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- 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)
- https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmemo00lawr
- https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalmemo00lawr#page/9/mode/1up
- 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. .... etc. __________________________________________
- The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 85, Part 2
- http://books.google.com/books?id=ZAQ5gFfHyOwC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=W...
- Pg.12
- .... 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
- Pg.13
- 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.
- .... etc. _______________________________
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