for the bishops; itt was left to ye jury, and att 7 next morning they brought them in Nott Guilty, for which there was soe great rejoycing by ringing of bells, etc., in Newcastle on the third and fourt dayes of July as never was, since King Charles the 2nd was restor'd:rung all night.

[1688]. June 22.

Being sett forward for London, I returned

home the 23rd. sick and so continued till 28. [1688]. June 28. Dr. Crew,16 Bishop of Durham, was his visitacon att Newcastle, and summonsd all the clergy there and in Northumberland, to meet him, who did soe, His questions were: If they had received and read the King's Declaracon for Liberty of Conscience in their severall churches, according to order, on the third and tenth instant? Their reply, that they had received itt, and none of them read itt, butt the refuse of the clergy. It was not read in any church in Newcastle. The Bishop went home the same day, being little respected by any, clergy or laity, for there were but five black coates att dinner, and not an alderman butt two, Edward Widdrington and Thomas Partis, the former a papist, the latter a phanatick, the Recorder Barnes, and ye Sheriffe, Samuel Gill.

[1688]. July 1. young prince. [1688]. July 6.

12.

A day kept for the solemnizing the birth of the

I gott a relapse, and was indisposed till the

1688. Aug. 3. This day our new charter for Newcastle came home, and was mett with fourty six horsemen, gentlemen and their servants. The persons named for the magistracy in that charter were as follows:

conduct at the trial of the Seven Bishops brought him immortal fame. He died at Exeter, 7 Sept., 1696, and was buried at Broadway in Carmarthenshire. His portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery. There seems to have been a contemporary Sir John Powell also a judge.

16 Of Nathaniel Crewe, Baron Crewe, the least estimable of the long line of distinguished men who have been Bishops of Durham, there is a little known life in Camden Miscellany, vol. ix., Camden Society publications, new series, No. 53. Cf. Dictionary of National Biography.

17 Thomas Radcliffe, the third son of Sir Francis Radcliffe, 3rd baronet, who, in 1688, was created Earl of Derwentwater, was born 9 July, 1658, and entering the army attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1688. He died in exile at Douay, 29 Dec., 1715.

Mr. John Errington, papist.

Joseph Barnes, Deputy Recorder, whigg.

Mr. Samuel Gill, merchant, Sheriff, whigg.

[1688]. Aug. 13. Aug. 13. Newcastle and Northumberland Assizes: Judges: Lord Chief Justice Wright, Baron Jenner, 18

The former satt the Nisi prius; the latter, the Crown side. Sheriffe for the county, Sir Richard Neile.19

1688. Sept. 15. My wife was delivered of a female child betwixt three and foure a clock in the morning.

[1688]. Sept. 25. My child christ'ned Margaret, p. Mr. Joseph Bonner, 20 curate. Sureties: John Hindmarsh, esq.;1 Madam Jane Robson, 2 Mrs. Margaret Ive.3

1688. Oct. 28, Sunday. My child Margaret dyed betwixt

18 Sir Thomas Jenner, son of Thomas Jenner of Mayfield, Sussex, was educated at Tunbridge Grammar School and at Queen's College, Cambridge. He was admitted to the Inner Temple, 1659; was sergeant-at-law, 23 Jan., 1683/4; recorder of London, 1685; baron of the Exchequer, 13 Feb., 1686/7; Justice of the Common Pleas, 6 July, 1688; was one of the Special Commission sent to James II. to visit Magdalen College. At the Revolution he fled with James II., but was captured at Faversham and was excepted from the Act of Indemnity of 2 William and Mary. Dying at Petersham, 1 Jan., 1707, he was buried in the church there. He was ancester of Jenner-Fust, baronets.

19 Sir Richard Neile was a younger son of Sir Paul Neile of Hutton Bonville and grandson of Richard Neile, successively Bishop of Durham and Archbishop of York. He was knighted 29 Nov., 1686, and married Anne, widow of Charles Brandling of Alnwick Abbey, with whom he acquired Plessey in the parish of Stannington. He died 3 Mar., 1692/3.

20 The Rev. Joseph Bonner, son of Timothy Bonner of Newcastle, merchant, was baptized at St. Nicholas', 8 Dec., 1661, and was educated at University College, Oxford, where he matriculated, 15 Dec., 1677; B.A., 1681; curate of All Saints, Newcastle, 1688-1695; vicar of Bolam, 1695; and died, 8 Oct., 1721, leaving issue.

1 John Hindmarsh of Little Benton, was born at Wallsend circa 1649, educated at Newcastle school and at Christ College, Cambridge, where he matriculated, 6 July, 1665, and was admitted to Gray's Inn, 5 June, 1667. He married at All Saints, Newcastle, 4 October, 1679, Julian, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Dent of Newcastle, merchant, by whom he had (perhaps with other) issue, two sons and two daughters. He was buried at All Saints, 31 July, 1694.

2 Madam Jane Robson, wife of the Timothy Robson mentioned above. 'Mrs. Margaret Ive was the Diarist's mother-in-law. Richardson states that down to 1816 there was on a flat stone in St. Nicholas' church the following inscription :

The burial place of Roger Ive, citizen and stationer of London, and Margaret, his wife and children, anno 1671. Edward, his son, departed this life, Aug. 7, 1671 Margaret, their daughter, departed this life the 25 of February, anno 1687. Elizabeth, their daughter, marryd with Mark Browel, gent., they had issue betwixt them, Margaret and Edward. Margaret dyd 28 of October, anno 1688. She dyd 9th of September, anno 1689.

tenn and eleven in the forenoone, soe shee lived six weekes, one day and seaven houres; distemper, convulsions in her bowells.

[1688]. Oct. 30, Tuesday. She was buried att St. Nicholas church att 3 in the afternoone by Mr. William Drake, curate, and laid on the north side of her grandfather's stone. Bidder, Nicholas Sackeild;5 Servers, Mrs. Katherine Snow,6 Mrs. Margaret Clark.7

[1688]. Oct. 1. Mr. William Hutchinson chosen maior of Newcastle, and Mr. Matthias Partis, sheriffe.

[1688]. Oct. 10. To attend Mr. Elison's com[mission] att Morpeth; putt of till the 15.

1688. Nov. 5. Then was restored to the Corporačon of Newcastle upon Tyne, their antient Charter, with their libertyes and franchises, with their magistracy, and all other things as in the yeare 1679; all innovations and changes which since that time happened, being by proclamacon taken away.

4 The Rev. William Drake, stipendiary curate of St. Nicholas', 1678; stipendiary curate of St. Andrews, 1688-1689; buried at St. Nicholas', 24 May, 1693.

5 Nicholas Salkeld.

6 Mrs. Katherine Snow.

The Snow family had a burial place in the

north aisle of the old church of All Saints.

7

Query Margaret, wife of Charles Clarke, barber-surgeon; if so, she died 30 Mar., 1683, and was buried in the chancel of St. John's.

8

Mathias Partis, son of Thomas Partis of Newcastle, tobacconist, was baptized at St. Nicholas', 26 Feb., 1654/5. He was sheriff of Newcastle in 1688. He was buried at St. Nicholas', 2 Jan., 1717/8. His descendants became possessed of Tallentire hall in Cumberland.

Perhaps the William Carr who was mayor of Newcastle in 1702 and M.P. in 1689, 1702, 1705, and 1708.

10 John Ramsay, who was an alderman of Newcastle in 1688.

Matthew White,11 esq., Sheriff. Sir Robert Shaftoe, 12 Recorder. Coroners :

Mr. George Winfield. 13

Mr. William Bootflower. 14

1688. Nov. 4. The Dutch anchored in England, and the 5th landed at Dartmouth, Turbay and Exmouth in the West.

Matthew White, son of Miles White of Hawthorn in the county of Durham, baptized at Easington, 12 Mar., 1653/4, was apprenticed 1 Feb., 1668/9, to Nicholas Fenwick, boothman, and was admitted free of the Merchants' Company, 21 Mar., 1678/9, of which Company and that of the Hostmen's he in due cause became Governor. He was Mayor of Newcastle in 1691 and 1703, and dying on the 12 of Oct., 1716, he was buried in the old church of All Saints, under a stone, with the arms three cocks heads erased, recording that by Jane, his wife, he had issue ten children.

12 Sir Robert Shafto, eldest surviving son of Mark Shafto of Gray's Inn and of Whitworth, baptized, 13 May, 1634, and was entered to Gray's Inn at the age of six years on the 16 Mar., 1640/1, and was made Recorder of Newcastle in 1660. He was knighted, 26 June, 1670. and made a sergeantat-law, 21 April, 1675. Dying 21 May, 1705, aged 72, he was buried in St. George's porch in St. Nicholas'. By his wife, Catherine, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Widdrington, of Cheeseburn Grange, Speaker of the House of Commons, he left issue.

13 George Whinfield, son of George Whinfield, late of Bridge-end in Woodland (query Bolland) in Lancashire, was apprenticed 2 Feb., 1660/1, to Henry Bowes, the elder, of Newcastle, draper, and was admitted free of the Merchants' Company, 27 April, 1670. He was sheriff of Newcastle in 1693, and mayor in 1696. Dying in his second mayoralty, on the 25 June, 1710, he was buried in St. Nicholas'.

14 William Boutflower, son of Thomas Boutflower of Apperley in the parish of Bywell St. Peter, was apprenticed 14 April, 1675, to Benezer Durant, mercer, and was admitted free of the Merchants' Company, 9 Oct., 1684. He was sheriff of Newcastle in 1701, and was buried at St. Nicholas', 26 May, 1712. He was married twice, and left issue by both marriages.

THE FAMILY OF MARK AKENSIDE THE POET.

INTRODUCTION.

Mark Akenside of Newcastle the elder, the entries of whose family in Diodati's Annotations on the Bible are now printed, was a younger son of Abraham Akenside of Eachwick, in the parish of Heddon on the Wall. The latter represented a Protestant Nonconformist family of small landowners, who, like their more opulent neighbours, placed their younger sons as apprentices to tradesmen and merchants in Newcastle. The main line of the family seems to have ended in William Akenside, a captain of the 14th regiment of Foot, who died on the 22nd of October, 1830.

Having obtained the freedom of the Butchers' Company, apparently by apprenticeship, Mark Akenside established himself in business as a butcher, and on the 5th of September, 1710, being then of the parish of St. Nicholas, he took out a licence to marry Mary Lumsden, of the parish of All Saints, spinster. The marriage was celebrated in St. Nicholas on the 10th of October, and it is not improbable that Mrs. Akenside may have been a member of a family of Lumsden, seated at Morpeth for some generations. The date of his death has not been ascertained, but he was living in 1741, in which year he voted at the Newcastle election as a member of his Company, for William Carr and Matthew Ridley.

The extracts from Diodati's book possess such an exceptional interest that their inclusion in the present volume may be justified ; they were made by some person connected with the Unitarian Church in Newcastle (to which the Akensides belonged) from the original and are preserved in the Registers of the Church of Divine Unity.