. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. is much at your service. Copy of &> John Lessleys Letter to Sir Thomas Riddle, of Gates-head, upon the Siege of Newcastle, by the Scots, in the Year 1640. Sir Thomas, Between me and God, it maks my heart bleed bleud, to seethe warks gae thro soe trim a garden as yours. I hae been twa times•vvi my cousin the General, and sae shall I sax times mare afore thewark gae that gate ; but gin a this be dune Sir T
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. is much at your service. Copy of &> John Lessleys Letter to Sir Thomas Riddle, of Gates-head, upon the Siege of Newcastle, by the Scots, in the Year 1640. Sir Thomas, Between me and God, it maks my heart bleed bleud, to seethe warks gae thro soe trim a garden as yours. I hae been twa times•vvi my cousin the General, and sae shall I sax times mare afore thewark gae that gate ; but gin a this be dune Sir Thomas, yee maunmacke the twenty pound thretty, and I maun hae the tagd taildtrooper that stands in the staw, and the little wee trim gaeingthing that stands in the neuk othe ha chirping and chiming at theHouu tide of the day, and forty bows of beer to saw the mainswitha; and as I am a Chevalier of fortune, and a limb of the Houseof Rothes, as the muckle maun kist in Edinburg auld kirk canweel witness for these aught hundred years bygaine, nought shall Horse. Clock. ! Two bushels. .^ Barley. Low lands. Eighl. skaith /liU(Uii\\v:vVvUkhKWi)»lli(iliWft\UO«\<m\Vi|i|Mii(i||.lm. ;3 M>! -1 s^ a u^ © 1=1 H ni 437 sl<ai(h your house within or without, to the vahdome of a twapennychicken. I am your humble Servant, JouN Lessley,Major-General and Captain over sax score and twa men and somemare; Crowncr of Cumberland, Northumberland, Murraylandand Fife ; Baillie of Kirkaldie ; Governour of * Burnt-Island,and the Bass Laird of Libertine, Tilly and Wolly; -j- SillerTacker of Stirling, Constable of Leith, and Sir John Lessley,Knisht to the Boot of a that. EPITAPH In St. Nicholas Church at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. HERE lyeth buried underneath this Stone Of John Bennet both body and Bone Late of these parts. Master of the Ordinance Which deceased by Gods providence The 8 Day of this Month of July In perfect Faith, love & Charity; A thousand 5 hundred 60 & Eight Whose Soul Heaven be trus
Size: 1215px × 2056px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorgrosefra, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1800, bookyear1807
