers of Boulby, impaling Lambton and
Frevill of Hardwick, his wife being Jane, daughter of Sir William Lambton,
knight.
* 1686. 30 March. Thomas Musgrave, D.D., buried. Durham Cathedral
RegiMern.
On a blue slab the floor of the north aisle of Durham Cathedral is the
following inscription:— 'Here lyes interr'd Thomas Musgrave D.D., Dean of
Carlisle and late prebendary of this cathedral. (He was the 5th son of S"^ Philip
Musgrave of Hartley Castle in the county of Westmorland, bart. ) who dj'ed the
28th of March 16s6 in the 47th year of his age. He first marrj-ed Mary the
daugliter of S"^ Thomas Harrison of Allerthorpe in the county of York, K'., by
whom he had issue Margaret. His 2nd wife was Ann the daughter of S' Joseph
Cradock of llihcmond in the said county, K'.' See p. 40, auprn.
" The diarist's grand-daughter.
" 1686. 1 Dec. Simond Browne, templo, buried. liegisters of St. Nicholas',
Durham.
*M686 7. 16 Jan. Thomass NVaide and Honor Franklin, married. Registers
of St. Margaret's, Durham.