Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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THE DIARY.
1717. July 24th. Writt to S. Lisle,i told him I should be glad
to be near Mrs. W n, for uncles seemed inclined to have
marrved. Told him I had the same opportunity of hearing of the
v\-ars abroad ; but there might be many skirmishes and battles among
the polemical divines, statesmen and critics at home, which I might
be ignorant of, if he would not acquaint, etc. Crosby told Fenwick^
a stor}' of Clennell,^ etc.—Paper-mills.
1717. July 25th. Read prayers for Mr. Fenwick^ g^ory should
be read as with an w, father as if it was fawther. Observed we
contradict our selves in pronunciation of some words—Adrimelech
with the penultimate long, Abimelech—short. C. Franc, writt that
Wat : nor he had either money or credit. Walter has kept his coach,
many years, and so saved little. Uncle Richard cleared 1,000/.
per annum entirely.
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1717. July 26th. A plate, cost 3 guineas or more, run for by wain-)
horses or cart-horses, for the encouragement of the coal-pitt-men, etc. J
Uncle sett fine iirns at his gates, 4 foot higli,^—a plint, bell inverted"^^
and fluted at the top, a little ball at the top, etc. His house has
ashlevMront and inistic coins—every room 12 foot high—and stone
Cornish. Urns sett up; 1, plint; 2, neck, same as that under balls;
3, the urn ; 4, tlie lid of the urn, fluted at top ; 5, a round ball of
stone—5 or 6 inches diameter.
1717. July 27th. A Roman Catholic and Geneva-man being friends
and endeavouring to convert one another, the arguments of each
proved so strong and effectual, that they changed sides, the Roman
turned to his religion, and so reciprocal.^ Masons work generally
for 4d. per foot.
1717. July 28th. Mr. Ralph Jennison,"—his own hair had
'
Samuel Lisle, son of the Rev. John Lisle, minor canon of Durham, was
baptiaed at Durham Cathedral, 1 Feb., 1691 2, matriculated at St. John's College,
Cambridge, 3 May, 1709, B.A. 1712, M.A. 1716, B.D. 1724.
- Probably George Fenwick, son of the Rev. William Fenwiok, vicar of
Hallaton in Leicestershire (second son of Claudius Fenwick of Brinkburn), who
matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge, 4 May, 1705.
'
Probably Tlionias Clennell, son of John Cleniiell of West Lilburn (and of
Clennell), who matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge, 19 .June, 1710.
' Probably the Rev. Cuthbert Fenwick, rector of Morpeth, 1691-1740.
* Ai/t/ey = ashlar. '
See p. 75, post.
' Probably Mr. Ralph Jenison of Newcastle and of Wolsington, who died
in March, 1722, aged 56, when he was succeeded in the latter estate l)y his son
Mr. Ralph Jenison the younger. Cy. Surtees, JJnrhani, vol. iii. pp. 322, 412.