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Now Mrs. Masters disliked clergymen, disliked gentlemen, and especially disliked poverty; and therefore was not disposed to look upon Mr. Surtees as an eligible suitor for her stepdaughter. But as the curate's courtship had hitherto been of the coldest kind and as it had received no encouragement from the young lady, Mary was certainly justified in declaring that the allusion was not fair.
Though pronounced innocent, Johnson was condemned to pay the costs of all the formalities that the apparitor had set in motion against him, and a last time was dragged into court in order to be admonished under pain of excommunication to pay these fees, amounting to £1. 3s. 4d., within a month! The case had extended from 11th June, 1600, to 22nd May, 1601. Surtees Soc., lxxxiv , 359-362.
Haud equiden invideo, minor magis. I need not bid you be watchful of your booty. Yours most faithfully, From Robert Surtees, Esq., to Jonathan Oldbuck, Esq. June 11. My Dear Sir, Alas, your warning comes too late. An accursed example of womankind, fit descendant of that unhappy Betty Barnes, cook to Mr.
"If it were my girl I'd let her know all about it," Ribbs the butcher had said in the bosom of his own family. When it was found that Mr. Surtees the curate was not to be the fortunate man, the matter was more inexplicable than ever.
Mr Surtees no doubt had wished to have the success of his attempt tested by the unbiassed opinion of the very first authority on the subject; and the result must have been gratifying to him."
Dillsborough of itself was not bookish, and would have regarded any one known to have written an article in a magazine almost as a phenomenon. He seldom went to church, much to the sorrow of Mr. Surtees, who ventured to call at the house and remonstrate with him. He never called again. And though it was the habit of Mr.
Statutes of the Realm, iv, Pt. ii, 968-9. Cardwell, Doc. Ann., i, 189 ff. Dr. Pilkington's will, Surtees Soc., xxii, Append., p. cxxxviii. Ibid., p. cx ff. Kelke's will of 1583, on p. 230. Also Wills and Inventories, Surtees Soc., xxxviii, Pt. ii, passim. Surrey Wills in Surrey Arch. Coll., x , passim. Ibid., 263.
It is, of course, entirely at your service, if you think it worthy of a place in a new edition of the "Minstrelsy." I have no room to inflict more ballads or legends on you; and remain, most faithfully yours, LETTER: From Jonathan Oldbuck, Esq., of Monkbarns, to Robert Surtees, Esq., Mainsforth. Monkbarns, June 1.
The Surtees, again, named after our friend the ballad-monger, affects "those parts of England and Scotland included in the east between the Humber and the Firth of Forth, and in the west between the Mersey and the Clyde a region which constituted the ancient kingdom of Northumberland."
"The thing in England," said the Senator, "which I find most difficult to understand, is the matter of what you call Church patronage." "If you'll pass half an hour with Mr. Surtees to-morrow morning, he'll explain it all to you," said the rector, who did not like that any subject connected with his profession should be mooted after dinner. "I should be delighted," said Mr. Surtees.
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