Ellington in Huntingdonshire, third son of Richard Throckmorton, of Higham Ferrers, seneschal of the Duchy of Lancashire; and Agnes, who married Gilbert Smyth, of Fenton. John died 1538, was buried in the Abbey of Ramsey, and bequeathed by his will (registro Dingley) beside considerable donations for masses in honour of the five wounds, to the poor, to churches, roads, &c. two of his best mares to my Lord of Ramsey for his trouble in being the supervisor of his will. This bequest accords with an opinion prevalent in those days, that women and priests ought to ride mares and geldings, but that a stallion only suited the dignity of a knight or man of war. Hence in German the expression Ritter-Hengst, or knight'sstallion. The abbat, at the dissolution of monasteries in 1:3), was not only very forward in procuring his own Abbey to be surrendered to the King, but influenced others to submit; for which wicked service, he, according to Dugdale, obtained a large pension of 2661. 13s. 6d. per annum. At this period commenced the connexion between the Cromwells and the Law rences. The Abbey of Ramsey was granted to the Cromwells; and William Lawrence, great grandfather of the President, settled at St. Ives. The exabbat, by his will, dated 1541, and proved Nov. 1542 (registro Spert) en deavours to make his peace with heal ven, by making considerable bequests to the churches at St. Ives, Ramsey, Burwell, and other places; he leaves ten pounds among twenty paupers, and bequeaths his silver plate, his velvet cushions, the hangings in the parlors, &c. to his cousin William Lawrence, to his neice Emma Throckmortou, and to Gilbert Smyth and his wife nor are his utensils for fishing and fowling unmentioned; bequests to his Steward, Chaplain, &c. His directions for his splendid funeral, hearse, torches, &c. might interest an Antiquary. He orders that he may be buried in St. Mary's Burwell, and leaves five pounds to each of his four executors, of whom William Lawrence, of St. Ives, gentleman, is one. Nor is the will of Margaret, widow of John Lawrence of Ramsey, less curious (dated Sept. 1, 1545, proved May 31, 1546, registro Alen): she bequeaths eight pence to her unmarried godchildren, and four pence to her married godchildren each; a singular distinction. And, beside other notable legacies, leaves her gurdles and beads to her daughters, and to their daughters after their death, except one gurdle and one coral bead to Joan Lawrence, daughter of her son William. A modern woman of fashion might smile at such a bequest from a grandmother; yet Jane Lawrence was a worshipful dame in her day. She married Robert Bevil, of Chesterton, esquire; and her son and her grandson, both Sir Robert by name, were successively Knights of the Bath at the coronations of James and Charles the First. William Lawrence, esq. of St. Ives, was Sheriff for Cambridge and Huntingdoushire at the death of Queen Mary. By his first wife Frances Honston, he had Henry his successor at St. Ives, and William who settled at Selscomb in Sussex, ancestor of the Lawrences of Chichester and Aldingbourn; and by his second wife Margaret, daughter of Edward Kaye, of Woodsom, in Yorskire, and sister of Robert Kaye, of Glatton, in Huntingdonshire, he had Robert, who died in 1597, at Emneth, in Norfolk, ances tor of the Lawrences of Brokedish, in Norfolk. Lucy Kaye, another sister, married John Pickering, of Titmarsh, esq. and with this alliance commenced the connexion between the Lawrences and Pickerings, which lasted during two centuries. William Lawrence was buried at St. Ives, 20 Dec. 1572, and by his will (registro Peter) bequeathed to his son Henry his armour, the plate which he had inherited from his uncle Sir John Lawrence, late abbat of Ramsey, and the iron chest in the library, containing papers and evidences which had already been particularly mentioned in the will of his father. Heary Lawrence, of St. Ives, grandfather of the President, was buried there, Feb. 25, 1580-1; he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Hagar, of Bourne Casile, Cambridgeshire. She took for her second husband, Gilbert Pickering, esq. (afterwards knighted) son of the above John Pickering and Lucy Kaye: and his sister Elizabeth Pickering married Robert Throckmorton, only son of the the aforementioned Gabriel Throckmorton and Emma Lawrence. Sir John Lawrence, of St. Ives, father of the President, was, in 1603, knighted at Windsor by James the First, previously to the coronation. He married Elizabeth, sole daughter and heir of Ralph Waller, esq. of Clerkenwell, Middlesex, fourth son of Robert Waller of Beaconsfield. Sir John was buried at St. Ives, Feb. 10, 1604; and she remarried to Robert Bathurst, esq. Sheriff of Glostershire, and was the mother of Sir Edward Bathurst, created a Baronet, 1643. The will of Sir John Lawrence (registro Hayes) is dated 10 Jan. and proved Feb. 9, 1604, and mentions his two sons, Henry and John. Henry Lawrence, at the inquisition taken at Huntingdon after the death of Sir John, anno 2 Jac I. was aged 3 years, 2 months, and four days. (Cole's Escheats, Harl. MS. 760.) He entered as a fellow commoner at Emanuel College, Cambridge, 1622. When Sir Walter Mildmay, after founding this College, appeared at Court, Queen Elizabeth told him, “I hear, Sir Walter, you have erecteda Puritan foundation." "No, madam, answered he, far be it from me to countenance any thing against your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which, when it comes to be an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit of it." And surely the Queen was endowed with a prophetic spirit; for on the list of Emanuel College are found the names of Heury Cromwell, Hampden, Lawrence, Pickering, Cleypole, Bradshaw, &c.; and here Henry Lawrence proceeded 1623, B. A.; and 1627, M. A. Authony Wood probably stated that he was educated at Oxford, merely to introduce an acrimonious account of him from an abu sive pamphlet, "The Narrative of the late Parliament." He says that he retired into Holland to avoid the severity of Bishops and their Courts; that be returned in 1641, and was a member of the Long Parliament for Westmoreland; but that he left it, when he saw the Independents' design against the King's life. In 1646, he published at Amsterdam a book "Of our Communion and Warre with Angels;" which he dedicated to his most dear and most honoured mother, the Lady Lawrence; and whatever may be the intrinsic value of the work, the 66 reader is touched with the filial affec tion that breathes in the dedication. Nor, in all probability, were the encomiums paid to her mind exaggerated. Distinguished characters have commonly been the sons of superior women. She was born a Waller, and may be classed with the Hutchinsons and other female worthies of the day. In the Library of Emanuel College is a second edition, published 1649, by Henry Lawrence, member of the present parliament." There is also in Emanuel Library a treatise "Of Baptism," printed 1646, without name or place, but in a hand-writing below is found, "by Henry Lawrence, esq.afterward Lord President of the Council to Oliver ye Protector." Henry Law rence married Amy, daughter of Sir Edward Peyton, bart. of Iselham in Cambridgeshire (with whose family the Hagars were allied), and with her probably espoused the wrongs of that offended Patriot. This name Sir Edward certainly deserved, who rejected with disdain teu thousand pounds, an immense sum in that century, which was offered to him, provided he would withdraw his opposition to the Bill of the Fens, then before Parliament; and who had been deprived of his office of Custos Rotulorum of Cambridgeshire, through the intrigues of the favourite Duke of Buckingham. Sir Edward had since been uniform in his opposi tion to the Court: he drew his pen against Charles I. on his rash attempt to seize the five members in 1641, and his sword in the subsequent war; and being taken a prisoner at Edge-hill, or shortly afterwards, he was attainted for High Treason. He published in 1652 the Divine Catastrophe of the Kingly Family of the Stuarts," which he dedicated to the remains of the Long Parliament, whom he addresses " Right Honourable Senators," and compares Oliver Cromwell to Alexander the Great. Henry Lawrence was not only allied to Cromwell, but had been his landlord, as he had let to him his estate at St. Ives from 1631 to 1635-6; hence the mansion, called by the present proprietor, Sir Thomas White, Slepe Hall, is more commonly called Cromwell-place. The irons with which Oliver used to mark his sheep, and which are mentioned by Noble, were lost soon after the Historian's visit to St. Ives. He was member for Hertfordshire Hertfordshire twice, in 1553 and 1554; but in 1556, being elected both for Colchester and Carnarvonshire, he chose to represent the latter. He was president of the Council, 1654, and gazetted as a Lord of the other house, in Dec. 1657. After the death of Oliver, he proclaimed Richard Cromwell his successor. Notwithstanding the accusations of Anthony Wood, of his arbitrary and illegal treatment of Cavaliers, Anabaptists, and Fifth-monarchy men, there is in the second volume of Thurloe's State papers a letter to him from the Queen of Bohemia, sister of Charles I. and ancestress of the House of Hanover, recommending Lord Craven to his good offices, and saying that she was confident that he had accepted his post only to render services to those who needed them; and from this letter it appears that they were in the habit of corresponding. A Harleian MS. No. 1460, contains a drawing of all the ensigns and trophies won in battle by Öliver. This work is dedicated to his Counsellors, and ornamented with their arms. It commences," Ad Olivari Dei gratiâ Anglia Scotia et Hiberniæ cum ditionibus circumjacentibus, necnon Insularum longius occidentalium peramplissimi Protectoris et Imperatoris semper Augusti, consilio cooptatis, Dom. Primoribus Patriæque suæ Luminibus eminentissimis eruditissimo Domino, Domino Henrico Laurentio, prædicti Consilii Præsidi perquam prudentissimo." His arms here are a cross raguly Gules without a chief, the motto "Nil admirari." The same motto being painted under the achievement of Sir Edward Lawrence, in St. Ives church, has produced among the common people there a belief that the baronet was Admiral of the Nile. Milton, speaking of one of the Montagues, and of the President, styles them, Montacutum Laurentiumque summo ingenio optimisque artibus expositos. In D'Ewes's Collectio Epistolarum, is a Latin letter from Sir Simonds, dated Westminster, Dec. 1644-5, and directed, Amico et Affini suo colendissimo Henrico Laurentio, armigero, Arnhemiæ in Ducato Gelriæ. Harl. MS.No.378, and No.374, contains a Latin Letter to the Baronet, dictated by Henry Lawrence, but in the handwriting of his son. Sir Simonds be ing related to the Hindes of Cambridgeshire, styles his correspondent, Affinis. The second letter is only directed "To my Honoured Friend, Sir Simonds D'Ewes, knight and baronet, att his House att Westminster;" and is sealed with a small red seal of a cross raguly with a lion in the chief. tissime) ac simul amoris tui erga nos "Accepi tandem literas tuas (vir ornapignus eruditos codices, jam secundo typis mandatos, dignos sane, qui omnium animis imprimantur, præsertim quibuscum publico negotio res est. Quod si ludens et quasi aliud agens, tam egregia ingenii tui specimina edidisti, quid nobis expectandum erit de studiis tuis seriis, et ubi omnes animi nervos intenderis. Quamobrem te etiam atque etiam rogo, ut doctissimis lucubrationibus tuis Rempublicam literariam adornare velis, neque permittas ut quæ publici juris esse debent, unius solummodo commodo atque utilitati inserviant. Filius meus natu maximus tredecim annorum puer (quo nunc etiam amanuensi utor ipse mendatissimum esse desiderat; et vernon satis rectâ valetudine) se tibi comsionem hanc Gallicam quæ literatissimæ Principis nomini dicavit, ut æque animo accipere digneris, obnixe flagitat. Quod hæc Romano idiomate scribo, id eo nomine à me factum esse scias velim ut tibi obsecundem, qui prior fecisti. Nam Anglis nostris semper lingua vernacula utor, aliis vero Gallica, ut mos hic est non solum nobilium, verum etiam literatorum pene omnium, qui istius linguæ vel tria verba male proferre Gallice, quam amore usque adeo insaniunt, ut optent copiosè et disertè Latinè loqui. Sed negotiis tuis, quæ nunc esse maxima conjirandus, ut amare pergas, quod et mucere fas est, dimittendus es, atque exotuo facies Tibi addictissimum, HE. LAURENCE. Altena, Jan. 21, 1646. Stilo loci." This letter contradicts Mr. Todd, who, in his edition of Milton, attributes the work " Of our Communion with Angels" to the son of the President. The future friend of Milton might, at the age of 13, produce a French translation, but certainly not write a work of that abstruse nature. This letter is also curious because it shows the early predilection of the nations on the coutinent to the French language, which has given the Freuch tions, and facilitated their intrigues in a decided superiority in ali negotia foreign courts. The The following table, enlarged from one in Noble's ingenious History, shews the connexions between the leading characters of the Republic: Oliver Cromwell, Protector, first cousin to John Hampden, Patriot, father to one of Cromwell's Lords, first cousin to Edmund Waller, Poet, second cousin to Henry Lawrence, President, half Chamberlain, first cousin to Gilbert Pickering, brother-in-law to Edward Montague, Admiral, afterwards Earl of Sandwich. A picture of the President is inserted in Lord Clarendon's History, in the King's Library at Buckingham bouse; and his gravestone was, in 1802, not yet effaced in the Chapel at St. Margaret's, alias Thele, in Hertfordshire. The arms are a cross raguly Gules without the chief, impaling Peyton; the crest, a fish's tail. Here the provident piety of his wife, who, in some genealogies, is styled Anne Peyton, has preserved his memory. On other occasions her extraordinary devotion only exposed her to the satire of the Cavaliers. "Here lyeth interred the body of Henry Lawrence, esq. sometime of this place, who married Amy Peyton, daughter of Sir Edw. Peyton, of Iselham, in the county of Cambridge, knt. and bart. He had issue by her seven sons and six daughters. He departed this life August the 8th, 1664, in the 64th year of his age. Also in this place lie buried four of his children; viz. Edward under a stone adjoining upon the South side of this stone, and Elizabeth next adjoining and in part under this stone on the North side, who died Feb. 1662, about the thirtieth year of her age. Theodosia lieth under this stone with her father. She died Sept. the 2d, 1664, about the twentieth year of her age. Also Henrietta the youngest daughter, died the 30th of Sept. 1664, in the 13th year of her age, who lieth by her brother in part under this stone on the South side. The said Amy Laurence, in memory of her loving consort and children, hath caused this stone to be laid here." Edw. Lawrence, esq. one of the President's sons, was elected M.P. for Pembrokeshire (Merc. Polit. 27 Nov.1656), and the opposition complained that several experienced Senators were expelled from the House to make room for such infants as the son of President Lawrence. It is uncertain whether he or Henry was the eldest son, who, according to the letter to Sir Simonds D'Ewes, must, in 1656, have been 23 years old. He was buried at St. Margaret's (which estate belonged to him) with this inscription: “ Here lieth the body of Edward Lawrence, esq. and also of the Lady Martha, daughter of Richard Earl of Barramore, by Martha his wife, sister of the said Edward, who deceased in the year of the Lord, 1657." It was to the eldest son that Milton addressed his sounet, beginning "Lawrence of virtuous father virtuous son." For in a political Squib, printed 1660, called The Receipts and Disbursements of the Committee of Safety," we find, "Item reimbursed to the said Lord Lawrence several sums of money, which his eldest son had squandered away on poets and dedications to his ingenuity, to the value of five hundred pounds more. Item, paid for three great saddles for the Lord Laurence's son, and for provender for his lofty steeds ever since the Protector's political death, 500l. Item, paid for a pound of May butter, made of a cow's milk that fed on Hermon hill, given to the Lady Lawrence for pious uses, 877. 10s." Henry, who was the eldest at his father's death, was probably the Mæcenas; but, possibly, one of his brothers was the horseman. The President dying intestate, Henry administered the goods of his father and of his sisters Theodora and Henrietta; and dying himself in 1679, left two sons ilenry and Edward. The former of whom died unmarried; and Sir Edward died May 2, 1749, having been created a baronet with remainder to his sister's son Isaac Wollaston, of Loseby in Leicestershire, esq. Sir Edward left 100 pounds for his funeral expenses, and 60 pounds to erect a monument to his ancestors at St. Ives. Sir Edward Pickering, bart. is one of the trustees to the settlement of his estates. John Lawrence, a younger son of the President, left England with one of the Bradshaws, a near relative of the Judge: they landed first at Barbadoes; but, finding that island full of Royalists, they re-embarked for Jamaica, where other Republicans had settled. settled. They landed there in 1676: hence the idle report that Judge Bradshaw had died in Jamaica. The Latin verses inscribed on a caunon over his grave are a modern composition. The first grant of land was to James Bradshaw. The will of John Lawrence is dated May 10, 1690. John, his son, was a member of the Assembly, and left six sons; the two eldest each left an only son, who both died with out issue; James Laurence, of Fairfield, the third son, died 1756, leaving his eldest son Richard James Law. rence, esq. at present the male representative of the President; and James Lawrence, knight of Malta, is his eldest son. ous dead, excite so strong and solemn an image of their lives and exploits as wayward lake. The eye at every new the proceeding along the areas of this vista cuns through a long tract of history. The ear is haunted with the echo of antient times. With what animation do even the ordinary boatdifferent situations of it, and becomen relate the story; pointing out the ming actors in the scene! They first draw your attention to the site of Switz at the bottom of its bay on a semicircular declivity. In one place three peasants took the eventful oath, they show you the spot where the Here William Tell leaped out of the warned the Enemy of his Country (if boat in a frenzy that might have any thing could warn him) of his approaching doom.-There he slew him! Of the other sons of the President, William was, 27 Nov. 1656, naturalized by Act of Parliament, being born beyond sea, together with his sisters Martha and Theodora. This Martha, in the same year, married Richard second earl of Barrymore, and was mother of Laurence earl of Barry-ings in the woods; more (see Lodge's Peerage). John, the only brother of the President, died 1670, leaving an only son, Dr. Thomas Lawrence, author of "Mercurius Centralis," and physician to five crowned heads: he died 1714, and had a numerous family. His eldest son, a captain in the Navy, was father to Thomas, the President of the College of Physicians, who was father to Sir Soulden Lawrence, Justice of the Common Pleas. Elizabeth, one of the daughters of Dr. Thomas Lawrence, having had by her first husband, Edward Griffith, esq. a daughter, who married the first Earl of Harrington, was remarried to Lord Mohun, who, in 1713, fell in a duel together with the Duke of Hamilton. Of this branch also was the wife of Sir William Young of Dominica, and the Lawrences of Studley and Hackfall, in Yorkshire. ST. IVES. A Brief Sketch of the SWISS HISTORY. BUT UT the great charm of the LuCERNE Lake is, that it is the classical region of Switzerland. It is the spot where the great exploits of the Swiss History were achieved, and are now commemorated. No walks in the ailes of a Cathedral, among the tombs and monuments of the illustri GENT. MAG. July, 1815. sound of the wind through the caverns Whether it is imagination, or the and crevices of the rocks, and openowing to the murmur of cataracts at -or whether it is sobbing of the waters, as they heave a distance, and the sullen agitation or against the banks-but one is sensible which is by no at this place of an extraordinary echo, means uniusical. "Sometimes this echo repeats the motion of feet-sometimes the rustling of garments-at others, the human sounds of voices from a great height voice in many different tones. The in the sky, and of instrumental music, interrupt,at stated intervals, the silence of the place, and fill the air with pel of William Tell. Across the lake solemn melody." Near this is the Chayou may descry the pasture where Melchthal, and Furst, and Stauffacher, assembled in the hour of midnight. Those came by secret paths along the mountains; this, by water. The mountains and the sea are, no doubt, the venerable nurses, if not the The Swiss enjoyed the advantage of parents, of national independence. the former only, upon which I shall observe presently; while the Greeks, and in modern times the English, had happy circumstances the virtues of a the advantage of both. Under these people silently make a progress, and grow unobserved to maturity: when either some domestic oppression, or foreign invasion, calls them forthAnd here begins their story. |