Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1717. May 5. A bill in the House to make Sunderland a. port.
If it pass, will spoil Newcastle's coal trade. The town has
petitioned against it. When it was debated in the Privy Council,
a gent, said the people of Newcastle were the most unreasonable
people in the world, they had gott a bar across their river and will
lett no ships go out or come in but whicli and when they please :—
meaning Tinmouth Bar.
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1717. May 15th. The stoiy of my grandfather's) keeping his
coffin in his bed-chamber for six years ; applauded as a piece of
extraordinary christian courage. . . .
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'1717. June 2. Mr. Baker made Rivers read a recantationcondemned
as pragmatical. It is a pity the welfare of young gentlemen
should so much depend upon the caprice and humour of such
otherwise such things should not be submitted to.
Uncle John's misfortune
was his praying for King James before his sermon, but the
dark telling him of it when he came down, and that the congregation
took notice of it, he told 'em it was a mistake, and so read a prayer
for King George, so that they could not make any thing of it.
1717. June 3. Mr. Lodge come to Magdalen. He says my uncle
Reed inviting General Wills,
Stanwix and other officers to dinner and
Mr. Cowlin, saying grace, they ordered him to retire, which my uncle
submitted to—my uncle much blamed for it Received
express command to go into Orders.