Beswick, gent., son and heir of William Beswick, of Spilmander, co. Kent. He was sheriff of the county in 1616. She died in 1616, leaving one child, Mary.

The second wife of Lawrence was MARY, daughter of Sir Thomas Scott, of Scott's Hall, co. Kent. By her he had no issue.

The will of Lawrence Washington was made 10 August, 1619, and proved 10 January, 1619. All his lands, tenements, and hereditaments were left to his "well-beloved son Lawrence Washington, his heirs and assigns forever; and all my goods and chattels, other than such legacies as I shall give and bequeath, to my loving daughter Mary Horspoole, wife to William Horspoole, gent., and to any of her children, and to my loving brother Robert Washington and to my very good loving cousin Sir Justinian Lewyn, Knight, and to the poor of the parish of Soulgrave in the county of Northampton, &c. His son Lawrence was constituted sole executor.-Soame, 3 (P. C. C.).'

MORTALIS MORTE

IMMORTALIS.

Here resteth the body of Lawrence
Washington Esq; of the Family of the
Washingtons, antientlie of Washington
in the Countie Palatine of Durham :
Register of the Highe Court of Chancery

1 Waters, p. 39. Washington, 1619.

Mr. Waters also prints a Funeral Certificate of Lawrence

xxvii Yeares: He had two Wyvfs, Martha
Daughter of Clement Newce of Hartford-
shire Esq and Mary Daughter of Sir Raynold
Scott of this Countie Knight: By his First
He had 5 Sons and 2 Daughters; Lawrence
and Mary, the Eldest only lyving. Lawrence

succeeded him in his Office, married Ann
daughter of William Lewyn Judge of the
Prerogative Court. Mary married William
Horsepoole of this Parish Gentlem. His other
Daughter Martha married to Arthur

Beswick Gentlem. Son of William Beswick
of this County Esq.; He having lived a
Virtuous and Xtian Life of singular Intiecrity
in his place. Being of the age of lxxiii Yeares
Died the xxi of December An° Dni 1619. A
Faithfull Believer in the Merritts &

Mercies of his Saviour. To whose Memorie
His Sonne hath erected this monument

Though after my Skinne

Worms destroy this Body,

Yet shall I see God in my Flesh

Sixth Generation.

34. LAWRENCE WASHINGTON (ROBERT, LAWRENCE", JOHN, ROBERT3, JOHN') of Sulgrave and Brington. With his father, he sold the manor of Sulgrave and retired to Brington. Died 13 December, 1616, buried at Brington, 15 December, 1616. Married at Aston, 3 August, 1588, Mar

1 44 Laurentius Washington-Mense Januarii, 1616. Decimo nono die emanavit Comissio Margarete Washington relee Laurentii Washington nuper de Wickamon in Com. Northampton dex heñtis &c."-New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July, 1890, p. 302.

GARET, daughter of William Butler of Tighes, Sussex. She was alive in 1641. Children: 57. Sir WILLIAM.

58. Sir JOHN.

59. ROBERT.

60. RICHARD, born about 1600.

61. LAWRENCE.

62. THOMAS, born about 1605, was a page in the suite of Prince Charles, and accompanied that Prince on his visit to Spain in 1623 to see the Spanish Infanta.

MADRID, 15 August, 1823.

Mr. Washington the Prince's page is lately dead of a calenture, and I was at his funeral, under a fig-tree behind my Lord of Bristol's house. A little before his death one Ballard an English Priest went to tamper with him: and Sir Edward [Edmund] Verney meeting him coming down the stairs of Washington's chamber, they fell from words to blows, but they were parted. The business was like to gather very ill-blood and come to a great height, had not Count Gondamar quasht it; which I believe he could not have done, unless the times had been favorable, for such is the reverence they bear to the Church here, and so holy a conceit they have of all ecclesiastics, that the greatest Don in Spain will tremble to offer the meanest of them any outrage or

affront.'

63. GREGORY, baptized at Brington, 16 January, 1606-7; buried the next day.

64. GEORGE, baptized at Wormleighton, Warr., 3 August, 1608.

1 Howells, Familiar Letters on Important Subjects, Wrote from the Year 1628 to 1650. A poem in memory of Thomas Washington is printed in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, January, 1891, p. 63.

65. ELIZABETH, married, 25 May, 1615, at St. Mary le Strand, Middlesex, Francis Mewce of Holdenby, co. North.2

Elizabeth Mewce in the Co. of Middlesex, widow, 11 August, 1676, proved 12 December, 1676. My body I commit to the earth whence it came, to be decently buried according to the discretion of my executors. I give and bequeath to my niece Mrs. Penelope Thornton fifty pounds and my black shelf and my cabinet with all things that I shall leave therein. I give and bequeath to my niece Thornton's five children, John, Charles, Samuel, Roger and Dorothy Thornton, forty pounds. I give and bequeath to my sister the Lady Washington, twenty pounds. I give and bequeath to my sister Mrs. Alice Sandys the sum of twenty pounds. I give and bequeath to my sister Mrs. Frances Gargrave the sum of twenty pounds and my clock and bed and hangings and sheets and all things to my bed belonging whatsoever. To my God-daughter Mrs Elizabeth Sandys ten pounds. To my niece Mrs. Margaret Stevenage ten pounds and to her two children, William and Mercy Stevenage, five pounds apiece.

Item I give and bequeath to my Uncle Mr. Robert Washington the sum of five pounds: to Mrs. Elizabeth Rumball, my niece, five pounds to my nephew William Pill five pounds to my niece Mrs. Francis Collins five pounds: to my nephew Mr. Robert Gargrave's five children, Robert, John, William, Elizabeth and Cotton Gargrave twenty pounds apiece and to Elizabeth Gargrave my silver dish and silver porringer and cup and two spoons and all the rest of my small silver things that my note speaks of.

"The pedigree of Mewce of Holdenby may be found in the Visitation of Northamptonshire, 1618-19; by which it appears that Mr. Francis Mewce was eldest son of Nicholas Mewce by Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Morant of London, and had brothers Edmund and Christopher, and sisters Alice, wife of Richard Ellis of London, Lucy, Marline and Katherine wife of [Humphrey] Hawley of London." The will of Richard Ellies, citizen and haberdasher of London, proved 26 August, 1625, mentioned "Sister Washington and god daughter Anne Washington."-Waters, 33. Simpkinson says that Francis. Mewce apparently held some office in the king's household at Holdenby.

To my maid Ann Freestone thirty pounds and her bed that she lieth on, with all things belonging to it, and my suit of purple curtains and the other things in my rooms not mentioned.

I do make my loving nephews Mr. Robert Gargrave and Mr. Roger Thornton executors of this my last will and testament, intreating them to take the care and trouble upon them, and I further desire these my executors, to let that money which I have given to my nephew Thornton's children be put into the hands of their trusty and loving uncle Mr. Francis Pargiter, merchant, to put the sons apprentices or for the daughter's preferment in marriage &c. Bence, 154 (P. C. C.).'

66. JOAN, married Francis Pill, of Midford.

67. MARGARET, married (1) Samuel Thornton, who died 1666-7; and (2) Sir

and had issue (Thornton):

i. Roger.

Sandys, knight;

ii. A daughter, who probably married

Kirby or Kirkby.

Samuel Thornton of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, Esq. 9 January 1666, proved 2 May 1666. To my dear wife the sum of four hundred pounds, to my grand child John Thornton two hundred pounds, to Charles Thornton my grand child, one hundred pounds, to my grand child Penelope Thornton one hundred pounds, to my daughter Kirby two hundred pounds, and I make and ordain my dear wife sole executrix.

Wit: Jo Coell, Eliza: Mewce, Margaret Talbott.

Proved by the oath of Dame Margaret Sandis als Thornton his Relict and Executrix named in the will. Carr, 41 (P. C. C.)."

Will of Dame Margaret Sandys.

October the eleventh 1673. Into the hands of God the father, the son and the Holy Ghost, three persons but one eternal God, I do commend my soul, and I desire my body may be buried in 2 Waters, 30.

1 Waters, 32, 33.