Henry Lawrence

Lord Henry Lawrence ; He was about four years old when his father died. He was educated in Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was a puritan, and like many others, lived for awhile in Holland during the persecution. He married Amy, daughter of Sir Edward Peyton of Cambridgeshire. He was twice a member of Parliament from Hertfordshire; and also represented other districts. He was very active supporter of Oliver Cromwell; is said to have been Cromwell's second cousin. The Lawrence mansion of St.Ives was occupied by Cromwell from 1631 to 1636. When King Charles was deposed, and a government set up by Oliver Cromwell, Henry Lawrence in 1654 became the President of Cromwell"s Council. In 1657 he was gazetted as a member of the House of Lords. He died August 8th, 1664. He had seven sons and six daughters. He is buried in St.Margaret's chapel, Hertfordshire. His tomb bears the family coat-of-arms already referred to. An account of him, together with his picture, is given in Clarendon's History of the Rebellion." John Milton refers to him as "a man of learning and worth, to rank with Montagne and others of the distinguished men of his time; a man of noble qualities; a Republican and a Puritan."

The young Lawrence (and their mother Joan Lawrence Tuttell) did come over as the records show, on the same ship with Governor Winthrop. It looks probable that they were influenced in coming by the intention of their older relative,Henry, to come; but from which he was prevented by the order of the King.

We must remember that at this time most of the people who were coming over to New England, and many others like Henry Lawrence who wished to come, were influenced by religious purposes. They were among the Puritans who had broken away from the established Church of England, and were being persecuted for it. It would perhaps have been better for King Charles if he had allowed Henry Lawrence and other prominent puritans to leave England when they wanted to. As it was, Henry Lawrence became a prominent figure later in the Puritan Rebellion, which resulted in the deposing and beheading of King Charles. Further reference to this will be made later.

John Lawrence was the father of: Sir Henry Lawrence , President of Cromwell's council of States, whose great-granddaughter: Elizabeth Wright, widow, daughter of Philip Anglin, of Paradise Estate, Hanover, Jamaica, m. secondly, 2 February, 1765, Robert Scarlett, of Duckett's Spring, Jamaica and had: Philip Anglin, of Cambridge Estate, Jamaica, d.s.p.m., Sir William Anglin, Chief Justice of Jamaica, d. 1831, and: James Scarlett, second son, Attorney-General and Chief Baron of the Exchequer, created, in 1835, Lord Abinger, d. 1844; m. first, 1792, Louise Henrietta, daughter of Peter Campbell, of Kilmory, Argyll, and had: Robert Campbell Scarlett, second Lord Abinger, m. Sarah, daughter of George Smith, Chief Justice of Mauritius, and had: Frances Mary Scarlett, sister of William, third Lord Abinger, m., 1857, Rev. Lidderdale Smith, of Brampton Ashe, and had: 1. Harold Yorke Lidderdale Smith, of Fort William, N.B. 2. Dudley Mostyn Smith, of Magdalena, Scocorro County, New Mexico.

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• Henry Lawrence (1600–1664) was an English Puritan statesman. He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge with an M.A. in 1627. He was commissioner of plantations in 1648, and a commissioner for Ireland in 1652. He served as an M.P. Hertfordshire and Carnarvonshire. He was appointed Keeper of the Library at St. James's House, in 1653. He was Lord President of the Council of State from 1654 until 1659. He also published three pamphlets between 1646 and 1649 on the doctrine of baptism.
• Lawrence, born in 1600, was the eldest son of Sir John Lawrence, (died 1604), of St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, by his marriage, on 7 March 1599, with Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of Ralph Waller of Clerkenwell, Middlesex, fourth son of Robert Waller of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.[1] He entered Gray's Inn in 1617,[2] before continuing his education at Queens' College, Cambridge and then Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he became an MA in 1627.[3]
• At college he belonged to the puritan party. He was not only lineally allied to Oliver Cromwell, but was at one time his landlord, as he let to him his house and farm at St. Ives from 1631 to 1636.[4] About 1638 he retired to Holland, probably to avoid the severity of the ecclesiastical courts. He returned in 1641, but was abroad again at the outbreak of the English Civil War. [5] In December 1645 he was at Arnheim in Guelderland, and at Altena in January 1646.[6]
• On his final return to England he replaced one of the "disabled" members for the constituency of Westmorland on 1 January 1646.[7] In July 1646 he was nominated one of the commissioners for the preservation of peace between England and Scotland,[8] and on 17 March 1648 he became a commissioner of plantations.[9]
• Greatly to Cromwell's annoyance, in 1649 Lawrence expressed strong disapproval of the trial and execution of King Charles I. In 1652, being then styled "colonel" he visited Ireland as a commissioner for that kingdom.[10]
• On 14 July 1653 he was appointed one of the Council of State,[11] and placed on several committees. In the Barebones Parliament of 1653 Lawrence sat for Hertfordshire, and after its dissolution was placed on Cromwell's new Council of State, his salary being £1,000 a year. In November 1653 the Council of State appointed him Keeper of the Library at St. James's House. At the second meeting of the Council he was made president (chairman) for a month, but by a subsequent order of Cromwell, dated 16 December 1653, he became permanent chairman, with the title of "Lord President of the Council".[12] In the satirical Narrative of the Late Parliament (1658), Lawrence is said to have been made president to win over, or at least keep quiet, "the baptised people, himself being under that ordinance".[13] John Milton, however, in his second Defensio Populi Anglicani (1653-1654), bears eloquent testimony to Lawrence's ability and learning. In 1654 Lawrence strove to assist Lord Craven in recovering his English estates, which had been confiscated in 1650-1651, and he had some correspondence with Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, on the subject.[14]
• In the First Protectorate Parliament of 1654 Lawrence was again returned for Hertfordshire,[15] and the Second Protectorate Parliament of 1656 he was chosen for both Colchester and Carnarvonshire.[16] He elected to serve for Carnarvonshire, and continued to represent it until his elevation to Cromwell's Other House in December 1657.[17] On the death of Cromwell in September 1658 he declared Richard Cromwell his successor as Protector and ordered his proclamation.[18] He ceased to act as president in July 1659.[19]
• After the restoration of the monarchy Lawrence withdrew to Thele, otherwise Goldingtons, a manor in the parish of Stanstead St Margarets, Hertfordshire, which he inherited on the death of his son Edward in 1657. There he died on 8 August 1664, and was buried in the church.[20][a]
• On 21 October 1628 Lawrence married, Amy, daughter of Sir Edward Peyton, of Iselham, Cambridgeshire. They had seven sons and six daughters.[21] His wife's extraordinary piety proved a fertile source of cavalier satire. To their eldest son (Edward or Henry) Milton addressed in the winter of 1656 his twentieth sonnet,[22] "Lawrence! of virtuous father virtuous son". Their younger son John emigrated first to Barbados, then Jamaica where he founded a wealthy dynasty of plantation owners.[citation needed]
• Lawrence was author of:[23]
  • 1.Of Baptisms' [anon.], 8vo [Rotterdam], 1646; another edition entitled A Pious and Learned Treatise of Baptism, 4to, London, 1649.
  • 2.Of our Communion and Warre with Angels: being certain Meditations on that subject, bottom'd particularly on Ephes. vi. 12 ... to the 19, 4to [Amsterdam], 1646; another edition, bearing a different imprint, was issued during the same year. The treatise is commended by Isaac Ambrose in the sixth section of the prolegomena to his Ministration of, and Communion with, Angels, first published about 1660, and also by Richard Baxter, in his Saints' Rest, 12th edit. p. 238.
  • 3.Some Considerations tending to the Asserting and Vindicating of the Use of the Holy Scriptures and Christian Ordinances; . . . wherein . . . the Ordinance of Baptisme . . .is manifested to be of Gospell-Institution, and by Divine appointment to continue still of Use in the Church, 4to, London, 1649; another edition, with different title-page, A Plea for the Use of Gospel Ordinances, 1652. This work, together with the Communion and Warre, is dedicated to the author's mother, who would seem to have suggested its preparation. It is principally a reply to William Dell's Doctrine of Baptismes.
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• The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 85, Part 2
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• .... John Lawrence, styled in all evidences Generosus, was lviing at Ramsey in Huntingdonshire, where his uncle, John Lawrence de Wurdebois, had been Abbat since 1508. He left three children; William Lawrence afterwards of Saint Ives; Emma, who married Gabriel Throckmorton, of
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• 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.
• ..... etc,
• The Abbey of Ramsey was granted to the Cromwells; and William Lawrence, great grandfather of the President, settled at Sts. Ives. The ex-abbat, by his will, dated 1541, and proved Nov. 1542 .... bequeaths his silver plate, his velvet cushions, the hangings in the parlors, &c. to his cousin William Lawrence, to his neice Emma Throckmorton, and to Gilbert Smyth and his wife: nor are his utensils for fishing and fowling unmentioned; bequests to .... He orders that he may be buried in St. Mary's Burwell, and leaved 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 .... , 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 bequests 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 Huntingdonshire 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, ancestor 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.
• Henry Lawrence, of St. Ives, grandfather of the President, was buried there, Feb. 25, 1580-1; he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Hagar, of Bourne Castle, 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
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• 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, Meddlesex, 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. .... etc. _______________________________
• A genealogical memoir of the family of John Lawrence, of Watertown, 1636; with brief notices of others of the name in England and America (1847)
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• One of the most important branches of the Lawrences of England, is that, probably, in the line of which we find Henry Lawrence, President of Cromwell's Council.
• John, called also John de Wardeboys, a descendant of one of the younger branches of the Lancashire family, was an Abbot, and lived in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, as early as about 1500.
• John Lawrence, a nephew of the Abbot, styled in evidences Generosus, also lived in Ramsey at the same time. He married, and had, first, William, who was at one time Sheriff of Huntingdonshire and Cambridge, and removed to St. Ives, where he settled. Second, Agnes, who married Gilbert Smyth, of Fenton ; third, Emma, who married Gabriel Throckmorton, of Ellington, in Huntingdonshire. John Generosus, their father, died in 1538, and was buried in the Abbey of Ramsey. The Prelate survived him a few years, having before his decease, made William, the son of his nephew, one of his executors ; to whom, also, with his sisters, Agnes and Emma, he left his silver plate, curtains, hangings, &c. He died in 1542, and was buried in the Abbey of Ramsey, where he had lived an Abbot for about forty years.
• This Prelate was very active in promoting the dissolution of the Monasteries then existing, for which services he received ample compensation from the reigning sovereign, in the way of titles, grants and pensions.
• William Lawrence, settled at St. Ives, the grandfather of Henry, the associate of Cromwell, married for his first wife, Frances Honston, by whom he had sons, William and Henry. By Margaret Kaye, whom he married for his second wife, he had another son, Robert, who was ancestor of the Lawrences of Brokedish, in Norfolk, and died in 1597, at Emneth, Norfolk.
• William, senior, of St. Ives, died December 20, 1572, and was buried at St. Ives, leaving, by will, to his son Henry, his heir, the plate of his uncle, Sir John, late Abbot of Ramsey, and his own armor. Henry married Elizabeth, daughter of John Hagar, of Bourne Castle, Cambridgeshire, and had by her John, who was knighted at Windsor Castle, in 1603. He died, and was buried at St. Ives, February 25, 1580-81. Sir John, his son, knighted (1603) by James I., married Elizabeth, only daughter and heir of Ralph Waller, Esq., of Clerkenwell, in Middlesex, and died February 10, 1604. He was buried at St. Ives. He had by his wife, Elizabeth, two sons, Henry and John, both mentioned in the will, who now became heirs to the estate of Ralph Waller, Esq.
• Henry was about four years old when his father died. In 1622 he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he continued to pursue his studies. He took a Bachelor's degree in 1623, and a Master's in 1627;
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• after which he distinguished himself as one of the leading republicans of his day, being associated with Waller, Hampden and Cromwell.
• Educated a Puritan, it is stated that, to avoid the severity of the Bishops and Courts, he went to Holland, and while there published, at Amsterdam, (1646, it is said) a book "of our Communion and War with Angels," dedicated to his most dear and honored mother, the Lady Lawrence, with a spirit of filial affection highly commendatory to both mother and son.
• Henry Lawrence, Esq., of St. Ives, married Amy Peyton, daughter of Sir Edward Peyton, Bar't, of Cambridgeshire, and had issue, seven sons and six daughters.
  • I. HENRY, the eldest son, who administered the estate of his father and sisters at their decease. He married, and had sons, Henry, who died unmarried, and Edward, who was created a baronet in 1748, and died without issue the year following, aged 90. Henry, their father, died in 1669.
  • II. EDWARD, who died in 1657, leaving his father heir to an estate at St. Margaret's, alias Thele, in Hertfordshire. In the chancel of the Church at St. Margaret's, is this monumental 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 said Edward, who deceased in the year of our Lord 1657."
    • Arms — "A cross raguly gu.," &c.
  • III. JOHN, who went to Jamaica in 1676. His will is dated in the year 1690. He had a son, John, a member of the Assembly, at one time, who had six sons, of whom James, the third, was of Fairfield, and died in 1756, leaving Richard James Lawrence, said to be the representative, while living, of the male line of President Henry Lawrence, of St. Ives.
  • IV. WILLIAM, who was born in Holland, and naturalized by an act of Parliament, November 27, 1656.
  • V. FRANCIS, who died October 16, 1672.
  • VI. BENJAMIN, and the other not ascertained.
  • Of the daughters, Martha married, in 1656, Richard, Earl of Barramore, and was the mother of Lawrence, Earl of Barramore, and of Martha, (the Lady) who died as above. The Lady Barramore died in 1664.
  • Elizabeth, born in 1632, died February of 1662, in her thirtieth year.
  • Theodosia, born in Holland, and naturalized at the same time with her sister Martha and brother William, died September 2, 1664, aged about 20 years. Henrietta, the youngest daughter, born about 1652, died September 30, 1664, in her thirteenth year.
• The Lawrence Mansion at St. Ives is said to have been occupied by
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• Cromwell, from 1631 to 1635-6. Henry Lawrence, Esq., was twice chosen a member of Parliament for Hertfordshire ; namely, in 1653 and in 1654 ; as also for other parts of England. He was made President of the Protector's Council in 1654, and in 1657 was gazetted one of the House of Lords. He died intestate, A. D. 1664, a man of learning and worth to rank in the estimation of Milton, with Montague and other distinguished men of that time. He was a man of noble qualities, a republican, a Puritan.
• The provident piety of his wife has preserved his memory in the following lines inscribed at St. Margaret's Chapel, Hertfordshire :
  • " Here lieth interred the body of Henry Lawrence, Esq., sometime of this place, who married Amy Peyton, daughter of Sir Edward Peyton, of Iselham, in the county of Cambridge, knight and baronet. He had issue, seven sons and six daughters. He departed this life August the 8th, 1664, in the sixty -fourth year of his age."
  • " Also lie buried in this place, four of his children, &c. The said Amy Lawrence, in memory of her loving consort and children, hath caused this stone to be laid here."
  • The arms are — "A Cross raguly Gules, without a chief impaling Peyton." The crest — "A fish's tail." Another author gives — "A chevron in chief, three crescents."
• JOHN, brother of Lord Henry Lawrence, married, and had children — at least, a son, Thomas, whom he left his heir at his death, in 1670. Dr- Thomas Lawrence married, and had a large family. He was a physician, as is stated, "to five crowned heads," and died in 1714. His eldest son, who was an officer in the navy, had a son, Thomas, distinguished in his profession, and made President of the College of Physicians, &c. A son of this gentleman was Sir Soulden Lawrence, Justice of Common Pleas. Elizabeth, a daughter, married Edward Griffith, Esq.
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• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 32
  • Lawrence, Henry (1600-1664) by Gordon Goodwin
• LAWRENCE, HENRY (1600–1664), puritan statesman, born in 1600, was the eldest son of Sir John Lawrence, knt. (d. 1604), of St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, by his marriage, on 7 March 1599, with Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of Ralph Waller of Clerkenwell, Middlesex, fourth son of Robert Waller of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire (Reg. of St. James's, Clerkenwell, Harl. Soc., iii. 23). Father and son were perhaps admitted of Gray's Inn in 1597 and 1617 respectively (Harl. MS. 1912, f. 47). Lawrence entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as a fellow-commoner in 1622, and graduated B.A. in 1623, M.A. in 1627. There is no authority for Wood's assertion that he received part of his education at Oxford. At college he belonged to the puritan party. He was not only lineally allied to Cromwell, but was at one time his landlord, as he let to him his house and farm at St. Ives from 1631 to 1636 (Masson, Life of Milton, iv. 645). About 1638 he retired to Holland, probably to avoid the severity of the ecclesiastical courts. He returned in 1641, but was abroad again at the outbreak of the war (see dedication of his Communion and Warre with Angels). In December 1645 he was at Arnheim in Guelderland, and at Altena in January 1646 (Harl. MS. 374). On his final return to England he replaced one of the 'disabled' members for Westmoreland on 1 Jan. 1645-6 (Official Return of Lists of Members of Parliament, pt. i. p. 495). In July 1646 he was nominated one of the commissioners for the preservation of peace between England and Scotland (Thurloe State Papers, i. 79), and on 17 March 1647-8 he became a commissioner of plantations (Hist. MSS. Comm. 7th Rep. pt. i. p. 15 b). Greatly to Cromwell's annoyance, Lawrence expressed strong disapproval of the proceedings against Charles I. In 1652, being then styled 'colonel.' he visited Ireland as a commissioner for that kingdom (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1651-2 pp. 487, 537, 1652-3 p. 55). On 14 July 1653 he was appointed one of the council of state (ib. 1653-4, p. 14) and placed on several committees. In the parliament of 1653 Lawrence sat for Hertfordshire, and after its dissolution was placed on Cromwell's new council of state, his salary being 1,000l. a year. In November 1653 the council of state appointed him keeper of the library at St. James's House. At the second meeting of the council he was made chairman for a month, but by a subsequent order of Cromwell, dated 16 Dec. 1653, he became permanent chairman, with the title of 'lord president of the council' (Thurloe, i. 642 ; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1653-4, p. 298). In the satirical 'Narrative of the Late Parliament.' 1658, Lawrence is said to have been made president to win over, or at least keep quiet, 'the baptized people, himself being under that ordinance' (reprint in Phœnix Britannicus, 1731, p. 125). Milton, however, in his second 'Defensio Populi Anglicani.' 1653-1654, bears eloquent testimony to Lawrence's ability and learning. In 1654 Lawrence strove to assist Lord Craven in recovering his English estates, which had been confiscated in 1650-1, and he had some correspondance with Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia, on the subject (Thurloe, ii. 139).
• In Cromwell's parliament of 1654 Lawrence was again returned for Hertfordshire (Return of Members of Parliament, pt. i. p. 500), and in that of 1656 he was chosen for both Colchester and Carnarvonshire (ib. pt. i. p. 506). He elected to serve for Carnarvonshire, and continued to represent it until his elevation to Cromwell's House of Lords in December 1657 (Prestwich, Respublica, pp. 10, 15). On the death of Cromwell in September 1658 he declared Richard his successor and ordered his proclamation (cf. his letter in Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. p. 254). He ceased to act as president in July 1659.
• After the Restoration Lawrence withdrew to Thele, otherwise Goldingtons, a manor in the parish of Stanstead St. Margaret, Hertfordshire, which he inherited on the death of his son Edward in 1657. There he died on 8 Aug. 1664, and was buried in the church (monum. inscript. in Cussans, Hertfordshire, 'Hundred of Hertford.' p. 138). By his marriage, on 21 Oct. 1628, to Amy, daughter of Sir Edward Peyton, knt. and bart., of Iselham, Cambridgeshire, he had seven sons and six daughters (Waters, Chesters of Chicheley, i. 243 ; Nichols, Collectanea, iii. 311). His wife's extraordinary piety proved a fertile source of cavalier satire. To their eldest son (Edward or Henry) Milton addressed in the winter of 1655-6 his twentieth sonnet (Masson, v. 235). A drawing of Lawrence is inserted in the copy of Clarendon's 'History of the Rebellion' in the library at Buckingham Palace; it has been engraved by Richard Cooper (Granger, Biog. Hist. of England, 5th edit. iii. 853).
• Lawrence was author of: 1. 'Of Baptisms' [anon.], 8vo [Rotterdam], 1646 ; another edition entitled 'A Pious and Learned Treatise of Baptism.' 4to, London, 1649. 2. 'Of our Communion and Warre with Angels : being certain Meditations on that subject, bottom'd particularly on Ephes. vi. 12 ... to the 19.' 4to [Amsterdam], 1646 ; another edition, bearing a different imprint, was issued during the same year. The treatise is commended by Isaac Ambrose in the sixth section of the prolegomena to his 'Ministration of, and Communion with, Angels.' first published about 1660, and also by Richard Baxter, in his 'Saints' Rest.' 12th edit. p. 238. 3. 'Some Considerations tending to the Asserting and Vindicating of the Use of the Holy Scriptures and Christian Ordinances; . . . wherein . . . the Ordinance of Baptisme . . .is manifested to be of Gospell-Institution, and by Divine appointment to continue still of Use in the Church.' 4to, London, 1649; another edition, with different title-page, 'A Plea for the Use of Gospel Ordinances.' 1652. This work, together with the 'Communion and Warre.' is dedicated to the author's mother, who would seem to have suggested its preparation. It is principally a reply to William Dell's 'Doctrine of Baptismes.'
• [Gent. Mag. 1815, pt. ii. pp. 14-17; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iv. 63-5; Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. xii. 177, 3rd ser. vii. 377, viii. 98, 289, 5th ser. xi. 601-3, xii. 212, 6th ser. ii. 155, 174, 298, xi. 208; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1652-9; Waters's Chesters of Chicheley, i. v; Cussans's Hertfordshire, 'Hundred of Hertford,' p. 136; Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, ii. 211, 213; Bishop John Wilkins's Eeclesiastes, 4th ed. p. 81; Masson's Life of Milton, iii. 402; Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, ed. Archdall, under 'Barrymore.'] From: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lawrence,_Henry_(1600-1664)_(DNB00) __________________________________________
• Dictionary of national biography (1885) Vol. XXXII. LAMBE-LEIGH
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• LAWRENCE, HENRY (1600-1664), puritan statesman, born in 1600, was the eldest son of Sir John Lawrence, knt. (d. 1604), of St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, by his marriage, on 7 March 1599, with Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of Ralph Waller of Clerkenwell, .... etc. ________________________
• Historical genealogy of the Lawrence family : from their first landing in this country, 1635 to the present date, July 4th, 1858 (1858)
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• Henry Lawrence, one of the patentees of land on the Connecticut river, granted in 1635, and who, with Lords Say, Seal, and Brooke, Sir Arthur Hasselrigg, Richard Saltonstall, George Fenwick, and Henry Darley, commissioned John Winthrop, Jr., as governor over this territory, with the following instructions: "To provide able men for making fortifications and building houses at the mouth of the Connecticut river, and the harbor adjoining ; first, for their own present accommodation, and then such houses as may receive men of quality, which latter houses we would have to be builded within the fort." This was the same expedition in which Lion Gardiner was appointed chief engineer. The above individuals intended to accompany John Winthrop, Jr., to America, but were prevented by a decree of Charles I.
• The above Henry Lawrence was of some considerable distinction in England during Cromwell's time. He
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• was born in the year 1600, entered a fellow-commoner at Emanuel College, Cambridge, 1622, retired to Holland to escape the persecution of bishops and their courts ; was member of parliament for Westmoreland in 1641, but withdrew when the life of the king began to he in jeopardy from the independents. In a curious old pamphlet printed in the year 1660, entitled, "The mystery of the good old cause is briefly unfolded in a catalogue of the members of the late Long Parliament that held office, both civil and military, contrary to the self-denying ordinance," is the following passage ; "Henry Lawrence, a member of the Long Parliament, fell off at the murder of his majesty, for which the Protector, with great zeal, declared that a neutral spirit was more to be abhorred than a cavalier spirit, and that such men as he were not fit to be used in such a day as that, when God was cutting down kingship root and branch." Yet he came into play again, and contributed much to the setting up of the Protector, for which worthy service he was made and continued Lord President of the Protector's Council, being also one of the Lords of the other House. In 1646, he published, at Amsterdam, his book, entitled, "Book of our Communion and Warre with Angels," and a "Treatise on Baptism," the same year. He married Amy, daughter of Sir Edward Peyton, Bart., of Iselham, in Cambridgeshire. He leased his estates at St. Ives,. from the year 1631 to 1636, to Oliver Cromwell, to whom he was second cousin. He was twice returned as member of parliament for Hertfordshire, in 1653 and 1654; and once for Colchester borough in Essex, in 1656 ; his son Henry representing Caernarvonshire the same year. He was President of the Council in 1656, and gazetted as "lord of the other house" in December, 1657. He proclaimed, after the
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• death of Cromwell, his son Richard as his successor. In a Harlaem manuscript, No. 1460, there is a drawing of all the ensigns and trophies won in battle by Oliver, which is dedicated to his councillors, and ornamented with their arms ; amongst these are those of Henry Lawrence, the Lord President. The motto Nil Admirari, " appears to have been assumed by the president during the revolutionary troubles, probably on his being made a councillor. A picture of the president is inserted in Clarendon's history of the rebellion. His gravestone, not yet effaced, is in the chapel of St. Margaret's, alias Thele, in Hertfordshire. There may be clearly traced on it the arms, viz. : a cross, raguly gules, the crest, a fish's tail or demidolphin. A letter directed by him to Sir Simon d'Ewes, is sealed with a small red seal, cross raguly gules, the same crest, and a Lion in the Chief, as borne by the St. Ives family.
• While the Dutch were prosecuting their settlements on Long Island and in New York, the English settlers slowly infused themselves among the Dutch population of the island ; among which were three brothers, John, William, and Thomas Lawrence, ancestors of a numerous and enterprising family in this country. These three brothers, as well as the above Henry Lawrence, were all descended from John Lawrence, who died in 1538, and was buried in the Abbey of Ramsay. In corroboration of the relationship between Henry Lawrence and the above named brothers, we find on the seals appended to their wills, now on file at New York, and on old plate still possessed by their descendants, the same crest and arms as those upon the tomb of the lord president. _____________________________