[list-cumbria] Cumberland Pacquet - 26

[Nev Ramsden]

Whitehaven  - April 13 - 1775. - 26



The Lord Chancellor has been pleased to appoint Mr. Mounsey, Attorney of the City of Carlisle, a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.



Saturday last died, much and most deservedly lamented, Mr. John Farish of Carlisle. He had been in a bad state of health for a considerable time; but whilst he enjoyed the blessings of health,  he displayed his shining  abilities.



Thursday last was married at Settle in Yorkshire, Mr. Jonathon Drewery, cabinet-maker in Cockermouth, to Mrs Barbary Shaply of Settle, an eminent speaker amongst the people called Quakers. They were met on the road to Cockermouth, at Keswick, by a number of their Friends in carriages and on horseback; where an elegant and plentiful entertainment was prepared for the occasion.



Yesterday died, in the 85th year of her age, Mrs Crakeplace of this town; we hear that her remains are to be interred on Saturday next, in the family burying ground, in Brigham church-yard.

[Brigham Burial Register shows: 05.04.1775  Margaret Crakeplace  of Whitehaven & Brigham. She was Margaret (nee Christian) the wife of Thomas Crakeplace of Crakeplace Hall in the parish of Dean, they had four children baptised at Brigham church]



Early on Sunday morning arrived here from Isle of Mann, the Rev. Dr. Richmond, Bishop of Sodor and Mann. His lordship made no stay here, but immediately too chaise for Cockermouth.



They write from the Isle of Mann, that the tides for some time past have been lower at the different sea-ports there, than they are ever remembered to have been before. The Pacquet was neaped at Douglas, and the mail sent over by one of the cruisers belonging to the custom house. The like observation has been made, with respect to the tides, at the ports on this coast; most of the vessels now lying in this harbour have been ready for sea some time; had there been water sufficient to float them, it is supposed, we should by this time have had the thinnest harbour that has been seen these twenty years past.



We are advised from Workington that on Wednesday the 6th inst. Mr. Joseph Bowes of that place received in payment for a tea-kettle, two hundred and Fifty-eight farthings; what is still more remarkable (except one of Wood’s coinage) they were all English, and mostly of George 2nd. 

Some time since, the above person sold a tea-kettle to a woman, who, after serious consideration of twelve months, returned the same without using it, and exchanged it for a pair of wool cards. Our correspondent is in the pinion, that many would have been for reversing this business, and would have readily thrown the spinning wheel into the bargain.



Extract of a letter from a Merchant in London to a House in this Town

“We have certain intelligence of a ship being arrived at Dunkirk loaden with Tobacco – from Maryland; this has disconcerted the plan of many Merchants here, and they very justly observe that many more ships may steal away and carry their cargoes to France and Holland, which will prevent many of our own ships from procuring their full load. Capt [Not given] is quite at a loss what to do with his ship, his former employers not venturing to send any ship out, while things are in this confusion; had they sent any, they would have given him the preference. [ The ship was - the Catherine, Pattinson the master ]



As a paragraph in this paper of the 12th of January, (asserting that two married couples had made their appearance at Crosthwaite Church, few days ago, who themselves made a husbands, two wives, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, father mother, son, daughter, aunt and nephew) has been thought by many, irreconcilable to truth; for the sake of those who doubt its probability, we insert the following explanation of it, which is an absolute fact, by reading the time of their appearance, a few years since:-  “Amos Younghusband married Jared Green’s Grandmother, and Jared Green married Amos Younghusband’ daughter; thus by marriage, Amos and his wife were grandfather and grandmother to Jared and his wife; and Jared and his wife were son and daughter, and grandson & granddaughter; and Jared’s wife was his aunt, and he was his wife’s nephew.”



Two entries taken from the Crosthwaite Marriage Register

19.01.1754  Amos  Younghusband of Millbeck  &  Elizabeth Ullock of Buttermere

16.02.1754  Gerard  Green of Buttermere  &  Isabell Younghusband of Millbeck.

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