Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1702/3. 13 Feb. Mr. John Chutroh, attorney-at-law, departed
very suddenly, being well that day, being Satterday this yeare.^^s
1702/3. 20 Feb. [Died] Mr. John Middleton, lawyer and
Recorder. 129
1703. 23 June. [Died] Long Tbm the taylor.i30
1703. In the year 1703 there was such a hay haiwest and come
harvest as noe man then liveing could ever remember such annother
for goodnes and soon ; for scarse a shower of raine in the wining of
hay, and few in reaping the corne, but none to do any hurt, and all
gett in before Michaelmas or a little after.
1703. 23 Dec. [Died] Mr. Thomas Richardson, commonly called
'London Thom.' 131
1704. The first time that any cocks fought in Madam Softleye's
new erected pitt, was Easter Munday the 17th of Aprill.
1704. 29 April. Old James Peacock, a currier by trade, and a
great begger, departed suddenley in the cloisters. 132
1704. 19 May. Mr. Burton, schoolmaster to the gramar schoole,
was married to Madam Fenwick.i33
1704. 5 Aug. Bonet Bess dyed. 134
1704. 25 Nov. Richard Coulson and Ann Bee [married]. 135
1704/5. Upon St. Paul day [25 January] was a very faire day,
but a very violent frost.
1705. 31 March. I wrote a paire of indentures for Mr. Leeson.
1705. 14 April. I began with William Wood to shave, and
shaved one moneth.
' 1702/3. 14 Feb. Mr. John Church, templo, buried. Registers of St.
Nicholas', Durham.
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1702/3. 21 Feb. Mr. John Midleton, councillor att law, templo, buried.
Registers of St. Nicholas', Durham.
Cf pedigree, Surtees, Durham, vol. iv. pt. 2, p. 168.
"° 1703. 24 June. John Binyon, taler, buried. Registers of St. Nicholas',
Durham.
'^'1703. 24 Dec. Thomas Richardson, buried att St. Margaret's. Registers
of St. Nicholas', Durham.
1703. 4 {sic) Dec. Thomas Richardson of the City of Durham, buried.
Registers of St. Margaret's, D^irham.
'^' 1704, 30 April. James Peacock, buried. Registers of St. Nicholas',
Durham.
133 1704. 18 May. Mr. Nicholas Burton and Lady Fenwick, married.
Durham Cathedral Registers.
Mr. Burton was of Christ College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1691 :
lecturer of St. Nicholas and rector of St. Mary-le-Bow, Durham ; and Headmaster
of the Grammar School from 1699 to 1713. Madam, or Lady, Fenwick,
his second wife, was the widow of Sir Robert Fenwick of Bywell, knight, and
daughter of Sir Richard Graham of Norton Conyers, bart. Mr. Burton was
buried 1st July, 1713, and she on the 3rd November, 1744. Registers of St.
Mary le Boiu, Durham.
"^ 1704. 6 Aug. Elizabeth, wife of Christopher Wall, shoemaker, of Crosgate,
buried. Registers of St. Oswald's, Durham,.
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Tlie Diarist's grand-daughter.