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Dorothy Cay (13 Aug 1668 - fl. 19 May 1703)

Daughter of Dr. Richard Gilpin (1625-1700) of Newcastle, a nonconformist minister and author of Daemonologia Sacra (Bateson, 298). Relationships: Dorothy Cay was a wife of Jabez Cay (1666-1703)

References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) 24 93. Natural and Political Observations upon the State and Condition of England 1695. 1st, As to the Number of the People; 2. The Proportion of England in Acres and People to France and Holland, to Europe, and the World in general, with a Calculation of the Number of People now in the World. 3. The several Distinctions of the People, as to Males and Females, married or unmarried, Children, Servants, and Sojourners. 4. Of the several Ages of the People. 5. The Origination and Encrease of the People of England. 6. The Annual Income and Expence of the Nation, as it stood, An. 1688. 7. The several Sorts of Land in England, with the Value and Product thereof. An Estimate of the Livestock of the Nation. 8. The Beer, Ale and Malt consumed in England; and the Revenue of Excise arising thereby. 9. A Calculation of the Poll-Bills, and some other Taxes, and what may be raised by some Commodities not yet taxed. 10. The State of the Nation 1695. The State of France and Holland, An. 1688 and 1695. The State and Condition of three Nations, of England, France and Holland, compared one with another as to the Years 1688 and 1695. From the Papers of the ingenious Jabez Cay, of Newcastle upon Tine, M.D. The Present of his Relict. To which might be aded the Number of Christenings, Marriages, and Buryals in the Parish of Leedes, from the Year 1572 to the Year 1694, as I extracted them from the Parish Registers. The like from those of Bradford, Ripley, Brotherton, Swillington, Rothwel, Berwick in Elmet, Ledsham, Whitkirk, Bolton-Percy and Sprotborough, as I had Opportunity to consult them; with particular Notices of the Families of the Nobility and Gentry, and of learned Men born or beneficed in those Parishes; with others from Cockermouth, Scaleby, and two of the four Parishes in Newcastle transmitted to me by my dear Friend, Dr. Ja. Cay. To which may be added,