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 S2 HISTORY OF BISHOP AUCKLAKD. of the age of twenty-six yeares, and she about nineteen, by Mr. Henry Muithwaite, Curate of the said parish, «uid Mr. John Davies, who was deputed by him for the celebration of this matrimony, the Lord Bpp. of Duresme (who gave a dispensation for that purpose, And for not publishing the Bannes thre severall Sundayes, or holidayes, before), being then and there present, together with many other witnesses, the Ghiirchwardens and p'ishioners of the aforesaid Church. The following is an entry of the marriage of another of Bishop Cosin's daughters : — 1662. — December 23. — ^A marriage was had and solemnized betwene Samuel Davison, of Wingate Grange, Esqe., and Dame Elizabeth Burton, of the parish of St. Andrew Awckland, both of this County Palatine (by vertue of a licence had and obtained from the Right Reverend Father John, Lord Bishop of this Diooesse), in this p'ish Church of St. Andrew Awckland, after morning prayers, by Qeorge Devenport Clerke, his Lordshipp's Domestick Chaplaine. Samuel Davison was steward of the Halmot Court, and the third of Lady Burton's four husbands. He died at Auckland Castle, and was the first person interred in the chapel there. His burial greatly annoyed the Bishop, who, in a letter to his steward. Miles Stapylton, thus expresses himself : — And truly you had no reason either to bury him there or elsewhere in the Chappell till I had been first consulted, for I never gave my daughter leave to dispose either of House or Chappell at her pleasure, or any body els but my owne. Neither is there any body that I speake withall here but condemne it for a sudden and a rash act to suffer any one to be buryed there before my self e. The Bishop's wife was Frances, daughter of Marmaduke Blakiston, prebendary of Newton Hall, who was the youngest son of John Blakiston, of Blakiston, near Norton. The lady's brother was John Blakiston, the regicide. Under date January 7th, 1666, we find, in the Kegister for deaths, the following : — Gulielmus Barnes tremulus qui ezcommunicatus erat sepultus f uit extra Csemeterium Ecclesiae de Awckland Sancti Andreae, in pte Orientali. The following is the translation : — " William Barnes* was excommunicated, and buried outside the wall of the church-yard of St AndreVs, in the eastern part" In the year 1868, ui the course of digging a deep grave at the place indicated by the foregoing entry, the sexton came in contact with a large skeleton, measuring, as he thought, over six feet, and apparently entire. The head was laid towards the east ; and, it being the custom in such cases to inter the body in that position, there is every probability of it being the remains of the excommunicated Barnes. 1664. — August 18, — Gulielmus Hntcliinson qui demersus fuit in flumine juxta Binovium, sepultus fuit. The following is the translation : — ^William Hutchinson was drowned in the river near Binchester, and buried here. 1666. — ^November 9.— Pauper mendicans et errabimda mulier tuius nomen ignoro, sepulta fuit.t In the Kegister for Marriages, under date May 26th, 1670, we find the following :— Jacobus Bayles et Peregrina Colpets, nupti fuerunt apud Eccliam Cathedralem Dunelmensem, p. me Thomam Belt, cum licentia. 1671. — August 15. — Thomas Belt Legum Baccalaurus Curatus Eccli» de Aukland StL Andr», et Anna Bowser, filia natu maxima Richardi Bowser de Aukland, Episcopi. generosi nupti fuerunt per Thomam Dixon Rectorem de Whitworth, in Ecclia parochiali de Aukland Sancti AndresB p'dict, cum licentia. 1671. — September 5. — Georgius Barnes et Jana Bowser, cum licentia. The death of Bishop Cosin is recorded in the Eegisters as follows ; — 1672. — ^April 29. — Reverend in Xto Pater Johannes Epus Dunelmensis Sepultus in Capella sua AuklandensL The following is the certificate (as given by Surtees) from the college of arms of the death and funeral ceremonies of John, Lord Bishop of Durham : — The Right Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Bishop of Durham, departing this life at his lodging in the street called Pell Mell, within the suburbs of Westminster, upon the fifteenth day of January, anno 1671, being then in the surname^ which is given as Bowness. t " A defective paaper wandering woman, whom no one knows, buried here :" Her last earthly record coached in Latin, too ; what i coold a Bishop have ? Digitized by Google
 * A translation of the above entry is given on a fly leaf at the oommenoement of Vol. IL of the Registers. It differs^ however,