BANKRUPT S. Robert Farthing, of King-ftreet, Cheapfide, London, grocer. William Minet Senhoufe, of the parish of Lambeth, in Surry, upholsterer. John Bindly and William Wright, of White Friars, London, Merchants and Partners. William Bower, late of Devonshire-ftreet, in the parifh of St. Botolph, Bishopfgate, London, Silkman. Maria Preedy, late of Barnes, Surry, Manufacturer of Indigo. Conrad Barnet Newman, now or late of Leadenhall-street, London, Oilman and Colourman. Thomas Court, of Bristol, Currier. Robert Johnfon, of Balbrough in Derbyshire, Butcher. William Young, of Park-ftreet, Grofvenor-fquare, Middlefex, Upholsterer. William Ferguffon, of Crutched Friars, London, Merchant. John Lee, of Kentish-town, Middlefex, Builder. John Tallintier, now or late of Gun-dock, in the parish of St. John, Wapping, Middlefex, Oilman and Colourman. William Johnfon, now or late of Stockton upon Tees, in the County Palatine of Durham, Merchant and Factor. William Wright, of Walbrook, London, Broker. Barzillai Freeman, late of Little Waltham, in Effex, but now of Chelmsford Gaol in Effex, Miller. John Snelling, now or late of Wiggenhall St. Germain's, Norfolk, Bricklayer, Limeburner, and Grazier. Ifaac Jofeph, of Hand-and-Pen Court, Leadenhall-ftreet, London, and Samuel Jofeph, and Jofeph Ifrael, of Wakefield, Yorkshire, Merchants. Richard Anderfon, of the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondfey, Surry, Fellmonger, William Conditt, late of the Minories, London, Coachmaker, and fince of Illford, Effex, Innholder. William Stokes, of Stamford -hill, Middlefex, Builder. Erafmus Harvey, of Bishopfgate-street, London, Cheese. monger. John Price of Walfall, in Staffordshire, Shopkeeper. Edward Willoughby, of Gloucefter-street, Middlefex, Broker and Auctioneer. John Purfell, of the town and county of the town of Buckingham, Laceman. Henry Nelfon, of Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire, Merchant. Charles Hodgson, late of Micklethwaite, in the parish of Thurfby, in Cumberland, Dealer. John Windfor, of Bradninch, Devonshire, Sergemaker, and Makt-maker. Edward Addis, of Dog-lane, in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Leather-dreffer. John Samman, of Abingdon, Berks, Currier, Carrier, and Dealer in Corn. John Chambers, of St. Saviour, Southwark, Surry, HopMerchant. Margaret Seed, of Clevelandrow, St. James's, Weftminster, Middlefex, Widow, Dealer. John Shaw, of St. Mary le Bonne, Mafon and Buiider. William Waters, of Rupert-ftreet, in the parish of St.

James, Middlefex, Dealer in Wines, Brandies and Rums. Champion Conftable, of Chertfey, Surry, Shopkeeper. Richard Jackfon and Thomas Andrews, of St. Paul's, Deptford, Kent, Potters and Partners. Richard Jackfon, of St. Paul's, Deptford, Kent, Potter. Alexander Mitchel, of Bafing-lane, London, Merchant. John Firth, of Leeds, Yorkshire, and John Tennant, of Chapel Allerton, in the parish of Leeds, Merchants and Co-partners. James Wilfon, of Great Titchfield-ftreet, in the parish of St. Mary le Bonne, Middlesex, Slater. Thomas Williams the Younger, of the City of Exeter, Merchant. John Cole, of Holborn, Carpenter. Jofeph Andrews, of St. Martin's-lane, Coffee-houseman. William Topham, of Leeds, Yorkshire, Merchant. John Weightman, of Dean-ftreet, Soho, Dealer in Wine. William Rofe, of St. Nicholas, Deptford, Brewer and Victualler. John Hardifty, of Gray's-Inn, Sadler.

MARRIAGES.

By fpecial licence, at Audley Chapel, John Wodehoufe, Efq; eldeft fon of Sir Armine Wodehoofe, Bart. of Kimberly-hall in Norfolk, to Mifs Berkeley, of Bruton-Abbey, Somersetshire, and Niece to Lord Berkeley of Stratton. By special licence, at the Bishop of Peterborough's, in George-freet, Hanover-Square, Sir Penifton Lamb, Bart. Mifs Milbanke, daughter of Sir Ralph Milbanke, Bart. Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart. to the fifter of his Grace the Duke of Beaufort. Mr. Abram Ricardo, a Jew Broker, to Mifs Delvalle, daughter of Mr. Delvalle, Merchant, in Bury-street.

DEATH S.

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manor-house at Ramfey, and the winter at Hinchinbrook, the feat of the prefent earl of Sandwich. His uncommon liberality is ftill talked of here among the old people, by tradition from their ancestors, and his throwing money out of his coach among the populace as he paffed along the ftreets of Ramfey. He was named Henry in compliment to king Henry the Eighth, from whom his father had received fo ample a fortune. And we fhall foon find what a number of this family affumed the fame chriftian name in honour of the fame prince. He was in all refpects a very worthy man, and left an excellent character, as well as fix fons, behind him; but what daughters he had I know not. The names of his fons were as follow, Oliver the eldeft, Robert, Henry, Philip, Ralph and Richard.

Sir Henry left the bulk of his eftate to his eldest fon Oliver, excepting fome of the fmaller manors and eftates, which he divided among his younger fons. As near as I can guefs, and from the prefent knowledge I have of the estates, I believe he left about 500l. per annum to each of his younger fons, except Ralph and Richard, but to Oliver several thou. fands.

Robert, the fecond fon, and father of the ufurper Oliver, was fixed at Huntingdon, and had a confiderable eftate in that neighbourhood. Henry had the lordship of Upwood, about two miles and a half from Ramfey, and built the prefent manor-house there. In a very large room on the weft-front of the houfe, called The Manor Room, are ftill remaining, carved in ftone, the ftatues of Henry Cromwell, Efq; and his lady, on each fide of the chimney-piece, with the arms of the family above, and the date when the houfe was built. H. C. M. 1602. The motto, carved underneath the arms, very fignifi

cantly expreffes the bravery and activity of this family, Sudore non fopore. It very probably alludes to the famous combat between Sir Richard Williams and the two foreigners. Philip had for his fhare the Biggen efate, about a mile crofs the field north of Upwood, and nearer to the town of Ramfey. This eftate, though belonging to the parish of Ramfey, is entirely inclofed and feparate to itfelf. Not many years fince stood a very handfome houfe, moated round, near the middle of it, but has been lately taken down and demolished. This gentleman had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him. I fhall endeavour to give a probable reafon of this in the fequel of this little hiftory. Of Ralph I can give no account; but it is likely, if I had the fame opportunity of fearching the old registers at Huntingdon, and they are as well preferved as thofe at Ramfey, I might be able to do it. The youngest fon Richard, lived at Upwood, the fame village as his brother Henry. He was married, and had feveral children baptized there. He is entered in the old register at Upwood, by the title of Richard Cromwell, gentleman; but what eftate he had, or what house he lived in there, I cannot learn.

Thus have I given you the best account in my power of all Sir Henry's fons, from whence the different branches of this family fprung, and most of them had a very numerous ifiue. ́

Oliver, the eldeft, divided his time between Hinchinbrook and Ramfey, as his father had done before him, and lived in the most hofpitable and fplendid manner. He was both uncle and godfather to the ufurper Oliver, and from him the latter derived his name. As I hate not time at prefent to examine the old registers at Huntingdon, I can make out but five of his children, tho' I

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doubt not but he had feveral more. Henry the eldeft, Edward, John, William, and Hannah. Edward was brought up to the law, and the only one of the family that I can find ever was of that profeffion. They were, more fond of arms and military atchievements. He was appointed a ferjeant, if no more; for I have feen one of thofe broad gold rings, which ferjeants at law ufually give away, at their first appointment, to their friends, with this infcription upon it, Edwardus Cromwell, fervantiffimus cequi alluding to that famous paf-, fage in Virgil. Hannah was married to Mr. John Baldwin, a gentleman of this county, Sept. 11, 1627. You will foon have an account of the others. It was this very Oliver Cromwell, Efq; the father of the abovementioned, who, after the death of queen Elizabeth, entertained king James the First, in his journey from Edinburgh to London, at his houfe at Hinchinbrook, and built the great hall there with the la ge bow-window and dining-room over it, purely for that purpofe. He treated the king with the greateft magnificence; and it is ftill reported, that the king faid to him, in the Scotch dialect, ry, mon, thou haft treated me the bett of any mon fince I left Edinburgh." Without doubt the king was highly pleafed with his reception, because he not only conferred the honour of knighthood upon him, but made him knight of the Bath. Sir Oliver Cromwell, as I fhall now call him, was born in the year 1562, and confequently in the fpring of 1603, when the king came to London, was forty-one; a time of life that takes off from the fire of youth, and adds to the coolness of judgment. It feems highly probable to me, that his brother Philip was highfheriff that year; met the king upon his progrefs with a train of attendants, and escorted him to Hinchin

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brook. I conjecture this to be the cafe, becaufe I find him a knight fo early as four years afterward. An entry is made in the old register of Ramfey. Henry, the fon of Sir Philip Cromwell, knight, was baptized Feb. 5, 1607." He had four other fons and three daughters after this Henry. I have fet them all down in the order they were baptized, Philip, Thomas, Anne, Oliver, Robert, Elizabeth, and Mary. In the year 1617, I find an entry exactly thus made; "Marye the wyf of Sir Phelip Cromwell, knight, was buried the third day of November."

Sir Philip did not live to fee the civil war and the ruin of the church and monarchy, for he was buried here Jan. 28, 1629, but his elder brother Sir Oliver did. He lived to a very great age, as appears from the entry of his burial in this regifter. "Oliver Cromwell, knight of the Bath, aged ninety-three years, was buried Auguft 28, 1655." He lived to fee his nephew declared Protector, and a military government, the worst of all governments in the world, established by arms and the point of the fword. His fortunes were greatly impaired at firft by his magnificent way of living, and afterward by his contributing fo largely to the fupport of the royal caufe. It is an undoubted fact that all the branches of this family, who refided in this neighbourhood, were royalifts, except the defcendants of Robert. It is ftill currently reported here, that Oliver Cromwell, during the civil war, had a

conference with his uncle Sir Oliver, upon the high bridge in Ramfey; obliged him to pay down 1000l. to fave the town from military execu tion, and carried away forty of his faddle-horfes. Several of his, and one at leaft of Sir Philip's fons, were colonels in the king's army. Colonel John Cromwell, one of Sir Oliver's fons, was the very man fent over by X 2

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prince Charles from the Hague, fome days before the king was beheaded, to beg of Oliver to fpare the life of his father, and offer him his own terms.. Colonel William Cromwell, youngest son of Sir Oliver, as it is entered in the register here, died of the plague in the year 1666. Colonel Thomas Cromwell, third fon of Sir Philip, was in the royal army, and married about that time a daughter of Sir Wolftone Dixie, Bart. I think of Leicestershire, as may be feen in Collins's Baronetage. He miftakes his pedigree, and calls him the fon of Sir Oliver. This gentleman retired to a farm of his in the fenny part of this parifh, called Daventry, died there, but left no iffue behind him.

I have already mentioned the exceffive fondness of this family for the name of Henry, out of gratitude to their great benefactor, and must now tell you there were seven if not eight Henry Cromwells at once living and refident in this neighbourhood together. Seven I can certainly make out, but cannot trace the pedigree of

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Henry Cromwell, Efq; brother to Sir Oliver Upwood.

Henry, eldeft fon of Sir Oliver Cromwell.

Henry, fon of Robert Cromwell, Efq; brother to the ufurper.

Henry, fon of Henry Cromwell, Efq; Upwood.

Henry, fon of Sir Philip Cromwell. Henry, fon of Richard Cromwell, Gent. Upwood..

Henry, fon of Henry Cromwell, Efq; grandfon to Sir Oliver.

As this family held a confiderable rank and fortune in the county, fo they married into the beft families both of this and the neighbouring counties. One of the younger of the above Henries was married to Lucy Car, only daughter of Sir Edward Car; and there is now in the church

a flat ftone of black marble to her memory, with a Latin pun upon it at the bottom, fuitable to the taste of thofe times, In hac luce videbitis lucem. There is another marriage of one of the above entered in the regifter, the very year when the great rebellion broke out." Henry Cromwell, Efq; and the lady ElizabethFerrers were married May 4, 1642.'

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At the Reftoration, as they were all royalifts here, they deserted the name of Cromwell, in abhorrence of Oliver's conduct, and reaffumed their old name of Williams. By this name they are all entered in the regifter after that period. The king, at his restoration, had determined to diftinguish the royalists by fome particular mark of his favour, and they were to have the title of Knights of the Royal Oak. The defign indeed was afterward dropt, upon account of the fresh divifions it might occafion, but a lift of them is published at the end of Collins's Baronetage of England. Among thefe, in the Huntingdonfhire lift, you will find Henry Williams, Efq; of Bodfey, value of his eftate 2000l. per annum. fey is a large farm in the parish of Ramfey, at fome distance from the town, with an old manfion-house upon it, where, I fuppofe, Mr. Williams then refided. This was the laft gentleman of the male line of the Cromwell, alias Williams, who lived here; and as he died without iffue, the family foon became extinct. In fact, he had fold the eftate to colonel Titus before his death. There is fomething particular in the entry of his death and burial, which I fhall endeavour to explain. "Henry Williams, Efq; departed this life at Huntingdon, Auguft 3, and was buried at Ramfey the 6th day of Auguft 1673." Mr. Owen Fann, a fenfible old gentleman of 87 years of age, informed me of the particular caufe and circumftance of his death,

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