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Visit of the Right Hon. Francis North, Lord Keeper 

 Guilford, to Seaton Delaval, towards the end of the 

 Seventeenth Century. 



Members of the Club who read the following: reprint will be 

 grateful to Sir Edward Ridley for calling the Editor's attention to 

 it in a letter of Dec. 16th 1900, in which he says : — 



" I observe in reading the notice of the Club's visit to Seaton 

 Delaval, which appears in the lately issued volume, that the writer 

 has (probably) not had his attention called to " The Lives of the 

 Norths," Vol. I., paragraphs 2t)2, 203, which contain an account of 

 Lord Keeper Guilford's (then Lord Chief Jnstice) visit to Delaval 

 when ' riding ' the Northern Circuit. This took place about 1680 ; 

 certainly between 1675 and 1683, and is perhaps of some interest, 

 as it states how Sir Ralph Delaval entertained the Judge to dinner, 

 and to discourse about his harbour and his salt and coals." 



From Tynemouth his lordship, by invitation, went to dine 

 at Seaton Delaval. Sir Ealph Delaval* entertained us 

 exceeding well; and not so much with eating and drinking, 

 which appertains properly to the brute, and not to the man, 

 but with very ingenious discourse, and showing to us many 

 curiosities, of which he himself was author, in that place. 

 The chief remarkable, there, was a little port, which that 

 gentleman, with great contrivance, and after many disappoint- 

 ments, made for securing small craft that carried out his 

 salt and coal ; and he had been encouraged in it by King 

 Charles the Second, who made him collector and surveyor of 

 his own port, and no officer to intermeddle there. It stands 

 at the mouth of a rill (as it is called) of water, which, 



* Created a Baronet by Charles II., in 1660. The baronetcy became 

 extinct in the eighteenth century. 



