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Family and Education
b. 1600, s. and h. of Sir John Lawrence of St Ives, Hunts. and Elizabeth, da. and h. of Ralph Waller of Clerkenwell, Mdx.VCH Hunts. ii. educ. G. Inn, 7 Aug. 1617;G. Inn Admiss. i. 146. Queens’, Camb. 1621, migrated to Emmanuel 1622, BA 1624, MA 1627.Al. Cant. m. 21 Oct. 1628, Amy, da. of Sir Edward Peyton† of Isleham, Cambs. 7s. (1 d.v.p.) 6da. (1 d.v.p.).‘Extracts from the par. reg. of Streatham, co. Surr.’ Coll. Top. et Gen. iii, 311; R.E.C. Waters, Geneal. Memoirs of the extinct fam. of Chester of Chicheley (1878), i. 239, 243; Cussans, Herts. iii. 138; ‘Hist. of the antient fam. of Lawrence’, Gent. Mag. lxxxv. pt. ii. 16. suc. fa. 1605.Norris Museum, St Ives, UMS/S.IVE/152. d. 8 Aug. 1664.Cussans, Herts. iii. 138.
Offices Held

Central: commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648;A and O. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 7 July 1646, 28 Oct. 1647.LJ viii. 411a; ix. 500a. Member, cttee. for foreign plantations, 17 Mar. 1648.CJ v. 502b; LJ x. 118b. Cllr. of state, 14 July, 1 Nov., 16 Dec. 1653.CJ vii. 284b, 244a; TSP i. 642; Woolrych, Commonwealth to Protectorate, 379. Kpr. St James’s Palace lib. 9 Nov. 1653-June 1659.CSP Dom. 1653–4, p. 238; G.F. Warner and J.P. Gilson, Cat. of Western MSS in the Old Royal and King’s Collections (1921), p. xxiv. Ld. pres. council of state 16 Dec. 1653-Apr. 1659.CSP Dom. 1653–4, pp. 299, 360. Commr. treaty with Utd. Provinces, 14 Mar. 1654;Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 213. visitation Camb. Univ. 2 Sept. 1654.A and O. Member, cttee. for statutes, Durham Univ. 10 Mar. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 218. Commr. tendering oath to members of Other House, 20 Jan. 1658, 27 Jan. 1659.HMC Lords, n.s. iv. 505, 524. Member, cttee. of safety, 26 Oct. 1659.Whitelocke, Diary, 537.

Local: commr. assessment, Westmld. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Herts. 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657; Caern. 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). militia, Westmld. 2 Dec. 1648; Herts. 14 Mar. 1655;A. and O.; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 78. ejecting scandalous ministers, Cambs., Hunts., I. of Ely, Herts., Norf. 28 Aug. 1654. 1656 – bef.Mar. 1660A. and O. Commr. charitable uses, London Oct. 1655. 1656 – bef.Mar. 1660Publick Intelligencer no. 7 (12–19 Nov. 1655), 97–8 (E.489.15). J.p. Herts., Hunts.; St Albans borough 15 July 1656 – 18 Sept. 1660; St Albans liberty 15 July 1656 – 3 Oct. 1659; Dorset 1657 – bef.Mar. 1660; Beds. Mar. 1658-bef. Mar. 1660.C181/6, pp. 179, 181, 312, 317; C181/7, p. 52; C231/6, p. 385. Commr. oyer and terminer, St Albans borough 15 July 1656-aft. May 1658;C181/6, pp. 178, 290. St Albans liberty 15 July 1656-aft. Oct. 1658;C181/6, pp. 180, 316. sewers, Kent and Surr. 14 Nov. 1657;C181/6, p. 263. gaol delivery, Southampton 14 Sept. 1658.C181/6, p. 313.

Parlimentarian
LAWRENCE, Henry I (1600-64), of St Ives, Hunts. and Stanstead St Margarets, Herts.
: Hunts. and Stanstead St Margarets, Herts.
Likenesses

Likenesses: stipple engraving, R. Cooper, early nineteenth century.NPG.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

LAWRENCE, Henry I (1600-64), of St Ives, Hunts. and Stanstead St Margarets, Herts.

Will
none traced.
Estates
inherited manor of Slepe, St Ives, Hunts;VCH Hunts. ii. 218. bought land at Stanstead St Margarets, Herts, 1651.VCH Herts. iii. 474.
Oxford 1644
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