Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1705. 1-1 May. Sir Henry Billesses, esquire Conyers, George
Skerfeild stood a pole for ineinl)ers oF Parliament, but Skerfeild
gave up. 13^.
1705. G May. Thomas, son of Thomas Wilkinson, comonly called
Fish, married.
1705. 5 June. Thomas Dent was married to a Sunderland
woman. '^^"
1705. 5 July. Mr. John Rowe [died] la-(s)t night, by a fall from
his horse: too sudden an accident. ^^^
1705. Sir William Blacket departed this life at London and came
to Durham 28th December, being Friday this yeare, and was buried
at Newcastle the 29th after. ^39
1706. 11 April. Bett Kirkhouse and one Laverick [married]. i^"
1706. 7 June. [Died] Elizabeth Wrangham, of the Bull's Head.
1706. 22 Sept. Nan and Jane Surtees got two paire of mufs ;
wch. makes six paire of gloves, three paire of mufs, and one paire for
Mr. Surtees ; gloves in all 2s., mufs 9^^.
William Surtees came six weeks before Lamas this year.
1706. 7 Oct. Jane Surtees began to write.
1706. 10 Oct. Jane Lamb went from Durham for London, and
Peg Bee went to her service the day before.
1706/7. 27 Feb. [Died] Anthony AUinson, Black Cock.i^i
'** Sir Henry Bellasis of Brancepeth, knight, and Mr. Thomas Conyers had
represented the city of Durham in the previous parliament. The name of the
third candidate was not Skerfiekl but Sheffield. He was a tanner in the city
of Durham, and polled 73 votes against 148 for Conyers and 129 for Bellasis.
Sharp, Knighfs untl Burffes.sea of Durham, p. 37.
"• 1705. 5 June. Thomas Dent and Mary Allinson, Bishop Wearmouth,
married. Itefjintern of St. Mnrfjaret'ii, Durham.
'" 1705. 7 July. Mr. John Rowell (s/c), buried. Becfisters of St. Afary in
the South Bailey, Durham.
"" Sir William Blackett of Newcastle and Wallington, created a baronet
23rd Jan. 16.S4 5. M.P. for Newcastle, 1(58.^, in the Convention Parliament of
16S9, and also in 1695, 1698 and 1705 ; died when in London attending on Parliament,
M'as brought down to Newcastle and honoured by a puljlic funeral in
St. Nicholas' Churcli. Cf. Welford, Mtn of Mark, vol. i. pp. 302-305.
"• 1700. 14 April. John Laverick and Elizabeth Kirkhouse, married.
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