SPEECH IN SCOTLAND. We call here:-A clock a knock, a watch a munter, a dyell an orelege; a band an oily layer. For slight, hough, a shop a buith, or booth. In many words as chest, shall, etc. there is not h pronounced. A cap a mutch if it be linnen, a bonnet if it be woolen or lether. A mans coat a juipe or joope. And generally they pronounce ow oo as towne toone. And that which we spell in England with ou but pronounce as if it were oo as in the word enough they call it enuigh changing it into ui. Our a that we in England pronounce as they do YTA: i.e. as it were ae, they in Scotland pronounce, as it were ao. And in some words ai. So that concerning their accent no few generall prescripts will give any satisfaction, but onely experience and use acquired by cohabitation among themselves. They have many words in the country that citizens understand not, but if all the propertyes of language were concurrent there, as well as significancy in pathetick speeches and innumerable proverbs and bywords, they might compare with any people in the world. Junii A JOURNALL SINCE MY COMEING OUT OF CHESHIRE. 11. From Handford to Wake field: 12. Thence to Yorke 13. Thence to Allerstone 17. To Ellenthorpe Lodged. Att the Bull: good usage: Att Mrs. Keyes: usage: excellent With my Sister Eggerton. My noble Lord of Durhams. Att Postmr. good victualls Mr. Wallis his house in high AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR JOHN GIBSON, 1655. INTRODUCTION. Sir John Gibson of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, in Yorkshire, was born 20th January, 1605/6 at Crayke, being the eldest son of Sir John Gibson of Welburn, High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1630. He was educated at York and Cambridge, and on the 18th June, 1629, married Penelope, daughter of William Woodhall, Registrar of the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, by whom he had issue twelve sons and three daughters. Many of his children, with their mother, were dead before 1655. He was knighted at Dublin, 3rd April, 1636, by Lord Wentworth, Lord Deputy of Ireland. In the Civil War he was Captain of the North Riding Horse on the King's side, but surrendered to the Parliament in 1645 or 1646. Although he took the Covenant and lived quietly, his estate was sequestrated for his delinquency, and he was fined in two sums together amounting to 1,000l. On his agreeing to settle the tithes of Welburn, worth 100l. a year, upon the incumbent of Kirkdale, in which parish Welburn is situated, the sum of 4007, was ordered to be deducted from his fine. His troubles were not at an end, for he was subsequently cast into prison, and confined to the old gaol of Durham, which spanned the roadway leading into the Bailey, where he spent much of his time in writing, the keeper of the gaol at that time being John Jopling. Several of his MSS. are in the British Museum, e.g. transcripts of sermons, attempts at versification-chiefly devotional-copies of letters addressed to unnamed friends, epitaphs, etc. Obtaining his release apparently at the Restoration, certainly before 30th September, 1662, he died on the 13th June, 1665. The Editor's attention was directed to Sir John Gibson's autobiography by Dr. Gee. An excellent pedigree of the Diarist's family may be found in Mr. J. W. Clay's edition of Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, vol. I. p. 387. AUTOBIOGRAPHY.' 1655. Crake it had my infancye, Welburne my carefull time had all Death tooke awaye my children deare, And at the last my ioye, And left me full of care and feare, My only hopes a Boye. Ireland to me honor gave, My daylye crosses still appeares, And comes with too swift haste. The fatall griefe falne in my lurtch, The same to you I saye, Is to be banisht from the Churche, And my owne Ithica. The Decimation of my 'state, 'Tis not worth valuation. I feare 'twill prove a common fate, To all of this same Nation. 'British Museum. Additional MS. 37719, folio 167. Can I expect freedome to have, When hee is banisht like a slave Into a farr Countrie. My glasse is run, my time is spent, As plainely you may see, Then learne, fond man, now to repent, Since 'twill noe better bee. In infoelicitate fœlix. Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum Suprema hora Prima quies. When cruell Atropos doth cut my fatall thred, Now I expect the Poets common lot, [DRAFT OF EPITAPH.] Sr John Gibson, Kt. of Welburne, Captaine This marble square doth his dead ashes presse, Suprema hora, O gentle Reader doe not him molest; Who ne're in Life had ease; in Death let rest. [HERE FOLLOWS A SKETCH OF A COFFIN.] Quisquis es, es pulvis, cineres modò perspice nostros: [Several sentences, and quotations chiefly from the Bible, concerning death, occur on the preceding page and the two pages following.] |