58 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TITUS WHEATCROFT. 



" My wife was brought to bed of a brave lusty son on the 

 5th of July, 1 7 18, about i o'clock afternoon, and on the 3rd 

 of August he was baptized, and called Titus. 



" On the 1 1 August, my daughter Anne, went to live with 

 Anthony Alsop, of Tansley, 17 18. 



" August 2, 1 7 18, brother Leonard's wife died, and was buried 

 Aug. 5. He made a great funeral, and had a sermon. They 

 was wed Feb. 9, 1690. 



"June 26, 1720, Mr. Obadiah Bourn came to Ashover, and 

 brought his wife. (Rebecca, dau, of John Lynch, of Groves, co. 

 Kent ; she died 1754). 



"June 17, 1 72 1, Ann went to Chesterfield, to live with one 

 Mr. Yebb, and staid till Oct. 21. 



" Oct. 23, 172 1, I and my wife went with Will to Lenton, to be 

 w' his unckle, Ralph Lovet, and that time twelve months after 

 I went to see my son W" at Lenton, and when I came there, 

 I found his unckle dead, and staid the Burial, which was no 

 little trouble to us all. 



" This last year, I had a very sore fit of sickness, which began 

 at Candlemas, Feb. 2, and continued shaking for 14 weeks, but 

 I was not well until Michalmas next following. 



" Sept. 20, 1723, my wife and I went to Arnal, to W", intending 

 to bind him prentice, it being the wakes, and Frances staid a 

 week. 



"Jan. 29, 1723-4, my unckle Robert Hawley was buried, and 

 that day sennight (Feb. 7), my aunt Margaret was buried, 

 Frances went to Tuxforth in y'' claye, to see her sister Mary. 

 June 3, 1725, where she staid about 2 weeks. 



'•By Mr. Bourne's persuasions, my unckle Samuel dehvered 

 up his Church-Door- Key to me, y' I might tent y" Clock, and 

 ring y'= Bell; it was Aug. 30, 1725. 



" Ap. 8, 1726, my son Titus began to turne in his frame in 



the shop, I pray God send him a good beginning. 



[Among the papers of the late Mrs. Nodder is a Bond, dated 



May I, 1 7 18, between Richard Bower, of Egstaw, in North 



Wingfield, and Leonard Bower, of Ashover, Framework 



