Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1717. Aug. 3rd. Mr. Shaftoei^ of Gateside, a gentleman-like
clergyman, called, but he is a very drone in the pulpit. Dr. Bensoni'^
buUys the bishop, contradicts, is positive, etc. A bishop without
divinity, a chancellour without law, an arch-deacon without jurisdiction,
and a chaplain without modesty. Crow courts a woman that
is non-juror, which sways him much.
1717. Aug. 4th. When Nebuchadonozor took Josiai, king of
Judah, prisoner (tho a good king), and the Jews, yet we find the
prophet Jeremiah exhorting 'em to obedience and to keep peace in it
that they might have peace. Dr. Hicks^^ lays great stress upon the
practice of the Greek church with respect to lay-deprivations—whereas
Sir — Kicoulti9 says that the Grand Seignior at this day deprives
who and when he jpleases—there has been due obedience payed to
the patriarch of Constantinople, when there have been four more
living, some unjustly deprived, etc.
1717. Aug. 5th. Dr. King, now archbishop of Dublin,20 writt
an history of the state of Ireland under King James II., wherein he
makes it appear that at the Revolution we were in such circumstances
exactly as many learned men. Bishop Franklaind [space left], and even
Dr. Hicks in his Jovian^i had allowed to be sufficient to justifie
resistance, they allow of resistance in one case, and think it consistent
with the doctrine of passive-obedience, and ours was just that case
at the Revolution. Dr. Hicks makes use of the same arguments to
exalt the dignity of bishops against lay-deprivation that th^e papists
make use of for the popes. Fourteen bishops deprived at the
Reformation. Lesley 's^^ Regale and Pontificat shrewdly writt—but
he does not consider that the Regale is jure divino, as well as
Pontifical.
'"The Rev. Leonard Shafto, rector of Gateshead from 1705 to 1731, was
the eldest surviving son of the Rev. Leonard Shafto, lectui-er of All Saints,
Newcastle, and of Sarah, his wife, who married, secondly, Rev. William Maers,
also lecturer of All Saints. The rector of Gateshead is said to have been born
at Dedham, in Sussex, where his father had some clerical preferment, or duty,
was educated at Durham School and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where
he matriculated 14 Jan. 1686 ; B.A., 1690 ; M.A., 1694. Under his father's
will he took an interest in the Elswick colliery, which apparently had come into
the family through his grandmother, Jane, sister of Thomas Ledgard. He
married, at All Saints, Newcastle, 15 Sept., 1703, Anne, daughter of John
Hindmarsh, by M'hom he had issue, one son and three daughters. Cf. Arch. Ad.
Srd series, vol. iv. p. 41.
'
Thomas Benson, D.D. of Queen's College, Oxford, vicar of Stanwix, 1705,
and of Dalston, 1714, was prebendary of the third stall in Carlisle Cathedral,
and married Mary eldest daughter of William Nicolson, bishop of Carlisle.
'"
George Hickes, D.D. (1642-1715), a non-juring bishop.
"Sir Paul Rycaut (1628-1700), The Present State of the Ottoman Empire,
London, 1668.
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William King, D.D. (1650-1729), archbishop of Dublin, author of -^^a^e of
the Protestants in Ireland, 1691, etc.
"'
George Hickes, D.D. , author of Jovian, an Answer to (Samuel Johnson's)
Julian the Apostate, 1683, etc.
^- Charles Leslie (1650-1722), author of The Case of the Regale and of the
Po7ilificat (sic) stated, 1700.