DIARY OF WILLIAM WHITEWAY. 69 



Dec. 16th. "Mr. Jas. Whitefield was chosen parson of All 

 Saints in Mr. Cheek's place. 



1628, May 3. "The sickness brake out in Shaftesbury and in 

 four other places thereabouts, but spread not far nor continued very 

 long. There died not above 20 persons in all." 



On June 21 "The new schoolmaster" carne to town; Mr. Bran- 

 card's brother was chosen his usher. 



June 13. "Dr. Lambe, the witch, was beaten to death in 

 London streets by the boys and apprentices." 



The London apprentices were a turbulent body of youths and full of 

 mischief. At any time a cry of " Apprentices and clubs " in the streets 

 would brino 1 them in troups armed with cudgels from their masters' houses 

 of business. Often they were a trouble to the authorities ; for two days in 

 1441 there was a hand-to-hand fight between the apprentices and the 

 students of the Temple, which was only put down by armed force. 



Who was this Doctor Lambe ? Was he a white witch or conjuror or 

 was he a witch finder ? If the latter he only met with his deserts. He 

 was evidently something more than a physician who practised astrology, 

 for most of the physicians at that time did as much ; they would have 

 received little patronage if they did not. We read of astrological doctors 

 much later than this. (1) And what had Dr Lambe done to incur the 

 displeasures of the apprentices ? 



Sep. "The 1st of this month the Lord Brook was stabbed by 

 his man, and died thereof about a month after. His man having 

 stabbed him killed himself also." 



Sep. 8. " This day the fleet set sail from Portsmouth com- 

 manded by the Earl of Linsey and consisting of 160 sails besides 

 preships (1) and resailers. They went to succor B-ochelle, which was 

 beseiged by the French both by sea and land, and attempted to 

 relieve it but could not get in for the " palissado " that was made 

 by the French athwart the harbour. Eut the 20th Oct. the city 

 was yielded to the king, and but 400 persons alive in it, 18,000 

 having died with famine." 



(1) 1783, Dec. 8 Expenses on bargaining with conjuror from Skipton 

 to cure Matthew Hudson's daughter .... Is. 



1784, Feb. 1. Astrological doctor for Hudson's daughter . . . . 12s. 6d. 

 Overseer's accounts Bramley near Leeds. 



