ERRATA ET CORRIGENDA.

Page 4, note 5.

Page 11, note 10.

Page 22, note 8.

For Charlie' read Charles.'

ForArthurea' read'Arthuret.'

The name written Awthor Long' is apparently meant for 'Ochterlony.' The name of George Ochterlony occurs as curate of Tweedmouth in 1640.

Page 25, note 16.

Page 43, note 17a.

For 'Douglas' read 'Dunglas.'
Delete For.'

Page 46, note 6. For Bellymena' read 'Ballymena."

Page 70, note 19a.

repeated on page 131, Page 118, note 1.

The pedigree given in this note is inadvertently note 17, with some amplification.

The name of the wife, and the date of the marriage of Taylor Thirkeld, mentioned on the fourth line from the foot of the page, has been repeated on the following line.

Page 128, note 15.
Page 139, note 13.

For Dennis' read 'Denis.'
For Skern' read 'Skerne."

NORTH COUNTRY DIARIES

(SECOND SERIES).

"Let all these riches be treasured up, not only in your memory, where time may lesson your stock, but rather in good writings and books of account, which will keep them safe for your use hereafter."

Sir Thomas Bodley to Sir Francis Bacon.

Published for the Society

BY ANDREWS & CO., DURHAM;
WHITTAKER & CO., 2, WHITE HART STREET,

PATERNOSTER SQUARE;

AND BERNARD QUARITCH, 15, PICCADILLY, LONDON ;
BLACK WOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH.

1915.

At a Meeting of the COUNCIL OF THE SURTEES SOCIETY, held at Durham Castle, on Tuesday, December 5th, 1911, the DEAN OF DURHAM in the chair.

'It was resolved that a second volume of North Country Diaries be edited by Mr. JOHN CRAWFORD HODGSON, F.S.A.'

PREFACE.

Of the diaries and similar documents printed in this volume some are already known to the student of local history. The Journal of Sir William Brereton, which is perhaps the most valuable of the series, formed the first volume of the Chetham Society's publications and was reprinted in Richardson's Imprints and Reprints of Rare Tracts in 1844. But as both of these editions have become rare, the Journal may very fitly find a place in the present series, the more so as Sir Philip H. B. Grey-Egerton, the present owner of the MS., has permitted a fresh transcript to be made for the Surtees Society. The fate of the original diary of Mark Browell is unknown, but it was copied for the same series of Richardson's Reprints. The family records of Mark Akenside were contributed by Mr. Richard Welford, M.A., to that valuable but short-lived repository of local information, Northern Notes and Queries. Of Warburton's letters a few copies have been struck off by the Bishop of Durham for private circulation; and large extracts from John Dawson's Diary may be found in the Proceedings of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries. So far as is known, the other documents are now printed for the first time.

Although Sir William Brereton's description of Edinburgh. in 1635 is not flattering, he displays both candour and discernment. He seems to have been especially interested in salt works and in decoys for duck. Jacob Bee's Chronicle comprises those parts of the original MS. which are not given in his diary printed in Six North Country Diaries. It deals for the most part with humble and unimportant people, but it may interest the inhabitants of the city and neighbourhood of Durham, as will Bishop Warburton's caustic letters. The Journal of Bishop Pococke will appeal to a wider circle, containing, as it does several otherwise unrecorded Roman Inscriptions; while the diary of John Dawson, kept during a time when he was an active and conscientious militia officer, may amuse those interested in military affairs.