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PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 
WITH att roe MARRIAGES anv DEATHS; 
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NORTHUMEERLAND AND DURHAM. 
HE clock of Durham Cathedral has lately 
nudergone Considerable alreration and re- 
pairs. Though the works of this clock are pla- 
ted inalarge case at the end of the south cross 
esle,yet a wire,upwatds of 270 feet in length, is 
conducted thence to the great hammet (weight 
601b.) which strikes upon the tenor bell. 
This bell hangs in the centre of the middle 
tower, and the hammer falls with such in- 
creased force, (the lift being raised from 2 to 
9 inches) that the bell is now heard at a much 
greater distance than ever it was before.-— 
By a very great improvements, the ingenious 
artist has simplified the moving part of this 
clock in such a manner as to.be nearly with- 
out friction, which is evident by the lightness 
of the weight. Notwithstanding the main 
wheel is near 20 inches diameter, and the 
others in proportion, she goes well with a 
weight of nomore than 6lb. which is under 
the sixth part of her original one, though the 
pendulum is five feet longer, and the ball 
more than 301b. heavier than the former one. 
The case in which the works are inclosed, 
appears to have been pleced there in the 
time of Dean Hunt, in 1632, as appears by 
the following entry in the treasurer’s accounts 
of that year: ‘* For the new clock and dyail, 
18.9 6.” —From the circumstance ofa thistle 
being placed near the top of the ornamental 
front, this clock escaped the fury of the Scot- 
tish prisoners, of whom upwares of 3000 were 
some time kept in that chutch after the battle 
of Dunbar, 1650. The fine deep-toned bell 
on which the hammer strikes, was cast. in 
1693, as appears by the following inscription 
on it:-—*Camp S. Cuthbertiolim Galalea Dec 
é Cap Dunelm refecerunt. a.D, mMpcxcIII 
EV Comber; 5:7. ps Bec, S$. Eyre; 's.7-r. 
Thesaur. Chr Hobson, Artifice.” 
Married.| At Whicktiam, Thomas Dodds, 
esq. of Woodhouse, to Miss Mitcheson, 
daughter of Mr. joseph M. of Swalweil. 
At Romaldkirk, Mr. Bainbridge, of Lone 
don, to Miss Nicholson, eldest daughter of 
the late George N. esq. of Cotherston. 
Died.| At Wooler, Mr. Nathaniel Dun- 
can, of the Black-bnil inn. 
At Darlington, Mrs. Stowell, 81.—Mr. 
C. Richardson.— Mrs. Peacock, wife of Mr. 
P. sudgeon, 29.—Mr. Joseph Pease, 72. 
At Bishopwearmouth, Mr. Peter Reed, 
father of Mr. Thomas R. bookseller, of Sun- 
derland, 75.—<Mrs. Cornforth, 43. 
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At Barnard-castle, Mr. Thomas Harrison, 
neatly 35 years schoolmaster at that place. 
At Stockton, Mrs. Mason. 
At Berwick, Mrs. Elizabeth Bell, 84.—~ 
Mr. Thomas Galbraith, 64. —Mrs. Thompson 
69.—Mrs. Bell, wife of James B. esq.—John 
Jefreys, esq. 55.—-Mr. William Patterson, 
many years pavier to the corporation, 84. 
At Morpeth, Mr. George Fenwick, 44.-— 
Mr. Henry Sunderland, of the Queen’s Head 
inn, 5%; 
At Bishop Auckland, Miss’ Ann William- 
son, second daughter of Mr. Richard W. of 
the King’s Arms inn, 25. 
At Low Elswick, Mrs. Mary Graham, 90. 
At Easington, the Rev. Benjamin Pye, 
L.L.D.82. He was presented to the rectory 
of Whitburn in 1769 ; in 1770 he was made 
vicar of Harts, and in 1791, the archdea- 
conry of Durham, withthe rectory of Easing- 
ton annexed, was given to him, on the death 
of the late Dr. Dickens, by the present 
Bishop cf Durham, This valuable preferment, 
is said to be worth near 2000]. per annum. 
_ At Durham, Mrs, Richardby.—-Mr. Wil- 
liam Bainbridge, 84.—Mr. Thomas Hender- 
son, 74.—Suddenly at the house of. her: 
daughter Mrs. Crowe, Mrs. Salvin, widow of 
Anthony S. esq. late of Sunderland Bridge, 
(3.—Mr. William Fenwick, 44,—Mrs. 
Dunn, widow of Alderman D. 77.—Miss 
julia Banks, 19.—Miss Isabella Johnson, 24. 
At Swalwell, Mr. Thomas Carr, 67. 
At Ainwick, the infant son of Thomas. 
Bell, esq.—Mrs. Mattison. 
At Norton, near Stockton upon Tees, 
Mrs. Davison, 63. 
At Dalton Percy, Durham, Joseph Yeall, 
113. In his early days he had been accustom- 
ed to live very freely, and was a great 
frequenter of cock-fights and horse races. 
At Middleton, in Teasdale, Mrs. Oliver, 
wife of Mr. O. surgeon, 39. 
At Sunderland, Miss Ann Dixon. 19.— 
Mrs. Martha Moor, 71. 
At Whittingham, Mrs. Margaret Morrie 
son, 93. E ‘ 
At Newcastle, Mrs. Ann Patrick.—Mr. 
George Young.—Mr. Luke Scott, 21.—Mrs. 
Birkinshaw, wife of Mr. B. of the Nerthum- 
berland giass-house.—Mrs. Allen, 67.— 
Miss Ann Elliott, 45.—-Mrs. Elizabeth Gor- 
don, 46.—Mrs. Elizabeth Warburton, 88.—» 
Mr. Coulson, master of St. john’s charity 
school=Nr, William Corner, junior, 42.— 
. Mr, 
