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 CRAMOND. 399 Coll. of Arms.( a ) Ris second wife and widow, too jure Baroness Cramond [S.], by whom he had no issue, d. at Covent Garden, Midx., and was bur. (with her first huabana) 3 April 1651, at St Andrew's, Holborn. Will dat. 19 Feb. 1650/1, pr. 7 April 1651. [Sir Thomas Richaiidson, who, as heir ap. of the Barony of Cramond [S.], was Master ok Cramond, was only. surv. s. and h. of Chief Justice Richardson, by Ursula, his 1st wife abovenamed, and was under the spec. rem. in the creation next in rem. to the peerage conferred on his step mother.( b ). He was Knighted before 1627. He m. firstly 11 July U26 at St. Martin's in the fields, Elizabeth, 1st. da. of Sir William Hkwht. She, by whom he had no less than 7 sons, d. 24 Jan. 1639/40 in her 35th year and was bur. at St. Botolph's, Aldersgate street. M.I. He in. secondly in 1642, Mary, widow of Sir Miles Sandys, da. of Sir John Han-bury of Kelmarsh, co. Northampton. He d. 12 March 1642 in his 45th year and was bur. at Honingham, Norfolk. M.I. Adraon. 11 July 1646 to a creditor. His willow is probably the " Lady Richardson " who, on 27 Feb. 1646/7, m. at St. Barth. the less, London, John (Crofton ?)]. II. 1651. 2. Thomas (Richardson), Baron Cramond [S.], s. and h. of Sir Thomas Richardson, Master of Cramond, by Elizabeth his first wife abovenamed, sue. on the death of his grandfather's widow, the suo jure Baroness Cramond [S.], to that Barony, tinder the spec. rem. in the patent thereof. He was bap. 19 June 1627, at St. Martin's in the fields. M.P. for Norfolk, 1660-74. He m. (lie. from Bp. of London 20 Sep. 1647), Anne, 2nd and yat. da. and coheir of Sir Richard Gurney, Burt, (the loyal Lord Mayor of London) of Totteridge, Herts, by Elizabeth, his 1st wife, da. of Henry Sandkord of BirchingtOn, Kent. He d. 16 and was bur. 17 May 1674 at Honingham^) afsd. in his 47th year. M.I. Admon. 16 July 1674 to a creditor, and, again, 26 June and 26 July 1688. His widow, who was aged 17 in Sep. 1647, d. 31 Jan. 1677 and was bur. at Honingham afsd. M.I. Admon. 23 Feb. 1698/9. III. 1674. 3. Henry (Richardson), Baron Cramond [S.], s. and h. b. Oct. 1650 i was ed. at the Univ. of Cambridge; M.A. 1668. He in. Frances, widow of Sir Edward Baekha.m, Bart, (who d. 1688), da. of Sir Robert Napier, 2nd Bart, of Luton Hoo, Beds., by his 2nd wife, Penelope, da. of ("} "This is that Judge Richardson, who, to please the faction of his time, issued out an order [when on the Somersetshire circuit] against the antient custom of wakes, and ordered every Minister to read it in his church. See Dart's Westm. Abbey, Vol. ii, p. 78. For this insolent and illegal encroachment on the Ecclesiastical authority, he was, on the complaint of Bishop (Laud) of Bath and Wells, " at the Council table, so severely reprimanded that he came out complaining that he had been almost choked with a pair of lawn sleeves. This was a specimen of the faeetiousness for which he had a reputation. He is called by Evelyn " that jeering Judge," and "although esteemed a good lawyer, he was not respected on the bench " (Foss). When some were questioning where one of his sons, who died before him, would be buried, the answer was " where should he be buried but at Westminster, where his father lyes." (See " Anecdotes, &c." pub. by the Camden Soc). He was probably by nature inclined to Puritanism, taking great pains to mitigate the fine imposed on (his friend) Mr. Sher- field, Recorder of Salisbury, for breaking the coloured glass in church windows &e., yet iu the same court (the Star Chamber) he was loud against the much more eminent Frynne, and concurred iu his truly excessive punishment. He was Speaker of the Pari, in which the famous Lord Chancellor Bacon was impeached and advised on the proceedings connected with it. His inconsistency to all things, but his own interest was such that he was actually considered by the Pari, party "to be a favourer of the Jesuits," {Pari. Hist. II, 475). ( b ) On the mon. erected by him to his father he styles himself " Thomas Richard- son, fii unicus, Eques Auratus, Bam Scotia Dcsianatus " and is so styled on his own monument, with the addition of "claris rnajoribus oriuudus " which, presumably, alludes to his mother's ancestry. {'•■) He sold the estate of Honingham to Richard Baylie, D.D., President of St. John's College, Oxford and Dean of Salisbury, 1635-67.