. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. to hismemon, : In memory ofCharles St. , esquire ;Who departed this life the xixth of Januarv MDCccxx\T, ag-ed lxxvi he was not a native of this town,He resided in it upwards of sixty years ;Where by liberality, uprightness, andIntelligence in his dealingsAs a merchant,By impartiality and sound judgmentAs a magistrate,And in the exercise of other public ofl&ces Entrusted to him,And by his readines
. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. to hismemon, : In memory ofCharles St. , esquire ;Who departed this life the xixth of Januarv MDCccxx\T, ag-ed lxxvi he was not a native of this town,He resided in it upwards of sixty years ;Where by liberality, uprightness, andIntelligence in his dealingsAs a merchant,By impartiality and sound judgmentAs a magistrate,And in the exercise of other public ofl&ces Entrusted to him,And by his readiness to serve and assistHis neighbours both rich and poor,He justly acquiredThe confidence, esteem, and respect of beloved wifeAnne, Who was blest with the ornamentof a meek and quiet spirit,Died the xxnnd September, mdcccxixAged i xvii children have caused this memorial toBe erected as a tribute of affectionand respect. 452 SPEARMAN, OF THORNLEY. SPEARMAN, HENRY-JOHN, esq. of Thornley, in the palatinate of Durham,b. 7th December, 1794, succeeded to the estates and representation of the ancientfamily of Spearman upon the demise of his father. Robert Spearman, a younger son of theSpearmans, of Dunnington,* in Salop,(seated there since the Conquest, and said tohe descended from the old Lords of Aspra-mont) came into the north with the troopsthat suppressed the great Northern Rebel-lion, called The Pilgrimage of Grace, andwas at the battle of Solway Moss, in m. first Agnes, dau. of Thomas Robin-son, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchant,but had no issue ; and secondly, a daughterof Whitfield, of Whitfield, in Northumber-land, by whom, who m. secondly, — Bates,he had a son, Robert. Mr. Spearman, in the 35th Elizabeth,1593, held lands in Preston, within themanor of Tynemouth. He died about theyear 1600, aged eighty-one, was buried inTynemouth Abbey, and succeeded by his son, Robert Spearman, who held lands inPreston and Tynemouth in 1614. He , d
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