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 88 HISTORY OF BISHOP AUCKLAND. In "The Female Mentor/' 1798, we read, "Independently of the religious comfort which is imparted in our burial service, we sometimes see certain gratifications which are derived firom immaterial circumstances ; and, however trivial they may appear, are not to be judged improper, as long as they are perfectly innocent Of this kind may be deemed the practice, in some country villages, of throwing flowers inti> the grave ; and it is curious to trace this apparently simple custom up to the politest period of Greece and Roma" Vigil, describing Anchises grieving for Marcellus, makes him say : — FoU canisters of fragrant lilies bring, Mixed with the purple roses of the spring : Let me with funeral floVrs his body strew : This gift which parents to their children owe, This unavailing gift, at least I may bestow. The following entries in the Parish Registers show the antiquity of the names of many of our suburbs, which modem innovation has not been able to destroy : — BAPTISMS. 1670. — ^April 12. — Jana, filia Qeorgij Douthwaite, de Lodg house. July 24. — Johannis, filius Anthony Watson, Jock's-row. 1672.— May 12. — ^EKanora, filia Cuthberti Johnson, de Braks house.^ 1673. — June 24. — ^Anna, filia Micharlis Robinson, de Pollard's Bracks. 1676. — May 23. — Bartholomius, filius Gulielmi Thompson, de le rough-Lee. 1688.— May 16.— Jacobus, filius Roberti Bland, de Jock's Raw. 1690. — January 16. — Eliz»betha, filia Henerici Smith, de Coppy Crooks. 1699. — March 3. — Valentine, son of Ralph Lickbarrow, Fumes MilL 1705. — May 15. — ^William, son of Thomas Wright, Byers Green. 1725. — September 24. — A child found at ye door of Tobias Hanison, bapd. James, De Goundou. DEATHS. 1660. — January 27. — John Claxton, of Newton, gent., buried in the church, in ye South Poarch. January 30. — ^Mrs. Elizabeth Sympson, of North Auckland, buried in the church. September 23. — Den Stobs, of North Auckland, an old woman, buried. 1662, — March 4. — Elizabetha, uxor Henrici Nelson de Awckland Batts. 1663. — September 27. — Filius abortivus et prodigiosus Johannis LangstafiPe, de Awkland. 1664. — July 25. — ^Abrahamus, filius Abrahami Horseley, de Binchester bridge. December 12. — Georgius, filius Johannis Bewicke, de Binchester Bridge. 1666. — Aprill 1. — Maria, uxor Johannis Willy, de le Gloss-house. 1667. — April 27. — Ghristopherus, filius Guli^mi Allinson, de Gringle Dike. 1674.— May 19.— Radulphus, filius Radulphi Pickering, de Auldand, Epi. May 26. — Richardus, filius Alicia Johnson, de Gockton-hill, vidu». 1676. — December 15. — Elizabetha, filia Richardi Comforth, de Oaks Row. 1684. — September 20. — Jane, ye wife of John Tate, wanderer, buryed. 1685. — September 3. — Margaret, daughter of Elizabeth Tomson, of Midridge, bastard. September 9. — John, son of Wm. Rowan, of the Wood houses. 1690.— March 20.— Willm. Wright, of ye Whitehouse, of Hunwick. July 31. — Jane Patteson, of Rumbehill. 1691. — June ye 5th. — Margaret, wife of John Mackalley, a stranger. 1692. — February 6. — ^Edward WiUdson, de Binchester whins. May 16.— Henry Pattison, Rumby Hill. 1693.— February 17.— Elizabeth Parking, wid.. Park-head. 1696. — September 29. — James, son of Robert Atkinson, Bitchbum. 1697. — July 31. — Mary Tompson, Jocksrow. 1699. — March 16. — Willm., son of John Watt, a strainger, Jacksraw. October 2. — Edward Campling, Woode house Glose. 1704. — January 22. — Catherine Lickbarrow, Jack's raw. 1719.— February 6.— Edward Patteson, de Gaunles Brige. Digitized by Google
 * The Braoks were a family who, aooording to Hatfield's Survey, held freehold lands in ComidoD.