New-York tribune., 1903-02-22
ENGLISH WASHINGTONS.
Continued from ninth page.

by report of your quarter, that the King Is in
some of your armies. That granted, it may
be easy for you to procure his maJestys COM
rnands for the disposal of this garrison I'LL
then L shall make good the trust reposed on
me- AS for conditions, if I shall be necessitated
1 shall make the best can The worst know
and fear not. If I had, the profession OF
soldier had not been begun, nor so long con-
tinued by Your Excellency's humble servant,
HENRY WASHINGTON.'' E.
This was in the year 1646, and five years later
the Mayor of Worcester, Thomas PysOnS, was
sent to Warwick Castle in Imprisonment till he
should be tried in London for proclaiming
Charles III the rightful King of England. That
the Mayor should have been consigned to War
wick Castle will not be wondered at when 1t Is
remembered that Lord Warwick himself had SO
far meditated an emigration in Lauds time that
he secured the proprietorship of the Connecticut
Valley.
The family of Washington can be traced, how
ever much further back than this period For
merlv they held estates in Durham, and the
name is spoiled variCusly, De Wessyngton ana
washington In the venerable library of Chester
Cathedral Bondo de Wessyngtons name occurs
in COPIES of charters six hundred years old
John Washington appears from DuSdales $
"Monasticon," the prior of Durham In the
reigns of Henry and Henry VI. He wrote a
treatise the rights and privileges OF durham
Cathedral which is still preserved in the Cotton
Library. He held his dgnities for thirty years
and was engaged in dispute with the Ponu1
as to certain privileges upon which the latter
wished TO encroach but found the prior not so
pliabe as he could Lave desired. one OF the
family John Washington, lived at Washington,
in Lancashire, and his only daughter and nelreSS
married James Lawrence in the year IZ0Z,
bringing him as a dowry a large landed prop
erty His descendant is Mr.. Lawrence, OF
Sandywell Park.
But the more lmiledate ancestry of George
Washington must be sought in Sulgrave, North
amptonshlre. At Sulgrave was a monastery,
and it dissolved by Henry VIII at the same
time as the other religious houses. large part
of it's estates granted to the Washington
family, and in tn, old church of Sulgrave, at the
end of the aisle, is a plate of brass in
scribed to Lawrence Washington. OBJ 1884, with
effiges of himself Anne, his wife, daughter of
Robert Pargiteu, of Greatworth. and eleven
lhildren. They were ancestors Gn the sixth re-
move) of George Washington.
AT the dissolution of the monasterieS, in 1889
Lawrence Washington of Gray's Inn, Mayor of
Northampton in 1872 and +545, who resided in
the Manor House and is buried in the church.
received from the King grant of certain lands
which belonged to the Priory of Canons Ashby.
This land was sold at his death to his Rob
ert and his grandson Lawrence. and the latter
retired into Brington, died there in 1916 and is
commemorated by a monument in Brington
church
BrinSton comprises Great and Little Bring
tor, with the hamlet Of Nobotte. In the chancel
of the church is floor stone. with arms, to
Lawrence Washington, 1916 (who removed here
from Sulgrave). and Margaret (Butler his
wife, and there is also inscribed brass with the
arms, differenced by a crescent to Robert
Washington. younger brother of the above OBJ