Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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please him too—Uncle told Mrs. Bilton,38 etc., that either he or I
must marry, for he Avanted a housekeeper—they tell him he may have
any woman in the country, and so flatter him that he knows not what
to think of himself. He sent his man and horses home with W.
Wood. Mr. Cooper39 of Horseley to maiT}^ Mrs. M. Cinquo [Simcoe].
/'''*~'^r7l7. Aug. 20th. When one tells these men of uncle's charity
/ in building the school, etc., they reply what is that 1 he made us pay
for it, he has raised the rent, and squeezed it out of _u|.> The story
of Dr. Butler*"^ curing King James of an imposthume, setting his
back-side to a fire, and putting the finger of one hand into his mouth
and the other into his arse, and when he bid him change hand, he
burst into such a. fitt of laughter, that it burst, etc. Dr. Ratcliff^^
cured a Scot(c)he nobleman of the gout by removing him to a load
of stray in the j^ard, and setting fire to it, he gott up and rid after
the doctor to shoot him, the doctor said, well, my ' lord, I see I cured
you, but I was in hast, that I had not time to take my leave.'
1717. Aug. 21st. Mr. Collingwood of Rj-ley^^ invited me heartily
to his house, as to morrow, with Mr. Brown and DulajD, uncle would
not lett me, tho they all importuned him—he told me after, Mr.
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CollingAvood is an honest man, and he has gott a daughter for you,
if you'll have her—he will give her perhaps 7 or 8001.—but what's
that to twelve thousand, Avhich your father and I have.' This is the
reason why he would not lett me go. He Avould not lett me go to
christening neither—last week.
1717. Aug. 22. A man at Bows dyed for love, his parents would
not lett him marry one he loved, and who loved him so well that,
the pj^ssingJoeil went for him, she fell down and swooned away
and lived but till next morning—her heart broke at hearing it,
Ithey were buryed together.^-^ Father gott 400/. by the death of an
old woman, a neighbour Avho took such a fancy to him that she
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Mr. Joseph Bilton of Brinkheugh, married at Woodhorn, 24 Oct. , 1690,
Mary Wolfall : she died 8 Jan., 1726/7. For a pedigree of Bilton of Brinkheugh,
see new History of Northumberland, vol. vii. p. 494.
^" The Rev. Thomas Cooper was presented to the vicarage of Long Horsley
in 1715, by Lord Chancellor Cooper. He became vicar of Berwick in 1726 and
of Wooler in 1727, tlie latter benefice being held with that of Berwick.
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William Butler (15.S5-1618), fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, some of
whose empirical methods of treatment are related by Aubrey and quoted in the
Dictionary of National Biography.
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John Radcliffe, M.D. (1650-1714), the famous London physician.
" Mr. Alexander Collingwood of Little Ryle in the parish of Whittingham ;
High Sheriff of Nortliunibei'land in 1725, married in 1691, Dorothy, daughter of
Mr. Wilfrid Lawson of Brayton, by whom he had (perhaps with other) issue
one son and five daughters. His daughter Dorothy is frequently mentioned in
these pages.
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Affixed to the west wall of Bowes clnirch there is a tablet to commemorate
Roger Wrightson and Emma Railton, who died on the 15th Mai'ch, 1715,
the subjects of Mallet's poem, 'Edwin and Emma.' The circumstances
related in the text are recorded in the parish register of burials.