Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1717. Aug. 6th. Shephard and lady like to have been crushed
in their chariot—their's a place full of rocks and crags and very
unfitt for a coach—his wife very indiscreet—would soon have made
Uncle John jealous if he liad gott her—Uncle Robert. The scheme
about the mill not yet broken—Uncle Robert lends them 1,000/. He
would have sold Car-row^^ three years since, and bouglit this estate
by Red-yeugh—and left eitlier that all or only what remained above
the value of Car-row to brothers William^* and Robert,^^ but father
would not consent to it, because Car-row comes to him, wlien Uncle
Robert dies.
1717. Aug. 7th. Uncle John promised that I should never ride
without man, etc., and yet would have me ride thither upon a
neighbour's horse, not worth a groat. Epenetus, penultimate long
is generally read—says uncle Robert. Asincritus, Cenchrea, Andronicus,
Elkanah, Epaphrodltus, Johanan, Kareah, Zerujah, not
Zerujah. The dutches of Northumberland,^^ the countess of Thanet's
mother, fed a man with a design, it is supposed, to kill him and distill
him to give her husband,—to make him live long.
1717. Aug. 8th. Oliver Cromwell kept a correspondence with the
French king's secretaiy, tho they had promised to deliver Mardyke
to the English, yet they had formed secret counsels not to do it
which, Oliver knowing and sending a messenger about it—
putt the
French into a great consternation, it made them think he had consulted
the devil, for there were but two or thiee i^ersons conscious to it,
1717. Aug. 9th. Uncle Robert was very kind, gave me five
sermons, he advised me never to contradict th' old lad.—Mr.
Brown^'' gott into his favour by telling him old Canterbury storys,
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Carraw, in the parish of Warden, was purchased circa 1706 from the
trustees and devisees of Henry Forster (whose will is dated 14 November,
I69s) by Robert Thomlinson, clerk. Red-yeugh is Redheugh in the parish of
Gatesliead.
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William Thomlinson, third son of William Thomlinson of Blencogo, was
apprenticed 8 Marcli, 17-1, to his brother Richard, and was admitted free of the
Company of Merchant Adventurers of Newcastle on the 30 April, 17'29. He
traded in partnersliip with his brother Richurd and in 1736 founded the
Bedlington Ironworks. Dying, circa 1737, unmarried, lie was buried at St.
John's, Wapping. His will was proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,
4 Feb., 1737/8.
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Robert Thomlinson, youngest son of William Thomlinson of Blencogo,
settled at Boston in New England, but died in Antigua in 1758, unmarried.
-"* For ' Northuuiberland' read ' Newcastle.' Henry Cavendish, second Duke
of Newcastle, married Frances, grand-daughter of Robert Pierpoint, Earl of
Kingston, and had with other issue Catherine, wife of Thomas Tufton, sixth
Earl of Thanet.
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The Rev. Jolin Brown, after serving as curate at Rothbury to Mr. John
Thomlinson, became vicar of Wigton, where he died in the month of March,
1763, aged 83. His son Jolm Brown, l)orn at Rothhury, and baptized tliere on
the 24th of November, 1715, was educated at Wigton and at St. Jolin's College,
Cambridge. After holding preferment in the diocese of Carlisle lie was appointed
vicar of Newcastle in 1760, but died in 1766. See Welfoid, Men of
Murk. ('Jntrij, was tlie vicar of Wigton's wife a daughter of Mr. William
Mitford, rector of Elsdon?)