Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1687. 3 April. Sir John Duck had his comissiou for barronet
from London, being Sunday this year, came by post.**^
1687. 27 April. Magdalen Snadden, wife to James Snaden, did
hang herselfe in a hanke of yarn.
1687. 23 May. Nick Bee went from Durham to Richmond, being
Munday this year.
1687. 10 Dec. Mr. Salvin of Owton, was brought to Mr. Hall's
house, being there cliappell, and was hurried. ^^
1687/8. 4 Jan. Mrs. Hutchinson—Mrs. Raw's mother—departed
this life, being 103 years of age.^^
1687/J. 11 March. [Died] Major John Conj^ers of Chester in the
Street.49
1687/8. 12 March. Ann Bee went to Mrs, Nelson's school.
1688. 29 May. [Died] Thomas Binnion, the major's sergiant.^"
1688. 10 June. The supposed Prince of Wailes was borne, being
Sunda}' this yeare.^^
1688. 10 July. [Died] John Simpson of Bayley—fatt John.si^
1688. 2 Oct." Little Dick Hutchinson departed this life.52
1688. 14 Oct. [Died] Mr. Captain Blackston in Elvet.^s
1688. 18 Dec. Captain Byerly and Mr. Lambton was chosen
knights of the shire. ^^
*''
The life of Sir John Duck may be compared with that of the more famous
Whittington, Lord Mayor of London. Born about the year 1632, of unknown
parentage, he served John Heslop, a butcher in Durham, and on the 30th of
Jiily, 1655, married his master's daughter, Ann, at St. Nicholas' church, Durham.
During the remainder of his Ufe everything prospered that he put his
hand to. Attaining great wealth, he was made a knight on the .... and
on the 19th March, 1686/7, a baronet. After founding an hospital at Lumley,
he died, x.p. on the 26th Aiigust, 1691, aged 59 years, and was buried in St,
Margaret's Church, Durham, under a stone bearing an epitaph in Latin. He
gave his great wealth to his widow, on whose death, on the 14th December,
1695, it came to her nieces, Elizabeth Heslop who married George Tweddell,
alderman of Durham, and Jane Heslop who married, first James Nicholson of
Durham, cordwainer, and secondly Richard Wharton of Durham, attorney.
" 1687. 10 Dec. Mr. Thomas Salvin of Owton was buried in this parish
church. Registers of St. Oswald's, Durham.
He was the second son of Bryan Salvin of Butterbj', was eight years of age
in 1666, and resided at Owton in the parish of Stranton. See pedigree of Salvin
of Croxdale, Surtees, Durham, vol. iv. p. 119.
^* 1687/8. 5 Jan. Jane Hutchinson, widow, buried. Durham Cathedral Reg.
^•'
John Conyers of ChesterJe-Street, second son of Sii- John Conyers of Hor-
1622, and was buried
den, second baionet, was baptized at Easington 26 Sept.,
at Chester, 1 8 March, 1 687/8. He left (perhaps with other) issue a son and a
daughter. Cf. Surtees, Durham, vol. i. p. 29.
^ 1688. 30 May. Thomas Binyon, sergeant, buried. Registers of St.
Nicholas', Durham.
^' Cf. Macaulay, History of England, vol. ii. page 359.
*'" 1688. July 10. Mr. John Simpson, buried. RegistersofSt. Maryle Boio.
" See p. 47, supra.
^^ 1688. 16 Oct. Mr. Robert Blakeston, buried. Registers of St. Ostuald's.
" Mr. Robert Byerley of Midridge Grange, in the parish of Heighington, was
knight of the shii-e for the county of Durham, 1685, and in the Convention