1717. Aug. 6th. Shephard and lady like to have been crushed. in their chariot-their's a place full of rocks and crags and very unfitt for a coach-his wife very indiscreet-would soon have made Uncle John jealous if he had gott her-Uncle Robert. The scheme about the mill not yet broken-Uncle Robert lends them 1,000. He would have sold Car-row 23 three years since, and bought this estate by Red-yeugh-and left either that all or only what remained above the value of Car-row to brothers William24 and Robert,25 but father would not consent to it, because Car-row comes to him, when Uncle Robert dies.

1717. Aug. 7th. Uncle John promised that I should never ride without man, etc., and yet would have me ride thither upon a neighbour's horse, not worth a groat. Epenetus, penultimate long is generally read-says uncle Robert. Asincritus, Cenchrea, Andronīcus, Elkanah, Epaphroditus, Johanan, Karčah, Zerujah, not Zerujäh. The dutches of Northumberland,26 the countess of Thanet's mother, fed a man with a design, it is supposed, to kill him and distill him to give her husband,—to make him live long.

1717. Aug. 8th. Oliver Cromwell kept a correspondence with the French king's secretary, thô they had promised to deliver Mardyke to the English, yet they had formed secret counsels not to do itwhich, Oliver knowing and sending a messenger about it-putt the French into a great consternation, it made them think he had consulted the devil, for there were but two or three persons conscious to it.

1717. Aug. 9th. Uncle Robert was very kind, gave me five sermons, he advised me never to contradict th' old lad.—Mr. Brown27 gott into his favour by telling him old Canterbury storys,

23 Carraw, in the parish of Warden, was purchased circa 1706 from the trustees and devisees of Henry Forster (whose will is dated 14 November, 1695) by Robert Thomlinson, clerk. Red-yeugh is Redheugh in the parish of Gateshead.

24 William Thomlinson, third son of William Thomlinson of Blencogo, was apprenticed 8 March, 1721, to his brother Richard, and was admitted free of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of Newcastle on the 30 April, 1729. He traded in partnership with his brother Richard and in 1736 founded the Bedlington Ironworks. Dying, circa 1737, unmarried, he was buried at St. John's, Wapping. His will was proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 4 Feb., 1737/8.

25 Robert Thomlinson, youngest son of William Thomlinson of Blencogo, settled at Boston in New England, but died in Antigua in 1758, unmarried.

26 For 'Northumberland' read 'Newcastle.' Henry Cavendish, second Duke of Newcastle, married Frances, grand-daughter of Robert Pierpoint, Earl of Kingston, and had with other issue Catherine, wife of Thomas Tufton, sixth Earl of Thanet.

"The Rev. John Brown, after serving as curate at Rothbury to Mr. John Thomlinson, became vicar of Wigton, where he died in the month of March, 1763, aged 83. His son John Brown, born at Rothbury, and baptized there on the 24th of November, 1715, was educated at Wigton and at St. John's College, Cambridge. After holding preferment in the diocese of Carlisle he was appointed vicar of Newcastle in 1760, but died in 1766. See Welford, Men of Mark. (Query, was the vicar of Wigton's wife a daughter of Mr. William Mitford, rector of Elsdon?)

etc. Mr. Farrington marryed, she cryed and he too, etc. Uncle Robert would have me court Mr. Ord's daughter, well educated, religious, and 2 or 3,000l. fortune. 28

1717. Aug. 10th. Uncle John designs her of Alnwick29 for brother Richard30. Sent my mother word of having made a sermon about the sin against the Holy Ghost for her service and upon her account. Gave brother long wig, and he gave me a bob for it. Gave him two

pair of ruffles, etc.

1717. Aug. 11th. Mr. Baker built a fine house at Crook31— bad way and two miles from church, distant from any gentlemen's seats. Preached at Whickham, was pretty-well heard-called it a noble beginning. Uncle Robert took a great deal of pains to teach me out to read well-and as it were musically-by notes.

1717. Aug. 12th. Went to Rothbury with John Spoor upon his horse-Uncle John gave this reason why he would not send his man and horses for me,-there would be the less danger of elating me. I spoke to Mr. Miller about the letter subscribed J. T. sent to Mrs. Met32 -he said it was not so, they only thought so, she had told them from whom it came. He said he took me for a man of good sense, and therefore could not think such a letter was writt by me.

1717. Aug. 13th. Found Uncle John lame in his leg, but jocose -he said he thought I could make John Spoor no requital sufficient for the loan of his horse, but to buy it, as John had been pressing him before. Found sower (sic) beer-and a desart place.

1717. Aug. 14. Mr. Drybrough's expression in preaching, that we should not pretend to fight the devil with sword and pistol. Bishop Andrews33 character-he had scientia magna, memoria major, judicium maximum, et industria infinita. Julius Cesar'sNil oblivisci solet, nisi injurias. Prescription gives no right in common law under three score years, and forty in civil.

1717. Aug. 15th. Uncle's leg in great danger of throwing him into a fever or turning to a mortification-Mr. Delapp proposed send

29 One of the daughters of John Ord of Newcastle, a wealthy attorney who purchased Fenham, Hunstanworth, etc. See p. 91, post.

2 See p. 86, post.

30 Richard Thomlinson, second son of William Thomlinson of Blencogo, was apprenticed 24th February, 1711, to his uncle, Ralph Reed of Newcastle, mercer, and was admitted free of the Merchants' Company on the 6th March, 1721. He traded at Newcastle and in London and afterwards at Wallingford, Berks, where he is stated to have died circa 1740. By his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Repington of Amington, near Tamworth, he had no issue. He married, secondly, Anne Maria, only child of John Wing, and had issue an only son, William Thomlinson of Wallingford, who was living circa 1763.

31 Mr. George Baker of Crook, married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Thomas Conyers of Elemore, co. Durham, and died at Bristol, 1 June, 1723. Query, Mrs. Mitford.

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33 Lancelot Andrewes, D.D. (1555-1626), bishop of Winchester. Cf. Dictionary of National Biography

ing to Alnwick for a surgeon, I was for it, but was dissuaded by cousin Robinson34 and Robin and Christopher Little, they urged that uncle would rage if he knew it, nor would he employ Richardson35 if he came, he had said he would send to Newcastle, if their was danger, etc.

1717. Aug. 16th. Uncle said he preached as pretty a sermon as ever he preached in his life last Sunday, and yet Mr. Delap36 says it was very indifferent-Uncle said he should have had many brave thanks for it if he had been among those that were judges. He told me of his letter that he writt against the teacher in Edinburgh, who said that the Sacrament of Baptism damned those who received it unworthily and without grace, as well as the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

1717. Aug. 17th. Cousin Robinson warned me against Mr. Brown's wife's sister coming to be his housekeeper-she is a confident, tatling woman, and for all the good opinion he has of her, she will wast and destroy things by entertaining sparks, etc. Uncle sent his man and horse for W. Wood, thô he would not send 'em for me.

1717. Aug. 18th. Preached and was applauded, they said I was too short-a thing they never knew before complained of. Mr. Dulapp said they were swearing at him for curing uncle's leg, if he had not done that, they might have had me always and heard no more of his nonsense. And why could not he lett some surgeon gett 40 guineas of him and then kill him at last. A woman said some of them were in great pain for me when I was to preach, being young and the first time, but when I had done, they could have hugged me into their bosoms.

1717. Aug. 19th. Uncle told Mr. Wood37 that he would give me leave to please my self in choice of a wife, and he thought I might

4 Catherine, daughter of Richard Thomlinson of Blencogo, and sister of John Thomlinson the rector of Rothbury, married, first, Joseph Robinson of Blencogo, a kinsman of Dr. John Robinson, bishop of London (1713-1723), and had (with other) issue a son, Joseph, and a daughter, Rebecca. She married, secondly, Thomas Grainger, described as of the parish of Bromfield, by whom she had issue (at least) four sons, Cuthbert, Thomas, Francis and William, and a daughter Mary, the first wife of Thomas Wilson of Mains, Cumberland.

Joseph Robinson, son of Joseph Robinson and Catherine (Thomlinson) his wife, was probably the man of that name who was entered at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 18th March, 1699, aged 16. Catherine Williamson, of Wigton, daughter of Mr. Joseph Robinson, late minister of Aberdeen, is named in the will of Mrs. Isabel Reed in 1730.

35 Mr. John Richardson of Alnwick, occurs as early as 1703, as an apothecary (and surgeon); he died in the month of May, 1735.

36 Delap here and on the day before-afterwards Dulap. His name was probably James Dunlop.

$7 Query, Mr. John Wood who married Isabel, widow of Ralph Mylott of Whitehill. Mrs. Wood-who was, by her first husband, mother of Dame Dorothy Loraine - died 2 December, 1767, aged 100. Cf. Hodgson, Northumberland, part II., vol. i. p. 243.

please him too-Uncle told Mrs. Bilton,38 etc., that either he or I must marry, for he wanted a housekeeper-they tell him he may have any woman in the country, and so flatter him that he knows not what to think of himself. He sent his man and horses home with W. Wood. Mr. Cooper39 of Horseley to marry Mrs. M. Cinquo [Simcoe]. 1717. Aug. 20th. When one tells these men of uncle's charity in building the school, etc., they reply what is that? he made us pay for it, he has raised the rent, and squeezed it out of us. The story of Dr. Butler40 curing King James of an imposthume, setting his back-side to a fire, and putting the finger of one hand into his mouth and the other into his arse, and when he bid him change hand, he burst into such a fitt of laughter, that it burst, etc. Dr. Ratcliff41 cured a Scot(c)he nobleman of the gout by removing him to a load of stray in the yard, and setting fire to it, he gott up and rid after the doctor to shoot him, the doctor said, well, my lord, I see I cured you, but I was in hast, that I had not time to take my leave.'

1717. Aug. 21st. Mr. Collingwood of Ryley42 invited me heartily to his house, as to morrow, with Mr. Brown and Dulap, uncle would not lett me, thô they all importuned him-he told me after, Mr. Collingwood is an honest man, and he has gott a daughter for you, if you'll have her he will give her perhaps 7 or 8007.-but what's that to twelve thousand, which your father and I have.' This is the reason why he would not lett me go. He would not lett me go to a christening neither-last week.

1717. Aug. 22. A man at Bows dyed for love, his parents would not lett him marry one he loved, and who loved him so well that, when the passing-bell went for him, she fell down and swooned away and lived but till next morning-her heart broke at hearing it, they were buryed together.42a Father gott 4007. by the death of an old woman, a neighbour who took such a fancy to him that she

33 Mr. Joseph Bilton of Brinkheugh, married at Woodhorn, 24 Oct., 1690, Mary Wolfall: she died 8 Jan., 1726 7. For a pedigree of Bilton of Brinkheugh, see new History of Northumberland, vol. vii. p. 494.

39 The Rev. Thomas Cooper was presented to the vicarage of Long Horsley in 1715, by Lord Chancellor Cooper. He became vicar of Berwick in 1726 and of Wooler in 1727, the latter benefice being held with that of Berwick.

40 William Butler (1535-1618), fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, some of whose empirical methods of treatment are related by Aubrey and quoted in the Dictionary of National Biography.

"John Radcliffe, M.D. (1650-1714), the famous London physician.

42 Mr. Alexander Collingwood of Little Ryle in the parish of Whittingham; High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1725, married in 1691, Dorothy, daughter of Mr. Wilfrid Lawson of Brayton, by whom he had (perhaps with other) issue one son and five daughters. His daughter Dorothy is frequently mentioned in these pages.

42a Affixed to the west wall of Bowes church there is a tablet to commemorate Roger Wrightson and Emma Railton, who died on the 15th March, 1715, the subjects of Mallet's poem, Edwin and Emma.' The circumstances related in the text are recorded in the parish register of burials.

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would have nothing done without him. She called him on her death-bed and would give all (which was 8007.) if he would gett any to write a new will-but grand-father would not, that was enough, would not rob the heir, so the other half went with the estate.

1717. Aug. 23rd. It is was one Reynolds that went to convert his brother, a papist at St. Omers, and was converted himself, and his brother to us. There is no rain in Egypt, but great dews, the river Nile overflows yearly in June for near forty days; if it be below 15 cubits, they will have a bad year and barren, if 16 or 17 it will be fruitfull. Cambden.

etc.

1717. Aug. 24th.

Buchanan telling King James he was going, He asked him whither; where king's flesh is venison, says heto heaven. The Empress in love with Sir John Jennings ; 43 when he transported her to [space left], they were in a great storm and boats could not land her, but he ventured in with a third rate ship into the harbour, which was never known before: shee writt in the cabin upon the window:- Dear Jennings, I shall never see thee more.' Uncle John ascribes uncle Robert coming in at Newcastle entirely to his interest, it was the greatest thing that ever he did, having the mayor's son for a competitour.

1717. Aug. 25th. Dr. Atterbury44 used to steal his master Busby's peaches; he missing them, sett his man to watch-and Atterbury coming, pulled a peach and held it up and published the banns of marriage between his lips and it, and there was any that knew any impediment, etc., the man told Dr. Busby45 this,--he pulling down his briches published the banns of matrimony between the rod and his brich, etc. Atterbury forbid the banns-the doctor laughed and said hang him, an unlucky rogue,' and so dismissed him. Dr. Busby once examining in geography asked one Tiesdale (who lives now near Whitehaven) how many poles there were; he knew not, but asked Atterbury, who was next him, who told him three- which are they,' says the doctor- the north-pole - which the next the south-pole'; well, there's two, but where's the third,' says the doctor- the may-pole in the Strand,' replyed Tiesdale, as Atterbury prompted.

1717. Aug. 26th. Uncle would not give Mr. Dulapp a glass of his strong beer nor cherry-brandy-thô he had saved his life. Went with Mr. Brown to Mr. Park's at Warton46-several old towers there

43 Admiral Sir John Jennings (1664-1743), who in March 1713 escorted the Empress from Barcelona to Genoa, when she presented him with her picture set in diamonds. Cf. Dictionary of National Biography.

"Francis Atterbury, D.D. (1662-1732), the notorious bishop of Rochester, some time dean of Carlisle.

Richard Busby (1606-1695), the famous head-master of Westminster School. Mr. Gilbert Park of Warton was baptized at Rothbury, on the 20th October, 1689, being the eldest son of John Park, the representative of a family of the smaller gentry, seated at Warton for some generations. He married at Morpeth, 5 September, 1712, Jane, daughter of George Wilson of Ulgham, by