1688. Nov. 4. The Dutch anchored in England, and the 5th landed at Dartmouth, Turbay and Exmouth in the West.

11 Matthew White, son of Miles White of Hawthorn in the county of Durham, baptized at Easington, 12 Mar., 1653/4, was apprenticed 1 Feb., 1668/9, to Nicholas Fenwick, boothman, and was admitted free of the Merchants' Company, 21 Mar., 1678/9, of which Company and that of the Hostmen's he in due cause became Governor. He was Mayor of Newcastle in 1691 and 1703, and dying on the 12 of Oct., 1716, he was buried in the old church of All Saints, under a stone, with the arms three cocks heads erased, recording that by Jane, his wife, he had issue ten children.

12 Sir Robert Shafto, eldest surviving son of Mark Shafto of Gray's Inn and of Whitworth, baptized, 13 May, 1634, and was entered to Gray's Inn at the age of six years on the 16 Mar., 1640/1, and was made Recorder of Newcastle in 1660. He was knighted, 26 June, 1670. and made a sergeantat-law, 21 April, 1675. Dying 21 May, 1705, aged 72, he was buried in St. George's porch in St. Nicholas'. By his wife, Catherine, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Widdrington, of Cheeseburn Grange, Speaker of the House of Commons, he left issue.

13 George Whinfield, son of George Whinfield, late of Bridge-end in Woodland (query Bolland) in Lancashire, was apprenticed 2 Feb., 1660/1, to Henry Bowes, the elder, of Newcastle, draper, and was admitted free of the Merchants' Company, 27 April, 1670. He was sheriff of Newcastle in 1693, and mayor in 1696. Dying in his second mayoralty, on the 25 June, 1710, he was buried in St. Nicholas'.

14 William Boutflower, son of Thomas Boutflower of Apperley_in the parish of Bywell St. Peter, was apprenticed 14 April, 1675, to Benezer Durant, mercer, and was admitted free of the Merchants' Company, 9 Oct., 1684. He was sheriff of Newcastle in 1701, and was buried at St. Nicholas', 26 May, 1712. He was married twice, and left issue by both marriages.

THE FAMILY OF MARK AKENSIDE THE POET.

INTRODUCTION.

Mark Akenside of Newcastle the elder, the entries of whose family in Diodati's Annotations on the Bible are now printed, was a younger son of Abraham Akenside of Eachwick, in the parish of Heddon on the Wall. The latter represented a Protestant Nonconformist family of small landowners, who, like their more opulent neighbours, placed their younger sons as apprentices to tradesmen and merchants in Newcastle. The main line of the family seems to have ended in William Akenside, a captain of the 14th regiment of Foot, who died on the 22nd of October, 1830.

Having obtained the freedom of the Butchers' Company, apparently by apprenticeship, Mark Akenside established himself in business as a butcher, and on the 5th of September, 1710, being then of the parish of St. Nicholas, he took out a licence to marry Mary Lumsden, of the parish of All Saints, spinster. The marriage was celebrated in St. Nicholas on the 10th of October, and it is not improbable that Mrs. Akenside may have been a member of a family of Lumsden, seated at Morpeth for some generations. The date of his death has not been ascertained, but he was living in 1741, in which year he voted at the Newcastle election as a member of his Company, for William Carr and Matthew Ridley.

The extracts from Diodati's book possess such an exceptional interest that their inclusion in the present volume may be justified; they were made by some person connected with the Unitarian Church in Newcastle (to which the Akensides belonged) from the original and are preserved in the Registers of the Church of Divine Unity.

THE FAMILY OF MARK AKENSIDE.

Mark Akinside1 his Booke.

Memorandum

Mark Akinside was married to Mary2 his wife, in ye 10 of October,

1710.

My daughter Ruth was born the 26th of July, 1711, aboute a leevin a clock at night, and was baptized the 4th of August, and she departed this life ye third of December, 1712.

My son Thomas3 was born the 20th of June, 1712, aboute two a clock at afternoon and was baptized June ye 28th.

My daughter Mary was born ffebr. the 8th, 1715[16] aboute a leevine cloke night and was baptized March ye 1st.

My daughter Jane was born Decr. ye 16, 1717, between eliven and twelve at night and was baptized Jane'y the 9th.

My daughter Dority was born Aug. ye 23, 1719, and was bap

1 Mark Akenside had a brother, Abraham Akenside, also a butcher in Newcastle who, at the election of 1741, voted as a member of the Butchers' Company for Blackett and Ridley. He made his will on the 9 Dec., 1749, and after providing for the children of his nephew, John Wilkinson, he gave for a term of years a rent-charge of £4 per annum charged on his messuage in Butchers' Bank to his nephew, William Akenside. He gives. to his niece, Dorothy, daughter of his late brother, Mark Akenside, £20; and after mention of his niece, Mary Softley and her children, he gives the residue to his brother Aaron Akenside to be disposed of among such of his relatives as he should think proper. Ex. Mr. Richard Welford's Collections.

2

Wednesday died in the 76th year of her age, after a lingering illness, at her son-in-law's house in the Close, Mrs. Akenside, mother of the learned and ingenious Dr. Akenside of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London; her death is much regretted by all her acquaintance. Newcastle Courant, 5 July, 1760.

3 Thomas Akenside, eldest son of Mark Akenside, born in 1712, was probably educated, like his famous younger brother, at the Grammar School of Newcastle. He was apprenticed on the 25th of April, 1728, to George Punshon of Newcastle, surgeon, and after completing his apprenticeship, he was admitted to the freedom of the Company of Barbersurgeons. As a member of that Company he voted at the Newcastle election of 1741, plumping for William Carr. On the 6th of October, 1742, he took out a licence to marry Sarah Airey of the parish of All Saints, spinster, aged 23 years: the bondsman being Alexander Williamson of Newcastle, surgeon. Subsequently he left Newcastle, and his death was announced in the Newcastle Courant of 27 February, 1748, as follows :— 'We hear that Mr. Thomas Akenside, some time ago an eminent surgeon in this town, died suddenly at London.'

Dorothy, third daughter of Mark Akenside the elder, born 1719, was married at St. Nicholas', 4 Jan., 1759, to Joseph Addison. In the marriage licence he is described as of the parish of St. Nicholas', glazier, aged 30: the bondsman was Aaron Akenside of Newcastle, house-carpenter, who

tized Sept. ye 7th, ye day of her birth being Sabith day about two a clock in ye morning.

November ye 9, 1721.

My son Mark5 was born aboute eight a clock at night, and was baptized ye 30th of Novr.

1723. 23 Sept.

not born alive.

My wife was delivered of a daughter, but was

1725. May 16. My wife was delivered of a son, but was not born alive.

1727. Xber the 9th. My daughter Mary was born, betwixt aleeven and twelve a clock at night and was baptized by the Rev. Dr. Lamuell Lathem.6

Oct. 30, 1719. My daughter Mary departed this life.

was also an attesting witness to the marriage. Joseph Addison voted as a glazier at the Newcastle elections in 1777 and 1780. He resided in the Close, and lived until 1805; when his death was announced in the Newcastle Courant of the 12th of January :- On Tuesday last, aged 81, Mr. Joseph Addison, painter and glazier, and a proprietor of the Skinner Burn pottery near this town.' The date of Dorothy Addison's death has not been ascertained, but her husband married a second wife, at the sale of whose effects in 1812, Mark Akenside's family bible was sold. 5 Mark Akenside, the poet and physician, second son of Mark Akenside the elder, was born as mentioned in the text on the 9 Nov., 1721, and was baptised on the 30th of the same month by the Rev. Benjamin Bennet, the famous minister of the Close-Gate meeting. He was educated first at the Royal Grammar School and afterwards at a private school kept by William Wilson, a member of the Close-Gate meeting, proceeding to the University of Edinburgh when in his eighteenth year, with a view to entering the ministry of the church. In less than a year he abandoned that intention for the study of medicine. His best known poem on The Pleasures of Imagination must have been composed immediately after leaving the university, for it was published in the month of January, 1743/4. Like many other ambitious students of medicine, he kept his terms at Leyden, and according to the Index to English Speaking Students who have graduated at that famous university, he took his degree on the 7th of April, 1744. It has been stated that he commenced to practice in Newcastle, but this statement apparently rests on confusing him with his eldest brother. After practising in Northampton for a short time he removed to London where he attained considerable_eminence, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on the 8th of February, 1753. death is announced in the Newcastle Courante of 30 June, 1770:- Sunday, died at his house in London, Mark Akenside, esq., M.D., physician to Her Majesty, a native of this town, author of the Pleasures of Imagination and several other admirable pieces, and whose sole merit raised him to his late dignity.'

His

Lemuel Latham, M.D., of Sunderland, where he practiced medicine as well as exercised the pastoral office, married the daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Bennet, the minister of the Close-Gate meeting already mentioned. In 1728 he published some of his father-in-law's sermons under the title The Second Part of the Christian Oratory, and in 1730, another series entitled The Truth, Inspiration and Usefulness of the Scripture Asserted and Proved. Dr. Latham died in his 75th year on Sunday, 15 Nov., 1767, and was buried at Bishopwearmouth. His only daughter, with a fortune of £2,000, was married at the parish church of Tynemouth, on the 22 June, 1772, to Watson of North Shields, brewer.

TWO LETTERS OF BISHOP WARBURTON.

INTRODUCTION.

Doctor William Warburton, Prebendary of Durham and Bishop of Gloucester, was born at Newark, 24th December, 1698, being the son of George Warburton, the town-clerk of that place. Educated at Oakham Grammar School, he was articled in 1714 to an East Markham attorney, and on the completion of his articles returned to his native place to practice his profession, occasionally helping his kinsman, the Master of the Grammar School, as an assistant master. Having made up his mind to take holy orders, he was ordained deacon in 1723 by the Archbishop of York, and priest in 1727. His preferment was as follows:-Incumbent of Greasley, 1727; Hon. M.A., Cambridge, 1728; incumbent of Brant Broughton, 1728-1759; incumbent of Frisby, 1730-1756; chaplain of Prince of Wales, 1738; preacher of Lincoln's Inn, 1746; prebendary of Gloucester, 17531755; chaplain to the King, and D.D. (Lambeth), 1754; prebendary of the first stall of Durham, 1755-1779; Dean of Bristol, 1757-1759; Bishop of Gloucester, 1759-1779.

His best work

As a controversial writer his activity was great. is considered to be on the Alliance between Church and State, published in 1736, but that by which he is remembered is The Divine Legation of Moses, in two parts, published in 1737 and 1741. In 1745 he attacked Mark Akenside the poet (see p. 190 supra), and later Bishop Pococke (see p. 199 post). By his wife, Gertrude Tucker whom he married 5th September, 1745, he had an only surviving son, intended for the bar, who died in his father's life-time at the age of 19.