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PROVINCIAL ‘OCCURRENCES, 
| WITH ati trHE MARRIAGES anp DEATHS, 
_ Arranged eeographicall , or in the Order of the Counties from North to South. 
*.* Authentic Communications for this Department are always very thankfully received, 
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NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAMe 
Mr. Greathead, of South Shields, has 
lately been henoured with an order for a 
Lire Boat, from Alexander, Emperor of 
Rutha, through the medium of his Grace 
the Duke of Northumberland, From this 
circumftance, there is reafon to indulge a 
hppe, highly flattering to humanity, that 
this traly valuable invention, by which fo 
many lives have already been faved, will 
foon be generally adopted throughout Eu- 
rope, and in every civilized country. 
According to certain papers, fele€ted from 
the archives of the: Cathedral church at 
Durtam, and lately publithed at Newcaftle, 
in the Tyne Mercury, it appears that Philip, 
bifhop of Durham, in the reign of Henry Il. 
granted a number of privileges to the bur- 
gefles of Gatefheved, or Gatefhead. The 
charter, which here follows,’ is prefented in 
that paper as a fort of literary curiofity, 
exhibiting, and that not very imperfe€tly, 
the very ‘* form and preffure” of the ¢* age 
and body of the time,” in which’ it was 
written. — 
Puitip, by the Grace of God, Bifbop of 
Durbam, To all Men of the whole Bifeoprick, 
and of his Brotherboode, in all England, — be 
foluteth: 
Know ve, that we have granted, &c. to 
our burgeffes of Gatefheved, full liberty of 
forreftage, yielding in every half year, from 
Pentecoft to the fealt of St. Martin; fora 
whey or oxe, the which goes to prafle, two- 
pence; and fora nagg, two-pence; and for 
every hogg, one penny, in refpeét to all 
things that they have to proper and neceflary 
ules, faving thefe prohibited. Neither fhall 
it be lawful for any forrefter, within the 
metes that are appointed within our forrett 
and burrough, to taxe lands upon any burgefs, 
Or upon any manner of thynge of the faid 
burrough. cr upon any oxen, or any other 
their cattle, or by any ways to hinder them, 
either of their wood; timber, or any other 
thynges. And if any fuite or trouble thall 
be-between the forrefters and burgeffes, it 
fhall be determined in the f:id burrough, if 
it may be; if not, then in our prefence it 
fhallbe determined. And the cattle of any 
burgefs fhail not be carried out of the faid 
burrough, out therethall be replevied, if rhe 
feme may be replviea, To the fame bar- 
gefles, it fhall be lawful-to have herbage 
and lying turfs, and bruery, to their 
* own proper ufes, wheérefoever they are ace 
cultomed to have the fame, fo that they 
-fejl us part thereof, And if any burgefs 
do dig turts for his chimney, not having 
oxen, if for the leading of turfs they fhall be 
forced to have oxen, neverthelefs, in giving 
for all or every oxe which they fhall neede, 
two-pence of forreftage, they fhall be freed, 
And it fhall be lawful for every burgefs to 
give wood to whomfoever he will, to be 
fpent, about the river of Tyne, without any 
licence, but not to fell any without licence 
of the forrefters. And no forrefter fhall 
difturb any merchandize that cometh within 
the faid mete. And every burgefs of Gate- 
fheved, fhall have of his burgage the fame 
liberty: which the burgefles of Newcaftle 
have of their burgages. And whitherfoever 
the burgeiles of Gatefheved, or their cattle, 
fhali come within our lande, in the peace of 
God and bieffedde St. Cuthbert, they fhall 
paffe ; that no man to them fhall do any 
injury, or any demande or exaction of them 
fhall require. We do grant alfo to the fame 
burgefles, that they. fhall have common of 
pafture, and like parts of feeding, to all 
‘their horfes, and all commodities which they 
ought to have of Subtwell Meadows, as 
they were wont to have; as in deeds of 
good memory of our predeceflors reafonably 
is contained. 
The revived corps of Loyal Sunderland 
Volunteers, ata late roll-call, muftered up- 
wards of 500 ftrong. 
' Mr. Temple, of Weftol, proprietor of the 
new coal mine lately opened at Jarrow, has 
lately eftablifhned a glafs manutactory and 
Sunday {chools, in the populous neighbour- . 
hood of the laft-mentioned place. 
Béarried.| At Newcaftle, Mr. J. Todd, 
grocer, to Mifs Ramfey.—Mr. J. Labourn, 
hop-merchant, of Southwark, London, to 
Mifs J. Huntley, of Gatefhead.—Mr, T. 
Mathews, tin-plate-worker, to Mifs J, Mac 
Clement.—The Rev. J. Thomfon, of Port 
~Glafgow, to MifsTurnbull, of Pandon Mill.— 
Mr. J. Parfons, corn merchant, of Alemouth, 
M_ ifs } S: Kell, of Alnwick. 
At Bilhop Wearmouth, Mr. W. Cockerill, 
of Sunderland, to Mifs Thompfon. 
At Durham, Mr. J. Bland, hatter, to 
Mifs A. Hunter. J ; 
At Berwick, Mr. J. Todd, merchant, to 
Mifs Bell. 
At North Shields, Mr. J. Bell, brandy- 
merchant, to Mifs EK. Brown, of Sunnyfide, 
near Gibfide. 
Died] At Newcaftle, Mr. J. Wilfon, 
tobacconift.—Aged 37, Mr. J. Snowdon, frst 
Compofitor in tne Printing Olfice of Mirs. . 
Brown —Mr. J. Small, of the Old Queen’s 
Head public houfe.—Mr. M. Lowes.— “ir. 
‘R. Robfon, formerly a ferjeant in the 
Durham 
