Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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etc. Mr. Farriiigton marryed, she cryed and he too, etc. Uncle
Robert would have me court Mr. Ord's daughter, well educated,
religious, and 2 or 3,000/. fortune. 2*^
1717. Aug. 10th. Uncle John designs her of Alnwick^^ for brother
Richard^o. Sent my mother word of having made a sermon about
the sin against the Holy Ghost for her service and upon her account.
Gave brother long wig, and he gave me a bob for it. Gave him two
pair of ruffles, etc.
1717. Aug. 11th. Mr. Baker built a fine house at Crook^i
bad way and two miles from church, distant from any gentlemen's
seats. Preached at Whickham, was pretty-well heard—called it a
noble beginning. Uncle Robert took a great deal of pains to teach
me out to read well—and as it were musically— by notes.
1717. Aug. 12th. Went to Rothbury with John Spoor upon his
horse—Uncle John gave this reason why he would not send his man
and horses for me,—there would be the less danger of elating me.
I spoke to Mr. Miller about the letter subscribed J. T. sent to
Mrs. Met32 he said it was not so, they only thought so, she had
told them from whom it came. He said he took me for a man of
good sense, and therefore could not think such a letter was writt
by me.
1717. Aug. 13th. Found Uncle John lame in his leg, but jocose
—he said he thought I could make John Spoor no requital sufficient
for the loan of his horse, but to buy it, as John had been pressing
him before. Found sower (sic) beer—and a desart place.
1717. Aug. 14. Mr. Drybrough's expression in preaching, that
we should not pretend to fight the devil with sword and pistol.
Bishop Andrews^^ character—he had scientia magna, memoria
major, judicium maximium, et industria infinita. Julius Cesar's
Nil oblivisci solet, nisi injurias. Prescription gives no right in
common law under three score j^ears, and forty in civil.
1717. Aug. 15th. Uncle's leg in great danger of throwing him
into a fever or turning to a mortification—Mr. Delapp proposed send-
-**
One of the daughters of John Ord of Newcastle, a wealthy attorney who
purchased Fenham, Hiinstanworth, etc. See p. 91, ^os^
"*
See p. 86, post.
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Richard ThomUnson, second son of William Thomlinson of Blencogo, was
apprenticed 24th February, 1711, to his uncle, Ralph Reed of Newcastle,
mercer, and was admitted free of the Merchants' Company on the 6th March,
1721. He traded at Newcastle and in liOndon and afterwards at Wallingford,
Berks, where he is stated to have died circa 1740. By his first wife, Elizabeth,
daughter of Edward Repington of Amington, near Taniworth, he had no issue.
He married, secondly, Anne Maria, only child of John Wing, and had issue an
only son, William Thomlinson of Wallingford, who was living circa 1763.
•"
Mr. George Baker of Crook, married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of
Thomas Conyers of Elemore, co. Durham, and died at Bristol, 1 June, 1723.
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Query, Mrs. Mitford.
''^Lancelot Andrewes, D.D. (1555-1626), bishop of Winchester. Of. Dictionary
of National Biography