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bap. 26 Sept. 1613,South Perrott par. reg. 1st s. of William Lawrence of Wraxall, and Elizabeth (d. 1672), da. of William Gibbes of South Perrott and the Middle Temple.Hutchins, Dorset, ii. 202-3. educ. Trinity, Oxf. 18 Nov. 1631;Al. Ox. M. Temple, 13 Feb. 1634, called 4 June 1641.MTR ii. 816, 908. m. 1649, Martha (bap. 18 Oct. 1622), da. of William Sydenham of Wynford Eagle, Dorset, 1s.Vis. Dorset (Harl. Soc. xx), 84; Toller Fratrum, Dorset, par. reg. suc. fa. 1640.PROB11/184/358. d. 18 Mar. 1682.Hutchins, Dorset, ii. 202-3.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Dorset 22 Nov. 1649-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/6, p. 168; Names of the Justices (1650), 15 (E.1238.4); A Perfect List (1660), 13. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1653. Commr. assessment, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; militia, 26 July 1659.A. and O. Sheriff, 1678.List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix), 39.

Scottish: commr. admin. justice, Nov. 1653; claims, ordinance of pardon and grace, 12 Apr. 1654.CSP Dom. 1653–4, p. 273; 1655–6, p. 279; TSP, iv. 528; A. and O. Judge of exch. and ld. of session, Jan. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 326; J. Nicholl, A Diary of Public Transactions ed. D. Laing (Bannatyne Club, 1836), 173. Commr. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Civic: burgess, Newtown, I.o.W. ?-24 Mar. 1663.I.o.W. RO, JER/BAR/3/9/79.

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LAWRENCE, William (1613-82), of Wraxall, Dorset.
: Dorset.
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Commons 1640-1660
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LAWRENCE, William (1613-82), of Wraxall, Dorset.

Will
6 Mar. 1682, pr. 17 Mar. 1682.PROB11/372/359.
Estates
inherited from fa. £60 p.a. until age 31, then a moiety of the property at Wraxall and Rampisham (subject to a 99-year lease from Sir John Stawell*); the other moiety following the d. of his mo. in 1672.PROB11/184/358. According to a potentially unreliable source, the whole property was worth nearly £300 p.a. at the time William Lawrence senior negotiated the leases;J. Stawell, The Vindication of Sir John Stawells Remonstrance (1655), 72 (E.1072.4). it was probably quite substantial, and inc. a newly-constructed manor house.An Inventory of the Hist. Monuments in Dorset (1952), 268-9. Bef. Aug.-Sept. 1652, bought Wraxall farm, and thus some or all of the land covered by the lease, sequestered from Stawell as a delinquent.CCC,1430; SP23/17, p. 243. Salary of at least £600 p.a. for offices in Scotland, Nov. 1653-?1660.CSP Dom. 1653-4, p. 273; 1655-6, p. 279; TSP iv. 528.
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