The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-02-17

and Mrs. Noah. The profession
Of pedigree tracing depends upon the dol
lar If the price can be paid genealogical tree
will be drawn up, which finally will strike its roots
into royal tomb.
There is one famous name which can be traced
back for more than 700 years. The family boasts
of no royal ancestor, and it held any heredi
tary title, but all through this long time its mem
bers were people of position.
In 11S3-before surnames were thought Ola
Norman knight named William of Hertburn bought
the manor Of Washington from the bishop of Dur
ham in England. He paid four pounds in good
cash for it, and also agreed to attend the bishop
with two greyhounds on occasions of state hunt
nss and to furnish manat-arms when the lord
bishop had any fighting on hand This William,
hereafter known Sir William of Washington,
was the first man to bear the name and was the
direct ancestor of George Washington. The name
is pure Saxon, meaning the town on the marshy
meadow; and the village known Washing
ton is in the coal mining district about ten miles
from Durham. The Washingtons soon spread all
over the north of England, where the name still is
common, and one branch of the family settled in
the county of Lancashire
From Lancashire one Lawrence Washington went
up to London, to study law in Gray's inn. He made
his mark and, leaving London for Northampton,
successful there that he twice became may
or of that city. This in the days of King
Henry the Eighth-bluff King Hal-the man who
could not make his marriage ideas fit in with the
ideas of the church., and quarreed with it,
Church property was confiscated all hands, and
among other fertile spots the mayor of Solgrave
fell into his clutches. 1t bestowed upon Law
renee Washington, who thus became lord of the
manor of Solgrave in Northamptonshire and
revered by the community.
The manor house still stands. Lawrence Wash
ington altered it to suit his own tastes and in the
carvings of both stone and woodwork and the
decorations OF the windows he WOVe his arms or
Stars and Stripes.
Old fashioned folk shook their heads and said
that property taken from the church could
prosper. However that may be, the family only
held Solgrave for three generations. The first
Lawrence had large family of four sons and seven
daughters, and his family twice intermarried with
| the noble Spencer famy-direct ancestors of the
| present Earl Spencer. So when trouble on
| the family the earl built home for his knsman
in the little village of Brington in the county
| Here in the old village church Lawrence Washing
ton grandson of the first Lawrence, is buried, &C.
cording to tradition.
| ished nor did it's members lose their worthy stand
! ing This Lawrence exceeded his grandfather in
the number of his children, for 16 were born te
| him. Two of his sons became knights, of his
| daughters married knights other men of dis
| tincon, and his fourth son, also named Lawrence
| became fellow of Brazenose college, Oxford, anc
a clergyman
Times changed quickly in those old days. Henr!
| the Eighth and his children long were in thei1
| graves and Charles the First was on his troubled
| throne AS became an old country family the
| Washingtons and all were for their king, ant
| several fought bravely against Cromwell and hi
| parliamentary troops. While the knights Tough
the clergyman preached and it is evident that III
did not mince words. The parliamentarians wrthet
under his homethrusts, and when they got the up
per hand they did not forget him. His church was
taken from him. and not content with that the!
published his iniquities in book of "Malignants
sort of rogues' gallery of those who were stanch
| est in the support of their king. The politicians
of those days were worse than those of to-day. II
| the quaint language of the time they said mat I'M
Rev Lawrence lis a common frequenter OF all
houses not only himself sitting daily tipping there
but also encouraging others in that beastly vice
and hath often been drunk. He hath said that tn
parliament have more papists belonging to then
| in their armies than the king had about MIN or II
| his alnie, and that the parliaments armle d
more hurt than the cavaliers and that they oil
ncae at ALL and hath published them to be traitor
chat lend to or assist the parliament
The reverend gentleman never again made nj