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 620 APPENDIX G July 1659. He was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, and took his seat, as " Henry Lord Lawrence Lord Presid' of the Councell," 20 Jan. 1657/8; he also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords, and signed the proclamation in which he was declared Protector, 3 Sep. 1658. At the Restoration he was not molested, and retired to Goldlngtons Manor, in Stanstead Thele, Herts. He m., 21 Oct. 1628, Amy, ist da. of Sir Edward Peyton, of Iselham, Cambs, Knight and Bart., by his ist wife, Martha,('') da. of Robert Livesey, of Tooting, Surrey. He d. 8 Aug. 1664, and was bur. in the chancel of St. Margaret's Chapel, Stanstead Thele. M.L LENTHALL [26] William Lenthall,('') of Burford Priory,(=) Oxon, 2nd s. of William L., of Latchford, in the same co., by Frances, da. of Thomas Southwell, of St. Faith's, Norfolk; b. at Henley-upon-Thames, June 1591 ; ed. at Thame school; matric. Oxford (St. Alban Hall) 23 Jan. 1606/7, aged 15. Admitted Lincoln's Inn 6 Oct. 1609, called to the Bar 14 Oct. 1 61 6; Bencher 1633; Reader 1638. Recorder of Woodstock 1624, and of Gloucester 1637. Chamberlain of Chester 1647-54; Chanc. of the Duchy of Lancaster 1 647. M.P. for Woodstock, Oxon, 1 4 Jan. 1 623/4, Apr.-May 1640, and, in the Long Pari., 27 Oct. 1640 to 1653; for Oxon 12 July 1654 to 22 Jan. 1654/5 and 1656-58. Member of the Committee on Ship-money 21 Apr. 1640. Speaker of the House of Commons ("^) throughout the Long Pari., 3 Nov. 1640 to 1653; again, 3 Sep. 1654-5 5; and, in the Restored Long Pari., 7 May 1659 to 16 Mar. 1659/60. Master of the Rolls 8 Nov. 1643 to 1660. Commissioner of the Great Seal 31 Oct. 1646 to 15 Mar. 1647/8, 23 May 1659, and 13 Jan. 1659/60. He was sum. to the " Other House," to Dec. 1657, and took his seat,(') as "William Lord Lenthall Master of the RoUes," 20 Jan. 1657/8; he (*) Her extraordinary piety was satirized by the Cavaliers. C") He bore for arms: Silver on a bend cotised Sable three pierced molets Gold. [Visitations of Oxfordihire, 1574 and 1634). (■=) This estate was purchased from Viscount Falkland, in 1634, for j^7,ooo. (Wood's Athcnae, vol. iii, p. 604). {^) " A counsellor at law, made speaker of the long parliament by the late king, sat it out in all changes, weathered many a storm and high complaint made against him, and was too hard and wieldy for all his opposers. . . . Men need not seek far, or study much to read him, and what principles he acts by." [Second Narrative of the late Parliament). (*) It appears that he was not one of those originally chosen by the Lord Protector: "Mr. William Lenthall, who had been Speaker of the Parliament, was very much disturbed that a writ was not sent to him to enable him to sit in the Other House. He complained, that he who had been for some years the first man of the nation, was now denied to be a member of either House. . . . This grievous complaint coming to the ears of Cromwel, he sent him a writ." (Ludlow's Memoirs^ vol. ii, p. 31).