LAWSON, Wilfrid (c.1636-87), of Gray’s Inn, Mdx., and Brayton Hall, Aspatria, Cumb.

Family and Education

b. c. 1636, 2nd s. of Sir Wilfrid Lawson*.Vis. Cumb. and Westmld. ed. Foster, 77. educ. G. Inn 7 Feb. 1654,G. Inn Admiss. 266. called 9 July 1660.PBG Inn, i. 431. m. (settlement 23 Jan. 1665, with £1,000), Sarah, da. and coh. of William James of Washington, co. Dur. 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 6da.Aspatria par. reg.; Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLAW/1/115; DLAW/3/7/1; DLAW/4/6/1; Vis. Cumb. and Westmld. ed. Foster, 77. bur. 10 Sept. 1687 10 Sept. 1687.Aspatria par. reg.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Cumb. Mar.-bef. Oct. 1660.A Perfect List (1660). Commr. militia, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. assessment, 1 June 1660,An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). 1672, 1677, 1679; poll tax, 1660.SR. Sheriff, 14 Nov. 1678–13 Nov. 1679.LJ vii. 311a; CJ vii. 348a; List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 28.

Parlimentarian

LAWSON, Wilfred (c.1636-aft.1679), of Brayton, Aspatria, Cumb.

: of Gray’s Inn, Mdx. and Brayton Hall, Cumb., Aspatria.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

LAWSON, Wilfrid (c.1636-87), of Gray’s Inn, Mdx., and Brayton Hall, Aspatria, Cumb.

Will

not found.

Estates

in 1657, fa. gave him a house and lands in Carlisle.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLAW/3/6; DLAW/3/16/2-4; DLAW/4/1/9. At his marriage in 1665, his fa. settled on him manor of Brayton (inc. Brayton Hall) with mills and tithes in Aspatria and Torpenhow; a tenement in Brayton; manors of Bassenthwaite, Borrowdale, Hensingham, Loweswater and Thackthwaite; tenements and a water corn mill in Carlisle; a tenement and collieries in Distington; and a tenement in Setmurthy, Cumb.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLAW/1/115; DLAW/3/7/1; DLAW/4/6/1; A Cursory Relation of all the Antiquities and Familyes in Cumb. ed. R. S. Ferguson (Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. tract ser. iv), 26.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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