Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . r places Sir William Creagh (Catholic),Mayor; Samuel Gill (Dissenter), Sheriff; Edward ^^iddrington andJohn Errington (Catholics), Ambrose Barnes, William Johnson,William Hutchinson, and Thomas Partis (Dissenters), Aldermen;and Joseph Barnes (son of Ambrose), Recorder, leaving AldermenCole, Robson, Fenwick, and Aubone, and nine of the CommonCouncil to represent the Church party. The electors refused toobey this imperious demand; they declined, loyal as they were, tosurrender their rights and privileges; they stood aside, and allowedthe Royal nominees to take
Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . r places Sir William Creagh (Catholic),Mayor; Samuel Gill (Dissenter), Sheriff; Edward ^^iddrington andJohn Errington (Catholics), Ambrose Barnes, William Johnson,William Hutchinson, and Thomas Partis (Dissenters), Aldermen;and Joseph Barnes (son of Ambrose), Recorder, leaving AldermenCole, Robson, Fenwick, and Aubone, and nine of the CommonCouncil to represent the Church party. The electors refused toobey this imperious demand; they declined, loyal as they were, tosurrender their rights and privileges; they stood aside, and allowedthe Royal nominees to take possession of place and power uponthe strength of the Royal order. Well might Ambrose Barnessbiographer describe the magistracy as mixt with Papists and 662 SIR WILLIAM CREAGIL Protestants, Conformists and Nonconformists, declare that Menwere at a loss to see how suddenly the world was changed, the cap,the mace, and the sword, one day carried to the church, another dayto the mass-house, another day to the dissenting meeting-house,. and assert that those of the best penetration concluded so por-tentous a phenomenon must needs issue in some strange widely separated as were the members of this heterogeneousCorporation in thought and feeling, they appear to have hungtogether fairly well. Sir \Villiam Creagh and Ambrose Barnes, thetwo leaders, managed to sink their religious differences while engaged SIR WILLIAM CREAGH. 663 in municipal worlc, and although, while he was waiting one day in anante-chamber of the Mayors house, Barnes overheard Lady Creaghcall him opprobrious names, and swear by all that was good hehad been a Jesuit ever since his wife Madame Barnes died, yet heregarded it as little as Socrates did the brawls of Xantippe. For they who maligned him for his friendship with Papists knew wellenough he was infinitely distant from their interest. It was a plea-sure to him to see the Egyptians contribute to Israels escape out ofbondage. So Ambrose Barnes attend
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