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Family and Education
b. c. 1610, o.s. of William Lawson of Isel, and Judith, da. and h. of William Bewley of Hesket Newmarket, Caldbeck, Cumb.Vis. Cumb. and Westmld. ed. Foster, 77; Nicolson, Burn, Westmld. and Cumb. ii. 96; CB. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 21 Nov. 1628, aged 1617.Al. Ox. m. by 1636, Jane (d. 8 June 1677), da. of Sir Edward Musgrave† of Hayton Castle, Aspatria, Cumb. 5s. inc. Wilfrid* (2 d.v.p.) 8da.Nicolson, Burn, Westmld. and Cumb. ii. 96; Vis. Cumb. and Westmld. ed. Foster, 77; CB. Kntd. 26 Feb. 1641;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 208. suc. fa. c.1654;Nicolson, Burn, Westmld. and Cumb. ii. 96. cr. bt. 31 Mar. 1688.CB. d. 13 Dec. 1688.Nicolson, Burn, Westmld. and Cumb. ii. 96.
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Local: j.p. Cumb. 24 May 1642 – 5 May 1643, 11 Oct. 1643–d.;C231/3, p. 42; C231/5, p. 524; Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 34, 85. Westmld. 11 Oct. 1643-bef. Jan. 1650.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 85. Commr. array (roy.), Cumb. 18 June 1642;Northants. RO, FH133. assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1688; Westmld. 9 June 1657. 8 Apr. 1645 – 6 Feb. 1647A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Sheriff, Cumb., 10 Nov. 1653–7.LJ vii. 311a; CJ vii. 348a; List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 28. Commr. Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645.A. and O. Dep. lt. 6 Dec. 1645–?, 11 Oct. 1660–d.CJ iv. 368a; SP 29/11, f. 194; Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLAW/7/8; Penal Laws and Test Act ed. G. Duckett (1882), i. 29, 435. Commr. charitable uses, 2 June 1647;C93/19/24. northern cos. militia, 23 May 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. by Feb. 1654–15 July 1659;C181/6, pp. 18, 280, 376. northern borders 2 Mar. 1663- aft. Mar. 1667;C181/7, pp. 194, 392. surveying church livings, Westmld. c.4 July, 18 Nov. 1656; Cumb. c.2 Aug. 1656.Nightingale, Ejected of Cumb. and Westmld. 1300–2, 1311–12. Visitor, Durham Univ. 15 May 1657.Burton’s Diary, ii. 536. Commr. for public faith, Cumb. 16 Dec. 1657;SP25/77, p. 331. poll tax, 1660.SR. Capt. militia ft. Oct. 1660–?SP29/18, f. 113; CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 313. Commr. subsidy, 1663;SR. recusants, 22 July 1675.CTB iv. 789.

Military: lt.-col. of ft. (roy.) aft. June 1642-bef. Sept. 1644.Phillips, ‘Gentry in Cumb. and Westmld.’, 294. C.-in-c. (parlian.) Cumb. and Westmld. 4 Sept. 1644–15 May 1646. Col. of horse and ft. 4 Sept. 1644–15 Jan. 1648. Gov. Millom, Cockermouth and Rose castles, and St Herbert’s Is. Cumb. 4 Sept. 1644–15 May 1646.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLWA/4/1/8; DLAW/7/1/6. Capt. militia, Cumb. 10 Oct. 1648–5 Jan. 1649;SP28/266, unfol. Cumb. and Westmld. by July 1655–13 July 1659.SP28/249, unfol.; SP25/77, pp. 862, 885; CSP Dom. 1659–60, p. 24.

Civic: freeman, Carlisle 14 Oct. 1648–d.;Cumb. RO (Carlisle), CA/2/1. alderman, 14 Oct. 1648–?;Cumb. RO (Carlisle), CA/2/1. mayor, Oct. 1652 – Oct. 1653, Oct. 1656-Oct. 1657.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DMH/10/5/17, p. 310; CA/2/21/9, 10.

Central: commr. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
LAWSON, Sir Wilfred (c.1610-88), of Isel, Cumb.
: of Isel, Cumb.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

LAWSON, Sir Wilfrid (c.1610-88), of Isel, Cumb.

Will
17 Oct. 1683, pr. 23 May 1689.Borthwick, Wills in York Registry, Prerogative wills, May 1689.
Estates
in 1652, purchased, for £5,525 18s, 126 fee farm rents in Cumb. worth £394 14s p.a.SP28/288, f. 55. In about 1654, inherited manor and rectory of Isel, manors of Bassenthwaite, Borrowdale, Brackenthwaite, Heskett, Loweswater, Sebergham and Thackthwaite, Cumb.; manor of Little Usworth, co. Dur.; Isel Old Park; a house and property in Setmurthy, nr. Cockermouth; mills, tithes etc. in Aspatria and Torpenhow; and collieries in Distington, Cumb.C142/486/106; Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLAW/1/104, 115, 194, 241, 242; DLAW/1/213/1; DLAW/2/5; DLAW/3/1/19-20. In 1657-8, purchased a manor and tenements in Carlisle.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLAW/1/115; DLAW/3/6; DLAW/3/16/2-4; DLAW/4/1/9. In 1658, purchased manors and capital messuages of Brayton and Hensingham, Cumb., for £2,000.Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLAW/1/101/3-4; DLAW/1/285/1; DLAW/3/1/19; DLAW/4/5/1.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Whitehall (1656).Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLAW/7/1/4.
Religion
presented Richard Fletcher to rectory of Isel, Cumb., 1661; George Starke, 1669.IND1/17005, f. 7.
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