H William4: the residue of whose bones were taken by the sexton, 1633, and laid carefully uppe, and this, as hee said, was done by the kings spetiall commaund. This man shewed us a rich gilt baseon and ewre and two faire bowles with plates to cover them guilt, these made use of when the sacrament of the Lords Supper is administred; and, as hee said, they cost the king 300t or 400t: Here is a draw-well called St. Peters Well, which the sexton much magnified: A verye stately organ lately erected in the Minster quire under which is written: Benedictus Deus Patrum nostrorum qui dedit in corde regis ut adonaret4a domum suam: On the north or northeast side of this Minster seated Sir Arthur Ingrams house and brave garden: whereof nott a third part furnished with flowers: butt disposed into little bedds whereon placed statues, the bedds all grass: verye faire high spatious walls round about this garden, and large faire trees, butt nothing well furnished with fruite. Here I observed a slopeing border a full yard high placed to the trees, which hath brought forth rootes out of the lowre part of the bodye of the tree; this border is kept green: butt the William Fitz-herbert, commonly known as St. William, son of Count Herbert by his wife Emma, sister of King Stephen, was treasurer of York in 1130, and with it held other preferment. He was elected archbishop in 1142, but, the election being contested, he was not consecrated until 26 Sept., 1143. His opponents obtaining the upper hand, he was removed from his see in 1147; and it was not until 1154 that he was restored and re-entered the city and his cathedral on the 9th of May in that year. tenure was short, for he died on the 8th of June following, and was buried in the minster, at the first, near the south-west pillar of the lantern and afterwards translated to the choir. He was canonized by Pope Nicholas III. and he was commemorated on the 8th of June. Cf. Raine, Fasti Eboracenses, pp. 220-233. His 4a Canon Fowler is of opinion that adonaret.' should read adornaret, the passage being apparently suggested by 1 Kings II, 9, VIII, 17, 18; 1 Chronicles XXIX, 6-20, etc. He was 5 Sir Arthur Ingram was a son of Hugh Ingram of London, citizen and linen draper, a native of Thorp-on-the-Hill, Yorkshire. Having acquired a plentiful fortune as a mercer in Fenchurch street, London, he purchased Temple Newsam and other estates in Yorkshire. appointed comptroller of the port of London in 1604. Knighted 9th July, 1613, he was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1620 and sat in Parliament as M.P. for Stafford in 1609, for Romney 1614, Appleby 1621, York 1624, 1625, 1626 and 1628. Having acquired from the Archbishop of York a long lease of the decayed archiepiscopal palace situated on the north side of the minster, he repaired and beautified the house and laid out its gardens with so much taste that they were one of the sights of the city. In 1640 he built the hospital bearing the name of Bootham and died, circa 1642. The lease granted by the Archbishop to Ingram was renewed again and again to his descendants until the year 1817, when the property was acquired by the Dean and Chapter and the lease surrendered (for a consideration) by Francis, second Marquis of Hertford, who had acquired the same with his second wife Isabella, daughter and coheir of Charlie Ingram, ninth Viscount Irwin. See Clay, Extinct and Dorman Peerages, p. 111. The Dean and Chapter cleared the site and on it built a new deanery and a house for the canon in residence. gardiner conceaves itt noe advantage to the trees: which are now cutt, and dubbed, butt the gardiner dislikes that course: To keepe in order and to weede, and maintaine this garden, another spatious orchard, wherein are manye walkes, and to keepe a faire stately walke uppon the cittie walls, which doe bound and compass this orchard: to tend and dispose of his fish, to keepe which hee hath divers fishponds in this ground, and to breed, and bringe uppe young pheasaunds: there is onely allowed him x1 per annum and Sir Arthur to bee att noe more chardge: The pheasaunds are bred in this manner: when the pheasand henns begin to lay, their eggs are taken from them: kept in bran and sett, and hatcht under an hen: fed with pisimers and kept in an house: Foure cisternes here are made of bricke about a yard deepe, and square, to keepe pikes: breames: tench: and carpes: Water is pumped into these, butt I doe nott expect these to succeed well; they are placed in an open house, walled, butt the roofe sufficiently open and yett under locke and key: This gardiner conceaves that mingleing muck with soile, and placeing itt to the tree rootes is verye good: butt nott muck alone: unto Munday Junii 5. I went to see Sir Ti: Hob:7 with whom I had much discourse circa quendam nob: whom hee had found a most dangerous man to discourse with in private, and therefore this was allwayes his answer, when his opinion or advise was required: that hee would consider of itt, and returne his answer in writeing: Some things chardged and fathered uppon him which he never spoake: Instaunce given of a most dishonest practise in P: W: whom was delivered in Channell-roe-houses a great booke of 2 sheetes of parchment subscribed by W: D: wherein were feoffees in trust: Com Sarisburiens: Sir Gualter Cope9 and others: A fine there is still extant, leadeing to this booke which hee finding repaired presently ad Com: Sarisb: and said unto him: "You and some others are feoffees for such an estate: enquire I beseech you into "Pisimers-pismire, an ant or emmet. 'This contracted name has been identified by Mr. J. W. Clay, whose knowledge of Yorkshire families of this period is unmatched, with Sir Thomas Posthumus Hoby of Hackness in Yorkshire, who was knighted 7 July, 1594, in Ireland by the Lord-Deputy. A transcript of Lady Hoby's diary, 1599-1605, from the original in the British Museum, is in the possession of Mr. Clay. One of the family seems to have been Sir William Brereton's companion in the expedition. 8 Channell-row-house was at, or near, New Palace Yard, Westminster. 'Sir Walter Cope was grandson of Sir Anthony Cope of Hanwell in Oxfordshire, a well-known personage in Tudor times. He was a member of the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries; was knighted by James I. at Worksop 21st April, 1603; was appointed Chamberlain of the Exchequer, where he helped to arrange the records, and Master of the Wards in 1613. In 1607 he built Cope Castle, now known as Holland House, and five years later purchased the manor of Kensington. He died 31st July, 1614. : your fathers evidence": Whereuppon search beeing made by him, hee found the booke, and delivered itt unto him: whereby W: Comis D: conveys over lande and goodes ejus Comitis: reserveing onely Bidst and 1000 per annum: In this provisio facta pro Dom: R 5: This booke delivered in loco predicto to P: W: with this chardge, and commaund: that the same should bee most carefully kept, and laid uppe against his comeing that summer ad L: where was then D: de T: This was receaved by P: W: and itt was promised: butt att his comeing ad L: and that hee was desired to peruse the evidence in Eagl: Tow: Soe soone as hee came thereinto: hee spoake thus to P: W: "Lett us begin where wee last left: Where is that booke I gave you att Lond: in loco predicto? Hee answered in such a box; where searching, noe such thing was to bee found every box, till and corner searched, butt itt was nott to be found in that house: Quare utrum nil negatur super sacramentum P: W: This man the most understanding, able, and industrious justice of peace in this kingdome. Noe warrant graunted out butt he takes notice thereof in a booke : and att sessions an account demaunded of all those warrants sent out which if the constables to whom they are delivered, doe not exequute nor returne, and give an account: they are called uppon att the sessions: or if those that require and procure the warrants keepe them in their hands, and make use of them for their owne ends and doe nott deliver them to bee served they are bound over to the sessions. This day a widdow by him ordered to bee committed, because shee refused to pay the money, which was five pound, committed to hir husband as overseer of the poor of the pareish whose stocke this was: shee beeing his exequutor: this hee said might bee justified, and that the law thus directs. To cure a straine of the back sinewes: Ralph Hungate's10 receipt practised uppon old, cripple, and many other horses with good succes: Receave of euphorsion1a three pennieworth as much cantharides: Lett these bee bruised and mingled with Oile de Bay, 3 pennieworth: or for want thereof with swine's grease rendred: whereof you make an ointment or salve, if it bee a great or an old straine you must add unto itt 1: or 2: pennieworth of white mercurie (more or less to bee used as in discretion you thinke fitt and according to the straine). This beeing mingled with the former to bee applied thus:-When all the haire is clipt of where the swelling and straine is: then allsoe shave itt with a sharpe razeor and afterwards with a penknife sharpe and well whetted, launce itt downe the backe and swelled and strained part of the legg in 3 or 4 long razes and the ointment with your hand is to bee rubbed and chafed uppon the place shaved and launced: if your horse be unruely hee must bee cast: then take a fire-shovell, red hott, or a red hott iron plate and hold before the 10 Probably Ralph Hungate of Sandhutton, third son of William Hungate of Saxton. 10a Euphorbia or Euphorbium. place thus anointed untill the ointment sinke and drench into the skin : These cautions to bee observed: 1. First, the horse is to be tied soe short as that hee cannott reach itt with his mouth, least hee gnaw when itt smarts, and bee poisoned, after 24 hours thus tied you may turne him out of doores, for he must not stand still in the stable: This beeing thus anointed will blister within half an houre or an houre: 2. Observe whether itt swell upwards and towards the bodye which if you discerne speediely with milke anoint and with your hand stroake the swelling downewards twixt his briskett and his knee. He must (sic) diligently watched and attended and after 5 or 6 dayes you must anoint the same with fresh butter. [1635] Junii 10. I went from Allerstone11 to Ellenthorpella in 5 houres. Where discourseing about the great storme I was there credibly informed that uppon Ribstone Moore (which is neere Sir Henn: Gooderickes 12 in Yorkesh :) there perished 7 persons in the storme nott 12 score from their habitations: and a woeman neere Goolesborrow, Judg Huttons,13 that attained to the doore of hir husbands house beeing shutt: one of hir maides saw hir att the doore thorow the window: butt shee beeing spent, sate downe uppon a blocke before the doore. They went unto and opened the doore in all hast and found hir quite dead. Sea fish uppon the coast of Lanckashire perished in the storme 50 cart loade together. Great complaint here att Failkirk in Scottl: as of the last winters extremitie of cold, frost and snow: wherein perished many in their houses for want of releefe: divers and many houses, beeing buried in the snow, and could nott bee found, butt by the smoake of the chimneyes: many sheepe and cattle perished in this storme. Soe now, they are mightiely punished with extreme drought; which as itt keepes downe their summer, soe allsoe doth itt hinder the winter 11 Thomas Egerton of Allerston in Pickering Lythe was second son of Sir Richard Egerton of Ridley in Cheshire, knight, and brother of Richard Egerton of Ridley, who married the Diarist's sister. 11a Ellenthorpe, near Boroughbridge. 12 Sir Henry Goodrick of Ribston, eldest son of Richard Goodrick of the same place, was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, where he matriculated 23rd July, 1596, being then 18 years of age. He was admitted to Gray's Inn 22nd November, 1598; knighted 11th May, 1603, and was subsequently appointed Vice-President of the Council of the North. Dying 22nd July, 1641, he was buried at Ribston, where there is a monumental inscription. Cf. Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, ed. Clay, vol. i, P. 55. 13 Sir Richard Hutton of Goldsborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, son of Anthony Hutton of Hutton, near Penrith, was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, admitted to Gray's Inn 26th October, 1580, called to the bar 16th June, 1586, sergeant at law 1603, recorder of York 1608, recorder of Ripon 1610, puisne judge, 1617, being knighted 13th April, 1617, and keeper of the Great Seal of Durham, 1631. He was one of the judges in the trial of Hampden on his refusal to pay Ship Money and was one of five judges who gave judgment in his favour. Dying 26th February, 1638/9, he was buried at St. Dunstan in the West. corne from shooteing freely. A most extreme winter allsoe hath here been in Ireland: and such drought, and extreme heate here att Ennerscoffie11 and Washford,15 as doth burne uppe all their corne and grass: These heates began Julye 7: and itt was as extreme violent hott weather as ever I felt in my life from this day. Itt did exceedingly distemper us to travell in the heate of the day, or indeed any time of the day; except there were some cooleing refreshing wind: dureing this time the wind stood most easterly: This extreme hott scortching weather did continue in Ireland untill about 21 Julii : uppon which day was much raine and itt continued dropping weather untill wee left Ireland Jul: 25. In all high field grounds much want of hay and grass: which is burnt uppe insoemuch as Mr. Ward mine host att Waterford affirmed that where hee had two loade of hay last yeare, hee had scarce one this yeare: Here allsoe they had extreme stormes of frost, and snow: And when I came into Engl: Julii 26 I found the like wants and complaints in Engl: I paid att Bristoll 12d. day and night hay: and att Bath 10d. a night for hay and a minister affirmed unto mee, comeing twixt Bath and Bristoll, that where they had 20 loade of hay last yeare they had nott 4 loade this yeare. About this time here was much dropping weather. Mightiely punished in this countrie by drought and much more in the south: Here they are constrained to putt their melch kine into their meadowes: noe raine to speake of hath fallen here since the storme: and in the Bishopricke noe grasse allmost to bee found, nor any low meadowes. Ju: 19. Wee left Ellenthorpe: whence to Catericke Brig is 12 miles: faire way: Leemeing Lane 7 long as straight levell way as is Wattling-streete from the Cross16 twixt Hintley17 and Lutterworth to Adderstone.18 From Caterig-brigg19 to Piers-brig20 7 miles a straight way allsoe: thence to Bishoppe Auckland 7 mile. Wee lodged att Newton 2 miles out of the roade, and from Peires Brig, with generous Mr. Henerye Blackstone,1 younger brother to Sir W: Blackst of Gibsett, whose eldest son married my cosin Mary Eggert: Here I was kindly and neately entertained and this gent: brought mee (sic) Aukeland: invited mee to his brother's and his nephew Wrens, Mr. Linsley Wren who married Sir W: Blackst: daughter-a fine gentl: very livelye, and of a free cariage etc. Here hee lodged all night, and (uppon his returne to Auckland next morne:) staide with mee untill evening. 14 Query Enniscorthy or Enniscoffey, co. Westmeath. 15 Query Waterford. 18 Atherstone. 1 16 High Cross. 19 17 Hinckley. 20 Piercebridge. Henry Blakiston of Archdeacon Newton, brother of Sir William Blakiston of Gibside, died in 1641. His son Sir William Blakiston, a colonel in the service of Charles I., married the Diarist's kinswoman, Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Egerton of Ridley in Cheshire. See Surtees, Durham, vol. II, p. 255. |