Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1699. 1 Aug. [Died] George Bullock, bellows-blower in Abby
organs, being Lamas-da.y.^0^
1699. 7 Aug. [Died] Captain George Baker, he was Master of
Sliereburue Hospital. i^"
1699. 9 Oct. [Died] old Mrs. Naylor.
1699. :\0 Oct. [Died] John Sanders, Mr. Lampton's coachman,
being slaine by the coach.
1699. 15 Nov. Bess Gray and a tinker [married]. ^o^.
1699. 25 Nov. [Died] Doctor Cumber, Dean of Durhami09 ; and
that day Jacob Bee broke his arm.
1699. 2 Dec. [Died] Magdalen Hold-mv-stafe, alies Smith.iio
1699/1700. 13 Jan. [Died] my Lady Burton.
1699/1700. 9 March. [Died] Josei:»h Hutchinson, butcher, called
English Joseph. 112
1699/1700. 16 March. [Died] Siball Grieve, one of the beadwomen
of the P[a]lace-gi'een.
Our Bishopp Crew's lady was buried. ^^^
1700. 23 July. My Lord Bishopp Crewe was maried to Madam
Foster. 11^.
1700. 5 Aug. Mr. Henry Young of Witton upon Weer [died] very
'*''
1699. 2 Aug. George Bullock, buried. Durham Cathedral Kefjisters.
"" Mr. George Baker of Crook-hall, born 1654, was buried at Lanchester on
the nth August, 1699. .See Surtees, Durham, vol. ii. p. 358. He was certainly
not Master but maj' have been deputy-master of Sherburn Hospital.
"* 1699. 15 Nov. John Smith and Elizabeth (Jray, Crossgate, poore, married.
Reijisters of St. Margaret's, Durham.
"" Thomas Comber, son of James Comber, was born at Westerham, Kent,
20th March, 1645 6, and was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge,
MA., 1666; D.D., 1678. After holding preferments in Yorkshire, he was
made Dean of Durhatn, 15th June, 1691. He was the author of sundrj- books and
tracts, enumerated by his grandson, Thomas Comber, in Memoirs of Dean
Comber, London, 1799.
"" 1699. 3 Dec. Magdaline, wife of Jo", Smith of Crossgate, poore, buried.
Registers of St. Margaret's, Durham.
'"1699 1700. 14 Jan. Dame Elizabeth Burton, buried. Durham Cathedral
Registers.
A daughter of Dr. Cosin, Bishop of Durham,
She was married no less than
four times, first, to Mr. Henry Hutton of (ioldsborough, county York ; second,
to Sir Thomas Burton, knight ; third, to Mr. Samuel Davison of VVingate ; and
lastly, to Mr. Isaac Basire. (;/'. The Registers of Durham Cathedral. Harl.
Soc. Publ., Register Series, No. 23, p. 109 ".
"-'1699 1700, 10 March. Joseph Hutchinson, butcher, buried. Registers of
St. Xichotas', Lurham.
"^ Bishop Crew's first wife, Penelojie, daughter of Sir Philip Frowde,
knijiht, and widow of Sir Hugh Tint (mar, lie. •Jnd December, 16!tl). She
died on the 9th of Marcli, 1699 1700, and was buried at Stene, Northamptonshire.
As the widower was then over sixty-six years of age, he put otf no
time but married again four mouths later. Cf. Registers of Durham Cathedral,
ed. White, p. 47.
"* 1700. 23 July, Nathaniel, Lord Crew and Madam Dorothy Forster,
married. Durham Cathedra/ Itegisters.
'
Madam Foster' was Dorothy, daughter and (with her sister Frances, wife
of Thomas Forster of Adderston) ultimately coheir of Sir William Forster of