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1695 April 2. — An act for the better measurement of keels and keel-boats in the port of Newcastle received the royal assent. [_LRS_] April 24. — The following is extracted from the register of St. Andrew�s, Newcastle :— "April 24th, 1695, were buried, James Archer and his son Stephen, who, in the month of May, 1658, were drowned in a coal-pit in the Galla-Flatt, by the breaking in of water from an old waste. The bodys were found intire, after they had lyen in the water 36 years and 11 months". [_LRS_]    LRS — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes |