iia ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Tranfa-ftions. His difTertation de Potcntla CorJis, in No. 358, and 

 .is epiitle in defence of it, in No. 362, both addrefled to Dr. Mead, 

 : written in an elegant Latin ilile, and his conduct towards his 

 Ted ndverfary, Dr. Keil, is genteel and handibmc, wherein 

 "rved thejerminitrn bonos, and vivax gratia, fo much defired 

 I liivravy conteils (n). He was fellow of the College of Phy- 

 id of rhe Royal Society, alfo their fecretary on the refig- 

 . '"))-. ililky, 1 7 a r , and their prefident forae months before 

 , pUjfician of G/irs's hofpiial, governor of St. Thomas's., 

 ;ii'ivl iliL.l by Voltaire, in the Journal .de S$ avails, the famous Jurin. 

 He dieJ, 22 March, 1749-50, in the 66th year of his age. His 

 fon, James Jurin, Efq; was educated at the fame college, in Cam- 

 bridge, and in the latter end of the year 1756, was chofen fellow 

 of the Royal Society. In September, 1757, he married the daugh- 

 ter of John Suiipfon, Efq; and alderman of Neivcajlle upon Tyne, 

 whofe mother was one of the daughters and coheirs of the an- 

 ticnt family of the Anderfons, merchants of, and reprefentatives 

 in parliament: for, that corporation, from the 7th of K. Edivand 

 VI, 1,52-3, to the 1 6th of K. Charles I, 164.0 ; two of whom, Sir 

 He:::-}' and Sir Francis, were knights ; their country feat was at 

 Bradlcv, in the biflioprick of Durham, now in the pofleffion of Mr. 

 tpfon, and lately rebuilt by him after a handfome manner. 



Mr. Jurin died in July, 1762. His feat of the Hermitage is now 

 in the poiTeffion of his widow, Mrs. Jurin. The front of it was 

 built by the late Mr. Coatfivorth ; of white freeflone, and hewn- 

 work ; the back-part and the offices by Mr. Jurin, to whom the 

 whole place is indebted for its prefent genteel appearance. To 



(n) 5Ph. Tr. No. 355, 356. 358, 359. 361, 362, 363. 369. 373. 379. 453. 472. 



476. 



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