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1731-2, January 15th. Mr John Horsley. — Morpeth Register of 

 Burials. 



II r.— 1732, July 14th. Samuel Hallowell of ye parish of St. Nicholas 

 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Mary Horsley of Morpeth were married 

 in ye parish church of Edlingham with license. — Edlingham Register. 



IV.— 1732, December 23rd. Georg:e, son of John Horsley, late of 

 Morpeth, Northumberland, clerk apprenticed to Samuel Hallowell for 

 7 years. — Barber Surgeons' Boohs of Newcastle. 



V. — Just published Britannia Romana, etc., etc. Those who have 

 promised or intend to take Books of the Author's widow and family, 

 are desired to send notice to Mr Robt. Cay in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 

 — Newcastle Courant, 1st April 1732. 



VI. — Letter from Professor John Ward of Gresham College to Dr 

 Carey, Bishop of Clonfert, dated 24th April 1732:— 



" I doubt not but your lordship has seen Mr Horsley's Britannia 

 Romana advertised in some of our public papers, but I know not 

 whether you have heard that the author died soon after he had 

 finished the work, before its publication. When it was hoped that 

 the credit of this book might have been of some service to him and 

 his large family, he was suddenly and unexpectedly taken off by an 

 apoplexy." — Notes and Queries, 14th January 1854. 



VII. — To be sold a set of Mechanical, Hydrostatic, Optical, and 

 Pneumatical Instruments late belonging to the Rev. Mr John Horsley, 

 together or in parcels, on Thursday the 29th of this instant March, 

 at the house of Mr William [Payn?] Newcastle, where the instruments 

 may be viewed at any time within 10 days before the sale : also his 

 Books are to be sold by auction on Wednesday the 4th day of April 

 next, at the late dwelling house of the said Mr Horsley in Morpeth. 

 Catalogues may be seen at Mr John Challoner's, surgeon, and Mr 

 George Nichol's, bookseller in Morpeth, or at Mr Samuel HoUiday's, 

 surgeon in Newcastle, where commissions will be taken. — Newcastle 

 Courant, 3rd March 1733. 



VIII. — 1746, 1st December. Administration of the goods of Mary 

 Horsley of Morpeth, widow, granted at Durham to Samuel Hallowell, 

 cordwainer. Sureties — Percival Clennel and John Widdrington of 

 Newcastle, gent. — Raine Testamenta. 



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the chief object of the day's meeting, the preceptory of the 

 Hospitallers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. This 

 Order, founded just before the first Crusade (it is said by 

 a certain citizen of Amalfi) in 1113 obtained a charter from 

 the Pope. Their house in Jerusalem was near the church 

 of the Holy Sepulchre ; its site, with the remains of their 

 domestic chapel or church, was given, a few years ago, by 



