70 JOURNAL OF JOHN ASTON, 1639 



to the rejection of our Saviour, there was noething now with 

 them but forthwith to command fire and sword downe from 

 heaven and consume them, but 'twas happy they were rebuked 

 with " Yee know not what manner of spirritt yee are of." 



About this time the king went to Selby to veiw his horse 

 in battell aray, and they wei'e then (as was reported) about 

 700 at that village. At the same time, after the king's 

 departure, there happened a fatall disaster to one Mr Dawney,^^ 

 heire to 1,000^. per annum in Yorke-shire. Hee, having 

 received his education from his grandfather, a man given to 

 licentiousnesse and excesse of drincking, did participate of his 

 vices, and having then surchardged himselfe with carowsing, 

 amidst his exercise and ryding of his horse, pulled him, in his 

 advancing, backwards upon him, and received such a bruise as 

 the next day ended his life, and begun his widdow mother's 

 sorrows, who was a vertuous gentlewoeman, and lived near 

 the place where I was lodged in Yorke. 



[April] 27. I went from Yorke the 27th of Aprill, being 

 Saturday, on which day thei'e fell aboundance of i-aine, and made 

 foule travelling over the forrest of Gawtrie which lies betweene 

 Yorke and Topcliffe where I baited, being 17 miles from Yorke, 

 there runs the liver called Swale. That night I came to 

 North Allerton, 7 miles furthei*, and there lodged all night in a 

 poore house, the towne being filled with troupers before mee. 

 Yet I found indifferent accommadacion both for my selfe and 

 horses, good meate for 6d ordinary, and good provender, beanes 

 and oates for Sd. a peck. The dearest provision was beei-e at id. 

 a small flaggon, not a wine quart. But there had beene all the 

 foote (in their passage) quartered before us, which occasioned 

 that scarcity of drincke. 



[April] 28. The next day beeing Sonday, I passed over the 

 liver Teeze at a foord which divides York-shire from the Bishop- 

 rick at a villadge called Neesom. 



1° Thomas Dawney, eldest son of John Dawney (who was buried at 

 Suaith, 19th April 1639, in the lifetime of his father), and grandson 

 and heir apparent of Sir Thomas Dawney of Sessay, knight, who 

 died in 1641. He was baptised at Snaith, 15th December 1616, and 

 was buried there 19th April 1639. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter 

 of Sir Richard Hutton of Goldsboroagh. Cf. Dugdale's Visitation of 

 Yorkshire, ed. Clay, Vol. n., p. 334. 



