THE DIARY.

1717. July 24th. Writt to S. Lisle,1 told him I should be glad to be near Mrs. W- -n, for uncles seemed inclined to havemarryed. Told him I had the same opportunity of hearing of the wars abroad; but there might be many skirmishes and battles among the polemical divines, statesmen and critics at home, which I might be ignorant of, if he would not acquaint, etc. Crosby told Fenwick2 a story of Clennell,3 etc.-Paper-mills.

1717. July 25th. Read prayers for Mr. Fenwick4-glory should be read as with an w, father as if it was fawther. Observed we contradict our selves in pronunciation of some words-Adrimelech with the penultimate long, Abimelech short. C. Franc. writt that Wat nor he had either money or credit. Walter has kept his coach many years, and so saved little. Uncle Richard cleared 1,000l.

per annum entirely.

1717. July 26th. A plate, cost 3 guineas or more, run for by wainhorses or cart-horses, for the encouragement of the coal-pitt-men, etc. Uncle sett fine urns at his gates, 4 foot high,- -a plint, bell inverted and fluted at the top, a little ball at the top, etc. His house has ashley5-front and rustic coins-every room 12 foot high-and stone cornish. Urns sett up; 1, plint; 2, neck, same as that under balls; 3, the urn; 4, the lid of the urn, fluted at top; 5, a round ball of stone-5 or 6 inches diameter.

1717. July 27th. A Roman Catholic and Geneva-man being friends and endeavouring to convert one another, the arguments of each proved so strong and effectual, that they changed sides, the Roman turned to his religion, and so reciprocal. Masons work generally for 4d. per foot.

1717. July 28th. Mr. Ralph Jennison,7-his own hair had

1 Samuel Lisle, son of the Rev. John Lisle, minor canon of Durham, was baptised at Durham Cathedral, 1 Feb., 1691 2, matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge, 3 May, 1709, B.A. 1712, M.A. 1716, B.D. 1724.

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Probably George Fenwick, son of the Rev. William Fenwick, vicar of Hallaton in Leicestershire (second son of Claudius Fenwick of Brinkburn), who matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge, 4 May, 1705.

* Probably Thomas Clennell, son of John Clennell of West Lilburn (and of Clennell), who matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge, 19 June, 1710. Probably the Rev. Cuthbert Fenwick, rector of Morpeth, 1691-1745. 5 Ashley ashlar. See p. 75, post.

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Probably Mr. Ralph Jenison of Newcastle and of Wolsington, who died in March, 1722, aged 56, when he was succeeded in the latter estate by his son Mr. Ralph Jenison the younger. Cf. Surtees, Durham, vol. iii. pp. 322, 412.

bastard laid to him-the woman was in Newgate, he and another gent. went thrô the common room where she was 2 or 3 times, she happenning to say he was a pretty gent., the other asked her what then, had she anything to say to him, did she know him? She said no, etc. He, or some of that name used frequently to gett drunk, and being sensible to what dangers, etc., he then exposed himself, gave his man power to take his spurs, sword, and whip from himMr. Fenwick was once there when he delivered sword and spurs, but prayed his man John to lett him keep his whip-John would not, they strugled a little, but the master surrendred, and said John was a hard hearted fellow-he likewise prayed he might ride his own horse home; 'no,' says John, then you will leave me,' 'no indeed I wo' not,' say he-however John would not, and so he mounted John's galloway and called him hard hearted, etc.

1717. July 29th. Uncle Johns gave uncle Robert9 only a calf's head to dinner and pluck, when he first carryed his wife10 thitherhis wife had not one shilling to command from one year end to another. Mr. Metcalfe being ill sent up for his daughter-he asked her if she had not a respect for his nephew, for so he heard, if she

John Thomlinson, second, but eldest surviving, son of Richard Thomlinson of Blencogo, was born circa 1651, either at Blencogo or in the parish of Wigton. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and, after being ordained, became vicar of Bromfield, Cumberland, the advowson of which church was purchased by his father. In 1678 he was preferred by Dr. Rainbow, bishop of Carlisle, to one of his best livings, at Rothbury, which rectory he held until his death. His wife, Mary Nelson, is said to have been a near kinswoman of Bishop Rainbow. Husband and wife are buried in the chancel of Rothbury, where there is a monument bearing the following inscription: Near this monument lyeth the body of the truly virtuous matron Mary wife of John Thomlinson, rector of Rothbury, who departed this life, Oct. 30, 1710, aged 70 years. Also on her right hand is interred the body of the said Rev. John Thomlinson, a worthy benefactor to this parish, who was rector above 41 years, who departed this life May 23, 1720, aged 69 years.' On a neighbouring tablet are commemorated Mr. Thomlinson's benefactions to the school of Rothbury, to the school and almshouse at Wigton and to the vicarage of Wigton. John Thomlinson's will is dated 12 Feb., 1719 20.

Robert Thomlinson the youngest of the ten children of Richard Thomlinson of Blencogo, was educated at St. Edmund Hall and Queen's College, Oxford, matriculated 22 March, 1685/6, aged 17, B.A. 1689, M.A. 1692, ordained by Dr. Louth, bishop of Oxford, was successively rector of Brockley, Somerset, lecturer of St. Nicholas', Newcastle, vicar of Eglingham, rector of Whickham and prebendary of Chamberlain Wood in St. Paul's Cathedral. The two last preferments he held until his death, at Whickham, on the 24th March, 1747/8, aged 79. His benefactions to Allonby chapel, Whickham and Bellingham schools, and the founding of the Thomlinson Library at Newcastle, are set out by the late Rev. E. H. Adamson in Arch. Ael. 2nd series, vol. x., p. 80, and by the late Mr. William Shand in Arch. Ael. 2nd series, vol. x., p. 59; xv.

340.

10 The Rev. Robert Thomlinson married, at East Ardsley, on the 8th April, 1702, Martha Ray, daughter of John Ray of Gomersal, and aunt of Mr. John Ray, vicar of Wardon. She was baptized at Birstal on the 13th July, 1668, and living to extreme old age died at Whickham on the 16th December, 1769. Cf. Hunter, Familiae Minorum Gentium, vol. iii. p. 892.

had she must tell him and he would settle something on her and gett 'em married; she innocently confessed, at which he exalted his cane and threatened her sadly.

1717. July 30th. Uncle said, when I told him what Charles Richard (sic) said of Farrington's catechetic lectur (sic) in St. Nicolas, and of people's opinion about his brother supplying him with sermons, that he did not believe that, but he had heard some say that his father left two boxes of sermons, one to him and another to his brother his father a pretty good preacher.11

1717. July 31st. Justice Dalavil's daughter marryed to a joyner -supposed to be gott with child by soldiers, officers were much there-Brig. Honywood very great there the father would sometimes tell with pleasure of his dallying and playing with his daughter. Uncle John has spoke to Bishop of Carlisle12 about his daughterUncle Robert believes :-if I do not like her, aunt thinks he will be for her of Alnwick. 13

1717. Aug. 1st.

Went to Newcastle-dined with Mr. Mayor14_____ he has the best wine (Margou) that ever mayor treated with; made one in the parade to the town-hall to drink the king's health, with waights14 before us, etc.

1717. Aug. 2nd. Cowlin's sentence (Modesty is a paradox in Majesty, etc.), which was so much extolled, I found in South's sermon15 Writt to Su-n, told I was so much obliged I could refuse nothing, etc.

The Rev. Hugh Farrington, Fellow of St. John's, Cambridge, held the rectory of Elsdon and the lectureship of All Saints, Newcastle, from 1715 until his death, 3 Sept., 1739. He and his brother, Lawrence Farrington, of Queen's College, Oxford, were the two sons of the Rev. Alexander Farrington of Kendal, who divided his stock of sermons between them.

12 William Nicolson, D. D., prebendary of first stall in Carlisle Cathedral, 1681-1702. Archdeacon of Carlisle, 1682-1702; Bishop of Carlisle, 1702-1718; Bishop of Londonderry, 1718-1727. He was appointed Archbishop of Cashel in 1727 but died within a month from his appointment.

13 See p. 86, post.

The Mayor of Newcastle in 1717 was Mr. Ralph Reed, who married the diarist's paternal aunt. He was a son of Archibald Reed of Bellingham, and brother of John Reed who, in 1724, purchased Chipchase Castle. A connection of theirs was the second wife of Thomas Forster of Adderston, father of the rebel general.

Mrs. Reed was Isabel, daughter of Richard Thomlinson of Blencogo. When a widow she gave £100 to her brother's almshouse at Wigton. Cf. Arch. Ael., 2nd series, vol. x. p. 65.

Ha The town's waits, or musicians.

15 The Sermons of Robert South (1634-1716) after being published separately were collected by himself and published in six volumes, 1679-1715. Supplementary volumes were issued after his death. Cf. Dictionary of National Biography.

The Rev. Charles Cowling of St. John's College, Cambridge, was vicar of Bedlington (1676-1696) and left descendants in the county. There was also a John Cowling of Peterhouse, a Yorkshireman, who circa 1715 was curate of St. Nicholas', Newcastle.

1717. Aug. 3rd. Mr. Shaftoe16 of Gateside, a gentleman-like clergyman, called, but he is a very drone in the pulpit. Dr. Benson17 bullys the bishop, contradicts, is positive, etc. A bishop without divinity, a chancellour without law, an arch-deacon without jurisdiction, and a chaplain without modesty. Crow courts a woman that

is non-juror, which sways him much.

1717. Aug. 4th. When Nebuchadonozor took Josiah, king of Judah, prisoner (thô a good king), and the Jews, yet we find the prophet Jeremiah exhorting 'em to obedience and to keep peace in it. that they might have peace. Dr. Hicks18 lays great stress upon the practice of the Greek church with respect to lay-deprivations-whereas Sir Ricoult 19 says that the Grand Seignior at this day deprives who and when he pleases-there has been due obedience payed to the patriarch of Constantinople, when there have been four more living, some unjustly deprived, etc.

1717. Aug. 5th. Dr. King, now archbishop of Dublin,20 writt an history of the state of Ireland under King James II., wherein he makes it appear that at the Revolution we were in such circumstances exactly as many learned men, Bishop Franklaind [space left], and even Dr. Hicks in his Jovian21 had allowed to be sufficient to justifie resistance, they allow of resistance in one case, and think it consistent with the doctrine of passive-obedience, and ours was just that case at the Revolution. Dr. Hicks makes use of the same arguments to exalt the dignity of bishops against lay-deprivation that the papists make use of for the popes. Fourteen bishops deprived at the Reformation. Lesley's22 Regale and Pontificat shrewdly writt-but he does not consider that the Regale is jure divino, as well as Pontifical.

16 The Rev. Leonard Shafto, rector of Gateshead from 1705 to 1731, was the eldest surviving son of the Rev. Leonard Shafto, lecturer of All Saints, Newcastle, and of Sarah, his wife, who married, secondly, Rev. William Maers, also lecturer of All Saints. The rector of Gateshead is said to have been born at Dedham, in Sussex, where his father had some clerical preferment, or duty, was educated at Durham School and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he matriculated 14 Jan. 1686; B.A., 1690; M.A., 1694. Under his father's will he took an interest in the Elswick colliery, which apparently had come into the family through his grandmother, Jane, sister of Thomas Ledgard. He married, at All Saints, Newcastle, 15 Sept., 1703, Anne, daughter of John Hindmarsh, by whom he had issue, one son and three daughters. Cf. Arch. Ael. 3rd series, vol. iv. p. 41.

Thomas Benson, D.D. of Queen's College, Oxford, vicar of Stanwix, 1705, and of Dalston, 1714, was prebendary of the third stall in Carlisle Cathedral, and married Mary eldest daughter of William Nicolson, bishop of Carlisle. 18 George Hickes, D.D. (1642-1715), a non-juring bishop.

Sir Paul Rycaut (1628-1700), The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, London, 1668.

20 William King, D.D. (1650-1729), archbishop of Dublin, author of State of the Protestants in Ireland, 1691, etc.

21 George Hickes, D.D., author of Jovian, an Answer to (Samuel Johnson's) Julian the Apostate, 1683, etc.

22 Charles Leslie (1650-1722), author of The Case of the Regale and of the Pontificat (sic) stated, 1700.